tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post7574851663668445330..comments2024-03-20T06:07:07.676-06:00Comments on Jumping Jack Flash Hypothesis: It's A Gas Gas Gas: Event Update For 2019-08-01Jonny Mnemonichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516458612879773986noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-38303255442567873632019-08-03T16:06:46.887-05:002019-08-03T16:06:46.887-05:00Your quote today is so true. Just watched this Am...Your quote today is so true. Just watched this Amy Goodman interview, it was pretty good.<br />https://youtu.be/MXpJTFX8gTg<br />~F~https://www.blogger.com/profile/14093179509642684214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-71330017927064195092019-08-03T14:15:30.921-05:002019-08-03T14:15:30.921-05:00Strange 'rumbling horn-like sounds' heard ...Strange 'rumbling horn-like sounds' heard in northern Indiana<br />https://www.sott.net/article/417947-Strange-rumbling-horn-like-sounds-heard-in-northern-Indiana [2.5 min. video incl.]<br /><br />What's causing the mystery deaths of dolphins and whales off the Tuscan coast in Italy? 34 so far in 2019<br />https://www.sott.net/article/417942-Whats-causing-the-mystery-deaths-of-dolphins-and-whales-off-the-Tuscan-coast-in-Italy-34-so-far-in-2019<br /><br />Over just four days at the end of July the bodies of six dolphins were found, the agency's spokesman Marco Talluri told AFP.<br /><br />"We analysed the stomachs of eight specimens and found that they were half empty, as if the animals had not eaten for two or three days," said Italian biologist Cecilia Mancusi, an expert from the ARPAT environmental agency. [more; we're next]<br /><br />5 children feared dead as floods ravage Nigeria<br />https://www.sott.net/article/417937-5-children-feared-dead-as-floods-ravage-Nigeria<br /><br />"We have never experienced this one to two hours of intensive rain and heavy flooding before. Many were rendered homeless. We have just seen a tailor shop where three sewing machines were swept away," the Yola North chairman said. [more]<br /><br />The world's ageing dams are not built for ever more extreme weather<br />https://www.sott.net/article/417912-The-worlds-ageing-dams-are-not-built-for-ever-more-extreme-weather<br /><br />[pic] A helicopter helps shore up the dam at Toddbrook Reservoir, UK. <br /><br />Dams are typically designed to cope with a so-called 1-in-100-year flood event. But as the world warms the odds of extreme rainfall are changing, meaning the risk of failure is far greater. Engineers have been warning for years that many old dams around the world are already unsafe and need upgrading or dismantling.<br /><br />"The 1-in-100-year event is perhaps happening every five years," says Roderick Smith at Imperial College London. "I'm absolutely convinced that it is due to climate change."<br /><br />What is happening at Toddbrook Reservoir, where 1500 people have had to evacuate, is very similar to what happened at the Oroville Dam in California in February 2017. Both are earthen dams where excess water flows over the top of the dam and down a concrete-lined spillway. <br /><br />Globally there have been at least 40 dam failures since 2000, resulting in hundreds of deaths. The most recent was the failure of the Tiware dam in India on 2 July after heavy rains, killing at least 19 people. The worst was in 1975, when an estimated 170,000 died after the failure of the Banqiao dam in China. [more]<br /><br />Flooding hits areas of Metro Manila, Philippines<br />https://www.sott.net/article/417886-Flooding-hits-areas-of-Metro-Manila-Philippines<br /><br />Whales die in new mysterious Iceland stranding<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/whales-die-mysterious-iceland-stranding-155637315.html<br /><br />Some 20 pilot whales have died stranded in mysterious circumstances on the south-western coast of Iceland, emergency services said Saturday, only two weeks after a similarly unexplained mass stranding had already killed dozens of the long-finned cetaceans. [more]<br /><br /><br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-58730908140377293372019-08-03T09:20:59.839-05:002019-08-03T09:20:59.839-05:003 killed as cliff collapses on popular California ...3 killed as cliff collapses on popular California beach<br />https://news.yahoo.com/1-killed-cliff-collapses-popular-234458965.html<br /><br /> Three people were killed and two more injured after a cliff collapsed onto a popular Southern California beach Friday, authorities said.<br /><br />The sandstone bluff gave way shortly before 3 p.m. at Grandview Beach in Encinitas, a suburb north of San Diego. The area is highly popular with local residents, surfers and vacationers.<br /><br />A woman died at the scene, and two people died at a hospital, the city reported. <br /><br />A 30-foot-by-25-foot section of the bluff located about 15 feet above the beach gave way, dumping rock and sand onto the people below.<br /><br />Several victims had to be dug out of the mound. [more; incl. short video]<br /><br />US Air Force orders all units to stand down for one day as suicide rate rises<br />https://news.yahoo.com/us-air-force-orders-units-171017012.html<br /><br />The Air Force said it has had 78 suicides so far this year, 28 more than this time last year. [more]<br /><br />Plane makes emergency landing on busy US highway<br />https://news.yahoo.com/plane-makes-emergency-landing-busy-083016889.html<br /><br />The incident happened on State Road 7, near Tacoma, in Washington State, on Thursday morning.