News of the Imbalance July – August 2013
Power Grid Down Drill To Be Conducted By US Government
Off The Grid News, 28th August 2013
Power grid vulnerabilities are finally garnering some attention by government officials.
An electrical grid joint drill simulation is being planned in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Thousands of utility workers, FBI agents, anti-terrorism experts, governmental agencies, and more than 150 private businesses are involved in the November power grid drill.
The downed power grid simulation will reportedly focus on both physical and cyber attacks.
The antiquated electrical system in the United States has been one of the most neglected pieces of integral infrastructure.[...]
The disaster drill is being described as a crisis practice unlike anything the real power grid has ever experienced. The GridEX II drill Nov. 13-14 will focus primarily on how governments will react if the electrical grid fails and, for instance, the food supply chain collapses.
Comment: THIS IS IMPORTANT.... THIS IS IMPORTANT....THIS IS IMPORTANT.
Finally, all the pieces of the puzzle are coming together.... As I have already stated before, the timing of November 2013 for this drill is to make sure that personnel are in place and aware of what they need to do in the event that Comet ISON causes a massive solar blowout. Check out the archives for previous comments, (use google search on the Home page or Archives Menu). We have seen tiny comets cause huge CMEs, but Comet ISON is in another league and we can guage just how electrically active it is when it flies by Mars. If we see huge electrical discharges between Mars and Comet ISON (like McCanney says might happen), then it will be time to start panicking especially for those in the United States who have no survival preparations and are worried. BY THE WAY, IGNORE THE HYPE FROM CONSPIRACY THEORISTS. THE GOVERNMENT MAY MAKE THE DECISION TO POWER DOWN THE GRID ANYWAY TO SAVE IT FROM BEING COMPLELELY DESTROYED... THE US GRID IS ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE BECAUSE IT IS ANTIQUATED, SO THIS ACTION COULD AMOUNT TO TAKING NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. OTHERWISE IT IS TAKING THE RISK OF THE GRID BEING PARTIALLY OR COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND A HUNDRED MILLION PLUS PEOPLE DYING WITHIN 2 YEARS. THIS IS NOT HYPE, WE ARE FACING A POSSIBLE MEGA DISASTER.
31st August 2013: Update
What if the U.S. government already know that in the event of a knockout blow [category 5 geomagnetic storm] they can't save the national power grid? A Carrington level event means the national power grid gets destroyed in lots of different locations at once and no matter what they do there is going to be severe consequenes... Over the years I have pointed out the concern about worsening space weather, the facts are evident, but I think Comet ISON is literally a trigger. We are facing a potential mega disaster because the Sun is blowing out huge CMEs when any tiny comet approaches, but Comet ISON is aready considered to not be a normal comet and the lack of clear images from astronomical sources is also an issue, see this excellent website,
Comet ISON News. It is interesting that those involved in the disinformation campaigns that promoted non-issue comets like Comet Elenin are now fairly quiet. Presumably these people were paid to cry wolf but it's almost like they don't realise that they have been played... What can you say about people who are so stupid? The U.S. government realise there is a huge risk but most people are just too wrapped up in trivialities to understand the issues. Nothing has changed, scientists say a Carrington level event is inevitable and there is a 12 percent chance of Earth experiencing an enormous megaflare erupting from the Sun in the next decade but they also state they are not taking into account long-term space climate change... My work has been about providing the proof that we are seeing dramatic change being driven by the new cosmic environment... Previous civilisations have been destroyed by cosmic conflagrations and humanity are at the next make or break point... Sigh....
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Homeland Security's Napolitano says major cyber attack, severe weather await her successor
Washington Bureau, 27th August 2013
Janet Napolitano has some advice for her successor at the Department of Homeland Security: "You will need a large bottle of Advil."
Napolitano gave her farewell address as Homeland Security secretary this morning at the National Press Club. She's leaving to become president of the University of California system. Napolitano spent most of her speech touting her agency's accomplishments during her tenure. [...]
More interesting was her "open letter" to her as-yet-unnamed successor. Besides making sure he or she is well-stocked with pain relievers,
the next Homeland Security security will need to be prepared for terrorist attacks, more severe weather events due to climate change, and budget challenges, she said.
Plus, you can count on America being hit with a major cyber attack that will seriously disrupt the economy, she said.
Comment: I actually don't want to agree with conspiracy theorists, but the politicians are not helping..... Simply, I don't think it's a good idea to ignore this type of serious warning coming from a top government official.
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NASA Alert: America Blackout & Grid Shutdown 2013 [VIDEO]
Investment Watch Blog, 1st September 2013
"Comet Ison Solar Flare emp electric grid down janet Napolitano warns of unprecedented event"
Comment: Watch this series of video clips on the first YouTube link! The revelation that we had a near miss from a Carrington level Category 5 geomagnetic storm in July 2012 and the upcoming U.S. government grid power down drill in November 2013 (probably due to fears concerning Comet ISON triggering a massive CME), informs us that our technological society is now playing Russian roulette with the Sun. Btw, we are facing space climate change, so this kind of event is coming. It is not a matter of if, it is when, just like all the various space weather reports, scientists, engineers and government officials claim has to be expected. Unfortunately, world controllers might have decided there is not much they can do and instead prefer to engineer some chaos – rather like a controlled demolition
– to remain in control. From my perspective, there is still very little interest in the mainstream concerning the future of humanity, so best of luck if you are interested in survival.
Can Radio Waves Completely Transform Agriculture?
Natural Blaze, 31st August 2013
A single innovation from an octogenarian professor in Ireland is raising eyebrows and gaining accolades, though it is strangely absent in the U.S. mainstream media.
Professor Austin Darragh of Limerick University is employing a new use of radio wave technology that could be called the new or real miracle grow. The consequences of its implementation are being referred to as "the greatest breakthrough in agriculture since the plough."
Comment: Every now and then somebody tries to use technology that the powers that be want suppressed.... This is the “deviant science and technology” that often lurks in the cultic milieu waiting for a more opportune moment to become accepted in the mainstream, forcing world controllers to accept the new status quo. Here, I am quite pleased to see that different types of research that I have written about, have now resurfaced in a combined form to generate and interesting variation on a theme... (Actually, I think there is something in the archives about some Australians doing the same thing to generate excellent crop production results.... I also realise there are plenty of people attempting to do this with drinking water.) Anyway, this takes me straight back to the Theory of Multi-dimensional Reality and the need for any lifeform to incorporate higher charge in order to attract the correct frequencies to function and thus achieve higher health...
Eurex Restarts Trading After Technical Glitch
Wall Street Journal, 26th August 2013
A glitch in time synchronization caused German exchange operator Deutsche Boerse AG's Eurex Exchange arm to halt trading for slightly more than an hour early Monday, the latest in a thread of technical issues at global exchanges.
The Eurex derivatives trading market was halted at 0620 GMT, 20 minutes after trading started, "in order to protect the integrity of the market," Deutsche Boerse said. "An incorrect time synchronization within the ...
Comment: Time synchronization.... A GPS fail? GPS is used for timestamping in computer systems... See also
Eurex Derivatives Exchange Suffers Outage Due To Glitch In Time Synchronization
PROTECTING OUR EARTH
Mapping the Earth's Magnetosphere to Predict and Prepare for Space-weather Events
University of Tennessee, 23rd August 2013
Although the sun seems harmless at a distance, it harnesses the potential to inflict serious damage on our planet. The sun is constantly blasting plasma — a sea of charged particles — in all directions into space at speeds of up to a million miles per hour or more.
This plasma, known as the solar wind, bombards Earth with massive amounts of protons, electrons and ionized atoms that can pose a serious threat to life, as we know it. If these particles were free to hit the planet, the radiation would cause life-threatening injuries to our DNA, and the massive influx of charged particles would debilitate power grids, disrupt communications networks and damage all electronic devices.
Solar activity has a direct impact on environmental conditions in near-Earth space — a concept known as space weather. Solar wind is not the only sort of activity that can affect us here on Earth. Solar flares are explosive storms that occur on the surface of the sun. These flares can emit bursts of charged particles with energy comparable to 10 million volcanic eruptions. The sun also occasionally emits coronal mass ejections, or CMEs — powerful, enormous eruptions of plasma from inside the sun’s corona that are much more dangerous than solar wind or flares. CMEs can send up to 10 billion tons of the sun’s plasma surging into our solar system. When hot plasma from CMEs strikes our planet, it can produce extreme space-weather events called geomagnetic storms, and these storms can cause catastrophic damage to Earth and its technological systems. [...]
CMEs pose a significantly greater risk to Earth than other potentially dangerous astronomical events. The likelihood of the sun emitting a CME depends on an 11-year solar cycle. During the peak of the solar cycle, the sun can emit several of them every day. At the minimum of the solar cycle, the sun may radiate only a couple per week. In the last 200 years, our planet has already experienced two geomagnetic storms intense enough to cost us billions, even trillions of dollars.
“There is an estimated 12-percent chance in the next 10 years of a solar storm of the magnitude of the 1859 Solar Superstorm hitting Earth,” says Karimabadi. “That would cause over $2 trillion in damage.” This amount is equivalent to a whopping 30 times the amount of damage caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, which cost the United States roughly $65 billion. [...]
“There is an urgent need to develop accurate forecasting models. A severe space-weather effect can have dire financial and national-security consequences, and can disrupt our everyday lives on a scale that has never been experienced by humanity before,” Karimabadi explains.
A geometric storm on the magnitude of the 1859 superstorm narrowly missed our planet in July of 2012. If this particular CME had occurred a few days sooner, our planet would have suffered devastating consequences. Entire nations could be left without power for weeks if such a storm were to happen again.
Comment: Hmmmm.... check out the archives there was a lot of action in July 2012... Over the last nearly 9 years, I have been following the developing new scientific field of space weather prediction. Thus, it is fascinating to see that scientists have quickly abandoned lots of old theory in favour of plasma physics that models reality. After the struggle that early pioneers had pointing out the basic facts that our visible universe is 99.999% plasma that is dominated by the electromagnetic force, and should be treated as such, Space Weather is forcing a new understanding of our reality. What surprised me here is that scientists are using such language as PROTECTING OUR EARTH.... I am wondering if parts of this article are a tad alarmist coming from an academic institution, but I think people should be alarmed, as most are oblivious to the seriousness of the situation. Whatever, it is apparent, the citizens of planet Earth have entered a new cosmological era.
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When Worlds Collide
Researchers harness Jaguar and Kraken to better understand solar storm/magnetosphere interaction
University of Tennessee, August 2013
30th August 2013: Update
I have decided to pin this because it looks like an amateur got this badly wrong and tried to claim we had a near miss in July 2013 when in fact it happened in July 2012, see
Space weather could now cause trillions in damage I have now found yet another relevant major space weather research paper for references and further details about what happened. Dr Tony Phillips at spaceweather.com had the opportunity to at least correct the error and failed see
SPACE WEATHER FACT CHECK:.... In a nutshell, that is the reason why I don't trust him or NASA... IT IS NOT WHAT NASA TELLS YOU THAT IS THE ISSUE, IT IS WHAT THEY WON'T REVEAL... THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE. THE ANSWER IS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH... see background info and links
About that almost ‘Carrington Event’ two weeks ago
Power Grid Down Drill To Be Conducted By US Government
Off The GridNews, 28th August 2013
Power grid vulnerabilities are finally garnering some attention by government officials.
An electrical grid joint drill simulation is being planned in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Thousands of utility workers, FBI agents, anti-terrorism experts, governmental agencies, and more than 150 private businesses are involved in the November power grid drill.
The downed power grid simulation will reportedly focus on both physical and cyber attacks.
The antiquated electrical system in the United States has been one of the most neglected pieces of integral infrastructure.[...]
The disaster drill is being described as a crisis practice unlike anything the real power grid has ever experienced. The GridEX II drill Nov. 13-14 will focus primarily on how governments will react if the electrical grid fails and, for instance, the food supply chain collapses.
Comment: THIS IS IMPORTANT.... THIS IS IMPORTANT....THIS IS IMPORTANT.
Finally, all the pieces of the puzzle are coming together.... As I have already stated before, the timing of November 2013 for this drill is to make sure that personnel are in place and aware of what they need to do in the event that Comet ISON causes a massive solar blowout. Check out the archives for previous comments, (use google search on the Home page or Archives Menu). We have seen tiny comets cause huge CMEs, but Comet ISON is in another league and we can guage just how electrically active it is when it flies by Mars. If we see huge electrical discharges between Mars and Comet ISON (like McCanney says might happen), then it will be time to start panicking especially for those in the United States who have no survival preparations and are worried. BY THE WAY, IGNORE THE HYPE FROM CONSPIRACY THEORISTS. THE GOVERNMENT MAY MAKE THE DECISION TO POWER DOWN THE GRID ANYWAY TO SAVE IT FROM BEING COMPLELELY DESTROYED... THE US GRID IS ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE BECAUSE IT IS ANTIQUATED, SO THIS ACTION COULD AMOUNT TO TAKING NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. OTHERWISE IT IS TAKING THE RISK OF THE GRID BEING PARTIALLY OR COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND A HUNDRED MILLION PLUS PEOPLE DYING WITHIN 2 YEARS. THIS IS NOT HYPE, WE ARE FACING A POSSIBLE MEGA DISASTER.
31st August 2013: Update
What if the U.S. government already know that in the event of a knockout blow [category 5 geomagnetic storm] they can't save the national power grid? A Carrington level event means the national power grid gets destroyed in lots of different locations at once and no matter what they do there is going to be severe consequenes... Over the years I have pointed out the concern about worsening space weather, the facts are evident, but I think Comet ISON is literally a trigger. We are facing a potential mega disaster because the Sun is blowing out huge CMEs when any tiny comet approaches, but Comet ISON is already considered to not be a normal comet and the lack of clear images from astronomical sources is also an issue, see this excellent website,
Comet ISON News. It is interesting that those involved in the disinformation campaigns that promoted non-issue comets like Comet Elenin are now fairly quiet. Presumably these people were paid to cry wolf but it's almost like they don't realise that they have been played... What can you say about people who are so stupid? The U.S. government realise there is a huge risk but most people are just too wrapped up in trivialities to understand the issues. Nothing has changed, scientists say a Carrington level event is inevitable and there is a 12 percent chance of Earth experiencing an enormous megaflare erupting from the Sun in the next decade but they also state they are not taking into account long-term space climate change... My work has been about providing the proof that we are seeing dramatic change being driven by the new cosmic environment... Previous civilisations have been destroyed by cosmic conflagrations and humanity are at the next make or break point... Sigh....
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2 Canadian warships collide en route to Hawaii
HMCS Algonquin and HMCS Protecteur were conducting towing exercises with officer of the watch trainees
CBC News, 31st August 2013
Two Canadian warships are returning to port in Esquimalt, B.C. today after colliding during training exercises while en route to Hawaii.
Officer of the watch trainees on the ships were in the midst of towing exercises, which require close-quarters manoeuvring, when the collision occurred at around 11 a.m. PT Friday morning.
No one was hurt, but the HMCS Algonquin sustained significant damage to her port side hangar while HMCS Protecteur sustained damage of a lesser degree to her bow.
Navy Lt. Paul Pendergast, spokesman for Maritime Forces Pacific, called the collision "an unfortunate accident" and a "rare event."
Comment: Is this just an example of sheer incompetence or another GPS/Navigational fail to add to all the other similar incidents?
TV: “Simulation shows ENTIRE Pacific being polluted by radioactive water in just 6 years” after start of Fukushima crisis — “Experts now fear it may become a scary reality” (VIDEO)
Energy News, 31st August 2013
This graphic shows the gradual contamination of the Pacific Ocean due to leaks of radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.
The simulation, which was run by a German marine research institute, shows the ENTIRE Pacific waters being polluted by radioactive water in just six years.
Although the results failed to grab attention when first released last year, experts now fear that the hypothesis may become a scary reality, after the Japanese government recently admitted that some 3-hundred tons of radioactive water have leaked into the ocean everyday.
Comment: Most people commentating here, think the way I do that the Fukushima nuclear disaster provides the ultimate proof that this world is run by evil psychopaths with very litte interest in the future of humanity. A Zardoz world is coming... I am not sure about the reports of the sea boiling, but even the
BBC provided a link to the Voice of Russia story,
Fukushima radioactive leak causes the sea off Japan coast to boil. It could be steam or fog and/or radioactive, obviously something strange is going on and while nearby countries start to fume, the Japanese government are still failing to take much responsibiity besides decisions to spread even more radiation around the planet.
Another Meteor Blast Over The United States
Spaceweather.com, 30th August 2013
MAJOR FIREBALL EVENT, UPGRADED: NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office has upgraded its estimates of a major fireball that exploded over the southeastern USA on August 28th. Lead researcher Bill Cooke says " the fireball reached a peak magnitude of -13, brighter than a Full Moon, and cast shadows on the ground. This indicates that the meteoroid had a mass of over 50 kg (110 lbs) and was about 40 cm (16 inches) in diameter. It hit the top of Earth's atmosphere traveling 23.7 km/s (53,000 mph)." Watch the movie, then read more about the fireball below:
"As far as I know, this is the brightest event our network has observed in 5 years of operation," he continues. "There are reports of sonic booms reaching the ground, and data from 4 doppler radars indicate that some meteorites may have fallen along the fireball's ground track." (Note: The city in the ground track map is Cleveland, Tennessee, not Cleveland, Ohio.)
Using data from multiple cameras, Cooke has calculated a preliminary orbit for the meteoroid. The shape and dimensions of the orbit are similar those of a Jupiter-family comet. If meteorites are recovered from the Tennessee countryside, their chemical composition will tell researchers more about the origin of the fireball.
Strange Sounds Heard All Over Terrace This Morning [CANADA]
Explanations range from electromagnetic storm to the second coming
cftktv News, 29th August 2013
Was it an elabourate prank? Was it the sound of aliens? Was it the second coming?
Those were some of the suggestions heard today, as many Terrace residents awoke to a rather unearthly sound, which was heard in many parts of the city at around 7:30 this morning.
The sound lasted for roughly 10 minutes -- and was recorded by many people.
This recording was submitted to us by Kimberly Wookey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHi6LjKuNl4
Comment: There is already lots of chatter on the internet and I have already written lots about why we are getting electromagnetic energy from space being transduced into sky sounds. So, none of this makes any sense unless you understand something about astrotheology. You are either aware of the use of metaphors to preserve ancient knowledge or you are not. This is a local news video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT5kLtMr-80
New 'walking' shark species caught on video
Fox News, 30th August 2013
A new species of "walking" shark has been discovered in a reef off a remote Indonesian island.
These sharks don't always rely on "walking" to move about — often, they only appear to touch the seafloor as they swim using their pectoral and dorsal fins in a walklike gait, said Fahmi (who only goes by one name), a shark researcher at the Indonesian Institute of Science who wasn't involved in the study describing the species. In the videoof the newfound walking shark, however, the animal is clearly touching the seafloor.
Comment: The definition of 'new' is ambiguous. Does 'new' mean never been discovered before but has been around for a very long time? Or does 'new' mean epigenetics or even 'natural selection' has kicked in and evolution in a short or long time has occurred and a previously non-walking shark now has the ability to walk... If rapid evolutionary change is taking place then I believe we will continue to get reports of lots of 'new' discoveries, but even when evolutionary biologists catch species changing and evolving over a few decades or 15 generations, some don't like to call it evolution when that is exactly what is talking place. See,
Some Evolution May Not Depend on Genes
Earth Life Likely Came from Mars, Study Suggests
Space.com, 28th August 2013
We may all be Martians.
Evidence is building that Earth life originated on Mars and was brought to this planet aboard a meteorite, said biochemist Steven Benner of The Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology in Florida.
An oxidized form of the element molybdenum, which may have been crucial to the origin of life, was likely available on the Red Planet's surface long ago, but unavailable on Earth, said Benner, who presented his findings today (Aug. 28; Aug. 29 local time) at the annual Goldschmidt geochemistry conference in Florence, Italy.
Comment: I suppose the overall interest here is the growing acknowledgement that there is abundant life out in the cosmos. Everywhere that astronomers look, they find the building blocks for life being churned out by stars. But, even the definition of life is being queried. Narrow minded humans have been looking for two-legged aliens when it is obvious other lifeforms are much more likely. Experiment after experiment can produce crude plasma based spheres with a mix of inorganic chemicals and a short burst of electricity... Plasma spheres in the laboratory that can grow, replicate and communicate fulfill most of the traditional requirements for biological cells. So, the concept of our universe being billions of years older than Earth implies life has developed long ago and may even be ubiquitous in the universe but most humans refuse to consider what those lifeforms would look like. Fortunately, astrobiologists have already realised that these lifeforms probably exist and truth seekers can find enough information to help them realise that the widespread ignorance amongst the general population does not represent the views of the more intellectually equiped and educated.
Hampshire 'vortex of hay' captured on camera
BBC News, 30th August 2013
Mr Farndell had his camera on him and was able to capture the phenomenon
A man captured footage of a weather phenomenon known as a "hay devil" while in the countryside near his home.
Kevin Farndell was walking through some fields near Dummer, Hampshire, when he saw "straw quite high in the sky".
He added: "As I rounded the corner I could see this vortex of hay whizzing around."
Hay devils, sometimes referred to as dust devils, occur when the ground is hot and the rising warm air lifts up light debris.
Comment: I have stood about 25 feet (8m) away from freshly cut grass swirling in a vortex and it was a distinctly electrical phenomenon as the air was totally charged producing a very uncomfortable experience.
This Waterspout In Croatia Is Magnificent (VIDEO)
Huffington Post, 29th August 2013
This waterspout off the coast of southern Croatia is simply magnificent.
Filmed on Wednesday by storm-chaser/photographer Boris Basic in the historic seaside city of Dubrovnik, the video captures the tall, thin vortex as its spins in place, connecting the ocean with the sky.
Basic, who's a member of the Dubrovnik Storm Chasers team, a group of amateur meteorologists who track and photograph severe weather in the region, told The Huffington Post that
the video above captured just one of 20 waterspouts he and his team witnessed on Wednesday in the Adriatic Sea off Croatia's rocky coast.
Comment: I said that NASA were warning us about the start of waterspout season...
Nasdaq admits partial blame for trading freeze
BBC News, 29th August 2013
The company behind the Nasdaq has admitted partial responsibility for a three-hour freeze in trading on the tech stock exchange last week.
But Nasdaq OMX also pointed the finger at rivals NYSE Euronext, blaming them for overwhelming Nasdaq's systems.
NYSE's Arca system sent "a stream of inaccurate symbols", and cut out over 20 times, swamping Nasdaq's computers.
Nasdaq was "deeply disappointed" that its back-up systems failed to handle the data volume. NYSE made no comment.
Comment: So what caused "a stream of inaccurate symbols"?!? I still think this incident was caused by cosmic rays causing bit-flips and as we know, corrupted data and hardware can go unnoticed or completely foul up computer systems. Hence, I agree with the assessment. This is a programming failure because the error was not picked up immediately and dealt with due to poor program testing... I know about software testing because I have been a software analyst in the past. BUT THE BACKUP SYSTEM FAIL DESERVES SOMEONE TO BE FIRED AT THE VERY LEAST. FFS... THIS IS THE NASDAQ TRADING PLATFORM..
Self-taught hypnotherapist turned me into his sex slave: Former RAF man admits vile act while victim was in a trance
Daily Mail, 29th August 2013
A self-taught hypnotherapist faces jail after putting a woman into a trance so he could perform a lewd sexual act on her.
The victim, a married mother-of-three who had been seeking help for weight loss, told police she woke after feeling something touching her neck to find Timothy Porter, 40, with his trousers down.
Comment: Hmmm.... Well, sorry to mention this but it is common practice to use hypnosis in order to take advantage of innocent people. [NLP seduction curses for men wanting to take advantage of women are quite popular these days...] This is a method used in Large Group Awareness Training (LGAT) style seminar business model, where professional persuaders use a plethora of different techniques for influencing people. Many gurus with their quick fix enlightenment businesses, have also incorporated these techniques and that is how they acquire complete control over the life of their followers. In my opinion, the major obstacle to real enlightenment is complete ignorance. Many people are brainwashed into believing that if anything happens, its their fault! They are oblivious to the fact that their belief systems are being manipulated by methods that engineer compliance with the will of the manipulator. Meanwhile, the perps strut about because they know most people are oblivious to how their operate, that is until something really tragic happens...
Global warming is ‘no longer a planetary emergency’
WUWT, 28th August 2013
ERICE, SICILY – It’s official. The scare is over. The World Federation of Scientists, at its annual seminars on planetary emergencies, has been advised by its own climate monitoring panel that global warming is no longer a planetary emergency.
Comment: It is not global warming/climate change/climate disruption/carbon pollution that is the problem, it's space climate change or the evolution of space climate. There is enough scientific sources available in the public domain that make this clear, DYOR. Btw, there is permanent evolutionary change with the
long term decline of the density of Earth's upper atmosphere, so we are getting many different runaway domino effects but keeping track of facts as opposed to politically motivated climate theory is a difficult task. Don't be fooled...
Donald Trump’s Rich Dad University
Salty Droid, 28th August 2013
Funny :: in the not funny way … how Trump University is so exactly like Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad scam seminar series. In this stellar takedown of Rich Dad on CBC’s Marketplace :: Rich Dad seminar salesman are shown making scripts available for victims to use when trying to get their credit card limits raised during the break.
The similarities between Rich Dad and TrumpU are so striking :: it’s almost like neither of these two fake fuckheads came up with the ideas … and are instead just working from a well-developed playbook … what James Arthur Ray had his minions calling “the syntax.”
Comment: The Salty Droid aka Jason Jones has something to say about just how familiar the Trump University scam is to other well known scams... the usual profanity warning is needed... I like this brief response from
Cosmic Connie aka Connie L. Schmidt, who writes:
I am delighted that the little robot has taken on this story — and, as usual, from an angle that most of the mainstream media have neglected. Because Trump is such a high-profile buffoon, this is another excellent chance to hammer home the point that this kind of thing goes on all the time, every day, in Scamworld, via the Internet, TV infomercials, and radio and print ads. And for the most part the scams are perpetrated by people who don’t have nearly the notoriety that Trump does — which in a way makes them even more insidious.
I think the fact that you brought the Rich Dad Poor Dad scampire, and Death Ray, into the picture will help make more people aware of the scope of the problem. I’m still not sure that the masses of people will really get the message, or that if they do they will think it is actually a big deal… and in this case, Trump’s high-profile buffoonery can work against the mission to inform as much as it can work in favor of that mission. But all you (we) can do is keep trying.
For anyone who has studied the tactics used in Scamworld, they will immediately understand the basic principle of selling an idea and using the highly honed art of persuasion on people to encourage them keep on spending their money with upsells until they are broke... What infuriates me is with New Ager scammers, 'broke' also means that their victims have their inner beings broken into and the scammer becomes the guru-god... These people are evil &%ç*"(/ % control freaks... and I really do mean evil... But of course most seekers are totally unaware of the guru scammer tricks of the trade... As long as the children like the tune of the pied piper that is enough.
It’s too easy to be a happiness guru these days
San Diego Source News, 23rd August 2013
One of the factors evaluated when an entrepreneur decides what kind of business to get into or when an investor looks at a new business is whether future competitors can get into the same business easily. A preferred business model is one that cannot be readily replicated. [...]
These days, I would not invest in the burgeoning field of "happiness." There is nothing stopping anyone from hanging out the proverbial shingle, and there is instant exposure through the Internet that used to take lots of money and time to develop.
With no licensing requirements, no educational requirements and no way to test the advice before you take it, gurus of happiness are everywhere. [...]
When Werner Erhard, L. Ron Hubbard and Tony Robbins started out, they were attracted to the business by the realization that there were a lot of people who wanted to be told how to live their lives. They charged lots of money, which actually increased the odds that their customers would feel what they got was valuable.
Comment: Interesting that Sewitch points out Werner Erhard, L. Ron Hubbard and Tony Robbins because these guys are in the top tier of the most successful LGAT master manipulators...
CBOE Futures Exchange Hit With Data Glitch
System Recovers After Temporary Delay of Quotes
WSJ News, 27th August 2013
CBOE Holdings Inc., operator of the largest U.S. options exchange by trading volume, alerted traders to problems with some market-data services early Tuesday, according to notices on the exchange operator's website, before all issues were fully resolved by about 1 p.m. Eastern time.
Amazon glitch hits Instagram and AirBnB
Websites suffer outages and slowdowns after Amazon web server runs into problems
Guardian, 26th August 2013
Goldman puts four on leave after glitch
CNBC News, 26th August 2013
Volcanic 'geyser' erupts close to Rome airport
Italian experts have been puzzled by the overnight appearance of a geyser crater spraying clouds of gas 15 feet in the air, yards from the end of the runway at one of Europe’s busiest airports.
Telegraph, 25th August 2013
Motorists on Saturday were alarmed to notice hot, stinking gas spurting from a newly formed crater in the middle of a roundabout close to the perimeter fence of Rome’s Fiumicino airport -- less than 900 yards from the end of a runway.
Spectators gathered around the smoking crater, which measured about six feet wide and three feet deep, before firefighters and vulcanologists arrived to seal off the roundabout to prevent inhalation of the gas, suspected to be a cocktail of carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide and methane. Tests are now underway.
EdgeScience Magazine - issue 15
Society for Scientific Exploration, August 2013
Edge Science is a new magazine from the Society for Scientific Exploration. Why Edge Science? Because scientific knowledge is still full of unknowns. What remains to be discovered—what we don't know—very likely dwarfs what we do know. And what we think we know may not be entirely correct or fully understood. Anomalies, which researchers tend to sweep under the rug, should be actively pursued as clues to potential breakthroughs and new directions in science.
Comment: No. 15 is free but SSE would like new members and people to donate. Download
here. From anomalist.com: "The latest issue of this magazine on anomalies which features geologist Robert Schoch on the controversial archeological site in Turkey known as Göbekli Tepe, ontologist Aaron Dabbah on the rich vein of anomalies uncovered in seemingly mundane archeological research, and a stirring call-to-action on the part of anomalists by James Clement van Pelt."
Pink Snow Surprises Residents In Karaghanda
Message To Eagle, 17th August 2013
Summer is not yet over, but this does not prevent strange snow for showing up in some parts of the world.
Residents in Karaghanda, Kazakhstan witnessed extraordinary snowfall on August 13. Snow falling from the sky was pink!
Meteorologists predicted rainfall on that day, but snow fell instead. According to weather experts this is a normal and natural phenomenon that cannot always be predicted, just like a tornado or storm.
Extreme weather conditions have surprised us before. We have seen on a couple of occasions how lakes and seas have suddenly turned red.
Comment:Original source:
Pink snow falls in heat of summer in Karaganda
Earthquakes In Irish Sea Shake North West
The British Geological Survey has recorded two earthquakes in the North West, with local residents saying they felt a tremor.
Sky News, 25th August 2013
The British Geological Survey has recorded two earthquakes in the North West, with residents of Blackpool, Fleetwood and Barrow saying they felt their homes shaking. The first of the two quakes had a 2.4 magnitude. It was reported at 5.37am at a depth of 3km (1.8 miles), 25km (15 miles) west of Fleetwood. The second one measured magnitude 3.3. It was recorded at 9.58am at a depth of 5km (3 miles).
Donald Trump sued for $40 million over 'phony' university that 'falsely' promised to make students rich
Daily Mail, 25th August 2013
* Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has accused university of encouraging students to pay for expensive, useless seminars
* Students paid as much as $35,000 to attend the university
* Trump has claimed that the suit is politically motivated
New York's attorney general has sued Donald Trump for $40 million, claiming the real estate mogul helped run a phony 'Trump University' that falsely promised to make students rich.
Instead, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said that the university steered them into expensive and mostly useless seminars, and even failed to deliver promised apprenticeships.
After the lawsuit was filed on Saturday, Trump shot back that it is false and politically motivated.
Schneiderman says many of the 5,000 students who paid up to $35,000 thought they would at least meet Trump but instead all they got was their picture taken in front of a life-size picture of him.
'Trump University engaged in deception at every stage of consumers' advancement through costly programs and caused real financial harm,' Schneiderman said.
Comment: It looks like Donald Trump has copied the LGAT business model used successfully by people like Tony Robbins plus a bunch of other wannabes. James Ray modelled his mannerisms, 'stories' and methodology from Robbins but he added a much bigger component of New Age spirituality, hence the 'content' was slightly different, but the cult and sales tactics were identical. Other similar systems of duping the naive are MLM marketing and pyramid schemes etc etc, but it also reminds me of the New Age 'School of Enlightenment' type scam too... Trump has just done what many others have done, even down to encouraging people to max out their credit cards in the false hope of big returns... Well, Trump's prosecution might be politically motivated because usually this type of fraud is mostly ignored. To be honest, the business model is about making outrageous claims and seeing which fools bite.... This is exactly the same as New Agers believing in the
The Secret and
The Law of Attraction. The real money for the scammers is finding those followers with cash who are willing to keep paying to help realise their dreams, that is until they are bled dry of cash... The mentorship program is identifying the richest and allowing them to get close to the guru where he or she can get the opportunity to extract more from them. For the bit more savvy follower looking to duplicate the scam in the future, I would say a few good photos are needed for 'social proof' that they can rub shoulders with those who are good at extracting cash off followers whilst still maintaining a very thin veneer of respectability. From the 'guru' perspective, why would he or she want to generate thousands of people who instantly become competition? What normally happens in the cult setting is that a certain percentage of followers become completely indoctrinated and are turned into servants for life, often being used to recruit others. For those with broken dreams who realise they have been duped, the internet is a new tool for revenge, but stopping this type of operation requires serious resources and that is possibly why New York's attorney general has stepped up.... Just like the State of Arizona going after James Ray when a few decided that mass killing can't be ignored... Whatever, I hope this latest Trump scandal gets discussed all over the internet and then maybe more people will be truly enlightened on how con men make money by selling dreams. All this is explained in great detail over at the Cult Education Forum
link.
NASA's new mission to study what makes the moon glow
MSN News, 23rd August 2013
NASA's new LADEE orbiter could be described as a space-age vacuum cleaner, designed to suck up the fine lunar debris that shrouds the moon at high altitudes. [...]
Unlike Earth, the moon is not protected by a strong magnetic field, nor does it have a thick atmosphere. This creates a "charged space weather environment" in which nighttime and daytime sides of the moon react very differently with dust due to the presence of light photons "slamming" into the surface and knocking electrons off atoms.
"That means the surface dust can get positively charged," Day said. "Imagine dust particles sitting on the surface of the moon, getting this positive charge as they start to repel each other, and lifting up."
As for why the moon is so dusty in the first place, look at its cratered surface. That's the result of billions of years of bombardment from comets and meteorites spreading bits of pulverized rock about the lunar surface.
Comment: This reminds me of the Stardust Mission where dust was collected on the edge of our solar system and delivered by to Earth... NASA already knows what makes the moon glow, see
Electric Moon Jolts the Solar Wind, so I think this mission is about something else. Possibly, this is just monitoring progress as our whole solar system continues to charge up and become more electrified, new lessons need to be learnt and quickly. For people new to this blog, huge amounts of information about space climate change weather and the impact in our solar system are provided on my websites. Update: Presumably, the "dust fountains" are dust confined by strong magnetic fields and flowing in electric currents. Embarrassed NASA scientists don't want to point out the obvious, when they have been denying for decades that the cosmos is primarily ruled by electromagnetic forces and not gravity. Based on the principle of the charge to mass ration, planets are mostly influenced by gravity, but sub-atomic particles (plasma) and nano-sized dust particles are influenced by the electromagnetic force and that is why plasma cosmologists have been so successful in predicting and modelling what we see happening in the heavens. On a practical level, as our solar system charges up, we will see some severe electrical discharges when big comets interact with the biggest planets. When that happens, all doubts that we live in an electromagnetic universe will dissipate.
Back to the 19th century’: Mysterious techno breakdown hits Gitmo 9/11 tribunal
RT News, 24th August 2013
Defense lawyers for Guantanamo detainees asked the judge in the military tribunal on Friday to suspend pretrial hearings as mysterious computer glitches are just the latest technological setbacks to complicate the legal proceedings.
Defense lawyers for Guantanamo detainees asked the military tribunal judge to suspend pretrial hearings as mysterious computer glitches have made their job a ‘hot mess’ forcing some of them to draft motions with pen and paper.
"We're basically put back in the 19th century," Army Major Jason Wright, who represents the alleged mastermind of the terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, said on Friday, as quoted by Reuters. "It takes about five to 10 times what it would normally take to do defense functions."
Defense lawyers for five Guantanamo detainees said email correspondences they sent were never received, investigative records that took years to compile had disappeared and external monitors were unable to access their internet searches. Even the prosecuting and defense teams had been given access to each other's files.
Comment: I think this appears to be electromagnetic sabotage. Thanks R. v. Straaten for the tip.
Colorado Hail Storms Produce "Winter" in August
Weather Underground, 23rd August 2013
Strong to severe thunderstorms pushed through the Colorado Springs, Denver and Pueblo areas on Thursday night, dropping such an enormous amount of hail that it resembled snowfall.
