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Susan rennison

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.

Since 2006, the major significance of Space Weather has become more apparent. What's more, it has now been proven that major religious institutions, metaphysical and esoteric groups have been tracking the date 2012 as the end/start of a major astronomical cycle. Geoscientists worldwide are adamant that our planet is experiencing a “global energy leap” and the inevitable consequence will be more mega-disasters. World governments have been warned that there is a new need for disaster preparedness and there is now a new sense of urgency. This blog provides my unique perspective as a Truth Seeker, based on the integration of science, metaphysics and ancient knowledge.

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News of the Imbalance July – August 2012

How to catch a tumbling, aging satellite DARPA program to capture, reuse old satellites moves forward
Network World, 31st August 2012
How do you catch a speeding, tumbling, aging satellite? Very carefully. Levity aside, the question is central to the plan scientists at DARPA have for catching up to and grabbing old satellites in an effort to ultimately refurbish and reuse the systems.

Scientists at DARPA say there are some 1,300 satellites worth over $300B sitting out in Earth's geostationary orbit (GEO) that could be retrofitted or harvested for new communications roles and it designed a program called Phoenix which it says would use a squadron "satlets" and a larger tender craft to grab out-of-commission satellites and retrofit or retrieve them for parts or reuse.

Comment:
Times are hard, we need to re-use the junk....



"Sunshade" to fight climate change costed at $5 bln a year
Reuters, 31st August 2012
(Reuters) - Planes or airships could carry sun-dimming materials high into the atmosphere for an affordable price tag of below $5 billion a year as a way to slow climate change, a study indicated on Friday.

Guns, rockets or a pipeline into the stratosphere would be more expensive but generally far cheaper than policies to cut world greenhouse gas emissions, estimated to cost between $200 billion and $2 trillion a year by 2030.

Comment:
Since the Sun continues to 'slump' combined with outbursts that are terrifying solar and space scientists, the need to place a sunshade over this planet only makes sense if we realise that our world is facing SPACE CLIMATE CHANGE. The new transmitting properties of a highly charged space environment is now a major cause for concern.

Advancing the International Governance of Geoengineering
Red Ice Creations, 4th September 2012



Solar storms can destabilize power grids at midlatitudes
Phys.Org News, 31st August 2012
The Sun is capable of disrupting electrical systems on Earth in a variety of ways, from solar flares and coronal mass ejections to proton storms. [...] At 1:20 UT on 6 November 2001, a high-density pocket of solar wind, 18 nanoPascals above the background pressure, sped past the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite, which was orbiting 197 Earth radii above the Earth toward the Sun. In half an hour, this high-pressure wave traveled more than a million kilometers (620,000 miles) to the Earth's magnetopause. The high- pressure pulse induced currents both in the magnetopause and in power lines across New Zealand, causing alarms to be tripped and a transformer to fail catastrophically.

Comment:
This is highlighting the existence of a research paper warning that there are regions on this planet where authorities should not think they are 'safe' from the impact of geomagnetic storms.... I agree there should be no complacency because it may not be possible to recover quickly from a large grid failure... Btw, 27 amperes is HUGE.... but it interesting that Marshall et al. can only guess why high currents don't always cause a problem, a reminder of the Russian roulette nature of space weather.

Westpac glitch halts eftpos, credit cards [NZ]
stuff.co.nz, 2nd September 2012
A problem with Westpac's computer system had shoppers scrambling to use other means of paying this morning. Supermarkets reported Westpac customers were not able to use their credit or eftpos cards and Westpac ATM machines were also not working. [...] The bank had a similar nationwide outage last month. It was attributed to a data connection problem.
A nationwide outage last month too..... ATMs not working is nothing new, yet the frequency appears to be increasing, but finding data to backup this claim is an issue when banks want to hide the extent of their difficulties. Whatever, I am now quite confident that due to Earth's magnetic field declining there will be a more obvious impact from space weather. The rate of computer and network problems will get worse....



'Two-faced' chimera cat Venus is an overnight internet sensation
A 'two-faced' chimera cat's distinctive facial features have had internet users across the globe doing a double take after feline Venus became an overnight online hit.
Metro News, 31st August 2012
When there seems to be a new cute kitten gaining YouTube fame each week, it’s tough to stand out from the cat crowd.

But that’s certainly not a problem for Venus – the ‘two-faced’ cat who is the internet star du jour.

The feline’s face is perfectly divided in two – one half is jet black while the other is calico. And, as if this wasn’t enough, her eyes are different colours too – one is ice blue, the other is green.

Comment:
I have been seeing this story for a few days but I thought it was a joke... This is another suspected DNA mutation that we can presume will become more and more common as cosmic rays start flipping more and more bits of DNA...



Asda charges customers FIVE TIMES for their online shopping order and must now repay hundreds
This is Money, 31st August 2012
Asda has apologised to customers and refunded hundreds of pounds after charging them as much five times for their internet shopping orders.

One customer was charged £790 for a £140 shopping order and will now have to wait five days for a refund.

A power cut yesterday in the U.S. at parent company Wallmart’s office caused a computer glitch in its systems, leading to the error. [...]

A spokesman from Asda said that it was an isolated incident but that it has installed further precautionary measures to prevent it from happening again.

This is the second time that Asda’s payment system has been subject to a glitch. Some customers were charged twice for their online shopping in July last

Comment:
A power cut? To the best of my knowledge, I can't see a process for how one financial transaction could be repeated five times... However, I can see that some kind of EM interference (like lightning) that caused a power cut and also managed to corrupt some computer hardware. It is certainly interesting just how often computer batch programs are hicupping and deducting too much cash from people's accounts... Since the annoyance factor is high, how this can happen and go undetected is quite an enigma...



ACE, Workhorse Of NASA's Heliophysics Fleet, Is 15
NASA News, 29th August 2012
The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) is Earth's vanguard. Orbiting around a point 900,000 miles away between the Earth and our sun, this satellite is ever vigilant, recording the combination of radiation - from the sun, from the solar system, from the galaxy - that streams by. None of this radiation can harm humans on Earth, but the biggest bursts of particles from the sun can flow into near-Earth space causing a dynamic space weather system that can damage satellites and interfere with radio communication transmissions and navigation systems.

Comment:
The ACE satellite is well past its sell by date, as concerned space scientists and others have revealed and needs to be replaced. Here is my Solar Prayer....

Solar Prayer

Our Solar which art in heaven,
Solar Maximum be thy name.
Thy solar wind come, thy will be done,
but don't let the ACE satellite break down.
Give us this day our daily sunspots,
but shield us from X-rated solar flares,
full halo coronal mass ejections
and highly dangerous proton storms.
And lead us not into a Maunder Minimum,
but deliver us from a category 5
geomagnetic storm and transformer burnout.
For thine is the solar system, the IBEX and the ribbon,
Solar radiance for ever and ever.
Amen.
Copyright © Susan Joy Rennison




Probing the Electric Space Around Earth
Earth Observatory, 31st August 2012
They were the subject of perhaps the first scientific discovery of the Space Age, and yet we still don't know much about them. The radiation belts that surround Earth are home to killer electrons, plasma waves, and intense electrical currents that can disrupt and destroy the electronics on satellites. But the behavior of the Van Allen Belts—named for James Van Allen, who led the team that discovered them in 1958—is wildly unpredictable. [...]

Fifty-four years later, NASA has embarked on a missions designed specifically to understand the space weather in the dynamic and erratic Van Allen Belts. [...]

The RBSP satellites are designed to observe how and when killer electrons are energized, to sample the electrical and magnetic fields in Earth’s space, to count particles, and detect plasma waves of different frequencies. The ultimate goal is to improve the prediction of space weather; that is, how solar activity can cause geomagnetic storms that upset telecommunications and electronics.

Comment:
Hmmmm.... NASA are getting very informative these days.... So, in only a few months, NASA have informed anyone interested that the Moon is electric (or rather the moon's atmosphere is electified and glowing) and now we are also told that the space around Earth is electric too.... Obviously, this has been known for many decades and some scientists have made an enormous effort to educate those interested in the facts that point to an electromagnetic universe. However, the paradigm shift now taking place in the space community is due to cosmic climate change. Simply, there are massive electric shocks coming from space and they pose a problem for the inhabitants of planet Earth.... This article reminds us of the existence of 'Killer Electrons that the Europeans Space Agency informed us are entering our atmosphere when things get stormy in the radiation belts.... It took a while but eventally a NASA press release claimed that these Killer Electrons only went back out into space but provided no proof... At the moment, these beams of electrons just add to the other beams of high energy that are being fired around our planet (see archives), sometimes zapping satellites and possibly creating hole punch clouds and 'laser cut' boreholes at ground level.



Strange sounds from the sky spook Widnes residents [UK]
Runcorn & Widnes Weekly News, 30th August 2012
A SERIES of unexplained sounds that have allegedly been heard around the world have been keeping a number of Hough Green residents awake at night. [...]

Sue Carman, of Plumley Gardens, sent a recording of the sounds 1taken from her home to the Weekly News.

She said: “It is a really bizarre noise, hard to describe. It is almost like the buzz from a huge mechanical vibration that drones in and out.

“The first time we heard it my dogs went absolutely crazy and the stronger it got, it started to shake the windows. [...]

The internet has been buzzing with theories about what the sounds could be, with suggestions such as the Second Coming of Jesus and the end of the world put forward.

Comment:
A major meteor sighting, tornadoes and strange sky sounds over the UK all in the last few days.... With reference to the 'Second Coming of Jesus', I have explained before that world religions preserved the knowledge of major astronomical events and the end/start of major cosmic cycles. This is the only way to understand the major theological study of Eschatology. This is a Christian term that means the study of the end of history from a religious perspective. As it is explained on the Christian Tolerance website: "Probably more obscure theological text has been written on this topic than on any other belief in Christendom." Yes, there is a reason for that because those who run the Christian Church know that this really matters.... Knowledge is Power. How else do you think the Church hierarchy has held so much power over millenia?

There goes the summer: Hundreds see bizarre weather phenomenon over Somerset [UK]
Yahoo News, 30th August 2012



Heavens above! Midlanders behold stunning 'angel cloud'
Yahoo News, 22nd August 2012
Thousands of residents were left in awe when they spotted this beautiful angel-shaped cloud formation above their homes. The heavenly image appeared appropriately on Sunday morning – which was so large it could be seen from over 30 miles away. The angel-like figure is believed to have been caused by a plane’s vapour trail disturbing the static clouds as it passed overhead. Eagle-eyed electrician Michael Robinson, 49, spotted the celestial cloud when he looked out of his bedroom window in Ironville, Nottingham, at 7.30am on Sunday.

Comment:
This is the first report of a hole punch cloud over the UK that I have come across...



Summer Auroras at Twilight
spaceweather.com, 30th August 2012
SUMMER AURORAS: "Aurora season is back here in the Northwest Territories of Canada," reports Francis Anderson of Tuktoyaktuk NWT. "Although it does not get completely dark yet, the northern lights are once again visible. This first photo of the aurora was taken on August 25th from atop a pingo with a fairly large cumulonimbus cloud towards the southern horizon, which was flashing lightning every five or so minutes."

Comment:
Maybe this can be defined as a twilight aurora, but traditionally auroras are only supposed to be seen when it is completely dark. This suggests that the intensity of auroras has become stronger.... Hence, my prediction of regular daylight auroras due to additional solar energy bursting through Earth's weakened cosmic shielding is looking good.



Computer glitch blamed for 580 delayed flights
North Jersey, 30th August 2012
CHICAGO — United Airlines said a piece of computer hardware was behind the technology meltdown that delayed 580 flights and shut down its website for more than two hours.

The outage on Tuesday prevented workers from boarding passengers on time. United passengers reported long lines in the airline's hubs in Newark, San Francisco, Houston and Chicago. It also caused nine cancellations.

The problem was a piece of hardware in a data center that failed to communicate properly with other computer equipment, said Megan McCarthy, a spokeswoman for United Continental Holdings Inc. A backup system failed to take over for the troubled hardware.

Comment:
Hmmm... so we get a real explanation for a change, but despite the backup failure and the hassle, this outage lasted only two hours... I think this is another example of a cosmic ray induced computer network failure.



Computer Outage Briefly Halts United Flights In Bay Area & Across Nation
CBS SF News, 28th August 2012
In the last few weeks, computer glitches have affected universities, government agencies, airlines, emergency services, stock markets, computer software suppliers (Apple & Microsoft), telecommunications & mobile phone networks, but things have to get far worse for most to take any notice and to start querying what is going on....



Steven Hassan's new book -- critical review by psychologist
Cult Education Forum, 29th August 2012
Steven Hassan’s latest book, Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs, just released in summer, 2012, is the latest in what can be seen as a trilogy of sorts, starting with Combatting Mind Control in 1988 and then Releasing the Bonds in 2000. A large portion of the material in his latest book is a verbatim repetition of material from Releasing the Bonds. In his most recent book, Hassan reports that his sister was the impetus to changing his “approach” in interaction away from interventions, an activity that Hassan has been involved in for over 30 years. In the preface to this book, Hassan repeats the story of his introduction to and his exit from the Unification Church (Moonies) and how that exit helped him find his life work of education and liberation from “mind control cults”.

However, it is notable that in this third book, Hassan has greatly expanded his target audience due to what he says is cult activity “increasing exponentially,” and the “rise of the Internet”. Since Hassan maintains a substantial Internet presence through his Web site, www.freedomofmind.com, it could be argued that he has increased public sensitivity to cults, thereby magnifying the importance of his solutions, as well as providing a forum where he can extensively promote his own theories and agenda. [...]

Cathleen A. Mann has a doctorate in psychology and has been a licensed counselor in the state of Colorado since 1994. Dr. Mann has done research regarding cult formation and the recruiting and retention practices of high demand groups. She has been court qualified as an expert in 7 states.

Comment:
I am interested because Hassan's BITE model (old version) is quoted in my essay Spiritual Evolution in the Cultic Milieu. Quite frankly, I am impressed that a professional (Cathleen Mann), has bothered to take a self-styled expert (cult member ex-interventionist) to task and point out the need for some professionalism. Well, despite Hassan's obvious desperation to promote himself, I think the need for de-programming people in the Cultic Milieu in general is acute... My beliefs are based on over one thousand hours of research and much heartache... So, now that I have worked out more or less what is going on, I now realise why I have had such difficult dealings with people I have met in the Cultic Milieu. There are too many with strong narcisstic streaks and personality disorders, hence it has been quite a shock to discover the truth of what exactly I have been dealing with...



Cult Induction: Hypnotic Communication Patterns in Contemporary Cults
Ericksonian Psychotherapy, Ed. By Jeffrey Zeig (Mazel, New York) 1985
By Hillel Zeitlin
"Cults have been a part of every society, representing alternative lifestyles, ideologies, faiths, and social forms. As such they traditionally have served a social function of being reformers and change agents (Appel, 1983). Usually they have begun as fringe elements that eventually are either incorporated into the broader society or die out. Modern cults are distinguished from many of their historical predecessors by a near universal emphasis on consciousness and consciousness-altering practices. This emphasis, as well as deceitful and antisocial actions in the recruitment and maintenance of members, has generated much controversy."

Comment:
I think this is an extract from a book, but if it is just an article, it is still one of the best I have read on this subject.



New film: The Boy Who Cried Warming
WUWT, 29th August 2012
From the producer:

I wanted to reach out and inform you that the film was recently completed and virtually launched on our website, August 24th, 2012.

Every Global Warming prediction, has proven to be science fiction. Uncover the truth as we expose the shepherds of Climate Change in this new controversial documentary.

Comment:
I have not watched this yet....



Hundreds witness meteor shooting across skies of Greater Manchester
Manchester Evening News, 28th August 2012
A mystery 'fireball' spotted in the skies above Manchester on Monday night was a meteor, experts have said.

The bright object was seen to shoot across the atmosphere before disappearing just seconds later behind the clouds.

Hundreds of people witnessed the phenomenon at around 11.10pm on Monday night. Experts have now confirmed it was a golf ball sized meteor, which exploded above South Wales and caused a sonic boom, shaking windows and setting off car alarms.

The rare sight caused alarm on Twitter with Manchester residents tweeting their amazement at the incident.

Comment:
Well, we have been told officially that 9,000 asteroids are passing Earth at any one time but the implications seem to be lost on the mainstream media. So, our solar system is now passing through an asteroid debris field with some objects that are so hard to detect that NASA et al are being forced to use infra-red and radar. Apparently, the rocks are being shrouded in primeval energy and this primeval energy should be of great interest to anyone interested in the spiritual implications of what is happening on this planet. But, there is not much interest from the metaphysical community because as I have found out, most who claim to be spiritual leaders don't understand much at all about a spiritual universe and mostly deal at a very low level running little cultic enterprises, sects and big religion. Thus, there is a widespread lack of interest and a complete disconnect with the foundations of the original religion on this planet that was based on understanding what was going on in the heavens because on a regular basis, we were subjected to major apocalyptic events i.e. 'judgement' by fire or water. Today, the true meaning of esoteric knowledge that was preserved as being important and sacred has been generally lost. Sigh...

Exploding meteor in sky over Somerset was 'a beautiful sight'
This is Somerset, 29th August 2012
"To my amazement, not only did it carry on across the sky horizontally in front of me but it rapidly grew in size and was an electric blue colour (like a welder's torch).

"As it grew and grew, at the front of the globe an orange glow started to appear and then enveloped the blue globe with an orange aura and tail, like a huge tear drop.

"As it headed out to the east it burst into three smaller globes in all directions and then disappeared.

"All of this took place in about five or six seconds but, from where I was standing, it all happened in a complete and eerie silence.
Hmmmm....



Meteor explodes over Great Britain with violent force
Yahoo News, 28th August 2012



Sugar Found In Space: A Sign of Life?
Organic molecules found in gas swaddling a young star
National Geographic, 29th August 2012
Astronomers have made a sweet discovery: simple sugar molecules floating in the gas around a star some 400 light-years away, suggesting the possibility of life on other planets.

The discovery doesn't prove that life has developed elsewhere in the universe—but it implies that there is no reason it could not. It shows that the carbon-rich molecules that are the building blocks of life can be present even before planets have begun forming.

Scientists use the term "sugar" to loosely refer to organic molecules known as carbohydrates, which are made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.

Comment:
More evidence that suggests that life could be ubiquitous in the universe. But as I keep stating, there could be many different forms of life that have different biological rules to define life than the rules that apply on Earth.



Scientific dishonesty and nuclear power - Article by Chris Busby
We can do better, 20th January 2012
Dishonesty and the Science Policy Interface
Dr Christopher Busby

There is a problem I want to draw to the attention of those who watch the world and the antics of those who run it. It is a problem that has exercised my mind for some time, one that I came to as a result of my interest in the health effects of low dose radiation. I have written about my researches and discoveries in this area (Busby 1995, 2006) and most recently about the health effects of uranium weapons (Busby UNIDIR 2009). But as I conducted my naïve enquiries in these areas of science, it dawned on me quite early on, that there was a dangerous gap between what the politicians and those who ran the show believed (or said they believed) and the facts, if I may (also naïvely) call them that.

Comment:
Busby names names but he also tells us how these scientific felons operate and what he thinks their motivation is... However, it's the overall system of people being hand-picked because they are easy to manipulate that is most interesting.



Paranormal TV Presents... : UFOs: 50 Years of Denial
YouTube, April 2012
In this release that aims to demystify the controversial phenomenon of unidentified flying objects, former government officials, astronauts, and military men offer firsthand accounts of their experiences with the unknown, and the government conspiracies designed to bury their secrets at any cost.

Comment:
James Fox has done better documentaries but it is worth noting that Fox like most ufologists wants you to think that UFOS are about the existence of ETs (our planet is being visited by humanoids in metal spacecraft), but the military worldwide know better... So, based on their research, the military believe that Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) are real, see the UK MOD's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Defence Region [2000] report, codenamed Project Condign. I downloaded this previously 'Top Secret' report and the Executive Summary opens with this unequivocal statement:

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

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

Since the existence of this report has become more widely known, a few intelligent ufologists are being forced to reconsider their beliefs. However, this does not mean ETs do not exist... it is not a subject that I focus on, but there are plenty who love to speculate... Anyway, this documentary provides proof that the US Air Force was investigating UAPs in the late 1940s. B52 bombers were well equiped with cameras and scanners, but this was combined with instruments that could detect electric currents, magnetic fields and radio frequencies, so it seems that they knew more or less what these items were all those decades ago... The upshot is that the military don't have to lie much, ETs are not UAPs... World controllers/the elite/intelligentsia/military realise they are dealing with a populace who are very simple and world controllers wish to maintain their control over the masses... Therefore, the existence of plasma based lifeforms that includes members that astrobiologists have speculated as existing (or hypothesised as existing), have defined "life forms that have evolved into intelligent AI-powered machines". This may explain why world controllers are so agitated... Most humans have an extremely childish understanding of reality, supported by religion and the Orwellian New Age has made things even worse. (There are many New Agers who think being spiritual means switching off the brain and acting like automatons, to the point of becoming 2nd hand psychopaths, whilst being totally oblivious to their programming....). So, there is little comprehension that there is most likely more than just one major evolutionary ladder in the universe... Please note: disinformation is always a mix of truth and lies and I classify this documentary as disinformation.... Simple people have real trouble with this concept and that is why cults flourish and the UFO cultic milieu has remained so strong.



UAE exchange bureau blames unpaid wages on computer glitch
The National, 29th August 2012
Computer system still busted....



Moondogs are go!
spaceweather.com, 28th August 2012
WATCH OUT FOR MOONDOGS: The moon is waxing full this week, which means it's a great time to look out for moondogs. They appear 23 degrees from the moon, splashes of light shining with the colors of a rainbow, but they are not rainbows. Barry Starling of Histon UK photgraphed this specimen on August 25th:

Unlike rainbows, which are caused by raindrops, moondogs are caused by ice crystals. Even during the summer, high clouds are cold enough for water in them to crystallize. When moonlight shines through the icy clouds, voila!--a moondog. High-altitude ice crystals can also make moon haloes and pillars, so watch out for them, too.

Comment:
According to Wikipedia moondogs are quite rare:
A moon dog or moondog (scientific name paraselene, plural paraselenae, i.e. "beside the moon") is a relatively rare bright circular spot on a lunar halo caused by the refraction of moonlight by hexagonal-plate-shaped ice crystals in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. Moondogs appear to the left and right of the moon 22° or more distant. They are exactly analogous to sun dogs, but are rarer because to be produced the moon must be bright and therefore full or nearly full. Moondogs show little color to the unaided eye because their light is not bright enough to activate the cone cells of humans' eyes.

Wikipedia: Moon Dogs
So, it is significant that moondogs may become more common as the moon's plasmasphere has become a glowing plasma i.e. it has become highly electrified, (many people have noticed but see archives for the official news from NASA). What's more, there is more cosmic dust flooding Earth's atmosphere and this acts as the nuclei for the ice crystals that produce an assortment of affects that I have explained many times before. The main point to consider is that rare atmospheric effects are related to the geometry of the ice crystals that are formed by only previously rare types of cosmic dust.



Brokers braced for another day of likely trouble
The Jakarta Post, 28th August 2012
“This was because the IDX had switched to the emergency system, given the main system was not running,” he said.

Satrio added that due to the problem, securities started trading only at 10 a.m. when the problem waned, but halted once more at 10:15 a.m. when connection “died out again”.

Comment:
So.... IDX HAD exactly the same problem as Knight Capital, because we are told: "The IDX system had suffered a glitch in 2009 as well, when a large security house flooded the trading system with orders."

IDX Dismisses BUMI-Related Rumors on Trading System Error
Indonesia Today, 28th August 2012
"JAKARTA (Indonesia Today) - The management of Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) dismissed speculations surrounding hackers and brokers of Bumi Resources (BUMI) behind disruptions of trading system on Monday (August 27)."

IDX Returns to Normal Trading
Indonesia Today, 28th August 2012



August 27, 2012 - What Was Loud Boom Today in Holland?
Earthfiles, 27th August 2012
Copy: “Maastricht dichtjij posted a news item in Dutch about the boom, 1 hour ago (10:30 AM Mountain, August 27, 2012). It was heard from Roermond all the way to Maastricht and perhaps even an larger area. From Maastricht to Roermond is 50 km (about 31 miles). I'm not so sure that this was a Belgian jetfighter like the news report asks. Seems pretty strange to me that a fighter can make so much noise over such a great distance, but who knows?”

- Maastricht, The Netherlands Resident

Maastricht Dichtbij- Translation by Maastricht resident for Earthfiles: “In short, the bang was heard almost simultaneously in Heerlen, Maastricht, Roermond, Geleen, Linne, and in Bilzen. In Heerlen shook the house of ANP photographer Marcel van Hoorn, who told this. Limburg residents this afternoon startled by a loud bang from Roermond to Maastricht and the houses shook. Probably it is a Belgian fighter that flew through the sound barrier? The blast caused people to twitter: "What was that like for boom # / # # explosion near Roermond # Linne?" "It had a ferocious bang @ geleen - that you heard in Roermond yet." "The # bang was heard in Bilzen (Belgium) and here in Roermond. rik123 from Roermond concludes: Did not know that airplanes could make such a boom?”

Comment:
How interesting.... Earth is experiencing a massive flux of cosmic and terrestrial energies, but at the same time there are continuous reports of meteors. The main problem is being able to explain the source of the booms after it can be proven that the implausible explanations offered by official sources can be ignored. See archives for my explanation that suggests these booms could be related to the solar wind rather than meteors, Best of the Blog Earth Changes & Earth Science.



Man hit by 2 cars near Kalispell was trying to spark "Bigfoot sighting"
KRTV News, 27th August 2012
Comment: This death deserves a Darwin award... the blogosphere is having a field day with jokes about this incident....



Mann versus Steyn: popcorn time!
Telegraph Delingpole Blog, 27th August 2012
Today I'm launching a fund and I wonder whether anyone would like to contribute. Please, I implore you all, PLEASE chip in to help finance Professor Michael Mann's suit for defamation against sinister, right-wing Canadian climate-change denier Mark Steyn and the fascist-denialist organ for which Steyn writes, National Review Online! [...]

But of all the comedic pleasure this veritable Mickey Mouse among "climatologists" has given us so far, none comes even close to matching the joy and entertainment he will surely give us if he goes ahead with his court action against NRO and Steyn. [...]

Climate Depot has chapter and verse on why Mann doesn't have a case. Mann's lawyer clearly thinks he does. Here is what he said when NRO told him to "get lost." [...]

Regular readers of this column may sense the flaw in this defence. It was the same flaw that resulted in the University of Easy Access (aka University of East Anglia) having a complaint rejected by the Press Complaints Commission regarding certain true words written in this column.

Comment:
I have not been keeping up with the latest fights between climate realists and deluded scientists trying to pretend that life on this planet is under threat from global warming... Pure bulls#t as most acquainted with the facts will know, but this article explains what happened when a journalist James Delingpole was reported me to the Press Complaints Commission. Well, dear James was totally – exonerated... It's the same reason why nobody ever bothers me because they have to argue with the facts and most people are too lazy to do any work... Most of the time, I wonder what planet some people are living on and so I am grateful that there are a few intelligent people who care enough to realise the facts matter... By the way, for those who don't know, fact is not the same thing as theory. This is a problem when people who are not scientifically trained fail to realise there is a difference.



The Investigation Begins: "It landed. It did not crash."
Red Ice Creations, 27th August 2012
For the last 65 years people have been seeing strange objects crashing and landing in lakes over Sweden. After decades of trying to unravel the case, the head of UFO-Sweden Clas Svahn and his team, are now setting out on an expedition to investigate the latest of these sightings. The Ghost Rockets is a documentary project following UFO-Sweden as they attempt to solve one of the worlds last unknown UFO-mysteries.

As part of the search they have gained access to thousands of documents from the Swedish military. Where the military have failed, we hope to succeed by crowdsourcing the search online.

Comment:
Seriously, I was surprised one of my interviews made it onto the list of links here but it seems that very few want to point out the existence of these mysterious 'ghost' rockets leaving and entering Earth's atmosphere on a regular basis... I suppose that is because very few people have much interest in reality and one of the main reasons I prefer to read military/scientific reports that at least attempt to point out the obvious. So, based on instrumentation, military and scientists independently explain that these objects are plasmas. This plasma phenomenon is normally referred to as an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). Why most ufologists have such a problem keeping up with some scientific research and then accepting the facts is beyond me. In a visible universe that 99.99% plasma, what is so difficult to comprehend? Seriously, astronomers have telescopes that can look trillions of miles into the galactic center and beyond, but most ufologists refuse to believe military researchers, who don't exactly have a great challenge surveying what is happening around this planet.....



Why Is the Night Sky Turning Red?
Discover Magazine, 23rd August 2012
The idea of a red sky at night used to invoke beautiful images of vibrant sunsets, the product of warm sunlight bathing the sky near the horizon. The adage of “red sky at night, sailor’s delight” refers to a calm night ahead; a red sunset suggests a high-pressure system in the west is bringing calm weather. But red skies at night have taken on a new meaning in recent decades. As outdoor lighting become increasingly prominent, our night skies are gradually turning from black to red.

Comment:
Hmmmm.... I think there may be additional factors like a lot of cosmic dust in the air... We know the cosmic dust is arriving and it has to go somewhere....



Update: IT Glitch Disrupts Indonesian Stock Trading
Jakarta Globe, 27th August 2012
The Indonesian stock exchange delayed trading on Monday after almost a third of its members failed to connect to the bourse’s system.

Trading resumed about 1:30 p.m. according to Samsul Hidayat, the bourse’s director of trading and membership, but was suspended again at 3:30 p.m., or half an hour before the market close.

The benchmark Jakarta Composite Index rose by just 0.01 percent, closing at 4,145.88. Only 664,000 shares were traded based on data from Bloomberg, a miniscule amount compared to the average 4.4 billion shares traded daily on the IDX this year.

Comment:
Terrible.... even the backup system failed... Oh well, major financial institutions continue to suffer from technical "glitches", but there is a background of lots of less high profile computer system failures... Well, it can't be much longer now for those on the merry-go-round to wake up to our new cosmic reality... According to Reuters, this disaster is not over, see below:

Indonesia stock exchange struggles to resume Tuesday
Reuters News, 27th August 2012
Aug 27 (Reuters) - Indonesia's stock exchange has not decided yet whether trading will resume on Tuesday after technical problems that hampered the market in Southeast Asia's biggest economy on Monday.

Officials at the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) were testing a "disaster recovery" system and working late into the night to try to decide whether trading will function, sources at the exchange told Reuters.
OK, I realised what would happen (read the 2006 version of my book), but I am still amazed at how quickly the break-down of our modern technological world is taking place...



UFO sightings are rising over Gold Coast, Australia
Gold Coast, 26th August 2012
It's official -- UFO sightings on the Gold Coast have gone out of this world.

The region's top alien hunters have been at the centre of a spike in reported sightings in the past 12 months, with the usually quiet cooler autumn and winter seasons becoming a hotbed of close encounters of the first kind.

UFO Research Queensland chairwoman Sheryl Gottchell said the number of sightings had been "interesting". "The information we get helps us chart and record the different things people see. It shows the public is telling the truth," she said.

"We are not alone in the universe and extraterrestrials are interacting with people from this planet.

Comment:
The veil is lifting, a plasma based lifeform is being seen all over the planet and the vast majority still don't get it.... Most ufologists are too brainwashed to realise there is a distinction between shadow life and ETs...

Small Sphere Enters Moving Vehicle
Stan Gordon, 22nd August 2012
"Suddenly a white, translucent, solid round object, that appeared to be about the diameter of a soft ball appeared outside of the passenger side window. The object was not luminous. [...] As the man watched, the object dropped slowly to the floor board, then quite slowly moved towards the driver along the floor. The witness was able to see through the sphere, and noticed that the surface of the object appeared to be crisscrossed and divided by a line about ¼ inch wide. The man said looked similar to a vein that was darker than the object and somewhat of a gray color.[...] The witness commented that the object moved in a nonchalant manner and just seemed as though it came in to look around and didn’t care that it was being seen."
A little critter, that decided to have a look around... I note that the witness did not declare that he had been abducted...



Hackpen Hill (3), nr Broad Hinton. Wiltshire. Reported 26th August. Map Ref: SU126753
cr Crop Circle Connector, 26th August 2012
This crop circle is causing a lot of excitement.... the significance of the geometry associated with hexagons is discussed in the latest version of my book, Tuning the Diamonds.



Stuck accelerator takes woman on ride over 110 mph
CBS News, 24th August 2012
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An Iowa woman whose accelerator got stuck as she drove up Interstate 35 in Missouri managed to control the vehicle even as speeds topped 110 mph and she was forced to the median several times to avoid other drivers, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.

Patrol spokesman Sheldon Lyon praised Lauri Ulvestad, 47, of Ames, Iowa, for not crashing her 2011 Kia Sorento as she weaved through traffic and a construction zone with no way to slow down.

Comment:
It is a fact that car electronics are being affected by cosmic rays... for more background info, see the link below and archives.

  • Cars vs. cosmic rays
    Cosmic Log NBC News, 2nd April 2010

    Two years ago, Intel senior scientist Eric Hannah said it was just a matter of time before the cosmic-ray problem started affecting cars. "It's strange, but this is the reality we're moving into as we get smaller and smaller circuits," he told the BBC.


  • Toyota problems were mechanical, study says
    SF Chronicle, 9th February 2011
    Unintended acceleration in Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles was rooted in mechanical flaws rather than electronic defects, a U.S. investigation found.

    NASA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday that a 10-month probe of defects that led to recalls of more than 8 million vehicles worldwide found no electronic causes. Safety advocates and some lawmakers had pointed to electrical faults as a reason for the reports about the world's largest automaker. [...]

    "What most likely happened was pedal misapplication," he said. "The driver stepped on the gas rather than the brake or in addition to the brake."

    So.... Toyota still thinks that drivers don't know the difference between the brake and the accelerator pedal.... Unless NASA used a particle accelerator like those at CERN, then it is difficult to know what they could have done to replicate high speed sub-atomic particles from cosmic ray showers hitting car electronics at ground level.


Climate-Gate Zealot Continues Three-Ring Circus
Investor Business Daily, 23rd August 2012
Climate Fraud: In an attempt to defend his role in the greatest scam of modern times, Climate-gate's poster child threatens to defend his tarnished reputation in court. First, hide the decline, then hide the deceit.

'Get lost" was National Review editor Rich Lowry's appropriate response to a threatened lawsuit by Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann. [...]

Mann was at the heart of the Climate-gate scandal in 2009, when emails were unearthed from Britain's Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. In one email sent to Mann and others, CRU director Philip Jones speaks of the "trick" of filling in gaps of data in order to hide evidence of temperature decline:

The less than controlled media get the knife out and Mann takes the bait...



Unusual Phenomenon: Mysterious Light Pillar in Japan
Science Ray, 22nd August 2012
An unusual phenomenon was captured by a photographer: a mysterious pillar of light that stretches from end buildings in a Japanese city to the sky.

After two months of heat, in which were recorded temperature over 35 degrees Celsius, Japan was hit by a wave of storms, lightning and thunder. An amateur trying to capture lightning in the photo, but the picture made ??it look something unusual: a pillar of light that stretches from horizon to heaven. There were beams of light that appeared before the occurrence of strong lightning, but rarely happened to glimpse such a pillar perfectly straight.

Comment:
Hmmmm.... well, mysterious pillars of light are not new and I have previously given different perspectives based on scientific and metaphysical knowledge.... I would have initially stated that this was a scalar beam (like the beam photographed coming out of El Castillo, a Mayan stepped pyramid at Chichen Itza , in July 2009 see archives), but then hole punch clouds and perfectly round 'laser cut' boreholes became common and I started to think something else was happening.... Then, I discovered natural lasers in plasmas that can exist in space, in the atmospheres of stars and planets and realised that this was additional compelling evidence that the plasma envelope around Earth is becoming more and more ionised and thus amplifying weak beams coming from space.... [I even wonder whether Electric Universe theorists would simply say that electron beams are being generated within double layers caused by strong electric fields that exist within Earth's upper atmosphere and/or the radiation belts... google returns 275,000 results for laser + plasma + "electric field"] Quite frankly, Earth is becoming a high energy plasma environment, the evidence is such that you really have to wonder just how 'out of this world' things will get...



Mystery Light Beams Appear In Japan 2012 HD
YouTube, 24th August 2012

Government adviser in fight to 'save Earth' against devastating solar storms expected to knock out National Grid in 2013
Daily Mail, 23rd August 2012
  • National Grid and GPS expected to go down if burst from sun hits our planet
  • Sun will reach peak of 11-year solar storm cycle next year, and magnetic storms could knock out most of Earth's electrical items
  • A big storm in 1859 knocked out early telegraph systems - but world is much more dependent on electricity now
A space professor from Oxfordshire is battling 'to save Earth' from a solar storm that experts fear will wreak worldwide chaos next year.

Professor Mike Hapgood, who chairs the Space Environment Impacts Experts Group (SEIEG) and advises the Government on space weather, says solar storms, generated by an outburst from the sun, are set to knock out national power grids and Global Positioning Systems.

He believes magnetic rays from the storm will result in widespread blackouts which will plunge homes and businesses into darkness.

Comment:
Of course, this is not the complete story... the cosmic conditions around Earth have changed dramatically, there could be a massive burst from the sun at any time and Earth's cosmic shield is now weak.... it makes you wonder when such effort was made to preserve ancient knowledge why world controllers failed to heed the warnings... It is also disappointing that the metaphysical community did not do such a great job either preparing people for some cosmic reality.... Even now, there seems to be total silence and I suspect that maybe too many people don't understand celestial mechanics and can't see how a major outpouring of spiritual energy has anything to do with reality.... Whatever, I am pleased that Prof. Mike Hapgood actually cares enough to speak up and tell it how it is....



