Breaking News Archive
Be sure and refresh your browser to get the latest "Breaking
News"
Mitch Battros
We convince ourselves that life will be better
after we get married,
have a baby, then another.
Then we are frustrated
that the kids aren't old enough
and we'll be more content when they are.
After that, we're frustrated
that we have teenagers to deal with.
We will certainly be happy
when they are out of that stage.
We tell ourselves that our life will be complete
when our spouse gets his or her act together,
when we get a nicer car,
are able to go on a nice vacation,
when we retire.
The truth is, there's no better time
to be happy than right now.
If not now, when?
Your life will always be filled with challenges.
It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway.
One of my favorite quotes comes from Alfred D. Souza. He said,
"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be worked through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life".
This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So, treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time...and remember that time waits for no one.
So, stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you have kids, until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until your car or home is paid off, until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter, until you are off welfare, until the first or fifteenth, until your song comes on, until you've had a drink, until you've sobered up, until you die, until you are born again to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy.
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
Something To Ponder!!!
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching.
Folks, If you like what we are doing here at Earth Changes TV, and feel many could benefit from it's news and meanings, please pass the word. We are hopeful to be picked up by "The Wisdom Channel Network" satellite system. If so, we would be available to millions in almost every state in the country.
Send an email to them stating you would like to have Earth Changes TV in your area.
Their email address is: info@wisdomnetwork.com
Web Site: http://www.wisdomchannel.com/
We believe this venture would be a win win win scenario for all.
See our new look: Web Site: http://www.earthchangestv.com/mainmenu.htm
Best Wishes,
Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangestv.com/mainmenu.htm
(NASA) The second Blue Moon of 1999 can been seen this Wednesday night when the moon becomes full at 2200 UT. To see the moon simply go outside shortly after sunset. It will be shining brightly just above the eastern horizon. By midnight it will rise high in the southern sky and illuminate the landscape with bright moonlight.
The moon won't appear to be blue on Wednesday. It's called a "Blue Moon" by astronomers simply because it will be the second full moon in the month of March. The moon has assumed a bluish color at times in the past, for example after the eruption of Krakatoa in 1853 filled our atmosphere with obscuring dust, but such events are unrelated to the term "Blue Moon" as it is used today.
According to research by folklorist Philip Hiscock the term "Blue Moon" is at least 400 years old, but its popular meaning has shifted many times. The earliest known references to a blue moon were intended as examples of obvious absurdities. If a 16th century person asserted "That's as likely as a Blue Moon", they meant that it simply couldn't be. As time passed the expression evolved to mean something that rarely or never happened. Hence the expression "Once in a Blue Moon" which is still popular today. A second, modern definition of a Blue Moon as the second full moon in a calendar month was apparently introduced to popular culture by a mistake in the magazine Sky & Telescope 53 years ago. (The author recommends this month's excellent article in Sky & Telescope on the history of the Blue Moon.)
With Spring beginning in the northern hemisphere and the nights growing warmer, this week should be a pleasant opportunity to view the second Blue Moon of 1999. While Blue Moons may not be as rare as commonly thought, they can be like all full moons a sight of rare beauty.
This post was from Johari. On the North India earthquake. And the devastation.. Scalar plasma waves anyone.. Now why would they be doing this except pop control.. ?? And ideas.. ah ho Wio It was just another day when about half the population of the country was tuned into the biggest blockbuster of all time in India - A film highly awaited was on TV on Sunday night. At about 12:45 a.m. - The movie nearing the end - A Volcano erupted in the Higher northern regions of the highest populated state of India (UP). The state I live in. The intensity of the Volcano was not very much - However - The earthquake that followed the eruption shook the Entire North India!!!! One of the Biggest Earth quake to hit North India and certainly the biggest in the state of UP(Uttar Pradesh) - Has left 100's dead and 1000's buried under the rubble as rescue work still continues. The quake measured differently around different areas of North India and recorded at 6.8 at the Richter scale at the epicenter. Around 6.5 in my Town. Fortunately for us - Out town survived damage. Besides everything you could set your eyes on was moving - Nothing was damaged. It was not so in the northern regions as massive destruction took place. Me and family were watching the film as our bed started to shake terribly - my brother realized the first that it was a quake - we stood in disbelief as it calmed down a bit - suddenly it came again with a greater velocity when we could see everything moving and rushed outside the house and on to the road!! Soon we could see all the resident around u son the road at about quarter to One at night. Everyone stood in disbelief as this was the biggest quake ever felt in my small town!! It was only today that we got to know about the eruption and the entire scenario which was worse then our biggest nightmares!!!
Namaste, Rahul S. Johari
N E W D E L H I, India, March 29 — A severe earthquake struck a seismic hot zone in India’s Himalayan foothills today, toppling houses, causing landslides and killing at least 87 people. It was the strongest earthquake this century in the quake-prone mountains, with a magnitude of 6.8 and lasting nearly 40 seconds, India’s seismological department said, according to the Press Trust of India news agency. The epicenter was in a remote area of the Kumaon hills in the state of Uttar Pradesh, 185 miles northeast of New Delhi near India’s border with China. More Victims Expected Police said scores were injured and the number of victims was likely to rise. Reports of casualties and damage were sketchy long after the quake, which jolted northern India just after midnight local time (2:05 p.m. EST Sunday). Telephone lines to the area were knocked out. Many of the villages in the region have no communications at all and can be reached only by dirt paths. A 10-mile stretch of road leading to Chamoli, the town nearest the epicenter, was blocked by landslides. Some 600 road workers were rushed to the area to begin clearing the debris. “It looks like half the mountain had come off,” said district magistrate Uma Kant Pawar, Chamoli’s top appointed official. “We were watching a Hindi movie on television when chairs, wardrobes and beds started toppling over,” he said, reached by telephone. “Before we could realize what was happening, the electricity went off and the whole area plunged into darkness.” Pawar said he heard a deafening rumble of rocks and earth crashing down the nearby mountain slope. Seriously Injured Evacuated A column of army soldiers and 20 medical teams left for the area to help the victims, but it was not clear if they could get through, B.M. Vohra, commissioner of the Dehra Dun district, told The Associated Press. Three army and state government helicopters flew into the district shortly after sunrise to survey damaged villages, evacuating the most seriously injured to the city of Dehra Dun. The area is known as a seismic danger zone.
The Himalayas, one of earth’s youngest mountain ranges, are still growing and unstable. Eight tremors have been recorded this century measuring more than magnitude 6. One quake in 1991, measuring 6.1, killed more than 1,000 people near the town of Uttarkashi. Last year, the same area was shaken by dozens of landslides, including one that wiped out a camp of Hindu pilgrims. More than 200 people were killed. Pawar said 41 bodies were recovered from Chamoli, a town of simple stone and mud buildings that were mostly destroyed or badly damaged. Altogether, 58 people in Chamoli and 15 in nearby Rudraprayag were killed, officials said. Among Chamoli’s victims were five prisoners in the district jail which collapsed. The quake also rocked the other side of the Chinese border, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, said the Xinhua news agency. A series of aftershocks followed the temblor. India’s most lethal earthquake in recent times killed nearly 10,000 people in western India in 1993. The most powerful quake was in 1950 in Assam in eastern India, measuring 8.5.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea has completed 10 missile launch sites and is churning out 100 Soviet-type Scud missiles a year in four factories, a South Korean newspaper reported Friday. The Korea Herald quoted an unidentified government source as saying at least four other missile factories are suspected to exist. Concern over North Korea's missile capabilities increased after the country launched a rocket that flew over Japan and crashed into the Pacific last summer. North Korea insisted that it launched a scientific satellite. But Japan believes North Korea was test firing a multistage, liquid-fuel Taepodong missile that could hit any target in Japan.
While there are any number of organisms that bioterrorists could use as weapons, smallpox and anthrax are the big two that are capable of causing disease and death sufficient to cripple a city, even a country, experts say.
Take anthrax: Given appropriate weather and wind conditions, 50 kilograms of anthrax released from an aircraft along a 2 kilometer line could create a lethal cloud of anthrax spores that would extend beyond 20 kilometers downwind. The aerosol cloud would be colorless, odorless and invisible. And given the small size of the spores, they are as likely to infect people indoors as those on the street. The cost of treating and responding to an anthrax attack could reach $26-$30 billion for each 100,000 people exposed.
An analysis by the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress estimated that 130,000 to 3 million deaths could occur following the release of 100 kilograms of aerosolized anthrax over Washington D.C., making such an attack as lethal as a hydrogen bomb.
An extremist attack using biological weapons is a growing possibility that the United States is unprepared to meet, experts told Congress Thursday. Because symptoms can take days, or even longer, to develop, such an attack might not be evident until weeks after the initial infection. And by then, the silent microbes could have spread to thousands, killing many in their wake.
