Jumping Jack Flash Hypothesis: It's A Gas Gas Gas: Event Update For 2019-08-12

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Event Update For 2019-08-12

http://jumpingjackflashhypothesis.blogspot.com/2012/02/jumping-jack-flash-hypothesis-its-gas.html

The seas, lakes and oceans are now pluming deadly hydrogen sulfide and suffocating methane. Hydrogen sulfide is a highly toxic water-soluble heavier-than-air gas and will accumulate in low-lying areas. Methane is slightly more buoyant than normal air and so will be all around, but will tend to contaminate our atmosphere from the top down. These gases are sickening and killing oxygen-using life all around the world, including human life, as our atmosphere is increasingly poisoned. Because both gases are highly flammable and because our entire civilization is built around fire and flammable fuels, this is leading to more fires and explosions. This is an extinction level event and will likely decimate both the biosphere and human population and it is debatable whether humankind can survive this event.

A. More fires and more explosions, especially along the coasts, but everywhere generally.
B. Many more animal die-offs, of all kinds, and especially oceanic species.
C. More multiples of people will be found dead in their homes, as if they'd dropped dead.
D. More corpses found in low-lying areas, all over the world.
E. More unusual vehicular accidents.
F. Improved unemployment numbers as people die off.

Category: Variety Pack

2019-08-12 - Unknown foul smell blows through large area near coastal London (Britain):
http://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/residents-baffled-weird-smell-poo-16749005

Quote: "West London was baffled by an enduring smell of poo in the air yesterday. All throughout Monday (August 12), residents in areas as far apart as Ickenham and Kensington were relieved to discover that other people could also smell either human or animal poo, meaning they could stop checking their shoes."

Quote: "However, the Met Office was today able to confirm that 'the air [yesterday] came from a south-westerly direction across Hampshire and the Home Counties', meaning Europe cannot be blamed. It was also suggested by some that low air pressure could be allowing air to drift up from the drains, creating a widespread odour of sewage."

Note: From the southwest, they say. Southwest of there is Worthing, where unknown poison gas just blew in off the ocean and sickened some people the day before, mentioned in the 2019-08-11 update. Maybe this is the same cloud of poison gas, now significantly more diluted but also much bigger, and it took a day to blow from the coast at Worthing up to this area near London. And a smell like sewage is indicative of hydrogen sulfide, which is commonly called 'sewer gas'...

2019-08-12 - Pallets of recyclables go up in flames at business in New Brunswick (New Jersey):
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/crime/jersey-mayhem/2019/08/12/new-brunswick-nj-fire-reported-home-news-row/1988519001/
http://newjersey.news12.com/story/40907971/pallet-fire-produces-smoke-plume-that-could-be-seen-for-miles

Quote: "Upon arrival it was discovered that the fire started in pallets that contained plastic materials bound for recycling purposes, Bradshaw said."

2019-08-12 - Car-recycling center hit by fire, giant pile of scrap burns, on Trenton Avenue in Williamsport (Pennsylvania):
http://wnep.com/2019/08/13/crews-continue-battle-against-williamsport-recycling-fire/
http://wnep.com/2019/08/12/fire-at-recycling-facility-in-williamsport/

Quote: "The Williamsport fire chief says it was a scrap pile that caught fire, and that pile was the size of a football field and four stories high. 'This scrap pile contains everything from vehicles to machinery, hydraulic equipment, plastics, vinyls, you name it,' said Williamsport Fire Chief Todd Heckman."

2019-08-12 - Rideable Power Wheels car for kids bursts into flame at 5:15 AM while parked at apartments, fire spreads to building, in coastal Tampa (Florida):
http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-hillsborough/19-people-including-7-kids-displaced-after-tampa-apartment-fire
http://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/7-kids-among-19-people-displaced-when-power-wheels-car-causes-apartment-fire/67-2272a1cc-7821-4154-b510-e96fd28bde17
http://www.tbreporter.com/public-safety/motorized-toy-car-sparks-fire-in-tampa-apartments/

Quote: "According to the fire investigator's report, the fire started in the southeast corner of apartment 15 and was caused by an electrical/mechanical malfunction of a Power Wheels motorized car."

