The Doomsday List

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Throughout history, there have been those who have predicted the Coming of the End, the Consummation of All Things, the Return of Christ, Armageddon, Ragnarok, what-have-you. The majority of these seers and prognosticators were wise enough to leave the date unspecified, presumably to avoid embarrassment when the expected event failed to materialize. Others, such as Nostradamus and Bishop Ussher, put the date far into the future, long after their corporeal bodies had returned to dust.

There are those few brave souls, however, who are willing to stick their necks out, and give us a date in the near future, when they themselves will presumably still be around to either bask in the glow of glory, or suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, should the cosmic plan go awry. It is to these, the few, the brave and most importantly, the Web-enabled that this list is dedicated.

Date	Author	Event	Status
January 1, 2000	Too many to mention	The so-called "millenium bug" will result in a massive computer outage on 1/1/2000, caused by that fact that in the good old days of yore, many COBOL programmers decided to save a bit of memory by using only two digits to encode a year on date fields. Obviously, when "00" rolls around, these programs will think that it is January 1, 1900, and every algorithm that relies on a date sort routine will fail. It should be noted that very few of the doom-and-gloom purveyors are actually programmers. Those of us (like your ever humble list maintainer) who are involved with these systems on a daily basis tend to suspect that while there may be widespread outages and related problems, the worst that will happen is that a whole host of unlucky nerds will have to pull several all-nighters in front of their terminals. But we will get it fixed. Update (1/4/2000): I think it is fairly safe to say that this prediction has mercifully failed. Was it a case of over-hype, or timely solution? You decide. In the meantime, would anyone like 800 tins of Beanie-Weenies?	Failed
January 1, 2000	Gary North	The founder of Christian Reconstruction has taken the y2k bug to a whole new level of hysteria. Gary is convinced that global economic chaos will result from a worldwide collapse of financial computer systems. Of course, the more cynical among us would note that North is famous for making equally hysterical, but inevitably false predictions in the past. Update (1/4/2000): We still seem to be here and functioning. I filled up my car with gas, and paid with my credit card. The complete collapse of civilization as we know it appears to have made little impact on the daily lives of the inhabitants of our planet. However, Gary seems to be holding out some hope that death and destruction will slowly creep upon us in the coming months. I think not.	Failed
April 5, 2000	Michael Rood	Almost missed this one. Michael updated his guess for Tishri 1, 6001 to April 5, 2000. This day "starts out with bloodshed, plagues, and all manner of pestilence". Sounds like a pretty good description of the Nasdaq roller-coaster to me. Sigh.	Failed
May 5, 2000	Richard Noone	The coming Ice disaster. Polar shifts. Global disaster. Or something... (May 5, 2000 is the date of the next Grand Conjunction, when the planets line up. Anyone remember 1982? The year of the last Grand Conjunction? When the world utterly failed to end?) Update (5/6/00): To the complete surprise of almost no-one (except, possibly, Mr. Noone), the end of the world has once again failed to arrive as scheduled. To his credit, Richard did strongly pepper his recent articles with weasel-words like "potential" and "possibly", but one suspects that life has once again thrown a would-be Jeremiah the proverbial curve ball. Now all Richard has to do is figure out where those voices in his head really came from... Update (6/18/00): An addendum on Noone's home page makes the insightful observation that "...most earth change activity has not affected high population areas...". It does point out that there have been earthquakes across the Pacific Rim, however. Golly gee. Earthquakes in the most active tectonic plates on the planet? Who woulda thunk it...	Failed
May 17, 2000	Rebecca Harrison	Also known as St John (hey, why not?), this starry-eyed soothsayer presents a wealth of future unfolding. May 17, 2000, Jesus is scheduled to debut his presence here on EArth. (That is not a typo, by the way. All you classical lit buffs should know what it means. Think "Gilgamesh".) Then, in June of 2003, the final battle takes place. Jesus said "no man knows the day or hour", but apparently the month and year were not covered. Also, there will be a forty day period of fasting from August 20 to September 30. You have been warned. (Finally, a use for all those Y2K canned meats!)	Failed
June 10, 2000	Ron Reese	Based on an extremely trustworthy source (a "revelation") and some convoluted logic, Ron thinks that a "flood-like" event will occur on June 10. Before we dismiss this as yet another of Ron's ravings (he has graced this list before), we should point out that Bonnie Gaunt was able to confirm this revelation through the use of oh-so-trustworthy numerology. So there.	Failed
June 11, 2000	Marilyn Agee	Third time's the charm. Update (6/18/2000) : Well, it seems that Marilyn's third date for the first rapture came and went with no obvious Heavenly fanfare. What of the future? Marilyn seems to think that the Church is currently in a 10-day waiting period, based on Rev 2:10. That means that June 20 should see the Rapture. This time for sure. Update (6/25/2000) : A new note on Marilyn's front page reads as follows: Messianic Rabbi Michael Rood announced today on the Prophecy Club that the corrected Solar Calendar proves that Shavuot begins this year on July 9th. This because the barley was 'Abib', green/ripe, on June 5th. This makes Oct. 28th Tishri 1, 6001. If his calculations are correct then the Pentecost Rapture may still occur this year. So there. Update (7/2/2000) : More stupid calendar tricks. Poor old Noah has been pressed into service yet again as a harbinger of the End. In a long and very confusing piece of eisegesis, Marilyn somehow arrives at Av 19 (Aug 20) as a possible date for the Rapture. Says Marilyn: "I wonder if the indwelling Holy Spirit of Christ will fly the dove (Bride) to her rest, Heaven, on Av 19 (Sunday, Aug. 20, 2000)?" Uh...that would be a "no".	Failed
