I think this is the author and paper Pierre mentioned:
http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_17_1_freund.pdf
http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_17_1_freund.pdf
An 8-year-old boy out walking with family members in Colorado Springs severely burned part of his foot on an underground patch of burning coal dust that had heated the ground to 800 degrees Fahrenheit.[...]
The fine "coal spoil" dust may have been discarded from a nearby mine decades ago and has mixed with soil and vegetation over the years. It appears to have spontaneously caught fire, said Al Amundson, an engineer with the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety...
mkrnhr said:The problem with the term "world war" is that people imagine the same type of war as in the 1940's. Today the technology is different, the means of mass manipulation are different, and therefore the way to wage a war is different. We can safely consider that we are already in a world war, especially after 911. But because we still have those old black and white images from the last century, we are not able to recognize this one. OSIT
Pashalis said:There was indeed an earthquake just of the coast of Crimea:
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=362664&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#summary:
http://www.ceme.gsras.ru/cgi-bin/ccd_quake_tmpe.pl?dat=02-03-2014&x=10&y=6:
http://inagist.com/all/439974391380590592/:
Maybe those who know that period can comment further, but I think lots of people were in a self-calming denial (thinking that it would never come to them), probably believing that progress and technological civilization was synonymous of virtue.SMM said:Could a similar thing have happened during WWII? That people thought they weren't going to end up in a war or weren't already in one. I don't think official history would have written down the Nazi invasion truthfully, as it happened.
luke wilson said:If there is already a one world government... then surely the whole Russia vs US/EU thing is just for show? To what end though?
mkrnhr said:The problem with the term "world war" is that people imagine the same type of war as in the 1940's. Today the technology is different, the means of mass manipulation are different, and therefore the way to wage a war is different. We can safely consider that we are already in a world war, especially after 911. But because we still have those old black and white images from the last century, we are not able to recognize this one. OSIT
voyageur said:Thank you SoTT Talk crew - so many darn fronts to all these events you speak of in our days for people to grasp.
When solar activity decreases, solar winds (low energy cosmic rays) decrease, but also the Sun’s magnetic shield weakens allowing a greater amount of high energy cosmic rays to enter the Solar system and ultimately our planet.
When reaching the Earth’s atmosphere, the primary cosmic rays are virtually all brought to a halt , they combine and interact with the atmosphere particles leading to swiftly moving particles called “secondary cosmic rays”. This particle mayhem occurring between 15 and 25 km above our heads leads to only one kind of particle that is able to reach the Earth’s surface in large number and without substantial loss of energy: muons.
Muons are exactly like electrons except for their mass, they are 200 times heavier than electrons. Muons have an extremely short live and they quickly transform into electrons. But, because of their very high speed muons have enough time to go deep into our atmosphere and spread electrons along their whole atmospheric journey.
In the drawing we can see from top to bottom how cosmic rays (yellow arrow) generate (via muons) electrons (red circles). Electrons accelerate the formation of clusters (turquoise blue circles) made of positively charged molecules in suspension in the atmosphere like clay dust, carbon, sulfur dioxide (green circles) eventually leading to stable and electrically neutral clusters (blue circles) which act as condensation nuclei (dark blue circle) around which water droplet can form.
This directly leads to an increase in cloudiness. And, overall , clouds have a strong cooling effect: if nothing else changed removing the cloud canopy would increase the Earth’s surface temperature by about 10° Celsius .
The above depicts one of the processes through which reduced solar activity leads to global cooling: a weaker solar activity increase the incoming high energy cosmic rays that in turn increase, via atmospheric electrons, the cloudiness which is a major cooler.
luke wilson said:If there is already a one world government... then surely the whole Russia vs US/EU thing is just for show? To what end though?
luke wilson said:I personally don't think WW3 will ever happen, for the simple reason, people will say, whatever the dispute, it is not worth it. The psychos can try but the normal people have seen enough of war to know it just aint worth it, especially if the government comes knocking to get every able bodied person on the battlefield. What are they going to do? Arrest everyone?... Alternatively, they can have their high tech wars with us, us the spectators.
Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY.
Shinzenbi said:- China has to be integrated into the equation. In case of open conflict between the US and Russia, China would certainly back up Russia. Then what do we have here ? A military giant and an economic giant joining their forces. Who can be mad enough to challenge them ?
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Does one possibility out rule the other?Shinzenbi said:On the other hand, war is a good solution to solve the western bankruptcy. Another solution is to Cyprus our accounts (I bet on this one).
mkrnhr said:Maybe those who know that period can comment further, but I think lots of people were in a self-calming denial (thinking that it would never come to them), probably believing that progress and technological civilization was synonymous of virtue.SMM said:Could a similar thing have happened during WWII? That people thought they weren't going to end up in a war or weren't already in one. I don't think official history would have written down the Nazi invasion truthfully, as it happened.
There are few things as comic as the calm, superior indifference with which I and those like me watched the beginnings of the Nazi revolution in Germany, as if from a box at the theatre. It was, after all, a movement with the declared intention of doing away with us. Perhaps, the only comparably comic thing is the way that now, years later, Europe is permitting itself exactly the same indifferent attitude, as though it were a superior, amused onlooker, while the Nazis are already setting it alight at all four corners.
The sequence of events is, as you see, not so unnatural. It is wholly within the normal range of psychology, and it helps to explain the almost inexplicable. The only thing that is missing is what in animals is called 'breeding'. This is a solid inner kernel that cannot be shaken by external pressures and forces, something noble and steely, a reserve of pride, principle and dignity to be drawn on in the hour of trial. It is missing in the Germans. As a nation they are soft, unreliable and without backbone. That was shown in March 1933. At the moment of truth, when other nations rise spontaneously to the occasion, the Germans collectively and limply collapsed. They yielded and capitulated, and suffered a nervous breakdown.