Giant filament explosion erupts on the Sun: massive CME to glance Earth’s magnetic field – Earth dodges dangerous bullet

Space Weather, via The Extinction Protocol, with video at the link:

September 2, 2012 – SPACE – Chance of flares: Sunspot AR1560 has more than quadrupled in size since August 30th, and now the fast growing active region is directly facing our planet: movie. NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of M-class solar fares during the next 48 hours. A filament of magnetism curling around the sun’s southeastern limb erupted on August 31st, producing a coronal mass ejection (CME), a C8-class solar flare, and one of the most beautiful movies ever recorded by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory: The explosion hurled a CME away from the sun traveling faster than 500 km/s (1.1 million mph). The cloud, shown here, is not heading directly toward Earth, but it could deliver a glancing blow to our planet’s magnetic field on or about September 3rd. This date is preliminary and may be changed in response to more data from coronagraphs on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). – Space Weather

Heads Up! X Flare On Its Way!

From Spaceweather.  Spaceweather doesn't have specific links, so if you visit after say, Saturday morning, just scroll down.

X-FLARE:  Giant sunspot AR1515 unleashed a strong X1.1-class solar flare on July 6th at 2308 UT. Because Earth is well-connected to the blast site by solar magnetic fields, a fusillade of protons accelerated by the explosion might soon reach our planet. Stay tuned for updates.

Couple the flare with another sunspot..

NEW SUNSPOT: A new sunspot is emerging over the sun's southeastern limb, and it appears to be a big one. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught a first glimpse of the spot's dark cores during the early hours of July 6th:

I think 1515 still hasn't fully rotated towards earth, so July has the chance to become really interesting!



Updates forthcoming.

Zombie Apocalypse: Face-Eating In China (Pics)

Must the Chinese jump on every American fad?  Face eating is ours, damnit!  WebProNews.  Excerpts:


The newest “zombie” story to come out is from China, where a bus driver reportedly stopped his bus in traffic, blocking a woman’s car. He then got off the bus, climbed up on the hood of the woman’s car, and began beating at her windshield. When she got out of the car in a panic, he jumped on her and began chewing her face. Allegedly, several people tried to pull the man off, to no avail…although someone had the presence of mind to snap pictures as it was happening. Thank goodness for bystanders! Police eventually responded and took the man into custody.



The bus driver is said to have only been under the influence of alcohol during the attack (although why he was drunk and driving a bus is a question I hope is answered soon). The woman, who was only identified in the Chinese news story as Du (her surname), survived the attack but will undergo surgery to repair her nose and mouth.



Why are people losing their minds in such a spectacular manner?  Are we in the very preliminary stages of some form of global mass hysteria?  Are these isolated incidents signalling a much larger, coming phenomenon?  Is there a combination of factors, or one unifying circumstance overriding peaceful decorum, inciting these violent outbursts?  Still no answers, just more questions..

Two 6 Plus Magnitude Earthquakes Strike Near Panama

Check out the map.  While the earthquakes happened 200-215 miles away, they are located in the midst of four plates.  Anomalous, or Fore shock?

Worldwide, RSOE has logged quite a few larger quakes in the last few days.  Let's see if this week's busy full moon and new sunspots add any pepper to the already spicy tectonic mix. 

I'm a little hungry.

Solar activity intensifies – Sunspot AR11476 unleashed a M5.7 Solar Flare – May 10, 2012

Here we go..  The Truth Behind The Scenes.  Excerpts:


Huge sunspot AR1476 is crackling with M-class solar flares and appears to be on the verge of producing something even stronger. The sunspot’s ‘beta-gamma-delta’ magnetic field harbors energy for X-class flares, the most powerful kind. Earth is entering the line of fire as the sunspot rotates across the face of the sun.



This morning, May 10th around 0418 UT, sunspot 1476 unleashed an impulsive M5.7-class solar flare. This is the 4th M-Class flare in 24 hours from this growing region.


Apparently, the almost-X class explosion did not hurl a significant CME toward Earth. NOAA forecasters estimate a 65% chance of more M-class flares and a 10% chance of X-flares during the next 24 hours.

Sun Pyramid UFO - NASA Removed, Sun SOHO Picture Browser Webpage

Wow.  Were this a random or inconsequential event, no one would bother.

Is this part of a much larger event?  If so:  What's next?

Which came first:  The Triangle, or its Perfection?

2012's off to a fast start, yeah?  Hold on, now..  We're just warming up.

Gigantor-Triangle Hole-Thing Opens On The Sun..

"What the hell is that thang?"
"I don't know, but take my pitcher with it!"

Seriously, what is this? It looks to be about one-fifth of The Sun's visible surface!  Combine this with the spherical object near The Sun spotted earlier this week, and we've got ourselves a genuine, bona-fide, simultaneous, anomalous occurrence!

