CHSL radio cancels show: Kindra "very ill with staph"; Joannie @ hospital... "neurotoxins"

OilFlorida | 29 september 2010

Joannie Hughes, Kindra Arnesen and Vicky Perrin, Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana Radio, September 28, 2010:


Transcript Summary


JOANNIE HUGHES:


I am presently calling the show coming live from Ochsner Hospital on Jefferson Highway in New Orleans, where I am a patient since yesterday [Monday, September 28] and at least until Friday. ...


Neurologist worried about neurotoxins I was exposed to... and things like that. ...


We are not doing the show this week...


Kindra "very ill with staph infection" ...


The radio show was to discuss health issues... that's ironic enough because we're all sick.


Listen to the full show here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/chsl
Visit the Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana website: http://chsl.webs.com/

THE SPIRIT BEHIND TRANSHUMANISM

THE SPIRIT BEHIND TRANSHUMANISM


English theologian George Hawkins Pember, in his 1876 masterpiece, Earth’s Earliest Ages, analyzed the prophecy of Jesus Christ that says the end times would be a repeat of “the days of Noah.” Pember outlined the seven great causes of the antediluvian destruction and documented their developmental beginnings in his lifetime. The seventh and most fearful sign, Pember wrote, would be the return of the spirits of Nephilim, “the appearance upon earth of beings from the Principality of the Air, and their unlawful intercourse with the human race.”


Jesus Himself, in answering His disciples concerning the signs of His coming and of the end of the world, said it would be “as the days of [Noah] were” (Matthew 24:37). The implication is, just as it was before the Flood when the spirits of Nephilim were powerful upon earth (Genesis 6:4), mankind would experience an end-times renaissance of the influence of these entities. From Scripture we are made to understand the purpose of this latter-day wave of supernaturalism includes deception (2 Timothy 3:13), and the effect upon mankind would be so successful that heresy and delusion would become firmly entrenched—even within institutionalized Christianity. In writing of this scenario, Paul prophesied to Timothy that “in the latter times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils” (1 Timothy 4:1).


Based on contemporary developments, the foretold increase in demonism and its influence within secular and religious society is rapidly unfolding this century—abruptly, dramatically, and suspiciously. In a recent edition of Prophecy in the News magazine, biblical scholar Gary Stearman agreed, stating in disturbing language how the manifestation of these powers are quickening now because the world is under conditions “in which the influence of God’s Holy Spirit is diminishing.”[i] This is apparent not only in metaphysics, but within science and technology, where genetic engineering and transhumanist aspirations seem literally hell-bent on repeating what the Watchers did in giving birth to the spirits of Nephilim as in the days of Noah.


THE FIRST TIME NEPHILIM APPEARED ON EARTH


As far back as the beginning of time and within every major culture of the ancient world, the astonishingly consistent story is told of “gods” who descended from heaven and materialized in bodies of flesh. From Rome to Greece—and before that, to Egypt, Persia, Assyria, Babylonia, and Sumer—the earliest records of civilization tell of the era when powerful beings known to the Hebrews as “Watchers” and in the book of Genesis as the b’nai ha Elohim (“sons of God”) mingled themselves with humans, giving birth to part-celestial, part-terrestrial hybrids known as “Nephilim.” The Bible says this happened when men began to increase on earth and daughters were born to them. When the sons of God saw the women’s beauty, they took wives from among them to sire their unusual offspring. In Genesis 6:4, we read the following account: “There were giants [Nephilim] in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.”


When this Scripture is compared with other ancient texts, including Enoch, Jubilees, Baruch, Genesis Apocryphon, Philo, Josephus, Jasher, and others, it unfolds to some that the giants of the Old Testament such as Goliath were the part-human, part-animal, part-angelic offspring of a supernatural interruption into the divine order and natural development of the species. The apocryphal Book of Enoch gives a name to the angels involved in this cosmic conspiracy, calling them “Watchers.” We read:


And I Enoch was blessing the Lord of majesty and the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers called me—Enoch the scribe—and said to me: “Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and have done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto themselves wives: Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth: And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness of sin: and inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children [the Nephilim], The murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain.” (1 Enoch 10:3–8)


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Forbidden Gates: GRIN Technology & Spiritual Warfare

'Splice' Trailer 2


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http://www.ForbiddenGate.com
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http://www.Survivormall.com

While Forbidden Gates: How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, and Human Enhancement Herald the Dawn of Techno-Dimensional Spiritual Warfare includes fresh insights for traditional, tried-and-true methods of overcoming darkness, it also unveils for the first time how breakthrough advances in science, technology, and philosophy—including cybernetics, bioengineering, nanotechnology, machine intelligence, synthetic biology, and transhumanism—will combine to create mind-boggling game-changes to everything you have ever known about spiritual warfare.

