Revival of Ancient Cult

#GenX & First-Wave #Millennials: stay strong, stay healthy, stay aware. The insane, suicidal Boomer Kakistocrats & their parasitical little pets are destroying everything everywhere & we're going to have to rebuild from the rubble.

This is coming faster than you could imagine.

— The Secret Sun Speaks (@SecretSunBlog) August 30, 2022

 

Cults always run into the brick wall of unfulfilled prophecies & broken promises. They need some glorious future to strive towards, otherwise it all falls apart & takes the faithful down with it.

The Cult of Progress is staring into that abyss now. And it controls everything.

— The Secret Sun Speaks (@SecretSunBlog) August 30, 2022

It's the revival of an ancient cult, James. pic.twitter.com/L1yG8H6vj5

— The Secret Sun Speaks (@SecretSunBlog) August 30, 2022

Immoral Code - A Film By Stop Killer Robots

Faya Dayi

A hypnotic immersion in the world of Harar, Ethiopia, where khat, a euphoria-inducing plant, holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life, Faya Dayi captures moments in the lives of everyone from the harvesters of the crop to people lost in its narcotic haze to a desperate but determined younger generation searching for an escape from political strife. Official selection 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Shortlisted, 94th Academy Awards. A co-presentation with Black Public Media.

August 24 QUAKE

The last earthquake in the New England region (including Canada border) occurred Wednesday: Minor mag. 1.6 earthquake - 79 km west of Miramichi, Northumberland County, New Brunswick, Canada, on Wednesday, Aug 24, 2022 at 7:41 am (GMT -3)...

In Central Massachusetts, the most pronounced fault is the Clinton-Newbury fault, created 250 million to 450 million years ago. It runs 97 miles from Worcester to Newbury through Lake Quinsigamond and the Acre section of Clinton.

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MARCH 2011__Mega earthquakes in Japan, Chile and even on the West Coast seem far away. Here in New England, we are more worried about snow falling on us than the earth moving beneath us, but is our sense of security misplaced?

The last truly big earthquake here was before the American Revolution. There is no guarantee it won’t happen again tomorrow.

“We’re overdue,” geologist Robert B. Coyle said to a group gathered recently at the Millers River Environmental Center.

During a discussion of the geology of northern Central Massachusetts, Mr. Coyle, founder of the Athol Bird and Nature Club, said it is not a matter of if, but when and how large an earthquake the region will experience.

What may surprise some people is that, although earthquakes are not as frequent as on the West Coast, they happen in New England regularly. On March 24, there was a 1.3 magnitude quake centered five miles from Moodus, Conn.  On March 25, there was a 2.2 magnitude quake near Lincoln, Maine.  Earlier in March, Contoocook, N.H., experienced a similar size quake. The last one in Massachusetts was a 1.7 magnitude quake along the New York border Oct. 22, but in 1994 in Hardwick, residents were jolted by a 3.5 magnitude quake felt all over Central Massachusetts.

Quakes happen, and have throughout history in Massachusetts and New England. Mr. Coyle said the most famous big one was a 6.0 magnitude quake off Cape Ann in 1755 that toppled chimneys and damaged homes in Boston. It came on the heels of several other quakes in that area in the 1700s. There has never been anything close to the 9.0 quake that devastated Japan in Massachusetts, but there has been some shaking, rattling and rolling over the years.

John E. Ebel, director of seismology at Boston University’s Weston Observatory in Weston, said the Cape Ann quake may not have been the strongest to hit the region since Europeans settled here. He said he believes one centered in Central New Hampshire in 1638 may have been magnitude 6.5. He said a quake in the St. Lawrence River area near Quebec City in 1663 may have been about magnitude 7.5.

“If you had that today, you could have had significant damage,” he said.

Mr. Coyle said the history of quakes in the region can be seen in its geology. On Route 2, about a mile west of Route 32 in Athol, a large fault is visible in ledges on both sides of the highway. The fault runs through uptown Athol, finding its way up Route 32 until it emerges in the spillway around the Tully Dam, where two distinct fractures can be seen in the rocks on the east side of the Route 32 bridge.

“There is also a large fault in New Salem,” Mr. Coyle said.

That fault can be found in the caves in the Bears Den* area.

“There are breaks in the rocks where you can go in and see how the rocks have moved over each other, both vertically and horizontally,” he said. “It’s a place not to be missed.”

