Archive for August, 2011
High temperatures. Tremendous US government cover up of how the towers pulverized.
NIST flat out lies.
There are various huge obstacles to overcome (finding a material strong enough to sustain such a structure, for one), but some experts are hopeful we will have a functioning space elevator by the middle of next decade
China’s ambitious goals for electrification of its automotive fleet call for 10 percent of the cars expected to be produced in 2015 to be EVs
Killing of China electric car? BYD.
… “testing of the company’s BYD e6 all-electric sedan proceeded as scheduled and commercial introduction of the car was delayed only because it was decided late in the game to change the size of the passenger compartment in response to dealer feedback.”
company has focused on production of electric fleet vehicles like its eBUS, responding to official emphasis on electrification of public transportation, rather on the more iffy consumer sector.
Just as GM hybrids, elctrics are very expensive ….
China’s national government offers a subsidy for each EV bought of close to US $10,000, and the cities Beijing and Shenzhen another $10,000; Shanghai offers two thirds that–40,000 versus 60,000 remimbi. In addition, Beijing and Shanghai exempt EVs from restrictions on issuance of license plates.
Under the circumstances, it’s hardly surprising that introduction of the e6, which sells for 300,000 remimbi, has been cautious.
by Stephen Lendman
Continuing NATO atrocities on Libyan civilians gave naked aggression a new name.
Call it what it is: Lawless, Willful, Malevolent Genocidal Gang Rape, the new supreme international crime against peace ongoing at this time
911 is the end of the road for criminal wars enterprise complex.
1945 – 2011.
Iraqi civilian deaths: 1-3 million. Hell on earth.
www.krunchd.com/Iraq
Criminal Nato war crimes.
911Truth controlled demolition therefore inside false flag operation. Per irefutable scientific evidence, per common sense.
Forces behind 911 still uncovered, enabled, in charge of the world.
manipulating and disturbing human mental processes and health through pulsed radio-frequency radiation over large geographical areas
beaming electrical power from a powerhouse in the gas fields to the consumer without wires
one could develop a system that would seriously impair the brain performance of very large populations in selected regions over an extended period” —- >same as beer.
this invention provides the ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the Earth’s atmosphere at strategic locations and to maintain the power injection level particularly if random pulsing is employed, in a manner far more precise and better controlled than heretofore accomplished by the prior art, particularly by detonation of nuclear devices of various yields at various altitudes
it is possible not only to interfere with third party communications but to take advantage of one or more such beams to carry out a communications network even though the rest of the world’s communications are disrupted
large regions of the atmosphere could be lifted to an unexpectedly high altitude so that missiles encounter unexpected and unplanned drag forces with resultant destruction
weather modifications, molecular atmospheric modifications
the key to geophysical warfare is the identification of environmental instabilities to which the addition of a small amount of energy would release vastly greater amounts of energy
As early as 1970, Zbigniew Brzezinski predicted a “more controlled and directed society” would gradually appear, linked to technology. This society would be dominated by an elite group which impresses voters by allegedly superior scientific know-how. Angels Don’t Play This HAARP further quotes Brzezinski:
“Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control. Technical and scientific momentum would then feed on the situation it exploits,” Brzezinski predicted.
earth-penetrating-tomography.
The problem is that the frequency needed for earth-penetrating radiation is within the frequency range most cited for disruption of human mental functions. It may also have profound effects on migration patterns of fish and wild animals which rely on an undisturbed energy field to find their routes
weather effects over entire hemispheres.
The ionosphere is prone to catalytic reactions,” she explained, “if a small part is changed, a major change in the ionosphere can happen.”
Slicing the Ionosphere
Physicist Daniel Winter, Ph.D., of Waynesville, North Carolina, says, “HAARP high-frequency emissions can couple with longwave (extremely-low-frequency, or ELF) pulses the Earth grid uses to distribute information as vibrations to synchronize dances of life in the biosphere.”
Dan terms this geomagnetic action ‘Earth’s information bloodstream,’ and says it is likely that coupling of HAARP HF (high-frequency) with natural ELF can cause unplanned, unsuspected side effects.