July 7, 2000	Robert Hallman	Combining UFO's (don't trust those greys - they are "Satan's Soldiers"!), Nostradamus and Biblical prophecy, Robert arrives at a tentative date (or two) for the Rapture. Robert has also exposed the Antichrist for all to see. Update (7/17/00): Most of Robert's pages are now gone, with the exception of a home page that sports a spiffy image of a morphing alien coupled with a rather pathetic poem. Still he admonishes us not to trust those greys. I intend to take him seriously. Alien cookout, anyone? Hmmm...tastes like chicken...	Failed
July 2000	Melody Mehta	Drawing data from such prophetic heavyweights as Gordon Michael Scallion, Nostradamus and Mother Shipton, Melody thinks that Phobos, one of the moons of Mars, will be knocked out of orbit by a passing comet. Guess where it's going to land up? Yup - it's metal helmet time, as several billion tons of rock come crashing down on us unsuspecting homo sapiens. And, with such remarkably accurate soothsayers on her side, how can Melody possibly fail to be wrong?	Failed
August 20, 2000	Ephraim	Begin preparations for the Battle of Armageddon. Ephraim reinterprets the book of Daniel for the umpteenth time, and arrives at a timeline for the Last Days. Unfortunately, this timeline calls for the Rapture to occur in March of 2000. Oops. Not to worry, our resourceful exegete points out that several events in this time period confirm his predictions. O ye of little faith... Update (8/27/00): Well, the Battle of Armageddon remains as elusive as ever. Have no fear, however, as Ephraim remains convinced that September 30 will mark the beginning of the Great Tribulation, and October 22 the Rapture. (Cool! On my birthday, too...)	Failed
September 2, 2000	Jerry Grenough	September 2 sees the end of the Jewish year 5760. Jerry also seems to think that this will be the absolute, final year of this present age. This conclusion is based on a number of impressive factors, but what sold it for me was the wonderful Bible Codes matrix that Jerry found. Oooh...	Failed
September 6, 2000	Daniel Adam Millar	The peace accord between Israel and Palestine on September 13, 1993 marked the beginning of the seven-year tribulation. On September 6, 2000, the Antichrist will proclaim himself God, and begin the battle of Armageddon.	Failed
September 16-19, 2000	Phil Stone	The Coastlands disaster. Phil sees all of Biblical history as a blueprint for the last days. The Gulf War, for example, was simply a replay of the story of Moses, substituting each year of the story for one day in modern times. Now that that's all clear, Phil sees the story of the Exodus as predicting a massive increase in the sea-level, resulting in catastrophic loss of life in the Summer of 2000. Surf's up, dudes!	Failed
September 29, 2000	Love the Jew	The End of the World will begin on Rosh Hashanah some year, most likely 2000.	Failed
September 29, 2000	Michael Rood	He's back. Michael believes that the accepted Hebrew calendar is all meshuga, and has kindly taken it upon himself to produce a corrected version. His version states that the seventh millenium actually began either on April 6, 2000 or May 5, 2000. (It depends on when his barley actually ripened. I kid you not.) This means that he expects the invasion of God and Magog either at the end of September, 2000 or October 28, 2000.	Failed
September 30, 2000	Jim Bramlett	Citing several erudite end-times scholars, one of whom is our own Marilyn Agee, Jim arrives at a window of 2004 - 2007 for the Second Coming. Citing a few more scholars and remarkable parallels, Jim tentatively points to Fall 2000 as the date of the Rapture. One should also note that Jim has a page pointing to June 1, 2000 as a possible date for the Rapture, though he seems to be unsure about how seriously it should be taken, considering the source.	Failed
October 1, 2000	Byron Weeks	The National ID Card system will be implemented on October 1st. President Clinton will declare martial law sometime in September or October, and the World Government will start rounding up the separatists and patriots. America will then be plunged into a nuclear war and desolated. Looks like we won't have to worry about whom to vote for in November.	Failed
October 2000	Jim Searcy	The return of Christ and the beginning of the Millenium. As a bonus, Jim also fingers the antichrist for us. I won't spoil the surprise, except to say that it should have been obvious all along...	Failed
November 12, 2000	James van der Worp	Okay, you're going to have to pay attention for this one. James was suspicious of NASA's silence concerning comet 76P. Following a chain of what we will generously call reasoning, James visits Mother Shipton, Gordon-Michael Scallion and that old stalwart Nostradamaus, and decided that there is an outside chance that 76P could knock Phobos out of Mars orbit, and directly into the path of the Earth. He projects an impact date of November 12, 2000, although he seems to think that a more likely period would be sometime in October. Whenever it hits, I, for one, intend to hold my umbrella up high.	Failed
November 17, 2000	David Zavitz	Another eisegesis fan (look it up!), David sees the Oslo Accord of September 13, 1993 between President Arafat and the late President Rabin as the start of the seven-year tribulation countdown. Somehow, this means that November 17 of 2000 will see "Faith's big reward" (?), followed in short order by the resurrection of Daniel himself.	Failed
2000	The House of Yahweh	The beginning of the Great Tribulation. The last seven years of human history began on September 13, 1993. Presumably, the final war will then begin sometime about September 13, 2000.	Failed
2000	William Zambrano	The impact of Shoemaker-Levy on Jupiter signaled the start of the Seven-Year Tribulation.	Failed
2000	Ammar Ali Khan	The Muslims "Last Prophet" will appear to lead all the Faithful in a thirty-year battle against Satan's army.	Failed
January 20, 2001	Lyn Mize	Lyn's "understanding" of prophecy hints that the Rapture will occur before Saturday, and the Antichrist, none other than John F. Kennedy, will be revealed. This despite the somewhat awkward impediment of being very dead.	Failed
