It cannot be disputed. At ONE TIME this Nation was the GREATEST NATION in the WORLD. The American public has in the past been the most honorable, hard-working, GOD-FEARING, generous, inspiring people in the WORLD! I am not talking about our Government. I am talking about the AMERICAN PEOPLE. Individuals who are the backbone of the nation. The American people have given more funds, prayer support, physical effort, loving outreach, blood sweat and tears toward their fellow man than any other nation. THAT IS A FACT. To this day, the American people are still giving above and beyond. I am so proud of our heritage and it breaks my heart to see how it is being trampled.
This is the month in which we celebrate the birth of our nation and the Freedom it provides. Now people are pouring into our land who have no respect or appreciation for our nation and our laws. No appreciation for the generosity of the American people, from which they have benefited. These immigrants/refugees/asylum seekers want to trample our values and destroy our system. They want to turn our nation into theirs, which they supposedly are fleeing.
Please let us PRAY! Turn back to GOD. He is the only one who can save what there is left to save. If America falls… Freedom falls worldwide!
Here is what is happening in our nation in the Month of July 2019
Update 7/31/19
Am I the only one who finds these Oil Industry explosions/fires suddenly happening all over the World with great regularity HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS?? Seriously, just seems extremely fishy to me. What is that about? Are they collecting huge payouts from insurance? Are they burning up the petroleum so they can raise prices? Is this about changing over to a different fuel source or getting rid of cars altogether? Or is it just about the collapsing of our sorely neglected infrastructure as part of the destruction before the resurrection/order out of chaos/Phoenix from the ashes? What are they up to? I am just not buying that these are accidents.
Flames and smoke rise after a fire started at an Exxon Mobil facility, Wednesday, July 31, 2019, in Baytown, Texas. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
HOUSTON (AP) — An explosion and fire at an Exxon Mobil oil refinery in Texas on Wednesday left 37 people with minor injuries, in the latest of a series of petrochemical industry blazes this year in the Houston area.
The fire began after an explosion at approximately 11:07 a.m. at an Exxon Mobil plant in Baytown, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Houston. The facility processes light hydrocarbons including propane and propylene, materials used to make plastic and industrial products.
Jason Duncan, the plant manager, said many of those hurt suffered minor burns and all were being treated at a local clinic. Earlier, Exxon Mobil had said in a statement that six people were injured. All employees at the plant had been accounted for, officials said.
Right after the explosion, the fire sent large plumes of black smoke into the sky. By Wednesday afternoon, the smoke had lessened. Duncan said the fire had been isolated and contained but had not yet been extinguished.
“It is our number one priority to protect the people in the community and the people that work for us,” Duncan said.
The city of Baytown issued a shelter in place for residents living west of the plant shortly after the fire. It remained in place for about three hours before being lifted Wednesday afternoon.
The cause of the explosion and fire was still being investigated, Duncan said.
Exxon Mobil, as well as officials with Baytown and Harris County, had conducted air quality monitoring of the plant and surrounding area but had not found anything to raise any health concerns.
Wednesday’s fire is the latest at a Houston-area petrochemical facility this year, including one at another facility on the Exxon Mobil Baytown complex.
On March 16, a fire erupted at a refinery at the complex. The fire was extinguished hours later, but Harris County officials say it continued to release toxic pollutants for eight more days. The county has sued Exxon Mobil, accusing the company of violating the federal Clean Air Act.
Also in March, a fire burned for days at a petrochemical storage facility owned by Intercontinental Terminals Company in nearby Deer Park and caused chemicals to flow into a nearby waterway. After the fire, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office filed water pollution charges against ITC.
In April, one worker died after a tank holding a flammable chemical caught fire at a plant operated by KMCO LLC in nearby Crosby.
Prior to Wednesday’s fire, Harris County had conducted an analysis of how local officials and agencies respond to such incidents in the wake of the petrochemical complex fires from earlier this year, said Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo.
Some of the steps the county is taking as a result of this analysis include asking for more air monitors, improving how the public is informed about such incidents and improving communication between agencies that respond to such incidents. Hidalgo said the county fire marshal’s office is also working to increase its inspections of area petrochemical facilities.
“It’s not right for us to live next to a petrochemical complex and live in fear sometimes. So we have to improve on the situation and we are doing so,” said Hidalgo, who is the top administrator in Harris County, where Houston is located.
The plant in Wednesday’s explosion and fire is part of the company’s 3,400-acre (1,375-hectare) refinery complex in Baytown.
According to records kept by the Environmental Protection Agency, the plant had 68 tons (69 metric tons) of ethylene on site in 2017. It also had large quantities of other potentially hazardous chemicals, including ammonia, benzene, and propylene.
The facility is one of eight plants that Exxon agreed to retrofit with anti-pollution technology in a settlement with the U.S. government. The company also agreed to pay $2.5 million in fines to federal and state authorities after being accused of violating the Clean Air Act with industrial flares from its factories.
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Associated Press Writer Nomaan Merchant contributed to this report.
A possible explosion and fire were reported in Baytown, Texas, near Houston, at an Exxon plant. A shelter-in-place has just been issued as of 11:30 a.m. Here’s what we know so far about what’s happening.
Two fires have been reported at ExxonMobil BTA, KHOU 11 reported. At first a shelter-in-place wasn’t issued but that has changed. The fire is at the ExxonMobil Baytown Complex’s Olefins plant, located at 3525 Decker Drive.
