Who was Theodor Herzl?
Herzl was the father of modern political
Zionism and in effect the philosophic founder of the state of Israel. He was
born Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl and was an Austro-Hungarian journalist. He lived from
2 May 1860 to 3 July 1904.
Herzl made some strange anti-Semitic comments.
One of his quoted comments from his diary (part 1, page 16) follows: “It is
essential that the sufferings of the Jews…..become worse….this will assist in
the realization of our plans…..I have an excellent idea….I shall induce the anti-Semites
to liquidate Jewish wealth. The anti-Semites will assist us thereby in that
they will strengthen the persecution and opposition of the Jews. The anti-Semites
shall be our best friends.”
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| A card from the Illuminati card game |
A small organic farm in Arlington,
Texas, was the target of a massive police action last week that included aerial
surveillance, a SWAT raid and a 10-hour search. Members of the local police
raiding party had a search warrant for marijuana plants, which they failed to
find at the Garden of Eden farm. But farm owners and residents who live on the
property said that the real reason for the law enforcement exercise appears to
have been code enforcement. The police seized '17 blackberry bushes, 15 okra
plants, 14 tomatillo plants ... native grasses and sunflowers', after holding
residents inside at gunpoint for at least a half-hour, property owner Shellie
Smith said in a statement. The raid lasted about 10 hours, she said.
Police didn't produce a warrant
until two hours after the raid began, and officers shielded their name tags so
they couldn't be identified. Resident Quinn Eaker was the only person arrested
-- for outstanding traffic violations.
Texas police did not find any
marijuana plants, which was the only complaint listed for the search warrant.
Police seized numerous bushes,
plants, grasses and sunflower seeds, none of which are illegal or a threat to
national security.
But, residents were held at
gunpoint for at least 30 minutes and then had to endure 10 hours of a fruitless
search.
The police department felt it
necessary to send militarized police SWAT units to this simple organic farm!
America is being systematically
turned into a police state and stories like these three are gradually
conditioning undiscerning Americans into accepting these dictatorial methods.
There is one other factor at work
here. The apparatus of the American government and of the Genetically Modified
Foods Industry are being turned upon people who want to grow, sell and consume
natural foods.
In the last several years, we have
seen government pressure on organic retailers, growers, raw milk producers, and
so forth. We live in a time when government, and its ally, big business, are
aggressively attempting to impose their own reality upon am increasingly
resistant people.
Friends, we need Bob McDonnell in
the White House. If I am not mistaken, I believe he is a Christian. He certainly is a good steward of the people's money.
On Tuesday in the Governor's Annual
Address to Virginia's Joint Money Committees, Bob McDonnell announced a
$585 Million budget surplus for this fiscal year, the fourth surplus in four
years for the McDonnell Administration. This made the
cumulative surplus total for Virginia under Governor McDonnell's leadership at
a staggering $2 Billion -- the highest four year stimulus total in the
Commonwealth's history!
This concludes a remarkable
turnaround for Virginia, as Bob McDonnell was facing a $6 Billion
budget shortfall when he took office. Instead, Virginia
finds itself on its strongest fiscal footing in decades.
This remarkable turnaround was not
an accident, but rather the result of Governor McDonnell working with members
of both political parties to solve Virginia's fiscal challenges. In
his address, the Governor also noted that general fund spending in Virginia has
increased only 0.3% over the last six years, far below the rate of population
growth and inflation.
While our nation's capitol is
plagued by a never-ending federal debt crisis, Governor McDonnell is again
demonstrating the leadership, vision and commitment needed to solve Virginia's
most pressing problems.
You know what they say
"you get nothing for free" and it seems as if it is very true for
these famous celebrities of Hollywood.
Take a read
and examine the facts about what is really going on in the Hills of
the HollyWood.
To become the wealthiest ($20 million+ club) for a higher
position and royalty from the elite, you need to make a human (blood sacrifice). The Illuminati have also sacrificed many celebrities
as a human (solstice sacrifice).
Watch the blood sacrifice video below.
BLOOD SACRIFICES FOR DOLLARS and FAME.
8. Diddy - Biggie Smalls
11.
Nicki Minaj - her cousin.
26.
Heidi Montag - Dr. Ryan.
28.
Mary-Kate Olsen - Health Ledger.
Friends, as I have said several times the Isaiah 17 concerning Damascus and the Isaiah 19 prophecy concerning Egypt are playing out right before our eyes.
