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W….T….F…… to put this into comparison, the sustained winds are a constant EF4 category tornado speed with gusts of EF5+.if you are in Florida I strongly urge you to leave.

  Weather modification at its best. 

FIRST!!!  To my friends who say they are not evacuating, I truly wish you the best and I pray for you and your family. That is absolutely no judgement on my part. ZERO. I love you all and I just want you all safe!!!

As for any comments on here that have made this political, neither side reflects my thoughts or feelings. I AM NOT A DEMOCRAT OR A REPUBLICAN. I am Libertarian !!!! Both wings come from the same bird and both wings took 3/4 of my life from me and my entire page is exposing the truth. The government doesn’t care about you. 

They don’t care if you are sick. They don’t care if you are personally dying of an illness that actually has a root cause but western medicine fails to address the root causes. 

The Biden Administration only gives you $750 and doesn’t help you in your time of need with money nor food, nor bills. Not only do they not help you during this time of need when your family is finding ways to scrape money together to go to the store and buy food, but they have their hand out collecting property taxes and saying you will go to jail if you don’t pay. THEREBY, Stop being a slave of the OLIGARCHY!!! – Search (bing.com)

 I expose the truth, it’s up to you to research and confirm it, don’t just blindly believe WHAT YOU READ. MOST WHAT I POST, MOST VISITANTS WILL TELL ME AFTER FURTHER RESEARCH OF MY BLOGS, THEY BELIEVE IT TO BE TRUE!! 5 takeaways from Kamala Harris’ one-on-one interview with ‘60 Minutes’ | CNN Politics

Kamala Harris: The 2024 60 Minutes Full Interview (youtube.com)

Kamala Harris appeared on ’60 Minutes:’ What did she say?

Watch as Vice President Kamala Harris discusses the economy, immigration, the ongoing war in the Mideast, and the differences between herself and former President Trump during a 2024 election interview. “60 Minutes” is the most successful television broadcast in history.   Microsoft Bing Travel – Westmount, Quebec (Kamala Harris Affluent Neighborhood She Grew Up In.) … You Can’t Believe a Word She SAYS.

Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen’s Top 10. Watch full episodes: http://cbsn.ws/1Qkjo1F

Category 3 Hurricanes Hit This Specific Place More Than Anywhere Else (msn.com)

Likely, not surprisingly, 29 of the 50 places on the list are in Florida, though several are part of Miami-Dade County. This is the case with other communities on the list, which tend to be in the same general geographical area. Following Florida, nine of the places on the list are in Texas, eight are in Louisiana, and four are in Mississippi.

Areas in Texas are often slammed with hurricanes. Some cities nationwide tend to experience many more hurricanes than others, and some also experience more powerful ones than others. To determine the cities with the most Category 3 and above hurricanes, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed data on historical hurricane tracks from 1842 to 2022 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ranking census places by the number of such hurricanes within their boundaries.

Hurricanes are the most damaging natural disasters in the United States, responsible for trillions of dollars in damages and thousands of lives. While destruction is the worst when hurricanes land, they can go far inland or cause considerable damage in their aftermath, such as tropical storms. Knowing an area’s propensity to be in the path of such destructive forces is good.  

Climate change has made extremely active Atlantic hurricane seasons much more likely than they were in the 1980s. Since March 2023, average sea surface temperatures around the world have hit record-shattering highs, giving storms like Milton and Helene an extra boost before they make landfall.

“Milton is the 3rd Atlantic storm to become a major hurricane since September 26 (Helene, Kirk),” Philip Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University, wrote on X. “This is the most on record for the Atlantic between September 26 – October 7, breaking the old record of 2 set in 1893, 1941 and 1959.”   

The worst hurricanes to ever hit Florida include1 2 3 4 5:

• Lake Okeechobee Hurricane (1928): A strong Category 4 storm that cost over 4,078 lives, making it the second most deadly hurricane in U.S. history.
• Hurricane Andrew (1992): Caused $30 billion in damage and claimed 26 lives directly in southern Florida.
• Hurricane Katrina (2005): While most of its damage was in New Orleans, it remains the deadliest and most expensive hurricane in modern U.S. history.
• Helene (2024): The deadliest tropical cyclone to strike the mainland United States since 2005.
• Other costly hurricanes: Florida Keys Hurricane (1919), Hurricane Charley (2004), Hurricane Wilma (2005), and Hurricane Michael (2018).

‘This is the most impactful storm we have faced’: ‘Major’ storm Hurricane Milton to make landfall as Florida reels from Helene (msn.com)

List of United States Hurricanes – Wikipedia

4 Florida Towns That Are Proving to Be Hurricane-Proof | Watch (msn.com)

As hurricanes intensify, some Florida towns are fighting back with innovative designs. Storms may have met their match in communities strengthened by new technology and smart planning. Earth temperature through the decades (bing.com)

Chris Kissell • October 7, 2024  

Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction across the eastern U.S. is another reminder of how tropical tempests can uproot homes — and lives — overnight. As the U.S. population has grown and more people have chosen to live in harm’s way, larger numbers of homeowners face the threat of destructive storms.

Unfortunately, many communities are not up to the task of surviving hurricane-force winds. But that is not true everywhere. A handful of developments specifically built to withstand hurricanes appear to be performing splendidly. Here are some Florida towns that are proving to be hurricane-proof. 

Cortez

As Hurricane Helene whipped through northern Florida.

The lights stayed on — and homes remained dry — in the Hunters Point neighborhood of the town of Cortez. Since homeowners began moving into the new community in 2002, Hunters Point has stared down three hurricanes and hasn’t blinked.

Built to survive a Category 5 storm, the homes in the Gulf Coast community feature steel straps that connect each floor together. The first floor is made of concrete, thicker lumber is used in framing and roofs are made of steel.

The homes themselves sit in a flood zone, but the first floor of each sits 16 feet off the ground. As soon as the power went out during Helene, homes in Hunters Point automatically switched to battery power. Water filled a retention system pond 7 feet deep, helping to keep floodwaters away from the community’s homes.

Babcock Ranch

At Babcock Ranch, Hurricane Ian met its match.

Like Helene, Hurricane Ian was a Category 4 storm when it crashed into southwest Florida in 2022. It was one of the state’s deadliest and costliest storms, but the 5,000 residents of Babcock Ranch emerged almost completely unscathed.

The development was the first built in Florida specifically to survive hurricanes. A few miles inland from Fort Myers, the community runs almost exclusively on solar energy, and stormwater-control features surround the homes. Tough-as-nails hardened infrastructure also presents a formidable front to incoming storms.

During Ian, nobody in Babcock Ranch lost their power, suffered flooding or lost access to clean water. More importantly, there were no casualties in the development.

Las Olas Isles

When a strong hurricane moves in, people can quickly lose their power. 

It’s not unusual in Florida for millions of residents to see their homes go dark in a storm. Hurricane Helene was a monster storm that caused folks living all across the state to lose power. But in Fort Lauderdale, on the Atlantic coast, residents of the community of Las Olas Isles were secure in the knowledge that they were likely to remain powered up despite the storm’s fury.

That is because homeowners in Las Olas Isles had fought to get their utility lines buried. Soon, power poles made way for transformer boxes on the ground. A hurricane can huff and puff, but there are no power lines to blow down in Las Olas Isles.

The cost of making the change was high: One resident estimated that if you spread out the expense over 30 years, each homeowner would pay $1,700 per year over that span. But at least 90% of homeowners in Las Olas Isles voted in favor of the initiative.

Medley

Hurricane Ian was such a fierce storm that about 2.7 million Floridians lost power in its wake. But lights continued to burn brightly in the 37 homes in the Medley at Southshore Bay community in Wimauma, a suburb of Tampa on the state’s west coast.

In Medley, a backup microgrid system has the ability to power homes. A network of batteries in the homes stores solar power gathered from panels on rooftops.

When Ian struck, homes quickly disconnected from the main power grid and turned to their batteries. The microgrid system — dubbed BlockEnergy and developed by Emera Technologies — is part of a pilot project that could eventually spread to other communities. 

 UPDATE: Hurricane Milton Threatens Florida’s West Coast: Expected Landfall Wednesday Night (msn.com)  

Love the model data on your http://TropicalTidbits.com website

‘This is the most impactful storm we have faced’: ‘Major’ storm Hurricane Milton to make landfall as Florida reels from Helene (msn.com)

Tampa mayor issues dire warning before Hurricane Milton: ‘If you choose to stay … you are going to die’ | Watch (msn.com)

Hurricane Milton morphed into a Category 5 in 2 days. Take a look at the storm’s rapid evolution from space. (msn.com)

‘You’re Gonna Die’: Tampa Mayor Sounds the Alarm for Those in Evacuation Zones as Milton Approaches (msn.com)

Biden cancels overseas trip as Milton bears down on Florida; DeSantis tells VP ‘it’s not about you Kamala’ (msn.com)

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WATCH: East Asheville community bands together after Helene washed out access road | Watch (msn.com)

Climate report warns of escalating crisis, urges immediate action as UN summit nears (msn.com)

Latest news as Hurricane Milton targets Florida – Search (bing.com)

President Biden has canceled his trip to Germany and Africa as Hurricane Milton threatens the west coast of Florida with catastrophic storm surges and winds. CBS News has the latest on the Category 4 storm.  In pictures: Monster Hurricane Milton takes aim at Florida’s battered Gulf Coast (msn.com)  

The 06z 08 Oct 2024 ECMWF ensemble model tracks for MILTON  

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Milton Update: Florida braces for monster hurricane and ‘deadly storm surge’ | Watch

Hurricane Milton’s Storm Surge Puts Florida Condos and DeSantis’ Law on Collision Course (msn.com)

Bryan Norcross: Plan to be where you’ll ride out the storm by Wednesday morning | Watch (msn.com)

FEMA administrator pushes back on Trump claims on hurricane recovery efforts

Clearwater couple say they will ‘wait it out’ in their home as Milton nears | Watch (msn.com)

I’m on the East Coast in Daytona Beach- about 3/4 miles west of Intercoastal Waterway (Halifax River), which if you cross, you’ll be on the Beachside. How bad do you anticipate the backend being?

The one thing I fear is that the current ERC does cycle out before Miltie traverses the Loop Current Eddy of hot water, because that could possibly give him enough oomph on the post-ERC restrengthening to delay the inevitable weakening due to the westerly shear and dry air before final approach to land.

Could mean the difference between Tampa Bay getting Cat 1 and Cat 3 winds.

The eye of a hurricane always travels around the central periphery of a counterclockwise current. If it’s path is between both clockwise and counterclockwise currents, the counterclockwise current shall always prevail and steer regardless of the other current being superior.

I want to make something EXTREMELY clear: 

Toss out the “what category will it be at landfall?” right now. Throw it out. Why? Categories are for WIND not SURGE. You want a category that you can relate to? Assume the surge will inflict catastrophic damage; AKA CAT 5 damage. Do not wait and see if it weakens below some threshold that makes you more comfortable. The storm surge will be unlike anything Floridians have ever seen. And….it will be at night. Category: NIGHTMARE.

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Agreed. Katrina (supposedly) weakened from a Cat 5 to a Cat 3 at landfall. Surge was still Cat 5 level. Parents house had 26 feet of water, completely submerged. (Water level is confirmed by the water line on the 2-story house next door.) What was the elevation of the property below sea level before the levees failed? 5 feet below sea level.

So the water was 21 feet higher than sea level. 21 ft surge in St Bernard Parish which is east of New Orleans. The eastern end of the parish is on the water. They were on the western end, within levees but the surge overtopped the levees. The water was still 26 feet deep. I am quite aware that the levees in NOLA broke. The levees in St Bernard on the MRGO were overtopped. St Bernard and the 9th ward flooded way before the rest of the city. 

Check Out Hurricane Milton 2024.

Milton’s storm surge is a threat that could be devastating far beyond the Tampa Bay region (msn.com)

Tampa is located in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. The average elevation of Tampa is 36 ft, with a minimum elevation of -10 ft and a maximum elevation of 148 ft1. The latitude of Tampa is 27.950575, and the elevation is 6m / 20feet2.

The surge is going to be 15 feet.

Tens of thousands of people and homes were affected. On the other hand, a Cat 5 hitting land in Tampa and then sliding up through Orlando would directly affect upwards of six million people. Hope for a Cat 3. If there’s no ocean or large bodies of water in the middle of the state then what are we supposed to pay attention to? You people only care about coastal destruction. It’s annoying as hell for us who don’t live there.

National Hurricane Center · @NHC_Atlantic

Hurricane #Milton Advisory 14A: Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters Find That Milton’S Intensity Has Rebounded. Today is the Last Full Day For Florida Residents to Get Their Families and Homes Ready and Evacuate If Told to Do So. http://hurricanes.gov

It’s worth mentioning too that #Milton has a slight chance to do (something else) unprecedented here. We have yet to observe an Atlantic hurricane w/ a sub-900mb peak re-intensify and see its central pressure fall back below 900mb a 2nd time. The closest we came to this was Hurricane Allen (1980) when it reached 899mb at peak then re-intensified back into a 909mb 155 kt category 5 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Hurricane Milton: Officials warn of life-threatening situation – Search (bing.com)

As Hurricane Milton strengthens into a Category 4 storm, officials are urging Florida residents to evacuate immediately, with the mayor of Tampa issuing a dire warning: “if you remain there, you could die.” NBC’s Tom Llamas reports for TODAY. 

Biden praises ‘cooperative’ DeSantis one day after Harris moaned Fla. gov snubbed her post-Helene phone call.

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‘It’s not about you Kamala!’ DeSantis lashes out at Harris as they spar over Hurricane Milton (msn.com)

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First major Orlando-area amusement park announces closure ahead of Hurricane Milton

Disney World Closes All Parks as Hurricane Milton Barrels Toward Orlando (msn.com)

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Joe Biden has been a failure his entire career: Mark Levin | Fox News Video

A look at Biden’s nearly 50 years in political office (voanews.com)

July 21, 2024 3:40 PM

• By VOA News

U.S. President Joe Biden, who announced Sunday that he would not seek reelection in this year’s presidential race, has served in Washington for nearly half a century — in the Senate, as vice president and, lastly, in the Oval Office.

When Biden leaves the White House in January, he will have spent almost his entire career in national politics. Turning 82 in November, Biden will have been in public life longer than some of his Democratic colleagues have been alive.

Questions about Biden’s age have bookended his Washington career.

In 1972, he surprised Democrats by winning a long-shot Senate race at the age of 29, becoming the sixth-youngest senator in American history. Now his advancing age is one of the key reasons that led Democratic leaders to urge him to withdraw from the November presidential race, with polls showing that most Americans believe he is too old to serve another presidential term.

Biden’s decades as a public elected official have led to a long record of both career successes and setbacks. Here is a look at key moments in his career.

Presidential years

Biden’s years as president were marked by numerous global challenges, among them the grueling COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a newly emboldened China and the economic and social fallout of all of those.

Domestically, Biden struggled to address rising inflation — the highest in four decades — that sharply boosted the cost of living for Americans, as well as deal with rising migration along southern U.S. border and issues of social, racial and gender justice.

Biden, as a presidential candidate in 2020, promised to restore civility to the White House after former President Donald Trump’s administration, marked almost daily by his vitriolic tweets targeting Democrats, his political foes in the Republican Party and the national news media. Biden pledged to work across the political divide in Congress to achieve legislative success.

To an extent, Biden was successful, winning a smattering of Republican votes for key pieces of legislation to spend billions of dollars to repair the country’s aging and deteriorating roads and bridges, promote the American production of computer chips, and install new gun controls — the first enacted in nearly three decades in the United States.

FILE – President Joe Biden speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, March 3, 2022.

In separate legislation, Democrats, over unified Republican opposition, approved a coronavirus economic relief bill and later, a $369 billion plan to help control the effects of climate change, the biggest such U.S. allocation ever to help protect the environment.

The substantial government spending, however, has proved problematic, with some economists blaming it for the rampant increase in U.S. consumer prices that have yet to totally recede.

In perhaps his biggest foreign policy achievement, Biden led a coalition of Western nations that sent billions of dollars’ worth of armaments to Ukraine to help Kyiv’s military fend off Russian forces that had initially been expected to overrun the capital within days of their February 2022 invasion. However, even with Biden’s unwavering support, the war has become a stalemate with no easy end in sight.

Also on the foreign front, Biden’s approval ratings declined sharply after 13 U.S. soldiers were killed in the withdrawal of U.S. and allied forces from Afghanistan.

The Israel-Hamas conflict also led to challenges for Biden, who stood by Israel even after pro-Palestinian protests erupted on U.S. college campuses. As the war has dragged on, now in its 10th month, Biden has called for it to end and has grown critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conduct of the conflict.

Vice presidency

Before Biden ran for the White House in 2020, he was a top adviser to President Barack Obama during his eight years as vice president, beginning in 2009.

Biden was put in charge of many large projects, including the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and the distribution of hundreds of billions of federal dollars to state and local governments to help the economy recover from the Great Recession, while working closely with the-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to avoid government shutdowns and debt defaults.

When Obama surprises Biden in 2017 with the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Obama described him as “the best vice president America ever had.”

FILE – President Barack Obama laughs with Vice President Joe Biden during a ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Jan. 12, 2017.

The two men were famously affectionate, chronicled in countless internet memes, and their families were also close, including a friendship between first lady Michelle Obama and second lady Jill Biden as well friendships between Obama’s daughters and Biden’s granddaughters.

Obama chose Biden as his vice presidential running mate in large part because of Biden’s long experience on the international stage as a U.S. senator, which Obama hoped would balance his own limited experience in that area.

Biden was long thought of as a possible successor to Obama, but he did not run for president in 2016, citing his family’s grief following the death of his son, Beau, from brain cancer at the age of 46. However, reporting in 2019 by The New York Times said Obama had discouraged Biden from running for president in 2016 because he believed then-front runner Hillary Clinton had the best chance of winning the general election.

Senate years

After Biden won his Senate race to represent Delaware in 1972, he spent the next 36 years in the chamber, commuting by train most days over a hundred miles between Wilmington and Washington. He rose through the Democratic ranks and twice served as the head of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee and once as the chairman of the coveted Senate Judiciary Committee.

Known as someone who could work across the aisle with Republicans such as John McCain and Chuck Hagel, Biden had always advocated for bipartisanship. However, despite his ties with Republican lawmakers, he struggled to parlay his relationships into legislative successes when he came to the Oval Office.

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CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten and Jake Tapper discuss recent polling in battleground states and the issues many voters are watching closely ahead of the presidential election. 

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FILE – U.S. President Bill Clinton talks with Senator Joseph Biden at a meeting with law enforcement officers at the Alexandria, Virginia, Jan. 14, 1999.

Biden’s successes in the Senate included sponsoring the Violence Against Women Act, which made it easier to prosecute domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. He was also instrumental in helping to pass the Brady Bill, which required background checks for the purchase of most firearms.

Critics say that in retrospect, some of his votes were failures. Biden has expressed regret for several of his Senate decisions, including supporting the 1994 crime bill that contributed to higher incarceration rates of African Americans and his vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

He was also criticized for his role as chairman of the 1991 confirmation hearings for Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, who was accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill. In 2019, Biden offered an apology — not his first — about the situation, saying “To this day, I regret I couldn’t come up with a way to get [Hill] the kind of hearing she deserved.” Hill and her supporters have blamed Biden for not doing enough to protect her from being vilified during the hearing.

Presidential runs

Before his successful presidential run in 2020, Biden had twice earlier run for the presidency, failing in 1988 and 2008, to gain the nomination of his Democratic party.

He eventually won the national election in 2020 against Trump, who has refused to recognize Biden’s victory and continues to claim falsely that he was cheated out of reelection by voter fraud and vote-counting irregularities. Biden won the election by narrowly capturing several political battleground states to win the Electoral College by a 306-232 margin, the same total that Trump declared was a “landslide” when he won the presidency in 2016.

Biden won 7 million more votes than Trump, but U.S. presidents actually win office in state-by-state elections, with the most populous states having the most votes in the Electoral College and thus the most sway in the determining the national outcome.

When he took office as president on January 20, 2021, Biden, at 78, became the country’s oldest chief executive, surpassing Trump, who was 70 when he entered the White House in 2017.

1. CNN https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/08/politics/kamala-harris-ke…Promises Kamala Harris has made so far in her campaign – CNN WEB Sept. 29, 2024 · In policy proposals, speeches and rallies, Vice President Kamala Harris has voiced support for continuing many of President Joe Biden’s measures, but Harris is expected to put her own stamp and …

VIDEO: Capito Highlights Three Years of Failure from President Biden and his Administration

“Our country cannot continue to accept the level of failure that this administration has made normal over the past three years.” – Senator Capito

Click here or on the image above to watch Senator Capito’s floor speech.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, delivered remarks on the Senate Floor highlighting the failures of President Biden’s three years in the White House. Saturday, January 20, marked the third anniversary of President Biden’s inauguration.

During her remarks, Senator Capito outlined the consequences of the Biden administration’s border policy, weak foreign policy record, and disastrous action regarding the economy.

Senator Capito’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, are included below:

“Mr/Madam President—

“This past Saturday, January 20th, marked three years since President Biden took his oath of office. Since then, President Biden has had nearly 1,100 days in the White House to enact the policies that he campaigned on and I can tell you what is clear:

“The lives of Americans are not better now than they were three years ago. Our country is not safer than it was three years ago. And, the state of our union is not stronger than it was three years ago.