2019-08-12 - Utility pole bursts into flame near PETA headquarters in coastal Norfolk (Virginia), 40 feet from the coast:
http://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/mycity/norfolk/electrical-pole-catches-fire-near-peta-headquarters/291-4b07663d-e79c-47b2-805f-92be8bdc6fb5

2019-08-12 - Advertising billboard bursts into flame on pedestrian bridge in coastal Muscat (Oman):
http://timesofoman.com/article/1756056/Oman/Transport/Massive-fire-breaks-out-at-pedestrian-bridge-in-Oman
http://www.omanobserver.om/fire-at-qurm-pedestrian-bridge-no-injuries/

2019-08-12 - State of the Climate in 2018 - 2018 was the fourth-hottest year on record, behind 2016, 2015, and 2017:
http://desdemonadespair.net/2019/08/state-of-the-climate-in-2018-2018-was-the-fourth-hottest-year-on-record-behind-2016-2015-and-2017.html

2019-08-12 - Heatwave bakes Italy:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20190812-69154-ITA

2019-08-12 - Toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) hits Prospect Lake (Colorado):
http://gazette.com/news/prospect-lake-to-remain-closed-since-algae-toxic-enough-to/article_8cb03288-bd4b-11e9-b371-3b210f40311c.html

Quote: "A second round of testing Monday at Prospect Lake revealed levels of a toxic algae strong enough to kill dogs, Colorado Springs officials announced."

2019-08-12 - Toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) hits the West Reservoir at Bell’s Neck Conservation Lands in coastal Harwich (Massachusetts):
http://whdh.com/news/officials-warn-swimmers-dog-owners-of-toxic-algae-bloom-at-cape-conservation-area/

2019-08-12 - Humpback whale found dead in the water off Sea Bright (New Jersey):
http://www.nj.com/monmouth/2019/08/dead-humpback-whale-has-been-floating-off-jersey-shore-for-days.html
http://www.app.com/videos/news/local/animals/2019/08/13/boaters-find-deceased-humpback-whale-off-nj/1999911001/
http://www.app.com/media/cinematic/video/1999911001/boaters-find-deceased-humpback-whale-off-nj/

2019-08-12 - Three teens, 16, 17 and 18, die while bathing in the Ganga River in Uttar Pradesh (India):
http://www.uniindia.com/up-three-youth-drown-while-bathing-in-ganga/north/news/1695839.html

2019-08-12 - Two men, 24 and 28, die in the Ghaghra River in Uttar Pradesh (India):
http://www.uniindia.com/two-youths-drown-in-up-s-ballia/north/news/1695840.html

2019-08-12 - Woman sickens on cruise ship near coastal Tilbury (Britain):
http://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/tilbury-cruise-ship-incident-woman-3202516

2019-08-12 - Driver has 'medical issue', SUV crashes into minivan, in Plainville (Connecticut), 2 injured:
http://www.bristolpress.com/BP-Plainville+News/356286/2-drivers-injured-in-3car-crash-in-plainville-monday-evening

Quote: "The driver of an Acura MDX, heading south toward Broad Street, had an unknown medical issue before veering off and colliding with a Dodge Grand Caravan, which had been heading the opposite way, police said."

2019-08-12 - Woman has 'medical episode', car crashes into tree, in Rockford (Illinois), near the Rock River, 1 injured:
http://wrex.com/category/2019/08/12/crash-sends-at-least-one-person-to-the-hospital-on-n-alpine/

Quote: "Police say a woman was headed northbound on N. Alpine when she had a medical episode, went through four lanes of traffic and hit a tree."

2019-08-12 - Man has 'medical episode', car crashes into parked car, in coastal Ryde on the Isle of Wight (Britain), 1 injured:
http://www.islandecho.co.uk/car-ploughs-into-parked-car-in-ryde/

Quote: "It is thought he suffered a medical episode at the wheel."

