Suspicion's are running wild after getting news from NASA and ESA stating the only surviving sun observing satellite is broke; and maybe for good.

The European Space Agency (ESA) put out a news release stating the SOHO spacecraft has experienced "an anomaly on the pointing mechanism of its high-gain antenna has been recorded". Now just what they mean by "anomaly" has gone unexplained. This is a shattering blow to what I had predicted to become an essential tool in modern weather forecasting.

Many of you will remember I predicted last year in 2002, we would see on our local and national television stations, display a newly emerged meteorologist for the first time in history using 'space weather' to forecast regional daily weather. Yes, I was convinced our lower schooled meteorologist would be sent to a fast-track education center to learn how to read, or at least interpret, daily 'space weather' reports. They would in turn use this knowledge to better understand the Sun-Earth Connection.

I was convinced beyond a doubt, we would hear a daily report on sunspots, solar flares and cme's. It would go something like this: "High folks, I hope you had a good weekend. I just returned from a three week workshop on how to read the Sun. It was a great experience and will surely save lives and help you better plan for future events. Some of you may have remembered Mitch Battros with Earth Changes TV making this prediction over a year ago. Thumbs up Mitch, way to go!" (okay, so you're not likely to hear the last sentence :-) ). Now on to a very real scenario.

"Today's sunspot count is at 164. Sunspot region 395 is very large and likely to produce M-Class flares. I would expect at least two CME's to occur within 24 hours of the first solar flare. Watch for sudden tornado-like winds to develop. In my new class, I have been told to use terms like 'wind shears', 'micro-burst', and 'straight line winds'. All of the preceding terms are basically definitions which really means tornado's without the funnel. Also watch for continued 'freak storms' to occur. This is a result of the solar winds pressing down on Earth's magnetic field. This event in turn pushes the jet stream down and also causes ocean currents to shift. I would expect more 'record breaking' temperatures in the next few days. Now back to sports with our man Dan the sportsman."

Here come the suspicion's

At this time I will assume all news releases from NASA and ESA are on the up-and-up. However, I can certainly understand how people, both in the scientific community as well as interested observers, become highly suspicious over the timing of this alleged malfunction.

In recent weeks, we have observed the Sun displaying extreme activity. Sunspot counts in the triple digits, solar flares threatening blackouts, cme's with double halo's, record breaking weather occurring on almost a daily basis. All this on what is supposed to be the 'down side' of cycle 23.

I am unsure of the cause other then to say it is part of a natural cycle. Not a eleven year cycle as Nasa would have us believe, but a "Mega Cycle" which occurs in the thousands of year range. For the 'planet-x' community, I will go on record once again to say, I have seen no evidence whatsoever which would indicate a planet the size of Earth or even the size of a simple large asteroid (5 miles diameter) anywhere in or near our solar system. Those of you who believe in the zeta cult will just keep on believing. I am not here to dictate what "your truth" is supposed to be. I can only speak of "my truth".

Having said this, I am still the open minded researcher willing to look at all reasonable possibilities for our current and future patterns. At this point I lean heavily on what our ancestors have told us in ancient text. Regarding solar weather alone, science can only go back few hundred years at best. But paleontologist and ancient text historians can tell us of a much larger picture. In this lies my belief of what I call "Mega Cycles". As always, more will be revealed!

More about SOHO

The high-gain antenna is required to transmit the large amounts of data from SOHO's scientific observations to Earth. From SOHO's orbit, the antenna has to be pointed in the proper direction - like a flashlight - for the data to be received at Earth.
The exact nature of the antenna problem is not yet known, but the experts think that a malfunction has occurred in its motor or in the gear assembly that steers the antenna.

SOHO is safe, as the spacecraft has a low-gain antenna, used to control the spacecraft and monitor both spacecraft and instrument health and safety, which remains operational. However, if the high-gain antenna problem persists, there will be periodic losses in the real-time transmission of scientific data of about two and a half weeks each three months. The first blackout is estimated to begin sometime late in the week of 22 June 2003.

A number of options are currently being investigated by the SOHO team to fully recover or minimize any real-time scientific data loss. A joint ESA/NASA press release will follow shortly.
 

Just When I Thought 'Yohkoh' Was The Answer

The Yohkoh satellite was an observatory for studying X-rays and gamma-rays from the Sun. Yohkoh was launched from Kagoshima, Japan on August 31, 1991, and was lost on December 14, 2001. In over ten years of observing the Sun (much longer than the proposed mission life), Yohkoh revolutionized our understanding of the solar activity. Yohkoh is a project of the Institute for Space and Astronautical Sciences. The spacecraft was built in Japan and the observing instruments have contributions from the U.S. and from the U.K. The name Yohkoh is Japanese for "sunbeam".

Sorry folks, as you can see Yohkoh was decommissioned a year and a half ago. The Japanese 'Yohkoh' had been a great back-up or 'cross-confirmation' tool. Now all we have is Nasa's word. Hmm, sometimes you have to read the "white print" to get the meaning. That's right, sometimes we have to read between the lines.
 

Earth Changes TV 'Radio Hour'

Tuesday June 24th: Buryl Pyane - author of "The Body Magnetic"  Dr. Buryl Payne graduated Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Washington. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and an M.S, in Physics. While a graduate student, he designed, developed and marketed the first commercial biofeedback instruments. He holds a patent on the type of biofeedback instrument sold by Radio Shack and Thought Technology. He founded the company now known as and PsychoPhysics Labs. He was on the faculties of Goddard College in Vermont, and Boston University prior to directing a holistic health clinic in Boston, called the Institute for PsychoenErgetics. http://www.buryl.com

Thursday June 26th: Greg Little - Gregory Little is an expert not only on the lost civilizations of the Americas, he's a leading Edgar Cayce researcher. Cayce left behind a vast trove of prophecies obtained in a sleeping state. Many of these prophecies have proved to be correct, and many of them center around the rediscovery of ancient civilizations of great power that have been totally forgotten.  Greg edits the Association for Research and Enlightenment's newsletter and is going to take us on a magical journey into our own past--and our future--using a combination of Edgar Cayce's prophecies and the latest archaeological discoveries. http://www.mysterious-america.net/
 

Thought For The Day

"People with a high level of personal mastery live in a continual learning mode. They never 'arrive.' Sometimes, language, such as the term 'personal mastery,' creates a misleading sense of definiteness, of black and white. But personal mastery is not something you possess. It is a process. It is a lifelong discipline. People with a high level of personal mastery are acutely aware of their ignorance, their incompetence, their growth areas. Paradoxical? Only for those who do not see that 'the journey is the is the reward.'"

                                                    Peter Senge, in The Fifth Discipline
 

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