2015 - AUG - Other Stories

2015-08-01 - Volcano Ubinas rumbling, magma rising, throwing car-sized rocks in Peru:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VA-20150801-49453-PER

2015-08-01 - Magnitude 5.7 and 5.2 quakes, strongest in nearly 100 years, strike off the coast of Queensland (Australia):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3182046/5-7-magnitude-Earthquake-strikes-cost-Fraser-Island-days-5-3-quake-rocked-region.html
http://www.sott.net/article/299655-Queensland-rocked-by-2-earthquakes-as-powerful-as-an-atomic-bomb-in-strongest-shakes-in-nearly-100-years

2015-08-01 - Magnitude 4.6 earthquake strikes in coastal Davao del Norte (Philippine Islands):
http://www.philstar.com/nation/2015/08/02/1483736/magnitude-4.6-earthquake-shakes-davao
http://www.sott.net/article/299684-Magnitude-4-6-earthquake-rocks-Davao-Philippines

2015-08-01 - Magnitude 3.9 earthquake shakes northern Italy:
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=453189
http://www.sott.net/article/299686-Magnitude-4-earthquake-hits-northern-Italy

2015-08-01 - Massive toxic algae bloom killing life on the West Coast from California to Alaska:
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/8/1/scientists-fear-toxic-algae-bloom-continues-to-spread.html

Quote: "The toxic algae blooms in the Pacific Ocean stretching from southern California to Alaska — already the largest ever recorded — appear to have reached as far as the Aleutian Islands, scientists say."

2015-08-01 - Toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) outbreak hits Melvern Lake (Kansas):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150801-49452-USA

2015-08-01 - Toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) outbreak hits Vancouver Lake (Washington):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150801-49449-USA

2015-08-01 - Heatwave hits Cyprus (Greece):
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/01/42c-heat-wave-begins-in-cyprus-code-yellow-warning-issued/

2015-08-01 - Heatwave hits South Korea, 3 killed:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20150802-49468-KOR

2015-08-01 - Drought turns California into a tinderbox:
http://www.rt.com/usa/311314-state-emergency-wildfires-california/
http://www.sott.net/article/299660-Californias-drought-has-turned-the-state-into-a-tinderbox

2015-08-01 - Legionnaires' disease outbreak hits New York City (New York), 4 killed, 65 sickened:
http://news.yahoo.com/four-dead-65-sick-york-city-legionnaires-disease-204936316.html

2015-08-01 - Unknown predator killing the crap out of poultry in Voronezh Region (Russia):
http://www.rt.com/news/311331-voronezh-chupacabra-chickens-dog/
http://www.sott.net/article/299658-Mysterious-chupacabra-like-predator-annihilates-poultry-stock-in-Russian-village

2015-08-01 - Trans-Pacific Parternership meeting in Hawaii agrees to have another meeting:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/no-tppa-talks-founder-in-hawaii.html

2015-08-02 - Magnitude 3.2 earthquake shakes Mendota (California):
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-32-quake-strikes-near-mendota-calif-mrvqjz-story.html

2015-08-02 - Shallow magnitude 3.6 earthquake shakes Medford (Oklahoma):
http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/Earthquake-shakes-parts-of-northern-Oklahoma-320396592.html
http://www.sott.net/article/299687-3-6-magnitude-earthquake-rocks-parts-of-northern-Oklahoma

2015-08-02 - Heatwave hits Lebanon:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20150802-49466-LBN

2015-08-02 - Melbourne hit by coldest July in 20 years in Australia:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-01/melbourne-shivers-through-coldest-july-in-20-years/6665178
http://www.sott.net/article/299715-Melbourne-in-Australia-experiences-coldest-July-in-20-years

2015-08-02 - Deadly flooding hits Myanmar, at least 46 killed:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/myanmar-flooding-death-toll-rises-as-damage-widens-1438604832
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/catastrophic-flooding-claims-46-lives-in-myanmar-thousands-displaced/
http://www.sott.net/article/299723-Monsoonal-rains-leaves-thousands-stranded-and-27-dead-in-Myanmar-flooding-toll-expected-to-rise

2015-08-02 - Lightning strike kills woman on motorcycle in Khlong Luang District (Thailand):
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/641268/lightning-kills-woman-riding-pillion
http://www.sott.net/article/299683-Lightning-bolt-kills-woman-riding-pillion-in-Thailand

2015-08-02 - Great white sharks spotted near beach in Cape Cod (Massachusetts):
http://gma.yahoo.com/video/great-white-sharks-spotted-near-212303904.html

2015-08-02 - Fleets of glowing orbs seen in the skies over Osaka (Japan) and Milwaukee (Wisconsin):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ufos-milwaukee-osaka_55bbc2ede4b0b23e3ce2b8c9

2015-08-02 - Three mysterious objects seen passing by the Sun in NASA footage:
http://www.ibtimes.co.in/ufo-sighting-2015-3-giant-spaceships-caught-nasa-camera-641333
http://www.sott.net/article/299703-3-UFOs-seen-passing-the-sun-in-NASA-footage

2015-08-02 - Unknown object zips by passenger plane near JFK Airport in coastal New York City (New York):
http://news.yahoo.com/watch-virgin-atlantic-plane-overtaken-by-ufo-141419185.html

2015-08-02 - Hitchhiking robot named hitchBOT torn apart in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania):
http://www.dailydot.com/technology/hitchbot-robot-destroyed-philadelphia/
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1870932

2015-08-03 - Kyrgyz Emergency Situations Ministry warns of 9.0+ earthquake in second half of 2015:
http://en.trend.az/casia/kyrgyzstan/2421865.html
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/situation-ministry-warns-kyrgyzstan-may-be-hit-by-devastating-earthquake-in-2015/

2015-08-03 - Warm water 'blob' spreading in the Pacific Ocean along the entire North American west coast:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Expanse-of-warm-water-dubbed-the-blob-consumes-6420212.php

Quote: "By last summer the blob had consumed the entire North Pacific from California to Canada. A few months later it had touched the West Coast shore. Now it spans 2,000 miles from Baja, Mexico to Alaska, stretching 500 miles wide."

2015-08-03 - Food production faces unstoppable problems:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/unstoppable-problem-making-nearly-impossible-212537890.html

2015-08-03 - Super Typhoon Soudelor roars across the Pacific Ocean, 178-MPH winds, gusts up to 220 MPH:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/08/03/super-typhoon-soudelor-pacific-taiwan/31073349/
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/super-typhoon-soudelor-now-super-typhoon.html
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/dangerous-super-typhoon-soudelor-intensifies-as-the-strongest-storm-of-2015-wind-gusts-220-mph/

Quote: "The Earth's most powerful storm of 2015 — Super Typhoon Soudelor — is now roaring through the western Pacific Ocean with winds of 178 mph, the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane..."

2015-08-03 - Loss of rain-making bacteria may be exacerbating or causing droughts:
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/california-drought-surprising-cause
http://www.sott.net/article/299790-Atmospheric-dysbiosis-Is-the-loss-of-rainmaking-bacteria-causing-the-drought-in-the-Western-US

2015-08-03 - Ireland hit by coldest July in 22 years:
http://www.u.tv/News/2015/08/03/July-was-Northern-Irelands-coldest-in-22-years-42293#
http://www.sott.net/article/299758-July-was-Northern-Irelands-coldest-in-22-years

2015-08-03 - Scary ominous clouds seen in Pigeon (Michigan):
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/photo-taken-near-pigeon-michigan-today.html

2015-08-03 - Market fire sale on stuff that burns - oil, natural gas and coal all down:
http://kxan.com/ap/fire-sale-on-stuff-that-burns-oil-natural-gas-coal-down/
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/energy/too-much-energy-if-it-burns-its-selling-fire-sale-n403801

Quote: "These days it seems whatever can be burned to power a car, heat a home, make electricity or ship people and goods around the globe is being sold at bargain basement prices."

2015-08-03 - Lost Tropical Kingbird turns up far north of normal range, near Savage (Minnesota):
http://abcnewspapers.com/2015/08/03/talking-nature-three-species-of-kingbirds-in-one-week/
http://www.sott.net/article/299737-Lost-Tropical-Kingbird-turns-up-far-north-of-normal-range-near-Savage-Minnesota

2015-08-03 - Rare Arctic Beluga whale seen off the coast of Ireland:
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/video-rare-sighting-of-beluga-whale-off-the-irish-coast-31420214.html
http://www.sott.net/article/299714-Wrong-time-wrong-place-Rare-Arctic-Beluga-whale-seen-off-the-Irish-coast

2015-08-03 - Woman reports Lizard Man sighting in Bishopville (South Carolina):
http://www.islandpacket.com/2015/08/03/3863873_tv-station-woman-reports-lizard.html?rh=1
http://www.nbc12.com/story/29695185/has-lee-countys-mythical-lizard-man-returned
http://www.sott.net/article/299710-Has-Bishopvilles-lizard-man-returned-Photo-apparently-shows-fabled-South-Carolina-creature

2015-08-03 - 7-foot alligator surfs wave onto beach in South Carolina:
http://gma.yahoo.com/7-foot-alligator-washes-ashore-south-carolina-beach-150235740--abc-news-topstories.html
http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/local/regional/2015/08/03/7-foot-alligator-captured-on-south-carolina-beach/31081231/

2015-08-04 - Superstorm Typhoon Soudelor heads toward Taiwan and Japan:
http://www.rt.com/news/311553-typhoon-pacific-japan-taiwan/
http://www.sott.net/article/299795-Biggest-superstorm-of-2015-to-strike-Japan-Taiwan-this-week

2015-08-04 - Torrential rains hits Tampa with worst flooding in 65 years in Florida:
http://www.rt.com/usa/311498-tampa-flooding-rainfall-disaster/
http://www.sott.net/article/299760-Tampa-Florida-under-water-after-days-of-torrential-rainfall-worst-flooding-in-over-65-years

2015-08-04 - Deadly flooding kills 180 people and sends a million people to relief camps in India:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=FL-20150804-49501-IND

2015-08-04 - Fierce storm and hail hits Calgary (Canada), 20,000 homes go dark:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/hailstorm-flash-flooding-slam-calgary-knocks-out-power-to-20k-customers-1.3179494
http://www.sott.net/article/299811-Canada-Hailstorm-flash-flooding-slam-Calgary-knocks-out-power-to-20k-customers

2015-08-04 - Lightning strike kills farmer, injures 3 others, in Cabugao (Philippine Islands):
http://www.tempo.com.ph/2015/07/30/lightning-kills-farmer-hurts-3-others/
http://www.sott.net/article/299802-Lightning-bolt-kills-farmer-hurts-3-others-in-the-Philippines

2015-08-04 - Toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) outbreak hits Shenango Lake (Pennsylvania):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150804-49511-USA

2015-08-04 - Another unusually warm winter forecast for Alaska:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/alaska-update-08032015.html

2015-08-04 - Scientists say the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has passed the point of no return, in irreversible decline:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/the-melting-west-antarctoic-ice-sheet.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/science/earth/collapse-of-parts-of-west-antarctica-ice-sheet-has-begun-scientists-say.html

2015-08-04 - If the Titanic sank today, here's what it'd be like:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/the-modern-titanic.html

2015-08-05 - Volcano Colima erupts, rains down ash on nearby towns in Mexico:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/colima-volcano-fires-ash-two-miles-into-the-sky--video-10437987.html
http://www.sott.net/article/299827-Mexicos-volcano-of-fire-re-activates-raining-ash-on-nearby-communities

2015-08-05 - Toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) outbreaks hit seven lakes in New Brunswick (Canada):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150805-49523-CAN

2015-08-05 - Arctic ice rapidly disintegrating:
http://robertscribbler.com/2015/08/05/arctic-sea-ice-bounce-wiped-out-as-2015-summer-tracks-third-lowest-on-record/

2015-08-05 - Signs indicate another monster El Niño is coming:
http://io9.com/all-signs-indicate-a-new-monster-el-nino-is-coming-1722216118

2015-08-05 - Toxic algae bloom off the west coast of North America affecting food:
http://www.yahoo.com/health/toxic-algae-blooming-in-pacific-from-california-to-125925530927.html

2015-08-05 - Heatwave intensifies in Japan, 55 killed:
http://www.weather.com/news/news/japan-heat-stroke-deaths-illnesses-2015-august-2
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/05/japan-heat-wave-intensifies-death-toll-surges-to-55/

2015-08-05 - Locusts devouring crops in southern Russia, worst in 30 years, state of emergency declared:
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2015/08/state-of-emergency-declared-as-worst.html

2015-08-05 - Man sickened by the plague in Boulder (Colorado):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150806-49531-USA

2015-08-05 - Person killed by the plague in Pueblo County (Colorado):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150805-49529-USA

2015-08-05 - Airbus patents rocket-powered hypersonic Mach 4.5 airliner:
http://www.cnet.com/news/airbus-patents-hypersonic-rocket-powered-jetliner-tomorrow-daily-221/

2015-08-05 - Road rage on the Brooklyn Bridge in coastal Brooklyn (New York), punches and Pringles thrown:
http://abc7ny.com/traffic/road-rage-fight-on-brooklyn-bridge-with-drivers-throwing-punches-and-pringles/905376/

Quote: "Someone who appeared to be a Good Samaritan came over. But instead of making peace, he joined the fight and punched the cabbie."

