I remember this area when I was a kid, Punta Gorda, FL. was mostly swamp and undeveloped but today seems as a made island build up with a message. The language this represent is Chinese? or what? Wonder what it says, any clues? Tough to find out online, so if anyone knows of this beautiful paradise now and its message.
A little history: The first known development of what became Burnt Store Isles took place in the 1920s. A wealthy industrialist, a Mr. Louis Calder, fell in love with Florida and the area along Alligator Creek near the city of Punta Gorda.
When the market tanked in 2008 who knew we would be here again so soon and who the hell is shorting gold and silver? In the past as bonds and stocks sank like a ship the flight to safe haven was the metals, gold was up $15 bucks today yeah right! Shit has been going sideways since 9/11 and as the towers disappeared so did the middle class. I mean not everyone invests in stocks and has a flowing portfolio, sure many have a 401K, IRA and\or Roth involved in mutual funds but that risk is higher now with many funds tied to oil and mining. Being long in the area of commodities is a bust right now and if you think of the derivatives market chained to insurance vehicles like AIG tied to those derivatives well it's like Royal Bank of Scotland said, "in a crowded hall the exit doors are small" and suggested their clients sell everything outside of high-quality bonds. Ever since the Fed lowered interest rates to zero the average Joe can't even make money in a savings account, as to when you were excited to get your fist blue book and bring it into the bank for interest recorded, that worked and you felt good solid growth. I mean even a CD rate is @ 1.25% on a 2-year deposit, wow bring out the candles. Other experts like Bill Gross the billionaire investor and founder of PIMCO who now runs a fund at Janus Capital Group said "Wealth effect constructed with paper sometimes corrugated/strong, sometimes toilet/flimsy. Stay out of the bathroom." Well, that sounds like the toilet can't even flush. Then they're financial professors like Larry Summers who thought that the Fed should have remained neutral with the rate hick said, "It would be a mistake to dismiss the current financial squall as froth. Markets often sense a gathering storm when policy-makers are still asleep at the wheel." He has long argued that the world economy is so far out of kilter that it takes permanent financial bubbles to keep growth going, an inherently unstable structure. Thanks Larry, so on a brighter note you can play the downside of the market and certainly jump in when we reach bottom as long as the banks don't pull a bail in from civil accounts, that's the morning you wake up and most of your savings are gone before a run on the bank takes place. All I can say is the banks and the Fed are playing this as they go along, might raise rates 1% per year or might go negative, at which point you would pay the bank to keep your money. I think it's time for Public Banking and true growth in company stocks unlike the casino money printing market we've been riding and if you're not with the house it's a ring of fire. As that photo above does represent the Pacific Rim. Time now for that 'Spin Doctor'
How about that weather over the Holidays around the world, massive floods in the UK, blizzard conditions for parts of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and huge tornadoes hit Dallas. Flash flooding in Missouri and Illinois while the temp in Illinois was the warmest in 17 years. Something you don't hear too much about but many studies of the North Pole on the move, the most recent survey determined that the Pole is moving approximately north-northwest at 40 to 55 km per year racing across the Arctic Ocean.
After 1994 you can see the North Pole is tracking some ground, the most dramatic change of a pole reversal is the decrease of the total magnetic field intensity, in which would explain the Ozone hole over Antarctica. During solar storms of weak areas of magnetic field would punch holes in Earth's atmosphere, the poles would be the first to experience climate change. Geologists have strong belief that Earth has a magnetic field because the core made up of a solid iron center surrounded by rapidly spinning liquid metal. Such reversals have occurred 400 times in the last 330 million years from magnetic clues sealed in rocks around the world. The poles start drifting when patches of iron atoms in Earth's liquid outer core become reverse-aligned when these reversal patches grow and dominate the liquid core, Earth's magnetic field flips.
Humans have never experienced this before, the last time the poles shifted was 786,000 years ago around the time when the Neanderthals were wiped out. Too bad, we don't have records of our ancestors for at the time they were experiencing the shift. Science claims the magnetic field has been weakening for 160 years and with that, a complete reversal can take anywhere between 100 (newest study) to 10,000 years and sometimes the shift aborts altogether. So what comes with polar shifts, there are records of shifts by geologist and scientist claim the shift will not effect the continental plates but with degrading the magnetic field in areas or temporally disappears would be harmful to life due to excess radiation leaking in from solar winds and cosmic radiation. Navigation for both man and animal will be highly disrupted, during periods of a shift, many dipolar (carrying a positive and a negative charge) areas will appear around the globe.
Credit NASA
As far as the weather is concerned many scientists don't believe there is a correlation from magnetic fields but a new study from2003, reportsan interesting theory that magnetic waves can cause weather patterns. We're still learning all of this and in the meantime, ESA has launchedSwarma mission to unravel one of the most mysterious aspects of our planet; the magnetic field. Have a safe journey North and South Pole, we'll see ya on the flip-side, man I hope so because here's a look at Mars being stripped of its atmosphere due to no magnetic field.
From Ben: Davidson Explains how the sun can trigger the #1 risk to earth, based on severity and likelihood, and the current state of earth’s magnetic reversal, including how our protection from solar energy is weakening with it. In the second half of 2015, several minor solar upticks (100x weaker than ‘big’ ones) caused geomagnetic events we would expect from the only the largest flares every decade or so. This trend is expected to continue and it is not a pretty picture for the coming decades. Ben is the Director and Founder of Space Weather News, The Mobile Observatory Project, The Disaster Prediction App,SpaceWeatherNews.com, Suspicious0bservers.org, MagneticReversal.org, QuakeWatch.net, ObservatoryProject.com, and the Suspicious0bservers YouTube Channel, with more than 260,000 minds alert to what the mainstream deems ‘unimportant'.
