Unusual acitivity continues as a 3.1 quake rumbles parts of Mississippi.
--USGS
UFO Wave Argentina
Things are really starting to heat up globally and we're not talking global warming. This situation involving UFOs appears to be building to some sort of climax...outcome UNKNOWN.
--Apocalypse Times Blog
Miracle of the Sun--Viet Nam
"...a deliberate effort is being made by some outside intelligence to reveal themselves, their beliefs and their intentions directly to the human public by going over or outside traditional leadership organizations..."
--Apocalypse Times Blog
New Phoenix Lights UFO Video - Hoax?
"This video is not only amazing for it's clarity but one of the comments made by one of the children watching the event."
--Apocalypse Times Blog
St. Augustine UFOS Caught on Tape
Possible video of objects over St. Augustine, FL.
--Apocalypse Times Blog
More Texas UFOs
4-16-8
Things are still going on in the skies over Texas.
--End Times Blog
Everyone Is Looking Up
4-14-8
"The skies are coming to life these days and many are craning their necks, pointing their cameras at the heavens while prophesying from their computer keyboards"
--End Times Blog
Interesting Objects Filmed Over New Zealand
4-11-8
"The skies above the globe seem to be swimming with objects these days and this video is very similar to many we have seen recently."
--End Times Blog
I drove myself out of insanity...
3-29-8
"Is reality bugging you? Well, maybe you just can't see it; neither can I, at least most of the time. I have learned that I can control it, however, in very small ways; but, does that not necessarily imply that I can control it in big ways?"
--d.t. emerson
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--The Apocalypse Times
3-29-8
What stood out to us was not so much the videos themselves but the reactions to them by the witnesses.
--The End Times Blog
The Secret UN-UFO Saga Continues
3-26-8
A still undisclosed "source" claims he has been authorized to disclose this to the general public.
The Unknown Prophecy of Elizabeth Canori Mora
3-25-8
"The simple love and forgiveness taught by a man like Christ has been hammered into a sword of fear, cutting into the hearts of men and bleeding them of their hope..."
--End Times Blog
Kilauea
3-24-8
Keep an eye on the new activity at Mt. Kilauea Hawaii.
--USGS
Chastisement?
3-20-8
"Perhaps the Marian apparitions at Medjugorje are simmering to a boiling point as the latest revelation we received via e-mail contained an odd disclaimer."
--End Times Blog
3-17-8
Every society must provide meaning and motivation to its members.
--End Times Blog 3-19-8
"There’s a large minority who are struggling just to survive and that leads to a culture of ‘if my Mum can’t buy it, I will nick it’."
--Times Online - UK 3-18-8
Teenage Suicides Bewilder an Island, and the Experts.
--New York Times
3-10-8
If the secret UN-UFO story is true, hold onto your tin foil hats because you are living in a time unparalleled in human history.
--End Times Blog
UPDATED!!! Stephenville Lights Video; Hoax?
3-6-8
"We've seen snippets of the Stephenville Lights video but this is purported to be the whole thing!
Now it appears the "Stephenville Lights" aspect of the sightings may have been an accident?
--End Times Blog
UFO Filmed Near Cape Canaveral
3-3-8
The UFO hovers, rises and then separates into smaller objects.
--AT
False Prophet Predicts Ohio Primary
3-1-8
It may be more interesting than the polls say.
--False Prophet
2-26-8
Video is strikingly similar to a globally covered sighting earlier last year which took place in the UK
--AT
Bizarre Video: Gates of Hell Opened in Brigend?
2-21-8
This is one of the most strange stories we have ever stumbled upon in our many years of looking
at this kind of stuff!
--AT
Oscar Dreams
2-25-8
Somehow dreams seemed farther away while riding a public bus...must have been the stops.
--d.t. emerson
The Red Dragon Strikes Again?
2-20-8
A mysterious wave of suicides is occurring among the youth of Wales with a 17th reported today.
--AT
Arms of Evil
2-18-8
The tears of murderer Kazmierczak's girlfriend seem to be real, but we wonder...are her eyeballs working properly?
--AT
Number of exorcisms on the rise on Australia's Gold Coast
Ice Age?
2-13-8
"The Earth it seems has a mind of its own and defies attempts of her stewards to control or predict her."
