The establishment has made no secret of the fact that they are not very impressed with Adam Kokesh’s planned Open Carry March on Washington DC this coming July 4.

But yesterday the situation devolved to a new low when Kokesh was arrested for….doing nothing.

The controversial talk-radio host of Adam Vs. the Man has been made a political prisoner.

A “political prisoner” is defined as:

A person who has been imprisoned for holding or advocating dissenting political views.

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Regardless of your personal beliefs on whether marijuana should be legalized, if you believe that freedom of speech is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution, what happened at the May 18 “Smoke Down Prohibition” event in Philadelphia is a clear-cut violation of Kokesh’s rights.  While other people there were actually breaking the law and smoking in an act of civil disobedience, Kokesh was not – he was simply speaking.

Adam Kokesh is being charged with resisting arrest…Check out the video – all I see is a man with his hands up (and no marijuana in those hands either).  You don’t have to be an expert on the law to see that he went with the officers peacefully.

Does this mean that only popular opinions are protected by the Constitution?  Does this mean that the Constitution is no longer in effect for those who disagree with the current laws?  Or is this something more sinister? Perhaps an attempt to prevent Kokesh’s planned march on July 4 for occurring?

According to his Facebook page, which is being updated by friends, Adam Kokesh is being held in a federal jail until he can appear before a judge on Monday.  And things may get worse for him – watch the first 40 seconds of this video – it is the same as the video above, but a closer shot – do you see someone’s hand at Adam’s waist?  Are they planting “evidence”?  Don’t be surprised if you hear he had all manner of illegal substances in his possession – think critically because the information will be presented in the mainstream to paint the picture that the PTB want you to see, and this picture will very likely be at odds with the truth.

Activism is getting a lot more dangerous. Expect to see an example made out of Adam Kokesh.  The Powers That Be would like to quell the Open Carry March before it happens and locking up the driving force for that protest is a clear cut way to do so.  If we allow this to happen by doing nothing, then we are just as bad as the police who are “just following orders” who arrested him without cause and just as bad as the system that is charging him with resisting arrest despite video evidence that he did no such thing. Doing absolutely nothing is as dangerous an attack on freedom as the attacks being made by the government itself.

As a strategic move by the government, this one is a little better thought out than others because of the nature of the protest.  Many conservatives that would be behind a demonstration for the Second Amendment might be offended by a demonstration in which the protesters smoke pot.  You have to see through that to what this really is.  It has absolutely nothing to do with the use of marijuana other than as a way to present Adam Kokesh as distasteful to those who have more conservative values.  This is an effort to publicly silence those who resist and an attempt to make an example out of Kokesh to deter others from resisting.

So, what can you do about this?

• Share information.  The power of social media is an incredible thing.  Use email, Twitter, Facebook, and any other platform that you have to help you share this information with others.
• If you use Facebook, “like” Adam Kokesh’s page - it is being frequently updated by his supporters.  They are publishing pertinent phone numbers and giving suggestions for activism.
• Don’t let actions like this silence you.  The entire purpose of this is to make people afraid to speak out against the government.  But they can’t silence all of us.  You can allow this to frighten you into submission or you can allow it to motivate you into resistance.

The Powers That Be have taken a gamble with this arrest. The results could go one of two ways. They know that those who love freedom are basically good, moral people.  None of us wants to be arrested or disappeared into the depths of a federal detainment facility.  They’re counting on that to keep us quiet.  Alternatively, this might just cause a groundswell of resistance.

Make their gamble backfire.  Help resistance to grow exponentially by sharing information about this unconstitutional act.  Keep in mind that this has trampled on the right to free speech, the right to peaceful assembly, and possibly, the right to due process.  Adam Kokesh is being held as a political prisoner to teach us all a lesson and to enforce their desire that we all be peaceful sheep to be herded along.  If Adam Kokesh can be arrested for doing nothing more than disagreeing with the establishment, then so can you.

Think about the many outrages against personal freedoms in past years: big things like the Presidential and Congressional assaults on the Bill of Rights, Big Brother style surveillance, and the NDAA, down to simple things like people having their vegetable gardens forcibly ripped out of their front yards or going to jail for having the audacity to harvest and use rainwater.

