If you enjoy my work, please consider a donation in any amount that you can afford. It is very much appreciated and essential for my work at this time. Thanks, Susan Joy Donate here!
Susan Joy Rennison, 18th March 2013
This is the end: Team of experts say humanity faces extinction
Yahoo News, 2nd May 2013
The crazy man walking down the city street holding a sign that reads “The end is near” might just have a point.
A team of mathematicians, philosophers and scientists at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute say there is ever-increasing evidence that the human race’s reliance on technology could, in fact, lead to its demise.
The group has a forthcoming paper entitled “Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority,” arguing that we face a real risk to our own existence. And not a slow demise in some distant, theoretical future. The end could come as soon as the next century.
There’s something about the end of the world that we just can’t shake. Even with the paranoia of 2012 Mayan prophecies behind us, people still remain fascinated by the potential for an extinction-level event. And popular culture is happy to indulge in our anxiety. [...]
"We are developing things that could go wrong in a profound way," Dr O'Heigeartaigh told the BBC in a recent interview. "With any new powerful technology we should think very carefully about what we know–but it might be more important to know what we don't have certainty about."
Comment: These are mathematicians, philosophers and scientists at Oxford University.... people who can engage brain and think and it seems they have seen the obvious... With a little bit of focus, some intelligentsia have realised that humanity in its current manifestation is over and evolutionary change and a strong likelihood of a major extinction event created by human stupidity and greed is very very likely. If we get a major space weather event, 50 - 100 Fukushimas could quite easily occur. Personally, it is a relief to discover a few people who can actually engage brain and think long enough to process the consequences of various scenarios... But more than that, they stand up and make themselves heard...
This Week's News with additional updates and links!
ABC comets rise from the dead
ABC News, 21st May 2013
Astronomers have found a group of comets that have risen from the dead.
The asteroidal belt comets - or ABCs for short - lie in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, report astronomers on the on the pre press website ArXiv.org.
Dr Ignacio Ferrin, Dr Jorge Zuluaga and Pablo Cuartas from Columbia's University of Antioquia, say the group of eleven objects behave like comets, but have asteroidal orbits.
They propose the objects they've dubbed 'Lazarus comets' are extinct comets that have been rejuvenated when their orbits changed.
"The asteroidal belt contains an enormous graveyard of ancient dormant and extinct rocky comets, that [are rejuvenated], in response to a diminution of their perihelion distance [closest orbital position to the Sun]," the authors write.
Comment: This is exactly what NASA scientists claimed they were looking for, see press release from last week. This news really does bring to mind the ancient warnings.... I would describe this news as omninous...
US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse From Rhode Island Provides Erroneous Information To American Public in Global Warming Rant
WUWT, 20th May 2013
First, I’m sure I speak for everyone at WUWT when I say that our hearts go out to all the families in Oklahoma affected by the weather tragedy there today.
In the video above US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse states that:
“When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn’t just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas.”
Read more: Daily Caller
If Senator Sheldon Whitehouse did more reading and less ranting, he might know that Continental US Temperature Lower Troposphere (TLT) – 1979 to Present;
Comment: I am sure there are going to be lots of rants about extreme weather, but telling lies about the cause for political purposes is not going to save lives and property. This article is a general debunking of those who want to blame the recent tornado outbreak on global warming and we are presented with a lot of charts and data.... As I have repeated before, we seem to be seeing extreme swings but rarely nothing we have not experienced before.
Oklahoma tornadoes end quiet storm season
USA Today, 20th May 2013
The violent tornado outbreaks of the past several days, including the killer twister that hit Moore, Okla., on Monday, have shattered the calm of what had been a very quiet tornado season so far. More violent storms appear to be on the way for Tuesday.
As of a week ago, tornadoes had killed only three Americans in 2013, according to the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. In the past week, 59 people have died in storms in Texas and Oklahoma, but that number could rise as first responders continue to recover victims of Monday's twister. [...]
Oklahoma City is "probably the largest, most tornado-prone, urban area in the world," according to Christopher Burt's book Extreme Weather.
"Sitting in what is practically the epicenter of North America's most active 'tornado alley,' Oklahoma City has been struck by tornadoes 112 times since the city's first recorded twister in 1893." he writes. "Residents may expect a damaging tornado to hit somewhere in the metro area about once every two years."
Comment: Over at weatheraction.com, astrophysicist Piers Corbyn informs us that, "Predictable Solar-Lunar factors drive weather & REAL climate change." Jet-stream movements have a major influence on creating the most extreme weather and the jet stream is directed impacted by energy from space and geomagnetic factors. Piers Corbyn predicted US tornadoes and hail. His report states: "Major thunderstorms with damaging large / giant hail and tornados are expected during main WeatherAction R5/R4/R3 periods: ~3-5th, 9-12th, 13-14th, 22-25th, 26-27th, 30th-1st May." I think he got this totally correct. Source:
WeatherActionUSA: Long Range Weather Forecast b) USA / South Canada
Huge Oklahoma tornado, on ground 40 minutes, smashes schools, homes
LA Times, 20th May 2013
A mile-wide tornado slammed into Oklahoma on Monday afternoon, leveling neighborhoods, starting fires and causing, as one storm chaser put it, "total destruction."
Two elementary schools were destroyed, and an untold number of homes and businesses sustained heavy damage near the cities of Moore, Newcastle and Oklahoma City. CNN reported that rescue crews swarmed over Plaza Towers Elementary School, where 75 students and staff had sought refuge in a hallway.
Britane Diacon-Boese of Oklahoma City was worried about students she works with. "I have clients who can't be found," she said.
"I'm terrified; I'm completely terrified," she told the Los Angeles Times. "There's no power, it's all down."
Comment: So, people live in a tornado alley with properties that are not tornado resistant and where nobody cares enough to even build tornado shelters for schools... The latest reports state rescuers are currently digging children out from the rubble of one school that has been destroyed... plus estimates of up to 37 children dead, drowned in the school basement. Info from Fox News streaming live. http://www.wwhdtv.com/watch-fox-news-live-streaming/ Update:
24 children dead: Found drowned beneath school devastated by tornado reported. &
Mother’s Action Saved 5-Year-Old as Tornado Bore Down on School
Baboons ransack house near Cape Town - video
The Guardian, 20th May 2013
A gang of baboons are filmed by a neighbour entering a house in Betty's Bay, near Cape Town in South Africa, and ransacking the property. The primates climb through an open upstairs window and race round the house, helping themselves to food in the kitchen. The neighbour tries to get rid of the animals using a broom. Most flee but one stubbornly refuses to leave an upstairs bathroom
Comment: I am not sure this is a demonstration of evolving primates... but it demonstrate that it does not take much intelligence or innovation to steal from others....
Blood Falls, five stories high, seeps from an Antarctic glacier
The bright red waterfall – dubbed Blood Falls by geologists who discovered it in 1911 – is the work of microbes trapped beneath ice for nearly 2 million years.
Earth Sky News, 19th May 2013
In 1911, Australian explorer and geologist Griffith Taylor discovered a strange glacial feature in Antarctica, which is now known as Blood Falls. It’s a bright red waterfall, nearly five stories high, seeping through a crack in what’s now called Taylor Glacier, which flows into Antarctica’s Lake Bonney. Geologists first believed that the color of the water came from algae, but today the red color is known to be caused by microbes living off sulfur and iron in oxygen-free water trapped beneath the ice for nearly 2 million years. The hidden lake beneath Taylor Glacier sits beneath a quarter mile (400 meters) of ice and trickles out at the glacier’s end. It deposits an orange stain across the ice as its iron-rich waters rust on contact with air.
Comment: I think it is worth repeating examples of 'alien' life forms that are already known to exist on this planet now that astrobiologists are trying to point out the obvious that Earth has a Shadiow Biosphere. In January 2012 I wrote: "So, 3.43 billion years old microfossils that are sulphur-based, living off and metabolising compounds containing sulphur rather than oxygen for energy and growth is OK. 2 million year old LIVE microbial life 17 different kinds found on Earth, that use sulfur as a catalyst instead of oxygen, which has never been seen before is OK, but LIVE arsenic-based life in Mono Lake is not allowed... I just don't get it at all... Alien life is alien life, don't you agree?" For more info see archives Best of the Blog
The Search For Extraterrestrial Life.
Climate Scientist Hans Von Storch Warns: Climate Scientists Have Been “Taking On The Roles Of Medicine Men And Priests”
NoTricksZoneNews, 18th May 2013
What follows is a critical article written by Jens Meyer-Wellmann appearing in German national daily Die Welt that got by me a couple of weeks ago.[...]
Sebastian Lüning’s and Fritz Vahrenholt’s blogsite
www.kaltesonne.de presented an excerpt of the Die Welt article, which I’ve translated in English:
‘Unfortunately in climate science there is a tendency to proclaim absolute truths and to link these immediately to instructions on actions to take,’ von Storch said. ‘The climate pope tells us what has to be done, and for the people it’s: keep your mouths shut. Scientists have been taking over the roles of medicine men and priests. That’s not the job of scientists. Science is supposed to help understand problems, show the possibilities that exist in dealing with them. The best is to show many possibilities. Then the political process has to decide the path to take.’
But some of his colleagues in science like to use ‘stories that point to a catastrophe,’ said the professor of meteorology. One example was the assumption that our region would see ‘murderous violent storms’. But there was no data showing this. ‘It all has a cultural, anthropological background’ . ‘If you sin, then you will be punished. And the punishment always takes on an environmental dimension which also included storms in the past. In former times it was God’s punishment. Today it’s punishment by Nature. Nature is to keep man in check. And for this we see idiotic films like ‘The Day After Tomorrow.’’
Comment: Well, for those following the climate science drama, it is evident we have reached the point where some climate scientists have turned into over-zealous cult followers using cult tactics to further the agenda. A good example is Dr James Hansen who had become a major embarrassment at NASA before he announced his retirement to the relief of many... Btw, here is the latest on Hansen:
Hansen's scandalous interview (17th May 2013). Anyway, going through my archives, I found the article below that reminded me of my understanding that there are severe consequences to humanity refusing to maintain a balance with our environment. From my new FAQ page:
The influx of cosmic energy seems to have a function of re-balancing human consciousness and behaviour. This can be compared to the discoveries made by ecologists and biologists where during periods of evolutionary change, any negative and malignant force that has sprung up and poses a threat to a harmonious ecosystem, becomes subject to elimination. Simply, at times of great environmental stress, the agents of stress are eliminated to restore balance. This is well explained by biologist Bruce Lipton during an interview with Laura Lee in 2004, where Lipton explains new scientific evidence provided in the journal Nature, suggests that Darwin was wrong and it is not survival of the fittest, it is what the community of organisms contribute to a well functioning ecosystem environment that matters. Lipton states that, “evolution is selected by complementarity to the environment, organisms that push the environment to extremes are ultimately eliminated from the environment”. So, what humanity fails to comprehend is that this seems to apply on a planet-wide scale. Today it is recognised that humans are having a negative impact on this planet, but traditionally, the threat of judgement by a deity for human indiscretions in general, was used by religious leaders to help apply control over other humans, it was not necessarily about encouraging higher levels of consciousness.
FAQ: What is the “Planetary Refresh” and what does it have to do with Space Weather?.
What I am now thinking is that maybe some atheists realise that religion is useful enough to ensure certain rules are in place to stop the routine wipeouts of humanity... The only problem is that the religious leaders today have become too corrupt to even grasp the importance of why religion was invented in the first place... It's not just for personal self-aggrandisement and financial benefits... For the conspiracy theorists out there, religion was not invented back in ancient times just to control the masses...
-
Maybe religion is the answer claims atheist scientist
The world may have to turn to God to save itself from climate change, claims one of Britain’s most eminent scientists.
The Telegraph, 7th September 2009 Flashback!
"Lord May, the president of the British Science Association, said religion may have helped protect human society from itself in the past and it may be needed again.
Speaking on the eve of the association’s annual conference, the committed atheist said he was worried the world was on a “calamitous trajectory” brought on by its failure to co-ordinate measures against global warming.
He said that no country was prepared to take the lead and a “punisher” was needed to make sure the rules of co-operation were not broken.
The former Government chief scientific advisor said in the past that was God and it might be time again for religion to fill the gap.
“Maybe religion is needed,” said Lord May, who was brought up a Scottish Presbyterian but went through an "inverse epiphany" at the age of 11.
“A supernatural punisher maybe part of the solution.”
He said in the past a belief in a god, or gods, that punish the unrighteous may have been part of the mechanism of evolution that maintains co-operation in a dog-eat-dog world."
Comment: Yes, there are lots of articles calling for drastic changes to counteract the non existent "global warming", but when a "committed atheist" starts talking about a need for God to start punishing people in order to get us to co-operate with earthly "powers" and this is printed in the mainstream media, you really have to wonder.
-
Episcopal "green" bishop Cederholm conducts service to bless solar panels
New Nostradamus of the North, 19th May 2013
[...] At 10 a.m. on Sunday May 19, St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church will conduct a service to bless the solar panels they installed in April. The blessing will be conducted by the Episcopal Diocese’s “Green Bishop,” the Right Rev. Bud Cederholm, assisted by St. Dunstan’s rector, the Rev. Mark McKone-Sweet.
“Using solar energy decreases our use of fossil fuels, and thus our contribution to global warming,” said McKone-Sweet. “It is a way to live our faith by caring for those who will be affected by the extreme weather global warming causes.”
Now that is what I call Green religion....
Spiegel Trashes John Cook’s Survey. Man’s Impact “Remains Hotly Disputed”…Only 10% Have Faith In ModelsNoTricksZone, 18th May 2013
German flagship news magazine Spiegel Online today has an article authored by Axel Bojanowski which takes a close look at the recent John Cook survey. German alarmists like the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research hailed it as proof that climate science was settled and done. But Spiegel draws a different a totally conclusion.
First Bojanowski describes how a large number of Americans have serious doubts when it comes to man-made climate change, and so surveys get conducted with the aim of trying to sway public opinion. The latest was carried out by John Cook of the University of Queensland in Australia, and the results were published in the journal of Environmental Research Letters: 97% of thousands of papers surveyed agree that climate change is man-made, it asserted.
Comment: The climate wars have now descended into the realm of farce and the serious lampooning is being carried out elsewhere... I can recommend Climate Depot.... See more below:
Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth on May 31LA Times, 17th May 2013
It's 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sticky black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth it would probably result in global extinction. Good thing it is just making a flyby.
Asteroid 1998 QE2 will make its closest pass to Earth on May 31 at 1:59 p.m. PDT.
Scientists are not sure where this unusually large space rock, which was discovered 15 years ago, originated from. But the mysterious sooty substance on its surface could indicate it may be the result of a comet that flew too close to the sun, said Amy Mainzer, who tracks near-Earth objects at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. It might also have leaked out of the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, she said.
Comment: Another huge rock fly-by of Earth. As far as I am concerned the admission in this report are quite astounding. There is no talk of this asteroid being an icy rock, instead we have the confession of hydrocarbon baked on sticky black tar more usually associated with unactivated comets.... Whatever, the black tar makes the rock virtually impossible to see opticall but now doubt the this rcck is glowing in the infra-red... So, after all the false claims by NASA scientists, it seems that reality is winning the day.
How Electric Spacecraft Could Fly NASA to MarsSpace.com, 17th May 2013
Electric vehicles aren't just popular on the ground — it turns out they're all the rage in space these days, too. While still not as common as traditional chemical spacecraft engines, electric engines are growing in popularity for both Earth-orbiting satellites and scientific spacecraft on missions to deep space. And electric engines could turn out to be a key element in NASA's goal of sending people to Mars, experts say.
"The maturity of the various technologies that make up electric propulsion is getting there," said Vlad Hruby, president of the Busek spacecraft engine company. Hruby said he's been waiting for a renaissance in electric spacecraft for about 20 years. "Now it's finally coming to fruition."
Comment: Another reminder we live in an electromagnetic universe and the truth of this is now impossible to ignore as the near Earth environment is getting much more electrified these days.... The image icon came from an 2011 article:
NASA picks five companies to study solar electric spacecraft propulsion.
EdgeScience Magazine - issue 14
Society for Scientific Exploration, May 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. 14 is free but SSE would like new members and people to donate. Download
here. From anomalist.com: "There's a large gap between simple 'woo' and maverick science. Consider Rupert Sheldrake, compare his contributions to the work of Commander X to appreciate the divide. It's why we're happy to announce the newest issue of EdgeScience is available and the price is right, free. What can you expect of this issue? Our buddy Michael Prescott reviews the groundbreaking The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Robert van de Castle explores the connections between dreams and psi, and David Pratt details the troubles of plate tectonics theory. Challenging and provocative ideas are what fuel scientific progress, and The Society for Scientific Exploration does a bang-up job."
Last Week's News with additional updates and links!
USA has the world's most extreme weather
USA Today, 17th May 2013
North America — and the USA in particular — has the world's wildest weather extremes: No other part of the planet can boast its ferocious weather stew of hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, floods, wildfires, blizzards, heat waves and cold snaps.
"You'd be hard-pressed to find another patch of land on Earth the size of the USA that boasts such a variety of such intensely extreme weather inside its borders," says meteorologist and author Robert Henson of Boulder, Colo.
"We get more high-impact weather than any other country on the planet," agrees Sean Potter, a meteorologist and weather historian in New York City. [...]
Tornadoes, such as the ones that slammed Texas on Wednesday, are nearly a uniquely American phenomenon. Each year, "the U.S. experiences about 80% to 90% of all of the tornadoes that occur across the world," says Randy Cerveny, a professor of geography at Arizona State University.
"The U.S. averages more than 10,000 severe thunderstorm events per year, with more than 1,000 tornadoes," Potter says. "By comparison, China, which is slightly larger in size, sees around the same number of severe thunderstorms, but fewer than 10 tornadoes per year." [...]
"In some cases, the incredible diversity of climate, even within short geographic distances, has led to actual differentiation of species. In the Grand Canyon, for instance, there are two distinct species of squirrels — one on the north side of the canyon and another on the south side," Cerveny concludes.
Comment: This is one country in the world that should be encouraging their citizens to become resilient against extreme weather. The evidence suggests that extreme weather is associated with climate change and extreme space weather factors, as well as powerful but erratic energy supplies from space drives weather on this planet. I also think that due to military experimentation and electromagnetic pollution, the atmosphere over the United States is in a poor state and subject to huge direct blasts from outer space.... i.e. the atmospheric filters are no longer optimal... Those who want to argue have to compete with climate 'experts' who have demonstrated utter ineptitude as their failed climate models demonstrate. In terms of weather, the most sucessful weather forecasts come from those who understand the Sun-Earth Connection and have factored in the new influence of space weather, see archives for more details.
-
Texas tornado victims vow to rebuild
Tornadoes that killed six people and injured 53 this week in north Texas also damaged dozens of homes constructed by Habitat for Humanity.
LA Times, 18th May 2013
On the limb of a barren tree in the tornado-devastated north Texas community of Rancho Brazos, an American flag flaps in the wind — placed there by a firefighter.
"It's symbolic of, 'We're here, we're going to rebuild,'" said Sgt. Nathan Stringer, a Hood County sheriff's spokesman. The tornado has "broken homes, but it hasn't broken our will," he said.
A fierce series of twisters tore through the northern part of the state Wednesday, killing six people, injuring 53, leaving scores of damaged and destroyed houses and many people homeless.
Comment: I wonder if the people who have seen their houses plus all their belongings destroyed would consider that maybe re-building a torndo resistant dome-house might be a better idea...
-
Tornado-Resistant Concrete Houses
tornadoproofhouses.com, May 2013
The following details shown on this website do not necessarily represent the only methods for building a disaster-proof house. Instead, they illustrate proven solutions to the problem of building houses that are sustainable, with high resistance to powerful winds, earthquakes, fire, termites and critters. At the same time, new energy conserving methods permit easy accomplishment of meaningful energy conservation.
-
Monolithic Domes
Monolithic Domes, May 2012
Some of the Sheep Are No Longer Asleep
The Commonsense Show, 16th May 2013
The world is finally beginning to wake up to the global tyranny that is threatening all of humanity. In the past two months I have heard from people that I have not heard from or seen for 10-20 years. I have heard from former players, students, friends and neighbors. [...]
How Does the Process of Awakening Work?
Scientists from the prestigious Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have determined that if just 10% of any given population holds to an unshakable idea, that the idea will become adopted by the majority of the country. However, the scientists who belong to the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) found that if the ideas are shared by less than 10% of the population, the idea will not progress and will eventually die out. The research was first published in a peer reviewed E Journal in an article titled “Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities.”
Computational and analytical methods were used to discover the tipping point where an obscure idea eventually becomes the majority opinion. The finding has dramatic implications for those of us trying to wake up the sheep in this country.
The SNARC scientists found that the 10% figure was applicable whether they were talking about the spread of innovations or to advance a political ideal.
Comment: This article resonated with me, I suppose I think I am already awake but there is a few caveats... Well, since I prefer to engage brain and think and I don't restrict myself to popular ideas created for the benefit of malignant narcissists and predators to fool those who don't know any better, I don't see myself as being part of any popular grassroots movement. Due to my interest in metaphysics, I attract very dim-witted types who automatically assume I am a New Ager as they don't even realise that philosophers exists in society and how this type of person views the world. I suppose the issue is refusing to be involved with those who don't want to use their mind or are intellectually challenged and/or are devious and who prefer to play along with the game for their own reasons. Well, these days I simply really don't have the patience with the mindlessess any more and very few get past my initial screening process. Whatever, this article has somehow touched a nerve about people waking up but I think there is a need to quantify what exactly people are waking up to... Many think most of our 'glorious leaders' (that includes those claiming enlightenment too) are malignant narcissists and psychopaths. The most predatorial absolutely hate humanity and think they are just controlling cattle who can be killed off as and when it is possible to help maintain tighter control of the masses. Well, based on the evidence it is hard to deny the reality, but it is not really my particular focus so I resent people thinking I need to be educated with the latest 'conspiracy theory'... Thus, I think the Truther Movement is not the same as those who are real Seekers who are interested in more fundamental issues of our existence because that requires a more philosophical bent. Yet, those who like to be pretentious waxing lyrical about quantum mechanics and so pontificate about the evolution of consciousness do not impress me either. On reflection it is apparent that these same intellectuals cannot make a connection with reality and thus failed to realise the implications of space weather literally changing the fabric of spacetime around our planet.... So when I see a headline like this, it makes me wonder about what exactly is happening on an evolutionary level... Whatever, the best news for me all week has been discovering the opinion of some intelligentsia at Oxford.... It seems that a few more visionaries exists and I am not the alone in some of my opinions...
Bright Explosion on the Moon
NASA Science News, 17th May 2013
May 17, 2013: For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. "Lunar meteor showers" have turned out to be more common than anyone expected, with hundreds of detectable impacts occurring every year.
They've just seen the biggest explosion in the history of the program.
"On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we've ever seen before."
Anyone looking at the Moon at the moment of impact could have seen the explosion--no telescope required.
For about one second, the impact site was glowing like a 4th magnitude star. [...]
"On the night of March 17, NASA and University of Western Ontario all-sky cameras picked up an unusual number of deep-penetrating meteors right here on Earth," he says. "These fireballs were traveling along nearly identical orbits between Earth and the asteroid belt."
This means Earth and the Moon were pelted by meteoroids at about the same time.
“My working hypothesis is that the two events are related, and that this constitutes a short duration cluster of material encountered by the Earth-Moon system," says Cooke. [...]
One of the goals of the lunar monitoring program is to identify new streams of space debris that pose a potential threat to the Earth-Moon system. The March 17th event seems to be a good candidate.
Comment: Hmmm... So, the moon got plummelled by a train of meteors... The question is: where are these new streams of space debris coming from? What NASA are suggesting is that we have entered into a new period where we can expect major planetary bombardments as explained by Napier & Clube (1979) see,
Evidence for cometary bombardment episodes (2006) or
Orbital Resonance Theory. To my knowledge, both theories can provide the evidence but neither can explain the triggering mechanism. I think the triggering mechanism is planetary/solar system energy levels that cause satellites to shift if they are no longer in harmony. Rather like the concept of a cloud of electrons orbiting an atom and these 'electrons' being periodically disturbed by electromagnetic factors.... Anyway, the issue is Earth being at the receiving end of some serious meteor impacts generating some serious evolutionary change... Certain members of the scientific community are well aware of the issues, but most of humanity are totally unaware that we have entered a new cosmic dispensation.
Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Suffers Major Failure, NASA Says
Space.coms, 15th May 2013
The planet-hunting days of NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope, which has discovered more than 2,700 potential alien worlds to date, may be over.
The second of Kepler's four reaction wheels — devices that allow the observatory to maintain its position in space — has failed, NASA officials announced Wednesday (May 15).
If one or both of those failed wheels cannot be brought back, the telescope likely cannot lock onto target stars precisely enough to detect orbiting planets, scientists have said.
Comment: As I explained in my What Is Space Weather? E-book, this might be a space weather induced failure. But, as we know from the Galaxy 15 "ZombieSat" even after many months satellites come come back from the dead... See,
Kepler space telescope 'isn't down-and-out just yet' – Nasa.
Texas tornadoes leave a path of destruction near Dallas/Fort Worth [45 PHOTOS]
Baltimore Sun, 17th May 2013
Pope asks prayers for pastors that they not become ‘wolves’
Todays Catholic News, 15th May 2013
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis asked Catholics to pray for their bishops and priests, asking God to help them be real shepherds who are poor, humble and meek.
“Pray for us bishops and priests,” he said May 15 during an early morning Mass with employees of Vatican Radio. “We need to remain faithful, to be men who watch over our flocks and over ourselves.”
Celebrating the Mass in the chapel of his residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the pope asked the employees to pray that God would defend bishops and priests from what St. Augustine defined as their principal temptations: money and pride.
“If we follow the path of riches, if we follow the path of pride, we will become wolves and not shepherds,” the pope said. “Pray for this.”
Comment: OK. What the hell is going on in the Vatican? The sheeple are being told by the Pope who historically is usually but not always the biggest predator amongst predators (do the history lesson) that their spiritual leaders are money grabbing wolves... What is he going to say next? Will he exhort his flock to learn about malignant narcissists and psychopaths who hide behind a mask to provide cover for their real intentions?
End of the world? Bizarre 'bubble cloud' formations baffle onlookers
DARK, menacing and bubbly - these images show the outstanding phenomenon which materialised over the skies in Shropshire.
The Express, 14th May 2013
The skies above Telford formed into dark clouds which turned into grey and imposing bubbles and resembled the advent of an alien landing. The imposing clouds left onlookers questioning their existence and how they had formed. In fact, the clouds, known as the lesser-spotted mammatus - appeared as a lobe and were packed full of ice and rain.
According to local forecasters the clouds created a large thunderstorm which drenched much of Britain over the weekend.
The clouds are associated with the powerful storms which can sometimes occur in the summer and are a sign of massive quantities of water vapour. Phil Spencer, a 39-year-old truck driver from Telford, was left baffled by the sudden change in the weather.
Comment: These are mammatus clouds.
Mammatus are pouch-like cloud structures and a rare example of clouds in sinking air. . I do not believe this is the end of the world just the end of our current dispensation. Planet Earth will survive, but because we are at the end/start of a new cosmic cycle, universal intelligence has an opportunity to do some cosmic housekeeping that can only be achieved in extreme cosmic conditions that also produce extreme and 'weird' weather. This knowledge has been retained in the collective consciousness and that is why people associate extreme weather with apocalypse. See the archives to find the opinion of the academic elite that inform us that space weather is now affecting our weather.
Argentina: Remotely- Guided UFOS Threaten Highways in Buenos Aires
Inexplicata, 14th May 2013
To the south of La Plata, these devices pursue cars or appear out of thin air in the midst of the river, shoulders or cattle troughs to startle drivers and fishermen alike.
A wide area bordered by the Bay of Sanborombón and Route 2 to the south of La Plata have turned into a pole of attraction for the same UFO phenomenon that researchers have associated with the “activity of remotely guided luminous probes” – a miracle of nanotechnology – and which have allegedly caused accidents on roads and highways in the area in question.
In fact, reports and records kept by the
Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía (FAO) disclose a rich case history provided by direct witnesses to the encounters produced by these luminous devices which are apparently “research devices pursuing cars, or appear out of thin air in the midst of the river, shoulders or cattle troughs to startle drivers and fishermen alike.”
Comment: The language here seems to be related to scientists involved with
SETV which seems to be justification for funding by using the excuse that aliens are sending down probes, the probes are hidden inside plasma orbs... See archives for info about real scientists doing real science concerning the existence of another lifeform on this planet.
'Dead' man comes back to life at his funeral
Mourners attending a funeral in central Zimbabwe were shocked when the man they had come to bury "returned
from the dead."
The Telegraph, 14th May 2013
Family and friends were filing past a coffin with the remains of Brighton Dama Zanthe, 34, when one of them noticed the dead man's legs twitching. One of the mourners, Lot Gaka, who employs Mr Zanthe at his transport company, said: "I was the first to notice Zanthe's moving legs as I was in the queue to view his body. This shocked me. We called an ambulance immediately. It's a miracle and people are still in disbelief."
Comment: I am just paying attention to this new syndrome of 'fake' death...
What We Don’t Know [The Sun changes the rate of radioactive decay]
WUWT, 13th May 2013
Back in August 2010,
WUWT ran an article wherein it was claimed that variations in the sun changed the rate of radioactive decay. This, of course, flew in the face of years and years of experimental evidence, starting with the Curies, that the rate of radioactive decay is constant, unaffected by pressure or temperature or anything else.
However, this claim that the sun could change radioactive decay rates was shortly challenged by a
follow-up article at WUWT and then a
second follow-up, both of which threw cold water on the idea.
So I was interested to stumble across an
announcement issued by Purdue University in August 2012, which strongly confirmed the reality of the phenomenon. Purdue has applied for a patent for the use of this effect as a means to supply advance warning of solar flares.