--AT
A Little Comic Relief
2-11-8
We have recruited a writer to give us a little laugh during the apocalypse.
--AT
Marian Apparitions From Another World
2-10-8
"Today is the eve of the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes and on this occasion we invite you to explore the controversial topic."
--AT
2-5-8
As always we warn you: have an open mind, not an empty one.
--AT
Understanding The Apocalypse
2-1-8
"Everyone is hopping all over the word Apocalypse as if it were a nice, big, long, all-encompassing, super-powerful, end-of-the-world, super-word; well, it ain't so."
--AT
New UFO Video From Stephenville, TX?
1-30-8
We cannot guarantee that it is authentic but it does match some of the descriptions of eyewitnesses.
--AT
Strange sightings seem to be coming fast and furious these days. This post is just another example. Is this simply hysteria or is something really going on?
--AT
5-10-8
"Bees in the German state of Baden-Württemburg are dying by the hundreds of thousands. In some places more than half of hives have perished."
--Spiegel Online - Berlin,Germany
Bridgend Wales' Suicides Continue
5-10-8
"A father-to-be is believed to have become the 20th victim in the spate of suicides in Bridgend.
Christopher Jones, 23, was found hanging in the family's garage and died in hospital the next day."
--Metro - London,UK
No Outbreak on Train?
5-10-8
"By late Friday afternoon, it became apparent that there was no infectious disease. Neither did there appear to be any connection between the sudden death of one woman, the airlifting of another to a nearby hospital and the five tourists from Australia with flu-like symptoms who were placed in isolation on the train to contain the potential spread of disease."
--Globe and Mail
Train Quarantined After Outbreak
5-9-8
"Police say a woman in her 60s has died and several others have fallen ill on a halted Via Rail passenger train in northern Ontario that was en route from Vancouver to Toronto."
--The Canadian Press
Man Kills Family, Self
5-9-8
"Jackson then used a handgun to shoot the couple's two children, Nicole Jackson, 2, and Aaron Jackson, 18 months, and himself, investigators said."
--FoxNews
Hepatitis C Outbreak Widens
5-9-8
"Nevada health officials said Thursday that they had identified 77 new cases of hepatitis C among patients treated at a Las Vegas endoscopy practice, in one of the country’s largest outbreaks of the liver disease."
--New York Times
Small Quakes in Arkansas, Tennessee
5-9-8
Movement continues in and around the region of the New Madrid Fault.
--AT
Another Superbug Emerges
5-7-8
"The degree of resistance it shows is very worrying. Strains are now emerging that are resistant to all available antibiotics, and no new drugs capable of combating these 'pan-resistant' strains are currently in development."
--eFluxMedia.com
Chilean Volcanic Eruption Intensifies
5-7-8
"...complete evacuation on a 30-mile radius...lava blasted a dozen miles into the air...gigantic mushroom cloud of ash is visible from 100 miles away
--eFluxMedia.com
Mother Shoots 9 and 7 Year Old Children Then Self
5-7-8
"...a mother and her two children have been found dead in their home in an apparent murder-suicide."
--WLOS - Asheville,NC,USA
Farmer Suicides Spate Continues, India
5-7-8
"Thousands of farmers have committed suicide in Maharashtra in recent years, saddled by debts they could not repay."
--BBC News - UK
Honeybee Die-Off Worsens
5-6-8
"If the dairy industry was losing 80 percent of their cows, what would be happening? If 80 percent of our apple trees were dying, what would be happening?"
--KUOW NPR
"Bees have reached a critical threshold..."
--Buffalo News
China Reports Jump in Deadly Virus
5-6-8
"China has reported a large jump in the number of possible cases of a virus that mainly targets young children and has been blamed for at least 24 deaths."
--CTV.ca
6 Inch Deep Ash
5-5-8
"Chile prepared to evacuate another town in its remote Patagonian south on Monday, as ash spewed from a snowcapped volcano for a fourth day after its first eruption in thousands of years."
--Reuters
5-5-8
"...now she thinks a stronger quake could hit by the end of this month. To be specific, she's predicting a 70 percent chance of a magnitude-5 to magnitude-6 quake in the Reno/Tahoe/Sierra region by the end of May."