IF THE biological agent was infectious, it could jump, silently, from person to person, infecting millions of unknowing victims. Air travelers would spread the microbe across the nation — and thousands could die within weeks. While such a full-scale attack has not yet occurred, it could. And it “could create an unprecedented medical emergency,” Margaret Hamburg, assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, told a Senate panel. While the risk of a biological attack is extremely small — you’re much more likely to be hit by a car, for example — the United States is woefully unprepared should an attack occur, she said.
The initial response to such an attack, unlike an attack with a more conventional weapon, would fall to the public health community rather than law enforcement, the experts said. The experts appeared before a Senate Health subcommittee chaired by Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist, a Republican who said the panel was exploring ways to bolster the public health infrastructure to diagnose and respond to such threats.
Subject: Be carefull!!!!
HIV/AIDS Alert!
This is sad, please watch out !!
This is really a sad comment on today's mental condition!
Please read this and pass it on to your friends and family.
Subject: Safety Bulletin
For your information, a couple of weeks ago, in a Dallas movie theater, a person sat on something sharp in one of the seats. When she stood up to see what it was, a needle was found poking through the seat with an attached note saying, "you have been infected with HIV."
The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta reports similar events have taken place in several other cities recently. All of the needles tested HAVE been positive for HIV.
The CDC also reports that needles have been found in the coin return areas of pay phones and soda machines. Everyone is asked to use extreme caution when confronted with these types of situations.
All public chairs should be thoroughly but safely inspected prior to any use. A thorough visual inspection is considered the bare minimum.
Furthermore, they ask that everyone notify their family members and friends of the potential dangers, as well.
Thank You.
The previous information was sent from the Dallas Police Department to all of the local governments in the Washington area and was interdepartmentally dispersed.
We were all asked to pass this to as many people as possible.
Barbara Gaskins Wallace
National Naval Medical Center
Patient Administration
Cheryl Miller
Administrative Assistant
Cornell Institute for Public Affairs
WASHINGTON (AP) - Preparation, not panic, is the way to respond to the Year 2000 computer problems and the relatively minor inconveniences they will cause, emergency experts say. "There's so much disinformation and hype about Y2K," Mike Walker of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said at a House hearing Monday. "But there's no need to head for the hills. The national structures are in good shape." Walker and other emergency planning experts said that while many local emergency networks, such as 911 telephone emergency services and fire departments, need some upgrading, the more serious threat on Jan. 1, 2000, is that people will overreact to fears of social chaos.
Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangestv.com/mainmenu.htm
LONDON (AP) - An aerosol spray containing a healthy gene could help alleviate one of the dangerous abnormalities that appears in cystic fibrosis, a study says. The rare inherited disease is caused by a flaw in a gene that makes a protein that controls the transport of chloride ions - electrically charged atoms - across cell membranes. If the gene is faulty, it inhibits the movement of chloride. This causes thick mucus to form in the bronchial tubes, clogging airways and causing lung infections. In Friday's issue of The Lancet, a British medical journal, a team led by Dr. Eric Alton described how it administered the gene - known as Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator - combined with a natural fat in an aerosol spray.
Tropical Cyclone Vance, packing winds of up to 290 kilometers per hour (174 mph) in its core, tore off roofs and ripped down powerlines Monday as it pounded the sparsely populated northwest coast of Australia. The cyclone brought widespread flooding and forced many residents to evacuate. The cyclone swept down Exmouth Gulf before heading over land, and was expected to bring heavy rain to inland areas for several days.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - An overhaul designed to protect New Jersey's main welfare computers from the so-called Y2K bug may have caused a glitch that enabled thousands of food stamp recipients to access their April benefits a week-and-a-half early. Technicians were scrambling Sunday night to correct a computer error that incorrectly credited the electronic accounts of thousands of recipients with money that should not have become available until April 1. State officials did not know how many people actually withdrew funds posted to their accounts in error. An estimate will not be available until Monday. About 90% of the 200,000 families who receive food stamps in New Jersey participate in the electronic program. Human Services spokeswoman Jacqueline Tencza said the state's main welfare computer underwent an upgrade and overhaul two weeks ago to improve its capabilities and protect against the so-called "millennium bug," a situation in which computer systems may interpret the last ! two digits of the year 2000 to actually be 1900, causing unpredictable consequences.
"The scientists discovered that an S-shaped structure appears on the sun in advance of a violent eruption. The S is called a sigmoid, a twisting of the sun's magnetic field."
I know in my gut this is the SAME 'S-swirl' that appears in the centers of our CropCircles! ( Pictures posted on our "Sun Flare page at: http://www.earthchangesTV.com/solarflares/index.html )
It's a 'plasma cue', in the Circles, it's where the 'Call' from The CircleMakers for Earth's Energies originates (in the 'center' of a Formation). It's the BlackHole/WhiteHole 'seed' that erupts thru into THIS density from 'out there'. In both the Sun and The Circles, t's a presage of things to come, of MAJOR Energies coming together. On the Sun, they foretell a CME; in a Circle, the Formation is 'built' (literally) around it.
This is most exciting confirmation! :-)
- ilyes
(See ilyes article on the "S-swirl" on her page at:
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/ilyes/P20t.html
(ENN) By John Roach As if Y2K weren't enough, there's another millennial menace to dread: solar storms.
Scientists expect a violent solar storm—perhaps the worst in a century—to strike sometime between now and January 2001. It may fry the insides of satellites, knock out power supplies, and generally wreak havoc on a technology-dependent society.
It will all start with a coronal mass ejection—a violent discharge of electrically charged gas from the sun's outer atmosphere. The explosion will hurl some ten billion tons of gas into space at speeds up to a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) an hour. Four days and 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) later, the storm will tear through Earth's magnetic field.
WORRIES AND WARNINGS
Solar storms have struck hard before. On March 13, 1989, a solar storm caused a power outage in Quebec, Canada, that left six million people without electricity. Last year a smaller storm was blamed for bringing down the Galaxy 4 satellite, halting news transmissions and pagers across North America for days. Fortunately, NASA space scientists announced on March 9 that they have found a way to forecast solar storms a few days in advance, giving satellite and power companies time to prepare for potential trouble.
The scientists discovered that an S-shaped structure appears on the sun in advance of a violent eruption. The S is called a sigmoid, a twisting of the sun's magnetic field. "Early warnings of approaching solar storms could prove useful to power companies, the communications industry, and organizations that operate spacecraft, including NASA," said a statement from George Withbroew, a NASA scientist. "This is a major step forward in understanding these tremendous storms."
With advanced warning, satellite companies can turn off high voltages on their satellites before the plasma cloud hits them, and power companies can briefly turn off parts of the grid until the surge of current passes.
A paper on the S-shaped sigmoids was published in the March 15 issue of Geophysical Research Letters.
Be sure and check out our new web design.
Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangesTV.com
WASHINGTON (AP) - Science needs to preserve laboratory specimens of the smallpox virus to make sure there is a way to make vaccines should the deadly disease ever be used as a bioterrorism weapon, a committee of experts says. After more than 1,000 years of causing disease, death and disfigurement, naturally occurring smallpox was wiped out in 1980 in a worldwide inoculation effort. Only two laboratory caches - in Russia and in the United States - remain and the World Health Organization has recommended that they be destroyed in June. But bioterrorism experts have said in recent months they believe the virus has been distributed to other spots in Russia, perhaps in places with less effective security controls.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The most common technique used to fix computers vulnerable to Year 2000 failures is only a short-term remedy, and even advocates of the method acknowledge it will require other expensive repairs or replacements within a generation. The temporary fix, using a sophisticated twist of logic to fool computers, is highly controversial among insiders because it's intended to work for only a few decades - typically 30 years. One expert describes computers already fixed with the technique as "little ticking time bombs waiting to go off." The Clinton administration and industry analysts estimate the method is being used to patch 80% of computers in the worldwide repair effort expected to cost $300 billion.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide, but U.S. experts say laboratory specimens of the virus should be preserved to make vaccines in case the deadly disease is ever used as a bioterrorist weapon. Smallpox cursed humanity with disease, death and disfigurement for more than 1,000 years but was wiped out as a naturally occurring disease in 1980 after a worldwide inoculation effort. The World Health Organization has recommended destroying, by this June, two small caches of specimens that were believed to remain, one in Russia, the other in the U.S. But bioterrorism experts have said in recent months they believe the virus has been distributed to other spots in Russia, perhaps in places with less effective security controls.
Pasadena, Calif. (AP) - Astronomers canvassing the sky for asteroids that could threaten Earth stumbled upon a supernova in a galaxy 650 million light-years away, Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers say. The supernova was photographed by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Tracking system Feb. 18. The images captured the star's appearance as it looked just a few weeks after the ancient explosion occurred. The star was unknown to astronomers before the accidental discovery. The supernova, named 1999am, was a white dwarf star in orbit with a companion star before it exploded. The white dwarf captured so much material from the companion that it became too massive to support itself.
