Welcome to Doomsday Monacle for August 2004. Here you will find hundreds of links. These stories are placed as is which means they will not be updated. Please be aware that many newspapers only link for two weeks so some of these many very well be removed. We can do nothing about that but hope you enjoy these articles that remain.

August 30, 2004

REAL vs. Speculative Threats
GOPUSA - Pearland,TX,USA... The volcano's eruption in 1949 caused a huge mass of La Palma to lose its mooring, sliding further into the sea. Once the volcano ...

GROW a little more lazy
The Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK... The secret is to avoid excess, and to grow what you want to eat. ... Anglian, his crop includes organic bananas, pineapples and guavas, albeit in plastic tunnels. ...

MARENGO Cave offers look underground
Marion Chronicle Tribune - Marion,IN,USA By EARL CONN. MARENGO -- Blanche Hiestand , a 15-year-old girl working as a cook at the Marengo Academy, overheard students talking ...

TO neighbors, secret bunker not a big deal
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA... proof communications center that serves as Vice President Dick Cheney's secret bunker. ... at least two other similar, and equally secretive, underground bunkers. ...

SOLAR? Eclipsed.
Newsweek - New York,NY,USA... are their stocks so unpopular? Record-high oil prices make wind and solar increasingly competitive. Fear of climate change should ...

VILLAGERS stunned by laird's land grab
Scotland on Sunday - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK... residents are having to find thousands of pounds just to secure a roof over their ... have been forced to pay charges for a few square yards of garden they long ...

SHARP unveils latest air purifiers-Oman
MENAFN - Middle East... bounds by introducing the plasma cluster technology which tacitly works all the time to keep the surrounding air free of bacteria, viruses, mold, odours and ...

ASK Umbra: Energy asterisk
Working for Change - San Francisco,CA,USA When I see the Energy Star rating on an appliance, can I trust that some government or consumer group is monitoring the ratings, or is that just a commercial ..

SEWAGE Leakage Threatens Iran's Noush Abad Underground City
Payvand - Iran A defunct sewage system is posing a fatal threat to an ancient three-story underground city in Noush Abad, near the central Iranian city of Kashan, Iranian ...

EUROPE warned to expect massive earthquake as anniversary nears
The Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK EUROPE is due for another huge earthquake like the one which hits Portugal in 1755 killing an estimated 60,000 people, it was revealed today. ...

VAST New Energy Source Almost Here: Solar Hydrogen Fuel Dream Will ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA... all the existing markets for coal, oil and gas combined," says Professor Janusz Nowotny, who with Professor Chris Sorrell is leading a solar hydrogen research ..

SCIENTISTS warn of new Anthropocene age
MSNBC - USA... Will Steffen, chief scientist for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, said: "The Anthropocene is a very different era from the relatively stable ...

SOLAR energy used to create hydrogen fuel
ABC Online - Australia Researchers from the University of New South Wales have this morning unveiled technology which uses solar energy to create hydrogen fuel, without producing

NOTHING fruity about banana-powered generator
Independent Online - South Africa ... he would know by February next year whether bananas were a viable energy source. ... was limited as it took 60kg of bananas to power a household appliance such as ...(Note: Why not generators that run off apples or oranges or garbage. Perhaps there could be a community generator fed off the waste from our households each day)

STEP One: PC On or Off?
TechTV - USA... always on? According to the Department of Energy, the average household in the US spends about $1,300 each year on home energy. While ...

SERIOUS Disaster Preparedness
Tech Central Station - USA ... No plausible government program could prepare us adequately for the kind of unlikely cataclysm Stirling employs -- but, in fact, if we should ever find ...(Note: How much time do we have before the critical disaster strikes?)

August 26, 2004

FASTEN your seat-belts, the end is nigh
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK... the North Pole. And the associated dramatic weather movements will see humans and animals blown about and crushed to pieces.". According to Rankin, the ice ages ...

RED Cross volunteer ends up at ground zero
Lompoc Record - Lompoc,CA,USA... "(The damage is) worst than anything than I've ever seen and I've seen some earthquake and tornado and fire damage.". At a local shelter, Myers said he has been ...