2019-08-12 - Passenger plane engine disintegrates, rains down debris, near Rome (Italy):
http://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9704057/horrifying-screams-as-plane-debris-rains-like-bullets-from-sky-and-rome-residents-flee-in-terror-as-boeing-787-engine-breaks-apart-mid-air/
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/panic-as-plane-debris-rains-like-bullets-from-sky-over-rome-as-boeing-787-engine-breaks-apart-midair/news-story/6e2f163c943605d4e6fb9a26271f9004
http://metro.co.uk/2019/08/12/pieces-of-boeing-jet-fall-onto-people-after-take-off-as-plane-starts-to-crumble-10557728/
http://nypost.com/2019/08/12/debris-from-passenger-jet-flight-wreaks-havoc-on-village/

Quote: "One witness told Italian newspaper, Il Messaggero: 'They were like bullets. My shirt was on fire!' And another said: 'It looked like a strong hailstorm but it was sunny. I went out on the balcony and saw it was a storm of steel and iron. I screamed and ran into the house.' According to municipal sources, 25 cars and 12 homes were damaged. One 54-year-old man was hit by a splinter but was not badly hurt. He said he felt 'lucky to be alive'."

Note: 'This is your captain. If you'll direct your attention to the left, you'll see our engine falling apart!'

2019-08-12 - Small plane crashes and burns near Kooskia (Idaho), 2 killed:
http://idahonews.com/news/local/small-plane-crash-in-north-central-idaho-kills-two
http://lmtribune.com/northwest/plane-crash-near-kooskia-kills-couple/article_325bcdcb-15e1-52d8-9f21-2b86ac0519b8.html
http://www.khq.com/news/video-two-people-killed-in-idaho-plane-crash/video_2756e946-be30-11e9-a04c-3376329f5453.html
http://www.noozhawk.com/article/santa_barbara_couple_believed_killed_in_idaho_plane_crash
http://klewtv.com/news/local/plane-wreckage-during-fire

2019-08-12 - Small plane lands at airport, runs off runway, in Reno (Nevada):
http://www.kolotv.com/content/news/No-injuries-after-plane-goes-off-runway-at-Reno-Stead-Airport-537700991.html

2019-08-12 - Small plane crash-lands in paddock in Traralgon (Australia), engine failure:
http://news.cfa.vic.gov.au/-/plane-crash-lands-in-traralgon-paddock
http://www.miragenews.com/plane-crash-lands-in-traralgon-paddock/
http://www.latrobevalleyexpress.com.au/story/6325702/pilot-survives-traralgon-plane-crash/
http://www.9news.com.au/national/news-victoria-taralgon-lucky-escape-for-pilot-forced-to-make-emergency-landing-in-paddock/fef2cd98-122b-4def-8535-52c9ea1ee5e4

2019-08-12 - Passenger bus and tractor trailer collide head-on in Damba (Nigeria), 11+ killed:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VI-20190812-69146-NGA

2019-08-12 - Tanker truck crashes onto railroad tracks in Clairton (Pennsylvania):
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/08/12/fire-near-clairton-coke-works/
http://www.wtae.com/article/tractor-trailer-goes-over-embankment-near-clairton-coke-works/28681522
http://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/clairton-gas-truck-crash-emergency-officials-on-scene-after-tanker-hauling-gas-crashes/975434012

2019-08-12 - SUV crashes off seaside cliff onto beach in coastal San Pedro (California), 1 injured:
http://ktla.com/2019/08/12/driver-survives-after-suv-falls-30-feet-off-cliff-in-san-pedro/
http://www.dailybreeze.com/2019/08/12/suv-plunges-down-30-foot-san-pedro-cliff-injuring-driver/
http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Motorist-injured-when-SUV-plunges-down-Los-14299085.php
http://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2019-08-12/motorist-injured-when-suv-plunges-down-los-angeles-cliff

2019-08-12 - Alligator attacks and injures woman along pond in Sun City (South Carolina):
http://www.yahoo.com/gma/south-carolina-woman-injured-alligator-attack-while-walking-192607111--abc-news-topstories.html

2019-08-12 - Sinkhole opens on street and swallows two cars in Yogyakarta (Indonesia):
http://strangesounds.org/2019/08/sinkhole-australian-family-car-todler-saved-video.html