Unless we desire the death of our planet, we must end the production of unstable particles which are generating the earth’s fever.
A first priority to prevent this disaster would be to shut down all nuclear power plants and end the testing of atomic weapons, electronic warfare and ‘Star Wars’.”
technicians could control global weather by sending relatively small ‘signals’ into the Van Allen belts (radiation belts around Earth). Thus Tesla’s resonance effects can control enormous energies by tiny triggering signals.
rainmaking technology was taken for a few test rides in Vietnam. The U.S. Department of Defense sampled lightning and hurricane manipulation studies in Project Skyfire and Project Stormfury.
And they looked at some complicated technologies that would give big effects.
Angels Don’t Play This HAARP cites an expert who says the military studied both lasers and chemicals which they figured could damage the ozone layer over an enemy.
Looking at ways to cause earthquakes, as well as to detect them, was part of the project named Prime Argus, decades ago
40 Years of Zapping the Sky?
As far back as 1958, the chief White House advisor on weather modification, Captain Howard T. Orville, said the U.S. defense department was studying “ways to manipulate the charges of the earth and sky and so affect the weather” by using an electronic beam to ionize or de-ionize the atmosphere over a given area.
use of weather manipulation, climate modification, polar ice cap melting or destabilization, ozone depletion techniques, earthquake engineering, ocean wave control and brain wave manipulation using the planet’s energy fields.
He also said that these types of weapons would be developed and, when used, would be virtually undetectable by their victims.
leading-edge scientists are describing global weather as not only air pressure and thermal systems, but also as an electrical system
A point to remember is that the ionosphere is an active electrical shield protecting the planet from the constant bombardment of high-energy particles from space.
This conducting plasma, along with Earth’s magnetic field, traps the electrical plasma of space and holds it back from going directly to the earth’s surface
Angels Don’t Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology is about the military’s plan to manipulate that which belongs to the world — the ionosphere.
federal deficits, gross debt, military spending, infrastructure investment, income inequality and now endemic joblessness:
- Seen over a ten-year span, federal revenue has largely stayed constant, rising from $2.02 trillion in 2001 to $2.17 trillion in FY 2011. Expenditures, meanwhile, more than doubled from $1.85 trillion to $3.82 trillion producing a deficit this year of $1.65 trillion.
- Over the same period, gross U.S. debt has ballooned to over $14 trillion (roughly 100% of GDP) with net debt standing today at $9 trillion (of which 50% is held by non-U.S. entities).
- Defense expenditure over the same period has risen from approximately $300 billion in the year prior to 9/11 to $700 billion in FY 2011, and the figure is hundreds of billions higher if military spending outside the Defense Department is included. The total costs (estimated and very likely low-balled) of the Wars of 9/11 in Afghanistan and Iraq now stands at some $1.5 trillion, financed of course entirely by deficit spending. The result is that the U.S. now spends more on its defense budget than all other countries combined.
- The U.S., which once led the world in infrastructure development, now spends just 2.0% of GDP in such investments, as opposed to 5% in the EU and 9% in China. Of the 30 largest infrastructure projects globally, half are in developing economies and just five are in the U.S. A single Chinese project (the $150 billion North-South water diversion plan) involves more than double in total investment ($65 billion) of all five current U.S. projects.
- Looking at the U.S. gini coefficient, the most commonly used measure of inequality, no country in the developed world today has a greater gap between rich and poor. U.S. inequality is currently at levels not seen since the first decade of the 20th century – and greater even than in 1929.
- Finally, last week’s payroll report for July showed that nearly fourteen million Americans are now out of work, and more than six million of them have been jobless for more than six months. For more than two years, the unemployment rate has been close to or above nine per cent – and if you include those people who’ve given up looking for work it’s nearly double that.
If this is what global dominance looks like, who needs it?
Hurricane Irene surged through New York City on Sunday flooding waterfronts and low-lying areas, but America’s most populous city avoided the mass devastation some had feared
$7 billion damage, 18 dead.
It could have been worse.
