April 2012
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Iran-fueled oil price spike biggest threat to... →
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — An oil price spike caused by a confrontation with Iran is now seen as the biggest threat to the U.S. economy.
That’s according to nine out of 18 economists surveyed recently by CNNMoney. They say rising oil prices now outweigh the risks posed by the European debt crisis, ongoing gridlock over the budget in Washington and fears of a slowdown in China.
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March 2012
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Mysterious unknown nodding disease debilitates... →
Look, I know this is serious. There are people hurting and dying because of this disease. However, I’d be amiss if I didn’t point out the similarities between the Zombie mythos and the symptoms these people exhibit.
Severe seizures, nodding off, lack of appetite, personality changes, having to bind the kids down to keep them from wandering off , aversions to strange food, fire...
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AAA report: Gas prices up for 9th straight day -... →
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The national average price for a gallon of gasoline rose for the ninth straight day on Sunday to $3.838. That is now only about 6.7% below the record high of $4.11 from July 2008.
The average price rose by three-tenths of a penny, according to the survey of gas stations conducted for the motorist group AAA. Gas prices are now up more than 17% this year.
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Forecasters: Warm weather here to stay - →
Washington (CNN) — Most Americans can put away winter coats and umbrellas and break out the short sleeves and sunglasses even though spring doesn’t officially begin until next week, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
In a 90-day weather outlook released Thursday, forecasters predict the unseasonably warm temperatures that have blanketed parts of the...
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WatchDrones coming to a space near you
This CNN story covers the rise in personal and commercial applications of drone technology - from real estate, to law enforcement, and search and rescue. You could even build your own if you knew what you were doing. It’s a technology like any other - it can be used for good or bad purposes. I’m sure those of you who are gun owners can relate....
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President says No Option off the table for Iran →
Here we go. I thought the US might be holding Israel back, trying to keep gas prices from huge jumps, but here we are, admitting that we’ll do whatever it takes….to start another Middle Eastern war.
“The United States will always have Israel’s back when it comes to Israel’s security,” Obama said, repeating a line from the Sunday speech as Netanyahu nodded in...
February 2012
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Oil prices spike on Iran export halt. Is $4 gas... →
The price of unleaded gasoline in the U.S. will likely hit a nationwide average of $4 by this summer, said Dan Dicker, oil trader and author of “Oil’s Endless Bid.” The last time prices topped $4 was 2008 and Dicker said there’s a one in three chance that gas could reach $5 a gallon.
If gas prices do head to those lofty levels, that could put a crimp in the economic...
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Homeland Security monitors Social Media for...
The Department of Homeland Security has contracted with a private firm to provide aggregated information about trending topics and keywords from social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and I would assume site like Tumblr. So, if you’ve ever wanted to get on a no-fly list, here’s your chance.
A “privacy compliance review” issued by DHS last November says that...
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Monti Warns of European Disintegration - →
I would think this would bode well for the dollar as the reserve currency if the Euro folded. However, I can’t help but think that the crushing debt and defaults that would result as Greece, Spain, and Italy fell would throw us ALL into turmoil as a result.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti - ”And it is very, very important that we all take this with great attention in order to...
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How an Israeli Strike on Iran could radically... →
1. Iran is now threatening to strike at any third country in the region that aided Israel in an airstrike on Iran. The aftermath is therefore likely to be further conflict in the region.
2. Oil prices will spike. I imagine you could easily see $150 a barrel or maybe even more. This development could throw the US and Europe back into deep recession.
3. Hizbullah would likely launch rockets,...
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Climate change denial's new offensive - Global... →
READ THIS ESSAY! It’s important.
[In] 2011, which showed the greatest weather extremes in our history — 56 percentof the country was either in drought or flood, which was no surprise since “climate change science predicts wet areas will tend to get wetter and dry areas will tend to get drier.” Indeed, the nation suffered 14 weather disasters each causing $1 billion or more in damage last...