--MSNBC
Swarms of Quakes Have Many On Edge
5-5-8
"A series of earthquakes in Southern California and Nevada have some residents on edge. Is the shaking in both states a sign of something bigger to come?:
--NBC Sandiego.com
Virus Deaths Have Been Under-Reported, China
5-5-8
"Twenty four children have died from the disease and Chinese authorities have issued a nation-wide alert to fight the spread."
--Voice of America
5-5-8
"The youngster's body was discovered last Thursday at 8.45am at the rear of a premises in Mansel Street where, it is believed, she was staying at the time.
--South Wales Evening Post
Cyclone Devastates Myanmar
5-3-8
"At least 241 people were killed and nearly 100 000 left homeless when tropical cyclone Nargis tore through Myanmar, razing thousands of buildings and smashing up streets, officials said Sunday."
--Independent Online
Thousands of Fish Die Mysteriously
5-3-8
"Thousands of small-sized fish were found mysteriously dead in the backwaters of Karachi harbor, near Baba Island, late Thursday night. This is the second time that such an incident has taken place."
--Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
Thousands Flee Volcanic Eruption
5-2-8
"More than 1,500 people have fled their homes in southern Chile after the Chaiten volcano erupted, throwing a huge cloud of ash and lava into the sky."
--Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
NATIONAL UFO SPOTTING SESSION CALLED
5-2-8
The global mystery continues as the Australian UFO Research Network has called
for a national effort to find out just what's going on in the skies over the country.
--Northern Territory - Australia
5-1-8
This amazing series of earthquakes continues all over the United States even
including increased volcanic activity in Hawaii. Many, many aftershocks in the Aleutians.
--USGS
California, In Full Scale Shake
5-1-8
Overnight, a pair of earthquakes have occurred in southern and central California; both were in the four
magnitude range. This activity is now filling out the state and has a somewhat ominous feeling about it. The
swarm in Nevada continues.
--USGS
TB Outbreak Hits 30 Schoolgirls
5-1-8
An outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) at a Birmingham, UK school is being investigated, according to BBC News...
--BBC
Will A "Humanzee" Replace You At Work?
4-30-8
"Today central government officials said the outbreak could not be compared to Sars and added that it had taken time to discover the cause of the outbreak."
--guardian.co.uk
Chinese Put Spin on Deadly Virus Outbreak
4-30-8
"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has called it an ecological disaster in the making,
because bats -- voracious insect-eaters that keep mosquitoes and other flying pests in check..."
--Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
5.3 Quake Northern California
4-30-8
A 5.3 Quake has rattled northern California.
--USGS
Storm Packing 143 MPH Gusts Brews in Indian Ocean
4-30-8
"The estimated central pressure of the dangerous storm was 980 millibars, and the satellite imagery showed broken to solid intense to very intense convective clouds surrounding it."
--Hindu Business Line - Chennai,India
4-29-8
"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has called it an ecological disaster in the making,
because bats -- voracious insect-eaters that keep mosquitoes and other flying pests in check..."
--Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
Unexplained Explosions Frighten Residents: Video
4-29-8
"The bedroom actually lights up like day. It's instantaneous and wakes us up out of a very deep sleep."
--WJZ - Baltimore,MD,USA
Arrest may explain explosions.
--The Associated Press
4-29-8
"All of a sudden this big bright ball appeared, moving from south to north on a steady trajectory at a constant speed."
--Grantham Today - Grantham,England,UK
U.N. Warns Of Riot, Civil War Due To Food Shortage In Various Countries
4-28-8
"...government officials must take precautionary actions in order to educate their people about the current global problem on fuel, food shortages and the rising cost of basic commodities."
--AllHeadlineNew.com
4-28-8
A 4.2 shaker today is just another in a bone-rattling series of quakes that continues with at least three to four
quakes per hour near Reno, Nevada.
--USGS
Pair Spots UFO Near Houston
4-28-8
"And then it just kicked in – like, warp speed – and it was gone! An extremely sharp turn.
It just – poof! – disappeared. It was like a little triangle zap, like you see
in the movies. I mean, it just disappeared."
