The young elephant seal rests alongside another of normal colour (R Reisinger)More at BBC News.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
OCEAN LEVELS WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE
Global Warming - what the government isn't telling you. US Navy Submarine briefings. TheLibertyman.com
Recent earthquakes Central United States - (Missouri, New York, Texas. Virginia) Updated May 20. 2009 at 10am CDT
Recent Earthquakes in Central US
Earthquakes recorded for the last six months. Times are local (CST or CDT). The most recent earthquakes are at the top of the list. Click on the word "map" or "MAP" to see a map displaying the earthquake. Click on an event "DATE" to get additional text information. Magnitude 3 and greater earthquakes are printed in bold type. The top three magnitudes greater than or equal to 3 are in red.
MAG DATE LOCAL-TIME LAT LON DEPTH LOCATION
y/m/d h:m:s deg deg km
map 1.6 2009/05/20 04:27:29 36.511N 89.578W 10.3 9 km ( 6 mi) SSW of New Madrid, MO
map 1.9 2009/05/19 09:52:32 42.575N 74.113W 14.0 15 km (10 mi) SSW of Altamont, NY
map 2.1 2009/05/18 02:21:57 42.567N 74.109W 6.0 16 km (10 mi) SSW of Altamont, NY
map 1.6 2009/05/17 21:49:30 36.532N 89.598W 8.8 9 km ( 5 mi) SW of New Madrid, MO
MAP 3.0 2009/05/17 19:53:29 42.571N 74.112W 9.0 16 km (10 mi) SSW of Altamont, NY
map 2.0 2009/05/16 13:02:23 32.796N 97.091W 5.0 7 km ( 4 mi) SE of Bedford, TX
MAP 3.3 2009/05/16 11:24:06 32.796N 97.091W 5.0 7 km ( 4 mi) SE of Bedford, TX
MAP 3.0 2009/05/16 03:08:17 37.248N 80.002W 12.9 2 km ( 1 mi) NNE of Cave Spring, VA
Pravda Tells Us How Marxists Dumbed Down the U.S.A.
Yup, you know that things are bad when even Pravda agrees that America is now a Marxist country! This article should be printed in every Newspaper across the country!:
American capitalism gone with a whimper
Pravda
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.
Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?
These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.
Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.
So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.
Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper…but a “freeman” whimper.
So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set “fair” maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.
The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.
The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.
Northern Territory - Australia | Embryonic waterspout
EERIE: The cloud formation in Darwin Harbour that had people wondering if a waterspout was forming. Picture: BRAD FLEET
Weather gets weird with sprout of a spout
STAFF WRITERS
May 20th, 2009
A STRANGE cloud formation over Darwin Harbour baffled experts and laymen yesterday with many thinking the long, black cloud was a waterspout.
But weather bureau forecaster Greg Browning said it wasn't a spout because the cloud didn't make contact with the water.
"But it may be a waterspout embryo, with the protruding cloud lowering from the main cloud base as a precursor to the formation of a waterspout proper," he said.
Waterspouts - mini-tornadoes that suck up masses of water - are not uncommon on the harbour.
Some have dropped fish as far south as Larrimah.
More pictures of our spectacular NT weather
The embryonic waterspout was followed by a short bout of heavy rain in Darwin.It also rained on Monday evening.
About 18mm was recorded in Berry Springs and 2.8mm in the city.
Mr Browning said rain was not unusual at this time of the year.
The average May rainfall is 20mm, but 300mm has been recorded.
The risks of believing that the Mayan calendar ends December 21, 2012!
