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Southern Russia overwhelmed with purple snow
RT News, 9th March 2010

The very morning following the widely celebrated Woman's Day - people in Southern Russia could not believe their eyes when they found purple snow piled on city streets. Yahoo StumbleUpon Google Live Technorati del.icio.us Digg Reddit Mixx Propeller Scientists confirmed a multi-coloured snowfall – ranging from light purple to brown – had landed in Russia's Stavropol Region. Experts are still baffled, saying they need a day to analyse the snow, while environmentalists claim high pollution levels in Stavropol caused the event. A similar incident took place some years ago in Russia's Far East, though climatologists say this was caused by a dust-storm mixing with snow in the clouds. Video [0:39]
Comment: OK, two weeks ago it was purple fog in Hungary, this week it's purple snow and baffled scientists, well actually the baffled scientists are not a surprise... Please note the standard excuses of algae, Sarahan dust and chemical pollution that have been given for previously coloured snow. Is Snow Always White? However, we also know that 2001 Red rain in Kerala, India was initially diagnosed as red cells that had no DNA, presumably from an extraterrestrial source and even the New Scientists ran an article headlined in April 2006, "Does it look alien to you?". This has huge implications for how life started on Earth and how we are influenced by extraterrestrial events. Panspermia advocates who include Nobel Prize winners are increasingly being vindicated after decades of vilification. So will we get purple rain?

Rare 'solar corona' caught on camera
The elusive 'solar corona' - a plasma gas atmosphere around the sun where temperatures reach two million degrees - visible only during a total eclipse, has been captured on camera.
The Telegraph, 10th March 2010

The pictures were taken during an eclipse over the isolated Marshall Islands, near Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean. Ten times as dense as the centre of the sun, the corona only produces about one-millionth as much light - meaning that it can only be seen when 'lit up' during an eclipse. Click here to see a high-resolution version of the image The main radiation from the sun's surface during a total solar eclipse is blocked by the passage of the moon enabling rare viewings of the corona. Organised by the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic, the shadow-tracking expedition took these remarkable pictures to study changes in the plasma. [...] The mysterious corona has puzzled scientists for years - it extends more than a million kilometres from the sun yet is over 200 times hotter than the sun's visible surface. The source of the corona's heat is still the subject of debate, but is likely to include the Sun's magnetic field and sonic pressure waves from below the sun.
Comment: Wow! I am a little stunned, as this photo by Czech scientists is incredible and reveals more about how the Sun works. I note this article rstates that solar scientists have moved on and does NOT explain the temperature inversion on the surface of the Sun at 6000K with the corona around the sun at 2 million K, on the outdated fusion model. Good!

Meteor Strikes Alabama Neighborhood, Citizens Brace for More [US]
The Grumpy Gardener, 5th March 2010 (late entry will re-file later)

A loud boom shook residents of Hoover, Alabama out of their beds early Friday morning, sending terrified families running into the streets. There they were greeted by a scene straight out of "Armageddon" -- scorched earth, vaporized worms, and a lawn suddenly turned to blacktop. Scientists and civil defense authorities quickly determined the most likely cause -- a small meteorite that had blasted its way through the Earth's atmosphere before disintegrating above the lawn.
Comment: This is the first time that I have come across a meteor sorching grass but leaving no hole and no debris!?! Sorry, this does not add up because there is supposed to be some evidence of a space rock even if it disintegrated! What they are saying is that something completely vapourised just above a lawn!?! This event was appropriately reported by 'The Grumpy Gardener' website. LOL! More meteors reported this week:

Meteors put on cosmic show over Derry [Ireland]
""There were six of them in total," he told the Journal yesterday. "They were bright orange almost red, like balls of flames burning with a tail behind them." ...He said the lights passed over the hills of Donegal before disappearing from view." So, were they actually meteors or UAPs?

Loud sound that rattled windows possibly a sonic boom or meteor - Louisiana [US]
"There have been no reports of area residents seeing a meteor, but seeing a meteor was unlikely because overcast and daytime conditions, Wheeler said."

Grisly mystery after scores of starlings fall out of the sky and lie dying... in a SINGLE front garden
Daily Mail, 10th March 2010

It was like a grisly scene from a horror film. On Sunday night, over a quiet Somerset house, scores of swooping starlings tumbled out of the sky and fell, dead, into a single front garden. Covering an area 12ft across, more than 100 birds carpeted the garden, each with blood oozing from its beak and curled up claws. Most had died, although some flapped lamely, clearly in pain until the RSPCA put them out of their misery.
Comment: I would say this is like a scene from the SciFi movie The Core. The film is about the Earth's magnetic field becoming unstable and rapidly losing strength. The birds go crazy because they can't navigate using the Earth's magnetic field because it is in complete chaos and some birds just drop out of the sky. Well, all those conditions are actually happening now but there does not seem to be any interest. In the film, people with pacemakers started dropping dead in the streets too, so I assume that this has to happen before people take any interest in the deteriorating electromagnetic environment. I actually loved this film, especially when the have to go to the core of Earth to fix the problem. This is the real science fiction part, because on the way they have to pass through the hollow sections of Earth that are filled with caverns of huge diamonds, as far as I was concerned that was the best bit.... Anyway, if you have read enough of this blog you will know that the film The Core most have been inspired, because even last week there was an article in the New Scientist stating that the Earth's magnetic field might be getting ready to flip. Note the comments to this story, there are a lot of people suggesting some kind of environmental electromagnetic interference.

Close encounters of a Norfolk kind: Glowing green UFO spotted hovering over windmill
Daily Mail, 10th March 2010

Maybe the aliens took a wrong turn or maybe they just love a bit of history. But this UFO curious green light was seen hovering over a 19th century windmill in Norfolk. The curious green light was spotted by photographer Peter Rye who wanted to take night-time images of Denver mill in Downham Market.
Comment: Now doesn't this look like an eye in the sky! I have inset an enlarged image (top left) where we can more easily see the plasma double layers. Below (bottom left) is another inset which is the Helix Nebula, of course there is a great similarity, but astronomers don't call nebulas UFOs! Check out NASA's poster called Dusty Eye of the Helix Nebula.

Faith-Based Climate Astrology: Women hit by global warming head to Capitol Hill: 'We have freezing temps when we shouldn't have freezing temps'
Climate Depot, 9th March 2010

[...] Even religious leaders have recognized the scientific transition to paganism. See: Catholic Cardinal George Pell in 2006: 'In the past, pagans sacrificed animals and even humans in vain attempts to placate capricious and cruel gods. Today they demand a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions' Here are some prime examples of this perversion of science now known as “climate astrology.” A July 2009 article in AllAfrica.com reported: “The Karimojong [in Uganda] blame the spell of calamities like drought and disease to the "angry gods". The article from AllAfrica.com goes on to explain: “Little do they know that their area is suffering the consequences of a larger problem, climate change.” Okay. Thanks. Imagine leaving people so in the dark that they believe “angry gods” are causing bad weather, when the answer is so simple, it's mankind's emission of a trace essential gas!
Comment: We will have to forgive Marc Morano for the slur on astrology because society still does not generally acknowledge the effect of environmental energies, despite research findings and certainly not much thought is given to electromagnetic signals modifying DNA. This is now on the radar with the study of Epigenetics but there are not enough definitive answers yet. However, I could not resist this article which is basically about superstition, and pagans of all types are compared to modern day climate scientists. Totally, politically uncorrect...

'Astro-squirrels' use coconut shells as helmets
Refreshing News, 9th March 2010

These two squirrels looked like astronauts after putting coconut shells on their heads. The pair look more like starved spacemen tucking into the tropical treats at the back of Jane Robert's home in Fareham, Hants.
Comment: I don't think it's got anything to do with evolutionary change but these little fellas are cute!

Bright light over Eureka, CA emits smaller objects
UFO Examiner, 8th March 2010

I saw a very very bright light in the sky, dime size, it was to large to be a star, and much to close, the size of a dime in the sky... All of a sudden 2 sets of lights came out of it traveling down and east. The bright object started dumping flaming objects like coals on a barbecue, they were falling to earth but would extinguish before impact. Some were very large, fire also appeared to fall. When this fire stopped 2 more objects with lights came out again, this time flying upwards.
Comment: I believe the image used comes from images taken in Scotland, May 2009 when 16 balls of fire were seen and caused "UFO Fever". Well, these UAPs that spew out 'fire' or 'cinders' are interesting, especially as they have been seen over various cities over the UK. Obviously, nobody has the nerve to compare them to Chinese lanterns... in the past, I have joked about the galactic delivery service, but I imagine it's alarming to watch. There are NEVER any reports of fires, because these are aetheric energies being deposited or 'fire chi', interdimensional plasma energy that is required as Earth experiences a massive 'planetary refresh'.

UFO sighting caught on tape in Ohio? [US]
"EUCLID, Ohio (CNN/WJW) - A Euclid, Ohio man says a UFO has been hovering over Lake Erie and he says he's got the video to prove it. "Absolutely nothing we have on this Earth even looks like that," said Eugene Erlikh."
There seems to be a lot of excitement brewing in the United States and it seems that they are now catching up with Europe as the dimensional shift takes hold. I am even more excited for them! Now MSM: Fox News reports UFO sighting over Lake Erie 5 nights in a row

Family watches triangle UFOs over Lake Michigan near Manistee [US]
"I looked at the orange lights and saw that it was a perfect triangle of three lights."

'Brilliantly lit' white ball over Albuquerque, New Mexico appeared controlled [US]
"I was just looking at the sky and relaxing. Suddenly a brilliantly lit white ball just showed up in the sky."

Video: Orbs flying in sync 01/01/2010 - Dublin, Ireland [6.00]
Warning! This guy starts swearing after 55 seconds in his commentary with a wonderful Irish accent. He's in shock, but it's a great bit of footage!

Rupert Sheldrake and Richard Wiseman Clash Over Parapsychology Experiments
skeptico, 8th March 2010

Join Skeptiko host Alex Tsakiris for a spirited debate between biologist, author, and telepathy researcher, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, and noted researcher of anomalous psychology, and parapsychology skeptic, Dr. Richard Wiseman. During the 90-minute episode Sheldrake and Wiseman discuss the scientific evidence for telepathy and other psi phenomena. The debate covers a range of topics, but according to moderator Alex Tsakiris, the real friction began after the debate ended, “During the debate, Dr. Wiseman appeared eager to participate in collaborative research with parapsychologists. He went to great lengths explaining why skeptics and psi proponents should team-up on experiments of telepathy and other psi phenomena. But during an email exchange following the debate (published on the Skeptiko website), his stance took a radical change.”
Comment: I think Rupert sheldrake must have a thick skin to put with this kind of behaviour, but Sheldrake has my complete admiration after he was stabbed by some mad-man after he had given a lecture in Santa Fe, New Mexico in April 2008. Sheldrake has done some small-scale telepathy experiments sponsored by Cambridge University in the UK, that have had some astounding results. See copy: Scientist Proves 'Telephone Telepathy' "The hit rate was 45 percent, well above the 25 percent you would have expected," he told the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. "The odds against this being a chance effect are 1,000 billion to one." No wonder a skeptic does not want to try and disaprove him and uses diversionary tactics to stop more conclusive research! The discussion about miracles is also interesting as the scientific community get alarmed that the so called placebo effect is getting stronger!

Radio Heliographic ripples on the Sun extensive the past two days!
Large quake may loom in the next 48 hours!
GLP Board, 8th March 2010

I was curious about the last two quakes and wave patterns on the Nobeyama Radioheliograph 10min Movies of the sun. There seemed to be a correlation so I will post the information here for this objective thought. What you will look for is wave pattern (ripples) moving across the sun on the movies and the time at the bottom. It seem’s these happen within a 24 hour period of the quakes listed below. From 08-01-2008 to 03-01-2010 there were 60 of these in 20 months, which averages 3 per month. Links to movies under the earthquake.
Comment: Someone at GLP has noticed that the Sun is getting hit and we can see some interesting interference patterns that remind me of a few crop circles. I think we are seeing interference patterns caused by gravitational waves. The Asian tsunami in December 2004 was enough to convince some astronomers that Magnetar blasts can generate gravitational waves and we know that this activity has been seriously stepping up in gears hence the severe Space Weather. Sigh! Ignore the Mayan stuff and look at the scientific info on gravitational waves, "The crop picture which appeared on August 18, 2006 at Etchilhampton Hill seems to show (i) the four-fold pointed-symmetry of a gravitational wave field, as well as (ii) certain grid lines which are commonly used to represent gravity or curved space time ." here At least we were warned in advance! Warning: the GLP forum is rough!

"Crop Circles" on the ice in Arna [Bergen, Norway]
Aftenposten, 7th March 2010

Google Translation: On Friday night, Ole Johan Hansen (77) saw a mysterious light in the harbor Arna in Bergen. The next morning a beautiful and inexplicable pattern appeared right there. "It was about ? feet long, and was not like anything I've seen before. Since it was 11 o'clock at night and I was not sure if the ice is safe, I tried to look in my binoculars if there was someone there. I could not see anyone," says Ole Johan Hansen (77) to bt.no. Hansen lives just off the waterfront in Arna harbor. When he got up Saturday morning, he could hardly believe what he saw. During the night a symmetrical pattern formed on the ice. The pattern arises from about eight holes in the ice. According to Hansen rings range from around 50 meters (?) to the northeast, and 300 feet (?) in the other direction. Neither Hansen or lodger John Halvor Sæle (58) have seen the holes that the pattern arises from before Saturday morning. The pattern is amazing good. I have never seen the like, said Sæle. Meteorologist Geir Ottar Fagerlid admitted to parish news that he was thinking of a natural phenomenon (?) when he saw the pictures, and that the pattern is reminiscent of the mysterious phenomenon of "corn circles".
Comment: More signs and wonders.... I will make an update if I see a better translation.

Wanted: an eco prophet
People are drifting into a lethal slumber on climate change. More of the same won't wake them up
The Guardian, 7th March 2010

It's an exceptionally inconvenient truth. Only one American in three believes that human beings are responsible for climate change: a polling result 10% down on where opinion rested the year before. Worse, the number of Americans who believe that climate change is a hoax or a scientific conspiracy – not doubting, just damned blank certain – has doubled since 2008. Add in those who assert that the changes, if any, are of "no significant concern", and you've got 30% of the US denying, scoffing and just walking on by. [...] More jaw and Gore from politicians can't cut it. They have come to seem secondhand sources, merely parroting a frail scientific thesis. That goes, alas, for journalists, too – and for pressure groups issuing lurid warnings or staging angry demos. Those of us who are convinced, who believe in the necessity of action, haven't changed our minds. But we're not the point. The audience that matters is out there, sleeping or drifting. And rousing it will demand something different, not more of the same.
Comment: It looks like Al Gore has lost his job. The apparent fear and panic about climate change runs very deep, but it's only a proxy for the fear of not being able to control the future due to rapid revolutionary change.

EdgeScience Magazine - Second Free Issue Special New Energy Section!
Edge Science, March 2010

Introducing EdgeScience - the new magazine from the SSE. Why EdgeScience? 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: Free!

Edge Science: Breakthrough: Clues to healing with Intentions
Edge Science, March 2010

[...] I used healing techniques that Bennett and I developed through introspection, trial and error, and simple intuition. The techniques are completely belief-free and involve a process of extremely fast visualization of a series of personal images done in conjunction with the laying-on of hands, in which the person tries, with as little effort as possible, to feel an energy flowing out from the palms of his or her hands. The images each person uses are generated by a personal list, prepared prior to the experiment, of 20 outcomes wanted in his or her life, specific goals that involve their own health, ideal jobs, material aspirations, or other people. Each item on the list is translated into an image that represents the achievement of that particular goal. These personal images are then memorized and the prospective healer practices cycling through them in a kind of mental filmstrip loop. This technique, rather than slowing down brain activity through some sort of meditative technique, actually speeds up brain functioning and activity through the rapid visualization. At the same time the handson technique is done in a very detached manner on the assumption that focus or belief would only get in the way. [...] The idea that a placebo could produce real physiological effects was unthinkable in medicine 50 years ago, but by now medicine recognizes that placebos do work, even as the mechanism by which they work and the circumstances under which they work remain a mystery. Yet, in fact, it turns out that placebo effects increase over time to the point where up to 80 percent of the effects of drugs can be mirrored in placebos.
Comment: To say this research blows out a lot of conventional thinking about working with healing energies and techniques is to put it mildly. The discussion that this scientist has solved the problem of the placebo effect is amazing, lets say I am absolutely thrilled with what I have read about this research so far. THIS IS ALL VERY INTERESTING AS THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES ARE STRUGGLING TO BEAT THE PLACEBO EFFECT! According to someone called Judith, she persuaded Dr William Bengston to start teaching. According to her, the Bengston method is hit and miss and if you read her blog it is most likely to do with resonance, see William Bengston, Chasing the Cure: A commentary, also see the Further commentary. Please remember, the person who started this all off was called David Kingsley who was a natural healer who had reached a certain level on his own. He did not need any "initiations" from anyone, then Dr. William Bengston spent a lot of time with him and picked up the frequencies as they worked out their process of visualisation. From what Judith says, Dr William Bengston does not seem to know how to pass on these frequencies properly and I think this is an area that needs thorough investigation and research, especially as there are many different schools and organisations and groups charging money for techniques and initiations. Btw, even if you spend years in a healing school like Barbara Brennan's, a few of her graduates have told me that there is no guarantee that you will evolve and pick up abilities like high sense perception (hsp). It seems that the sheep dip approach does not always work.

In Denial: The meltdown of the climate campaign.
Weekly Standard, 15th March 2010 (Issue Date)

[...] If the climate system is less sensitive to greenhouse gases than the climate campaign believes, then what is causing plainly observable changes in the climate, such as earlier arriving springs, receding glaciers, and shrinking Arctic Ocean ice caps? There have been alternative explanations in the scientific literature for several years, ignored by the media and the IPCC alike. The IPCC downplays theories of variations in solar activity, such as sunspot activity and gamma ray bursts, and although there is robust scientific literature on the issue, even the skeptic community is divided about whether solar activity is a primary cause of recent climate variation. [...] The unraveling of the climate campaign was entirely predictable, though not the dramatic swiftness with which it arrived. The long trajectory of the climate change controversy conforms exactly to the “issue-attention cycle” that political scientist Anthony Downs explained in the Public Interest almost 40 years ago. Downs laid out a five-stage cycle through which political issues of all kinds typically pass. A group of experts and interest groups begin promoting a problem or crisis, which is soon followed by the alarmed discovery of the problem by the news media and broader political class. This second stage typically includes a large amount of euphoric enthusiasm—you might call this the dopamine stage—as activists conceive the issue in terms of global salvation and redemption. One of the largest debilities of the climate campaign from the beginning was their having conceived the issue not as a practical problem, like traditional air pollution, but as an expression, in Gore’s view, of deeper spiritual and even metaphysical problems arising from our “dysfunctional civilization.” Gore is still thinking about the issue in these terms, grasping for another dopamine rush. In his February 28 New York Times article, he claimed that an international climate treaty would be “an instrument of human redemption.”
Comment: The Weekly Standard magazine front cover implies that Al Gore, the emperor with no clothes, has in fact been exposed and now realises that his cover has been blown. All rather charming and quaint... The few sentences highlighted here reveals that some people can actually think, which at times in the last few years I have seriously wondered about.... Yes, the changes taking place on this planet are being driven by celestial energies that are solar, cosmic, galactic and even intergalactic, but how long will it take for more of the pundits out there to realise that our planet is facing evolutionary change? This is already well known to priviledged insiders and people who have the ability to reason and are aware of the new phenomenon of Space Weather. I note the reference to social engineenering of public opinion, which I have highlighted before. Yet, again we see Al Gore's emphasis that we are facing a spiritual crisis, sometimes I wonder who or what this man is channelling...
Gore: Organized Campaign Behind Climate Skeptics
Former Vice President Al Gore says critics of his global warming warnings are part of a "massive, organized campaign." Over at WUWT, people want to know why they have not been receiving checks...

Defectors Say Church of Scientology Hides Abuse
New York Times, 6th March 2010

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Raised as Scientologists, Christie King Collbran and her husband, Chris, were recruited as teenagers to work for the elite corps of staff members who keep the Church of Scientology running, known as the Sea Organization, or Sea Org. They signed a contract for a billion years — in keeping with the church’s belief that Scientologists are immortal. They worked seven days a week, often on little sleep, for sporadic paychecks of $50 a week, at most. But after 13 years and growing disillusionment, the Collbrans decided to leave the Sea Org, setting off on a Kafkaesque journey that they said required them to sign false confessions about their personal lives and their work, pay the church thousands of dollars it said they owed for courses and counseling, and accept the consequences as their parents, siblings and friends who are church members cut off all communication with them.
Comment: According to the book Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change [1978, 1979, 1995, 2005] by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman. Scientology is the worse cult on the planet to recover from, taking on average 12 years. The following video of the brainwashing that they call "training" is the reason why. Please take 24 minutes of your life to watch the video and understand why this organisation is so dangerous. Video: Indoctrination: Scientology Basic Training Routines The most ridiculous aspect of this, is people actually pay for themselves to be turned into unemotional robots that can be triggered on command! Incredibly, I have read that people say that they found these basic drills helpful and gave them confidence, because presumably, they teach people how to control others! To be honest, I had no idea it was that bad... By the way, Scientology is extreme but the New Agey 'cult' milieu is just much more subtle and if people are not careful, the same mentality and emotional rigidity can be developed over a much longer time frame.

Strange Cloud Behaviour in Argentina 04-03-2010
YouTube, March 2010

Strange phenomenon occurred in Argentina. The citizens of Guernica were surprised by a strange cone-shaped cloud that rose more than 12 kilometers above the rest of the clouds. From inside this strange formation could be seen large rays that frightened the spectators. Many witnesses say may be a harbinger of some new catastrophe in the region after the earthquake in Chile.
Comment: There is now some seriously strange atmospheric phenomena being seen around the world, some of this lacks any explanation whatsoever. Here, some people have suggested a Low Precipitation (LP) Supercell thunderstorm, but quite frankly, I prefer a metaphysical explanation. We are seeing some serious redistribution of energies and off-planet advice warning people to protect their energy fields during this process has been generally ignored.

Stories of Last Week [32] with lots of additional updates and links!

Massive hailstones pound Melbourne [Australia]
ABC News, 6th March 2010

Severe thunderstorms have hit Melbourne as parts of Victoria are lashed by strong winds and large hail stones. Hailstones the size of golf balls have hit the suburb of Melton, in Melbourne's west, as a line of storms moved through western Victoria. Winds of more 100 kilometres an hour have been recorded at Melbourne Airport while nearly 40 millimetres of rain fell at Rockbank, west of Melbourne. Streets across Melbourne's CBD have been flooded and police are warning people not to drive through the flooded areas after some motorists became trapped.
Comment: Of course they are exagerating, golf-balled sized hailstone is not that massive, the biggest hailstones that I have come across in recent years were tennis-balled sized that killed deer in Austria, in October 2009, then there were "fist-sized" hail that destroyed crops in French villages, May 2009. In August 2008, the United States at Belen, had hailstones the sized of golf balls, but some had fused together to form chunks that were 4 or 5 inches across. Australia has seen much bigger projectiles from the sky, there were "cricket ball" sized hail hit Sydney, Australia in December 2007, and Sydney also had tennis balls sized ones in October 2007, see Best of the Blog Wild Weather. Hailstones are a wonder because the current theory can only be described as speculative as to how they can form whilst defying gravity based on hanging around in a "thermal updraught". In reality, we know that to form clouds an electric field is required and above thunderstorms those electric fields become intense, our scientists are only providing us with weak unverifiable explanations because they don't understand the processes at work in all the different electromagnetic atmospheric conditions that can exist in the complex environment of our planet.

James Ray Foes Refusing to Take his Tweets Sitting Down
Rummorat, 6th March 2010

Mr. Mystical Nonsense – or James Arthur Ray, as he’s more commonly known – keeps cranking out the crap on his Twitter account. But it would seem that those who no longer buy into his New Age nonsense aren’t sitting by quietly as he spews his spiritual spittle into cyberspace. There’s a whole slew of naysayers saying nay in Tweets which they’re addressing directly to Mr. Ray, and they make for some great reading.
Comment: Good to see that the rebellion of the clones has started....

New Rocket Engine Could Reach Mars in 40 Days
Space.com, 5th March 2010

Future Mars outposts or colonies may seem more distant than ever with NASA's exploration plans in flux, but the rocket technology that could someday propel a human mission to the red planet in as little as 40 days may already exist. A company founded by former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz has been developing a new rocket engine that draws upon electric power and magnetic fields to channel superheated plasma out the back. That stream of plasma generates steady, efficient thrust that uses low amounts of propellant and builds up speed over time.
Comment: Well, it seems that some scientists woke up a long time ago and realised that we live in an Electromagnetic/Plasma Universe and that for mankind to make any significant achievements we have to copy the interdimensional plasmatic lifeforms that operate by ustilising the basic energy of the universe – plasma – that due to it's charge to mass ratio is mostly influenced by electric and magnetic fields. So, are we supposed to believe that more advanced plasma engines are not already operational under black projects? The video here [4:48] is quite nice: Promising New Space Engines are Opening the Solar System

Texas witness reports 'bird formation' disappearing and reappearing in clear sky
UFO Examiner, 5th March 2010

[...]I had just flown in from Dallas to Harlingen, landed after 12 noon. I drove back with a friend and her husband to Mcallen, my home town. Before Mcallen, we drove through Pharr Texas. I was in the back seat, and I happened to look up. I noticed, and not too high from the sky, a formation of birds, in an arrow shape, the way your normal birds migrate, but these were not the normal looking birds. They were in a perfect arrow shape, and about 8-10 of them on either side. They were flying in synch, the exact same time and way, these birds looked like sting ray looking animals, very strange looking birds, with a wide wing span, and bodies like a sting ray. As I was watching, they disappeared, then they reappeared within seconds, and they were still in synch as they were flying flapping their wings all at the same time. I did mention what I saw to the 2 people I was driving with, I was a little embarrassed to mention it again. With in seconds they disappeared again, and not into clouds, because they were way below the clouds. I've told my close friends and am embarrassed to mention it to anyone because don't want anyone to think I am crazy. Oh and I failed to mention, it was a beautiful clear day.
Comment:These 'sting ray' type entities are only seen and reported occasionally, I don't think this is a great account but I still think it's worth noting, a link to a sting ray image is provided here. This account reminds me of the story of Kenneth Arnold who started off the whole UFO frenzy when he tried to described a formation of objects he was seeing and newspaper men came up with the phrase 'flying saucers' but that was NOT the shape he was trying to describe. In fact, Arnold originally saw crescent or fan shaped objects and one object that was tadpole shaped. The behaviour of the objects he saw appeared to be more biological than mechanistic, so his opinion must be considered as valuable due to his unique experiences unclouded by other accounts and his indepth study of this phenomenon. Here is a quote from Trevor James Constable's book, Sky Creatures: Living UFOs published by Simon & Schuster in 1976,

Significant among those who came to accept that UFOs were critters was the man who touched off the whole powder keg — Kenneth Armold. As coiner of the phrase flying saucers he has won immortality, but by the early 1960s, he was nowwhere near as puzzled as he was on 24 June 1947, when he saw a "formation" of these saucers neart Mount Rainier. In November 1962 his views on UFOs sounded as though the had lifted bodily out of my 1958 book They live in the Sky. Writing in Ray Palmer's Flying Saucers Magazine, Mr. Arnold said:

After some 14 years of extensive research, it is my conclusion that the so-called unidentified flying objects that have been seen in our atmosphere are not space ships from another planet at all, but are groups and masses of living organisms that are as much a part of our atmosphere and space as the life we find in the oceans. The only difference in the space and atmospheric organisms is that they have the natural ability to change their densities at will.
Flying Saucers Magazine, November 1962, Palmer Publications. Amherst, Wisconsin 54406

Danger lurks as ships freed from Baltic ice
Breitbart.com, 5th March 2010

Ships were on Friday warned to stay off a danger zone in the Baltic Sea after ice breakers freed up to 50 vessels and thousands of passengers stranded in freezing conditions off the Swedish coast. "There is still a very real danger ... and we've asked ships to take an alternative route," Ann Ericsson of the Swedish Maritime Administration's ice breaker unit, told AFP. A number of vessels, including several passenger ferries shuttling as many as 1,000 passengers each between Sweden, Finland and Estonia, were stranded Thursday just outside the Stockholm archipelago, where freezing winds had pushed thick ice towards the coast. [...] Two ice breakers failed to free the large Amorella passenger ferry and several other ferries on Thursday, forcing them to wait for the larger Ymer ice breaker to sail down from the Bay of Bothnia in the north.
Comment: Well, I saw the stories about the trapped passenger ferries, but I thought I would stay clear of the bad weather is not climate bandwagon, but then I find that TWO ice breakers failed to free the passenger ferries and people were trapped until a larger one arrived to do the business. Actually, I have been on one of those ferries and alcoholic drinks are tax free. The tradition is that people take advantage, and if you have lived in a Scandinavian culture you will know exactly what I mean by this. I imagine that some people really didn't really notice the cold and bad conditions... Here's a YouTube video [1:43] where things did look terrible: Raw Video: Ships Stuck in Ice in Baltic Sea march 2010

Climate scientists plot to fight back at skeptics
The Washington Times, 5th March 2010

Undaunted by a rash of scandals over the science underpinning climate change, top climate researchers are plotting to respond with what one scientist involved said needs to be "an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach" to gut the credibility of skeptics. In private e-mails obtained by The Washington Times, climate scientists at the National Academy of Sciences say they are tired of "being treated like political pawns" and need to fight back in kind. Their strategy includes forming a nonprofit group to organize researchers and use their donations to challenge critics by running a back-page ad in the New York Times. "Most of our colleagues don't seem to grasp that we're not in a gentlepersons' debate, we're in a street fight against well-funded, merciless enemies who play by entirely different rules," Paul R. Ehrlich, a Stanford University researcher, said in one of the e-mails. Some scientists question the tactic and say they should focus instead on perfecting their science, but the researchers who are organizing the effort say the political battle is eroding confidence in their work. [...] "Sounds like this group wants to step up the warfare, continue to circle the wagons, continue to appeal to their own authority, etc.," said Judith A. Curry, a climate scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology. "Surprising, since these strategies haven't worked well for them at all so far."
Comment: This is hard to believe, are we witnessing Climategate Emails Series 2? The 'skeptics' are fighting for truth and the restoration of the original scientific method and they have been doing this with zero funding, but these 'fat cat' scientists are upset that the shambolic state of climate science has been exposed. This is a real dog fight now. Power Vs Force, get the popcorn! Update
The entire file of e-mails has been posted as a PDF and can be read here.