Let's hold Whitley to his word. I could not agree more, that we need to bring ourselves together, rather than tear each other apart. I wish Whitley would have held true to this idea BEFORE he wrote this letter. Maybe it is an ego thing, "to get the last lick in". With Whitley and I being from San Antonio Texas, I understand this mentality rather well.
I am sure Whitley is not suggesting all those with a differing opinion than
his (or anyone else), is a hateful person out to do harm.
With that in mind, LET US ALL MOVE ON.
Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
____________________________________
Dick Hoagland's heart attack
by Whitley Strieber
On March 8, 1999, Richard Hoagland had a massive and life- threatening heart
attack. Dick is
familiar to everybody who listens to the Art Bell program as one of the most
sophisticated scientific
and intellectual adventurers of our era. He has recently been suffering assaults
of extreme vitriol. His
very human sensitivity has made him vulnerable. Emotional upset can lead to
physical illness,
especially with regard to the heart. Whether this is what happened to Dick or
not I don't know, but
I do know, from personal experience, just how painful this sort of thing can
be.
It is my profound hope that Dick not only recover, but that he recover into
a changed community,
one that has recognized the evil that lies behind the sort of denunciations
that he has been enduring,
and condemns it by ignoring it and rejecting those who spread it.
Skepticism, both personal and institutional, has a valuable role to play
in our community. Its
existence is an important reason why edge thinkers can feel safe even when going
as far as possible.
The willingness of our public to question us is what makes it possible.
But the mistaken assumption on the part of some that the public is stupid and
gullible and needs to
be protected is the best of the motives that have led to the present situation,
where hatemongers are
being given sway in very visible places, and treated to notice by people who
are also asking our
community's respect.
The public is neither stupid nor gullible. And beyond the false motive of "protecting
the integrity of
the culture," there lies a level of jealous hatred and spitting, neurotic
evil that is sick indeed.
Individuals afflicted with this disease feel that, to build themselves up, they
must tear others down.
There also seems to be an element operating at this level for the intended purpose
of spreading fear,
hate and dissention. What their motives may be I do not know, but that there
is a professionally
designed and orchestrated quality to their activities is hard to deny.
The techniques of harassment, hatemongering and intentional obfuscation of
the truth that they use
within the UFO community were in recent years repeated within the community
of people fighting
for recognition of Gulf War Syndrome, and I have little doubt this level of
hate, as it is being applied
to us, emanates from somewhere within the intelligence community. Recently,
the government
accepted a level of responsibility for investigating Gulf War Syndrome, and
the attacks on those
investigators ceased.
When will the same thing happen for us? We cannot keep running and fighting
forever, none of us.
A warrior has fallen down. If he lifts himself back up, lets welcome him into
a community refreshed
by the expulsion of the dark spirits whose venom has harmed his heart.
--Whitley Strieber
Hello all, I hear that several messages are circulating RE my remarks concerning Hoagland. I want to set the record straight.
I have said nothing about Hoagland in my book or in any advertisement. I've made only one significant public statement of any kind RE Hoagland, and it was posted on Sightings.com. It was simply a statement of my appraisal-to-date of most of Hoagland's signature assertions. I played no role whatsoever in Stephens' "200 questions" except in confirming that Stephens should have the opportunity to ask them, and that many of Stephens' points were indeed quite factual. The challenge of another's assertions is the natural process of how fact is separated from mistake or fiction, and Hoagland is not exempt from this process (nor is Stephens, nor me).
Hoagland's views on Cydonia, his particular vision of hyperdimensional physics, the alleged geometric "glass" enclosures spanning lunar craters, and many (though not all) of his other claims, are not supported by the evidence that can be found on his site or in his books. There may indeed be some interesting anomalies that relate to domains Hoagland and countless others study (such as the extensive list of unusual lunar data and observations), but I have not seen compelling evidence for such on EnterpriseMission.com or in Richard's books. I remain perfectly willing to stand corrected on anything I've said as evidence dictates.
But, this is really not the time to be having this debate. I was saddened to hear of Richard's recent heart attack. Richard is as much a human being as any one of us, and deserves our heartfelt concern.
Joe Firmage
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. George Bush declared an emergency Thursday in 167 of Texas' 254 counties because of a year-long drought. Last year's lack of rainfall caused cropland to parch and sparked hundreds of wildfires around the state.
U.S. banks should be ready and able to deal with any computer glitches that arise when the year 2000 arrives, Federal Reserve Governor Edward Kelley said Wednesday. He said U.S. regulators were pressing banks to make sure their computers operate normally after Dec. 31, 1999. Kelley said federal regulators were completing their second inspection of all 10,600 U.S. banks and thrifts to make sure that customer records will be secure and cash will be on hand at year-end.
We will see.....Mitch Battros
Explosions on Sun May Cause Problems On Earth Communications And Power Systems At Risk...NASA Says It Can Predict Giant Sun-Storms
LOS ANGELES (CBS)
What could be the storm of the century is brewing millions of miles out in space on the surface of the sun. And when the fiery explosions called "coronal mass ejections" reach Earth, they could wreak havoc on power and communications systems, reports CBS News Correspondent Sandra Hughes.
John Kappenman, a geomagnetic storm expert says, "It's somewhat similar to a very large hurricane hitting the North American continent all at the same time." When the storm hits Earth, it could tear through the magnetic field, knock out power supplies and fry the insides of satellites. George Withbro, a NASA solar scientist says, "the force is equivalent to a billion megatons of TNT." And if you've been worried about what Y2K, the millenium bug, will do to the nation's power grid, this could be worse. We're at the beginning of a peak sun-storm season that comes once every 11 years.
Last time, the sun belched out a coronal mass ejection so strong that it cremated the power system in Quebec, Canada. They went from full power to a complete blackout in just 90 seconds. A smaller storm was blamed for bringing down the Galaxy-4 satellite last year, turning some news transmissions to hash and knocking out pagers across the country.
NASA scientists Tuesday said they think they've found a way to predict these giant solar storms. A simple letter-S marks the spot of the super storm before it explodes. The S is called a sigmoid, a twisting of the sun's magnetic field.
Richard Canfield, a Montana State University physics professor says, "We have a tool here that we feel will be very useful in forecasting space weather." Which means we may get a few days notice, but experts warn that a force like this may still be too much for our technology dependent society to prepare for.
by: Mitch Battros (ECTV)
Art Bell over the last two days has lashed out at anyone who criticizes Richard Hoagland for any reason. Understandably, we can have sympathy for a person who is upset and concerned for a dear friend over a life threatening situation, but Art's methods have disturbed many. Below are some of Art's public statements. The most disturbing to this writer was Art Bell's accusation that those who have differed with Richard Hoagland "Caused His Heart Attack, It Is Their Fault". In my humbled opinion, this had crossed the line. Not withstanding, we at Earth Changes TV, continue to wish Richard Hoagland a speedy recovery. Our official statement is at the bottom of this page.
artbell@aol.com Art Bell wrote:
" I thought Jeff Rense was a good guy until he started to be a method for you to spread your poison. That puts him in the same portion of the food chain as you. Rense does not wish Richard well. He wishes R.A.M. Stevens well and on a regular basis Publishes on his web site the kind of thing you see above."
" If you examine the nature of the attacks against Richard by Robert and his PUBLISHERS at Sightings (Jeff Rense)"
" You are nothing but a Liar and Fraud (referring to Robert Stephen's), a very small person who attacks people when they are down. So give me your best shot, personal or public."
"Jeff Rense and others who take up with him only sink to his level.(of a bottom feeder)"
"Jeff Rense at Sightings made that decision some time ago. Richard may be many things, but he is not the bottom feeder this guy is."
Below are some of many response to Art Bell
Again, why this incessant 'grouping' and what are 'levels'?
I fully support Judith Dale, Robert Stephen's, Ralph Greenberg, Amargi Hillier, and several others on Rowland Net BBS for their legitimate questions regarding proof of any of Richard's claims.
Jeff Rense also provided me with a venue to challenge Richard Hoagland alongside Steven Greer and Greer camp has since answered the questions and treated me very kindly and decently.
I doubt that had my article not been posted on Jeff Rense site, Greer camp may not have seen the necessity to answer and clarify.
They did; and very convincingly.
So please leave Jeff Rense or any other Journalists, Reporters out of this squabble.
While you are at it, why don't you also involve Michael Theroux? His site posted the Amargi Hillier claims too.
To everyone else, If Robert chooses to use derogatory wordings, it is his choice.
That does not render his legitimate questions anymore unanswerable.
His wordings would be very influenced by the treatment he has received thus far.
Or am I the only one to point out rationality?
Kind regards to all here.
Ron Bach
______________________________
ArtBell@aol.com wrote:
Judith I provided Robert with 1 hour of radio time. Go listen to what he did with it and send me your comments. If you view his latest e-mails as even close to rational.....