The twists and turns of events in Egypt this week are starting
to make a Russian novel look like kiddie stuff.
First, there are reports that due
to the violence some Coptic churches in Egypt canceled their
Sunday masses for the first time in more than a millenium-and-a-half. Wrap your
head around that idea.
We did not hold prayers
in the monastery on Sunday for the first time in 1,600 years,” Priest Selwanes
Lotfy of the Virgin Mary and Priest Ibram Monastery in Degla, just south of
Minya, told the al-Masry al-Youm daily.
Also compromised (or further
compromised), the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose members have been
detained, arrested, or slaughtered by the hundreds in the past week. Earlier
this morning, the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader Mohammed Badie was captured by
the Egyptian army. He is expected to go on trial later this month.
Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood
is throwing everything they can at the Egyptian military. Fallout continues
following an attack that killed dozens of
Egyptian policemen in Sinai near the Gaza border yesterday. On a more
ridiculous note, a video, translated by MEMRI and now making the rounds,
features a former Muslim Brotherhood official accusing Egyptian General Al-Sisi
of being a Jew. What would a Jew in Sisi’s boots do? Try to implement the Protocols
of the Elders of Zion in Egypt, of course.
Cairo at night has become a city of
silence. Once among the world’s most crowded and raucous nocturnal
metropolises, it is now home to ghosts, a place haunted by fear and despair.
Never ones to abide by past military-imposed curfews, Egyptians stay indoors
after sunset. The night is owned by helicopters roaming the skies, fat army
tanks sitting heavily in the streets and bands of men wielding knives, clubs
and guns at makeshift checkpoints .... Most of the killing is done during the
day. Over 1,000 dead in three days of carnage. As a reporter covering conflicts
over the years, I have seen many dead bodies—but never have I seen so many
people dying before my eyes."
God's prophecy said that HE would
set Egyptian against Egyptian. This next segment reveals that this scenario is
playing out to a deadly, bloody conclusion.
"As Egypt plunges headfirst
into a deadly downward spiral with no end in sight, many of its citizens are
baying for still more blood ... In meting out violence, the military and
security apparatus has an overwhelming advantage, and its forces have done so
with unflinching brutality ... August 14 marked the bloodiest day in Egypt’s
modern history, with more than 800 dead. Cairo was inundated with corpses. In
the al-Iman mosque the day after the raids, more than 230 bodies lay on the
floor. The smell of death hung heavy in the summer heat ... The military-backed
cabinet, the security establishment and the allied so-called 'liberal' elite
have vilified an entire swathe of society as violent extremists unfit for
political life."
The Muslim Brotherhood has also
killed innocent civilians.
"Morsi’s supporters have
engaged in violence of their own, killing civilians and security officials,
attacking government institutions and sparking a low-level insurgency in Sinai.
The security establishment appears to welcome the escalation, intentionally
provoking the Islamists to adopt even more hardline tactics and commit more
violence...."
God's wording again seems to read
like these current news stories:
"And the spirit of the Egyptians within them will become
exhausted and emptied out and will fail..." (Isaiah 19:3)
"Each day brings new horrors,
nightmarish scenes Egyptians could never have imagined. Nuns paraded on the
streets like “prisoners of war.” Urban warfare with hovering choppers kicking
up dust. Citizens opening fire on one another. People jumping off bridges to
avoid bullets, falling and crumpling to the floor motionless. The scale of
human loss is staggering—and with both sides vowing to escalate, worse days
surely lie ahead."
Interestingly, God worded His
judgment in a very curious manner.
"And I will give over the
Egyptians into the hand of a hard and cruel master, and a fierce king will rule
over them ..." (Isaiah 19:4)
This hard and cruel master and
fierce king will either be the military generals now ruling Egypt with an iron
fist, or it may predict that the Muslim Brotherhood will be victorious over the
Army. We can only wait to see how these events turn out, but one fact is clear:
Egypt is beginning to pass through her valley of death.
Friends, it doesn’t pay to forget
about God. Solzhenitsyn once said all the problems with atheistic communism in Russia
can be blamed on the fact that the Russian people completely forgot about God.
The man who built
the Titanic
After the construction of Titanic, a reporter
asked him how safe the Titanic would be.
With an ironic tone he said: 'Not even God can
sink it'
The result: I think you all know what happened
to the Titanic
Marilyn Monroe (Actress)
She was visited by Billy Graham during a
presentation of a show.
