The Torino Impact Hazard Scale & NEO's

 The Torino Impact Hazard Scale

& Near Earth Objects (NEO's) 

The Torino Impact Scale isn't that old. First thought of by Professor Richard P. Binzel of MIT in 1995, and officially adapted and adopted by the UN in 1999- the scale is used to measure hazards caused by NEO's such as asteroids, meteors, and comets. So far we haven't had any noteworthy impacts here on Earth, even the 2013 Russian Chelyabinsk meteor which actually hit the Earth measured a Zero on the scale. It certainly makes you wonder what a 3 would be like. Below is the impact scale, and more resources that are available to monitor events such as these in the future. The next blip that comes up on the Earth's scale will occur in June of 2048, but at the moment has a Non-Zero rating - 2007 VK184.

You can track Near Earth Objects on

www.SpaceWeather.com

(Scroll to bottom of page, below is a screenshot:)

xoxo disaster girl

P.F.S. Links for the Curious

NASA Torino Impact Scale 

Torino Scale Wiki 

Houston, We have a Problem - 2 Space Disasters that America Won't Forget

 Houston, We Have A Problem

2 American Space Disasters We Won't Forget

THE CHALLENGER SPACE SHUTTLE DISASTER

The Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster was unique in many ways. First because it was the first widely publicized and known space mission because the mission included a teacher by the name of Christa McAuliffe who was set to teach from space- and had a large child fan base. The explosion of the Challenger Space shuttle on January 28th, 1986 was later determined to be caused by a failure of 'O-Ring' seals, likely because of cold weather.This disaster was also unique because all of America saw it, over and over again, on every TV channel for quite some time after. The Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, which killed all 7 of its crew members, ground the space program for a full two years because of speculation of oversight by NASA. The 7 astronauts that died that day were: Francis R. Scobee, Commander, Michael J. Smith, Pilot, Ronald McNair, Mission Specialist, Ellison Onizuka, Mission Specialist, Judith Resnik, Mission Specialist, Greg Jarvis, Payload Specialist, and Christa McAuliffe, Payload Specialist/Teacher.

THE COLUMBIA SPACE SHUTTLE DISASTER

The Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster that took place on February 1st, 2003 also killed all of it 7 crew members: Rick D. Husband, William C. McCool, Michael P. Anderson, Kalpana Chawla,David M. Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon. This time however the disaster did not occur upon take off, but the opposite- upon reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. This disaster caused by debris the shuttle had shed also caused the same speculations that its 17 year predecessor raised- Did NASA make the right choice? Both disasters were caused by problems NASA had known about and did not change. This disaster also caused the retirement of the Space Shuttle program by George W. Bush in 2004.

They will never be forgotten.

xoxo disaster girl

P.F.S. Links for the Curious

Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster

Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster

 

I Want to Live on Mars - Up Close & Personal with a Mars One Applicant

Meet Amulya Nidhi Rastogi

A Mars One Applicant

Name: Amulya Nidhi Rastogi

Age: 20 Years Old

Sex: Male

From: India
 

Language: English

Field of Study: Mechanical Engineering

Highlighted Personal Interests: Singing, Working Out, Writing, Animals, Weather, Food, Exploring, Philosophy, the Outdoors

 

From Amulya's Application:

Why did you apply for Mars One?
There comes a time in a person’s life when they realize their purpose and do whatever it takes to help better understand it and achieve it. This is my purpose. I’ve always waited and prepared myself for this opportunity.
What scares you most about the mission?
I won’t be afraid of anything if I’m chosen. I’m afraid of spending the rest of my life on Earth.
What will you miss the most on Earth?
I will miss swimming the most.
What do you bring to the table?
The two things that I have and the two things that matter the most for the success of this mission are: mental stability and patience. I also have hope.
If you could bring three things with you to Mars, what would they be?
1) A gold ring my grandmother gave me; 2) a cat, and 3) South Indian food.
Fun fact: I am always trying to become Batman. To me, the seven-year training period of Mars One is similar to the seven- to eight-year training period that Bruce Wayne (Batman) went through.