Well Hello Art,
I heard the whole thing the night Robert was on your show. Up until that time, I had been intrigued by the information Robert was bringing forth, and a nightly listener to 'Coast to Coast'. I was very much looking forward to hearing him on your show. I wanted to learn more. Quite frankly, I was appalled by your treatment of Robert. I did not then, nor do I now, think he behaved irrationally. If anything, my impression was that you were left speechless, and Richard confused. Then the accusations began to fly, all three of you were involved, then....suddenly no more Robert. This was followed by a rather relentless character assassination of Robert, by both you and Richard. And so, we all know what has occured since. Actually, about 2 weeks after the show in question, I went to the archives, and listened to the show again, via Real Player. I came away with the same impression I'd had at first.
Art, I don't know that I can find the words to adequately relay to you how upset and disappointed I was, with you over that fiasco. So much so, that I rarely listen to your show now. I used to listen every night. In addition, I increased the level of investigation I'd been doing on Richard Hoagland's data and information. I don't think Robert Stephens is the one with problems being rational. I will say, that I don't always agree with his choice of words, or tone of his communications, today. He even sounds a bit angry. I think I would be, too, if someone had blamed me, over national radio, for having a part in causing a person to suffer a massive heart attack.
Anger's a harsh emotion. An emotion that is quite capable of momentarily altering one's ability to be calm and clear in communicating. So, under the influence of anger, the words used may be quite inflammatory, nez pa? This is very common, and normal, though perhaps not the wisest.
I get the impression that you don't like Robert very much, that is your perogative. The issue here, really, remains the same as before. Many people, not just Robert, are questioning the veracity of Richard's work, data, and claims. What you are doing, is throwing up a Huge Red Herring, in an attempt to turn our attention away from the real issues.
I think you've been mistaken in trying to shoot the messenger, sent in the person of Robert Stephens. Terribly mistaken.
I wish Richard well. It is only his work I have questions about. Frankly, what he does with his personal life is none of my business, and not for me to judge.
Rather long answer, I suppose. I do tend to be quite long winded.
Cordially,
Judith
P.S. I'm sending this to all on the list, because your question of me, was posted to the list.
J
_______________________________
Mr. Bell,
I have been following this debate with halfhearted interest for the last few months, and for the most part I support Mr. Stephens. I have seen proof (enough for me at any rate) of Mr. Hoagland's fraudulent claims of discovery and don't approve. In the long run though, I think that everyone (including myself) is wasting their time, at this point, with this ridiculous email warfare. The fact of the matter is that Hoagland hasn't even typed one word (that I am aware of) in response to Mr. Stephens' challenges. No matter how you cut it, it is an absolute cop out. Fine.
The point is that this whole thing is so beaten to death that everyone is beginning to sound like little cry-babys in each vindictive email. I am shocked that someone as busy as you must be (with your own radio show), is even in on this stuff. I'm shocked that with a name as big as yours, you would even come out to defend the likes of Hoagland.
At any rate, phrases like "bottom feeder" are not worthy of your reputation, especially when you accuse Mr. Stephens of personal attacks. What I am trying to say is that this constant bickering, and belaboring minute points is turning all of us into hypocrites. I think it it is about time that we put this thing to bed. We need to start acting like adults.
Quite sincerely,
Donald T. McCoy Jr
_____________________________
Art,
Heart attacks are not the fault of anyone, except perhaps the person who has one. Even then, the fault is only present if that person engaged in the behaviors known to put one at high risk for a heart attack. Ofcourse, there are those times when one's heart pulls a fast one due to bad genes, or fright, or some such. The implication that the heart attack was due to someone else's activities is quite repugnant, and low down. Further, to cosign such accusations, by saying that Robert 'deserved it', is an awful thing. That is like saying, that any of us would deserve such blame, if we questioned the veracity of someone's claims with the same vehemence that Robert has of Richard.
Cruel comment on your part, IMHO.
Cordially,
Judith
_________________________
Dear all,
We all wish the best to Richard C. Hoagland and hope he recovers soon.
Mr. Bell, I have personally suffered from two heart attacks in last 5 years. During one of these I was walking alone in a Shopping Mall and with great difficulty I walked back to my office.
On both events I have been treated and the doctors have suggested I go for operations. I have refrained as I am stubborn.
But further to some email postings and web postings, even I am worried why the doctors would insist on operating on Richard so soon. Please consult more than one Surgeon before operations.
Secondly, alongside others, even I am extremely dissatisfied that you should end up blaming others. If you believe that Robert is responsible for his condition, then that is very naive of you.
Robert started asking questions almost 3 months ago. Ralph (Dr. Greenberg) has also been asking questions since a long time. Then the only obvious 'new player' is Amargi.
I have read Amargi's reply to Keith and the entire group and I do not see his reply offensive at all.
Please do not turn this in to a 'ratings' thing again.
Kind regards to all here.
____________________________
Earth Changes TV stands by it's original statement posted 03/08/99
Earth Changes TV, and all it's staff, give it's deepest regrets and condolence to Richard Hoagland as a result of a life threatening misfortune. We wish him a speedy recovery filled with blessings and warmth. It was never Richard the man under ridicule, it was simply his message and actions.
Response to Art Bell's comments directing "shame" to those who have been critical of Mr. Hoagland and holding him responsible for his actions, I say this...Art Bell, you should be ashamed of yourself for using this time to lash out with spite and vindictiveness, when compassion and stillness are needed. Your comments tell more of your true essence, than any other. It is you who so often reflect statements such as " I am filled with revenge, I go after someone until there is nothing left of them, I am vengence"....One needs only to reflect what you did to Courtney Brown and Robert Stephen's among others. You seem to always gang up on people. I've noticed your two favorites are Whitley Strieber and Richard Hoagland when you selectively strike out and "attack"....Sorry Mr. Bell, I will not follow your lead.
Most Sincerely,
Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
(AP) - Schools closed and traffic slowed to a crawl from the Great Lakes all the way south into Georgia Tuesday, as a storm dumped more than a foot of snow in places along with layers of ice. It was the first major snowstorm of the season for Washington, D.C., leading the House to postpone all floor votes, delaying flights in and out of Dulles and Ronald Reagan National airports, and delaying a memorial service for the late Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. Air travel suffered across the Midwest as airport crews cleared runways. Sixteen inches of snow piled up at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, with 14 in Iowa, 10 in Indiana, Ohio and Maryland and a foot possible by Wednesday in the West Virginia mountains. In the Southeast, a layer of ice under 2 inches of snow created havoc Tuesday in northeastern Georgia. "The roads aren't closed but they're impassable," said Deputy Sheriff John Keener in Rabun County, Ga.
Earth Changes TV, and all it's staff, give it's deepest regrets and condolence to Richard Hoagland as a result of a life threatening misfortune. We wish him a speedy recovery filled with blessings and warmth. It was never Richard the man under ridicule, it was simply his message and actions.
Excerpt from Art Bell's Website:
On Saturday morning, March 6th, Richard C. Hoagland, the founder of The Enterprise Mission, suffered a major heart attack in Miami, FL. He was with friends at the time and was rushed immediately to a Miami hospital. Richard was then moved to a Miami area cardiac critical care facility and continues to be in critical condition and is being helped with life support devices. Richard will most likely be undergoing some kind of heart surgery shortly, in an effort to improve his condition.
This is Very Serious. Richard is not out of trouble yet.
Please do not call or fax the New Mexico numbers, or try to contact Richard in Miami. Richard's close family members are at his side and the best we can do is to keep him in our thoughts and prayers. More information will be posted here as soon as we can. Keith Rowland, webmaster
As far as Art Bell's comments directing "shame" to those who have been critical of Mr. Hoagland and holding him responsible for his actions, I say this...Art Bell, you should be ashamed of yourself for using this time to lash out with spite and vindictiveness, when compassion and stillness are needed. Your comments tell more of your true essence, than any other. It is you who so often reflects statements like " I am filled with revenge, I go after someone until there is nothing left of them, I am vengence"....Sorry Mr. Bell, I will not follow your lead.
Many of those who are sensitive to what is going on with the Earth, like myself, are no doubt feeling pretty strange. You are having severe headaches, with a stabbing pain in the left eye. Intense aching, hollow pains in the middle and lower part of your back. Pains in the hip and sacrum. Women's menstrual cycles are completed goofed up, with their periods either coming twice a monthat an accelerated rate or not at all for months at a time, then with a very light flow, with their bodies gaining weight in what appear to be phantom pregnancies.
Many of you have been tired, listless, unable to sleep, unreasonable irritable and suffering from fits of panic, anxiety and severe depression. Sound familikar? Maybe it's just the holidays. But you are NOT IMAGINING (his emphasis) the bizarre frequencies that are coming from out of the planet. They are not theoryor conjecture, but checkable, scientific fact."