How so?

In recent years, astonishing technological developments have pushed the frontiers of humanity toward far-reaching morphological transformation that promises in the very near future to redefine what it means to be human. An international, intellectual, and fast-growing cultural movement known as transhumanism intends the use of genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology (Grin technologies) as tools that will radically redesign our minds, our memories, our physiology, our offspring, and even perhaps—as Joel Garreau in his best-selling book, Radical Evolution, claims—our very souls. The technological, cultural, and metaphysical shift now underway unapologetically forecasts a future dominated by this new species of unrecognizably superior humans, and applications under study now to make this dream a reality are being funded by thousands of government and private research facilities around the world. As the reader will learn, this includes, among other things, rewriting human dna and combining humans with beasts, a fact that some university studies and transhumanists believe will not only alter our bodies and souls but ultimately could open a door to contact with unseen intelligence.

As a result, new modes of perception between things visible and invisible are expected to challenge the church in ways that are historically and theologically unprecedented. Without comprehending what is quickly approaching in related disciplines of research and development, vast numbers of believers could be paralyzed by the most fantastic—and most far-reaching—supernatural implications. The destiny of each individual—as well as the future of their families—will depend on knowledge of the new paradigm and the preparedness to face it head on.

As outlined in this book, the power operating behind this scheme to integrate human-animal-machine interfaces in order to reengineer humanity is not new. The ancient, malevolent force is simply repackaging itself these days as the forward-thinking and enlightened progress needed for the next step in human evolution.

Facing godlike machines and man's willingness to cross over species and extradimensional barriers put in place by God, traditional methods of spiritual warfare—which Christian institutions have relied on for the last century—will soon be monumentally impacted in nontraditional ways and insufficient when approaching this threshold.

Yet it is possible, according to Forbidden Gates, not only to survive but to triumph over the uncanny challenges the impending epoch will present. Overcomers will prevail through a working knowledge of the philosophy and technologies driving the threats, combined with a solid understanding of the authority that Christians alone have. What continues within these pages will lift the curtain on a world unlike previous generations could have expected or even imagined, and will inform believers how the power of Christ can be amplified against heretofore unknown adversarial manifestations.

Thomas and Nita Horn have nearly thirty-five years of ministry experience, with twenty-five inside the largest evangelical institution in the world—including executive-level positions with responsibilities such as exorcism. Today they are internationally recognized lecturers, publishers, radio hosts, and best-selling authors of several books, including Apollyon Rising 2012: The Lost Symbol Found and the Final Mystery of the Great Seal Revealed. Their works have been referred to by writers of the L. A. Times Syndicate, MSNBC, Christianity Today, New Man magazine, World Net Daily, and News Max, as well as by White House correspondents and reporters with dozens of newsmagazines and press agencies around the globe. They have been interviewed by U.S. congressmen and senators on their findings, and have been featured repeatedly in major media, including top-ten talk shows, America's Morning News for the Washington Times, CBN, and the History Channel.

Stop the Internet Blacklist!

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Stop the Internet Blacklist!


Just the other day, President Obama urged other countries to stop censoring the Internet. But now the United States Congress is trying to censor the Internet here at home. A new bill being debated this week would have the Attorney General create an Internet blacklist of sites that US Internet providers would be required to block.


This is the kind of heavy-handed censorship you'd expect from a dictatorship, where one man can decide what web sites you're not allowed to visit. But the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to pass the bill this week -- and Senators say they haven't heard much in the way of objections! That's why we need you to sign our urgent petition to Congress demanding they oppose the Internet blacklist.


PETITION TO THE SENATE: Censoring the Internet is something we'd expect from China or Iran, not the U.S. Senate. You need to stop this Internet blacklist in its tracks and oppose S. 3804.


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Read more about the bill: COICA Fact Sheet.


In the news: BoingBoing, Daring Fireball, Reddit, Salon.com, Huffington Post, Washington Post, PC World, PC Magazine, FireDogLake, Computerworld, .