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WatchMountain Lion attacks six year old; Dad stabs it with pocket knife: this, my friends, is fucking survival….and one of the many reasons I always carry one or more knives.
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“Although the U.S. focus remains on exerting diplomatic and economic pressure on...”
– U.S. military beginning review of Syria options – CNN Security Clearance - CNN.com Blogs
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“(CNN) — The unexplained beachings of scores of dolphins over the past...”
– Massachusetts stranded-dolphin death toll up to 92 - CNN.com
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Terror 2012: Be Very Afraid - War with Iran...
Currently, if you believe the news, THERE IS A LOT TO BE AFRAID OF. Fear has been a constant in the US since 9/11 and the creation and manipulation of the fears of the average American has become a powerful tool that is used daily to justify a staggering number of atrocities and infringements on our rights.
Terrorists are old hat after Osama bit the dust, but we still have doubled the number of...
January 2012
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Is War with Iran inevitable?
This is the question CNN asked 5 experts on Iran and Middle Eastern politics. You should read their full responses, but I have highlighted some quotes that seem to capture the things they agree on. To answer the question, they all agree that war doesn’t have to happen but that the situation is volatile enough that it could happen quickly if any sort of escalation event set things in...
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Could you survive an extreme weather disaster?
This is CNN telling us to prep for disasters….featured story on the front page right now. heh heh
Atlanta (CNN) — Ranee Roberts feels lucky to have survived the impact of a tornado that hit her Alabama convenience store in April. “Before the twister hit, I sent a last text to say ‘I love you’ to my best friend, and then the building began to come apart around...
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Subculture of Americans prepares for...
From Reuters: Original link
When Patty Tegeler looks out the window of her home overlooking the Appalachian Mountains in southwestern Virginia, she sees trouble on the horizon.
“In an instant, anything can happen,” she told Reuters. “And I firmly believe that you have to be prepared.”
Tegeler is among a growing subculture of Americans who refer to themselves...
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Sounds of the Apocalypse: Strange Noises all over...
I am always skeptical, but not so much as to immediately discredit things that I can’t explain just because I can’t explain it. The phenomena of reverberating sounds all over the world has been happening for several years, and has been increasing ever since summer of 2011.
The chance that it is a hoax is always a consideration, but the fact that entire towns are experiencing it and...
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Sabotage, bombings, sanctions: A growing web of...
I’ve been quiet for a while, but I’m still here. If you haven’t noticed Iran is in the crosshairs. The mainstream media reports on it daily with increasingly aggressive language regarding intervention and possible war. A war with Iran would involve Israel and Europe and would likely force Russia and China’s hand. North Korea, well, consider them the crazy...
October 2011
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The scary prospect of global drone warfare →
I would be curious to see what the max weight load one of these could carry. Enough for a low-yield, high-altitude nuke?
(CNN) — Drone technology is spreading rapidly. As many as 50 countries are developing or purchasing these systems, including China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and Iran.
Even non-state actors are involved. Hezbollah reportedly has deployed an Iranian-designed drone. Iran...
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U.S. fails bioterrorism report card →
The United States remains largely unprepared for a large-scale bioterrorism attack or deadly disease outbreak, according to the WMD Terrorism Research Center.
The finding are in a report card released Wednesday, which gave the country 15 failing grades in categories ranging from detection to medical countermeasures.
The report card gave 15 F’s,15 D’s and no A’s in its...
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Gold ATM machine activated in China, 2,000 more to... →
China is one of the world’s largest producers and purchasers of precious metals, especially gold and silver. Beijing has now unveiled its first gold ATM machine in a shopping district. More than 2,000 will be installed in the next two years. Since the beginning of the global economic meltdown, China has been purchasing and producing commodities at a rapid pace. Digital Journal has...
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AFP: Nestle chief warns of new food riots →
VIENNA — The head of the world’s biggest food company Nestle said on Friday that rising food prices have created conditions “similar” to 2008 when hunger riots took place in many countries.