For the most part, the hailstones were below-severe limits, measuring no more than a dime to a nickel in size. However, larger, severe-size hailstones were reported during the event. The National Weather Service in Boulder, Colo. received a report of golf ball size hail in Jefferson County.
NEW MKULTRA DISCOVERY: Terence McKenna admited that he was a “deep background” and “PR” agent (CIA or FBI).
Gnostic Media, 23rd August 2013
This explosive audio clip that was just brought to my attention today by “Scott” reveals, in Terence McKenna’s own words, that he was in fact an agent. The audio clip comes from Dec. 1994 from his lecture at the Esalen Institute which may be found below in full.
Comment: Terrence McKenna has always come across to me as an absolute creep, but now I find out he was a drug smuggler and wanted by the FBI
and then he says, "THEY RECRUITED ME"... [Dumb New Agers want to believe he was taking orders from a mushroom....] McKenna is not the only well known NEW AGER with ties to the security agencies, I can name a handful of suspects just by stumbling across info that is in the public domain... If you have been checking out the history of the New Age movement (probably because you have been a victim of some of the horrible vile people calling themselves spiritual), then we have to serious question ANYONE who has had any association with the Esalen Institute. This is just another piece of the puzzle of why the New Age movement is heavily policed and staffed with shady characters paid to keep people in the dark. Just think of all those people led up the garden path with McKenna's crackpot Timewave Zero theory... What happened in 2012? Not much that had not been building up for the last 25 years... This revelation will cause some deep embarrassment out there to people who pretend McKenna was a respected academic who wandered off into the New Age jungle... I think this is a significant bust.
Oral arguments set in self-help author's appeal of convictions stemming from sweat lodge event
The Republic, 20th August 2013
PHOENIX — Attorneys for a self-help author convicted of negligent homicide soon will argue to have those convictions overturned.
James Arthur Ray was released from prison last month after serving nearly two years for the deaths of three people following a 2009 sweat lodge ceremony he led near Sedona.
Ray's attorneys have challenged the jury's verdicts in the state Court of Appeals. Oral arguments are set for Sept. 11.
Ray's attorneys have called into question some jury instructions and the conduct of prosecutors in Yavapai County.
Comment: For goodness sake... James Ray is a sociopath, we all know that now... He lies and says he has no money after building an empire on teaching others how to accumulate 'Harmonic' Wealth, so his bail was reduced from 5 million to half a million dollars and he wastes a fortune on lawyers to stop himself going to prison for a long time after killing three people (Colleen Conaway did not even get a mention). It was reported that he left prison supposedly destitute and all his New Wager friends ignored his requests for help (no surprise there, JR badly screwed up and lots of LGAT secrets were released when police raided his offices.... I now understand just how bad things are with New Agers who seem mostly oblivious to what is being done to their mind and soul... ). So, where is the money coming from for this new trial? How can he deny that he refused to help the sick and dying and walked off to have a shower and a sandwich? How can he deny that he went on the run and tried to blame everybody accept himself, when all week before the tragedy, he had been brainwashing his followers into believing he was God? Well, there is going to be a lot of 'educated' people watching this and I hope the prosecution succeeds and manages to lock him back up.
BILLION-TONNE BELCH emitted from Sun to hit Earth this weekend
Polar solar storm could set a few oscilloscopes a-wriggling at high latitudes
The Register, 23rd August 2013
Fukushima operator pleads for international help as radiation crisis deepens
RT News, 22nd August 2013
The Japanese authorities begging for international help has come two and half years too late. Based on the headlines, the panic has started.
Japan's nuclear crisis deepens, China expresses 'shock'
Yahoo, 22nd August 2013
I just don't believe China has been so clueless about the ongoing seriousness of the Fukushima crisis.
CNN: Japan’s nuclear regulator called Fukushima “a house of horrors”… They are not prone to hyperbole, an unbelievable thing to say — “Very, very serious… incredibly frightening” (VIDEO)
Energy News, 22nd August 2013
Lots more terrible news here....
Crisis of market confidence after Nasdaq shutdown
USA Today, 23rd August 2013
Nasdaq in Fresh Market Failure
Wall St Journal, 22nd August 2013
JamesMcCanneyScienceHour_August_15_2013.mp3
jmccanneyscience.com, 15th August 2013
Comment: James McCanney debunks the crazy idea that a 2nd sun is coming into our solar system but I think he has discussed the wrong comet. Comet ISON passes close by the Sun in November 2013 and that is why there is panic about solar activity being triggered. Based on lots of very recent examples, this comet could trigger a massive blowout in the form of a FULL HALO CME that could arrive to cause major problems on Earth. The following article has a trajectory of this comet as it swings round our Sun, see
A "Dream Comet" Heading Our Way? [Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) ]. For several days around January 12, 2014, Earth will pass through a stream of fine-grained debris from Comet ISON on its way out of the solar system and that is why McCanney is most concerned about the possibility of a pollution event on Earth. In October 2014, Comet 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) is due to make an extremely close flyby of Mars. It has already been identified as a VERY RED comet based on images from the Vatican VATT Telescope, see image
C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) and this is why disinformation is being put out about a strange cosmic object surrounded by a red cloud. James McCanney makes up for is faux pas by explaining about why comets can pick up certain chemicals when they cross the ecliptic of different planets and why this 'red cloud' is likely to be deposited on Mars poisoning the atmosphere.... Thus, all those folks thinking that Mars might be the next inhabitable planet for humans might soon be severely disappointed... I am now quite confident that Vatican astronomers were expecting the arrival of this comet as the biblical Red Dragon or 'Destroyer'. This image icon comes from the article:
Mars vs. Comet in 2014: Preparing for Red Planet Sky Show. Update: I stand corrected. Comet ISON does a Mars flyby on its way into the inner solar system in October 2013. This means Mars is being approached by two huge comets aprox. a year apart but at the moment only one of them is a red comet....
Comet ISON to fly by Mars
Mary Untier of Knots, a special advocation for Pope Francis
Rome Reports, 22nd August 2013
[...] Mary Untier of the Knots is Our Lady who unties all problems in life, and frees us from the deceptions the Devil bounds us to.”
Pope Francis discovered this Marian advocation when he lived in Germany in the 1980's, while he researched the works of theologian Romano Guardini.
He was drawn to the significance of Mary Untier of Knots so much that when he returned home he promoted her devotion. Today, the image is worshiped by thousands in Argentina.
Comment: Talk about in your face... This is a reminder for those who understand why there are claims that Roman Catholicism is a UFO religion.... To the Catholic elites out there, we are not all uneducated and clueless, so is it such a good idea to keep pushing this kind of thinly veiled acknowledgement about what Catholic elites really believe?
Nasdaq trading halted due to technical issue
Yahoo News, 22nd August 2013
Nasdaq said on Thursday it was halting trading in all securities until further notice due to a problem affecting quote dissemination.
Dozens of publicly traded companies, including high-profile companies such as Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT) and Facebook (FB), were showing their shares halted. The Nasdaq status message was time stamped at 12:14:03 ET.
A spokesman for the SEC said, "We are monitoring the situation and are inclose contact with the exchanges."
The Nasdaq (NDAQ) options markets also issued a "system update" saying they were recommending firms route all open orders elsewhere.
Comment: Wow.... Processor issue, see
All Nasdaq markets halting trading due to processor issue. Check out my archives, I have been going on and on about the unreliability of computer systems and the continuous stock market "glitches"....This is major...Update:
NASDAQ IN COMPLETE UNPRECEDENTED SHUTDOWN I have been calling this for years now.... How many people really understand the implications of Space Weather effecting virtually everything on this planet? Well you will if you have been following this blog.... Bullseye!
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Goldman trading glitch could cost more than $100 million
CNBC News, 20th August 2013
Goldman Sachs experienced a trading glitch Tuesday that resulted in a large number of erroneous single stock and ETF options trades. Many of the trades may wind up being erased but the error could still cost the firm upwards of $100 million, according to a person familiar with the situation.
"The exchanges are working to resolve the issue," a Goldman spokesman said in a statement. "Neither the risk nor the potential loss is material to the financial condition of the firm." [...]
The botched trades occurred when Goldman's internal computer system that helps to determine where to price options mistakenly ended up sending orders
Comment: These trading glitches just keep on coming.... I imagine many of the super rich think they are immune to changes in the cosmic environment... Well, they are not as cosmic rays changing bits and bytes (bit-flips) is a fact of computing life that we can only expect to get worse... Are Intel busy selling their cosmic ray detector on a chip? I don't know... Update: Goldman assessing fallout from options trading glitch
'The pecking dead': Panicked Russians contact authorities to report eerie behaviour of 'zombie pigeons'
Birds seem extremely lethargic and seemingly fearless
Independent News, 21st August 2013
A number of panicked Russians have contacted the authorities to report concerns over the bizarre behaviour of pigeons in Moscow.
Locals have dubbed the birds “zombie pigeons” after a strange change in their behaviour swept the city – leaving the birds extremely lethargic and seemingly fearless.
Speaking to Europe Radio Liberty, a Moscow resident named Umid said: “When I walk to work I usually see pigeons running and jumping around. But recently they haven’t been reacting to anything at all”.
He added: “When a person walks past them, they used to fly away. But now they just sit there in a kind of funk and don’t even pay attention to you. They’re just not normal.”
Umid went on to say: “I’ve seen some pigeons behaving very strangely, turning around in circles”.
Officials have dubbed the birds “the pecking dead”, and say their condition is likely to be a combination of an intestinal infection that has left a large number of pigeons dead over the last few years, and various other parasite-based diseases.
Hundreds of worried Muscovites have already taken to Twitter to share stories about the “zombie pigeons”, branding the epidemic a “bird apocalypse”.
Comment: Sigh..... the thought crosses my mind that all the zombie movies, website info, "walks", preparations and emergency drills were not for nothing.... The Russian attitude is very strange so I think we have to see if this spreads and what more honest scientists have to say.
Russian sunbathers throw in the towel as 550-tonne military hovercraft blunders ashore
Metro News, 21st August 2013
If you thought people who played loud music at the beach were annoying, spare a thought for these startled sunbathers.
Holidaymakers enjoying the peace on this white sandy beach in Russia leapt to attention when a monster military hovercraft made an unexpected appearance.
Witnesses reported a ‘terrible roar’ and ‘big waves’ as the 550-tonne war craft charged up the shore.
They then watched open-mouthed as paratroopers started to disembark and demand they roll up their towels and move on.
A spokesman for the Russian defence ministry told the tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda that the 60m (200ft) vessel was on a tactical mission in an area owned by the military.
‘Docking at the beach is normal,’ was the spokesman’s rather matter-of-fact response to questions.
‘What people were doing at the beach on the territory of the military (base) is unclear.’
But the newspaper pointed out that the base the ministry referred to was in Khmelevka, several kilometres from the beach in Mechnikovo, near Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea.
Comment: I am calling this as another really embarrassing GPS/navigational fail.... An absolute classic... Incredible...
Quantum paradox seen in diamond
Real-life version of Zeno's ancient Greek conundrum could advance quantum computing.
Nature, 20th August 2013
A quantum effect named after an ancient Greek puzzle has been observed in diamond, paving the way for the use of diamond crystals in quantum computer chips.
The quantum Zeno effect gets its name from the Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea, who lived in the fifth century bc and suggested that if the position of a flying arrow is well-defined for a moment of time, then it makes no progress in that moment, and so can never reach its destination.
In the quantum version of the arrow paradox, theoretical physicists posited in 1977 that if a quantum system is measured often enough, its state will be unable to progress, as if it were true that 'a watched pot never boils'. The hypothesis arises from a fundamental postulate of quantum theory, which says that measuring a property of an object, such as its position, affects its state. The quantum Zeno effect was first observed experimentally in 1989 in laser-cooled ions trapped by magnetic and electric fields1.
Comment: I think this is a status update from the April 2012 article
Quantum computer built inside a diamond.
Quetzalcoatlus: the evil, pin-headed, toothy nightmare monster that wants to eat your soul
Scientific America, 20th August 2013
Whoever wrote this article, forgot to mention that this creature seems related to the 'mythical' Jersey Devil. The imagery used to describe this creature is the same as Christian 'mythic' descriptions of The Devil, who advocates claim has hoofs, horns, claws and pointy tail, see available drawings.
Worse than Chernobyl: The inner threat of Fukushima crisis
RT News, 20th August 2013
I recently pointed out, this operation has to go on forever - a long sickness, but at least not a sudden death. However, this week begins a new development in the potential sudden death department.
There is a curious and bizarre reversal of the natural at Fukushima: a looking-glass world inversion. Unlike the standard marine catastrophe, for example the Titanic, where the need is to manically pump water out of the ship to stop it sinking, at Fukushima the game is to madly pump water in, in order to stop it melting down and exploding.
Comment: Chris Busby is one of my favourite campaigners, somebody intelligent that cares about the future of humanity.
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Fukushima leak is 'much worse than we were led to believe'
BBC News, 22nd August 2013
This should come as no surprise for anyone paying attention. Three nuclear reactors melting down should have been prevented but now the Japanese are being forced to point out that the Fukushima disaster is spiralling out of control. They have been trying to save face concerning their greed and incompetence but poisoning their own population and threatening the world is not something that can be hidden for ever.
Mysterious UFO spotted on India-China border by Indian Army troops
Indian Express, 18th August 2013
Indian Army troops have sighted mysterious unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the Ladakh sector along the Line of Actual Control with China. On August 4, the UFO was sighted by Army troops in Lagan Khel area in Demchok in Ladakh area in the evening and a report has been sent to the Army headquarters by the local formation, sources said here.
There have been over 100 sightings of UFOs along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the last several months but this sighting has come after some time-gap, they said. Asked about the UFO sightings by the Army troops in Ladakh sector, Defence Minister A K Antony had told Parliament that there is no conclusive proof of sighting of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) over the Sino-Indian border.
Comment: What a joke, this article is informing homo ignorantus that the Indian military still can't tell the difference between plasma entities and planetary bodies.... Yeah right.... Basically, reading between lines, the Indian military are still having trouble with the plasma entities that belong to Earth's shadow biosphere appearing in the sensitive Chinese-Indian border. Someone needs to tell the Indian authorities that the orbs and UAPs play by their own rules...
Always smiling, the stroke patient who can't feel sad: Condition leaves Grandfather permanently happy and prone to fits of giggles at inappropriate times
Daily Mail, 13th August 2013
Reuters: Crisis deepening at Fukushima nuclear plant; Upgraded to ‘Level 3 Serious Incident’ — Represents a 100-fold increase in “severity of a radiological release” — Tepco says highly radioactive leakage continues, but unknown where from
Energy News, 21st August 2013
Reuters, Aug 21, 2013: Japan to issue gravest Fukushima nuclear warning in two years-agency [...] Japan will dramatically raise its warning about the severity of a toxic water leak at the Fukushima nuclear plant, its nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday, its most serious action since the plant was destroyed [...] The deepening crisis at the Fukushima plant will be upgraded from a level 1 “anomaly” to a level three “serious incident”‘ [...] That will mark the first time Japan has issued a warning on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) since three reactor meltdowns [...] The leak [...] has not been plugged [...] Each one-step INES increase represents a tenfold increase in severity [...]
Reuters: Crisis deepening at Fukushima nuclear plant; Upgraded to ‘Level 3 Serious Incident’ — Represents a 100-fold increase in “severity of a radiological release” — Tepco says highly radioactive leakage continues, but unknown where from
Comment: It has taken a long time, but has the SHTF?
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Fukushima Governor: This is a national emergency — Massive radioactive leak causes top officials to hold emergency meeting — Tepco: Leakage believed to be continuing Tuesday
Energy News, 20th August 2013
NHK, Aug 20, 2013: Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato has urged the central government to take the initiative in dealing with the wastewater leak at Fukushima Daiichi [...] The prefecture’s top officials held an emergency meeting on Tuesday following Monday’s revelation of a massive leak of radioactive water from a storage tank. The governor described the situation as a national emergency [...] Senior Fukushima prefectural official Shoji Furuichi [...] asked [Tepco] to quickly find out whether the leak has contaminated the environment. Furuichi called the leak extremely regrettable [...]
AFP, August 20, 2013: TEPCO reports worst radioactive leak from tank at Japan’s Fukushima [...] Some 300 tonnes of radioactive water is believed to have leaked from a tank at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant, the worst such leak since the crisis began, the operator said Tuesday. [TEPCO] said the leak was believed to be continuing Tuesday at Fukushima and it had not yet pinpointed the source of it. [...] But the latest leak was the worst from a tank in terms of volume, the TEPCO spokesman said. TEPCO admitted the toxic water might contaminate groundwater and flow into the Pacific Ocean “in the longer term” [...] So far four tonnes of the spilled water had been retrieved since Monday evening [...]
Comment: Actually, this is a worldwide emergency.... Ever since the Fukushima disaster occurred, the news being reported by the website Energy News has been progressively getting worse. It has been alarming for quite some time and the website now hosts a wide selection of terrifying news... Basically, denial does not make the meltdown of three nuclear reactors any better. Due to short term profit motivated thinking, the world is now facing an extinction level event.
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Tokyo Professor: Ground beneath Fukushima reactors becoming increasingly unstable — “Potential catastrophe unfolding in plain sight”
Energy News, 20th August 2013
[...] Expert commentary, including from the METI Nuclear Accident Response Director, has warned that the constant flow of water may lead to further structural instability of the buildings. [...] 1000 tonnes of water per day runs down from the surrounding hills, further softening the ground [...]
So, here we have a potential catastrophe unfolding in plain sight [...] They know – or certainly should know – that they are drifting into ever more risky circumstances, as the volumes of water increasingly render the ground underneath the reactors unstable. All parties also know that Tepco is prepared to start removing fuel rods from November [...]
Given the implications of a mishap in fuel-rod removal, as well as the myriad other problem areas at the plant, the word “shameful” seems hardly strong enough. [...]
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Biologist: Pacific herring in Canada bleeding from eyeballs, faces, fins, tails — I’ve never seen fish looking this bad — All 100 examined were bloody — Officials informed of hemorrhaging soon after 3/11 — Gov’t ignoring problem (PHOTO)
Energy News, 19th August 2013
The Globe and Mail, Aug 13, 2013 (Emphasis Added): Independent fisheries scientist Alexandra Morton is raising concerns about a disease she says is spreading through Pacific herring causing fish to hemorrhage. [...] “Two days ago I did a beach seine on Malcolm Island [near Port McNeill on northern Vancouver Island] and I got approximately 100 of these little herring and they were not only bleeding from their fins, but their bellies, their chins, their eyeballs. [...] “It was 100 per cent … I couldn’t find any that weren’t bleeding to some degree. And they were schooling with young sockeye [salmon]”
Comment: Read the comments here, this is almost like government officials have never hear of the food chain...
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11 Facts About The Ongoing Fukushima Nuclear Holocaust That Are Almost Too Horrifying To Believe
True Activist, 20th August 2013
Sun-watching satellite captures suicidal comet and massive solar explosion
Yahoo, 20th August 2013
The NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) caught a spectacular view early this morning, spying not only a small comet making a death-dive into the sun, but also an immense coronal mass ejection being blown off into space.
As you can see in the video, the comet comes in from the lower right. Depending on how you look at it, it almost seems like either the comet sets off the massive 'full-halo' coronal mass ejection that we see, or the massive CME destroys the comet. However, the comet and the CME are actually on completely different sides of the sun, so they never interact.
Comment: So the massive CME blast was just a coincidence then? NASA scientists obviously have never heard of comets and "action at a distance...." Whats more,they would have to be really stupid to be not worried about what could happen when Comet ISON scrapes the Sun in November 2013... see archives for the background story. See also the pathetic denials at spaceweather.com
SUNDIVING COMET AND FULL-HALO CME:
Rare night clouds and glowing aurora: Astronomer captures incredible footage of two phenomena in Scottish night sky
Daily Mail, 20th August 2013
* Maciej Winiarczyk, 41, captured the images in Caithness, Scotland
* Noctilucent, or 'night-shining', clouds are normally too faint to be seen
* Half way through the video the clouds are joined by a spectacular aurora
A stunning time-lapse video of a rare celestial show has been captured dancing across a night sky.
The recording gives a rare glimpse of rolling noctilucent clouds and dancing aurora glimmering across the horizon.
The astronomer witnessed the famous Northern Lights and 'night clouds' earlier this month, over a single night above Caithness, Scotland.
It is unusual to see either phenomena, and incredibly rare to see both simultaneously.
Comment: Due to changing cosmic conditions this is becoming less of an atmospheric rarity. Note the previously rare purple aurora that is also now common and the fact this is Scotland, which is quite along way south for the 'mediocre' geomagnetic storm conditions that have generated this spectacular sighting.
Black Hole Analogue Discovered in South Atlantic Ocean
Vortices in the South Atlantic are mathematically equivalent to black holes, say physicists, an idea that could lead to new ways of understanding how currents transport oil and garbage across
Technology Review, 19th August 2013
[...] Today, George Haller at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich and Francisco Beron-Vera at the University of Miami in Florida have found another analogue of a black hole, this time in the world of turbulence. [...]
Haller and Beron-Vera put this similarity on a formal footing by describing the behaviour of vortices in turbulent fluids using the same mathematics that describe black holes. [...]
Haller and Beron-Vera go on to show that each vortex boundary in a turbulent fluid contains a singularity, just like an astrophysical black hole.
Comment: Hmmm.... Doesn't the use of the same mathematics that describe black holes and vortices in turbulent fluids imply that space is also a type of fluid? As we know, space can be a violent and turbulent place... but like black holes in space, vortices in oceans do not swallow everything in sight... So, unpopular heretics have been debunking popular black hole ideas for many years, see
The Myth of the Black Hole. In a visible universe that is 99.999% plasma, I am sticking with MECO theory.
Technical glitch in IOB’s core banking system hits service
The Hindu Business Line, 19th August 2013
Chennai, Aug. 19:
A technical snag in Indian Overseas Bank’s core banking system (CBS) on Monday affected services across the country.
According to M. Narendra, Chairman and Managing Director of the bank, following a usual maintenance work, a complex technical malfunction cropped up in the system that restrained banking services to its customers. While the transactions were carried out on the basis of account holders’ Saturday balance in some branches across the country, the bank’s ATM network could not transact any business on Monday.
Human Evolutionary Change 100 Times Higher in Past 5,000 Years (Today's Most Popular)
Daily Galaxy, 13th August 2013
"We are more different genetically from people living 5,000 years ago than they were different from Neanderthals," according to John Hawks -University of Wisconsin anthropologist. "Five thousand years is such a small sliver of time - it's 100 to 200 generations ago. That's how long it's been since some of these genes originated, and today they are in 30 or 40 percent of people because they've had such an advantage. It's like 'invasion of the body snatchers.'What's really amazing about humans," Hawks continued, "that is not true with most other species, is that for a long time we were just a little ape species in one corner of Africa, and weren't genetically sampling anything like the potential we have now."
In a finding that countered a common theory that human evolution has slowed to a crawl or even stopped in modern humans,
a study examining data from an international genomics project describes the past 40,000 years as a time of supercharged evolutionary change, driven by exponential population growth and cultural shifts. The findings may lead to a very broad rethinking of human evolution, especially in the view that modern culture has essentially relaxed the need for physical genetic changes in humans to improve survival.
Comment:Well, what happened 40,000 years ago to cause a massive acceleration of evolutionary change on Earth? Here is a short quote from the 2012 e-book version of Tuning the Diamonds. In chapter 5, Earth’s Changing Geomagnetic Environment, I write:
Now, there has been a new discovery of massive gamma ray bubbles
(Su, Slatyer, and Finkbeiner, 2010) seen toward the Galactic Center extracted by
the Harvard team from Fermi telescope data that has been dated to a major
cosmic event that occurred ~40,000 years ago [91]. We can deduce that the surge
of cosmic radiation that caused evolutionary change on Earth was caused by a
blast of cosmic radiation from our own Milky Way galaxy’s galactic
core. The Harvard team also acknowledged the existence of fainter larger gamma
ray bubbles outside the main inner gamma ray bubble, pointing to the occurrence
of previous events.
Of course the emphasis on natural selection driving evolution is just old theory that clearly needs to be revised in the light of epigenetics and other related discoveries as the article states when it says "other pathways for evolution have opened....". I would say the opening is like big sticks a dynamite blowing open a chasm in a big mountain of beliefs associated with Neo-Darwinism. Whatever, Earth's magnetic field is now officially at times "like a sieve", NASA have told us that cosmic rays are at an all time high and expected to get higher, and we are seeing some rapid evolutionary changes that some are loathing to call evolution because they are taking place in decades as small species live short lives and we have proof that genetically transmitted changes in laboratory populations can take place in only 15 generations. Professor Tim Benton, of the University of Leeds' Faculty of Biological Sciences, states simply: "This demonstrates that short-term ecological change and evolution are completely intertwined and cannot reasonably be considered separate. See,
Environmental change triggers rapid evolution
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Asteroid Impact May have Triggered Evolution of Earth's Multicellular Life (Today's Most Popular)
Daily Galaxy, 13th August 2013
A massive asteroid that struck South Australia during a glacial cold snap 590 million years ago may have triggered the evolution of Earth’s earliest complex organisms, Australian geologists reported. In 2010, researchers from the University of Adelaide argued that the Acraman asteroid impact coincided with an extensive glaciation period more than 500 million years ago and created ideal conditions for an explosion of complex organisms, known as the Ediacara biota.
Is This the Week that Organized Skepticism Imploded?
Daily Grail, 11th August 2013
For many years on this site I've critiqued the demagogic tendencies of a number of the 'leaders' of the modern skeptical movement (see the bottom of this post for some links). I've often faced resistance (and sometimes hostility) from card-carrying skeptics for pointing out the foibles of these so-called champions of science, and the dangers of having such people as figureheads of a movement dedicated to truth and reason - but I had no inkling that in the space of just a few short years the reputations of a number of them would begin coming undone at their own hands. [...]
But what has become clear is that the former figureheads of the skeptical movement finally now have a (long-awaited) skepticism being applied to their own actions and pronouncements, and a number of them are being revealed for the pretenders they are. I'd like to think that this is the end of skeptical demagoguery, and the beginning of a new, more intelligent, self-critiquing skeptical movement - though perhaps it's more just a fragmentation, as Myers and Randi and others now just seem to have their own righteous armies fighting somewhat of an internal civil war in skepticism.
Comment: It looks like prominent skeptics are burning in the fires of their own hell.... I have been seeing snippets here and there for a while but I was quite stunned by revelations that things have badly deteriorated amongst skeptics. According to the website
Spirituality is No Excuse run by Yakaru, he states he is now forced to provide a serious warning, see
The Skeptic & Atheist Movements: A Word of Warning for Newcomers. Here, we are informed that some skeptics are now debating whether 'skepchicks' should be raped. Shocking stuff, but this troll mentality on the internet is now making lots of news, see the latest YouTube villain unmasked as a UK 'soap' actor,
Vile online rap Videos. Strangely enough, it reminded me of an incident of having dinner with a male friend who I thought was a 'spiritual' person. Out of nowhere he made a vile comment in a hissed voice about a female politician needing to be violated as punishment. All of a sudden, the spiritual persona had slipped and something really evil had appeared. It was not long after I made the decision to not have anything to do with this person. In my own journal of 'enlightenment' I realise I don't have to tolerate or deal with other people's nastiness... Due to my experiences, I have been forced to pay attention, if I see real darkness, I now run, no matter what...
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The Bullshit Police
The Daily Beast, 16th August 2013
[James Randi Educational Foundation] JREF’s goal, according to its website, is to “expose paranormal and pseudoscientific frauds in the media, and hold media organizations accountable for promoting dangerous nonsense.” The Skeptics Society, publisher of Skeptic magazine, describes its mission as an effort “to engage leading experts in investigating the paranormal, fringe science, pseudoscience, and extraordinary claims of all kinds, promote critical thinking, and serve as an educational tool for those seeking a sound scientific viewpoint.”
But aren’t these merely descriptions of plain old science? Saunders says there is an important distinction. “We especially go after these claims that are against the laws of physics, while generally science is the study of nature,” he explains. In other words, science tends to ignore ghosts, goblins, levitating yogis, and mind-reading mediums claiming an ability to commune with the dead. “We’re not doing science. We’re advocating for it,” Swiss explains.
Comment: Skeptics believe people should think and use reason but the average person (unfamiliar with how sience works) often reacts in a knee jerk arrogant manner. Worse still, the new crowd they are attracting is discrediting the whole scene, see above. Then there is a problem of religious conformity. Skeptics are expected to be atheists and Neo-Darwinists but you are not allowed to be a climate skeptic.... funny that.... Anything else and you are suspect... So, how do sane people counteract the apalling New Age uncritical thinking crowd? I don't know, but I don't think Randi et al. are the answer, because at the moment, it seems JREF is providing just another religious institution for many to hide behind and regurgitate what others tell them.
Torrential Rains Shut Down Philippine Capital
ABC News, 19th August 2013
Torrential rains brought the Philippine capital to a standstill Monday, submerging some areas in waist-deep floodwaters and making streets impassable to vehicles while thousands of people across coastal and mountainous northern regions fled to emergency shelters.
The national disaster agency and local officials reported at least two dead and several missing. Schools, offices, the stock exchange, courts and embassies were closed as the weather bureau placed metropolitan Manila — a sprawling area of 12 million people — under red alert.
Comment: Read the article, sudden atmospheric river water 'dumps' and human efforts combine to make catastrophic flooding events worse than the need to be.
Russian Meteor Explosion's Dust Cloud Lingered In Atmosphere for Months
Space.com, 16th August 2013
When a meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in February, pieces of the bus-sized space rock hit the ground while its detonation shattered windows, set off car alarms and injured more than 1,000 people.
Masked in the chaos, however, was an enormous plume of dust that the Russian meteor left behind in Earth's atmosphere. This cloud, which had hundreds of tons of material in it, was still lingering three months after the Feb. 15 explosion, a new study has found. Scientists created a video of the Russian meteor explosion's dust cloud to illustrate the phenomenon. [...]
"Indeed, we saw the formation of a new dust belt in Earth's stratosphere, and achieved the first space-based observation of the long-term evolution of a bolide plume," Gorkavyi said in a statement.
Initial measurements 3.5 hours after the meteor explosion showed the dust 25 miles (40 km) high in the atmosphere, speeding east at 190 mph (306 km/h).
Comment: I have been blogging about more cosmic dust hitting Earth for a long time now, but the 30 metric tonnes daily is a very conservative estimate. In 2003, The European Space Agency estimatd that due to changing cosmic conditions
"40,000 tonnes of dust could fall on Earth every day", see
Sun’s Flip is Letting the Dust In. We already now there is a problem with the amount of meteors and fireballs entering our atmosphere because the US military decided to hide information from astronomers, see archives for references. Btw, these figures are all rather insignficiant when NASA satellite data suggests there is
64 million tons of dust, pollution and other particles in the atmosphere over North America, see
A Lot of Dust in the Air. Obviously something serious is going on to justify the ongoing surveillance of noctilucent clouds.
Ten UFOs Cavort Above Nuclear Missiles at Malmstrom AFB: Air Force Witnesses Quickly Silenced
UFO Chronicles, 19th August 2013
Since 1973, I have interviewed more than 140 U.S. military veterans regarding their knowledge of incidents involving UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites. Seven of those individuals participated in my September 27, 2010 “UFOs and Nukes” press conference, in Washington D.C., which CNN streamed live. (See below)
Comment: I think that many ufologists are starting to realise that humanity shares this planet with another intelligent lifeform. However, looking back in the UFO literature, Fact-Fiction books and even the odd TV series, there have been a few in-the-know willing to pass on what they know in a cryptic fashion.
CIA crushes UFO conspiracy theorists’ hopes and dreams with Area 51 documents
Raw Story, 16th August 2013
Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists
Krulwich Wonders, 14th August 2013
[...] In their , Dirk Schultzs-Makuch and David Grinspoon said if one day methane eaters are found to exist on Titan, and if they swim around in very, very cold ethane lakes or oceans, and if those oceans don't have the pressure or weight of water, the cells in those critters might grow much larger than living cells on Earth. That's when they thrilled me. They used the H- word, as in "huge."
It's smack in the middle of this paragraph. In fact, I'll boldface it for you:
In an extremely cold, hydrophobic (but liquid) environment, surface/volume ratio considerations may be less constraining than at higher temperatures in polar solvents. Thus, life on Titan could involve huge (by Earth standards) and very slowly metabolizing cells, in which case biomass densities would be higher than calculated above.
That means one day, it's possible — not likely, but scientifically plausible — that we will get to meet a life form in our solar system that's not a puny, dumb little thing, but a huge dumb thing. Like dog-sized. Or maybe Volkswagen-sized. Yes, it would be very, very simple, probably an extremely dull life form, a floating giant egg of a thing, but it would be what we haven't dared dream about for the last 50 years: It would be big! And alive!
Comment: It's the cartoons that fascinate me.... we need to tell you something but here are some cartoons to help you deal with the news, the sort of approach used for very young children...
Skyfishing: UFO Watcher Spots ‘Orb’ Over San Antonio
The Blaze, 14th August 2013
A UFO watcher in Texas used a technique known as “skyfishing” over the weekend in the hopes of catching something “out of the ordinary.” What he captured on camera has at least UFO enthusiasts and the local media talking.
Comment: If you want to catch the interdimensional lifeforms then this seems like an intelligent approach. Don't expect the ignoranti to make sense of the important insights already available in the public domain. Based on UFO disclosure progress, it seems we are now waiting on the South American military to make a formal announcement.
British healer ‘killed woman and put body in bin’Michael Victor Lane is alleged to have killed Ginger Candela, from Las Vegas, in 2009
Independent News, 18th August 2013
The trial of a British-born “New Age guru” accused of murdering a woman during a meditation session is due to start in Nevada tomorrow.
Michael Victor Lane is alleged to have killed Ginger Candela, from Las Vegas, in 2009, before stuffing her body in a bin. It is believed that Lane, who set himself up as a New Age guru and motivational speaker when he moved from Devon to the US, intends to plead not guilty.
A police report said that Lane acknowledged killing Candela, 44, during a mediation session that started with compressions of her neck to induce a deeper trance.
Comment: Hmmm.... This looks like another New Wager classic case study... To be fair, the Cultic/New Age milieu is a scammers paradise... Popular teaching is designed to attract the most gullible -- bullshit like
The Law of Attraction and
The Secret is for the seriously naive, see lots of previous comments. Spiritual salesman using a vast array of techniques have no trouble scamming vast amounts of money off stupid greedy people with the get-anything-you-want-from-the-universe-beliefs and when it does not work there must be something wrong with you and you need more "coaching" etc etc.... Well, the problem with all this is that it attracts very dangerous narcissists who tend to overdo things and there are many many case studies that can be found all over the internet of similar fatalities when things go wrong. The problem these days is that the brainwashing is so pervasive it is hard to find genuine seekers who have not been corrupted by it all.
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Judge sets $2.26million bail for British man accused of killing a Las Vegas woman and hiding her body in a rubbish bin
Daily Mail, 17 December 2009
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Angel of death
Michael Lane presented himself as a spiritual healer, but to Ginger Candela, he was anything but.
Las Vegas Weekly, 7th January 2010
[....] He’s 37. He’s British. He’s lived, it appears, all over the globe. He’s left traces of himself online, and with old friends; over time, the sum of these shadows starts to look like a hydra: a monster who grows two new faces for every one that’s cut off, a con man for all occasions, Mr. Multiple Aliases, Dept. of AKA.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in the months before Ginger’s murder, when Michael was living in Southern California, trolling the deepest waters of the New Age scene. He was moving up in the loose-linen crowd, the energy healers, the chakra set, the divine goddess earth mother crystal karma mafia. To them, he was Michael Bodhi, enlightened practitioner of angel readings, spiritual Twitterer to 687 followers, meditation guide to All That Is.
One self-professed psychic, who didn’t want her name used, says she and other highly evolved mediums never felt bad energies in Michael. [...]
“He knows what he is doing. He meets people, becomes a charming person, and you don’t realize he completely sucks you dry. He was nothing but a con man. As far as him being this religious, spiritual person? Those people were the perfect victims for him—gullible people. He would have looked at them and laughed.”
Comment: This is some useful background reading where we are given details concerning Lane's aka Bodhi's New Age activities. The opinion of New Ager peers not recognising Lane aka Bodhi as a fraud is no surprise. Looking out for frauds is not part of the New Age mindset and most would consider this as being "negative". Read what is says here when a business associate who had lost £220,00 or $350,000 tried to warn:
But Michael Bodhi’s new friends told Sarah she was all wrong, that her negative energies were palpable, that she needed to focus on putting out positive light, think about her karma, and maybe consider some angel card readings.