--KHOU - Houston,TX,USA
6 Years of Drought Dries Up Rice Supplies
4-28-8
"...the largest rice mill in the Southern Hemisphere, once processed enough grain to satisfy the daily needs of 20 million people. But six long years of drought have taken a toll, reducing Australia’s rice crop by 98 percent and leading to the closing of the mill last December."
--Deccan Herald
Virus Kills 19 Children, China
4-27-8
"A virus outbreak in an eastern Chinese city has killed 19 children and left hundreds ill, spreading panic among residents..."
--Reuters - USA
Tourist Snaps UFO Over UK
4-27-8
"But then I heard something in the sky. I looked up and noticed this thing in the sky. It was quite large and moving really fast."
--The Sun - London,UK
2nd Case TB at High School
4-27-8
State health officials have found a second active case of tuberculosis at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island
--Providence Eyewitness News
Tree Die-Off
4-27-8
"Exactly what is going on is not known, but government scientists, private-sector arbourists and forestry professors all say trees in Kingston and the surrounding area are under huge stress..."
--The Kingston Whig-Standard - Kingston,Ontario,Canada
A current outbreak in British Columbia, Canada, is an order of magnitude larger in area and severity than all previous recorded outbreaks...
--NPR - USA
More Shakes Illinois; Locals Rattled
4-25-8
According to the USGS another moderate quake (3.7) has shaken the same area in Illinois as
a series of moderate quakes continuinues over the last week.
--USGS
From Michael Gidcumb (Webmaster for the
city of Mt. Carmel Ill.)
"Yes we felt the 4.2 quake today. It seemed to last longer than most of the
tremors that we have been getting lately. We have had, I think, a total of
25 quakes since the initial 5.2 quake. There are a lot of people nervous
about the quake. It has been years since we had one, and now it seems like a
daily occurrence."
"There seems to be a lot of interest in the area from experts. We have
University of Purdue, University of Southern Indiana just to mention a few
that have been down our way."
UFOs Over Edinburgh
4-25-8
"A crowd of eyewitnesses, including several University of Edinburgh students, reported seeing strange lights hovering in the sky at around 9pm."
--The Edinburgh Journal
Massive Three Day Bird Flu Drill
4-25-8
"More than 5,000 people were taking part, from government officials and law enforcement officers to doctors and villagers."
--Malaysia Star - Malaysia
One In Three South Africans Infected With TB
4-25-8
"Wits University's Professor Valerie Mizrahi says one in three people in South Africa are infected with tuberculosis..."
--SABC News - Johannesburg,South Africa
According to Joe Childs in Carson NV:
"Most of these mini-quakes are of the 'did someone just
slam the door' variety. I don't know if you've ever felt a decent size
quake, but as long as the ceiling isn't falling on you, they are kind
of cool- not so much a shake you up, but more like the ground has
gone "liquid" on you and rolls side to side."
"From my personal observations, there hasn't been a run on the grocery
stores or anything like that. I did decide to pick up a couple more 5
gal bottles of water and should prolly hit Costco for some
batteries...."
Area near New Madrid
is seeing a few more small quakes after the big one in Illinois.
TB Coming To A Location Near You
4-24-8
TEXAS--About 300 High School students and staff members will be offered testing...
--Houston Chronicle
CREWE, UK--Letters go out to 1,000 members of fishing club.
--CheshireOnline
CAPETOWN, S.A.--Student removed from classes with drug resistant TB.
--AllAfrica.com
Volcano Causes Second Evacuation
4-24-8
"Elevated levels of sulfur dioxide pouring from Kilauea volcano Wednesday forced the evacuation of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park for the second time this month."
--KTAR.com
4-24-8
"...head of the monitoring post in a nearby village, as saying that the red-hot rocks shooting up from its crater have reached as high as 600 meters and are clearly visible from the nearby coast indicating that volcanic activity was set to continue."
--RIA Novosti
UTAH Heavy Honeybee Losses
4-23-8
"Honeybee keepers in the Beehive State are experiencing heavy losses this spring, with bees in entire hives dying — jeopardizing crops that rely on bees for pollination, from almonds to cotton to strawberries."
--Deseret News
Strange Disease Visits Iowa School
4-23-8
"An outbreak of fifth disease is showing up in schools in Fort Dodge.
The childhood illness causes students to have flu-like symptoms and a "slapped cheek" rash on the face and a lacy red rash on the trunk and limbs."