<br /><br />Washington State Patrol said the plane, a single prop KR2, suffered a fuel system malfunction causing it to stall and forcing the pilot to perform an emergency landing. [more]<br /><br />Wild footage captures bat flying around Spirit Airlines plane midflight<br />https://news.yahoo.com/wild-footage-captures-bat-flying-180318014.html<br /><br />the unruly bat was subdued after "someone trapped it between a book & a cup and then locked it in one of the restrooms for the remainder of the trip." [more]<br /><br />Power outage cancels flights at Southern California airport<br />https://news.yahoo.com/power-outage-cancels-flights-southern-051821281.html<br /><br />The outage was caused by a fire in an electrical substation. [more]<br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-4516894529629511592019-08-03T08:26:48.139-05:002019-08-03T08:26:48.139-05:00Saturday, 3 August 2019
Headlines from New Zealand...Saturday, 3 August 2019<br />Headlines from New Zealand [contains these, among others]<br /><br />Even if most of the rest of the world rejects 5G this country will embrace it and continue to as people drop like flies.<br /><br />Vodafone to switch on 5G network this year<br /><br />Telecommunications company Vodafone says it will switch on its 5G network in December. [more]<br /><br />[see ~ 3.5 min. video of bees dying under 5G poles]<br /><br />The “democracy and transparency party” holds the most closed-down conference of any party, EVER. [more]<br /><br />Greenland loses 12 billion tons of ice in 24 hours<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2019/08/greenland-loses-12-billion-tons-of-ice.html <br /><br />A roaring glacial melt, under the bridge to Kangerlussiauq, Greenland [2 short videos & text]<br /><br />It is 22C today in Kangerlussiauq and Danish officials say 12 billions tons of ice melted in 24 hours, yesterday. [more]<br /><br />Texas woman killed by police officer attempting to shoot her dog<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-woman-killed-by-police-officer-attempting-to-shoot-her-dog-083943364.html<br /><br />The officer was among those responding to a welfare check for 30-year-old Margarita Victoria Brooks who appeared to be unconscious on grass near to a shopping centre in Arlington.<br /><br />Ms Brooks was shot in the "upper torso," Mr Johnson said, while the dog suffered a flesh wound and has been quarantined.<br />[more; dog was ~ 40 lb., (not a deadly threat) he could have used his billy club - fucking cops who can't shoot straight and overreact to the most common situations (mental illness, mis-perceived "gun" situations, etc), always killing dogs and people "by accident" or policy]<br /><br />Philippines: At least 7 dead, 31 rescued after boats capsize<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/philippines-least-7-dead-31-112424211.html<br /><br />At least seven people died and 31 others were rescued when three ferry boats separately capsized in bad weather Saturday between two central Philippine island provinces, the coast guard said. [more]<br /><br />Florida latest place to declare emergency over hepatitis A<br />https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/florida-latest-place-declare-emergency-185616000.html<br /><br />Philadelphia also declared an emergency Thursday, and Mississippi officials announced an outbreak in their state earlier in the week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Kentucky has had 4,793 cases since an outbreak there in 2017; since 2018, Ohio has had 3,220 and West Virginia 2,528. [more]<br /><br />Florida beekeeper claims someone poisoned, killed nearly 7 million of his honeybees<br />https://www.yahoo.com/now/florida-beekeeper-claims-someone-poisoned-killed-nearly-7-million-of-his-honeybees-164439050.html<br /><br />Judge rejects Duke Energy motion to dismiss state's coal-ash order <br />https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2019/08/02/judge-rejects-duke-energy-motion-to-dismiss-states.html<br /><br />An administrative judge ruled Friday that the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality has the authority to order Duke Energy Corp. to excavate coal-ash ponds at six coal plants, rejecting Duke's motion to dismiss the April 1 order. [more]<br /><br /><br /><br /> Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-82152779474951405652019-08-03T07:57:57.637-05:002019-08-03T07:57:57.637-05:00Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across...Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US <br />https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest<br /><br />Up to 25 unmanned solar-powered balloons are being launched from rural South Dakota and drifting 250 miles through an area spanning portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Missouri, before concluding in central Illinois. [more]<br /><br />[isn't most of the crime committed on the coasts?]<br /><br />America’s voters want to remain deceived.