City of Baytown, TX@CityofBaytown
UPDATE on @ExxonMobilBTA fire:
The fire is in the unit that contains polypropylene material. Exxon has asked that a Shelter in Place be issued west of it’s plant and south of 330. Exxon advised this is out of an abundance of caution. Please RT.
Here is a map of the shelter-in-place, provided by the City of Baytown:
City of Baytown
Out of an abundance of caution, a shelter-in-place was issued around 11:30 a.m. for an area west of the plant and south of 330, which you can see in the map above. Air quality monitoring will also be conducted around the complex and in the community, the City of Baytown tweeted, “as a precaution.”
City of Baytown, TX@CityofBaytown
UPDATE CAER Message from @ExxonMobilBTA below:
Our emergency response teams have responded to a fire at our ExxonMobil Baytown Complex. As a precaution, our Industrial Hygiene staff will conduct air quality monitoring around the complex and in the community.
Officials are monitoring the situation, but so far a police presence has not been requested, said Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
Ed Gonzalez
✔@SheriffEd_HCSO
@HCSOTexas is aware of the incident at the Exxon facility in Baytown. No shelter in place reported right now. We are monitoring the situation and ready to respond if a police response is needed. #HouNews
ExxonMobil Baytown Area shared the following statement: “A fire has occurred at the Baytown Olefins Plant. Our fire teams are working to extinguish the fire. We are conducting personal accounting. Our first priority remains the safety of people, including our employees, contractors, and the surrounding community. As a precaution, our Industrial Hygiene staff is conducting air quality monitoring at the site and fence line. We are cooperating with regulatory agencies. We deeply regret any disruption or inconvenience that this incident may have caused the community.”
Elliott Blackburn@eblkbrn
Looking like this $XOM Baytown fire will be in the Olefins plant, based on community alerts.
According to the City of Baytown, the fire is in a unit that contains polypropylene material. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is heading to the area.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality@TCEQ
TCEQ is aware of Exxon plant fire in Baytown. Staff are en route. We will provide more information as it becomes available.
BREAKING: Explosion and fire reported at Exxon facility in Baytown just. No shelter in place reported right now. Visit http://khou.com for latest updates.
A chemical fire in March in Houston was also at an ExxonMobil plant. In June, Harris County sued ExxonMobil, accusing them of violating the Clean Air Act and sought temporary and permanent injunctions over future unauthorized emissions, the Houston Chronicle reported. The civil suit was filed to ensure compliance, attorney Rock Owens told the Houston Chronicle at the time. An Exxon Mobil advisor said, in response to a county violation notice, that as soon as a furnace tube leak was discovered, they started taking steps to reduce feed rates. That fire started in a corroded tube.
Some people said it sounded like an explosion when the fires started, but the cause of the fire has not been shared. According to ExxonMobil’s website, the Baytown Olefins plant has been operating since 1979 and “is one of the largest ethylene plants in the world.”
The Social Security Administration will not be the same in 10 years. They are closing field offices, employees are leaving and yet demand for their services is at an all-time high. What’s their plan? In this video I talk about what I expect to happen.
I know this next story is true. I was in a meeting where our local Sheriff was bragging about how much money he had seized for our city. He stated that he attended a training session out of state that actually trains police to use this to gain money for their city. They can take more than cash. He was bragging about automobiles, houses, and even real estate under these pretenses. All they have to do is raid your property under the “suspicion of drug trafficking”.
Most people have never heard of Civil Forfeiture and are unaware that the police can seize cash from you and claim that it is the product of a criminal enterprise. They do this, often with no evidence, and they get to keep the money! This problem is widespread and there is a simple solution. I explain the solution but I know that the politicians will not fix this problem because of the way they profit from it. www.lehtoslaw.com
Following a nationwide criminal investigation into illegal trafficking and sale of human body parts, the FBI raided the Biological Resource Center in Phoenix in January 2014
A 2014 FBI raid at an Arizona body-donation business that claimed to use them for scientific purposes uncovered a gruesome scene that involved buckets of limbs, a cooler of genitalia, and bodies sewn together ‘like Frankenstein’
Following a nationwide criminal investigation into illegal trafficking and sale of human body parts, the FBI raided the Biological Resource Center in Phoenix in January 2014 and were horrified by their discovery, reported the Arizona Republic.
The details of their findings and the eyewitness account of an FBI agent involved in the raid were made public as part of a civil lawsuit against the business and its owner, Stephen Gore.
In a declaration contained in the civil lawsuit’s court file, former Phoenix FBI special agent Mark Cwynar said he “personally observed various unsettling scenes” while inside the center.
He said he saw a “cooler filled with male genitalia” and a “large torso with the head removed and replaced with a smaller head sewn together in a ‘Frankenstein manner.'”
He also testified that he saw large male torsos with limbs and genitalia removed; buckets and coolers with various body parts, including a bucket of heads, arms, and legs; body parts piled on top of each other throughout the facility, with no apparent identification; and steel freezers with frozen body parts inside with no apparent identification.
The lawsuit alleges that the bodies were not stored, treated, or disposed of with dignity or respect (Source: Getty Images)
Thirty-three plaintiffs have been named in the lawsuit against the center, which, before it was shut down, would accept the bodies of people after they died and offering free pick up for the same.
The assumption was that the bodies were being given to a charity to help with disease research. Instead, the body parts were being sold for profit to various middlemen and were not stored, treated, or disposed of with dignity or respect.
