Radiation comes from outer space (cosmic radiation), although much of it is blocked by the earth's atmosphere. [ozone-ionosphere-magnetosphere]

Not being discussed in open scientific circles however, and certainly not to public knowledge, are that these growing global instances of stressful core activities, coupled with the increasing instability of the earths magnetic field and erratic solar activity, speak more towards an external ‘unknown' force within our solar system being exerted upon the earth, instead of scientifically known internal forces. Earth's Core ‘Mysteriously' Shifts Causing near Simultaneous Antipodal Earthquakes in Central America, South America and Indonesia

"The most amazing things have happened in the past two weeks - or at least been reported - yet daily life just continues as if they hadn't. An unknown type of space object is "burping" powerful bursts of radio waves from near the centre of our galaxy at regular intervals, suffering from a form of indigestion that scientists do not yet fully understand. The greatest cosmic explosion yet monitored occurred on the other side of our galaxy, briefly brighter than the full moon and releasing more energy in one-tenth of a second than the sun emits in 100 000 years." Why aren't we all focused on the really earth-shattering news?

Flash Gordon the Movie:

The Planet is undergoing major climactic upheaval - storms ravage the planet as unlnown to the inhabiatants, in a galaxy far away. Ming the merciless plays with his new toy: EARTH

Flash and Dale crash in a plane near Zarkoff's lab and are tricked to go one his rocket to the mysterious portal in outer space. They arrive in Ming the Merciless's domain and cause him to hurl the moon towards the Earth. Flash meets up with several people (including Popeye's Bluto as the king of the Hawkmen and Timothy Dalton) and leads a revolt against Ming, who is infatuated with Dale. Much cheesy effects and that wonderful theme follow.
cheesey films

NEW Flash Gordon Movie in the pipeline

HEY! IT'S ONLY A MOVIE!!!

Strangely coinciding with some of these larger [cosmic] blasts are the growing number of strange viruses occurring in humans living near some of the larger strike areas, and for which we had previously discussed in my report titled "Pandemic Nears as Cosmic Ray Mutated Virus Unleashes Its Power", and wherein I had said, "It has further been recognized that, "Influenza outbreaks are often caused by newly arriving viruses from space. Among several lines of evidence, they noticed that the worst flu epidemics coincide with peaks in the eleven-year cycle of sunspot activity." - Scientists Confirm Source of Energy Surges Hitting Earth as Mysterious Viruses from Regions Hit By these Energy Surges Continue to Spread

EMF poisoning is Lowering your immune system...

Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). This was recognised as a disease by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as long ago as 1986 and, according to WHO figures, is found in 30 per cent of new and refurbished buildings and can be caused by such things as poor air conditioning, a lack of natural light and chemical pollutants from furnishings. Symptoms include loss of concentration, headaches and an itchy and runny nose - symptoms which are similar to flu. [..] research conducted at the University of Reading by Professor Derek Clements-Croome demonstrated that neutralising VDU emissions could reduce SBS by a third. Are you sick of your office?

The transmission of electrical energy through wires, the broadcasting of radio signals and the phenomenon of visible light are examples of electromagnetic fields (EMF). EMF always consists of both an electrical field and a magnetic field. It occurs in a wide range of frequencies, spanning what is called the electromagnetic spectrum.

At the high end is cosmic radiation. At the low end is household electricity. The lower electromagnetic frequencies have been utilized by man to generate electricity and all associated electrical products, including all electronic communication systems and electrical appliances. Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is often called an electromagnetic field (EMF) when it falls within the lower frequencies. Both EMR and EMF are commonly used to mean the same thing.

Some scientists estimate that you are now daily exposed to 100 million times the EMF radiation of your grandparents. Research shows that these fields have a significant disruptive effect on the natural energy levels of your body. Your body's energy, as well as your cellular communication system, are altered by the high frequencies of EMF. Man-made radiation magnifies your body's "fight or flight" responses, compounding your adrenal loads from other stressors and significantly reducing your ability to effectively cope.

EMF disrupts your natural energy levels, triggering stress responses. Both alternative and traditional doctors report that EMF is a co-factor in increasing your daily stress levels. Stress can impair your body's natural ability to heal. EMF adds stress to your own stress and fatigue. EMF adds stress to your already taxed system. EMF contributes to energy depletion and fatigue from cell phones, air travel and household appliances. - About EMF

what else could be causing symptoms that are flu-like and worse?

Is the off world source of this radiation a little closer to home? via Satellite?

Who needs money anyhow?

Imagine if an asteroid hit the planet tommorrow...threatening our ENTIRE existence.

