It’s happened before. It will happen again. But this time it’ll be much worse.
Floods
March 2019 was another month of significant extreme weather events, with record-breaking flooding, hailstorms, snowfalls and wildfires – on every continent, no matter the season.
While the media hypes the pseudo-scientific claim that climate change is man-made and whose effects should really only concern future generations, here and now the climate is shifting – and, besides mitigating some of its effects, there is nothing governments can do to prevent this shift from happening.
Among the ‘highlights’ in March was catastrophic flooding in the US Midwest after a ‘winter hurricane’ inundated much of the US with snow and rain. Nebraska was especially hardest hit as two-thirds of the state became an inland sea. Of the multiple powerful cyclones in the southern hemisphere last month, one caused unprecedented flooding in southeastern Africa and killed 1,000 people.
Huge dust-devils, ‘snownados’, ‘thundersnow’, and deluges of hail and rain occur with such regularity now, they’re practically ‘normal’. The same goes for spectacular meteor fireball events, which – after a decade of not seeing them – even the mainstream media reports on these days.
All that, and more, in this month’s SOTT Earth Changes Summary…
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Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says the United States’ attempts to block international humanitarian aid from entering flood-hit Iran lays bare America’s malevolence.
Addressing employees at the Defense Ministry in Tehran on Sunday, Brig. Gen. Hatami blasted the administration of US President Donald Trump for seeking to hinder shipments of relief supplies to the Iranian regions devastated by unprecedented floods.
“They (the Americans) once again demonstrated their malevolence and the depth of their enmity toward the great nation of the Islamic Iran,” he said. “They proved that — contrary to their media propaganda — they are not just opposed to the Islamic establishment but [are prepared to] inhibit the delivery of the most basic items needed to save the lives of flood-stricken people.”
According to the latest death tally provided by the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), 70 people have died in the flash floods that affected 1,889 cities, villages, and mountainous roads in 31 provinces of Iran over the past weeks.
Iran’s Army, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), voluntary groups, and locals have all mobilized to provide relief aid to the flood-hit areas.
Iran says the US has frozen the bank accounts of the IRCS as part of its unilateral sanctions against the Iranian people, making it almost impossible for foreign aid to reach the flood victims.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has described those US attempts as “economic terrorism.”
German boats arrive, France to start aid dispatch
Meanwhile, a consignment of 40 boats donated by the German Red Cross have been delivered to the IRCS. The consignment also includes 281 special rescue equipment such as flood clothes, helmets, vests, boots, shoe, etc.
The boats and rescue equipment are expected to be sent to the southwestern province of Khuzestan.
Additionally, France’s Foreign Ministry has said that the country will send 12 tons of humanitarian aid material — including 114 pumps — to Iran’s flood-hit regions. It said the first shipment would be sent in the coming days.
One record breaking disaster after another has been hitting America in recent months. At this moment, Nebraska is dealing with the worst flooding that it has ever experienced, and the economic damage being done by all of this flooding is going to be absolutely crippling for many farmers.
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Michael Snyder
March 15, 2019
One record breaking disaster after another has been hitting America in recent months. At this moment, Nebraska is dealing with the worst flooding that it has ever experienced, and the economic damage being done by all of this flooding is going to be absolutely crippling for many farmers. Of course the floods are the result of the “bomb cyclone” that brought hurricane-like winds and blizzard conditions to the central part of the country last week. Sadly, this was just the latest chapter in a very cold and very bitter winter that can’t end soon enough as far as many of us are concerned.
Unfortunately, a change in the seasons is not going to be enough to restore our weather patterns to normal. Prior to this winter, I repeatedly warned that this was going to be an extraordinarily cold and snowy winter, and it turns out that I was exactly correct.
So how did I know this would happen?
Well, it is actually very simple. I listened to the scientists that were warning us that our sun is exhibiting very unusual behavior, that Earth’s north magnetic pole has been shifting, and that global weather patterns are changing dramatically.
It is not an exaggeration to say that weather patterns here in the United States are literally going crazy. Los Angeles just had the coldest February that it has seen in 60 years, Seattle just had their snowiest February in 70 years, and some parts of California received more than 500 inches of snow this winter.
And now we are being warned that we could have a very rainy spring, but it is hard to imagine that things could get any worse than they currently are in the central part of the nation.
If you can believe it, some parts of the Missouri River are going to break previous flood records by up to 7 feet…
The Missouri River was still rising on Saturday evening, local TV station KMTV reported, with a record crest of more than 47 feet expected early on Tuesday in Brownville, Nebraska, about 70 miles south of Omaha in the eastern corner of the state.