HYDRO lines to go underground in old St. B
Winnipeg Sun - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada... Boulevard. "They're putting the lines underground all the way to the start of Whittier Park," Coun. Gord Steeves (St. Vital) said. ..(EH Note-It seems to me that taking all utilities, most homes and businesses underground will allow us to finally 'see' nature as it was meant to be. They don't have to be totally underground but earth sheltered. Not only would our energy needs be reduced 90% but oil and other resources could be used gradually so future generations, as in our children will have something as well)

AN Effective Defense
Cybercast News Service - USA ... He told the cheering crowd of defense workers that America's first ballistic-missile interceptor had been loaded into its underground silo at Alaska's Fort ...

MYSTERIOUS Upton Cave sold
Woonsocketcall.com - Woonsocket,RI,USA UPTON, Mass. (AP) -- Historians have long pondered the uses of a mysterious stone chamber that sits on private land in Upton.

UP on the roof
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK ... The lower-ground-floor level has been extended to take up most of the original garden, but they have put a delightful roof garden on the resulting flat roof ...

GREEN buggy runs on hot air
ABC Science Online - Australia... be convenient for short distances and may be more efficient than battery-powered vehicles ... the air could not be compressed with wind power or solar power if the

UKRAINE'S Cold War theme park
BBC News - London,England,UK... is no ordinary door, but a metre thick barrier at the end of tunnel deep underground. ... This is where nuclear subs from the Black Sea Fleet were kept hidden. ..

SWISS house migrants in bunker
BBC News - London,England,UK By Imogen Foulkes. The Swiss canton of Berne has begun housing rejected asylum seekers in an underground army bunker.

AREA 51 - Groom Lake, Nevada
lasvegas.about.com - Las Vegas,NV,USA... investigators make a serious effort to find out the commonly assumed 'secret' of Groom ... would have to elaborate on a plot that had an underground tunnel

WHAT you need to know about gas
Ottumwa Courier - Ottumwa,IA,USA... gas, it has said that it is clean, efficient, and a reliable source of energy. ... Why can't gas dryers, gas stoves, any gas appliance have a detector built right ...(EH note-the best safety article I've ever read on lighter/heavier then air gas)

GARDNER proves necessity is the mother of invention
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA ... The food Beede grows feeds him for much of the year. He dries cranberry shell beans for winter chili. He cans beans and tomatoes. He makes his own pickles. ...

SHARP unveils new fat-busting microwave oven
MSNBC - USA Unveiling its invention to media on Monday, Sharp said the microwave generates "superheated steam ... heat so hot that fat liquefies and flows out of the food in a ...

WHEN mind really matters
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA... Carrying a survival kit is key, whether it be store-bought or ... starter), multipurpose knife, flashlight with batteries, compass, guide to wilderness travel and ..

MOLECULAR Wires May Replace Silicon in Solar Cells
Azom.com - USA... Florida have uncovered information that may help "molecular wires" replace silicon in micro-electronic circuits and/or components in solar energy storage ...

SMART Living in Home of the Future
Forbes - USA... This technology ranges from energy conservation technology to telephone control of household functions through the ... The appliance can also play music and films. ...

UV Air Purifier treats entire air stream in one pass.
Industrial News Room - New York,NY,USA... of that UV intensity would ever make it to the moving air. When the UV Bio-Wall was released, the applications varied form Bio-terrorism to mold control in ...

ECOQUEST International Awarded Certified Space Technology Status
Space Ref - USA... effectively purify the air indoors. According to a December '98 "Wall Street Journal" article, "Carpeting, poorly ventilated fireplaces, mold, bacterial toxins ...

ALTERNATIVE energy industry finally ready to grow up
Taipei Times - Taipei,Taiwan... Tapping into renewable sources of power like wind, solar power and hydrogen, which are inexhaustible but far from inexpensive, seems to make more commercial ...

HIKING Underground
Scientific American (subscription) - USA... The weak acid ate through the limestone, trickling down in ever widening cracks, ultimately forming underground rivers that became labyrinthine caves. ....

August 23, 2004

REMOTE islanders turned on by power of lottery funding
The Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK... which has supplied the 18 homes on Foula since 1980 will be replaced by a sophisticated battery bank for storing electricity, supplied by solar panels and an ...

CHARLEY leaves swarm of hazards behind
The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL,USA Southwest Florida residents are juggling a new world where water could be contaminated, food might be bad and generators might poison them. ...

ACTIVE and passive solar pre-heat systems
Contractor Mag - Des Plaines,IL,USA... Without this fluid, no heat was transferred from the. solar collectors to the storage tank. This can cause a lot of free energy to go uncollected.

