Il Blog di Adriano Forgione

È con immenso piacere che annuncio la nascita del rapporto di collaborazione tra XPublishing srl e la casa editrice romana Terre Sommerse. Questa sinergia porterà alla pubblicazione di libri sulle nostre tematiche.

Già dalla fine del 2009 vedranno la luce i primi titoli, appartenenti a tre diverse collane, che saranno curate dalle redazioni di FENIX e X-TIMES:

1 - Conoscenza e Tradizione;

2 - Archeologia del Mistero e Storia Occulta;

3 - UFO e Alieni.

Cercheremo di dare voce a libri importanti di firme straniere non pubblicati in Italia, oltre che a nuovi autori. Dunque chi ha intenzione di proporre un proprio libro, basta inviarlo alla mia attenzione sia in formato cartaceo che su CD all’indirizzo della redazione

Redazione XPUBLISHING

att.ne Adriano Forgione

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00015 Monterotondo (Roma)

completo di tutti i vostri dati. Fatevi coraggio e inviatemi la vostra opera, forse è l’occasione buona per vedere finalmente pubblicato il vostro libro.

 

Visto che qualcuno continua a dire che il 2012 è un'invenzione e che nulla potrebbe accadere, pubblico questo articolo della rivista NEW SCIENTIST, dunque fonte assolutamente accreditata in ambito scientifico, basato sugli studi di scienziati dell'Università del Colorado e della NASA. L'originale lo trovate qui: http://www.scribd.com/doc/16865694/Space-Storm-Alert-90-S...

Prima di iniziare a leggere vi invito ad andare a vedere al cinema SEGNALI DAL FUTURO. È collegato a questi temi!

Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe -

23 March 2009 -

New Scientist

IT IS midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light. Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is short-lived. Within a few seconds, electric bulbs dim and flicker, then become unusually bright for a fleeting moment. Then all the lights in the state go out. Within 90 seconds, the entire eastern half of the US is without power. A year later and millions of Americans are dead and the nation's infrastructure lies in tatters. The World Bank declares America a developing nation. Europe, Scandinavia, China and Japan are also struggling to recover from the same fateful event - a violent storm, 150 million kilometres away on the surface of the sun.
It sounds ridiculous. Surely the sun couldn't 1 more image create so profound a disaster on Earth. Yet an extraordinary report funded by NASA and issued by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in January this year claims it could do just that. 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. The surface of the sun is a roiling mass of plasma - charged high-energy particles - some of which escape the surface and travel through space as the solar wind. From time to time, that wind carries a billion-tonne glob of plasma, a fireball known as a coronal mass ejection (see "When hell comes to Earth"). If one should hit the Earth's magnetic shield, the result could be truly devastating. The incursion of the plasma into our atmosphere causes rapid changes in the configuration of Earth's magnetic field which, in turn, induce currents in the long wires of the power grids. The grids were not built to handle this sort of direct current electricity. The greatest danger is at the step-up and step-down transformers used to convert power from its transport voltage to domestically useful voltage. The increased DC current creates strong magnetic fields that saturate a transformer's magnetic core. The result is runaway current in the transformer's copper wiring, which rapidly heats up and melts. This is exactly what happened in the Canadian province of Quebec in March 1989, and six million people spent 9 hours without electricity. But things could get much, much worse than that.

