VIDEO — Phantoms in the sky: Triple sun shines in China
RT
November 2, 2013
A rare celestial illusion of “triple suns” occurred in the sky over Chifeng, in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Friday morning. The sun, accompanied by two smaller twins, suddenly popped up in the sky, and the triple suns appeared surrounded by arched rainbow-like halos. The illusion is actually deemed a legitimate astronomical phenomenon, also known as a “phantom sun” or “ice halo.” It only appears when ice crystals create high clouds in the air around 6,000 meters above ground, and produce reflected sunlight.
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What You Don’t Know About Coffee may Pleasantly Surprise You
by Paul Fassa
Natural Society
August 16, 2013
Once upon a time, quitting coffee was a prerequisite for establishing a healthy diet and adopting a healthier lifestyle. Lately, though, several recent research studies into coffee drinking have discovered that coffee health benefits are actually some you won’t want to miss. Everything in moderation.
At first, I suspected the pro-coffee studies were simply from funded front groups within various sectors of the coffee industry. But eventually I started seeing some names I trust carrying the same news.
However, the negative health effects of excess coffee consumption, which varies from individual to individual, remain. Thus posing the dilemma of balancing both positive and negative health effects if we prefer drinking coffee to abstaining completely.
MUST READ — Nanoparticles Are in Our Food, Clothing and Medicine — And No One Knows for Sure How Dangerous They Might Be
by Heather Millar
Alternet
February 23, 2013
Inside nanotechnology’s little universe of big unknowns.
This article first appeared at Orion Magazine under the title “Pandora’s Boxes.” You can enjoy future Orion articles by signing up to the magazine’s free trial subscription program.
A pair of scientists, sporting white clean-suits complete with helmets and face masks, approach a prefab agricultural greenhouse in a clearing at Duke University’s Research Forest. Inside are two long rows of wooden boxes the size of large horse troughs, which hold samples of the natural world that surrounds them—the pine groves and rhododendron thickets of North Carolina’s piedmont, which at this moment are alive with bird song.
Looking a lot like the government bad guys in E.T., the two men cautiously hover over a row of boxes containing native sedges, water grasses, and Zebra fish to spray a fine mist of silver nanoparticles over them. Their goal: to investigate how the world inside the boxes is altered by these essentially invisible and notoriously unpredictable particles.
The researchers are part of a multidisciplinary coalition of scientists from Duke, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Howard, Virginia Tech, and the University of Kentucky, headquartered at Duke’s Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT), that represents one of the most comprehensive efforts yet to measure how nanoparticles affect ecosystems and biological systems.
So far the questions about whether nanoparticles are an environmental risk outnumber the answers, which is why the Duke scientists take the precaution of wearing clean-suits while dosing the boxes—no one’s sure what exposure to a high concentration of nanoparticles might do. Among the few things we do know about them are that they sail past the blood-brain barrier and can harm the nervous systems of some animals.
The regulation of nanoparticles has been recommended for more than a decade, but there’s no agreement on exactly how to do it. Meanwhile, the lid has already been lifted on nanotechnology. The use of man-made nanoparticles has spread into almost every area of our lives: food, clothing, medicine, shampoo, toothpaste, sunscreen, and thousands of other products.
Regulatory structures, both here and abroad, are completely unprepared for this onslaught of nanoproducts, because nanoparticles don’t fit into traditional regulatory categories. Additionally, companies often shield details about them by labeling them “proprietary”; they’re difficult to detect; we don’t have protocols for judging their effects; and we haven’t even developed the right tools for tracking them. If nanotechnology and its uses represent a frontier of sorts, it’s not simply the Wild West—it’s the Chaotic, Undiscovered, Uncontrollable West.
St. Jude Day Storms: 13 Dead as Hurricane-Force Winds Batter Britain, France, Germany
weather.com
October 28, 2013
LONDON — A savage coastal storm powered by hurricane-force gusts slashed its way through Britain and western Europe on Monday, felling trees, flooding lowlands and snarling traffic in the air, at sea and on land. At least 13 people were reported killed.
It was one of the worst storms to hit the region in years. The deadly tempest had no formal name — and wasn’t officially classified as a hurricane due to a meteorological standard — but it was dubbed the St. Jude storm (after the patron saint of lost causes) and “stormageddon” on social networks.
Gusts of 99 miles per hour were reported on the Isle of Wight in southern England, while gusts up to 80 mph hit the British mainland. Later in the day, parts of Denmark saw record gusts up of to 120 mph and an autobahn in central Germany was shut down by gusts up to 62 mph.
“This was not just a British storm,” said weather.com meteorologist Nick Wiltgen. “The core of powerful winds marched relentlessly east, raking northern France and the Low Countries before slamming into northern Germany, Denmark, and southern Sweden. That latter phase in particular was exceptionally intense, with a 105-mph gust in extreme northern Germany and many many places gusting over 85 mph in the surrounding area.”
