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World NOT Ending Today
A surprising number of people sent me emails over the past week telling me things like "Did you know that the latest crop circle is forecasting a major solar flare to damage earth on July 7th?"
Well, not to throw too much cold water on the idea, but the little bit of sunspot activity which was reported was only capable of causing B and C class solar flares. From a practical standpoint, the amount of energy from such flares is miniscule and the impact of these on earthy are about negligible. Now, you get to talking M class and X class flares, you begin to get my attention.
But, the sites which have been nattering about crop circles forecast big doings today, are at least in my estimate, not being realistic. If we get a flare that wipes out the national (or even a local) power grid, I will be willing to eat my words, but for now, get out from under the bed and get to work.
If you want to worry about something which will end life on earth, worry about the long-term increase in seismic activity or the coming second round of the derivatives meltdown. Worry about the release tomorrow of Consumer Debt numbers. But B &C class flares? Pah-leeze. Energy levels of x times 10-6 watts per square meter from a B flare means you'd need hundreds of miles of wire to light a cheap 3-watt LED. If you're holding a 500-mile hunk of #22 wire...maybe you could like a small LED, but I'd have to do the calcs.
Fact is the HVAC distribution system gets switching spikes on it that dwarf that kinda power level. Your surge suppresser is going to get more workout from a lightning storm 5-10-miles off than this B & C class stuff. Out from under the bed....really. Buy a bonehead physics refresher.
Is the word "gullible' In the dictionary?
With Friends Like This
"Obama: US, Russia not destined to be adversaries." He's right. More like clones so far, just based on the spending, central government power grabbing, and money printing.
Climate Justice
Reuters has a new report out that says, among other things, that "world's richest emit about half the earth's carbon." So, how many po folks does that corporate jet equal?
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Not that it matters after the lobbyists start throwing their weight and money around, mind you. Nice thought, though. File with Easter Bunny.
Summer of Hell
Our riot du jour "Swine flue worries spark Cambridge Jail Riot."
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Curfew in effect in China where 140 died in rioting this weekend. These are the worst in 40-years.
Are things calmed down? Nope.
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Riot squads at the ready at Staples Center in downtown LA for the Jacko memorial.
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But here's the kind of linguistic fill I've been waiting for - terms like 'digging trenches, building barricades" as rioting continues outside of Athens Greece. This is the kind of spark-meme that could light up more of Europe...at least seems to be that in the model outputs I've read.
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And we're seeing reference to uses of riot police as headlines have been coming in this week about how "Migrants are going to Britain, come hell or high water."
A little popcorn while we watch the news slick spread out from these kinds of beginnings.
A Claire Wolfe piece "11 Ways to prepare for Civil Unrest" over at LewRockwell.com is worth reading, although I think we've covered much of it over the past 6-months.
See? Sick
150 down with norovirus on a Germany-based cruise ship in Scotland.
Meantime, Back in the Cookie Jar
Washington Post publisher Katherine Weymouth is reportedly launching an internal review of the planned invite at $25-grand a pop to have lobbyists come to her place and have off-the-record dinner/ access to WaPo editors and even some Obama administration officials.
Since it's the WaPo general counsel that's doing the investigating, what do you suppose they will find, hmmmm? I'm ready to be NOT surprised.
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Coping: SEO and Digital Time Sinks
A friend (and one-time client) sent me a nice note the other day and advised me that the latest 'hot thing' in SEO (search engine optimization) was effective use of Twitter in order to boost web traffic.
I didn't point out to him, but I will to you, that the 'latest' and 'greatest' in SEO is always being rediscovered. SEO is something of a high art (a black art, if you're not in the white hat SEO camp), but SEO started off innocent enough when the web was young (once upon a time) and people who had web sites were jockeying for position. That's because on the web, the higher your search engine ranking, the more traffic (readers) your site will have, and therefore if it's a business site, the more money you will make.
So SEO started off innocently enough.
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It started with use of 'meta tags' - the keywords and such used by search engines to know where to list your site. In the early going, people would list huge shovels full of 'keywords' and hope that would lead to a high listing.
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The Search Engines (like Google, et al) caught on, however, and started to give preference to sites that weren't keyword loading. So a new rule emerged that each page on a site should only have 10-12 keywords, but that page names and content should be heavily focused on that keyword.
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All of which was fine, until 'doorway' pages came along - pages that beat keyword use to death..
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This was followed - after a period of abuse - by Google et al figuring out that what was going on was 'spamdexing' - and they wrote code to sniff out that kind of abuse.
