UPDATE on "Cosmic event....": so, what is this supposed to mean? Experts to the rescue, please! Plus: OUCH! CFR type US Jews freaked out by Levy report.

Emergency Situation at the Electric Company

The Israel Electric Company declared an emergency situation, Sunday evening, after the fall of two production units in Alon Tabor and Gezer. Following the malfunction, the utility's reserves fell from 11,800 megawatts to 11,200 MW. Demand on Sunday was recorded as high as 11,000 MW.
It's the second time in a week that an emergency has been declared at the electric company.


 http://www.space.com/16587-solar-storm-bombarding-earth-now.html

" As the forerunner solar wind protons continue a steady increase, indicators that the CME is on the way, the wait continues for it to impact the Earth's magnetic field," center officials wrote in an update. "Look for that in the next few hours."


  http://www.capitolcolumn.com/news/nasa-major-solar-storm-batters-earth/

See earlier post here:

 Cosmic event politicians "forgot" to mention: no c...

On another note: sold-out CFR types American Jewish leftists are freaking out; the truth is hitting them on the head like a lead hammer. What will they do when Mashiach comes????

Photo by: Abed Omar Qusini / Reuters US Jewish leaders 'deeply concerned' over Levy report By JTA 15/07/2012 Forty prominent Jewish leaders send letter to Netanyahu, saying report places two-state solutionm, Israel's standing in int'l community in peril; Bronfman, former White House official, JAFI head among signatories.

Forty American Jewish leaders sent a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday, expressing concerns about the findings of the Levy Committee regarding the legality of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The letter was initiated and organized by the Israel Policy Forum. "As strong advocates for Israel’s security and well-being as a Jewish and democratic state, we are deeply concerned about the recent findings of the government commission led by [retired Supreme Court Justice] Edmund Levy. We fear that if approved, this report will place the two-state solution, and the prestige of Israel as a democratic member of the international community, in peril," the letter read. Signatories to the letter include philanthropists Charles Bronfman and Lester Crown; Marvin Lender Former National Chairman of UJA; Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University; Bernard Nussbaum, former White House Counsel; Richard Pearlstone, former chairman of the Jewish Agency; and Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. The Levy Committee, which was formed by Netanyahu and headed by former Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy, said in its 89-page report released last week that “Israel does not meet the criteria of ‘military occupation’ as defined under international law” in the West Bank, and that therefore settlements and West Bank outposts are legal. The report recommends changing the legal regulations concerning Jewish settlement in the West Bank in the areas of zoning, demolitions and building. The findings of the committee are subject to the review and approval of  Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein. "Securing Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state requires diplomatic and political leadership, not legal maneuverings," the US Jewish leaders continued. "We recognize and regret that the Palestinian Authority has abdicated leadership by not returning to the negotiating table. Nonetheless, our great fear is that the Levy Report will not strengthen Israel's position in this conflict, but rather add fuel to those who seek to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist." "At this moment, it is more critical than ever that Israel strengthen its claim in the international community that it is committed to a two-state vision, which is, in turn, central to Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state," the letter concluded.  