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About the fracking thing and earthquakes

Posted by redneckokie1 @ 17:58 on April 29, 2015

i sit in the heart of fracking areas and talk to people on both sides of the fence. I truly believe that fracking damage is right up there with global warming. I could go into a long discussion about the depth of fracking vs the depth of earthquakes but I believe a better explanation is the new Madrid fault and the cycles of movement. By all accounts, the big one is coming soon. Soon in geologic terms can be hundreds of years so it probably isn’t happening tomorrow.

never the less, the perfect storm is gaining momentum. There truly is ” nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide”. Sooner or later, man made or natural disasters will trigger an avalanche of dominoes that nobody in charge will be able to address much less come up,with a solution.

today the usdx, bonds, stocks and gold were down. I wonder if a liquidity crunch is coming like 2008. I don’t remember any solutions then, they just papered over it as usually.

rno, out of paper and stacking phiz.i

Moonlight Gambler

Posted by commish @ 16:48 on April 29, 2015

Would have thought

Posted by Buygold @ 15:24 on April 29, 2015

that pm’s were going to take a much bigger hit after the Fed lie. Looked that way initially, but they’re hanging tough and the shares look decent. As always, the close will tell the tale.

Silverngold – those kids could include Jeb Bush and Hitlery in their common core message to Obozo.

LOL!!! Love It!!

Posted by silverngold @ 15:07 on April 29, 2015

Entire junior class, 280 high-schoolers, show Obama just what he can do with Common Core!

April 26, 2015 by Tom Tillison 75 Comments

The entire junior class of a Seattle high school sent an unmistakable message to President Obama and other supporters of the Common Core curriculum last week: Thanks, but no thanks.

Not a single junior at Nathan Hale High showed up Tuesday to take new state exams in reading and math, a Seattle Public Schools spokeswoman told The Seattle Times.

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That’s 280 students who skipped the tests in a show of force.

The online exams, called Smarter Balanced, evaluate students’ proficiency according to Common Core standards in reading and math, according to the Times. Washington adopted the standards in 2013.

“They didn’t skip school all day,” district spokeswoman Stacy Howard told the newspaper. “They just didn’t show up during the testing period.”

Critics blamed the White House for the unpopular standards, now that Obama has made Common Core adoption a requirement for states to be eligible for federal Race to the Top grant money.

Doug Edelstein, a history teacher at Nathan Hale, said the opt-out honored old-fashioned democratic standards.

“Students voted with their own feet,” he said. “They felt like they knew the facts and made their own decisions.”

ESPN host: Tom Brady must be racist for
snubbing Obama; black players who skipped invite OK?

Edelstein questioned the validity of the tests and said students and their parents decided for themselves that the exams were a waste of time, according to the Times.

Fortunately, the Smarter Balanced exam is not a requirement for Nathan Hale High juniors to graduate.

The opt-out movement on such exams is gaining steam across the country.

“Tens of thousands of parents and students nationwide are engaging in civil disobedience by refusing to participate in federally mandated standardized tests, as states are fully deploying new exams aligned to the Common Core State Standards for the first time,” U.S. News and World Report reported last month.

SEALs die while training in swimming pool

Posted by silverngold @ 14:46 on April 29, 2015

http://nypost.com/2015/04/27/navy-seals-die-in-swimming-pool-training-accident/

SEALs die while training in swimming pool

Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Seth Cody Lewis [left] and Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Brett Allen Marihugh.Photo: http://wavy.com/2015/04/26/second-seal-dies-in-training-accident-at-ft-story/

A Navy SEAL from Queens and another from Michigan died after a training accident in a swimming pool at a base in Virginia.

Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Seth Cody Lewis of Queens and Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Brett Allen Marihugh of Livonia were found unresponsive Friday at the bottom of the Combat Swimming Training Facility at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story.

Lewis, 32, died Friday and Marihugh, 34, died Sunday, officials said.

Lt. David Lloyd told the Associated Press that both sailors were members of Naval Special Warfare Group 2.

Lewis was taking part in physical fitness training in the pool, WAVY reported.

“Seth was a consummate professional, fierce warrior, and teammate and friend to many of us in the Naval Special Warfare community who had perseverance and determination, making him an outstanding SEAL,” said Capt. Pete Vasely, commander of Naval Special Warfare Group 2, WAVY reported.

Lewis joined the Navy in 2006 after serving as a US Marine from 2001 to 2005.

After completing Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training in Coronado, Calif., in 2007, he was transferred to the base in Virginia.

Lewis was deployed several times to Afghanistan and Iraq in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

He earned the Bronze Star with Combat Valor, the Purple Heart, the US Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Valor, the US Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal with Valor, and other campaign and service medals.

Lewis is survived by his wife, Kristy.