From my experience, you are supposed to not think, bend over backwards and allow the frauds to take advantage... The honest comment from a business associate about New Agers being "perfect victims" is being acknowledged all over the internet by an army of angry people who have not sucumbed to the brainwashing and are blogging or commentating about their awful experiences with New Agers. Michael Bodhi was small fry but Big-time recently "defrocked" American Guru Andrew Cohen is accused of being just as cynical. The refusal to acknowledge the obvious frauds is quite astonishing. I am starting to see that many have got to stage II & even III of what award winning authors Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, in their book Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change [1978, 1979, 1995, 2005] call the Varieties of Information Disease. The Stage I, Floating — The Ongoing Altered State phase is what many New Agers call being ungrounded and many use this as an excuse for their lack of interest in boring reality. The Delusional Phase (II) & Not Thinking — Mind Control (III) and stage IV is Not Feeling — Emotional Control. This last stage is the type of person who will see somebody on the ground dying and turning blue and demand that they be left alone to have their own experience, which is exactly what happened at the James Ray sweat lodge tragedy. The reason that only 3 people died is because someone sane not taking part in the ceremony called for paramedics when they saw about 25 people in real trouble. This was after the 'leader' James Ray, (admired by Oprah) walked off to have a shower and a sandwich.
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Death penalty considered for Brit in Vegas slaying
Seattle Times, January 14, 2010
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Lawyers to challenge case against so-called motivational speaker
Channel 13 Action News, 10th June 2011
Defense attorneys are challenging prosecutors' efforts to combine slaying and assault with a vehicle cases while seeking the death penalty against a British man accused of killing a Las Vegas woman and stuffing her severed body in a barrel.
A Nevada judge is due to hear Thursday from prosecutors and defense attorneys in Las Vegas about whether 37-year-old Michael Victor Lane should face capital charges at trial next year.
Lane's lawyer, Dan Silverstein, has said he'll challenge Lane's indictment because the grand jury that handed up murder and attempted murder charges wasn't shown a videotape of Lane's actual police interview.
Gospel Choir’s ‘Keep Yo Business Off Yo Facebook’ Song During What Appears to Be a Church Service Is an Instant ‘Classic’
The Blaze, 16th August 2013
Facebook. It’s place where people air relationship woes, where pictures of nights before should never see the light of day and where best friends sometimes become enemies.
Although the social networking site has many positive uses keeping friends and families connected, it is unfortunately a place where even the most heinous of crimes are admitted.
So one church has a message for its congregation, taking form in a gospel song: “You need to keep your business off of Facebook.”
Comment: It's a hit! So, just in case nobody else points out the obvious, here is my opinion. This song is admonishing church goers claiming to be Christian to maintain their veneer of respectability whilst social networking on Facebook. This is a helpful message for those who are not quite what they claim to be. Well, this advice comes too late for New Ager Derek Medina who shot and killed his wife and posted about his crime and most likely incarceration last week, an update came with a photo of his murder victim wife. It does make you wonder about the psychological make-up of these people, but I know what I think...
Google Outage: Internet Traffic Plunges 40%
The web giant is refusing to discuss why all its services from Google Search to Gmail to YouTube stopped working across the world.
Sky News, 17th August 2013
Worldwide internet traffic plunged by around 40% as Google services suffered a complete black-out, according to web analytics experts.
The tech company said all of its services from Google Search to Gmail to YouTube to Google Drive went down for between one and five minutes last night.
The reason for the outage is not yet known, and Google refused to provide any further information when contacted by Sky News Online.
According to web analytics firm GoSquared, global internet traffic fell by around 40% during the black-out, reflecting Google's massive grip on the web.
"That’s huge," said GoSquared developer Simon Tabor. "As internet users, our reliance on Google.com being up is huge.[...]
"This is completely unprecedented, I've never heard of anything like this before," he told Sky News Online.
"One or two of Google's services have gone down in the past, like Gmail and Google Apps, but they both happened separately.
"It's a massive surprise for all of Google's services to go down at the same time.
"It's probably a physical infrastructure problem given the size of the outage, but it's hard to know at this stage."
Comment: This is a MAJOR internet event... I wonder whether Google will try and hide what exactly happened....
Prison Computer ‘Glitch’ Blamed for Opening Cell Doors in Maximum-Security Wing
Wired News, 16th August 2013
Florida prison officials say a computer “glitch” may be to blame for opening all of the doors at a maximum security wing simultaneously, setting prisoners free and allowing gang members to pursue a rival with weapons.
But a surveillance video released this week (see above) suggests that the doors may have been opened intentionally — either by a staff member or remotely by someone else inside or outside the prison who triggered a “group release” button in the computerized system. The video raises the possibility that some prisoners knew in advance that the doors were going to open.
It’s the second time in two months that all of the doors in the wing opened at once, officials say, raising questions about whether the first incident was a trial-run to see how long it would take guards to respond.[...]
But a trio of security researchers — John Strauchs, Teague Newman, and Tiffany Rad — say that many prison systems have vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely by hackers or accomplices from inside or outside a prison. They have examined systems at a number of facilities and two years ago presented their findings at the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas.
Some of the vulnerabilities exist in the architecture and configuration of the systems, causing them to be accessible via the internet. Other vulnerabilities exist in the programmable logic controllers that are used to control not only prison doors, but surveillance cameras and other prison systems. Many PLCs use Ladder Logic programming and a communications protocol that have no security protections built into them. There are also vulnerabilities in the Windows-based desktop machines that are used to monitor and program the PLCs. Anyone who gains access to these computers can control the PLCs and the operations they monitor, the researchers say.
Comment: This is a long report about various incidents and includes what happened at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Maryland that I previously noted April 2013. The article implies that jail-door hacking could be very possible, but my interest is whether these systems can be hacked by ambient electromagnetic signals now that Earth's geomagnetic environment has become more extreme.
Huge flood wave threatens major Russian Far East cities as region is hit by cyclones
The Siberian Times, 16th August 2013
At least 30,000 homes are hit by flooding in Amur region, with Vladimir Putin ordering more emergency aid to stricken people.
A section of the world famous Trans Siberian Railway was closed on Thursday on the route linking capital Moscow with Vladivostok. Flood water washed away some of the stone ballast supporting the track in Amur region after a nearby river reached a 'critical level, said a Russian Railways statement.
Both Amur and Khabarovsk regions are devastated by record deluges which have caused rivers to break their banks, forcing residents to abandon their homes and threatening disease.
Stunning NASA map reveals paths of 1,400 huge ‘hazard’ asteroids
RT News, 16th August 2013
A new map released by NASA has plotted the journeys of the majority of Earth’s most potentially dangerous asteroids through space, creating a swirling spirograph of over 1,400 gigantic asteroids that pass close to the planet’s orbit.
The “potentially hazardous asteroids” (PHA) depicted on the map measure at least 140 meters in length – larger than the size of an American football pitch. The asteroid’s orbits are shown as blue ellipses crowding closely around the sun. The image was produced by NASA’s Near Earth Object (NEO) program, which is responsible for recording PHAs.
“These are the asteroids considered hazardous because they are fairly large (at least 460 feet or 140 meters in size), and because they follow orbits that pass close to the Earth's orbit (within 4.7 million miles or 7.5 million kilometers),” NASA officials explained as they posted the picture to the agency’s online Planetary Photojournal.
Comment: There is a growing awareness that in the last few decades or so, threats from space are now a serious consideration.
Chinese Stocks Swing Wildly After Trading Glitch
Wall St Journal, 16th August 2013
Chinese shares swung wildly Friday after a trading glitch at a local brokerage sent shares of the benchmark index surging 5.6% in the space of just a few minutes before stocks ended lower on the day.
Traders said an accidental "fat-finger" trade was to blame. A spokesman from the China Securities Regulatory Commission said "sizeable" buy orders from brokers at midsize firm Everbright Securities caused the jump in shares.
Everbright said it suffered an internal trading error and would conduct an investigation. The Shanghai exchange suspended the company's stock. [...]
Everbright Securities said in a statement to the Shanghai Stock Exchange there were problems in the arbitrage system of its proprietary trading. It didn't return calls for comment.
Comment: I am not convinced about the fat-finger excuse at all, this could be another cosmic ray induced software/hardware computer error. Computer sytems are not infallible and talk of investor confidence being shaken is now a common refrain.
Wellington shaken by severe earthquake
NZ Herald News, 16th August 2013
The severe earthquake which rocked the upper South Island and lower North Island this afternoon sent workers in Wellington running into the streets as the ground shook and buildings swayed from side to side.
GNS has confirmed the earthquake at 2.31pm was a magnitude 6.6 and was just 8km deep, 3km shallower than the magnitude 6.5 quake which hit the Cook Strait last month.
Today's quake was centred just off Seddon at the top of the South Island, causing significant damage to houses and infrastructure in the region.
In Wellington, hundreds of commuters were left stranded, with the rail network crippled and 11 commuter trains stuck between platforms for up to an hour.
Comment: I have seen this earthquake reported anywhere between 6.9 and 6.6, but folk are worried the 2.31pm quake is a precursor to something much much bigger...
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Seismologist warns of megathrust earthquake threat for New Zealand
Hawkes Bay Today News, 4th February 2013 Flashback!
Less than 100km off the coast of Hawke's Bay is a deep-water trench that could be the site of a potential megathrust earthquake similar to the 2011 Japan earthquake, says seismologist Kevin Furlong.
Despite the Hikurangi Trench's potential, he said very little was known about the underwater valley, where the Pacific plate was dragged underneath the Australian plate.
Comment: This appears to the identification of yet another region at risk of major geophysical upheaval. Courtesy: Extinction Protocol
Sprite Seasonspaceweather.com, 16th August 2013
COLORFUL SPRITES OVER NEBRASKA: "August 12th was another successful night in our sprites campaign," reports Jason Ahrns of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. With a team of researchers from NCAR, he has been flying over the midwestern USA onboard a Gulfstream V in search of exotic forms of lightning. As they were photographing a thunderstorm over Nebraska, these six sprites appeared
These remarkably beautiful discharges were red on top and purple on the bottom. "I really can't explain the color change," says Ahrns. "That's one of the things we hope to investigate with this campaign by capturing high speed spectra."
First documented in 1989 by scientists from the University of Minnesota who photographed strange flashes coming out of the tops of thunderstorms, sprites remain a mystery today. Neither their basic physics nor their effect on the surrounding atmosphere is well understood. "Do sprites have a large scale impact on the middle atmosphere?" asks Ahrns. "Sprites clearly represent some kind of transfer of energy, but is it on a scale that has a significant effect on the weather and climate? We can't answer that without studying them."
Comment: This 'exotic' atmospheric electrical discharge phenomena was originally reported by pilots, but atmospheric scientists scoffed until someone took a convincing photograph. Today atmospheric scientists tell us the electrical environment is now so intense, that a whole "zoo" of these atmospheric features exist in the upper atmosphere. Obviously, this is a big problem for NASA and rocket launches in general.
The Mystery of Underwater Crop Circles, Explained
Discover News, 15th August 2013
They’ve been called the crop circles of the ocean floor—seven-foot diameter patterned circles that were first spotted in 1995 off the coast of southern Japan. But their origin was an enigma, and local divers termed them “mystery circles.”
The mystery persisted until 2011 when the culprit, a male pufferfish just five inches long, was finally caught in the act. And recently scientists studied the process of how the species creates these elaborate designs in order to woo females.
$6-million cardboard cathedral opens in quake-struck New Zealand city
NBC News, 15th August 2013
A $6-million cardboard cathedral was officially dedicated in New Zealand on Thursday, replacing the neo-Gothic structure destroyed in a 2011 earthquake that killed 185 people.
Made from nearly 100 24-inch cardboard tubes coated with waterproof polyurethane, the new building in Christchurch is expected to last for more than a decade while a permanent replacement is built.
It includes a mosaic of colored, triangular glass etched with images from the original cathedral’s facade, which dates to 1864.
Acting dean Lynda Patterson told Agence France-Presse that the official opening of the innovative structure marked a major milestone in the city's recovery from the devastating 6.3-magnitude quake that leveled much of the downtown area.
Comment: Well, it's just been officially dedicated and had it's first major test... Btw, the choice of geometry is interesting...
Researchers debunk myth of right-brain and left-brain personality traits
EarthSky News, 15th August 2013
For years in popular culture, the terms left-brained and right-brained have come to refer to personality types, with an assumption that some people use the right side of their brain more, while some use the left side more.
Chances are, you’ve heard the label of being a “right-brained” or “left-brained” thinker. Logical, detail-oriented and analytical? That’s left-brained behavior. Creative, thoughtful and subjective? Your brain’s right side functions stronger —or so long-held assumptions suggest.
Comment: New Agers I have come across use the left-brain/right-brain dichotomy to create a false division of spirituality... If you are right-brained you are automatically more spiritual and a closed down mind and thinking capacity is the ultimate goal. For some, being spiritual becomes a nice cover to mask being dumb and ignorant.
Bark Exposes Lying Lion at Chinese Zoo
ABC News, 15th August 2013
Animal lovers at a Chinese zoo received a shocking disappointment this week when an animal advertised as an African lion was discovered to be a dog in disguise, according to a report in Beijing Youth Daily.
The fraudulent Fido–a large, long-haired Tibetan mastiff–revealed itself when it began barking at zoo customers at People’s Park of Luohe, located in the central province of Henan. [...]
Zoo officials attempted to explain the incident by saying the real lion had been taken to a breeding facility and a zookeeper’s dog was placed inside of its pen temporarily for “safety reasons,” wrote the Daily.
But locals weren’t letting them off the hook so easy, especially after further inquiry uncovered more misidentified animals inside of the zoo: two coypu rodents in a snake’s cage, a white fox in a leopard’s den, and yet another dog in a wolf’s pen.
Comment: Hmmm.... I suppose this is just part of the same pattern of lying that characterises much of Chinese society. What is interesting is the mindset that cannot think through all the issues. For example, if you disguise a dog as a lion, the first problem is stopping the dog barking... Were the zoo owners barking mad?
Are you ready to embrace the apocalypse?
Facing up to the slow collapse of our planet is hard, but thinking apocalyptically could help us prepare for the crises to come
Guardian, 15th August 2013
This weekend the Sustainability Centre in Hampshire will be home to Uncivilisation 2013, which describes itself as "a gathering of people searching for answers to questions about our collective future in a rapidly changing and depleting world". At Uncivilisation about 400 people are expected to attend sessions including a wild-food foraging workshop, a talk on moving beyond a monetary-based economy, and a ceremony of singers and storytellers leading the group in a "liturgy of loss". [...]
The Uncivilisation festival is put on by Dark Mountain, a publishing venture founded in 2009 with an annual journal and ongoing blog. One of Dark Mountain's primary sustainers is Paul Kingsnorth, a disillusioned former environmental journalist who has come to the conclusion that we are in an inexorable period of "slow collapse". To Kingsnorth and his Dark Mountain followers the problems are intractable. There is no turning back, halting global warming, ending our lifestyle of rampant overconsumption and environmental destruction. The Dark Mountain goal, then, is to give a forum to voices willing to acknowledge that no matter how ardent we are about recycling and voting green, we will still be living in a time of disintegration, a time of ongoing loss.
Comment: Very interesting... A forum for 'Green' depressives? So are we seeing the start of what some might call a very dark 'green' meme [Spiral Dynamics]? I would define this as an awakening for Greens that civilisation is going down the toilet but presumably, this has combined with a deep pessimism that there is not enough power available to help humanity up to the next stage.
Suspended Vatican accountant linked to suspect spiritual group
Catholic News Agency, 15th August 2013
Vatican City, Aug 15, 2013 / 02:02 am - The Vatican accountant who was recently suspended for allegedly trying to smuggle $26 million had been part of a group known as “The Flock,” which has supposed Mafia connections.
Monsignor Nunzio Scarano is currently under arrest in Italy for an alleged plan to transfer 20 million Euro from Switzerland to Italy aboard an Italian government airplane.
Italian newspaper “Il Mattino” reports that Msgr. Scarano was entrusted with the management of a network of real estate activities for the spiritual family “L'opera del gregge del Bamin Gesù,” or “The works of the flock of the infant Jesus.”
“The Flock,” as it is known, was a sort of spiritual family formed in Salerno by a group of priests aged 40-50 who gathered around a visionary known by his first name, Caterina.
Msgr. Scarano is known to have been a member of The Flock, which was officially an association of prayer yet acted primarily as a private limited company managing a series of economic activities.
Comment: The Pope Francis crackdown on Vatican crime is in full swing... Whatever, I still think this story needs an independent investigator because there may be certain factors influencing the storytelling...
Major Danish Daily Warns: “Globe May Be On Path To Little Ice Age…Much Colder Winters…Dramatic Consequences”!
No Tricks Zone, 9th August 2013
Another major European media outlet is asking: Where’s the global warming?
Image right: The August 7 edition of Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten featured a major 2-page article on the globe’s 15-years of missing warming and the potential solar causes and implications.
Moreover, they are featuring prominent skeptic scientists who are warning of a potential little ice age and dismissing CO2 as a major climate driver. And all of this just before the release of the IPCC’s 5AR, no less!
The August 7 print edition of the Danish Jyllands-Posten, the famous daily that published the “Muhammad caricatures“, features a full 2-page article bearing the headline: ”The behavior of the sun may trigger a new little ice age” followed by the sub-headline: “Defying all predictions, the globe may be on the road towards a new little ice age with much colder winters.”
Comment: So, politicians are realising that the global warming angle is just untenable, at the same time more intelligentsia in the media break ranks and point out the harsh reality of a looming Ice Age. It seems there are forward thinkers interested in survival as it becomes obvious we have to understand the real implications of coping with climate change.
A Magnetic Trick to Define Consciousness
Science News, 14th August 2013
Consciousness isn’t easy to define, but we know it when we experience it. It’s not so simple to decide when someone else is conscious, however, as doctors must sometimes do with patients who have suffered traumatic brain injury. Now, researchers have come up with an approach that uses the brain’s response to magnetic stimulation to judge a person’s awareness, reducing it to a numerical score they call an index of consciousness. “You’re kind of banging on the brain and listening to the echo,” says Anil Seth, a neuroscientist at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom who was not involved in the work.
Comment: This is important information for those interested in the true nature of consciousness.
Arnold Schwarzenegger orders gas chambers for some conservatives
Reference Frame, 15th August 2013
The Terminator's comments at the National Clean Energy Summit were... unfortunate.
According to the Huffington Post (via Junk Science and Climate Depot), he has proposed a final solution to some disagreements with his opponents that seems to be highly popular among famous Austrian-born expats (let me not mention a former German chancellor by his name), perhaps even more popular than their irrational opposition to peaceful nuclear energy:
Speaking of greenhouse gas deniers: "Strap some conservative-thinking people to a tailpipe for an hour and then they will agree it's a pollutant!"
An interesting but not original (as visitors of a camp in Poland know) technique. But will it achieve what the ex-governor believes that it will achieve? Will the conservative-thinking people agree that CO2 is a pollutant?
Comment: Arnold Schwarzenegger is obviously not very bright, but as a climate alarmist, he must be considered as a useful idiot....
Why we face grave danger from space
The discovery that a colossal solar flare hit Earth in the Dark Ages reminds us that catastrophe could strike at any time, says Michael Hanlon
The Telegraph, 13th August 2013
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But in recent decades, it has become clear that our cosmic neighbourhood, in more recent times, has not been as benign as was thought. In the 1980s, for example, it was confirmed that Earth has been hit several times in its history by objects from space – none big enough to sterilise the planet completely, but a handful packing enough of a punch to change the course of life forever. The most famous of these was our collision with a six-mile-wide asteroid 65 million years ago, whose fiery passage into the Mexican coast has been blamed for killing off, or at least delivering the coup de grâce to, the dinosaurs.
It is not just rocks we have to worry about. Japanese scientists have uncovered evidence from the study of tree rings that in the year 775 the Earth was hit by a colossal solar flare. The scientists found a spike in radioactive carbon-14, taken up by the ancient cedar trees they were studying. In Finland, Ilya Usoskin and his colleagues found an identical spike on the other side of the world. One theory is that this was caused by a nearby exploding star – a supernova – showering the Earth with radiation.
Comment: Space scientists are telling us that we are facing space climate change... The cosmic environment and even spacetime (aether) has changed by becoming more permeable to charge.... This means when Earth gets huge electric shocks in the form of a massive solar euruption, the 'zap' is far more effective, see archives for more background info.
Carbon Pollution: They’re changing the name of the global-warming scam again
Washington Times, 13th August 2013
The doomed planet movement has been losing momentum. Inconvenient scientific findings have confirmed the lack of any significant warming of dear old Earth over the past 16 years. It’s hard to scare people into action when nothing bad is happening. That’s why the White House has changed its vocabulary again — first “global warming” was changed to “climate change” — and now the correct name of the scam is “carbon pollution.” It’s a way to paint carbon dioxide as if it were black soot billowing out of industrial smokestacks. Carbon dioxide is actually what humans exhale, and it’s food for plants.
Comment: This latest name change might be closer to the truth. If you are paying close attention to solar system changes then you will know that the atmospheres of other planets in our solar system are acquiring more carbon monoxide that is coming in from space. Of course this must apply to Earth too, and that is why removing CO2 from the atmosphere is the business opportunity of a lifetime.... After all the debate (climate wars) world controllers are still desperate to get the ignorant masses to accept the global-warming/climate change/climate disruption/carbon pollution ideology to help subsidise the profits and implement more control. The mentality is still, business is business...
Asteroid Friday: Two Space Rocks Miss The Earth
Astrowatch, 11th August 2013
Two asteroids passed close to the Earth on Friday. The bigger one - asteroid 2005 WK4, with an estimated size of 500 meters missed the Earth at about 8.1 Lunar Distances (LD). 2013 PS13 is much smaller, about 19 meters wide and it made a very close fly-by at about 0.5 LD.
Asteroid 2005 WK4 was discovered on Nov. 27, 2005 by Siding Spring Survey. On 6 Aug. 2013, the PlaneWave 17? robotic unit of the Virtual Telescope Project captured this asteroid, now brighter and faster than the previous nights. Below is a screenshot saved during the imaging session.
Comment: 2013 PS13 was was spotted with very short notice before it flew past Earth...
Near-Earth asteroid 2013 PS13: very close encounter
Most powerful magnetic field in universe that is 20 trillion times stronger than a fridge magnet
The strongest magnetic field in the universe has potentially been discovered – a dead star that packs the equivalent mass of our sun into an area just 12 miles across.
Telegraph, 15th August 2013
The former star, which has the catchy name SGR 0418+5729, is 6,500 light years from Earth and was initially thought to have an unusually low magnetic field.
New observations using the European Space Agency’s XMM Newton Space Telescope have, however, revealed that it may be the strongest magnetic source in the known universe.
Astronomers estimate that it produces a magnetic field around 20 trillion times stronger than a standard refrigerator door magnet.
The dead star is a kind of neutron star called a magnetar – the dead core of a once massive star that has collapsed in on itself.
Comment: Oh goodness me! Are we being told a weak star has turned into a magnetar overnight? Well, that completely screws the existing theory! Sorry you will have to do your own research on this one or buy my Electrotechnics of the Heavens e-book for why this astronomical announcement has hit the mainstream media.
U.S. Air Force to shut down 'Space Fence' surveillance system
Yahoo News, 12th August 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force will shut down its space surveillance system that tracks satellites and other orbiting objects by October 1 due to budget constraints caused by automatic federal budget cuts known as the sequestration, it announced Monday.
Deactivating the system by October 1 would save the Air Force Space Command $14 million annually starting in fiscal year 2014.
The surveillance system got the nickname "Space Fence" because it transmits a "fence" of radar energy vertically into space that can detect any object or debris that crosses it without being cued to do so.
Commander of the Air Force Space Command, General William Shelton, said the system - which has been in operation since 1961 - was outmoded and that newer technology will provide more accurate observations.
Comment: The real issue is the number of meteors and huge amount of space junk falling into our atmosphere due to the changing cosmic environment and severe space weather affecting the atmospheric drag of the vast hurricane of junk swirling around our planet.
Global Consciousness Project Update
NELSON Tells you the Second Thing you need to Know
The Big Study, 10th August 2013
[...] The question, phrased differently, then is: When a certain type of world event occurs, why do the EGGs register non-random statistical behavior? Why are more [or less] than normal electrons tunneling then?
Since the foundational PEAR Lab experiments showed that individual conscious intention could cause this to happen in an individual device, are the grouped consciousnesses of humanity causing the grouped devices of the array to act non-normally??
Here's a pair of event examples. On the left a disastrous factory fire in Pakistan, and on the right a car-bombing in Baghdad. The EGGs ignored the factory fire, the redline zigzagging around the flat average, but seemed to respond to the car-bombing, rising resolutely out-of-the-statistical norm . Again two things:
1). Roger samples the array to look for evidence that his EGGs are blundering about like graph two, and they don't do that in time intervals where no dramatic world event is going on; and
2). Roger understands that when he gets an arising that this does not mean anything more than something happened to push the array out of norm. Coincidence is not causality, but a whole lot of similar coincidence is getting pretty close to being there.
Also note Roger's notation above: About 70% of the incidents looked at "show departures correlated with what seems to be conscious effects on the EGG array". One of his goals is to amass enough incidents [I believe that he has several hundred by now] to be able to learn of a certain type of event in the world and predict the EGG array behavior before looking at it.
Comment: I changed the headline. As much as I love this research, I have a fundamental disagreement with Nelson et al's explaination that the EEG data shows "events that focus attention and emotion shared by people around the world". I am very skeptical because these scientists have to guess why the EGGs have registered non-random statistical behavior. To do this they go looking for an event that they think has been registered but sometimes this does not work at all. Thus, a weak correlation is not proof of any type of causation. I believe what the EEGs can register the "high tides" that cause the impact of human consciousness to bleedthrough into our reality. We must note that we live on a planet with over 6 billion people and the creation of a morphic field that captures an emotional reaction will exist. Yet, finding something, anything happening that makes headline news that might fit the hypothesis does not seem very scientific to me.... What we have is evidence that the human ability to influence EGGs varies and the trend is going up which I think is really the headline news. Since we have other evidence that the impact of human consciousness is getting stronger in recent decades, I believe this is related to the flux of cosmic energies/space weather/spacetime that is now embedded with more mind-matter. Thus, it would make more sense if someone started to link the EGG output with what is going on with Earth's magnetic field and/or even the Schumann Resonances. There is a lot of scientific research that provides a solid foundation for this reasoning. The mind-matter component to everything that exists is not static and various scientists already know a mind-matter component exists that can be amplified. So, these scientists should be asking: what is causing the high tides? The best summary of my analysis is outlined in my latest e-book version of
Tuning the Diamonds.
Famous cloud formation rolls in ahead of time
ABC News, 13th August 2013
Residents of an island in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria say a rare formation of clouds known as Morning Glory have appeared much earlier than expected.
Tex Battle from Sweers Island says the clouds, which appear like a roll of clouds in the sky, are usually visible from mid September.
He says the first formation appeared on Sunday and yesterday's clouds also brought some rain.
"It approached slowly, it was well formed, neatly formed and for the first time ever we had some rain come out of it - not much, just a trace," he said.
Comment: In a few parts of the world this cloud formation is expected yearly but it is interesting that this roll cloud has appeared a month early. Thanks to T. Browning for the tip.
Calls for seafood tests due to radiation leak in Japan
MSN News, 12th August 2013
Nuclear experts are calling on the U.S. government to test West Coast waters and Pacific seafood sold in the U.S. in the wake of Japan's alarming admission about an ongoing radiation leak.
The Tokyo Electric Power Co. acknowledged last week that 300 tons of contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has been seeping daily into the ocean since a devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. [...]
Joseph Mangano, executive director of the nonprofit Radiation and Public Health Project, said "a cocktail of more than 100 radioactive chemicals" from the Fukushima reactors presents hazards when the material is ingested into the body through the food chain or by breathing tainted air. Potential health risks include birth defects and thyroid cancer, he said.
In March, the organization published a report indicating that the number of West Coast babies born with a condition called hypothyroidism — underactive thyroid glands — rose by 28 percent within nine months of the Fukushima disaster, compared with the previous year.
Mangano noted that the American Medical Association has already called for the testing of all fish sold in the U.S. for radiation contamination, but that the FDA has so far resisted.
"We've had such enormous releases already, we need to vigorously monitor how much radiation is in our environment and bodies, not just in Japan but in the U.S.," he said.
Comment: Well, I presume that we are waiting for the Fukushima complex to completely collapse and even though the current news is bad enough, worse is yet to come.
Mystery Priest Who Showed Up at a Crash Scene Then Vanished Has Been Identified — and Here’s the Unlikely Way He Came Forward
The Blaze, 12th August 2013
The mystery priest who recently showed up at a crash site, anointed a victim and then vanished has been identified — and he came forward by posting his identity in the comments section of a Catholic news site. The story began on Aug. 4, after Aaron Smith, 26, struck Katie Lentz, 19, in a head-on car crash. In the days that followed, the tale of a faith leader who disappeared went viral.
But now the individual, who brought calm upon the situation and who rescue workers have been hoping to find and thank, has been found. A press release provided to TheBlaze from the Diocese of Jefferson County confirmed that the Rev. Patrick Dowling, one of the priests who works with the diocese, is the individual whom they have been seeking.
Comment: Look at the sketch of the mystery priest and the older Catholic priest that has come forward... I just don't believe Rev. Patrick Dowling's version of events, but Catholics are known for always trying to manipulate seemingly miraculous events to their advantage.
Yoga's Terribly, Horribly, Awfully Negative Year
Celestial Reflections, 12th August 2013
[...] A cult following is the most coveted accessory in retail, and Lululemon's is even more lustworthy than its Velocity Gym Bag. It wasn't built on the work of some Jobs-ian swami, however, but on the sources of Lulu founder and chairman Chip Wilson's own spiritual awakening. Wilson has mixed a heady self-actualizing cocktail from equal parts Landmark Forum (seminars based on the philosophy of Werner Erhard), the books of motivational business guru Brian Tracy, and Oprah-endorsed best seller The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne. He is now hard at work formalizing them in a Lululemon "internal constitution."
"It's the first time I've heard of anyone almost directly using the techniques of cults and applying them to their business," says Douglas Atkin, author of The Culting of Brands. Drawing on those techniques, and with virtually zero advertising, Lululemon has converted the most popular yoga teachers from Beverly Hills to Boston (and their students) into a devoted -- and self-propagating -- clientele. In a little more than 10 years, Lululemon has grown from a single storefront on the surf side of Vancouver, British Columbia, to a public company with more than 100 outlets and $340 million in annual revenue.
Comment: I have been following the latest on Choudhury but the info on Lululemon building a business based on cult tech is news to me... The discussion of
The Secret is interesting.... And as we now know, the secret of
The Secret is cult tactics and techniques... It will be interesting to watch when folk find out they have been conned.
Andrew Cohen and the Decline of the Guru Institution Part I: Andrew Cohen Steps Down as a Guru
Integral World, 11th August 2013
A stranger would not understand the magnitude of the affair, a stranger might even mock it, but last month an earthquake took place in the world of New Age. A tectonic shift the likes of which the elders of Rishikesh cannot recall. It was revealed that Andrew Cohen, one of the most famous spiritual teachers in the world, and until a few years ago one of the most powerful and influential figures in contemporary Western spirituality, is about to step down as guru and resign the leadership of the movement he founded, EnlightenNext, against a backdrop of repeated allegations of tyrannical conduct and financial and mental (but not sexual) abuse of his followers. In an official message, he announced that he would soon be stepping down, and apologized to his students for the wrongs he had done them in the past. In short: he admitted that despite hopes to the contrary, he does have an ego after all.
Comment: The bells are ringing loud and clear... This is a useful summary of the 'tectonic shift' in the cultic milieu associated with the demise of Andrew Cohen.... I bet there are plenty of folk out there who simply don't understand that the spiritual energies hitting this planet are causing severe problems for some... The intellectual chat about consciousness is all very pretentious but disowning guru thugs is the bottom line.
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Andrew Cohen and the Decline of the Guru Institution Part II: Interview with Amir Freimann
Integral World, 12th August 2013
Hmmm.... This interview is just too nicey nice. I am wondering if Amir Freimann is the guy that Cohen referred to as 'the doctor'. There is a well known incident when Cohen instructed 'the doctor' to cut the finger tip off a follower as a punishment for some minor failing... This was fully intended to traumatise the victim and was only stopped as the knife was ready to be used... Cohen was eventually booted out of his own organisation for good reason....
10 Years After Blackout, US Grid Faces New Threats
Epoch Times, 10th August 2013
On the ten-year anniversary of the nation’s largest blackout, the U.S. electrical grid is better managed and more flexible but remains vulnerable. Among potential problems are increasingly extreme weather, cybersecurity threats, and stress caused by shifts in where and how power is produced.
Many worry the grid isn’t fully prepared for the new and emerging challenges, even though an analysis conducted for The Associated Press shows maintenance spending has steadily increased since North America’s largest blackout.
Freak hail the size of 'eggs' destroys crops in Bordeaux weeks after storms wrecked 90 per cent of Burgundy's vineyards
Daily Mail, 10th August 2013
* Severe hailstorms hit the Bordeaux region on August 2 completely destroying entire vineyards
* Vineyards owners described the hail as being the size of 'pigeon's eggs'
* Comes weeks after much of Burgundy's wine crop was destroyed by storms
* Many wine-makers are now facing ruin as they have no grapes to make wine
Wine-makers in France are facing ruin after hail storms decimated vineyards in Bordeaux just a few weeks after summer storms destroyed up to 90 per cent of crops in Burgundy.
The torrential hail storm which struck on August 2 ravaged around 20,000 hectares of land in the region - leaving many vineyards completely barren.
Many wine-makers in the region have been left with no crops by freak hail the size of 'pigeon's eggs' while others have seen theirs severely reduced. [...]
Many argue that insurance is the only viable option - but with some areas seeing six devastating hailstorms in the last 12 years, it is becoming increasingly costly.
Comment: The world is a big place. It can't be terrible weather all the time everywhere, because there are reports of record harvests.
Why we should fear Miami’s ‘Facebook murderer’
Washington Post, 9th August 2013
[...] Rather, in apparently posting a picture of Jennifer Alonso, 26, to Facebook, Derek Medina basically did what dozens of accused killers have done before him: manipulate the media narrative about their cases.
The modern era has seen others ascend to such notoriety. People like Cho Seung Hui, the Virginia Tech gunman who interrupted his 2007 rampage to mail a package of pictures and videos to NBC News. Or David Berkowitz, better known as “Son of Sam,” who murdered six people in the ’70s, sent a crazed letter to the New York Daily News and inspired New York state’s laws against profiting from the crime. Or even the notorious Swedish serial killer Thomas Quick, who was recently the subject of a GQ profile that concluded that he’d invented his crimes — for no other reason than the resulting media attention.
Comment: We need a professional opinion but I think the Self-Help 'guru' tag adds an extra special dimension to this killer. As regulars will know, my main concern is the overall state of the cultic milieu that seems to support a selection of organised crime syndicates and an assortment of individuals on a continuum of shadiness. I believe there is a need to warn genuine seekers, but few seem to care as it appears the 2nd hand psychopathy has reached new heights as a consequence of general New Age narcissistic teaching. The culture of the 'Society of Seekers' allows dangerous predators to flourish and there is very little effort from the "Big Names" to point out to naive seekers that they are at risk. On analysis, it is clear the reason is that many of those "Big Names" are experts at manipulation and don't want their techniques and tactics to be exposed. Why should dangerous predators masquerading as gurus point out to trusting and gullible seekers that they should learn to discern and distinguish which characters should be avoided? Personally, I believe this case will be seen as another nail in the New Age Self-Help coffin. Btw, at The Seek Safely website the last time I looked on 11th August 2013,
only 15 people have signed the Seek Safely Promise. Based on the current ethos in the cultic milieu, if you go to a weekend or week seminar and experts at manipulation push you into a state where you become manic or suicidal – or in the case of someone like James Ray who convinces people to push themselves to the limit and victims are injured or killed – then very few will be interested and the general attitude is: lets all hail the guru for fleecing lots of money off a bunch of suckers.... Maybe, based on the status quo, we will look back on the last 50 years and call it The New Age of Predators.
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Local Reactions to Man Who Apparently Killed Wife, Posted Picture on Facebook
WDTV News, 10th August 2013
Many experts said this event is something they've never seen before when it comes to social media.
John Antal, a clinical social worker, said, "My concern is that people's egos are so out of control that they will post anything they want to. They will write anything they want to. They will put any kind of photographs on there, and not think of anyone, which concerns me because there is no sensitivity to the others who may be looking at this."
In his post, he also said he would miss his Facebook friends. Some of them even commented back to the post.
Comment: The comments here sound very general and more applicable to the ubiquitous internet trolling taking place. I don't know about these 'experts' because they don't seem very knowlegeable about how some killers behave and how some killers use the media and social media. Look back in the archives (June 2012) for stories about the Canadian gay pörn star cannibal Luka Magnotta who was also prolific on social media websites. He was actually caught in an internet cafe whilst he was supposed to be on the run. He had hundreds of volunteers trying to track him down because he was killing kittens and posting the videos on the internet. The law enforcement authorities only got interested when he was accused of killing and eating parts of his lover after posting a gruesome video on the internet. We can only presume that he was desperate for more attention and notoreity. I also recently highlighted the Wichita, Kansas 'BTK' serial killer who also used the media over a three decade long reign of terror to boast about his exploits.