Racing pigeon losses baffle fanciers
BBC News, 23rd August 2012
Hundreds of racing pigeons from clubs throughout Scotland vanished at the weekend in mysterious circumstances. Some fanciers are even considering stopping flying the birds until they establish why so many failed to return.

Weather patterns and birds of prey scaring the pigeons off track have been blamed in the past, but experts have been baffled by the latest incident. The Scottish Borders was worst hit with only 13 of 232 birds sent from Galashiels to Thirsk making it back.

Comment:
Well, it seems only some racing pigeon owners know that they need to pay attention to space weather forecasts to avoid a pigeon 'smash', but I can't find any warnings. Infact, the the Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force.status reports, issued: 2012 Aug 17 2200 UTC stated: "The geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to unsettled for the next three days (18-20 August) with lingering effects from a CME and the arrival of a coronal hole high speed stream." Whatever, maybe they pigeon fanciers were caught out by a substorm causing poor geomagnetic conditions, see the Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force.status reports here. It suggests that Earth was being affected by the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF).
IIA. Geophysical Activity Summary 18/2100Z to 19/2100Z:

The geomagnetic field ranged from quiet to unsettled levels. A coronal hole high speed stream became geoeffective during the past 24 hours. At approximately 18/08Z, solar wind speed at the ACE spacecraft began increasing from about 400 km/s to 580 km/s. Shortly after, the Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) became negative, eventually reaching -12nT. Bz returned to positive values around 14Z. Earth is currently in the positive sector of the IMF. IIB. Geophysical Activity Forecast: The geomagnetic field is expected to be at mostly unsettled levels with a chance for active conditions on day 1 (20 August), decreasing to a slight chance on days 2-3 (21-22 August). The disturbed conditions are expected in response to the continued presence of the coronal hole high speed stream.

Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity SDF Number 232 Issued at 2200Z on 19 Aug 2012
Interestingly, there was some craziness over the weekend and The Watchers website reported What is happening with solar observing instruments right now?!. Geomagnetic conditions are getting far worse - that is official, and world controllers have realised they must get more scientists involved to help with forecasting and understanding the sun-earth relationship. Thanks Alan R. for the link. Update: The fact the birds could not navigate properly suggests that there was a wild fluctuation in the Earth's magnetic field that disorientated the birds.... Well, the report is clear as it says for the 18th: "A coronal hole high speed stream became geoeffective during the past 24 hours." It means the solar wind just busted through the normal cosmic defenses....



'Urgent' Notice From National Research Council - 'The Sun'
Earth Changes Media, 17th August 2012
A new report from the National Research Council presents a prioritized program that will advance scientific understanding of the Sun, Sun-Earth connections and the origins of "space weather," and the Sun's interactions with other bodies in the solar system. Why do you think the NRC has become so alarmed as to put out a "prioritized and immediate" request from NASA, NSF, NOAA, Univ. of Colo. Atmospheric and Space Physics, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and Johns Hopkins University of Applied Physics? [...] IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUESTED

Immediate recommended actions put forth by the NRC include completion of projects in the current program of NASA and the National Science Foundation, to allow "augmentation" of NASA and NSF enabling programs for "acceleration and expansion" of NASA's Heliophysics Explorer Program.

'Augmentation': to amplify, accelerate, expand, heighten, intensify, reinforce, and strengthen.

'Heliophysics': The scientific study of the Sun-Earth connection. This includes the study of Earth's magnetic field, the Earth's core - outer core - mantle - and plate tectonics. This also includes (and perhaps is directed toward) the Earth's magnetic field decrease, magnetic field excursions and final reversal, charged particle radiation which encompasses cosmic rays, gamma rays, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and coronal hole filament.


Comment:
Thanks Mitch, we finally get to find a link to the free NRC online report... So it seems that space weather is getting more serious as predicted... The link below is for the original press release from the National Academy of Sciences, with the relevant NRC report link.



New Report Presents Research Program for Solar and Space Physics Over the Next Decade
National Academy of Sciences, 15th August 2012



Farmer furious after huge crop circle ruins land
Coventry Observer, 22nd August 2012
Comment: Here is a link that takes you to this year's UK collection at the Crop Circle Connector website Crop Circles in 2012 in the UK. Here is the link for this crop circle Wappenbury, Nr Royal Leamington Spa. Warwickshire. Reported 15th August.



More strange sky sounds, Sao Paulo, Brazil
SOTT.net, 22nd August 2012
"Amazing and strange sound in the sky in Brazil (São Paulo) on the morning of August 22, 2012, approximately 4:27 (AM). The sound was so loud and intense that [it] made [me] wake up and look in the sky where the noise was very loud."
Our solar system experiences interstellar 'winds' and this explains why there are more reports of strange sky sounds occur at certain times of the year and new reports in August were highly predictable, so I think January 2013 will be very interesting... Soon, it will become more than obvious to those who are already familiar with the changing cosmic conditions in our solar system as Earth's cosmic shielding continues to break down.



Composition of mysterious white powder that covered Omsk district in Russia analyzed
The Watchers, 21st August 2012
On August 16, residents of few Omsk district cities, in Russia, saw streets covered with mysterious white and gray, odorless, fine powder. The white powder was reported in Barkhatova, Zaozernaya, Strelnikova, Glinka, Grounds, Pushkin tract and other cities in Omsk district. [...]

Residents reported the discovery of mysterious odorless powder to the Center for Crisis Management EMERCOM Russia’s Omsk region, Rospotrebnadzor and State Civil Defense and Emergency Administration of Omsk Region which conducted test to determine the nature of the powder. According to their preliminary data, the selected powder samples were just – usual ash. However, some researchers didn’t rule out that the substance may be a product of the refinery, possibly some kind of catalyst.

Comment:
Ormus? I am suspicious that we are being told that some chemists believed that this was some kind of catalyst....As I wrote in my book, Russians chemists employ a different type of spectroscopy technique and have confirmed the existence of highly catalytic elements with special properties. In my book, I wrote about the existence of white mysterious powder appearing on rocks that some think is being extracted from the air, but mysterious white goo has also been found in space and on the International Space Station... Well, after 7 years of research, this is first report of a lot of mysterious white powder being deposited at once. The fact it is being reported internationally is of great interest, especially as we are told scientists have no idea where it came from. Don't they have satellites that can track volcanic ash, especially when there have been so many volcanoes erupting?



Biologist Rupert Sheldrake Explains the Ten Dogmas Holding Science Back
Daily Grail, 21st August 2012
'Maverick biologist' Rupert Sheldrake thinks there is a big problem in science, caused by those who employ it as a belief system, rather than using it as a method of inquiry. He thinks science is being held back by the former, and in his soon-to-be-released book Science Set Free (already available in the UK as The Science Delusion) he offers the "ten dogmas of science" that he thinks need to be treated with more suspicion than they currently are:

Comment:
It's not just scientists who are at fault for creating dogmas and turning science into a religion. There are those using science to sell their fakery, the best current example is those who are using the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics and turning this into a justification for the The Law of Attraction nonsense. If you get up close and personal with the New Age wizards, you will find they are not so foolish as to rely on 'positive spin', some have far more sinister ways of manipulating people and getting what they want....



Leicester couple pelted by raining yellow plastic balls
BCC News, 21st August 2012
How Fortean!



Professor's breakthrough on human combustion theory
Cambridge News, 21st August 2012

Comment:
Well, with this old mystery, it is the cause of the spark that is the real issue. In December 2007, researchers at the University of Michigan found "electric fields inside cells as strong as those produced in lightning bolts". See archives for much more on this subject, Best of the Blog Electromagnetism: Body & Mind.



Larry King talks UFOs with Tom DeLonge, James Fox
Open Minds, 21st August 2012
Larry King has been a leading media figure for decades. His CNN talk show Larry King Live aired for twenty-five years, and in that time, King visited the UFO subject several times. The show ended in mid-2010, but in July 2012, King launched a new talk show on the web titled Larry King Now. And after just one month of being back “on the air,” King is exploring the UFO topic once again.

On August 20, the episode of Larry King Now focused entirely on UFOs. King’s guests on the show were UFO researcher and filmmaker James Fox, musician and UFO researcher Tom DeLonge, and Michael Shermer, the executive director of the Skeptics Society and publisher of Skeptic magazine.

King points out at the beginning of the episode that he has been exploring the topic of UFOs for fifty years. [But has he done enough studies in astrobiology and cosmology to work out the obvious?]

Comment:
Just in case you are new to the issues posed by a prominemt UFO skeptic in the UK (Dr David Clarke) waking up to some reality and admitting the UK Defence chiefs are not morons for admitting that UFOs (or rather UAPs), are real and are most likely a plasma phenomena, I have re-linked details of a blog entry from October 2011. It seems extremely obvious to me that world controllers and some intellectual elites are fully aware of the nature of the objects seen flying around Earth. This planet and solar system are supposed to be 4.5 billion years old but the universe is supposed to be about 9 billion years older than that and we are all supposed to believe that nothing happened anywhere else in a vast universe with an estimated 300 sextillion stars, that is a 3 followed by 23 zeros... That is just stars (only some are like our Sun) not the planets that revolve around them... This is not difficult to comprehend, but most people refuse to engage brain and think and the truth stares people in the face but they find it impossible to comprehend... When I talk about a shadow biosphere I refer to a huge diverse selection of plasma entities with characteristics based on the properties of plasma but their electromagnetic properties means they don't have to be convenient and just be seen in the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum... Most ufologists have been brainwashed into thinking that all genuine UFO sightings must be extraterrestrials and humanoids like us in metal spacecrafts... No, the spacecraft that looks metallic IS the lifeform... We have scientists informing other scientists that they have detected UAPS with 6 different states of plasma, but plasma can be condensed into a metallic/crystallined state (like Earth's core), but we even have scientists creating metal cells... As I repeat, world controllers and some intellectual elites do have some understanding but the masses are too dumbed down especially when so many have an extremely childish view of reality, made worse by religion. So, most ufologists want us to believe that UFOS are all spacecraft made in galactic factories... the concept of evolution is completely outside of the normal ability of most to learn and comprehend.... Whatever, the problem of metallic craft seen in our skies and even on land, that display biological or even critter behaviour, has to have an obvious answer... My answer is that the universe is diverse beyond our wildest dreams, if any combination of factors can produce something unique, we can only imagine that the universal intelligence that generates life has probably produced a version somewhere suitable in the universe, there certainly must have been enough time.... Please consider the re-linked article and comments below:

  • Weekend Feature: A "Third Realm" --Alien Technology Could Exist That's Beyond Matter
    Daily Galaxy, 9th October 2011 ---Flashback---
    Much of the current thinking about advanced extraterrestrial life that may be a million to a billion years more advanced that the human species, depicts life forms that have evolved into intelligent AI-powered machines. Even Stephen Hawking has recently asked "Why isn't the Milky Way crawling with intelligent machines." [...]

    But what if advanced super-intelligent life is no longer matter based? What if they exist at a higher level concept than matter. Are matter and information all there is? asks Paul Davies, physicist and astrobiologist at Arizona State University. Five hundred years ago,he says, the very concept of a computer, a device manipulating information, or software, would have been incomprehensible. Might there still be a higher level he asks as yet outside all human experience that organizes information in the same way that information-processing organizes electrons."

    Davies envisions an alien technology that: Is not made of matter; has no fixed size or shape; has no well-defined boundaries or topology; is dynamical on all scales of space and time; or, conversely, does not appear to do anything at all that we can discern; does not consist of discrete, separate things; rather, it is a system, a subtle higher-level of things.

    This alien technology is “nature plus.” [...]

    Just as quantum weirdness is detected only with special apparatus, so alien technology might go undetected and unsuspected – it may exist in a realm beyond current human capabilities and evolution. A third, or fourth, or fifth realm millions of years evolved beyond the age of Homo sapiens.

    Comment:
    Well, what does that sound like to you? It seems that our astrobiologists are slowly creeping towards something a little bit more realistic about what we should expect to see in the Universe. But at the same time, it has dawned on me why astrobiologists emphasised "super-intelligent life" as machines. This is their explanation for the 'saucers', because for a long time, there was a great emphasis on this particular type of sighting and the elite and those in the know were indeed getting a reasonable explanation of what has been seen on this planet... So this makes me think about how these academics can stand up and tell us their truth and people (me included) just don't understand the connotations at all... I am amazed... officially gobsmacked... Update: www.dailygalaxy.com is down..... I wonder why? Here is a copy of this article: link
    Update 2: Some researchers say that the elite have a 'code of ethics' if that is the right expression, where they have to leave certain sensitive information in plain sight. They can confidently do this because most people are too uneducated and/or too brainwashed to see exactly what is infront of them. Still, I simply cannot believe that I missed the connection between the saucers. Look it says it right in your face here: "Much of the current thinking about advanced extraterrestrial life that may be a million to a billion years more advanced that the human species, depicts life forms that have evolved into intelligent AI-powered machines." Here is a quote that I picked up this week:
    “If you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.” -- Halton Arp’
    It's starting to look like my search for truth is more about deprogramming myself.


10 nuclear events in 10 days
The Watchers, 18th August 2012



Red Sprites – A True Space Weather Phenomena
Spaceweather.com, 21st August 2012
RED SPRITES: High above Earth in the realm of meteors and noctilucent clouds, a strange and beautiful form of lightning dances at the edge of space. Researchers call the bolts "sprites"; they are red, fleeting, and tend to come in bunches. Jesper Grønne of Silkeborg, Denmark, photographed these specimens on August 15th:

"Sprites are a true space weather phenomenon," explains lightning scientist Oscar van der Velde of Sant Vicenç de Castellet, Spain. "They develop in mid-air around 80 km altitude, growing in both directions, first down, then up. This happens when a fierce lightning bolt draws lots of charge from a cloud near Earth's surface. Electric fields [shoot] to the top of Earth's atmosphere--and the result is a sprite. The entire process takes about 20 milliseconds."

Comment:
The most interesting aspect of sprites is how the plasma takes on a life-like appearance, with a common appearance of sprites that look like jelly-fish and squid... At this moment, I consider this a type of plasma manifestation and not an entity, but traditionally, the 'sky dancers' are called Dakinis by Tibetan monks and are associated with a special energy that they believe enhances spiritual development.



Spinning UFO Buzzes ISS Spacewalk (Video)
Gather News, 21st August 2012
A video posted to YouTube shows the real danger astronauts face when they undertake a spacewalk, as a flashing, spinning UFO buzzes the ISS, coming a bit too close for comfort.

The short clip included here, taken from a six-hour video of the spacewalk conducted by astronauts aboard the International Space Station on Monday, shows cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko as he performs, appropriately enough, the task of affixing debris barriers on the ISS, designed for greater safety against floating, lethal objects.

Comment:
Based on NASA film footage of Discovery Missions from 1991 to 1996, it is quite clear that the near Earth environment hosts a lot of cosmic flotsam and jetsam... Thus, I imagine astronauts are no longer bothered by our cosmic neighbours who don't seem to be really very interested in us humans. Based on witness reports down on Earth, there are very few 'close encounters' and we don't seem to be of primary interest to the chagrin of some who think humans should be the main attraction in the universe...



Massive sinkhole opens near elementary school
WBIR News, 20th August 2012
A sinkhole that is more than 12 stories deep has opened up within just a few feet of a school.



Rash of Sinkholes Appear in China’s Harbin
The Epoch Times, 20th August 2012
China’s northeastern city of Harbin has suffered a sudden appearance of sinkholes this month, triggering a feverish discussion on Chinese social media sites about their cause and what they mean. Around seven sinkholes appeared in the city between Aug. 8 and 17, killing two and injuring two more, Chinese Internet news portal Sina reported. Two cars also fell into sinkholes that opened up in the middle of two roads.



Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science
Fifty years ago, a book by Thomas Kuhn altered the way we look at the philosophy behind science, as well as introducing the much abused phrase 'paradigm shift'
The Guardian, 19th August 2012
Kuhn's central claim is that a careful study of the history of science reveals that development in any scientific field happens via a series of phases. The first he christened "normal science" – business as usual, if you like. In this phase, a community of researchers who share a common intellectual framework – called a paradigm or a "disciplinary matrix" – engage in solving puzzles thrown up by discrepancies (anomalies) between what the paradigm predicts and what is revealed by observation or experiment. Most of the time, the anomalies are resolved either by incremental changes to the paradigm or by uncovering observational or experimental error. As philosopher Ian Hacking puts it in his terrific preface to the new edition of Structure: "Normal science does not aim at novelty but at clearing up the status quo. It tends to discover what it expects to discover."

The trouble is that over longer periods unresolved anomalies accumulate and eventually get to the point where some scientists begin to question the paradigm itself. At this point, the discipline enters a period of crisis characterised by, in Kuhn's words, "a proliferation of compelling articulations, the willingness to try anything, the expression of explicit discontent, the recourse to philosophy and to debate over fundamentals". In the end, the crisis is resolved by a revolutionary change in world-view in which the now-deficient paradigm is replaced by a newer one. This is the paradigm shift of modern parlance and after it has happened the scientific field returns to normal science, based on the new framework. And so it goes on.

Comment:
There is a lot that can be said but it is important to realise that there are very few people who will rock the boat even when there are glaring inconsistencies in prevailing theory. In my research I have found that historically, there are usually some people 20, 30, 40, 50+ years ahead of their peers, but they are ignored by the mediocre because there are too many people who prefer safety in numbers... think lemmings.... Now, that I have been studying human development, I have realised there are a lot of people who are simply incapable of thinking outside of the box and will simply perpetuate old ideas without asking any questions... As opposed to original thinkers, the obvious is not so obvious for those who simply cannot process enough data needed to come up with a new answers to old problems.



From Internet Troll to Psychopathy Expert: The Con-Artistry of Thomas Sheridan
SOTT.net, 19th August 2012
Compared to, say, ten years ago, a lot of people today are aware of and talking about psychopaths. On the one hand this is encouraging, but on the other, it's a little troubling. It is heartening to see awareness of psychopathy breach the mainstream frequency fence here and there, but the signal-to-noise ratio, as with all knowledge relevant to the growth and survival of decent human beings, remains high on the 'noise' side. We see ridiculous studies in the news portraying psychopaths as curable and articles making the rounds about how not having a Facebook account may indicate that someone is a psychopath. We've also seen Twitter being touted as a tool for 'spotting psychopaths' and, just today, news that the US justice system is considering acceptance of biological evidence that someone is a genetic psychopath in court with a view to using it to mitigate the sentences of criminal offenders. The reasoning being that psychopaths can't help being psychopaths, that they lack free will and therefore they bear diminished responsibility for their crimes.

Comment:
So has the bandwagon started with psychopathy? This looks like someone attempting to set himself up as an expert to see who will come running. Psychopaths are good at putting themselves in situations where they can do maximum damage and if people get involved with this self-styled "expert" then they are most likely to become a victim... The writers at SOTT.net are fully aware of those with psychopathic traits and their modus operandi, but maybe there is some guilt that they were caught out after they promoted this author.... SOTT.net should not feel too bad, I know from personal experience that psychopaths and their "mini-me" followers or those with secondhand psychopathy, are sometimes hard to detect.



Nine waterspouts spotted on Lake Michigan; forecasters say more possible Sunday
MLive, 19th August 2012
UPDATE: The National Weather Service is now reporting nine waterspouts from two separate storms were witnessed on Lake Michigan. SOUTH HAVEN, MI — Waterspouts have been spotted over Lake Michigan today and forecasters say it’s possible more could spawn tonight and Sunday night.

Comment:
9 waterspouts over one lake? According to video reports, five waterspots were seen falling from the sky simultaneously.... Since it is now common to see video of tornadoes forming funnels in the sky to be met with another funnel of energy coming from the ground we can assume that this was prompted by peculiar turbulent geomagnetic conditions in the atmosphere because waterspouts are still relatively rare... In an electromgnetic universe, an energy source of hot waters and 'winds' are not very meaningful and better explanations are required that explain the physics of different states of matter and the occurence of electrical signals and phenomena.



Turbulent atmosphere: Waterspout breakout reported over Lake Michigan
Extinction Protocol, 19th August 2012
There are video links to recent waterspouts seen in Poland and the Ukraine.



Air Traffic Control, UFOs and the FOIA
Dr David Clarke, 19th August 2012
But a far more accurate litmus test of how frequent reports of ‘UFOs’ (or UAPs) by aircrew actually are can be found in the records kept by the Civil Aviation Authority, the government agency that employs NATS to run air traffic services in the UK.

As a private company NATS is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. But I have received a series of interesting responses to FOIA requests for data on Mandatory Occurrence Reports (MORS) and Near-Miss investigations recorded by the CAA. The MORS scheme is for aircrew to report occurrences ‘which endangered or which, if not corrected, would have endangered an aircraft or its occupants’. Although not designed specifically to capture UFO data any sightings reported by UK aircrew – whether in UK airspace or elsewhere in the world – enters the CAA database and is subject to Freedom of Information requests. [...]

A determination to downplay UFOs and avoid being drawn on this issue appears to be endemic at the CAA and Ministry of Defence, as UFO files released at The National Archives have revealed. One senior MoD official, responsible for flight safety, even referred to the official attitude as “ostrich like” in a 1977 memo, writing that:

“If we do not look, it will go away. If it does not officially exist, I cannot get terribly worked up if someone sees one, in the busy airlanes over the Channel or anywhere else.” (UFOs – Flight Safety Considerations, TNA DEFE 71/33)


Possibly the most interesting revelation from my FOI requests is that the Civil Aviation Authority (and by default NATS) decided two years ago to continue collecting UFO reports made by aircrew and air traffic controllers, despite the MoD’s determination to shut down its own X-files.

This move shows that the CAA, like the MoD, has no interest in UFO reports from the public regardless of how credible they may be. It also has no interest in ‘UFOs’ observed on radar without visual corroboration, as long experience has shown the majority of these can be explained as atmospheric phenomena.

Comment:
The above quotes concerning some "official" attitude to UFO/UAP sightings are certainly very interesting but it seems that if there is anything of interest, it is reported to a private company that is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.... how convenient... This blog entry looks initially like an half-hearted attempt effort to debunk and the stuff about radar angels conflicts with information in the public domain and even with the info in Clarke's own book, I know because I have a copy... But, I think I have stated before that, Dr David Clarke is a very strange character because his efforts have given me some tremendous insights, but I am not sure that was intentional.... So, despite all the huffing and puffing, pilots need to know about the existence of UAPs and pilots in the UK have a choice of where they can report their sightings even if the general public and trained observers are mostly ignored. Again the dismissal that we are dealing with "atmospheric phenomena", takes us back to atmospheric plasmas and how we differentiate plasmas. Here is on of my favourite quotes:
"You look up in the sky and the stars are plasma. Our Sun is plasma. The Earth's aurora are caused by plasma, In order to understand the universe, you must understand plasma. That is what I try to do." Dr Louis Frank, author of The Big Splash
The description of atmospheric phenomena is simply too vague, but great efforts are currently being made to identify the objects that ordinary people call UFOs.



Britain visited by one UFO a month but MoD rules they pose no threat
The Telegraph, 19th August 2012
It is official at last: Britain is not at risk from unidentified flying objects. [...]

It comes as the head of UK Air Traffic Control admitted the country is visited by around one unidentified flying object a month.

Asked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme about the existence of UFOs, Mr Deakin confirmed they were still being seen by his staff.

Comment:
If you go through the archives, in recent years the UK MOD have made it clear in the UK media on a number of occasions that UFOs/UAPs are no threat. Now, if you go through the comments it is easy to see who has studied this subject and are aware of the facts and those basing their opinion on 'homespun' logic (A term that I really quite like...) You can ignore the New Agey 'culty' references, this subject is too serious to rely on cult bait... The UK MOD tells people that UFOs/UAPs are real and they are NO THREAT, but they are regularly seen on radar even though they are often invisible to the eye. The issue is that people refuse to study and answer some some basic questions like: what exactly is being seen in the skies that we know exists but poses no threat? How hard is it to look at the options and come up with the answer that we are glimpsing the presence of another lifeform... The indigenous community call them 'The Ancestors' because they are the original form of life made up of plasma that makes up 99.999% of the visible universe.... This should be so obvious.... Seriously, another lifeform that militaries have absolutely no control over... they come and go as they please... Don't you think the citizens of planet Earth should at least be informed? Instead, the ignorance factor is really breathtaking, especially when real scientists are putting their research into Unidentified Aerial Phenomena out on the internet and providing us with some very interesting details.... But, the worse ignorance must be amongst the New Age cultic milieu... too many pseudo idiot savants claiming to be enlightened, but the reality is a dearth of understanding. Simply, there are no books, articles and websites (to my knowledge) explaining about what the 'veil lifting' really means in today's world. Even though it was known an unseen world would appear, for some strange reason the skewed logic did not seem to stretch as far as UFOs... Those who really understood this should have been emphatic beause it does appear as if the planet is being invaded with another lifeform and that is major news.... The Return of the Ancestors or The Return of the Guardians should have set alarm bells ringing, but too many people were lulled to sleep by crap like The Secret and The Law of Attraction. There is no excuse, the existence of a shadow biosphere is ancient news (ask a Vatican translator who is prepared to talk), and information was retained over thousands of years in plain sight, deliberately preserved for 'The End Times' to help us understand what was expected to happen. We are at the end/start of a major astronomical cycle and in the midst of an outpouring of divine cosmic energy that will result in some major cosmic housekeeping with important implications for the citizens of planet Earth.



Sprites
Dr David Clarke, 17th August 2012
Six years ago I used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the release of a secret Ministry of Defence report on ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’ (UAP). The study, codenamed ‘Project Condign‘, concluded that UAPs – as the MoD’s Defence Intelligence Staff preferred to call UFOs – existed but were most likely a type of poorly understood atmospheric plasma related to ball lightning.

A rare image of a red ‘sprite’ captured by astronauts on the ISS in April 2012 (Credit: NASA Johnson Space Centre)/

Press coverage of the report’s conclusions was superficial (a typical headline was ‘Sorry ET, you’re just a puff of plasma’ – The Sunday Times, 7 May 2006). UFOlogists and believers in extraterrestrial craft were unimpressed, with most dismissing the report as a ‘whitewash’.

But since 2006 evidence that some, if not all, the ‘unidentified’ UFOs are indeed types of atmospheric plasmas keeps piling up. [...]

If the two regions are interconnected, then it follows that UAPs observed in our atmosphere (commonly known as UFOs) might be related to UAPs in the mesosphere – 50 km above the Earth’s surface. Indeed it seems likely that atmospheric plasmas related to sprites and other energetic phenomenon in the middle atmosphere may be the source of some classic and unidentified ‘UFO’ reports made by the pilots of civilian and military aircraft since the advent of high altitude flights in the mid-20th century. For more on UAPs, Project Condign and related atmospheric phenomena see my page here.

Comment:
Well, well, well, Dr David Clarke has finally got the message that UFOs/UAPs are most likely atmospheric plasmas..... hallelujah.... /sarcasm off. Please note: It was not that long ago that Clarke had the nerve to call the top UK Ministry of Defence officials "weirdoes" because of their beliefs.... I think Clarke owes them an apology....



Britain's X Files: RAF suspected aliens of "tourist" visits to Earth
A new book reveals details about UFO sightings over British skies after author David Clarke studied declassified Ministry of Defence records.

The Telegraph, 20th September 2009



Russian space official resigns after failed launch
Key CTV News, 17th August 2012
MOSCOW (AP) - The head of Russia's leading rocket manufacturer has stepped down after a failed launch, the nation's space chief said Thusrday.

A Proton booster rocket failed to place two communications satellites into target orbits after its Aug. 6 launch, the latest in a long series of recent mishaps that has hurt the nation's pride in its space program. [...]

Popovkin said that an official investigation into the failed launch has determined that it was caused by a faulty pipe in the rocket's Briz-M upper stage.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday that Russia had seven failed launches in the past 1 1/2 years, resulting in the loss of 10 satellites. He added the high rate of failure marked a "colossal difference with other leading space powers."

Comment:
My suggestion is that the Russians have gone from very reliable rockets to extremely unreliable ones in a very short space of time and it could be related to new cosmic conditions (large amounts of cosmic dust) that engineers have not taken into account, as I have previously outlined but this has only been hinted at in various recent reports.



Apocalypse Not: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Worry About End Times
Wired Science, 17th August 2012
This is the question posed by the website 2012apocalypse.net. “super volcanos? pestilence and disease? asteroids? comets? antichrist? global warming? nuclear war?” the site’s authors are impressively open-minded about the cause of the catastrophe that is coming at 11:11 pm on december 21 this year. but they have no doubt it will happen. after all, not only does the Mayan Long Count calendar end that day, but “the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years.”

Case closed: Sell your possessions and live for today.

Comment:
Hmmmm.... Even the mainstream knows that we are in the 'End Times', but unfortunately, the message has been mutilated by those who wish to feed off the fears of others.... Basically, there are those who can only think in black and white terms i.e. a cause of uncertainty is either good or bad. Then there are a few who are more evolved who can make a decent appraisal of any situation and then come up with some kind of mindset that involves the concept of change and how to deal with change. However, even that mindset is subject to being used by those with a predatory nature who aim to take advantage. Regardless, the world is waking up to space weather and we can ignore those goaded by primal and apocalyptic thinking and instead, focus on the real issues. By the way, I have stated many times that apocalypse has a totally different original meaning, see archives.



Microsoft Fixes Windows Phone Marketplace Glitch, Resumes Publishing Apps
Mobile Apps, 19th August 2012
"According to Microsoft, a changeover in the back-end infrastructure for the app store was behind the issue. On Thursday, Aug. 16, Marketplace chief Todd Brix said the "hiccup" has been addressed."

Comment:
The use of the word "changeover" suggests that I might be right about a cosmic ray causing a bit flip, as this "changeover" took two days to find and presumably a piece of hardware that was hosting some operating system software had to be replaced...



Microsoft Windows Phone Dev Center Glitch Fixed
Eweek, 18th August 2012
For two days, new Windows Phone apps couldn't be published to the site after a site upgrade caused a glitch. The problems are now resolved, according to Microsoft.

Microsoft has apparently repaired a "hiccup" with its newly rebuilt Windows Phone Dev Center that prevented the publishing of new phone apps to the site for about two days.

App publishing was temporarily put on hold during the glitch, which was originally reported Aug. 14 in a post by Microsoft's Todd Brix on The Windows Phone Developer Blog.

In an Aug. 16 update, Brix announced that the problem was related to digital certificates and was finally resolved.

Comment:
It really makes you wonder.... Not even Microsoft can get away with a high profile launch without problems with hardware/software... I imagine that there would have been the normal testing and everything would have been signed off before the due date and everything would have been good to go but then no doubt, there was some cosmic rain and then bam! Why would Microsoft allow this to happen unless it was due to circumstances beyond their control? This is not just another software bug that needs a 'fix'.... This is a quote from my book because it is becoming very relevant:
"Now, in the New Energy, car manufacturers have to allow for stray cosmic rays, specifically neutrons from space, interfering with car electronics. As one media report explained, “Neutron-induced firm errors have progressed from being a nuisance to being a significant problem” [44]. With the poor state of Earth’s magnetosphere, it has become apparent that Earth’s atmosphere cannot provide adequate shielding from high energy cosmic rays which are suspected as being the primary of interference in car electronics. This possibility was brought to light by a “concerned scientist” who sent a email tip-off to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Administration (NHTSA) [45]. The message read:
For reasons I am unable to disclose, I am anonymously submitting several publically available scientific papers that discuss the possibility of cosmic rays disrupting electronics at sea level, essentially flipping a bit from one to zero, or vice versa. This phenomenon is a ‘soft’ error that is not detectable except through redundant electronic and communication systems. The scientific community refers to such occurrences as ‘Single Event Upsets,’ or SEUs. The reason SEUs are now relevant to the automotive industry is because electronics have gotten smaller and the required voltage levels have dropped significantly, therefore making electronics more susceptible to cosmic radiation…”

Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spiritual Evolution (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012)
It is no secret that authorities suspect cheap electronics in Toyota cars were being fried by cosmic rays to the extent that many accidents were caused and people died. (While Toyota has received most of the attention, other car makers have had software-related incidents.) In March 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported: Now, Even NASA Is Involved in Toyota Crisis , and the only reason for NASA to be involved is to provide data that either proves or disproves the notion that cosmic rays are causing problems in the electronics used for computer technology in cars. Now, there seems to be an acceleration and it has become noticeable because large computer installations belonging to high profile financial institutions are being hit. It is no secret that NASA have informed the world that they are expecting cosmic rays to go up another 30% above the current high in the near future, see Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High! The European Space Agency ESA) have told us straight that the Earth's magnetic field has major rifts and occasionally disappears on the daylight side see, Multiple rifts in Earth's magnetic shield. Therefore, we don't have to speculate, scientists already know that cosmic rays are a problem and even Intel have informed us that "we are living on borrowed time" a quote that appears on the patent for a cosmic ray detector on a chip.... Our modern technological world is highly reliant on computer technology and electronics and they are becoming more and more unreliable due to a major celestial deluge.... My main reasons for pointing this is out is that we must acknowledge that various sources that includes indigenous groups and Mayan Elders, warned about cosmic changes, but it seems before I wrote my book in 2006, very few had integrated enough science and metaphysics to make a link with Space Weather and the dramatically changing cosmic conditions that will force massive evolutionary change on Earth.



Scientific data on Hessdalen Lights presented to European Geosciences Union
Examiner, 16th August 2012
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2012 General Assembly included data presented on what has come to be known as the Hessdalen Lights. The research may not provide UFO buffs with the chronically sought - yet ever elusive - confirmation of alien-piloted craft, but scientists indeed presented empirical evidence for the existence in Norway of aerial phenomena of unknown origins. There is no reason whatsoever to suppose the phenomena is under intelligent control or associated with non-human space travelers, but scientific research nonetheless indicated the Hessdalen Lights are a very real - although yet to be fully understood – phenomenon consisting of interesting possibilities.

Types of energy states

Researchers Hauge and Montebugnoli presented a paper to the EGU indicating testimonies involving aerial lights in the vicinity of Hessdalen can be traced at least as far back as 1811.

Recently commenting on the Hessdalen data presented at the EGU General Assembly, Frank wrote, “The luminous phenomena are poorly understood. The orbs do have the characteristic of being strongly ionized, strong enough to emit radiation seen with burning air (nitrogen reacting with oxygen to form nitrous oxides). However, the energy source for these orbs is not known. It’s not even known if the energy source is internal or external to the orbs themselves. Radon was considered, but discarded as a source of the energy. The six different states, Doublet, Fireball, Plasma ray, Dust cloud, Flash and Invisible state are all probably the same phenomena at different energies.”

Comment:
If the phenomena are all strongly ionized, then that means they are made up of plasma, a fundamental state of matter that makes up 99.99% of the visible universe. This report is better than nothing, but I don't appreciate the desperation to tell us that these plasma entities are not intelligent when very clearly their defining characteristics are that they demonstrate intelligence, as research papers on the Hessdalen phenomena and unidentified aerial phenomena in general have clearly explained. For more background information, see the Joyfire webpage, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Index .

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2011 present the Hessdalen Phenomena and UAP
UAP Observations Reporting, 7th September, 2011

The Hessdalen Phenomena: Interview of Ass. professor Erling Strand (Norway)
UAP Observations Reporting, 24th April, 2012



The man in charge of UK air traffic control
BBC News, 17th August 2012
Over 6,000 flights a day need to be moved through UK airspace safely and as quickly as possible each day. Richard Deakin, of Nats, formerly National Air Traffic Services Limited, is responsible for making sure this happens.

When asked by the Today programme's Simon Jack whether his staff encounter unidentified flying objects, he said that occasionally there are objects "that don't conform to normal traffic patterns... typically around one a month".

Comment:
Air traffic control are very relaxed about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) because they have been known about for a very very long time, in fact, ever since they could be easily detected on radar that was invented in the 1940s (if not earlier). According to Dr David Clarke, journalist and consultant to the National UK Archives and author of the book, The UFO Files, air traffic control deal with these normally invisible entities by tuning them out and off radar screens, but of course, there is nothing they can do if UAPs become visible and scare pilots.... This is why some pilots have gone to a lot of trouble to increase awareness that these objects are no threat and that pilots should not panic, see the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena website and the major report, Spherical UAP and Aviation Safety: A Critical Review - April 2010. As I have repeated many times, it is an historical fact that the shadow biosphere have been known to the military and air traffic control for a very long time.



Technical glitch: Hundreds of UAE workers without Eid salaries
Exchange house, which pays workers under government’s Wage Protection Solution system, closes outlets
Star Online, 18th August 2012
Hundreds of employees across the UAE [United Emirates] are stranded without their salaries ahead of Eid Al Fitr tomorrow after a money exchange that handles their payments suffered technical problems and is unable to process the payments.

The workers get paid through the exchange under the government’s Wage Protection Solution system. Workers have been visiting the exchange’s offices in several of the emirates, only to be greeted with downed shutters. The workers affected belong to several companies that process their payments through the exchange. [...]

Says one employer who pays his workers through the WPS system and this exchange: “For the last five days, I am reading this board – ‘Closed Due to System Problems’.

“We have deposited the workers’ salary for the month of August on August 3, 2012, and normally it takes two or three days to dispense the salary. Even after fifteen days, salaries are not paid,” said Manohar, an Indian manager of an automobile trading firm in Sharjah.

According to eye-witnesses, a team from Dubai Police had reached the money exchange’s head office located in Deira, Dubai, this morning. “I came here because I did not get a normal email alert that the payment has been cleared. All their branches in Sharjah remain closed.

"The company’s junior staff are available in the office, but they are unable to handle the problem. They say the system is down and they cannot do anything,” says another customer.