Wiltgen warned the high winds would sweep across the southern Baltic Sea and into the countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania Monday night.
(MORE: Track the UK Storm)
All across the region, people were warned to stay indoors. Hundreds of trees were uprooted or split, blocking roads and crushing cars. The Dutch were told to leave their beloved bicycles at home for safety’s sake.
At least thirteen storm-related deaths were reported, most victims crushed by falling trees. Germany had six deaths, Britain had five and the Netherlands and Denmark had one each. One woman was also missing after being swept into the surf in France.
Two people were killed in London by a gas explosion and a British teen who played in the storm-driven surf was swept out to sea. A man in Denmark was killed when a brick flew off and hit him in the head.
Despite the strength of its gusts, the storm was not considered a hurricane because it didn’t form over warm expanses of open ocean like the hurricanes that batter the Caribbean and the United States. Britain’s national weather service, the Met Office, said Britain does not get hurricanes because those are “warm latitude” storms that draw their energy from seas far warmer than the North Atlantic. Monday’s storm also did not have an “eye” at its center like most hurricanes.
BREAKING NEWS: Environment Canada Releases Geoengineering Programs to C.A.N.
by Frank Gotz
Canadian Awareness Network
October 27, 2013
I sent an e-mail to Environment Canada (EC) on Aug 2nd 2013 asking for a list of companies that are participating in geoengineering in Canada pursuant to the Weather Modifications Information Act. The WMI Act is a piece of legislation which lists the rules, restrictions and punishments for modifying the weather in Canada without government permission.
I received reply back one month later from an EC representative, by the name of Isabelle Landry , who informed me that they need my home address because the amount of information they wanted to give me was too big for an e-mail and they would send me a disc. Approximately one week later I received a package in the mail from EC a long with a letter which wrote:
“Dear Mr. Gotz
Thank you for your email message of August 2nd, 2013, requesting a list of companies participating in geoengineering activities, specifically weather modification, in Canada…
Starting in 1948, the federal government was involved in weather modification experiments. Most of these activities took place in the 1960s and 1970s…. The research programs declined in the second half of the 1970s and ended in the early 1980s.
Currently, there is one hail suppression program operating in Alberta. The activities are conducted by Weather Modifications Inc. In an attempt to reduce damage caused by hail, the company seeds some developing thunderstorms in the Calgary-Red Deer area between May and September of each year since 1996. It uses silver iodide as a seeding agent. Weather Modifications Inc has been the only company undertaking weather modification activities in Canada during the past 15 years.
With respect to the use of silver iodide by Weather Modification Inc, the emissions produced by this compound are considered to have negligible environmental or health impacts. Material safety data sheets for silver iodide are readily available online. Measurements of silver iodide concentrations in regions where silver iodide-based weather modification activities have occurred have not found concentrations that were above the natural background concentrations. For long-term, larger scale weather modification operations, EC endorses the position of the World Meteorological Organization that the implications on ecosystems need to be assessed. For more details please consult www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/wwrp/new/documents/WM_statement_guidelines_approved.pdf
The Assistant Deputy Minister of Environment Canada’s Meteorological Service of Canada is the administrator of the Weather Modifications Information Act. Under the Act, any weather modifications undertaken over Canada need to be formally reported to the Department. Weather Modifications Inc provides the necessary reports to Environment Canada on a yearly basis. Regarding your request for information on who has sprayed what, and where, I am attaching the records from 1996 to 2011 for your interest.
Please accept my best wishes.
Sincerely,
The Honourable Leona Agulukkaq, P.C, M.P
Minister of the Environment”
2 pictures below of the physical letter (click to enlarge):
The Assistant Deputy Minister of the Meteorological Service of Canada is David Grime. David is the administrator of the Weather Modifications Information Act and according to the letter I received it indicates that David literally over sees and knows all weather modification programs that are happening in Canada. David is also President of the United Nations World Meteorological Organization and President of World Meteorological Organization -WMO/OMM. This guy is big.
The letter also made mention that geoengineering programs in Canada started in 1948 and most of the activities took place in the 60s and 70s and died out by 80s but it did not give any details as to what type of geoengineering activities occurred. So I am replying to the letter requesting more details as to what type of geoengineering experiments were conducted in those times, so please stayed tuned and visit this site in the future to see there is a reply from EC to my letter.
So the information about who oversees the geoengineering projects in Canada and the release of the dates of when it started is a news breaker for me and I was quiet satisfied with receiving it. As to the information about cloud seeding and hail mitigation is information that is absolutely not new to me and I’ve written articles about Weather Modifications Inc and cloud seeding in the past. Click HERE for a past article written in the summer. Also by just going to Weather Modifications Inc website by clicking HERE it goes into details of all the geoengineering projects that are in operation.
