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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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February 8, 2004: A Dark Future - Ed Dames

Feb 8, 2004
2h 51m
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Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, retired military intelligence officer and remote viewing instructor, for a wide-ranging discussion on looming global threats. Dames opens with claims about Earth's most intelligent non-human life form, identifying a species of giant squid whose sophisticated photophore communication system and massive brain rival human cognition. He connects this discovery to a BBC report on an African grey parrot demonstrating telepathy and complex language skills.

The conversation turns darker as Dames presents his remote viewing findings on interconnected catastrophes. He warns of imminent crop failures driven by fusarium fungi, an avian-borne disease crisis already showing early signs in the Far East, and a potential nuclear conflict triggered by North Korea. Dames links these events to the approach of a planetary body he identifies as Nibiru, whose gravitational effects would cause Earth to wobble, triggering massive flooding and geophysical upheaval.

Art presses Dames on timelines, and the Major points to 2005 through 2007 as the critical window. The discussion also touches on China's remote influencing program, the ethics of psychokinesis research, and whether mass human consciousness could alter these projected outcomes. Dames remains characteristically grim, earning his familiar nickname of Dr. Doom.

Key Moments

  1. Earth's smartest non-human: a giant squid: Dames says he remote-viewed the most intelligent non-human life form on Earth and identified it as a deep-ocean giant squid living some 2,200 meters down.

  2. Squid that took down ships: Dames cites the 1874 sinking of the schooner Pearl in the Bay of Bengal and three 1930 squid attacks on the 15,000-ton Norwegian tanker Brunswick, arguing the attacks ended only after the survivors warned others.

  3. Nibiru and World War III intertwined: Dames says a North Korean nuclear use will trigger World War III but the war will be cut short by a grand cataclysm tied to a passing planet he reluctantly names Nibiru, with massive earthquakes starting around 2005-2007.

  4. Art's antenna may outlast the cities: Dames tells Art that his new double-loop ham antenna in Pahrump may be one of the few stations still on the air after the cataclysm, naming Detroit, Kansas City, New York, L.A. and Chicago as gone.

  5. Fusarium fungus crop failure 'right now': Dames warns of an imminent global crop failure driven by an explosion of fusarium and other wind-borne fungi, predicting it will appear first on cotton before spreading to food crops.