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CIA had a hand in “fomenting a civil war
nato war crimes
‘Before NATO intrusion, Libya was African Switzerland’, NATO Crimes In Libya.
nato war crimes
1Million+ Libyan Civilians Protest Against NATO And Its Rebels Attacks 01 07 11 (1) In Libya
Steven Lendman:
http://911investigate.blogspot.com/2011/08/nato-libya-war-nuremberg-level-cri…
Susan Lindauer was a CIA/DIA asset and worked as a liason between the CIA and Iraq during the 1990′s up until after 9/11/2001.
She talks about the Bush administration wanting to go to war with Iraq right after they took office.
Then she talks about prior knowledge of plans of terrorists flying planes into the World Trade Center.
She contacted Senators John McCain and Trent Lott with her knowledge of the attacks and prior knowledge.
Within 30 days of doing that she was arrested by the FBI and charged with many felonies under the Patriot Act.
She served one year in prison and the government tried very hard to force medicate her but some doctors kept saying she was completely sane/fine.
She was released after a year in prison and under indictment for 5 years.
She tried to present her story to major news outlets and none of them would touch it.
Most of the information she discusses has been confirmed by several other sources including the World Trade Center being rigged with thermate explosives.
Susan Lindauer discusses the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center, the hijackers, lies leading up to the Iraq war etc.
VERY EXPLOSIVE FIRST HAND KNOWLEDGE!
>>>Wake up America. Man up America.
A group of African intellectuals has written an open letter criticising the NATO-led military attacks on Libya, saying Africa ran the risk of being re-colonised.
“Nato has violated international law… they had a regime change agenda,” said one of the signatories, University of Johannesburg head of politics, Chris Landsberg.
“The re-colonisation of Africa is becoming a real threat,” he told reporters in Johannesburg.
Rogue states
Landsberg said Britain, France and United States “continue to act as a rogue states”.
“A rogue is an errant state that does not live by rules… the tragedy is that they are not likely to be charged in the International Criminal Court.”
The Security Council also “repudiated the rule of international law” by ignoring the role of legitimate regional institutions in solving conflict.
The challenges poor and homeless Americans often face accessing clean drinking water and restroom facilities violate international human rights standards, according to a report issued by a United Nations investigator this month.
Catarina de Albuquerque, a U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation, visited the United States in late February at the invitation of the U.S. government.
She found homeless individuals around the country not only struggle to access running water and restroom facilities but increasingly face criminal and civil sanctions when they improvise solutions.The right to safe drinking water and restroom facilities is a part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The U.N. report’s findings detail just a few of the ways that U.S. cities and counties are failing to meet these obligations because of how they opt to deal with homelessness, said Eric Tars, human rights program director at the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty.
The most recent federal homeless count data available is from January 2010. It shows there were 700,000 individuals in the U.S. who were homeless. The Department of Housing and Urban Development report found that homelessness grew very little between 2009 and 2010. But the share of families who lack a place to sleep continued the rapid expansion that began during the recession. Between 2007 and 2010, the number of homeless families grew by 20 percent.
The nation’s elevated unemployment rate and the large number of foreclosures have increased demand just as municipal and state budget problems have led to a reduction in services available to the poor and homeless. As a result, many communities — in particular suburban communities where services for the homeless are often nonexistent — are confronting an increasingly visible homeless population forced to sleep in city parks or take up residence in one of a growing number of tent cities, Tars said.
Some cities have begun to regulate tent cities issuing temporary permits that allow churches or other organizations to host the homeless for few months. But in many more cities, developers, business district boosters and city councils have clashed with the homeless, encouraging police to issue more frequent tickets for violations such as sleeping in public, loitering, littering or public urination and defecation, Tars said.
This year, in Sacramento, Calif., city efforts to discourage homeless individuals and families from taking shelter in a growing tent city have included shutting off the water supply to nearby a fountain and locking or removing public restroom facilities, he said. A spokesperson for the city of Sacramento did not immediately return request for comment Friday.