This article by Dr. Carl Johan Calleman is published as part of an ongoing Exopolitics Forum on issues relating to exopolitics and Solar Cycle 24, 2009-2020. Other articles in this Solar Cycle 24 Examiner.com Exopolitics Forum series on include:
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
A Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field | Written by science.nasa.gov
A video version of this story may be found here. For more information about the THEMIS mission, visit http://nasa.gov/themis
Los Angeles area gets hit with more quakes - 4.1 magnitude - Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 03:49:11 PM at epicenter
Magnitude 4.1 - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
2009 May 19 22:49:11 UTC
Earthquake Details
| Magnitude | 4.1 |
|---|---|
| Date-Time |
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| Location | 33.933°N, 118.331°W |
| Depth | 12.1 km (7.5 miles) |
| Region | GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA |
| Distances |
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| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 0.4 km (0.2 miles); depth +/- 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| Parameters | Nph=120, Dmin=7 km, Rmss=0.46 sec, Gp= 47°, M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=C |
| Source | |
| Event ID | ci10411545 |
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
- Did you feel it? Report shaking and damage at your location. You can also view a map displaying accumulated data from your report and others.
5.6 magnitude - Western Saudi Arabia - 160 km (100 miles) SE of Al Wajh - May 19, 2009 at 08:35:02 PM at epicenter
Magnitude 5.6 - WESTERN SAUDI ARABIA
2009 May 19 17:35:02 UTC
Earthquake Details
| Magnitude | 5.6 |
|---|---|
| Date-Time |
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| Location | 25.360°N, 37.684°E |
| Depth | 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program |
| Region | WESTERN SAUDI ARABIA |
| Distances | 145 km (90 miles) NNW of Yanbu` al Bahr, Saudi Arabia 160 km (100 miles) SE of Al Wajh, Saudi Arabia 215 km (135 miles) WNW of Al Madinah, Saudi Arabia 915 km (570 miles) W of RIYADH, Saudi Arabia |
| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 5.4 km (3.4 miles); depth fixed by location program |
| Parameters | NST= 58, Nph= 58, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=0.77 sec, Gp= 83°, M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6 |
| Source |
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| Event ID | us2009gvba |
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
ROSE-EDIS: Al-Ais, Saudi Arabia - Volcanic Activity (map) - 6,000 evacuated
RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service
Budapest, Hungary
Saudi authorities evacuated five western villages on Monday after tremors hit a volcanic region in the past weeks raising concerns of possible eruptions. "There was a large quake, the largest so far," Ahmed al-Attas, vice president of the Saudi Geological Survey (SGS), told Reuters after civil defence officials evacuated the villages near the town of al-Ais. Attas was referring to a 4.68 earthquake, which hit the region on Sunday. Al-Ais, 150 km (100 miles) northeast of the Yanbu on the Red Sea, is not close to the world's top oil exporter's oil and petrochemicals facilities. The region lies on a fault line, according to SGS, which declined to comment on current magma levels, but newspapers reported that in the past few days magma levels had risen to 4 km (2.5 miles) below the surface from 8 km. Fears of an eruption in dormant volcanoes in al-Ais have sent panic stricken residents voluntarily fleeing to the holy city of Medina and Yanbu last week. The population of al-Ais, an ancient resting place for caravans travelling between the western and southern cities of the Arabian Peninsula and Syria, is estimated at around 60,000 people.
Budapest, Hungary
Saudi authorities evacuated five western villages on Monday after tremors hit a volcanic region in the past weeks raising concerns of possible eruptions. "There was a large quake, the largest so far," Ahmed al-Attas, vice president of the Saudi Geological Survey (SGS), told Reuters after civil defence officials evacuated the villages near the town of al-Ais. Attas was referring to a 4.68 earthquake, which hit the region on Sunday. Al-Ais, 150 km (100 miles) northeast of the Yanbu on the Red Sea, is not close to the world's top oil exporter's oil and petrochemicals facilities. The region lies on a fault line, according to SGS, which declined to comment on current magma levels, but newspapers reported that in the past few days magma levels had risen to 4 km (2.5 miles) below the surface from 8 km. Fears of an eruption in dormant volcanoes in al-Ais have sent panic stricken residents voluntarily fleeing to the holy city of Medina and Yanbu last week. The population of al-Ais, an ancient resting place for caravans travelling between the western and southern cities of the Arabian Peninsula and Syria, is estimated at around 60,000 people.