I found this most interesting, however, not because it affords a chance to have warning of another
Carrington Event, although that would be great in itself. Instead, I found it interesting for a curious reason involving the mechanism whereby the sun is able to affect the rate of radioactive decay.>
Comment: I was most interested in the announcement by Purdue University in August 2012 that they are patenting an early warning device for solar flares, it seems that in some instances, reality has more sway than scientific dogma.
-
New system could predict solar flares, give advance warning
Purdue Universityt 13th August 2012
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers may have discovered a new method to predict solar flares more than a day before they occur, providing advance warning to help protect satellites, power grids and astronauts from potentially dangerous radiation.
The system works by measuring differences in gamma radiation emitted when atoms in radioactive elements "decay," or lose energy. This rate of decay is widely believed to be constant, but recent findings challenge that long-accepted rule.
The new detection technique is based on a hypothesis that radioactive decay rates are influenced by solar activity, possibly streams of subatomic particles called solar neutrinos. This influence can wax and wane due to seasonal changes in the Earth's distance from the sun and also during solar flares, according to the hypothesis, which is supported with data published in a dozen research papers since it was proposed in 2006, said Ephraim Fischbach, a Purdue University professor of physics.
Fourth X-Class Solar Flare Released And Earth Is About To Be In A Shooting Gallery
TheWeatherspace.com, 15th May 2013
For many years scientists have theorized that the planet Earth will be struck by a major solar flare, pushing us back into the 15th century. It can happen today, tomorrow, or 10,000 years from now, but we will be hit.
The sun unleashed the fourth X-class flare, a 1.2 on the Solar Richter Scale, which goes from C, to M, and then to X, the largest. A 1.2 is large, but not large enough to bring us back to the stone-age. We need something larger than an X45-60 to do this.
“This game we play with our Sun is like ‘Solar Russia Roulette’ and the Sun is the weapon and the Coronal Mass Ejections are the bullets,” said TheWeatherSpace.com Senior Meteorologist Kevin Martin. “The sun rotates around every couple of weeks or so and blasts CMEs off in various directions. One of them is bound to be the bullet to send us back in time and fry all of our electrical systems.”
Comment: I think this article has been written with a little poetic licence. I have been reading space weather articles, reports and books for over 8 years but nowhere has any scientist claimed that a X45-60 solar flare will take us back to the Stone Age but if they have, I would like a reference... Basically, it's a lot more complicated than that. The mixture of parameters is what causes uncertainty and that is why scientists are so concerned about forecasting space weather in order to mitigate the impact. So, we could have a bolt out of the blue but the damage is more likely to come from a weakened magnetic field that has been hit with a volley of big solar flares and CMEs. Simply, if we get a hail of bullets, it becomes debateable which bullet caused the fatality. Here is a good report that summarises in 29 pages the issues
Solar Storm Threat Analysis (2007) by James A. Marusek, but as you can see from my archives, there are lots and lots of similar reports detailing the issues. If you new to the concept of space weather and would prefer to watch an old documentary-drama I can recommend
Perfect Disaster: Solar Storm (2006). The documentary-drama points out how we can tell space weather is getting much worse and my archives provide ample examples based on the criteria provided here. Engineer and hero John Kappenman is quoted here and he stated that governments aiming to take down national power grids in order to save them from being destroyed was akin to playing Russian Roulette with the Sun. Nothing has changed... Read my archives... the only thing that has changed is Kappenman is prepared to claim that the whole United States power grid could be destroyed in one powerful blast and that is why ex-CIA director Director R. James Woolsey is bleating in the mainstream media about decentralised power grids.... It seems that the realisation has finally hit home with paranoid war hawks with less evolved mental faculties, of just how vulnerable our modern technological society has become. See Best of the Blog
Space Weather News & Reports.
Another X-rated Solar Flarespaceweather.com, 15th May 2013
ANOTHER X-FLARE ON MAY 15: When the week began, the sun hadn't unleashed an X-flare all year long. In only two days, sunspot AR1748 has produced four. The latest X-flare from this active sunspot occured on May 15th at 0152 UT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the extreme ultraviolet flash:
Although the sunspot is not directly facing Earth, this flare might have produced a CME with an Earth-directed component. We are waiting for coronagraph data from SOHO and the twin STEREO probes to check this possibility. Stay tuned for updates.
In summary, AR1748 has produced an X1.7-class flare (0217 UT on May 13), an X2.8-class flare (1609 UT on May 13), an X3.2-class flare (0117 UT on May 14), and an X1-class flare (0152 on May 15). These are the strongest flares of the year, and they signal a significant increase in solar activity
Comment: The issue now is if this sunspot is going to just keep popping strong flares in our direction....
-
Another X-rated Solar Flare
spaceweather.com, 15th May 2013
ION WAVES IN THE ATMOSPHERE: Although AR1748 is not directly facing Earth, its strong flares have nevertheless affected our atmosphere. UV and X-radiation hitting the top of the atmosphere ionizes atoms and molecules, creating ion waves over the dayside of the planet. Roberto Battaiola detected these waves on May 13th using a Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance monitor in Milan, Italy:
Sudden ionospheric disturbances--"SIDs" for short--make themselves known by the effect they have on low-frequency radio signals. When a SID passes by, the atmosphere overhead becomes an good reflector for radio waves, allowing signals to be received from distant transmitters. Battaiola monitored a faraway 21.75 kHz radio station to monitor the SIDs over his location.
Third major X-class solar flare in 24 hours - X3.2 on May 14, 2013
The Watchers, 14th May 2013
Solar activity increased rapidly in the past two days with three M-class and three major X-class solar events. The latest recorded is the strongest flare so far this year, recorded as X3.2 on May 14, 2013 at 01:17 UTC. This event was associated with Type II and Type IV Radio Emissions and 10cm radio Burst.
Comment: I am not really too interested until solar flares are X20+ and/or there is 50+ big solar flares in a week accompanied with a similar number of MASSIVE coronal mass ejections where Earth's magnetic field will be left in shreds... Then, if and when we get a killer shot, I will be interested in what will happen next...
Homer really IS a vegetable! Root dug up in China looks just like Simpson
Daily Mail, 148th May 2013
*Fleece flower roots are pulled up for use in traditional Chinese medicine
* It is said to cure male sexual dysfunction, infertility, and male baldness
* Fleece flower roots are very large and they often resemble human faces
* But this is the first root found by Chinese farmers said to look like Homer
Two Chinese farmers got more than they bargained for when they pulled up the root of a fleece flower - and came face-to-face with the doppelganger of Homer Simpson.
The large root appears to have two bulging eyes and a prominent nose - giving it an uncanny resemblance to the famous cartoon character.
With two offshoot roots shaped like arms, it even looks like it is pondering or confused - just what you would expect from the real Homer.
Comment: China... I am quite convinced that this root was derived from the template of some weird object held in the aethers with a lot of energy... Well, for quite some time I have been pointing out the science that I think explains some very strange oddities... It might be too advanced for some, but I think the only way to explain this is to understand the concept of morphogenetic/morphic fields. These are held in Earth's magnetic field or aether and can be corrupted OR more likely, the right connection between the different aetheric/physical realms becomes corrupted and wrong signals can be sent or received. The geomagnetic field is often in a chaotic state, but in the case of China, it is also a heavily polluted country which I don't think helps either as chemicals are just a dance of EM signals so they must reflect the toxicity and become corrupted. I am sure some will argue with this basic assessment, but as things really start to get weird. I am sure a few will start to twig that maybe they really don't understand what is happening on this planet, but they will not have the background knowledge to work this out from first principles either.
The new mini ice age is upon us! says astrophysicist
Ice Age Now, 13th May 2013
Giant chunk of ice slams to Earth near kids playing in Tenn.
WBTW News, 13th May 2013
GRAY, TN (WJHL) -- -A Tri-Cities man has video of what appears to be a large chunk of ice that he says fell from the sky on Wednesday and landed in a yard in Gray, TN.
Andy Miller says his children were playing outside along Keeview Drive off Hales Chapel Road around 4 p.m. when they heard what sounded like a rocket.
"They ran into the house shaking," Miller said. He used his phone to record video of the children inspecting the pile of pure white ice sitting in a gouged out hole in the ground near where they were playing.
Monster Barf: Weird, Smelly Foam Oozes Through Cracks in Chinese StreetsWho Forted? Blogs, 13th May 2013
Something very strange started oozing out of the streets in the Chinese city of Nanjing on Saturday night. Generally, when weird things start erupting from the ground in Asian countries it’s in the form of a giant b-movie monster, but this invasion was a whole lot realer, and a whole lot smellier.
At around 9PM, pedestrians began to notice the pavement at the Wende Baiyun Lane cross intersection started to crack and split open, and before long, a foamy white substance was spewing from the cracks, brining with it a foul-smelling stench. Within a short time, the foam had spread to a 50 meter radius and stood a foot high.
According to the Chinese news outlet Longhoo, firefighters and police rushed to rope off the scene, evacuating civilians and helping redirect the flow of traffic from the flow of ooze.
Spectacular Satellite Re-Entry Caught on Video
Slate.com, 11th May 2013
On Thursday night, reports of a stream of UFOs over Chile and Argentina started making the rounds. It was caught on video, and it’s pretty amazing!
It’s with some relief I can say that’s not a fleet of alien spaceships bent on either enslaving the human race or possibly eating us. It's not even a swarm of meteors: what you're actually seeing there is a satellite dramatically breaking up as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere. And it’s even been identified: it was the Cygnus mass simulator, a payload lofted into space by the Antares rocket in April!
Comment: Phil Plait is a well known astronomer and debunker of anything world controllers don't want 'plebs' thinking about.... Normally satellite debris has a well defined glowing green and orange tail, this is a good example,
Rocket Debris Re-entry - Munich, Germany 24th December 2011. Maybe this was another arrival of a magnetospheric plasmoid that has already split into smaller orbs on arrival, (but see archives for previous instances) the issue with not making a call here is that we need to see more of what actually happened, this video does not capture enough of this event.
Red Comet [Multiple Requests]
Psychic Focus, 9th May 2013
I also see some kind of discussion with government officials. My focus with that turns to military. At first I thought NASA, but then my mind redirected to government military officials. The discussion doesn't question whether this comet is there, but rather what it will do. Some of these military people don't think it will do too much but others that are wearing white lab coats are very concerned, almost hysterical during this conversation. It looks like some of the military aren't as concerned, but these higher, more scientific personnel are very concerned. Now I realize the reason the military aren't worried is because they feel confident because they have somewhere to go during a global event; whereas the military in the white coats are genuinely worried about the people themselves.
Comment: Hmmm... At the moment there is only one very red comet. We know the Vatican are also keeping a close watch because they are only interested in self-preservation and benefiting from any celestial conflagration. See more below and previous comments at Best of the Blog
End Times & 2012 & Best of the Blog
Space & Cosmology
-
Rush to Mars: Comet impact could make Red Planet inhabitable
RT News, 28th February 2013 Flashback!
A comet near Mars may strike it in a powerful impact, potentially making the planet much warmer. The Red Planet is luring many entrepreneurs, including billionaire Dennis Tito, who aims to beat other nations by sending a man and a woman to Mars.
The make-or-break window for this possible game-changer is October 2014. At that time, an Oort cloud comet called C/2013 A1, first discovered last month, will approach Mars, missing it by about 35,000 km, which is quite close.
However the comet’s trajectory is still uncertain, which leaves a small chance it could impact the planet, said Russian astronomer Leonid Elenin, who worked on calculating the course of the celestial body. The comet will be travelling at a speed of 56 kilometers per second relative to Mars when it passes; if they do collide, the resulting explosion would be equal to a 20,000-gigaton bomb blast – powerful enough to leave a 50-kilometer crater on the planetary surface
Comment: It looks like a VERY RED COMET AND GUESS WHO IS WATCHING....
-
C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)
Take a look... the Vatican Observatory are using the VATT Telescope to watch C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)... So.... Is this the real Red Dragon/Destroyer Comet? Well, if it hits Mars, there will certainly will be a lot of destruction and some of that destruction is certain to visit this planet too... As far as I am concerned, things are getting clearer and clearer....
Previous News & Views
Ice wall destroys homes on Dauphin Lake [Canada]
CTV News, 11th May 2013
A state of emergency was declared Friday night in the Rural Municipality of Ochre River as strong winds drove ice pile-up from the lake onto yards. Earlier this week, provincial flood forecasters predicted a moderate to high risk of shoreline ice pile-up on Dauphin Lake, as ice began to break up and melt.
Strong north winds Friday afternoon and evening pushed the ice piles from the lake onto yards in Ochre Beach.
The R.M. says 20 homes are majorly damaged on Lake View Drive with minor damage on Sombrero Drive and Beach Road.
“Fortunately, nobody was hurt,” says Deputy Reeve Clayton Watts. “There was extensive damage, though.”
Comment: The internet is abuzz with video footage of an ice wave in the United States but this event in Canada seems to have been far more destructive, see also
Wall of ice destroys Manitoba homes, cottages &
Hundreds pitch in to dig out houses damaged, destroyed by Ochre Beach ice floe
-
Ice Charging Into Northern Minn. Homes Caught on Video [United States]
KSTP News, 11th May 2013
Ice outs are still happening on lakes in northern Minnesota because of our cold and snowy spring.
Now, homes along the shore of Lake Mille Lacs are getting damaged because the ice is moving like a glacier, and pushing up against the homes. [...]
In a video sent to us by KSTP viewer, Darla Johnson, you can see the ice making its charge onto shore. Then in a matter of minutes the wind pushes the ice about 15 feet from the shore to the doors of a home. Johnson even tried saving patio furniture but she couldn't stop the ice before it pushed in doors and windows, causing damage.[...]
KSTP.com meteorologist Jonathan Yuhas said 35 mph wind gusts Saturday pushed the ice onto the shore.
-
Glaciers Visit Izatys Resort - Mille Lacs Lake, MN
YouTube, 11th May 2013
For those who have studied some geography, this seems to negate the idea that glaciers grow slowly... I am not totally convinced with the concept of wind 'pushing' either... Can you imagine the weight of the ice being 'pushed'? Whatever, it really seems like a mini Ice Age has already started in some parts...
-
Still waiting for spring in Minnesota
WUWT, 11th May 2013
Even though we all know “weather is not “climate,” that rarely stops CAGW’s fiercest proponents, so we might as well have a little fun with it as well. This weekend is the 2013 Minnesota State Fishing Opener. And the joke around these parts is the most important equipment a fisherman needs this year is …. an ice auger.
Namibia: Meteorite Strikes Mahangu Field
All Africa, 10th May 2013
Onesi — Thousands of people have flocked to the Omusati Region out of curiosity to view a small piece of meteorite that landed in a mahangu field in the village of Oshika, in Onesi Constituency, yesterday morning.
A piece of meteorite, the of a size of a small ball or two human fists put together made such an impact that people within a radius of over 200km were able to hear the explosive impact, feel the resulting tremor and observe the blinding light that followed as it landed. [...]
Selma Shikongo, the wife of Ningilenimo, said the incident took place at around 4.30 yesterday morning when the family was still in bed. "First we saw a light through our bedroom window, which my husband brushed off, thinking that it was car passing by. We then heard a sizzling sound, then a loud bang. The children ran to me saying that something had fallen near the entrance of the house, and we should run away. While I was comforting the children, we saw another bluish light - and once more there was a sizzling sound, then everything went silent," Shikongo explained.
According to Shikongo, the family went out of the house later in the morning in search for what had fallen but they couldn't find it immediately. It was only after they returned from the homestead of their neighbours, that they noticed the object that looked like burned metal lying in their own mahangu field - just a few metres from their homestead. That is when they reported the incident to the police. People who flocked to the scene from as far as the Oshana and Ohangwena regions, also claimed to have seen the light, while some claim to have heard the loud bang and even felt tremors.
Comment: OK, a meteor landed and there was a big bang for a change... Yes, they should guard it because a meteorite can be worth more than three times the price of gold.
-
VIDEO: Meteor explodes over Japan
Fox Crawl, 6th May 2013
A meteor exploded over Japan terrifying dozens people in the early morning of May 6, 2013. An amateur photographer captured spectacular images of the blast which were then posted on the Internet (scroll down for video and photos).
The space rock disintegrated in the atmosphere releasing a noisy boom over Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo. The celestial event took place at 3.58 a.m. local time and a video footage shows the meteor appearing as a fast moving fireball whose intensity gradually increases.
Comment: I can't work out why this meteor which appears to have exploded over the outskirts of Tokyo was generally ignored... Here are more photos from a Japanese website, Photos: Meteor Explodes Over Japan 5/6/13
-
Soccer ball-sized meteor burns green in sky over Fort Collins
Twenty sightings from Colorado to northern Idaho reported the space rock burning nearly as bright as the sun as it streaked toward Earth.
Coloradoan News, 8th May 2013
A soccer ball-sized meteor that flashed through the night sky above Fort Collins on Sunday was observed by people from Snowmass to Idaho.
“It was a bright-green glow,” said John Foster of Fort Collins, who saw it “coming through the clouds” at about 10:55 p.m. west of Interstate 25. “It was a biggie.”
The meteor exploded through the atmosphere with a northwest trajectory of a few hundred miles starting west of Laramie, Wyo. Its path was derived through observations reported from 20 sources to the American Meteor Society. [...] , but the glowing-green meteor was unrelated. It probably came from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Comment: Another large chunk of space rock at the same time as other large chunks...
-
Video: Large green 'fireball' meteor seen shooting across sky above England and Wales
Fist-sized fireball likely to be formed from debris from Halley's Comet
The Independent, 9th May 2013
People from as far afield as Cornwall and Lancashire have reported seeing a green-tinged meteor hurtling across the night sky. The 'fireball' shot over England and Wales in a northerly direction at around 9.45pm last night, with sightings reported in Cornwall, Hampshire, Lancashire, South Wales and Worcestershire.
Experts believe that the meteor was formed from debris from Halley's Comet and that it was probably only the size of a clenched fist. The green hue is likely from copper inside.
Comment: This sighting has caused some excitement in the UK.... This is another more local report from The Birmingham Mail, Stargazers see green-tinged meteor streaking across sky . Again, I am very skeptical about the explanation of why another large piece of rock is coming down in our atmosphere supposedly from a passing comet...
Church of England facing new child abuse allegations
Archbishop accused of not reporting claims made against former dean of Manchester to police at the time
Guardian, 10th May 2013
The Church of England is facing a new child protection scandal after accusations that the former archbishop of York failed to report allegations of child abuse by a senior clergyman.
Lord Hope of Thornes, the former archbishop, said he stripped the Very Rev Robert Waddington, a former dean of Manchester cathedral who was once in charge of church schools, of his right to conduct church services after allegations of child abuse against him. But Hope said he did not report the matter to the police or other child protection agencies because he deemed Waddington did not pose a further risk to children.
Comment: Back to the standard 'filth' of wrongdoing by the guardians of religious fiction. (Well, that is based on an understanding of the mythos, with a much required general scholarship and education about what is really going on...) Whatever, here is some related news concerning someone who does actually care about the victims of serial religious abusers,
Kevin Annett is nominated for the Nobel Peace
Survivor Found in Bangladesh Disaster Rubble
VOA News, 10th May 2013
Bangladesh rescue workers say they found a woman survivor Friday amid the rubble of a garment factory complex that collapsed more than two weeks ago.
Emergency workers had earlier given up hope that they would find any more survivors from the accident near Dhaka that has killed more than 1,000 people.
The Bangladesh government says it has shut down 18 garment factories for safety reasons following the April 24 collapse of the building that housed five garment factories.
Officials say the running of several heavy generators on upper floors may have contributed to the collapse because the structure was not built to support them.
Authorities have arrested at least nine people in the aftermath of the accident. On Wednesday, eight people died in a garment factory fire in the the capital. The fire erupted it the Tung Hai Sweater Factory after most workers had gone home.
Comment: So over 1,000 lives could have been saved by timely action but according to The Irish Times, "The government has blamed the owners and builders of the eight-storey complex for using shoddy construction materials, including substandard rods, bricks and cement, and not obtaining the necessary clearances." Personally, I think the government should be culpable too. There must have been a large cabal of greedy and evil people who must have realised the building should be condemned especially after engineers stated it was structurally unsafe. Bank workers on the ground floor were all saved because someone cared about their safety and told them to stay at home, they were just lucky as it could have easily been another malignant narcissist in charge who did not care whether people lived or died.
-
Dhaka collapse toll passes 1,000
Bodies are still being pulled from rubble two weeks after disaster
The Irish Times, 10th May 2013
The death toll from the catastrophic collapse of a Bangladesh factory building, the world’s worst industrial accident since the Bhopal disaster in India in 1984, climbed above 1,000 and more bodies might still be trapped inside as rescuers struggle to end the salvage operation.
Forget Beatles... now he's all about the grasshoppers! Paul McCartney's stage is invaded by insects during Brazilian show
Daily Mail, 9th May 2013
His band The Beatles are arguably the most famous musical group of all time. But on Tuesday night, Paul McCartney was more about the grasshoppers as he found his stage invaded by a swarm of the insects during a concert in Goiania, Brazil. The 70-year-old musician was forced to complete his three-hour performance as clouds of the Esperanca Grilo creatures buzzed around him.
Comment: All very biblical... A sign of the times.... As we get an acceleration of 'signs', it becomes more apparent to more than just a few scholars that the preservation of ancient knowledge is to warn about periods of extreme climatic and celestial turmoil.
-
Climate change unleashing pestilence omens: Bosnian capital hit by plague of flies
The Telegraph, 2nd May 2013
Some people reportedly fled the city to escape the aerial invasion, according to local media.
Bosnian fire brigade officials said that could do little to combat the flies but advised people to shut doors and windows in order to keep the swarming insects at bay.
Likened to blizzards and leaving surfaces covered with a thick layer of crawling insects, the swarms have already struck a number of towns across the Balkans.
Serbian press said that the insects cleared streets and squares of people in just a few minutes after they descended on the central town of Kraljevo on Monday night.
Experts said rare climatic conditions with temperatures rising rapidly after a period of damp weather have created the perfect conditions for fly hatching.
-
Plague of locusts blankets Madagascar
New Scientist, 10th May 2013
A locust plague of epic size is devastating the island nation of Madagascar, threatening the lives of 13 million people already on the brink of famine.
Billions of locusts are destroying crops and grazing lands across half the country. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) expects the plague to get worse, with two-thirds of the country likely to be affected by September.
Another Meteorite Lands in a Connecticut "W" Town
The avocado-sized rock crashed through Jay Langlois' gutter.
NBC Connecticut, 9th May 2013
Jay Langlois of Waterbury discovered a meteorite that struck his house. The discovery comes 19 days after a meteorite struck a home less than a mile away in Wolcott.
A meteorite has hit another house in Connecticut just 19 days after one landed on a home in Wolcott.
Jay Langlois didn't hear or see the rock fall from the sky, but did notice his broken gutter behind his house spewing water. He didn't know it at the time, but a meteorite had crashed down and landed on his lawn on Red Maple Lane in Waterbury. It was found still intact. It is about the same shape and size of an avocado, weighs 1.6 pounds and measures 2 inches by 2.5 inches by 4 inches. [...]
At first he thought his kids had thrown a firecracker at his gutter, but later his wife found the rock on the lawn.
Langlois contacted the same Yale expert who confirmed the meteorite that crashed through a house in Wolcott on April 19. Dr. Stefan Nicolescu, the collections manager for the Mineralogy Division at the Yale Peabody Museum, confirmed a meteorite landed on Langlois' home.
According to Nicolescu, the Waterbury meteorite is likely related to the one in Wolcott. It was found miles away from where the Wolcott meteorite landed. He hopes to run additional tests of the two.
Comment: At this moment in time, I am struggling with the concept of two houses in close proximity (within 1 mile) being hit by meteorites but separated by 19 days. The probability must be astronomical and I can't see how they were related at all unless something is circulating the planet and at certain 'weak' points rocks are allowed to fall but this idea is all rather iffy... Will we get an astronomer to explain this properly? I don't think so...
Dust in the cloudsCirrus clouds form around mineral dust and metallic particles, study finds.
MIT News, 9th May 2013
At any given time, cirrus clouds — the thin wisps of vapor that trail across the sky — cover nearly one-third of the globe. These clouds coalesce in the upper layers of the troposphere, often more than 10 miles above the Earth’s surface.
Cirrus clouds influence global climate, cooling the planet by reflecting incoming solar radiation and warming it by trapping outgoing heat. Understanding the mechanisms by which these clouds form may help scientists better predict future climate patterns.
Now an interdisciplinary team from MIT, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and elsewhere has identified the major seeds on which cirrus clouds form. The team sampled cirrus clouds using instruments aboard high-altitude research aircraft, analyzing particles collected during multiple flights over a nine-year period. They found that the majority of cloud particles freeze, or nucleate, around two types of seeds: mineral dust and metallic aerosols.
Comment: As a reminder, noctilucent clouds exist 50 to 53 miles (80 and 85 kilometers) above ground in the atmosphere, the edge of space is , 50 miles or 80 km high up a region often permeated with meteoric dust.
Distinguished physicist Dr. William Happer: 'The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science'
Harrison H. Schmitt and William Happer: In Defense of Carbon Dioxide
The Hockey Schtick, 8th May 2013
The demonized chemical compound is a boon to plant life and has little correlation with global temperature.
WSJ.COM 5/8/13: Of all of the world's chemical compounds, none has a worse reputation than carbon dioxide. Thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control of energy production, the conventional wisdom about carbon dioxide is that it is a dangerous pollutant. That's simply not the case. Contrary to what some would have us believe, increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will benefit the increasing population on the planet by increasing agricultural productivity.
[...]
The current levels of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere, approaching 400 parts per million, are low by the standards of geological and plant evolutionary history. Levels were 3,000 ppm, or more, until the Paleogene period (beginning about 65 million years ago). For most plants, and for the animals and humans that use them, more carbon dioxide, far from being a "pollutant" in need of reduction, would be a benefit.
Comment: At this moment, I am still considering the evidence that the desperation to remove CO2 from our atmosphere is related to the deluge of charged particles from space. Even though scientists have tried to blame the increase of CO2 on human activity and a release of trapped CO2 from the oceans, the desperation suggests other worldly concerns and I am not satisfied I know everything there is to know on this matter.
First Biological Evidence of a Supernova
Science Daily, 8th May 2013
In fossil remnants of iron-loving bacteria, researchers of the Cluster of Excellence Origin and Structure of the Universe at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), found a radioactive iron isotope that they trace back to a supernova in our cosmic neighborhood. This is the first proven biological signature of a starburst on our Earth. The age determination of the deep-drill core from the Pacific Ocean showed that the supernova must have occurred about 2.2 million years ago, roughly around the time when the modern human developed. [...]
"It seems reasonable to suppose that the apparent signal of Fe-60 could be remains of magnetite chains formed by bacteria on the sea floor as a starburst showered on them from the atmosphere," Shawn Bishop says. He and his team are now preparing to analyze a second sediment drill core, containing upwards of 10 times the amount of material as the first drill core, to see if it also holds the Fe-60 signal and, if it does, to map out the shape of the signal as a function of time.
Comment: This is direct physical proof that living creatures are affected by extreme space weather.
Bikram Choudhury Accused of Rape in Two New Lawsuits -
YogaDork, 8th May 2013
This just in…Two women filed separate lawsuits earlier this week claiming they were raped by Bikram Choudhury and that Bikram’s inside circle actively recruits women for him.
We know, there are so many Bikram-related lawsuits it’s hard to keep track. This is where it gets real.
“Jane Doe No. 2 sued Choudhury and Bikram Yoga College of India in Superior Court on Monday, alleging sexual battery, false imprisonment, discrimination, harassment and seven other counts. Jane Doe No. 1 filed a similar complaint Tuesday against the same defendants in the same court,” Courthouse News Service reported earlier today.
Note, this is in addition to the lawsuit from March that rocked the house that Bikram built filed by former student and Bikram Yoga teacher Sarah Baughn alleging sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination, all of which Bikram denied. We thought there might be more. This time, it’s rape. And it is incredibly ugly, contemptible and beyond disturbing. [...]
Bikram’s rants and outrageous antics are something we’ve grown accustomed to in the yoga community and have even made light of in the past, and for which he is largely unapologetic, but after reading this you may never think the same way about him again.
Comment: Yet another egomaniac exposed for abusing his followers. Well, it must seem obvious to some that yoga has just become good cult bait for the numerous predators out there... Victims are just lambs to the slaughter because the Cultic Milieu operates on a time honoured model where future victims are lured for systematic abuse by other docile followers in exchange for a pat on the head by the guru... Well, as psychologists tell us, cult leaders have at least 7/9 traits of psychopaths but it seems that many think this egomaniac behaviour is what is required of 'leaders' and so they expect to be abused. Here is a old documentary that sums this up nicely, YouTube link
Egomania.
-
9 reasons why the current yoga scene can be likened to Gwyneth Paltrow (Take a freakin’ chill-pill, this is a Rant)
The Shift Has Hit The Fan, 17th April 2013
1) The yoga scene is usually all about being thin, white and privileged.
Yoga: While things are slowly changing and awareness is definitely increasing, classes like queer yoga or curvy yoga are now popping up in many cities and there are now amazing Facebook groups as well as many great yoga blogs which are discussing these issues head-on, all of which are about making yoga more accessible to all, there is still unfortunately a long way to go.
Comment: This is quite an amusing rant...
Robert W. Sullivan - The Royal Arch of Enoch Red Ice Radio, 7th May 2013
Robert Sullivan is a philosopher, historian, antiquarian, jurist, theologian, writer, and a lawyer. He is a Freemason, having joined Amicable-St. John's Lodge #25, Baltimore Maryland in 1997; he became a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason in 1999, Valley of Baltimore, Orient of Maryland. "The Royal Arch of Enoch: The Impact of Masonic Ritual, Philosophy, and Symbolism" is his first published work and is the result of twenty years of research. We’ll discuss freemasonic lore, rituals, ceremonies and the deities surrounding the Royal Arch Degree. Also, we discuss the history of battling secret societies, philosophies of pro-papal Jesuits and warring anti-royal aristocratic masons.