A whole body with no shoulders or head went for $2,400, according to a 2013 price list that is part of the court file. A torso with a head was $2,400; a whole spine was $950, with other body parts going for anywhere between $375 to $1,100.
Gore pleaded guilty to conducting an illegal enterprise in October 2015 over accusations that he had provided vendors with contaminated human tissue and used body parts in ways that the donors had not permitted.
He was sentenced to one year of deferred jail time, four years probation and was ordered to pay $121,000 in restitution, and wrote in a letter to the judge that he felt overwhelmed working in an industry with “no formal regulations” to reference for guidance.
Indeed, the horrific practices taking place at the Biological Resource Center may have partly been influenced by the fact that Arizona does not have any regulation as far as the body parts industry is concerned.
But unlike the other four body donation companies in the state, the Biological Resource Center was not accredited by the American Association of Tissue Banks.
The plaintiffs’ lawyers also uncovered that Gore’s highest level of education was high school, and that he did not have any licenses or certifications applicable to body donation program operations.
The civil lawsuit is set to go to trial at the Maricopa County Superior Court on October 21.
What are the MAD Scientists doing to our Earth with GEO-ENGINEERING?
What comes to your mind when you hear the word “Antarctica?” Glaciers, ice, frost, snow, uninhabitable desert – well, you get it. But how about a lake of bubbling lava hidden deep under the ice? An unlikely connection, right? But that’s actually a very real and highly unusual Antarctic phenomenon that was just recently discovered. Until recently, people only knew about 7 such lakes bubbling in different regions of our planet. But here we go now: in July 2019, scientists discovered one more! It is resting in the crater of the active volcano. Even though it’s not the largest lava lake in the world, it’s still very impressive, with a diameter varying from 300 to 700 feet! TIMESTAMPS: How hot is this lake? 1:55 Why it was only recently discovered 2:32 What’s so unusual about Mount Michael’s lava lake? 3:48 Lava lake in the Democratic Republic of Congo 6:04 – Why you need to be extra cautious with it 6:26 – The catastrophe of 1977 6:53 Lava lake in the coldest place on Earth 7:49 Disappeared lava lakes 8:53#volcanoes#antarctica#brightside
Millions of grasshoppers have descended upon Las Vegas, swarming the city’s sidewalks and chirping around its bright lights. Experts say a soggy winter and mild spring made for perfect grasshopper conditions, and they should be gone in a few weeks.» Subscribe to NBC News:
United States Border Patrol officers return a group of migrants back to the Mexico side of the border as Mexican immigration officials check the list, in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Thursday, July 25, 2019. Mexico has received some 20,000 asylum seekers returned to await U.S. immigration court dates under the program colloquially known as “remain in Mexico.” (AP Photo/Salvador Gonzalez)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.
The court’s five conservative justices gave the administration the green light on Friday to begin work on four contracts it has awarded using Defense Department money. Funding for the projects had been frozen by lower courts while a lawsuit over the money proceeded. The court’s four liberal justices wouldn’t have allowed construction to start.
The justices’ decision to lift the freeze on the money allows President Donald Trump to make progress on a major 2016 campaign promise heading into his race for a second term. Trump tweeted after the announcement: “Wow! Big VICTORY on the Wall. The United States Supreme Court overturns lower court injunction, allows Southern Border Wall to proceed. Big WIN for Border Security and the Rule of Law!”
The Supreme Court’s action reverses the decision of a trial court, which initially froze the funds in May, and an appeals court, which kept that freeze in place earlier this month. The freeze had prevented the government from tapping approximately $2.5 billion in Defense Department money to replace existing sections of barrier in Arizona, California and New Mexico with more robust fencing.
The case the Supreme Court ruled in began after the 35-day partial government shutdown that started in December of last year. Trump ended the shutdown in February after Congress gave him approximately $1.4 billion in border wall funding. But the amount was far less than the $5.7 billion he was seeking, and Trump then declared a national emergency to take cash from other government accounts to use to construct sections of wall.
The money Trump identified includes $3.6 billion from military construction funds, $2.5 billion in Defense Department money and $600 million from the Treasury Department’s asset forfeiture fund.
The case before the Supreme Court involved just the $2.5 billion in Defense Department funds, which the administration says will be used to construct more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) of fencing. One project would replace 46 miles (74 kilometers) of barrier in New Mexico for $789 million. Another would replace 63 miles (101 kilometers) in Arizona for $646 million. The other two projects in California and Arizona are smaller.
The other funds were not at issue in the case. The Treasury Department funds have so far survived legal challenges, and Customs and Border Protection has earmarked the money for work in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley but has not yet awarded contracts. Transfer of the $3.6 billion in military construction funds is awaiting approval from the defense secretary.
The lawsuit at the Supreme Court was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition. The justices who lifted the freeze on the money did not give a lengthy explanation for their decision. But they said among the reasons they were doing so was that the government had made a “sufficient showing at this stage” that those bringing the lawsuit don’t have a right to challenge the decision to use the money.
Alexei Woltornist, a spokesman for the Justice Department, said in a statement, “We are pleased that the Supreme Court recognized that the lower courts should not have halted construction of walls on the southern border.We will continue to vigorously defend the Administration’s efforts to protect our Nation.”