Note: When people start throwing their Pringles, it's serious!

2015-08-05 - Woman gives birth to two-headed baby in Mathura (India):
http://www.india.com/news/india/this-woman-gave-birth-to-a-two-headed-baby-491352/
http://www.sott.net/article/299798-Portents-and-signs-Woman-gives-birth-to-a-two-headed-baby-in-India

2015-08-05 - Woman, 91, finds she's been carrying a fetus for over 60 years, in La Boca (Chile):
http://www.nbc-2.com/story/29713630/woman-discovers-she-has-carried-fetus-for-over-60-years

2015-08-05 - Medical marijuana patients can get their buds and papers and stuff delivered by drone in California:
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2015/08/now_you_can_order_marijuana_to.html

Quote: "Somehow, a company has managed to combine two of the most talked-about industries into one service: weed delivery by drone. In California, you can order a box of marijuana supplies -- bud, rolling papers, extracts, etc. -- online from Trees and it will be delivered same-day. In some areas, by a drone."

2015-08-06 - Hydrogen sulfide hitting the city of Atyrau (Kazakhstan), near the Caspian Sea:
http://en.tengrinews.kz/environment/Chemical-attack-descends-upon-Atyrau-261402/

Quote: "In particular, excess emissions of hydrogen sulfide were recorded at the air monitoring stations located in the area of the KazTransOil Atyrau oil pipeline control facility, Akzhayik-7 train tanks repairing facility, Tukhlaya Balka evaporation fields, waterfront near Chagala hotel and near the Oblast akimat (municipal authorities' headquarters). The largest hydrogen sulfide emission was recorded by West Oil station on July 29: the amount of hydrogen sulfide in the air exceeded the maximum permissible concentration 63 times! Meanwhile, according to the ecologists, the wind direction in the city during those days was constantly changing, so it is hard to determine which of the companies was responsible for spoiling the air."

Note: Atyrau is on the northeast (downwind) side of the Caspian Sea. Here's a Google Maps link of the area. They want to blame local industry. They could be right, but considering the proximity to the Caspian Sea and the fact that they're on the downwind side of it and considering that it was a waterfront hotel that was one of the places recording elevated readings, I wouldn't be so quick to jump to that conclusion. Kazakhstan is where well over 100,000 endangered saiga antelope mysteriously died this year, and it's also where there was a town where the residents experienced hallucinations, memory loss, sleeping for days, etc. That was blamed on gas emissions from a nearby mine, and that too was probably hydrogen sulfide...

2015-08-06 - Major natural gas pipeline shut down because of hydrogen sulfide contamination:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/natural-gas-pipeline-b-c-chicago-shut-down-160946982.html
http://www.timescolonist.com/natural-gas-pipeline-from-b-c-to-chicago-shut-down-due-to-hydrogen-sulphide-gas-1.2024025
http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/natural-gas-pipeline-from-b-c-to-chicago-shut-down-due-to-hydrogen-sulphide-gas-1.2506753
http://www.discoverestevan.com/local/23100-alliance-pipeline-flaring-in-alameda

Quote: "It's not known how long the closure of the nearly four-thousand-kilometre pipeline is expected to last. The Alliance Pipeline carries 1.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day from northeastern British Columbia to the Chicago area for processing."

2015-08-06 - As sea levels rise, Kili Island being wiped out, residents appeal to the US for help:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=CC-20150807-49555-MHL

Note: This island is in the Bikini Islands, where we tested dozens of nuclear weapons, and we promised them then, in 1946, that we'd take care of them no matter what. There are only 700 people threatened here. We should keep our word and help them...

2015-08-06 - Heatwave, longest in history, bakes Tokyo (Japan), tens of thousands of people hospitalized:
http://robertscribbler.com/2015/08/06/japan-in-hot-water-longest-heatwave-on-record-for-tokyo-tens-of-thousands-hospitalized/

2015-08-06 - 'Acidic substance' hits beach in Santa Monica (California), beach evacuated:
http://www.rt.com/usa/311710-santa-monica-beach-substance/
http://www.sott.net/article/299858-California-beach-evacuated-after-acidic-substance-in-water-washes-ashore

2015-08-06 - Child sickened by the plague at Yosemite National Park (California):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150807-49546-USA

2015-08-06 - Heatwave hits South Korea:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20150806-49536-KOR

2015-08-06 - Lightning strike kills motorcyclist near Tierra Amarilla (New Mexico):
http://www.sott.net/article/299881-Lightning-bolt-kills-motorcyclist-near-Tierra-Amarilla-New-Mexico
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/lightning-kills-motorcyclist-caught-in-storm-near-tierra-amarilla/article_af45dd73-3c64-5f0c-81f2-9c2f33e2e133.html

2015-08-06 - Lightning strike kills student in Cameroon:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201508071478.html
http://www.sott.net/article/299906-Lightning-bolt-kills-student-in-Cameroon

2015-08-06 - Lightning strike kills 3 girls in Bihar (India):
http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=342360
http://www.sott.net/article/299882-Lightning-bolt-kills-3-girls-in-Bihar-India

2015-08-06 - Lightning can alter the atomic structure of rocks, just like meteor impacts:
http://www.rt.com/news/311763-lightning-change-atomic-structure/
http://www.sott.net/article/299878-Lightning-can-alter-the-atomic-structure-of-rocks-Just-like-meteor-impacts

2015-08-06 - Environmental Protection Agency spills a million gallons of toxic water into Cement Creek (Colorado):
http://www.rt.com/usa/311858-colorado-mine-spill-orange/
http://www.sott.net/article/299890-Protecting-the-environment-EPA-triggers-spill-of-toxic-mine-waste-into-river-in-Colorado

2015-08-06 - DOW now down 900 points from its peak, eerily reminiscent of 2008:
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-dow-has-already-fallen-nearly-900-points-from-the-peak-of-the-market

2015-08-06 - Police to fire GPS trackers onto fleeing vehicles in Milwaukee (Wisconsin):
http://www.channel3000.com/news/milwaukee-police-to-fire-gps-trackers-onto-fleeing-vehicles/34571690

2015-08-06 - Service dog calls 911 and saves blind owner when home ignites in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania):
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Yolanda-Service-Dog-Blind-Owner-Philadelphia-Fire-320985531.html

Quote: "The incident wasn’t the first time Yolanda has saved her owner’s life. Jen Leary, the founder of the Red Paw Emergency Relief Team, told NBC10 Yolanda also called 911 last year when her owner fell down inside her home and lost consciousness."

2015-08-07 - Atmospheric methane levels hit record high:
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2015/08/record-high-methane-levels.html

2015-08-07 - Pacific Ocean temps continue rising:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/analyis-of-north-pacific-ocean.html

2015-08-07 - Magnitude 5.3 earthquake strikes in the Sea of Cortez (Mexico):
http://www.rt.com/news/311811-quake-mexico-sea-cortez/
http://www.sott.net/article/299880-5-3-earthquake-in-Mexico-Sea-of-Cortez

2015-08-07 - Shallow magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, 3 killed:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=EQ-20150807-49561-RWA
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/07/us-quake-congo-idUSKCN0QC06R20150807
http://www.sott.net/article/299892-5-6-magnitude-earthquake-hits-eastern-Democratic-Republic-of-Congo-killing-two-children
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/moderately-strong-earthquake-hits-eastern-congo-killing-three-people/

2015-08-07 - Toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) outbreaks hit Sisson Pond and Lawton Valley Reservoir in coastal Portsmouth (Rhode island):
http://patch.com/rhode-island/portsmouth/toxic-algae-blooms-found-two-portsmouth-bodies-water-0

2015-08-07 - Toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) outbreak hits Blackridge Reservoir (Utah):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150808-49568-USA

2015-08-07 - Typhoon Soudelor rips into Taiwan, 6 killed, 101 injured, thousands evacuated, millions without power:
http://www.rt.com/news/311917-big-storm-taiwan-dead/
http://www.sott.net/article/299918-Powerful-typhoon-leaves-4-dead-thousands-evacuated-and-millions-without-power-in-Taiwan

Quote: "A powerful typhoon, magnified by fierce winds and torrential rain, has ripped through central Taiwan after making landfall on the east coast, cutting power to nearly 3 million households and killing six people. A total of 101 people have been injured and four left missing in Taiwan, according to AP. All 279 domestic and at least 37 international flights were canceled on Saturday."

2015-08-07 - Heatwave bakes Germany:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20150807-49567-DEU

Quote: "Temperatures in Berlin, Germany soared to 35C yesterday, while forecasters at AccuWeather have predicted that today will be the city's hottest day of the week with possible highs of 38C, close to the highest temperature ever recorded in Berlin of 38.1C in 1959."

2015-08-07 - Heatwave bakes France:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20150807-49564-FRA

2015-08-07 - Four albino green sea turtles hatch on Vamizi Island (Mozambique):
http://www.grindtv.com/wildlife/four-rare-albino-green-sea-turtles-hatch-on-vamizi-island/

2015-08-07 - Scary-looking new species of anglerfish discovered in depths of Gulf of Mexico:
http://news.discovery.com/animals/downright-scary-looking-anglerfish-found-in-deep-sea-150807.htm
http://www.sott.net/article/299933-Scary-looking-new-species-of-anglerfish-discovered-in-depths-of-Gulf-of-Mexico

2015-08-07 - New York City tries to fire man because he missed work due to being dead:
http://nypost.com/2015/08/07/city-tried-to-fire-man-for-missing-work-because-he-was-dead/

Note: Excuses, excuses!

2015-08-08 - Woman, 49, has chest pains and loses consciousness on boat near coastal Jacksonville (Florida), medevac'd off:
http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2015-08-08/story/coast-guard-rescues-woman-after-medical-emergency-atlantic-ocean-east

Quote: "A 49-year-old woman was rescued from a boat in the Atlantic Ocean Saturday over 12 miles east of Jacksonville, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Authorities received a report from the captain of a 22-foot vessel about 8:40 a.m. after the woman experienced chest pains and lost consciousness, according to the Coast Guard."

2015-08-08 - Man has heart trouble on cruise ship in coastal Chesapeake Bay (Maryland), medevac'd off:
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/maryland-state-police-helicopter-crew-hoists-man-from-cruise-ship/34614788
http://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2015/08/08/cruise-ship-rescue/31344019/
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2015/08/09/man-airlifted-cruise-ship/31386755/
http://www.local10.com/news/man-evacuated-from-cruise-ship/34623752

2015-08-08 - Man, 28, goes on stabbing spree, stabs six people, gets shot dead, in coastal Long Beach (California):
http://www.presstelegram.com/general-news/20150807/long-beach-police-shoot-kill-man-following-stabbing-spree

2015-08-08 - Mount Aso erupts lightly in Kumamoto Prefecture (Japan):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VE-20150808-49575-JPN

Quote: "A small-scale eruption was observed Saturday on Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture for the first time since May 21, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Smoke rose as high as 600 meters into the sky, but police said nobody was injured by the eruption, which happened at around 12:15 p.m. The agency maintains its alert level at 2 on a scale of 5, advising against approaching the crater."

2015-08-08 - Heatwave bakes Hong Kong (China), hottest temps ever recorded there:
http://phys.org/news/2015-08-hong-kong-swelters-hottest-day.html
http://news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-swelters-hottest-day-history-102424750.html
http://www.sott.net/article/299934-Typhoon-Soudelor-after-effects-Hong-Kong-suffers-highest-temperature-recorded

2015-08-08 - Typhoon Soudelor roars into China, flash floods, mudslides and power outages ensue, at least 17 killed:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/09/us-china-typhoon-idUSKCN0QE06420150809
http://www.sott.net/article/299947-Typhoon-Soudelor-strikes-China-triggering-flash-floods-mudslides-and-power-outages
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/typhoon-soudelor-impacts-at-least-17-killed-grade-iv-emergency-issued-for-hard-hit-areas-in-china/

2015-08-08 - Freak hailstorm pounds Beijing (China):
http://shanghaiist.com/2015/08/08/hail_in_beijing.php
http://www.sott.net/article/299927-Record-heat-supertyphoons-and-now-giant-hail-Freak-hailstorm-pounds-Beijing

2015-08-08 - 'Snow bombs' close roads on the South Island (New Zealand):
http://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/-snow-bombs-force-widespread-road-closures-as-south-island-battered-q04669
http://www.sott.net/article/299923-Snow-bombs-force-widespread-road-closures-in-South-Island-New-Zealand

2015-08-08 - Legionnaires' disease continues spreading in New York City (New York), 108 cases now:
https://www.rt.com/usa/311904-legionnaires-disease-nyc-outbreak/
http://www.sott.net/article/299949-Cases-of-Legionnaires-disease-rises-to-record-108-in-Bronx-New-York

2015-08-08 - Seven countries near bankruptcy:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/08/05/24-7-wall-st-countries-near-bankruptcy/31164239/

2015-08-08 - Record 93,770,000 Americans are unemployed:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/07/record-93770000-americans-not-in-labor-force/
http://www.sott.net/article/299948-A-record-93770000-Americans-unemployed

2015-08-09 - Atmospheric methane levels keep on rising:
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-methane-monster.html

2015-08-09 - Residents want answers after multiple underground fires black out parts of coastal Long Beach (California):
http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20150808/long-beach-residents-want-answers-about-power-outages

Note: I doubt they'd much like the truth...