A bright orange burning ball, close and directly overhead! - Leeds, W. Yorkshire [UK]
UK UFO Sightings, 5th March 2010

Location of Sighting: Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire
Date of Sighting: Thursday 4th March, 2010, Time: 18.35, Witness Name: Claire & Abbie
Witness Statement: My daughter and I were driving home in the Littlemoor area of Pudsey when she spotted what I can only describe as a bright orange burning ball! I opened the car window but it was silent. It seemed very close and was directly overhead. I pulled over to watch it and was waiting for it to come down as it looked like a hot air balloon on fire, however it continued to drift gently across the sky. By the time I got my camera out it had risen and was fading. On reviewing the picture I had taken there was nothing there!!! Please…….did anyone else see this?! I now have a worried 10 year old who is phoning around to see if anyone else saw it
Comment: Fire chi! Well, it's very easy to see why people try to frame what they are seeing based on their current knowledge. I did exactly the same thing when I saw an orb, the mind is watching but at the same time trying to work out what is being observed. What I saw was quite small and appeared across a road near appartments and shops, close enough for me to get a good look despite the fact I was not wearing glasses, I think I was watching for about a minute, but that was long enough to eliminate quite a few possibilities. It was like nothing I have ever seen in my life, a flare does not even come close because what I saw was glowing and pulsating and was a brilliant amber orange colour, quite beautiful and it was gliding very smoothly with no erratic moments. When are we going to reach the stage where enough people have seen these balls of light or know someone who has and then are people just going to shrug their shoulders and carry on as if there is no significance? There are lots more reports, here is a link to the homepage of the excellent website UK UFO Sightings.

Shields down! Earth's mag field may drop in a flash
New Scientist, 4th March 2010

EVEN if we knew precise details of Earth's core, we would not be able to predict a catastrophic flip in the polarity of its magnetic field more than a decade or two ahead. Our planet's magnetic field has reversed polarity from time to time throughout its history. Some models suggest that a flip would be completed in a year or two, but if, as others predict, it lasted decades or longer we would be left exposed to space radiation. This could short-circuit satellites, pose a risk to aircraft passengers and play havoc with electrical equipment on the ground.
Comment: This article is so brief, I am seriously wondering if it is meant to be a warning. Well, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have already told us that the Earth's magnetic field that acts as a shield to oncoming Space Weather, is full of tears. There are times when there is NO magnetic shield on the daylight side so we are exposed to galactic cosmic rays and galactic blasts that are occurring regularly now. That's part of the reason why cosmic rays are at a space age high. Sigh... Most people are oblivious and so if the magnetic field does start to flip, I suppose most wouldn't care unless it affected their livestyles which it will, but satellites have already started to start crashing back to earth, so maybe this is focusing a few minds about what they should tell the sheeple... The above image is what I saw when I went to check the state of the Earth's magnetic field 10/03/07 00:33:52 UT, actually I had a choice, check out the ones before.... This is not considered to be 'normal' but these days, magnetic field line distortations are frequent. Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation here.

SEC says 'psychic' scammed investors
NY Post, 4th March 2010

Too bad he couldn't foresee getting caught. Federal regulators filed suit today against a self-proclaimed psychic who allegedly scammed $6 million by conning suckers into believing that his extrasensory abilities would make them "piles of money" by trading foreign currencies. Sean David Morton -- who bills himself as "America's Prophet" -- "falsely touted his historical success in psychically predicting the various rises and falls of the market," according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The California-based huckster -- whose Web site shows him posing with celebs including Sting, Robin Williams and the late Farrah Fawcett -- solicited investors on late-night radio shows and at the 2006 "New Life Expo" in New York City, the Manhattan federal court filing says.
Comment: Since I have been studying scammers, it seems there are strong concerns that the New Age market is seen as a "soft target", so this case sounds like a conman playing the role of a psychic and nothing more. The real problem is those who are very intelligent and have spent a long time mastering the dark art of persuasion like James Ray. They literally see the New Age community as a gold mine and this is made much easier when people refuse to use discernment and think they are safe because someone with a BIG NAME has been promoted by someone else with an even BIGGER NAME. After spending hundreds of hours at the Cult Education Forum, I now clearly see that predators in the New Age world are very good at setting traps and offering bait and this is all done with charm and flair. It does not matter whether the bait is learning how to meditate, enlightenment, energy balancing, "harmonic wealth", "The Work", the goal is to re-engineer your beliefs so the perpetrator is replaced as your God, and you become a follower for life constantly spending money or giving your time for free to help this person succeed in their aims. The mind control means that victims become mindless automatons that can be triggered on command and that is how various cult leaders have operated for hundreds of years. These days the process is refined that's all.

12-year-old girl saves Chilean island
Press TV, 4th March 2010

A 12-year old girl has saved almost the entire population of Robinson Crusoe Island off the coast of Chile from a strong tsunami. The inhabitants of the small island were asleep as a massive tsunami, initiated by the February 27 earthquake, was about to reach the coast. According to reports in the Chilean media, Martina Maturana felt the first slight tremors whilst everyone was asleep on Robinson Crusoe Island, in the Archipelago of Juan Fernandez, 700 kilometers off the country's coast. [...] She ran 400 meters from her home to the town square to sound the alarm bell and woke 700 inhabitants up from their sleep.
Comment: I suppose the moral of the tale is that no matter what the situation, there are always some people with observational and assessment skills that can make a difference.

Meet Blackie The Mutant Penguin
National Geographic Blog, 3rd March 2010

When Andrew Evans sent us this photo of a rare melanistic penguin that he spotted during his travels, I became intrigued. So I decided to call up Dr. Allan Baker, an ornithologist and professor of Environmental and Evolutionary Studies at the University of Toronto and head of the Department of Natural History at the Royal Ontario Museum, to learn more about melanism in birds. I got him on the line before he had the chance to look at the photos, and suffice it to say he was slightly flabbergasted at what he saw: "Wow. That looks so bizarre I can't even believe it. Wow," was his first response. Then he made me swear on a stack of National Geographic magazines that the image was real. "Well that is astonishing," he said. "I've never ever seen that before. It's a one in a zillion kind of mutation somewhere.
Comment: Please note that the Black Penguin has been spotted before and there are two further reports here with a better photo for 'Blackie'. Again, like lots of other 'rare' mutations we have to see whether there are other cases that start to occur and the change takes effect on a wider scale to make any kind of judgement that we are seeing evolutionary change.

Chile quake 'didn't shift planet's axis': German scientists put Earth back on track!
Bild.com, 3rd March 2010

Top German scientists have said NASA’s claim that the quake in Chile moved the Earth’s axis and shortened the length of a day is ludicrous. The monster tremor killed at least 800 people and supposedly moved gigantic masses around the planet. NASA had reported that the catastrophe shifted the Earth’s axis and made a day shorter by a fraction. But now German researchers have said that the claims are completely without basis. NASA scientists said on Tuesday that the earthquake moved the Earth’s axis by eight centimetres. Richard Gross used a computer model to come to this conclusion. He also claimed that days will become shorter by 1.26 microseconds. “Unverifiable,” declared a top German scientist as he put the Earth back on track. [...] The influence of an earthquake on the Earth’s tilt would in any case be extremely low, explained Dr. Mojib Latif from The Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel. He said: “The heavenly bodies around us are mainly responsible for the Earth’s tilt. The gravity of the heavy and big planets in particular determines the gradient of the Earth’s axis. "That can not be changed by an earthquake, even one as powerful as that in Chile.” Professor Kind added: “It is impossible that there could ever be such a severe earthquake which would observably move the Earth’s axis. That would only be possible through outside influences, for example a meteorite.
Comment: NASA are becoming nothing more than a PR media outlet. Basically we are told here that NASA scientists are making claims that are unverifiable and we are told here that the Earth's tilt can only be changed by an external force. Even coronal mass ejections can slow the rotation of the Earth due to drag and the massive galactic blasts that we are experiencing now will also have the same impact. The only conclusion that we can come to is that NASA wants to explain changes in the Earth's tilt but without giving the real reason. Please also remember that we have a dense plasma arriving into our solar system and that will also have a gravitational impact. So it seems that the Inuit Indians' observation that the Earth's tilt has changed in the last few years has some merit.

Local UFO Sightings on the Rise - MEMPHIS, Tennessee [US]
My Fox Memphis, 3rd March 2010

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Bright white lights and strange, triangular shaped objects, Tennesseans are reporting some unusual things overhead. Don't expect that to stop anytime soon, a local group that investigates UFO close encounters says sightings are on the rise. For decades millions of people have reported seeing UFO's. A recent poll shows one in 12 Americans have seen a mysterious object in the sky, and that a third of adults believe it's likely aliens have visited earth. While some say the increase in volume of reports in Tennessee are enough to make any investigator sit up and take notice, others say it's all in their heads. The skies over Tennessee have been busy lately, but some say, it's not your typical air traffic. A commercial airline pilot from Memphis shows us where he spotted a UFO. He pointed out the UFO's path, saying, "It started here, passed over about this speed and leveled out down there." This pilot, who doesn't want to be identified for fear he'll lose his job, says he saw a UFO in the sky over Cordova around 9:45pm on November 24, 2009.
Comment: A pilot sharing his eye witness account is important, but the report here attempts to debunk in the usual manner using another ex-pilot who uses arguments that lack any credibility. I am documenting some of these sightings and reports when I see them of a rise in UFOs/UAPs, because this is exactly as we should expect as the fabric of spacetime dramatically changes. I believe that this must be combined with the perspective that we are facing evolutionary change and I am making my solo effort for historical purposes, because at some point in the future, (hopefully soon) there will be a mass awakening that our reality has changed. I will also state once again, the UFO/UAP phenomena is here to stay, debunking does not change reality. Obviously, I simply cannot keep up with the number of sightings and I am just picking out a few and/or just providing links. Here are some others in the mainstream press:

More UFO sightings in Swansea Bay area [UK]
"More sightings of unidentified flying objects, which look like orange balls, have been seen whizzing through the skies of Swansea."

Northland residents report seeing flaming object in the sky - Minnesota [US]
"“I saw a flaming thing come down out of the sky,” she said. She described the object as about the size of a mattress with red flames."

Doctor Gore: a good idea? – poll disagrees
WUWT, 3rd March 2010

From a University of Tennessee press release: Former VP Gore to Receive Honorary Doctorate from UT Knoxville
KNOXVILLE — Former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore will be honored by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with only the third honorary degree granted by the campus. The degree was approved by the UT Board of Trustees at their meeting Feb 26th. Gore will receive the degree — an Honorary Doctor of Laws and Humane Letters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology — at the spring commencement exercises of the College of Arts and Sciences on May 14. He will be the featured speaker at the ceremony, addressing graduates and their families along with the gathered faculty. [...] Gore will join entertainer and philanthropist Dolly Parton and former Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. as the only recipients of honorary degrees from UT Knoxville.
Comment: This is a tempered response at WUWT:

AlexB (23:12:50) : This is really really disappointing. A doctorate is given to people for making a significant contribution to human knowledge, not for alarmism, lies and political advocacy. Looks like we have an entire university administration that doesn’t seem to know what science is.

I do not disagree with the principle of Honourary Degrees by "real" universities but I am not sure about Dolly Parton receiving her honorary doctorate degree of Humane and Musical Letters from the same University of Tennessee and I see it as a publicity stunt. Anyway, I did not realise that so many well known people in the New Age world buy themselves degrees and doctorates to increase their credibility. I think my biggest surprise was finding out that "Dr." John Gray, famed for his "Women are from Venus and Men are from Mars" series, paid for his "academically unrecognised" qualifications. Regardless, he likes to flaunt his "credentials" on the front cover of his books but he was outted in 2003 by Rick Ross. The extra credibility helped him to get where he is today which may not have happened otherwise and he even fooled a respected US university who gave him a real honourary degree, just like Al Gore's going to receive. So, it really bothers me that there are so many fakers in the New Age world, it means that people are automatically given some respect that is not DESERVED or EARNED....

Two Florida witnesses report multiple incoming orb UFOs
UFO Examiner, 2nd March 2010

[...] My friend and I were driving home from work and noticed what we thought was a large meteor falling from the sky. The meteor was falling for a much longer duration and was significantly larger that I was accustomed to seeing. It looked like a burning fireball traveling at a high speed similar to a meteor. It kept falling and then split into two smaller burning fireballs and continued to fall. I was concerned it would impact the earth but before they hit the ground each meteor split into two orbs or lights (thus four total) and each light turned and travelled horizontal to the ground for several miles. We then noticed a fifth and all five were travelling at different speeds to the west. We watched them fly for several minutes. They did not fly in any formation and appeared to be travelling at different speeds and altitudes and they appeared to bounce around a little. Next, we could not believe our eyes when we noticed a second fireball that did the exact same thing. There were 10 orbs or lights total traveling in two groups of five towards the west. We watched them for about 5 minutes until they were so far away they 'set' on the horizon. The lights were white with no color and we figured we watched them travel 12-17 miles or more above the ground. This event was so unbelievable, I was shaking and in such awe I could not find my hazard lights on the car when I pulled over and we were both so 'flustered' we could not figure out how to use the phone camera. I did not want to take my eye off it for a second.
Comment: It finally looks like hardcore ufologists are actually paying attention to witness statements and are now refering to 'orb' UFOs. This is a great I-report and reminds me that we are witnessing the greatest transformation in the history of mankind. Simply orbsome!
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I have been logging UAP reports for 18 months but it is the first time I have come across an example of multiple orbs coming down and sometimes we see them either in pairs or actually splitting (just like in the report above), literally like massive snowdrops, but it looks like these are not travelling elsewhere. See YouTube [2:15]
Murmansk, Russia, March 2, 2010 at 13:00 It will be interesting to see if more reports and video surface from around the world.

Our Misunderstood Sun
Holoscience.com, 1st March 2010

“We stand on the verge of a vast cosmical discovery such as nothing hitherto imagined can compare with.”

—William Herschel in 1850, upon the discovery of a link between magnetic storms on Earth and sunspots, to Michael Faraday, the vaunted experimentalist who was investigating the links between electricity and magnetism.

Incredibly, one hundred and sixty years later in the space age, Herschel’s “vast cosmical discovery such as nothing hitherto imagined can compare with,” of an Electric Universe, remains “on the verge.” Mistaken ideas have diverted scientists down the path of Ptolemy once more, adding endless epicycles to theory to save appearances. Meanwhile the object central to the problem is the same and in full view. It is our misunderstood Sun.
Comment: Excellent! I am very pleased to hear that Wal Thornhill is receiving a reward for his work on the Electric Universe. I don't agree with everything and particularly the fact that Electric Universe theorists do not believe in higher dimensions, but quite frankly, once you start to grasp the basic idea, cosmology is simplier and some metaphysical symbols and concepts become much less enigmatic, as we are given new insights into the workings of the universe.

2010 Brings First Tornado-Free February
AccuWeather, 1st March 2010

While the so-called Snowmageddon and Snowicane tm blizzards that book-ended the month got much of the nation's attention, not a single tornado was reported in the United States during February 2010. According to the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), no tornadoes were reported last month. "It's a phenomenal feat that we went a month without a tornado," said AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist Henry Margusity. If the statistic stands, it would be the first tornado-free February in at least 60 years.
Comment: Significant!

Darkness Begets Dishonesty, Study Finds
Yahoo News, 1st March 2010

Dim lights can make it seem as if no one is watching, triggering moral transgressions in many people, a new study suggests. Past research has shown that when people are concealed from view by others, say when they are wearing hoods, these individuals will be more likely to commit criminal acts and other bad behaviors. But what about times when we're not actually anonymous - people can see us - yet we feel like we're hidden? The researchers of the new study describe it as the adult version of hide-and-seek: Kids often believe no one can see them when they cover their eyes even though they are hiding in plain sight. Turns out, a dark room can have a similar psychological effect on adults.
Comment: How interesting! These days I have started to question those who talk about light and dark and what kind of message is really being suggested. In my own experience, the only people I have known who talked about light and dark being aspects of the whole, had very dark aspects to their personality and I now wonder whether they were just trying to justify this to themselves and others.

'Psychic healer' who claims he can cure cancer by laying his hands on patients is facing jail
Daily Mail, 1st March 2010

A self-proclaimed healer is being prosecuted over testimonials on his website claiming he can cure cancer. Adrian Pengelly, 43, says he is a 'visionary healer, energy worker, teacher and psychic' whose powers have made him 'world famous for treating people with cancer'. His website is laden with endorsements attesting to his apparently supernatural abilities, many claiming he is a 'miracle worker'. But he is being taken to court by trading standards officers under the Cancer Act of 1939, which bans advertising offers to treat cancer and carries the threat of a three-month jail sentence. [...] [...] He also claims he can cure people around the world using 'distance healing'. Pengelly, who is due before Hereford magistrates this month, says he has never seen his website, which is run by his patients. He said: 'The people on my website have done it for free, out of the goodness of their hearts. His 'patients' are numerous. One, from IL in Shropshire, states: 'I was diagnosed August/08 with a 4cm breast cancer tumour. I had weekly healing treatments with Adrian until I was operated on four weeks later. 'My surgeons report was - the tumour when removed was 2.5cm, with no cancer spread!! I think this result speaks for itself!!'
Comment: I think for all the publicity he's getting, 3 months banged up in jail might be part of his business plan! Seriously, this man is an obvious threat to the pharmaceutical companies who are already suffering because their drugs are no longer working on humans in comparison to placebos. Therefore, we can only surmise that the ability of humans to heal themselves with their own intent is accelerating. Anyway, how can he be prosecuted for a website run by thrilled ex clients?

Video: Meteor seen from Hungary and Czech Republic probably exploded over Slovakia
SOTT.net, 2nd March 2010

This morning people from many parts of Slovakia are asking the question: What caused the mysterious glow registered on Sunday night just before midnight? "Just before midnight I noticed a loud noise which words cannot describe. I saw the glow in the window. The whole event lasted about 5-6 seconds, but it was something extraordinary," we were informed by a reader from Tornale. The so far unexplained event had been noticed in Rožnava near Košice and even in Hungary. Some thought it looked like fireworks, others were afraid that an explosion in some factory happened. "I saw a bright light. I thought it was just lightning, but I didn't hear the thunder. Even more so it was snowing at the time, that is why I thought it was odd," was the reaction of a female student from Východna
Comment: Over at SOTT.net they have decided to start translating meteor reports from Europe, so here we have something exploding over Slovakia and reports from Italy. Other recent sightings are also listed:

Meteor Manages to Outflame Hungarian Police and Firefighters
Pesticide.hu, 2nd March 2010

In Italy Fireballs Flame Through February Skies
SOTT News, 28th February 2010

Enormous fireball explodes over the sky of Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic

SOTT News, 2nd March 2010 Spectacular Video! Meteorite may have "landed" in Norway

Boy develops fish scales at 14 months old
This 14-month-old boy born without pores in his skin has baffled medics by developing fish scales.
The Telegraph, 1st March 2010

Doctors believe Song Sheng, of Jinhu, eastern China, may be suffering from a rare genetic condition that means his body cannot cool itself. Song Sheng - called fish boy by locals - began developing scales within days of his birth caused by his lack of pores. Doctors say because he cannot sweat or lose heat through his skin, it peels away in fish-like scales. Instead, his family controls his body temperature by laying him in baths of ice.
Comment: Well, as soon as I saw the headline I wondered if this was a Chinese child, as I have stated this exact same concern before and the reasons have not changed. These DNA abberations are becoming more frequent and the authorities must have some grave concerns for the future due to the recent soaring rate of birth defects. There is no doubt now, the Chinese have severely compromised their environment and with the problems of the Earth's magnetic shielding and the onslaught of cosmic rays I believe there will be more strange medical conditions and DNA mutations for humans and animals. Obviously, only the very worse conditions are making international news.

Frustrated Ryanair passenger eats €10,000 winning scratchcard
Independent.ie News, 1st March 2010

An angry airline passenger ate an €10,000 winning scratchcard after he was told he could not claim the money immediately. The unnamed man was flying with Ryanair from Krakow, in Poland, to East Midlands Airport when he won €10,000 with the scratch card. Cabin crew on the flight confirmed he had a winning card, but told the passenger he would have to collect the jackpot directly from the company that runs the competition as they did not have enough cash on board the plane. Ryanair said the man then became frustrated and started to eat his winning ticket while on the flight on Thursday. His rash actions mean he has lost any chance of claiming the prize money, which will now be donated to charity.
Comment: Maybe he could plead that he had 'airline passenger unbalanced syndrome', for his temporary insanity. This disorder does not exist, but with the current EM environmental chaos on the planet, you never know what the future may bring.

Climate scientist admits sending 'awful emails' but denies perverting peer review
In his first public appearance since the beginning of the emails row Phil Jones tells MPs he will be cleared of accusations
The Guardian, 1st March 2010

The scientist at the centre of a media storm over global warming research admitted today he had sent "awful emails" but said he expected to be cleared of accusations that he tried to pervert the scientific process. Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, told a parliamentary inquiry that there was nothing in the hundreds of emails released on to the internet last year that supported the claims. "I was just commenting that those papers weren't very good," Jones said. "There is nothing that [shows] that me or the CRU were trying to pervert the peer review process in any way."
Comment: YouTube: Video: Dr. Phil Jones Climategate testimony at the British House of Commons. Well, I am sure most are getting fed up of Climategate and it looks like it's going to run and run. Here is some reaction:
The Final Straw
WUWT, 1st March 2010
"In Climategate: The Crutape letters we tried to avoid accusing Professor Jones of CRU and UEA of outright fraud." Author Steven Mosher is quite enraged since basically Phil Jones crossed the line in his UK Parliamentary testimony and he now stands accused of being a liar.

Indian holy leader and BA stewardess arrested over prostitution racket
Times Online, 1st March 2010

A self-styled Hindu holy man and a British Airways stewardess have been arrested in Delhi on suspicion of involvement in a multimillion-pound prostitution racket. Police said that Shiv Myra Dwivedi, a Hindu swami, used his temple in south Delhi as a front to provide as many as 200 prostitutes, including air hostesses and students, often to clients in five-star hotels. In his spiritual guise he claimed a following of more than 100,000 people, including leading politicians. Undercover officers arrested him, another alleged pimp and six alleged prostitutes including two air hostesses, one from BA and one from the Indian airline Jagson, on Friday evening, Delhi police said.
Comment:As a seeker of truth, I have spent a lot of time researching the guru culture, because I want to understand how people can lose their lives when their own defenses have been breached by others using psychological reprogramming techniques. There is also a need to try and understand my own dealings with guru wannabes and the fact that some people are nothing more than magicians. The case being the need to sort out how certain people can develop a following that is often based on some truth mixed with lies. In this regard, I have now learnt that truth is generally used as bait and the aim is to hook people for life, with the lies (but obviously this done to deceive so it's not obvious). Anyway, I have been amazed at how many famous gurus have been busted over the years. What's more with the internet, disaffected followers can air their grievances online and some of the tales are very distressing. So let's say, over the last few years, gurus whether they be old school or the ultra modern versions are being outted Big Time. Hence, I was recently shocked to learn that a very well known 'American guru' is known to have his followers beaten up when they upset him. If you do the research, this is very much part of the control by fear and shame that is prevalent in maintaining long termers. As an alternative thinker, I have also been very concerned that there does not seem to be a great deal of interest from certain esoteric traditions about what is taking place on the planet. I have not come across many major predictions or warnings or guidance and I find that odd, so it really makes you wonder whether it's the same old problem of those with the best marketing skills, having pushed out those that are in fact more spiritual and/or in touch with universal energies but are relatively unknown on the global scene. Btw, this image icon used here is a true fake guru. The actor Maxie Santillan was seen out with Paris Hilton in March 2008 and many presumed that this was an attempt at a pretense that she was becoming more spiritual. Bizarre but true.

Chilean Quake Likely Shifted Earth’s Axis, NASA Scientist Says
Business Week, 1st March 2010

March 1 (Bloomberg) -- The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the day, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said. Earthquakes can involve shifting hundreds of kilometers of rock by several meters, changing the distribution of mass on the planet. This affects the Earth’s rotation, said Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who uses a computer model to calculate the effects. “The length of the day should have gotten shorter by 1.26 microseconds (millionths of a second),” Gross, said today in an e-mailed reply to questions. “The axis about which the Earth’s mass is balanced should have moved by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8 centimeters or 3 inches).” [...] “What definitely the earthquake has done is made the Earth ring like a bell,” Rietbrock said.
Comment: I am having trouble believing the "ice-skater" explanation. The last time scientists talked about the Earth "ringing like a bell" was after the 26th December 2004, when we had the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake & devastating Asian tunami. We we were hit by a Magnetar (a sepcial type of neutron star) and Earth was still ringing nearly six months later, they also told us that the day had shortened too then. Well, we can expect the Earth's tilt to have changed, but scientists don't like to mention that and as I have not mentioned before, Earth Watchers are already concerned that they can't reconcile NASA data that measures the Earth's tilt after they made changes to the datasets in the last few years ... Hmmm... Funny that... The serious Earth Watchers are panicking too, see Youtube [1:26] uploaded 27th February 2010, MAYDAY EARTH ringing like a bell! There is no record of a related gamma ray burst with the Chilean Earthquake, but the Earth's magnetic field told us that we were getting hit with energy from somewhere and it could have been a CME (solar) and since our defenses in the way of magnetic shielding (magnetosphere) can only be described as poor or sometimes none existent, we are very vulnerable to big blasts, wherever they originate.
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TREMBLING EARTH, WOBBLY STARS:
Spaceweather.com, 3rd March 2010
"In Chile, astronomers know the ground is still shaking. They can see it in the stars. Colin Legg reports from the Andes east of Santiago: "I made this 88-second exposure on Sunday night, Feb. 28th, less than 24 hours after the big 8.8-magnitude quake. It records the movement of the Earth in the star trails during an earth tremor."

UFO sightings will vanish in the ex files
The Times, 29th February 2010

The Ministry of Defence will destroy future reports of UFOs to prevent them from being made public, a memo has revealed. The British UFO investigation unit and hotline were closed at the start of December. Since then reports have been kept for 30 days. It means that details of sightings will be exempt from freedom of information laws. The memo said that an increase in reports had diverted staff from “more valuable” defence-related activities. The MoD had 634 reports of sightings last year, the highest total since 1978. The MoD is releasing its past UFO files through the National Archives. Five instalments have been made public, which is about a third of the total. [...] The UFO expert said that the MoD’s new policy on destroying reports would make it much more difficult to uncover the truth about incidents in the future. “It’s like they’re desperately trying to avoid having to answer FoI requests on this subject,” he said. “Even if something quite serious happened, perhaps where there was a near-miss with an airline, the MoD will say, ‘we may have had a report on it, but we’ve destroyed it’.”
Comment: It's now two years since the mainstream press noted the huge rise in UFO sightings and I suppose the UK MOD is seen as an official body that has the power to confirm the existence of another lifeform on this planet and they don't want to take that responsibility. At this moment in time, due to the Space Weather onslaught, we can only presume that the evolution of spacetime is still happening, the veil is still lifting and soon it will become obvious to all and sundry that our reality has fundamentally changed. Curiously, some in the mainstream have already worked this out and they did not need help from the metaphysical community, which I find very interesting.

The Al Gore Comedy Hour
Pajamas Media, 28th February 2010

True, Al Gore has positively cleaned up by exploiting the business opportunities that have come his way from the Chruch of Gaia, I’m Greener-than-thou, Inc. The London Telegraph describes him as our “first carbon billionaire.” “There’s gold in them there faked studies, pardner!” Gore’s successful gaming of the system argues for a certain cunning and eye for the main chance. The guy has hauled in an impressive pile of pelf these last few years. But that success says nothing about his sanity. Alas, the chap is clearly bonkers. I submit as exhibit A the interminable Op-Ed column that his PR-firm, a.k.a. the New York Times, issued today. Here’s the first paragraph: It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it. “Unimaginable calamity,” eh? “Large-scale, preventive measures,” you say? “Human civilization as we know it”? Chicken Little time, what?
Comment: It looks like all the criticism has got to Al Gore, but the backlash from his "Hissy Fit" in the New York Times by pundits has been merciless.
Al Gore's Personality Disorder: Is the former vice president not-so-secretly a narcissistic, shameless phony?
Forbes, 1st March 2010
Ouch!

Jimbo (01:44:12) : Al Gore caught out telling more lies 2 and 3 March. The media have gotten onto him at last. source

Gore says:
“…scientists have long pointed out that warmer global temperatures have been increasing the rate of evaporation from the oceans, putting significantly more moisture into the atmosphere…”

New York Post says: “In late January, Scientific American reported: “A mysterious drop in water vapor in the lower stratosphere might be slowing climate change,”" source

Gore says: “an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.”