Via Buzzfeed 

Amulya's Video Application

Amulya's Mars One Application 

Back Story on the Mars One Mission:   In 2012 Bas Lansdorp, a Dutch entrepreneur, announced that his non-profit organization Mars One would be sending 24 people (4 people in each of the 6 separate trips) on a one way trip to the red planet for ten years between 2023 and 2033. Applications were open to the public for a period of just over 4 months, ending August 31st of 2013. Applicants will undergo a training process for quite some time before they are actually chosen for the mission, all applicants will find out whether they've been chosen in July of 2015. The plans for the Mars One mission include building a settlement on the red planet for humans in the future, with completely sustainable systems on site. Chosen applicants are told that they will never return to Earth, so the decision to even apply for this opportunity is a heavy one- even so over 2,500 people applied (including almost 25% Americans). Similar missions to Mars include: Inspiration Mars, which is a project that will take couples on a 501 day fly-by of the red planet.

GOOD LUCK AMULYA!

xoxo disaster girl

P.F.S. Links for the Curious

Mars One Wiki 

Mars One Official Website 

The Other Earth Out There - Kepler 22B

Another Earth is a wonderful Sci-Fi-esque movie that Sundance put out in 2011. In the movie, humans on Earth discover another planet just like Earth- in fact they actually discover that Earth has replicated several times. The wonderful idea of another Earth, another you- free from the mistakes that you have made, free from the reality that has become your own- was destroyed by a twisted yet surprisingly boring I-killed-your-family-now-let's-have-sex typical Hollywood plot. It really pissed me off to be honest- being someone who actually really loved the whole concept of movie. After seeing it I was less than thrilled with the movie, but infatuated with the science and astrophysics behind it. Another Earth? Such a novel idea.

In our observable universe there are between 80 and 100 billion galaxies, packed with 100 billion to a trillion stars each. Science has stipulated that for every star there is least one planet. That's a theorized amount of 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets in the observable universe, or a hundred sextillion planets. And really who knows what's beyond that? With a number like a hundred sextillion, isn't it more than possible if not entirely realistic that somewhere along the way life formed elsewhere? Are we really naive enough as a species to think that we are 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000?

The human species is entrenched in the belief that we are the best, that we are the most special. Millions of years of evolution have created a species capable of reason- a species capable of formulating ideals and remarkable theories. Our strongest suit is our thinking brain- more importantly in that brain- our speculative nature. Aristotle once said, "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." To hear an idea, but not believe- to logically reason and apply your own knowledge to conceive your own opinions, that's what separates us from the rest.

Ask an average American what they think of the chances of us being the only planet that harbors life in the 100 billion galaxies that we know about today. Most people will tilt their heads to the side a bit, pause for a second, and say "I have no idea.". Ask a scientist, and your answer will be far more substantial and salted with philosophical skepticism. But when was the last time you had an astrophysicist hanging around answering questions? The problem here is there aren't enough scientists, astrophysicists, astronomers, and physicists available to tickle the vast majority of our one common need as a species, to understand all that is unknown. Ask a college student why those majors aren't their own and a common answer is "It's just too hard.". Since the dawn of the computer age, the humans of Earth have largely decided that they no longer wanted to speculate themselves- but instead wanted others to-allowing them to be receivers of the end data.

Now we just swim through an endless stream of information, missing any picture that that information is trying to paint. Stuck in the details, the muck, and the grime of the internet are stories that should be known. Scientific discoveries that literally hold our precious views of reality in their clutches- waiting to inform, to enlighten, to expand your mind's boundaries. Boundaries like whether life exists elsewhere, because questioning that forces us to reevaluate our merit as a species. If we find a planet like our own, and it harbors life- will that life be better than ours? Will we suddenly have found a new enemy that we in no way understand? Does answering the question that life exists elsewhere create the answers we need as a species, or does it simply create new questions beyond our own fathomabilty?

Kepler 22b was confirmed by NASA in December of 2011, you may have heard about it- but most people did not. In fact, the birth of Earth 2 went largely unnoticed by the mass audiences of the world. A planet floating perfectly in the 'Goldilocks zone', Kepler 22b is just right for life. It features an average temperature of 72 degrees fahrenheit, is 2.4 times the radius of the Earth itself, and is in the habitable zone where land and water can be formed. It is similar to Earth in other ways too, like the orbit of its sun- 290 days next to our 365. Or the fact that it is orbiting a G-class star just like us- just a little smaller, less brighter, and less hotter than our own. Kepler 22b is a breakthrough in a long and tedious search that astronomers and astrophysicists have grappled over for quite some time. They answered the first question that everyone wanted to know: is the existence of a planet in the habitable zone a singular event or does happen elsewhere? The interesting part is what comes next.

