THE ORACLE SPEAKETH!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings <no_re...@...> wrote: > > > There are not more Earhquakes than in the past, but the world's > population is much bigger than half a century ago, so humans are going > to notice them, because humans are now everywhere, and with with mass > communication as well. > > Those storms you had in the US are nothing. > > OffWorld > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: > > > > (resend, original did not appear to post) > > > > I am not a doomsdayer. > > > > However, for me, the 8.8 quake in Chile takes us to the outer range of > "normal flow of events" -- or at least gives me pause to consider that > something outside the pattern of normality. > > > > I had been thinking that the Haiti quake seemed really close in time, > seismically, to the 2008 China quake (8.0) in 2008, and the tsnunami > quake of 2004 (9.1). Now with Chile 8.8 quake just a month after Haiti > -- we have got four of the larger of recorded quakes in just 6 years -- > and the interval appears accelerating -- rapidly. Chile is 500 times > larger (energy wise) than Haiti. It's 15 times larger than the 1906 SF > earthquake. > > > > The Chile and Haiti quakes occurring in a time of the largest world > recession and unemployment in 80 years and unprecedented housing price > declines -- and a financial crises 12-18 months ago that crises that > took us to the edge. Congress is in a devastating deadlock. States are > near bankrupt. Some nations (PIGS and all) are near insolvency. And the > federal deficit is so vastly large which could potentially lead to a > sustained deflationary period -- what the Japanese have endured for > several decades now -- and/or with intervals of hyper inflation (driven > by the deficits and increase in money supply, etc). > > > > Structural underemployment could last for a decade or more. > > Look what chronic high unemployment has done to the inner cities. A > new social order and vastly changed cultural landscape whereby, amongst > many other parallel potential transitions, we could see millions of > (former) soccer moms selling meth to feed the kids and keep the house > heated (and the house out of foreclosure). It's not an unthinkable > scenario > > > > Glaciers 1000s of years in the making are rapidly melting. We have had > 8 very large crippling storms this winter -- formerly one might occur in > a decade. > > > > Its difficult to place all of these events in context. We have seen > huge transformations in our lifetimes including such transformations in > many areas -- the breakup of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the PC > and internet come to mind. And past ages have seen huge change and rapid > transformations -- for the good and for the bad. But with so many > contemporary extreme events occurring, with increasing frequency makes > me ponder what's going on? > > >
