Today's Solar Weather Update & Top News Headlines

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Good evening. A quick solar update as we prepare to head into Friday. Solar activity during the past 24 hours was low with a number of minor C-Flares detected. Region 2434 in the southeast quadrant was the source of much of this activity and will remain a threat for an isolated moderate M-Flare. A potential active region located just beyond the northeast limb was responsible for a C4.9 flare at 23:05 UTC Thursday evening. Attached photo captured by SDO using the 131 angstroms channel captures the aforementioned (C4.9) flare. We will get a better look during the next 24-48 hours.

Geomagnetic activity during the past 24 hours has been fairly quiet. The solar wind is currently just above 400 km/s and the Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) is pointing slightly south. Sky watchers at higher latitudes should remain alert as a minor (G1) storm watch will remain in effect for the next day.

Hot headlines from around the Web for Thursday October 15th, 2015

• NEW OBAMA CZAR WILL HUNT 'RIGHT-WING' EXTREMISTS Americans seen as possibly more threatening than Islamic jihadists Published 
• ALERT: Top Analyst Warns Gold May Now Be Set For A Spectacular Surge To $1,400 
• Handheld DNA reader revolutionary and democratising, say scientists: designed to analyse DNA to help track disease outbreaks, check food and offer ‘the democratisation of sequencing’ GUESS WHAT THEY ARE REALLY LOOKING FOR? 
• A Remarkable Look At The War In The Gold And Platinum Markets 
• Russia prepares to rain down hellfire on ISIS: Putin's forces deploy 'Blazing Sun' heavy flamethrower missile launcher to Syria... which is capable of flattening eight city blocks 
• Death by a Thousand Cuts: China and Russia’s Combined Plot to Attack America 
• New details of Chinese space weapons revealed: COURTESY OF FORMER PRESIDENT CLINTON-DO AN INTERNET SEARCH ON LORAL SATELLITE SCANDAL! 
• PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS:The reason that the West has no future is that the West has no media, only propagandists for government and corporate agendas and apologists for their crimes. 
• American food supply in slow collapse as government continues to subsidize junk food, ignore immigration crisis 
• Some Clearer Pictures of UFOs For a Change 
• Beast System Activates Today: The 5 Steps From Chip To Implant​ 
• IGNORE THE MEDIA BULL**** – RETAIL IMPLOSION PROVES WE ARE IN RECESSION :Propaganda and lies can’t stop this recession. The Fed never took their foot off the gas, so we are headed for the cliff at 100 miles per hour. I wonder what happens next. 
• China has had a telescope on the moon for the past two years 
• Someone Just Placed A Huge Upside Bet In The Silver Market 
• A Carefully-designed Script: Gun Violence and Obama to the Rescue! 
• Wal-Mart’s Worst Stock Crash In 27 Years Is Another Sign That The Economy Is Rapidly Falling Apart 
• Why Gun Ownership Makes America the Safest Place in the World 
• France's top weatherman sparks storm over book questioning climate change Philippe Verdier, weather chief at France Télévisions, the country's state broadcaster, reportedly sent on’forced holiday' for releasing book accusing top climatologists of 'taking 
• Now Gulf Of Mexico ecosystem stressed: Red tide is now killing tons of fish from Mexico to west coast of Florida 
• Forest Service Being Sued To Stop Nestle From Drawing Water In National Forest 
• Forest Service Being Sued To Stop Nestle From Drawing Water In National Forest 
• 1984: Researchers Prove Brain Manipulation Can Lessen Belief in God, Alter Views on Immigrants Just because you aren't paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. 
• Iran broadcasts rare images of underground missile bases: THIS IS WHO THE ADMINISTRATION HAS CUT SECRET DEALS WITH