tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post4899411826787125908..comments2024-03-20T06:07:07.676-06:00Comments on Jumping Jack Flash Hypothesis: It's A Gas Gas Gas: Event Update For 2018-06-17Jonny Mnemonichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516458612879773986noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-55016696738390547602018-06-19T20:12:28.005-05:002018-06-19T20:12:28.005-05:00Freight train derails and explodes in southern Ind...Freight train derails and explodes in southern Indiana forcing evacuations<br />https://www.sott.net/article/388647-Freight-train-derails-and-explodes-in-southern-Indiana-forcing-evacuations<br /><br />A freight train derailment that resulted in a large explosion and fire has forced some residents of an Indiana town to evacuate. Authorities are still struggling to contain the blaze 12 hours after the accident. <br /><br />A statement from CSX Transportation, which operates the train, said that one of the rail cars appeared to be leaking propane. [more]<br /><br />Laura Bush criticizes Trump Admin. for child immigrant policy - Sarah Sanders points out law was signed by her husband<br />https://www.sott.net/article/388657-Laura-Bush-criticizes-Trump-Admin-for-child-immigrant-policy-Sarah-Sanders-points-out-law-was-signed-by-her-husband<br /><br />New paper on the 'hard problem of consciousness'<br />https://www.sott.net/article/388572-New-paper-on-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness<br /><br />A new paper published in The Journal of Consciousness Studies claims that consciousness isn't a unique property of humans-rather, the entire universe is conscious, and humans are all manifestations of its multiple personalities. [more]<br /><br />The effects of sexy people on your intelligence<br />https://www.sott.net/article/388655-The-effects-of-sexy-people-on-your-intelligence<br /><br />The effect of hot people on your cognitive abilities, revealed by research. <br /><br />People become cognitively impaired in the presence of an attractive member of the opposite sex, research finds. <br /><br />The drop in intelligence is particularly strong for men. <br /><br />The more attractive the woman, the more men's test scores plummeted, psychologists found. [more]Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-17080542052328814942018-06-19T15:11:14.350-05:002018-06-19T15:11:14.350-05:00John Pilger: Bring Julian Assange home
https://ww...John Pilger: Bring Julian Assange home <br />https://www.sott.net/article/388638-John-Pilger-Bring-Julian-Assange-home<br /><br />The Australian government has an obligation to free Julian Assange, John Pilger told a rally in Sydney on June 16, marking Assange's six years' confinement in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. <br /><br />The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Or it will end in tragedy. The Australian government and prime minister Malcolm Turnbull have an historic opportunity to decide which it will be. They can remain silent, for which history will be unforgiving. Or they can act in the interests of justice and humanity and bring this remarkable Australian citizen home. [more]<br /><br />Floods in Assam claim 14 lives, affect 548 086 people in 719 villages, India<br />https://watchers.news/2018/06/19/floods-in-assam-claim-14-lives-affect-548-086-people-in-719-villages-india/<br /><br />Heavy monsoon rains and floods affecting the Indian state of Assam over the past week have claimed lives of 14 people by June 19, 2018. 11 people died due to flooding and 3 due to landslides.<br />[more]<br /><br />Heavy monsoon rain triggers Mon State's worst floods in 40 years, Myanmar<br />https://watchers.news/2018/06/19/record-breaking-rain-triggers-worst-floods-in-40-years-myanmar/<br /><br />Record-breaking monsoon rains affecting Myanmar's Mon State since June 16, 2018, triggered landslides and worst floods parts of the state have seen in more than 40 years. At least 16 people have been killed or are missing across the country since 2018 Southwest Monsoon arrived more than a week ago. [more]<br /><br />Weather slows fire activity in Western United States<br />http://wildfiretoday.com/2018/06/19/weather-slows-fire-activity-in-western-united-states/<br /><br />Moderating weather over the last seven days has helped firefighters make progress on some of the fires in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Utah. Today’s national Situation Report showed little or no increase in the size of wildfires in those four states. The 416 Fire in southwest Colorado and the Badger Creek Fire in southern Wyoming released a total of 345 personnel over the last 24 hours. [more]<br /><br />[update]<br />DNA test solves mystery of wolf-like creature shot in Montana<br />https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dna-test-reveals-identity-of-mysterious-wolf-creature-shot-in-montana/<br /><br />"DNA from the animal ... was tested at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service forensic laboratory in Ashland, Oregon. The lab compared the animal's DNA with thousands of other DNA samples from wolves, coyotes and dogs," the official state agency said. "The conclusion was clear -- this animal is a gray wolf from the northern Rocky Mountains." [more]<br /><br />5000-year-old stone balls continue to baffle archaeologists <br />https://www.sott.net/article/388620-5000-year-old-stone-balls-continue-to-baffle-archaeologists<br /><br />Some of the most enigmatic human-made objects from Europe's late Stone Age - intricately carved balls of stone, each about the size of a baseball - continue to baffle archaeologists more than 200 years after they were first discovered. <br /><br />More than 500 of the enigmatic objects have now been found, most of them in northeast Scotland, but also in the Orkney Islands, England, Ireland and one in Norway. [more]<br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-81133774036317277542018-06-19T15:11:10.278-05:002018-06-19T15:11:10.278-05:00"Make Globalization Implode Again"