“Time and time again, President Biden has let his tenure be defined by weakness instead of strength. This lack of leadership has had negative implications across a variety of sectors of American life, and left millions of people across our country and world in situations that were avoidable.

“It doesn’t have to be this way, Mr. President.

“Perhaps none of the Biden administration’s failures is as glaringly obvious as the southern border and the continued fallout we’re seeing as the result of a president who is asleep at the switch on the issue.

“There have been 6.7 million illegal encounters at the southern border under President Biden’s watch. It’s hard to imagine the scope of 6.7 million encounters – but think of it this way: Only 17 U.S. states have a population higher than 6.7 million. This massive flow of humanity is the equivalent of adding another state to our country that is nearly four times the size of my home state of West Virginia.

“But, President Biden’s border failure doesn’t stop there. Since Fiscal Year 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seized 536,000 pounds of meth, 256,000 pounds of cocaine, and 56,000 pounds of deadly fentanyl.

“With hundreds of thousands of admitted got-aways, it’s impossible to know the amount of illegal narcotics that have made it across the border and into our homeland. When it comes to the southern border, the only thing that President Biden has improved is the business of cartels, who are receiving cover to continue their crimes every day that we don’t respond to this crisis.

“The list of consequences as a result of President Biden’s inaction on the border is long and it has led to everything from violent crimes committed by individuals not lawfully in our country, to our hospitals and health clinics being pushed to the brink. To our children forced to vacate their schools and remote learn to make room for migrant shelters, and even calls from the leaders of blue states, who sent a letter on Monday asking for federal assistance to handle this crisis.

“Rather than properly defending our homeland, President Biden has incentivized a crisis that urgently needs a solution. “Unfortunately for this administration, when it comes to failures, the border is just the beginning. Let’s look at the economy, and where the unrelenting pursuit of ‘Bidenomics’ has taken us.

“President Biden and his supporters want the American public to believe that some positive trends are a sign that his policies are working. But, if you have spent any time in middle-class America over the past three years, you would know that our families are continuously being squeezed by high prices and businesses are being taxed and regulated out of operation.

“The quality of life for American families is defined by their ability to put food on the table, to earn an honest living, and to put a roof over their heads, not by broad macroeconomic indicators and unfortunately, there is no relief in-sight for American families under ‘Bidenomics.’

“Since January 2021: Cumulative overall prices have risen 17%. Food prices have increased 20%. Energy prices have increased 32%. And, rent prices have increased 19%. All while average weekly earnings for all employees decreased by 4.5%. The basic truth is that under this president: Americans are spending more and getting less.

“Additionally, these policies defined by ‘Bidenomics’ are failing our small businesses and manufactures as well. Small and medium manufacturing companies continue to have historically lower levels of optimism. And, 23% of small business owners reported that inflation was their single most important problem to their business operations.

“Another area in which this administration has continued to fail is our national security, and the standing of our country on the world stage. The same president who vowed that ‘America is Back’ in one of his first addresses has instead come to own a foreign policy record that is marred by botched withdrawals, open displays of weakness, and regretful decision-making.

“Look no further than the United States’ disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, which undoubtedly has damaged the trust between our allies, broadcasted weakness on the world stage, and displayed a lack of resolve that emboldened our adversaries.

“When it comes to Iran and the Middle East, President Biden has made disastrous decisions: Like the decision to de-list the Houthis as an FTO, the same Iranian-backed terror group that has perpetrated more than 30 attacks on vessels transiting the Red Sea. Or the administration’s willingness to be strung along by Iran on fruitless nuclear negotiations. Today, it is clear that these negotiations were a waste of time – with Iran now rapidly increasing its production of highly enriched uranium. And how could we forget the decision to unfreeze $6 billion in assets to Iran, and to do so on 9/11 of all days.

“The foreign policy of President Biden has been defined by skyrocketing attacks on U.S. troops by foreign adversaries, a large scale ground war in Europe, and the unprecedented buildup of China’s military amid concerns about the health of our own defense industrial base here at home.

“While there is an undeniable lack of American leadership in our executive branch, we must remind ourselves that it is not too late to reverse course. And while Congressional Republicans did not create these issues at hand, we accept the responsibility of attempting to solve them.

“That is why Republicans stand for solutions that change the border policies that have allowed this crisis to thrive, rein in wasteful Washington spending, support our small businesses, manufactures, and middle-class families, unleash American energy, and that prove the true strength and standing of the United States of America on the world stage.

“Our country cannot continue to accept the level of failure that this administration has made normal over the past three years.

“With that, I yield the floor.”

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The American People Are Smart They Know Joe Biden Is A Failed President

Washington, January 26, 2024 Tags: Biden’s National Security Crisis , Biden’s Culture Crisis , Biden’s Economic Crisis , Biden’s Border Crisis , National Security , Foreign Affairs , An Economy That’s Strong , A Government That’s Accountable , A Future That’s Built On Freedom , A Nation That’s Safe

Biden Failed on All Accounts to the American People.

Joe Biden’s average job approval rating during his third year in office was the lowest of any president since Jimmy Carter. This is unsurprising given the numerous crises Americans face because of Biden’s failed Far Left policies. 

According to Gallup: 

“During President Joe Biden’s third full year in office, spanning Jan. 20, 2023, to Jan. 19, 2024, an average of 39.8% of Americans approved of his job performance. Among prior presidents in the Gallup polling era who were elected to their first term, only Jimmy Carter fared worse in his third year.”

MAKE NO MISTAKE: The American people know that Joe Biden is a failed president. Biden’s reckless Far Left policies are directly responsible for our historic border crisis, which has resulted in over 3 million illegal immigrants being released into our country in FY23 alone by the Biden Administration. Bidenomics continues to fail the American people, costing the average American worker a paycheck and a half per year and the typical American household over $11,400 more a year to buy the basics. Joe Biden’s weakness on the world stage has plunged the world into chaos as our adversaries in Beijing, Moscow, Tehran, and around the world have become emboldened. 

BIDEN’S BORDER CRISIS BY THE NUMBERS:

• Since Joe Biden took office:
  • There have been 8 million illegal crossings nationwide. 
  • There have been OVER 6.7 MILLION illegal crossings of our Southern Border.
  • There have been 1.7 million known gotaways who evaded U.S. Border Patrol.  
• In November, there were 242,418 illegal immigrants encountered at the Southern Border.
  • This is a 236% increase from November 2020. 
  • November was the 33rd straight month, where monthly illegal immigrant encounters have been higher than even the highest month seen under President Trump. 
• In November, 18 more individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watchlist were stopped trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border between ports of entry. 
• So far under Biden, 312 of these individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watchlist were stopped trying to cross the Southern Border.
• In FY23, 169 people whose names appear on the terrorist watchlist were stopped trying to cross the Southern Border, an all time record.
  • This total is more than the encounters in all FY17, FY18, FY19, FY20, FY21, and FY22 combined. 
• Biden’s Far Left open border policies are to blame for this historic crisis.
  • During Biden’s first 100 days in office, he took 94 executive actions on immigration, including halting the construction of the border wall. 
  • In August 2022, Biden and his Administration decided to make the border crisis WORSE by formally ending former President Trump’s successful ‘Remain in Mexico’ program.
  • The Biden Administration announced on May 10, 2023, that it would allow for the release of some migrants into the U.S. with no way to track them.
    • Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has now admitted that 40 percent of catch-and-release migrants have disappeared. 
• Despite this historic crisis Joe Biden has only visited the southern border ONCE, and it was widely panned as nothing more than a photo-op.     

BIDENOMICS BY THE NUMBERS: 

• Inflation is a tax on ALL Americans. 
• When Joe Biden took office, inflation was at just 1.4%. 
• Since Joe Biden took office inflation has risen by 17.2%
  • Electricity is UP 26.6% since Biden took office.
  • Motor vehicle insurance is UP 20.3% since Biden took office.
  • Food prices are UP 20.2% since Biden took office.
• Americans are paying more for just about everything because of inflation:
  • Frozen noncarbonated juices and drinks are UP 19.1%
  • Rent prices are UP 18.6%
  • Food from vending machines and mobile vendors is UP 13.1%
  • Uncooked beef steaks are UP 11.2%
  • Motor vehicle repair is UP 10.3%
  • Transportation services are UP 9.7%
  • Uncooked beef roasts are UP 8.9%
  • Nonprescription drugs are UP 8.3%
  • Crackers, bread, and cracker products are UP 7.7%
  • Baby food and formula is UP 7.3%
  • Sugar and sugar substitutes are UP 6.9%
  • Rent of primary residence is UP 6.5%
  • Shelter is UP 6.2%
  • Frozen vegetables are UP 6.1%
  • Food away from home is UP 5.2%
  • Pet food is UP 5.1%
• Under Joe Biden’s failed economic agenda, Americans are spending $11,400 more annually to buy the basics.   

BIDEN’S NATIONAL SECURITY CRISIS:

• Joe Biden has failed to stand up to our adversaries in Beijing, Tehran, and Moscow. 
• Iranian-backed terrorists have launched numerous missile strikes on American servicemembers stationed in the Middle East.
  • These strikes have injured multiple American servicemembers. 
• While American servicemembers were under attack, Iranian-backed terrorist Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was MIA, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks was on vacation in Puerto Rico.
  • On January 1, 2024, Austin was hospitalized. The Department of Defense did not disclose Austin’s hospitalization to President Biden, Congress, senior Defense Department officials, or senior White House national security staff for several days. 
  • Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks was not informed of Austin’s hospitalization when she assumed his duties and was on vacation in Puerto Rico.
  • In the chain of command, the Secretary of Defense serves as the connection through which the President commands and controls our armed forces; it is unknown who was calling the shots while Austin was hospitalized. 
  • The House Committee on Armed Services, under the leadership of Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL) has launched a formal inquiry into Secretary Austin’s failure to disclose his hospitalization and incapacitation.
• The Biden Administration allowed a Chinese surveillance balloon to traverse the entire continental U.S. over the course of 7 days,gathering intelligence and flying over sensitive military sites, before taking action.
  • The balloon entered U.S. airspace on January 28th over the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
  • Despite President Biden knowing of the threat and invasion of U.S. airspace violating our national sovereignty, he waited 5 days before issuing an order to shoot down the balloon.
  • The American people deserve to know why Joe Biden allowed this national security threat for so long, why he tried to hide it from the American people, and what information our foreign adversaries were gathering. 
• Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan resulted in:
  • OVER 1,000 Americans were abandoned behind enemy lines for months at the mercy of the Taliban and $7 billion in U.S. military equipment was left behind. 
• Under Biden, the U.S. Army fell 15,000 soldiers short of their recruitment goal for FY22, missing by 25%.
• According to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy, who testified before the Senate Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee, “This constitutes an unprecedented mission gap.”
• The Army projects the number of active duty soldiers could drop by as much as 6% in FY23, below the branch’s budgeted target request for the year. 

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The year 2024 was a record-breaking one, and not in a good way. In July, Earth’s average temperature was the highest it has been in at least 175 years, with July 22 specifically being the hottest day on record. This past summer was the hottest summer since about the year 1880, this year’s hurricane season started with Beryl — the earliest Category 4 hurricane on record — and a report published in June confirmed that human-driven global warming is at an all-time high. 

But it isn’t just the headline-making record-breakers that scientists are worried about. As of this year, glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates due to all this human-induced heat, sea levels are irreversibly rising as a result of those glaciers melting, coastal communities are being ravaged by storms exacerbated through such sea level rise combined with high temperatures, and animals are getting evicted from their homes because Earth is changing too much, too quickly. Just last month, we saw Hurricane Helene destroy towns and claim lives — and its strength has indeed been connected to climate change.go

It’s certainly heavy to see the facts laid out like this, especially considering how much those paragraphs leave unsaid. This feeling, however, brings to the forefront something very important: it is, on a baseline level, valuable that this information exists at all. Perhaps the biggest limiting step in the fight against climate change is turning facts into actionable tasks and, in turn, convincing policymakers to start making major changes in the way our world is run. The climate crisis is a deceptively political problem, meaning the future of Earth hinges on data — and, depending on how you see it, that data hinges on an unlikely source: space exploration. 

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“The only way we can draw connections between the various phenomena that drive the complex functioning of our planet, tease out the natural and the human-driven, is to connect the dots among them,” Cedric David, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, told Space.com. 

“For this, we need an ongoing fleet of space sentinels up high in space,” he said. “The same way we do annual checkups at the family doctor, we need to diagnose the health of our own planet.”  

What exactly do climate satellites do? 

The word “satellite” is thrown around a lot these days, but in basic terms, it just refers to any object sent to live in our planet’s orbit to perform a designated task. We have communications satellites to make our cellphones work, navigation satellites to make Google Maps give us correct driving directions and experimental satellites for the purpose of pure science, like this one that’s presently testing solar sail technology. 

Amid the satellite party, we also have climate satellites.

“NASA and other international space agencies inspire the world with our exploration of planets in our solar system and beyond,” David said. “But a significant impact that space research has had has also been a much better understanding of our own planet.” 

For example, there are satellites with spectrometers that can reveal the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, which is important because experts have revealed that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are increasing primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil. More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means a “supercharged” greenhouse gas effect, as the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) puts it — and a supercharged greenhouse gas effect means a global temperature rise. To be clear, there is such a thing as “natural” climate change. But, right now, nature isn’t the primary driver of global warming. Human activities are, as research has shown time and again.

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Furthermore, there are many satellites, like NASA’s Landsat spacecraft, that can procure images of how forests are decreasing in size as industries chop them down to make room for commercial ventures. Imagery can also help track things like changing animal habitats, forced wildlife migration and diminishing food supply for certain species. There are also spacecraft with lasers that can help measure the rate at which ice caps are melting. Still others have synthetic aperture radars that show how our planet responds to earthquakes, which could increase in frequency as the Earth warms. 

“Having worked at NASA for 10 years, I’ve seen a good number of remote observations that have really given me pause to reflect,” David said. “The most incredible, to me, is gravimetry.” 

Satellite gravimetry helps scientists measure Earth’s gravitational influence — and most importantly, subtle changes in our planet’s gravitational field. As gravitational force is directly correlated with objects of mass, this means the technique can precisely measure when ice mass is lost, how oceans are rising and even fluctuations in groundwater supply. “Satellites can see what we cannot with our own eyes: changes in deep underground water storage that would require us to dig deep in the ground to witness firsthand,” David said. 

“That’s just mind-blowing.”  

Earth’s future is our future 

The list goes on — and that’s a good thing. Having so much data allows scientists to do their due diligence, compiling extensive amounts of evidence for people in power to peruse before making climate-impacting decisions. During huge climate meetings— the COP conferences are probably the most well-known — that evidence can be presented to officials as part of a case for change. Without information, communication isn’t easy.

But oftentimes, satellite data is practical in the short term as well. 

Hurricane watchers, for instance, help meteorologists predict where storms are going to fall — a crucial task, as these storms are bound to grow in intensity as well as frequency as the climate warms — and methane emission trackers can identify where exactly greenhouse-gas hotspots are located. 

David also points out that, in a 2018 report, the U.S. National Academies recommended NASA build a series of spacecraft that will together form the Earth System Observatory, or ESO. This observatory, he explains, would have the duty of sensing the movements of our planet’s atmosphere, the generation of rain, the ups and downs of continents and the continued movements of mass around the world. 

However, there’s still a lot more that can be done.

“One grand challenge remains: the accurate measurement of our snowpacks from space. Snow is notoriously difficult to quantify; we can see the area it covers, but it’s still difficult to sense how deep it is and how dense it is,” he said. “Given that many regions — including California, where I live — for which snowmelt is a primary source of freshwater, advancing our understanding of snow in areas that are difficult to access is imperative.”

David believes all of this information is “absolutely essential.” But I asked him to pick the one most useful kind of satellite data to have while forming possible solutions to climate change; he picked radar altimetry.

“We’ve had a series of radar altimetry satellites circling around our Earth in constant operation since 1992 that have allowed us to see the undeniable: oceans are in constant rise,” he said. “The 30-year-long curves of sea level rise are unquestionable evidence that our climate is changing.”

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In other words, we have a continuous stream of data telling us the same thing again, and again, and again: Earth’s climate is changing, and it’s because of the humans that populate it. It is this kind of data that should be dictating our response. 

“As we continue to explore our universe and inspire people, we are constantly reminded that, so far, the only place where we have found life is right here on Earth,” David said. “We can keep looking for a Plan B, but so far, there is only Plan A: our own planet.” 

Let’s look at the Two Factors

1. The ever-growing human consumption and population is the biggest cause of forest destruction due to the vast amounts of resources, products, and services we take from it.
   
   Half the world’s rainforests have been destroyed in a century; at this rate you could see them vanish altogether in your lifetime! We must take action so that these forests, its plants and animals and us humans who depend on them continue to live. Deforestation is in fact considered the second major driver of climate change (more than the entire global transport sector), responsible for 18-25% of global annual carbon dioxide emissions.
   
   Direct human causes of deforestation include logging, agriculture, cattle ranching, mining, oil extraction and dam-building.

 Every year about 18m hectares of forest – an area the size of England and Wales – is cleared 

World Resources Institute

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BANNER PHOTO: Tropical rainforest along the shoreline of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Photo by Faizal Abdul/CIFOR.

Tropical rainforests are one of the world’s most complex ecosystems. These hot and humid forests harbor millions of species—10 percent of the world’s known species can be found in the Amazon alone—which together form a unique structure that rises in stories from the forest floor to the tops of the tallest trees. Each of these layers holds its own unique community of plants, animals and other creatures that interact to create a rainforest. This complex ecosystem is a sum that is truly more than its parts, but its complexity means that disturbances to individual layers are in fact threats to the entire forest’s natural order.  

The rainforest floor: Where dead things go to… well, die

Rainforests, like all forests, begin with the soil. Despite the vast amount of life it supports, rainforest soils are actually very nutrient poor, lacking minerals like phosphorus, calcium and magnesium which typically come from weathered rocks and earning them the moniker “wet deserts”.

What the forest floor is rich in however, is fungi, bacteria and insects that drive the process of decomposition. Because of the hot and humid environment, the nutrients present in organic matter are cycled out of the soil and into growing vegetation extremely rapidly. Animals or bits of foliage that die and fall to the forest floor are quickly scavenged by other organisms to support the forest’s rapid growth.

This hungry system is therefore strongly impacted by anything that interferes with the flow of nutrients. Hydroelectric dams, for example, can halt the flow of sediments downriver. There are currently 140 dams either built or under construction in the Amazon basin that are trapping nutrients behind their concrete walls.

What the rainforest floor lacks in nutrients it makes up for in carbon storage. Carbon from organic matter is stashed away in the soil over centuries of forest growth, yet it can be released in a matter of years. Clear cutting forests unlocks the carbon stored in forest soils, making it more likely to be released into the atmosphere, contributing to climate change. 

The understory: The rainforest’s dark basement shelter

One layer up from the forest floor is the understory. Here light is at a premium. The thick vegetation above means that at most, only about 5% of the bright tropical sunshine will reach the residents of the understory. The plants that grow here have adapted to the shady conditions with wide leaves to trap every fleck of sunlight. Thick canopy vegetation also shields the understory from harsh winds and rain, sheltering growing seedlings.

Understory fires in the satellite imageryEven with advancements in fire detection using remote sensing, some fires still go unnoticed in the satellite imagery. Understory fires are notoriously hard to detect because of their slow-moving, low-intensity nature. Because of this they are often shielded from the view of satellites by the canopy overhead— even as the sustained heat causes serious damage to young trees and shrubs below.

In a healthy, mature rainforest, the understory will be relatively empty. Thick, scrubby vegetation is indicative of some disturbance that has opened a light gap. Any form of clearing opens up the roof of the forest and the downpour of sunlight favors fast growing shrubs and vines over the slower-growing saplings of keystone tree species. Harsh sun and wind also dries out clearings and the edges of the forest, making them susceptible to burning. 

When farmers clear rainforest for crops or livestock using fire, the flames can easily escape into the understory of the surrounding forest. These understory fires are often not big enough to destroy large trees, but they do kill small thin-barked trees and young saplings, creating even more dry, dead wood that increases the risk of further fires.

Areas with clearing between 2001 and 2018 (left) align with high fire risk weather conditions in Brazil. Fire weather risk recorded as of March 7, 2020.  

The canopy: A tree top power station

Above the understory and knit together by the thick crowns of the trees is the canopy. Up here it is warm, sunny and crowded, like a popular beach vacation spot. An estimated 50-90% of life in the rainforest lives up in the trees—swinging, squawking and slithering through the branches.

The canopy is the main site of interchange for energy, water vapor and atmospheric gasses like oxygen and carbon dioxide. Canopy leaves act as trillions of tiny solar panels converting the strong sunlight to energy, and water evaporating from the trees contributes to the humid climate around tropical rainforests.

The canopy is also populated by a class of plants called epiphytes, which grow in the “canopy soils” (decaying leaves and organic matter caught in the crooks of tree branches) and pull most of their nutrients from the air. This makes them particularly vulnerable to air pollution.

A recent study found that increased levels of nitrogen and phosphorus in the atmosphere from human activity can lead to alterations in the chemical make-up of the canopy soils which could have big impacts on the diversity of canopy life— the same way polluted runoff can cause algal blooms in water. 

