tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post6224026582566488444..comments2024-03-20T06:07:07.676-06:00Comments on Jumping Jack Flash Hypothesis: It's A Gas Gas Gas: Event Update For 2019-10-19Jonny Mnemonichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516458612879773986noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-29945781964283198722019-10-21T15:07:41.532-05:002019-10-21T15:07:41.532-05:00Brush Fire Threatens Homes in Los Angeles’ Pacific...Brush Fire Threatens Homes in Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades<br />https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/pacific-palisades-brush-fire-1203377471/<br /><br />[they got this one under control quickly; do you think it had anything to do with the fact that it was a wealthy neighborhood?]<br /><br />Three people hospitalised by chemical leak on board American Airlines plane<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-cabin-crew-members-left-140820652.html<br /><br />Three people have been hospitalised after a cleaning product leaked on an American Airlines flight forcing it to make an emergency landing in Dublin.<br /><br />The plane was less than an hour into its flight from London Heathrow to Philadelphia when two crew members fell unconscious due to the powerful smell.<br /><br />Several passengers complained of burning eyes and skin irritation and one traveller was also taken to hospital in Ireland. [more]<br /><br />Climate scientist: our profession is letting down humanity – we must change the way we approach the climate crisis<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-scientist-profession-letting-down-133426530.html<br /><br />The 1979 Charney report raised concerns about an impending climate crisis long before we could directly evidence it. In response, the scientific community stepped up its research efforts, and has been conducting regular scientific assessments to build a consensus view, and send a strong message to policy makers to spur them into action.<br /><br />The problem is that 40 years of these efforts, however well-intentioned, have not had any impact on the carbon course of humanity. Since the middle of the 19th century, CO₂ emissions from human activities have been growing exponentially, on average by 1.65% per year since 1850. [more]<br /><br />Wave Power: The Latest Genius Green Energy Solution to Climate Change<br />https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/wave-power-latest-genius-green-120300755.html<br /><br />Global warming eclipses nuclear war as top concern: Nobel laureate<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/global-warming-eclipses-nuclear-war-top-concern-nobel-153245729.html<br /><br />The threat of climate change has overtaken the prospect of nuclear war as the most pressing concern facing humanity, a former Colombian president and Nobel peace laureate warned Monday.<br /><br />"After World War II, the world was facing a threat from a nuclear war," Juan Manuel Santos, a staunch environmentalist, told the World Green Economy Summit in Dubai.<br /><br />"The threat from a nuclear war remains... but we have something worse, which is a certainty. That is climate change," he said. [more]<br /><br />Ozone hole shrinks to smallest size on record, and it's not related to global warming<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/ozone-hole-shrinks-smallest-size-171107936.html<br /><br />Thanks to unusually warm temperatures high above Antarctica this month, the ozone hole shrank to its smallest size on record, scientists reported Monday.<br /><br />An annual phenomenon in the stratosphere above Antarctica, the ozone hole is a dramatic thinning of the ozone layer that's typically boosted in size by colder temperatures. <br /><br />This is the third time in 40 years that weather systems have caused warm temperatures that limit ozone depletion, according to scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Similar weather patterns in the Antarctic stratosphere in September 1988 and 2002 also produced unusually small ozone holes. <br /><br /> there is no identified connection between these weather patterns and climate change, NOAA said. [more]<br /><br />Area burned in 2019 forest fires in Indonesia exceeds 2018 - official<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/area-burned-2019-forest-fires-091030843.html<br /><br />[what will they do when they run out of forest to burn?]