Day: October 15, 2014

Shadows in the corners of your mind

This is the best month of the year for creepy stories, strange feelings, and the thinning of this reality and merging with another. Or so we think..

October’s season of the witch is one of the most beautiful times of year.. Leaves are shifting from dark green to the amazing colors of autumn.. The winds are a bit more chilled, with each breeze seemingly blowing deeper into your soul than those of the warmer months..

And the darkness–the darkness!
The darkness penetrates everything in October..
The sun is seen less. When it is actually in the sky, it shines dimmer–of course if you’re not reading this in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s quite the opposite for you.

There’s one more thing that often happens this time of year.. at least to me: Shadows.

Shadows invade …call them shadow people, shadow figures, or just quick sliding darkness in the corner of your eye.

The ‘shadow people’ craze began over a decade ago. Since that time, the Internet and other paranormal sources have been in a constant buzz about what people were seeing.. But shadow people, or ghostly darkness, has been within paranormal lure for generations. The tales of people seeing figures, dark creatures, or even shadow rats from their vision have been around for years. Some have applied very skeptical science to the notion that we are seeing quick bursts of a paranormal world. Hallucinations, perhaps.. Maybe just optical illusions that are mind is being tricked into thinking is real.

But try to tell yourself in the midst of seeing a peculiar darkness in your sight that it’s not real.. Attempt to explain away what your mind is attempting to explain .. Give it a go and dismiss that creepy and chilling feeling that comes over your entire being when you see a presence of darkness, and feel the cold wrath from the corner of a room..

Floaters? optical tricks? brain lapses?

Or maybe a shadow being…
Maybe this world is thinning this time of year–the season where we are on the verge of spilling over into a spirit world..

Ever since I was a kid, I always felt a bit strange on or around Halloween. There seemed to be a very thin reality during that evening.. Maybe pop culture has reinforced the premise that Samhain is really a paranormal reality.

I cannot say if the other worldy does in fact exist. However, I can say this: I have seen more than a few shadow figures this year.. All of them have taken the shape of a human mist, and all but one vanished when I looked directly at it.. That one that did not haunts me.

October 15, 2014
More Art Bell commentary on the Ebola crisis

We may not be able to hear him nightly on the radio until his non compete clause with SIRIUS expires in 2015, but that is not stopping the talk show legend from taking to the Internet to express his anger over the apparent mishandling of the Ebola situation in the United States.

Bell posted several links over the past week concerning the outbreak. The latest update from his Pahrump homestead featured a photograph of a clearly unprepared person at the airport in Dallas as an Ebola patient was loaded no an airplane to Atlanta for treatment.

Minutes later, Bell said,

It seems to me that as long as Ebola remains spread only by bodily fluids that we will survive it, I am not sure we can survive the present level of stupid. Turns out the Nurse in Ohio actually called the CDC before boarding with a fever and they said no problem…..

And he was right.

When news today was revealed that the second nurse in Dallas actually was on two airline flights over the weekend, the government seemed to initially blame her… At one point the CDC said it was the wrong thing for patient number 3 to do. But news broke late in the day that the nurse actually called the CDC and they said it was permissible for her to take the flights! The CDC said that since her fever was below 100 she was not in the category of high risk.. Hours after taking a flight from Cincinnati to Dallas, she was in an isolation ward ..

Bell’s words are right on the money.. A ‘present level of stupid.’ The problem is if the ‘stupid’ continues, the present level of reality may change.. The United States cannot afford many more stupid mistakes in the Ebola nightmare..

Tonight in an apparent attempt to save some face, President Obama addressed the nation concerning the crisis, saying that “Ebola swat teams” were prepared to respond to infections.. That term raised the eyebrows of some, with the term seemingly implying that violence against patients infected may be administered.. Instead, the nation was reassured that it simply means the CDC will be able to get to any hospital in all 50 states within 24 hours should another case pop up..

The same CDC that blamed the first nurse in Dallas, and now the same CDC that permitted a second nurse to board a flight while being in an Ebola watch group.

Art Bell is not the only former radio host who is speaking out about the latest news. Today, Matt Drudge broke his Twitter silence to post one of his first Tweets in months–after all of his others were deleted–simply saying “self quarantine.”

While Art Bell may not be heard nightly at this time, his words still register with the thousands of followers who like or comment on his semi-regular status updates. It’s notable that as of late, Bell seems to be more active on Facebook. Perhaps that is because, as any veteran listener could testify, his eyes and ears have always been on the Ebola story since the early 1990s.

Without a doubt, the high desert will be active with typed words from Bell until his voice will again be on the Dark Matter Radio Network in the late summer of 2015.

