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And the POTUS will have about 45 sec to make the call....;)
What is happening to the Empire is, ironically, a process I would call of "Israelization": a dynamic in which it is rather obvious that the world's elites dare not speak against it, but the rest of the planet hates and despises it. We can think of "Israelization" as the inevitable backlash resulting from a systematic disregard for international law combined with an equally systematic use of violence or threat thereof (which is, of course, a form of violence in itself).
Of course, the imperial rulers are far too ignorant of history, to full of hubris and racist arrogance and, frankly, too stupid to realize how dangerous this process is for them. They will "get it" only by the time it is way too late to stop it. "
Living in the Conspiracy "Living in the Middle Ages"
"Todd Akin: The man who said too much"
"'Rape can't cause pregnancy': A brief history of Todd Akin's bogus theory"
Akin was surprised by the reaction, as he naturally assumed the people he was talking to would see nothing controversial in what he was saying. His mistake was that this type of comment is supposed to be limited to discussions with the like-minded, and not on a television interview that anybody can see. Being a Republican is like being a habitual liar: it is damn hard to keep your stories straight.
At 1:00 AM EDT, maximum sustained winds had decreased to 70 mph (110 km/h) and Katrina was again downgraded to a tropical storm. At 5:00 AM EDT, the eye of Hurricane Katrina was located just offshore of southwestern Florida over the Gulf of Mexico about 50 miles (80 km) north-northeast of Key West, Florida. Maximum sustained winds had again increased to 75 mph (121 km/h) and Katrina was upgraded again to a Category 1 hurricane.
By 8:00 AM CDT (1300 UTC), in New Orleans, water was seen rising on both sides of the Industrial Canal. At approximately 8:14 AM CDT (1314 UTC), the New Orleans office of the National Weather Service issued a Flash Flood Warning for Orleans Parish and St Bernard Parish, citing a levee breach at the Industrial Canal. The National Weather Service predicted three to eight feet of water and advised people in the warning area to "move to higher ground immediately."[14] By 9:00 AM CDT (2100 UTC), there was 68 feet of water in the Lower Ninth Ward.[15][16]
Many of the new ground based wind measurements were published on the New Orleans National Weather Service web site on Friday, October 7, in their post-storm report on Katrina. The highest sustained winds measured at any ground-based site were 90 mph on Lake Pontchartrain. The highest gust measured on the ground was 135 mph in Poplarville, MS. Many wind measurement sites failed during the storm, so we will have to rely on aircraft and Doppler radar to arrive at the true wind speeds of Katrina at landfall.
Here's a few highlights of the highest winds measured at the ground during Katrina, before instrument failure:
New Orleans Lakefront Airport: sustained winds of 69 mph, gusting to 86 mph.
Biloxi's Keesler Air Force Base: sustained winds of 54 mph, gusting to 90 mph.
Gulfport airport: 46 mph, gusting to 58 mph.
Lake Ponchartrain mid-lake buoy: 90 mph, gusting to 114 mph.
Many of us heard that Category 5 winds were measured by the National Weather Service in Katrina. These rumors were aired as fact by television stations and other media outlets during the storm. However, as the post-storm report above outlines, these were just rumors, and no such winds were measured. If you listened to NPR last night, you also might have heard the story of how television stations in Baton Rouge were reporting a huge crime wave in Baton Rouge after the hurricane, and that an armed gang had even taken over the Mayor's office. These reports, later found out to be completely untrue, led to four-hour waits to buy guns at local gun stores in Baton Rouge. According to NPR, there was no increase in crime in Baton Rouge after the hurricane. The media, at times, did a poor job in separting fact from fiction during the storm, and there were in reality no sustatined winds above Category 1 measured on the ground during Katrina. Obviously, a demotion of Katrina to Category 3 status would have political consequences.
At 1:00 AM EDT, maximum sustained winds had decreased to 70 mph (110 km/h) and Katrina was again downgraded to a tropical storm. At 5:00 AM EDT, the eye of Hurricane Katrina was located just offshore of southwestern Florida over the Gulf of Mexico about 50 miles (80 km) north-northeast of Key West, Florida. Maximum sustained winds had again increased to 75 mph (121 km/h) and Katrina was upgraded again to a Category 1 hurricane.