The emergent layer: Ancient pillars of the forest

The emergent layer is composed of the oldest and tallest trees. Breaking through the canopy and sometimes reaching over 200 meters above the ground, emergent trees are the “kings” of the rainforest. These keystone hardwood species like Brazil Nut, Mahogany and Kapok provide critical habitat for large birds and primates. This layer is threatened particularly by selective logging practices. 

Large emergent trees are targeted for their value as timber. Some species of birds like Macaws nest in large cavities found exclusively in these old growth trees and therefore suffer these losses hardest. Additionally, although only one tree is cut, woody vines called lianas that are strung between trees often pull down others as the cut tree falls, and the infrastructure required to move logging equipment into the thick forest tears down trees along the way.

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Logging roads expanding into the Peruvian Amazon. Roads like these typically precede further loss in the surrounding forest.

One rainforest

Although each layer of the rainforest is distinct, they are inextricably connected—by animals dispersing seeds and plants cycling nutrients up to the canopy and back down again. Research has even shown that trees communicate with each other via mutualistic relationships with fungi. Damage done to one segment of the forest ripples down and outward, often having broader impacts than are immediately visible.

Understanding these connections, both within the forest and to the wider global climate, highlights the need to tread carefully when it comes to rainforests. Their complexity and interconnected structure mean seemingly small actions can cause unexpected damage.

Logging

Logging is believed to be the second largest cause of deforestation. Timber companies cut down huge trees such as mahogany and teak and sell them to other countries to make furniture. Smaller trees are often used for the production of charcoal. Vast areas of rainforest are cut in one go (clear felling) and the most valuable trees are selected for timber, leaving the others for wood chipping. The roads that are created in order to cut and remove the timber often lead to further damage: see the effect of forest roads under “Oil Companies”.

Unsustainable agriculture

Much of the fruit, cereals and pulses we buy from tropical countries have been grown in areas where tropical rainforests once thrived. The forests are cut down to make way for vast plantations where products such as bananas, palm oil, pineapple, sugar cane, tea and coffee are grown. As with cattle ranching, the soil will not sustain crops for long, and after a few years the farmers have to cut down more rainforest for new plantations.

Cattle ranching

Many rainforests in Central and South America have been burnt down to make way for cattle farming, which supplies beef to the rest of the world. It is estimated that for each pound of beef produced, 200 square feet of rainforest are destroyed. The cleared land cannot be used for long without the forests’ nourishment. The soil soon becomes dry and the cattle farmers then have to move on to create new cattle pastures leaving a trail of destruction.

Mining

The demand for minerals and metals such as oil, aluminium, copper, gold and diamonds mean that rainforests are destroyed to access the ground below. Developed nations relentlessly demand minerals and metals such as oil, aluminium, copper, gold and diamonds, which are often found in the ground below rainforests. The forest therefore has to be removed in order to extract them. Poisonous chemicals are sometimes used to separate the waste from the minerals, for example mercury, which is used to separate gold from the soil and debris with which it is mixed. These chemicals often end up in rivers, polluting water supplies which local people depend on, killing fish and affecting the river’s ecosystem.

Oil companies

Rainforests are seriously affected by oil companies searching for new oil deposits. Often large roads are built through untouched forests in order to build pipelines and extract the oil. This encourages settlers to move into previously pristine forests and start slash-and-burn farming or cutting more timber to sell or to produce charcoal. Once established, the oil pipelines which transport the oil sometimes rupture, spouting gallons of oil into the surrounding forest, killing wildlife and contaminating the water supplies of local villages.

Dams

The World Bank and large companies invest money in developing countries to build dams for the generation of electricity. This is often viewed as renewable ‘clean’ energy, but it can involve flooding vast areas of rainforest. Dams built in rainforest areas often have a short life because the submerged forest gradually rots, making the reservoir water acidic, which eventually corrodes the dam turbines.

What is the Relationship Between Deforestation And Climate Change?

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What, exactly, is the relationship between deforestation and climate change? 

The Rainforest Alliance breaks down the numbers for you—and explains our innovative approach to keeping forests standing.

Among the many gifts forests give us is one we desperately need: help with slowing climate change. Trees capture greenhouse gases (GHGs) like carbon dioxide, preventing them from accumulating in the atmosphere and warming our planet.

When we clear forests, we’re not only knocking out our best ally in capturing the staggering amount of GHGs we humans create (which we do primarily by burning fossil fuels at energy facilities, and of course, in cars, planes, and trains). We’re also creating emissions by cutting down trees: when trees are felled, they release into the atmosphere all the carbon they’ve been storing. What the deforesters do with the felled trees—either leaving them to rot on the forest floor or burning them—creates further emissions. All told, deforestation on its own causes about 10 percent of worldwide emissions.

Knowing that deforestation robs us of a crucial weapon in the battle against climate change—and creates further emissions—why on Earth would anyone clear a forest? The main reason is agriculture. The world’s exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

But there’s a tragic irony to clearing rainforests for agriculture: their underlying soils are extremely poor. All the nutrient-richness is locked up in the forests themselves, so once they are burned and the nutrients from their ashes are used up, farmers are left with utterly useless soil. So on they go to the next patch of forest: raze, plant, deplete, repeat. All told, agriculture is responsible for at least 80 percent of tropical deforestation.

Not surprisingly, agriculture causes emissions, too—in fact, farm emissions are second only to those of the energy sector in the dubious contest for the emissions title. In 2011, farms were responsible for about 13 percent of total global emissions. Most farm-related emissions come in the form of methane (cattle belching) and nitrous oxide (from fertilizers and the like).

All told, deforestation causes a triple-whammy of global warming:

1. We lose a crucial ally in keeping excess carbon out of the atmosphere (and in slowing global warming),
2. Even more emissions are created when felled trees release the carbon they’d been storing, and rot or burn on the forest floor, and
3. What most often replaces the now-vanished forest, livestock and crops, generate massive amounts of even more greenhouse gases. Taken together, these emissions account for a quarter of all emissions worldwide.

Our accounting of the ugly impacts of deforestation only considers emissions and doesn’t even touch on how the lives and traditions of forest communities are ruined when forests are razed, or how many species of plants and animals are lost, upsetting the delicate balance of ecosystems. The uptick in mosquito-borne diseases, for example, or the rapid spread of roya, an insidious plant disease that threatens our supply of coffee are all indirect consequences of deforestation and global warming.

There’s no doubt about it: the best thing we can do to fight climate change is keep forests standing. Yet the need to feed a rapidly growing global population—projected to reach 9 billion by 2050—is urgent. That’s why the Rainforest Alliance works with farmers to advance a variety of strategies, such as crop intensification (growing more food on less land), and with traditional forest-dwellers to develop livelihoods that don’t hurt forests or ecosystems. We stand more of a chance in this fight with forests standing strong.

The Second Factor is the Indian Ocean brown cloud.

For China, see Air pollution in China.

The Indian Ocean brown cloud or The Asian brown cloud is a layer of air pollution that recurrently covers parts of South Asia, namely the northern Indian Ocean, India, and Pakistan.^[1][2] Viewed from satellite photos, the cloud appears as a giant brown stain hanging in the air over much of the Indian subcontinent and the Indian Ocean every year between October and February, possibly also during earlier and later months. The term was coined in reports from the UNEP Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX). It was found to originate mostly due to farmers burning stubble in Punjab and to lesser extent Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The debilitating air quality in Delhi is also due to the stubble burning in Punjab.^[3]

The term atmospheric brown cloud is used for a more generic context not specific to the Asian region.^[4]

Causes

The Asian brown cloud is created by a range of airborne particles and pollutants from combustion (e.g., woodfires, cars, and factories), biomass burning^[5] and industrial processes with incomplete burning.^[6] The cloud is associated with the winter monsoon (October/November to February/March) during which there is no rain to wash pollutants from the air.^[7]

Observations

This pollution layer was observed during the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) intensive field observation in 1999 and described in the UNEP impact assessment study published 2002.^[3] Scientists in India claimed that the Asian Brown cloud is not something specific to Asia.^[8] Subsequently, when the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) organized a follow-up international project, the subject of study was renamed the Atmospheric Brown Cloud with focus on Asia.

The cloud was also reported by NASA in 2004^[9] and 2007.^[10]

Although aerosol particles are generally associated with a global cooling effect, recent studies have shown that they can actually have a global warming effect in certain regions such as the Himalayas.^[11]

Impacts

Health problems

One major impact is on health. A 2002 study indicated nearly two million people die each year, in Asia alone, from conditions related to the brown cloud.^[12]

Regional weather

A second assessment study was published in 2008.^[13] It highlighted regional concerns regarding:

• Changes of rainfall patterns with the Asian monsoon, as well as a delaying of the start of the Asian monsoon, by several weeks.^[14][15] The observed weakening Indian monsoon and in China northern drought and southern flooding is influenced by the clouds.
• Increase in rainfall over the Australian Top End and Kimberley regions. A CSIRO study has found that by displacing the thermal equator southwards via cooling of the air over East Asia, the monsoon which brings most of the rain to these regions has been intensified and displaced southward.^[16]
• Retreat of the Hindu Kush–Himalayan glaciers and snow packs. The cause is attributed to rising air temperatures that are more pronounced in elevated regions, a combined warming effect of greenhouse gases and the Asian Brown Cloud. Also deposition of black carbon decreases the reflection and exacerbates the retreat. Asian glacial melting could lead to water shortages and floods for the hundreds of millions of people who live downstream.
• Decrease of crop harvests. Elevated concentrations of surface ozone are likely to affect crop yields negatively. The impact is crop specific.

Cyclone intensity in Arabian Sea

A 2011 study found that pollution is making Arabian Sea cyclones more intense as the atmospheric brown clouds has been producing weakening wind patterns which prevent wind shear patterns that historically have prohibited cyclones in the Arabian Sea from becoming major storms. This phenomenon was found responsible for the formation of stronger storms in 2007 and 2010 that were the first recorded storms to enter the Gulf of Oman.^[17][18]

Global warming and dimming

The 2008 report also addressed the global concern of warming and concluded that the brown clouds have masked 20 to 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the past century. The report suggested that air pollution regulations can have large amplifying effects on global warming.^{[clarification needed]}

Another major impact is on the polar ice caps. 

Black carbon (soot) in the Asian Brown Cloud may be reflecting sunlight and dimming Earth below but it is warming other places by absorbing incoming radiation and warming the atmosphere and whatever it touches.^[19] 

Black carbon is three times more effective than carbon dioxide—the most common greenhouse gas—at melting polar ice and snow.^[20] 

Black carbon in snow causes about three times the temperature change as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. On snow—even at concentrations below five parts per billion–dark carbon triggers melting, and may be responsible for as much as 94 percent of Arctic warming.^[21]

See also

• Global warming portal
• Environment portal

• Asian Dust
• Arctic haze
• Air pollution in India
• Air pollution in Delhi
• Chemical Equator
• 1997, 2006, 2009, 2013 Southeast Asian haze
• How RainForest Cool the Equator  (bing.com)

References

1. ^ Srinivasan (10 September 2002). “Asian Brown Cloud – fact and fantasy” (PDF). Current Science. 83 (5): 586–592. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 November 2004.
2. ^ Ramanathan, Veerabhadran; Crutzen, P. J.; Lelieveld, J.; Mitra, A. P.; Althausen, D.; Anderson, J.; Andreae, M. O.; Cantrell, W.; et al. (2001). “Indian Ocean experiment: An integrated analysis of the climate forcing and effects of the great Indo-Asian haze”. Journal of Geophysical Research. 106 (D22): 28371–28398. Bibcode:2001JGR…10628371R. doi:10.1029/2001JD900133.
3. ^ Jump up to:^a b Ramanathan, Veerabhadran et al. (2002) The Asian brown cloud climate and other environmental impacts: impact study Archived June 5, 2004, at the Wayback Machine Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi Kenya, ISBN 92-807-2240-9, accessed 8 December 2008
4. ^ Haag, Amanda Leigh (2007). “The even darker side of brown clouds”. Nature Reports Climate Change. 1 (709): 52–53. doi:10.1038/climate.2007.41.
5. ^ Gustafsson, Örjan; Kruså, Martin; Zencak, Zdenek; Sheesley, R. J.; Granat, Lennart; Engström, Erik; Praveen, P. S.; Rao, P. S. P.; Leck, Caroline; Rodhe, Henning; et al. (2009). “Brown Clouds over South Asia: Biomass or Fossil Fuel Combustion?”. Science. 323 (5913): 495–498. Bibcode:2009Sci…323..495G. doi:10.1126/science.1164857. PMID 19164746. S2CID 44712883.
6. ^ Taylor, David (1 January 2003). “The ABCs of Haze”. Environmental Health Perspectives. 111 (1): A21–A22. doi:10.1289/ehp.111-a21a. PMC 1241333. Archived from the original on 2006-08-28.
7. ^ Petit, C. W. (2003) “A darkening sky: A smoky shroud over Asia blocks both sun and rain” U.S. News & World Report (17 March 2003), 134(8): pp. 46-8
8. ^ Pandve, Harshal T. (2008). “The Asian Brown Cloud”. Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 12 (2): 93–5. doi:10.4103/0019-5278.43269. PMC 2796752. PMID 20040987.
9. ^ “NASA Eyes Effects of a Giant ‘Brown Cloud’ Worldwide (2004)”. Archived from the original on 2019-02-07. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
10. ^ Global Aerosol System 2000-2007 (NASA Earth Observatory)
11. ^ Ramanathan, Veerabhadran; Ramana, MV; Roberts, G; Kim, D; Corrigan, C; Chung, C; Winker, D (2 August 2007). “Warming trends in Asia amplified by brown cloud solar absorption”. Nature. 448 (7153): 575–578. Bibcode:2007Natur.448..575R. doi:10.1038/nature06019. PMID 17671499. S2CID 4420513.
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13. ^ “Archived copy” (PDF). Archived from the original on 2008-11-18. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
14. ^ Brown cloud delaying monsoon.
15. ^ Paper reporting the delaying of the monsoon being caused by brown cloud^{[permanent dead link]}
16. ^ Rotstayn, Leon; Cai, Wenju; Dix, Martin R.; Farquhar, Graham D.; Feng, Yan; Ginoux, Paul; Herzog, Michael; Ito, Akinori; et al. (2 May 2007). “Have Australian rainfall and cloudiness increased due to the remote effects of Asian anthropogenic aerosols?”. Journal of Geophysical Research. 112 (D09202): D09202. Bibcode:2007JGRD..11209202R. doi:10.1029/2006JD007712. hdl:2027.42/94749. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30.
17. ^ “Link Between Air Pollution and Cyclone Intensity in Arabian Sea”. National Science Foundation. 2011-11-02. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
18. ^ Evan, Amato T.; Kossin, James P.; Chung, Chul; Ramanathan, V. (2011-11-03). “Arabian Sea tropical cyclones intensified by emissions of black carbon and other aerosols”. Nature. 479 (7371): 94–97. Bibcode:2011Natur.479…94E. doi:10.1038/nature10552. PMID 22051678. S2CID 4423931.
19. ^ Biello, David (August 1, 2007). “Brown Haze from Cooking Fires Cooking EarthToo.The brown haze over Asia warms the atmosphere just as much as greenhouse gases”. Scientific American.
20. ^ Biello, David (June 8, 2007). “Impure as the Driven Snow: Smut is a bigger problem than greenhouse gases in polar meltdown”. Scientific American.
21. ^ Boswell, Randy (October 19, 2009). “Burning crops darken Arctic sky, speed polar melt”. Canwest News Service. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010.

Further reading

• Ramanathan, V.; Crutzen, P. J. (2003). “New Directions: Atmospheric Brown “Clouds””. Atmospheric Environment. 37 (28): 4033–4035. Bibcode:2003AtmEn..37.4033R. doi:10.1016/S1352-2310(03)00536-3.
• Silva-Send, Nilmini (2007) Preventing regional air pollution in Asia : the potential role of the European Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution in Asian regions University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, OCLC 262737812

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This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken at 5:46 p.m. ET and provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Shows a 350 mile wide Hurricane Helene in the Gulf of Mexico moving toward Florida, on Thursday. (NOAA/The Associated Press)Why Hurricane Helene was so destructive – Search (bing.com)

Hurricane Helene was destructive due to several factors12:
It was large, about 350 miles wide.

It was strong, with winds reaching 140 mph when it made landfall.It brought heavy rains.

It caused widespread storm surge.

It uprooted trees, splintered homes, and strained dams.1How Helene became the near-perfect storm to bring widespread …abcnews.go.com2Helene’s destructive trail across southeastern U.S. leaves at … – PBSpbs.org

Parts of the Southeast, including North Carolina, had been dealing with rain before Helene arrived. Together, the storms dumped 40 trillion gallons of water — the equivalent of Lake Tahoe — on the region in over a week, the Associated Press reported.

Typically, hurricanes weaken and winds die down as they move from the warm ocean to dry land. While Helene did devolve into a tropical storm as it moved inland, the warm, sodden ground from previous rains could have helped propel the storm more forcefully than usual, Dev Niyogi, a University of Texas at Austin earth and planetary sciences professor, told The New York Times.  

“This has been an unprecedented storm that has hit western North Carolina,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said. “It’s requiring an unprecedented response.”

Swollen rivers overflowed, landslides cut off roads, and flash floods swept people away as they tried to find safety. The last time Asheville saw anything like this disaster was in 1916 during the collision of two tropical storms, which killed 80 people, according to The Washington Post. The affected states are trying to coordinate disaster relief along with recovery and rescue. Hundreds of people are still missing or unable to contact loved ones.

Some mountainous areas are relying on helicopters to bring necessary supplies. Reaching rural areas has also been a struggle.”We know there’s areas we haven’t gotten to yet,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell told CNN, “and so we’ll continue to get that information of the places that still need critical equipment, critical food and water.”

Before and after satellite photos show Hurricane Helene’s destruction of the Florida coast (msn.com) Hurricane Helene poured a devastating deluge on the southeastern U.S. this past week, killing at least 130 people by Tuesday, leaving hundreds missing, causing record flooding and storm surges and cutting power to millions of homes and businesses. 

Here’s a look at just how bad it was — and a few reasons why.   

U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), with violent winds extending up to 560 kilometres from its centre. It was also travelling twice as fast as a typical Gulf of Mexico storm striking the coast.

The storm made landfall in Perry, Fla, on Thursday night as a Category 4 hurricane, with winds reaching 225 km/h, according to NOAA, which said it was one of the most powerful ever to strike the U.S. On the Florida coast, it caused storm surges of up to 4.6 metres.

Meteorologist Ryan Maue and Ed Clark, head of NOAA’s National Water Center, independently calculated that 151 trillion litres of water poured down on the southeastern U.S. over four days. That’s enough to fill and overflow Lake Athabasca, Canada’s tenth largest lake, or cover the entire surfaces of both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick together more than a metre deep.

  Hurricane Helene’s death toll; widespread damage and power outages persist.

The deluge caused record flooding in at least seven locations in North Carolina and Tennessee, the BBC reported. In Buncombe County, N.C., where the town of Asheville suffered major damage, Ryan Cole, a local emergency services assistant director, described its impact as “biblical” devastation. What made Helene so bad?

Many places hit by Helene, such as Asheville, N.C., had already been pounded by rain from other two or three other storms before the remnants of the hurricane arrived, including one that fell just short of named status along North Carolina’s coast, said state climatologist Kathie Dello.  

“Torrential rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Helene capped off three days of extreme, unrelenting precipitation,” said the North Carolina State Climate Office in a blog post Monday. 

That meant streamflows were already at daily record highs and soils on local mountain slopes were already saturated by the time the remnants of Helene brought more heavy rain.

As Helene passed through, it could have mopped up some of the evaporating water as additional energy. That’s a phenomenon known as the “brown-ocean effect” since it resembles, on a smaller scale, the normal building of storms from ocean heat and evaporation. 

Marshall Shepherd, director of the University of Georgia’s atmospheric sciences program, told The New York Times that could have been a factor, and he and his colleagues are planning to study how much the effect could have contributed to Helene’s force.  

Helene was so fast and powerful that it moved far inland. Some of the areas most devastated by the storm were in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, which saw “catastrophic flooding and unimaginable damage,” the state’s climate office said.

As storm clouds moved into the mountains, they were forced up and over. That “tends to squeeze out more rainfall,” Doug Outlaw, a National Weather Service meteorologist told NBC News. 

All that rainfall then rushes downhill.

Hurricanes are fuelled by warm ocean waters, and the heat has been “off the charts” in the Gulf, where Helene picked up steam after forming in the Caribbean Sea last Monday, reported Judson Jones, a meteorologist for The New York Times.

The storm strengthened very quickly — a phenomenon called rapid intensification. Helene had become a Category 1 hurricane by Thursday morning, and had intensified to Category 4 within 12 hours.

The ocean warming caused by climate change has generally led to hurricanes producing more rainfall, moving farther inland and undergoing rapid intensification more often.

In the case of Helene, climate change caused it to drop 50 per cent more rainfall in some parts of Georgia and the Carolinas, and made those record rainfalls up to 20 times more likely, reported researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in a rapid climate attribution study released Monday. That study is based on methods used for a similar study on Hurricane Harvey, but has not yet been peer reviewed.

Hurricane Helene floods destroyed homes and businesses in Asheville, North Carolina. – Search Images (bing.com)

Why was Helene so bad?