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Along about in here, 'articles' came into vogue. The SEO folks discovered that the more 'news releases' they could crank out, the higher their search engine rankings would get. This led to a generation of 'article submission software,' which you can still find today.
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The Goog's et al wrote code around this.
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Then we went through a phase of syndication - where people who had the RSS and ATOM feeds were getting highest ranks.
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Also in here, we had a period where how your site used 'tags' was considered; such that if your keywords and your embedded tags (like the
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headline strength tags along with the bold and italic tags & , has a high level of congruence with keywords, content, and title, then you'd get a high page rank.
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So SEO guru's got web teams busy on that which led to the indexing services tuning to eliminate abuse as best they could.
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This is not to overlook the importance of inbound page links, which also plays in all this. It was assumed that if a site had relatively few outbound links and more inbound links that it was a 'source' as opposed to a leaching operation, and would therefore be ranked higher.
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But even that has changed. New blogging software (which I don't use) has much of the SEO work done and included in the code. But at some point, I have to wonder if super-optimized blogging won't be penalized a stroke, or two, for not being as 'original'? I don't know, but I expect to find out over time.
All this gets me to the note from my friend advising me that I ought to consider using Twitter as part of my SEO strategy for UrbanSurvival, IndependenceJournal, and Peoplenomics.
I likely won't.
I've run into a personal 'wall' - if I can call it that - when it comes to SEO. A lot of the SEO guidelines make sense. Should there, after all, be a high level of correspondence between what a site writes about, how it's titled, what its keywords and other meta data is, and the embedded tags? You'd think so.
And sure, there's an RSS (real simple syndication) feed for UrbanSurvival that goes out to Feedburner and from there, who knows? But that's a matter of good customer service.
When I went over to the Twitter site, I discovered that it all seems to be based on the notion that everyone wants to know what everyone else is "doing right now."
Me? I don't care what you're doing right now. Nor, do I expect that you much care about what I'm doing right now, beyond the obvious: I'm not spellchecking or proofreading this page deeply enough.
But seriously there's a whole genre of software out there which seems to have little purpose other than to defuse the Will of the People - it's the modern high tech version of bread and circuses. And it's called what?
Social Networking.
To be sure, I have a LinkedIn account - but I don't make a big deal about it, because most of the people I 'accept' links to/from are people who I either know & like, or they are experts in their fields. Not being a snob, but I look at LinkedIn as a kind of toolbox where if I come up with a real 'stumper' there may be someone I know and maybe haven't kept in touch with closely, but who I hold in high regard.
For example, if I need some advice about a patent, I might have a colleague who owns a law firm which does patent law and who teaches patent/patent theory at a university. See how that makes sense? C-level types and experts.
On the other hand, with the except of only a couple of people, my FaceBook account has gone pretty much untouched. True, there is a group of East Texas folks - which is interesting, because the population out here in the outback is fairly sparse. And there are some friends from my young (under 40) who I'd like to keep in touch with a bit closer. But hundreds of people wandering by to scribble some on 'my wall'? Sorry...life's much too busy for that. Reading 'scribbles' is down there with watching mislabeled 'reality TV'.
My operating theory here (and I can be dead wrong and a nutjob) holds a couple of notions at its core:
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General 'social networking' is an emotional waste of time that could be used to do something productive in life. Like garden, do carpentry (see next section) and spend in the hammock reading a good book.
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"Specific' social networking where it has some more tightly defined purpose or possible use does make sense.
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I wonder whether people would be more actively engaged with their government if we weren't all jabbering on cell phones (while driving) and tweeting our lives away?
That said, if you're confined to bed and can only manage a few words at a time while you wait for the Grim Reaper, maybe short message systems (SMS) make sense. Wikipedia has a great selection of them here.
Long term? I figure the number of 'social networking' sites that go belly up or just close because there are people like me who are social Luddites will increase. In fact, Wikipedia already offers a "List of defunct social networking websites."
"Ah! George, didn't you notice that there are far more active social networks than there are defunct ones?" you're thinking to yourself.
Well, duh, of course I got that. But it will all, over time, head for the scrap heap where all those BBS's went in the late 1990's.
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Humans have a compulsion to communicate and in some of the literature it's linked to obsessive-compulsive disorders.
To support this observation, simple goog "communication obsession disorder" and you'll come up with papers (from the government www.pubmed.gov site) with titles like "Social and communication difficulties and obsessive-compulsive disorder." by Cullen B, Samuels J, Grados M, Landa R, Bienvenu OJ, Liang KY, Riddle M, Hoehn-Saric R, Nestadt G.