Comment:
How ironic, the wage protection scheme run by the government has failed..... but these days, is two weeks long enough to fix a computer problem? The Royal bank of Scotland group that included Natwest and Ulster bank took longer than that to sort out all their customers' accounts.... Quite frankly, if it was only hundreds of people being affected, I hardly think that would be enough to make international news, but it says here there has been an issue for 15 days and the police were sent to see what was happening.... Whatever, there are a lot of computer "glitches" occuring, but those that involved people not getting paid and continued issues with unreliability, takes us nearer to the point of mass realisation that something rather fundamental is happening...

Evolutionary increase in size of the human brain explained
Eureka Alert,16th August 2012
Researchers have found what they believe is the key to understanding why the human brain is larger and more complex than that of other animals. The human brain, with its unequaled cognitive capacity, evolved rapidly and dramatically.

"We wanted to know why," says James Sikela, PhD, who headed the international research team that included researchers from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and the National Institutes of Mental Health. "The size and cognitive capacity of the human brain sets us apart. But how did that happen?"

"This research indicates that what drove the evolutionary expansion of the human brain may well be a specific unit within a protein – called a protein domain -- that is far more numerous in humans than other species."

Comment:
The most important information is that there was an evolutionary change that affected brain size and it happened quickly. I wrote the following in the latest version of my book.
Therefore, the Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium, by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould, first proposed in 1972, must be considered as a major advancement in scientific reasoning [92]. Instead of slow continuous evolution proposed by Charles Darwin, the study of fossil organisms found evidence of geological layers with long intervals in which nothing changed (“equilibrium”), “punctuated” by short, revolutionary transitions, in which species became extinct and were replaced by new forms.

Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spiritual Evolution (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012)
These days neurologists are marvelling over the occurence of the number of people with so many different types of synaesthesia, because there has been a notable increase in only three decades. Some neurologists think it is an evolutionary change and this has to be seriously considered because it seems to be related to humans being increasingly privy to the interplay of human consciousness [deeper awareness]. This is in the form of more complexity of the senses providing us with new ways of interpreting environmental information.



Sun Dominates Space Weather Concerns for Next Decade: Report
Space.com, 16th August 2012
A new report based on input from the science community outlines the most pressing objectives over the next decade for studying the sun and the far-reaching effects of solar activity. The report, which was released yesterday (Aug. 15) by the National Research Council, identifies specific science goals and provides recommendations for how to maintain robust and effective programs despite budgetary constraints.

The study is the council's second decadal survey for solar and space physics. The committee that wrote the 454-page report, led by Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado in Boulder, pinpointed the top research priorities in heliophysics for the decade spanning 2013 to 2022.

More than 85 scientists and space system engineers contributed to the study, which aims to guide the ongoing and future initiatives of government agencies, including NASA, the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Comment:
This is a brand new major space weather report. I have also been sent details of space weather conferences being organised around the world by The International Emergency Management Society - TIEMS. This year TIEMS plans to arrange 13 conferences and workshops around the world. The planned locations are: Norway, Japan, Nepal, Russia, Tunisia, Philippines, Romania, Finland, Korea, China, France, BeNeLux and India. See the following link below that provides the details for Oslo, October 2012. Thanks to E. Breiteig for the info. Space Weather and Challenges for Modern Society, Oslo 22 - 24 - October 2012



Future Violent Space Weather a Key Concern [Slideshow]
The sun and its impact on Earth has been identified as an area of study that needs increased investment.
Discovery News, 16th August 2012



NVE supports a TIEMS conference on ”Space Weather and Geomagnetic Induced Currents”.
Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, 1st January 2012
NVE supports a TIEMS conference on ”Space Weather and Geomagnetic Induced Currents”. Illustration: NASA Illustration: NASA

The TIEMS (The International Emergency Management Society) conference focusing on "Solar Activity and Potential Damaging Consequences for Industrial Operations and Critical Infrastructure” will be held in Oslo, Norway October 2012



Space Weather Quarterly
American Geophysical Union, August 2012

Meeting Reports:
• European Commission’s Space Weather Awareness Dialogue
• Highlights of the Space Weather Risks and Society Workshop

Technical:
• Did Geomagnetic Activity Challenge Electric Power Reliability During Solar Cycle 23?
It's a 32 pages long .pdf file ....



Organisms cope with environmental uncertainty by guessing the future
Eureka Alert, 16th August 2012
In uncertain environments, organisms not only react to signals, but also use molecular processes to make guesses about the future, according to a study by Markus Arnoldini et al. from ETH Zurich and Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. The authors report in PLoS Computational Biology that if environmental signals are unreliable, organisms are expected to evolve the ability to take random decisions about adapting to cope with adverse situations.

Most organisms live in ever-changing environments, and are at times exposed to adverse conditions that are not preceded by any signal. [...] Previous experimental work with microorganisms has reported variability in stress responses between genetically identical individuals. The results of the present study suggest that this variation emerges because individual organisms take random decisions, and such variation is beneficial because it helps organisms to reduce the metabolic costs of protection without compromising the overall benefits.

Comment:
I believe the scientists here are refering to Somatic Hypermutation — rapid or excessive alterations of the genes. This is a process that allows an organism to use a suitable gene variant to effectively relieve an environmental stress. Simply, if a bacterium needs help, it can simply cut out some useless genetic material and replace it with a new and more helpful version.... This has seriously freaked out biologists and blown Darwin's theory of evolution out of the window.... As I wrote in the 2012 version of m,y book
This was first revealed in 1988, by the internationally recognized geneticist John Cairns who wrote the paper, “The Origin of Mutants” that was published in the prestigious British journal Nature. Since, this research was a serious challenge to prevailing beliefs of random mutations espoused by Darwin followers, it was immediately condemned as complete heresy. Of course, after 10 years of replication, scientists were forced to admit that an alternative mechanism for evolution existed.

Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spiritual Evolution (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012)
It means that whatever the environmental challenge, some organisms are ready too deal with it.... Well, it really makes me wonder if a similar process exists for humans and it makes me wonder whether all the so-called "junk" DNA is not really junk as scientists are now sheepishly admitting... I have not come across any reports that tell us that humans have this ability and nothing from the metaphysical community, but like always, scientists are making new discoveries all the time... But, if simple organisms have this ability, shouldn't humans have this ability too? What is so odd is that there are too many contradictions concerning the evolution of humans as there is evidence for human devolution (the human brain as I am reliably informed), so I wonder what universal rules exist that we don't seem to know much about. The ability of some species to adapt and others don't, may explain why so species go extinct and others thrive, but this still does not explain the evidence of why some creatures just suddenly appear in the geological record.



Port Columbus glitch blamed on transformer 6 inbound flights sent elsewhere after lights along runway go out
Dispatch News, 16th August 2012
There are a lot of transformer fire incidents reported in the United states at the moment, but I would like to see some statistics and a clear trend. Use Google news and keywords transformer + fire to pick up details.



Blasts in southern Israel: Rockets suspected in Sinai bombing (PHOTOS)
RT News, 16th August 2012
Israeli officials suspect that two large explosions that rocked the Israeli city of Eilat may have been the result of a rocket attack. Authorities are currently scouring the area for evidence of a Grad missile strike.

­The explosions hit Eilat near the city’s border with Egypt’s Sinai Peninsular on Wednesday evening, and were felt throughout the city. No casualties were reported.

"We heard two loud explosions. It was really scary, last time this happened the entire house shook," Eilat resident Rotem told Israeli newspaper Ynet.

Comment:
The headline at SOTT.net reads Overhead cometary explosions? Blasts in southern Israel blamed on phantom rockets, with the comment: "Note that they found no impact sites and no rockets. Meanwhile war preparations against Iran are being hyped to the max again:" There are now many blasts and booms in the sky, but not that long ago, the Israelis were also treated to a spectacular and stunning plasma instability appearing in the sky... It does make you wonder if the signs of the times will become big enough on planet Earth to distract even the most ardent warmongers. Let's hope....



Fire in the Sky!
SOTT.net, August 2012
I can't keep track of all the fireballs and meteors seen in the sky, but SOTT.net does a good job....



NASA is tracking electron beams from the Sun
PhysOrg.News, 16th August 2012
"...the sun sends out a steady outflow of solar particles called the solar wind and additionally giant, sudden explosions of material called coronal mass ejections or CMEs erupt out into space. Skoug studies a third kind of particle flow: jets of high-energy electrons streaming from the sun known as electron strahl. Through a new five-year study of observations of the strahl, Skoug and her colleagues have researched another piece of this giant space weather puzzle around Earth."

Comment:
Yes, these strahl electrons are even creating a new type of space weather...



Baby girl’s miracle rescue from 33ft-deep crater as busy road collapses, killing two people
Daily Mail, 16th August 2012



Scientists Finally Conclude Nonhuman Animals Are Conscious Beings
Psychology Today, 10th August 2012
Every now and again I receive an email message I ignore after reading the subject line. I know I'm not alone in following this rule of thumb, but today I broke down and opened a message the subject line of which read "Scientists Declare: Nonhuman Animals Are Conscious". I honestly thought it was a joke, likely from one of my favorite newspapers, The Onion. However, it wasn't.

My colleague Michael Mountain published a summary of a recent meeting held in Cambridge, England at which "Science leaders have reached a critical consensus: Humans are not the only conscious beings; other animals, specifically mammals and birds, are indeed conscious, too." At this gathering, called The Francis Crick Memorial Conference, a number of scientists presented evidence that led to this self-obvious conclusion. It's difficult to believe that those who have shared their homes with companion animals didn't already know this. And, of course, many renowned and award-winning field researchers had reached the same conclusion years ago (see also).

Comment:
Another way to look at this, is to conclude that some humans are not so different from some animals and some animals appear to be more evolved in their behaviour than some humans... Whatever, I have been enlightened by finding out that some Mayan Elders believe that monkeys use to be humans that degenerated due to a cosmic bombardment that happened in our distant past. This is an interesting quote from a book:
Finally the men of the Third Age underwent physical mutations, exactly as if they had been exposed to radiation by an atomic explosion, since their race disappeared and was replaced by the 'Race of the Fourth Age.'

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

Robert Charroux, Legacy of the Gods (1974)
Based on the scientific fact that Earth's magnetic fielding and cosmic shielding has been a lot lower in the past, then unless there was some kind of adaptation (evolution), then devolution would have resulted from DNA mutations. It is also known that evolutionary biologists have no clue why in periods of rapid evolutionary change, some species thrive and others go into decline, but as far as humans are concerned, I think universal consciousness sets the standard based on the quality of human consciousness. This is a serious consideration when there are clear signs of evolution and devolution taking place right now....



Dozens of Dead Birds Fall From the Sky in NJ
NBC 10 Philadelphia, 15th August 2012
Residents in a Cumberland County community were left wondering Tuesday morning what caused dozens of birds to drop dead from the sky.

Residents along Peach Drive in Millville found at least 80 birds -- mostly red-winged blackbirds -- on the ground dead having fallen from trees and the sky.

"Crazy -- something out of a movie," said resident Michelle Cavalieri who saw the birds fall from the sky. The birds caused a bloody mess on roadways in the residential neighborhood

Comment:
We have to see if there are any more incidents, but when I see pictures of dead birds I immediately start thinking of the sci-fi movie The Core. The movie pointed out the signs that will accompany the decline of Earth's magnetic field and besides official acknowledgement by space agencies, we are seeing plenty of raw evidence as many have noted.



Louisiana Sinkhole Disaster: 400 Square-Foot Gaping Hole Swallows Mass Amounts Of Trees, Prompts Mandatory Evacuation [PHOTOS]
International Business Times, 14th August 2012
A Louisiana Sinkhole measure 400 foot deep has reportedly swallowed all of the trees in its area and prompted a mandatory evacuation order for an estimated 150 residences due to fear of potential radiation and explosions.

(Click here for photos of Louisiana Sinkhole)

Located in Assumption Parish, La., about 50 miles south of Baton Rouge, the 400 square-foot gaping hole is situated in the middle of a heavily wooded space where it has consumed all of the soaring cypress trees that had been there.

A mandatory evacuation for between 100 and 150 homes in the area has been enacted while most people have chosen to stay, according to ABC News.

Comment:
Silly me, I thought it was just a another sinkhole and the blogosphere was being OTT by talking about radiation.... I think this article is a good summary of the situation.

Details of sinkhole’s dimensions emerge: 250% size of earlier reports — One area so deep it exceeded length of measuring rope, nearby ‘bubbling’ — Official: May be ‘rabbit holes’ or cracks in earth
Energy News, 14th August 2012

Official: Reports that butane release from salt cavern could be like H-bomb explosion are “a little bit over the top” — Company Plan: Butane could damage out two-thirds of a mile… Update due by end of day
Energy News, 15th August 2012
This is a crazy situation....



Knight rises as firm reportedly finds trade glitch
Marketwatch, 14th August 2012
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Knight Capital Group Inc. shares shook off early session losses on Tuesday afternoon to end 5.3% higher following a televised report suggesting that the firm has discovered what triggered a more than $400 million trading loss earlier this month.

Bloomberg TV reported Tuesday that Knight Capital KCG +5.28% determined that outdated software was accidentally triggered when new software was loaded onto Knight’s system.

The old software glitch multiplied the firm’s stock orders by 1,000, the report said.

Comment:
For reasons I have already explained concerning software maintenance and upgrades, there is no way on Earth that a multiplication factor of 1,000 went unnoticed by any normal testing procedures especially on just one algorithm, when we are told.... "You've got 13 exchanges, 50 dark pools, brokers that internalize client orders at their own desks and thousands of algorithms pumping orders in milliseconds..." But, the story of 'outdated software' is just plain bizarre... Are Knight Capital seriously expecting us to believe that multiplying the firm’s stock orders by 1,000 was normal practice? But if that is true, then that creates other issues..... Quite frankly, a cosmic ray flipping a bit (bit-flip) is much more believable....



Source of Mysterious Pumice 'Raft' in Pacific Found, NASA Says
Our Amazing Planet, 14th August 2012
The source of an enormous floating mass of pumice spotted this week in the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of New Zealand has been discovered: NASA satellite images and other sleuthing science have pinpointed an erupting undersea volcano called the Havre Seamount as the culprit. On Aug. 9, the HMNZS Canterbury ship observed the floating pumice "island" — measuring a whopping 300 miles (482 kilometers) in length and more than 30 miles (48 km) wide — along a voyage from Auckland to Raoul Island, New Zealand. A maritime patrol aircraft, RNZAF Orion, had seen the weird mass and reported it to this Royal New Zealand Air Force ship.

Comment:
I am wondering when the denials will start about the pumice floating above the waves..... But seriously, why would a captain of a navy ship even make such an observation if it was not true? [I would also like to add that sailors have a long tradition of pointing out strange phenomena that occur at sea. Usually, the scientific community ignores whatever they have to say until someone eventually pays attention. A good example is freak waves which has now been totally accepted occur, but this is probably because satellite imagery and buoys provide solid proof, but the reasons for their occurence is still not properly understood.] We will have to see what researchers and documentary film makers say to verify this observation and then some serious hand wringing can start in earnest.... Whatever, this is a more than interesting geological event and due to the now obvious fast evolutionary change taking place on this planet, what is going on inside the Earth is also a very important part of the equation. It is my belief that energy being absorbed by the planet due to space weather is different, it is highly catalytic and utilised by the planet to cause fast evolutionary change. To explain what we are seeing, it is fast becoming clear that we have to use some old and new alternative theories. We have geological evidence of previous changes over billions of years but now we are living through a major upheaval and scientists are documenting wheels within wheels starting to move very quickly, therefore to understand the process and how humans are being affected requires integrating information.... Things are getting and becoming truly incredible on this planet....



Nuclear reactor in Connecticut shut down due to excessive seawater temperatures
The Watchers, 14th August 2012



Mutant butterflies a result of Fukushima nuclear disaster, researchers say
CNN News Blog, 14th August 2012
In the first sign that the Fukushima nuclear disaster may be changing life around it, scientists say they've found mutant butterflies.

Some of the butterflies had abnormalities in their legs, antennae, and abdomens, and dents in their eyes, according to the study published in Scientific Reports, an online journal from the team behind Nature. Researchers also found that some affected butterflies had broken or wrinkled wings, changes in wing size, color pattern changes, and spots disappearing or increasing on the butterflies.

The study began two months after an earthquake and tsunami devastated swaths of northeastern Japan in March 2011, triggering a nuclear disaster. The Fukushima Daiichi plant spewed radiation and displaced tens of thousands of residents from the surrounding area in the worst nuclear accident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine.

Comment:
This is not the first sign, there is already many reports of mutations due to Fukushima. See Energy News for more stories and links.

Mutant butterflies caused by Fukushima disaster
The Sun, 14th August 2012
The UK Sun has some good images...



NBC: “It’s pretty clear something has gone wrong with the ecosystem” -Japan Researcher
Energy News, 14th August 2012
[Joji Otaki from the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, who led the research and] has been studying these butterflies for 10 years to analyze the effects of global warming, said that butterflies are the best environmental indicators because they are widely found in almost any environment. “But since we’ve seen these effects on butterflies, it’s easy to imagine that it would also have affected other species as well. It’s pretty clear that something has gone wrong with the ecosystem,” he said.
Hmmm.... There is a lot more news about the Fukushima nuclear disaster here, with comments from people closely monitoring the situation....



'Jesus' Appears On Tree Stump
U TV News, 9th August 2012
Image that looks like Jesus has appeared on a tree stump in Belfast City Cemetery.

Comment:
Please see archives for my opinion on how religious images are held in the aether and most importantly why they are now appearing frequently. Next, why don't the religious establishment have something to say? Presumably, they don't want to reveal that they don't understand our reality.... Regardless, the leaders of the religious community have been frightening people for millenia about the return of Christ and now the Christ or crystalline energy is back on the planet, they are struck dumb.... I am really not impressed...



Fortean Times (issue 291)
Fortean Times, August 2012
The Skies Are Alive! - Are UFOs actually atmospheric creatures?

Scott Deschaine considers whether the solution to the UFO phenomenon is as simple, yet wondrous, as life itself: are UFOs actually atmospheric creatures?

Comment:
Hurrah! The latest version of Fortean Times (issue 291) is pointing out the #°´§%*¦ obvious.... About time too....



New system could predict solar flares, give advance warning
PhysOrg.com, 13th August 2012
(Phys.org) -- Researchers may have discovered a new method to predict solar flares more than a day before they occur, providing advance warning to help protect satellites, power grids and astronauts from potentially dangerous radiation.

The system works by measuring differences in gamma radiation emitted when atoms in radioactive elements "decay," or lose energy. This rate of decay is widely believed to be constant, but recent findings challenge that long-accepted rule. [...]

Comment:
Space weather forecasts are now necessary but this is a new area of science and the space community is desperate for any help they can get. What is really interesting, is that researchers who claimed the rate of radioactive decay was not a constant were ignored and/or derided in the past, but all of a sudden, 'needs must' as the say. So, now we have a new way of monitoring space weather caused by the extreme activity of the Sun and I imagine this fact has been seized upon with a vengence. Of course, the physics is not properly understood, but some theory will have to be agreed upon at some time in the future. Btw, I don't think the ultimate cause of decay rate variability is neutrinos, I think it is sound waves, an aspect of the Sun that does not get much attention...



Computer glitch leaves police unable to talk with dispatchers
My San Antonio News, 13th August 2012
A computer hardware malfunction that left San Antonio Police Department dispatchers unable to hear officers' radio transmissions has been fixed, but diagnostic testing on the system continues, city officials said. Sunday afternoon the problem with the radios lasted about 20 minutes, but similar difficulties with communication occurred nightly last week. During the time the channels were down, dispatchers weren't able to hear the officers, which was a problem if they needed help or wanted to pass on information about suspects or victims.

Comment:
Some glitches are more of an issue than others....

American stars miss Olympics closing ceremony due to TV glitch
Hollywood News, 12th August 2012
I suppose this is the only way that some will be interested in space weather as technology becomes more unreliable and eventually even the most superficial want to know why....

Blood bank national computer glitch upsets pathologists
News.com.au, 14th August 2012
I changed the headline to make it more headline worthy.... Hmmm... I am interested in the computer glitches that really matter and it seems that the escalation of major problems is ongoing.



Scientists' gold discovery sheds light on catalysis
PhysOrg.com, 13th August 2012
(Phys.org) -- A physicist at the University of York has played a key role in international research which has made an important advance in establishing the catalytic properties of gold at a nano level.

Dr Keith McKenna was part of a research team which discovered that the catalytic activity of nanoporous gold (NPG) originates from high concentrations of surface defects present within its complex three-dimensional structure.

Comment:
Metaphysical sources claim that there is a new type of catalytic energy on the planet and I have even seen some of the new 'golden' energy on my hands, but the globular nature of this golden energy was quite a surprise.... Whatever, I described the evidence that I had collected in my book Tuning the Diamonds and why the delivery of catalytic energy is very important during the process of fast evolutionary change. It has taken me a while to join up some more dots, but I think I have sorted out the process that explains where this energy originates and how catalytic energy is being delivered to Earth.... The cosmos is ordered and it is possible to understand the workings of a divine cosmos if one is prepared to do some study. (Btw, I did not learn any of this from other sources, I worked this all out from first principles. I am quite capable and qualified enough to research, study, engage brain, think and teach....)



Magnetic Reversals Linked to Massive Volcanism
Ice Age Now, 12th August 2012
"Scientists think massive volcanism triggers magnetic reversals. I think they have it backward."

Comment:
The discussion here is interesting. I note the comment: "My answer is that the surrounding magnetic field can be so strong as to send the earths magnetic field into reversal." Quite frankly, due to space weather and changing electromagnetic conditions in our solar system combined with Earth's rapidly declining magnetic field, it is now quite easy to see how and why magnetic reversals take place. I really rate Robert Felix and I highly recommend his interviews and his book Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps, where the geological evidence is explained in detail, but I still think an overview of plasma cosmology and electric universe theory is important to understand too. Whatever, this book certainly gave me something to think about....



Mysterious Fallen Rock Dents Sioux City Man's Car
ABC 9 News, 12th August 2012
Rocks falling out of the sky is far from mysterious and due to Earth being in an asteroid debris field, is becoming ubiquitous.



10,000 square miles of floating volcanic pumice found in Pacific
Bizarre rock 'ice shelf' found in Pacific
Yahoo News, 10th August 2012
The New Zealand Navy announced today that they have found a patch of floating volcanic pumice from an underwater volcano floating about 600 miles off the shore of New Zealand.

“The rock looked to be sitting two foot (half a meter) above the surface of the waves and lit up a brilliant white colour in the spotlight. It looked exactly like the edge of an ice shelf,” said Lieutenant Tim Oscar aboard the ship the HMNZS Canterbury.

Comment:
Major news! OK, I missed this earlier.... Pumice rock levitating above the water for 10,000 square miles!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are some intelligent comments at Ice Age Now:
BobbyR says: August 10, 2012 at 7:53 pm
To put it in perspective the 10,000 square miles is 6,400,000 acres. The island of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea is only 6,352,576 acres.
Please note: if these pumice stones are levitating, then that has some serious implicatings for what is going on inside our Earth.... Some seriously mind blowing new geophysics....



The Utter Desperation of Global Warming Liars
Warning Signs, 7th August 2012
The more the public grows skeptical of the global warming hoax, the more desperate the charlatans behind it become.

There is no global warming if by that one means a sudden, dramatic increase in the overall temperature of the Earth. It is not, nor ever was, caused by an increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere; currently a miniscule 0.038 percent. Climate science has demonstrated that CO2 increases show up centuries after a major change in the Earth’s temperature, not before.

Comment:
I sometimes wonder why world controllers don't decide to tell the truth that the sudden onset of space weather is really driving climate change on Earth. But the problem there is that lying about everything is their modus operandi and it would be too disturbing for them to change now....



Cosmic Chaos?? Contrived Confusion??: Meteors Behaving Badly.
The Big Study, 7th August 2012
[...] As Sanderson noted though, some of the things he found were of mildly puzzling natures, and some were very puzzling. Let's take a look.

In 1858, over Berlin, Germany [yeh, OK, it wasn't quite "Germany" yet...] a fireball was seen. This fireball "burst" twice as it flew, sent out "sparks", and changed directions both times. Well, probably it blew off big chunks of itself and the remaining fiery part angled away according to the laws of motion. Maybe. Could have happened that way. Would have been nice to have gotten an idea of how much change there was. But we'll give the mundane world that one.[...]

Now come EIGHT cases, from 1649 to 1844, where the "meteors" are described as moving in a "serpentine", or bounding up and down in one case, style of motion. This is clearly not simple Galilean motion in any obvious way, and it takes quite a bit of "making stuff up" to dispense with the cases. The debunker here must fall back on doubting the witness testimony as to what exactly was meant by serpentine, how up-and-down WAS it?, weren't you just looking at a distorted smoke trail?, etc. I'm not comfortable with just tossing these oddities out.

Comment:
The joy of historical records.... I don't think any of the changes taking place on this planet are brand new, because this planet has been around for billions of years. The difference now is frequency and intensity of certain phenomena that we must associate with evolutionary change being driven by cosmic forces. In terms of "strange" meteors, the evidence suggests this planet has always hosted a shadow biosphere, but it seems, a higher plasma environment is far more attractive to certain entities in the cosmos and they are arriving en masse. Thus, it is fantastic to find Fortean type records from the nineteenth century, that prove that UAPs are not new to this planet and there can be no dispute about the authencity and reputation of the authors. Charles Fort also collected a lot of these reports, so we know that some astronomers were aware of "strange" meteors, but the general modus operandi was to ignore and hide anything that astronomers did not understand. Please note: it was only 100 years ago that most astronomers refused to believe that stones could fall from the sky.... this is a reminder that human ignorance and arrogance is still extremly high in certain subjects. But, we can presume, there were a few people who eventually realised the implications, but for crowd control purposes, the general public needed to be shielded from the notion of anything existing that humans had no control over. Whatever, I am particularly intrigued with the historical reports of serpentine "meteors". Well, I have only recently discovered examples of orbs with long trails swishing about in the sky. This type reminds me of the fantastic firework (catherine-wheel type) entities moving backwards and forwards in the sky. As I have explained many times before, we have been enlightened by Russian space scientists who tell us that there are objects in the cosmos that look like comets, but when viewed through telescopes, no rocks can be found and the have been found to be purely plasma objects, huge sparks of cosmic consciousness. Following the biological model of a human being, (as below, so above), if the cosmos was a body, these sparks of universal consciousness are delivering information or messages between cosmic organs. Personally, I think this is a perfectly acceptable way to understand how universal consciousness keeps everything in sync.

Cosmic Chaos, part one, Addendum.
The Big Study, 10th August 2012



Navy: U.S. destroyer collides with oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz
CNN News, 12th August 2012
(CNN) -- The U.S. Navy said its guided missile destroyer collided with a Japanese-owned oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz early Sunday morning.

No one was injured in the collision that occurred about 1 a.m. local time when the USS Porter collided with the Panamanian-flagged bulk oil tanker M/V Otowasan, the Navy said in a statement.

The Navy did not provide details about the collision, saying only the accident was not related to combat. It said the incident is under investigation

Comment:
Hmmm.... Landbased (Loran C) and/or satellite navigation systems screwed up? Well, it is difficult making a call here because it is public knowledge that GPS is no longer totally reliable, but Loran C is often only described as an inferior system used by mariners or as a backup land-based alternative to GPS and other satellite navigation systems. Some sources claim that the current LORAN system has been phased out in the United States and Canada, but we do know for sure that the US military now rely on a more sophisticated version of GPS, I don't know what systems other militaries are relying on. Whatever, the U.S. Navy's guided missile destroyer collided with a Japanese-owned oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz and there must have been total reliance on a navigation system that failed..... bigtime. If you look in the archives this is becoming a common occurence. I also detailed the issue of failing GPS in my ebook What is Space Weather?. My interest is that stormy geomagnetic conditions affect humans as well as satellite navigation systems.



Woman's missing digits grow back in phantom form
New Scientist, 10th August 2012
A woman born missing a finger and a thumb has grown them back – albeit as part of a phantom limb. This extraordinary occurrence shows that our brain contains a fully functional map of our body image, regardless of what our limbs actually look like.

The woman, RN, was born with just three fingers on her right hand. Aged 18, RN had the hand amputated after a car accident. She later began to feel that her missing limb was still present, and developed a "phantom" hand. "But here's the interesting thing," says Paul McGeoch at the University of California, San Diego. "Her phantom hand didn't have three digits, it had five. [...]

McGeoch says this study indicates that there is a hardwired representation in the brain of what the body should look like, regardless of how it actually appears in real life. It shows us more about the balance between the external and innate representations of a limb, he says.

Comment:
My, how times are changing.... this kind of therapy must be considered as holistic.... The template or morphogenetic field is what is used to guide the development of a foetus from conception but this template remains for life. According to metaphysical sources, this template is updated by the environment and during this time of rapid evolutionary change, the condition of this template determines evolution or devolution.... This is why there have been a few lone voices in the metaphysical community encouraging anyone that will listen about the importance of working with the human energy field that hosts several different types of generic human template. I was unsatisfied with the snippets of info I found in my search for truth, especially as the technical theory was missing, so as usual, I did some work..... Now, I am confident that people were being warned for good reason, but of course, popular narcissism has overshadowed the most important advice, so I expect there will be lots of devolution even amongst the experts in cosmic ordering.



Red Rain in India May Have Alien Origin
Epoch News, 11th August 2012
A rare shower of red rain fell for about 15 minutes in the city of Kannur, Kerala, India, early on June 28. Local residents were perturbed, but this is not the first time the state has experienced colored rain.

This strange phenomenon was first recorded in Kerala a few hours after a meteor airburst in July 2001, when a space rock exploded in the atmosphere. More than 120 such rain showers were reported that year, including yellow, green, and black ones. [...]

According to Louis, red particles in the atmosphere from a fragmented meteor probably seeded the red rain clouds. “There can be roughly of the order of 100 million cells in one liter of red rain water,” he said. “The red rain can appear like black coffee if the concentration of the cells increases in the rain water.” These “alien” cells resemble normal cells, but lack conventional biological molecules like DNA, and are expected to have different biochemistry. [...]

“Yellow rain and red rain are related as both show an unusual characteristic: autofluorescence,” he said. “It is inferred that the materials dissolved in the yellow rain are the biological byproducts of these micro-organisms.” [...]

Read Louis’ research paper on the red rains in 2001 here.

Comment:
That's interesting. Here we have a astrobiologist confessing that yellow rain is also of extraterrestrial origin... I think I have recorded at least one example in recent years., but we have quite an interesting selection of cosmic 'gunk' raining down on us in recent years....



Fundamentalist Religion and Extraterrestrial Intelligence – Part III
Out of Darkness, 9th August 2012
[...] I recommend reading all of these surveys I have written about and the reports generated from these surveys. In my opinion the last two surveys I reviewed are the most significant. The “Reactions to Receipt of a Message from Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Cross-Cultural Empirical Study” by D. A. Vakoch and Y. S. Lee, and the “Belief in Extraterrestrial Life: A Challenge to Christian Doctrine & Fundamentalists?” by D. P. Rosenbaum and R. A. Maier. They have the most statistical analysis of the entire group of surveys I presented.

Isn’t it interesting that one of these surveys was published by the Center for UFO Studies? It took a UFO organization to take the time, resources and effort to address this issue in a scientific manner. This is yet another indication of how far we have to go to get good statistical results from mainstream scientists when it comes to the UFO subject. The survey done by Rosenbaum and Maier was published in 1980. 32 years ago! Now we have Roper polls and other polls such as National Geographic that don’t appear to have a statistical leg to stand on?

From the Journal of Scientific Exploration (JSE) article, author Jeff Levin mentions the Brookings Report and states that perhaps that engineers and scientists have the most to lose by disclosure, since engineers and scientists are considered to be associated with the mastery of nature. Well - the religious are masters of the soul aren’t they? The idea seems to be that the concern over the fragility of the psyches of the American people due to religious beliefs may be overstated.

Comment:
This is Part III of this series about a subject that is now becoming very important as the world starts to realise that a shadow biosphere exists on this planet. Quite frankly, I am not sure of the importance of the reaction of the religious minority in the western world. Worldwide, the islamic religion makes no secret of the existence of the djinn with their clear description of orbs as entities made up of 'smokeless fire'. Yes, I know this is only a start, but at least these people will be better mentally prepared... The various indigenous groups are already well aware that we are not alone... So, I expect there will be some major trauma, especially amongst the religious diehards. Some will get hit hard by the realisation that we exist in a universe teeming with all sorts of extraterrestrial life forms, because as the ancients warned, the lifting of the veil is taking place now and we are getting to the stage where flat out denial will soon be impossible. This explains the preparation by the Catholic Church who are well informed by their huge archives of ancient text and who know they must at least make some kind of effort to retain their power.

Fundamentalist Religion and Extraterrestrial Intelligence – Part II



Water May Not Be So Important for Life After All
Gizmodo, 9th August 2012
"A team of researchers from the Institute for Structural Biology in Grenoble, France, took myoglobin proteins—which carry oxygen to muscle and give flesh its red color—and swapped out the water that usually coats their surface for a synthetic polymer. Doing so turns the proteins into a syrup-like fluid—and, it was expected, would dramatically change their function.

But to the researchers' surprise, they work just the same as ever: they remain flexible, behave just the same on the inside, and can still bind oxygen as well as in living tissue. Myglobin, at least, couldn't care less about H20."


Comment:
This is just another brick taken out of the wall that closes scientists' minds to the possibility of many different forms of life that have different rules to life on Earth.



What today's unusual cloud pattern means
Brisbane Times, 9th August 2012
An unusual cloud pattern formed over Brisbane and southeast Queensland on August 9, 2012. According to Weatherzone meteorologist Josh Fisher, this pattern represents a signal that the weather is about to turn cold, a harbinger of cooler weather. It’s a high cloud forming ahead of a cold front that is crossing through New South Wales at the moment.

These clouds form in continuous strong winds blowing at the high altitudes. The turbulence from these strong winds creates the wave-like appearance. The clouds comprise tiny ice crystals and though it is not known how long they are going to stay around the temperature is expected to drop from a maximum of 26 degrees today to 18 degrees tomorrow.

Comment:
I think the meteorologist is guessing... This looks like waves in the sky rather similar to noctilucent clouds that are caused by electrified ice particles that are nucleated by meteoric and cosmic dust. This might even be an example of a dusty plasma or more technically light scattered by dust bands in plasma. Charged dusty particles on the move are not just 'winds', and this "unusual cloud pattern" must join the growing list of previously rare atmospheric events that are becoming more and more common.



My Friend Flicker: What causes the rapid changes observed in Orion Nebula “protostars”?
Thunderbolts, 9th August 2012
Using a combination of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the ESA Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers found that so-called “young stars” are changing in brightness much faster than they thought possible. Instead of taking several years for material in the gaseous envelopes surrounding the proplyds to heat up and cool down, it is happening in weeks. [...]

One possibility, not considered by contemporary astrophysicists, is that electrical oscillations are causing the relatively rapid flicker. The changes observed by the two telescopes are not mechanically generated by gases heating up and cooling down as a recent press release describes: “…lumpy filaments of gas are funnelling from the outer disc towards central regions near the star, temporarily warming the inner disc and leading it to brighten. Another scenario is that cold material is piling up at the inner edge and casting shadows on the outer disc, causing it to darken temporarily.”

Instead, it is the capacitive, resistive, and inductive electrical environment in the Orion Nebula that is causing the material to change in brightness. Plasma’s behavior is driven by conditions in cosmic electric circuits. According to Electric Universe theory, fluctuations in those circuits can form double layers in the Nebula with large potential voltages between them. Electromagnetic forces draw matter from the surrounding space into filaments. The electrical power pushes them into “glow mode”.

Comment:
Once you study enough plasma cosmology, the fact we live in an electromagnetic universe becomes impossible to dismiss.... Therefore, it is beyond strange that so many astronomers are still in the dark coming up with ridiculous explanations to avoid the inevitable facts of how our universe operates... A good example is stars feeding off other stars to supply electrons..... that's a really bizarre explanation for where the supply of electrons comes from to power up lower mass stars [white dwarfs] causing them to supernovae. By the way, this is another major issue because it is a fact that stars can flicker over a few days and that means the process that powers stars cannot be nuclear fusion... Obviously, this latest embarrassing fact is swept under the celestial rug, but it means standard cosmological theory is becoming more and more untenable as the facts point to electromagnetic forces operating in the universe. We can only presume that astronomers don't want to become too technical and understand some plasma cosmology and the obvious electrical engineering of the cosmos...Understanding the true nature of the cosmos is now very important due to the electromagnetic implications of space weather, so I wrote another e-book, The Electrotechnics of the Heavens.



Our new island? Pumice float stuns Navy (+video, photos)
NZ Herald News, 10th August 2012
A mass of small volcanic rocks nearly the size of Belgium has been discovered floating off the coast.

The stretch of golf-ball-size pumice rocks was first spotted this week by a New Zealand air force plane about 1,000 kilometres northwest of Auckland. The rocks stretch for about 26,000 square kilometres.

A navy ship took scientists to the rocks Thursday night. Naval Lt. Tim Oscar says the rocks appeared a brilliant white under a spotlight, like a giant ice shelf. He says it's the "weirdest thing'' he's seen in 18 years at sea.

Comment:
Another example of geological changes taking place extremely quickly...



Neuroscientists find brain stem cells that may be responsible for higher functions, bigger brains
Medical Xpress, 9th August 2012
Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have identified a new stem cell population that may be responsible for giving birth to the neurons responsible for higher thinking. The finding also paves the way for scientists to produce these neurons in culture—a first step in developing better treatments for cognitive disorders, such as schizophrenia and autism, which result from disrupted connections among these brain cells.

[...]"The cerebral cortex is the seat of higher brain function, where information gets integrated and where we form memories and consciousness," said the study's senior author Ulrich Mueller, a professor and director of the Dorris Neuroscience Center at Scripps Research. "If we want to understand who we are, we need to understand this area where everything comes together and forms our impression of the world."