Kepler 22b isn't alone too, in fact scientists have found at least two thousand other planets that also are in the habitable zone surrounding their stars. Eventually as they slowly get confirmed we may even find out that there are many more out there. Once the fact that other planets exist just like ours is accepted, we can then begin to try to find out whether life exists on them. It is not until we are ready to carry the weight of that knowledge though that we will even begin that journey, and as a species we are nowhere near that capability.

For now it remains a distant dream.. our alternate reality.

 

xoxo disaster girl

P.F.S. Links for the Curious
NASA Kepler Mission Website
NASA's Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star
NASA Telescope Confirms Alien Planet in Habitable Zone

The Only Warning I Will Ever Give You - The Kill Shot From The Sun

"You're home and it's the morning, year 2012, you are minding your own business as breaking news hits the TV. "A Massive Solar Flare has occurred knocking out..." and then the TV shuts off. But then you start to realize its not just the TV it's everything. Nothing in your house works, so you go outside for answers. In the streets your greeted by hundred maybe even thousands of citizens who are wondering exactly what you are "What the fuck just happened??!?!" But no one seems to know the answer. As a person who's experienced a blackout before you head to the store to stock up on supplies, yeah- you and about a million other people. Greeted with massive lines and enraged people you realize your chances of getting everything you need are extremely low. From the back of the store someone shouts. And than another, and than another. And before you can even realize it you're in the middle of a riot and wherever you turn there's widespread panic. You make your way out of the store only to realize that this might be the end. You didn't see it coming this way, but hey that's Murphy's law for ya. You decide in this chaos your best bet is to head home and wait for some kind of information from the Government. But how will you get such information? How will the government get such information? Surely the President is sitting in his dark oval office asking his team the very same question "What do we do?"." -Me 2010

A week or two ago I was in a New Madrid forum on ATS and someone had mentioned "Clif High's Future Recent History 2020 Report". Now let's backtrack for just a moment, I have this thing- (it's weird.. saying it out loud makes me sound "crazy" but oh well) and it happens sometimes, not all the time. There are moments when I feel as though I am being metaphorically handed information, like I am sitting at a desk and someone walks in and drops a paper in front of me. Seeing that comment on ATS was one of those moments, it was as if he/she was directly talking to me. So I dropped the thread, and I went over to Half Past Human (Clif High's Website) and emailed him about the report. It was almost 3 in the morning and after 15 minutes of waiting, I figured I wouldn't get a response til the morning.. so I shut my computer down and went to bed.

I have insomnia, so there wasn't any way I was going to sleep right then and there, so I watched a movie. I wanted to watch 2012 but you know Time Warner Cable SUCKS, and the only disaster themed movie available was Knowing..(God, I sound like a spoiled brat) so I watched that. While I was watching I reached the point in the movie where Nicolas Cage is sitting in his living room watching the news, and he looks over at the clock- and as it changes from 11:59 PM to 12:00 AM there is a brief second that the clock says "Japan" under it. Bizarre. There are a bunch of theories that say this movie predicted the Gulf disaster, the Japan nuclear disaster, etc. This article is not about that though, so if you want that information you will have to go here- preferably after you finish with this :P

So in case you didn't see Knowing here's how it ends (sorry):
From IMDB

"John(Cage) collapses and is awoken the next day by a light rain and eerie orange glow in the sky (the flares are starting). We see him driving through the city being destroyed by the approaching flare: buildings on fire, rising temperatures, and people in panic throughout the streets. As he drives on he sees his old partner Phil holding his wife on the street. He then stops in front of an apartment, where he sees his sister and parents inside. He tells his sister Caleb is in a safe place now. All four then have a group hug and hold onto each other as the flare incinerates and vaporizes everything in the city. The last shot of Earth is from space as it is breaking up."

I shrugged it off and went to bed, but it would return the next morning in a three different forms. There would no longer be any second guessing from Disaster Girl. This information was important. This information was real. This information was not three separate conspiracy theories, it was three concrete examples of one thing. One very real thing, the Kill Shot from the Sun.

Class X5.4 Solar Flare 3/7/2012

You see that? That's one of the strongest solar flares to come out of the sun in the last 5 years.. and guess what? It's nothing in comparison to what's coming. Here's some facts:

1. Clif High's webbot program was originally designed for the US Government, so they could predict future trends in the stock market.
2. The Remote Viewing programs you are about to learn about also started as a US Government program.
3. A Class X solar flare is the largest flare before switching to the Mega flare category.