There is another fault in Warwick that runs up into New Hampshire. In Central Massachusetts, the most pronounced fault is the Clinton-Newbury fault, created 250 million to 450 million years ago. It runs 97 miles from Worcester to Newbury through Lake Quinsigamond and the Acre section of Clinton.  The faults are millions of years old, but there has been some low-level earthquake activity near the Clinton-Newbury fault, especially in the Newbury area in recent years. They are a goldmine of interesting rocks for geologists, but more than a little disconcerting to the casual viewer. Do the old faults point to some future disaster?

Earthquake hazard prediction is difficult, if not nearly impossible.

“No one can predict earthquakes anywhere on earth,” Mr. Ebel said.

What can be done is look at the extensive data collected by scientists, including those at the Weston Observatory, and try to make hazard predictions based on the history of earthquakes in the area. They are not as frequent as in California because pressure on the rocks is stronger out there than it is in New England.

Mr. Ebel said the possibility of an earthquake of magnitude 5 in New England averages about one in every 60 years.  The last time such a strong earthquake hit was in December 1940 when the two quakes, both about 5.5 magnitude, were centered around Ossipee Lake in New Hampshire.

Based on that, it would make sense that the region is overdue by 10 years for a big hit, but Mr. Ebel cautions that the 60-year number is an estimate. As an example, he said an earthquake could occur, a second follow the next week, and then the third not for 99 years.

“The average would be every 50 years,” he said.

What can be predicted is there will be earthquakes. The rate of having small quakes in New England every few weeks has been steady over time. The numbers may go up and down, but people can expect the earth to keep moving under their feet

Those who believe they have felt an earthquake may report it by filling out a form at the U.S. Geological Survey at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/, by e-mailing the Weston Observatory at weston.observatory@bc.edu and tell them precisely when they felt the earthquake and where they were at that time. 

They may also call the observatory at (617) 552-8300. If there is damage, they should contact the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency at (508) 820-2000.

 

Bears Den, MA:

On its way to the Quabbin Reservoir, the Middle Branch of the Swift River cascades into an intriguing woodland pool at the bottom of a secluded gorge. In 1675, the great chief Metacomet, known to European settlers as King Philip, met here with neighboring chieftains to plan attacks on Hadley, Deerfield, and Northampton. A black bear shot on the property gives the land/reservation its name.

18 Neilson Road
New Salem, MA 01355

E-mail: info@thetrustees.org

Get directions from Google Maps

From Rt. 2, Exit 16, follow Rt. 202 South. Shortly after Rt. 202 merges with Rt. 122 South, turn right onto Elm St. Turn left on Neilson Rd. Follow Neilson Road for 0.5 mi. to entrance and roadside parking on right.

 

 

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Visions

 

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Chincoteague Ponies

 

Chincoteague Ponies are stocky, with short legs, thick manes, and large, round bellies. Assateague Island is a harsh environment for the Ponies and their diet is limited. The Ponies have adapted to the limited diet over the hundreds of years they have lived on Assateague.

Does DNA Clear Up the Origin Story of Chincoteague Horses?

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tags: early American history, wildlife, Chincoteague Island

To tell the story of how a purported cow tooth dug up in the Caribbean might corroborate the mythical origin of wild horses off the coast of Maryland and Virginia, let us begin, naturally, with a children’s book, Misty of Chincoteague.

If you know, you know—horse girls, I’m looking at you. For everyone else: This beloved 1947 children’s novel tells the story of Misty the pony, born on the beaches of an uninhabited barrier island. The story is fictional, but the setting is real. A band of wild horses still roams that island today, eating seagrass and largely ignoring tourists who come for selfies with a real-life version of Misty.

No one knows how the horses first arrived there, but Misty of Chincoteague retells a dramatic bit of local lore. It opens with literal Sturm und Drang. A Spanish galleon carrying Moorish ponies to the gold mines of Peru shipwrecks off the coast of what will later become Maryland and Virginia. The crew perishes, but the ponies swim to a nearby island and survive. “The seasons came and went,” the book goes, “and the ponies adopted the New World as their own.” In their newfound freedom, they became wild—or technically, feral, domesticated but untamed. Today, the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company, which manages the southern half of this horse population for historical reasons, promulgates the shipwreck origin story of the island ponies. The National Park Service, which manages the northern half, tells a decidedly less romantic tale: 17th-century settlers probably brought these horses with them.

Enter now the “cow” tooth, actually a horse tooth, mistakenly cataloged decades ago by archaeologists excavating an abandoned 16th-century Spanish settlement. And intriguingly, a recent DNA analysis suggests that the modern breed this Spanish colonial horse is most closely related to is none other than the Chincoteague pony. Given the genetic similarity, could the myth be real after all—were these mysterious ponies also Spanish colonial horses that first arrived by shipwreck?

