The conversation shifts to the sun, where Dames describes a creeping rise in baseline X-ray flux that concerns him deeply. He connects increasing solar radiation to agricultural devastation, blinded bee populations, and a coming wave of plant pathogens targeting global food crops. Dames predicts millions will die of starvation in 1999, followed by fast-spreading human disease epidemics. He reaffirms his prediction that a catastrophic solar event he calls the "kill shot" remains on the horizon.
Richard C. Hoagland briefly joins, citing sources who claim the North Korean missile test was actually a failed attempt to strike a Japanese nuclear reactor. Dames disputes this interpretation, arguing the launch was simply a ballistic test. Dames also provides an update on his search for Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra, which he says remote viewing has located underwater near a Micronesian atoll.
Key Moments
Dames says global economic collapse 'is here': Dames reaffirms his prior on-air SciTech prediction from two years earlier of a global economic collapse in late spring or summer 1998, telling Bell the collapse is no longer ahead but underway.
Warning: U.S. will default on long-term Treasury bonds: Dames urges listeners not to flee the stock market into U.S. long-term government bonds, telling them remote viewing data shows the United States government will default on both interest payments and possibly the bonds themselves.
Stands by 'kill shot' from the sun, ~April 1999: Asked whether he was wrong about the timeline of his solar 'shot over the bow,' Dames concedes the precursor event he expected by late spring did not occur but adamantly stands by the deadly solar 'kill shot' he ballparks around Easter / April 1999.
Dames: military kept Clinton in the dark: Dames tells Bell that when President Clinton came into office, those in the military 'did not brief the President of the United States on anything' because they regarded him as a transient event and not 'one of ours,' kept him in the dark, and that this is 'probably wrong, but it also happens to be fact.'
Predicts millions dying of starvation in 1999: Dames says weather changes and especially plant fungi will cripple food crops globally, and that millions - not hundreds of thousands - will die of starvation in 1999 as wheat, rice, oats and corn follow sorghum into blight.