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Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Late Toons.................

H/T Paul B

H/T Nebraska Bob

Kate Upton's Rookie Shoot | Sports Illustrated Swimsuit

It looks innocent enough but looks can be deceiving! (Video)...from TPC

Did you know that something as innocent looking as a copy machine could pose serious risks to your business if the right steps are not taken to prevent it?

Neither did I!

Watch the video here.

"Comet Song" Song Of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko / Rosetta ESA NASA.................

Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. The comet seems to be emitting a ‘song’ in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field in the comet’s environment. It is being sung at 40-50 millihertz, far below human hearing. To make the music audible to the human ear, the frequencies have been increased in this recording

H/T Bob C

.......there again it could be Sir Patrick Moore's Ghost

Being Anti-Energy is Being Anti-Humanity

By Alan Caruba

Everything you need to know about how perverse and dangerous the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is summed up in its latest report. Released on November 2, it issued the same tired, old and untrue claims of “severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems”

The IPCC wants the world to stop using coal, oil and natural gas, saying that they must be “phased out almost entirely” by the end of the century. The report reeks of their contempt for humanity.

Losing electricity, no matter where you live, is losing every technology that enhances and preserves your life. You lose the ability to cool or warm your home, apartment or workplace. You lose the ability to keep food safe in your refrigerator and freezer. You most certainly lose the lighting. You lose the ability to turn on your computer or television. Indeed, to use everything you take for granted.

Since the discovery and generation of energy with coal, oil and natural gas, generations have lived lives not only different from all who preceded them, but better in so many ways, not the least of which is extended life expectancy. Nations with energy are places where people live longer, healthier lives. They are also wealthier nations where the energy translates into industry, jobs, transportation, and all the other attributes of modern life.

Although we usually don’t associate energy with morality, Alex Epstein has. His book, “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels” ($27.95, Portfolio, an imprint of the Penguin Group) is the finest case for the role coal, oil and natural gas has played in our lives and the positive, emancipating impact they have had on humanity. Everyone should read it.

“I hold human life as the standard of value” says Epstein. “I think that our fossil fuel use so far has been a moral choice because it has enabled billions of people to live longer and more fulfilling lives, and I think the cuts proposed by the environmentalists in the 1970s were wrong because of all the death and suffering they would have inflicted on human beings.”

“Eighty-seven percent of the energy mankind uses every second comes from burning one of the fossil fuels: coal, oil or natural gas.” That has not stopped environmentalists from denouncing coal and oil as “dirty” or because their use generates carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. What they never tell you is how small those emissions are and that they play an infinitesimal role to influence the Earth’s weather or climate. They never tell you that the Earth has centuries more of untapped reserves. The modern world could not exist without them.

“In the last eighty years, as CO2 emissions have most rapidly escalated, the annual rate of climate-related deaths worldwide fell by an incredible rate of 98 percent. That means the incidence of death from climate is fifty times lower than it was eighty years ago.”

Epstein points to “the power of fossil-fueled machines to build a durable civilization that is highly resilient to extreme heat, extreme cold, floods, storms, and so on” to demonstrate the foolishness of those who oppose their use. Primary among them is the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As part of its 40^th session, in early November the IPCC adopted the final “synthesis” report of its Fifth Assessment Report; a full-scale update calling for the reduction of energy worldwide. They base this on the claim that “human influence on the climate system is clear.”

It is not clear. Despite the CO2 emissions, the Earth has been in a cooling cycle for the last nineteen years, during the same time the IPCC’s “climate experts” and others were telling us the Earth was going to become dangerously warm.

Epstein reminds us that “In 1972, the international think tank, the Club of Rome, released a multimillion-copy-selling book, “The Limits of Growth”, which declared that its state of the art computer models had demonstrated that we would run out of oil by 1992 and natural gas by 1993 (and, for good measure, gold, mercury, silver, tin, zinc and lead by 1993 at the latest.)

It is essential to understand that every one of the “global warming” predictions made in the 1980s and the decades since then has been WRONG. Every one of the computer models on which those predictions were based was WRONG.

A younger generation graduating from high school this year has never spent a day when the overall temperature of the Earth was warming. The Earth’s natural cooling cycle is based on a natural low cycle of solar radiation. The Sun is generating less heat. Indeed, the Earth is nearing the end of the Holocene cycle, one of warmth for the past ten thousand or more years that has given rise to human civilization.

Epstein’s book is more than just philosophical opinion. It is based on documented facts regarding fossil fuel use. At one point he quotes Paul Ehrlich who, in his 1968 book, “The Population Bomb”, declared that “the battle to feed humanity is over.” Epstein notes that in 1968 the world’s population was 3.6 billion people. “Since then it has doubled, yet the average person is better fed than he was in 1968. This seeming miracle was due to a combination of the fossil fuel industry and genetic science…” Farming today is mechanized and that requires fuel!

The claims that Epstein debunks are accompanied by the fundamental truths about fossil fuel use and science. His book, comprehensible to anyone whether they have any knowledge of science or not, should be on everyone’s reading list.

At the heart of environmentalism and its “save the Earth” agenda is the reduction, if not the elimination, of humans from planet Earth.

STOLEN VALOR: JOE RIOS

JOSEPH LEWIS "Wolverine" RIOS

Joe Rios makes the following claims regarding his military service:

1) Served in US Army Special Forces from 1975-1988
2) 18B Weapons Sergeant
3) Special Forces Instructor
4) SERE Instructor
5) Instructor - Fort Sherman Panama
6) Pathfinder Instructor - Panama
7) Combat duty in Nicaragua and El Salvador
8) French Commando Training

SP/4 JOSEPH LEWIS RIOS, US ARMY JUL 76-FEB 80, MOS: 71L, CLERK TYPIST

Joe Rios' records indicate:

1) US Army - 15 July 1976 through 14 February 1980 Active Duty
2) MOS 71B and 71L (Clerk Typist)
3) After Basic and AIT Joe was assigned to HHB 2nd BN, 1st ADA in Germany for the entirety of his military service.
4) Awards and Decorations include: Expert Rifle and Pistol Badge

Last known location: Anderson County, SC. Previous address listed is in Tucson, Arizona.