<br /><br />The amount of land in Indonesia consumed by fires through September this year has exceeded the amount burned during all of 2018, according to data given by a government official on Monday. [more; and the year ain't over yet]<br /><br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-39288249044771187842019-10-21T09:35:09.425-05:002019-10-21T09:35:09.425-05:00[start off the week with some headlines from Rice ...[start off the week with some headlines from Rice Farmer]<br /><br />News Links, October 21, 2019<br />Rice Farmer<br />https://ricefarmer.blogspot.com/<br /><br />How Badly Overstated is Chinese and US GDP?<br /><br />If you want the American dream, 'you ought to move to Canada,' says Ford Foundation president<br /><br />A World Without Retirement<br /><br />US Imposes A Record $7.5 Billion In Tariffs On European Goods; Europe Vows Retaliation<br /><br />Central Banks Are Out Of Ammo - UN Head Demands Immediate Fiscal Stimulus To Save World From Crisis<br /><br />America's coal country is heading for another wave of layoffs<br /><br />Boeing 737 MAX test pilot grappled with simulator flaws, too<br /><br />Boeing Wants It To Fly, But Travelers Fear The 737 MAX<br />"Travelers aren't merely scared of the 737 MAX, they're terrified of it."<br /><br />Boeing survey showed that employees felt pressure from managers on safety approvals<br /><br />Media And Pundits Misread The 'Everyone Wins' Plan For Syria (MoA)<br /><br />Turkey plans presence across northeast Syria, Erdogan says<br /><br /> Turkey could seize US nukes stored at air base<br />Ankara doesn't have access codes for devices, but they could be cracked over time and the fissile material could be used to make homemade weapons<br />In tandem with nuclear power, the nuclear threat to life on Earth is bigger than ever. As the global economy continues to deteriorate, we are faced with the increasing risk that nuclear weapons will be used out of desperation, and the growing danger that nuclear power plants will lose offsite power. There's no place to hide. -- RF<br /><br />"Of Course Not": Venezuela Slams Russian Takeover Rumors<br /><br />The US Oil Rig Count Collapse Continues<br /><br />Local protests kill Norway's wind plans<br /><br />Drilling Giant Schlumberger Posts $11 Billion Loss<br /><br />Nigeria's Oil Industry Faces An Existential Risk<br /><br />Uncertainties following the Abqaiq attack have shrunk the world's safe oil reserves by around half (part 1)<br /><br />Electric car start-ups — once seen as threat — now struggle to survive<br /><br />Wood, the fuel of preindustrial societies, is half of EU renewable energy<br /><br />Russia's Thawing Permafrost May Cost Economy $2.3Bln a Year<br />Russia's oil and gas infrastructure isn't ready for rising temperatures and melting ice.<br /><br />Michigan crop yield predictions: Setting all the wrong records in 2019<br /><br />The Key to Saving Family Farms Is in the Soil<br /><br />Hagibis damage to agriculture reaches 57 bil. yen (Japan)<br /><br />Amazon is shipping expired food, from baby formula to old beef jerky, scaring consumers and putting big brands at risk<br /><br />Baby Powered Recall 2019: Asbestos Forces Recall By Johnson & Johnson<br /><br />"Duck, Duck, Doom" - When Big Pharma Decides Who Among Us Is Worthy Of Saving<br /><br />Blockchain voting is vulnerable to hackers, software glitches and bad ID photos – among other problems<br /><br />The Dangerous Push For More Technology In Schools<br /><br />The Fed Is Lying To Us<br /><br />Why Has There Been A 56 Percent Increase In Suicide Among Young Americans In Just 10 Years?<br /><br />China Buying Boatloads Of Soybeans From Brazil After US Trade Talks<br /><br />San Francisco is losing residents because it's too expensive for nearly everyone<br /><br />Industrial output falls by most in five months, pushed lower by GM strike<br /><br />Bipartisan Shrug as US Budget Deficit Nears $1 Trillion<br /><br />Researchers Detail How Slashing Pentagon Budget Could Pay for Medicare for All While Creating Progressive Foreign Policy Americans Want<br /><br />The Business of Homelessness: NYC's Biggest Shelter Contractor Makes Millions, Offers Shoddy Facilities<br /><br />Lampert helps bankroll Sears as woes persist after bankruptcy - sources<br /><br />Nearly one-third of all Amtrak trains are late — and it could be costing the railroad $42 million every year<br /><br />Another Chinese Mega-Construction Project in California Is Halted, this one in San Francisco. List of Troubled or Scuttled Chinese Projects in California Grows<br /><br />Corps: No more Dakota Access Pipeline study needed<br />An attorney for the Army Corps of Engineers is asking a judge to sign off on the Corps' conclusion that the Dakota Access oil pipeline doesn't harm American Indian tribes.