Wouldn't the world economy crash?

WHY, in times of deep crisis, can't the various government organizations, corporations and charities agree to co-operate and refuse to charge money for thier part in the huge logistical operation [from fuel to manpower to equipment to food and water] that humanitarian crisis relief demands?

surely the time has come to consider what would happen in a full planetary relief operation that does not charge for it's services...

Could this scenario be engineered to present fascism as the only alternative?

Amantha Perera Inter Press Service (IPS) 25 May 2005

HABARADUWA, Sri Lanka, May 25 (IPS) - In his 68 years, V T Piyasena has never lived through anything like the last five months. He lost a daughter and his son-in-law in the Dec. 26 tsunami, and was left with a partially damaged house.

''It has been absolute hell, I never want to go through it again,'' he told IPS standing inside his half-brick house, half-tent home near Habaraduwa in southern Sri Lanka.

Last week international donors pledged an unprecedented 3 billion U.S. dollars in tsunami reconstruction aid to Sri Lanka during the Sri Lanka Development Forum held in the central city of Kandy. The pledge, at the latest conversion rate would be 300 billion rupees. But it did not make any difference to Piyasena.

''No one knows what we have suffered in the last five months, look around, we are living in a tent, it is terribly hot, we still collect water from bowsers and there is no news where or when we will get new houses,'' Piyasena's wife Nanda Gamage said.

Like many other tsunami victims, Piyasena and his family believe they would only benefit from aid once permanent houses are built. Part of the frustration is due to the slow reconstruction effort, which followed the massive emergency relief, soon after the tsunami hit. On Dec. 26, the world's strongest earthquake in 40 years shook the region, with its epicentre under the sea in the northernmost tip of the Indonesian archipelago. The resulting tsunamis wreaked havoc around the Bay of Bengal, from Sri Lanka, India and the low-lying Maldives in the west, to Thailand and Malaysia in the east. Across Asia, about 290,000 people are either dead or missing after the tsunamis. In Sri Lanka, the Asian tsunami killed over 30,000 and left a million people internally displaced. Soon after the tsunami's destructive waves lashed the South-east Asian island, hundreds of local and foreign aid groups and volunteers poured into the disaster areas. But their efforts have not been matched by the reconstruction programme spearheaded by the government. A day before the donor conference, the Sri Lankan government said that out of an estimated total of 77,561 houses only 119 had been completed by May 15.

''The government officials are yet to even identify where we are to relocate. There is no information. How can we trust that aid will help us? asked H Punyasiri, whose house like Piyasena's is located within the 100 metre buffer zone where new construction is banned.

Government agencies last week said that around 55,000 new homes would have to be built to replace those destroyed within the buffer zone. However the World Bank upped the figure to 70,000.

''The proposed policy (of the buffer zone) would result in over 60 percent of the damaged housing units (about 70,000) in the coastal belt requiring relocation outside the buffer zone,'' the Bank said in a report titled 'The Economy, the Tsunami and Poverty Reduction'.

It is those who had their houses within the buffer zone who feel the most victimised. Wilson Gunathileke spends his days sitting in front of his wooden temporary house, near the famous tourist beach at Polhena in Matara, near the southern town of Galle.

''Some of these officials don't know where the beach is, they have no idea about the sea. Anyway by the time they get to us, they have already made the decisions,'' he told IPS. ''For the last four months I have lived either in a tent or a wooden shack and there is no sign of that changing.''

If change does not take place fast enough, some of the donors warned at the meeting, which ended on May 17, that problems will aggravate even further.

''Rising poverty and unemployment, worsened by the tsunami and slow development in conflict-affected areas, threaten Sri Lanka's social sector gains,'' said the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in a report released at last week's review of aid to the island.

The report notes the tsunami-magnified development challenges -- persistent slow growth, rising unemployment and malnutrition in rural areas and the conflict districts in the north and east.

''The tsunami disaster has increased the vulnerability of a large proportion of the very people whose income was to be uplifted under the government's poverty reduction programme,'' the report said.

