The New Cosmic Age is now Official!

The News of The Imbalance blog is an attempt to provide pertinent information concerning the new phenomena of space weather driving massive evolutionary change. In 2006, I self-published the book Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spiritual Evolution (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 ), because I believed that Modern Mayan Elders were trying to point out that the citizens of planet Earth were entering a New World Age dominated by aether or space. The basic premise of my book was that the dramatic increase and impact of Space Weather was predicted.

The Joyfire Space Weather “Facts” Introductory Slideshow Slideshow: The Joyfire Space Weather “Facts” Introductory Slideshow Click image above or here For new website visitors, please watch this introductory slideshow that summarises the main issues associated with the new phenomenon of Space Weather and the inevitable implications of energy driven evolutionary change.

• NatWest fiasco: the meltdown, the impact, and the aftermath
  In an overview of days of drama at NatWest and RBS, we look at the causes, who it is affecting and what happens now
  Guardian News, 29th June 2012
  
  
• RBS: outsourcing not to blame for bank IT glitch
  PC Pro News, 26th June 2012
  "The incident has left many wondering how such a serious fault could last so long at a bank, and what the actual cause was - with reports suggesting a flawed upgrade in Computer Associates' software was the root of the problem."
  Yes, there was an obvious knee-jerk reaction to blame Computer Associates and/or a poor " junior IT technician" & "'Inexperienced operative' in India..." Well, I would be amazed if Computer Associates could be blamed because the facts remain that nobody noticed there was a problem and it took three nights of batch before it was discovered.... that is incredible...
  

• Weather: record 110,000 lightning bolts strike during 'superstorms'
  Britain was hit by a record amount of lightning strikes during the freak thunderstorms that battered the country on Thursday, experts have said.
  Telegraph, 27th June 2012
  
  
• Tornado sucks up caravan with man inside and dumps it in buffalo paddock
  These pictures show the terrifying moment a freak tornado devastated a sleepy village and sucked up a caravan into the air - with a man trapped inside.
  Telegraph, 29th June 2012
  
  

• Nude carjacker hurts 7 in brutal rampage: 'Drug-addled' man shuts down town as he flips Porsche and breaks both legs of pregnant woman
  Daily Mail, 30th June 2012
  Something strange is going on....
  
  
• Police: Woman high on bath salts said she wanted to kill, eat someone
  9wsyr.com News, 25th June 2012
  Until there is an autopsy there is no guarantee that this person was taking 'bath salts'.
  
  
• Local Man Arrested After Family Pet Killed, Eaten
  KWTX News, 28th June 2012
  

What a load of rubbish. They really expect us to believe that one person had the authority in such a low position to cause this? When will they admit they have lost control even if only for a short while.

- Barry, Chelmsford, 27/6/2012 20:41

CA-7 is a job scheduling package, and an upgrade of it wouldn't require any 'technician' inexperienced or otherwise to need to do anything with transaction data. The DM reporter, um, reporTERS, here plainly haven't researched if what they claim happened, is even credible.

- Chris, Hounslow, 27/6/2012 20:40

GREEN FLASH, BLUE FLASH: Green flashes at sunset are rare. Indeed, they were once thought mythological. Blue flashes are rarer still. On June 21st Göran Strand of Frösön, Sweden, saw them both in a single sunset:

"Tonight the weather was incredibly clear and fine, so I went out to photograph the sunset--and this was the result," says Strand. "The time interval between the first and last frames is 1 minute and 14 seconds."

Green flashes are formed when the prismatic action of the atmosphere splits the setting sun into basic R-G-B colors. Temperature inversions create a mirage, magnifying the green into an eye-catching flash.

Blues flashes are formed in the same way, but they are generally harder to see than green flashes, because blue flashes blend into the surrounding blue sky. When the air is exceptionally clear, however, the blue flash emerges.

• HSBC online and ATM services hit
  The News Machine, 5th November 2011
  A list of recent failures
  

Electrical or magnetic interference inside a computer system can cause a single bit of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) to spontaneously flip to the opposite state. It was initially thought that this was mainly due to alpha particles emitted by contaminants in chip packaging material, but research[1] has shown that the majority of one-off ("soft") errors in DRAM chips occur as a result of background radiation, chiefly neutrons from cosmic ray secondaries, which may change the contents of one or more memory cells or interfere with the circuitry used to read/write them.
Wikipedia: ECC Memory

• Cars vs. cosmic rays
  MSNBC Cosmic Log, 2nd April 2010 Flashback!
  

  Diagram from The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change (2007) by Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder.

  Could cosmic rays affect electronics here on Earth? Yes, absolutely. Could cosmic rays be what's causing the mysterious accelerator problems in Toyota cars? Maybe. That's one of the reasons why a NASA engineering team has been called in to assist in a federal investigation.
  
  The team - drawn from the NASA Engineering and Safety Center, or NESC - serves as the space agency's rapid-response unit for engineering expertise. It was set up in the wake of the 2003 Columbia tragedy, in response to investigators' concerns that NASA didn't have an independent safety watchdog.
  
  Comment: The solar wind used to be described as a bullet proof vest that batted away most cosmic rays but now it's flagging at an all time low and the heliospheric current sheet is flattening out, NASA are expecting if this happens cosmic rays will go up another 30% above the current high, see Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High! The European Space Agency ESA) have told us straight that the Earth's magnetic field is full of rifts and occassionally disappears on the daylight side see, Multiple rifts in Earth's magnetic shield but at the time, they had forgotten to update their own tutorial that tells us that we don't have to worry about cosmic rays as we are protected by Earth's "strong magnetic field". So far, space agencies appear very coy about providing any statistics about how much protection is now being provided in comparison to historical levels. However, the ESA did claim that there is no need to worry as the Earth's atmosphere acts like a bullet proof vest but if that was true, then we would not have the influence on cloud formation and 10,000 muons (secondary particles generated from primary cosmic rays) would not be passing through our bodies every minute. It is also worth noticing that scientists have been telling us that there are discreet sources that seem to be 'targetting' Earth and even talk of dark energy sources that are being directly aimed at Earth. At the time, these reports were noted, but it has to be said they have been mostly short on quantitative facts and figures. However, we do know there is an issue as international efforts have been set up to monitor the situation as described in my book, Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism and Spiritual Evolution. Please note: Thinking positively does NOT stop cosmic rays.
  