In the days before Helene made landfall, it drew a lot of energy from the very warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, strengthening quickly from a Category 1 to a powerful Category 4 hurricane. High sea surface temperatures meant there was a lot of moisture in the atmosphere capable of producing a vast amount of rain and this moisture was carried deep inland by the storm.

Most very powerful hurricanes do strengthen rapidly but what was unusual about Helene was the sheer scale of the storm’s rain clouds and wind field coverage.Despite the storm making landfall on Florida’s Big Bend, even cities such as Miami, many hundreds of miles away, experienced wind gusts of more than 70mph (110km/h), due to Helene’s vast size.

It also meant the extreme rainfall took a long time to pass over any location in Helene’s path.

Why was North Carolina so badly hit?

More than six months’ worth of rain landed in parts of North Carolina as Helene passed through.The mountainous western part of the state suffered huge impacts from the storm due to its topography, with homes and bridges washed away, villages flattened and the tourist city of Asheville cut off.

Mountainous terrain typically receives heavier rain than lowland areas.

Tropical systems also tend to bring especially heavy rain so it is not surprising that river levels rose so rapidly and flash flooding was so extreme, cutting off vulnerable communities in the state. Media caption, Sarah Keith-Lucas describes Helene’s destructive path across the south-eastern United States.

How bad was the flooding?

Helene brought historic flooding and a storm surge of more than 15 feet (4.5m) as it barrelled across the south east of the US.Record flood crests were measured in at least seven locations in North Carolina and Tennessee. In parts of western North Carolina, records that had stood since the “Great Flood” of July 1916 were smashed.

The states in the storm’s path had already had a lot of rain in the days ahead of Helene’s arrival, so the ground was already saturated. This meant flooding was more likely because the ground could not absorb any more water.The destruction across the south-eastern states was also down to a phenomenon known as the “brown ocean effect”.

This is when a storm continues to draw some energy as it passes over wet ground, so it does not fizzle out as fast as a storm that crosses dry terrain.

Could climate change have made Helene worse?

Initial analysis of the storm already suggests that human induced climate change played a significant role in the amount of rainfall dumped by Helene.

One rapid attribution study, external claims that climate change caused over 50% more rainfall during Hurricane Helene in some parts of Georgia and the Carolinas.

Another study, external found that cyclones similar to Hurricane Helene are up to 20% wetter over the south-east of the US and up to 7% windier in Florida’s Gulf today compared to the past.

It is well understood that a warming climate means a wetter world. That is because a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, which produces more intense rainfall.

We could see the impacts of tropical cyclones reaching further inland in a warming worldInitial analysis of the storm already suggests that human induced climate change played a significant role in the amount of rainfall dumped by Helene.

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Can we expect more storms like Helene this season?

The Atlantic hurricane season continues until the end of November and it is not unusual for storms to form even later. So far this year, we have seen ominous signs of strong storms developing much earlier in the season due to the very warm waters of the Caribbean. Back in July, Beryl became the earliest category five Atlantic hurricane in records going back around 100 years.

There was a lull in Atlantic hurricanes forming mid-season due to an unusual pattern in the West African monsoon, which prevented storms brewing in the area where they usually thrive. The waters of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean are currently above average temperature, meaning there is more potential for powerful storms to develop through the rest of the autumn.

What we covered here

• Helene makes historic landfall: Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm and is now a Category 1. It is the strongest hurricane on record to slam into Florida’s Big Bend. You can track Helene’s path with CNN’s storm tracker.

• A sprawling storm: Helene is one of the largest storms in the Gulf of Mexico in the last century, with a wind field that could span roughly the distance between Indianapolis and Washington, DC. Watches and warnings are in place for 60 million people in 12 states.

• “Unsurvivable” storm surge: Storm surge — how high the water rises above normal levels — could climb to 20 feet along Florida’s Big Bend. The National Weather Service is warning of “unsurvivable” storm surge in Apalachee Bay.

• Widespread impacts: There have been at least three storm-related deaths. Catastrophic wind damage from the storm could cause power outages that will “likely last days, if not weeks.” Helene has also prompted school and business closures, as well as flight cancellations.

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Six states are under states of emergency as Hurricane Helene batters the Southeast after slamming into Florida’s Big Bend. The storm made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane and although it has now weakened to Category 1, torrential rains and ferocious winds have caused widespread damage to homes and infrastructure.

Storm watches and warnings are also in place for 60 million people in 12 states.

These states have declared emergencies:

• Florida: Gov. Ron Desantis said 61 of Florida’s 67 counties are currently under a state of emergency.
• Georgia: All 159 counties were placed under state of emergency, enabling emergency management teams to make necessary arrangements and position needed resources ahead of the storm’s arrival.
• North Carolina: Gov. Roy Cooper warned “Helene is an unusually dangerous storm that threatens to bring heavy rain and potentially catastrophic flooding” on Thursday night though Friday for central and western parts of of the state.
• South Carolina: Gov. Henry McMaster said: “We will likely avoid the brunt of this storm, but it is still expected to bring flooding, high winds, and isolated tornadoes.”
• Alabama: President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for the state and ordered federal assistance to those affected by Helene.
• Virginia: Gov. Glenn Youngkin said the state “cannot ignore the fact that we have had significant flooding events arise from pre-cursory rain events and outer bands from tropical systems that drop locally heavy rainfall leading to flooding, especially in our southwestern region.”
• Ohio: Gov. Mike DeWine has declared a state of emergency in four Ohio counties after severe weather caused high winds, flooding, and power outages. A state of emergency has been declared for Lawrence, Jackson, Pike, and Scioto counties after severe weather on Sept. 27 caused by the remnants of Hurricane Helene.
•  West Virginia – A news release reports Gov. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.) declared a State of Emergency Tuesday afternoon, following significant damage caused by the remnants of Hurricane Helene. Tuesday’s proclamation came just hours after Gov. Justice appeared to downplay the damage, saying “In all fairness, we have had many situations as far as weather in West Virginia that were much more damaging and everything to this event in West Virginia. You know what it did in North Carolina.”
• In Tuesday’s proclamation, Justice said the following: We’re still learning about reports of serious damage throughout Mercer County. W.V., and the estimates are adding up quickly. I’m told there’s a sizable portion of the county still without power, and there were so many downed trees that it’s been difficult to get the full scope of what’s happened. This State of Emergency will allow us to speed up the response on the ground and potentially receive federal assistance as we push forward with recovery efforts…This storm is one that we’ll remember in Appalachia for a long, long time. We’ve seen some really troubling images from our neighboring states, but there’s no question that Helene has left its mark here at home, as well. We’ll continue to pull the rope together and take care of each other, because that’s what we do in West Virginia.

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7:15 AM | *The 50th anniversary of Hurricane Camille* — Arcfield Weather

Devastation far inland with catastrophic flooding in Virginia…

Camille weakened to a tropical depression as it passed through northern Mississippi and into western Tennessee.  It then took a turn to the northeast through central Kentucky and then eastward through extreme southern West Virginia and southern Virginia. 

By the 19th of August, atmospheric conditions were coming together for extreme rainfall and local geographic features were enhancing chances for catastrophic flooding in the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains – but few were prepared for what was about to take place. 

Specifically, the remains of Camille were moving into an area where there was tropical air in place along with an existing backdoor cold front at the surface and an intensifying jet streak aloft. In this part of Virginia, there is a narrow valley with steep ridges and an upsloping wind amplified rainfall amounts. The combination of this extremely unstable atmosphere and local geographic features was resulting in historic and deadly flooding conditions. 

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Rainfall amounts were disastrous across the northern Gulf coast and in the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains; credit NOAA

Rainfall amounts of more than 26 inches occurred in the mountain slopes between Charlottesville and Lynchburg, Virginia in a 12 hour period. Nelson County, Virginia recorded 27 inches of rain with reports that the rain was so heavy there were birds drowning in trees. [A post-storm “reanalysis” by NOAA suggests over 30 inches of rain fell in as little as eight hours in some spots].

Survivors recall a night between the 19th and 20th of August that was filled with thunderstorm after thunderstorm and lightning was so fierce “it was like daylight and the lightning didn’t flash, the sky just literally stayed lit”. A total of nearly 3800 landslides within Nelson County, Virginia alone were calculated using LiDAR scans and 123 of the 153 fatalities in the state during this storm took place in this particular county.

After Camille, the landscape had changed so much that topographical maps were obsolete. To this day, hillsides still remain bear with exposed rock where mudslides ravaged and stripped the forest away. The rainfall tripled the state of Virginia’s record and has not been broken since. (Credit to Jason Elliott (NWS, Sterling, VA) for much of the information on Camille and its impact on Nelson County, Virginia:  https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=33861c5d64d04dcd8a1529430a37c363).

Hurricane Camille was the second most intense landfalling hurricane in the US in terms of central pressure; credit NOAA 

 Conclusion 

Hurricane Camille will always be remembered as one of the most devastating storms in US history and one of only four category 5 hurricanes to strike the US.  In addition to Hurricane Camille and the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, there have been two other category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the US and both took place after 1969. 

Hurricane Andrew struck the southeastern part of Florida in August of 1992 and Hurricane Michael made landfall in October of 2018 across the panhandle region of Florida.  In the case of Michael, category 5 status did not come until months later when a “reanalysis” by NOAA increased its winds by 5 mph at landfall near Mexico Beach and Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida compared to the original operational estimate and this increase pushed the storm into category 5 territory. 

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The U.S. Constitution, while a foundational document, does have limitations that can pose challenges in modern governance. Issues such as the rigidity of the amendment process, the Electoral College, and the balance of power between federal and state governments are often debated. Chemerinsky likely explores how these limitations impact contemporary political and social issues, and whether the Constitution can adapt to address them.

It looks like you’re referring to an article or discussion by Erwin Chemerinsky on Vox about the limitations of the U.S. Constitution. While I couldn’t find the exact article, I can provide some context on this topic. 

Erwin Chemerinsky, a renowned constitutional law scholar, often discusses the challenges and limitations of the U.S. Constitution. Some key points he might cover include:

Erwin Chemerinsky, a prominent constitutional law scholar, often discusses how the U.S. Constitution, while foundational, has limitations that can impact modern governance. These limitations include:

1. Outdated Provisions: Some parts of the Constitution reflect the 18th-century context and may not address contemporary issues effectively.
2. Rigid Amendment Process: The Constitution is notoriously difficult to amend, making it challenging to adapt to new societal needs.
3. Vague Language: Certain clauses are open to interpretation, leading to varied judicial interpretations and potential inconsistencies in the law.
4. Federalism: The balance of power between federal and state governments can create conflicts and inefficiencies.

Chemerinsky and others argue that while the Constitution provides a strong framework, it requires thoughtful interpretation and, at times, reform to meet the needs of a changing society.

If you have specific questions or need more details on a particular aspect, feel free to ask!

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I ask my students this every time I teach constitutional law, whether they’re law students or undergraduates. From the perspective of hindsight, I ask if it would’ve been better to have two countries, a country that repudiated slavery and a country that accepted slavery? I think the reason that those who strongly favored abolition thought one country was better is they thought that slavery would naturally fade away. That didn’t happen.

Slavery dominated every political issue up until the Civil War.
As we sit here today, I think it’s much better that the country stayed together and that we continue to be one United States.

On the other hand, I worry that if we don’t fix the flaws, there will be great pressure toward secession, not next year but in the longer term, because I think the hard question is: Is what unites us as a country greater than what divides us as a country?

I’ll make what I think is a very frightening prediction: If Donald Trump wins in November of 2024 and the Republicans take both houses of Congress, we will hear the first serious discussion of secession since the Civil War. I think there will be discussion of Calexit. I don’t think much will come of it now, but from that discussion, the longer-term could be quite cataclysmic changes.

“The Timebomb the Founding Fathers Left Us” is an episode from the podcast The Gray Area with Sean Illing, released on July 29, 20241.

In this episode, Sean Illing discusses with Erwin Chemerinsky, a legal scholar, about the imperfections of the U.S. Constitution. Chemerinsky argues that many of today’s threats to democracy stem from compromises made by the Founding Fathers centuries ago12.

 These historical decisions, according to Chemerinsky, have resurfaced and pose significant challenges to modern democracy12. If you’re interested in exploring how historical decisions impact current political landscapes, this episode might be a fascinating listen. Do you enjoy podcasts on political and historical topics?

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I am not advocating it. I am not predicting that it’s imminent, but I do think the divide between the red states and the blue states is so great that people will ask if it still makes sense to be one country. Listen to the rest of the conversation Music and Podcasts, Free and On-Demand | Pandoraand be sure to follow The Gray Area on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, or wherever you listen to podcasts.It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result. This quote by Hideki Tojo, ‘It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result,’ encapsulates a universal truth about the nature of humanity. In a straightforward manner, Tojo’s words highlight the unfortunate reality that when a group’s survival is at stake, tensions arise, and conflicts between nations ensue. 

This quote serves as a reminder of the fragility of our existence and the desperate measures humanity may resort to in order to ensure its own survival.However, beyond the surface interpretation of Tojo’s quote lies a profound and unexpected philosophical concept – the interconnectedness of humanity. While the quote suggests an inherent conflict between different groups, a closer examination reveals the underlying unity that binds us all. 

This juxtaposition between survival-driven conflicts and our shared interconnectedness provides an intriguing perspective and paves the way for deeper reflection.When we consider the struggles that emerge during times of crisis, it becomes apparent that they often stem from a primal urge to protect one’s own kind. 

However, this instinctual drive to safeguard our own survival often blinds us to the fact that the survival of one group is intricately linked to the survival of all. By focusing solely on maintaining our own existence, we inadvertently contribute to the perpetuation of conflicts and wars between nations.In truth, survival is not merely an individualistic pursuit but a collective endeavor. 

Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize and embrace our interconnectedness. Instead of letting fears and insecurities drive us towards conflict, we should foster a deep sense of empathy and understanding that transcends the boundaries of nations and cultures.Tojo’s quote brings to the forefront the importance of finding alternative ways to address the challenges that threaten our survival. Rather than resorting to violence and aggression as a means to ensure our own existence, we should seek collaborative solutions that promote collective well-being. 

This calls for a crucial shift in mindset, where the preservation of our own survival is intertwined with the preservation of the survival of others. Recognizing and embracing our interconnectedness not only has the potential to prevent future conflicts but also holds the power to foster unity and cooperation. 

In cultivating a sense of global citizenship, we can transcend the barriers that separate us and work together to solve the pressing issues that pose a threat to our survival, such as climate change and global pandemics.

In conclusion, Hideki Tojo’s quote sheds light on the inherent struggles and wars that can arise when our survival is threatened.  Thereby, looking beyond the surface implications of this statement, we uncover a profound philosophical concept: our interconnectedness as a species.

By embracing this interconnectedness and seeking collaborative solutions, we can strive towards a future that prioritizes collective survival and peace. Ultimately, the realization of our shared destiny and our mutual reliance on each other has the potential to transform the world into a more harmonious and unified place.

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” ― Taylor Caldwell.

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I can’t for the life of me understand why any red blooded American would vote 
Commiela unless they are Zionist and want to wreck the American Way of Life.A trio of crises threatens to upend the race 5 weeks before Election Day (msn.com)

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Joe Biden’s 7 Biggest Failures During His First Year as President
1) Biden ‘Makes No Apologies’ for Afghanistan Withdrawal, Regrets Taliban Rule –
President Joe Biden’s first year in the Oval Office has come to a close today and, as is to be expected of an administration’s freshman year, the president has had a tumultuous path so far. The series of challenges presented to Biden’s administration have made the 46th president’s inaugural year at the White House a difficult one, having to deal with record inflation, the ongoing COVID pandemic and political division.
As Biden calls an end to his first year in office, Newsweek looked back over some of the president’s failures over the course of the last year.President Joe Biden said he makes “no apologies” for his August 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. However, he did express regret for changes that have happened in the country under the Taliban’s rule, as well as an ISIS-K terrorist attack that killed U.S. troops during the withdrawal.

“There is no way to get out of Afghanistan after 20 years easily. Not possible, no matter when you did it. I make no apologies for what I did,” Biden said. Amid the withdrawal, the Biden administration scrambled to evacuate troops and Afghan allies who aided the U.S. during its occupation. The U.S. evacuated somewhere between 13,000 to 18,000 people per day to meet the Aug. 31, 2021, withdrawal deadline.

During the press conference, Biden expressed concern for the U.S. military service members who were killed and injured by an Aug. 26 ISIS-K terrorist attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. However, Biden said that if the U.S. had stayed in the country, it would’ve been asked to station between 20,000 and 50,000 troops at the cost of nearly $1 billion a week.

“Now, do I feel badly [about] what’s happening as a consequence of the incompetence of the Taliban? Yes, I do,” Biden continued. He said he also feels bad “about a whole range of things around the world that we can’t solve.”

2) Failed Build Back Better Act President Biden’s flagship Build Back Better Act has failed to get passed into law, despite his commitment to pass the bill by Christmas. The Build Back Better Act is a central piece of the administration’s objectives and was originally drafted with a budget of $3.5 trillion that included provisions and support for infrastructure and social policies. Eventually, the bill’s budget saw itself slashed to $1.75 trillion.

How Biden’s Approval Ratings Have Changed During His First Year in OfficeRead moreHow Biden’s Approval Ratings Have Changed During His First Year in Office The proposed bill was initially passed by the House in November, though has been stalled in the Senate since. The Build Back Better Act also lost the crucial support of Democratic senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, all but killing the bill as it needed the support of all 50 Democratic senators.
President Biden could now be forced to sacrifice key components of the bill in order to maneuver through the divided Senate. Biden might have to compromise on issues such as the extension of the enhanced child tax credit, universal preschool and increased climate change funding in hopes of passing his flagship bill.

3) Stalled Voting Legislation Other central elements of the Biden administration’s agenda for his inaugural year have also met a deadlock. Democrats also failed to pass voting rights legislation, which their Republican counterparts have successfully opposed. This follows the introduction of new voting restrictions in Republican-led states in the aftermath of the 2020 election, and former president Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud. In order to successfully pass the voting rights legislation, the Biden administration would also have to reform the Senate filibuster, which Manchin has repeatedly opposed.

4) Failure to Cancel Student Debt On the campaign trail, Biden vowed he would cancel at least $10,000 of student loan debt per person in an effort to undo individual burdens the loans imposed. The President has extended the interest-free pause on federal student loan repayments that was introduced amid the pandemic, though the measure is by no means a forgiveness of standing loans. The pause is scheduled to lift in February, and payments will resume.
His primary actions on this front are primarily built on existing promises on the topic made by previous administrations. Much debate has been had about the president’s authority to personally write off student debts, with certain factions of the Democratic party urging the president to use executive action to resolve the issue. However, Biden himself expressed his doubt towards that approach, and said in April: “I don’t think I have the authority”, a sentiment echoed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

5) COVID Mismanagement Biden has long been aware of the severity of the COVID pandemic and the need for effective measures to manage the crisis, and in the opening months of his tenure he oversaw a mass vaccination campaign. However the emergence of the Delta variant over the summer and the recent wave of Omicron has stalled Biden’s initial progress on the COVID front.
The administration’s lack of preparation for new variants was reflected in the sharp surge in cases nationwide, as well as in the shortage of testing kits. The surge in infections saw an average of over 750,000 daily new COVID cases reported over the last week, according to data from John Hopkins University. The number of daily COVID deaths has also seen a rise in the past week, with 1,796 deaths reported last Sunday according to John Hopkins data.
A number of Biden’s fellow Democratic senators criticized his approach for being “reactive, rather than proactive.” Additionally, Biden recently saw the Supreme Court block Biden’s vaccine mandate for businesses, which intended to enforce vaccine-or-test requirements for large private companies.
Criticism was also leveled at the CDC for its guidance recommending mask use in schools for children over the age of two. Scientists raised concerns over the method’s effectiveness, while fellow international bodies offered contrasting advice to the CDC. Consequently, more U.S. citizens than ever now disapprove of Biden’s handling of the pandemic, with 48 percent of the public dissatisfied.

6) Record Inflation
President Biden’s economic accomplishments have been bittersweet. On the one hand, the Biden administration approved a hefty $1.9 trillion COVID relief package and passed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law. Additionally, a record 6.4 million jobs were created which saw unemployment drop to just 3.9 percent last December.
On the other hand, national inflation rose to a record 6.8 percent, (closer to 20%) the highest level in 40 years. This has consistently driven up the prices of basic goods and services such as gas, food and housing. In November, gas prices skyrocketed by 58 percent, the largest increase recorded over a 12-month period since 1980.
The upshot in prices seen in December represented the sixth consecutive month of price increments. Rising inflation was also compounded with supply chain shortages and delays, further aggravating the issue for consumers. The White House has deemed the rising prices to be “transitory,” a temporary effect as a result of increased pandemic-related costs. and expects the surge to settle over the coming months.
In a statement at the time, Biden said the ongoing inflation was not representative of “today’s reality”.
“It does not reflect the expected price decrease in the weeks and months ahead,” Biden said in the statement.