<br />https://washingtonsblog.com/2019/08/americas-voters-want-to-remain-deceived.html [Eric Zuesse]<br /><br />Americans prefer to remain deceived, and to blame-the-victims — Iran, and Russia, and China, and Venezuela, etc. — even as our Government imposes entirely unjustified and unjustifiable strangulating economic blockades (“sanctions”) against countries that America’s voracious and vicious megacorporate aristocracy (America’s billionaires) want to control so as for those lands to become additional parts of the U.S. regime’s global dictatorship.<br /><br />Here’s an example:<br /><br />On August 1st, the largest Republican Party online news-medium, Breitbart, headlined “Donald Trump: Tulsi Gabbard ‘Doesn’t Know What She’s Talking About’ on Al Qaeda”, and reported:<br /><br />President Donald Trump criticized Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Thursday for claiming that he was supporting Al Qaeda.<br /><br />During the Democrat debate on Wednesday, Gabbard accused the president of betraying the American people on terrorism.<br /><br />“We were supposed to be going after Al Qaeda,” she said. “But over years now, not only have we not gone after Al Qaida, who is stronger today than they were in 9/11, our president is supporting Al Qaida.”<br /><br />Gabbard had asserted during the July 31st Democratic debate:<br /><br />We were all lied to. This is the betrayal. This is the betrayal to the American people, to me, to my fellow servicemembers. We were all lied to, told that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, was working with Al Qaida, and that this posed a threat to the American people.<br /><br />So I enlisted after 9/11 to protect our country, to go after those who attacked us on that fateful day, who took the lives of thousands of Americans.<br /><br />The problem is that this current president is continuing to betray us. We were supposed to be going after Al Qaida. But over years now, not only have we not gone after Al Qaida, who is stronger today than they were in 9/11, our president is supporting Al Qaida.<br /><br />Donald Trump can’t stand the truth, and neither can Gabbard’s own Democratic Party voters, who refuse to recognize that their own beloved President Obama had been protecting Al Qaeda in Syria in order to overthrow Syria’s sovereign Government and replace it with one that would be appointed by the Saud family who own Saudi Arabia. [more]<br /><br /><br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-55163493926425874062019-08-03T07:57:52.530-05:002019-08-03T07:57:52.530-05:00Strong and shallow M7.4 earthquake hit near the co...Strong and shallow M7.4 earthquake hit near the coast of southwest Sumatra, Indonesia<br />https://watchers.news/2019/08/02/sumatra-indonesia-earthquake-august-2-2019/<br /><br />A strong and shallow earthquake registered by the BMKG as M7.4 hit off the coast of southwest Sumatra, Indonesia at 12:03 UTC (19:03 local time) on August 2, 2019. The agency is reporting a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles). USGS is reporting M6.9 at a depth of 52.8 km (32.8 miles); EMSC M6.8 at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles). [more]<br /><br />The terrible truth of climate change<br />http://www.fasterthanexpected.com/2019/08/01/the-terrible-truth-of-climate-change/<br /><br />Early reports are predicting that a doubling of CO2 may in fact produce between 2.8 and 5.8°C of warming. Incredibly, at least eight of the latest models produced by leading research centres in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and France are showing climate sensitivity of 5°C or warmer. [more]<br /><br />Russia’s army called in as Siberia wildfires engulf area nearly as big as Belgium<br />http://www.fasterthanexpected.com/2019/08/01/russias-army-called-in-as-siberia-wildfires-engulf-area-nearly-as-big-as-belgium/<br /><br />[put down yer guns and pick up a shovel]<br /><br />The fires, which have been burning for several weeks, have spread across almost 3 million hectares of land, the Federal Forestry Agency has said.<br /><br />That’s an area almost the size of Belgium.<br /><br />U.S. families go deep into debt to stay in the middle class – “What we may have to prepare for in the future is that buying a home may become a luxury”<br />https://desdemonadespair.net/2019/08/u-s-families-go-deep-into-debt-to-stay-in-the-middle-class-what-we-may-have-to-prepare-for-in-the-future-is-that-buying-a-home-may-become-a-luxury.html<br /><br />Cars, college, houses and medical care have become steadily more costly, but incomes have been largely stagnant for two decades, despite a recent uptick. Filling the gap between earning and spending is an explosion of finance into nearly every corner of the consumer economy.<br /><br />Consumer debt, not counting mortgages, has climbed to $4 trillion—higher than it has ever been even after adjusting for inflation. Mortgage debt slid after the financial crisis a decade ago but is rebounding.<br /><br />Student debt totaled about $1.5 trillion last year, exceeding all other forms of consumer debt except mortgages.