Comment:
Useful and interesting information.... I think there are major implications here for helping us more understand the process of human evolution (or even planetary evolution if we use the human brain as a guide). Maybe, upper-layer neurons being frequently affected in psychiatric disorders explains why some can be highly evolved (cunning) in their thinking processes, but warped at the same time...

Electrical brain stimulation curbs epileptic seizures in rats
Medical Xpress, 9th August 2012



Woman is left £27,000 in debt after her new Orange pay as you go mobile withdraws £20 from her bank account every TEN MINUTES
Daily Mail, 9th August 2012
A holidaymaker was left £27,000 in debt after mobile phone company Orange extracted £120 an hour from her account for almost a week.

Anne Roberts was horrified to discover NatWest had repeatedly allowed the funds to be taken after she purchased a £20 pay-as-you-go phone while holidaying in Wales.

A technical blip meant Orange had been withdrawing £20.49p from Ms Roberts’ account every ten minutes since she bought it. [...]

Mrs Roberts claimed other customers had suffered the same problem, with one person being overdrawn by £39,000.

Comment:
Wow....



First Time Ever in South Africa: Snow in All 9 Provinces
News 24, 8th August 2012



As Glitches Mount, Cyber Safety Net for Businesses Shrinks
CNBC News, 9th August 2012
It is shaping up to be the year of the glitch. Days after the massive software failure which nearly put Knight Capital Group out of business, exchanges in Tokyo and Spain were forced to suspend some trading due to glitches, while a software bug caused Southwest Airlines to charge online customers several times over for the same flight.

The problems are raising a red flag about system risks resulting from software upgrades, but there are few security products or insurance coverage to protect businesses from glitch-related losses.

“These incidents are certainly a wakeup call for software quality at these organizations,” says Eric Baize, senior director of the product security office at RSA, a division of EMC.

Comment:
Comprehensive cyber insurance is a damn good idea, as we seem to have lots of new infestations of software bugs..... However, for those who are more informed, we don't know just how bad and how quickly the impact of space weather will take hold.... as Intel declared in 2004, we have been "living on borrowed time..." Unfortunately, the ignorance about what is happening to our world is breathtaking...



Globe blames Sun system glitch for interconnection problems
ABS-CBN News, 9th August 2012
MANILA, Philippines - Globe Telecom, the second largest telecommunications company in the country, said its subscribers are having difficulty connecting to subscribers of rival Sun Cellular due to a glitch in the latter's system.

In a statement, the company said Globe and TM subscribers may have been encountering problems making and receiving voice calls, as well as sending and receiving text messages from Sun subscribers.

"Initial investigation shows a glitch in the interconnection facility of the Cellular Mobile Telephone System of Sun Cellular. Globe and Sun engineers working to restore the Sun-Globe interconnect to its normal level," Globe said, in a statement.
Oh yes, mobile phone networks are getting very glitchy too these days.....



Flying high: El Al to honor cheap tickets to Israel from glitch
JTA News, 9th August 2012



Extraordinary natural phenomenon which has turned a French beauty spot blood RED
Daily Mail, 9th August 2012
It might look like a scene from a horror film but this is the breathtaking natural phenomenon which has met tourists at a popular French beauty spot.

The stunning scenes in Camargue, southern France, may look very dramatic but are actually thought to be caused by the high levels of salt within the water. The bizarre sight was captured by photographer, Sam Dobson, from Moscow in Russia.

Comment:
High levels of salt, but what else is going on? The photos are great, but are now becoming familiar....



Camera set up to capture vandals records footage of 'child ghost' leaping over family car
Daily Mail, 9th August 2012
[...] "It appears to show a white glowing orb jumping over their car in their driveway. The ghostly pest then vanishes out of shot before reappearing on the opposite side of the road. Mother-of-two Lisa, who works as a doctor’s receptionist, said: 'The image of a child jumped over my fence, landed over the roof of my car, flew down the street and flew back."

Comment:
I don't think it is a child or a ghost, maybe this is the only thing that these people can come up with, but I think it is an entity... Whatever, the world is quickly finding out that the veil is lifting -- the true gnostic/esoteric meaning of 'The Apocalypse' -- the time when a huge range of entities are revealed as Earth becomes a high energy plasma environment.....



Mystery illness causes woman to grow fingernails in place of hair
WISTV News, 9th August 2012



Looking for somewhere to stash intergalactic space money? Swiss man claims to have video evidence of UFO above his town
Daily Mail, 9th August 2012
If aliens were to visit the Earth, is it possible that they might be looking for secure and confidential banking facilities?

A Swiss man claims to have captured video evidence of a UFO hovering over his town as fireworks were set off during celebrations for the the country's National Day.

The video shows a strange white and purple light shining against the inky black of the sky, which he claims must be a alien spacecraft using the fireworks as cover for an excursion into Swiss airspace.

Comment:
Sigh..... I have commented about UAPs and fireworks many times, but I will repeat, this is a member of the shadow biosphere either feeding off and/or cleaning up a human chemical mess... I can't be bothered commenting on all the UFO stories, I have made it very clear what I think. For the latest UFO news see Open Minds UFO headlines. Sorry about giving you the 'trashy' Daily Mail version of this story, I have just learnt that some in the blogosphere refers to its layout and the 'sidebar of shame'....

Weird weather rains seaweed over Gloucestershire village
Bemused residents in a quiet suburban street thought there was something fishy about the weather when it literally started raining seaweed.
The Telegraph, 8th August 2012



Unexplained lights, noises appear again in Baraboo
Reedsburg Times-Press, 8th August 2012
For the second time in four months, Baraboo residents have reported unexplained flashes of light accompanied by loud booms.

The Baraboo Police Department received reports before 3 a.m. Sunday of flashes and thunderous bangs from locations on Tenth Street, Birch Street, Park Street and numerous other areas.

Officers who heard the bangs themselves believed they came from somewhere south of the city, according to a police report. But they were unable to determine who or what caused them. [...]

"It wasn't a firework," Kaun said. "It was more of a strobe-light effect that lit up the entire night sky. And there was no residual gunpowder flare falling from the sky."

Comment:
Is this an example of violent eruptions of energy, a form of quakelights? Well, I am starting to think of these strange lightshows, as a reaction to the cosmic rain... Instead of rising steam that occurs when the ground is warm and it has rained, we are seeing an assortment of energetic reactions. NASA claims that 'ion plumes' are affecting satellites, but I have been most interested in earthquake precursor signals that can affect biological functions and therefore must be affecting the human energy field. Don't forget, we need to explain the corruption of morphogenetic fields and the classic example of lots of cats growing wings in China after a major earthquake, see archives....



White Island: Orange flashes light up sky (update)
The Daily Post, 10th August 2012
The Daily Post reporter Katee Shanks said the flashes were "spectacular''. "It's like lightning but it's orange, it's a different colour. It's lighting up the sky."

Comment:
Eye witness accounts are not to be dismissed by vague talk of volcanic dust and lightning. We are told that the whole sky is lighting up with orange flashes and I suspect these are photonic emissions, similar to those seen before that have been blamed on transformer fires (eye roll).... Whatever, I have even found a nice alternative theory that is quite old now to explain the geophysics.



First Auroras of the Season? Part 2
Spaceweather.com, 9th August 2012
AURORA BOREALIS: According to NOAA, a slow-moving coronal mass ejection (CME) delivered a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field on August 8th. Solar wind signatures barely registered the impact; nevertheless, the Arctic Circle lit up with auroras. Pilot Brian Whittaker photographed the display through the window of an aircraft flying 35,000 feet above Churchill, Canada:

"It was terrific to see a sky full of green Northern Lights and electric-blue noctilucent clouds side by side over the Hudson Bay," says Whittaker. "Eventually, as the sun rose, the auroras faded. For a while, the noctilucent clouds filled the entire sky in their place before they too faded with day break."

For the record, the airplane was 11 km high. The noctilucent clouds were 83 km high. The auroras were ~150 - 200 km high.



First Auroras of the Season?
Spaceweather.com, 8th August 2012
FIRST AURORAS OF THE SEASON: After a long summer of midnight suns and starless nights, the first auroras of the new season are showing up in Alaska. Todd Salat photographed the kick-off in Fairbanks on August 6th:

"From 1 am to 1:30 am local time I took these photos of the northern lights dancing above the Fairbanks city lights," says Salat. "Although the nights still do not get completely dark in the far northern latitudes, the deep blue twilight skies proved dark enough to make the auroras stand out. And at a balmy 55° F, it was quite a treat to be watching the lights in t-shirt weather."

Comment:
This is a surprise... According to NASA, aurora season is supposed to be in spring and autumn as auoras are twice as likely as winter and summer.... It was only three weeks ago that the UK Telegraph (17th July) reported Norfolk village given rare glimpse of Northern lights [UK]. Oh well, I was predicting 'visible' auroras all year round and it looks like I could soon be proven right.



El Al fare glitch spurs buying frenzy on NYC-Israel flights
USA Today,8th August 2012
"Israeli carrier El Al has not yet decided whether it will honor New York-Tel Aviv tickets that it mistakenly sold for just $330 to $400 round trip. Such tickets typically run anywhere from $1,000 to $1,600 for coach-class seats."
I was going to ignore this story until I read the glitch was thought of as "a bargain of biblical proportions" and "pregnant women even tried to book future flights for their unborn children."



Protecting Earth from extreme solar storms
Oxford Mail News, 7th August 2012
Prof Hapgood said: “A big magnetic storm can permeate the Earth’s crust, which can drive electric currents through aluminium or copper wires in the National grid, which could cause a national blackout. “Interactions with Earth’s atmosphere can also affect any radio signals.

“If you had a big storm, GPS might be unavailable for a couple of days. “On July 21 this year there was a very large event on the far side of the sun, if it had intercepted Earth we would have had a very large magnetic storm.”

Prof Hapgood, who studied at Oxford University , has worked at Rutherford for 30 years. He now chairs the Space Environment Impacts Experts Group (SEIEG) which advises the Government on space weather. He said: “My main interest is to study the likely extremes in these scenarios. [...]

Prof Hapgood explained there is currently one possible defence. He said: “It sounds counter-intuitive, but actually the National Grid could switch on the whole grid, to block the effect of extra currents. “At the moment we rely on one American aircraft called ACE which measures the speed of solar flares, plasma coming towards Earth, and its speed and density, but even that can only give a 20 minute warning.” Prof Hapgood warned that even though next year would bring a peak of solar activity, the Earth is always under threat.

Comment:
This is the first time I have read about this idea of turning the national power grid on full blast to block the effect of extra currents.... I am doubtful, but we have to rely on the experts who now look as if they are taking the threat of space weather as a constant risk far more seriously.

  • Groundbreaking NASA Mission Studies Space Weather
    American University Radio, 3rd August 2012
    On Aug. 23, NASA is launching the second mission in its "Living With a Star" program, which aims to improve our understanding of the sun, and how it affects us humans in space and on Earth.

    The upcoming launch will focus on space weather. David Sibeck, a mission scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., defines space weather as "the set of effects that happen in space that can affect humans and their technology in space."

    It's different from Earth weather, he says, though "we use the same kind of terminology. We have storms in space, but they're caused by disturbances coming out from the sun. Big blobs of charged plasma that can envelop spacecraft and cause short circuits and other effects in those spacecraft."

    Now, this "charged plasma" Sibeck talks about dominates interplanetary space. In fact, 99 percent of the universe is made up of this electrified gas. And immediately surrounding our planet, we have two giant rings of highly-radioactive plasma. They're called the Van Allen Radiation Belts, named for the late space scientist, James Van Allen.

    Comment:
    This article is just highlighting the most recent and important space weather studies that scientists are anticipating will provide some answers to what is going on around Earth. New studies are required because the increasing ferocity of space weather is causing concern for the long term feasibility of the world's radio and satellite communications systems that are a vital part of our modern technological world. There are more links of recent space studies linked below.

  • Cluster looks into waves in the magnetosphere's thin boundaries
    Space Daily, 7th August 2012
    "Exploiting a favourable configuration of ESA's Cluster mission spacecraft, scientists have detected and characterised lower hybrid drift waves, a special kind of plasma waves that develop in thin boundaries both in space and in the laboratory."

  • Shear Layers in Solar Wind Affect Earth's Magnetosphere
    Space Ref News, 1st August 2012


A Lot of Dust in the Air
Environment News Network, 7th August 2012
There is a lot of dust in the air. From whence does it come? NASA and university scientists have made the first measurement-based estimate of the amount and composition of tiny airborne particles that arrive in the air over North America each year. With a 3-D view of the atmosphere now possible from satellites, the scientists calculated that dust, not pollution, is the main ingredient of these imports. According to a new analysis of NASA satellite data, 64 million tons of dust, pollution and other particles that have potential climate and human health effects survive a trans-ocean journey to arrive over North America each year. [...]

Data from several research satellites flying advanced observing technology developed and launched by NASA enabled the scientists to distinguish particle types and determine their heights in the atmosphere. They combined that information with wind speed data to estimate the amount of pollution and dust arriving over North America. The scientists used data from instruments on NASA's Terra satellite and the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite, a joint effort between NASA and the French space agency, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales.

Comment:
I have collected information over the last 7 years from space scientists that predicted there will be a lot of cosmic dust in the Earth's atmosphere by 2012 due to a strange magnetic configuration on the Sun in 2001 that has allowed in huge amounts of cosmic dust into the inner parts of our solar system. I have also collected lots of examples of how this dust is creating many different types of previously rare atmospheric effects and even reports of concern about dust combusting. Hence, I have no idea why there is no mention of this cosmic dust in this article, but there is not even mention of volcanic dust or aerosols and that is even stranger. This might reflect the compartmentalisation of scientific research so that it is much harder to see the big picture. Whatever, we are told dust high up in the Earth's atmosphere is serving to cool the planet, but now, we have been told officially by NASA et al. that there is a lot of space dust high up in the atmosphere which is causing noctilucent clouds to become more prevalent. What's more, there is lots of research that explains that massive volcanic eruptions also serve to change the climate. Since there has been a lot of undersea volcanoes appearing in recent decades and many overland volcanoes erupting, this combination of factors is probably far more important in determining the climate than anything man-made, as lot of climate realists point out on a regular basis.



Tokyo bourse hit by glitch in derivatives trading
Reuters News, 7th August 2012
(Reuters) - The Tokyo Stock Exchange halted trading in derivatives including Topix futures and Japanese government bond futures for more than an hour on Tuesday morning, suffering a glitch for the second time in six months. Trading resumed at 10.55 am Tokyo time (0155 GMT). A Tokyo Stock Exchange spokeswoman said the exchange was still investigating the problem.

Trading in Nikkei futures was not affected because they are traded on the Osaka Securities Exchange. (8697.OS) The last time the Tokyo Stock Exchange was hit by a glitch was on February 2 when cash-share trading was halted in the morning session. In that case, trading in some 240 shares and instruments was affected.

Comment:
Oh, well...... I don't have enough information to be 100% sure of any explanation for why 5 stock markets (all in very different time zones and parts of the world) have had major computer related problems in the last 7/8 days. BUT, unless this is just all a coincidence (eye roll), when stockmarkets around the world fail, there is an automatic kneejerk reaction to report the news and investors and players are all anxious to find out what happened and to be reassured that it won't happen again. Yet, providing technical explanations to people without a technical background is not so easy. Since there have been so many other types of technology failures in recent weeks and months, I am wondering out loud whether we are just seeing more and more space weather related interference problems. It is a fact that Earth's shielding is deteriorating, but we dont know just how bad things are until we are officially told and often that is by an media announcement released in the dead of night and I don't always see important information straight away.... Whatever, here is a brief summary of what's happened on the borses in the last 7/8 days. First there was the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) [Bangladesh] that remained suspended Tuesday as Monday's trading could not be settled due to technical glitch in the central depository system (CDS). Knight Capital, a major Wall Street brokerage of stock trades [United States], almost went bust after a duff algorithmn entered millions of faulty trades in less than an hour on Wednesday morning. Spain's stock exchange was halted for nearly five hours earlier Monday after another duff algorithm caused trading in Madrid to stop. The Tokyo Stock Exchange halted trading in derivatives including Topix futures and Japanese government bond futures for more than an hour on Tuesday morning due to another technical glitch... At this point I would like to mention that when we had a major episode of space weather in 1989, the Toronto Stock Exchange was halted, see below:
SCIENTISTS blame an intense burst of solar activity for events which halted all trading on Toronto's stock market last month. Officials watched in disbelief as three disc drives failed in succession on what is supposed to be a 'fault-tolerant' computer system. The crash stopped trading for three hours. 'I don't know what the gods were doing to us,' said John Kane, the vice president of the exchange.
Solar storms halt stock market as computers crash
New Scientist, Magazine issue 1681, 9th September 1989
At the moment, it is very difficult to find out what is going on especially with financial institutions when 'confidence' is a mandatory requirement. Yet, as we all know after the last few months, confidence can be quickly eroded, by massive computer failures. Whatever, there seems to have been a sharp increase in major incidents and lots of nerves are now jangling.



UPDATE 1-Technical glitch stops Spanish stock trading
Reuters, 6th August 2012
* No time specified for trading to restart
* Auctions started at 0935 GMT - bourse (Adds detail)


Aug 6 (Reuters) - Trading on Spain's stock exchange was halted on Monday due to a technical problem, which technicians were investigating, a spokesman for the exchange operator BME said.

Trading was halted shortly after 0800 GMT, when the blue-chip exchange, the IBEX, was up 0.25 percent at 6,772 points.

Equity market auctions began again at 0935 GMT, but no time was specified for full trading to resume, the bourse said.

Comment:
Hmmm... could be a coincidence.... but, we await more details... So far, Spain's stock exchange has been partly down for nearly 4 hours.

Spanish stock exchange halted for technical glitch
Market Watch, 6th August 2012

Algorithm Trading Responsible For Another Glitch
Benzinga, 6th August 2012
"Spain's benchmark Ibex 35 Index was halted for nearly five hours earlier Monday after a trading glitch caused trading in Madrid to stop. The Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles SA, the company that oversees the stock exchange, could not comment on the nature of the glitch and only said that trading had been halted due to a technical glitch."

US Stocks Rise; Knight Capital Gets Lifeline
NPR News, 6th August 2012



Jamaica Update: Mysterious Island wide blackout
Caribbean Hurricane Network, 6th August 2012
"The entire Island of Jamaica is without power and I doubt its Ernesto . Moderate to heavy rains are affecting some Central and Eastern parishes but I cant see how in the West where no rain or impacts the power is out.Its not quite as big as 600 million in India but Its highly unusually for the entire Island to be without power at any given time."
Elsewhere, the excuse provided is two cars crashing and bad weather.... not really a very believable scenario...



Glitch Prompts eBay to Cancel Listings and Issue Refunds
Ecommerce Bytes, 6th August 2012
Bay cancelled what's thought to be thousands of listings over the weekend after a glitch wiped out critical data from the item descriptions. eBay sent an email to those affected promising to issue double refunds to sellers who paid insertion fees and must now edit the listings to add back in the data and then relist them.

eBay sellers were initially alarmed over the weekend when some of their listings were cancelled due to supposed "Duplicate Listing" policy violations. "It is my belief that a rogue ebay employee has hacked into my account and simply ended the listings from within," one reader wrote to EcommerceBytes on Sunday, but it turned out eBay cancelled the listings because of Friday's glitch, which was reported in the EcommerceBytes Blog.

Comment:
Another technical glitch.... but from the listing of related stories, Ebay seems to have lots of glitches on a regular basis....



London 2012 Olympics: Viewers unhappy at BBC reporters' methods during post-event interview
Daily Mail, 5th August 2012
BBC's 'touch-feely' presenters hit a nerve: Viewers unhappy at reporters' methods during post-event interview Britain's victories in the Olympics may have taken the nation’s emotions to a new level, but viewers are unhappy that the BBC’s reporters can’t seem to keep their own in check.

Many have complained about over-excited ‘touchy-feely’ displays of congratulation or consolation from the corporation’s journalists – including rubbing, stroking and patting athletes as they interview them. Most prominent has been athletics trackside reporter Phil Jones, whose tactile interviews with Jessica Ennis, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah raised eyebrows.

Comment:
Actually, I noticed this too... the most hilarious coverage is the sports veterans/pundits getting over excited about Mo Farrell's win in the 10,000 metres, hysterical.... I have noted the comments here, but I think it is a general sign that many people are losing the use of their android genes. Just watch some old TV clips (1960s and older) and note presentators speaking in a mechanical drone like robots, those voices make me shiver.... something has changed, real empathic humans are back in fashion.



Chimpanzee 'asks' zoo visitors to free him from enclosure in heartbreaking film that shows him pointing at a window bolt and making a sign language 'open' gesture
Daily Mail, 4th August 2012
Intelligent and inquisitive, chimpanzees have always been able to communicate with man. But this heartbreaking video shows just how desperate this chimp is to be understood and to be let out of his cage.

The chimp is seen in the video motioning to a watching visitor to unlock the bolt on what appears to be a glass door and lift the window, so he can be free.

Comment:
Another chimpanzee clearly demonstrating their intelligence, quite heartbreaking.



The Power of Negative Thinking
The New York Times, 4th August 2012
[...] Consider the technique of positive visualization, a staple not only of Robbins-style seminars but also of corporate team-building retreats and business best sellers. According to research by the psychologist Gabriele Oettingen and her colleagues, visualizing a successful outcome, under certain conditions, can make people less likely to achieve it. She rendered her experimental participants dehydrated, then asked some of them to picture a refreshing glass of water. The water-visualizers experienced a marked decline in energy levels, compared with those participants who engaged in negative or neutral fantasies. Imagining their goal seemed to deprive the water-visualizers of their get-up-and-go, as if they'd already achieved their objective.

Or take affirmations, those cheery slogans intended to lift the user's mood by repeating them: "I am a lovable person!" "My life is filled with joy!" Psychologists at the University of Waterloo concluded that such statements make people with low self-esteem feel worse - not least because telling yourself you're lovable is liable to provoke the grouchy internal counterargument that, really, you're not.

Comment:
The problem is that dumbies think that ignoring the facts and thinking positively is the key to success... This has created hoardes of people who refuse to engage brain who replace thinking with learning some stupid New Age homily that they repeat like robots, as they think this will make them seem wise. The concept of positive and negative thinking is being stuck in a duality 'unevolved' mindset, deciphering reality and dealing with complexity is the capability of more highly evolved minds.



Secret UFO files released
The Sydney Morning Herald, 5th August 2012
It is probably the closest Australia has come to scrambling fighter jets to intercept a UFO.

Documents that have just become available under the 30-year rule at the National Archives of Australia reveal how two RAAF Mirage jets were placed on the second highest level of alert to determine the cause of unidentified radar contacts seen on screens at Mascot.

The ''X Files'' viewed in Canberra also give details of other unexplained sightings, some of which are supported by witness statements to police.

Comment:
Another release of UFO files, but this time it is Australia, see archives for details of previous released files.



UFO 'playing with' helicopter over Ireland
Gather News, 4th August 2012
A video posted to YouTube shows a helicopter dodging an erratically flying UFO over the skies of Ireland. What is it? The video is shot from a backyard garden and the sounds of the helicopter's blades can be plainly heard, although the chopper itself is too far off to make out very well. That means the unidentified flying object nearby is also too far away to make out clearly.

But it's the way the object moves through the air which is mystifying. The helicopter is clearly moving toward it and hovers for a closer look. What happens next in the one minute video is where it gets weird. The UFO circles and spins faster than any known aircraft and seems to be playing a game of tag with the chopper.[...]

The man who took this video is obviously stunned by what he is witnessing, and lets a few Irish swear words fly. Can he be blamed?

Comment:
Hmmm.... how many times in the last 4 years have I repeated that most of the orbs display critter behaviour and are often caught playing tag with planes.... You don't have to be too clever to work out that we are dealing with another lifeform, especially when basic evidence has been provided by independent researchers and the military in the last 40 - 60 years, at least. Never mind the recent top quality research into Unidentified Aerial Phenomemon (UAPs). Why do you think military personnel are now confessing that UFOs/UAPs are real, but they are not extraterrestrials? Even Vatican representatives are explaining that 'shadow life' exists.... Why can't people engage brain and think? The damn thickness of most ufologists is embarrassing. For those new to the concept that there are some who are fully aware that we are not alone see the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Index and especially, NARCAP's Spherical UAP and Aviation Safety: A Critical Review - April 2010 .



I Was One of America's Top Psychics -- And Like All of Them, a Complete Fraud
An excerpt from Mark Edward's new book, "Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium."
Alternet News, 3rd August 2012
[...] Twenty-five years of working the psychic streets has taught me many truths, for better or worse. Sure, I have a pile of testimonial letters. Yes, I can see the future, given the right perspective and information, and of course I can read the paw of your pet poodle. I may indeed have a great gift, but it's the gift of gab mixed with a healthy dose of imagination and nerve that has allowed me to be a psychic professionally and to now write about it. [...]

"I teach a special seminar on corporate intuition, which is very popular." True again. I had performed a lecture combined with an ESP demonstration at several business meetings for Toyota, IBM, and Southern California Edison over the years. It was never intended for shut-eyes or as a religious experience, but I could ante up the bullshit factor for the New Age crowd with only a few minor adjustments. "I also have a lecture on how to develop clairvoyance," I added. This was basically the same lecture as my intuition seminar, just less corporate and more New Agey. Back then you couldn't go into Toyota and tell them you would teach their employees how to become clairvoyant, though nowadays it just might fly. [Wow....]

Comment:
The 'purple' end of the cultic milieu... These days my synaesthesia has become acute and I trust my abilities to smell the horrible energy fields of the fakes and then run like hell away... Sometimes, there is no choice, as some come with energy fields that make me feel physically sick.... What, I have found interesting is how many of these types are oblivious to the fact that more evolved humans actually exist on the planet... However, I will admit some I have come across folk who are deluded and their modus operandi is truth mixed with fantasy/fantastic lies. This means that they are difficult to describe as complete fakes and take a little longer to suss out....



+3 Open Wounds
Salty Droid, 2nd August 2012
Plus three years ago :: I didn’t find out about the death of Colleen Conaway until it was too late to stop the deaths of James Shore … Liz Neuman … and Kirby Brown. It hurts to think about how different things might have been if I’d have noticed sooner … if I’d have seen Jason Moffatt’s friend Greg Hartle’s tweet about the end of Colleen … or if someone would have whispered to me about Death Ray’s silencing of Andy Grant’s attempt to talk about his trauma at watching Colleen die while himself struggling with the demon of suicide.

Me now is different than me then :: so much stronger :: better connected :: better informed … me hopes I’d hear about this now … right? Before it was too late … right?

Comment:
It's the Salty Droid (aka Jason Jones) so a profanity warning is in place.... This blog entry is about keeping the memory and circumstances and deaths of Colleen Conaway, James Shore, Liz Neuman and Kirby Brown alive. Spiritual seekers who were conned out of their lives... I listened to the conversation with Colleen’s sister Lynn Graham about the passing of Colleen (MP3) and I was struck by the comment concerning good people following the wrong people. Quite frankly, Lynn Graham has hit the nail on the head.... I have come across some extremely nasty characters claiming to be spiritual, but I grew up in an environment where it was well known that there were wolves in sheep's clothing and good examples to scoff at. Nevertheless, that did not stop my own experience when I was a student at university, where I was severely traumatised. It took me over 25 years to find out how I was compromised and I now know that certain methods of breaking people down are commonplace in the cultic milieu, (I was in an evangelical church and cult tactics were used on me by the church pastor...). Despite all my research, I still worry about whether those using cult tactics are just plain evil or not. I suppose the truth is that when there is a need for control, what often appears is the velvet covered iron fist and despite appearances, ruthless predator types know - at some level - what they are doing.... So, Salty may have a foul mouth, but his heart is good. He is special because there are not so many fighters out there... I don't know where Salty is on the evolutionary scale but he is operating with a crime fighter archetype, it is most interesting to watch and anyone brave enough to deal with the nastiest 'reds' out there [Spiral Dynamics], especially the worse examples in the metaphysical community, is of great interest to me.

Who Killed Colleen Conaway?
16th October 2009



Solar superstorm could kill millions, cost trillions
Reuters, 3rd August 2012
(Reuters) - Weather has been lousy this year, with droughts, heat and killer storms. But a solar superstorm could be far worse.

A monster blast of geomagnetic particles from the sun could destroy 300 or more of the 2,100 high-voltage transformers that are the backbone of the U.S. electric grid, according to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Even a few hundred destroyed transformers could disable the entire interconnected system.

Comment:
It really does look like the message about the seriousness of space weather and the vulnerability of the national power grid is getting through..... But, as I have already explained many times before, the issue is not another mega geomagnetic storm like the Carrington Event that space scientists believe occurs once every 500 years. Simply, we cannot use the past to predict the future because it is a fact that Earth's magnetic defenses are weakening (even disappearing at times) and the local cosmic environment is much more permeable to flows of cosmic energy as various sources have explained in recent years. Planet Earth is being electrically "zapped" by massive blasts of charged particles during solar storms and if there is a shock that is too big, the consequences will be severe as this article nicely explains. I have not heard of a transformer trio and this looks like a solution but centralised grids need to be irradicated because they will not work long term due to cosmic climate change. Earth acts like a giant capacitor in space and the build up of energies on Earth is set to continue. If you don't know, planet Earth is back on it's way to 'Paradise' which can be defined as Earth hosting a high energy plasma environment that we know also existed in ancient times, as it is the only way to interpret an extensive body of ancient knowledge. Thus as Earth charges up like a battery, much of today's technology will not be compatible as we are already finding out....



Southwest Airlines promo glitch charges customers for flights aplenty
CNN Blog News, 3rd August 2012
When Southwest Airlines offered a limited-time promotion on Friday to celebrate reaching three million fans on Facebook, it seems they accidentally racked up duplicate charges on the credit cards of their loyal customers. [...]

Because of being charged multiple times, sometimes upwards of 30 separate occasions, customers complained that the strain on their credit cards for the unexpected charges had a domino effect on their finances.

"I was sympathic [sic] to the situation before I actually spoke with a rep from Southwest who said, there is nothing she can do...southwest will refund the charges when they get to it and it will take 8 -10 business days before I get my money back and now I have to call customer relations to get the overlimit fees back, and I was charged interest on the $1400 on the duplicate charges and I have to pay for the long distance fees to call customer relations as they do not have a 1-800 number...SERIOUSLY?!?!? Are you freaking kidding me?" Suzanne Worrell wrote in a blazing pos

Comment:
Really? The same VISA card charge was duplicated up to 30 times on a customer's credit card...... read the stories, this is unbelievable.... Oh well, I am wondering if we have no entered a new phase in the acceleration of space weather because I refuse to believe that all these financial computer "errors" are all coincidences..... Whatever, if this is going to keep up, soon there will be so many complaints that even the most obtuse will realise that something strange is going on.... I would be scrutinising the NICT magnetosphere simulation for any clues as to what is happening to Earth's shielding, but it is no longer available.....

  • Should every computer chip have a cosmic ray detector?
    New Scientist, 7th March 2008
    "But Intel thinks we may still be living on borrowed time:
    "Cosmic ray induced computer crashes have occurred and are expected to increase with frequency as devices (for example, transistors) decrease in size in chips. This problem is projected to become a major limiter of computer reliability in the next decade. "
    Hmmm.... So in 2004, when the patent for building cosmic ray detectors into every chip was filed, Intel must have known for quite some time that cosmic rays were a problem and the situation was expected to get far worse. Well, we do know that NASA was monitoring the flagging solar wind in the mid 1990s (and maybe long before that) and so 'those in the know' were informed early as to which way the wind was blowing... Well, even though the general public have been informed, the lack of education means the news means nothing to the majority despite the seriousness of the implications.

  • Intel plans to tackle cosmic ray threat
    BBC News, 8th April 2008
    Computer processor manufacturer Intel have revealed details of a patent for protecting future generations of computers from the growing threat of cosmic rays. The company has designed an on-chip cosmic ray detector to try to cope with the particles, which originate in space before sporadically entering the Earth's atmosphere and going through everything they encounter.

    Because the operation of computers is through charged particles, the unpredictable hits from the rays are problematic, potentially causing the system to crash. The risk from cosmic rays may not be thought of as a big problem on a single computer with a single chip, as there is the potential for error only perhaps every several years. [...]

    But Mr Hannah explained that on a supercomputer with 10,000 chips, there was the potential for 10 or 20 faults a week. And the risk of cosmic ray interference will only increase as chips get smaller. This is because circuits will require less charge per switch to operate. [...]

    And this is potentially a problem not just for PCs and supercomputers, but anything with computer-operated parts - for example cars. "You could be going down the autobahn at 200 miles an hour and suddenly discover your anti-lock braking system doesn't work because it had a cosmic ray event," Mr Hannah said.

    "It's strange, but this is the reality we're moving into as we get smaller and smaller circuits."

    Comment:
    If you look around there is a lot of useful information on the internet, discussing which computer hardware suppliers took cosmic ray induced errors seriously. As an aside, some Toyota car owners found out the hard way that car electronics are vulnerable to cosmic rays. But, even after hundreds of accidents and some deaths, a Toyota representative claimed that drivers did not know the difference between the brake and the accelerator, see archives for more info.... I wrote about this scenario in my book Tuning the Diamonds as car electronics manufacturers, were complaining that users want reliability to the standard of a military tank but don't want to pay for the quality components needed.... Well, our cheap electronics are being fried by cosmic rays but it seems that there has been expectation that things were going to get far worse and it is now happening. Meanwhile, there is still little interest in how bioelectromagnetic humans are supposed to cope in this cosmic deluge and after my experiences in the metaphysical community, you will need to be switched on to be able to come through the trauma of dealing with the unsavoury characters you will have to deal with to find out some truth.

  • United States Patent: Cosmic ray detectors for integrated circuit chips


RBS IT glitch will cost bank £125m
computing.co.uk, 3rd August 2012
"The IT glitch that affected NatWest, Ulster Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will cost the RBS Group £125m, the firm has revealed. In its half-year report, RBS said that it had to provision £125m for "costs arising from the technology incident in June 2012". The incident left millions of customers unable to access their accounts, while RBS struggled to fix the issue."



Wall Street sees Knight as software risk wake-up call
Chicago Tribune, 3rd August 2012
[...] Dealers don't always do a great job of testing, said Colin Clark, a developer with Cloud Event Processing, a firm that works with big Wall Street banks and exchanges on software and technology. "They're not investing enough in testing now," Clark said, noting the pressure banks face to cut costs.

U.S. stock trading volume is 40 percent below its peak volume in 2009, according to Tabb Group, falling from an average of 12 billion trades a day to 6 million to 7 million currently. That decline has weighed on profits at firms, and strained the willingness of many to invest in unglamorous areas like testing systems, said Larry Tabb, founder of Tabb Group, a consulting firm that focuses on capital markets.

"There are fewer people minding the store, and the people in place are stretched too thin," Tabb said. But others on Wall Street dismissed the notion that dealers are not investing enough in their systems, noting that dealers spend millions on technology in part to be more efficient and reduce staffing levels.

Comment:
I can hardly believe that people are talking about testing software systems as being "unglamorous"....... Surely, going bust is even more unglamorous..... Presumably, being interested in reality is too unglamorous for some too....



Knight Capital 'has 48 hours' to save itself after IT glitch causes $440m loss
Telegraph News, 3rd August 2012
Since March, a series of embarrassing technology issues, including the botched Facebook trading debut after its IPO and the failed public offering of BATS Global Markets have rocked markets and shaken the confidence of investors.

"You've got 13 exchanges, 50 dark pools, brokers that internalize client orders at their own desks and thousands of algorithms pumping orders in milliseconds," said Larry Tabb, founder of Tabb Group, a financial consulting firm. "The structure just may be too complicated to work."

Comment:
Please note the statement, "thousands of algorithms pumping orders in milliseconds". In this latest Information Technology (IT) fiasco, there is no evidence that there was a timestamping problem, but I want to inform. (Please note that on financial forums in the blogosphere, like Zero Hedge, there is some real cynicism about a financial broker losing lots of other people's money and these commentators have other reasons to explain Knight Capital's imminent demise...). Regardless, satellite navigation services are used for timestamping financial transactions but this is sometimes failing due to space weather roiling the ionosphere, screwing-up the total electron count and thus generating incorrect values. The US and UK military have been publicly warning for the last few years (plus other informed sources) that GPS and satellite navigation services are no longer reliable and this has got to the stage where military exercises have started without using satellite navigation services (think about the consequences of an EMP strike/massive geomagnetic blast, that cripples our satellite communications systems, thus rendering sophisticated computer controlled technologies useless). Due to all the high profile computer failures, I suspect that greedy bosses are busy firing the real brains and replacing them with 'numpties' that don't fully understand how major computer networked systems work. The reason for this belief is the sheer number of banks and stock market companies now struggling with so-called 'failed' software updates/server issues. Back in the old days (maybe 15 years ago before outsourcing to India became popular), IT staff were competent enough to maintain computer systems in good working order, so what is happening now is beyond incredible (I can hardly believe it). There are too many factors converging at once and we are heading towards disaster due to penny pinching CEOs that don't understand that our world is changing and thus leaving their companies wide open to major computer screw-ups. But more importantly, the general public are not being educated about what is happening to our world, so all people see is major service providers failing on a regular basis. From my perspective, space weather is being treated like a joke, but on a regular basis; mobile phones don't work, technologies that rely on mobile phone technology and satellite navigation systems regularly fail, bank ATMs don't always work, a few spectacular bank computer foul-ups means that customers are being impacted and in parts of the world, there seems to be more electrical transformers blowing up thus causing power outages but assessment is difficult because there are a lot of delapidated and outdated power grids failing for many different reasons. This list can be extended.... Thus, due to so many different service providers failing to provide in the usual manner, I am hoping that a few more intelligent people might start to engage brain and think about why this is all happening at the same time that they look up into the sky and see new incredible atmospheric phenomena, (electrified noctilucent clouds should at least provide some kind of hint.....). Personally, when various space agencies explain in plain language that the planet is being bombarded with cosmic radiation, I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to conclude that there will be major consequeces, but it seems that too many people are dizzy from being on the merry-go-round and cannot think deeply enough to realise that our world is facing a major new challenge.