7) Immigration Debacles and Remain in Mexico In Biden’s opening year in the White House, the issue of migration and the administration’s mismanagement at the US-Mexico border has become a constant headache. Biden had vowed to undo many of Trump’s heavily criticized immigration policies in a bid to guarantee increased protection and care for asylum-seekers and migrants entering the country. However, his administration’s handling of the issue has left a lot to be desired.
Despite his campaign trail promises, Biden has reinstated the Trump-era Remain In Mexico program and has also upheld a controversial policy known as Title 42. Title 42 has been heavily criticized for using the pandemic to enable veiled human rights violations and pre-emptively remove migrants found at the border.
The policy has also led to family separations at the border, as many blocked from entering the country chose to send their children through alone in a bid to guarantee their safety. Meanwhile, the Remain In Mexico program has been slammed by critics for denying migrants entry to the U.S. while keeping them in bureaucratic limbo at makeshift border camps in Mexico.
The administration’s negligence at the border has also resulted in increased hostility. In the opening 10 months of Biden’s presidency, over 7,647 cases of rape, torture, murder, kidnapping and violent assault towards asylum-seekers at the border have been recorded.

Federal Government’s Response Wasn’t Quick Enough to Hurricane Helene,

‘The Death Toll Is Going to Be Tremendous’ (msn.com)

This meme raises a terrifying topic that most are too stunned to say out loud. A non-coastal mountain city in NC was just devastated by a hurricane on the same day that that hurricane made landfall in Florida. It’s like some quantum physics insanity. Well yall didnt like the term Global Warming so now we have Climate Change, either way it’s real. sea levels are rising and if we do at least try something our Great Grand Kids are going to ask us why we at least didn’t try.
Let me ask this question, does it cost more to generate electricity by coal or by solar? For every kwh generated by solar, who doesn’t get paid? Those are the people telling you to deny science. 100 years ago we did not have the ability to seek alternate sources like we do today. Carbon is the key, scientists know it so if we don’t use a pound of carbon, who loses money? Clean energy is jobs, we either embrace it and America takes the lead or someone else does.
Climate has been changing for thousands of years and will continue too..it’s all a money grab…..Co 2 is presently at .004 plant growth requires at least.002 or they will die??? So what do they wont.every disaster we have every so many years is just like the end of time warnings I’ve heard for 70 years….
A product of atmospheric manipulation…. Pennsylvania is now considered part of tornado alley. They are trying to immobilize people from getting to the voting booths. Don’t let the left win. This will be just the beginning. They have been doing it all year .Go back and do searches. In other countries it’s happening there as well. FEMA is not letting people into certain places. Sounds familiar..keep looking!!!

Mercer Co. Emergency Management (WVVA)

By Ben Schwartz

Published: Oct. 1, 2024 at 6:54 PM EDT | Updated: Oct. 1, 2024 at 6:58 PM EDT

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) – A news release reports Gov. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.) declared a State of Emergency Tuesday afternoon, following significant damage caused by the remnants of Hurricane Helene. Tuesday’s proclamation came just hours after Gov. Justice appeared to downplay the damage, saying “In all fairness, we have had many situations as far as weather in West Virginia that were much more damaging and everything to this event in West Virginia. You know what it did in North Carolina.”

In Tuesday’s proclamation, Justice said the following:

We’re still learning about reports of serious damage throughout Mercer County, and the estimates are adding up quickly. I’m told there’s a sizable portion of the county still without power, and there were so many downed trees that it’s been difficult to get the full scope of what’s happened. This State of Emergency will allow us to speed up the response on the ground and potentially receive federal assistance as we push forward with recovery efforts…This storm is one that we’ll remember in Appalachia for a long, long time. We’ve seen some really troubling images from our neighboring states, but there’s no question that Helene has left its mark here at home, as well. We’ll continue to pull the rope together and take care of each other, because that’s what we do in West Virginia

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David Jones was on his way to Johnson City, Tenn., for his daughter’s wedding when traffic came to a screeching halt on Interstate 26.

The reality hit him that he might not make it to his daughter’s big day. The highway was closed after Hurricane Helene’s record storm surge caused widespread destruction across the Southeast.

Jones asked a nearby state trooper if there was an alternate route to get to the city. “Nobody is getting to Johnson City,” the officer told him around 2 a.m. on Sept. 28.

Roads were closed, bridges had collapsed and debris was littered everywhere.

But Jones, 64, was not deterred.

“My daughter is getting married at 11 o’clock, and I’m going to be there to walk her down the aisle,” he told the state trooper.

Jones had left his home in Boiling Springs, S.C., around 7 p.m. on Sept. 27, for what is normally about a two-hour drive to Johnson City. He said he wasn’t concerned about the hurricane aftermath — which, in hindsight, he regrets.

“We’ve had hurricanes reach up through here before but by the time they get this far inland, they’re generally just rain events,” he said. “We really didn’t heed the warnings like we should have. … I had no idea what lay ahead.”

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About 30 minutes into the drive, there was a major traffic problem.

“It just crawled along at a snail’s pace,” said Jones, who was routed off the interstate several times, and got back on when it opened.

“There were closed road after closed road after closed road. I inched my way like this all the way to the state line,” he said. “What would have been an hour and a half drive was seven hours.”

He was routed off the highway for a final time at Exit 43 in Erwin, Tenn., which is where he asked the state trooper for directions. The officer told him back roads were washed out and that there was simply no way of getting there.

Jones wasn’t convinced. He parked his car at the bottom of the exit ramp, grabbed his backpack, shaving kit, underwear, socks and a windbreaker — and started walking. He was about 27 miles away.

“Off I went, with my cellphone light guiding the way,” he said, adding that he did not have cell service for the journey. It seemed daunting, but he gave himself a pep talk.

Jones with his daughter in 1991.© Family photo/Family photo 

“I’ve run marathons. I can do this.

I’m going to be there if at all humanly possible,” he told himself. “It wasn’t a question of if, it was a question of getting through it and when.” Time was ticking, though. And the roads were full of hazards.

“I came to a section where the road was washed out.

It was starting to get worse,” Jones said. He reached a massive pile of debris — about seven feet high — and when he tried to go around it, he stepped in thick mud that swallowed both his feet and legs up to his knees.

“I couldn’t move,” he said.

A backhoe came by to clean up debris, and Jones said he was not visible to the driver. He realized just how close he was to being hit. “There were some audible prayers at this point,” Jones said.

He kept replaying the same thing over and over in his head: “My daughter is getting married at 11, and I’m going to walk her down the aisle.” It gave him the motivation he needed.

Jones with his daughter in 2000. © Family photo/Family photo

“By the grace of God and a lot of work, I was able to get my right leg out of the muddled puddle, but it sucked my shoe off and I knew I wasn’t going to make it without shoes,” Jones said.

When both legs were freed, he managed to dig his shoe out and proceeded to crawl on his hands and knees over the debris until he made it to solid ground. He then continued with his trek. vice, Jones — who moved about a month ago from Johnson City to Boiling Springs — did not have GPS to guide him.

“I was familiar enough with the area, I knew that I needed to stay on that road,” he said.

As Jones was about to reach a town, a state trooper pulled up and offered him a ride to the Erwin Town Hall, about two miles away. He got right in.

“I thanked him and started walking again,” Jones said, adding that he paused briefly to refuel with an energy drink and power bar he bought at a convenience store.

About 16 miles away from his destination, Jones stepped onto a two-lane highway that leads directly to Johnson City.

He picked up a reflective driveway marker he found on the side of the road and held it during his walk so motorists could see him on the narrow highway.

After another eight miles or so of walking, a white pickup truck pulled over, and the man inside offered Jones a ride. In what seemed like a miracle, Jones knew the man, a welcome coincidence in a city of about 72,500 people.

“It turns out, he was a former co-worker from years gone by,” said Jones, who was happy to have a ride for the final eight-mile stretch. “We had a great time catching up.”

The man dropped Jones off at his home in Johnson City, which he still owns, around 7:30 a.m. — 12 and a half hours after Jones left Boiling Springs. He had walked about 17 miles, and hitched a ride for the other 10 miles.

He took a short nap, washed up and put on an old suit and shoes he had at the house. Then he made his way to his daughter’s wedding — filled with relief and gratitude. Tennessee station WJHL-TV was the first to report the story.

“It all worked out very well,” said Jones, a father of three girls.

Jones walking his daughter down the aisle. © Stellar Photography

When he walked his eldest daughter, Elizabeth Marquez, down the aisle that day, she had no idea about the turbulent voyage her father took to make it there. During the reception, Jones decided to mention his trek in his toast, and present Marquez, 33, and her husband, Daniel Marquez with the driveway marker he felt protected him during his journey.

“I want this to be a remembrance for you to always be a protector of each other,” he said in his toast. Marquez was floored by what her father had endured — but not shocked by his resolve to be there.

“It was not surprising to me at all that he would take those measures,” she said. “It was very on-brand for my dad. He would do whatever it takes, no matter what. I’m so grateful that he was delivered safely.”

Marquez said a few other guests at her 45-person wedding also struggled to get there due to poor driving conditions, but no one’s commute was quite as dramatic as her father’s. Power was out at the church, so they used candles to light up the space during the ceremony.

Jones said he would have done whatever he had to do to be at his daughter’s wedding.© Stellar Photography

“Especially knowing how much devastation there is, it’s wonderful to know that there is this much love in the world, and we experienced it this weekend with our wedding,” said Marquez, who, like her father, is an engineer.

“I’ve always looked up to him, and he’s been my rock and my role model.” As Jones said, “he stayed focused on his daughter during his arduous expedition.”

“I just kept putting one foot in front of the other.

I really didn’t have any thoughts of not going,” he said.

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“I don’t think I did anything more than most dads would do on their daughter’s wedding day.” His daughter feels differently.

“I have a very special dad,” Marquez said. “That was love put into action.” 

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Chimney Rock mayor says North Carolina town is ‘starting from 0’ | Watch

Helene kills at least 90, homes and memories washed away | Reuters

These Are the Rarest Seashells Ever Found on Earth (msn.com)

Satanism in Asheville (for the Digital Age)

Asheville, North Carolina.

I am here change humanity and wake people up .

We all have the power to heal ourselves!!!

I have personally done many years of hands-on research, often dangerous ,

in and around the city of Asheville, NC . 

Asheville is WELL KNOWN as the satanist/pagan mecca of the east coast. Nestled in the mysterious Blue Ridge mountains as they descend from Virginia, such remote mountains and valleys have long been the desired sites for bizarre  and often violent

  cult rituals, many culminating in human sacrifice.  

 This bullshit has been floating around since FreakinAsheville.com was a thing.

“Now, calm down, ma’am.”

“THIS KIND OF CRIME IS FAR MORE COMMON IN THESE MOUNTAINS THAN MOST FOLKS KNOW. And DON’T even trust the police you think are working with you,  BECAUSE MANY OF THEM ARE ACTUAL SATANISTS.”

(Admission from the North Carolina Bureau of Victim Justice.) ^[citation ^*needed^*]

 The Satanic Temple: Think you know about Satanists? Maybe you don’t (bbc.com)

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Desperation grows to find hundreds unaccounted for in wake of Helene

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN

Updated 9:01 AM  EDT, Tue October 1, 2024

President Joe Biden is expected to fly over Asheville, North Carolina, Wednesday, where the damage from Hurricane Helene has so severely narrowed access to the city that the president’s motorcade cannot make it in, the mayor says.

“The only highway into Asheville – of the four highways into Asheville – that’s open:

is the one near our airport, and we can’t shut it down for a motorcade,” Mayor Esther Manheimer said during an interview on CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins Monday. The mayor said by flying over the city, Biden will be able to see the magnitude of the damage.

Asheville still does not have power, water or cell phone service in most areas, and residents are in need of basic supplies, she added. The city’s rivers have never been as high as they were in this storm, and the flooding has prompted an unprecedented number of swift water rescues, Manheimer said.

In addition to federal and state help the city is now receiving on an emergency basis, she said the community will need longer term federal assistance to rebuild. More than 1.5 million customers are still without power. 

A vehicle drives underneath low-hanging power lines in Elk Park, North Carolina

0n Sunday by Sean Reed via Reuters 

Helene’s path of destruction: How storm devastated six states in one weekend (msn.com)

Power is still out for more than 1.5 million homes and businesses from Florida to West Virginia four days after Helene roared through late last week, according to PowerOutage.us.  Georgia and the Carolinas account for most of these outages: 1.3 million total.

Here’s how the outages stand as of 8 a.m. ET:

• South Carolina: 612,000+
• Georgia: 468,000+
• North Carolina: 292,000+
• Virginia: 75,000+
• Florida: 67,000+
• West Virginia: 17,000+

Temperatures from the Southeast through the mid-Atlantic will remain near or just above normal for much of the week as rescue and recovery efforts continue.

High temperatures will be in the 80s from Florida to southern North Carolina Tuesday while 70s will be more common from western North Carolina — where some of the most catastrophic damage is — into Virginia. Overnight lows will dip into the 60s for much of the affected region, with upper 50s possible in western North Carolina and low 70s in Florida’s Big Bend region.

Overnight lows will dip into the 60s for much of the affected region, with upper 50s possible in western North Carolina and low 70s in Florida’s Big Bend region. 

Mules trek heavy storm destruction to bring supplies to North Carolina residents 

Mules are helping deliver supplies to North Carolina residents devastated by Hurricane Helene, according to Mountain Mule Packer Ranch. In a series of posts to Facebook Monday, the ranch said it is working to coordinate packs of mules to deliver supplies to areas affected by the storm.

Mules Navigating North Carolina’s Impassable Roads To Bring Supplies To Communities Cut Off By Hurricane Helene (msn.com)

 Supplies arrive by plane and by mule in North Carolina as Helene’s death toll tops 130

Mules help deliver aid in N.C. as major roads remain impassable due to Hurricane Helene

Mike Toberer told the AP he decided to bring a dozen of his mules to deliver food, water and diapers to hard-to-reach mountainous areas. The ranchers and mules “headed out” Monday morning, “and will continue to reply as quickly as possible to those in need,” his posts said. 

“We are planning to head to Weaverville, NC…but available to go to other areas of need as well,” said the post. “We’ll take our chainsaws, and we’ll push those mules through,” he told the AP, noting each mule can carry about 200 pounds of supplies.

Mountain Mule Packer Ranch is located in Raeford, about 110 miles east of Charlotte and about 245 miles from Weaverville. “We have two fully loaded trucks and 20’ stock trailers heading to” western North Carolina for assistance, according to the post.

“We have been overwhelmed with the amount of support and encouragement received about our efforts to pack supplies in by mule trains to those affected by Hurricane Helene,” a post said.

Supplies collected by the Mountain Mule Packer Ranch to distribute.

Mountain Mule Packer Ranch uses mules to deliver supplies to hurricane-impacted areas.

Key takeaways

• Mountain Mule Packer Ranch is sending mules to help get supplies into hard-to-reach mountain towns impacted by Hurricane Helene¹².
• Many roads in North Carolina remain impassable due to storm damage, and the ranch’s mules are providing a unique solution for delivering aid².
• The organization’s efforts are touching and essential for communities facing historic flooding and disaster recovery¹⁴.
• More tropical trouble could threaten Southeast again | Watch (msn.com)

8:30am update 10/1/24: Mountain Mule Packer Ranch

Mike and the mule team made it to their staging area in Montreat yesterday and have already been helpful to families in need! They will be doing all they can in Black Mountain today. Thankful to Five 11’s Livestock Hauling for offering help in hauling mules so we could bring more supplies up! And appreciate being able to help support Cajun Navy 2016 on their efforts as well!

The team here at the ranch will be shopping for more supplies today, to restock them tomorrow! We appreciate the huge outpouring of requests on how to get supplies to us. Because of the conditions in the mountains and the way the team will be moving around, that is hard to coordinate.

We will bring a trailer to the Food Lion shopping center this afternoon at approximately 4pm if there is anyone in the area that wants to add to the supplies we are bringing! Please let me know if this is something you’d like to do, and we can be there between 4-5pm today to collect what you have!! God bless you all and thank you for keeping prayers lifted up!!

Food Lion 11745 Statesville Blvd

Cleveland, N.C.

People gather at a fire station to access WiFi in Asheville, North Carolina, on Saturday.

Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images

Approximately 600 people were still unaccounted for in Asheville, North Carolina, Monday afternoon as the city suffers from washed out roads and bridges, cell service outages and blackouts, the mayor told CNN.

Extensive damage to roads and infrastructure has isolated many remote communities and prevented crews from reaching residents with vital supplies,  Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer – Search (bing.com)  said on “The Source” Monday night.

“There’s still a lot of folks that we need to be able to reach, so that is the priority,” Manheimer told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. “But we also are in a situation where we don’t have water and power in most areas, and we do need resources like drinking water and food and other household supplies and personal supplies people might need.”

The devastation wrought by Helene in the city is “catastrophic,” the mayor said. “The pictures don’t do it justice”, President Joe Biden will fly over the city on Wednesday to survey the damage, she added.

What we’re covering here

• Climbing death toll: At least 130 people have died across six states and officials fear the death toll can rise following Hurricane Helene. Many more remain missing, perhaps unable to leave their location or unable to contact family where communications infrastructure is in shreds.

• Power and infrastructure outages: Hundreds of roads remain closed, especially in the Carolinas, hampering the delivery of badly-needed supplies. Some areas are so inaccessible supplies are being delivered by mules and by air and people are hiking hours to try to help loved ones. More than 1.5 million customers remain without power, according to poweroutage.us.

• Resources: For ways to help those left in Helene’s aftermath, visit CNN Impact Your World. Bookmark CNN’s lite site for fast connectivity.  

At least 130 dead in the Southeast following Helene, officials say

From CNN’s Amy Simonson

The death toll from Helene continues to rise as authorities across six states slowly access communities that have been isolated by cell service outages and inaccessible roads.

At least 130 deaths have been confirmed so far in the Southeast.

Here is the breakdown of deaths by state, according to CNN’s tally:

• North Carolina: 56
• South Carolina: 30
• Georgia: 25
• Florida: 11
• Tennessee: 6
• Virginia: 2 

Yes, it’s quite a dramatic situation. The debris filling Lake Lure in North Carolina is a result of severe flooding caused by Hurricane Helene. The scene has been described as “post-apocalyptic” due to the extensive damage and debris from the destroyed town1. The flooding has wreaked havoc on the area, leading to significant cleanup and recovery efforts1.

Learn more: 1cnn.com 2youtube.com 3usatoday.com

Intense rain events are making 1-in-100-year floods much more frequent, report found From CNN’s Ella Nilsen – Search (bing.com)

Intense rain events like Hurricane Helene are making the idea of a “1-in-100-year flood event” obsolete, according to a 2023 report from the First Street Foundation, a non-profit focused on weather risk research.

The report found half the American population lives in a county where a 1-in-100-year flood is at least twice as likely now as past years, coming once every 50 years, on average, rather than 100.

First Street found parts of Western North Carolina hit by Helene could get a 1-in-100 year flood every 11 to 25 years. Stronger storms could impact all areas of the country. In much of the Northeast, the Ohio River Basin, Northwestern California, the Texas Gulf Coast and the Mountain West, the rainfall depths for a 1-in-100-year event could happen at least every 5 to 10 years.  

The streets of Asheville, North Carolina, are seen flooded on Saturday.

Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images

Hurricane Helene will rank among the deadliest hurricanes to strike the mainland United States in the past 50 years – and the death toll, which is already more than 100, will likely continue to climb.

Hurricane Katrina tops the list with at least 1,833 fatalities from the storm and subsequent flooding. Hurricane Ian, which struck southeast Florida in 2022, caused 150 direct and indirect fatalities.

Helene is currently third on the list, already surpassing Hurricane Irma from 2017, which killed 92 in the US, mostly in Florida.

Hurricane Harvey and Superstorm Sandy resulted in between 60-75 fatalities in the US.

Note: This list only includes mainland US hurricanes, so Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico is not included.

There could be more tropical trouble coming in the Caribbean and Gulf

From CNN Meteorologists Monica Garrett and Mary Gilbert

Another storm could develop this week in the western Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico, which isn’t what anyone in the US wants to hear in the wake of Helene.

But unlike Helene, this potential storm could have more obstacles in its path to development.

A large and disorganized area of low pressure with showers and storms over the western Caribbean has been given a medium chance of developing into a tropical system in the next seven days, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Yes, it looks like there could be more tropical trouble brewing in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Meteorologists are monitoring a broad area of low pressure in the Caribbean Sea that could develop into a tropical storm as it moves into the Gulf¹². This comes shortly after the impact of Hurricane Helene, which caused significant damage in parts of the southeastern United States³.

The exact path and intensity of this potential storm are still uncertain, but it’s a situation worth keeping an eye on, especially for those in the southeastern U.S. who are still recovering from Helene²³.

Are you in an area that might be affected by this weather?

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Tropical Storm Helene organizes in the northwestern Caribbean (yahoo.com)

Tropical development is possible in the next seven days.

CNN Weather

Environmental conditions could become conducive for gradual development, and a tropical depression could form later this week or this weekend while the system is over the southern Gulf of Mexico or northwestern Caribbean Sea, according to the NHC. 

Helene first organized over the northwestern Caribbean – Search (bing.com)

At this point it’s 45 mph winds were already stronger than a tropical depression, so NHC declared the formation of Tropical Storm Helene at 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sept. 24 with the center located in the far northwestern Caribbean about 170 miles south-southeast of the western tip of Cuba.

Here’s why hurricanes like Helene are getting more powerful : Short Wave : NPR

Weather models are hinting at a possible tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico early next week, though it is too early to be certain. Until an area of low pressure forms, any forecast modeling on the potential storm will likely continue to vary widely with its ultimate strength and track.  Given this, anyone near the Gulf is advised to monitor the forecast. 