Investors.com says: “Perhaps he’s trying to protect his investments as he knows them, for he is heavily involved in enterprises that deal with carbon offsets and green technology. If the case for climate change is shown to be demonstrably false, a lot of his green evaporates like moisture from the ocean.” source

Ex Police officers see large orange ball in the sky - Peterborough [UK]
UK UFO Sightings, 28th February 2010

Feb.28, 2010 in Devon Leave a Comment Location of Sighting: Peterborough, Cambs Woodston
Date of Sighting:24 feb 2010, Time:2130, Witness Name: Mark
Witness Statement: At approx 2130hrs on the 24/02/10, my wife and i were stood in the utility room at the back of our house which looks towards Peterborough city centre and is approx 2 mins from the main town bridge. My wife pointed out something that look liked a larger orange ball in the sky at clearly some altitude, as both of us are ex police we assumed it to be the police helicopter which is a regular visitor around this area. However our attention was caught for the following reasons, firstly the light was far to bright and the wrong type of light (that sounds weird but if you have seent the police spotlight on the chopper as many times as we have you would understand it just wasnt the right density, colour or shape) secondly the noise, there wasnt any and thirdly the height was wrong, this object was at a high altitude and its flight was to smooth to be the helicopter. The object also changed its flight path quite sharply in comparison to any aircraft i know, (although i'm not an expert). We watched the object heading west for at least a minute if not slightly longer before the light went completely out and the object appeared to shoot straight up.
Comment: This is a nice report from ex-police (trained observers). I am wondering when is it going to sink in that our reality has changed and that many people have been duped about the true nature of the UFO phenomenon. The metaphysical community should have been well aware about the true nature of most UFOs, but it seems to me that maybe a few in the know were drown out by others focusing on "enlightenment" as a business venture, so there is not much light if you known what I mean... Personally, I would love to find someone who made verifiable predictions that this would happen. So, there are a lot of 'gurus' out there and there has been a lot of chatter about the veil lifting for years, but ubiquitous bright orange balls of light as well as the pearly white orbs often seen in South America, besides the rest of of the spectrum were NOT detailed to my knowledge.... Quite frankly, the situation we face now is mind boggling and what's more we don't know how much more interesting things will get...

Bright Lights that Hypnotize: Mysterious Aerial Illuminations
Mysterious Universe, 27th February 2010

[...] But what happens when you have locations around the world where anomalous activity not only occurs repeatedly, but predictably? One such area is the Lineville Gorge, nestled in the Black Mountain Range in Western North Carolina. Although the Southeastern United States is home to a variety of strange phenomenon that captivates the area locals (and researchers abroad), near the vicinity of Brown Mountain, a long, looming ridge in the heart of the Gorge, a spectacular display of “ghost lights” can be seen on a frequent basis which continue to defy rational explanation. Dubbed “The Brown Mountain Lights” by the locals, the lights are actually seen all throughout the Lineville Gorge, and are variously described as bright, glowing orbs of colored light that manifest and drift slowly upward, sometimes behaving so strangely that witnesses have been led to wonder whether they might somehow be “controlled” by external forces.
Comment: In the United States, mysterious orbs have been traditionally called Spooklights and there are certain mountainous regions where they have been seen for hundreds of years. There is a short clip [4:06] here of a National Geographic documentary that will be shown soon. In the short video clip, the researchers are fascinated because an orb/UAP appears bluish white but their night vision cameras are supposed to only show green or black as colour! I have no idea if these "researchers" are real scientists, but it took international groups of scientists at Hessdalen, Norway decades before they were prepared to tell the world that the light phenomena at the remote mountain valleys of Hessdalen were real and "unique to science". However, things have moved on. Orbs and UAPs are no longer restricted to remote mountain valleys, as they can be now seen flying around metropolitan areas, worldwide....

Institute of Physics on Climategate
Watts Up With That, 27th February 2010

Here’s something rather astonishing. The Institute of Physics, has made a statement about climate science. The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of over 36,000 and is a leading communicator of physics-related science to all audiences, from specialists through to government and the general public. Its publishing company, IOP Publishing, is a world leader in scientific publishing and the electronic dissemination of physics. IOP issued a no holds barred statement on Climategate to the UK Parliamentary Committee. Here’s the key passages:
Comment: See also; CLIMATEGATE - Memorandum submitted by the Institute of Physics (CRU 39) The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia Here the IOP has placed the emphasis back on the issue of the abuse of the scientific method and the implications for the scientific community as a whole. Therefore, this statement to the UK Parliamentary Committee will been seen as resetting the bar for what science is supposed to be about, something akin to restating Holy Orders that some might have lost sight of in recent years. Hence, many commentators at WUWT were totally delighted with this statement. However, the University of E. Anglia have not had any kind of epiphany about honesty and transparency yet, so we see the following headline on the same day.
University ‘tried to mislead MPs on climate change e-mails’
The Times, 27th February 2010
"The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails has been accused of making a misleading statement to Parliament."

Guru in Ariz. sweat lodge deaths released
KSWT News, 26th February 2010

A motivational speaker charged with manslaughter for the deaths of 3 people was released from jail Friday. James Arthur Ray walked out of a Camp Verde jail at 11:10 a.m., according to Yavapai County Jail Sgt. Dee Huntley. Ray gained his freedom after Yavapai County Superior Court Judge Warren Darrow lowered Ray's bond Thursday from $5 million to $525,000. Ray has pleaded not guilty to three counts of manslaughter stemming from a sweat lodge ceremony he led near Sedona in October.
Comment: James Ray is out on bail but he has immediately started to regain his psychological stranglehold over his followers, so people are now following his tweets and interpreting the intent for those who are not so familiar with this kind of manipulation, see James Arthur Ray - 2 die at Arizona retreat's sweat lodge pg 64. I have spent hundreds of hours now studying the techniques used by modern guru salespersons and it is not easy and straight forward. However, after going through some major threads at the Cult Education Forum one will realise that these fraudsters literally crack people open like a safe and re-engineer their understanding of reality, hooking their victims to them for life. This requires a sociopath with superior intelligence and expertise that requires practice, no wonder he called himself a "Practical Mystic", because what he does is a complete mystery to more than 99.9% of people. What's interesting is that breaking people down by hooking into people's personal trauma is being done in many different spiritual circles, often by people with no qualifications in psychotherapy and therefore cannot handle some people who get severely retraumatised, hence the suicides that can occur. The best piece of advice I have come across is that if you are encouraged to go to a self-development seminar, is to check out the disclaimers. Any mention of injury or even death, run for your life because these people have seen it over and over again and they consider people having breakdowns to be just collateral damage. I have been truely informed by what is going on and totally amazed that the New Age community is habouring these fraudsters -- of coure that's because most have zero understanding of what they do. Anyway, if you have any suspicions about a particlar spiritual leader, it is worth doing a background check using the internet, it might just save you a lot of heartache and mental stress. Let's say, I am no longer interested in people who seek to the blame the victim after it is becomes clear that someone has been savaged by a sociopath, psychopath, malignant narcissist or predator.
Article by Dr. Martinez-Lewi Ph.D, Narcissistic Spiritual Gurus &
Book excerpts Freeing Yourself from the Narcissist in Your Life

Update
James Ray’s post-prison Tweets .
Speculative Examiner, 1st March 2010 I wonder if Cassandra has just coined the phrase 'guerilla-tweet-tactic!' LOL!

UFOs are just sky laterns
Barking & Dagenham Post News, 26th February 2010

A UFOLOGIST has admitted that mysterious orange lights repeatedly seen in the night sky could be nothing more than Chinese lanterns. Roy Lake, 71, of the London UFO Studies group, said the "glows" spotted in Dagenham since October could be cheap sky lanterns let off in groups before suddenly "vanishing" when their candles go out. In the latest sighting, in the early hours of February 14, Karen Gray was shocked to see several orange orbs over the Heathway that disappeared after three minutes. On Boxing Day, Linda Hunt, 60, saw four orange lights going along the same trajectory within minutes, supporting the theory they may have been lanterns blown off by winds after being let off, perhaps as a prank.
Comment: As many ufologists will state, some among their midst are there to discredit sightings and this person obviously has never seen one of these bright orbs because they look nothing like Chinese lanterns and many witnesses have made this comment including trained observers and pilots. Here I would like to refer to the image used with this article. As some will note, I don't often talk about dark triangular sightings with bright lights that some think are obviously craft but I would like to point out that the UK MOD [Ministry of Defence] as part of it's own research believes that these are 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' or plasma entities, where the dark or black area is due to a "nulled" magnetic field caused by the presence of the plasma in the triangular geometry. This has been also noted by experts in magnetism on a different scale too. As I have stated before, there are plenty of examples of these orbs breaking away from these triangles and it seems to be a preferred way to travel. This is a copy of the image that can be found on the 2nd page of Volume 1 of the report, 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Defence Region' [2000], codenamed The Condign Report, here. Yes, this image is amazing, but it is recommended that you take the trouble to read the report yourself so that you can be convinced that these black triangles in the sky with huge lights are not spacecraft, but plasma entities with peculiar properties of how they can effect energies around them through magnetism. I don't know why ufologists are ignoring the UK MOD but one has to assume that they have ZERO interest in understanding that there is another lifeform on this planet with a completerly different modus operandi. As we are experiencing an evolution of spacetime (that nobody on this planet has the power to stop) and the veil lifts, we are literally moving into a new dispensation or reality where there can be no more denial that there is another lifeform that exists on this planet.

Stories of Last Week [30] with lots of additional updates and links!

Storm batters Europe, at least 51 dead
CNN, 28th February 2010

A winter storm named "Xynthia" battered the western coast of Europe Sunday, its high winds downing trees and power lines and leaving as many as 51 people dead, authorities said. Hardest hit was France, where at least 45 people were killed, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon announced. The extra-tropical cyclone whipped the country's coastal regions and moved inland, bringing sometimes heavy flooding with it. "It's a national catastrophe," Fillon said in a brief news conference. "Many people drowned, surprised by the rapid rise of the water."
Comment: BBC: Storm Track Map. I think this can be added to the list of 'coincides' that some are linking to the celestial events of the last week.

It's raining fish ... no really
NT News, 28th February 2010

WHILE the Top End and Central Australia have been battered by torrential rains, a Territory town has had fish falling from the sky. The freak phenomena happened not once, but twice, on Thursday and Friday afternoon about 6pm at Lajamanu, about 550km southwest of Katherine. NEWSBREAKER Christine Balmer, who took these photos of the fish on the ground and in a bucket, had to pinch herself when she was told ``hundreds and hundreds" of small white fish had fallen from the sky. "It rained fish in Lajamanu on Thursday and Friday night," she said, "They fell from the sky everywhere. "Locals were picking them up off the footy oval and on the ground everywhere. "These fish were alive when they hit the ground." [...] "It's a very unusual event," he said. "With an updraft, (fish and water picked up) could get up high - up to 60,000 or 70,000 feet. "Or possibly from a tornado over a large water body - but we haven't had any reports," he said.
Comment: Yes, the high strangeness is at Fortean levels now... Of course, nothing new, but I would imagine we should be looking at the the frequencey of such events.
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Animal X Video clip! [5:26] Fish Fall At Lajamanu Mention of 1984 fish falls in London too! Scientists can only talk about tornadoes and water spouts but usually there is NEVER any reports of tornadoes or water spouts. What's more, fish and frogs travelling great distances is a bizarre explanation as often they are still alive and fresh and can be safely eaten! As far as I am concerned, an hypersidimensional explanation is far more believable, and explains frogs found embedded in rocks during mining that suddenly come alive and often reamin live for some time. Don't believe those who simply repeat the dogma, find out what alternative thinkers have to say!

PURPLE HAZE: Veszprem, Hungary
Spaceweather.com, 27th February 2010

[Copy] "I was work early yesterday, just before local sunrise, when I looked out the window," says Monika Landy-Gyebnar of Veszprem, Hungary. "What I saw made me wonder if someone had put something 'extra' in my coffee." The landscape was blanketed by an intense purple fog: " I asked my colleague, who's not a coffee drinker, if he also saw the unbelievable color and he said 'yes.' I took some pictures and they also had the same color. So it was reality, not a psychedelic vision." What caused this strange apparition? It was the sunrise. "Using some weather webcams, I looked around the city and saw that other places without fog were also purple, pink and red," she continues. "Colorful sunrise rays were painting everything. The scattering of this light by tiny water droplets in the fog was truly wonderful!" "Today's fog reminded me that the 43rd anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze is just around the corner. It was first released on March 17, 1967."

Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things just don't seem the same
Actin' funny, but I don't know why
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky

Comment: Yes, it's getting stranger and stranger... If air, (nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor) is converted to a plasma, it becomes pinkish purple, if nitrogen and oygen are converted to a plasma it becomes purple so we have to assume that in Hungary, dry air became ionised and how that came about can only be speculated about, but there are places where this happens naturally see Roan Mountain Purple Fog. Interestingly, at www.science-frontiers.com/ run by William R. Corliss famed for his research into unusual phenomena, he has no entry for purple fog and that is weird because he has been collating rare atmospheric and meteorological phenomena recorded over the last 750 years. I have got some of his books and his catalogs are online, so there is purple light that occurs just a few minutes before sunsets and sunrises due to light being scattered by dust, anomalous purple lights in the skies, purple ball lightning and purple rainbows but no purple fog! What's more, checking the internet we now have examples of a purple sun which is also not in his catalogs. I will do some more fact checking when I have time. Hmmm....

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Please note the Northern lights entry too, but it's not as good as the spiral in the northern sky seen about a week ago, see
Feb 18, 2010. Underneath the Aurora Borealis
"A shot from last nights tour. Photographer: Andrew Keen. Equipment used: Canon 5D Mk II, Canon EF 24 mm f/ 1.4L USM Series Lens lens, Gitzo Tripod. Exposure time 13s at ISO 800." Another awesome spiral in the sky. Something else to think about as we being buffeted by Space Weather. We can also muse on the quote from last week: "Normally the auroras come and fade, but now it's like someone is constantly feeding a fire."

Someone collates the events of the last week, is there a connection?
Giant Spiral Aurora – a Portent?
"We are tracking a very strong connection between the collapse of the magnetic filament that was tracked all last week, the 3 simultaneous CMEs that were recorded from the moment of the collapse, these Auroras and the Chilean Earthquake on 2/27/2010."

Chile earthquake kills 78 and triggers tsunami
Times Online, 27th February 2010

A massive earthquake has hit the coast of Chile, killing dozens of people, flattening buildings and triggering a tsunami. The 8.8-magnitude quake, the country’s largest in 25 years, shook the capital Santiago for a minute and half at 3:34am (6:34am GMT) today. A tsunami warning has been extended across 53 countries, including most of Central and South America and as far as Australia, Hawaii and Antarctica. The wave has already caused serious damage to the sparsely populated Juan Fernandez islands, off the Santiago coast, and is now travelling across the ocean at several hundred km per hour. The death toll in Chile has reached 78 and is still rising according to President Michelle Bachelet, who has declared a “state of catastrophe” in the country. Calling for calm from an emergency response centre, the outgoing president said: “We have had a huge earthquake, with some aftershocks.
Comment: Another massive earthquake with probably more to come. The Earth is getting hammered by celestial forces and the scientific literature assures us that earthquakes are to be expected.
The Chile earthquake struck at 6.34am GMT/UT, here is the Earth's magnetic field at
NICT 27th Feb 2010 at 6.27 GMT/UT.
If you look now it it fairly normal,
NICT 27th Feb 2010 at 15.28 GMT/UT.
This is the current state of the Earth's magnetic field:
Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation. The problem with all the books written about disasters and Apocalypse is that we are now reaping what we have sown. There does not seem to be any great understanding that human conciousness was being monitored and that the Earth's EM Grid was fixed to match, if the grid is not coping then that is because the consciousness of humans was not high enough. We are 'judged' as a collective. The 'I'm alright Jack' mentality is NO GOOD when Earth is facing a celestial onslaught. Universal forces are not particularly interested in bank accounts or social position. I am sorry if you don't understand this, but as far as I am concerned, quality spiritual teachers have been lacking, replaced by those with good marketing skills.
TV: CNN International Tsunami Coverage

Chile quake confirmed the 7th largest earthquake ever recorded world-wide...
CNN Expert does a brilliant comparison between Chile and Haiti earthquakes. In Chile, a bigger land mass was shaken but Haiti was very localised, hence the 8.8 cannot be directly compared to what happened in Haiti with the 7.0, but we can also note that very few people live in the region of the coast that shifted the most.

Chile Tsunami: Oceanic Threat Map
BBC: Detailed Map of Chile earthquake zone
Twitter Red Cross

Hawaii TV: Tsunami warning - Massive wave on the way
First Pacific wide tsunami warning since 1964
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Advisory: Severe!
More Live TV from Hawaii http://www.weatherserver.net/earthquake/

Tsunami strikes Chilean island group
RIA NOVOSTI, 27th February 2010

"A 3-meter tsunami wave hit on Saturday the Robinson Crusoe island, the largest in the Chilean Juan Fernandez archipelago, following a powerful earthquake which struck Chile earlier in the day, the country's president, Michelle Bachelet, said. A 3-meter tsunami wave hit on Saturday the Robinson Crusoe island, the largest in the Chilean Juan Fernandez archipelago, following a powerful earthquake which struck Chile earlier in the day, the country's president, Michelle Bachelet, said. "A village on the island is half-flooded, people have been evacuated to higher elevations," the president said, adding there had been extreme damage from the tsunami. The 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit the Latin American country in the early hours of Saturday. The tremor occurred some 89 kilometers (55.3 miles) to the north of Chile's second largest city Concepcion, some 341 kilometers (212 miles) from the capital of Santiago. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center put out a warning along the coastlines of Chile and Peru, and issued a tsunami watch for Colombia, Ecuador, Antarctica, Panama and Costa Rica. Some 50 nations have been placed under a tsunami advisory. Areas of concern are the Hawaiian Islands, French Polynesia, Australia, and Japan. Russia's Far Eastern region was also advised, but local emergency authorities have stated that the region is in no danger. 8.8 earthquake hits Chile, tsunami sirens blare in Hawaii Tsunami expected at about 22.00 GMT/UT. More Live TV from Hawaii http://www.weatherserver.net/earthquake/ About 20 minutes to the arrival of a tsunami and there is one mad man in the water.... Update It looks like Hawaii dodged a bullet. The explanation is that normal tides cancelled out with the expected tsunami surge, that means no resonance and no major damage.

Solar Storms Could Be Earth's Next Katrina
NPR News, 26th February 2010

A massive solar storm could leave millions of people around the world without electricity, running water, or phone service, government officials say. That was their conclusion after participating in a tabletop exercise that looked at what might happen today if the Earth were struck by a solar storm as intense as the huge storms that occurred in 1921 and 1859. Solar storms happen when an eruption or explosion on the surface of the sun sends radiation or electrically charged particles toward Earth. Minor storms are common and can light up the Earth's Northern skies and interfere with radio signals.
Comment: Yes, Space Weather is now a serious potential threat and we have the fulfillment of indigenous prophecy with a New Age dominated by space and the aether. Since I have written about this ad infinitum, I thought would give a quick summary of the "think positive" "group think" that I think has a strong grip on society has a whole. I have now realised that if people don't understand something and they don't like the sound of what they hear, it can now be easily dismissed as "being negative". Worrying about Space Weather is just a waste of energy and can be ignored. The "group think" mentality ignores the fact that there have been messages (mostly from indigenous groups and the metaphysical community) for over 50 years that our world is changing and that we will have to adapt. "Group think" assumes that our wonderful leaders have our best interests at heart, despite the fact it would mean dismantling their current power structures that keeps society struggling and making essential changes to enable us to survive in a New World dominated by space and universal forces. What this means in plain English is the reliance on electricty and a power grid is primitive and we should be now tapping the aether for clean reliable power, but people are killed first rather than consider this even though Space Weather is now a serious threat. There is another major assumption that the geomagnetic environment will stay reliable enough for oil companies to drill, as drilling for oil requires a reliable compass. What is interesting about Space Weather is that it can be seen as a great leveller. If we had a megablast from the Sun or a Magnetar that knocks out power grids around the world, the poor of certain countries would not even notice and would survive, humanity as a whole would survive, but the so-called advanced societies would be crippled. It does not have to happen, but "group think" that we don't have to change is too pervasive. Now if you don't agree with my reasoning, look at the trouble are now having with our satellite communication infrastructure and the problems caused by Space Weather and Space Junk. It is absolutely obvious that nobody dreamt that things would get so extreme, but "Space Weather is now a fact of life" -- Susan Joy Rennison.

Flight canceled after dispute between flight attendants
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 26th February 2010

A Delta Connection flight from Rochester, N.Y., to Atlanta was canceled after an altercation between two flight attendants. The flight was operated by Memphis-based Pinnacle Airlines. A Pinnacle Airlines spokesman, Joe Williams, told the Associated Press the spat erupted just as Delta Connection Flight 887 returned to the gate Thursday morning after a passenger became ill. YNN Rochester, a cable news Web site, quoted a passenger, Steve Mazur, who said the two female attendants "got into a fistfight on the plane. The pilot decided to kick everyone off the plane.”
Comment: The old headline was: Flight canceled after flight attendants brawl and then the headline was updated, I suppose due to the bad publicity.... Well, I have not seen a report of a fight between flight attendents for a few months...Pilots and flight attendents are now working in extreme electromagnetic conditions where they can become vulnerable to becoming mentally unbalanced. These days, it's easy to check the facts as the state of the Earth's magnetic field can be viewed online and virtually every day, we can witness the Earth's magnetic field being completely distorted by severe space weather. Geomagnetic storms and mental health was discussed in my book but the geomagnetic environment has got a whole lot worse since I did my original research. Hence the need to strengthen the human energy field to act a shield to counteract a chaotic electromagnetic environment. This is also explained in my book and has become even more important as we learn through press releases from the world's space agencies.

James Ray Death Lodge interview: Spiritual Warrior 2008
Speculative Examiner, 26th February 2010

In case anybody has been forgetting what really happened at James Ray’s events, let’s take a look at a police interview with a participant from the James Ray Spiritual Warrior 2008 retreat.

"Det. Diskin: In 2008 I understand you were in the sweat lodge. Can you tell me what problems that you saw?" "Yeah, inside a sweat lodge it's hard 'cause it's so dark. I was on the hot side, you know totally opposite the door where Kirby [Brown] and James [Shore] and the other people who had trouble were sitting. I didn't find much relief sitting back there but I remember one girl trying to get out and she was talking, repeating the same thing over again and James [Ray] told her to be quiet but she kept talking as she was moving toward the door to get out. I stayed in the whole time and when I came out I asked one of the Dream Team members, I said somebody go get James Ray right now cause I'm gonna die. Of course my request was ignored, and from that point I was hosed down with water, I was a mess. [...] "Det. Diskin: You thought that you were dying and you wanted him with to be there while you died?" "Yes, yes, absolutely, but he had gotten in his car and had already left." [...]
"He's not who he said he was, he doesn't have the credentials that he said he did. He's used mind manipulation, coercion, persuasion with (Inaudible) programming. You know, he's, he's not the person at all that I thought he was."

Comment: The more reports you read about James Ray, the more you realise the extent of his devious and callous behaviour. What's more, you realise there are others out there with the exact same mentality and 'the followers' who don't realise that their minds are being re-engineered by some very dark practices. Here is the photo from the James Ray school of enlightenment. It makes you wonder if people really thought he was serious.... Harmonic Wealth Weekend - March 2009

(These comments have been moved from an earlier posting about science.) Now I wish that more of effort could be made to police the New Age community and some intellectual discussion about what can be done. I am thrilled that posters at the Cult Education forum has realised that a lot of scammers have moved into the New Age community and upgraded the role of a fake guru. Thus, many are being enlightened about how once ethical techniques have been perverted and now hypnosis and persuasion tactics are now being used on people without their acknowledgement. But quite frankly, it's the sheer dishonesty and lack of integrity that is bothering me. Even when Oprah called out James Frey for the factual untruths in his book "A Million Little Pieces", prominent New Wager Wayne Dyer said that he would have still published this fake memoir with all the lies! What? The problem is that crap sells very well in the New Age world and many have little interest in reality. I can't wait for James Ray to go to trial, hopefully, the prosecutors will have done their homework on the techniques he was using and at least some more of the thinking public can be educated. I realise that many New Agers refuse to think, but once people have switched off certain circuits in the brain, there is very little anyone can do until something jolts them back into reality. At the moment, I am still researching what has been happening and trying to deal with my own shock at just how bad things are... Btw, if there are people wondering why I am focusing on the criminal element in the New Wage world, we have to consider why when we are experiencing the greatest transition in the history of mankind, prominent New Wagers seem to have zero interest, to the extent that when the Obama Administration ask some pertinent questions about "planetary challenges" that will cause evolutionary change, prominent New Wagers confess they don't know what the hell is going on, but they would find out if they were given some cash! PATHETIC! PATHETIC! PATHETIC!

Singing 'rewires' damaged brain
Inland News, 26th February 2010

Teaching stroke patients to sing "rewires" their brains, helping them recover their speech, say scientists. By singing, patients use a different area of the brain from the area involved in speech. If a person's "speech centre" is damaged by a stroke, they can learn to use their "singing centre" instead. Researchers presented these findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Diego. An ongoing clinical trial, they said, has shown how the brain responds to this "melodic intonation therapy". Gottfried Schlaug, a neurology professor at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston, US, led the trial. The therapy is already established as a medical technique. Researchers first used it when it was discovered that stroke patients with brain damage that left them unable to speak were still able to sing. [...] "Music engages huge swathes of the brain, it's not just lighting up a spot in the auditory cortex."
Comment: Most people associate singing with being happy but it seems that singing gives the brain a work out too. It makes you wonder about the effects of singing in church and choirs and whether there are enhanced effects.

Prehistoric UFO and ET images found in remote cave in India
Archaeology Daily News, 17th February 2010 (late entry, will re-file later)

copy: The images were found in the Hoshangabad district of the state of Madhya Pradesh only 70 kilometers from the local administrative centre of Raisen. The caves are hidden deep within dense jungle. A clear image of what might be an alien or ET in a space suit can be seen in one cave painting along with a classical flying saucer shaped UFO that appears to be either beaming something down or beaming something up, in what might be an ancient UFO abduction scenario. A force-field or trail of some sort is seen at the rear of the UFO. Also visible is another object that might depict a wormhole, explaining how aliens were able to reach Earth. This image may lead UFO enthusiasts to conclude that the images might have been drawn with the involvement of aliens themselves. Local Archaeologist, Mr Wassim Khan, has personally seen the images. He claims that the objects and creatures seen in them are totally anomalous and out of character when compared to other, already discovered, examples of prehistoric cave art depicting ancient life in the area. As such he believes that they might suggest beings from other planets have been interacting with humans since prehistoric times: Adding weight to the 'ancient astronaut theory' which postulates that human civilization was established with the assistance of benevolent space-faring aliens.
Comment: This story has been kicking around the blogosphere for a week or so, on the usual dubious websites, but here we have a proper the link to Archaeology Daily News, which means we can let go of our critical thinking right? Well, many have noted the evidence for Ancient astronauts and it is ridiculous to exclude the possibility. So at this moment in time, the evidence suggests another lifeform with a diverse ecology exists on Earth and it is likely that other humanoid ETs exist too (off/on planet), who have understood how to harness the basic primoridal energy of the universe, depending on your theological or scientific leanings, we can describe this energy as divine, aetheric energies or just plain interdimensional plasma. However for a full understanding, we need to step beyond our current narrow theological, metaphysical and scientific beliefs to explain the weird stories of visitations that can't all be due to people having hallucinations and the archaeological evidence like cave drawings and start to accept that intelligent life exists throughout the universe and some of it is similar to us (carbon based lifeform) and some of it is plasmatic and therefore is nothing like us at all, but I am sure there are other variations too....

Fireball lights up sky north of Winnipeg
Winnipeg Free Press, 25th February 2010

WINNIPEG — People looking up at the sky early this morning might have seen a strange sight — a fireball, shooting across the sky, which Manitoba Planetarium astronomer Scott Young said might have left debris behind. "It looks like a fireworks display," said Young. "One report said it was greenish in color." There have been numerous reports of people seeing a ball of fire streak across the sky around 6:30 a.m. near the Birds Hill Park area, north of Winnipeg. [...] "Smaller versions of this happen every day in the world," Young said. "But it's pretty rare for someone to see something as big as this." Myron Witnicki witnessed the fireball when he was driving into work from Birds Hill to St. Andrews down Provincial Road 202. He said he saw something in the sky at around 6:50 a.m. At first he thought it was a plane, but then realized it might be some kind of shooting star. "It streaked left to right like a huge ball in the sky," he said.
Comment: Another ball of fire shooting across the sky. Nobody knows where it came from and nobody knows where it will land, like many other reports in the last few years...

Judith, I love ya, but you’re way wrong …
WUWT, 25th February 2010

[...] First, let me say that the problem is much bigger than Judith seems to think. Wiser men than I have weighed in on this question. In a speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854, Abraham Lincoln said:

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

So it will not be easy. The confidence is forfeit, that ship has sailed.

The biggest problem with Judith’s proposal is her claim that the issue is that climate scientists have not understood how to present their ideas to the public. Judith, I respect you greatly, but you have grabbed the wrong end of the stick. The problem is not how climate scientists have publicly presented their scientific results. It is not a communication problem.

The problem is that 71.3% of what passes as peer reviewed climate science is simply junk science, as false as the percentage cited in this sentence. The lack of trust is not a problem of perception or communication. It is a problem of lack of substance. Results are routinely exaggerated. “Scientific papers” are larded with “may” and “might” and “could possibly”. Advocacy is a common thread in climate science papers. Codes are routinely concealed, data is not archived. A concerted effort is made to marginalize and censor opposing views. [...] You want trust? Do good science, and publicly insist that other climate scientists do good science as well. It’s that simple. Do good science, and publicly call out the Manns and the Joneses and the Thompsons and the rest of the charlatans that you are currently protecting. Call out the journals that don’t follow their own policies on data archiving. Speak up for honest science. Archive your data. Insist on transparency. Publish your codes.

Once that is done, the rest will fall in line. And until then, I’m overjoyed that people don’t trust you. I see the lack of trust in mainstream climate science as a huge triumph for real science. Fix it by doing good science and by cleaning up your own backyard. Anything else is a coverup.

Judith, again, my congratulations on being willing to post your ideas in public. You are a rara avis, and I respect you greatly for it.
Comment: At the moment, there is a lot of debate about dealing with the aftermath of Climategate, but here Willis Eschenbach is doing a Dr. Phil and telling those whose heads are still in the clouds, exactly how the scientific community is being perceived by the informed general public. I have always liked this quote (coined by Phineas T. Barnum, the great showman and circus owner and quoted by US president, Abrahanm Lincoln). It would be very useful if this quote is bandied around more, to remind the fraudsters out there that it's very hard to keep a perfect cover.