ACLU lawyer Dror Ladin said after the court’s announcement that the fight “is not over.” The case will continue, but the Supreme Court’s decision suggests an ultimate victory for the ACLU is unlikely. Even if the ACLU were to win, fencing will have already been built.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., issued a statement accusing Trump of trying to “undermine our military readiness and steal from our men and women in uniform to waste billions on a wasteful, ineffective wall that Congress on a bipartisan basis has repeatedly refused to fund.” She said the Supreme Court’s decision “undermines the Constitution and the law.”
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York called the decision “deeply regrettable and nonsensical.”
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan would not have allowed construction to begin. Justice Stephen Breyer said he would have allowed the government to finalize the contracts for the segments but not begin construction while the lawsuit proceeded. The administration had argued that if it wasn’t able to finalize the contracts by Sept. 30, then it would lose the ability to use the funds. The administration had asked for a decision quickly.
The Supreme Court is on break for the summer but does act on certain pressing items.
An abandoned tanker off Yemen’s coast threatens to turn the Red Sea black. Experts warn that a build-up of volatile gasses in the ship could cause a “catastrophic” explosion that would dump millions of gallons of oil into the sea. Learn More: https://www.rt.com/news/464895-yemen-…
Local police are supposed to be under the control of local citizens. In the past 20 years, police departments have been federalized and militarized throughout the world. Society is looking more like Brave New Word every day. ⁃ TN Editor
British scientists have developed a new computer programme that can spot if someone has lied to police about being robbed.
The groundbreaking software analyses the wording of a victim’s statement in order to identify tell tale signs of fake reports.
Spanish police, who have been using the tool, found it was successful in more than 80 per cent of cases helping them to identify 64 false reports in just one week.
Developed by experts at Cardiff University, VeriPol, uses a combination of automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence to recognize when somebody has been lying or exaggerating to the police.
Thousands of false reports are submitted to the police each year with many perpetrators hoping to receive inflated insurance payouts or claims for crimes that never happened in the first place.
But according to the researchers, there are certain tell-tale signs contained in written statements which can be quickly identified by the new software.
Using algorithms the machine is able to carefully analyze various features in the text, such as adjectives, acronyms, verbs, nouns, punctuation marks, and numbers.
Experts claim a false statement is more likely to contain certain traits and giveaway signs, that can be spotted using artificial intelligence.
It is thought false statements are more likely to be shorter than genuine ones and focus on the details of the stolen property rather than the incident itself.
They are also thought to be lacking in certain details about the perpetrator and the attack itself.
The team behind the technology believe it could help police forces save valuable time and effort in investigating fake crimes and will also help deter people from filing false reports in the first place.
In case you haven’t been paying attention, leftists will not be satisfied until they have undermined all human flourishing. Actually, whether they’re willing to admit it or not, human extinction is the highest ideal for leftists. Don’t believe me? Then check out this article in The Atlantic that declares the human voice is bad for the environment. One more piece of evidence to slide next to things like abortion, euthanasia, and environmental regulations and economic policies that make it harder for humans to prosper.
During the summer of 2017, researchers from the University of California at Santa Cruz played recordings of human voices in wilderness areas where humans rarely venture. Populated with predators like mountain lions and bobcats, as well as a variety of other animals, the researchers didn’t force the wilderness residents to listen to loud, obnoxious voices. Rather, quiet voices reading poetry were played through the speakers. “Some of the animals became jittery. Others stopped eating. A few fled in fear,” The Atlantic explains.
Through their experiments, researchers discovered:
That, the quality of the poetry aside, even the gentlest of human speech can make wild animals—even top predators—unnerved and watchful, in ways that shake entire food webs. It’s the clearest demonstration yet that we are among the scariest of animals—a super-predator that terrifies even the carnivores that themselves incite terror.
All fine and good, I could’ve told them that, saving them the trouble and expense of the research. Of course, the research is more than just a fact-finding expedition for those interested in learning about the quirks of animals. It’s ideologically driven. Buried deep in the article, The Atlantic reveals that:
Suraci’s studies show that through our mere presence, we can affect wildlife by changing the contours of their landscapes of fear. “We’re a very loud and big species,” says Suraci. “Much of what we do is potentially terrifying to wildlife, like industrial activity and vehicle traffic. We tried to get past all of that and isolate the perceived presence of humans, separate from all the other disturbing things we do. And the implication is that we don’t need to cut down the forest to have an impact on wildlife.”
Our very presence is bad for the environment. Our voices are harmful to frightened animals. The article goes on to quote UC Berkeley’s Kaitlyn Gaynor who warns, “Human-induced behavioral changes may be ultimately harmful to species and ecosystems if they make it harder for animals to survive and reproduce.”
Granted, The Atlantic sounds a few optimistic tones, encouraging us to do a better job of living in nature without being disruptive to other species. However, those optimistic tones are within the larger call to prefer the flourishing of animals over that of humans. Starting down the trail of saying that human voices are bad for the environment will end poorly for humanity.
Update 7/22/19
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Natural gas, long touted as a cleaner burning alternative to coal, has a leakage problem.
A new study has found that leaks of methane are twice as big as official tallies suggest in major cities along the U.S. eastern seaboard.
Unprecedented methane leaks found in Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Maryland; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; New York City; Providence; and Boston. Picture by Robert B. Jackson/Environmental Science and Technology via NPR
The study suggests many of these fugitive leaks come from homes and businesses — and could represent a far bigger problem than leaks from the industrial extraction of the fossil fuel itself.
“This is an issue that people tend to ignore when trying to estimate methane emissions,” says Kathryn McKain, an atmospheric scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. When compared with the global amount of natural and human-driven methane emissions, she notes, “These emissions are small, but they’re preventable.”