More than a quarter of the affected population is estimated to be living below the poverty line of 1,423 rupees (14 U.S. dollars) per month. The total loss of jobs due to the tsunami is approximately 200,000. Economic growth forecasts have been cut by one percentage point to 5.0 for 2005. The Central Bank says the country needs six to eight percent growth to tackle poverty and unemployment. Last year growth was a 5.4 percent.

oneworld

US admits detecting Indian Ocean tsunami and failing to issue warning

Contributed by John Hashcrop

Friday, 24 June 2005 United States State Department officials today acknowledged that US scientists predicted a tsunami could form after the December 26 earthquake, but claimed that they failed to issue a warning because such waves are rare in the Indian Ocean. Scientists Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India, the worst affected countries, often alleged that the scientists in the US Geographic Survey were aware of the impending tsunami, and deliberately withheld information of the disaster, but this is the first time the US officials have ever admitted to it. Andrew Natsios, US Agency for International Development Administrator made the startling admission answering questions posed by journalists at press conference organized to update media on the progress maid by the US authorities in reconstructing the badly affected areas during the six months following the tsunami.

"Any earthquake that takes place of any magnitude in the world, our National Geographic Survey can tell you where it took place and the amount -- the level of the earthquake fairly quickly," Natsios said. "And that's what they use -- there is an early warning system for tsunamis in the U.S. along our coast."

"Tsunamis are unusual anywhere in the world, but as I said, particularly unusual in the Indian Ocean," he claimed. "They have to take place a certain place with certain geological formations before a tsunami can actually begin after -- in the aftermath of an earthquake."

But the tsunami warning centers warned US Naval Base on the small island of Diego Garcia of the monstrous wave that was racing towards the facility, because technically, the base belongs to the US Pacific Fleet and there is an active Tsunami warning system in the Pacific. The US administrator [previously] claimed that a warning system for the Indian Ocean was still not in place because the country's concerned are still debating the issue.

"The idea would be to put some buoys in place that are designed specifically to take data from the ocean and then transfer it into an alarm system in communities so that people can start evacuating if the earthquake looks like it's going to start a tsunami," he said. "And that's what they're debating. They're debating basically the buoy system, the alarm system and the evacuation system."

The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, triggered by an earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, left at least a quarter of a million people dead or missing. - Press Esc

Tsunami poor 'not always priority'

25 jun 05 - RECONSTRUCTION efforts to help those hit by the Boxing Day tsunami had not always concentrated on the poorest victims, the charity Oxfam said today.

In its Targeting Poor People report on the eve of the tsunami's six-month anniversary, Oxfam said: "In some cases there has been a tendency to focus on landowners, business people and the most high profile cases, rather than prioritise aid to poor communities." Official figures list 180,355 dead around the Indian Ocean shore after a magnitude-9.3 tremor off Sumatra sparked the tsunami, although tens of thousands are still listed as missing. Explaining why it felt poorer people suffered most from the tsunami, Oxfam's report said "fragile houses were washed away while the brick houses of richer people were more likely to withstand the force".

The charity added that poor villages in remote areas had no doctors on hand and took longer to receive aid.

"A geographical coincidence meant that the tsunami affected some of the poorest people in each of the three worst-hit countries," the report added.

Barbara Stocking, director of Oxfam Great Britain, said: "The generous response of the public has put us in a strong position to address these problems.

"We must use this as an opportunity to help people work their way out of poverty and to ensure they are better placed to deal with natural disasters if and when they strike again."

Oxfam said it felt the general immediate relief effort was "a great success" in giving people shelter and water and stopping the outbreak of disease. The charity said it would spend $US250 million ($325 million) over the next five years to help those struck by the tsunami and would increase its focus on women and marginalised groups. - the australian

Tsunami aid: Not everyone can be helped equally

By Ken Moritsugu, Tharangambadi (Tamil Nadu) : From fishermen cleaning nets to women sorting fish, the tsunami-hit shoreline of this town in south India bustles with activity. More than 300 fishing boats, brightly painted with the names of donors, blanket the beach.

A mile away, the scene couldn't be more different. Only minimal aid has reached the dusty, almost abandoned village of Pudupalayam. Residents have struggled to eke out a living since salt from the tsunami spoiled the fields where they worked as labourers.

A year after the tsunami raced across the Indian Ocean, bringing devastation to 13 countries and killing an estimated 225,000 people, international aid agencies have relearned a bitter lesson - not everyone can be helped equally.

What's happened here has happened elsewhere: those who already were relatively well off are doing better with assistance from international donors, while those who were struggling before the tsunami often still are struggling.

Former US president Bill Clinton, meeting privately with aid groups last month as the UN special envoy for tsunami recovery, underscored the importance of reaching the region's poorest. "A successful reconstruction effort should ensure the protection of vulnerable populations," he was quoted as saying in a UN news release.

"The hope is that at the end of it, there's a better infrastructure, there's a more equitable social pattern," said Steve Hollingworth, the India director for CARE, a development agency active in the reconstruction.