“The situation is similar (to 2008). This has become the new reality,” the Swiss giant’s chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe told the Salzburger Nachrichten daily in his...
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Arctic ice levels hit historic low →
The amount of Arctic sea ice has melted to a historic low, with the area of land covered by ice at the smallest level since scientists began observing it with satellites in 1972, researchers from the University of Bremen in Germany report.
The North Pole skull cap shrank to about half a percent under the previous record low set in September 2007, according to the school’s Institute of...
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'Ice Wars' heating up the Arctic →
(CNN) — On a small, floating piece of ice in the Beaufort Sea, several hundred miles north of Alaska, a group of scientists are documenting what some dub an “Arctic meltdown.”
According to climate scientists, the warming of the region is shrinking the polar ice cap at an alarming rate, reducing the permafrost layer and wreaking havoc on polar bears, arctic foxes and other...
September 2011
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Climate change compounds global security threat,... →
Stresses from global climate change are increasing the threat of wars around the world, a British admiral said Wednesday.
Royal Navy Rear Adm. Neil Morisetti told students and faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology that global climate change threats to food, water, land and energy will present substantive security challenges in regions of the world where there are already stresses.
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Occupy Wall Street: Thousands to protest in NYC... →
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Egyptians did it for democracy. So did people in Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria. Now, activist groups are hoping Americans will launch their own uprising — in the form of thousands of protesters descending on Wall Street this weekend.
Occupy Wall Street is a “leaderless resistance movement” spearheaded by activist magazine Adbusters. Organizers...
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Mayor Bloomberg worried jobs crisis may spark... →
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is worried that high U.S. unemployment could lead to the same kind of riots here that have swept through Europe and North Africa.
“You have a lot of kids graduating college, [who] can’t find jobs,” said Bloomberg, during his weekly radio show on Friday. “That’s what happened in Cairo. That’s...
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Scientists: March 11 tsunami produced Antarctic... →
The tsunami spawned from the March 11 earthquake off eastern Japan broke up parts of an Antarctic ice shelf that hadn’t moved in 46 years, scientists say.
Though the tsunami waves were only about a foot high when they reached Antarctica, their consistency was enough to crack the 260-foot-thick ice and split off icebergs with combined surface areas more than twice the size of Manhattan...
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Quakes hit off Cuba, Japan, Fiji, and New Zealand →
Looks like the quakes are picking up again. I haven’t looked at the Zeta nutjobs blog, but I’m sure they will point to this as more signs that Planet X is coming closer.
[Updated at 10:39 a.m. ET] The U.S. Geological Survey has revised downward the magnitude of Thursday morning’s earthquake off Cuba to magnitude 5.1 from magnitude 6.0.
[Updated at 5:20 a.m. ET] A magnitude...
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King Crabs invade Antarctica – Climate changes... →
King crabs — three-feet-wide red monsters that devour everything in their path — have invaded Antarctica. While it sounds a little like a horror movie, it’s actual a large scale global warming problem. According to the New Scientist, three years ago, scientists had predicted that this would happen, but they believed the earth would have warmed to this degree in the next 100 years.
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August 2011
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Survival Tips from stories of Irene refugees →
US flood refugees swap water for food
The shelter, which Williams said was about five or six miles from Prattsville’s main street, had power generators and enough water for those there to swap it for food from nearby residents. People from the neighboring town of Windham brought food and clothes for those at the shelter, Williams said.
Be sure your bug-out location is better than where...
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Why being Prepared is important - Rescuers race... →
Rescue workers rushed Tuesday to get aid into flooded communities in New Jersey and Vermont, where many residents remain stranded in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene.
Marc Leibowitz, a New Yorker, went to Vermont over the weekend to get married. The wedding went off without a hitch, he said, but now he is stranded in the town of Pittsfield, with no roads to get him and his guests out. [72 hour...
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Time for the jobless to march on Washington →
It’s time for the left to get off its duff and turn the tables on the radical right. And our history reveals that there’s an excellent method for accomplishing precisely that: a great march of the unemployed on Washington.