2019-08-12 - Tourist has 'medical emergency' at campsite on Leigh Lake in Grand Teton National Park (Wyoming):
http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/the_hole_scroll/teton-park-rescuers-respond-to-multiple-incidents/article_eae1015d-cc84-550d-935c-82f2403c0c0f.html
http://www.tetonvalleynews.net/news/multiple-search-and-rescue-incidents-in-grand-teton-national-park/article_d544c22e-690c-5a7e-a88e-1c5b3330dbd1.html
http://buckrail.com/grand-teton-tcsar-busy-with-rescues-over-the-weekend/

Quote: "Also on Sunday, park rangers helped a tourist who had a medical emergency at a backcountry campsite on Leigh Lake."

2019-08-12 - Woman goes into cardiac arrest at the seafront in coastal Eastbourne (Britain):
http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/emergency-incident-on-eastbourne-seafront-1-9031477

Quote: "A spokesperson for the ambulance service SECAmb said, 'We sent three response cars and two ambulances to a suspected cardiac arrest outside Fort Fun. Air Ambulance, Police and Fire also supported the incident. The patient has not been conveyed to hospital and police are dealing.' Sussex Police confirmed officers attended a medical incident involving a woman."

Note: About 29 miles as the gas blows from where an unknown gas blew ashore the day before and sickened people at a beach in coastal Worthing (Britain), mentioned in the 2019-08-11 update...

2019-08-12 - Lightning strike kills bear in tree in Woodland Park (Colorado):
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/08/13/lightning-kills-bear-woodland-park/
http://www.sott.net/article/418482-Lightning-strike-kills-bear-in-Woodland-Park-Colorado

2019-08-12 - Tornado touches down in New Plymouth (New Zealand), 1 injured:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=TO-20190812-69148-NZL

2019-08-12 - Heavy rain and flooding kills 24 people, 6+ missing, in Vietnam:
http://theworldnews.net/gh-news/24-dead-6-missing-as-floods-wreak-havoc-in-vietnam
http://www.sott.net/article/418395-24-dead-6-missing-as-floods-wreak-havoc-in-Vietnam

2019-08-12 - Drive-in sex booths proposed for historic Tempelhof Airport in Berlin (Germany):
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=12258187&ref=rss
http://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/12/europe/berlin-tempelhof-sex-work-sex-booth-intl-scli-grm/index.html

Quote: "Basically, if Stephan von Dassel, the mayor who represents the Green party, gets his way — drive-in style booths will be installed so people can meet sex workers while still in their car."

7 comments:

TomAugust 14, 2019 at 8:36 AM
Good morning Jonny, Fran, Mike D., Tom N., Terry, LL, Panther, FezzedOne and any other readers of JJFH here today.

Our atmosphere is similar to a closed garage. We keep running the engine of industrial civilization (at full speed) and thereby increasingly pollute said atmosphere with DEADLY gases. Yet, people seem surprised at the number of deaths each year attributed to air pollution. Add to that what's happening to the oceans of the world (toxic algae, dead zones, overfishing, and coral reef decimation, to name a few) and the land (soil biome degradation, land fill pollution, etc.) and it's CLEAR that we're in for bad times from here on out.

BLACK BEAR NEWS 8.13.19 Trump Administration Weakens Endangered Species Act
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x9m9DWt_1Q [~ 15.3 min.]

Mexico's mighty Popocatépetl volcano erupts twice in a morning
https://www.sott.net/article/418528-Mexicos-mighty-Popocatepetl-volcano-erupts-twice-in-a-morning

A One Day Stock Market Plunge Of 48%! A Major Financial Crisis In Argentina Is Happening Right Now
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/a-one-day-stock-market-plunge-of-48-a-major-financial-crisis-in-argentina-is-happening-right-now

We are watching a complete and utter financial meltdown unfold in Argentina, and many are concerned that the panic could start spreading elsewhere. When you go into way too much debt and you just keep devaluing your currency, this sort of thing is inevitably going to happen, and this is why I am endlessly criticizing the path that the United States is currently on. If we do not reverse course, we will end up just like them. On Monday, we witnessed the second largest one day stock market decline that we have seen anywhere in the world since 1950. It is hard to believe, but the most important stock market index in Argentina actually plummeted 48 percent in a single trading session…