Spaceweather calls it a Coronal Hole, and that solar wind from this hole could arrive here on Earth as early as the 16th.  If other geometric shapes appear on the face of The Sun, I will let you know, provided, of course, we're all not solar-microwaved first.. 

Don't forget to take your Vitamin D this week!

Found it all on Godlike Productions..

Solar storm headed toward Earth may disrupt power

The One/Two Punch begins to smack Earth about midnight tonight Central Standard Time..  CBS News.  Excerpts:

The largest solar storm in five years is racing toward Earth, threatening to unleash a torrent of charged particles that could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights.



The sun erupted Tuesday evening, and the effects should start smacking Earth between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. EST Thursday, according to forecasters at the federal government's Space Weather Prediction Center. They say the storm, which started with a massive solar flare, is growing as it speeds outward from the sun.


"It's hitting us right in the nose," said Joe Kunches, a scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He called it the sun's version of "Super Tuesday."
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The solar storm is likely to last through Friday morning, but the region that erupted can still send more blasts our way, Kunches said. He said another set of active sunspots is ready to aim at Earth right after this.



But for now, scientists are waiting to see what happens Thursday when the charged particles hit Earth at 4 million mph.
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But there is potential for widespread problems. Solar storms have three ways they can disrupt technology on Earth: with magnetic, radio and radiation emissions. This is an unusual situation when all three types of solar storm disruptions are likely to be strong, Kunches said.



That means "a whole host of things" could follow, he said.


The magnetic part of the storm has the potential to trip electrical power grids. Kunches said utility companies around the world have been alerted. The timing and speed of the storm determines whether it knocks off power grids, he said.
I think we'll all be cool as long as no one tells Nicholas Cage.. 

X-Flare! Incoming!

Sunspot 1429.  Earth-directed.  Satellites and electronics MAY, may be affected, but the colors should be intense!  Something something..  Prophecy..  Something something..  Fulfilled..

Amazing huge cloaked UFO next to Mercury – Dec 1, 2011

From The Truth Behind The Scenes.  Watch the video.  Compelling.  I haven't seen any reasonable explanation yet, but that's not saying there isn't one...

Sunday Night News Dump/Browser Clean Up..

My browser has 25 windows open at the moment, which is far too many.  In no particular order..

Rick Perry: Best Little Whore in Texas  Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, October 28.  Obsolete
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By the time Perry shows up, I'm jazzed and ready for history. You always want to remember the first time you see the possible next president in person. But as every young person knows, the first time is not always a pleasant experience. Perry lumbers onstage looking exceedingly well-groomed, but also ashen and exhausted, like a funeral director with a hangover.



In a voice so subdued and halting that I think he must be sick, he launches into his speech, which consists of the following elements: a halfhearted football joke about Texas A&M that would have embarrassed a true fan like George W. Bush, worn bromides about liberals creating a nanny state, a few lines about jobs in Texas, and a promise to repeal "as much of Obamacare as I can" on his first day in the White House.


"I will try," he says, "to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can."


Then he waves and walks offstage. The whole thing has taken barely 10 minutes.


I can't believe it, and neither can the assembled crowd of Georgia conservatives, who hesitate before breaking into polite applause. I feel like a high school cheerleader who just had her leg jizzed on in the back of a convertible. That's it? It's over? That was Rick Perry's stump speech?


"Low energy, low substance," sighs Justin Ryan, one of the conference attendees. "That's sort of the candidate in general."


But this is America, remember, where one should never underestimate shallow. And Rick Perry brings shallow to a new level. He is very gifted in that regard. He could be the Adolf Hitler of shallow.

Foxes and Reptiles: Psychopathy and the Financial Meltdown  Reality Sandwich.  Excerpts:

The present financial meltdown  may only be the latest example of the incalculable harm done to civilization, and countless individual lives, by psychopaths, a subspecies of Homo sapiens.  The purpose of this essay is twofold. First, I will provide a brief tour of the psychopath subspecies so that you understand who they are and how they operate. You probably already know psychopaths, and it is overwhelmingly likely that at some point in your life a psychopath that you encounter personally will try to harm you. Second, I will draw the correlative between psychopathy and the present financial meltdown and provide a suggestion of a relatively simple change that could decrease the likelihood of the sort of abuses that could lead to future meltdowns.

Awakened: Sun’s convulsive behavior dismays scientists across the globe  The Extinction Protocol.  Excerpts:

November 13, 2011 – REMARKABLE SOLAR ACTIVITY – There haven’t been any strong solar flares in days. Nevertheless, some impressive activity is underway on the Sun.
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 A dark filament of magnetism is snaking more than halfway around the entire Sun. See SDO images below. From end to end, it stretches more than a million km or about three times the distance between Earth and the Moon. If the filament becomes unstable, as solar filaments are prone to do, it could collapse and hit the stellar surface below, triggering a Hyder flare. 