MILITIA leader pleads guilty to gun charges
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA... He built an underground bunker on his property, which he filled with food and weapons for the final battle. He had numerous legally ...

APPROACHING Iran and North Korea
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA... attack using weapons of mass destruction, few foreign policy threats are as disturbing as the possibility that rogue regimes in Iran and North Korea could soon ...

MOUNTAN men gather in West Yellowstone
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle - Bozeman,MT,USA WEST YELLOWSTONE -- Ray Thompson's weaponry makes the bow and arrow seem like a high-powered rifle. "They call me 'ancient hunter ...

RANGES and hoods Stoves that sizzle Ranges and hoods are the ...
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA... most Earth-friendly on the market -- using about one-tenth the energy that a ... Chris Arroyo, floor director for BSC, an appliance store on Mission Street in San

WATER AND DROUGHT:
Crestline Courier-News - Crestline,CA,USA No one can say when the drought will end, but one thing is for certain - even among scientists, who are prone to disagree on just about any topic - believe the ...

15 dead in European storms
The Australian - Australia ... The southern village of Muno saw a "mini-tornado" which damaged some 25 roofs, while the central square in ... They were forced to seek shelter in a youth hostel. ...

STILWILL excited about rain forest challenge
Iowa City Press Citizen - Iowa City,IA,USA... Inside a translucent dome stretching three football fields in length and rising 18 stories, visitors will be able to experience a 4.5-acre re-created rain forest ...

SCATTERED rains do little to ease drought
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA... in recent weeks have watered down the wildfire danger and helped improve crops, but have done little to soften the state's entrenched drought, the Governor's ...

THE Water Is Falling! The Water Is Falling!
Nebraska StatePaper.com - Lincoln,NE,USA Continuing drought and recent legislation to prevent conflicts between groundwater and surface water users have contributed to the recent declines, said Jim ...

PINING for Pioneer Life
TidePool - USA... took three American families and placed them in the Montana wilderness for five ... but soon, every child became involved in the biggest game of all: Survival. ...

THE Case of the Disappearing Bomber
SitNews - Ketchikan,AK,USA... were rampant: The plane was swallowed up by a vast underground river that flows beneath the city. The plane was recovered, but the Air Force kept it a secret. ...

TRAPPED Single Atom Presages New Technology
IndoLink - San Ramon,CA,USA... the major lighting manufacturers are working on SSL, Bhargava believes QCAs are the breakthrough that will finally enable commercialization of the technology. ...

CHINA to train developing nations in solar technologies
SciDev.net - UK[BEIJING] Chinese scientists are to train 10,000 technicians from African and other developing countries in the use of solar energy technologies over the next ...

PLASTIC Solar Power Plus
Jobwerx - Seattle,WA,USA August 20, 2004 -- SEATTLE, Wash., (USA) -- Jobwerx News -- Solar power in the past has been confined to silicon based solar cells that are relatively

NORTH Korea steps up anti-US tirade
The Daily Star - Bangladesh North Korea stepped up its anti-US tirade Sunday, accusing Washington of planning to deploy an aircraft carrier off the Korean peninsula. ...

SEISMIC Zone 4 earthquake-proof cabinets from Schroff ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA (PRWEB) August 22, 2004 -- Schroff, the global leader in electronic enclosure solutions, now offers a full range of customizable seismic Zone 4 cabinets that ..

'SMART' window knows when to shut off the heat
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK... when the temperature rises too high. The window glass is coated with a thin film of chemicals. In normal conditions, the film allows

August 19, 2004

LAWRENCE native weathers hurricane
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA... The wind speed picked up so fast they didn't have time to seek adequate shelter. ... Zamarripa knows the freight-train sound of a Kansas tornado, but he had never ...

DROUGHT'S grip has the West by throat
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA... A persistent drought has upset lives and livelihoods from Montana to New Mexico, drawing comparisons to the Dust Bowl days. Fields have been left unplanted. ...

MOLD - A Growing Problem for Schools
allergies.about.com - USA... issues that schools are dealing with," said Ericka Plater, indoor air quality manager ... aging school buildings are to blame for producing more mold, but others ...

MAN Uses Dog To Detect Mold
WBAL Channel.com - Baltimore,MD,USA... If [the dog] alerts to mold, then we're able to back up what he's doing with science, air samples and tape lists," Yerger explained. ...