Brookings Institution | Comparing the U.S. and Soviet Experiences in Afghanistan
May 19th, 2009
Comparing the U.S. and Soviet Experiences in Afghanistan
Source: Brookings Institution
A country rarely fights the same war twice in one generation, especially from opposite sides. Yet that in many ways describes the U.S. role in Afghanistan today. In the 1980s, the Central Intelligence Agency, working from a safe haven in Pakistan, engineered the largest covert operation in its history to help defeat the Soviet 40th Red Army in Afghanistan. Today, the United States is fighting a Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan that operates from a safe haven in Pakistan. Many suggest that the outcome will be the same for the United States as it was for the Soviet Union—ultimate defeat at the hands of the insurgency. Pakistan’s role as a safe haven is remarkably consistent in both conflicts, but focusing exclusively on that similarity misses the fundamental differences between the two wars. This article will address those differences, and will also assess how Pakistan’s role is impacting the United States’ possibilities for success today.
+ Full Document (PDF; 628 KB)
Monday, May 18, 2009
Infowars.com | Bilderberg 2009 Attendee List (revised)
May 18, 2009
Note: The previous version of this list, translated from Greek via an automated translation device, has seriously distorted quite of a few of the names on this list. Infowars staff have gone over this list twice; if you have information on the people with question marks (?), please send an email to kurt@infowars.com.
Dutch Queen Beatrix
Queen Sofia of Spain
Prince Constantijn (Belgian Prince)
Prince Philippe Etienne Ntavinion, Belgium
Étienne, Viscount Davignon, Belgium (former vice-president of the European Commission)
Josef Ackermann (Swiss banker and CEO of Deutsche Bank)
Keith B. Alexander, United States (Lieutenant General, U.S. Army, Director of the National Security Agency)
Roger Altman, United States (investment banker, former U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton)
Georgios A. Arapoglou, Greece (Governor of National Bank of Greece)
Ali Babaca , Turkey (Deputy Prime Minister responsible for economy)
Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Portugal (former Prime Minister of Portugal)
Nicholas Bavarez, France (economist and historian)
Franco Bernabè, Italy (Telecom Italia)
Xavier Bertrand, France (French politician connected to Nicolas Sarkozy)
Carl Bildt, Sweden (former Prime Minister of Sweden)
January Bgiorklount, Norway (?)
Christoph Blocher, Switzerland (industrialist, Vice President of the Swiss People’s Party)
Alexander Bompar, France (?)
Ana Patricia Botin, Spain, (President of Banco Banesto)
Henri de Castries, France (President of AXA, the French global insurance companies group)
Juan Luis Cebrián, Spain (journalist for Grupo PRISA; his father was a senior journalist in the fascist Franco regime)
W. Edmund Clark, Canada (CEO TD Bank Financial Group)
Kenneth Clarke, Great Britain (MP, Shadow Business Secretary)
Luc Cohen, Belgium (?)
George David, United States (Chairman and former CEO of United Technologies Corporation, board member of Citigroup)
Richard Dearlove, Great Britain (former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service)
Mario Draghi, Italy (economist, governor of the Bank of Italy)
Eldrup Anders, Denmark (CEO Dong Energy)
John Elkann, Italy (Italian industrialist, grandson of the late Gianni Agnelli, and heir to the automaker Fiat)
Thomas Enders, Germany (CEO Airbus)
Jose Entrekanales, Spain (?)
Isintro phenomena casket, Spain (?)
Niall Ferguson, United States (Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School)
Timothy Geithner, United States (Secretary of the Treasury)
Ntermot convergence, Ireland (AIV Group) (?)