2015-08-09 - Mideast temps to exceed half the boiling point of water in the coming week:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/the-dying-earth-08092015.html

2015-08-09 - El Niño strengthening, even more climate chaos the likely result:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3187227/El-Nino-getting-stronger-Monster-weather-bring-relief-California-cause-mayhem-says-Nasa.html
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/forecasters-warn-el-nino-is-getting-stronger-and-could-cause-more-climate-mayhem/

2015-08-09 - Heavy rains and winds cause flooding and evacuations along the coastline in Chile:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/09/us-chile-rainfall-idUSKCN0QE0W720150809
http://www.sott.net/article/299966-Heavy-rains-winds-cause-flooding-and-evacuations-along-Chilean-coastline

2015-08-09 - Spider webs coat trees in area in Dallas (Texas):
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/giant-spider-webs-invade-dallas-suburb-where-did-they-come-from/ar-BBlAV2p

2015-08-10 - Magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes in the ocean near the Solomon Islands:
http://www.sott.net/article/299968-Earthquake-of-6-9-magnitude-hits-off-Solomon-Islands
http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/earthquake-of-6-9-magnitude-strikes-off-solomon-islands-no-tsunami-warning/article1-1378407.aspx

2015-08-10 - Earthquake swarm hits volcanically active area in New Zealand:
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/swarm-tremors-new-zealand-means-magma-may-stirring/

2015-08-10 - Heatwave bakes Japan, 32 people die in a week, 11,219 people hospitalized:
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/08/11/record-heat-wave-in-japan-leads-to-32-deaths-in-a-week/

2015-08-10 - Heatwave hits Egypt, 21 killed:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20150810-49598-EGY
http://news.yahoo.com/21-dead-egypt-temperatures-soar-ministry-102953305.html

2015-08-10 - Heatwave hits Slovakia, 729 people collapse:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20150810-49594-SVK

2015-08-10 - Heatwave killed 140 people in Italy in July, cars melting:
http://www.thelocal.it/20150717/heatwave-kills-140-pensioners-in-piedmont
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/renault-car-starts-to-melt-in-italian-heatwave-where-mercury-hit-37c-085213489.html#FK6Iz7z

2015-08-10 - Heatwave baked Austria in July, with July being the hottest month ever recorded in some areas:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20150810-49596-AUT

2015-08-10 - Heatwave hits Spain:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20150810-49599-ESP

2015-08-10 - Heatwave hits Sweden:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20150810-49600-SWE

2015-08-10 - Heatwave hits Poland:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20150810-49601-POL

2015-08-10 - Heatwave hits Hungary:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20150811-49606-HUN

Note: Hmmm, yeah, starting to see a pattern developing. Well, the planet baking is to be expected as the Arctic methane veil spreads further southward. And the Earth is barely even firing her Clathrate Guns yet. Wait and see what it's like when the Earth REALLY lets loose!

2015-08-10 - Drought hits El Salvador, $100 million in crops lost:
http://phys.org/news/2015-08-drought-million-crop-losses-el.html

2015-08-10 - Forecasters warn that El Nino could be the strongest in decades:
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/10/431136341/forecasters-warn-el-nino-could-be-the-strongest-in-recent-decades

2015-08-10 - Two inches of rain in 45 minutes causes flash flooding in Colorado Springs (Colorado), cars washed away:
http://mashable.com/2015/08/10/flash-flood-colorado-car-river/

2015-08-10 - Extreme weather puts insurance costs on path to record highs:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/70980090/extreme-weather-puts-insurance-cost-on-track-for-record-high

2015-08-10 - After toxic wastewater spill by the EPA, two Colorado cities declare states of emergency:
http://kutv.com/news/nation-world/epa-spill-the-magnitude-of-it-you-cant-even-describe-it
http://twitter.com/KUTV2News/status/630761323614367744/photo/1

2015-08-10 - Stock market not faring well these days:
http://www.dailyimpact.net/2015/08/10/the-crash-of-2015-now-arriving-at-gates-371219/

2015-08-10 - Two pythons found on street in Twickenham (Britain):
http://leemoranyahoo.tumblr.com/post/126336224702/slithery-surprise-as-gigantic-pythons-mysteriously

2015-08-11 - Man goes out on boat, goes missing, empty 'ghost boat' found, at Lake Mead (Nevada):
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/search-underway-for-missing-boater-at-lake-mead

Quote: "According to National Park Service Rangers, there were multiple calls on the evening of Aug. 10 reporting an unoccupied boat floating in the Virgin Basin of Lake Mead. Rangers immediately began searching the water for the boater. The man reportedly launched the boat around 4 a.m. on Monday at Callville Bay."

2015-08-11 - Man, 18, goes out on kayak, goes missing, at coastal Swan's Island (Maine):
http://www.pressherald.com/2015/08/11/coast-guard-launches-nighttime-search-for-missing-kayaker-in-maine/

2015-08-11 - Crew member goes missing from cargo ship near coastal Ocean City (Maryland):
http://6abc.com/news/coast-guard-searching-for-missing-crew-member/922442/

2015-08-11 - Toxic algae killing water life and contaminating water supplies in the US:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/toxic-algae-blooms-contaminate-us-drinking-water/vi-BBlFOPu

2015-08-11 - Toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) outbreak hits Chaohu Lake (China), China's 5th largest freshwater lake:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150811-49617-CHN

Quote: "Environment authorities in eastern China's Anhui province are battling an intense blue algae outbreak in Chaohu lake, the country's 5th largest fresh water lake, as they struggle to ensure clean water for local residents, the media reported on Monday. Blue algae grew by as much as 852 per cent from the normal level and it has been hard to contain..."

2015-08-11 - Half of the population of the US vulnerable to earthquakes:
http://www.rt.com/usa/312216-earthquake-danger-zones-damage/
http://www.sott.net/article/300054-Half-of-population-in-US-vulnerable-to-earthquakes

2015-08-11 - Heavy rains and flooding wipe out homes, cars and crops in Burkina Faso:
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/aug/11/burkina-faso-calls-aid-floods-worsen
http://www.sott.net/article/300023-Floods-destroys-homes-carries-away-grain-and-livestock-in-Burkina-Faso

2015-08-11 - Flash flooding hits Morocco, at least 5 people missing:
http://www.emirates247.com/news/five-missing-after-morocco-flash-flood-2015-08-11-1.599978
http://www.sott.net/article/300064-Five-missing-after-flash-flood-in-Morocco

2015-08-11 - New tadpole disease affecting frogs:
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/environment/new-tadpole-disease-affecting-frogs-1.1897815#.VcsSmG5VhBc

2015-08-11 - Two-headed snake born in Yulin (China):
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/watch-terrifying-two-headed-snake-6233655
http://www.sott.net/article/300026-Signs-and-Portents-Two-headed-snake-born-in-Chinese-zoo

2015-08-11 - Rare white humpback whale spotted off the Gold Coast (Australia):
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/national/rare-white-whale-spotted-near-australia/nnHDz/

2015-08-11 - Meteorite lights up the skies in Tamworth (Australia):
http://blogs.abc.net.au/nsw/2015/08/early-morning-tamworth-explosion-mystery-solved-sonic-boom.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300020-Loud-explosion-and-large-glowing-object-in-the-sky-reported-from-Tamworth-Australia

2015-08-11 - Double-sun-halo seen on the Jersey Shore (New Jersey):
http://www.thehulltruth.com/boating-outdoor-photos/696462-double-halo-rainbow-around-sun.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300076-Double-sun-halo-appears-over-New-Jersey-shore

2015-08-11 - Mysterious 'Stonehenge' monolith found off the coast of Sicily:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mysterious-monolith-found-in-deep-water-off-coast-of-sicily_55c8f28ae4b0923c12bdaea9

2015-08-11 - Britain investigating effects of cosmic rays on planes and plane passengers:
http://www.sott.net/article/300049-Urgent-investigation-launched-into-effects-of-cosmic-rays-on-airplanes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3182835/Fears-airline-passengers-urgent-investigation-launched-effects-cosmic-rays-sun-planes.html

2015-08-11 - Mysterious completely silent 'ghost plane' seen by couple in Rowsley (Britain):
http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Ghost-plane-spotted-skies-Derbyshire/story-27563571-detail/story.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300087-Ghost-plane-seen-in-the-skies-of-Derbyshire-UK

2015-08-11 - Wedge-tailed eagle attacks drone, knocks it out of the sky, in Australia:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/eagle-wins-battle-drone-ferocious-attack-article-1.2322564
http://www.cnet.com/news/watch-this-majestic-eagle-swoop-in-and-take-down-a-drone/
http://www.nbc-2.com/story/29774943/eagle-knocks-drone-out-of-sky
http://fortune.com/2015/08/12/eagle-punches-drone/

2015-08-12 - Unusually hot ocean water causes shutdown of nuclear plant in coastal Plymouth (Massachusetts):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=NC-20150812-49622-USA

Quote: "Andrew Pershing, chief scientific officer of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, said that the temperature of Cape Cod Bay has shown 'a remarkably steady increase' and that Sunday's incident should serve as a warning to the plant operators. Between 1982 and 2014, the bay's summer temperatures warmed by an average of about 3.5 degrees, five times the average warming rate of the planet's oceans. The bay's summer temperature appears to be increasing even more in the most recent years. Between 2009 and 2013, the average temperature warmed more than 6 degrees."

Note: Millstone nuclear plant in Waterford (Connecticut) shut down in 2012 because the ocean was too warm too, the first time in that plant's history that had happened, mentioned in the 2012-08-13 update. Serious problem looming here - if nuclear plants can't be cooled then they either shut down or they go Fukushima...

2015-08-12 - Earthquake swarm in Nevada could be linked to volcanic activity:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=EQ-20150812-49623-USA

2015-08-12 - Ice melting on Greenland and at the North Pole:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/cameras-recording-ice-melt-at-north-pole.html

2015-08-12 - Empty 'ghost boat' found at lake in Shawano County (Wisconsin), man missing:
http://www.waow.com/story/29773397/2015/08/12/empty-fishing-boat-found-on-shawano-co-lake
http://www.channel3000.com/news/shawano-county-authorities-search-lake-for-missing-boater/34681702
http://www.stevenspointjournal.com/story/news/local/2015/08/12/search-missing-boater-suspended-shawano-county/31557385/
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/man-believed-to-missing-after-unoccupied-boat-spotted-b99556078z1-321616761.html

2015-08-12 - Heatwave bakes Egypt, 61 killed, hundreds hospitalized:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/12/us-egypt-heatwave-idUSKCN0QH1VA20150812
http://www.sott.net/article/300131-Egyptian-heatwave-has-killed-61-people-hundreds-hospitalized-for-heat-exhaustion

2015-08-12 - Devastating floods hit Buenos Aires Province (Argentina), at least 3 killed:
http://buenosairesherald.com/article/196247/death-toll-rises-from-floods-in-ba-province
http://www.sott.net/article/300060-Death-toll-rises-from-floods-in-Buenos-Aires-province-Argentina

2015-08-12 - Argentina's 2015-2016 wheat crop threatened by flooding:
http://www.producer.com/daily/floods-threaten-argentinas-2015-16-wheat-crop/
http://www.sott.net/article/300063-Argentinas-2015-16-wheat-crop-threatened-by-flooding

2015-08-12 - Violent storm hits Rossano (Italy), streets turn to rivers, cars washed away:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/cars-washed-away-people-stranded-6241883
http://www.sott.net/article/300110-Cars-washed-away-by-floodwater-in-Rossano-Italy-after-violent-storms-sweep-across-region

2015-08-12 - Lightning strikes kill 4 women in one day in Maharashtra (India):
http://www.siasat.com/news/lightning-kills-four-woman-adilabad-district-telangana-812228/
http://www.sott.net/article/300079-Lightning-strikes-kill-4-woman-within-24-hours-in-Maharashtra-India

2015-08-12 - Mysterious circular brown plume appears in the water at coastal Barnegat Bay (New Jersey):
http://gma.yahoo.com/mysterious-brown-circular-plume-jersey-bay-worries-residents-182444392--abc-news-topstories.html

2015-08-12 - Whale with plastic bags caught in mouth swims up to fishing boat and asks for help near Sydney (Australia):
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/giant-whale-caught-plastic-bag-6245544
http://www.sott.net/article/300123-Unusual-animal-behaviour-Whale-with-plastic-bags-caught-in-mouth-swims-up-to-fishing-boat-and-seems-to-ask-for-help-Sydney-Australia

2015-08-12 - Meteor lights up the skies over Chile:
http://www.sott.net/article/300089-Meteor-fireball-brazes-through-Chilean-sky-VIDEOS
http://www.elepicentro.cl/2015/08/11/video-captan-meteorito-cruzando-los-cielos-de-antofagasta/

2015-08-13 - Robert Scribbler's take on a second 'Great Dying':
http://robertscribbler.com/2015/08/13/tumbling-down-the-rabbit-hole-toward-a-second-great-dying-world-oceans-face-is-now-shadowed-with-the-early-warning-signs-of-extinction/

Note: Well-written article. And he's gettin' there! He's now where I was back in 2010. By early January of 2011 I was sure it wasn't just a possibility but a certainty - all of the pieces of the puzzle were already there, especially rising planetary volcanism and dead zones spreading throughout the oceans. I waited an extra 13 months before going public anyway, to give the gooberment(s) time to put the foul djinni back in its metaphorical bottle if they could, but things got worse, so it was clear that the situation was out of control.