April 16, 2001	Bill Singleton	In a post on the Five Doves site, Bill presents what we can only assume was intended to be evidence for his position that the Rapture will occur on Easter Weekend, 2001. Bill has promised further posts, so stay tuned on this one.	Failed
April 24, 2001	Lord's Witnesses	Do you find yourself wondering whether the Bible Code is true or not? Well, me neither. But just in case, wonder no more. These nice folks have kindly figured out the True Bible Code for us. And is sure has some interesting things to say. Apparently, the UN will take over the world sometime between March 26th and April 24th of 2001. No-one will be able to buy or sell anything without UN authority after May 2001. And a worldwide famine will begin by September of this same year. Consider yourselves warned.	Failed
May 28, 2001	David Parker	David, also known (for some reason) as CAPS, has latched onto the story of the Baptism of Fire in Acts 2, and somehow transformed it into a potential date for the Rapture at Pentecost of 2001. The "evidence" is listed in a post, followed by this one.	Failed
May 28, 2001	Marilyn Agee	While Marilyn is desperately taking pot-shots at a date for the Rapture, she has in the meantime decided on an appointment for the start of the Tribulation. This date should see the beginning of the ministry of the two end-time witnesses, as well as the unveiling of the Antichrist. She notes that she expects the Rapture between now and the start of the Tribulation. Anyone want to take bets that this is going to come down to the wire? Update (5/30/01) : Marilyn seems to be in her quiet phase right now. Traditionally, there will be a few days of utter silence from the Agee camp while she desperately tries to figure out why she is still here. This will be followed by the equally traditional "Monkey Throwing Darts at the Calendar" phase, after which she will announce that, in fact, the Rapture was actually scheduled for next year all along. Go Marilyn! Update (6/15/01) : The Monkey/Dart phase is now in full swing. Having already seen June 9/10 go whizzing by, Marilyn is (cautiously) pointing the marker to June 21. It is on this day, apparently, that the Moon will be New, and the Eclipse will be in Gemini, or somesuch. One can only hope that Jupiter aligns with Mars, and Peace guides the planets as well...	Failed
November 11, 2001	Bob Ware	In a post that, for some reason, reminds me of a session of the Kevin Bacon Game gone hideously wrong, Bob repeatedly singles out the date of 11-22-01 as being somehow significant. The 22nd day of November is, of course, the anniversary of the assassination of JFK, an event that has provided more fodder for conspiracy theorists than a Freemason/Bilderberg convention at the Watergate Hotel.	Failed
2001	Unarius	The Pleiadeans land on Earth.	Failed
2001	Jack van Impe	2001 will see the start of the Great Tribulation. Political chaos, natural disasters, nuclear war and the worldwide rise of Islam will usher in mankind's final hour.	Failed
April 14, 2002	Mike Keller	Pure, vintage kookery here. It appears that one-half second before midnight on April 14, 2002, the Doomsgate will open, Jesus will appear for his saints. Nuclear war will begin 45 days after this point, earth shifts and global cataclysms just before it. At other points in this meandering, barely coherent diatribe, we are told that America will probably be under totalitarian rule before the end of Summer, 1999, and that Y2K (anyone remember that?) will signal the start of an inevitable slide into economic disaster. Seems that a few updates are called for.	Failed
May 23, 2004	Marilyn Agee	She's Back! At a new URL even! Having missed the previous Rapture prediction, Marilyn is now shooting for a new pre-trib rapture and Tribulation schedule, with the second coming due on April 5, 2011. She does seem to favor May for the beginning of the end. She is hedging her bets on this one, giving two other timetables for the Tribulation: May 20, 2007 through September 5, 2013 and May 28, 2009 through September 14, 2015. Update: Having missed Sunday 23 May, Agee is now saying Thursday 27, May, but wait, it could be anytime between now and July 6, 2004	Failed
17 October, 2004	Donna Danna Clay Cantrell	You have to love this one. Clay based his estimate of the date for the Rapture on the dimensions of Noah's Ark (converted to inches), taking special note of the location of the "escape window", and followed by some esoteric calculation involving the rotation of sun through the sky. Barnum was only half right. Update (2/22/01): Clay explains his "reasoning"...	Failed
2004	Watcher Ministries	The Tribulation began in 1997, and Christ will return seven years later in 2004. All this is based on an analysis of the Great Pyramid of Giza.	Failed
June 14, 2005	Marilyn Agee	She Doesn't Give Up! Having missed yet another Rapture prediction, Marilyn is now compressing the doomsday schedule into 6 years. The latest Rapture and Tribulation schedule still calls for the second coming on April 5, 2011. It just occured to me that The Rapture® could have already happened and we would not know it! If you take The Bible literally, as Agee does, only 144,000 make the cut. With about 5.5 billion people on the planet, that makes the ratio aroud 1:38,000. If only one out of 38,000 people disappear, would they really be missed? They certainly would be buried under the noise of missing persons, for example, for 2003, 6021 children were reported missing in Iowa (not even counting the adults). The population of Iowa was 2,944,062. This gives a missing persons ratio of 1:489. Even if 90% of the cases are solved, the ratio is still 1:4890, enough to hide people spirited away. Even with the above theory, I will still consider the prophecy to have failed if Agee is still around after June 14th.	Failed
August 15, 2005	Marilyn Agee	Her guesses are getting closer together. This time her prophecy is based on the harvest season of Ancient Israel.	Failed
October 4, 2005	Everett Vasek	Everett believes that the Rapture will occur on the Jewish feast day of Rosh Hashanah, sometime between 1998, and October 4, 2005. He bases this date on the timing of the Jewish feasts, the upcoming Israeli peace treaty, and the possible length of a biblical generation being 14,000 days long.	Failed