Why hurricane are organizing over the northwestern caribbean

Hurricanes often organize over the northwestern Caribbean due to several key factors:

1. Warm Sea Surface Temperatures: The Caribbean Sea typically has very warm waters, which provide the energy needed for hurricanes to form and strengthen1.
2. Low Wind Shear: This region often experiences low vertical wind shear, which means there is less disruption to the developing storm systems1.
3. Moist Atmosphere: The atmosphere in this area is usually moist, which supports the development of thunderstorms and, subsequently, hurricanes1.
4. Pre-existing Weather Disturbances: The northwestern Caribbean is a common area for tropical waves and other disturbances to move through, which can serve as the initial seed for hurricane development2.

These conditions create a favorable environment for hurricanes to organize and intensify in the northwestern Caribbean.

Learn more 1usatoday.com 2jacksonville.com 3cnn.com 4nhc.noaa.gov

Signs of the end times Mark 13 – Search (bing.com)

In Mark 13, Jesus discusses the signs of the end times with his disciples.

Here are some key points:

1. Destruction of the Temple: Jesus predicts that the temple in Jerusalem will be destroyed, with not one stone left on another 1.
2. False Prophets: Many will come in Jesus’ name, claiming to be the Messiah, and will deceive many 2.
3. Wars and Natural Disasters: There will be wars, rumors of wars, earthquakes, and famines 2.
4. Persecution: Followers of Jesus will face persecution, being handed over to councils and beaten in synagogues 2.
5. Cosmic Disturbances: The sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, stars will fall from the sky, and heavenly bodies will be shaken 3.

‘A Comet of the century’ streaks across the sky above the Golden Gate Bridge A comet known as – the “comet of the century” — was spotted in the early morning sky — above San Francisco Bay Area. (bing.com)

These signs are meant to prepare believers for the coming of the Son of Man and to remain vigilant and faithful 4.

Learn more: – 1biblegateway.com 2biblegateway.com 3workingpreacher.org

4workingpreacher.org 5biblegateway.com 6bibleproject.com 7en.wikipedia.org

Asheville ‘at a point of desperation’: Mayor | Cuomo | Watch (msn.com)

NHC says 80% chance of cyclone over eastern tropical Atlantic (msn.com)

They came to Asheville for healing. Now, all they see is destruction. (msn.com)

Helene is already one of the deadliest, costliest storms to hit the US: Where it ranks (msn.com)

Unprecedented Category 5 Atmospheric River Hits British Columbia: California Prepares (msn.com)

Trump falsely says Georgia’s governor was unable to talk to Biden about storm damage (yahoo.com)

Tesla Bursts Into Flames After Hurricane Helene, Florida Officials Warn of EV Risks | Watch (msn.com)

I’ve been traveling alone for a decade. These are the biggest challenges I face as a female solo traveler.

SpaceX Falcon 9 Second Stage Captured Stunning Earth View | Watch (msn.com)

Hundreds of dead fish spotted floating off Thai coast | Watch (msn.com)

Why fish are spinning around in circles in the ocean – Search (bing.com)

Why fish are spinning to death – Search (bing.com)

Listen to my command and hold your ground. Fight for honor, fight for the dignity of men, fight for our mothers! Fight for our descendants! Fight for our future

G-77 Countries / Group of 77 Countries 2024 (worldpopulationreview.com)

A list purportedly naming dozens of Democrats throughout history who have shot and killed presidents, politicians, and civilians has been circulating online since at least 2012 along with the argument that it should be illegal for Democrats to own guns. Musician Ted Nugent   posted one of the most popular iterations in September 2015:

In 1865 a Democrat shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. 

 In 1881 a left-wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield, President of the United States – who later died from the wound. 

In 1963 a radical left wing socialist shot and killed John F. Kennedy, President of the United States. 

In 1975 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of the United States. 

In 1983 a registered Democrat shot and wounded Ronald Reagan, President of the United States.

 In 1984 James Hubert, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 22 people in a McDonald’s restaurant. 

In 1986 Patrick Sherrill, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 15 people in an Oklahoma post office. 

In 1990 James Pough, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 10 people at a GMAC office. 

In 1991 George Hennard, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 23 people in a Luby’s cafeteria in Killeen , TX. 

In 1995 James Daniel Simpson, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 5 coworkers in a Texas laboratory. 

In 1999 Larry Asbrook, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 8 people at a church service. 

In 2001 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at the White House in a failed attempt to kill George W. Bush, President of the US … 

In 2003 Douglas Williams, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people at a Lockheed Martin plant.  

In 2007 a registered Democrat named Seung – Hui Cho, shot and killed 32 people in Virginia Tech. 

In 2010 a mentally ill registered Democrat named Jared Lee Loughner, shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed 6 others. 

In 2011 a registered Democrat named James Holmes, went into a movie theater and shot and killed 12 people. 

In 2012 Andrew Engeldinger, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people in Minneapolis. 

In 2013 a registered Democrat named Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people in a school in Newtown, CT. 

As recently as Sept 2013, an angry Democrat shot 12 at a Navy ship yard.

Clearly, there is a problem with Democrats and guns.  *Not one *NRA member, Tea Party member, or Republican conservative was involved in any of these shootings and murders. *SOLUTION: *

*It should be illegal for Democrats to own guns. *Best idea I’ve heard to date!   

Both Trump Shooters Appear in a Blackrock Commercial – Search Videos (bing.com)

BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment company.

Founded in 1988, initially as an enterprise risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, with US$10 trillion in assets under management as of December 31, 2023.^[1] Headquartered at 50 Hudson Yards in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, BlackRock has 78 offices in 38 countries, and clients in 100 countries.

BlackRock is the manager of the iShares group of exchange-traded funds, and along with The Vanguard Group and State Street, it is considered to be one of the Big Three index fund managers.^[3][4]  Its Aladdin software keeps track of investment portfolios for many major financial institutions and its BlackRock Solutions division provides financial risk management services. As of 2023, BlackRock was ranked 229th on the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue.^[5]

BlackRock was founded in 1988 by Larry Fink, Robert S. Kapito, Susan Wagner, Barbara Novick, Ben Golub, Hugh Frater, Ralph Schlosstein, and Keith Anderson^[7] to provide institutional clients with asset management services from a risk management perspective.^[8] Fink, Kapito, Golub and Novick had worked together at First Boston, where Fink and his team were pioneers in the mortgage-backed securities market in the United States.^[9] 

During Fink’s tenure, he had lost $90 million as head of First Boston. That experience was the motivation to develop what he and the others considered to be excellent risk management and fiduciary practices. Initially, Fink sought funding (for initial operating capital) from Peter Peterson of The Blackstone Group who believed in Fink’s vision of a firm devoted to risk management.

2020–present

In January 2020, PNC Financial Services sold its stake in BlackRock for $14.4 billion.^[41]

In March 2020, the Federal Reserve chose BlackRock to manage two corporate bond-buying programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[27][42][43] This also included the $500 billion Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility (PMCCF) and the Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF), as well as purchase by the Federal Reserve of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) guaranteed by Government National Mortgage Association, Fannie Mae, or Freddie Mac.^[27][42][43]

In August 2020, BlackRock received approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission to set up a mutual fund business in the country. This made BlackRock the first global asset manager to get consent from the Chinese government to start operations in the country.^[44][45]

In November 2021, Blackrock lowered its investment in India while increasing investment in China. The firm maintains a dedicated India Fund, through which it invests in Indian start-ups Byju’s, Paytm, and Pine Labs.^[46][47]

On December 28, 2022, it was announced that BlackRock and Volodymyr Zelensky had coordinated a role for the company in the reconstruction of Ukraine.^[48][49] This was after BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and Zelensky met over a video conference in September, 2022.^[48]

In April 2023, the company was hired to sell $114 billion in assets of Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank after the 2023 United States banking crisis.^[50][51]

In June 2023, BlackRock filed an application with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch a Spot Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF), and in November 2023 it filed another application for a Spot Ethereum ETF. The spot bitcoin ETF filing and 10 others were approved on January 10, 2024.^[52][53] On January 19, 2024, the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) was the first spot bitcoin ETF to reach $1 billion in volume.^[54]

In July 2023, the company appointed Amin H. Nasser to its board.^[55] Nasser, the Chief Executive Officer of Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, will fill Blackrock’s board vacancy left by Bader Alsaad in 2024.^[56]

In August 2023, BlackRock signed an agreement with New Zealand to establish a NZ$2 billion investment fund for solar, wind, green hydrogen, battery storage, and EV charging projects as part of its goal of reaching 100% renewable energy by 2030.^[57][58]

In January 2024, BlackRock announced that it would acquire the investment fund Global Infrastructure Partners for $12.5 billion.^[59][60][61] BlackRock agreed to pay $3 billion in cash and 12 million of its own shares as part of the deal to buy GIP.

In March 2024, BlackRock launched their first tokenized fund, the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) on Ethereum, which represents investments in U.S. Treasury bills and repo agreements. The fund secured $245 million in assets in the first week.^[62]

On July 15, 2024, BlackRock removed from circulation an advertisement filmed in 2022 that briefly featured Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.^[63][64] The firm expanded its headquarters at 50 Hudson Yards in mid-2024.^[65]

Finances

In 2020, the non-profit American Economic Liberties Project issued a report highlighting the fact that “the ‘Big Three’ asset management firms – BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street – manage over $15 trillion in combined global assets under management, an amount equivalent to more than three-quarters of U.S. gross domestic product.”^[66] The report called for structural reforms and better regulation of the financial markets. In 2021, BlackRock managed over $10 trillion in assets under management, about 40% of the GDP of the United States (nominal $25.347 trillion in 2022).^[67]

To gain understanding of Fink’s actions, we need to go deeper into the spiritual awakening in identity politics that could reshape virtually every institution in America and the West. In “American Awakening,” Joshua Mitchell argues that identity politics is a religious revival seeking salvation by replacing the substance of justice with the supplement of mercy. 

Justice is the arduous task of giving to each person what is due to them. Our voluntary institutions in work, politics, and civic associations are predicated on us attempting and generally getting this virtue right. Mercy, Mitchell observes, is the supplement when we don’t. We ask and hope to be granted forgiveness when we fail our neighbor.

Mitchell further observes that we live in two worlds, two economies, the visible and invisible. Both are necessary to the human person. 

The visible, tangible economy concerns profit and loss, debt and credit. These accounts must be measured and settled if the work of a modern economy is to go forward. The invisible economy is also part of our existence. Here, we deal with perennial notions of sin, guilt, forgiveness, and mercy. 

Accounts in the invisible economy frequently can’t settle. Sins are too great; forgiveness is not sought; and the guilty go unpunished. Biblical religion has provided us the means to understand the enormity of these unmet accounts, and to help us live under their weight. But they remain different worlds, separate economies that we live in.

Identity politics seeks nothing less than to input the invisible economy’s ledger of sin and guilt into the visible economy of profit and loss, debt and credit. But it redesigns the invisible economy by its conception of sin and guilt. There is no original sin, only an original sinner, the heterosexual white male. And there are victims, holy innocents. 

The heterosexual white male’s guilt cannot be atoned, he must endlessly bleed and attempt to show his innocence. Mitchell notes this is the most he can do. On him hangs the sins of colonialism, slavery, racism, sexism, bigotry against sexual minorities, and the rank injustice of the capitalist economy.

These sins committed by the transgressor against the innocent are unforgiveable. And this also means that our inheritance, defined and made by the white heterosexual male, is poison and must be replaced. There are only two terms: sinner and innocent. 

Thus, identity politics replaces the liberal politics of deliberation, compromise, and building institutions with others and proclaims an illiberal politics that supplants our irredeemable inheritance.

And identity politics must be illiberal politics because it seeks the mercy of the invisible economy in the visible economy, and that latter economy cannot pay what is without cost. As Mitchell observes, if you eliminate the visible economy, you also eliminate justice. 

But mercy needs justice. Mercy without justice becomes tyranny. Does Mitchell not give us the needed leverage to understand not only what amounts to the corporatist hijinks of Fink, but the unpayable debts sought by today’s Democratic Party, whose motivations and thought increasingly reflect the mindset of identity politics?

If the visible economy of the capitalist world is bound up with patriarchal white male sin and must be replaced with the mercy of the invisible economy as understood by identitarians, then, Mitchell notes, we can understand “the impossibly expensive Green New Deal and the demand that there be free health insurance, or free college tuition, or socialism—which for the upcoming generation is a proxy, really, for the negation of the “capitalist” world of payment.” And this “produces a citizen who demands everything and thinks he deserves everything.”

Might we also understand Larry Fink’s incessant push to remake global capitalism into a crusade for environmental atonement and diversity and racial equity? When identity politics approaches the environment, Mitchell reasons, it finds nature poisoned, another holy innocent besmirched by the white man’s economy. Accordingly, “the stain of “anthropogenic climate change” must be wiped away, either by dismantling the world white, heterosexual men have built with “unclean” energy or by sustaining that world only with “clean,” green energy.” 

Larry Fink’s charge to the “international community” of transnational institutions, corporations, and governments to plan comprehensively for a capitalist net-zero carbon economy by 2050 becomes similarly rational once we grasp the identity politics component that drives it.

Fink proclaims not his virtue; he proclaims his innocence. As a white male capitalist, he is inherently tied to the “unclean” substance—carbon dioxide—and the sins it commits on holy nature. Can it be redeemed under a new order dictated by the invisible economy of identity politics? 

Fink’s calling is to make it so.

So limitless are the debts of this economy that even BlackRock must acknowledge the inability of the visible economy to settle the account. BlackRock remains invested in unclean companies. And the protestors in front of BlackRock’s offices accusing them of hypocrisy and backsliding remind them of it. In the old religion, the path to hell was easy, the road to heaven was hard. Something of that remains.

ESG requirements on publicly traded companies are expensive and can lead to competitive disadvantages. Many companies will refuse them or accept them and then shirk. To deal with these sinners will require government orders, and the SEC now attempts to fill the void with proposed rules to mandate disclosure about sustainable business models and diversity metrics on their boards and employees. 

Even here, BlackRock and others implore the SEC to go beyond its public company statutory mandate by similarly mandating private companies to comply with ESG disclosure requirements. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, BlackRock’s public comment to the proposed SEC rule stated “we encourage the SEC to explore its existing regulatory authority to mandate climate-related disclosures with respect to large private market issuers” in order “to avoid regulatory arbitrage.” No stone will be left unturned.

What to make, then, of BlackRock’s extensive operations in China, including being invited by the CCP to be the first foreign company to sell mutual fund investments to Chinese investors? BlackRock has poured its clients’ money into Chinese investments. 

Of course, BlackRock also has ownership stakes in Chinese companies iFlytech and Hikavision, the former develops AI and voice recognition software while Hikavision manufactures surveillance equipment. Both companies were blacklisted by the United States government for participating in human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. BlackRock is invested in both and increased its holdings in Hikavision after the blacklisting.

Certainly, being a favored company like BlackRock in China’s strong-man economy guarantees a favorable return on investment. But BlackRock still must account for its actions in China under the standards of identity politics. The classic refrain of needing to be inside the system to change it, surely will be voiced. But, ultimately, within the communion of holy innocents, American capitalism, led by the innocence-seeking hands of Fink, must become China’s carbon offset. 

The invisible economy is a vengeful paymaster.

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Project 2025 is a historic movement, brought together by over 100 respected organizations from across the conservative movement, to take down the Deep State and return the government to the people. Its Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, published in April 2023, is a product of more than 400 scholars and policy experts from around the country. The book offers a menu of policy suggestions to meet our country’s deepest challenges and put America back on track, including:

• Secure the border, finish building the wall, and deport illegal aliens
• De-weaponize the Federal Government by increasing accountability and oversight of the FBI and DOJ
• Unleash American energy production to reduce energy prices
• Cut the growth of government spending to reduce inflation
• Make federal bureaucrats more accountable to the democratically elected President and Congress
• Improve education by moving control and funding of education from DC bureaucrats directly to parents and state and local governments
• Ban biological males from competing in women’ s sports

Project 2025 is a political initiative published by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation in 2022. The project aims to promote conservative and right-wing policies to reshape the United States… Project 2025 is a plan to reshape the executive branch of the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election1. 

It is a “mission to dismantle the federal government and replace it with a vision closer to [Trump’s] own” 2. The initiative aims to be ready with conservative policy recommendations when the party retakes the White House 3. The group is also vetting and training personnel who could populate a future administration 3. 

 More About Project 2025 | Project 2025

Not to be confused with the Project 2025 effort coordinated by the Heritage Foundation.

Not to be confused with Agenda 21.

Agenda 47 (styled by the Trump campaign as Agenda47) is the manifesto of the Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump, which details policies that would be implemented upon his election as the 47th president of the United States.^[a] Agenda 47 is a collection of formal policy plans of Donald Trump,^[1][2] many of which would rely on executive orders and significantly expanded executive power.^[3]

The platform has been criticized for its approach to climate change^[4] and public health;^[5] its legality and feasibility;^[6] and the risk that it will increase inflation. Journalists have described it as fascist^[7][8] or authoritarian.^[9][10]

In September 2024, Trump’s campaign launched a tour called “Team Trump Agenda 47 Policy Tour” to promote agenda 47.^[11][12]

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JFK assassination theory

See also: John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories § Federal Reserve conspiracy

Jim Marrs, in his book Crossfire, presented the theory that Kennedy was trying to rein in the power of the Federal Reserve, and that forces opposed to such action might have played some part in Kennedy’s assassination.^[23][24][25]  Marrs alleges that the issuance of Executive Order 11110 was an effort by Kennedy to transfer power from the Federal Reserve to the United States Department of the Treasury by replacing Federal Reserve Notes with silver certificates.^[24] Author Richard Belzer named the responsible parties in this theory as American “billionaires, power brokers, and bankers … working in tandem with the CIA and other sympathetic agents of the government.”^[26]

Critics of the theory note that Executive Order 11110 was a technicality that only delegated existing presidential powers to the Secretary of the Treasury for administrative convenience during a period of transition.^[24][25]

BOTTOMLINE:  Keep foreign interest out of Government.

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See also

The G77 is a United Nations based bloc of developing countries that was formed in 1964.

“Poverty [….] is the greatest global challenge facing the world today, and we attach the highest priority to the eradication of poverty in the United Nations post-2015 development agenda. This must be supported by effective, appropriate means of implementation and strengthened global partnership for development. It entails, among other objectives, the promotion of employment and decent work for all, improvement in access to social services, the eradication of illiteracy and diseases, in addition to integrated, coordinated and coherent national and regional strategies”.

This is the wording of point 43 of the “Declaration of Santa Cruz”, drafted in Bolivia at the G77 Summit of the 133 member countries which comprise the Group of 77 and China. According to this group, inequality is more acute than ever “because of the prevalence of extreme wealth while poverty and hunger continue to exist”.

The deadline to eradicate it would be 2030. By then, we must tackle what is holding us back today, which in the opinion of the Group of 77 and China is, above all, the world financial and economic crisis, continuing food insecurity, the volatility of capital flows and the extreme volatility of commodity prices, energy accessibility and the challenges posed by climate change for developing countries. 

Corruption is also a serious obstacle.

China on verge of Socio Eco Collapse – trying to reinvest in themself.

SUSTAINABLE, INCLUSIVE GROWTH

In the Declaration, the governments of developing countries are urged to foster sustained and inclusive economic growth, with “the generation of employment as a priority, in particular for the young population, improvement in the provision of universal and affordable access to basic services, the provision of a well-designed social protection system, the empowerment of individuals to seize economic opportunities, and measures to ensure the protection of the environment”.

Hence, there is a need for incorporating sustainable development even more at all levels, integrating economic, social and environmental aspects and acknowledging the links existing between them.

In short, to paraphrase the slogan for the summit, let’s move towards a new world order to live better.

Further information: Are the Millennium Development Goals being met?

A release from the Foreign Affairs Ministry said that Guyana’s election follows a decision of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) earlier in 2019, to ensure that a regional candidate assumes the chairmanship in 2020 of the largest negotiating group of developing countries in the United Nations.

The release added that during its Chairmanship, which coincides with the United Nations seventy-fifth anniversary and Guyana’s 50th Republic jubilee, Guyana “is committed to endeavour to strengthen multilateralism for the benefit of all developing countries, including by presiding over global sustainable development and climate change negotiations, and efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Organization.

Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Karen Cummings said Guyana will discharge the important responsibilities of the Chairmanship of the G77 and China with integrity, faithfulness to the principles and objectives of the Charter of the United Nations.

Dr. Cummings also noted her country’s resolve to use the opportunity to further the interests of all developing countries.

The Group of 77 (G77) at the United Nations (UN) is a coalition of developing countries, designed to promote its members’ collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity in the United Nations.^[1]: 79 The group consists of a diverse set of states with a common South-South ideology.^[2] There were 77 founding members of the organization headquartered in Geneva, but it has since expanded to 134 member countries.^{[1]: 79–80} Uganda holds its chairmanship for 2024, succeeding Cuba.

