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2011-03-29T12:21:00.000-07:00

Japan’s nightmare: 823 quakes after 9.0 and still shaking

Posted on March 29, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

A 6.3 earthquake has struck off the east coast of Japan at the depth of 18.2 km. The number of quakes that have followed the March 11, 2011 Tōhoku 9.0 earthquake and tsunami now number about 823 and counting. The natural disasters have shattered Japan’s nuclear ambitions and put the country in peril of potential multiple meltdowns of the nuclear reactor facilities which facing over-heating issues.

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Hundreds of dead fish wash up on Alabama beaches

Posted on March 29, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

March 29, 2011 – ALABAMA — Months after the hundreds of birds fell dead from the sky and after thousands of dead fish, crabs, sardines, dolphins, and whales washed ashore worldwide, more dead fish washed ashore in Alabama, and a dead whale washed ashore in Virginia. There’s still no cause for the hundreds of dead fish that were found dead along the gulf shores over the weekend. They were also found along the gulf state pier Saturday morning. Park officials said it was unusual to see spade fish in that area this early in the year. The dead sigh spanned about three miles of shoreline. The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries will take the fish in for testing. In Sandbridge, VA, the carcass of a Sei whale was found Sunday morning. The whale measured 35 to 40 feet long. Staffers from the Virginia Beach Aquarium were called to the site so that it could be secured and would not wash back into the ocean. The aquarium is planning to perform a necropsy on the dead animal to determine a cause of death. Sei whales are not common to the Virginia Beach area. –KTSM

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Burma shaken by back-to-back natural disasters- thousands now feared dead

Posted on March 29, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

March 29, 2011 – BURMA (Myanmar) – Of the 7,000 fishermen that were swept into the Andaman Sea during a tropical storm on March 14-16, a total of 3,374 have now been rescued, according to a source close to the Myanmar Marine Fishing Association (MMFA). The remaining 3,700 are still missing. Nearly two weeks since 400 fishing vessels were overturned or destroyed in 70mph winds, little hope remains of anyone else surviving. “There are currently about 400 fishing vessels at sea trying to rescue survivors of the storm,” said the source. “So far, more than 3,700 fishermen have been rescued and brought to Rangoon.” Burma’s state media reported on March 22 that naval ships, large fishing vessels and local fishing boats had jointly rescued 3,374 fishermen. While 3,152 have already gone home, 222 fishermen remain under government care, the report said, adding that the rescued fishermen had been provided medicine, clothes and food. The tropical storm occurred off the Irrawaddy delta coast close to areas such as Bogalay and Laputta which were severely hit by Cyclone Nargis in May 2008. “We already listed 7,000 people as missing at sea along with their vessels,” said an official from the Botahtaung Thanlyin naval compound. “But that figure does not include those people living in littoral areas. So the number of dead may be higher.” He and other navy officers confirmed that more than 200 bodies had already been recovered from the sea. “The majority of boats that were overturned were carrying local fishermen,” said the MMFA source. “Fishing vessels from Rangoon are generally larger, stronger and better equipped to resist the storm.” Naval sources have estimated that the majority of missing fishermen are from Irrawaddy Division and Mon State. -Irrawaddy.org

Meanwhile the death toll from the March 24, 2011 6.8 earthquake has risen to 150 but sources say the government may be hiding the actual number of fatalities from the Western press so the true account of the devastation from the quake may never be fully known.

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World’s oceans threatened by growing danger of volcanic explosions

Posted on March 28, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

March 29, 2011 – TONGA – Between 75 and 80 per cent of all volcanic activity on Earth takes place at deep-sea, mid-ocean ridges. Most of these volcanoes produce effusive lava flows rather than explosive eruptions, both because the levels of magmatic gas (which fuel the explosions and are made up of a variety of components, including, most importantly CO2) tend to be low, and because the volcanoes are under a lot of pressure from the surrounding water. Over about the last 10 years however, geologists have nevertheless speculated, based on the presence of volcanic ash in certain sites, that explosive eruptions can also occur in deep-sea volcanoes. But no one has been able to prove it until now. By using an ion microprobe, Christoph Helo, a PhD student in McGill’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has now discovered very high concentrations of CO2 in droplets of magma trapped within crystals recovered from volcanic ash deposits on Axial Volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, off the coast of Oregon. These entrapped droplets represent the state of the magma prior to eruption. As a result, Helo and fellow researchers from McGill, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, have been able to prove that explosive eruptions can indeed occur in deep-sea volcanoes. Their work also shows that the release of CO2 from the deeper mantle to the Earth’s atmosphere, at least in certain parts of mid-ocean ridges, is much higher than had previously been imagined. Given that mid-ocean ridges constitute the largest volcanic system on Earth; this discovery has important implications for the global carbon cycle which have yet to be explored. –Eureka Alert

Once again, we reached this conclusion ahead of the science reports: “Since the oceans have always absorbed carbon dioxide even before the Industrial Revolution began; something else must be a triggering mechanism for excess C0₂levels in the world’s oceans. Submarine volcanoes are likely the over-looked culprit.” –The Extinction Protocol, page 204

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Final events unfolding in the Middle East that will soon lead to war

Posted on March 28, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

March 28, 2011 – TEHRAN – New evidence has emerged that the Iranian government sees the current unrest in the Middle East as a signal that the Mahdi–or Islamic messiah–is about to appear. CBN News has obtained a never-before-seen video produced by the Iranian regime that says all the signs are moving into place — and that Iran will soon help usher in the end times. While the revolutionary movements gripping the Middle East have created uncertainty throughout the region, the video shows that the Iranian regime believes the chaos is divine proof that their ultimate victory is at hand. The propaganda footage has reportedly been approved at the highest levels of the Iranian government. It’s called The Coming is Near and it describes current events in the Middle East as a prelude to the arrival of the mythical twelfth Imam or Mahdi — the messiah figure who Islamic scriptures say will lead the armies of Islam to victory over all non-Muslims in the last days. “This video has been produced by a group called the Conductors of the Coming, in connection with the Basiji — the Iranian paramilitary force, and in collaboration with the Iranian president’s office,” said Reza Kahlil, a former member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards who shared the video with CBN News. Kahlili, author of the book, A Time to Betray, worked as a double agent for the CIA inside the Iranian regime. “Just a few weeks ago, Ahmadenijad’s office screened this movie with much excitement for the clerics,” Kahlili told CBN News. “The target audience is Muslims in the Middle East and around the world.” –CBN News

When we first reported this nearly a month ago, it was met with disbelief and disagreement by some but once again we’ve proven that we’re not just reporting today’s news headlines- we’re ahead of them. See our report on Iran here and reference your chapter of Iran: Tripwire to Armageddon in the book, The Extinction Protocol, page 75

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Solar activity shifting into over-drive: Is something accelerating the solar cycle?

Posted on March 28, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

March 28, 2011 – The Sun seems to be entering a new phase of dynamism.” Radio emissions like these are caused by plasma instabilities in the sun’s atmosphere above sunspots. With the sun becoming ‘radio-active,’ it’s no coincidence that sunspots are emerging in abundance. Leading the way is behemoth active region AR1176, shown here in a photo taken yesterday by Larry Alvarez of Flower Mound, Texas: AR1176, the multi-cored ensemble at the bottom of the image, is dragging a pair of long magnetic filaments behind as it cuts across the solar disk. Two more sunspots are visible in the active region’s wake. The entire star-scape spans more than 500,000 km from top to bottom–truly impressive. “I call this picture Solar Rip,” says Alvarez, “because it looks like a rip in the stellar surface.” –Space Weather

The Sun’s behavior is definitely becoming more dynamic, almost ahead of schedule as though something is exciting solar behavior. Mid-latitude coronal holes and the break-out of sunspots, increased flaring, are all indications the cycle is racing toward a maximum which is supposed to occur sometime between 2012-2013. Below a chart which shows the inundation of cosmic rays peaks when solar activity wanes- leading us to the hypothesis that our solar system is being bombarded by perhaps energetic particles from supernovae remnants or from some other unknown gamma-ray source. -The Extinction Protocol

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Shallow 6.1 quake strikes off the coast of Japan

Posted on March 28, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

March 28, 2011 - JAPAN – A magnitude-6.1 earthquake shook eastern Japan off the quake-ravaged coast on Monday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, prompting Japan to issue a tsunami alert. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, but the Japan Meteorological Agency announced that a tsunami of up to 1.6 feet (a half meter) may wash into Miyagi Prefecture. The tsunami alert was localized to Japan. The U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said no wave was expected in Hawaii or on the U.S. west coast. The alert was prompted by a quake that the U.S. Geological Survey measured at 7:23 a.m. Monday Japan time (2223 GMT Sunday) near the east coast of Honshu. The USGS said the quake was 17 kilometers deep. A magnitude-9 quake off Japan’s northeast coast on March 11 triggered a tsunami that barreled onshore, triggering a humanitarian disaster that is thought to have killed about 18,000 people. -AP

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Greece hammered by seismic tremors- 12 in 14 hours

Posted on March 27, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

March 27, 2011 – ATHENS - The quakes almost form an elaborate circle around the southern parameter of Greece, where fault indentions in the sea are notable. It is well known that the Aegean and surrounding area, which includes mainland Greece, the Aegean Sea, Albania, S. Yugoslavia, S. Bulgaria, W. Turkey and part of the Northern Eastern Mediterranean, is seismically the most active region in the whole Mediterranean and in the whole of West Eurasia. This region is a part of the collision zone between the Eurasian and the African lithospheric plates but its present tectonic activity is much higher than in other regions of the same zone. The Mediterranean ridge is a submarine crustal swell that extends from the Ionian Sea to Cyprus and parallels the Hellenic trench. The Hellenic trench consists of a series of depressions with depth to about 5km. It parallels the Hellenic arc and includes some linear trenches, as are the Pliny and Strabo southeast of Crete and the Ionian trench. The Santorini volcano is quiet but still alive and well and may be biding its time. -The Extinction Protocol

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Landslides render roads impassable in Colombia

Posted on March 27, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

March 27, 2011 – COLOMBIA – Sonia Gonzalez, regional director of the National Roads Institute (Invías), El Tiempo revealed that although progress is being made in the removal of slides from two sides work in Rionegro and El Playon (Santander) the operators have failed to clear the road of all the material carried by streams and river Playonero. Heavy rains have caused the deaths of 4 people, the injury of 12, and the disappearance of three others. In addition, the upheaval has caused the destruction of ten cars and 12 homes. In 4 districts of Rionegro, 150 homes were evacuated. Cracks appear in the roads leading to Barrancabermeja. The Barrancabermeja highway situation is as critical. Nearly 1,500 meters in the asphalt road has prominent cracks and is completely destabilized under ground-like. Water filtration and the action of a fault line has contributed to the collapse of the asphalt spanning a distance of 36 kilometers in the sector known as La Leona, near La Renta. “We have two helicopters hovering overhead and a commission of experts is evaluating the site to decide what to do,” said Sonia Gonzalez, winters. The two affected routes are the main choices of land transportation between Bucaramanga and Barrancabermeja. Other roads are similarly affected in Santander. -El Tiempo

Thanks EuroAtlantic for the contribution

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Giant algae bloom appears in the English Channel

Posted on March 27, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

March 27, 2011 - LONDON – An enormous algae bloom 50 miles long has been discovered in the English Channel. The swarm of Skeletonema has come to the surface between the Lizard in Cornwall and Salcombe in Devon because of the warm weather. Scientists at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) discovered the bloom and another off the south east coast of Ireland using satellite images. They say that it poses no threat to humans and has appeared earlier in the year than usual thanks to the mild temperatures of the last few weeks. It would be visible from boats as a green/brown layer on the surface of the water. Dr Peter Miller, PML’s Earth observation scientist, said: ‘Skeletonema is a beautiful microscopic plant that given the right conditions reproduces rapidly to cover large areas of coastal seas. ‘Over the winter nutrients have built up in the sea and the windy weather we have experienced recently has stirred them up to the surface. Combined with the now calmer conditions and bright sunny days everything slotted into place to enable this plant to reproduce and form a large bloom.’ -Daily Mail

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2011-03-02T03:31:00.000-08:00

Iceland - 800 earthquakes in one day

Activity has now slowed LINK

1 Mar 11 - This website reports 800 earthquakes in one day on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, while another reports 400 earthquakes in one day.

With all of this seismic activity, they worry that the Krísuvík volcanic system (also spelled Krysuvik) could soon erupt.

It does sound worrisome at first, but when I look at the Iceland Met Office website, I see that activity has slowed dramatically.

I think I'll wait a bit before I go into panic mode. Besides, I don't know what would be considered normal for that part of Iceland.

Thanks to Laurel and Wanda for these links.

Krísuvík volcanic system

"Several eruptions have taken place since the settlement of Iceland, including the eruption of a large lava flow from the Ogmundargigar crater row around the 12th century," says the Smithsonian website. "The latest eruption at Krísuvík took place during the 14th century." (In the year 1188, according to John Search's Volcano Live website.)

See
http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1701-03=

Largest earthquake in 35 years hits ArkansasLINK

By SARAH EDDINGTON

Associated Press

The central Arkansas town of Greenbrier has been plagued for months by hundreds of small earthquakes, and after being woken up by the largest quake to hit the state in 35 years, residents said Monday they're unsettled by the increasing severity and lack of warning.
The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the quake at 11 p.m. Sunday, centered just northeast of Greenbrier, about 40 miles north of Little Rock. It was the largest of more than 800 quakes to strike the area since September in what is now being called the Guy-Greenbrier earthquake swarm.
The activity has garnered national attention and researchers are studying whether there's a possible connection to the region's natural gas drilling industry. The earthquake activity varies each week, though as many as nearly two dozen small quakes have occurred in a day.
"You don't know what to expect. It's unnerving," said Corinne Tarkington, an employee at a local flower and gift shop. "I woke up last night to the sound of my house shaking."
What woke Tarkington was a magnitude 4.7 earthquake that was also felt in Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee and Mississippi. No injuries or major damage have been reported, but the escalation in the severity of quakes in and around the small north-central Arkansas town has many residents on edge. Some said they're seeing gradual damage to their homes, such as cracks in walls and driveways.
"We probably had 40 to 50 calls last night," Greenbrier police Sgt. Rick Woody said, noting that the tone of the calls had changed. After pervious quakes, most callers simply wanted to find out if a loud noise they'd heard was an earthquake, he said.
"The fear had calmed down until last night," Woody said Monday. "People's biggest concerns (now) are whether or not these earthquakes are going to get any bigger."
Scott Ausbrooks, seismologist for the Arkansas Geological Survey, said Sunday's record quake was at the "max end" of what scientists expect to happen, basing that judgment on this swarm and others in the past. It's possible that a quake ranging from magnitude 5.0 to 5.5 could occur, but anything greater than that is highly unlikely, he said.
Ausbrooks said he plans to hold a town hall meeting in Greenbrier next month to address people's concerns.
"This quake actually scared folks," he said. "It lasted longer than a lot of the others did."
Ausbrooks said scientists continue to study whether there may be a connection between the earthquakes and local injection wells, where the natural gas industry pumps waste water that can no longer be used by drillers for hydraulic fracturing. Fracturing, or "fracking," involves injecting pressurized water to create fractures deep in the ground to help free the gas.
Geologists don't believe the fracturing is the problem, but possibly the injection wells.
A major source of the state's natural gas is the Fayetteville Shale, an organically-rich rock formation in north-central Arkansas. A six-month moratorium was established in January on new injection wells in the area to allow time to study the relationship - if any - between the wells and the earthquakes.
In Greenbrier, many residents are starting to notice gradual damage. Tarkington said her house has started to show cracks in ceilings and walls.
"You can see the wear and tear on our houses," she said. "I wish they'd go away."
Taylor Farrell, 29, a Greenbrier resident and employee at a local flea market, said a large crack formed in her driveway several months ago, and as the earthquakes continue, the crack has spread into her garage.
She said she and her husband had removed everything from the walls of their house, including family photos and television sets, because many photos had fallen in recent quakes.
"Other than that, there's really not much more you can do," she said. "It's Mother Earth. It's going to do what it's going to do. All we can do is wait for the big one and hope and pray it doesn't happen."

Scientists warn of more intense future snowstorms as climate unravels

Posted on March 2, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

March 2, 2011 – JAPAN – Climate change is not only making the planet warmer, it is also making snowstorms stronger and more frequent, US scientists said on Tuesday. “Heavy snowstorms are not inconsistent with a warming planet,” said scientist Jeff Masters, as part of a conference call with reporters and colleagues convened by the Union of Concern Scientists. “In fact, as the Earth gets warmer and more moisture gets absorbed into the atmosphere, we are steadily loading the dice in favor of more extreme storms in all seasons, capable of causing greater impacts on society.” Masters said that the northeastern United States has been coated in heavy snowfall from major Category Three storms or larger three times in each of the past two winters, storms that are unparalleled since the winter of 1960-61. “If the climate continues to warm, we should expect an increase in heavy snow events for a few decades, until the climate grows so warm that we pass the point where it’s too warm for it to snow heavily.” Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, said less sea ice in the Artic translates to more moisture in the atmosphere, and could also cause an atmospheric circulation pattern in polar regions known as Arctic Oscillation. “It’s still cutting-edge research and there’s no smoking gun, but there’s evidence that with less sea ice, you put a lot of heat from the ocean into the atmosphere, and the circulation of the atmosphere responds to that,” Serreze said. –Breitbart

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NASA to set-up camera network across U.S. to triangulate fireballs

Posted on March 2, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

March 2, 2011 – Every day about 100 tons of meteoroids — fragments of dust and gravel and sometimes even big rocks – enter the Earth’s atmosphere. Stand out under the stars for more than a half an hour on a clear night and you’ll likely see a few of the meteors produced by the onslaught. But where does all this stuff come from? Surprisingly, the answer is not well known. Now NASA is deploying a network of smart cameras across the United States to answer the question, What’s Hitting Earth? Did that meteor you saw blazing through the sky last night come from the asteroid belt? Was it created in a comet’s death throes? Or was it a piece of space junk meeting a fiery demise? “When I get to work each morning and power up my computer, there’s an email waiting with answers,” says William Cooke, head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office. “And I don’t have to lift a finger, except to click my mouse button.” Groups of smart cameras in the new meteor network triangulate the fireballs’ paths, and special software1 uses the data to compute their orbits and email Cooke his morning message. ”If someone calls me and asks ‘What was that?’ I’ll be able to tell them. We’ll have a record of every big meteoroid that enters the atmosphere over the certain parts of the U.S. Nothing will burn up in those skies without me knowing about it!” In other U.S. meteor networks, someone has to manually look at all the cameras’ data and calculate the orbits – a painstaking process. “With our network, our computers do it for us – and fast,” says Cooke. The network’s first three cameras, each about the size of a gumball machine, are already up and running. Cooke’s team will soon have 15 cameras deployed east of the Mississippi River, with plans to expand nationwide2. Cooke is actively seeking schools, science centers, and planetaria willing to host his cameras. Criteria are listed in the notes at the end of this story. -Physics.org

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Sunburn: Solar wind from coronal hole blast planet Earth

Posted on March 2, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

March 2, 2011 - MAGNETIC STORM IN PROGRESS: A solar wind stream hit Earth’s magnetic field during the early hours of March 1st. The impact sparked a geomagnetic storm that was, at first, minor, but the storm has been intensifying throughout the day. Spotters are now reporting auroras over Northern Ireland, Scotland, Latvia, Norway, and Sweden. If trends continue, the display could spread to the high latitudes of North America after nightfall. Stay tuned! -Space Weather

Well, we said this was a nasty hole rotating towards the planet. Solar wind speeds have revved up to 638 km/sec. We’re on the watch for the eruption of flares with this present sunspot cluster. Below the planet magnetosphere is hit with a burn blast from the rabid flow of the solar wind stream.

2011-03-01T09:08:00.000-08:00

Food prices to skyrocket, riots could follow, suggests USDA

(NaturalNews) When the upswing in commodity prices eventually makes its way throughout the food system in mid-to-late 2011, food prices are sure to spike with levels potentially reaching those of 2008, announced U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) economist Ephraim Leibtag at the agency's annual Outlook Forum. And if conditions escalate rapidly, there is also the potential for food riots and other civil unrest.

The USDA is predicting a 3.5 percent increase in food prices in 2011, which is about twice the overall inflation rate but less than the 2008 increase, according to a recent Reuters report. In 2008, food prices rose 5.5 percent, which represents the highest increase since 1990. But the possibility of food prices dramatically rising in 2011 like they did in 2008 is a definite possibility.

"Given that it's still earlier in the year, I'm prone to be conservative on the side of the forecast," said Leibtag. "It's a possibility," he added, concerning the likelihood of massive inflation in food costs like was seen in 2008.

Leibtag also explained the agency's expectation of a four percent rise in costs for meats, poultry, and fish; a 3.5 percent increase for fruits and vegetables; a four percent increase for cereals and bakery products; and a three percent increase in sugar and sweets costs. All increases represent anywhere from a 20 to 60 percent increase over last year's increases.

In 2008, food shortages and rapid price increases led to riots in 25 different countries around the world. And the same may happen again, including even in the US, due to factors like the devaluation of the dollar, crop losses, rising oil costs, and other economic factors (http://www.naturalnews.com/031408_f...).

The warning serves as a wake-up call to Americans to take back their land and begin growing more food on the local and regional scale. According to statistics from Farm Aid, a family farming advocacy group, roughly five million US farms have been lost since the 1930s, and about 330 farmers every week leave their land. If this trend continues, the situation will only worsen.

Factory farming operations have essentially replaced local farming throughout the country. And government policies like subsidization of genetically-modified (GM) crops only continues to drive small-scale farmers off their land and exacerbate the problem.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/031545_USDA_food_prices.html#ixzz1FMv6a1GY

Tremors rumble across north and south islands of New Zealand

Posted on March 1, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

March 1, 2011 – NEW ZEALAND – This 25-tonne boulder bounced down a hill and smashed its way into Phil Johnson’s house in Heathcote. A 4.6-magnitude aftershock shook Christchurch tonight and a similar sized quake has rattled Wellington- the third most populous city in New Zealand. The aftershock struck 10km south of Christchurch and 10km west of Lyttelton at a depth of 5km, GeoNet reported. There were no reports of damage, Radio New Zealand reported. Meanwhile, a 4.5-magnitude earthquake rattled Wellington. The quake struck at 10:07pm, and was centred 20km northwest of Wellington at a depth of 40km, GeoNet reported. The quake was felt strongly as far north as Otaki and as far south as Blenheim. There were no reports of damage, a Fire Service spokeswoman said. –Stuff.NZ

The geology of New Zealand is morphing as it is for many regions of the world. We predict more seismic instability and turbulence in this region of the Pacific.

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Easter Island- turbulence in the last leg of the Polynesian triangle

Posted on March 1, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

March 1, 2011 – EASTER ISLAND – Twin earthquakes have shaken the remote Pacific island region of Easter Island. A 5.1 earthquake was followed by a 6.0 which both struck at a depth of about 10 km. Interestingly enough, the disturbances along the far reaches of the Nazca plate on the island were both preceded and followed by quakes in Chile in Tarapaca and Bio Bio. Rapa Nui, or Easter Island is a volcanic hotspot as is Hawaii. The reconstructed geologic features of the remote island and its past volcanic evolution suggest that Easter Island is the expression of an end-member type of hot spot, characterized by low magmatic productivity, immature rift zones and scarce sector collapses, the opposite of what is found in the Hawaiian Islands. Within the so-called Polynesian Triangle which consists of Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island which forms the last leg of the triangle along the turbulent Nazca plate (that is currently jarring the coastal region of Chile), there has been a notable increase in seismic activity over the last 30 days. Finally, the latest planetary tremor shows the greatest seismic disturbance in the South Pacific under Kiritimati Island, Republic of Kiribati, Pitcairn Island, South Pacific and along the Nazca Plate which borders South America. We also see an unusual disturbance on the Samuel Brazil station.

Above: Seismic anomalies under Pitcairn Island in the Pacific (left) and the Samuel station in Brazil (right). -The Extinction Protocol

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Lost Horizon: Magnetic field reversal effects increasing

Posted on March 1, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

March 1, 2011 - The Earth’s magnetic field is changing at an increasing rate, throwing off airports and altering the aurora borealis — and its effect on ordinary compasses could mean the difference between homeward bound and hopelessly lost. Earth’s northernmost magnetic point — or magnetic north — is distinct from its geographic North Pole, and scientists have long known that the magnetic poles are on the move. But the magnetic poles have been moving faster lately, sliding towards Siberia at 34 miles per year at a speed that’s accelerated 36 percent over the last 10 years, according to the United States Geological Survey, or USGS. “At Washington D.C., the compass points 10 degrees to the west of true north,” Jeffrey Love, USGS advisor for geomagnetic research, told FoxNews.com. “And this is increasing at Washington at a rate of about 1/10 of a degree per year.” But don’t touch that calibration dial just yet: The accuracy of compasses fluctuates with the field, he said, meaning compasses are more or less accurate depending on where you use them. “It’s different at different places on the earth,” Love said. The magnetic shift is costing the aviation and marine industries millions of dollars to upgrade navigational systems and charts, Florida’s Sun Sentinel reported. –Fox News

“Almost all tectonic movement can be linked to magnetic reversals. Seafloor spreading, sea level changes, mountain growth, earthquakes, and volcanism all seem to speed up whenever the frequency of reversals speeds up.” -Peter Vogt, U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office

See: Magnetic Reversal Disruption

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Magma intrusion and swelling under Iceland’s Krýsuvík volcano

Posted on February 28, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 28, 2011 – ICELAND - According to news from Rúv. It appears that hydrothermal areas in Krýsuvík volcano are growing larger following the earthquake swarm in the past few days. This same news also tells that the number of cracks in the ground have grown in numbers following the earthquake swarm, this allows more water to get into contact with the hot rock and that warms the water up fast. According to Rúv evening news there appears to be magma related aspect to this weekend earthquake swarm in Krýsuvík volcano. According to Dr. Páll Einarsson geologist at Iceland University it appears that magma is the source (as stated above) of this weekend earthquake swarm. This news also says that there has been a lot of earthquake activity in Krýsuvík volcano over the past two years and this earthquake activity is not only tectonic as is common in this area. The news at Rúv also says that geologist in Iceland are wondering and unsure what exactly is going on at Krýsuvík volcano at the moment. But the reported inflation in the news at Rúv is sad to be 10 cm (I do not know if that number is accurate or not). But it clearly a reason now to watch the activity at Krýsuvík volcano. If there is a eruption in Krýsuvík volcano it is going to be a harmless (as it can be) lava eruption. Unless it is under water, but then there is a Surtsey type of eruption for as long there is water getting into the crater. So don’t expect aircraft problem if there is a eruption in Krýsuvík volcano. -Jonfr.com

Given the complex nature of the unique geology under Iceland (it is the only region of the world where a divergent rift runs through an entire land mass), I’ld say this was more than just a case of bad plumbing for the hot water heater. We’ve monitored at least 300 more quakes on the Reykjanes Peninsula today (see graph) …so we suggest you stay tuned.

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Iceland geologists downplay significance of massive quake swarms

Posted on February 28, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 28, 2011 - ICELAND - More than 500 earthquakes, most of which were minor, were picked up by the sensors of the Icelandic Meteorological Office by Lake Kleifarvatn in southwest Iceland yesterday and the seismic activity carried on through the night. Of the 500 earthquakes, five were stronger than three points on the Richter scale—the largest, which measured 4.2 points, hit around 5:30 pm. It could easily be felt in towns around the epicenter and also in Reykjavík, Morgunbladid reports. “Our people in Krýsuvík are used to such tremors. The earth has been shaking there on and off through the years. I’ve been in contact with them and there haven’t been any problems because of these earthquakes,” said Lovísa Christiansen, director of the Krýsuvík treatment home, which is located close to the epicenter. Divers Kristján Arnarsson, Pétur Yngi Yamagata and Fridbjörn Orri Ketilsson were diving in Kleifarvatn when the largest earthquake hit. They told mbl.is that they sensed a significant jolt and heard loud rumbles. Activity has been registered by the Meteorological Office’s sensors but earth scientists do not want to make any statements on the movement of magma below the earth’s crust. They point out that earthquakes are common in this area. The series of tremors began on Thursday and peaked yesterday. Approximately 70 minor quakes were picked up in the area around Kleifarvatn since midnight, only two of which were stronger than two points on the Richter scale, ruv.is reports. The seismic activity seems to be subsiding. –Iceland Review

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Are Arkansas quakes about to intensify?

Posted on February 28, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 28, 2011 (Greenbrier, AR) — The US Geological Society confirms as a 4.7 earthquake struck near Greenbrier Sunday night just after 11, followed by a 3.8 aftershock. KOLR/KSFX’s Facebook page was filled with reports from people feeling the quake as far as Ava, West Plains, and Reeds Spring, Missouri, as well as Calico Rock, Mountain View, and Flippin, Arkansas. “The couch I was sitting on felt like it was moving back and forth and the decor on the walls rattled,” says Erica Davis of West Plains. “In Hollister, my floor rumbled like crazy and my monitor was jumping,” says Judy Lockhart. “Strongest I’ve ever felt. That was creepy!” The quake struck in the midst of severe weather. Tornado and thunderstorm warnings were issued across northern Arkansas and southwest Missouri Sunday evening as a cold front moved in. “My pictures on the wall rattled in two different waves about 10 seconds apart, so I shut off the TV thinking I was listening for a tornado,” says Amber Hicks of Nixa. “Pretty neat if you ask me, not so much for the folks in Arkansas!” Shelia Maxwell, the Director of Faulkner County’s Office of Emergency Management, says that there have been no reports of damages associated with the earthquake. “We all got a pretty good shake, but no reports of damage at this time.” –Ozark First

According to the Arkansas Geological Survey, the 4.7 quake was the strongest quake to shake the state of Arkansas in 35 years after more than 800 quakes have shaken the area.

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As planet’s population booms, water demand exceeds supply

Posted on February 28, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 28, 2011 – CANADA – Water demand in many countries will exceed supply by 40 per cent within 20 years due to the combined threat of climate change and population growth, scientists have warned. A new way of thinking about water is needed as looming shortages threaten communities, agriculture and industry, experts said. In the next two decades, a third of humanity will have only half the water required to meet basic needs, said researchers. Agriculture, which soaks up 71 per cent of water supplies, is also likely to suffer, affecting food production. Filling the global water gap by supply measures alone would cost an estimated £124billion per year, a meeting in Canada was told. But this could be cut to between £31billion and £37billion by an approach which both raised supply and lowered demand, according to leading water economist Dr Margaret Catley-Carlson. The scientists urged conservation measures must be enacted now to stave off what appears to be a looming disaster. –Daily Mail

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Devastation in New Zealand quake on par with Haiti

Posted on February 28, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 28, 2011 – CHRISTCHURCH, NZ - Luxury homes teeter near the edge of a cliff after landslides in Redcliffs yesterday rendered much of the surrounding terrain unstable outside Christchurch following the quake. The scale of devastation in quake-hit Christchurch is comparable with the destruction wreaked in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, New Zealand’s former premier Helen Clark said Monday, as rescuers prepared for the final death toll to rise above 200. The stark assessment came with much of the city lying in ruins after last Tuesday’s 6.3-magnitude quake caused widespread death and destruction, toppling buildings and tearing up roads. “The building damage I’ve seen compared with Haiti,” Clark, who now heads the United Nations Development Program, told Radio New Zealand Monday, referring to the massive quake which killed at least 220,000 in the Caribbean island in January last year. Let there be no mistake, New Zealand has suffered a tragedy of monumental proportions and it’s going to require every ounce of recovery in this country to push through from this,” she added. The death toll in Christchurch reached 147 late Sunday but police fear more than 50 still listed as “unaccounted for” lie dead in the rubble. Asked if he expected a final toll of 200, district commander Dave Cliff relied: “Yes, and probably a little higher than that ultimately.” -Terra Daily

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5.8 earthquake strikes Bio Bio Chile

Posted on February 28, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 28, 2011 – CHILE – A 5.8 downgraded magnitude earthquake has struck near the coast of Bio Bio Chile at a depth of 16.7 km. The quake comes in light of growing tension along the Nazca tectonic plate and in the region of the Southern hemisphere radiating outward from Antarctica. The seismic telemetry data is shown below in this snap-shot of the poweful jolt that rocked the Nazca plate as the seismic wave registered in Argentina (left) and Chile (right).

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Rare ‘freak’ hailstorm causes dismay and panic in Lahore Pakistan

Posted on February 27, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 27, 2011 – LAHORE, PAKISTAN – The storm struck the city at 4.45pm, concentrating its intensity downtown and in areas around Gulberg. Hailstones the size of small strawberries soon carpeted streets and rooftops. People watched the freak turn of weather with a pleasant surprise. At some places some people panicked and started giving “azans.” A traffic gridlock followed the hailstorm, making driving a misery on roads awash with a hail of stones. But on the other hand, motorists were seen relishing the happening instead of fuming over the traffic jam and the young made the most of the opportunity by playing with hailstones. Mobile phones were taken out to take still pictures and make movies of the falling hailstones. Reports from different parts of the city indicated the storm was partial as many localities like Faisal Town merely received a light shower. Temperature dropped significantly after the storm. The Met office did not record the hailstorm, but said that it was rare. “The plains of Punjab do receive hailstones in this part of winter because of differences in ground and air temperature. But this one was rare,” a meteorologist remarked. The Met office said rain and hailstorm had been caused by a westerly system affecting the northern areas. Another westerly would bring rain over the plains and snowfall over the hills from Monday, it said. -Dawn

Libya unrest: US repositioning military forces in region ~ link ~The global banking cartel and Israel are keen to get their 'Domino Revolutions' fully back on track. That means nutty Gaddafi has to go and go soon. Stirling

The USS Enterprise (r) is currently in the Red Sea

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said US forces could be used for delivering humanitarian assistance. But correspondents say another option would be to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya, to prevent Colonel Gaddafi's aircraft attacking opposition supporters. "We have planners working various contingency plans, and I think it's safe to say as part of that we're repositioning forces to provide for that flexibility once decisions are made," Pentagon spokesman Col Dave Lapan said.

The BBC's Andrew North, in Washington, says that it is still not clear if there will be sufficient support at the United Nations security council for a no-fly zone, but Washington and several of its key allies say they are now actively discussing the possibility.

The price of food is at the heart of the wave of revolutions ~ link ~ In 2008 the global banking cartel, using Wall Street hedge funds and other means, was able to artificially create a limited global food shortage, which resulted in rioting in many places. That was the 'beta test'. They, being the most experienced organization in the world in fomenting revolutions (going all the way back to the French Revolution that overthrew King Louis XVI), know that it takes a lot to get the masses off their collective butts and into the streets. However, nothing is as effective as the fear of starvation with rapidly rising food prices and a population that simply cannot afford any price increases. This was a key factor in the French Revolution.

They created the BP Deepwater Oil Disaster (they knew as far back as the 1950s that drilling into the side of the salt dome there was totally insane) with the knowledge that a truly massive amount of oil would disrupt the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico. They had to use a enormous amount of dispersants to keep most of it in place, below the surface, and did so. The expected result worked.

The death of the Loop Current had a profound effect on the Thermohaline Circulation System and that effect also impacted the Jet Stream and caused the current global climate crisis/changes, which has seriously degraded the total global food supply. This, plus the now perfected hedge fund based food speculation, allows them to 'turn on' a real global food crisis.

They have also, again going back to 2008 (link to story about the Alliance for Youth Movements), organized Internet based social networking technology to serve as a useful tool to organize and control a spreading 'Domino Revolutions' in the Arab world.

This series of revolutions, in turn, has several 'benefits' to the global banking families. They have used this to raise the price of crude oil, further causing food price increases and economic chaos, as well as increasing their already totally insane cosmic level of income. Further, it helps to prepare the Middle East for the coming Regional War involving Israel/US/NATO and Iran/Syria/Lebanon/etc., which is designed to form the beginning of the Third World War. Further, they intend to spread economic chaos and rioting/revolution globally (witness the created crisis over collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin/etc. supposedly linked to budget shortfalls in US states; and the riots resulting from European Austerity Fascism).

Their Grand Strategy is to use economic/political/military chaos to introduce their long-sought satanic high-tech global police state/New World Order with a dramatically reduced global population level.