December 26, 2005	Marilyn Agee	After a period of silence from the Agee camp, midnight on Hanukkah is her newest date. Note that she is hedging a bit more this time if you read the site. Update: Agee now seems distracted with determining the exact date of the birth of Jesus I have not found a concrete date for The Rapture this time around.	Failed
April 16, 2006	Ken Welch	The Evil Neocons in Washingtion DC, and/or the Mossad have smuggled a Russian A-bomb into Texas. They plan to set it off on Easter Sunday and blame it on the Arabs, kicking off World War III in ernest. Ken bases this conclusion from speeches of Rice, Negroponte, Bush and Cheney played backwards! Update: It's April 17, 2006 and Texas is still here (some say unfortunately). Ken claims that the Neocons called off the plan because of his site. Most think that reverse speech is hogwash. You decide.	Failed
August 12, 2006	Lord's Witnesses	This is the most off the wall prediction that this group has come up with yet. Get this. By the end of today, the UN building in Manhattan will be blown up by a small atomic bomb (taking much of the island with it). Update: Well, here it is, long after sundown on Saturday and the UN building and greater Manhattan are still here.	Failed
August 22, 2006	Bernard Lewis	The atomic war predictions are coming faster than I can keep up with this! This time Bernard Lewis claims that World War III will start on August 22th, with an attack by Iran on Israel, with atomic retaliation by the latter country. Update: Although the situation in the middle east is still quite volatile, Iran has not attacked Israel, or anyone else as of this date, So I'm calling this one Failed	Failed
August 26, 2006	Lord's Witnesses	After missing the mark two weeks ago this group is still calling for the destruction of the UN Building by a small atomic bomb (taking much of the island with it) on the last Sabbath in August.	Failed
September 23, 2006	Lord's Witnesses	After missing the mark in August this group is still calling for the destruction of the UN Building by a small atomic bomb (taking much of the island of Manhattan with it) by Sept 23rd, with the event to take place on a weekend. Makes one wonder if this group is trying to procure an A bomb so that they can fulfill their own prophecy.	Failed
September 25, 2006	Marilyn Agee	Under "Pro and Con 1298" Agee says that the sign of Rev 12:1f (A woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve stars) will appear in the evening of September 25, 2006. This may be referring to the postion of the constellation Virgo however, but Agee is saying that "...it could mark the time of the Pre-Trib Rapture".	Failed
October 26, 2006	Lord's Witnesses	After missing the mark once again in September this group is still calling for the destruction of the UN Building by a small atomic bomb (taking much of the island of Manhattan with it) by October 6th, or is it the 26th? The site has conflicting dates. They just aren't going to give up on this idea, no matter how often the prophecy fails.	Failed
December 15, 2006	Lord's Witnesses	After missing the mark still yet another time in October this group is still calling for the destruction of the UN Building by a small atomic bomb... Oh, now they are hedging their bet a bit, the exact quote from the site is "We now predict a terrorist Dirty Bomb or Nuclear Bomb will hit the UN plaza in Midtown Manhattan on or before 2006Chislev20 (before Sundown Friday December 15th)."	Failed
December 24, 2006	Lord's Witnesses	When you thought that this group had given up, they are back with more amazing predictions. Their earlier prediction has the UN taking over the world in May 2001. But now based on having found the true number of the beast (616 instead of 666) in an ancient rubbish tip, they have recalculated the end time table. December 24, 2006. The UN Undergoes a major reorganization. The security council is no more and the UN General Assembly governs at large. This is the forth and last incarnation of the UN before the end. See also their predictions for May 4, 2007 and August 20, 2008 Update: The only thing of significance that has happened over at the UN is the passage of Iran sanctions, hardly a reorganization. The LWs are hedging this one by saying, "So it would have to be a non declared UN decision for the moment."	Failed
January 20, 2007	Lord's Witnesses	Talk about total obsession! This group still is predicting a dirty bomb or nuclear bomb in Midtown Manhattan. But maybe they will finally give up on this one, to quote from the site: "If nothing happens by the end of Tebbeth i.e. by Jaunary 23/24, 2007 then we again really do run out of options in our present understanding."	Failed
March 20, 2007	Lord's Witnesses	After a month off, this group came up with something they call "16 flexiproofs" which puts atomic bomb attack on the UN date as March 20th 2007. UPDATE: The group is now saying "We no longer have a scriptural mandate to publish in advance the precise day....which we understand to be a terrorist nuclear bomb..." talk about weasling out. But the LWs are still making future predictions to have fun with.	Failed
May 4, 2007	Lord's Witnesses	When you thought that this group had given up, they are back with more amazing predictions. Their earlier prediction has the UN taking over the world in May 2001. But now based on having found the true number of the beast (616 instead of 666) in an ancient rubbish tip, they have recalculated the end time table. May 4, 2007, The UN Takes over the world and everyone must get the number of the beast. The web site recommendeds fleeing to the mountains. I'm already in the mountains, so I'm all set, how about you?	Failed
May 24, 2007	Marilyn Agee	A new batch of predictions from the Agee camp! She is now setting the Pre-Trib Rapture and the start of The Tribulation as occuring on May 23-24 2007.	Failed
August 31, 2007	Lord's Witnesses	When you thought that this group had given up on the UN Bomb prediction, they are at it again.	Failed
November 3, 2007	Lord's Witnesses	I really thought that they had given up on the UN Bomb thing. They now hedging that it may not be nuclear, but a very very large bomb.	Failed
November 15, 2007	Lord's Witnesses	The UN Bomb predictions are getting closer and closer together. Homeland Security really needs to investgate this group, as they will probably set the bomb off just so that they can say they were correct after all.	Failed