Nicolas Delsol, now a postdoctoral researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History, was not thinking about any of this while dealing with the troublesome “cow” tooth for his Ph.D. dissertation. He was interested in cattle domestication in the Americas, and the museum’s collections contained hundreds of cow teeth from Puerto Real, a 16th-century Spanish settlement in modern-day Haiti.  Delsol picked 24 to analyze DNA from and—just his luck—one tooth had sequences that looked really, really weird. He put it aside for weeks to finish his cattle project. When he did finally return to the tooth, though, he saw that its DNA sequence was similar to that of a… the Chincoteague pony.  Delsol, who is French, had never heard of it. “I was like, Wait, what are they exactly? What are these Chincoteague ponies?”

Read entire article at The Atlantic

 SWIM

43 pound COBIA? YES!

 

Chicopee man catches record size fish in Connecticut

by: Nick DeGray  Aug 23, 2022 

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – After an hour and a half battle with a Cobia fish off the coast of Connecticut, Chicopee resident John Bertolasio is now the new record keeper in the state for catching the saltwater fish.

Bertolasio was fishing on Long Sand Shoal on August 13 when all of a sudden he got a hit on his line. The fish put up quite the fight, even snapping his fishing pole in half once the fish got closer to the boat. At first sight, he thought it was a shark he had just caught, but it turned out to be a Cobia and he decided to keep it.

Connecticut Fisheries and Wildlife have officially added Bertolasio to the state’s Exotic Marine Species Record list. The Cobia officially weighed 43 pounds and was 56″ in length.

Bertolasio talked to 22News about the catch, who still can’t believe what he caught, “When I got it clear to the boat, I saw it… this big brown fish. It just went straight down, I couldn’t even hold the pole, and then it snapped, the pole snapped. I thought I lost it but it was still on. The biggest fish I ever caught, I couldn’t hold it up it was so heavy. Whenever I catch a fish I get so happy I start singing!”

LOCATION: Long Sand Shoal

Cobia

43lbs

56"

Long Sand Shoal, CT

John Bertolasio

2022

 

Heath Ledger Killed by "Star Whackers" Says Quaid

Randy Quaid Running from "Star Whackers"

holy gold!

 SHOCKING!!!!!!!!!

Earthquakes Make Gold Veins in an Instant

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Gold-quartz vein from Red Mountain Mining District,Ouray County,Colorado,USA

Pressure changes cause precious metal to deposit each time the crust moves.

Scientists have long known that veins of gold are formed by mineral deposition from hot fluids flowing through cracks deep in Earth’s crust. But a study published in Nature Geoscience1 has found that the process can occur almost instantaneously — possibly within a few tenths of a second.

The process takes place along ‘fault jogs’ — sideways zigzag cracks that connect the main fault lines in rock, says first author Dion Weatherley, a seismologist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

When an earthquake hits, the sides of the main fault lines slip along the direction of the fault, rubbing against each other. But the fault jogs simply open up. Weatherley and his co-author, geochemist Richard Henley at the Australian National University in Canberra, wondered what happens to fluids circulating through these fault jogs at the time of the earthquake.

What their calculations revealed was stunning: a rapid depressurization that sees the normal high-pressure conditions deep within Earth drop to pressures close to those we experience at the surface.

For example, a magnitude-4 earthquake at a depth of 11 kilometres would cause the pressure in a suddenly opening fault jog to drop from 290 megapascals (MPa) to 0.2 MPa. (By comparison, air pressure at sea level is 0.1 MPa.) “So you’re looking at a 1,000-fold reduction in pressure,” Weatherley says.

Flash in the pan

When mineral-laden water at around 390 °C is subjected to that kind of pressure drop, Weatherley says, the liquid rapidly vaporizes and the minerals in the now-supersaturated water crystallize almost instantly  — a process that engineers call flash vaporization or flash deposition. The effect, he says, “is sufficiently large that quartz and any of its associated minerals and metals will fall out of solution”.

Eventually, more fluid percolates out of the surrounding rocks into the gap, restoring the initial pressure. But that doesn’t occur immediately, and so in the interim a single earthquake can produce an instant (albeit tiny) gold vein.

Big earthquakes will produce bigger pressure drops, but for gold-vein formation, that seems to be overkill. More interesting, Weatherley and Henley found, is that even small earthquakes produce surprisingly big pressure drops along fault jogs.

“We went all the way to magnitude –2,” Weatherley says — an earthquake so small, he adds, that it involves a slip of only about 130 micrometres along a mere 90 centimetres of the fault zone. “You still get a pressure drop of 50%,” he notes.

