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Three Giant Asteroids Heading Towards Earth

What's really frightening is no one knows where they all are...

(CHICAGO) - Three huge asteroids are barreling through space on a rendezvous with Earth and there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it.

Motion pictures like Armageddon have depicted Earth threatened with annihilation by a giant asteroid traveling many thousands of miles per hour. Because of its speed and mass a large asteroid impact would release the energy of 100s or 1,000s of thermonuclear bombs.

Gigantic Icelandic Volcano Could Plunge Europe Into Immediate Ice Age...

A plethora of scientists have come out in the past 12 months warning about the signs of an impending Ice Age.

(CHICAGO) - Another mammoth Icelandic volcano, Baroarbunga, is ready to erupt. This one could dwarf the Eyjafjallajokull glacier volcano that blew in 2010 causing havoc throughout Europe.

That's the word streaming out of this northern island nation....

A Brief History of Truth

The pursuit of Truth is a perilous journey.

(SALEM, Ore.) - One of the early stories that relates human nature and truth is about the Greek mathematician Pythagoras, for whom the Pythagorean Theorem is named.

He believed strongly in the power of rational (whole) numbers, that they controlled the behavior of the planets and the universe itself.

Yellowstone Supervolcano, New Ice Age Could Topple US Government

Is Denver the nation's Doomsday capitol?

(CHICAGO) - As evidence mounts that the world may fast be slipping into the next Ice Age, Washington insiders are hurrying to solidify a new power base for centralized government operations.

Fears that the US capital might be struck by another more deadly terrorist attack—or other disasters—prompted agencies a decade ago to hurriedly establish back-up operations in case catastrophe struck.

Polls Show Lawmakers Are Overreaching in Attacking EPA

Congress blocks EPA's scientists from doing their jobs...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Political analysts agree there was no mandate in last November's elections, leaving many to wonder if some lawmakers would overreach. Now we know.

The answer is a resounding "yes" on overreaching when it comes to efforts in Congress to block the EPA's ability to update safeguards under the Clean Air Act.

Magnetic Fields

Natural Selection: Dead crabs and fish wash up on shores; dead birds drop from the skies, dead cows and water buffalo drop in the fields, bats felled by a fungus, if not a pellet gun.

(BURLINGTON, Vermont) - One hundred and fifty one years ago, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace knew that birds dropping from the skies, dead fish and crabs washing up from the sea, and cows flopping in the fields, are nature’s spectacular staging of what Darwin termed natural selection.

“As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life...

The Ancient Powers of the Forest People

'Visits From The Forest People' also includes a wealth of information on the origins, history, and observed habits of Bigfoot, along with other supporting eyewitness accounts.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Be aware than when you seek the solitude of the shadowy forests of Oregon or Washington, you are not alone.

A new book titled 'Visits From The Forest People', published by Pine Woods Press, is giving the world a startling window onto the existence of the legendary creatures known as Bigfoot and Sasquatch.

How Smart Are Smartphones?

The public at large thinks that they can’t live without these devices.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A strange epidemic has taken hold, spreading to the farthest corners of the globe. It threatens to alter the course of history by turning previously productive members of society into mindless droids.

You’ve seen them zigzagging down the sidewalk, walking into objects, stepping off into traffic as if blind, or uncaring, perhaps suicidal.

Magnetic Polar Shifts Causing Massive Global Superstorms

Superstorms can also cause certain societies, cultures or whole countries to collapse. Others may go to war with each other.

(CHICAGO) - NASA has been warning about it…scientific papers have been written about it… geologists have seen its traces in rock strata and ice core samples…

Now "it" is here: an unstoppable magnetic pole shift that has sped up and is causing life-threatening havoc with the world's weather.

The Riddle of the Neanderthal Within

Even with modern genetic analysis, the enigma of the Neanderthal is yielding different interpretations.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Neanderthals are the nearest species preceding modern man. Recent research from different teams has converged on the finding that most of us have at least 1% to 4% Neanderthal DNA, and probably more, according to anthropologist Eric Trinkhaus.

The results of genetic testing reveal that Neanderthal DNA is 99.7 % similar to modern humans.