"We all use the web now for all kinds of parts our lives, some trivial, some critical to our life as part of a social world," says Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web. "In the spirit going back to Magna Carta, we require a principle that: No person or organization shall be deprived of their ability to connect to others at will without due process of law, with the presumption of innocence until found guilty. Neither governments nor corporations should be allowed to use disconnection from the Internet as a way of arbitrarily furthering their own aims."

THE CENTURY OF THE SELF

Century of The Self. Episode One: Happiness Machines

The Matrix explained.

THE CENTURY OF THE SELF Adam Curtis' acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty. To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests? The Freud dynasty is at the heart of this compelling social history. Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis; Edward Bernays, who invented public relations; Anna Freud, Sigmund's devoted daughter; and present-day PR guru and Sigmund's great grandson, Matthew Freud. Sigmund Freud's work into the bubbling and murky world of the subconscious changed the world. By introducing a technique to probe the unconscious mind, Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal

The Century of the self 2 of 4

The Century of the Self 3 of 4

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Water map shows billions at risk of 'water insecurity'

About 80% of the world's population lives in areas where the fresh water supply is not secure, according to a new global analysis.


Researchers compiled a composite index of "water threats" that includes issues such as scarcity and pollution.


The most severe threat category encompasses 3.4 billion people.


Writing in the journal Nature, they say that in western countries, conserving water for people through reservoirs and dams works for people, but not nature.


They urge developing countries not to follow the same path.
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Instead, they say governments should to invest in water management strategies that combine infrastructure with "natural" options such as safeguarding watersheds, wetlands and flood plains.


The analysis is a global snapshot, and the research team suggests more people are likely to encounter more severe stress on their water supply in the coming decades, as the climate changes and the human population continues to grow.


They have taken data on a variety of different threats, used models of threats where data is scarce, and used expert assessment to combine the various individual threats into a composite index.


The result is a map that plots the composite threat to human water security and to biodiversity in squares 50km by 50km (30 miles by 30 miles) across the world.
Changing pictures


"What we've done is to take a very dispassionate look at the facts on the ground - what is going on with respect to humanity's water security and what the infrastructure that's been thrown at this problem does to the natural world," said study leader Charles Vorosmarty from the City College of New York.


"What we're able to outline is a planet-wide pattern of threat, despite the trillions of dollars worth of engineering palliatives that have totally reconfigured the threat landscape."


Those "trillions of dollars" are represented by the dams, canals, aqueducts, and pipelines that have been used throughout the developed world to safeguard drinking water supplies.


Their impact on the global picture is striking.


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Extinction risk for a fifth of the world's plant life

Russia: Nuclear Red Alert at Powerplant

Another cyber attack?


RSOE EDIS
28/09/2010 - 16:08:32

The No. 3 reactor block of the embattled Kola Nuclear Power Plant was shut down today by its automatic switch off in what is a seeming series of more and more incidents at the Kola, and well as other Russian NPPs.


In a release on Kola NPP’s website, operators said that, “at 1:38 am on September 28, the automatic protection switch of the No. 3 reactor block shut the unit down as a result of a malfunction in one of the elements in the system responsible for pressure control in the first compartment. The reason for the malfunction is being ascertained.”


Ironically, the malfunction falls on the Russian national holiday celebrating workers of the nuclear industry, September 28. Kola NPP is located 200 kilometres south of the Kola Peninsula’s regional centre of Murmansk in Russia’s Far Northwest. Kola NPP's history of reactor shutdowns and extended operational periods granted to its reactors by Russian nuclear authorities have in recent years become a major worry for the Russian environmentalists and their counterparts in Northern Europe.


Adding to these anxieties is the mumbling commentary on these events supplied by the the plant's operators. This newest incident is no exeption to the apparent gag rule that may be hiding deeper malfunctions at Kola NPP, and will serve only to crystalize fears of a possible catastorphe. Despite the fact that the current incident has been preliminarily classified as a zero on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) – whose seven point scale rates the severity of mishap from minor anomalies to major accidents – the Kola NPP refused to explain in plain terms what happened when contacted by Bellona Web.


As the triggering of emergency shut down systems is always considered to be a serious incident, Alexander Nikitin, director of the Environmetal Rights Centre Bellona, Bellona’s St. Petersburg office, commented on the situation.

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Its all lies!

We have been warned, 9 years ago!

A space ambassador could be appointed by the United Nations to act as the first point of contact for aliens trying to communicate with Earth.