Below are reports made by Weather Modifications Inc to EC pursuant to the WMI Act that I received from EC. I have not gone through it all but I figure I get this information out:
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_1996
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_1997
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_1998_Vol1
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_1998_Vol2
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_1999
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_2000
- 2001 report was too large to upload
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_2002
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_2003
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_2004
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_2005
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_2006
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_2008
- WMI_ALHAP_Final_Report_2010
- WMI_Notification_May 1996
- WMI_Notification_May 1997
- WMI_Notification_May 1998
- WMI_Notification_May 1999
- WMI_Notification_May 2000
- WMI_Notification_May 2001
- WMI_Notification_May 2002
- WMI_Notification_May 2003
- WMI_Notification_May 2004
- WMI_Notification_May 2005
- WMI_Notification_May 2007
- WMI_Notification_May 2008
- WMI_Notification_May 2009
- WMI_Notification_May 2010
- WMI_Notification_May 2011
- WMI_Notification_May 2012
- 2011 AB Flight Summary Environment Canada
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week01 ENDING 20110604
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week02 ENDING 20110611
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week03 ENDING 20110618 – Revised
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week03 ENDING 20110618
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week04 ENDING 20110625
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week05 ENDING 20110702
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week06 ENDING 20110709
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week07 ENDING 20110716
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week08 ENDING 20110723
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week09 ENDING 20110730
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week10 ENDING 20110806
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week11 ENDING 20110813
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week12 ENDING 20110820
- AB PROJSUMMARY_Week16 ENDING 20110915
If you notice above, in the last paragraph of reports there are 3 weeks missing. Week 13-15 were not on the disc. I wonder if there was something in those reports EC didn’t want to share with me on purpose or if it is because there were no operations happening those weeks? I will also be asking them for more information about the missing weeks in my reply letter.
Conclusion
New questions arise after reading the letter that I received from Leona Agulukkaq, the Minister of Environment.
- What type of geoengineering experiments/programs were being conducted from 1940s – 1980s?
- Where are the reports for week 13-15 in 2011?
- And what about the year 2012?
They gave me no information about the persistent chemtrails that we see in our skies and I was surprised (but not that surprised) that they never supplied me with the declassified EC documents outlining geoengineering projects. I find it funny that there were mainstream reports of Canada doing geoengineering experiments in the ocean by adding iron to create more plankton growth, which they say ‘binds’ carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and yet in the letter Leona told me there hasn’t been any other geoengineering projects happening in Canada. Click HERE for an article from CTV News.
In the summer of 2012, EC declassified documents that outlined proposed geoengineering projects which outlined carbon-dioxide removal (CDR) via dumping iron into ocean and solar-radiation management (SRM) by reflecting solar radiation back into the atmosphere via sulfur injections along with other things. Click HERE for that declassified document that was just mentioned.
Also in the same summer EC declassified another document that outlined geoengineering projects titled “Geoengineering: Science and Governance”. Click HERE to view document. If you go to page 10 it mentions the plankton growth and if you scroll to page 13 it makes mention of dispersing sulfur into the atmosphere via airplanes, rockets or balloons to reflect solar radiation. Could some chemtrails we see in the sky contain sulfur?
So it looks like I will be sending a reply to EC outlining everything mentioned in Conclusion section so stay tuned for future reports.
VIDEO — For $10, Convert Your Smartphone into a Microscope with Photo and Video Capabilities
geeokosystem.com
October 24, 2013
Now you can do science at home with a $10 DIY smartphone microscope stand. Like pretty much everything else they touch, smartphones make microscopes better by making them less expensive, more portable, and granting you the ability to take photos and video of your subjects. It’s great to live in the future.
If you’ve got the required tools handy, it should only take about 20 minutes to build the microscope stand. Considering how much a real microscope costs and the built-in photographic capabilities of the smartphone one, it’s well worth the time and effort. You can find step-by-step instructions here.
VIDEO — Frackdown Day: Worldwide protest to end shale gas extraction
RT
October 19, 2013
Global Frackdown Day is on – Saturday marks a worldwide protest, uniting all activists who want to put an end to shale gas extraction. ‘Fracktivists’, as they’re called, are urging their governments to stand up to the oil and gas lobby. However, in Britain the authorities see things very differently… Prime Minister has become a vigorous advocate of the risky technique, as Laura Smith reports. So why exactly are environmentalists so concerned about this particular form of oil and gas extraction? For more on this RT is joined by Vanessa Vine – she’s an anti-fracking campaigner for Britain and Ireland Frack Free group
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