Sean David Morton
By Robert Stowe
England Washington Weekly Exclusive
WASHINGTON -- Pennsylvania Republican Representative Curt Weldon claims that the Central Intelligence Agency has determined that North Korea already has the capacity to launch from its homeland a low-weight warhead that could reach any part of the entire mainland United States -- from California eastward to Maine and southward to the Florida keys.
Weldon says the CIA finding is based, among others things, on its analysis of data generated by the August 31 launch by North Korea of the Taepo Dong 1 missile. The three-stage rocket was fired north of Japan. Its final stage failed to successfully launch a tiny satellite into orbit.
"The projections which the CIA have done, which are classified . . . actually show that when you project out the distance, that this particular North Korean rocket, with a light payload . . . could hit the mainland of the United States," Weldon says.
The Taepo Dong 1 could deliver "a chemical, biological or a small nuclear device," Weldon says, giving North Korea a cataclysmic new tool in its arsenal of terrorist weapons. The missile is not very accurate, Weldon says, but this should give the U.S. little comfort. "It's not the case of having pinpoint accuracy. It's being able to have the ability to launch a rocket and a payload that can hit our mainland that we can't defend against. It's a very crude capability, but they have it," says Weldon.
If Weldon's claims are true, under a doomsday scenario North Korea might be able to launch a surprise terrorist attack and deliver Hiroshima level casualties and destruction on a large American city, such as New York, according to national defense analysts. The new assessment about North Korea's missile capability reclassifies the Taepo Dong 1, originally seen as a missile for theater or regional defense, into an intercontinental ballistic missile or ICBM, when a third-stage rocket is attached. North Korea has claimed that the three-stage rocket was fired to launch a satellite and that it was not intended for military use. It has contradicted this explanation with warnings it might use its new missile capabilities to harm the U.S. and its allies.
A former mayor of Marcus Hook, Pa., Weldon is sponsoring a bill in Congress to declare that it is U.S. policy to deploy a limited national missile defense system. He is chairman of the House Subcommittee on Military Research and Development. The White House disagrees with Weldon's claims about the North Korean missile threat. "Based on this one launch, that is not a correct assessment," says P. J. Crowley, a spokesman for the National Security Council. North Korea does not now have an intercontinental missile capability, Crowley says.
On background, however, a White House source concedes that North Korea is expected to eventually have the ability to launch an ICBM. "Once they demonstrated the capacity to put a third stage on the Taepo Dong I, as they did, one of the future policy assumptions is that they will essentially perfect that ability," the White House source says. Starkly at odds with Weldon's claims, President Clinton claimed at a press conference Friday that North Korea and other nations developing missile programs would not have the capacity to launch missiles at the U.S. for ten to twenty years. President Clinton's claim is also at odds with the findings of a Congressionally-authorized bipartisan panel, the Rumsfeld Commission. The commission concluded in a report last summer that North Korea and other nations with missiles programs could develop an ICBM capacity within five years of a decision to do so. The report also warned that the U.S. may have little or no warning that a nation may be developing an ICBM.
Interestingly, the Rumsfeld Commission also included a reference that now seems to corroborate some of Weldon's claims. "Lightweight versions of the [larger and heavier] Taepo Dong 2 -- [meaning the Taepo Dong 1] -- could fly as far as 10,000 km. (6,200 miles), placing at risk western U.S. territory in an arc extending northwest from Phoenix, Arizona to Madison, Wisconsin," the report stated The Rumsfeld assessment about the potential of the Taepo Dong 1 places more than a third of the U.S. mainland within the range of the Taepo Dong 1 -- making Weldon's claims seem less of a stretch. In retrospect, the Rumsfeld Commission's statement looks prescient, having been made more than a month before the launching of the Taepo Dong 1 by North Korea. North Korea has not yet launched the Taepo Dong 2, although State Department briefer James Rubin suggested Feb. 3 that North Korea might launch the more powerful Taepo Dong 2 sometime this year. The Rumsfeld Commission has stated this missile could reach Hawaii and Alaska. It can also carry heavier and more powerful nuclear weapons. A White House source, however, dismisses the potential for a Taepo Dong 2 launch this year. "We do not see any sign of a preparation for a second launch," says the source. Despite White House rejection of his claims, Weldon is adamant that North Korea has an ICBM capability now. "Yes," Weldon says, "based on the test they did on August 31, I think they have it now for a low-weight payload." The Taepo Dong 1 missile has the ability at the present time to reach "the entire United States," he says.
by: Rob McConnell, Host & Executive Producer, The 'X' Zone Radio Show On August 12, 1997 Bruce Cornet accidently video taped a near miss between a missile and a Boeing 767 just after it turned towards Kennedy airport on a landing approach, three days after the Swissair 127 incident that was reported in the newspapers in Canada on Friday, March 5, 1999. Bruce Cornet has the video tape from which he made the video gif.
Bruce told me in an email that the FBI took a special interest in his video tape, which they have, and Bruce has copies. According to Bruce, "the missile apparently misfired as it passed the jetliner, bursting into flame. Had it exploded, it might have brought down that flight. The missile landed in a salt marsh next to the intercoastal waterway at Sea Bright, NJ. After the missile burst into flame, you can see it turn and glow as it falls slightly sideways to Earth. Its shape is unmistakable."
Bruce Cornet told me that after the FBI was sent a copy, he received a vsist form the NSTB / FBI team that worked on TWA Flight 800. Cornet said, "I am amazed that after all this time, pilots are now beginning to come forward with stories which imply that our skies along the East Coast of New Jersey and New York were not safe between June and August 1997."
I would like to thank Bruce Cornet for bringing this video gif and his story to THE 'X' ZONE.
Bruce Cornet can be reached at: email: bcornet@monmouth.com.
Bruce's reply was in regards to the following story: Object Nearly Hit Airliner Near TWA Crash Site Canadian Press - Friday, March 5, 1999 by Stephen Thorne
Hi folks,
Good news! The Wisdom Channel Network is interested in sponsoring Earth Changes TV on their network. This would put our show in almost every state in the nation via satellite. If you like what we are doing at Earth Changes TV, and would like to receive the show in your area, contact them now with a letter of your support. Thank you so much for the years of dedication since our start in April 1995.
We have put in countless hours to bring you the most recent and cutting edge news, not likely to be seen on main stream networks. I thank you all, for the support and encouragement you have so freely given throughout the years. Below is a letter sent to me as well as The Wisdom Channel Network.
I believe this venture would be a win win win scenario for all. Their email address is: info@wisdomnetwork.com
Web Site: http://www.wisdomchannel.com/
Most Sincerely,
Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangesTV.com
_________________________________
Dear Wisdom Channel Programmers,
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Ron Buller and I live in remote Alaska in a small village on the North Gulf Coast of Alaska. I discovered the Wisdom Channel about 2 years ago on a C-band satellite system. My wife and I appreciate your programming, as it is good to receive some positive vibes in a time when it seems as though there is nothing but negativity coming in from all angles. The reason that I am contacting you is I am wondering if it is at all possible for you to start to broadcast the program, "Earth Changes TV".
In these times of the millennium change and the earth in the "Quickening" it would be nice to keep abreast of what "Mother Earth" is doing. The reason I am contacting you is we here in Yakutat Alaska have only 2 sources for television. One being the Alaska Rural Communication System,"ARCS", which is programmed in Fairbanks Alaska, and is a mix of different programming from the big 3 networks and a dab of PBS programs. The second source is of course home satellite systems. I do not as of yet have my own satellite system, but I do have access to a C-band system when ever I need it We record your programs to watch at home and find them very enlightening, and I think that Earth Changes TV would fit into your type of programs. They have some extremely interesting subject matter and from what I am able to understand it is only being shown on public access stations at this time. The great thing about your program is that it is in the "FREE PROGRAMS" section of the satellite tv guide. I have friends that have digital satellite systems and WISDOM wasn't on their system.
Please consider "EARTH CHANGES TV" for your channel. It may increase viewers to your channel. I know of at least two from my small village.
Thanks for your time and consideration,
Ron Buller
By Harry Dunphy
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The threat of a cyberattack -- an electronic Pearl Harbor -- is the most immediate, compelling danger facing the United States, former government officials and defense experts told a Senate panel Friday.
Their other concerns include the proliferation of missiles capable of mass destruction among rogue states and terrorists developing their capability to use chemical and biological weapons.
At the first meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee's new panel on emerging threats and capabilities, witnesses were asked what ``good grief situations'' kept them awake at night.
Robert Ellsworth, former deputy defense secretary, said his main fear was a cyberattack against critical information infrastructures. Among them, systems that control medical services, electric power generation, telecommunications, banking and finance and oil and gas production.
``This is the most important, most compelling danger and one to which we should apply our resources immediately,'' Ellsworth said. In particular, Ellsworth warned against cyber-based attacks disguised as Y2K computer problems. Many computer systems worldwide are expected to malfunction on Jan 1, 2000 because some computers will fail to recognize the change in century.