Worse than Katrina
The most serious space weather event in history happened in 1859. It is known as the Carrington event, after the British amateur astronomer Richard Carrington, who was the first to note its cause: "two patches of intensely bright and white light" emanating from a large group of sunspots. The Carrington event comprised eight days of severe space weather. There were eyewitness accounts of stunning auroras, even at equatorial latitudes. The world's telegraph networks experienced severe disruptions, and Victorian magnetometers were driven off the scale. Though a solar outburst could conceivably be more powerful, "we haven't found an example of anything worse than a Carrington event", says James Green, head of NASA's planetary division and an expert on the events of 1859. "From a scientific perspective, that would be the one that we'd want to survive." However, the prognosis from the NAS analysis is that, thanks to our technological prowess, many of us may not. There are two problems to face. The first is the modern electricity grid, which is designed to operate at ever higher voltages over ever larger areas. Though this provides a more efficient way to run the electricity networks, minimising power losses and wastage through overproduction, it has made them much more vulnerable to space weather. The high-power grids act as particularly efficient antennas, channelling enormous direct currents into the power transformers. The second problem is the grid's interdependence with the systems that support our lives: water and sewage treatment, supermarket delivery infrastructures, power station controls, financial markets and many others all rely on electricity. Put the two together, and it is clear that a repeat of the Carrington event could produce a catastrophe the likes of which the world has never seen. "It's just the opposite of how we usually think of natural disasters," says John Kappenman, a power industry analyst with the Metatech Corporation of Goleta, California, and an advisor to the NAS committee that produced the report. "Usually the less developed regions of the world are most vulnerable, not the highly sophisticated technological regions." According to the NAS report, a severe space weather event in the US could induce ground currents that would knock out 300 key transformers within about 90 seconds, cutting off the power for more than 130 million people (see map). From that moment, the clock is ticking for America. First to go - immediately for some people - is drinkable water. Anyone living in a high-rise apartment, where water has to be pumped to reach them, would be cut off straight away. For the rest, drinking water will still come through the taps for maybe half a day. With no electricity to pump water from reservoirs, there is no more after that. There is simply no electrically powered transport: no trains, underground or overground. Our just-in-time culture for delivery networks may represent the pinnacle of efficiency, but it means that supermarket shelves would empty very quickly - delivery trucks could only keep running until their tanks ran out of fuel, and there is no electricity to pump any more from the underground tanks at filling stations. Back-up generators would run at pivotal sites - but only until their fuel ran out. For hospitals, that would mean about 72 hours of running a bare-bones, essential care only, service. After that, no more modern healthcare.

72 hours of healthcare remaining 72 hours of healthcare remaining The truly shocking finding is that this whole situation would not improve for months, maybe years: melted transformer hubs cannot be repaired, only replaced. "From the surveys I've done, you might have a few spare transformers around, but installing a new one takes a well-trained crew a week or more," says Kappenman. "A major electrical utility might have one suitably trained crew, maybe two." Within a month, then, the handful of spare transformers would be used up. The rest will have to be built to order, something that can take up to 12 months. Even when some systems are capable of receiving power again, there is no guarantee there will be any to deliver. Almost all natural gas and fuel pipelines require electricity to operate. Coal-fired power stations usually keep reserves to last 30 days, but with no transport systems running to bring more fuel, there will be no electricity in the second month.

30 days of coal left
Nuclear power stations wouldn't fare much better. They are programmed to shut down in the event of serious grid problems and are not allowed to restart until the power grid is up and running. With no power for heating, cooling or refrigeration systems, people could begin to die within days. There is immediate danger for those who rely on medication. Lose power to New Jersey, for instance, and you have lost a major centre of production of pharmaceuticals for the entire US. Perishable medications such as insulin will soon be in short supply. "In the US alone there are a million people with diabetes," Kappenman says. "Shut down production, distribution and storage and you put all those lives at risk in very short order." Help is not coming any time soon, either. If it is dark from the eastern seaboard to Chicago, some affected areas are hundreds, maybe thousands of miles away from anyone who might help. And those willing to help are likely to be ill-equipped to deal with the sheer scale of the disaster. "If a Carrington event happened now, it would be like a hurricane Katrina, but 10 times worse," says Paul Kintner, a plasma physicist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. In reality, it would be much worse than that. Hurricane Katrina's societal and economic impact has been measured at $81 billion to $125 billion. According to the NAS report, the impact of what it terms a "severe geomagnetic storm scenario" could be as high as $2 trillion. And that's just the first year after the storm. The NAS puts the recovery time at four to 10 years. It is questionable whether the US would ever bounce back.

