You know nothing about the volcano. This is the most studied and well known volcano in the world, wired for data and watched by USGS teams for years and years. We know the risks. We know the danger zones. We live with it. News media overplays the ‘doom porn’ aspects of it all.
RNO – No Krakatoa here
Krakatoa was a deep subduction volcano on a fault line. The whole pacific ‘ring of fire’ is like that. Hawaii is a shield volcano. A hot magma spot that bubbles up slowly and builds a mountain ‘shield’ as it overflows the top. Hawaii does not have the deep explosive power of a subduction zone. Our steam explosions are relatively local crustal effects. Still can be large and hazardous for miles around from the fallout, though! People in Volcano village near the summit have been advised to beware of potential ash fall from the crater. “Be ready to get under an overhead shelter” Some of that ‘ash fall’ can be several pound chunks! 🙂
Maya
I hope the “Krakatoa Effect” doesn’t happen to the big island. That superheated steam takes no prisoners.
rno
Smedley Butler, USMC
He is a great American hero and Medal of Honor winner. He served during a period mainly in the 1920s and early 1930s in Latin America. Marines call that period the “Banana Wars”. The Banana Wars were the occupations, police actions, and interventions on the part of the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spanish–American War in 1898 and the inception of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1934.
However, this was before World War II. The Marines, and other servicemen that fought that war fought against fascism. In 1935, in his book War is a Racket, he denounced the role he had played, describing himself as “a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers…a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism”.
You can read the information for yourself, there is certainly some truth, to what General Butler said about some of the things he saw. But not in total.
Trump in Indiana
doing a campaign style speech.
Slams Iran deal, praises the new embassy in Jerusalem.
All good.
“I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.”
Smedley Butler, USMC
This is cool
Star Trek-style invisibility cloaks come a step closer after scientists find a way of making submarines undetectable by sonar
Gold was up today $8.60 and Silver up by 23 cents
PAAS was up over 10 and a half percent….I wish I had some of that. AG was up 5 and a half percent. Sabena SGSVF was up 4.6% and I have a bunch of that. It was a good day, and more are coming.
Chinese Gold Demand Off To A Hot Start In 2018
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-10/chinese-gold-demand-hot-start-2018
It’s just a matter of time before phizzzz gets real tight……fighting billions of buyers is a mugs game.
Lots of posts on the Hawaii situation, is the local government just wishing and hoping?
I think the Hawaiian State Government is whistling past the graveyard. Nobody know what mother nature is up to and a massive volcanic eruption is not beyond possibility. I think that mandatory evacuations should begin within 10 miles from the current lava flows to the safer parts of the island. One of the big dangers now is the underground water mixing in with the lava that can cause explosive outburst that can blast huge rocks very far. Besides the threat of volcanic activity is the threat of massive landslides that could see part of the island slide into the sea. The Island of Hawaii really is just a big mountain coming up from the ocean floor. It would not be the first time. I think too many people are getting a false sense of security by watching the slow moving lava. You cannot outrun an explosion.
Maya
I hope they get funding and do the” right thing ” helping the people with all that will go wrong including the water maybe even put up temporary housing.Send in trailers or something. Most as you know have no insurance.
Maddog
He’s working on it. Meanwhile they are reacting a lot from firms asked from them by few patriot congress left because it makes them look bad and hiding it like Hillary did. That’s what they’re really worried about and fighting so hard.
Muller ran out of options so will now try to question Trump under oath and mostly questions he has no authority to ask a sitting president who has the power i.e. To hire fire who he wants. Example why did you fire leaker “I added leaker” as what were you thinking. None of his business as if he didn’t know. He has no authority to even ask.
He’s going to attempt to trip him up so he can make up a he lied under oath so they can move to impeach. Last ditch and hope he takes his lawyers advice NOT to speak to him. Litigate it all the way to the finish of his next election and find away to fire The whole lot of them. Some of those people were behind the dossier. Talking about conflict of interest. All were Hillary donors. Wonder why,
Intresting Iran didn’t even sign it.