This is NOT about the legalization of marijuana. This is about something we can all get behind - the legalization of freedom.

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It appears that the human race and the UN in particular has learned nothing from our short but devastating history of inhabiting planet Earth. Not content with depleting and/or destroying the resources on the surface it seems the seabed is the latest target.

The prospect of a modern era ‘gold rush’ with the sea bed being the new frontier is moving closer by the day.

The United Nations has published its first plan for managing the extraction of so-called “nodules” – small mineral-rich rocks – from the seabed. A technical study was carried out by the UN’s International Seabed Authority – the body overseeing deep sea mining. It says companies can apply for licences and start mining from as soon as 2016.

The idea of exploiting the vast mineral reserves found in the sea bed is not new, it has been considered for decades, but new technology which would make the mining easier and safer, and the high cost of rare earth minerals seems to have provided the push needed to turn the drawing board ideas into reality.

Although experts from many different fields have highlighted the hazards that such mining would cause the UN seem hell bent on pushing through the proposal.

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) a division of the UN carried out a study and the report openly admitted that mining the seabed will cause:

“inevitable environmental damage”

Even with indications from the UN that environmental damage will occur, that biodiversity will be affected there has been a surge in applications for seabed mining licences from private and STATE OWNED companies. The licenses don’t come cheap, $500,000 each which allows the company to mine for 15 years. That of course is a drop in the ocean…no pun intended, against what these companies will earn from their pillage of the oceans.

One of the most recent applications that was granted, was to UK Seabed Resources, a subsidiary of the Lockheed Martin the US defence company.

Why these companies are interested is plain to see. A recent assessment of the eastern Pacific Ocean, an area called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone which covers an area of just under two million square miles concluded that that area alone contains around 27 billion tons of nodules. The licenses will cover the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

With nickel, copper,cobalt and even gold contained in the rocks the lure is in some ways understandable, but at what cost?

The possibility of seabed mining has already provoked scientists  to speak out against it. Biologists fear a loss of diversity and more importantly the possible disruption of the marine life food chain.

Many people rely on fish and other marine creatures as their main or only source of protein. Any disruption of the food chain would have disastrous consequences for millions of people who live in areas where livestock ownership is not possible either due to economics or the geography not supporting the raising of animals for food.

The UN set up the ISA to:

“encourage and manage seabed mining for the wider benefit of humanity-with a share of any profits going to developing countries”

It’s obvious that this is another way of saying they will pay compensation for the disruption that those living in coastal areas will suffer. Hubs will have to be built to off load the nodules and most likely processing plants to extract the valuables they contain. The spoil left after extraction will have to be dumped disposed of somewhere, most likely into the oceans, disrupting areas that were not licensed for extraction, further damaging the fragile marine eco-systems. It seems unlikely spoil will be dumped within licensed areas…it would quite literally muddy the waters and reduce extraction levels.

The ISA reports admits that:

“competency cannot be gained without actual mining on a commercial scale, but at the same time mining should not be allowed without prior demonstration of competence”

It doesn’t mention how that competency can be proven. We cannot continue to cripple the system that provides for us with impunity. Extracting much sought after resources from the sea bed may be a commercially viable option to those with billions of dollars to spend on the venture but to those that rely on the oceans for their livelihood and their food supply  it could well be the straw that breaks the camels back.

Starvation is a great way to reduce to planets population. Agenda 21 wrapped up as a benefit to humanity. Nice touch.

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By Tim Brown

I’ve been covering the sheriffs of Colorado for some time now, especially in light of the fact that Colorado gun grabbers were pushing their agenda so hard following the Sandy Hook shooting. I first wrote aboutand have become friends with Hinsdale County Sheriff Ron Bruce, and his personal stand in his county against new gun laws. I covered Weld County Sheriff John Cooke said he will not enforce the new state gun laws, saying they were “unenforceable” and arguing that they give a “false sense of security.” At the beginning of April, I wrote about Elbert County Colorado Sheriff Shayne Heap as he blasted Barack Obama using his state as political grandstand for gun control. Well now, these sheriffs are standing up to Governor John Hickenlooper and the Colorado legislature that has been controlled by Socialist Democrats and 54 of 62 Colorado Sheriffs are supporting the filing of a lawsuit against the new gun laws.