And just as a reminder: read here about the role of Edgar Bronfman, the brother of Charles Bronfman mentioned here, in the Bilateral Agreement with the Vatican: he was neck deep in doodoo, i.e. in double -dealing for Rome. A Bronfman should be the last person to be trusted when it comes to Israel! Charles Bronfman himself is a CFR member. The other '"leaders" are made of the same mold, maybe not as obvious.  http://israeltruthtimes.blogspot.co.il/2009/03/perfect-crime-vaticans-plot-to-rob-am_31.html  The problem is Bibi. He will get scared and back off. He is also a CFR member, Barry just sent out a post to remind us all of Bibi's deep connections to ROMNEY via the CFR. I am afraid Bibi will bury the report, or at least refuse to act upon it. Those guys are just messengers, both for Rome, for Washington, and for themselves, "their own Tuchesses", as somebody aptly put it. They know the fix is in, if this passes they are toast. And Clinton here for damage control - no friendly visit I am sure - they want this report like a hole in the head: Barak to Meet Clinton in Jerusalem Defense Minister Ehud Barak will meet on Monday with U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem. Clinton, who is currently in the region, met over the weekend with Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi. While in Israel, she also scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres.   Finally, from Jack: Israel is obligated to facilitate America's relations with Israel's enemies, even to the extent of taking casualties without fighting back. It is not acceptable for Jews to fight back. We are supposed to run to a powerful non-Jewish protector to defend us. To ensure that our protector will in fact protect us in the hour of need, we have to constantly suck up to our protector and make sure that we are so useful and so valuable to him that he will reckon it in his interest to do so. That has been the only acceptable strategy of Jewish “self defense” most of the time for the last 2,700 years. Jews are always allowed to grovel in self defense. What if our enemies are more useful and more valuable to our protectors than we? What if President Bush has finally grasped the fact that the Jews don't have any oil and the Arabs do? Contrary to what the whole world believes, the Arabs also have a lot more money.  That’s not all. In the memorable words of Billy Carter, "There's a lot more Arabs than there is Jews". What if Bush, our protector, has grasped all that? Well, then we Jews are supposed to wring our hands and cry "Oy veh!" And die, of course. But on no account are we to fight back. That is anathema to Moslems. In Islamic law, it is forbidden for a Jew (or a Christian, by the way) to strike a Moslem for any reason whatsoever. The Christians might as well have had such a law because it is similarly utterly repugnant and unacceptable to the Christian world for Jews to defend themselves. So, when rioters attack Israeli military positions with stones and fire bombs and with gunmen among the rioters with AK-47 assault rifles, Israel may not fire on them. That's "excessive force". But UN "peacekeepers" in Sierra Leone fired on rioters throwing stones, ABSENT the gunmen with sub-machine guns. So did police in Goteborg, Genoa and Cincinnati, likewise in the absence of gunmen. No one condemned them for "excessive force" because they have the right of self-defense. They aren't Jews. No one picked up on it. Not even the Jewish papers or the Israeli media. Did no one notice? Or would it just not be smart to say such a thing where your protector can hear? “Shah! Stille! [Sh! Be quiet!] You’ll get us in trouble.” Jack Golbert  http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/jews_and_american_conservatism.html