Donald Graham, United States (CEO and chairman of the board of The Washington Post Company)
Victor Chalmperstant, Netherlands (Leiden University)
Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Netherlands (Dutch politician, minister of Justice in the fourth Balkenende cabinet, member of the Christian Democratic Appeal)
Richard Holbrooke, United States (Obama’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan)
Jaap De Hoop Scheffer, Netherlands (Dutch politician and the current NATO Secretary General)
James Jones, United States (National Security Advisor to the White House)
Vernon Jordan, United States (lawyer, close adviser to President Bill Clinton)
Robert Keigkan, United States (? - possibly Robert Kagan, neocon historian)
Girki Katainen, Finland (?)
John Kerr (aka Baron Kerr of Kinlochard), Britain (Deputy Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and an independent member of the House of Lords)
Mustafa Vehbi Koç, Turkey (President of industrial conglomerate Koç Holding)
Roland GT, Germany (?)
Sami Cohen, Turkey (Journalist) (?)
Henry Kissinger, United States
Marie Jose Kravis, United States (Hudson Institute)
Neelie Kroes, Netherlands (European Commissioner for Competition)
Odysseas Kyriakopoulos, Greece (Group S & B) (?)
Manuela Ferreira Leite, Portugal (Portuguese economist and politician)
Bernardino Leon Gross, Spain (Secretary General of the Presidency)
Jessica Matthews, United States (President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Philippe Maystadt (President of the European Investment Bank)
Frank McKenna, Canada (Deputy Chairman of the Toronto-Dominion Bank)
John Micklethwait, Great Britain (Editor-in-chief of The Economist)
Thierry de Montbrial, France (founded the Department of Economics of the École Polytechnique and heads the Institut français des relations internationales)
Mario Monti, Italy (Italian economist and politician, President of the Bocconi University of Milan)
Miguel Angel Moratinos, Spain (Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Craig Mundie, United States (chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft)
Egil Myklebust, Norway (Chairman of the board of SAS Group, Scandinavian Airlines System)
Mathias Nass, Germany (Editor of the newspaper Die Zeit)
Denis Olivennes, France (director general of Nouvel Observateur)
Frederic Oudea, France (CEO of Société Générale bank)
Cem Özdemir, Germany (co-leader of the Green Party and Member of the European Parliament)
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italy (Italian banker, economist, and former Minister of Economy and Finance)
Dimitrios Th.Papalexopoulo, Greece (Managing Director of Titan Cement Company SA)
Richard Perle, United States (American Enterprise Institute)
David Petraeus, United States (Commander, U.S. Central Command)
Manuel Pinho, Portugal (Minister of Economy and Innovation)
Robert S. Pritchard, Canada (Totstar Corporation) (?)
Romano Prodi, Italy (former Italian Prime Minister and former President of the European Commission)
Heather M. Reisman, Canada (co-founder of Indigo Books & Music Inc.).
Eivint Reitan, Norway (economist, corporate officer and politician for the Centre Party)
Michael Rintzier, Czech Republic (?)
David Rockefeller, United States
Dennis Ross, United States (special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton)
Barnett R. Rubin, United States (Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, Center for International Cooperation)
Alberto Rouith-Gkalarthon, Spain (?)
Susan Sampantzi Ntintzer, Turkey (?) Guler Sabanci, President of Sabanci Holdings (?)
Indira Samarasekera, Canada (President of University of Alberta, Board of Directors Scotiabank)
Rountol Solten, Austria (?)
Jürgen E. Schrempp, Germany (CEO DaimlerChrysler)
Pedro Solbes Mira, Spain (economist, Socialist, Second Vice President and Minister of Economy and Finance)
Sampatzi Saraz, Turkey (banker) (?) possibly Süreyya Serdengeçti (former Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey) http://arsiv.zaman.com.tr/2002/05/29/ekonomi/h6.htm
Sanata Seketa, Canada (University of Canada) (?)
