tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post1380556083419272226..comments2024-03-20T06:07:07.676-06:00Comments on Jumping Jack Flash Hypothesis: It's A Gas Gas Gas: Event Update For 2017-06-06Jonny Mnemonichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516458612879773986noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-18799067962337970222017-06-08T16:20:48.355-05:002017-06-08T16:20:48.355-05:00Air monitor alarms go off, crews take cover at Han...Air monitor alarms go off, crews take cover at Hanford nuclear site <br />https://www.sott.net/article/353262-Air-monitor-alarms-go-off-crews-take-cover-at-Hanford-nuclear-site<br /><br />The alarms are just the latest in a series of mishaps at Hanford, which has been leaking toxic radioactive material for years. <br /><br />Thursday's incident came almost exactly a month after the Department of Energy declared an emergency at Hanford due to a cave-in of a tunnel used to store radioactive materials and equipment. <br /><br />In January, a report found that radioactive contamination continues spreading inside the plant's Reduction-Oxidation Complex (REDOX) and could be worsened as the facility deteriorates. <br /><br />The plant processed 24,000 tons of irradiated uranium fuel rods to remove plutonium for nuclear weapons during the Cold War. It hasn't been operational since 1967, but is not scheduled to be dismantled for at least another 15 years, triggering concerns that conditions will continue to worsen given its current state. [more]<br /><br />[notice that the parent company doesn't do maintenance and replacement of parts that get eaten or fried by radiation until they HAVE to by the lenient feds]<br /><br />Hiker gored to death by cow in Austrian Alps <br />https://www.sott.net/article/353271-Hiker-gored-to-death-by-cow-in-Austrian-Alps<br /><br />Woman killed by crocodile while taking part in a Hindu river bathing ceremony in Uttar Pradesh, India <br />https://www.sott.net/article/353269-Woman-killed-by-crocodile-while-taking-part-in-a-Hindu-river-bathing-ceremony-in-Uttar-Pradesh-India<br /><br />[if it weren't so sad, i'd be laughing my ass off at the irony]<br /><br />Brilliant blue 'arc flash' filmed crackling along power lines in Dayton, Ohio during storm <br />https://www.sott.net/article/353268-Brilliant-blue-arc-flash-filmed-crackling-along-power-lines-in-Dayton-Ohio-during-storm<br /><br />[whoa]<br /><br />Shallow 5.3 magnitude earthquake recorded near Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii <br />https://www.sott.net/article/353267-Shallow-5-3-magnitude-earthquake-recorded-near-Kilauea-volcano-Hawaii<br /><br />Car plunges into sinkhole on busy road in Brazil <br />https://www.sott.net/article/353266-Car-plunges-into-sinkhole-on-busy-road-in-Brazil<br /><br />[less-see yer all wheel drive git ye outta DAT!]<br /><br />Microburst engulfs Austin in apocalyptic video – Second microburst in 2 days in Texas<br />http://strangesounds.org/2017/06/austin-microburst-apocalyptic-video-second-microburst-in-2-days-in-texas.html<br /><br />[hol-ee SHIT, that's some rain rot-dare!]<br /><br />Trump's Proposed Cuts To Foreign Food Aid Are Proving Unpopular<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-apos-proposed-cuts-foreign-010220050.html<br /><br />[YOU'LL GET NOTHING AND LIKE IT!]<br /><br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-27271856679113266722017-06-08T16:20:26.943-05:002017-06-08T16:20:26.943-05:00Well, now - things are progressing along.