The next step after recognizing the problem, still ongoing, was figuring out the details in regard to how this extinction event affects modern human society, just in case people ever wake up and wish to work toward survival: the 'electrical' fires, the piles of metal burning, vehicles going up in flames, chemical plants exploding and burning, people and animals sickening and going insane and dying, the Sun getting whiter and less yellow and hitting the planet with more UV as Earth's oxidizing capacity is withered away by methane and hydrogen sulfide, unusual vehicular accidents as people lose consciousness or have seizures or 'medical events' or die while driving, the brake-friction problem, the adsorption problem, the underground explosions and fires, the biogenic sulfide corrosion problem, the recycling fires, yada yada. Details, details, but in this case the details are important.

Since Robert did such a good job there, I figure he deserves a Spotlight Story mention, so tada! And here are a couple of bonus interesting fire-related stories:

2015-08-13 - Mysterious explosion and flash of light ignites man's yard in Portland (Oregon):
http://www.katu.com/news/local/Portland-Oregon-man-thinks-perseid-meteor-hit-earth-starts-fire-in-his-front-yard-321801302.html

Quote: "Patrick Story says he heard a loud boom outside his house on Wednesday night, coupled with a flash of light. When he went outside, he found part of his front yard on fire in the shape of a circle."

2015-08-13 - Mysterious silent expanding cloud of fire seen in the sky over coastal Port Townshend (Washington):
https://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=2341&category=Environment

Quote: "Red, yellow and orange kept expanding in the night sky just like flames  as if you were looking into a blast furnace. Nothing I've ever seen in my life  and I've seen a surface-to-air missile impact. But no sound!"

Note: The reason there was no sound is that this was a gas plume that burned in a 'flash fire', which is flammable gas sizzling away in the air as it burns but without exploding. There was also an object in the air, perhaps a drone of some kind. And it also sounds like the plume was hit by something from the ground that ignited it. That was probably 'the authorities' hitting it with some type of ground-based weapon that was used to ignite the gas on purpose and burn off the cloud of gas BEFORE it moved eastward and hit more populated areas...

2015-08-13 - Humans just as likely as any species to go extinct from extinction events:
http://www.rt.com/uk/312455-human-beings-mass-extinction/
http://www.sott.net/article/300188-Will-humans-survive-the-next-mass-extinction-Dont-count-on-it

Note: We're actually MORE likely to go extinct than most species, because we reproduce and mature very slowly and because we require prodigious amounts of oxygen. So no, we won't survive, at least not on the surface of the Earth. Some form of Plan B - underwater, underground and/or (best of all) off-planet - is the only possible survivable option that gives the human race any chance at all of having a future...

2015-08-13 - Magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes in the ocean near the Solomon Islands:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/281234/magnitude-6-point-6-quake-hits-solomons
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/magnitude-6-6-earthquake-hits-solomon-islands/

2015-08-13 - Magnitude 3.3 earthquake shakes Greenfield (California):
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-33-quake-strikes-near-greenfield-calif-gcmf58-story.html

2015-08-13 - Toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) outbreak hits lake in Acton Park in Wrexham (Britain):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150814-49658-GBR

2015-08-13 - Toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) outbreaks threatening drinking water supplies worldwide:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150813092826.htm
http://www.sott.net/article/300133-Blue-green-algae-blooms-increasingly-threaten-drinking-water-worldwide

Quote: "A report concludes that blooms of toxic cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, are a poorly monitored and underappreciated risk to recreational and drinking water quality in the United States, and may increasingly pose a global health threat."

2015-08-13 - West Coast toxic algae bloom worse than initially believed:
http://www.grindtv.com/nature/record-breaking-toxic-algae-bloom-worse-than-feared/#gcDZHlFAZKvm3hXD.97

2015-08-13 - Drinking water becoming more scarce and toxic:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/08/12/toxic-drinking-water.aspx
http://www.sott.net/article/300169-Drinking-water-is-becoming-increasing-scarce-and-toxic

2015-08-13 - 46 million Americans relying on food banks now:
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/46-million-americans-go-to-food-banks-and-long-lines-for-dwindling-food-supplies-begin-at-630-am

Quote: "Those that run food banks all over America say that demand for their services just continues to explode."

2015-08-13 - August 13 is 'Earth Overshoot Day' this year:
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2015/08/august-13th-is-earth-overshoot-day-this.html

Quote: "Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s annual demand on nature exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. Earth Overshoot Day has moved from early October in 2000 to August 13th this year."

2015-08-13 - Lightning strike injures 44 Army Rangers at Eglin Air Force Base (Florida):
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Lightning-Strikes-44-US-Army-Personnel-During-Training-20150814-0004.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300160-44-US-Army-trainees-hospitalized-struck-by-lightning-while-training

2015-08-13 - Torrential rain hits southern Britain with a month's worth of rain in nine hours:
http://news.sky.com/story/1535194/flooding-after-months-rain-falls-in-nine-hours
http://www.sott.net/article/300144-UK-storms-Flooding-after-months-rain-falls-in-nine-hours

2015-08-13 - Largest firefighting plane in the US to be based in Colorado:
http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/Largest-Firefighting-Aircraft-In-US-To-Be-Based-Out-Of-Colorado-321730002.html

Quote: "The 747 Boeing can carry nearly 20,000 gallons of retardant. If there's a wildfire in Colorado, the plane can become part of the fight right away."

2015-08-13 - Two Super Scooper firefighting planes arrive in coastal Los Angeles (California):
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/08/13/la-firefighters-welcome-2-super-scooper-airplanes/

2015-08-13 - Brain-eating amoeba kills young adult after they swim in Lake Murray (Oklahoma):
http://www.kxii.com/home/headlines/Brain-eating-amoeba-kills-young-adult-after-found-in-Lake-Murray-321681022.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/08/13/brain-eating-amoeba-naegleria-fowleri-oklahoma-swimmer-dead/31615135/

2015-08-13 - Mathematical radio waves from deep space baffle scientists, implies intelligent source:
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/stories/are-aliens-trying-contact-us-mathematical-radio-waves-deep-space-baffle-scientists

2015-08-13 - Strange werewolf-ish creature caught on camera in São Paulo (Brazil):
http://www.sott.net/article/300106-Werewolf-caught-on-security-camera-in-Sao-Paulo-Brazil

2015-08-13 - Man grows an ear on his arm for artistic reasons:
http://www.kmov.com/story/29779575/the-man-with-an-ear-on-his-arm

Quote: "It's gruesomely fascinating and strangely beautiful, but is an ear on an arm art? Stelarc, the award-winning Australian performance artist who has grown a third ear on his arm for art's sake, believes it is."

2015-08-14 - Volcano Cotopaxi (Ecuador) erupts, showers ash on nearby city of Quito, state of emergency declared:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VE-20150814-49663-ECU
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ecuador-declares-national-state-emergency-202625520.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-16/ecuador-villages-evacuated-as-cotopaxi-volcano-rumbles-to-life/6700534
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ecuador-declares-state-emergency-over-cotopaxi-volcano-activity-n410526
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/cotopaxi-ecuador-erupts-first-time-since-1940s/
http://www.ticotimes.net/2015/08/14/volcano-in-ecuador-spews-ash-column-5-kilometers-high
http://www.sott.net/article/300184-Cotopaxi-volcano-in-Ecuador-spews-ash-column-5-kilometers-high
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/66-cotopaxi-volcano-erupts-in-ecuador-for-the-first-time-in-140-years/

2015-08-14 - Earthquake swarm shakes volcano Sakurajima (Japan), alert level raised, some residents prepare to evacuate:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VA-20150815-49669-JPN
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/japan-raises-warning-level-volcano-not-far-nuclear-023920871.html
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/1849838/families-near-japanese-volcano-sakurajima-evacuated-major
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/15/japans-sakurajima-volcano-chance-of-large-eruption-extremely-high
http://news.yahoo.com/japan-raises-warning-level-volcano-not-far-nuclear-023920871.html
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/japan-raises-warning-level-on-volcano-not-far-from-nuclear-plant/
http://www.sott.net/article/300222-One-of-Japans-most-active-volcano-shows-increased-activity-families-evacuated-as-alert-level-raised

Quote: "Residents near the Sakurajima volcano on Kyushu, Japan’s southernmost main island, evacuated to safer places Saturday after the government raised its alert level to 4 on a 5-point scale, indicating a major eruption could be imminent. Level 4 is the highest ever for Sakurajima, located just 4 kilometres away from the centre of the major southern port city of Kagoshima, since the current volcanic alert system was launched in 2007."

Note: MISA Theory keeps on chuggin'...

2015-08-14 - Magnitude 2.5 earthquake hits Somerset County (New Jersey), explosions reported:
http://news.yahoo.com/video/2-5-magnitude-earthquake-reported-100828217.html
http://www.nj.com/somerset/index.ssf/2015/08/nj_earthquake_residents_heard_explosion-like_sound.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300197-2-5-magnitude-earthquake-rattles-New-Jersey-as-residents-heard-explosion-like-booms

Note: Maybe it wasn't a quake but an explosion that was large enough to register as a seismic event. Like that explosion that just hit coastal Tianjin (China), which registered on seismic monitors. This area in New Jersey isn't far from the coast, where 5 trillion pounds of explosively flammable methane is dissociating...

2015-08-14 - Toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) outbreak hits lake in Killarney National Park (Ireland):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150815-49671-IRL

2015-08-14 - Record number of toxic algae warnings issued for lakes in Iowa:
http://thegazette.com/subject/news/health/record-number-of-toxic-algae-warnings-issued-for-iowa-lakes-20150814

2015-08-14 - July 2015 was the hottest July in recorded history:
http://robertscribbler.com/2015/08/14/2015s-cruel-climate-count-continues-as-nasa-shows-july-was-hottest-on-record/

2015-08-14 - Alaska's permafrost threatened by intense fires, climate change:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/13/climate-change-alaska-wildfires/31203153/

Note: Just a matter of time before methane explosions start creating craters in Alaska as is already happening in Siberia...

2015-08-14 - Heatwave hits Sudan, 9 people die in three days:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20150814-49662-SDN

2015-08-14 - Drought conditions force San Joaquin Hatchery to evacuate fish in California:
http://news.yahoo.com/video/drought-conditions-force-san-joaquin-035549140.html

2015-08-14 - Huge amounts of rain hit Melbourne (Florida), flooding ensues:
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2015/08/13/storms-bringing-rain-rest-week/31633481/
http://www.sott.net/article/300171-Record-rainfall-causes-flooding-in-Melborne-Florida

2015-08-14 - India finds toxic lead in Nestle Maggi noodles:
http://www.rt.com/news/312409-india-nestle-lawsuit-noodles/
http://www.sott.net/article/300143-India-finds-toxic-lead-in-Nestle-Maggi-noodles

2015-08-14 - U.S. credit traders send warning signal to World markets:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-14/u-s-credit-traders-send-warning-signal-to-rest-of-world-markets
http://www.sott.net/article/300232-US-credit-traders-send-warning-signal-to-rest-of-World-markets

2015-08-14 - Stephen Spielburg selling his $184 million mega-yacht because he needs bigger boat:
http://www.siftingsherald.com/article/ZZ/20150814/BUSINESS/308149979/-1/News
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3190652/I-m-gonna-need-bigger-boat-Steven-Spielberg-selling-120million-282ft-mega-yacht-small.html

Quote: "Filmmaker Steven Spielberg is in need of a bit more space while traversing the oceans. He's selling his yacht, The Seven Seas, which he purchased for approximately $184 million, because the 282-foot vessel is just not enough boat for him, according to the Daily Mail."

Note: No more slumming around on that old $184 million clunker - that POS only has ONE helipad!