UN 'to appoint space ambassador to greet alien visitors'-Video

Aliens 'hit our nukes': They even landed at a Suffolk base, claim airmen

Shocking revelation: Former Air Force personnel disclose UFO, alien-related threats

Breaking: CNN to air UFOs and Nukes Press Conference Live

Above are just a handful of headlines covering our newspapers over the last couple of days, why now? I wondered.
Then I remembered this clip from Carol Rosin, The Disclosure Project May 9th 2001.
We are not moving towards disclosure folks, we are being prepared for the next big fat lie!


Please watch the short clip below.....


Dr. Carol Rosin in the Disclosure Project



Once again here is Dr. Carol Rosin's transcript.


We have to prevent the weaponisation of space because.....

There is a lie being prepared for everyone.

In the beginning they said...
Space must be weaponised to defend us against the Evil Empire Russia.
Then there would be the terrorists.
Then there would be country's of concern. Rogue nations, Iran, North Korea Pakistan, etc.
Then there would be Asteroids.
Satellites.
The last card would be the Extra Terrestrial threat!

Landslide buries 300 houses in southern Mexico

Up to 300 houses have been buried by a landslide in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, officials have said.

Heavy rain saturated a 200m (656ft) wide strip of mountainside above the town of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, causing it to slip at 0400 (0900 GMT).
It is not clear how many people have been affected, but the state governor said 500 to 600 could have been buried.

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The Dancing Auroras of Saturn

VIMS Team, JPL, ESA, NASA
Explanation: What drives auroras on Saturn? To help find out, scientists have sorted through hundreds of infrared images of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft for other purposes, trying to find enough aurora images to correlate changes and make movies. Once made, some movies clearly show that Saturnian auroras can change not only with the angle of the Sun, but also as the planet rotates. Furthermore, some auroral changes appear related to waves in Saturn's magnetosphere likely caused by Saturn's moons. Pictured above, a false-colored image taken in 2007 shows Saturn in three bands of infrared light. The rings reflect relatively blue sunlight, while the planet itself glows in comparatively low energy red. A band of southern aurora in visible in green. Inspection of many more Saturnian images may well lead to an even better understanding of both Saturn's and Earth's auroras.

Entire family sickened: Like an "Acid Cloud" -- 10 y/o son's nose "gushing blood everywhere"

OilFlorida | 27 september 2010

FULL VIDEO HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwW5vf...

Interview with Lorrie Williams, GRC Radio (North Carolina), September 24, 2010:

Transcript Summary

Back from Orlando, FL and family started feeling sick & man from Boston taking samples was sick. ...

Near beach... like walking through an acid cloud, smelled like muriatic acid and burnt power steering fluid... all of a sudden... feet start burning... throat, eyes burning.

After getting home, 10 y/o son screaming my throat is on fire...

Husband and daughter could not breath next morning and son's nose starts gushing blood everywhere... Son still can't go outside...

Symptoms: blisters in throat and mouth, vision blurry, headaches, left arm and foot go completely numb, painful joints.

Recently doctor said it "very well may be the spray" but not offering testing.

Shocking revelation: Former Air Force personnel disclose UFO, alien-related threats

(NECN: Washington) - A press conference was held this afternoon at the National Press Club in Washington, where at least a dozen former U.S. Air Force personnel, mostly officers who worked on secret projects connected to sensitive nuclear weapons sites, are admitting that they were privy to UFO and alien-related incidents -- that occurred during their time of service.

In this clip, you will hear from: Retired Air Force Captain Robert Salas, Former Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Dwayne Arneson and Former Air Force Official Bill Jameson.

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Breaking: CNN to air UFOs and Nukes Press Conference Live

Airmen claim  UFO encounters have been covered up over the past 60 years

'We saw a bright glowing object like an eye': U.S. airman's startling testimony about UFO encounter near UK nuclear base

Editor: UFOs not as 'scary' as ex-military who believe in ET

Mind over Matter: Secrets of human aura revealed by Russian scientists

A Russian scientist is trying to convince people they can change the world simply by using their own energy. He claims that thinking in a certain way can have a positive or negative effect on the surrounding environment. "We are developing the idea that our consciousness is part of the material world and that with our consciousness we can directly influence our world," said Dr. Konstantin Korotkov, a professor of physics at St. Petersburg State Technical University. To bridge our understanding of the unseen world of energy, scientific experiments are being carried out using a technique called bioelectrophotography. The assumption is that we are constantly emitting energy. Bioelectrophotography aims to capture these energy fields seen as a light around the body -- or what some people would call your aura.

