Having Trouble Visualizing The Scope Of The Russian Wildfires? This Should Help..

From englishrussia.com. Couple the fires with the major drought that preceeded it, factor in food and economic concerns and the threat to nuclear plants by said fires, the Russians have a pretty serious situation on their hands, exploding in multiple directions, powerfully, all at once..

And Now We're Back To "Terrorist Attack."

Japanese tanker, M.Star, leaves Fujairah Port after hull damage repair: UAE source

WAM Abu Dhabi, Aug. 2010 (WAM) -- The Japanese tanker M. Star left the Port of Fujairah today after repairing damage to its starboard side incurred when it was the target of a terrorist attack while passing through international waters near the Strait of Hormuz at midnight on Wednesday 28 July 2010.

Doom Freakout Roundup - World Edition, August 6, 2010

Moscow, baked and smoked. This sounds fun: In the first five days of August, four record high temperatures have been registered in Moscow; in July, ten. This, in a city where entire summers slip by unnoticed as such, with interludes of eighty-degree days followed by cool showery weeks, if without much snow. Come to think of it, I've seen it snow here in June. Russians take justifiable pride in how they face the rigors of their extreme climate -- but every extreme they know relates to cold, not heat. A Siberian adage has it that, "Forty degrees below zero is not a frost, and forty-proof vodka is not real vodka." But is forty-degree-centigrade (104 Fahrenheit) heat not real heat? No one has bothered to devise a proverb for it, because in northern or central Russia it almost never happens. Heat waves and even smoke from wildfires (often from burning peat bogs) have engulfed the city before, but never like this.

U.S. issues Israel travel warning in wake of Eilat rocket attack

You ever get the feeling the rest of the world gets a way different current-events storyline?

Another fish kill fuels debate over what's causing wildlife deaths

Dong Feng 21D, Chinese Missile, Could Shift Pacific Power Balance Nothing projects U.S. global air and sea power more vividly than supercarriers. Bristling with fighter jets that can reach deep into even landlocked trouble zones, America's virtually invincible carrier fleet has long enforced its dominance of the high seas.

China may soon put an end to that.

Speaking of China.. Three Gorges Dam is in a new, interesting, but not at all nice situation. The BIG questions? Will it work and will it hold?

Obama's Top Economic Advisor Resigns. I wonder in what country she'll end up?


Pakistan floods: 'By the time I had got the children, the water was waist high' Red Cross says 2.5 million people affected as death toll rises to 1,500

Lebanese and Israeli troops clash on border "in the most serious clashes since a fierce war four years ago, authorities said."

The Oil Spill's all better, right?

For your visiting pleasure, Peru offers not only Pneumonic, but Bubonic plage, also.. Book your hospital holiday now!

Radioactive Boar on the Rise in Germany

Glow boars!

Big Bot Hit In The Works?

First, the actual event, then the prediction.

Event: From Spaceweather.com.. Excerpts:

"On August 1st at 0855 UT, Earth orbiting satellites detected a C3-class solar flare. The origin of the blast was sunspot 1092. At about the same time, an enormous magnetic filament stretching across the sun's northern hemisphere erupted.
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The timing of these events suggest they are connected, and a review of SDO movies strengthens that conclusion. Despite the ~400,000 km distance between them, the sunspot and filament seem to erupt together; they are probably connected by long-range magnetic fields. In this movie (171 Å), a shadowy shock wave (a "solar tsunami") can be seen emerging from the flare site and rippling across the northern hemisphere into the filament's eruption zone. That may have helped propel the filament into space.

In short, we have just witnessed a complex global eruption involving almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun.

A coronal mass ejection (CME) produced by the event is heading directly for Earth: SOHO movie. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when it arrives on or about August 3rd."

The Prediction: From Urban Survival, Tuesday, July 27, 2010(Scroll waaay down..).

"In case you missed Clif, chief time monk, High's appearances on CoastToCoast last night during the show's first hour, the most important thing he had to say (very near term) was a heads up for the West Coast over the possibility based on predictive linguistics of a major quake toward the end of this week or maybe into the weekend.

"Within the immediacy data sets there are clear indications of a major [damaging] earthquake on west coast of America (MOST likely north America due to angular momentum issues of planetary alignment) and more probably than not, in the PNW perhaps down to mid CA. This quake shows as being completed with problems, *such as yet more [wedding interruptions] by August 3, however the data accretion patterns point to the last two days of July as the point of impact and largest number of after shocks. Damages are indicated to include [roadways] and [bridges] such that [transportation/movement] is [restricted (in some places)] for months afterward. Water flows are also to be affected and even altered for long time (months/years) which is how i found it. By noting the odd number of longer term indicators for [water pathways change] in the data accretion patterns for November and onward in 2010. A significant majority of these traced back to something in the immediacy data that turned out to be this pending earthquake in very late July. "

This just fell out' from the processing of the long term data set values which should result in a longer view of the data...out to beyond the end of this year. The expectation is that there will be a new report available sometime around the August 10-period. But, the reason for mentioning this now is that there is still plenty of time to get the stored water checked, food, first aid kits, and such on the West Coast. "

The Aftermath: From halfpasthuman.com

Soooo...i was wrong about the earthquake, and instead we had a global, solar quake and a ????something new??? that will hit earth on August 3rd. This is likely the 'event' that will trigger the [water way changes] showing as being [repaired (in some locales)] by late March of 2011. Of course, now that we know it is a solar event, and that the energies are headed toward earth, we can expect a whole series of earthquakes over these next (likely 2/two) weeks. See Space Weather for the verbiage attached to this solar global ?quake?.
Also..

"DELAY in Shape 7....due to recent events here at HPH we will NOT be able to deliver the next report as projected. No expected publication date can be determined just yet."

I think he thinks this is serious, and that's a little worrisome.