Re: Isaac Forecast Lounge [Re: TXEB] #93764 - Mon Aug 27 2012 08:26 AM E
We're about to find out via rapid intensification or not,
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Hurricane forecast models (the same ones that were used to predict Katrinas path) indicate a tendency for more intense (but not overall more frequent) hurricanes when they are run for climate change scenarios (Fig. 1).
Figure 1. Model Simulation of Trend in Hurricanes (from Knutson et al, 2004)
In the particular simulation shown above, the frequency of the strongest (category 5) hurricanes roughly triples in the anthropogenic climate change scenario relative to the control. This suggests that hurricanes may indeed become more destructive (1) as tropical SSTs warm due to anthropogenic impacts.
This is the First Beneficial Event to happen in the MS River Estuary since the USSAbpEcocide....;}
New Orleans is your future.
the Worst possible scenario unfolding.
radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php
Guy Laigast, director of the parish's emergency preparedness, says that an 18-mile stretch of the parish east bank back levees might be overtopped from Braithwaite to White Ditch and that some points might be seeing 110 miles per hour winds. There are many varying reports of wind speeds, generally ranging between 80 and 110 miles per hour. "The devastation of my house is worse than Katrina aand the flooding in Woodlawn is worse than Katrina, so those things tell me that the damage on the east bank is worse than Katrina," Nungesser said this morning.
Probably at about 8 o clock tonight
Wow, amazing projections were off by nearly 12 hours, this thing is just sitting there
Post Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:55 am by mcgowanjm Re: PEAK OIL, TOTAL COLLAPSE, AND THE ROAD TO THE OLDUVAI
Post Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:55 am by mcgowanjm A,lot of this post was deleted.
Inappropriate the Mod said... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :roll: :? 8-)
Re: Isaac Forecast Lounge [Re: ralphfl] #93762 - Mon Aug 27 2012 07:14 AM Edit post Edit Reply to this post Reply Reply to this post Quote Quick Reply Quick Reply
By 8:00 AM CDT (1300 UTC), in New Orleans, water was seen rising on both sides of the Industrial Canal. At approximately 8:14 AM CDT (1314 UTC), the New Orleans office of the National Weather Service issued a Flash Flood Warning for Orleans Parish and St Bernard Parish, citing a levee breach at the Industrial Canal. The National Weather Service predicted three to eight feet of water and advised people in the warning area to "move to higher ground immediately."[14] By 9:00 AM CDT (2100 UTC), there was 68 feet of water in the Lower Ninth Ward.[15][16]
Many of the new ground based wind measurements were published on the New Orleans National Weather Service web site on Friday, October 7, in their post-storm report on Katrina. The highest sustained winds measured at any ground-based site were 90 mph on Lake Pontchartrain. The highest gust measured on the ground was 135 mph in Poplarville, MS. Many wind measurement sites failed during the storm, so we will have to rely on aircraft and Doppler radar to arrive at the true wind speeds of Katrina at landfall.
Here's a few highlights of the highest winds measured at the ground during Katrina, before instrument failure:
New Orleans Lakefront Airport: sustained winds of 69 mph, gusting to 86 mph.
Biloxi's Keesler Air Force Base: sustained winds of 54 mph, gusting to 90 mph.
Gulfport airport: 46 mph, gusting to 58 mph.
Lake Ponchartrain mid-lake buoy: 90 mph, gusting to 114 mph.
Many of us heard that Category 5 winds were measured by the National Weather Service in Katrina. These rumors were aired as fact by television stations and other media outlets during the storm. However, as the post-storm report above outlines, these were just rumors, and no such winds were measured. If you listened to NPR last night, you also might have heard the story of how television stations in Baton Rouge were reporting a huge crime wave in Baton Rouge after the hurricane, and that an armed gang had even taken over the Mayor's office. These reports, later found out to be completely untrue, led to four-hour waits to buy guns at local gun stores in Baton Rouge. According to NPR, there was no increase in crime in Baton Rouge after the hurricane. The media, at times, did a poor job in separting fact from fiction during the storm, and there were in reality no sustatined winds above Category 1 measured on the ground during Katrina. Obviously, a demotion of Katrina to Category 3 status would have political consequences.
