Article Archive for June 2010
A Coffee Table Book for 2012 Survivalists
As coffee table books go, Waiting for the End of the World is a bit on the small size, but it is mostly full-page photos, so I that’s how I’ll categorize it. The author Richard Ross traveled around the world photographing the insides of bomb shelters, and consequently the book covers mainly countries – such as Russia, Vietnam, Israel and of course the USA. The most interesting photos are the ones that show habitation rather than just metal walls:
More photos are at Good magazine. I have bought it, and it’s in the lounge. I figure it’s a different way of bringing up 2012 with friends & visitors.
End of the World Denial
Denial is word usually applied to a minority of the population. We have holocaust deniers, AIDS deniers, global warming deniers and so on.
When it comes to SHTF and End of the World notions, most laypeople and scientists are in denial. While they may accept that evidence from the past has shown how fragile our existence is, and that science suggests that events that have tested the survivability of our species will certainly occur again, the denial covers the near future.
A good example was Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans. Government officials were well aware that such destruction would happen every hundred years or so, but did not make adequate plans for it happening in the near future. They chose to acknowledge the long-term possibility, but denied that it could happen on their watch. Citizens were to blame as well. Despite most locals knowing that such destruction has happened in the past, …
Don’t Forget the Komodo Dragon = Dragon
With its sharp talons, flickering tongue, and immense muscular presence, the Komodo dragon fits the ancient descriptions of dragons worldwide. Sure, it can’t fly, but half of the ancient dragons were also unable to fly. In the UK they were often called “wurms”… And of course you imagined that a dragon was longer than ten feet – well the Komodo dragon had an extinct cousin in Australia that was 21 feet long and weighed 600kg:
Pliny the Elder said, 2000 years ago:
Elephants breed in that part of Affricke which lyeth beyond the deserts….India bringeth fouth the biggest: as also the dragons that are continually at variance with them, and evermore fighting, and those of such greatnesse, that they can easily claspe and wind round about the Elephants, and withall tye them fast with a knot. In this conflict they die, both the one and the other:”
“the Elephant hee falls downe dead as …
Survivalism in Missouri, 1994 / 1999 / 2001 / 2009
The circumstances presented here are merely a loss of electricity. This has happened to me for 9 days in 1994, 5 days in 1999, 7 days in 2001, and 10 days in 2009. Nothing earth shattering. But long enough to get the ‘hang’ of it.
So begins a description by Steve Pace of what it is like to go without electricity for a number of days, in one of the most advanced countries in the world. A SHTF-event in 2012 could easily begin the same way, but with one key difference – a power outage in the USA is something that you’d expect to be fixed in due course. For many 2012 scenarios, the outage would be permanent. So pile on a whole lot more desperation and fear. Here are some of Steve’s insights:
Obviously your most valuable asset right now is food. So don’t waste any. Don’t open any fridge, freezer, …
Mammoth Killing Humans Caused Mini-Ice Age
I feel like a movie villain after the good guy has fallen into my trap. This is so absurd (to catastrophists), it feels like an April Fool’s Day prank!
The suggestion is as follows:
Humans migrated to North America
They slaughtered millions upon millions of mammoths and other megafauna, to extinction (in Siberia there were 150 million mammoths!)
These beasties were a major source of methane = global warming
The result was the Younger Dryas cold event, a mini-Ice Age
Of course the alternative explanation, one that does not involve a slaughter not seen outside of the movies – is that the cold snap killed the mammoths, or perhaps the cause of the cold snap (a pole shift or comet/asteroid) killed the mammoths. But that is too obvious, and breaks the unwritten archaeological rule that nature cannot be catastrophic, only man can…
The Other Drilling Disaster: Turkmenistan 1971-2010
Came across this at the 2012 Forum, and it’s just bizarre – like the BP oil leak that has the USA upset, in eastern Europe there is a leak that has been unplugged for almost 40 years! Makes for a better pic as well…
Environmental disasters: Gulf oil spill lesson # 1- Drilling can sometimes unleash a hell on Earth (June 8, 2010)
Giant hole still burning in the desert
DERWEZE, Turkmenistan – Geologists were excited to find rich deposits of methane gas when they conducted geological surveys in Turkmenistan in the 1970’s but almost no one could imagine the hellish nightmare they would later follow the discovery. In 1971, engineers begin drilling for natural gas just outside the small village of Derweze, Turkmenistan. The exploratory hole soon ruptured into the opening of a large underground cavern. The massive cavern was filled with methane gas. Plugging the hole proved fruitless. Underground pressures soon caused the methane …
Major Hole in Our Sun – Brace Yourselves
(if someone has more information, such that we shouldn’t be concerned, please post a comment…)
Once again there’s an interesting discussion over at Above Top Secret. This time it concerns a coronal hole in our Sun that has just appeared. Supposedly these holes tend to occur at solar maximums, and we are not meant to have the next maximum until 2012/2013. So either this is just unusual timing for a coronal hole, or the maximum has arrived far sooner than predicted. If it is the former, then hold on to your hats, a CME might be heading our way (the NOAA says there is a “slight chance for a C-class flare” in the next 3 days). Last time, in 2003, a coronal hole was followed five days later by a deadly earthquake in Algeria. If it is the later, then the biggest concern is that the USA has not upgraded their …
Mayan “Atlantis” Discovered in the Caribbean
Researchers using satellite images have found what may be an ancient Mayan city. Although nature is capable of making straight lines and geometric patterns (opinions are still divided on Yonaguni which is underwater off Japan), the grid layout suggests it was created by humans. Lying at depths of between 40 and 70 feet, they estimate that this area would have been above sea level 4500-8000
years ago, making it easily the most ancient city discovered in the region.If it proves to be real, perhaps there are stelae down there that can give us clues regarding the year 2012?
As Graham Hancock has been telling us for years (see his book Underworld), given that we know sea levels have risen extensively since the last Ice Age, and that civilisations tend to base themselves by the sea, the place to look for very old artefacts is in the sea. Unfortunately very few archaeologists are …
Conspiracy Update + June 23 Terrorist Attack?
There’s a very active thread over at Above Top Secret, which starts off like this:
To those who think that Operation Blackjack, that comic series published by the London Telegraph last year, was just a sick joke; It may come as a shock to learn that an earlier warning has been discovered and decoded. There are those that believe that the Illuminati publish their plans in encrypted ways, because it is necessary by their ‘order’ to involve us in the blood sacrifice?
…The actual decoding is very complex and may be posted in its entirety in a separate post. However, the following items were decoded and found contained within the terror article: * The number “33″ Illuminati marker of authentication. * The article claims that the terrorist shot tourist on December 24, 2007. * Then the article is decoded to warn of “dangerous winds” 912 days later, which happens to be June …