“We’re looking at 4, 5, 6, 7 feet above the highest it’s ever been,” Wight said.
So far, a total of 17 records have already been set, and according to CNN some of those records have been standing for nearly 60 years…
Some of the records go as far back as 1960 and some are as recent as 2011, according to a press release from the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency, or NEMA. The majority of the records NEMA listed involved the Missouri River, which crested between 30 and 47.5 feet in different areas throughout the state since Tuesday, breaking previous records by 1 to 4 feet.
The Platte River in Louisville is expected to crest Sunday at 14.3 feet, breaking its 1960 record by 1.9 feet, NEMA said. The Elkhorn River at Waterloo crested at 24.6 feet on Saturday, breaking its 1962 record by 5.5 feet.
Other states have been hit by flooding as well, but nobody got hit quite as hard as Nebraska.
After surveying the immense devastation caused by the flooding, Governor Ricketts attempted to convey the scope of the damage…
Gov. Pete Ricketts and other state officials witnessed a helicopter rescue mission, saw wiped-out bridges, islands of stranded cattle and towns engulfed by water during a flyover of flooded areas Friday.
The expanse of the flooding made detecting the main channels of the Elkhorn and Platte rivers difficult in some areas, he said.
“This may be the most widespread flooding devastation we’ve had in our state in the last half-century,” Ricketts said.
Sadly, the truth is even worse than that.
This is now the worst flooding that some parts of Nebraska have ever experienced, and with their fields inundated by water many farmers may not be able to plant their spring crops…
While this extreme weather affects everyone in the area, farmers see some of the worst effects. Blizzard conditions and flooding can kill cattle and hogs, and the water-soaked fields may persist for weeks, preventing Midwestern farmers from being able to plant a timely spring crop. Planting delays can lead to lower crop yields or even force farmers to give up planting some fields, which could cut into U.S. corn production this year.
America’s farmers just can’t seem to catch a break. The trade war has small farmers all across the country on the verge of bankruptcy, and farm debt delinquencies have already reached the highest level that we have seen in 9 years.
So all of this flooding is coming at a really bad time, and on top of everything else more rain and snow is in the forecast for Monday and Tuesday.
Those that follow my work on a regular basis already know that I talk a lot about how our planet is becoming increasingly unstable. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are becoming more frequent, and global weather patterns are doing things that we haven’t seen before.
There is a very complicated relationship between the sun, the Earth’s magnetic field and our rapidly shifting weather patterns. If the behavior of the giant ball of fire that our planet revolves around continues to become even more erratic, that is going to have enormous implications for every man, woman and child in the entire world.
So keep a close eye on the sun. Most discussions about “climate” assume that our sun will behave the way that it always has, but that is not a safe assumption.
Things are changing, and the catastrophes that we have seen so far are just the beginning…
About the author: Michael Snyder is a nationally-syndicated writer, media personality and political activist. He is the author of four books including Get Prepared Now, The Beginning Of The End and Living A Life That Really Matters. His articles are originally published on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News. From there, his articles are republished on dozens of other prominent websites. If you would like to republish his articles, please feel free to do so. The more people that see this information the better, and we need to wake more people up while there is still time.
A flood myth or deluge myth is a narrative in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution. Parallels are often drawn between the flood waters of these myths and the primeval waters found in certain creation myths, as the flood waters are described as a measure for the cleansing of humanity, in preparation for rebirth. Most flood myths also contain a culture hero, who “represents the human craving for life”.
The flood myth motif is widespread among many cultures as seen in the Mesopotamian flood stories, the Hindu texts from India, Deucalion in Greek mythology, the Genesis flood narrative, Bergelmir in Norse Mythology, and in the lore of the K’iche’ and Maya peoples in Mesoamerica, the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa tribe of Native Americans in North America, the Muisca people, and Cañari Confederation, in South America.
illuminati | by Lettuce
This is in response to the article, “The Illuminati Fear Program”
by Sha’Tara
Yes, of course, and of course and of course. “Don’t be scared!” How easy to say, how difficult to implement. People ARE scared. Why? Because earth is not a paradise for man but a prison planet; because there is no safe place, nowhere to run to. So, if you’re a sheeple, either you trust the farmer who’s going to sheer and butcher you eventually, or you make a break for it and die in the wilderness, your fleece a tangle of mats, your skin riddled with diseases, your food supply uncertain and your surroundings crawling with predators. You don’t fit in the wilds – this isn’t your world: you were genetically designed to remain in the “care” of your shepherds. Plus, you know the farmer will be out with guns and dogs to bring you down as an example to the rest of the sheeple.