Comment: Henrik Palmgren is again hitting on another Freemason with useful information for anyone interested in the preservation of an ancient astronomical religion in its most true form... (Christianity is too much of a smorgasbord mess to be given that kind of accolade...) Well, I am coming to the conclusion that even when major secrets are in plain sight – not even hidden in plain sight – many don't have the mental hardware to process the facts... There are 7 million Freemasons but how many understand the crux of the ancient message that has been preserved over many thousands of years? Well, I was impressed in Part I with the admission that Freemasons are trying to preserve knowledge especially at times when God (Universal Consciousness) routinely tries to erradicate mankind .... The educated cannot challenge the fact that ancient knowledge has been passed down that Earth experiences regular conflagration by fire or flood, the issue is few want to discuss why humans are routinely up for extermination and why we deserve to be wiped off the planet.... Obviously, narcissists will not discuss why regular checks by Universal Consciousness forces drastic action to destroy the pestilence that is humanity... Whatever, I have given my opinion on this blog a few times and nobody has challenged my assessment and I suppose that is because it requires deep honesty and most people are too deluded for that.
Solar cycle update – sun’s magnetic activity still in a slump
WUWT, 7th May 2013
Despite some small upticks on sunspot and 10.7cm radio activity, the magentic activity of the sun is still bumping along the bottom. A slight uptick was seen in sunspot count. [...]
Solar scientist David Hathaway has updated his prediction page on 5/1/13:
The current prediction for Sunspot Cycle 24 gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 66 in the Fall of 2013. The smoothed sunspot number has already reached 67 (in February 2012) due to the strong peak in late 2011 so the official maximum will be at least this high and this late. We are currently over four years into Cycle 24. The current predicted and observed size makes this the smallest sunspot cycle since Cycle 14 which had a maximum of 64.2 in February of 1906.
Comment: The Sun is in a big slump but if it is approached by a big comet the result is MASSIVE flares and/or Coronal Mass Ejections as we saw in March 2013 with Comet Pan-STARRS. I have now come to the conclusion that the real fear of solar max in 2012 has morphed into real fear concerning the arrival of sungrazer Comet ISON that on November 28, 2013, will fly through the sun's outer atmosphere only 1.2 million km from the stellar surface below. I imagine there is a huge community of space scientists, scientists, engineers and intelligentsia in fear and trepidation. If people are not frightened it is because they are oblivious to the seriousness of the situation.
-
A Perfect Storm of Planetary Proportions
The approach of the solar maximum is an urgent reminder that power grids everywhere are more vulnerable than ever to geomagnetic effects
IEEE Spectrum, 24th Jan 2012
[...] But how does all this space weather cause damage down on the ground? It's a multistep process. First, the intense magnetic field variations in the magnetosphere induce electric fields and currents over large areas of Earth's surface. In turn, this geoelectric field creates what are known as geomagnetically induced currents, or GICs, which flow in any available conductor, including high-voltage transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, railways, and undersea communications cables. These interconnecting networks essentially act as giant antennas that channel the induced currents from the ground. Hit with a 300-ampere GIC, a high-voltage transformer's paper tape insulation will burn, its copper winding will melt, and the transformer will fail, either right then and there or in the future.
Comment: I think this long article for the world's largest organisation of engineers was missed originally, but it was probably the source for other articles that were picked up, so I have updated the archive. Nothing has changed, the danger to the inhabitants of planet Earth still exists and the sentiment now is not if but when a major conflagration will occur....
Large meteor spotted in night sky in England and WalesThe meteor was captured on CCTV by the BBC in CardiffBBC News, 9th May 2013
A meteor has been spotted travelling across the night sky by people in many parts of England and Wales.
Sightings of the celestial body were reported on Twitter in areas such as Cornwall, Hampshire, Lancashire, south Wales and Worcestershire.
Suzy Buttress, of Basingstoke, described witnessing the meteor as a "once in a lifetime thing".
Space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock said the phenomenon was likely to have been debris from Halley's Comet.
Comment: The "once in a lifetime thing" is getting very stale as reports of blazes in the sky and massive explosions from meteors are becoming at least once in many many people's lifetimes. I have decided to not commit on this one because it could even have been space junk coming down, see archives for more comment.
China in spotlight over mislabelled meat and poor hygieneBBC News, 9th May 2013
When shoppers in Europe found themselves unwittingly buying horsemeat earlier this year, retailers rushed to take it off the shelves and reassure their customers. In China there is a seemingly endless diet of food safety scandals and growing public anger. Last week more than 900 people were arrested for selling what they said was lamb but which was in fact rat and fox meat.
Comment: The same old disgusting news from China. The National Darwin Award is coming....
-
China arrests hundreds over fake or tainted meat
BBC News, 3rd May 2013
More than 900 people have been arrested in China for selling fake or tainted meat in the last three months, state media say.
Officials say they uncovered almost 400 such cases and seized more than 20,000 tonnes of fake meat.
In one case, the suspects made fake mutton from foxes, mink and rats after adding chemicals, state media said.
The report is the latest in a series of cases highlighting food safety issues in China.
Amanda Berry’s mother ‘gave up hope’ when ‘evil, evil’ psychic said her daughter was dead
National Post, 8th May 2013
When Amanda Berry’s mother, Louwana, died in 2006, three years after the disappearance of her daughter, friends said she had been able to withstand the anguish no longer.
“She died of a broken heart,” said Dona Brady, a local councillor. Two years earlier, a television psychic had told her to give up hope: her daughter was dead.
Louwana Miller was only 44 when she died of heart failure. She was never the same after the television psychic’s message, said a friend at the time. “I think she had given up hope.”
An online backlash against the psychic, Sylvia Browne, has begun. At the time, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that that Miller believed the psychic “98%.”
Comment: Sylvia Browne has a number of high profile fails and it makes you wonder why the woman is taken seriously. This article published in The Guardian in October 2007
Sylvia Browne: is she for real? looks like the subtitle has been updated this week as it reads:
"Sylvia Browne is famous for telling distraught parents where their missing children are – but as in the case of Amanda Berry, she gets it wrong. A lot. So why does she still have such a massive following? Jon Ronson took a cruise with America's most controversial psychic to find out."
-
Stopping Sylvia Browne
Daily Grail, 8th May 2013
[...]
This is not the first time that Sylvia Browne has been horribly wrong about a missing person. In 2007 Shawn Hornbeck was found alive, after Browne had previously told his parents that he was dead. In 1999 she told a missing girl's grandmother that she had been kidnapped and put into slavery in Japan, but four years later her body was found in the U.S. - investigators found that she had been killed shortly after her abduction. The list of terrible gaffes goes on. [...]
Stop Sylvia Browne. Don't buy her books, watch any TV shows she is on, or reward her in any way for what she does. Enough is enough.
Comment: Folk are getting fed up and angry... This means that it is getting harder and harder for the sharks in the cultic milieu to earn a good living by being a lying fraud... I personally think the tide has turned... People are not turning the other cheek, instead they are now working to eradicate the fraudsters... Due to a shift in consciousness, the numbers of gullible folk around is rapidly decreasing and a major faux pas equates to the frauds poisoning their own well. Just think about how this is now working... each time they are exposed they have created another opportunity for themselves to lose more and more influence... The credibility downward spiral seems to go down faster than it goes up...
-
Psychics like Sylvia Brown are immoral frauds
Science Blogs, 9th May 2013
In the wake of the dramatic events surrounding the discovery of three women including Amanda Berry, being held captive for a decade by a monster, it’s important not to forget another sociopath played a role in this drama. That sociopath is the psychic who told Amanda Berry’s mother that her daughter was dead: [...] As the Wiki shows, her predictions aren’t reliable, and not surprisingly, she has a history of criminal behavior, including indictments and convictions for fraud and grand theft.
Comment: Wow.... this article makes some very unscientific claims, but I will admit when you hook up with these people and/or do the research, it becomes obvious that many claiming psychic powers are in fact sociopaths and psychopaths. They are evil and they are dangerous.
Nerve stimulation for severe depression changes brain function
Eurekalert, 7th May 2013
For nearly a decade, doctors have used an implanted electronic stimulator to treat severe depression in people who don't respond to standard antidepressant therapy.
Now, preliminary brain scan studies conducted by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are beginning to reveal the processes occurring in the brain during stimulation and may provide some clues about how the device improves depression. They found that vagus nerve stimulation brings about changes in brain metabolism weeks or even months before patients begin to feel better. [...]
All of the participants had surgery to insert a device to electronically stimulate the left vagus nerve, which runs down the side of the body from the brainstem to the abdomen. Once activated, the device delivers a 30-second electronic stimulus to the vagus nerve every five minutes. [...] Eventually, nine of the 13 subjects experienced improvements in depression with the treatment. However, in most cases it took several months for improvement to occur. [...]
Remarkably, in those who responded, the scans showed significant changes in brain metabolism following three months of stimulation, which typically preceded improvements in symptoms of depression by several months.
"We saw very large changes in brain metabolism occurring far in advance of any improvement in mood," Conway says. "It's almost as if there's an adaptive process that occurs. First, the brain begins to function differently. Then, the patient's mood begins to improve."
Comment: Just another example of how sensitive the brain is to specific electrical signals and how this knowledge can make a huge difference to healing people with depression who have not responded to any other type of treatment.
Citizen hearings on UFO disclosure challenges decades of government cover-upsFinal Call, 8th May 2013
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Rather than any transparency, there has been a lead shield for more than 60 years around information from the U.S. government concerning its investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs).
Going back to the 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico, to an even more shocking event in 1980 near a U.S. nuclear-armed Air Force base in Britain, there has been cover-up after cover-up, on top of cover-up of information from government investigations about these sightings.
At an extraordinary four days of hearings here at the National Press Club called the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure (CHD), several former U.S. Senators and House members heard testimony from experts and eyewitnesses, including one witness who characterized a 1980 incident—which took place over three consecutive nights at the dual air base RAF Woodbridge and the U.S. Air Force’s Bentwaters, in England—as being possibly the “defining event in UFO history.”
Comment: I picked the image icon here because I like the link between UFOs and the New World Order or more correctly the Novus Ordo Seclorum of the Great Seal of the United States inspired by 'respected' prophetic sources such as Virgil, an ancient Roman poet and the Cumaean Sibyl. Frankly, the ancients got this right, but few get the significance today....
-
Group Wants Global Effort to Unveil UFO Evidence
Epoch Times, 8th May 2013
WASHINGTON—After five days and 40 testimonies from international witnesses from the military, scientific and academic fields, a committee of six former Congress members agreed to seek international support to break a “truth embargo” on encounters with extraterrestrial life.
On May 3, the last day of the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, (CHD) organizer Stephen Bassett read the contents of a communiqué signed by four of the six retired Congress members.
According to it, the Citizen Hearing Foundation will pursue a global campaign to form a world conference dedicated to discovering the truth behind “overwhelming scientific evidence” that suggests a link between sightings of unexplained craft and extraterrestrial intelligence. [...]
“The military witnesses spoke of incidences from 30, 40, 50 years ago and have remained silent during this time. They have come out of retirement with compelling information that would have us look further into these phenomena,” she said.
The first African-American woman to sit on a House defense committee and the first to agree to participate in the CHD hearings, Kilpatrick said: “This is an international phenomena and the U.S. and other countries need to acknowledge that there is other life.”
Herschel finds hot gas[plasma] on the menu for Milky Way’s black hole
The space observatory has made detailed observations of hot molecular gas that may be orbiting or falling toward the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy.
Astronomy News, 7th May 2013
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory has made detailed observations of surprisingly hot molecular gas that may be orbiting or falling toward the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.
Our local black hole is located in a region known as Sagittarius A* — Sgr A* — after a nearby radio source. It has a mass about 4 million times that of our Sun and lies around 26,000 light-years away from the solar system. [...]
“The observations are also consistent with streamers of hot gas speeding towards Sgr A*, falling towards the very center of the galaxy,” said Goicoechea. “Our galaxy’s black hole may be cooking its dinner right in front of Herschel’s eyes.”
Just before material falls into a black hole, it is heated up enormously and can cause high-energy X-ray and gamma-ray flares. While Sgr A* currently shows little sign of such activity, this could change soon.
Using near-infrared observations, other astronomers have spotted a separate, compact cloud of gas amounting to just a few Earth masses spiraling toward the black hole. Located much closer to the black hole than the reservoir of material studied by Herschel in this work, it may finally be gobbled up later this year.
Comment: I read three or four versions and they all make the same misleading statements. Sagittarius A* is a region of space considered to be the galactic centre but it is filled with MILLIONS of stars with something that scientists are embarrassed to announce is our galaxy's "feeble" black hole (read my previous comments and links to the embarrassing info at Best of the Blog -
Space & Cosmology). Scientists prefer to fudge the facts to sex-up our galaxy's black hole and this is achieved because this region has some humonguous active stars that emit huge amounts of radio waves. We were told in December 2011 to expect some action at the galactic centre in mid 2013, but we are still waiting... see more below.
-
ESO Astronomers are expecting Cosmic Fireworks from our Galactic Center in 2013!
Supermassive black hole will 'eat' gas cloud
BBC News, 14th December 2011
Researchers have spotted a giant gas cloud spiralling into the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's centre. Though it is known that black holes draw in nearby material, it will be the first chance to see one consume such a cloud.
As it is torn apart, the turbulent area around the black hole will become unusually bright, giving astronomers a chance to learn more about it. An article in Nature suggests the spectacle should be visible in 2013. [...]
Researchers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope estimate that despite its size, the cloud has a total mass of only about three times that of Earth.
They have plotted the cloud's squashed, oval-shaped path and estimate it has doubled its speed in the last seven years - to 2,350km per second.
It should spiral in to within about 40 billion kilometres of the black hole in the middle of 2013.
Our local supermassive black hole, dubbed Sagittarius A*, lies about 27,000 light-years away, and has a mass about four million times that of our Sun.
-
Gas Cloud En Route To Milky Way’s Black Hole [VIDEO]
Red Orbit, 15th December 2011
"Scientists say that by 2013, outbursts of X-rays and radio waves will be emitted as the cloud gets hotter and is obliterated by the black hole. The cloud is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium gas.
[ Video 1 ] | [ Video 2 ] | [ Video 3 ] |
Italy deaths as Genoa ship hits control tower BBC News, 8th May 2013
At least four people have died and several more are missing after a container ship crashed into a control tower in the Italian port of Genoa.The Jolly Nero smashed into the concrete and glass tower late at night, reducing it to rubble.
Three people were reported to have been trapped inside a lift that fell into the water as the tower collapsed. [...]
'Utterly shocked'
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, but Genoa's Il Secolo XIX newspaper quoted the Jolly Nero's captain as saying that two engines appeared to have failed and "we lost control of the ship".
The head of the Genoa Port Authority, Luigi Merlo, told the newspaper:
"It's very difficult to explain how this could have happened because the ship should not have been where it was."
Comment: Hmmm.... Maybe, someone was looking at a navigational device rather than actually using lookouts to do visual sightings... As I keep saying, due to space weather, GPS is not reliable anymore, so these major ships, cargo ships, tankers and submarine accidents will keep happening until the message gets through, see archives Best of the Blog -
Space Weather, Electronics & Electromagnetic Chaos .
.
New Meat-Eating Plant Species Found In Japan
Popular Science, 7th May 2013
According to Japan Times, a new species of carnivorous plant has been found in Aichi Prefecture, on the central-southern coast of Japan's main island. The Japan Times calls it a "pitcher plant," which it is not; as a species related to (and mistaken for) Drosera indica, it's actually a sundew.
Russian researchers find more evidence to support notion that lightning is caused by cosmic rays
Phys.Org News, 6th May 2013
Phys.org) —Russian physicists Alex Gurevich and Anatoly Karashtin claim, in a paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, they have found more evidence to support their idea that lightning is caused by cosmic rays. The notion was first proposed by Gurevich back in 1992, and has been a source of debate ever since.
No one really knows what causes lightning to form and strike—the prevailing view is that it comes about as a result of collisions between ice crystals in clouds and hail stones. But because clouds and the lightning they produce are unpredictable and hard to pin down, no one has been able to prove this theory. Another theory, proposed by Gurevich twenty years ago, says that lightning is formed from the collisions between cosmic rays and water droplets present in thunderclouds. Now he and a colleague claim to have found evidence to support this idea.
Comment: There are approx. 40-50 strikes per second from lightning but this article tells us that scientists are still struggling to explain how lightning is caused. Whatever, the link with cosmic rays means that as NASA have informed us, cosmic rays are at an all time high and likely to increase so we are likely to see more lightning.
-
Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High
NASA News, 28th September 2009
Planning a trip to Mars? Take plenty of shielding. According to sensors on NASA's ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) spacecraft, galactic cosmic rays have just hit a Space Age high.
"In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19% beyond anything we've seen in the past 50 years," says Richard Mewaldt of Caltech. "The increase is significant, and it could mean we need to re-think how much radiation shielding astronauts take with them on deep-space missions." [...]
"The space era has so far experienced a time of relatively low cosmic ray activity," says Mewaldt. "We may now be returning to levels typical of past centuries."
Please note: This is the primary reason why computer "glitches" are rising.
"Space Weather Storms: Are we ready for a 'Space Katrina'?"
Public Star Night focuses on weather in space May 17 at the Little Thompson Observatory
Times Call, 6th May 2013
Our Nation is embarking on ambitious plans to modernize an infrastructure that will be based on advanced technological resources vulnerable to space weather. Space weather impacts everyday life, including national security, emergency response, electric power grids, aviation, communications, global positioning system (GPS) applications, and satellite operations -- technology we have come to rely on for our day-to-day activities. These recent advances in our technological infrastructure drive emerging space weather service needs undreamed of just a decade ago.
Extreme space weather storms are rare, but these low frequency events have significant consequences. Recent reports suggest the greatest natural disaster perhaps facing the Nation would be an intense geomagnetic storm. In December 2012, the U.S. National Intelligence Council presented solar geomagnetic storms as an event that could change the future course of human history. Building hazard-resilient communities is a national
priority, but can we ensure the security of our high-tech community during an extreme space weather storm?
Comment: Many live in a fantasy world of refusing to think about anything they consider "negative". But thankfully, there are some interested in survival on this planet who realise the inhabitants on this planet are now vulnerable to harsh new cosmic conditions.
Mystery bacteria 'cobwebs' found in SRS cooling tank
Aiken Standard, 4th May 2013
Spring cleaning is always a good way to get rid of those hard-to-reach cobwebs that appear around the house. However, when they appear in cooling tanks for spent nuclear fuel and have never been seen there before, special attention is warranted.
Sometime in Fiscal Year 2011, “cobwebs” of bacteria were first discovered in the L Area basin at the Savannah River Site. Since then, a process of getting to the 70-feet-deep life form, collecting it and then examining it has been undertaken.
The formations of bacteria are colloquially described as “cobwebs” as they form strands similar to the household dust collections. [..]
Maxted said that the bacteria would be killed before being studied. In previous, somewhat similar cases, such bacteria has been killed with hydrogen peroxide.
“Without the external nutrients, the bacteria cannot sustain themselves. Infrared from the measured levels of microbial diversity measured these requirements are currently being met. Sampling for organic carbon in multiple basin locations was unable to determine a definitive source of external carbon for the bacteria,” Caver said.
Not knowing the “food” source for these bacteria adds to the mystery.
Comment: Maybe this is not a carbon-based lifeform and therefore yet another example of something "alien".
27,000 Atmos Energy customers overcharged 10x by billing glitchDallas Morning News, 6th May 2013
About 27,000 Atmos Energy customers have been mistakenly charged ten times the amount of their bill because of a billing glitch. The mistake happened to customers who have their bill automatically deducted from their checking accounts or credit cards, company spokeswoman Jennifer Ryan said.
The mistake caused headaches for customers who unexpectedly found themselves overdrawn through no fault of their own. "I was drafted $646.40 instead of $64.64," complained Melissa Alexander of Fort Worth on the company's website. "I AM NOT A HAPPY CAMPER!!" Alexander said later she contacted her bank immediately but the funds will be tied up until Atmos corrects the error.
Stunning Astronomical Alignment Found at Peru Pyramid
Live Science, 6th May 2013
An ancient astronomical alignment in southern Peru has been discovered by researchers between a pyramid, two stone lines and the setting sun during the winter solstice. During the solstice, hundreds of years ago, the three would have lined up to frame the pyramid in light.
Former congress members impressed with UFO testimony
Open Minds, 6th May 2013
While not all of the congress members who participated in the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure are convinced we are being visited by extraterrestrials, they do appear unanimous in the opinion that the testimony was impressive. Most of them are now convinced this is a topic that the government should investigate further, and one is not only seeking a resolution from the UN to investigate UFOs, he has gone on camera with ABC News proclaiming the conspiracy to cover all of this up goes straight to the White House. [...]
The sixth member of the committee, former senator Mike Gravel, has been the most out spoken about his feelings on the topic. He says, “There is no doubt in my mind that there is an extraterrestrial presence that is affecting the planet.”
Gravel feels it is imperative that we learn more about these visitors. He says, “Probably the most important issue facing our civilization is to understand this, to explore it, and hopefully mature to level where we can have contact with extraterrestrial interests.”
Gravel has not been shy about sharing these opinions with the media. In the ABC News video blog Top Line, he was asked how high up he felt the conspiracy went to keep the lid on extraterrestrial visitation. He told them, “It goes right to the White House, and of course, once the White House takes a position, ‘well there’s nothing going on’…it just goes down the chain of command, everyone stands toe.”
When asked why the government would keep this secret, he replied, “The military wants to keep this secret, because they don’t want to reveal to the American people that all of these trillions of dollars that we have spent on this silly defense posture that they don’t work.”
Comment: This article comes with 5 YouTube video clips.
UFOs ‘Roam our skies’ Says Former US Air Force Intelligence Officer
Prince Phillip invited pilot and crew to dine and discuss encounter
Epoch Times, 5th May 2013
WASHINGTON—A former U.S. Air Force major with 5,000 flying hours described in detail his encounter with an UFO, telling former members of Congress at a hearing on extraterrestrial sightings that he has been interested in UFOs ever since.
“These space craft occasionally roam our skies and my theory is they have been coming here for thousands of years,” Major George Filer III said May 3, the last day of the week long Citizen Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press Club.
Filer was one of 39 witnesses who gave testimonies during the hearing, including former members of the U.S. military and federal agencies, researchers, academics and ordinary citizens. [...]
Royal Attention
Filer said the incident did not gain vast attention although he did record it in his navigator’s log and it was mentioned the next day in operations. A few weeks later, however, he and his crew received an invitation to dine with Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, who had expressed an interest in their experience.
“About seven of us sat around a table discussing UFOs. Prince Phillip was very personable and friendly. He was very interested in our intercept and we assume he had also been briefed by London Control because the U.S. Air Force had no apparent interest,” he said in his written testimonial.
When he asked the royal consort of Queen Elizabeth II why he was interested he said Prince Phillip replied: “My uncle who raised me, Earl Mountbatten had seen UFOs close up while in the Navy.”
Filer said Prince Phillip told him he had debriefed aircrews who intercepted UFOs “on many occasions.”
Comment: I would like to point out to any intelligentsia reading this blog that in the 1990s, Hillary Clinton was photographed with Laurance Rockafeller who had just presented her with a UFO book, see archives. That book was eventually discovered to be a book written by Paul Davies who promotes the idea that Earth might have a Shadow Biosphere.... For those who have a functioning brain, you don't need to be told to think about the significance and then read up some so-called astrobiology 'theory'... This article is a reminder that the elite have a very keen interest in the Shadow Biosphere...
-
Hillary Clinton’s ET book discovered
Open Minds, 15th January 2010
In the 1990’s Laurance Rockefeller became interested in paranormal phenomena, especially with UFOs and Extraterrestrial visitation. He funded scientific investigations and organized and funded a briefing document to record the best evidence (Open Minds journalist, Antonio Huneeus was a key contributor to this document). Rockefeller also conferred with the Clintons regarding the release of files by President Bill Clinton.
Researcher Grant Cameron, who runs the website HillaryClintonUFO.net, was able to retrieve documents through the Freedom of Information Act that showed Rockefeller was soliciting help form Hillary’s staff on drafting a document to President Bill Clinton in 1995. The title of the document was: Lifting Secrecy on Information About Extraterrestrial Intelligence as Part of the Current Classification Review.
In August of 1995 the Clintons made a trip to Rockefeller’s JY Ranch near Jackson’s Hole, Wyoming. Many speculate that UFOs and ETs must have been a subject of conversation during the visit. However, there has never been any proof of this, until now.
-
Revisiting the famous 1979 UFO Debate at the House of Lords
Open Minds TV, 18th November 2011
The recent publication of author Philip Eade’s biography of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband of queen Elizabeth II, has brought into the news once again the intense interest on UFOs by the upper crust of British society. As reported in recent stories in The Daily Beast and in the Huffignton Post , Eade’s biography. [...]
Lords get UFO rundown
With his credentials, then, it wasn’t a very difficult task for Lord Clancarty to give his peers a brief and complete rundown of the UFO story, from ancient times to the 1947 sighting by Kenneth Arnold up to the buzzing over a 13-day period of several Strategic Air Command nuclear bases in the United States. And from the candid declarations of the French Defense Minister, M. Galley, in 1974 to the famous Iranian UFO battle near Teheran two years later, in which all the communications and firing systems of a U.S.-made F-4 phantom jet were immobilized by a UFO. “There are literally vast numbers of these astounding reports,” said Clancarty. “Indeed, my lords, this worldwide UFO invasion of every country’s air space is of growing importance and therefore I suggest that Parliament keeps a continuous watch on the situation.” [...]
Sheehan Controverts Consolmagno’s “No Vatican UFO Secrets” Claim
Logos Apologia, 5th May 2013
Attorney Daniel Sheehan, former lead counsel for the Jesuit order in America, testifies about the Vatican concealing UFO information as well as US government classified photos and records of a flying saucer crash and connections to churches around the world. Of course this controverts recent obfuscation by VORG astronomer Guy Conslomagno who claims “there are no Vatican UFO secrets.” If so, then why the refusal to release the requested files to the Carter administration described in this sworn testimony? Is Brother Guy hiding something?
Comment: Hmmmm....
Visitors From Outer Space, Real or Not, Are Focus of Discussion in Washington
New York Times, 3rd May 2013
[...] Every day this week, the former legislators presided over panels made up of academics and — former, of course — government and military officials, who were there to discuss their research or their own eyewitness accounts of unidentified flying objects and the extraterrestrials who presumably would have occupied them.
“Something is monitoring the planet, and they are monitoring it very cautiously, because we are a very warlike planet,” said Mike Gravel, a former Democratic senator from Alaska who ran in both the Democratic and Libertarian presidential primaries in 2008.
Mr. Gravel and his fellow panelists were assembled by the Paradigm Research Group, which says it is committed to ending the government’s “truth embargo” on the existence of extraterrestrial life. The lawmakers were there in hopes that their presence and political credibility would be enough to persuade Congress to take the issue seriously.
“I’ve been exploring how we might get this issue out of the shadows of the lunatic fringe,” said Roscoe G. Bartlett, a former Republican representative from Maryland. Before his defeat last year, Mr. Bartlett was known for sounding the alarm on the threat posed to the nation’s energy infrastructure by electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, the shock wave from a nuclear weapon detonated beyond the earth’s atmosphere.
Comment: This report is hardly impressive...Epoch Times did a much better job on reporting the information that needs to get to the public.
Belief in biblical end-times stifling climate change action in U.S.: studyThe Raw Story, 1st May 2013
The United States has failed to take action to mitigate climate change thanks in part to the large number of religious Americans who believe the world has a set expiration date.
Research by David C. Barker of the University of Pittsburgh and David H. Bearce of the University of Colorado uncovered that belief in the biblical end-times was a motivating factor behind resistance to curbing climate change.
“[T]he fact that such an overwhelming percentage of Republican citizens profess a belief in the Second Coming (76 percent in 2006, according to our sample) suggests that governmental attempts to curb greenhouse emissions would encounter stiff resistance even if every Democrat in the country wanted to curb them,” Barker and Bearce wrote in their study, which will be published in the June issue of Political Science Quarterly.
Comment: And the funny thing is that when all is said and done, these 'simple folk with their simple beliefs ARE RIGHT! LOL! END TIMES = END OF AN ASTRONOMICAL CYCLE = START OF A NEW WORLD AGE... THE ESOTERIC MESSAGE IS THAT WE CAN EPECT A COSMIC DELUGE = COSMOCLIMATOLOGY = CLIMATE CHANGE + EXTREME WEATHER... SIMPLE WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THE ASTROTHEOLOGY HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT...
India BlackBerry services back to normal after outage
by FP Staff May 6, 2013First Post News, 6th May 2013
BlackBerry services which faced an outage in India and some other parts of the world are finally functioning normally. A 3 May tweet from the company’s official handle read, “All BlackBerry services are returning to normal levels. Apologies to any customers who experienced issues earlier. ^DH”
Italian village recovers from earthquake struck by tornado + TENNIS BALL-SIZED HAIL
Telegraph, 5th May 2013
Residents of an Italian village struck by a deadly earthquake last year are cursing their luck after a tornado destroyed containers used for temporary offices, ripped off roofs and hurled caravans through the air.
The tornado, which lasted around an hour on Friday and was accompanied by tennis ball-sized hail stones, swept through the village of San Martino Spino and surrounding countryside. The village, in the region of Emilia Romagna, was shaken last May by tremors which left 26 dead and 45,000 homeless.
Thirteen people were injured by flying debris and hailstones and 119 had their homes destroyed, while mayor Maino Benatti said it was "a miracle" no one was killed.