4-10 years to recover
"I don't think the NAS report is scaremongering," says Mike Hapgood, who chairs the European Space Agency's space weather team. Green agrees. "Scientists are conservative by nature and this group is really thoughtful," he says. "This is a fair and balanced report." Such nightmare scenarios are not restricted to North America. High latitude nations such as Sweden and Norway have been aware for a while that, while regular views of the aurora are pretty, they are also reminders of an ever-present threat to their electricity grids. However, the trend towards installing extremely high voltage grids means that lower latitude countries are also at risk. For example, China is on the way to implementing a 1000-kilovolt electrical grid, twice the voltage of the US grid. This would be a superb conduit for space weather-induced disaster because the grid's efficiency to act as an antenna rises as the voltage between the grid and the ground increases. "China is going to discover at some point that they have a problem," Kappenman says. Neither is Europe sufficiently prepared. Responsibility for dealing with space weather issues is "very fragmented" in Europe, says Hapgood. Europe's electricity grids, on the other hand, are highly interconnected and extremely vulnerable to cascading failures. In 2006, the routine switch-off of a small part of Germany's grid - to let a ship pass safely under high-voltage cables - caused a cascade power failure across western Europe. In France alone, five million people were left without electricity for two hours. "These systems are so complicated we don't fully understand the effects of twiddling at one place," Hapgood says. "Most of the time it's alright, but occasionally it will get you." The good news is that, given enough warning, the utility companies can take precautions, such as adjusting voltages and loads, and restricting transfers of energy so that sudden spikes in current don't cause cascade failures. There is still more bad news, however. Our early warning system is becoming more unreliable by the day. By far the most important indicator of incoming space weather is NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE). The probe, launched in 1997, has a solar orbit that keeps it directly between the sun and Earth. Its uninterrupted view of the sun means it gives us continuous reports on the direction and velocity of the solar wind and other streams of charged particles that flow past its sensors. ACE can provide between 15 and 45 minutes' warning of any incoming geomagnetic storms. The power companies need about 15 minutes to prepare their systems for a critical event, so that would seem passable.

15 minutes' warning
However, observations of the sun and magnetometer readings during the Carrington event shows that the coronal mass ejection was travelling so fast it took less than 15 minutes to get from where ACE is positioned to Earth. "It arrived faster than we can do anything," Hapgood says. There is another problem. ACE is 11 years old, and operating well beyond its planned lifespan. The onboard detectors are not as sensitive as they used to be, and there is no telling when they will finally give up the ghost. Furthermore, its sensors become saturated in the event of a really powerful solar flare. "It was built to look at average conditions rather than extremes," Baker says. He was part of a space weather commission that three years ago warned about the problems of relying on ACE. "It's been on my mind for a long time," he says. "To not have a spare, or a strategy to replace it if and when it should fail, is rather foolish." There is no replacement for ACE due any time soon. Other solar observation satellites, such as the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) can provide some warning, but with less detailed information and - crucially - much later. "It's quite hard to assess what the impact of losing ACE will be," Hapgood says. "We will largely lose the early warning capability." The world will, most probably, yawn at the prospect of a devastating solar storm until it happens. Kintner says his students show a "deep indifference" when he lectures on the impact of space weather. But if policy-makers show a similar indifference in the face of the latest NAS report, it could cost tens of millions of lives, Kappenman reckons. "It could conceivably be the worst natural disaster possible," he says. The report outlines the worst case scenario for the US. The "perfect storm" is most likely on a spring or autumn night in a year of heightened solar activity - something like 2012. Around the equinoxes, the orientation of the Earth's field to the sun makes us particularly vulnerable to a plasma strike.

