earth's magnetic fields cause of bird & fish die off

The Earth's magnetic fields are surfacing in the press as an explanation for several recent mass bird and fish die-offs! Donna Pravel writes in, "Earth's Magnetic Fields May Be Causing Bird and Fish Die-Off", about massive breaches detected in the magnetosphere by five NASA Themis spacecraft. Breaches allow highly charged particles to enter and can result in large geomagnetic storms. Pravel offers disruptions in the magnetic fields as disorienting both birds and fish, who use the magnetic fields to navigate, although she leaves open the possibility the fish kills are unrelated. The article fails to convince, under a critical eye, although a geomagnetic storm may explain the trauma to the dead birds. The die offs, at least in Arkansas, seem too specific to be explained by a storm as primarily blackbirds and drum fish died. How did other birds survive? How did other fish manage to navigate? It could be a coincidental disease killed the fish? A mass die off roundup at news.com.au should raise questions in any rational mind?

In June 2007, Themis spacecraft recorded a breach 10 times larger than anticipated. There is an audio version of the article by Tony Phillips as well as a video version available here. The present writer's concern is the growing number of sources capable of taking down our civilization in a single sweeping blackout. Will it be a electromagnetic pulse from a rogue terrorist nuke or ruined circuitry from a solar maximum, a solar flare and/or geomagnetic storm? What else can cause a breach in the magnetosphere? The possible sources of attribution seem on the rise, but how will we know the real source with any certainty in such an event? Is it predictive programming?

update: the mystery of dead birds, fish & other weird events

goldman invests in facebook at $50b valuation

why are taxpayers subsidizing facebook & the next bubble?
from nytimes: Goldman Sachs has reached out to its wealthy private clients, offering them a chance to invest in Facebook, the hot social networking giant that is considering a possible public offering in 2012, according to people familiar with the matter. On Sunday night, a number of Goldman clients received an email from their Goldman broker, offering them the opportunity to invest in an unnamed “private company that is considering a transaction to raise additional capital.” Another person briefed on the deal said that Goldman clients would have to pony up a minimum of $2 million to invest and would be prohibited from selling their shares until 2013. A Goldman spokesman declined to comment. Facebook has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in a transaction that values the company at $50 billion, according to people involved in the transaction. As part of its deal with Facebook, Goldman is expected to raise as much as $1.5 billion from investors for Facebook.

wikileaks: a big dangerous US government con job

William Engdahl provides, perhaps, the best summation of America's plight in a recent article and podcast. In last month's article, "Wikileaks--a Big Dangerous US Government Con Job," Engdahl's observations are chillingly apt. Wikileaks is too well-scripted to be true. Bradley Manning, the alleged leaker, had impossible access and his leaked material's content is not "top secret". Manning is, now, incarcerated and incommunicado - all too convenient. Once, the 250,000 leaked pages reached Julian Assange and Wikileaks, "Assange decides to selectively choose several of the world’s most ultra-establishment news media to exclusively handle the leaking job for him...The New York Times even assigned one of its top people, David E. Sanger to control the release of the Wikileaks material... sits as a member of the elite Council on Foreign Relations as well as the Aspen Institute Strategy Group..." observes Engdahl.

The clear conclusion of the article is, "but for anyone who has studied the craft of intelligence and of disinformation, a clear pattern emerges in the Wikileaks drama. The focus is put on selected US geopolitical targets...".  F William Engdahl sees right through the entire operation. "The Wikileaks is a big and dangerous US intelligence Con Job which will likely be used to police the Internet." You may catch today's Deadline Live interview of Engdahl here, which makes a great audio companion to the article!