The group was founded on 15 June 1964, by 77 non-aligned nations in the “Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Countries” issued at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).^[3] The first major meeting was in Algiers in 1967, where the Charter of Algiers was adopted and the basis for permanent institutional structures was begun under the leadership of Raul Prebisch who had previously worked at ECLA.^[4] There are Chapters of the Group of 77 in Geneva (UN), Rome (FAO), Vienna (UNIDO), Paris (UNESCO), Nairobi (UNEP) and the Group of 24 in Washington, D.C. (International Monetary Fund and World Bank).

Policies

The group was credited with a common stance against apartheid and for supporting global disarmament.^[5] It has been supportive of the New International Economic Order.^{[6]: 30 [7]}

Regarding environmental matters, the G77’s position is that the developed countries bear historical responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions, pointing also to the disparity in per capita emissions between the developing and developed countries.^[8]: 53 As a result, the G77 often resists binding commitments to reduce its emissions.^[8]: 53 The G77 has been subject to criticism for its lacklustre support, or outright opposition, to pro-environmental initiatives, which the group considers secondary to economic development and poverty eradication initiatives.^[6]: 30 In turn, the G77 has criticized the wealthier nations for their insufficient attention to poverty eradication, including at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^{[6]: 30–31}

Members

As of 2023, the group comprises all of the UN member states (along with the UN observer State of Palestine), excluding the following countries:

1. Members of the Council of Europe.
2. Members of the Commonwealth of Independent States Free Trade Area, except for Tajikistan.
3. Members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, except for all its (four) Latin American members.
4. Two microstates in Oceania: Palau and Tuvalu.

Current founding members

Source:^[9]

1.  Afghanistan^[a]
2.  Algeria
3.  Argentina
4.  Bangladesh
5.  Benin^[b]
6.  Bolivia
7.  Brazil
8.  Burkina Faso^[c]
9.  Burundi
10.  Cambodia
11.  Cameroon
12.  Central African Republic
13.  Chad
14.  Chile
15.  Colombia
16.  Congo
17.  DR Congo
18.  Costa Rica
19.  Dominican Republic
20.  Ecuador
21.  Egypt^[d]
22.  El Salvador
23.  Ethiopia
24.  Gabon
25.  Ghana
26.  Guatemala
27.  Guinea
28.  Haiti
29.  Honduras
30.  India
31.  Indonesia
32.  Iran
33.  Iraq
34.  Jamaica
35.  Jordan
36.  Kenya
37.  Kuwait
38.  Laos
39.  Lebanon
40.  Liberia
41.  Libya
42.  Madagascar
43.  Malaysia
44.  Mali
45.  Mauritania
46.  Mexico^[e]
47.  Morocco
48.  Myanmar^[f]
49.    Nepal
50.  Nicaragua
51.  Niger
52.  Nigeria
53.  Pakistan
54.  Panama
55.  Paraguay
56.  Peru
57.  Philippines
58.  Rwanda
59.  Saudi Arabia
60.  Senegal
61.  Sierra Leone
62.  Somalia
63.  Sri Lanka^[g]
64.  Sudan
65.  Syria
66.  Tanzania^[h]
67.  Thailand
68.  Togo
69.  Trinidad and Tobago
70.  Tunisia
71.  Uganda
72.  Uruguay
73.  Venezuela
74.  Vietnam
75.  Yemen

Other current members

1.  Angola
2.  Antigua and Barbuda
3.  Azerbaijan
4.  Bahamas
5.  Bahrain
6.  Barbados
7.  Belize
8.  Bhutan
9.  Botswana
10.  Brunei Darussalam
11.  China^[i]
12.  Cabo Verde
13.  Comores
14.  Côte D’Ivoire
15.  Cuba
16.  Djibouti
17.  Dominica
18.  Equatorial Guinea
19.  Eritrea
20.  Eswatini^[j]
21.  Fiji
22.  The Gambia
23.  Grenada
24.  Guinea-Bissau
25.  Guyana
26.  Kiribati
27.  Lesotho
28.  Malawi
29.  Maldives
30.  Marshall Islands
31.  Mauritius
32.  Federated States of Micronesia
33.  Mongolia
34.  Mozambique
35.  Namibia
36.  North Korea
37.  Nauru
38.  Oman
39.  Palestine^[k]
40.  Papua New Guinea
41.  Qatar
42.  Saint Kitts and Nevis
43.  Saint Lucia
44.  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
45.  Samoa
46.  São Tomé and Príncipe
47.  Seychelles
48.  Singapore
49.  Solomon Islands
50.  South Africa
51.  South Sudan
52.  Suriname
53.  Tajikistan
54.  East Timor
55.  Tonga
56.  Turkmenistan
57.  United Arab Emirates
58.  Vanuatu
59.  Zambia
60.  Zimbabwe

Former members

1.  New Zealand signed the original “Joint Declaration of the Developing Countries” in October 1963 but pulled out of the group before the formation of the G77 in 1964 (it joined the OECD in 1973).
2.  South Korea was a founding member but left the Group after joining the OECD in 1996.
3. Yugoslavia was a founding member; by the late 1990s, it was still listed on the membership list, but it was noted that it “cannot participate in the activities of G77.” It was removed from the list in late 2003.^{[citation needed]} It had presided over the group from 1985 to 1986.
   •  Bosnia and Herzegovina was the only former Yugoslavian state to be listed as a member on the G77 official website in 2007;^[14] it was removed from the member list in February 2020.^[15][16]
4.  Cyprus was a founding member^[9] but was no longer listed on the official membership list after it acceded to the European Union in 2004.^{[citation needed]} A document from 1975 states that Cyprus is not a member.^[12]
5.  South Vietnam was a founding member, while North Vietnam never joined separately.^[9][12]
6.  South Yemen joined separately from founding member North Yemen sometime between 1967 and 1975.^[9][12]
7.  Malta was admitted to the Group in 1976 but was no longer listed on the official membership list after it acceded to the European Union in 2004.
8.  Palau joined the Group in 2002 but withdrew in 2004, having decided that it could best pursue its environmental interests through the Alliance of Small Island States.
9.  Romania was classed as a Latin American country for the purposes of the G77, having joined in 1976.^[17][18] The G77 was divided into geographical regions, and because there was technically no European area, Romania was placed under the umbrella of Latin America.^[19] Romania left the G77 following its accession to the European Union.^[20]

China

The Group of 77 lists China as one of its members.^[21] The Chinese government provides consistent political support to the G77 and has made financial contributions to the Group since 1994, but it does not consider itself to be a member.^[22] As a result, official statements of the G77 are delivered in the name of The Group of 77 and China or G77+China.^[23]   

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The first major COVID-19 outbreak on a cruise ship occurred on the Diamond Princess. The ship was quarantined in Yokohama, Japan, starting on February 4, 2020. Out of the 3,711 passengers and crew on board, around 700 people were infected, and 9 people died1 2.  

Using those numbers as a sample size:  

On census reference dated April 1, 2020, the resident United States population (50 states and Washington, D.C., excluding overseas territories and military members and civilian U.S. citizens living abroad) was projected to be 329.5 million, a 6.7% increase from the 2010 census. I figured that 1,000,000 Americans would have died without a vaccine. And that vaccine would compound the problem. 

The quarantine conditions on the Diamond Princess were quite challenging.

 Passengers were largely confined to their cabins, with meals and other necessities delivered by the crew1. The crew members themselves faced significant risks, as they were the primary lifeline for passengers, providing food, water, towels, and medication1.

A Japanese epidemiologist described the situation as “completely chaotic,” and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) questioned the effectiveness of the onboard lockdown2. Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci also criticized the quarantine process, stating that it had “failed”2.

Despite these difficulties, efforts were made to ensure the well-being of those on board. For instance, the Japan Ministry of Health arranged for a secondary quarantine facility on land for crew members who did not depart on government charter flights3.

Learn more: 1time.com 2bmj.com 3princess.com 4en.wikipedia.org

5gettyimages.com

Coping with confinement on the Diamond Princess was a significant challenge for many passengers.

Here are some ways they managed:

1. Staying Connected: Passengers used the internet and social media to stay in touch with family and friends, which helped alleviate feelings of isolation.
2. Entertainment: The cruise line provided movies, TV shows, and other forms of entertainment to help pass the time. Some passengers also brought books, puzzles, and games to keep themselves occupied.
3. Exercise: Although confined to their cabins, many passengers tried to stay active by doing exercises in their rooms. Some even shared their workout routines on social media.
4. Mental Health Support: The cruise line and health authorities provided mental health support, including counseling services, to help passengers cope with the stress and anxiety of the situation.
5. Routine: Establishing a daily routine helped many passengers maintain a sense of normalcy. This included regular meal times, exercise, and scheduled activities.
6. Community: Despite the physical separation, passengers found ways to support each other, such as through online groups and balcony conversations.

It was a difficult experience, but many passengers showed remarkable resilience and creativity in finding ways to cope. Is there anything else you’re curious about?

It was a challenging time for everyone involved. 

The crew members on the Diamond Princess faced immense challenges during the quarantine, but they showed remarkable dedication and resilience.

Here are some ways they coped with their responsibilities:

1. Teamwork: Crew members relied heavily on each other for support, working together to ensure that all passengers received their meals, medical supplies, and other necessities.
2. Protective Measures: They followed strict hygiene and safety protocols to minimize the risk of infection, including wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) and frequently sanitizing their hands and work areas.
3. Mental Health Support: Just like the passengers, crew members had access to mental health resources, including counseling services, to help them manage stress and anxiety.
4. Communication: Regular communication with health authorities and the cruise line management helped crew members stay informed and feel more secure in their roles.
5. Adaptability: The crew had to adapt quickly to the evolving situation, often taking on new roles and responsibilities to meet the needs of the passengers and ensure their own safety.
6. Community Spirit: Despite the difficult circumstances, many crew members found strength in their sense of community and purpose, knowing that their efforts were crucial in supporting the passengers.

Their dedication and hard work were vital in managing the crisis on board. 

During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, several notable outbreaks occurred around the world.

Here are a few significant ones:

1. Wuhan, China: The initial outbreak began in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei Province. The virus spread rapidly, leading to a lockdown of the city and eventually the entire province1.
2. Italy: By late February 2020, Italy became the epicenter of the outbreak in Europe. The country experienced a rapid increase in cases, particularly in the Lombardy region, leading to a nationwide lockdown2.
3. Iran: Iran reported its first cases in February 2020, and the virus spread quickly. The country faced significant challenges due to a lack of medical supplies and sanctions2.
4. South Korea: South Korea saw a major outbreak in the city of Daegu, linked to a religious group called Shincheonji Church of Jesus. The government implemented extensive testing and contact tracing to control the spread3.
5. United States: The U.S. experienced its first major outbreak in Washington state, particularly in a nursing home in Kirkland. The virus then spread to other states, leading to widespread lockdowns and a significant impact on the healthcare system3.

These outbreaks highlighted the global nature of the pandemic and the varying responses by different countries. If you have any specific questions about these outbreaks or others, feel free to ask!

Learn more: 1cdc.gov 2bbc.co.uk 3brookings.edu 4mayoclinic.org

5en.wikipedia.org 6bmj. 7washingtonpost.com 8doi.org

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Blood test of those who got the vaccine – Bing Videos   The COVID-19 vaccines appear to be causing a global health disaster. There are so many warnings from all around the world. I’ll list just a few in this column. But the U.S. media remains silent.

They’re as quiet as a church mouse. Why?

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Japan’s Ministry of Health just announced that “the Moderna and Pfizer Covid vaccines could cause heart-related side effects in younger males.” Health experts in Japan have witnessed skyrocketing rates of myocarditis and pericarditis in young men and teenagers. And they’ve seen the same nonstop heart issues with middle-aged and older individuals.

All over America, and all over the world, cardiac arrest, heart inflammation and heart attack deaths are exploding. Young athletes are dropping right on the field; star soccer players in Europe are dropping dead in the middle of games; referees, coaches and even fans in the stands are having cardiac emergencies. It’s something no one has ever seen before. It’s an epidemic.

What do all these victims have in common?

They’ve all been vaccinated.

In America, the media is filled with reports of hospital emergency rooms and intensive care units overwhelmed with seriously ill patients. From coast to coast, there are so many sick people lined up that there aren’t enough beds or nurses. Sick patients are lying on gurneys along the hallways. Doctors and medical experts call it a “mystery” why so many Americans are sick. They can’t understand what’s happening.

But I can solve the mystery. I believe that these are COVID-19 vaccine-related injuries overwhelming ERs and ICUs. The very illnesses that are most prevalent in this mysterious health emergency — heart attack deaths, cardiac arrest, strokes, blood clots, multiple organ failure — are all the same COVID-19 vaccine side effects listed in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

What a coincidence.

But it’s not just in the USA. It’s happening everywhere.

 In the U.K., the Evening Standard newspaper reports up to 300,000 British citizens are facing sudden heart related illness and cardiac arrest. U.K. medical experts are blaming PPSD — “post-pan demic stress disorder.” Three hundred thousand Brits aren’t dying and crippled from the vaccine. Of course not. They’re all nuts. It’s all in their heads.

These brainwashed Kool-Aid drinkers can’t see what’s right in front of their faces. Or perhaps doctors, scientists and researchers are too afraid of losing their medical licenses, or losing multimillion-dollar government grants, to speak up.

In the case of the media, it’s all about greed. Big Pharma buys a large proportion of the ads on every TV news network in America. Offend Big Pharma with stories of vaccine deaths and injuries, and the media could lose billions of dollars in revenue. Half the newsroom could be fired.

Not to mention stock prices would collapse in these media companies. There go the retirement accounts of Lester Holt, Don Lemon, Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow.

So, the truth is hard to come by.

So, what’s the truth?

All anyone with a shred of credibility, morality and decency have to look at are a few key factors. First, the Food and Drug Administration has reportedly requested 75 years to fully release the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine data.

If I told you to “Trust me, I’m selling the world’s best health tonic, but I can’t disclose any of the test results or ingredients for 75 years, until everyone asking is dead, would you trust me? Would you buy what I was selling? Would you inject it into your body?

Second, a federal judge demanded some of that data be released immediately by Pfizer. 

Just in the first few pages, detailing results from just the first few weeks of vaccines, Pfizer admits in their own data that their vaccine was linked to fatal outcomes for 1,223 Americans and produced 42,086 reports of adverse effects. Among the most prominent adverse effects were heart attacks and heart problems.

Third, the VAERS system is reporting a number of adverse effects possibly linked to the vaccines — including tens of thousands of hospitalizations, crippling injuries and permanent disabilities. That’s just in America. The EU numbers are even higher.

Now let me let you in on a terrible secret. My insider health care sources are reporting so many victims are filing reports with VAERS that the system is hopelessly overwhelmed and backed up. There may be 20,000 or 40,000 or 60,000 more deaths waiting to be processed into the VAERS system. They tell me the numbers are staggering.

Now you know why hospital ERs and ICUs are overwhelmed with people who are seriously ill. So, my question is, shouldn’t someone have been investigating this escalating health disaster? Shouldn’t someone in the media be reporting on this unimaginable tragedy? Should politicians be protecting us?

One thing I know: Something very bad and very evil is happening.

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Myocarditis Higher With Moderna COVID Vax in Young Men

Sue Hughes | April 20, 2022

One of the largest studies to date on myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination confirms an increased risk with both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in young men, and shows that the risk is higher with the Moderna than with the Pfizer vaccine.

The study also suggests for the first time that in young men 16 to 24 years of age, the risk for myocarditis after vaccination with either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine is higher than the risk for myocarditis after COVID-19 infection.

The population-based study involved data on 23.1 million residents across four Scandinavian countries — Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden —74% of whom had received two vaccine doses and 7% of whom had received one dose.

By linking data from high-quality nationwide health registers on COVID-19 vaccination and infection rates and myocarditis diagnosis, the researchers were able to evaluate the risk for myocarditis by vaccine product, vaccination dose number, sex, and age.

The study was published online in JAMA Cardiology on April 20.

The results confirm that the risk for myocarditis after COVID-19 mRNA vaccines is highest in young men 16 to 24 years of age after the second dose.

For men in this age group who received two doses of the same vaccine, data were compatible, with between four and seven excess myocarditis events in 28 days per 100,000 individuals after the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, and between nine and 28 per 100,000 individuals after the second dose of the Moderna vaccine.

“This is one of the largest studies on this topic to date. The first population studies were in Israel, with 5 million individuals, and looked at just the Pfizer vaccine. We have data on 23 million people from Scandinavia that include both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines,” senior author Rickard Ljung, MD, Swedish Medical Products Agency, told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology.

“We show a clearly higher risk of myocarditis after the Moderna vaccine than after the Pfizer vaccine. This has been suggested before, but our data confirm definitively that the Moderna vaccine has a higher risk of myocarditis than the Pfizer vaccine,” he added.

“In the group at highest risk of myocarditis after COVID vaccination — young men aged 16 to 24 — the Pfizer vaccine shows a five times higher risk of myocarditis versus the unvaccinated cohort, while the Moderna vaccine shows a 15 times higher risk,” Ljung noted.

After seeing these data, the Swedish regulatory authority is no longer recommending use of the Moderna vaccine for people younger than 30 years, Ljung said. Similar recommendations have been made in Norway and Finland.

Author Venita Coelho Blames COVID Vaccine To Her ‘Mini-Stroke’; Lists Early Signs She Experienced (msn.com)

BONUS:  Mistakes meant Covid jab was given to clot victim, report finds (msn.com)

Man died from blood clot after wrongly receiving Covid vaccine, review finds (aol.com)

Blood of those with covid vaccine – Search Videos (bing.com) |  WATCH: Bing Videos

Myocarditis and the mRNA vaccine

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), myocarditis has been identified as a rare side effect of the mRNA vaccine. This side effect is seen much more often in male teens and young adults, as compared to other ages, and is likely due to an exaggerated immune response. Scientists are actively monitoring reports of myocarditis and continuing to learn more about its relationship to the COVID-19 vaccine.

Fortunately, current studies show that post-vaccine-related myocarditis is typically much more mild than classic myocarditis, with symptoms lasting for a shorter amount of time and usually resolving with minimal, if any, medical treatment.

“In classic myocarditis, there are a wide range of presentations, from very mild symptoms to extremely serious, or even fatal, cases,” says Matthew Elias, MD, attending cardiologist in CHOP’s Cardiac Center. “Overall, this does not seem to be happening in post-vaccine myocarditis. In the patients seen at CHOP and at other hospitals, symptoms are generally mild and self-resolving, and heart function is less affected, if affected at all.”

Dr. Elias also notes that patients with post-vaccine myocarditis typically experience a quick recovery, with little to no medical therapy, as opposed to the extensive treatment and possible mechanical support that can be needed in non-vaccine-related myocarditis. 

Weighing the risks

As a parent, it’s natural to feel concerned about any vaccine side effect your child may experience. However, it’s important to weigh the risks of side effects against the risks of infection. In the case of COVID-19, children and teens have a much greater chance of being infected with COVID-19 that results in heart issues, including myocarditis, than experiencing myocarditis as a side effect of the vaccine.

“Though children and teens are fortunately less likely to experience significant heart disease as a result of COVID-19, they can absolutely still develop severe illness, including heart failure and more severe forms of myocarditis,” says Dr. Elias, noting that the biggest concern for children with COVID-19 is the development of multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a rare but very serious condition in which different parts of the body — including the heart — become inflamed. “Approximately 50% of patients with MIS-C have decreased heart function,” he says.

Recent data provided by the CDC suggests that among 100,000 vaccinated adolescent males, only about four to seven would be expected to develop post-vaccine myocarditis. If this group was not vaccinated, however, more than 5,500 would be likely to become infected with COVID-19 over a period of three months, with infections resulting in 50 hospitalizations, potential MIS-C, myocarditis and possible death. Recent surges in infections would only increase these risks in unvaccinated individuals.

The numbers are clear: in children and teens, the risk of getting COVID-19, and developing severe illness that could seriously impact the heart, are far greater than the risk of experiencing post-vaccine myocarditis.

Long Before the Covid Vaccine

On December 9, 1989, Hank Gathers – Wikipedia collapsed at an LMU home game against UC Santa Barbara.^[21] He was found to have an abnormal heartbeat (exercise-induced ventricular tachycardia), and was prescribed a beta blocker, Inderal.^[21] However, Gathers felt that the medication adversely affected his play, and his dosage was gradually cut back.^[22] Originally prescribed at 240 milligrams per day, his Inderal dosage was cut to 40 mg per day over the next three months.^[3] 

Gathers returned after sitting out for three weeks and missing two games,^[17][23] and he averaged 29.3 minutes and 29.15 points in his 20 games through the remainder of the season.^[24] However, he struggled with his play for weeks after returning.^[23][25] His play recovered in a nationally televised game against LSU on February 3, 1990, when he scored 48 points along with 13 rebounds while being guarded by future NBA first-round draft picks Stanley Roberts and Shaquille O’Neal in a 148–141 overtime loss.^[25] The Lions won seven of their next eight games,^[25] and Gathers recorded a career-high 30 rebounds against Saint Mary’s.^[17]

On February 26, 1990, as the WCC Tournament neared, Gathers’ medication was reduced one last time from 80 to 40 mg, on the condition that he undergo testing in a couple of days to determine if it was safe and effective at suppressing the arrhythmias. He did not show up for his test that week and avoided calls from his cardiologist’s office.^[21][3] On March 2, he had a long talk with the cardiologist, who told him to play and come in for the testing after the tournament concluded.^[21][3] It was later suspected Gathers was not taking any dosage on game days.^[21] The following day in the WCC tournament quarterfinals in Los Angeles, he recorded 28 points and 11 rebounds in a 121–84 win over Gonzaga.^[26]

On Sunday, March 4, Gathers collapsed again with 13:34 left in the first half of the semifinal game against the Portland Pilots. He had just scored a dunk on an alley-oop pass from point guard Terrell Lowery that put the Lions up 25–13.^[16][22] Thirteen seconds later while positioned around midcourt in the Lions’ full court press,^[26] he collapsed a yard or two away from Pilots point guard Erik Spoelstra.^[27] 

He attempted to get up, telling the athletic trainers, “I don’t want to lay down!” Shortly after, he stopped breathing.^[28]  Gathers was pronounced dead at nearby Marina Del Rey Hospital at 6:55 PM PST.^[29] He was 23 years old.^[21] 

Hank Gathers tombstone in Mount Lawn Cemetery in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania

Cardiac sequelae in athletes following COVID-19 vaccination: evidence and misinformation – PubMed (nih.gov)

The recognition of myocarditis as a rare side effect of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination has sparked a global debate on vaccine safety, especially in the realm of sports. The main proposed mechanisms in the pathogenesis of COVID-19 mRNA vaccination-associated myocarditis (C-VAM) are based on the activation of the innate- and adaptive immune system against a susceptible immune-genetic background, including recognition of mRNA as an antigen by the immune system, molecular mimicry between SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein and cardiac tissue antigens and inflammatory sex-hormone signalling. 