Texas b...Well, now - things are progressing along.<br /><br />Texas boy dies of 'dry drowning' after swimming trip, family says <br />http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/healthtrending/texas-boy-dies-of-dry-drowning-after-swimming-trip-family-says<br /><br />[never heard of it & the "explanation" sounds like bullshit]<br /><br />A Texas boy died of "dry drowning" nearly a week after he went swimming on a family trip, his family said. <br /><br />Dry drowning, also known as secondary drowning, is a rare condition when water fills a person's lungs. It usually occurs with children and only takes a "few gasps" of water through the mouth or nostrils, according to USA Today.<br /><br />Widening earth crack spreads to 5 km in Manipur, India <br />https://www.sott.net/article/353257-Widening-earth-crack-spreads-to-5-km-in-Manipur-India<br /><br />The earth crack at Kalikhola area in Kangpokpi district has already affected a stretch of 5 Km radius approximately with the fissure widening every passing hour while the more than 250 victims sheltered at the temporary relief camp are facing water and power shortage apart from other numerous difficulties. <br /><br />While the earth fissure at Kalikhola area has widened today one house near the PMGSY road collapsed this morning while more paddy fields and huge trees have caved in and more land have slid down. [more; see long list of others]<br /><br />Massive Kaua'i Sinkhole Reveals Source of 1586 Tsunami <br />https://www.sott.net/article/353228-Massive-Kaua-i-Sinkhole-Reveals-Source-of-1586-Tsunami<br /><br />Lightning strikes kill 57 within 10 weeks in Myanmar (Burma); compares to 10 deaths for roughly the same period in 2016 <br />https://www.sott.net/article/353226-Lightning-strikes-kill-57-within-10-weeks-in-Myanmar-Burma-compares-to-10-deaths-for-roughly-the-same-period-in-2016<br /><br />[update]<br />'The whole town is burning': Deaths, mass evacuations as fire sweeps Knysna, South Africa <br />https://www.sott.net/article/353225-The-whole-town-is-burning-Deaths-mass-evacuations-as-fire-sweeps-Knysna-South-Africa<br /><br />"The fire in Knysna is the largest and most destructive fire in a built-up area in the Western Cape in recent memory with thousands displaced. It comes on the back of the worst storm seen in the Western Cape in at least 30 years," Styan said. <br />[more]<br /><br />Lightning strikes kill 6 across Bihar, India <br />https://www.sott.net/article/353224-Lightning-strikes-kill-6-across-Bihar-India<br /><br />New eruption at Poas Volcano in Costa Rice [sic]<br />https://www.sott.net/article/353218-New-eruption-at-Poas-Volcano-in-Costa-Rice<br /><br />Could global warming shut down the Gulf Stream? <br />http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2017/06/could-global-warming-shut-down-gulf.html<br /><br />[more below]<br /><br />Tom<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-37990372572434129622017-06-08T07:54:35.775-05:002017-06-08T07:54:35.775-05:00WikiLeaks Offers $10,000 To Get Intercept Reporter...WikiLeaks Offers $10,000 To Get Intercept Reporter Behind NSA Story Terminated<br /><br />Police now routinely crack and extract all phone data from arrestees<br /><br />The NSA Says It Has to Spy on You to Find Out If It's Spying On You<br /><br />White House, intel chiefs want to make digital spying law permanent<br /><br />"Investors Should Be Petrified" Of The Coming Ice Age: Here Are Albert Edwards' Scariest Charts [quote from zero-hedge article below]<br />[The big Ice Age call was that the tight positive correlation between equity yields and bond yields that market participants had enjoyed since 1982, driven by ever-lower inflation, would break down. The "long bull market" (see chart below) had been a mirror image of the 1965- 1982 period when yields on both assets had risen together. The Ice Age thesis, drawing on our observations of Japan, predicted that while interest rates and bond yields would continue to fall, equity yields would decouple and begin to rise on a secular basis. For those with a historical perspective the Ice Age would be a mirror image of the 1950-65 period <br /><br />In the Ice Age, government bonds would rerate relative to equities, with the latter declining in absolute as well as relative terms.<br /><br />One important implication of the Ice Age thesis was that widely used metrics from the 1980s and 90s, such as the bond/equity earnings yield ratio, would break down. Hence you should no longer buy equities when this ratio fell to 0.8 as they would be undergoing a secular de-rating.]<br /><br />Plan B: How the rich are prepping for collapse<br /><br />Starved School Budgets Across the US: A Symptom of Education Funding Crisis<br /><br />5 Trends That Are Destroying The Middle Class In America<br /><br />ISIS recruiter who radicalised London Bridge attackers was protected by MI5 [a lot like the "suspects" here and FBI]<br /><br />Saudi Arabia Used U.S. Veterans to Lobby Against 9/11 Bill<br /><br />Iowa opponents still think they can shut down Dakota Access Pipeline<br /><br />Are shopping malls an endangered species?<br /><br />Next Asset Bubble Cracks: It's so Big even the Fed is Fretting<br />Commercial Real Estate's boom-and-bust cycle heads south.<br /><br />Anthem Drops Obamacare in Ohio: 300,000 Without Insurance? Gruber Strikes Again<br /><br />Connecticut Up to Its Neck in Red Ink<br /><br />Alabama Sees 85% Drop In Food Stamp Participation After Work Requirements Reinstated<br /><br />Tom<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-42838691144986088132017-06-08T07:54:19.590-05:002017-06-08T07:54:19.590-05:00News Links, June 8, 2017