UN 'to appoint space ambassador to greet alien visitors'

A space ambassador could be appointed by the United Nations to act as the first point of contact for aliens trying to communicate with Earth.



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Spirals

Spirals - spoken by Keisha Crowther "Little Grandmother."

Also, check out this satellite photo of Hurricane Alex (this year's 1st hurricane):

http://photos.upi.com/story/t/6c28d75...

Also, a Celestial Spiral has just been discovered by Nasa (Sept 6, 2010):

Image: http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/i...

Article: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/...

IRAN BOMBS IRAQ -- UP TO 30 KILLED

IRGC kills Mahabad attack perpetrators

The commander the IRGC Ground Forces Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has killed the main elements behind the terrorist attack in the northwestern Iranian city of Mahabad.


A bomb explosion in West Azarbaijan Province on Wednesday left 12 people dead and at least 80 others injured. The blast took place when people were watching a military parade.

"The soldiers of Hamzeh Seyyed al-Shohada base have killed the main perpetrators of the recent terrorist attack in Mahabad," the commander of the IRGC Ground Forces Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said on Sunday.

Iranian police arrested two people in connection with the terrorist attack on Wednesday.

Earlier on Thursday, Iran's Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi had said that the group behind the terrorist attack had been identified.

"Investigations show that the Israeli spy agency [Mossad] was the mastermind of the Mahabad terrorist attack," Fars News Agency quoted Pakpour as saying.

The Iranian commander added that Mossad dispatched the terrorist team to Iran with the cooperation of Americans and some members of Iraq's Baath party.

The enemies should know that old scenarios against the Islamic Revolution such as creating terror can never affect the Iranian nation's resolve to defend the establishment of the Islamic Republic, Pakpour concluded.

Iran crosses into Iraq to hit bombing suspects

By NASSER KARIMI (AP) – 2 hours ago

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian forces crossed into neighboring Iraq and killed 30 fighters from a group it says was involved in last week's bombing of a military parade, state TV reported Sunday.

Gen. Abdolrasoul Mahmoudabadi of the elite Revolutionary Guards said the "terrorists" were killed on Saturday in a clash "beyond the border" and that his forces were still in pursuit of two men who escaped the ambush.

While Iran has said in the past it would target armed groups on Iraqi soil this is a rare case of it actually admitting to an attack.

Iraqi officials have complained in the past about Iranian artillery targeting armed Kurdish opposition groups on its soil.

An explosion during a military parade in the town of Mahabad, in Iran's northwestern Kurdish region, killed 12 women and children on Wednesday.

Iran has already blamed the attack on Kurdish separatists who have fought Iranian forces in the area for years, but most Kurdish groups condemned the attack and no one has so far claimed responsibility for it.

Iran has also blamed Israel, the U.S. and supporters of Iraq's previous regime for supporting the Kurdish groups.

The parade was one of several held around the country to mark the 30th anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq war.

The city of Mahabad is home to 190,000 people — most of them Kurds and Sunni Muslims. Iran is predominantly Shiite.

Government forces in Iraq, Iran and Turkey have all periodically battled with the Kurdish minorities straddling their borders. They fear the groups are seeking to unite territory in all three nations to form an independent Kurdish homeland.

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Unidentified flying objects

Ten of the greatest optical illusions

From normal-looking upside-down faces turning grotesque to horizontal lines appearing to slope but are in fact parallel, RICHARD WISEMAN chooses his ten favourite optical illusions

This image looks like physicist Albert Einstein. However, move a few feet away from the screen and suddenly it'll transform into Marilyn Monroe

7. EINSTEIN This amazing image looks like physicist Albert Einstein. However, move a few feet away from the screen and suddenly it'll transform into Marilyn Monroe. The work of Aude Oliva and her colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the illusion was created in three steps.

First, the researchers obtained a photograph of Marilyn Monroe and removed the fine-grained facial features, such as any wrinkles or other blemishes.

Second, they obtained a photograph of Albert Einstein and removed the more coarse features, such as the shape of the mouth or nose.

Finally, the two images were superimposed on top of one another. Because the fine-grained features are visible close up, the image looks like Albert Einstein when you're just a few inches away from the page. However, move a few feet away and suddenly only the coarse features are visible, magically transforming the image into Marilyn Monroe.