He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach
to her.
After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she
said:
'I don't need your Jesus'.
A week later, she was found dead in her
apartment
Bon Scott (Singer)
The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his
1979 songs he sang:
'Don't stop me; I'm going down all the way,
down the highway to hell'.
On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was
found dead, he had been choked by his own
vomit.
Campinas (IN 2005)
In Campinas , Brazil a group of friends, drunk,
went to pick up a friend.....
The mother accompanied her to the car and was
so worried about the drunkenness of her friends
and she said to the daughter holding her hand,
who was already seated in the car:
'My Daughter, Go With God And May He Protect
You.'
She responded: 'Only If He (God) Travels In The
Trunk, Cause Inside Here.....It's Already Full '
Hours later, news came by that they had been
involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died,
the car could not be recognized what type of
car it had been, but surprisingly, the trunk was
intact.
The police said there was no way the trunk could
have remained intact. To their surprise, inside
the trunk was a crate of eggs, none was broken
Christine Hewitt (Jamaican Journalist &
entertainer) said the Bible (Word of God) was
the worst book ever written.
In June 2006 she was found burnt beyond
recognition in her motor vehicle.
Many more important people have forgotten
that there is no other name that was given so
much authority as the name of Jesus.
Many have died, but only Jesus died and rise
again, and he is still alive....
'Jesus'
I have done my part by sharing this with you,
Jesus said 'If you are embarrassed about me,
I will also be embarrassed about you before my
father.'
After the construction of Titanic, a reporter
asked him how safe the Titanic would be.
With an ironic tone he said: 'Not even God can
sink it'
The result: I think you all know what happened
to the Titanic
Marilyn Monroe (Actress)
She was visited by Billy Graham during a
presentation of a show.
He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach
to her.
After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she
said:
'I don't need your Jesus'.
A week later, she was found dead in her
apartment
Bon Scott (Singer)
The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his
1979 songs he sang:
'Don't stop me; I'm going down all the way,
down the highway to hell'.
On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was
found dead, he had been choked by his own
vomit.
Campinas (IN 2005)
In Campinas , Brazil a group of friends, drunk,
went to pick up a friend.....
The mother accompanied her to the car and was
so worried about the drunkenness of her friends
and she said to the daughter holding her hand,
who was already seated in the car:
'My Daughter, Go With God And May He Protect
You.'
She responded: 'Only If He (God) Travels In The
Trunk, Cause Inside Here.....It's Already Full '
Hours later, news came by that they had been
involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died,
the car could not be recognized what type of
car it had been, but surprisingly, the trunk was
intact.
The police said there was no way the trunk could
have remained intact. To their surprise, inside
the trunk was a crate of eggs, none was broken
Christine Hewitt (Jamaican Journalist &
entertainer) said the Bible (Word of God) was
the worst book ever written.
In June 2006 she was found burnt beyond
recognition in her motor vehicle.
Many more important people have forgotten
that there is no other name that was given so
much authority as the name of Jesus.
Many have died, but only Jesus died and rise
again, and he is still alive....
'Jesus'
I have done my part by sharing this with you,
Jesus said 'If you are embarrassed about me,
I will also be embarrassed about you before my
father.'
Below is a great link about chemtrails. congressman Kucinich admitted chemtrails are being sprayed. Congressman Steve Chabot in Cincinnati also admitted chemtrails are being sprayed. The question is why are the American people allowing themselves and their land to be poisoned.
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/chemtrailsindex.htm
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| Dead animals from chemical attack |
As the story below reflects supporters of the Illuminati in Europe
and politicians like John McCain, Lindsey Graham and others are eager to get
the U.S. bogged in another futile war in the Middle East that would waste more
U.S. blood and treasure.
Remember who these "Syrian
anti-government rebels" are: they were created by Western
Intelligence whose only goal is to spread disinformation about Syria being targeted by "The
Pentagon's New Map Strategy" and the 10 kingdoms of the Club Rome. All during 2002 and into
the early part of 2003, Iraqi "dissidents" regularly issued false
warnings about Saddam Hussein's WMD capabilities. As we learned later, these
"activists" were simply pouring out propaganda which made it easier
for George W. Bush to justify an invasion to the American people.