‘Aliens’ Messed with US, Soviet Nukes – US AirmenRIA Novosti News, 5th May 2013
WASHINGTON, May 1 (RIA Novosti) – In the midst of the Cold War on several occasions, nuclear missiles at US Air Force bases were mysteriously shut down, according to US servicemen who said they witnessed the failure of the heavily guarded missile systems.
But they don’t blame America’s Cold War enemy, the Soviet Union; they say aliens from space did it.
“This was something Russia could have developed, but it turns out they didn’t develop this and we don’t have it either – to be able to shut down nuclear weapons with a beam of light,” David Scott, a former sergeant in the US Air Force, told RIA Novosti at a conference in Washington on encounters with extraterrestrials.
Scott and three retired Air Force officers told a panel of six former members of the US Congress at the conference about their experiences with extraterrestrial “visitors” who meddled with US nuclear weapons systems.
Comment: Surely, intelligent folk realise which way the wind is blowing now...
Fermi and Swift see 'shockingly bright' burstPhys.Org News, 3rd May 2013
A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world. The eruption, which is classified as a gamma-ray burst, or GRB, and designated GRB 130427A, produced the highest-energy light ever detected from such an event.
"We have waited a long time for a gamma-ray burst this shockingly, eye-wateringly bright," said Julie McEnery, project scientist for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "The GRB lasted so long that a record number of telescopes on the ground were able to catch it while space-based observations were still ongoing."
Just after 3:47 a.m. EDT on Saturday, April 27, Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) triggered on eruption of high-energy light in the constellation Leo. The burst occurred as NASA's Swift satellite was slewing between targets, which delayed its Burst Alert Telescope's detection by a few seconds.
Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) recorded one gamma ray with an energy of at least 94 billion electron volts (GeV), or some 35 billion times the energy of visible light, and about three times greater than the LAT's previous record. The GeV emission from the burst lasted for hours, and it remained detectable by the LAT for the better part of a day, setting a new record for the longest gamma-ray emission from a GRB.
Comment: Thus is almost like deja-vu.... The number of these ultra bright flashes is now really starting to stack up and I am waiting for an astronomer with a decent hypothesis for why this is happening but I have declared my opinion quite some time ago in my writings.
Got a headache? it might be the weather
theweathernetwork, 2nd May 2013
A barometric pressure headache is defined as a type of migraine that is caused by a change in atmospheric air pressure, and is characterized by a headache centered on the front of the head and sinus area. A drop in pressure happens before it rains, and studies say it can be linked to a risk of headaches in the next 48 to 72 hours.
Spin-down Measurement of PSR J1745-2900: a New MagnetarAstronomer's Telegraph, 4th May 2013
Following the detection with the NuSTAR X-ray Observatory of a pulsed signal from a likely magnetar (ATel #5020) located 3" from Sgr A* (ATel #5032), we requested a Swift ToO observation to monitor its temporal and spectral evolution. [...]
Based on the X-ray timing properties, the pulsed radio emission (ATel #
5035,#
5040,#
5043), the X-ray spectral measurements (ATel #
5006,#
5011,#
5020), and the likely association with Swift flaring behavior (ATel #
5006,#
5009), we conclude that PSR/SGR J1745-2900 is a magnetar that has emerged from a quiescent state. This is similar to the behavior of the Transient Anomalous X-ray Pulsars, and further blurs any distinction among the different classes of magnetars.
Comment: From a previous Astronomer's Telegram we read:
The bursting, timing, and spectral properties strongly suggest a previously unknown magnetar undergoing an outburst. Further observations are planned to follow the flux and spectral evolution as well as to measure the spin-down rate and to search for additional bursts. NuSTAR has triggered additional ToO observations. Additional radio observations of the field, particularly to search for radio pulsations, are encouraged.
NuSTAR discovery of a 3.76 second pulsar in the Sgr A* region Astronomer's Telegram, 27th April 2013
This should be exciting news for citizens of planet Earth, as we are being fired on from a brand new magnetar that exists near the dead centre of our galaxy! Here is a reminder from my essay
The Greatest Transition where I pointed out that ancient warnings were left for us Earthlings informing us that occasionally we are subjected to some serious cosmic fire power.
“Since astronomers have only recently become aware of the existence of Magnetars, we have to consider whether their existence could have been known to ancient astronomers. We know that the ancient practice was to carefully preserve cosmic events, so maybe we can rethink the meaning of some zodiacal imagery. The symbolism of the scorpion and archer that are often intertwined, are said to represent the twin guardians of Galactic Center, the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpio that are on opposite sides of Galactic Center. However, we could also see that the imagery of the scorpion-man archer and his stingers is really telling us that Earth could be stung or receive cosmic arrows from this region. As already mentioned, SGR 1806-20 lies in the constellation of Sagittarius and SGR 1900+14, is located in the constellation of Aquila about 20,000 light-years away. Both of these regions of the sky have been associated with catastrophe. Dr. LaViolette, in his book, Earth Under Fire, tells us that these regions of the sky were especially noted and that the Barasana Indians of South America with their Star Path Zodiac, have retained this ancient knowledge by a naming convention that highlighted obnoxious and negative regions and benign and positive ones along the center of the Milky Way. The understanding amongst the learned that has been passed down to us is that after the Conflagration there will be a Restoration, a New Heavens and a New Earth — literally Earth’s tilt will change and the dome of heaven will appear differently. Since, changes are already occurring; maybe we can hope that there is a universal plan for planet Earth that does not involve major catastrophe.”
Source: The Greatest Transition in the History of Mankind (June 2010)
|
A Sketch of a scorpion-man archer (12cm tall) displayed on a twelfth-century B.C.E. Babylonian boundary stone from the reign of Nebuchadnezzar I, Assyro-Kassite Period (British Museum, London)
|
It is quite amazing to me that the cosmic conditions around Earth are getting more and more intense, but there is very little interest in reality, despite the effort to preserve ancient warnings. Presumably, the few that are awake can only surmise the real issue is the widespread low levels of consciousness and dumbed down so-called "spiritual" teachings being spread by hoardes of pied pipers. Thanks to S. Tellem for the tip.
Cardinal ordered into exile by Vatican
Herald Scotland, 4th May 2013
CARDINAL Keith O'Brien has been told by the Vatican to leave the UK amid concerns of wreaking further damage on the Catholic Church in Scotland.
Friends of the cleric have said he has been told by Rome to shelve his plans to retire to a church-owned cottage in East Lothian and instead leave the country.
The Herald understands Cardinal O'Brien was given the news yesterday afternoon, three days after being photographed moving his personal belongings from his official residence in Edinburgh to the residence in Dunbar where he had been spending regular weekends over the past few years.
The parish priest in Dunbar, Canon John Creanor, is understood to have voiced upset at the Vatican's move against his "dear friend".
Comment: It looks like the Vatican are now in survival mode and that means getting rid of the dead wood... I also think the connection with Saville probably tipped the cardinal into the nonredeemable bracket... The response to this banishment is unbelievable... DO THESE DAFT AND OUT OF TOUCH FOLK THINK THE VATICAN IS WORRIED ABOUT "a Christian way to treat someone"... Do these people KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH? EVEN POPES HAVE BEEN MURDERED FOR ROCKING THE BOAT... HOW DUMB ARE SOME PEOPLE?
Bangladesh factory building collapse death toll exceeds 500
Engineer becomes ninth person to be detained over country's worst industrial accident, as number of deaths climbs to 501Guardian News, 3rd May 2013
The death toll from the collapse of a Bangladesh factory building has passed 500, officials said, as police investigating the disaster arrested an engineer who warned the day before the tragedy that the eight-storey complex was unsafe.
The detention of Abdur Razzak brought to nine the number of people held over the disaster, which has put the spotlight on the many western clothing retailers using the country as a source of cheap goods.
Scores of relatives remained at the site in a Dhaka suburb on Friday, clutching photographs of loved ones attesting to the many more still missing, as the number of deaths in the country's worst industrial accident rose to 501.
Comment: Greedy malignant narcissists will ignore real danger that is very apparent to 'normal' people because their first priorities are self-aggrandisement, power and control. It means that you will NEVER be safe if your life is in their hands, because ultimately you don't matter.
-
Bangladesh official: Disaster not 'really serious'
USA Today, 3rd May 2013
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The death toll in the factory-building collapse in Bangladesh rose to more than 530 on Saturday, a day after the country's finance minister downplayed the impact of the disaster on the garment industry, saying he didn't think it was "really serious."
Vile... A typical response from someone with a psychopath predatory mindset...
UFOs in Chile, France and Russia – Citizen Hearing Transcripts
Open Minds, 3rd May 2013
Open Minds journalist, Antonio Huneeus, is one of the panel members speaking at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure this week. Yesterday he presented to the committee of 6 former congress members on UFO activity and government reactions in Chile, France and Russia. You can read the text of his testimony below.
South America: Chile
In recent years Chile has become one of the world’s leading nations in the official study and recognition of the UFO phenomenon. UFO agencies or departments have been traditionally under the Air Force in most countries. In France, as we shall see in the next session, the effort is under the space agency, but Chile has taken a novel approach which makes logical sense: its committee known as CEFAA (Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena) is under the Civil Aviation agency DGAC. In other words, it’s like if the FAA, the Federal Aviation Administration, had a UFO department. Civil aviation agencies all over the world deal with aircraft safety and navigation and UFOs, though not regulated by human governmental agencies, are primarily flying in the air and could pose a threat to aviation safety.
Comment: I have made a separate entry because this is about UFO/UAP disclosure in countries that are taking the apparent infestation of another life form in our skies seriously... The comment about the United States being behind the times is very very important... It does not matter how powerful this country thinks it is, THEY DO NOT CONTROL EVERY LIVING PERSON ON THIS PLANET.....
Peruvian Jet Pilot Tells of Tangle With UFO (+Photos)
He shot 60 rounds at close range with no impact
Epoch Times, 4th May 2013
WASHINGTON—A fighter pilot in the Peruvian Air Force for 25 years, Col. Oscar Santa Maria Huerta, was no novice when he took aim at a threatening balloon-shaped object hovering above his airbase at Arequipa, Peru.
“I approached within shooting range and shot around sixty 30mm shells at the balloon” he said through a translator, “It had no effect at all.”
One of those bullets would have blown up a truck, he said, but the shots he fired did not even make a dent. The object “seemed to absorb the shots,” he said describing the UFO encounter.
Huerta was one of six representatives from Latin American countries speaking at the Congressional-style hearing on UFOs being held this week at the National Press Club.
During his testimony on May 2, he described the events as they unfolded of what would become one of the most memorable days in his life. It began at the La Joya Air Base at Arequipa, Peru around 7:15 a.m., April 11, 1980. There were around 1,800 men on the base that day and a number of Sukhoi 22 fighter jets. [...]
The craft, he said, seemed to anticipate his every move, noting with relief, that it never retaliated.
“The total 22 minutes of maneuvers is clearly etched in my brain,” he said,
“I am convinced there is extraterritorial life. I will never forget my experience.”
The unidentified craft was witnessed by everyone on the base as well, Huerta said, and the event was registered by the U.S. Defense Department. Huerta submitted a copy of the message sent from the U.S. DOD.
Comment: This is a very interesting story as this pilot realised he had come across another life form... Well, the Washington Post is trying to tell us that this Congressional-style hearing on UFOs being held this week at the National Press Club is a waste of time but quite frankly, it is a case of needs must... For the thinkers out there; If you fly, then you might want to be 100% sure that your pilot will remain calm and not do anything stupid when a member of the Shadow Biosphere makes a sudden appearance. Still, those in the know in the military and some pilots know that there is a poorly understood phenomena that exists in our skies...
‘Deathbed testimony’ about UFOs given by former CIA official (VIDEO)
Open Minds, 3rd May 2013
Video testimony by an anonymous alleged former CIA official was shown at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Friday, May 3.
UFO author and historian Richard Dolan interviewed “Anonymous” on March 5, 2013. Facing impending kidney failure, this individual felt compelled to disclose secret information he feels is too important to keep secret. In the video, he claims to have served in the U.S. Army, worked for the CIA, and worked on the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book–one of the USAF’s official studies of UFOs. And he refers to the project as “partially a fraud.” Asking for clarification, Dolan states, “You’re saying some of the Blue Book cases were completely fictitious?” The anonymous man responds, “Yes.”
Comment: Watch the video! The implications of rogue military hiding their business from various presidents of the United States seems to be more important than the disclosure about the presence of aliens! It is up to you whether you think this old dying man is telling the truth, but I think if you are going to do a death-bed confession, this is how to do it...
Over 900 British Police Have Witnessed UFOsEpoch Times, 2nd May 2013
WASHINGTON—British police officers have been personally involved in at least 430 UFOs sightings, including one that was three times the size of a football field, a hearing of six former members of the United States Congress heard on Thursday.
Gary Heseltine, a serving police officer in the United Kingdom, is the creator of PRUFOS a police database [www.prufospolicedatabase.co.uk] he maintains in an unofficial capacity. The database, which he launched in January 2002, caters to serving and retired officers who have been involved in British UFO police sightings.
“Sightings have been taking place the length and breadth of Britain at all times of the day,” he told the six member committee.
Tornado spike in 2011 attributed to climate change. So what to make of this year’s tornado drought?
Chron News, 3rd May 2013
As informed citizens, we need to be careful about conflating weather, climate change and natural disasters.
Weather (i.e. the extreme cold we’re having in Texas this spring) is weather. Climate is the measurement of long-term weather data over broad areas (i.e. global temperatures over a 50 year period). For most people, these are pretty easy distinctions to make.
But the issue becomes more complicated when it comes to natural disasters, such as hurricanes, floods, droughts and tornadoes.
About 18 months ago the much-maligned IPCC released a report that takes a pretty balanced view of climate and natural disasters, concluding that weather extremes are probably affected by climate change, but generally stops short of saying global warming is the main driver.
Comment: As climate scientists admit, there is not really many with a deep understanding of the cause of weather or the cause of weather extremes. It seems that here the tornado weather data has gone from one extreme to the other i.e. flood to drought and the 'experts' have revealed their utter ignorance of why. Thankfully, there are a few astrophysicists who do pay attention to sun-earth connections and space weather, so they can provide good predictions of what we should expect.
-
Severe Weather Drought: Tornadoes drop to a new all time record low, major hurricane absence is setting a new record every day
WUWT, 4th May 2013
Alaskans alarmed at Russian specter of 'global cooling'
Alaska Dispatch, 3rd May 2013
Snow fell on the Anchorage Hillside again Thursday. The National Weather Service was forecasting up to an inch by the end of the day. And for Alaskans wishing for spring, the news just kept getting wors
May arrived and most of Alaska's rivers are still locked in ice," the dastardly federal agency reported on its Facebook page. "NWS staff and river observers collect ice thickness data around the first day of each month during the winter. However, except on the North Slope and northwest Alaska, ice is typically gone or unsafe for measurements by the start of May.
"Not so this remarkably backwards spring. Ice thickness and snow on the ice at nearly all measured locations in the central Interior was THICKER than at the start of April. "
Yes, that's right. At a time when Alaska should be starting into breakup there isn't even a sign of it.
Comment: It's simple, Ice Ages start when snow remains at the end of each summer.
Undergraduate Student Discovers How To Tell Time On Saturn
Nature World News, 3rd May 2013
Time on Saturn has proved to be a fickle beast for scientists to pin down because of the thick layers of clouds and liquid gases rotate at their own speeds around the planet.
Decades ago, a strong and naturally occurring radio signal called the Saturn Kilometric Radiation (SKR) was thought to provide an accurate measurement of a Saturn day. But data gathered since then has rebuffed the idea.
But Tim Kennelly, a junior majoring in physics and astronomy at the University of Iowa, has made a significant observation about a process occurring Saturns's magnetosphere that is linked to the planet's seasons and changes with them. The find provides the breakthrough astronomers needed to accurately determine how time passes on Saturn and could also change our understanding of the magnetosphere on Earth.
Comment: I read a few of these articles on this discovery and this is the most straight forward. Obviously, this student was not brainwashed enough by the process of "education" and so managed to think outside the box... I think this article exemplifies how plasma cosmology is starting to dominate the way many space scientists can scientifically understand the complexity of the cosmos. Now that there are enough spacecraft in our solar system sending back data, the implications of the so-called vacuum being actually filled with plasma (sub-atomic particles) and that plasma being strongly influenced by electromagnetic forces can no longer be denied. These "flux tubes" are in effect MASSIVE electrical currents that are over a million amps (a flux tube that links the moon Io to Juipiter is about 4 million amps). The discussion of seasonal changes implies that there is a flux of charge but the article does not give any hints of what is causing the flux.
-
'Tis the season—for plasma changes at Saturn
Phys.Org News, 3rd May 2013
(Phys.org) —A University of Iowa undergraduate student has discovered that a process occurring in Saturn's magnetosphere is linked to the planet's seasons and changes with them, a finding that helps clarify the length of a Saturn day and could alter our understanding of the Earth's magnetosphere.
Saturn's magnetosphere is the third largest structure in the solar system, eclipsed only by the magnetic fields of the sun and Jupiter. Unlike Earth, which has a visible rocky surface and rotates once every 24 hours, Saturn is composed mostly of clouds and liquid gas layers, each rotating about the planet at its own rate of speed. This variation in rotation made it difficult for scientists to pin down time for the planet.
NYSE MKT Hits Trading Glitch
24/7 Wall St, 2nd May 2013
Trading at the NYSE Euronext’s NYSE MKT exchange was halted briefly today. What is important here is not that the trading halt barely last two minutes, but that more than 400 symbols were temporarily unavailable for trading. This is not a miniature flash crash but an unavailable crash for electronic traders.
Windstream voice outages mostly resolved; technology upgrade blamed
Fierce Telecom, 2nd May 2013
Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN) reported Wednesday evening that the majority of the network outages that left business customers across as many as 23 states without voice service have been fixed, though isolated issues remain.
The telco said on its support page that while "There may still be some isolated issues our team is working aggressively to remedy."
The outage was due to a technology upgrade on various parts of its long-distance network, the carrier said. It did not reveal the voice vendor that performed the upgrade.
"Unfortunately, after the new technology was subjected to mass volume, this newly upgraded system began performing erratically," Windstream said on its support site. "We have subsequently reverted to the prior configuration."
Comment: Maybe, as geomagnetic conditions on this planet worsen, there is a need for more honesty concerning the reliability of phone/mobile network & internet services. As all operators are facing the same issues, the general public should at least have access to inderpendent databases that informs people about the cause of faults that last more than half an hour and whether it is space weather related.
-
Windstream suffers voice network outage across several states
Fierce Telecom, 29th April 2013
Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN) reports that it is suffering a "widespread" outage on its voice network, an issue that's affecting the ability of customers in several states to make long-distance and toll free calls. The number of customers affected is not known at this time.
The telco said on its website that the outage occurred around 11:30 a.m. EDT.
In addition to long-distance and toll-free voice services, the telco said on its Facebook page that the outage is affecting its ability to receive inbound calls to its support centers and that it is "investigating reports that local inbound and outbound calling also may be disrupted for some customers."
-
UPDATED: Optus network outage causes disruptions in Sydney
Customers affected for several peak morning hours
ARN News, 30th April 2013
Some Sydney-based Optus Business customers on the Evolve network experienced lengthy outages this morning due to a failure on the telecommunications provider's end.
Optus has confirmed a "hardware issue impacted a router in an Optus exchange" in Ultimo.
While the telco said it caused "intermittent dropouts," the outage experienced by IDG Communications, the publisher of ARN, lasted for about four hours between 05:00 and 09:00 this morning. During that period, the network was only available for very brief periods before going under once more.
-
AT&T Network Outage Frustrates Hundreds of Alaska Customers
KTUU News, 30th April 2013
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An AT&T network outage was reportedly fixed within an hour Tuesday afternoon, however GCI and Alaska Communications customers were reporting service disruptions due to the issue.
Andy Colley with AT&T Corporate Communications said a “network link went down around 4:52 p.m. Alaska time and was repaired around 5:45 p.m. Alaska time.” Customers may have experienced block calls during the outage.
San Jose State University Meteorology decides burning books they don’t agree with is better than reading them
Watts Up With That, 2nd May 2013
From the Fahrenheit 451 department comes this indictment of California’s higher education’s “tolerance” for opposing views. When I first got the tip on this, I thought to myself “nobody can be this stupid to photograph themselves doing this” but, here they are, right from the San Jose State University Meteorology Department web page:
The caption from the SJSU website reads:
This week we received a deluge of free books from the Heartland Institute {this or this }. The book is entitled “The Mad, Mad, Made World of Climatism”. SHown above, Drs. Bridger and Clements test the flammability of the book.
Maybe they just can’t help themselves, note the pictures on the wall.
Comment: Well, since I love books, for me book burning is an extreme measure.... In January, my utter disgust at some New Age fraud copying a section of my book and pretending it was part of a channeled message was enough for me to suggest that if you burn a New Age book, at least you will know for a fact that the warmth is genuine.... With the frustration that climate alarmists are feeling due to their belief in global warming, burning the books of climate skeptics must be their way of generating some heat because it is fact that Earth has not warmed for 16 years and the disconnect with reality is sending some over the edge...
Airliner 'had narrow miss with UFO'
BBC News, 1st May 2013
A passenger aircraft had a narrow miss with an unidentified object over Glasgow, a report has revealed.
The Airbus A320 was making its final approach to Glasgow Airport on 2 December when an object passed about 300ft underneath it.
The pilot of the aircraft said the risk of collision with the object, which did not show up on radar, had been "high".
A report by the UK Airprox Board said investigators were unable to establish what the object had been.
Comment: BBC is mainstream news.... see archives for the opinion of pilots concerned about the sudden appearances of the Shadow Biosphere.
Citizens Hearing tackles government secrecy and the truth about the presence of UFOs
The Final Call, 1st May 2013
WASHINGTON (National Press Club) - A panel of former U.S. representatives and a former senator kicked off a week of hearings about the public’s right to know, government secrecy and its tracking and withholding of information about what are popularly known as unidentified flying objects.
The Citizen Hearing On Disclosure, held here April 29 to May 3, was scheduled to feature some 40 researchers, military and government agency witnesses and 30 hours of testimony.
The early sessions April 29 focused on the peoples’ right to know and what organizers and witnesses called the continued problem of government failures to tell the truth about so-called UFOs. [...]
Organizers said the former lawmakers were paid $20,000 for their week’s work, but all of the retired legislators said their participation was based on concern about government secrecy, the public’s right to know and a desire to learn more. Several spoke candidly about negative fallout associated with the subject of UFOs, with former Senator Gravel noting the number of mocking tweets were fewer than he expected.
Comment: This is a good professional article on this conference. Obviously, this needs to be done and documented because IF/WHEN Brazil or another country pips them to the post and announces we most certainly are not alone, then some so-called 'leaders' are going to look very very foolish...
-
Brazil on the brink?
Herald Tribune Blog, 29th April 2013
Imagine 10 Pentagon officials from every branch of the military, including the Secretary of Defense, agreeing to pow-wow for 75 minutes with civilian UFO researchers. Imagine, at the end of that meeting, in an ostensible show of good faith — or maybe it was just window dressing, who knows — the brass actually concedes the civilians may be on to something. And it agrees to give them access to some of the most contentious UFO records on file. Well, change the venue from the U.S. to Brazil, and that’s exactly what happened in Brasilia on April 18, according to A.J. Gevaerd.
Comment: Go Brazil Go! Can you imagine the consequences? Personally I still think UFO Disclosure is going to pale into insignificance in comparison to the Catholic Church attempting to change the mythology in the near future... The new mythos of Mary was an abductee and Jesus is part ET... For those who are not keeping up with the latest, I am sorry you think this is ridiculous, but I am paying attention and buying the books that spell this out in black and white... At the moment, because there are so many people who love fantastic craptastic I am wondering who will give a damn about truth...
Incident in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, 01 May, 2013 at 05:42 (05:42 AM) UTC.
RSOE News, 1st May 2013
A Saudi passenger aircraft on a domestic flight made an emergency landing in the capital Riyadh after its cabin front window was damaged by rain, a newspaper in the Gulf Kingdom reported on Wednesday. The aircraft landed safely but the pilot looked worried after he left the plane to wait along with the cabin crew members at the airport pending the completion of repair, the Arabic language daily Sabq said, quoting airport sources. "The plane landed safely although its front window was damaged by heavy rain which was accompanied by snow," the paper said.
Comment: Due to previous reports (see archives), I think this is more likely to be wild electromagnetic conditions that cracked the windowscreen or even hail rather than rain.
The Temple of the Feathered Serpent
Robot Finds Mysterious Spheres in Ancient Temple
Discovery News, 29th April 2013
Hundreds of mysterious spheres lie beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, an ancient six-level step pyramid just 30 miles from Mexico City.
The enigmatic spheres were found during an archaeological dig using a camera-equipped robot at one of the most important buildings in the pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan.
"They look like yellow spheres, but we do not know their meaning. It's an unprecedented discovery," said Jorge Zavala, an archaeologist at Mexico's National Anthropology and History Institute.
Strange 'chandeliering ice' phenomena unfolds at Medicine Lake [VIDEO]
Kare 11 News, 30th April 2013
PLYMOUTH, Minn. - Many of us thought we'd seen it all when it comes to the winter of 2012-2013. Think again.
On a day in which spring made its return to Minnesota with a vengeance, Nadalie Thomas caught Old Man Winter making his last stand with an ice-shattering spectacle known to some as "chandeliering."
Nadalie and her kids were down on the shores of Medicine Lake in Plymouth Saturday when they noticed large piles of ice that were splintering into fine shards similar to glass. As spectacular as the visual image was the ear-splitting sound that accompanied the icy scene. [....]
One viewer emailed Mr. Sebesta claiming that it is known as "chandeleiring ice." Another friend of Jerrid's claims that a similar occurrence happened on the shores of Lake Mille Lacs back in 1994, leaving piles of ice shards so large they had to be removed by front end loaders.
Comment: I think the ice has changed into a new state of matter (superglass?) and the splintering and noise is the phase transition... I was intrigued with what looks like purple colour and I assumed there was a blast of ultraviolet light hitting this ice and causing the transition.... Personally, I think this is a major sign.... I have felt for a long time that there are problems with the atmosphere over the United States and this to me is not a good sign... My Delft TU evening presentation touched on the ice needle manifestation that relates to the charge on ice but the rapidity shown here is something else...
NASA Mission to Study What Disrupts Radio Waves
Space Daily, 29th April 2013
A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will launch from an atoll in the Pacific in the next few weeks to help scientists better understand and predict the electrical storms in Earth's upper atmosphere These storms can interfere with satellite communication and global positioning signals.
The mission, called EVEX, for the Equatorial Vortex Experiment, will launch two rockets for a twelve-minute journey through the equatorial ionosphere above the South Pacific. The launch window for the mission from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands is from April 27 to May 10, 2013. [...]
This area of the ionosphere is known for calm days and tempestuous nights, times when the ionosphere becomes rippled like a funhouse mirror, disturbing radio signals, and introducing GPS errors of a half mile or more.
The two rockets will measure events in two separate regions of the ionosphere to see how they work together to drive the ionosphere from placid and smooth to violently disturbed. Such information could ultimately lead to the ability to accurately forecast this important aspect of space weather.
Comment: More space weather driven research, see more below.
-
IRIS Solar Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg AFB for Launch
Space Daily, 19th April 2013
Scientists will soon gain a better view into energy and plasma movement near the surface of the sun, thanks to delivery of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. in preparation for launch.
Part of NASA's Small Explorer (SMEX) Mission, which delivers space exploration missions costing less than $120 million, IRIS was designed and built at Lockheed Martin's Space Systems Company Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Palo Alto, Calif. The program was developed with support from Lockheed Martin's Civil Space line of business as well as partners Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Montana State University, Stanford University and the University of Oslo. The launch of IRIS will not take place before May 28. [...]
NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., is responsible for mission operations and the ground data system. The Norwegian Space Centre will capture the IRIS data with their antennas in Svalbard, inside the Arctic Circle in northern Norway. The science data will be managed by the Joint Science Operations Center of the Solar Dynamics Observatory, run by Stanford and Lockheed Martin. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., oversees the SMEX project.
The goal of the IRIS program is to better understand how energy and plasma move from a lower layer of the sun's surface called the photosphere, through the chromosphere layer and to the outer corona layer.
JEREMY GRANTHAM: We Are In A Race To Prevent The Collapse Of Civilization
Business InsiderNews, 29th April 2013
Jeremy Grantham, the well-known head of investment firm GMO, has become increasingly vocal about his concerns for the fate of the world.
"Our global economy, reckless in its use of all resources and natural systems, shows many of the indicators of potential failure that brought down so many civilizations before ours," writes Grantham in his new quarterly letter titled "The Race Of Our Lives."
In 10 pages, he compiles some key points we've heard him discuss at length in his recent media tour. He spends most of his message on what makes him optimistic. We summarize is letter here. [...]
"The bottom line is that if we put our minds to it we can overcome normal inertia and abnormally powerful vested interests that oppose necessary change," he writes.
Comment: Someone with a brain and who can think sounding the alarm... There is a big focus here on declining fertility rates, but he thinks this is positive but obviously, the issue is the rapid drop and if the rate of sperm count dropping increases, there won't be many humans about in a few hundred years...
ASX website hit by glitch
The Herald News, 30th April 2013
The website of the Australian Securities Exchange is down this morning due to a "technical glitch".
The asx.com.au site has been displaying only a limited menu with no up-to-date market data as of about 9.30 on Tuesday morning.
A spokesman for the ASX said although the site was experiencing technical difficulties, "the dynamic information that goes out to market is going out as normal". [...]
ASX systems have suffered "glitches" in the past, with two high profile outages in 2011, one halting trade for four hours.
