Why Stratfor Tracks the Locations of U.S. Navy Capital Ships

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U.S. Naval Update Map: June 6, 2013

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22 Signs That Global Weather Patterns Are Going Absolutely Crazy

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22 Signs That Global Weather Patterns Are Going Absolutely Crazy Posted: 04 Jun 2013 06:15 PM PDT Global weather patterns seem to get stranger and stranger with each passing year.  Almost every day now, the news is telling us about some bizarre weather event that hasn’t happened “in 100 years” going on in some area of the globe.  All over the planet, we are seeing torrential rainfalls, unprecedented flooding, extreme drought, nightmarish wildfires, record setting tornadoes and very unusual blizzards.  Record high temperatures and record low temperatures are set so frequently now that nobody really seems to even notice anymore.  So exactly what in the world is going on here?  Why does our weather seem to be going absolutely crazy?  Perhaps even more important – can we expect our weather patterns to become even more erratic?  Some meteorologists are suggesting that these unusual weather events are just an “anomaly” and that things will get back to normal soon.  But what if they don’t? I noted that natural disasters seem to be increasing in both frequency and severity in my recent article entitled “Are We Entering The Worst Period For Natural Disasters In U.S. History?“  But it isn’t just the ground under our feet that seems to be becoming more unstable.  The weather patterns that we all take for granted and that society depends upon seem to be rapidly changing. The following are 22 signs that global weather patterns are going absolutely crazy… 1. Right now, central Europe is experiencing the worst flooding that it has seen in at least 70 years. 2. On Memorial Day weekend, a vicious winter storm dumpedup to 36 inches of snow on parts of upstate New York. 3. Back in mid-May, on one single day some parts of the UK had a couple of inches of snow, some parts of the UK had a month’s worth of rainfall on a single day, and some parts of the UK were hammered by winds of up to 65 miles per hour. 4. The month of April was so cold across the northern United States that one meteorologist said that it was “like something out of the Twilight Zone“… April has been a freakishly cold month across much of the northern USA, bringing misery to millions of sun-starved and winter-weary residents from the Rockies to the Midwest. “The weather map … looks like something out of The Twilight Zone,” Minneapolis meteorologist Paul Douglas of WeatherNation TV wrote on his blog last week. Record cold and snow has been reported in dozens of cities, with the worst of the chill in the Rockies, upper Midwest and northern Plains. Several baseball games have been snowed out in both Denver and Minneapolis. Cities such as Rapid City, S.D.; Duluth, Minn.; and Boulder, Colo., have all endured their snowiest month ever recorded. (In all three locations, weather records go back more than 100 years.) In fact, more than 1,100 snowfall records and 3,400 cold records have been set across the nation so far in April, according to the National Climatic Data Center. 5. This year Saskatchewan had the coolest spring that it has experienced in 100 years. 6. Moscow just experienced the snowiest winter that it has seenin 100 years. 7. Snow is falling in Russia in places where it should not be falling this time of the year.  On Sunday, residents of Kemerovo were stunned to see that a thin layer of snow had fallen on their city overnight. 8. This spring, there was a record amount of ice on the Baltic Sea due to very cold weather… “Since record keeping began in the sixties, we’ve never encountered anything like this before,” ice breaker Ulf Gulldne told the local newspaper Örnsköldsviks Allehanda. On March 29th, 176,000 square kilometers of the Baltic Sea was covered in ice, a record for the time of year. On a map, it means about half of the central and northern parts are frozen over. Far north, the ice is both thick and difficult to break through. 9. The city of Anchorage, Alaska set a record for the longest snow season that it has ever experienced this year. 10. In February, hail the size of “boulders” pounded one poor city in southern India… Hailstones the size of boulders have rained down on villages in southern India. At least nine people were killed when the violent weather hit several villages in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The hailstorm which lasted for almost 20 minutes, destroyed crops, houses and live stock, causing devastating financial implications for residents. 