"The chemical attack
in Syria coincided with the visit by a 20-member U.N. chemical weapons team to
Syria to investigate three sites where chemical weapons attacks allegedly
occurred during the past year. Their presence raises questions about why Assad’s
regime - which called the claims of the attack Wednesday 'absolutely baseless'
- would use chemical agents at the absolute worst time?"I would say this chemical
attack was deliberately planned by al Qaeda to point blame at Assad.
Senior officials from the Pentagon, the State Department and the
intelligence agencies met for three and a half hours at the White House on
Thursday to deliberate over options, which officials say could range from a
cruise missile strike to a more sustained air campaign against Syria.
The meeting broke up without any decision, according to senior
officials, amid signs of a deepening
division between those who advocate sending Mr. Assad a harsh message and those
who argue that military action now would be reckless and ill timed.
Similar debates played out across the Atlantic. France backed the
use of force to counter such an attack, and Turkey and Israel expressed outrage.
But diplomats in several countries conceded there was no stomach among the
Western allies, including the United States, for long-term involvement in a
messy, sectarian civil war.
While the Obama administration said it would wait for the findings
of a United Nations investigation of the attack, American officials spoke in
strikingly tougher terms about what might happen if President Obama were to
determine that chemical weapons were used.
“If these reports are true, it would be an outrageous and flagrant
use of chemical weapons by the regime,” the State Department spokeswoman, Jen
Psaki, said. “The president, of course, has a range of options that we’ve
talked about before that he can certainly consider.”
The United States first confirmed that the Syrian government had
used chemical weapons early this year, and Obama administration officials
responded by signaling they would supply the rebels with weapons. But to date,
none have arrived. (Watchman comment: did you catch that, the U.S. is supplying
al Qaeda rebels with chemical weapons. If you think like I do you know al Qaeda
will use the chemical weapons. I do not think we should supply chemical weapons
to anyone. What the hell are we thinking giving chemical weapons to al Qaeda?)
Among American officials, there was a growing belief that chemical
weapons had been used in the latest attack, early Wednesday east of Damascus —
potentially the worst of its kind since Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons
against the Kurds in Iraq in the 1980s — and little doubt that anyone but Mr.
Assad’s forces would have used them.
It was nearly impossible the last time to prove that the Syrian
government used chemical weapons. (Personally, I believe the al Qaeda is using
them.) Administration officials offered no timetable for how long it might take
this time, raising questions about how promptly the United States could act.
Israel said its intelligence strongly suggested a chemical weapons
attack, while the Syrian opposition pointed to evidence, including the use of
four rockets and the locations from which they were fired, which members of the
opposition said proved that the attack could have been carried out only by the
government’s forces.
An opposition official described an assault that began shortly
after 2 a.m., when the rockets, which they said were equipped with chemical
weapons, were launched. Two were fired from a bridge on the highway from
Damascus to Homs; the others were launched from a Sironex factory in the Qabun
neighborhood of the Syrian capital. The Assad government has denied involvement, and Russians have accused
the rebels of staging the attack.
The rebels said the government’s presumed goal was to soften up
the opposition before a major conventional attack with tanks, armored personnel
carriers and attack planes. On Thursday, fighting persisted in the area,
raising doubts about the ability of the United Nations to send investigators to
collect samples from the wounded and dead.
Among the options discussed at the White House, officials said,
was a cruise missile strike, which would probably involve Tomahawks launched
from a ship in the Mediterranean Sea, where the United States has two
destroyers deployed.
The Pentagon also has combat aircraft — fighters and bombers —
deployed in the Middle East and in Europe that could be used in an air campaign
against Syria. The warplanes could be sent aloft with munitions to be launched
from far outside Syrian territory, which is protected by a respectable air
defense system.
The targets could include missile or artillery batteries that
launch chemical munitions or nerve gas, as well as communications and support
facilities. Symbols of the Assad government’s power — headquarters and
government offices — also could be among the proposed targets, officials said.
As leaders digested the harrowing images from Syria of victims
gasping for breath or trembling, there was a flurry of phone calls among
diplomats expressing horror at the calamitous situation in Syria and
frustration at the lack of an obvious response.
“They are all bad choices,” said a European diplomat who asked not
to be named because of the delicacy of the situation.
Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to Ahmad al-Jarba, the
president of the Syrian opposition. Mr. Kerry expressed his condolences and the
Obama administration’s “commitment to looking into what has happened on the
ground,” Ms. Psaki said.