Wanka

Posted by goldielocks @ 14:41 on April 29, 2015

It happened again but wondering if this J Helm thing has something to do with it Cuz it started around then after it was better for awhile and I noticed it in other sites at the same time, maybe their watching to see what kind of reaction it gets and what information they can get. One woman’s in jail right now for posting on FB to kill cops. But yet the mayor of Baltimore practically invited if not encouraged a riot that was directed against police. Playing right in their hands they hate peaceful rally’s and will try to incite like they did in NY occupation. Then they have the excuse for more militarization using police as a commodity or sheep to herd that ” just follow orders” that could and will affect them and their family’s as well.

Fed Press release/ BS

Posted by newtogold @ 14:35 on April 29, 2015

Release Date: April 29, 2015

For immediate release

Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March suggests that economic growth slowed during the winter months, in part reflecting transitory factors. The pace of job gains moderated, and the unemployment rate remained steady. A range of labor market indicators suggests that underutilization of labor resources was little changed. Growth in household spending declined; households’ real incomes rose strongly, partly reflecting earlier declines in energy prices, and consumer sentiment remains high. Business fixed investment softened, the recovery in the housing sector remained slow, and exports declined. Inflation continued to run below the Committee’s longer-run objective, partly reflecting earlier declines in energy prices and decreasing prices of non-energy imports. Market-based measures of inflation compensation remain low; survey-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations have remained stable.

Consistent with its statutory mandate, the Committee seeks to foster maximum employment and price stability. Although growth in output and employment slowed during the first quarter, the Committee continues to expect that, with appropriate policy accommodation, economic activity will expand at a moderate pace, with labor market indicators continuing to move toward levels the Committee judges consistent with its dual mandate. The Committee continues to see the risks to the outlook for economic activity and the labor market as nearly balanced. Inflation is anticipated to remain near its recent low level in the near term, but the Committee expects inflation to rise gradually toward 2 percent over the medium term as the labor market improves further and the transitory effects of declines in energy and import prices dissipate. The Committee continues to monitor inflation developments closely.

To support continued progress toward maximum employment and price stability, the Committee today reaffirmed its view that the current 0 to 1/4 percent target range for the federal funds rate remains appropriate. In determining how long to maintain this target range, the Committee will assess progress–both realized and expected–toward its objectives of maximum employment and 2 percent inflation. This assessment will take into account a wide range of information, including measures of labor market conditions, indicators of inflation pressures and inflation expectations, and readings on financial and international developments. The Committee anticipates that it will be appropriate to raise the target range for the federal funds rate when it has seen further improvement in the labor market and is reasonably confident that inflation will move back to its 2 percent objective over the medium term.

The Committee is maintaining its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities and of rolling over maturing Treasury securities at auction. This policy, by keeping the Committee’s holdings of longer-term securities at sizable levels, should help maintain accommodative financial conditions.

When the Committee decides to begin to remove policy accommodation, it will take a balanced approach consistent with its longer-run goals of maximum employment and inflation of 2 percent. The Committee currently anticipates that, even after employment and inflation are near mandate-consistent levels, economic conditions may, for some time, warrant keeping the target federal funds rate below levels the Committee views as normal in the longer run.

Voting for the FOMC monetary policy action were: Janet L. Yellen, Chair; William C. Dudley, Vice Chairman; Lael Brainard; Charles L. Evans; Stanley Fischer; Jeffrey M. Lacker; Dennis P. Lockhart; Jerome H. Powell; Daniel K. Tarullo; and John C. Williams.

2015 Monetary Policy Releases

Wanka

Posted by goldielocks @ 14:19 on April 29, 2015

You know this logging in thing. You don’t have to log out of computer especially if your not on one when you leave and not log out and if you come back in you have to log in again. It doesn’t happen all the time but often. Except for this time every other post I made this morning I had to log back in even if you put the remember me box. Not a big issue but the remember me doesn’t always work. Not saying you need to call your computer guy but could mention it if he has to fix somthing in the future.

The cretin gang have just crashed the party

Posted by ipso facto @ 14:02 on April 29, 2015

gold

Eeos

Posted by goldielocks @ 13:52 on April 29, 2015

Looking for gold lol there is no underground tunneling other than gold? There are underground tunnels and know one not to far from me that’s two hundred feet down military but won’t say where. There everywhere. They even have subs down there Yep go ahead and laugh but true. Whether their causing earthquakes havent looked into like Silverngold but of they disturbed the plates they could as well as cause sink holes. Their like termites their everywhere. They have these giant and I mean giant blades that plow through the earth.

eeos @ 13:02 Thank you!!