  Reasons For Mysterious Computer Crashes
  Rense.com, 20th May 2007 Flashback!
  Do you get that "blue screen of death" on your PC now and then for no reason, requiring you to reboot? Does your Apple give you that infamous fatal error message requiring you to re-boot? You're not alone. Defective software can certainly cause these events to happen. The hardware industry is now pointing their finger at Microsoft - while Microsoft points their finger right back in a very crafty way.
  

I’ve still not received any reply from Nature Climate Change editor Rory Howlett to my query about why he allowed the term “deniers” in scientific literature (Bain et al), and neither has Bishop Hill to my knowledge. Lord Leach however, has weighed in, and has sent me his letter for publication here with permission. – Anthony

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Dear Dr Howlett,

The use of the term “denier” does your journal a disservice, both for its vagueness and for its insulting overtone.  

What does a “denier” deny? Certainly not Climate Change: nor global warming since records began in the late 19th century: nor the likelihood of human influence on temperatures. What, then?

"But surely there are more people in the New Age and New Consciousness movements who are scientifically literate enough to reject Hawkins' contrived calibration? How come so many seem to be silent in this debate?"

Louis J. Lanzerotti, distinguished research professor of physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, provided a history of the impacts of space weather on electrical technology. “We have a vast array of unseen physical processes in the space around the Earth that can affect our technologies as we go forward.As the complexity of systems increases, including their interconnectedness and their interoperability, they become more susceptible to space weather effects,” said Lanzerotti, editor of Space Weather: The International Journal of Research and Applications, which is published by AGU. He added that it is not a matter of whether space weather affects the Earth but rather when solar events might occur and how big they might be.

Lanzerotti said large solar disturbances can also occur during or near solar minimums, not only during solar maximums. He also expressed concern regarding how to predict some solar events. Lanzerotti said that modeling for CMEs is getting better, “but we have absolutely no clue as to how to predict the intensity of a solar X-ray event that can modify the ionosphere, or a solar radio event.”

White House and Agencies Focus on Space Weather Concerns, Eos, Vol. 93, No. 25, 19 June 2012 NEWS PAGE 235

Link here

GEOMAGNETIC STORM ALERT: Geomagnetic storms are circling Earth's poles in the wake of a double CME impact on June 16th. According to analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the hit strongly compressed Earth's magnetic field, directly exposing some geosynchronous satellites to solar wind plasma. After nightfall in North America, blue and purple auroras spread along the US-Canadian border. Justin Phillips sends this photo from New Auburn, Wisconsin:

"Fireflies added to the colors of extremely bright pink and purple auroras in west central Wisconsin," says Phillips. "What a night!"

Solar wind conditions in the wake of the CME favor continued disturbances. NOAA forecasters estimate a 55% chance of more high-latitude geomagnetic storms during the next 24 hours.

WEAK IMPACT: As expected, an interplanetary shock wave associated with the "double CME" of June 13-14 hit Earth's magnetic field today around 0900 UT. The impact was weak. The solar wind speed in the wake of the CME barely upticked to 400 km/s, and the impact did not trigger a geomagnetic storm.
Spaceweather.com, 16th June 2012

A "reform of the Curia" is probably a contradiction in terms. Its hierarchical, essentially medieval organizational model is incompatible with modern management. The Vatican is an anachronistic, albeit surprisingly tenacious system, in which pecking orders and an absurd penchant for secrecy and intrigue prevail. "The only important thing is proximity to the monarch," says a member of a cardinal's staff. Rome works like an absolutist court, one in which decisions are made by people whispering things into the others' ears rather than by committees. "There are many vain people here, people in sharp competition with one another," the staff member adds.

"Who spoke with whom, and for how long? What did they talk about? Who attends early Mass with whom, and who invites whom to dinner? Who's in and who's out? Who belongs and who doesn't, and who's coming into favor and who's falling out of it? "This mood fosters feelings of exclusion, discrimination, envy, revenge and resentment," the monsignor says. And all things have now appeared in the so-called Vatileaks documents."

• Pluto-Kun: Childrens Japanese Nuclear Cartoon
  YouTube, 2nd April 2011
  "ENGLISH TRANSLATION - The brainchild of a now defunct government research organization, the apple-cheeked animated Little Mr. Pluto debuted in the mid-1990s wearing a green helmet with a pair of antennae and the chemical symbol for plutonium, Pu. Promising to "never be scary or dangerous," Little Pluto extolled the benefits of plutonium, which Japanese nuclear authorities have viewed as a fuel of the future for fast breeder reactor technology."

15/6/2012, PRESS RELEASE

THE TREASURE HUNTERS, OCEAN X TEAM, DISCOVERED SOMETHING UNIQUE WHEN THEY DOVE DOWN TO THE MYSTERIOUS CIRCLE-SHAPED OBJECT IN THE BALTIC SEA

Treasure hunters confirm they have found something abnormal in the seabed

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 15, 2012

The Ocean X Team dove down to the circle-shaped object in the Baltic Sea and met something they never experienced before. First they thought it was just stone or a rock cliff, but after further observations the object appeared more as a huge mushroom, rising 3-4 meters/10-13 feet from the seabed, with rounded sides and rugged edges. The object had an egg shaped hole leading into it from the top, as an opening. On top of the object they also found strange stone circle formations, almost looking like small fireplaces. The stones were covered in something resembling soot.

“During my 20-year diving career, including 6000 dives, I have never seen anything like this. Normally stones don’t burn. I can’t explain what we saw, and I went down there to answer questions, but I came up with even more questions “, says Stefan Hogeborn, one of the divers at Ocean X Team.

The path to the object itself can be described as a runway or a downhill path that is flattened at the seabed with the object at the end of it.

“First we thought this was only stone, but this is something else. And since no volcanic activity has ever been reported in the Baltic Sea the find becomes even stranger. As laymen we can only speculate how this is made by nature, but this is the strangest thing I have ever experienced as a professional diver“, continues Peter Lindberg, one of the founder Ocean X Team.

Right now, scientists are examining samples from the circle-shaped object, and experts in sonar imaging are processing data from the ship to hopefully shed more light over the mysterious object. Source: www.oceanexplorer.se

CME TARGETS VENUS, EARTH MARS: Active sunspot AR1504 erupted on June 13th at 1319 UT, producing a long-duration M1-flare and hurling a CME into space. According to analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the cloud will deliver a glancing blow to three planets: Venus on June 15th, Earth on June 16th, and Mars on June 19th. This animation shows the likely progression of the cloud:

NOAA forecasters estimate a 25% - 30% chance of geomagnetic storms when the cloud reaches Earth. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.