That, Weatherley adds, might be one of the reasons that the rocks in gold-bearing quartz deposits are often marbled with a spider web of tiny gold veins. “You [can] have thousands to hundreds of thousands of small earthquakes per year in a single fault system,” he says. “Over the course of hundreds of thousands of years, you have the potential to precipitate very large quantities of gold. Small bits add up.”

Weatherley says that prospectors might be able to use remote sensing techniques to find new gold deposits in deeply buried rocks in which fault jogs are common. “Fault systems with lots of jogs can be places where gold can be distributed,” he explains.

But Taka’aki Taira, a seismologist at the University of California, Berkeley, thinks that the finding might have even more scientific value. That’s because, in addition to showing how quartz deposits might form in fault jogs, the study reveals how fluid pressure in the jogs rebounds to its original level — something that could affect how much the ground moves after the initial earthquake.

“As far as I know, we do not yet incorporate fluid-pressure variations into estimates of aftershock probabilities,” Taira says. “Integrating this could improve earthquake forecasting.”


The study was published in the journal Nature.

Giant Meteor Attack

 Continents on Ancient Earth Were Created by Giant Meteorite Impacts

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One of Earth's defining features is its plate tectonics, a phenomenon that shapes the planet's surface and creates some of its most catastrophic events, like earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. While some features of plate tectonics have been spotted elsewhere in the Solar System, the Earth is the only planet we know of with the full suite of processes involved in this phenomenon. And all indications are that it started very early in our planet's history.

New Curtin research has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth's continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that were particularly prevalent during the first billion years or so of our planet's four-and-a-half-billion year history.

Dr Tim Johnson, from Curtin's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the idea that the continents originally formed at sites of giant meteorite impacts had been around for decades, but until now there was little solid evidence to support the theory.

"By examining tiny crystals of the mineral zircon in rocks from the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia, which represents Earth's best-preserved remnant of ancient crust, we found evidence of these giant meteorite impacts," Dr Johnson said.

"Studying the composition of oxygen isotopes in these zircon crystals revealed a 'top-down' process starting with the melting of rocks near the surface and progressing deeper, consistent with the geological effect of giant meteorite impacts.

"Our research provides the first solid evidence that the processes that ultimately formed the continents began with giant meteorite impacts, similar to those responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, but which occurred billions of years earlier."

Dr Johnson said understanding the formation and ongoing evolution of the Earth's continents was crucial given that these landmasses host the majority of Earth's biomass, all humans and almost all of the planet's important mineral deposits.

"Not least, the continents host critical metals such as lithium, tin and nickel, commodities that are essential to the emerging green technologies needed to fulfil our obligation to mitigate climate change," Dr Johnson said.

"These mineral deposits are the end result of a process known as crustal differentiation, which began with the formation of the earliest landmasses, of which the Pilbara Craton is just one of many.

"Data related to other areas of ancient continental crust on Earth appears to show patterns similar to those recognised in Western Australia. We would like to test our findings on these ancient rocks to see if, as we suspect, our model is more widely applicable."

Dr Johnson is affiliated with The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR), Curtin's flagship earth sciences research institute.

magnet reconnection #scintillation

 

Plain Language Summary

In space, huge amounts of energy are released explosively by a mysterious mechanism: magnetic reconnection. 

Reconnection can abruptly convert energy stored in magnetic fields to energy in charged particles, and power such diverse phenomena as solar and stellar flares, magnetic storms and aurorae in near-Earth space, and major disruptions in magnetically confined fusion devices.  It is behind many of the dangerous effects associated with space weather, including damage to satellites, endangering astronauts, and impacting the power grid and pipelines. Understanding reconnection enables us to quantitatively describe and predict these magnetic explosions. 

Therefore, magnetic reconnection has been at the forefront of scientific interest for many years, and will be for many more. Measuring reconnection is incredibly difficult. However, recently scientists have been able to peek into its machinery. Combining measurements from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission with supercomputer modeling, scientists have now been able to analyze the inner workings of this elusive mechanism. Even though open questions remain, this new understanding has broad implications. 

Here, we describe magnetic reconnection, where it plays a role, its impacts on society, and what we now know about it. We point to future research challenges, including implications and the utility of our recently developed knowledge.

There is an imprecise—but useful—analogy to rubber bands that helps us picture magnetic reconnection. A loose rubber band cannot hold a pile of pencils in place, but a stretched rubber band can. This is because it takes energy to stretch the rubber band, and that energy can be thought of as stored in the rubber band. The energy in the stretched rubber band holds the pencils in place. The more you stretch a rubber band, the more energy it stores. Eventually, if you stretch a rubber band too much, it breaks, providing a painful lesson of how much energy it can hold!