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Anonymous said the Trolling is aimed at eliminating the fear Islamic State thrive off by showing them that "we are not afraid, we will not just hide in our fear, we are the majority and with our strength in numbers we can make a real difference." From here on out, Dec 11th will be ISIS Trolling Day. This is true on all fronts of life, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few", great Spock quoit right. The public at large is a driving force in the modern world on matters of "Hey guy whatcha doing there?" The way this is inherited is that you've screwed up! The outflow of millions is instantaneous around the world and you can feel it! Here's a clip with a clever mix with Trump as Darth Vader, sometimes timing is everything, Darth Trump! "Close the Frickin Boarders!"
Historic Rocket Landing for Blue Origin’s New Shepard space vehicle, successfully flew to space reaching its planned test altitude of 329,839 feet (100.5 kilometers) before executing a historic landing back at the launch site in West Texas. So soon you'll be able to leave Earth and experience what so few know. From Blue Origin:
OUR SPACEFLIGHT EXPERIENCE OFFERS ASPIRING ASTRONAUTS A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO HELP HUMANITY GET THERE
Following a thrilling launch, you’ll soar over 100 km above Earth—beyond the internationally recognized edge of space. You’ll help extend the legacy of space explorers who have come before you while pioneering access to the space frontier for all. Sitting atop a 60-foot-tall rocket in a capsule designed for six people, you’ll feel the engine ignite and rumble under you as you climb through the atmosphere. Accelerating at more than 3 Gs to faster than Mach 3, you will count yourself as one of the few who has gone these speeds and crossed into space. As the main engine cuts off, your capsule will separate from its booster and perfect stillness will surround you, you're weightless a life changing experience.
I've said this before, kindly separate the United States government from America. To the 114th Congress, why in the Hell do you insist on trying to disable other nations? You have only created too many enemies for Americans, which I don't know personally and do not hate. Go put yourself in harms way, not the many good people of America. Ah, have you arm chair worriers seen this video? The world is amazed at Russia's technology and force, with that I would like to apologize to the world for the Western Imperialism cruel behavior which is homogenized by cash only and coupled to destabilization. America is a culture of all nationalities, come try the food first before nuking us all. I'm from Chicago, you must try the hot dogs and combo beef with sausage. That processed BS on meat is just that, I'm near 60 years old with no cancer. I believe this is being reported for the fact that Fukushima is at our shores and\or GMOs. See we're already nuked! I don't need Russia and China on my ass and I don't want NATO'S help either.
TOS-1
Russian: ТОS-1 ( Heavy Flamethrower System) is a Soviet 220mm 30-barrel (original system, Ob.634 or TOS-1M) or 24-barrel (Ob.634B or TOS-1A) multiple rocket launcher and Thermobaric weapon mounted on a T-72 tank chassis. TOS-1 was designed for defeating enemy personnel in fortifications, in open country, and in lightly armoured vehicles and transport.
A set of rockets NURS MO.1.01.04 and MO.1.01.04M. These are 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) and 3.7 m (12 ft 2 in) long and weigh 173 kg (381 lb) and 217 kg (478 lb) respectively. The original rocket for the TOS-1A had a range of only 2,700 m (8,900 ft), but the improved version extends the range to 6,000 m (20,000 ft).
The Sukhoi Su-30 (NATO reporting name: Flanker-C) is a twin-engine, two-seat super-maneuverable fighter aircraft developed by Russia's Sukhoi Aviation Corporation. It is a multi-role fighter for all-weather, air-to-air and air-to-surface deep interdiction missions. The aircraft's powerplant incorporates two Saturn AL-31F afterburning low-bypass turbofan engines, fed through intake ramps. Two AL-31Fs, each rated at 12,500 kgf (123 kN, 27,550 lb) of full after-burning thrust ensures Mach 2 in level flight, 1,350 km/h speed at low altitude, and a 230 m/s climbing rate.
With a normal fuel reserve of 5,270 kg, the Su-30MK is capable of performing a 4.5-hour combat mission with a range of 3,000 km. An aerial refueling system increases the range to 5,200 km (3,200 mi) or flight duration up to 10 hours at cruise altitudes. Su-30SM A specialized version of the thrust-vectoring Su-30MKI and MKM variants for the Russian military, produced by the Irkut Corporation. The Su-30SM is considered as 4+ gen jet fighter. The new version has been upgraded based on Russian military requirements for radar, radio communications systems, friend-or-foe identification system, ejection seats, weapons, and other aircraft systems. The aircraft is equipped with the Bars-R radar and the wide-angle HUD.
Ship strike group of the Russian Navy launched cruise missiles against ISIS infrastructural facilities in Syria.
The ship strike group of the Russian Navy consisting of the Dagestan missile ship, the small-sized missile ships Grad Sviyazhsk, Uglich, Veliky Ustyug launched cruise missiles against ISIS infrastructural facilities in Syria from the assigned district of the Caspian Sea.
The firing was conducted by high-precision ship missile systems Kalibr NK, the cruise missiles of which engaged all the assigned targets successfully and with high accuracy. Baltic Shipyard
Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (Russian: Вооружённые Си́лы Росси́йской Федера́ции) are the military service of Russia, established after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. On 7 May 1992, Boris Yeltsin signed a presidential decree establishing the Russian Ministry of Defence and placing all Soviet Armed Forces troops on the territory of the Russian SFSR under Russian control. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces is the President of Russia. The Russian Armed Forces were formed in 1992.