ELECTRIC-BLUE NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS: Data from NASA's AIM spacecraft show that noctilucent clouds (NLCs) are like a great "geophysical light bulb." They turn on every year in late spring, reaching almost full intensity over a period of no more than 5 to 10 days. News flash: The bulb is glowing. Flying photographer Brian Whittaker photographed these NLCs over Canada on June 13th:

"I was very happy to see my first noctilucent clouds of 2012," says Whittaker. "They were visible to the north for about 3 hours as we flew between Ottawa and Newfoundland at 35,000 feet."

These electric-blue clouds are hanging 85 km above Earth's surface, at the edge of space itself. Their origin is still largely a mystery; various theories associate them with space dust, rocket exhaust, global warming--or some mixture of the three. One thing is sure. They're baaack ... for the summer of 2012.

"The auroras lasted just a couple of minutes, [but they were beautiful]," says photographer Bart Firth. "They were blue to purple in color."

The storm was sparked by an episode of "negative IMF." That is, south-pointing magnetic fields in the solar wind opened a crack in Earth's magnetosphere; solar wind poured in and fueled the display. NOAA forecasters estimate a 10% to 20% chance of similar storms in the next 24 hours as the solar wind continues to blow.

• Mysterious haze that covered China’s Wuhan city explained as straw burning
  The Watchers, 12th June 2012
  Really.....
  
  
• Thick Yellow Fog Engulfs Wuhan, China - June 11, 2012
  YouTube, 11th June 2012
  "Young and old residents of the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan were advised to stay indoors on Monday after a thick haze blanketed the city of nine million people, official media said."
  I would call this yellow haze impressive.... See the details of the main story below.
  

The word crepuscular means “relating to twilight,” and they occur when objects such as mountain peaks or clouds partially shadow the Sun’s rays, when the Sun is low on the horizon. These rays are visible only when the atmosphere contains enough haze or dust particles so that sunlight in unshadowed areas can be scattered toward the observer. The light rays are actually parallel, but appear to converge to the Sun due to “perspective,” the same visual effect that makes parallel railroad tracks appear to converge in the distance. Crepuscular Rays Seen From Space
by Nancy Atkinson on October 31, 2011

The event will be “some enormously reality-rearranging thing.” Scientists will invent a truly intelligent computer, or a time-travel machine. Perhaps we will be visited by an alien spaceship, or an asteroid. “I don’t know if it’s built into the laws of spacetime, or it’s generated out of human inventiveness, or whether it’s a mile and a half wide and arrives unexpectedly in the center of North America.”

1) It's not a rocket.
2) The lights over Norway weren't anywhere near Russian missile test
3) Russia 3 days later denied that the Norway lights where their missile test (western media ignored their denial)
4) Spiral missile burns only go in one direction, really fast, and not evenly.
5) Spiral missile burns aren't blue, and don't have a dark center
6) These are the same spirals carved into the rocks 5000 years ago…

No, this isn’t a joke, it isn’t a fake document, and it isn’t a misinterpretation. It is a paper published by Dr. James Hansen (and the GISS team) in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences). In the paper (published in 2000, but long since buried) they make these two bold statements (emphasis mine):

..we argue that rapid warming in recent decades has been driven mainly by non-CO₂ greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as chlorofluorocarbons, CH₄, and N₂O, not by the products of fossil fuel burning, CO₂ and aerosols..

If sources of CH₄ and O₃ precursors were reduced in the future, the change in climate forcing by non-CO₂ GHGs in the next 50 years could be near zero. Combined with a reduction of black carbon emissions and plausible success in slowing CO₂ emissions, this reduction of non-CO₂ GHGs could lead to a decline in the rate of global warming, reducing the danger of dramatic climate change.

• Sam Vaknin: Narcissist or Psychopath? What Are the Differences?
  YouTube, 2nd August 2010
  
  Comment:If you regularly follow this blog you will know that I have difficulty with this definition but it seems that world experts have the same difficulty too.... Now that I know that psychologists have a scale of 0 - 24 and 18+ is a psychopath, then I think that it only makes sense if we consider this to be a logarithmic scale... The reason being is I have serious difficulties with people like Magnotta being compared to James Ray, who are both psychopaths but to a different degree... It can NEVER be forgotten that James Ray abandoned people lying on the ground turning blue and dying and went off to have a shower and a sandwich. He actually got angry when someone sane phoned for paramedics after his fatal sweatlodge where he deliberately tried to provide an environment where people could experience heat stroke so they could become delirious and believe they were having a spiritual experience. Even after 3 deaths and 20+ people in trouble, his response to all this was to carry on as if nothing had happened because the lives of the people who had died and nearly died meant nothing in comparison to his pursuit of becoming a billionaire... I will accept that maybe he was careless and that just makes him a malignant narcissist, but I would imagine he would still be 16 - 18 on the scale.... Well, I am sure that social scientists will want to keep Magnotta alive just so that he can be studied, but I would be interested to know the results of some basic tests...
  

"And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. 9.And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them." Jeremiah 19: 8-9

"I've been really pondering these recent cannabalism and zombie occurences, and as you've noted, they're generating quite a lot of discussion. Since one of these cases happened in my home state of Maryland, only about 40 mins from where I live, it's quite disconcerting.

My strong first impressions and feelings about what's going on is that it appears to be some type of reality bleed-through. In the past couple of years zombie movies games, etc. have begun to outpace vampires in popularity in the general population. I know people who are absolutely addicted to TV series "The Walking Dead", which made it's debut last year. And zombies seem to be the "in thing" now.

It's as if the movies & games are starting to "bleed through" into our 3rd dimensional reality. Maybe it's because the new energies hitting our planet are causing thoughts and feelings to manifest more strongly and quickly......thus we will need to guard our thoughts and feelings more rigorously. Not to mention the collective consciousness of any given group.

Or maybe the "powers that be" want to amp up the fear energy and have introduced a new "program" into this reality construct/framework.

Whatever the case may be, this ride is getting wilder by the minute.

Just some thoughts......." L.S.

"I think your viewpoint is quite valid...

I really do believe that there is going to be some serious polarisation because of the nature of the energies hitting the planet.... The energy arriving is highly catalytic.... I am interested in the science but I believe the metaphysical community have at least got some things right about quick manifestation and with so many people buying into mass dreams in the form of movies etc things are going to get very strange..." [...]