Alleged Wife-Killer Is a Writer of Insane Self-Help Books
The Atlantic Wire, 9th August 2013
On Thursday, 31-year-old Derek Medina posted a status update on Facebook stating that he killed his 26-year-old wife, Jennifer Alfonso. Medina included a lifeless photo of a bloodied Alfonso and was eventually charged with first-degree murder. It turns out that Medina is also a self-published author of several self-helpish, pretty-insane-seeming books. Now, because the Internet is awful, netizens have turned reviews of his books and the photo of his dead wife into "jokes."
The whole story is pretty disturbing. Though Facebook has taken down Medina's page, the photo is still out there. It's the kind of picture that may give you nightmares. "I’m going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife love you guys miss you guys take care Facebook people you will see me in the news ... My wife was punching me and I am not going to stand anymore with the abuse so I did what I did I hope u understand me," Medina posted at 11:11 a.m., before posting the picture of Alfonso with the caption "RIP Jennifer Alonso." That raises obvious questions about Medina's criminality — but also about social media in our lives.
Comment: Well, this is another reminder of someone wearing the New Ager mask and are so strongly identified with the memes that they can kill their spouse and post on Facebook at 11:11... To be fair, the faux spirituality is a standard disguise for a malignant narcissist/psychopath.
In rare condition, Tamil Nadu infant keeps catching fire
Times of India, 10th August 2013
CHENNAI: Rahul has been virtually in flames four times since he was born two-and-a-half months ago. Doctors say it's due to a rare condition called spontaneous human combustion (SHC).
Afflicted with the disorder, seen only in 200 people across the world in the past 300 years, the child is undergoing treatment at Kilpauk Medical College (KMC) Hospital.
Rahul was nine days old when he first "caught fire" in the presence of his mother Rajeshwari who watched in disbelief as there was no source of fire in the vicinity. She took him to the Villupuram Medical College from where the baby was discharged three days later. After coming home, he suffered burns again.
Court officially declares Bitcoin a real currency
RT News, 9th August 2013
A federal judge has for the first time ruled that Bitcoin is a legitimate currency, opening up the possibility for the digital crypto-cash to soon be regulated by governmental overseers.
United States Magistrate Judge Amos Mazzant for the Eastern District of Texas ruled Tuesday that the US Securities and Exchange Commission can proceed with a lawsuit against the operator of a Bitcoin-based
Has Richard Dawkins found a worthy opponent at last?
'Iron Pete' Higgs of God particle fame has accused Richard Dawkins of adopting a 'fundamentalist' approach when dealing with believers
Telegraph, 8th August 2013
[...] Higgs has accused Dawkins of adopting a “fundamentalist” approach when dealing with believers. He argues that belief and science can co-exist and that a lot of scientists in his field are people of faith. “I don’t happen to be one myself, but maybe that’s just more a matter of my family background than that there’s any fundamental difficulty about reconciling the two.” This is a low blow, because one of Dawkins’ favourite tricks is to exchange the word atheist for scientist, as if it is impossible for a scientist to be religious, as in his line: “Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.” [...]
In the face of Higgs’s challenge, Dawkins has so far remained sitting on his stool, refusing even to put in his gumshield. As a public service, then, and because – rather presumptuously – I think I know his writing well enough, I shall answer for him.
Atheists can’t be fundamentalists, because they are open to any hypothesis, provided that it can be substantiated by evidence. And atheism is not a religion. It doesn’t want followers.
Comment: Hmmm.... Don't be silly, of course atheists want followers, some of them even want their own churches... Anyway, there is a major problem on the horizon for atheists as society have forced them into being staunch "believers" in Darwinism. Well, epigenetics and the new revelation that some hereditary traits might not even be associated with genes means big-time atheistic religious tenets are being unravelled rather quickly and some evolutionary biologists are desperate for new dogma... Quite frankly, for those of us in neither camp, this is interesting to watch and I can understand why the Creationists and Intelligent Design folk are happy...
UFO caught on surveillance in Naples?
NBC News, 8th August 2013
NAPLES, FL - A video showing lights hovering over a pool is the talk of Naples. Residents say they have never seen anything like it -- and experts aren't sure either.
Monday night, security officer Debralee Thomas was watching the camera feed from behind a Gulfshore Boulevard condo building just across the street from Venetian Village, when she noticed strange lights swoop in over the pool. [...]
At first glance, what she saw almost looked like a saucer-shaped object up top. Then the object went down into the pool and expanded like a web -- moving back and forth.
After nearly thirty minutes, the object started to disappear.
Thomas said bugs fly up to their cameras all the time, but this was further away.
"It was down on the ground but some of that webbing was longer and it made a funnel down into the pool. Whatever it was doing in the pool, I don't know," Thomas said. [...]
On Wednesday, residents were walking in and out of the office complex to check out the must-see video.
"I have no idea. I've never seen anything like this. The electrical charges coming from it, it's truly unbelievable," said resident Curtis Kate.
Comment: There are ubiquitous reports of UFOs/UAPs being seen near water and we must presume that plasma entities that exist in a shadow biosphere have a requirement for water. I was very interested in the mention of the discharge of electrical energy. This is an important quote that can be found in my book
Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spiritual Evolution
“And so far as our present information goes, there is unequivocal evidence that wherever there is life, there are electrical properties.” - Harold Saxon Burr, Blueprints For Immortality: The Electric patterns of Life (1971)
Btw, don't expect anything useful from MUFON as they are about suppressing any serious discusssion of this planet hosting a shadow biosphere. Intelligent people need to study and think for themselves and put themselves on the same page as the intellectual elite. Thanks to L. Hieronimus for the tip.
Sun's Magnetic Field Flip Won't Doom Earth, Scientists Say
Space.com, 7th August 2013
We have nothing to fear from the big change that is about to occur on the sun, researchers stress.
The sun's magnetic field is set to reverse its polarity in the next few months. But the shift won't spark an increase in powerful solar storms or other events that could have a damaging effect on Earth and its inhabitants, researchers say.
"The world will not end tomorrow," Phil Scherrer, a solar physicist at Stanford University, told SPACE.com. [Solar Magnetic Field Will Soon Flip (Video)]
This polarity flip is perfectly normal solar behavior, occurring every 11 years at the peak of our star's activity cycle. But the field reversal doesn't drive the increase in solar flares and eruptions of superheated plasma, called coronal mass ejections, that is observed around solar max.
Comment: Presumably, this is a response to the smoke screen of distractions on numerous conspiracy websites intended to stop people paying attention to Comet ISON, which some experts believe will provide put on a spectacular cosmic display in the heavens.
'999? I can't find the film I want on Sky': Bizarre time-wasting calls made to the emergency services revealed
Daily Mail, 8th August 2013
South Yorkshire Police claim up to a third of the 999 calls they receive should never have been made in the first place
They include a woman who couldn't find the film she wanted on TV and a mother who wanted police to tell off her son for not eating his breakfast
Comment: Well, what does anyone expect when society is being dumbed down and people are encouraged to stay childlike. I think this is most noticeable if you watch TV and pay attention to just how childish the adverts are, but the media in general often appeals to a generally childish mentality. This is also very noticeable in the cultic milieu where spirituality is often relegated to 'entertainment' for children. I have even seen complaints amongst certain groups because people don't want anything too serious. It seems mummy and daddy storytelling is popular, but not much that requires people to really think for themselves.
English Speakers Increasingly Use Self-Centered Words Like 'Get' And 'Choose'
What changes in language use can tell us about society
News, 7th August 2013
The words that consistently pop up in published literature can tell us a lot about individual and cultural trends and values. Are people talking about their emotions more? Are people feeling depressed?
Patricia Greenfield, a psychology professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, decided to use word frequency patterns to identify how people's values have shifted over time from the sociological concepts of gemeinschaft (translated from German as community, reflecting a rural society with a subsistence economy) and gesellschaft (translated as society, reflecting an urban, wealthy, technological culture).
By analyzing word frequency data from more than a million books published in the United States and Britain between 1800 and 2000, using Google Books Ngram Viewer, Greenfield found that our language has slowly shifted to focus on individualism and material gain.
We now use more individual-focused words like "get" and "choose," rather than group-focused words like "give" and "obliged."
Comment: I am starting to think that the intelligentsia are worrying about where the selfishness, narcissism and psychopathic tendencies are leading humanity... It was not so long ago that a group of Oxford scholars muted that humanity were skirting with disaster see,
This is the end: Team of experts say humanity faces extinction. I think the cultic milieu and particularly the almost mainstream New Age movement has been a major catalyst, (New Age book publishing has seen phenomenal growth in recent decades). Yet, now we know the business model is largely about creating a pipe dream with a strong focus on the individual and then encouraging people to spend lots of money whilst they chase after illusions. Read my archives and follow links, there are a large number of proven frauds claiming enlightenment but not much real evidence they have anything worth obtaining (magicians are good at creating illusions...). This has resulted in a huge number of people who have been processed, traumatised and spat out who realised they have been conned, there are plenty of websites out there of folk sharing their experiences. If you pay attention, you will know the fight back is now getting serious. The only way for humanity to get back on track is to reject the current New Age narcissistic teachings, mostly based on lies and twisted logic.
British tourist suffering from bipolar disorder spends £147,000 in Spanish food shops during week-long impulsive spree
Daily Mail, 7th August 2013
* Seen walking from store to store demanding to 'buy everything'
* Bought 17 pairs of shoes and 30 bags of food from gourmet delicatessen
* Man, named locally as Mark Rushton, eventually taken to hospital by police
* Psychiatrists said he had suffered an extreme bipolar episode
* Hospital paid for him to be sent back to the UK on a Ryanair flight
A British tourist suffering from bipolar disorder spent more than £147,000 during a week-long shopping spree in a Spanish city.
Shopkeepers said the man, who had a British passport and called himself Mark Rushton, was walking from store to store in the northern town of Santander, demanding to 'buy everything'.
According to the Diario Montanes newspaper, he bought more than 30 bags of food from 'Diferente' - a gourmet delicatessen - leaving the shop's shelves virtually empty.
Comment: LGAT masters like Tony Robbins and James Ray deliberately aim to put their audience into manic states. This is done in order to easily manipulate crazed people to max out their credit cards with very expensive training. JR was just a clone of TR so just go and watch some YouTube videos and you will find out how these 'masters' do it.
Pump and pray: Tepco might have to pour water on Fukushima wreckage forever
RT News, 7th August 2013
Fukushima is a nightmare disaster area, and no one has the slightest idea what to do. The game is to prevent the crippled nuclear plant from turning into an “open-air super reactor spectacular” which would result in a hazardous, melted catastrophe. [...]
We hear that 400 tons of highly radioactive water is now escaping the barriers that Tepco erected and is reaching the sea. Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said on August 7 that “stabilizing Fukushima is our challenge.” Tepco said, “This is extremely serious — we are unable to control radioactive water seeping out of the Fukushima plant.” CNN quoted “industry experts” saying that “Tepco has failed to address the problem...[the experts] question Tepco’s ability to safely decommission the plant.” [...]
What we have here in Fukushima is more local, but still very deadly and certainly worse than Chernobyl since the populations are so large. And this brings me to my second point, and a warning to the Japanese people. The contamination of the sea results in adsorption of the radionuclides by the sand and silt on the coast and river estuaries. The east coast of Japan, the sediment and sand on the shores, will now be horribly radioactive. [...]
And what about the future? The future is bleak. I see no way of resolving the catastrophe. They will either have to pour water on the wreckage forever, and thus continue to contaminate the local sea, or find some more drastic immediate solution. I was told that US experts had the idea at the beginning of bombing the reactors into the harbour. Not so stupid in my opinion. That at least may enable them to get sufficiently close to the pieces to pick them up, and should also solve the cooling problem. Apparently (my contact said) the French argued them out of it because of the negative effect on nuclear energy (and Uranium shares).
Comment: I think the U.S. Military should have stormed in there and bombed Fukushima and saved the world. It would have been something useful for a change... Instead, the moronic stance of heeding the opinion of psychopaths, the same psychopaths who had built so many nuclear reactors in a very active earthquake zone.
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The Fukushima Nightmare Gets Worse
The Progressive, 8th August 2013
[...] Some 28 months after three of the six reactors exploded at the Fukushima Daichi site, nobody can offer a definitive explanation of what is happening there or how to deal with it. The most cogent speculation now centers on the reality that, simply enough, water flows downhill. [...] Reports now indicate the outflow at Fukushima also includes substantial quantities of radioactive iodine, cesium, and strontium. That, in turn, indicates there is probably more we haven’t yet heard about. This is very bad news.
Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents
David Kriesel, 7th August 2013
In this article I present in which way scanners / copiers of the Xerox WorkCentre Line randomly alter written numbers in pages that are scanned. This is not an OCR problem (as we switched off OCR on purpose), it is a lot worse – patches of the pixel data are randomly replaced in a very subtle and dangerous way: The scanned images look correct at first glance, even though numbers may actually be incorrect. Without a fuss, this may cause scenarios like:
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Incorrect invoices
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Construction plans with incorrect numbers (as will be shown later in the article) even though they look right
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Other incorrect construction plans, for example for bridges (danger of life may be the result!)
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Incorrect metering of medicine, even worse, I think.
To make things even more worse: The copiers in question are the common Xerox WorkCentres, and Xerox seemed to be unaware of the issue until we found out about it last Wednesday. Whats more, not only one different WorkCentre model seems to be affected, as we tested at least two with this issue (Xerox WorkCentre 7535 and 7556). Additionally, the current software release, as installed by xerox support, did not solve the issue, thus, the issue existed on the very old release we had installed, as well as on a very new one. The error has been confirmed by a xerox rental firm in the meantime, and Xerox is investigating as well, so it does not seem to be some dumb handling error or something similar (if I was thinking this, I of course would not publish it here).
Comment: This is absolutely incredible.... I don't think a simple "fix" is the issue here... This might not just be a problem for Xerox either...
British woman's weighty baby breaks Spanish record
BBC News, 7th August 2013
Doctors say a British woman has given birth to the biggest baby ever born naturally in Spain - a girl weighing 6.2kg (13lbs 11oz).
Maxime Marin, 40, had what doctors described as an "uncomplicated" delivery at the Hospital Marina Salud in Denia, Alicante.
The mother, who lives in Spain with her Colombian partner, said she knew the baby would be big "but not that big". [...]
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the world's heaviest baby was born to Anna Bates of Canada in 1879. The baby weighed 10.5kg (23lbs 2oz) but died 11 hours after birth.
Both of the baby's parents had giantism.
Comment: So, should we be expecting giantism to become more prevalent now that Fukushima is now officially out of control?
Mysterious priest performs miracle at site of Mercedes crash
Connect Tri-States, 7th August 2013
CENTER, MO. -- Rescue workers want to thank a higher power for coming to the rescue early Sunday morning.
Emergency crews spent an hour and a half trying to extricate a 19-year-old Quincy woman trapped in her in crushed car on Missouri 19 near Center, Mo.
The Missouri Highway Patrol said Aaron Smith, 26, crossed the center line and struck Katie Lentz head-on.
Now, friends, family and those who rescued Lentz would love to find and thank a mysterious priest who they say helped make the rescue possible. [...]
About an hour into the rescue, Katie asked rescue workers to pray out loud with her. That's when a priest appeared out of no where.
"He came up and approached the patient, and offered a prayer," Reed said. "It was a Catholic priest who had anointing oil with him. A sense of calmness came over her, and it did us as well. I can't be for certain how it was said, but myself and another firefighter, we very plainly heard that we should remain calm, that our tools would now work and that we would get her out of that vehicle."
Comment: Hmmmm.... Religious folk will say this is an 'angel in disguise'....Personally, I think there is plenty of evidence that shape-shifting interdimensional entities exist and some apparently offer their services to humans in need.... For the skeptics, this reminds me of a so-called fictional book
A Secret Property (1985), written by Ralph Noyes, who retired as the Undersecretary of State in 1977. He was a British government official whose letters petitioning that the UFO matter be taken seriously can be found in the recently released UK UFO archive files. In 1969, he was head of Defense Secretariat 8 (DS8), and one of his responsibilities was to answer public questions about UFOs. In this work of fact-fiction, Noyes gets the message across that UFO groups are routinely infiltrated and a disinformation campaign has been waged to mislead people about the true nature of UFOs/UAPs. The story teaches that UFOs/UAPs are part of a realm that belongs to Earth, which humans have the ability to psychically interact with, manipulate and even control. Noyes had studied UFOs/UAPs to a level where he understood there is a spiritual component, as he managed to link in scientific studies that humans have the ability to interact with even things that seem inanimate because everything has a spiritual or 'mind' component. For the few who are paying attention, top quality 'mind' energy is being delivered to Earth and is being soaked up by this planet. This is the reason why the cosmic flotsam and jetsam are arriving in droves and UFO sightings are rising dramatically.... It's a whole shadow biosphere, a concept that people with tiny minds don't seem to be able to comprehend, but there has been some good work done (Trevor James Constable, Paul Devereux, John Keel and Jacques Vallee and others with similar views,) but their assessment is generally ignored by those herding the masses away from the truth.
Chelyabinsk meteorite may have gang of siblings – study
RT News, 6th August 2013
The Chelyabinsk meteorite that hit Russia in February, injuring over a thousand, may have stemmed from a massive cluster of rocks which broke off from a disintegrating asteroid thousands of years ago, a new study claims.
Spanish astronomers have discovered that the Chelyabinsk bolide, an 18-meter wide 11,000-ton space rock that burst in a 460-kiloton explosion above Russia, used to be a part of a larger space body.
Scientists believe between 20,000 to 40,000 years ago, a massive body orbiting the sun broke up, most likely as a result of the temperature extremes and planetary gravitation it experienced while looping out past Mars and Venus.
Comment: If you want to know what is going on, ask the Russians....
Turkish Prime Ministry Inspection Board cites ‘telekinesis’ as possible cause of mysterious suicides
Hurriyet Daily News, 6th August 2013
The suspicious suicides of four engineers working at the Turkish corporation ASELSAN could have been caused by telekinesis, according to a report by the Turkish Prime Ministry Inspection Board.
The report, presented to the Ankara Public Prosecutor in accordance with the ongoing investigation over the 2006-2007 suicides, claimed the victims could have been directed toward the suicides by way of telekinesis, citing the work done by neuropsychology expert Nevzat Tarhan.
Hüseyin Basbilen, an engineer at Turkey’s military research and development enterprise, Aselsan, was found dead in his car on Aug. 7, 2006. A court ruled in 2009 that he committed suicide. Two other engineers working at Aselsan died shortly after Basbilen.
Comment: Obviously the journalist has got this very wrong by using the term
telekinesis... So, as others have pointed out, the journalist was referring to EM warfare because he writes about waves at a distance of 1.5 km. Well, it is a fact that scientists have bragged that they can easily affect human behaviour using electromagnetism, this is really old news. Hence, there is plenty of old and new information swirling about the internet on this subject.
"Pandora" virus - covert threat from space?
Space Daily News, 6th August 2013
It seems that the world is on the threshold of another breakthrough. A huge virus, called the Pandora virus that was discovered accidentally underwater off the Australian coast, has triggered heated debates in the scientific society. What is strange about it and why do many scientists say that it is of extraterrestrial origin?
First, the "Pandora" virus is by right regarded as the world's largest virus. Despite that, it is visible with a normal microscope.
Another thing of importance here is that it resembles a bacterial cell. Second, earlier scientists in fact knew nothing about 93 per cent of the "Pandora" genes. That is why scientists mentioned the extraterrestrial origin of the "Pandora" virus.
Comment: It seems the objections to the theory of Panspermia are being forgotten quite quickly, because this is exactly what was originally proposed – life being seeded on Earth from space and this is a perfect example... Besides that, I have been collecting many different reports of Earth being apparently splattered with cosmic gunk, see archives.
US debt six times greater than declared - study
RT News, 6th August 2013
The United States has accumulated over $70 trillion in unreported debt, an amount nearly six times the declared figure, according to a new study by University of California-San Diego economics Professor James Hamilton.
The unique aspect of Hamilton’s study is that he examines federal debt that has not been publicly released, specifically the government’s support for “housing, other loan guarantees, deposit insurance, actions taken by the Federal Reserve, and government trust funds.”
The river UNDER the sea: Haunting images of scuba diver exploring mysterious channel flowing in water-filled cavern
Daily Mail, 6th August 2013
Fukushima radioactive water leak an 'emergency'
BBC Asia News, 5th August 2013
Japan's nuclear watchdog has said the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is facing a new "emergency" caused by a build-up of radioactive groundwater.
A barrier built to contain the water has already been breached, the Nuclear Regulatory Authority warned.
This means the amount of contaminated water seeping into the Pacific Ocean could accelerate rapidly, it said.
There has been spate of water leaks and power failures at the plant, devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Comment: The headline at the subscriber only UK Times is also noteworthy:
Lethal threat from radioactive water flowing into sea from crippled Fukushima I now wonder whether Fukushima is already an extinction level event (ELE)... I called it a long time ago that Japan was finished, but scientists breezily trying to claim that it will not affect the United States are just lying. Here is a comment at Energy News thart sums this all up nicely:
Gasser August 6, 2013 at 1:18 am Log in to Reply
Aloha! My ENENEWS friends
I've been following the Fukushima potential ELE disaster on ENENEWS from day one and try to convey the seriousness of this catastrophe to those in my circle of friends and whoever else's attention I can grab, because few grasp the severity.
I knew that whatever is manufactured or grown in Japan will become more and more contaminated as the moments tick away.
I live in Hawaii and have a gut feeling the soles of the Japanese tourist shoes are highly contaminated spreading radioactive isotopes in Aircraft, Busses, Taxis, Hotels, Restaurants and every tourist attraction we have to offer.
If this contamination were like stepping in bright yellow wet paint, it would blow your mind to see how much this has spread everywhere world wide, brining a new meaning of "The yellow brick road"… Just say'n.
Well, very strangely, yesterday I received an email from a long term regular blog reader who I have had some correspondence with over the last few years. I don't think she will mind sharing some of her email which made me think of Fukushima straight away. L. Sharp writes:
“I'm here in Maryland, USA navigating this life as best I can. I've continued to observe the changes that are happening right before our very eyes. Something miraculous, yet subtle, is happening right in our presence and most of us can't 'see' it. Yet more and more people are aware that "something" is going on.
I've observed the changes in the sky and atmosphere for many years now. The anomalies, aircraft, and now train and other vehicle malfunctions are no surprise to me. The changes in animal intelligence, the lifting 'veil', and erratic human behavior are no longer a surprise. But the surprises DO continue. This summer I have noticed some of the largest insects that I've ever seen in my life .....and I've heard no one else even mention it. I've seen common insects that come out every summer here in Maryland that are 3 or 4 or even more times larger than their normal size! I've seen beautiful butterflies the size of small birds; dragonflies that I've suspected of being small 'drones'; huge bees; and today, on my patio I saw the largest fly I've ever seen in my life! It was almost shocking. It had to be almost the size of the palm of my hand, but I didn't get too close.
There has to be some type of mutation going on, as you've noted in your work many times. I just wanted to share my observation.”
Gigantism is a symptom of low level radiation contamination, in humans, animals, fish and plants. I don't have time to produce lots of links but
Energy News has lots and lots of relevant information and you can start here:
Radiation Biologist: Tree leaves were gigantic after Chernobyl — “Witch’s Broom” effect (VIDEO) &
Japan Scientists: Truly unusual deformities in Fukushima — Forests may be evolving into different ecosystems — “There’s been a sudden, large change”
Bizarre 'Meteotsunami' Stirred Waves in UK
Live Science, 5th August 2013
A tsunami that struck the UK in 2011 was caused by a storm roiling the ocean hundreds of miles away, a new study confirms.
The "meteotsunami" (or weather-induced tsunami) of June 27, 2011, caused swells on a normally calm estuary on a sunny day, left some people knee-deep in water and made other people's hair stand on end in southwest England. Scientists suspected that a storm was to blame for the bizarre waves, but the new study, published in the June issue of the journal Weather, confirms it.
"As far as Britain is concerned this is the first time that a meteotsunami has been recorded," said study co-author David Tappin, a marine geologist at the British Geological Survey. [10 Tsunamis That Changed History]
Weather-induced waves happen when storms blast the ocean surface with a burst of pressure, creating a wave. But this wave only turns into a tsunami if the pressure wave forms a resonance with the weather pattern — meaning the wave is traveling at the same speed as the weather front itself.
Comment: I remember now, the reports of people's hair standing on end with the static electricity! High tides or landslides and earthquakes that usually cause tsunamis, are not normally accompanied by a big flow of charge and I wonder whether it means the jet stream hit sea level.... The source of this charge had to come from somewhere and an extreme electrical storms might suggest the cause was severe space weather. Therefore, the suggestion that modifications to weather forecasting is needed, is reminiscent of the acknowledgement that space weather now needs to be taken into account... Whatever, this looks like another major change...
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Mild tsunami strikes Cornish coast, shifting water levels 'in a flash'
Landslide at sea likely cause of surging wave along south coast and hair-raising static electricity
The Guardian, 29th June 2011 Flashback
An underwater landslide is thought to have caused a small tsunami that sent holidaymakers and anglers scattering in Cornwall. Witnesses reported the sea being sucked out, or receding, before a wave struck the coast on Monday morning.
No damage was caused by the wave, thought to have been about 40cm (16in) high and causing a surge up to 90cm (3ft) by the time the seawater pushed into the Yealm estuary, 70 miles up the coast near Plymouth, Devon, but many people, along the south coast, up to Hampshire, were left baffled by the phenomenon.
There were reports that static electricity in the air at the time made people's hair stand on end.
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NOAA: A Rare Tsunami Hit The East Coast Earlier This Month
NPR News, 25th June 2013
Superbugs Are Overpowering Antibiotics Even Faster Than the CDC Expected
Motherboard, 5th August 2013
America's antibiotic-resistant bacteria problem–a deadly bug known as K. pneumoniae, which ravaged National Institutes of Health Facilities last year, especially–is worse than the Centers for Disease Control estimates, particularly in hospitals and nursing homes, according to a new study published in a journal of the American Society for Microbiology. [...]
"We're going to continue to have increasing deaths caused by untreatable infections. It's not rocket science," Spellberg said. "One of the nice things about Darwinian evolution is it's predictable. When you apply selective pressure with antibiotics, some of the bacteria adapt and then you've got resistance."
Last year, 18 people at the NIH's Clinical Center in Maryland contracted K. pneumoniae, seven of them died, and four others died of the illness they were being originally treated for. Tara Palmore, an epidemiologist at NIH, told the Washington Post that "no antibiotic worked."
Comment: I would like to make a correction. Neo-Darwinism says natural selection is a slow process that takes place over hundreds of thousands of years.... Epigenetics research and observation reveals genetic changes can take place over decades and that is exactly what has happened with superbug resistance to antibiotics. This article points out that nursing homes and hospitals are now death traps, due to the quick 'evolution' of superbugs. Some people might now think that Darwinists have lead humanity up the garden path.
Glitch hits NAB online, mobile banking
Second of big four to have issues in a week.
IT News, 5th August 2013
A number of National Australia Bank customers have been unable to access online and mobile banking this morning after the bank suffered what appears to a server error. [...]
NAB is four years into a multibillion dollar, ten-year technology transformation to replace its legacy mainframe systems, developed in the 1950s.
NAB was forced to take its payments systems offline a few weeks ago after a technology glitch halted the processing of payments for around 12 hours. It did not reveal what caused that glitch.
The bank is the second of the big four in the past week to suffer an online banking outage.
Westpac’s online and mobile services
were down for two days late last week. The bank was able to restore services on Thursday night but online and mobile banking went down again for a second full day on Friday. It denied rumours of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack being behind the outage but is yet to provide the cause.
Comment: It does seem high profile major computer systems that people expect to be working 24/7 are becoming much more unreliable...
Hundreds of submarine volcanoes found off the coast of Norway
Extinction Protocol, 2nd August 2013
NORWAY – Researchers at the University of Bergen (UiB) has discovered hundreds of volcanoes in the deep sea around Norway. The area may be Norway’s new National Park or billion-profit generating region.The unique findings were discovered in Norwegian waters along a 1500 km long volcanic mountain range, which stretches from Jan Mayen to the Fram Strait between Svalbard and Greenland. Prior to this white spots on the map, we knew nothing about what was there. But using technological tools we have been able to map the ocean floor.
Comment: NOAA has been pointing out the sudden appearance of thousands of undersea volcanoes. So, it looks like Robert Felix at www.iceagenow.com was right to point out the relationship between climate change and volcanic activity, especially the role of undersea volcanoes. See
It's not Global Warming, it's Ocean Warming
Ex-Scientologists: Leah Remini's departure has church on the ropes
Fox News, 2nd August 2013
Leah Remini probably had no idea just how much attention she would attract when it was revealed on July 11th that she had parted ways with the Church of Scientology.
Data provided by Yahoo! shows that searches related to Scientology spiked 299 percent in July compared to June, and searches for Leah Remini grew a whopping 946 percent. And the increased attention could be just for starters, as Remini says she isn’t going away.
“No one is going to tell me how I need to think, no one is going to tell me who I can, and cannot, talk to," the actress told People Magazine. "I thought about the family being broken up for some other cause, and I’m not about to shut up.”
Comment: I am wondering why nobody told Leah that if you are involved in a cult, someone will be telling you how to think... Worse still, it is normally done surreptiously and you are programmed like a robot.... According to the book
Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change [1978, 1979, 1995, 2005] written by award winning authors Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, Scientology is the worst cult in the world and takes an
average 12 years to recover from. The fact she has woken up and is complaining she does not want to be a Scientology clone is quite amazing to me, because that is the whole point of the 'religion'... However, The Church of Scientology is quite prepared to handle the odd rebellious follower and that is why they use confessional blackmail to shut people up.... It will be interesting to see whether it works this time.
Mystery object falls from sky, area sealed off by military: 'Weather balloon', say officials
Even if it was, nobody's going to believe THAT
The Register, 2nd August 2013
Simply nobody will be giving any credence to officials in America who have stated that a mystery object which fell from the sky this week - after which the surrounding area was evacuated and sealed off for some time by police and military personnel - was just a "weather balloon".
Reportedly, large numbers of government operatives from various agencies converged urgently on a residential neighbourhood in Norfolk, Virginia, on Tuesday night after an unidentified object fell from the sky there. News reports describe the object as "something odd", with some eyewitness accounts saying it resembled a balloon and others suggesting that the crashlanded artifact had a structure similar to "styrofoam". According to local TV news:
One person told authorities it was making a strange noise.
Comment: Why do the military need to turn out in force to retrieve a weather balloon? Is this the new Roswell? This sounds like a UAP crashed but was injured and so the military carried it off.... If you think this is bizarre and crazy, just remember what happened in 1980 at the UK's version of Roswell in Rendlesham Forest right next door to a US military base that was "illegally" hosting nuclear weapons... A UFO was brought down by strong radar and the military had the opportunity to walk right up to one of those strange "craft" and touch it. It might look like a craft but it is a shape-shifting thoughtform, a product of billions of years of evolution and the reason why our astrobiologists discuss the existence of "post-biologicial entities". Btw, if you don't study, none of this makes any sense. If you want to be on the same page as the intellectual elite you have to do some work. Only ignorant people scoff at things they have never studied.
Man falls from balcony during Derren Brown live show having been 'pushed by his wife as a joke'
Independent News, 5th August 2013
Derren Brown makes a living by bamboozling his audience into behaving in extraordinary ways. But the illusionist described the “terrifying” moment a man plunged over a 45ft balcony during one of his live shows this weekend.
Brown, 42, said a man in the audience was pushed from the upper circle at the Palace Theatre in London’s West End on Saturday during one his Infamous shows.
He wrote on Facebook: "Tonight a woman pushed her hubby as a joke from the front of the balcony. He fell and caught the upper circle on the way down, and was hanging from it. He's fine, but what a finale. Sending best thoughts to him & wife, terrifying."
Comment: This could have been another death by someone using cult tactics in the form of hypnosis on his audience. I imagine the real terror was Brown thinking this might be the end of his career.... [In fact, he probably saw his career flash before his eyes....] Presumably, this version of events is an attempt to steer any blame away from 'guru' Brown because it is most likely the wife will claim she was still in a hypnotic trance or state when she had the great idea of pushing her husband off a 45ft balcony infront of hundreds of people... I wonder how many people whipped out their phones and took pictures too... Presumably lots and lots of people have to keep dying before people realise that using hypnosis is standard practise by 'gurus' (it's not just 'entertainers' like Derren Brown), and in that state people can be very vulnerable. Well, it occurred to me that the suggestibility required for hypnosis might also be affected by environmental geomagnetic chaos. Sure enough, I quickly found this paper:
Enhanced hypnotic suggestibility following application of burst-firing magnetic fields over the right temporoparietal lobes: a replication.
Healey F, Persinger MA, Koren SA.
Source: Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract: The suggestibility of normal, young men and women as assessed by Spiegel's Hypnosis Induction Profile (HIP) before and after weak (1 micro Tesla), burst-firing magnetic fields were applied for 20 min over the left or over the right temporoparietal lobe or both hemispheres; a fourth group received sham treatment. Only the group that received the stimulation over the right hemisphere exhibited a marked increase in suggestibility (eta = 0.58) following the treatment. These results replicate components of several different previous experiments and suggest that attribution of symptomatic changes following exposures to weak, extremely low frequency magnetic fields, to placebo effects may not be correct. Instead, fields whose signatures contain biorelevant information may directly affect the neurocognitive processes that are associated with hypnotizability.
Link
The likes of Brown might see a lot more of these incidents where people who are all supposed to be under his control are clearly not completely under his control.
Are We Being Conditioned to Accept 'Transhumanism' as Evolution?
Activist Post, 4th August 2013
Do you wonder why films and shows such as World War Z, Walking Dead, I Am Legend, or even the tongue-in-cheek marketing campaigns focus on 'zombie apocalypse warnings'? Is it just for your entertainment and giggles? After all, we know that zombies do not exist. Why then, would 'zombie apocalypse' be among Google's most popular search? A few years ago, it was the blood sucking vampires, which are still quite popular. Are we being psychologically conditioned to accept human changes, such as cannibalism, or 'transhumanism' as evolution?
We are living in the oddest of times. Our society is on the brink of so many simultaneous modifications. For example, we read about scorpion venom inserted into cabbage (to kill bugs), eel genes inserted into salmon (for profitable growth enhancement), bizarre animal parts surgically placed in humans, or micro machines drifting inside our cells. What are we doing as a species and what can you do to remain intact?
Comment: I am not particularly impressed with this article but the headline is worth thinking about. I think transhumanism (the transference of a human soul into a robot body) is still only pie in the sky and an excuse to see what scientific breakthroughs can achieve, but reports of scientists screaming like mad men that they want to be gods is just plain scary. Obviously humanity is already evolving, but changes forced by the environment are embarrassing to world controllers trying to create the impression that they control everything.
'Havoc' as HSBC prepares to close diplomatic accounts
BBC News, 4th August 2013
HSBC bank has reportedly asked more than 40 diplomatic missions to close their accounts as part of a programme to reduce business risks.
The Vatican's ambassadorial office in Britain, the Apostolic Nunciature, is among those said to be affected.
The head of the UK's Consular Corps told the Mail on Sunday the decision has created "havoc".
Comment: So, nobody wants these particular 'diplomats' money? Obviously, this must be linked to all the accusations of HSBC laundering huge amounts of money... Now we know this is not just mafia money. I wonder if Snowden and his little black book of NSA secrets have forced some to clean up their act...
Mystery of shadowy dark line shooting from a cloud over Florida beach stumps weather experts
It's a funnel cloud! It's a shadow! No, it's ... what is it?
Tampa Bay Times, 2nd August 2013
DUNEDIN — Mike Weight was strolling the beach at Honeymoon Island about noon Wednesday when he saw something weird.
A black line appeared against the bright blue sky, shooting down from a cloud into the gulf.
"At first I thought it was an optical illusion because it was like a dark piece of sky with a light sky background," Weight said. "You could see through it." [...]
Mike Clay, chief meteorologist at Bay News 9, didn't know what the black line was either. He shared the photos with several other weather experts.
One meteorologist came back with a theory: It could be the shadow of a contrail, the stream of condensed water vapor left by a rocket or plane. The contrail could have been concealed by clouds, Clay said.
For such a shadow to appear, conditions need to be just right, with the sun and contrail in precise spots.
But that's just a theory. Clay said no one he spoke with is entirely sure what Weight saw.
Comment:The headline came from the Uk Daily Mail version of this story
link. Of course, none of the professionals pay much attention to what is going on outside of traditional meteorology so it's no surprise that they can only make guesses. We have had other examples of huge beams of light hitting Earth and being caught on camera, besides other strange atmospheric events, see archives. Whatever, I have been pointing out: the laser-cut looking sinkholes on land and ice sheets; hole-punch clouds; killer electrons and associated new research; and natural microwave lasers in Earth's atmosphere associated with intense electrical activity.... Surely, it is obvious to a few that major change has occurred in Earth's atmosphere. Think and you might find some truth.