"The relationship between pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has not been extensively studied despite having some phenomenological features in common. Abnormal social and communication behaviors (pragmatic behaviors) are key components of PDD and are also part of the broader autism phenotype (BAP). In this study we sought to establish if there is any association between the presence of abnormal pragmatic behaviors and OCD and whether this association delineates a familial subtype of OCD. "
There you have it! The link between OCD and communications fadistry whether it's excessive CB radio use, hours and hours on long distance, compulsive BBS/fora postings, or more recently tweets, chirps, and all the rest of social networking.
George the Luddite figures if your energy is being trained and drained by tweets, you'll make fine fodder for manipulation as tweeters in Iran were orchestrated recently. Which gets me around to my tentative conclusion: Social networking is social engineering. I prefer independence and mobbing doesn't sit well with me. Reminds me too much of a stampede and we all know how those end.
Assume that everyone you tweet and everyone you like will end up in a Homeland Security 'social mapping'- system such that when push comes to shove, instigators will be easily enough found.
We're seeing that in Iran and despite the stories wondering "Is Twitter the news outlet for the 21st century? I expect the answer will be no. Was CB radio or the BBS forums?
Think you could fit a google of "computer addiction" into your schedule?
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An analogy: Computers are tools - and powerful ones at that because they are 'mind amplifiers." But I've always tried to keep my computer in the same league with my electronics test gear and the table saw out in the show.
If I put a saw blade in my table saw, it usually has something to do with work product that I'm trying to build. A frame for a particular piece of Chinese art or calligraphy in the dining room, or a mounting for an original oil painting win the 'Trader Vic's" room. Tool + time equals measurable output.
Social networking, to put it politely, is like getting the wood and the table saw, and then turning everything you can grab into sawdust, Endlessly amusing and it may even have a purpose if you're planning to take all the sawdust and pulp it down into cellulose and make custom paper out of it. But most people don't think to do that.
Maybe I need another shot of coffee this morning so I can get all atwitter.
Defensive Upgrades
Microsoft has confirmed an attack against XP that hasn't been upgraded to Explorer 8. Teach you to turn off automatic upgrades, huh?
Ready for the Maxa-Tools Upgrade
Still looking like Maxa-Tools (see following section) will be ready for their latest upgrade which will handle not only one-pixel snooping, but also something called 'data spills'.
"I know that a one-pixel tracker" is where a web page points to an off-site 'img_source" tag and snags your IP address," you're thinking, "But, what's a 'data spill' and why is no one but UrbanSurvival and Maxa-Tools talking about it?
Go read here for a short backgrounder. Takes some ingenious code, maybe?
Upgrade free for current license holders of MCM (Maxa Cookie Manager).
Deutsche Snoop
Guess which big German bank spied on one of its own after a reported sales leak back in Q3 '01?
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Compliance departments worry me. Just like police have 'criminalized' us all into 'suspect' status by just pointing a radar gun at us, there are many a good/open/useful story I wish I could tell you about what really goes on down on Wall St., but the compliance departments have people who could rat out the crooks all hamstrung tighter than underwear that's six sizes too small.
No argument about advance non-public disclosure, insider trading and all that, but what about talking about all the crookedness and greed that's already under the bridge? I say compliance should be told to FO once a bit of information is in the public domain. Be nice to get all that 'company review' and only 'official company spokesperson' language out, too. That some compliance departments won't even let people above a certain level (income bracket) post under their own names to financial forums is absurd.
Unless, of course, they're still hiding stuff, right?
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To be sure, there are people who do occasionally stand up for what they think is right in the world of finance, and a story that "Digital Doman to pay $2M in termination suit" is worth reading, although the company seems likely to appeal.
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I mention this because I know people with a whole bunch more tel tell about how the derivatives bubble began to (and seems about to resume) collapse. yet they can't talk to me - or even email me. A small-time financial sheet, I've got no powerful legal department to back up an inquiry and having staff to file FOI requests with the SEC (long missing in action) is only a pipe dream.
Seems like we ought to have something that would be the equivalent of a 'whistleblowers' law in finance. Tell the truth and you're fireproof. Instead, I still hear folks talking about investing 'for the long term'. Where's the drug-testing, not to mention truth in advertising?
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Back in the old days, some PR friends at AT&T told me the best policy they had ever come up with was "When in doubt tell the truth - the whole truth." Invariably, when the fact were on the table, most of what AT&T did made perfect sense from both a business and consumer side. That was before the break-up, of course.