L.S. replies

[...] I believe that the time of separation is possibly upon us....one reality for the 'devolved'; and a separate one for the 'evolved'.

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1. The Return of Christ ENERGY is a problem for the Vatican because it seems to have a function of re-balancing human consciousness amongst many other functions. Any negative and malignant force that has sprung up that impacts on the growth and evolution of human consciousness and poses a threat to humanity is therefore set for elimination. A direct comparison can be made here with ecosystems and what happens at times of great environmental stress when the agents of stress are eliminated to restore balance. This is briefly but well explained by biologist Bruce Lipton during an interview with Laura Lee in 2004, where Lipton explains new scientific evidence provided in the journal Nature, that suggests Darwin was wrong and it is not survival of the fittest, it is what the community of organisms contribute to a well functioning ecosystem environment. Bruce Lipton states that "evolution is selected by complementarity to the environment, organisms that push the environment to extremes are ultimately eliminated from the environment", see Bruce Lipton - DNA & The Environment 3of4. Hence the reason the Vatican insiders who know these ultra truths are terrified because their 'type' has seen destruction over and over again on this spiritual school called planet Earth. Why do you think the Vatican has its own state-of-the-art astronomical observatories and sends out astronomer priests like (Brother)(Dr) Guy Consolmagno, into the Antarctica to check if there is anything big coming from certain directions in the sky that are usually difficult to monitor? The Vatican takes its own destruction very seriously because they KNOW they are a negative malignant force operating as predators on humanity and they know that universal conciousness will regularly wipe them off the planet for everybody elses' good. Why do you think the astronomer priests made sure the bit in the scriptures, "Judgement will start at the house of God" was NOT removed? Why do you think there is such a cosy relationship between NASA and the Vatican? Well, these modern astronomer priests have a lot in common... Overall, I think it is fair to say the Vatican do could not care two hoots about humanity, 2012 and the return of the Christ energy is all about their self preservation.
   
   
2. The Vatican have major theological problems because if they can survive the evolutionary changes and their "judgement", people will eventually wake up and realise that there is a Shadow Biosphere on this planet and extraterrestrial life exists throughout the universe, thus we can anticipate that there is going to be some trauma. Please see archives re further comments on this subject.

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  Sam Vaknin: Narcissistic Humiliation and Injury
  YouTube, 29 Jun 2011
  
  
• Sam Vaknin: Faces of Narcissist's Aggression
  YouTube, 14th June 2012
  Vaknin identifies many different ways that narcisstists operate and watching his videos will help you to identify those narcissists that you have been involved with or are still involved with....
  
  
• Sam Vaknin: Bullying as Art, Abuse as Craftsmanship
  YouTube, 1st April 2012
  Yes, I have lived the life of walking on eggshells around a narcissist that could explode at any moment. Sam Vaknin provides some valuable insights into how these monsters think...
  

The Moon has an external magnetic field of the order of one to a hundred nanoteslas, less than one-hundredth that of the Earth. It does not currently have a global dipolar magnetic field, as would be generated by a liquid metal core geodynamo, and only has crustal magnetization, probably acquired early in lunar history when a geodynamo was still operating.[73][74] Alternatively, some of the remnant magnetization may be from transient magnetic fields generated during large impact events, through the expansion of an impact-generated plasma cloud in the presence of an ambient magnetic field—this is supported by the apparent location of the largest crustal magnetizations near the antipodes of the giant impact basins.[75]

The Moon - Wikipedia

In the spring of 1951 US soldiers were mounting an attack on a Korean village when a glowing, disc-shaped UFO approached them. A private fired at it with armour-piercing bullets and heard the sound of metal hitting metal. The object 'went wild' and began to move erratically and flash its light off and on. The men then heard a sound like the revving of a generator, and were swept by some form of a ray, producing a burning, tingling sensation. 3 days later they had to be evacuated by ambulance as they were too weak to walk [29].

Bullets hitting UFOs, and also humanoid beings, are often reported to sound as if they are hitting metal -- but this could mean that physicalized etheric matter can assume properties like those of metal rather than flesh. The 'mica-like' body and 'wiry froth' associated with the creatures seen by Don Wood on Flat Mesa seem to support this idea. In mid-1964 a 'metallic' lifeform began appearing in Rio Vista, California. Reports described it as cigar-shaped, about 5 ft in diameter and 12 to 15 ft long. It glowed a soft red and moved silently. On 22 September 1965, 300 to 400 persons stood in the dark on a hilltop around a water tower where the object was generally observed. It appeared and was seen hovering or moving slowly a couple of hundred feet above the treetops or the top of the water tower. Boys with .22 rifles shot at the object one night, and the bullets made a metallic 'twang' and caused the object to flare up bright red for a second [30].

'Saucer nests' have been reported in Northern Queensland, Australia. One morning in January 1966, a farmer near Tully was driving a tractor near a lagoon. He was surprised to see a large, disc-shaped object suddenly ascend from the water reeds 25 yards away. It rose to an altitude of about 60 ft, then tilted a little to one side and vanished speedily to the southwest. In the reeds the farmer found a circular, flattened area, about 30 ft in diameter, within an otherwise undisturbed, dense reed growth. The flattened stems were radially distributed in an anticlockwise manner. The reeds had been torn free of the bottom so that the whole mass was floating on the surface of the water. By the evening, the upper surfaces of the flattened reeds had turned brown. Other nests were subsequently found in the same area, and have also been reported in other parts of the world [31].

The anticlockwise flattening of the reeds is significant, as evidence of anticlockwise, energetic motion around discoid UFOs is found in numerous incidents. A typhoon involves an anticlockwise motion and levitates millions of tons of water as it crosses the ocean. Trevor Constable believes that UFOs which levitate themselves make use of the same etheric or orgone energy. The high orgonotic potential associated with the Tully creatures withdraws the orgone charge in the reeds under them and pulls them free of the bottom. The browning of the upper edge of the flattened reeds could be caused by the whirling plasma around the creatures.

The Queensland UFO nests seem far more like a nesting area for living creatures than a base for space beings. The nesting of UFOs on water amid the reeds is reminiscent of living organisms that fly, such as geese and ducks. The object taking flight when a noisy tractor approached is reminiscent of startled wildfowl. In the same area of Queensland, a discoidal UFO was observed pacing an airliner at high altitude. UFOs have similarly paced airliners, bombers, and jet fighters all over the world. Seabirds characteristically pace ships at sea, often accompanying them for hundreds of miles.

