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Leveraged buyouts should be banned. It was part of the picture in the financial crisis and it has put ManU in a vulernable position when really it is a club that should never be. 65m in interest payments a year - I should coco...

But its less than 2 years since Man Utd won the Champions League amid huge cries of "the debt hasn't really had much effect has it?...get in there Ronaldo!!" Maybe the petitioner should've joined FCUM when he had the chance....a petition now looks like shutting the door after the horse has bolted. Completely agree re the fit and proper persons test. The cries of the debt not having an effect were from those that chose to ignore it......and crap spouted by the club. Now it is not possible to ignore it and we have the support of the non believers. Regarding FCUM - some chose to go that route and I admire them for it. Some like myself couldn't bring myself to it - Could you? Like I said we might be too late but at least a review of these "fit and proper persons" test could benefit other clubs....and us if and when we get our club back. What would stop an investor having a go with Newcaslte? Big fan base and attenances. Imagine your season ticket increasing in price by 49% - Thats whats happened to some areas of our ground since 2005. The FA are just as bad as the so called investors and they need a shake up......hopefully pressure from government would do that. Its a signature at the end of the day, I'm not asking for a donation I would sign it but this lot look like mischivious little goblins from the black forest and they make me laugh.

You're plainly making this up as you go along! I warned you this obsession with vibrators was unhealthy.... But look at the size of it!!!

If we are moving into the pattern then there will be another major earthquake this year...:Probs Hawaii area or Japan. Hope not obviously. Both are in areas known to be prone to Earthquakes so it will hardly be surprising if there's an quake in either Japan or Hawaii man. What's this got to do with Black holes again? I know they are cause earthquakes happen in fault regions muppet. I don't really understand what they have to do with moving into line with the galactic center. High magnetic/plasmic outpourings in the universe is a fairly recent discouvery it ain't just a vacum as we used to think, it's full of gas and whatnot as well...There are theories to do with magnetic shifts (our planet is filled with iron which is fuking big magnet) and the knock on effects on tectonics. Again I'm not really sure what these connections in reality and whether it will be as bad in 2012 as some are making out. Hope not. IF there is another major quake/tsunami this year the signs will not look good as this stuff they say will accelarate in frequency. Who's they??? Say who they are. Me dad used to do this to me when I was a kid, "they've been on about you" and walk away laughing without revealing who they are. The whackjobs who have been writing about earth changes for the last 2 decades.

I like him. Will we get to see it?

The whole universe is only a vibration. The levels things vibrate at dictate their state as types of matter. The higher the vibration the less solid. A neutrino for instance flits between being there and not being there (can't remember if it is indeed a neutrion)..Our comprehension of the universe and the way we see it in some way dictates what it is and more importantly what it can be. Think of the galactic center and the electromagnetic waves coming from it as a telephone call...a vibration.

If we are moving into the pattern then there will be another major earthquake this year...:Probs Hawaii area or Japan. Hope not obviously. Both are in areas known to be prone to Earthquakes so it will hardly be surprising if there's an quake in either Japan or Hawaii man. What's this got to do with Black holes again? I know they are cause earthquakes happen in fault regions muppet. I don't really understand what they have to do with moving into line with the galactic center. High magnetic/plasmic outpourings in the universe is a fairly recent discouvery it ain't just a vacum as we used to think, it's full of gas and whatnot as well...There are theories to do with magnetic shifts (our planet is filled with iron which is fuking big magnet) and the knock on effects on tectonics. Again I'm not really sure what these connections in reality and whether it will be as bad in 2012 as some are making out. Hope not. IF there is another major quake/tsunami this year the signs will not look good as this stuff they say will accelarate in frequency.

If we are moving into the pattern then there will be another major earthquake this year...:Probs Hawaii area or Japan. Hope not obviously.

