Ancient Huts Provide New Information on Magnetic Pole Reversal and the South Atlantic Anomaly
Scientists have recently reported that ancient burned patches on the ground in southern Africa provide groundbreaking information about the "weak spot" in the Earth's magnetic field - the South Atlantic Anomaly, as well as clues on the Earth's magnetic pole reversals.
The South Atlantic Anomaly is a weak spot in the Earth's shield against cosmic radiation 124 miles (200 kilometers) above ground. It is said to cause malfunctions in any satellites or spacecraft passing over it. Strangely enough, it is a spot where the Earth's magnetic field pulls in energy particles instead of repelling them. Scientific evidence shows that it has been growing.
The new information provided by the burnt patches from five sites along South Africa's borders with Zimbabwe and Botswana, near the Limpopo River, demonstrates that the South Atlantic Anomaly has been a weak spot in the Earth's magnetic field for over 1,000 years.
Resulting from ritualistic burning of huts in southern Africa Iron Age (1,000 - 1,850 AD) sites, the burnt patches illustrate that the popular belief in geomagnetic reversals taking place at random locations may not be true after all. Evidence suggests instead, that there may be something permanent in the location near the Earth's core - which is important for the magnetic pole reversals according to Discovery News.
In fact, the researchers have found what they believe to be the cause of the South Atlantic Anomaly. "The top of the core beneath this region is overlain by unusually hot and dense mantle rock," John Tarduno, a geophysicist from the University of Rochester in New York and the leading author of the new report, told Space.com
According to collaborator archaeologist Thomas Huffman, from Witwatersrand University in South Africa, the ritualistic burning was meant to cleanse the villages. “They had this ritualistic burning of villages,” Tarduno explained to Space.com. “Particularly in times of drought, the conclusion would be that there might have been some offence in the village, so the solution was to have a burning down of the village.”
The resulting burned patches of ground contain a specific mineral that was able to record the situation of the Earth's magnetic field during over time. As the burning villages reached high temperatures (over 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit or 1,000 degrees Celsius), magnetic compounds such as magnetite in the clay floors were melted and later re-magnetized by the Earth's magnetic field at the moment of cooling. This provides the information which scientists are able to study today.
By studying these minerals, Tarduno and his fellow researchers have confirmed that the region witnessed a 30% drop in magnetic field intensity from 1225 to 1550 AD. Tarduno stated that the South Atlantic Anomaly “forms, and it decays away, and it forms, and it decays away; eventually, one might form and get really large, and then we might actually have a geomagnetic reversal.”
Image depicting the lower magnetic surface field above corresponding with the hot dense mantle below in the South Atlantic Anomaly. (Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester)
NASA computer simulation showing the differences of the Earth's magnetic field lines between and during a reversal of the north and south magnetic poles. The blue lines show when the field points towards the center and yellow when away. The rotation axis of the Earth is centered and vertical. The dense clusters of lines are within the Earth's core. (Wikimedia Commons)
While he may be reluctant to make such a claim, other research has shown that the Earth's dipole magnetic field strength has, in fact, decreased 16 percent since 1840. Mostly this decreasing intensity has been located in the Southern Hemisphere, specifically in the region of the South Atlantic Anomaly.http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-science-space/ancient-huts-provide-new-information-magnetic-pole-reversal-and-south-atlantic-020467#ixzz3hlBgz9h8
The latest government trust fund to go bankrupt
On June 6, 1932, President Herbert Hoover imposed the first ever national gasoline tax in the United States, initially set at 1 cent per gallon.
It was a major success for the federal government; the tax on gasoline alone was responsible for over 15% of their 1933 tax revenue.
What’s curious is that the Senate Finance Committee issued a report the following year stating that the federal gasoline tax should be repealed. But that never happened.
Instead it went up.
Under President Eisenhower, the tax increased to 3 cents per gallon. Under Reagan, 9 cents.
It’s risen steadily through the years to a level of 18.4 cents for every gallon of unleaded fuel, and 24.4 cents per gallon of diesel.
All of this tax revenue is –supposed– to go to the Federal Highway Trust Fund, something established back in the 1950s to finance the care and maintenance of the nation’s highways.
And now it, too, is insolvent.
Earlier this week I told you about Social Security’s Disability Insurance Trust Fund (DI), which will become insolvent in a matter of months.
The DI problem (just like the rest of Social Security) has been a long time coming.
But rather than form some meaningful solution, Congress has instead opted to commit financial fraud by commingling DI monies together with the other Social Security funds.
Now comes the Highway Trust Fund.
The difference between DI and the Highway Trust fund is that this one won’t be insolvent in a matter of years or months. Their own data shows that it may very well be toast… today.
Once again- Congress to the rescue.
Having waited until almost quite literally the last minute, their solution is to… wait for it… kick the can down the road.
Congress has now passed a 90-day stay of execution for the Highway Trust Fund, which only delays the inevitable.
Over the next three months they’ll sit down to the task of figuring out who to steal from.
They’re either going to raise taxes on you.
Or they’ll raise taxes on someone else, the costs of which will ultimately be passed on to you.
Or they’ll simply default on their obligations to the residents of the United States to maintain the federal highway system.
None of this should come as a surprise. This is what happens when nations go bankrupt: one by one, its major institutions fall into insolvency.
Today it’s the Highway Fund. Tomorrow it’ll be the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (we’ll talk about that one soon) and the United States Postal Service.
Then it’ll be Social Security and Medicare. Then the Federal Reserve. And eventually it’ll be the United States government itself.
The signs are everywhere– every single one of these hallowed institutions is flat broke.
It’s no longer some wild assertion to say that. Their own financial statements show that they’re insolvent. And it’s not hard to figure out what happens down the road.
Bankrupt governments invariably resort to plundering the wealth of their citizens. Inflation. Higher taxes. Confiscation of assets. Indebting unborn generations. And defaulting on the benefits promises they made to voters.
It’s time to face reality. And to start working on a Plan B.
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