The Long Emergency

The following article has been circulated on the Internet and is not without merit. I encourage everyone to read it and form their own opinions, as I have;

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE
April 2005 Issue

The Long Emergency:

What's going to happen as we start
running out of cheap gas to guzzle?

by James Howard Kunstler

Article Link

Paints a dim picture for the future. I don't know how accurate the
article is, my guess is that it's close enough to the truth that we
should be very concerned. More nuclear plants? More oil refineries?
What is the answer to the problem? Maybe there is no good answer. Maybe there's a problem and no solution. I don't know how (other than the simplistic reasoning offered) he arrived at the conclusion that the Northeast will be better off than everybody else; "more likely to salvage the bits and pieces of our best social traditions and keep them in operation at some level."
Well maybe so...They (Northeast states)and many of the inner cities are the ones that want more government, more hand outs and have LESS value placed on moral(not popular) er..I mean social traditions.
Other than the somewhat odd finish, a good article. Maybe a major news network will pick it up.

Aliens or Seismic Activity

For those of us that have been worried about all of the UFO sightings, a new explanation as to why seemingly intelligent people see aliens, or at least their ships.
It seems that electromagnetic fluctuations in the atmospehere caused by compression of rocks below the earth's surface, can stimulate synapses in the brain and cause an hallucinogenic affect.

"Imagine you are driving down a country road, you see a strange luminance in the distance... in this case, the geomagnetic product of tectonic strain. But the geomagnetic fluctuations are also influencing your brain and extending the experience from the realm of misinterpretation to active hallucination. Additionally, the effect of the fluctuating geomagnetism on your brain might be enough to induce the hallucination in the absence of any visible flash.

In your mind, you don't see a strange flash of light, but a space ship, that is, if you are inclined to believe in such things. If the induced hallucination is elaborate enough, you may recall interactions with the occupants of the spaceship - an abduction. You don't have to be an X-Files fan to recount the basics of the alien abduction scenario. It's part of our popular folklore. In previous centuries, or in some areas today, these events may not have been interpreted as UFOs, but as monsters or some profound religious event like the sighting of a saint, depending on the collective lore of the time and place." excerpt from this site: Among Us?