<br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-71956459963665102492019-10-21T09:17:54.684-05:002019-10-21T09:17:54.684-05:00Authorities Searching for Missing West Point Cadet...Authorities Searching for Missing West Point Cadet<br />https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Authorities-Searching-for-Missing-West-Point-Cadet-563522161.html<br /><br />The U.S. Military said the cadet was last seen at the academy on Friday<br /><br />Officials said Sunday the cadet's M4 rifle is also missing, but they don't believe he has any magazines or ammunition. They say he does not pose a threat to the public, but may be a danger to himself. [more]<br /><br />Bird Takes Down U.S. Navy “Doomsday” Aircraft, Meant to Survive a Nuclear Attack<br />https://strangesounds.org/2019/10/bird-takes-down-doomsday-plane-us-navy.html<br /><br />The bird strike took out one of the plane’s four engines, and the U.S. Navy declared it a “Class A mishap,” meaning the event caused more than $2 million in damages, death or permanent disability. [more]<br /><br />Some Underwater Volcanoes Create Volcanic Gas Bubbles More Than a Quarter-Mile Across<br />https://strangesounds.org/2019/10/underwater-volcano-giant-gas-volcanic-bubbles.html<br /><br />Volcanic eruptions are spewing large plumes of gas and ash in the sky sometimes disturbing aircrafts. [more]<br /><br />Multiple Birds Mysteriously Falling From the sky Outside a Hospital in Coventry, UK!<br />https://strangesounds.org/2019/10/coventry-birds-fall-from-sky-5g-video.html<br /><br />Birds don’t like the new 5G technology.<br /><br />Two recent events – and probably more not covered by medias – show that birds don’t like the new 5G technology. A few days ago, more than 300 fell from the sky at the NASCAR Hall of Fame building in Uptown Charlotte. It seems that beginning of the month, another bird mass die-off occurred just in front of an hospital in Coventry, UK, where they have just introduced the new internet technology. And this is no coincidence![more]<br /><br />World economy is sleepwalking into a new financial crisis - Former BoE boss Mervyn King<br />https://www.sott.net/article/422339-World-economy-is-sleepwalking-into-a-new-financial-crisis-Former-BoE-boss-Mervyn-King<br /><br /> "By sticking to the new orthodoxy of monetary policy and pretending that we have made the banking system safe, we are sleepwalking towards that crisis." <br /><br />He added that the US would suffer a "financial armageddon" if its central bank - the Federal Reserve - lacked the necessary firepower to combat another episode similar to the sub-prime mortgage sell-off. [more; they're out of ammo]<br /><br />Tornado blows rooftops off and destroys 20 homes in Malaysia<br />https://www.sott.net/article/422343-Tornado-blows-rooftops-off-and-destroys-20-homes-in-Malaysia<br /><br />A landspout struck 20 homes and uprooted trees in Mukim Jeram, Kedah on Sunday, 20 October [more]<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-1457025653722824612019-10-21T07:57:05.432-05:002019-10-21T07:57:05.432-05:00Monday, 21 October 2019
CIVIL UNREST IS ERUPTING ...Monday, 21 October 2019<br /><br />CIVIL UNREST IS ERUPTING ALL OVER THE WORLD, BUT JUST WAIT TILL AMERICA JOINS THE PARTY!!<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2019/10/global-unrest-just-wait-until-united.html [M. Snyder piece]<br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-49951547434399038592019-10-21T07:24:18.731-05:002019-10-21T07:24:18.731-05:00WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, minus beard, app...WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, minus beard, appears in London court<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-minus-094825202.html<br /><br />WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in a London [kangaroo] court on Monday for a hearing on whether he should be extradited to the United States to face spying charges. [more]<br /><br />How dangerous is it for humans to ingest microplastics?<br />https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dangerous-humans-ingest-microplastics-091200881.html<br /><br />We know for a fact that microplastics have made their way into the food chain and we are now ingesting them on a regular, if not daily, basis. But how harmful and dangerous is it for humans to be eating plastic? What is it doing to our bodies?<br /><br />Recent studies have revealed the extent of how much plastic we are ingesting. A pilot study which took place in October 2018 found microplastics in the feces of eight people who provided samples for research. This was a small sample group but nodded to the inevitable conclusion that humans are eating plastic.