UFOs: The Psychic Dimension, Chp. 5 Lightforms and bioforms

SMALL ASTEROID BUZZES EARTH: Newly-discovered asteroid 2012 KT42 is flying past Earth today (May 29th) only ~14,000 km above the planet's surface. This means 2012 KT42 will actually fly inside the Clark Belt of geosynchronous satellites. The 3- to 10-meter wide asteroid ranks # 6 on the top 20 list of closest-approachers to Earth. According to the asteroid's orbit, there is no danger of a collision. Even if it did hit, this space rock is too small to cause significant damage. It would likely disintegrate almost entirely in the atmosphere, peppering the ground below with relatively small meteorites. [flyby images]

ASTEROID FLYBY: Today, May 28th, newly-discovered asteroid 2012 KP24 is flying past Earth only one-tenth the distance to the Moon. Amateur astronomer Rolando Ligustri photographed the 26-meter space rock during the early hours of May 28th when it was about 350,000 km from our planet: image. Measurements of the asteroid's orbit confirm that there is no danger of a collision with Earth. Small Asteroids Spotted Late Whizzing Close By Earth - Part I

1. In Part 5 of the Norwegian documentary 'The Portal: The Hessdalen Light Phenonomena' December 2009, [47:08], assistant professor Bjørn Gitle Hauge explains the Hessdalen phenomena (one of many) that looks like a burning ball of fire that does not expand in comparison to what you would expect from the normal combustion process. It is explained as a plasmoid trapped in a strong magnetic field. See archives for more information Best of the Blog - Orbs, UAP & UFO Traffic).

2. Certainly, some pilots are well aware of the existence of UAPs and there seems to be an effort to educate pilots to not panic when they see a UAP even if seems like it will hit because UAPs are fast and will steer clear of a plane faster than a pilot can maneuver. See NARCAP's Spherical UAP and Aviation Safety: A Critical Review - April 2010 .

These sightings are "very odd," said Kay. "People described white glowing balls of light and great orange balls of fire. Some were three feet off the ground, some were high in the sky. We can't figure out what it is."

"The phenomena has by the Embla crew been identified as a flying luminous object with certain characteristics that make it unique to science."
10 years of scientific research of the Hessdalen Phenomena by Bjørn Gitle Hauge (2005).

PURPLE SKIES: Earth is entering a high-speed solar wind stream, and this is causing geomagnetic activity at high latitudes. First contact with the stream on May 22nd turned the sky over Cumbria, United Kingdom, deep purple:

"The sky was bright because of twilight, but we could still see these faint auroras," says photographer Jon Cooper.

Comment: I have got to the stage I don't even know what to say anymore.... so, it's not just auroras occuring now when aurora season is supposed to be over, we are now getting purple auroras over the UK and we are not even talking in regions that are the furthest north.... This is what Astro Bin (whoops! Astro Bob) had to say about the 'rarity' of purple auroras earlier this month.... Purple aurora majesties. When are people going to really start paying attention to what is happening above our heads and why?

DRAGON SIGHTINGS: NASA officials are calling it a turning point in space exploration. Yesterday, a commercial rocket, SpaceX's Falcon 9, blasted off from Cape Canaveral on a mission to re-supply the International Space Station. As the Falcon 9 roared into the sky, Brent of Orlando, Florida, photographed its fiery exhaust through his backyard telescope:

Comment: Incredible.... Since when have rocket launches produced this kind of plasma ignition in our atmosphere! This is truly unbelievable... Actually, I did not even believe this video footage was real until I saw it on spaceweather.com.... I thought it was fake.... Fiery dragons in the sky now.... wow... I wonder whether this was a little bit of drama created for us ignorant punters... I watched the SpaceX's Falcon 9 (Dragon) historical docking and there must have been an outer heat shielding that was disgarded because it looked very neat and tidy to me... I don't have time to investigate what really happened...

SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon Spacecraft Launch 5-22-12 Live HD! YouTube, 23rd May 2012

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1. The Return of Christ ENERGY is a problem for the Vatican because it seems to have a function of re-balancing human consciousness amongst many other functions. Any negative and malignant force that has sprung up that impacts on the growth and evolution of human consciousness and poses a threat to humanity is therefore set for elimination. A direct comparison can be made here with ecosystems and what happens at times of great environmental stress when the agents of stress are eliminated to restore balance. This is briefly but well explained by biologist Bruce Lipton during an interview with Laura Lee in 2004, where Lipton explains new scientific evidence provided in the journal Nature, that suggests Darwin was wrong and it is not survival of the fittest, it is what the community of organisms contribute to a well functioning ecosystem environment. Bruce Lipton states that "evolution is selected by complementarity to the environment, organisms that push the environment to extremes are ultimately eliminated from the environment", see Bruce Lipton - DNA & The Environment 3of4. Hence the reason the Vatican insiders who know these ultra truths are terrified because their 'type' has seen destruction over and over again on this spiritual school called planet Earth. Why do you think the Vatican has its own state-of-the-art astronomical observatories and sends out astronomer priests like (Brother)(Dr) Guy Consolmagno, into the Antarctica to check if there is anything big coming from certain directions in the sky that are usually difficult to monitor? The Vatican takes its own destruction very seriously because they KNOW they are a negative malignant force operating as predators on humanity and they know that universal conciousness will regularly wipe them off the planet for everybody elses' good. Why do you think the astronomer priests made sure the bit in the scriptures, "Judgement will start at the house of God" was NOT removed? Why do you think there is such a cosy relationship between NASA and the Vatican? Well, these modern astronomer priests have a lot in common... Overall, I think it is fair to say the Vatican do could not care two hoots about humanity, 2012 and the return of the Christ energy is all about their self preservation.
   
   
2. The Vatican have major theological problems because if they can survive the evolutionary changes and their "judgement", people will eventually wake up and realise that there is a Shadow Biosphere on this planet and extraterrestrial life exists throughout the universe, thus we can anticipate that there is going to be some trauma. Please see archives re further comments on this subject.

The German langauge Voice of Russia here reports a news item you’ll never hear from the mainstream media. Top scientists of Russia’s most prestigious academy say global warming is ending.

Here’s the Voice of Russia report I’ve translated in English:

Global warming is coming to an end: In the coming years the temperature over the entire planet will fall and the cooling will provide a character of relief. This is the conclusion reached by Russian scientists from the Physics University of the Russian Academy of Science.$ The process of a general temperature decrease has already begun, according to the research. After having peaked in 2005, the average temperature on Earth is now returning to the level of the 1996-1997 years, 0.3°C lower.