Rice Farmer
http://ricef...News Links, June 8, 2017<br />Rice Farmer <br />http://ricefarmer.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Bill Gross: "Market Risk Is Highest Since Before The 2008 Crisis"<br /><br />Elliott's Singer Warns System May Be More Leveraged Than 2008<br /><br />Puerto Rico's bankruptcy leaves US island facing hard times<br /><br />Australians curb spending as household debt balloons<br /><br />Sears is closing an additional 72 stores this year<br /><br />Loyalty data suggest Nine West may be the next to close stores<br /><br />Iran Blames Saudi Arabia For Terrorist Attack, Supporting ISIS; Vows "Revenge"<br /><br />US launches air strike on pro-Syria forces after warnings<br /><br />Trump's Middle East Foreign Policy is a Disaster Waiting to Happen<br /><br />US-Qatar fighter jet sale worth $21B in middle of diplomatic crisis<br /><br />Qatar Puts Military On Highest State Of Alert Over Fears Of Imminent Incursion<br /><br />Turkey Approves Bill Allowing Troop Deployment To Qatar<br /><br />Gunmen attack Iran parliament and mausoleum, killing at least one: State media<br /><br />Iran Blames Saudi Arabia For Terrorist Attack, Supporting ISIS; Vows "Revenge"<br /><br />[there's a David Crosby song, on his album If I Could Only Remember My Name, called Cowboy Movie, that allows one to experience the ramp up of things from calm to complete bedlam like the situation in the Middle East is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=126&v=6usoXUL2ncw]<br /><br />In Major Blow To Washington, South Korea Suspends Deployment Of US Antimissile System<br /><br />North Korea launches several land-to-ship cruise missiles off east coast: Seoul<br /><br />[make that EVERYWHERE, not just the Middle East]<br /><br />Cobalt: Is The Electric Car Boom Running Out Of Fuel?<br /><br />India, The World's Third Largest Oil Consumer, Aims To Drastically Reduce Imports<br /><br />Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Have Been Duped<br /><br />Slugging It Out With a New Contender in the GMOs Debate<br /><br />Greenpeace ship highlights plastic pollution risk<br />[thought somebody was cleaning it up]<br /><br />[continued below] <br /><br />Tom<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-68995944955958180872017-06-08T07:20:23.997-05:002017-06-08T07:20:23.997-05:00Thursday, 8 June 2017
Assad's allies threaten ...Thursday, 8 June 2017<br />Assad's allies threaten retaliation against US troops illegally deployed inside Syria <br /><br />Russia Warns US Not to Cross Their Red Line<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2017/06/assads-allies-threaten-retaliation.html<br /><br />[since we keep SUPPORTING the TERRORIST ISIS group, what do we expect?]<br /><br />Intense storms may diminish protective ozone in Central US. <br />http://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2017/june/Intense-storms-may-diminish-protective-ozone-in<br /><br />Stronger storms over the Great Plains—likely induced by climate change—may be chipping away at the key life-protecting layer of our atmosphere <br /><br />The link between bigger storms and depleted ozone above the Central U.S. comes mostly from inference: While temperature and water vapor changes from storms have been shown to deplete ozone in Arctic regions, it’s not clear yet if this is the case in the states studied—Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, the Dakotas. <br /><br />However, “chemistry operates the same everywhere,” Anderson said. [more]<br /><br />US coastal cities will flood more often and more severely, study warns. <br />https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07062017/coastal-flooding-extreme-sea-level-rise-forecast<br /><br />Defying Trump, Hawaii becomes first state to pass law committing to Paris climate accord. <br />https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/climate/hawaii-climate-paris-trump.html<br /><br />[Didn't CA join China to follow the Paris accord recently? Maybe it isn't "law" yet.]<br /><br />The mystery behind the 40-year-old ‘WOW signal’ from outer space may finally be solved<br />http://strangesounds.org/2017/06/the-mystery-behind-the-wow-signal-from-outer-space-solved-video.html<br /><br />20 stranded pilot whales pushed back into the sea in Sri Lanka<br />http://strangesounds.org/2017/06/20-stranded-pilot-whales-pushed-back-into-the-sea-in-sri-lanka-video.html<br /><br />Some sailors and locals pushed the pod of whales backed into the sea near the historic city of Trincomalee. [more; video]<br /><br />Strong winds are feeding a massive deadly fire causing the evacuation of 10,000 people from Knysna South Africa <br />http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/06/strong-winds-are-feeding-massive-deadly.html<br /><br />Thousands of fish get 'cooked' in Puget Sound Washington after hot weather claim scientists <br />http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/06/thousands-of-fish-get-cooked-in-puget.html<br /><br />[in other news, food stores in the area are overstocked with pre-cooked fish - come get some, CHEAP!]