On Friday, the lawsuit was announced. The Denver Post reports:

At a news conference held at the Independence Institute, a free-market think tank, the sheriffs and representatives from the Colorado Farm Bureau, Women for Concealed Carry and members of Outdoor Buddies — a charitable organization for disabled individuals — explained their case Friday.

The lawsuit claims that the magazine bill, which limits gun magazines to 15 rounds, and the background check bill, which requires background checks for all transfers and sales of firearms, are unconstitutional.

The suit alleges the bills violate the 14th Amendment — plaintiffs claim aspects of the magazine bill are vaguely worded, which they believe would violate the 14th Amendment — the Second Amendment and the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.

“These bills do nothing to make Colorado a safer place to live, to work, to play, to raise a family,” said Weld County Sheriff John Cooke. “It should never have even gotten to this point in the first place.”

Gilpin County Sheriff Bruce Hartman believes the bills that were signed into law could have benefited from the input of the sheriffs. “In the past, (the legislature) has consulted sheriffs on DUI bills and many things like that,’” he said. “In this case, they did not wish to have our input. I think that is very obvious, and that’s disappointing.”

While there is clearly a violation of the U.S. Constitution, there seems to be some enforcement issues as well.

Greg Campbell writes,

El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said the laws are not only unconstitutional, but also confusing and unenforceable.

For example, the ban on magazines was discussed by its Democratic sponsors as applying only to those that hold more than 15 rounds, in response to mass-shooting incidents in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn.

But the law also outlaws any magazine that can be easily converted to hold more than 15 rounds, which applies to practically all magazines with a removable base plate that can be replaced with an after-market extender.

After July 1, the owners of such magazines cannot sell them, loan them or give them away. In effect, it means that even if they give their weapon to someone else for safekeeping — or, in the case of one wheelchair-bound plaintiff who spoke Friday, to hold momentarily as he gets in and out of his chair — they will be breaking the law.

The background-check requirement is also unduly burdensome, the sheriffs say. Maketa gave as an example a neighbor of his who, under the new law, would have to perform a background check on his fiancé if he left his firearm with her when he deploys with the military.

Maketa said, “It’s not a matter of whether I choose to enforce it or not. It’s unenforceable.”

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has given their support to the lawsuit. In a statement, Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, said“The National Rifle Association, the many plaintiffs in this case, and the law-abiding gun owners in the state of Colorado know that the recently enacted gun control laws are unconstitutional.”

The Democrats want to make it about politics. They maintain the public is on their side, and say legislators carefully crafted the proposals that were signed.

“These laws were not constructed haphazardly,” said Democratic Sen. Mary Hodge, the sponsor of the magazine limit. “They were constructed to protect us from massacres like the ones we suffered in Aurora and Newtown.”

Some of the relatives of victims of the Colorado shooting criticized the sheriffs for filing the lawsuit and accused them of playing politics. “As a parent who lost my son Alex at the Aurora theater shooting, I ask these people to put themselves in my place,” Tom Sullivansaid in a statement. “I do not understand why these politicians are picking guns over people.”

The problem that Senator Hodge and Mr. Sullivan don’t understand is that it is the Democrats and the gun control mentality of those who are most emotional in the issue that are playing with people’s lives and they are doing it in the arena of politics.

Democrats and gun grabbers have an agenda. The rest of us just want to be left alone and would like for them to follow the law, not make up new ones.

The lawsuit involves sheriffs from 54 of Colorado’s 64 counties, most representing rural, gun-friendly areas of the state.

The sheriffs have been calling on lawmakers in the state to listen to them and they have appealed to the Constitution, but the Socialist Democrats have taken over the legislature and are hell bent on helping to push the very agenda the leader of their party, Barack Hussein Obama, is attempting to force down the throats of the American people. I look forward to the outcome of this lawsuit.