NASTY NATURE
The Mirror - UK... the Isle of Wight fell off the flank of the Mauna Loa volcano on the ... The cataclysmic 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (Indonesia) churned up the sea into lethal waves ...

OUCH! They sting. They bite. You duck.
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA ... a sugar source - discarded soda cans or bottles, or fruit in trash ... Where it lives: Ornamental trees and bushes - oaks, yaupons and dwarf yaupons, cedar ...

RAYTHEON delivers first missile killers
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA Raytheon Missile Systems announced yesterday the arrival at Fort Greely, Alaska, of its first Exoatmospheric Kill ... The silo-based interceptor made by Boeing Co. ...

A year after blackout, nation's power supply reliability still ...
Lorain Morning Journal - Lorain,OH,USA... A nuclear warhead detonated 25 to 300 miles above the United States could generate a sudden electromagnetic pulse (EMP) of energy that would disrupt the power ...

JACK Spencer
National Review Online - USA... An EMP attack, the theory goes, would come as a precursor to a full-scale nuclear exchange with our Cold War nemesis, the Soviet Union.

THE Electromagnetic Pulse Commission Warns of an Old Threat with a ...
Heritage.org - Washington,DC,USA... and might result in defeat of our military forces." The Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack announced ...

CHARLESTON man wants to be conservation spokesman
Coles County Leader - IL,USA... Ideas such as water saving shower heads, fluorescent lighting, ceiling insulation, car ... "We are currently building using late 1800s technology," Trueblood said ...

ILLINOIS MANUFACTURING PLANT PROVES SEVERE WEATHER PLANS SAVE ...
NOAA - Washington,DC,USA... public notice of an approaching severe thunderstorm and the tornado it produced ... implementing a severe weather plan gave workers extra minutes to take shelter. ...(Photos)

YOUR $1.25 million dream house? Home sweet silo
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA... Whisman did not return repeated phone calls and e-mails seeking an interview. The concept of living underground in a missile silo conjures up a cavelike image. ...

GENERATING Electricity
physics.about.com - USA... The oscillating charges in the primary create an oscillating magnetic field that causes the electrons in the secondary to oscillate too - leading to the Plus Flowing Water

Study: Unpatched computers compromised in 20 minutes.(EH Note-I'm including this article on malware infiltrating new computers since everyone of us has a computer that reads this)

August 16, 2004

'HUNDREDS missing' after Hurricane Charley
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK... Parts of his roof were blown off, the air-conditioning unit was scattered all around the garden, his prized orange tree was uprooted and his Chevy Blazer was

CAVERNS and Canyons of the Capital
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA... Subterranean Washington can be a top-secret area, as restricted in ... well-known building requested that their underground maintenance tunnels remain unpublicized ...

LAND of Enlightenment
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA... Home builders also may choose to build cottages made from rammed earth, a method in which a mixture of earth, water, clay and sometimes concrete is poured into ...

W. African locust swarm threatens struggling Chad
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA... farmers. A fraction of a swarm can munch the same amount in a day as 10 elephants, 25 camels or about 2,500 people, experts say. ...

TMLP excited about fiber optic system
Taunton Gazette - Taunton,MA,USA As fiber optic systems poise to take off, especially among public power utilities, the city's Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant has been busy
doing its ...

IRAN says missiles can hit anywhere in Israel
swissinfo - Switzerland... in 1981. capability, much of which has been built underground, and could prompt a swift military reaction from Iran. Since its 1979 ...

NEAR-ZERO-ENERGY Buildings Blessing To Owners, Environment
Science Daily (press release) - USA... The houses also provide high indoor air quality and mold, mildew and moisture control. In fact, the advanced construction techniques ...

MORE energy efficiency benefits
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand The measures are part of the Appliance and Equipment Energy Efficiency Forward Programme 2004-05 released today. The programme sets ...

MINUTEMAN Missile Looks to the Year 2020
ScienceBlog.com - USA... ''I'm very confident of the security of our ICBM forces,'' he said. ''There's a 110-ton blast door that sits on top on the missile silo, there are sensors on ...