Joe Rios has spent many years scamming people into believing he was a former Special Forces soldier. His claims have been publicized and even used to convince a school that he was qualified to build a "Green Beret" confidence/ leadership course, for which he was paid.

Joe Rios is a loser, poser, fraud and liar . . . nothing more.

Special Forces soldiers have been discretely engaging Rios via social media. He is not forthcoming and "cannot remember" his team number. None of his answers to our questions make sense. He apparently was paid to work with the Walton Academy in DeFuniak Springs, Florida based on his military claims: this is the basis of our Stolen Valor allegations.

Joe Rios is a professional scam artist and it is believed that the old lady is well aware of his lies, she is following him around the country. He needs a co-actor to pull off the scam. Con artists often operate in pairs, male & female.

Identity of Joe Rios' girlfriend is withheld although she is clearly identified on Joe Rios' FB page.

Keep in mind this guy is a con-artist; some of the first people these types go after are family. They have in all likelihood conned someone into signing for the house for them, with the agreement they're making the payments, etc. The house in Tucson is under his old lady's name (withheld). Evidently the GF gets a monthly hand out from her elderly parents; they bought the house in Tucson for them.

Joe Rios was paid $1500 to build a "Special Forces Obstacle Course" for Walton Academy by Steve Ruder; former student and former friend of Joe Rios, and principal of the Academy.

On 25 August 2014 the FBI notified Ruder and told him the agency would NOT be pursuing the Rios case due to the monetary amount not being high enough to go further. The agency did confirm he was a Clerk Typist on active duty for a couple years. The Brotherhood spoke with Steve on the phone and he said Rios continues to build his web of lies to everyone he comes in contact with.

Unfortunately the FBI won't investigate Joe Rios for Stolen Valor because the $$$ amount was too low, but they investigate crap like THIS

"Stand By to Stand By"

Information is forthcoming on the Walton Academy fraud to include the tax form from $1500 payment to Joe Rios (which used federal education funding). Please check STORMBRINGER for update.

STORMBRINGER SENDS

Pic Dump.....................

Crime and NO Punishment....................from Rico

Caught "rigging" FX and bullion? Running the stops on your own clients for fun and profit?

Here is your punishment:
- FINMA ...to limit bonuses for traders of foreign exchange and precious metals to 200 percent of their base salary for two years.

You can't make stuff like this up!

From the morning's Gold and Silver charts, it looks like this was about as effective as a 'strongly worded' letter from the UN.

But come on!
- The only less serious consequence would have been to double those bonuses, but we can rest easy knowing that base salaries will be adjusted upward to keep the traders happy and making money for their respective banks.

Teatime Totty..................

Touch - Jean-Baptiste Chandelier................

H/T HJB

Phone Boy........................from Rico

Barry aka Phone Boy.

Most have already figured out that it's best to completely ignore what this guy SAYS since he is a congenital liar (when his lips move), but it pays to closely watch what he DOES because that betrays his absolute lack of character.

His love affair with the phone, is a fine example.
- Who he calls, and who he does NOT call.

We'll address his love affair with his pen another time, but a source close to Valerie Jarrett indicates that he prefers them ribbed.

h/t to "90 Miles From Tyranny" where I saw this...

Washington Has Abandoned the Power of Deterrence

photo courtesy US Navy

As I expected President Obama has chosen to ignore the will of the American people and press on with his plans for executive amnesty for millions of illegal aliens; anyone who expected him to change course simply doesn’t understand who Barack Obama really is. We are dealing with a radical Leftist who has demonstrated a complete lack of respect for not only the law, but the Constitution those laws are based on. He will do everything he can do, not as far as the law allows but as far as those who enforce the law will allow, to further his agenda. The Constitution provides checks and balances that can be used as a remedy for an Executive that abuses the power of their office, but House Speaker John Boehner has already taken the one thing off the table that might stop Obama in his tracks. By declaring “We have no plans to impeach the President. We have no future plans” Boehner has effectively granted Obama amnesty for granting amnesty. (continue reading)

A beach in Rio........................from Rico

A beach in Rio...Abrico Beach... has just been designated the first nude beach there.

One day I'll stop previewing the Michael Caine film "Blame it on Rio" and get down there myself.

It's important to have something to aspire to....

Cartoon Round Up....

News..............

China Flight Tests New Stealth Jet During Obama Visit

How the Defense Department’s Procurement Problems Are Hurting National Security

Welcome Back to America, Mr. President

Proxy War Protocols: How To Make Syrian Opposition Work

Chinese Insulted by Obama’s Gum Chewing

Afghan opium crop at fresh high as foreign troops withdraw

Aung San Suu Kyi: Colluding With Tyranny

Drones can’t fight all our battles for us

Paranoid US millionaires can buy Survival Condos to survive nuclear war in style

‘Moderate’ Syrian rebels defecting to ISIS, blaming lack of U.S. support and weapons

Ancient Kosher Laws Have Lessons for a 21st Century War against Ebola

Why Abbas Will Not Condemn Terror Attacks

Collar Blind

The Cheese Stands Alone.....................from Rico

There is an old nursery rhyme that goes something along the lines of "the cheese stands alone"...

The S&P is looking a lot like "the cheese" compared to everything else.
- Something smells like "Limburger" gone bad...

Some sources are now saying that US equities are 100% overpriced.
- Other asset classes seem to support that notion.