In 2009, Sacramento drew national attention when the “Oprah Winfrey Show” aired a segment describing the number of newly homeless people moving into that city’s homeless encampments, said Amy Williams, spokeswoman for the city manager’s office. But the city has not had problems with homeless individuals misusing public facilities and has not shuttered restrooms of cut water to fountains, she said. In 2009, Sacramento did temporarily close its park restrooms because of a budget problem. At that time, at least one city park’s restrooms were not reopened due to community complaints about the homeless, the Sacramento Press reported.
In 2009, a Gainesville, Fla., a developer convinced the city to begin enforcing a nearly 20-year-old ordinance barring some social service agencies from distributing more than 130 meals per day. For two years, one downtown shelter was forced to turn homeless individuals away from its soup kitchen line. The city changed the policy this month to allow soup kitchens to serve an unlimited number of meals during a limited number of hours each day.
In 2007 Los Angeles began an initiative to reduce crime downtown, leading police to issue thousands of citations to homeless individuals for things such as flicking the ash from a cigarette onto the sidewalk (cited as littering) to urinating or drinking in public, said Tars. Those citations have been overwhelmingly issued to poor and homeless black people, he said. When downtown art gallery crawls bring to the area upper-income city residents who frequently walk from one gallery to another with full wine glasses in hand, police do not take action, he said.
In 2009, the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty issued a study of the crackdown and others like it around the country that named Los Angeles the No. 1 “meanest city” for its treatment of the homeless. A spokesman for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called the report “short-sighted and misleading” at the time, Reuters reported.
“Rather than doing good things like providing more housing, more shelter, more assistance, cities are using these measures to push problems out of view,” said Tars.
Tars said the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty is planning a series of cases to challenge ordinances that criminalize activities — such as using the restroom, sleeping or accessing water — that can not be avoided or handled in private if a person is homeless.
“What this [U.N.] report will allow us to do is go into court and argue that these laws violate international standards and amount to what a U.N. investigator said was cruel and unusual punishment,” Tars said.
This article has been updated to include comment from the Sacramento City Manager’s Office.
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No access of people to drinking water and restrooms in the United States of America is a violation of human rights.
The colonial aggressions of USA abroad are creating the same the very same violations – genocide in Iraq, 1.5 million civilians dead, occupation of Afghanistan, Libya.
Price? $3-4 trillion.
Homelessness in itself is a violation of human rights.
self-inflicted, false-flag terror attacks in the United States, and blaming them on a foreign enemy
Many states have sponsored attacks on their own people, fabricated the cause for war, created their own enemies of convenience, and sacrificed their own citizens for reasons of state. The Nazis masterminded the torching of the Reichstag – the German Parliament buildings – on February 27th, 1933, one week before a national election.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, a plane was hijacked, and the FAA was notified at 8:15AM, 32 minutes before it crashes into the WTC.
Even though the cockpit transponders were cut off there is a mediating control. The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) “provides our nation its eyes and ears in space.” It operates a system of reconnaissance satellites to provide real-time monitoring of objects in the skies.
On the morning of 9/11/01 the NRO headquarters in Chantilly, VA, were evacuated as part of a “plane into building” drill.
The scenario involved a small corporate jet crashing into one of the campus’ four towers.
Other exercises were going on the morning of the attack. A large-scale military training exercise called Global Guardian was in full swing.
Global Guardian is an annual exercise involving Stratcom (the US Strategic Command), the US Space Command, and NORAD, in which a threat to North American airspace is simulated. Stratcom directed the exercise from Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, where our President landed Air Force One late in the afternoon of 9/11.
Another military exercise scheduled for the morning of September 11 was Northern Vigilance which had pulled a significant number of North American fighter aircraft into Canada, Western and Northern Alaska in a ‘mock Cold War hijack’ exercise.
Another drill, “Vigilant Guardian” was a hijack exercise involving the insertion of false radar blips onto radar screens in the Northeast Air Defense Sector command post.
In addition, General Richard Myers tells of “Vigilant Warrior”, which was a live-fly hijack drill being conducted on the morning of 911.
With only eight remaining fighter aircraft in the Northeast sector, and they had to be dispatched in pairs, they were dealing with a confirmed 22 blips on the radar screen indicating possible hijacks and they couldn’t separate the war game exercises from the actual hijacks.