Wiki
I’ve encountered this helplessness of the rank and file endlessly throughout my life, no matter who I talked to. Mention a real process of detachment from elitist promises and propaganda, and you’re immediately branded as the black sheep. People live in fear because they are programmed to live in fear and that is manipulated to make them distrust each other and continually turn back to their real oppressors for “comfort” and “safety” from their perceived enemies: themselves. Pogo: “We’ve met the enemy and he is us.”
Man is an alien species. Well, come on, I’ve known this since I was knee high to a pretzel and how could anyone not know this, not innately sense this? Everything man’s ever done to better himself here has turned into his worst nightmares. He’s ever and ever plunged into an endless “Hunger Games” manipulated by the three basic Powers of Religion, Totalitarian state and Money, round and round and round the wheel turns. We see this now more and more as the species reaches the half-way point in its exponential growth, surpassing its limits to growth and we can sense how the ruling elites are planning the next phase of serious culling. Global warming won’t bring in a new global flood, so massive drowning won’t work. Plus man-made poisons and nuclear wastes spread throughout a flooded world would turn its waters into an irradiating acid bath. Horror, pain and death would spread on a scale of numbers far surpassing the original flood.
You can see the wheels turning for global control in the Middle East. For some time now I’ve been wracking my silly brains wondering what could possibly be so important about the oil resources below the sands. After all, wouldn’t it be much more profitable to push for a switch from reliance on Middle East crude to all other existing stockpiles of energy matter, such as massive coal deposits, oil under the seas, fracking, tar sands, and of course just taking over alternative sources of energy like wind, solar and geothermal energy and plugging them into the elitist power grid? People can’t prevent that, nor compete with it, not in city environments and most people now exist in cities and could not survive in any other more independent situations.
Cities were designed as holding pens and people gradually forced to go live in them as “free” lands were increasingly taken over by elitist industry, business, state or “crown” lands. Today, even in Canada with its mass areas of open lands, people choose to live in a few major centers and satellite centers that serve as bedroom communities and shopping centers.
Back to the Middle East then. What’s with that? What’s with the drive to control the oil, even at the cost of a possible nuclear conflict?

Wiki
Finally, I got it. They don’t want the oil, they don’t need it, they just need to control the area where the oil is so no one else can have it and threaten “their” hegemony with that free source of energy. If they could destroy all the oil in the Middle East they’d do it, like, yesterday.
“We of the Hegemon herby declare that all of the earth’s resources and all of its labour, now slave labour, belongs to us. No one else can have it if we claim it. Dare us and we’ll plunge you into a war so devastating you’ll be driven back to the stone age in such pain and agony you’ll wish you had died at ground zero.”
Mon, 08 Aug 2016
July 2016 was a crazy month in more ways than one. A global spike in terror attacks and people going postal was apparently mirrored by Mother Nature. Among the extreme weather events and trends in environmental upheaval last month, we observed:
- A destructive tornado outbreak in South Africa (where it’s winter-time)
- Hail the size of golf-balls falling in – of all places – Colombia and Brazil
- Intense electrical storms everywhere, with lightning strikes continuing to pick people off in alarming numbers
- Deluges of rain washing away cars and people everywhere from Mexico City to Berlin to Maryland
- Devastating flooding across swathes of China, India and Nepal
- Multiple destructive waterspouts coming ashore in Cuba
- Animals, both wild and captive, attacking and killing people
- An enormous meteor fragmenting from horizon to horizon over the US Southwest
These were just some of the signs in July 2016:
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New geological findings suggest that an ancient flood in a popular legend about the birth of China’s civilization might have actually occurred, but some 150 years later than historians thought.
This photo shows Jishi Gorge upstream from the landslide dam. Gray silt deposits reveal an ancient, massive lake held by the dam.
In Chinese mythology, the tale of a great flood marks the beginning of the ancient civilization and the debut of China’s first-ever, but possibly fictional, dynasty—the Xia Dynasty. Today, researchers published a paper in Science laying out geological evidence for a huge flood on the Yellow River almost 4000 years ago that may have inspired the origin story.
“The scientific evidence of this flood would lend support to parts of the legendary history,” said Li Liu, an archaeologist at Stanford University in California and coauthor on the new paper. Specifically, the findings could lend credibility to arguments that the Xia Dynasty actually existed.
Yu the Great
The story of the Xia Dynasty starts with a flood that supposedly lasted 20 years. In ancient times, a man called Yu recruited villagers in the Yellow River valley to divert the waters that had been raging untamed for almost a decade. Over another decade, Yu and the villagers dug channels and tributaries that led the water to the sea.