Here are the over nine

ALL KINDS of sea birds PARALYZED and DEAD around SARASOTA

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Dead swans waking up Southwest Florida news rooms? Now asking asking "could it mean the dispersants are here?" Perhaps they've also found out about the 173 ppm oil in the sand at nearby Siesta Key.

What is making swans sick?, Fox 13 Tampa Bay, September 23, 2010:

Transcript Excerpts Dr. Geoffrey Gardner, a ["world renowned"] Lakeland swan expert, is facing the challenge of a lifetime. Something is killing the seabirds and swans on Long Boat Key... "Our concern is that it may be coming from toxins in the waters, something coming from the dispersants that might have been used for the Gulf oil spill," Gardner told FOX 13 on Thursday. The birds started getting sick and dying two months after the spill. [W]ildlife rehabbers who discovered the problem are concerned because they have been seeing an alarming number of gulls and terns die lately.

Left out of transcript by the Fox 13 website:

Transcript Summary Sea birds and swans sick and dying from a mystery illness has investigators worried tonight. They want to know if the sick birds off longboat key have anything to do with the BP oil spill. If it does that could be bad news for other kinds of area wildlife as well. What's attacking the birds and swans on Longboat Key? Concerns that it's toxins in the water or dispersant used in oil spill. Swans started getting sick 2 months after spill and they're not the only ones dying. So are all kinds of sea birds, gulls, terns and more. Rehabbers are worried because they can't save these birds like usual. 65 have been lost in a little over a month... you know there's a problem. The symptoms are all the same, but could not diagnose the problem. Would would the birds become weak gt paralyzed and just drop dead. The symptoms and duration are unusual... It's a matter of life and death... Could it mean the dispersants are here?

River disappears overnight after loud detonation noise is heard

Translated
"On Tuesday night the river Iska vanished between the villages of Iska Vas and Strahomer."... (Now here comes the official explanation)... "Slovene Environment Agency statement says that the water is flowing into the underground chamber underneath the water bed. This is the way the river disappears and reappears later down stream.This time this characteristic of the river is stronger because of the damages to the river bed."

On Tuesday night 2km of the river Iska in Slovenia disappeared and left behind fish on dry ground. The residents are saying that they heard a huge bang in the night. It sounds like they are describing it as a possible earthquake-like sound although there was no tremor. One woman said that it was like a huge detonation, as if something big had crashed onto the ground. People went out of their homes to see what was falling down, only to witness the river being drained.

To make this story even more strange, last week there were devastating floods in Slovenia and this river like all others was flooding land and properties. Could it be that some strange technology is being tested here for flood defence purpose? The official explanation is that due to the karst nature of the terrain the river went underground through this tiny hole (see pictures in link below), but the residents are highly sceptical as they have never witnessed anything like that ever (bearing in mind this river has flooded many times before). Credit



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Three km Locust bands found in northwest NSW

A three kilometre wide band of locusts is threatening a possible record winter crop at Carinda west of Tamworth.

Surveillance aircraft have captured images of "supersized" bands of locusts in northwestern NSW that are more than three kilometres in length.

NSW Primary Industries Minister Steve Whan has released the footage of the locusts near Walgett, taken during the first aerial surveillance mission of the plague season.

Mr Whan said there were now 102 confirmed locust reports across NSW, with aircraft on Wednesday detecting the insects in 16 locations near Walgett.

"What we've seen from the footage is supersized bands of locusts, more than three kilometres long, eating fodder and crops in northern NSW," Mr Whan told reporters at NSW Parliament on Thursday.

"This has confirmed our prediction that the northwest will be the first front in the battle against the locust plague.

"It's critical that we actually get on top of those locusts and spray them while they're banding, before they actually take off."

Mr Whan said the government would target spraying on the locust bands, saying once the pests took to the wing spraying was much less effective.

The government has devoted $18.5 million to tackling what experts have warned could be the worst plague in 30 years.

Enough insecticide has been stocked to treat half a million hectares, while more than 50 aircraft will be on standby over the spring and summer.

Spraying in the state's northwest would begin in a couple of days, Mr Whan said.

"Locusts emerge from the ground (and) it takes two-and-a-half to three weeks before they start banding together," he said.

"Once they've banded, and they get a bit bigger, they then take to the wing, and that's when you get the swarms in the air.

