Robber fly - Nature photographer Thomas Shahan specializes in amazing portraits of tiny insects. It isn't easy. Shahan says that this Robber Fly (Holcocephala fusca), for instance, is "skittish" and doesn't like its picture taken.

Eye-popping bug photos

Nature by Numbers (Video)

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) -
"The Quantum Factor" – Apr 10, 2011 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Galaxies, Universe, Intelligent design, Benevolent design, Aliens, Nikola Tesla (Quantum energy), Inter-Planetary Travel, DNA, Genes, Stem Cells, Cells, Rejuvenation, Shift of Human Consciousness, Spontaneous Remission, Religion, Dictators, Africa, China, Nuclear Power, Sustainable Development, Animals, Global Unity.. etc.) - (Text Version)


“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.

They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

(Live Kryon Channelings was given 7 times within the United Nations building.)

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Caroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)

“… 4 - Energy (again)


The natural resources of the planet are finite and will not support the continuation of what you've been doing. We've been saying this for a decade. Watch for increased science and increased funding for alternate ways of creating electricity (finally). Watch for the very companies who have the most to lose being the ones who fund it. It is the beginning of a full realization that a change of thinking is at hand. You can take things from Gaia that are energy, instead of physical resources. We speak yet again about geothermal, about tidal, about wind. Again, we plead with you not to over-engineer this. For one of the things that Human Beings do in a technological age is to over-engineer simple things. Look at nuclear - the most over-engineered and expensive steam engine in existence!

Your current ideas of capturing energy from tidal and wave motion don't have to be technical marvels. Think paddle wheel on a pier with waves, which will create energy in both directions [waves coming and going] tied to a generator that can power dozens of neighborhoods, not full cities. Think simple and decentralize the idea of utilities. The same goes for wind and geothermal. Think of utilities for groups of homes in a cluster. You won't have a grid failure if there is no grid. This is the way of the future, and you'll be more inclined to have it sooner than later if you do this, and it won't cost as much….”



"Fast-Tracking" - Feb 8, 2014 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Reference to Fukushima / H-bomb nuclear pollution and a warning about nuclear > 20 Min)

Obama unveils landmark regulations to combat climate change

Obama unveils landmark regulations to combat climate change
In a bid to combat climate change, US President Barack Obama announced the Clean Power Plan on Monday, marking the first time power plants have been targeted by mandatory regulations on carbon dioxide emissions in the US.
Google: Earthday 2013

Friday, October 19, 2012

Fracking on the agenda in US elections

Deutsche Welle, 18 October 2012



Ten years ago few people had even heard of the energy extraction technique known as 'fracking.' Now the issue is set to play an important role for many US voters in the presidential election in November.

"We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years," US President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union speech this year. As pundits began scrambling to confirm or debunk the claim, Obama went on to assure Americans that his administration would "require oil companies that drill for gas on public lands to disclose the chemicals they use."

Note the word public. While the president promised transparency on public property, he made no mention of drilling on private property. And private property is where most fracking-related conflicts are taking place.

Few energy extraction methods have proven as divisive as fracking, or the fracturing of underground shale to access natural gas reserves. The process involves drilling to depths of one to two miles below the earth's surface before pivoting the drill horizontally. Explosive charges then blast fissures through the layers of shale, releasing trapped natural gases.

In the process, however, drilling chemicals can migrate vertically into local water sources - and from there, residents claim, into homes.

Romney versus Obama

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama,
both support fracking in the future
States such as Louisiana, Texas, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, have embraced the new extraction method with enthusiasm. Barry Kohl, a geology professor at Tulane University in New Orleans, told DW that natural gas can potentially replace coal in power plants, reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

He also said that as far as presidential candidates are concerned, Romney would probably roll back regulations on the fracking industry, while Obama will most likely continue the practice, but with more monitoring.

More fracking? Less fracking? More regulation? Less regulation? Assuming Barack Obama's speech was correct, Americans have 99 years to resolve the issue.

Eric Smith frames it differently, though. "The real question about shale is which direction do you want the country to go?" he told DW. "We can regress into some sort of Stone Age population where we could support about a third of the population that lives in the United States today, but everybody will have organically grown food - or we can go into a regime where we have 300 million people in the country, and those people eat better, live better, and have longer lives – all the things associated with good energy supplies."

Financial and environmental questions

The "Gasland" documentary was
directed by Josh Fox in 2010
In a lasting image from the 2010 Oscar-nominated documentary film “Gasland”, a man turns on his kitchen tap and then sets the water on fire. Natural gas from nearby fracking operations, he claims, is the culprit. A second film, "Truthland", released in June of this year, attempted to refute many of the claims made in “Gasland”. Yet dozens of homeowners who live close to fracking sites continue to report contaminated water and soil supplies due to leaky pits. Some have even reported an increase in earthquakes.

If the 'fraccident' stories are largely anecdotal, though, it's because the data related to fracking is the private property of oil and gas companies. Shannon Dosemagen, co-founder of the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, hopes to change that through low-cost monitoring tools originally used in volcano research.

"Tests have already been done at volcanoes to see if there's hydrogen sulfide in the environment. We’re trying to modify those tests. We'd like to eventually test at gas patch sites for detection of hydrogen sulfide that's leaking from wells," she said.

Dosemagen says tools that check hydrogen sulfide will allow communities affected by shale gas extraction to run tests on their own water supplies.

Natural gas prices in the US have
dropped considerably recently
According to "Gasland", many companies are settling any legal claims that are made, on a case-by-case basis out of court. There's no doubting the rapid growth of fracking though and it’s financial potential, according to Eric Smith. 

"It's gone from being almost unmeasurable to constituting about a third of our gas supply within about 10 years.”



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"Recalibration of Free Choice"–  Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Caroll) - (Subjects: (Old) SoulsMidpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth,  4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical)  8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) (Text version)

“…  4 - Energy (again)

The natural resources of the planet are finite and will not support the continuation of what you've been doing. We've been saying this for a decade. Watch for increased science and increased funding for alternate ways of creating electricity (finally). Watch for the very companies who have the most to lose being the ones who fund it. It is the beginning of a full realization that a change of thinking is at hand. You can take things from Gaia that are energy, instead of physical resources. We speak yet again about geothermal, about tidal, about wind. Again, we plead with you not to over-engineer this. For one of the things that Human Beings do in a technological age is to over-engineer simple things. Look at nuclear - the most over-engineered and expensive steam engine in existence!

Your current ideas of capturing energy from tidal and wave motion don't have to be technical marvels. Think paddle wheel on a pier with waves, which will create energy in both directions [waves coming and going] tied to a generator that can power dozens of neighborhoods, not full cities. Think simple and decentralize the idea of utilities. The same goes for wind and geothermal. Think of utilities for groups of homes in a cluster. You won't have a grid failure if there is no grid. This is the way of the future, and you'll be more inclined to have it sooner than later if you do this, and it won't cost as much….”


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