However, even this picture does not explain things, as the global usage of 21st Century weapons of mass destruction will effectively destroy the world that they intend to rule over. They, being satanic to the core, are being deluded by their true master Satan, who knows his time to influence this planet is almost up. He is using his minions to attempt to destroy the human race (and give him his greatest 'blood orgy' in human history from Armageddon).

Fortunately, Christians have been warned of these events in the last book of the Bible, and know how things well turn out, with the Return of Christ and a New Earth/New Heaven/New Jerusalem and 1,000 years of peace under God. Stirling

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Libya protests: 84 killed in growing unrest, says HRW

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Former UK envoy to Libya: "The most exciting question is what happens in Tripoli" (Footage from Libyan TV and amateur sources)

Mid-East Unrest

Country by country

The number of people killed in three days of protests in Libya has risen to 84, according to the New York-based group Human Rights Watch.

The main focus of the demonstrations against Col Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule has been the second city Benghazi, where security forces are said to have attacked protesters again on Saturday.
On Friday, one hospital in the city reported 35 deaths.
State media have warned of retaliation if the unrest continues.
Media restrictions make it difficult to verify reports independently but the BBC has confirmed that websites including Facebook and al-Jazeera Arabic were blocked.
Security forces opened fire in Benghazi on Friday when protesters approached a compound used by Col Gaddafi when he visits the city, which is about 1,000 km (600 miles) from the capital Tripoli, eyewitnesses say.

Mid-East unrest: Libya

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has led since 1969
Population 6.5m; land area 1.77m sq km
Population with median age of 24.2, and a literacy rate of 88%
Gross national income per head: $12,020 (World Bank 2009)

The city's al-Jala hospital received the bodies of 35 people killed in the shooting, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW) and media reports.

In a statement on its website, HRW says there were demonstrations in at least four other eastern cities on Friday - al-Bayda, Ajdabiya, Zawiya, and Darnah - after security forces shot dead a number of protesters in the previous days.
A senior hospital official told the group: "We put out a call to all the doctors in Benghazi to come to the hospital and for everyone to contribute blood because I've never seen anything like this before."
A Benghazi resident told Reuters news agency early on Saturday that many protesters were still camped outside the courthouse. Later another eyewitness told the Associated Press that special forces had fired tear gas and cleared the area.
Benghazi residents also told the BBC on Saturday that security forces had taken critics of the government from their homes.
In al-Bayda, video footage showed bloodstained bodies in a mortuary and protesters torching a municipal building and demolishing a statue of Col Gaddafi's Green book.
In Darnah, east of al-Bayda, police stations are said to have been evacuated. Oea newspaper, owned by one of Col Gaddafi's sons, reported that demonstrators had lynched two policemen in the city.
One protester told the BBC that soldiers had switched sides in some areas and joined the demonstrations. "The soldiers say we are citizens of this country and we cannot fight our citizens," he said.
'Red lines' No major disturbances have been reported in the capital Tripoli, where pro-Gaddafi supporters have been demonstrating.
Amid the crackdown, the semi-independent Quryna newspaper reported that the government would replace many state executives and decentralise and restructure the government.
It was unclear whether the political move was in response to growing unrest.
Earlier, the pro-government Al-Zahf Al-Akhdar newspaper threatened that the authorities would "violently and thunderously respond" to the protests.
"The people's power, the Jamahiriya [system of rule], the revolution, and Colonel Gaddafi are all red lines and those who try to cross or come near these lines are suicidal and playing with fire," it said.
Col Gaddafi is the Arab world's longest-serving leader, having ruled oil-rich Libya since a coup in 1969.
Libya is one of several Arab countries to have experienced pro-democracy demonstrations since the fall of long-time Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January. Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was forced from power on 11 February.
The British Foreign Office is now advising UK citizens against all but essential travel to Benghazi, Ajdabiya, al-Bayda, al-Marj, Darnah, Ajdabiya, Tobruk and areas bordering Sudan, Chad, Niger and Algeria.

Britain - More heavy snow - 19 Feb 11
Record cold in Sweden - 16 Feb 11
Frost Destroys Wheat Crop in Coahuila, Mexico - 13 Feb 11
Waist-deep snowfall paralyzes South Korea - 13 Feb 11
Glaciers growing in Italy - 8 Feb 11
See What's Happening in Other Parts of the World

India - Record snowfall revives 2,000 glaciers

Already more snowfall than 1998 record

for entire monthlink

Think you'll see this in the mainstream media?

17 Feb 11 - "Record snowfall in Himachal (a state in Northern India) this year has revived more than 2,000 glaciers," says this article in the India Times.

"It is difficult to understand the environment," said Almora's G B Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development's senior scientist J C Kuniyal. "As we start talking about the dry winters, record snowfall leaves stunned everyone."

Probably won't take too long before they stop talking about being "stunned," and start saying that they expected the record snowstorms - due to global warming, of course.

Lahaul-Spiti has received more than 175-cm (69 inches) snow in first 16 days of February, breaking the earlier record of 148-cm for the entire month, set in 1998.

Ironically, this article is posted in the "global warming" section.

See entire article:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/environment/global-warming/record-snowfall-in-hp-revives-2000-glaciers/articleshow/7512964.cms

Report: the death of 5 million aquatic animals in Mara River?

Posted on February 20, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 20, 2011 – KENYA – The National Environmental Management Authority (Nema), Public Health Ministry and Kenya Wildlife Service are investigating the deaths of fish in Mara River. Conservationists suspect the deaths that started last week might have been caused by agro chemicals from farms, that drain into the river. Hoteliers in Masai Mara Game Reserve are now expressing fear that the chemicals might kill animals that depend on the river. “The deaths could have been caused by agro chemicals from large scale farms on the upper side of the river. The chemicals might also kill hippos, crocodiles and other animals that drink water from the river,” said Ben Kipeno, a conservationist from the northern side of the reserve. Mr Kipeno said on Wednesday there were unconfirmed reports that apart from fish, a crocodile and a hippo have already succumbed to effects of the chemicals. He urged the Government to rein in farmers along the river who use potent chemicals and claimed that despite several complaints to Nema no action has been taken. Officials from KWS who were dispatched from Nairobi took samples of the fish to the Government Chemist for further tests to ascertain the cause of the deaths. When The Standard visited the river, dead fish were floating with scavengers, including the Marabou stork, feeding on them. The Narok South Nema officer in charge Gabriel Tambushi said initial reports had indicated that more than five million fish were killed at the confluence of the seasonal Moyan River in Transmara with the Mara following a heavy flood. “The sudden change of weather that resulted into heavy mist covering the water surface, inhibiting fish and other animals that depend on the river from breathing might have been the cause of the deaths,” said Tambushi. He did not rule out poisonous agro chemicals from farms, which depended on Mara River for irrigation. -Standard Media Kenya

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Lake Baikal: the mysterious rift of fire at 900 fanthoms?

Posted on February 20, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

Lake Baikal is not only the deepest lake in the world (1,637 meters) — it is also the oldest freshwater lake. According to scientists, the lake is more than 25 million years old, and holds about 20% of the world’s surface freshwater. The world’s largest fresh water lake is mysteriously warming for unknown reasons and Dr. Lyubov, a Russian scientist, believes she knows why – climate change. Lyubov believes one of the world’s oldest bodies of water is intimately and inexplicably linked to changes going on in the environment which are accelerating the planet’s temperature. For example, her research team found that changes in Lake Baikal’s temperature varied along with monthly El Niño variations in the surface temperature of the Pacific Ocean thousands of miles away. The researchers also found connections between the jet stream and Lake Baikal. Changes in the jet stream’s strength and direction forecast seasonal changes in the lake by about three months. Overall they found the lake is also warming. The lake’s temperature even reflected decade-scale changes in the Earth’s speed of rotation.

Given Lake Baikal’s immense depth, we believe there can only be one thing capable of influencing the Southern Oscillation (El Niño) and impacting the planet’s rotation while contributing to the gradient rise in the Lake’s temperature and it is the most abundant viscous substance on planet Earth – it is magma. A rift is likely widening under the lake and though no volcanic activity has been specifically identified to date, hot springs are present both on land and deep under water. What is perhaps more well-known is the lake’s violent past seismic history. Multiple earthquakes shook the Lake Baikal region between December 30, 1861 and January 1, 1862, causing widespread panic and destruction, unleashing a tsunami of icy water that rolled over the Tsagan steppe, and left more than 200 square kilometers of land permanently underwater along with the homes and livestock of the Buriats who lived there. A 7.3 magnitude quake shook the lake in 2001 and a 6.3 quake struck at a depth of 10 km in 2008. Ice quakes were measured on the frozen surface of the lake by Russian scientists in 2008 and a 6.7 quake again struck the lake in September of 2010. Researchers have long theorized there may be a divergent plate boundary centered beneath Lake Baikal. To its west is the Eurasian Plate and to its east is the Amurian Plate which is moving away from the rift toward Japan at about 4 (maybe even up to 7) mm per year. GPS measurements indicate that the Amurian plate is slowly rotating counter-clockwise. We believe Lake Baikal will become more of a hazard zone as Earth-changes intensify.

(c) Al Jazeera Discovery News, Siberia’s Lake Baikal Feeling the Heat, 2011

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Coronal hole: Journey to the farside of the Sun

Posted on February 20, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 19, 2011 - In this 3-D simulation of the rotating Sun, we can see a large coronal hole on the side of the Sun that is not facing Earth. Regions of coronal holes on the Sun can be 100 times less dense than surrounding material. For this reason, magnetic field lines in coronal holes allow dense streams of proton particles to propagate away from the Sun into surrounding space. We could be looking at some more energetic bursts of solar activity during this period when the Sun rotates. Stay tuned…

Update: MEANWHILE ON THE FARSIDE: For the past week, all eyes have been on the Earth-side of the sun, where sunspots 1158 and 1161-1162 have unleashed some of the strongest flares in years. Meanwhile, the farside of the sun has been busy, too. A huge active region is transiting the farside and crackling with flares; it will turn toward Earth in about a week. -Space Weather

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NASA sends final command to WISE telescope

Posted on February 19, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

NASA loses valuable eyes in the sky

February 19, 2011 – PASADENA, CA – A prolific sky-mapping telescope that has spent more than a year scanning the heavens for asteroids, comets and other cosmic objects received its last command today (Feb. 17). NASA shut down its WISE spacecraft – short for Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer – at 3:00 p.m. EST (2000 UTC) today. The mission’s principal investigator, Ned Wright of the University of California in Los Angeles, sent the final command to the now-hibernating spacecraft, according to an update from the WISE mission’s official Twitter account. “The WISE spacecraft will remain in hibernation without ground contacts awaiting possible future use,” NASA officials said via Twitter. WISE launched on Dec. 14, 2009 to begin a 10-month mission to collect data to be stitched together into a composite map of the entire sky. The spacecraft surveyed the cosmos in infrared light, which allowed it to peer through dense layers of dust to capture stunning space photos of previously unseen objects in unprecedented detail. In addition to spotting asteroids and comets, the $320 million space telescope is designed to detect the faint glow of distant objects, such as strangely cool brown dwarf stars. Over the course of its mission, WISE scanned the sky 1 1/2 times, taking about 1.8 million images of asteroids, stars and galaxies. The spacecraft also spotted 19 previously unseen comets and more than 33,500 asteroids, including 120 near-Earth objects, which are objects with orbits that pass relatively close to Earth’s own orbit around the sun. In late September 2010, WISE ran out of the coolant needed to chill its infrared detectors. -Space.com

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Cocos plate tension agitated by seismic upheaval in Chile

Posted on February 19, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 19, 2011 – The 4.8 quake that struck off the shore of Guatemala at 71 km and the 4.4 earthquake at 79.4 km reflect the growing seismic tension of the Cocos Plate with its dueling neighbor, the Caribbean Plate as seen in the recent 3.3 quake in the Dominican Republic at 83 km. This is one more example of how the unrest of the Nazca Plate affecting Chile is also unnerving other surrounding plates in the region. Finally, the seismic tension in Chile in rippling down through the South Pole, showing the enormous amount of power the Nazca Plate has on the globe. Below- Chile (left) and Antarctica (right) showing a similar seismic pattern on seismographs.

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Natural disasters triple in Germany since the 1970′s

Posted on February 19, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 19, 2011 – MUNICH (Bloomberg)— German insurers’ losses from natural catastrophes are rising as global climate change causes more inundations and storms, Munich Reinsurance Co. said. Weather-related events have more than tripled in the country over the past 40 years, Peter Hoeppe, who heads the Munich-based reinsurer’s Geo Risks Research Department, told journalists in Dusseldorf, Germany, on Thursday. A rising trend is also measurable worldwide, he said. Insurers’ claims costs related to natural disasters rose last year. Allianz S.E., Europe’s biggest insurer, recorded “high losses from natural catastrophes and bad weather conditions” in the three months ended September 2010, it said in the quarterly report on its website. Flooding, windstorms and a hailstorm cost the firm about €137 million ($186 million) in Germany in the period, it said. Munich Re, the world’s biggest reinsurer, also owns primary insurer Ergo Versicherungsgruppe. European winter storm Xynthia, which swept across Portugal, Spain, France and Germany in February 2010, cost insurers about $3.4 billion, while the earthquake that hit Chile in the same month may have cost the industry $8 billion, according to estimates by Munich Re. That led to an increase in natural disaster claims last year by more than two-thirds to $37 billion, exceeding the annual average of $35 billion over the preceding 10 years, the reinsurer said last month. -Business Insurance

Planetary Crisis: We think this is only the beginning of a trend that will eventually bankrupt insurance companies around the world and will facilitate the collapse of the global financial system.

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Number 1162 enlarges sunspot complex on the Sun- flare threat increases

Posted on February 19, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

ANOTHER X-FLARE–ALMOST: Fast-growing sunspot complex 1161-1162 erupted on Feb. 18th, producing an M6.6-class solar flare. The almost-X category blast was one of the strongest flares in years and continued the week-long trend of high solar activity. NOAA forecasters estimate a 75% chance of more M-flares during the next 24 hours. Sunspot 1162 is the latest sunspot to form on the Sun today. Sunspot complex 1161-1162 poses a growing threat for Earth-directed solar flares. -Space Weather

The interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) is a part of the Sun’s magnetic field that is carried into interplanetary space by the solar wind.

Interplanetary Mag. Field
B_total: 12.8 nT
B_z: 3.9 nT south

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Authorities warn of eruption of Mt. Nyiragongo volcano in the Congo

Posted on February 19, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 19, 2011 – CONGO - Previous eruptions in recent times may be dwarfed by the expected next eruption of Mt. Nyiragongo, which towers over the Eastern Congolese city of Goma. Nine years ago, in January 2002, when the region’s most active volcano erupted, the reportedly rather liquid lava swiftly covered a sizeable part of the city and even brought air transport to a complete standstill, when a portion of the runway was covered by lava, which when finally cooled down, was measured to be 6 and more feet thick and as wide as a kilometer, leaving total destruction in its wake and making over 120,000 residents homeless. The absence of monitoring equipment is hampering the ability of researchers to adequately monitor the mountain and predict imminent eruptions. Neither the volcano operators nor the population at large seems overly concerned at this stage, in spite of recent pictures being taken from aircraft flying over the crater, showing it once again filling up with enormous quantities of lava. The African Rift Valley, which extends from the Red Sea across much of Africa to Malawi, has always been an active seismological zone – as another active volcano, Mt. Ol Donyo Lengai in Tanzania demonstrates – but of late, disquieting reports have emerged that the underwater rip in the Red Sea seems to be widening, as minor eruptions have been reported from the border area between Ethiopia and Djibouti. It is there that the ground has also lowered and subsequently seismic monitoring has been substantially increased to provide early alerts of imminent developments. A few months ago it was reported here that the lava’s reflections on low clouds could be seen all the way into Uganda, again underscoring that there is indeed now a growing possibility of another upcoming eruption, many of which in the recorded history of the volcano have come at 10-year intervals. -Eturbo News

See our report on the coming tear of East Africa

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Kilauea’s lava lake reaches the highest level ever seen

Posted on February 19, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 19, 2011 – KILAUEA SUMMIT (HawaiiNewsNow) – Scientists on the Big Island say it’s been an especially active week at Kilauea volcano – as it continues to erupt in two locations: on the east rift zone and at the summit. The volcanic activity along the summit has died down a little since Monday – when the lava lake at Halemaumau crater reached one of the highest levels ever observed. But it’s still fascinating for both geologists and tourists alike. Kilauea’s fiery summit cauldron ripped open this week, and its beauty is matched only by the roar of its fury. Summit activity isn’t as intense as it was earlier in the week, but the changes have delighted scientists. “It is an exciting time for volcanologists,” says Janet Babb of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. “This is the job that we’re trained to do and the kind of research that we’re involved in, so it has been exciting.” On Monday, they watched as a number of rocks fell into Kilauea’s summit vent. Sulfur dioxide emissions remain elevated. Babb explains, “Large sections of the rim of the vent fell into the lava lake below. It caused a lot of degassing, and in a few instances, some explosive events that caused a lot of dusty, ashy plumes to rise skyward.” The lava lake at Halemaumau crater reached one of its highest levels ever this week – indicating an increase in the volume of magma. It’s been rising steadily since last November, but volcanologists aren’t yet sure of its significance. “We’re still seeing these rise fall cycles in the lava lake. Rock falls are still occurring, again not as many as on Monday or Tuesday, but the vent walls continue to break apart, and we expect we’ll continue to see this activity in the foreseeable future.” -Hawaii Now

Hawaii’s increased volcanic activity has been building for months. See Hawaii

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Fractual: more evidence the physical world is disintegrating?

Posted on February 18, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

“This is a time of total collapse.” –Chilam Balam

“A horrible undoing of people and animals.” –Nostradamus

“There shall be a time of trouble such as never was.” -Daniel 12:1

The season of change is upon us and it is accelerating. The climate on the planet is in chaos. Economic upheaval threatens to unravel financial institutions across the planet as sovereign debt mounts. Tensions are rising among ethnic groups. Social unrest is unraveling government institutions throughout the Middle East. The planet’s magnetic field is weakening. The biosphere is under increasing amounts of ecological pressure from natural disasters and rising food demands from an ever-exploding human population. Below our feet, geological forces continue to sift the planet from one disaster to the next. There are also increasing signs our biosphere is in trouble.

Bats, bees, birds, crickets, fish, butterflies, oysters, coral reefs, trees are all struggling with diseases and extinction issues. Pests are becoming more resistant to poisons. Microbes are growing more disease-resistant to antibiotic treatments and some are now starting to assimilate strands of human DNA into their genetic makeup. In the South American rain forests, vines are overtaking and supressing tree growth. Are these early signs the web of life on Earth is unraveling?

In India, the natural ecology is also transforming. The incidents of animals preying on humans are increasing. “Humans aren’t natural prey for elephants and tigers, but in the Sundarban islands of West Bengal, India, an alarming number of people have been attacked — even eaten — by these wild beasts. In one part of the country, there have been reports of elephants going on a rampage, trampling homes and killing around 200 people in the past year. In one bizarre case, this typically plant-eating animal reportedly ate a human. In another part of the country, tigers, who have developed an appetite for human flesh, reportedly killed 14 people in one village alone last year. “Tigers generally aren’t man eaters,” said Dave Salmoni. “It’s anomaly when an animal decides to start eating people.” The World Wildlife Fund estimated that only about 3,200 tigers are left in the world. At the same time, the number of tiger attacks in this part of India is up 30 percent over the past decade, according to Salmoni. Some experts believe environmental issues and a rapidly growing human population in the region are reducing their habitat and their natural food supply, and forcing them into villages.” –ABC News

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2011-02-17T01:12:00.000-08:00

Midwest's deep freeze likely to turn into wide floodslink

Thick ice could block some rivers, backing up water to make matters even worse

Emily M Rasinski / St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP

Ice backs up on the Mississippi River around the Clark Bridge in Alton, Ill., north of St. Louis, on Jan. 24.

By David Bailey

updated 2/14/2011 10:49:41 AM ET

MINNEAPOLIS — With the upper Midwest warming up from a deep freeze and one of the snowiest winters in decades, state officials from Nebraska to North Dakota are thinking of spring time — and flooding.

Along ice-choked Midwest waterways, officials hope the deep snowpack will melt gradually enough for the runoff to be absorbed by rivers and remain within the protective dikes and levee systems that could be overwhelmed by a rapid thaw.
"We are obviously hoping for the best, but planning for the worst at this point," said Cecily Fong, spokeswoman for the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services.
In Nebraska, officials ruled out for now spreading coal ash or using dynamite to break up thick slabs of ice on the Platte River for a second consecutive year after a survey Monday found water moving at key points.
"The channels that we want open are flowing," Nebraska Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Jodie Fawl said, adding that officials would monitor the river closely for refreezing, ice jams and fast melting.
It would be the second straight year, and only the fifth winter in three decades, that Nebraska resorted to using coal dust on the river, said Al Berndt, assistant director for the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency. The ice was 17 inches thick last year.
Story: Send, view images of the wicked winter of 2011 Planning meetings started in January across North Dakota, and Governor Jack Dalrymple issued a statewide disaster declaration on Friday to lay the groundwork for seeking federal aid should severe flooding strike.
Across the border to the east, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and U.S. Sen. Al Franken met with residents and emergency officials in Moorhead and Crookston on Friday to discuss plans for combating flooding in those regions.
City leaders in Fargo, North Dakota, are seeking volunteers to fill more than 3 million sandbags starting on Monday to hold back floodwaters from the Red River, which crested at nearly 41 feet in March 2009.
Temperatures rose above freezing on Sunday across the Upper Midwest, and some runoff may begin to be seen in rivers. But colder temperatures were expected to return within a week, according to the National Weather Service.
The shift of melting snow toward the rivers is likely to be "quite a lengthy process," though the threat of ice jams is high at several locations, the weather service said.
The National Weather Service is expected to release an updated regional flood forecast on February 17.
In West Fargo, a diversion project and vigilant clearing of ice jams has stemmed the Sheyenne River from flooding the city in recent years as it flows toward the Red River.
"We are pretty much fairly well protected," West Fargo Mayor Richard Mattern said. "We made 10,000 sandbags last year, I think Fargo made millions. We will just have to see how the melt goes, and Fargo is the same way."

Reuters: Two Iranian warships transiting Suez Canal for Syria; Concern Israel may respondlink

By Jamie Coleman || February 16, 2011 at 16:25 GMT

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Traders are buying CHF on news via the Israeli foreign minister that two Iranian warships are moving through the Suez Canal on their way to Syria. The minister hinted at an Israeli response, according to a Reuters headline.
Look for a “risk-off” tone if these headlines gain traction.
USD/CHF has dropped from near 0.9690 to 0.9635 on the report.

Scientists, telescope hunt massive hidden object in space

Some scientists think a brown dwarf or gas giant bigger than Jupiter could be at the outer reaches of the solar system. In this image showing relative size, the white object at the upper left edge represents the sun.

February 15th, 2011

You know how you sometimes can sense that something is present even though you can't see it? Well, astronomers are getting that feeling about a giant, hidden object in space.

And when we say giant, we mean GIANT.
Evidence is mounting that either a brown dwarf star or a gas giant planet is lurking at the outermost reaches of our solar system, far beyond Pluto. The theoretical object, dubbed Tyche, is estimated to be four times the size of Jupiter and 15,000 times farther from the sun than Earth, according to a story in the British paper The Independent.
Astrophysicists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette think data from NASA's infrared space telescope WISE will confirm Tyche's existence and location within two years.
The presence of such a massive object in the solar system's far-flung Oort Cloud could explain a barrage of comets from an unexpected direction, according to a December article at Space.com.
Its 27 million-year orbit could also explain a pattern of mass extinctions on Earth, scientists say.
Brown dwarfs are cold "failed" stars; their dimness and lack of heat radiation can make them hard to detect. Gas giants are huge planets – like Saturn, Jupiter and Neptune – that are made up of gases and may lack a solid surface like Earth's.
Whitmire told The Independent that Tyche will probably be composed of hydrogen and helium and have colorful spots, bands and clouds like Jupiter.
"You'd also expect it to have moons," he said. "All the outer planets have them."
Tyche was first hypothesized in 1984 as Nemesis, a dark companion star to the sun. It's been the subject of astronomical research and debate ever since. In July, another Space.com article said the celestial evidence suggests Tyche could not possibly exist.
To distinguish it from the Nemesis star theory, Matese and Whitmire are calling their object Tyche, after the good sister of the goddess Nemesis in Greek mythology.

Is Germany’s West Eifel volcanic field awakening?
15 Feb 11 - Swarm of earthquakes in the area. Last erupted in sync with the ice-age cycle.
See Is Germany’s West Eifel volcanic field awakening?

South Korea chaos - Heaviest snowfall in a century -
More snow on the way
14 Feb 11 - Includes sad video of a deer trapped in the snow.
See South Korea chaos - Heaviest snowfall in a century -
More on the way

More Deep-Sea Volcanic Vents Discovered - But we still blame humans for heating the seas
14 Feb 11 - This is the fourth set of hot springs to be discovered around Antarctica since 2009, suggesting that "deep-sea vents may be more common in our oceans than previously thought." See More Deep-Sea Volcanic Vents Discovered

Powerful solar flare disrupts radio communications in Southern China

Posted on February 17, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 16, 2011 – BEIJING – The strongest solar flare in four years disrupted radio communications in southern China, according to the China Meteorological Administration. The solar flare, a huge explosion on the sun’s surface caused by magnetic activity, affected transmissions in southern China on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported, quoting the CMA. The US space administration NASA confirmed that Monday’s solar flare was the largest in four years, and the event sparked predictions of heightened activity on the northern hemisphere of the sun. “X-class flares are the most powerful of all solar events that can trigger radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms,” disrupting telecommunications and electric grids, NASA said. Solar flares are classified as A, B, C, M or X, with each class having a peak 10 times greater than the preceding one. NASA also said the flare caused “sudden ionospheric disturbances” in the atmosphere above China and the CMA warned there was a high probability that large solar flares would appear over the next three days. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory saw a large coronal mass ejection associated with the flash that is blasting toward Earth at about 560 miles per second (900 kilometers per second). Monday’s flare erupted in the sun’s southern hemisphere, which has so far shown less flare activity than the northern hemisphere. It followed several smaller M-class and C-class flares in recent days. A magnetic storm caused by a solar eruption in 1973 plunged six million people into darkness in Canada’s eastern-central Quebec province. -Breitbart.com

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What’s killing thousands of fish in Turkey?

Posted on February 17, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 15, 2011 – INSTANBUL – Sudden and unexplained mass fish deaths in the Black Sea region of Turkey have local residents worried about the safety of their water supply and calling on officials to solve the mystery. When residents in Mescitli village in Gümüşhane province first observed dead fish in Harşit stream 15 days ago, they thought the fish had died of natural causes, said village head Cenk İnce. “However, when we realized the number of dead fish had risen, we urgently informed the officials. There were fish for two kilometers along the shore, which worried us. We are using the stream’s water in our agricultural activities,” İnce said, according to the Doğan news agency, or DHA. He added that the villagers have urged officials to investigate immediately. The provincial directorates of health, forest, environment and agricultural have reportedly launched an investigation, taking samples of the dead fish and the water from the stream. Locals believe the deaths are due to pollution. “The fish died due to pollution produced by people,” one villager said. “Forty years ago, we and our animals were able to drink the stream water. Water for our crops was provided from the stream. Now there is nothing growing here, life has ended here,” DHA quoted a local resident as saying. The village has never seen anything like the fish deaths before, said resident Tacettin İnce. –Hurriet Daily News

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Are we on the brink of a genetic evolution for untreatable microbes?

Posted on February 17, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 16, 2011 – LONDON – Scientists have found their first evidence of gene transfer from humans to bacteria – and, guess what, it’s gonorrhea that’s the lucky recipient. Gonorrhea, transmitted through sexual contact, is one of the oldest recorded diseases and one of a few exclusive to humans. Something that sounds very much like it is described in the Bible. Now, Northwestern Medicine researchers have discovered a human DNA fragment in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and say the gene transfer appears to be relatively recent. “This has evolutionary significance because it shows you can take broad evolutionary steps when you’re able to acquire these pieces of DNA,” said study senior author Hank Seifert. “The bacterium is getting a genetic sequence from the very host it’s infecting. That could have far-reaching implications as far as how the bacteria can adapt to the host.” It’s known that gene transfer occurs between different bacteria and even between bacteria and yeast cells – but never between two species so very different. “Whether this particular event has provided an advantage for the gonorrhea bacterium, we don’t know yet,” Seifert said. The gene transfer was discovered when the genomic sequences of several gonorrhea clinical isolates were determined at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Three of the 14 isolates had a piece of DNA where the sequence of DNA bases (A’s, T’s, C’s and G’s) was identical to an L1 DNA element found in humans. The team sequenced the fragment to confirm it was indeed identical to the human one, and also found that the human sequence was present in about 11 percent of the screened gonorrhea isolates. The team also screened the bacterium that causes meningitis, Neisseria meningitidis – very closely related to gonorrhea bacteria at the genetic level. There was no sign of the human fragment, suggesting the gene transfer is a recent evolutionary event. …”The next step is to figure out what this piece of DNA is doing,” Seifert said. –TG Daily

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Part 2: Work at global seed vault accelerates

Posted on February 17, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 16, 2011 - NORWAY – Farmers from Australia are the latest donors to a polar bear-patrolled Arctic doomsday vault that stores seeds as insurance against an international food emergency. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a converted mine, is located about 800 miles from the North Pole in Arctic Norway. An Australian delegation of farmers and scientists next week will deposit 301 samples of peas and 42 rare chickpeas in the vault, intending to protect the plant species from extinction by climatic or man-made events. “It’s a very robust structure, concrete, made into the side of a mountain at Svalbard in the Spitsbergen Highlands in the Arctic,” said Dr. Tony Gregson, a farmer and scientist with Plant Health Australia, an agriculture industry body. According to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault website, the facility’s main purpose is “to store duplicates (‘back ups’) of all seed samples from the world’s crop collections. Permafrost and thick rock ensure that, even in the case of a power outage, the seed samples will remain frozen.” “It’s as safe as any place on earth, actually,” Gregson said. “It’s built deliberately 60 meters above current sea level, which is above any predicted sea level rise, built into solid rock. “It’s in permanent permafrost, so the temperature will never rise above about minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit) and it is patrolled by polar bears. As far as we can tell, it is the safest place on earth.” –AOL News

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Victoria gets inundated by more torrential rain swells

Posted on February 17, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 15, 2011 – VICTORIA – VICTORIANS should brace for more rain and flash flooding after storms lashed the state last night. Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Terry Ryan said our summer deluge will continue well into the weekend, the Herald Sun said. “There will be more rain today, and possible storms, with the heaviest rain expected in the ranges,” Mr. Ryan said. “And we’re expecting heavy falls tomorrow night or early Saturday morning.” Mr. Ryan said the weekend storms, which could see 50mm rainfalls, could cause significant flash flooding around the state. Last night, dozens of motorists were rescued by SES volunteers as storms lashed the city and suburbs. The SES recorded more than 400 calls for assistance from residents in the outer eastern and southeastern suburbs. Melbourne’s outer eastern suburbs were the worst hit with significant flooding in Lilydale after 69mm of rain fell. –Herald Sun

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Chaos: A week off record lows in U.S.- temps flirt with 100 year highs

Posted on February 17, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 16, 2011 – DALLAS, TX - The big warm-up sweeping the eastern two-thirds of the country this week will reach its peak today through Friday, depending on location. In some places, temperatures will challenge records that go back more than 100 years. Records were already broken Tuesday in parts of Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana, Texas and Nevada. As the warmth spreads north and eastward from the Southwest and Gulf Coast region, highs in the 70s are forecast all the way north into parts of Kansas, Arkansas, the Carolinas, Virginia and Maryland. Some areas of Texas have already been warming into the 80s this week, and soon portions of Florida will join them. While people farther north across the Midwest and Northeast will not experience this kind of warmth just yet, temperatures will still be rising well above normal and even challenging records in some cases. -Accuweather

Climate unraveling: This is clearly a taste of what’s to come this summer in the Northern hemisphere. We will see record high temperatures across the globe along with more turbulent storm systems.

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12 earthquakes shake Faulkner county Arkansas in 24 hour period

Posted on February 17, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 16, 2011 – GUY, ARK - People who live in northern Faulkner County are feeling the ground shake again. 12 earthquakes have happened in the Greenbrier area between 3:30 this morning and 3:30 this afternoon. The strongest of those registered 2.9 on the Richter Scale. There have been a dozen quakes since Monday around Greenbrier according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). According to Wikipedia, earthquakes that register 2.0 to 2.9 in magnitude are classified as minor and are generally not felt. There are about 1,000 of these everyday around the world. -Arkansas Matters

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Tremor rattles villages across Ghana

Posted on February 17, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 16, 2011 - GHANA – Residents of some communities in Accra at dawn on Wednesday experienced what eyewitnesses described as an earth tremor. The incident, which occurred around 0400 hours affected communities like Taifa, Dome, Tantra Hills, Achimota, Kwabenya, Ashongman and East Legon, from where residents called a local radio station for confirmation. Official sources, however, could not confirm the incident to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) as the nation did not have the equipment to measure incidence of earthquakes or tremors. It said the Geological Survey Department charged with detecting and measuring the level of earthquakes and tremors nationwide on a Richter scale was currently ineffective because it lacked the equipment to perform its mandate. The source said the Department was yet to install a new equipment to replace an obsolete one and until the installation at a new location at Achimota was completed, little could be done about the situation. -Ghana News Agency

2011-02-15T22:00:00.000-08:00

Food prices at dangerous levels, says World Banklink

Food prices are close to record levels according to the World Bank's latest assessment

The World Bank says food prices are at "dangerous levels" and have pushed 44 million more people into poverty since last June.

According to the latest edition of its Food Price Watch, prices rose by 15% in the four months between October 2010 and January this year.
Food price inflation is felt disproportionately by the poor, who spend over half their income on food.
The Bank called on this week's G20 meeting to address the problem.
The World Bank's president, Robert Zoellick, said in a statement: "Global food prices are rising to dangerous levels and threaten tens of millions of poor people around the world."
He also said that rising food prices were an aggravating factor of the unrest in the Middle East, although not its primary cause.
Rapid food price inflation in 2008 sparked riots in a number of countries. At that time, the World Bank estimated 125 million people were in extreme poverty.
The World Bank says prices are not quite back at those levels - just 3% below - although they are 27% higher than a year ago.
A separate report earlier this month from the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said that world food prices had hit a record high in January.
Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 group of developed and developing nations are meeting later this week in Paris.

Coincidence or what? There was a movie in 1998 called Deep Impact where the name of the comet was ellie, similar to this newly discovered comet named by the person who found it, Elenin....link

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Deep Impact is a 1998 science-fiction disaster-drama film released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks in the United States on May 8, 1998. It was directed by Mimi Leder and stars Elijah Wood, Téa Leoni, Morgan Freeman and Robert Duvall. The plot describes the attempts to prepare for and destroy a 7-mile wide comet, which is expected to collide with the Earth and cause a mass extinction.

Another "space impact" film, Armageddon, was released about two months after Deep Impact in the United States.[1] Deep Impact's greater scientific credibility was recognized,[2] though Armageddon fared better at the box office; however, Deep Impact was still a major financial success, grossing over $349 million worldwide on a $75 million production budget.[3] Both films were equally received by critics, with Armageddon scoring 41% and Deep Impact scoring 46% on the Tomatometer.

On May 10, 1998, teenage amateur astronomer Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood) discovers an unusual object near the stars Mizar and Alcor at a star party. He alerts professional astronomer Marcus Wolf (Charles Martin Smith) at a local observatory. Wolf learns that the object is a comet, and calculates that it will impact with Earth, but dies in a car accident before he can alert the world.

A year later, MSNBC reporter Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni) investigates the resignation of the United States Secretary of the Treasury (James Cromwell) and his connection to an "Ellie". She discovers that Ellie is not a mistress but an acronym: "E.L.E.", for "Extinction-Level Event". Because of Lerner's investigation, President of the United States Tom Beck (Morgan Freeman) reveals to the public that the United States government learned a year ago from Wolf's scientific records about the comet's existence and announces the grim facts: The comet—named Wolf-Biederman—is 7 miles (11 km) wide, large enough to destroy all life if it strikes Earth. The United States and Russia have been secretly constructing in orbit the spacecraft Messiah, which they plan to send on a mission to destroy the comet with nuclear weapons. Life changes drastically worldwide, and both Leo and Lerner become celebrities.