AHEAD Of Schedule, Hydrogen Solar Ltd More Than Doubles ...
AZoNano.com - World Hydrogen Solar Ltd, the UK-based hydrogen production research and development company today (August 4) announced it has more than doubled the performance of ...(EH Note-Sounds like a very cool concept)

THE Connection: Water and Energy Security
IAGS Energy Security - USA... dispute between Israel and Syria over control over the Jordan River. Water conflicts add to the instablity of a region on which the US depends heavily for oil. ...

PANASONIC to unveil Vandal and Weatherproof Security Camera System ...
AME Info - United Arab Emirates... technologies for excellent performance in virtually any lighting condition, indoors ... security Digital Video Recorder with advanced compression technology at the .

August 13, 2004

2005 Jeep Liberty Diesel
Automobile Magazine - USA... if the prices we pay here are nothing compared with what Europeans pay at the pumps-the decision by Jeep to bring in a diesel version of its Liberty SUV is ...(EH Author-This is the vehicle I would love to own)

DIY doctor
ic Teesside.co.uk - Middlesbrough,England,UK... water. Food poisoning in summer is common, owing to poor food storage and preparation for picnics and undercooked barbecued meat. ...

BE stocked, not shocked
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA... Bill Jackson, the outdoor outfitters store in Pinellas Park, carries an extensive line of freeze-dried and dehydrated food that can be turned into dinner by ...

SOUTH Huntsville Residents Worried About Mysterious Substance on...
WAFF - Huntsville,AL,USA It's in the air and falling from the sky in one South Huntsville neighborhood, and what residents say is a mysterious chemical is leaving its mark. ...

VOLCANO could flatten US cities
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand ... The Cumbre Vieja volcano last erupted in 1949 and its western flank is highly unstable. ... plan would have to be based on the forecast of an eruption, since once ...

BREAKTHROUGH Nanotechnology Will Bring 100 Terabyte 3.5-inch...
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,United States Atomic Holographic Nanotechnology will allow for the first time a functional method for programmable molecular lenses that will allow incoming light to be ...

August 11, 2004

SUN power rises from the West
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA Last week, the California Environmental Protection Agency announced its proposed Million Solar Homes Initiative. This bold plan, prompted by Gov.

ELECTRONIC Faucet uses solar power.
Industrial News Room - New York,NY,USA FRANKLIN PARK, IL - Sloan Valve Company adds to its family of conservation solutions with the new Solis(tm), an electronic, solar-powered faucet that operates ...

WORLD'S Most Efficient (15.7%) Solar Modules to Go into Commercial...
Azom.com - USA Kyocera Corporation has announced the successful development of a new multicrystal silicon solar module to be mass produced for the general market, offering

SALT Range: a hidden treasure
Daily Times - Pakistan... opinion from abroad. The fascinating Salt Ranges have a vast archaeological treasure still hidden underground. Exploratory work that ...

KEEPING your energy costs down
CNN/Money - USA... For more tips on sealing your home's envelope, finding a performance contractor and "Energy Star" appliance partner incentive programs visit www.energystar.gov

SUN Energizes Businessman's Life
The Daily Californian - Berkeley,CA,USA... vivacious 53-year-old Berkeley resident and founder of Acme Electric, a company that converts homes to run on solar energy, powers every appliance, from his ..

LOCUST plague reaches Chad
Melbourne Herald Sun - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia THE plague of locusts sweeping across Africa has reached Chad and threatened to enter Sudan's Darfur region, adding to concerns for millions suffering what aid ...

FARM changes 'behind wasp plague'
BBC News - London,England,UK ... "I don't think farming is entirely to blame for a plague of wasps. This summer we have seen a situation that has created a lot of pests," Mr Burt said. ...

August 9, 2004

FREQUENT local farms
Milford Mirror - Milford,CT,USA... Additionally, studies indicate that eating food grown in one's own biosphere or local environment improves health because the body does not have to process non ...

AMERICAN Policy Center Protests US Move To Rejoin UNESCO
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA... UNESCO, through an agreement with the US Department of State, has designated 47 UN biosphere reserves in the US containing more than 70 million acres-all

IRAQ and the Problem of Peak Oil
Collective Bellaciao - Paris,France... This reality is being hidden from general discussion by the oil multinationals and ... The problem in oil production is not how much reserves are underground.

IRAN'S Looming Missile-cum-Nuclear Threat Sparks Fresh Tensions
DEBKA file - Israel... Iranians are also worried by the airborne GBI-28 bunker busters the ... weapons and devices because they are armed with deep underground penetration
capabilities .