http..."Make Globalization Implode Again" <br />http://ponziworld.blogspot.com/2018/06/inextricable-lesson-in-globalization.html<br /><br />In accordance with their zero sum way of thinking, Trumptopia believes they're "winning" the global trade war. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way...<br /><br />Overnight, Trump escalated the trade war with China by threatening tariffs on an additional $200 billion of imports, if China doesn't back down. China immediately retaliated, putting that fantasy to rest. Contrary to popular belief, there IS a downside to having a dunce for president, yet somehow, 87% of Republicans haven't figured that out yet. Trump's base won't let him back down, because ignorance has been rewarded for far too long. What we are watching in real-time is idiot death spiral<br /><br /> "Make America First" is wholly impossible. Without crashing the asset bubble. <br /><br />There is no such thing as local capital anymore. Which means that slapping tariffs on foreign countries is essentially slapping tariffs on the S&P 500. Any higher costs of goods from a foreign country will directly impact U.S. corporate profit. Which again is not conducive to sustaining record profit margins. [more]<br /><br />Dow's dive wipes out year's gains as China trade fight escalates <br />https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/dows-dive-wipes-out-years-gains-as-china-trade-fight-escalates/ar-AAyQyYC<br /><br />Stocks fell sharply Tuesday after President Donald Trump's latest threat to China increased fears of an impending trade war between the world's largest economies.<br /> <br />The Dow was down 300 points after sinking more than 400 points earlier, with Boeing, DowDuPont and Caterpillar lagging. The 30-stock index erased all of its gains for the year. [more]<br /><br />Russia to impose duties on American goods after US sets metals tariffs<br />https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russia-to-impose-duties-on-american-goods-after-us-sets-metals-tariffs/ar-AAyRCCV<br /><br />Russia will impose import tariffs on certain goods from the United States in response to duties imposed by Washington on steel and aluminum imports, Economy Minister Maxim Oreshkin said on Tuesday. [more]<br /><br />US poised to announce exit from UN human rights council<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-poised-announce-exit-un-human-rights-council-155923454--politics.html<br /><br />[more below]<br /><br /><br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-25818044641416477152018-06-19T07:48:47.793-05:002018-06-19T07:48:47.793-05:00The financial collapse
A Hard Rain's a-Gonna...The financial collapse <br /><br />A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall<br />The prospects for the rest of the year are awful<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-financial-collapse.html<br /><br />It has been an unprecedented forcefeeding of stimulus into the global system. And, contrary to what most people realize, it hasn't diminished over the years since the Great Recession. In fact, the most recent wave from 2015-2018 has seen the highest amount of injected 'thin-air' money ever <br /><br />So the situation is dire. But it gets worse.<br /><br />Because when today's Everything Bubble bursts, the effect will be nothing short of catastrophic as 50 years of excessive debt accumulation suddenly deflates. [more]<br /><br />Why America’s Trade War With China Will Be Absolutely Crippling For The U.S. Economy<br />http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/why-americas-trade-war-with-china-will-be-absolutely-crippling-for-the-u-s-economy<br /><br />Can the global financial system handle a full-blown trade war between the two largest economies on the entire planet? We have never seen anything like this happen in the modern age, and this is creating a tremendous amount of uncertainty for the financial markets. Yes, something had to be done, and I have been writing about this for years. China has been stealing our intellectual property, manipulating currency rates and slapping high tariffs on American goods. We simply could not allow China to continue to take advantage of us, but now we are so dependent on the Chinese that a trade war with them is going to inevitably produce a great deal of pain. We are all going to wish that another way could have been found to resolve this crisis, because in the short-term this is definitely going to hurt the U.S. economy. And if President Trump chooses to press forward with trade wars against Europe, Canada and Mexico at the same time as well, the pain for our economy is going to be off the charts. [more]<br /><br />Warming climate harming wildlife<br />http://www.samessenger.com/warming-climate-harming-wildlife/<br /><br />Deadly Tensions Rise as India’s Water Supply Runs Dangerously Low<br />https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/world/asia/shimla-india-drought-water.html<br /><br />Eerie photos surface of NEW coastal water anomaly - "As far as the eye could see - gone!<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyeJNt_pItc&list=PLo273xJs-T3S873dM8-U6AuEE49Pl1LId<br /><br />June 18, 2018: Strange coastal water anomalies have returned as a new one was observed less than 24 hours ago! Also, a dam has been breeched in Northern Wisconsin creating a flash flood alert from the NWS. [more; ~ 4 min. video by MrMBB333]<br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-62487424305162607172018-06-19T07:48:44.297-05:002018-06-19T07:48:44.297-05:00The Ogallala aquifer is being depleted