After landing on the comet, the Messiah crew members plant nuclear bombs 100 meters beneath the surface; one crew member dies while another is seriously injured. When the bombs are detonated, Messiah is damaged and loses contact with Earth. Instead of being destroyed the comet splits into two smaller rocks nicknamed "Biederman" (1.5 miles (2.4 km) wide) and "Wolf" (6 miles (9.7 km) wide), both still world-threatening.

Beck acknowledges Messiah’s failure, declares martial law, and announces that governments worldwide are building underground shelters. The United States' national refuge is in the limestone caves of Missouri. The US government conducts a lottery to select 800,000 ordinary Americans aged 50 and under to join 200,000 pre-selected scientists, engineers, teachers, artists, soldiers, and officials. Lerner and Leo's family are pre-selected, but Leo's girlfriend Sarah Hotchner (Leelee Sobieski) is not. Leo marries Sarah to save her family but the Hotchners are mistakenly left off the evacuee list; Sarah refuses to leave without them.

A last-ditch effort to use Earth's missile-borne nuclear weapons to deflect the two chunks of the comet fails. Leo returns home looking for Sarah, but her family has left for the Appalachian Mountains and are trapped on a jammed highway. Sarah's parents urge Leo to take Sarah and her baby sister to high ground; Sarah still does not want to abandon her parents, but she quickly realizes that she has no choice but to do so and bids them a tearful goodbye. Lerner gives up her seat in the last evacuation helicopter to her friend Beth, who has a young daughter. She instead joins her estranged father (Maximilian Schell) at her childhood beach house, where they reconcile and remember happier times and memories. The Biederman fragment impacts in the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda, creating an enormous, supersonic megatsunami. Leo, Sarah and her baby sister survive but Lerner and her father, Sarah's parents, and millions of others along the Atlantic coasts of North and South America, Europe, and Africa die.

The world braces for the impact of Wolf in western Canada, which will create a cloud of dust that will block out the sun for two years. This in turn will destroy all remaining life aside from that which has been evacuated underground. Low on fuel and life support, the crew of the Messiah decides to undertake a suicide mission with the remaining nuclear warheads. After saying goodbye to their loved ones by video conference, the Messiah reaches the fragment and enters a fissure to blow itself up, which breaks Wolf into much smaller pieces; these burn up in Earth's atmosphere, sparing humanity.

The film closes with Beck speaking to a large crowd in front of the under-reconstruction United States Capitol, where he urges the nation and the world to continue their recovery.

Admiral Mullen to China: We're Staying in Your Backyard ~ link ~

Here’s how to understand what’s driving the new National Military Strategy, released today by the U.S. military’s top officer: China, China and China.

Ostensibly, Adm. Mike Mullen’s document is about how the U.S. military ought to organize and prepare for future threats. The watchwords there: building networks, whether with civilian government and international agencies or foreign partner forces, prepared to “extend” U.S. “competitive advantages” in military tech and training to all who seek its help. That sets a “transition from a force that has been engaged in sustained combat operations to a Joint Force that is shaped for the future,” Mullen’s team writes — one in which the U.S. bolsters its military strength through deep alliances even as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars end.

Russia: Foreign Power may have disabled key satellite ~ link ~ That is a powerful charge. If we, did that, we are really crossing the line. Attacking a satellite is considered an 'act of war'. Stirling

The Russian space agency suggested Feb. 14 that a foreign power may have been behind the space accident earlier this month that disabled one of the country's most modern military satellites.

Russia on Feb. 1 launched a high-tech Geo-IK-2 craft to help the military draw a three-dimensional map of the Earth and locate the precise positions of various targets. News reports said the satellite was a vital part of Russia's effort to match the United States and NATO's ability to target its missiles from space.

Afghan War draws in China and Russia ~ link ~ Yep, the global banking families want a true world war as part of the End Game to establish their satanic high-tech police state New World Order. Stirling

According to MEMRI, a high-profile Middle Eastern think-tank, China's involvement as a Pakistan ally is ongoing and becoming a good deal more obvious and pervasive. In the past year, Pakistan has sought the stationing of 11,000 Chinese troops at Gilgit-Baltistan in the sensitive Kashmir region. Pakistan denied the troop presence at first, but then explained the Chinese were there to help Pakistan with its flooding. MEMRI makes other points involving Chinese-Pakistan cooperation.

Pakistani tribal areas have been opened up for Chinese inspection. Chinese Army officials were welcomed into the Khyber Agency in October 2010 by Colonel Asad Qureshi. Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani welcomed a Chinese role in Afghanistan in April 2010. Pakistan has signed a contract with China to build Pakistani warships that will carry missiles and heavy weapons. Pakistan sees itself as aligned against the West in a superpower clash.

South Korea chaos - Heaviest snowfall in a century -
More snow on the way
14 Feb 11 - Includes sad video of a deer trapped in the snow.
See South Korea chaos - Heaviest snowfall in a century -
More on the way

More Deep-Sea Volcanic Vents Discovered - But we still blame humans for heating the seas
14 Feb 11 - This is the fourth set of hot springs to be discovered around Antarctica since 2009, suggesting that "deep-sea vents may be more common in our oceans than previously thought." See More Deep-Sea Volcanic Vents Discovered

Pacific plate upheaval: 8 major quakes strike the world in 6 days

Posted on February 16, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 15, 2011 - Planetary tremors – There have been 8 major earthquakes in the world over the last 6 days and looking at the map above gives us the clearest indication yet that tectonic plates across the globe are all stressed with the Pacific plate leading the way. The major quakes to strike around the globe include 4 in Chile, 2 in the Celebs Sea (Philippines region), 1 in Tonga and 1 near Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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40 meter section of Northwest England beach collapses

Posted on February 16, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 15, 2011 – CUMBRIA, UK – A section of the Coast to Coast Walk in Cumbria has been closed after a landslip near its starting point. A 40m stretch of the cliff-top path at South Head at St Bees has collapsed and authorities say it is unsafe for the public to use. Police were alerted yesterday evening and immediately cordoned off the area. Copeland Borough Council also alerted the Liverpool Coastguard office. The local Coastguard sector manager went to the scene, along with Whitehaven Coastguard Rescue Team and officers from the council to assess the extent of the fall, which is right at the start of the 309km (192-mile) route, which runs from St Bees to Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Yorkshire coast. Liverpool Coastguard watch manager Paul Parkes said: “We would like to advise members of the public to take care when walking the stretch of cliffs between North Head and South Head at St Bees as part of this path has been closed off for safety reasons. “The council currently have specialists on scene to assess whether there is a risk of further land sliding. “We are now working with the local council and emergency planning officers to minimise the risk to members of the public as a result of this incident.” -Grough UK

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Glaciers vanishing from the summit of dormant volcano in Mexico

Posted on February 16, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 15, 2011 – AMECAMECA, Mexico — Glaciers that crown a Mexican volcano could disappear by 2015 with scientists pointing to global warming as a chief cause of their demise. Until recently, the glacial field on Iztaccihuatl, a dormant volcano and one of two white-capped peaks that can be seen from Mexico City, was expected to be gone within a few decades. But studies show rising world temperatures are melting the glaciers faster than previously thought, said Hugo Delgado, a glaciologist at Mexico City’s UNAM university who thinks the massive blocks of ice will be gone within four years. “What we’ve seen at Iztaccihuatl is an intense period of glacial retreat in the last few years, which has changed the picture,” Delgado said. Iztaccihuatl has one of two glacial fields left in Mexico, which are among the world’s few tropical glaciers. Glaciers are massive, slow-moving rivers of ice, and in the tropics they can only exist on the cold peaks of tall mountains. Most tropical glaciers, like those in Mexico, are much smaller than their cousins closer to the poles. Glacial melt in the tropics could hit farmers and cities across Latin America by reducing water availability and hydropower generation. -MSNBC

2011-02-15T05:07:00.000-08:00

More Earthquakes at Mount St. Helens
14 Feb 11 - Several temblors - including a 4.3-magnitude - follow an earthquake swarm just three weeks ago.
See More Earthquakes at Mount St. Helens

NASA may soon confirm orbit of giant planet lurking beyond Pluto

Posted on February 15, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 15, 2011 – Scientists believe they may have found a new planet in the far reaches of the solar system, up to four times the mass of Jupiter. Its orbit would be thousands of times further from the Sun than the Earth’s – which could explain why it has so far remained undiscovered. Data which could prove the existence of Tyche, a gas giant in the outer Oort Cloud, is set to be released later this year – although some believe proof has already been garnered by Nasa with its pace telescope, Wise, and is waiting to be pored over. Prof Daniel Whitmire from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette believes the data may prove Tyche’s existence within two years. He told the Independent: ‘If it does, (fellow astrophysicist Prof John Matese) and I will be doing cartwheels. And that’s not easy at our age.’ He added he believes it will mainly be made of hydrogen and helium, with an atmosphere like Jupiter’s, with spots and rings and clouds, adding: ‘You’d also expect it to have moons. All the outer planets have them.’ He believes the planet is so huge, it will ahve a raised temperature left from its formation that will make it far higher than others, such as Pluto, at -73C, as ‘it takes an object this size a long time to cool off’. -Daily Mail

No, we don’t believe this is a marauding death star but could rather be the long sought after missing brown-dwarf type planetoid that may be lurking beyond Pluto which could account for the gravational anomalies in the 9th planet’s orbit. Tyche’s only threat to the planet could be its ability to gravitationaly dislodge comets from regions of the Oort cloud and hurl them in the direction of Earth.

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Sun unleashes most powerful flare seen in 4 years

Posted on February 15, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 15, 2011 – FIRST X-FLARE OF THE NEW SOLAR CYCLE: Sunspot 1158 has unleashed the strongest solar flare in more than four years. The eruption, which peaked at 0156 UT on Feb. 15th, registered X2 on the Richter scale of solar flares. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded an intense flash of extreme ultraviolet radiation, circled above. X-flares are the strongest type of solar flare, and this is the first such eruption of new Solar Cycle 24. In addition to flashing Earth with UV radiation, the explosion also hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) in our direction. Geomagnetic storms are possible when the CME arrives 36 to 48 hours hence. Stay tuned for updates. -Space Weather

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New volcanic vents found in Antarctica waters

Posted on February 15, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 15, 2011 – SOUTHAMPTON, England, (UPI) — British researchers say the discovery of deep-sea volcanic vents in the Antarctic’s Southern Ocean suggests they’re more common than previously thought. Deep-sea vents are hot springs on the seafloor, where mineral-rich water nourishes colonies of microbes and animals. Around 250 such vents have been discovered worldwide in the three decades since scientists first encountered them in the Pacific. Most have been found on a chain of undersea volcanoes called the mid-ocean ridge but very few are known in the Antarctic, a release from the U.K. National Oceanography Center said Monday. Scientists aboard the Royal Research Ship James Cook, using an underwater camera system, found slender 10-foot-tall mineral towers with shimmering hot water gushing from their peaks, and gossamer-like white mats of bacteria coating their sides. “When we caught the first glimpse of the vents, the excitement was almost overwhelming,” Leigh Marsh, a University of Southampton doctoral student, said. The vents were found at a depth of 1,700 feet in a newly discovered seafloor crater close to the South Sandwich Islands, a remote group of islands about 300 miles southeast of South Georgia. -UPI

NASA thermal image showing warming around the Antarctica Ice mass from submarine volcanism
As the pace of geologcial change on Earth accelerates, we expect to see greater instability around the southern polar region from volcanism. Reference chapters 10 and 11 in The Extinction Protocol.

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Lava lake at Kilauea’s Halemaumau crater in Hawaii rising

Posted on February 15, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 15, 2011 – HAWAII – The lava lake at Kilauea’s Halemaumau crater has been rising gradually in the last few months. Volcanologists don’t know what the significance of the rise is. It’s possible that the lava could spill out of the pit and on to the crater floor, though this might take months to happen. The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported the observatory’s seismologists are also watching an increased number of earthquakes in the upper east rift zone. Hawaiian Volcanoes Observatory scientist-in-charge Jim Kauahikaua says the increase in seismicity somewhat resembled the prelude to a brief June 2007 eruption in a remote section of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. But there have also been several similar seismic episodes when nothing happened. Kilauea is the world’s longest continually erupting volcano. The east rift zone began erupting in 1983. -Star Advertiser/AP

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South Korea sees heaviest snowfall in 100 years

Posted on February 15, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 15, 2011 - SEOUL – The heaviest snowfall in more than a century on South Korea’s east coast is causing widespread chaos. Hundreds of houses have collapsed under the weight of the snow. One newspaper described it as a snow bomb. The South Korean government has deployed 12,000 soldiers to rescue stranded residents. The worst weather has been in Gangwon province. Weather experts say there will be more snowfall in the area in the coming hours. “I am 83 years old. It’s the heaviest snow in my life. I am really grateful for the soldiers’ help,” said Park Chae-ran. The BBC’s Nick Ravenscroft in Seoul says that although winters are colder than anywhere else at its latitude, with frequent frost and snow, this year has been different. January was the coldest since the 1960s. In Gangwon on the eastern coast, one city recorded 80cm (2.6 feet) of snow in a single day – the heaviest fall in 24 hours since records began there back in 1911. The cost of the damage is expected to run into several million dollars. Hundreds of motorists are stranded in deep drifts. -BBC

(c) CCTV News

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Is Germany’s super-volcano awakening? We think so…

Posted on February 15, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 15, 2011 – KOBLENZ, Germany- The Extinction Protocol - The scene of Germany’s famous Laacher See lake looks picturesque and serene but underneath the calm surface of the waters lies a potential killer that could devastate a good portion of Europe. The last time the Laacher See super-volcano erupted 12,000 years ago, it deposited ash across much of Europe. On July 30, 2010, a 5.6 earthquake struck the region and that likely signaled an awakening of the giant sleeping caldera. That Laacher See is a potentially active volcano has been proven by seismic activities and heavy thermal anomalies under the lake. Carbon dioxide gas from magma still bubbles up at the southeastern shore, and scientists believe that a new eruption could happen at any time. Today the region near Koblenz was shaken by a swarm of 7 earthquakes beginning with a 4.5 magnitude quake which erupted at a depth of 6 km. Across the planet, the giant dormant volcanoes, one by one, are being stirred from their long and ancient slumber. Earth is on the precipice of major geological change. See pages 134-135 in my book for the full Laacher See super-volcano story.

4.5 quake 6 km – Germany
3.2 quake 11 km – Germany
2.4 quake 12 km – Germany
3.7 quake 20 km – Germany
2.1 quake 20 km – Germany
3.4 quake 12 km – Germany
2.0 quake 10 km – Germany

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Planetary tremor- destabilization in the southern hemisphere

Posted on February 15, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

(left) Seismograph of Antarctica and (right) the current seismograph of seismically volatile Chile

February 14, 2011 – The latest planetary tremor originated in the southern hemisphere at 5:00-6:00 GMT and has everything to do with Chile and the subduction zone of the Nazca plate being obstructed as it dives under the South American plate. This current planetary seismic event has put inordinate pressures on the Antarctica plate and we’re seeing some of the strongest seismic bands across the ice crusted continent we’ve ever witnessed. The gross mass of the planet is disproportionately distributed by weight along the Southern hemisphere due to the enormous weight of the Antarctica ice cap and the tidal budge of the great Pacific Ocean to force with a three-quarter full moon. The region of Chile is now kinetic and a volatile hazard zone and any large quake that could erupt here, in Brazil or Argentina could be of a major magnitude. We also believe the Cocos plate (Central America) and the Caribbean plate is very unstable and I think Baja California, San Juan de Fuca (Cascadian and Washington) the Eastern Africa Rift area, and the South Pacific islands (including Hawaii) are now also seismically volatile because of this event. - (c) The Extinction Protocol

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Twin quakes shake Mount St. Helens region

Posted on February 14, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 14, 2011 -MT ST. HELENS – Two earthquakes hit the Mt. St. Helens area Monday morning, and one was strong enough to felt in the Portland Vancouver area. KATU has received reports from viewers in the Portland area that the 10:35 a.m. temblor, including one that said the building she was in had a good shaking. The initial quake measured 3.5 and was followed by a 2.5., but then the first quake was re-evaluated as a 4.3 – a fairly robust temblor. A 2.3 aftershock struck just before noon. Quakes are now measured on a “magnitude scale” instead of the Richter Scale, according to KATU News Meteorologist Dave Salesky. Mt. St. Helens and the Northwest in general is a quake-prone area due to the volcanic forces deep underground. The crustal movement of tectonic places under our feet produces both earthquakes and volcanoes.The West Coast of the United States is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, an earthquake and volcano-prone series of faults the encircles a large part of the northern Pacific Ocean. It is believed by seismologists that the Northwest is due for a large earthquake that could devastate cities. -KATU

This is more evidence that tectonic plates across the globe are on the move and the planet’s geological dynamics is now entering a new period of change.

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Baja California rattled by earthquake swarm

Posted on February 14, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 14, 2011 - BAJA, Ca – 19 quakes have rattled this region over the past seven days, with some of the heaviest activity coming in the last 48 hours. Agitation along the Nazca plate bordering Chile continues to unsettle neighboring tectonic plates, particularly the Pacific plate which impinges through southern Califorina. The frenzied Pacific plate happens to be dueling with the North American plate for a prized piece of the Califonia landscape. Faults ripple through the Southern California geology as a result of this agitation and the increasing stress of seismic forces. Seismic turbulence throughout California can be expected to intensify over the years as tectonic stress factors continue to build.

(c) The Extinction Protocol

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6.6 Maule: fourth major quake rattles Chile in four days

Posted on February 14, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

6.6 magnitude earthquake, the fourth in the series, strikes offshore of Maule Chile at a depth of 25.4 km. The Caribbean Plate is now showing inordinate signs of strain and we now think this is a very unstable region that could see a major seismic event soon.

BUENOS AIRES – The Cristo Redentor tunnel, the main mountain pass linking Argentina and Chile, reopened Sunday after work crews repaired road damage caused by a powerful earthquake in Chile, the national highway administration said. Some 800 trucks are lined up to enter the tunnel, officials said. About 2,000 trucks were stranded on both sides of the Andes border crossing due to the road closure, which started on Friday. Repair work is continuing on the Chilean side of the international crossing because the earthquake left huge boulders on the road. Cristo Redentor, which links Santiago, Chile, to the western Argentine city of Mendoza, is the main cargo route between the South American nations, with an average of nearly 900 trucks passing through each day. The tunnel was closed on Friday due to a magnitude-6.9 earthquake. At the start of the weekend, officials recommended that travelers use one of four alternate routes. Friday’s temblor, which rocked central and southern Chile, occurred at 5:05 p.m. (2005 GMT) and was followed by dozens of aftershocks. Its epicenter was located offshore some 69 kilometers (43 miles) northwest of Concepcion, Chile’s second-largest city. The quake was the largest to strike Chile since the magnitude-8.8 temblor of Feb. 27, 2010, which left more than 500 people dead and caused $30 billion in damage. -The Latin American Herald

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Waist-deep snowfall paralyzes South Korea

Wide-spread roof collapses

13 Feb 11 - "Record-breaking snowfall pounded South Korea's east coast on Saturday," says this article on The Korea Times.

The waist-deep snow stranded hundreds of motorists on highways and destroyed dozens of houses, officials said.

The roofs of dozens of houses, livestock sheds, vinyl greenhouses - even a bowling alley - collapsed under the weight of the snow.

According to the Gangwon Regional Meteorological Administration, two-day snowfall in the area reached 43 inches (110 cm) in Samcheok, 39 inches (100.1 cm) in Donghae, 22 inches (56.3 cm) in Daegwallyeong mountain pass, and 17 inches (42.8 cm) in Sokcho.

Gangneung received 30 inches (77.7 cm) of snow on Friday alone, the heaviest single-day record since records-keeping began there a century ago in 1911.

All roads except for major motorways and houses in the city were buried under more than three fee (one meter) of snow. Some drivers complained that they could hardly find their own cars in parking lots, let alone pull them out.

Damages to farming facilities were tentatively tallied at 3.55 billion won ($3.15 million), the Gangwon provincial government said, adding that the amount is expected to snowball (Don't know if pun was intended or not.) when local authorities launch an official survey on Sunday.

8 Strange Earth Changes That May Threaten Civilization

Activist Post

Say what, two suns may be visible from Earth in 2012? Everyday we seem to be getting bombarded with warning signs that our planet is changing rapidly. In fact, many of the changes are occurring for the first time in modern recorded history and all seem to indicate a need for civilization to adapt.

Record-breaking heat and cold are striking all corners of the globe; earthquake activity has spiked, even in places thought not to have active fault lines; birds, bees, fish, and other animals are dropping dead with no coherent cause, and there is a flurry of talk about galactic anomalies beginning to happen.

Since the man-made global warming theory has simmered down from a boil, many other concerns have surfaced that appear to minimize possible effects of CO2 concentrations as our greatest concern. Sure, many of these changes may be connected in some way, but the idea that there is a silver bullet to stop this train of collective events is unlikely.

One thing we can say is that we live in very interesting times. These unprecedented events are accelerating at a blistering pace, as we hurl through space on this ball we call Earth. It seems this turbulent cycle is going to continue to manifest despite our best human efforts to stop it. The only thing we can hope to do is digest the available information and plan for the worst, while hoping for the best. Assuredly, humans possess a far greater ability to adapt through technology than the animal kingdom, yet we certainly can't thrive without protecting the entire biosphere.

Here are 8 strange Earth changes that should demand our attention:

1. Environmental collapse: The global environment has been in an exponential rate of degradation for some time. Our economic system can be likened to Pac-Man gobbling up everything in sight until it's game over, except that Pac-Man doesn't crap out waste like our economy does. Furthermore, we can't just put another quarter in the machine and hit the reset button. From the industrial-chemical agriculture business destroying soil, water, and wildlife on a mass scale, to over-fishing the oceans, the Gulf Oil Spill, chemical spraying, strip mining, gas fracking, water toxicity and the like; our entire habitat seems to be in critical need of healing if we expect to maintain life as a whole. Real environmentalists must wake up from their "Inconvenient" trance and realize there's much more to saving the ecosystem than simply reducing CO2 output.

2. Record tectonic activity: Many earthquake researchers have noted the demonstrable uptick in earthquake frequency and strength, with 2010 hitting record levels. The Chile quake rocked the planet, causing us to actually lose a fraction of the length of our year. This increased activity is precisely what was predicted by science researcher, Lawrence Joseph, who documented in his book Apocalypse 2012 that our entire solar system is traveling through an interstellar energy cloud, which would produce significant observable earth changes beginning in 2009. Renowned physicist, Michio Kaku, has recently warned that enormous earthquakes in our lifetime threaten the mega cities we have created, which only compounds the threat. In addition to galactic changes, there is mounting evidence that the human activity of industrial gas fracking -- particularly in Arkansas -- may have led to earthquake swarms in a region which is not normally active. Now we learn that FEMA is buying massive amounts of MREs, blankets, body bags, and other provisions in anticipation of potential catastrophe along the New Madrid Fault.

3. Magnetic Pole Shift: There is clear evidence throughout history of the magnetic poles wandering and even completely reversing. One of the many functions of Earth's magnetic field is to be a natural compass for animals that rely on it for navigation. A second function would be as a protective barrier against solar flares and space radiation. The news lately has been peppered with dead birds and fish, beached whales, bee colony collapse, and animals dropping dead everywhere for no discernible reason. Many theories have been put forward related to localized events, but the global nature of the overall die-off might better indicate an all-encompassing source like the shifting of the poles. An interesting article on SOTT also claims, "there is some correlation between magnetic reversals, ice ages, sea level drops and likely a whole host of other data indicative of catastrophic activity." There is no doubt that the north magnetic pole is moving rapidly toward Russia. The question is whether or not it will increase toward a cataclysmic event, or continue its path resulting in a wide variety of changes, such as recent airport runway closures, that will require humanity to adapt in more subtle ways.

4. Volcanic Activity: The recent alert of ground levels rising at Yellowstone, sitting atop one of the world's largest supervolcanoes, has bulged a full 10 inches over a section measured in miles is concerning. Along with earthquakes, volcanoes also have dramatically increased in activity. Throughout the Ring of Fire, dormant volcanoes have flared up, and others have increased their output. This is yet another indication of global earth changes, which may at the very least require large populations to relocate, and at worst could threaten civilization.

Aussie Floods

5. Extreme Weather: Tom Engelhardt recently wrote, "From now on, rising prices, powerful storms, severe droughts and floods, and other unexpected events are likely to play havoc with the fabric of global society." Engelhardt predicts that high prices for oil, as well as food shortages will surely lead to riots around the world. The extreme weather that has been increasingly ravaging the planet in the last few years is likely caused by one or more of the earth changes outlined in this list. However, the effects are one tangible sign that Earth's climate is shifting in some way. Droughts and floods are showing up in unusual places with more intensity, and unusually harsh arctic winters are pounding Europe, the United States, and elsewhere. If we accept these type of weather events to be the new norm, then civilization must at least adapt its food production methods and locations. We're already seeing a major toll on food prices, which may quickly become a global food crisis in 2011.

6. Weakening Ocean Currents: The Thermohaline Circulation (THC) system is the conveyor belt in the world's oceans that transfers heat from equatorial waters to cooler regions. Weakened or changing ocean currents are being blamed for the extreme cold weather in Europe and warm weather in Greenland. As dramatically shown in the movie The Day After Tomorrow when the North Atlantic Current breaks down, so does the global climate. Despite record heat spikes in the summers, some believe the longer and harsher winters due to changes in the ocean currents may result in a new ice age. This underestimated force is so powerful that even slight changes will force humanity to rediscover their nomadic traits.

7. Galactic Anomalies: Reports that the sun rose two days early in Greenland, and that two suns may be visible from earth in 2012 -- the same year as the end of the Mayan galactic calendar and the myth of an approaching planet in our binary solar system -- all seem to render grade-school Earth Science textbooks thoroughly obsolete. Many have speculated about the ramifications of approaching galactic events, but there are no accepted or overriding theories. However, there is a good chance that some physical effects will be felt on Earth if the force of gravity is altered from planetary alignments and/or approaching celestial objects. Keep your eye on the sky and a go-bag at the ready.

8. Solar Activity: It seems that the sun is still very unpredictable, but when she twitches, so do we. Although many have predicted that a severe solar maximum will peak in the next few years potentially causing blasts of electromagnetic radiation to disrupt major communication systems and perhaps elevate tectonic activity, NASA claims the sun's Great Conveyor Belt has slowed to a "walking pace" in 2006 claiming, “We’ve never seen speeds so low . . . the slowdown we see now means that Solar Cycle 25, peaking around the year 2022, could be one of the weakest in centuries." NASA also reported that the sun experienced a rapid pole reversal in 2001 stating, "Our star's magnetic field has flipped." NASA said that this occurrence is normal and expects another flip in 2012. Even though they claim it has no affect on Earth, the speed of our planet's pole shift has increased over the last decade.

There's no saying for sure what ramifications, if any, these anomalies will cause, but they should be investigated in a serious manner. The challenges facing humanity are difficult enough without constant deceptions and distractions. Collectively, we should demand clear answers about the real threats that are obviously beginning to affect our civilization. Adaptation will be much less painful if we are armed with knowledge and resources. The best thing we can do, individually, is to get educated and become as self-sufficient as possible.

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Will the Earth's Wandering Magnetic Poles Cause Deadly Superstorms?

Will the wandering magnetic North Pole create crazy superstorms?

The eye-popping connection between the planet's weather and its magnetic field has caught hold among scaremongers recently, ever since scientists described the potential of devastating "superstorms" -- storms caused, scientists say, by flowing gushers of water in the sky known as atmospheric rivers. Some worriers say that these tubocharged tsunamis will soon be widespread, thanks to the increased movement of the Earth's magnetic field.

And that when the field shifts, the story goes, anything can happen. All hell will break loose, they say, arguing that the shift has a greater effect on the world's weather than even the carbon-based influences scientists have been carefully monitoring.

Poppycock, say the best scientific minds in the Northern Hemisphere.

"Trying to link all of these things together is kind of preposterous," said Dr. Carol Raymond, principal scientist and a geophysicist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, which operates a fleet of satellites that closely monitor the planet and leads the charge in Earth Science research.

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Sweden Interview
12 Feb 11 - Listen free as Henrik from Red Ice Radio interviews me. Ice ages, global warming a hoax, magnetic reversals, Maunder minimum and more. Sweden Interview

Disputing Darwin
By Alan Caruba
10 Feb 11 - Darwin’s theories of evolution were quite revolutionary in his time. And since! Even Darwin, had he ever known about magnetic reversals would have had to revise his theories.
See Disputing Darwin

Mexico crop loss 80 to 100 percent -
Growers invoke Force Majuere
8 Feb 11 - Here's an announcement to its customers that - I'm told - came directly from Sysco Foods after the worst freeze in Mexico in more than 50 years.
See Mexico crop loss 80 to 100 percent

Anti-government protests broken up in Yemen and Algeria ~ link ~ It is spreading! Stirling

A heavy security presence contained the protest in Algiers then broke it up

Anti-government rallies in the capitals of Algeria and Yemen, inspired by events in Egypt, have been broken up.

Riot police in Algiers dispersed thousands of people who had defied a government ban to demand that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika step down.

A similar march in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to leave office was attacked by government supporters. Egypt's Hosni Mubarak stepped down on Friday after 18 days of mass protests. Both Yemen and Algeria, like other countries in the region, have recently witnessed demonstrations for greater freedoms and improved living standards.

6.0 earthquake strikes offshore of Bio Bio Chile

Posted on February 13, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

6.0 magnitude earthquake, the third in the series, strikes offshore of Bio Bio Chile at a depth of 13.3 km

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Uptick in solar activity as tectonic plate agitation ebbs

Posted on February 13, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

Sunspot breakout: February 11, 2011 to February 13, 2011

Sunspot formation on the solar surface has accelerated just as tectonic plate agitation has ebbed though we still see chaotic seismic patterns in the South Pacific region, around the Caribbean, Chile, Brazil, Tonga and Kermadec volcanic arc, and New Zealand. And sure enough, the seismic tremors along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge running through Iceland have subsided just as global tectonic plate agitation has abated. It’s a volatile situation and any sizable quake eruption could reset the process. Stay tuned.

(Top Graph) Iceland seismic activity wanes as seismic activity on Norway and Findland seismic telemetry graphs also abates, indicating the Iceland episode was agitated by tectonic plate stresses.

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Sudden death of 20,000 bees in Toronto exhibit dismays experts

Posted on February 12, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 12, 2011 - TORONTO – A Toronto museum is investigating the sudden death of thousands of bees in a glass-enclosed beehive exhibit. Officials at the Royal Ontario Museum said 20,000 bees in a biodiversity exhibit had died within two days last week, though they had appeared healthy. Scientists have ruled out staff error and starvation, but said poor ventilation, disease or a lack of worker bees could be to blame. The museum plans to replace the colony in the spring. “The queen stops laying eggs in early- to mid-October and starts laying again in late February,” University of Guelph researcher Janine McGowan told the Toronto Star newspaper. “If she didn’t lay enough winter worker bee eggs to make sure the hive and honey is kept warm during the winter, that could have contributed to the die-off.” The bees were part of the biodiversity exhibit at the ROM. They were viewed through a special glass hive and staff say there was no sign that anything was wrong. The bees, they say, were perfectly healthy until late last week. Then, within two days, they were all dead.” -BBC

The news comes on the heels of reports of the mass-death of animals across the globe.

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6.1 earthquake strikes Tonga

Posted on February 12, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 12, 2011 - SOUTH PACIFIC - 6.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Tonga’s volcanic arc at 81 km. The seismic turbulence across the planet continues…

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Dodging plasma bullets as solar activity intensifies

Posted on February 12, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 12, 2011 – Solar activity is intensifying and a breakout of sunspots now dot the solar surface. Seems like we’re not the only one talking about planet Earth’s miraculous streak of luck that has heretofore avoided nearly every turbulent event on the Sun for the last 152 years since the Carrington Event… but one day, as we have said repeatedly and as prophets and the prophecies have warned, Earth’s lucky streak of near-misses will one day come to an abrupt end (Rev. 16:8).

DODGING PLASMA BULLETS: The remains of old sunspot complex 1147-1149 are rotating over the eastern limb today. Although the region is in an advanced state of decay, it’s not dead yet. During the late hours of Feb. 11th, a plasma bullet came rocketing out of the region’s unstable core. The eruption was not geoeffective. Earth’s magnetic field will remain undisturbed as the ‘bullet’ sails wide-left of our planet over the weekend. This region has been spitting plasma and crackling with flares since it first emerged more than a month ago on Jan. 10th. Remarkably, however, every eruption so far has missed Earth. Why? It’s just luck: Most of the blasts occurred while AR1147-1149 was on the far side of the sun. Statistically speaking, a plasma bullet in our direction may be overdue. Stay tuned. –Space Weather

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Iceland shaken by second more intense swarm of tremors

Posted on February 12, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 12, 2011 – ICELAND – This is the 2^nd wave or swarm of tremors to strike Iceland from the planetary tremor event that is still rattling tectonic plates across the globe. This 2^nd seismic band is more intense and is erupting along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that will one day split the Icelandic land mass into. (Left) The Mid-Atlantic Ridge that runs through Iceland is shown with volcanoes along the Rift. As the rift widens, more magma is ejected into the volcanic chambers underneath the landscape. (Below) The seismographs for the Arctic area including Norway and Finland shows the dense band of seismic waves that is unsettling the region.

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Japanese volcano erupts for the 10th time

Posted on February 12, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 12, 2011 – KAGOSHIMA (Kyodo) — The Shinmoe Peak, a volcano on the border of Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures in southern Japan, erupted again Friday after a seven-day hiatus, marking its 10th eruption since late January. The latest eruption occurred at 11:36 a.m. at the 1,421-meter-high volcano in the Kirishima range, spewing columns of smoke up to about 2,500 meters. The previous eruption was observed on Feb. 3. The Kagoshima Local Meteorological Observatory said it measured 244.3 pascals of air pressure disturbance at an observatory point some 3 kilometers southwest of the volcanic crater, adding it observed some relatively large volcanic stones falling. During its fourth eruption on the morning of Feb. 1, the local observatory reported 458 pascals of air pressure disturbance which shattered window glasses of houses and buildings. The latest series of eruptions at the Shinmoe Peak began on Jan. 26. Researchers said that it had its first major eruption in 52 years and that they observed eruptions with magma for the first time in 189 years. -Mainichi Times

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Planetary tremor 2-11: Earth inching closer to major geological upheaval

Posted on February 12, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 12, 2011 – The Extinction Protocol – We will try to lay out the magnitude of the event which just erupted on our planet. It began with small seismic band waves rippling across tectonic plates on February 10, 2011 and by the time the kinetic energy had crested, plates were experiencing agitation across the globe. The 21:00-22:00 GMT planetary tremor of February 11 saw seismographs across the planet going into the black as two massive back-to-back quakes of 6.7 and 6.5 magnitudes struck the Celebes Sea near the Philippines.

The North American plate and the Eurasian plate trembled along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, running through Iceland, as they were being pulled apart. We monitored no less than about 87 tremors over the span of a few hours along the MAR running through Iceland (left). These Icelandic tremors were followed by jarring jolts of the Pacific Plate and a rumbling of the African plate which produced subsequent tremors along the Eastern Rift Valley. The Nazca plate was being shoved under the South American plate creating a dragging obstruction which rippled along the coast of Chile with two massive quakes, a 6.8 and a 6.1 erupting in Bio Bio, just off the coast of Chile. This has put inordinate strain on the Cocos and Caribbean plates making the region of Central America and the Caribbean area more unstable and prone to additional catastrophic seismic disturbances in the near future.