11. The tornado that touched down near Oklahoma City on Friday was the widest tornado ever recorded.  It was an EF5 tornado that was 2.6 miles wide at one point with winds of up to 295 miles an hour. 12. The tornado that did such devastating damage to Moore, Oklahoma recently was about 2 miles wide and it sat on the ground for an astounding 40 minutes. 13. During the month of February, Peru, Chile and Bolivia were all hit by unprecedented flooding. 14. At the end of May, more than a foot of rainfall in 24 hours caused nightmarish flooding in San Antonio, Texas. 15. A few weeks ago, unusual levels of rainfall caused the Mississippi River to rise to near record levels. 16. This year the state of Georgia experienced the wettest February ever recorded. 17. Chicago just had the wettest April ever recorded. 18. Scientists are projecting that the nightmarish drought that is taking place in the western half of the United States will “intensify” this year. 19. Overall, hundreds of thousands of trees died throughout the United States during 2012 due to horrible drought conditions. 20. This past January, part of Australia experienced record setting high temperatures that were absolutely unprecedented.  Keep in mind that the following temperatures are in Celsius… Sydney endured its hottest ever day on Friday, with records smashed across the city and thousands of people suffering from the heat.  The mercury topped 45.8 at Sydney’s Observatory Hill at 2.55pm, breaking the previous record set in 1939 by half a degree. The city’s highest temperature was a scorching 46.5 degrees, recorded in Penrith at 2.15pm, while Camden, Richmond and Sydney Airport all reached 46.4 degrees. 21. Over the weekend, extremely dry conditions were making it difficult for firefighters to battle a very intense wildfire in California that had already burned more than 20,000 acres… By Sunday night, the Powerhouse Fire around the Angeles National Forest in Southern California engulfed about 22,400 acres, endangering some 1,000 homes in the Lake Elizabeth and Lake Hughes area. Nearly 2,100 firefighters struggled to contain the fire, which more than tripled in size from Saturday to Sunday. Nearly 3,000 people have been evacuated and the blaze has already destroyed at least six homes by Sunday night. 22. About 30 percent of all honeybees are dying each year in the United States, and nobody seems to know exactly why this is happening.  If this continues, it threatens to absolutely cripple U.S. agriculture… US honey bees have been dying by the tens of millions, with annual death rates of about 30 percent. With fewer bees to pollinate fruits and vegetables each year, ‘beemageddon’ may soon cause the collapse of the agriculture industry. Honey bees pollinate more than 100 US crops, including apples, zucchinis, avocados and plums, that are worth more than $200 billion a year. Since 2006, about 10 million bee hives at an average value of $200 each have been lost in what scientists call the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), according to a new report by the US Department of Agriculture. We certainly don’t need any more bad news about our agriculture.  Global food supplies are currently at their lowest level in 40 years, and most people in the general public are absolutely clueless about what is going on. Unfortunately, our weather has not just been unusual for the past few months.  This is a trend that has been developing for quite some time. For example, the planet experienced some truly unusual weather last winter.  The following comes from a New York Times article from last January… Around the world, extreme has become the new commonplace. Especially lately. China is enduring its coldest winter in nearly 30 years. Brazil is in the grip of a dreadful heat spell. Eastern Russia is so freezing — minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and counting — that the traffic lights recently stopped working in the city of Yakutsk. Bush fires are raging across Australia, fueled by a record-shattering heat wave. Pakistan was inundated by unexpected flooding in September. A vicious storm bringing rain, snow and floods just struck the Middle East. And in the United States, scientists confirmed this week what people could have figured out simply by going outside:last year was the hottest since records began. Indeed, “extreme has become the new commonplace” as far as our weather is concerned. So will our weather get back to “normal” soon or are even greater changes ahead? And what in the world is causing all of this? Please feel free to express your opinion by posting a comment below… The American Dream