--DesMoinesRegister.com
US Quakes: Oregon, Nevada, Illinois
4-22-8
A recent moderate quake has occurred in Nevada following first: the swarm of tremblors
off the coast of Oregon ongoing for weeks, and next a rare 5+ magnitude in Illinois. Interestingly, these
oddball quakes have coincided with the Pope's visit to the US.
--AT
New Lights Over Phoenix
4-22-8
New lights appear over Phoenix complete with video...be prepared for it may be time for the news to become
real to all of us.
--NECN.com
UFO Over Florida Homes Updated
4-22-8
"...she saw two identical orange orbs that looked to be on fire. She said the flaming globes looked to be traveling at the same speed, with one slightly ahead of the other..."
--First Coast News - Jacksonville,FL,USA
Possible video of objects over St. Augustine, FL.
The Apocalypse Times
"...it zoomed at her and charged at her and then stopped fairly close, and then it backed away and hovered a little bit. Then it moved over and came again and pulled back.
First Coast News
Candidate Seeks UFO Truth
4-22-8
"I don't mind being seen as a wacko because to me, the world looks completely wacked..."
--Salt Lake Tribune
Midwesterners Refused Quake Insurance
4-22-8
"Eastern Missouri residents are scrambling to get earthquake insurance after last week's 5.2 magnitude trembler rattled windows and shook houses. But they are finding out there's a waiting period for coverage, even as aftershocks shake the ground."
--BND.com
Moderate Quakes Continue Off Oregon Coast
4-22-8
There have been four more moderate quakes off the Oregon coast. This is part of an unusual series of quakes that began
a week ago and is very puzzling to geologists.
--MSNBC
Mystery Illness Leads to Chaos at Nursing Home
4-21-8
"It was mobbed out here for awhile, and I don't really know what happened, but everyone was wearing the masks and the hat and whatever..."
--MyFox Tampa Bay
More Quake Acivity, Illinois
4-21-8
A 4.0 magnitude earthquake has occurred in the same area of Illinois as last week's unusual activity.
--USGS
Children Make Like Thugs in Merciless Attacks on Zoo Animals
4-21-8
Thugs have kicked llamas and pot-bellied pigs, beaten goats with branches and thrown stones at wallabies.
They speared an apple on a goat's horns and goaded others to chase it at Blair Drummond Safari Park.
--Glasgow Sunday Mail - UK
Changes In Deep Antarctic Waters Trouble Scientists
4-20-8
"If that freshening trend continues for long enough, eventually the water near Antarctica would be too light, too buoyant to sink and that limb of the global-scale circulation would shut down."
--Reuters - USA
Religion Seen As Source of Social Evil by Many
4-20-8
"A poll by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation uncovered a widespread belief that faith - not just in its extreme form - was intolerant, irrational and used to justify persecution."
--Times Online - UK
Virginia Fish Die-Off Continues
4-20-8
"'Something is very wrong in here,' said Donald Orth, a fisheries professor at Virginia Tech. On this day, he was taking notes and observing freshly collected fish samples at the makeshift lab."
--The Virginian-Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
Food Prices May Trigger Wars
4-19-8
"The head of the International Monetary Fund warned Friday that soaring world food prices can have dire consequences, such as toppling governments and even triggering wars."
--Daily Gleaner
Bats, Birds, Bees, Salmon and Now Sea Turtles
4-19-8
"There's something wrong with the environment. There's something wrong with what they're eating, what they're ingesting. Something in that area that's causing this. Most of the greens are covered in barnacles."
--Central Florida News 13
4-18-8
"Illinois residents were shaken from sleep this morning by the state's second-largest earthquake on record, a 5.2 temblor that rattled houses and knocked pictures from walls. There were no reports of injury."
--Bloomberg
5-10-8
"It was the third time in five days a coyote had posed a threat to a small child in Southern California, San Bernardino Sheriff's spokeswoman Arden Wiltshire said."
--ABC News
5-9-8
"The number of Chinese children confirmed dead from hand, foot and mouth disease has risen to 34 with nearly 25,000 people infected but the outbreak's spread may be slowing, state media said on Friday."