Before I bring out the less mainstream sources (Which, are the ones you should be listening to.. but I understand wanting an "Authoritative" persons view so here's what NASA has to say about it.

"National power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working after the Sun reaches its maximum power in a few years.
Senior space agency scientists believe the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes “from a deep slumber” sometime around 2013, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
In a new warning, Nasa said the super storm would hit like “a bolt of lightning” and could cause catastrophic consequences for the world’s health, emergency services and national security unless precautions are taken." -Telegraph

OH... IS THAT NOT GOOD ENOUGH? WELL, HERE'S NASA'S PREPAREDNESS VIDEO FOR THEIR FAMILIES.



And HERE is NASA's actual press release to the public.

Now let's move on to the interesting stuff.. This is Major Ed James, a former Government Major, who has a lot to tell you.

Here's some more information from a couple more credible people..

"Astrophysicist Alexei Dmitriev says that both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 satellites reveal that our sun, as well as our entire solar system, is now moving into aninterstellar energy cloud.Opher, a NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator from George Mason University says this interstellar energy cloud is turbulent. Dmitriev explains that this cloud of energy is exciting the atmospheres of our planets and especially our sun. As this interstellar energy cloud continues to excite/charge the sun, it causes the sun to become more active, resulting in greater output from the sun. IE: Bigger and more frequent solar storms and CME's resulting in the Carrington effect. This interstellar cloud of electrical energy is also absorbed by the Earth, and scientist have found that it results in more earth quakes, all while dramatically effecting our weather here on earth. When asked how long will it take our sun to pass through this interstellar energy cloud, Dr. Dmitriev replied, "I don't know. But If I had to guess, I would say somewhere between two thousand to three thousand years." This interstellar cloud is a wispy band of charged particles through which our solar system is slowly moving through.

When Dr. Dmitriev was asked what are the implications of all this for earth he replied, "Global catastrophe! Not in tens of years from now, but in ones of years" ...in that this global catastrophe is basically right around the corner setting the stage for NASA's latest solar storm warning 2012-2013." -SolarFlareWarning.com

And here's what Clif's report said.. (Small excerpt for full report please visit his website:

"The huge level of [solar discharges] over 2012 through 2019, included several instances of what became called [electric whips]. These [solar ejections] were devastating to the [electrical warfare infrastructure], as well as civilization in general, but far more so to the [officialdom], than to the general populace ( or so we hope from this perspective). There are several data sets with descriptors seeming to indicate that either the [moon] or [earth] is [scarred] by [sun stuff (plasma)]. This appears to have an impact in late 2012, and again in 2013." -Future Recent History 2020

Here's one of my first articles Alternative Modes of Transportation: Part Six & Adlibbed Part Seven - Surviving a Electricity Crisis/Zombies Apocalypse which is the only real help I can give you. Additionally here are two other article I wrote Are you ready? Probably not.. and Creating a Custom Disaster Plan. These articles will help you prepare for the coming solar storms. The more you start to enlighten yourself, the better your chances of survival are. PREPARE.

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned, and This Bitch is Burning!
xoxo disaster girl

P.F.S. Links for the Curious
Solar Flare Wiki
NASA 3/7/2012 Solar Flare Report
Space Weather - For Sun Monitoring
NASA - MegaFlare/SuperFlare - The Carrington Effect

Hurricanes on Speed - The Hypercane

The hypercane theory was an accident, the StumbleUpon of the 90s. Kerry Emanuel, a professor at MIT was just trying to figure out what the highest intensity an ordinary hurricane could reach, but he found something entirely different instead. Emanuel, with his research team which included Nobel laureate Mario Molina, found that instead of hurricanes just getting warmer and creating new levels in the Safir-Simpson scale the intensity simply skyrocketed. The sudden jump in their models required them to classify it as an entirely different storm, thus creating the Hypercane.

So what exactly is a hypercane?

A hypercane is a theoretical extreme tropical cyclone of massive proportions that are caused by an extreme heating of the ocean in a particular area, probable causes being a direct impact from an asteroid or a significant underwater volcanic eruption.