There are ways that magnetic fields are analogous to rubber bands. Magnetic fields are invisible and intangible but permeate all space. 

Earth itself acts like a large magnet, and its magnetic field is felt hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth. 

The Sun also has a magnetic field, shaped vastly different than Earth's, which is felt 10 billion miles away! 

Like a rubber band, when magnetic fields get stretched, they store energy. It was historically thought that lines of magnetic field could not break, no matter how stretched they get. Unlike a rubber band, a single magnetic field line cannot break because magnetic fields cannot have free ends. However, if there is another stretched magnetic field line nearby pointing in the opposite direction, they can simultaneously break and cross connect so that there is never a free end. This is sketched in Figure 1. The light blue lines at the top and bottom are magnetic field lines pointing to the left and right, respectively, against a backdrop of the electric current. Magnetic field lines enter the shaded box in the center of Figure 1, called the diffusion region, where they effectively break and the broken ends from each immediately cross connect with each other. The field lines are said to have reconnected. The resulting two strongly bent magnetic field lines, threading the diffusion region, are stretched like rubber bands. They straighten out to the left and right and release their energy.

The matter in space is typically a super-heated gas called a plasma. Plasmas, the “fourth state of matter” joining solids, liquids, and gases, are so hot that some or all the atoms making them up cannot stay together—they break up into negatively charged electrons and positively charged ions that move fast enough to not recombine into neutral matter. To be a plasma, its temperature must be high enough and its density low enough. It is said that 99% of the known material in the universe is in the plasma state.

The fact that the plasma is present is very important for magnetic reconnection. The magnetic field lines in Figure 1 thread the ambient plasma, shown as light blue circles. The charged particles move with the magnetic field as they move toward the diffusion region. As the bent reconnected magnetic field lines sling out like rubber bands, the plasma mostly moves with the magnetic field. This produces two jets of plasma moving away from the diffusion region, shown by the ovals to its left and right. As the magnetic field line slings out, the plasma residing at the boundaries between magnetic fields that have reconnected already and those that have not is also accelerated. Depending on where magnetic reconnection in space is happening, the jets can be faster than a million miles per hour!

In addition to producing jets, magnetic reconnection heats the plasma, which is depicted by the shading of the plasma in the jets. The heating can happen within the diffusion region or at the boundaries between reconnected and unreconnected magnetic fields. This heating can be significant—depending on the setting, up to ~1/2 of the energy released by magnetic fields can go into heating the plasma.

The reason we care about magnetic reconnection is that it efficiently converts energy, both in the form of directed motion (the jets) and random motion (the increase in temperature). It is quite common for a magnetic field to change directions, so magnetic reconnection occurs in many settings. It is the mechanism behind solar flares, enormous bursts of light in the atmosphere of the Sun, which release up to 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10²⁵) joules of energy. For perspective, if we could harness all the energy released in a single large flare for human use, it would supply enough energy for the whole world for about 20,000 years!

Magnetic reconnection also happens in the space surrounding Earth. Earth's magnetic field forms a bubble around Earth protecting it from the solar wind, a stream of plasma and magnetic fields emanating from the Sun.  When the magnetic field in the solar wind points in the opposite direction as Earth's, magnetic reconnection at the edge of the bubble occurs.  This sets the magnetic field and plasma inside Earth's magnetic bubble into motion, accumulating its magnetic field on the side of Earth away from the Sun.  There, magnetic fields are again oppositely directed, and magnetic reconnection drives hot plasma toward Earth during what are called geomagnetic storms or substorms. Some of the ambient plasma penetrates all the way down to Earth's atmosphere, where it excites molecules in the atmosphere, and they give off light as they de-excite. 

This is the origin of the auroral lights seen near Earth's poles. 

Consequently, researching magnetic reconnection is a major aspect of understanding the Sun and the Sun's impact on Earth's space environment; that field of study is called “heliophysics” or “geospace sciences.”

There are numerous practical reasons we care about magnetic reconnection. When a flare occurs, it emits energetic radiation that travels through space and gets absorbed in Earth's atmosphere.  Some of the neutral material gets ionized, increasing how much plasma is in the ionosphere. This has important consequences. Satellites can go off their desired course since there is more resistance in the ionosphere. Also, satellites send signals through the ionosphere, and the path those signals take changes, just like light bends when going from air to water and vice versa.  This is called “scintillation” and impacts GPS signals as well as military, aviation, and commercial communications. The solar radiation also degrades solar cells on satellites, makes undesirable changes to instruments onboard satellites, and is harmful to astronauts. Changes to Earth's magnetic field during a geomagnetic storm drive electrical currents through conductors on the ground, which can degrade pipelines and overload transformers on the power grid. 