Hundreds Of Giant Aliens Unearthed Near African Village  Pakalert Press.  You'd think archaeologists would  have better cameras..

Ruh-Roh..  Goldman Sachs International Advisor Mario Monti Is Italy's New Prime Minister

But on the political fringes there are already those portraying Mr Monti – who is listed by Goldman Sachs, the investment bank, on its board of international advisers – as a tool of the “masters of the universe”, along with Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank and former Goldman Sachs executive.



“This is the band of criminals who brought us this financial disaster. It is like asking arsonists to put out the fire,” commented Alessandro Sallusti, editor of Il Giornale, a Milan daily owned by the Berlusconi family.

Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not  The South African Civil Society Information Service.  Excerpts:

What happened next was extraordinary. The belief that citizens had to pay for the mistakes of a financial monopoly, that an entire nation must be taxed to pay off private debts was shattered, transforming the relationship between citizens and their political institutions and eventually driving Iceland’s leaders to the side of their constituents. The Head of State, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, refused to ratify the law that would have made Iceland’s citizens responsible for its bankers’ debts, and accepted calls for a referendum.



Of course the international community only increased the pressure on Iceland. Great Britain and Holland threatened dire reprisals that would isolate the country. As Icelanders went to vote, foreign bankers threatened to block any aid from the IMF. The British government threatened to freeze Icelander savings and checking accounts. As Grimsson said: “We were told that if we refused the international community’s conditions, we would become the Cuba of the North. But if we had accepted, we would have become the Haiti of the North.” (How many times have I written that when Cubans see the dire state of their neighbor, Haiti, they count themselves lucky.)


In the March 2010 referendum, 93% voted against repayment of the debt. The IMF immediately froze its loan. But the revolution (though not televised in the United States), would not be intimidated. With the support of a furious citizenry, the government launched civil and penal investigations into those responsible for the financial crisis. Interpol put out an international arrest warrant for the ex-president of Kaupthing, Sigurdur Einarsson, as the other bankers implicated in the crash fled the country.

It Came From(Or Relates To) Outer Space..

A Pair from Robert Wilkinson's Aquarius Papers:

Practical Astrology in August 2011 - What is Mercury Retrograde in Leo Good For?

There are many things that a Mercury retrograde period is good for, such as traveling. I have found that as long as one is flexible, retrograde travel is actually a good thing. Also favored are research, reflection, review, rehearsals, and returns from the past.

It's a perfect time for reconnecting with old friends, and finding people and things thought lost. It's also the best time to explore alternative possibilities around projects, potential futures, or assumed methods, as long as no definitive decisions are made, since they are usually modified or reversed later on.

It's a good time for doing things left undone, or neglected, from previous times. It's good for resuming something from the past, as long as you remember that it may not look like it used to, or requires a different approach than before. It's also good for doing things that fill in gaps in understanding or activity, or for doing things that seem to go in one direction but lead you to entirely new information and understanding.

Neptune Retrograde Into Aquarius - A New Look At the New Age

... remember that 30 Aquarius and 1 Pisces is the exact point of "the cusp of the Age," where our past 2000 year Age of Pisces will soon give way to the coming 2000 year Age of Aquarius.

This long wave "sea change" will shift collective consciousness away from the materialism of Neptune in Capricorn and the electronic village of Neptune in Aquarius, and offer us all a constant ability to feel our common humanity, and choose the way of compassion or the way of isolation, the way of interrelatedness or the way of drifting into the unknown. This will open all of us to a greater feeling experience, even if there are few if any words to describe it with any precision.

That's nice, right? 

Comet Elenin Is Not Alone.  That's because Comet Elenin can't stand to be alone.  But that's Comet Elenin's issue..

Giant Hint from Space Aliens....

Russia Reports Exploding Afghan “Time Well” Killed Elite US Navy Seals  What Does It Mean?  True, false, or fantastical, the Sisters' posts are always entertaining, compelling, or a little scary, depending on how much you believe.

We were lucky this was a miss..  Giant X6.9 Solar Flare To Miss Earth, Satellite Video

NASA Hiding Approaching Doomsday Space Event  Elite Illuminati New World Order Templar Freemason Exposure Blog.  Yeah, that's right:  He went there..  Excerpts:

NASA and the European Space Agency have been warning the world for two years about the approaching catastrophes that may unfold during late 2011 through 2012.

Few have been listening.

Calling it a “once in a lifetime super solar storm event,” NASA warns that killer solar flares can slam the Earth knocking out the Northern Hemisphere’s technological infrastructure and kicking everything back to the level of the late 1800s.