Beeb: There is a giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy, a 16-year study by German astronomers has confirmed. They tracked the movement of 28 stars circling the centre of the Milky Way, using two telescopes in Chile. The black hole, said to be 27,000 light years from Earth, is four million times bigger than the Sun, according to the paper in The Astrophysical Journal. Black holes are objects whose gravity is so great that nothing - including light - can escape them. According to Dr Robert Massey, of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), the results suggest that galaxies form around giant black holes in the way that a pearl forms around grit. 'The black pearl' Dr Massey said: "Although we think of black holes as somehow threatening, in the sense that if you get too close to one you are in trouble, they may have had a role in helping galaxies to form - not just our own, but all galaxies

Steviegate!!??

I read one of his books and found it a bit too speculatative though still interesting - not as good as Brian Greene's though. Another classic arrogance of US Christians is how many think the rapture will occur in their lifetimes - it's obvious that the bible expected the return of JC and the subsequent armageddon within a few decades at most of those events so the idea of just about 2000 years being the right time is pretty daft. What was the timeline in the bible?

When the security services kill you, they don't like to advertise it. Its a bit rubbish when you can't even make it look like suicide, or get the coroner to lie for you though! Tell me about it!

When the security services kill you, they don't like to advertise it.

http://mkaku.org/home/

Fop would have been all over it as well.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8478076.stm Sounds to me like a military man defending military action while accepting diplomatic efforts are the only way to 'win'. Good to hear at last. Good development. As in all these cases finally talking achieves much more.

What in the opinion of ONE cheap vodka swilling Russian make a name for himself scientist. The planet has been around for 3 billion years, why has this never happened before? Statistically speaking the odds of it happening are about the same as LeazesMag and MancMag in a duet being christmas number one for the next ten years running singing agadoo. In fact the odds are even longer than that. This time it's personal.

New Scientist. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2012....html?full=true 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 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 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.

About time.

I don't think anyone really knows. The electro-magnetic sea won't come from the sun anyway it will come when we line up with our black hole, think of it as a kind of gulf stream in space. The sun flaring when its poles shift (repeatedly) is only a bi-product. This stuff is starting to hit us already (for about a decade) and it the real cause of global warming (and they know that). It's not a good idea to tell people there is planet event coming and we don't know what will happen.

Only that there are some cases where the energy of the particles increased very quickly near the center of the Van Allen belts without the influence of an outside source, a fact never before proven. "We were trying to assemble a snapshot of the missing data pieces," says Reiner Friedel, astrophysicist and co-author of the study. And using the array of satellites "allowed us to see things that we couldn't see with a single satellite." It is hoped that a new NASA mission, the Radiation Belt Storm Probe, to be launched in 2012, will solve the rest of the problem by identifying the mysterious force pushing electrons toward the Earth with no apparent reason, causing a temporary failure in Earth's defense mechanism."