  • Solar storms could spark $2 trillion ‘global Katrina’
    The Star, 22nd February 2011
    [...] “Power grids, air traffic control systems and intelligent transport systems need to be looked at,” Stephan Lechner, director of the European Commission Institute for Protection and Security of the Citizen, told a weekend meeting.

    “And would our financial trading places have to shut down if the accuracy of the time stamp for an electronic order was not given any more?” [...] “GPS is a critical part of almost everything we do,” Thomas Bogdan, director of the Space Weather Prediction Centre in Colorado, told the session.

    “Every time you go to a gas station and purchase a gallon of gas with your credit card, that's a satellite transaction taking place.”

    “How long can our telecommunications networks live without a time stamp” provided by GPS, Lechner asked.

    “The potential vulnerability of our systems has increased,” Sir John Beddington, chief scientific adviser to the British government, told the weekend meeting.

    Comment:
    Note the concern about timestamping....


Knight Capital Gets a Lifeline
Wall Street Journal, 3rd August 2012

"Knight has blamed software installed on its system Tuesday for errors entering millions of trades in less than an hour as the market opened the next day. The errant trades were routed to the New York Stock Exchange, which on Wednesday started operating a new trading platform designed to attract trades from individual investors."



Loss Swamps Trading Firm
Knight Capital Searches for Partner as Tab for Computer Glitch Hits $440 Million
Wall Street Journal, 2nd August 2012
Knight officials blamed software installed earlier this week for causing the brokerage firm to enter millions of faulty trades in less than an hour on Wednesday morning. The orders roiled trading in almost 150 stocks and left Knight holding losing positions in many shares at the end of Wednesday's trading session. As the company's stock slid 63% on Thursday, officials sought out a potential cash injection or buyer, according to people with knowledge of the ...



'Someone has a major, major problem on their hands': Panic on Wall Street as computer glitch sparks 'out of control' surge in trading
Daily Mail, 2nd August 2012
A technical glitch at a major Wall Street brokerage of stock trades caused wild swings in a number of stocks shortly after markets opened.

The malfunction occurred at Knight Capital, one of the largest processors of stock trades.

The company said in a statement that a 'technology issue' had occurred in its market-making unit related to the routing of shares of about 150 stocks to the New York Stock Exchange. [...]

Joe Saluzzi, co-head of trading at Themis Trading told FoxBusiness.com: 'The [algorithms] went nuts this morning. Someone has a major, major problem on their hands.'

CNBC reported that such algorithms are developed by major brokerages that buy and sell stock in accordance with formulas and market situations.

Comment:
Here, we are being told that a major crisis (bad enough to cause the likely demise of a major Wall Street player), was caused by some duff programming of a trading algorithm, but this implies there was insufficient testing of computer software.... Well, I just don't believe this was just another software "upgrade" and "bug" that went wrong, for all the reasons that I keep repeating..... Major computer failures that are so bad that we are hearing about them, are becoming headline news on a regular basis.... Whatever, there are now so many reports of major computer failures or "glitches" that a few media pundits have noticed and are starting to query what is really going on.......



Stock exchange glitch cost U.S. trading firm $440m in just a few minutes and could lead to its bankruptcy
Daily Mail, 3rd August 2012
'We're losing the human control in our business,' said Joe Anastasio, a founding partner of financial services consulting firm Capco who specializes in stock trading issues. 'We've been so focused on automated throughput of orders and high-volume execution with no human intervention that we have lost the human logic factor when things go wrong.' One of the problems, he said, is that millions of orders stack up overnight for automatic execution at the opening of trading, with a single error potentially creating a deluge of bad trades.

Comment:
The reliance on computer technology is the issue as there are no guarantees and complete failures are possible...



Noctilucent Clouds Are caused by Space Dust
Spaceweather.com, 3rd August 2012

ELECTRIC-BLUE CLOUDS: A bank of electric-blue noctiluent clouds swept across Iceland on August 2nd, producing a vivid display of luminous ripples and tendrils over Reykjavik:

"These are the highest clouds in Earth's atmosphere, located at altitudes of around 76 to 85 kilometres," says photographer Iurie Belegurschi. "It was a beautiful display."

New data from NASA's AIM spacecraft prove that noctilucent clouds (NLCs) are seeded by space dust. The tiny ice crystals that NLCs are made of nucleate around "meteor smoke" wafting through the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere. Not only do these clouds look alien, they really are alien. A new video from NASA explains the research.

Comment:
This is major confirmation that recent changes in atmospheric conditions are being caused by space weather in the form of meteoric and cosmic dust, but of course we were warned by the European Space Agency (ESA)that Earth would be flooded by 2012 and it looks like they got this right.... watch the NASA ScienceCast video link.

ESA sees stardust storms heading for Solar System
ESA Science News, 18 August 2003

Until ten years ago, most astronomers did not believe stardust could enter our Solar System. Then ESA's Ulysses spaceprobe discovered minute stardust particles leaking through the Sun's magnetic shield, into the realm of Earth and the other planets. Now, the same spaceprobe has shown that a flood of dusty particles is heading our way. Since its launch in 1990, Ulysses has constantly monitored how much stardust enters the Solar System from the interstellar space around it. Using an on-board instrument called DUST, scientists have discovered that stardust can actually approach the Earth and other planets, but its flow is governed by the Sun's magnetic field, which behaves as a powerful gate-keeper bouncing most of it back. However, during solar maximum - a phase of intense activity inside the Sun that marks the end of each 11-year solar cycle - the magnetic field becomes disordered as its polarity reverses. As a result, the Sun's shielding power weakens and more stardust can sneak in.

What is surprising in this new Ulysses discovery is that the amount of stardust has continued to increase even after the solar activity calmed down and the magnetic field resumed its ordered shape in 2001.

Scientists believe that this is due to the way in which the polarity changed during solar maximum. Instead of reversing completely, flipping north to south, the Sun's magnetic poles have only rotated at halfway and are now more or less lying sideways along the Sun's equator. This weaker configuration of the magnetic shield is letting in two to three times more stardust than at the end of the 1990s. Moreover, this influx could increase by as much as ten times until the end of the current solar cycle in 2012.




ScienceCasts: Meteor Smoke Makes Strange Clouds
Redorbit News, 2nd August 2012
"A key ingredient of Earth’s strangest clouds does not come from Earth. New data from NASA’s AIM spacecraft proves that “meteor smoke” is essential to the formation of noctilucent clouds."

This explains that noctiliucent clouds are a result of space weather in the form of meteor dust with methane gas....



Mysterious burning ash confounds Outjo fire brigade
All Africa, 2nd August July 2012



UFO filmed during Swiss fireworks display
Gather News, 2nd August 2012
Please note the bias thinking of ufologists thinking that ETs are interested in fireworks.... This is a ludicrous idea but a member of the shadow biosphere feeding off the chemicals in the air and/or cleaning up our mess makes a lot more sense.



Did ‘Solar Storms’ Cause India’s Massive Blackout?
New York Times India Blog, 1st August 2012

“A big geomagnetic storm can essentially put extra electric currents into the grid,” Mr. Hapgood added. “If it gets bad enough, you can have a complete failure of the power grid.”

Comment:
It looks like a few in the mainstream media are getting the message about the vulnerability of national power grids..... BUT the response that solar storms only induce GICS in northern latititudes IS WRONG! See archives for links to research papers concerning geomagnetically induced currents.



Explosions cut power in Auckland [NZ]
NZ Herald, 1st August 2012
"A faulting 11,000 volt cable has caused multiple explosions and a fireball at a rail overbridge on Weymouth Rd in Manurewa this morning. There are now significant traffic delays and disruptions in the Weymouth area. Weymouth Rd has been closed after a motor accident following the explosions."



Technical glitch in CDS halts trading in bourses
Financial Express, 1st August 2012
"Share trading at the both bourses -- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) -- remained suspended Tuesday as Monday's trading could not be settled due to technical glitch in the central depository system (CDS).

Trade settlement through central depository system in the bourses was disrupted Monday due to a technical glitch in the software of the Central Depository Bangladesh Ltd (CDBL), the service provider of the electronic settlement system."
There have been other more major stock markets halted due to strange technical glitches in the last 18 months or so, but as usual, explanations have not been forth coming. I believe this is just another random strike but until there is a proper technical explanation, this is difficult for outsiders to assess. Also: Server glitch halts stock trading



Investors demand probe into CDBL's 'technical glitches'
The Financial Expres, 1st August 2012
Experts and investors stressed on proper and impartial investigation into the 'technical glitches' that occurred in the server of the CDBL (Central Depository Bangladesh Ltd) Monday, to revive all stakeholders' confidence on the electronic share transaction system.

Their comments came following the failure of the CDBL's server that compelled both the bourses to suspend the day's trading for the first time due to technical reasons Tuesday.

Earlier, technical glitches occurred several times in the server, and the authority restored the system before the trading started on the following day. But for the first time, the trading of a whole session was suspended due to technical reasons.



Power Is Restored Across India After Crippling Blackout
New York Times, 1st August 2012
But Ajit Sharan, the power secretary for Haryana, said that the central government is supposed to warn states if they are drawing excessive power from the system, and that did not happen on Tuesday or Monday, when another blackout affected a quarter of the nation’s population.

“This hype that states are overdrawing is the reason for the collapse is not right,” said Mr. Sharan. It is too early to say what exactly happened, he said. [...]

Power experts in the United States speculated that inattention by those manning crucial circuit breakers on India’s electrical grid may have led to the blackout.

Comment:
According to the New York Times, this is the biggest ever power grid failure in human history... The blame game has started.... Why are people "watching" circuit breakers? Surely this could be automated?



Sinkhole shocks Cumberland Dr.
Homeowners search for help, caves found
The Tennessean, 31st July 2012
On the afternoon of July 19, Fairview resident Trish Parker wanted to get her yard cut before the predicted rain later that evening generated another grass growth spurt. Imagine the shock when Trish and her husband Dean walked outside the next morning to discover what was generated in their side yard was a super-sized sinkhole.

Brison observed the sink hole was approximately 50 feet deep with underground cave-like rooms and what appeared to be a tunnel. He went into the sinkhole armed with a lot of courage and his iPhone, which enabled him to capture photographs and video of the hole.

Comment:
Hmmm.... another deep laser cut and perfectly round hole... We should stop calling them sinkholes because they are being created by natural atmospheric/cosmic lasers. In this case there is mention of finding caves (how strange), but no evidence of water (not even talk of any mud at the bottom...) which is essential to provide the evidence that this is a sinkhole created by the action of water. I even wonder how cavers could go down into the hole so soon after it's formation because if it was a real sinkhole it would be inherently unstable. I think the video if available needs to be watched, before a final opinion can be formed.



Rare mountain tornado photographed at 12,000 feet (VIDEO)
Yahoo News, 31st July 2012
"A tornado was caught on film at the crest of Colorado's Mount Evans on Saturday. The twister was discovered at 11,900 feet, making it the second highest ever recorded by the National Weather Service. "It's not unprecedented to have tornadoes in the mountains. But they are rare," National Weather Service meteorologist David Barjenbruch told the Denver Post. An up close photograph of the tornado was captured by Josh Deere, who posted the picture to his Facebook page, writing, "Only a guy from Oklahoma could drive up to 12,000 feet and find this."



Angry punter demands winnings for Olympics Opening Ceremony UFO bet
Wales Online, 31st July 2012
Kevin Coakley is still waiting for his £1,000 winnings after placing the £1 wager on Friday and claims there is video evidence of a UFO above the Olympic Stadium taken from news reports of London 2012’s big opening night.

The former chauffeur, who made the bet at his local branch of William Hill, is in despair as bookmakers have told him they are waiting for official confirmation from Prime Minister David Cameron of any Olympic extraterrestrial activity.

Comment:
LOL! I can't keep up with the reports, for the latest UFO news see Open Minds UFO headlines



India hit by second grid collapse in two days: 620 million without power in larger outage
CNN News, 31st July 2012
India suffered its second huge, crippling power failure in two days Tuesday, depriving as much as half of the vast and populous country, or up to 600 million people, of electricity and disrupting transport networks. The first power grid collapse, on Monday, was the country's worst blackout in a decade. It affected seven states in northern India that are home to more than 350 million people.

But Tuesday's failure was even larger, hitting eastern and northeastern areas as well. Both blackouts cut power in the Indian capital, New Delhi. The power companies that operate the affected electricity grids reported Tuesday's collapse on their websites. With about 1.2 billion people, India has the second-highest population of any country, behind China. [...]

Monday's grid failure struck in the early morning. Residents spent the rest of the night drenched in sweat amid humid weather, and many backup power systems had run out by daybreak. Power was partially restored after about six hours, authorities said.

Comment:
Of course the backup generators are not meant to be run for more than 4 - 8 hours and so people relying on them were left bereft... Think of all the recent investment in a country that can't even manage to keep major power grids operational when it's too hot..... but, India is not alone in that respect.... see previous comments and recent articles expressing concern about space weather, and national power grids in general.

  • Notable power outages around the world
    AP, 31st July 2012

  • Pakistan blackout protests turn violent
    Press TV News, 31st July 2012
    "Prolonged and widespread power outage in most of Pakistan’s cities during scorching summer heat has triggered violent protests in most areas of the country."

  • Power outages in Saudi Arabia ‘hard to avoid’: head of electricity agency
    Al Arabiya News, 31st July 2012
    "The authority is preparing an extensive study to find out causes of power outages in different parts of the Kingdom. “Causes of interruption are diverse and vary from one region to another,” he added."

  • Powercut cripples Grand Cayman
    RJR News, 25th July 2012
    "A power outage in Grand Cayman, which started at 6:30 this morning and lasted until late afternoon, crippled the entire island Wednesday. [...] Caribbean Utilities Company, the only electricity provider on the island, said the outage was caused by a fault in one of its substations which affected the entire system."

  • Rolling blackouts policy sparks anger across Egypt
    Egypt Independent, 22nd July 2012
    "Power cuts continued across Egypt despite promises by officials from the electricity and energy ministries that the crisis will gradually ease."


Predict earthquakes? “Encouraging results
Ice Age Now, 31st July 2012



The Startling Accuracy of Referring to Politicians as 'Psychopaths'
The Atlantic, 31st July 2012
These days, most people expect a certain personality type to want to be politicans and expect most politicians to be deviants... Due to the increasing number of articles on psychopathy, I am wondering where all this is leading.... I am even wondering when some reality will hit home in the metaphysical community, as I am sick of the obvious low-life predators polluting the Cultic Milieu.... deliver us from evil...



DoD official: Vulnerability of U.S. electrical grid is a dire concern
CNN Blogs, 27th July 2012
Speaking candidly at the Aspen Security Forum, one defense department official expressed great concern about the possibility of a terrorist attack on the U.S. electric grid that would cause a “long term, large scale outage.”

Paul Stockton, assistant secretary for Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs at the Department of Defense, said such an attack would affect critical defense infrastructure at home and abroad – a thought that Stockton said was keeping him up at night.

Also from Aspen: A failing grade for US readiness to deal with cyber attacks

“The DOD depends on infrastructure in order to be able to operate abroad. And to make those operations function, we depend on the electric grid,” Stockton said.

Comment:
Of course it is of concern, the United States is a country that wants to spend money on wars but can't even keep up with basic requirements at home. I think the common expression is: all fur coat and no knickers.... See copious previous comments....



Mysterious Lotuses Appear in Chinese River - NTDTV
YouTube, 26th July 2012
In traditional Chinese culture, lotus flowers are symbols for purity. They grow out of muddy waters yet maintain their beauty. But very rarely do we see this kind of lotus flower.

In Sichuan province, these lotus flower patterns began appearing in a river on July 13th. They seem to grow out of nowhere, but every few minutes, they form these distinct lotus flower shapes -- complete with white petals. The remarkable phenomena happened again six days later.

Interestingly enough, this river is called Lotus River, and the town -- you guessed it, Lotus County. Apparently the river was known for producing these lotus flowers in ancient times.

The incredible "lotus flowers" have baffled locals. Some say they're simply oil patches in the water, others say it's nothing short of a miracle.

Comment:
The river was known for producing these lotus flowers in ancient times.... how magical! Here is another longer YouTube video [7:14], where people are pretty excited, here. I found the following explanation regarding the lotus flower as a comment on YouTube:
456inthemix

In Buddhism the lotus flower symbolizes the purity of spirit. Especially of the open lotus is the symbol? of the purity of origin. From the mud of the lake rises the lotus flower on its pristine water level and describes the harmonious development of the mind.

The white lotus is Pundarika and is associated to spiritual perfection and clarity of mind (mental purity). Both the White Tara and Manjushri, of the Bodhisattva are displayed with of the Utpala.
To understand these lotus patterns appearing on the Lotus river that do look like very strange 'oil slicks' (we have to explain how a rainbow sheen appears in the centre of the lotus flower pattern), thus we need to understand some chemistry and dispersion patterns. My only knowledge on this matter is related to the existence of natural patterns in nature that can be reproduced by simple computer code i.e. Turing patterns that are related to phosphenes, (light codes). But then there are other scientific explanations that require us to look at like the incredible 'memory of water' research that has caused such consternation amongst scientists. There is even a Nobel prize winner,(Luc Montagnier, who shared the Nobel prize for medicine in 2008 for his part in establishing that HIV causes AIDS), who is loudly proclaiming that DNA can send 'spooky' electromagnetic imprints of itself into distant cells and fluids. Maybe, there is some kind of memory in the water and in the mud (or even a strange oil coming up from the bottom of the the river), but the water/mud/oil has to be embuded with a certain type of 'divine' energy first before the dispersion patterns can appear and the energy is being delivered right now to the planet by space weather. I am even wondering whether this is an appearance of a morphogenetic template for the lotus flower.... (For those interested in how energy arrives into our dimension or reality, then I personally like the theory of Multi-Dimensional Reality.) Because the lotus flowers are not all perfect, it does seem that there are opposing forces appearing in the river, one that indicates a level of beauty and perfection and the opposite, energies that represent the imperfection and pollution of the river. Nobody will argue that this is a mystery, but at this stage, I don't believe conventional science has all the answers. Anyway, as delighted as I am by finding this piece of extremely interesting news it also makes me sad.... I have tried my best to explain and document that the current cosmic onslaught is about the delivery of energy that will transform our world. After 30 years of seeking truth and trying to understand my reality, it just amazes me that ancient texts tell us that Paradise is set to return on this planet, but few seem to appreciate the magnitude of what this all means as the signs and wonders start stacking up. Space scientists are in a state of shock because of the dramatic changes that have happened to the cosmic environment of Earth and our solar system in only a few decades, a blink of the eye in cosmic terms..... I realise that the majority of people are simply not capable of understanding the changes and this is why information was retained by the astronomer-priests in ancient times for the elite only, but today, there are supposed to be more educated people around.... Whatever, very few are interested in the workings of a divine universe due to high levels of ignorance and narcissism, but at least after all my searching I can appreciate the vast scale of the transformation of world and I realise that we are headed back to Paradise, but I wonder who else is even interested.



Major blackout hits northern Indian cities- 370 million powerless
Yahoo News, 30th July 2012
Northern India's power grid crashed Monday, halting hundreds of trains, forcing hospitals and airports to use backup generators and leaving 370 million people - more than the population of the United States and Canada combined - sweltering in the summer heat.

The blackout, one of the worst to hit India in a decade, highlighted the nation's inability to feed a growing hunger for energy as it strives to become a regional economic power.

The country's northern grid crashed about 2:30 a.m. because it could no longer keep up with the huge demand for power in the hot summer, officials in the state of Uttar Pradesh said.

Comment:
370 million people affected must be some kind of record.... Backup generators are essential in this country but most are only designed for 4 - 8 hours. From online reports, it seems that it took this time and longer to restore power in some regions. India's national power grid is not very robust but due to space weather, national power grids across the globe are all vulnerable in these worsening geomagnetic conditions.

Power cut causes major disruption in northern India
BBC News, 30th July 2012



MSU attracts NASA attention with computer system for space
Space Daily, 30th July 2012
Two Montana State University graduate students who are building a radiation-proof computer system for use in space have received an extra boost from NASA. Justin Hogan and Raymond Weber recently learned that their project with faculty member Brock LaMeres was one of 14 selected by NASA for development and demonstration on commercial launch vehicles in 2013 or 2014. [...]

MSU will receive anywhere from $125,000 to $500,000 to continue designing and building an "environmentally aware" computer system that will work in space even if it's bombarded by radiation or high-energy particles. Work on the project began in 2010 with a three-year, $750,000 grant LaMeres received from NASA EPSCoR.

Radiation and high energy particles can cause even shielded computers to crash or malfunction. "It's a major problem specifically for manned missions where computers aren't allowed to fail," LaMeres said.

Comment:
This is good news because cheap radiation hardened computers will be needed for normal computing on Earth fairly soon....



New study shows half of the global warming in the USA is artificial
News, 29th July 2012

PRESS RELEASE – U.S. Temperature trends show a spurious doubling due to NOAA station siting problems and post measurement adjustments.

Chico, CA July 29th, 2012 – 12 PM PDT – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

A comparison and summary of trends is shown from the paper. Acceptably placed thermometers away from common urban influences read much cooler nationwide:


Comment:
There are 770+ comments here from people who have been watching and supporting Watts and friends for many years. Watts et al. managed to travel the US and survey and report on the terrible and probably deliberate mismanagement of NOAA surface stations that are one of the main metrics used to gauge the temperature changes in the United States. As the background story reveals, this is a ground breaking paper by climate "truthers".... All I can say is congratulations again to Anthony Watts & friends who deserves somekind of special reward. See Best of the Blog archive for 'How Not To Measure Temperature'



New paper on the quality of USHCN station siting
WUWT, 27th July 2012



Backstory on the new surfacestations paper
WUWT, 29th July 2012



England Newspaper "The Telegraph" Records UFO Over Olympic Park Fireworks On Opening Day, July 2012 VIDEO.
UFO Daily Sightings, 28th July 2012
This is a video posted by the famous UK newspaper "The Telegraph." In this video we immediately see a grey metallic disk flying in the upper left corner of the screen. It slowly moves to the right and is seen during most of the fireworks. Why has none asked questions about this craft flying over the olympics opening night? There are other videos that have recorded the same UFO. Check out these six videos, all from different eyewitnesses from different positions…each has the UFO in it. Since the opening just happened a few hours ago…surly there will be more videos out one by one over the next 48 hours.

Comment:
The first UFO of the Olympics, it's not even small either.... see previous comments about UFOs/UAPs and fireworks.... Whatever, I am sure there will be more sightings....



Sea of Azov turned bloody red
The Watchers, 29th July 2012
Scientists and citizens are baffled as the waters of the Azov Sea turned bloody red close to Berdyansk village in mid-July, according to article published online by EnglishRussia. Villagers immediately suspected the great pollution from nearby factories. And older locals warned that it might be a sign of the coming events. Scientist however point that the most probable reason for bloody red color of the sea is algal blooms that are not dangerous to humans.

The researchers explained that the bright red color of the sea is result of high temperatures, which led to the blossoming of brown algae. The south-west wind “drove” algal blooms closer to shore. Further flowering could lead to fish deaths of mass proportions. [...]

Although the director of the Institute Leonid Izergin claims that the sea is safe for swimming, villagers of Berdyansk don’t believe him. They claim that the sea has a special metallic smell that worries them.

Comment:
I just don't believe the high temperatures story and the fact that there is a 'metallic smell' is quite interesting.... Yes I know about 'Red Tide' but this really needs some proper research to find out if there are any alternative expert opinions that might be able to link this with atmospheric conditions. Regardless, my initial guess is that this is some kind of bioelectrochemical reaction similar to bioluminescence, another natural phenomenon that our biologists confess that they don't fully understand.



World's 1st Free Course on "Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life"
Daily Galaxy, 19th July 2012
Edinburgh University’s upcoming free course, “Introduction to Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life” will open up an exciting new era in the study of extraterrestrial life. According to Jeff Haywood, vice principal of the University of Edinburgh, the number of students for the online course is potentially 100,000 or more. The course reflects the ever increasing global awareness of the possibility of extraterrestrial life and its societal implications.

Comment:
I hope someone puts the lectures up on YouTube. I can read books on my own without any outside motivation and I don't need a certificate. I want to know what people are being taught and this short course might help me to understand why astrobiologists don't want to recognise that a shadow biosphere – a lifeform made up of plasma entities – exists on this planet. Whatever, it really does not take a great deal of effort to find out that some have known this for a very long time.... If you want an indication, I can recommend the so-called science fiction book Sinister Barrier (1939) with an interesting description of a lifeform that is remarkably similar to the orbs that we know exist as "a phenomenon new to science". Despite the fact that there was not a great deal of research about plasmas at that time, presumably somebody somewhere made a connection with 'radiant' energy. Thus, today, we can deduce that scientists have been researching plasmas that makes up 99.999% of the universe for the last 150 years. We can also deduce there must be a few intelligent preople who must realise that orbs and UAPs are the original form of life..... Really this is so basic you don't need a Ph.D. to come to this conclusion, especially when recent research explains how these orbs can be manufactured easily with a few sparks.... of consciousness.... The more you know about plasma, the more you really have to wonder why more scientists are not interested in the obvious...



Twitter users help jam Olympic cycling broadcast
Huffington Post, 29th July 2012
LONDON — The IOC says social media users helped cause problems for traditional broadcasters during the first big event of the London Olympics.

Because of a glitch with GPS signals on Saturday during the men's cycling road race, broadcasters were unable to provide television viewers with much information about the location and timings of riders on the 155-mile course.

International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams says the Olympic Broadcasting Services service was jammed by "hundreds of thousands" of people sending texts, pictures and updates to social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Adams says "we should have foreseen that." The problem appeared to be solved for Sunday's women's road race.

Comment:
A "glitch" with GPS signals.... I think there are two issues here, but when GPS fails, there is a breakdown due to massive volume all trying to re-calibrate locations or more correctly synchronise network operations at the same time, see previous comments related to recent mobile phone network failures.

"Mobile phone networks are often dependent on satellite navigation services for accurate timing information. This is essential to maintain synchronisation of network operation; for example, as phones move between the cells that form the heart of every provider’s network.64 Therefore, network operations are at risk from space weather impacts on satellite navigation signals..." pg 17

Space Weather, Its impact on Earth & Implications for business
Lloyd's of London, November 2010



2012 Olympics plane forced to land at Cambridge
BBC News, 29th July 2012
An aircraft being used for aerial shots of the 2012 Olympic Games had to make a forced landing at Cambridge Airport. The King Air B200, which was being used as an airborne relay station, had to land after suffering a loss of its electrical system.

Operators, ASL of Belgium, said the pilot had to navigate on Saturday night using only charts and a compass. ASL also said the plane's landing gear retracted and the aircraft "fell" on the runway but no-one was hurt.

Comment:
This is such a strange event that I think it must be noted. We have to wait for the results of the inquiry by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch but I still think we should expect more and more strange electrical faults as the impact of space weather accelerates. Planes are at risk because they are flying into invisible currents, NASA's 'ion plumes' that can now be seen appearing on weather radar systems (see archives for more information). Furthermore, geophysisists are also producing maps of Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICS) that flow to/from the Earth at major transformers in the UK and similar efforts are being undertaken in Europe. As I have already documented there are other efforts to understand the hazards of space weather being undertaken in the UK and worldwide.



US Air Force claims to be source of mysterious cloud rings seen in skies over Hawaii
The Extinction Protocol, 27th July 2012
HONOLULU - Hawaii News Now’s Facebook page was flooded Thursday afternoon with photos of mysterious looking clouds. The ‘rings’ were spotted above Oahu, Maui and Lanai. They looked like the common contrail or vapor trail that forms behind aircraft; however these ‘trails’ were circular and do not match the normal Hawaii flight patterns. Some wondered if they were part of the RIMPAC exercises or even a UFO? Here is the official statement from RIMPAC: “RIMPAC’s Air Forces had a NATO AWACS aircraft flying south of Oahu, in a circular pattern; at about 29,000 feet today during the time those contrails were visible. The AWACS was controlling RIMPAC assets exercising further away from the island.”

Comment:
Hmmm... I think this story requires further investigation....



Vaughan Bell: hypnosis is no laughing matter
Long derided as a tool of quacks and comedians, the science of suggestibility is enjoying a revival as a clinical tool
The Observer, 22nd July 2012
Hypnosis is the eccentric uncle of cognitive science. It was once part of the mainstream – studied by scientists and clinicians alike in its 1960s heyday – but it slowly fell into disrepute as it was picked up and popularised by tacky stage hypnotists and quack practitioners in the following decades.

In recent years, hypnosis has seen something of a rebirth, and neuroscience studies using the technique are now regularly published in some of the most respected scientific journals. Curiously, though, it hasn't shaken off the stigma entirely.

Comment:
Presumably, hypnosis became stigmatised in the 1960s when social scientists found out in the 1950s how hypnosis can be used to control prisoners of war and people in cults (prisoners of a spiritual war). Today, hypnosis can be used amongst an array of techniques that are usually called 'cult tactics', see my essay Spiritual Evolution in the Cultic Milieu for more details. I believe I fell into a hypnotic trance on one occasion, but I knew it was happening as my vision narrowed considerable. It was an extremely weird experience and I don't know whether it was done deliberately or by accident, but at least I knew because I was able to pop in and out of this state (maybe another part of my consciousness kicked in), as I was aware of some funny stares.... These days, I know when people are using covert tech, but this has taken me many years of study so I can make a decent analysis of people I come across. Whatever, even if you have studied what to watch out for, some people are very slick so vigilance is required.



2012 - Collective Awakening or End of the World?
SOTT.net, 25th July 2012
We're half way through 2012. Many prophecies have hinted at this time as The Shift of the Ages and The Time of Transition. If you take a look at the shelves of any spiritual/new age bookstore, you'll see dozens of books with 2012 in the title. It certainly has become a good marketing bit. There are many theories of what 2012 is supposedly all about. From the end of the world to global mass enlightenment. [...]

've said before that I didn't "like" to find out the more disturbing aspects of our reality. My rose colored glasses were shattered in the face of a cold harsh reality where most people dream of being awake but are asleep. Waking up and seeking truth entails facing the lies we tell ourselves through sincere self-work and networking. For some time I was also blinded with wishful thinking, assuming that everyone who is seeking truth would do so sincerely, without an agenda, and be willing to look into certain topics more critically, neither with "blind belief" or "cynical debunking", even if these subjects contradicted what they'd found out so far.

Comment:
This article does have some very good quotes, but it is not really about 2012. It starts off by trashing some prominent New Agers who have done a lot to promote their ideas about 2012 and then it goes on to wail about the general state of New Age Movement and the Cultic Milieu, with a big swipe at the druggies, sorry neo-shamans. I agree with most of this article, especially concerning the overview of the New Age/Cultic Milieu mindset as it complements my essay, Spiritual Evolution in the Cultic Milieu, where I use the term 'The Orwellian New Age' which just about summarises how bad things are.... Yet, the lack of critical thinking about 2012 must be causing severe embarrassment in some quarters, as the impact of Space Weather accelerates and becomes more and evident and pronounced... Seriously, the failure to engage brain and link space weather with the claims of modern Mayan Elders is simply awful... Whatever, I don't like the Trojan Horse/Sinister Barrier emphasis, but I respect the fact that there has been historical 'chatter' amongst esoterics concerning a negative influence on humanity. As far as I am concerned, the article fails to add the perspective that a shadow biosphere exists on this planet, see previous comments 'ad infinitum'. The evidence is that plasma entities exist that do not care about us humans, we are not the centre of their focus, but I am not denying that some interactions occur.... Some of these orbs (first called foo fighters) seem to like 'tagging' airplanes and these days, some like trailing after the space shuttle, but ufologists and esoterists prefer to ignore this 'playful' or 'critter' behaviour and are desperate to frighten people into their way of thinking, i.e. humans are being preyed upon etc. Quite frankly, the right perspective is to compare humans vs the animal kingdom; there are are a lot of animals that would have a human for breakfast if they could... I did not like the final long quote in this essay that I think lowers the overall quality of the content, too much metaphysical twaddle. But, this is an interesting essay and as I have stated, I agree with a lot of the sentiment. However, the author talks about 'truth' and people spreading disinformation, but I think Guenther can be accused of the exact same thing by throwing out names and ideas but not supporting his claims. There is no explanation for how people can come to their own truth and no mention that his viewpoint is an assessment based on information that he has processed that might change with time and more information. For such a long essay, Guenther does not seem to have any interest in quoting scientists and social scientists on their primary studies, who have spent many decades researching and can give some fresh new insights into the UFO phenomenon and what is going on in the Cultic Milieu. Whatever you may think, real science is a search for truth and there are some real truth seekers amongst scientists that can provide us with some tremendous insights, where the most useful insights tend to come from the heretics..... I think it is appropriate to add a reminder that lies often come packaged with a lot of truth, like a poison pill coated with sugar. Therefore if you need a reminder: stay vigilant!



Loud noise remains a mystery
The Mercury, 25th July 2012
A MYSTERIOUS rumbling noise remains a hot topic in the Huon Valley some 10 days after it was heard. Hundreds of residents are still unable to explain the source of the 20-second roar. The noise was first reported after a Huonville dam bank burst on July 15, causing the evacuation of 100 residents. [...]

But the council said the noise would not have been caused by the dam incident. [...] The Bureau of Meteorology says it was most likely a particularly extreme thunder blast. "But it sounded very different to thunder," unconvinced Cygnet resident Kamal Singh said yesterday.

Comment:
I think the only choice is a sonic boom caused by meteorite or Earth's atmosphere taking a thump as the solar wind can also produce a shock wave similar to a sonic boom under certain conditions. see link below. If you look back in the archives on the 14th/15th/16th July there was Stormy Geomagetic Conditions and Purple Auroras. As I have stated before loud bangs and ground tremors that cannot be detected by seismographs, might indicate atmospheric blasts with energy quickly being absorbed by the ground.... Hence, with all the research I have collected, I am wondering if there are too many signs and solid facts that indicate Earth's upper atmosphere has become very thin in parts... So, as people complain about loud bangs, strange noises and hums; internet connection, mobile phone and banking failures, there is no understanding that there might be a common cause.... As I have attempted to explain in this blog, the transformation of Earth is well underway and the deterioration of our modern technological world also seems to be underway too. I suppose, an important question is if there is any kind of organisation in place to change technologies and save ourself from disaster? At the moment, there does not seem to be a great deal of effort to change track, despite the high risks we are facing...

SOLAR WIND SQUEEZES SOME OF EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE INTO SPACE
NASA Science News, December 8, 1998



Weather Extremes Leave Parts of U.S. Grid Buckling
New York Times, 25th July 2012
WASHINGTON — From highways in Texas to nuclear power plants in Illinois, the concrete, steel and sophisticated engineering that undergird the nation’s infrastructure are being taxed to worrisome degrees by heat, drought and vicious storms. [...]

“We’ve got the ‘storm of the century’ every year now,” said Bill Gausman, a senior vice president and a 38-year veteran at the Potomac Electric Power Company, which took eight days to recover from the June 29 “derecho” storm that raced from the Midwest to the Eastern Seaboard and knocked out power for 4.3 million people in 10 states and the District of Columbia.

Comment:
Interesting article that suggests the US authorities are happy to let their infrastructure rapidly deteriorate after already being assessed as being well below par. This must be the plan as weather records are being continuously broken every year in the United States and the nation’s infrastructure is being wrecked. Nevertheless, I do think the US is a special case after decades of military experimentation on the atmosphere and radiation belts. After damaging or even destroying parts of their own atmosphere, so that they are now forced to desperately try and patch over the damage, hence the phenomenom of heavy chemtrails. Well, I think that global extreme weather does indicate climate change and even the onset of a mini Ice-Age. However, it is being primarily driven by solar activity, changes in the cosmic climate and the onset of severe space weather. The defenses against galactic cosmic rays are being lowered across the solar system (solar wind flagging) and Earth's magnetic field is also dropping to allow in more cosmic energy. When we compare this to previous dramatic changes in Earth's climate, only the truly uneducated and stupid would deny there is any connection and try and blame climate change solely on human activity.



Little Ice Age began with a bang
Science News, 10th March 2012



Rare tornado [waterspout] touchdown on Lake of Zürich, Switzerland
The Watchers, 23rd July 2012



Twitter briefly down across much of planet
Seattlepi.com, 26th July 2012



Millions hit by new banking glitch [UK]
Millions of bank customers at Nationwide and Natwest were left unable to access cash or found they had been overcharged after severe computer problems hit two of Britain’s biggest banks.
Telegraph, 26th July 2012
The IT glitches at Nationwide and Natwest come just weeks after a bungled software update left up to 12 million Natwest and RBS customers unable to pay bills or move money. Consumer groups called for savers to be compensated and said that the computer problems are proof of "widespread failure" in the banking system.

Over 700,000 customers at the Nationwide building society were told today that they had been charged twice for making purchases with their debit cards. The card transactions in question were made on Tuesday but were debited again on Wednesday, and meant that some people became overdrawn. The building society said that around 50,000 customers had had subsequent transactions declined as a result.

Meanwhile many of Natwest's 7.5 million customers were unable to use their debit cards or were unable to log on to their online bank accounts due to computer problems.