Russia too has voiced concern. And now the eminent astrophysicist, Alexey Demetriev ["PLANETOPHYSICAL STATE OF THE EARTH AND LIFE"] claims what is happening is worse—much worse—than what NASA and the ESA have admitted:

Our entire solar system is entering an immense, deadly, interstellar energy cloud.

The unknown, alien Photon Belt

Breaking: August 2011 : More British UFO files released,

A Solar Flare Of Note, And Possible Trouble Ahead.

Simmering Sun: Summer Solstice Starts with Solar Storm  Space via Etemenanki.  Excerpts:

The sun unleashed a powerful solar flare and eruption Tuesday (June 21) just in time for the summer solstice: the first day of the summer in Earth's Northern Hemisphere.
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Spaceweather.com officials said a moderate C7-class solar flare kicked off the solar storm and triggered a massive eruption of plasma, known as a coronal mass ejection. [Amazing Sun Photos From Space]

"Magnetic fields above sunspot complex 1236 erupted during the early hours of June 21st, hurling a coronal mass ejection (CME) almost directly toward Earth," Spaceweather.com stated in an alert.  "The incoming CME does not appear to be particularly potent; nevertheless, the cloud could trigger polar geomagnetic storms when it reaches Earth on or about June 23rd."

Also from Space..  Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity 

Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years.

The results of three separate studies seem to show that even as the current sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into a more-dormant period, with activity during the next 11-year sunspot cycle greatly reduced or even eliminated.
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"The solar cycle may be going into a hiatus," Frank Hill, associate director of the National Solar Observatory's Solar Synoptic Network, said in a news briefing today (June 14).

The studies looked at a missing jet stream in the solar interior, fading sunspots on the sun's visible surface, and changes in the corona and near the poles. [Photos: Sunspots on Earth's Star]

"This is highly unusual and unexpected," Hill said. "But the fact that three completely different views of the sun point in the same direction is a powerful indicator that the sunspot cycle may be going into hibernation."

Was That You, Or Was That Me?

Spectacular Coronal Mass Ejection Hitting Earth Tonight at 3.1 Million Miles Per Hour Satellites and telecommunications could be affected today, so head's up..

The Sun's Coming Out, So We Should Go Hide Now..

Solar flare warning for SA

The Hermanus Space Weather Warning Centre (SWWC) on Sunday said a large solar flare was currently being experienced in South Africa. The solar flare would result in higher radiation levels from the sun.

SWWC’s forecaster Kobus Olckers said people should be careful when they go outside.

"People must wear high sunscreen factor at the moment or preferably go shopping," he said.

Elevated X-Ray Flux map, continually updated, from NOAA.  Proton flux chart here.

That map is troubling.  So much intense radiation covering most of Antarctica, and a lot of Greenland..  This is not a preferred scenario.

Magnetic field changes activate the trigeminal brainstem complex in a migratory bird

Non-nerds need not apply.. After reading the Abstract, I think my ears are bleeding.. Bottom line: The trigeminal nerve in birds transmit magnetic information to the brain, and magnetic disturbance effects that information. Two pronged thought(s): If this is, in part, an explanation for the mass bird deaths, can the same be said for the fish/amphibian die offs? Might fish have a similar "sonar" navigational system, and/or might their nervous systems be effected by a sudden change in magnetism? As of yesterday, no official explanation for the fish deaths in Ozark, Arkansas(according to this horribly written article--scroll down mid-way) has been identified as the cause.
Solar magnetic activity during the three week apex of animal die-offs was low(Jan.1-21), so could tectonic activity or a pole shift generate enough and varied magnetic disturbance to this end? Or maybe, something else..
Now that Solar flare activity has increased, might we see similar events? If not; why?

A Rather Unexpected M-Class Flare Just Popped Off..

From Solar Cycle 24 Excerpts:

02/09/2011 by Kevin VE3EN at 02:30Comment on Message Board
Solar Update - Solar activity has increased within the past 24 hours with C-Class flares and an M1.9 Solar Flare around growing Sunspot 1153. Unfortunately this region has picked the wrong time to get active. It will soon rotate onto the western limb and out of direct earth view. (This is unclear, as it would be good news if this active region rotated away from us, so I'm guessing "out of" should be "into." I'm also assuming the M-Class flare didn't effect us, as no mention was made to that effect.)

Several new sunspot groups have formed on the visible solar disk and were numbered 1154, 1155, 1156 and 1157. These regions are not yet capable of producing strong solar flares, but that could change.

These sunspot seem to have caught everyone off guard. It's development was sudden, and very quickly, an M-Class flare was produced. There are four active regions that are in the early stages of development, and rotating toward us(If I'm interpreting correctly..), so we could get some interesting solar activity activity coming up..

File Under: Unusual And Escalating Solar Activity..

Enormous Ring is Developing on the Sun