These effects are collectively referred to as “space weather,” and governments worldwide are working to ensure readiness for space weather. 

Understanding magnetic reconnection, therefore, contributes to an ability to understand the science driving space weather and its eventual prediction and forecasting.

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killer storms

 Weather warning in Germany after Europe storms kill 13

Aug. 19, 2022

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Germany warned of heavy rainfall in the south Friday and put air rescue services on high alert, after severe storms killed at least 13 people elsewhere in Europe a day earlier.

Two girls, ages 4 and 8, were killed when sudden strong winds toppled trees late Thursday at a lake in the Lavant Valley of southern Austria. Officials said 13 people were injured, two of them seriously. Many of the victims were vacationers visiting the tourist region.

Austrian President Alexander Van Der Bellen called the children’s deaths “an unfathomable tragedy.” The mayor of the nearby town of Wolfsberg, Hannes Primus, said the area looked “like a battlefield.”

In Lower Austria, three women were killed when lightning struck a tree near the central town of Gaming, causing it to fall over.

Fierce storms also killed at least eight people in France and Italy on Thursday.

Germany’s national weather service DWD warned of “extremely abundant, prolonged rain” along the edge of the Alps could drop as much as 140 liters of water per square meter (5.5 inches) over a 48-hour period that could cause flooding.

The Bavarian Red Cross said it was raising the alarm level for its air rescue specialists, putting helicopter crews on heightened alert.

brain-eating amoeba

 8/20/22

source: https://www.orissapost.com/brain-eating-amoeba-kills-child-in-us/

Federal health officials confirmed Friday that a Nebraska child died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a river near Omaha. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the presence of the naegleria fowleri amoeba in the child, according to the Douglas County Department of Health in Omaha.Health officials believe the child became infected while swimming Sunday in the Elkhorn River, a few miles west of Omaha.  Authorities have not released the child’s name. People are usually infected when water containing the amoeba enters the body through the nose while swimming in or diving into lakes and rivers. Other sources have been documented, including tainted tap water in a Houston-area city in 2020.  It is the second death in the Midwest this summer from primary amebic meningoencephalitis, an infection caused by the amoeba that has proved fatal in 97 per cent of reported cases.  A Missouri resident died of the infection in July after swimming at Lake of Three Fires in southwestern Iowa, health officials have said. Symptoms of the infection include fever, headache, nausea or vomiting, progressing to a stiff neck, loss of balance, hallucinations and seizures.  The CDC says naegleria fowleri infections are rare, with about three cases in the United States every year.  There were 154 cases reported between 1962 and 2021 in the US, with only four survivors.  Only about 430 cases have ever been documented globally. In the US, infections from the amoeba typically occur in southern states because the amoeba thrives in waters that are warmer than 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius).  But infections have migrated north in recent years, including two cases in Minnesota since 2010.

Mirrors

#INDIGENOUS #TAIRP pic.twitter.com/KTwrGGiqeG

— Indigenous (@AmericanIndian8) August 20, 2022

 

All they can think of is what country they'd rather be using their smartphones in.

All they can think of is what country they'd rather be using their smartphones in.

Are we idiots? 

mirror in every direction.

1 agosto 2022

Escrito por Mary Calvo

outofwak (artworldwar)

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dust clouds travel paths out in highway universe

clumping into galaxies, baby stars turning

a trillion billion miracles in waiting

a billion trillion miles away from

under the roots of trees

where such scenes are mirrored also

here the moon can not touch lightly

fungi a synapse in such a mind connected

across continents, under oceans, beneath desert sands

bacteria, enzymes minerals and nature always working

when every grain of dust must help make mountains

how every lightning bolt looks for something to enlighten.