Try selling that 'let everyone talk and tell the truth' to the legal and HR directors in hifi who seem to think that after two serious screwings (the internet crash and housing collapse - maybe rapes is the more accurate term) the public doesn't smell a rat - or whole colony of them - trying to make money at the expense of everyone with an IRA or 401? Gag those who would blog, those would would leak anything but greed-driven dogma. It's really quite sickening.
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Deutsche was looking for a leak - that passes my reasonableness test. But most of high finance hamstrings those of good moral character & high ethical standards with rules that prevent blogging and sending emails to more than one person (like no personal distro lists for dissenting opinion) kind of thing? Well that's obviously (to me at least) NOT in the public interest. And frankly, it pisses me off.
Around the Ranch: Tool Time
A couple of new tools to endorse. Down at Lowes a week, or so, back I picked up a Stanley miter saw bench, so that I could move my saw over to the deck for cutting lumber for the San Francisco room remodel and then the master bath remodel. Only $89 bucks and works great. Well worth it since the chop saw without the stand ate up 12-feet of counter space in the shop previously. has 'wings' long enough for a 2 by 4 by 8-footer.
Another tool I've been using (to cut plasterboard for rerouting some wiring: The Rockwell RK5102K Sonicrafter Deluxe 72-pc Kit
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THE POWER HOUR NEWS - July 7, 2009
Caraco Lays Off Production Staff After FDA Seizure -- The FDA seized drugs and pharmaceutical ingredients June 25 made at Caraco's Detroit, Farmington Hills and Wixom locations. The FDA said the seizure was based on "the company's continued failure to meet the FDA's current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) requirements."
Airline considers making people stand during flight -- Ryanair is considering proposals to make some of its customers stand during flights. The low-cost airline would charge passengers less on "bar stools" with seat belts around their waists.
UM Study: Chemicals In Consumer Products May Cause Early Birth -- Researchers at the University of Michigan School of Public Health found that women who deliver prematurely have, on average, up to three times the phthalate level in their urine compared to women who carry to term.
Homeless people die after bird flu vaccine trial in Poland -- Three Polish doctors and six nurses are facing criminal prosecution after a number of homeless people died following medical trials for a vaccine to the H5N1 bird-flu virus.
Few people changed their behavior in early stages of swine flu outbreak -- Few people changed their behaviour in the early stages of the swine flu outbreak, finds a study published on bmj.com today. But the results do support efforts to inform the public about specific actions that can reduce the risks from swine flu and to communicate about the government's plans and resources.
Consumer warning on swine flu vaccines - video by Barbara Loe Fisher -- Specialty drug maker Baxter International Inc. says it's in "full scale" production of a swine flu vaccine. The vaccine will be commercially available in July.
Legal action you can take against forced vaccinations -- To defend yourself and your countrymen you can now take legal steps using documents journalist Jane Burgermeister has created specifically for this purpose. After many days of intense effort and two failed attempts due to hackers, Jane has these documents ready to be downloaded. She gives them freely with the hope that others will follow her lead in standing up for their rights while there is still time.
Bioweapons, dangerous vaccines and threat of global pandemic -- Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare program since at least the 1940s. Read More...
New Zealand orders 300,000 doses of untested swine flu vaccine for health workers -- The government is spending millions of dollars to import a swine flu vaccination for front line health workers – even though it has not been licensed yet. It has ordered 300,000 doses of the vaccine but it is unlikely to be available until December.
Swine flu worries spark Cambridge MA jail riot -- Inmate fears over an apparent swine flu outbreak sparked a riot at the Middlesex County Jail in Cambridge on Sunday.
National Strategic Plan for Emergency Department Management of Outbreaks of Novel H1N1 Infuenza -- “ Even with the support of tools and policies, it will be incumbent on the hospital to have a plan or strategy for bringing together the appropriate personnel who can make the best decisions possible ….” AHRQ Providing Mass Medical Care with Scarce Resources: A Community Planning Gui.
Missouri National Guard Train to Kill “Militia Insurgents” in Exercise -- The Missouri National Guard is training to engage in combat with “militia” groups, according to the News Tribune. “During the battalion’s annual training exercise, eight members of the Jefferson City-based unit, acting as a fictitious militant group, attempted to disrupt the battalion’s operations through attacks and harassment. The battalion’s other two units, the Kansas City-based 205th Area Support Medical Company, and the Springfield based 206th Area Support Medical Company, fended off the attacks while performing their medical duties,” the newspaper reported on June 30.
