[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] The Earth could be headed for a 'mini ice age' researchers have warned.
A new study claims to have cracked predicting solar cycles - and says that between 2020 and 2030 solar cycles will cancel each other out.
This, they say, will lead to a phenomenon known as the 'Maunder minimum' - which has previously been known as a mini ice age when it hit between 1646 and 1715, even causing London's River Thames to freeze over.
Goody. Famine, plagues, vast population migrations followed by war... and possibly witches. But at least the violins will sound absolutely amazing some decades hence.
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The warmer zealots will still scream and rant even as the glaciers march across Canada. Their religion brooks no dissent from anyone, even the Sun.
IIRC, I've read from various Science texts that the Sun tends to explode = unleash massive Solar Flares/CMES of still-undetermined magnitude at the beginning, as well as near or at the end, of the MAJOR ice ages.
DON'T BE SURPRISED IFF THE SAME OCCURS VEE THE "MINI".
FYI AFAIK its not clear iff the above is inclusive of any protractive lack of sunspots.
* ION JAPAN TIMES > GLOBAL WARMING SHRINKING THE PRESENCE OF VITAL BUMBLEBEES IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE.
* ENE NEWS > NOAA: MANY FISHES [Specias] DISAPPEARING FROM THE PACIFIC.
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Well, the climate/historical record is that people die off when it turns cold and people thrive when it turns warm. Given the ruling class mumbles every now and then there are too many people already in the world, one might start to think the whole MMGW gig was to get the rubes set up for the real natural and deadly climate change. The French Revolution model looks better and better every day.
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Great. In 15 years we're gonna be invaded by snowbacks too.
Posted by: Whonter Darling of the Bunions4601 ||
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Talk of this sorts is smoke and mirrors designed to keep the (majority) poor optimistic that something larger, uncontrollable is coming to even out the unfair imbalances in this world.
if/when it happens worry then and not before time.
Last week Bob Owens from Bearingarms.com interviewed Andrew Scott, CEO of A&A Ammunition, who said he was seeing signs of the .22 LR ammunition shortage beginning to clear up. I won't dispute what an executive says about his whole industry, because that is his bread and butter, but I commented elsewhere that .22 LR shortage was showing no signs of moderating, but you can still get it at about between .08 to .10 per round.
I said: ...online prices of .22LR halved between July 2013 and July 2014, and have wafted upwards about $0.02 per round. My personal opinion is that .22 LR will not go down significantly more than $0.02 each for a long time to come.
About three years ago I went shooting with my son in law, and we met a friend of his at the firing range in Florida. One individual was also there with a Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum revolver, who kept getting misfires every other shot. At about $1.00 per round, that kind of shooting can run into some money. You must really love to fire a .44 Magnum to expend that kind of wampum. Now, three years later, the PPR for the .44 Magnum is half of what it was. Times change, but I suspect whatever price collapses may be in the offing, they have already come and gone.
I mentioned that story to say this: the SiL's friend had a .22LR pistol with a rifle stock and he kept loading it, with every round saying: One cent, two cents, 3 cents... all with a smirk on his face.
The .44 Magnum shooter musta been pissed.
The city of Seattle Washington wants to pass a $25 per transaction fee on all gun purchases. Helluva deal for them if everyone in Seattle wants to obey the universal background check law passed by popular vote last year in a marijuana induced fog. Why are they considering such a tax? Because no court in the land will deny any government any tax, not SCOTUS, nor anywhere else.
Judges gotta eat, too, when they retire.
That has been de riguer for a long time. Even fees for concealed carry in those states that have such a program, which so many people erroneously equate with their 2nd Amendment rights, could be considered taxes, which no court in the land will deny any political entity.
May their chains rest on them lightly...
Just my two kopeks.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition and for rifle ammunition were mixed.
Prices for used pistols were mostly lower, while prices for used rifles were higher across the board.
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ventura Munitions, Wolf Polyformance, FMJ, steel cased, .27 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .28 per round (From Last week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, FMJ, Reloads, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Brown Bear, FMJ, Steel Cased, .17 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: The American Marksman, Stryker 9, FMJ, Reloads, .18 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 250 Rounds: Ammunition To Go, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .33 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: +.01 each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Able's, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Tulammo, steel cased, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 grain, From Last Week: -.05 Each After Unchanged (3 weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Natchez Shooters Supplies, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .40 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammunition To Go, Tulammo, Steel Cased, FMJ, .50 per round (From Last Week: -.08 Each )
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, steel case, HP, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, steel case, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q 2015))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munire USA, CI Raptor, RNL, .10 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Munire USA, CI Raptor, RNL, .08 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (5 Weeks))
HT to AOSHQ. Bolivarian Victory!
Throughout their country's descent into political and economic crisis, Venezuelans of all stripes have at least been able to rely on one thing: drowning their sorrows in beer.
Locals of the sweltering South American nation love to down the kinds of heavily chilled light lagers popular from Mexico to Argentina.
But pretty soon Venezuela could run dry. And that could be even more devastating than it sounds. How did it come to this?
For one, brewery workers are on strike demanding higher wages. greedy capitalist guttersnipes!