What's more, at these times of year, electricity demand is relatively low because no one needs too much heating or air conditioning. With only a handful of the US grid's power stations running, the system relies on computer algorithms shunting large amounts of power around the grid and this leaves the network highly vulnerable to sudden spikes. If ACE has failed by then, or a plasma ball flies at us too fast for any warning from ACE to reach us, the consequences could be staggering. "A really large storm could be a planetary disaster," Kappenman says. So what should be done? No one knows yet - the report is meant to spark that conversation. Baker is worried, though, that the odds are stacked against that conversation really getting started. As the NAS report notes, it is terribly difficult to inspire people to prepare for a potential crisis that has never happened before and may not happen for decades to come. "It takes a lot of effort to educate policymakers, and that is especially true with these low-frequency events," he says. We should learn the lessons of hurricane Katrina, though, and realise that "unlikely" doesn't mean "won't happen". Especially when the stakes are so high. The fact is, it could come in the next three or four years - and with devastating effects. "The Carrington event happened during a mediocre, ho-hum solar cycle," Kintner says. "It came out of nowhere, so we just don't know when something like that is going to happen again." Related editorial: We must heed the threat of solar storms

When hell comes to Earth
Severe space weather events often coincide with the appearance of sunspots, which are indicators of particularly intense magnetic fields at the sun's surface. The chaotic motion of charged particles in the upper atmosphere of the sun creates magnetic fields that writhe, twist and turn, and occasionally snap and reconfigure themselves in what is known as a "reconnection". These reconnection events are violent, and can fling out billions of tonness of plasma in a "coronal mass ejection" (CME). If flung towards the Earth, the plasma ball will accelerate as it travels through space and its intense magnetic field will soon interact with the planet's magnetic field, the magnetosphere. Depending on the relative orientation of the two fields, several things can happen. If the fields are oriented in the same direction, they slip round one another. In the worst case scenario, though, when the field of a particularly energetic CME opposes the Earth's field, things get much more dramatic. "The Earth can't cope with the plasma," says James Green, head of NASA's planetary division. "The CME just opens up the magnetosphere like a can-opener, and matter squirts in." The sun's activity waxes and wanes every 11 years or so, with the appearance of sunspots following the same cycle. This period isn't consistent, however. Sometimes the interval between sunspot maxima is as short as nine years, other times as long as 14 years. At the moment the sun appears calm. "We're in the equivalent of an idyllic summer's day. The sun is quiet and benign, the quietest it has been for 100 years," says Mike Hapgood, who chairs the European Space Agency's space weather team, "but it could turn the other way." The next solar maximum is expected in 2012.

Ecco il Cerchio nel Grano più grande mai apparso nella storia del fenomeno. Si tratta di una formazione mozzafiato che fonde l'Uomo Vitruviano con una farfalla, splendido simbolo di trasmutazione in un momento storico come quello attuale, dove la Trasmutazione è il messaggio che il Logos sta inviando. Si noti come un cerchio sia posto proprio a livello del cuore della fugura umana, ponendo in evidenza, dunque, il centro di realizzazione spirituale (sono particolarmente contento dato che l'Uomo Vitruviano di Leonardo è proprio parte della copertina del mio libro sui cerchi nel grano).

La formazione misura 530x450 metri e copre un intero campo. È apparsa nei pressi della cittadina di Goes l'8 agosto 2009. Se si contano i cerchi che compondono le ali sono 76 dove 7+6=13 cioè proprio il numero della trasmutazione. Un falso? Non saprei, le linee curve che formano la silouette del corpo umano non sono facili da realizzare e sono perfettamente rappresentate senza errori e sbavature sia nella parte destra che sinistra del profilo umano. Una tale precisione è impossibile da mantenere  su una superficie così grande. Ringrazio Pietro Bonomi per la segnalazione.

L'amico Andrew Collins, collaboratore di FENIX e autore di fama internazionale mi ha segnalato di  rendere noto ai lettori del mio blog un video, che qui allego, di alcuni momenti della sua esplorazione all'interno delle cave da lui scoperte nel sottosuolo di Giza, alle quali ho dedicato un post inserito la settimana scorsa.

Un articolo di Collins su questa ricerca affascinante (collegata alla fantomatica Sala degli Archivi di Atlantide) sarà pubblicato nel prossimo numero (ottobre) di FENIX. Chi vuole però, può ordinare su Amazon il suo libro Beneath the Pyramids, in uscita in Inghilterra e USA.