December 5, 2007	Lord's Witnesses	The UN Bomb predictions are getting closer and closer together. Once again hedged as a "very very large bomb". Homeland Security really needs to investgate this group, as they will probably set the bomb off just so that they can say they were correct after all.	Failed
1999-2007	Thomas Chase	Thomas has a number of predictions for this period. He foresees the arrival of the Antichrist sometime in 1999-2000, the approach of Cassini in August 1999 as a "holographic or parallel event" signaling a possible nuclear crisis in Russia, and Armageddon, another nuclear war, in 2007.
March 21, 2008	Lord's Witnesses	The last day of this world. Jesus takes over. But what about the August 20, 2008 prediction?	Failed
August 20, 2008	Lord's Witnesses	When you thought that this group had given up, they are back with more amazing predictions. Their earlier prediction has the UN taking over the world in May 2001. But now based on having found the true number of the beast (616 instead of 666) in an ancient rubbish tip, they have recalculated the end time table. The last day of Armageddon is now scheduled for August 20, 2008. Book your flights now.	Failed
September 10, 2008	Otto Rosler	This guy, among a handful of others predict the start of the end of the world when the Large Hadron Collider is switched on, creating a mini black hole that will devour the earth in a devasting quaser ignition. Actually Rosler claims that the effect will not be observable until 2012. See Rosler's prediction for 2012 Update: The tests ran on September 10th did not actually involve collisions, the protons only ran one way. The machine broke down during testing, causing yet undetermined damage, so it will be at least a year befoe the actual test will run.	Failed
September 11, 2008	Lord's Witnesses	Yet another atomic bomb in New York prediction. This one is so obvious, 7 years after the original 9-11 attack.	Failed
May 29, 2009	Marilyn Agee	Agee now sets the beginning of The Tribulation in 2009	Failed
December 31, 2009	Karl Denninger	The entire US financial system is going to collapse and along with it Social Security and Medicare. Unemployement will hit 30% and civil unrest will break out before the end of the year and the Military and the Guard won't be able to stop it. UPDATE: It's 2010 and people are still getting their Social Security checks. However the federal deficit has reached unstainable highs and other economic factors are in uncharted territory. Denniger may just have been too early, we'll see.	Failed
1998-2012	Gordon-Michael Scallion	All sorts of catastrophic earth changes. Global warming. Melting polar ice caps. Earthquakes, volcanoes, etc.
2005-2050	Matt Savinar	Matt predicts that we will soon run out of cheap oil and the result will be the demise of human civilization because of war over what oil is left, as well as food shortages and disease. Only ten percent of the current world population are expected to survive. This prediction actually has some scientific basis. UPDATE: Matt's web site is undergoing a major change, there is no more peak oil information, just a link to LAOTC which loops back to itself. Too bad, this site had some value. Theoildrum.com has some good info on peak oil, links to other energy sites, but no predictions.
2010	Dennis L. Cuddy	Dennis predicts that the US Dollar will collapse along with the US Government as well. The North American Union (consisting of the former U.S., Canada and Mexico) will take the place of the United States with a new currency called the Amero. See also Cuddys prediction for 2018	Failed
July 2010	Igor Panarin	Igor predicts that the US Government will suffer total collapse, the lower 48 states will become part of four separate countries, Alaska will revert to Russia and Hawaii will become Japanese or Chinese territory. This prediction is at odds with the North American Union prediction cited above.	Failed
April 6, 2011	Marilyn Agee	Agee added a new one. I guess she wants to try and scoop the E-Bible people and is setting the rapture date 6 weeks earlier.	Failed
May 21, 2011	Electronic Bible Fellowship(among others, this site was the first hit on Google)	Judgment Day! This appears to be backtimed from the actual end of the world five months later. Those who are saved will be raptured.
May 29, 2011	Marilyn Agee	Having missed her April 6th prediction, Agee is now setting the rapture day as May 29th, Ascension Day
October 21, 2011	Electronic Bible Fellowship(among others)	The end of the world! At least according to the EBF and Harold Camping (Who thought the world would end in 1994 by the way, then claimed he made a "mathematical error").
November 8, 2012	Marilyn Agee	A new batch of predictions from the Agee camp! She is now setting the mid tribulation date when the False Prophet beings rule as November 8, 2012
Dec 21, 2012	Terence McKenna	Terence utilizes something called Novelty Theory to arrive at the conclusion that something, he's not quite sure what, of momentous import will occur on Dec 21, 2012. The list of "somethings" include a hyperspatial breakthrough, planetesimal impact, alien contact or even a quasar ignition at the galactic core. Sadly, Terence himself will not be around to see these dramatic events: he "relinquished his body" on April 3rd, 2000.
2012	Mayan Calendar	The end of the "long count" calendar apparently signals the end of our age.
2012	Kev Peacock	Kev has a scientific explanation for the end of life as we know it in 2012 - a magnetic field reversal in our Sun will likewise cause a field reversal in the Earth, accompanied by massive geothermal and tectonic catastrophes. Along the way, Kev manages to include Atlantis, an Interplanetary Ark, and both Maya and Egyptian mythology.
2012	Otto Rosler	The world ends in a devasting quaser ignition initiated when the Large Hadron Collider was switched on four years ago
September 14, 2015	Marilyn Agee	A new batch of predictions from the Agee camp! She is now setting the Wrath of God date and Pre-wrath rapture as September 14, 2015
April 9, 2016	Marilyn Agee	A new batch of predictions from the Agee camp! She is now setting the Second Advent as Saturday, Sabbath Day, April 9, 2016
2018	Dennis L. Cuddy	Dennis goes on to predict that the Amero (see Cuddys prediction for 2010) will be replaced by a world wide currency called the Phoenix, signifying the end times.