Be nice. Evolution will punish you if you’re mean and selfish, says study
Selfish people have short-term advantage, but co-operation and communication win out in the long term
Independent, 2nd August 2013
New research has challenged the notion that evolution favours self-interest above co-operation, suggesting instead that selfish individuals eventually ‘compete each other out of existence’.
Comment: I have been thinking a little more about this scientific revelation about selfishness causing extinction. By the way this is actually old news. Since I am not an evolutionary biologist, I simply cannot provide an adequate summary of the state of the science, but it has been established that when predators and cheaters cause too much overall stress for the collective, they are eventually eliminated by the environment. If you want to do some work, there is a very long list of references about cooperation and evolution provided with the associated research paper, see below. Well, this is the exact opposite of popular New Age teaching. I will repeat: THE EXACT OPPOSITE. The popular bullshit New Age teaching for the incredulous and gullible is that you will attract wealth by being greedy and this was popularised by the Rhonda Byrne's book "The Secret". This is from a Daily Mail article that points out there is something fundamentally wrong with this viewpoint:
[...] It seems unusual that a self-help book should take such an extreme hedonistic and self- centred view, but, according to Byrne, true happiness comes from putting yourself before others.
She also assuages any concerns you might have about overt materialism with an unusual interpretation of the Bible - saying that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses and Jesus were all millionaires, "with more affluent lifestyles than many present-day millionaires could conceive of".
So far, so relatively harmless. But Byrne has a distinctly odd view on how this all works, even bringing in quantum physics in an attempt to give her theories a scientific depth.
We are all, she states, "human transmission towers", emitting thoughts on a particular frequency and attracting "all like things that are on the same frequency".
This is why, she says, if you think negative thoughts, then bad things will happen.
The trouble is that if you extend this to its logical conclusion, then you not only have to believe that good things come to positive thinkers, but also that anyone who suffers only has themselves to blame.
So, if someone is fat, is that their fault for thinking fat thoughts? Surely Byrne cannot believe so.
Yes, she does. "A person cannot think thin thoughts and be fat."
It's become the fastest-selling self-help book ever, but is The Secret doing more harm than good?, Daily Mail, 26 April 2007
Interestingly, I have just found out that the creators of the movie intentionally placed subliminal and suggestive images to 'sell' their messages. As part of the sensory overload of subliminal images, there is a "procession of scammers" that includes felon James Ray, see Part 4 below.... Go and look for yourself at the distinctly creepy images that were embedded... The more you know the worse it gets...
In summary, the new scientific understanding and consensus suggests popular New Age teaching promotes very short term narcissistic thinking and if acted upon, the long term inevitable result will be extinction for humanity. The real irony here is that it looks like the mainstream is being prompted to wake up...
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Evolutionary instability of zero-determinant strategies demonstrates that winning is not everything
Nature, July 2013
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Subliminal Advertising in The Secret: (Part 1)
Spirituality Is No Excuse, 12th August 2012
So, who knew that the film The Secret uses a relentless barrage of subliminal images in the opening sequences, to achieve its extraordinarily high emotional impact?"
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Subliminal Advertising in The Secret: (Part 2) — Frightened Eyes and a Dollar Bill
Spirituality Is No Excuse, 14th August 2012
Welcome to the second installment of this in-depth look at subliminal advertising and manipulative persuasion techniques in the first few minutes of The Secret.
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Subliminal Advertising in The Secret (Part 3) — Be positive & get burned alive
Spirituality Is No Excuse, 2nd September 2012
My apologies for the rather ghoulish title, but that’s what The Secret is about. As we will see in this post, one of the strongest messages buried in this opening sequence is that people were burned so that YOU could have the product that Rhonda Byrne wants to sell you.
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Subliminal Advertising in The Secret (Part 4) — In Bed With Einstein
Spirituality Is No Excuse, 8th September 2012
In the earlier posts (see Part 1), we saw how the advertisers who made The Secret used various standard advertising tricks to sell Rhonda Byrne’s story and turn her audience into active promoters as well as consumers of the product. In this post, as well as some more subliminal images and some good old-fashioned lying, we will notice the way discovering The Secret has been carefully constructed around the framework of a sexual encounter….
Notes from a ‘mole’ in Al Gore’s Climate Leadership Training
WUWT, 2nd August 2013
A person who is actually a climate skeptic (and WUWT regular) applied for and was granted a training slot in Chicago this week. http://climaterealityproject.org/leadership-corps/ and has graduated as one of the 1500 people that attended the event.
For obvious reasons, I can’t reveal the person’s name, but I can reveal the communication I received last night.
The ‘mole’ writes:
I’m now a card-carrying, official Gore-bot.
(I took copious notes)
a) This was a super-liberal “kum-bay-ya” crowd as I predicted. I kept many of my opinions to myself. The event truly did have a “religious cult programming” feel to it, similar to an Amway meeting I attended years ago – carefully timed applause, audience call & response etc. Very bizarre.
b) Al Gore himself went through the entire slide show that we are supposed to use as his “Climate Leaders.”
Comment: Wow.... Al Gore has started his own little cult and done it by the book... Well, cults can be based on virtually anything as 'beliefs' are only part of what is going on... Whatever, the discussion of Al Gore and obvious use of cult tactics on this forum is interesting.... Really, WUWT is a climate skeptic blog! Well, this is too much! I suppose being realistic, cults are a tried and tested system of easily brainwashing susceptible people into committing to a cause... and then allow themselves to be exploited... Easy when you have zero integrity and have the know-how...
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IPCC’s Pauchauri and the aliens er, spirits, er, Shirley MacLaine
WUWT, 31st July 2013
The head of the IPCC has written a novel in which the central character is infatuated with pseudoscience and in which UFO enthusiast Shirley MacLaine is presented as credible. The final installment of the Nobel Laureate Summer Reading series.
Comment: The headline caught my attention... Follow the links... WUWT has picked up details about Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), another paid climate alarmist that has written what most consider to be a racy novel, but from the description here it looks like it could be a little bit more than that. It is possible this book was written with the intention of embedding the idea he is some kind of guru... Well, in my opinion, the commentary here is inadequate, talk of pseudoscience etc is inadequate. This needs an expert in techniques that re-engineer beliefs and we must remember this will only be step 1. If he follows Al Gore we can expect this book will be useful in attracting the most indiscriminate New Agey/Green crowd...
The mystery of the highway in the sky: Sunbeams, clouds and strange shadows caused astronomical phenomenon in China
Colorado Newsday, 28th July 2013
[...]When a strange 'highway' was spotted in the skies in China, few people knew what had caused the unusual astronomical phenomenon.
After investigating, meteorological experts think the bizarre pathway was created by a combination of sunbeams 'cast from over the horizon,' clouds high in the sky and shadows.
The striking photos of the unusual astronomical phenomena were spotted in the sky above Boao Town of Qionghai City in Hainan Province, South China.
Comment: More previously rare atmospheric phenomena becoming not so rare. I picked up previous reports in June & December 2012.
Claim: 2°C temperature increase will make people angry
WUWT, 1st August 2013
From Princeton University (with help from Berkeley)
Cool heads likely won’t prevail in a hotter, wetter world
Should climate change trigger the upsurge in heat and rainfall that scientists predict, people may face a threat just as perilous and volatile as extreme weather — each other.
Researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley report in the journal Science that even slight spikes in temperature and precipitation have greatly increased the risk of personal violence and social upheaval throughout human history. Projected onto an Earth that is expected to warm by 2 degrees Celsius by 2050, the authors suggest that more human conflict is a likely outcome of climate change. [...]
Establishing a correlation between violence and climate change now allows policymakers and researchers to examine what causes it and how to intervene, said lead author Solomon Hsiang, who conducted the work as a postdoctoral research associate in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy in Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Comment: This is junk science at its best.... Correlation is NOT causation but this language is being used to fool the public... Whatever, it really does seem that climate change has become the euphemism for space weather resulting in a chaotic geomagnetic field that is usually cited by researchers for the negative impact on human brains. Here is a quote from the research paper,
Geomagnetic Storms and their Influence on the Human Brain Functional State (2005), included in my 2012 e-book version of
Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spiritual Evolution. The paper concludes:
“The obtained results allowed concluding that the disturbances of
geomagnetic conditions can negatively influence the human organism,
having an effect on functional activity of a brain and changing its
background state. There are significant changes in the functional activity of
the human brain during the days with severe geomagnetic storms, which
reflect infringement of functions in both central integrative mechanisms, and
local processes of the human brain regulations. [...]
During strong disturbances of geomagnetic conditions, the negative
emotional background of the person is amplified.” [6]
There was 149 comments here in response to this blog entry at the time of writing and this tough crowd picked up on the correlation nonsense, but nobody pointed out the obvious about WHY the public are being deliberately misled. I am actually quite surprised.
'Evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean'
EurekAlert, 1st August 2013
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Two Michigan State University evolutionary biologists offer new evidence that evolution doesn't favor the selfish, disproving a theory popularized in 2012.
"We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean," said lead author Christoph Adami, MSU professor of microbiology and molecular genetics. "For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable."
The paper appears in the current issue of Nature Communications and focuses on game theory, which is used in biology, economics, political science and other disciplines. Much of the last 30 years of research has focused on how cooperation came to be, since it's found in many forms of life, from single-cell organisms to people.
Comment: This is the UK Daily Mail version,
Selfish people 'will eventually die out' because evolution favours cooperation Hmmm.... I have started re-reading the epic James Ray thread at the Cult Education Forum,
James Arthur Ray - 2 die at Arizona retreat's sweat lodge and it has hit me differently this time around. In the cultic milieu there are hundreds/thousands of guru types and teachers using all sorts of advanced persuasion techniques and hypnosis etc etc and a huge audience of people who think being manipulated and scammed by those with faux spirituality and no integrity is normal. Most people are very superficial, they judge by the outward trappings of success but often have no idea how this success is achieved. They are manipulated by experts who push them into altered states and when they are out of it steal their money.... What is the point trying to do your best when there is a huge army of scammers that invest a huge amount of time and effort in learning how to manipulate people with the main aim of of re-engineering their belief systems (B.S.) and turning them into robots? Really, it is no wonder there is so little evidence of spiritual evolution amongst the cultic/New Age milieu as shutting down critical thinking and allowing others to re-engineer beliefs is totally accepted as normal. It seems obvious to me that this is a belief engineered by the wolves in sheep's clothing in preparation for fleecing the sheep... Spiritual evolution means more parts of the brain become operable not closed down. So it is no surprise that what is actually happening is people regressing backwards and becoming psychopathic, the 2nd hand psychopathy that leads to people being killed by extreme "transformational" practices and nobody cares. (Seek Safely Promise count is now 13. Just pathetic. 01.08.2013) The materialistic 'Bling Ringers' who will do anything to get what they want and use New Thought 'The Secret' nonsense to justify their actions.... Meanwhile, somebody is engineering their inner being and they have no clue what is being done to them, but the clones are being churned out.... So, what we are being told here is completely obvious, if society continues to degenerate and becomes more psychopathic overall then humanity in its present manifestatioin is not going to last much longer. [Simply, the mentality that cutting each others throats is a good idea, which results in the real psychopaths being allowed to poison the air, the water, the food etc etc and wreck general havoc on the welfare of humanity, read up on psychopaths, their traits are very specific and information is being spread all over internet as some wake up to how these people operate.] Maybe, the current sperm count decline is for the best we can hope for; a quick reduction in human numbers and a chance for a few survivors to evolve with less competetive stresses. I don't believe transhumanism is the answer either.... Scientists have not figured out HOW species harmonise their genetic material to cope in a stressful environment, they just know a real in-built genetic flexibility exists. Furthermore, I do not believe humans will ever have that ability to completely control their evolution independent of what is going on in the environment, because I believe there is a spiritual component that cannot be fiddled with and it is taken into account. We can see this in operation as psychopaths have dead zones in the brain in comparison to 'normal' people. I dare anyone to make those dead zones operative! Yet, some 'normal' people are turning on more parts of the brain -- the 4% with some form of synaesthesia or have had a near death experience -- this means all is not lost... The question that nobody wants to answer is: what criteria is being used for some members of the human race to evolve? Has it got anything to do with being cooperative and empathic and being the exact opposite of a psychopath? Update:
I have been saying for quite some time that humanity is 'judged' as a collective. Whatever mechanism decides who are the winners and losers in the matrix, there is plenty of evidence that previous high civilisations have been eradicated and a few survivors have been 'allowed' to evolve. The discussion of who controls the matrix is the domain of philosophy and religion.
Meteorite Hits Village in NW China [Photos]
Crienglish.com News, 1st August 2013
A meteorite hit a village in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Thursday, CCTV.com reports.
The meteorite crashed at a dump site in a village of Xinjing's Akto County around 2:00 a.m. Thursday and punched a 3-meter wide, 2-meter deep hole in the ground.
Local authorities say no casualties have been reported and investigation and research work on the meteorite
M&G accounting glitch hits 32,000 investors
The UK's biggest bond fund manager has admitted messing up income payments to thousands of investors.
Telegraph, 1st August 2013
Fund giant M&G has apologised for paying incorrect income to thousands of investors in one of its most popular funds.
The mis-payments began in May when M&G overpayed unit holders of the High Yield Corporate Bond Fund. To rectify this mistake the investment house took back the overpayments in July - but failed to let its investors know.
Comment: Did they really think nobody would notice?
Archaeologists in Turkey discover 'a piece of a cross' associated with Jesus
Perth Now, 1st August 2013
ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Turkey have found a fragment of a cross, which they claim is associated with Jesus's crucifixion.
The archaeologists were excavating at the 1350-year-old Balatlar Church in the Black Sea province of Sinop, reports the Hurriyet Daily News.
They unearthed a stone chest, containing the cross fragment, along with the skeletons of more than 1000 people.
"We have found a holy thing in a chest. It is a piece of a cross." said Professor Gülgün Köroglu, head of the excavations.
Comment: Hmmmm.... Is this yet another big pious fraud being launched to titillate the seriously gullible and mostly Catholic audience? The 'holy' relics scam has been going on for a very long time, but it's the ostentatious display and worship of corpses, skulls, and bones that is truly bizarre. If you want an education on this matter and the associated high level of fraud, I recommed a website with over 50 articles about the Roman Catholic worship of bones, corpses and skulls, see
Vatican Skull & Bones. The collection of images is quite impressive.
The Case for Alien Life
Popular Mechanics, 1st August 2013
[...] Scientists imagined the universe to be parched; new studies show that it's filled with watery planets. And, surprise: Life isn't some delicate thing, like a pasty tourist stuck beneath a beach umbrella; it's now known to be more like a hardy soldier, able to infiltrate the harshest environments.
The exciting exobiological news keeps coming: In April, astronomers identified a trio of planets that appear capable of supporting Earth-like life. They orbit their stars' habitable zones, the just-right distance where water neither freezes nor boils, but collects in sloshy, life-friendly oceans. One of the worlds, dubbed Kepler-62e, even shows signs of a humid atmosphere strewn with clouds. More such discoveries will come.
Louisa Preston, an astrobiologist at Open University in the U.K., investigates the telltale signs of biology that could help us locate life in space. "It's now predicted that there are 17 billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone," Preston says. "And since our galaxy is one of hundreds of billions in the universe, the chances of finding life are increasing exponentially."
Comment: The problem has always been that astrobiologists have been publicly looking for planets like Earth and carbon-based lifeforms, but the possible existence of other lifeforms has not been ignored and so there is 'theoretical' discussioin of "Post-Biological" entities. The esoteric discussion of 'quintessence' was my major clue that astrobiologists love using hermetic jargon to hide the real intent, analysis and conclusions to their research, but anyone who tries can break the codes.
First experimental signs of a New Physics beyond the Standard Model
Phys.Org, 31st July 2013
The Standard Model, which has given the most complete explanation up to now of the universe, has gaps, and is unable to explain phenomena like dark matter or gravitational interaction between particles. Physicists are therefore seeking a more fundamental theory that they call "New Physics", but up to now there has been no direct proof of its existence, only indirect observation of dark matter, as deduced, among other things, from the movement of the galaxies.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-07-experimental-physics-standard.html#jCp
Comment: The physics is interesting for some but Joaquim Matias's strange t-shirt is fascinating...
Mysterious glowing multi-colored clouds light up night sky in Russia (Video)
Open Minds, 31st July 2013
Thousands of people in Russia witnessed an incredible array of glowing multi-colored clouds in the Ural Mountains region recently. Although scientists have theorized that they it may be a rare occurrence of the Northern Lights in the area or a phenomenon called “silver clouds,” others are not so sure. This is the same region that a huge meteorite struck in February, causing thousands of injuries.
Most reports came from Chelyabinsk, the largest city in the area. The video above was taken in the nearby town of Miass, which is where the lights are said to have been the brightest.
Comment: I presume this is some kind of electrical discharge phenomenon associated with a dusty plasma enhanced cloud. In the archives, we have had some other strange similar events in recent years (I also have examples not online in the archives), almost like huge lightbulb filaments glowing in the sky... I have never heard of "silver clouds" so this could be yet another very rare atmospheric phenomenon appearing on a regular basis as charged dusty plasmas from space burst through into the Earth's lower atmosphere.
The mystery of the highway in the sky: Sunbeams, clouds and strange shadows caused astronomical phenomenon in China
Colorado Newsday, 28th July 2013
[...]When a strange 'highway' was spotted in the skies in China, few people knew what had caused the unusual astronomical phenomenon.
After investigating, meteorological experts think the bizarre pathway was created by a combination of sunbeams 'cast from over the horizon,' clouds high in the sky and shadows.
The striking photos of the unusual astronomical phenomena were spotted in the sky above Boao Town of Qionghai City in Hainan Province, South China.
Comment: More previously rare atmospheric phenomena becoming not so rare. I picked up previous reports in June & December 2012.
Stunning scene of FOUR waterspouts off Greece coast is captured in awe-inspiring photographs
Daily Mail, 30th July 2013
* Italian Roberto Giudici captured images while sailing off Greek island
* Taken in 1999 but have only been unveiled after appearing on NASA website
* Seeing one waterspout is considered to be once-in-a-lifetime event
Seeing just one waterspout is thought by many to be a once-in-a-lifetime event, but one lucky boat passenger managed to capture four in these amazing pictures.
Italian Roberto Giudici managed to take the pictures while sailing off the Greek Island of Orthoni, in the Ionian Sea, when a huge storm blew up over night.
The morning light then revealed this stunning scene of the four waterspouts, which develop in a similar way to tornadoes but are usually far weaker.
Comment: This is not so rare these days and you can find very recent examples by using Google, see below... I suspect that NASA are trying to condition people because more are expected in August as there are stronger Earth-Cosmos electrical connections at this time of year. Go back into the archives, August & September 2012 were quite wild...
Thousands of businesses hit by Streamline glitch
Businesses across the country have been left out of pocket as a result of technical problems at the UK’s largest payment processing businesses, which is partly owned by Royal Bank of Scotland.
Telegraph, 31st July 2013
Streamline, which handles half of all face-to-face card transactions in Britain, said it was investigating as a “high priority” problems with payments made between Friday and Sunday, after businesses reported missing payments.
In a statement on the company’s helpline, Streamline said it was aware of the issue and was trying to work out what had gone wrong.
A spokesman for Streamline said: "We are aware of a technical issue which has meant that some customers have not received settlement for transactions processed between 26-28 July as expected. We are looking into the issue as a matter of urgency and will be communicating with customers as soon as we have more information. We apologise for any inconvenience caused."
Comment: This same type of problem has been happening around the world, so maybe there is something systemic going on.
NASA’s (un)Scientific Approach to UFO Study
Guardian Express, 31st July 2013
NASA has been notoriously mum about UFO research, and that which has been leaked has been subject to intense speculation, debate and often disregarded as trivial. The question to be asked is what does NASA say about how they approach UFO study. In this way, one can see without distraction as to whether or not NASA is flowing with fair UFO investigation.
Reading the title What about UFOs? the reader assumes a fair analysis will be provided. However, this post on NASA’s website offers a blatantly biased, one-sided discussion.
Comment: Hmmm.... Obviously UFOs are real or else NASA would not be tracking sightings (see archives). NASA operates a two tier system of knowledge and understanding for the academic scientific elite and joke status dismissal for the ignorant masses. Most people prefer to stay stupid and ignorant (mummy and daddy authorities have to tell most what to believe) when there is some truth and academic understanding easily available if you can process the right information.
Video Shows UFO Blasting Across the Northern Ireland Sky
Who Forted?, 29th July 2013
Incredible footage captured a few weeks ago in Northern Ireland has UFOlogists excited and skeptics looking for evidence of fakery, but both can agree on one thing: this video is weird.
Comment: It is just a matter of time now.... We are not alone and people can't stay ignorant forever...
Mysterious Dancing Lights In Afghanistan
NPR News, 30th July 2013
This isn't a painting. It's not from a movie. It's not a strange astronomical event. This is real — what you can see when certain helicopters in Afghanistan touch down on sandy ground, raising dust, causing mysterious arcs of light to loop and dance through the air. [...]
The dust clearly matters. Michael heard from a pilot, who thought the loops are "static electricity created by friction." The helicopter's blades, the pilot said, are covered with a protective sheath of titanium and nickel. The air is filled with floating dust. Maybe when these different minerals slam into each other, the electrostatic charges become excessive and they spark.[...]
Bloggers and TV reporters may have adopted the "Kopp-Etchell," but will the scientists follow? We will have to see.
Helicopter pilots who know this effect used to call it "St. Elmo's Fire." Physicists sometimes call it the "piezoelectric effect" which describes how crystals (think Afghani sand), if hit by a hard blade, can produces high concentrations of electrostatic fields that "discharge," or spark.
Just recently, physics blogger Kyle Hill weighed in with his own theory, that it's not sand, but itty bits of helicopter blade dust that are igniting, kind of like a car "dragging a sparkling muffler along the road."
Comment: Very interesting.... So, physicists need to determine if this really is a brand new physical phenomenon, but St Elmo's fire is not something new. Since mysterious lights are becoming very common on this planet due to changes in the atmospheric and geophysical environment i.e. the arrival of excessive amounts of charged dusty plasma being delivered from space, (don't forget the 10 years of dusty plasma experiments on the International Space Station), military scientists may be already studying what exactly is going on. The answer may become classified information. Thanks to A. Rowiki for the tip.
Railways boss denies safety problems
The Local (Switzerland) News, 31st July 2013
Investigators said on Tuesday a signalling failure or one of the two drivers ignoring a signal was the likeliest cause of the crash.
“I’d like to stress that we are investing 50 million francs in 1,700 safety signals between now and 2016,” Meyer told Tages-Anzeiger.
“But to bring our signaling up to the highest level of the European Train Control System (ETCS) we would need 2 billion francs.”
“Our goal is that by 2035 our networks should be fitted with the ETCS. We are currently installing this safety system on the Gotthard railway line between Mattstetten and Rothrist and in the Lötschberg tunnel,” Meyer said.
The CEO conceded that the signalling system in operation at Granges-pres-Marnand dated from 1958.
Investigators probe cause of fatal train crash
The Local (Switzerland) News, 30th July 2013
Swiss investigators have pointed to signal-jumping as the likely cause of ahead-on train collision that killed a driver and injured 25 other people.[...]
Sauterel said the assumption was that one of the trains had left the station too early, ignoring signals.
Comment: As regular blog readers will know, I have pointed out that railway signals can be affected by space weather induced problems. Yes, there have been a lot of recent major railway incidents (see list below), but I decided to wait until it was reported there was some kind of issue with signalling and it looks like something strange happened in Switzerland. Yes, it is very easy to blame a driver jumping a signal but the signal could have been wrong and there has already been tacit acknowlegement that there may have been a signalling failure. Anyway, here is a repeat of the warnings from Lloyds of London.
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.
Space Weather, Its impact on Earth & Implications for business
Lloyd's of London, November 2010
Recent Railway Incidents
— July 24, 79 people killed in the Spain's worst train accident in decades
— July 12, 2013: Six people are killed and nearly 200 injured just south of Paris when four cars slide off the tracks as a passenger train speeds through the small French town of Bretigny-sur-Orge.
— April 22, 2012: A woman dies of injuries a day after two trains collide head-on in Amsterdam. At least 16 people are seriously injured.
— April 13, 2012: Three people are killed and 13 injured in a train crash near Frankfurt when two trains collide and derail.
— March 3, 2012: Two trains collide head-on in southern Poland, killing at least eight people and injuring around 50.
Did a meteor hit Orange County? Residents report huge explosion
LA Times, 28th July 2013
Unlike trees, when a meteor falls in the wilderness, everyone can hear it.
And some Orange County residents think that's exactly what they heard when a thunderous boom rattled windows, scared pets and startled homeowners from their sleep early Tuesday morning.
About 12:15 a.m., the Orange County Sheriff’s Department received three or four calls from residents in Lake Forest’s Foothill Ranch community about a loud explosion and a flash of light. Several South Orange County residents also tweeted about the incident, asking about the source of the blast.
Entire neighborhoods emptied into the streets in the middle of the night, residents said, with some pointing to what looked like a cloudy path overhead as the telltale sign of some galactic visitor.
Comment: Maybe another meteor exploding in our atmosphere... The problem will come when one hits the ground and takes out part of a city.
EPIC weather reporting FAIL at International Business Times
WUWT, 30th July 2013
I would not have believed this unless I had seen it with my own eyes. Below is the screencap. There are just no words for this level of stupid.
Comment: I thought this was quite notable too.
Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook debunks ‘absurd’ new warmist study claiming 1,700 U.S. cities will be below sea level by 2100 — Easterbrook: ‘The rate used by [Lead Author] Strauss for his predictions is more than 10 times the rate over the past century!’
Climate Depot, 30th July 2013
Easterbrook: 'The accelerated rise is based on postulated accelerated warming but there has been no warming in the past 15 years and, in fact, the climate has cooled during that time. So no climatic warming means no accelerated sea level rise as postulated by Strauss...the huge rise of sea level rates proposed by Strauss are absurd and that the maximum sea level rise by 2100 will be less than one foot'
[...] More than 1,700 American cities and towns – including Boston, New York, and Miami – will be drowning by the end of this century accoroding to a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Benjamin Strauss. Twenty five percent of the populations of these 1,700 cities would be living below sea level by 2100 and 79 cities with a combined population of 835,000 would be submerged by 2023 and about half of the population of Fort Lauderdale, Hoboken, and Palm Beach would be submerged by 2023 according to Strauss. The basis for these amazing conclusions is apparently a 12 inch (222 cm) per decade rise of global sea level, the maximum IPCC estimate, which is postulated to be caused by increasing atmospheric CO2.
Comment: OK, I have not focused much on the sea level rise climate alarmism hype, but this latest attempt is truly unbelievable. All the skeptic websites have huge amounts of information battling the tsunami of falsehoods. This is a good short summary.
Al Gore’s “Reality Minions” think the North Pole is melting – except that’s NOT a photo of the North Pole
WUWT, 29th July 2013
You see while they were busy lecturing the faithful, they forgot the one teensy-eeensy little detail about the source of this photo. It is from camera on top of the sea ice, and sea ice isn’t static, it moves. In fact according to the University of Washington who manages and tracks these floating cameras and weather stations, while they started out near the North Pole, they aren’t anywhere close to it now. See the map:
Even journalists get tripped up into thinking this is photo from the North Pole. At the real North Pole, history shows this to be a relatively common occurrence.
Comment: This provides an explanation and insight into the trickery routinely offered by climate alarmists.
Rumors of Comet ISON ‘Fizzling’ May be Greatly Exaggerated
Universe Today, 30th July 2013
A press release out yesterday about a recent paper on Comet ISON has caused a mild uproar across the astronomy-minded social media outlets and some websites. The article issued from the Physics & Astrophysics Computation Group
(FACOM) at the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia is titled
“Comet Of The Century? Not Yet! Comet C/2012 S1 ISON Has Fizzled Completely And May Disintegrate At Or Before Reaching Perihelion.”
The article had professional astronomers and comet enthusiasts alike shaking their heads in disbelief.
Hailstones the size of tennis balls cause millions of euros of damage in German village [VIDEO]
Severe thunderstorms sparks misery for villagers as giant hail stones fall from the sky
Mirror News, 30th July 2013
Tennis ball-sized hailstones rain down on a German village in a storm that has caused millions of euros of damage to homes and cars.
Kathleen Busche, who lives in the village of Wassel, near Hanover, told the Telegraph: "I ran to my window and then it really started. Our doors cracked, and the 'tennis balls' jumped up and down in our garden, and we got into a panic."
Another resident, Laello Chan , who posted a video on YouTube showing the storm, said he expected the cost of damage to property to be in the millions.
Comment: These massive hailstones events appear to be coming more often, providing some awakening for a few who think climate change will not affect them.
Is the Huge Handprint Found in Nevada’s Lovelock Cave Evidence of a Lost Race of Cannibalistic Giants?
Who Forted?, 29th July 2013
Did two Bigfoot hunters stumble onto evidence of a long lost race of giant cannibals in a Nevada cave? They believe that their discovery of a huge, charred handprint backs up their claims of legendary “Red-Headed Giants”.
In 1911 David Pugh and James Hart, two guano miners (yes, mining bat poo is really a thing) were excavating a cave on the eastern side of Nevada when they found something intriguing buried under 250 tons of excrement.
According to the men’s bizarre tale, hidden beneath six feet of bat crap they discovered several sets of giant bones, remains which many now believe belong to the Si-Te-Cah, a storied Paiute tribe of red-haired cannibal giants. Legend has it that the last remaining giants were burned alive inside the cave thousands of years ago.
Comment: There are now lots of books citing the evidence of giants on Earth and even a few incredible recent images of huge skeletons that have been found as well as footprints etc, see archives. In terms of evolutionary change, giants and dinosaurs imply that in the past gravity was not the same as it is now and once these variants appear, their demise depends on what is happening in the environment.
More 'Rare' & 'Glowing' Clouds?spaceweather.com, 29th July 2013
NACREOUS CLOUDS OVER TIERRA DEL FUEGO: On July 24th, about an hour after sunset, Gerardo Connon of Rio Grande city in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, walked outside and witnessed a rare display of nacreous clouds. The colorful apparition was as bright as the street lights in the city below:
These clouds, also known as "mother of pearl clouds," form in the stratosphere far above the usual realm of weather. They are seldom seen, but when they are, the reports usually come from high-northern parts of our planet. This apparition over Tierra del Fuego was unusual indeed.
Comment: Surely these clouds are electrified? These clouds are high but still only a quarter of the distance up in comparison to noctilucent clouds, so the backlit by the Sun explanation is a little suspect. Earth's atmosphere is electrifield that is a fact, but it seems a combination of factors sometimes switch the clouds on and makes them glow brightly with quite spectacular results. Here is some more background info at ATS,
The beauty of the Nacreous Clouds
Horse swallowed by Somerset sink hole
Phoebe Garlick describes her shock at being woken at 4am to find that her horse Harvey had plummeted six feet down a sink hole.
Telegraph, 26th July 2013
50,000-Year-Old Cypress Forest Discovered
60 Feet Underwater Off Mobile, Alabama
Earthfiles, 25th July 2013
July 25, 2013 Mobile, Alabama - Ancient bald cypress forests (Taxodium distichumonce) dominated swamps in the southeastern United States for at least 2,000 years. [...]
Alabama Underwater Cypress Radiocarbon
Dated to Older Than 50,000 Years
The radiocarbon dating, which was done out of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory - the first three times they did it, it came back radiocarbon dead, which means the wood is older than 50,000 years. We don't know how much older because the radiocarbon becomes imprecise once you hit 50,000 years, but it means the forest is much, much older than the last ice age.
Swan fake! Pretty unusual flamingo baffles experts after swimming in lakes to cool down during the heatwave
Daily Mail, 29th July 2013
* Flamingos usually stand on one leg and splash in shallow water to keep cool
* But one living in a British wetland centre swims like a swan instead
A flamingo has baffled experts after it started acting like a swan to keep cool during Britain's roasting hot summer.
The birds normally deal with heat by standing on one leg while briefly dousing themselves in water.
But this 52-year-old flamingo has broken the habit of a lifetime and taken to swimming on the lakes at Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire, and looks just like a floating pink swan.
Keepers at the centre say they have never witnessed the 'unusual' behaviour before.
Comment: Can't even the odd flamingo be a little bit more flexible in its habits in order to survive?
Satellite positioning-data are vital—but the signal is surprisingly easy to disrupt
The Economist, 28th July 2013
[...]
Malfunctioning satellites and natural interference from solar activity have hit GPS signals and sent ships off course. David Last, a navigation expert, says an accidental power cut, perhaps caused by a jammer taken on board a car ferry, could cause a shipwreck. Generating a false signal—spoofing—is another threat. In December 2011 Iran said it had spoofed an American drone before capturing it (most experts dismiss the claim). So far effective spoofing seems confined to laboratories, but Mr Last says some governments are already taking countermeasures.
Comment: Have you noticed the rising number of panicked reports about the risk posed by relying on GPS? The U.S. military have been warning for years (see archives), but the number of cases of ships, tankers and submarines crashing suggests something is going wrong and folk are sounding the alarm. Yet, if you look, there are now many technical reports suggesting space weather is the best hacker, see archives... Our cosmic reality has clearly changed. There are new terms and conditions for living on planet Earth.
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Researchers show how a major GPS flaw could allow terrorists and hackers to hijack commercial ships and planes
Daily Mail, 28th July 2013
Interestingly, this Daily Mail version based on a Fox News article carefully leaves out any mention of solar activity. It really seems great efforts are made to keep certain American audiences in the dark...
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UK eLoran Roll-out to Back up Vulnerable GPS
Hydro International, 17th July 2013
The UK claims to be the first in the world to deploy this technology for shipping companies operating both passenger and cargo services. The roll-out, led by the General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) of the UK and Ireland, will replace the equipment in two prototype stations at Dover and Harwich, and five new stations will be deployed in the Medway, Humber, Middlesbrough, Firth of Forth, and Aberdeen. The GLAs have contracted UrsaNav Inc. for the deployment to deliver initial operational capability by Summer 2014.
Seven differential eLoran stations will be installed along the south and east coasts of the UK, following approval by the Department for Transport. The stations will provide alternative position, navigation and timing (PNT) information to ensure that ships equipped with eLoran receivers can navigate safely in the event of GPS failure in one of the busiest shipping regions in the world. [...]
Longwave Radio Signals: ELoran technology is based on longwave radio signals and is independent and complementary to GPS. The General Lighthouse Authorities carried out the world’s first successful demonstration of a prototype automatic resilient PNT (positioning, navigation and timing) system using eLoran, in trials completed aboard the THV Galatea out of Harwich on several excursions between 28 February and 1 March 2013. Full operational capability covering all major UK ports is expected by 2019.
Comment: In less than 20 years, we have gone from GPS being accurate to within 1 metre to at times being tens of metres off and thus worse than useless due to space weather roiling the ionosphere. So, it seems the UK authorities are getting on and dealing with the issues with new solutions.
Earthquakes Burp Up Methane Bubbles
Live Science, 28th July 2013
The long-suspected link between earthquakes and underwater methane bursts has finally been confirmed, reports a study published today (July 28) in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Though the temblor wasn't caught in the act, the strong shaking left clues in methane-rich mud and sand offshore of Pakistan, where two of Earth's tectonic plates collide at the Makran subduction zone. In 1945, a magnitude-8.1 earthquake struck along the subduction zone, killing at least 300 people and triggering a tsunami.
Comment: Finally, the cause of more methane appearing in our atmosphere is a measure of the occurence of more geophysical activity and thus linked to cosmic factors.
Comet ISON Blazes with Distant Galaxies in Stunning Hubble Photo
Space.com, 26th July 2013
A spectacular new photo gives a deep-space view of Comet ISON, which could put on a dazzling show when it zooms through the inner solar system in late November.
The image — which researchers stitched together from five photos of ISON taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on April 30 — shows the icy wanderer blazing against a backdrop of galaxies and bright stars. [...]
Comet ISON is cruising toward a close encounter with the sun on Nov. 28, when it will skim just 724,000 miles (1.16 million kilometers) above the solar surface. The comet could get incredibly luminous around this time, perhaps shining as brightly as the full moon, researchers say.
ISON has thus attracted a fair bit of "comet of the century" hype, with skywatchers and scientists around the world eagerly tracking its long trek toward the sun. Indeed, Hubble is just one of many instruments that researchers around the world are training on the comet as part of a coordinated observation campaign.
Comment: 'The icy wanderer'... astronomers trying to make us laugh again... SOTT.net point out a NASA video with a passing comment about a sharp increase in comet numbers. Thus, before 1979, there were less than a dozen known sungrazing comets. As of December 2012, NASA had discovered or knew of over 2,500... But there has been a huge increase in asteroids (the definition between comets and asteroids is becoming blurred too, but see archives). As a reminder, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says "he’s almost embarrassed for our species that it takes a warning shot across our bow before legislators take seriously the advice they’ve been receiving from astronomers about getting serious about asteroid detection and deflection;". I have not come across any information that tells us if this is going to get far more serious and so I don't know if this is a known unknown or an unknown unknown.