 

 

 

Sono in uscita FENIX 11 e X-TIMES 11 (settembre 2009)

Ecco copertine e sommario

FENIX 11

06 - 11 Fenix News

12 - 13 Il Terzo Occhio - Cerchi nel Grano 2009 a cura della Redazione

14 - 20 L’Arca dell’Alleanza: “Il mondo non la vedrà” di Enrico Baccarini

22 - 28 Angkor Eredità Celeste di Adriano Forgione

29 - 32 Incontri - Viaggio in Cambogia-Tailandia-Laos

33 Mostre a cura di Silvia Agabiti Rosei

34 - 40 Il Papiro Tulli. Il documento che non è mai esistito di Nacho Ares

42 - 57 DOSSIER - La Sfinge - Le Nuove Teorie di Robert e Olivia Temple - Robert M. Schoch

58 - 61 L'Arte e lo Spirito - Metafisica del colore di Angelo De Mattia

62 - 63 Akasha -Libri di Conoscenza a cura di Mike Plato

64 - 65 BooXtore - aggiornamento catalogo

66 - 72 Il Viaggio di San Brandano di Osvaldo Carigi e Stefania Tavanti

74 - 78 Italia Misteriosa - L'antro della Sibilla di Giuliana Poli

80 - 86 Melkizedek, il sovrumano di Mike Plato

88 - 93 Dogon: La croce, il Cranio, la Maschera di Cristiana Rossetti

94 - 95 Il Vigilante - La Caduta Primordiale secondo Pietro Ubaldi di Mike Plato

96 - 97 Scriba degli Dei - Il Sole Ferro, il Sole Stella a cura di Athon Veggi

I TEMI DI QUESTO NUMERO

• Enrico Baccarini affronta, nel suo reportage, la vicenda che vede coinvolta l’Arca dell’Alleanza dopo le ultime dichiarazioni del Patriarca d’Etiopia sulla sua presenza nella chiesa di S. Maria di Sion ad Axum • Analizzando le rovine dei templi khmer in Cambogia Adriano Forgione espone il loro legame con l’antica conoscenza dei cicli cosmici e le Apocalissi cicliche • Nacho Ares, egittologo spagnolo, parla del Papiro Tulli, il controverso documento con richiami ufologici, dimostrandone la falsità • Nel Dossier dedicato alla Sfinge, Robert Temple espone la sua teoria secondo cui la statua anticamente raffigurasse il dio dalle sembianze di sciacallo Anubi, mentre Robert M. Schoch modifica la sua nota teoria retrodatando la scultura a un periodo ancor più antico, che vede anche la fioritura della cultura di Göbekli Tepe, in Turchia • Nella rubrica L'Arte e Lo Spirito, Angelo De Mattia illustra la profonda conoscenza del colore quale mezzo di elevazione spirituale e la pittura uno strumento di arte divina • Osvaldo Carigi e Stefania Tavanti intervistano la studiosa Elena Percivaldi sul mitico viaggio di San Brandano, monaco irlandese, che raggiunse la Terra Promessa navigando nei mari del Nord • Per la rubrica Italia Misteriosa Giuliana Poli parla del Monte Sibilla, nelle Marche, e della sua tradizione legata ai culti pagani della fertilità e del femminino sacro, i cui luoghi manifestano una corrispondenza topografica con la Costellazione della Vergine • Mike Plato esamina il personaggio di Melkizedek, il Re di Giustizia, il cui mistero è alla base del Cristianesimo originale, legato alla Tradizione Primordiale • Cristiana Rossetti fa un parallelismo fra la cultura dogon e le altre antiche tradizioni sacre, esaminando la dottrina della fondazione e dell’orientamento dei villaggi, legata ai miti della creazione • Mike Plato analizza, nella rubrica Il Vigilante, il pensiero di Pietro Ubaldi e il documento di impronta rosacroce Il Libro del Giglio e della Rosa • Ne Lo Scriba degli Dei Athon Veggi prosegue la sua analisi della forza solare e del suo legame con l’energia femminile •