Crisis on...The Ogallala aquifer is being depleted <br /><br />Crisis on the High Plains: The Loss of America’s Largest Aquifer – the Ogallala<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-ogallala-aquifer-is-being-depleted.html<br /><br /><br />The grain-growing region in the High Plains of America—known as America’s breadbasket—relies entirely on the Ogallala Aquifer. But long term unsustainable use of the aquifer is forcing states in the region to face the prospect of a regional economic disaster. As the High Plains states reach the verge of a major crisis, the states have taken different approaches to conservation with varying results.<br /><br />The Ogallala Aquifer supports an astounding one-sixth of the world’s grain produce, and it has long been an essential component of American agriculture. [more]<br /><br />The renewable road to extinction<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-road-to-extinction-through.html<br /><br />The trouble is that we are not on the road to meeting the Paris climate goals at all. Rather, we are on the superhighway that takes us to the destruction of the one biosphere in the universe that we know to be capable of sustaining life. That superhighway may well be lined with solar panels and wind turbines; but these, too, suffer from the Jevons paradox. [more]<br /><br />Trump signs resolution to permit dumping mining waste into waterways<br />https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/videonational/president-trump-signs-resolution-to-permit-mining-waste-dumping-in-waterways/2017/02/21/cde426aa-f84b-11e6-aa1e-5f735ee31334_video.html<br /><br />[short video from last year, I couldn't get the sound to work]<br /><br />[a bit more below]<br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-31036324275325979522018-06-19T07:48:06.802-05:002018-06-19T07:48:06.802-05:00[animal attack that didn't end the usual way]
...[animal attack that didn't end the usual way]<br />Woman attacked by bobcat strangles it to death with bare hands in Georgia, US <br />https://www.sott.net/article/388576-Woman-attacked-by-bobcat-strangles-it-to-death-with-bare-hands-in-Georgia-US<br /><br />A 46-year-old grandmother strangled a rabid bobcat to death after the animal attacked her in her front yard in north-eastern Georgia. <br /><br />Phillips suffered a broken finger and several bite and claw wounds to her hands, arms, chest and legs. She was also treated for rabies. [more]<br /><br />Sperm whale carcass found on beach in Aceh, Indonesia <br />https://www.sott.net/article/388575-Sperm-whale-carcass-found-on-beach-in-Aceh-Indonesia<br /><br />Blue whale carcass washes ashore in Point Reyes, California <br />https://www.sott.net/article/388573-Blue-whale-carcass-washes-ashore-in-Point-Reyes-California<br /><br />Tuesday, 19 June 2018<br />401 months of above-average global temperatures <br /><br />May 2018 was the 401st consecutive month with above-average temperatures as the globe had its 4th warmest May on record: NOAA<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/06/401-months-of-above-average-tglobal.html<br /><br />Delhi's air pollution - so bad it is literally off the chart <br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/06/delhis-air-pollution-so-bad-it-is.html<br /><br />Delhi's Air Quality Takes Big Hit As Pollution Levels Reach Severe Category [~ 3.5 min. video]<br /><br />Paul Beckwith on abrupt loss of Arctic sea ice <br />Abrupt Loss of Arctic Sea-Ice<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/06/paul-beckwith-on-abrupt-loss-of-arctic.html<br /><br />[~ 15 min. video]<br /><br />El-Nino by winter, 2018? <br /><br />NOAA Shows Risks for El Nino by Winter<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/06/el-nino-by-winter-2018.html<br /><br />[7.5 min. video]<br /><br />[continued below]<br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-3591948217747732432018-06-19T07:47:28.861-05:002018-06-19T07:47:28.861-05:00Yo! It hit 90 finally around here, yesterday. To...Yo! It hit 90 finally around here, yesterday. Today we're overcast and drizzly, cooler. I trust everyone is still with us.<br /><br />H2S abounds!<br /><br />Catherine Austin Fitts: Elite stole $50 Trillion and will invest in space <br />https://www.sott.net/article/388570-Catherine-Austin-Fitts-Elite-stole-50-Trillion-and-will-invest-in-space<br /><br />[41.5 min. video interview and text]<br /><br />Fitts goes on to say, "The establishment has stolen $50 trillion plus, and they want to keep it, and they want to invest it in the space based economy and not have to give it back to the pension funds. One of the most important techniques they are going to use to do that is basically with digital control, with both of the currency, as well as the systems that do surveillance and control. So, (they think) if we can get 7 billion people on smart phones and 5G coming in from satellites or land, anyway you do it, and everybody has a digital currency, and if you don't behave, you turn off their currency. We are talking about ways of controlling people through the digital systems which are very, very invasive. . . . If you look at the policies going on, whether it's the effort to bring in the guns or effort to force cashless, those who are centralizing control of the economy, they want to make sure they have control because when they invest that money, they want to make sure it makes their wealth go up and not the general population's wealth go up. They don't want to have to refund those monies back into the pension funds or Social Security. They want to be able to say, well, the money is gone, and we spent too much of it and did not balance the books and etcetera, etcetera. So, this is what this is about. This is about who is going to allocate what resources that are there, and are they going to be in a position to harvest and drain the American taxpayer." [more]<br /><br />[more below]<br /><br /><br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.com