When I woke up the morning of May 18, 1980, the sky was pitch black and quite eerie. "Did the Russians drop the bomb?" I sleepily wondered. Timidly, I ventured outside the front door. Something dirt-like was falling from the darkened sky. "Not bombs! Mount St. Helens has exploded!" This was pre-Internet, so I turned on the radio. Interspersed with repeated playings of Jimmy Buffet: "I don't know, I don't know where I'm a gonna go when the volcano blow" there was reportage that the volcano had a massive eruption. A lookout (who lost his life) contacted headquarters: "Vancouver! This is it!"

There was nothing really to do, so I went back to bed. When I awoke, the sky was no longer black, but gray. Ash blew about everywhere, and we were informed that school would be cancelled for a week, so that the interior of buildings would be protected from ash being dragged and blown inside. Good. I ate cheap mac and cheese boxes for a week and found out the hard way that carbs cause weight gain. My dance teacher said she ate Doritos for the week. In bed. She said she loved it. (A week's bed-and-TV Dorito vacation, I suppose.)

After the unexpected spring-break-in-the-ashes, we all went back to our previously interrupted routines and life went on as before.

Just as we had been, in 1980, awaiting the arrival of a potential volcanic explosion, we have, in recent times, been waiting for another sort of explosion, such as this:

Since the ECB moved to negative rates in 2014, here we are approaching 8.6 years, which is coming up in 2022 when everything just goes BANG! M.A.

"Europe is in big financial trouble with Russian natural gas turned off as a retaliation from the sanctions. They know they have a serious problem. All the pension funds are insolvent. Europe is fiscal mismanagement on a grand scale. There is no way it can sustain itself, and we are looking at Europe breaking apart.” The crisis in banking will start in Europe. . . . The debt is collapsing. They have no way to sustain themselves. The debt market over there is undermining the stability of all the banks. You have to understand that reserves are tied to government debt, and this is the perfect storm."

This time, however, life will not go back to what we think of as normal.

When the fallout clears, something better may be put in place. That is what most are hoping for. However, Klaus Schwab, et al, are likely hoping this will lead to the "Great Reset of Globalist Billionaires and too bad for you ragged bug eaters."

(Strangely enough, just now as I type, a huge storm has broken out above my neighborhood, complete with hailstones on the windowpane.)

Meanwhile, over at GAB, White Rabbit is expecting the US to collapse by the end of October and warns of going offline should that happen.

It may be just dooming, as usual. On the other hand, for a new day to dawn, we are going to have to ride through a storm to get to the other side of whatever will be.

Hope to see you there.