The Event: Seismograph readings from Barbados, Chile, Cuba and Kenya

We rank this planetary tremor event as the strongest we’ve seen so far and believe this is evidence that these episodes are now increasing in scope and intensity and could soon ignite volcanic arcs and zones across the span of the globe. (Left) Magnetospheric flux pattern change during onset of planetary event. And though few can see it because they are absorbed in worldly enterprise or transfixed on political events sweeping across the globe, planet Earth is inching that much closer to major geological upheaval. (c) 2011

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6.8 and 6.3 earthquakes strike off the coast of Chile

Posted on February 11, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 11, 2011 - CAUQUENES, Chile – A magnitude 6.8 followed by a 6.3 earthquake struck central Chile Friday, centered in almost exactly the same spot where last year’s magnitude-8.8 quake spawned a tsunami and devastated coastal communities. Electricity and phone service were disrupted and thousands of people fled to higher ground following Friday’s quake, but the government quickly announced that there was no risk of a tsunami, and there were no reports of damage or injuries. President Sebastian Pinera appealed for calm and praised his government and Chileans in general for responding quickly. ”Today we’re better prepared,” Pinera said. “I think we’ve learned the lesson of Feb. 27, 2010.” Rodrigo Ubilla, the vice interior minister, said the navy had “totally discounted any risk of a tsunami.” Still, the strong earthquake frightened many Chileans, especially along the coast, where people quickly moved to higher ground. ”There was a preventive self-evacuation,” said Vicente Nunez, who directs the National Emergency Office, ONEMI. But he said Chileans could safely return home. Residents fled their homes in Talcahuano, a port city whose center was ravaged last year by huge walls of water that sent shipping containers and fishing boats into downtown buildings and streets, municipal spokesman Javier Gonzalez told The Associated Press. Skyscrapers swayed in the capital of Santiago, and in the inland town of Cauquenes, mothers ran into the streets carrying babies in their arms. -CBS News

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Wild animals in Michigan on the move in search of food

Posted on February 11, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 11, 2011 - MICHIGAN - MORE FREQUENT SIGHTINGS. Coyotes and a number of birds of prey are being spotted more frequently in southeastern Michigan as they are growing in numbers and spreading out in search of food. This bald eagle has been hanging around the 34 Mile and McKay area for the past couple of weeks. Bald eagles, hawks and owls are federally protected. Hannah Schauer, a wildlife technician for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), said the increase in the number of coyotes in areas such as Armada, Bruce and Washington townships doesn’t surprise her. In addition to coyotes, Schauer said bald eagles, bears and a number of hawk species are moving southward from upper Michigan. -Romeo Observer

“Around the world, the reports coming in of urban encroachment of alligators, coyotes, bears, large game cats, as well as plagues of locusts, wasps, jellyfish, and other pests is testament that the homeostatic balance that once regulated the natural world is breaking down and the borders that separated man from natural wildlife habitats are dissolving.” The Extinction Protocol, page 294

4 Best Methods for Off-the-Grid Food Production

Activist Post

For most of us producing all of our own food is just a fantasy. It evokes visions of multiple acres of fertile land, long work days, and expensive machinery. However, none of these are necessary to achieve self-sufficient food production.

There are many gardening techniques that can produce an abundance of food for you and your family without requiring a lot of space, money or equipment. What each of these methods will require is your time, but not the dawn-to-dusk work hours associated with farming.

Rather, you will need time to study and practice these methods and other food preparation skills such as learning to mill your own wheat or corn flour to make breads, tortillas, pastas from scratch, or learning to can, pickle, or preserve food in all its forms.

Your diet should also be considered when planning for the best self-sufficient food production method. Do you need meat and dairy products? How much grains do you require? Yes, in order fully produce all of your food off-the-grid, you may have to make changes to your current diet if your resources are limited. Some may view these as dietary sacrifices, yet the folks that can claim a high level of food self-reliance will all claim their diet is far healthier than the average American.

With dedication and proper planning, everyone has the ability to survive the looming food crisis by producing their own food. None of the following methods should necessarily be considered by itself. Each offers unique techniques that can be mixed and matched for the best results. Their optimal application depends on calculations of your property size, climate zone, or your budget and time constraints.

Here are the 4 best food production methods for self-reliance:

1. Permaculture Gardening: Permaculture is where you design an entire edible habitat based on the natural capital of your setting. Then, place plants to methodically balance the soil, water, and pests. For instance, a nitrogen fixing plant may be planted next to a nitrogen hungry plant, which may sit next to an ornamental that deters predators, and so on. Permaculture gardening re-creates nature by using a large variety of plants while incorporating as many different animals as feasible like chickens, goats, ducks, and bees. You may also see features like vertical gardening and aquaculture ponds in permaculture designs depending on the space available. Utilizing this method is not expensive, but requires a lot of know-how and trial and error. Permaculture gardening can produce massive abundance. See the amazing video below for a real-world example of going off-the-grid in suburbia:

100-Degree Warm-Up Ahead for Some States Next Weeklink

A major, prolonged warm-up is finally on the way for the eastern two-thirds of the nation next week.
After a record-shattering, frigid morning with lows well below zero in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas Thursday, temperatures could jump nearly 100 degrees in some areas by late next week.
A change in the overall weather pattern will allow milder air to spread through this region, as well as the rest of the Plains, Midwest and parts of the East, over the next few days. A more substantial warm-up will follow next week.
In the areas of Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas where temperatures dropped between 20° and 30° below zero F Thursday morning, highs in the 60s are in the forecast for late next week.

In some areas, temperatures could even make a run for 70°. This would be close to a 100-degree warm-up from Thursday morning's frigid lows.
The warmer air will also help to melt the record-setting snowstorm that dropped up to 1 to 2 feet of snow in those areas Tuesday into Wednesday of this week.
Milder air will also overspread the rest of the Plains, Midwest and parts of the East over the next few days with the most substantial warming coming toward the middle and end of next week.
AccuWeather.com Chief Long Range Forecaster Joe Bastardi has been highlighting the potential for an 80-degree day in Dallas, Texas and a 70-degree day in Washington, D.C., in the next week or two.
Keep in mind though, one of the last places to warm up in this pattern will be the Northeast.

2011-02-12T03:48:00.000-08:00

Mexico crop loss 80 to 100 percent

Growers invoke Force Majuere*link

8 Feb 11 - Here's an announcement to its customers that I'm told came directly from Sysco Foods.

ALL OF OUR GROWERS HAVE INVOKED THE ACT OF GOD CLAUSE ON OUR CONTRACTS (Force majuere) DUE TO THE FOLLOWING RELEASE. WE WILL BE CONTACTING YOU PERSONALLY TO REVIEW HOW THIS WILL AFFECT OUR CONTRACTED ITEMS WITH YOU GOING FORWARD.

THE DEVASTATING FREEZE IN MEXICO IS WORST FREEZE IN OVER 50 YEARS...

THE EXTREME FREEZING TEMPERATURES HIT A VERY BROAD SECTION OF MAJOR GROWING REGIONS IN MEXICO, FROM HERMOSILLO IN THE NORTH ALL THE WAY SOUTH TO LOS MOCHIS AND EVEN SOUTH OF CULIACAN. THE EARLY REPORTS ARE STILL COMING IN BUT MOST ARE SHOWING LOSSES OF CROPS IN THE RANGE OF 80 TO 100%.

EVEN SHADE HOUSE PRODUCT WAS HIT BY THE EXTREMELY COLD TEMPS. IT WILL TAKE 7-10 DAYS TO HAVE A CLEARER PICTURE FROM GROWERS AND FIELD SUPERVISORS, BUT THESE GROWING REGIONS HAVEN'T HAD COLD LIKE THIS IN OVER A HALF CENTURY.

THIS TIME OF YEAR, MEXICO SUPPLIES A SIGNIFICANT PERCENT OF NORTH AMERICA'S ROW CROP VEGETABLES SUCH AS: GREEN BEANS, EGGPLANT, CUCUMBERS, SQUASH, PEPPERS, ASPARAGUS, AND ROUND AND ROMA TOMATOES.

FLORIDA NORMALLY IS A MAJOR SUPPLIER FOR THESE ITEMS AS WELL BUT THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN STRUCK WITH SEVERE FREEZE DAMAGE IN DECEMBER AND JANUARY AND UP UNTIL NOW HAVE HAD TO PURCHASE PRODUCT OUT OF MEXICO TO FILL THEIR COMMITMENTS, THAT IS NO LONGER AND OPTION.

WITH THE SERIES OF WEATHER DISASTERS THAT HAS OCCURRED IN BOTH OF THESE MAJOR GROWING AREAS WE WILL EXPERIENCE IMMEDIATE VOLATILE PRICES, EXPECTED LIMITED AVAILABILITY, AND MEDIOCRE QUALITY AT BEST.

THIS WILL NOT ONLY HAVE AN IMMEDIATE IMPACT ON SUPPLIES, BUT BECAUSE OF VERY STRONG BLOSSOM DROPS, THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT SUPPLIES 30 – 60 DAYS FROM NOW. SOME GROWERS ARE MEETING WITH THEIR BOARDS RIGHT NOW TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY SHOULD IMMEDIATELY RE-PLANT, HOPING FOR A HARVEST BY LATE-MARCH-TO-EARLY-APRIL, OR WHETHER THEY SHOULD DISC THE FIELDS UNDER AND WAIT FOR ANOTHER SEASON.

We are doing everything we can with our growers to minimize the
effect of this disaster on you. With the unprecedented magnitude
of this event we wanted to immediately make you aware of the
conditions. We will continue to send out communications as our
people on the ground report back to us. We thank you and we
appreciate your understanding during this time.

Sysco Intermountain

Planetary tremor 2-11: Earth inching closer to major geological upheaval

Posted on February 12, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 12, 2011 – The Extinction Protocol – We will try to lay out the magnitude of the event which just erupted on our planet. It began with small seismic band waves rippling across tectonic plates on February 10, 2011 and by the time the kinetic energy had crested, plates were experiencing agitation across the globe. The 21:00-22:00 GMT planetary tremor of February 11 saw seismographs across the planet going into the black as two massive back-to-back quakes of 6.7 and 6.5 magnitudes struck the Celebes Sea near the Philippines.

The North American plate and the Eurasian plate trembled along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, running through Iceland, as they were being pulled apart. We monitored no less than about 87 tremors over the span of a few hours along the MAR running through Iceland (left). These Icelandic tremors were followed by jarring jolts of the Pacific Plate and a rumbling of the African plate which produced subsequent tremors along the Eastern Rift Valley. The Nazca plate was being shoved under the South American plate creating a dragging obstruction which rippled along the coast of Chile with two massive quakes, a 6.8 and a 6.1 erupting in Bio Bio, just off the coast of Chile. This has put inordinate strain on the Cocos and Caribbean plates making the region of Central America and the Caribbean area more unstable and prone to additional catastrophic seismic disturbances in the near future.

The Event: Seismograph readings from Barbados, Chile, Cuba and Kenya

We rank this planetary tremor event as the strongest we’ve seen so far and believe this is evidence that these episodes are now increasing in scope and intensity and could soon ignite volcanic arcs and zones across the span of the globe. (Left) Magnetospheric flux pattern change during onset of planetary event. And though few can see it because they are absorbed in worldly enterprise or transfixed on political events sweeping across the globe, planet Earth is inching that much closer to major geological upheaval. (c) 2011

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6.8 and 6.3 earthquakes strike off the coast of Chile

Posted on February 11, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 11, 2011 - CAUQUENES, Chile – A magnitude 6.8 followed by a 6.3 earthquake struck central Chile Friday, centered in almost exactly the same spot where last year’s magnitude-8.8 quake spawned a tsunami and devastated coastal communities. Electricity and phone service were disrupted and thousands of people fled to higher ground following Friday’s quake, but the government quickly announced that there was no risk of a tsunami, and there were no reports of damage or injuries. President Sebastian Pinera appealed for calm and praised his government and Chileans in general for responding quickly. ”Today we’re better prepared,” Pinera said. “I think we’ve learned the lesson of Feb. 27, 2010.” Rodrigo Ubilla, the vice interior minister, said the navy had “totally discounted any risk of a tsunami.” Still, the strong earthquake frightened many Chileans, especially along the coast, where people quickly moved to higher ground. ”There was a preventive self-evacuation,” said Vicente Nunez, who directs the National Emergency Office, ONEMI. But he said Chileans could safely return home. Residents fled their homes in Talcahuano, a port city whose center was ravaged last year by huge walls of water that sent shipping containers and fishing boats into downtown buildings and streets, municipal spokesman Javier Gonzalez told The Associated Press. Skyscrapers swayed in the capital of Santiago, and in the inland town of Cauquenes, mothers ran into the streets carrying babies in their arms. -CBS News

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Wild animals in Michigan on the move in search of food

Posted on February 11, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 11, 2011 - MICHIGAN - MORE FREQUENT SIGHTINGS. Coyotes and a number of birds of prey are being spotted more frequently in southeastern Michigan as they are growing in numbers and spreading out in search of food. This bald eagle has been hanging around the 34 Mile and McKay area for the past couple of weeks. Bald eagles, hawks and owls are federally protected. Hannah Schauer, a wildlife technician for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), said the increase in the number of coyotes in areas such as Armada, Bruce and Washington townships doesn’t surprise her. In addition to coyotes, Schauer said bald eagles, bears and a number of hawk species are moving southward from upper Michigan. -Romeo Observer

“Around the world, the reports coming in of urban encroachment of alligators, coyotes, bears, large game cats, as well as plagues of locusts, wasps, jellyfish, and other pests is testament that the homeostatic balance that once regulated the natural world is breaking down and the borders that separated man from natural wildlife habitats are dissolving.” The Extinction Protocol, page 294

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Hundreds of dead birds found along Louisana highway

Posted on February 11, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 11, 2011 – LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC-TV) – The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is trying to figure out what caused the death of hundreds of birds in south Lake Charles. The birds were discovered on Thursday morning. More than 100 birds were scattered across Lake Street between Gauthier and Tank Farm Road; another hundred were found on Lincoln Road, about a mile away. Kori Legleu, a biologist with Wildlife and Fisheries, identified the birds as Tree Swallows, a kind of bird that travels in tight flocks. Legleu said the birds, which are common in Southwest Louisiana, were likely flying erratically when some of them were struck by passing vehicles. “It could be a lot of things,” said Legleu. “There are a multitude of reasons why we have bird die-offs and it happens almost every year. Most of the time, people don’t hear about it. It’s not anything I think the public should be concerned over.” Officials are awaiting the results of a necropsy, a bird autopsy, to know for sure. The preliminary results should be in, in about a week. The final results are expected in a few weeks. -KPLC Chanel 7

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Tropical cyclone Bingiza heads for Madagascar

Posted on February 11, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 11, 2011 – MADAGASCAR - Tropical Cyclone Bingiza poses the threat of damaging wind and flooding rain to the southwestern Indian Ocean island of Madagascar. Early Thursday morning, EST, the center of the new tropical cyclone lay about 580 miles, or 930 km, northeast of Antananarivo. Highest sustained winds were estimated by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center to be 45 knots, or almost 85 km/h. T.C. Bingiza was nearly stationary. Forecasters at AccuWeather.com believe that T.C. Bingiza will strengthen and drift mostly southwestward over open water through at least Saturday. Thereafter, a landfall on eastern Madagascar could take place. Faster movement than anticipated would make the landfall threat earlier than currently forecast. If Bingiza were to veer southeastward, on the other hand, it could ultimately threaten the Mascarene Islands of La Reunion and Mauritius. However, this scenario would take several days to unfold. -Accuweather

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The quakes in Tonga and Kermadec Islands

Posted on February 11, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 11, 2011 – What exactly are the 5.0 earthquakes which struck the Kermadec Islands and Tonga within a 7 hour period telling us? We believe we are witnessing some of the effects of the upheaval from the anomalistic seismic patterns we forecasted and saw in the Pacific on January 30. See: Anomalies in the Pacific

A planetary tremor event was also recorded between 15:00-1600 GMT.

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Hawaii shaken by 3 quakes in 48 hours

Posted on February 11, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 10, 2011 - BIG ISLAND – A magnitude 3.6 and a 2.6 earthquake shook the Big Island at about 8:37 a.m. Thursday, the second small earthquake to hit the island in as many days. The epicenter of the quake was at a depth of 1.7 miles and 5 miles from the town of Volcano, according to the U.S. Geological Survey website, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory on the Big Island. On Wednesday, a quake registered a magnitude 3.2 and occurred about 2 miles south of the Kilauea summit. -Hawaii News Now

See: Hawaii See: Increased seismicity

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Earthquake swarm rattles luxury Med region near Monaco

Posted on February 10, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 10, 2011 – FRENCH RIVERA – The Geo-Azur Laboratory confirmed that the first of these latest rumbles was registered at around 10.32am on the 8th February and hit 2.3 on the richter scale. The second, felt at about 2.02pm, had increased to 2.4 in its magnitude and finally came the third and strongest quake, which reached 2.8 ML. Although the fire department in Menton did not receive any emergency calls at the time of the first minor tremor, several residents in Monaco, from Fontviellle and Monte-Carlo in particular, phoned police two days ago to find out what was happening. Jena Luc Berenguer, Professor of the European Center of Valbonne, told press that the seismologists who recorded the movement under the Mediterranean Sea are not sure if all four were caused by the same fracture in the sea bed or if there is any link between the Menton and Monaco tremors at all. He added that although it is impossible to make any predictions, there was no great cause for concern at present. In fact if the technology was not in place to register signs of these ‘mini-quakes’, most of the region’s residents would not be aware that they were even happening. That is not to say that there is no risk of a more violent catastrophe hitting the area. The French Riviera and western Liguria are at the junction of south-western Alpes and Liguria basin, a region of moderate seismicity. The last episode of note was in february 2001 when a seismic wave of a maginitude of 4.6 was recorded 25km off the shores of Nice, and also one on 1st May 1995. -Riveria Times

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Giant locust swarms now serious threat to Australia’s crops

Posted on February 10, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 10, 2011 – AUSTRALIA - A RARE, giant breed of locusts has the potential to destroy crops in NSW overnight, the State Government says. The spur-throated locusts is a mainly tropical species found in Queensland and the Northern Territory but warm and humid weather has drawn them into NSW. Primary Industries Minister Steve Whan says the Government has a plan of attack to help northwestern NSW farmers control the largest outbreak in 40 years. “The much larger spur-throated locust is a ferocious eater and can completely destroy a crop overnight,” Mr Whan said in a statement.
“Insecticides are now being made available to farmers to control densely-populated spur-throated locust nymphs on their properties.” Rangers are also being deployed to help farmers identify the creatures, which have a spur or throat peg between their front legs. -Herald Sun

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Twin quakes jolt Pacific near the Philippines

Posted on February 10, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 10, 2011 – Mindanao - Two big earthquakes struck under the Celebes Sea between the Philippines and Indonesia late on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said. The biggest quake, measured at 6.7 magnitude, hit 330 kilometres from the town of General Santos on the Philippine island of Mindanao, and roughly the same distance from Manado on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. It was 512 kilometres deep, the USGS said. It came two minutes after a 6.5 -magnitude quake a few kilometres away and at a similar depth. The US Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, based in Hawaii, did not issue a tsunami warning following the earthquakes. The area is part of the Pacific’s so-called Ring of Fire, a zone of frequent tectonic activity where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are common.” -ABC.net

2011-02-10T00:42:00.000-08:00

Icelandic volcano set to erupt dwarfing last year's devastation, warn scientists ~ link ~ link ~

Scientists in Iceland are warning that another volcano on the island looks set to erupt, threatening to spew-out a blanket of dust that would dwarf last year's eruption.

Geologists detected the high risk of a new eruption after noticing an increased swarm of earthquakes around the island's second largest volcano Bárdarbunga.

Pall Einarsson, a professor of geophysics at the University of Iceland, says the area around Bárdarbunga is showing signs of increased activity, which provides 'good reason to worry'.

China Bracing for Severe Drought- video ~ link ~ The worst in 200 years in this key wheat growing area. Another slice out of the global food suppl! Things are getting bad across the board on this planet as, what I call, the perfect 'Cornucopia from Hell' dumps its contents on mankind in the lead-in to the Third World War/Armageddon. Stirling

US Midwest braces for new round of snow ~ link ~ A large swathe of the US South and Midwest still digging out from last week's huge snowfall faced more wintry weather Wednesday as the fifth major storm of the season forced several states to close schools and kept many residents homebound.

The powerful winter storm began coating parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas late Tuesday, barely a week after millions of Americans dug out from one of the largest storms since the 1950s massive storm that dumped snow, ice and sleet over a huge stretch of America's midsection. A total of nine states faced a winter storm warning, complete with bone-chilling temperatures and a headache-inducing wintry mix. Up to 20 inches (51 centimeters) of snow were forecast for Oklahoma, accompanied by "dangerous wind chills" between zero and minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit (-18 to -23 Celsius), the National Weather Service said.

Another blow for families: Fastest rise in prices of staple foods in five years ~ link ~ In many nations people spend up to 80% of their income on food. Rising food prices to them mean death from starvation for themselves and their children. So do not be surprised to see riots and revolutions all over the World as the twin effects of the BP Climate Change on food production and the manipulation of food prices by the global banksters continues. Stirling

Army deploys more tanks in Cairo ~ link ~

Egyptian anti-Mubarak protesters camp out next to Army tanks and armored vehicles near Liberation Square in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011.

Reports say Egyptian armed forces have stationed a large column of tanks and mechanized infantry vehicles in and around Cairo's Liberation Square.Reports also say hundreds of plain clothes police and vigilantes have stepped up their crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in various parts of Egypt.

It comes as thousands of protesters are camping outside the parliament as part of their campaign to topple President Hosni Mubarak. Pro-democracy protesters have also attempted to block the parliament building.

Opposition parties plan a massive march towards the Presidential Palace on Friday.

Egyptian opposition leaders say the revolution will expand and Mubarak's regime has to go. Opposition leader Ayman Nour has told press TV that the Egyptian revolution will go on until it topples Mubarak and his associates. Tensions are running high across the country as protests continue for the 16th straight day.

Hundreds of people have been killed or wounded in two days of clashes between police and demonstrators in the southern Kharga city.

Hundreds killed and injured in Kharga in southern Egypt ~ link ~ This might be the beginning of the violent phase of the Revolution. Stirling

Anti-government protesters pray before sunrise in a makeshift encampment in Liberation Square on February 9, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt

Hundreds of protesters have been killed and wounded in Kharga in southern Egypt, as the nationwide revolution in the crisis-hit country enters its 16th consecutive day.

Egyptian security forces targeted the anti-government protesters with live bullets on Wednesday, killing at least five protesters and wounding hundreds of others.

Cairo's Liberation Square remained flooded with demonstrators who call on embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down, a Press TV correspondent reported.

The independent organization Human Rights Watch has so far put the death toll at almsot 300, after visiting just nine hospitals in troubled Egypt.

As Egyptians are out on the streets for the 16th straight day, newly appointed Vice President Omar Suleiman says the government cannot tolerate the protests for long.

Suleiman made the remark as over 50,000 protesters on Tuesday blocked newly-appointed Premier Ahmed Shafiq from entering his office in the Egyptian capital, calling for his immediate resignation and those of all the others in the cabinet.

Egypt Revolutionaries gain ground - with video ~ link ~ The Egyptian cabinet building in Cairo has been evacuated and officials relocated after pro-democracy protesters gathered outside, sources tell Al Jazeera.

Pro-democracy demonstrations are gaining momentum in the Egyptian capital, with some protesters moving from Tahrir [Liberation] Square to camp out in the area outside the parliament buildings. Protesters are demanding the assembly's immediate dissolution. Wednesday's developments came as public rallies calling for Hosni Mubarak to hand over power immediately entered their sixteenth day.

The president's message has thus far been that he will not leave until his term expires in September.

As a gesture of goodwill, 34 political prisoners, including members of the banned opposition group, Muslim Brotherhood, were reportedly released over the last two days.

The government seems to be scrambling under pressure from major powers and pro-democracy supporters, Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker reported from Cairo.

Egypt Revolution: Parliament rally as US seeks progress - with video ~ link ~ We are close either to the Revolution meeting with success, or more likely to considerable violence. Those fools in the Israeli government who are seeking the current regime to stay (perhaps without Mubarak) are nuts! The longer and worst the revolution goes on the worst it will be for Israel, but once again they seem to be blinded to the truth even when it involves their survival. Stirling

Small flock of swans found dead in Ireland

Posted on February 9, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 9, 2011 – IRELAND – Government veterinary officers are working to establish how five swans died in the County Down area. It is understood two more birds are ill. The dead birds’ remains were found on private land in the Killyleagh area. A spokesman for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (Dard) said the swans had been removed so that post-mortem exams could be carried out. “This is the second case that has been brought to our attention,” he said. “The first case was investigated by Dard and the post mortem revealed lesions suggestive of bacterial infection.” “We would ask the public to refer to the Dard website or helpline for information on the types of bird deaths that we would like to be brought to our attention, so that Dard can monitor the situation and respond. -BBC

Is H5N1 spreading?

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Mexico’s produce wiped out by freeze- 80 to 100% losses

Posted on February 9, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 9, 2011 - MEXICO ENACTS FORCE MAJEURE: All of our growers have invoked the Act of God clause on our contracts due to the following release: We will be contacting you personally to review how this will affect our contracted items with you going forward. The devastating freeze in México is the worst freeze in over 50 years…The extreme freezing temperatures hit a very broad section of major growing regions in México, from Hermosillo on the North all the way South to Los Mochis and even South to Culiacan. The early reports are still coming in but most are showing losses of crops in the range of 80 to 100%. This time of year, Mexico supplies a significant percent of North America’s row of crop vegetables such as: GREEN BEANS, EGGPLANT, CUCUMBERS, SQUASH, PEPPERS, ASPARAGUS, AND ROUND AND ROMA TOMATOES. Florida normally is a major supplier for these items as well but they have already been struck with severe freeze damage in December and January and up until now have had to purchase product out of México to fill their commitments, THAT IS NO LONGER AN OPTION… -BBS Radio

See coming: Famine of 2011

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Leap? Cambodian girl dies from H5N1 bird flu infection

Posted on February 9, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 9, 2011 - CAMBODIA – PHNOM PENH — A five-year-old Cambodian girl has died from bird flu, the World Health Organisation said Wednesday, in the first reported fatality from the virus since early last year. The girl fell ill in the capital Phnom Penh on January 30 and was taken to hospital with symptoms of coughing and shortness of breath, a joint statement from Cambodia and the UN’s public health arm said. She died on February 4. “Despite intensive medical care, the girl died 12 hours after admission from complications,” it said. The child is the 11th person in the country to become infected with the H5N1 virus and ninth to die since 2003. Cambodia said it was working to identify her close contacts and “to initiate preventive treatment as required.” Health Minister Mam Bun Heng urged people with respiratory infections who had been in “contact with dead or sick poultry to promptly seek medical attention.” According to the statement, the H5N1 avian influenza strain has killed more than 300 people worldwide since 2003. -AP See why we forecasted a possible H5N1 pandemic

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Freak flash-flood drowns more than 200 sheep in Wales

Posted on February 9, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 9, 2011 – WALES - A farmer says he is “devastated” after seeing more than 200 of his elite sheep drowned in a flash flood. It is the second time in just over a year that Eryl Morris has been hit by the River Dee bursting its banks. The flood, early on Sunday, has cost him many thousands of pounds and the pride of his flock. Mr. Morris was away in Buckinghamshire helping a sheep farming friend when millions of gallons of water poured on to the rich Bangor-on-Dee grazing land he has farmed for more than a decade. Almost too upset to speak from the south of England yesterday, he said: “I am totally devastated by this – I have lost a hell of a lot sheep.” His wife Glenys said: “It was 12 hours of flash flooding that did the damage and it started about 1am. “When I heard on the radio that Bala was flooded I knew we were in trouble too. “The same thing happened to us in November, 2009, but although we lost some sheep then – about 40-50 – it wasn’t anything like this. “Altogether 230 of our sheep have died and another 70 were saved by the fire service and other people who were going out there in canoes I think. This is a terrible blow, not only because of the cost of losing the sheep, which must run into thousands of pounds, but also the type of animals they were. –The Leader.co.uk

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Solar activity increases- magnetosphere displays more chaotic patterns

Posted on February 9, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 9, 2011 – Sunspots have increased on the solar surface and according to Space Weather, solar activity is heating up. Formerly quiet sunspot 1153 is suddenly crackling with C- and M-class solar flares. NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded this eruption during the waning hours of Feb. 8^th. Because sunspot 1153 is rounding the sun’s western horizon, these eruptions are not Earth-directed. They are, however, Venus-directed. The second planet from the sun could receive glancing blows from solar plasma clouds in the days ahead. –Space Weather

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2011-02-09T05:00:00.000-08:00

Seismic swarm in Naples

Alarm and fear in Italylink

Also see excellent NASA map of Campi Fiegrei area:

8 Feb 11 - Yesterday, Naples' leading newspaper IL Mattino, reported an earthquake swarm in the Campi Flegrei near Naples. The main event was a 1.2-magnitude (or maybe 4.8) with its epicenter in Pozzuoli.

I used Google translate to read the above article. It says "4.8-magnitude 1.2." I don't know which number is correct.

Residents of Pozzuoli and the surrounding area, one of the highest volcanic risk areas in the world, are alarmed and fearful because of antiquated civil defense plans.

They're alarmed, because the Campi Flegrei caldera is an active volcano.

Not only is it active, it is a supervolcano, and its last major eruption took place about 12,000 years ago. That eruption was centered on the town of Pozzuoli.

Vesuvius nothing more than a pimple

"Although there’s no picture-postcard volcanic cone, hidden beneath the seemingly placid landscape lies a volcano of immense power," says journalist Phil Robinson. "While a new eruption here would be more likely to result in the creation of another Vesuvius-like cone, the worst-case scenario could see it obliterating much of life in Europe."

"Vesuvius, which destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii, incinerating and suffocating thousands, is nothing more than a pimple on the back of the sleeping dragon of Campi Flegrei, an active four-mile-wide sunken volcano."

Now here's my concern.

I've been warning you earthquake and volcanic activity increases tremendously at the beginnings of ice ages, and that those increases recur in a dependable, predictable cycle about every 11,500 years.

Knowing that Campi Flegrei last major eruption occurred about 12,000 years ago ... well, you get the picture.

Glaciers growing in Italy

Will you see this in the mainstream media?link

Mount Montasio
Photo credit: Johann Jaritz
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8 Feb 10

Hello Robert,

Today on the radio came up a news: In the northeastern part of Italian Alps, precisely on Mount Canin and Mount Montasio, the glaciers have been growing for three years. Before that period it was a decrease in the volume of ice. Although the glaciers of these mountains have not lowered their front, the volume of ice increased.

Icelandic volcano 'set to erupt'link

Scientists in Iceland are warning that another volcano looks set to erupt and threatening to spew-out a pall of dust that would dwarf last year's event.

Lava and ash explode out of the caldera of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano Photo: REUTERS

6:38PM GMT 08 Feb 2011

Geologists detected the high risk of a new eruption after evaluating an increased swarm of earthquakes around the island's second largest volcano.

Pall Einarsson, a professor of geophysics at the University of Iceland, says the area around Bárdarbunga is showing signs of increased activity, which provides "good reason to worry".

He told the country's national TV station that a low number of seismometer measuring devices in the area is making it more difficult to determine the scale and likely outcome of the current shifts.

But he said there was "every reason to worry" as the sustained earthquake tremors to the north east of the remote volcano range are the strongest recorded in recent times and there was "no doubt" the lava was rising.

The geologist complained that the lack of coverage from measuring devices means he cannot accurately detect the depth and exact location of the increased number of localised earth movements.

Army Chief Ashkenazi: Prepare for all-out warlink

In his final days on the job, Chief of Staff Ashkenazi warns about growing radicalization in region; given recent changes across Middle East, Israel must prepare for a battle in several theaters, he says

Boaz Fyler

Given recent changes in the Middle East, Israel must prepare for a battle in several theaters, outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi said Monday at the Herzliya Conference.

"The connection between the different players requires us to contend with more than one theater," he said.

The radical camp in the Middle East is gaining strength, Ashkenazi warned, adding that "the moderate camp among the traditional Arab leadership is weakening." He also made note of what he characterized as the "fascinating phenomenon" whereby power is shifting to the people of the region thanks to online social networks.

Army chief warns about growing threats (Photo: Uri Porat)

The army chief said that in the wake of the growing threat of radical Islam among Israel's neighbors, the defense budget would have to be boosted in the coming years. The main change faced by the army is the widening spectrum of threats, he said.

"Because of this spectrum, we must prepare for a conventional war…it would be a mistake to prepare for non-conventional war or limited conflicts and then expect that overnight the forces will operate in an all-out-war," he said.

Praising Israel's youngsters

However, Ashkenazi said that both Hamas and Hezbollah pose only a limited threat to Israel at this time.
"I do not underestimate Hamas or Hezbollah, but they cannot take over the Negev or Galilee," he said.

Hezbollah and Hamas understood that encountering the IDF on the classic battlefields is lethal, and are therefore fighting out of urban areas, the army chief added.

Ashkenazi also praised Israel's youths and said they possess impressive qualities despite their lowly image. The army chief also highlighted the growing desire among Israel's youngsters to join combat units.
"We are going to the schools, and I want to tell you that these young people, with the piercing and tattoos or whatever you call it, are enlisting," he said. "These are incredibly high-quality youths."

Solar activity increases- magnetosphere displays more chaotic patterns

Posted on February 9, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 9, 2011 – Sunspots have increased on the solar surface and according to Space Weather, solar activity is heating up. Formerly quiet sunspot 1153 is suddenly crackling with C- and M-class solar flares. NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded this eruption during the waning hours of Feb. 8^th. Because sunspot 1153 is rounding the sun’s western horizon, these eruptions are not Earth-directed. They are, however, Venus-directed. The second planet from the sun could receive glancing blows from solar plasma clouds in the days ahead. –Space Weather

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Earthquake swarm at Campi Flegrei in Naples, Italy

Posted on February 9, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 09, 2011 – NAPLES – Starting at 7:26 the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology recorded an earthquake swarm in the area of the super-volcano Campi Flegrei, near Naples. So far, the main event was that of the 4.8-magnitude 1.2, which was slightly felt by the people of Pozzuoli. Checks carried out by the situation room of the Department of Civil Protection Italy, found that there were no damages to people or property. -Il Matinno See: Campi Flegrei

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Fears grow in Japan as volcanic eruptions intensify

Posted on February 9, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 9, 2011 – JAPAN - Two volcanoes on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu erupted on Tuesday. A volcano at Sakurajima, the Minamidake crater, erupted early Tuesday followed by an eruption at Shinmoedake in the afternoon. Shinmoedake erupted for the first time in 52 years last month and has erupted more than ten times since. Amid growing fears that a massive eruption could still be on its way, the latest eruptions covered nearby villages with rocks and ash. The two volcanoes spewed plumes of smoke and ash up to 2-thousand meters into the air resulting in multiple injuries and destroyed homes. According to Japan’s Meteorological Agency, a lava dome in the Shinmoedake crater is growing and could spill out creating a lava flow. Authorities therefore are maintaining a restricted zone of four kilometers around the volcano. A level 3 alert is being maintained for both regions with 5 being the highest level when evacuations are carried out. And volcanic experts are warning that the recent eruptions on Shinmoedake and other peaks in Japan resemble the highly destructive blasts that occurred 300 years ago which killed more than 30 people. –Arirang News

The Japanese Pacific Islands have been hit with 9 major earthquakes in a 24-hour period. See: Japan entering new period of geological upheaval

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2nd earthquake swarm strikes Bulgaria in 3 weeks

Posted on February 9, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 9, 2011 – Seismological activity in Bulgaria has been busy over the past few hours with eight earthquakes detected overnight, and two the previous day, Bulgarian media reported. All of them were in the southwest of Bulgaria, near the towns of Petrich and Sandanski, by the Greek border. Tremors ranged from 2.0 to 3.3 on the Richter scale. The first one, on February 8, had a magnitude of 2.5 on the Richter scale and 5km deep epicenter, 13 km east of Petrich, occurring at 00:35 am, followed by one measuring two on the Richter scale, 10km underground, about 12km west of the town of Sandanski at 1:10 am. Several more earthquakes then occurred, all of them between 10 and 15km from Petrich, measuring between 2.0 and 3.0 on the Richter scale. On February 7 2010, a tremor of 3.1 on the Richter scale was registered at 12.38pm, about 140km south of Sofia, again close to Petrich, followed by a 3.3 jolt on the Richter scale at 6:20pm, also in the same area. There are no reports of structural damage or any injuries. -Sofiaecho

Seismic activity in Bulgaria appears to be increasing. This could be an early indication that geological change is stirring under the Bulgarian landscape. Rupite, for example, is a village in Bulgaria that is flanked by thermal springs (left) and sits in fact in the crater of the extinct volcano Kozhuh (281 meters) so we know there are active magma swells under Bulgaria. Rupite is 10-12 km from Petrich where most of the quakes have occurred.