2015-08-14 - Scary 'spaghetti-looking' creature found in the deep sea near Angola:
http://andyjwells.tumblr.com/post/126583235097/watch-flying-spaghetti-monster-discovered-at-the
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/see-mysterious-spaghetti-like-sea-creature-recently-found/55647/

2015-08-15 - Three people sickened by unknown cause on blood donation bus in Houston (Texas):
http://abc13.com/news/possible-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-on-blood-donation-bus/933338/

Quote: "No blood donors were on board at the time of the incident. Workers believe the bus was possibly leaking carbon monoxide, but the carbon monoxide sensor did not go off on the bus."

Note: Hydrogen sulfide poisoning, if not too concentrated, can cause the same symptoms, and as all safety docs say, you should never count on smelling hydrogen sulfide - sometimes you will, sometimes you won't. The CO detectors didn't go off, but they want to think that it was CO anyway? That's an extremely easy thing to test. They tried to blame carbon monoxide when 22 students collapsed to the ground unconscious at an OUTDOOR stadium in Houston (Texas) in late 2011 with a 'strange odor' present. That never made sense: people smelled something so it wasn't carbon monoxide (which is odorless), and carbon monoxide is a lighter-than-air gas (that's why detectors go on ceilings) and all the kids who collapsed were in the BOTTOM of the stadium, which is where a HEAVIER-than-air gas would tend to flow. Also, carbon monoxide doesn't knock people unconscious instantly like that...

2015-08-15 - Magnitude 6.6 strikes in the ocean near the Solomon Islands, again:
http://www.news24.com/Green/News/66-magnitude-quake-hits-off-Solomon-Islands-20150815
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/second-6-6-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-solomon-islands-region/

2015-08-15 - Sendai nuclear plant threatened by Sakurajima eruption:
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/08/japan-bracing-for-massive-volcano-eruption-near-nuclear-plant.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300253-As-predicted-Sendai-nuclear-plant-threatened-by-active-volcano

2015-08-15 - Farmer's Almanac predicts super-cold winter and snow for much of the US:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OLD_FARMERS_ALMANAC
http://www.sott.net/article/300223-Farmers-Almanac-predicts-super-cold-winter-snow-for-much-US

2015-08-15 - Death toll from heatwave in Egypt rises to 93:
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/death-toll-in-scorching-egyptian-heat-wave-rises-to-93/

2015-08-15 - Heatwave sets historic records in Europe:
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2015/08/13/heat-wave-setting-new-historic-record-over-europe-relief-expected-early-next-week/
http://www.sott.net/article/300250-Heat-wave-sets-historic-records-in-Europe

2015-08-15 - Squirrels found carrying plague in Yosemite National Park (California), campground closed:
http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article31125272.html
http://www.hngn.com/articles/119714/20150815/two-squirrels-found-dead-plague-yosemite-campround.htm
http://www.sott.net/article/300200-Yosemite-campground-shutting-after-dead-squirrels-found-to-be-infected-with-plague
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/08/15/Yosemite-campground-to-close-after-plague-infected-squirrels-found-dead/1671439646387/

Quote: "A popular campground in Yosemite National Park is being closed after several squirrels were killed by the plague. The news comes just days after officials reported a child developed the disease while camping at the park."

2015-08-15 - Two-headed sea slug found in the waters in Malaysia:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/bizarre-pictures-show-worlds-first-6256018
http://www.sott.net/article/300206-Signs-and-Portents-Two-headed-sea-slug-found-in-Malaysian-waters

2015-08-15 - Tropical Brown booby shows up near Cape Race in Canada:
http://www.thetelegram.com/Living/2015-08-15/article-4243961/A-rare-bird-chase/1
http://www.sott.net/article/300230-Tropical-Brown-booby-turns-up-near-Cape-Race-in-Canada

2015-08-15 - Oil's worst-ever summer signals price rout is nowhere near done:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-14/oil-s-worst-ever-summer-signals-price-rout-is-nowhere-near-done
http://www.sott.net/article/300234-Oils-worst-ever-summer-signals-price-rout-is-nowhere-near-done

2015-08-15 - 40 people found dead in migrant ship in the Mediterranean Sea near Libya:
http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/15/40-people-suffocate-to-death-in-water-fuel-and-human-excrement-on-migrant-boat-in-the-mediterranean-5344832/
http://www.sott.net/article/300236-Modern-day-coffin-ship-40-people-suffocate-to-death-in-water-fuel-and-human-excrement-fleeing-Libya

Note: I wouldn't be so sure that they died from fuel fumes...

2015-08-15 - Cop goes fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, catches 50 pounds of cocaine:
http://www.wdsu.com/video/buzz60/cop-accidentally-catches-50-pounds-of-cocaine-while-fishing/34638766

2015-08-16 - Man, 33, goes out on boat, goes missing, empty 'ghost boat' found, on the Missouri River in West Alton (Missouri):
http://thetelegraph.com/news/69805/missouri-highwaypatrol-looking-formissing-boater
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2015/08/15/water-rescue-west-alton/31804159/

2015-08-16 - Man disappears from boat in Cecil County (Maryland):
http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/millersville-boater-missing-in-maryland-waters/article_817f7698-4546-11e5-ade9-5befcf524928.html

2015-08-16 - Volcano Turrialba erupts in Costa Rica:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VE-20150817-49700-CRI

2015-08-16 - Dahr Jamail and Guy McPherson say reversing climate change is a pipe dream, brace for extinction:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/no-return-dahr-jamail-and-guy-mcpherson.html

2015-08-16 - Heatwave bakes the city of Toronto (Canada):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20150816-49696-CAN

2015-08-16 - Bird flu aftershock to drive Turkey and egg prices higher:
http://news.yahoo.com/bird-flu-aftershocks-drive-u-turkey-egg-prices-185156531--finance.html

2015-08-16 - Lightning strike kills 7 people in boat in Assam (India):
http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/Lightning-Kills-3-Children-and-4-Others-in-Assam/2015/08/15/article2976162.ece
http://www.sott.net/article/300251-Lightning-bolt-hits-boat-and-kills-7-in-Assam-India

2015-08-16 - Lightning strike kills 5 children in Kakamega (Kenya):
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000172907/tragedy-as-lightning-kills-five-children-in-kakamega
http://www.sott.net/article/300252-5-children-killed-by-lightning-bolt-in-Kakamega-Kenya

2015-08-16 - Large waterspout seen near Gulf Shores (Alabama):
http://www.myfoxal.com/story/29797713/waterspout-seen-off-gulf-shores
http://www.sott.net/article/300300-Waterspout-seen-off-the-coast-of-Gulf-Shores-Alabama

2015-08-16 - Thousands of prisoners in California getting paid two bucks per day to fight fires:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/california-uses-prison-labour-to-fight.html

2015-08-17 - Unknown odor reported at the Dayton Marriott near River Park Drive in Dayton (Ohio):
http://www.whio.com/news/news/local/fire-crews-checking-odor-at-dayton-marriott/nnLxp/

2015-08-17 - Billy Graham's son-in-law, 78, found unresponsive in swimming pool in Raleigh (North Carolina):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3202054/Billy-Graham-s-son-law-Danny-Lotz-unconscious-swimming-pool.html

2015-08-17 - Magnitude 4.0 earthquake shakes coastal San Francisco (California):
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/san-francisco-earthquake-weather-man-6268094
http://news.yahoo.com/magnitude-4-0-earthquake-jolts-san-francisco-bay-140202724.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300278-San-Francisco-hit-by-4-0-earthquake

2015-08-17 - Red Cross shelters struggling to keep up during this fire season:
http://www.khq.com/story/29807830/red-cross-shelters-struggling-to-keep-up-this-fire-season

2015-08-17 - Cuba hit by terrible drought, crops withering, a million people rely on trucked-in water:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/17/us-cuba-drought-idUSKCN0QM1P220150817
http://www.sott.net/article/300290-Cubas-drought-has-damaged-agriculture-and-left-a-million-people-relying-on-trucked-in-water

2015-08-17 - Storms dump a foot of rain onto Guam over the weekend:
http://www.kuam.com/story/29799986/2015/08/17/flooding-throughout-guam-due-to-weekend-storm
http://www.sott.net/article/300270-Guam-floods-due-to-weekend-storm-one-foot-of-rainfall

2015-08-17 - Devastating flooding kills 100 people, affects a million people, damages crops, in Myanmar:
http://floodlist.com/asia/myanmar-floods-1-million-affected-100-dead-food-shortages
http://www.sott.net/article/300273-100-dead-and-one-million-affected-by-Myanmar-floods-Crop-damage-increases-fear-of-food-shortages

2015-08-17 - Lightning strike kills 2 people in Dinajpur (Bangladesh):
http://www.thedailystar.net/country/lightning-kills-2-dinajpur-127873
http://www.sott.net/article/300283-Lightning-strikes-kill-2-in-Dinajpur-Bangladesh

2015-08-17 - Seagulls seen pecking the eyes out of seal pups on the coast in Namibia:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3201256/Seagulls-kill-seals-eating-EYES-Sea-birds-started-blinding-pups-leaving-die.html

2015-08-17 - NASA conducts successful 9-minute test-firing of next generation RS-25 rocket engine:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0817/NASA-test-fires-engine-for-next-generation-rocket

2015-08-18 - Volcano Karimsky erupts, blows ash 2.5 kilometers high, on the Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VE-20150818-49716-RUS

2015-08-18 - Odor from landfill hits Charlton (Massachusetts):
http://www.telegram.com/article/20150818/NEWS/150819192

2015-08-18 - First rainfall after massive explosion and fire leaves foamy residue in coastal Tianjin (China):
http://shanghaiist.com/2015/08/18/first_rainfall_since_tianjin_explos.php
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/rain-on-china-blast-city-raises-pollution-and-contamination-fears-ground-water-poisoned-from-massive-blast-crater/

Note: I wouldn't be touching that stuff!

2015-08-18 - California sinking as people suck the land dry of water:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-drought-central-valley-sinking-land-becoming-as-unstable-as-water-supply/

Quote: "Sneed said parts of California's Central Valley are dropping by one foot each year. Some areas are ten feet lower than they used to be."

2015-08-18 - High temps set records in California:
http://www.presstelegram.com/general-news/20150815/record-high-temperatures-set-in-ontario-long-beach-burbank
http://www.sott.net/article/300358-High-temperature-records-shattered-in-California

2015-08-18 - Uranium contaminating water in California and the Midwest, 2 million people affected:
http://www.rt.com/usa/312731-uranium-aquifer-water-contamination/
http://www.sott.net/article/300325-Uranium-contaminated-water-in-California-wells-2-million-people-affected

Quote: "Almost 2 million people in California and the Midwest live on aquifer sites which have up to 180 times the safe level of uranium, according to a recent study by US researchers."

Note: You can tell who's been affected by turning off the lights and seeing who glows...

2015-08-18 - Drought hits Poland, Vistula River drops to lowest level in more than 200 years:
http://phys.org/news/2015-08-largest-river-record-low-drought.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300340-Polands-drought-sinks-Vistula-River-to-lowest-level-in-more-than-200-years

2015-08-18 - Time-lapse video shows incredible power of a 'wet microburst' in Arizona:
http://www.sott.net/article/300336-Time-lapse-video-shows-the-incredible-power-of-a-wet-microburst-in-Arizona
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3201483/Think-thunderstorms-bad-Mesmerising-time-lapse-shows-incredible-power-wet-microburst.html

2015-08-18 - Ferocious storm dumps 3 inches of rain in an hour on Budapest (Hungary), agriculture hit, flooding ensues:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-18/budapest-downpour-triggers-flash-floods-disrupts-power-service
http://www.sott.net/article/300330-Downpour-in-Budapest-Hungary-triggers-flash-floods-hits-agriculture-3-inches-of-rain-in-an-hour

2015-08-18 - Devastating flooding hits Uruguay, 4000 people evacuated:
http://floodlist.com/america/uruguay-4000-evacuated-floods-4-departments
http://www.sott.net/article/300321-4000-evacuated-following-flooding-in-4-departments-of-Uruguay

2015-08-18 - St. Louis (Missouri) looking to hire 45 firefighters:
http://www.kmov.com/story/29826559/st-louis-fire-dept-looking-to-hire-close-to-50-firefighters

Note: Woohoo! 'Okay folks, stand by and be ready to fight an underground landfill fire next to a bunch of contaminated radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project. Cookies are in the back room!'