Comment: Obviously, this is NOT a major problem but it does not inspire confidence because the number of financial exchanges around the world experiencing "technical glitches" is creating a crisis of confidence with investors.
Pentagon Paying China — Yes, China — To Carry Data
Wired News, 29th April 2013
The Pentagon is so starved for bandwidth that it’s paying a Chinese satellite firm to help it communicate and share data.
U.S. troops operating on the African continent are now using the recently-launched Apstar-7 satellite to keep in touch and share information. And the $10 million, one-year deal lease — publicly unveiled late last week during an ordinarily-sleepy Capitol Hill subcommittee hearing — has put American politicians and policy-makers in bit of a bind. Over the last several years, the U.S. government has publicly and loudly expressed its concern that too much sensitive American data passes through Chinese electronics — and that those electronics could be sieves for Beijing’s intelligence services. But the Pentagon says it has no other choice than to use the Chinese satellite. The need for bandwidth is that great, and no other satellite firm provides the continent-wide coverage that the military requires.
Comment: I think this just reflects the issue of satellite availability but some think this is rather poor form...
Wall St is full of "crooks" and hasn't reformed its "pathological" culture since the financial crash.
Top economist Jeffrey Sachs says Wall Street is full of 'crooks' and hasn't changed since the financial crash
The IMF adviser also blamed 'a docile president, a docile White House and a docile regulatory system'
The Independent, 29th April 2013
In a cutting attack on America's financial hub, one of the world's most respected economists has said Wall St is full of "crooks" and hasn't reformed its "pathological" culture since the financial crash.
coming to a full blown mega crisis climax...
Professor Jeffrey Sachs told a high-powered audience at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve earlier this month that the lack of reform was down to “a docile president, a docile White House and a docile regulatory system that absolutely can’t find its voice.”
coming to a full blown mega crisis climax...
Sachs, from Colombia University, has twice been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, and is an adviser to the World Bank and IMF. [...]
“I meet a lot of these people on Wall Street on a regular basis right now,” he continued.
“I am going to put it very bluntly: I regard the moral environment as pathological. And I am talking about the human interactions . . . I’ve not seen anything like this, not felt it so palpably.”
"They have no responsibility to pay taxes; they have no responsibility to their clients; they have no responsibility to people, to counterparties in transactions,” he said. “They are tough, greedy, aggressive and feel absolutely out of control in a quite literal sense, and they have gamed the system to a remarkable extent.”
Comment: Looks like the refusal to reign in the psychopaths is coming to a full blown mega crisis climax... Is it now time to round up the criminals who are now very dangerous to society?
The Mind of a Con Man
New York Times, 28th April 2013
[...] Each case of research fraud that’s uncovered triggers a similar response from scientists. First disbelief, then anger, then a tendency to dismiss the perpetrator as one rotten egg in an otherwise-honest enterprise. But the scientific misconduct that has come to light in recent years suggests at the very least that the number of bad actors in science isn’t as insignificant as many would like to believe. And considered from a more cynical point of view, figures like Hwang and Hauser are not outliers so much as one end on a continuum of dishonest behaviors that extend from the cherry-picking of data to fit a chosen hypothesis — which many researchers admit is commonplace — to outright fabrication. Still, the nature and scale of Stapel’s fraud sets him apart from most other cheating academics. “The extent to which I did it, the longevity of it, makes it extreme,” he told me. “Because it is not one paper or 10 but many more.”
Comment: What I can't understand is that these kind of studies are supposed to be reproducible... Why should his research be automatically believed? Instead, Diederik Stapel's fantasy studies just made him famous.... This academic fail is truly pathetic... Whatever, if you have studied narcissism, this article implies Stapel hits the top of the scale and that makes him a psychopath. This means that it is not possible for him to feel any genuine remorse... Just read the article, I simply can't believe that this person is not completely warped... In my opinion it reveals just how much society loves lies and there are so very few willing to discern truth, most prefer to be entertained with fantastic lies or look the other way when the lies are undeniable.
NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn
NASA JPL News, 26th April 2013
PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole.
In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane's eye is about 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth. Thin, bright clouds at the outer edge of the hurricane are traveling 330 mph(150 meters per second). The hurricane swirls inside a large, mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as the hexagon.
"We did a double take when we saw this vortex because it looks so much like a hurricane on Earth," said Andrew Ingersoll, a Cassini imaging team member at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "But there it is at Saturn, on a much larger scale, and it is somehow getting by on the small amounts of water vapor in Saturn's hydrogen atmosphere."
Comment: I can't understand the surprise... the electromagnetic force and how it interacts with matter appears to be the same all over the universe....
CO2 Warmism denounced and Insurance Industry conference warned of Mini Ice Age events.
Weatheraction.com, 26th April 2013
In his dynamic presentation - complete with globe and moveable Jet-Stream - to Sterling Insurance Industry "Claims Day" conference 17th April, Kings Hill, West Malling Kent, Piers Corbyn pointed-out the systematic failings and fraud of the CO2 warmist approach and argued the whole insurance industry needed to get to grips with Real Climate Change as now upon the world in the form of the developing Mini-Ice-Age.
Piers showed how the CO2-based Climate Change proposition was "delusional nonsense" which had failed in ALL its predictions and whose protagonists now "just make up explanations as they go along". He specifically attacked Sir John Beddington's recent 'warm is cold' cant on the BBC, pointing out:
1. There is no evidence in the real world for the CO2-driver proposition but that reality is the reverse and that world (sea) temperatures drive CO2 levels in the long run; and Sir John has been challenged (**VIDEOS below) to come up with evidence of his absurd claims.
2. If CO2 really did drive the recent Sea Ice changes and cold Spring which was in fact predicted well in advance in detail by WeatherAction's Solar-Lunar based theory then it must be the case that mankind's trivial contribution to levels of the trace gas CO2 are driving solar events (which were also predicted by WeatherAction) - which is absurd beyond belief!
On the Association of British Insurers (ABI) continuing adoption of Global Warmist assertions Piers pointed out that the current CO2-Warmist expectation of more and worsening summer floods and 'warm makes cold' snowy events came from the same people who predicted ongoing droughts, barbecue summers, 'runaway warming' and the end of snow in UK by 2010. "They just make it up", said Piers, "and only now say these things because that is what is happening to the weather while CO2 still rises. They are misleading the Insurance industry, the economy and country and the ABI must reject the CO2 delusionism and adopt scientific Solar-lunar based Real Climate Change predictions".
Comment: If you want the message in blunt language, astrophysicist Piers Corbyn is your man... There are some video links here too...
Cooling in the Arctic: what to expect?
The Voice of Russia, 22nd April 2013
Global warming which has been the subject of so many discussions in recent years, may give way to global cooling. According to scientists from the Pulkovo Observatory in St.Petersburg, solar activity is waning, so the average yearly temperature will begin to decline as well. Scientists from Britain and the US chime in saying that forecasts for global cooling are far from groundless. Some experts warn that a change in the climate may affect the ambitious projects for the exploration of the Arctic that have been launched by many countries.
Just recently, experts said that the Arctic ice cover was becoming thinner while journalists warned that the oncoming global warming would make it possible to grow oranges in the north of Siberia. Now, they say a cold spell will set in. Apparently, this will not occur overnight, Yuri Nagovitsyn of the Pulkovo Observatory, says.
Read more: http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_04_22/Cooling-in-the-Arctic-what-to-expect/
Comment: Opinion at WUWT, Russian Scientists say period of global cooling ahead due to changes in the sun
Standing Watch against Space Weather
White House, 26th April 2013
Just as there is weather on Earth, there is weather in space. And though we cannot directly see or feel it when we step outside, it has the potential impact our daily lives.
“Space weather” originates on the Sun, can release the energy-equivalent of 100 hurricanes in just minutes, and can produce wind gusts that exceed one million mph. Every 11 years, the Sun undergoes a period of heightened activity called the "solar maximum”—a period that is occurring right now—that can bring especially powerful solar eruptions and hurl energetic particles into space, sometimes toward the Earth. Though the likelihood that these solar storms will thrust particles in our planet’s general direction is very low—when they do, they can damage satellites, harm astronauts in space, make GPS information erratic or undependable, and in some cases even cause electricity blackouts on the Earth.
Comment: Even The White House are paying attention...
Former CIA Director: The Grid Is Vulnerable To Attack
Forbes News, 26th April 2013
The electric power grid in the United States is vulnerable to attacks that have already begun, former CIA Director R. James Woolsey said in Chicago Thursday night, and America needs distributed generation as backup—primarily in the form of natural-gas cogeneration and solar power.
On another energy-security front, Woolsey called on automakers to produce fuel-flex cars and for gas stations to offer motorists the choice of gasoline or methanol—a liquid fuel made from natural gas—to free American transportation from dependence on OPEC. [...]
The grid is under attack already, according to Woolsey, and regularly fending off hacking attempts. To illustrate the possible consequences of a successful attack, Woolsey plugged the NBC series “Revolution,” which explores “what happened to America when the power went out.”
“We have 18 critical infrastructures in the United States: water, food, electricity and so forth. All 17 of the others depend on electricity,” Woolsey said. “Everything depends on the electric grid.”
Comment: The penny is well and truly dropping concerning a solar megablast. I don't believe the excuse of a man-made EMP strike is the real problem. Are controllers now starting to panic that they have created a nightmare scenario? The issue is centralised power distribution, see archives for lots of previous articles, reports and comments.
Benedict XVI prays penultimate Angelus: “The time of testing is here, let us focus on God again”
Vatican Insider, 17th February 2013 Flashback!
During today’s Angelus prayer Benedict XVI spoke about Jesus’ temptations before a crowd of 50 thousand faithful, asking them to “Pray for me and the next Pope”
The time of testing is here. We must not use God for our own ends.” Resignation is a testimony of faith. “Don’t be afraid” “to fight the evil spirit,” what is important is that we do it alongside Christ the Victor,” the Pope said during today’s Angelus before a crowd of 50 thousand faithful, urging them to turn to “the Mother Mary.” “Let us trust in the intercession of the Virgin Mary in this time of testing, “ he added. “Through her we will feel the powerful presence of his divine Son, so we may ward off temptation with the Word of Christ and place God at the centre of our lives.” We must reject the false images of the Messiah as Jesus did when faced with the temptations “the Temptor presented him with,” the most serious of which is “using God for one’s own ends,” Benedict XVI said during the course of the Angelus prayer.
Comment: I feel compelled to re-state the words of the ex-Pope despite the fact I don't have much respect for the office or the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church.... However, the Catholic Church have some of the best state-of-the-art astronomical observatories in the world with massive archives of ancient documents telling them what to expect at times of major cosmic upheavals. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is now holed-up at Castel Gandolfol, the old Vatican Observatory that in Jan 2008 was being reported as being dismantled, but it seems instead, there was some major re-building work done for who knows what purpose... We know for a fact that they have been tracking comets and possibly other unsual cosmic objects that require state-of-the art infra-red telescopes. A conglomerate of NASA & Vatican astronomers at Mount Graham, Tucson, Arizona have deployed the “Large Binocular Telescope Near-infrared Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic Research,” nick-named (“L.U.C.I.F.E.R.”). The Vatican Observatory are using the VATT Telescope to watch C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)... see this image C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) and we can presume that a repeat of the biblical 'Passover' by Comet ISON and a possible pollution event is enough for them to make a warning that would only be heard by those with ears to hear... Those who visit this website on a regular basis count as being amongst the few. So, I will repeat, “The time of testing is here...”
Comet ISON Meteor Shower
NASA Science News, 19th April 2013
April 19, 2013: Anticipation is building as Comet ISON plunges into the inner solar system for a close encounter with the sun in November 2013. Blasted at point-blank range by solar radiation, the sungrazer will likely become one of the finest comets in many years.
When NASA's Swift spacecraft observed the comet in January 2013, it was still near the orbit of Jupiter, but already very active. More than 112,000 pounds of dust were spewing from the comet's nucleus every minute.
It turns out, some of that dust might end up on Earth.
Veteran meteor researcher Paul Wiegert of the University of Western Ontario has been using a computer to model the trajectory of dust ejected by Comet ISON, and his findings suggest that an unusual meteor shower could be in the offing.
"For several days around January 12, 2014, Earth will pass through a stream of fine-grained debris from Comet ISON," says Wiegert. "The resulting shower could have some interesting properties. [...]
While the dust is “up there,” it could produce noctilucent clouds (NLCs).
Comment: OMG! NASA scientists are giving some credence to James McCanney's claim about what we could happen with the Comet ISON passover! It seems, that we now need some serious focus by astronomers to provide the spectrum analysis of what chemicals are in the comet tail to see whether we should expect a major pollution event... See below:
-
Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON): JamesMcCanneyScienceHour_October_04_2012 (MP3)
James McCanney Science Hour, 4th October 2012 Flashback!
Comment: This is classic James McCanney where we are given a basic introduction to what is happening with Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) and what he expects to happen and why there may be some severe space weather events THIS YEAR. He expects to see major cometary interactions with the gas planets of Jupiter, and Mars and then more interactions with Mercury... Nothing is absolutely certain, but it is very likely the citizens of planet Earth are going to witness major celestial fireworks of biblical proportions in the heavens.
-
Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON): JamesMcCanneyScienceHour_November_08_2012.mp3
James McCanney Science Hour, 8th November 2012
Flashback!
Comment: Only the first 23 minutes of this show is dedicated to talking about Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) but we get a detailed description of 'The Red Hand of Death'. McCanney does not mention the comet 'Wormwood' in the show on the 4th October & 8th November 2012, but over the years worth of shows that I have listened to in the past, he has talked about a comet known to the Catholic Church that has polluted the Earth's waters in our ancient past and made them 'bitter'. Here is some introductory information from a short article with some science (chemistry) that is not too difficult to understand, so it is strongly recommended that the whole article is read especially for those readers who doubt the seriousness of what can happen when large comets come near to Earth... Simply, the analogy of a biblical Passover is not fanciful.
In the First Century AD, the Apostle John wrote an apocalyptic book called "Revelation" in which he described among many "end-time" events the collision of a star called Wormwood with Earth. Revelation states:
Rev. 8:10-11: The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-- the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
Wormwood is a botanical herb commonly known for its bitterness. See Botanical.com. It was used as a pesticide, medicinal tonic and liqueur ingredient. The term "wormwood" was often used to describe "extreme bitterness".
Let us consider the possibility of a "star" turning the waters bitter on Earth. The term "star" in classical terminology lacks the modern astronomical sense. It could have been referring to a comet, asteroid, "sun-like" star or planet. Since the possibility of a planet or sun colliding with earth is infinitesimal, we will eliminate this possibility.
Scientific Scenario Of A Comet's Impact And The "Wormwood Star" Prophecy by Marshall Beeber, Messianic Literary Corner.
Ignore the "heat shock" that is talk for infants. A comet nucleus does not need to be anywhere near Earth because comet tails can be thought of as electrical bare "wires" across space. What's more, NASA has measured these 'tails' to stretch for half a billion miles. So, it is the electrical interactions of these comet tails in our atmosphere that will cause chemical reactions in our atmosphere. For reasons that I will not disclose, I think a lot more people need to be aware that things may become very chaotic on this planet in the new future. You don't need to believe me but James McCanney has been preparing his audience for a very long time so that people will be able to better cope in any catacylsmic event. Despite the disinformation campaigns that target James McCanney, I have great respect. This is a man who actually cares about people.
-
JamesMcCanneyScienceHour_November_15_2012.mp3
James McCanney Science Hour, 15th November 2012 Flashback!
Comment: James McCanney continues talking about Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) and more about 'The Red Hand of Death' and The Passover event detailed in The Bible (00.00 - 04:45 & 35.50 - 59.00) . Here, it is worth pointing out that some of the mythologising about 'the gods' make a lot more sense when we realise that astronomer-priests sought to preserve the stories of what happened when monster comets come into our solar system and cause havoc as they interact with the major planets of Saturn and Jupiter and then fling the end products on us on Earth... Due to the scientific merit, some mythologists are also now re-interpretating myths in terms of highly electrical plasma manifestations being seen in the heavens.
-
Will Comet ISON light up the night sky in late 2013?
Space News, 20th February 2013
[...] Just how brightly Comet ISON will shine this year is currently up for debate between planetary scientists and comet-watchers. However, the general consensus is that ISON will hopefully be the brightest comet anyone alive has ever seen. Current predictions suggest that it will skim the Sun, approaching it at a distance within 1.1 million miles at the end of November 2013. It is here that ISON could reach, or even exceed, the brightness of the full Moon meaning that it will be visible to the naked eye quite easily.
[...] Observers all over the world will be able to see ISON with everyone in the Northern Hemisphere getting a great view in the run-up to Christmas and into January passing directly over the north pole. In January 2014, astronomers predict that the comet will approach to within 37.2 million miles of Earth.
Glitch unlocks Montgomery County jail doors
Washington Post, 27th April 2013
About 500 locks on cell doors simultaneously opened inside Montgomery County’s main jail early Saturday, prompting officials to declare a security emergency that included posting about 20 police cars on the perimeter of the facility near Clarksburg.
No inmates tried to escape and the locks were reset, said Arthur Wallenstein, director of the county’s Department of Correction and Rehabilitation. Wallenstein said the cell-door locks also disengaged Tuesday before being reset. “It’s definitely a problem,” he said. “We must find the source of it.”
County maintenance workers and outside contractors were in the jail Saturday working on the system to find a permanent fix for the doors, Wallenstein said. The doors are part of an electronic system guided by computer programs and corrections officers.
Comment: Now, that is what I call a glitch! Well, I think this story in itself should be enough to remove any doubt that electronics that require a stable geomagnetic environment are occasionally unreliable. I hope these same electronic locks are not used at banks etc but I bet they are....
CBOE works to contain fallout from glitch
Market Watch, 27th April 2013
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Senior executives of the Chicago Board Options Exchange were on Friday working to contain the fallout from a software glitch that delayed trading on Thursday and left U.S. markets without critical hedging tools.
Analysts estimate the episode could have cost parent CBOE Holdings Inc. (US:CBOE) some $700,000 in lost revenue, and its share of U.S. options trading dipped below its recent average as clients continued to assess the impact of what the company described as a “systems issue.” [...]
CBOE, the largest U.S. stock-options exchange in terms of trading, failed to open for trading Thursday because of an “an internal systems issue” that prevented its computers from validating some orders, and sending reports back to traders. Trading opened about 3 1/2 hours late, leaving investors frustrated and traders milling about CBOE’s Chicago pits.
Thursday’s breakdown left banks, asset managers and other investors unable to deal in heavily traded options on major stock indexes and CBOE’s own Volatility Index, or VIX. Those contracts are available solely on the CBOE.
Comment: Hmmm.... the high profile computer system fails just keep coming and the reason is OBVIOUS if you understand the problem we now have with space weather and cosmic rays. This failure seems to have caused another major upset for traders,my opinion is based on the amount of high profile media coverage.
Rolling Stone magazine: 'Conspiracy theorists of the world, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right'
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
Rolling Stone Magazine, 25th April 2013
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial sector, suggesting the world's largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just about everything.
Comment: Folk are waking up....
Brazilian MoD Discusses UFOs With Ufologists - 2
UFO Updatelist, 25th April 2013
Dear Listers.
For those who have the patience, here is a detailed article
about the Ministry of Defense meeting in Brasilia, published at
the Brazilian UFO Magazine website two days ago and just
translated into English.
I am sorry if you feel it too long. Tried to make it shorter...
A. J.
-----
"Ministry of Defense and Ufologists establish unique
communication channel in the world"
Historic meeting in Brazil on April 18 initiates mutual
cooperation between military commands and civilian UFO
investigators
Members of the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU) and
members of the Brazilian Armed Forces met this Thursday
afternoon in Bras=EDlia under the Ministry of Defense's
intermediation to discuss access to military documents and
reports of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). [...]
Over ten military from the three Armed Forces -- Army, Navy and
Air Force -- were present at the meeting, but only the
representative of the Air Force Command made a significant
contribution, surprising the UFO researchers with his frankness
and stating that it was quite true that some UFO documents still
remain secret and are yet to be declassified. [...]
The bureaus goal would be to serve the
Brazilian public and help to decipher one of the most impressive
enigmas the mankind has ever faced: the visits from other
species to our planet, a phenomenon that has given our country
an outstanding place in the world because of the immense amount
of UFO sightings and encounters with extraterrestrials that
happen here, as well as their immense variety.
Comment: The fact that we are even getting immediate worldwide details of the meeting between Brazilian Ministry of Defense officials and ufologists it utterly amazing. Btw, if you like making money, the 'I told ya so' t-shirt is going to sell... Maybe, I should sell t-shirts and mugs that say 'Joyfire told ya so...' because it looks like the Brazilian disclosure of the shadow biosphere is going to be very interesting.... This link was picked up at ATS Brazilian Ministry of Defense - Official Meeting With UFO Researchers.
Meet Your Future Crazy Ex On Alex Jones’s Infowars Dating Website
ATS, 27th April 2013
This has got to be the biggest laugh I have had all week.... Follow the links...
The Earth's center is 1,000 degrees hotter than previously thought
Phys.Org News, 25th April 2013
Scientists think they have found some real global warming...
Delingpole on the global warming scam: "[it] was based on the largest confection of lies in junk science history...it was mainly the fault of scientist-manque arts graduates too easily impressed by men in white lab coats"
Telegraph Delingpole, 23rd April 2013
Now that global warming is completely unravelling, I want to elaborate on a point I made a few blogposts back about the role of humanities graduates in this great debate.
On the face of it, their record isn't good. Some of the most influential promulgators of climate nonsense have been arts graduates – among them Bryony Worthington (the FoE activist turned peer responsible for the Climate Change Act), the BBC's Roger Harrabin and a fair few of the Guardian's 2,800-strong Environment Department. I think future historians – looking back on this period of mass hysteria in which so many people were persuaded by and so much expensive, damaging policy was based on the largest confection of lies in junk science history – could put together a reasonably persuasive thesis that it was mainly the fault of scientist-manque arts graduates too easily impressed by men in white lab coats.
Comment: I suppose the real issue is people who employ persuasion tactics rather than reason need to be considered as dangerous..
Brazilian Ministry of Defense establishes communications with UFO researchers
UFO Digest, 23rd April 2013
For the first time in history a Ministry of Defense of a country has officially invited UFO researchers to discuss the UFO Phenomena, how to handle its investigation and the information it may come from it. The meeting happened last April 18 at the Brazilian Ministry of Defense building, in Brasilia, the Federal Capital, and over 20 people took part of it.
On behalf of the minister of Defense, Ambassador Celso Amorim, his Secretary Ari Matos Cardoso and his associates received the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU) members to discuss the subject. Present at the meeting, that lasted some 75 minutes, were also present several representatives from the Brazilian Air Force, Navy and Army, all subordinated to the Brazilian Ministry of Defense, and who were asked to fully comply with the ufologists’ requests. [...]
I am very happy to announce this information to the entire World UFO Community, as it is the result of my colleagues and mine efforts at the Brazilian Committee of UFO Researchers (CBU) to make the UFO Phenomena a clear and public issue in Brazil. The Brazilian UFO disclosure is a direct result of our strategies in the last years, through the above mentioned campaign, and the Brazilian Ministry of Defense meeting is a recognition of it.
Comment: Despite my usual antagonistic stance towards the leaders of The Church of Ufology, I recognise there are many lay people who want to find out the truth concerning the possible existence of extraterrestrials and a shadow biosphere. So, for the genuine truth seeker, I am delighted about this news from Brazil. This news has to be seen with the perspective that it seems the penny has well and truly dropped with world controllers. The Novus Ordo Seclorum of the Great Seal of the United States that was crudely fashioned into the New World Order mantra is starting to be understood in the true original sense, see 2012: The American Founding Fathers Knew, January 2012. The gods and Heroes are now well and truly "mingling" with humans so it no longer possible to hide the existence of another lifeform on this planet. Thus, I believe UFO/ET disclosure is coming very soon.
Scientists discuss invisible alien life on Earth
Open Minds, 23rd April 2013
On Monday, April 22, HuffPost Live featured a segment about theoretical invisible life that could exist on Earth. This segment, titled “Earth’s Alien Life,” featured HuffPost Senior Science Editor David Freeman, University of Colorado, Boulder Professor of Philosophy Carol Cleland, Arizona State University theoretical physicist and astrobiologist Paul Davies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Associate Professor of English David Toomey, and was hosted by HuffPost Live‘s Josh Zepps.
Comment: Hmmm... Historically, most ufologists have ignored the possibility of a shadow biosphere and those pointing out the obvious, see archives re Trevor James Constable, John Keel, Jacques Vallee, Ivan Sanderson and Dr. Harley Rutledge. The focus has been the search for extraterrestrials in space ships etc etc despite the overwhelming evidence that the ufo phenomena encompasses a broad range of activity and entities that interact with humans often in a paranormal way. The fact that ufologists are being forced to pay attention is because real scientists are pointing out some facts. In terms of the business model of maintaining mystery and with any successful culty enterprise, those that run the Church of Ufology seek to just keep people buying books and DVDs whilst attending conferences to create cash flow. There is very little interest in identifying the truth so the interference of real scientists is becoming an issue and no doubt Davos 2013 revelations have not necessarily been met with rejoicing either.
Something strange is happening in all our skies!
Spaceweather.com, 25th April 2013
ELLIPTICAL MOON HALOS: The moon is waxing full, which means now is the time to be alert for icy moon halos. On April 22nd, Darryl Luscombe of Sointula, British Columbia, saw an unusual specimen. Instead of being circular, as usual, this halo was elliptical:
"I dont think I have ever seen an elliptical halo around the moon before," says Luscombe. "I looked up and just stared for about a minute. Then I raced inside to get my camera. I just managed to photograph it before it disappeared." Atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley comments on the apparition: "There have been quite a few ellipticals seen in the last few weeks both in Europe and the US. Something strange [is happening] in all our skies!"
ice halos are much smaller than the ordinary 22 degree halo encircling the sun or moon," Cowley continues. "In the 22 degree halo the ring is effectively made by light refracting through a 60 degree ice prism. The smaller elliptical halos need much narrower prisms and we think that six sided plate shaped crystals with very shallow pyramidal ends might do the work. The problem is that such crystals are unphysical and computer simulations using them do not predict the halo very well. An alternative is the wedge shaped sections of small snowflake-like crystals. Whatever their cause, they are rare and mysterious!"
Comment: Earth Sky has a nice article called where we are informed:
"...halos are a sign of high thin cirrus clouds drifting 20,000 feet or more above our heads. These clouds contain millions of tiny ice crystals. The halos you see are caused by both refraction, or splitting of light, and also by reflection, or glints of light from these ice crystals. The crystals have to be oriented and positioned just so with respect to your eye, in order for the halo to appear. [...] Bottom line: Halos around the sun or moon happen when high, thin cirrus clouds are drifting high above your head. Tiny ice crystals in Earth’s atmosphere cause the halos. They do this by refracting and reflecting the light."
What makes a halo around the sun or moon?,
EarthSky, 19th Jan 2013
William R. Corliss is famed for his rigorous documentation of anything out of the ordinary in the footsteps of Charles Fort, the original anomalist who was way way way ahead of the curve... Corliss tells us (just as I expected) elliptical haloes are nothing new, but there is no scientific explanation and that is why spaceweather.com is forced to highlight that "something strange is going on in our atmosphere....". From my point of view, it seems we have evidence of meteoric dust with different properties passing Earth but it must be rare, BUT if these haloes persist, then answers must be provided by the scientific community.
Another Elliptical Halo
Science Frontiers ONLINE No. 88: Jul-Aug 1993
June 6, 1992. Aboard the m.v. British Skill in the Indian Ocean.
"Between 1300 and 1345 UTC, a complete halo phenomenon was observed round the moon, as shown in the sketch. The ring was complete although its appearance was elliptical. Its horizontal diameter was 40° with its vertical diameter being 53°.
"The illuminated part of the moon was not in the centre of the halo, its altitude at the lower limb (phase, new waxing) being 38° 54'. The altitude of the upper part of the halo was 59° whereas the lower edge was at 6°."
(Anderson, P.R.; "Elliptical Halo," Marine Observer, 63:65, 1993.)
Comment. Once again we have another observation called "impossible" by geophysicists. Halos, they say, must be symmetrical about the sun or moon. Yet, photos and precise measurements, like those above, demonstrate the reality of the phenomenon.
Russian Space Cargo Ship Suffers Glitch After Launch
Yahoo News, 24th April 2013
An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft launched toward the International Space Station this morning, but once in orbit, the capsule encountered a problem, officials said.
The Progress 51 supply spacecraft failed to deploy an antenna used for navigation after lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:12 a.m. EDT (1012 GMT). Specifically, the antenna is used to "measure the orientation" of the ship, NASA officials said.
Comment: Another failed Russian launch see recent history in archives... Update: Lost In Space? Russian Spaceship Suffers Glitch
Bizarre whirlpool appears in Latvian river sucking everything in its path into watery vortex [VIDEO]
Daily Mail, 24th April 2013
* Seven-minute clip apparently captured after a river burst its
* It captures huge blocks of ice and mud heading towards whirlpool
A monstrous whirlpool has appeared in the Baltic state of Latvia swallowing everything dragged towards it.
The bizarre phenomenon looks as if a plug has been pulled from the ground beneath as it sucks water down.
A seven-minute clip of what looks like a vortex in action was apparently captured after a river burst its banks in the south-east of the country.
Comment: The Daily Mail is on a roll documenting the most weird Earth change events around the globe, the video is quite incredible. Well, I wonder if there was a bore hole created in the bedrock beneath the river caused by a blast from space and hence the plug-hole effect that was caught on video....
Nasa image reveals the magnetic 'bubble' that is protecting the Earth from solar particles as it speeds through space
Daily Mail, 23rd April 2013
Earth is seen as a tiny speck surrounded by an enormous magnetic 'bubble' surging through space in this image released by Nasa.