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Superpack of 400 ravenous wolves terrorize Russian village

Posted on February 9, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 9, 2011 – RUSSIA – A ‘super pack’ of wolves have been terrifying a Russian town after leaving more than 30 horses dead in just four days. Four hundred bloodthirsty wolves have been spotted prowling around the edges of Verkhoyansk, in Russia, attacking livestock at will. Twenty four teams of hunters have been put together to get rid of the wolves, with a bounty of £210 for every wolf skin brought to officials. Stepan Rozhin, an administration official for the Verkhoyansk district in Russia, said: ‘To protect the town we are creating 24 teams of armed hunters, who will patrol the neighborhood on snowmobiles and set wolf traps. ‘A pack of wolves this size is unheard of, with the animals usually preferring to hunt in smaller groups of just six or seven. The massive group is believed to be made from hundreds of packs and has left animal experts baffled. Dr Valerius Geist, a wildlife behavior expert, said the harsh Siberian winter – where temperatures plummet to minus 49C – had killed off the animal’s usual prey. He said: ‘It is unusual for wolves to gather in such numbers of hunt large animal like horses. ‘However, the population of their usual prey, rabbits, has decreased this year due to lack of food, so wolves have had to change their habits. ‘Wolves are very careful to choose the most nutritious food source easiest obtained without danger – which in this case happens to be horses. ‘They will start tackling dangerous prey when they run out of non-dangerous prey.’ Villagers have already managed to snare a number of the animals but the pack is so sizeable that is likely to take some time to deal with. -Daily Mail

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Saturn’s superstorm is now expanding around the planet

Posted on February 8, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 8, 2011 – STORM ON SATURN: A vast thunderstorm that erupted on Saturn during the closing weeks of 2010 is still going strong. “It looks like a comet plowing through Saturn’s northern hemisphere,” reports amateur astronomer Christopher Go. He took these pictures on Feb. 5th using an 11-inch Celestron telescope in Cebu City, the Philippines. “The storm is very bright,” says Go. “I spent a few minutes observing it visually (through the eyepiece) and it is very prominent.” Researchers call the storm the “northern electrostatic disturbance” because (1) it is in Saturn’s northern hemisphere and (2) it is strongly charged with lightning. Receivers onboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft are picking up radio crackles each time a bolt discharges–much like the static you hear on a car radio when driving through an electrical storm on Earth. -Space Weather

The super-storm system is now growing on Saturn and is stretching around the circumference of the planet as seen in the latest pictures from amateur astronomer Christopher Go. Super-storms are now increasing on Earth and we can even see from NASA’s infrared images of the planet Jupiter (left) that something similar is transpiring on the Jovian giant. Noctilucent clouds are increasing and growing brighter on Earth just like the auroras on Saturn. (See report). Earth’s atmosphere is morphing in conjunction with every other planet orbiting the Sun and greater concerns face us as massive changes sweep through our entire Solar System. I discuss what’s transforming the planets in my book in chapter 11.

2011-02-08T00:26:00.000-08:00

Northeast US farmers watch winter crush their livelihoods ~ link ~ For Northeastern farmers long used to coping with all sorts of cold-weather problems, this winter presents a new one: snow and ice that's bringing down outbuildings, requiring costly repairs, killing livestock and destroying supplies.

Farmers in Connecticut alone have lost at least 136 barns, greenhouses, sheds and other structures as snow measured in feet, not inches, accumulated while January passed without a thaw.

Corn prices to soar as Chinese imports increase NINEFOLD compared to official projections ~ link ~

Cotton, wheat, rice, and now corn. If revised Chinese import estimates by the US Grain Council are even remotely correct, look for corn prices of $6.80 a bushel at last check to jump by at least 15% in a very short amount of time. As the FT reports, "Corn prices – and with them, the price of meat – are set to explode if the latest import estimates from China are correct. The US Grain Council, the industry body, said late on Thursday that it has received information pointing to Chinese imports as high as 9m tonnes in 2011-12, up from 1.3m in 2010-11." Why is this a concern? Because "the US Department of Agriculture, which compiles benchmark estimates of supply, demand and stocks, forecast Chinese imports at just 1m tonnes in 2011-12." In other words, the whole forecast supply-demand equilibrium is about to be torn to shreds. And all this excludes the impact of neverending liquidity by the one and only, which will only make the speculative approach to surging corn relentless.

Oklahoma City - More than a Year's Snowfall
in One Daylink

Also breaks daily snowfall record set in 1913

2 Feb 11 - Oklahoma City averages 8.6 inches of snow each year, so the 11.8 inches of snow on the ground when Tuesday's blizzard finally came to an end was more than it usually receives in an entire year.

It also shattered the daily snowfall record of 5.5 inches set in 1913.

Tuesday's snow is also the most Oklahoma City has ever received on any day in the entire month of February. That record - 6.5 inches - was set on Feb. 7, 1986.

Even though this is only the second day of the month, this February is now the city's
third snowiest February on record. February 1913 and its 12.9 inches ranks first.

The 3.4 inches of snow in Abilene, Texas, broke Tuesday's snowfall record of 1.9 inches from 1985.

http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/45252/oklahoma-city-almost-a-monthly.asp
Thanks to Kenneth Lund for this link

Mysterious lava substance oozes from the ground in India

Posted on February 8, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 8, 2011 - KURNOOL, India – In a strange phenomenon, a black chemical substance gushed out from the earth, creating panic in Maddikera village in Kurnool district on Monday. Huge cavities also formed in the three acres of land owned by a farmer, Nagaiah, of Maddikere, about 100 km from Kurnool, soon after the black substance spewed out from beneath the land. Nagaiah said it damaged the soil. The nearby grass caught fire when the black substance spread like lava from a volcano. A cement electric pole in the vicinity collapsed. Nagaiah said he first saw the phenomenon two days ago. Officials rushed to the village to take stock of the strange occurrence. Experts said they would conduct studies to unravel the mystery behind the spewing out of the blackish material from beneath. –Times of India

A shepherd first noticed a strange odour and plants withering. The inquisitive shepherd alerted other villagers who came to find out the source of the bad odour and finally zeroed in to the field belonging to one farmer Lakshminarayana Reddy. At the field, the villagers found two deep holes from which lava-like black like substance erupted. Scared at the strange phenomenon, the villagers alerted a geologist for studying the strange phenomenon. According to an eye witness fire along with the black substance erupted out of the Earth surface at two different points. Geologist Mohana Rao said that a disturbance in the Earth had occurred after the earth quakes in Thailand, Tirupati and Delhi. The rock formations process below the earth surface had created gaps resulting in creation of a weak zone in the Dolorite rocks. Explaining the phenomenon, Mohan Rao maintained that an inorganic compound solution had oozed out of lithosphere. The lava substance is being sent to geological laboratory for a thorough study. –The Hindu

See our report: Massive geological change underway in India

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H5N1: Is a global bird flu pandemic brewing?

Posted on February 8, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 7, 2011 – ALERT WATCH 1 - In many ways, it is the most sinister and deadly of the HN series virus and it now appears to be spreading dramatically across Asia. The virus hasn’t made the dangerous leap to infecting humans but all measures to contain the virus in Japan now appear to be failing. Today, the virus spread to a 12^th poultry farm in the Japanese prefectures. The first cases of the H5N1 virus began showing up in South Korea in December and was believed to be spreading my migratory birds- leading to greater fears that the vector has found transmissibility through global avian winter migration routes. Today, scientists announced another major outbreak of the virus among 8500 chickens in Bangladesh.

Japan – In Japan, Miyazaki prefecture reported at the weekend that birds found dead at a poultry farm in Takachiho were confirmed infected with a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu virus, the eighth case in the prefecture and 12th in Japan this winter. The farm raises about 40 000 broiler chickens, and prefectural officials started culling them and another 17 000 chickens at related facilities, the Japan Times reported. -Agra Europe

Bangladesh – Narayanganj, Feb 7 – Some 8,500 chickens of two poultry farms in Narayanganj have been found infected with H5N1 virus, commonly known as bird flu virus. According to reports, around 200 chickens of the two farms in Batenpara area of Siddhirganj under Sadar Upazila died on Monday morning. The infection was confirmed when the officials of the Upazila livestock department, sent a sample of the tissue to the Central Diseases Investigation Laboratory (CDIL) in Dhaka for analysis. District livestock department official A K M Ariful Islam told bdnews24.com that some chickens of the twin farms had died over the last few days. The owners of the farms, Abdul Hai and Younus Mia, had brought it to the notice of the local livestock department. The livestock officials visited the farms on Monday and sent the sample of the tissue to CDIL to establish whether it was H5N1 virus infection. “The bird flu was confirmed in scrutiny. Later, we sealed one kilometre area surrounding the poultry farms,” Islam added. Narayanganj Sadar Upazila Executive Officer (UNO) Mohammad Mothahar Hossain told bdnews24.com that there was nothing to panic due to bird flu virus, as the infected chickens would be culled. “The culled chickens will be buried immediately, so that the disease does not spread to other nearby farms,” the UNO added. -BDNews24

Hong Kong – Hong Kong (HKSAR) – A spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said today (February 7) that a duck carcass found in Tai O was confirmed to be H5N1 positive after laboratory testing. The duck carcass was found and collected at a beach near Po Chue Tam, Yeung Hau Temple, Tai O on February 3. It was highly decomposed when found and required a series of tests before H5N1 avian influenza was confirmed today. The spokesman said there were no poultry farms within three kilometres of where the dead duck was found. AFCD staff have conducted inspections and found no evidence of any backyard poultry being kept there. AFCD will continue to monitor the situation and conduct inspections of the area. -7th Space.com

See: South Korea outbreak here

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NASA satellite captures Kizimen’s powerful eruption

Posted on February 8, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

(c) BBC 2011

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Sri Lanka flooding displaces 1.2 million people

Posted on February 8, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 7, 2011 - Colombo – Ongoing heavy rainfall in northern and eastern Sri Lanka raised the number of displaced people to more than 1.2 million as flooding caused widespread damage, the Disaster Management Centre said Monday. Flooding caused by a week of rain has left 11 people dead and three missing, the centre said. The death toll could be higher, the centre added, because it had yet to receive reports from some of the affected areas. Floods and landslides in central Sri Lanka have damaged more than 12,000 houses. Schools in some of the affected areas have been closed with many of them being used as shelters for the displaced. More than 320,000 of those displaced were being accommodated in camps set up by the government, but many others took shelter with friends and relatives or in temples and churches. Many of the flood-hit areas had only started to recover from flooding four weeks ago, which left 43 people dead and more than 1.1 million displaced. -Earth Times

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6.2 quake rattles the Solomon Islands

Posted on February 7, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 7, 2011 – SOLOMON ISLANDS — A magnitude -6.2 earthquake rumbled under the Pacific Ocean south of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands on Tuesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, but no tsunami alert was issued. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, or even that the temblor was felt in the Solomons or to the east in Papua New Guinea. The 6:53 a.m. Tuesday (local time, 1953 Monday GMT) quake was some 257 miles (414 kilometres) deep, the USGS said. The USGS said the quake hit some 65 miles (110 kilometres) southwest of Arawa, the capital of Bougainville province in Papua New Guinea, and about 95 miles (150 kilometres) southwest of Chirovanga in the Solomon Islands. -AP

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Iceland geology professor issues warning about volcanic tremors

Posted on February 7, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 7, 2011 – We first reported Iceland’s volcanic tremors were a serious concern under the Vatnajökull glacier yesterday. Now it seems one of Iceland’s geology professors has come forth and voiced the same concern. Here’s the article just released in the Iceland Review: “Seismic activity was detected in the northwestern part of Vatnajökull glacier over the past few days and there is full reason to be on the alert, according to geology professor Páll Einarsson. More earthquake sensors are needed, he said. The series of earthquakes occurred close to Kistufell and Bárdarbunga, which are among the most geologically active areas in the country, ruv.is reports. “A few systems come together there. The largest is the Bárdarbunga system, which includes Veidivötn and Vatnaöldur and stretches way north of Dyngjujáls and west of Askja. Then there is the Grímsvötn system which lies further to the east,” Einarsson explained. He said Bárdarbunga itself and a fissure swarm to the northeast of it seem to be the most active right now. However, it is difficult to tell whether the tremors that are occurring now are a consequence of that eruption or whether another eruption might be coming up. “It is indisputable that the seismic activity is growing steadily in the area—the series of earthquakes over the past few days is an indicator of that. There is full reason to be on the alert. This is one of the most active areas in the country,” he iterated. According to visir.is, several earthquakes were measured by Bárdarbunga on Saturday night, the strongest of which was 2.6 points on the Richter scale. Almost 40 earthquakes have been measured in the area in the past few days, culminating with an earthquake which was 3.4 points on the Richter scale in strength. However, there are no indications of an immediate eruption and according to the latest news on visir.is, the tremors have subsided for now. Yet scientists expect an eruption in Vatnajökull in the near future, possibly by the end of this year. –Iceland Review

See chapter 11 in my book on why major geological upheavel in Iceland could be the end of Europe as we know it.

2011-02-07T16:40:00.001-08:00

Hi (my name),

The evidence of the whistleblower is no where to be found. Here is what happened: I was watch the Alex Jones Radio Show last Friday via live online stream. I am retired and live 1/2 the time at my home in Los Angeles and the other 1/2 in Costa Rica. I watched him take a call from a woman, but prior to taking the call Alex Jones said the caller was a "top tier government whistleblower" disguising her voice with a very important message.

I watched and listened very closely. The woman claims she works or had worked in the White House and that the Obama Administration believes there will be a geographic Pole Shift around March 15, 2011. She described this as a government cover up that she feared would result in the death of millions of people.

She did not describe how Obama knows when this will happen, but that FEMA and HLS (Homeland Security) were making preparations but the reason she was calling is because she claims everyone in the top tier of government was told not to speak of this to anyone.

That no statement would be made to the general public about this matter. She wants to warn everyone to get off the coasts and leave the cities and that between March 6-15 extreme earth changes, seismic activity and climate storms would occur.

I was waiting for Alex Jones to start to pound her with questions but he thanked her for the call then the show went to a commercial break. It was very odd. And unlike Alex Jones to behave that way. When the commercial break was over he made no mention of the call.

I was shocked. I called my brother in California and told him about it and he called the Alex Jones show but could not get through. The following day (Saturday), I watched the Friday show after it was uploaded to youtube and was again shocked the womans call, her warning, and conversation with Alex was deleted from the video.

I have called Alex Jones Show but I could not get through. I have sent him emails and received no answer. I know I am not the only person out of millions of listeners who heard the call but I seem to be the only one willing to upload a video about it. Alex Jones has said that since he and Jesse Ventura teamed up to do several TruTV episodes of Jesse's show "Conspiracy Theory" that after they aired the Big Brother FEMA Camp and Underground Bunker reports that both he and Jesse were told to stand down or else.

Alex claimed the he and Jesse Ventura are followed daily and harrassed by men in black SUV's. I do not doubt his claims. I do not doubt that Alex Jones is fearing for the safety of his family. I do not know if they qualified this woman caller before she went on the air with Alex on Friday, but the call was aired and after that I can only describe the situation as a black out followed.

I didn't sleep much last Friday night thinking about the woman's call and because I have a wife, children and grandchildren I believe it is my responsibility to protect them. After a great deal of thought I decided to upload my own video repeating the womans claims as she stated them without adding any personal opinions.

Three hours after my video was uploaded on youtube my channel was undergoing youtube maintenace and no one could play my video. Six hours of youtube maintenance ended with my video being deleted.

No message was sent to me about it. Luckily someone watched it that morning and copied it and it has gone viral over the net. I understand that youtube was deleting it from some youtube channels but it can still be found.

Now here is what I have concluded: the womans claims and YOUR FEMA documents add up. It makes perfect sense that FEMA knows when this event will happen otherwise how could they be requesting supply bids in advance with a deadline of Feb 1, 2011?

The woman said there is a cover up and this is clearly true whether Alex Jones is afraid to talk about it or not. Before watching las Friday's show I watched two youtube videos giving the March 15th date but I disregarded them because they were not credible.

Hearing voices from angels and such is difficult for me to wrap my mind around. But the Alex Jones caller was from someone clearly educated and credible. I believe her claims.

Now I have also spent a great deal of time trying to understand how the Obama administration could know when there will be a Pole Shift. There are only two possibilities: 1.) That NASA has been tracking a comet that many refer to as Planet X (Nibiru) and that based on the Earths orbit and the speed of the comet NASA can determine a approximate date when it will pass by the Earth,

or 2.) That the U.S. Government will use HAARP to create/cause a global catastrophe which is in line with what the trillionaire globalists like David Rockerfeller and George Soros talk about concerning depopulation.

With all the chemtrails, poisoning of food, drinking water, medication and the gradual silent steps taking place by Homeland Security and the Military I can believe one of the two possibilities is about to occur.

I am no expert, I am just a retired guy trying who see's what is going on and asks questions. The other factor that is separate but in line with the globalists agenda is the artificial value of the U.S. Dollar overseas and the artificially inflated stock market in the United States.

I travel extensively to other countries as a tourist and was surprised that many countries would no longer accept the U.S. Dollar. The dollar has been in steady decline outside the U.S. for the past year and a half. Then suddenly the value of the dollar froze and has not moved by one single point in the past 25 or so days.

This is impossible because the value is always changing based on many factors, but it is frozen now! I didn't think much about it until a woman named Lisa Steiner (youtube channel steinerny21) had a video where she was being interviewed by a man asking her questions and she said the dollar was artificially frozen as was the gains in the stock market because the U.S. government asked it's allies to stop the decline temporarily so it can set up controls to deal with a national panic when the freeze is released some time within the next 60 days.

She claims the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury cannot even pay the interest on the interest payments to the world banks, China and other countries it owes money to. She told everyone to buy 6 months worth of food now because a $2 quart of milk will become a $6 quart of milk when the U.S. government releases the freeze.

That means everything will triple in cost because she said the true value of the dollar is around 0.30 cents! Of course, if there is a Pole Shift or man-made catastrophe all the world economies would crash anyways, but I sent the link from her video to more than a dozen people and when they tried to view her video her channel was not there!

Again, this seems very strange. If anyone tried to expose the government their channel is closed or their videos are deleted. Frankly, I am surprised you channel is still active and your videos are available for viewing. I have also received threats in my comments, one was "Watch your step" probably from some nutcase. But until my wife and I return to the states at the end of February I do not want to make waves.

I just hope I am not on a "No Fly List" because that would be a mess! There are a lot of people uploading videos with theories and opinions but when you start to name people, corporations, website links, I think you become a target of the government.

They have these new FUSION Spy Centers across the nation and their sole purpose is to spy on people's activities via what you do online, what you purchase using your debit or credit cards, all sorts of stuff. I am nobody important and I have no desire to be famous or sell any thing. But I am a patriot and I do believe our government has been hijacked and that they will think of a crisis to declare martial law and implement "Presidential Directive 51" taking away everyones freedoms and rights to make way for a new authoritarian globalist government.

They inch in that direction little by little every time the mainstream media distracts the mass population. My wife and I are angry and upset. We want the truth revealed to the American public because we know some thing big is about to happen, some thing very bad.

That is all I can tell you. I continue to search the net for evidence, but 70% of everything online is either lies, disinformation or some nutcase so actually finding the truth is difficult. I will keep you posted. I admire what you guys are doing and watched your videos before all this started. Just don't stop. Thank you,

ANOTHER LETTER

Letter:

Hello,

You do not know me but I have seen both of the videos concerning Alex Jones, Dollar Death and Pole Shift. You have stated that your relative is in danger. I want to believe you because I do find the videos VALID and INTEGRAL to what will happen in March. However with so much Trolling and Shilling going on with what may happen in 2012, it is hard to find factual information. Please, write back because I am concerned. If what you say is true, then MORE steps must be taken to awaken the populace of the U.S. I know your relatives YT account is down, this frightens me. Please respond with any information you can.

Reply:

Re: March 15

I am not at liberty to go into too many details right now. My ex father in law and wife were taken into custody by the federal police of the country where they live part time. Two U.S. Embassy people were directing the federal police.

My former mother in law called my ex wife at 2am saying that they were asleep and that the police kicked down their front door, confiscated their computer and iphone, and roughed up my father in law.

They were taken to some jail facility but she was not at liberty to say where. That is all we have heard since 2am. My ex wife, my son, our other relatives are unable to obtain additional information. We are waiting for the U.S. Embassy to call us back, or hopefully they have already determined that they are no involved in whatever the woman told Alex Jones. they are retired and my ex father in law is not in the best of health, this is all very upsetting and we do not know what else to do other than ask people to remove his two videos and pray for them.

He is a recipient of the purple heart, a combat vet, a husband of a high school sweetheart for more than 35 years, a father of three adult children and two grandchildren. He has no connection with the woman who is making statements about the government or a pole shift. they have arrested a innocent man, a honorable man, who knows nothing other than what he heard.

The family is waiting to see what is going to happen then, as a family, decide what is best to do next. But instead of people making hateful comments about my father in law they should be asking Alex Jones some questions and find out what happened from him. People are targeting a honest, innocent man when the real issue is whether the gov knows a pole shift is coming or not. I do not want to offer my opinions because I did not hear the live broadcast and now is not the time to argue or debate that. this is the time to pray for two wonderful grandparents who have done nothing wrong.

I cannot confirm or deny this man is the real deal, however the original videos of the whistle-blower are gone and his You-tube account has been suspended.

2011-02-07T00:24:00.000-08:00

Tropical Cyclone Zaka heads for New Zealand

Posted on February 7, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 7, 2011 – NEW ZEALAND – A Tropical Cyclone named Zaka by the Nadi Weather Office formed close to Tonga early this morning and is now tracking southwest towards the New Zealand area. Duty Forecaster at the Nadi Weather Office confirmed that the system developed rapidly overnight on the outskirts of Fiji waters at around 1 o’clock this morning. He said the system will not have any direct or indirect effect on the Fiji group due to its current location and projected path. The weather office said the system is now in New Zealand’s area of responsibility and they are closely monitoring Tropical Cyclone Zaka. Meanwhile, for the Fiji group, the Nadi Weather Office predicts fine weather for most parts of the country for the next few days. -Fijivillage

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Rivers of moisture: super-storm systems now span across the globe

Posted on February 6, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 6, 2011 – This fascinating satellite picture from the Japan Meteorological Agency of the Southern hemisphere perhaps demonstrates better than any other just how the planet’s weather patterns are rapidly morphing. On February 6, 2011, a band of moisture stretched from Australia to Antarctica. Cyclone Yasi’s length spanned the width of the continental U.S. Arkstorm systems, known as Rivers of water, similarly span across the Pacific to California. The recent Ground hog day winter storm system that struck the U.S. was 2100 miles long. Jupiter’s planetary storm has raged for centuries and in 2011, scientists were alarmed to find the super-storm on Saturn had now morphed to stretch across almost an entire hemisphere of the planet. There is no longer any doubt Earth’s climatic patterns are in the midst of major epochal change. See : Weather meltdown on Saturn

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Zoo animals freeze to death in coldest winter to hit Mexico in 60 years

Posted on February 6, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 6, 2011 – CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Thirty-five animals at a zoo in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua have frozen to death during the region’s coldest weather in six decades. Serengeti Zoo owner Alberto Hernandez says 14 parrots, 13 serpents, five iguanas, two crocodiles and a capuchin monkey died. He said Saturday that power failures cut off electrical heating at the zoo in the town of Aldama. Temperatures have dropped to 9 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 13 Celsius) in the area, the coldest weather in 60 years. Power outages have affected much of northern Mexico, forcing factories and businesses to close. Dozens of people are in shelters. Schools have been closed in Chihuahua state but are expected to open Tuesday as the weather warms.” -AP News

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Earthquake swarm in Western Turkey

Posted on February 6, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

A flurry of seismic activity is occurring in Western Turkey- including some 18 quakes today

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New Zealand sees hottest day ever recorded

Posted on February 6, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 6, 2011 – NEW ZEALAND – Timaru has broken the record for their hottest day ever with the temperature hitting a scorching 40.3 degrees shortly before 4pm today. The extreme heat, which WeatherWatch.co.nz predicted yesterday, is connected to the same heat wave that saw Sydney climb to 42 degrees yesterday and then recorded their hottest night ever. WeatherWatch.co.nz says Timaru has hovered around 39 degrees for much of the day but peaked at 40.3, breaking their previous record of 39.7 degrees recorded in February 1973. Weather analyst Richard Green says it was a similar Australian/New Zealand heatwave back in 1973 too. “Sydney reached 27.6 as their overnight low last night, beating their record by a whole degree set in February 1973. That same heat wave also hit Timaru in 1973 and again today that record has been broken by point six of a degree”. The heat has been widespread too with WeatherWatch.co.nz readers reporting highs in the late 30s and around the 40 mark this afternoon across Canterbury. Other centres to melt in the heat today were Christchurch, Alexandra, Ashburton, and Oamaru who all reached 36 officially, although private weather stations within Christrchurch were closer to 40. -Voxy.NZ

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Wildfires rage across sections of Western Australia

Posted on February 6, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 6, 2011 – PERTH, Australia — Wildfires tore across the outskirts of an Australian city on Sunday, destroying at least 35 homes, authorities said. One firefighter was reportedly injured. Two fires fanned by hot summer winds were burning in forested areas to the north and southeast of Perth in Western Australia state, the Fire and Emergency Services Authority said. At Roleystone and the nearby community of Kelmscott, residents were told to evacuate from the path of a fire that erupted after noon and had claimed 35 homes and was threatening more, the authority said. “There is a threat to lives and homes. You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive,” it said in a warning statement. It said people should leave immediately if they believe the path is clear, otherwise they should dig in and be prepared to take shelter in their homes. Police closed roads leading to threatened areas, preventing residents who were not at home when the fire flared from returning because it was too dangerous. Authority spokesman Rick Tyers said the fire had scorched almost 800 hectares by Sunday evening, and that strong winds and huge plumes of smoke were making firefighting very difficult. The cause of Sunday’s fires was not immediately known. The fires in Australia’s far west come as huge areas of the east coast recover from a huge cyclone that struck in Queensland state last week and from flooding from drenching rains in Queensland and in southern Victoria state.” -CTV News

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Pulsating auroras, oscillating waves and planetary tremors

Posted on February 6, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

PULSATING AURORAS: During the geomagnetic storm of Feb. 4th, Fredrik Broms of Kvaløya, Norway, witnessed an episode of elusive pulsating auroras. “The sky was filled with patches of green that oscillated in brightness,” he explains. A snapshot with his Nikon D3 caught the phenomenon in mid-pulse: “The patches didn’t move much, but their intensity changed. When one patch got brighter another became more diffuse and so on,” Broms describes. Reports of pulsating auroras go back more than a century, but until recently no one knew what made the aurora borealis behave like a strobe light. Researchers from UCLA solved the puzzle in 2009-10. Using data from NASA’s THEMIS spacecraft, they discovered that auroras pulse in sync to ‘chorus waves’ in Earth’s magnetosphere. This is a type of plasma wave that seems to be able to modulate the flow of solar wind particles down to Earth during geomagnetic storms. Clearly, the chorus was singing on Feb. 4th. –Space Weather

We detected this unusual oscillating pattern in our report of a magnetospheric anomaly associated with the planetary tremor event on February 4th. See - Anomalistic 21:00 hour tremor

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Hundreds of fish found dead near Cleveland, Oh river

Posted on February 6, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 6, 2011 – SOLON — Biologists are trying to figure out what led to the deaths of hundreds of stocked trout in three-acre Shadow Lake in the South Chagrin Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks. Metroparks Fisheries biologist Mike Durkalec says oxygen depletion can lead to fish kills when lakes ice over in the winter, but that’s doesn’t appear to be the cause at Shadow Lake. He says officials are trying to determine whether the oxygen loss was somehow accelerated by runoff with a “high organic content” but that any comment on the cause of the fish kill would be speculation. A representative for Waste Management, the company that runs a now-closed landfill near the park, says it’s cooperating with investigators.” -WKYC

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Heightened seismic unrest seen under Icelandic glacier

Posted on February 6, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 6, 2011 - Earthquake swarm at Vatnajökull glacier

3.4 06 Feb 01:07:07 90.1 9.7 km E of Hamarinn
3.3 06 Feb 07:51:25 90.0 13.6 km SE of Kistufell
3.1 06 Feb 01:07:12 67.9 12.4 km SSE of Kistufell
3.0 06 Feb 07:51:27 90.0 3.8 km SW of Kistufell
2.8 06 Feb 03:30:46 33.4 2.8 km SSE of Eldeyjarboði
2.3 05 Feb 15:12:46 75.2 10.4 km NE of Bárðarbunga

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Scientists no closer to eradicating disease that is wiping out bats

Posted on February 6, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 6, 2011 – “Conservationists across the United States are racing to discover a solution to White-Nose Syndrome, a disease that is threatening to wipe out bat species across North America. A review published in Conservation Biology reveals that although WNS has already killed one million bats, there are critical knowledge gaps preventing researchers from combating the disease. WNS is a fatal disease that targets hibernating bats and is believed to be caused by a newly discovered cold-adapted fungus, Geomyces destructans, which infects and invades the living skin of hibernating bats. Since 2006 about one million bats across six species in eastern North America have died from WNS, and as a result several species of bats face endangerment or extinction. The low temperatures and humid conditions of bat caves create ideal breeding grounds for this fungus, and in some bat colonies the mortality rate from WNS has been more than 95%. -Science Daily

Magnetic Polar Shift Causing Massive Superstorms
By Terrence Aym link

Superstorms can cause certain societies, cultures or whole countries to collapse. Others may go to war with each other.

4 Feb 11 - (Excerpts) - NASA has been warning about it…scientific papers have been written about it…geologists have seen its traces in rock strata and ice core samples…

Now "it" is here: an unstoppable magnetic pole shift that has sped up and is causing life-threatening havoc with the world's weather.

Forget about global warming—man-made or natural—what drives planetary weather patterns is the climate and what drives the climate is the sun's magnetosphere and its electromagnetic interaction with a planet's own magnetic field.

When the field shifts.... all hell breaks loose.... The magnetic field drives weather to a significant degree and when that field starts migrating superstorms start erupting...."

The superstorms have arrived

The latest superstorm—as of this writing—is a monster over the U.S. that stretched across 2,000 miles affecting more than 150 million people.

Yet even as that storm wreaked havoc across the Western, Southern, Midwestern and Northeastern states, another superstorm broke out in the Pacific and closed in on Australia.

2011-02-06T02:27:00.000-08:00

Tucson - Record cold leaves two dead -
Thousands without gas or water
3 Feb 11 - The unprecedented cold triggered utility outages which, in turn, cut off gas and water to thousands of residents across Southern Arizona. See Tucson - Record cold leaves two dead - Thousands without gas or water

Thousands of Tulsa residents trapped by snow 4 days after storm
4 Feb 11 - By Friday, the blizzard that dumped 20 inches of snow, sleet and ice on Tulsa on Tuesday still had the area paralyzed.
Thousands of Tulsa residents trapped by snow 4 days after storm
Storms make a slash across Scotland ~ link ~

Waves crash over the promenade in Blackpool yesterday as severe gales and rain hit the west coast

The waves came crashing in on Blackpool yesterday as high winds gusted across northern Britain.

The first of two ferocious storms that formed in the Atlantic reached UK shores on Thursday night, with the Northern Isles experiencing hurricane-force winds of up to 100mph. Further south, Glasgow was hit by 70mph gusts.

Two Winter Storms - More Trouble Next Week ~ link ~

World of two halves! Map shows most of Northern Hemisphere is covered in snow and ice ~ link ~ There are a couple of things that you will not get on the climate topic from the mainstream news media. First is that the strange weather patterns, which began last summer (in the Northern Hemisphere, winter in the Southern Hemisphere) with extreme heat and drought in parts of Eurasia (104F in Moscow, etc.) and heat and flooding in other parts of Eurasia, along with extreme cold in South America, and now continue with cold to extreme cold in the Northern Hemisphere and flooding in Australia, Brazil, etc., and drought in Argentina, etc., are all interconnected. That these strange weather patterns are beyond any El Nino or La Nina, that they are due to the disruption in the Thermohaline Circulation System caused by the death of the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico (a key part of the Thermohaline Circulation System). With the death of the Loop Current itself caused by the BP Oil Disaster and the use of millions of gallons of dispersants.

The second thing that the mainstream news media will not tell you, is that the current climate crisis is related to other major problems including the food shortage, revolutions, the Global Depression, and coming war in the Middle East/world. That there is clear evidence, from insider stock trades, that certain key people and banks knew something was going to happen in the Gulf of Mexico at the BP site. That the Oil Disaster was a planned event and the use of massive amounts of dispersants was also planned. That this is all part of a overall plan to take the global political/economic/social order down so that the New World Order can be implemented. That this is ultimately a Spiritual Battle between the forces of God and those of Satan, and is outlined in the last Book of the Christian Bible. Stirling

Hundreds of drivers on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, which was blasted by 20 inches of snow, abandoned their cars in an almost apocalyptic scene as authorities closed the road

The inside of a pickup truck that was stranded and left open on Lake Shore Drive on Wednesday shows the full ferocity of the blast as the white stuff almost covers the steering wheel

Like bizarre creatures rising up out of the ground, these trees are clad in snow and ice after bitterly cold weather in northern Japan. Savouring the unique scenery skiers make their way downhill in at the Zao Onsen ski resort

The bitterly cold weather covering the northern hemisphere has meant that the Hei Longjiang river in north-east China has frozen so thickly that lorries can cross it from Russia leading to a boom in trade

The impact of extreme weather is being felt in north-east Australia where Cyclone Yasi has struck along the coast of Queensland. Here, outside Innisfail, motorists wait for water to subside over the Bruce Highway

Global food prices hit record high ~ link ~ Rising food prices have been cited among the driving forces behind the recent popular revolts in north Africa, including the uprising in Egypt and the toppling of Tunisia's long-time president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. In response, some countries are increasing food imports and have built stockpiles to meet their domestic needs. Among them is Algeria, wary after food riots in early January. It has made huge wheat purchases to avoid shortages, and on Thursday it announced plans to lift a 19-year-old state of emergency in a bid to to avert spreading protests.

Capital Economics, a consultancy in London warned that "Even if the crisis in Egypt eases soon, the actions taken by governments elsewhere to prevent similar uprisings in their own countries will add to the upward pressure on global agricultural commodity prices." In Central America, Honduras has frozen prices on many basic foodstuffs despite complaints from farmers. El Salvador is increasing anti-poverty programs by 30 per cent, and Guatemala is considering slashing import tariffs on wheat and is handing out food and cash vouchers to landless peasants.

Indonesia, Southeast Asia's biggest economy, last week bought 820,000 tonnes of rice, lifting rice prices, while suspending import duties on rice, soybeans and wheat.

Robert Zoellick, World Bank President urged world leaders to "wake up" to the dangers of rising food inflation. "We are going to be facing a broader trend of increasing commodity prices, including food commodity prices," he said.

During the last food price crisis, the World Bank estimated that some 870 million people in developing countries were hungry or malnourished. The FAO estimates that number has increased to 925 million. The FAO data showed that prices for dairy products rose by 6.2 per cent from December, oils and fats gained 5.6 per cent, while cereals went up by 3.0 per cent because of lower global supply of wheat and maize.

Food prices set to climb even higher as reduced production leads to spike ~ link ~ Families face paying even more for food after United Nations experts revealed that the cost of key crops has hit an all-time high. British shoppers are already struggling after a 6.1 per cent increase in weekly grocery bills over the past 12 months – adding £317 a year to the average annual cost.

However, figures published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) suggest this is just a taste of things to come. And aid groups warned high prices are putting millions of lives at risk and threaten food riots from the Middle East to Africa and Asia.

Extreme Weather Report from Home ~ link ~ I wanted to share a short report from my home town, Santa Fe in New Mexico, where temperatures have not only been extreme this past year, but record setting on both ends of the spectrum.

Last summer Santa Fe broke the high temperature record for both June (100 degree F) and July (100 degree F). While I was reasonably cool inside an old adobe house where I live, such high temperatures are no good news for plants and animals of our region. Between 2001 and 2005 sustained drought combined with high temperatures killed off 90% of mature piñons in northern New Mexico—our state tree. This continuing heat is killing newly planted trees as well, redefining the idea of reforestation in the 21st century. Last summer I wrote about the massive global forest deaths caused by climate change.