Lawrence Summers, United States (economist, Director of the White House’s National Economic Council)
Peter Sutherland, Ireland (Chairman, BP and Chairman of Goldman Sachs International)
Martin Taylor, United Kingdom (former chief executive of Barclays Bank, currently Chairman of Syngenta AG)
Peter Thiel, United States (Clarium Capital Management LCC, PayPal co-founder, Board of Directors, Facebook)
Agan Ourgkout, Turkey (?)
Matti Taneli Vanhanen, Finland, (Prime Minister)
Daniel L. Vasella, Switzerland (Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at Novartis AG)
Jeroen van der Veer, Netherlands (CEO of Royal Dutch Shell)
Guy Verhofstadt, Belgium (former Prime Minister)
Paul Volcker, U.S. (former Federal Reserve director, Chair of Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board)
Jacob Wallenberg, Sweden (chairman of Investor AB and former chairman of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken)
Marcus Wallenberg, Sweden (CEO of Investor AB, former chairman of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken)
Nout Wellink, Netherlands (Chairman of De Nederlandsche Bank, Board of Directors, the Bank of International Settlements)
Hans Wijers, Netherlands (CEO of the multinational corporation AkzoNobel)
Martin Wolf, Great Britain (associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times)
James Wolfensohn, United States (former president of the World Bank)
Paul Wolfowitz, United States (for U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, President of the World Bank, currently AEI scholar)
Fareed Zakaria, United States (journalist, author, and CNN host)
Robert Zoellick, United States (former managing director of Goldman Sachs, President the World Bank)
Dora Bakoyannis, Greece (Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Anna Diamantopoulou, Greece (Member of Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement)
Yannis Papathanasiou, Greece (Minister of Finance)
George Alogoskoufis, Greece (former Minister)
George A. David, Greece (businessman, president of Coca-Cola)
Landspout: Freak weather phenomenon hits in Standale, Michigan
Click to view video on website
Freak weather phenomenon damages local nursery
Posted By: Joshua Aldredge Web Editor: Tim Geraghty
6 hrs ago
Standale, Mich. (WZZM) - It only lasted about ten seconds, but it left behind a lot of damage.
A landspout swept through a nursery in the 100 block of Lincoln Street in Standale Sunday afternoon.
Those that witnessed it say it was like something from a movie.
They never saw it coming until the landspout was already on the ground tossing debris about 30 feet in the air as it crossed the property.
Wikipedia describes landspouts this way:
A landspout is a slang-term coined by meteorologist Howard B. Bluestein in the early 1980s for a kind of tornado not associated with the mesocyclone of a thunderstorm.
The Glossary of Meteorology defines a landspout as
"Colloquial expression describing tornadoes occurring with a parent cloud in its growth stage and with its vorticity originating in the boundary layer. The parent cloud does not contain a preexisting midlevel mesocyclone. The landspout was so named because it looks like a weak Florida Keys waterspout over land."
"We were standing by the pond and we heard the wind whip through one of the coops and I looked over and saw the debris up in the air," said Casey Kazmier, who witnessed the landspout.
One of the owners grabbed her dog and laid in a ditch until the landspout passed through. No one was injured.
Freak weather phenomenon damages local nursery
Posted By: Joshua Aldredge Web Editor: Tim Geraghty
6 hrs ago
Standale, Mich. (WZZM) - It only lasted about ten seconds, but it left behind a lot of damage.
A landspout swept through a nursery in the 100 block of Lincoln Street in Standale Sunday afternoon.
Those that witnessed it say it was like something from a movie.
They never saw it coming until the landspout was already on the ground tossing debris about 30 feet in the air as it crossed the property.
Wikipedia describes landspouts this way:
A landspout is a slang-term coined by meteorologist Howard B. Bluestein in the early 1980s for a kind of tornado not associated with the mesocyclone of a thunderstorm.
The Glossary of Meteorology defines a landspout as
"Colloquial expression describing tornadoes occurring with a parent cloud in its growth stage and with its vorticity originating in the boundary layer. The parent cloud does not contain a preexisting midlevel mesocyclone. The landspout was so named because it looks like a weak Florida Keys waterspout over land."