No. No, we did not. We took the bullet. Shattered the femur.
Gangrene setting in.
"About half of Louisiana was without power on Aug. 30 as Tropical Storm Isaac moved inland.
The Public Service Commission said 903,000 homes and businesses around the state about 47 percent of all customers were without power.
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Entergy says that included about 686,000 of its customers. Another 87,000 were customers of Cleco Corp.
Nearly all customers were without power in Plaquemines, St. Bernard and St. John the Baptist parishes, while at least three-quarters of homes and businesses had power outages in Iberville, East Feliciana, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, St. Charles, St. James, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne and West Feliciana parishes."
The Good News is that Amerika can't here from those who don't have electricity...;}
Scores of American invaders killed in twin mortar attack; helicopter shot down Zabihullah Mujahid E-mail Print PDF Saturday, 14 Syawal 1433 Saturday, 01 September 2012 14:31
WARDAK, Sept. 01 - The first blast was conducted by Ahmad, a brave martyr-seeking Mujahid on foot hitting a US invaders military base in Syed Abad, Wardak on early Saturday morning which eliminated almost all of the security checks and barriers followed by a massive explosion from a truck bomb by another Mujahid that destroyed much of the base facility allowing Mujahideen to get into the base compound and
unleashed a face to face fighting with the American terrorist soldiers within the base, a Mujahideens official said.
Several dozens of the invading terrorists were killed and wounded in the resulting fighting, setting the base facility on fire and a number of the military vehicles and tanks were destroyed in the blast and fighting, whereas an attack helicopter among many hovering overhead which, in turn, were bombing and targeting Mujahideen combatants, got shot down by Mujahideen during the fight.
Meantime, enemys spying balloons were destroyed and the center of district got badly damaged as a result of the successful operation increasing the death and injury toll.
According the recent reports, more than 30 puppet soldiers were retrieved from beneath the rubble by the bulldozers and the dead and the wounded were being carried by about 30 ambulances, whereas the ambulance helicopters were busy carrying the dead and wounding.
According to the witnesses to the scene, more than 10 government buildings were unbelievingly flattened and became piles of rubble.
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-09-01 21:31:52 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #697. To: All (#696)
Note to Imperial Defense Command:
To successfully prosecute a Colonial War, the First Item on the Agenda is to make sure the Insurgency in the Colony can't get their version of events out to the world as fast as you want to get yours.....
2: The Colonial War ain't over til the Insurgents say it is.
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-09-01 21:37:52 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #698. To: All (#0)
Two Suicide Near NATO Base in Afghanistan Kill Over a Dozen The glaring failure that is the war in Afghanistan is being almost completely omitted from the political debate by John Glaser, September 01, 2012 Print This | Share This
Two suicide bombings in central Afghanistan carried out by the Taliban have killed at least nine civilians and four Afghan policemen, in the latest illustration of an unhindered insurgency and burgeoning chaos in Americas near-forgotten war zone.
" Faced with defeat on all fronts, Washington planners, nonetheless, continue to uphold the delusional dream of an indefinite US stay in Afghanistan. Imperial dreams die hard."
In lieu, then, of discussing Afghanistan and US militarism more broadly, the presidential campaign devolves into spectacle and triviality. Substance, where it is to be found, is limited to squabbles over who promises to cut the most from the already gutted American social safety net. The fact that the Pentagon appropriates over half the US budget (52 percent in 2011, according to the War Resisters League) in order to conduct campaigns of misery and terror abroad, leaving the hollow mantra of shared sacrifice in its wake at home, is beyond debate-beyond the pale. US militarism is simply an unquestionable pillar of the American way of life. Something the people of the world (from Vietnam to Afghanistan, from Iraq to Korea and beyond) have come to learn firsthand."