--AFP
Apocalyptic: Burma Cyclone Death Toll Could Hit 63,000
5-7-8
"With the number of dead or missing growing by the hour a huge humanitarian crisis is looming with hundreds of thousands left homeless and without drinking water..."
--Telegraph.co.uk
Rice region devastated.
--Philippine Star - Manila,Philippines
Bee Collapse Hits Utah
5-5-8
"So far, about the only agreement on this calamity is its name: Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which is evident when adult bees abandon their hive. To make matters worse, it comes at a time when America's bees were already in trouble."
--Salt Lake Tribune - United States
Volcano's Fumes Worry Hawaii's Residents
5-3-8
"...recent days of heavy volcanic emissions and light winds have been obnoxious and in some cases damaging, and have some residents worrying about the future."
--Jackson Clarion Ledger
Coyote Grabs Child In Park
5-3-8
"A nanny pulled a two-year-old girl from the jaws of a coyote when the animal attacked the toddler and tried to carry her away in its mouth."
--The Press Association
Damage Widespread As Hurricane Blows Through Central U.S.
5-1-8
Super storm blows through a wide area of the central U.S. causing a huge area of
damage by producing straight line winds of hurricane strength in many areas.
--CNN
5-1-8
More strange sights are making local newspapers in the UK. Not only is
the volume of stories strange, but so is the willingness of publications to publish them.
--Kent Online - United Kingdom
4-30-8
BELLEVUE, MI — A student and a teacher at Bellevue High School were diagnosed with MRSA last week, Superintendent Scott Belt said Monday.
--Battle Creek Enquirer
NASHUA, NH – A student and a staff member at Sunset Heights Elementary School have been diagnosed with MRSA
--Nashua Telegraph
UK - The number of people contracting the hospital bug, MRSA, is up again, after a fall in recent months.
--Sky News
Human Bird Flu Death, Indonesia
4-29-8
"A three-year-old boy from Indonesia's main island of Java has died from bird flu, pushing the country's total confirmed human cases to 108..."
--Reuters - USA
UFO Over Decatur Alabama
4-28-8
According to the video the witness claims something hit the ground and was retrieved by a military helicopter and ambulance??????
--WSFA - Montgomery,AL,USA
MRSA Attacks With Frightening Speed
4-27-8
"A new form of the superbug MRSA attacks its victims, usually children, with frightening speed, doctors are warning..."
--Times Online - UK
Scientist Investigates Magnetic Field's Effect On Humans
4-27-8
"...geomagnetism peaks mirrored peaks in suicide rates over the same time period in the city of Kirovsk, located in the far north of Russia."
--RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
Global Rice Shortage Spreads to U.S.
4-25-8
"A group of shoppers came into Farmer Joe's Marketplace in Oakland one morning this week and bought all the 50-pound bags of rice. A few miles away at Berkeley Bowl Marketplace, long-grain rice is sold out."
--Bloomberg
Flu and MRSA Have CDC Investigating
4-25-8
"State and federal disease investigators are tracking a disturbing increase in deaths among children stricken simultaneously with the flu and a hard-to-treat, fast-moving bacterial germ."
--Boston Globe
Deadly Wheat Blight Fear, Pakistan
4-24-8
"On March 5, the un Food and Agriculture Organization said the infection had reached Iran and alerted countries in the east of Iran, including India and Pakistan, to take preventive measures."
--OneWorld.net
Middle School Murder Plot
4-24-8
"Two middle school students and a 19-year-old man have been charged with plotting to kill a 13-year-old middle school student -- a plan police say was to be carried out by this weekend."
--Louisville Courier-Journal
Air Quality Linked to Pneumonia Deaths
4-23-8
"Exhaust fumes may be responsible for the deaths of more than 2,000 people in the area from pneumonia, new research has found."
--News Shopper - UK
Using Food to Make Fuel Is `Criminal,' Venezuela Says
4-22-8
"All countries, and particularly in Latin America, have problems with food stuffs. It is such a bad idea to use foodstuffs for fuel, it is criminal."
--Bloomberg
Alert Level Raised For Two Indonesian Volcanoes
4-22-8
"Indonesia has raised the alert level for two volcanoes in the Sunda Strait and Mollucas island chain to the second highest following increased volcanic activities"
--Reuters
TB May Bring Back Leper Colony Style Isolation Camps
4-21-8
"In a scenario that seems unthinkable in the age of antibiotics, the nation's tuberculosis doctors and health workers are considering the tactics of another era."