Comment:
Because I worked in IT for about 10 years mostly with a large financial institution, I am really struggling with the recent crop of IT failures... I don't expect 'human error' to be provided as an excuse, as there should be procedures in place to stop human error.... [Update: I have been thinking.... This is similar to the original Natwest failure when the scheduler CA-7 was corrupted and ran for three nights before anybody noticed there was a problem... here it seems that somehow the same files were re-run to cause a duplicate batch update... and it will be interesting to see if this was caused by the same scheduling package, CA-7 which is sold to many different types of large companies that need to process large amounts of batch overnight processing... If so, the fact the duplication was not backed out on the second night because it was simply not spotted is really worrying... Besides sheer incompetence.... this raises the spectre of deliberate sabotage, (poor programming might not be sufficient because someone clever needs to hide the code, as normal testing SHOULD have eliminated the CA-7 software failing bigtime.... ) By the constant cock-ups, I am being persuaded that the standards of IT staff have dropped dramatically since my time in the IT world and I am even having wild thoughts about 'Programmers Revenge'. Maybe there is someone out there with the mentality of I can make your computer systems work or I can break them just as easily.... This could even be private or corporate sabotage....] Whatever, banks and major financial institutions and 'cloud' computing services should be able to cope with computer software and hardware 'upsets', but it seems some are regularly failing... Yes, I am explaining that space weather is now an issue (see previous comments), but I am concerned that there are too many signs that our modern technological world could completely break down due too many factors converging at once. Space weather would only act as a trigger, but I am losing confidence in the ability of people to deal with unusual circumstances.



Banks hit by technology breakdowns again: Thousands of Nationwide customers fuming as building society takes debit card purchases TWICE and more problems emerge at Natwest
Daily Mail, 26th July 2012



Technical disruptions hit 95 CBA [Commonwealth Bank] banches [Au]
Sydney Morning Herald, 25th July 2012
"An internal computer upgrade at the Commonwealth Bank has caused some disruption to services at a small number of branches. A spokesman for the bank said the computer upgrade had limited services at 95 of its more than 1000 branches across Australia. Netbank, phone banking, ATMs and EFTPOS had not been impacted by the computer glitch."
A nice vague press release... but a common theme and excuse of a computer upgrade going wrong...



Yahoo’s system glitch leaves 5,698 companies fuming
Daily Bhaskar, 27th July 2012
Osaka: The last week system failure that knocked out a rental server service operated by a Yahoo Japan Corp. subsidiary has left 5,698 companies fuming. The technical glitch led to the disappearance of the data belonging to the companies including information used for their websites.

"Regrettably, we have determined that we cannot retrieve the data," Firstserver Inc. said on its website. The Osaka-based company also said it is unable to rebuild the system, while it plans to compensate for the damages.

The system failure occurred around 5 PM Wednesday when the company tried to upgrade the server system's security, it said. Firstserver has attributed the glitch to problems with its computer programming and operational procedures. The company has also lost the backup data.

Comment:
I think this is very suspicious.... no backup data? I would prefer to believe this is a case of fraud than blaming incompetence or even space weather... Backing up data and sending it off-site to facilitate disaster recovery are normal procedures, if this is not being done, then the CEOs of all these companies are fools to be involved with such a Mickey Mouse outfit...



Potentially dangerous meteorite debris fell on Al-Shifa mountain in Saudi Arabia
The Watchers, 25th July 2012
"The deputy chairman of the Astronomy Society in Jeddah and member of the Arab Federation for Space Science and Astrophysics, astrophysicist. Sharaf al-Sufiyani revealed that meteorite debris fell on Al-Shifa mountain last Sunday July 22nd 2012 near the village of Al-Ajbel.

He pointed out in his statement to the daily Medina newspaper today that the meteorite debris comprises large rocky pieces which before landing disintegrated into smaller pieces and landed on various locations. One of the dwellers told him that there are two other locations similar where debris has fallen."

Another report of large chunks of meteorite falling from the sky... It is getting to the stage where there are so many, I am now only interested in major falls or reports of spectacular sights and even then I don't have time to do the reading and some analysis....



Mysterious force blocks car remotes
azcentral.com, 24th July 2012
YONKERS, N.Y. -- A busy stretch of Yonkers Avenue has become a Bermuda Triangle for parked cars. For at least six months now, business owners here say a mysterious force has been locking people with keyless remotes out of their vehicles or preventing them from starting their engines near Yonkers and Page avenues. But the cars revive after they are pushed or towed away.

An expert hired to investigate the problem said Monday that localized radio interference is to blame for disrupting the signals sent from keyless remotes, but he still was trying to pinpoint the exact source of the signal.

"It's not a common phenomenon," said David Maxson, a radio-frequency communications specialist and owner of Isotrope in Medfield, Mass. "I only get a handful of these quirky types of complaints every year." [...]

Faulty electronics are likely to blame, he said. Keyless remotes are designed to transmit quick, intermittent signal bursts over radio frequencies shared by other low-power devices such as garage-door openers and meter readers. It appears that an malfunctioning device in the area is sending out a more powerful, continuous signal that drowns out others. Life-saving medical electronics such as pacemakers should not be affected, he said.

Comment:
The source of the "more powerful, continuous signal that drowns out others" could be natural.... a local vortex or 'portal' where energy is entering or leaving the Earth. Think of our planet as hosting a geometrical grid of invisible tornadoes that act like pores breathing in cosmic energies and breathing out surplus terrestrial 'waste'.... Now, some of the bigger portals are being picked up by radar and are interfering with GPS, (NASA uses the metaphor of 'ion plumes' to confuse those who can't mentally process or think in terms of metaphors, ie they are using 'hermetic jargon'..... ) Whatever, it is interesting these reports are increasing, as this is a sure sign of the build up energies on Earth, with the increasing levels of energetic flux associated with space weather.



Mysterious, Colorful Lobsters Being Caught in Traps
Discovery News, 23rd July 2012
Lobsters sporting rare, unexpected colors and patterns are becoming more common in catches, and no one knows why.

Blue, pink, orange and even calico lobsters are winding up in traps. The orange ones are perhaps causing the most problems, since some chefs think they've already been cooked. But then the live, snapping crustacean reminds them otherwise.

Maybe social media is partly to blame? "Are we seeing more because the Twitter sphere is active and people get excited about colorful lobsters?" Michael Tlusty, research director at the New England Aquarium in Boston, told Associated Press. "Is it because we're actually seeing an upswing in them? Is it just that we're catching more lobsters so we have the opportunity to see more?"

Comment:
Don't you think that scientists should be scientists and actually do some research to find out what is really happening, instead of trying to blame public interest on Facebook and Twitter?



Mile Wide Asteroid Passing Near Earth This Weekend
Daily Mail, 20th July 2012
An asteroid nearly a mile wide will hurtle past Earth on Sunday July 22. The asteroid is estimated to be 2,000 to 4,500ft wide, and qualifies as a 'near Earth object'. NEA (near-Earth asteroid) 2002 AM31 is described as 'the size of a city block'. Astronomers say not to panic - it will pass through space 14 times further from Earth than the Moon. [...]

'One of our missions at Slooh is to provide the public with free, live views on fascinating celestial happenings,' says Patrick Paolucci, President at Slooh.

'Near-Earth asteroid 153958 (2003 AM31) represents 1 of approximately 9,000 whizzing past Earth at any given moment, and we wanted to highlight this one as it's only 13.7 lunar distances from Earth - similar to near-Earth asteroid LZ1 which zoomed past us unexpectedly mid-June.'

Comment:
This article only got a mention because there is a direct quote from a space scientist telling us that there are 'approximately 9,000 [Near-Earth asteroids] whizzing past Earth at any given moment'.... Well, it has been public knowledge for a while that Earth is now in an asteroid debris field, but I am still amazed by this figure.... Hence, it is no wonder that there are now so many reports of small meteorites crashing to Earth, as the smallest rocks simply cannot be detected...



Medieval Warm Period found in 120 proxies. Plus Roman era was similar to early 20th Century
JoNova, 20th July 2012
Two major proxy studies, larger than ever, were released in April and June 2012. They show that the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) existed, and was similar to current temperatures. These comprehensive studies suggest current temperatures are not unusual, and that itself is not all that surprising — I’ve mentioned before how there are hundreds of proxy studies showing it was as warm or warmer back then. (CO2science has been documenting them.) But these studies are worth a mention because they are so large.

Climate models cannot explain what caused the warming 1000 years ago, nor the cooling 300 years ago, so they can’t rule out the same factors aren’t changing the climate today (though they claim they can). If climate models can’t explain the past, they can’t predict the future.

Comment:
Jo Nova has produced another good article summarising the findings of climate science studies concerning the reconstruction of the climate over the last 2000 years. It really makes you wonder about the mentality of climate scientists trying to irradicate the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) despite all the hundreds of proxy studies showing it was as warm or warmer during the 9th to 11th centuries. Prominent climate scientists desperately tried to support the notion that the Earth has never been this warm, but this is complete rubbish when we consider the evidence that covers the billions of years that the Earth has existed... Obviously, the climate science cabal that included Mann et al. thought they could achieve anything they wanted through corrupted databases, fraudulent statistics and 'useful' anomalies.... BUT, it is only because some people believe that science is a search for truth and understanding that we are not all duped by lying fraudsters acting to pursue an agenda for those who have no interest in allowing the populace to know the truth.



‘Quite Something’: Extremely radioactive sample from Tokyo air filter — 150 times more uranium than expected — “This is from Fukushima” -Busby (VIDEO)
Energy News, 25th July 2012



The truth IS out there with rise in UFO sightings in Australia
Herald Sun, 23rd July 2012
FOR those searching for life on another planet, the mission involves not just finding the evidence but getting others to take them seriously.

UFO sightings in Australia are on the rise, according to people who track such phenomena, and international studies indicate a growing number of "closet believers" of extraterrestrial life.

Comment:
There seems to be a shift in the tone appearing in the Australian media, but the comment about "closet believers" is stupid and ridiculous.... Personally, I would like an academic with some relevant qualifications and some real intelligence to discuss how Earth could host a shadow biosphere.... since it is now obvious that plasma entities are being increasingly seen all over the planet.



Recent UFO Sightings in Canada and Australia Mean Need for Further Studies - Researchers
International Business Times, 25th July 2012
"A study of unidentified flying objects in Canada shows a record high number of sightings in 2011, prompting researchers to suggest further studies into the subject. Ufology Research, which has recorded UFO sightings in Canada since 1989, said there were 986 sighting reports in 2011. This figure is close to the 1,004 sightings recorded in 2008. [...] In Australia, there also appears to be an increase in UFO sightings."



UFO may be a UAS
Times of Malta, 21st July 2012
"There is the possibility that the UFO is what is known in aviation as a UAS – an unmanned aerial system. That acronym covers everything from a small radio-controlled model aeroplane to a full-scale remotely piloted aircraft, such as the drones the CIA are using in Afghanistan. UAS come literally in all shapes and sizes – some were being demonstrated last week at the Farnborough Air Show in England. Triangular-shaped UAS are very common and are often small – the Israelis have such a UAS they call a Harpie and, believe me, it is as nasty as its name sounds!"
Another report suggesting UFO/UAPs are drones.... I suppose this is the latest excuse as it has got to the stage where the presence in the skies can no longer be ignored....



UFOs confuse South Carolina residents
Open Minds TV, 23rd July 2012



Unlock Your Inner Rain Man by Electrically Zapping Your Brain
Wired News, 20th July 2012
Imagine a creativity cap. A device that would free you, if only momentarily, from your mindsets, from your prejudices, from the mental blocks to creativity.

These words are emblazoned on the website Creativitycap.com, and they represent the vision of neuroscientist Allan Snyder. Snyder believes we all possess untapped powers of cognition, normally seen only in rare individuals called savants, and accessing them might take just a few jolts of electricity to the brain.

It sounds like a Michael Crichton plot, but Snyder, of the University of Sydney, Australia, says he wouldn’t be surprised to see a prototype of the creativity cap within a couple of years. His research suggests that brain stimulation improves people’s ability to solve difficult problems. But Snyder’s interpretation of his findings remains controversial, and the science of using brain stimulation to boost thinking is still in its early stages. [...]

Snyder hypothesizes that all people possess savant-like abilities in a dormant form, but that savants have “privileged access” to less-processed, lower-level information. In a normal brain, top-down controls suppress the barrage of raw data our brains take in, enabling us to focus on the big picture.

“We all have that information,” Snyder said, “but our brains are deliberately wired not to see it.”

Comment:
I think the idea here is to tempt people with the possibility that they can become a savant and I imagine that most experts will think this is extremely unlikely, unless the brain is permanently rewired. However some researchers believe that dropping background levels of ambient magnetic field is the reason why some people become ill, it is like some become devitalised, hence the benefits when ambient magnetic fields are enhanced, (Persinger et al are probably the most respected scientists in this field of science).... Personally, I think the main issue today, is not the low level of ambient magnetic field, it is the rapidly fluctuating magnetic fields generating electric currents that is already becoming a more serious issue. So, research that suggests magnetic fields are helpful is interesting, but as some biomagnetism experts tell us, bioelectromagnetic humans should be aware that there is a big difference between artificial and natural magnetic fields with the way that biological components are processed. Anyway, the process of human brain evolution is a mystery to neuroscientists who cannot boast that they can control the evolution of the brain. Yet, we must surmise that somehow a 'quantum leap' is made within the brain to achieve a higher level of functioning to access various fields of consciousness that host data that is not stored within the physical brain. As an aside, I solved the 9 dot problem in about 5 minutes, (I was not watching the time), but I decided there needed to be a shift in thinking because the question was misleading people to automatically assume they must stay within the boundaries of the dots to solve the problem.... I don't think this puzzle is about intelligence, it is about overcoming limited thinking, but some may say that is intelligence.... Whatever, it's quite a nice metaphor for poorly educated people who can't resolve enigmas because they refuse to do anything about their ignorance and step outside of the boundaries of their prejudice, but when others do, they become indignant.



Savants: What They Can Teach Us
The Journal of Science and Healing, Volume 8, Issue 4 , Pages 213-217, July 2012



Nuclear sub painter accused of setting $400-million fire so he could leave early
Globe & Mail, 24th July 2012
U.S. Navy investigators have determined that a civilian labourer set a fire that caused $400-million in damage to a nuclear-powered submarine because he had anxiety and wanted to get out of work early.

Casey James Fury of Portsmouth, N.H., faces up to life in prison if convicted of two counts of arson in the fire aboard the USS Miami attack submarine while it was in dry dock May 23 and a second blaze outside the sub on June 16.

Comment:
His name was Mr Fury!!



Very Fast CME - NOT Earth Directed
Spaceweather.com, 23rd July 2012
VERY FAST FARSIDE CME (UPDATED): On July 23rd, a coronal mass ejection (CME) blasted away from the sun with rare speed: 3400 km/s or 7.6 million mph. CMEs moving this fast occur only once every ~5 to 10 years. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the cloud's rapid departure from the sun

The source of the CME was sunspot AR1520, which sparked many bright auroras earlier this month when it was on the Earthside of the sun. Now, however, the active region is transiting the sun's farside so this blast was not geoeffective. One can only imagine the geomagnetic storms such a fast CME could produce if it were heading our way.

Comment:
We have to remember that solar scientists are trying to predict the behaviour of the Sun to protect satellite and satellite communications, national power grids, modern electronics and computers etc, but super fast CMEs adds another level of difficulty. Solar scientists may need to make important decisions when time really matters, but with superfast CMEs, this means that when one hits the ACE satellite, 1 million miles from Earth, the usual 45 - 60 minutes warning is reduced to only 15 minutes or less....



Freak pavement explosions have injured at least seven people in London [UK]
London Evening Standard, 20th July 2012
A series of pavement explosions has injured at least seven pedestrians in London in recent months, the Standard can reveal today.

One pensioner is now suing a power supply company after he was left seriously injured by an explosion under a manhole in a London street.

Details of his case have emerged just weeks after a woman pedestrian suffered 20 per cent burns in a similar freak explosion in Edgware Road.

Colin Wingate, 75, was left in a wheelchair for nearly three months after the blast blew out a manhole cover he was standing on while chatting to friends.

He contacted the Standard after reading in the paper of the ordeal of the pedestrians in Edgware Road. In May a 55-year-old woman and two other women pedestrians were injured when the pavement they were walking on blew up in an explosion apparently caused by an electrical fault.

The incident is now being investigated by the Health and Safety Executive which revealed to the Standard they know of at least three more pavement explosions which injured pedestrians in London in the past 19 months. [...] A HSE spokesperson commented: "The Health and Safety Executive is aware of a number of other incidents in the London area in recent years involving exploding utility equipment, including pit covers and electrical boxes. The majority of these incidents did not result in injury, and were attributed to electrical faults and/or gas leaks. They were investigated with UK Power Networks.

Comment:
There was a spate of underground transformer vaults blowing up and manhole covers sent flying into the air, even dramatic fires and smoke pouring out of manholes in May 2011, but it seems they are still occuring in the United States (see links below). Therefore, it is interesting that there are now reports in the United Kingdom [UK] that covers about the same length of time, but a few people have been getting seriously injured... Most likely, this is occuring elsewhere in the world too... Whatever, it is most likely that electrical explosions and fires will continue as geomagnetically induced currents (GCICS) become more of an issue, see archives for previous comments and click the image icon for more information on transformer faults.

IPL: Fault sends smoke from downtown Indy manhole
Indy Star News, 15th July 2012
An underground cable in a Downtown manhole shorted out today, causing power outages to about 400 Indianapolis Power & Light customers.

At abut 3 p.m. today, Indianapolis Fire Department was called to 50 E. 16th St., where firefighters found smoke coming from a manhole. Brad Riley, spokesman for IPL, said the incident “was not a manhole explosion.”

FD has investigated at least two other manhole incidents this month. Pressure from an underground cable caused a manhole lid to slide in the 300 block of Massachusetts Avenue Downtown on July 5; and a cable fault in an electrical vault caused flames to shoot up from a sidewalk grate in the first block of South Capitol Avenue on July 4.

Underground blaze knocks out power in downtown Newburyport?
The Eagle-Tribune, 23rd July 2012
"NEWBURYPORT — An Inn Street manhole cover shot 6 feet into the air yesterday around 10 a.m. yards away from a playground filled with families after an underground electrical wire from a nearby transformer caught on fire."



Dramatic" New Maya Temple Found, Covered With Giant Faces
Archaeological "gold mine" illuminates connection between king and sun god.
National Geographic, 20th July 2012
Some 1,600 years ago, the Temple of the Night Sun was a blood-red beacon visible for miles and adorned with giant masks of the Maya sun god as a shark, blood drinker, and jaguar.

Long since lost to the Guatemalan jungle, the temple is finally showing its faces to archaeologists, and revealing new clues about the rivalrous kingdoms of the Maya.

Comment:
It just seems to me that there are many new discoveries that all point to how Mayan culture was very diplomatic in how it satisfied the narcissistic desires of ruler kings, who were only very temporal (here today gone tomorrow) with their much more important and sacrosanct astronomical religion that involved some serious study of the sun, stars and heavens. Understanding Mayan culture is important to determine the relevance today of what remains of Mayan calendars and artefacts that point to a period of major astronomical change.



Artificial jellyfish created from heart cells
BBC News, 23rd July 2012
The work also points to a broader definition of "synthetic life" in an emerging field of science that has until now focused on replicating life's building blocks, say the researchers.

Prof Parker said he wanted to challenge the traditional view of synthetic biology which is "focused on genetic manipulations of cells". Instead of building just a cell, he sought to "build a beast".

The two groups at Caltech and Harvard worked for years to understand the key factors that contribute to jellyfish propulsion, including the arrangement of their muscles, how their bodies contract and recoil, and how fluid dynamics helps or hinders their movements.

The finding serves as a proof of concept for reverse engineering a variety of muscular organs and simple life forms. [...]

The work also points to a broader definition of "synthetic life" in an emerging field of science that has until now focused on replicating life's building blocks, say the researchers.

Prof Parker said he wanted to challenge the traditional view of synthetic biology which is "focused on genetic manipulations of cells". Instead of building just a cell, he sought to "build a beast".

The two groups at Caltech and Harvard worked for years to understand the key factors that contribute to jellyfish propulsion, including the arrangement of their muscles, how their bodies contract and recoil, and how fluid dynamics helps or hinders their movements.

Comment:
Quite frankly, this is the kind of research you would expect astrobiologists to be doing especially since we are seeing so many jellyfish entities in the skies. What's more, this is especially interesting as scientists have managed to photograph lots of atmospheric sprites (since 1990) that appear like jellyfish in the sky.... Think about it, Earth becomes a high energy plasma environment and we start seeing a lot of different jellyfish type manifestations, a simple lifeform that can operate in an electrically conducting medium, but it seems nature has developed a lifeform to swim in the electrically conducting atmosphere of Earth... This is seriously interesting research for thinkers....



Satnav glitches annoy Olympic drivers
IOL Motoring, 23rd July 2012
Drivers transporting athletes and high-ranking officials in the run-up to the Games keep getting lost because of a satnav glitch.

About 4000 BMWs have been fitted with the so-called Dynamic Olympic Route System which ensures they follow the network of VIP-only routes. But drivers say the system has crashed repeatedly. [...]

One driver, who claimed the DORS system crashed on the first three days of training, said another problem was that it was reliant on receiving a strong wi-fi signal.

Comment:
Of course, there are many who believe that modern wireless technology is perfect and nothing can go wrong, but this belief is held by people who are oblivious to the cosmic changes taking place on this planet.... The reliance on GPS and wi-fi in worsening geomagnetic conditions, will cause so many problems that eventually it will force many more people to wake up to the reality of space weather.



Green Glowing Skies
Spaceweather.com, 23rd July 2012
NOT AURORAS: On some nights when the moon is new and city lights are far away, the sky turns green. But it's not the aurora borealis--it's airglow. Brian Larmay photographed the phenomenon on July 20th from the countryside near Beecher, Wisconsin:

"The airglow was intense enough to see visually," says Larmay. "I decided to create a brief animation of this phenomena with an 8mm fisheye lens which can be seen here."

Although airglow resembles the aurora borealis, its underlying physics is different. Airglow is caused by an assortment of chemical reactions in the upper atmosphere. During the day, ultraviolet radiation from the sun ionizes atoms and breaks apart molecules. At night, the atoms and molecules recombine, emitting photons as they return to normal. This process produces an aurora-like glow visible on very dark nights.

July 20th must have been a good night for airglow, because Warren Justice of Manitoba, Canada, saw it too.

Comment:
I am wondering if this report is significant after other recent reports of green skies seen during the day.



No laughing now, more UFO sightings in Australia? [VIDEO]
International Business Times, 23rd July 2012
A Central Coast grandmother told reporters she saw an unidentified flying object moving silently above Brisbane Water last week. Does this latest development confirm increasing UFO sightings in Australia?

Jane Pooley, 51, is a Catholic registered nurse. She says, "I've seen some pretty weird things," hinting that she was not making a fuss over nothing. The Brisbane Water, which is not far away from Ms Pooley's residence, is known for being one of Australia's UFO hotspots.

Ms Pooley says the aircraft she saw looked as if it had rotating lights. However, her sighting has yet to be confirmed. There is another video of UFO sighting uploaded over the weekend on YouTube, even as such news updates are often met with cynicism.

Comment:
So, why are the International Business Times reporting UFOs to tell us that all people do is laugh about reports? Quite frankly, I think the truth is that many people have stopped laughing because things are getting ridiculous. Well, I saw my first daylight sighting at the weekend of white orbs whizzing across the sky at about 11 am on a bright sunny day. I was stunned to see a white orb moving fast in a straight line that then decided to zig-zag at speed and then carry on.... Unpowered balloons don't do that, especially when mid-level clouds were virtually stationary and lower level clouds were moving, but nothing like the speed of these objects..... It has taken me nearly five years to see orbs up in the sky, even though I have been looking since I first started blogging about UFOs/UAPs when I realised that we were witnessing the promised 'Lifting of the Veil'.... My experience is only typical of the many reports from around the world. Next, I would like to see a group flying in formation, but I have been told to get a phone with a camera on it to capture the action....



'Invisible UFOs' Fill the Skies
Live Science, 18th July 2012
According to LPRS founder Ismael Cuellar, the "infrared-cloaked" object could not be seen with the naked eye, and cruised silently. "[We] have ruled out birds, bugs, airplanes, helicopters, and even flying drones by comparing them side by side as a point of reference," Cuellar told Life's Little Mysteries. This seems to leave just one explanation: It's a cloaked alien spaceship. [Huh! Obviously, this deductive reasoning is by someone who does not have the capacity to think about other options like Earth having a shadow biosphere of entities that can be seen in other parts of the EM spectrum apart from visible light.]

Comment:
I think this headline is strange if the aim is to debunk.... In fact, there is absolutely nothing scientific about this article, as we are only offered the opinion of a presumed paid skeptic to explain why there are so many reports of UFOs/UAPs that can be seen in the infra-red. Thus, I am seriously wondering if this article is really meant to educate/inform those who are interested, about the 'presence' in the skies....



A Biologist And A Psychologist Square Off Over The Definition Of Science
Wired News, 16th July 2012
Is psychology a science?

Increasingly, the respect of science (and scientists) by the public has been dropping and a part of that reason is because the line of what science is has become fuzzy. If economics calls itself science, well, the public knows they don't know what they are talking about, so maybe it applies to climate science too. Is sociology science? What about parapsychology? through obscene fakery damn lies a after lie sing the puwhen massive x

If the definition of science becomes relative, then so does acceptance of science, in a slippery slope world, so we can't expect people will accept FDA findings as science if political science is funded by the National Science Foundation and the public knows that isn't scientific at all.

Comment:
I think there are very interesting points here but quite frankly whatever the debate the key point is that the credibility of science and scientists is at an all time low. There are simply too many scientists bringing the scientific world into disrepute to the point where people are setting up websites to publicise the disgrace and thus making sure the general public become aware of the amount of fraud that underpins certain false claims. Climate science may actually not be the worse for the amount of falsified data but it is now on record that some climate scientists think lying to the public is necessary.



GeoEngineering Could Backfire, Make Climate Change Worse
Wired News, 16th July 2012
Deploying giant space mirrors and spraying particles from stadium-sized balloons may sound like an engineer’s wild fantasy, but climate models suggest that the potential of geoengineering to offset rising atmospheric carbon dioxide may be significantly overstated.

Through a variety of computer simulations used for reporting to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the team investigated a scenario where an increase in the world’s atmospheric carbon dioxide levels was balanced by a “dimming” of the sun.

Across all four models tested, the team showed that geoengineering could lead to adverse effects on the Earth’s climate, including a reduction in global rainfall. They therefore concluded that geoengineering could not be a substitute for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Comment:
I think this article just provides a status update on why some have major concerns about geoengineering.



Confidence in organized religion hits all-time low in Gallup poll
MSNBC News, 12th July 2012
Americans' confidence in religious institutions has hit an all-time low, with only 44 percent expressing a "great deal" of confidence in organized religion, according to a new Gallup survey.

This follows a downward trend since the 1970s, when 68 percent of Americans had a high degree of confidence.

Gallup cites two big blows to confidence in organized religion: 1980s scandals involving televangelists like Jim Bakker and the Catholic sex abuse scandal in the 2000s.

Comment:
Religion needs to evolve if it is to become relevant again, but don't ask me how this should be achieved. To understand the relevance of religion requires some massive leaps to make sense of where religion came from in the first place and then more leaps to understand how it can become relevant today. Since I am so disillusioned with the Cultic Milieu that I think is overrun/infested with malignant narcissists and predators, I think the task requires characters who are seriously evolved but I have no idea what that would look like.



San Jose: 21 people treated for burns after firewalk at Tony Robbins appearance
Mercury News, 21st July 2012
SAN JOSE -- Amid inspirational talk, chanted mantras and shouts of victory at a late-night firewalking event attended by thousands Thursday came agonized shrieks from followers whose soles were scorched by the superheated coals, witnesses said.

At least 21 people were treated for burn injuries after taking part in the crowning event of the first day of a Tony Robbins function downtown, including at least three who went to the hospital, a San Jose fire captain said.

The people who suffered various second- and third-degree burn injuries were among more than 6,000 who attended the motivational speaker's event at the San Jose Convention Center called "Unleash the Power Within."

Comment:
Tony Robbins is a high pressure 'New Wage' salesman. James Ray who is now serving time, copied Robbins right down to his mannerisms, but JR went too far and killed people, Robbins is too clever to actually kill some of his followers. Whatever, Robbins should be avoided due to his ability to liberate huge amounts of money from the richest in his army of naive 'enlightenment now'/'get rich quick' followers. He is a master of manipulation using highly honed 'covert tech' as has been explained elsewhere on the internet. Robbins has been around for a long time and continues to draw in the gullible. Those who don't have a lot of money will be entertained and those with the cash will be fleeced, that seems to be how it works.



A Self-Improvement Quest That Led to Burned Feet
New York Times, 22nd July 2012
"Participants said they paid between $600 and $2,000 to attend the seminar. [...] In the hallways, participants were invited to further their self-improvement with CDs and DVDs, including “Total Commitment Package” for $647 and “Love & Passion: The Ultimate Relationship Program” for $249.



Footprints on the Fire
Salty Droid, 25th July 2012
Of course, the Salty Droid (aka Jason Jones) has something to say plus the folks on the forum, but a profanity warning is in play....



Radiation damage bigger problem in microelectronics than previously thought
Science Codex, 20th July 2012
The amount of structural damage that radiation causes in electronic materials at the atomic level may be at least ten times greater than previously thought.

That is the surprising result of a new characterization method that uses a combination of lasers and acoustic waves to provide scientists with a capability tantamount to X-ray vision: It allows them to peer through solid materials to pinpoint the size and location of detects buried deep inside with unprecedented precision.

Comment:
This article explains why our cheap modern microelectronics cannot deal with too much radiation from space. Thus, with the onset of space weather, major problems like the Toyota car electronics failures and failures in airplane electronics (because we are being told categorically by world authorities that space radiation is now more of a major issue for frequent fliers and we can deduct that applies to plane electronics too as we have recent verified examples), hence the growing concern.



A Taste of Solar Maximum (VIDEO)
NASA Science News, 20th July 2012
Forecasters say Solar Max is due in the year 2013. When it arrives, the peak of 11-year sunspot cycle will bring more solar flares, more coronal mass ejections, more geomagnetic storms and more auroras than we have experienced in quite some time. On the weekend of July 14, 2012, sky watchers around the world got a taste of things to come.

It was mid-Saturday in North America when a coronal mass ejection or "CME" crashed into Earth's magnetic field and triggered the most sustained display of auroras in years. For more than 36 hours, magnetic storms circled Earth's poles. Northern Lights spilled across the Canadian border into the United States as far south as California, Colorado, Kansas, and Arkansas. In the southern hemisphere, skies turned red over Tasmania and New Zealand, while the aurora australis pirouetted around the South Pole.



The man living alone in the woods to escape Wi-Fi and mobile phones
Phil Inkley has fled civilisation to escape electromagnetic fields, which he believes cause nosebleeds, headaches, convulsions and blackouts. Laura Page meets him and investigates the condition known as 'electromagnetic hypersensitivity'
Guardian, 20th July 2012
For Phil, it is this isolation which is one of the most difficult aspects of suffering from self-diagnosed electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS). Daily symptoms include nosebleeds, headaches, heart palpitations, lethargy and tinnitus. Electro-hypersensitive people attribute such symptoms to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) such as those emitted by Wi-Fi, mobile phones, DECT phones and certain light sources, and say symptoms worsen with close proximity.

Phil's illness is totally dominating his life. He now lives in a caravan in the woods in Hampshire in an attempt to distance himself from EMFs. He is constantly worried that he will be asked to move on. When symptoms have been really bad he has retreated further into the forest, at one point living in an abandoned children's den and cooking on an open fire.

"I've been through hellishly desperate times with this," he says. "People don't believe that EMFs are the cause of EHS and it gets you in such a state. You're battling for your existence and people think it's all in your head." He breaks down in tears, not for the last time during our interview. The strain of his situation is taking its toll.

Comment:
The country that takes EHS the most seriously is Sweden and there are some good reports available in English online. My interest is that some with EHS report they can even see electric and magnetic fields and I wonder if this should be considered as a type of synaesthesia.



Astonishing pictures of the young gorillas who worked together to dismantle the poachers' trap that killed their friends
Daily Mail, 19th July 2012
Just days after a poacher's snare had killed one of their own, two young mountain gorillas have been spotted working together to take apart poachers traps.

Staff at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund were stunned when they spotted the plucky young duo, called Dukore and Rwema, destroying a trap in their forest home.

'Today our field staff observed several young gorillas from Kuryama’s group destroying snares!' Veronica Vecellio, gorilla program coordinator at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund's Karisoke Research Center, which is in the reserve where the event took place, blogged. [...]

Vecellio said the behaviour was unheard of. 'This is absolutely the first time that we've seen juveniles doing that,' she told National Geographic. 'I don't know of any other reports in the world of juveniles destroying snares.

Comment:
Another report of 'animals' demonstrating high intelligence and possibly revealing signs of some species evolving to higher levels of intelligence...



Where Are The Extraterrestrials? The People Speak...
Science 2.0 News, 19th July 2012
"Physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked, “Where is everybody?” The Fermi Paradox or The Great Silence refers to this quandary of why we have never encountered extraterrestrial civilizations. [...] I recently crowd-sourced this question on the web; the top responses are presented here, ranging from the serious and thoughtful to the humorous and ironic. Here are the top vote-getters… followed in each case by my comments."

Comment:
#5 made me laugh, but I generally agree with the "zoo hypothesis" with humans being considered as a protected species by off planet observers who only feel the need to protect us from the real dross that might want to subjugate or even interbreed with real humans from time to time. I think the evidence shows that the caretaking has not been a complete success and this explains the existence of a certain percentage of psychopaths on this planet who we should worry more about than any ETs that are off-planet...



Retired air force lieutenant colonel talks about investigating and debunking UFO sightings
Open Minds, 18th July 2012
Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Dick French’s 27 years of military experience has taken him around the world. [...]

His career started in the AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations) where he would conduct stakeouts to remove personnel who were breaking the military’s code of conduct. French then moved on to pilot training school and later was put in the 6004’s Air Intelligence Security Squadron where it was his duty to investigate any reported UFO sighting. He would collect any photographic evidence, question witnesses on the size and shape of the object, its estimated capability, and any other occurrences that surround the sighting.

In the end though, French claims that his superiors told him to debunk these sightings however he could. This position also allowed him to travel to many interesting UFO hot spots while meeting high-ranking officials; he even claims to have met Colonel Philip Corso.

Comment:
Well, when people have got their pensions, they also get a lot of time to reflect on their careers and their duty to society as a whole becomes much more important, than duty to a previous employer. Hence, retirees can make a significant contribution with many decades of experience. Their pent up frustration of having to 'toe the line' means that when the shackles are off, some are highly motivated to do what they think is right.... This very much applies to scientists too... So, we are told that the US Air Force took UFOs seriously (it would be difficult to imagine any other scenario), but authorities demanded that Air Force personnel debunk when possible.... Well, there has been a backlash in recent years, from many military veterans standing up and speaking out on UFOs/UAPs and even contributing to books providing important eye witness testimony. From a metaphysical point of view, these actions must be associated with higher levels of consciousness on the planet providing support for those who want to spiritually evolve through a search for truth.



THE RETURN OF THE INCREDIBLE GREEN FIREBALLS: NEW FILMS OF A UFO MYSTERY
The Bragalia Files, 17th July 2012
Nature provides man with wondrous atmospheric displays from comets to the Northern Lights. As awe-inspiring and infrequent as these phenomena are, they all have prosaic origins as explained by science. Much less understood (and far more rare) are the enigmatic Green Fireballs. The Green Fireball is often associated with historical sightings that occurred in areas like the State of New Mexico and near our National Laboratories, such as Sandia and Los Alamos.

These unusually-behaved luminous balls of ethereal green were very different from conventional meteors and were seen to perform extraordinary aerial feats during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Military and intelligence authorities at that time even had a top-secret project called “Twinkle” whose objective was to trace the mysterious green fireballs plaguing Southwest skies in particular. Then for some inexplicable reason, appearances of the green balls of fire tapered down and “winked out.” Or did they?

- Revealed here are remarkable images (recently found buried within NASA space footage archives) of a Green Fireball that seems to “follow” our astronauts

- Striking and exceeding rare film has been located, also taken from space, where one can vividly see the strange Green Fireballs doing the impossible: exiting the earth’s atmosphere rather than entering it

Comment:
SOTT.net have collected quite a few of these reports in recent months, link. I have written about 'ghost rockets' that are part of Earth's Shadow Biosphere, and generally classified by military and scientists as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. These atmospheric "plasma entities" seem to demonstrate intelligence but my stance is that these objects are working with our planet and are part of some kind of 'management team'. Based on information in the metaphysical community, some of these objects seem to be part of a planetary brain and act like neurons collecting and transmitting information, but there does seem to be periods when they are busy moving about from location to location and even flying in and out of our atmosphere,presumably transmitting information to other parts of our solar system. I believe the only way to view certain types of plasma behaviour is to draw a comparison with biophotons and the process of information transfer. As I wrote in Tuning the Diamonds (2012, e-book) ,
"Research has experimentally verified that human and other animal cells, as well as plant cells, radiate light called “biophotons”. This light has a component or property where it has the ability to exchanges information with other living cells, even over great distances. This light also makes up the human energy field, commonly referred to as the aura. Biophotons carry information and the amount we emit can be defined in terms of our Signal Power."
I think some of these UAPs are planet-sized geophotons (I coined this phrase on 22nd July 2012) and even inter-planetary sized that scientists mistake for comets (see previous comments on this subject) and therefore are far from being the “ultraweak” photon emissions normally seen from living systems. The most interesting part of this enigma is that these entities are arriving from elsewhere, indicating that management central is maintained elsewhere.... Well, I believe these green fireballs as well as some of the UAPs are busy keeping planet Earth operating to some kind of cosmic or universal plan. If you want to know more, you will have to hunt down the best sources of good information provided by a few savants in the metaphysical community.