If you live in Boston or New York, you might be thinking (if you can afford it) of taking a vacation to New Mexico to warm up. But you’ll be surprised to know that on Wednesday Santa Fe broke the minimum temperature record for February with a minus 15 degrees F. Add to that 25 miles per hour wind that brought the wind–chill down to minus 40 degrees F. This is my way of saying it’s too cold for New Mexico.

Weekend Snowstorm Eyes Appalachians, New England ~ link ~

In case you haven't heard, a winter storm already hitting the South will visit some areas up North spanning Friday night and Saturday. Regardless of the form of precipitation in New England, the Saturday storm will add more weight to already stressed roofs.

The storm will bypass areas hit hardest by the Groundhog Blizzard, including Oklahoma City, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago and Detroit. A swath of a coating to as much as 3 inches of snow is likely in portions of the Tennessee and Ohio valleys, the central Appalachians and the eastern Great Lakes, including Buffalo, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton, Louisville, Pittsburgh and State College.

America: 'So much snow there's almost nowhere to put it' ~ link ~ AMERICA'S midwest is shivering in -30C temperatures after being blasted by the same weather system which is affecting Scotland. An enormous winter storm brought two feet of snow, crippled airports and stranded drivers in downtown Chicago.

Some parts of the north east that have had more snow already this winter than they usually see in the whole season are running out of places to put it.

Another Freeze for the Imperial Vally, Other Agricultural Areas ~ link ~ There undoubtedly was some damage to these areas Thursday morning and more sub-freezing temperatures were beginning to occur early Friday morning, but not quite to the severely low levels just 24 hours earlier. These regions produce winter vegetables and fruit to the U.S. and other areas. South Texas has also been hit with sub-freezing temperatures recently. In fact, part of the lower Rio Grande Valley never recovered to the freezing mark Thursday, after dipping into the upper 20s Thursday morning. While clear skies at night were contributing to the low temperatures in the Southwest, including sub-zero readings in Arizona, cloud cover and a "norther" were contributing to the freeze in Texas.

The extent of the damage from these freezes is not yet known, but it could impact prices at your local grocery store in the coming weeks, if the supply of quality fruit and vegetables is reduced or has to be retrieved from more distant locations.

Widespread Flooding Returns to Sri Lanka ~ link ~

Officials in Sri Lanka said tens of thousands have been displaced by floods this week. Five people were feared to have drowned in Trincomalee. Rain totaling 11.78 inches fell in a 48-hour period in Trincomalee Wednesday through Friday. Vavuniya has had 7.47 inches of rain since early Wednesday (EST). Batticaloa has had nearly 14 inches in the past three days. Badulla and Diyatalawa recorded 10.62 and 7.69 inches, respectively, over the past four days.

These cities span most of the country, showing how widespread the rainfall has been. The worst of the flooding recently has been reported across northern and central portions of the country. Flooding hit Sri Lanka hard in January. More than 40 people were killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced.

Nothing Is Stable Anymore ~ link ~

The world is becoming a very unstable place, and the pace at which things are changing all around us has become absolutely mind-numbing. In fact, change has become one of the only constants in today's world. Once upon a time, people in the United States could actually make 20 or 30 year plans and feel confident about achieving them. But now, nothing is stable anymore. The financial crisis showed us that some of the biggest corporations on the globe can collapse in a single day. The events of the past few weeks have shown us that entire governments can be brought down in a single week. We live in a world where there are now very few "guarantees" that you can count on. One of the only things that is guaranteed is that technology and information will continue to grow at exponential speeds. This year, the total amount of information produced on electronic devices around the globe is projected to be more than a zettabyte. A zettabyte is equivalent to one sextillion bytes. In other words, imagine a one with more than 21 zeroes following it.

Hundreds of fish found dead near Cleveland, Oh river

Posted on February 6, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 6, 2011 – SOLON — Biologists are trying to figure out what led to the deaths of hundreds of stocked trout in three-acre Shadow Lake in the South Chagrin Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks. Metroparks Fisheries biologist Mike Durkalec says … Continue reading →

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Heightened seismic unrest seen under Icelandic glacier

Posted on February 6, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

3.4 06 Feb 01:07:07 90.1 9.7 km E of Hamarinn 3.3 06 Feb 07:51:25 90.0 13.6 km SE of Kistufell 3.1 06 Feb 01:07:12 67.9 12.4 km SSE of Kistufell 3.0 06 Feb 07:51:27 90.0 3.8 km SW of Kistufell … Continue reading →

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Scientists no closer to eradicating disease that is wiping out bats

Posted on February 6, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 6, 2011 – “Conservationists across the United States are racing to discover a solution to White-Nose Syndrome, a disease that is threatening to wipe out bat species across North America. A review published in Conservation Biology reveals that although … Continue reading →

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Rapid downpours bring more flooding to Victoria

Posted on February 6, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 5, 2011 – VICTORIA – Overnight on Saturday residents in the state’s northeast, particularly in the Buckland Valley and Sunday Creek, were advised that severe thunderstorms were likely to produce intense rainfall and flash flooding. The flood alerts … Continue reading →

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Drought to flood in 7 hours- W. Australian town decimated by ‘freak’ flood waters

Posted on February 5, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 5, 2011 – W. AUSTRALIA – “Floods often produce harrowing stories and the recent Gascoyne flood was no exception. Mooloo Downs station, located 280 kilometres east of Carnarvon, sits on the Mooloo Creek and Jim and Jenny Caunt estimate … Continue reading →

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Heatwave: Sydney shatters 150 year old record

Posted on February 5, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 5, 2011 – SYDNEY – “Sydney’s heatwave has shattered a 150-year-old record, but the big sweat isn’t over yet. In dozens of suburbs on Saturday the temperature soared into the mid to high 30s for the sixth day running … Continue reading →

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Greece earthquake swarm- 16 quakes in 15 hours

Posted on February 5, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 5, 2011 – ATHENS – Our series on the world’s trouble-spots continue. The furious swarm of earthquakes continue around Greece today with 16 quakes erupting in the last 15 hours. The quakes range from 1km to 107 km in … Continue reading →

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Heightened seismic activity seen at Hawaii- largest volcano on Earth

Posted on February 5, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

Kīlauea is the youngest and southeastern most volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. Topographically Kīlauea appears as only a bulge on the southeastern flank of Mauna Loa, and so for many years Kīlauea was thought to be a mere … Continue reading →

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More signs of magnetic field weakening and disarray

Posted on February 5, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 5, 2011 – More evidence of magnetic field disarray in the onslaught of a speedy solar wind stream. This latest image was captured on February 5, 2011 when the solar winds accelerated to 608.1 km/sec conveying a proton density of … Continue reading →

2011-02-05T06:28:00.000-08:00

UK Insolvencies At Highest Since Records Began

The Insolvency Service - the Government department which regulates the industry - said that 135,089 people went bankrupt or took out an individual voluntary arrangement (IVA) or debt relief order over the year. This compares to 134,142 in 2009, which itself was the highest figure since records began 50 years ago.
According to the stats, the number of bankruptcies fell nearly 21% on the previous year, but the number of IVAs rose 6.5%.
But Stephen Speed from the Insolvency Service told Sky News that forecasting numbers for 2011 would be difficult.
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WikiLeaks: planned US missile shield blind to nuclear weapons

A 2007 briefing by General Patrick O’Reilly, director of the US Missile Defence Agency, disclosed that the radar system would be unable to detect long-range missiles in the launch phase because it could only see in a straight line, not over the horizon.

By the time the radar "saw" the missile, it would be too late to launch an interceptor in time to stop it striking its target.

The Czech radar system was the lynch-pin of George Bush’s “son of star wars” missile defence plans, ostensibly intended to intercept missiles launched from North Korea and Iran.

Russia reacted furiously to the proposed system, which it claimed could threaten its own defences and be used to spy on its interests.

A leaked cable obtained by WikiLeaks detailing US talks with Moscow describes a briefing by General O’Reilly on the capabilities of the Czech radar.

Mexico officially (and successfully) abandoning the US dollar?

Mexico has always considered the US dollar almost a secondary currency to their Peso as the fact that billions of US dollars spent their way through the Mexican economy in 2009 and 2010 which speaks for itself, but sometimes even the best of friendships come to an end.
The Mexican government in September 2010 enacted a new law which basically restricts the use of US Dollars for almost all purchases inside of Mexico.

In early 2010 travelers and visitors could shop at many of the large US corporations inside of Mexico such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot or even one of the hundreds of American food establishments such as McDonalds or Dominoes Pizza and pay for their meal using US Dollars but under the new law using US Dollars is no longer an option.
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Canada housing collapse immiment? Rate hike could trigger housing collapse, economist warns

The Bay Street consensus is that the Canadian housing market skirted the worst and managed a soft landing and homeowners are likely able to absorb higher mortgage payments once interest rates head upward.But one analyst warned Thursday that people are overlooking a key risk that threatens to push down housing prices by as much as 25% over the next several years: subdued wage growth in a low-inflation environment.
That mix could make mortgage payments increasingly onerous for households already carrying record levels of indebtedness, David Madani of Capital Economics said, adding the knock-on effects to consumer spending could be so significant they could push Canada into another recession.
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Shorage of bees threatening global food production

All over the world honey bees are working as hard as they can, yet they cannot keep up with all the crops that need pollinating in order to meet our ever-growing demand for food. The call for fruit, vegetables and nuts continues to increase, but there aren’t enough bees to pollinate all the crops. As a result, global food production is in danger, says the Rabobank.
It seems a bit strange that a Dutch bank should be concerned about honey bees. Director of the Rabobank Dirk Duijzer explains that his company always takes a keen interest in issues concerning food production. The bank, which started off as a bank for farmers, is seriously worried about the shortage of bees and the consequences for the agricultural and food sectors.

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Dead Fish Wash Ashore From Winter Blast - Texas 4th Feb 2011

It's not just people dying in the winter blast, fish are dead too.The bay, turned into a watery grave, for a variety of species of fish.
It's a fear come true in spots like Boca Chica Beach and by the Swing Bridge at Port Isabel.
"I've been here for 15 years...and this is the worst I've seen it yet," Sgt. James Dunk with Texas Parks and Wildlife said.
Just before the Valley's first of two nights of hard freeze, Sgt. Dunks predicted fish would be left paralyzed by the plunging temperatures.
"Dead trout... rough fish... Grouper,” he said.
The total impact on fish by the winter blast remains a mystery.
Wildlife experts believe the prolonged frigid temps could be detrimental to the resource.
As one person put it: “It was simply too cold... For too long.”
Friday night lows in the 20's once again, only adds insult to injury.
Law enforcement has been policing the waters since Wednesday afternoon to ensure anglers don't fish in areas designated off-limits.
It's a last ditch effort to protect, what nobody can predict, will be left when the warm-up begins this weekend. Source..

Thousands of Dead fish wash up on Florida shore / Feb 5th 2011

SABASTIAN, FL (CNN) - Thousands of dead fish were found washed up on the shore of a Florida state park. The animals were found along the beach of Sebastian Inlet State Park in Melbourne Beach, FL, on Friday.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials believe the fish died because of the lack of oxygen.
"Just because there's such a large school of them, they use up the oxygen really quickly, and because they are coming closer to shore, there's not as high of a water turnover rate and sometimes when you're in an area with not as much tidal flow," said Kelli O'Donnell, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
If the oxygen continues to run out, officials believe more fish may die. Source...

Friday, February 4, 2011

Special report: Catastrophic drought in the Amazon

A widespread drought in the Amazon rainforest last year caused the "lungs of the world" to produce more carbon dioxide than they absorbed, potentially leading to a dangerous acceleration of global warming. Scientists have calculated that the 2010 drought was more intense than the "one-in-100-year" drought of 2005.

They are predicting it will result in some eight billion tonnes of carbon dioxide being expelled from the Amazon rainforest, which is more than the total annual carbon emissions of the United States. For the second time in less than a decade, the earth's greatest rainforest released more carbon dioxide than it absorbed because many of its trees dried out and died.

Scientists believe that the highly unusual nature of the two droughts, which occurred in the space of just five years, may be the result of higher sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic, which could also be influenced by global warming caused by the release of man-made emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The Anglo-Brazilian team of researchers has emphasised that there is as yet no proof that the two highly unusual droughts in the Amazon are the direct result of rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, but the scientists have warned that the world is gambling with its future if it fails to curb fossil fuel emissions. Read More..

BREAKING NEWS: 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake MYANMAR-INDIA BORDER REGION 4th Feb 2011

An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter Scale shook most of North-East this evening, creating panic in the region.

The epicentre of the quake was located at the Indo-Myanmar border and it occurred at 7.24 p.m., Central Seismological Observatory here said.

People ran out of their homes as the quake shook the buildings for about 10 seconds.

The epicentre was located at 24.8 degree North Latitude and 94.6 degree East Longitude.

The quake occurred 30 km below the earth’s surface and was felt in Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and parts of Mizoram and Nagaland.

No immediate report of any damage or casualty has been received. Source...

Tully Heads residents return home after Cyclone Yasi wreaked havoc

DEVASTATED locals in the coastal hamlet of Tully Heads are struggling to cope as they try to comprehend the destruction of Cyclone Yasi. The sleepy seaside community was virtually annihilated by the category five cyclone which struck on Wednesday night.
Some residents of Tully Heads, almost obliterated by Yasi, only discovered the extent of their heartbreak today after getting into the community by four-wheel drive.

Those who could make it into town were in tears as they surveyed the damage.

Many broke down and cried unashamedly.

Others stood wide eyed, their jaws dropped.

It could have been a disaster movie, but it wasn't.

The storm surge washed entire homes away like they were sandcastles and reduced brick and concrete structures to rubble.
Fridges, yachts, ovens and pool tables have been washed 100m inland, while the remnants of homes litter the streets creating obstacle courses for vehicles. Read More...

New Orleans population nearly 30 per cent lower than before Hurricane Katrina

Over five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the aesthetic scars may be slowly healing but the impact clearly still remains - as it was revealed that the population of the city is nearly 30 per cent smaller than a decade ago.
The Louisiana city, which was the 24th biggest city in the U.S. two decades ago, is now languishing as the 53rd most populated.
According to the Census Bureau, just 343,829 people were living in the city as of April 1 last year.
In 2000, five years before the hurricane which claimed the lives of over 1,800 people, New Orleans was inhabited by a healthy 484,674.
African-American residents were hit particularly hard by the natural disaster, which impacted most heavily on predominantly black areas, such as the 9th Ward where there were several breaches in the levee holding back flood waters.
The city, which was once more than two-thirds black, now has 118,000 fewer black residents, shrinking the overall share to 60 per cent, according to figures published in the New York Times.
It is believed many who are yet to return to the city are still waiting for promised insurance or government money which would enable them to repair their damaged homes and make them habitable once again.
The number of children is down 56,193 - a staggering 44 per cent drop. Read more...

The indestructible insect: New mosquito that evades malaria control measures is 'impossible' to kill off

A new type of mosquito discovered in Africa could further complicate the fight to control malaria, according to scientists.French researchers collecting mosquitoes from ponds near villages in Burkina Faso, West Africa, say they have identified a subtype of the Anopheles gambiae unlike any documented before.
The mosquito is highly susceptible to infection with the malaria parasite, likes to rest outside, not indoors, and can therefore evade most current control measures.
Dr Ken Vernick discovered the mosquito - nicknamed Goundry after one of the villages near where it was discovered - with colleagues at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris.
He said: 'They are very susceptible to the human malaria parasite, we know they belong to a species that has an exquisite preference for human blood, and we know they are abundant in the population.'
Dr Vernick said his team is not yet able to quantify how much malaria transmission this new mosquito subtype is responsible for, but they feared it might be a major factor. Read more...

New Mexico in a deep freeze

Also Arizonalink

See interactive version of this map: http://www.senmwx.com/

3 Feb 11 - Email from New Mexico

Hello Robert,

A phenomenal outbreak of arctic air has plunged New Mexico into a deep freeze the past couple of days. The final new record tallies are not in yet, but some new historic readings have been set. Holloman, AFB which is located near Alamogordo, NM plunged down to -19F this morning. A few miles away, up in the Sacramento Mtns, a personal weather station located at Dry Canyon, just east of Cloudcroft, recorded a low of -27. Yesterday, nearby El Paso, Texas recorded a temperature of 17, its lowest daily maximum high temperature in 120 years. I have compiled a listing of the lows and records that are available thus far, on my web page.

Wendell L. Malone (KE5WLM)
Regional Skywarn Coordinator

See Wendell's web page here: http://www.senmwx.com/ (Scroll down to see interactive map.) I notice that Tucson, Arizona. and surrounding areas are also in a deep freeze.

Freezing rain shuts down Corpus Christi

City's entire interstate system is closed link

3 Feb 11 - Corpus Christi police say the city's entire interstate system is closed because of bridges rendered impassable by ice and freezing rain.

Captain Ed Shannon said "everything is shut down" and that icy conditions had caused at least one major accident.

Highways around Brownsville were also closed due to icy roads.

The National Weather Service said chances of snow along the coast were around 80 percent as of late Thursday.

See entire article:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7412478.html

More signs of magnetic field weakening and disarray

Posted on February 5, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

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Harsh winters trigger manhole explosions in New York City

Posted on February 5, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 5, 2011 – NEW YORK - Record snowfall is turning the city’s mean streets even meaner, with 65 manholes exploding or catching fire since New Years, a utility spokesman said on Friday. With snow piled six feet high for the … Continue reading →

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Super-volcano watch: Heightened seismic activity seen at Yellowstone

Posted on February 5, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 5, 2011 – Back-to-back quakes rattle Yellowstone – A 2.7 magnitude earthquake at a depth of 20.9 km and a much stronger 3.4 quake erupted at a much shallower depth of 12.4 km. Both of today’s quakes erupted on the western … Continue reading →

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Hundreds of sparrows fall dead in Rotorua, New Zealand

Posted on February 5, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 5, 2011 – ROTORUA, NZ – What killed hundreds of dead birds found on a Rotorua central city street? Nobody seems to know. Rotorua mother Glyssa Bosworth was walking down Amohau St this week when her 1-year-old daughter pointed … Continue reading →

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Freak tornado outbreak decimates town in the Philippines- 7 dead

Posted on February 5, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 5, 2011 – COTABATO CITY, Philippines (PNA) – Hundreds of people were rendered homeless when two freak tornadoes and flash floods hit the coastal town of Jolo in the island province of Sulu Thursday evening. Five days of continuous … Continue reading →

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Untold thousands of marine animals float dead in Amazon river & Florida

Posted on February 4, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 4, 2011 – MATO GROSSO DO SUL/AMAZON Region – At Aquidauana, pantanal region of the Mato Grosso do Sul state, shoals of painteds, pacus, golden fishes, cacharas – and even stingrays, are floating dead in Rio Negro, one of … Continue reading →

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Mount Merapi spews out thick cloud of white smoke

Posted on February 4, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

INDONESIA - Indonesia’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi, has spewed thick white smoke sulvatara these past few days. The Agency of Volcanology Technology Research and Development said in a statement that Yogyakarta should remain calm upon dealing with the incident. “Smoke … Continue reading →

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6.4 earthquake strikes Myanmar-India border region

Posted on February 4, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 4, 2011 - MYANMAR — An earthquake measuring 6.4 rocked India’s eastern state of Manipur on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The depth was 55.2 miles, it added, after earlier saying the depth was just 6.2 miles. The epicenter … Continue reading →

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U.S. energy grids buckle under strain of record cold wave

Posted on February 4, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 4, 2011 - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – With tens of thousands of people across New Mexico without natural gas service, Gov. Susana Martinez on Thursday declared a state of emergency, ordered government offices be shut down Friday and urged schools … Continue reading →

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Pod of pilot whales beached on shores of New Zealand

Posted on February 4, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 4, 2011 – NEW ZEALAND – “It is an ordeal for them to be exposed stranded like that and be exposed in the sun,” Conservation Department spokeswoman Trish Grant said. “Unfortunately some just do die.” “We’d be optimistic that … Continue reading →

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6.4 earthquake strikes Myanmar-India border region

Posted on February 4, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 4, 2011 - MYANMAR — An earthquake measuring 6.4 rocked India’s eastern state of Manipur on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The depth was 55.2 miles, it added, after earlier saying the depth was just 6.2 miles. The epicenter was 30 miles north northwest of Imphal, near the border with Myanmar. There were no immediate reports of damage. -Comcast News

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U.S. energy grids buckle under strain of record cold wave

Posted on February 4, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 4, 2011 - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – With tens of thousands of people across New Mexico without natural gas service, Gov. Susana Martinez on Thursday declared a state of emergency, ordered government offices be shut down Friday and urged schools to “strongly consider” remaining closed for the day.Demand has soared because of extremely cold weather across the state since Tuesday. New Mexico Gas Company said rolling blackouts in West Texas also impeded the delivery of natural gas to New Mexico. Martinez declared a state of emergency for the entire state, urging residents to turn down their thermostats, bundle up and shut off appliances they don’t need for the next 24 hours. She later announced all state operations not providing critical services would be closed Friday to decrease the strain on energy resources throughout New Mexico. “Due to statewide natural gas shortages, I have ordered all government agencies that do not provide essential services to shut down and all nonessential employees to stay home” on Friday, Martinez said after meeting with public safety personnel in Albuquerque. “I have also encouraged all schools that have not already announced closures to strongly consider doing so,” she said.

New Mexico Gas Company said service was disrupted throughout the state – in Bernalillo, Placitas, Taos, Questa, Red River and parts of Albuquerque, Silver City, Alamogordo, Tularosa and La Luz. Emergency shelters were set up in several areas. Martinez said residents needing help finding a shelter or getting to one should call the non-emergency police or fire phone number in their community. “As New Mexicans, we’ve always gotten through difficult situations,” Martinez said. “We will get through this situation as well.” Earlier Thursday, Taos Mayor Darren Cordova declared a state of emergency in the northern New Mexico community after gas service was disrupted. He urged area residents to conserve electricity to prevent an outage of that energy source. Martinez also urged people to curb electrical use to prevent blackouts and allow compressors to function so the state can get natural gas supplies.” -AP News

Texas hits record consumption and experiences rolling blackouts.
Shortages reported in San Diego.
Usage hits record in Utah.
Rolling outages reported in Arizona.

World food prices at fresh high, says FAO

World food prices rose to a record high in January, according to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). The FAO Food Price Index, which measures the wholesale price of basic foods within a basket, averaged 231 points last month, up by 3.4% from December.
It is the seventh monthly rise for the index.
"These high prices are likely to persist in the months to come," FAO economist Abdolreza Abbassian said.
The index is now at its highest level since the FAO started the measure in 1990 and higher than June 2008 when the cost of food sparked violent protests in countries including Cameroon, Haiti and Egypt.
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Is Global Inflation Far Higher Than Official Data?

The latest official inflation data show that consumer prices rose 1.5 percent in the U.S. last year, while they increased 2.4 percent in the euro zone for the year ended in January. Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom and Doom report, says don’t believe those numbers.

Inflation totals 5 percent to 8 percent in the United States and slightly lower in Europe, he tells CNBC.

“I guarantee you … the annual (U.S.) cost of living increases are more than 5 percent, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (which computes the consumer price index) is lying,” Faber says.

“Inflation is much higher than what they publish. I would imagine for most households it’s between 5 and 8 percent in the United States, and in Western European countries maybe a little bit lower — 4 or 5 percent.”

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Nutty Professors and Nutty New Taxes
By Alan Caruba
1 Feb 11 - Alan S. Blinder is a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University and a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve. All of which might explain why the nation is broke and why “intellectuals” like Blinder are responsible for some of the most stupid ideas ever imposed on citizens who lack their credentials.
See Nutty Professors and Nutty New Taxes

Brutal cold across the U.S.
Wind chill U.S. Temperature Map
Thanks to Joe Herr for this link

Freezing in Tucson
3 Feb 11 - Thought you might like to see this screen shot taken off my computer this morning about 9:30 a.m. - Harold Satterfield

Record snowfall across the U.S.
2 Feb 11 - What next? Plunging temperatures.
See Record snowfall across the US

Roof collapses under weight of snow - Video

Senators vow to stop Obama climate power grab
1 Feb 11 - Eleven senators introduced a bill to stop the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases without explicit approval by Congress.
See Senators vow to stop Obama climate power grab

"Unprecedented" La Niña signals colder winters to come -
Includes video
2 Feb 11 - AccuWeather.com Chief Long Range Forecaster Joe Bastardi thinks 3 or 4 of the next five winters could be just as cold as this one, if not colder ... perhaps even the next 20 to 30 winters.
See Unprecedented La Niña signals colder winters to come

Two severe Amazon droughts in 5 years alarm scientists

Posted on February 4, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 4, 2011 – BRAZIL – New research shows that the 2010 Amazon drought may have been even more devastating to the region’s rainforests than the unusual 2005 drought, which was previously billed as a one-in-100 year event. Analyses of rainfall across 5.3 million square kilometres of Amazonia during the 2010 dry season, recently published in Science, shows that the drought was more widespread and severe than in 2005. The authors suggest that if extreme droughts like these become more frequent, the days of the Amazon rainforest acting as a natural buffer to man-made carbon emissions may be numbered. Lead author Dr Simon Lewis, from the University of Leeds, said: “Having two events of this magnitude in such close succession is extremely unusual, but is unfortunately consistent with those climate models that project a grim future for Amazonia.” The unusual drought, affecting south-western Amazonia, was described by scientists at the time as a ‘one-in-100-year event’ (2), but just five years later the region was struck by a similar extreme drought that caused the Rio Negro tributary of the Amazon river to fall to its lowest level on record.” –Science Daily

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Future winters could move into uncharted territory warns meteorologist

Posted on February 4, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 4, 2011 - Chicago - “This winter is on track to become the coldest for the nation as a whole since the 1980s or possibly even the late 1970s. According to AccuWeather.com Chief Long Range Forecaster Joe Bastardi, three or four out of the next five winters could be just as cold, if not colder. He is worried that next winter, for example, will be colder than this one. Bastardi adds that with the U.S. in the middle of one of its worst recessions in its history and the price of oil in question, he is extremely concerned about the prospect for more persistent cold weather in the coming years putting increased financial hardship on Americans. “Cold is a lot worse than warm,” Bastardi said, “and that’s why your energy bill goes up during the winter time: because of the fact that it takes a lot to heat a house.” While there are many different factors that are playing into Bastardi’s forecast, one of the primary drivers is La Niña and the trends that have been observed in winters that follow the onset of a La Niña. The current La Niña, which kicked in this past summer, is unprecedented after becoming the strongest on record in December 2010. Bastardi thinks this La Niña will last into next year, though it will be weaker, and will not disappear completely until 2012. According to Bastardi, studies over the past 100 years or so show that after the first winter following the onset of a La Niña, the next several winters thereafter tend to be colder than normal in the U.S. -Accuweather

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Worsening drought in Somalia leaves 2 million at risk warns UN

Posted on February 4, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 4, 2011 – Nairobi – War-torn Somalia is facing what could be an “extremely serious” drought, a senior United Nations aid official warned Thursday. UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos told journalists in Nairobi that Somalia was “teetering on the brink of much larger-scale disaster” due to countrywide drought. ”What happens with main rains in April, that is point at which we will have a much clearer idea if impact will be as bad as in previous years,” she said at the end of a three-day visit to Somalia and Kenya. “The hardest impact at the moment is in Somalia, but is having a regional impact as well.” Some 2 million Somalis, or 27 per cent of the population, are already in crisis, Amos warned. South and central Somalia is in the grip of a bloody Islamist insurgency, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives since early 2007 and exacerbated problems brought on by cyclical drought in the Horn of Africa nation. -Earth Times

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Planetary tremor: the anomalistic 2100 hour event

Posted on February 4, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 3, 2011 – Above: (left) Pitcairn Island seismic wave anomaly - (right) New Zealand. Another planetary tremor occurred at 21:00 hours GMT. What’s notable about the latest planetary seismic event is that it’s one of the oddest we’ve seen. Trouble is once again developing in the South Pacific region. The 4.5 magnitude quake on the South Island of New Zealand and the 5.4 earthquake which struck the volcanic region of Tonga is testament to continual South Pacific unrest. The global seismic pattern also shows what looks like massive Pacific Plate obstruction in subduction to the Indo-Australian plate. We think the seismic vibrations from this event rattled tectonic plates across the globe. Areas of most prominence include Samoa, followed by an oscillating wave under Pitcairn Island, South Pacific and a sizable jolt near the Kermandec Islands and Tonga.

(left) Chile anomaly and (right) Kermandec Islands. The trembling was seen through Norway and can also be seen in the recent flurry of 3.0 magnitude tremors to rattle the MAR running through Iceland. Pulse tremors followed across Chile and Brazil and rippled to Antarctica. All this could be leading to another major mega-thrust quake. Below, Iceland tremors and the unsual bow oscillating wave in the magnetosphere of a planet shaken during rotation and magnetic field propagation.

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Northern hemisphere covered in snow and ice

Posted on February 4, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 3, 2011 - “At first glance it looks like a graphic from a Discovery Channel program about a distant ice age. But this astonishing picture shows the world as it is today – with half the Northern Hemisphere covered with snow and ice. The image was released by the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Association (NOAA) on the day half of North America was in the grip of a severe winter storm. The map was created using multiple satellites from government agencies and the US Air Force. That Antarctica, the Arctic, Greenland and the frozen wastes of Siberia are covered in white comes as no surprise. But it is the extent to which the line dips down over the Northern Hemisphere that is so remarkable about the image. Below, the blizzard over Chicago.” -Daily Mail

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Oysters are becoming extinct say experts

Posted on February 4, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 3, 2011 – HOLLAND – Naturally growing oysters are virtually extinct, researchers claimed yesterday. Fewer than one per cent of natural oyster beds survive, they say. This means almost all oysters eaten these days are farmed. Researchers blame the loss of many of the world’s oyster reefs on over-exploitation. In places such as the Wadden Sea, off Holland, and America’s Narragansett Bay, an estuary off New England, oysters are rated “functionally extinct” by the research team from the US Institute of Biological Sciences. Oyster fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico are “probably the last opportunity to achieve large-scale oyster reef conservation and sustainable fisheries”, said research leader Dr Michael Beck. -The Express UK

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Society's Degeneration Nearly Complete: New Marijuana Soda to Launch in February

How about a refreshing Canna Cola? A company based in Soquel, Calif., has created a new line of soda pot — or, marijuana soda — that it plans to launch in Colorado in February.

Canna Cola isn't the first marijuana soda on the market, but its designer Clay Butler, who said he has never used marijuana or smoked a cigarette but is a "firm believer that adults have an inalienable right to think, eat, smoke, drink, ingest, decorate, dress any way they choose," told the Santa Cruz Sentinel that his beverage collection will be distinguished by marketing. "You look at all the marijuana products out there, and they are so mom-and-pop, hippie-dippy and rinky-dink," he said.

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Scientists to launch giant 'fishing net' to pick up space junk that threatens to destroy communications on Earth

Japan's space agency has teamed up with a fishing net company to pick up debris in Earth's orbit using a giant net.A Pentagon report warned last year that there is so much junk whizzing around Earth that any collision in space could cause a knock-on effect that would destroy vital communications satellites.
Now the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Nitto Seimo Co plan to solve the problem by sweeping up damaged satellites and space shuttles.

They will attach the thin metal net, which is several miles wide, to a satellite and then launch the pair into space.
Once in orbit, the net will be released at which point it will start picking up space junk in its path during a journey that is expected to last several weeks.

U.S. warned atomic arms race in Middle East and Asia could lead to nuclear war / Wikileaks

An atomic arms race in the Middle East and Asia has the ‘direct potential to lead to nuclear war’, the U.S. warned according to WikiLeaks files.North Korea, Iran and Syria are all trying to produce long-range missiles which could be fired outside the region.
The U.S. have intervened to prevent Syria getting their hands on materials used in making chemical and biological weapons.
Secret files said there are fears of conflict breaking out in the area.Relations between India and Pakistan are believed to represent the biggest risk of a full scale war in the region – and both states have nuclear weapons.
The Pentagon estimated that if an atomic conflict was to break out between them 12 million people could die.
And the cables reveal how much effort North Korea and Syria are putting in to getting hold of the materials to make chemical and biological weapons.
At a non-proliferation meeting in 2008, the U.S. warned in a secret briefing: ‘a nuclear and missile arms race (in South Asia) has the direct potential to lead to nuclear war in the world's most densely populated area and a region of increasing global economic significance'.
The cables, leaked to the Daily Telegraph, said that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice intervened to stop Syria buying materials used to produce chemical weapons from India.

Clinton calls home US envoys in

2,200 displaced by landslides and flooding in Sri Lanka

Posted on February 3, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 2, 2011 - Colombo - While Sri Lanka’s north central and eastern parts are struggling to return to normalcy after the recent floods that wreaked havoc in the region another round of heavy rains have set back the recovery efforts. Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Center (DMC) has reported that 2,271 people from 636 families have been displaced due to the adverse weather conditions experienced in the country currently. A total of 2,862 people from 738 families have been affected by the heavy rains and landslides in several parts of the country. Two deaths, a child from Vavuniya and another from Ambawaka on the Badulla-Nuwara Eliya road, have also been reported. Nearly half of the displaced, 1,011 are in Trincomalee District while another 945 have been displaced in Vavuniya district. The displaced have been given shelter in 11 welfare camps set up by the government in the two districts. Another 315 people have been evacuated to two shelters in Ella and Mahiyangana in Badulla district due to land slide threats. Among them are 30 Buddhist monks from the Mawalangala Aramaya. Landslide warnings have also been issued in Yatawatte, Rattota, and Pallepola of Matale district. -Colombo Page

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Instant Ice Age- Chicago transformed into ice-zone during blizzard

Posted on February 2, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

This video of ground zero in Chicago of the winter storm that blasted the U.S. almost defies belief. The planet’s climate, as we warned, is moving into uncharted territory. (c) Associated Press 2011

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Heavy rains displace 250,000 in the Philippines

Posted on February 2, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 2, 2011 - MANILA — Heavy rain swamping the southern Philippines has left four people dead and affected 250,000 others, according to officials. The rains over the past five days have flooded entire towns and caused landslides across vast areas of the mainly rural south, with more bad weather forecast for the rest of the month. “What we are having now is a creeping disaster,” the head of the state weather service, Graciano Yumul, on Wednesday told reporters in Manila. Yumul said Surigao, a city of 120,000 people, had received 1.8 metres (nearly six feet) of rain in one day. Two farmers drowned on Monday and another on Friday when they were swept away while crossing swollen rivers near Surigao, June Parada, spokesman for the provincial government of Surigao del Norte, told AFP. A seven-year-old boy also drowned in a neighbouring southern province, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in Manila. The government was rushing rescue equipment and emergency aid to nearly a quarter million people affected by the floods and landslides, it added. It was the second time the region had been hit by torrential rains this year.” -AFP

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Catastrophe- hundreds turned away from swollen storm shelters

Posted on February 2, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

Planetary Monster: Cyclone Yasi's size layed out across the U.S.