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We Live in a Cosmic Shooting Gallery
Universe Today, 13th March 2013 Flashback
In this new video from Big Think, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says he’s almost embarrassed for our species that it takes a warning shot across our bow before legislators take seriously the advice they’ve been receiving from astronomers about getting serious about asteroid detection and deflection; that it’s a matter of when not if Earth will get smacked by an asteroid. “But it took an actual meteor over Russia exploding with 25 times the power of the atom bomb in Hiroshima to convince people that maybe we should start doing something about it.”
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NASA: Sharp increase in comets entering inner solar system
SOTT.net, 27th July 2013
Hacker who made ATMs spit out cash dies in Calif.
My Fox News, 26th July 2013
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A prominent hacker who discovered a way to have ATMs spit out cash and was set to deliver a talk about hacking pacemakers and other wireless implantable medical devices has died in San Francisco, authorities and his employer said.
Barnaby Jack died at his home in San Francisco Thursday, although the cause of death is still under investigation, San Francisco Deputy Coroner Kris Barbrich said.
Jack, who was in his mid-30s, was scheduled to speak on Aug. 1 at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. The headline of his talk was, "Implantable Medical Devices: Hacking Humans," according to a synopsis on the Black Hat conference website.
Comment: It can't be a surprise to many that this hacker was killed, when will people learn that advertising major news is not always the best idea.... Whatever, due to the publicity surrounding this suspicious death, there will be lots more novices trying to repeat the ATM trick... I don't think too many will be bothered about learning how to hack pacemakers.
NASA Probes Reveal Source of Particle Acceleration in Van Allen Radiation Belts
Sci Tech Daily, 26th July 2013
Scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions of near-Earth space, a region of super-energetic, charged particles surrounding the globe called the Van Allen radiation belts. Scientists knew that something in space accelerated particles in the radiation belts to more than 99 percent the speed of light but they didn’t know what that something was. New results from NASA’s Van Allen Probes now show that the acceleration energy comes from within the belts themselves. Particles inside the belts are sped up by local kicks of energy, buffeting the particles to ever faster speeds, much like a perfectly timed push on a moving swing.
Comment: This is another report with a convoluted and part gibberish explanation to avoid mentioning INTENSE ELECTRIC FIELDS operating inside the Van Allen radiation belts cause particles to accelerate to near the speed of light. That is how particles are accelerarted to near light speed in a particle accelerator, see
What is a particle accelerator?. Lets make this clear. Satellites are being regularly flash fried with intense radiation and too many failing satellites is a big problem for our modern technological world that relies heavily on satellite technology.
Jellyfish Shaped UFO Captured on Camera in California Looks Like Something Out of War of the Worlds
Who Forted, 26th July 2013
A mountaintop yoga session has yielded a highly bizarre UFO photo, and the weird object looks more like an underwater creature than an iconic saucer.
The odd image was captured on July 14th by a group of hikers who trekked to the top of Steven’s Trail in Auburn, California for a mid-day yoga session. After snapping a few images of poses on the rock face, a hiker noticed a strange anomaly hovering in the background of the photo, and the big flying jellyfish doesn’t look like any UFO we’ve ever seen reported before.
Comment: Hmmm.... As I keep pointing out, the obvious answer is a shadow biosphere on this planet that occasionally appears in our reality. Everywhere humans look there is some kind of living creature and so we should fully expect creatures to exist in other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. That is why off the record, astronomers complain about the nuisance of having to discount UFO sighting interfering with their efforts. An assortment of more knowledgeable people know this presence exists (see archives), but coming to any kind of resolution is just too difficult for many (especially ufologists whose business model relies on UFOs being a major mystery). I have come to the conclusion that many cannot independently process enough information and want mummy and daddy authorities to tell them what they are allowed to think.
Rare Atmospheric Phenomenon Observed from Armagh
Armagh Observatory, July 2013
Met Office adds space weather to its forecasting
Following the recognition of 'space weather' as a major risk to UK national security, the Met Office is using big data to predict solar events
Guardian News, 23rd July 2013
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) will now form part of the Met Office's forecasting, as the result of a joint project between UK and US weather and science agencies.
Data collected by the Met Office, the British Geological Survey, NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will be combined, and then analysed collaboratively by forecasters.
The move follows the inclusion of "severe space weather" in the National Risk Register, an document published annually by the Cabinet Office that sets out major risks to UK national security as defined by likelihood and potential severity. [...]
"We're now running our own version of the CME prediction model - called Enlil - which is running on a supercomputer in Exeter.
"Once a CME has been emitted, we can run a forecast model to try and predict how large it is, when it might arrive with us, what its polarity will be, and therefore trying to give an estimate of whether it's going to be catastrophic or whether it will bounce off the magnetosphere and not affect us at all", said Tomkins.
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Met Office uses MongoDB to predict space weather
IT PRO News, 25th July 2013
[...] “With it being on the Risk Register, they needed to find a risk owner, and the Met Office was deemed to be the best place to work with NASA and develop the kind of predictive capability that we have for terrestrial weather,” said Tomkins.
Currently, space weather prediction is in its infancy and particularly with events such as solar flares, which travel at the speed of light, all that can be done is to notify governments and satellite operators that it is happening, how severe it is likely to be, and how long it is expected to last.
It is hoped the Met Office programme, which brings together data from NASA, NOAA, the UK Space Agency, and the British Geological Survey, will accelerate the development of improved space weather models and predictions.
Are Weather Extremes Getting Worse? Roger Pielke, Jr. Shares the Data with Senate Panel
Globalwarming.org, 26th July 2013
When it comes to extreme weather, climate activists want to have their cake and eat it. Many acknowledge that it is unscientific to attribute any particular weather event to global warming. But then, in the same breath, they’ll say that this or that drought, flood, or hurricane is “consistent with” the types of weather ”scientists” predict will become more frequent in a warming world.[...]
Although always a staple of global warming advocacy, climate activists have turned up the rhetorical heat on extreme weather in recent years. The reasons aren’t hard to fathom. The 15-year pause in global warming makes it harder to scare people about warming itself. The two greatest terrors featured in An Inconvenient Truth — rapid ice sheet disintegration leading to catastrophic sea-level rise and ocean circulation shutdown precipitating a new ice age – have no credibility. Nobody takes seriously the prospect of warming-induced malaria epidemics either. If you want to scare people, extreme weather is the only card left in the climate alarm deck.
Comment: Due to the rapid onset of space weather, we cannot expect the recent past to reliably predict the immediate future. This is why some more knowlegeable scientists have clearly pointed out that space weather and cosmoclimatology have to be taken into account when predicting the weather and climate. Hence, the UK Met Office being given the responsibility of the new MongoDB UK space weather prediction system is a huge acknowledgement that the UK authorities are taking space weather very seriously. Hence, I was even more intrigued by a statement from the outspoken astrophysicist Piers Corbyn, whose success rate at predicting the weather makes him an authoritative source. He stated recently:
What is going on is fully in line with the now developing Wild Jet Stream Age or Mini Ice Age - an overall description of average temperature drops despite opposite extremes at times. The message of the age is:
"Don't get used to any weather. Get used to dramatic changes and contrasts in overall much colder temperate regions of the globe which will generally be very bad for agriculture and the world economy for the next 25 years"
It's a "Wild Jet Stream Age" , Weatheraction.com, 18th July 2013
The new message coming loud and clear is that atmospheric rivers and sudden dramatic flooding must be expected. Disaster resilience has to be taken seriously. Of course, reality always prevails in the end.
Big blue cock erected on fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar SquareLondon mayor Boris Johnson unveils Katharina Fritsch's Hahn/Cock, the latest artwork to fill square's empty plinth
Guardian News, 25th July 2013
There is simply no other way of putting it, and nor would earthy British wit have it any other way. A giant bright-blue cock – its feathers proudly upstanding, its coxcomb as stiff as a pennant in the breeze – has been erected in Trafalgar Square, London, and no double entendre is too good for it.
Hahn/Cock, the latest work to fill the square's empty fourth plinth, [...]
Hahn/Cock, which was selected by the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group (a body that includes artists Grayson Perry and Jeremy Deller), will occupy Trafalgar Square for 18 months.
Comment: Hmmmmm.... The erection of a blue cock in Trafalgar Square should be of some esoteric interest to mainly religious scholars. For those who need a clue: what does the cockerel signify on church steeples? Interestingly, the image icon comes from the Telegraph version of this story,
Fourth Plinth Trafalgar Square: Cock, review, that tells us this plinth has hosted another good sculpture, Mark Wallinger’s Ecce Homo that is described as a Christ-like figure.... As I will repeat, the elite put information out into the public domain, (often symbolic), knowing full well 99.99% of people will not have a clue. Well, I believe this blue cockerel was commissioned to mark a significant cosmic and esoteric event. Regardless, we can all expect the ignoranti to just make pathetic stupid crude jokes.
Judge bars former Ramtha student from posting videos
Seattle Times, 9th July 2013
In an oral ruling, a Thurston County judge issued a permanent restraining order that bars a former student at Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment from releasing to the public any materials belonging to the school because it would breach a written contract she signed upon her enrollment there.
Attorneys for Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment, or RSE, had sought the restraining order after last year’s widespread release of videos on the Internet depicting RSE’s leader, J.Z. Knight, making derogatory comments about Roman Catholics, Mexicans and others.
A preliminary restraining order barred further release of the videos, and ordered existing ones removed from the Internet.
Comment 27.07.2013: This is another New Wager dead-set on becoming a billionaire from extracting cash from deluded followers. From what I have read, this woman is considered a joke even in an industry that prides itself on low standards... J Z Knight (I think she recently changed her name to J Z Rose) drunk as a skunk is OK for brainwashed Ramtha students, but not for the unbrainwashed general public to see... I think the solution is this vile, evil and mad woman needs to learn some more self-control whilst she continues to indoctrinate her followers and maintain a turnover of new punters to plunder. Whatever, social media is rather a major problem for narcissist psychopath fake gurus who try to maintain a 'saintly' image for the outside world and a more intimidating character for the inner circle. Once those inner circle people wake up and decide to flee, they can much more easily generate evidence like videos to justify their actions.... I predict there is going to be nothing but trouble for fake New Wagers.... It's a 11 billion dollar industry, but folk are starting to catch on that something stinks... We are seeing some huge sparks of integrity and we are waiting for the whole New Wage edifice to set ablaze.... I knew this was possible, but the growing mainstream media interest is making a difference to the time frame, as there are already too many major names with big question marks over them. So, who will write the book,
The Top 100 New Wagers You Should Avoid? Update: There is a long and colourful history of J Z Knight and her Ramtha School of Enlightenment.
The EnlightenMeFree (EMF) Online Forum is a website set up by David McCarthy, who is a Knight/Ramtha survivor on a mission to expose Knight as a fraud. The stories of abuse and lurid goings on have never struck me as being remotely spiritual (like recommendations to drink wine and take prozac?), but this forum has revealed where Knight stole her best teachings from.... It seems many people have been robbed of their self-esteem and their money all because they prefer to be spoon-fed by a fraud.
Remembering Colleen Conaway: victim of James Arthur Ray's recklessness
Whirled Musings, 25th July 2013
It seems like just a year ago today that I was commemorating the death of Colleen Conaway, faithful follower of New-Wage guru, star of The Secret, and convicted killer James Arthur Ray. Of course at the time Colleen was following Ray, he wasn't yet a convicted killer. And he has yet to answer for her death.
Colleen, as many of you may know, was attending a James Ray "wealth" weekend in San Diego in July 2009, and ended up jumping (or falling?) to her death from a third-story balcony in a San Diego shopping mall. As noted in last year's blog post, Colleen reportedly had no history of emotional or mental problems, but apparently had a psychotic episode at the event. The circumstances of her death were tragic and puzzling, but what happened afterward was appalling.
Comment: For those who are unfamiliar with Large Group Awareness Trainings (LGATS) and cult tactics, breaking people down to achieve "transformation" – or more correctly brainwashing – has huge risks. According to psychologists who specialise in cults, mental breakdowns where people have to be institutionalised for up to 10 years does happen. Suicides also occur, but this usually happens after seminar events due to the amount of emotional stress deliberately used as cult tactics by amateurs with no qualifications pretending to be psychologists. This is the primary reason why The Seek Safely Pledge is being ignored by the top BIG NAMES in the so-called Self-Help Industry.... They know that there is always a certain number of people who are very vulnerable but their answer is to protect themselves from being sued and to count victims as "collateral damage". Punters have no idea that this form of Russian roulette even exists because the widespread 2nd hand psychopathy in the cultic milieu means many New Agers generally don't care about other people only themselves. If they introduce you to one of these charlatans and you have a breakdown then THAT IS YOUR FAULT! Greed and selfishness is paramount. Unfortunately, some people can have breakdowns without much of a trigger and that is why I shudder when I come across amateurs pretending to be professionals and why I no longer promote the EMF Balancing Technique. I had to work out myself that we have a subtle energy field version of Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock treatment. As medical professionals will tell you, ECT is a treatment that can make people better or worse. It is a last resort treatment. As I travelled to trainings, I met psychologists/psychiatrists who were getting great results using EMF BT, but as professionals, they knew how to monitor people, but in my opinion, the vast majority of EMF BT practitioners I came across were amateurs playing with cosmic fire. I can say that because I was an EMF BT teacher and I could see some of this energy with my own ESP ability. Whatever, I still don't believe practitioners are in the same category of predatorial irresponsibility as those secretly using cult tactics on unsuspecting victims. To remember Colleen Conaway, I was going to load up a James Ray legal waiver, but I could not find my copy but there is one still sitting on the James Ray website
(.pdf) and a copy can be found
here. Here are some revealing excerpts:
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY. BY SIGNING THIS AGREEMENT YOU
ARE WAIVING ALL RIGHTS TO COMPENSATION IN CASE OF
INJURY.
In consideration of being permitted to participate in the World Wealth Summit event
(the “Event”) and being granted access to the premises where the Event will be
conducted, and for other good and valuable consideration, I agree to release, waive and discharge James Ray International, Inc. (the “Company”), its principals, directors,
shareholders, employees, agents, promoters, independent contractors, sponsors,
volunteer assistants, associated coaches, and others associated with the Company, or
any of them (the “Releasees”), from all liability to the undersigned for any loss or
damage, and any claim or demands therefore on account of injury to the undersigned’s
person (whether physical, emotional, psychological, financial or otherwise) or property
or resulting in death, whether caused by the negligence of the Releasees or otherwise, relating to the Event, whether sustained during the Event or not.
I am fully aware and understand that I will be given the opportunity by the Company to participate in physical, emotional and other activities during the Event, some of which may take place outdoors and/or require the participants to be isolated from one another and/or include very loud music. I am fully aware that I may suffer physical, emotional,financial or other injury during any of the Activities and there is and can be no assurance or guarantee regarding my health or safety in connection with my
participation in the Activities. I understand that (1) there are inherent risks in the Activities; (2) people may have been seriously injured by participating in the Activities; and (3) if I voluntarily choose to participate in the Activities, there is a risk that I may receive injuries requiring medical attention. I fully understand and acknowledge that there is no requirement whatsoever that I participate in the Activities. If I do choose to participate in any of the Activities, I affirm that I have not been nor will I be coerced or persuaded in any way to do so and I assume full responsibility for and risk of any injury sustained in connection with the Activities, whether caused by the negligence of Releasees or otherwise.
I also understand that the Company does not purport to offer any medical, psychological, therapeutic, religious, or other professional advice at the Event and that the information provided at the Event is not a substitute for professional psychological or psychiatric care. I agree that under no circumstances shall Releasees be liable to me based on my use or misuse of and/or reliance on any information provided to me at the Event. And I assume full responsibility for and risk of any injury whether personal, financial or otherwise that I might incur based on such use, misuse and/or reliance thereon.
Why would any sane person sign this when you are told there is even a risk of death? Well, most people don't understand the very dangerous cult tactics that are going to be employed. So, if you are asked to sign a similar waiver, then be aware you may be playing Russian roulette with your life. Please note the other Big Names speaking at this event.... I do have a few issues, but these people are NOT on the list of the most dangerous people.
Brain Research Shows Psychopathic Criminals Do Not Lack Empathy, but Fail to Use It Automatically
Science Daily, 24th July 2013
Criminal psychopathy can be both repulsive and fascinating, as illustrated by the vast number of books and movies inspired by this topic. Offenders diagnosed with psychopathy pose a significant threat to society, because they are more likely to harm other individuals and to do so again after being released. A brain imaging study in the Netherlands shows individuals with psychopathy have reduced empathy while witnessing the pains of others. When asked to empathize, however, they can activate their empathy. This could explain why psychopathic individuals can be callous and socially cunning at the same time. [...]
"Psychopathy may not be so much the incapacity to empathize, but a reduced propensity to empathize, paired with a preserved capacity to empathize when required to do so." The brain data suggests, that by default, psychopathic individuals feel less empathy than others. If they try to empathize, however, they can switch to 'empathy mode'.
Comment: The common misconception is that psychopaths are NOT empathic but we have been told by respected and tested/verified psychopath and author Sam Vaknin that they have 'cold empathy' which allows them to read you like a book and then use that information to work out how to manipulate you. Now that I have had enough of these slippery characters in my life and spent many many hundreds of hours reading about New Age gurus and cult leaders that by definition have 7/9 traits of psychopaths, I am having real difficulty with the lack of general interest with these low-lifes pretending to have a serious interest in the spiritual evolution of humanity. Yes you guessed it, I am still chewing the cud concerning Cohen, Wilber and Chopra and their fake guruness. Too many people don't seem to get the principle that some people can learn a good script and be very good actors... What is worse, a thug or someone promoting a thug to innocents who end up being threatened, mistreated, injured or even killed? That is why Oprah has had her named dragged through the mud because of psychopaths James Ray's actions, but her lack of interest in the death of trusting 'middle America' victims (you can't tell me she did not get the news), will be held against her by people who realise she had a huge part in helping to promote a very dangerous person. But of course she is only part of a general New Age malaise of pretending it is all good... any old slop will do, ignore the glaring neon lights flashing danger and hope for the best.... Do not forget, when people died from being cooked to death in a sweat lodge, one New Ager fool stated that these people had left their bodies and were having such a good time they decided not to come back... the wrongness of this statement is very evident to those of us who score much much lower on the narcissism/psychopathy charts. These kind of warped people need to be avoided.
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Psychopaths Are Not Neurally Equipped to Have Concern for Others
Science Daily, 24th July 2013
Prisoners who are psychopaths lack the basic neurophysiological "hardwiring" that enables them to care for others, according to a new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago and the University of New Mexico.
Comment: I believe this is a different study with a much bigger group of prisoners.
Storms deliver triple digit winds, hail nearly 5 inches in diameter, street flooding
Wichita Eagle News, 24th July 2013
As sunrise brings fresh light to the aftermath of strong storms in southern Kansas from Tuesday night, authorities are beginning to assess the toll.
Hail as large as baseballs was reported in east Hutchinson, according to Reno County Emergency Management. Winds estimated as high as 100 miles an hour were reported in southern Reno County near Pretty Prairie. The town itself was hit hard by hail and strong winds, knocking down trees and blocking streets.
A hail stone measuring 4.75 inches in diameter fell near Yoder in eastern Reno County and
hail as large as tennis balls was also reported.
Comment: See more headlines at Ice Age Now for extreme cold in South America.
Otherworldly Photos Capture Mysterious Phenomena in Upper Atmosphere
Wired News, 23rd July 2013
[...] A lot of research regarding TLEs is still cutting-edge science, said Ashcraft. Only in recent years have scientists aimed high-speed cameras capable of capturing thousands of frames per second to study the spectacles in detail. While researchers had originally hypothesized that the phenomena were starting at the tops of thunderclouds, fast-motion videos prove that TLEs start as luminous spheres and then shoot upwards and downwards at the same time.
Shelter from the Storm: Incredible and unusual clouds that herald a massive downpour are spotted in the Midwest
Daily Mail, 24th July 2013
* Bulbous formation turned sky over Iron Mountain orange
* Weather phenomenon, known as Mammatus, can be sign of storm
Ominous clouds gathered over a Michigan city on Monday night, leading residents to question what was causing the bulbous formations and if they were a sign of rough weather ahead.
As the orange-tinged clouds were spotted at about 8.30pm above Iron Mountain, residents posted pictures of them on social media to see if anyone could identify what they were.
Meteorologist Jeff Last was finally able to resolve the mystery through Twitter, when he identified the phenomenon as Mammatus.
Comment: These mammatus clouds don't seem so rare these days at it must be more obvious the atmosphere is becoming more disturbed by an outside influence...
It's been so hot even the fish are dying! Wildlife wiped out and cars flooded by a month's rain in just hours as extreme conditions sweep Britain [PHOTOS]
Daily Mail, 24th July 2013
* Around 50 homes hit by flash flooding in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, following heavy downpours
* Entire months rainfall hits Pershore, Worcestershire, in the space of three hours as the area is hit by 56mm of rain
Two flood warnings and 13 flood alerts put in place by the Environment Agency
Man, 27, drowns after going swimming in a reservoir in in Keswick, Cumbria
After the hot weather finally ended, it was flooding that arrived with heavy rain. In Southwell, Nottinghamshire, more than 50 homes were affected as a sudden downpour caused flash floods.
Cars were left damaged and the road was left covered in thick mud after vehicles had been tossed around in the dirty water.
Mother-of-four Julie Wells, 40, described the gushing wall of water as 'like a tsunami' after the storm engulfed the village.
Comment: At the moment, the skeptics are still arguing we are not seeing more extreme weather, but I think rough space weather and weak cosmic defenses means extreme weather is inevitable...
'Rivers of rain' to make severe floods twice as likely by end of century
New weather phenomenon sees gigantic volumes of water vapour transported through the air
Independent News, 23rd July 2013
Severe winter flooding in Britain could become twice as likely by the end of the century because rising global temperatures are increasing the chances of huge “atmospheric rivers” that transport massive volumes of water vapour in the air.
A study has found that atmospheric rivers over Britain will become more frequent and intense as global temperatures rise this century in response to increasing concentrations of man-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, he said.
“Atmospheric rivers could become stronger in terms of their moisture transport. In a warming world, atmospheric water vapour content is expected to rise … with air temperature. This is likely to result in increased water vapour transport,” Dr Lavers said.
Comment: More warnings about atmospheric rivers (ARs) suddenly dumping their contents and creating sudden floods. I am not sure that this is NEW either, see previous links... Whatever, the scientific information here is a mixture of basic info and outdated ideas. What is important to know is the atmospheric rivers are off-shoots from the jet-streams. So scientists need to understand what is making the jet-streams loop all over the place and become more unpredictable and eratic and the forces that exist that cause theARs to suddenly lose their ability to hold water.... Actually, this is what I wrote in November 2012.
So what force exactly is confining an average of about 95 percent of all vapor transport outside of the tropics, in just 5 - 10 narrow bands, moving massive amounts of water vapour towards the poles, when just one of these bands can carry more water than the Amazon? Well, the gap between two different weather systems is actually a cell wall, in plasma physics this is known as a "double-layer". The 'wall' maintains most of the voltage difference between the two different weather systems and so is a zone of strong electric fields and is the reason why such huge volumes of water can be sucked up... Note the article describes these types of storms as 'jets' -- zones of high winds... Surely, it is obvious that forces greater than gravity MUST be operating to be able to carry such huge amounts of water across the globe? Now, on a planet where there is interference from strong electric currents coming in from space (NASA's magnetic flux tubes in operation), these double layers will vary in their intensity and presumably, biblical references retain the memory of very large atmospheric rivers breaking and causing massive floods... Well, the more electrified the planet's atmosphere becomes, the more water will be sucked up and the stronger the floods will be if they break over land... Simply, if climate change means cosmic climate change, then in the future there are going to be more major floods, it is inevitable...
This is a quote from Piers Corbyn at weatheraction.com:
The wild meanderings of the Jet stream in this and other periods which caused both extreme rain-flood-hail-cold events and concentrated heat such as Britain & Ireland are an explicit confirmation of the wide amplitude jet stream swings and blocking events consequent on the general Mini-Ice-Age Solar-climate-change cooling (on average, with wild regional fluctuations) now developing which we predicted years ahead.
World Wide Extreme events Dramatically confirm WeatherAction Solar-Lunar-Action-Technique Top Red R5 period ~7-9 July, Weatheraction.com, 10th July 2013
If We Ever Encounter Extraterrestrial Intelligence it is Overwhelmingly Likely to be Post-Biological"
Daily Galaxy, 28th July 2013
During an epoch of dramatic climate change 200,000 years ago, Homo sapiens (modern humans) evolved in Africa. Several leading scientists are asking: Is the human species entering a new evolutionary, post-biological inflection point? Paul Davies, a British-born theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist and Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science and Co-Director of the Cosmology Initiative at Arizona State University, says that any aliens exploring the universe will be AI-empowered machines. Not only are machines better able to endure extended exposure to the conditions of space, but they have the potential to develop intelligence far beyond the capacity of the human brain.
"I think it very likely – in fact inevitable – that biological intelligence is only a transitory phenomenon, a fleeting phase in the evolution of the universe," Davies writes in The Eerie Silence. "If we ever encounter extraterrestrial intelligence, I believe it is overwhelmingly likely to be post-biological in nature."
Comment: So.... we know for a fact that astrobiologists believe that other lifeforms may have developed billions of years before anything started on Earth and evolved into "AI-empowered machines". Yet, nobody wants to point out and compare this notion with the existence of strange 'craft' (UFOs) regularly seen in our skies... I suppose it's too damn obvious for some that maybe these theories were first developed to explain the strange 'craft' that have been a permanent fixture on this planet. Sigh...
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Physicist says some UFOs are ‘supremely advanced technology’
Open Minds, 22nd July 2013
Eric Davis is an award winning physicist who makes no bones about his belief that some UFOs are “definitely the craft of a supremely advanced technology.” He spoke at the Mutual UFO Network’s Symposium this weekend on the topic, and in an interview with Huffington Post writer Lee Speigel, Davis discussed why scientists are hesitant to talk about their interest in UFOs.
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India probes 'UFOs' after drone denial
Telegraph, 24th July 2013
Since the end of last year its security services have been investigating sightings of ‘yellow spheres’ rising over its highly militarised border.
They initially suspected them to be Chinese unmanned aircraft or drones deployed in the cat and mouse game played by the two sides on their contested frontier. [...]
The mysterious orbs are reported to rise and hover along the horizon for around three hours before fading from sight.
To establish exactly the nature and origin of the yellow globes, the defence establishment has now turned to its Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bangalore.
Supermoon Could Trigger An Earthquake Over Next Several Days
The Weather Space News, 22nd July 2013
Tonight is the Supermoon. The Supermoon is when the moon is closer to the Earth on orbit, resulting in a bigger and brighter moon than usual. But will it cause an Earthquake?
Several triggers are in place for one to happen. First, the Supermoon. Retired USGS Geologist Jim Berkland long looked at the Moon as a trigger for Earthquakes. He produces Earthquake windows for the Ring of Fire based on the Moon phase between the Earth and the Sun. This is called, Syzygy, a straight line configuration of three celestial bodies.
When the Moon is Full, the Earth is between it and the Sun. This causes extreme force on the planet, with higher tides as well. Berkland claims this is a trigger to quakes.
My own triggers have to do with weather systems and geomagnetic fields. My theories of geomagnetic fields being a trigger to Earthquakes date back many years, before the new millennium took place. Higher geomagnetic field readings are in place right now.
Earth is inside a stream of solar wind flowing from a very large coronal hole. A coronal hole is a section on the Sun where solar wind can escape into space, traveling at many hundreds of km/sec. This is due to continue through the weekend.
These three triggers may be enough to trigger mechanisms in faults we still have not uncovered.
Comment: I have had a look at the http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ plot and I think the issue is also related to the alignment of Jupiter, Mars and Mercury with Earth.... These planets will be acting as lenses to funnel galactic energy. Besides, the earthquake risk is more of an issue 3/4 days either side of the actual full supermoon. Hence news of major earthquakes were anticipated by those looking out for the next disaster.
Scientific 'consensus' overturned again: Life on Earth 4 times older than previously believed
The Hockey Schtick, 22nd July 2013
EUGENE, Ore. -- (July 22, 2013) -- Conventional scientific wisdom has it that plants and other creatures have only lived on land for about 500 million years, and that landscapes of the early Earth were as barren as Mars.
A new study, led by geologist Gregory J. Retallack of the University of Oregon, now has presented evidence for life on land that is four times as old -- at 2.2 billion years ago and almost half way back to the inception of the planet.
Comment: Sigh.... It is very very difficult for researchers when most prefer consensus based on not enough information (ignorance), poor logic and arrogance. The best example is Neo-Darwinism that is now blowing up spectacularly now that epigenetics suggests that genes are NOT the final arbiter of evolution. Only after 50+ years of serious research and running into a brick wall when humans were found to have the same number of genes as a poorly developed worm (Human Genome Project), have arrogant academics finally admitted they were wrong. Please note: Lamarckian experimentalist Paul Kammerer’s observations in the 1920s look suspiciously like newly discovered aspects of epigenetics, but at the time he was dismissed as a fraud.
Arctic row fiasco continues: Three weeks in, ice is still blocking their route and on a trip to promote global warming discussion, they're busily removing global warming-related comments from their Facebook page
Tom Nelson, 22nd July 2013
There is a theory that Franklin’s expedition went mad from lead solder sealed food cans causing their brains to quit working properly. They were so irrational that they tried dragging the captain’s oak desk back to Canada.
Now the Mainstream crew is dragging a heavy boat southeast away from the northwest passage. Perhaps excess CO2 is affecting their thought process?
Comment: Climate campaigners embarrassing themselves again....
Big Asteroid Flies By Earth Tonight: How to Watch Live
Space.com, 22nd July 2013
A newfound asteroid about the size of a football field will cruise past Earth tonight (July 22), and you can follow all the action live online.
The near-Earth asteroid 2013 NE19, estimated to be between 194 feet and 426 feet wide (59 to 130 meters), will pass within 2.6 million miles (4.2 million kilometers) of Earth tonight — about 11 times the distance between our planet and the moon. There is no danger that it will strike Earth on this pass, scientists say. [...]
Asteroid 2013 NE19, which was discovered just last Monday (July 15), will be quite faint, making it a difficult target for backyard observers. But it should be readily visible in Slooh's remote-controlled telescope, the group said.
Comment: Another huge rock flying by at 11LD so nothing to worry about. I also think a weeks notice is not so bad, as astronomers only catching sight of a huge rock AFTER it has gone past Earth still happens too.
Scientists Finally Discover The Function of the Human Appendix
Political Blind Spot, 22nd July 2013
It has long been regarded as a potentially troublesome, redundant organ, but American researchers say they have discovered the true function of the appendix.
The researchers say it acts as a safe house for good bacteria, which can be used to effectively reboot the gut following a bout of dysentery or cholera.
The conventional wisdom is that the small pouch protruding from the first part of the large intestine is redundant and many people have their appendix removed and appear none the worse for it.
Scientists from the Duke University Medical Centre in North Carolina say following a severe bout of cholera or dysentery, which can purge the gut of bacteria essential for digestion, the reserve good bacteria emerge from the appendix to take up the role.
Comment: Well there you go...
Fredericton researchers map weather in space
Pair expanding network in the Arctic
CBC News, 21st July 2013
Two Fredericton researchers are on a whirlwind tour of Canada's north to learn more about space weather.
Physics technical officer Todd Kelly and colleague Richard Chadwick are off to the Arctic to expand the Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Network. The C.H.A.I.N. is a series of transmitters and receivers that monitor and measure weather and different signal levels around 85 and 500 kilometres above the earth.
“They are used to monitor the ionosphere,” explained Chadwick. “We're monitoring changes in electron density. It can interfere [with] or enhance communications. So it's an issue for communications with satellites or over-the-horizon communications, or airplanes. Those kinds of things.” [...]
The data collected from high in the earth's atmosphere is then sent to the University of New Brunswick’s large server system in a climate controlled room. There the information is processed, mapped, and made available to over 180 different clients from across the globe.
Their clients, including airlines and the Department of National Defense, rely on the constantly updated maps to plot routes through the Arctic without having communications cut out.
Comment: This is a surprise... I did not know airlines have to plot their routes in order to dodge radio communication blackout spots as standard practice... Presumably, this is not new, but the situation is getting far worse....
I've Seen THE{?} LIGHT{s}: post five & last.
The Biggest Study, 20th July 2013
[...]
Mark Fox doesn't seem to realize that the Jesuit scholar Herbert Thurston walked many of these paths in the early half of the 20th century, or maybe he doesn't particularly value Thurston's work, as he does not include his works in his bibliography. I, on the other hand, value Thurston's works greatly, and think that every real explorer of the spiritual should do likewise.
In the book to the left, Thurston has a chapter entitled "The Luminous Phenomena of Mysticism", seemingly pretty germane to our topic. For the most part, I'll leave it to your own energies to get your hands on your own copy and read it, but I'll outline one of the included experiences here.
Comment: Thanks again professor... In the book
Exo-Vaticana Tom Horn and Chris Putnam claim that Catholicism is a UFO religion and at the time of reading I thought this was ridiculous.... BUT, sometimes I need time to process the vast amounts of information in my head and sometimes reading something different triggers a revelation.... Whatever, I have now come to the same conclusion.... Sorry, no details will be provided here as I am damn tired of giving away my insights for free, but for those people interested in hyperdimensional realities the proof is already in the public domain and really obvious. As I have come to realise, the elite can put certain information in the public domain and the general public are so uneducated and dumbed down very very few will get it... I am even coming to the conclusion: why should the elite throw pearls before swine?
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I've Seen THE{?} LIGHT{s}?
The Big Study, 28th June 2013
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I've Seen THE{?} LIGHT{s}: post two.
The Big Study, 30th June 2013
[...] Fox's book covers his findings from the Religious Experience Research Centre {RERC} files in the following areas [among others]:
A). Lights associated with Shamanism, Kundalini, Buddhism, and Christianity;
B). Lights associated with Mysticism;
C). Lights as Angels;
D). Lights as BOLs in bedrooms, which convey some significance;
E). Lights associated with Near-Death Experiences {NDEs};
F). Lights associated with Marian Apparitions;
G). Lights with folkloric linkages;
H). Lights experienced by multiple witnesses;
I). Lights experienced alone;
J). Lights which enfold the witness, or infuse through the witness;
K). Strange illumination of areas large and small;
M). Lights associated with "visions";
N). Strange beams or rays of light;
O). Strange flashes of light.
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I've Seen THE{?} LIGHT{s}: post three.
The Big Study, 4th July 2013
[...]Circa 1950; the Bavarian Alps. A German lady is climbing in the Alps and gets lost on the mountain. This is a dangerous perhaps life-threatening situation. A BOL appeared ahead. This lightform slowly shifted until it took on the appearance of a tall Chinese gentleman. The tall stranger spoke a bit to the lady and led her to a pathway, whereupon they walked towards a tourist shelter and safety. He then reassumed the shape of a BOL and disappeared. [...]
Many folkloric sorts of lightball claims show up in UFO case files, and these have regularly "spiritual" viewpoints attached to them. Fox mentions the Mae de Oura {Mother of Gold} light of Brazil. He may or may not have known of Cynthia Luce's reports on the phenomenon and how regularly seen it has been. Some of these encounters were personal and extremely close. This is one of those BOLs which "teases" in getting close without allowing touch. In one instance, Luce's gardener tried to touch it only to see it disappear and reappear 15 feet away.
Also in the files are things like Immanuel Swedenborg's Balls of Light which turn into Angels bearing revelations, the "Bodhisattva Lights" of the sacred mountain of Wu T'ai Shan in Western China, to a pile of British incidents near ancient megaliths. I'd like to add the [to me] VERY strange coincidence that in Hawaiian legend the flying BOLs are called "akualele", a sort of spirit demon, and that in the Niger-Gabon region of Africa, the flying lights are also spirit demons, and are called "aku". This is the sort of thing which I'll admit boggles me a bit.
"Peace folks.... may all your BOLs be Angels...." [LOL!]
Comment: The professor is a Catholic which explains a lot...
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I've Seen THE{?} LIGHT{s}: post four.
The Big Study, 9th July 2013
Five Costa Concordia staff convicted over shipwreck in ItalyItalian court sentences cruise liner employees for manslaughter and negligence over sinking of cruise liner off Giglio
Guardian, 20th July 2013
An Italian court has convicted five people of manslaughter and negligence over the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that left 32 people dead. [...]
Prosecutors allege that Schettino lost control of the 114,500-tonne ship after hitting a rock as he skirted the shoreline of Giglio in a "salute" to a retired cruise line commodore. Schettino has denied the charges and insisted that the rock was not on nautical maps.
The reef sliced a 70-metre-long (230ft) gash in the hull and seawater rushed in, causing the ship to capsize.
Comment: At the time I wondered if this was a problem with navigational systems being wrong. Well, nothing has changed my mind about this possibility. No captain, a fool or otherwise, would navigate a large ship towards marked rocks unless he was not where he thought he was....