According to the scientists, global temperatures will fall another 0.15°C by 2015, which corresponds to the climate of the early 1980s.”

Wow! More great news that rebut the claims of the climate catastrophe. I’d think the media and western political readers would embrace all this and be relieved.

The persons most relieved to hear this should be the panicky James Hansen and Al Gore. Surely they’ll be very happy to hear this news.

Now climate scientists can go back to the old narrative of the early 1980s: global cooling!

The Honorable Charles Bolden, Jr.  ?NASA Administrator

NASA Headquarters

Washington, D.C. 20546-0001

Dear Charlie:  

In our letter of March 28, 2012, we, the undersigned, respectfully requested that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites.

On April 11^th, Dr. Waleed  Abdalati responded, holding that: “As an agency, NASA does not draw conclusions and issue ‘claims’ about research findings.” 

Eight days later, at a senate hearing, Dr. Abdalati, did just that, concluding that Sea-Level rise within the next 87 years projects within a range of 0.2 meters to 2 meters, with lower ranges less likely while “the highest values are based on warmest of the temperature scenarios commonly considered for the remainder of the 21st century.”

Luther Wu says: May 22, 2012 at 10:00 am

“In God we trust, all others bring data.”

"Despite the media sensationalism of murderers as psychopaths, most psychopaths are not murderers. In fact, most psychopaths function among us in society, using non-lethal techniques of manipulation and deceit to take advantage of others. They can be charming and successful, and unfortunately, often go undetected in their efforts to self-gratify at the expense of others."

The Brain of a Psychopath: Using fMRI Technology to Detect Brain Abnormalities, Part I By Kelly McAleer, Psy.D.

• A Psychopath’s Brain on fMRI
  Psychcentral, 23rd March 2010
  "A Psychopath's Brain on fMRIOur newest blogger, Dr. Kelly McAleer, has an interesting two-part post about the use of fMRI imaging technologies to try and detect psychopathology in criminals: In my last post, I discussed how Dr. Kent Kiehl, a neuroscientist, is using fMRI technology to detect brain abnormalities in people with psychopathy. His participants are prison inmates who score high on the PCL-R, a psychodiagnostic measure used to assess psychopathy. Once he determines that the participant is, in fact, a psychopath based on their PCL-R score, he takes scans of their brains using an fMRI to determine if there are brain differences between psychopathic participants and normal controls. He has found defects in the paralimbic system that he believes relate to psychopathy.
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Our slower sun

The Heliosphere [solar system] transition through this structure has led to an increase of the shock wave in front of the Solar System from 3 to 4 AU, to 40 AU, or more. This shock wave thickening has caused the formation of a collusive plasma in a parietal layer, which has led to a plasma overdraft around the Solar System, and then to its breakthrough into interplanetary domains [5,6]. This breakthrough constitutes a kind of matter and energy donation made by interplanetary space to our Solar System.

Planetophysical State of the Earth and Life [1998]

INTERPLANETARY SHOCK WAVE: An interpanetary shock wave possibly associated with the M5-class solar flare of May 17th swept past Earth on May 20th around 0200 UT. The shock's arrival caused geomagnetic activity around the poles, and several outbreaks of high-latitude auroras. Images: #1, #2.

RADIATION STORM: A radiation storm around Earth is subsiding. The storm began during the early hours of May 17th when a strong M5-class flre accelerated a fusillade of solar protons in our direction. At its peak, the S2-class storm was capable of confusing spacecraft imaging systems and causing 'single event upsets' in orbiting electronics. Radiation storm alerts: text, phone.

The explosion that caused the radiation storm also hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. SOHO recorded the cloud racing away from the sun faster than 1500 km/s: Spaceweather.com, 17th May 2012

INCOMING CME? A coronal mass ejection (CME) that flew off the sun's western limb on May 17th might hit Earth after all. NOAA forecasters say a shock wave from the blast could deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field on May 18th or 19th. The CME, pictured below, was propelled by an M5-class solar flare from departing sunspot AR1476. Spaceweather.com, 18th May 2012

RADIATION STORM UNDERWAY: Energetic solar protons are swirling around Earth following an M5-class solar flare from departing sunspot 1476. The sunspot erupted on May 17th around 0130 UT. This radiation storm ranks S2 on NOAA storm scales, which means it is a moderate event capable of confusing spacecraft imaging systems and causing 'single event upsets' in orbiting electronics.

MENACE UNREALIZED: After more than a week of solar storm warnings, sunspot AR1476 is turning away from Earth with a mostly unblemished record of quiet. The decaying behemoth never lived up to its potential as a source of X-class solar flares. Spaceweather.com, 15th May 2012

RADIATION OVER-EXPOSURE TO PASSENGERS AND CREW Information!

The principal space weather hazard to humans is exposure to cosmic radiation while flying, which is caused primarily by GCRs. The dose rate at an altitude of 39,000 ft (12 km) in mid-temperate latitudes is typically up to about 6 microSieverts (microSv) per hour, but near the equator only about 3 microSv/hr. Typically, a London to Los Angeles flight in a commercial aircraft accumulates ~65 microSv (6 microSv/hr); however, the solar cycle can give plus or minus 20% variations in dose from solar minimum to maximum.

However, of concern are those SEPs [Solar Energetic Particles] that increase the dose at aircraft altitudes. Using data collected onboard aircraft and then modelled to large SEP storms (ie, 23 February 1956, 29 September 1989) it is estimated that the additional radiation dose received at 40,000ft (12km) on a subsonic transatlantic flight would have been approximately 10 mSv and 2 mSv respectively.

Under present ICRP guidelines, the recommended dose limit for the general public is 1mSv, and for aircrew in the EU a maximum working level of 6 mSv has been adopted by the airlines.

UK Government Space Weather Memorandum: Scientific advice and evidence in emergencies , SolarMetrics Limited (SAGE 18), 13 September 2010
Submission is for the Science and Technology Committee inquiry, examining the UK Government's use of scientific advice and evidence in emergency situations.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Solar maximum is coming in 2013. How will space weather affect you? To answer that question, experts from around the world are gathering for the Space Weather Enterprise Forum (SWEF) on June 5, 2012, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. To learn more and register, please visit the SWEF web site at http://www.nswp.gov/swef/swef_2012.html.