Al Gore Is Lying Low -- for Good Reason
American Thinker, 24th February 2010

Maybe Al Gore's been advised by legal counsel to lie low. He may be the leader of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) movement, but he's not defending it in public, not even when it's falling apart and his new fortune is based upon it. Mr. Gore and his financial backers earned millions of dollars in start-up "green" companies and carbon trading schemes. If the scam worked, he could've become the first "carbon billionaire." [...] If more AGW-destroying news rolls in, and if Gore's "green" companies lose significant value, then shareholder derivative lawsuits and/or state RICO lawsuits will follow -- more so as the losses grow. Mr. Gore is in hiding today -- no longer the "courageous" leader of the AGW movement. Apparently, Planet Earth is "no longer in grave danger" or "needing to be saved," but Gore could lose all of his ill-gotten assets. If the victim list grows and criminal intent is proven, Mr. Gore could do serious time. After a much smaller scam, Bernie Madoff got 150 years.
Comment: I am not sure the opening statement is correct here, if you think his personal blog is adequate, see below. But since there have been many other similar comments from the anti-AGW crowd, I now think the accusations are fair.

The great filament
WUWT, 24th February 2010

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is tracking an enormous magnetic filament on the sun. It stretches more than one million kilometers from end to end, which makes it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes. For the seventh day in a row, an enormous magnetic filament is hanging suspended above the surface of the sun’s southern hemisphere. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has a great view. How long can it last? Solar filaments are unpredictable. If this one collapses and hits the stellar surface, the impact could produce a powerful Hyder flare.
Comment: This is basically a synopsis of what's been going on with the sun and a tutorial on Hyder flares. The 'Great Magnetic Filament' errupted on between 0719 and 1919 UT on Feb. 24th. see, OH, SNAP! which generated a CME see movie and we are told: "If any of this material is heading for Earth--a big unknown!--it should arrive on Feb. 27th or 28th. Arctic sky watchers should be alert for auroras on those dates." So, we have a huge number of space probes watching the Sun but they can't tell us if a CME is coming our way, just not very good. Btw, NASA made an announcement NASA Unveils New Space-Weather Science Tool, I can't say I am really excited about it.

Space Junk Mess Getting Messier in Orbit
Yahoo News, 23rd February 2010

The already untidy mass of orbital debris that litters low Earth orbit nearly got nastier last month. A head-on collision was averted between a spent upper stage from a Chinese rocket and the European Space Agency's (ESA) huge Envisat Earth remote-sensing spacecraft. Space junk tracking information supplied by the U.S. military, as well as confirming German radar data, showed that the two space objects would speed by each other at a nail-biting distance of roughly 160 feet (50 meters). ESA's Envisat tips the scales at 8 tons, with China's discarded rocket body weighing some 3.8 tons. A couple of tweaks of maneuvering propellant were used to nudge the large ESA spacecraft to a more comfortable miss distance. But what if the two objects had tangled? Such a space collision would have caused mayhem in the heavens, adding clutter to an orbit altitude where there are big problems already, said Heiner Klinkrad, head of the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany. It turns out, Klinkrad told SPACE.com, that 50 percent of all the close conjunctions that Envisat faces are due to the lethal leftovers from China's January 2007 anti-satellite test, as well as chunks of junk resulting from last year's smashup between an active U.S. Iridium satellite and a defunct Russian Cosmos spacecraft.
Comment: Apparently, it is quite stressful watching out for collisions between live satellites and space junk, but this situation is the inevitable outcome of a space community that has been very short sighted. With Space Weather dragging satellites and junk out of orbits in a chaotic manner, the Chinese being totally inconsiderate in deliberately blowing up a satellite (but no doubt it was meant to warn another government to not mess with them) and the satellite collision in February 2009, means that the world's satellite infrastructure is much more fragile than many realise. The comparison of debris creating more debris and comparing it to evolution is in my opinion a stretch. By the way, we have to consider how bad things are in space when we get these bizarre reports of massive fiery holes in the ground, cover ups and even locals getting sick (radiation poisoning) after going to investigate a crash.

Orb Festival over Glasgow [Scotland UK]
UK UFO Sightings, 23rd February 2010

Location of Sighting: Glasgow East End
Date of Sighting: 22/02/2010, Time: 10:35 – 10:45
Witness Name: Chloe, Holly, John Brolly (for real?)
Witness Statement: we all witnessed the same shape objects as reported on 14/02/2010 at Chapelhall (picture provided by witness moblie phone on that report) there were 7 of the same orange objects ‘A’ shaped..these were viewed initially at a stand still and just looked like fireballs in the sky prior to their irrational movements up, down and from side to side. They came together then were still again before spliting up and going in different directions before disappearing!!
Comment: Lots of orange lights in the sky. Yes, people are reporting a plethora of other types of sightings, but since I have now seen one of these bright orange orbs, I can now see why people are amazed and many people are reporting their own encounters. In some of the reports below, the orbs are flying in formation like geese.

United Kingdom

Bright orange light in the sky - Bootle liverpool [UK]
“lit up the clouds around it, like a corona”

Orange sphere shaped object moving through the sky - W. Lothian, Scotland [UK]
"Several cars as well as my own stopped to witness this object" Orb stopped traffic...

'UFO' spotted over Whitehaven town centre [UK]
Bright orange object above the town centre

Video: Dunbartonshire man films 'UFO' over the Campsies [Scotland, UK]
"Mr Donnan dismissed the possibility that the object was either an aircraft or a Chinese lantern, the reason for many 'UFO' sightings, saying that the object appeared too large, and that the light wsa too bright to be a Chinese lantern and that the lights did not correspond to the usual lights displayed by an aircraft." It was an orb but NOT orange!

12 Orange lights moving slowly over London West 2 East [UK]
"Looked like a zig zag pattern"

A seagull shaped outline of very bright lights moving across the sky at a very fast pace - Wakefield W. Yorks [UK]

Dinner party folk see orange lights as entrée - Beverley, E. Yorks [UK]
"... my wife and I were getting ready to go to a neighbour’s for dinner...."

A bright orange ball of light? A plane was on fire? Perhaps a meteor? - Billesley, Birmingham [UK]
"It then seemed to stop, hover, and turned at a right angle and took off upward, like a plane taking of from mid air. I thought it may have been a helicopter at this point, but there was no sound." This woman has obviously not heard about the magic lanterns that are now causing havoc in the UK....

20 – 30 red/orange bright stars in a star formation - Deighton, South of York [UK]
"There were smaller white lights that were moving different to the orange ones a lot faster. They all disappeared when a very fast moving jet or plane flew past. Followed by what seemed our entire Airforce. Something was up there and it certainly wasn’t British." No, I would say they were Interdimensional.

UFO spotted over Hatfield [UK]
"a number of dancing red lights in the firmament over the town." What's wrong with using the word sky, maybe they want to confuse a few....

Huge orange fireball in the sky - Kidderminster, Worcestershire [UK]
"I am pretty certain it was not a plane crashing as that would have lost height and this seemed to be at a very high altitude and not dropping at all. Maybe a huge meteor???" Hmmmm....

Video: 'A' Formation Seen over Cardiff, Wales [UK] - February 19th 2010.
Direct link YouTube

United States

What Were Those Strange Lights? - Mid-lake area of Toledo Bend, Texas [US]
"The flares were sometimes seen in pairs or singularly and remained aloft form many minutes before going out. There were also reports of sightings in the Fairmount area."

MUFON: sheriff's office confirms military flares over Texas [US]
We will see if they can keep this excuse up! I did not know that flares could travel in tandem, maybe they are special military ones that cost 100x more than normal...

Helicopters chase 'pulsating red light' UFO at tree top level over Oregon [US]
"It was one very large red pulsing light, but there also seemed to be a smaller red light on its side, and was pulsing as well, but differently and very fast." Then the object made a 45 degree turn and moved toward them."

Witnesses in 2 states see UFO as 'staggered' set of lights [Nebraska & Arizona, US]
"My husband and I went out to smoke a cigarette and I looked up in the sky and saw a bunch of orangish-red lights in a row in the sky. At first, I thought 'oh my god, are we under attack?' but then realized it was something 'different'." Typical; 'It's all about me!'

Texas witnesses report UFO chase along Highway 73 near Winnie, Chambers County, Texas [US]
"phenominas" LOL!! Now this is a good story but OTT. However, reports of balls of light chasing cars and other vehicles are nothing new, so we can easily find some wonderful old stories of Min Min lights chasing settlers on horseback in the outback of Australia. One can only presume that these are "critters" having some fun.

Amateur astronomer reports bright red lights in triangle formation
"I was on the way home from church and was heading West out of Fort Smith on Hwy 64 and turned North on Hwy 64D and noticed looking East directly over Fort Smith a bright triangle pattern. [...] I called a co- worker who lives about 22 miles to the South Southwest of Fort Smith in Cameron, Ok. He immediatly saw the object due East of his house as soon as he walked out. He also was amazed how intense the red lights were and described the pattern exactly the same as I saw it. This confirmed my belief the object was far East of Fort Smith at an high altitude for us to both see the exact pattern shape." Good report.

Please note about these formations that are more clearly seen with night vision cameras that some claim are birds or geese, but people see with the naked eye as glowing orange/red. These formations are described as being like an 'A', pylon, tick, 'V', 'W' 'T' diagonal/triangular, it does not mean that they are craft and on many occasions these orbs change their patterns and we can only assume that in some cases they are aware they are being watched and are making the changes for our education. Please remember this is a very diverse ecology with a wide range of intelligences, therefore not all these orbs can be described as "critters".

Brown Physicist Discovers Odd, Fluctuating Magnetic Waves
Brown University News, 23rd February 2010

Brown University physicist Vesna Mitrovic and colleagues at Brown and in France have discovered magnetic waves that fluctuate when exposed to certain conditions in a superconducting material. The discovery may help scientists understand more fully the relationship between magnetism and superconductivity at the quantum level. Results are published in Physical Review Letters. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — At the quantum level, the forces of magnetism and superconductivity exist in an uneasy relationship. Superconducting materials repel a magnetic field, so to create a superconducting current, the magnetic forces must be strong enough to overcome the natural repulsion and penetrate the body of the superconductor. But there's a limit: Apply too much magnetic force, and the superconductor’s capability is destroyed. This relationship is pretty well known. But why it is so remains mysterious. Now physicists at Brown University have documented for the first time a quantum-level phenomenon that occurs to electrons subjected to magnetism in a superconducting material.
Comment: Since space scientists are investigating superconducting magnets to generate magnetic fields to protect astronauts in spacecraft in the highly radioactive environment of space and the human energy field is capable of attracting superconducting particles of light that occurs in the process of spiritual evolution, and in effect creates a cosmic shield amongst other benefits of an enhanced energy field, this research is of great interest. Yes, the science is complex but the universe is not limited by human intellectual constraints.

The Goracle Forecast: AGW=More snow
WUWT, 23rd February 2010

With all the climate deniers spreading lies about the climate crisis in the media, it’s vital we arm ourselves with the facts. Thankfully, Repower America put together a great fact sheet explaining the relationship between the climate crisis and extreme weather: “Fact: Climate change causes more frequent and severe snowstorms Record snowstorms need two things: temperatures below freezing, and very high humidity. On a planet warmer by a few degrees on average, the Northeast US will still have plenty of days below freezing; the big difference will be warmer seas producing higher levels of moisture in the air – and therefore more severe cold-season storms.” “Fact: We can expect more extreme weather Scientists tell us that climate change has already led to more extreme weather in the United States and we can expect stronger hurricanes, more wildfires, heatwaves and droughts, to name a few.”
Comment: I have been ignoring most of the reports about record breaking snow but it's hard to resist Al Gore's attempts at damage limitation. Here, Al Gore may not be completely wrong about extreme weather as part of climate change but as we all know weather variability is normal and those with long memories can always cite extreme weather events in the past. Warning: The WUWT board are very scathing here and the word "idiot" has been thrown around but quite frankly, meteorologists do not understand all the factors that generate the weather, so those trying to scold/diss Al Gore may need to be a bit kinder, despite all his political maneuvering. However, I will give this quote:

Luís (00:47:54) : “One thing Gore doesn’t mention: El Nino. Wonder why?”
Maybe because El Niño has nothing to do with it?
The first chart of this post clearly shows the snow records to the east of Rockies, so it would be better if an explanation was presented on how sea surface temperature in another aerological unit can influence precipitation at the heart of the North American high pressure channel.
Gore’s original post is the traditional produce of someone ignorant of the dynamics of weather and climate. First of all, for precipitation to occur perturbations must exist to transform precipitable potential into precipitation. An increase in precipitation is a consequence of an increase of perturbations, meaning a speed up of meridional circulation. Both this accelerated circulation and the decrease in height of the rain/snow threshold are symptoms of increased thermal deficit at the Arctic, not the contrary, as Gore proposes. Precipitable potential is at its highest in Summer, is then when it rains or snows more?
“With all the climate deniers spreading lies about the climate crisis in the media, it’s vital we arm ourselves with the facts.”

Reply
Steve Keohane (04:04:51) : Luís (00:47:54) : An El Nino pushes the storm track south across the southern US, thus Texas and Florida are getting snow, it’s a typical El Nino pattern. The graphic is correct.

UFO was sighted off Boston coast
This is Boston.co.uk, 23rd February 2010

copy: POLICE officers and a ship's crew witnessed rotating multi-coloured lights in the sky near the coast of Boston. The corroborated sightings were documented in a detailed RAF investigation in files released last week by the Ministry of Defence. Police officers in Boston and Skegness saw the UFOs above the North Sea on October 5 1996 and contacted the coastguards who in turn alerted ships in the area. The lights were also observed by the crew of a ship in The Wash and simultaneously air defence radars at RAF Neatishead in Norfolk detected an unidentified blip over Boston. But the RAF report concluded that the radar imagery was caused by Boston Stump's spire. It read: "The church spire is known in aviation circles as the Boston Stump and appears occasionally on some radars in certain radar propagation conditions." But the lights in The Wash area were harder to explain and were suggested to be "a distant celestial source". The report read: "The lights in The Wash area were observed from three separate locations high above the horizon and in the same general direction, but without corroborating radar data. "No associated air vehicle was detected by civil or military radars. This suggests a distant celestial source. "There were no corroborating radar returns for the visual sightings."
Comment: There have been various reports debunking this sighting as if the local coastguard and the local police were complete and utter idiots. The background to this story is well known and the police actually climbed onto a roof and took video so please ignore all the other stupid reports by the mainstream press. "Boston stump" was the radar operator's name for the fact that the famous church spire was known for generating St Elmo's fire, which is an electrical discharge and it can cause stationary bright lights in the skies usually for many hours. There are many examples of these bright electrical discharges that regularly appear all over the world and again we have another plasma phenomena caused by geological and atmospheric factors. The suggestion of some lights being caused by a celestial source is intriguing, but it is not clear whether they thought it was some kind of optical illusion. So, it makes you wonder whether military radar operators are aware that occasionally, beams of energy arrive Earth from distant stars which is quite interesting. Whether this was a UFO/UAP or whatever, it would be nice if the Lincolnshire police placed the original video footage on YouTube so we could judge for ourselves what all the fuss was about.

Planet X and 2012 and Astrology: Exploring the Claims of Astrologer Terry Nazon on 2012, Part 2
Exposing Pseudo Astronomy, 16th February 2010 (late entry, will re-file later)

This is Part 2 of my two-part series on the 2012 claims of astrologer Terry Nazon, found on her website, “The Mayan Prophecy of 2012,” which I found after seeing the Coast to Coast AM late-night George Noory -hosted radio show for February 15, 2010 on their “Astrology Special.” Part 1 of this series dealt with Ms. Nazan’s specific numbered claims on that page on her website. This second part will focus on the claims she makes throughout the paragraphical text on the page.
Comment: I have only recently discovered this blog debunking 2012 and related urban myths. Stuart Robbins is currently doing his Ph.D at University of Colorado, Boulder in Boulder, Colorado and he has kindly offered his support in debunking the many misleading ideas that are currently floating around about 2012. I would like to highlight a few of his other articles here:
Planet X and 2012: The PseudoAstronomy (or Just Plain Wrong Astronomy) About a Galactic Alignment
Planet X and 2012: What The Sky Looks Like On December 21, 2012
Please note: Mayan Elders used this alignment as a celestial marker but they emphasised a 25 year period of transformation leading to the start of a New Age dominated by space and the ether that would last 5,200 years. Since space weather is now a major issue and at times, Earth completely lowers its magnetic shield, ie we have NO magnetic shielding (daylight side) from galactic cosmic rays and we are being blasted by some of the most extreme celestial objects in the universe to generate some severe space weather, it seems that the majority of 2012 pundits have got this very badly wrong. Meanwhile, spacetime is evolving as predicted, we are awash with interdimensional entities that people can now see with the naked eye and people are still talking about something happening on the 21st December 2012. Question: Why are people talking about a 1 day Mayan Calendar celebration, instead of what life is going to be like on Earth being inundated by cosmic radiation that will cause evolutionary change through DNA mutations?

February 22, 2010 Item 2.57: FOIA Request to CIA for Records Pertaining to the Reported UFO-E.T. Craft Emerging from the Sea Near Newfoundland
UFO view, 22nd February 2010

In my capacity - now acknowledged by your office in response to my recent litigation - as a representative of the news media (RNM - principally as a columnist for UFO Magazine), I hereby submit this e-formatted letter as a freedom-of-information request that you send me a photocopy of all CIA-generated and CIA-received records pertaining to the January 25, 2010, observation and photographing of one or more mysterious airborne craft emerging from the ocean near Newfoundland.
Comment: Why don't these ufologists just do some research? The object seen at Newfoundland was a plasma phenomenon and many other similar incidents have been recorded in the past. Information about "ghost rockets" is already in the public domain and that is why the Canadian Defence minister decided to have some fun and make a big joke of it. I am now convinced that even if the Canadian government came out and stated it was a plasma phenomenon, most ufologists would not believe it and say it was a cover up! This is a good example of a UFO magazine trying to drum up interest and sales!

A Stellar, Metal-Free Way to Make Carbon Nanotubes
PhysOrg.com, 22nd February 2010

Space apparently has its own recipe for making carbon nanotubes, one of the most intriguing contributions of nanotechnology here on Earth, and metals are conspicuously missing from the list of ingredients. The finding is the surprising by-product of lab experiments designed by Joseph Nuth at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. and his colleagues to address the astronomical question of how carbon gets recycled in the regions of space that spawn stars and planets. [...] "I am amazed at the implications of this paper, not only for astrophysics but also for materials science," says Dick Zare, the chair of the chemistry department at Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. "Could Nature know a new chemistry for making carbon nanotubes that we have yet to discover?" [...] The findings also might open a new realm of investigation in astronomy, because "we can take the whiskers produced by Joe and interrogate their properties," says Steele. In particular, researchers can evaluate whether graphite whiskers absorb light, he notes. A positive result would lend credence to the proposition that the presence of these molecules in space affects the observations of some supernovas. The ability to test this hypothesis could start a reaction of its own.
Comment:So it seems that these scientists are starting to speculate that out in space, there may be simple processes involving plasmas that we have not previously discovered. The most intriguing aspect is that the production of carbon in space that might absorb light and since astronomy is based on observing light it means that our basic assumptions about what is going on in space could be affected.

Mystery ‘Halo’ cloud appears over Mexico
A mystery ‘Halo’ cloud has appeared in the skies over Mexico, resulting in speculation of a UFO visit to the central American state.
Metro News, 22nd February 2010

It isn’t the first time such a cloud formation has been spotted, after a similar mystery ‘Halo’ formation was spotted in the skies over Moscow late last year. [...] Even the Met Office has been left baffled by the mystery cloud, or its causes, with spokeswoman Sarah Holland stating: “Aircraft exhausts could play a part in the freezing process but the precise cause is unknown.” Some believe that the phenomenon in Mexico can be explained as a result of a meteorite punching through the cloud layer. UFO expert Nick Pope adds “The similarity with the so-called Halo cloud seen recently over Russia is striking. One possibility is that a meteorite or fireball punched through the cloud. “This could explain the strange sound reported and the fact that a crater was apparently found.”
Comment: Well, these "Fallstreak Hole Clouds" or "Punch Hole Clouds" keep coming and there is no credible theories to explain what is causing them. A meteor punching a hole theory sounds credible, but defies what is known about how meteors behave. We await some real research or investigation. However, I think I will speculate that in this case it may have been caused by a beam of energy that generates a central cloud feature in the hole that looks dendritic to me, a sign of high energy. The others may only be variations on a theme based on the angle that the energy hits lower level clouds and the type of aerosols in the clouds would make a difference, as well as cloud thickness to generate 'rims' like in the Moscow example. Quite frankly, I am not even sure whether these punched hole clouds are natural or artificial, I imagine that a satellite with some advanced technology could so something similar.

Royal astronomer: 'Aliens may be staring us in the face'
Aliens may be “staring us in the face” in a form humans are unable to recognise, the Queen’s astronomer has said.
The Telegraph, 22nd February 2010

Lord Martin Rees, president of the Royal Society and astronomer to the Queen, said the existence of extra terrestrial life may be beyond human understanding. He made the remarks shortly after hosting the national science academy’s first conference on the possibility of alien life. “They could be staring us in the face and we just don’t recognise them. The problem is that we’re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology,” he said. “I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can’t conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can’t understand quantum theory, it could be there as aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains.”
Comment: So, what this means is that the powers that be can no longer deny the existence of another lifeform on this planet and they are starting to make hmmm noises in the mainstream media. This is getting exciting.....

MoD blanked out 'uncomplimentary comments' on UFO files
The Independent, 21st February 2010

The Ministry of Defence had to blank out "uncomplimentary comments" made by officials about members of the public before publishing its UFO files, a newly released document shows. Following a deluge of requests under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act 2000, the MoD agreed to disclose its full archive of reported sightings of unexplained sights in the skies. But a previously secret memo reveals that the files had to be edited for references to military technology, relations with other countries and insulting remarks about the public written by defence officials and police. [...] Dealing with all the FoI requests for information about UFOs was becoming "increasingly costly and time-consuming" by 2007, with the Directorate of Air Staff (DAS) receiving 199 applications in 2005 alone, the memo shows. [...] "Contrary to what many members of the public may believe, MoD has no interest in the subject of extraterrestrial life forms visiting the UK, only in ensuring the integrity and security of UK airspace," it says.
Comment: What? So the UK Ministry of Defence are now starting to talk in terms of extraterrestrial life forms visiting the UK! Now, we are getting somewhere!
Update
There are some great comments over at the UK UFO sightings website. Here is the wonderful Scottish Tam Westwater replying in local dialect.

Tam Westwater
March 1st, 2010 at 2:39 pm

Ah dinnae ken what your oan pal but ah think weir aw gaun tae need tae get some tae if aw this buznis cairys oan. An atmosphere of encoragement? Mair like fear and incredewlity up here. And aw ye get frae the quack is some looloo pills that send ye gaga but maybe if we get oany o yer alien visitations that might be the best fir some fowk bat ah kin tell ye ah want tae be richt oan the baw when that happins. In fact, if the aliens land oanytime afore this May then we should get them tae staund in the election, that wid be the oany bricht side ah could see oanyway. Still nowt oan the telly or internet apairt frae here. How come? 10 Comments on “MoD blanked out ‘uncomplimentary comments’ on UFO files”

Hilarious! LOL!

Do Our Organs Have Memories?
Care 2, 21st February 2010

Glenda lost her husband, David, in a car crash. She made his organs available for transplant. A few years later, as part of a study by neuropsychologist Paul Pearsall, she met the young Spanish-speaking man who had received her late husband’s heart. Filled with emotion, Glenda asked if she could lay her hand on his chest. “I love you, David,” she said. “Everything’s copacetic.” The young man’s mother, also present, was startled. “My son uses that word now,” she said. “He never said it before his heart transplant. I don’t know that word; it doesn’t exist in Spanish. But it was the first thing he said after the operation.” Her son appeared to have changed in other ways too. Before, he had been a health-conscious vegetarian; now he craved meat and greasy food. He had loved heavy metal music; now he played nothing but fifties rock ’n’ roll. Glenda’s husband had been an ardent meat-lover and played in a rock ’n’ roll band.
Comment: This is fascinating stuff and a problem for scientists who wish to believe that there is nothing sacred about human body parts. I believe that consciousness is transferable and that even our body organs have access to multi-dimensional realms where our memories and emotions are stored. Scientists tell us that the mind cannot be separated from the body and we know that certain memories can become trapped in the body. I have started to think of this in terms of an overload situation where memories can be downloaded from higher dimensional space if there is too much trauma, but in reality, it's not that straight forward because humans also retain information in their electromagnetic field. There are now quite a few books about this subject and on going research but no signs that transplant specialists are trying to match the human traits of donors with those of the recipients and so it seems there are going to be many more of these startingly stories.

Environmentalists and Buddhists go head to head in Taiwan
Environmentalists believe that Taiwanese Buddhists are upsetting the eco-system with their good intentions.
The Telegraph, 22nd February 2010

The small group gathered after dark at Taipei's Tamshui river with tanks of catfish could be easily mistaken for fishermen. But reciting Buddhist prayers, they haul one tank after the other to the river's edge and tip it over, releasing the meaty, shiny fish into the black water. "May good karma come back to us," they chant at the end of the ceremony, one of hundreds that take place every year in Taiwan. Freeing captive animals is an age-old religious tradition and is intimately linked to Buddhism, Taiwan's predominant faith, reflecting its emphasis on protecting life in all its precious forms. But the ceremony, known as "mercy release", has raised concerns as conservationists warn the practice hurts the environment and, paradoxically, often involves cruelty to animals. [...] A main defender of "mercy release" is the China Preserve Life Association, which says that it unleashed more than 20 million animals in 2008 during 300 ceremonies - the vast majority being small acquatic creatures. "We Buddhists believe that all life is equal and it is our duty to protect all and not harm any. We only buy animals to save them from being killed," said Hai Tao, head of the association. "It's a good deed. Some groups choose to drop it because of the criticism but we will not turn our backs on the animals," he said.
Comment: I don't think environmentalists should get into a fight with Buddhists because I don't think they will win! As we have seen in the past, Buddhists can and will get militant when pushed...

Peanut-sized meteor lights up London sky
London Free Press, 20th February 2010

For a few seconds tonight, the sky in south London lit up — all from a peanut-sized object hitting the atmosphere. It was a meteor. Members of the London chapter of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada confirmed what many others saw just after the supper hour. A bright light that began as orange, then turning white sailed from the northwest towards the southeast. One observer believed the light trailed over the sky for as long as five seconds. Dave McCarter, the chapter president simply wished he had seen it. “They’re fairly frequent,” he said. “If you’re out looking up the likelihood, you’re going to see some of these nice meteors. McCarter said frequently they’re seen early in the evening.
Comment: I am not sure that a peanut-sized object could light up the sky in London, what kind of energy are we talking about here? This part of the report simply cannot be true... there was another fireball over Germany that was missed in the blogosphere until only now being reported at SOTT with an English translation, Fireball over Germany 04 Feb 2010

Pachauri’s TERI institute golf course – water hog in a city desperate for fresh water
Watts Up With That, 20th February 2010

Richard North of the EU Referendum reports on this bizarre twist with IPCC Chairman Rajenda Pachauri’s use of land that was designated for public use, now runs afoul of the grant terms under which the land was given. Plus a lot of water in a city that has water shortages. So much for sustainability. Pachauri, famous for telling other how to live sustainable lives has a private chauffeur, spurns his electric cars provided for him, and once said in a newspaper interview: ‘Unfortunately, “social and environmental issues are often left without effective support when economic growth takes precedence,” he added.’ So, that’s why you charge memberships to your golf course and keep out the public from land given to you designated for public use? It’s time for Pachauri to go. He’s dirty, deceitful, and dim witted. His personal life is hypocritical of what he preaches to the rest of the world via his IPCC position and is a public relations disaster.
Comment: I actually felt sick after reading this story. Please remember this is India where there are real problems for ordinary people to obtain clean water. Some people think that this story should not have been highlighted, but it reveals the deeply narcissistic mentality that really believes that the "rules" do not apply to them. Please remember, the organisation TERI has been given massive handouts (research grants), for the lies about water shortages in the future due to global warming. The comment that struck home that summarises this mentality is the refrain:
"Let them drink Perrier."

A New 3-D Map of the Interstellar Gas Within 300 Parsecs from the Sun
Science Daily, 15th February 2010

Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing new 3D maps of the interstellar gas in the local area around our Sun. [...] The white area surrounding the Sun (i.e., at the center of the map) corresponds to a very low-density area of neutral gas, known as the Local Cavity. It is about 80 parsecs in radius in most directions and is surrounded by a highly fragmented "wall" of dense neutral gas. The various gaps in the wall are termed "interstellar tunnels" and represent rarefied pathways into other surrounding interstellar cavities. Maps of the distribution of CaII have never been made before, and they reveal that the Local Cavity contains numerous filamentary structures of partially ionized gas that appear to form in a honeycomb-like pattern of small interstellar cells.
Comment: It's NOT gas it's plasma. This is a quote from Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist Hannes Alfvén written in my book:

“Space is filled with a network of currents which transfer energy and momentum over large or very large distances. The currents often pinch to filamentary or surface currents. The latter are likely to give space, as also interstellar and intergalactic space, a cellular structure.” “One of the notable characteristics of space plasma, revealed by satellites and space probes, is its tendency to form sharp boundaries between plasmas with different properties. This tendency towards “cellular structure” can have profound astrophysical implications such as generating electric fields in space and providing sources of energy for driving electric currents over very large distances” source

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16 injured as turbulence hits U.S. plane headed to Narita
Breitbart News, 20th February 2010

Sixteen people aboard a U.S. passenger aircraft were injured Saturday morning after it ran into turbulence over Anchorage in the state of Alaska, while it was traveling from Washington D.C. to Narita, police and air transport authorities said. Turbulence hit the Boeing 747-400 United Airlines flight 897 at 10:55 a.m., when the aircraft, carrying 264 people, was trying to descend to an altitude of 9,200 meters from 9,700 meters, according to the airport office of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry. [...] The 16 people were rushed to hospitals by helicopters and other transportation means, the Chiba prefectural police said. [...] A 50-year-old university professor from Fukuoka who was aboard the flight told Kyodo News, "The aircraft was jolted vehemently over Alaska twice or so about seven hours before its arrival." "Many passengers were tossed from their seats, bumping into the ceiling," he said.
Comment: We have a leaky and sometimes non existent magnetic field (see the latest press release from the European Space Agency, Multiple rifts in Earth's magnetic shield), combined with standard and extreme space weather, hence air travel is a lot more hazardous than it used to be (see Best of the Blog - Space Weather & Best of the Blog - Electronics & Electromagnetic Chaos ). Well, when there are enough major incidents, maybe a few more people will start to wonder what else is going on.

