An Unknowncountry.com reader reports from Shanghai, "It is hell here. It is far worse than they are saying. The heat is unbelievable, the streets are melting." He goes on to say that the hospitals are clogged and the government is not admitting the truth of just how many people are being affected by Shanghai’s worst heat wave in the 140 years that temperature records have been kept in the city.

Shanghai’s extreme heat wave joins dozens of other weather extremes, ranging from violent storms to flooding to heat waves and drought from around the world that have characterized Earth’s climate in 2013. Today’s temperature in Shanghai reached 105.4F, and it is expected to reach 106. Meteorologists anticipate that a cooling trend will set in later in the month.
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Are things like the legendary Hawaiian ‘death prayer’ and other negative prayers and curses effective simply because of suggestion, or is there a deeper reason? Richard Smoley explains to Whitley Strieber that a true black magician will strive to keep his activities secret so that his targets won’t realize that they are under attack–and he tells some chilling stories about how victims who had no idea they were being cursed suffered the effects anyway.

So how can we counteract such things and, above all, how can we make our POSITIVE prayers work on behalf of ourselves and others? 

Don’t miss this informative and empowering interview!

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Nostradamus…channeling…Atlantis…divination. Most serious people consider such topics nonsense. But look again. In this exciting interview, Richard Smoley shows us why the supernatural should be taken seriously–very seriously. Richard explains to us just why ignored magical and Hermetic traditions are so important, and so powerful.

This edition of Dreamland is an enlightening journey into the inner meaning of traditions that are ignored in the secular west, but should not be.
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Unknowncountry.com has been covering the Fukushima disaster since it took place and we have never been satisfied that the public was being told the real story. Now it appears that highly radioactive water is leaking out of the plant and into the Pacific Ocean, and it is not clear when, or if, it can be stopped. Should the leak continue unabated, there will be two choices: either continue to flood the reactor and allow the irradiated water to leak into the ocean, or stop flooding and let the reactor melt down. Obviously, either of these alternatives is a disaster.
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