From Farm to Pharma: How Animals Ended Up Living in Confined Feedlots Guzzling Antibiotics -- Pharmaceutical corporations claimed that with antibiotics, the stress of the crowded conditions of confinement could be overcome. Again, the federal agencies did not challenge these claims. So, the path was paved for today's industrial bacon bins, chicken factories, and feedlots where pigs, chickens, and beef cows are raised in cramped conditions and treated with several chemical additives and drugs to keep them from getting sick in crowded cells and pens.
Paging The President -- A day before the American president was scheduled to meet with opposition and civil society groups in Russia, NEWSWEEK spoke with human rights activists, politicians, and experts about what they expect from the summit. From the article: I will tell President Obama about Russia's dozens of political prisoners--opposition activists, scientists, and businessmen. We will judge him by whether or not he has a clear plan for Russia. But we wish to highlight that Russia deserves democracy.
Facebook to make "Billions" Within Five Years -- Facebook will likely be posting billions of dollars in revenue in five years, up from about $500 million this year, according to Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mark Andreessen who sits on Facebook's board.
Senate torpedoes Fed Reserve audit, but House plan already has majority support -- Members of the U.S. Senate today rejected a proposal for an audit of the Federal Reserve, the private institution that virtually controls U.S. interest rates, money supply and other economic influences.
Anti REAL ID governors serially discredited (MArk Sanford & Sarah Palin are 2 of them) -- Something is definitely amiss in the Anti-Real ID political community. Amid chatter of neo-con infiltration in various Republican grassroots groups, 2 of the 5 original Governors in States opposed to the Real ID Act [Maine, Alaska, New Hampshire, South Carolina & Montana] seem to have been serially removed from effectiveness in public office.
The truth behind depleted uranium contamination and it's usage -- There has been significant publicity about the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions, its ability to travel very long distances and the consequences to our health.
Drug tests are flagging natural products for narcotics-tea tree oil & chocolate tested positive for marijuana? -- Police in the United States and Canada have been arresting people when their natural health, food and body products falsely test positive for drugs.
Military Documents: Militarizing the US "Homeland": NORTHCOM's Tasking - Army Continuity of Operations Program (COOP)
US reported in a panic after chemtrail planes forced down in India & Nigeria By: Sorcha Faal -- Russian Military Analysts are reporting in the Kremlin that US Military Forces are “panicked” over the forced landings ordered by Indian and Nigerian Air Forces of two Ukrainian AN-124 aircraft [photo top left] operated by the United States Air Force and based at their gigantic, but secretive, Diego Garcia air base located in the Indian Ocean.
Atlantic City Expressway may shift to all electronic tolls -- South Jersey Transportation Authority's board has endorsed a $56k report by Wilbur Smith Associates to lay out the implications of moving to all-electronic tolling (AET) as compared to upgrading obsolete electronic and cash collection and providing open road lanes on the Atlantic City Expressway (ACE). Sharon Gordon spokesman for the south Jersey toller says the board now expect to make a decision this fall after the WSA report is received. Michael Kolb of TTI is consulting engineer on the project.
GMO corn: France rejects report by EU food agency -- In a joint statement, the French ecology and agriculture ministries said the Italy-based European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) had failed to take into account requests to change the way it evaluated the risk.
Research shows cell phone towers can predict the next big flood -- Researchers from Tel Aviv University say they have found a novel and reliable way to help predict the intensity of the next big flood, using common cell phone towers across the United States. Their model, which analyzes cell phone signals, adds a critical component to weather forecasting never before available.
Oldest Bible made whole again online -- The surviving parts of the world's oldest Bible were reunited online Monday, generating excitement among scholars striving to unlock its mysteries.
Solved: Riddle of Siberia's flattened forest -- A massive explosion that flattened an entire forest in northern Russia over an area of 800 square miles more than a century ago was almost certainly caused by the Earth colliding with a comet, according to a study by rocket scientists in the United States.
Ron Paul strikes gold -- Why the oft-marginalized congressman is the greatest threat to Obama’s regulatory plan.
SpaceWeather.com | Sunspot 1024 is experiencing some decay and solar flare activity is subsiding. July 7, 2009
SUBSIDING SUNSPOT: Sunspot 1024 is experiencing some decay and solar flare activity is subsiding. Nevertheless, by recent standards it is still a behemoth. The dark cores in this July 6th photo from Mike Borman of Evansville, Indiana, are each about the size of Earth:
Photo details: Coronado SM90 solar filter, Televue 102iis refractor,
"The clouds parted and gave me a clear shot of this sunspot," says Borman. "It is a beauty."