Cosmic event politicians "forgot" to mention: no coincidence here, it seems, the timing is just too close; "they" are finally meeting their match, and must be freaking out. Geulah events are totally unpredictable.

Make sure to stock up on water and food....

Don't be surprised by power failures that our politicians will try to explain away, blaming the population apparently - see below.

And make sure to read this fascinating and scholarly article in full ( PDF, link provided below) in order to understand what is going on under the radar.

Reply by an expert in the 'Comments' section.

• While out in the cosmos....

 http://www.ntia.doc.gov/legacy/broadbandgrants/comments/7927.pdf




http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-solar-flare-20120712,0,6885961.story

 

 

By Amy Hubbard

July 12, 2012, 2:20 p.m.

A heavy-duty solar flare erupted on the surface of the sun midmorning Thursday, and it appeared from early data that a solar storm from the X-class eruption was headed toward Earth.
"It looks to be headed in the Earth's direction," Alex Young of Maryland's Goddard Space Flight Center told the Los Angeles Times in an interview Thursday. But, he noted, that's based on a view from just one of two spacecraft monitoring the sun.
The so-called coronal mass ejection -- a violently released bubble of gas and magnetic fields -- could veer off. Scientists are waiting on more data from spacecraft within the next few hours to pinpoint the speed and severity of the storm.
PHOTOS: Solar flare close-ups
Mike Hapgood, a space weather scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, England, explained coronal mass ejections in a recent interview with The Times:
"Coronal mass ejections are caused when the magnetic field in the sun's atmosphere gets disrupted and then the plasma, the sun's hot ionized gas, erupts and send charged particles into space. Think of it like a hurricane — is it headed toward us or not headed toward us? If we're lucky, it misses us."
The size of the flare is a "reasonable" indicator of the strength and speed of a coronal mass ejection, Young said. Thursday's flare was categorized at X1.4. Among the categories of flares, according to Young, are C, M and X -- which, in general, translate to common, moderate and extreme.
The ejection, traveling at speeds of 1 million to 5 million miles per hour, takes about one to three days to reach Earth, said Young, associate director for science for the heliophysics division at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Solar eruptions like these pose a danger to Earth's technology, as well as any spacecraft and astronauts that lie in their way.
The blast of electromagnetic radiation can cause radio blackouts, Young said, and, in more extreme cases disrupt power.
More and stronger space weather events are likely headed our way in coming days, the scientist said.  The sun is nearing a peak in the solar activity cycle.
"Solar activity has a cycle, minimum to maximum to minimum, and it's getting close to the peak of solar maximum," he said, which will occur sometime in 2013 or 2014. It's a cycle of about 11 years.
Hapgood described some of the consequences of a massive solar storm. With power disrupted, the pumps that bring water into homes and pump the sewage away could stall; transportation could grind to a halt without the ability to pump fuel into vehicles; without power, ATMs and credit card machines would freeze up.
Young noted, however, that the likelihood of space weather causing catastrophic problems on Earth was very slim. Solar flares erupt regularly, spewing matter in all directions, usually missing Earth altogether.   And power companies and other entities affected by space weather do prepare for possible problems.
"Space weather can have very strong effects on our technology," he said, but it's like living in an earthquake zone or near where hurricanes occur. "You prepare for them, but most people don't spend their day worrying about it."

 

 The following article thanks to Devash, Tomer Deborah blog, and Yaffa at Geulah Watch

What's the Sun Up To?

http://www.spaceweather.com/

 9.7.12 

19 Tamuz 5772

Spaceweather.com reports...

ANOTHER BIG SUNSPOT: As one big sunspot (AR1515) turns away from Earth, another one is turning toward our planet. AR1520, now emerging over the sun's southeastern limb, stretches more than 127,000 km (10 Earth diameters) from end to end (see picture to left).

AR1520 has a 'beta-gamma' magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares. So far, however, the sunspot's magnetic canopy is crackling with lesser C-flares. The calm before the storm? NOAA forecasters estimate an 80% chance of M-flares during the next 24 hours.

MANY CMEs: During the late hours of July 8th, a series of rapid-fire explosions on the sun propelled three coronal mass ejections (CMEs) into space. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded their exit (see video here.

Despite the number of eruptions and the breadth of the billowing ejecta, Earth is little affected. All of the clouds appear set to miss our planet. Nevertheless, this flurry of CMEs highlights the currently-high level of solar activity. It is only a matter of time before a significant CME comes our way. Stay tuned for stormy space weather.

If an EMP effect does occur, it is more likely to come from the sun and affect the entire world, than to be caused by a rogue nation's weapon.

Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe

...Over the last few decades, western civilisations have busily sown the seeds of their own destruction. Our modern way of life, with its reliance on technology, has unwittingly exposed us to an extraordinary danger: plasma balls spewed from the surface of the sun could wipe out our power grids, with catastrophic consequences.

The projections of just how catastrophic make chilling reading. "We're moving closer and closer to the edge of a possible disaster," says Daniel Baker, a space weather expert based at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and chair of the NAS committee responsible for the report.

It is hard to conceive of the sun wiping out a large amount of our hard-earned progress. Nevertheless, it is possible. 

•   Here in Israel.....

Recent Power Failures due to Malfunction

 A malfunction at the Ashkelon Rotenberg power station has caused some power failures across Israel.
The Electric Company stresses that it did not initiate the power failures due to user over-consumption, and they were due only to a production unit malfunction. “We got the power back on within 25 minutes.”

Reported 14:03 on 7/12/12
 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/244735#.T_9QVJHO6So

Electric Company went Code Orange

The electric Company declared Code Orange due to the malfunction at the Rotenberg Power station production unit in Ashkelon. The malfunction caused some short power failures across Israel.

Reported 14:29 on 7/12/12
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/244737#.T_9Q05HO6So

MK Ariel: Electricity Rationing Inconceivable 

(Is he ignorant, or only pretending??)