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Members of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus are the latest to join the many people raising concerns about GoogleGlass in a letter to Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page in which they request answers to eight pointed questions.

Since the technology was introduced, GoogleGlass has been incredibly controversial, even leading former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff to speak out against the technology.

Many venues have preemptively banned Glass including a Seattle bar, casinos and strip clubs in Las Vegas and the entire state of West Virginia is trying to ban wearing Glass while driving, according to the Independent.

“Respect our customers privacy as we’d expect them to respect yours,” stated Seattle’s Five Point Café, becoming the first to ban Glass, according to Reuters. Some movie theaters may also join the trend.

Yet Google figures have been quick to dismiss any and all concerns.

“Criticisms are inevitably from people who are afraid of change or who have not figured out that there will be an adaptation of society to it,” Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said during a talk at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in April.

Never mind the fact that Glass can easily be hacked and turned into a pervasive surveillance device. That’s just being afraid of change.

One of the questions posed by members of Congress in their letter concerned facial recognition capabilities.

Google claims that no facial recognition technology is built into the device and there are no plans to implement it “unless we have strong privacy protections in place.”

However, most readers are likely aware of the fact that the technology could indeed be rolled out silently or indeed built into the device without Google admitting it.

After all, we’re talking about the same company that knowingly stole private data from unsecured wireless networks with their Street View cars.

Even though Google was clearly guilty of massive invasions of privacy on a scale previously unimaginable, the FCC cleared the company of wrongdoing and contradicted a federal judge in doing so.

In March of this year, a report indicated that Google was going to pay $7 million to 30 states to settle an investigation into their Wi-Fi spying but such a sum for Google is nothing.

When Google can get out of an antitrust probe and investigations into theft of highly personaldata with less than a slap on the wrist, why would we trust them to be honest about Glass?

Privacy and Google simply don’t mix. Google and the U.S. government, however, mix quite well.

The members of Congress point to Google’s horrific privacy track record and ask, “we would like to know how Google plans to prevent Google Glass from unintentionally collecting data about the user/non-user without consent?”

Some of the many other important questions asked include:

• What proactive steps is Google taking to protect the privacy of non-users when Google Glass is in use?
• Would Google place limits on the technology and what type of information it can reveal about another person?
• Given Google Glass’s sensory and processing capabilities, has Google considered making any additions or refinements to its privacy policy?
• Would Google Glass collect any data about the user without the user’s knowledge and consent?
• Is Google planning to make privacy a priority for future app developers?

“We request your responses to the above questions no later than Friday, June 14, 2013,” the members of Congress stated.

At a Google Glass event at the Google I/O conference, some of the questions were indirectly addressed.

“Privacy was top of mind as we designed the product,” Steve Lee, the product director for Glass, said.

“You’ll know when someone with Glass is paying attention to you. If you’re looking at Glass, you’re looking up,” Lee said, referring to the fact that the Glass display located right above the eye, according to ABC News.

“We are thinking very carefully about how we design Glass because new technology always raises new issues,” Google said in a statement. “Our Glass Explorer program, which reaches people from all walks of life, will ensure that our users become active participants in shaping the future of this technology.”

The future of the technology may not be all that bright.

“There are state wiretap laws that require consent of a user before they are recorded. Users may violate state wiretap laws while using Glass,” Brad Shear, a Washington-area attorney and blogger, told ABC news.

It will be interesting to see if the members of Congress will publish Google’s specific answers to their probing and quite appropriate questions and concerns.

How the story actually put anyone in danger, even if the AP is lying about getting the story cleared by the government, is unclear.

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In the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson, and adopted by the British colonies in 1776, a clause appears that lays down a gauntlet of sorts, i.e., “when in the course of human events it becomes necessary…” Well, it seems that Dr. Andrew Wakefield has arrived at necessary crossroads and has issued challenges to British health authorities regarding the facts surrounding the MMR vaccine.

As a result of the British medical establishment’s apparent collusion to protect all vaccine programs, a course of action was taken to disenfranchise Dr. Wakefield; make him anexemplary professional scapegoat; but do nothing to prevent serious adverse vaccine events from occurring to infants, toddlers, and children.