The magnetic polarity of sunspot 1024 identifies it as a member of Solar Cycle 24, the long-awaited next solar cycle. New research shows that solar jet streams are beginning to stimulate new-cycle sunspot production. Sunspot 1024 appears to be a sign of the process at work, heralding more to come. Monitoring is encouraged.
more images: from Stefano Sello of Pisa, Italy; from Therese van Nieuwenhoven of Laukvik, Lofoten islands, Norway; from Pete Lawrence of Selsey, West Sussex, UK; from T. Emerson and J. Stetson of South Portland, Maine; from Pavol Rapavy of Observatory Rimavska Sobota, Slovakia; from Britta Suhre of Dortmund, Germany; from Deirdre Kelleghan of Bray, Co Wicklow Ireland; from Roman Vanur of Nitra, Slovakia; from Ehsan Rostamizadeh of Kerman, Iran; from Leslie Marczi of Welland, Ontario, Canada; from Rolando De Michiel of Bonnet Bay, Sydney, Australia
Monday, July 6, 2009
SteveQuayle.com | Hot Headlines - July 6, 2009
Foreign Troops to Patrol Your Neighborhood
Strange Martial Law via Food Control: HR 2749
Court to Defendant: Stop Blasting That Man’s Mind!
NAIS, Friend and Foe
Jobs Data Bode Ill for the Future
India Joins Russia, China in Questioning U.S. Dollar Dominance
World Globalization of the Banking and Regulatory Structure, Part 2
Billionaire Madoff Linked to Intelligence Agencies
Pursuing Failure
How Bad Are Auto Sales? Ten Questions and Answers
A Goldman Trading Scandal?
Gerald Celente - 2009 Outlook – video
Attack in Pakistani Garrison City Raises Anxiety About Safety of Nuclear Labs and Staff Saudis Give Nod to Israeli Raid on Iran Defender Publishing: Part 13
Divers Warned of Strange Current Off La Jolla Shores
The Critters Eating America's Forests
Case about Bird Flu
GMO Corn: France Rejects Report by EU Food Agency
NaturalNews.com | Today's Feature Stories - July 6, 2009
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| St. John's Wort Again Proven Better than Antidepressant Drugs (NaturalNews) The popular herbal extract St. John's wort is more effective at treating the symptoms of depression than any antidepressant drug, and has fewer side effects, researchers from the Centre for Complementary Medicine in Munich have concluded... |
| Obscene Drug Profits: Where They Go Recently, a couple of Federal Budget Analysts from Washington, DC wondered about the profits in pharmaceutical drugs and came up with some interesting figures. Turns out that to purchase the active ingredients for many drugs is often pennies... |
| Think about Your Diet (Opinion) The good 'ol U - S - A. The best, the richest, the most powerful, and yet, the most diseased nation in the world. Scary isn't it? The most influential nation in the world leads the world in arthritis, cancer, constipation, diabetes, gout... |
| Discover the Benefits of Barley Nothing helps beat off the winter blues quite like a big bowl of chunky, hot vegetable soup. Not only does it warm your belly, but it also provides you with a stack of nutrients to help your body combat any viruses that might slow you down... |
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Pravda.ru | Obama comes to Moscow to throw loop on Russia's neck
US President Barack Obama is coming to Moscow today. Russian experts do not think that the landmark visit will result in any breakthrough of relations between the two countries.
“One should not expect any sensations. Nothing will change in world history during the two days of his visit to Russia. Achieving fundamental agreements is predetermined with the course of previous events,” Anatoly Utkin, an expert with the Institute for the USA and Canada said.
“No one expected in 1968 that the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union would improve. Nixon visited the USSR, which led to a number of fundamental agreements. The period before the end of the 1970s was the best time in the relations between the two superpowers.
“A lot of things have changed since then, but who said that the USA and Russia would never be able to achieve success? The US sitting president reminds Kennedy, who was ready to compromise.
“Most likely, the US leader will offer Russia to reduce nuclear arsenals to 1,500 nukes for each of the two countries. All other aspects require a deeper insight taking into consideration the fact that it is extremely hard to solve all or many problems in two days. Obama will probably pay special attention to the modernization of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which was signed in 1963. Today, one may describe the document as “toothless” – no one punished India and Pakistan in 1999 when they publicly violated it.
“The future of the globe depends on Russia and the United States: they own 95 percent of world’s nuclear arms.