<br /><br />In June of this year, a study published in the Environmental Science and Technology journal confirmed this, finding that humans could be consuming between 39,000 and 52,000 plastic particles every year. When you add that to the number of particles we inhale, the scientists took that number closer to 74,000 a year. <br /><br />there is a lack of research and evidence in this area because only now are we, as a population, realising the true extent of our plastic problem. [more]<br /><br />[here's a group that clearly doesn't get it]<br />IMF to examine climate risk to financial markets -official<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/imf-examine-climate-risk-financial-232357228.html<br /><br />Family of teacher found dead in Brandywine River desperate for answers<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-teacher-found-dead-brandywine-042532544.html [~ .75 min. news spot]<br /><br />Search for small plane missing near North Carolina airport<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-carolina-airport-radar-contact-004606469.html<br /><br />The Federal Aviation Administration radar lost track of the Piper PA32 at about 7:25 p.m. Sunday as it approached Runway 32, the smallest of three landing strips and perpendicular to what the airport considers its primary runway. Air operations were halted for about 20 minutes as firefighting and rescue units rushed to the wooded area, but the plane could not be located. [more]<br /><br />Deep M6.4 Earthquake Hits Vanuatu Islands – No Tsunami Threats or Warnings<br />https://strangesounds.org/2019/10/vanuatu-earthquake-no-tsunami-warning.html<br /><br />[more later]<br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-69427449291200582482019-10-21T07:24:04.610-05:002019-10-21T07:24:04.610-05:00Happy Monday Jonny, everyone! Modesto had a two-f...Happy Monday Jonny, everyone! Modesto had a two-fer! PA all over the place this past week, fires, people dropping dead, all kinda accidents and fires. <br /><br />BLACK BEAR NEWS 10.20.19 Hillary Swings and Misses - All Corporations Must Go<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_LFEYBnc3o [~ 15 min.]<br /><br />Tornado ravages north Dallas, leaving thousands without power<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/tornado-ravages-north-dallas-leaving-053719557.html<br /><br />A tornado plowed through parts of northern Dallas late on Sunday, knocking out power to more than 175,000 homes and businesses and delaying flights at regional airports, officials said.<br /><br />The storm left a miles-long swath of destruction through Dallas, hitting near the Love Field airport in the city's north, the National Weather Service's (NWS) Weather Prediction Center in College Park Maryland said early on Monday. [more]<br /><br />Nestor heads into Georgia after tornados damage Florida<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/wet-weekend-tropical-storm-warnings-131131925.html<br /><br />Nestor raced across Georgia as a post-tropical cyclone late Saturday, hours after the former tropical storm spawned a tornado that damaged homes and a school in central Florida while sparing areas of the Florida Panhandle devastated one year earlier by Hurricane Michael.<br /><br />The storm made landfall Saturday on St. Vincent Island, a nature preserve off Florida's northern Gulf Coast in a lightly populated area of the state, the National Hurricane Center said.<br /><br />Nestor was expected to bring 1 to 3 inches of rain to drought-stricken inland areas on its march across a swath of the U.S. Southeast. Forecasters said it also was raising an overnight threat of severe weather in the Carolinas as it continued to speed toward the Atlantic Ocean. [more]<br /><br />Man missing after falling into sinkhole and getting swept away in drain pipes<br />https://www.yahoo.com/gma/man-missing-falling-sinkhole-getting-swept-away-drain-135700041--abc-news-topstories.html<br /><br />Crews from the Phoenix Fire Department have returned from helping local authorities search for a man who fell into a sinkhole and was swept away in a storm drain. [more]<br /><br />Japan braces for 2 more storms after deadly typhoon<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/japan-braces-2-more-storms-105538288.html<br /><br />Japan is bracing for two more storms heading its way a week after a typhoon devastated the country's central and northern regions. [more]<br /><br />[more below]<br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.com