2015-08-18 - Northern Sweden skipped summer this year:
http://iceagenow.info/2015/08/no-summer-this-year-in-northern-sweden/
http://www.sott.net/article/300324-No-summer-this-year-in-the-north-of-Sweden

2015-08-18 - Treatment-resistant head lice have spread to 25 US states:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/head-lice-resistant-to-over-the-counter-products-in-25-states_55d36ff1e4b0ab468d9e91f5
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/superbugs-treatment-resistant-head-lice-have-now-spread-to-25-u-s-states/

2015-08-18 - Bulls gore 7 people to death since July at festivals in Spain:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33957505
http://www.sott.net/article/300332-Bulls-7-Humans-0-Spate-of-deaths-at-Spain-summer-festivals

2015-08-18 - Could mysterious tracks in the Phrygian Valley in Turkey have been caused by unknown acient civilization?
http://www.sott.net/article/300338-Mysterious-tracks-in-Turkey-caused-by-unknown-civilization
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-mysterious-phenomena/controversial-claim-geologist-mysterious-tracks-turkey-caused-unknown-020489

2015-08-18 - Meteorite impacts in ancient oceans may have formed DNA building blocks:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150818085751.htm
http://www.sott.net/article/300327-Meteorite-impacts-in-ancient-oceans-may-have-formed-DNA-building-blocks

2015-08-18 - Flock of birds forms image of Vladimir Putin's head over Brooklyn (New York):
http://www.sott.net/pic-of-day/262237

Note: And after they were done with Putin, they got back to pootin'!

2015-08-19 - Boat washes up empty at the mouth of the Lamoille River in Sand Bar State Park (Vermont), possible missing boater(s):
http://www.wcax.com/story/29838127/search-for-potential-missing-boaters-in-lake-champlain
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/2015/08/20/authorities-search-operator-found-boat/32042767/
http://www.wcax.com/story/29844865/authorities-suspend-search-for-boaters-after-boat-found
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/region/ci_28672273/authorities-search-boaters-after-sail-boat-found

2015-08-19 - Mud volcano erupts on the island of Sakhalin (Russia), looks like giant eye from above:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/erupting-mud-volcano-looks-exactly-113046624.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300357-Erupting-mud-volcano-resembles-a-gigantic-human-eye-from-the-sky

2015-08-19 - Study finds Southern California faces greater risk from earthquake-caused tsunami than previously understood:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-earthquake-tsunami-ventura-20150819-htmlstory.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300429-Study-finds-Southern-California-faces-greater-risk-from-an-earthquake-caused-tsunami-than-previously-understood

2015-08-19 - Snow hits parts of Colorado, Denver sets record low temp:
http://www.denverpost.com/weathernews/ci_28665686/colorado-weather-snow-dusts-high-country-denver-sets
http://www.sott.net/article/300364-August-snowfall-in-Colorado-Denver-sets-record-low-temperature

2015-08-19 - Lightning strike kills two people in Thanjavur (India):
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/lightning-kills-two-in-thanjavur-district/article7555831.ece
http://www.sott.net/article/300430-Lightning-strikes-kill-two-in-Thanjavur-India

2015-08-19 - Venomous jellyfish with tentacles as long as 5 London buses invading Britain:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150820-49742-GBR
http://www.rt.com/uk/312860-jellyfish-deadly-britain-invasion/
http://www.sott.net/article/300407-Venomous-jellyfish-size-of-5-London-buses-invading-Britain

Note: Lots of jellyfish outbreaks in the last few years. Jellyfish reproduce better in warmer waters so as the oceans warm, jellyfish are doing pretty well, while most other life is dying...

2015-08-19 - Woman gets bitten by tick, has to have all four limbs amputated, in Shawnee (Oklahoma):
http://abc7ny.com/news/woman-bitten-by-a-tick-loses-all-four-limbs/930009/

2015-08-19 - Lightning strike kills two people in Kratie (Cambodia):
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lightning-strike-kills-farmers-kratie
http://www.sott.net/article/300387-Lightning-bolt-kills-2-farmers-in-Kratie-Cambodia

2015-08-19 - Rarely-seen deep sea jellyfish recorded in the Gulf of Mexico:
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/08/19/Rarely-seen-deep-sea-jellyfish-recorded-in-Gulf-of-Mexico/8211439995873/
http://www.sott.net/article/300393-Rarely-seen-deep-sea-jellyfish-recorded-in-Gulf-of-Mexico

2015-08-19 - Ghostly 'geoneutrinos' detected inside the Earth:
http://news.yahoo.com/ghostly-particles-detected-beneath-earth-112552653.html

2015-08-19 - Aston Martin working on 800 horsepower electric car:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/08/19/aston-martin-tesla/31969739/

2015-08-19 - India builds first airport entirely powered by solar power:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/india-solar-powered-airport-cochin-international/
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/money/2015/08/20/32078271/

2015-08-19 - Mysterious stone found at Lake Winnipesaukee (New Hampshire) has baffled scientists for over 100 years:
http://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/out-place-artifact-mysterious-stone-egg-lake-winnipesaukee-003622
http://www.sott.net/article/300448-Out-of-place-artifact-New-Hampshires-mystery-stone-has-baffled-archaeologists-for-over-100-years

2015-08-19 - SUV hits bear, bear frees itself and chases them, in the Kuril Islands (Russia):
http://www.rt.com/news/312795-russian-bear-run-over/
http://www.sott.net/article/300435-Video-Russian-bear-run-over-by-SUV-escapes-then-chases-tormentors

2015-08-19 - Great white shark goes airborne trying to catch seal, seal evades mid-air, in Cape Cod (Massachusetts):
http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/Watch-this-seal-juke-a-great-white-shark-in-mid-air-322235182.html
http://nypost.com/2015/08/19/lucky-seal-escapes-the-jaws-of-a-great-white-shark/

2015-08-19 - Miniature horse just 3 days old chases after owner:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/3-day-old-miniature-horse-chases-after-caretaker-on-the-feed/

2015-08-20 - Volcano Colima (Mexico) erupts twice, belches ash 3 kilometers into the air:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VE-20150821-49751-MEX
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mexico-colima-volcano-erupts-twice-spewing-ash-into-air-1516501
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/us/news/articles/extreme-weather/mexicos-colima-volcano-erupts-twice-spewing-ash-into-air/55960/

2015-08-20 - Volcano Sakurajima (Japan) inflates 16 centimeters, gases spewing from the ocean floor:
http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/sakurajima/activity/updates/volcanic-crisis-2015.html

Quote: "The most recent radar measurements done by ALOS-2 satellite of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) show that the summit of the volcano has inflated by the enormous amount of approx. 16 cm during the interval 4 Jan - 17 August this year. This suggests that a significant batch of new magma is currently stored in the volcano's upper plumbing system and the question remains when and how it might erupt."

Quote: "More worrying signs of volcanic unrest started to appear: according to FNN News, volcanic gas releases have been detected at the sea floor of the Futatsumata Port on the northern shore of Sakurajima peninsula (located approx 4 km from summit)."

2015-08-20 - Woman goes missing from cruise ship 'MSC Magnifica' near coastal Izmir (Turkey):
http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Msc-Magnifica-9387085.html

Quote: "According to local news, a female passenger is currently missing from MSC Cruises MSC Magnifica. The Magnifica was sailing to Izmir, Turkey when the woman disappeared overboard."

2015-08-20 - Climate catastrophes are already here:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/the-point-of-no-return-confronting.html

2015-08-20 - Nine terrifying signs that the world as we know it may be ending:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/towards-near-term-human-extinction.html

2015-08-20 - Brain-eating amoeba found in 3rd public water supply site in Louisiana:
http://www.sott.net/article/300431-Tests-find-brain-eating-amoeba-in-3rd-Louisiana-public-water-supply-site
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/brain-eating-amoeba-louisiana-drinking-water-warm-terrebonne-parish-naegleria-fowleri/51859270

2015-08-20 - High levels of cyanide found at explosion site in coastal Tianjin (China):
http://www.rt.com/news/312943-tianjin-cyanide-levels-protests/
http://www.sott.net/article/300449-Tianjin-blast-site-contains-cyanide-levels-356-times-the-permitted-level

2015-08-20 - Heavy flooding submerges cars and streets in Union County (New Jersey):
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/08/19/scotch-plains-flooding/
http://www.sott.net/article/300443-Roads-closed-cars-submerged-as-flash-floods-hit-Union-County-New-Jersey

2015-08-20 - Beachgoer captures scary video of enormous waterspout bearing down on beach in Mexico:
http://www.sott.net/article/300428-Beachgoer-captures-terrifying-film-of-enormous-waterspout-bearing-down-on-beach-in-Mexico
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3204682/Beachgoer-captures-terrifying-footage-enormous-waterspout-bearing-beach-Mexico.html

2015-08-20 - Idaho replaces mile marker 420 with 419.9 to thwart sign-stealing stoners:
http://news.yahoo.com/idaho-replaces-mile-marker-420-419-9-thwart-184700949.html

2015-08-21 - Giant House Spiders, as big as mice, set to invade homes in Britain:
http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/local-news/spiders-big-mice-invading-british-9884351

Quote: "The giant randy spiders have their sights set on our houses in order to find a warm dry place to mate - and each female can lay HUNDREDS of eggs. Arachnologist Chris Ayre reckons the Giant House Spiders will flock to British homes this month in a bid to find a mate and get out of the weather."

Quote: "The spiders, whose painful bite is similar to a bee sting if it can pierce the skin, can sometimes grow up to 12cm-long."

2015-08-21 - Spiders blanket town with webs in Argentina:
http://www.wtvy.com/news/headlines/Argentina-Spider-Webs-Spider-Webs-Everywhere-322373872.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300413-Argentina-Spider-webs-spider-webs-everywhere

2015-08-22 - Man, 60, falls off boat and disappears at Irvine Lake in Silverado (California):
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/08/22/divers-search-for-man-who-went-missing-after-going-overboard-on-irvine-lake/
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/lackey-678954-water-fell.html

2015-08-22 - Toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) outbreaks hit 11 bodies of water in Kansas:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150822-49765-USA

Quote: "High levels of toxic blue-green algae have been detected in 11 bodies of water around the state, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment."

2015-08-22 - Fort Bragg troops prepare for domestic nuclear disaster:
http://abc11.com/news/fort-bragg-troops-prepare-for-domestic-disaster/951307/

Quote: "The notice came overnight: Get ready to respond to a nuclear disaster situation in Southwest Florida. Be ready to deploy for a week."

2015-08-23 - HazMat event, several people sicken in basement at university in Kutztown (Pennsylvania):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HZ-20150824-49788-USA

2015-08-23 - Iowa hit by record number of toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) outbreaks:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150823-49775-USA

2015-08-24 - Volcano Piton de la Fournaise erupts on Reunion Island (France):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VE-20150825-49817-REU
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/volcano-erupts-island-mh370-debris-washed/
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/slideshows/nation-world/piton-de-la-fournaise-highly-active-volcano-erupts-for-the-fourth-time/highly-active-volcano-erupts-for-the-fourth-time/slideshow/48667497.cms

2015-08-24 - Women in New Hampshire go topless for 'Free The Nipple' movement:
http://bangordailynews.com/2015/08/24/news/state/women-in-nh-go-topless-for-free-the-nipple-movement/

Quote: "Organizers said they are advocating for equal rights and balanced censorship. 'Men fought for the right to go topless in the ’30s and women are fighting for it in 2015,' said Heidi Lilley, who helped organize the event. 'It’s time for us to have that same right as men.'"

Note: This is one of the breast ideas ever. Er, I mean best!

2015-08-25 - Girl, 16, goes outside, collapses, foams at the mouth, 'dies', gets buried, 'comes back to life', dies again, in La Entrada (Honduras):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dead-teen-screaming-in-tomb_55dcc238e4b04ae49704c32b
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/family-smashes-tomb-teen-screaming-article-1.2336677
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/08/25/dead-pregnant-teen-wakes-up-screaming-inside-coffin/21227142/
http://fox8.com/2015/08/25/dead-teen-wakes-up-screaming-banging-inside-coffin-family-smashes-tomb/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3210001/Desperate-family-smash-teenage-girl-s-tomb-day-buried-ALIVE-mistake-woke-screaming-die-real.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/honduras/11823283/Dead-teenager-wakes-up-in-grave-in-Honduras-only-to-then-die-in-hospital.html

Note: She went to use an outdoor toilet in the middle of the night. Wee hours, toilet. She collapsed foaming at the mouth and was eventually pronounced dead. They buried her. A day later they heard her screaming and banging on the inside of the tomb. By the time they broke into the tomb, she was dead again. She was never dead the first time. Hydrogen sulfide can cause foaming at the mouth, as with all the other people who've mysteriously died foaming at the mouth in recent times. Hydrogen sulfide is also known to be able to put small mammals into 'suspended animation', where their body temp drops to room temp and their heartbeat is almost nonexistent. Even trained medical personnel can't tell the difference, and this has happened numerous times in recent years. I said a while ago that I bet people are being buried alive because of hydrogen sulfide's 'suspended animation' property and I'm sure that's true. We'll never know how many people have been mistakenly buried alive, to awaken later screaming and suffocating inside a coffin in the middle of the night in some cemetery.