Quaking Aspen

 

#INDIGENOUS #TAIRP pic.twitter.com/2EaSPNgf0G

— Indigenous (@AmericanIndian8) August 20, 2022

no one lives in dark green areas

 

uninhabited areas in the US

they rule us in the USA

 

The Wealthiest People in Each State

State	Richest Resident	Net Worth	Source of Wealth
Alabama	Jimmy Rane	$900 million	Entrepreneur
Alaska	Jonathan Rubini and Leonard Hyde	$340 million	Real Estate Developers
Arizona	Arturo Moreno	$3.3 billion	Businessperson
Arkansas	Rob Walton	$69.8 billion	Inheritor
California	Elon Musk	$132.1 billion	Entrepreneur
Colorado	Philip Anschutz	$11.7 billion	Businessperson
Connecticut	Ray Dalio	$16.9 billion	Hedge Fund Manager
Delaware	Elizabeth Snyder and Robert Gore	$750 million	Inheritors
Florida	Thomas Peterffy	$18.6 billion	Businessperson
Georgia	Jim Kennedy	$8.2 billion	Businessperson
Hawaii	Pierre Omidyar	$19.3 billion	Entrepreneur
Idaho	Frank VanderSloot	$2.7 billion	Entrepreneur
Illinois	Ken Griffin	$15 billion	Hedge Fund Manager
Indiana	Carl Cook	$10.5 billion	Businessperson
Iowa	Harry Stine	$5.4 billion	Businessperson
Kansas	Charles Koch	$44.9 billion	Inheritor/Businessperson
Kentucky	Tamara Gustavson	$5.2 billion	Inheritor
Louisiana	Gayle Benson	$3.3 billion	Businessperson
Maine	Susan Alfond	$1.9 billion	Inheritor
Maryland	Ted Lerner	$4.8 billion	Real Estate Developer
Massachusetts	Abigail Johnson	$15 billion	Inheritor/Businessperson
Michigan	Dan Gilbert	$42.8 billion	Businessperson
Minnesota	Glen Taylor	$2.5 billion	Businessperson
Mississippi	Leslie Lampton	$2.4 billion	Businessperson
Missouri	James and Thomas Duff	$1.2 billion	Inheritor/Businessperson
Montana	Dennis Washington	$6.3 billion	Businessperson
Nebraska	Warren Buffett	$87.4 billion	Businessperson
Nevada	Sheldon Adelson	$35 billion	Businessperson
New Hampshire	Andrea Reimann-Ciardelli	$720 million	Inheritor
New Jersey	John Overdeck	$6.5 billion	Hedge Fund Manager
New Mexico	Mack C. Chase	$910 million	Businessperson
New York	Michael Bloomberg	$54.9 billion	Businessperson
North Carolina	James Goodnight	$6.5 billion	Entrepreneur
North Dakota	Gary Tharaldson	$1 billion	Entrepreneur
Ohio	Les Wexner	$5.4 billion	Entrepreneur
Oklahoma	David Green	$7.6 billion	Entrepreneur
Oregon	Phil Knight	$50.6 billion	Entrepreneur
Pennsylvania	Victoria Mars	$7.2 billion	Inheritor
Rhode Island	Jonathan Nelson	$2 billion	Businessperson
South Carolina	Anita Zucker	$1.9 billion	Businessperson
South Dakota	T. Denny Sanford	$1.6 billion	Businessperson
Tennessee	Tommy Frist Jr.	$12.8 billion	Businessperson/Physician
Texas	Alice Walton	$70.4 billion	Inheritor
Utah	Gail Miller	$1.9 billion	Inheritor/Businessperson
Vermont	John Abele	$640 million	Entrepreneur
Virginia	Jacqueline Mars	$28.9 billion	Inheritor
Washington	Jeff Bezos	$186.5 billion	Entrepreneur
West Virginia	Jim Justice II	$1.2 billion	Inheritor/Businessperson
Wisconsin	John Menard, Jr.	$14.2 billion	Entrepreneur
Wyoming	John Mars	$28.9 billion	Inheritor

War on Carbon?

 

#VENOM injuries and eugenics

 

Since #unvaccinated is trending right now & people are posting various look-backs on hate-mongering statements made by prominent figures vilifying the unjabbed, let's not forget Noam Chomsky who said the unjabbed need to be separated from society https://t.co/3fTzONQeyE

— Kim Goldberg (#3) 🌸 (@horsepasty) August 17, 2022

 

WOW 

👇👇👇👇👇Over 1,135,000 COVID vaccine injuries were reported to VAERS, including: #clotshot

• 24,400 deaths
• 27,800 life-threatening events
• 34,500 myocarditis/pericarditis cases
• 40,000 severe allergic reactions
• 44,500 people who are permanently disabled
• 120,00 urgent care visits
• 133,000 hospitalizations
• 176,000 doctor office visits

As of February 18, 2022 — and this is just a small sampling of the startling data we’ve uncovered.