This is what a financial implosion looks like, and it wasn’t supposed to happen. [more]

Hat-trick! Krosa will be the third storm to hit Japan in only 10 days after super typhoon Lekima hit late last week and typhoon Francisco made landfall on Aug 6
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2019/08/hat-trick-krosa-will-be-third-storm-to.html

A severe tropical storm may make landfall in western Japan on Thursday, bringing torrential rains, violent winds, and rough seas. [more]

Large Tropical Storm "Krosa" to make landfall over southern Japan
https://watchers.news/2019/08/14/large-tropical-storm-krosa-to-make-landfall-over-southern-japan/

A large and dangerous Tropical Storm "Krosa" is heading toward Japan, bringing heavy rain and strong winds. Landfall is expected in southern Shikoku around midnight UTC, August 15. This will be the third tropical cyclone to hit mainland Japan after Nari on July 27 and Francisco on August 6. [more]

[more below]

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TomAugust 14, 2019 at 8:37 AM
A total of 56 wildfires burning out of control in parts of Greece as smoke from the Evia fire covers Athens and strong winds fan the flames
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2019/08/a-total-of-56-wildfires-burning-out-of.html

A total of 56 forest fires broke out around the country in a 24-hour period spanning Monday night and Tuesday. [more]

Climate change and plastic blamed for the death of more than 200 people and more than a million displaced due to monsoon rains in India
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2019/08/climate-change-and-plastic-blamed-for.html [check out the pic]

The Gary Null Show – The rise in censorship to marginalize and silence those who challenge the medical status quo – 08.08.19
http://prn.fm/gary-null-show-rise-censorship-marginalize-silence-challenge-medical-status-quo-08-08-19/ [~ 1 hr]

Navy quietly shut down climate change task force
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060877355

The Navy has quietly stood down its Task Force Climate Change, created in 2009 to plan and develop "future public, strategic, and policy discussions" on the issue.

The task force ended in March, a spokesperson said, and the group's tab on the Navy's energy, environment and climate change website was removed sometime between March and July, according to public archives.

There is still a climate change link in the lower right corner of the site that led, at last check, to an empty page titled "Climate Change Fact Sheets." [more; sure, why bother?]

[sign of the times]
‘Back-to-School’ Firearms Sale
https://strangesounds.org/2019/08/back-to-school-sale-firearms-texas-sign.html

A gun store and shooting range in Texas had a very weird idea over the weekend to promote a sale.

Katy gun store faces backlash over back-to-school sale sign
[more]

The internet has erupted with fears about the magma under Yellowstone Park, but mountains to the west pose the true dangers
https://strangesounds.org/2019/08/us-volcanic-threat-volcanic-hazard-usa-yellowstone-oregon-california-washington.html

The series of powerful earthquakes that shook Southern California in July prompted understandable concern about whether the region is prepared for a period of possibly more active seismic shifts. [more]

China’s Soaring Food Prices Will Lead to War
https://strangesounds.org/2019/08/chinas-soaring-food-prices-will-lead-to-war.html

The global food crisis is slowly ramping up…
China’s food prices jump 9.1% in July to surge to a 7-year high.

Chinese fruit supply has been hurt by severe weather that hurt crop production this year, sending prices of apples up sharply. China is the world’s largest producer and a major consumer of the staple fruit. [more]

Radioactive Interstellar Dust Found in Antarctica or Another Cover-Up?
https://strangesounds.org/2019/08/radioactive-interstellar-dust-antarctica.html

An international team of researchers has analyzed recent snow deposits in Antarctica and discovered the presence of a material that comes from outside our Solar System.
And the collected interstellar dust contains Iron-60, a slightly radioactive isotope, decaying with a half-life of 2.6 million years. [more]

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TomAugust 14, 2019 at 8:38 AM
Four pilot whales stranded in Iceland, three saved - 3rd such event locally within a month
https://www.sott.net/article/418533-Four-pilot-whales-stranded-in-Iceland-three-saved-3rd-such-event-locally-within-a-month

Pilot whale pods have been seen close to shore very often this summer in West and Southwest Iceland. Around 50 pilot whales stranded near Garður, Southwest Iceland just earlier this month. Rescue workers managed to save 30 of them. [more]

[SOTT comment lists others]

At least 6 killed in flooding triggered by heavy rain in Sudan
https://www.sott.net/article/418527-At-least-6-killed-in-flooding-triggered-by-heavy-rain-in-Sudan

At least six people were killed Tuesday in flooding triggered by heavy rain in the Sudanese capital Khartoum and elsewhere in the country, said state-run news agency SUNA.