“Obama’s visit to Russia is obviously a positive phenomenon. Russia has not had a conversation like that with the United States for 20 years already. Most likely, it will be a preliminary meeting that will initiate the solution of many other problems that the two countries have. The world’s two superpowers must eventually shake hands,” the expert said.
Russia’s former Defense Minister Igor Rodionov is not so optimistic.
“As for the nuclear disarmament, I definitely support this. One could understand the arms race during the Cold War. The race was necessary indeed as an element of nuclear deterrence against the background of the competition between the two systems. Why do Russia and the USA need the arms race now?
“However, no one has shown an example yet, which other countries could follow. As a result, the nuclear arms continue to sprawl all over the world. I would not expect anything positive from Obama’s current visit to Russia. One should not think that America wishes Russia well. It is the United States that impedes the disarmament process: the nation tries to promote its world order everywhere. Obama’s visit is an attempt to sound out Russia ’s sentiments, to bring Russia closer to the West.
“Big politics is like an iceberg. We see only the tip – the things that they let us see, and the rest is not made public. The USA wants to give Russia a purely raw-exports role. Western countries simply want Russia to deliver cheap energy sources to them and represent absolutely no danger,” the expert said.
Anatoly Tsyganok, an expert with the Institute for Military and Political Analysis, told Pravda.Ru that Obama’s visit may strengthen the cooperation between the two countries on a wide range of issues, such as the struggle against the proliferation of nuclear arms. First and foremost, it goes about North Korea, which already has nuclear weapons.
“Russia should not forget its own interests in the dialogue with the United States. In accordance with previous agreements with the USA, Russia undertook to remove its nuclear arms from Europe. Moscow withdrew its strategic potential from Belarus. However, Washington left over 100 items of its nuclear arms in Germany. Russia let the United States track down the production of its nuclear warheads but received no such opportunity in return. To crown it all, the United States violated the START Treaty: the nation was stockpiling the nukes while Russia was destroying them.
“Nowadays, the USA stakes on the development of high-precision weapons, which Russia does not have. If Russia removes its strategic potential, it will become absolutely defenseless. Russia must reduce its arms only if the USA does the same. Otherwise, Russia may find itself in a tramp,” the expert said.
Sergey Balmasov
Pravda.Ru
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MAG DATE LOCAL-TIME LAT LON DEPTH LOCATION
y/m/d h:m:s deg deg km
map 1.6 2009/07/06 09:22:16 36.720N 89.511W 13.0 8 km ( 5 mi) ESE of Matthews, MO
map 2.3 2009/07/06 06:33:00 45.785N 74.448W 6.0 100 km (62 mi) NNW of Chateaugay, NY
map 2.0 2009/07/05 02:24:07 35.631N 84.315W 15.9 8 km ( 5 mi) NW of Vonore, TN
map 2.8 2009/07/04 07:24:43 37.379N 80.746W 11.5 5 km ( 3 mi) ESE of Peterstown, WV
map 1.6 2009/07/04 02:16:33 36.217N 89.479W 5.5 5 km ( 3 mi) S of Ridgely, TN
map 2.4 2009/07/03 19:43:07 36.821N 89.426W 13.5 6 km ( 4 mi) NW of East Prairie, MO
map 2.4 2009/07/03 13:06:59 34.638N 85.351W 1.7 10 km ( 6 mi) SW of LaFayette, GA
map 1.1 2009/07/03 02:40:15 36.245N 89.511W 6.7 3 km ( 2 mi) SW of Ridgely, TN
map 0.9 2009/07/03 00:33:13 36.272N 89.442W 5.3 4 km ( 3 mi) ENE of Ridgely, TN
map 1.6 2009/07/01 15:18:55 36.412N 89.524W 7.9 6 km ( 4 mi) NW of Tiptonville, TN
MAP 3.4 2009/07/01 12:14:48 35.401N 97.089W 5.0 12 km ( 7 mi) NNW of Bethel Acres, OK
map 2.8 2009/07/01 08:44:43 39.644N 75.483W 5.0 3 km ( 2 mi) ESE of Pennsville, NJ
SSB Frequency (MHz) Mode Description
1. 11.175 USB Air Force GHFS primary days
2. 6.739 USB Air Force GHFS primary nights
3. 4.725 USB Air Force GHFS
4. 8.993 USB Air Force GHFS
5. 9.014 USB Air Combat Command (ACC) ops.