February 2, 2011 – Despite its ferocity and comparisons with Katrina which struck the U.S., the storm received very little coverage in the Western press. The reality is Yasi could easily swallow 3 Katrinas- the storm is that massive. If the storm was layed out over the U.S., it would span from coast to coast. Few realized the magnitude of the monstrosity that was forming off the Australian coast. Cyclone Yasi is not just a once in 150 year killer-type storm; it’s a planetary event. Despite the myriad warnings, many Australians never took the storm warnings seriously at peril now to their own lives. Hundreds were turned away from swollen shelters and many more have tried to ride the storm out in their own homes which are now being inundated with giant storm surges. Emergency services were swamped with calls from desperate homeowners who stayed behind and have now seen waves rushing into their 2nd-story dwellings. They were told to hunker down- a rescue was impossible under such conditions. The Army said, ‘We expect to be picking up bodies.” A reporter for the Daily Mail writes: ‘”The power of the wind – the scream of the wind – is terrifying and I have been warned by the hotel management that I will not be able to remain in my room in case the windows blow in. I will be moved, with the rest of the hotel guests and the evacuated families, to a cellar during the night. Added to the eeriness of the fearful wait for the cyclone to strike is the sound of cyclone warning sirens echoing through city streets. While I have written of tsunamis and cyclones in the past, it has always been in the aftermath of the disaster. This is the first time I have lived through a cyclone and it is a terrifying experience. On top of everyone’s fears is the knowledge that this is the most severe weather pattern to strike Australia in living memory – just how severe will be seen at dawn after the eye of the cyclone has passed and moved inland.’ –Excerpts Daily Mail

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Scientists mystified why clouds around polar regions are growing brighter

Posted on February 2, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 2, 2011 - We weren’t the first to say the morphing Sun is starting to affect everything here on Earth and we won’t be the last. Here’s another interesting story from Space.com. “Clouds bright enough to see at night are not as hard to find as they once were. These so-called night-shining clouds are still rare — rare enough that Matthew DeLand, who has been studying them for 11 years, has seen them only once. But his odds are increasing. Mysterious clouds form between 50 and 53 miles (80 and 85 kilometers) up in the atmosphere, altitudes so high that they reflect light long after the sun has dropped below the horizon. DeLand, an atmospheric scientist with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has found that night-shining clouds — technically known as polar mesospheric or noctilucent clouds — are forming more frequently and becoming brighter. He has been observing the clouds in data from instruments that have been flown on satellites since 1978. For reasons not fully understood, the clouds’ brightness wiggles up and down in step with solar activity, with fewer clouds forming when the sun is most active. The biggest variability is in the far north. Underlying the changes caused by the sun, however, is a trend toward brighter clouds. The upward trend in brightness, DeLand said, reveals subtle changes in the atmosphere that may be linked to greenhouse gases. Night-shining clouds are extremely sensitive to changes in atmospheric water vapor and temperature. The clouds form only when temperatures drop below minus 200 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 130 degrees Celsius), when the scant amount of water high in the atmosphere freezes into ice clouds. This happens most often in far northern and southern latitudes (above 50 degrees) in the summer when, counter-intuitively, the mesosphere is coldest. –Space.com

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Shaken and stirred- planetary tremors and geomagnetic storms

Posted on February 2, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 2, 2011 – The latest planetary tremor occurred at 1:00 GMT. The rattling appeared to be most prominent along the Arctic Circle and then reverberated down and across the globe, stirring tectonic plates across the planet in the process. The latest tremor halos with the arrival of the geomagnetic storm that struck the planet about 30 hours ago- though the two events appear to be unrelated. (Left) N. Russia and (right) Antarctica.

Sun’s coronal hole enlarges at it rotates away from Earth. The next geo-storm will hit Earth on Feb 3.

post-mortem on WikiLeaks crisislink

EPA

Hillary Clinton is facing several diplomatic crises, including the current turmoil in Egypt

Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, has summoned more than 260 US ambassadors and envoys from every corner of the globe for a week of brainstorming and re-evaluation in Washington, just as America's sprawling diplomatic machine is facing crises on several fronts at once, not least thanks to the work of WikiLeaks.

The unprecedented gathering at the State Department began yesterday and brought together America's most senior diplomatic representatives from 180 countries. Most have been told to stay in Washington all week for a series of meetings and pep talks. Ms Clinton is set to address them tomorrow and will have face-to-face meetings with envoys from front-line countries where the stakes for America are highest.

Officials stayed quiet about the initial purpose saying only that Ms Clinton was anxious to complete planning for 2011. However, it comes at a time of multiple challenges for the US in its foreign dealings, including the growing clamour on Capitol Hill for cuts in foreign aid and the impact of the turmoil in Egypt on Middle East policy. That is not to forget the running sores of Iran and North Korea or the perils of American policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

More than 50,000 heads of cattle died of severe cold weatherlink

(VOV) - As of 4pm on February 2, a total of 50,000 heads of cattle have died because of the recent long cold spell in some northern provinces, according to the Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Son La province suffered the greatest loss of over 9,300 heads of cattle, followed by Lang Son (7,500) and Cao Bang (6,800).
Apart from the buffalos and cows died of the severe cold weather, horses, pigs, goats and giraffes were also lost.
The Veterinary Department appointed delegations to cities and provinces coordinate local animal health departments to fight against the dangers of hunger and cold for cattle during the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

2011-02-02T04:23:00.000-08:00

Mid-East protest contagion fears for Saudi oil fields

"Yemen, Sudan, Jordan and Syria all look vulnerable. However, the greatest risk in terms of both probability and severity is in Saudi Arabia," said a report by risk consultants Exclusive Analysis.

While markets have focused on possible disruption to the Suez Canal, conduit for 8pc of global shipping, it is unlikely that Egyptian leaders of any stripe would cut off an income stream worth $5bn (£3.1bn) a year to the Egyptian state.

"I don't think the Egyptians will ever dare to touch it," said Opec chief Abdalla El-Badri, adding that the separate Suez oil pipeline is "very well protected". The canal was blockaded after the Six Days War in 1967.

There has been less focus on the risk of instability spreading to Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, headquarters of the Saudi oil giant Aramco. The region boasts the vast Safaniya, Shaybah and Ghawar oilfields. "This is potentially far more dangerous," said Faysal Itani, Mid-East strategist at Exclusive.
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IMF raises spectre of civil wars as global inequalities worsen

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF's chief, said the economic rebound across the world is built on unstable foundations, with many rich nations still strapped in job slumps while the rising powers of China, India and Brazil already facing the threat of overheating. "It is not the recovery we wanted. It is a recovery beset by tensions and strain, which could even sow the seeds of the next crisis," he said.

"Global unemployment remains at record highs, with widening income inequality adding to social strains," he said, citing turmoil in North Africa as a prelude to what may happen as 400m youths join the workforce over the next decade. "We could see rising social and political instability within nations – even war," he said.
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Clinton convenes mass meeting of 260 U.S. ambassadors

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is convening an unprecedented mass meeting of U.S. ambassadors.

The top envoys from nearly all of America's 260 embassies, consulates and other posts in more than 180 countries will be gathering at the State Department beginning on Monday. Officials say it's the first such global conference.

The gathering comes at a time of crisis in Egypt that could reshape dynamics in the Middle East, fallout from leaked diplomatic documents and congressional calls for sweeping cuts in foreign aid.

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Calfornia is becoming a Third World state

The last three weeks I have traveled about, taking the pulse of the more forgotten areas of central California. I wanted to witness, even if superficially, what is happening to a state that has the highest sales and income taxes, the most lavish entitlements, the near-worst public schools (based on federal test scores), and the largest number of illegal aliens in the nation, along with an overregulated private sector, a stagnant and shrinking manufacturing base, and an elite environmental ethos that restricts commerce and productivity without curbing consumption.

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Canada's banks not so much stronger than U.S.'s

Despite their reputation, Canada’s six largest banks do not necessarily have stronger balance sheets under new global banking rules than their major U.S. counterparts, a new report has found.In a study of large Canadian and U.S. banks, Canaccord Genuity analyst Mario Mendonca said Canada’s biggest lenders, on average, have lower Tier 1 capital ratios than seven of the largest U.S. banks. Tier 1 capital can be easily liquidated to help a bank absorb losses in a financial crisis, and is considered a key measure of financial strength.
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Housing Armageddon: 12 Facts Which Show That We Are In The Midst Of The Worst Housing Collapse In U.S. History

We are officially in the middle of the worst housing collapse in U.S. history - and unfortunately it is going to get even worse. Already, U.S. housing prices have fallen further during this economic downturn (26 percent), then they did during the Great Depression (25.9 percent). Approximately 11 percent of all homes in the United States are currently standing empty. In fact, there are many new housing developments across the U.S. that resemble little more than ghost towns because foreclosures have wiped them out. Mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures reached new highs in 2010, and it is being projected that banks and financial institutions will repossess at least a million more U.S. homes during 2011. Meanwhile, unemployment is absolutely rampant and wage levels are going down at a time when mortgage lending standards have been significantly tightened. That means that there are very few qualified buyers running around out there and that is going to continue to be the case for quite some time to come. When you add all of those factors up, it leads to one inescapable conclusion. The "housing Armageddon" that we have been experiencing since 2007 is going to get even worse in 2011.

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

2nd Coal Mine explosion in 6 DAYS - Colombia 2nd Feb. 2011

A gas explosion ripped through a mine in Colombia Tuesday, killing five workers and injuring a sixth, days after the government promised a safety overhaul following a string of similar tragedies. The methane blast occurred at around 1245 GMT at La Escondida coal mine in the central province of Cundinamarca, a spokesman from the state Institute of Geology and Mining said.

The sixth miner was being treated in hospital, the spokesman said, but the extent of his injuries was not immediately known. No other workers were in the mine at the time of the blast, the official added.

President Juan Manuel Santos cut short a trip to Europe last week to be at the side of the victims of an earlier blast last Wednesday that left 21 workers dead at a coal mine in the northeast of the country. Santos, before returning from the summit in Switzerland, described the accident as a tragedy that should never have happened. "We must massively reinforce mine safety measures," he told reporters. "For that reason, when I return, I am going to give instructions for a detailed review of all the regulations and their enforcement."

Mines Minister Carlos Rodado pointed to a glaring lack of resources and said the government must radically rethink its oversight of the industry. "We need to bolster human, technical and financial resources because we only have 16 people to monitor the 3,000 thousand mines currently being operated and the 3,000 others in exploration," Rodado said. Source..

Russia loses contact with newly launched satellite

Russia's top military and space official launched a search Tuesday for a missing military satellite that apparently was put into the wrong orbit shortly after its launch.

The Russian defence ministry confirmed that it had lost sight of the craft -- a dual-use vessel that can draw a three-dimensional map of the Earth and locate the precise positions of various targets. The incident came just a month after President Dmitry Medvedev sacked two top space officials for a similar setback and delivered another humiliating blow to Russia's much-maligned space industry.

The seriousness of the situation was underscored late Tuesday by reports that the defence ministry had set up an urgent joint task force with the Russia's space agency to look for the missing craft. The Geo-IK-2 satellite was created in Russia to help the military survey land and create a detailed three-dimensional map of the Earth. It was designed to spin in a circular orbit 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) above ground. But news reports said that the satellite had been put in an an elliptical orbit whose lowest point brought it to within 330 kilometres of Earth.

"We have still not been able to establish contact with the craft, and it looks like most likely, it will be declared lost," a Russian space source said. "The spacecraft will not be able to perform its intended functions at these orbit characteristics," another space official told the news agency.

Reports pointed the initial blame for the failure on the satellite's Briz-KM upper stage rocket. The satellite's launch had already been delayed from December because of technical malfunctions that were detected at its northern Russian launch site in Plesetsk. Tuesday's malfunction came less than five weeks after Medvedev fired two top space officials and reprimanded the space agency chief for a launch failure caused Russia to delay the deployment of its own navigation system.

Russia's Proton-M rocket had on that occasion proven too heavy to reach its initial orbit and had been forced to dump its three high-tech Glonass-M satellites near the Hawaii Islands. Investigators said that accident was caused by a basic fuel miscalculation that made the craft too heavy to reach its required height. The three Glonass satellites would have completed a system whose research had been started by the Soviet Union in 1976. Source...

Avian virus outbreaks- Hundreds of pigeons dying in Geneva, Switzerland

Posted on February 2, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 2, 2011 - Geneva, Switzerland – A deadly virus is killing what may be hundreds of pigeons and turtledoves around Geneva, particularly in the commune of Carouge. Health authorities advised people in an alert published 31 January not to touch any dead birds to avoid spreading the disease to other ones. The virus is not dangerous to humans or other animals, and the scale of the problem is not a health nuisance, nor have the birds been poisoned, authorities were quick to reassure. The pigeon population may be reduced in the short term but it will rebuild as the virus dies out naturally. Health authorities say the virus, which is often lethal, affects only pigeons and turtledoves, but they recommend that people avoid touching sick or dead birds. Geneva has a law against feeding birds, but the city is insisting that for the sake of the pigeons, people must restrain from feeding them now, as the virus spreads most easily when the birds flock together. Feeding encourages them to concentrate in small areas. Some research has shown that bird droppings are the main form of the virus spreading in areas where birds are concentrated. Researchers at the University of Zurich have identified it as pigeon paramyxovirus-1, which causes neurological problems: tremors of the head or wings, difficulties landing, a stiff neck, loss of sense of orientation and difficulty feeding. In very rare cases a pigeon may become more aggressive towards other birds.” -Geneva Lunch

Japan – H5N1 spreading – MIYAZAKI (Kyodo) The Miyazaki Prefectural Government said Tuesday that 191 chickens died at a poultry farm in the city of Miyazaki and that six of the seven dead birds tested positive for avian influenza in a preliminary exam. Officials decided to launch more detailed examinations on the six dead birds to confirm whether they were infected with bird flu. It would be the prefecture’s seventh outbreak. In Tottori Prefecture, meanwhile, officials said the highly virulent strain of the H5N1 virus was detected in two wild birds that tested positive for avian flu in earlier tests. The infection, involving a tufted duck and hooded gull found in a weakened state in Yonago last month, marks the second outbreak of a highly virulent strain of bird flu in Tottori this winter. -Japan Times

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Worst fears materialize- Cyclone Yasi morphs into category 5 killer

Posted on February 2, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

GOVERNMENT WARNING – TC Yasi, CATEGORY 5, will continue to move in a west-southwesterly direction during the day. The cyclone is expected to cross the coast in the Innisfail area at about midnight. Coastal residents within the warning area, and particularly between Cairns and Ayr are specifically warned of an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SEA LEVEL RISE [i.e. storm tide] as the cyclone approaches, crosses the coast and moves inland. The sea is likely to steadily rise up to a level which will be VERY DANGEROUSLY above the normal tide, with EXTREMELY DAMAGING WAVES, STRONG CURRENTS and FLOODING of low-lying areas extending some way inland. People living in areas likely to be affected by this flooding should take measures to protect their property as much as possible, and be prepared to follow instructions regarding evacuation of the area if advised to do so by authorities.

-AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNING CENTRE BRISBANE

Feb 2 (Reuters) – Australia’s Cyclone Yasi, with winds of up to 300 km (186 miles) per hour, is so powerful it could blow apart even “cyclone proof” houses, engineers said on Wednesday. Yasi is headed for major towns and cities along the northeast coast. It is believed to be the strongest ever to hit Australia, surpassing Cyclone Tracy which largely destroyed the northern city of Darwin in 1974. -Reuters

Update: CYCLONE Yasi has begun to batter towns and cities across north Queensland, tearing down trees and damaging houses about 5 hours before the eye of the storm is expected to cross the coast. Innisfail Mayor Bill Shannon said he had already seen the roof torn from a building near the council chambers where 500 people are sheltering. “The eye is five hours away and it’s already causing damage so it’s pretty worrying,” he said. Cassowary Coast councillor Ross Sorbello, a Tully resident, said trees had been torn down in nearby El Arish and Cardwell. “We’re just hoping and praying we can all get through the night,” he said. “The winds are probably getting up to 100 kilometres an hour which is worrying when we are this far out (from the eye).” However, he said he was more concerned about the potential loss of life than damage to property. ”This is a cyclone of savagery and intensity,” Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in a news conference. “People are facing some really dreadful hours in front of them.” -News.Au

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5.9 quake strikes Alaska peninsula

Posted on February 2, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 1, 2011 – ALASKA - A 5.9 (6.3 on European scale) quake struck the volcanically-active and densely populated Alaskan peninsula. The quake coincides with yesterday’s renewed eruption of the Kizimen volcano across the water in Kamchatka. The quake looks like a minor stress-shift from the recent bout of agitation in the South Pacific though we still see an unusual band of activity under Taiwan. Below the graphs for Alaska (left) and Oregon (right) indicating San Juan de Fuca is stirring and the recent 9 quakes rattling Mount St. Helens and the Cascadian fault was no mere coincidental fluke.

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Cyclone Yasi reaches category 5 strength

Posted on February 1, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

Update- Australian government upgrades Yasi to category 5. The rapid strengthening of this storm over a 3 day period is almost unprecedented. Wind gusts of 265 km/h have been reported. You can follow the storm on our live-tracker map in the previous post about Yasi. (c) ITN News

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Aurora blast captured in photograph

Posted on February 1, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 1, 2011 – AURORA-BURST: “According to the official forecast, the odds of geomagnetic activity on Jan. 31st were less than 10%. That was good enough for Kjetil Skogli of Troms, Norway. “We went out to look in spite of the low expectations–and there it was!” An aurora-burst was in progress directly overhead. “We didn’t have to wait at all,” says Skogli. “The show started right away and lasted for more than an hour with a lot of moving green curtains and rays.” The unexpected display was caused by a disturbance in the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) near Earth. The IMF tilted south, opening a hole in Earth’s magnetosphere. Solar wind poured in and ignited the auroras. More auroras are in the offing. A solar wind stream is heading for Earth, due to arrive on Feb. 2nd and 3rd. NOAA forecasters peg the chances of geomagnetic activity on those dates at 20% to 35%–much better odds than Skogli had.” –Space Weather

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Japan’s Shinmoedake volcano explodes

Posted on February 1, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 1, 2011 - TOKYO (AP) – A revived volcano in southern Japan erupted Tuesday with its biggest explosion yet, shooting out a huge plume of gas, boulders and ash and breaking windows eight kilometers away. The danger zone around Shinmoedake volcano was widened to keep residents safe. The largest eruption since it burst back to life last week covered wide areas in ash, shot boulders onto distant roads, knocked down trees and broke hundreds of windows in hotels and offices. No serious injuries have been reported since the initial eruption last Wednesday, but public broadcaster NHK said a woman suffered cuts from shattered glass in Tuesday’s blast. NHK said the eruption was five times larger than the initial activity last week, which was Shinmoedake’s first major eruption in 52 years. -Manila Bulletin

(c) RT News 2011

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Weather chaos across the globe: Heavy snowfall paralyzes Japan

Posted on February 1, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 1, 2011 – JAPAN – “Heavy snow has wreaked havoc on transportation in areas along the Sea of Japan coast of central Honshu. The Imajo district of Minami-Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, saw a record 236 centimeters of snow as of 7 a.m. on Jan. 31, the Fukui Local Meteorological Observatory said. Services on the Hokuriku Line and other JR lines in the Hokuriku region have been suspended because of heavy snow since the night of Jan. 30. Seven limited express trains as well as local trains came to a halt mainly at stations on the Hokuriku Line, such as Tsuruga and Fukui, since around 9 p.m. on Jan. 30, according to the Kanazawa branch of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West). A winter snowstorm dumped more snow on to the Sea of Japan coastline, local authorities closed sections of major roads and highways in Fukui prefecture. The fresh snowfall pushed the snow accumulation to 64 centimetres in Kanazawa and to 118 centimetres in Fukui, surpassing 100 centimetres for the first time in 25 years, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Hundreds of vehicles were halted near Tsuruga Tunnel on National Route No. 8 situated between Tsuruga and Minami-Echizen, causing a 10-kilometer traffic snarl, according to the local branch of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry.” -Manichi Daily News

Canada- A major storm is expected to hit southern Ontario late Tuesday, bringing up to 30 centimetres of snow in some parts and strong winds. That system will bring periods of light snow to southwestern Ontario overnight Monday, she said. Winds will produce blowing snow and reduced visibility. Environment Canada on Monday morning upgraded a special weather statement to a winter storm watch. “The heavy snowfall and blowing snow will cause whiteout conditions making for extremely hazardous driving conditions. This storm has the potential to create near-paralyzing conditions.” The agency said that 20 to 30 centimetres of snow could accumulate in areas stretching from Windsor in the west to Brockville in the east by Wednesday afternoon, after which the storm is expected to taper off. “It’s possible it could be the most snow we’ve seen in a storm so far this year, at least for regions outside the snowbelt,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Ria Alsen. -CBC.ca

Chicago (U.S.) - Light snow is expected to begin falling Monday night, but the heavy snowfall will begin falling midday Tuesday and through Wednesday afternoon. Meteorologists predict the blizzard will produce whiteout conditions as 40 to 45 mph winds combine with snow falling at a pace of 2 to 4 inches per hour during portions of the storm, Nelson said. A blizzard and ice storm is expected to cripple half of the country over the next 48 hours. Winter snow warnings have been issued in 22 states.

China - Drought prevails across much of China. In China’s capital, they are having the exact opposite problem. The state news agency Xin Hua is reporting that after 83 snowless days into winter, this is the longest dry spell since they started keeping records in 1951. -NPR

Boliva – La Paz - Flooding in Bolivia has cost at least 22 people their lives, with at least six others missing in the province of Chuquisaca, police chief Iver Marquez said Monday. A truck and a bus were swept away by the Molle Punku River in a remote area some 30 kilometres from provincial capital Sucre on Friday. Only the younger passengers were able to escape. The normally dry river has been overflowing to due to heavy rain. -M&C

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Dark hole Sun: dense ionized wind stream burns Earth’s magnetosphere

Posted on February 1, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

February 1, 2011 – It’s here. The solar wind pouring from the large coronal hole on the Sun has hit earth and though the wind speed blast has not caused the magnetosphere to expand in its usual dramatic flaring fashion to protect the earth- it has instead ionized the shield. Proton density is 20.9 protons/cm³ in a wind helio-wind speed of 376.8 km/sec. That’s high enough to have an ionized, searing effect of the planet’s fledging protective barrier. This is one of the largest coronal holes we’ve seen on the Earth-facing hemisphere of the Sun in some time and it’s emitting a powerful blast of proton particles toward earth like a ray gun. The particle stream is so powerful, it’s pushing the planet’s magnetic field out almost as fast as it’s being generated from its rotational spin. Looking at the pressure reading of the magnetosphere below, we can see this is a very high resolution burn at maximum intensity. High proton density counts on the Sun are common when there is a plasma interface with the Sun’s magnetic field from a comet but solar wind streams generally flow out in much weaker constitution from the Sun. Stay tuned…

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Monster: Cyclone Yasi 250 kmh winds, 6 meter tidal surges on arrival

Posted on January 31, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 31, 2011 - Queensland – Cyclone could be Australia’s biggest ever seen. Queensland premier Anna Bligh is warning residents to prepare themselves for a “frightening experience” as Cyclone Yasi approaches. Evacuations are underway in Queensland as the state prepares for the category four cyclone to hit the already flood-ravaged state. “We stand ready. It’s not a task that we expected. We thought we’d borne all that we would be expected to bear in the last five weeks,” said Bligh. “But it seems that more is to be asked of us.” Bligh is calling on Queenslanders to prepare themselves ahead of the cyclone as forecasters predict gale-force winds of up to 265km/h, torrential rain and massive storm surges. “Yasi may well be one of the largest and most significant cyclones that we have ever had to deal with,” Bligh told ABC Australia. Cyclone Yasi could become a category four cyclone when it hits the northeast coast. If it builds to a four, wind gusts of up to 250km/h can be expected, as Cyclone Larry was when it devastated Innisfail and surrounding communities in March 2006.” -TVNZ

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6.0 earthquake strikes Tonga in the South Pacific

Posted on January 31, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 31, 2011 - (Left) Kermandec Islands seismic wave and (right) the New Zealand graph

An underwater 6.0 earthquake has struck near the Tonga region at a depth of 68.6 km. See our earlier piece on seismic anomalies around Kermandec and Tonga in the South Pacific.

US prepares for growing winter stormlink

Snow is forecast to cause travel problems across more than a dozen states

The US is bracing for another onslaught of bitter winter weather as a major storm gathers in the mid-west.

The storm is expected to affect a third of the country, stretching from Colorado in the country's centre to the north-eastern state of Maine.
Some 6,000 flights were cancelled on Tuesday, with more cancellations foreseen on Wednesday.
Nearly 27,000 homes in Texas and 14,000 in Ohio were without power, and storm alerts were issued in 19 states.
Officials in the city of Chicago, which is expecting 24in (60cm) of snow, said its public schools would close on Wednesday for their first "snow day" in 12 years.
In Missouri, more than a foot (30cm) of snow had fallen by midday, the Associated Press (AP) news agency reported, with more continuing to blanket the state.
Meteorologist Jeff Johnson of the National Weather Service in Iowa told AP the storm was sure to "cripple transportation for a couple of days".
The series of storms that has hit the US this winter is also wreaking havoc with government budgets. Clean-up costs are placing pressure on already tight public funds.
But other businesses are benefiting, with concerned residents stocking up on essentials.
"Milk, bread, toilet paper, beer," Todd Vasel, who works at the St Louis-based grocery chain Dierbergs, told AP. "It's been the equivalent of Christmas Eve, which is normally one of our biggest days of the year."
Hardware stores in affected regions have reported selling out of snow shovels, ice-melting salt and generators.
'Significant impact' Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma, were paralysed as the storm reduced visibility on the roads and snow drifts piled in drifts as high as 4ft.
More than 1,300 flights were cancelled in Chicago's O'Hare airport, among the busiest in the world. Another 350 were cancelled at the city's second airport, Midway.
Aviation officials warned that flights were likely to be badly affected on Wednesday too.
Some 900 flights were cancelled in Dallas, 650 in Newark, and nearly 1,100 at New York's LaGuardia and JFK airports.
"This storm is going to have a significant impact on airlines, particularly those with hubs in Chicago (United, American) and Newark (Continental)," the FlightAware website warned.

Celente: Revolutionary Fervor to Spread Beyond Arab States; Europe Next

Peter Whitley Illustration

Gerald Celente
Rense

KINGSTON, NY, 1 February 2011 - When the Tunisian government toppled, the mass media and their stable of experts who were blindsided by these events quickly stepped in to proclaim the obvious: that citizens of other Arab nations would be emboldened to challenge autocratic and corrupt governments.

Now Egypt is in the throes of insurrection, and Algeria, Jordan, Morocco and Yemen are already targeted for revolutionary change. The richer and more tightly controlled Kingdoms of the Middle East will not be immune to challenges from their citizenry to break the chains of royal rule.

But, as I had forecast in the Trends Journal, it is not solely the Middle East that is destined to experience episodes of violent upheaval. What is transpiring in the Arab world will spread throughout many European states. While the call to arms will be spoken in different tongues, the underlying causes will be the same.

In December 2010 (before Tunisia made the headlines) we issued a Trend Alert® titled, "Off With Their Heads!" in which we predicted a "long war between the people and the ruling classes." We noted that, "Anyone questioning the intensity of the people's seething anger is either out of touch or in denial."

It wasn't Arab anger that led us to that forecast it was the student and worker revolts spilling into the streets of Europe. The imposition of draconian austerity measures higher taxes, tuition hikes, lost benefits, curtailed services, public sector job cuts had young and old raging against a rigged system that paved the way for the privileged and punished the proles.

2011-01-31T01:23:00.000-08:00

Chicago could get two feet of snow

Don't take this one lightly link

30 Jan 11 - A major snowstorm could bring up to two feet of snow or more to Chicago and the suburbs by early Wednesday, including the entire northern Illinois and northwest Indiana area.

"The system is the most powerful system in this region in many years, which will bury Chicago in two feet of snowfall by the time it is over", warned TWS Meteorologist Kevin Martin. "The system is not to be taken lightly and if you are in the affected areas you need to prepare for this".

The snow should begin accumulating Tuesday afternoon, fall at a rate of 3 inches per hour and end by early Wednesday, according to National Weather Service metrologist Richard Castro.

“We will have blowing and drifting, causing blizzard or white-out conditions for a time,” Castro said.

By Wednesday afternoon, northerly winds will continue that could prolong the snow over northwest Indiana, causing some “potentially significant” lake-effect snow, Castro said.

The snowfall record for this area remains the 23 inches that fell during the “infamous storm” in January 1967, he said.

See:
http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/news/3575347-418/castro-snow-inches-area-wednesday.html

See also:
http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-1_30_2011_Midwest.html
Thanks to Stephanie Relfe for these links

Heavy rain causes bridge collapse in Singapore

Posted on January 31, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 31, 2011 – SINGAPORE – Bridge under construction at Punggol The Waterway collapses. A partially completed bridge at the construction site opposite his house collapsed under the weight of rainwater on Sunday morning, reported The Straits Times Reader Simon Low who took and sent in a picture from his flat in Block 638b Punggol Drive. In an email report to The Straits Times website, Mr Low wrote: ‘This morning, I noticed part of the bridge had collapsed due to the heavy rain. ‘I believe the bridge also acted as a dam, but the water overflowed (from the right side) the partially built bridge, and pushed the bridge away. ‘The banks of the waterway on the right side of the bridge overflowed due to this morning’s heavy rain. I wonder whether it will happen again once the waterway is fully completed.’ -The Strait Times

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Magnetosphere band pattern comparison during 4 hour interval

Posted on January 31, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 31, 2011 – Left to Right spectral band comparison of magnetosphere during a 4 hour interval when solar wind proton density increased to 8.7 cm³

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What’s distorting and twisting the planet’s magnetic field?

Posted on January 31, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 31, 2011 – The frenzied and disorganized spectral patterns we’ve seen in the planet’s magnetosphere continues today with this current snapshot of a cork-screw effect.

3-D simulation of how Earth’s magnetic field should look – Jean Ahmad

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High winds topple 25-story skyscraper in Brazil

Posted on January 30, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 30, 2011 – BRAZIL - “A skyscraper in the city of Belem in Para State, Brazil, collapsed on Sunday, injuring several people and trapping three beneath piles of rubble. The incident occurred just as four construction workers had left the site. The collapsed building was in the process of construction and was due for release in December this year. The three trapped workers had been completing their shift, according to union representatives. According to a report filed by Reuters, the building tower collapsed after swaying dramatically in high winds and rain. It is unknown whether the building caused damage to surrounding structures as it fell, but police have cleared surrounding buildings while inspections are carried out. Emergency services in the city had been dispatched to the scene to find the trapped men, said Para state Health Minister Helio Franco, although it unknown if they survived. The collapse reduced the building to a pile of rubble. -Malaysian Sun

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Victoria bakes in unprecedented heatwave

Posted on January 30, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 30, 2011 – “Melbourne is preparing for a scorching day, with the weather bureau forecasting the first day of 40 degree weather for the year. It is expected to be even hotter in the north-west with 42 degrees expected in Mildura and Swan Hill, where many residents are continuing preparations for a peak in floodwaters. Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Dean Stewart says a cool change should sweep through Melbourne at around 6:00pm or 7:00pm. “There will be southerly winds, initially fairly gusty, but they should settle down and temperatures by around eight o’clock this evening should be around 25 to 30 degrees,” he said. He says an unprecedented heatwave in Central Australia has contributed to today’s extreme forecast for the state. “With a high pressure system in the Tasman Sea we’re likely to see the northerly winds develop over south-east Australia and bring some of that very hot air from the inland down over Victoria,” he said.”We’re expecting a lot of centres to get over the 40 degree mark, even as high as 42 up in the north-west of the state.” -ABC News.net

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Seismic anomalies north of New Zealand: volcanic stress building?

Posted on January 30, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 30, 2011 - KERMANDEC ISLANDS – For more than a month now we’ve been noticing some very unusual seismic and magnetic anomalies under the Kermandec Islands, north of New Zealand and near the island of Tonga. The islands are part of a volcanic arc that includes some of the largest underwater volcanoes known to exist in the South Pacific. The extraordinary eruption of the underwater volcano off the coast of Tonga in 2009 and the more than 4000 tremors that have rocked the North Island of New Zealand area following the 7.1 Christchurch earthquake on September 4, 2010 could be an omen of escalating actitivity in the region. Canterbury University geology professor Mark Quigley said the Christchurch quake produced what “looked to us could be a new fault” which had ripped across the earth and pushed some surface areas up about three feet (a meter). The quake was caused by the ongoing collision between the Pacific and Australian tectonic plates, he said. “One side of the earth has lurched to the right … up to 11 feet (3.5 meters) and in some places been thrust up,” Quigley told National Radio. ¹

The Kermandec Islands are part of a very violent and rapidly morphing volcanic arc in the South Pacific which has been stirred tempestuously by an increasing number of planetary tremors that have jostled tectonic plates across the globe. A volcanic arc is formed from the subduction of an oceanic tectonic plate under another tectonic plate. The friction from the geological upheaval produces magma at depths under the overriding plate. The magma ascends to form an arc of volcanoes parallel to the subduction zone. The Taupo super-volcano on the North Island of New Zealand began experiencing unusual seismic anomalies as early as 2010. There is fear that the growing seismic unrest in the South Pacific may awaken Taupo and volcanoes under the Kermandec Islands and Tonga. See graphs below

2011-01-30T04:26:00.000-08:00

'Brace for more snow': Groundhog Day Storm to affect 100 million people next week

Weather experts predicts a massive winter storm to hit on February 2
The severe conditions will affect the South, Midwest and Northeast
Big Apple deluged by snowiest January in history

A massive winter storm forecast for February 2 is set to affect more than 100 million people, weather experts have predicted.
The Groundhog Day snowstorm is expected to hit the South, Midwest and Northeast of the country, building from early next week.
The storm is likely to severely impact ground travel, cancellation of flights and school closures according to AccuWeather.

Groundhog Day Storm: Weather experts have predicted a severe snow storm will affect 100 million people leading up to and on February 2

Meteorologist Heather Buchman said: 'This is the type of storm that could shut down the region with high winds, plunging temperatures, ice, snow and a rapid freeze-up on roads'.
According to folklore, if a groundhog leaves its burrow on February 2 does not see its shadow, this will signify that the end of winter is coming.
However, if the groundhog sees its shadow then it will retreat back into its burrow and there will be another six weeks of winter.
The Groundhog Day storm prediction comes as normal service was resuming in the winter-weary north-eastern U.S. today after yet another storm

Picture perfect: A pedestrian walks in the snow in Battery Park, New York, yesterday after the huge snowfall

Buses in New York were running again after service was suspended on Wednesday and Thursday, while schools reopened yesterday.
The powerful storm - the latest in a long line of such storms this winter - dumped a thick blanket of snow throughout the region.
The blizzard stretched from the southern Appalachian Mountains to coastal Massachusetts.
In New York's Central Park, there were 19 inches of snow on Thursday morning, beating the single-day record set in 1925, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Subway passengers stranded on Coney Island refused to get off the train because they had no other means of keeping warm.

Clearing a path: Snow ploughs hard at work making day to day life possible

'I said, 'I have no where to go, I'm not leaving,'' passenger Eva Mahoney told NY1. 'There's no way I'm gonna get home because I remember the (December) blizzard.'
The dumping gave New York the unenviable record of the snowiest January in history and a state of emergency was called across the city.
Thousands of airline passengers were left stranded and more than 650,000 homes and businesses were cut off by power cuts.

WEATHER FORECAST

Saturday's forecast: The North East will still be deluged by snow with temperatures averaging an icy 35 degrees

Some reprieve: Sunday is scheduled to have a slight let up of snowfall with some sunshine seeping through although temperatures will still remain freezing

Even President Obama was caught up in the snow chaos after his motorcade was stranded for an hour in Washington.
Up to 12 inches fell in the Boston area and 14 inches in areas of Rhode Island. In the Philadelphia area, up to 17 inches of snow fell by the time the storm moved north.
In Portsmouth, New Hampshire, workers were nearly out of room to stash their ploughed snow.
In Massachusetts, gusts of 46 mph were reported in Hyannis, 45 mph in Rockport and 49 mph on Nantucket.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said: 'Keep an eye on your neighbours or older New Yorkers.'

Huge coronal hole on Sun turning towards Earth

Posted on January 30, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 30, 2011 - CORONAL HOLE: A dark croissant-shaped hole has opened up in the sun’s atmosphere, and it is spewing a stream of solar wind into space. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory took this picture of the vast opening during the early hours of Jan. 30th. Researchers call this a “coronal hole.” Solar rotation is turning the coronal hole toward Earth. The stream of solar wind pouring from it will swing around and hit our planet in early February, possibly sparking polar magnetic storms. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras between Feb. 2nd and 4th. The coronal blast from the Sun storm’s arrival on Earth will coincide with a massive snow storm that will sweep across North America. -Space Weather

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Landslides and flooding reported as Wilma lashes New Zealand

Posted on January 30, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 30, 2011 – NEW ZEALAND – Wellington – Tropical cyclone Wilma lashed the top of New Zealand early Saturday, bringing widespread flooding and landslides which cut highways and power blackouts. The fire service in Auckland, the country’s largest city, reported more than 400 emergency calls in the 11 hours to dawn, including one after a cliffside house collapsed onto a beach on Waiheke Island. Two people were reported stuck up trees for more than four hours as rescuers battled floodwaters to try to reach them. The Northland province was the worst hit, though gale force winds and torrential rain also lashed Auckland, the Coromandel Peninsula, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, the Waikato region, Tauranga and Rotorua. Police in many areas said roads were impassable and advised people to stay at home. The MetService said the cyclone was moving away from the country to the south-east and conditions would ease throughout Saturday. -Earth Times

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Earthchanges: Time acceleration and collapse

Posted on January 30, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 30, 2011 – Future shock: The physical world’s rapid deterioration and the unraveling of civilization’s archaic social models are interfacing with the lightning speed of technical innovation. Everything around us appears to be in an accelerated state of change. “Shut up the words and seal the book to the Time of the End. Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased.” Daniel 12:4 As we approach the event horizon of time’s end as we know it for this present world, the pace of events in the world around us will accelerate.