Grateful countrymen crowned Yu the Great as their ruler. He started the dynastic tradition when he eventually passed his throne to his son. Modern scholars suggest that Yu’s reign started in 2070 B.C.E.—if it existed at all.
Because Chinese texts made no mention of this story for the next millennium, some scholars reject the existence of the dynasty itself, said Wu Qinglong, a geologist at Peking University in Beijing and lead author of the paper.
History in Rock
Starting nearly a decade ago, Wu found evidence of a landslide along the slopes bordering the Yellow River in the Jishi Gorge. Sediments from this landslide contained a jumbled mix of green schist and purple mudstone grains, which he also found 25 kilometers away in sediment that filled earthquake fissures at the Lajia archaeological site, an earthquake-damaged site famous for preserving the oldest intact noodles.
How did these sediments get so far downstream? To Wu, one answer seemed the most logical—a huge flood must have burst through the landslide dam, washing down sediment from higher elevations. Although he realized a flood must have carried these sediments, Wu didn’t discover its epic size until he and his team investigated more closely.
The Size of the Dam
The researchers started by calculating the size of the dam itself. They already knew about parts of the dam, but further inspection using satellite imagery revealed its breadth—the ancient landslide completely blocked the river, spanning 700 – 800 meters across, rose 240 meters above the river’s water level, and stretched downriver for more than a kilometer. Lake sediments found upstream of the ancient dam indicate that a massive lake grew and grew, holding as much as 17 cubic kilometers of water.
At the mouth of Jishi Gorge, where it opens into the downstream Guanting Valley, the researchers found boulders scattered around as if they’d been carried by a violent flood, said Darryl Granger, a geologist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. They also found beds where smaller grains lay beneath larger ones. Usually, floods deposit sediment in the opposite way—the largest and heaviest rocks carried by a flood sink first, then smaller and smaller grains rain out of the passing waters. This inversely graded bed indicates that the mass of water began moving slowly—as it overtopped the dam—and then rapidly sped up when the dam collapsed, Granger said.
Using sediments found downstream of the gorge, the researchers estimated that the ancient flood would have climbed as high as 38 meters above the current river’s level. With flood discharge calculations—using the amount of water thought to have been present in the massive lake and the gorge’s geometry—they estimated that the raging waters would have carried 300,000 – 500,000 cubic meters of water per second, making it one of the largest freshwater floods on Earth in the last 10,000 years, Granger said.
“This cataclysmic flood would have been devastating for anyone living on the Yellow River downstream,” Granger continued.
Radiocarbon dating of charcoal found in ancient flood deposits on both sides of the river’s path through the Jishi Gorge revealed that the flooding occurred around 1920 B.C.E.
Piecing Together the Tale
Wu and his colleagues then compared their calculated radiocarbon dates of the flood to those from skeletal remains of children killed at the Lajia site during the same earthquake. The dates were a close match, indicating that the earthquake may have triggered the landslide in the first place.
Through research and models, a story came together: In 1920 B.C.E., an earthquake caused a landslide to tumble into the Yellow River, blocking it completely. Water accumulated behind this dam for 6 – 9 months, after which it started to pour over the top. Eventually, the 130-meter-high dam partially collapsed, unleashing a wall of water down through the Jishi Gorge and into the valley below. The flood could have lasted some tens of hours or even days, possibly creating new tributaries and channels as the water cascaded through the valley, Granger said.
Annual flooding of those tributaries could have disrupted the agricultural landscape with each rainy season, Granger continued—a possible inspiration for the myth of a 20-year-long flood.
Culture Shock
Around 1900 B.C.E., legend says, the Xia Dynasty began after Yu the Great calmed the flooding waters. This date closely coincides with a radical cultural shift, said David Cohen, an archaeologist at the National Taiwan University in Taipei and a coauthor on the study. China’s Bronze Age started around 1900 B.C.E., he said, when urban centers and bronze centers started to rise.
One collection of urban ruins identified as the Erlitou culture, which some historians have associated with the Xia Dynasty, also dates to about 1900 B.C.E. That is too late to overlap with the dynasty if Yu truly came to power in 2070 B.C.E. However, if the newly documented flood is the flood of myth, its timing strengthens the possibility the Erlitou culture and hypothetical Xia Dynasty were linked, Cohen said.
“The [Great Flood] tale is central to Chinese identity and is known by everyone in China, just as Westerners know the story of Creation in the Bible or Noah’s flood,” Cohen told Eos. “I think many will be excited to see ‘scientific evidence’ of some truth behind this founding legend.”