Furthermore, Dr. Wakefield talks about how Dr. Maurice R Hilleman, MD, preeminent vaccine researcher at Merck & Company now deceased, came up with the mumps vaccine; the apparent collusion Hilleman used to get the mumps vaccine implemented in a state’s vaccine program and how it became ‘mainstreamed’; and why the mumps vaccine really is not efficacious. The last few minutes of this outstanding testimony may leave you speechless.

Nothing this writer could say would do Dr. Wakefield’s video presentation about the evidence of what factually happened in Britain regarding the MMR vaccine any justice. Therefore, I invite you to watch this 16 minute video of Dr. Wakefield laying out the facts and challenging British medical authorities to come clean about the MMR vaccine and autism in the United Kingdom. “Oh, what the hell!”

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(Pictured: Artist Concept – Largest Meteoroid Ever Recorded Strikes Moon)

NASA reports:

For the past eight years NASA astronomers have been monitoring the moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface.

Lunar meteor showers have turned out to be more common than anyone expected with hundreds of detectable impacts occurring every year.

They’ve just seen the biggest explosion in the history of the program. “On March 17, 2013 an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium,” says Bill Cook of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office.

It exploded in a flash nearly ten times as bright as anything we’ve ever seen before.

Anyone looking at the moon at the moment of impact could have seen the explosion, no telescope required.

For about one second the impact site was glowing like a fourth magnitude start.

The 40 kilogram meteoroid measuring .3 to .4 meters wide hit the moon traveling at 56,000 miles per hour. The resulting explosion packed as  much punch as five tons of TNT.

Cook believes the lunar impact might have been part of a much larger event.

“On the night of March 17 NASA and University of Western Ontario All Sky Cameras picked up an unusual number of deep penetrating meteors right here on earth,” he says.

These fireballs were travelling along nearly identical orbits between the earth and the asteroid belt.

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(Pictured: Admiral Panteleyev Destroyer)

Russia has deployed up to 50 naval warships – reportedly a large portion of their Pacific Fleet – to the Mediterranean Sea in an effort to bolster their influence in the region. Reports indicate they may soon send nuclear submarines to the region as well.

With tensions running high between Russia and the United States in recent weeks amid Syrian arms sales, the outing of a US spy in Moscow and a culture of distrust fomenting between the Putin and Obama administrations, could it be that West and East will once again face off in another Cold war? Or could it potentially go hot this time around?

Russia has previously warned that the middle east could very quickly turn to all-out war, including nuclear weaponry. Considering that neither Iran or Syria have nuclear weapons, they could only have been referring to Israel, the US, Russia and China.

Are we getting close?

According to the following report from Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten, the Russians have resurrected their cold war Mediterranean naval fleet:

(Originally in German; Translated via Google Translate)

Warships of the Russian Pacific Fleet have reached the first time in decades, the Mediterranean Sea, a military spokesman said on Thursday. The U.S. also laid this week warships to the region.

“The task force has successfully crossed the Suez Canal and reached the Mediterranean,” citing Ria Novosti military Roman Martov. The warships are on their way to Cyprus, where they will enter the port of Limassol.

Among the warships, the destroyer Admiral Panteleyev, the amphibious warships Peresvet and Admiral Nevelskoi, the tanker Pechenga, and salvage tug Fotiy Krylov.You have the port of Vladivostok on 19 Leave in March to strengthen Russia’s Mediterranean fleet.

To use command currently belong to the large anti-submarine destroyer Severomorsk, the frigate Yaroslav Mudry, the Altai and rescue tug SB-921 and the tanker Lena from the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet. In addition, the landing ship Azov comes from the Black Sea Fleet. Nuclear submarines could also reinforce the task force still, Admiral Viktor Chirkov had said on Sunday.

The Soviet Union from 1967 to 1992, a squadron of 30 to 50 ships in the Mediterranean. This was created during the Cold War the 6th To meet the U.S. Navy fleet. It seems that this squadron now resurrected.