In June, 2001 Dick Cheney initiated new instructions for military intervention in the case of a hijacking. These new instructions state that, for all responses, the Department of Defense must get permission directly from Donald Rumsfield, the Secretary of Defense.
One of the chief tools used by government insiders planning false flag terrorist attacks is staging exercises or drills at the exact same time and place as the actual event.
The London train bombings of July 7, 2005, and the Madrid train bombings of March 11, 2004 were identical in their planning and implementation.
In each, an anti-terrorist exercise was created whereby trains were possibly going to be blown up with bombs. On the exact same day, at the exact same time that the anti-terrorist drill took place, actual bombs blew up.
Each of the accused bombers in Madrid had links to the head of the bomb squad of the Spanish Security Services.
www.OklahomaBombing.blogspot.com
www.77LondonBombings.blogspot.com
US/UK/French-led war on Libya will be remembered as one of history’s greatest crimes. It violates the letter and spirit of international law and America’s Constitution.
Nuremberg war crimes trials:
“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.”
aggressive war “the greatest menace of our times.”
International law defines crimes against peace as “planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of wars of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing.”
All US post-WW II wars fall under this definition.
Since then, America waged direct and proxy premeditated, aggressive wars worldwide, killing millions in East and Central Asia, North and other parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, as well as Central and South America.
Arguably they exceed the worst of Nazi and imperial Japanese crimes combined, including genocide, torture mass destruction of nonmilitary related sites, colonization, occupation, plunder and exploitation.
US war criminals are considered hostis humani generis – enemies of mankind. War crimes are against the jus gentium – the law of nations.
Established international law addressed them, including the UN Charter. It’s unequivocal explaining under what conditions violence and coercion (by one state against another) are justified.
Genocide, other forms of mass murder, targeted and indiscriminate destruction, and other crimes of war and against humanity are too intolerable to go unpunished.
unspeakable war crimes are being committed to “protect the people of Libya.” Included are civilians being terror bombed daily, to break their morale, cause panic, weaken their will to resist, and inflict mass casualties and punishment.
Nonetheless, America and its conspiratorial allies commit them – today, horrifically against Libya, a small nonbelligerent country being terrorized, destroyed, and plundered lawlessly in the name of “liberation.”
Stephen Lendman
full article at:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26155
also
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com
http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour
911 is proven to be controlled demolition therefore inside false flag operation.
The sheer vulnerability of 911 WTC controlled demolition and Pentagon attack, demolishing 3 towers in front of the eyes of the whole world to see, opens a whole set of possible explanations as to “what the hell were they thinking?” ….
1. they did not care and do not care. they have weapons and means now to perpetuate their control forever. ….
2. they thought it would not be discovered, being such a big lie ….
3. it just got out of control, out of hand, originally mild operation exploded into unintended dimensions ……
4. they just needed it, and lets deal with any fallout on the go ….
5. 911 controlled demolition really is just a first shot. probably ww iii conflict, eternal, if necessary. its a good money. …. world control. … who cares?
US elections are non binding, Russia doesnt want or cant oppose to restore the rule of law, everybody else is a joke ….
so, lets overcharge that gas by 100% .. its a good money, private taxes of herded sheep – the world population. …..
do we need people at all?? by now, robots are working for corporations. no need for medical care or education. better profits ….
so what with those pesky human beings, demanding jobs, and money from corporate darlings?? …
lets lead them to wars. to homelessness .. to poverty. good control.
ps
lets keep in mind that Oklahoma 4/19/95 and London 7/7/05 are also inside operations, and somebody needed to set explosive hight tech military nanothermite in all 3 WTC towers.
What does that tell us?
That we need independent lie detector investigation of all highest officials of the time.
Questions to ask
1. Are you aware that 911 is controlled demolition? If so, when and how have you learned?
2. What was your reaction or what was the situation you learned under?
If you are not aware, read www.ae911truth.org, >back to step 1.
number of aftershocks so far has been remarkably low since the strongest earthquake to strike the East Coast since World War II.