Far from the usual view of a blue and green globe spinning peacefully in the solar system, the dramatic picture illustrates the speed and energy of the magnetosphere that surrounds Earth as it moves around the sun.
Scientists studying data collected by Nasa's WIND spacecraft have used it to create a more detailed snapshot of the way solar particles streaming in from the sun bounce off the bubble. [...]
Lynn Wilson, deputy project scientist for Wind at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, explained how 'cool squiggles' she stumbled upon in the data 'turned out to be a special kind of magnetic pulsations called short large amplitude magnetic structures, which we call SLAMS for short'.
Studying the region around these 'rogue waves' and how they propagate may help to establish what accelerates narrow jets of charged particles back out into space and away from Earth.
Comment: This is a simplified version of a NASA press release, see below. The mention of magnetic mirrors focusing intense beams back into space reminds me of the existence of stellar jets and the idea that intense magnetic fields can produce high currents (larger than a thousand amperes) and generate jets. I suppose this most often happens when the magnetopause is squashed during the arrival of a coronal mass ejection- Since we know for a fact that "killer electrons" are coming into our atmosphere from the Earth's radiation belts (night side only?), it is making me wonder if these jets are formed by a similar mechanism. According to ESA scientists, when Earth’s magnetic lines wobble, it creates something like a very large-scale, low frequency laser, which accelerates the electrons even more, up to ‘killer’ energies. So, I am wondering if the shape of the magnetic field is the final arbiter because that would be in the realm of Dave La Point's Primer Fields discovery.... I suppose the real issue is that satellites are getting regularly zapped by big electrical discharges from these jets knocking out the electronics... That is the reality of space weather and the new tough conditions around Earth.
Hubble Telescope Captures Image of Comet ISON
Universe Today, 23rd April 2013
Here’s our first good look at Comet (C/2012 S1) ISON. The Hubble Space Telescope captured this shot on April 10, when the comet was slightly closer than Jupiter’s orbit at a distance of 634 million kilometers (394 million miles) from Earth. Later this year, this comet could become a brilliant object in the sky, perhaps 10 times brighter than Venus.
Comment: Ignore all the talk of ice... see archives for the Electric Universe interpretation of comets and the undisputed facts that close-up space probes have only detected unactivated comets as being hot dry rocks.
National Archives of Australia: UFO FILES AVAILABLE
Above Top Secret, 23rd April 2013
With the permission of the National Archives of Australia (on behalf of the Commonwealth Government of Australia), I've uploaded searchable PDF files containing over 10,000 pages of Australian UFO documents to a directory at the link below. Some highlights from that collection are given in the post below.
Comment: Someone who has gone to a lot of trouble to provide an online library of searchable PDF files containing over 10,000 pages of Australian UFO archive documents that have been released into the public domain. Now we know that UFO disclosure is coming and maybe fairly soon, all these archive dumps are probably very much in the public interest.
Believe it or not, this is no beautiful sandy beach - it's a farmer's field! Crop of barley ruined by tons of sand blown across land as Britain finally warms up
Daily Mail, 22nd April 2013
* Scotland battered again by second round of sandstorms devastating crops
* Farmer Cameron MacIver in Moray says the sand is so high 'the only thing showing is top of fences'
Scotland was hit by a second bout of freak sandstorms today, causing an estimated £50,000 damage to crops.
Farmers in Elgin, Moray, had just spent a week clearing up after freak winds created 4ft high sand drifts on Tuesday when more gales swept in, whipping up further sandstorms and devastating crops.
Barley farmer Cameron MacIver said: 'There's parts around my farm where the only thing showing above the sand is the top bit of the fence.'
Comment: Absolutely no mention of where this huge volume of sand came from..... Did it just drop out of the skies?
Physicist Proposes New Theory of Gravity—Gravity Does Not Exist
The Epoch TimesNews, 20th April 2013
Professor Eric Verlinde, 48, a respected string theorist and a professor of physics at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Amsterdam, proposed a new theory of gravity as reported by the New York Times on July 12, 2010. He argued in a recent paper, titled “On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton” that gravity is a consequence of the laws of thermodynamics. Reversing the logic of 300 years of science, his contention is that gravity is an illusion that has caused continued turmoil among physicists, or at least among those who profess to understand it. [...]
“We’ve known for a long time gravity doesn’t exist,” Dr. Verlinde said, “It’s time to yell it.”
Comment: Apparently, this is not a heretic... maybe, a few physicists are tired of defending an out of date theory but I am not sure about his proposal.....
Nationwide BS suffers IT glitch as customers take to social networks to complain they are locked out of online banking
Thisismoney.co.uk, 23rd April 2013
Nationwide Building Society has been hit by ‘technical difficulties’ meaning millions of customers cannot access online and mobile banking – while some reports suggest cash machines are not working either.
On Nationwide’s website this afternoon, a message reads: ‘We’re sorry to have to tell you that our online bank is unavailable. We are making every effort to restore service as quickly as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience this will cause you.’
A Nationwide spokesman said: 'We are currently experiencing an IT issue that is affecting services including our online bank. [...]
The glitch has seen scores of customers complain on social networking website Twitter – including businesses who are unable to take payments.
:
Comment: Twitter complaints here. Well, we had some some minor C-Class flares have been observed around Sunspot 1726 today and yesterday but the flurry of high profile computer glitches is quite impressive. See sidebar for the latest x-ray flux data over the last few days.
-
Chicago Board Options Exchange
Market Watch, 25th April 2013
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Trading resumed at the biggest U.S. options exchange by volume after being delayed by several hours Thursday because of system problems.
-
Jeddah port cargo services suspended following glitch
Arab News, 24th April 2013
Cargo services were disrupted at the Jeddah Islamic Port due to a technical fault in the electronic exchange system, informed sources said.
The port authorities did not comment on the issue or on its impact on cargo activity of the port.
Hani Al-Trabulsi, a cargo dealer at the port, said the system stopped working a few days back and the outgoing and transit cargo services were suspended with the exception of goods that had already been entered prior to the technical glitch.
Comment: Another random cosmic ray hit with a significant impact
-
NZX back up after technical glitch - New Zealand
NZ Herald News, 23rd April 2013
The NZX is now back in operation after a technical glitch this morning kept investors in the dark with no market announcements being published on the stock exchange operator's website and Reuters and Bloomberg services not showing trading action.
The stock exchange did not publish any new market announcements on its public website throughout the morning, due to technical issues though trading was open, an NZX spokeswoman said.
It was unclear whether that was behind Reuters and Bloomberg terminals not showing any trading action, and if that extends to IRESS products. In a formal announcement at 11am, the NZX confirmed it was currently experiencing difficulty with its market data feed.
-
Apple's iCloud services again hit by global outage
Apple Insider, 23rd April 2013
The iCloud suite of services experienced an outage Tuesday morning, marking yet another period of downtime for Apple's cloud-based operations.
The outage appeared to affect a number of iCloud-based services, including Mail, Find My iPhone, and Find My Friends. Users attempting to log in to iCloud.com were also met with a "Connection Error" message that explained that "iCloud encountered an error while trying to connect to the server."
The issues appeared to be worldwide as of Tuesday morning, as readers from around the globe reached out to AppleInsider to detail their own issues.
Despite the multitude of issues, Apple's iCloud System Status website claimed that all iCloud services were online and operational. No downtime was noted by the company.
-
Patent: Cosmic ray detectors for integrated circuit chips US 7309866 B2
Patent Services, June 2004 Flashback!
The normal background radiation environment on the surface of the earth has ionizing components that sometimes affects the reliability of semiconductor integrated circuit chips, such as memory chips used in computers. [...]
Cosmic particles in the form of neutrons or protons can collide randomly with silicon nuclei in the chip and fragment some of them, producing alpha-particles and other secondary particles, including the recoiling nucleus. [...]
Cosmic ray induced computer crashes have occurred and are expected to increase with frequency as devices (for example, transistors) decrease in size in chips. This problem is projected to become a major limiter of computer reliability in the next decade.
Various approaches have been suggested to eliminate or reduce the number of soft errors due to cosmic ray interactions in chips.
Comment: I believe the issue of cosmic rays becoming more and more of a problem is not just related to a decrease in chip size but more related to an increase in cosmic rays. As NASA have informed the world, cosmic rays are at an all time high and are expected to increase because the shielding our solar system and planet are both simultaneously weakening, see archives for more info.
-
Cosmic threat to tomorrow's computers
ZDNet.co.uk, 5th February 2008 Flashback!
"...cosmic rays of the sort pouring down to Earth from exploding galaxies, neutron stars and other energetic events. These are largely shielded by the atmosphere, but more than enough get through to sea level to cause problems. Engagingly, this also means that SER goes up with altitude - you'll get five times as many just 2,600 feet above sea level, and if you're living in Denver (5,280 feet ASL) expect ten times as many.
Cosmic rays are now the biggest source of soft errors - and they're common enough that on average, a gigabyte of RAM will have one soft error every couple of weeks."
-
Intel plans to tackle cosmic ray threat
BBC News, 8th April 2008 Flashback!
Computer processor manufacturer Intel have revealed details of a patent for protecting future generations of computers from the growing threat of cosmic rays.
The company has designed an on-chip cosmic ray detector to try to cope with the particles, which originate in space before sporadically entering the Earth's atmosphere and going through everything they encounter.
Because the operation of computers is through charged particles, the unpredictable hits from the rays are problematic, potentially causing the system to crash.
"What happens is if a cosmic ray causes a collision inside the silicon chip, that releases lots of charged particles," Intel's senior scientist Eric Hannah told BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme.
"All our logic is based on charge, so it gets interference."
VIRAL: Watch three years of Sun in three minutes
WTVR News, 23rd April 2013
GREENBELT, Md. (NASA GODDARD) – In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle. This video shows those three years of the sun at a pace of two images per day.
SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) captures a shot of the sun every 12 seconds in 10 different wavelengths. The images shown here are based on a wavelength of 171 Angstroms, which is in the extreme ultraviolet range and shows solar material at around 600,000 Kelvin. In this wavelength it is easy to see the sun’s 25-day rotation as well as how solar activity has increased over three years.
-
Three Years of SDO Images
NASA SCience News, 22nd April 2013
In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun's rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle. This video shows those three years of the sun at a pace of two images per day.
Suspected Meteor Lights Up Sky Above Argentina
NTD TV News, 22nd April 2013
Thousands of residents of the Argentine city of Santiago del Estero in the early hours of Sunday morning caught a glimpse of a suspected meteor that lit up the sky above the city. The event took place at about 3:20 AM (local time). Argentine authorities believe the spectacular fireball was caused by a meteor entering the earth's atmosphere and disintegrating. Some witnesses reported to local newspapers that they felt a slight tremor soon after seeing the meteorite. [...]
According to local media reports, police in the area were inundated with phone calls from frightened residents, and from parents who were worried about their children still out in the city's bars and nightclubs.
NASA Searching for alternative lifeforms in our upper atmosphere?
Spaceweather.com, 21st April 2013
SPACE WEATHER BALLOON: Yesterday in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Bishop, California, a group of high school students launched a "space weather balloon" into the stratosphere. Their goal is to monitor the effects of solar flares on Earth's atmosphere.
The silver capsule, built by Mihai Ciustea of Sammamish WA and launched by the Earth to Sky team of Bishop CA, is bristling with sensors to measure, e.g., ozone, pressure, humidity, acceleration and other variables of interest. The capsule travels to 125,000 feet--well inside Earth's ozone layer--and lingers there for approximately two hours before parachuting back to Earth with the data. The April 20th launch was a test flight to measure baseline levels when solar activity is relatively low.
The capsule also serves another purpose: It is a bacteria collector. A door at the bottom of the capsule can open, guiding air into a filter designed to capture microbes during the flight. Mihai Ciustea hopes to find ice-nucleating bacteria and other lifeforms living high above Earth's surface.
Comment: NASA are looking for the evidence of other lifeforms in our upper atmosphere? Well, we have seen quite a few reports of cosmic gunk splattering Earth but this might be the stuff that is charged and can remain aloft and surf the strong electric currents and magnetic fields.
Mother Of German Green Weeklies, Die Zeit, Shocks Readers…Now Casts Doubt On Global Warming!
NoTricksZone, 19th April 2013
After a foray in a cult, one of the first steps on the path back to reality is the process of deprogramming. Could it be that this step is now being self-administered by the German mainstream media? It appears so.
Now that the global mean temperature curve has drifted out of and below the IPCC’s projected range, panic is breaking out.
The mother of German green weeklies, Die Zeit, appears to be taking measurements at the back of the house in preparation for the installation of a back door! Rahmstorf is back there with them, trying to talk them out of it.
Comment: The opening sentence here is quite a statement, something that others have pointed out is imperative for former global warming believers. Deprogramming implies what is commonly called 'brainwashing' (see
How Brainwashing Works). It can be most simply defined as persuasion by propaganda or salesmanship. According to Rick Ross at the Cult Education website (
www.rickross.com), deprogramming encourages critical thinking, objective reasoning and logical analysis. There is no indoctrination into another belief system. Simply, the need to deprogram people who believed global warming propaganda is necessary because it is not possible to just walk away from false beliefs provided by the popular media and greenie zealots on a mission. In order to understand the mindset various articles have been written over the years that help to demonstrate that this is a serious issue, see my Best of the Blog archive Environmentalism as Religion .
Higher Sperm Counts Are a Breeze with a Kilt
Live Science, 19th April 2013
Low sperm count got you down? The problem might not be in your pants — the problem may be pants themselves.
Researchers believe wearing kilts — the skirtlike garments long associated with Scottish bagpipers — could enhance men's fertility while also providing psychological benefits.
The medical experts base their claim on existing studies that prove sperm counts improve when the scrotal area is cooler. A 2012 report suggests that wearing boxer shorts (as opposed to snug-fitting briefs) was associated with higher sperm counts.
Comment: Hmmmm.... It seems that the sperm count drop is starting to frighten a few who can actually engage brain and think that if the trend continues, in a few hundred years, there will no humans left able to reproduce. This is a summary of info that I have already picked up but no doubt there are other statistics available.
- The sperm count of French men fell by a third between 1989 and 2005, a study suggests. See, French sperm count 'falls by a third' (December 2012)
- Twenty years ago, 200 million viable sperm per milliliter was considered normal. Today, 15 million is average,” Margarita Anshina, director of the Center for Reproduction and Genetics, told RT. See,
Russian men: an endangered species? (12th October 2011)
- A study by Dr. Ronit Haimov-Kokhman released in November, showed a 40-percent decline in the concentration of sperm cells in Israeli sperm donors from 2004 to 2008, compared to samples taken between 1995 and 1999. Sperm banks in Israel are now reportedly turning away as many as two-thirds of potential donors, due to the low-quality sperm. In the past, around one-third of the potential donors were turned away. See, Israel's Declining Sperm Quality Tied To Depleted Uranium Exposure (15 April, 2010)
As I stated in my latest interview, when we consider what is happening on this planet, the few people that I came across attempting to turn their energy fields into cosmic shields no longer sounds ridiculous, rather these people on some level where enlightened enough to be well ahead of the curve. Unfortunately, the scientific analysis was none existent and my research efforts were only seen as something to steal by some to get credit which was not theirs to take. As I have elucidated on this blog enough times, this is typical behaviour amongst those who are uneducated and/or suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Texas A&M Researcher Helps Discover an "Almost Psychic" Photonless Communication
Texas A&M University, 18th April 2013
COLLEGE STATION -- In the bizarre world of quantum physics, objects can be in more than one place at a time and future events can change the past. New research involving a Texas A&M University professor makes that microscopic realm even a bit stranger.
Quantum physicist M. Suhail Zubairy, along with a post-doctoral fellow and Saudi researchers, have discovered a form of "almost psychic communication" in which information can be exchanged between two parties without any physical particles traveling between them. [...]
It's long been assumed in physics that for information to travel in empty space between two parties, Alice and Bob, physical particles have to travel between them. But by using a series of beam splitters, the researchers created a setup in which information can be exchanged between Alice and Bob without any photons -- tiny units of electromagnetic light -- actually passing through the communication channel, introducing what Zubairy calls a "new paradigm" in quantum communication.
Comment: Oh how interesting.... This reminds me of my favourite heretical idea of a background quantum field that maintains 'environmental' information that can be tapped into... Whatever, the experiment actually just encapsulates what we already know MUST already be going on, based on an assortment of quantum experiments conducted over decades, I call it silent communication...
Magnetic Brain Stimulation Removes Craving For Cigarettes
PopSci News, 17th April 2013
Scientists at Medical University of South Carolina temporarily blunted cigarette cravings among smokers by magnetically stimulating nerve cells in their brains. The procedure, called transcranial magnetic stimulation, is already approved by the FDA to treat depression, though its efficacy is controversial (it's also been prescribed to stop people from lying and treat adult ADHD.)
In the experiment, researchers randomly assigned 16 smokers to either a 15-minute session of high-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation (in which coils placed over the forehead send magnetic pulses into the prefrontal cortex), or 15 minutes of sham treatment. The magnetic stimulation isn't painful and doesn't require sedation or anesthesia. The scientists told the volunteers not to smoke for two hours prior to the experiment.
Comment: As I written about in the past, a geomagnetically unstable environment also has the ability to naturally reset the human brain and cause a plethora of different conditions.
Blazar Markarian 421's flare-up is cosmic coincidence
BBC News, 16th April 2013
The skies are currently being flooded with the brightest display of gamma rays - the Universe's highest-energy light - ever seen by astronomers. The culprit is a staggering flare-up of Markarian 421, a "blazar" that hosts a supermassive black hole.
By sheer coincidence, a programme to study it had just begun, so dozens of the world's telescopes - from visible to radio to gamma-ray - were watching. And it came just in time for a meeting of many of the world's astrophysicists. [...]
Markarian 421 was already in the known catalogue of blazars, being somewhat variable and having had something of a brightening, or flare, in 1996. But the one that began late last week was unprecedented in the history of observations.
"I'm in shock and awe at how bright it is," said Julie McEnery, project scientist for the Fermi gamma-ray telescope. "This thing is blowing us away," she told BBC News.
Comment: More off the scale cosmic blasts. More: MAGIC and VERITAS detect an unprecedented flaring activity from Mrk 421 in very high energy gamma-rays. Thanks to S. Ferguson for the tip.
Sufferers of Strange Disease Seek Refuge in Town Where Cell Phones are Illegal
Yahoo News, 16th April 2013
A remote West Virginia town with no cell service, Wi-Fi hotspots, or TV has become a haven for people who say that wireless technology is making them sick.
Dozens of so-called “Wi-Fi refugees” suffering from a controversial malady called electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) have moved to Green Bank, West Virginia, where cell phone and Wi-Fi signals are banned. An estimated five percent of Americans claim to have EHS, a condition not recognized by the scientific community.
Green Bank is located in the US National Radio Quiet Zone, a 13,000-square mile area where electromagnetic radiation on the radio spectrum—such as radio and TV broadcasts, Wi-Fi networks, and signals from cell phones, Bluetooth and other high-tech electronic devices—are outlawed, to prevent transmissions from interfering with a local radio telescope and a nearby military radio installation. [...]
Currently, Sweden is the only country that recognizes EHS as a legitimate impairing condition. In that country—where the government reports that about 3 percent of the population (some 250,000 people) are affected—those with EHS are entitled to the same legal rights and social services as those who are deaf or blind.
The government will even pay to have the homes of people with EHS electronically “sanitized” with metal shielding to block electromagnetic radiation, Popular Science Magazine reports.
Comment: Due to the Swedish taking EHS seriously, I found out from a report that some suffers can actually see electric and magnetic fields and they think this is part of their illness... Amongst some New Agers, that would be enough to enable you to pronouce yourself "enlightened".
Tom Horn: The Lost Symbol Found [59:42]
YouTube, 22nd August 2011
Comment: The following is for those who are worried about the claims being made by Tom Horn and Chris Putnam and would like another opinion. For others who don't know what the fuss is all about, the above link is an approx. one hour introduction to how Tom Horn first stumbled across some important 2012 connections that are very helpful in helping understand what is happening to our world. He wastes about 9 minutes at the beginning making his intro with some silly Christian jokes so start at about [9:30]. The following is is an interesting summary from a a serialised version of Apollyon Rising .pdf that can be found. My copy had no references and the proper book is on my reading list. Anyway, he writes:
When research began for Apollyon Rising 2012 and I became aware of the nearly
five hundred-year-old Mayan prophecies connecting the “colonial count 1776” with
the final thirteen katuns of their calendar ending in the year 2012 (and how
academia viewed this as a mirror of the countdown to the “Christian Last
Judgment”), I wondered if early American scholars—and specifically architects of
Freemasonry involved in the design of Washington DC, the Great Seal of the
United States, and other iconic artifacts important to the founding of this
country—were aware of this Mesoamerican timeline. It seemed too much of a
coincidence that the final thirteen katuns ending in 2012 would match the starting
and ending date on the Great Seal by chance. My investigation into the matter
resulted in numerous examples of the year 2012 related to America (and other
places of the world), which I detail in my book. But due to the nature of this
entry, I list here one final finding directly connected with Freemasons and the
designers of the capital city in Washington DC that illustrate their knowledge of the
ending date 2012.
Source: APOLLYON RISING 2012 By Tom Horn (.pdf)
The Final Mystery Of The Great Seal Revealed
A Terrifying And Prophetic Cipher, Hidden From The World By The
U.S. Government For Over 200 Years Is Here link
If you have been reading Tom Horn & Chris Putnam's books (Apollyon Rising 2012: The Lost Symbol Found and the Final Mystery of the Great Seal Revealed, Petrus Romanus - The Final Pope is Here” and Exo-Vaticana:Petrus Romanus, Project LUCIFER, and the Vatican's astonishing exo-theological plan for the arrival of an alien savior) and for one reason or the other are highly confused, I would like to point out for the record the confusion is because these 'scholars' REFUSE to enlighten people that the original religious beliefs for the elite were based on astronomy and the mythologising of World Ages and the celestial energies that impact all life on this planet. For anyone who has not read my essay, The Greatest Transition in the History of Mankind (June 2010), I would just like to point out that Apollo was originally a tree god from ancient times. I wrote the following:
“We know that trees have wonderful properties and that life on Earth would not viable if there were no trees on the planet, but the ritual and practices derived from tree worship is based on a Sacred World Tree that dominated the sky. It was seen all around the world and was so breath-taking that it was worshipped by primitive people. ‘The ancestors’, ‘living beings’ or ‘heroic beings,’ used this conduit or ‘cosmic string’ as a highway between heaven and Earth, therefore, they too were worshipped. Over time, these ‘Ancestors’ were deified and became tree gods and gradually the imagery changed to become totally anthropomorphic. So, in the age of Greek and Roman gods, the imagery of the pantheon reveals little laurels around their heads, which is all that is left of the original sacred tree.”
Source: The Greatest Transition in the History of Mankind (June 2010) by Susan Joy Rennison
As I explain in my essay, Apollo was derived from the beings who were considered tree gods in ancient times by primitive people that morphed over time from representing the big sacred tree (that appears at times when Earth is in a high energy state) to becoming anthropomorphized as an assortment of man-gods. With the need to tap into ancient primordial memories and archetypes, Jesus with the crown of thorns is purposely not too dissimilar to the depiction of Apollo and an image example is provided in my essay. So, all the ranting by Tom Horn and Chris Putnam about Apollo, Nimrod etc, being Satan and demonic is too simplistic and very ignorant... Obviously, the enlightenment only comes if you can recognize the layers upon layers of mythology mostly based on the consequences of World Ages and celestial outpourings of energy sometimes generating a Golden Age or sometimes causing cataclysm. Hence, this is where the terminology comes from for those looking forward to the return of Apollo.... I believe it symbolises Earth's high energy state NOT the ‘The ancestors’, ‘living beings’ or ‘heroic beings,’ and most certainly NOT Satan or demons.... Well sometimes, I truly wonder about Tom Horn, his brilliance mixed with ‘bonkers’ religious zeal is quite something to behold.... I suppose his blind spot concerning astrotheology must be huge.... Btw, for anyone who hates the fact that I am trying to teach those who are seeking truth. Well I would like to say in my defence that some of us have made the choice to spiritually evolve and helping others out of the darkness and confusion. The only way to do that is to sort out the copious amounts of ridiculous religious teachings specifically designed to entertain the simple masses and keep them stupid and in finding the kernel of truth that will empower and liberate. For newbies, read my Greatest Transition essay, I believe it provides a tremendous amount of light for true seekers... Finally, why is this important? Horn and Putnam are spreading some truth mixed with a very heavy dose of speculation and scaremongering. We are not all dumbed down... Somebody has to stand up and point out the real nonsense because when ET disclosure comes (it looks like that will be soon), there will be a major crisis for some and I think some unbias education will help some to recover more quickly, but who else is aware of what is happening and cares two hoots?
Superstorm Sandy Jolted Whole Of America
The energy generated was similar to earthquakes between magnitudes 2 and 3 and picked up by sensors right across the country.Sky News, 19th April 2013
Superstorm Sandy did not just rattle the East Coast, it also jiggled the ground across the country ever so slightly, US scientists have revealed.
Earthquake sensors located as far away as the Pacific Northwest detected the storm's energy as it surged towards the New York metropolitan region last year.
The network typically records the sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust, but it can pick up shaking triggered by ocean waves, mine cave-ins and tornadoes.
As Sandy lashed at New York City and New Jersey, the force of waves slamming into other waves shook the sea floor, which was recorded by the system of 500 sensors.
Comment: Climate realists were not particularly impressed over at Watts Up With That! See Superstorm Sandy’s seismic action – a whole lotta normal.
China’s burgeoning pollution
Daily Sun Dial News, 18th April 2013
Free association time. I say “China” and you say… “air pollution.” Not what you were thinking? Maybe it should be. [...]
Last December a frightening study was released that said that about 3.2 million premature deaths worldwide could be attributed to air pollution. Of those deaths, 40 percent of them occurred in China according to the Health Effects Institute. That’s about 1.2 million people, or roughly the population of San Diego.
The biggest threat comes from fine particulates in the air, mostly a product of coal burned to generate electricity and heat homes. The smaller the particles, the more dangerous they become, because they can lodge in the lungs and even make it into the bloodstream. Once the nasty little bits are in the body, they can contribute to cancer and breathing disorders.[...]
We’re all too happy to help poor China out with their little “I-wanna-breathe” problem…for a price. There is no doubt something has got to be done about the pollution situation in China. Even if you think they should deal with their own public health issues, their pollution is still harming the planet’s ozone layer. It’s in everyone’s best interest to keep that damage to a minimum.
Comment: Hmmm.... I hear you.... But, what have I been saying about China for a long time now? The National Darwin award may be coming sooner than we all think... See the latest shocking news below:
-
238 Pigs And 89 Dogs “Suddenly Dead” UPDATE, 4/18, 1:34 am: The death toll is up to 410 pigs and 122 dogs. Via AP: In Chinese Village
Beijing Cream, 18th April 2013
This is alarming. According to Nandu.com, 238 dead pigs and 89 dead dogs were found in Dongtun village in Luoyang, Henan province yesterday. By all accounts, they died suddenly and at the same time.
Initial tests have ruled out the H7N9 virus as a cause. Thank goodness for that and all, to know the zombie apocalypse has not yet arrived, but the question still remains: why are pigs and dogs dropping dead?
Some are speculating that a nearby chemical plant’s gas emissions may have poisoned the animals. “Usually there’s a smell,” a villager said, “today it was especially bad, really big.”
Large sinkhole swallows three cars in Chicago
Extinction Protocol, 18th April 2013
One person was hospitalized after a sinkhole swallowed three cars in the South Deering neighborhood on the Southeast Side this morning. The person was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in serious-to-critical condition, according to the Chicago Fire Department. Witnesses said the hole opened up around 5 a.m. at 9600 South Houston Avenue, quickly growing from about 20 feet to about 40 feet. First two cars slid in, then a third as the hole widened, witnesses said. A fourth vehicle was towed from the edge as it was about to fall inside, witnesses said.
Comment: This time aging pipeline infrastructure is being blamed but we must remember space weather greatly accelerates pipeline corrosion. The refusal to monitor and maintain pipelines to a high enough standard is now a problem in the United States as engineers have already pointed out. More: City: 98-year-old water main cause of sinkhole that swallowed 3 cars [VIDEO]
SGX Checks Derivatives Trading Glitch to Protect Cash Cow
Business Week News, 18th April 2013
Singapore Exchange Ltd. (SGX), operator of Southeast Asia’s biggest bourse, said it’s reviewing procedures after derivatives trading was delayed by a computer breakdown last week, sending investors to alternate venues.
The three-hour delay, caused by a faulty system-monitoring process, sent investors to Osaka to buy and sell Japanese index contracts on April 9. The disruption in the bourse’s fastest- growing business, happened as the company plans to roll out new products amid record derivatives trading.
Comment: The high roillers are starting to lose some serious money due to unreliable computers systems... I need to check if the Intel cosmic ray detector on a chip is too expensive for the average derivatives trading exchange...
-
American Airlines passengers still backed up after glitch
NBC News, 17th April 2013
Flight cancellations and delays continued to bedevil American Airlines customers on Wednesday -- a day after a major glitch crippled the carrier's reservation system, leading to the grounding of its fleet for several hours.
"These computer system can get hung up waiting for data. If it never gets it, the system can get overloaded and leads to a shutdown," said Dr. Bill Curtis, chief scientist at CAST, a software analysis firm.
Comment: This seems to happen quite frequently with airlines and I presume there must be huge banks of vulnerable servers in bad locations....
-
Metromover reopens after technical glitch
Miami Herald, 18th April 2013
Miami’s automated Metromover train failed to open for service during the rush Thursday morning because of a “technical issue.” But by midday Thursday transit officials had managed to restore service to all stations. [...]
The service is periodically disrupted by computer glitches, which some experts blame on the complexity of the system.
