Suppression of dissent and controlling behavior are police state characteristics. White people are racists who use hateful words and concepts, but those who demonize whites are righting wrongs.
Antifa is free to riot, loot, intimidate and hassle, but Trump supporters are insurrectionists. Parents ratted on by their own children are fired from their jobs for attending the Trump rally. Recording stars are dropped by their recording studios for attending the Trump rally. Teachers are suspended for giving offense by using gender pronouns. We certainly have that in abundance.Įxperts are not permitted forums in which to challenge the official position on Covid. One feature of a police state is controlled explanations and the suppression of dissent. There is abundant evidence of a police state. In the aftermath of the stolen presidential election, it seems a 50-50 toss up. Much more rarely, they can be red and even blue.Janu| Categories: Articles & Columns | Tags: | Print This ArticleĪs a person who grew up in the glorious aftermath of World War II, it never occurred to me that in my later years I would be pondering whether the United States would end in civil war or a police state. They usually appear as shimmering green waves of light in the nighttime sky in polar latitudes. The Northern Lights appear when atoms in the Earth's high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the sun. The best views should be Friday night, but some auroras could be visible Thursday night. People in northern New England, the far northern Plains, and the Pacific Northwest should have the best views of the aurora. One nice side effect of the solar storm is an expansion of the photogenic aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, across Canada and the northern U.S. "Folks driving down the road wouldn't notice much difference," said Murtagh. "But if you can hold off a day, that's not a bad idea."ĭepending on how strongly it hits the earth, the flare's impacts could interfere with some radio signals and slightly alter GPS readings. "You'll still be within the protection of the Earth's atmosphere, so you should be OK," Smith advises. The Earth's magnetic field protects us from the worst of the impacts, but the particles also affect the field, and thus our electronics.įorecaster Chris Smith takes a call from a Civil Air Patrol group in the Midwest wondering whether the flare will affect their planned weather balloon launch. Screens display images of the sun in a variety of formats, from the familiar orange-yellow we're used to seeing to otherwise invisible radiation steaming toward us. View Gallery: Space Weather Prediction CenterĪt the Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado, phones ring constantly, as scientists consult with their colleagues around the world, and with their Defense Department counterparts in Nebraska, who monitor the effects on spy satellites and other classified equipment. It was "fairly rare" for the two CMEs (Monday evening and midday Wednesday) to come so close in succession, said Thomas Berger, the director of the Space Weather Prediction Center But "any additional eruptions in the next few days will likely produce more disturbances in our geomagnetic field," Murtagh added. Though this CME will hit the Earth, this CME isn't big enough or impressive enough to cause a more disruptive geomagnetic storm. A coronal mass ejection contains billions of tons of energetic hydrogen and helium ions as well as magnetic fields ejected from the sun's surface. Intense flares such as the one that erupted Wednesday are often associated with coronal mass ejections, or "CME"s. And problems with the accuracy of GPS have been observed with this level of storming."įorecasters with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colo., said the flare "caused impacts to high-frequency radio communications on Earth" Wednesday afternoon. "We may also see some anomalies with satellites so satellite operators around the world have been notified. "G2-G3 geomagnetic storms can cause some problems for the (power) grid but are typically very manageable," Murtagh said in an e-mail Thursday morning. View Gallery: A look at the amazing aurora borealis