NORTHERN LIGHTS:
Spaceweather.com, 20th February 2010

A solar wind stream is buffeting Earth's magnetic field and stirring up auroras around the Arctic Circle. "Last night, the entire sky was filled with fast moving bands and curtains," reports Fredrik Broms of Kvaløya, Norway. He snapped this picture of "one very happy sky watcher": "I am amazed at the amount of activity we've been getting this week," Broms adds. "Normally the auroras come and fade, but now it's like someone is constantly feeding a fire." Indeed, for polar aurora watchers, Feb. 2010 has been the best month in quite some time. It's a sign that the sun is coming back to life after a long, deep solar minimum. Sunspots have returned crackling with solar flares, and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are once again buffeting Earth's magnetic field. NOAA forecasters estimate a 25% to 30% chance of more geomagnetic activity tonight.
Comment: Maybe, it's to do with the fact that the Earth's magnetic field is now very weak and may even have collapsed for a while, so the solar wind is now directly hitting our atmosphere to generate superb auroras. Whenever I go and watch what's happening with the magnetosphere, there always seems to be some action, even if there is not some severe pressure and the magnetosphere is red/white hot, the magnetic field lines are often contorted into a mess. Here is a YouTube clip for the beginning of February, YouTube - Magnetosphere Simulation, Feb, 2 2010 ~ 7 days. Things were very strange in January, these are saved screen shots but the originals see here, Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation, have long disappeared to be incorporated into movies that are on the NICT website or sometimes they are appearing on YouTube generated by 'concerned' fellow citizens of Earth. See Ultra scary magnetosphere and magnetic field lines 20th january 2010 link 1, link2 & link3
This is a few days later, YouTube - YouTube - magnetosphere Feb, 8 2010 & Nict Magnetosphere Simulation Feb 16/17/18th 2010 The sun is crackling with B and C class flares and I don't have time to work out where the major blasts from galactic sources are mixed into the fray. Quite frankly, reports of the bright and persistent auroras are not enough to give the public the impression that there have been drastic changes in the near Earth environment of Earth.
update Feb 18, 2010. Underneath the Aurora Borealis
"A shot from last nights tour. Photographer: Andrew Keen. Equipment used: Canon 5D Mk II, Canon EF 24 mm f/ 1.4L USM Series Lens lens, Gitzo Tripod. Exposure time 13s at ISO 800." Another awesome spiral in the sky.

Pictured: Incredible moment the sky ripples as rocket goes supersonic
Daily Mail, 20th February 2010

This is the incredible moment that an Atlas V rocket went supersonic. This amateur video captures a rocket exceeding the speed of sound and passing through a sun dog, creating a visually stunning rippling effect, akin to a UFO.
Comment: I saw reports days ago about a NASA rocket smashing a sun dog, but I could not understand what was so exciting about that. However, the UK Daily Mail has provided us with amateur video footage and it's the rare occurence of plasma combined with ice crystals in the atmosphere creating the ripple that is the most interest. We have seen this ripple effect a few times now around the world and it highly suspect that something fundamental has changed in our atmosphere. Richard Hoagland pointed out the electromagnetic excitation of "a standing-wave pattern in an electrified medium -- i.e. a plasma" may have been the cause of the Norwegian spiral but here we have a real rocket making the effect that is like dropping a pebble in a pond NOT a spiral which needs two current carrying plasmas colliding to generate a spiral (Peratt, 1980) something he forgets to mention. This ripple effect has been seen in the sky more recently but the few historical examples that can be found are still considered a curiosity... Hmmm.....

Is Accused Murderer Dr. Amy Bishop An Academic Fraud, Delusional or Both?
Shepherds and Black Sheep, 15th February 2010 (late entry, will refile later)

[...] A review of the archived web pages of Dr. Bishop on the University of Alabama Department of Biological Sciences' website discloses numerous red flags that may well be the reason Dr. Bishop was denied tenure. In fact, after studying and comparing Dr. Bishop's archived web pages over the five plus years she was at UAH, one is left with an abiding and growing suspicion that Dr. Bishop is either an academic fraud or totally delusional in the same vein as the Jack Nicholson' character in Stephen King's The Shining, who believed he was writing the next great American novel only for his wife to discover he had been typing the same sentence over and over and over all winter long. Maybe we will discover that Dr. Bishop is just a run of the mill sociopath for whom killing those in her way, whether they be colleagues or family, registers no greater blip on her emotional chart than, say, severing the spines of live animals to determine if she can induce neuron recovery by first subjecting the soon to be paralyzed animals to varying doses of nitric oxide, which, but the way, is fatal when overdosed, and which just so happens to be a fair restatement of Nos. 8 and 9 on Dr. Bishop's essentially static "research plan" since she arrived at UAH. Put aside my obvious and impossible to disguise disgust with scientific research predicated on torturing animals. What still remains is that Dr. Bishop has been regurgitating the same static research plan for years: [...] Evidence strongly suggests that Dr. Bishop used her husband, her family and by all appearances the sham 'Cherokee Labsystems' to fabricate a record of recent accomplishments. Her use of essentially an online vanity publisher further diminishes her professional stature. It should have been no surprise to Dr. Bishop that the University easily saw through the smoke and mirrors and that she would not receive tenure. But an oversized ego can be blinding. It seems clear that Dr. Bishop re-wrote the rules for herself. Rather than face the reality that she needed to conduct real research and publish substantial, scholarly work in peer reviewed journals, Dr. Bishop tried to cheat her way to tenure. And, when that failed, it appears Dr. Bishop premeditated a new plan: if you don't accept what I publish, you will perish.
Comment: Oh dear! The description of her being a sociopath may not be adequate.... The problem with society as a whole is the deference to people who can pass exams on specialist subjects but whose focus is so narrow, they are not able to see the Big Picture. Hence, someone who thought that making up peer reviewed scientific papers to get tenure cannot possibly be 'smart' in fact it sounds like the complete opposite. Well, I have come across people with no academic qualifications but are desperate to make it seem that they are capable of doing some original research (or more likely they wanted to give the impression that they sat on a cloud one day and somehow "channelled" the information) hence attempting to pass off someone else's work as their own, that's called no integrity and common in the New Age world. (Yes, I did hear about Neale Donald Walsch and the Christmas story, it's pathetic, but mild compared to what else is going on). Yet, in the same way that professors are put through a review process for tenure, it seem that we all have to be vigilant and be aware that there are people who will give one lie after the other and then do something very nasty if they don't get their way. Yes, I have been at the receiving end so I know...

Global Warming: Meltdown
KUSI News, 19th February 2010

The “Climategate” revelations that began in mid December have crescendoed into a series of almost daily embarrassments for the UN IPCC. This telecast covers as many of them as we can cram into an hour. The program can be viewed in segments. With the intro to each segment you will find links you may use to find more information on the topics covered.
Comment: In part 2 I learnt that the Himalayas cover 10% of the Earth's land surface, something I did not know and makes the IPCC lies seem even worse. Nice straight forward presentation with John Coleman, link here for parts 1-9. (Retired meteorologist Anthony Watts, is interviewed in part 7 after the NOAA/NCDC land surface data temperature records are first discussed in part 5.

Ministry of Defence standard reply to UFO sightings
The Ministry of Defence received 1,666 reports of UFO sightings between 1996 and 2000 and most were sent a standard reply following this template.
The Telegraph, 19th February 2010

Dear Sir / Madam,

2. The Ministry of Defence examines any reports of "unidentified flying objects" it receives solely to establish whether what was seen might have some defence significance; namely whether there is any evidence that the UK Air Defence Region might have been compromised by hostile or unauthorised foreign military activity.

3. Unless there is evidence of a potential military threat, and to date no UFO report has revealed such evidence, we do not attempt to identify the precise nature of each sighting reported to us. We believe that rational explanations, such as aircraft lights or natural phenomena, could be found for them if resources were diverted for this purpose, but it is not the function of the MOD to provide the kind of aerial identification service. It would be an inappropriate use of defence resources if we were to do so.

4. With regard to your particular observation, I can confirm that we received no other reports of UFO sightings for [insert date] in or around the region, and we are satisfied that there is nocorroborating evidence to suggest that the United Kingdom's airspace was breached by unauthorised military aircraft.

Yours sincerely,
Comment: I have updated the typo here mistyped as 'of' to 'or' natural phenomena. Maybe sometime in the future, another agency will send out a similar letter stating: 'We believe that rational explanations, such as aircraft lights, natural atmospheric or meteorological phenomena and of course the 'radar angels', are the probable source of your sighting...' The radar angels are made up of the primordial energy of the universe, plasma that can appear in an abundance of different compositions from crystalline, liquid fire, nebulous to metallic that can vary with brightness and/or appear luminous. Unfortunately, the general public are uneducated about such matters and so the mystery is perpetuated.

In Brookhaven Collider, Scientists Briefly Break a Law of Nature
New York Times, 15th February 2010 (late entry, will re-file later)

Physicists said Monday that they had whacked a tiny region of space with enough energy to briefly distort the laws of physics, providing the first laboratory demonstration of the kind of process that scientists suspect has shaped cosmic history. [...] The departure from normal physics manifested itself in the apparent ability of the briefly freed quarks to tell right from left. That breaks one of the fundamental laws of nature, known as parity, which requires that the laws of physics remain unchanged if we view nature in a mirror. [...] Dr. Vigdor said: “A lot of physics sounds like science fiction. There is a lot of speculation on what happened in the early universe. The amazing thing is that we have this chance to test any of this.”
Comment: Hmmm... Sometimes I marvel at scientists trying to tell the Universe how it should behave and when it fails to obey a fundamental law of our science how they react. This is hardcore plasma physics but since plasma represents 99.999% of the visible Universe and a quark gluon plasma is predicted to have been the essence of what existed immediately after the hypothetical Big Bang, it is important to know what is going on in the science, especially when we consider that there are many many mysteries associated with this primoridial spiritual energy. Well, as engineer, astrophysicist and plasma physicist Hannes Alfvén stated in his 1970 Nobel Prize speech, "In the beginning was the plasma". Despite what we don't know, many spiritual and metaphysical concepts can be seen in a new light when we study plasmas and some new insights gained.

Pilot 'intentionally' slams plane into tax building in Texas in 'revenge flight after ongoing row with IRS'
Daily Mail, 18th February 2010

A private plane was deliberately crashed into the side of a seven-storey building next to an FBI office in Texas today - shortly after the pilot apparently set fire to his own home. Joseph Stack flew the single-engine Cirrus aircraft into the Echelon building, killing himself and injuring two others. The FBI and police are investigating the motive behind the actions of the software engineer, who it is claimed had an ongoing feud with the Internal Revenue Service, which was housed in the building. [...] A website published an apparent suicide note attacking U.S. tax authorities, signed by Mr Stack.
Comment: From his 'note' the pilot sounded angry and defiant.... (at the moment, there is no proof of it being authentic). See note.

UFOs spotted above Tescos in Aylesbury
Thame Today, 18th February 2010

Shoppers at Tesco Tring Road in Aylesbury were left baffled yesterday (Wednesday) evening when a fleet of UFOs flew over them. A local man, who was in the carpark at around 6pm, said several people stopped to watch the 20-30ft long, bright cylinder objects which filled the sky. He said: "They had a bright, whitish light and there was no noise at all. There was over a dozen of them and they were flying in formation. They were two or three hundred feet high. "There was seemed to be no vehicle above the light," he continued. [...] However, the man added: "These were not orange and they seemed to be flying in formation, not straight up. "I didn't think it was a lantern or balloon or anything like that. "They were long and flying in a line, a lantern would go straight up, surely? "I don't know what it was, it was just weird. I really don't know.
Comment: Hilarious! These UAPs seem to like Tesco's! LOL! I find this one of the funniest things about the evolution of spacetime. Whilst people go shopping and try to continue their humdrum mundane life, they catch a glimpse of the massive transition that is taking place on this planet. Please remember, flying in formation is a clear sign of creature-like or "critter" behaviour like geese or other birds flying in formation. Orbsome!! More UK local media reports:

UFOs seen in Cumbria too

Video: UFO or Chinese Lantern? [Wigan, UK]

Video: Woman’s UFO encounter
This woman is brave to tell her story on TV, but the truth has to be told!

'Mum the aliens are coming'...boy (9) snaps UFO above Eccleston [UK] [Photos]
I am wondering how bad this is going to get before the realisation hits that our reality has changed forever. Please remember, these beings have always been around us and only occasionally viewable, but some have been trackable on radar.

Random Fluctuations Give Rise to Odd Genetic Phenomenon
Science Daily, 18th February 2010

For years, biologists have wondered how it is possible that not every person who carries a mutated gene expresses the trait or condition associated with the mutation. This common but poorly understood phenomenon, known as incomplete penetrance, exists in a wide range of organisms, including humans. [...] Now, a team of MIT biophysicists has demonstrated that some cases of incomplete penetrance are controlled by random fluctuations in gene expression. "It's not just nature or nurture," says Alexander van Oudenaarden, leader of the research team and a professor of physics and biology at MIT. "There is a random component to this. Molecules bounce around and find each other probabilistically. It doesn't work like clockwork." [...] It appears that evolution has produced networks of genes that smooth out the effects of those fluctuations, which are revealed only when there is a mutation in the pathway, says van Oudenaarden.
Comment: The other day, I had a major revelation about Light Codes. What amazes me is that I am not geneticist, but I still managed to understand the scientific implications of metaphysical messages about the arrival of energy that will repair our DNA. Meanwhile, the science behind what is taking place has not been widely discussed within the metaphysical community and no correlation made with universal cycles and how consciousness is delivered to Earth. Here this article talks about probabilities, which implies that even if you get energies that will be helpful to your spiritual evolution, it won't necessarily switch on and genes could stay dormant. Regardless, the wise are giving the intent to switch on newly repaired DNA even if they don't fully understand the science. Meanwhile, the new science of Epigenetics and the study of the influence of environmental factors like our own emotions and beliefs is now centre stage because there are signs that rapid changes are taking place within the human genome.

Abandon Ship: UN climate chief Yvo de Boer quits (But IPCC chief Pachauri has not yet resigned)
Climate Depot, 18th February 2010

A selection of headlines:

* Prof. Pielke Jr.: RealClimate.org: 'Lies on top of lies. If they want to understand why their community has lost so much credibility, they need only look to their own actions'
* Real Climate's defence of the IPCC report--the truth doesn't matter
* Climategate 2.0 — The NASA Files: U.S. Climate Science as Corrupt as CRU
How nice of him! Climategate's Phil Jones considers 'correction to paper' -- 'Will consider submitting a correction to his controversial work on global warming'
Time to Bail! BP, ConocoPhillips and Caterpillar Pull Out of Climate Partnership -- 'Latest sign that support for an ambitious bill is melting away'
Weather Channel Founder John Coleman has follow up TV Special: 'Global Warming: The Other Side'
Wall Street Journal: The Continuing Climate Meltdown
Wash. Times: 'The red-hot scam unravels'
Donald Trump says Al Gore should return his Nobel Prize: 'The Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore'
Rare ABC News TV Debate: Climate Depot Vs. Center For Am. Progress -- 'UN IPCC was a political organization masquerading as a science group. It's been exposed'

Comment: At the moment, there is scandal and revelations everywhere, the climate change/global warming story is being debunked left, right and centre and it seems like a massive rout. My emphasis has always been that "global warming" was the official cover for the massive evolutionary changes taking place on this planet driven by celestial forces. The science has always been controversial and there has never been a climate concensus. What's more, the evidence of the changes sweeping over our solar system and the role of new energy currents in our solar system are in the public domain if you are prepared to look. Incredibly, the official story is being smashed to bits and I realise that there is very strong push that will change the destiny of mankind. I have linked to Climate Depot because it is intended for an American audience and quite frankly, Marc Morano is a feisty American that I like, he's not a scientist, but he gets his points across with his approach. He's just about to get an award too for his part in reporting Climategate, see Andrew Breitbart, Marc Morano to Receive Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Awards at CPAC

Study: Happiness Good for the Heart
Positive People Have Less Heart Disease
WEB MD, 17th February 2010

Whether you view the glass as half empty or half full may help determine your risk for heart disease. Just as negative emotions such as depression, anger, and hostility are risk factors for heart attack and stroke, happiness seems to protect the heart. This was the finding from a large study that examined the impact of positive personality traits like happiness, contentment, and enthusiasm on heart disease risk. Researchers followed 1,739 healthy adults living in Nova Scotia, Canada, for 10 years to determine whether attitudes affected their health. At the start of the study, trained professionals assessed the participants' degree of expression of negative emotions like depression, hostility, and anxiety and positive emotions such as joy, happiness, and excitement.
Comment: I used to be in a relationship where at the slightest hint that I was happy, the knife would come out to do something about the happiness. The focus in the New Age community is that you are responsible for your emotions but it's too simplistic. There are people who simply can't stand others being happy around them, and will do whatever it takes to lower the vibration so they are more comfortable. These days, my level of tolerance for these kind of people is next to zero and as one of my favourite websites often suggests, if you come across one of these manipulative people, turn and "run for your life".

Don't mess with me! The five-day-old lamb who was born with a REAL black belt
Daily Mail, 17th February 2010

He may be just a few days old, but this unusually marked lamb is clearly one to be reckoned with. Named Miyagi after fictional martial arts expert Mr Miyagi from the Karate Kid films, he was born five days ago with a thick belt of black wool around his middle. Farmer William Herbert said: 'I've been farming for over 50 years but I've never seen anything like this before.
Comment: I can't resist this: will this black belt make a good lamb chop? There have not been that many strange DNA mutations seen in the media but this is one of the more cute.

Churchill UFO request revealed
ITN News, 17th February 2010

Copy: New documents released by the Government reveal former prime minister Winston Churchill expressed curiosity in "flying saucers" and requested a briefing from his ministers. The "Churchill Memorandum" sent from the wartime leader on July 28 1952 to Lord Cherwell, secretary of state for air, is one of hundreds of UFO files released by the Ministry of Defence and National Archives. In the note, Mr Churchill briefly writes: "What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let me have a report at your convenience." The response to his memo, explained that following an intelligence study conducted in 1951 the "flying saucers" could be explained by "one or other" of the following four causes: Known astronomical or meteorological phenomena; mistaken identification of conventional aircraft, balloons, birds etc; optical illusions and psychological delusions; and deliberate hoaxes.
Comment: Well, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena would have to come under the "known astronomical or meteorological phenomena", it's that simple. Since plasma makes up 99.999% of the visible universe and 100% of what we can't see, the big mystery was solved a long time ago, but since knowledge is power, some people want the masses to stay unenlightened. Also;
Churchill demanded UFO briefing: secret files
Associated Press, 17th February 2010
MoD's records of UFO sightings a close encounter of the absurd kind
The Guardian News, 18th February 2010
It's obvious that the media think the best way to stop people reporting their sightings is to ridicule the whole UFO/UAP phenomena. However, people no longer give a *#%?& about the opinion of the media. The catchphrase these days is: "I know what I saw!"

James Ray death lodge interview with Josh Fredrickson: part 1
Speculative Examiner, 16th February 2010

Josh Fredrickson was interviewed by police on 11/10/09 and appears to be more cooperative than his wife, James Ray International Director of Operations Megan Fredrickson. Keep in mind, Megan declined to be interviewed until January of 2010 so it must be noted that between November and January there was a shift of game plan at JRI headquarters. [...] “Det. Poling: Tell me if I am correct here. James Ray has a specific, to the minute agenda, of everything he does, he's very precise; is that true?” “Josh: It's called the syntax and it's the event as it should be but the running joke is that James is always at least an hour or two hours overtime on the syntax. So the syntax is kind of like the event coordinator's wish for him to stick to but he never does. So that kind of answers your question. There's not a specific syntax for the sweat lodge if that's what you are asking.”
Comment: It looks like the police asked some awkward questions about what EXACTLY was going on in the seminars. The question of SYNTAX is especially interesting. Cassandra get's it wrong but she is corrected in the comments. Here is the answer:

The word syntax is being used by Ray, as he copied it from Tony Robbins, who took it from its uses in NLP. In this context, syntax means the order and sequence of the techniques within the seminar. Ray had carefully designed his seminars, which were copied from many other seminars, which had been tested for decades on people. The indoctrination techniques being used have to be used in a precise order and sequence for maximum effect. That is the syntax.

If you are in any doubt that "indoctrination" techniques were being used on people, start reading up on what people have said about his strange "training" seminars. It's time that people woke up and worked out who the wolves in sheeps clothing are... What's more there are plenty of others out there on the loose too... This is an unbelievable James Ray photo! It may soon disappear so be quick! Harmonic Wealth Weekend - March 2009 Is this really spiritual wisdom?

Cut working week to 21 hours, urges think tank
BBC News, 13th February 2010

The working week should be cut to 21 hours to help boost the economy and improve quality of life, a left-wing think tank has said. The New Economics Foundation claimed in a report the reduction in hours would help to ease unemployment and overwork. The think tank said people were working longer hours now than 30 years ago even though unemployment was at 2.5 million. The foundation admitted people would earn less, but said they would have more time to carry out worthy tasks. They would have better scope to look after children or other dependants, there would be more opportunity for civic duties, and older people could even delay retirement, it said. 'Better employees' Anna Coote, co-author of the 21 Hours report, said: "So many of us live to work, work to earn, and earn to consume, and our consumption habits are squandering the earth's natural resources.
Comment: Are we having a break out of sanity?

My Advice About UFO Disclosure If The Government Is Really Serious
UFO Disclosure Countdown, 16th February 2010

...My first opinion is that the first `soft disclosures' about UFO files by numerous countries over the last few years has at least begun to loosen the strings about the UFO information available. And, I call all these `soft disclosures' - because while governments have released files that would suggest something solid is within the Earth's atmosphere that perplexed and interested the military from a security standpoint - no country has then admitted an on-going concern or even a strong interest in the whole phenomena after releasing the data and files. [...] As you probably know, such files include radar data confirming pilot sightings and such ----- but -----also include the `high strangeness' like cases that seem to suggest that the UFO phenomena is something `bigger' than just crafts in our skies. Indeed, the result is that the line is left blurred, probably on purpose by the governments, to suggest that ALL UFO phenomena may be `qualitative' in some manner. Additionally, none of the soft disclosure is followed by `real discussion' by the government and the people on the implications to them or Earth if `we are not alone'. Soft disclosure folks.
Comment: I actually think this person is on the ball and the article needs to be read. It even hints that there is a "phenomena" in the skies and I think this person may even be a government representative doing his bit to wake up the UFO community. The suggestion of how to soften up the public to UFO disclosure is interesting. A planned disclosure over a time span of 10 years, would be a good idea but I don't think we actually have 10 years, the dimensional shift is taking place right now and all we need is a few bigger blasts from galactic sources and we will have been completely tipped over into a new reality. Unfortunately, there seems to have been very little discussion of the serious implications of the evolution of spacetime within the vast majority of the metaphysical community, and most ufologists are not interested in understanding about the existence of another lifeform on this planet, but the powers that be have obviously woken up now and realise there is absolutely nothing they can do. So the discussion here of governments releasing UFO files, SETI info, meteorites that suggest life is common in the universe is exactly what is going on now. Now, aint that strange? LOL! The following article suggests that maybe this person certainly realises we are dealing with a 'phenomena' that he writes as; "something beyond belief". See Stephenville UFO `Sky Symbols' Suspend Belief - And Add Bewilderment - Sunday, February 10, 2008

Meteorite Crammed with 'Millions' of Organic Compounds
Discovery News, 15th February 2010

A meteorite that hit the town of Murchison, Australia, hasn't quit giving up its secrets. The Murchison meteorite is one of the most studied space rocks because many pieces were recovered after it was seen breaking up as it fell through the atmosphere in 1969. Approximately 100 kg of the carbonaceous chondrite was recovered. Carbonaceous chondrites are extremely important to scientists as they were formed from material that existed in the solar system's planet-forming disk of gas and dust. They are, quite literally, time capsules holding onto a 4-billion-year-old record of the birth of our solar system. In this case, the Murchison meteorite has given us another clue to the abundance of organic chemicals that existed before the Earth formed. In fact, this particular meteorite may have originated from material older than our sun.
Comment: I think this article is revealing that there seems to be a paradigm shift going on in the governing/scientific mindset. For decades scientists derided the theory of Panspermia, that suggests that the seeds of life are prevalent throughout the universe and life on Earth began by such seeds landing on Earth and propagating. However, on a little research, we find that some brilliant minds believed it was completely obvious but were of course ignored. It follows the enforced belief that states the human population must not become aware that our existence on this planet can be threatened by the knowledge of external etraterrestrial life and celestial forces that governments and other authorities can do nothing about. This mindset explains lots and lots of secrecy, coding inserted into religious text, certain esoteric knowledge retained in art, architecture and literature, and ancient mythology etc. It is interesting that this is an old meteorite found in 1969, because other research has revealed the exact same organic compounds and scientific researchers have just been scoffed at. Yet, we know that when astronauts are in the space stations, bacteria and microbes become virulent, they mutate quickly and become literally radiation hardened. Scientists have known the facts for a long time but it seems that only now is there a willingness to stop the pretense and discuss the facts. Life comes from the stars and when we are willing to look at the facts and contemplate the cyclical nature of how consciousness is being continually being delivered to Earth, then we can be start to understand the implications for what is taking place now. (Read about UFO 'soft' Disclosure above, these articles in the MSM are part of the plan, but quite frankly if you have read enough ufo sightings, you will know some have been far from 'soft' disclosure....)

Follow-Up on Mexico's Hidalgo Crash
Inexplicata, 16th February 2010

[...] On Tuesday, February 16, 2010, INEXPLICATA received a message from Prof. Ana Luisa Cid regarding the Hidalgo Crash. NOVOSTI, the Russian news agency, published a communiqué from Alexandr Vorobiov, spokesman for the Russian Space Agency, denying that fragments of Cosmos-2421 had fallen on Mexican territory. "The media reported that fragments of Russian satellite Cosmos-2421 fell over Mexico. When dealing with Russian spacecraft for civilian application, all of these remain in orbit. With regard to military satellites, the Ministry of Defense has not advised ROSCOSMOS of any incident whatsoever." The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that military satellite Cosmos-2421 was disconnected and decomissioned after having experienced damage. The communiqué goes on to say that the satellite experienced a breakage of its solar cells after having collided with a small space object.
Comment: It looks like the Russians are sick to death of being blamed for every major celestial type incident that other countries want to cover up! So, we can rest assured that Cosmo-2421 is still floating around our planet with all the other thousands of trackable debris.

Husband: Ala. prof went to range before shooting
Associated Press, 15th February 2010

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The husband of an Alabama college professor accused of shooting her colleagues says the couple went to a shooting range weeks before the killing but he didn't know where she got the gun. James Anderson told The Associated Press Monday that he did not know how long Amy Bishop had a gun before Friday's attack. He says the family did not own a gun. [...] On Sunday The Boston Globe reported that Bishop and her husband, James Anderson, were questioned by investigators after a package containing two pipe bombs was sent to one of Bishop's colleagues, Dr. Paul Rosenberg, at Children's Hospital Boston in 1993.
Comment: The details of the pipebomb received by a former boss that she was in conflict with, do changed things considerably and I think a mental health professional needs to comment! I will say that this woman is intelligent but she has a very crude way of making her anger felt! Another later version: Alabama: University Shooter Fired Suddenly, Says Survivor

Ex-RAF, Ex- Army SF "Watcher" sees 4 red lights in formation - Scotland [UK]
UK UFO Sightings, 15th February 2010

Location of Sighting: Stirling, Central Scotland
Date of Sighting: Sunday 14 february 2010, Time: 22.33 hrs
Witness Name: Francis Mackay (Mr)
Witness Statement: At 22.30 hrs I went outside my front door to give my dog a late walk. I noticed four red lights in the sky, in close formation as if on one air-vehicle (a/c or helicopter) moving roughly across my front at a distance of possibly two to three miles, at about 2,000 – 3,000 asl.There was no engine noise; the lights were not flashing, and there was no strobe effect in white or any other colour accompanying the red lights. The object was rising, and travelling from slightly west of north in an eastwards direction. At 1033hrs it changed direction and steepened its climb, still presenting four red lights which appeared to become five as it climbed. The object moved into a long narrow cloud bank, but did not re-appear beyond it. During the period of observation, approx four minutes, I was joined by my wife, who confirms the above information. I have telephoned RAF Prestwick Military ATC [Air Traffic Control] but the Assistant Supervisor on duty informed me that ‘they no longer dealt with such things’, presumably meaning the former Operation Umbra UFO Reporting system. I will be very intrerested in any similar reports, for that date-time or another. ps I’m ex-RAF and also ex- Army SF where I was trained as a ‘watcher’, so am confident of the accuracy of my report .
Comment: It's interesting when ex-military and trained "watcher" decide to directly ring up the local military Air Traffic Control because they know they might get a reply immediately, but in this case the approach did not help. Nonetheless, this report is interesting, as we find out about the former Operation Umbra UFO Reporting system. I am wondering when the tipping point will occur when most UK residents have seen an orb in the sky or know someone who has seen one, because they are not going to just disappear due to a fundamental change in the fabric of spacetime. It just makes you wonder why most people don't know about the UK Ministry of Defence's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Defence Region[2000], it is now required reading for the intelligentsia. More reports and a few more sightings in Scotland, but of course there are lots more sightings being posted all over the internet.