6. 11.243 USB STRATCOM primary days
7. 6.761 USB STRATCOM primary nights
8. 6.812 USB MYSTIC STAR primary AF-1/AF-2 SAMs
9. 11.246 USB Air Force GHFS McClellan/MacDill AFB
10. 13.201 USB Air Force GHFS (old SAC S-394)
11. 13.215 USB Air Force GHS Andrews?MacDill AFB
12. 13.244 USB Air Force GHFS
13. 5.680 USB search & rescue all military
14. 5.696 USB Primary USCG aviation (nights)
15. 8.984 USB USCG (primary days) secondary nights
16. 6.697 USB U.S. Navy HICOM
17. 11.267 USB U.S. Navy HICOM
18. 9.023 USB NORAD primary nights
19. 13.241 USB STRATCOM (old SAC)
20. 3.113 USB STRATCOM Sierra 302
21. 13.205 USB STRATCOM
22. 13.217 USB STRATCOM X-Ray 906
23. 13.247 USB Mystic Star/Andrews AFB?STRATCOM
24. 15.091 USB ACC (secondary) tactical ops.
25. 3.369 USB STRATCOM Alpha Sierra
26. 4.495 USB STRATCOM Sierra 304
27. 4.721 USB Mystic Star/Andrews AFB
28. 18.002 USB Air Force GHFS (discrete)
29. 18.046 USB Air Force GHFS
30. 5.020 USB STRATCOM Foxtrtot
31. 17.972 USB STRATCOM (discrete)
32. 17.975 USB Air Force GHFS
33. 20.631 USB STRATCOM (old SAC Whiskey)
34. 20.846 USB ACC tactical (old SAC Charlie Alpha)
36. 8.872 USB Navy anti submarine warfare ops.
37. 5.197 USB Air Mobility Command (AMC) ops.
38. 18.027 USB AMC ops.
39. 11.214 USB NORAD
40. 5.297 USB NORAD
41. 9.793 USB NORAD
42. 10.194 USB NORAD
43. 10.452 USB NORAD
44. 5.328 USB STRATCOM
45. 11.441 USB NORAD
46. 14.364 USB NORAD
47. 20.855 USB NORAD
48. 5.826 USB STRATCOM Papa 382
49. 6.826 USB STRATCOM Golf
50. 7.330 USB STRATCOM X-ray-Yankee
51. 7.983 USB STRATCOM Foxtrot Charlie
52. 8.101 USB STRATCOM Alpha Papa
53. 9.057 USB STRATCOM Sierra 309
54. 10.452 USB STRATCOM Oscar
55. 6.735 USB NORAD Charlie Two
56. 9.232 USB NORAD/CAP
57. 14.894 USB NORAD
58. 20.855 USB NORAD
59. 3.383 USB ACC
60. 3.365 USB ACC
61. 3.394 USB ACC
62. 4.474 USB ACC
63. 11.016 USB ACC
64. 11.214 USB ACC
65. 6.715 USB Aerospace Rescue & Recovery Service
66. 11.440 USB Aerospace Rescue & Recovery Service
67. 4.582 USB Civil Air Patrol (emergency and calling)
68. 4.466 USB Civil Air Patrol (CAP)
69. 4.627 USB CAP
70. 5.700 USB ACC tactical ops.
71. 3.023 USB search & rescue
72. 4.416 USB Navy HICOM Pacific Fleet
73. 8.711 USB ACC tactical
74. 10.267 USB ACC
75. 10.665 USB ACC
76. 4.700 USB Navy Anti Submarine Warfare Pacific
77. 4.702 USB Navy Anti Submarine Warfare Atlantic
78. 5.446 USB USMC tactical nets
79. 6.687 USB USMC special convoys
80. 13.181 USB Navy HICOM Pacific
81. 6.673 USB Hurricane Hunters primary nights
82. 13.267 USB Hurricane Hunters primary days
83. 5.562 USB Hurricane Hunters secondary nights
84. 11.510 USB ACC
85. 11.240 USB ACC
86. 4.540 USB Royal Air Force
87. 5.729 USB Royal Air Force
88. 6.690 USB Royal Air Force
89. 6.730 USB Royal Air Force
90. 8.990 USB Royal Air Force
91. 11.249 USB Canadian Air Force
92. 6.746 USB Canadian Air Force
93. 13.257 USB Canadian Air Force
94. 5.800 USB ACC tactical/STRATCOM Whiskey 100
95. 6.753 USB ACC tactical
96. 8.964 USB ACC tactical (discrete)
97. 11.627 USB ACC tactical
98. 17.975 USB Air Force GHFS
99. 15.041 USB STRATCOM (old SAC Mike channel)
100. 23.419 USB STRATCOM/NORAD intercommunications
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