We're getting our ass handed to us.
And Clint Eastwood is our model.
Pack up the band...it's now all over.
Waiting for the False Flag that will project us into the Post 9/11 Shock Doctrine.
No one has to tell me, I don't have to google to know this is a Record.......
It used to cost one barrel of oil to get about 100 barrels of oil out of the ground. These days one barrel only gets us 10 barrels back, and declining. And that means it's not cheap anymore.
So far, 48 NATO troops including the three Australians killed on Wednesday have died in 31 separate attacks. This month, during Ramadan, 11 US soldiers were killed in nine days. The high number represents 14 per cent of all combat fatalities this year and though it is still only August, the figure is already significantly higher than last year, when 31 troops died. The numbers are so high that some analysts claim they may represent the highest incidence of intentional friendly fire attacks in recorded military history...
When San Diego does this to you, you need to take the hint:
""Go ahead, nurse. Make my bed."
A man's got to know his limitations and Clint Eastwood's performance at the Republican National Convention earned him notices the likes of which he hasn't received since City Heat.
"Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him." - Roger Ebert
"That was the weirdest thing I've ever seen at a political convention in my entire life." - MSNBC's Rachel Maddow
"Tremendous!" - Academy Award-Winner, Jon Voight
Eastwood began his career talking to trees and now he's addressing a chair. It's like watching the dummy without Paul Winchell.
Not Climate Change. HEat Records still falling today.
Not Peak Oil.
But Clint Fucking Eastwood losing an arguement to a chair.
Election 2012 and the media: a vast rightwing conspiracy of stupid By Glenn Greenwald
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Paul Ryan's address to the RNC contained a number of notably dubious claims, yet CNN's Wolf Blitzer chiefly admired 'his beautiful family'. Photograph: Andrew Gombert/EPA
In other words, conspiracy theories sometimes are fact. If opportunity, motive, and means are evident, dont rule out conspiracy merely because youll be labeled a conspiracy theorist.
English philosopher Bertrand Russell put his own spin on the horrors of uncovering the truth via thought:
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
Small wonder, then, most refuse to think. Thinking is hard, so the majority of Americans prefer television instead. Swimming against a profoundly strong cultural current is nearly impossible, especially when the resulting discomfort threatens our own privilege. And conspiracy theories certainly threaten the ill-founded notion of American exceptionalism.
CNN for some reason thought they need to talk about the Suicide Bombing against the US Consulate 'workers' this AM.
Maybe they shoulda just stayed quiet.
But then they've got So Much Shite they have to stay quiet about, that it just kinda overflowed their Toilet Bowl, so:
Mon Sep 3, 2012 6:17AM GMT
A bomb blast near the US Consulate in the city of Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan has killed at least two Americans, and has injured two others.
Since late 2009, there has been a surge in militant attacks in Pakistan and thousands more have been displaced by the wave of violence and militancy sweeping across the country.
Thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since 2001, when Pakistan entered an alliance with the US in the so-called war on terrorism.
It's the supreme propaganda orgy, devoted to aggressively reinforcing the claim to American exceptionalism: the belief that even when things look grim, America will forever be that special God-favored land of freedom, opportunity, and prosperity, and all citizens should therefore be deeply grateful quietly and passively so for the privilege of residing in such a land, no matter how wretched are their circumstances and how pervasive is the corruption.
It's what inculcates many Americans to believe that they enjoy vibrant political debate and stark democratic choice, even as so many of the policies that are most consequential and destructive for their lives the "war on drugs", the supremacy of the covert national security and surveillance states, vast inequalities in the justice system, crony capitalism that rapidly bolsters the oligarchy that owns the political process are steadfastly ignored because both parties on those matters have exactly the same position and serve the same interests.
And conspiracy theories certainly threaten the ill-founded notion of American exceptionalism.
False-flag terror attacks? Check.
American government agencies buying enough ammunition to kill every citizen five times? Check.