"We were standing by the pond and we heard the wind whip through one of the coops and I looked over and saw the debris up in the air," said Casey Kazmier, who witnessed the landspout.
One of the owners grabbed her dog and laid in a ditch until the landspout passed through. No one was injured.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
guardian.co.uk: How humans devoured Neanderthals
- Fossil discovery in France bears marks of butchering similar to cutting up deer
RAPID collapse of the ice sheet in West Antarctica would raise sea levels by an average of about three metres, half as much as previously thought
3 meters = 9.84251969 feet
The effect, however, would still be catastrophic, with a rise of just one metre causing devastation in coastal areas around the globe, scientists said.
The West Antarctic ice sheet is considered the most unstable ice sheet in a warming world because much of the bedrock it sits on is below sea level....more..........
Friday, May 15, 2009
Magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION - Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 12:53:46 PM at epicenter
Magnitude 6.7 - KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION
2009 May 16 00:53:46 UTC
Earthquake Details
| Magnitude | 6.7 |
|---|---|
| Date-Time |
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| Location | 31.529°S, 178.888°W |
| Depth | 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program |
| Region | KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION |
| Distances | 10 km (5 miles) S of L'Esperance Rock, Kermadec Islands 270 km (170 miles) SSW of Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands 825 km (520 miles) NE of Auckland, New Zealand 1215 km (760 miles) NNE of WELLINGTON, New Zealand |
| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 6.7 km (4.2 miles); depth fixed by location program |
| Parameters | NST=243, Nph=243, Dmin=269.3 km, Rmss=0.97 sec, Gp= 22°, M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6 |
| Source |
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| Event ID | us2009gsad |
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
A severe storm in the German state of Baden-Württemberg created what police called “winter conditions” on Wednesday, with hail up to 20 inches deep
Severe Storm Leaves Knee-Deep Hail
May 13, 2009
The Local - Hamburg
The bad weather in Calw county forced officials to send a fleet of snow ploughs out to free streets from a heavy layer of hail about 15 centimtres high on Tuesday night. But one hollow near Wildberg-Gütlingen was left with some 50 centimetres of hail after the icy barrage, police said.
The storm lasted for about one hour throughout the county.
A 35-year-old driver was injured near Wildberg when he lost control of his car on the ice and hit a tree.
Meanwhile fire department workers were on hand to pump cellars free of flooding and retrieve manhole covers that had floated away in the deluge.
Police have not yet determined the amount of damages caused by the storm, which was rivalled by another in the nearby city of Karlsruhe, where heavy rainfall flooded streets and cellars around the same time.
http://www.thelocal.de/society/20090513-19251.html
Many new-to-gardening folks will experience bug problems--- heres some cheap low cost help
Date: Friday, 15-May-2009 10:01:51
In this economy many folks new to gardening will resort to harsh chemical solutions to keep the pests away from their crops. This article extolls the virtue of hydrogen peroxide, which I can verify is quite good in relieving many problems in the garden.
I alternate peroxide treatment every few days with a mixture of three teaspoons per quart of dawn dish detergent in water in an old windex spray bottle.
It works on every bug Ive tested.
from: http://www.gardenzine.co.uk/peroxide.html
by Paul Tukey
He unabashedly begins his stories in newspapers, magazines and online by proclaiming, 'This will be the most phenomenal article you will ever read'. He claims to have cured his own cancer, to have removed his own warts and to be the most robust 82-year-old on the planet ever since he discovered the miracle solution known as hydrogen peroxide.
Bill Munro immediately grabbed my attention with a story titled 'Gardening with H2O2' in Acres U.S.A., the highly respected farming journal from Austin, Texas. In 13 years of applying hydrogen peroxide to his gardens, Munro said he has experienced better yields, faster seed germination and far fewer insect infestations.