“That study actually found 36 different animal venoms, toxin-like peptides, very identical to venoms of 36 different components of different animal venoms inside of COVID-19 patients from multiple studies who PCR tested positive for COVID.” – Dr. Bryan Ardis

• Discover how venom has been weaponized for over 40 years
• How researchers have been collecting venom samples from snakes and cone snails for decades
• The dangers of these conotoxins and snake venoms to the human body and how they induce the same symptoms of COVID
• The protocols that work to protect the body from envenomation, including using nicotine patches for non-smokers
• Why smokers are less likely to get COVID and how this is related to envenomation
• How Dr. Ardis reveals studies that showed conotoxins in the fecal and urine samples of COVID-19 positive patients only
• The different mechanisms that are used for mass envenomation explained by experts Dr. Tau Braun (who works in counterterrorism) and Dr. Ardis, including aerosolization, water poisoning, and more!
  

wild bird knowledge

Intelligent crows learning how to survive on their own

 

Teaching an ‘Alalā how to be an ‘Alalā:https://t.co/fgpg11b9zq

‘Alalā © Bret Mossman pic.twitter.com/zTOpy79gao

— BirdNote (@BirdNoteRadio) August 18, 2022

 

 

Raised in captivity sounds like my adoption:

The ‘Alalā is a crow species that only lives on Hawai’i. In the 1990s, the species was on the verge of extinction. So biologists decided to raise ‘Alalā in captivity, aiming to release them once the captive population was big enough. But these intelligent birds have to learn many skills to survive in the wild, such as communication skills and avoiding predators. Several ‘Alalā were released and seemed to get the hang of avoiding hawks. These experienced birds returned to captivity and could help pass on their knowledge to the next generation.

Amid Night Suns #StrangerThings

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Don’t let Hollywood fool you: Ancient Necropoleis

In today's news, archaeologists in Turkey uncover what seems to be a Roman-era gladiator burial ground. Don’t let Hollywood fool you: Those warriors were mostly enslaved people, who were scorned, abused, killed, and then buried poorly outside of city walls. There were also women gladiators, by the way, as you can read in historian Sarah E. Bond’s in-depth report.

 

Possible gladiator tombs were found during excavations in the ancient Roman city of Anazarbus (modern Anavarza) in Turkey, near the Roman amphitheater. (photo by Ozan Efeoğlu via Anadolu Images)

• Archeologists claim to have discovered an ancient gladiator burial ground in southern Turkey.

  Since 2013, continuous excavations at Anazarbus, located within the ancient Roman province of Cilicia, have disclosed a wealth of archaeological finds. The site goes back to the Hellenistic era, before being occupied and annexed by the Romans. It would continue into the Byzantine and Ottoman periods, until being destroyed by the Mamluks in 1374. The site sits at a pivotal inland crossroads that connected tradespersons and travelers to Syria, Mesopotamia, and the Levant. 

  The large urban area had a stadium, theater, triumphal arch, baths, numerous late antique churches, and a wide Roman road decorated with impressively large columns. The only-recent discovery of the amphitheater by researchers from Çukurova University points to the use of gladiators in the area south of Anazarbus, beyond the city walls. (Ancient Minoans demand luxury)
  

  In 1993, Austrian archaeologists working at Ephesus along a road called the Via Sacra found a gladiator necropolis dating to the 2nd and 3rd century CE. Ancient necropoleis were often placed along roads outside of cities, since Greeks and Romans — prior to the dominance of Christianity — buried their dead outside of urban areas, rather than within the confines of the city walls of the polis.

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Space Weather and Dark Plasma!

 if you had not noticed, we play attention to the sky, sun and space weather:

THE IMPACTS HAVE BEGUN: A minor CME hit Earth's magnetic field on Aug. 17th (0303 UT). It could be the first of several grazing CME strikes in the days ahead. NOAA forecasters say their cumulative effect could cause strong G3-class geomagnetic storms, especially on Aug. 18-19. During such storms naked-eye auroras can descend into the USA as far south as Illinois and Oregon (geomagnetic latitude 50 degrees). 

SUNSPOT AR3078 KEEPS EXPLODING: For the 3rd day in a row, active sunspot AR3078 is producing strong M-class solar flares. The latest, an M2-category explosion on Aug. 17th (1345 UT), hurled a plume of cool dark plasma into space:

A CME will almost certainly emerge from the blast site (confirmation awaits fresh data from SOHO). But will it hit Earth? Like other CMEs AR3078 has produced this week, this one will skate the southern edge of the Earth strike zone. If it does hit us, the blow will be grazing, not full strength. However, even a grazing blow can cause a geomagnetic storm, especially in combination with other impacts, so stay tuned.

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