Members of the Sintraterricentro union downed tools last week at two bottling plants belonging to the Polar brewery. It supplies roughly 80 percent of Venezuela's beer, including market leader Polar Pilsen. The union is tiny but its members hold key positions at the plant, meaning that production has ground to a halt. A UNION?
The nation's human rights ombudsman has stepped in to mediate. But Empresa Polar executives accuse him of a bias toward the union, which is allied with the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro. A union allied with a socialist? Has that ever happened before?
On top of that, there's a shortage of imported beer ingredients.
Add that to the list of basics in short supply, like medicines toilet paper and food items, thanks to a raft of economic problems including a lack of dollars.
So far, store shelves are well stocked with beer bottles, according to the Associated Press. But that may change very soon. The national brewers association says raw materials for beer-making will run out by August. just in time for the start of their summer
The timing could hardly be worse. no sh*t!
Venezuela is suffering 615 percent inflation, says Johns Hopkins University economist Steve H. Hanke. The country also has one of the world's highest homicide rates. And the government's been locking up critics.
So, you might say Venezuelans could use a drink.
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The Australian military has decided to cancel plans to purchase F-35B Joint Strike Fighter short-take-off-and-vertical landing aircraft and place 12 of the aircraft on two of their larger assault ships, citing the challenges of needing to rework the ships to accommodate the plane, according to published reports.
"Prime Minister Tony Abbott's proposal to put F-35 fighter jets on the Navy's two 27,000-tonne troop transport assault ships has been quietly dropped," writes The Australian Financial Review.
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Uh, no. The Aussies never ordered the Bee, so didn't cancel it. There was never a requirement for it. There was a throw away comment by the PM about how the Bee could operate from their new LHDs.
After the 72 F-35As are delivered, the Aussies will revisit what to do about another 28.
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Dylann Roof, who is accused of killing nine people at a church in South Carolina three weeks ago, was able to purchase the gun used in the attack only because of lapses in the FBI's background-check system, FBI Director James B. Comey said Friday.
Comey said Roof should have been prevented from buying the .45-caliber weapon used in the shooting, which authorities have said was motivated by Roof's racist views. The political repercussions of the June 17 massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston led South Carolina to remove the Confederate flag from its statehouse grounds Friday.
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You had a system. You already have the laws. You are the failure. There's nothing new needed other than people who have skill and merit in the execution of their responsibilities and the removal of 'supervisors' who interfere with the execution of those systems and laws.
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The FBI says its background-check system failed, mistakenly allowing the man who allegedly opened fire inside a South Carolina church last month to purchase the gun he used in the rampage.
So what Mr. "Blame Anybody but Me" Obama immediately tries to spin as a Republican, NRA, confederate flag flying, white privilege gun-culture problem ends up actually being the result of yet one more catastrophic failure of incompetent government.
The immigration system is broken, the IRS system is broken, the veteran administration is broken, the postal system is a mess, the congress and judicial systems (just to name a few) are dysfunctional. After six years of Obama's rule, what part of government is not dysfunctional ?
We have people dying in the streets, in the harbors, in our hospitals and in our churches. And the latest solution, according to Mr. Obama's maladaptive response, is to blame and take down a single flag flying above a Civil War memorial in South Carolina.
The astounding imbecility of it all stupefies even the barely remaining sane amongst us.
And all the while we diffidently divert our eyes in acquiescence as Mr. Obama spikes the ball and revels in his own intolerable audacity.
I continue to wonder who deserves to bear the most shame... Mr. Obama for his intolerable audacity or we the people who invariably and timidly allow him to get away with it.
[DAWN] HANGU: Four persons were killed and five others were maimed as a result of firing at a funeral in Astori Khel area of Lower Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... on Friday evening.
The political authorities said that Asif Ali opened indiscriminate fire upon seeing his rivals at a funeral of a local person in Astori Khel area.
Those killed were identified as Kamal Hassan, Nasim Ali, Amin Qasim and Mansoor Ali. The dead also included two passers-by.
The injured were shifted to Kalaya hospital. The political authorities started making efforts to arrest of the suspected killer. The local administration also tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! five relatives of the accused.
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"we're gonna need a bigger boat grave"
Posted by: Frank G ||
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Repeat customers are the best customers.
Posted by: Whonter Darling of the Bunions4601 ||
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I was halfway hoping this involved the Westbourgh Baptist Church
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Yes, she appears to be a nasty piece of work, but to see the Anarchists, oops, I mean "customers" (maybe), orchestrate a coup because she gave the thumb to a "popular" employee is a bit much.
I've had to fire "popular" people and, in many instances, they were "popular" because they catered to the desires of their charges at the expense of organizational requirements (as defined.).
As much as it sucked to let people go, it was my job. Or else, it was my job. Btw, did anyone perform due diligence before bringing her on?
In the business world, many things have to be checked at the door.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] The Earth could be headed for a 'mini ice age' researchers have warned.
The Australian military has decided to cancel plans to purchase F-35B Joint Strike Fighter short-take-off-and-vertical landing aircraft and place 12 of the aircraft on two of their larger assault ships, citing the challenges of needing to rework the ships to accommodate the plane, according to published reports.