"(When they're banded) we actually have the opportunity of a couple of weeks to spray them on the ground."

Known egg hatchings exist at Brewarrina, Bourke, Enngonia in the northwest, Nyngan in central NSW, and Wentworth in the southwest of the state, he said.

"It is vitally important that we keep getting the reports in from farmers when we see them hatching," Mr Whan said.

"That's when we know a couple of weeks later to start the surveillance."

WORLD NEWS ASTRALIA

Millions of Tiny Spiders Spin Mystery in a British Columbia Clover Field

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

- Henry James




A warning: If the thought of tens of millions of tiny spiders spinning a web 24 hectares - 60 acres - in size and crawling all over it scares the wits out of you, you might want to tread carefully over the following. Because that's exactly what happened last month on a farmer's field near McBride, about 220 kilometres east of Prince George. For reasons that area scientists don't really understand, millions and millions of tiny black spiders called Halorates ksenius - they have no common name - became trapped in Russell Jervis' clover field and started spinning webs.

Halorates ksenius is not a big spider. "One could fit comfortably on a Smartie with plenty of room to spare," says Brian Thair, a cell biologist at the College of New Caledonia in Prince George. (Or to put it another way, it's about as big as a capital "O" printed on this page.) A typical barbwire fence on wood posts surrounded the field about six kilometres east of McBride in the Robson Valley. Thair said it looked like the whole area was covered with an opaque, white plastic grocery store bag. The thin, elastic coasting was not soft and fluffy like webs built by individual spiders. There were about two spiders per square centimetre laying the silk, which first appeared in early October. Thair said the web showed great tensile strength - enough to put a handful of coins on it without them falling through. There were "in the order of tens of millions of spiders running frantically back and forth," but they weren't interacting with each other. It's just because so many of them were in the field that the web grew and grew until at its largest, 60 acres, it was as big as the triangle-shaped field it covered. Thair had never seen anything like it before. "It was astounding to see," he said. "I couldn't believe my eyes. From two kilometres away it looked like a sheet of wet aluminium. It was the size of several city blocks. I have never in my 30 years as a biologist seen anything like this, in terms of quantity of spiders and quantity of web. Nothing even remotely approaching this."

Most of the web is gone now. Storms have ripped it apart. But during October and into early November, Thair says, it was home to possibly hundreds of millions of tiny black spiders that just kept spinning and reproducing. That caused the web to grow so large depends on whom you ask.

Thair speculates that perhaps because of some unusual weather conditions in late summer and early fall, the spiders were unable to disperse. Normally, when young spiders reach reproductive age, they spin a thread of web - a silk parachute - which is then caught by a breeze and lifts them into the air. It's called "ballooning." The wind carries the thread, with the spider attached to it, for some distance before dropping it. Where the spider lands is where it makes its home. But Thair guesses that because of too much rain or an absence of wind, the spiders in Jervis' field were unable to balloon, so they stayed where they were. Then they laid eggs, which turned into more spiders, which laid eggs and became yet more spiders. Added to that was the fact that for some reason - again Thair doesn't know what it was - the adult spiders failed to die, so they kept on reproducing too. And on and on it went.

Since the spiders didn't seem to care if an occasional insect stumbled into their construction, Thair doesn't think it was built for trapping purposes. He suggests the spiders encountered an enormous quantity of high quality, nutritious prey to be able to accomplish this feat. But he's also heard other suggestions. "Some people have said, 'oh yes, well it's a trampoline for aliens,'" Thair joked. "Or maybe it was an effort collectively by these spiders to try and catch a sheep."

Robb Bennett, an entomologist with the BC Ministry of Forests disagrees. He says the "sheet of gossamer" was likely millions and millions of drag lines the spiders produced prior to dispersing. Drag lines, he says, are anchors that spiders produce routinely to keep them connected with the ground. Bennett says these spiders - what he calls "LBJs for Little Brown Jobs" - and others very like them, live commonly in the north and probably emerged from the ground looking for the highest points in the field from which to disperse.

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Equinox and the Iron Sun

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Credit: NASA / Goddard / SDO AIA Team

Explanation: Today, the Sun crosses the celestial equator heading south at 03:09 Universal Time. Known as an equinox, this astronomical event marks the first day of autumn in the northern hemisphere and spring in the south. Equinox means equal night. With the Sun on the celestial equator, Earth dwellers will experience nearly 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness. Of course, in the north the days continue to grow shorter, the Sun marching lower in the sky as winter approaches. To celebrate the equinox, consider this view of the Sun in extreme ultraviolet light from the Sun staring Solar Dynamics Observatory. Recorded yesterday, the false-color image shows emission from highly ionized iron atoms. Loops and arcs trace the glowing plasma suspended in magnetic fields above solar active regions.