"But the fact of the matter is that an emergency like this is an opportunity for some over and above others, and it makes vulnerable groups much more vulnerable than they were before," he said. "There's no way around it."

The plight of villages such as Pudupalayam is especially challenging in a country like India, where a decade of economic growth has spawned shopping malls and a burgeoning middle class, but still hasn't overcome a social system that remains divided largely along gender and caste lines.

"All the aid agencies and even the government are only looking after the fisher-folk," complained Shivalingam, a young and outspoken community leader. "They got their boats and their nets. We don't have any work."

The farm labourers of Pudupalayam come from the lowest caste in Indian society. Once derided as untouchables, today they're known as Dalits, a name that means "the oppressed".

Tsunami relief efforts initially overlooked them, many aid agencies weren't even aware the Dalit villages existed, let alone needed help. Now a growing number of groups are diverting resources to the Dalit victims in hopes of keeping them from sliding farther down the socio-economic scale, though the efforts come late.

It was only natural that the focus would fall on helping the fishing families of Tharangambadi. About 300 people died there in the Dec 26 tsunami, which claimed 11,000 victims in India. The village, about 150 miles south of Chennai, suffered major property damage as the sea flooded inland, sweeping away boats, houses and shops. Rescue workers arrived here within hours to assess the damage and begin the rebuilding process, aided by a tightly knit community that organised quickly to capitalise on multiple offers of reconstruction aid.

International aid agencies - flush with more contributions than ever before in response to a natural disaster - tripped over one another in the rush to build new boats for the town.

The Indian government reimbursed fishermen for lost boats. Anyone who received both a donated boat and government reimbursement was required to make a payment to the local village council, which presumably spent it on other needs.

The story has been very different for the Dalits of Pudupalayam and elsewhere. It was weeks before rescue workers visited most Dalit areas, and then only because some aid workers decided to see what was down a dirt turnoff they passed every day en route to a fishing village.

They stumbled on Marudhampallam, a Dalit hamlet of 371 families that lost 138 cows and 200 goats to the tsunami.

"They were people who were never reached by anyone," said Saikat Mukherjee from the West Bengal Games and Welfare Organisation, a group that is distributing tsunami relief for Ireland's Hope Foundation. His group purchased cows and goats for the community.

Even today, few relief groups seem to be aware of Pudupalayam. Aside from government food handouts, virtually the only assistance has come from an Indian organisation that works with Dalits.

The group, NESA, or New Entity for Social Action, is desperately short of money, said Peter Fernandes, who's overseeing its efforts to help 800 families from seven Dalit hamlets.

The lack of money shows. Other temporary housing shelters have thatched roofs to provide relief from the heat. At the camp built for Pudupalayam, a few palm fronds have been thrown on the tarpaper roofs, to negligible effect. NESA has not been able to pay the Rs.2,500 ($56) monthly rent for the land for the past six months. Now the owner, himself a Dalit, has asked NESA to vacate by January, because he wants to sell the property. Permanent homes for the 46 families aren't expected to be ready by then.

Residents of Pudupalayam acknowledge the tsunami's impact there was less dramatic than on communities closer to the coast. The water was about chest high when it surged into the village of 55 families. Only one person died. But the water did wash away livestock and possessions and damage houses. Worse, the seawater deposited salt in the rice paddies, which a year later remain a desolate brown. There are few signs of life in the village, which sits on an unmarked and unremarkable dirt road.

Selvaraj, 50, remains in the village to care for his cow, which survived. What he needs most, he said, pointing at the desolate rice fields, is work. An aid agency has ploughed the fields; when and if rice will grow again remains to be seen.

On paper, the government is not discriminating against the Dalits, though activists say they had to prod officials to include Dalits in government-compensation schemes. Those who lost a family member in the tsunami received Rs.100,000 (about $2,250), just as fishing families did. Those who lost houses will get new homes. But asset-based reconstruction isn't enough for the Dalits, aid officials said. Give a fisherman a boat and a net, and he's back in business. Helping the Dalits is a more complicated undertaking, requiring job training, temporary work and the rehabilitation of the rice fields. So far, job training appears modest in Dalit areas. In one temporary housing camp for Dalits, two brand-new foot-pedal sewing machines have been set up to teach tailoring skills. But for residents of Pudupalayam no such progress has been made.

Meanwhile, the fishermen of Tharangambadi are back at sea. So much money was donated for tsunami relief that Tharangambadi, like many Indian fishing villages, is awash in boats. The community has 360 today, up from 155 before the tsunami, according to the South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies. The fishermen couldn't be happier. Many used to venture out to sea in primitive vessels, little more than four or five logs lashed together to form a short, shallow craft. Now they're plying the waters in 28-foot fibreglass-reinforced shells that run $1,900 apiece.