Arnold Schwarzenegger DIDN'T Confess To Maria Shriver -- Shriver Confronted Mildred Baena Herself

This makes more sense.
It turns out that Arnold Schwarzenegger reportedly did not have the urge to confess his affair and love child to his wife, Maria Shriver.
Rather, Shriver confronted Mildred Baena, their housekeeper and the mother of the child, herself.
Shriver reportedly "suspected for a long time" that Baena's son had been fathered by Schwarzenegger.
(TMZ has pointed out the resemblance between Baena's son and Schrwazenegger. It's visible even with two thirds of the kid's face blurred out.)
Baena told Shriver the truth -- then Schwarzenegger came clean to his wife.

FBI Wants Unabomber’s DNA

Authorities plan to take DNA samples from “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski for their investigation of a 1982 incident in which seven people died from taking Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide.
   FBI spokeswoman Cynthia Yates said the FBI has requested samples from “numerous individuals including Ted Kaczynski” and that Kaczynski has so far refused to provide the samples voluntarily.

Yates would not comment on whether federal authorities have already gotten the DNA sample from Kaczynski.
 But Kaczynski, in a motion filed May 9, said he would provide the sample voluntarily on the condition that they would stop an online auction of his items.
 Federal prosecutors responded that “there is no basis for an order interfering with the sale previously approved by the district court.” The auction went ahead as planned on Wednesday.

Cornel West’s criticism of Obama sparks debate among African Americans

By Krissah Thompson, Published: May 18

Scholar Cornel West’s scathing critique of President Obama’s liberal bona fides in a series of recent interviews has ignited a furious debate among African American bloggers and commentators.
The well-known Princeton professor and author, who has released rap albums and starred in Hollywood films, supported Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign but now calls the president a “black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.”
“I was thinking maybe he has at least some progressive populist instincts that could become more manifest after the cautious policies of being a senator,” West told Chris Hedges in an interview for the liberal political blog Truthdig.
Focusing on Obama and race, West said: “I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men . . . It’s understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he’s always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He is just as human as I am, but that is his cultural formation.”
White House officials declined to respond to West’s remarks, which have sparked a hot conversation this week. And Obama aides have have been content to allow others to take up the president’s defense.
Several commentaries from African American scholars and bloggers have particularly disputed West’s take on Obama and race.
Melissa Harris-Perry, a Princeton professor of African American studies and politics, wrote a column for the Nation calling West’s comment “utter hilarity coming from Cornel West who has spent the bulk of his adulthood living in those deeply rooted, culturally rich, historically important black communities of Cambridge, MA and Princeton, NJ. . . . Harvard and Princeton are not places that are particularly noted for their liberating history for black men.”
Eddie Glaude, a professor of religion and African American studies at Princeton, said African Americans in academia had been discussing West’s comments for days, particularly looking at how he had deployed race in his critique of Obama.
“West came out swinging,” said Glaude, who engaged in the debate on Twitter, saying he found West’s political critique much more substantive than his “racial reasoning.”
West said that Obama’s politics are more centrist than progressive and do not uplift the poor, calling the president a “newcomer . . . who wanted to reassure the establishment” and “someone who was using intermittent progressive populist language in order to justify a centrist, neoliberalist policy.”
“It was very much going to be a kind of black face of the [Democratic Leadership Council],” he said.
West’s comments, which continued in a Tuesday night interview on MSNBC, intensified the criticism of Obama that began after the election. During the 2008 campaign, West said, he traveled to 65 campaign events for the presidential candidate. But West complains that he was not given inauguration tickets for his brother and mother and that Obama did not return his phone calls.
In 2009, West told the New Yorker magazine that he was displeased with Obama’s well-received speech on race, which, in part, compared racial anger in the black community to that in the white community.
According to West, his relationship with Obama hit a low following a speech the president gave in July 2010 at the National Urban League’s centennial conference. West said Obama made a beeline to him after the speech and “cussed” him out, saying that West ought to be ashamed for saying Obama is not a progressive. White House aides did not dispute that Obama had scolded West.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, a close Obama ally who has sparred with West over the president, said Tuesday that the issue comes down to a misunderstanding of Obama’s role. “This is the first time in this country that we have an African American president. He is not the president of African Americans,” Sharpton said. “The problem we’re seeing with too many older-minded people is you don’t want the next generation. You want clones. And people don’t have to be your clone to validate your sacrifice.”
West, who did not respond to a request for comment , sent out this message via Twitter in response to the criticism: “This discussion is in no way about me, it has to do with poor and working people having low priority in US governmental policy including the Obama Administration. My personal words had to do with being disrespected by the President. People are disrespected everyday, and they can raise their voices in response to it.”