TWO Crucial Questions About Nanotechnology Lev Navrozov
NewsMax.com - West Palm Beach,FL,USA... Yet this has not prevented them from understanding the military importance of ... with nuclear bombs high in the air, and nuclear missiles deep underground.

DROUGHT prompts call for Jefferson River restrictions
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle - Bozeman,MT,USA... Montana and state officials have asked irrigators and other users to reduce their take of water from the Jefferson River, one of the hardest hit by drought. ...

EU deal in 'Made in Israel' row
BBC News - London,England,UK... The goods, including palm oil and fruit juice, are worth $200m (£110m) a year. ... by a trade agreement signed in 2000 between the EU and Israel

SUN powers Sharp's LED street lamp
Optics.org - London,England,UK... The transparent illumination panel makes use of what Sharp calls a crystalline thin-film tandem solar cell that combines amorphous silicon and crystalline thin ...

WHAT Is To Be Done?
Intellectual Conservative - Phoenix,AZ,USA ... This policy, already tried unsuccessfully by the European countries, will lead to empowering the mullahs of Iran and quite possibly a nuclear disaster for the ...

ARE you ready for disaster?
CNN/Money - USA... To read up on what to do in the event of a conventional, chemical, biological, nuclear or natural disaster, visit www.fema.gov. ...

August 4, 2004

COMPUTERS that talk to each other on the horizon
Taipei Times - Taipei,Taiwan... Now technology is expanding their reach into areas like managing lighting systems and detecting construction defects. But that is just the beginning

HOMEOWNERS can cut energy bills by making their houses more energy...
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA... as replacing a 15- to 20-year-old refrigerator with a new Energy Star model, which uses about a fourth as much electricity as an older appliance,

TOWARDS Mysterious Mercury
Astrobiology Magazine - USA The MESSENGER spacecraft launched successfully at 2:16 am EDT, as the weather in Cape Canaveral, Florida finally cooperated.

CHRONIC Mideast oil addiction
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA By Roger Zion. The United States continues to commit economic and political suicide by allowing itself to remain dependent on Middle East oil. ...

SHARP'S illuminating solar skylight
engadget - USA ... those products that mildly screws up one's attempts to write a headline about it, because it does three things at once: it'sa transparent solar panel that .

August 2, 2004

SILOS for sale
Sedalia Democrat - Sedalia,MO,USA ... were connected to 15 launch control facilities linked by miles of underground cable. One of control buildings, Oscar-1, is still owned by the military and sits

SIMMONS hopes he's wrong
Petroleum News - USA... in as few as three years, somebody better have a "Plan B" ready or there's no way, he says - absolutely no way - to avoid a world energy cataclysm

EMERGENCY Lighting - New Choices For Your Preparedness Needs ...
NewsMax.com - West Palm Beach,FL,USA.. rather white diodes that help to provide long-term lighting with a ... teknolite.com):uses LED technology to ...

WELCOME to green land
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada... Place and recommended that the rooftop heating and hot water boilers be replaced with state-of-the-art technology. An extensive lighting and electrical upgrade ...(EH Note-A great story on condo's going green)

HOTEL opens beneath mystical mountain
swissinfo - Switzerland... Behind the door, a 200 metre long tunnel leads inside the former bunker which once housed ... bath and one can even shower in a cavern fed by an underground spring ...

August 31, 2004

From the Wilderness by Michael C Ruppert-VIEWED FROM ALMOST ANY PERSPECTIVE; BE IT GEOPOLITICS, ECONOMICS, CLIMATE, SPREADING WARFARE THAT THREATENS TO UNLEASH A GLOBAL ORGY OF BLOODLETTING, RISING ENERGY PRICES, DOCUMENTED ENERGY SHORTAGES, FRESH WATER SHORTAGES, BIOLOGICAL WARFARE, THE REPRESSION OF CIVIL LIBERTIES AT HOME AND ABROAD, OR ANY OF A DOZEN OTHER ISSUES; PLANET EARTH AND ALL OF ITS INHABITANTS ARE IN GREAT DANGER. THIS IS NOT A TIME TO THINK OF NATIONAL SECURITY. IT IS A TIME TO THINK OF PLANETARY SECURITY – INDEED, OF PLANETARY SURVIVAL.