In the nearby village of Zarqa, at least 15 houses were destroyed, and at least one person died, the agency said.

Power outages have also hit several areas in Jazeera province, SUNA reported. [more]

[around here in SE PA we received a little rain, no heavy wind and no severe weather, despite the weather reports on Tuesday]

Calf recovering after falling into sinkhole in Luther, Oklahoma
https://www.sott.net/article/418526-Calf-recovering-after-falling-into-sinkhole-in-Luther-Oklahoma

[i wonder how far away the nearest fracking operation is]

The Mohr family of Luther said holes have been popping up on the property over the years due to an underground pipeline, and people, vehicles and now the calf have fallen in. [more]

Huge sinkhole threatens to swallow pub in Amiens, France
https://www.sott.net/article/418525-Huge-sinkhole-threatens-to-swallow-pub-in-Amiens-France

A large sinkhole has emerged right outside a pub in northern France.

Part of the venue in Amiens was left dangling over the edge of the 16ft deep hole after it suddenly emerged overnight yesterday. [more; nyaaaah-aaaaaaaaah]

Moscow on track for coldest August on record, dating back 150+ years
https://www.sott.net/article/418524-Moscow-on-track-for-coldest-August-on-record-dating-back-150-years

According to www.hmn.ru, the beginning of August in Moscow has been characterized by unusual weather in terms of not only the cold, but also of abundant rainfall and a lack of sunshine.
[more; no mention of historic Siberian wildfire smoke]

[from Monday]
Meteor lights up sky, shakes homes in southwest Missouri
https://www.sott.net/article/418518-Meteor-lights-up-sky-shakes-homes-in-southwest-Missouri

[being color-blind, i can't see the "neon green" light in the 15 sec. video]

Some people reported seeing pieces of it breaking off. In Missouri it, rattled windows in Long Lane and shook homes in Monett and Pierce City.

The boom caused birds to fly from rooftops as far away as Eureka Springs, Arkansas. [more]

Wednesday, 14 August 2019
Rapid changes in the Arctic - 13 August, 2019
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2019/08/rapid-changes-in-arctic-13-august-2019.html

It is raining at the North Pole today

Large areas of ice have broken up and melted within the 80 deg N parallel [more]

[next piece follows]

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TomAugust 14, 2019 at 8:38 AM
[it ain't just Detroit]
Newark handing out bottled water as filters appear to fail to protect residents from lead
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/newark-handing-bottled-water-filters-appear-fail-protect-201256362.html

More than eight months after officials in Newark, New Jersey, began handing out nearly 40,000 filters to help protect residents from elevated levels of lead, tests of three homes containing filters earlier this month showed that elevated lead levels in the water remained.

In a letter to Newark officials issued Friday, the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) said bottled water should be provided to residents "as soon as possible." [more]

Dreadful heat, humidity invade South as misery continues
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dreadful-heat-humidity-invade-south-130349203.html

Stifling heat smothered states from Texas to South Carolina on Tuesday with temperatures that felt like 120 degrees (49 Celsius), making it difficult to be outside for long, much less work or play. [more]

[from our I Feel Your Pain files]
Farmers Reel After Sonny Perdue Mocks Them As 'Whiners' Amid Trade War Bankruptcies
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/sonny-perdue-whining-farmers-angry-reaction-013733229.html

America’s farmers have apparently been demoted by the Trump administration from “great patriots” to “whiners,” according to a tone-deaf joke by Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue. Farmers, struggling with plunging income and bankruptcies amid President Donald Trump’s trade war, were stunned. [more]

Trump order could weaken protections for monarch butterflies
https://www.yahoo.com/news/goodbye-monarchs-protection-changes-may-191556756.html

The Trump administration's new order weakening the Endangered Species Act could well make things worse for the monarch, one of more than 1 million species that are struggling around the globe. [more]

Brazil will let hunters shoot endangered jaguars, parrots and monkeys in rainforests under new law, warn conservation experts
https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazil-let-hunters-shoot-endangered-131629194.html

Trophy-hunters may be allowed to shoot jaguars and other endangered wildlife “for sport” in Brazil’s critically important rainforests, conservationists are warning.