In Russia, a Freak Urban Geyser Smashes Cars With Flying Asphalt
Atlantic Cities, 12th April 2013
Attention to the person who parked a red Škoda outside: Please move your vehicle, it is being pummeled by asphalt chunks caused by a hot geyser erupting in our parking lot.
This unnatural disaster actually happened on Thursday in Smolensk, a city of about 327,000 souls a couple hundred miles west of Moscow. People were going about their business next to a collective-farm area when a fissure in the pavement began spitting steam. Seconds later the little perforation split open to unleash a mephitic torrent of boiling water that soared above the rooftops of nearby three-story buildings.
At first explosion, the urban geyser pushed a load of broken asphalt into the air. The stone rain came down battering cars, breaking the back windshields of at least two. A Ukranian news site reported that 15 vehicles were damaged, some by falling rocks and others by engine flooding. There were no reports that I can find of injuries.
Comment: Tannoy: "...please remove your car, it is being boiled in the car park!" LOL
‘Like a nuclear bomb’ – Deadly fertilizer plant blast devastates Texas town; at least 15 dead
Extinction Protocol, 18th April 2013
WACO, TX – As the sun rose Thursday over West, Texas, the scope of the small town’s devastation came into fuller view: a gruesome, bloody scene, homes flattened to rubble, and scores of firefighters battling a raging blaze. The massive, deadly blast at a fertilizer plant Wednesday night forced the evacuation of about half the town of about 2,800 people and left officials asking key questions: Was it a crime or an accident? How could it have happened? [...]
More than 160 people were injured when the explosion shook homes as far as 50 miles away. It measured as a 2.1-magnitude seismic event, according to the United States Geological Survey. [...]
“It was like a nuclear bomb went off,” he said of the blast. “Big old mushroom cloud. (It’s) massive — just like Iraq. Just like the Murrah (Federal) Building in Oklahoma City,” said D.L. Wilson of the Texas public safety department.
Comment: So the locals live with a fertilizer plant in their backyard that when it detonates, explodes like a nuclear bomb but the town only had three ambulances?
More than 12,000 birds crashed in Utah’s west desert Monday
The Salt Lake Tribune, 17th April 2013
The number of eared grebes rescued — and killed — after their Monday crash-landings at the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Ground was far higher than originally estimated.
Wildlife biologists and volunteers spent Monday and Tuesday gathering 12,800 water birds, carrying the 7,828 surviving birds by pickup trucks to ponds in the region.
The birds were migrating back to the Great Salt Lake for the summer, but apparently became disoriented by snow and fog and mistook wet roads and parking lots for water.
Cosmic Explosion Left Imprint in Fossil Record
Universe Today, 16th April 2013
Ancient iron-loving bacteria may have scooped up evidence of a nearby supernova explosion 2.2 million years ago, leaving an extraterrestrial iron signature in the fossil record, according to German researchers presenting their findings at a recent meeting of the American Physical Society.
In 2004, German scientists reported finding an isotope of iron in a core sample from the Pacific Ocean that does not form on Earth. The scientists calculated the decay rate of the radioactive isotope iron-60 and determined that the source was from a nearby supernova about 2 million years ago.
The blast, they say, was close enough to Earth to seriously damage the ozone layer and may have contributed to a marine extinction at the Pliocene-Pleistocene geologic boundary. [...]
By using a chemical treatment that extracts iron-60 while leaving other iron, the scientists then ran the sample through a mass spectrometer to determine whether iron-60 was present. [...]
Although the scientists are not sure which star exploded to rain radioactive iron onto Earth, the scientists refer to a paper from 2002 that points to several supernovae generated in the Scorpius-Centaurus star association. The group of young stars, just 130 parsecs (about 424 light-years) from Earth, has produced 20 supernovae within the past 11 million years.
Comment: Another example of an extreme space weather event recorded in the fossil record.
EU Refuses to Resuscitate Its Dying Carbon Market
The American Interest, 16th April 2013
The European Parliament just voted down a measure that would have attempted to revive its carbon market, likely dooming it to a slow and undignified death. This was a last-ditch effort to drive the EU’s carbon price back to a level that would incentivize green reforms. And it failed. [...]
The EU has been the global laboratory testing the green agenda to see how it works. Today’s story means that the guinea pig died; the most important piece of green intervention in world history has become an expensive and embarrassing flop. It’s hard to exaggerate the importance of this for environmentalists everywhere; if the EU can’t make the green agenda work, it’s unlikely that anybody else will give it a try.
Comment: OK, climate realists are in climate heaven and rejoicing that another carbon trading platform has collapsed.... See more below:
You Can’t Tell the People?: Margaret Thatcher and UFO secrets
Dr David Clarke, 15th April 2013
The death of ‘Iron Lady’ Margaret Thatcher has deprived UFOlogists of an answer to an enduring question: what did she really know about Britain’s Roswell incident?
Thatcher, who died on 8 April aged 87, was 19 months into her first term as Prime Minister in 1980 when US airmen at the nuclear-armed twin airbase RAF Bentwaters-Woodbridge reported ‘unexplained lights’ (UFOs) hovering above Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk.
Comment: This is a strange contribution from Dr David Clarke but some might find it interesting.
UC Berkeley selected to build NASA’s next space weather satellite
UC Berkeley News, 16th April 2013
Image: This picture of Earth and the ionosphere, taken with a handheld camera by an astronaut on the International Space Station, shows a bright red wall of plasma near the equator. The ICON satellite will image this glowing plasma in order to connect Earth storms to ionospheric storms and better predict space weather. Though the glowing plasma looks like the aurora, it's much higher in altitude.
BERKELEY —NASA has awarded the University of California, Berkeley, up to $200 million to build a satellite to determine how Earth’s weather affects weather at the edge of space, in hopes of improving forecasts of extreme “space weather” that can disrupt global positioning satellites (GPS) and radio communications.
The satellite mission, called the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON), will be designed, built and operated by scientists at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory. Scheduled for launch in 2017, ICON will orbit 550 kilometers (345 miles) above Earth in the ionosphere: the edge of space where the sun ionizes the air to create constantly shifting streams and sheets of charged particles. These charged particles can interfere with GPS signals and radio signals that travel through and bounce off the ionosphere.
ICON will collect data needed to establish the connection between storms that occur near Earth’s surface and space-weather storms, allowing scientists to better predict space weather. These results could help airliners, for example, which today cannot rely solely on GPS satellites to fly and land because signals from these satellites can be distorted by charged-particle storms in the ionosphere.
“Ten years ago, we had no idea that the ionosphere was affected and structured by storms in the lower atmosphere,” said the project’s principal investigator, Thomas Immel, a senior fellow at the Space Sciences Laboratory. “We proposed ICON in response to this new realization.”
Comment: Another big NASA grant for space weather research. OK, I was more intrigued with the image of fiery plasma (aetheric FIRE) above the equator.... but this is still quite an interesting press release...
Exploding giant star sent longest gamma-ray blast, astronomers say - latimes.com
L.A. Times, 16th April 2013
The most powerful stellar explosion since the big bang has been linked to a newly discovered class of ultra-long gamma ray burst, astronomers said Tuesday at the 2013 Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium in Nashville, Tenn.
"We really think we’ve found this new class of gamma-ray bursts and a natural explanation for creating them in a type of star collapse that we haven’t previously talked about," said Andrew Levan, an astronomer at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, who led a study on the phenomena. [...]
Up until now, scientists have classified gamma-ray bursts as short (typically less than two seconds) and long (typically 20 to 50 seconds, with some lasting up to a few minutes). NASA’s Swift satellite, launched in 2004, swivels around when it detects some high-energy activity to catch these fleeting events before their light disappears.
But these strange ultra-long bursts that Swift has documented in the last few years can last hours -- 100 times longer than those stellar flashes in the pan, said Bruce Gendre of the French National Center for Scientific Research.
Swift picked up the first such burst, GRB 101225A, on Christmas Day 2010. It baffled astronomers who guessed that the strange, long-lasting signal was either coming from a comet or asteroid falling onto a neutron star, or a neutron star falling onto a larger companion star.
Comment: Oh dear.... we have had so many reports of record-breaking bursts of energy hitting our planet that I have concluded that this is a side effect of the change in the properties of spacetime... It's like the fog clearing and being able to see for miles and miles or being able to feel the warmth of the sun when the clouds clear... With these huge blasts from very distant stars, it is like we receiving energy that we could not detect before.... Maybe I am wrong, but that is what I think is going on...
Two-Headed Pig Born In Chinese Village
Sky News, 13th April 2013
Major earthquake strikes south-east Iran
More than 30 people were killed and dozens injured in Pakistan
BBC News, 17th April 2013
Iran has been struck by its most powerful earthquake for more than 50 years, with tremors felt across Pakistan, India and the Middle East.
The epicentre of the 7.8-magnitude quake was near the south-eastern city of Khash, close to Pakistan.
The quake struck deep and in a remote region, apparently limiting casualties.
Iranian state TV said 27 people had been injured, but rowed back on early reports of deaths. However, more than 30 people were killed in Pakistan.
The Pakistani military has been mobilised to help with rescue efforts, officials said.
Comment: Iran's Massive Earthquake Explained
WATCH: The giant, rat-sized snails devouring South Florida
The giant African land snail can grow to 8 inches long, eat through plaster, and puncture your car tire The Week, 15th April 2013
South Florida is under attack, and the non-native species threatening to wreak havoc seems innocent enough: It's not the giant Burmese pythons that made a home in the Everglades in 2000, nor a ravenous, land-walking fish like the Asian carp that have been eating through waterways farther up north. No, this foreign invader is a snail.
But what a snail it is. The giant African land snail "can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster," says Reuters' Barbara Liston. Since the monstrous mollusks were first noticed in the Miami-Dade County area in September 2011, researchers and vigilant homeowners have caught at least 117,000 of them, or about 1,000 a week. And "residents will soon likely begin encountering them more often, crunching them underfoot as the snails emerge from underground hibernation at the start of the state's rainy season in just seven weeks."
Former KGB agent reveals Soviet UFO studies
Russia Beyond, 12th April 2013
The Soviet Union took UFOs seriously. The KGB and the Soviet Defence Ministry had dedicated units collecting and analysing information about paranormal activity. Military experts even claimed to know how to "summon" UFOs and make contact with them.
[...] Seriously speaking, however, both in the Soviet Union and in modern Russia, the topic of UFOs and other paranormal phenomena was and still remains classified – and none of the officials will ever say anything about it publicly.
On the other hand, there are experts who no longer hold any senior posts and therefore have more room to maneuver. Some former, high-ranking Soviet military officials have recently decided to lift the veil of secrecy on the mystery of UFOs.
It happened at end of March, at the Zigel Readings conference named after Felix Zigel – a Soviet astronomer and mathematician who is largely credited with being the founder of ufology in Russia. This biannual event has been held in Moscow for more than 20 years and is devoted to the study of paranormal phenomena. [...]
The source for this story is a retired FSB major general and researcher with an Academy of Security, Defense and Law and Order Issues, Vasily Yeremenko. At the time, Yeremenko was in charge of the KGB division overseeing the air force and aircraft manufacturing. It was his division that was entrusted with the task of collecting all reports of UFO sightings.
By that time, as Yeremenko told RBTH, there had been an accumulation of reports on numerous paranormal incidents. Missile Troops units were even instructed on how to behave in the event that they spotted a UFO: the main thing was not to act in a way that could create an opportunity for a retaliatory aggression.
In the early 1980s, an experiment to "summon" a UFO was staged at a military range in Astrakhan Region. By then, experts had realized that UFOs were frequently sighted in areas of "heightened tension" – for instance, during weapons tests, or when there was a lot of military hardware gathered in one area.
"One could say that, during that experiment, we learned how to summon a UFO. To achieve that, there would be a sharp increase in the number of flights performed by combat aircraft and a lot of movement of hardware. Then UFOs appeared with a probability of nearly 100 percent," Yeremenko said. According to him, most of the objects looked like luminous spheres.
Over time, all the participants in the experiment became so used to these phenomena that they took them for granted. Some even tried to make contact with the objects. "It looked like this: a person on the ground would wave their arms, twice to the right and twice to the left. The ball in the sky would react to it by swinging twice to the right and then twice to the left. We had no idea how to explain that," said Yeremenko.
In the end, the military, together with the scientists who took part in the experiment, came to three main conclusions. First, these may be natural phenomena that modern science is not yet able to explain. Second, these may be U.S. or Japanese reconnaissance equipment. Finally, these may be extraterrestrial objects.
Comment: Well, what we have here is a repeat of what scientists and some brave members of the public have discovered. Some of these spheres that are part of the Shadow Biosphere, members of what I call The Earth Management Team, are quite happy to communicate with humans whilst "on business". That is because it is an intelligent lifeform, the same as the orbs making the fancy mathematical crop circles... We wave at them with laser pens and some wave back by blinking on and off... In this instance, the Russians decided to dance around and the UAPs/orbs danced too... Obviously, the warlike sub-human psychopaths destroying the fabric of spacetime with nuclear weapons are a problem and thus certain human activities are being carefully monitored. We know for fact that the uaps/orbs will disable nuclear test missiles if they are not happy. Whole books have been written based on the confessions of military personnel and pointing this out seems to be the special mission of Robert Hastings, see more below.
-
U.S. Air Force officials report more than 100 UFO sightings over 30 years
680 News, 29th September 2010 Flashback!
WASHINGTON D.C. - At a news conference held Wednesday, seven retired members of the U.S. Air Force spoke in great detail about over 100 UFO sightings spanning three decades, to the surprise of many in the audience.
"UFO phenomenon is real. Not imaginary," said former launch officer Robert Hastings, as the group of retired Air Force members finally broke their silence after being told to keep silent for years about what they saw.
"One hundred witnesses indicate that craft of vastly superior capabilities have been monitoring the U.S. nuclear arms program since the 1940's." [...] According to the Air Force, UFO's would interfere with missiles in the United States and Russia.
However, Hastings said "I don't think humankind is in jeopardy from whoever they are and what their intentions are, except, we will have our minds expanded. There will be a paradigm shift."
For more backround info see, UAP Index.
A Whiff of Dark Matter on the ISS
NASA Science News, 15th April 2013
[...] On April 3rd, researchers led by Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting of MIT announced that the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle detector operating onboard the International Space Station since 2011, has counted more than 400,000 positrons, the antimatter equivalent of electrons. There’s no danger of an explosion, but the discovery is sending shock waves through the scientific community. [...]
"These data show the existence of a new physical phenomenon," wrote Ting and colleagues in an article published in the Physical Review Letters. "It could be a sign of dark matter." [...]
But where do the positrons come from? The Universe is almost completely devoid of antimatter, so the positron fraction of cosmic ray electrons--as much as 10%--is a little surprising.[...]
One idea is dark matter. Astronomers know that the vast majority of the material Universe is actually made of dark matter rather than ordinary matter. They just don't know what dark matter is. It exerts gravity, but emits no light, which makes it devilishly difficult to study.
A leading theory holds that dark matter is made of a particle called the neutralino. Collisions between neutralinos
should produce a large number of high-energy positrons, which the AMS should be able to detect with unprecedented sensitivity.
"The accuracy of our measurements is 1%, which is excellent, and we have statistics unmatched by any other spacecraft," says Ting.
"So far the evidence supports the hypothesis of dark matter. But," he cautions," it does not rule out another possibility--pulsars."
Comment: According to a previous report in 2009, by the CERN Courier, there were already three experiments suggesting that there is an additional supply of electrons and positrons with higher than expected energies being detected around our planet, see Fermi measures the spectrum of cosmic-ray electrons and positrons. This is not like a gamma-ray burst or a magnetar blast that last for very short periods of time, this seems to be detection of something more permanent happening in the spacetime (aethers) around our planet and it is not going away. It seems that we might be able to join the dots and make the connection with the arrival of New Energy coming in from deep space and massive changes that have already been documented as happening in our solar system and around our planet in the last 20+ years. Simply, for those most interested in reality, this is a big deal.
-
Precision measurement of the positron fraction in primary cosmic rays in the energy interval 0.5-350 GeV with the AMS-02 detector on the International Space Station
INFN, 8th April 2013
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a general purpose high energy
particle detector which was successfully deployed on the International
Space Station (ISS) on May 19, 2011 to conduct a unique long duration
mission of fundamental physics research in space.
The results of the AMS experiment on the primary positron fraction in
the energy range from 0.5 to 350 GeV are presented. Events have been
collected in the first 18 months of data taking, for a total statistics
of ~6 million electrons and ~600,000 positrons. The data show that the
positron fraction is steadily increasing from 10 to ~250 GeV. The
positron fraction spectrum shows no structure and the positron to
electron ratio shows no observable anisotropy.
Comment: I think that the lack of anisotropy (the property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions) implies this is a detection of dark matter and not the planet getting slammed from a pulsar as big astrophysical source of electrons and positrons.... But why the excitement, has something changed?
-
Viewpoint: Positrons Galore
Physics News, 3rd April 2013
[...] With so many experiments pointing to an excess of antimatter, we’re now in a position to ask the following: Where does it come from? This may take a while to resolve. There are many theoretical scenarios, all with enough uncertainties that they seem endlessly adaptable to every quirk, kink, or hint of structure in the positron spectrum. One can invoke energetic gamma rays that convert into electron-positron pairs in the vicinity of the magnetic poles of pulsars [7]. One can imagine that positrons are produced in the decay of radioisotopes within a cosmic accelerator, say a supernova remnant [8]. And, there is the exciting possibility that all of these experiments have seen the “smoking gun” signal of dark matter particles annihilating in the galactic halo [6].
Comment: This is quite an easy read on the subject and highly informative. I suppose the big question is: why is the detection of high energy positrons causing excitement right now.... has something fundamental changed?
New Zealand's largest bank hit by technical glitch
Otago Daily Times, 16th April 2013
New Zealand's largest bank has been hit by a technical glitch today, holding up overnight payments and leaving customers unable to access internet banking. ANZ Bank said it was working to fix an outage affecting ANZ Internet Banking, ANZ goMoney for Android and iBank. "Our IT team are looking into this now and hope to have these services back up and running soon," it said in a Facebook announcement.
Many government websites down due to glitch in NIC server [INDIA]
Economic Times, 16th April 2013
NEW DELHI: Websites of various ministries and state-run departments are down since late morning today due to a technical glitch in the server of NIC, the agency which handles IT functions of the government.
"There was a UPS (interruptible power supply) failure at 1130 hours (at NIC control room) and the sites will be restored within a few hours of the failure," Department of Information Technology Secretary J Satyanarayana said.
Minor Glitch Stops Unit 5 of Bulgaria's Nuclear Plant
novinite.com, 15th April 2013
Ball of fire lights up skies above Spain (VIDEO)
RT News, 15th April 2013
A brilliant ball of flame streaked across the sky above the Spanish capital Madrid, dazzling stargazers and astronomers alike. The celestial display was so bright it could be seen across the entire country.
The eye-popping moment was caught on camera by the Hita Observatory at the University of Huelva at around 11:45pm local time (2145 GMT). The object struck the atmosphere above the Villamuelas district in the province of Toledo, southwest of Madrid.
“The impact was so abrupt that the object immediately caught fire, creating a ball of flame around 100 kilometers above the Earth,” Jose Maria Madiedo of the University of Huelva told the Huffington Post.
Comment: After the Chelyabinsk meteor, it seems that the Russians are now paying a lot more attention to the appearance of fire in the sky.
NASA grants UCF $55 million for space-weather research
Central Florida Future News, 14th April 2013
UCF received its largest-ever research grant Friday to study the influence of space weather on Earth’s upper atmosphere.
The $55 million NASA grant will allow UCF to take a lead role in the development of a microwave-sized instrument called GOLD, or the Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, according to a UCF Today press release.
The instrument is scheduled to be launched on a satellite that will orbit 22,300 miles above Earth. The mission’s launch site has yet to be announced, but the expected launch date will be sometime in 2017.
GOLD’s purpose will be to capture images of the boundary between Earth and space, which could lead to a better understanding of solar storms. This is significant because these storms interfere with television programming, GPS signals and cellphone reception, according to UCF Today.
Comment: Another big grant for Space Weather research. See also, Project Analyzing Impact Of Space Weather On Satellites Gets NASA Grants.
Mysteriously Shrinking Proton Continues to Puzzle Physicists
Live Science News, 13th April 2013
DENVER — The size of a proton, long thought to be well-understood, may remain a mystery for a while longer, according to physicists. Speaking today (April 13) at the April meeting of the American Physical Society, researchers said they need more data to understand why new measurements of proton size don't match old ones.
"The discrepancy is rather severe," said Randolf Pohl, a scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. The question, Pohl and his colleagues said, is whether the explanation is a boring one — someone messed up the measurements — or something that will generate new physics theories. [...]
Most exciting of all, the discrepancy could reveal some new physics not explained by the dominant physics theory, the Standard Model. Perhaps there is something unknown about how muons and electrons interact with other particles, said John Arrington, a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.
One possibility is that photons aren't the only particles that carry forces between particles — perhaps an unknown particle is in the mix, causing the proton-measurement discrepancies.
Comment: I think the most exciting notion is a new particle sneaking into the orbit of a proton... This would signify a major change in our understanding of reality, I am happy to wait and find out exactly if this is a real.
‘Shadow Biosphere’ theory gaining scientific support
The Raw Story, 13th April 2013
Never mind aliens in outer space. Some scientists believe we may be sharing the planet with ‘weird’ lifeforms that are so different from our own they’re invisible to us. [...]
The concept of a shadow biosphere was first outlined by Cleland and her Colorado colleague Shelley Copley in a paper in 2006 in the International Journal of Astrobiology, and is now supported by many other scientists, including astrobiologists Chris McKay, who is based at Nasa’s Ames Research Centre, California, and Paul Davies.
These researchers believe life may exist in more than one form on Earth: standard life – like ours – and “weird life”, as they term the conjectured inhabitants of the shadow biosphere. “All the micro-organisms we have detected on Earth to date have had a biology like our own: proteins made up of a maximum of 20 amino acids and a DNA genetic code made out of only four chemical bases: adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine,” says Cleland. “Yet there are up to 100 amino acids in nature and at least a dozen bases. These could easily have combined in the remote past to create lifeforms with a very different biochemistry to our own. More to the point, some may still exist in corners of the planet.”
Comment: This is a long article... Well, I am glad to see that common sense is prevailing, especially as the ‘Shadow Biosphere’ usually called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) by the military, scientists, pilots, air traffic controllers, radar operators or other aviation professionals, are also being seen frequently all over the planet by Joe Public. Btw, I apologise, it seems that I have not been keeping up to date with the latest offerings from NARCAP (National Aviation Reporting on Anomalous Phenomena) UAP reports, see SPHERES IN AIRBORNE UAP IMAGERY (2011) & A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF 600 CASES OF UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA (UAP) REPORTED BY MILITARY AND CIVILIAN PILOTS (2012).
Arkansas oil spill is only a fraction of annual pipeline losses
L. A. Times, 12th April 2013
The images from Mayflower, Ark., after a March 29 oil spill were particularly repulsive: A river of black goo running through yards and down the street of a subdivision, and hundreds of workers arriving to clean up an industrial mess in a peaceful burg.
But the Exxon Mobil pipeline spill, initially estimated to have released at least 157,000 gallons of crude oil and driven more than 20 families from their homes, represents only a fraction of the regular oil losses from the huge network of pipelines stretching across the United States.
Between 2008 and 2012, U.S. pipelines spilled an average of more than 3.1 million gallons of hazardous liquids per year, according to data from the Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, the nation's pipeline regulator. Those spills -- most commonly caused by corrosion and equipment failure -- caused at least $1.5 billion in property damage altogether. [...] Exxon said Thursday the cause of the spill was still unknown...
Comment: The last time there were huge spills, a report stated, "two-and-a-half million miles of pipeline with only 100 inspectors". I presume this has not changed much, see Aging Gas Pipe at Risk of Explosion Nationwide. . I will repeat the basic fact that space weather causes increased pipeline corrosion, as it looks like the recent space weather blasts may have resulted in quite a few incidents.
Reference 1:
"Abstract. Geomagnetically induced currents (GIC) flowing
in technological systems on the ground are a direct manifestation
of space weather. Due to the proximity of very dynamic
ionospheric current systems, GIC are of special interest
at high latitudes, where they have been known to cause
problems, for example, for normal operation of power transmission
systems and buried pipelines."
April 2000 geomagnetic storm: ionospheric drivers of large
geomagnetically induced currents
A. Pulkkinen1, A. Thomson2, E. Clarke2, and A. McKay3
Annales Geophysicae (2003) 21: 709–717
c European Geosciences Union 2003
link
Reference 2:
"Abstract. Geomagnetically induced currents (GIC) in technological systems,
such as electric power transmission systems, oil and gas
pipelines, telecommunication cables and railway equipment,
are a manifestation of space weather at the earth's surface. In
power systems, GIC cause saturation of transformers, which
may lead to problems in the operation of the system, and even
to a collapse of the whole system and to permanent damages of
transformers. The best-known GIC effect occurred in March
1989 when the Québec province in Canada suffered from an
electric black-out for about nine hours. The corrosion rate may
be increased in pipelines when GIC flows from the pipe into
the soil, and the associated voltages can disturb pipeline surveys
and the cathodic protection. This paper summarizes GIC
effects on power systems and pipelines."
POWER AND PIPELINES (GROUND SYSTEMS)
Risto Pirjola, Ari Viljanen, Olaf Amm and Antti Pulkkinen
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Geophysical Research Division [1999]
link
See details of other recent US major spills below:
Chinese daily fooled by spoof that Win 8 glitch forced missile test delay
Paper reports as news a quote from a "source" that North Korea's Kim Jong-un was considering declaring war on Microsoft.
CNet News, 12th April 2013
Over the years, Windows users have shared plenty of war stories about their computers suddenly freezing up, forcing them to shut down and then reboot their machines at the worst possible times. But declaring war on Microsoft? Even in the wildest realms of hyperbole, that's cuckoo talk.
Comment: Hilarious... Some people are having a laugh at Microsoft's expense... BUT, in a way, it could demonstrate a shift in consciousness. When a volatile country like North Korea makes threatening noises, instead of people being frozen with fear, computer geeks just laugh it off by making a good joke (those in the know all agree Microsoft software is flaky and the add-on joke is that they should have used Linux...). Anyway, the joking seems to have worked for the moment...
Environmental change triggers rapid evolution
Phys.Org News, 9th April 2013
A University of Leeds-led study, published in the journal Ecology Letters, overturns the common assumption that evolution only occurs gradually over hundreds or thousands of years.
Instead, researchers found significant genetically transmitted changes in laboratory populations of soil mites in just 15 generations, leading to a doubling of the age at which the mites reached adulthood and large changes in population size. The results have important implications in areas such as disease and pest control, conservation and fisheries management because they demonstrate that evolution can be a game-changer even in the short-term.
Professor Tim Benton, of the University of Leeds' Faculty of Biological Sciences, said: "This demonstrates that short-term ecological change and evolution are completely intertwined and cannot reasonably be considered separate. We found that populations evolve rapidly in response to environmental change and population management. This can have major consequences such as reducing harvesting yields or saving a population heading for extinction."
Although previous research has implied a link between short-term changes in animal species' physical characteristics and evolution, the Leeds-led study is the first to prove a causal relationship between rapid genetic evolution and animal population dynamics in a controlled experimental setting. [...]
Professor Benton said: "The traditional idea would be that if you put animals in a new environment they stay basically the same but the way they grow changes because of variables like the amount of food. However, our study proves that the evolutionary effect— the change in the underlying biology in response to the environment—can happen at the same time as the ecological response. Ecology and evolution are intertwined," he said.
Comment: Over the decades, some scientists have been pointing out the geological and paleontological evidence for rapid evolutionary change being associated with periods of rapid climatic change, but now, due to many examples of evolutionary changes in real-time, more scientists and scientific philosophers are accepting that Darwin's theory has been falsified. This latest piece of research is just another nail in the coffin for Darwinist 'believers'...
Exo-Vaticana: Petrus Romanus, Project LUCIFER, and the Vatican's astonishing exo-theological plan for the arrival of an alien savior
Raiders News Update, April 2013
Comment: Well, I have finished reading my paperback copy of Exo-Vaticana, but I now feel a strong need to detox and purify myself from the intellectual mishandling of information found in parts of the book. The quotes from none religious people were fine, even the quotes from Catholic theologians were fine because they are just direct quotes but I had real problems with some of Horns & Putnams badly mangled extrapolations provided as 'insight'. Horn et al.'s most recent books that I have read imply to me that despite all the research and writing on the same subject for many years, the central issue comes down to the need to justify theology based on a Bible that was cobbled together from ancient sources and twisted to suit Roman Catholic controllers creating a man-made religion. The most irritating attribute is the patronising of others and the almost childish passing off anything outside of normal human awareness as 'alien' or demonic. So, I am not convinced this is a truly scholarly. For example, there is the almost unbelievable acknowledgement of astrotheology reaching into the distant ancient past in the form of a 'Gospel in the Stars'. Even agreeing with Christian scholars who recognised the importance of the passing of ecliptic constellations (zodiac) for marking time, but a refusal to acknowledge that the 'Christic' religion for the ignorant masses is regularly re-vamped based on major set points in the associated astronomical cycle. Thus, we have brilliant quotes from Catholic theologians that this is about to happen again, but no reference to a long historical list of previous saviours with similar christ-like attributes, which makes what Catholic theologians are now trying to achieve seem almost routine... Then there is the example of a reference to the UK Condign report but not one quote pointing out how the UK Ministry of Defence defines Unidentified Aerial Phenomena as being mostly 'lights'..... Instead what you have is examples of a whole range of paranormal phenomena, shadow life activity and suspected extraterrestrial 'mingling' with humans all designated under the umbrella terms of satanic or demonic. I personally think that unless you are a serious researcher who can determine where Tom Horn et al. are heavily speculating then I suggest you don't bother. For serious researchers, some of the collected quotes are very interesting and the free DVD is absolutely invaluable for reading source material and coming to your own conclusions. I think my final thought is that I will concede that Horn et al. are doing us a favour in pointing out that the saviour mythos is about to change because we have reached the end of an astrological age. Space Weather is the proof that a new cosmic dispensation has started, Horn et al. have provided the historical evidence that those in the know amongst the religious elite have been religiously tracking the date 2012 and the proposed changes will affect Catholics and Christians alike. However, it is my opinion that novices to relevant background sources are going to struggle sorting out the wheat from the chaff provided in this book.