``Disruptions may result from the malicious embedding of code in existing programs by programers ostensibly 'fixing' software to make it Y2K compliant, '' Ellsworth said.
Former U.N Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick said one of her preoccupations was missile proliferation, particularly by a ``psychotic'' nation such as North Korea. She said China also was busy developing the capacity to deliver weapons of mass destruction and passing that technology on to Iran and Syria.
Andrew Krepinevich, head of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington-based defense think tank, warned about terrorists learning ``to alter toxins so they could develop a weapon that could target a specific group-- a genetically engineered Holocaust.'' Congress and the Clinton administration have increased their attention and resources on counterterrorism. In January, President Clinton proposed spending $1.4 billion for the coming fiscal year to enhance domestic readiness in the event of a chemical or biological terrorist attack.
by Associated Press OTTAWA (CP) -- A Swissair pilot reported his Boeing 747 jet was nearly hit by an unidentified flying object, possibly a missile, near the area off New York where a TWA airplane crashed in 1996, The Canadian Press has learned.
Swissair Flight 127 was cruising at 23,000 feet on Aug. 9, 1997, when the pilot interrupted an address to passengers to report the near miss by a round white object, says a report by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. ``Sir, I don't know what it was, but it just flew like a couple of hundred feet above us,'' he radioed Boston air traffic control. ``I don't know if it was a rocket or whatever, but incredibly fast, opposite direction.'' ``In the opposite direction?'' asked the controller. ``Yes sir, and the time was 2107 (Greenwich mean time). It was too fast to be an airplane.'' The controller asked another aircraft if its crew saw anything like a missile in the area. The reply was negative. He then asked the Swissair pilot again how far above the plane it was. ``It was right over us, right above, opposite direction, and, and I don't know, two, three, four hundred feet above. All that I can tell, 127, is that (we) saw a light object, it was white, and very fast.'' Investigators interviewed the captain and first officer on Aug. 10, 1997. The flight engineer hadn't seen the object and was not interviewed. The report, filed under NYC97SA193, said the flight was opposite John F. Kennedy Airport at 5:07 p.m. Eastern time -- near the area where TWA Flight 800 went down July 17, 1996, after taking off from JFK; 230 died. Some believe a missile caused the midair explosion of the TWA Boeing 747 off Long Island, N.Y. Authorities have reached no official conclusion but have been leaning toward faulty wiring in the plane's fuel tank. The transportation safety board report said the Swissair captain saw the cylindrical object for less than a second. He did not see any wings and was not sure it was an aircraft. ``He had never been so close to other traffic before,'' said the report. ``It passed over the cockpit, slightly right of centerline. If it had been any lower, it would have hit the aircraft. ``As the object passed by, there was no noise, no wake turbulence, and no disruption or anomalies with any of the flight or engine instruments.'' The plane was flying in clear weather to Boston from Philadelphia at the time. The sun was at the pilot's back. He apparently did not have time to take evasive action. ``There was no exhaust or smoke, no fire, and he could not accurately discern its size. The captain reported his total time as 15,000-plus flight hours. He had never seen a missile in flight.'' The first officer, whose flight time totaled 7,500 hours, said he was bent over to adjust the volume on his headset when he looked up and saw the object pass overhead ``very quickly. ``It was close enough that he ducked his head because he thought it would hit them.... He thought it passed about 100 to 200 feet above the airplane and between the right side of the fuselage and the No. 3 engine.'' The first officer said no markings were visible and the object appeared to be the size of a thumbnail held at arm's length. He said he had previously encountered a weather balloon over Italy, and the object did not look like the balloon. He had witnessed missile launches from the ground previously, the report said. The report said the nearest weather balloons are launched from Upton, N.Y., 43 nautical miles northeast of JFK twice daily, at 7 p.m. and 3 a.m. Eastern time and usually take 25 to 28 minutes to reach 23,000 feet. Balloons are light tan or brownish, or black and red, said the report, adding the wind was blowing from the north, almost at right angles to the aircraft. Investigators also checked radar data and plotted the plane's flight path. ``There was no evidence of an opposite direction target, either beacon or non-beacon,'' said the report.
(Sightings-web site)
From Ralph Greenberg
Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Dear Mr. Rense,
I've noticed that you have provided a forum on your website about
Hoagland's claim of credit for the Abydos glyphs. There is another
issue that should be brought to the attention of the public.
As you may know, I have written a long and well-documented article
on the history of the idea that Europa might have an ocean. Over the
years, many people have been misled by Richard Hoagland to
believe that he was the originator of that idea, as well as the idea that
life might develop in such an ocean.
It has given him a tremendous amount of undeserved credibility.
Since June of 1997, I have been trying very hard to correct this
distortion of history. I've informed a relatively small number of
people about my article. I would like to bring it to the attention of as
many people as possible. If I wrote a relatively short piece pointing
out how Hoagland has distorted this history, would you consider
providing a similar forum for that?
You can find my article on my homepage here:
http://www.math.washington.edu/~greenber/Europa.html
It will be obvious how much work I put into writing that article. It is
not intended to criticize Hoagland at all. I just wanted to set the
record straight.
But my fax to Art Bell, which you can find there, will give you an
idea of my futile attempt to get some honesty about this issue onto
his show.
--Ralph Greenberg
Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
_____________
Fax To Art Bell Asking For Remedy
The following is the text of a fax sent to Art Bell on December 15th,
1997. A similar fax had been sent to him on December 4th, 1997
and also a few days later, all with the hope that he would at least
partially read one of them to his audience.
In February and March, 1998, I sent several other faxes to Art Bell
which were much shorter and which were mostly a copy of part of a
letter that I received from Arthur C. Clarke.
Art Bell has never shared any of these faxes with his audience.
Dear Art,
On December 4th, 1997, Richard Hoagland was a guest on your
show. I was very dismayed to hear him make the claim that he was
the first person to write a "scientific paper" proposing the ideas
that
Europa might possibly have a global liquid water ocean and that life
might possibly develop in such an ocean. This is a rather misleading
and factually incorrect statement. I feel that your audience deserves
to hear an accurate version of the history of those ideas and hope
that you will share the following brief summary with them.
In the 1950s, the astronomer G.P.Kuiper discovered evidence that
the surface of Europa and some of the other satellites of Jupiter
seemed to be covered with water in the form of ice or frost. This
was finally confirmed in the early 1970s. In an article published in
1971, John S. Lewis proposed and studied the possibility that
Europa and other ice-covered bodies in our solar system might
actually have a liquid water ocean under a crust of ice. This idea was
explored in a number of articles by various scientists during the
1970s.
One important one which appeared in 1976 by John S. Lewis and
G.J.Consolmagno gives rather detailed estimates of the possible
thickness of the ice crust and the possible depth of an ocean that
might exist on Europa and other moons of Jupiter. These estimates
are based on various sets of assumptions about the early history and
the composition of those bodies. For example, in one of their
models, they estimate that Europa might have an ice crust 70-km
thick covering an ocean of water 100-km deep, all of this over a
rocky core 1400-km in radius. The underlying idea is that radioactive
decay in the core might produce enough heat to maintain a liquid
water ocean.
In 1979, another idea was proposed which focused attention
specifically on Europa. Two NASA scientists--P. Cassen and
R.T.Reynolds--together with a physicist S.J.Peale from the
University of California wrote an article entitled "Is there liquid water
on Europa?" Their idea was that the gravitational forces which
Jupiter and Ganymede (another of Jupiter's moons) exert on Europa
might generate enough frictional heat to maintain a liquid water
ocean on Europa. Under one set of reasonable assumptions, they
estimate that Europa might have an ice crust under 10-kms in
thickness covering a liquid water ocean with a depth of about
90-kms.
In 1979, there were two Voyager missions to the Jupiter system.
This article about Europa was written about one month before
Voyager 2 started sending back high resolution images of Europa in
July, 1979. At the end of their article, the authors expressed hope
that such images might provide some evidence, one way or the
other, concerning the existence of an ocean on Europa. I think that
there can be little doubt that this article was widely discussed around
NASA because these very same scientists had published another
article just a few days before Voyager 1 passed by Io (another moon
of Jupiter) in which they made a very startling prediction that
extensive volcanic activity should exist on Io. Within a few weeks,
the images from Voyager 1 confirmed that their prediction about Io
was correct.