NEIC agency isn’t sure what to expect, but it’s likely there will be some more aftershocks for days, if not weeks.
http://www.businessinsider.com/earthquake-tweets-2011-8
Hurricane Irene conditions expected in Carolina in 36 hours
http://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-watch-map-irene-2011-8
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Hurricane-Irene-Tracks-Closer-to-the-…
Cracks in Washington DC Monument Obelisk
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Major-Monuments-Closed-in-DC-for-Quak…
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/A_Seismologist_Explains_the_Virginia_…
DEFINES PATRIOTISM AND DUTY FOR VETERANS, “TRUTH AND HONOR”
Colonel Bowman, an Air Force combat pilot and Vietnam veteran cuts through “the bull.”
Some people don’t like facts. Some people don’t like truth. Some people don’t have honor.
Without courage, without facts, without truth and without action, anyone who believes themselves an American patriot is very much the opposite.
http://911investigate.blogspot.com/2011/08/no-way-this-video-by-decorated-frm…
Earthquakes are no longer just natural occurring phenomenas. A U.S. military ionosphere heater called HAARP is now capable of triggering earthquakes anywhere in the World
An earthquake has never been felt in Washington DC before.
The unheard of occurred in Washington DC this afternoon August 23, 2011. A shallow 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook Washington DC this afternoon. The epicenter was 84 miles SW of Washington DC.
Early in the day another shallow 5.3 magnitude earthquake shook Denver Colorado. Both earthquakes occurred just south of key U.S. government centers.
Washington DC is obvious and Denver is now home to the CIA domestic operations which is responsible for operations and recruitment in the United States. The CIA recently moved there from the CIA’s Langley Virginia headquarters.
Nato another criminal colonial assault aggression war on independent country.
Russia could stop nato war crimes world wide, but they are too naive, or already bought … Russia could bomb West just like West bombs Libya, anytime
nato criminal plan to occupy libya
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25947
warning: graphic nato war, killing people, killing children
Parts of the Pentagon, White House and Capitol were evacuated. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Haarp attack artificial remote earthquake? Or Heavens punishment for war crimes killing in Iraq and Libya?
www.krunchd.com/haarp
Strong East Coast quake highly unusual…
Felt from Toronto to Atlanta…
Epicenter VA…
Felt In Chicago…
Airports Close…
CELLPHONES OUT…
Nuke Plant Shuts Down…
Vacant White House Shakes…
Stones fall off National Cathedral…
WASHINGTON MONUMENT ‘TILTING’?…
HOMELAND SECURITY’S QUAKE ADVICE: DON’T CALL…
5.8 MAG QUAKE ROCKS DC-NYC
HURRICANE NEXT?
Shaking has been reported as far north as New York. Reports of shaking have also been coming in from the New England area. According to the USGS, a magnitude 5.5 Eastern US earthquake can typically be felt as far as 300 miles away.
A strong earthquake rattled the East Coast on Tuesday, sending tremors as far as Canada, damaging well-known buildings in the nation’s capital and sending scared office workers into the streets.
It was the largest quake in Virginia since 1897 and struck at a shallow depth, increasing its potency.
In addition to the Virginia earthquake, there were nine tremors in the area immediately around Cokedale, Colorado, near the border of New Mexico.
“Today we had two significant earthquakes shake large portions of the country,” said David Wald, a geophysicist with the USGS.
“The Western earthquake, magnitude 5.3, within the last 24 hours, shook roughly four western states, primarily Colorado and New Mexico, but also parts of Kansas, Oklahoma as well as Texas — large states, but probably experienced by tens of thousands of people,” he said.
CAPITOL SHAKEN
As if a rare strong earthquake were not enough, the East Coast was also on alert for powerful Hurricane Irene which was heading up from the Caribbean and could hit at the weekend.
The quake made chandeliers sway in the U.S. Capitol and the floor of the U.S. Senate shook before staff headed for the exits. Some minor damage could be seen in the rotunda, under the dome of the Capitol.
Bits of paint and plaster fell from high on the walls and chunks of plaster fell from above a doorway in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. The U.S. Congress is in recess so most members were away.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/23/us-quake-usa-idUSTRE77M67120110823
The earthquake came less than three weeks before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, and in both Washington and New York it immediately triggered fears of something more sinister than a natural disaster.