Orange Balls Of Light Over Alloa Scotland?
"Strange orange balls of light over Alloa"
More reports over Scotland

Orange fireball, flame like light was even throughout object - Nairn, Scotland [UK] 10-15 Red/Orange Lights, 'A' formation N.E. Glasgow Scotland UK
...primarily in an 'A' shape formation...as a pilot and plane spotter I'm used to looking at other aircraft in the sky. My first thought was that it might have been an air show display or some sort of military training mission. But I know Glasgow airspace very well and they were between 4000 - 10000 ft in the sky right inside the approach airspace for Glasgow Airport and there is no chance they would have been cleared for that and there is no military operations area near here.

Former navy man spots UFO over Llanelli [Wales, UK]
"It was very clearly an orange disc or an orange ball, it was so bright it was like a flare?" I will agree that some of these orbs are so bright they are like flares and so banning Chinese lanterns and making hand flares hard to get hold of is not going to help, but I would like to see the politicians at least try....

UFO Traffic Report: February 14, 2010 [US]
Orbs, orbs, orbs! There is a stupid image here which smacks of trying to manipulate people's perceptions of what they are reading.

Riddle of the 'Windermere Triangle', where cars mysteriously refuse to unlock
Daily Mail, 12th February 2010

Some put it down to interference from a set of traffic lights, others suspect an unwitting radio ham may be responsible. The local baker even blames a mischievous ghost named Albert. Whatever the explanation, something is playing havoc with the electronic key fobs of cars in the Lake District town of Windermere. Hundreds of visitors to the popular tourist destination have found their cars won't lock or, worse still, won't unlock after they return with their shopping. The phenomenon - or rather the spot where it occurs - has been nicknamed the Windermere Triangle.
Comment: It does seem like Windermere has some kind of magnetic vortex, that is often why certain locations become tourist locations in the first place. Research into magnetism would suggest that inside a magnetic vortex is a triangular area marked out by three nodes and maybe local conditions have changed to the point where electromagnetic interference (EMI) has become acute. This is all quite interesting, especially as we live in a society that has tried extremely hard to ignore subtle energies, but we are living in a time when they are becoming less subtle, if you know what I mean.

Climategate: Viscount Monckton Takes a Victory Lap
Per a Phil Jones interview with the BBC, confirmation that the temperature record of the CRU is little better than a fabrication.
Pajamas Media, 14th February 2010

For several months, the “Monthly CO2 Reports,” compiled by me at www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org, have been pointing out that there has been no statistically significant “global warming” for 15 years. Regular attacks on my calculations and graphs have appeared on blogs by the usual suspects — Gavin Schmidt of NASA being, as usual, the most venomously ad hominem and the least scientifically plausible. Then came Climategate. [...] Now, Professor Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia has admitted publicly, and — as far as I know — for the first time, that there has been no statistically significant “global warming” for 15 years. He has also admitted that his Climatic Research Unit has lost much of the data behind the “hockey-stick” graph, via which Michael Mann and other Climategate conspirators had falsely attempted to demonstrate that the Medieval Warm Period was not warmer than the present.
Comment: Viscount Monckton is a great man who will go down in world history, as his role has been pivotal in pointing out the truth and highlighting the lies about global temperatures and climate change. He deserves to take his lap of honour.

Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
Daily Mail, 14th February 2010

* Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
* There has been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes
The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information. Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers. Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.
Comment: It looks like Phil Jones has decided to come clean and confess the truth. Maybe this was the best thing he could have done. Actually, his confession of slopiness reminds me of a UK police officer who had such a pile of papers on his desk, that mice had decided to make it a home. See Mice Nest Found in Cop's paperwork
Phil Jones momentous Q&A with BBC reopens the “science is settled” issues Watts Up With That, 14th February 2010
"Professor Phil Jones unwittingly(?) reveals that the global warming emperor is, if not naked, scantily clad, vindicating key skeptic arguments"
This Q&A has provoked quite a large response so it is linked here.

Is Jupiter Undergoing Massive Climate Change? A Weekend Feature
Daily Galaxy, 13th February 2010

The Hubble Space Telescope and Keck Observatory images may support the idea that Jupiter is in the midst of violent global climate change. This theory was first proposed in 2004 by Phil Marcus, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. The planet's temperatures may be changing by 15 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit, with the giant planet getting warmer near the equator and cooler near the South Pole. Marcus predicted that large changes would start in the southern hemisphere around 2006, causing the jet streams to become unstable and spawn new vortices as has been proven out by the emergence of new swirling red storms.
Comment: As many others have noted, there is a rapid transformation of our solar system underway brought about by the arrival of Space Weather. Literally, the underlying aetheric energetic background of our reality is changing and that means a New Energy has been percolating through into the physical realms. The only issue that the skeptics point out is that we don't have enough observations to see whether changes are caused by planetary seasonal variations, but the answer to that is that ALL the planets in our solar system are changing at the same time and quickly with some changes taking place in a few months and years.

2012: Mayan Prophecy and the Shift of Ages
2012: The New Age making of an apocalyptic movie
Philip Coppens, February 2010

Mass suicide in the Mayan city of Tikal, Guatemala. Killer solar rays that will erupt and heat the Earth’s core, resulting in a shift of the tectonic plates. This somehow linked with the galactic alignment of the Earth, the sun and the centre of our galaxy. Welcome to the world of Roland Emmerich’s “2012”, the latest creation of a movie director with a clear apocalyptic appetite with movies like “Independence Day”, “Godzilla” and “The Day After Tomorrow” already to his credit. Call it the alternative, esoteric or new age community: fact of the matter is that in the past decade, this community has grown from being seen as completely surplus to requirements which no-one noticed or took serious, to a new market, and one still largely untapped, except by Hollywood film writers – Emmerich prominently amongst them. His “2012” movie has highlighted that, as was the case with “The Da Vinci Code”, this genre is on the up. However, the vital question one has to ask is whether this mass publicity has created any true change for the better. Some in the new age community are no doubt happy that the world now knows about the 2012 phenomenon. At the same time, however, the message is one of utter doom and gloom, on a far grander scale than anything ever portrayed. Is that the message the new age wants to send out to the world?
[...]
The problem of the movie and the common misunderstanding of the 2012 phenomenon is this: three 2012 theories have been piled on top of each other, thus creating a monster that has also spawned this movie – and has sown confusion across the world. [...]
I will be the first to argue that the 2012 phenomenon is extremely interesting. But the majority of those involved are absolutely non-apocalyptic in their approach. Alas, the vociferous and doomsday preachers have largely taken centre stage, with television documentaries riding on the coattails of the movie interested in imaginary Nostradamus’ prophecies for 2012 or devoting endless hours to an “2012 apocalypse”. Alternative authors are given a stage to step in the limelight to have their voice heard, even though it may not be in their own best interest, or the message the alternative field should send into the world. “We” may have set the stage for three years of the world pondering the idea whether, indeed, the world might end in 2012 after all. A fear based on a mistaken notion. And hence, those who often identify themselves as truth seekers, have contributed – knowingly, unknowingly or innocently – to another lie. That is not a good thing.
Comment: The problem with this analysis is that the three major theories piled on top of each other have completely and utterly missed the point of the celestial marker that the 2012 galactic alignment was supposed to be about. Mayan Elders and other 'Keepers of Ancient Knowledge' predicted the 'overturning of spacetime' and arrival of New Age dominated by space and the ether that would occur over a period of 25 years of transition. The 21st December 2012 was only an "official" birthdate but it's not meant to be exact, the Elders refer to a birth and babies don't always arrive on the predicted date but it's close enough approximation. Meanwhile, we have seen the arrival of 'Space Weather' which is the modern space age term for how we are experiencing this new dispensation that has gathering momentum for over 20 years and there are a bunch of other major consequences that have also been predicted like the lifting of the veil. However, despite the fact that the planet is getting hammered with Space Weather and this was enough to set alarms bells ringing in the White House, it still seems that the new Age community are still largely none the wiser. BTW the biggest joke is the Inuit Indians claiming that there has been a pole shift. I had largely ignored all the theories of a physical pole shift because it meant that 90% of the humans on the planet would die and I did not see that was on the cards for humanity. However, when I looked again at the website of someone who is strongly advocating a pole shift, they mentioned that there was two types of pole shift and of course they did not give any details of the relative merits because that 'other' type of pole shift now being claimed by the Inuit Indians would not create any fear or trepidation. If it's true and the gravity surveys being carried out by NASA suggest it could be true, it means that the apocalyptic scenario was choosen over any kind of concern for supporting the rise of human consciousness on Earth.

NASA launches space-based solar observatory
Yahoo Asia, 12th February 2010

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AFP) - – NASA launched a first-of-its-kind solar observatory into space Thursday in hopes of expanding scientists' understanding of the sun and its complicated workings. [...] Space physicists have called SDO the cornerstone of future NASA missions to study the sun, which is considered the next frontier for US space research. NASA said the probe will be especially helpful in revealing how changes in the sun alter the levels of radiation and energy within our solar system, and will provide new information concerning the sun and solar system that directly affect Earth, its inhabitants and technology. Scientists said space weather caused by the sun can affect communications and satellite signals, electrical power lines and other objects and energy transmissions in our atmosphere and beyond. Telescopes and other gear onboard the probe will scrutinize sunspots and solar flares using more pixels and colors than any other observatory in the history of solar physics. NASA said the spacecraft will send about 1.5 terabytes of data back to Earth each day -- the equivalent of streaming 380 full-length movies. US physicists said that if they can get a better understanding of the sun's magnetic field, they can predict how it affects the solar system and near-Earth space to create space weather.
Comment: The press release from the European Space Agency is still bothering me and here's why:

The solar wind has been described as a bullet proof vest keeping us safe from galactic cosmic rays, but recently we were told that it has been flagging since the mid 1990s.
The Earth's magnetic field has been described as a "armoured vehicle" or "tank" that keeps out cosmic rays, but recently we have been told that it is full of holes and sometimes just disappears on the daylight side and the atmosphere is left to try and deal with some of the cosmic rays.
Now the European Space Agency is now trying to tell us that the Earth's atmosphere acts "a bit like a bullet proof vest" protecting us from cosmic rays. The only problem here is that the very highest energy comsic rays are hardly effected by the Sun's and the Earth's magnetic field and according to Henrik Svensmark's book The Chilling Stars, Earth's atmosphere can only deflect the lowest energy cosmic rays anyway.
The only problem is that if you fact check, there is old information that informs us that hundreds of cosmic rays are continuously passing through our body every minute and if we stick out our hand 1 cosmic ray will pass through every second. Also, since we are getting constant reports that scientists are trying to identify from where in the skies we are getting pelted with the highest energy cosmic rays, it seems the idea that Earth's atmosphere acts "a bit like a bullet proof vest" and provides us complete protection is just simply ridiculous.
What's more, there is a proven correlation between increased cancer rates and higher rates of solar cosmic rays but the argument is that there are many factors involved in triggering cancer that have to be considered, so this is not something I often choose to highlight but it's something that cannot be ignored.

My emphasis has always been cosmic rays cause evolutionary change through DNA mutations and it seems that conditions within our solar system are changing to provide the ideal conditions to cause rapid evolutionary change on our planet. It seems that scientists are desperate to keep people thinking that nothing has changed but even a casual look at what has happened when the Earth's magnetic field strength has fallen tells us that we see evolutionary occur relatively quickly. Here, this can be explained by the observation that there are different types of cosmic rays and it's the overall balance that has to be considered in how evolutionary change proceeds. This press release headline of yet ANOTHER space probe to monitor the Sun was initially ignored, because there have been many others in the last few years, but here the details are telling us specifically that NASA scientists are worried about the high levels of radiation in our solar system, which is exactly what we should have expected as we move into a New Age dominated by space and the ether. Of course this was not expected because the metaphysical community had either turned this transition into a disaster epic or totally romaticisied it, aka the 2012 Cosmic Fairy Tale.

Breaking News: Shooting at UAH [University of Alabama in Hunstville, US]
Watts Up With That, 12th February 2010

UPDATE2: Dr. Christy responds to my message:

We’re OK. Evidently a biology professor essentially shot the entire department at a faculty meeting after learning she was denied tenure. At the time, I was being taped at a TV station across town by John Coleman (remotely from San Diego) when they came in with breaking news about a shooting at UAH.

Comment: I saw that there had been a shooting at a US University but I ignored it because they are becoming too common, but a Professor shooting up the faculty is NEWS! So are the US government going to try and claim that all university professors are potential terrorists? I have explained many times about people moving into unbalanced states. Education and social background do not make people safe from not being able to cope with strong emotions in an unstable geomagnetic environment. See Reuters: Three killed in University of Alabama shooting "Another university official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters the female suspect arrested was Dr. Amy Bishop, a Harvard University-trained biology professor."
A Previous Shooting Death at the Hand of Alabama Suspect
New York Times, 12th February 2010
"Saturday afternoon, the police in Braintree, Mass., announced that Ms. Bishop had fatally wounded her brother in their home 24 years ago, which The Boston Globe first reported on its Web site on Saturday. ...Chief Frazier said that he contacted the officer on duty at the time, Officer Ronald Solimini, who gave him a detailed account of the shooting. Chief Frazier told reporters at the news conference that it did not “look good” that the detailed records of the case have been missing since 1988.
Obviously, this Harvard University protege came from a "good" family.... Well, this New York Times article talks about this woman as being passionate and it seems that her anger had been allowed to fester for a very long time. So now, I don't think this was a spur of the moment decision, she had swung out into an unbalanced mental state and stayed that way for a long time.... For those who are new to this blog, I have repeatedly stated that we are all being effected by the chaotic electromagnetic environment which amplifies or ignites charged emotions related to unresolved issues. I envisage that our emotions are like a pendulum that naturally swing about, but should quickly come to rest and there are techniques that we can employ to bring us back into balance if we think it is necessary. However, I believe that in cases where people have major unresolved emotional issues they can be set off by circumstances that seem unrelated and swing wildly into a mentally unstable state, in reality, the pendulum of their charged emotions swing them so far out that the pendulum gets stuck. This often seems to occur due to emotional charge developed in personal relationships and may explain the strange stories of people trying to kill their partners on the spur of the moment. I have based my opinions on scientific research and the references can be found in my book.

SETI Opens All Data and Coding to the Public
News Junkie Post, 12th February 2010

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) just announced that it is releasing all information to the public. SETIQuest.org was launched on Wednesday to facilitate the release and help coordinate an ‘army of citizen scientists’ to help search for anomalies in interstellar microwave patterns. The NewScientist reports, “SETIQuest is the product of astronomer Jill Tarter’s TED Prize wish. After being awarded the TED Prize last year, Tarter was given the opportunity to make a single wish before an auditorium full of the top names in technology and design. Tarter wished that they would “empower Earthlings everywhere to become active participants in the ultimate search for cosmic company”.
Comment: This is not disclosure, it's just more marketing and PR! People need to understand that a shadow biosphere is now appearing everywhere and what it means... I am at a lost as to how some people think it can be ignored... The situation is going to get so bad that governments will be FORCED to disclose the presence of another lifeform on this planet. I am only wondering how long that will take, but as the changes to spacetime are now accelerating exponentially, it will be soon.... I've had another thought; maybe we can consider this move as more "baby steps". I am sure that the powers that be are not stupid and realise that something major is happening, (the Obama Administration don't wander around the metaphysical community asking pertinent questions for nothing), so this maybe the first step in disclosing a shadow biosphere. Take your pick, PR or "baby steps", I think I will flip a coin...

Hermetic Jargon
Scientist quits: ‘I don’t want to remain a member of an organization that …screws up science that badly.’
Watts Up With That, 11th February 2010

Hermetic Jargon
Farewell Message to the Dutch Academy
As soon as scientists and scholars from different disciplines talk to one another, confusion creeps in. In everyday language, words evoke clusters of associations, suggestions, hints and images. [...] Disciplines are divided by their languages. Incomprehensible journal articles and oral presentations, ever-expanding university libraries, endless bickering over the appropriation of research funds, resources, and post-doc positions: The Temple of Science has become a Tower of Babel. A Babylonian confusion of tongues has become the organizing principle. As soon as more than a couple dozen scientists unite around the same theme, another specialist journal is created, comprehensible only to the in-crowd. If this is science, I want to get off. Many years ago, two members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences tried to call attention to the problem. One was the leading art historian and Director of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Henk van Os, the other the retired methodologist of the social sciences, Adriaan de Groot. The two elderly gentlemen arranged a discussion meeting on the peer review system at Academy headquarters. Being an Academy member myself, I eagerly participated. In their introduction van Os and de Groot explained how all disciplines have a tendency to develop their own ‘hermetic jargon,’ the secret language that eliminates the risk of having to discuss the foundations of one’s discipline with the outside world. Hermetic jargon: what a beautiful neologism! Hermetic: referring to airtight sealing, my Random House dictionary says. Words are at their best when they seed a whole cloud of meanings and associations. In this case my mind reacted instantly, grasping at such concepts as occult science, alchemy, and esoteric writing. Esoteric, accessible to the initiated only, is the qualification given by the philosopher Lucian to some of Aristotle’s writings. Hermetic sealing was the standard laboratory practice of the alchemists. The net effect of hermetic jargon is that outsiders cannot argue with the high priests who wield the words. They can only accept the occult writings in awe.
Comment: The above is a translation from a Dutch newspaper article that includes a letter of resignation by a top Dutch academic. It eloquently states his reasons for deciding to leave his position that seems to be broadly about how science is run and especially the use of language to stop 'outsiders' understanding the foundations of a scientific discipline. When I was researching my book, it was tough going because NOBODY had considered Space Weather as a fulfillment of prophecy re 2012 and so I had to read articles and research papers aimed at the scientific community with all the jargon. It has got better because scientists had to provide info for the military and engineers, so that cuts down the amount of verbiage. I did find that the best research papers were written by people where English was their second language and so provided a better read for someone just trying to understand the basic scientific theories and perspectives. These days when people try to dismiss something and they shout it's not scientific, I will just say, so what? After Climategate and the other scientific scandals that I have not even bothered to cover, with the depth of hypocrisy that is being uncovered, I think the thinkers who know what is going on, will acknowledge the point.

Orbs & Tesco's - Dartford Kent [UK]
UK UFO Sightings, 11th February 2010

Location of Sighting: Dartford Kent,
Date of Sighting: 11 Feb 2010, Time: 7.30pm,
Witness Name: Dennis Attree & Brenda Attree
Witness Statement: My father telephoned to tell me that he walked to Tesco’s at the bottom of his road to get milk, and he said in the sky over west Dartford were 4 large glowing orange lights in the sky, my dad said they looked like fire, thats only how he could explain them, he said they were moving slowly and were silent, he had time to get back up to the house and get my mum and brother to also witness them.. I have noticed how many people say the same things about one or more object.
Comment: Maybe this could be a new advertising campaign... I am full of ideas today, what about a commercial with orbs converging above a Tesco's and spelling out the name before zooming off in different directions. I think it would work quite nicely, especially if the CGI gets the twinkle effect of the orbs that pulsate just right...

Tarot Cards for 'Climate Astrology': Natural Resources Defense Council: 'Unusual amounts of snow or lack of snow are all signs of global warming'
Climate Depot, February 2010

Flashback: 'Climate Astrology': 'Whether the ice caps melt, or expand --- whatever happens --- AGW theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology'
'Isn't it interesting that the N. Hemisphere is experiencing some of coldest, snowiest weather in decades at same time the sun's magnetic field produced 25 quiet months'
'Inside the Climate Bunker': 'How global-warming deniers are running circles around the UN's top climate body'-- Pachauri facing 'ridicule at home and abroad'
Climategate review member resigns

Comment: There is simply too much scandal to keep up with it all and it's well summarised here. I liked the Climate Change tarot card and I have started to seriously think about 'Fairy Goddess Unicorn Space Weather cards'... what about tarot cards? I don't know anything about tarot, but would that matter? By the way, it's naughty talking about astrology as pseudoscience because it's not a science it's metaphysics and by the strictest definition of a scientific discipline, the vast majority of cosmology like Big Bang, Black Holes, Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Spacetime theory etc would all have to be considered Metaphysics too. Look around the internet, there are others out there who think the same. Even Einstein is quoted as saying: "The more I study physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics." Since his time, plenty of others have crossed the line too...

Are TGFs Hazardous to Air Travelers?
NASA News, 10th February 2010

Instruments scanning outer space for cataclysmic explosions called gamma-ray bursts are detecting intense flashes of gamma-ray energy right here in the friendly skies of Earth. These terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, or TGFs, blast through thunderstorms close to the altitude where commercial airliners fly. In fact, they could be too close for comfort. In a recent study,* scientists estimated that airline passengers could be exposed to 400 chest X-rays worth of radiation by being near the origin of a single millisecond blast. Joe Dwyer of the Florida Institute of Technology took part in that research, which used observations from NASA's Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, or RHESSI, to estimate the danger TGFs pose. see caption "We believe the risk of encountering a TGF in an airplane is very small," says Dwyer. "I wouldn't hesitate to take a flight. Pilots already avoid thunderstorms because of turbulence, hail, and lightning, and we may just have to add TGFs to the list of reasons to steer clear of those storms." But, he stresses, "it's worth looking into."
Comment: Well, at least they have got round to mentioning that people could be effected by these massive bursts of energy and I have noted a few warnings in my blog already, but this is NASA News so that might mean the warning might be taken seriously in the media, but I doubt it. See the NASA press release on the Firefly mission, 29th January below for more details. This reminds me of the phrase about Space Weather that I coined in my book and was used in a section header,

"We are all astronauts now!"
Susan Joy Rennison

I thought of another phrase that airlines could adopt – "Come Fry With Me!" I'm having quite a day of inspiration, what if I produce some 'Fairy Goddess Unicorn Space Weather cards', then maybe someone in a New Age marketing establishment might take some interest... Actually, I am still in shock that the European Space Agency confirmed in print that there are occasions where the inhabitants of planet Earth (daylight side) have NO MAGNETIC FIELD protection from Space Weather, but declined to mention how long and frequent this situation lasts. The Themis NASA mission told us one breach was 4 Earth's wide and 7 Earth's deep and as the satellite took about 11 hours to sail past, they can't say when it opened and when it closed. I am sure someone can tell us really, but I doubt they want that kind of info circulating, it might disturb the few that are interested in health and safety issues.

Fortune Teller Killed Over Failed Love Spell, prosecutor says
KTLA News, 11th February 2010

SANTA ANA - A fortune-teller and her daughter were brutally murdered by a client because a love spell didn't work, a prosecutor told jurors today. Tanya Nelson, is accused of stabbing Ha "Jade" Smith and her 23-year old daughter, Anita Vo. The bodies of the mother and daughter were found repeatedly stabbed in the face inside their home on April 21, 2005. The victim's hands were covered in white paint, which may have been an attempt to cover up evidence, authorities said. Nelson, 45, of North Carolina was angered that the fortune-teller wasn't able to change reality, and decided to travel to Orange County to kill her, Senior Deputy District Attorney Sonia Balleste told jurors. The fortune-teller wrote a letter to Nelson and apologized for not being able to change anything, Balleste said. That letter was found in Nelson's home.
Comment: ~~Obviously, Nelson thought that a fortune teller was also some kind of magician who could change reality.~~ [Sorry, I must have been tired, I missed the SPELL bit!] This leads me to muse over the terrible situation that now exists where many spiritual teachers claim we can change our own reality and that means getting what you want. However, after closely studying some of these gurus, most are using covert methods to gain and maintain their profile and many claims about our ability to change our reality are made for marketing purposes only. Hence, these days I am seriously wondering where the balance exists when we are continuously interacting with the collective unconscious and the consciousness level of those around. In this case, the 'unbalanced' client sadly took retribution which was the wrong action, but of course the blind thinking these days by many metaphysical folk is to ignore the perpetrator and blame the victim by stating they 'attracted' awful situations like this extreme example of their own death, which of course is too simplistic and therefore wrong. These days, compassion and empathy in helping people to deal with trauma caused by sociopaths, psychopaths and psychopaths seems to be out of fashion.

Pamela Icke severely injured
Free Thought nation, 9th February 2010

I deeply regret to say that on January 23rd, my lovely friend Pamela Leigh Richards, ex-wife of author David Icke, was severely injured after she fell 12 feet off a ladder onto concrete at her home. After being flown via helicopter to a specialist, Pamela endured brain surgery. She has since been released and is recuperating at home. Below is her recently emailed account of the accident, published with her permission and edited for privacy. Pam is one of the loveliest, kindest, sweetest and most gentle and innocent people I have ever had the delight to know. She is the last person on Earth to deserve any trauma on any scale, much less this nightmare. Even in revealing this appalling incident, Pamela included beautiful images of hope and empowerment. My dear Pamela, I wish you a speedy and full recovery - and a long life!
Comment: I hope Pamela Leigh Richards completely recovers, but I will admit I was surprised to hear she was no longer Pamela Icke, she ordered a copy of my book a while back and she was still an Icke. However, I will say that I must be getting very cynical after spending a lot of time reading about fake gurus and how the most successful get away with pulling the wool over sheeple eyes. The thought ocurred to me that if she was clever and manipulative, she can use her accident as a way of becoming a New Age 'savant' guru. She has already stated that she thought she died and came back. So now she's got a good start, but I recommend that she now learns how to put people in a waking trance and how to do NLP and other such popular methods of covert persuasion as well as making up some content, but to be really good charlatan, she would have to do some work.

Meteorite Hits Mexico Leaving 30 Meter Crater in Ahuazotepec Municipality
Newsolio, 11th February 2010

Archive copy: A meteorite has smashed into the ground in Mexico, leaving a 30 meter (100 feet) wide crater, reports said. The meteorite impact was in the Ahuazotepec Municipality in Central Mexico between the cities of Puebla and Hidalgo. The precise impact area of the meteorite was in a relatively unpopulated area and hit around 6.30pm local time, Mexican media said. The Ahuazotepec, Mexico meteorite impact was so massive it broke windows in homes many kilometers from the epicenter and people reported buildings swaying and mass confusion. Other reports said the Mexico meteorite impact partially damaged a road and a bridge. The Mexican military was called in to lock down the area where the apparent space rock slammed into the ground. Initial fears where that the impact was a aircraft crashing to the ground, but that report was later dismissed. The Central Mexico meteorite event was witnessed by countless people in the region of the impact, with people as far away as Mexico City saying they saw the burning object enter the atmosphere.
Comment: Can you imagine what would have happened if this meteor had hit a major city? As I have stated before, there are YouTube videos of orbs which look as if they were attempting to break up meteors as they descend. At this moment in time, I have no metaphysical information that informs me of what criteria is used by 'The Earth Management Team' in how it chooses to defend our planet, however we are told that is part of their function. It will be interesting to see if this story changes...
Later story:
Meteorite falls Ahuazotepec bridge collapses; Army cordoned off the area
Emergency alert: RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service Budapest, Hungary mxenmer
(You can check the interactive google map here)

Experts discuss asteroid-warning system: Workshop advances ways global community can respond to threats to Earth
MSNBC News, 29th January 2010
"International experts converged on Mexico City this month to discuss the best way to establish a global detection and warning network to monitor potential asteroid threats to all life on Earth. The three-day workshop called together asteroid tracking specialists, space scientists, former astronauts and United Nations authorities, along with disaster management, risk psychology and warning communication experts."
Oh the irony... but what about space weather bringing down old satellites as debris?

Debris, which fell in Hidalgo Mexican scientist Fernando de la Pena said yesterday that the crash reported in the region due to the decline of Russian satellite
"Mexican scientist Fernando de la Peña, confirmed the fall of an object from space near the states of Hidalgo and Puebla. The driver of the Mexican Space Agency ruled that the loud boom yesterday reported by inhabitants of the region had been caused by a meteorite. De la Pena noted that in this case was a satellite of Russian origin, considered debris.
Hmmm... We know that everyone LOVES to blame the Russians but even the Mexican Space Agency has given an official statement blaiming this 100 ft hole on a "fragment"...

Meteor strike between Hidalgo and Puebla, possible space debris
"On February 10 around 16:00 hrs. were released several reports of people who had seen a fireball sail through the sky, followed by a huge explosion at the boundary between the states of Hidalgo and Puebla. In turn, a portal to information obtained by the Department of Defense of the United States which is responsible for monitoring man-made objects orbiting Earth, he had already published before the possible reinstatement of a fragment of the satellite Cosmos 2421, cataloged as 33006." Regardless of whether this was space debris or a space rock, this event will certainly focus a few more minds!

UN to discuss Air Traffic Control for outer space An international air traffic control for outer space should be set up to prevent damage to satellites and spacecraft orbiting the Earth, according to proposal to be discussed at the United Nations next week.
The Telegraph, 6th February 2010
"Space experts from around the world will discuss ways of tackling the growing problem of space debris in orbit around the Earth. It comes just a year after an American satellite collided with a Russian satellite."
Space Weather causes turbulence in space and drags satellites out of their orbits, so old satellites and debris can no longer be relied on to just float around unwatched.

As a reminder, the US Military are now refusing to share asteroid and fireball data, it's now secret. So for those who have read the 'News of the Imbalance' over the last few years, and have taken on board the hard evidence that something is causing a tremendous amount of celestial upheaval and all the signs shows that this is escalating, this should be no surprise. Also, please do not forget NASA's 'Local Fluff' press release either, 2 days before Christmas.... shameful. BTW, I have just finished reading astronomer Fred Hoyle's book The Black Cloud, it certainly gives you something to think about...

Comment 13th February 2010: I have come to the conclusion that we now have another media blackout, but the horse bolted before the stable door was properly shut so we do have quite a lot of information. This story was naturally covered by Mexican TV but I don't know what was said and I am miffed there are no images. Why is that? Others are mystified too, see Mexican TV video link at Mexico: Cosmos 2421 Was The Culprit & Mexico: What Crashed in Hidalgo? Again, maybe it was another heavenly phenomenon and there was no 100ft hole, but something major DID happen. Apparently, "State Civil protection reported that emergency phone lines collapsed due to the number of frightened citizens asking for an explanation about what was going on, after the detonation caused windows to shatter. Hmmm....