The methane problem in the US
When burned for heat or power, methane emits less carbon dioxide (CO2) than fossil fuels such as coal. But when leaked directly into the atmosphere, its warming effect can be dozens of times stronger than CO2, depending on the time scale over which the warming is measured.
The new findings come courtesy of data gathered by aircraft over six U.S. cities: Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Maryland; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; New York City; Providence; and Boston. In 2018, researchers flew at altitudes between 300 and 800 meters and measured concentrations of methane, ethane, CO2, and carbon monoxide, among other gases.
The team’s analyses suggest the five biggest urban areas studied — which together include about 12% of the nation’s population — emit about 890,000 tons of methane each year.
The vast majority of that, at least 750,000 tons, comes from methane leaks from homes, businesses, and gas distribution infrastructure, rather than natural sources and other human-driven sources such as landfills.
That’s well over triple the amount emitted by gas production in the Bakken shale formation in the U.S. Midwest.
More than E.P.A. measurements
It’s also much more than the amounts estimated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A 2016 report suggested methane emissions in the six major urban areas the researchers studied totaled only 370,000 tons.
“It’s easy to say that the EPA inventory is low, but it’s not as easy to say why it’s low,” Kort says. Same for a very dangerous insecticide damaging children’ brains!
One possible reason for this huge discrepancy: The EPA estimate includes leaks from the natural gas distribution system, but it doesn’t include leaks from homes and businesses. Those “beyond the meter” emissions could include, for example, tiny whooshes of incompletely burned methane from home appliances such as gas stoves, furnaces, and hot water heaters. Taken together over a city of millions, such emissions could be substantial.
Not an isolated phenomenon
The team’s results are “a confirmation and expansion” of what was already known from smaller-scale studies in the Boston and the Washington, D.C.–Baltimore areas, says Steven Wofsy, an atmospheric chemist at Harvard University. The new study, conducted over six metropolitan areas, “shows this is not an isolated phenomenon.”
The new findings could also incentivize researchers to study where these emissions are coming from. Possibilities include leaking pipelines, pumps, and valves; water treatment systems; equipment in power plants fueled by natural gas; and leakage within homes and businesses.
However, it is difficult to extrapolate the new leakage estimates to other urban areas across the United States since other megapoles are younger and are thus likely to have newer infrastructure that is less prone to leaks.
Worldwide, annual methane emissions from natural and human-driven sources add up to about 550 million tons.
July 17, 2019– Mary Greeley News – LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (KABC) — A massive pod of dolphins was spotted off the Orange County coast, creating quite the majestic sight.
Some people on social media suggested they were fleeing something.
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This massive pod of young dolphins marching up the coast off Laguna Beach is blowing our minds! (: Chuck Patterson)
Chuck Patterson filmed the dolphins on one side of the boat just off Laguna Beach on Sunday. He estimated more than 100 dolphins were surrounding the boat, with most of the mammals sticking on one side as it raced up the coast.
Patterson said he was driving the boat for hydrofoil surfing when the dolphins started following in his wake.
“They seemed super happy, you could really feel the energy,” he described.
While Dolphins travel in pods of up to 15, there seemed to be a lot more in this group.
A pod typically consists of several adult females, calves and adult males. Pods may travel together in herds of several hundred individuals. Dominance or aggression, in the form of a showing of teeth, tail smacking, jaw snapping or head butting, establishes the hierarchy in the pod.
Superpod
Like humans, sometimes they get together in larger groups or ‘herds’ for a while. Occasionally when food is plentiful, dolphins may join together into a ‘super pod’ of over 1,000 dolphins, but that only tends to happen in the deep ocean.
In 2016 another woman in California was lucky enough to catch a video of a dolphin superpod.
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NEW YORK – Power was fully restored in New York early Sunday after an outage left parts of the city in darkness for hours, leaving thousands trapped in subway cars and elevators, and people guiding traffic at intersections.
The outage started Saturday evening and the lights were back on shortly after midnight, officials said. It mostly affected midtown Manhattan and parts of the Upper West Side. No injuries were reported.
People spilled out into the streets as lights suddenly dimmed at Broadway shows and speakers fell silent at Jennifer Lopez’s concert. Even the flashing lights at the iconic Times Square went dark, leaving the area surrounded by the glow of cellphones taking photos of the surreal scene.
Lopez said she was disappointed she had to cancel her concert on her second night at the Madison Square Garden. She rescheduled it for Monday night.
“I’m devastated and heartbroken right now,” she said. “I just don’t even know what to say. … Obviously it was beyond all our control.”
When the lights flicked back on, crowds erupted into cheers in some places.
Hours of darkness
At the height of the outage, 73,000 customers were in the dark, utility company Con Edison said. Power started trickling back on just before 10 p.m., it said. Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked people to stay indoors despite the full restoration.
“While power has been restored, there are still some traffic signals that are out, so we would not encourage New Yorkers to go out if you don’t have to go out,” he said.
Cuomo described a power outage of this magnitude as unacceptable, and said he’s called for a full investigation into the cause. He applauded residents for keeping their cool.
“This could have been much worse. When you’re talking about a city like New York with a significant piece of the city, basically suffering a blackout, that could be a very chaotic situation. We saw the exact opposite, actually. We saw New Yorkers at their best.”