 

Sommario X-TIMES 11

06 – 09 Reports dal Mondo, a cura della Redazione

10 – 15 I Segreti di Dick Cheney, di Michael Salla

Negli USA ha suscitato scalpore l’esistenza di una task force di killer organizzata dalla CIA e comandata dall’ex vice presidente Richard Cheney. Queste operazioni confermerebbero la straordinaria testimonianza di un Berretto Verde, sul coinvolgimento del politico anche in progetti top secret sulla vita e la tecnologia extraterrestre.

16 – 20 Le Navi Celesti di Angkor, di Rudolf Eckardt

Chi si reca ad Angkor Wat descrive le sue sensazioni con aggettivi superlativi. Il tempio si erge con superba e  misteriosa dignità nella vasta pianura cambogiana. Oggi questo tempio indù è un mondo di dèi immortalizzati nella pietra. Allo stesso tempo è un nuovo territorio per gli studiosi delle teorie paleoastronautiche

22 – 27 No Keed to Know, di Maurizio Baiata

Il punto della situazione ufologica americana, fatalmente contrassegnata dalla contrapposizione tra la vecchia guardia dei ricercatori e gli alfieri dell’Esopolitica

28 – 32 La Schiavitù dei Caduti, di Whitley Strieber

Mentre agenzie clandestine collaborano con entità aliene per i propri interessi, il governo USA ordina il fuoco verso visitatori che potrebbero aiutarci ad evolvere. Al popolo della Terra viene negato il proprio ruolo nell’universo, ma oggi ci troviamo ad un punto di non ritorno...

34 – 39 Inafferrabili, di Nicola Testoni

Piloti militari inseguono gli UFO per osservarli e abbatterli. Storie documentate e attendibili che rappresentano una spina nel fianco per i debunkers di tutto il mondo

42 – 47 In Mezzo a Noi, di Katharina Wilson - seconda parte

Gli ibridi di ultima generazione sono fisicamente ed emotivamente quasi identici agli esseri umani, ma hanno più poteri. Secondo molti addotti e ricercatori, vivono ormai sul nostro pianeta. In esclusiva per X Times, la seconda parte della trilogia di articoli di una famosa ricercatrice americana

48 – 53 La Missione Segreta degli Addotti, di Pablo Ayo – seconda parte

Durante le abductions i soggetti vengono preparati a un “evento futuro” destinato a cambiare la storia dell’Umanità. Gli alieni, forse, temono di perdere l’apporto genetico e spirituale dell’essere umano, mentre dallo spazio, qualcosa di minaccioso sembra avvicinarsi al pianeta Terra

54 – 57 Verso le Plejaren, di Pino Morelli

La storia di Billy Meier raccontata in un album fotografico ufficiale. Ce ne parla un rappresentante italiano della FIGU, responsabile del progetto editoriale

58 – 62 I Nomi dei Bilderberg, di Andrew G. Marshall – terza ed ultima parte

Chi era presente alla riunione di Atene, nel Maggio 2009, e cosa è stato deciso?

64 – 67 Ghost Fliers, di Umberto Visani

Sin dagli anni ’30, oggetti volanti sconosciuti si manifestarono nei cieli della Scandinavia, dimostrando spesso comportamenti intelligenti e ingannevoli

68 – 73 L’Anima Aliena di Michael Wolf, di Mike Plato

Visionario, criptico, denso di informazioni riservate e di geniali riflessioni metafisiche, dieci anni dopo la sua pubblicazione in Italia, “The Catchers of Heaven” non smette di far discutere...

74 – 77 La Cupola del Bestiame, di Ciro Troiano

l business illegale degli animali garantisce alla mafia entrate da capogiro. Se ne parla poco, ma c’è chi lo combatte

78 – 81  X Media Times, di Pino Morelli