Boy Explains Why He Killed Neo-Nazi Dad

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The murder of a neo-Nazi leader in California by his 10-year-old son made headlines around the world. Why did the boy do it? He told police that he was tired of his father, Jeffrey R. Hall, beating him and his stepmother. While Hall slept, the boy retrieved his revolver from the closet, shot his father in the head, and then hid he gun beneath a bed. Hall had taught his son how to shoot while they patrolled the Mexican border together.

Read it at Los Angeles Times

CDC Releases Zombie Preparedness Plan

The CDC got people’s attention Wednesday when it posted "Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse” online. “If zombies did start roaming the streets, CDC would conduct an investigation much like any other disease outbreak. CDC would provide technical assistance to cities, states, or international partners dealing with a zombie infestation.” The blog post was a gag meant to highlight the center’s actual emergency plans, for things like hurricane; it was, nevertheless, a huge hit, with both the original blog post and the cached version crashing due to traffic.

Read it at Gawker

The Year of Living Adulterously

By GAIL COLLINS

What is it with Republicans lately?
Nobody wants to run for the presidential nomination. Mike Huckabee said God told him to stay on Fox News. NBC told Donald Trump to stay on “Celebrity Apprentice.”
Whatever happened to putting your country first? Our forefathers would never have passed up the presidency for anything less than the Charlie Sheen role on “Two and a Half Men.”
The Republicans are terrified that they’ll wind up with Mitt Romney, who has been fund-raising like crazy and seems to be planning a campaign based on the slogan: “Money can’t buy love, but it can definitely purchase a grudging, defeatist acceptance.”
Some party leaders are looking hopefully at Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana, who’s promised to make up his mind this month. If he runs, one thing you are not going to get from Mitch Daniels is the politics of joy. Have you ever seen “Game of Thrones” on HBO? It’s about a mythical kingdom that sends some of its young men to the remote tundra to live in perpetual celibacy and guard a 700-foot-tall wall of ice. Their reaction is very similar to the way Mitch Daniels looks when he talks about running for president.
Daniels is apparently worried that a presidential run might prove embarrassing to his wife, who ditched him and the kids and ran off to California to marry a doctor and then later recanted everything and came back. I think it is pretty safe to say that this topic might come up.
Which brings us to sex. What is it with Republicans lately? Is there something about being a leader of the family-values party that makes you want to go out and commit adultery?
They certainly don’t have a lock on the infidelity market, and heaven knows we all remember John Edwards. But, lately, the G.O.P. has shown a genius for putting a peculiar, newsworthy spin on illicit sex. A married congressman hunting for babes is bad. A married congressman hunting for babes by posting a half-naked photo of himself on the Internet is Republican.
A married governor who fathers an illegitimate child is awful. A married governor who fathers an illegitimate child by a staff member of the family home and then fails to mention it to his wife for more than 10 years is Republican.
A married senator who has an affair with an employee is a jerk. A married senator who has an affair with an employee who is the wife of his chief of staff, and whose adultery is the subject of ongoing discussion at his Congressional prayer group, is Republican.
We haven’t even gotten to Newt Gingrich yet!
Gingrich is the best-known of the second-string Republicans who are ready, willing and eager to take on Romney for the nomination. The question is whether social conservatives will resent the fact that he was having an adulterous relationship with his current wife while she was a House of Representatives staffer and he was trying to impeach Bill Clinton for the Monica Lewinsky affair. Also, this week, Politico reported that in 2005 and 2006, Gingrich had an account with Tiffany’s that sometimes ran to $500,000 in debt.
Never have we had sex issues with so many layers. It shows you how far we have evolved as a nation. In the old days it was: Warren Harding making whoopee in the presidential coat closet: yes or no?
Really persistent sexual misbehavior says something about the character of the person involved. In Gingrich’s case, we have a failure-to-settle-down problem that extends way beyond matrimony. He can’t even hang onto a position on Medicare for an entire week. This man is a natural for an occupation that rewards attention deficit. Maybe God actually meant to tell Newt to stay on Fox News, but accidentally shipped the message to Huckabee.
As to Governor Daniels, the voters are unlikely to give a fig about the interesting past of his wife, Cheri. But if he wants to protect her from the embarrassment of being asked about it 24/7, perhaps he could just declare her off limits. The news media has generally respected those kinds of rules when it comes to presidential candidates’ children, as long as said offspring don’t show up on reality shows or as teen-abstinence ambassadors for a shoe store foundation.
Of course, a wife who is off limits would not be able to campaign for her husband. I think that would be terrific. Finally, we could end the tradition that a presidential candidate’s spouse is running for something, too. If we want a first family to obsess over, we should just hire a king and queen.
Don’t know how the social right would feel about this. But there’s always Mitt Romney.       