Regular people direct traffic
Lake Escobosa, 23, spent nearly an hour directing traffic. The Brooklyn dancer guided cars, ambulances and pedestrians through a busy, three-way intersection near Lincoln Center on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
“I know how tricky it is when it comes to that intersection and I just saw in my mind car accidents, people getting hit, people screaming,” she said. “So I felt like I should have just tried.”
On Columbus Avenue, outside Fordham University’s campus, brightly lit food carts illuminated the pitch black streets.
Others spill out onto the streets
The outage had a widespread effect on the New York subway system. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority warned people to stay away from underground stations and consider taking the bus.
The city’s fire department responded to numerous transformer fires and rescued people trapped in elevators and subway cars.
Several Broadway and off-Broadway shows said they were canceling performances.
So did some Carnegie Hall performers. “After being trapped on the F for an hour because of the power outage, I emerged to see dark restaurants and traffic lights, civilians directing traffic and an evacuated Carnegie Hall concert happening in the street,” Briallen Hopper tweeted.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was returning to the city after a presidential campaign stop in Iowa, said the outage appeared to be the result of a mechanical problem in the electrical grid.
“This appears to be something that just went wrong in the way that they transmit power from one part of the city to another,” he said. “It sounds like it is addressable in a reasonable amount of time.”
ConEd utility company CEO John McAvoy said the cause is still unclear. The company divides the electric system into a network that’s roughly equivalent to neighborhoods, he said.
“It interrupted power to six networks. We expedited the recovery, performed an initial assessment of what was the most likely cause, isolated that equipment, inspected the other equipment to identify any obvious abnormalities,” he added.
The 25 precepts of Mahâvira of the Jainism. The magic square using the first 25 numbers is associated with the Mars planet and has for sum 65. It is the length of the sacred cubit in inch. It is the number of days approximately that takes the sun to do a complete rotation on itself.
CNN’s Paul Murphy, Sergio Hernandez, Laura Ly, Sean O’Key and Joshua Girsky in New York contributed to this report.
Former DC police detective Ted Williams comments on the major outages in Manhattan. FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio,
Fire trucks respond during a widespread power outage in the Manhattan borough of New York, Saturday, July 13, 2019, Authorities say a transformer fire caused a power outage in Manhattan and left businesses without electricity, elevators stuck and subway cars stalled. (AP Photo/Michael Owens)
Authorities say a transformer fire caused a power outage in Manhattan, 42 years to the day since the 1977 outage left most of the city without power.
NEW YORK — Authorities say a transformer fire caused a power outage in Manhattan and left businesses without electricity, elevators stuck and subway cars stalled.
The New York City Fire Department said the fire started at West 64th Street and West End Avenue and affected at least 38,000 customers as of 8 p.m. Saturday.
Power reportedly went out early Saturday evening at much of Rockefeller Center and reached the Upper West Side.
A diner on Broadway at West 69th Street lost its lights, as did other surrounding businesses.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority tweeted that there were outages at various underground stations. The MTA is working with Con Edison to determine the cause.
Con Edison did not immediately respond to phone messages, and it was not clear how far the outages reached.
The outage comes on the anniversary of the 1977 New York City outage that left most of the city without power.
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Parts of New York City go dark in massive power outage
BY CAROLINE LINTON
/ CBS NEWS
Parts of New York City went dark Saturday in a massive power outage that affected thousands of people. CBS News has learned the power outage was caused by a transformer fire.
An early outage map by the city’s utility company, Con Edison, showed more than 40,000 customers were without power. Con Edison had not yet responded to calls for comment, but tweeted that they were responding to a “widespread power outage.”
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, campaigning in Iowa, tweeted the power outage was due to a manhole fire. De Blasio, who is seeking the 2020 Democratic nomination, earlier told CBS News he is assessing the situation and will return to the city if necessary.
The New York City Office of Emergency Management said it had activated its emergency operations center.
The New York City transit system said it was working with Con Ed to restore power in affected subway stations. Photos of darkened subway stations were being shared on social media.
The Fire Department of New York said it was responding to multiple calls of people stuck in elevators.
The CBS Broadcast Center was affected and turned to generator power. NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza also lost power.
Several Broadway shows canceled their Saturday night performances, including Hamilton, Hadestown, Aladdin, Frozen, Ain’t Too Proud to Beg and The Cher Show.
Coincidentally, Saturday’s power outage struck on the 41st anniversary of the 1977 blackout, which lasted until July 14. New York City went dark during the 2003 blackout of the East Coast and again after Superstorm Sandy struck in 2012.
This is a breaking story. It will be updated.
Power outage leaves thousands without electricity in New York City
Fire trucks respond during a widespread power outage in the Manhattan borough of New York, Saturday, July 13, 2019.
A widespread power outage Saturday evening left much of Manhattan, including the Upper West Side and Rockefeller Center, without electricity, authorities say.
The blackout was reportedly caused by a transformer fire, New York fire officials said.
Con Edison said on Twitter that they are working to restore power to roughly 42,000 customers on the West Side of Manhattan impacted by the power outage.
Earlier, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told CNN this is a “limited power outage” and about 20,000 people are affected.
Several broadway shows have been cancelled for tonight, including “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” and “The Cher Show,” according to Broadway World.
Carnegie Hall was evacuated due to the loss of electricity.
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#FDNY is on scene of a transformer fire at W 64 St and West End Ave. Members are responding to reports of numerous stuck elevators that are occupied, but there are currently no patients reported.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority tweeted that there are “extensive delays on many subway lines.”