Recent polls reveal that Americans are decisively more concerned about the crisis of unemployment than the issue of our national debt. But as many ...
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U.S. sent Google 8,888 requests for user-data in... →
(CNN) — Governments have come knocking on Google’s door more frequently seeking people’s private usage information.
Google fielded 8,888 requests from the United States government last year asking for information on people using its services, the company wrote in a report on Monday. The total number is likely higher because the Google statistics only cover criminal...
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Cleveland Mayor bans social media for assembling... →
CNN) — This summer Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson has wrestled with one of his biggest challenges since taking office five years ago.
Worried that flash mob violence would overrun city streets as it had elsewhere, the Cleveland City Council unanimously passed legislation that would criminalize the use of Facebook, Twitter and other social media for assembling unruly crowds or...
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2011: Year of billion-dollar weather disasters -... →
The United States has already seen nine weather disasters this year that have caused $1 billion or more in damage, tying the record set in 2008. The total for all the disasters is about $35 billion.
“The year 2011 has already established itself in the record books as a historic year for weather-related disasters, and it is not over — in fact, hurricane season is just getting...
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Pattern Recognition - Governments worldwide... →
It’s happening all over these days - and not just in the Middle East. This is a trend. It’s starting in the US now.
San Francisco California - Aug 13, 2011 - link
In a controversial move that has riled up free speech advocates, San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) subway system said it cut off cellphone signals at “select” stations in response to a planned protest...
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S.F. subway system admits cutting cellphone... →
In a controversial move that has riled up free speech advocates, San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) subway system said it cut off cellphone signals at “select” stations in response to a planned protest this week.
“BART temporarily interrupted service at select BART stations as one of many tactics to ensure the safety of everyone on the platform,” the transit agency said in a...
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Thousands protest against Chinese chemical plant |... →
(Reuters) - Thousands of people demonstrated in northeastern China on Sunday, demanding the relocation of a petrochemical plant at the center of a toxic spill scare, state media said.
Demonstrators in the port city of Dalian, in Liaoning province, faced down a wall of police in riot gear in front of the municipal government office and minor scuffles broke out, although there was no report of...
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Stocks: Worst week since 2008 financial crisis -... →
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — It was a wild ride on Wall Street.
Stocks ended Friday on a mixed note after violently whipsawing throughout the day. The Dow had a massive trading range of 400 points as investors scrambled to make sense of a whirlwind of news.
Deep investor concerns about the U.S. economy and the European debt crisis caused heavy damage to U.S. stocks this week. All three indexes...
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Recent solar flare may disrupt your GPS - CNN.com →
We’re the peak of the 11-year solar cycle, so double-check your GPS, and watch where you’re going.
On Thursday, the sun unleashed a massive solar flare (see video ofthe flare and how its effects have been moving toward Earth). Solar flares can disrupt radio communications, including devices that use Global Positioning System technology, such as cell phones, airplanes and car...
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China Looks to Undermine U.S. Power, With... →
EMP is also falls under this category.
Could China wipe out an American military advantage with a simple black box? Joshua Cooper Ramo’s thought-provoking book The Age of the Unthinkable challenges all kinds of conventional thinking about everything from venture capital to military strategy. One section caught my eye in particular, about how the Chinese might neutralize American air superiority,...
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Record heat spell continues →
Not only are temperatures high in Texas, but the state climatologist said Thursday that Texas in the midst of the most severe one-year drought on record. Records started being kept in 1895.
July was also the hottest month ever on record in Texas and the third driest July, climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon said.
“Never before has so little rain been recorded prior to and during the primary...
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Perspective on the Global Food Crisis
Until we fix this
And this…
and no more people have to deal with THIS..
I don’t want to hear any more of this…
Or this…
The United Nations says it expects famine to spread to all regions of southern Somalia within the coming weeks. This grim assessment comes barely two weeks after the United Nations officially declared famine in two regions of southern...