During 1980 Physicist Luis Alvarez and Geologist son Walter Alvarez found something that supported the hypercane theory when searching the rock layers of the KT Boundary*. In the rock they found embedded in the layers of clay, something they didn’t expect. Extremely high levels of iridium, something not even commonly found on the surface of Earth- a platinum metal that is usually only found in asteroids and meteorites. And it was everywhere, all over the globe at the KT boundary ridiculously high levels of iridium were found. The only plausible explanation? .. An impact with Earth, and a big one at that. They estimated that something around 6 miles wide hit the Earth, causing the iridium to be spread globally, they also estimated that the crater would be about 100 kilometers in diameter.

And Glen Penfield had found just that while searching for oil, a monstrous crater underwater in the Yucatan Peninsula, The Chicxulub Crater.

The Chicxulub Crater Impact Site

I have to be honest with you- Who knows if we will even be around to see conditions optimal for creating hypercanes happen, and if they did how much warning we would even get… if we got any at all. But hey, it happened once, and it could most certainly happen again. I for one hope it doesn’t, cause then it’d be slim pickings dating wise.. and I don’t wanna have to repopulate the Earth- as my uterus kind of takes a liking to not being bombarded. For the foreseeable future though, we’ll just be stuck with slightly intensified storm seasons, with a lot more big ones. Always remember, if you see a storm that looks like it’s is going to hit near you or is tracked to do so- get out of there! .. And don’t forget to tie your laces before you start running like hell.

Who am I kidding though? If it were me, I’d be riding it out. Irene was cool, but I want a real hurricane. If one came I would most certainly stay behind to actually experience it.. but you have to remember that I’m Disaster Girl. If a major category hurricane came around I would also be very prepared, and not drunk like the other folks who’d ended up staying behind. I’d have a sweet boat, a life jacket, a water-resistant camera, scuba tanks and really do it right. None of that “I’m a survivor. I can do it with no supplies.” bullshit. Preparation is everything, and if you go at it with nothing you likely ended up being the dude that the coast guard has to spend hours rescuing (that is if they find you). You’ll go down in history as being the guy that decided it was a better idea to ride the current than actually grab onto something other than your IKEA sofa cushion.

xoxo disaster girl

P.F.S. Links for the Curious
MegaStorms: Hypercane
MIT Scientist says Hypercanes Possible
Hypercane Wiki

*The K–T boundary is a geological signature, usually a thin band, dated to (65.5 ± 0.3) Ma (megaannum, or million years ago). K is the traditional abbreviation for the Cretaceous period, and T is the abbreviation for the Tertiary period

The Information Age Facade

The reality of reality is frightening. They will only tell you what they are comfortable with you knowing; and if you don't know who 'they' are, than hit the back button- because starting here is not an option. If you are not already questioning everything you see and hear, than you are not fully living - and honestly... You have a lot of work to do. It's nearly impossible for anyone, myself included, to be one hundred percent truthful- as we all have a hidden agenda, at times that even we are unaware of. So how do you even find the truth? Is it even possible? Is there anyone out there that can say anything without inserting some type of personal inclination in it? I highly doubt it. Mainstream media was designed with the sole purpose of keeping you busy- wrapped up in a world of biased, never ending grapevines that fuel the continuation of the oblivious masses.

Does it upset you that you know NOTHING? Does it upset you that even in thinking you know something, that you in fact know... nothing? Knowledge itself is so arbitrary that frankly it's sickening. It's a never ending cycle of dogma. How can we possibly believe anything when it’s almost always attaching to some ideology? How can I even believe in what I am writing right now? Certainly I am reinforcing some deep seeded personal agenda unbeknownst to me. By the way, please bear with me as this is becoming increasingly more backbreaking the longer I write this. I am having trouble finding any motivation other than stroking my own ego- What a wonderful ulterior motive, sigh.

Anyway, I've been out of the disaster caster for some time now, disasters have been slightly sidelined so that I could put more focus on philosophy and ancient history. As 2012 prophecies start to rear their ugly heads, I am still trying to find the elusive- a conclusive reason for it all. This attempt is.. unfulfilling and agitating; and although I have no problem admitting that I'm definitely not of the intellect level needed to figure out such mysteries- I cannot help but try. In these attempts to uncover some great, mystical finding- I have found nothing other than misinformation. The problem I'm having is that it isn't localized, it's worldwide. Almost as though everyone was working together in some sort of under the radar endeavor to not just keep us oblivious, but to completely blind us. Scary thought- but then again, everything's scary nowadays.