The idea that a liquid water ocean under a thick crust of ice might
exist on Europa and some of the other moons of Jupiter seems to
have become rather widely known by the end of the 1970s. I have
even found several books written for the general public at the end of
that decade which discuss that possibility. To me, it seems quite
obvious that the possibility of such an ocean would lead many
people to speculate about the existence of life in such an
environment. In fact, Carl Sagan had already included Europa and
Ganymede in a short list of bodies in our solar system which he
believed had some potential for the existence of life. This was in an
article he wrote in 1971. He included Europa and Ganymede
because of the evidence that they might have water in the form of
ice or frost on their surfaces. The possibility of an ocean of water
would certainly be far more encouraging. However, one obvious and
serious issue is the fact that, under a thick crust of ice,
photosynthesis would probably be a very unlikely possibility. There
would have to be an alternative basis for the chemistry of life that
could evolve in such an environment.
I have found several cases where various individuals presented such
speculations to the general public or to the scientific community. The
first that I found was in Scotland. There is a very active group of
amateur and professional astronomers in Scotland, called ASTRA,
which sponsors public lectures and discussions about all aspects of
astronomy. In 1976, some of their members proposed various ideas
about how life might develop on Europa and Ganymede . For
example, they suggested that complex molecules might be
synthesized by electrical storms in the thin atmospheres of these
bodies, that such compounds might seep down into liquid water
reservoirs or oceans under the surface, and that volcanic activity
deep down might provide an alternative energy source to light. These
ideas are reported on in a book written by Duncan Lunan, entitled
New Worlds for Old, published in 1979.
In a delightful book entitled Life Beyond Earth, Gerald Feinberg and
Robert Shapiro propose some general ideas about the chemistries
which could be a basis for life in unearth-like environments. Feinberg
presented some of these ideas in a lecture that he gave at a
conference Extraterrestials--Where Are They? at the University of
Maryland in November, 1979. In their book the authors discuss
Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto based on the models proposed by
Lewis and Consolmagno in 1976. They write that if life is to develop
in the putative oceans of such bodies under a thick crust of ice, it is
crucial that some energy sources exist which can provide heat in
concentrated form. They mention the possibility of volcanic
eruptions or upwellings of hot gases from the core. They compare
such environments to those which were discovered in 1977 on Earth
at places on the ocean bottom where hot springs emerge providing
sites which have an abundance of living creatures. Their book, three
years in the writing, was published in 1980.
Another scientific conference occurred at NASA's Ames Research
Center in June, 1979, which was called Life in the Universe. The
exobiologist Ben Clark gave a lecture at that conference where he
also discussed the possibility of life developing in buried liquid water
reservoirs or oceans on Europa, Ganymede and some other
ice-covered bodies. Inspired by the 1977 discoveries of small,
isolated ecosystems near hot springs at ocean bottoms here on Earth,
he suggested that something similar might happen on such bodies.
But he pointed out that photosynthesis does in fact play some role in
these ecosystems on Earth. He proposed some specific alternative
chemistries, based on Sulfur, which might provide a basis for life in
the possible oceans of Europa and other bodies without
photosynthesis.
Finally I will mention the imaginative and inspiring article written by
your frequent guest Richard Hoagland. His article, entitled "The
Europa Enigma" appeared in the January, 1980 issue of Star & Sky .
In that article, Hoagland discusses the possibility that an ocean might
have existed and might still exist under an icy crust, summarizing
some of the scientific articles that had appeared on this topic. He
speculates about how complex organic compounds might develop
and that undersurface volcanic activity might provide a possible
energy source for life to evolve. There are many interesting ideas in
that article. As many people in your audience might know,
Hoagland's article inspired Arthur C. Clarke to use Europa as a
background for his novel 2010: Odyssey 2.
I would like to quote one paragraph from a letter which I received
recently from Arthur C. Clarke concerning Hoagland's article and the
ideas that Europa might have an ocean and that life might develop
there. "I am also grateful to him [Dick Hoagland] for the excellent
1980 article he wrote--my first introduction to the idea. Since then I
have become aware of the fact that many others had thought of it
first, as you point out."
What I've written above is a summary of a much longer survey of
the history of these ideas about Europa which I wrote last May and
circulated among various scientists and journalists. I also sent a copy
to Arthur C. Clarke and to Richard Hoagland. I sent a second copy
to Hoagland in September. Perhaps you can understand why I was
quite disturbed by Hoagland's statement on your show a few weeks
ago. I would be very appreciative if you could take the time to read
what I've written.
Sincerely yours,
Ralph Greenberg
Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
by Amargi Hillier I was disappointed to hear Richard Hoagland on the Art Bell radio show talking about a new discovery he has made. On the Enterprise Mission website, it suggests that Hoagland has discovered some most interesting and unusual set of hieroglyphs found in Abydos, Egypt. These glyphs depict, what seems to be, a helicopter, flying craft of sorts and more. On the Enterprise Mission website, these glyphs are referred to as "Hoagland’s Abydos discovery".
If many of you remember the old Amargiland site way back when, we had posted photos of these glyphs almost 3 YEARS AGO. I tried to contact Mr. Bell and Mr. Hoagland at that time, but was ignored (or lost in the heap of others who write them). If anybody should get credit for bringing worlwide attention to these glyphs, it should go to Bruce Rawles. Mr. Rawles took the original photos that appeared at my web 3 years ago.
I urge those of you interested to contact Mr. Hoagland and Art Bell and make sure the Mr. Bruce Rawles be recognized for making this info public; images that were posted on the net years before Hoagland posted his on the Enterprise Mission website yesterday. Is Mr. Hoagland appropriating the research of others and claiming the fame? Here is our website that features the glyphs, with an update:
The Mysterious Glyphs Of Abydos Egypt http://www.projectduat.com/mysterious.glyphs/
Warm Wishes,
Amargi Hillier
(ENN) Airborne studies of Greenland's ice sheets show that glaciers in the southeast region of the country are thinning and their lower elevations may be particularly sensitive to climate changes, according to NASA scientists.
The researchers believe that the thinning, by as much as 30 feet over five years in some locations, is the result of increased discharge speeds of glaciers flowing into the Atlantic Ocean. In the March 5 issue of Science, researchers report the glacial thinning is too large to have resulted from increased ice-surface melting or decreased snowfall.
"The results of this study are important in that they could represent the first indication of an increase in the speed of outlet glaciers," said Bill Krabill, principal investigator at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. An outlet glacier acts as a major ice drainage region for an ice sheet.
"The excess volume of ice transported by these glaciers has had a negligible effect on global sea level thus far, but if it accelerates or becomes more widespread, it would begin to have a detectable impact on sea level," Krabill said.
Krabill said surface-melt water might be seeping to the bottom of glaciers. Such seepage may be reducing the friction between the ice and the rock below it, enabling the glaciers to slide with less friction across the bedrock and thus allow more ice to slip off into the ocean, according to Krabill.
"The results of this study are significant because they provide the first evidence of widespread thinning of low-elevation parts of one of the great polar ice sheets. The results also suggest that the thinning outlet glaciers must be flowing faster than necessary to remove the annual accumulation of snow within their basins," said Krabill.
"Why they are behaving like this is a mystery," said Krabill, "but it might indicate that the coastal margins of ice sheets are capable of responding quite rapidly to external changes, such as a potential warming of the climate."
In 1993 and 1994, NASA researchers surveyed and measured the thickness of the entire Greenland ice sheet using an airborne laser altimeter flown on a NASA P-3 aircraft. Ten of the 1993 southern Greenland flight lines were resurveyed in 1998. The flight lines in northern Greenland flown in 1994 will be resurveyed in May 1999. Throughout the study, pilots have used a Global Positioning System and other navigational equipment to fly the same flight path some 400 meters above the ice surface.
The results showed three areas in the south that accumulate snow at rates of up to 10 inches a year. These areas located in the internal sections of Greenland are in regions of high snowfall.
In the outer regions of the ice sheets, the researchers reported large areas of thinning, with the rate of thinning increasing rapidly toward the ocean. The most rapid thinning rates (more than three feet a year) were observed in the lower depths of east coast outlet glaciers, the researchers reported.
The researchers noted that the areas of thinning in the east also saw warmer than normal temperatures for 1993 to 1998. "However, we also observe areas of thinning near the west coast, where many locations were cooler than normal," the researchers reported.
These surveys have established baseline data sets that will be extended with information from NASA's ICESAT spacecraft. The ICESAT satellite laser altimeter will be launched in 2001 to measure ice surface elevations in Greenland and Antarctica.
For more information, contact David Steitz, NASA, (202)358-1730.
(MSNBC) The federal government has already declared 1998 the warmest year since temperature recordings began 120 years ago, but several researchers say other evidence “strongly suggests” 1998 was the warmest of the last 1,000 years. Using tree rings, ice cores and other indicators, the scientists also dubbed the 1990s the warmest decade of the millennium.
THEIR STUDY, published in the upcoming journal Geophysical Research Letters, adds to a growing body of evidence that the global climate has been getting steadily warmer — especially the last half of the 20th century. “Temperatures in the latter half of the 20th century were unprecedented,” Raymond Bradley of the University of Massachusetts said in a statement describing the research.