'Try it,' he said during our phone interview from his home in Michigan. 'The peroxide will change the way you garden forever. If you let it, it will even change your life.'
If you type the phrase 'Bill Munro peroxide' into Google on the Internet, you'll quickly come up with all sorts of articles that talk about his experiences curing his cancer by inhaling hydrogen peroxide several times daily. He cites a book titled Hydrogen Peroxide: The Medical Miracle by Dr. William Campbell Douglas, and offers detailed instructions for using this commonly available liquid to improve your health. Much of the traditional medical community doesn't seem to put much stock in hydrogen peroxide as a health aid except as an antiseptic, but it is known that white blood cells do produce small amounts of hydrogen peroxide in our bodies to help fight infection and disease. Even the skeptics say inhaling hydrogen peroxide probably won't hurt you if you decide to give it a try. For our purposes, however, we were most interested in Munro’s gardening claims, all of which appear to be true.
Extra Oxygen Makes Magic
Readily available in drugstores and supermarkets in familiar brown bottles that block light, hydrogen peroxide is simply water (H2O) with an extra oxygen molecule that is loosely attached to form H2O2. That extra oxygen is highly unstable in the solution and vaporizes easily upon contact with other substances, thereby accounting for the fizzing that occurs whenever hydrogen peroxide touches your skin. The 3 percent solution most commonly sold in stores is widely used to clean cuts and abrasions in pets and humans, and for numerous other cleaning and sterilization applications around the home. Many people use H2O2 as an environmentally friendly alternative to chlorine in pools and, especially, hot tubs.
That same oxidation action that keeps water clean apparently also has a positive impact in horticulture. Numerous hydrogen peroxide manufacturers recommend soaking seeds in H2O2 prior to planting to speed germination rates. Watering with hydrogen peroxide is also recommended to help keep fungal and bacterial diseases at bay. Most instructions call for diluting the 3 percent solution to a few tablespoons per quart of water prior to soaking your seeds or spraying your plants.
Munoz’s instructions are quite different. He uses an 8 percent solution, which he produces by diluting the 40 percent solution that he purchases at hair-salon supply stores.
'This was just trial-and-error on my part', he said. 'Having no prior knowledge of what strength to use, I started my experiments with 8 percent and the plants didn't die. I've stuck with the 8 percent ever since. At some percentage, I'm sure, the peroxide could burn the plants, but I can assure you that at 8 percent it doesn't'.
Munro said he soaks many seeds in peroxide prior to planting and has found germination rates to be as much as 50 percent faster. Depending on the seeds, he'll soak them anywhere from a few hours to overnight. He said he sprays all seedling roots and their planting holes, and also sprays all trees, shrubs and his lawn. He said his only fertilizer is the ash from his wood stove, and his water is from his own well.
The seed soaking doesn't work for everything , especially beans, but he said it works really well for potatoes, corn, squash, cucumbers and radishes.
'I've got one of the best gardens around', he said. 'You can ask anyone who has seen it'.
Munro has plenty of fans, including Acres U.S.A. founder Charles Walters and online journalist Joyce Morrison, author of the web site NewsWithViews.com.
'Although we have never met in person, Bill Munro and I have talked over the phone and e-mailed for several years, and I have never known Bill to tell me anything that was not well-researched,' Morrison said.
Recent experiments conducted in Australia also support some of Munro’s theories about hydrogen peroxide. Researchers reportedly included peroxide in the drip-irrigation systems for crops of zucchini, which in turn produced 29 percent more fruits weighing 25 percent more than the fruits produced without hydrogen peroxide treatment. Yields of soybean pods increased 82 to 96 percent compared to crops that were not treated with hydrogen peroxide.
Fewer Insects in the Garden
Yields and germination rates aside, Munro’s most compelling claim about hydrogen peroxide in the garden concerns insect infestations.