Subway riders told ABC7NY that the “trains just stopped” and while “some people felt like they were losing oxygen,” other people were “helping each other.”
Several subway stations are without power, the transit authority tweeted and were being bypassed by working trains.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority tweeted that there were outages at various underground stations.
The Upper West Side of the Manhattan borough of New York is dark after a transformer fire caused a power outage and left businesses without electricity, elevators stuck and subway cars stalled.
Dozens of blocks south, on 14th Street in Greenwich Village, many people on the street Saturday night had no idea about the blackout. They were busy trying to snap photos of “Manhattanhenge,” one of the few nights when the setting sun perfectly aligns with the borough’s street grid.
A diner on Broadway at West 69th Street lost its lights, as did other surrounding businesses.
Ric Faud, an attorney, had just stepped off the elevator on the 44th floor of a Columbus Circle building when the building lost power. From up high, Faud said he can people trying to direct traffic and prevent accidents.
Traffic in Midtown is slowed, Faud said, but not stopped.
This power outage comes 42 years to the day after The Great Blackout of 1977, which left most of New York City without electricity.
Contributing: Elinor Aspegren and Kevin McCoy in New York; Associated Press
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On June 24, this web site advised readers “NATIONAL EMERGENCY AS U.S. FARM CROPS FAIL – FOOD SHORTAGES BY LATE JULY; FOOD RIOTS THEREAFTER!” Turns out, the food shortages have already begun . . . You had better take heed and stock up now — or go hungry.
The sign in Walmart tells the story:
This is going to get worse. Read the story HERE to understand how this developed, then get yourself to the store and start stocking-up. This is going to get very much worse and people are going to find themselves FIGHTING EACH OTHER for food.
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Folks, this is serious. Farm production is off by almost ninety percent this year due to massive and ongoing flooding. There is NO FARM CROP in most of the areas of the country right now.
No crops mean no food. It’s that simple. Prepare. Time is rapidly running out as evidenced by the sign in Walmart shown above.
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Not a single acorn was produced last fall in the vast oak forest of the Ozark Mountains. As result, most of the wildlife which get through the winter on acorns died off. Currently, right now, mountain lions have been forced to seek food in the many resort communities. Cats and dogs and ranch animals. My next door neighbor lost both his dogs to an 3 ft high, 8 ft long lion a couple of days ago, and the lion was screaming in my yard last night. Any city fool who thinks that when the system goes down they will dash out into the wild forest and live off the land are in reality going to end up as supper because the cats and dogs are almost all gone.
My mother was a farm girl from the northern Missouri area. We raised sweet corn as kids, 1950’s. Her saying was it should be, “Knee high by the 4th of July.” The hybrids and GMOs changed that. Could it be not for the better?
This week in Australia, major grocery chain store brand muesli went from $2.50 to $3.00, a 20% increase. (900g Packet). Also seeing shortages of organic grains.
Every media outlet on the planet is covering it. Until we have something to offer which is new, different, or important, there’s no use in us covering it.
Go to this site: scedc.caltech.edu/recent/index.html There are hundreds of quakes every day in the CA/NEV area. We live on a very active planet. If you live near a big one, it is not your lucky day.
Sooooo…. those wonderful socialist countries gonna supply the U.S. with their great “QUALITY” of foods …….. we already know how great their pork and beef is …… guess it is gonna be a great way to bring in the toxic, unprotected productions of …. WHATEVER …. OH , yah we already know about their wonderful techniques of fertilizing with human shit….ground up human body parts…. and the CARE involved with the handling and production of their foods. Just ANOTHER method to CULL the herd of sheep.
Went to the feed store yesterday, the place was packed, and forklifts were wheeling out livestock feed like I’ve never seen before, running out of everything fast, even while waiting for my turn to get loaded. I had to return to the counter for refund on items they ran out of between order time and loading time, then reorder a different brand. Farmers and ranchers know what the situation is, it’s going to get very desperate.
It’s just a suggestion, but the practice of prolonged water fasting is a skill to learn.
First, doing it proves to yourself that you can do it, and second, it may be necessary one day if women and children are in need of food, and there is a limited supply.
Fasting seems frightening at first, and it is, it triggers interior dilemmas, but once the fear is past,it becomes really easy.
Fasting boils down to several basic reminders:
-You need to stand up slower (you will be light-headed, even dizzy)
-Walk with a firmer deliberation, (you may be tipsy)
This, of course, isn’t a remedy for a major nationwide food shortage, but still, fasting for prolong periods is a dandy skill to develop. And lastly, if you are a Christian, fasting heightens a sensitivity to Christ and the Bible in an uncanny and wonderful sense.
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A medical professional on the border in Texas told Big League Politics that the crisis is reaching fever pitch, with three individuals now quarantined at a privately-owned hospital in El Paso with an unknown disease. The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has not even been able to identify the disease the three migrants have, as the military guards the quarantine area.
“There were some Congolese people caught crossing the border, it was suspected they had Ebola. In one facility there are three patients being held because they don’t know what they have. The CDC have been here to assess them. They are isolated, they only have certain specialists who can see them,” the medical professional tells Big League Politics.
“We’ve had an outbreak of mumps over here.”
“What scares me is what happens if someone comes over here with Ebola. We only need one person, and there’s a pandemic.”
“There was a female, 10 years old, who was found with 20 different types of semen inside her body. She was dispatched to a family member. The girl who was with her who was supposedly a family member was not really a family member, just someone who bought her from her family in Guatemala. These are real problems that exist here on the border. There are some people who are trying to leave jugs of water out here for them. A lot of these people come to this country needing help,” the professional stated.