The relatively younger age of the athlete population hypothetically constellates an increased risk of C-VAM. A subgroup analysis in individuals under 40 years revealed a low incidence of myocarditis following COVID-19 mRNA vaccination when compared to positive SARS-CoV-2 tests. No confirmed cases of athletes experiencing cardiac complications after mRNA vaccination have been reported. Most athletes only reported mild side effects after COVID-19 vaccination. 

A small but statistically significant decrease in maximal oxygen consumption in recreational athletes occurred after BNT162b2 mRNA booster vaccine administration. The clinical relevance and temporality of which remain to be determined. Many speculative social media reports attribute sudden cardiac arrest/death (SCA/D) in athletes to mRNA vaccination. 

Large media outlets have thoroughly debunked these claims. There is currently no evidence to support the claim that COVID-19 mRNA vaccination increases the risk of myocardial sequelae or SCA/D in athletes. However, specific vaccine regimen selection and timing may be appropriate to prevent detrimental performance effects.

CLAIM: Two researchers found that more than 1,500 athletes have suffered cardiac arrest since COVID-19 vaccinations began, compared to a previous average of 29 athletes per year, suggesting the vaccines are causing a dramatic rise in such cardiac issues.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The researchers cited a number from a blog that lists news stories about recent deaths and medical emergencies among people of all ages, from all over the world — some of which were attributed to other causes, such as cancer. The previous figure, meanwhile, is from a 2006 study that specifically reviewed literature for reports of sudden cardiac deaths among athletes under age 35. Comparing the two sources, with different methodologies, is not scientifically sound, experts told The Associated Press.

THE FACTS: Following Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest during a Monday Night Football game against the Cincinnati Bengals on January 2, 2023, Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest after making a tackle,^[3] and he was hospitalized in critical condition.^[4] 

What caused Hamlin’s heart to stop?

While cardiac specialists say it’s too soon to know what caused Hamlin’s heart to stop, they’ve offered a rare type of trauma called commotio cordis as among the possible culprits. He was released from the hospital 9 days later and eventually returned to professional football. ^{[5] [6]  Social media posts} and Fox News gave air to a long-circulating and faulty narrative that COVID-19 vaccines are causing a dramatic increase in athlete deaths.

“Cardiologist Peter McCullough and researcher Panagis Polykretis looked into this trend in Europe, European sports leagues. They found that prior to COVID and the COVID-19 vaccines there were roughly 29 cardiac arrests in those European sports leagues per year,” Fox’s Tucker Carlson claimed in a segment  “Since the vax campaign began, there have been more than 1,500 total cardiac arrests in those leagues and two-thirds of those were fatal.”

Tucker: Why is there a rise in young athletes with heart issues? (youtube.com)

Tucker Carlson Tonight January 03, 2023 04:09 CLIP

Dr. Peter McCullough On Damar Hamlin Collapse (What Is Causing Young Athletes To Drop Dead?) (rumble.com)

Cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough weighs in on Damar Hamlin’s collapse after it ignites conversation about young people and heart issues on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ 

Video: Tucker Carlson Misrepresents Vaccine Safety Reporting Data – FactCheck.org

Why Young Athletes Are Having Heart Problems (menshealth.com)

Note: Many don’t know the VAERS system is online and didn’t report their case.

Carlson was in fact referencing a letter, not a rigorous study, that McCullough and Polykretis published in a Scandinavian journal in late 2022.   That letter does claim that “1598 athletes suffered cardiac arrest, 1101 of which with deadly outcome” between January 2021 and late 2022 — but it simply cites a blog, goodsciencing.com, for that figure. 

The blog’s list is a compilation of news reports about recent deaths and medical emergencies, and it includes cases not reported to be spurred by cardiac arrest: Some deaths, for example, were reportedly from cancer. The letter by McCullough and Polykretis goes on to compare the blog’s questionable “1,598” figure of recent incidents to a 2006 study that found 1,101 reports of sudden cardiac death in athletes over a 38-year period, or an average of 29 per year. Some posts shared online also used numbers from the two sources to baselessly claim there has been a “1700% increase” in sudden cardiac deaths among athletes.  Source Claims baselessly link COVID vaccines to athlete deaths | AP News

The topic of young athletes’ deaths since COVID-19 has been surrounded by misinformation. Some claims suggest a significant increase in deaths due to COVID-19 vaccines, but these claims have been debunked by experts.

For instance, a widely circulated claim that over 1,500 athletes suffered cardiac arrest since the start of COVID-19 vaccinations was found to be based on unreliable data from a blog, not scientific research12. Experts in sports medicine have stated  there has been no surge in sudden deaths or cardiac injuries among athletes since the vaccines  became available2.

Learn more: 1apnews.com 2factcheck.org 3healthline.com

4biznews.com 5theburningplatform.com

It’s important to rely on credible sources and scientific studies when discussing such sensitive topics.

No Surge in Athlete Deaths, Contrary to Widespread Anti-Vaccine Claims – FactCheck.org

I drove an electric car over 3,000 miles in three months. It tested my sanity (msn.com)

Common myocarditis myths busted

Still not convinced? Below, Dr. Elias addresses the most frequent concerns he hears from patient families, and busts common myths about myocarditis and the COVID-19 vaccine.

Myth: The COVID-19 vaccine will cause a child to develop heart disease.

Fact: “Children are much more likely to develop heart issues after COVID-19 infection than after the vaccine. When children develop myocarditis after COVID-19 infection, it’s typically much more severe than when it occurs post-vaccine.”

Myth: Kids don’t get that sick from COVID-19, so they don’t need the vaccine.

Fact: “While kids are less likely to develop severe illness from COVID-19, they can get COVID-19, they can transmit COVID-19 and they can die from COVID-19. Even if they initially have no symptoms with infection, they can still develop MIS-C, which many families haven’t ever heard of.”

Myth: Children with congenital heart disease are at a higher risk of developing post-vaccine myocarditis.

Fact: “Congenital heart disease is not a risk factor for developing post-vaccine myocarditis. However, it has been identified by the CDC as a risk factor for severe infection for COVID-19.”

Take it from Dr. Elias: vaccines are the best way to end the pandemic, keep our kids healthy and get our lives back to normal. “Families often ask whether I would vaccinate my son,” says Dr. Elias. “As soon as the vaccine for kids ages 5-11 was authorized, we took him right in for his first dose. I’ve met and treated patients with post-vaccine myocarditis, COVID-19 myocarditis, and MIS-C, and I had no hesitation. We’ve waited long enough. It’s time to end the pandemic, and vaccines are the way to do it.”

Blood clot statistics: COVID-19 vaccine

Overview: Although blood clots linked to the COVID vaccine remain extremely rare there appears to be a higher risk in people shortly after the first dose of the AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine.

Risk rate: according to government guidance from June 2021, around 10 people develop this condition for every million of AZ vaccine doses given. That’s 0.001%.

Find out more at: COVID-19 vaccination and blood clotting (GOV.UK).

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New York border farmer overwhelmed by influx of migrants crossing property: ‘absolutely’ blame Biden-Harris (msn.com)

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Myocarditis and COVID-19: Get the Facts | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (chop.edu)

Blood Transfusions from COVID-19-Vaccinated Donors: Why It’s Safe (healthline.com)

​Why some people still have long Covid – and others never did at all (msn.com)

The Truth Behind Common COVID-19 Vaccine Misconceptions (aarp.org)

Sister’s tragic post after young nurse’s Covid death (yahoo.com)

  Medscape Registration | Kate Shemirani – Wikipedia

Sen. Joe Manchin says he cannot back Harris after her filibuster comment: Top senator yanks his endorsement of Harris over threat of power grab (msn.com)

Watch and listen Obama Once Said He’d ‘Be Fine with a Third Term’ if Someone Could Be a ‘Stand-In with an Earpiece’? | Snopes.com as two-term president Barack Obama tells Stephen Colbert he would gladly do his third term ‘from the basement’ if he could only find a willing ‘front man’.

Now you know why the Democrats picked the senile Joe Biden for president in 2020, he’s the front man. Since the beginning of his campaign, Biden’s foot has been no stranger to his mouth. The self-described “gaffe machine” is under fire again as Republican leaders promote a recent quote as a confession of wide-scale voter fraud.

Joe Biden: “We have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” – Search Images (bing.com)

RNC Research quickly jumped on Biden’s mistake, sharing the clip on Twitter that afternoon. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Eric Trump and the president tweeted about the short clip the same day.

“What a terrible thing for Biden to say!,”

Trump added. “Rigged Election?”

Our fact-check sources:

• USA TODAY, Sept. 6, 2019, “Joe Biden is a self-described ‘gaffe machine.’ So far, Democratic voters don’t seem to mind.”
• @theamerican_woman’s Oct. 24 Instagram Post
• @RNCResearch’s Oct. 24 Tweet
• @EricTrump’s Oct. 24 Tweet
• @realDonaldTrump’s Oct. 24 Tweet
• YouTube, Fox News, Oct. 24, “Joe Biden brags about having “the most extensive and inclusive VOTER FRAUD organization” in history.”
• Crooked, Pod Saves America, Oct. 24, “We got Joe!”
• I Will Vote
• CNN, Oct, 27, “Misinformation Watch: Kayleigh McEnany posts misleading Biden clip, claims he ‘admits to voter fraud'”
• Snopes, Oct. 26, “Did Biden ‘Admit’ to Voter Fraud?”
• PolitiFact, Oct. 27, “White House press secretary McEnany takes Biden’s words on voter fraud out of context”
• USA TODAY, Oct. 20, “We analyzed a conservative foundation’s catalog of absentee ballot fraud: It’s not a 2020 election threat”
• Fox News, Oct. 25, “Biden says in video he has created ‘voter fraud organization'”

The writing may be on the wall for Kamala’s faltering campaign (msn.com)

She’s fading fast. It’s funny because with the media on their side it would have only taken a couple of weeks of policy interviews to sufficiently carry the news cycle on these issues. But they didn’t even trust Kamala enough to ride the storm in presenting policy (and flip-flopping when necessary) to take a shot at it. She hasn’t earned the right to be President, and it doesn’t look like she is going to give it a shot. 

We should be in for a TRUMP landslide on election night.

In my opinion, America has had enough of Donald Trump.  However, Trump already has been in the White House AND THINGS WERE BETTER.  I’ll take competent but chaotic leadership over completely incompetent leadership any day. Trump’s 4 years were successful.  Biden/Harris was a complete disaster.  The media’s propaganda  can not make up for total incompetence. 

 Obama is a Marxist Muslim Pro Cartel Supporter – Search (bing.com)

Addressing the Republican Party of Texas convention, Gov. Rick Perry said the country erred in 2008 by electing the wrong person as president.
“Three and a half years, and nearly 100 rounds of golf into his presidency, Barack Obama has exploded the federal debt, passed a failed, budget-busting stimulus package, socialized health care, and provided guns to Mexican drug cartels,” Perry said June 7, 2012. “Admit it, America — 2008 was our national ‘oops’  moment!” 

FACT: Obama gave weapons to the drug cartel – Search (bing.com)

It’s pretty bad when the Dems have to boot their own sitting POTUS out of the running only to replace him with the likes of Harris. It must have been because he was doing such a stellar job, Right??  And hand delivering Obama his 4th term as POTUS.  Trump will be a breath of fresh air compared to the likes of them! TRUMP created chaos by exposing their political corruption. They are in politics for nobody but themselves. 

To get rich off the backs of the American middle class. Why do you think they are trying so hard to keep him from getting back in office? Let me guess you think he’s going to cost us our constitutional republic? The Democrats already showed you mess with their  money or power and they will do anything to get ya out or keep you from getting back in.

Odds are TRUMP will be your next president. Polls do not matter; over the years they are only accurate around 40-50%…. Personally, I have had enough of Biden’s choices that wrecked the economy.  Harris means 4 more years of Biden’s policies and no major change in the economy.  Vote with your wallet, I know many are empty under Biden.. 

They tried to tell us that Biden was as sharp as a tack and that everything we saw and heard were all deepfakes and that we shouldn’t believe our eyes and ears. The media and Harris were all complicit, but Harris even claimed further that he was the best for the job and that people were wrong about Biden.  

And then all of the sudden Biden is ousted a week after they failed at assassinating Trump and Harris is anointed and propped up as the princess and the savior of democracy, while at the same time skipping the very process we have called a primary in order to vote in a candidate LOL.  Yeah we’ve had enough of the Democrats.

I would think people are sick of being lied to by Democrats. Sorry we are not going to forget the last four years…but really the last eight because they have launched an all-out attack against any and all of their opponents, specifically President Trump through phony impeachment trials, January 6 insurrections, accusations and assination attempts etc.  

THE INDICTMENT OF DONALD TRUMP IS A THREAT TO ALL OF US – For The Defense With Brad Koffel – Apple Podcasts

Trump never created chaos. that came from the left. Look in the mirror and you’ll see who caused the chaos. Everyone who voted for Biden was doing just fine under Trump’s watch.  Many of us are ready to take a sigh of relief if he’s elected again. Whereas the left already are planning to throw a fit. Harris is an absolute phony in everything she ever did and an unfortunate product of our times.    Middle America…where common sense is still a virtue…will indeed decide this election.   

And sadly, the left fringe will not learn a single lesson.

The lesson that the left should be learning is that because the Democrats have captured the left legacy media, they don’t have to tell the truth about anything anymore.  They can lie with impunity and nobody will call them on anything.  They can even sell the country this puffed up empty suit because they control the propaganda.  

Are you all going to fall for this?

All I know is the world wasn’t on fire and on the brink of WW3, and my savings never did better than during the trump years. Anyone that invests for the long haul knows the truth. 2022 killed our stocks. I’m not losing money with this market, but I’m not getting nearly the return I got with Trump. Fact. No one will ever convince me of who to vote for. Just as I’m not going to convince anyone else. 

Good grief: Kamala is largely incoherent. 

There are videos of her speaking like she’s on something. I am surprised that her campaign has some traction, probably due to the democratic party diehards and a heavily biased leftist media. Kamala has done well avoiding questions about the working and specifics of her economic plan. For the keen-eyed, the plan is largely to tax everything and If you own a SUV or Pickup she will tax you to death.  

There is also an earlier video of Kamala chanting with a leftist, woke crowd “down with deportation.. ” we are playing with fire with this candidate. I do not believe the hype on Kamalahaha’s election chances and feel the polls are rigged to continue to keep her within striking distance. Trump might not be the ideal candidate but he is a proven commodity that American people are far more likely to put their trust in over the unknown of Harris’s ideology and where in the world the border goes from here. 

We are in for a TRUMP landslide if it is a legitimate election.

Today, this is true for politicians, few if any could run a business much less know what should be done. Trump may be disliked because of what comes out of his mouth. However, few if any in DC have his know how and business acumen. That is why DC hates him as he is not one of them and they want him out of their corrupt loop. Like him or not he definitely beats the typical goofs sauntering through the halls of Congress looking for his/her next meal and fund-raising circus!!!

Harris is not the leader of her campaign.  

She is just the latest puppet the Democrat machine is putting out on stage to read the teleprompter.  She OBVIOUSLY has no input into what is written in the teleprompter.  Her entire campaign is a fraud.  That is the disquiet these people feel.  They know they are being lied to.  They are being sold a bill of goods.

It’s a shame more people don’t realize just how unqualified she is for the job. She flip-flops on so many things it’s almost comical. She’s afraid of reporters and their questions for which she has trouble answering questions and people want her to be president.   The only people who support Kamala are the ones who had their eyes closed for the last three years. Their Bidenomics and “progressive” policies have affected all groups, so it is no surprise that traditional supporters are switching sides.

The only reason why Harris is the Dem nominee is because of how easy it would be for the elites to control her.  With that ease of control, her incompetence becomes even more obvious, and to the voters who care about actual issues, she is clearly unfit for the job. And for four years Deep State played Biden like a fiddle because he’s a vegetable.  Kamela decided if that’s all she had to do was bend down on her knees and listen to whatever they say, she figured she’s already had the experience for all that.

Lots of bots on the Dem payroll that will write nasty comments for them.  Harris has no business being in the running for President and Dems should have had an honest primary and maybe they would have gotten a better candidate than Harris. Who did nothing but lie to us for the past 3 1/2 years and is not someone that can be taken seriously. It has nothing to do with her being a woman.  It has everything to do with who she is and what her non-policies are.

Harris is little more than a prop for the Democratic Party.  

She was purposely installed on the ballot, the general public and as the media have no direct access to her, everything is scripted.  If she is allowed to speak on her own, she is a disaster. In a recent interview with Oprah we saw the real Harris, she was talking about her word salad of dreams, aspirations and her middle-class upbringing.  Unless you’re comfortable with voting for a puppet as the leader of the free world, then by all means vote for Harris.  If not, there’s only one other choice.

Harris is an empty suit puppet who was thrown in by the Dems because they can totally manipulate her.  She is, quite literally, without a thought or position. Feckless is my word of choice. Trump, for all his personal flaws, actually governed well and had our country on track before a global pandemic was released by the American communist party. As bad as some think Trump is, she’s a thousand times worse.

Her campaign would be dead if the left propaganda machine media would show the truth. Ever wonder why she is losing the democrat base of minorities. It is because they were shown what life should be like by a republican that had the country’s best interest in mind. Trump was the person that corrected this country and got us back on the right path during his time in the White House.

Unfortunately, the progressive left teamed up with China and Fauci to spread a disease and lock people down. So they could run a successful basement campaign and make unconstitutional changes to the voting system at the last minute even though they violated every state constitution. The election of the incoherent puppet Joey B. was designed to be BHO’s 3rd term as he stated he would do before he left office. Now Kamala will be his 4th if she wins and the left id10t’s are gullible enough to continue voting that way.

You have to ask yourself, do we want an America that respects our deep roots or one that embraces failing communist countries who subjugate people? Do you want a country where politicians feel entitled to your wallet to give to those here illegally or one respecting us as a nation having actual enforced borders? 

Conservatives Sure Seem Nervous About the Nebraska Senate Race (msn.com)

Political environment favors Republicans: Gallup (msn.com)

The Choice is Yours.

Do you want a thriving economy where you can afford to maintain your business, purchase goods, fuel your vehicles, enjoy vacations and buy a home? Or do you want to fund people here illegally, transients and thieves, whether they be thugs, or politicians who snatch it away via harmful legislation? 

It’s Your Future: New poll finds candidate opening a wide lead among young voters.

Do you really want to elect politicians who believe in reducing punishment for serious crimes and give your money to release rioters from jails during the upheaval of 2020?

Or do you want politicians to start enforcing laws and implementing legislation to keep us safer from drug dealers, gangs, theft rings, sex traffickers and violent sex offenders, not making them accountable for their crimes? Do we want accountability, or toxic compassion? Do we want healthy, thriving and safe communities where we respect parental rights and foundational education? 

What polling says about key 2024 Senate races (msn.com)

Despite the likelihood of another rigged election, this time, loyal Trumpian Patriots will NOT have to turn the other cheek as our Supreme Leader- SUPREMO, has the backing of SCOTUS and knows that he has full immunity. Just like Jesus… turned the other cheek the First Coming… but the Second Coming… He will unleash His wrath… executing great vengeance upon all those who oppose SUPREMO’s accession to the throne… On the Day of Judgment, SUPREMO will sit at the right hand of our Lord and Savior… and judge the twelve tribes of Israel. SUPREMO will be given absolute power- mandate to rule as he sees is in the best interests of Trump Land, formerly the USA. 

Oregon mistakenly registered nearly 1,260 possible noncitizens to vote, DMV admits.

Never Mind Lithium, We Don’t Have Enough Copper For EV Production (msn.com)

September consumer confidence falls the most in three years | Watch (msn.com)

Consumer confidence in U.S. economy plummets in latest data (msn.com)

Survey: Enthusiasm for Harris catapults Asian American voters (msn.com)

Biden issues stern warning to Israel and Hezbollah (msn.com)

Who is leading in the polls? (msn.com)