THE Hobble fire - 1 year later: Fences, floods, frustration
Billings Gazette - Billings,MT,USA... "It's a hidden but necessary asset to any ranch. ... The fire burned so hot it burned tree roots, leaving hollow areas underground. ...

August 30, 2004

STORMS wreak havoc across wide area
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA... An hour later, a tornado briefly touched down on the north side of Galveston Island ... old woman was struck by lightning as she tried to seek shelter from the ...

WICKED Weather
KAKE - Wichita,KS,USA Tornado touchdowns send people to shelter as the destruction continues. Notorious Mother Nature strikes again, leaving even more Kansans homeless.

HELPFUL hints from a disaster contractor
Charlotte Sun-Herald - Charlotte,FL,USA... all the mold in the house. "That guy didn't know what he was talking about," Hill said. "All she had to do is take plastic and seal that area and run her air ..

WELLINGTON battens down hatches
NZ City - New Zealand Hailstones the size of golf balls are littering roads in the city, the Rimutaka Hill Road is closed again, and heavy seas have forced the cancellation of ...

STORM 'just exploded'
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA ... Elsewhere, nickel-sized hail was reported, and winds gusted up to 40 mph. ... At one point, the storm cut power to as many as 13,000 Tampa Electric Co. ...(Note-I wanted to mention these storms appear to be getting worse. Is it unstable air masses or something even worse?)

HAIL bad news for stonefruit growers
ABC Online - Australia... has been caused to buds and branches. Lake Boga grower Brian Richardson says the storm was ferocious. "Then all of a sudden the

Cleaned of dead links December 11 2005

August 2004

INVASION of the CrittersNewsweek - New York,NY,USA By Mac Margolis. Aug. 23 issue - Cleanup crews are used to thankless tasks. But when maintenance men at the So Paulo Electrical Co. .

PEST controllers deluged as wasp plague takes hold The Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK... particular problem. "We have had an awful lot of wasps this year, a real wasp plague. The conditions have been right for them.

RESIDENTS told to buy ant powder as plague hits city
Glasgow Evening Times - Glasgow,Scotland,UK RESIDENTS across Glasgow were today warned to arm themselves with insect powder after the city was hit by a plague of millions of flying ants.

August 30, 2004

REPORT: Asia faces water shortage
Al-Jazeera - Qatar Scientists are warning that Asian farmers are drying up the continent's underground reserves by drilling millions of pump-operated wells to draw out water. ...

August 29, 2004

EARTHQUAKE Shakes Granite State
WNNE-TV - White River Junction,VT,USA Quakes of that size generally do not cause damage or injuries, and none were reported. "We heard a loud bang," said Champlin, who ..

MINOR Earthquake Reported in Alabama
WSFA - Montgomery,AL,USA A minor earthquake -- the second this month-- was reported in central Alabama Saturday, but smaller than the first one. About six ...(Perhaps the gov't is building tunnels and underground bunkers?

EARTHQUAKE may rock foreign lands
The University of Hawaii Kaleo - HI,USA By Glennda Chui. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Scientists warn that the world is heading for a catastrophic earthquake that will kill at least 1 million people

EARTHQUAKE Hits North Alabama
August 20, 2004 WSFA - Montgomery,AL,USA... .A spokesperson for the U.S. Geological Survey in Colorado says the quake hit parts of Jefferson and Shelby counties shortly before seven Thursday night. The quake was centered about 10 miles southwest of Alabaster and had a magnitude of 3.5. There aren't any reports of injuries or damages.

Believe it or not, this is the fifth earthquake in Alabama in seven years. Alabama recorded one of the biggest earthquakes in its history on April 29th, 2003. That's when a 4.9 quake hit near Fort Payne. The tremors were felt in Birmingham and all the way to Troy. Another 4.9 quake hit the Brewton area in 1997. Smaller earthquakes hit the Birmingham area back in March and May of this year.

LATEST near-shore earthquake puzzles researchers
Newport News Times - Newport,OR,USA Researchers at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center are somewhat perplexed after a close-to-shore earthquake rumbled across Lincoln County

EARTHQUAKE shakes Oregon's central coast
Katu.com - Portland,OR,USA The earthquake struck at 11:06 pm and was centered 12 miles northwest of Newport in the Pacific Ocean, according to Stephanie Hanna, spokeswoman for the US ...