Soldier reports 'glowing green orb' at Fort Sill Army post
UFO Examiner, 17th July 2012
A solider at the Fort Sill, OK, U.S. Army post reports an early morning sighting of a "dull-green, glowing orb that slowly descended" toward the ground level on July 17, 2012, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. [...]

The witness thought the object was peculiar.

"But the way it descended and then suddenly stopped was very peculiar. It was visible by many soldiers that were standing in a brigade formation and many of us agreed it indeed could be an extraterrestrial presence. It only lasted for 30 seconds and no sound was heard when it supposedly crash-landed and we thought nothing further of it."

Comment:
The description provided here is exactly the same as other UAP arrivals accept this is a green orb and not a red orb. Whatever the colour, there are many reports of objects flying in at a slow speed, stopping dead and then literally plopping into the Earth. In the Planetophysical Report (1998), Russian scientists revealed that there was an exodus of plasma entities from mountainous regions, so this two-way traffic has been described as "the changing of the guard" by some in the metaphysical community, see archives for similar reports. This even got to the stage where eye witness reports indicated that some of these entities needed help and so some departures appeared to be 'rescue' operations for some entities who could not leave on their own... Whatever, in recent years, we have seen many many reports of new plasma entities arriving. So, as far as I am concerned, the 'Planetary Refresh' and transformation of Earth has been well underway for many years....

Japan to probe 'active faults' under nuclear plants
Yahoo News, 18th July 2012



United Airlines $33 Flights To Hong Kong Result Of Computer Glitch
Huffington Post, 19th July 2012
NEW YORK -- It was an airfare deal too good to be true: fly first class to Hong Kong for just 4 frequent flier miles and $33 in taxes.

Clearly, it was a computer glitch. But it's also turning out to be the first major test of the Department of Transportation's new consumer protection rules prohibiting airlines from "increasing the price after the consumer completes the purchase."

On Sunday, computers at United Airlines erroneously let passengers book flights to Hong Kong – or other places in Asia connecting in Hong Kong – in exchange for 4 miles, plus government taxes. Frequent fliers quickly shared the error on blogs and online chat rooms. Some, such as Ben Schlappig who runs the site One Mile at a Time, advised people not to call the airline, saying, "there's no need to bring further attention to this pricing."

A business class seat for a flight on United to Hong Kong goes for about $8,500 or 120,000 frequent flier miles; first class costs $10,250 or 140,000 miles.

Before long, hundreds, if not thousands, of fliers – the airline won't say how many – booked trips. United eventually pulled the plug and announced it wasn't honoring tickets already sold. People could get a refund without paying a penalty or have the proper amount of miles deducted. Anyone who had already started their trip would be allowed to complete their travel.

Comment:
Wow.... that is some glitch.... but seriously, I would be very surprised if this was 'human' error.... Yet, it seems that United Airlines had no procedures in place to check for ridiculous and erroneous computer software/hardware induced errors. Personally, I don't think that companies need to honour computer glitches but I think there needs to be a mandatory way of proving that there has been a 'bit flip' (due to a cosmic ray) because it seems that this is going to become much more of an issue as the geomagnetic conditions on this planet worsen and computer programs and systems are not robust enough to deal with the consequences.



George Michael: I woke up from coma with a West Country accent
George Michael has revealed that he woke up from his three-week coma speaking in a West Country accent.
The Telegraph, 18th July 2012
The star, speaking at length about the battle with pneumonia which left his life in the balance, said it was ''touch and go'' whether he pulled through for three weeks.

Michael, 48, said when he eventually emerged from the coma he told nursing staff "I'm King of The World' in a West Country Accent.

"They were worried I had this condition where people wake from comas speaking French or some other language," he said. "Mine was two days of this vague Bristolain accent and they were afraid I'd have it for life.

"There's nothing wrong with a West Country accent - but it's a bit weird when you're from North London."

Comment:
Well, I have been stating for a while that reports of Foreign Accent Syndrome have been increasing and if the geomagnetic conditions get worse, then many more people are going to be vulnerable. Yet, I am still surprised at this report that underscores that it does not matter if you are rich and famous, anyone can be vulnerable especially through stroke and illness to this syndrome. George Michael is lucky he only acquired a strange 'foreign' accent for 2 days.



Samantha Brick: The cult that tried to take over my life
It started with a massage — but soon she was paying thousands to a sect that preyed on the lonely. Years later, she still fears they’re watching her
Daily Mail, 18th July 2012
This unsettling experience came flooding back to me when I read about claims that Tom Cruise’s devotion to Scientology had contributed to the marriage break-up with his wife Katie Holmes. Sadly, I know what it’s like to be in the control of a cult.

I became a follower of Sathya Sai Baba — an Indian guru and mystic, who died last year — for 12 months, during which time I spent close to £10,000 on various ‘services’.

Comment:
This story reveals a standard cult experience and follows the 7 Fundamental Principles used by the Large Group Awareness Training (LGAT)/Cult business model as follows:
1. A Purpose: Provide initial sales pitch, where a Big Claim is made.
2. A Group: Lure and love-bomb victims into the group/sect or set-up, using local meetings and/or conference calls, as the start of Social Influence.
3. A Vision: Identify some kind of “hook” through life meanings to maintain motivation and control of victims.
4. A Mentor: Start the focus on the Guru as 'leader' in the victims' minds.
5. A Practice: Provide an indoctrination process that uses cult tactics or 'covert tech' inserted inside the Practice
6. A Coach: Upsell to a system of more personal indoctrination and sales, costing $100 hr of course.
7. A Retreat: Provide a way for victims to get even more deeply involved in a controlled cult or LGAT seminar environment for a weekend, or longer events that are weeks long at a hotel or some other venue.
All of these principles have to be in operation before accusations can be made about any activity being a LGAT or a cult. Btw, as the end of this article advises, there seems to be no connection between this UK cult and Sathya Sai Baba and it just seems like some average New Wage fraudsters preying on the ignorant and vulnerable.



University makes space for online course on alien life
The Scotsman, 17th July 2012
Today, Edinburgh was announced as the first university in the UK to join the Coursera consortium, an organisation set up by senior academics at Stanford University to provide free online undergraduate level courses to anyone who wants to access them. [...]

The final week includes asking how contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence would be dealt with and what would be the impact on society. It concludes with the question “who would represent Earth?” in the event of first contact. Among the five week courses open to anyone, is the curious-sounding "Introduction to Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life" tutored by Professor Charles Cockell, the academic who led Project Boreas, which planned and designed a research station for the Martian North Pole.

Students who enrol on Cockell's course will study the potential for life elsewhere in the universe, including how life survives in "extreme environments." As part of this introduction to astrobiology, a discipline defined as "the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the universe and space exploration", the possibility of intelligent alien life will be probed.

Comment:
Edinburgh University are only providing a short introductory course to astrobiology, but some media outlets have decided to sensationalise the fact, see UFO 'Degree' On Alien Life Forms Is Among Free Courses Offered By Edinburgh University.



US geoengineers to spray sun-reflecting chemicals from balloon
Experiment in New Mexico will try to establish the possibility of cooling the planet by dispersing sulphate aerosols
Guardian News, 17th July 2012
Two Harvard engineers are to spray sun-reflecting chemical particles into the atmosphere to artificially cool the planet, using a balloon flying 80,000 feet over Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

The field experiment in solar geoengineering aims to ultimately create a technology to replicate the observed effects of volcanoes that spew sulphates into the stratosphere, using sulphate aerosols to bounce sunlight back to space and decrease the temperature of the Earth

Comment:
This kind of research is difficult to understand when there is already ample evidence that volcanic eruptions affect the climate quite dramatically. Therefore we must wonder whether this research has an ulterior motive. Maybe, spraying sun-reflecting chemical particles into the atmosphere can be compared to 'weather planes' that are routinely creating artificial clouds, but unfortunately, there seems to be very little 'official' acknowledgment of the aims of this weather modification. I currently favour the idea that weather modification is mostly about creating an artificial ionosphere to improve communications, whilst providing some screening for electronics and computers from cosmic rays, but I don't have a lot to go on and other researchers have much more definitive ideas about what is really going on.



Why Earth's Magnetic Field Is Wonky
Our Amazing Planet, 17th July 2012
"In the last decade, seismic waves from earthquakes revealed the inner core looks like a navel orange, bulging slightly more on its western half. Geoscientists recently explainedthe asymmetry by proposing a convective loop: The inner core might be crystallizing on one half and melting on the other."



Earth’s magnetic field just might be gearing up for a reversal
i09 News, 15th July 2012



UFO mysteries
The Voice of Russia, 15th July 2012
Files released from the National Archives at Kew today reveal that the Ministry of Defence in the UK took the threat of Unidentified Flying Objects very seriously.

Under prime minister Tony Blair money and resources were devoted to checking whether any UFO was a reliable sighting. Dr David Clarke is a senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and one of those involved in analysing the records. The Voice of Russia’s Tim Ecott asked Dr Clarke what lay behind the government's interest.

Quite few were reports by credible witnesses, you know, pilots, aircrew, police officers that simply defy explanation on what they concluded might relate to very rare atmospheric phenomena – plasmas. And they were interested in this from the military point of view. Because they thought that they could harness these plasmas and use them. They could be useful on the battlefield.

Comment:
I was disappointed that David Clarke failed to provide an adequate explanation for "plasmas", but at least he admitted that the UK MOD believed that UFO/UAP sightings with no reasonable explanation were most likely atmospheric plasmas. No doubt this explanation came about after the use of radar and state of the art scientific equipment that would have been available to the military. I downloaded the previously Top Secret report, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Defence Region [2000] written by the UK MOD, and the Executive Summary opens with this unequivocal statement:

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

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


Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Defence Region [2000]

Some UK ufologists actually commissioned a report to study this document, but incredibly, they decided that they did not want to believe what a top defence contractor had to explain to the top 11 defence officials in the United Kingdom.



ORB Phenomena Shows New Curves Over Saint Augustine Beach Florida In Daytime Amazing Display
UDCC News, 15th July 2012
"The amazing photos were taken yesterday in the clear daytime skies. To me, this `multiple Orb, CURVE display' is NEW. Yet another evolution to the phenomena?"
There is a very short clip in the first 5 - 10 minutes of this presentation, Jaime Maussan - IUFOC 2012 - Imminent Contact-part 1/6 - of this particular type of orb aerodynamics, which is fascinating to watch.



Fundamentalist Religion and Extraterrestrial Intelligence – Part I
Out of Darkness, 14th July 2012
This is the first of a multi-part study regarding the relationships between extraterrestrial life and fundamentalist religion. The initial three blog articles will consider five different surveys of the possible impact that certain knowledge of alien civilization would have upon organized religion. I will suggest that many of these surveys are seriously flawed: biases abound in the sample size and selection, in the questions themselves, and in the interpretation of the responses.

I will also argue that the response interpretation may be crippled by a core misunderstanding of the fundamentalist religious mindset. While I will present the basics of these surveys for your review, I recommend obtaining a copy of all of these papers to make your own assessment. After the survey articles, I will discuss several published papers on the topics of extraterrestrial intelligence and religion. There is enough material here for a book (or several); in fact, several books have been written on this subject. [...]

One item I found particularly interesting in the JSE article was the number of completely blank questionnaires returned to the investigator which contained lengthy comments and, in the author’s description, lengthy sermonettes. According to Levin, these comments expressed disapproval of the topic, Bible verses were stapled to the surveys, concern was expressed about the researcher being involved in this topic, etc.

Think of the motivation it takes for someone to take the time to write out admonishments, staple Bible verses, write sermons and so forth on a survey and mail it back. It is difficult enough to get people to respond to surveys in general and some of the clergy selected for the survey not only did not participate in the survey, but used it to deliver a sermon to the researcher. Does this behavior by the selected sample of participants raise any red flags with anyone? Does this conduct perhaps speak to the nonresponse survey bias already noticed in the extremely low response rate? Does this already speak to the survey’s basic premise about investigating a possible crisis in religion due to contact with extraterrestrials?

Comment:
This is about gauging the likely response by the religious to extraterrestrial or ET disclosure, but the indication here of a possible crisis explains why the Catholic Church hierarchy are already in crisis mode trying to work out how they are going to break the news and then deal with the aftermath... In my opinion, I think the existence of a Shadow Biosphere should be given priority and ET disclosure put on the backburner. But, there are a lot of people with closed minds who are going to have them blown open by reality, so this distinction may be lost on some.... The arrival of the 'gods' may look like the invasion of another life form to most, but as we finding out, the Catholic Church hierarchy plus 'the elite' have always known the truth that we not alone.... I can recommend The Book that will Forever Change Our Ideas about the Bible written by Mauro Biglino, an Italian bible translator who worked for the Vatican in Rome. After you pay attention to what he has to say in his book and lectures, plus whatever other research on the same subject, it will be easy to see why the Church hierarchy has a strong focus on ETs but 'shadow life' is also part of the equation... The arrival of both ETs and shadow life is facilated by the use of cosmic 'highways' and we have hit a region of space with a lot of traffic.... this is explained in my book, Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spirtual Evolution.



Norfolk village given rare glimpse of Northern lights [UK]
Villagers in Norfolk have had a rare glimpse of the night sky being illuminated by a spectacular display of the Northern Lights.
The Telegraph, 17th July 2012
The natural phenomenon known as Aurora Borealis is usually only seen occasionally in Britain by people in Scotland the far north of England. But a huge solar flare from the sun meant that the florescent multi-coloured lights were seen far further south in the early hours of Monday. Chris Bell, a meteorologist at Norwich-based Weatherquest, photographed the aurora at 1am on Monday over countryside at Foxley near Fakenham, Norfolk.

Comment:
Purple auroras in the south of the United Kingdom when aurora season is supposed to be over? See previous comments on this subject.



The electric atmosphere: Plasma is next NASA science target
PhysOrg.com, 17th July 2012
Our day-to-day lives exist in what physicists would call an electrically neutral environment. Desks, books, chairs and bodies don't generally carry electricity and they don't stick to magnets. But life on Earth is substantially different from, well, almost everywhere else. Beyond Earth's protective atmosphere and extending all the way through interplanetary space, electrified particles dominate the scene. Indeed, 99% of the universe is made of this electrified gas, known as plasma. [...]

"Particles from the radiation belts can penetrate into spacecraft and disrupt electronics, short circuits or upset memory on computers," says Sibeck. "The particles are also dangerous to astronauts traveling through the region. We need models to help predict hazardous events in the belts and right now we are aren't very good at that. RBSP will help solve that problem."

While the most immediate practical need for studying the radiation belts is to understand the space weather system near Earth and to protect humans and precious electronics in space from geomagnetic storms, there is another reason scientists are interested in this area. It is the closest place to study the material, plasma, that pervades the entire universe. Understanding this environment so foreign to our own is crucial to understanding the make up of every star and galaxy in outer space.

Comment:
Hmmm.... It seems that there is now more and more acknowledgement from world authorities that our planet is becoming a high energy plasma environment. That means high electric fields and strong electric currents and magnetic fields in Earth's atmosphere that is creating many new atmospheric phenomenon and a new source of electromagnetic interference for our modern technological infrastructure. Yes, I know the article emphasises the radiation belts, but there is also many new plasma phenomena appearing in our atmosphere in recent years...



Prelude to an X-Class solar flare (VIDEO)
PhysOrg.com News, 17th July 2012
What takes place on the Sun before it unleashes a huge solar flare? It’s a thing of beauty, and observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory are helping scientists understand how magnetic energy on the Sun creates these giant explosions. Below is a video that shows all the activity on the Sun before it emitted a huge X 1.4- class solar flare on July 12, 2012.


NASA | Dynamic Earth
YouTube, 19th June 2012
NASA animation shows the sun blasting out a giant explosion of magnetic energy called a coronal mass ejection and the Earth being shielded from this by its powerful magnetic field.



Getting ready for the Big One: Japan chooses disaster-alternative capital
RT News, 15th July 2012
The Japanese government is considering unparalleled counter-measures to withstand the inevitable earthquakes and tsunamis awaiting Japan in the future. Experts propose preparation of emergency government offices in the country’s five major cities.

­One of the main anti-earthquake emergency measures proposed by the Central Disaster Prevention Council is a recommendation to be ready to transfer central government offices, as well as the Bank of Japan and other facilities, in case Tokyo is devastated by a tsunami. The country’s major cities, Fukuoka, Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo and Sendai are recommended as suitable substitutes because they already have some governmental facilities and branches of the Bank of Japan, Kyodo reports.

Comment:
I think the authorities are getting ready to abandon Tokyo...



Metro still investigating glitch that led all trains to be halted; problem could happen again
Washington Post, 16th July 2012
HYATTSVILLE, Md. — Metro officials say they still don’t know what caused a software program tracking trains to shut down twice over the weekend, and it’s possible it could happen again. All trains on the Washington-area transit network were halted for a half-hour each time the system failed.

Dave Kubicek (koo-bih-CHECK), Metro’s deputy general manager for operations, says the computer system vendor and Metro engineers and maintenance staffers are working around the clock to figure out what caused the problem. He says he can’t be sure it won’t happen again. [...]

The glitch did not affect Metro’s signaling system, which ensures that trains maintain enough space between them. But it affected Metro’s ability to see where trains were on the lines.

Comment:
Reading through the Lloyd's of London, Space Weather, Its impact on Earth & Implications for business report I saw something that I had not noted before. It says there is a new dependence on mobile phone technology but it is a fact that there are now many recent examples where this technology is now failing and even whole networks brought down.
Executive Summary
5. Space weather can also disrupt pipelines and railway signals

It can cause problems such as corrosion on pipelines and incorrect signal settings on railways. Again, there are means to mitigate these effects, but they usually require keeping back-up systems, which adds to operational costs.

Rail transport
[...] Looking to the future, emerging train control technologies, such as the European Train Control System,61 rely on communications links based on mobile phone technology and are therefore potentially vulnerable to interference from solar radio bursts. These links enable trains to report their speed and position to control centres and for those centres to transmit movement authorities to trains. Interference from radio bursts could break those control links and bring railway movement to a halt. This would severely disrupt railway schedules. Currently, these new control technologies are largely deployed as trials on selected lines, and most train routes still use physical signalling systems. We would therefore expect limited impact in the coming solar maximum of 2012 to 2015, but these control systems are likely to be more widespread by the following solar maximum (around 2024), so the risk could be higher. Developers and potential users of this technology will need to monitor space weather problems on the existing trial systems and look for solutions to reduce the long-term impact. pg 16

[...] Mobile phone networks are often dependent on satellite navigation services for accurate timing information. This is essential to maintain synchronisation of network operation; for example, as phones move between the cells that form the heart of every provider’s network.64 Therefore, network operations are at risk from space weather impacts on satellite navigation signals... pg 17

Space Weather, Its impact on Earth & Implications for business
Lloyd's of London, November 2010



Mapco Gas Station Debit Card Glitch Falsely Charges Outlandish Amounts For Gas Fill-Ups (VIDEO)
Huffington Post, 16th July 2012
Ray Crockett was recently charged more than $84,000 for what was supposed to be a $30 tank of gas. The ordeal left Crockett frozen out of his hopelessly overdrawn Citibank account and with a measly $100 Visa gift card from Mapco to get him through the weekend. Citi has since credited Crockett's account, according to ABC News. But the drama has all but subsided. A NewsChannel 5 investigation revealed at least 16 other Mapco customers have recently been hit with five-figure gas bills after visiting the gas station.
This is where 'glitch' can easily be an euphemism for 'fraud'...



Chile: Retired General Declares "UFOs Exist"
Inexplicata, 12th July 2012
General Ricardo Bermudez (Ret.), Director of the Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (CEFAA, in Spanish) explained yesterday in statements made to Chile’s Radio Cooperativa that his team has indeed witnessed UFOs, that they exist and are being investigated in accordance with their mission, but that these objects do not necessarily include “little green extraterrestrials” inside them.

“A specific case took place in Punta Arenas late last year, where the radar picked up an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) and the air traffic controller told the airplane that it had said UFO in front of him at a distance of four miles, which is equivalent to three steps away for a person on land, and the pilot indeed saw it,” said Bermudez. [...]

“The anomalous aerial phenomenon described as unidentified flying object exists, is present here and all over the world, but it must be understood within scientific etymology. The term unidentified flying object is employed and the immediate thought that comes to mind is “flying saucer with little green aliens”, which is not at all correct.”

Comment:
I want to know when will military personnel get brave and tell people that most 'real' UFOs represent another lifeform... It must be obvious to anyone with intelligence and knowledge that we are dealing with a real phenomenon. Yet, the military response worldwide of their air space being regularly violated by strange lights or even things that look like 'craft' on such a regular basis implies they are fully aware of what the world is dealing with. For goodness sake, we can take it they cannot be so stupid as to not know.... But, regardless of the evidence, Tom, Dick and dumb Harry ufologists want people to believe that every verified ufo sighting must mean that there are extraterrestrials investigating the Earth once again... the notion now just seems too ridiculous for words... Another lifeform that does business here seems much more in keeping with observations combined with modern and ancient historical knowledge.



Violent storm turns night into day over Washington- residents claim the ‘most intense’ lightning storm ever seen
Extinction Protocol, 15th July 2012
In the last few weeks, Earth has received huge blasts of magnetic energy (solar flares) and electrical energy ( coronal mass elections) and this can be used to power up major electrical storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic activity besides all the other space weather impacts.

Freak wave of tornadoes carve trail of destruction through northern Poland, leaving 1 dead
Extinction Protocol, 15th July 2012



That Scientific Global Warming Consensus...Not!
Forbes, 17th July 2012
"So where did that famous “consensus” claim that “98% of all scientists believe in global warming” come from? It originated from an endlessly reported 2009 American Geophysical Union (AGU) survey consisting of an intentionally brief two-minute, two question online survey sent to 10,257 earth scientists by two researchers at the University of Illinois. Of the about 3.000 who responded, 82% answered “yes” to the second question, which like the first, most people I know would also have agreed with.

Then of those, only a small subset, just 77 who had been successful in getting more than half of their papers recently accepted by peer-reviewed climate science journals, were considered in their survey statistic. That “98% all scientists” referred to a laughably puny number of 75 of those 77 who answered “yes”."



“Climate Science” in Shambles: Real Scientists Battle UN Agenda
The New American, 13th July 2012
It is the best of times, it is the worst of times — for science. Over the past several years, the world has been spectator to an alarming meltdown as one serious scandal after another has publicly exposed many of the world’s most prestigious scientific organizations, institutions, and publications as being captives of rigid ideologues who employ rigged computer models, fraudulent “evidence,” censorship, and intimidation to advance a radical “green” political agenda and to squelch genuine scientific inquiry and debate.

Some of the preeminent scientists involved in promoting global-warming alarmism have been disgraced and discredited, after being caught in flagrante in unethical and illegal activities. Even before the 2009 “Climategate” e-mail scandal, many leading scientists who had earlier been true believers in man-made global warming (anthropogenic global warming, or AGW) had begun jumping ship and joining the AGW skeptic side. Since then, the defections have turned into a veritable flood, making this one of the great untold stories of the major establishment media, which continue to trumpet the alarmist propaganda. [...]

The politicization and corruption of climate science is, perhaps, most clearly evident from the continuing cavalcade of shocking scandals: Climategate, Climate­gate 2.0, Himalayan Glaciergate, Alaskan Glaciergate, Amazongate, Sea Levelgate, Fakegate, Satellitegate, Antarctic Sea Icegate, Hockey Stickgate, Hurricanegate, Surface Weather Stationgate, Russiagate, etc. The Germany-based engineer P. Gosselin has catalogued 129 climate scandals at his website, NoTrickZone.com. Fortunately, each of these transgressions against the integrity of science has caused new circles of scientists to become aware of, and outraged by, the chicanery being employed by the political operatives masquerading as scientists.

Comment:
This article explains that there is a flood of scientists jumping ship and becoming climate science 'heretics'. Here, it is most important to note that these scientists are refusing to cooperate with the notion that man-made carbon dioxide is causing catastrophic global climate change. However, at the same time, there is a growing realisation that climate is directed by the cosmos and a new science of cosmoclimatology is emerging. This means that some believe that we are still likely to experience climate change, as it becomes apparent that there is a major activation of volcanoes in tandem with weak sunspot activity and this might mean we are already on the verge of a mini ice-age. Yet, very few are making a connection with Earth's declining magnetic field and the recent ferocity of the bombardment of cosmic energy that historically has always been associated with energy driven evolutionary change that affects all life on this planet.

Piglet born with two mouths and three eyes
Orange News, 11th July 2012
"A piglet has been born in China with two mouths and three eyes. Owner Zhang Hongxiu said the piglet was one of a litter born in Jiangyou, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Besides two eyes on each side of the head, the piglet has an extra eye on its forehead. And its two mouths can suckle milk simultaneously."



Amazon Blames Power, Generator Failure for Outage
PC Mag News, 3rd July 2012
Amazon this week blamed a power outage and a resulting generator failure for a Web services blackout that took down Internet firms like Instagram and Netflix on Friday night. [...] Electrical storms that blasted the East Coast on Friday night pulled the plug on some of Amazon's servers in Northern Virginia, leading to issues with what Amazon refers to as its Elastic Compute Cloud, Relational Database Service (RDS), and Elastic Beanstalk. Amazon said this week that a generator failure at one of its multiple data centers resulted in the outage.

Comment:
From what I have seen and read, Amazon Cloud has had more problems in Europe, but at least this company is not frightened to explain the difficulties that they are having as their computer services are continously disrupted by the increasingly chaotic geomagnetic and electromagnetic conditions on Earth. What is interesting is that the 'Derecho' or hurricane formed over land on the East Coast is explained as an electrical storm. The electrical nature of our weather and particular phenomena like tornadoes, dust devils and hurricanes is being acknowledged by atmospheric scientists and climatologists but this is following the same trend in astronomy, astrophyiscs and cosmology as the realisation grows that we cannot ignore electromagnetic forces in the universe that are 39 orders of magnitude stronger than gravity.



Stormy Geomagetic Conditions and Purple Auroras
Spaceweather.com, 15th July 2012
AURORA ALERT: A geomagnetic storm is in progress as Earth's magnetic field continues to reverberate from a CME strike on July 14th. Sky watchers in Scandinavia, Canada, Alaska and northern-tier US states from Maine to Washington should be alert for auroras after nightfall. Observing tip: The hours around local midnight are usually best for aurora-spotting. When the CME first arrived on July 14th, its effect appeared weak. However, conditions in the wake of the CME have since become stormy. On July 14-15 Northern Lights appeared in the United States as far south as California, Colorado, Missouri, Utah, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Washington, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Michigan and Arkansas. Meanwhile in the southern hemisphere, the aurora australis has been sighted in New Zealand, Australia, and directly above the South Pole itself.

Comment:
Auroras directly above the poles is rare and has only been associated with a new type of space weather....



Why are mobile networks dropping like flies?
GigaOM, 13th July 2012
[...] Why are networks suddenly conking out all over the world? It looks like global networks are developing a signaling problem – more specifically a signaling overload problem.

Details are starting to emerge about just what caused the Orange and O2 outages. Computerworld UK and Information Age separately reported that the network element at fault in both cases was the home location register, or HLR. It’s not exactly the most commonly known piece of gear, but in brief the HLR acts as an anchor point to which we remain tethered as we move about the network. It stores our subscriber identities and knows what services we can access, but most importantly, it tracks each device’s present location so the network knows where to direct inbound and outbound traffic.

The HLR plays its dispatch role by receiving a constant stream of signals from devices updating the database on their current locations and activities. According to Computerworld, a data glitch in an Orange HLR node generated error messages, which then multiplied as they got knocked back and forth around the network. Just because the HLR was failing, that didn’t stop devices from sending out their updates. Like a million kids screaming “look at me!” from the backseat while you’re trying to deal with the coffee you just spilled in your lap, smartphones kept pinging the suffering HLR creating a huge bottleneck. The end result: the whole system fails, leaving millions of handsets without their lifelines to the network core.

Comment:
There a few other articles asking the exact same question of why networks are suddenly failing all over the world. My suggestion is that maybe pundits should look for a global problem.... According to a CNet report, "multiple layers of redundancy" failed due to an "exceptional situation", see, O2 apologises for screwup, admits 'multiple backups' failed. The question is: was this a unique failure or not? The explanation provided here for the O2 data glitch is too vague and 'Telco Engineer' in the comments section suggests this explanation cannot be true.... According to a 2007 NATO space weather report: "Telecommunication mobile networks working with high capacity are overloaded by extraordinary additional requests of users under space weather storm conditions." Since Space Weather causes "Interference of mobile phone radio waves with solar radio waves" and in case of solar radio bursts leads to much higher failure rates, then we have a global problem that degrades mobile phone usage and can possibly cause a whole network to fail..... We will have to see how long it takes before we can establish the true facts, but if this is space weather related, then we can expect these major network failures to continue.

Minor geomagnetic storm in progress (Kp5) as CME impacts Earth
The Watchers, 15th July 2012



CME Impact, Geomagnetically induced Currents & Expected Auroras
Spaceweather.com, 14th July 2012
CME IMPACT: As expected, a CME hit Earth's magnetic field on July 14th at approximately 1800 UT or 11 am Pacific Daylight Time). A geomagnetic storm is brewing in the wake of the impact. At the moment, conditions appear favorable for auroras over high-latitude places such as Canada, Scandinavia, Antarctica and Siberia. It is too early to say whether the storm will intensify and bring auroras to middle latitudes as well.

The arrival of the CME shook Earth's magnetic field, which in turn induced electrical currents in the ground at Arctic latitudes. Rob Stammes measured the effect from his magnetic observatory in Lofoten, Norway: Stammes has observed many CME strikes from his laboratory at the Polar Light Center. He says this one was not particularly strong, at least in terms of ground currents. Whether this presages an equally muted display of Northern Lights remains to be seen.

Newt Gringrich Warns Of Vulnerable Power Grid
The inquisitr, 13th July 2012



Federal agencies differ on potential impact, timing of solar flare
NJ.com News, 13th July 2012
A solar flare is expected to ignite a moderate geomagnetic storm across the planet Saturday, which can have impacts on satellites and the region’s power grid, but until late today the two federal agencies that monitor such space phenomena couldn’t agree about when and how severe the storm could be.

Officials from the NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration both issue alerts and forecasts when the sun releases a massive burst of solar wind and magnetic energy in the form of plasma, known as a coronal mass ejection, following a solar flare. [...]

But early today, the two agencies were a world apart on their predictions.

To NOAA, the flare was no big deal, a minor to moderate event that may produce dazzling Aurora Borealis as far south as the U.S.-Canadian border. NASA, on the other hand, was predicting a far more severe event, one that could potentially wreak havoc on the nation’s power grid and disrupt satellite communications across the globe. [...]

The two agencies eventually agreed the situation was not likely to cause major problems. Nonetheless, utility companies and electrical grid operators were preparing.

Comment:
It is not the solar flare that is the issue which only took about 8 minutes and 30 seconds to arrive, it is the coronal mass ejection that analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab estimate to arrive at 09:17 UT (5:17 am EDT) on Saturday, July 14th. see www.spaceweather.com. So why would NASA scientists start to panic? Maybe, we can surmise that NASA knows things that NOAA scientists do not... Well, even though the CME is HUGE and directed at Earth, surely they don't think Earth's shielding is not strong enough to cope? Hmmm..... Well, thinking about this situation, this is the kind of scenario that is enough to make space scientists agitated because Earth's magnetic field has already taken a pounding over the last fortnight and therefore is already quite weak.... This might explain why electrical grid operators are being advised not to take any chances. When the CME hits the ACE satellite, space scientists will get some CME & IMF data to help them make some important decisions and then 30-45 minutes to take action.



Foul Smell On Plane Leaves Five In Hospital
Rome-bound US Airways plane is diverted to Philadelphia International Airport after an on-board odour causes sickness.
Sky News, 11th July 2012
A plane in the US has been diverted after a foul odour on-board made passengers and crew members feel ill.

Five people were taken to hospital after the aircraft landed at Philadelphia International Airport, according to fire department officials. Local reports said some passengers had vomited and a further seven had felt sick as a result of the smell.

Comment:
Space has many different smells, but it is mostly made up of the burning odor of hydrocarbons and that is why astronauts report that space smells like burned or fried meat. I would imagine that with the recent solar actvity, turbulence in the ionosphere was allowing space to penetrate deeply into our atmosphere, such that air had become highly ionised and passengers were detecting the smell.

FYI: What Does Space Smell Like?
Popular Science, 8th February 2011
"Though a pure, unadulterated whiff of outer space is impossible for humans (it’s a vacuum after all; we would die if we tried), when astronauts are outside the ISS, space-borne compounds adhere to their suits and hitch a ride back into the station. Astronauts have reported smelling “burned” or “fried” steak after a space walk, and they aren’t just dreaming of a home-cooked meal."



Major, Earth directed and long duration X1.4 solar flare erupted from Sunspot 1520
The Watchers, 12th July 2012
"A major and long duration solar flare peaked at 16:52 UTC on July 12, 2012. The source of this solar flare is Region 1520. A Type II and IV Sweep frequency events were recorded. Strong R3 radio blackout on the sunlit side of the Earth was recorded. This solar flare produced Earth directed bright Coronal Mass Ejection (CME)!"



Auroras & Geomagnetic Storms
Spaceweather.com, 9th July 2012
X-FLARE! Big sunspot AR1520 unleashed an X1.4-class solar flare on July 12th. Because the sunspot is directly facing Earth, everything about the blast was geoeffective. For one thing, it hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) directly toward our planet. According to a forecast track prepared by analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the CME will hit Earth on July 14th around 10:20 UT (+/- 7 hours) and could spark strong geomagnetic storms. Sky watchers should be alert for auroras this weekend.

The explosion also strobed Earth with a pulse of extreme UV radiation, shown here in a movie recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory: The UV pulse partially ionized Earth's upper atmosphere, disturbing the normal propagation of radio signals around the planet.

Monitoring stations in Norway, Ireland and Italy recorded the sudden ionospheric disturbance. Finally, solar protons accelerated by the blast are swarming around Earth. The radiation storm, in progress, ranks "S1" on NOAA space weather scales, which means it poses no serious threat to satellites or astronauts. This could change if the storm continues to intensify.



O2 network 'fully restored' after 24-hour blackout
Mobile network apologises, telling its users to turn phone on and off again if they are still having problems
Guardian, 12th July 2012
O2 has said its mobile network is now fully restored after a 24-hour blackout left hundreds of thousands of its customers unable to receive calls or text messages.

The company apologised for the outage, which affected customers across the UK, and said its 2G and 3G networks for mobile data were back online.

O2 said in a statement: "Following previous updates, our tests now show that all our 2G and 3G services have been fully restored for affected customers. [...] Last week, France Telecom's Orange network offered to compensate its 26 millions users who were hit by a massive nine-hour blackout in the country.

Comment:
I was sent a link to the BBC version of this story by one of my regulars with the message: "Unusual for whole network to go down for such a lengthy period, thought it might interest you Susan", (thanks Alan R), but I could not read the story there as the BBC website was down with a server error... Of course, another coincidence...



O2 apologises over 'embarrassing' network problems
Mobile operator likely to have to pay compensation to the almost 8 million customers affected by the 24-hour outage
Guardian News, 12th July 2012
"O2 has been forced to apologise to almost 8 million customers after an "embarassing" network failure led to a 24-hour blackout across the UK and Ireland.

Its chief executive,Ronan Dunne, admitted the massive outage was humiliating for the company.

The UK's second largest mobile network is now facing an investigation by telecoms regulator Ofcom into what caused the downtime and is likely to have to pay compensation to customers affected by the blackout."



Electrical fire in Calgary's Shaw building knocks out radio stations, 911 service
Vancouver Sun, 11th July 2012
. CALGARY -- An electrical fire at Shaw Communications’ downtown headquarters has wiped out radio stations, internet service, 911 service in the core, cable TV service and much of city hall’s phone system.

Fire crews were called early Wednesday afternoon for a two-alarm incident at Shaw Court at 630 3rd Ave. S.W. Calgary Fire spokesman Jayson Doyscher said the incident appears to be in an electrical room on the 13th floor. The building’s employees were evacuated, but EMS said they were not treating any patients.

Comment:
I received an email from Deborah S. in Canada with links and the message: "Living on the west coast of Canada I have noticed what seems to be an increase in unexplained power outages since the blast of multiple solar flares this July." I will admit, this is a lot of disruption all at once... There was an X1.1 flare on Friday 6th, but this was after 12 'M' flares in just six days... According to spaceweather.com, sunspot AR1520 unleashed an X1.4-class solar flare today (July 12th) at 1653 UT, so there is likely to be more strange electrical fires and interference to communications etc. However, the planet gets flash fried with particles in several different ways and due to substorms, some events can occur many hours after a major event as energy reverberates around the planet... Well, we can expect many more electrical fires and explosions in the future as Earth's shielding (magnetosphere) weakens and geomagnetic storms induce large electric currents (GCICS) in the ground and also in the air. (See archives for the July 2011 incident in The Netherlands where 3 tv/radio station towers had electrical fires on the same day).

Thousands lose electric power in U.S. northeast as substation goes down in fire
The Extinction Protocol, 14th July 2012



Calgary activates municipal emergency plan in wake of explosion and fire (VIDEO)
Vancouver Sun, 12th July 2012
"An explosion in an electrical room at Shaw Communications’ downtown headquarters has put radio stations off the air, cut Internet service, hit hospital computers and many city and provincial government computer networks.City officials have activated the municipal emergency plan as they try to understand the magnitude of the service outages and the ramifications."

Stampede power outages not linked to rolling blackouts: Enmax
Calgary Herald News, 10th July 2012
"CALGARY — An Enmax executive says that the power issues that plagued some Stampede midway rides Monday night, including an outage that stranded close to 200 midway riders on the WestJet Skyride, had nothing to do with rolling blackouts elsewhere in the city. [...] Power supply to Calgary and parts of the province plummeted by 15 per cent yesterday after four power plants broke down unexpectedly in a matter of hours."