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Thousands of dead fish found in Lake Erie

Posted on January 30, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 30, 2011 – DETROIT – Officials say cold weather and a fish virus likely are to blame for thousands of dead gizzard shad found recently in Lakes Erie and St. Clair, the St. Clair River and the Detroit River. The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News report that the weather and viral hemorrhagic septicemia, or VHS, are suspected in the fish deaths. Researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Toledo took samples of dead shad Thursday and Friday that showed signs of the fish virus. Shad deaths are typical in the winter. It’s expected to take a month to determine whether the fish had VHS. Although not dangerous for humans, the virus has previously caused large fish kills in Lakes Ontario, Erie and Huron. It also has turned up in Lake Michigan. -Mlive

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Panic grips Australia as twin cyclone threat looms

Posted on January 30, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 30, 2011 – BRISBANE -Store shelves have been stripped bare for the 2nd time in a month. Hundreds of thousands of Queenslanders are being urged not to “panic buy” as two powerful cyclones threaten to batter the flood-ravaged state. Residents living on the 1700-kilometre strip from Hervey Bay to Cooktown have been told by authorities to prepare for the worst. Cyclone Anthony is expected to hit near Townsville at 10am tomorrow. It is feared a second cyclone, named Yasi, will develop from an intense tropical low near Fiji. Yesterday in Cairns, residents descended on the Earlville Shopping Centre, stocking up on essentials such as food, water and batteries. A spokeswoman for the IGA supermarket at Woree said people were panic buying. “People are certainly panicking. They’re buying a lot of water and a lot of grog – the essentials,” she said. “People are making sure they are covering their bases by panicking but they’re buying stuff they probably won’t end up using. Me, I can live off the land if I need to. Most people can’t, though.” Deputy Police Commissioner Ian Stewart, who is Queensland’s state disaster co-ordinator, told a press conference yesterday people should stock up but not panic about what might happen. “It’s a normal stock-up of the essentials. While some people are concerned, the potential for these events is of such a nature that it would be way too late to prepare next week,” he said. -SMH

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Awakening? Twin quakes rattle Mount St. Helens

Posted on January 30, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 29, 2011 – WASHINGTON – “Mount St. Helens is an active strato-volcano. On January 26, a magnitude 2.1 quake under the Northwest’s most active volcano jumped the gun on the Oregon ShakeOut by almost three hours. The quake rumbled 1.6 miles beneath Mount St. Helens at 7:34 a.m. PST about 45 miles northeast of Portland, Ore. Now two more quakes have rumbled under the mountain summit- a 2.5 and a 2.6 at the shallow depth of less than 4 km- a possible indication that magma may be on the move. It’s the 4 sizable tremor to rattle the volcanic summit in 3 days. The northwest quadrant of the U.S. is coming alive seismically. Could the volcano be awakening for a major new eruption? Stay tuned…

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Monster snow storm to descend on continental U.S.

Posted on January 29, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 29, 2011 – NEW YORK - A massive winter storm forecast for February 2 is set to affect more than 100 million people, weather experts have predicted. The Groundhog Day snowstorm is expected to hit the South, Midwest and Northeast of the country, building from early next week. The storm is likely to severely impact ground travel, cancellation of flights and school closures according to AccuWeather. Meteorologist Heather Buchman said: ‘This is the type of storm that could shut down the region with high winds, plunging temperatures, ice, snow and a rapid freeze-up on roads’. According to folklore, if a groundhog leaves its burrow on February 2 does not see its shadow, this will signify that the end of winter is coming. However, if the groundhog sees its shadow then it will retreat back into its burrow and there will be another six weeks of winter. The Groundhog Day storm prediction comes as normal service was resuming in the winter-weary north-eastern U.S. today after yet another storm.” -Daily Mail

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4.2 earthquake rattles Hungary

Posted on January 29, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 29, 2011 - BUDAPEST – A 4.2 magnitude quake shook parts of NE Hungary. The quake struck at a depth of 8.3 km and was 33 km NW of Székesfehérvár and was 6 km NE Oroszlány. There were no immediate reports of damages. Below, you can see the seismic band width running through central Europe is one of the most pronounced regions showing agitation from the latest planetary tremor. The quake comes on the heels of an earthquake swarm in Bulgaria and a growing sinkhole in Romania.

Germany

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Oregon prepares for potential seismic doomsday

Posted on January 29, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 29, 2011 – PORTLAND – “One day this week, exactly 311 years after the Cascadia Fault’s most recent rupture, more than 37,000 Oregonians dove under desks and tables, or clung to sturdy walls, ducking and covering for 60 seconds. The exercise, the largest in state history, was a part of the first Great Oregon ShakeOut, an earthquake drill designed to prepare people for Cascadia’s next big move. While the drill lasted one minute, Rizzo said that if the Cascadia Fault ruptures, people are going to be hiding under tables a lot longer. “The actual shaking will be between five and 10 minutes long,” Rizzo said. That’s because Cascadia’s fault line — known as a subduction zone, an area where one tectonic plate is diving beneath another — is hundreds of miles long. “It takes between five and 10 minutes for it to break along the entire fault line,” Rizzo said. The geologist added that, in terms of sheer power, the Cascadia Fault has few rivals around the globe. “The amount of movement that takes place on the fault takes centuries to build up,” Atwater said. So when the fault does finally rupture, it unleashes hundreds of years of pent-up energy, producing a devastating earthquake. He said that on average, the Cascadia ruptures roughly every 500 years, but the intervals between quakes can be as brief as 200 years or longer than 1,000. Most recent data suggest there’s about a one-in-10 chance the Cascadia will rupture in the next 50 years. “One could happen here tomorrow, or it may take centuries for the next one to happen,” Atwater said. “But you want to be prepared for it when it does.” Rizzo said part of her job is to make sure people know about the risks and have emergency supplies and plans in place for an earthquake and ensuing tsunami. “We’ve got 9 million people in the impact zone between Washington and Oregon,” Rizzo said. To indicate the devastation a quake could cause, Rizzo pointed to Hurricane Katrina’s effect on New Orleans. “Just imagine New Orleans ― but from Northern California to British Columbia,” Rizzo said. “I don’t want to scare people. I want to empower them to take steps to make sure their families are safe.” -Our Amazing Planet

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Planet shakes: 6.1 earthquake rattles Arctic island near Norway

Posted on January 29, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

Seismicity of Norway over the last century

January 29, 2011 – NORWAY – A strong 6.1 earthquake has shaken the volcanic Arctic island of Jan Mayen, which is located near to the coast of Norway. The island is daunted by massive mountains, rugged terrain, and glaciers. The quake occurred at the shallow depth of less than 10 km and has erupted along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that is currently splitting the country of Iceland into. The 6.1 earthquake was the largest quake to strike the Jan Mayen Fracture Zone in more than 40 years. The last large quake to strike the island was a 6.0 in 2004. Seismic anomalies were noted in Norway during a January 18^th planetary tremor. This escalation of seismic intensity is an indication of more trouble to come for the northern polar region of the globe. The quake comes as the world was hit by another planetary tremor which occurred at 8:00 GMT. These events are increasing in scope and intensity.

Norway - January 18, 2011 seismograph reading

Norway – January 29th planetary tremor

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China Blocking Internet Activity Regarding Egypt - Is Revolution Viral?

China has blocked the word "Egypt'' from the country's wildly popular Twitter-like service, while coverage of the political turmoil has been tightly restricted in state media. China's ruling Communist Party is sensitive to any potential source of social unrest.
A search for "Egypt'' on the Sina microblogging service brings up a message saying, "According to relevant laws, regulations and policies, the search results are not shown".
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Japan: No Hope for Young Graduates

Kenichi Horie was a promising auto engineer, exactly the sort of youthful talent Japan needs to maintain its edge over hungry Korean and Chinese rivals. As a worker in his early 30s at a major carmaker, Mr. Horie won praise for his design work on advanced biofuel systems.

But like many young Japanese, he was a so-called irregular worker, kept on a temporary staff contract with little of the job security and half the salary of the “regular” employees, most of them workers in their late 40s or older. After more than a decade of trying to gain regular status, Mr. Horie finally quit — not just the temporary jobs, but Japan altogether.

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Saturday, January 29, 2011

UFO sightings spawn COMETA report, fear of world crisis

EUGENE, Ore. – Confirmed UFO sightings over Cairo and the port city of Suez in Egypt early Saturday morning comes at a time when the United Nations is reviewing the French government produced COMETA Report that states “about five percent of UFO sightings defy conventional explanation” and often occur at a time of world crisis; while, also stating that UFOs “constitute a real phenomenon warranting immediate international attention.”

Foreign exchange students at Eugene’s Lane Community College told local media today that while there’s a news blackout in Egypt. But, there’s also reports of UFOs. Moreover, there have been BBC and other international media confirmations; news of lights and UFO sightings in skies over this ancient land.

Information about the COMETA Report and the photo that accompanies this story was researched in part by a review of National Archives and the Division of Special Collections and University Archives, at the University of Oregon here in Eugene. Read More...

Egyptian looters destroy 2,000-year-old mummies in bid to steal King Tut's treasures

- Heavy army presence at Pyramids as Priceless treasures become target.
- 30.000 Stranded British tourists warned to stay in Hotels after 4 pm.The army was on guard at Egypt’s most popular tourist sites last night after two 2,000-year-old mummies in the country’s national museum were destroyed by looters attempting to steal the treasures of King Tutankhamun.
Soldiers were positioned at the Pyramids and Cairo’s Egyptian Museum – the holding place for Tutankhamun’s priceless golden mask and other artifacts – on the fifth day of anti-government demonstrations in the country’s capital.
The military deployment came amid an almost complete collapse of law and order, with the violence escalating outside the capital. Residents in Alexandria, north-west of Cairo, were forced to stand guard outside their homes armed with sticks as gangs rampaged through the city. Read more...

Vigilantes Emerge As Egyptian Elites 'Flee'

Thousands of Egyptians have joined local vigilante groups to protect their neighbourhoods as claims emerge of rich elites fleeing to Dubai.

Report of gangs looting and robbing has resulted in people coming together to protect their families and neighbourhoods. It's unclear who is behind the crime, but the result is the same - the choice between protesting and protecting has emptied the streets.
"Our jobs are done and over. There are thugs everywhere, ransacking our shops," shop owner Saleh Salem said.
Islamic leaders called on people to join the vigilante groups to protect their homes themselves and scenes of looting appeared to spread from upscale parts of Cairo to downtown and poorer areas as well.
Egyptians armed with guns, sticks, and blades have formed vigilante groups to defend their homes from looters after police disappeared from the streets following days of violent protests.
"Since the government is not doing it, we are sending down our boys to create human shields to fight the criminals." Read More..

Non-stop rains affect 394,065 families - Philippines

MANILA, Philippines — Non-stop rains that started before New Year’s Day continue to wreak havoc on several parts of the country, adversely affecting 394,065 families or 1,972,433 people in 2,188 villages in 189 towns and 18 cities throughout the country, while the death toll increased to 75 and 22 remain missing, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported on Saturday. The NDRRMC also said that Bohol province and the cities of Cebu and Mandaue were placed under state of calamity due to floods.
Latest NDRRMC bulletin also showed 225 families of 1,089 persons from Mainit town and Surigao City, both in Surigao del Norte, were evacuated due to massive flooding that have so far affected 65 barangays in nine municipalities in the province and one municipality of Dinagat Islands.
One person, identified as Amado Basadre, from Barangay Honrado in the same town was reported missing when he was caught by strong current while attempting to cross a river. A bridge in Libjo, Dinagat Islands was damaged.
Reports reaching the NDRRMC operations center in Camp Aguinaldo showed that massive flooding was experienced in Metro Cebu as a result of a heavy downpour on January 25 that lasted almost two hours, affecting 12 barangays in Cebu City. Read More ...

Train Collision In Germany Kills 10

A head-on train crash in eastern Germany has killed 10 people and injured at least 33 others, eight of them severely.

A passenger and a cargo train crashed near Hordorf village, close to Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg. Several train cars derailed and overturned, a spokesman for the district's firefighters said.
Rescue operations were still under way early on Sunday, and police had no immediate information as to what could have caused the accident late Saturday evening, regional police spokesman Frank Kuessner said.
Eight bodies have been retrieved from the passenger train so far and some 35 suffered injuries, he said.
Mr Kuessner had no immediate explanation for the differing casualty figures as the rescue operations continue.
"The death toll may well rise further," Mr Kuessner said.
Saxony-Anhalt's Deputy Interior Minister Ruediger Erben, who rushed to the scene last night, said the trains must have crashed head-on at high speed.
The accident happened about 125 miles southwest of Berlin. Source...

Deadly 'War On Cops' Sparks US Tactic Review

US government officials are set to review a spate of deadly attacks on police officers that has been dubbed a 'war on cops'.

A series of shootings has left 15 officers dead in January alone - with 11 gunned down in one 24-hour period alone. The Department of Justice says it will study whether the behaviour of officers, deficits in training or financial cut-backs could have contributed to the number of fatalities.
The crisis has been highlighted by extraordinary CCTV footage from a police station in Detroit showing a man opening fire on officers, injuring four.
The gunman struck because he was angry at a search of his home.
The shootings have taken place across the US and follow a dramatic rise in the number of officers killed in the line of duty last year. Read More...

2011-01-29T04:27:00.000-08:00

Is World on Brink of Global Revolution?

An uprising in Tunisia led to the overthrow of the country’s 23-year long dictatorship of President Ben Ali. A new ‘transitional’ government was formed, but the protests continued demanding a totally new government without the relics of the previous tyranny. Protests in Algeria have continued for weeks, as rage mounts against rising food prices, corruption and state oppression. Protests in Jordan forced the King to call on the military to surround cities with tanks and set up checkpoints. Tens of thousands of protesters marched on Cairo demanding an end to the 30-year dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak. Thousands of activists, opposition leaders and students rallied in the capitol of Yemen against the corrupt dictatorship of President Saleh, in power since 1978. Saleh has been, with U.S. military assistance, attempting to crush a rebel movement in the north and a massive secessionist movement growing in the south, called the “Southern Movement.” Protests in Bolivia against rising food prices forced the populist government of Evo Morales to backtrack on plans to cut subsidies. Chile erupted in protests as demonstrators railed against rising fuel prices. Anti-government demonstrations broke out in Albania, resulting in the deaths of several protesters.

"To put it bluntly: in earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people."

- Zbigniew Brzezinski

Former U.S. National Security Advisor

Co-Founder of the Trilateral Commission

Member, Board of Trustees, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Lightning and fire: Japan on alert after volcano's biggest eruption in 50 yearslink

A one-mile cordon has been established around a volcano on Mount Kirishima after it erupted scattering rocks and ash across southern Japan and sending smoke billowing 5,000ft into the air.
The Meteorological Agency raised the volcanic alert to level 3 as ash today continued to spew from Shinmoedake on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu, and residents have been banned from going within a mile of the volcano following its worst eruption in 50 years.

Force of nature: Lightning strikes as Shinmoedake erupts, scattering ash and rocks across a wide swathe of southern Japan

Ash and smoke continued to billow 5,000ft above Shinmoedake today as residents were banned from going within a mile of the volcano

Agency volcanologist Sei Iijima said the eruption did not pose a threat to nearby cities, and a major eruption was not imminent. But he added: 'You can never say never with a volcano, although the lack of magma movement beneath the surface leads us to believe that this activity won't lead to a large-scale eruption,' he told ABC News.
The volcano, one of 20 inside Mount Kirishima, began erupting around 7.30am yesterday morning and by 3pm heavy smoke had risen to nearly 5,000ft, prompting the meteorological agency to raise the alert level.
Volcanic activity is often reported at Kirishima, but this is the largest eruption recorded there since 1959.

Volcanic activity is often reported in the Kirishima range, but Shinmoedake's is the largest eruption since 1959

Under a cloud: A man takes a picture of erupting Shinmoedake from Takaharu, where an evacuation centre has been established

Air space above the mountain remained open today but airlines cancelled a number of domestic flights because of the haze and the buildup of ash on train tracks forced Japan Rail to close several lines. Roads were also shut because of poor visibility.
A small evacuation center was set up overnight in the town of Takaharu, seven miles east of Kirishima, and the town's general affairs manager Yuji Nakashima said: 'People told us their windows were rattling and they heard roaring sounds coming from the mountain.'

The Long Winter of 2010-2011

By Alan Caruba link

27 Jan 11 - For New Yorkers and those in my part of New Jersey across the river, snow has fallen eight times since December 14, an average of once every five days, 56.1 inches in Central Park as of Jan 27th, and people are, shall we say, taking notice?

Along with the snow come power outages, disrupted bus schedules, air travel delays, commuting by car becomes an auto body repair business bonanza, schools shut their doors, and some people die from weather-related accidents or just from trying to shovel the snow from the driveway.

Having battled the “global warming” hoax since it was first perpetrated in the late 1980s, I have had the good fortune to make friends with many of the world’s top meteorologists and climatologists who joined in the long effort to educate people to the fact that there never was a rapid rise in the planet’s overall temperatures.

Even so, some mainstream media news outlets have continued to file stories incredulously blaming the winter snow storms on “global warming.” The hoax for too many media folk has long since become a religion in which blind faith replaces the objective fact obvious to everyone. It is cold. There is snow. Lots of it.

Indeed, the Earth has been in a cooling cycle since around 1998 as verified by meteorological satellite and other data. Piers Corbyn, an astrophysicist and leading forecaster, said “We’re now headed for a Maunder minimum of very low solar activity. The globe will be much cooler until about 2035, so there will be a lot more of these cold winters in Europe and the USA.”

Considering how the climatologists and meteorologists of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been telling everyone for decades of a coming warming, why should we believe Corbyn and others predicting decades of cold weather? Corbyn studies solar cycles and they determine how warm or cold the Earth is.

It’s the Sun, Stupid

Corbyn’s astonishing record of accuracy has put his native England’s meteorological service to shame for deliberately misleading the British to believe the “global warming” hoax. Not given to vague talk, Corbyn recently said, “The claim that 2010 is the second warmest year on record is delusional, irrelevant and disingenuous. Warmist (warm is cold) explanations for extreme events are as useless as saying ‘Wet days cause rain.’”

It is useful to keep in mind that U.S. agencies such as NASA and NOAA have been issuing similar politically correct and meteorologically incorrect “global warming” claims for years.

Consider weather events just since the beginning of the year.

For the first time since 1945, the maximum daytime temperature in North Korea has remained below zero for nearly a month. In neighboring China, the snowfall in northwest China was accompanied by extreme cold and a snowfall that flattened or damaged 100,000 homes. All around the world there have been similar reports, including sunny Italy that set new cold records, -48.3 degrees on January 19.

In the United States, Minnesota shattered its cold records on January 21 reaching an astonishing -46 degrees. In Florida, eight new record lows were set by January 17 and there was snow in every State of the lower 48. And spring will not debut until March 21!

It’s not like this is a new weather phenomenon. As any meteorologist will tell you, the Earth has gone through numerous warming and cooling cycles. In its 4.5 billion years, scientists estimate there have been at least seventeen full-blown Great Ice Ages. In near past history, the last Little Ice Age is well documented, having begun around 1300 and not ended until 1850. Whatever warming occurred since then, however, has amounted to just over one degree, but that was enough!

Reaching its peak in the 17th century, in England the Thames River froze over. The Little Ice Age is credited with bringing down the French monarchy and ruining Napoleon’s subsequent Russia campaign. In America, the tiny army of George Washington weathered a harsh winter at Valley Forge.

As in previous cooling cycles, it was low solar activity that determined the temperature, not carbon dioxide or other so-called greenhouse gases.

People’s lives depend on our government’s ability to measure and forecast the weather. A government that continues to tell people that “global warming” is real and then throws billions of money on “research” to prove it, while issuing utterly false claims, must be forced to acknowledge reality. The same applies to the energy policies on which everyone depends for electricity, a reliable supply of heating oil, and other elements of the infrastructure.

The lies must end. The end of the cooling cycle is nowhere in sight.

Oregon prepares for potential seismic doomsday

Posted on January 29, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 29, 2011 – PORTLAND – “One day this week, exactly 311 years after the Cascadia Fault’s most recent rupture, more than 37,000 Oregonians dove under desks and tables, or clung to sturdy walls, ducking and covering for 60 seconds. The exercise, the largest in state history, was a part of the first Great Oregon ShakeOut, an earthquake drill designed to prepare people for Cascadia’s next big move. While the drill lasted one minute, Rizzo said that if the Cascadia Fault ruptures, people are going to be hiding under tables a lot longer. “The actual shaking will be between five and 10 minutes long,” Rizzo said. That’s because Cascadia’s fault line — known as a subduction zone, an area where one tectonic plate is diving beneath another — is hundreds of miles long. “It takes between five and 10 minutes for it to break along the entire fault line,” Rizzo said. The geologist added that, in terms of sheer power, the Cascadia Fault has few rivals around the globe. “The amount of movement that takes place on the fault takes centuries to build up,” Atwater said. So when the fault does finally rupture, it unleashes hundreds of years of pent-up energy, producing a devastating earthquake. He said that on average, the Cascadia ruptures roughly every 500 years, but the intervals between quakes can be as brief as 200 years or longer than 1,000. Most recent data suggest there’s about a one-in-10 chance the Cascadia will rupture in the next 50 years. “One could happen here tomorrow, or it may take centuries for the next one to happen,” Atwater said. “But you want to be prepared for it when it does.” Rizzo said part of her job is to make sure people know about the risks and have emergency supplies and plans in place for an earthquake and ensuing tsunami. “We’ve got 9 million people in the impact zone between Washington and Oregon,” Rizzo said. To indicate the devastation a quake could cause, Rizzo pointed to Hurricane Katrina’s effect on New Orleans. “Just imagine New Orleans ― but from Northern California to British Columbia,” Rizzo said. “I don’t want to scare people. I want to empower them to take steps to make sure their families are safe.” -Our Amazing Planet

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Planet shakes: 6.1 earthquake rattles Arctic island near Norway

Posted on January 29, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

Seismicity of Norway over the last century

January 29, 2011 – NORWAY – A strong 6.1 earthquake has shaken the volcanic Arctic island of Jan Mayen, which is located near to the coast of Norway. The island is daunted by massive mountains, rugged terrain, and glaciers. The quake occurred at the shallow depth of less than 10 km and has erupted along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that is currently splitting the country of Iceland into. The 6.1 earthquake was the largest quake to strike the Jan Mayen Fracture Zone in more than 40 years. The last large quake to strike the island was a 6.0 in 2004. Seismic anomalies were noted in Norway during a January 18^th planetary tremor. This escalation of seismic intensity is an indication of more trouble to come for the northern polar region of the globe. The quake comes as the world was hit by another planetary tremor which occurred at 8:00 GMT. These events are increasing in scope and intensity.

Norway - January 18, 2011 seismograph reading

Norway – January 29th planetary tremor

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Landslip spilts road in Oregon and sets off a water crisis

Posted on January 29, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 29, 2011 - LINCOLN CITY, Ore. – “Residents of Lincoln City are being told to prepare for the possibility of water rationing after torrential rains caused a county road to give way and put the city’s water main in jeopardy. Schooner Creek Road was closed last Friday due to a landslide and 7,000 residents received a reverse 9-1-1 call warning them about the possibility of a water shortage that could last a couple of days. Lincoln City Public Works officials are asking residents to stockpile water by filling the bathtub and have gallons of drinking water available should the road keep sliding and break the 24-inch water main. The reverse 9-1-1 call on Friday created a water-buying frenzy at local grocery stores that emptied shelves.” -KATU TV

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Rage hard: Sun unleashes massive double explosions

Posted on January 29, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 28, 2011 – Earth dodged another bullet. As soon as these sunspots turn away from the planet that have been going ballistic, firing off massive twin explosions or CME’s. A Coronal Mass Ejection or CME is a massive explosive eruption on the solar surface. These gigantic explosions are an indication that solar activity on our star is ramping up and one day planet Earth’s lucky streak of near-misses will run out and we will be broad-sided with the one of these super-coronal explosions. Separated by more than a million kilometers, the two blasts occurred almost simultaneously on opposite corners of the solar disk. Activity on the Sun is expected to increase as we approach the solar maximum (2012-2013).

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Landslides destroy houses in New Zealand

Posted on January 29, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 28, 2011 – New Zealand – “Several houses have been damaged or destroyed after very heavy rain from the remants of Cyclone Wilma. A house on Waiheke Island fell into the sea. The collapse at Onetangi beach was caused by a slip. Emergency services were alerted at about 5am on Saturday. The barking of a dog alerted two women inside, who escaped just before the house plunged off the cliff. Auckland Council says the building fell about 30 metres and its remnants are lying scattered on Onetangi beach. Building control manager Ian McCormick says the women were lucky not to be killed. Engineers are now running tests on neighbouring properties to check whether they are stable. Civil Defence Controller Clive Manley says the house was on Garratt road in the suburb of Onetangi. In eastern Bay of Plenty, two people were taken to hospital with shock and minor injuries after a house was destroyed by a landslip in the township of Taniatua. Two other houses were damaged by landslides: one in Rotoma, north of Kawerau, the other in Stanmore Bay on the Whangaparoa Peninsula. Their occupants were not injured.” -Radio New Zealand

2011-01-28T00:35:00.000-08:00

Another Record Storm Buries Northeast

19 inches in New York City link

28 Jan 11 - Yet another winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow on the Northeast early Thursday, closing airports and schools, stranding commuters and shattering January records.

According to Weather.com. this is already the snowiest January on record for New York City, Boston and Hartford ... with still more snow on the way.

The storm knocked out power to half a million people in and around Washington, though it reserved its heaviest snowfall for New York City and the surrounding area.

A record 19 inches of heavy, wet snow fell on Central Park, only an inch less than the 20 inches that paralyzed the city a month ago, according to the National Weather Service. (Normal snowfall for Central Park is 21 inches for the entire season.) Parts of Connecticut and New Jersey received nearly as much, and snowfalls totaled at least a foot from Boston to Philadelphia.

The overnight storms broke January snowfall records for Central Park, Newark, LaGuardia Airport, Bridgeport and Islip, the Weather Service said Thursday morning.

Other regions in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut received up to 19 inches of snow.

See entire article:
http://mexicolindonews.net/2011/01/yet-another-storm-buries-the-northeast-new-york/
Thanks to Equal Rights for Youth for this link

Looks like Piers was right. See Piers Corbyn warns of more extreme events USA, Australia and Europe at end of month

Magnetosphere anomaly may be indication a reversal is accelerating

Posted on January 28, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 28, 2011 – Above- Normal: We see a strange pattern in the planet’s magnetosphere which may be one more indication of a gradual magnetic field weakening. Below: The field looks like it’s having some difficulty generating field strength when the solar winds have been fairly weak as of January 28, 2011. Interior temperature and core dynamics fluctuations within the Earth, indicating a magnetic reversal is speeding up, may be the culprit.

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Michio Kaku analyzes the Yellowstone threat to North America

Posted on January 28, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 27, 2011 - Yellowstone is showing growing signs of unrest but an eruption is not imminent. When the super-volcano will unload is anybody’s guess? All we have is warning signs and we will continue to monitor them closely. About the only thing we know is the super-volcano is overdue for an eruption and Yellowstone’s past volcanic eruptions coincided with massive movements of the North American tectonic plate, which is what we’re seeing now with these massive planetary tremors. So it behooves us all not to be fearful but instead to remain vigilant.

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Colombian Geleras volcanic eruption ‘imminent’ says experts

Posted on January 28, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 27, 2011 – COLOMBIA – “Colombian authorities have raised the risk level of the Galeras volcano to orange alert, meaning an eruption is likely within days or weeks. The Colombian Institute of Geology and Mining (Ingeominas) declared the alert on the Galeras volcano in south-west Colombia Wednesday because of “fluctuating levels in the occurrence of seismicity,” according to a statement issued by Ingeominas. In particular, “the occurrence of earthquakes with screw-type characteristics, which are relevant because in Galeras they have been recorded in periods prior to eruptions,” has caused the government agency to warn of an impending eruption. The Civil Defense and Red Cross volunteers have prepared nine shelters with basic elements necessary for survival to accommodate the some 8,000 residents from the nearby municipalities of Pasto, Nariño, and La Florida, the Director of the local Red Cross relief organization Javier Guerrero told RCN Radio. No residents have been evacuated yet. Galeras is the country’s most active volcano. It erupted in January 2010, forcing the evacuation of the area’s inhabitants. In 2009 the volcano erupted five times.” –Colombia Reports

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New York January snowfall totals break new record

Posted on January 28, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 27, 2011 – NEW YORK – “The storm came in two rounds, an initial burst on Wednesday morning and then a heavier round late Wednesday through early Thursday. Unlike previous storms this season, heavy snow also fell in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore in addition to Philadelphia, New York City and southern New England. As snow began in the D.C. and Baltimore areas late Wednesday, thunder and lightning were common. Snowfall rates of 1-2 inches per hour made for a nightmare evening commute. These heavy snow rates with thunder and lightning then moved northward through portions of eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Philadelphia piled up nearly 15 inches from this latest storm. New York City and Newark, N.J., picked up a whopping 19 inches of snow. For the month, both cities now have piled on 36-38 inches, making January 2011 the snowiest January on record! Bridgeport, Conn., Islip, N.Y. and New York-La Guardia airport have also now seen their snowiest Januaries. Hartford, Conn., now has nearly 57 inches this month, beating December 1945 as the snowiest month on record. –Weather.com

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5.3 earthquakes strikes Tonga and New Zealand in the South Pacific

Posted on January 28, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

South Pacific stress break: The pressure we mentioned on the South Pole has manifested in three quakes in the South Pacific- a 5.2 in Tonga, a 5.3 in New Zealand, and a 4.7 near S Africa.

4.7 earthquake strikes near Antarctica land mass

January 27, 2011 – NEW ZEALAND – “A large 5.3 magnitude earthquake rocked Taupo and was felt throughout the North Island early this morning. The magnitude 5.3 quake struck at 4.02am, 30km north of Taupo, at a depth of 150km, GNS Science reported. The quake was widely felt throughout the North Island. A police spokesman said they were yet to receive any reports of damage.” -The Daily Post

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Planetary tremor: 5.2 earthquake shakes southern Greece, Antarctica rattles

Posted on January 27, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 27, 2011 – A 5.2 earthquake registered on the CSEM European monitor and comes on the hills of another major planetary tremor that registered at 17:00 hours GMT. The seismic band was strongest in the Pacific – registering strong waves in the Solomon Islands, New Zealand, New Guinea, and Australia. The Antarctica Ice mass has also been vibrating more over the last 72 hours. The frozen continent with its dense ice mass is incapable of mediating such planetary stresses. This puts greater strain on the region of the globe near the most pronounced tidal bulge- the South Pacific. More strong quakes should be expected. Graphs are shown below:

Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Antarctica

Antarctica readout showing very heavy seismic activity

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Iran- 109 earthquakes in 30 days

Posted on January 27, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 27, 2011 - Six tremors have just shaken southeastern Iran in the space of one hour including a 6.0 earthquake, a 4.9, a 4.8 and a 4.0. An earthquake swarm is currently underway. Growing seismic unrest in the region underscores the mounting seismic tension building across the entire planet- especially the Middle East. Iran’s geological faults make the country susceptible to some of the most catastrophic earthquakes in the region. A major earthquake in some of the densely populated cities could result in the largest number of deaths from a quake in the Middle East. Iran is sitting on a very active and volatile set of fault lines.

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Mystery: over 200 pelicans have washed up dead on North Carolina beach

Posted on January 27, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 26, 2011 - Topsail Beach, NC – “Preliminary necropsies by the University of Georgia on some of the more than 200 Brown Pelicans that have washed up on the shores of Topsail Beach on the coast of southeastern North Carolina are inconclusive and do not yet support concerns that foul play was responsible. Complete toxicology and pathology reports are expected to be available soon. A taskforce including officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as state officials, has been formed and has been meeting to investigate the deaths, but so far has not determined a cause. The first dead birds began washing up on shore in November. “Mass bird deaths such as this are certainly troubling and need to be investigated, but they are not especially rare. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, about 160 mass wildlife death events are recorded in the U.S. each year. Sometimes they are weather related and sometimes they are caused by pollution, parasites or diseases, but they frequently have a human component,” said Dr. Moira McKernan, Director of the Bird Pesticide Program with American Bird Conservancy, the nation’s leading bird conservation organization. While local reports describe injuries to the pelicans such as broken beaks and gashes on the wings, local officials are quick to point out that such damage is consistent with post mortem scavenging by crabs or other animals, either in the water or onshore, and need not indicate deliberate wounding as a cause of death. The otherwise good physical condition of the birds suggests they were actively feeding immediately prior to the time of death. Reports indicate that the stomach contents of the birds was also normal.” -Surfbird News

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Meanwhile the death toll from the March 24, 2011 6.8 earthquake has risen to 150 but sources say the government may be hiding the actual number of fatalities from the Western press so the true account of the devastation from the quake may never be fully known.

Thanks EuroAtlantic for the contribution

Largest earthquake in 35 years hits ArkansasLINK

By SARAH EDDINGTON

Associated Press

Well, we said this was a nasty hole rotating towards the planet. Solar wind speeds have revved up to 638 km/sec. We’re on the watch for the eruption of flares with this present sunspot cluster. Below the planet magnetosphere is hit with a burn blast from the rabid flow of the solar wind stream.

Food prices to skyrocket, riots could follow, suggests USDA

The geology of New Zealand is morphing as it is for many regions of the world. We predict more seismic instability and turbulence in this region of the Pacific.

Above: Seismic anomalies under Pitcairn Island in the Pacific (left) and the Samuel station in Brazil (right). -The Extinction Protocol

“Almost all tectonic movement can be linked to magnetic reversals. Seafloor spreading, sea level changes, mountain growth, earthquakes, and volcanism all seem to speed up whenever the frequency of reversals speeds up.” -Peter Vogt, U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office

See: Magnetic Reversal Disruption

According to the Arkansas Geological Survey, the 4.7 quake was the strongest quake to shake the state of Arkansas in 35 years after more than 800 quakes have shaken the area.

Libya protests: 84 killed in growing unrest, says HRW

Mid-East unrest: Libya

(c) Al Jazeera Discovery News, Siberia’s Lake Baikal Feeling the Heat, 2011

NASA loses valuable eyes in the sky

Planetary Crisis: We think this is only the beginning of a trend that will eventually bankrupt insurance companies around the world and will facilitate the collapse of the global financial system.

The interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) is a part of the Sun’s magnetic field that is carried into interplanetary space by the solar wind.

Interplanetary Mag. Field Btotal: 12.8 nT Bz: 3.9 nT south

See our report on the coming tear of East Africa

Hawaii’s increased volcanic activity has been building for months. See Hawaii

“This is a time of total collapse.” –Chilam Balam

“A horrible undoing of people and animals.” –Nostradamus

“There shall be a time of trouble such as never was.” -Daniel 12:1

Midwest's deep freeze likely to turn into wide floodslink

Thick ice could block some rivers, backing up water to make matters even worse

Reuters: Two Iranian warships transiting Suez Canal for Syria; Concern Israel may respondlink

Climate unraveling: This is clearly a taste of what’s to come this summer in the Northern hemisphere. We will see record high temperatures across the globe along with more turbulent storm systems.

Food prices at dangerous levels, says World Banklink

Russia: Foreign Power may have disabled key satellite ~ link ~ That is a powerful charge. If we, did that, we are really crossing the line. Attacking a satellite is considered an 'act of war'. Stirling

The Russian space agency suggested Feb. 14 that a foreign power may have been behind the space accident earlier this month that disabled one of the country's most modern military satellites.

Afghan War draws in China and Russia ~ link ~ Yep, the global banking families want a true world war as part of the End Game to establish their satanic high-tech police state New World Order. Stirling

Interplanetary Mag. Field
B_total: 12.8 nT
B_z: 3.9 nT south