Dozens of whales die on New Zealand beach

Some of the dozens of pilot whales that beached themselves in Spirits Bay, New
Zealand, are seen Wednesday.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — At least 40 out of some 80 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a remote northern New Zealand beach have died, and more whales are joining them on land, officials said Wednesday.
It was the second mass beaching in the region in a month. "More whales are still coming in.
Pilot whales have very strong social bonds and they try to help each other so more keep getting stuck," said Mark Simpson of Project Jonah, a charity that protects marine mammals.
"Rescuers are concentrating on trying to move the mammals out of the surf and onto the beach to prevent them from drowning," New Zealand's Department of Conservation said in a statement.
"Sadly, many have been washed up against the rocks probably resulting in injuries."
DOC staffer Patrick Whaley said rough seas and gusting winds, some reaching 40 knots, were making it extremely hard to move the animals that were scattered along 1.5 miles of beach.
Dead whales are removed from the beach at Spirits Bay on Wednesday. "It’s heart-wrenching to have to see so many whales coming ashore and then drowning in the surf, without being able to reach them in time," he said.
Whaley said the DOC had already had to make the decision to euthanize some of the weakest and most stressed animals.
"It is absolutely cruel to leave them to suffer a slow and painful death," he said. Conditions at Spirits Bay meant the survivors will have to be taken by road about an hour south to Rarawa Beach on Thursday morning where they will be refloated.
"They will be lifted up with big nets on to the back of trucks with straw or hay loaded on them," Simpson said.
DOC area manager Jonathan Maxwell said at least 25 of the animals were already dead when officials arrived at Spirits Bay, and another 15 had died by nightfall.
In addition to the 40 still alive and stuck on the beach, another 50 were spotted just offshore, he said, though some of them had since beached.

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Another massive fish kill: The Almonda River, Portugal

Loss of life of “thousand of fish” in the river Almonda
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The president of the Meeting of Clientele of Azinhaga, in concelho of the Golegã, alerted this tuesday for a loss of life of “thousand of fish” in the river Almonda. Vítor Guide attributes the death of the fish to a pollutant discharge in the water course. The situation was detected no longer passed Saturday and the Service of Protecção of the Nature and Ambiente (SEPNA) of the GNR confirmed to the Lusa that if dislocated to the place in the sunday, day 19, not advancing still which the reasons of the loss of life of the fish. “Already we cannot more life thus I smell, it is insuportável and each time has more fish died in waters and in the edges of the river”, it added Vítor Guide. The autarca also alleges that the stations of residual water treatment (ETAR) of concelho nothing have to see with the pollutant discharge because. In accordance with Vítor Guide, as much the ETAR of the Golegã as the ETAR of Azinhaga is to send the volumes for the estuary of the river Tejo, in a zone downstream of where the pollutant discharge in the river Almonda was detected. This discharge is to be investigated by the SEPNA together with technician of the Hidrográfica Administration of the Region of the Tejo (ARH-Tejo), that they had collected in the place some samples of the water for analysis. The chunk of the river Almonda where if it verifies the death of the fish is placed already is of the Natural Reserve of the Paul of the Boquilobo, still related the autarca of Azinhaga.

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Discovery Rollout Shadow . Fog?

Amazing picture showing a huge shadow of The Space Shuttle, NASA claim it is fog?
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Credit & Copyright: Nancy Atkinson (Universe Today)

Explanation: Who goes there? Although the spotlighted figure in white might not be identifiable by itself, surely the huge shadow behind it makes its identity clear: the space shuttle. Specifically, it was the space shuttle Discovery being rolled out last March in preparation for launch. As captured above, an unusual monstrous shadow on passing fog was created during a picturesque night unveiling. While on the shuttle Crawler-Transporter, one of the largest tracked vehicles on Earth, the shuttle moved at about 2 km per hour from the main assembly building to the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. About a month later, in its penultimate planned mission, Discovery roared off the launch pad and delivered needed supplies and equipment to the International Space Station. Yesterday, Discovery reached Launch Pad 39A in preparation for its last planned mission.