--San Jose Mercury News
Was Illinois Quake a Precursor to Larger Event?
4-20-8
"There is the possibility, and we can only see over next few months what will happen, that the redistribution of stress on neighboring faults might trigger further earthquakes, and we can only guess as to whether they'll be equally large as the 5.2 earthquake..."
--Live Science
Depression Cure a Poison Pill?
4-19-8
"Elderly patients taking anti-psychotic drugs have a 60 percent increased risk of pneumonia, a Dutch study finds."
--United Press International
Massive Drought China
4-19-8
"A prolonged drought in northeast China’s Liaoning Province has left 840,000 people short of drinking water and affected spring farming in many areas.
The provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters said on Friday that the drought had also caused drinking water shortages for 290,000 head of livestock and dried up 74 reservoirs."
--Xinhua - China
Mystery Boom And Lights, Indiana
4-18-8
"Residents in Howard and Tipton counties reported hearing a loud explosion, sending police and firefighters scrambling.
Some residents reported seeing bright lights in the western sky just after hearing the blast around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday."
--WLFI.com
This
activity may be related to the earthquakes that happened in Illinois. Please read our archived article regarding
earthquake lights.
Hundreds Flee Indonesian Volcano
4-17-8
"Hundreds of Indonesians have fled their homes after a volcano erupted spewing ash and smoke thousands of metres into the air, authorities said Wednesday."
--AFP
Millions of Birds Culled In Bird Flu Outbreak
4-16-8
"South Korea upgraded its bird flu alert to the second highest on Wednesday and sent in soldiers to help cull and bury birds amid the worst poultry influenza outbreak in four years."
--Reuters India - Mumbai,India
Something Fell From the Sky
4-16-8
Over the winter, fell from the sky an made a giant hole in farm pond ice about 2 feet across.
--KOAA - Pueblo,CO,USA
Increase in Pneumonia Strain Caused by Vaccine?
4-15-8
"Cases of a life-threatening form of pneumonia that affects the young are rising rapidly in Britain. It now affects around 1,000 children a year."
--Independent - London,England,UK
Buddhist Monks Call For Return of Virgin Mary
4-15-8
"Buddhist leaders in Sri Lanka are encouraging their Catholic counterparts to bring a cherished statue of the Virgin Mary back to the famous shrine at Madhu."
--Catholic World News
Measles Outbreak in Milwaukee Alarms Local Officials
4-14-8
"Milwaukee’s local officials are trying to contain a measles outbreak that could possibly involve scores of unsuspecting victims."
--Chatter Shmatter - Ontario,Canada
UFO Sighted Over Spanish Island
4-13-8
"Traffic is said to have slowed down and some vehicles even pulled over as drivers tried to get a better look at the phenomenon."
--Fortnightly Tenerife News
TB Outbreak at Irish Respite
4-13-8
"The centre has over 170 residents and 425 staff and provides day training, employment services and residential services, as well as a respite service to over 320 children and adults."
--Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
Drought Brings Staggering Fire Behavior
4-11-8
"Firefighting authorities say they have been staggered by changes to fire behaviour because of ongoing drought in South Australia."
--ABC Online - Australia
Die-Off Decimates Bighorn Sheep Herd
4-11-8
"I’m not aware of any place in Montana where we’ve had a die-off of this magnitude. We lost over 90 percent of the herd."
--Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
Lake Disappears
4-11-8
"Melting ice in southern Chile caused a glacial lake to swell and then empty suddenly, sending a "tsunami" rolling through a river, a scientist said Thursday. No one was injured in the remote region."
--AP
Global Food EMERGENCY
4-10-8
"The head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation on Wednesday urged world leaders to attend a summit in early June to discuss what he described as an "emergency" global food shortage."
--AFP
Evacuations Ordered in Hawaii
4-8-8
"Hilo and surrounding areas were blanketed with sulfur dioxide fumes from Kilauea volcano this morning while the Volcano Village area and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, 30 miles away, braced for conditions that may require evacuations later today."
--Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