And interestingly to contemplate, but then we will know what type of story Ebola turned out to be: A scare or a culling.

October 15, 2014
The watch list.. Viral edition

The CDC is now reaching out to all passengers who flew on Frontier Airlines flight 1143 Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth. The flight landed at 8:16 p.m. CT. »

The CDC says that the nurse who become the Latest to develop Ebola should not have traveled .. Reportedly they boarded flight 1143 with a slight temperature on Monday.. A day later it became the second health worker from the the Dallas Presbyterian hospital to be diagnosed.

The CDC insists that since the nurse was not vomiting or bleeding, the likelihood of the disease spreading is low..

Tell that to he 132 people who now are under the Ebola watch list..

October 15, 2014
‘Self-quarantine’

This ominous Drudge tweet is making major headlines .. Earlier this year, prior to deleting all of his tweets, Drudge posted famously ‘have an exit plan.’

This new tweet is even creepier to some who think that Drudge has his finger on the pulse of news and pop culture ..

October 15, 2014
Saddam’s chemical weapons haunting troops in Iraq

Now revealed: Chemical weapons have been found in Iraq..

Even more, the new work times reports:

In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.”

So the problem was not as the Bush administration said.. The problem for these secret missions have not been active chemical weapons but instead only and abandoned ones..

Even more from the TIMES:

The American government withheld word about its discoveries even from troops it sent into harm’s way and from military doctors. The government’s secrecy, victims and participants said, prevented troops in some of the war’s most dangerous jobs from receiving proper medical care and official recognition of their wounds.”

The TIMES goes on to say:

Congress, too, was only partly informed, while troops and officers were instructed to be silent or give deceptive accounts of what they had found. “ ’Nothing of significance’ is what I was ordered to say,” said Jarrod Lampier, a recently retired Army major who was present for the largest chemical weapons discovery of the war: more than 2,400 nerve-agent rockets unearthed in 2006 at a former Republican Guard compound.”

The scandal here is that we have NOT been told that chemical weapons have actually been found–instead we let the talking point survive that no chemicals were located..

The broader implications here are also that ISIS may be able to get into a stash tucked away somewhere.. The problem created over the secretive actions is that we believe, in essence, that Saddam’s Iraq was free of WMD. That clearly is not true.. While there may have been no active nuclear or chemical facilities creating anything new, there certainly is enough of the ‘old’ laying around to cause problems..

October 15, 2014
Patient three

The Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas Texas confirmed that another hospital worker tested positive for Ebola..

The worker apparently had a fever on Tuesday, was quickly tested, and was isolated within 90 minutes because results showed that the 70% fatal disease is present..

Unknown at this time are several facts, including who the person is and what contact with Thomas Duncan there may have been.. Regular? Occasional? Was protective gear malfunctioning in Duncan’s room? Another fact missing is whether or not this person was among the 70 people already being monitored for the disease…

Also unknown at this time as how many people this new patient, and hospital worker, actually came in contact with! The ever broadening Ebola crisis is now taking center stage deep in the heart of Dallas.

It seems very likely that we will hear more cases pop up over the coming days, if not hours. That 21 day incubation period has come and gone in many cases, and now the people who have been exposed to Ebola will undoubtedly begin to get revealed as the disease takes over their internal organs and begins to cause hemorrhagic conditions..

The concerning part, too, is that American hospitals may not be equipped for a rush of hundreds of patients coming to emergency rooms with symptoms of Ebola, even though many of the people who think they have it will not and fear will guide them to the hospital… Hypochondriacs exist.. But what if one actually has Ebola…?

The World Health Organization warned that 10,000 people per week will soon get Ebola…

I think back to the Georgia Guide stones intrigue from a few days ago, when the new pillar that said 2014 was installed–and removed a few days later. It would certainly seem that somebody knows something more about big events place final months of this year

All of the strange blood moons may now make sense. Blood above and below.

Is it raining is it snowing, is a hurricane a blowing? The danger must be growing..

October 15, 2014
This is your life on Mars. Any questions?

The excitement has long been building for the inevitable mission to Mars. The notion is amazing that human beings will expand their reach, reach for the stars themselves.. and the planet Mars..

But reality is not always as pleasant as some of our hopes and desires.
Such is the case with the Martian experiment. Those who would venture to the rocky red planet may not have much time to enjoy it..

According to new research from the University of Massachusetts, humans would likely perish after about 68 days on Mars.

Limits to the human condition.. Limits to technology. The colonization of Mars may be difficult if it only lasts days instead of years..

Are humans destined to be stuck on Earth for the rest of existence? Are we trapped in this war and modern dystopia for good?

It’s either here for 68 years.. or Mars for 68 days.
You pick your poison..

October 15, 2014