Starfish Prime was a high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States of America on July 9, 1962, a joint effort of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the Defense Atomic Support Agency (which became the Defense Nuclear Agency in 1971). [...]

On 9 July 1962, at 09:00:09 Coordinated Universal Time, (which was 8 July, Honolulu time, at nine seconds after 11 p.m.), the Starfish Prime test was successfully detonated at an altitude of 400 kilometres (250 mi). [...]

Starfish Prime caused an electromagnetic pulse which was far larger than expected, so much larger that it drove much of the instrumentation off scale, causing great difficulty in getting accurate measurements. The Starfish Prime electromagnetic pulse also made those effects known to the public by causing electrical damage in Hawaii, about 1,445 kilometres (898 mi) away from the detonation point, knocking out about 300 streetlights, setting off numerous burglar alarms and damaging a telephone company microwave link. The EMP-damaged microwave link shut down telephone calls from Kauai to the other Hawaiian islands.[4]

While some of the energetic beta particles followed the Earth's magnetic field and illuminated the sky, other high-energy electrons became trapped and formed radiation belts around the earth. There was much uncertainty and debate about the composition, magnitude and potential adverse effects from this trapped radiation after the detonation. The weaponeers became quite worried when three satellites in low earth orbit were disabled. These man-made radiation belts eventually crippled one-third of all satellites in low earth orbit. Seven satellites failed over the months following the test as radiation damaged their solar arrays or electronics, including the first commercial relay communication satellite, Telstar.[10][11] Detectors on Telstar, TRAAC, Injun, and Ariel 1 were used to measure distribution of the radiation produced by the tests.[12]

Talk:Starfish Prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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[...] three tornadoes [...] occurred at about the same time last Sunday [...]

Researchers at the Japan Meteorological Agency say one tornado that hit Ibaraki and Tochigi Prefectures left damage over an area about 31-kilometers long and 650- meters wide. [...]

The researchers said three other tornadoes occurred in Ibaraki and Fukushima Prefectures on the same day. [...]

They calculated that super cells measured about 10- to 20-kilometers wide. [...]

Agency expert Osamu Suzuki says it’s rare for three tornadoes to occur simultaneously. [...]

• Dr. Bill Deagle w/ Jeff Rense 2012/05/08 - Multiple Updates
  YouTube, 9th May 2012
  At about 30.00 Deagle talks about Alaskan airlines
  
  
• Marine Die-offs, Polar Bears Losing Fur And Sick Animals In Alaska As Radiation Hits West Coast
  Alexander Higgins, 10th April 2012
  
  
• Geiger Counter in an Airplane (Radioactivity Reading - Milky's plane trip)
  YouTube, 14th March 2012
  "NOTE FROM MILKY: I borrowed a Soeks geiger counter from a friend to measure the radiation in the airplane ride from Flint Michigan (layover in Atlanta) and off from Atlanta to San Diego this past Feb. 22, shortly after the Chicago area and San Onfre (near San Diego) nuclear plants both released radioactive steam. I turned it on at 10,000 feet when the pilot announces you can turn electronic devices on. We cruised up to 32.000 feet. Radiation reached approx. 2.85 mcSv/h Microsiverts per hour. Considered Dangerous radiation."
  This is only for reference as there has been recent warnings (see below) for frequent fliers about high levels of radiation that is not related to radiation from Fukushima....
  
  
• Airline frequent fliers 'radiation poisoning risks' from space 'solar flare' storm activity
  The Telegraph, 5th November 2010 Flashback!
  Airline frequent fliers are at greater risk of developing long term radiation poisoning from “solar space storms” or flare activity from the Sun, a new study warns.
  
  Researchers found passengers faced the “hazard” of space radiation, which created unhealthy levels of exposure while flying at “typical cruise altitudes” of 40,000 feet. Experts warned passengers could be subjected to increasing risk to cancer due to such radiation levels. [...]
  

Radio waves produced during solar flare eruptions on the Sun can cripple the Global Positioning System (GPS) and other communication technologies here on Earth, scientists say. [...]

This solar radio bursts occurred during the solar minimum, yet produced as much as 10 times more radio noise than the previous record," said Dale Gary, a physicist at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. "This was enough to swamp GPS receivers over the entire sunlit side of Earth."

The scientists predict that larger solar radio bursts, expected during heightened periods of solar activity, called the solar maximum, will disrupt GPS receiver operations even further.

"The size and timing of this burst were completely unexpected and the largest ever detected," said Anthea Coster of the MIT Haystack Observatory. "We do not know how often we can expect solar radio bursts of this size or even larger."

Solar Radio Bursts Could Cripple GPS
Space.com, 4th April 2007

2012-05-09 13:58 UTC Increased Activity Looming

NOAA Region 1476, now poised just to the east of center on the solar disk, produced an impulsive R1(Minor) Radio Blackout at 1232 UTC (8:32 EDT) today. The region is quite prominent, although just one-third in area of the large regions of the Halloween Storms in 2003, and exhibits a slight degree of magnetic complexity. It will be in direct alignment with earth in a few days, so CME's then would be likely to spawn geomagnetic activity.

The Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology and the National Space Weather Program will host the 2012 Space Weather Enterprise Forum on June 5, 2012, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. This year's theme is Solar Maximum 2013 – How Space Weather Will Affect You! To learn more and register, please visit the SWEF web site at http://www.nswp.gov/swef/swef_2012.html.

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center

Solar poles to become quadrupolar in May [2012]
The Yomiuri Shimbun, 21st April 2012

Magnetic field polarity at the solar poles will reverse and become quadrupolar in May, meaning positive fields will emerge in the North and South poles and negative fields will emerge on the equator, according to the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and other institutes.

When a similar phenomenon occurred about 300 years ago, the Earth's average temperature fell slightly.

A research team led by Saku Tsuneta, a professor at the observatory, analyzed solar magnetic fields data using Hinode, an observational satellite, and confirmed that the polarity of the magnetic field at the North Pole began to reverse in July last year.

The researchers also found the magnetic field at the South Pole, which was expected to reverse along with the North Pole, maintained a positive polarity, ensuring the formation of a quadrupole magnetic field.

Solar poles to become quadrupolar in May [2012]
The Yomiuri Shimbun, 21st April 2012

A Star with two North Poles

Normally, our star, like Earth itself, has a north and a south magnetic pole. But for nearly a month beginning in March 2000, the Sun's south magnetic pole faded, and a north pole emerged to take its place. The Sun had two north poles. [...]