'I started spraying just about everything that was green in my yard with the peroxide, and the results were a huge surprise to my wife and me,' said Munro. 'We had no mosquitoes or other flying bugs in our yard. There were a few ladybugs, but they were few and far between. I don't think the peroxide did any harm to the ladybugs, but since there are so few other insects for them to eat, the ladybugs just don't come around.'
According to Rene Larose, a retired microbiologist from Manchester, Conn., hydrogen peroxide does reduce insect populations ' not by eliminating adult insects, but by oxidizing and killing their eggs and larvae.' Larose developed and owns U.S. patent 6455075, defined as 'a method for control of insects on plant tissue, which includes applying a solution that includes hydrogen peroxide to the plant tissue.'
The hydrogen peroxide in Larose’s formulations has a concentration of 0.05 to 3 percent and includes other proprietary ingredients such as acetic acid and phosphoric acid.
Where Has This Been All Our Lives?
The question, obviously, is that if a product as common as hydrogen peroxide offers so many benefits in the garden, why hasn't everyone been utilizing it for years?
'That’s what we want to know,' said Larose, with a laugh. 'I can tell you that the EPA loves us because the products are 100 percent, absolutely safe alternatives. I can tell you that science gives you perfectly rational explanations for how this works. But I can also tell you that the chemical companies don't like this because of course it cuts into what they're doing. The universities don't like this because they didn't develop the concept.'
Munro agrees. He theorizes that in a world driven by profit, the economic powers have little motivation to promote something as inexpensive and commonplace as hydrogen peroxide.
It is important to use hydrogen peroxide with caution, testing it on limited crops prior to spraying the entire yard and garden, and to only use pure H2O2 or 'food grade' formulations. Some brands of peroxide may contain harmful byproducts.
Another important consideration is dilution of the peroxide when the percentage is higher than 8 percent. Concentrated peroxide of 35 or 40 percent is highly corrosive and would certainly be harmful to plants and soil.
'Anyone ought to see what works for him or her,' said Munro, the outspoken octogenarian whose instructions can be found all over the Internet. 'I think people need to see that this works for themselves.'
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Saudi Arabia: Rumblings from extinct Al-Ais volcanoes send villagers into panic
| Yousuf Muhammad | Arab News |
MADINAH: Rumblings from the direction of extinct volcanoes in Al-Ais, which was hit by a series of tremors over the last couple of weeks, sent villagers in the area into a state of near panic in the early hours of yesterday. “Most of the local people spent the night in a state of extreme anxiety when a thunder-like rumble was heard,” one worried resident told Arab News yesterday. Despite repeated reassurances from the Saudi Geological Survey (SGS) that there was nothing to worry about, the provincial branch of the Civil Defense is battle-ready with personnel and equipment to face any eventuality. Civil Defense teams have been patrolling villages where tremors were experienced to reassure people. The teams are also checking the safety of buildings in the region. Arab News visited the grim looking Al-Harrah Mountain, the source of the rumbling noise and the epicenter of the recent tremors. The mountain, with its jet-black stones and sand devoid of any flora and fauna, diffused an air of eeriness all around. The black mountain had all the trappings of a volcano that died out thousands of years ago. Sprawled over an area of 2,863 sq. km, Al-Ais, which is 150 km northeast of Yanbu and 240 km north of Madinah, has an estimated population of 60,000 people. The town was an ancient resting place for caravans traveling between the western and southern cities of the Arabian Peninsula and Syria. According to the SGS, the tremors were due to subterranean volcanic activity in the Harrat Al-Shaqqah area. The SGS registered 11 seismic tremors since last Tuesday in Al-Ais, the biggest of which measured 3.7 on the Richter scale. A US scientist currently visiting the Kingdom dismissed the tremors as usual underground activity that did not pose any threat to the safety of people living in the area. “The tremors experienced in some villages in Madinah province are normal and not dangerous. It is normal underground movement along a fault line,” said Farooq Al-Baz, director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University. |
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