Number of long-lasting marriages in U.S. has risen, Census Bureau reports

By Carol Morello, Published: May 18

Americans may be postponing marriage, and fewer are wedding at all. But what about the people who do get married? They’re staying together longer than they have in years.
Three in four couples who married after 1990 celebrated a
10-year anniversary, according
to census statistics reported Wednesday. That was a rise of three percentage points compared with couples who married in the early 1980s, when the nation’s divorce rate was at its highest.
One reason for the increase, said demographers and sociologists who study families, is that people are marrying later in life, after they have completed their education. Not only are they more mature, but they also are more financially secure.
“People seem to be finding a new marriage bargain that works for 21st-century couples,” said Andrew Cherlin, a Johns Hopkins University sociologist who studies families. “It’s based on pooling two incomes, replacing the old breadwinner-homemaker bargain that worked well in the ’50s.”
Researchers increasingly are finding a connection between marriage and education. In 2009, 31 percent of brides had a college degree, up from 21 percent in 1996.
“Marriage has become a much more selective institution in today’s society,” said W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. “People who are college-educated, more affluent or more religious are more likely to get married and stay married. People who are not are less likely to get married in the first place, and if they do marry, they’re more likely to divorce.”
The Marriage Project has found that people without a college degree are three times as likely to divorce in the first 10 years as those with a college degree.
“The odds of getting divorced are much lower for educated and affluent Americans, the escapades of Schwarzenegger and John Ensign notwithstanding,” Wilcox said, referring to the former governor of California and the former senator from Nevada.
Most Americans marry once and stick to it.
According to the census statistics, more than half of the nation’s married couples have been together at least 15 years. About a third have marked their 25th anniversaries, and 6 percent have been married more than 50 years.
Tom Ruggieri, who met his wife in college, has been married for 30 years. In his family, long marriages are the norm. His parents have been married for 65 years, and his wife’s parents wed 55 years ago.
“That model really does have an impact,” said Ruggieri, the head of the employee assistance program at the University of Maryland who often counsels couples in his private practice. “I think people who come from a divorced family haven’t always seen parents work stuff out. Their model is, if people fight and they can’t agree, the marriage ends. So they’re afraid to fight and disagree. You can’t have a marriage without disagreement.”
Nationwide, divorce rates have leveled off since peaking in the 1980s. Roughly four in 10 marriages end in divorce. But the rate varies significantly among different races and ethnicities.
Among black women, half of first marriages end in divorce, a rate that is far greater those for white, Hispanic and Asian women.
Couples who split seem to recognize their marriage isn’t working long before they get to a landmark anniversary. Most had divorced within eight years of their wedding.
Nearly a third of adults never marry at all. That number has marched upward in every age group over the past decade and a half.
In 1986, one in four people ages 25 to 29 had never married. In 2009, that was true of almost half in that age group. The number of adults 50 to 54 who have never married also jumped during the same time period to one in 10.
As with divorce, marriage rates vary with race and ethnicity. Seven out of 10 black women in their 20s have never married, a dramatic increase from the mid-1980s.
Census demographers noted that the percentage of never-married black women 55 and older rose to 13 percent in 2009. The magnitude of the change suggests that many more black women than white women will never marry, the report said.
The census also showed that a higher proportion of people who have married recently are Hispanic, which is the fastest-growing minority group in the country. In 1996, about one in 10 recently married adults was Hispanic. By 2009, it had increased to one in five.
“The differences between blacks and whites and Hispanics are changing the landscape of marriage,” said Renee Ellis, a Census Bureau demographer who worked on the report.

Meet The Director Who Just Told Everyone At Cannes That He's A Nazi

 

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Kirsten Dunst, Kiefer Sutherland, and Rebecca Hall can kiss a healthy, happy release for their next film, "Melancholia," goodbye.
That's because director Lars von Trier, in a press conference at Cannes, made the mistake of saying the following:
"For a long time I was a Jew and I was happy to be a Jew, then I met Susanne Bier [fellow Danish director and this year's Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film] and I wasn't so happy. But then I found out I was actually a Nazi. My family was German. That also gave me pleasure. What can I say? I understand Hitler. I sympathize with him a bit."
Well, okay! Mel Gibson just became the second-biggest anti-Semite at the film festival.
But we bet Dunst, Sutherland and Hall are more than pissed.
"Melancholia" is already niche, and von Trier just made it an even harder sell to the intelligentsia at which its aimed.
(And yeah, he's already apologized. But that doesn't mean the stink will scrub off easily.)

Click here to see the trailer for "Melancholia" and the rest of the films competing at Cannes >>

Sarkozy to IMF chief in 2007: Control yourself

International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, right, shakes hands with French President Nicolas Sarkozy as he leaves the presidential Elysee Palace after talks Nov. 17, 2010, in Paris.

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While the International Monetary Fund's chief waits in New York's Rikers Island jail for his next court date on charges that he tried to rape a maid in a posh Manhattan hotel, news reports have detailed numerous other allegations of impropriety toward women on the part of the Frenchman.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's reputation in France for aggressively pursuing women was apparently so bad that French President Nicolas Sarkozy personally warned the former finance minister to control himself in Washington before he left France in 2007 to head the IMF, the British newspaper The Times reported ($) Wednesday.
"Over there they don't joke about this sort of thing," The Times quoted Sarkozy saying to Strauss-Kahn then. "Your life will be passed under a magnifying glass. Avoid taking the lift alone with interns. France cannot permit a scandal."

IMF head under constant watch while behind bars
Maid's lawyer: IMF sex assault case no setup
Geithner: Strauss-Kahn not in position to run IMF

After news broke Saturday that the New York Police Department arrested Strauss-Kahn at John F. Kennedy International Airport on suspicion of attempted rape, Sarkozy aides told The Times that the French president rolled his eyes.
"We did warn him," Sarkozy said, according to his aides.

Strauss-Kahn pleaded not guilty Monday to the charges. News reports indicate his attorneys will pursue a defense that the IMF chief and the maid had sex but that it was consensual.

Jeffrey Shapiro, the maid's attorney, told "Early Show" co-anchor Chris Wragge Wednesday that there was nothing consensual about Saturday's incident.

"There was nothing about any aspect of this encounter between this young woman and the defendant which was remotely consensual or could be construed as consensual, either physical contact or sexual contact," Shapiro said.

Shapiro characterized Strauss-Kahn's possible strategy as "spinning."

"In effect, what his defense amounts to is attempting to accuse the victim and so she can't step forward," Shapiro said.