"The south pole never really vanished," notes Riley. It migrated north and, for a while, became a band of south magnetic flux smeared around the Sun's equator. By May 2000 the south pole had returned to its usual spot near the Sun's southern spin axis--but not for long. In 2001 the solar magnetic field completely flipped; the south and north poles swapped positions, which is how they remain now.

A Star with two North Poles: Sometimes the Sun's magnetic field goes haywire, and the effects are felt throughout the solar system.
NASA Science News, April 22, 2003

TWO INCOMING CMEs: A pair of solar eruptions on May 7th hurled coronal masss ejections (CMEs) toward Earth. Forecast tracks prepared by analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab suggests that clouds with arrive in succession on May 9th at 13:40 UT and May 10th at 07:54 UT (+/- 7 hours). The double impact could spark moderate geomagnetic storms. Spaceweather.com 8th May 2012

NORTHERN LIGHTS: A solar wind stream hit Earth's magnetic field during the late hours of May 8th, stirring geomagnetic activity and auroras over parts of Europe. Graeme Whipps photographed the display from Scotland:

"A fantastic green and purple arc was clearly visible in the late twilight glow over Aberdeenshire," says Whipps. "I wasn't expecting this!" The full-sized image also frames a meteor slicing through the Northern Lights. Spaceweather.com 9th May 2012

• I,Psychopath - Documentary - [part 1] Extended Version
  YouTube, Sep 29, 2010 Highly Recommended!
  
  Comment: This is weird... I first watched part 5 & part 6 where I actually started to quite like Sam Vaknin author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" and I think it is because he is honest about being a psychopath and highly intelligent about it (His IQ is 185 or so we are told)..... I was gobsmacked.... I suppose it's because I like the honesty... weird....OK, I sobered up at the end of Part 7 when I found out that Sam had put a teenage "friend" in a mental hospital, who ended up being psychotic for a year.... Guess what? Sam claims that he actually aimed to turn his "friend" into a robot that he could program and control, but 'failed' because his friend was hospitalized... he admits he has no regrets about his experimentation... Then there is the abuse caught on film of the documentary film maker where Sam is just off the charts nasty... I suppose that is where people start to sense the evil, and when you realise this is not a normal person.... Sam will not even admit that he is human..... Yes, I know what the psychologists are saying but to hear it from the horse's mouth is still shocking.... Seriously, this documentary is brilliant.... you even start to question those who are not diagnosed as psychopaths like his partner who seems to be happy to be abused on a regular basis .... I have made my views clear about those who become the end-product of a psychopath based on the opinion of psychologists who are experts on cult leaders and those who have been in cults. This is where psychopaths have perfected their ability to turn their victims into robots or zombies and the documentary even highlights cult leaders because they have the common trait of a psychopath who projects their own characteristics onto their followers and/or victims .... I think the research over at least 50 years substantiates my claim that psychopaths in the Cultic Milieu create "mini-me" psychopaths and the narcissim and sense of entitlement that is so strong is exactly what we should expect. As Dr. Robert Hare states here: "If we believe in the fundamental goodness of man we are doomed." This is a lesson that I was forced to learn for my own good.
  
  
• Psychopathic Narcissists: Cold Empathy, Uncanny Valley
  YouTube, 27th August 2011
  
  Update: I have spent quite some time listening to Sam Vaknin and now I have been given some major answers.... Despite my previous research, Vaknin has a unique perspective and is a world class teacher...Now I know that my suspicions about some people have been right... I had picked up the clues but I did not know what it actually meant... I am now in shock about the number of maglignant narcissists I have come across in the last 10 years, some of who have wanted me to get involved with them and promote their "good deeds".... One person in particular who turned out to by a very nasty pathological liar.... I have had to learn some tough lessons, but my primary lesson is that you will not learn about spiritual evolution from people with personality disorders...
  

The more extreme manifestations of an absence of spirit is known in psychology as psychopathic, sociopathic, or narcissistic personality disorders. Spirited people who fit this condition are misguided and held hostage by their egos, but they can be rehabilitated. Instead of lacking empathy, their empathy is either suppressed or displaced. These are not true psychopaths, but spirited people with personality disorders.

NOTE: LACK OF DATA UPDATES. SOHO went into "Emergency Sun Reacquisition" mode on Friday May 4, 2012, caused by a false trigger of the Coarse Sun Pointing Attitude Anomaly Dector. We are working on the recovery of the spacecraft to normal mode. Nominal science operations should be re-established in the next couple of days.

And again:

NOTE: LACK OF DATA UPDATES. SOHO went again into "Emergency Sun Reacquisition" (ESR) mode on Wednesday, May 8, 2012 at 20:34 UT. The ESR was again caused by a false trigger of the Coarse Sun Pointing Attitude Anomaly Dector. We are working on the recovery of the spacecraft to normal mode. It will take several days to return to normal science operations.

Special Interest

Twelve to eighteen hours after the initial flare, a massive CME will approach the Earth. If a solar wind monitor upwind of Earth survives the initial energetic particle storm, it will detect the on-coming CME and indicate its potential to trigger an extreme geomagnetic storm. At this point, SWPC will issue a G5 warning, with 30-60 minutes of lead time. The societal consequences, if any, after the CME impacts the Earth remains to be determined.

Update

• Climate change [Space Weather] 'threatens UK wi-fi connections', says government report
  Study into impact of hotter, stormier [Space] weather on UK infrastructure finds threat to wi-fi range and signal strength
  The Guardian, 9th May 2011
  Wi-fi internet access and other communications are at risk from global warming unless measures are taken to protect them from rising temperatures and stormier weather, a government report warned on Monday.
  
  Presenting the report, the secretary of state for the environment, Caroline Spelman, said that higher temperatures can reduce the range of wireless communications, rainstorms can impact the reliability of the signal, and drier summers and wetter winters may cause greater subsidence, damaging masts and underground cables.

• Wichita experiences rare 'heat burst' overnight
  KSN News, 9th June 2011
  WICHITA, Kansas -- Last night Wichita experienced a very rare weather phenomenon known as a “Heat Burst.” At 12:22 a.m. the temperature at Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport was 85 degrees. At 12:44 the temperature spiked to 102 degrees. This was a 17 degree increase in only 20 minutes. Winds also gusted between 50 and 60 MPH. The heat burst winds and temperatures rapidly dissipated as they spread across Sedgwick and Southern Butler Counties.