Here are some other similar incidents:

2015-05-22 - Man, 46, collapses, pronounced dead, 'comes back to life', in Milwaukee (Wisconsin)

2015-01-03 - Man in his 40s found 'dead' STANDING UP in stream in Roodepoort (South Africa)

2014-11-17 - Woman, 91, pronounced dead, wakes up inside body bag in morgue, in Belgrade (Serbia)

2014-09-28 - Multiple 'dead' people reported 'coming back to life' in Liberia, people freak out

2014-07-15 - Girl, 3, 'comes back to life' at funeral, dies again, in coastal Zamboanga del Sur (Philippine Islands)

2014-02-27 - Man pronounced dead, wakes up inside body bag, in Lexington (Mississippi)

2013-11-07 - Man buried, 'rises from the grave', in Brazil

2012-06-06 - 'Dead' boy 'comes back to life', asks for water at funeral, dies again, in Brazil

For more information about this particular subject, see the 2013-07-21 update, when a newborn baby was pronounced dead and 'came back to life' in Londrina (Brazil). This 'suspended animation' property does seem rare, as in you have to be on the small side and you have to get JUST the right 'dose', else you're just plain dead. And even those who 'come back to life' tend to die again (for real) before long, as hydrogen sulfide is a deadly poison and causes damage to the brain, heart, kidneys, liver, circulatory system, etc.

2015-08-25 - Two men gassed by toxic gas(es) on fishing ship 'Oilean An Oir' in coastal Killybegs (Ireland):
http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Oilean-An-Oir-I376769.html

Quote: "They were overcome by fumes when cleaning out a hold where the fish are held. It was empty and they found stagnant water in the pipework. It had been lying there for a while and it is believed the two men inhaled ammonia and hydrogen sulphide gas from organic matter that had been rotting."

2015-08-25 - Woman, 61, highly experienced diver, goes missing during dive near coastal Cape Flattery (Washington):
http://q13fox.com/2015/08/25/coast-guard-searching-for-missing-experienced-diver-near-washingtons-cape-flattery/

2015-08-25 - Man and woman, 40 and 23, go out on boat, go missing, on the Kuskokwim River near Napaskiak (Alaska):
http://www.adn.com/article/20150825/two-boaters-missing-southwest-alaska

2015-08-25 - Volcano Colima (Mexico) continues belching ash and smoke into the sky:
http://www.theyucatantimes.com/2015/08/active-volcano-in-colima-mexico-keeps-sending-ashes-and-smoke-into-the-skies/
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/active-volcano-in-colima-mexico-keeps-sending-ashes-and-smoke-into-the-skies/

2015-08-25 - Scientists studying mysterious swarm of more than 5,700 earthquakes in northern Nevada:
http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/08/19/scientists-studying-swarm-of-earthquakes-in-northern-nevada/
http://www.sott.net/article/300678-Scientists-studying-swarm-of-earthquakes-in-Northern-Nevada-5700-since-last-July
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/scientists-studying-mysterious-swarm-of-more-than-5700-earthquakes-in-northern-nevada/

2015-08-25 - Iceberg the size of Manhattan cracks off the western side of Greenland:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=CC-20150825-49806-GRL

Quote: "The huge iceberg is almost five square miles (about 12.5 kilometers) in size, an ESA statement said, and could cover the entire island of Manhattan with a layer of ice some 1,000 feet (300 meters) thick."

2015-08-25 - Papua New Guinea under state of emergency due to drought and crop-destroying frosts:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/25/us-weather-elnino-papua-idUSKCN0QU0QA20150825
http://www.sott.net/article/300656-Papua-New-Guinea-provinces-under-state-of-emergency-due-to-drought-and-crop-destroying-frosts

2015-08-25 - Typhoon Goni roars into Japan, at least 75 injured:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/22/world/twin-typhoons-goni-pacific/index.html
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/at-least-75-injured-man-missing-after-typhoon-goni-wreaks-havoc-across-southern-japan/

2015-08-25 - Sewage pollutes Honolulu's Waikiki Beach after floods from Tropical Storm Kilo:
http://www.rt.com/usa/313397-waikiki-beach-sewage-spill/
http://www.sott.net/article/300675-Sewage-pollutes-Honolulus-Waikiki-Beach-after-floods-from-Tropical-Storm-Kilo

2015-08-25 - Man steals soup, people burn him alive, in coastal Calabar (Nigeria):
http://connect.citizen.co.za/16443/nigerian-man-burnt-for-stealing-soup/
http://www.news24.com.ng/National/News/Mob-burns-man-alive-for-stealing-soup-media-20150825

Note: Okay, my plans for starting a career as a soup thief in Nigeria are now on hold!

2015-08-25 - Researchers find helium anomaly preceded Mount Ontake eruption in Japan:
http://phys.org/news/2015-08-helium-anomaly-mount-ontake-eruption.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300645-Researchers-find-helium-anomaly-preceded-Mount-Ontake-eruption

2015-08-25 - Boeing patents drone that can turn into a submarine:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/boeing-patents-drone-that-turns-into-a-submarine/

2015-08-26 - Couple board dinghy and abandon sinking boat, go missing, near coastal Crescent Beach (Florida):
http://www.wesh.com/news/coast-guard-searching-for-two-missing-boaters/34939222
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/coast-guard-searching-two-missing-boaters-near-orm/nnRnh/
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-missing-boaters-ormond-beach-20150826-story.html

2015-08-26 - Man has chest pains and difficulty breathing on boat, medevac'd off, near coastal Cape Charles (Virginia):
http://wtkr.com/2015/08/26/coast-guard-medevacs-man-off-of-cape-charles/
http://www.13newsnow.com/story/news/local/virginia/eastern-shore/2015/08/26/coast-guard-medevacs-man-near-cape-charles/32427719/

2015-08-26 - Signs of Gulf Stream slowdown — sea level more than a foot higher off US East Coast:
http://robertscribbler.com/2015/08/26/signs-of-gulf-stream-slowdown-sea-level-more-than-a-foot-higher-off-us-east-coast/

2015-08-26 - Red tide hits Dauis, Bohol (Philippine Islands):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150826-49827-PHL

2015-08-26 - Major flooding hits North Korea, 40 killed, thousands stranded:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/08/26/uk-northkorea-flood-idUKKCN0QV0TQ20150826
http://www.sott.net/article/300696-Floods-in-North-Korea-kills-40-strands-thousands-6-inches-of-rain-in-just-3-hours

2015-08-26 - Sewage-bearing river overflows, pours into subway in Caracas (Venezuela):
http://www.sott.net/article/300718-Flood-waters-filmed-rushing-into-Caracas-subway-station-in-Venezuela
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/08/26/Flood-waters-rush-into-Venezuelan-subway-station-in-viral-video/6761440609983/

2015-08-26 - Flooding hits the coast in southern New South Wales (Australia):
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/floods-in-southern-new-south-wales.html

2015-08-26 - One in eight college students sell their bodies to science to pay tuition fees in Britain:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/one-eight-university-students-sell-6317791

2015-08-27 - Man, 61, has heart attack on cruise ship near coastal Juneau (Alaska), medevac'd off:
http://juneauempire.com/local/2015-08-27/coast-guard-rescues-heart-attack-victim-near-juneau

2015-08-27 - Top scientist says threat of catastrophic permafrost thaw is 'real and imminent':
http://robertscribbler.com/2015/08/27/top-scientist-threat-of-catastrophic-permafrost-thaw-is-real-and-imminent/

Note: Forget imminent - it's already happening. That's what those methane explosion craters in Siberia were caused by, permafrost thawing and releasing stored methane. That probably explains why large chunks of Alaska are being turned into charred wasteland this year too. And as bad as the fires have been this year, they're going to be worse next year, and worse yet the year after that, and so on, until there's nothing left unburned on the surface of the Earth. Which is why I'm a proponent of the Plan B idea, seeing as Plan A - living on the surface of the Earth - is coming to an end...

2015-08-27 - Radioactive nuclear weapons waste found in residential lots along creek in St. Louis County (Missouri):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HZ-20150827-49850-USA

Quote: "The Corps announced last week that it has found thorium 230 - a radioactive isotope - in yards and public parks exposed to Coldwater Creek's floodwaters."

Quote: "'Literally in people's backyards,' said Jenell Wright, a former Florissant resident who said she has watched dozens of childhood friends die of cancer over the years. 'That's big. It doesn't get bigger than having nuclear weapons waste in your backyard.'"

2015-08-27 - Toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) outbreak hits Chain Lakes Reservoir (Canada):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150828-49866-CAN

2015-08-27 - Tropical Storm Erika dumps torrential rain on Caribbean islands, heads for the US East Coast:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/27/us-storm-erika-idUSKCN0QW1GQ20150827
http://www.sott.net/article/300745-Tropical-Storm-Erika-dumps-torrential-rain-on-Caribbean-islands-now-heading-for-US-East-Coast

2015-08-27 - Florida pre-emptively declares state of emergency as Tropical Storm Erika nears:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/state-of-emergency-declared-in-florida-tropical-storm-nears/ar-BBmbFdF

2015-08-27 - Twin waterspouts spotted near Cape Coral (Florida):
http://www.wptv.com/news/state/twin-waterspouts-spotted-near-cape-coral-florida
http://www.sott.net/article/300755-Twin-waterspouts-spotted-near-Cape-Coral-Florida

2015-08-27 - Pennsylvania climate change report warns of hotter summers, destructive storms, floods:
https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2015/08/27/pa-climate-change-report-warns-of-hotter-summers-destructive-storms/

2015-08-27 - Suspected pneumonic plague outbreak kills seven people in Moramanga (Madagascar):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150827-49848-MDG

2015-08-27 - Bubonic plage kills man in Utah:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150828-49861-USA

2015-08-27 - New math could reveal hidden sources of chaos:
http://www.livescience.com/52003-new-definition-chaos.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300738-New-math-could-reveal-hidden-sources-of-chaos

2015-08-28 - Purple waves washing ashore in Oregon:
http://www.beachconnection.net/news/wpurple082615_510.php
http://oregon.citynewsline.com/news/purple-waves-puzzle-oregon-coast-scientists-officials
http://robertscribbler.com/2015/08/28/shades-of-a-canfield-ocean-hydrogen-sulfide-in-oregons-purple-waves/

Quote: "Another report from Neskowin said the purple waves had a funky smell to it..."

Note: That is probably purple sulfur bacteria, and that is a very bad sign indeed that this extinction event is storming ahead with ever-increasing strength. Purple sulfur bacteria consume hydrogen sulfide and they only exist in waters where there is already hydrogen sulfide present. So as the waters of the Earth become more contaminated with hydrogen sulfide, produced by sulfate reducing bacteria, there will be more outbreaks of purple sulfur bacteria. That appears to be happening now.

This is a sign that this extinction event is escalating rapidly now, the waters of the Earth becoming increasingly contaminated with hydrogen sulfide. That will cause more hydrogen sulfide to diffuse into the air, resulting in more fires and explosions, more animals and people sickening and dying, the Sun looking whiter and hitting the Earth with increasingly deadly levels of UV as the ozone layer dissolves, etc.

Because this extinction event is fueled by bacterial growth rates, this is the type of problem that accelerates at a geometric rate. Things weren't nearly this bad in early 2011 when I became certain about what was happening, though the signs were plentiful enough even then. But just over 4.5 years later and now we're seeing purple ocean waters - that is rapid escalation, and the escalation is only going to be even more rapid and extreme from here on out.

2015-08-28 - Foul stench hits coastal Staten Island (New York):
http://gothamist.com/2015/08/29/staten_island_smellfest.php
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/foul-stench-reported-staten-island-article-1.2341079
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/29/nyregion/harsh-odor-wafts-over-staten-island-baffling-residents.html
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/08/strong_ordor_reported_on_state.html
http://newyork.metrobugle.com/2015/08/28/foul-stench-reported-across-staten-island/
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/08/authorities-unsure-why-staten-island-stinks.html
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Why-Staten-Island-Stinks-So-Much-Friday-FDNY-NYPD-Foul-Odor-323244701.html
http://gawker.com/staten-island-stinks-so-badly-today-that-people-are-cal-1727246575

Quote: "An offensive odor of unknown origins permeated the borough, prompting numerous 311 complaints and calls to the NYPD and FDNY, the Staten Island Advance reported."

Quote: "While most of the reports are from the North Shore, they are being made from all over the Island, including Grasmere and Dongan Hills."

Quote: "A brief emergency radio transmission described the call as a possible Haz-Mat situation."

Note: Purple ocean water on the West Coast and a foul smell hitting a large coastal area on the East Coast - these are both extremely bad signs. Watch for more incidents like these...

2015-08-28 - Kilauea erupts, spews out some lava, lava hits forest land, in Hawaii:
http://www.weather.com/news/news/hawaii-kilauea-volcano-erupts-lava-flow
http://www.sott.net/article/300799-Lava-erupts-from-Hawaiis-Kilauea-volcano

Quote: "The lava lake at the summit of Kilauea Volcano, located within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park near the southern end of the island, was still active Friday, according to officials with the U.S. Geological Survey office that monitors the volcano.  The volcano's lava flow posed no threat to surrounding communities at this time, they added, 'but [they] are being monitored closely,' as some of the lava flows 'are marked by smoke plumes where lava is creeping into the forest.'"