Chairman Uri Ariel of the State Control Committee said, Thursday evening, that he will convene an urgent meeting of the committee to discuss the power outages and "situation orange" under which  the Israel Electric Company operated on Thursday.
Ariel said, "It is inconceivable in the 21st century that Israel is operating a pattern of austerity in electricity, as in the last of the third world countries. This is a height of a chain of failures in recent years and they must be examined."
 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/244769#.T_9JjpHO6So

Minister Landau: Public can Prevent Power Cuts

(And what about him? HE should know better!)

Energy and Water Minister Dr Uzi Landau and directors of the electric company held a press conference Thursday morning marking the peak of the campaign to prevent summer power failures.
Minister Landau said, “We have a problem this summer, and we need the help of the public to prevent power failures.” Landau called for energy conservation by avoiding usage of air conditioners, computers and other appliances.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/244715#.T_9KX5HO6So

ONLY IN ISRAEL: Now THIS is what I call REAL MEDICINE: TRUTH ABOUT THE BODY... sniff, sniff, sniff: I was reading this while drinking my SWEET COFFEE! From now on there WILL BE A REAL REASON for staying away from sugar .. sniff!

Medical First: Watching Effects of Hi-Carb Food on Arteries

Tammuz 13, 5769, 05 July 09 08:41

by Baruch Gordon

(Israelnationalnews.com) Using a clinical technique pioneered by his laboratory in Israel, Dr. Michael Shechter of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler School of Medicine and the Heart Institute of Sheba Medical Center was able to visualize what happens inside our arteries before, during and after eating high carb foods.

Doctors have known for decades that foods like white bread and corn flakes aren’t good for cardiac health. But, this new landmark study shows exactly how these high carb foods increase the risk for heart problems.

“Looking inside” the arteries of students eating a variety of foods, Dr. Shechter was able to visualize that foods with a high glycemic index caused swelling of brachial arteries in the upper arm for several hours.

Elasticity of arteries anywhere in the body can be a measure of heart health. But when aggravated over time, a sudden expansion of the artery wall can cause a number of negative health effects, including reduced elasticity, which can cause heart disease or sudden death.  

Time to skip the wedding cake?
“It’s very hard to predict heart disease,” says Dr. Shechter, a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. “But doctors know that high glycemic foods rapidly increase blood sugar. Those who excessively indulge in these foods have a greater chance of sudden death from heart attack. Our research connects the dots, showing the link between diet and what’s happening in real time in the arteries.”

Like the uncomfortable medical warnings on packets of cigarettes, this new research could lead to a whole new way to show patients the effects of a poor diet on our body. It is a first in medical history seeing precisely what happens inside the body when the wrong foods for a healthy heart are eaten. The results were published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Using 56 healthy volunteers, the researchers looked at four groups. One group ate a cornflake mush mixed with milk, a second a pure sugar mixture, the third bran flakes, while the last group was given a placebo (water). Over four weeks, Dr. Shechter applied his method of “brachial reactive testing” to each group. The test uses a cuff on the arm, like those used to measure blood pressure, which can visualize arterial function in real time.

The results were dramatic. Before any of the fasting patients ate, arterial function was essentially the same. After eating, except for the placebo group, all had reduced functioning.

All roads lead to the walls of the arteries
Enormous peaks indicating arterial stress were found in the high glycemic index groups: the cornflakes and sugar group.  “We knew high glycemic foods were bad for the heart. Now we have a mechanism that shows how,” says Dr. Shechter. “Foods like cornflakes, white bread, french fries, and sweetened soda all put undue stress on our arteries. We’ve explained for the first time how high glycemic carbs can affect the progression of heart disease.” During the consumption of foods high in sugar, there appears to be a temporary and sudden dysfunction in the endothelial walls of the arteries.

Endothelial health can be traced back to almost every disorder and disease in the body. It is “the riskiest of the risk factors,” says Dr. Shechter, who practices at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center ― Tel Hashomer Hospital. There he offers a test that can show patients ― in real time ― if they are at high risk for heart attacks. “Medical tourists” from America regularly visit to take the heart test.

The take-away message? Dr. Shechter says to stick to foods like oatmeal, fruits and vegetables, legumes and nuts, which have a low glycemic index. Exercising every day for at least 30 minutes, he adds, is an extra heart-smart action to take.