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The chickens have been in place a week now. The second and third laid eggs on day two. So for most of the week we have been collecting three eggs a day. Three very different eggs, large, a larger medium and medium.

The chickens are very friendly and follow you around when you are out the back. Everything you have has to be tested in case it is food and they peck everything at least once, including the baby. They reside very comfortably with the rabbit but evicted hime from his own home.

They can be quite intimidating for kids as they rush up to you all pleased to see you, if you shoo them away they run away but staying still just makes them stand by you looking expectantly up for food.

If you try and catch them they run away and they can run fast but they can easily be trapped as they come right up to you if you put your hand out. When caught they may squawk but they just stay there and don’t every try and attack you. No wonder people say chickens are ideal as dual purpose pets.

Moving the run around is a must but as it is heavy it is a two man job. A weeks worth of them browsing turning a grass patch into a completely barren patch. They need moved around daily really. As the back garden is sealed off I can let them out and they can wander where they want. Only thing is they are very nosey so if you leave the back door open they will be in looking for something else to eat.

The main bit of course is in the pudding or in this case the eggs themselves. Very tasty and a very much stronger yellow yolk. I won’t be buying any from the shops from now on. If I need more I’ll buy another bird.

All in all so far a very easy way to become self suffiicent. Doesn’t have to be expensive if you make your own coop but imo a very worthwhile investment no matter how much you spend.

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by Dean Garrison

Mike Kelly carried the frustration of Conservative America on his shoulders today as he grilled outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller. Though his line of questions seemed like more of a “venting” session, someone in the House needed to do a little venting for Conservative Americans today.

Right-wing Americans are sick and tired of being made out to be second class citizens because we believe in the principles on which this country was built. Those of us who have ever dealt with the IRS, and felt that we were wronged, would view Kelly’s rant as mild but it’s a start. Kudos to Mike Kelly.

Fox News reports:

Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., seemed to capture the angst against the agency toward the end of the hour-long hearing, as he described the ways its agents are capable of ruining lives.

“You can put anybody out of business that you want. … When the IRS comes in there, you’re not allowed to be shoddy,” he said, suggesting the agency’s leadership was being held to a different standard now that it is coming under scrutiny.

“This is absolutely an overreach, and this is an outrage for all Americans,” he said.

When he finished, the committee room erupted in cheers and applause that lasted several seconds.

The hearing, though, was more than just venting.

While Democrats voiced concern that the latest scandal would be used to score “political points,” lawmakers on both sides of the aisle scolded the agency. And they made clear they’d be pressuring the IRS in the weeks to come on several points – namely, who was responsible and whether lawmakers were overtly lied to last year.

In a related story, Representative Kelly also released a statement today to inquire if “Auto Dealership Closures” were also political. The letter was co-signed by Rep. Jim Renacci (R-OH) and Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA). Here is Kelly’s statement with a link to the letter he co-signed:

The IRS’s now-confirmed targeting of conservative groups is a frightening reminder that no branch or department of the federal government is immune from overstepping legal and ethical boundaries. Oftentimes holding government accountable means having to dig for the truth, which is exactly what this letter is about. The Treasury Department’s Inspector General report from the aftermath of the auto bailouts indicated that ‘little or no documentation of the decision-making process to terminate or retain dealerships’ exists, making it ‘impossible in many cases’ to determine if decisions deviated from ‘supposedly objective criteria.’ In light of the department’s unthinkable breaches of public trust still being revealed by the IRS scandal, my colleagues and I have a duty to examine whether auto dealers across the country saw their businesses close as a result of similar political profiling.

Nothing would surprise America at this point.

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Todays sunspot number is 198 and NOAA estimate the chance of an M-Class flare at 75% over the next 24 hours and 50% for an X-Class during the same period.

Sunspot AR1748 has once again unleashed a flare, this time a M3 class, not the largest we have seen from this sunspot but its position on the sun disc could make it the most geoeffective so far. You can see the video of the CME leaving the Sun here.

A minor geomagnetic storm is currently in progress from the  CME impact of May 18th, that one caused by a large flare two days ago.

NOAA estimate a 75% chance of geomagnetic storms when the next CME hits on May 19th.

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