The UFO Files: Alien sightings in Britain
UFO sightings have been reported in dozens of locations across Britain, with silver suited “faceless humanoids” in West Wales and suspicious-looking “men in black” in Lincolnshire, according to Ministry of Defence documents.
Telegraph, 12th July 2012
This looks like the latest batch of UFO-related documents released by the British National Archives.



Meteor or unknown luminous object crashed in Tarapaca region, Chile
The Watchers, 11th July 2012
There seems to be more reports than usual...



N.J. Man Says He was Nearly Hit by Meteorite
MyFox Ny News, 11th July 2012



Meteor shower in Indian district
Asia News Network, 9th July 2012



LPAC Weekly Report:
LaRouche, 4th July 2012
[...] "The Earth, the solar system is entering into a more energetic phase of it's motion through the galaxy. This is expressing itself in changes in thge Sun and solar activity and also changes on a galactic scale which are producing certain types of energetic weather effects. Now, this is something that we are aware of, we know that we are entering into this kind of period, but unfortunately we are very ill prepared to deal with the consequences of it."

Comment:
This is a 51 minute rambling discussion by Lyndon LaRouche and colleagues who hold a "unique strategic assessment of current history placed in the context of centuries of human development, which often runs contrary to temporary trends or opinions which are portrayed as important issues in mass media." I don't want to provide a proper summary because this a very meaty discussion, but these guys are well and truly awake... The discussion starts off by agreeing about the existence of higher principles in the universe, but I was most interested in the second half where they discuss a need for a cultural revolution and then this moves into a focus on the human mind and how people are being corrupted. Briefly, Lyndon LaRouche is brutal in his assessment when the discussion turns to the control of the human mind and the reductionist viewpoint by the imperialist British who are attempting to control the world through popular culture... Here are some snippets by Lyndon LaRouche:
A failure of the mind... is a failure of the culture...intellect of the culture... what people believe today, what they believe about entertainment, what they believe about music, what they believe about everything is destructive... It is only exceptional people with exceptional training, [who] actually have effective human intelligence because they are trained and mis-trained to believe in this particle view of everything... extreme reductionist viewpoint... everything has to be reduced to reductionist terms... in a British dominated imperialist culture, a planetary culture, because the British took a position of being universal and said we set a universal standard... the universal standard is moral degeneracy, and the moral degeneracy which is steeped more and more into educational institutions and into the habits of our people... the human mind is disordered, it is disordered by the kind of culture which radiates from the British empire and embraces the planet to a large degree... people who are not stupid and corrupt are the exception, they become the exception because they are trained and devoted to a scientific or related subject... only people devoted to a subject of this nature are able to survive intellectually in a British dominated world...

We have to turn the tide, we have to actually make people aware of the unity of what the human mind does and not accept this particle reductionist conception that is taught in universities.... I have dealt with some of the leading physicists in the United States... known figures... and what I have seen in terms of the degeneration of the scientific class, so-called since that time... when I have seen the political impact and political degeneration... most scientists today are gutless wonders... they have a science education so-called, with great defects in it... so, we have got to the point where we don't have a population which is capable of providing the kind of leadership that is needed... we have to understand that we have to train the whole mind of a person, not train them in certain subjects... where they are trying to perform on signal... there has been an attack on the holistic mind...

...this is what the destruction of the human potential is... people become stupid because they accept what they are taught and that is what makes them stupid and that is why the British empire is able to control as much as it controls, it's influence is to influence education, to influence culture... and all they have to do is corrupt people.... and that makes them stupid... their pleasure is the vehicle to make them stupid... popular culture is all designed to make them stupid... And my testimony is that they succeed most of the time... people are more stupid today than they were during World War II.... all they had to do was to get them to accept this taboo, this taboo, this taboo and it worked... Well, if you say you won't get ahead in life, you must say this or you won't get ahead in life, oh you want a career? Believe this! If you don't believe it then pretend you believe it and don't let anyone suspect that you don't believe it!... The worse enemy of humanity is stupidity, especially educated stupidity, because that becomes a code... it's the official policy and people are trained to become animals....

This is the launching of the British going from having an empire, to idea of the British having a world empire, an empire of the British through the mind... and what we are running into here with these conceptions... are conceptions that defy the popular belief of what the human mind really is...that is why we sitting here with our friends with our associates in various parts of the world are able to do things and think things that you would think that the general academic community would be more suited to do...
This is a very interesting discussion on the 'evil' British empire that I have not really come across before... Quite frankly, regardless of identifying who world controllers are, I had already come to similar conclusions about how people are being intellectually controlled... Lyndon LaRouche is really talking about how human evolution is being suppressed and how some are showing signs of devolution because he even mentions people becoming like animals. Interestingly, he is not the only intellectual that is making these statements as a few monitoring the decline of society in the UK have noted that children are becoming more 'feral', see, Children are not feral beasts: Society pushes troublesome youth further to the margins, when what they really need is guidance and support. Obviously, this is some serious discussion for those whose minds have not been 'corrupted' and are interested in working towards a better world... It is interesting that LaRouche & Co. understand at a high level what is happening and even realise that our world is under a new cosmic impetus where change is imperative.



Disappeared Dust Amazes Astronomers
Sci News, 9th July 2012
An international team of astronomers has announced a baffling discovery never seen before: an extraordinary amount of dust around a nearby star mysteriously disappeared.

This cosmic vanishing act occurred around a star some 450 light years from Earth, in the direction of the constellation Centaurus.

“It’s like the classic magician’s trick — now you see it, now you don’t,” said Dr Carl Melis, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California in San Diego and lead author of a paper describing the discovery in the journal Nature. “Only in this case, we’re talking about enough dust to fill an inner solar system, and it really is gone!”

“It’s as if the rings around Saturn had disappeared,” said co-author Prof Benjamin Zuckerman of the University of California in Los Angeles. “This is even more shocking because the dusty disc of rocky debris was bigger and much more massive than Saturn’s rings. The disc around this star, if it were in our Solar system, would have extended from the Sun halfway out to Earth, near the orbit of Mercury.”

Comment:
The Electric Universe interpretation of this disappearance is simple, the lights have been switched off.... See the explanation below. We need more examples like this to force astronomers to realise that we live in an electromagnetic universe, where cosmic electric currents [Birkeland Currents] can literally switch on and off from glow and even arc mode into dark mode. The universe is far more dynamic than astronomers and cosmologists currently want to admit (please excuse the pun.)
  • Seeking What is Hidden
    Thunderbolts Info, 6th July 2012
    What happened to the ring of dust circling TYC 8241 2652 in the constellation Centaurus? [...] A recent press release expresses surprise and confusion about the absence of a stellar dust ring that seems to have vanished without a trace. What is most surprising to astronomers is that the ring performed this disappearance in a way contrary to any expectations. If dust clouds are to go missing from observations, they should do so in an orderly fashion.

    "Electric stars aren’t begotten in nebular clouds, their progenitor is charge separation. Everything we see in the Universe is ionized to some degree, therefore it is plasma. According to Electric Universe theory, the definition of “plasma” is not the conventional one of “ionized gas.” It is that confused apprehension of plasma that falls back on ideas about gas behavior and thermal effects. Gravity, density, compression, and mechanical phenomena give way to plasma physics.

    It is the capacitive, resistive, and inductive electrical environment in and around stars that causes the materials to change in brightness. Therefore, the plasma torus generated by TYC 8241 2652 is most likely no longer energetic enough to be visible to our instruments. It is possible that the falloff of electric power caused the ring to switch off."


Are we safe from the sun? Solar flares keep on getting stronger - with latest hotspot the size of 15 Earths strung together
Daily Mail, 10th July 2012
The sun is a tempestuous mistress - and her outbursts are becoming more and more violent as the weeks go on. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spotted the summer's first 'X' solar flare on Friday - a huge outburst from the sun right at the top of the scale.

This came on the back of 12 'M' flares in just six days, with a M6.1 flare knocking out radio signals across the planet on Thursday - hinting at the destruction the sun could reign on our technology if Earth takes a full blast across its blow. The sunspot group behind the flares - named as AR1515 - stretches across 118,681 miles (191,000km) of the sun's surface.

This makes it's width more than 15 Earths set end to end, said NASA solar astrophysicist C. Alex Young

Comment:
The recent activity on the sun is still mild compared to repeated extreme blasts that we received in the famous Halloween storms in late October/November 2003... The difference now is Earth's magnetosphere (external magnetic shielding) seems to have deteriorated significantly...
  • Government confident UK can cope with threat of extreme space weather events
    v3.co.uk News, 30th April 2012
    The government said it has engaged with numerous experts to quantify the risks from space weather.

    "Government departments, under Cabinet Office lead, have been consulting extensively with space weather scientists and engineers, industry, private sector asset owners and regulators, to assess the specific consequences of a severe space weather event," it said.

    The government has also established a National Space Security Policy team, which will report later this year on the risks associated with space weathe

  • Extreme space weather and mobile communications
    Real Wireless, 16th May 2012
    "It might seem surprising that the activity of the sun could affect mobile communications. But occasionally large solar storms create an increase in radio noise, which could reduce the sensitivity of base stations. They also disrupt the ionosphere, which upsets the availability and accuracy of GPS (which helpfully is not much used in UK mobile systems, but there are exceptions).

    We are assisting on a committee of the Royal Academy of Engineering which is considering these issues and will issue a report to provide advice to government and other bodies on these issues. See this call for evidence http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/releases/shownews.htm?NewsID=729 for more details."
    It looks like there is a new report coming out from the Royal Academy of Engineering [UK] on the engineering and societal impacts of space weather. Good! These are the people I want to see get moving on this issue...


Space Weather Forecasted by South Pole Neutron Detectors
Science Mag, 6th July 2012
Neutron detectors at the South Pole begin flashing, and the scientist on watch gets on the horn to astronauts at the International Space Station. Shut down your equipment and take cover in the shielded capsule, he says: A solar storm is coming.

That scenario is a bit closer to reality, thanks to a team of researchers that has found a way to estimate the intensity and arrival time of charged particles spewed toward Earth by strong solar storms. Such space weather could irradiate astronauts and fry satellites, and until now there hasn't been a good way to forecast it. [...]

By comparing the numbers of neutrons detected by two different South Pole sensors—each tuned to detect neutrons of a different energy—Bieber and colleagues found they could estimate how many protons of various energies were striking the upper atmosphere. That number, in turn, enabled them to estimate the maximum amount of radiation damage that might be expected from the flare. If the expected damage exceeds a certain level, for example, scientists could warn astronauts to take cover or suggest that engineers temporarily shut down satellites.

Comment:
Quite frankly, I think we have got to the stage where it's not just astronauts on the International Space Station that we should be thinking about... We need alternatives to the ACE satellite as the no.1 solar wind monitor because it well past its sell by date and some of the sensors stop working when space weather gets too extreme.



Man on dole 'took £42,000 from Ulster Bank cash machine'
belfast telegraph, 7th July 2012
A man was able to remove more than £40,000 from an Ulster Bank ATM in one day in the early stages of the computer meltdown, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal. [...]

“We are aware of some customers, who for a short period, had access and chose to withdraw funds in excess of their account balance through some ATMs,” the spokesman said. “We can confirm that all transactions carried out at affected ATMs were posted to customer accounts.”

It is up to the bank whether they decide to pursue criminal charges against the man for theft. A PSNI spokeswoman said that officers had been called to an incident at an ATM machine on the Shankill Road around 8pm on June 22. She added: “Police liaised with the bank and the bank ATM was put out of service.” [...]

As news of the Ulster Bank debacle spread, the Belfast Telegraph received early reports of cash machines malfunctioning. One Ulster Bank account holder contacted us on June 24 to say that ATMs in Armagh were issuing extra money to those using Ulster Bank cards. He added that some people were taking out thousands of pounds because accounts weren’t being updated, which meant it was possible to make withdrawals over and over again if your balance was in credit.

Comment:
What a joke... due to space weather (more cosmic rays affecting computers and electronics), these ATM robbery stories are set to continue....

Northampton [UK] Town centre street closed after 20 foot [deep] hole appears in the road
Northampton Chronicle and Echo, 9th July 2012
The article claims that a fire engine caused a bore hole that was 20ft deep... Either there is some new physics operating on Earth, or this claim is truly ridiculous.... I am now wondering whether we will see one of these deep holes that will be big enough for a car or lorry to fall into, appearing on a motorway in rush hour....



'It was a craft that did not come from this planet': CIA agent speaks out on 65th anniversary of Roswell 'UFO' landings
Daily Mail, 9th July 2012
I am not really interested in this story but the image of the floor with a massive light code or phosphene at the entrance of the CIA headquarters is very interesting to me.... And some wonder why I am skeptical of those promoting 'NEW' light codes....



Auroras & Geomagnetic Storms
Spaceweather.com, 9th July 2012
AURORA SURPRISE: July 9th began with a brief but beautiful display of auroras over North America. "I had gone out to search for noctilucent clouds, but instead I found these Northern Lights," says Robert Snache of Rama First Nation, Ontario:

The source of the display was not an explosion on the sun, but rather a fluctuation in the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). The IMF near Earth tipped south, briefly opening a crack in our planet's magnetosphere. Solar wind poured in and ignited the lights.

Comment:
OK, I actually decided to look up the details on the aurora season and it looks like spaceweather.com were expecting a lull between spring and autumn (fall) when auroras are twice as likely as winter-summer... see link below. I am wondering what the stats are, but here we have a beautiful purple and green aurora over North America (Canada) in July, a time when noctilucent clouds can now be expected too... Well, auroras signify geomagnetic storms and we are getting plenty of those all year round.... At some point I expect to see a report that informs us that more humans are being affected.

    Spring is Aurora Season
    NASA News, 4th March 2012
    "Auroras are much more than just pretty lights in the sky. Underlying each display is a potent geomagnetic storm with possible side-effects ranging from satellite malfunctions in orbit to power outages on terra firma. Telecommunications, air traffic, power grids and GPS systems are all vulnerable. In a society that relies increasingly on space technology, understanding these storms is vital."


Sounds of northern lights are born close to ground
WUWT, 9th July 2012
For the first time, researchers at Aalto University in Finland have located where the sounds associated with the northern lights are created. The auroral sounds that have been described in folktales and by wilderness wanderers are formed about 70 meters above the ground level in the measured case.

Researchers located the sound sources by installing three separate microphones in an observation site where the auroral sounds were recorded. They then compared sounds captured by the microphones and determined the location of the sound source. The aurora borealis was seen at the observation site. The simultaneous measurements of the geomagnetic disturbances, made by the Finnish Meteorological Institute, showed a typical pattern of the northern lights episodes.

Comment:
70 meters above ground level is very close... I believe this is unrelated to the sky sounds that have been dubbed Sounds of the Apocalypse and the comments here from Canadians who have heard these aurora sounds is quite interesting. At the moment, scientists either say 1. that the strange 'Apocalypse' sounds have an electromagnetic origin and are somehow emitted from the aurora or radiation belts (but I believe sounds are coming from the magnetosphere but the final proof is related to the time of year and Earth's orientation with respect to a major cosmic source of energy....) or other scientists describe the source as 2. "acoustic-gravity waves that are being generated by very large-scale energy processes. These processes include powerful solar flares and huge energy flows generated by them, rushing towards Earth's surface and destabilizing the magnetosphere, ionosphere and upper atmosphere." Since, there are new sources of cosmic energy hitting our solar system, I am quite confident that that we will get more of the same types of noises again early next year and that will be good enough proof for me about what is really going on...



Banking IT ‘Glitch’ Reaches Germany: Deutsche Postal Bank Halts ATM Transactions
Silver Doctors, 7th July 2012
The IT ‘glitch’ that has entirely shut down RBS’ NatWest Bank and halted ATM transactions at Russia’s largest bank Sberbank, has now spread to Germany’s largest bank, Deutsche Postbank.

Deutsche Postbank Friday reported its own IT glitch that has completely paralyzed its ATM’s nationwide. While this entire string of 21st Century Bank Holidays has received zero MSM coverage, it is appearing more and more likely that the derivatives domino chain known as insolvency has been triggered.

Comment:
Hmmmm.... In the comments, 'Tears of the Moon' disagrees that this is a liquidity issue and he provides a nice little tutorial on ATMs and ATM communication with their hosts, based on his 20 years of experience. We are also told there are regular ATM outages in France and I suspect this is a design issue associated with space weather and most likely cosmic rays flipping bits and bytes. I was unaware of problems with ATMs in Russia but in the comments, there are claims that there have also been problems in Spain alongside the well known problems in Scotland and the UK. Quite frankly, I would hazard a guess that this is an ongoing worldwide problem, cosmic rays have no boundaries....

Apple blames app glitch on rogue server
Today Online, 8th July 2012
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple has blamed a rogue App Store server for a glitch that meant popular iPhone and iPad apps including Instapaper were corrupted and rendered unusable.

The firm said that the server wrongly included a Digital Rights Management (DRM) code when the apps were downloaded, which meant they could not be opened. Apple normally uses DRM to ensure that apps work only for users who have paid for them or are authorised to use them, reported the Daily Telegraph.
Hmmm... Things are getting worse.... Maybe, I mean the excuses are getting worse.... Seriously, some techie forgot to set up the right security on a server? More Tech info: The “APP”LE Drama Continues



Computer glitch deletes German crime cases
A computer glitch at Germany's federal police headquarters deleted evidence on organised crime and terrorism cases in another embarrassing blow to the country's intelligence services.
Telegraph, 9th July 2012

Comment:
If you google "glitch" at Google News, there are always recent examples... That is because increasingly high levels of cosmic rays are affecting computers, but the chaos is only really just starting as Earth's magnetic shielding continues to weaken. Currently, few seem to realise that Earth is becoming an increasingly cosmic environment, hence we will continue to see computer and electronics failures until society takes space wather much more seriously. However, a computer "glitch" can be used as a convenient excuse for incompetence and foul play....



Computer glitch 'wrongly jailing young people'
ABC Sydney, 8th July 2012
"Young people who claim they have been falsely imprisoned due to a computing glitch are today launching a class action against the New South Wales Government."



Welcome to active solar July! X-flare, geomagnetic storming, new sunspots
The Watchers, 7th July 2012
As expected, a giant sunspot AR1515 unleashed a strong X1.1 solar flare on July 6th at 23:08 UTC. This event triggered a 10cm Radio Burst and a Type IV Sweep Frequency Event. Preliminary analysis indicates the Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) associated with this event is not headed directly at Earth, it looks to be headed south and to the west. This should have little impact on Earth.

Comment:
I expect to hear more reports of glitches due to the proton storm that accompanied the X1.1 flare.



M'sian UFOs: We are not ALONE
Malaysia Chronicle, 7th July 2012
ARE THERE OTHER LIFE FORMS? Over the years, society has been intrigued by the idea of an advanced and intellectual foreign race fully equipped with laser guns and oval-shaped aircraft. Punitha Kumar speaks to local UFO enthusiasts and seeks if 'the truth is out there'

"THE clear blue skies were roaring." This was what the villagers of Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, said when questioned during an extraterrestrial site visit conducted by the National Space Agency (Angkasa) at the beginning of this year.

Angkasa (strategic and international relations unit) head and scientific officer Mohd Zamri Shah Mastor, who was part of a five-man team there, said more than 10,000 villagers believed there were extraterrestrial activities taking place in the vicinity. [...]

"Angkasa's stand is never to deny there are other life forms apart from humans, but if there is no proof sustaining claims and allegations of green-eyed monsters, we will not speculate."

Comment:
This is a strange article coming from Malaysia..... So.... is this a case of officialdom just monitoring UAP activity? As it is now very clear, anyone who is anyone knows that the inhabitants of planet Earth are most certainly not alone... it is undeniable because the scientific evidence and otherwise is overwhelming...

"Preponderance of evidence" UFOs exist: expert
CBS News, 30th June 2012
"Is there really someone out there, or not? Rebecca Jarvis and Terrell Brown spoke with James Fox and Erin Ryder of the new National Geographic Channel show "Chasing UFOs" about their findings."
I think UFO/UAP disclosure is coming....



UFOs sweep the skies: Orbs spotted worldwide (VIDEO)
RT News, 6th July 2012
Fast flying orbs of light have been spotted in the US and Europe almost simultaneously. While many suggest they were the same UFOs, the question remains: how they could travel so fast? First the phenomenon was spotted over Salt Lake City, Utah, about a week ago. Then it was also seen in Poland, Greece and Slovakia, some 9,000 kilometers away.

Footage uploaded by many who witnessed the UFOs reveals that they appeared almost simultaneously. The trajectory of the mysterious orbs was nothing like that of any man-made flying object. The orbs were of red and orange color and were moving very fast, witnesses say. Many witnesses noted heavy rains in the regions where the orbs appeared.

Comment:
The Veil is Lifting.... It does seem that world authorities are progressing with disclosure of the existence of a shadow biosphere and the existence of our cosmic neighbours.



UFO Orbs Spotted Worldwide, Appearing Almost Simultaneously As Overall UFO Activity Continues to Increase
Alien Digest, 6th July 2012



Scientist Finds Hidden Portals in Earth’s Magnetic Field
Gizmodo News, 3rd July 2012
According to NASA, Jack Scudder—a researcher at the University of Iowa—has found "hidden portals on Earth's magnetic field [that] open and close dozens of times each day." Some of them are open for long periods of time.

Scudder says that these portals "create an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun's atmosphere 93 million miles away."

Called X-points or electron diffusion regions, they are located "a few tens of thousands of kilometers from Earth. The portals are created through a process of magnetic reconnection in which lines of magnetic force from both celestial bodies mingle and criss-cross through space. The criss-crossing creates these x-points.

The portals are "invisible, unstable and elusive," opening and closing without any warning. When they open, however, they are capable of transporting energetic particles at high speed from the Sun's atmosphere's to Earth's, causing geomagnetic storms.

Comment:
Hmmm.... What exactly are we being told here? Earth's magnetic field can erratically open up big holes that floods Earth with cosmic energy that generate geomagnetic storms..... Quite frankly, we need to be told what this means in terms of Earth's cosmic shielding and whether these portal openings are getting bigger and more frequent...

Neglected Psychic Phenomena: I. The Levitation of the Human Body
Atlantic University's Scholar in Residence, 29th June 2012
This is the first of a series of short essays about psychic phenomena that are generally neglected in recent times. A good example is the levitation of the human body, the topic of Joachim Bouflet’s La Levitation chez les Mystiques (Paris: Jardin de Livres, 2006. 202 pp. ISBN 2-914569-27-0), which I discuss here.



Forget little green men: Aliens may look like jellyfish with orange bottoms, says government adviser
Daily Mail, 6th July 2012
Forget little green men. Aliens may look like giant jellyfish with orange bottoms, a leading space scientist has claimed. Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a satellite expert and government adviser, said it is likely that there is extra-terrestrial life - it is just more alien than you’d imagine.

Rather than being the little green men so beloved of Hollywood directors, they may look like football-field sized jellyfish, complete with onion-shaped appendages and an orange underbelly or bottom. Generated from silicon, rather than the carbon that is the basis of life as we know it, the creatures are able to live off light absorbed through their ‘skin’ and chemicals sucked in through their giant mouths.

Other alien adaptations could include ‘talking’ via pulses of light. But while they might resemble jellyfish, they will live not in the sea but in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-like planet, where they float around. The orange underside acts as camouflage, allowing them to escape predators in a fiery atmosphere, while the onion-like appendages act as buoyancy sacs, taking in and letting out gas so it can gain or lose altitude like a hot air balloon.

Comment:
Even though we are being told the opinion of one 'government adviser', these jelly fish type entities have been seen floating around in our skies... see various reports in the News of the Imbalance archives or google to find reports on various other UFO websites. This appears to be 'soft' disclosure, so it does look like officialdom are continuing to wake folk up to the reality of Earth becoming a cosmic acquarium. Governments simply have no choice, because ancient warnings of 'The Return of the Gods' or 'The Return of the Ancestors' associated with the start of a new World Age have proven to be accurate. Full disclosure of the existence of a shadow biosphere cannot be much longer now.... I don't believe there is a threat (neither do the military), because we have lived alongside the shadow biosphere forever... We must remember, that they are most likely the original form of life and whether we can see them or not, over millions of years of regular influxes, humans are still here.

Witnesses see "Giant Jellyfish" in the sky over Leakesville, Mississippi
Lights in the sky, 4th July 2012
There have been many recent reports but please note the shadow biosphere is a very large range of plasma entities.... More discussion and links over at ATS Forget little green men: Aliens may look like jellyfish with orange bottoms!

UFO: Fireball orb appears near Port Columbus, Ohio
Ottawa UFO Examiner, 25th June 2012



The great hole of China: Giant 30m chasm suddenly opens up on road and swallows car
Daily Mail, 5th July 2012
Police had to launch a desperate late-night rescue operation in China after a section of highway collapsed into a giant sinkhole, trapping a car and killing at least one passenger.

The cavernous hole appeared along a busy stretch of Xiangjiang Road in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, central China, early this morning.

The 30m-square pit swallowed a passing car, and at least one person died at the scene before emergency services could haul anyone to safety. [...]

One rescuer with the local fire brigade described the sinkhole as being so deep, 'we cannot see the bottom of the pit with the naked eye'.

Comment:
This 'sinkhole' looks laser cut to me and I now understand why we are seeing a lot of these holes over China, but they are appearing elsewhere... So far, I have not come across a scientific article by anyone brave enough to explain that we are now experiencing enhanced natural lasers operating in Earth's atmosphere or even hitting us from space, even though there is ample evidence in a selection of different types of holes. Whatever, it must be noted that the existence of natural lasers in outer space and in Earth's atmosphere is already scientific fact. This is a quote from the book Through the Curtain (1983) by Viola Petitt Neal, Ph.D.
November 16, 1963

Night Class

Recalled by Viola Petitt Neal

Cosmic Energies and Their Effect on the Planet Earth

At present the solar system has moved into great streams of Cosmic Energy in space. Some of these energies, striking through the surface of the earth, have the effect of melting substances and they do become molten, although ordinarily they may be in a solid state. [...]

We must explain a little more clearly how these cosmic radiations affect the planet. You have a good example in a recent discovery in science which will somewhat explain the action of these radiations. The laser beam will instantly make steel molten when it strikes it. The beam can travel through space or the atmosphere without appearing hot, but when it strikes steel for example it will burn a hole in it instantly. This beam can also be directed for certain kinds of surgery to do a specific job.

These cosmic radiations of energy are of many different types. Some affect only certain minerals or solid substances and not others. At this time, the solar system is moving through a new area in space where great cosmic streams are and tides affect the sun and all the planets, first of all, on the physical level. This has happened before in the time of Atlantis approximately 25,000 years ago. These changes come in cycles of about 24,000 years. It is a cosmic spiral and cycle difficult for man to identify because he has not been able to span in his awareness such vast reaches of time. Much that is now considered to be authentic geology is not correct. However, it the best man can achieve by applying reasoning to what he is able to observe.

These radiations will raise the frequency of the planet and affect consciousness. The actual substance, physical, astral and mental, is even at the present moment being raised.

Source: A Thousand Dollars Book Celebration, 7th April 2011 By Susan Joy Rennison



Air France crash 'due to pilot and technical failings'
BBC News, 5th July 2012
Technical failure and human error led to the loss of an Air France flight over the Atlantic in June 2009 and the deaths of 228 people, according to the final report into the crash. The report by France's aviation authority, the BEA, blames the Airbus A330's ergonomics as well as inappropriate action by the pilots.

The jet disappeared in a storm while en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro. It took nearly two years for the flight recorders to be found. The BEA said that the disaster began with the malfunctioning of speed sensors known as Pitots during a period of turbulence.

Comment:
The question not answered here is what 'knocked out' the speed sensors.... I would suggest the answer is electromagnetic intereference. It is a fact that NASA have got involved with the whole issue of air turbulence and therefore we can only presume that this is directly related to space weather. NASA have made it clear that planet Earth is now experiencing the new phenomenon of massive plumes of ions during space weather events. In plain language, airplanes are literally flying into massive electric currents that can fry electronics, therefore pilots need assistance because this can have serious consequences for safety. Please see links below for more details.

Strange Space Weather over Africa
NASA News, 13th November 2007



NASA To Help Aircraft Avoid Ocean Storms, Turbulence
Red Orbit News, 7th July 2009



Would Finding Aliens Shatter Religious Beliefs?
Space.com, 25th June 2012
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The discovery of life beyond Earth would shake up our view of humanity's place in the universe, but it probably wouldn't seriously threaten organized religion, experts say. Religious faith remains strong in much of the world despite scientific advances showing that Earth is not the center of the universe, and that our planet's organisms were not created in their present form but rather evolved over billions of years. So it's likely that religion would also weather any storms caused by the detection of E.T., researchers say. [...]

God's other children? [& critters....]

Further, the news that we're not alone in the universe likely wouldn't come as a huge shock, because large numbers of people in the United States and abroad already believe that E.T. is out there somewhere. [...] So rather than being shaken to its foundations by the confirmation of life on another planet or moon, organized religion may accept the news, adapt and move on.

Comment:
Hmmmm.... interesting...... Maybe some folk realise that it is now impossible to ignore the reality of our cosmic neighbours floating about... here, there and everywhere...

Are Some UFOs Living Space Beings?
Huffington Post, 26th June 2012
It looks like a few more folk are engaging brain.... There is some interesting info here...



Afghans fear mysterious school 'poisonings'
BBC News, 4th July 2012
A mysterious wave of sickness has affected a number of schools in Afghanistan. Hundreds of schoolgirls have been taken to hospital, and many teachers and officials suspect poisoners are to blame. But no poison has yet been found.

At the Bibi Hajera School in northern Afghanistan's Takhar province, the day begins differently now. The girls arrive in their clean white headscarves, but before they enter the classroom, their teachers search them. Each girl is patted down, even the smallest, and their schoolbags are opened and inspected.

On 23 May, class after class fell ill. By the end of the week, more than 40 were sick, and the school closed. Deliberate poisoning of the school water pump was suspected.

[...] At times local officials have given conflicting information - that the sickness was caused by poisons, then blaming mass hysteria. The girls usually left hospital within hours. None has died.

Comment:
Is this another example of mass hysteria? Since 2009, there seems to have been quite a few BBC reports of these incidents.



Ulster Bank executives brief Stormont on computer failure
BBC News, 5th July 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18717547 Ulster Bank's ongoing problems are expected to be fixed by 16 July, executives have told the NI Assembly. Thousands of customers in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic are being affected by a computer failure at the bank's parent company RBS.

Senior members of the bank have been at Stormont to explain the crisis to a committee of assembly members. Jim Brown, Ulster Bank Group CEO, said next week would be the final week of any significant delays for customers.

Comment:
This is apalling.... 4 weeks to fix up their databases affecting millions of bank accounts and nobody has resigned....

Ulster Bank CEO Jim Brown apologises to customers over technical crisis
RTE News, 5th July 2012

Ulster Bank counts the cost of catastrophic IT meltdown
Irish Times, 6th July 2012
Here we are presented with another version of this catastrophic IT meltdown...



NatWest customers were double-charged for personal loan repayments during IT fiasco
Daily Mail, 4th July 2012
Royal Bank of Scotland has botched customer payments for the second time in a fortnight.

Days after leaving 7.5million customers penniless or struggling to use their accounts, the state-owned bank has accidentally taken loan payments from tens of thousands of borrowers twice.

It was forced into a humiliating apology yesterday after the fresh computer error unexpectedly swiped up to £800 from NatWest and RBS customers.

Last month a fault in the bank’s computers meant customers did not receive their wages or missed vital mortgage or loan payments after direct debits were not paid.

RBS said it was still investigating how many were hit by the latest problem which affected customers with personal loans. RBS has an estimated two million such customers, but said it was ‘aware that a small number of personal loan payments from customers have been debited twice’.

Comment:
This is incredible.... see previous comments

RBS gives more detail on IT failure train wreck
Z D Net, 2nd July 2012

Comment:
The explanation from RBS / NatWest IT failure is so deliberately vague, that the author of this article suggests, "(It's important to note that a software bug or hardware failure could have caused the problem, although this is less likely than human error.)" Well, I simply cannot believe the cover story about a live update going disasterously wrong for reasons I have already explained. The standard process of testing and change management procedures, through various computer environments DEV (short for development) and then PSEUDO and LIVE is all designed to prevent major foul-ups.... One-off updates to live systems are NEVER done directly.... only through a migration of software from at least one testing environment... I think we have been given a clue that computer memory had been wiped SOMEHOW during an update....because "the team could not access the record of transactions that had been processed up to the point of failure." How can there be a record if the wipeout of memory was random? Software and database information get moved into computer memory for processing but computer memory can be corrupted by a random process (maybe EM interference?) and that is why there is no error log and a subsequent nightmare trying to fix this problem.... The corruption of computer memory explains some of the relevant bits and pieces of information provided by bank spokespersons in their attempt to hide the truth.... Whatever, we must note that however the memory was wiped, the same could happen to any computer installation processing commercial, government and military data on this planet..... The difference is how quickly IT staff respond and deal with the problem.... the RBS / NatWest IT failure has already reached legendary status in the IT Hall of Shame... beyond terrible... Update I have changed my mind because I don't have enough information about how and when CA7 batch scheduler software and the database were corrupted, a memory wipe could have happened before or during data processing..... BUT, I cannot understand why this was not a straight forward disaster recovery and reprocessing started at a point when the database and software were uncorrupted....

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...



Japanese Anesthesiologist Completely Faked 172 Papers
Pop Sci News, 4th July 2012
Science // Scientific papers are faked sometimes. That's obviously dangerous, especially when the researcher works for the pharmaceutical industry or has a clear agenda. But we've never seen anything quite like this: a Japanese anesthesiologist named Yoshitaka Fujii has been found to have fabricated a hundred and seventy-two papers over the course of 19 years, more than even Joachim Boldt, who fabricated 90.

Comment:
The issue is not about just one person, as insiders tell us that subverting the scientific method is quite widespread.



No evidence of mermaids, says US government
BBC News, 3rd July 2012
I think world controllers are rattled....



If One Storm Can Turn D.C. Dark For Several Days, What Would A Massive EMP Burst Do
The Economic Collapse, 3rd July 2012
[...] "How in the world would any of us survive in a world without electricity? In past centuries our forefathers knew how to survive in such a world, but most of us do not have the same skills or resources that they had."
The simple answer is that most people relying on the comforts of our modern technological society will die very quickly [if the power grid is mostly destroyed] but those with hard lives in poor parts of the world will most likely survive as they are not reliant on a stupid system of a centralised power grid for electricity that is now vulnerable to space weather and/or sabotage.

Fixing Power Outages: It’s Complicated
Zen Haven, 4th July 2012



'Zombie' attack Indianapolis video: David Martin fights off cops, stun gun shocks in 'ninja' attack
wptv.com News, 3rd July 2012
A naked man went on a rampage against police officers, doing ninja-like flips and ignoring stun gun shocks -- and it was all caught on video.

David Martin, 27, was recorded running down the middle of a street, punching people during a violent frenzy in Indianapolis on May 20, Fox 59 reports .

According to nydailynews.com , police attempted to subdue Martin with a stun gun, tackling him to the ground.

Comment:
These reports of naked people going beserk in the streets have been going on for some time with the most high profile incident taking place in March when the Kony 2012 filmmaker was caught nude, swearing and masturbating on the streets of San Diego.



'Beatings', sniper nests and a punishment block called 'The Hole': Inside Scientology's strict Sea Org which Suri Cruise faced joining – and which drove her parents apart
Daily Mail, 3rd July 2012
These pictures reveal the headquarters of Scientology's higher order where members pledge their allegiance for one billion years - and which may have cost Tom Cruise his marriage.

The prospect of sending six-year-old Suri to the Sea Organisation, or Sea Org as it is known, is what is said to have been the final straw for Katie Holmes before she filed for divorce.

The clergy like group is run like a military clique from the Scientology Gold Base in California which has a sniper-style nest bunker on the site.

Comment:
According to social scientists (recommended book about cults, Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change [1978, 1979, 1995, 2005] by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman), it takes 12 years on average to recover (de-program) from Scientology, a cult that some experts consider to be the most mind controlling on the planet.

Fish With Teeth Found in Illinois Lake (VIDEO)
Zen Havens, 3rd July 2012

Open Letter to All “UFO Researchers”
John Keel describes the general mindset of UFO research... BUT, this cannot apply to more recent serious research by real scientists like the 25 years of work monitoring UAPs in Hessdalen that started in 1984 using state of the art scientific equipment.



Lantern event sparks 'meteor' sightings
Stuff.co.nz News, 1st July 2012
A number of Christchurch residents reported sightings of a suspected meteor or meteor shower in the skies over Canterbury last night. [...]

Adams said the light seemed to be heading west, in the direction of the Alps. She described a "bright red-orange light" that flickered until "it went dark and I could no longer see it".

"I thought I could see a slight V-shape as well. I can't think of what else it would be other than a meteorite burning up in the atmosphere," she said.

Another resident who was driving at 7.30pm reported a "strange orange light moving across the night sky from east to west, then just stop and fade away".

Comment:
Maybe this is a number of red orbs flying in a V-shaped formation like geese.... some of the shadow biosphere going about their business...



Meteor hits ocean off Perth 2012
YouTube, 1st July 2012
"This was june 30 2012 in perth western australia. Meteor reported hitting ocean leaving large vapor trail."

Comment:
Many people don't think this is a meteor and I suggest we have another 'ghost rocket' type plasma phenomenon arrival or departure... In recent years there have been some examples that have caused a sensation... See archives for previous comment. Best of the Blog Space Weather Asteroids, Fireballs, Meteorites, Ghost Rockets & Other Strange 'Heavenly Phenomena'.















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