Mainstream media has made a decision to remain silent on almost all of the important issues. Blinding you with weddings, trials, reality shows, and scandals, you continue to live in the dark. I bet you even watch your local news every night so you "know what's going on in the world", HA! Such naivety. I can think of many things that are/have/will have devastating effects on humanity, earth, and the collective unconscious, yet mainstream media outlets avoid them as if talking/writing/reporting about them is exposing oneself to the black plague.

In my quest for a panoramic view of the world's actual current event, I've been funneling my time towards alternative media sites such as Infowars and ATS, which although extremely helpful, provide only a framework to fully understanding what is truly going on. Recently, I came across an interesting article that listed some of the top things news networks have choose to ignore in the last couple of months. Interestingly enough- when read in order sound more like the plot of a disaster flick than an actual occurrence.

Excerpt from The End of The American Dream Article*

"The following are 12 things that the mainstream media is being strangely quiet about right now....

#1 The crisis at the Fort Calhoun nuclear facility in Nebraska has received almost no attention in the national mainstream media.
Back on June 7th, there was a fire at Fort Calhoun. The official story is that the fire was in an electrical switchgear room at the plant. The facility lost power to a pump that cools the spent fuel pool for approximately 90 minutes. According to the Omaha Public Power District, the fire was quickly extinguished and no radioactive material was released.
The following sequence of events is directly from the Omaha Public Power District website....

• There was no such imminent danger with the Fort Calhoun Station spent-fuel pool.
• Due to a fire in an electrical switchgear room at FCS on the morning of June 7, the plant temporarily lost power to a pump that cools the spent-fuel pool.
• The fire-suppression system in that switchgear room operated as designed, extinguishing the fire quickly.
• FCS plant operators switched the spent-fuel pool cooling system to an installed backup pump about 90 minutes after the loss of power.
• During the interruption of cooling, temperature of the pool increased a few degrees, but the pool was never in danger of boiling.
• Due to this situation, FCS declared an Alert at about 9:40 a.m. on June 7.
• An alert is the second-least-serious of four emergency classifications established by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
• At about 1:15 p.m. on June 7, FCS operators declared they had taken all appropriate measures to safely return to the previously declared Notification of Unusual Event emergency classification. (See first item above.)

But the crisis at Fort Calhoun is not over. Right now, the nuclear facility at Fort Calhoun is essentially an island. It is surrounded by rising flood waters from the Missouri River.

Officials claim that there is no danger and that they are prepared for the river to rise another ten feet.

The Cooper Nuclear Station in Brownville, Nebraska is also being threatened by rising flood waters. A "Notification of Unusual Event" was declared at Cooper Nuclear Station this morning at 4:02. This notification was issued because the Missouri River's water level reached 42.5 feet.

Right now the facility is operating normally and officials don't expect a crisis.

But considering what has been going on at Fukushima, it would be nice if we could have gotten a lot more coverage of these events by the mainstream media.


#2 Most Americans are aware that the U.S. is involved in wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. However, the truth is that the U.S. military is also regularly bombing Yemen and parts of Pakistan. If you count the countries where the U.S. has special forces and/or covert operatives on the ground, the U.S. is probably "active" in more countries in the Middle East than it is not. Now there are even persistent rumors that U.S. ground units are being prepared to go into Libya. Are we watching the early stages of World War 3 unfold before our eyes in slow motion?


#3 The crisis at Fukushima continues to get worse. Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, recently made the following statement about the Fukushima disaster....
"Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind"
TEPCO has finally admitted that this disaster has released more radioactive material into the environment than Chernobyl did. That makes Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster of all time, and it is far from over.
Massive amounts of water are being poured into the spent fuel pools in order to keep them cool. This is creating "hundreds of thousands of tons of highly radioactive sea water" that has got to go somewhere. Inevitably much of it will get into the ground and into the sea.

Arnold Gundersen says that the scope of this problem is almost unimaginable....

"TEPCO announced they had a melt through. A melt down is when the fuel collapses to the bottom of the reactor, and a melt through means it has melted through some layers. That blob is incredibly radioactive, and now you have water on top of it. The water picks up enormous amounts of radiation, so you add more water and you are generating hundreds of thousands of tons of highly radioactive water."

The mainstream media is not paying as much attention to Fukushima these days, but that doesn't mean that it is not a major league nightmare.
Elevated levels of radiation are being reported by Japanese bloggers all over eastern Japan. There are reports of sick children all over the region. One adviser to the government of Japan says that an area approximately 17 times the size of Manhattan is probably going to be uninhabitable.