 

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This Reporter has (((NAILED IT))) This should go VIRAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


BEST SUMMATION OF BARACK AND MICHELLE EVER!
Mychal Massie is a respected writer and... talk show host in Los Angeles . The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn't like the Obama's? Specifically I was asked: "I have to ask, why do you hate the Obama's? It seems personal, not policy related. You even dissed (disrespect) their Christmas family picture."

The truth is I do not like the Obamas, what they represent, their ideology, and I certainly do not like his policies and legislation. I've made no secret of my contempt for the Obamas. As I responded to the person who asked me the aforementioned question, I don't like them because they are committed to the fundamental change of my/our country into what can only be regarded as a Communist state. 

I don't hate them per definition, but I condemn them because they are the worst kind of racialists, they are elitist Leninists with contempt for traditional America . They display disrespect for the sanctity of the office he holds, and for those who are willing to admit same, Michelle Obama's raw contempt for white America is transpicuous. I don't like them because they comport themselves as emperor and empress. 

I expect, no I demand respect, for the Office of President and a love of our country and her citizenry from the leader entrusted with the governance of same. President and Mrs. Reagan displayed an unparalleled love for the country and her people. 

The Reagan's made Americans feel good about themselves and about what we could accomplish. Obama's arrogance by appointing 32 leftist czars and constantly bypassing congress is impeachable. Eric Holder is probably the MOST incompetent and arrogant DOJ head to ever hold the job. Could you envision President Reagan instructing his Justice Department to act like jack-booted thugs? 

Presidents are politicians and all politicians are known and pretty much expected to manipulate the truth, if not outright lie, but even using that low standard, the Obama's have taken lies, dishonesty, deceit, mendacity, subterfuge and obfuscation to new depths. They are verbally abusive to the citizenry, and they display an animus for civility. 

I do not like them, because they both display bigotry overtly, as in the case of Harvard Professor Louis Gates, when he accused the Cambridge Police of acting stupidly, and her code speak pursuant to not being able to be proud of America . I view that statement and that mindset as an insult to those who died to provide a country where a Kenyan, his illegal alien relatives, and his alleged progeny, could come and not only live freely, but rise to the highest, most powerful, position in the world. 

Michelle Obama is free to hate and disparage whites because Americans of every description paid with their blood to ensure her right to do same. I have a saying, that "the only reason a person hides things, is because they have something to hide." No president in history has spent millions of dollars to keep his records and his past sealed. 

And what the two of them have shared has been proved to be lies. He lied about when and how they met, he lied about his mother's death and problems with insurance, Michelle lied to a crowd pursuant to nearly $500,000 bank stocks they inherited from his family. He has lied about his father's military service, about the civil rights movement, ad nausea. He lied to the world about the Supreme Court in a State of the Union address. He berated and publicly insulted a sitting Congressman. He has surrounded himself with the most rabidly, radical, socialist academicians today. 

He opposed rulings that protected women and children that even Planned Parenthood did not seek to support. He is openly hostile to business and aggressively hostile to Israel . His wife treats being the First Lady as her personal American Express Black Card (arguably the most prestigious credit card in the world). I condemn them because, as people are suffering, losing their homes, their jobs, their retirements, he and his family are arrogantly showing off their life of entitlement - as he goes about creating and fomenting class warfare. 

I don't like them, and I neither apologize nor retreat from my public condemnation of them and of his policies. We should condemn them for the disrespect they show our people, for his willful and unconstitutional actions pursuant to obeying the Constitutional parameters he is bound by, and his willful disregard for Congressional authority. 

Dislike for them has nothing to do with the color of their skin; it has everything to do with their behavior, attitudes, and policies. And I have open scorn for their constantly playing the race card. 

I could go on, but let me conclude with this. I condemn in the strongest possible terms the media for refusing to investigate them, as they did President Bush and President Clinton, and for refusing to label them for what they truly are. There is no scenario known to man, whereby a white president and his wife could ignore laws, flaunt their position, and lord over the people, as these two are permitted out of fear for their color. 

As I wrote in a syndicated column titled, "Nero In The White House" - "Never in my life, inside or outside of politics, have I witnessed such dishonesty in a political leader. He is the most mendacious political figure I have ever witnessed. Even by the low standards of his presidential predecessors, his narcissistic, contumacious arrogance is unequalled. Using Obama as the bar, Nero would have to be elevated to sainthood... 