Stronger radiation from the Sun 'will cause sat-navs to fail', scientists warn
Britain’s satellite navigation networks could soon experience problems and disruptions caused by higher levels of radiation coming from the Sun, scientists warn.
The Telegraph, 10th February 2010

Researchers said satnav devices were facing the threat from an expected increase in solar flares from the Sun that could cause unpredictable errors in navigation. [...] Prof Cathryn Mitchell, from the University of Bath, said while the sun’s affects on navigation were difficult to project, the errors could last hours or even days. “It varies quite a lot across the Earth; looking at the UK it will be about 10-metre errors in the positioning,” Prof Mitchell told the BBC. "Ten metres out is probably going to be OK for a satnav system in a car but if you're using the system for something safety-critical like ships coming into harbour for navigation or possibly in the future landing aircraft, you're looking for much greater accuracy and more importantly, much greater reliability."
Comment: It is obvious to those of us watching the escalation of Space Weather that this is not just related to solar flares. We have many more regular substorms caused by the solar wind and a magnetosphere full of holes. What's more, nobody is talking about the regular cosmic/galactic blasts, but we can watch the magnetosphere getting hit on a regular basis. I missed this 20th January 2010 press release from the European Space Agency but it's no surprise as we are now experiencing extreme space weather. Multiple rifts in Earth's magnetic shield. We read:

"This study reports the observation of fissures on the Sun-facing side of the Earth's magnetic shield – the dayside magnetopause. Fortunately, these fissures don't expose Earth's surface to the solar wind; our atmosphere protects us, even when our magnetic field doesn't. However, clear effects have been detected high in the upper atmosphere and in the region of space around Earth where satellites orbit."

This press release tells us straight that we don't always have the protection of Earth's magnetic field and this is something I find hard to believe but it's in print. Please note ESA lessons on line: The effects of magnetic fields

The charged particles in cosmic rays are deflected by the [Earth's] magnetic field and many are prevented from hitting the atmosphere directly. Some are trapped into two concentric doughnut-like bands around the Earth called the Van Allen Belts, discovered in 1958 by the American satellite: Explorer 1. ... As we have seen, on Earth we have the protection of a strong magnetic field. However, elsewhere in the solar system it is not quite as safe.
... Any particles that make it through the Earth’s magnetic field still have to face our atmosphere. The atmosphere acts a bit like a bullet-proof vest. A cosmic ray hitting the upper atmosphere gives up its energy to create a shower of secondary particles that rain down on the Earth below.

As I keep writing, the atmosphere as a total shield is rubbish and scientists around the world were expressing concern because there were EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS OF COSMIC RAYS at ground level in 2000 and NASA have already told us that cosmic rays are at a space age high and to expect worse to come. What's more, the regular contortions of the Earth's magnetic fields lines are sometimes just so unbelievable, I wonder what is really going on. We have the fulfillment of Mayan prophecy, our world is now being dominated by cosmic and galactic energies and the proof is in the public domain, but there is little of no acknowledgement of the importance of our personal vulnerability and the cosmic impetus driving evolutionary change. It's not theoretical, cosmic radiation is tanning our hides. Meanwhile, the media delivers the odd whisper that our satellite communication infrastructure is under threat and GPS is not so accurate these days...

Safety move on Chinese lanterns
Jersey Evening Post, 9th February 2010

JERSEY Coastguard is holding a demonstration tomorrow to show people the difference between sky lanterns and distress flares. They will release flares and sky lanterns from St Aubin’s beach so that members of the pubic can recognise which one is set off in a genuine emergency and which one isn’t. The move follows a spate of call-outs for the Coastguard, including one on New Year’s Eve. Volunteers from St Helier lifeboat had been preparing for their own new year celebrations when they received a call from a concerned member of the public who had spotted flares in the sky near Elizabeth Castle. But after a half-hour search, nothing was found except Chinese lanterns floating in the water. Those wishing to take part should meet at 6 pm at Le Fregate cafe.
Comment: I think there is a need for education, but with the UAP phenomena and the brightness of some of the orbs, there is already great confusion which we may not be able to do much about. Quite frankly, even I was shocked by the ruby-red orb (reported 20th December 2009, Rudheath, Cheshire, UK) that came down to street level and then shot off... Here are YouTube videos of a hand held flare Hand flare 5th November, Aberdeen [0:53]
& an official Warsash Maritime Academy video [5:54] Distress Flares & Signals Pt1 , for sky flare go to [1:21] & hand held flare at [4:08]

Move to ban Chinese lanterns
County Times, 9th February 2010

CHINESE lanterns have been mistaken for distress flares at sea, vilified by farmers and they even sparked a flurry of 'UFO sightings' across Mid Sussex last summer. Now, a European politician wants the flaming party toys banned. Sharon Bowles, Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for the South East of England says the wire built sky lanterns could cause injury or death to livestock.
Comment: Oh good! Now this would be very useful legislation and then the doubters of the plasma phenomena that we are seeing in the skies, would have no excuses for the veracity of reported accounts. It also proves that the UAP phenomena is European wide. Oh, please hurry.... see also,
Chinese lanterns pose danger to livestock, NFU [National Farmers' union] says
BBC News, 1st February 2010
"Ruth Pidsley, a farmer from the Wirral, said she had woken up one morning to find 57 Chinese lanterns dotted around her farm. She said: "We have had a couple of cattle that have had some sort of eating problem, but we do just wonder whether it is due to the fact there have been little bits of wire in the silage."
Action needed on Chinese Lanterns
Yeovil Express, 6th February 2010
"SOMERTON MP David Heath has called on Parliament for action to make Chinese Lanterns safe to livestock and wildlife. Speaking at Questions to DEFRA ministers, Mr Heath drew attention to the growing trend to set off Chinese lanterns, which are carried by convection currents across the countryside. "
Cheshire farmer Huw Rowlands call for Chinese lantern ban after cow death
Chester Chronicle, 3rd February 2010
“They look very pretty but when you release them there is no way of telling where they are going to end up. “I would like to see them banned completely because they can travel anything up to 20 miles and there is no way of telling where they have come from.”

Please note: in certain parts of the UK ( I am not sure about Europe), people live in cottages thatched with hay. I also witnessed a fire in Norway, where people set off fireworks at New Year and a small patch of common land was set ablaze very quickly, near my old home which I would describe as out of town suburbia. Setting off Chinese lanterns is totally irresponsible and a fire hazard like fireworks, I don't even know why they are legal in the first place... By the way, it makes the UK farmer in Altrincham, Manchester with the ridculous LED helium balloons story (October 2009) seem even more ridiculous.

Climategate: Plausibility and the blogosphere in the post-normal age.
Watts Up With That, 9th February 2010

I’m honored to offer this guest post by Jerome Ravetz, of Oxford University in the UK. Mr. Ravetz is an environmental consultant and professor of philosophy of science best known for his books challenging the assumptions of scientific objectivity, discussing the science wars and post-normal science.
Comment: The heavyweights have joined the fray! Considering that this piece was written by an Oxford University professor, it is remarkable straight forward to read. What's more, we have it on good authority that the science behind Climategate has been rumbled! There are some gems that I hve picked out that I believe will become part of the modern scientific lexicon, here are some quotes:

It takes determination and skill for a scientist who is committed to social responsibility, to avoid becoming a ‘stealth advocate’
We can begin to see what went seriously wrong when we examine what the leading practitioners of this ‘evangelical science’ of global warming.
We found ourselves in another crusading ‘War’, like those on (non-alcoholic) Drugs and ‘Terror’. This new War, on Carbon, was equally simplistic, and equally prone to corruption and failure.
All critics, even those who were full members of the scientific peer community, had to be derided and dismissed. As we learned from the CRU e-mails, they were not considered to be entitled to the normal courtesies of scientific sharing and debate. Requests for information were stalled, and as one witty blogger has put it, ‘peer review’ was replaced by ‘pal review’.
A well-known expert in uncertainty management, Jeroen van der Sluijs, explicitly condemned the ‘overselling of certainty’
Part of the historic significance of Climategate is that the scandal was so effectively and quickly exposed... To explain how it all happened so quickly and decisively, we have the confluence of two developments, one social and the other technical. For the former, there is a lesson of Post-Normal Science, that we call the Extended Peer Community.
Do we face the prospect of the IPCC reports being totally dismissed as just more dodgy dossiers, and of hitherto trusted scientists being accused of negligence or worse?
A distinguished scholar, Sheila Jasanoff, has called for a culture of humility among scientists, itself a radical move towards a vision of a non-violent science.

Please note the final statement: "My thanks to numerous friends and colleagues for their loyal assistance through all the drafts of this essay. The final review at a seminar at the Institute of Science, Innovation and Society at Oxford University was very valuable, particularly the intervention from 'the man in the bus queue'." This has been the hallmark of the success of the bloggers who banded together, the learned and the unlearned worked towards a common goal, where the momentum was maintained by adhering to the highest standards of truth. This is making me re-examine again the crapiness and low standards that I have experienced in my own search for truth and enlightenment, as all these highlighted phrases have a direct parallel with what is going on on the New Age world, and I would say that you can replace "War on Carbon* with "War on the mind". Hence, the refrain for the last few years has been: where is the quality? Well, I am now examing the science and philosophy behind the low standards that plague seekers of truth in the spiritual world, it's enlightening but at the same time, I realise there must be others who understand the predicament. See also update Jerry Ravetz part 2 – Answer and explanation to my critics

Mysterious fireball sighting linked to meteor reports
Fermanagh Herald, 9th February 2010

MYSTERY still surrounds the reported sighting of what is thought to have been a meteor in south Fermanagh. One witness described seeing a 'fireball' lighting up the sky near Teemore last Wednesday evening - around the time that a number of similar sightings were reported in neighbouring counties in the northern half of the country. It is the first time in 40 years that such a sighting has been made in Ireland, with only about half a dozen recorded meteorite falls in the country altogether. The last one was in 1999, and the last one in the North was in Derry in 1969. One lady from Teemore told the Herald: "It was about 6.15pm on Wednesday evening and it wasn't fully dark. I saw the fireball from a window in the living room. It dropped a few miles from the house I'd say. At first I thought it was a small helicopter but it was more like a rocket or a flame gliding through the sky and then it disappeared into the fields a couple of miles from here in Teemore. There was no smoke or anything so I knew that nothing had crashed. It was just so unusual and it was not a rocket or a firework. [...] "There were two separate events," a spokesman said. "The first, and almost certainly the most important, was at about 5.50pm, and seems to have travelled from Kerry at least as far as Armagh and south Tyrone. That one may have been a 'meteorite dropper', though it's too early to say. "The second, not as big or bright, but at least as bright as Venus, was at about 7.30 - 7.40pm more than one and a half hours later. It was seen from near Moy, Co Tyrone, and was travelling in a north east direction."
Comment: It really makes you wonder what EXACTLY was seen in the skies, maybe it was more "heavenly phenomena", because it seems they were low enough in the skies to be seen crossing from South to North of the whole country of Ireland but not seen to explode. What's more, no one has found anything despite the publicity and the meteorite hunters out to make a small fortune. If you go back into the archives and check out "heavenly phenomenon", a term made up by the media for the famous 20th February 2009, incident in the US where astronomers on a nightwatch party (NASA Solar System ambassador and board member for the University of Hawaii Friends of the Institute for Astronomy Council) thought they were going to get hit by a fireball and the thing just disappeared... The astronomers themselves, referred it to a "meterological phenomenon"... As regulars will already know, it's getting spooky out there....

Doctors: Haitian may have survived 4 weeks in rubble
CNN News, 9th February 2010

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- A man pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Haiti's capital Monday may have been trapped since the January 12 quake that leveled much of the city, doctors reported. The 28-year-old man, identified as Evan Muncie, was found in the wreckage of a market where he sold rice, his family told staff at a University of Miami field hospital. He suffered from extreme dehydration and malnutrition, but did not appear to have significant crushing injuries, the doctors said. "He was emaciated. He hadn't had anything in quite some time. He had open wounds that were festering on both of his feet," said Dr. Mike Connelly, of the university's Project Medishare. The people who brought him to the hospital said they found the man while digging out the marketplace, Connelly said.
Comment: Another miracle! There is an exclusive CNN video report that is very good. The survivor says "a man in a white coat gave him water..." I have to say, this makes me very emotional because I once had a very clear vision of a man all in white standing beside me and at the time I thought it was odd, but when I consider what I had been going through in the previous few years, I can only be grateful...

Orange Object Looked Like A Floating Fire Seen Over Hemel Hempstead UK
The Vike Factor, 8th February 2010

Date: February 7, 2010 Time: Approx: 7:30 p.m. Location of Sighting: Hemel Hempstead. Number of witnesses: 2
Number of Objects: 2 Shape of Objects: Round/boomerang?
Full Description of Event/Sighting: I was coming back from the shop in Hemel Hempstead when my partner noticed a light in the sky. I said it was a plane, but after looking myself I could see no flashing lights, just what looked like something on fire high in the sky. It was orange and just looked like a small fire floating up high, it was not going particularly fast and just went at a steady pace in a straight line, it definitely was not a shooting star either. We watched for about 30 seconds until it disappeared into the cloud. After about another minute, we saw another one, same speed and direction only this time I could clearly see what appeared to be something falling from it, like drips of fire were coming from it, there were about five or six of these drips, it was quite unnerving as it went over head. It appeared to be boomerang shaped and there was no noise at any time during watching these objects. I called my brother who is west London (Ealing) he asked if I saw an orange shooting star before, I had even said anything so I am assuming he saw the same thing. What are they?
Comment: Apparently, we have types of Chinese lanterns that people set off so that they can drip fire over major urban areas ie LONDON.... Well, I just don't believe that these are Chinese lanterns. If you go through the archives many others have seen this "dripping fire" too. Check out the YouTube videos of strange meteor-like objects dripping fire and those definately don't look like Chinese lanterns either. The image icon used here is adapted from something that looked like a red hot poker over Formby, UK in September 2009 where a "cinder" was also seen to fall off it. There are lots more fire ball sightings on the UK UFO Sightings website, here are just a few:

3 fire balls travelling through the night sky - ceredigion, Wales [UK]
"NOT lanterns…meteors?"

A ball of orange fire in the sky zig-zags - Northampton [UK]
"a ball of fire perhaps a meteor."

A fuzzy “pulsating” orange glowing ball of light about 70 degrees above the horizon moving across the sky - Ely, Cambridgeshire [UK]
Chinese lanterns do NOT pulsate, but UAPs do!

The 3 fireballs moving erratically, form triangle - Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Please check the UK MOD "Project Condign" report, if you want to see a photo of fiery UAPs in a triangular formation, and then you can argue with military experts if you don't think it's possible.

A round shaped object that looked like plancton - Plymouth [UK]
UK UFO Sightings, 8th February 2010

Location of Sighting: Plymouth area, UK, Date of Sighting: 7/2/2010
Time: 12:24 am (night), Witness Name: Elise T

Witness Statement: There was this circular shaped thing in the sky, flashing different colours and moving at different speeds. Reminded me of a plancton. It was at least double the size of a star and since i look out of my window every night this is something i have never seen before. One point the thing flashed a bright white light. I have googled and googled but nothing is similar! I have encountered odd lights before but this is something else.
Comment: This is the first time that I have read a report that refers to a UAP looking like plankton, since I know very little about this microscopic plant that is crucial to the oceanic food chain, I was pleasantly surprised by the images I found. They do look like the images produced of the UAPs seen at Ross-shire, Scotland in July 2009, see image icon below. Click the image icon here to see the full image. Well, as I have deducted that soon we will be living inside a cosmic aquarium, this example is only part of the wide cosmic ecological life that's all around us. This can be compared to the amazement of a biologist who was given images photographed by Trevor James Constable. The biologist Ivan Sanderson who wrote the book Uninvited Visitors: A biologist looks at UFO's (1969) wrote in this book:

"Be they Unidentified Aerial Objects or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, they don't look like machines at all. They look to a biologist horribly like unicellar lifeforms complete in some cases with nuclei, nucleoli, vacuoles and all the rest (emphasis added). Some are amoebic in form. What is more they appear as completely opaque, mildly diaphanous, completely tenuous, or what can only be called evanescent, merging into mere light hazes."

In response, it's very difficult for scientists pretending to look for a shadow biosphere on Earth to have any credibility. Trevor James Constable wrote in his book, The Cosmic Pulse of Life: The Revolutionary Biological Power behind UFOs (1976).

"Mr. Sanderson is thus able to see with his eyes what is actually in front of them—a task that the imortal Goethe conceived as being the most difficult for humans. As the photographer at the time of the photographs were made, I knew nothing whatever of "nucelei, nucleoli, vacuoles and all the rest," but as Sanderson has pointed out, that is what is there on the photographs. Similar forms will be found depicted in major reference books on microbiology."

Here are some famous images by Trevor James Constable from the online book UFOs: The Psychic Dimension by David Pratt in Chapter 5, Lightforms and Bioforms, link

We Got Rhythm: The Nearly Forgotten Anomalies of Frank Brown
The Big Study, 7th February 2010

...Many of these critters seemed naturally to have a cycle relating to the Moon, very expected in a way, since they were tidal creatures. Brown, particularly after he was hired as a young prof at Northwestern, had the lab and where-with-all to begin detailed work. He chose species like Fiddler Crabs and Oysters. He studied them both in the "field" and isolated in tanks at the University. He found many things relating to rhythms, but I'll mention only two. Less interesting, perhaps, to us "outsiders", he found that creatures like the crabs appeared to have a "clock" which was significantly regulated by "outside" influences [i.e. not just a "hard-wired" internal cellular clock--which is what the establishment believed]. This, astonishingly, bought him not just disagreement but a shameful volley of insults and "professional" dirty tricks. The second thing that he found was that creatures displaced from their native environment "re-set their cyclical clocks" even if placed in lab environments where they were shielded from all gross environmental "natural" inputs. Those two discoveries are, of course, closely related in Frank Brown's Big Picture, but the second was mostly ignored because it stretched any sort of thinking past most of our limits---but the first thing was viciously opposed as a pseudoscientific concept. [Brown is shown on the left at one of his study tanks at Northwestern]. "Scientific" persons began doing things like blocking his publications, slurring him in talks and even in writing, creating cabals to agree to never cite any of his work nor that of his students,mounting erroneous "statistical" arguments to show his alleged errors of data, refusing to invite him to speak at relevant symposia, or if they had to, offering him ten minutes to his opponents' 50 or 100 minute talks [I kid you not--read this disgusting crap in Brown's biographical chapter in Discovery Processes in Modern Biology, edited by W.R.Klemm. 1977]. Brown eventually "won", although he wasn't trying to "fight" anyone--Frank Brown is a civilized man. But his deeper discoveries are not spoken of much today, at least one of them. This is the fact learned from the oyster research that even if you keep them isolated in the lab, they not only re-set their "tidal" clocks, but they re-set them as if they somehow "know" that they been moved from the East Coast to Chicago--- that is: their new rhythm is the correct rhythm if they were sitting in a tidal situation in Chicago.
Comment: More suppressed research.... Here we have some research that clearly reveals that biological rhythms in sea-life exist with an interdimensional component. In the laboratory when sea-life like oysters and crabs are isolated, they are still able to re-set their biological clocks to an influence that is not gravitational, electromagnetic or light. Here we have science that seems to imply that the theory of morphogenetic fields can be substantiated, but scientists literally frothed at the mouth when it was revealed that biological creatures are influenced by outside forces, because it implies that humans are influenced in the same way too. Now decades later, scientists have admitted this and now Epigenetics, how the environment influences genes and DNA is now one of the top scientific research areas. It seems that the truth always prevails — eventually.

Stop selling unlicensed natural health remedies: pharmacy regulators
National Post, 7th February 2010

Makers of natural-health products say they are bracing for widespread layoffs and millions of dollars in losses after Canada's pharmacy regulators issued a surprise directive recently urging druggists to stop selling unlicensed natural remedies. The order affects thousands of herbal treatments, multi-vitamins and other products, most of them waiting for approval from Health Canada under a backlogged, five-year-old program to regulate natural-health goods. The National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities (NAPRA) says pharmacists cannot be assured the products are safe until they are granted a government licence, and should not sell them in those circumstances.
Comment: I know that over the years there has been various attacks on natural health remedies, from those being supported by pharmacutical companies wishing to remove them form the market but now the situation has become critical. It is now know that pharmacutical companies are in trouble because the "placebo effect" is getting stronger, ie people's own belief system is helping to cure rather than a specific drug. So many new drugs they have hoped to place on the market are worthless and older drugs would never pass new tests. It's a very interesting situation.

£8BN BBC ECO-BIAS
The Express, 7th February 2010

STRIKING parallels between the BBC’s coverage of the global warming debate and the activities of its pension fund can be revealed today. The corporation is under investigation after being inundated with complaints that its editorial coverage of climate change is biased in favour of those who say it is a man-made phenomenon. The £8billion pension fund is likely to come under close scrutiny over its commitment to promote a low-carbon economy while struggling to reverse an estimated £2billion deficit. Concerns are growing that BBC journalists and their bosses regard disputed scientific theory that climate change is caused by mankind as “mainstream” while huge sums of employees’ money is invested in companies whose success depends on the theory being widely accepted.
Comment: This does help explain the BBC stance but it's still quite shocking... There are so many eco-worms from the Climategate can of eco-worms that I am struggling to keep up... Please remember that much a loved TV personality called David Bellamy, was shunned by the BBC because he did not believe in man-made global warming, it actually bothers me for some reason.

The Superbowl “Green Police” commercial
Watts Up With That, 7th February 2010

This video below is one of the most talked about Superbowl commercials today. You have to watch it more than once to catch all the visual gags in it. Watch the Audi commercial featuring Cheap Trick, the Green Police, and the Audi A3 TDI® clean diesel, Green Car Journals 2010 Green Car of the Year®.
Comment: Well, since there is an increasing trend of US police brutality, where it seems some officers have completely lost control of their senses, I don't like the sentiment expressed in this commercial. The views at WUWT do vary, but some have seen the darker side to all this. This is what one person had to say,
Frank Moore (03:47:39) : "That commercial was, possibly, the most disturbing thing I’ve seen on television in the last 20 years." This is worth considering: Dorian (09:25:39) :

As I said once in an earlier post, this is now The Age of Dark Science.
When government policy, business interests, and social engineers combine together to undermine science, facts and reality, we have Dark Science, Dark Knowledge and a Dark Society.
It took many centuries for society to separate the church from state, and it took many lives to do it. We now have a far more potentially destructive problem, separating the maniacal megalomaniac elitists, stone-age regressive seekers of society and self-serving presumptuous manipulative intellectual hypocrites from the legislative and executive branches of government. I shudder what cost we as society have to pay to rid ourselves of this group of vampires, vultures and leeches.
The Age of Dark Science is here. The only weapon we have is the same weapon that all liars, cheats, crooks and bullies fear, the light of truth, use it well people!

This was written as a comment at The Green Police: window swat team edition

Top British scientist says UN panel is losing credibility
The Times, 7th February 2010

A LEADING British government scientist has warned the United Nations’ climate panel to tackle its blunders or lose all credibility. Robert Watson, chief scientist at Defra, the environment ministry, who chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002, was speaking after more potential inaccuracies emerged in the IPCC’s 2007 benchmark report on global warming. The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change. The claim has been quoted in speeches by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, and by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general. This weekend Professor Chris Field, the new lead author of the IPCC’s climate impacts team, told The Sunday Times that he could find nothing in the report to support the claim. The revelation follows the IPCC’s retraction of a claim that the Himalayan glaciers might all melt by 2035.
Comment: I think the headline has got to be an understatement, there are so many holes in the IPCC ship, it has all but sunk ... Others are a little bit more forceful in their opinions, see below:
IPCC: International Pack of Climate Crooks
American Thinker, 4th February 2010
Is Global Warming a "Crock of S*%t?"
Business Week, 28th January 2010
PRINCE CHARLES ON CLIMATE CHANGE: GLOBAL WARMING SCEPTICS ARE ALL LIARS
Daily Express, 4th February January 2010
Sorry, I could not resist.... LOL!! Just in case you have never seen this priceless photo
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Al Gore (left) and R. K. Pachauri [2007]

I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor Phil Jones
Times Online, 7th February 2010

THE scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide. Professor Phil Jones said in an exclusive interview with The Sunday Times that he had thought about killing himself “several times”. [...] In emails that were hacked into and seized upon by global-warming sceptics before the Copenhagen climate summit in December, Jones appeared to call upon his colleagues to destroy scientific data rather than release it to people intent on discrediting their work monitoring climate change. Jones, 57, said he was unprepared for the scandal: “I am just a scientist. I have no training in PR or dealing with crises.”
Comment: Was this man living in a dream world? The information from the CRU was being used to create government policy and 'entrepreneurs' like Al Gore, had created the next big financial bubble based on carbon trading, to fleece the public through scam companies and the government would get their pay-off in taxation. Now, that his connivance has been brought to light, he is whinging about death threats. If Jones had remained a true scientist, he would not have this problem now. At least I am not the only one that has worked this out, see YouTube videos, The Story of Cap and Trade

UFO traffic report for February 6, 2010
UFO Examiner, 6th February 2010

UFO traffic this past week is scattered across the country, based on the most recent reports coming into the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.
Comment: Well, I like these traffic reports. Here we have a selection of critter behaviour with orbs flying in formation like geese that have been described over and over again. Orbs splitting apart, the usual bright light orbs and the odd metallic looking objects, the ones that have fooled people for decades who thought they might be alien spacecraft or probes. The first report is odd and I think there is always an element of wanting to scare people with reports and I get the feeling that some ufologists are desperately trying to maintain the alien/ET humanoids meme...besides that, the usual fare!

Is climate change the new faith?
Fanatics must stop playing fast and loose with global warming data
The Guardian, 6th February 2010

As a climate change agnostic – and I suspect most of us are, especially now, and more especially after the Guardian series this week – I've been bothered by two aspects of the argument. The first is the religious overtone. Humankind has always wanted to blame its own behaviour for natural events, whether Noah's flood, plagues of frogs, or volcanos which demonstrate that the gods are angry. Three years ago a British bishop announced that gay marriage had caused our floods. I've often wondered whether global warming is another example of this, an irrational belief designed for a rationalist world. And there is an element of religious faith in the true believers. Those who disagree are "deniers", with its echo of fanatics who don't believe in the Holocaust. Years ago I saw a sceptic howled down at a British Association meeting; [...] Years ago I cowrote a book, Bizarre Beliefs, about various crazy things people believe in, such as astrology, the Bermuda Triangle and spiritualism. Most of them generated vast amounts of data from which believers simply cherry-picked whatever suited their case.The world's climate produces millions upon millions of facts and figures, and it's very easy to select the ones that suit you and ignore all the rest. Of course I don't know who's right. But I'm not surprised to see the true believers struggling.
Comment: This concept of cherry-picking what you want to believe and ignoring everything else means that you can get to the stage where reality leaps out and may even knock you out cold. To provide a vehicle for popularising climate change and "global warming", the 'Green' movement has been hijacked to maintain the view that we are responsible for the obvious evolutionary changes taking place on this planet (we have sinned and fallen short of the glory of the environment, etc). At the same time, there is a change of consciousness that can be expressed as the Green 'meme' and those who understand this have worked very hard to take advantage of this level of consciousness. My real concern now is that we are moving to a more cosmic understanding of our reality. People have been ignoring the UFO issue for decades and now we are experiencing a dimensional shift. Fortunately, there have been many people who have chosen to write books, make documentaries and set up websites, so it should not come as too much of a shock for some, despite the fact that some people's motivation has been to maintain the mystery but others have sought to find the truth and now it's the moment of truth. Those who have cherry picked what they wanted to believe and ignored the rest, are now in for a rude awakening on many different fronts.

If you're going to do good science, release the computer code too
Programs do more and more scientific work - but you need to be able to check them as well as the original data, as the recent row over climate change documentation shows
The Guardian News, 5th February 2010

One of the spinoffs from the emails and documents that were leaked from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia is the light that was shone on the role of program code in climate research. There is a particularly revealing set of "README" documents that were produced by a programmer at UEA apparently known as "Harry". The documents indicate someone struggling with undocumented, baroque code and missing data – this, in something which forms part of one of the three major climate databases used by researchers throughout the world. Many climate scientists have refused to publish their computer programs. I suggest is that this is both unscientific behaviour and, equally importantly, ignores a major problem: that scientific software has got a poor reputation for error.
Comment: The mainstream are only following on from the sentiment in the blogosphere but it can't be emphasised enough. This notion is of particular interest to me because as a researcher as I have found that it's not always a good idea to rely on other's work. In some cases, when I have done the analysis based on the same data I have been able to completely dismiss ideas that have become established on extremely faulty reasoning and focus on more important knowledge that opens the way for a revelation.

Smart dust could give early warning of space storms
New Scientist, 5th February 2010

A SWARM of "smart dust" spacecraft, positioned at a sweet spot between the Earth and the sun, could alert us to the approach of dangerous space storms well before a conventional craft can. The first prototypes are due for launch into low-Earth orbit this year, perhaps as early as May. [...] The chips are essentially small solar panels with a radio antenna, and could act as a solar wind sensor (Acta Astronautica DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.12.008). The team envisage sending a whole swarm of these "smart dust" chips to the Lagrange point, where they would monitor the strength of the solar wind. They would also warn of any oncoming gusts of charged particles that could disrupt communicationsMovie Camera and electronic systems on Earth. After the tiny craft has been dropped off at the Lagrange point, the effect of solar radiation moves it closer to the sun. Peck estimates that this could give an extra 13 minutes' notice of a storm compared with larger solar monitoring craft such as NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer. [...] Colin McInnes from the University of Strathclyde in the UK says: "There is a strong international interest in 'spacecraft-on-a-chip' concepts. Peck's group have some great ideas which are firmly grounded in terrestrial applications of microelectromechanical technology."
Comment: The Lagrange point is a place in space where gravitational forces are cancelled out and satellites can literally hover in space. As I wrote in my book, there is a whole "armada" of spacecraft at L1 watching for the slightest hiccup from the Sun. This is part of the international efforts to maintain our current communication infrastructure that is under threat from Space Weather and reveals the reality of a New Age dominated by space and the ether.