Parrots, otters and monkeys could also be killed or captured alive – even in nature reserves – in the country that is the world’s richest in biodiversity, according to opponents of the plan.

A bill that would legalise hunting, breeding and selling animals could mean commercial hunting grounds being set up for the first time in more than half a century, critics say.

They fear private hunters would be allowed to either shoot their targets dead or sell them to wildlife centres and zoos under the plan being considered by President Jair Bolsonaro's government. [more]

[another from our continuing Nyaaaah-aaaaaaah! series]
Philippine boy eaten by croc in latest attack
https://www.yahoo.com/news/philippine-boy-eaten-croc-latest-attack-091047480.html

A boy was killed after being snatched from a boat by a saltwater crocodile in the southern Philippines, as the reptiles' shrinking habitat leads to repeated attacks, authorities said Wednesday.

The 10-year-old was on board with his two older siblings near the town of Balabac, which is notorious for confrontations with the massive creatures, when he was yanked into the water.

His father failed to find the boy after an overnight search, but a fisherman discovered the child's half-eaten remains late Monday in a mangrove swamp, a police report said. [more]

Large rope tornado touches down during severe storm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/large-rope-tornado-touches-down-204552025.html

Storm chaser Reed Timmer caught this large rope tornado forming in the High Plains just outside of Yuma, Colorado, on Aug. 13. [20 sec. storm-chaser video]
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TomAugust 14, 2019 at 8:50 AM
[some midweek headlines from Rice Farmer]

News Links, August 14, 2019
Rice Farmer
https://ricefarmer.blogspot.com/

The US budget deficit is up 27% and getting closer to $1 trillion

Bankruptcy filings rising across the country and it could get worse (US)

Israel's Ben Gurion airport descends into CHAOS as baggage system fails

US, Taliban Talks End Without a Deal, More Talks Expected

History and the Logic of Empires

Trump Pushes Venezuela To The Brink

Declining Quantity Of Consumers Vs. Increasing Energy Consumption?!?

The Average U.S. Farm Is $1,300,000 In Debt, And Now The Worst Farming Crisis In Modern History Is Upon Us

Norwegian discovery puts climate change in new light: It has become warmer than scientists thought [unless you're SOTT]

Largest-of-its-kind coral study offers plan to save the planet's reefs [yeah, right]

Human impact on oceans doubled during last decade

Ebola could be curable, clinical trial in the Congo shows for the first time

North Korea drought intensified in July, agency says

It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sky in Rocky Mountains [and probably everywhere]

Shrieking heard from Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell the morning he died
One of Epstein's guards at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on the night he died was reportedly not a regular corrections officer.

Emails Show FBI and Police Are Monitoring Oregon Anti-Pipeline Activists

Pentagon could offer up its bases as 5G test beds [good idea!]

Facebook paid contractors to transcribe users' audio: Bloomberg

Facial recognition software mistook 1 in 5 California lawmakers for criminals, says ACLU [inaccurate, 5 of 5 ARE]

Rich's Ghost Haunts the Courts (Ray McGovern)
It is verboten to utter his name, but a lawsuit and possible declassification of NSA documents could get to the bottom of the Seth Rich controversy.

Fewer Americans believe children can prosper, learn in U.S., poll shows

Illinois' Shrinking Tax Base: Residents Are Leaving & Taking Their Incomes With Them [can't blame 'em]

Feeling the squeeze, American parents struggle to afford child care and student loan debt

Past-due student loans, credit card debt could weigh on U.S. growth
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TomAugust 14, 2019 at 6:52 PM
Good evening Jonny, everyone.