Posted by silverngold @ 13:29 on April 29, 2015

I do consider you to be an expert on tunneling since your head has been where the sun don’t shine for many years now. All The Best to you but how about trying to post something constructive or informative once in awhile rather than making an ass out of yourself by knocking whatever anyone else posts?? Silverngold

The Corbett Report: Out With The Old, In With The New World Order

Posted by silverngold @ 13:22 on April 29, 2015

James is a very honest guy (IMO) who can express his thoughts so we can all understand them….and I usually agree with his logic although on a much lower IQ level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PnA5Phu4Pec

you’re looking for something that’s not there again

Posted by eeos @ 13:02 on April 29, 2015

tunneling is done everyday and it doesn’t cause earthquakes. it surely those grey aliens again, I wonder if they may be mining gold below the surface?

My question is: Are all these quakes due to fracking???? Or are they due to tunneling to various locations recently discussed with the Walmart closures in suspiciously same locations??

Posted by silverngold @ 11:56 on April 29, 2015

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8 States Dealing With Huge Increases in Fracking Earthquakes

Anastasia Pantsios, EcoWatch

Waking Times

A new report, released Thursday from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), identified eight states in the eastern and central U.S. where fracking operations have led to dramatic increases in earthquakes, primarily from the injection of the wastewater byproduct of drilling operations into underground wells. This process can activate faults that in some cases were previously unknown.

“Earthquake activity has sharply increased since 2009 in the central and eastern United States. The increase has been linked to industrial operations that dispose of wastewater by injecting it into deep wells,” the report says bluntly, in a rebuke to the earthquake deniers in the oil and gas industry, such as fracking founder Harold Hamm, who pressured Oklahoma officials to stay silent about the connection.

While Oklahoma, Texas and Ohio have gotten much of the attention for increases in seismicity in areas where earthquakes were once rare, they aren’t the only states in danger of more and larger earthquakes. The USGS report also pointed to Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas and New Mexico and identified 17 zones within the eight states in particular danger from an increased number of what it calls “induced” quakes.

The report, Incorporating Induced Seismicity in the 2014 United States National Seismic Hazard Model, analyzed these seismic activity increases and developed the models to project how hazardous earthquakes could be in these in these zones, taking into account their rates, locations, maximum magnitude and ground motions.

“This new report describes for the first time how injection-induced earthquakes can be incorporated into U.S. seismic hazard maps,” said Mark Petersen, chief of the USGS National Seismic Hazard Modeling Project. “These earthquakes are occurring at a higher rate than ever before and pose a much greater risk to people living nearby. The USGS is developing methods that overcome the challenges in assessing seismic hazards in these regions in order to support decisions that help keep communities safe from ground shaking.”

The USGS has previously released National Seismic Hazard maps, used for insurance purposes, building codes and emergency response plans, outlining the hazards of naturally occurring earthquakes. They projected the likelihood of a quake over 50 years, the average lifespan of a building.

“However, these new induced seismicity products display intensity of potential ground shaking from induced earthquakes in a one-year period,” said the study. “This shorter timeframe is appropriate because the induced activity can vary rapidly with time and is subject to commercial and policy decisions that could change at any point.”

That’s a reference to the varying state regulations about allowing injection or accepting wastewater byproducts from other states. For instance, because of lax regulation in Ohio, the state receives millions of gallons of wastewater from heavily fracked Pennsylvania where injection wells are subject to stricter rules.

The report also states, “Many questions have been raised about whether hydraulic fracturing—commonly referred to as ‘fracking’—is responsible for the recent increase of earthquakes. USGS’s studies suggest that the actual hydraulic fracturing process is only occasionally the direct cause of felt earthquakes.” But it says, “Large volumes of wastewater can result from a variety of processes, such as a byproduct from energy production. Wastewater injection increases the underground pore pressure, which may lubricate nearby faults thereby making earthquakes more likely to occur.”

Ipso

Posted by goldielocks @ 11:40 on April 29, 2015

Vale, I watch that one once in awhile and these emerging economies been getting hit hard by the socialistic Orwellian mistakes of the rest. Although China not suffering to the effects as others as far as dept so can’t really equate timing to things outside the US. I’m guess they are moving toward tangibles before the predicted collapse in bonds as well as possible pressure of dollar rising getting those deals in now. Just guessing.

I wonder about the timing?

Posted by ipso facto @ 10:38 on April 29, 2015

Vale, China in talks to build 50 giant bulk carriers — report

Iron ore giant Vale (NYSE:VALE), the world’s No. 1 producer of the steel-making material, is said to be negotiating the manufacture of 50 giant bulk carriers with Chinese shipbuilders.

According to Wall Street Journal, the Rio de Janeiro-based miner aims to increase its fleet of mega ships, the world’s biggest bulk ore carriers, to transport iron ore from Brazil to China.

The newspaper added that China Cosco Holdings, ship financier Shandong Shipping Corp., ICBC International Leasing Ltd. and China Merchants Energy Shipping are all involved in the ongoing negotiations.

more http://www.mining.com/vale-china-in-talks-to-build-50-giant-bulk-carriers-report/