Pope's bank clean-up man 'found stuck in lift with rent boy'
Independent, 19th July 2013
As the man charged with cleaning out the stables at the scandal-struck Vatican bank, Monsignor Battista Ricca will need Machiavellian cunning, good fortune and a whiter-than-white record to have even a fighting chance.
But Pope Francis’s new banker appears to possess none of these attributes after it was reported yesterday that he was found stuck in a lift with a rent boy. Msgr Ricca, as Francis’s new primate with responsibility for the troubled financial institution, known officially as the IoR (Institute for Religious Works), is supposed to usher in new transparency and badly needed reforms after years of financial scandal.
Comment: It looks like the Vatican's 'Gay Lobby' failed to keep Monsignor Battista Ricca's colourful CV suppressed.
Sunspots and the Great Cooling Ahead
American Thinker, 18th July 2013
Presumably, even among the ill-informed ideologues at the White House, there are a few who have heard of sunspots. There may even be one who knows, as most informed persons do, of the correlation between sunspot activity and the earth's climate. But apparently no one has bothered to inform the president.
When sunspot activity is high, as it was during the 1990s and early 2000s, temperatures tend to be high as well. When it is low, as it is now, temperatures fall. And because sunspot activity occurs in decades-long cycles, the unusually cold winter and spring of 2012 may be just the beginning. As a Barron's article recently noted, current sunspot activity is now the least it has been in a century.
What this means is that the era of global cooling has begun. In the northern hemisphere, three out of the four last winters and springs have been unusually cold. This spring was so cold in East Asia that China was forced to import millions of tons of grain and soybeans from the U.S. and other suppliers.
Comment: There is some tough words here for Mr President... Well, I always laugh these days when I come across links for the
American Thinker, as I am reminded of the fraud squad of climate scientists uncovered through Climategate who called this periodical the
American Stinker. Obviously, the climate fraudsters have a very childish mentality and were upset that some intelligentsia were pointing out some honest truths.... Anyway, since I am trying to integrate science with metaphysics it looks like the Mayan Elders with their inherited beliefs 'nailed' the prediction that there would be 'a change of Sun'. The claims amongst some more observant climate scientists, is that there has been an abrupt change to the solar magnetic cycle. It is asserted the planet will now cool, if a significant portion of the warming in the last 70 years was due to solar magnetic cycle changes.
Link. I find this comment by Wiliam Astley informative:
The observed latitudinal pattern of warming in the last 70 years does not match that predicted by the CO2 forcing mechanism. The CO2 forcing mechanism is of course proportional to the increase in atmospheric CO2. As CO2 is more or less evenly distributed in the atmosphere the forcing due to the increase in atmospheric CO2 all else being equal should be roughly the same for the entire global, further more as the amount of CO2 warming is also proportional to the amount of long wave radiation that is emitted off to space the most amount of warming on the planet should be in the tropics. The actual warming pattern observed is not global with most of the warming occurring in the tropics as predicted by the CO2 forcing mechanism and the general circulation models. Most of the warming occurs in the Northern hemisphere at high latitudes (twice as much warming in high latitudinal Northern regions as the planet as a whole and four times as much as the tropics). The latitudes where there is the most amount of warming in the last 70 years are the same latitudes where the electroscavenging mechanism (solar wind bursts) has the strongest affect.
I have been following the WUWT website for a long time, but I simply cannot read everything offered here. However, the debate concerning the solar magnetic cycle and the implications may prove to be the key to understanding climatic change and what awaits us.
CIA Backs $630,000 Scientific Study on Controlling Global Climate
Conspiracy theorists, rejoice!
Mother Jones, 17th July 2013
The Central Intelligence Agency is funding a scientific study that will investigate whether humans could use geoengineering to alter Earth's environment and stop climate change. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will run the 21-month project, which is the first NAS geoengineering study financially supported by an intelligence agency. With the spooks' money, scientists will study how humans might influence weather patterns, assess the potential dangers of messing with the climate, and investigate possible national security implications of geoengineering attempts. [...]
The CIA's decision to fund scientific work on geoengineering will no doubt excite conspiracy theorists. The last time the government tried to do cutting-edge research related to the atmosphere—with the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), which aimed to protect satellites from nuclear blasts—people speculated that it might be a death ray, a mind control weapon, or, worst of all…a way to control the weather.
Comment: As they say, as one door closes, another one opens... Conspiracy theorists must be delighted... I have come to the conclusion that more CO2 in the atmosphere is troublesome for a few different reasons and not much to do with global warming... Worst still, most climate alarmists refuse to acknowledge the positives like deserts turning green... There are also reports of record crop harvests too... So, as I keep writing and pointing out, space weather is a major concern for the intelligence agencies as communications are being affected and I think this is the primary reason they want to get involved with the effort to research the impacts and ultimately geo-engineer the planet. Btw, I always get a big kick from seeing the CIA logo central emblem, with what some New Agers think is a 'lightcode'... Some basic research would provide a totally different perspective...
Volcanic earthquakes produce a “seismic scream” just before eruption
So many earthquakes happening so quickly that they are impossible to separate
Ars Technica News, 15th July 2013
Volcanic activity is intimately associated with seismic activity. You simply can't force molten or semi-molten rock through a mountain without cracking a few faults in the process. If we were ever able to understand how to read the seismic activity correctly, it could provide valuable advanced warning about impending eruptions.
A 2009 eruption of Alaska's Redoubt Volcano may not get us much closer to an advanced warning, but it provides a detailed glimpse of the last moments before an explosive eruption. Shortly before the eruption, small faults within the volcano were breaking so frequently that they merged into what's being called a "seismic scream." Then, within a few minutes of the eruption, the scream got cut off as the last resistance gave way.
Comment: I suppose it is too much to ask that they use slightly more technical terms and explanation like a complex electromagnetic signal in preference to scream... See archives for similar reports analysis.
The space weather way forward
Science Omega, 18th July 2013
In the United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) is going through a historic transformation that is refocusing the most advanced government weather agency in the world. The US weather agency has identified a new vision to build a ‘Weather Ready Nation’ (WRN) that will result in improved services to partner agencies at the federal and state levels. Over the past several years the US and indeed the world has seen an increase in extreme weather and climate conditions that have broadly affected people, infrastructure and commerce. As our climate continues to change, these extremes will only increase over time, making the need for adaptation, readiness, response and recovery rise to new levels of importance – not just on a national level, but around the world. [...]
Space weather describes the conditions in space that affect Earth and its technological systems. To provide impact-based warnings effectively, space weather ‘forecasts’ must provide some reaction time to those whose lives and livelihoods are vulnerable to the effects of solar activity.
Unfortunately, the state of space weather observations and forecasts today is at the same technical level weather forecasting was 20-30 years ago. We simply do not have the density of observations needed to rapidly improve the modelling and forecasting of solar activity. [...]
Space weather is a global concern and does not recognise national boundaries.
In 2011, the White House encouraged collaboration between the US SWPC and the UK Met Office to create a 24/7 space weather forecast office and build capacity with other international partners establishing the first fully operational global space weather warning system.1 Armed with this data and impact-based alerts, decision-makers in the communities of aviation, GPS navigation, power and satellite communications will be able to make informed and timely decisions in preparation and response to space weather events saving time, conserving resources and protecting infrastructure. To enable this global sharing of space weather products, data and services, the right collaborative technologies must be at the ready.
Comment: I think we can call this a space weather prediction status briefing report. Here we are being told that world controllers have been blindsided by the sudden onslaught of space weather. Well, I think the evidence tells us ancient astronomer-priests made great effort to preserve the knowledge of long cosmic cycles and dramatic changes that impact life on Earth. The problem is very few people are interested in reality and world controllers are only interested now because they realise the status quo they have created is threatened and ultimately they could lose control of the current technological world that has been created.
Ouch! ‘Senate global warming hearing backfires on Democrats’ — Boxer’s Own Experts Contradict Obama! — ‘Skeptics & Roger Pielke Jr. totally dismantled warmism (scientifically, economically, rhetorically) — Climate Depot Round Up
Climate Depot, 19th July 2013
During yesterday’s Environment and Public Works hearings, Sen. David Vitter asked a panel of experts, including experts selected by Boxer, “Can any witnesses say they agree with Obama’s statement that warming has accelerated during the past 10 years?” For several seconds, nobody said a word. Sitting just a few rows behind the expert witnesses, I thought I might have heard a few crickets chirping, but I couldn’t tell for sure. We’ll give Obama the benefit of the doubt and count the crickets in the “maybe” camp.
After several seconds of deafening silence, global warming activist Heidi Cullen, who formerly served as a meteorologist for the Weather Channel, attempted to change the subject. Cullen said our focus should be on longer time periods rather than the 10-year period mentioned by Obama. When pressed, however, she contradicted Obama’s central assertion and said warming has slowed, not accelerated.
Several minutes later, Sen. Jeff Sessions returned to the topic and sought additional clarity. Sessions recited Obama’s quote claiming accelerating global warming during the past 10 years and asked, “Do any of you support that quote?” Again, a prolonged and deafening silence ensued. Neither Cullen nor any of the other experts on the panel spoke a word, not even in an attempt to change the subject
Comment: The global warming pseudo-scientific mysticism has now descended into farce...
Scandal of the Jet-Setting Monk Rivets Thailand
Time World, 18th July 2013
BANGKOK) — He’s known as Thailand’s jet-setting fugitive monk, and his story has riveted the country with daily headlines of lavish excess, promiscuity and alleged crimes ranging from statutory rape to manslaughter.
Until a month ago, 33-year old Wirapol Sukphol was relatively unknown in Thailand. Now he is at the center of the biggest religious scandal the predominantly Buddhist country has seen in years.
Despite the vows he took to lead a life of celibacy and simplicity, Wirapol had a taste for luxury, police say. His excesses first came to light in June with a YouTube video that went viral. It showed the orange-robed monk in aviator sunglasses taking a private jet ride with a Louis Vuitton carry-on. [...]
The arrest warrant implicates him on three charges including statutory rape, embezzlement and online fraud to seek donations. He is also under investigation for money laundering, drug trafficking and manslaughter for a hit-and-run accident. Authorities are struggling to figure out how he amassed so much money.
Comment: Hmmmm... And nobody noticed this gangster monk accumulate the equivalent of 32 million dollars? What a joke... For some, religion is just a vehicle to obtain power and to be given an excuse to control and abuse others, or even just a convenient cover for their shading dealings... Why people refuse to admit there are a sizeable number of criminals claiming to be spiritual is beyond me...
THE “A” LIST: A Catalog of Trauma and Abuse
What Enlightenment??!, 18th July 2013
The following is a list of categories of abuses committed by Andrew Cohen and the EnlightenNext community over the years against students, with selected representative examples. All of these acts have been reported, verified and corroborated by first-person witnesses. Most have been documented in three published books written by critical former students—Mother of God by Luna Tarlo (Andrew Cohen’s mother), American Guru by William Yenner and Enlightenment Blues by Andre van der Braak—and on a blog by former students, What Enlightenment??! This list is by no means exhaustive. Many other reprehensible acts, both subtle and gross, have been documented and, as former students are finding their power and their voices, more are emerging every day. This list is only a summary reference. It fairly represents the kind of abuses that frequently occurred in the EnlightenNext community, often justified under the rubric of acts of “crazy wisdom” designed to destroy “ego.”
It is hoped that this list will aide former students in coming to terms with their history and trauma, and that it will serve as a warning and wake-up call to those who are currently engaged with Andrew Cohen, EnlightenNext, “Evolutionary Enlightenment” or its teachers, spin-offs and associates (e.g. Craig Hamilton, Peter Bampton, Jeff Carreira, Carter Phipps, Elizabeth Debold, Mary Adams, Chris Parish, Ken Wilber, the Integral community and others), and those who are considering engaging with them in the future. It is also hoped that it may provide food for contemplation for Andrew Cohen himself and inspiration for his reform and remediation.
5 Denying and Discouraging Students’ Freedom to Leave the Community
· Holding and withholding students’ passports, credit cards and car keys so that they could not leave community premises.
· Posting guards outside a students’ bedroom so that he could not leave, forcing him to secretly exit through a window at night and flee.
· Having a student who was trained in the Dutch equivalent of the military special or commando forces threaten another student with serious physical injury should he ever leave Andrew Cohen, telling the student that if he ever left Cohen,
“no matter where you are on the planet, I will find you and break every bone in your body.”
Cohen, when among close students, ridiculing, laughing at, insulting and dismissing other teachers, public associates and peers, such as Deepak Chopra, the Dalai Lama (“an idiot”), Don Beck (“a disgusting old man”), Craig Hamilton (“a big baby”), Ken Wilber (“a huge narcissist”), Michael Beckwith and Barbara Marx Hubbard (“they just don’t get it”) and various members of the Integral community, such as David Deida, Terry Patten and others, and encouraging close students to do the same. [WOW....]
Comment: Really? This only fits the profile of a psychopath and it very is very disturbing and really creepy to read this but most of the information is old news... Basically, we have big names like Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra herding the masses in the direction of sociopaths/psychopaths like James Ray and Andrew Cohen but the 2nd-hand psychopathy widely now exhibited in the cultic milieu is that if anything goes wrong with your search for enlightenment, IT IS YOUR FAULT! According to psychopath Andrew Cohen and presumably Deepak Chopra that endorses this scumbag (but according to this allegation that I have NEVER SEEN BEFORE, COHEN THINKS CHOPRA IS AN IDIOT. BUT QUITE FRANKLY, I CAN SEE WHY COHEN WOULD SAY THAT BECAUSE I PRESUME CHOPRA IS VIEWED AS NAIVE... Cohen is still one of Chopra's
evolutionary leaders so maybe Cohen is right on that point after all the bad publicity... ), evolutionary spirituality consists of extreme psychological and emotional abuse with physical violence thrown in for good measure... Yet, can you see any mention of this in the 13th March 2013 published dialogue between Deepak Chopra and Andrew Cohen?
Why the World Needs More Spiritual Heroes. As psychologists and sociologists tell us, predatory types learn a script that they know will attract people, but once they are attracted into an inner circle things become very very different... The cult tactics change to create followers for life and the guru becoming your "god"... they literally install themselves into your inner being. I think Cohen ultimately failed because too many members of his inner circle got some real enlightenment and ran off and in their need for healing started to share their stories on the internet a few even wrote books too that managed to get some attention. It does not help either that Cohen has been endorsed by the pseudo-intellectual-philosopher-can-tell-a-good-yarn Ken Wilber. 'Wilberforce' it seems, was being sponsored by people known and unknown to create a new religion, but after 30+ years he has failed miserably... Simply, there have been too many people objecting by taking to their keyboards and demolishing this intellectual pretender... Personally, I think he was doomed to failure and his efforts were probably a delay tactic because most intellectuals reflect and contemplate -- being brain-dead like most people is not part of the general profile but this explains why thinking is discouraged by those seeking to cultivate a following... I think I was finally creeped out this week by finding out there was some kind of connection between Ken Wilber and pioneering cult leader guru Werner Erhard.... Mr Hardcore Cult Tactics himself who the last time I read anything about was on the run for tax evasion... There have been huge volumes written already, but we can't expect the children following the pied pipers to take any notice of just how very very creepy this all is.... So.... it is no surprise that the many followers of the many gurus have no idea what spiritual evolution is really about.... The introductory waffle littered with buzzwords like quantum this and quantum that is acceptable because many think enlightenment will come if they are dedicated but it NEVER comes... I seriously wonder after 50 years of the use of 'honed' cult tactics, just how many disillusioned people there are out there... there must be a lot.
Chief Scientist: Act Now or Live Through Deadly Post Antibiotic Resistance Era
Wired News, 12th July 2013
"There is now a genuine threat of humanity returning to an era where mortality due to common infections is rife"
Report: Meeting the threat of antibiotic resistance: building a new frontline defence
In the latest warning that antibiotics resistance is nearing dangerous levels in modern populations, Australia's chief scientist has issued a stark warning that if we don't invest in combatting it now, sore throats and other minor infections could one day be deadly.
His calls echo those of the UK's own chief medical officer Sally Davies, who in May appealed to the World Health Assembly for international action targeting the problem. Davies announced that the UK government would publish a five-year strategy this summer, but that the problem will not be defeated "unless we get coordinated, international action".
"If we don't take action, in 20 years' time we could be back in the 19th century where infections kill us as a result of routine operations," she said.
Comment: Here we have epigenetics in action and microbes fighting back, but the lack of interest in the survival of humanity is interesting to observe... Those that are bothered about survival, will just make the effort to learn about and use natural antibiotics... I suggest the apathy combined with all the other major survival issues will ensure there is a swift depopulation of this planet coming fairly soon.
A gas cloud is sweeping past the Milky Way’s central black hole
Earth Sky, 17th July 2013
In 2011, astronomers in Germany announced the discovery of a cloud of gas – with several times the mass of the Earth – accelerating fast towards the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way. They originally said that the cloud would pass closest to the black hole in mid-2013, but a new analysis suggests the date of closest passage as early 2014. The passage of the gas cloud near the black hole is already underway, and numerous observing programs have been set up to monitor the region around the Milky Way’s center during 2013.
In April 2013, data acquired at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) showed that part of the gas cloud has already passed closest to the black hole. As expected, the cloud is undergoing what astronomers sometimes call spaghettification – or the noodle effect. That is, it’s being stretched or elongated as it passes the hole, due to the hole’s powerful gravity. [...]
Bottom line: Since 2011, astronomers have been following a gas cloud that is sweeping near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The gas cloud is becoming increasingly elongated, and different parts of the cloud are moving at different speeds. The main part of the cloud is now expected to come closest to the black hole in early 2014. The gas cloud is not expected to survive its encounter with the black hole.
Comment: Spaghettification.... the use of the term is truly cringeworthy from a plasma cosmology viewpoint.... Besides that, this is a major update of what is taking place at the centre of our galaxy, but no mention of the galactic centre lighting up in x-rays and radio waves thus providing some galactic fireworks for astronomers to watch...
Magnetic Reconnection: The Heart Of Space Weather In The Sun Observed In Action
Science 2.0 News, 16th July 2013
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager have provided the most comprehensive movie ever of a mysterious process at the heart of all explosions on the sun: magnetic reconnection.
Magnetic reconnection happens when magnetic field lines come together, break apart and then exchange partners, snapping into new positions and releasing a jolt of magnetic energy. This process lies at the heart of giant explosions on the sun, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which can fling radiation and particles across the solar system.
Comment: The stupid concept of magnetic reconnection where imaginary lines of magnetic force are supposed to "break". We are talking about huge electric currents held in place by magnetic fields. See archives for more info and links.
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Article 4 : “No” to Magnetic Reconnection and “Yes” to Electrified Plasma
Thunderbolts.info, 24th December 2011
Electrical engineers and plasma cosmologists have been known to say that magnetic reconnection is one of the stupidest theoretical ideas that researchers ever derived from the mistaken belief that there are no significant electric currents in space. Yes, the mathematics can be made to fit – though with increasing difficulty as observations proceed – with the energy needs involved, but it should be remembered that processes of physics are not explained by such equations. However, in the case of “magnetic reconnection” there is a much deeper difficulty than that. I refer to the inconvenient truth that the lines of force of a magnetic field do not physically exist at all! They are only a mental aid for us to conceptualise the shape and intensity of a magnetic field.
Invisible alien probes “could already be” in our solar systemFleets of robotic space probes from alien civilisations could already have arrived in our solar system, a mathematical study has found.
Yahoo News, 15th July 2013
Fleets of robotic space probes from alien civilisations could already have arrived in our solar system, a mathematical study has found.
The study quotes scientists who warn that we may not be able to detect them with our technology - the probes may also be so hi-tech they can “conceal” themselves.
Earth’s own Voyager probe has only just reached the edge or our solar system - but older alien civilisations could have launched probes long ago, using knowledge far beyond ours, "slingshotting" round stars using their gravity, according to a paper in the International Journal of Astrobiology. [...]
Duncan Forgan and Arwen Nicholson of the University of Edinburgh analysed how a “fleet” of probes could travel through space - and says that
probes which “self-replicate”, building new versions of themselves from gas and dust in space, would have had time to arrive here already. [...]
organ says,
“The probe camouflages itself so as to set up a threshold test of the technology or intelligence of the recipient species, where the test must be met before the species is allowed to communicate with the device.” [...]
The answer to why no one has contacted us yet may be simple - intelligent civilisations tend to wipe themselves out.
“If advanced societies wipe themselves out, or decide to not go exploring, they need to converge to this outcome with extremely high probability, since it only takes one that escapes this fate to fill the universe,” says Sandberg.
Comment: I have given up expecting the truly stupid to comprehend the notion that the elite still to this day use hermetic language to preserve their secrets. So,
IF there is any truth to this it is presented in a language that only the initiated will understand. [Clue: I presume there are some big plasmoids coming our way...] I wrote in the conclusion of my TTD book that humanity was facing a spiritual intelligence test and I believe that this article is basically saying the same thing.
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"Self Replicating Robotic Space Probes Could Have Arrived in our Solar System"
Daily Galaxy, 18th July 2013
If nearby ETI have observed the Solar System and decided to pursue further exploration, then evidence of ETI technology may be present in the form of such exploratory probes. We refer to this ETI technology as “non-terrestrial artifacts”, in part to distinguish these plausible exploratory spacecraft from the flying saucers of science fiction.
Comment: If you have read my writings then you will recognise the many hints of what is really being discussed in this paper, even down to the size of these objects.... "...a fleet of probes could 'self replicate' and build new versions of themselves from dust and gas while traveling through space", can only be a plasmatic lifeform full stop.
Remarkable “pearl” UFO reported by famous Chinese medieval scientist Shen Kuo
Open Minds, 15th July 2013
There is a fascinating account of pearl-like UFOs seen repeatedly in the city of Yangzhou during the reign of Emperor Jiayou (1056-1064) of the Song Dynasty. The case is significant because a record and commentary on this “strange happening” was included by Shen Kuo (1031-1095) in his classic “Mengxi Bitan” Dream Pool Essays of 1088. Little known in the West except for specialists in Chinese history, Shen Kuo (also known as Shen Kua or Shen Gua) is revered in China as one of the greatest polymaths of the Middle Ages—a high government official in the Soong Dynasty, Imperial Astronomer, surveyor, cartographer, and much more.
Comment: This is just a nice historical UFO reference.
PayPal accidentally makes man a QUADRILLIONAIRE after transferring $92,233,720,368,547,800 into his account
Daily Mail, 17th July 2013
* Chris Reynolds left shocked after opening his monthly-statement
* 'I just felt like a million bucks' he said
As a regular PayPal customer, Chris Reynolds spends no more than $100 a month.
So when the 56-year-old checked his balance with the online money-transfer company recently, it was something of a surprise for him to be told he was a quadrillionaire - making him the world's richest man.
Mr Reynolds, from Delaware County, opened his monthly-statement by email on Friday to discover that his balance was a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800.
Massive Portuguese earthquake 'could send a three-metre high tsunami towards British coast and submerge Isles of Scilly'
Daily Mail, 16th July 2013
* Disaster planners say a repeat of the 1755 Great Lisbon quake is overdue
* Such a quake would wipe out Scillies and much of the coast of Cornwall
* Devon and Cornwall Local Resilience Forum wants warning system for UK
* Their concerns will be examined by government scientists and experts
Swathes of Britain could be left totally underwater by a tsunami in the Atlantic Ocean, it has been claimed.
An earthquake off Portugal could trigger disastrous levels of flooding along the coast of the UK, scientists have said.
The Isles of Scilly and parts of Cornwall would be worst hit if there were a repeat of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. [...]
Experts believe that a quake similar to the devastating one 250 years ago would send a 10ft wall of water towards the UK.
Comment: Yet again, another assessment of earthquake and tsunami risk. This is NOT another waste of time exercise. The massive landslide in India last week that could be seen from space, where an estimated 6,000 people in a remote region were killed proves that world controllers are paying attention to the geophysical changes taking place on this planet.
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Mysterious Disaster in India Seen from Space
Discovery News, 15th July 2013
It has taken some time for the news to come out of India, but there has been a major landslide disaster that has claimed an estimated 6,000 lives. In the remote, mountainous north of the country, steep slopes have given way and launched flows of rock and water that have destroyed or seriously damaged some 240 villages and small towns.
Vatican offers 'time off purgatory' to followers of Pope Francis tweets
Papal court handling pardons for sins says contrite Catholics may win 'indulgences' by following World Youth Day on Twitter
Guardian News, 16th July 2013
In its latest attempt to keep up with the times the Vatican has married one of its oldest traditions to the world of social media by offering "indulgences" to followers of Pope Francis' tweets.
The church's granted indulgences reduce the time Catholics believe they will have to spend in purgatory after they have confessed and been absolved of their sins.
The remissions got a bad name in the Middle Ages because unscrupulous churchmen sold them for large sums of money. But now indulgences are being applied to the 21st century.
Comment: Now that is funny... Catholics still know how to manipulate the faithful... But phone apps for confession are still not allowed, see
You can't confess to your iPhone: Vatican bans £1.19 app for Catholics.
HAARP Facility Shuts Down
ARRL News, 15th July 2013
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) — a subject of fascination for many hams and the target of conspiracy theorists and anti-government activists — has closed down. HAARP’s program manager, Dr James Keeney at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, told ARRL that the sprawling 35-acre ionospheric research facility in remote Gakona, Alaska, has been shuttered since early May.
“Currently the site is abandoned,” he said. “It comes down to money. We don’t have any.” Keeney said no one is on site, access roads are blocked, buildings are chained and the power turned off. HAARP’s website through the University of Alaska no longer is available; Keeney said the program can’t afford to pay for the service. “Everything is in secure mode,” he said, adding that it will stay that way at least for another 4 to 6 weeks. In the meantime a new prime contractor will be coming on board to run the government owned-contractor operated (GOCO) facility. [...]
As he explained it, the diesel generators on site no longer pass Clean Air Act muster. Repairing them to meet EPA standards will run $800,000. Beyond that, he said, it costs $300,000 a month just to keep the facility open and $500,000 to run it at full capacity for 10 days.[...]
As things stand, the Air Force has possession for now, but if no other agency steps forward to take over HAARP, the unique facility will be dismantled, Keeney said. He pointed out that it would cost less to bulldoze the antenna field than it would to replace the 180 antennas.
Splashy web postings abound, blaming HAARP for controlling the weather — most recently in the case of Hurricane Sandy and the spate of tornados — and for causing other natural disasters. Quipped Keeney, “If I actually could affect the weather, I’d keep it open.”
Comment: What are all the HAARP believers going to do now to ignorantly blame atmospheric and geological events on! The HAARP boogey man is dead! The HAARP facility is rather pathetic compared to the billions of nuclear bombs worth of magnetic energy hitting Earth when solar flares detonate and the half trillion tonnes of plasma when CMEs arrive. Still, I am wondering whether the ghost of HAARP will live on or if the ignorant will find another atmospheric boogey man to blame things on... Well, I suppose the government can make a bit of cash stripping down the diesel engines that powered this atmospheric heater, maybe they can make some money selling bits as mementoes... LOL
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Alaska’s controversial HAARP facility closed -- will it come back online?
Alaska Dispatch, 17th July 2013
Despite the optimism that the facility would reopen in the coming weeks or months, there remain some troubling questions about the future of HAARP. The ARRL reported that there was no budget request for HAARP in the 2015 fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1, 2014, and that the facility’s diesel generators are in need of upgrades that could end up costing in excess of $500,000 to meet Environmental Protection Agency Clean Air Act requirements.
The uncertainty about HAARP’s future could also signal a fading interest on the part of the U.S. military in continued HAARP research projects, perhaps due to a lack of viable defense applications. Wired Magazine reported in 2009 that HAARP cost about $10 million each year to operate, and noted that military officials were getting antsy as early as 1999 about turning HAARP into a viable military research installation -- “...the Pentagon wanted to know when its overpriced conspiracy-magnet would produce that battle-ready technology they'd been promised,” wrote Noah Shachtman.
Comment: It looks to me that the military did not get what they were promised... Whatever, there seems to be some dissension as a few people try to maintain their HAARP gravy-train... Hence, the effort to try and say the facility is just waiting for a new owner... Meanwhile, the place is locked up and closed since late May 2013 and the truly stupid are still trying to blame earthquakes on this non-operational facility.
Astronomer finds new moon orbiting Neptune
Reuters, 15th July 2013
An astronomer studying archived images of Neptune taken by the Hubble Space Telescope has found a 14th moon orbiting the planet, NASA said on Monday. Estimated to be about 12 miles in diameter, the moon is located about 65,400 miles from Neptune.
Comment: Neptune has captured a new moon... There is certainly a lot happening in the solar system, see The Joyfire Tour
Solar System Transformation
Woman: 'Visions' led her to dead California boy
xfinity News, 12th July 2013
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Pam Ragland was watching a TV report about the search for an 11-year-old California boy missing in a rural town miles away when she felt something wasn't right.
Ragland began crying and then a haunting vision popped into her head: A young boy lying on his side with his eyes closed.
The boy, Terry Dewayne Smith Jr., wasn't sleeping — and by the time Ragland's visions stopped, she had led detectives to his decomposing body behind his house in the Riverside County community of Menifee.
The remains had been partially buried in a shallow grave under a tree more than 60 miles from Ragland's Orange County home.
Comment: According to research, it is a fact some people can tap into certain types of memory fields held in the environment. The problem is when Tom, Dick and Harry who might have done this a few times then decide to go into business and struggle to use their abilities on demand...
Indonesians trapped in tree for five days by hungry tigers that ate one of their friends are rescued by holy man using special chant
Daily Mail, 8th July 2013
* Five men have been trapped up a tree by prowling Sumatran tigers
* Tigers killed a sixth member of the party and ate half of his remains
* Group were hunted down by tigers after they unwittingly killed a tiger cub
* Holy man chanted ancient mantra and the tigers walked away
A holy man uttering a special chant succeeded today in calming a group of snarling tigers that had chased five men up a tree, leaving them trapped there for nearly five days.
As the holy man uttered his mantra - a mind-calming chant that originates in ancient India - the tigers turned tail and slipped back into the Indonesian jungle, allowing the desperate men to come down from their precarious perch in the branches.
During the long days and nights they had been trapped there, the tigers, which had already killed and eaten a sixth member of their group, prowled around the base of the tree waiting for a chance to grab one or more of the men.
Comment: Well, sometimes these 'Holy men' are useful but most of the time they are not... LOL
Space weather could now cause trillions in damage
Today, electric utilities, telecommunications providers and the insurance industry are grappling with a scary possibility: a solar storm that would wreak havoc on power grids, pipelines and satellites.
Seattle Times, 14th July 2013
[...] The possibility of apocalypse has piqued scientific interest in solar storms in recent years. But researchers are now realizing that space weather can cause all sorts of lesser mischief, such as disorienting GPS satellites or severing contact between polar flights and air-traffic control.
So, in recent years, scores of businesses and government agencies are starting to take space weather more seriously. Electric-grid operators are devising plans to reroute currents through their systems to brace for solar storms. Airlines such as Delta have developed plans to reroute flights in the case of emergency. The U.S. military has begun to realize that space-weather blips can disrupt communication in the heat of battle.
But preparing for disruptions isn’t easy. Just as interest in space weather is surging, the United States is facing the loss of key monitoring satellites in the coming years because budget cuts mean that aging systems aren’t being replaced. And scientists are rushing to plug troubling gaps in their knowledge about these storms.
The problem is far from theoretical. Last month, at a conference on space weather in Silver Spring, Md., Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado announced that the sun had unleashed another large coronal mass ejection in July 2012 that traveled at speeds comparable to the Carrington Event of 1859. It missed the Earth by a week.
“Had that storm occurred a week earlier, it would have been a direct hit,” Baker said. “And we’d probably be having a very different conversation about this today.”
Comment: Hmmm.... I did not know about the incident in Afghanistan in 2002 and I am someone who keeps a close ear to the ground too...
Unusual Storm System Moving Backwards Across United States Through End Week
An unusual storm system is over Oklahoma and Texas at this time, causing severe thunderstorms and much needed rainfall to the dry areas of both states.
The Weather Space, 14th July 2013
Photos: Spectacular Views of Sunday's Aurora
AccuWeather.com, 14th July 2013
A dazzling aurora was visible as far south as Kansas on Sunday night, thanks to an earth directed coronal mass ejection solar flare that occurred on Friday. Monday night may still offer views in the northern United States, according to AccuWeather.com Meteorologist and Astronomer Mark Paquette.
Comment: Nobody wants to talk about geomagnetic storms causing previously very rare purple auroras. WHAT HAS CHANGED SHOULD BE EXPLAINED.
Green Flash on The Sunspaceweather.com, 14th July 2013
GREEN FRAGMENT BREAKS OFF THE SUN (NOT REALLY): On July 12th, nature photographer Jim Young was watching the sun set over the Pacific Ocean west of Seaside, Oregon, when a green fragment broke away from the solar disk.
Appearances notwithstanding, the sun is still intact. What happened? The green color of the eruption is the key clue.
"It was a green flash," explains Young, "caused by refraction in the atmosphere over the Pacific ocean."
The Pacific is a great place to find green flashes. Temperature gradiants in the air above the sea surface magnify tiny differences in the atmospheric refraction of red and green light, creating a verdant mirage.
There was a time when green flashes were thought to be fables, but now we know they are real. Jules Verne popularized the phenomenon in his 1882 novel "Le Rayon Vert" (The Green Ray). He described "a green which no artist could ever obtain on his palette, a green of which neither the varied tints of vegetation nor the shades of the most limpid sea could ever produce the like! If there is a green in Paradise, it cannot be but of this shade, which most surely is the true green of Hope." 131 years later, Young is hoping for more
Comment: Green and even rarer blue flashes on the Sun are being documented on a regular basis (use google to find more examples at spaceweather.com) and have now been regulated from myth to yet another sign of the times. Btw, green flashes have been detected on the moon too... I don't think the answer is temperature... it does not explain how we have gone from fable to fact in such a short period of time.
They're watching as guru in sweat lodge case goes free
CNN, 13th July 2013
(CNN) -- New Age guru James Arthur Ray is out of prison, but the families of three acolytes who died in a sweat lodge ceremony vow to keep on eye on him if he tries to rebuild his self-help empire.
Ray left an Arizona prison Friday after serving 20 months for the negligent homicides of three followers who sought spiritual breakthroughs but died of overheating in a sweat lodge near Sedona in October 2009. [...]
According to testimony at his trial, acolytes who flocked to Angel Valley's red rock foothills were willing to shave their heads, meditate in the desert for 36 hours without food and water and then symbolically die and be reborn in the sweat lodge ritual. [...]
They planned to confront Ray as he left prison and ask him to sign a "promise" to adhere to certain ethical practices. It was not immediately known whether they were able to do so or whether he signed. The promise also was sent this week to 160 other self-help practitioners -- including well-known personalities such as Deepak Chopra, Ram Dass, Tony Robbins, Suze Orman, Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Phil McGraw. [...]
Fifty-five people followed Ray into the sweat lodge; three died from overheating and 19 others were hospitalized after they collapsed, vomited, had trouble breathing, hallucinated, foamed at the mouth or fell unconscious.
"I really don't want to spend much time watching him," Ginny Brown said over the telephone. "But I feel angry that people knew he was dangerous and it wasn't public information."
Comment: I totally disagree with Ginny Brown. CULT WATCHERS KNEW JAMES RAY WAS DANGEROUS AND PUBLISHED THEIR WARNINGS ON A MASSIVE CULT WEBSITE WITH A BIG THREAD DEDICATED TO THIS FRAUD 2 YEARS BEFORE PEOPLE DIED. WHAT ELSE COULD HAVE BEEN DONE? THE PROBLEM IS TOTAL LACK OF ETHICS AND DISREGARD FOR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS. MANY NEW AGERS ARE AT LOW LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS LOOKING OUT FOR NO.1 SO THEY ARE ATTRACTED TO PREDATORS WHO PREACH PROSPERITY AND HAVING IT ALL. TEACHINGS THAT AMOUNT TO THE BIG COSMIC SLOT MACHINE IN THE HEAVENS EXISTS AND IS READY TO PAY OUT ETC ETC IF YOU KNOW HOW TO GAME THE MACHINE - THIS IS 'THE SECRET'... As I wrote in my essay
Spiritual Evolution in the Cultic Milieu, “...it is possible for seekers to be duped and sometimes seriously hurt by spiritual salesmen who use a “syntax” of cult tactics with the aim of pushing their followers into an ecstatic/illumination experience where they can be re-programmed in order to complete the “penetration” of the “inner life” thereby making them followers for life.” James Ray carefully sifted his clientele to find the most gullible and rich. It does not matter how much people think of those who died, the victims had been sold on the principle of spiritual materialism. They died because James Ray could not give a shit about their safety. He wanted them to have heat stroke and become delirious so that they would believe he had given them a spiritual high whilst he was secretly re-programming them, (see archives for more of the story), instead he baked some of them to death. Trusting a sociopath is a very dangerous game to play.
