February 12, 2006: The Middle East and Green Fuel - Howard Bloom
Podcast: The Art Bell ArchivePublished On: Fri Dec 19 2025
Description: Art Bell opens with headlines about Vice President Cheney's hunting accident and record-breaking weather, including the warmest January on record. He highlights NASA scientist James Hansen's battle against agency censorship over climate change and discusses Israeli researchers who created ball lightning in a laboratory. Art also shares reports about a Canadian Radio Shack plagued by a talking pedometer that allegedly chanted prayers backwards.Author Howard Bloom joins to explore the intersection of science, geopolitics, and Islamic fundamentalism. Bloom discusses the Big Bang and the emergence of intelligence from nothing, arguing that consciousness was implicit in the universe from its origin. He presents an analysis of militant Islam's conflict with non-believers, citing conversations with Muslim friends who estimate that 70 percent of the Islamic population holds pro-militant sympathies. Bloom warns that nuclear terrorism could strike within months to three years.Bloom proposes that Iranian intelligence manipulated the U.S. into invading Iraq through fabricated weapons intelligence funneled through Ahmed Chalabi. He argues that Iran positioned itself to control Iraq through Shiite religious networks, the only organizational structure Saddam Hussein could not destroy. The discussion touches on the Danish cartoon controversy as a tool for reuniting Sunni and Shiite factions against the West.
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