Of course the mainstream media has been telling us all along that Fukushima is nothing to be too concerned about and that authorities in Japan have everything under control.

If the mainstream media is not going to tell us the truth, how are they going to continue to have credibility?


#4 Members of Congress continue to mention Christians as a threat to national security. For example, during a recent Congressional hearing U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee warned that "Christian militants" might try to "bring down the country" and that such groups need to be investigated.


#5 China's eastern province of Zhejiang has experienced that worst flooding that it has seen in 55 years. 2 million people have already been forced to leave their homes. China has already been having huge problems with their crops over the past few years and this is only going to make things worse.


#6 Thanks to the Dodd-Frank Act, over the counter trading of gold and silver is going to be illegal starting on July 15th. Or at least that is what some companies apparently now believe. The following is an excerpt from an email that Forex.com recently sent out to their customers....

Important Account Notice Re: Metals Trading
We wanted to make you aware of some upcoming changes to FOREX.com’s product offering. As a result of the Dodd-Frank Act enacted by US Congress, a new regulation prohibiting US residents from trading over the counter precious metals, including gold and silver, will go into effect on Friday, July 15, 2011.

In conjunction with this new regulation, FOREX.com must discontinue metals trading for US residents on Friday, July 15, 2011 at the close of trading at 5pm ET. As a result, all open metals positions must be closed by July 15, 2011 at 5pm ET.

We encourage you to wind down your trading activity in these products over the next month in anticipation of the new rule, as any open XAU or XAG positions that remain open prior to July 15, 2011 at approximately 5:00 pm ET will be automatically liquidated.

We sincerely regret any inconvenience complying with the new U.S. regulation may cause you. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact our customer service team.
Sincerely,
The Team at FOREX.com

Apparently, Section 742(a) of the Dodd-Frank Act prohibits anyone "from entering into, or offering to enter into, a transaction in any commodity with a person that is not an eligible contract participant or an eligible commercial entity, on a leveraged or margined basis."

So what impact is this going to have on the gold and silver markets?

Nobody is quite sure yet.


#7 All over the world, huge cracks are appearing for no discernible reason. For example, a massive crack that is approximately 3 kilometers long recent appeared in southern Peru. Also, a 500 foot long crack suddenly appeared recently in the state of Michigan. When you also throw in all of the gigantic sinkholes that have been opening all over the world, it is easy to conclude that the planet is becoming very unstable.


#8 According to U.S. Forest Service officials, the largest wildfire in Arizona state history has now covered more than 500,000 acres. But based on the coverage it is being given by the mainstream media you would think that it is a non-event.


#9 There are reports that North Korea has tested a "super EMP weapon" which would be capable of taking out most of the U.S. power grid in a single shot. The North Koreans are apparently about to conduct another nuclear test and that has some Obama administration officials very concerned.


#10 All over the United States, "active shooter drills" are being conducted in our public schools. Often, most of the students are not told that these drills are fake. Instead, students often go through hours of terror as they think a hostage situation or a shooting spree is really taking place.


#11 NASA has just launched a "major" preparedness initiative for all NASA personnel. The following is an excerpt about this plan from NASA's own website....

A major initiative has been placed on Family/Personal Preparedness for all NASA personnel. The NASA Family/Personal Preparedness Program is designed to provide awareness, resources, and tools to the NASA Family (civil servants and contractors) to prepare for an emergency situation. The most important assets in the successful completion of NASA’s mission are our employees’ and their families. We are taking the steps to prepare our workforce, but it is your personal obligation to prepare yourself and your families for emergencies.


#12 Over the past week over 40 temporary "no fly zones" have been declared by the FAA. This is very highly unusual. Nobody seems to know exactly why this is happening.

*Please click link at top of box to be brought to the full article, which includes sources, stories, pictures, and further information about each of the twelve events.

Sadly though, even in thinking that I am metaphorically pulling the wool back from your eyes, I feel a sense of remorse. How can I possibly believe in anything anymore? Opinions can be facts, and facts can be opinions. This is all too perplexing for the common mentalist. I suppose I'll come back to this issue in a couple years when I have a firmer grasp on this issue.


P.F.S. Perhaps world travel is in order.

it's good to be back :]

xoxo disaster girl