Many in America wanted to be proud when the first person of color was elected president, but instead, they have been witness to a congenital liar, a woman who has been ashamed of America her entire life, failed policies, intimidation, and a commonality hitherto not witnessed in political leaders. He and his wife view their life at our expense as an entitlement - while America 's people go homeless, hungry and unemployed."
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Do Bee a Bee Saver.......

Dear Friends.....

I am Thanking you in advance, for helping us in our fight against bee-killing agrochemical lobbies. 

If we, citizens, want to be as many as possible to put pressure on the European Commission and obtain a real ban on bee-killing pesticides, we must with increased energy mobilize the greater number of people. 

Pass the message around ! You only have to transfer the attached e-mail to all your contacts. 

And thank you again for this renewed help. 

SM1



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BEWARE ! The alleged ban on neonicotinoids announced by the European Commission is really a scam thought out by the agrochimical firms to obtain official agreement for the bee-killing pesticides they sell. If we do not react immediatly, this plan will be effective within a few days. Sign this petition right away to stop it !

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Right now in Brussels, an incredible scam is soon to take place that will harm bees, biodiversity… and all citizens who have been fighting for several years to ban bee killing pesticides in Europe and in every country in the world.

We must stop this action before it has dramatic consequences on the future of our farms and our food. PLEASE SIGN THE ENCLOSED EUROPEAN PETITION NOW AND PASS IT AROUND AS MUCH AS YOU CAN.

There is not one minute to lose!

After several years of relentless fighting from citizens and beekeepers, the European Commission has finally taken an official stand against three neonicotinoid pesticides which are extremely dangerous for bees (1).

Since Associations believed they had won, they had laid down their arms.

BUT …

In reality, the arrangement soon to be adopted by Brussels authorities is a disastrous compromise dictated by international agrochemical companies such as Bayer, Syngenta and such, which have been harshly lobbying for months in order to obtain such a result (2).

Their objective : to thwart the will of the european citizens and prevent a REAL ban on beekilling pesticides – against the specific advice from French and European Health Authorities (3)… IN ORDER TO HOLD ON TO THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF EUROS OF YEARLY PROFIT GAINED THROUGH THESE PRODUCTS BY THE COMPANIES PRODUCING THEM. 

Those three pesticides will be officially banned for a trial period of two years at the end of which the sanitary authorities will decide whether the ban has had an effect on the slaughtering of the bees and if a definitive ban is to be ordered.

But this alleged interdiction cannot have any effect on the health of bees.BECAUSE THE THREE BEEKILLING PESTICIDES WILL BE BANNED ONLY A FEW MONTHS A YEAR AND WILL BE PROFUSELY USED THE REST OF THE TIME - on about 85% of grains and on a large portion of the crops of fruit , vegetable and aromatic herbs – thus widely poisoning the soil and water and later spreading to the so-called «untreated» farmland.

Several studies have shown that those ultra-toxic substances can still be present in the soil three years after a treatment has been done (4)AND THAT UNTREATED CROPS WHICH ARE PLANTED ANEW IN THE SAME SOIL SHOW TRACES OF NEONICOTINOIDES EVEN IN THEIR POLLEN… THAT BEES LATER COME TO COLLECT. (5)

A the end of the two-year trial test , the companies will be able to show that bees continue to be decimated in spite of the ban on their products and thus state that they are in no way responsible. They will have succeeded in using their products and hold on to their profits - for a very long time.

This diabolic plan can only bring an unprecedented environmental disaster.

It is still possible to prevent this disaster BUT ACTING QUICKLY IS URGENT. In a few days the European Commission will adopt the final version of the european rules concerning those three pesticides.

It is urgent to act before the Commission takes a stand, if we want to obtain A REAL BAN ON THOSE PESTICIDES. CLICK HERE NOW TO SIGN UP THE EUROPEAN PETITION AGAINST THE LOBBIES!