All survive after jet lands in sea off Bali Indonesia
BBC News, 13th April 2013
A passenger jet has ended up in the sea off the Indonesian island of Bali after missing an airport runway but everyone aboard survived.
Fifteen people were taken to hospital after the crash, which involved an Indonesian Lion Air plane carrying 101 passengers and seven crew.
Photos posted on Twitter show a jet with a cracked fuselage sitting in water near rocks, with dinghies nearby.
Comment: Was this a satellite navigation fail? It sounds like there was not much room for failure... Well, I don't care whether authorities want to blame the pilots. In a chaotic Geomagnetic/EM environment with military spokesmen and others screaming about the problems with GPS and associated navigation systems (see archives), generating regular reports of billion dollar submarines and tankers crashing, we all have a right to wonder. I don't know if there are solutions to fixing the problem of inaccurate navigational data, but at the moment, space weather is roiling the ionosphere and the result is there will be more major incidents where locational precision is vital. Whatever, I would like to congratulate the pilots that nobody died when the plane hit the water.
CU-Boulder to receive $36 million from NASA for space weather mission
University of Colorado Boulder, 12th April 2013
The University of Colorado Boulder will receive roughly $36 million from NASA to build and operate a space instrument for a mission led by the University of Central Florida that will study Earth’s upper atmosphere to learn more about the disruptive effects of space weather.
The mission, known as the Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, involves imaging Earth’s upper atmosphere from a geostationary orbit some 22,000 miles above the planet. The mission is expected to have a direct impact on the understanding of space weather like geomagnetic storms that alter the temperature and composition of Earth’s atmosphere, which can disrupt communication and navigation satellites, affecting everything from automobile GPS and cell phone coverage to television programming.
Comment: Our world has changed and the serious consequences of space weather is the proof.
TSB Bank glitch sees details sent to wrong customers [NZ]
TV NZ News, 12th April 2013
'Flaming tennis ball' slides across SA skies
ABC Net News, 11th April 2013
Stargazers say a meteor that floated across Adelaide skies overnight looked like a flaming tennis ball before it disappeared from view.
The object appeared in the sky about 9:30pm, with people from around Birdwood, Norwood, Mannum and Balhannah reporting sightings to ABC Local Radio.
One listener, Barry from Murbko on the River Murray, said he was watching television when he saw the object through his window.
"I saw this ball of flame, it would have been about the size of the moon just above the tree tops," he said.
"It was a flaming ball and it went across the the tree tops at a very low altitude and it wasn't travelling that fast like a shooting star.
"This just took my breath away. It was that incredible I just sat there for ten minutes and couldn't believe what I just saw.
Comment: From the description of size and slow movement, I think this is a magntospheric plasmoid rather than a meteor, otherwise this object would have made a noise on entry and left a huge crater on impact.... See archives for lots of similar reports.
Royal Bank of Scotland VP arrested in Moscow on $10mn fraud charge
RT News, 11th April 2013
RBS Vice President Vsevolod Glukhovtsev has been charged with fraud in a Moscow court after being arrested at his home the day before. The banker allegedly hoodwinked investors to finance fake construction projects in Montenegro.
"Glukhovtsev has been charged with fraud," The Russian Interior Ministry’s Department for the Central Federal District told Interfax.
The investigators claim as soon as money was transferred to accounts of Montenegrin companies controlled by Glukhovtsev he then took the money, and provided clients with fake reports saying they owned business or property abroad. Investors did not receive promised dividends and the assets they supposedly owned did not exist or were registered for a third party, according to the Interior Ministry.
Glukhovtsev allegedly provided his investors with fake business reports which led them to believe they owned business or property abroad. Investigators say they have evidence Glukhovtsev spent the investment dollars on real estate, luxury sports cars, art and jewelry.
Comment: Something to celebrate, a crooked banker being arrested...
Biggest solar flare of the year knocks out radio transmissions
NASA on alert for more after-effects of geomagnetic storm to satellites and spacecraft.
Cnet News, 11th April 2013
Early this morning [3:16 p.m. EDT on April 11, 2013] the sun erupted, sending billions of solar particles into space at over 600 miles per second, raising the prospect of solar radiation storms above the Earth, according to NASA.
A spokesman said the resulting emissions sparked a short-lived radio communications blackout on Earth. The radio disruption has since subsided. The appearance of the strongest solar storm of 2013 is part of an increasingly common sight as astronomers say this is connected to the sun's 11-year activity cycle. More intense solar eruptions are expected later in the year.
Comment: Hmmm... a radiation storm occurring too... see the CME movie at Spaceweather.com CME Movie 11th April 2013. I ignored this flare because it was not X-rated... it just goes to show how weak Earth's cosmic shielding has got. The timing is terrible too.... just as North Korea is threatening war and there is talk of a nuclear capability (of course, this might be all rhetoric and not true, but still the timing is not good for a radio blackout of presumably the daylight side of Earth...).
-
Spring Fling: Sun Emits a Mid-Level Flare
NASA Science News, 11th April 2013
UPDATE: The M6.5 flare on the morning of April 11, 2013, was also associated with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), another solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space and can reach Earth one to three days later. CMEs can affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground. Experimental NASA research models show that the CME began at 3:36 a.m. EDT on April 11, leaving the sun at over 600 miles per second.
Is the UK heading for ANOTHER Arctic winter? Met Office calls emergency meeting to discuss if melting ice is causing Britain to freeze
Daily Mail, 11th April 2013
* Dr Julia Slingo at the Met Office calling a meeting of world climate experts
* She is concerned melting Arctic ice is causing Britain's climate to change
* Comes after lowest April temperature for nearly 100 years was recorded
Britain's winters are getting colder because of melting Artic ice changing global weather patterns, the Met Office has claimed.
Forecasters are concerned that high levels of ice melt in the Arctic in recent years could be behind Britain’s increasingly bitter and longer winters.
The organisation’s leading climate change expert, Dr Julia Slingo, is to convene experts from around the world to establish whether this explains why Britain has been experiencing the coldest temperatures for almost 100 years.
Comment: Hmmm.... It seems there is some real climate science panic taking place and we know for a fact the UK Met Office does not have a clue, see FOIA obtained Met Office document shows them to be clueless about what affects our climate, and, in particular, what caused the unusual weather last year. But the climate crisis comes on the heels of a campaign by climate scientists characterised by fraud, vitriol and lies with even senior Met Office personnel making wild claims about global warming. Meanwhile, those who really understand how to predict the weather have already worked out how to take space weather into account, see archives for more background info Climate Science, Politics & Climategate. For those with businesses that are reliant on the weather. I can recommend Piers Corbyn, who at least gives me some faith that there are people who don't live on planet cloud cuckoo. As usual, Piers is undiplomatic and states: "I think the BBC, Met Office and the Science establishment of the UK know their CO2 warmism 'theory' is a pack of lies; either that or they have degenerated into a desperate religious sect for which belief rules over evidence. Now is the time to expose their delusions and call them to account." link
The find of a lifetime: Bizarre 'panda bat' discovered in South Sudan
Daily Mail, 10th April 2013
* Researchers say the bat is an entirely new genus
* Black and white fur make it look uncannily like a panda
Researchers have hailed a bat that looks uncannily like a panda bear as 'the find of a lifetime'.
The bat, discovered in South Sudan, is so rare researchers believe it is an entirely new genus.
'My attention was immediately drawn to the bat's strikingly beautiful and distinct pattern of spots and stripes,' said Bucknell Associate Professor of Biology DeeAnn Reeder, who made the discovery.
'It was clearly a very extraordinary animal, one that I had never seen before - I knew the second I saw it that it was the find of a lifetime.'
Comment: The talk of a mass extinction is NOT the full story, because at times of rapid evolutionary change new species also appear from nowhere, but we can expect some flukes appearing too and that is a major issue facing us at this time... I imagine there are some evolutionary biologists who are well aware of what is happening and what could happen in the near future....
-
Colorful
Tree-Climbing Tarantulas Found in Brazil
Live Science, 30th October 2012
A scientist has discovered nine new species of colorful tree-climbing tarantulas in central and eastern Brazil, including four belonging to a mysterious, old genus and others that are quite picky about which plants to choose as homes.
‘Divine Strength’: Two Teenage Girls Lift 3,000 Pound Tractor Off Their Trapped Father
The Blaze, 10th April 2013
We’ve all heard stories about someone lifting an impossibly heavy object to free a trapped loved one (or even a stranger) when time is short and no other help is present.
In Linn County, Oregon a man experienced his worst nightmare when he found himself in that exact scenario, trapped beneath his 3,000-pound 1949 tractor.
Jeff Smith says was trying to pull a stump out of his garden when he lost control of the machine, horrified when it flipped on top of him and pinned his chest to the ground. He tried calling for help, but with each breath it got harder.
Comment: These feats of incredible strength are usually associated with strong emotions.
Thunderstorms contain ‘dark lightning,’ invisible pulses of powerful radiation
Washington Post, 8th April 2013
A lightning bolt is one of nature’s most over-the-top phenomena, rarely failing to elicit at least a ping of awe no matter how many times a person has witnessed one. With his iconic kite-and-key experiments in the mid-18th century, Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning is an electrical phenomenon, and since then the general view has been that lightning bolts are big honking sparks no different in kind from the little ones generated by walking in socks across a carpeted room.
But scientists recently discovered something mind-bending about lightning: Sometimes its flashes are invisible, just sudden pulses of unexpectedly powerful radiation. It’s what Joseph Dwyer, a lightning researcher at the Florida Institute of Technology, has termed dark lightning. [...]
The radiation in these invisible blasts can carry a million times as much energy as the radiation in visible lightning, but that energy dissipates quickly in all directions rather than remaining in a stiletto-like lightning bolt. [...]
How is it that some storms produce these unusually strong rays? Dwyer speculates that super-fast electrons — perhaps revved up after being struck by cosmic rays that hit Earth’s atmosphere from deep space — may be the key. The theory is that these energetic electrons collide with atoms inside thunderclouds to create X-rays and gamma rays. These collisions lead to chain reactions that could be the mysterious basis for dark lightning.
Comment: Researchers are now explaining just how serious the impact of big blasts of energy from space are... So, we are left wondering if this is the same as the mysterious "killer electrons" that scientists have informed us about (see below). At the moment, I am even wondering if there is a link with the microwave LASER/MASER energy that is making the perfectly round deep sinkholes.... What about TGFs? See archives for background info. So what happens if a human got hit with one of these dark bolts of lightning besides a big dose of radiation? Update: I have checked the archives and it seems this news is just the latest offering concerning TGFs that I first picked up as a major sign that atmospheric conditions were becoming electrically intense.
-
High-speed beams of charged particles accelerate towards Earth
ESA News, 6 December 2007 Flashback!
"ESA’s Cluster constellation has found that multiple, high-speed beams of electrically charged particles, or ions, are formed on the night-side of near-Earth space and get accelerated towards Earth. These observations are key to understanding how solar material manages to reach the Earth’s night-side, to forecast the behaviour of the magnetic environment around our planet, and in turn, to better protect ground and space-based technologies.
Different theories were proposed in the 80’s and 90’s to explain the presence of these ion beams."
-
Shocking recipe for making killer electrons
European Space Agency News, 11th March 2010 Flashback!
"Killer electrons are highly energetic particles trapped in Earth's outer radiation belt, which extends from 12 000 km to 64 000 km above the planet’s surface. During solar storms their number grows at least ten times and they can be dislodged, posing a threat to satellites. As the name suggests, killer electrons are energetic enough to penetrate satellite shielding and cause microscopic lightning strikes. If these electrical discharges take place in vital components, the satellite can be damaged or even rendered inoperable. [...]
Thanks to this analysis of Cluster data, if the killer electrons happen to be ejected towards Earth, we now know that they can strike the atmosphere within just 15 minutes."
-
Science highlight - Rise of the Killer Electrons
ESA News, 16th July 2010 Flashback!
"Two belts of trapped high-energy particles, held in place by Earth’s magnetic field, surround Earth: the Van Allen radiation belts. Killer electrons in the outermost belt move close to the speed of light and carry a lot of energy. These can penetrate satellite shielding and cause microscopic lightning strikes that damage and sometimes destroy vital components.
[...]
Intense solar activity can disrupt the Van Allen belts, and Cluster made another vital discovery when it was on hand to observe directly the effects of a particularly strong solar shock wave hitting the magnetosphere in 2004.
It saw the creation of killer electrons through what turns out to be a two-step process. The electrons are initially accelerated by the shock wave compressing Earth’s magnetic field. Then Earth’s magnetic lines wobble, creating something like a very large-scale, low frequency laser, which accelerates the electrons even more, up to ‘killer’ energies.
And Cluster showed that this transition, from normal to killer intensities, can happen in just 15 minutes."
-
Lancaster involved in £400,000 project to understand “killer electrons”
Lancaster University News, January 2011 Flashback!
"Scientists aim to find out more about so-called “killer electrons” in the Van Allen radiation belt around Earth, which can damage orbiting satellites and spacecraft.
The Van Allen radiation belt periodically discharges energetic particles such as electrons and ions into the high atmosphere above Earth, especially at the polar regions. This can change the chemistry of the atmosphere, with possible implications for climate change. "
The talk of Killer electrons causing climate change is news to me...
PSA: Weird Glitch Caused A Bunch Of Disney Games To Temporarily Appear Free On The Play Store, Prices Back To Normal Now
Android Police, 9th April 2013
Earlier this morning, something strange happened. A handful of paid Disney games – including Where's My Water?, Temple Run: Brave, and Wreck-it Ralph, among others – suddenly showed up as free in the Play Store. Naturally, stories started popping up in the Android world that a bunch of fairly popular games were suddenly available without charge for no apparent reason. Perhaps Disney decided that it was time to give some titles away – but that didn't make much sense, as the "lite" versions of most titles were still present alongside their formerly-paid counterparts.
Turns out it was just a glitch, and the games are once again donning their original $0.99 price tags. Disney isn't entirely sure what happened.
Comment: Computers are getting randomly hit by cosmic rays and some are getting lucky... More: a selection of the latest computer system glitches.
Huge sink hole appears in the Alentejo
Heavy rains are the most probably cause of a 100-metre deep sink hole that appeared near Marvão in Upper Alentejo on Tuesday evening.
The Portugal News, 10th April 2013
The hole is about 15 metres across. Geologist Vitor Lamberto told Luda this kind of phenomenon “is typical” in limestone areas and there are “similar” situations in other places in Portugal, though not as big.
Lamberto said that in these areas there are underground rivers, but when the holes they flow through are too narrow for the quantity of water, some upstream caves fill up and start to dissolve the cave roofs and eventually the roofs cave in, leaving these enormous sink holes.
Comment: More pictures:
Cratera com 100 metros de profundidade em Marvão [11 FOTOS]
Wikileaks: King Hassan Of Morocco Asked US About UFO Encounter
Ghost Theory, 9th April 2013
Request For Info, Unidentified Flying Objects
On September 25th, 1976, King Hassan II of Morocco sent the Commander of the Royal Gendarmerie to inquire about a strange craft he and others had witnessed over Morocco on the night of September 18th through the 19th of that year. King hassanHassan II described the unidentified craft as a “…silvery luminous circular shape and gave off intermittent trails of bright sparks and fragments, and made no noise.”
The Wikileaks cable continues with details on the sighting, stating that others had witnessed the strange craft earlier that day. A memo was sent to the US Secretary of State asking for help or information on the strange silvery craft over Morocco.
Comment: Anomalist.com came up with, "We'd love to know if they replied with 'weather balloon'..." This weather balloon chart never fails to make me laugh...
Pulsating Orb of Light Captured Creeping Over Scotland [Video]
Who Forted?, 8th April 2013
On Saturday night around 11:00PM, Scottish UFO hunters with their eyes to the heavens noticed something a little weirder than your average hovering lights – they noticed a glowing orb with a pulse so bright it lit up the sky.
Yesterday morning SkywatcherScotland posted the video to their YouTube account, where they described seeing this “crazy object” as heading north by northwest in Midlothian, and quickly attached their nightvision monocle to the camera in order to capture the odd sight on video.
The short clip shows what appears to be a large glowing object moving quickly through the night sky, when suddenly the orb pulses so brightly that the resulting flash almost fills the screen. SWS kindly gives us a slow motion replay as well.
Comment: Either way this sighting is interesting. A pulsating satellite is a reminder not just of Irridium flares, but the opposite strange phenomena of satellites intermittently disappearing from view as they orbit Earth. I am now wondering if they are just different manifestations caused by the same issue of the changing properties of spacetime around our planet that the ESA have decided to investigate. But, if it's just another UFO/UAP/orb then again, it's just another symptom of the change in the properties of spacetime that seems to be associated with Earth becoming a high energy plasma environment. The result being entities belonging to a previously poorly detected shadow biosphere are appearing en masse and this means those who understan the nuance are witnessing the predicted Apocalypse as described by some original gnostic sources.
Professor Higgs speaks out against the name 'God particle'
Yahoo News, 9th April 2013
It may have been hailed as the Holy Grail of physics - but nicknaming the Higgs boson the “God Particle” has proved equally controversial.
The latest outburst against the term was by Professor Peter Higgs himself – the British physicist who suggested the particle's existence.
Higgs's comments come as scientists close in on final proof of the particle's existence at the Large Hadron Collider - ending a 40-year, £8.6 billion quest.
The 83-year-old, who came up with the theory while walking in the Cairngorms in 1964, said calling the Higgs boson “the God particle” was “misleading”.
Comment: I notice that we are given the opinion of Br. Guy Consolmagno, the Vatican astronomer and general mouthpiece on religious matters, the Guy does get around a bit doesn't he... Well, Guy is another Jesuit who delights in telling us about 'myth'. To elucidate this man's mindset, I am delighted to offer the following gem from one of his books.
“What’s worse, for every serious book of science in a bookstore,
there’s a whole shelf of astrology and UFO nonsense also promising
to give you the “secret knowledge” of the universe. In religion, we call
this lust for secret knowledge “gnosticism.” Science has its gnostics,
too. Indeed, the New Age is the place today where bad religion meets
bad science.
But in the popular culture, the place where most of us learn about
science or religion—especially traditions or fields different from our
own experience—are in stories. All modern fiction makes assumptions
about science and religion. A good mystery, for instance, can
depend on the physical possibility of certain events (science) and the
ethics of the characters involved (religion). Science fiction is very
explicit in making these concepts central to its story.
Stories, myths, and tales have always made ideas a part of popular
culture. Great religious figures teach us with parables. Fables and fairy
tales are the way we teach our children about life. And even the
ancient Greek myths, it has been argued, might have been deliberate
devices for organizing and transmitting information about the natural
world to nonscientific people.
Once an idea gets turned into a story, people pay attention long
enough to listen. They feel comfortable evaluating it, by comparing
the story against their own lives. And they remember it. The images
from Dante are much more vivid than the arguments of Aquinas.
So what do our stories tell us about science and religion? One
message all too present is that both are to be feared, each in its own
way. In the movies, all preachers are power-hungry, money-driven
hypocrites; all scientists are mad. They’re both caricatured by wild
hair and a fanatical gleam in the eye.”
Source: BROTHER ASTRONOMER: ADVENTURES OF A VATICAN SCIENTIST (2000) pg 87
Brother Guy makes some valid points about New Agers and scientists, but in reality, this is most certainly a case of the pot calling the kettle black... What a joke, 'Pious Fraud' or the mentality 'the end justifies the means' is a main stay for Roman Catholicism, the same for many who claim to be New Agers, it is one of the hallmarks that distinguishes a cult member... Whatever, I hope that soon I can find a few people who are SICK OF THE MYTHS AND MYTHMAKING AND ARE EVOLVED ENOUGH TO WANT TO MOVE ON...
Man buys toy poodles, discovers they’re actually ferrets on steroids
Yahoo News, 8th April 2013
An Argentine man who thought he bought a pair of poodles at an outdoor market in Buenos Aires brought them home to the vet only to be told they were actually ferrets on steroids, reports the Daily Mail.
The man, a retiree from Catamarca, purchased the animals at La Salada, Argentina's largest bazaar.
The veterinarian informed him the ferrets "had been given steroids at birth to increase their size and then had some extra grooming to make their coats resemble a fluffy toy poodle," the paper says, translating a report from a local Argentine TV station. He paid $150 per poodle.
Comment: What amazes me is the mind of con-men who have the ability to dream up the most amazing schemes... I think these doled up ferrets will catch on as the poor man's poodle... I don't know why he is complaining, the man got a bargain.... LOL!
One of Azerbaijan’s largest mud volcanoes erupts
News.Az, 8th April 2013
Eruption was recorded on April 1.
Akhtarma-Pashali mud volcano in Hajigabul region of Azerbaijan has erupted, head of the ANAS Institute of Geology's Mud Volcano Department Adil Aliyev told APA.
He said the eruption was recorded on April 1. The scientists of the Institute of Geology have carried out research in the area:
“This is one of the largest volcanoes of Azerbaijan. Volcano is located 35 km from Shirvan city - in the south-eastern Shirvan. The volcano erupted for the first time in 1948, this is the 7th eruption.”
Flights to get bumpier as turbulence to double
Flying is to become a far less comfortable experience according to a study of how levels of turbulence are set to change over the next 40 years.
The Telegraph, 8th April 2013
Trans Atlantic flights will encounter up to twice as much turbulence while enroute, the research has shown.
Using atmospheric computer models, the scientists behind the work were able to simulate how changes in the climate will impact on the invisible patches of mixing air that cause turbulence.
Dr Paul Williams, a Royal Society research fellow at the University of Reading, said the results suggest air passengers will have less comfortable journeys in the future.
It could also have far more serious implications than a few more spilt drinks and more time staring at the illuminated seat belt sign. [...]
Dr Williams said: "Thirty thousand feet above our heads, the jet stream is being accelerated, which is having a destabilising effect that is making air turbulence more likely to form.
"There are 600 transatlantic crossings every day, so a lot of fights will be affected by this."
Comment: This is the reality of worsening space weather. There are already quite a few articles and comments that relate to the jet stream and turbulence in the archives, see Best of the Blog Space Weather & Electromagnetic Chaos.
Space weather: how it affects Earth
IOL News, 6th April 2013
Paris - Space weather is caused mainly by storms and eruptions in our volatile Sun sending potentially dangerous radiation towards Earth.
It also causes the spectacular “aurora” light displays that have awed so many in the polar regions - a beautiful show of radiation hitting Earth's magnetic field.
The Sun randomly and suddenly ejects bursts of its component plasma or magnetic matter in events called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and is subject to equally arbitrary bursts of radiation called solar flares.
External electric flux influences Earth’s climate
thunderbolts.info, 8th April 2013
According to a recent press release, ten years of data analysis has revealed that cloud height changes over time in response to an electric field generated by “global thunderstorms”. Although Earth’s electric field is brought into the discussion, and the electric charge on small water droplets is mentioned, researchers admit to mysterious forces at play.
It was in September of 2006 that a major premise of Electric Universe theory was confirmed: Earth weather is electrically connected to the ionosphere. Since electricity always flows in a circuit, if the ionosphere connects to Earth’s magnetosphere then it connects to the circuits of the Solar System, as well.
Comment: We are reminded here that atmospheric scientists have already admitted that Earth weather is electrically connected to the ionosphere. Since the ionosphere connects to Earth’s magnetosphere, Earth weather is influenced by being part of a large electrical circuit in the Solar System. So, it is not really correct to think of weather on Earth being just being a global phenomenon anymore when we know huge flows of electrical charge are coming in from space.
An English class for trolls, professional offence-takers and climate activists
Telegraph Delingpole Blog, 7th April 2013
Should Michael Mann be given the electric chair for having concocted arguably the most risibly inept, misleading, cherry-picking, worthless and mendacious graph – the Hockey Stick – in the history of junk science?
Should George Monbiot be hanged by the neck for his decade or so's hysterical promulgation of the great climate change scam and other idiocies too numerous to mention?
Comment: The climate war vitriol is reaching new heights or plumeting to new depths depending on your view of the matter. More comment here The battle of the pointless Nuremberg insults: Romm -vs- Delingpole
Behind the North Korean Crisis
Consortium News, 6th April 2013
U.S. propagandists and the mainstream media present foreign crises, like the current one with North Korea, as black-and-white morality plays with Official Washington behaving wisely and the adversaries as crazy. But the reality is always more complex, as Christine Hong told Dennis J. Bernstein.
In early March, the U.S. and South Korea launched an expanded set of war games on the Korean Peninsula, prompting concerns in some circles that the military exercises might touch off an escalation of tensions with North Korea.
Christine Hong, a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, worried that the U.S. “was lurching towards war” since “the military exercises that the U.S. and South Korea just launched are not defensive exercises” but rather appear to promote a “regime change” strategy.
undefined
Those military pressures have, indeed, led to threats of escalation from North Korea’s young leader, Kim Jong Un, and have set the Korean security situation at “hair-trigger dangerous,” Professor Hong said in the following interview with Dennis J. Bernstein.
Comment: Of course, the media reports give the impression that North Korea has suddenly gone off the deep end for no reason, but this article explains their paranoia very well.
Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: The Whole CO2 “Argument Is Tiresome And Absurd…Warmists Living In A Fantasy World”
notrickszone.com, 7th April 2013
CO2 is too trivial of a factor
The major problem is the people driving this train refuse to humble themselves to the majesty of the atmosphere. The sheer weight of numbers against CO2 causing this is staggering. The oceans have 1000 times the heat capacity of the atmosphere, CO2 1/2500th of the gas blanket that makes our Earth livable, man – according to the US Dept of Energy – is only responsible for 1/20th of that, meaning 1/50,000th of the air is “man-made”. Actually it’s merely man-recycled, for there has been no introduction of new CO2 to the system that I know of. What we’ve put into the air has always been a part of the system, it’s just recycled. [...]
Quiet sun is a wild card – poses a threat
The explanation to all this is no different than you sitting in a sauna. Turn up the thermostat (natural ocean cycles) and it will heat until it reaches what the thermostat dictates. Arguing that turning on the light (the CO2 influence) is what heated the sauna is absurd. The wild card in this is the sun, which I am concerned is going to be a much bigger problem (believe me with the lunacy of the energy policies globally, a return to my temps is already a huge problem in itself, but the sun falling asleep would be worse).
Comment: I suppose many realise that the desperation by world controllers to remove excessive CO2 from the atmosphere has nothing to do with global warming (we know the link is spurious and unproven), but usually the belief is to do with a poor excuse for more power to control the masses... I think there are othe generally unknown reasons that are either very practical or very esoteric. I think the most esoteric is a desire to ward off an inevitable sign of a permanent atmospheric change, what I have been calling the atmospheric Earth status of 'Paradise' associated with a highly charged electrical environment. Since billions have been invested in flawed climate models and campaigning to persuade the public to go along with the fantasy climate science, it just makes me wonder why others have not thought about this more deeply...
Global Warming: Was It Just A Beautiful Dream After All?
Forbes News, 3rd April 2013
Like most of you, I yearn for shorter winters, more shirt-sleeve weather, less lashing from frigid winds. As a confirmed New Yorker, I’m not willing to do what millions have done: move to the sunbelt. I want warmer weather here in the Big City.
But I’ve grown old waiting for the promised global warming. I was 35 when predictions of a looming ice age were supplanted by warmmongering. Now I’m 68, and there’s still no sign of warmer weather. It’s enough to make one doubt the “settled science” of the government-funded doom-sayers.
Comment: Hilarious... Climate skeptics are wondering if we are seeing a full scale retreat in the mainstream media...Lots of headlines at Climate Depot. Marc Morano: ‘The great warmist retreat has officially begun. The mainstream media cannot maintain the official man-made global warming narrative any longer’ Well, I Told ya so... I am waiting for the day when it becomes undeniable that the real issue is space weather...
Climatologists are no Einsteins, says his successor
New Jersey News, 3rd April 2013
[...] “I just think they don’t understand the climate,” he said of climatologists. “Their computer models are full of fudge factors.”
A major fudge factor concerns the role of clouds. The greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide on its own is limited. To get to the apocalyptic projections trumpeted by Al Gore and company, the models have to include assumptions that CO-2 will cause clouds to form in a way that produces more warming.
“The models are extremely oversimplified,” he said. “They don’t represent the clouds in detail at all. They simply use a fudge factor to represent the clouds.”
Comment: Due to Space Weather and Earth being flooded with charged particles from space because of changes in the cosmic environment and Earth's weakening magnetosphere (cosmic magnetic shielding), it is inevitable that Earth's weather and climate is being affected. The problem is that space weather means all the previous assumptions that help us to predict weather and climate need to be re-examined and a new understanding of fundamentals is required. Yet, it seems a few astrophysicists are taking up the challenge, see archives. Meanwhile, those scientists still stuck in the old paradigm are being humiliated as climate reality strongly diverges from their theories and predictions.
Mind reading Sharjah Girl ‘exceedingly rare’ savant
Khaleej Times, 2nd April 2013
Godfather of savant research ‘never seen’ a case like Sharjah’s Nandana, reports Sajila Saseendran
A nine-year-old autistic girl in Sharjah, whose extraordinary ability to read her mother’s mind was revealed to the world last week, could be the next name added to a worldwide registry of people with savant talents, according to the world’s top expert in savant syndrome.
People with savant syndrome exhibit extraordinary abilities, but have serious mental disabilities including autistic disorder.
Recommended!