Detectives question climate change scientist over email leaks
University of East Anglia scientist Paul Dennis denies leaking material, but links to climate change sceptics in US drew him to attention of the investigators
The Guardian, 4th February 2010

A scientist at the University of East Anglia has been questioned by detectives investigating how controversial emails were leaked from the campus's climate research unit. Norfolk police have interviewed and taken a formal statement from Paul Dennis, 54, another climate researcher who heads an adjacent laboratory. The leaked emails from the head of the unit, Professor Phil Jones, surfaced just before the Copenhagen conference in December and caused a furore because they suggested that data which did not support theories of global warming was being deliberately withheld. Dennis denies leaking the material. But it is understood that his links with climate change sceptic bloggers in North America drew him to the attention of the investigating team, and have exposed rifts within the university's environmental science faculty.
Comment: Have they found the hero? Quite frankly, the piece written by James Delingpole with an explantion from Paul Dennis about his connection with climate sceptics McIntyre, Watts and the website 'The Air Vent', fills me with more intrigue lot less... surely this is the stuff of Sherlock Holmes? See Climategate leaker finally revealed?

DC, Mid-Atlantic Bracing for 'Snowmageddon'
AOL News, 5th February 2010

The second massive -- and potentially record-breaking -- snowstorm of this winter has begun pounding the Mid-Atlantic region. The storm already has been dubbed "Snowmageddon" as it is expected to dump 1 to 2 feet of snow by the time it winds down Saturday evening. The heaviest snowfall totals most likely will be in West Virginia, northern Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, southern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. This, of course, includes the heavily populated corridor from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore to Philadelphia. A slight northward jaunt of the storm would bring the very heavy snow northward to New York City, Long Island and perhaps even southern New England.
Comment: I just like the headline, but the snowfall in the northern hemisphere this year has been excessive and I am waiting for a atmospheric scientist or expert to comment. Personally, I think that 'Snowmageddon' is better than 'Armageddon'....

How the face of Pluto changed in just two years (do you think they can blame it on global warming?)
Daily Mail, 5th February 2010

Nasa scientists have been left stunned after detailed images of the surface of Pluto reveal it has dramatically changed colour over just a two-year period. The Hubble Telescope captured the images, which are the most detailed and dramatic ever taken of the distant dwarf planet. They revealed that the cosmic body, demoted from full planet status in 2006, is significantly redder than it has been for the past several decades. The photos show a mottled world with a yellow-orange hut, but astronomers say it is 20 per cent more red than it used to be. At the same time its illuminated northern hemisphere is getting brighter, while the southern hemisphere has darkened. [...] Astronomers say Pluto's surface is changing even more than the surface of other bodies in the solar system. Marc Buie, of the Southwest Research Institute, said: 'It's a little bit of a surprise to see these changes happening so big and so fast. This is unprecedented.'
Comment: I was going to be cautious about this change over a two year period, but the editors of the Daily Mail have probably got the sentiment right in their headline. Due to the massive increases in energy from galactic sources, astronomers simply cannot assume that changes are due to 'seasonl changes'. Each planet in our solar system is connected to the rest of the universe and cannot be considered a closed system. Since we are now receiving MEGA galactic blasts from Magnetars, that can give off as much energy in .2 seconds, as the sun gives off in 200,000 years, energy driven evolutionary change is happening right now. This is the report at space.com, Hubble Catches Pluto Changing With The Years

Mexican journalist to present evidence of UFO sightings
The Monitor, 4th February 2010

McALLEN — Mexican UFOlogist Jaime Maussan is convinced mankind will see a marked change in the year 2012. “It could be a change in the climate or in the human being itself,” Maussan said. Maussan, who has collected, documented and researched videos, pictures and sightings of UFOs and extraterrestrials for the past 26 years, considers the possibility of a 2012 mass destruction “a stupidity.” “The Mayans believed that every 5,125 years there would be a change, and that period is due on Dec. 21, 2012,” said Maussan, a former anchor and reporter for the Mexican edition of 60 Minutes. “I’m a journalist, not a scientist, and as journalist I am not prejudiced,” he said. “I collect the images that are sent to me and I present them to the public, and they are the ones that make up their minds.” [...] [UFOlogist Jaime Maussan talks about Mayan prophecies for 2012 Thursday at the Roof Top Lounge in Edinburg.]
Comment: Well, Mexico is one place in the world where there is a very strong UAP presence. I actually agree with Jaime Maussan and his views about 2012, so I hope he has got the message that we are seeing masssive evolutionary change. Quite frankly, I was stunned to learn about the Mayan belief of the return of the B'alameb' who are the cosmic guardians of the four corners of the universe. From the sparse information on the internet, it looks like the vast majority of Mayan researchers missed this Mayan prophecy and the connection with 2012. Hence, it would be interesting to count up how many Mayan researchers made any references to what might happen. See my book review The Book of Destiny: Unlocking the Secrets of the Ancient Mayans and the Prophecy of 2012

A brite light but a big black shapeite ahind it - Lochgelly, Fife, Scotland
UK UFO Sightings, 31st January 2010 (New Updates)

Lochgelly, Fife, Scotland -30th January 2010
Jan.31, 2010 in Classic UFO Sightings, Fife
Location of Sighting: Lochgelly, Fife, Scotland
Date of Sighting: 30 January 2010
Time: 10 .50pm
Witness Name: Tam and Brenda Westwater

Witness Statement: I had just got back fae the pub with the missus and was taking the dug oot fir a walk doon the field at the back of the house when all of a sudden the dug went beserk and nearly pulled me over. I looked up tae see a bight light travelling at some speed heading doon towards kirkcaldy. Nae sound except fir a whooshing noise. Ah thocht ah wis seeing things at first but the dug was gaun spare and then the next minute anither UFO came richt ower the top of us and stopped about a hundred feet away. The dug stairted tae whimper and lay doon and nevir evir does that. Hes a 12 stane rottweiller and a braw gaurd dug and ah hive never seen him daen that afore. The UFO was still fir about 1 minite – a brite light but a big black shapeite ahind it – then it whooshed away tae a rondyvoo with the ither one near kirkcaldy. Ah hiv no slept all nite and neether has the dug, just whimpering and lieing oan the the flair. WE ARE NOT ALONE and ah hiv nae idea what these things were but they ARE NOT OFF THIS WORLD. Something needs tae be done.
Comment: This close encounter has sparked quite a debate and so I have added the full account. To be honest, I don't like the fact that some people and their pets are terrified after close encounters with UAPs. I have used an image icon from a previous highly publicised event in Ross-shire, Scotland. Here are more replies from Tam and Brenda Westwater, who has taken some ribbing for writing in a local dialect.

Tam Westwater
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:02 pm

Aye right Jean an ah’m really sorry that ma english disnae measure up tae what ye expect but thats jist the way things are up here. Next time yir in Lochgelly you look me up and ah’ll show ye a wee bit culture. Thats if ah’ve no been abducted or interfeered with by then. Seriously hen, ah wid hiv prefered no tae hiv seen oanythin oan saturday an ah wid jist like things tae be normal again. So ah’m sorry if ah’m a disapoinment, but there ye go. Andy, cheers fir that pal. Dinnae think its frae Leuchars cos thir wis nae noise like oany jets ah hiv heard jist a whooshing sound like air rushing ootae a valve in a tyre. Uncanny.

Tam Westwater
February 4th, 2010 at 5:40 pm

Hullo again. Jist read the bit about the flahin lights. Thats what ah kin recolect tae but ah cannae be sure about the colour as ah wis mair taken wi what wis hapenin tae the dug. Ah looked at the vid frae Edinburgh but ah dinnae think the one ah saw was daen oany piryet movement. But ah think it wis flashin. Ah hiv tae say its been a crazy week. Still nae ansers jist mair questions. This wis the first day the dug wis able to go out and he wisnae oanything like his auld self. Got to the end of the street and wanted hame again. Ah cannae believe some of the things ah’m readin on this site.
Tam
Brenda Westwater

Brenda Westwater February 5th, 2010 at 11:27 am

Personally I would be delighted if Tam was abducted by aliens. And they can have his dug too.
Brenda

The abduction comment is quite hilarious.... LOL!! Once again, I apologise to website visitors who are totally unfamiliar with Scottish dialects.
As a reminder: We are seeing the manifestation of a plasmatic lifeform that historically has only occasionally appeared to us. What is happening now is a dimensional shift -- the Apocalypse -- and our world is being transformed. In 1980, the most famous UFO incident in the UK occured at Rendlesham Forest near 2 military bases RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk County, England. For many reasons, that event was highly instructive, see archives, Best of the Blog - Orbs, UAP Traffic & UFO Disclosure. If you try to follow the story, you will find different accounts that have been spread to cause confusion about what happened, that is called disinformation. The most interesting information has come from the military men under hypnosis , hence we have it on record that when RAF Bentwaters Airman 1st Class John Burroughs undergoing hynopsis was regressed, the hynotherapist asked if there were any life forms within the craft, the reply from him was: "The light IS the life form". Most people have been brainwhashed into thinking that all UFO sightings could be 'aliens' in spacecraft. Sorry, the truth is most bright lights are an intelligent plasmatic lifeform and plasma can have a wide variety of composititon appearing like metal, to liquid fire to crystalline to light, do the research!

Motivational Speaker Charged in Sweat Lodge Deaths
James Arthur Ray, leader of fatal AZ sweat lodge ceremony, arrested on 3 manslaughter counts
ABC News, 3rd February 2010

Motivational speaker James Arthur Ray was arrested Wednesday on manslaughter charges after three people died following a northern Arizona sweat lodge ceremony he led last year. Ray was taken into custody on an indictment at his attorney's office in Prescott and later led into the Yavapai County jail in Camp Verde wearing blue jeans, tennis shoes and a dark jacket. His bond was set at $5 million, and his first court hearing was scheduled Thursday.Ja Ray's attorneys said Wednesday he surrendered to authorities but that the charges were unjust and they were confident he would be exonerated in court. If convicted, he faces a minimum of 3 years and a maximum of 12 1/2 years on each count.
Comment: I will imagine that there is quite a few other New Wagers out there extremely worried. They will not care about James Ray or the people that have died, their primary concern will be if the tactics being used by James Ray to get people into a state where they lose their sense of self, to the extent that they lose their lives will be exposed in the media frenzy that will accompany this trial. I will say that as I have studied James Ray and others that are using covert methods of hynosis and mind control, it's been an absolute eye-opener and I just hope there is an opportunity for many people to be educated and enlightened. See CNN Video Sweat lodge guru pleads not guilty to manslaughter & Daily Mail Sweat lodge deaths: Guru James Arthur Ray charged with manslaughter of three who died during New Age ceremony

The global warming guerrillas
Spectator.co.uk, 3rd February 2010

Matt Ridley salutes the bloggers who changed the climate debate. While most of Fleet Street kowtowed to the green lobby, online amateurs uncovered the spin and deception that finally cracked the consensus. Journalists are wont to moan that the slow death of newspapers will mean a disastrous loss of investigative reporting. The web is all very well, they say, but who will pay for the tenacious sniffing newshounds to flush out the real story? ‘Climategate’ proves the opposite to be true. It was amateur bloggers who scented the exaggerations, distortions and corruptions in the climate establishment; whereas newspaper reporters, even after the scandal broke, played poodle to their sources.
Comment: This is something that I have thought hard about myself, and it has forced me to consider how one can define "spiritual intelligence". Climate bloggers could see through the lies and were empowered enough to make a difference with no budget and lots of negativity against them, but they prevailed and have changed our future. Meanwhile, I am educating myself as to why so many people are asleep or have voluntarily closed down, whilst our world is experiencing the greatest transition in the history of mankind.

India to 'pull out of IPCC'
India has threatened to pull out of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and set up its on climate change body because it "cannot rely" on the group headed by its own Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr R K Pachauri.
The Telegraph, 4th February 2010

The Indian government's move is a snub to both the IPCC and Dr Pachauri as he battles to defend his reputation following the revelation that his most recent climate change report included false claims that most of the Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035. [...] Dr Pachauri had dismissed the government's claims as "voodoo science", but last night Mr Ramesh effectively marginalised the IPCC chairman even further. He announced that the Indian government will establish a separate National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology to monitor the effects of climate change on the world's "third ice cap", and an "Indian IPCC" to use "climate science" to assess the impact of global warming throughout the country. "There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism. I am for climate science. I think people misused [the] IPCC report ... [the] IPCC doesn't do the original research which is one of the weaknesses ... they just take published literature and then they derive assessments, so we had goof-ups on Amazon forest, glaciers, snow peaks.
Comment: The crisis deepens... See Greenpeace director tells IPCC boss Rajendra Pachauri to stand down over glacier claim
The Telegraph, 4th February 2010
Climate Scientist Foretells 'Big Changes' at U.N. Global Warming Agency
Heartland Institute, February 2010
"Heartland Senior Fellow James M. Taylor, managing editor of Environment & Climate News, also attended the event, and during the Q&A following Sprigg's presentation asked the scientist what he thinks the future holds for the IPCC. Sprigg nodded as Taylor referred to "mounting scandals" at the IPCC and then responded, "There will be some reform. I think there's going to be big changes in the peer review process for the IPCC. There will be--there are--calls for the head of [IPCC Chairman Raj] Pachauri. Some of my colleagues have written letters saying that he needs to be taken off the job ..."
The knives are out....

Climategate Consequences: The Mann Report
Pajamas Media, 3rd February 2010

When the Climategate story first broke, a lot of adherents of the skeptical view of anthropogenic climate change were mightily excited — proclaiming it the “end of the global warming hoax.” They have been disappointed because the breaking story wasn’t immediately followed by the resignation of everyone involved, the termination of all U.S. action on cap and trade, and tar and feathers for Al Gore. This was a little unrealistic. There are a lot of vested interests involved, a lot of money that depends on the CO2-driven AGW narrative, a lot of people with wealth and reputations on the line. That’s a lot of inertia, and the narrative won’t change course quickly. That doesn’t mean nothing is happening, however. [...] Today’s breaking news is that the initial report on Mann’s conduct has been released. The report itself isn’t very exciting. If not a whitewash, it’s at least a bit of a graywash, as they very carefully restricted the topics and questions they considered. But it’s not a complete vindication for Mann, either (no matter what the Huffington Post says). The report concluded that Mann should be subject to further investigation, saying there was a real question whether Mann’s conduct “may be undermining confidence in his findings as a scientist,” or “may be undermining public trust in science in general and climate science specifically.” In effect, the committee says there is evidence that Mann violated the social contract of science. The report announces the formation of a university committee to investigate this further, and frankly, Mann could be in some trouble on this.
Comment: It looks like some good news. No matter how the AGW folk want to spin this, Mann is continually being embroiled in scientific scandal and he is fundamentally linked to what has been called the biggest scientific hoax in history. Before, his biggest fraud was the 'Hockey Stick' graph used by the IPCC and Al Gore, but this proven scientific fraud was not so well known, but after Climategate, he is now highly exposed. Therefore, it's impossible to let Mann get away with bringing this kind of negative press to a university that will do whatever it takes to maintain a good reputation. I think this is the best short analysis I have seen on the Mann situation so far. The now world famous climate sceptic Steve McIntyre, the climate auditor that put the fear back into the hearts of dishonest scientists, has stated his views, see: The Mann Report

Twenty-Fifth Series Of German-Russian Plasma Physics Experiments
Spacedaily.com, 4th February 2010

From 27 to 29 January 2010, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov will be running the 25th series of complex plasma physics experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has funded both the development of the experimental equipment and the research itself. [...] In the experiments on the ISS , the electrical field between two electrodes converts an inert gas such as argon or neon into a plasma. Particles of a synthetic material, each measuring no more than a few microns across, are then injected into this plasma. The particles become electrically charged by the plasma field and gain the same polarity. Since they repel each other, they form a structurally ordered aggregate which eventually leads to the development of a crystal structure, similar to that of many metals, known as a plasma crystal.
Comment: Well, I can't work out why they are doing this experiment in the cramped quarters of the ISS, but it's very interesting. We have a crystalline plasma on our doorstep (Fluffy or formally known as Local Fluff by NASA, a crystalline cloud that is 30 light years wide) and it seems the race has been on to understand what might happen. Yet, the metaphysical community have been encouraged by channelled messages to sort out their energy fields, and to expect the arrival of diamond ray or diamond flame energy. I wrote my book about the new phenomena of Space Weather and it's impact, with an emphasis on the need to strengthen the human energy field so that it could act as a more effective shield. This naturally happens in the process of spiritual evolution anyway, but being more conscious of your evolving energy field will act to speed the process up and there are techniques that can be used. However, it is only recently that I discovered that a rarified plasma a million times less dense than air can deflect a beam of electrons that would normally bore through steel. This has only strengthened my conviction that I had understood the science and metaphysics enough to make my claims. Still, I am pleased that I made the connection with the human energy field and how NASA scientists plan to shield spacecraft in the highly radioactive environment of space. This collection of facts is all highly relevant, as we learn that Earth is lowering her shields to Space Weather. Since, my interest has always been to integrate science and metaphyiscs, even I am shocked by what has been hidden and is now only becoming known and fully understood.

Remote Controlled Helium Balloon Mistaken For UFO [Missouri, US]
Kake News, 3rd February 2010

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Those bright lights in the sky aren't Martians -- just a Missouri inventor. Some people in the Lake St. Louis area called police to report lights in the night sky. But it wasn't a UFO. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports a local inventor was just testing a remote-controlled helium balloon. Paul Bauer even had a ring of flashing, colored LED lights in on his contraption. The balloon was tied to his truck and hovered 100 feet in the air.
Comment: What a joke! Now we have "remote controlled helium balloons"... was this local inventor also a clown on his way to work? Do you remember the UK farmer in the Altrincham, Greater Manchester area, with his helium party balloons that were supposedly tied to his house? Someone estimated these 'balloons' had to be at least 22,000 ft high up in the sky so that they could be seen all over the county! That was a stupid made-up story too....

UFO's Spotted Over Brooklyn?
So, are these balloons over new York?

Huge Meteorite spotted over Ireland, February 03, 2010
UFO Blogger, 3rd February 2010

According to media reports a major fireball was spotted over Ireland at around 6pm this evening. It says the rock from space was seen blazing in the air by people all over the country. Astronomy Ireland says there is a very good chance it has landed inland, but it is unlikely to have injured anyone.It is not clear yet where it might have landed because the fireball was spotted by people all over the country. While it would have been travelling at high speed when it was spotted, the rock would have slowed down when it hit the atmosphere. Valentia Coastguard said it has had reports of sightings from people living in Mullingar, Limerick, Ballybunion and Bantry.
Comment: Quite frankly, the video clip here is absolutely awesome and for those who have seen many meteors exploding on entry in the last few years that have been caught on video, this is still like NOTHING we have ever seen before...Verification Fireball spotted over Ireland, RTE News link 1 & Irish Times link 2 This video has been picked up by RTE news, see RTE news clip on YouTube [3:38], but some people are claiming the video is fake... see Meteor spotted in Ireland from RTE News Astronomers say, "MAJOR EVENT".
Update This is very strange, I have replaced the image icon here because there seems to be agreement that the video is fake, but the lack of images and video is very strange. At the same time that there was initial excitement about this meteor, it was known that the Danish Oersted Satellite was under threat from space junk and immediately there were rumours that the Irish army have sealed off the area in Cavan, County where the "meteorite" had fallen. At the moment, there has to be some merit to the speculation that this was a satellite that has come down, rather like the other bizarre event in Latvia, October 2009, where a mobile phone operator claimed it was a publicity stunt, see archives.

A "Nobel Torsion Message" Over Norway? Part III
Enterprisemission.com, February 2010

In the extended pre-dawn darkeness over Norway last December, as we have recounted in Parts I and II of this Report ... "something" truly amazing happened-- And reaction immediately divided into two totally opposing views: Those who "bought" the official media story ... that "it was only another failed Russian missile test ..."-- And then ... those who thought "it just might be something else this time ...." [...] "Chladni Figures" are not limited to sound .... These fantastic, vibrational, geometric symmetries can ALSO be produced by electromagnetic excitation of "a standing-wave pattern in an electrified medium -- i.e. a plasma" ... like the Earth's ionosphere ... some ~50 miles up. Or ... like a standing-wave pattern externally imposed upon a cloud of dispersed aerosols ... just like those that would be vented into space-- From "a spinning, failing rocket!"
Comment: When you are dealing with researchers with an agenda or are trying to promote themselves, who may or may not have a good academic background, they know that a lot of people cannot challenge them. Richard Hoagland, who runs the enterprisemission.com website does not have brilliant credentials. Simply, what I do is pick up bits and pieces of information from different sources and try and reconcile them. I don't feel the need to jump on bandwagons and churn out something quick. Here we are told, "In fact, EISCAT was specifically scheduled to carry out a high-power ionosphere dual-frequency experiment ... at dawn .... " However Norwegian sources have already made it clear that North of Tromso, in Northern Norway, it is not dawn until noon, so the Norway Spiral appearing at approx. 7.50am could not have been caused by EISCAT. The explanation of the Russian missile again is just ridiculous and I wish people would let this idea drop, it's just too stupid for words. Russian scientists would not let an out of control missile fly over Finland, Sweden and Norway, and there are no reports of an out of control missile being seen by anyone. These are NATO countries and there has been NO row with the Russians... Please note, if this event took place over the White Sea, then we would expect to see mystery spiral photos and video taken from Finland and Sweden too, but there are no images accept for maybe 1 that has not been verified. The only part of this report that is interesting is the discussion of plasma and gives us more of an idea of what might have been happening. I don't like the talk of politics and the ending of the US Moon program being included in the smorgasbord of information, so I certainly think the conclusions here are just pure speculation. However, there is no doubt about it, there is certainly high strangeness going on at the moment...

BBC asks WUWT for help
Watts Up with That, 3rd February 2010

I received this email this morning from Roger Harribin, the BBC’s environmental analyst. It’s interesting because I received an email from the Guardian yesterday asking if I’d like to write a 200 word guest piece. Unfortunately it somehow ended up in my spam filter (which I found this morning) so I missed the 3 PM GMT deadline today.

From: Roger Harrabin – Internet
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 6:10 AM
To: [Anthony]
Subject: BBC query

Dear Mr Watts,

I am trying to talk to UK scientists in current academic posts who are sceptical about AGW.

I’m struggling to find anyone – but there may of course be a number of reasons for this. Please could you post my request on your website – and ask people to email roger.harrabin@bbc.co.uk.

We are looking for scientists, of course – not insults.

It strikes me that it might be useful to meet sometime to discuss a project I am planning on the weather.

I enclose my latest column

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8491154.stm

which touches on the difficulties of reporting climate change FYI.

I look forward to hearing from you

Yours
Roger Harrabin

If you know of a skeptical scientist in the UK that may be interested, please advise them of this. Thanks to all for your consideration. – Anthony

Comment: Wow! Please note the comments on this blog, some do not trust the BBC and as others have revealed, scientists do have to worry about their career prospects if they are seen to step out of line. That is because, as every man and his dog now knows, what scientists are allowed to study, is highly controlled. Hence, many scientists wait until nearing retirement before they get off the gravy train and/or decide to upset the apple cart... sorry about the mixed metaphors...

Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris
NASA News, 2nd February 2010

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. Astronomers have long thought the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never been seen before. [...] At the time of the Hubble observations, the object was approximately 180 million miles from the sun and 90 million miles from Earth. The Hubble images were recorded with the new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), which is capable of detecting house-sized fragments at the distance of the asteroid belt.
Comment: Hmmm... NASA scientists still want to talk about ice, you just have to laugh... Whatever it is, we have never seen anything like it before... the more one finds out about the universe, the more it becomes apparent that we don't know much...

Mystery: UFO Spotted Flying Across Sun
The Sun, 1st February 2010

A BRITISH stargazer has taken an amazing video of a UFO crossing the face of the sun Malcolm Park was taking a series of photos of the huge star through a specially filtered telescope when a strange object began to drift across it. Malcolm, of South West London, said: "I was recording activity on the sun when I caught this strange encounter. It looks like an irregularly-shaped lump of rock and is clearly rotating very quickly. Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2834314/Sun-sational-UFO-spotted.html#ixzz0eVFsLOHk
Comment: Well, if you spend a lot of time on conspiracy forums you will know that there has been a lot of excitement in the last week, but I decided to wait and see what happens. Now, the mainstream has decided to report various strange objects in space. The video clip [0:28] here is quite nice. Please note: the spheres that have been seen in the Sun's corona, do not display the characteristics described here. At the moment, I have decided to refrain from speculation until the facts become clearer as to what is happening.

Excerpts From The Electric Universe Electric Comets Part 3
Thunderbolts.info, 1st February 2010

This week we present the orthodox "dirty snowball" model and contrast it with the plasma discharge (electric comet) model. In presenting these in dot-point form it is easy to see that the plasma discharge model explains and even predicts the observations much more accurately than does the currently accepted model of comets.
Comment: This series of free excerpts is quite timely as amateur and professional astronomers focus on one of the most bizarre celestial objects seen in space ever! This is Part 2, Excerpts From The Electric Universe Electric Comets Part 2 Please note: Electric Universe theorists do not agree. Check out James McCanney's research papers that are 30 years old!

Pilot sees fiery UFOs in sky over Rugby
Coventry Telegraph, 1st February 2010

A PILOT has described a “bewildering” close encounter with a pair of low-flying UFOs in Warwickshire. The two glowing petal-shaped craft silently skimmed along at about 1,500ft – the height of a modern skyscraper – until they disappeared behind clouds. The qualified pilot, based at Coventry Airport, watched the spectacle unfold from a garden in Rugby. “I was looking at the stars when a circular object came into view from behind a cloud,” said the man, who asked to remain anonymous. The object was very clearly visible and was neither a traditional aircraft nor a balloon. “It was circular in shape but had a structure which resembled flower petals extending outwards from the centre and the petals where very strongly illuminated and appeared to be glowing as if they were on fire.
Comment: This sighting was logged 1st September 2009, on the UK UFO sightings and I actually reported it as Pilot sees round object with a petal structure extending outwards - Rugby, Warwickshire [UK] Remember folks, these entities are part of a "shadow" biosphere on Earth that scientists cannot detect because they are not really interested in finding anything, but the general public are seeing them appear everywhere they look... Personally, I would love to know what was discussed in London at The Royal Society behind closed doors last week. Are we really expected to believe that these scientists don't have a clue what is going on? Our reality has changed forever... When will the "powers that be" stop pretending that nothing has changed? What's more, I'd be interested in how they would explain it too...

Climategate scientist 'hid flaws in data', say sceptics
Professor in leaked email scandal tried to hide fact that numbers he used were wrong
The Independent, 2nd February 2010

The "climategate" controversy intensified last night when the senior British scientist at its centre, Professor Phil Jones, faced fresh accusations that he attempted to withhold data that could cast doubt on evidence for rising world temperatures. The charges follow an analysis of the emails hacked from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, of which Professor Jones is the director.
Comment: I am so proud of Anthony Watts, Stephen McIntyre, Lord Monckton and all the other climate realists that banded together and changed the destiny of our world! This is a comment on WUWT,

BernieL (20:30:17) : Now let me take this in: This is Fred Pearce (of New Scientist anti-deniers fame) taking a journalistic lead with an investigative piece in the Guardian that drawing into question the station data that is the basis of the very first question of the whole dispute, vis: Is the world really warming? And in doing so he is vindicating what the vilified sceptics were saying all along. Wow, folks, have I got that right?

REPLY: Yes that’s right, and you know what else is amazing? The Guardian authors emailed me this afternoon to make sure I knew about this story. I’ve never been given a tip from the Guardian staff before, ever. – Anthony
Layne Blanchard (21:08:39) : Holy heat sink, batman…. er, uh, Anthony! You were just commenting a day or two ago about how these stories suddenly get their legs. Could it really be happening? The last few weeks have been one revelation after another.

See, Climategate intensifies: Jones and Wang apparently hid Chinese station data issues The Gate-du-Jour has become totally ridiculous and shows that the UN's IPCC had completely and utterly lost respect for the normal process of peer review and upholding normal scientific standards, see
Gate Du Jour: IPCC AR4 references NYT story
Gate Du Jour: IPCC gets the boot (cleaned)

Can you see what it is yet? How a flock of starlings can look just like a bird, a duck and even a turtle
Daily Mail, 2nd February 2010

Flocks of starlings are renowned for forming a variety of shapes in the sky. But on this occasion they must have been overcome by vanity – and created a giant starling for us ground-dwellers to admire. The countless creatures created the awesome display by using the winter breeze as the low-setting sun caused the sky to glow red.
Comment: This is a nice reminder of morphogenetic fields that acts as a guidance system for all life on Earth. These starlings practice group behaviour that scientists do not understand. The theory of Morphgenesis by Rupert Sheldrake is generaly shunned by the academic community but science and observation will surely eventually proven that he has got this right. An individual morphogenetic field is a field of information that is held in the environment for all forms of life on this planet. It is continuously updated by the individual forms of life and also is updated by the universe by cosmic influences. As we are in a period of evolutionary change, these morphogenetic fields are being upgraded now and the science of evolutionary biology would suggest that all forms of life will start to mutate but eventually end up at a pre-ordained destiny controlled by these environmental fields.

Prayer Increases Forgiveness, Study Shows
Science Daily, 1st February 2010

We have all been guilty of a transgression at one time or another. That's because we're not perfect. We all commit hurtful acts, violate trust, and hope for forgiveness. That's simply a fact, and here's another one: Nine out of 10 Americans say that they pray -- at least on occasion. Florida State University psychologist Nathaniel Lambert put these two facts together and came up with an idea: Why not take all that prayer and direct it at the people who have wronged us? Is it possible that directed prayer might spark forgiveness in those doing the praying -- and in the process preserve relationships?
Comment: It certainly interesting what people are researching these days and then getting it reported in the mainstream media.

The New Cosmic Age is now Official!

Joyfire News, 7th September 2009

Joyfire Comment, 2nd October 2009