At the Pentagon, a low rumbling built until the building itself was shaking, and people ran into the corridors of the complex. The shaking continued there, to shouts of “Evacuate! Evacuate!”
More than 12 million people live close enough to the quake’s epicenter to have felt shaking, according to the Geological Survey. The agency said put the quake in its yellow alert category, meaning there was potential for local damage but relatively little economic damage.
The USGS said the quake was 3.7 miles beneath the surface, but scientists said they may never be able to map the exact fault.
Aftershocks may help to outline it, said Rowena Lohman, a seismologist at Cornell University. There were at least two aftershocks, magnitudes 2.2 and 2.8.
http://news.yahoo.com/quake-rocks-washington-area-felt-east-coast-181550612.html
beyond predicting catastrophic economic downturns. Now, he’s saying that capitalism itself is threatened.
Recent popular demonstrations, from the Middle East to Israel to the UK, are all driven by the same issues and tensions: growing inequality, poverty, unemployment, and hopelessness…
Even the world’s middle classes are feeling the squeeze of falling incomes and opportunities.”
capitalism is undergoing a crisis that Karl Marx predicted a century ago, driven by an ongoing transfer of wealth and power from labor to capital (in other words, from poor and middle-class people to rich people.)
normally, capitalism woud start a war now, somewhere … and that is also happening with colonization of oil Arab countries by Nato/US
monstrous off-shore wind farm “backbone” along the United States’ Atlantic coastline. Reaching from New Jersey to Virginia, the project will stretch across 350 miles of the continent’s eastern coast.
Once built and connected to the grid, the wind turbines will produce more than 6,000 megawatts of clean, renewable energy. That’s about 60 percent of the wind energy that was installed in the entire country last year.
Atlantic Wind Connection
To put it into perspective, a typical North American nuclear power plant pumps out about 500 to 1,300 MW.
The plan is to collect the power of multiple off-shore wind farms, 10 to 15 miles from the coast, and deliver it by underwater cables to the strongest, highest-capacity parts of the land-based transmission system.
enough energy to power approximately 1.9 million homes.
global economy is splintering. U.S. voters hate all politicians and there’s political unrest throughout the world. The root cause of this turmoil is the failure of the dominant economic paradigm — global corporate capitalism.
Many large corporations pay no U.S. income tax at all; in 2009, Exxon Mobil actually got a $156 M rebate
The modern world is ruled by >publicly unelected and unelectable
global corporations disdain civil society. They’ve created a culture of organizational narcissism, where workers pledge allegiance to the enterprise.
>its the mafia families like situation
Corporate executives don’t care about the success or failure of any particular country, only the growth and profitability of their global corporation.
oil war military complex cartel is overcharging US consumers about 100% on gas prices.
its practically heavy hidden private taxes.
In many parts of the world, a worker is not able to earn a living wage, have a bank account or drive a car, but can always obtain drugs, sex, and weapons
The good news is we’re witnessing the failure of global corporate capitalism. The bad news is we don’t know what will replace it
>>> the answer is in responsible capitalism with human face, socially just, non violent.
the sort that the most prosperous countries established, like Germany, Japan, France
American rogue capitalism can produce so much, unfortunately, it doesnt know how to distribute it throughout the population, other than to give 90% of the wealth to he 1% of the top capos.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accused the West of breaking promises made after the fall of the Iron Curtain, saying that NATO’s expansion into Eastern Europe violated commitments made during the negotiations over German reunification.
Newly discovered documents from Western archives support the Russian position.
Of course there was a promise not to expand NATO “as much as a thumb’s width further to the East,” Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet president at the time, says in Moscow today.
Too quick changes, sudden disintegration of Soviet Union meant a great tragedy for milions of people cast into mafia chaos, poverty, crime and no future.
Collapse upset the strategic balance of power in the world, setting up the stage for western military invasions and violent colonizations of many Arab oil countries.
NATO’s Eastward Expansion: Did the West Break Its Promise to Moscow? (11/26/2009)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,663315,00.html
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