If we do not react now, this is what will happen in the next two years: 

-Neonicotinoids will continue to be used on winter crops, thus deeply permeating soil and water.

- Untreated Spring and Summer crops will become infected by the remnants of those pesticides and will poison bees.

- Bee large-scale mortality will persist, despite the alleged ban on neonicotinoids.

Syngenta, Monsanto, Bayer and all the agrochemical laboratories will be able to claim that their products have no effect on bee mortality and will obtain the complete rehabilitation of those products on the market.

And there will be nothing left for us but to weep!

WE MUST NIP THIS DISASTROUS PLAN IN THE BUD AND DEMAND FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION A STRAIGHTFORWARD BAN ON THOSE BEEKILLING PESTICIDES, AS THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IN FACT PRETENDS TO DO.

No more compromise, no more scheming…. If a two-year test is necessary to evaluate the real impact on pollinators of those pesticides, let us do it honestly, thoroughly!

According to INRA (the very official French Institue for Agronomical Research), farmers themselves would have nothing to lose from the test: pesticide consumption could be reduced by 30 to 40% without any reduction of their income - by simply getting back to rotating cultures that would quite effectively fight parasites while significantly reducing the use of chemical treatments(6).

Imagine, for France alone, there areover 20.000 tons of ultra-toxic substances which are unecessarily spread annually on our countryside!

The only ones suffering would be the agrochemical giant firms and their profits…But Nature is not concerned with profits!

SO PLEASE HELP POLLINIS IN CREATING A REAL SHOCK WAVE THROUGH ALL OF EUROPE TO COUNTER THE AGROCHEMICAL LOBBIES THAT ARE READY TO SACRIFICE YOUR HEALTH, YOUR FOOD AND EVEN NATURE IN THE YEARS TO COME SO AS TO HOLD ON TO THEIR IMMEDIATE PROFITS.

SIGN THIS PETITION AND SEND THIS E-MAIL TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE AROUND YOU.

In advance, thank you!

 

Nicolas LAARMAN

National Secretary of Pollinis

 

If you want to know more on the subject :

 1. The text of the European Comission banning three neonicotinoids : 

 http://www.pollinis.org/IMG/doc/regulation_commission_europeenne_interdiction_3_neonicotinoides.doc

2. The excellent report from the Corporate Union Observatory : 

 http://corporateeurope.org/publications/pesticides-against-pollinators

 Or, here online, a good short resume in french from the Journal de l’Environnement .

http://www.journaldelenvironnement.net/article/comment-le-lobby-des-pesticides-se-bat-pour-les-neonicotinoides,34147

 3. In early 2013, a report from the European Authority on Food Security (EFSA) confirmed that neonicotinoides represent a major risk for bees and pollinators.

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/130116.htm?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=infocus&utm_campai gn=beehealth

 4. Neonicotinoids stick to the environment. Half the clothianidine life has been measured by the American Agency for Health Protection.

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/cleared_reviews/csr_PC-044309_2-Nov-10_b.pdf

 See also the file published in 2010 by J.DeCant et M.Barrett in the review Environmental Protection (pp.1-99) : Environmental Fate et Ecological Risk Assessment for the Registration of CLOTHIANIDIN for Use as a Seed Treatment on Mustard Seed (Oilseed and condiment) and Cotton.

5. Nenonicotinoids have a persistent polluting effect on environment in the larger sense. notably on pollen. Imidaclopride for instance can be absorbed by untreated cultures as late as two years after being first utilised and still be found in toxic quantities in the pollen and nectar of flowers that were never treated.

In 2002 and 2003, 69.1% of the pollen collected by the bees of 25 hives in five french departments, on plants either treated or untreated , were contaminated by imidacloprid, though a ban on the utilization of this neurotoxine on sunflowers has been imposed in january 1999.

6. ECOPHYTO R & D file of INRA : « Reduction of pesticides ».

 http://institut.inra.fr/Missions/Eclairer-decisions/Etudes/Toutes-les-actualites/Ecophyto-R-D

   

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