Amid an on-going gun battle on the streets of Philly, we have this

Dow drops 800 points, marking worst day for stock market this year
https://abcnews.go.com/US/dow-drops-600-points-roller-coaster-markets-continues/story

The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted more than 800 points on Wednesday, as investors suffered their worst day of the year as new concerns arose over data on global economic growth. [more]

U.S. scientist to file whistleblower complaint after agency halts his climate work
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-climate-scientist-removed-job-213332806.html

A climate scientist for the Trump administration's health protection agency who was ordered by his agency to drop work on climate issues will file a whistleblower complaint this week with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, his lawyers said on Wednesday.

George Luber, who ran the climate and health program at the Centers for Disease Control, is an expert on the health impacts of climate change including risks to hospitals and public health infrastructure and of diseases borne by mosquitoes and ticks as they increasingly move into northern regions as temperatures rise.

Luber has been a contributor to U.S. government reports including the National Climate Assessment, that last year warned that climate change could cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars.

The CDC offered Luber the top job at the merged program, but he attracted attention for complaining that the combination of the offices would result in an illegal blending of $10 million the U.S. Congress had set aside specifically for climate work.

The CDC then filed papers charging Luber with misconduct including that he failed to renew ethics clearance paperwork five years earlier, and that he wrote a book in 2013 without agency authorization, moves his lawyers said were retaliation for complaining.

Although those were the first charges against Luber, who has worked at CDC for 16 years, the agency stripped him of his badge and keys. He now works from home reviewing CDC science papers unrelated to climate, must be accompanied by an armed guard to visit his old office and is prohibited from contacting former colleagues who did climate work, his lawyers said.

"As our climate spins out of control, bureaucrats eager to please the Trump administration have worked feverishly to destroy the reputations of climate scientists who stand in its way," said Kevin Bell, a lawyer for Luber at the watchdog group the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, who is filing the complaint.

The CDC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
[more]

[next part follows]

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TomAugust 14, 2019 at 6:52 PM
Greenland's ice is melting at the rate scientists thought would be our worst-case scenario in 2070
https://www.yahoo.com/news/greenlands-ice-melting-rate-scientists-192500402.html

Greta Thunberg Explains Why She Won't 'Waste Time' Talking To Trump
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/greta-thunberg-donald-trump-climate-change-122007458.html

“Why should I waste time talking to him when he, of course, is not going to listen to me?” Thunberg told CBS in an interview shared online Tuesday. “I can’t say anything that he hasn’t already heard.”

The 16-year-old was asked in the clip (below) how she would rate America’s efforts to combat climate change. It’s “not very high,” she said. [more]

Japan urges more than 300,000 to evacuate as storm Krosa nears
https://www.yahoo.com/news/japan-urges-more-300-000-121543982.html

The Climate Crisis Is Not Evenly Distributed, But It's Already Here
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/climate-crisis-not-evenly-distributed-155100549.html

Chris Mooney and a team of reporters and analysts at The Washington Post have produced the most important piece of climate journalism that we've seen in a very long time. It is a detailed account of how the most extreme consequences of the climate crisis are already here in the United States, and where they at this moment are having the most serious impact. (Also, for the benefit of uninformed dunces like myself, there's an even a one-click feature that converts temperatures from Celsius to Fahrenheit.) Needless to say, the information is an insanely detailed accounting of how thoroughly fcked we already are. [more]

[i don't know where this guy has been, but]
Opinion: Trump has turned the government against the middle class
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-has-turned-the-government-against-the-middle-class-2019-08-14?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo

[arguably "every president since Kennedy"]

Administration cut taxes for the rich, raised costs for the working people [more]

Climate deniers get more media play than scientists: study
https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-deniers-more-media-play-scientists-study-235158690.html

Paris (AFP) - Climate deniers have garnered far more media attention than prominent climate scientists over the years, fuelling public confusion and slowing the response to global warming, researchers reported Tuesday.

From 2000 through 2016, hundreds of academics, business people and politicians who doubted global warming or attributed rising temperatures to "natural" causes got 50 percent more ink than an equal number of top scientists, according to a study in Nature Communications, a peer-reviewed journal. [more]
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