Reconstruction of a Mass Hysteria

The Swine Flu Panic of 2009

Swine flu kept the world in suspense for almost a year. A massive vaccination campaign was mounted to put a stop to the anticipated pandemic. But, as it turned out, it was a relatively harmless strain of the flu virus. How, and why, did the world overreact? A reconstruction. By SPIEGEL staff....

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Another great nugget from the last issue of MAKE magazine, "Snow Science," an article which mentioned this website - http://surfacestations.org - and its findings:

61% of the 948 climate monitoring stations that had been assessed by 5/31/09 (by meteorologist Anthony Watts) fall into this category:

Class 4 (CRN4) (error >= 2C) - Artificial heating sources <10 meters.

While another 8% fall into this category:

Class 5 (CRN5) (error >= 5C) - Temperature sensor located next to/above an artificial heating source, such a building, roof top, parking lot, or concrete surface.

Solar 'Current of Fire' Speeds Up [EXCERPTS]

March 12, 2010: What in the world is the sun up to now?

In today's issue of Science, NASA solar physicist David Hathaway reports that the top of the sun's Great Conveyor Belt has been running at record-high speeds for the past five years.

"I believe this could explain the unusually deep solar minimum we've been experiencing," says Hathaway. "The high speed of the conveyor belt challenges existing models of the solar cycle and it has forced us back to the drawing board for new ideas."....

The speed-up was surprising on two levels.

Marjah, the city that never was

By Gareth Porter [EXCERPT]

....Marjah is not a city or even a real town, but a few clusters of farmers' homes amid a large agricultural area that covers much of the southern Helmand River Valley.

"It's not urban at all," an official of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), who asked not to be identified, admitted to Inter Press Service (IPS) on Sunday. He called Marjah a "rural community".

...water molecules are electric dipoles, which rotate in an electric field.

"In the presence of an electric field, the polar molecule behaves like a microscopic magnet, which attempts to align with the field by rotating around its axis. As the polarity of the electric field changes, the direction of rotation also changes." (Handbook of Frozen Foods, Y. Hui, p. 583)

It strikes me that most weather events involve water and a rotational pattern.

I didn't see this in the recent issue of MAKE--filled with amazing things that kids, for the most part, are making--but I did some internet surfing after reading "The Solar Catenary Reflector" by Tho X. Bui and stumbled upon a YouTube video about coolearthsolar's cool solar-focusing balloons:

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The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti

by F. William Engdahl [EXCERPTS]

Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Bolivian, French and Swiss rescue organizations accuse the US military of refusing landing rights to planes bearing necessary medicines and urgently needed potable water to the millions of Haitians stricken, injured and homeless.

A friend forwarded some emails to me from someone who is in Haiti and who wrote to her from there. Those same updates/letters from her friend in Haiti are elsewhere on the internet and I've received permission from my friend to post the links. I'm excerpting some disturbing information from one of the letters here and posting the links below.
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Take a look here.

And here.

can be seen here.

Lt. Gen. Ken Keen, the guy who was already on the ground in Haiti when the earthquake struck, was Commander of U.S. Army South (USARSO) from 2005-2007. Lt. Gen. Keen was on the Combatant Command Panel (Joint Operations: Space as a Force Multiplier) at the Strategic Space Symposium this past November speaking about...natural resource management!