Plasma Changes in the Solar System The increasing amount of plasma that has been entering our solar system over the last couple of decades has been receiving a lot of attention in the run up to 2012. A Russian team of scientists, headed by the planet physicist Dr. Alexey Dmitriev, has been following this phenomenon. Their research suggests that this influx of plasma may be responsible for some of the recent dramatic climate changes. The Role of Plasma in Recent Solar System Changes A team from the Siberian Russian Academy of Sciences has been investigating changes in the heliosphere, the electromagnetic envelope that surrounds our solar system. The heliosphere acts like a giant protective sheath surrounding our sun and the entire solar system as we travel through space. Normally, it functions as a giant deflector, protecting us from a potentially harmful influx of cosmic radiation and keeping conditions within the inner solar system relatively stable. However, it is now being bombarded with so much radiation that an unprecedented amount is breaking through. This is reaching our sun and all of the planets of the solar system, including our own. What is a plasma? A plasma is a partially ionized gas and is sometimes called the fourth state of matter. The behavior of plasma is quite unlike those of solids, liquids, and gases. In nature, plasmas are usually found in gas-like clouds, as in the case of interstellar nebulae. Other examples of plasmas include ball lightning and the phenomenon of the aurora borealis. The increase in incoming interstellar plasma, Dmitriev suggests, is dramatically impacting the behavior of our sun and its solar system. "Strong evidence exists that these transformations are being caused by highly charged material (in) interstellar space which have broken into the interplanetary area of our solar system," Dmitriev wrote in 1997. Changes in Interstellar Space For much of the twentieth century, space was visualized as a near vacuum. The astronomical reality, it is now being discovered, is actually quite different. Our solar system moves through something called the Local Interstellar Space Medium (LISM). The LISM is not uniformly empty at all, but has greater and lesser amounts of plasmic flux density created by the presence of highly charged particles. The amount of energy within empty interstellar space is actually highly variable. Scientists are now coming to realize that space has more in common with our terrestrial oceans, with their complex tides and currents, than was previously recognized. The quantity of plasma, in the form of ionized hydrogen, helium, and hydroxyl, that we encounter in the LISM is a critical variable for what happens in the wider behavior of our solar system. This increased influx of energy is the fundamental cause of the multiple magnetic and climatic changes that have recently been observed in the sun and across all of the planets. Dmitriev even goes as far as to say the consequence of the increase in this interstellar plasmic energy is far more important, in his opinion, than human greenhouse gas emissions are in the creation of our planet's current global warming crisis. Changes in the Heliosphere The heliosphere itself has exhibited a dramatic change in behavior over the last ten years. The transition through this increased plasma flux has expanded the heliosphere's bow shock wave in front of the solar system more than ten-fold. Dmitriev gives an extensive catalogue of changes he claims this has caused within the solar system. Recent Planetary Changes --Significant physical, chemical, and optical changes observed on Venus; an inversion of dark and light spots detected for the first time and a sharp decrease of sulfur-containing gases in its atmosphere. --The first stages of atmosphere generation on the Moon, where a growing sodium-based atmosphere that reaches 5,500 miles in height has been detected. --Changes in the atmosphere of Mars, including a cloudy growth in the equatorial region and unusual growth in ozone concentration. --Significant melting of the Martian polar ice caps. --A doubling of the magnetic field intensity on Jupiter after the series of impacts from the fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy comet in 1994; also, the appearance of large auroral anomalies, excessive plasma generation, and radiation belt brightening. --The creation of an ionic flux tube between Jupiter and the volcanic regions of its moon, Io. This stream of plasma is millions of miles in length and is 1 million amperes in strength. It is affecting Jupiter's magnetic field and intensifying its plasma genesis. --Reporting of auroras and a visible increase in brightness on Saturn. --Abrupt large-scale growth of magnetosphere intensity and an increase in brightness on Uranus. --A change in light intensity and light-spot dynamics on Neptune. --A growth of dark spots on Pluto. Dmitriev notes that Uranus and Neptune, which are magnetically conjugate planets, have both undergone magnetic pole shifts in recent decades. Earth is magnetically conjugate to Jupiter, so he theorizes that the dramatic changes on Jupiter could well have consequences for our planet. The claim of a direct causal link between the increase in plasma entering the solar system and recent planetary changes is still very controversial, but Dmitriev's research is quite comprehensive and is backed up with extensive scientific references. It seems likely that the increase in this cosmic energy does have some role to play in influencing climate, but it may be one of many contributing factors, rather than a sole cause. Dmitriev himself points out that planetary changes are complex affairs with many interdependent factors. It is the total sum of all these influences that actually determines what happens. Changes to the Sun There have also been some recent dramatic changes to the sun. The Ulysses spacecraft sent by NASA to measure the magnetic field of the sun found the magnetic fields of the poles enormously diminished. The magnetic poles of the sun usually reverse at the end of an eleven-year sunspot cycle. At the end of the most recent cycle, the poles only moved to the sun's equator and did not completely invert. This behavior alters everything that was previously believed about the sun's magnetic field. Effectively, the sun no longer has a single north or south magnetic pole; instead, it has four poles located in the equatorial regions. The data gathered by the Ulysses spacecraft showed that the sun's magnetic field interacts with the rest of the solar system in a much more complex fashion than previously believed. NASA scientists determined that the polar magnetic field is much weaker than previously observed and the amount of cosmic dust entering the solar system is thirty times more than expected."