<br /><br />Auto debt is up nearly 40% adjusting for inflation in the last decade to $1.3 trillion. And the average loan for new cars is up an inflation-adjusted 11% in a decade, to $32,187, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from credit-reporting firm Experian. [more; unsustainable]<br /><br />China Is Extremely Angry, And They Now Consider The United States To Be Enemy #1<br />http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/china-is-extremely-angry-and-they-now-consider-the-united-states-to-be-enemy-1<br /><br />Have relations between the United States and China finally reached the point of no return? At this moment, it would be difficult to overstate how angry the Chinese are with the United States. Chinese officials are firmly blaming the United States for the enormous political protests that we have witnessed in Hong Kong in recent weeks, and on Thursday President Trump slapped another round of tariffs on Chinese imports. Sadly, most Americans aren’t even paying much attention to these developments, but over in China everyone is talking about these things. And of course the truth is that they aren’t just talking – the Chinese are absolutely seething with anger toward the U.S., and they aren’t afraid to express it. <br /><br />One of the most highly respected news anchors in China, Kang Hui, actually used an expletive when referring to the United States during a news broadcast earlier this week. <br /><br />“They stir up more troubles and crave the whole world to be in chaos, acting like a shit-stirring stick,” Mr. Kang said on the usually stolid 7 p.m. national news program on CCTV, China’s state broadcaster. [more; United Shitstick Assoc.!]<br /><br />[continued below]<br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-73012856664462619402019-08-03T07:57:06.176-05:002019-08-03T07:57:06.176-05:00Superior job on the end of month/yearly summaries,...Superior job on the end of month/yearly summaries, Jonny. Those Boat Fires, Swimming Pool Deaths and Hydrogen Sulfide Events lists are getting longer as the number of these occurrences continues increasing. <br /><br />Yessiree - come camping in PA by a creek and DIE! Wheee! That'll support tourism! Hey, for that matter, just stay in a hotel, only to be evacuated for 8 hours (that you're paying for) due to unknown odors making it difficult to breathe. Okay then, just stay home - while your house burns down with you in it! PA - the place to be (until you're dead)!<br /><br />BLACK BEAR NEWS 8.2.19 July was world's hottest month on record, WMO says<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxjRG3i0134 [~ 17.3 min.]<br /><br />WMO: July 2019 equaled or surpassed hottest month globally – World is on track for the 2015-2019 period “to be the five hottest years on record”<br />https://desdemonadespair.net/2019/08/wmo-july-2019-equaled-or-surpassed-hottest-month-globally-world-is-on-track-for-the-2015-2019-period-to-be-the-five-hottest-years-on-record.html<br /><br />“All of this means that we are on track for the period from 2015 to 2019 to be the five hottest years on record. This year alone, we have seen temperature records shattered from New Delhi to Anchorage, from Paris to Santiago, from Adelaide and to the Arctic Circle. If we do not take action on climate change now, these extreme weather events are just the tip of the iceberg. And, indeed, the iceberg is also rapidly melting,” Mr Guterres said.<br /><br />“Preventing irreversible climate disruption is the race of our lives, and for our lives. It is a race that we can and must win,” he underlined. [more; what? irreversible means THERE'S NO STOPPING IT!]<br /><br />July Was the Hottest Month in Human History<br />http://www.fasterthanexpected.com/2019/08/01/july-was-the-hottest-month-in-human-history/<br /><br />In its annual Statistical Review of World Energy released a few weeks ago, the global oil giant BP confirmed that in 2018 the world burned the most fossil fuels of any year in history. In short: Our addiction to fossil fuels is getting worse and worse even as the planet gets hotter and hotter. [more]<br /><br />[two from MrMBB333]<br /><br />Possible PROOF that the Earth has TILTED! <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flEvZ4Qftlo [~ 11 min.]<br /><br />[in this case, the Eskimos were way ahead of the curve]<br /><br />[last one of these for the year]<br />Ground Level "Electromagnetic Radiation" - (SUN - UV) - 08/02/2019 - (1080p) [~ 2 min.]<br /><br />[Noel, MO still reading 60 for UVC, Jonny - jeez!]<br /><br />UK, Norway, Pakistan, India and China: 5 Countries Currently Hit by Disastrous Floods<br />https://strangesounds.org/2019/08/uk-norway-pakistan-india-and-china-5-countries-currently-hit-by-disastrous-floods.html<br /><br />After the apocalyptic midwest floods that have started in April 2019 – and that drowned millions of calves and completely obliterated the US food industry – it’s now Europe (UK and Norway) as well as Asia (Pakistan, India and China) that are mainly hit by torrential rains, flash flooding and drownings. [more]<br /><br />The ‘Big One’ Will Occur During a ‘Slow Slip Event’ on the West Coast – And That Is Exactly What’s Going On Now!<br />https://strangesounds.org/2019/08/cascadia-big-one-multiple-earthquakes-west-coast.html<br /><br />The Juan De Fuca Plate is moving underneath us and then all the sudden, about every 14 months, it stops and it goes in a westerly direction. And as it does that, it creates a lot of tremors. [more; just curious - does that translate to Juan the Fuck?]<br /><br />[more below]<br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.com