"It's more comfortable and it's safer," said Ravi, 35. "Our catch is good. The only problem is that fish prices have dropped."

The irony is that, while so little aid has flowed to the Dalits, the proliferation of boats may turn out to be a waste. Officials from the South Indian fishing federation think that more boats were distributed than the coast can absorb. With so many boats chasing the same resource, they predict that the catch per boat will fall, and some fishermen won't be able to cover their costs.

"More assets were distributed with good intentions," said Ephrem Soosai, who is overseeing the fishing federation's relief work in Tharangambadi. "Giving the poor an asset is a good thing. But it will not be sustainable over a long period."

For Dalits, the good fortune of their neighbours seems unfair. "We need something too," said Anjalai, a 45-year-old woman from a Dalit community near the fishing village of Nagore, about 15 miles down the coast from Tharangambadi.

Her neighbour, Kaliyama, a woman in her early 50s, said: "There's nothing wrong with helping the fishing communities. But if the total is 100 percent, at least 20 to 25 percent should be for us."

- newkerala.com

[excerpt] - After the tsunami - which overall left more than 216,000 people dead or missing - aid agencies became the main industry along Sri Lanka's coast, arriving with enormous financial resources.

Donors from the United States and around the world have pledged $5.5 billion to nongovernmental organizations and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, according to the office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, along with $1.4 billion pledged to the U.N.'s fund.

Faced with an overwhelming amount of outside support from 40 national societies, the International Federation of Red Cross Societies rushed to the scene to provide temporary relief, designating each chapter to different regions.

But one of the complications of post-disaster relief is that despite all the generosity from American donors, much of the money raised in the United States will not make its way to the regions most affected in Sri Lanka.

That's because the American Red Cross, which, at $568 million, received more money than any other organization for tsunami relief, is prohibited from operating in the most affected communities in Sri Lanka due to the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control, which administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions against terrorist organizations, including the Liberation - insidebayarea.com

By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor (Filed: 02/03/2006)

Millions of pounds of taxpayers' money given by the Government to the Asian tsunami appeal could still be sitting in the bank accounts of UN agencies and charities, spending watchdogs have found. Although more than £50 million was paid out within weeks of the disaster, delays in setting up humanitarian projects have left an unknown sum unspent. Following the disaster on Boxing Day 2004, which killed around 300,000 people, Tony Blair pledged £75 million in immediate aid. In the event, however, this was reduced to £64 million because so much money was being raised by private donations across the world. Of this sum, around £50 million was paid by the Department for International Development (DfID) to third parties, such as UN agencies and charities.

A report from the National Audit Office, published yesterday, commends the speed of the Government's response but questions what happened to all the money. Some of the projects handled by the third parties were delayed, but the unspent cash remained in the hands of the grant recipients. The department is now trying to find out what happened to the unspent cash and will seek refunds "where appropriate", the report said. However, officials are simply unable to say how much has been spent and where.

Sir John Bourn, the head of the NAO, said the Government should have done more to ensure proper account was made of the cash. "It remains important to keep control over the £50 million paid in grants to other organisations and to know how it is spent," he said.

Edward Leigh, the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, also praised the rapid response but was concerned about the lack of follow-through. "One year on from the disaster, they don't know where that money went. They don't know if it was used where it was needed or if it's just sitting idly in a bank account," he said. "That is not good enough. The department must look much more closely at how these considerable sums of money are being used by the agencies involved."

A Whitehall spokesman said imposing too much red tape in the immediate aftermath of such a disaster could slow vital relief efforts. But organisations were now being asked to "fully account" for their spending and return unused cash. "DfID only provided funds for relief work to trusted third parties - aid agencies, NGOs, many of which we work with often - and only after agreeing a detailed programme of work," the spokesman added. "Burdening our partners with too much red tape, in the form of even more stringent reporting requirements could have constrained their ability to deliver urgent humanitarian relief. "Now the immediate disaster phase has passed and rebuilding and reconstruction work has begun DfID has asked partners to fully account for their spending and to return any unspent funds."

Andrew Mitchell, the Tory spokesman, said: "Many British taxpayers will be angry to learn that money given by the Government in their name is sitting idle in the bank accounts of multilateral agencies and non-governmental organisations. These monies should be released as soon as possible and used to save lives in the 'forgotten emergencies' in places such as the Democratic Republic of Congo." - telegraph.co.uk