See also THIS related article:

Heart Health at the Tip of Your Finger
Tammuz 11, 5769, 03 July 09 12:48

Actress Whoopi Goldberg tried the EndoPAT heart test on her finger during a recent episode of The View and came out smiling. After 15 minutes, the Israeli developed device was able to give her heart a passing grade. At least for the next seven years.

Developed by Itamar Medical, an Israeli company traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, the EndoPAT has been popular not only with celebrities, but also gets a seal of approval from America's doctors, and prestigious medical institutions like the Mayo Clinic.

Earning FDA status in 2003, the EndoPAT can measure the health of your heart using two small probes that hook up to each index finger. While there are other tests on the market like ultrasound tests to help clinicians assess if a patient has the early onset of heart disease, the EndoPAT looks further into the future -- up to seven years, sensing whether or not your arteries are losing elasticity.

Like a blood pressure test on your finger
"The test I'm talking about - a 15 minute test - is a probe on the finger and basically it works the way you take blood pressure," says Dr. Dov Reuven, the company's CEO. "We do the same thing and measure the stress of the arteries in the fingertips."

Used over 150,000 times in the US, the recent vote of confidence from the Mayo Clinic, which tested the EndoPAT on an independent study of healthy volunteers - part of the Framingham Heart Study -- tells doctors that it's a good addition to their toolkit for assessing heart disease.

"That's the beauty of this. That's why it is revolutionary," Reuven tells ISRAEL21c. "The EnoPAT is the easiest detector of this disease. All other devices work within about one, two or three years. There is a test in the US that looks for carotid plaque. The point is once there is a buildup of plaque, it is too late in the cycle. A patient is not going to turn around that much. Ours can already see arteries that are less distensible."

This means that people who may get a clean bill of health from doctors, can look deeper into their future, to know if they are at risk for heart attack seven years down the road. If you discover you are at risk, a regimen for improving health can be developed with a doctor. Changing one's diet and exercise, or taking statins, may be a course of action.

Applications in understanding erectile problems
It also has become an interesting test for understanding erectile dysfunction, and can help a doctor decide whether or not to prescribe erection-enhancing drugs like Cialis, says Reuven.

The same device that tests for heart health can also tell urologists whether or not to prescribe medicine. "It could protect them from malpractice," says Reuven.

Essentially, using this device doctors have a much better way now to control a patient's health to determine if they are at risk of a heart attack. "The importance of the Mayo Clinic story is that today when you go to your physicians or cardiologist, they will ask you seven questions, or risk factors for heart disease, like cholesterol levels, if you smoke, or are overweight," says Reuven.

Sometimes there are people who are considered completely low risk based on these basic questions, but nevertheless are at risk for heart disease. The study examined 240 people who are "specimens of health", tacking them over time, and recording cardiac events, such as chest pains or heart attacks.

The efficacy of the test was confirmed by doctors at Mayo. The clinic writes: "Results of a Mayo Clinic study show that a simple, non-invasive finger sensor test is 'highly predictive' of a major cardiac event, such as a heart attack or stroke, for people who are considered at low or moderate risk, according to researchers."

Mayo's seal of approval
The device is now available at doctors' clinics in the US, including the clinic of The View's house doctor Dr. Stephen Lamm.

Endorsing the product, Lamm says he uses it on every patient, translating to about 200 times a month.

On the show, Whoopi scored a 1.9, "and she was excited," says Reuven. "The real truth is the arterial sclerosis process starts early on in life. This will become part of the screening and treatment process," he adds, mentioning that China is taking a serious look at the device too. "They can't afford heart bypasses and stents."

The EndoPAT has applications in wellness and holistic medicine as a means to quantify if a treatment is working.

The company has a second device, a product that functions like a mini sleep lab used to detect the severity of sleep apnea. Called the WatchPAT it resembles a ski or diving watch. It removes the need for people to spend uncomfortable nights in a sleep lab.

Traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, the largest investor in Itamar Medical is Medtronic. The company employs about 160 people worldwide.

Reprinted with permission of Israel21c.
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