2015-08-28 - Extreme Arctic ice melt forces thousands of walruses ashore:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/walruses-threatened-by-sea-ice-melt.html

2015-08-28 - Almost all ground beef has fecal contamination:
http://wjla.com/news/health/almost-all-ground-beef-has-fecal-contamination

2015-08-28 - Lightning strikes kill 5 people in South Darfur (Sudan):
http://allafrica.com/stories/201508280311.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300759-Lightning-strikes-kill-5-in-South-Darfur-Sudan

2015-08-28 - Baseball-sized hail smashes cars and roofs in Altona, Manitoba (Canada):
http://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/hail-storm-leaves-mess-behind-in-southern-manitoba-town-1.2537900
http://www.sott.net/article/300824-Baseball-sized-hail-damages-roofs-and-smashes-cars-in-Altona-Manitoba

2015-08-28 - Baseball-sized hail hits Kittson and Pembina Counties (North Dakota):
http://www.wday.com/news/3827521-baseball-sized-hail-reported-kittson-pembina-counties
http://www.sott.net/article/300825-Baseball-sized-hail-recorded-in-Kittson-Pembina-counties-North-Dakota

2015-08-28 - North Korea releases horrifying film of killer floods:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/north-korea-releases-horrifying-footage-6342032
http://www.sott.net/article/300806-North-Korea-releases-horrifying-film-of-killer-floods

Note: That's very unusual. Not the flooding so much as North Korea releasing information about it...

2015-08-28 - Waterspout spotted near Miami Beach (Florida):
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Waterspout-Forms-Offshore-East-of-Miami-Beach-323210631.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300816-Waterspout-appears-offshore-east-of-Miami-Beach-Florida

2015-08-28 - Boeing unveils laser weapon that can fry a drone in 2 seconds:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/boeing-drone-laser-weapon/

2015-08-28 - 7000-year-old stone age petroglyphs discovered deep inside the Arctic Circle:
http://www.rt.com/news/313681-norway-carving-arctic-circle/
http://www.sott.net/article/300778-Prehistoric-stone-age-petroglyphs-discovered-deep-inside-the-Arctic-Circle

2015-08-28 - Fireball streaks across the skies over St. George (Utah):
http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2015/08/29/rsw-early-morning-fireball-southern-utah-attracts-attention/
http://www.sott.net/article/300829-Early-morning-fireball-over-St-George-Utah

2015-08-29 - Seven workers gassed to death by toxic gas, 2 injured, at paper plant in Hunan Province (China):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HZ-20150829-49879-CHN
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/08/28/7-killed-2-hurt-after-exposure-to-poison-at-paper-mill-in-china-latest/
http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2015/08/28/7-killed-2-injured-in-china-paper-mill-accident

2015-08-29 - Golfer John Daly, 49, collapses on golf course in Jackson (Mississippi):
http://news.yahoo.com/daly-collapses-course-mississippi-taken-hospital-020723086.html

2015-08-29 - Shallow magnitude 3.5 earthquake shakes coastal Fort Bragg (California):
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-earthquake-35-quake-strikes-near-fort-bragg-20150829-story.html

2015-08-29 - Island disappearing beneath the water as sea level rises:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-arctic-obama-20150830-story.html

Quote: "In this town of 403 residents 83 miles above the Arctic Circle, beaches are disappearing, ice is melting, temperatures are rising, and the barrier reef Kivalina calls home gets smaller and smaller with every storm. There is no space left to build homes for the living. The dead are now flown to the mainland so the ocean won't encroach upon their graves."

2015-08-29 - Leukemia, possibly from radiation, found in 1/3 of seals on the California coast:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/the-death-of-pacific.html

2015-08-29 - Two hurricanes head toward Hawaii:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/29/us-usa-storm-hawaii-idUSKCN0QY03520150829
http://www.sott.net/article/300804-Two-hurricanes-heading-toward-Hawaii

Quote: "Hurricane Ignacio was churning across the Pacific on Friday on a path that could take it past Hawaii in coming days, with a second, more powerful storm trailing in its wake, the National Hurricane Center said."

2015-08-29 - Waterspout spotted near Fremantle (Australia):
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/29381858/waterspout-whips-up-freo-waters/
http://www.sott.net/article/300809-Waterspout-filmed-near-Fremantle-Australia

2015-08-29 - Waterspout spotted off Jacksonville Beach (Florida):
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/weather/2015/08/29/water-spout-spotted-off-jacksonville-beach/71375860/
http://www.sott.net/article/300854-Waterspout-spotted-off-Jacksonville-Beach-Florida

2015-08-29 - Gas stations run out of standard gas in Halifax (Canada):
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-gas-stations-facing-weekend-fuel-shortage-1.3208562

Note: Did some tanker trucks crash and/or burn and delay or prevent delivery?

2015-08-29 - Ancient Siberian statue has undeciphered code from 7000 years before writing thought to have begun:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/science/world-s-oldest-statue-dated-at-11-000-years-contains-secret-code/article/442370
http://www.sott.net/article/300830-Siberian-statue-carries-secret-code-7000yr-before-writing-began

Quote: "The Shigir Idol is the world's oldest known wooden statue. Built in 9,000 BC, it bears a secret code which nobody has ever been able to decipher. Even more startling is that it was written 7,000 years before writing was thought to have begun."

Quote: "Built at the end of the last Ice Age, it is some 5,000 years older than the pyramids and 6,500 years older than Stonehenge."

2015-08-30 - Man, 55, has 'medical emergency' while kayaking in Whitewater Park in Wausau (Wisconsin):
http://www.waow.com/story/29915986/2015/08/30/man-revived-after-medical-emergency-while-kayaking-in-wausau

2015-08-30 - Landfill odor causing problems in coastal Fall River (Massachusetts):
http://www.heraldnews.com/article/20150829/NEWS/150826138

Quote: "For years, the methane fumes from the Fall River landfill has forced Elmer Brashaw to keep his windows closed at his Wilson Road home when the gas smell is particularly bad on some days."

Note: That's not methane they're smelling, since methane is odorless...

2015-08-30 - Mount Lokon erupts, spews ash 1500 meters into the atmosphere, in Indonesia:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VE-20150831-49894-IDN

2015-08-30 - Jellyfish from the Indian Ocean invade the beaches of the Eastern Mediterranean via the Suez Canal:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3216015/Swarms-stinging-jellyfish-Indian-Ocean-invading-beaches-Eastern-Mediterranean-Suez-Canal.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300853-Jellyfish-from-the-Indian-Ocean-invade-the-beaches-of-the-Eastern-Mediterranean-via-the-Suez-Canal

Note: Jellyfish reproduce better in warmer waters, so while most everything else is suffering as the seas and oceans warm, jellyfish are doing just fine...

2015-08-30 - Boy, 14, killed by brain-eating amoeba near Houston (Texas):
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/Texas-Teen-Dies-After-Amoeba-Enters-Brain-323519091.html
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-teen-dies-of-rare-brain-eating-amoeba-infection/ar-AAdLvjZ

2015-08-30 - Fierce storm takes out power to 450,000 people in Washington state:
http://news.yahoo.com/two-dead-massive-outages-windstorm-slams-washington-state-153444311.html

2015-08-30 - Storm knocks out power to 400,000 people in British Columbia (Canada):
http://www.sott.net/article/300840-Canada-B-C-Lower-Mainland-storm-cuts-power-to-400000-homes
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-lower-mainland-storm-cuts-power-to-400-000-homes-1.3208698

2015-08-30 - Tropical Storm Erika displaces more than 7,300 people in the Dominican Republic:
http://sputniknews.com/latam/20150829/1026328620.html
http://www.sott.net/article/300869-Tropical-Storm-Erika-has-left-over-7300-people-displaced-in-the-Dominican-Republic

2015-08-30 - There's a Blood Moon coming, and some think it signals the end of the world:
http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/29/theres-a-blood-moon-coming-and-some-think-it-signals-the-end-of-the-world-5366325/
http://www.sott.net/article/300872-Theres-a-Blood-Moon-coming-and-some-think-it-signals-the-end-of-the-world

2015-08-30 - The 'Great Unwind' begins? China dumping US treasuries:
http://www.sprottmoney.com/blog/the-great-unwind-china-begins-dumping-treasuries-nathan-mcdonald.html

2015-08-30 - Economic slowdown hits Canada, could impact the US too:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-28/uh-oh-canada-china-pales-as-a-risk-to-u-s-growth

2015-08-30 - Two-headed piglet found outside Buddhist temple in Tianjin (China):
http://www.sott.net/article/300810-Signs-and-Portents-Two-headed-piglet-found-abandoned-outside-Buddhist-temple-in-China
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3214138/Two-headed-piglet-discovered-abandoned-outside-Buddhist-temple-China-adopted-kind-hearted-passerby.html

2015-08-30 - Self-help author Wayne Dyer dies at age 75:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/wayne-dyer-best-selling-self-help-author-dead-at-75/ar-AAdLEhE

2015-08-30 - Legendary horror director Wes Craven dies at 76 of brain cancer:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wes-craven-dead_55e3ac71e4b0aec9f353a177
http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/wes-craven-horror-maestro-dies-at-76/ar-AAdLNQD

Note: RIP and thanks for all the frights!

2015-08-31 - Salton Sea belches up hydrogen sulfide for at least the third time this year in California:
http://www.inlandnewstoday.com/story.php?s=39327

Quote: "The Salton Sea is belching hydrogen sulfide – again. The Air Quality Management District issued an odor advisory Monday for the Coachella Valley. It’s at least the third one this summer. Hydrogen sulfide smells like rotten eggs and is associated with natural processes occurring in the Salton Sea."

Note: Good thing it's only a deadly neurotoxic poison gas (as deadly as hydrogen cyanide which is what they use to execute people in gas chambers) and nobody knows what the long-term effects of regularly breathing even small quantities are. Wait, that's not a good thing!

2015-08-31 - Earthquakes rattle California, Oregon and Oklahoma:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/08/31/Triple-threat-Earthquakes-rattle-California-Oklahoma-Oregon/8551441040954/
http://www.sott.net/article/300939-Triple-threat-Earthquakes-rattle-California-Oklahoma-Oregon

2015-08-31 - Around 100 school children sickened by unknown gas at school in Herat (Afghanistan):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=CR-20150831-49896-AFG

Quote: "At least 100 schoolchildren have been taken to the hospital after suspected gas poisoning in Herat Province, western Afghanistan, officials said, adding that the children 'felt dizzy' at their school and several of them 'had fallen unconscious.'"

2015-08-31 - Empty crabbing boat found idling, boater missing, in the Cooper River near Goose Creek (South Carolina):
http://www.abcnews4.com/story/29927772/searchers-find-crabbing-boat-looking-for-crabber-near-bushy-park-boat-landing

2015-08-31 - Apocalyptic hailstorm hits Mexico, at least 4 killed:
http://www.turkishweekly.net/2015/09/01/news/at-least-4-dead-in-mexico-hailstorm/
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/at-least-4-dead-after-mexico-hit-by-apocalyptic-hailstorm/

2015-08-31 - New study reveals the possibility of hurricanes 'unlike anything you’ve seen in history':
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/08/31/new-study-reveals-the-possibility-of-hurricanes-unlike-anything-youve-seen-in-history/
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/new-study-reveals-the-possibility-of-hurricanes-unlike-anything-youve-seen-in-history/

2015-08-31 - Hurricane Fred heads toward the Cape Verde Islands, first hurricane to hit there in more than 100 years:
http://wqad.com/2015/08/31/hurricane-fred-makes-history-in-the-atlantic/
http://www.sott.net/article/300953-Hurricane-Fred-makes-history-in-the-Atlantic

2015-08-31 - Storms dumps half a foot of rain on Charleston (South Carolina):
http://wncn.com/2015/08/31/gator-swims-through-neighborhood-as-charleston-hit-with-half-foot-of-rain/
http://www.sott.net/article/300945-Half-foot-of-rain-hits-Charleston-South-Carolina
http://mashable.com/2015/08/31/charleston-flood-alligator-photo/

2015-08-31 - Coldest winter in nearly 50 years chills Tasmania (Australia):
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/tasmanias-winter-coldest-in-nearly-50-years-bureau-of-meteorology-says/357035
http://www.sott.net/article/300941-Coldest-winter-in-nearly-50-years-for-Tasmania-Australia

2015-08-31 - Pandemonium breaks out at West Malaysian school as pupils are hit by hysteria:
http://english.astroawani.com/malaysia-news/pandemonium-broke-out-pokok-sena-school-pupils-are-hit-hysteria-71259
http://www.sott.net/article/300932-Pandemonium-broke-out-in-West-Malaysian-school-as-pupils-are-hit-by-hysteria

2015-08-31 - Prospector drones could be critical step to mining in space:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/prospector-drones-could-be-critical-step-to-mining-in-space-1.3191658?cmp=rss