‘PROXY INDICATORS’ USED Because human climate records only go back a few hundred years, and do not cover the whole globe, the team at the University of Massachusetts and the University of Arizona looked at measurements other scientists have made of tree rings, ice cores and other “proxy indicators” that record climate variations.
Mitch,
It is unprecedented for the Northwest. I was scheduled to talk about earthquakes this morning on K101-FM at 07:30. At 9: the producer called, to apologize and explain. He was practically in tears as he described the damage. I am now scheduled for tomorrow morning.
Beware the Tides of March. The last time we had Blue Moons in January and March was 1980. That was when Mt. Saint Helens began to erupt and there were 47 quakes around the peak of at least 4M during that month.
job
Jim Berkland's web site: ahttp://www.syzygyjob.com/index.shtml
for the latest in earthquake activity.
by Mitch Battros - ECTV Main traffic arteries such as the Evergreen 520 Bridge, have been closed due to 70 mph gust winds. Power outage for more than 250 thousand people. Structural damage to bridges. Schools closed, power lines down, trees ripped from their roots. Seattle residents have stated " I have lived here all my life, and I have never seen it like this before". State officials have asked residents to "stay home" until the storm (hurricane) diminishes.
When viewing the weather report on the local news, you could clearly see a "funnel" formation which looks exactly like any hurricane one sees in the Atlantic or Caribbean seas. Waters off the Washington Coast have risen up to 45 feet. Massive erosion has occurred. Sever mud slides expected.
It is unprecedented for the Northwest. I was scheduled to talk about earthquakes this morning on K101-FM at 07:30. At 9: the producer called, to apologize and explain. He was practically in tears as he described the damage.
I am now scheduled for tomorrow morning. Beware the Tides of March. The last time we had Blue Moons in January and March was 1980. That was when Mt. Saint Helens began to erupt and there were 47 quakes around the peak of at least 4M during that month.
Jim Berkland's web site: http://www.syzygyjob.com/index.shtml for the latest in earthquake activity.
Doctors May Be Key to Bioterrorism
By LAURAN NEERGAARD The Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va.
(AP) -- It will fall to doctors -- not the military or police to recognize when bioterrorists have struck and to react in time to stop thousands of Americans from getting sick or dying, experts told the first medical conference on the danger Tuesday. Imagine a truck driving by a football stadium during a fall game. It sprays a mist that drifts over the stadium. Nobody notices. Two days later, hundreds show up with sniffles and fevers that doctors believe is the flu. But five days later 300 people are dead before a local scientist solves the mystery: It's not flu, it's anthrax.
Johns Hopkins University used that fictional scenario to tell doctors that the danger is real -- and the nation isn't yet ready to handle it. ``To remain unprepared is to invite disaster,'' said Hopkins' Dr. D.A. Henderson, who led the world's eradication of smallpox and now is mobilizing health workers and the government against bioterrorism.
Policy-makers know how to respond to bombs, but have ``an almost total lack of understanding of the implications of epidemic disease'' that bioterrorism would cause, Henderson said.
The average American is far more likely to die in a car crash than ever face a bioterrorist attack, other experts reassured the conference. But the threat is real, so the government is starting to prepare doctors and hospitals. ``We must not be afraid, but we must be aware,'' said Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, whose office is spending $158 million this year, and has asked Congress for $230 million next year, to prepare.
Currently, there is no national stockpile of treatment or vaccines. And doctors must be educated how to spot unusual symptoms and then what to do. They may not know, for example, that anthrax can't be spread person-to-person but that smallpox is highly contagious.
A huge attack like the Hopkins' anthrax scenario is unlikely, but possible, said Col. Gerald Parker, the U.S. Army's chief of infectious disease. The worst agents would be anthrax and smallpox, which are highly deadly and can be manipulated into weapons that victims inhale.
A more likely scenario is small attacks, said former National Security Council member Jessica Stern. Americans already have experienced one: In 1985, a religious cult poisoned Oregon salad bars with salmonella, making 750 people sick.
Germs are the ultimate sneak attack. Leave a germ-tainted package in a subway, and the terrorist is long gone before anyone knows there's a problem. Publicly, the most feared germ weapons program has been Iraq's.
But the Japanese cult that released the nerve gas sarin in a Tokyo subway in 1995 attempted bioterrorism first, said terrorism expert Kyle Olson of Research Planning Inc.
Four times before the nerve gas attack, the cult attempted to spray botulism toxin and anthrax around Japanese government buildings, he said. Although there were some reports of pet deaths, the attempts apparently failed to sicken any people, for unknown reasons, Olson said.
And nobody knows what has happened to the former Soviet Union's vast stockpiles of weaponized germs, including smallpox, said Christopher Davis of ORAQ Consultancy, who investigated Soviet bioweapons for Britain.
But terrorists don't have to dispense germs to cause terror, Stern said, pointing to a spate of anthrax hoaxes starting last year that have so far affected more than 5,000 Americans.
A typical case: An abortion clinic opens a letter mixed with powder that says, ``You have just been exposed to anthrax.'' The local fire department makes everyone in the clinic take a decontamination shower, and the hospital doles out antibiotics, which can prevent anthrax if taken soon after exposure.
All the threats so far have been hoaxes, but investigating can cost up to $100,000 and repeated false alarms mean some cities don't take the threats seriously anymore, Olson said. `It's the 'cry wolf syndrome,''' he said. ``The danger, obviously, is we're going to miss something.''
If local doctors spot unusual symptoms, alerting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quickly could help health officials mobilize drugs to stop an epidemic. Antibiotics can prevent anthrax if people take them soon enough after exposure, for instance. But more research is needed, Henderson said. Smallpox vaccination hasn't been given anywhere in the world for years; there are only enough vaccination doses left for 6 million people and no factory left to make more.
For futher information, and a Nostradamus Prophecy regarding Smallpox, missles & satellites, go to http://www.earthchangestv.com/predict/nostrabobus.htm
(ENN) Seattle areas most prone to earthquake damage are being mapped by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington.
It has been 35 years since a major earthquake hit the Seattle area and scientists warn that another may occur at any time. Recent research shows that the Seattle Fault, which runs from Bainbridge Island through downtown Seattle and east toward Lake Samamish, has experienced large earthquakes in the past.
"That fault wasn't even recognized 40 years ago when the existing Seattle geology map was produced," said Derek Booth, a professor of geological sciences and civil and environmental engineering at the University of Washington.
The new maps are being created as part of Seattle's Project Impact to help prepare the city for an earthquake. Using geographic information system technology, the geologic maps will contain basic information on the materials that make up the region's hills and valleys.
"The result will be highly detailed three-dimensional maps showing the subsurface layers under Seattle," said Kathy Goetz Troost, a geological sciences researcher at the University of Washington.
The maps and an accompanying database will be a resource for city agencies and the public seeking up-to-date geological information, Troost said. They also are necessary to predict how different areas of the city with different soil types and varying geology will shake during an earthquake.
U.S. Geological Survey seismologists, who have been collecting ground motion data from small earthquakes in Seattle for the last several years, will analyze the data.
"Combining the geology with the ground motion data will produce a much better estimate of shaking effects in Seattle than is now available," said Craig Weaver of the federal agency. That will result in a second set of maps that chart where ground motion will be most severe during a large earthquake, maps that could be useful in picking sites for new critical facilities and in setting priorities for seismic retrofitting.
The geological data also will be used by the state Department of Natural Resources to re-evaluate Seattle's susceptibility to liquefaction, and by the U.S. Geological Survey to produce landslide susceptibility maps for which ground shaking, rather than intense rainfall, is the landslide trigger.
(CNN) -- The object, about 165 feet (50 meters) across, was discovered February 10 by an automated asteroid-hunting Linear telescope in New Mexico, New Scientist magazine reported Wednesday.
After six nights of observations, Gareth Williams of the U.S Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics calculated that it circles the sun every 1.09 years at distance just 9 million km (6 million miles) beyond Earth's orbit.
Astronomers said such a path is extremely unusual, as comets and asteroids that cross the Earth's orbit normally have eccentric orbits, the magazine said. Astronomers said that the new object, between 30 and 50 meters across, is too big to be the final stage of a rocket. "The most likely explanation is that it's a chip off the Moon," Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center was quoted as saying.
Astronomers hope perform an analysis of the mysterious object's composition that could cast light on its origins.
ATLANTA (AP) - The federal government began a three-day conference Sunday on "Gulf War syndrome," where doctors, scientists and veterans' advocates hope to develop recommendations for future research. In the eight years since the Persian Gulf War's end, thousands of soldiers have complained of chronic, unexplained maladies such as fatigue, joint pain and memory loss. To date, researchers have been at a medical loss, unable to scientifically link the symptoms of those who served in the 1991 war to any particular disease or biological agent. The government has acknowledged the illnesses are real, but claims that a lack of solid diagnoses or evidence of clear causes have hampered the path toward remedies.