U.S. Supreme Court collaborating with the executive branch to increase corporate power? Check, since 1971 (at least).
Goldman Sachs defrauding its clients with the knowledge of the Securities and Exchange Commission? Check.
Civilian deaths from drones covered up? Check.
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is dead, though most Americans refuse to acknowledge that truth. But the former U.S. Marine arrested for patriotic posts on Facebook knows. After his relatively innocuous posts, he was placed in a Stalin-like mental ward. Displaying the wrong political view warrants the same treatment. Apparently questioning 9/11 an obvious inside job, as anybody paying the slightest attention has known for years makes one crazy. Or a terrorist. Or both. And if you think 9/11 wasnt an inside job the evidence for which is overwhelming and physically undeniable then you believe in coincidence but not the Laws of Thermodynamics.
When will your silence be met with incarceration, then torture, then early death? These United States are well down the road of tyranny, regardless the mantra of the mainstream.
It somehow manages simultaneously to be relentlessly insipid, yet genuinely destructive. As Blitzer and Burnett put it last night:
"So there he is, the Republican vice-presidential nominee and his beautiful family there. His mom is up there He's a man who says I care deeply about every single word. I want to do a good job."
The two major parties pretend that so-called "entitlement" programs can be simultaneously reformed, improved, and abolished - that is, you can have your cake and eat it (with ice cream) at the same time you throw it in the garbage. Reality rejects this incoherent juggling act and proposes that Americans better just make other arrangements for old age, routine medical care, and daily bread. This implies cultural as much as economic transformation and it will occur emergently no matter what empty promises anyone makes. People who want to get food at regular intervals will have to find some way to make themselves useful to others. Medicine will return to the local clinic model and doctors will have to find another motivation for practice besides the acquisition of German automobiles.
Kunstler
Compare and contrast the platforms of the Republicans and Democrats with the Reality Party: The two major parties both propose that the colossal machine of everyday life in America can not only run indefinitely, but continue expanding, and include ever more member people who trade ever more schwag. All that is required, they say, is twiddling the settings of the machine, to get it back to running smoothly as it did in the good old days before the mystifying crash of 2008. They disagree slightly on which dials to twiddle. Reality knows we have entered along-term compressive economic contraction; that there is no way we can persist in the current living arrangement; and that the necessary outcome to avoid immense human suffering can be described as the downscaling and re-localizing of everything we do. The two major parties regard the rule of law as optional, especially in money matters.
20 hours ago 12-13 meeting. In the euro zone, the manufacturing sector contracted faster than previously thought last month, despite factories cutting prices, ...
Manufacturing downturn eases sharply in August ... - The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/10420513
1 day ago The euro zone manufacturing sector contracted faster than previously thought last month, despite factories cutting prices, as core countries ...
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Offshore Tax Havens.
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Manufacturing ISM Misses, Third Month In Contraction Territory; Biggest Miss In Construction Spending In One year Tyler Durden's picture Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/04/2012 10:09 -0400
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Highest Food Stamp Participation Ever News
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Austerity for everyone but Military Top 1%.
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$1.75 Quadrillion in Debt Derivatives.
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the August Manufacturing ISM just printed at 49.6, down from July's 49.8, and well below expectations of 50. This was the third contraction in a row and joins the global PMI which as we reported yesterday now has 80% of the world in contractionary territory.
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Iraq/the Afghans
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5) the failure to force the rich to take their losses and to break up the banks means that the same people who caused the 2007/8 financial crisis still control the economy and the government.
6) failure to restructure the economy to get off oil and over to an electrical economy means that the US (and the world) are caught in the oil price dilemna: any real recovery increases oil price and will be derailed by those high oil prices.
7) Europe, ex. Germany, is in recession.
8 ) the developed world is in depression, it never left depression. During depressions there are recoveries (such as they are) and recessions, but the overall economy is in depression.
9) Chinas economy is slowing down. Since China is the main engine of the world economy, followed by the US, this is really bad. If it goes into an actual recession, bend over and kiss your butt goodbye.