dead birds and fish in arkansas

What caused the mass killing of thousands of birds and fish recently in Arkansas? Keith Stephens with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission offers his opinion, the birds may have been killed by stress from New Year's fireworks in a local TV interview here. Stephens adds fish usually die from low oxygen levels in the water. The Game and Fish commission rep attempts to laugh off the two bizarre incidents with biblical dark humor "just waiting on the locusts". It seems laughable, the birds would drop dead straight from the sky--due to stress! Two observations are the birds seem primarily to be blackbirds and the fish are drums. How is this selective kill possible? A fisherman points out in a video here that drum fish are unique in their "pearls" as referred to on the video, but may actually mean their otoliths, which might make the drum fish selectively vulnerable to the Extremely Low Frequency Sound Waves (ELF) of HAARP? The fisherman suggests the area behind the drum fish's eye, acts like a sounding board. The blackbirds were found in Beebe, AR and the drum fish on the shore of the Arkansas River 125 miles apart! Everyone should be asking, "is it HAARP or a newer form of scalar weaponry?"

update: the mystery of dead birds, fish & other weird events

when computers keep watch

computers that see you & keep watch over you
from nytimes: Hundreds of correctional officers from prisons across America descended last spring on a shuttered penitentiary in West Virginia for annual training exercises. Some officers played the role of prisoners, acting like gang members and stirring up trouble, including a mock riot. The latest in prison gear got a workout — body armor, shields, riot helmets, smoke bombs, gas masks. And, at this year’s drill, computers that could see the action. Perched above the prison yard, five cameras tracked the play-acting prisoners, and artificial-intelligence software analyzed the images to recognize faces, gestures and patterns of group behavior... "It was just too sensitive, and we didn’t want to go there," said Eric E. Schmidt, the chief executive of Google. "You want to avoid enabling stalker behavior."

battle of los angeles

Air raid sirens first screamed at 2:25 am and the city of Los Angeles called for a blackout early on February 25, 1942. The 12,000 air raid wardens were shocked by what followed, from 3:36 am until 4:14 am, at least, 1,440 anti-aircraft shells were fired intermittently with deafening blasts. The UFO caught in the searchlights (pictured), did not fire and apparently was not harmed! There were six deaths as a result of the air raid, three by scrapnel and three heart attacks. The military announced it was a weather ballloon.  This enigmatic incident became known as the Battle of Los Angeles. Here is a link to the original CBS radio broadcast by Bryan Palmer on February 26, 1942.

An eyewitness, only identified as Katie, a volunteer air warden made the following observations, "It was a lovely pale orange and about the most beautiful thing you've ever seen. I could see it perfectly because it was very close. It was big!... They sent fighter planes up (the Army denied any of its fighters were in action) and I watched them in groups approach it and then turn away. There were shooting at it but it didn't seem to matter." The Japanese maintained after the war, they did not fly any aircraft that night over Los Angeles!

Here is a link to a more recent NBC recap of the night, which includes a brief interview with UFO researcher Jose Escamilla. Escamilla points out the obvious, "if they can't bring down a weather balloon with over 1,500 rounds of anti-craft scrapnel, 12 lb weaponry, what are they going to do with a real enemy target?" The incident proved too embarassing, and a possible explanation, why the battle over Los Angeles has gone underreported.

An interesting footnote, on March 5, 1942, General George C Marshall, wrote a top secret memo to the President, "regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California ...with no bearing on conventional explanation...This Headquarters has come to the determination that the mystery airplanes are in fact not earthly and according to top secret intelligence sources they are in all probability of interplanetary origin."

transient lunar phenomena

The advent of Transient Lunar Phenomena (TLP) is a relatively recent development with the term first used in 1968.  There are professionals, who still doubt whether the brief changes in light, color and appearance of moon features are just optical illusions.  A common belief is the TLPs may be "last gasps" of geological activity coming from below the moon's surface, as presented in this National Geographic Article. Statistical evidence points to their reality and research is starting in earnest, for example, at this Columbia University website, Transient Lunar Phenomena Studies.  John Lear, an ex-CIA pilot and son of Lear jet founder Bill Lear, researches UFO phenomena and believes the "Blue Gem"(pictured) of the Aristarchus crater, a prominently observed TLP, is a nuclear fusion reactor.  You may suspend judgment before you take a look at his webpage, "Aristarchus Crater: Electric Blue Gem or Nuclear Fusion Reactor?"