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Category 3 Hurricane Willa Makes Landfall In Mexico Tonight – 500,000 Tourists In Path
Category 3 Hurricane Willa Makes Landfall In Mexico Tonight – 500,000 Tourists In Path Category 3 Hurricane Willa is expected to make landfall in and around Mexico’s Pacific Coast Tuesday evening with “life-threatening storm surge, wind, and rainfall,” according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). Willa briefly sustained Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds on Monday, then […]
There Are Two Types of Pole Shifts & We Seem to be on Course for an event Faster than Most Ever Believed
There Are Two Types of Pole Shifts & We Seem to be on Course for an event Faster than Most Ever Believed QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I agree that something seems to be changing faster than perhaps we might have expected. Is there anything that points to how fast a pole change might actually take place? […]
Reflections 50 Years Past, 50 Years Future
Reflections 50 Years Past, 50 Years Future Ed. note: The following remarks were made at the event celebrating 50 years since the publications of the Whole Earth Catalog. Thank you to everyone involved with Whole Earth for the inspiring conversations you’ve sparked over the years, including the ones happening on this stage tonight. I feel […]
‘Extremely Dangerous’ Hurricane Willa Now Category 5 Off Mexico’s Pacific Coast
‘Extremely Dangerous’ Hurricane Willa Now Category 5 Off Mexico’s Pacific Coast Hurricane Willa has rapidly intensified into an “extremely dangerous” category five storm in the eastern Pacific, with computer models early Monday forecasting landfall on Mexico’s western coast between Mazatlan and Perto Vallarta in the next several days. According to The Washington Post, state governments […]
Murdered for Sand
Murdered for Sand The world is running out of sand, and people are dying as a result “It is to cities what flour is to bread, what cells are to our bodies: the invisible but fundamental ingredient that makes up the bulk of the built environment in which most of us live.“ — Vince Beiser, author […]
Aspirational Goals
Aspirational Goals It was great to hear, from the mouth of Congressional savant Gerry Connolly, (D-VA) that substantive Democratic actions confronting climate change are “aspirational goals”. It makes survival sound like such an elective pleasure: as in should I order the hardtack or the filet mignon? Can I afford to survive? What will this […]
The risks of synthetic biology in the information society
The risks of synthetic biology in the information society Knowledge is power. The instructions for making viruses from synthetic strands of DNA are on the internet. And, the strands themselves are available for purchase online. It’s called synthetic biology. Right now it’s not easy to get the strands to you need to make dangerous viruses […]
El Nino Threatens North America In New Weather Report – “Big East Coast Systems Capable Of Snow”
El Nino Threatens North America In New Weather Report – “Big East Coast Systems Capable Of Snow” El Nino conditions are quickly developing across the central and eastern equatorial regions of the Pacific Ocean, with meteorologist now indicating a high chance of development by December. Warmer-than-normal temperatures for most of the country are expected, according to NOAA’s […]
The Next Flu Explosion: Rise In Obesity And Diabetes Will Exacerbate Future Pandemics
The Next Flu Explosion: Rise In Obesity And Diabetes Will Exacerbate Future Pandemics Scientists involved in a new study published this month in the research journal, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, have sounded the alarm over their ability to contain future flu pandemics in relation to the rise of obesity especially in the West today. The study finds that […]
The Greek Dark Age & Climate Change
The Greek Dark Age & Climate Change QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; You mentioned that the environment was the primary cause of the Greek Dark age between the Heroic and Hellenistic periods. Can you elaborate on that at all? Thank you. They do not seem to connect the dots as you say in school MG ANSWER: What is most interesting […]
The New Politics of Climate Change
The New Politics of Climate Change As climate change accelerates, the political environment will start to boil. It’s happening already. More and more ordinary people are beginning to connect the dots between extreme weather, rising climate related death tolls, collapsing ecosystems, refugee/resource crises, and other grave anomalies. The political outcome of all this will either […]
Build More Gardens, Phase out Cars
Build More Gardens, Phase out Cars Because plants convert CO2 (a greenhouse gas) into oxygen, gardens combat global warming. Right? Isn’t this, as Sherlock Holmes would say, elementary? So why then is the mayor of a major coastal city, one whose very existence is threatened by global warming, intent on destroying community gardens? Could it […]
The Ten Big Lies of Traditional Western Politics
The Ten Big Lies of Traditional Western Politics Photo Source DieselDemon | CC BY 2.0 Public lands managed by the federal government loom large in western politics, a defining topic dictating the political debate. Corporate interests – logging, grazing, and mineral extraction most prominently – have often succeeded in dominating that debate through their good-old-boy […]
Scientists Warn World Facing Major Famine, Could “Lead To Severe Shocks To Global Food System”
Scientists Warn World Facing Major Famine, Could “Lead To Severe Shocks To Global Food System” Researchers from Washington State University have published a new report of the Great Drought, the most destructive known drought of the past 800 years – and how it sparked the Global Famine that claimed the lives of 50 million people. The scientists warn […]
UN Climate Change Report: A Choice between “Mad Max and Hunger Games”
UN Climate Change Report: A Choice between “Mad Max and Hunger Games” Humanity, we’re essentially told, is doomed lest people concede their freedom to the experts, lawmakers, and bureaucrats who can save us. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this week released a special report detailing all the ways climate change is predicted to […]