<br /><br />[update]<br />The worst winter storm ever hits Cape Town killing 8 affecting millions of people in shanty towns and blowing cars over (video) <br />http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/06/the-worst-winter-storm-ever-hits-cape.html<br /><br />Moral Bankruptcy Precedes Financial Bankruptcy <br />http://ponziworld.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-definition-of-insanity.html<br /><br />The Idiocracy is free-basing Prozac mixed with bullshit. Again<br /><br />Speaking of deja vu... What happens when the entire Energy sector rolls over in conjunction with Treasury yields and oil?<br />[more]<br /><br />Tom<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-79007839210327650742017-06-08T07:20:08.433-05:002017-06-08T07:20:08.433-05:00Thanks, Jonny. My little excursion to NC put me a...Thanks, Jonny. My little excursion to NC put me a little behind with my count of garbage trucks burning up and Hull events. So here it is:<br /><br />In 8 days in May, 14 garbage trucks were destroyed by fire, while in 16 days in Hull there were 19 JJFH incidents.<br /><br />Looking at the tractor trailer tally, we're about 35 semis behind the same date in 2016, but the summer is just beginning. i'll hold off comparison for the other categories until the end of June (roughly 1/2 way through the year) to see how we're stacking up compared with last year.<br /><br />Central Banks Now Own Stocks And Bonds Worth Trillions – And They Could Crash The Markets By Selling Them<br />http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/central-banks-now-own-stocks-and-bonds-worth-trillions-and-they-could-crash-the-markets-by-selling-them<br /><br />[and if they DON'T sell them, they'll become worthless paper - like a lot of college degrees]<br /><br />Have you ever wondered why stocks just seem to keep going up no matter what happens? For years, financial markets have been behaving in ways that seem to defy any rational explanation, but once you understand the role that central banks have been playing everything begins to make sense. In the aftermath of the great financial crisis of 2008, global central banks began to buy stocks, bonds and other financial assets in very large quantities and they haven’t stopped since. In fact, as you will see below, global central banks are on pace to buy 3.6 trillion dollars worth of stocks and bonds this year alone. At this point, the Swiss National Bank owns more publicly-traded shares of Facebook than Mark Zuckerberg does, and the Bank of Japan is now a top-five owner in 81 different large Japanese firms. These global central banks are shamelessly pumping up global stock markets, but because they now have such vast holdings they could also cause a devastating global stock market crash simply by starting to sell off their portfolios. [more]<br /><br />Too little, too late: Republicans 'revolt' against US intelligence, consider cutting back surveillance authority <br />https://www.sott.net/article/353208-Too-little-too-late-Republicans-revolt-against-US-intelligence-consider-cutting-back-surveillance-authority<br /><br />A small revolt in corners of the Republican Party bedevils plans for reauthorization this year of surveillance capabilities considered the "crown jewels" of the U.S. intelligence community. <br /><br />Those capabilities, subject of a Senate intelligence committee hearing Wednesday, has some Republicans worried that they could get caught up in the same secret government intercepts of communications that helped to land President Donald Trump's short-lived national security adviser in legal jeopardy. [more; after I stop laughing, i'll comment]<br /><br />Progressive Commentary Hour – 06.06.17<br />http://prn.fm/progressive-commentary-hour-06-06-17/<br /><br />[in which Guy mentions St. Louis, MO in his conversation with host Gary Null - roughly an hour podcast; forgot the link when I posted this last evening]<br /><br />Amazon users in a tizzy after outage hits across the U.S. <br />https://www.sott.net/article/353196-Amazon-users-in-a-tizzy-after-outage-hits-across-the-US<br /><br />Down Detector, which tracks service interruptions online, is reporting that the outage is affecting the entire US. New York, Washington, Seattle and San Francisco are reportedly the areas worst affected by the fault. [more; how many million dollars did they lose because of this?]<br /><br />Video captures microburst over Austin, Texas <br />https://www.sott.net/article/353203-Video-captures-microburst-over-Austin-Texas<br /><br />Rare waterspout recorded in waters off Beihai, S.W. China <br />https://www.sott.net/article/353202-Rare-waterspout-recorded-in-waters-off-Beihai-S-W-China<br /><br />Southern Hemisphere cooling trend is now apparent <br />https://www.sott.net/article/353204-Southern-Hemisphere-cooling-trend-is-now-apparent<br /><br />[to the same you-tube knucklehead: this is called "winter"]<br /><br />[more below]<br /><br />Tom<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com