Citation: Wendel, J. (2016), Evidence found for China’s ancient origin story, Eos, 97, doi:10.1029/2016EO057269. Published on 04 August 2016.
With the pace of Earth Changes apparently quickening in 2016, we’ve decided to publish this second Summary video for the month of January.
The flooding of the great Mississippi River Basin in early January – which followed record-breaking rainfall over the New Year – was unprecedented for wintertime. The only similar event was the Great Flood of 1937, but back then just one tributary – the Ohio River – flooded. Last month saw the Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, Arkansas and Meramec Rivers – and the Mississippi itself – all burst their banks, flooding parts of Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas and Tennessee. There are no records in US history of such happening before. In addition, the rivers crested at all-time record heights in a number of places.
The US Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions flipped from experiencing their warmest ever temperatures for December and early January… to being buried under a record-breaking 3-day blizzard that killed 55 people. The North American cold wave extended as far south as Veracruz, southern Mexico, which is experiencing its “coldest winter in history.” At the same time, a powerful cold wave in East Asia extended as far south as central Vietnam, where snow fell for the first time ever. An unusual cold wave also extended deep into the Middle East, where hail turned the Arabian Desert white and snow reached as far south as Kuwait (another first!).
Another sinkhole opened up in China to swallow a moving truck, but the most notable sinkhole last month opened up on a highway in Harbor, Oregon. In fact, a large sinkhole and a landslide occurred there. Note the location: this Oregon event was one of a number of events last month – all possibly seismic in nature – that took place in or near the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Another such event was the powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake in south Alaska, the most powerful to hit there in decades. Another was the ‘mini-tsunami’ that nearly drowned walkers on Pacific Beach in Washington state.
Severe thunderstorms in Australia brought tornado-force winds and dumped up to 10 inches of rain in parts of Victoria and New South Wales. Elsewhere in the southern hemisphere, Tanzania’s ‘rainy season’ extended into January, and record-high summer temperatures in Johannesburg, South Africa gave way to intense hailstorms that damaged buildings, killed many birds and left the suburb of Krugersdorp blanketed in several inches of white ice. The oceans, meanwhile, continue depositing masses of sea creatures on shorelines around the world, with an unprecedented number of whale beachings occurring along North Sea coastlines last month.
Here is Part 2 of ‘the signs of the times’ in January 2016…
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To understand what’s going on, check out our book explaining how all these events are part of a natural climate shift, and why it’s taking place now: Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.
Check out previous instalments in this series – now translated into multiple languages – and more videos from SOTT Media here, here, or here.
You can help us chronicle the signs by sending your video suggestions to sott@sott.net
Earth Changes Summary – December 2015: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs (21:48)
A year of astonishing weather events and devastating natural disasters came to a dramatic end last month, ruining Christmas celebrations for many. Unusual atmospheric conditions and a severely looping northern jet stream brought record warmth to the Arctic and Western Europe, where back-to-back storms pummeled the UK, Ireland and Norway with record-breaking rainfall and hurricane-force winds. A similar situation developed on the opposite side of the globe, where, for the second year running, the most intense North Pacific storm ever recorded slammed into Alaska and brought intense flooding to the US Northwest.
December 2015 was a ‘tale of two USAs’, with the western half generally experiencing record cold, record snowfall, and ice storms, while the eastern states experienced record warmth, fatal tornado outbreaks and record flooding. Incredibly, it was warmer on Christmas Day in Boston and New York City than it was on July 4th. Severe flooding affected all continents, with over 100,000 people displaced in the capital of Congo, Kinshasa; another 160,000 displaced in central Latin America; and 300 killed by ‘the worst flooding in over a century’ in southern India.
There were also multiple volcanic eruptions last month, spectacular meteor fireball sightings, gaping sinkholes swallowing homes, and localized storms of such intensity that falling hail turned streets into rivers of ice in northern Argentina, while tornadoes touched down in New Zealand. The animal kingdom is also feeling the effects of global upheaval: mass fish kills continue apace; enormous whales continue washing up on sea shores; and, for the second time in 5 months, a giant squid was filmed coming up to the surface… Does something stir in the deep?
These were the signs of the times in December 2015.
Music used: ‘Escape from the Temple‘ by Per Kiilstofte. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
To understand what’s going on, check out our book explaining how all these events are part of a natural climate shift, and why it’s taking place now: Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.
Check out previous instalments in this series – now translated into multiple languages – and more videos from SOTT Media here, here, or here.
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