The False Guru Test
Energy Grid, April 2006
TAKE THE FALSE GURU TEST. If seven or more of the following describes your guru or spiritual teacher, then unfortunately he or she may not be be as enlightened or good for your soul as you would like to believe:
Comment: No.16 Talks bollocks made me laugh... Actually, this is really a technique used for hypnosis... I believe this helps to shut down the mind and make the [unconscious] mind/self more easily available for programming.
Spiritual Marketing Techniques
Energy Grid, October 2009
An examination of methods used to market spiritual teachers and teachings. Whether you are an authentic spiritual teacher or just playing the guru-game, there is good money to be made in active spiritual marketing.
Comment: In the past I have attracted a few frauds because they want me to provide some pseudo-scientific claims (cult bait). Well, I don't cooperate, as I provide the facts as far as I am aware at the time. Whether this means good or bad news for an aspiring guru I don't care. I let people decide whether we are dealing with yet another fraud.
Sun's 2013 Solar Activity Peak Is Weakest in 100 Years
Space.com, 12th July 2013
Comet ISON update, brightening fast!
Catholic Online, 9th July 2013
Comet ISON is still aiming for a spectacular showing this November as the comet continues to brighten rapidly. The celestial visitor is now between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and may become one of the brightest natural objects seen in the nighttime sky.
Comment: It is interesting that the Catholics are paying attention... The explanation of noctilucent clouds in January 2014 might not adequately explain what might happen. See archives re: The Red Hand of Death.
Sweat lodge leader who led retreat that killed three freed from prison today after less than two years
Daily Mail, 12th July 2013
* James Arthur Ray to be released from prison today after serving 85 per cent of a two-year sentence
* He was charged with negligent homicide after three attendees at his sweat lodge ceremony died
* The family and friends of victims are worried Ray will return to the self-help industry
* SEEK Safely, devoted to educating people about the largely unregulated self-help industry, launches today
A self-help author who led an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony that left three people dead and 18 injured is scheduled to be released from prison today.
James Arthur Ray will be freed from the state prison in Buckeye, near Phoenix, where he's been held under minimum security after serving 85 per cent of his two-year sentence on negligent homicide convictions.
The deaths occurred after dozens of people traveled to a scenic retreat just outside Sedona, Arizona in October 2009 for Ray's five-day 'Spiritual Warrior' event.
Comment: There is a lot of comment over at the Salty Droid but I think the feeling is that another New Age sociopath is back on the streets soon to be spreading the sickness that a lot of New Agey type people think is something divinely inspired... 12 years ago I had no idea what was going on amongst the New Age milieu but now I do... If at first having your head slammed up against a wall does not work, after a few more slams a new picture tends to emerge... As a reminder, I have provided a link of an article written on Oprah and her selling of “The Secret”. A magic potion for narcissists to make them even worse narcissists. James Ray was one of the golden New Age teachers "helping" those having difficulty making the fake principle of wishing on a star work in their lives... Over at the Cult Education Forum Anticult suggests the New Age Big Names will not sign the pledge because it will interfere with the legal waivers that people sign because they know the techniques used to control people come with big risks... [So, if you go to a seminar and they demand you sign your rights away then you know immediately that you are in danger. It's that simple. These are the real criminals protecting themselves upfront from being sued...] Obviously, most punters are oblivious to what those risks are and the kind of harm; physical, mental and emotion that might come their way...
'Sweat lodge' guru to be released from prison
USA Today, 11th July 2013
PHOENIX -- James Arthur Ray, the self-help author convicted of three counts of negligent homicide in the "sweat lodge" deaths near Sedona in October 2009, is to be released Friday morning from the Lewis state prison near Buckeye.
He will have served just under 20 months of the three concurrent two-year terms to which he was sentenced in November 2011 for the deaths of Kirby Brown, 38; James Shore, 40; and Liz Neuman, 49.
The three died of heat stroke and organ failure after a sweat-lodge-style ceremony Ray led as part of a five-day spiritual retreat at the Angel Valley resort. [...]
Three years ago, Brown's family created a non-profit, SEEKSafely, to educate the public about risks due to the unregulated nature of much of the self-help industry, and to promote professional standards. On Monday, in anticipation of Ray's release, the family issued a call on self-help practitioners to sign a promise to provide truthful and accurate information to participants, and to keep them safe at self-help events.
Since Monday, the group said, it has contacted 150 leading self-help practitioners, including Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer and Joe Vitale. So far, three practitioners have agreed to sign the promise, said Ginny Brown, Kirby Brown's mother. SEEKSafely will announce the promise at an event in New York Friday.
But, Ginny Brown said, "we understand people may not have had a chance to get back to us, people may be on vacation. We want to encourage them to join us in making this industry safer. ... This is bigger than James Ray. We want to empower seekers to ask more questions, and we hope the announcement (Friday) will encourage those we've contacted to see whether they can promise to behave in this particular manner."
The group's website, seeksafely.org, tracks which self-help practitioners have or haven't signed the pledge.
Comment: My initial reaction is that BIG NAMES in the New Wage could not care two hoots about people seeking safely because these folkers NEVER point out that their industry is shark infested waters with many using cult tactics as standard practice. Actually, after the success of the What Enlightenment??! blog, I suggest a What Ethics??! blog... it might need some work managing the volume of angst though. However, that does not mean that some BIG NAMES might pretend they are willing to pledge.... a signed name does not mean much in the scheme of things when New Agers & Seekers are being brainwashed that anything goes... Anyway, I had to laugh when I saw the name Tony Robbins who James Ray copied his mannerisms and 'techniques' from... Mr Cult Tactics himself.... There is also some doubt that the other BIG NAMES mentioned here are issue free when it comes to the use of cult tactics and telling the very subjective truth... Lets say my cynicism is off the charts. However, I am pleased that the seeksafely.org website has got some good publicity. Whatever, I will NEVER forget the deaths of Kirby Brown, 38; James Shore, 40; and Liz Neuman, 49, (Colleen Conaway was metaphorically pushed over the edge) by a greedy malignant narcissist masquerading as a spiritual salesman. Oprah et al. should be ashamed but these types have no shame.
Report: Climate change causing energy disruptions
Yahoo News, 11th July 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Climate change and extreme weather already are causing disruptions in the U.S. energy supply that are likely to worsen as more intense storms, higher temperatures and more frequent droughts occur, the government says in a new report.
The report, released Thursday by the Energy Department, says blackouts and other problems caused by Superstorm Sandy and other extreme weather events are likely to be repeated across the country as an aging energy infrastructure struggles to adapt to rising seas, higher storm surges and increased flooding. A range of energy sources are at risk, from coal-fired power plants to oil wells, hydroelectric dams and nuclear power plants. [...]
Electricity providers should harden transmission grids and build emergency backup systems, the report says, and operators of hydroelectric dams should improve turbine efficiency. The report also recommends that governments and utilities work together to reduce demand for electricity.
Comment: As I have stated many times in the past, when dealing with media for the general public, exchange the term "climate change" for "space weather" and the logic of what is happening is often immediately much easier to comprehend.
SOLIS observatory gives new insights into space weather
Phys.org News, 11th July 2013
(Phys.org) —Shifts in the magnetic field just above the surface of the Sun lead to liftoff of interplanetary "space storms," according to new results from the Synoptic Optical Long-Term Investigation of the Sun (SOLIS) instrument. The results were presented by California State University, Northridge, physics and astronomy professor Debi Prasad Choudhary at this week's 44th meeting of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society in Bozeman, Mont.
Understanding space weather and the enormous "storms" that cause it, called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), is a major goal of current solar research. SOLIS, built by the National Solar Observatory and operated at Kitt Peak, Ariz., is a special-purpose telescope that can image the magnetic field at the surface of the Sun and, simultaneously, in the layer just above the surface, called the "chromosphere."
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Why space weather matters
Washington Post, 10th July 2013
The volatile surface of the sun is responsible for “space weather” that can affect Earth. Our atmosphere and magnetic field protect what’s below it from almost all such events, so solar weather went unnoticed until 1859. However, humans and their technology did not stay on the ground, making us increasingly vulnerable to the unpredictabilities of the sun.
Comment: This is just a good graphic.
High intensity quake could reduce Shimla to rubble: National Disaster Management Authority report
Times of India, 11th July 2013
SHIMLA: In last few years, Himachal Pradesh (HP) is witnessing increased frequency of earthquakes up to 5 magnitude on the Richter scale, which has led to the fear of bigger quakes hitting the state in future. While experts are claiming low intensity quakes release seismic energy to avoid bigger earthquakes, unplanned constructions, even on steep hills, has led to fear of widespread destruction if a high magnitude earthquake hits the state.
Comment: Another country reporting regional earthquake risk...
Six-Year Oscillation in Earth's Core Changes Length of Day
Live Science, 10th July 2013
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California Climate, PDO, LOD, and Sunspot Departure
WUWT, 7th October 2007
The Atmospheric Angular Momentum index (AAM) is a factor used in numeric weather forecasting. The AAM index is a measure of the ratio of East West vs. North South winds on the planet. The AAM index accounts for about 98 percent of the variation in Earth’s length of day variation (LOD) (measured in milliseconds per day).
LOD variation is measured daily by the Naval Observatory and has been monitored since 1640 at England’s Greenwich Observatory. The annual average of the daily length of day is shorter after 1975. This reflects a greater North-South component in the worldwide wind patterns as well as a major change in California’s rain and temperature trends.
Study: Small birds versatile enough to cope with climate change
LA Times, 9th July 2013
Despite the potential havoc wreaked by climate change, it’s not all doom and gloom for our planet. A new study projects that certain types of short-lived, small birds will easily withstand global warming throughout this century, even under worst-case carbon emissions scenarios.
Most studies predicting species’ fates due to global warming rely on models that assume species can survive only in the environmental conditions in which they currently live. But doing so ignores the possibility that species can adapt to a changing environment, said Ben Sheldon, an ornithologist at the University of Oxford and the senior author of the study, published Tuesday in PLOS Biology. [...]
There are two main ways species can cope with a rising thermostat — by evolving or by being versatile. The former requires genetic changes in a short amount of time within a population. The latter, a concept biologists call phenotypic plasticity, involves adjusting to fit in, like a high school kid who can float in the nerd, jock and Goth crowds. For a bird, it means changing appearance or behavior to take advantage of a changing environment. Sheldon and his team wanted to know which mechanism, if any, birds were using to adapt to climate change.
Comment: Evolutionary biologists have been stating for quite some time that many species will adapt. So, it is interesting that proven changes in species behaviour is becoming climate driven "adaption" to climate change and NOT evolution... How convenient... Obviously, this might be because evolutionary theory has become a thorny issue with prominent scientists becoming very dissatisfied and thus demanding evolutionary theory requires a major overhaul.
As The Earth Cools, Obama's Still Distracted By A Fraudulent Warming Narrative
Forbes, 8th July 2013
[...] I am quite certain that President Obama used the oxymoronic phrase “carbon pollution” in his speech that day alone many more times than the National Weather Service ever did, at least before President Obama came into office.
Carbon is a natural element on Earth, and serves as the fundamental building block of all life on the planet, including humans. That is why humans, and all other life Earth, are called “carbon based” life forms. We are not pollution, despite what the crazies at the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council think.
There is nothing like watching a carbon based life form spouting about “carbon pollution,” and emitting 1000 parts per million of carbon dioxide gas in doing so, which is what Obama meant by “carbon pollution.” Carbon dioxide as well is a natural substance essential to all life on the planet. Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causes plants to grow faster, including the food that feeds us and all other animal life. Calling it pollution is nonsense as a matter of science, and should be disqualifying for public officials.
Comment: I was surprised by the headline here.. It seems that Lloyds are refusing to cooperate with the hype too... see below:
Deserts ‘greening’ from rising CO2
WUWT, 8th July 2013
Increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) have helped boost green foliage across the world’s arid regions over the past 30 years through a process called CO2 fertilisation, according to CSIRO research.
In findings based on satellite observations, CSIRO, in collaboration with the Australian National University (ANU), found that this CO2 fertilisation correlated with an 11 per cent increase in foliage cover from 1982-2010 across parts of the arid areas studied in Australia, North America, the Middle East and Africa, according to CSIRO research scientist, Dr Randall Donohue.
San Francisco Crash Pilot 'Blinded By Light'
A pilot learning to fly a Boeing 777 when it crashed says he saw a flash before impact -as 911 calls from passengers are released.
Sky News, 11th July 2013
Floods Top 2013 World Disaster Bill So Far
Discovery News, 10th July 2013
Floods that caused billions of dollars in losses were the world's most expensive natural disasters so far this year, with central Europe being hit hardest, re-insurers Munich Re said on Tuesday.
Altogether, natural catastrophes -- also including earthquakes, tornadoes and heat waves -- caused $45 billion in losses in the first half of 2013, well below the 10-year average of $85 billion.
Insured losses worldwide totaled about $13 billion, said Munich Re.
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Atmospheric Rivers Go Mainstream
The American Meteorological Society, 6th December 2012
This week NOAA announced installation of four new special observatories in California dedicated to improving the understanding–and forecasting–of atmospheric rivers, the massive (but narrow) flows of tropical moisture aloft in the warm conveyor belt of air ahead of cold fronts. [...]
The timing was not just good from a weather point of view but also from the standpoint of public understanding. The announcement culminated the fast-track rise of “atmospheric river” from an obscure technical term to popular understanding. [...]
It was only 20 years ago the term “atmospheric river” was introduced in a scientific paper by Reginald Newell and colleagues; then atmospheric rivers got a brief spate of publicity during the late 1990s and early part of this century with airborne field projects over the Pacific Ocean, such as CALJET and PACJET. Attention ramped up again during 2010's infamous Snowmaggedon on the East Coast.
Comment: Surely, we have some solid proof here that geomagnetic conditions in the atmosphere have fundamentally changed because these atmospheric rivers dropping huge volumes in unexpected places are becoming a serious issue. Simply, it will become very serious for all concerned if 1 in 100 year floods are coming around at a rate of 1 in 10 years and less. See previous information.
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River Road repair launched - Atmospheric River Blamed
The News Guard, 10th July 2013
Over a year and a half ago heavy rains caused the wash out of Old River Road at about a third of a mile up from Highway 229 off Highway 101 south of Lincoln City. The closure is near the city of Siletz.
It was during one of those weather events referred to as an “atmospheric river” that a continuous deluge of rain caused extensive damage and flooding to the area.
The damage was so widespread that several counties were proclaimed disaster areas by both state and federal governments. FEMA provided funding for the Old River Road repair and a geologic investigation of the slide began. The geotechnical evaluation indicated that a simple repair of the slope was not going to be adequate.
The worst flooding witnessed by western China in five decades
Devastating floods in China trigger huge landslide, burying 40
Independent, 10th July 2013
The worst flooding witnessed by western China in five decades has triggered a landslide, burying up to 40 people and destroying a high-profile memorial to a devastating 2008 earthquake.
There was no immediate news on whether any of the 30 to 40 people buried in the landslide in the Sichuan province have survived. Rescue workers with search dogs are attending the scene, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Comment: I changed the headline, the videos of houses being swept away are incredible.
Alberta Hailstorm Leaves Behind 10-Mile Ice Strip Across Airdrie, Canada [PHOTO, VIDEOS]
International Business News, 9th July 2013
What appears to be a giant white strip in the middle of Canada is actually the aftereffect of a freak hailstorm in the province of Alberta this past weekend. The photograph, taken by a pilot, shows the remains of the storm in the city of Airdrie.
The now-viral photo, first shared on Twitter, was reportedly taken by a Jazz Aviation pilot, Captain Daryl Frank, north of Calgary on Saturday. According to a report from the Huffington Post, the hailstorm and high winds hit not only Airdrie but also Cochrane and north Calgary Saturday afternoon. The storm, although leaving behind up to 12 inches of accumulation that measured two miles wide and 10 miles long, only lasted an estimated 30 minutes, reported WunderGround.
UK flights affected by computer problemsFlights in southern England have suffered delays because of air traffic control computer problems.
BBC News, 9th July 2013
Nats, the national air traffic control body, said UK airspace was not shut, nor were all flights in and out of the UK suspended - as one airport had said.
Nats said operations were returning to normal following technical work carried out at its Swanwick, Southampton, control centre.
Contingency plans had been put in place to minimise disruption, it added.
Nats provides air traffic navigation services to aircraft flying through UK controlled airspace and at several UK and international airports. Its website said it handled 7,086 flights on Monday.
Jersey Airport had tweeted just after 10:00 BST on Tuesday that the computer failure at Swanwick had "resulted in the temporary suspension of all flights in and out of UK air space."
In an update 25 minutes later, the airport said there was "once again movement in UK skies. However, some delays may result."
Comment: The computer glitches, that I think are being caused by the increase in cosmic rays, are most notable when computer systems used by banks, stock markets and airlines/air traffic control breakdown and it is becoming obvious that things are getting worse. Thanks to A. Rowicki for the tip.
Toronto battered by storm, flooding; thousands stranded [PHOTOS]
CTV News, 9th July 2013
A severe storm in Toronto flooded parts of the city, knocked out power to thousands, and shut down roads and sections of the city’s subway system Monday, as nearly 100 millimetres of water fell across the area in a matter of hours.
Rainfall totals measured 106 mm at the suburban Pearson International Airport after the storms blew through. The rain began at 4 p.m. local time, stranding commuters in cars, buses and subway trains as the busy rush hour was getting underway.
Comment: There are quite a few expected storms in various locations around the planet, see
News at Accuweather
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Severe thunderstorms cause major flooding, traffic nightmare in southern Ontario
Weather Network, 8th July 2013
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Why Toronto is flooding
Global Toronto, 8th July 2013
Though Environment Canada had issued a Special Weather Statement early in the afternoon, the severe thunderstorm warning for Toronto, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Markham, Brampton and Mississauga wasn’t issued until 5:55 p.m., long after the hardest part of the storm had passed through the area.
Mark Seifert, a meteorologist with Environment Canada said that thunderstorms are “notoriously difficult” to predict. “Until they develop.”
“We have been in a very hot and humid air mass for the past couple days and this morning’s sunshine helped destabilize the atmosphere,” said Global Toronto Meteorologist Anthony Farnell.
Singing for a choir can be good for heart
Times of India, 9th July 2013
A new study has found that when people sing in a choir their heart beats are synchronised, their pulse tends to increase and decrease in unison.
This has been shown by a study from the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg that examined the health effects for choir members.
Scientists create batteries out of wood
The Weather Network, 8th July 2013
When wood and tin are combined, they can create an low-cost and sustainable battery, according to researchers at the University of Maryland.
Researchers hope the battery -- which was created using components more than 1000 times thinner than a sheet of paper -- will one day be used to power large-scale devices, like solar energy panels.
Region hit by silent 'heat' lightning
The Dominion Post, 8th July 2013
Stargazers could be mistaken for thinking the night sky had filled with flash photography last night after a series of 'heat' lightning strikes off the Wairarapa coast were seen across Kapiti, Wellington and as far north as Masterton.
Karori man Stuart Cunningham noticed the flashes in the sky when he was walking to his house about 8pm.
They were ''non directional'' and he originally thought someone nearby was doing flash photography.
Wiping Out Bank AccountsPrioritizing Cyber, Nuclear Capabilities
Armed With Science, 7th July 2013
Malicious cyberattacks are quickly becoming a defining security challenge “for our time, for all our institutions,” said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
“They are putting America’s economic and technological advantages and our industrial base at risk,” the secretary added. “And they threaten our critical infrastructure.”
Hagel noted some now-familiar defense challenges in the cyber realm: attacks are invisible, hard to track to their source, and potentially can be classified as either criminal activity or acts of war.
“Attribution is not impossible, but it is not as simple as identifying a navy sailing across the ocean or an army crossing a border to attack you,” Hagel said. “This is a fundamentally different, more insidious kind of threat than we’ve ever seen — one that carries with it a great risk of miscalculation and mistake.”
Comment: I changed the headline to something most people can appreciate... Well, I treat this kind of article from a military source in exactly the same way as the articles on an EMP strike. I think the real issue is dealing with the increasing impact of space weather and for computer systems that means the general increase in cosmic rays. Yes, real cyber attacks are real, but so are cosmic rays corrupting computer software and hardware. So, as I continue to document examples, we are seeing plenty of disruption now.
At least 50 drinkers in bar feared dead after runaway train devastates Canadian townA huge fireball that engulfed the centre of small Canadian town after a crash involving a runaway train is thought to have taken the lives of at least 50 late night drinkers in a downtown bar.
Telegraph, 7th July 2013
The Musi-Cafe, a popular live music hangout in the town of Lac-Megantic, was hit by blasts "like an atom bomb" after an oil tanker train derailed on a bend on the nearby railtrack in the small hours of Saturday morning. The train, which had been parked overnight at the top of a nearby hill, came barrelling into the lakeside town at speed after its brakes apparently failed, sparking at least six massive explosions as it derailed.
Comment: I was going to ignore this until I read that the train carrying fuel was "parked" at a top of a hill.... I was also disturbed by the account of someone who saw the train coming and made no attempt to warn people inside.... In repeating his tale, all he could state was that he saved his own life...
MY DINNER WITH ANDREW
What Enlightenment??!, 7th July 2013
What follows is an account of my attendance at a half-day “Evolutionary Enlightenment” seminar given by Andrew Cohen in Toronto on 22 June, 2013, and a private meeting that I had with him afterward. The seminar was entitled “Living at the Edge of Everything.” As the afternoon progressed, it became increasingly clear to me that my impressions might be of value to those interested in a power struggle that had occurred recently in Cohen's universe: He had been forced into some sort of reckoning with his conduct as a “guru,” and pressured by his “senior students” into vacating his leadership position at the organization he had founded, “EnlightenNext.”
Comment: Most curious.... a real human showing compassion and decency to a malignant narcissist in full control and awareness of what she [I think the author is a female] is dealing with... This person has my full admiration... Personally, I have decided to take the advice of psychologists and cut types like Cohen dead... I am not prepared to give them the opportunity to suck the life out of me because ultimately that is what they are most interested in.... The author here has fully comprehended the sickness and disease that is being spread by this predator. Yet, she still wants to help and maybe a miracle is possible despite the beliefs of psychologists.... For a real human, this is a good read even reassuring that real high quality humans exist, as 1s and 0s on the narcissism scale are few and far between...
Space weather forecast study turns table of effective predictions on its head
Earth Sky News, 5th July 2013
A comparison of solar flare forecasting systems has turned the performance table of apparently effective prediction methods on its head.
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, have tested the reliability of seven techniques against their record of predicting flares and non-flare events correctly, as well as their history of missed flares and false alarms. When the predictions were put into context of the Sun’s activity levels over time, some of the most seemingly successful techniques slid down the table. Dr D. Shaun Bloomfield is presenting the findings at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland. [...]
Bloomfield and his colleagues compared seven different systems for predicting solar flares: two of these used images showing the structure of sunspots; the other five used a variety of parameters relating to the magnetic field, including maximum field strength, total flux and strengths of gradients. The source data came from a range of ground based and space based solar telescopes, including SOHO.
Comment: Due to the arrival of space weather as a serious issue, space weather prediction is a completely new field of science. Thus, it is good to know that solar scientists are getting on with this important task.
Ball lightning strikes twice in southern Russia?
Sott.net, 5th July 2013
The following excerpts come from Russia news sources concerning an apparent incidence of 'Ball Lightning' a month ago on June 5, 2013, in the village of Emanzhelinka, which lies 50 km south of Chelyabinsk, site of the overhead cometary explosion in Russia on 15th of February this year.
Comment: Ball lightning is still quite rare so this report is interesting.
Electric Cloudsspaceweather.com, 2nd July 2013
ELECTRIC BLUE: Observers of noctilucent clouds often describe their appearance as "electric blue." On July 3rd, Nature provided a color-check when a lightning storm erupted in Szubin, Poland, right in front of a noctilucent display. [...]
The pale blue colors of the two phenomena are similar, but the resemblance is superficial. Lightning is hot, a genuinely electric discharge that heats the air to 30,000o C or more. The high temperature of the lightning's plasma (ionized air) gives it the same blue color as a hot O-type star. On the other hand, noctilucent clouds are cold, made of ice that crystallizes at the edge of space where the air temperature is -160o C. The tiny ice crystals in noctilucent clouds scatter blue light from the setting sun, which accounts for their lightning-like color.
Comment: Dr. Tony Philips at spaceweather.com, I don't believe you and neither does anyone else who knows enough of the facts. Noctilucent clouds were once called noctoluminescent and this reflected the fact [please excuse the pun] that light was being produced by an electrical discharge... This is an interesting quote from a long-term noctilucent cloud watcher.
NLCs are made up of meteoritic dust particles incased in ice crystals. These ice crystals which contain dust particles from meteoroids, comets, and asteroids are so small that their size is likened to the particles in cigarette smoke.
NLC ice crystals are so transparent that they only reflect 1 in 1000th of the incident sunlight they receive hence why their tenuous profile is never seen in the day time sky. NLCs are very thin, measurements have suggested their optical thickness is in the region of 10-4nm with cloud particles in the range of 50nm. The Mesosphere where the NLC particles reside experiences a freezing temperature of -100 degrees celsius, here there's very little water however at this temperature any molecules of water which do form will rapidly turn to ice and incase any dust (meteoritic) particles - which act as a seed - were the process of nucleation induces the NLCs to drop by several kilometers to the altitude in which they are normally seen some 80-100km above sea level.
Source: Noctilucent Clouds (NLCs) - Observation & Structure
The noctilucent clouds are being lit up by the background electric fields surrounding Earth and electric currents coming from space. I believe that NASA are re-acting to public enemy no. 1 astrophysicist James McCanney explaining in plain English on his June 13th radio show that the proper original latin derived name for these clouds is noctoluminescent that reveals the light of these clouds is being produced by an electrical discharge. PLEASE REMEMBER, IN THE 1980s THE ELECTRICAL NATURE OF SPACE WAS CLASSIFIED INFORMATION!!! THIS EXPLAINS THE LEGACY OF RUBBISH SCIENCE BEING PRESENTED BY SPACE SCIENTISTS TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. THE REAL TRUTH IS THAT THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT IN ANCIENT TIMES, EARTH HOSTED A HIGHLY ELECTRICAL ENVIRONMENT AND WAS OCCASIONALLY ZAPPED BY HUGE CURRENTS COMING FROM SPACE.
JamesMcCanneyScienceHour_June_13_2013.mp3
James McCanney Science, 13th June 2013
He starts at about 35:30 talking about noctilucent clouds being originally called noctoluminescent but the name was changed to hide the fact these lit up clouds are being lit up electrically.
Cockatoos 'pick' puzzle box locks
Eureka Alert, 3rd July 2013
A species of Indonesian parrot can solve complex mechanical problems that involve undoing a series of locks one after another, revealing new depths to physical intelligence in birds.
A team of scientists from Oxford University, the University of Vienna, and the Max Planck Institute, report in PLOS ONE a study in which ten untrained Goffin's cockatoos [Cacatua goffini] faced a puzzle box showing food (a nut) behind a transparent door secured by a series of five different interlocking devices, each one jamming the next along in the series.
To retrieve the nut the birds had to first remove a pin, then a screw, then a bolt, then turn a wheel 90 degrees, and then shift a latch sideways. One bird, called 'Pipin', cracked the problem unassisted in less than two hours, and several others did it after being helped either by being presented with the series of locks incrementally or being allowed to watch a skilled partner doing it.
Comment: Bird brains?
Where is the true North Pole?
The Watchers, 3rd July 2013
The North Pole is at the top of the Earth and the South Pole is at the bottom, right?
Except that the Earth is kind of a ball, and they don't really have tops and bottoms. Of course Earth isn`t exactly spherical and isn`t spinning through space - spinning about an imaginary axis of rotation.
One of the points where that axis goes through the Earth, in the Arctic ocean, where in 2007 Russians planted their flag on the bottom of the sea is called the North Pole. More precisely it is the "geographic" North Pole.
Because just like there are different definitions for what a "year" is (tropical year, sidereal year, anomalistic year); there are different "North Poles".
Comment: This is basically a short tutorial.
The Radioactive and Explosive Stones That Come From Sea
Brazil Weird News, 2nd July 2013
URUGUAI. At Piriapolis city, in Punta Negra's beach, the retired military, fisherman in his spare time, 78 years - Juan Carlos Bézon, was walking on the seaside when he noticed a small stone, just over 3 inches wide. He noted that it had a strong color in a fluorescent green hue, flecked with dark spots, brownish.
He picked up the object. It had a rough texture - and placed it in his pants pocket. In about five minutes, the man began to feel a warming sensation in the thigh.
It was the stone that - apparently - started a spontaneous reaction, radiating heat. Immediately Bézon began to undress and, luckily, as was wearing two pairs of pants, apart from underwear, escaped a more serious injury in the leg.
Comment:
According to this report and comments we are seeing radioactive waste washing up on shores in North and South America presumably from Fukushima. I suppose, in not wanting to spread alarm a few unlucky people are getting badly burnt by their curiosity in these 'strange stones'.
Climate extremes are 'unprecedented'
BBC News, 3rd July 2013
The Earth experienced unprecedented recorded climate extremes during the decade 2001-2010, according to the World Meteorological Organisation.
Its new report says more national temperature records were reported broken than in previous decades.
There was an increase in deaths from heatwaves over that decade.
This was particularly pronounced during the extreme summers in Europe in 2003 and in the Russian Federation during 2010.
But despite the decade being the second wettest since 1901 (with 2010 the wettest year recorded) fewer people died from floods than in the previous decade.
Better warning systems and increased preparedness take much of the credit for the reduced deaths. The WMO says smarter climate information will be needed as the climate continues to change.
Comment: I am waiting to see if anyone 'corrects' the stats....
Is Climate Change Creating More Thunderstorms?
The Daily Green, 2nd July 2013
More intense thunderstorms combined with damaging winds are expected to occur because of climate change, according to speakers at the seventh European Conference on Severe Storms being held in Helsinki, Finland.
But because thunderstorms are small in size on the scale of existing climate models it is not possible to tell whether they will also lead to more tornadoes and larger size hail – two of the most damaging problems associated with severe storms.
Comment: Hmmm... More intense thunderstorms implies more lightning and bigger hailstones falling out of the sky. These claims only make sense if the electro/geomagnetic environment is becoming more unstable and extreme. Electromagnetic forces controlling atmospheric cells with different properties rather than the beloved 'clashes' of cold/warm air, gives us a much better scientific appreciation of what is really going on. This is more pertinent now that a few atmospheric scientsts tell us that space weather and the interference of electrical energy from space must be understood to allow us to predict the weather, see archives for info. Simply, just think of the upward forces that must exist to allow the formation of huge chunks of ice. When hailstones the size of tennis balls and larger are dropping out of the sky, claims by meteorologists that they are created by warm updrafts is now untenable.
Cluster spacecraft detects elusive space wind
Earth Sky, 2nd July 2013
A new study provides the first conclusive proof of the existence of a space wind first proposed theoretically over 20 years ago.
By analyzing data from the European Space Agency’s Cluster spacecraft, researcher Iannis Dandouras detected this plasmaspheric wind, so-called because it contributes to the loss of material from the plasmasphere, a donut-shaped region extending above the Earth’s atmosphere. The results are published today in Annales Geophysicae, a journal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).
“After long scrutiny of the data, there it was, a slow but steady wind, releasing about 1 kg of plasma every second into the outer magnetosphere: this corresponds to almost 90 tonnes every day. It was definitely one of the nicest surprises I’ve ever had!” said Dandouras of the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France.
Comment: Again, we see that plasma cosmology is creeping towards a new level of acceptance but I don't think the terminology is acceptable to plasma cosmologists.... 'plasmaspheric winds' tend to be flows of charge which by definition are electric currents.
A Century of Atmospheric Geoengineering and Weather Manipulation
Earth Heal, 2nd July 2013
At an international symposium held in Ghent, Belgium May 28-30, 2010, scientists asserted that “manipulation of climate through modification of Cirrus clouds is neither a hoax nor a conspiracy theory.” It is “fully operational” with a solid sixty-year history. Though “hostile” environmental modification was banned by UN Convention in 1978, its “friendly” use today is being hailed as the new savior to climate change and to water and food shortages. The military-industrial complex stands poised to capitalize on controlling the world’s weather.
“In recent years there has been a decline in the support for weather modification research, and a tendency to move directly into operational projects.” ~World Meteorological Organization, 2007
Comment: A very useful summary.
Incredible Technology: How to Engineer the Climate
Live Science, 1st July 2013
The idea behind geoengineering is to combat man-made climate change with man-made solutions, mostly involving ways to pull carbon out of the atmosphere or to deflect the sun's rays so the carbon dioxide has less heat to trap. The ideas are largely untested and highly controversial. They also involve tackling major technological challenges, some of which may be too great to overcome.
Fixed It for Ya
Thunderbolts.info, 1st July 2013
Fixed It for Ya The following press release from the European Southern Observatory has been corrected to reflect the discovery that 99.99% of the universe is composed of plasma.
This dramatic new image of cosmic clouds a plasma discharge in the constellation of Orion reveals what seems to be a fiery ribbon in the sky. This orange glow represents faint light coming from grains of cold interstellar dust, at wavelengths too long for human eyes to see. It was observed by the ESO-operated Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile.
Clouds of gas and interstellarPlasma in a gaseous state along with charged dust and the galactic-scale electric currents that shape them are the raw materials from which stars stellar plasmoids are made. But these tiny dust grains block our view of what lies within and behind the clouds dusty plasma — at least at visible wavelengths — making it difficult to observe the processes of star formation stellar discharge.
This is why astronomers need to use instruments that are able to see at other wavelengths of light. At submillimetre wavelengths, rather than blocking light, the dust grains shine due to their temperatures of being heated to a few tens of degrees above absolute zero from their slight resistance to the galactic current.
Comment: This is a typical example of how Electric Universe theorists have to re-write the story for the general public using plasma cosmology that takes into account that the visible universe is 99.999% plasma. Many conventional astronomers and cosmologists struggle to make sense of the universe because they refuse to acknowledge the existence of the most powerful and universal force in the cosmos, electromagnetism. As I wrote in my TTD book: Why would the universe use gravity when electricity is much more efficient?
Russian Proton-M rocket crashes, erupts in ball of fire (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
RT News, 2nd July 2013
A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying three GLONASS navigation satellites crashed soon after takeoff from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome.
Immediately after takeoff, the rocket swerved to one side, tried to correct itself, but instead veered in the opposite direction. It then flew horizontally and started to come apart with its engines in full thrust.
Making a huge arch in the air, the rocket plummeted back to earth and exploded on impact close to another launch pad used for Proton commercial launches.
The crash was broadcast live across the country and fears of a possible toxic fuel leak immediately surfaced following the incident. While no such leak has been confirmed, the rocket was initially carrying over 600 tons of toxic propellants.
There have reportedly been no casualties to surroundings structures and the town of Baikonur was not affected.
Comment: This is a total disaster... The disintegration of the Russian space program continues... I will look out for any honest explanation of what went wrong (but truth sometimes takes years to leak out.... ), see archives for previous failures and associated comment.
New Program Aims To Understand Effects Of Space Weather
Red Orbit, 1st July 2013
Scientists are working on a program to better understand how national grids could be affected by space weather.
British Geological Survey (BGS) researchers are conducting continuous measurements of the background electric field in the UK to better understand how the UK National Grid can be interrupted by the Sun. Space weather can take place when the ejection of material from the Sun, or coronal mass ejection (CME), shoots towards Earth.
There is a continuous flow of natural electricity through the rocks and soil in the ground that is created by changing magnetic fields in outer space and in the atmosphere. Under certain conditions, space weather can interact with the Earth’s magnetic field causing it to change and create strong electric currents higher in the atmosphere. This reaction can create induced currents in the ground as well.
Comment: It is good to know that UK engineers are getting on with trying to secure the nation against extreme space weather. I appreciate the effort.
Smethwick blaze: fire chiefs tell public to stop using Chinese lanternsCall for urgent review into use of paper lanterns after evidence emerges that blaze that left 10 firefighters hurt was caused by one
Guardian News, 1st July 2013
Chief fire officers have called for an urgent review of the use of Chinese or paper lanterns across the UK after evidence emerged of one causing a blaze at a plastics recycling plant in which 10 firefighters were injured.
The blaze, said to be one of the largest ever in the West Midlands, started on Sunday night. More than 200 firefighters and nearly 40 fire engines tackled the fire, which sent a plume of smoke rising 2,000 metres (6,000ft) from the J&A Young plant at Smethwick, West Midlands.
Comment: I have already written a lot about Chinese lanterns see archives. The surprise is that there has not been more effort by the Fire Service to stop this new hazard. Actually, very close to my home in Norway, I once saw a firework at New Year land and quickly set fire to a small field in the middle of a housing estate where people quickly had to put the fire out before it started burning down houses. I have never felt the same about fireworks since.
Top Vatican bank managers resign after monsignor's arrest
Reuters, 1st July 2013
(Reuters) - Two top managers of the scandal-plagued Vatican bank resigned on Monday following the arrest of a high-ranking cleric with close ties to the financial institution, in the latest of a string of embarrassments for the Holy See.
Comment: Is the game up at the Vatican Bank? Will somebody find a dead body killed by miffed mafia? Things are certainly heating up...
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