Migrants are obtaining “Rent-A-Kids,” and since Border Patrol cannot perform DNA tests to determine if children are related to adults most of the human traffickers get into our country.
“In Juarez, there is a huge influx of Cubans right now. They have taken over the streets and started a prostitution ring among them. The Cubans cannot cross here. If they have Cuban citizenship, they cannot cross here.”
“There are a lot of people who come here from El Salvador, Guatemala who are in acute renal failure, they cannot walk. There are some who have come with cirrhosis of the liver. I’ve seen some patients who are almost at the point of dying with the cirrhosis that they have,” the medical professional stated. “The time and resources it takes up to treat them is massive.”
“A lot of these children come over here sick, you don’t catch the flu overnight, there’s an incubation period. A lot of these kids are already sick coming here. Right now, at least 2 percent are being taken up by people who are coming here illegally, somehow someway they do have insurance. We’re guessing that as soon as they come over here they get some kind of insurance, whatever they are not given we have to foot the bill here, and they are illnesses they have had for a while,” the professional stated.
Big League Politics has previously confirmed with border watcher Jim Benvie that illegal migrants obtain insurance and EBT cards upon gaining access to the United States.
“There have been some women who have come forward who said they were raped…in the end you have to believe they were because of the damage done to them, either vaginally or anally,” the professional stated.
“When they cross over, you see them land…being transported in these huge buses, they don’t have to go through TSA, they get escorted and go first. What they need to do is it has to be like Ellis Island, they need to vet these people and quarantine.”
I reported:Jim Benvie is a border watcher who leads fellow concerned citizens in peacefully stopping migrants who invade the United States over the southern border. Benvie’s videos from the border can be found on his Facebook page. Benvie is the leader of the Guardian Patriots and has been especially active in the El Paso, Texas region.
Benvie appeared on The Campaign Show with Patrick Howley on Patriots Soapbox (6-8 PM Eastern on Sundays, live.patriotssoapbox.com) to discuss the scourge of human trafficking and cartel activity on the Texas and New Mexico border, the ACLU’s quest to fight citizen watchers, and the deep possibly irreversible corruption of our American political system.
Corey Johnson (c) marches in the Brooklyn Pride Parade on 5th Avenue in Park Slope, Saturday, June 8, 2019. (Jeff Bachner/for New York Daily News)
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson announced $19 million in funding for LGBT support programs in honor of Pride, including big boosts to help transgender people.
On World Pride weekend in the city, Johnson said the move to nearly double funding for the programs marks a sea change in New York’s approach to the gay community.
“Acceptance is not enough,” Johnson said. “Our local government must fund programs that support the LBGTQ community, particularly transgender people.”
The budget includes $2.3 million for Trans Equity Programs, $3.7 million for LGBT community services and $800,000 for LGBT inclusive curriculum in public schools.
Protecting transgender people against discrimination and attacks is a big priority for the city, Johnson said, especially since they have suffered an uptick in hate crimes.
Council Finance Chair Daniel Dromm, who also chairs the Council’s LGBT Caucus, called the funding increases a tribute to the “spirit of Stonewall,” a reference to the 50th anniversary of the gay rights uprising in Greenwich Village.
“This budget truly delivers for all LGBTQ New Yorkers,” Dromm (D-Queens) said.
Activists heaped praise on the budget, saying the new emphasis on providing resources to programs reflects the city’s place as a global beacon of hope and pride for LGBTQ people.
“Our movement towards equality began in New York City,” said Kelsey Louie of Gay Men’s Health Crisis. “So we must always be a leader in efforts to protect and advance all communities, especially those most impacted by all intersections of oppression.”
The weekend is the culmination of a historic period for New York’s gay community, with the Stonewall anniversary coinciding with the city’s celebration of World Pride week.
Organizers are girding for what they predict will be the largest gay pride parade in history on Sunday, when some 150,000 marchers and 4 million spectators are expected to throng the streets of the West Village. The parade kicks of at noon at 26th Street and Fifth Ave. goes down to 8th St. crosses over Christopher St. and swings by Stonewall. It finishes up at 23rd St. and Seventh Ave.
Around the world, thousands marched Saturday in Singapore to call for a repeal of laws outlawing homosexuality.
With a punishing heat wave gripping France, firefighters sprayed water on thousands of revelers in Paris, some of whom used rainbow-colored fans and umbrellas to counter the heat.
Hattusa, a city in northern Turkey, is known for its mysterious ancient religious sanctuary featuring processions of gods walking towards two deities – the purpose of which has long puzzled experts.
This next story is not earthshaking news, but it brings up a very good point. This is an issue that has been on my mind for some time. I have shared my concern with many people. There are unknown numbers of people across the nation that have a taste for exotic pets. Many of them collect them in large numbers, and many prefer LARGE animals. This is all well and good when times are prosperous and they have the means and the desire to provide food and proper lodging for these animals. My concern is when times are hard whether that be for the nation as a whole or just the individual with the menagerie. When people no longer have the strength, inclination or financial means to provide for these exotics, they are most likely going to set them free. Where the animals will go, and how much harm they will do is a scary thought.
Kathy Kehoe, the Bucks County great-grandmother who killed a cobra slithering in her garden, does not recommend that others do what she did. But she says she thought she had to act. https://marygreeley.com/?p=87401
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