State Department: Iran Deal Is Not ‘Legally Binding’ and Iran Didn’t Sign It
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalreview.com/2015/11/state-department-iran-deal-not-legally-binding-signed/amp/
Goldielocks
Agreed re offensive. That was supposed to be Mueller and so far he has not laid a glove on the Donald….then again it was an idiot accusation to begin with.
goldielocks @ 10:53 – Volcano
Oh they know where the underground magma flows are, they just don’t know where or how it will crack out of the surface crust rocks. That’s why Leilani Estates was such a stupid place to build… right on top of a known rift zone and magma chamber that cracked open and flowed lava in the area as recently as 1955.
The big earthquakes apparently broke an underground dike in the plumbing and allowed the summit lava AND eruptive Pu’u O’o vent to both drain lower down the rift ridge underground. The present eruptive area became swollen and cracked with new lava pressure coming in from upslope areas.
Today the earthquake swarm is moving eastward, more downslope along the rift towards Cape Kumukahi. That area out at the eastern tip near Kapoho last broke open in 1960 and flowed to the ocean. An easterly migration downslope of the eruption would be a good thing, as it is sparsely populated and direct lava flow away from the subdivisions on the north side of the ridge…. where I happen to be.
So why isn’t this rogue leaker traitor in jail aiding abetting the enemy.
Any security clearance should be stripped from him immediately and warning to anyone who leaks to him. CNN waters it down.
John Kerry engaging in shadow diplomacy to salvage Iran deal: The Boston Globe
By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/05/05/politics/john-kerry-iran-deal/index.html
How can this be legal
Gun advocates are furious landlord won’t let tenants have guns
https://www.google.com/amp/s/articles.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2018/05/nj_apartment_developer_bans_guns_in_building.amp
Maddog
Ps That’s why they won’t stop till their stopped. They know they could be next and about due time. But who’s there to stop them, who else both sides involved in betrayal of country.
Maddog
Clintons and Obummer, when worried about losing set up a insurance policy by going on the offensive.
goldielocks
You’ll have fun reading about ‘the Dossier’…it is an extraordinary story, that has yet to end….and if there is any real justice, it will see the end of Obummer and the Clintons.
Treefrog
Yep when no term limits God has the last word, and he said Trumps not invited to his funeral. You wonder why the establishment Repubs sit on their hands including Sessions while this coup is attempted?
It only tells me like Wallace and the Scott’s, Trump is only a temporary reprieve from doom less more people wake up and fast.
Traitor delivers fake dossier of shadow Gov. never mind they found nothing.
But he was in on it.
May 09, 2018 – 06:05 PM EDT
McCain defends giving dossier to Comey: ‘I would do it again’
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) wrote in his upcoming memoir that he does not regret alerting the FBI about the so-called Steele dossier, which details President Trump’s alleged ties to Russia.
McCain acknowledged in January 2017 that he delivered a dossier of “sensitive information” to then-FBI Director James Comey.
In his upcoming book, “The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations,” McCain wrote that he “did what duty demanded I do” in passing on the documents.
“I discharged that obligation, and I would do it again. Anyone who doesn’t like it can go to hell,” McCain said, according to excerpts of the book published by The Guardian.
He added that any risk that the president might be compromised by Russians “had to be investigated.”
The Steele dossier has been at the center of investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election conducted by congressional committees and special counsel Robert Mueller. Trump has repeatedly called the latter’s probe a “witch hunt” and a “hoax.”
The document has been a source of controversy, as it was funded partly by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
It started out as an opposition research document funded by the conservative website The Washington Free Beacon.
mccain’s making funeral plans
that’s nice. i hope he sets a date. soon.
Ororeef
They walk in darkness.
Did you hear about the fake Repub real Demo Mc Cain said he was involved in the dossier and said anyone who’s against it can go to hell. Guess we’ll see him in hell, even if we’re not. If.. haven’t looked into it yet.