April 10, 2004: The Coming Cataclysm - Ed Dames

Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, retired military intelligence officer and remote viewing expert, for a wide-ranging discussion on predictions that appear to be coming true. Dames points to a record-breaking X-48 solar flare from November 2003, which he identifies as the "shot across the bow" he had long predicted would precede a catastrophic solar event he calls the kill shot.

Dames reveals a new harbinger for listeners to watch: when a space shuttle mission is forced to abort due to an intense meteor shower, the end sequence begins. He describes a scenario involving a passing planetary body, massive solar flares striking Earth with weakened magnetic shields, sustained 300-mile-per-hour winds, and a potential pole shift generating ocean waves thousands of feet high. He also reaffirms his long-standing prediction that the first nuclear weapon used in combat will detonate on the Korean Peninsula.

Art opens the show with discussion of the Iraq war, the 9/11 intelligence briefing controversy, and a new song about the program by Canadian artist Sean Hogan. Callers weigh in on American foreign policy and the nature of patriotism before Dames takes the conversation into darker territory.