Mr. Kerry also spoke to Laurent Fabius, the foreign minister of
France, who raised the prospect of military action. He called Turkey’s foreign
minister, Ahmet Davutoglu; several Arab foreign ministers; the European Union’s
senior foreign policy official, Catherine Ashton; and the secretary general of
the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon.
At home, however, officials said the administration remained
divided about how to proceed. “There’s a split between those who feel we need
to act now and those who feel that now is a very bad time to act,” said one
senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the
administration’s internal deliberations.
The official did not give details about who pushed for a hawkish
response to the attack and who urged caution, but he said that some at the
White House meeting raised worries that it would take time to build
international support for a military response, and that any strikes against Mr.
Assad’s government might worsen a refugee crisis that has already placed great
strain on Syria’s neighbors.
Neither the United States
nor European countries yet have a “smoking gun” to prove that Mr. Assad’s
troops used chemical weapons in the attack, the official said. But he said intelligence agencies had amassed circumstantial
evidence that some kind of chemical had been used — not the least of which was
the hundreds of casualties.
“The sheer number of bodies is one pretty good indicator,” he
said.
Two officials with the
Syrian opposition said that none of the weapons American officials said would
be provided by the Central Intelligence Agency had yet been delivered. (If you believe that, I have a bridge I will sell you.)
Mohammad Salaheddine, a Syrian reporter for Al Aan Television, an
Arab satellite television station, painted a bleak picture of the situation in
East Ghouta, the area near Damascus that was the site of the reported chemical
attack.
Mr. Salaheddine was reached by Skype on Thursday with the help of
the Syrian Support Group, an American-based organization that supports the
opposition to Mr. Assad.
He asserted that more than 1,500 people had been killed by the
chemical attack and that many more had been wounded. The area, he said, was cut
off by the fighting, making it hard for opposition members to smuggle hair,
urine and blood samples out for analysis.
Senior military officials, in particular Gen. Martin E. Dempsey,
the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have cited the risks and costs
of large-scale military intervention, as has been urged by some members of
Congress.
Yet the greater political risk now might be to Mr. Obama’s
credibility, analysts said, given that he laid down a red line last summer to
prevent Mr. Assad from using chemical weapons again.
“Assuming that there was a large-scale chemical attack, it
indicates that the regime has not been deterred by the statements coming out of
Washington,” said Jeffrey White, a former Middle East analyst with the Defense
Intelligence Agency who is now a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near
East Policy.
The TurkishAnadolu news
agency reported that an area collapsed near the western wall of the Al-Aqsa
Mosque in Jerusalem late Tuesday. An eyewitness told the agency that the
collapse occurred near the Bab as Silsila, on the western part of the mosque.
It is the second collapse near the
western wall within five years, Cum'a Usayle, an eyewitness said.
The witness said, "The collapse has caused a deep hole
there. It is dangerous for the Al-Aqsa Mosque. It poses danger especially for
children and women.
The report claimed that no security
precautions around the area have been taken by Israeli officials so far, nor
has there been a statement about the incident.
The Al-Aqsa Foundation and
Cultural Heritage Organization accused Israel of paving the way for demolishing
the Al-Aqsa Mosque by quote “building new settlements and digging
dozens of tunnels.”
Arabs continuously accuse Israel of "Judaizing" the
Temple Mount, sometimes resorting to ridiculous propaganda such as accusing
Israel of using chemicals to
erode the foundations of the mosque in order to cause it to collapse.
At the same time the Waqf, which was left in charge of the Temple
Mount after Israel liberated it during the 1967 Six Day War, consistently destroys Jewish antiquities on
the compound in a direct violation of a ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court.
The Waqf has removed every sign of
ancient Jewish presence at the site. At the entrance to the Temple Mount, a
Waqf sign says, “The Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard and everything in it is Islamic
property.”
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman
Mahmoud Abbas several months ago accused Israel of trying to “destroy”
the Al-Aqsa Mosque by allowing Jews to pray on the Temple Mount.
Speaking to a Saudi-based
newspaper, Abbas said that "the Al-Aqsa Mosque is in danger,"
claiming that Israel prevents PA Arabs from praying at the mosque, while
allowing “extremist Jews" to worship there. This, he claimed, is proof
that Israel has a "malicious" and dangerous plan to destroy the
mosque and rebuild the “false” Holy Temple in its place, as he put it.
Most recently, Jordanian King
Abdullah II added fuel to the ongoing debate over
Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, when he told visiting Muslim and Christian
dignitaries from Jerusalem that he will continue his efforts to “safeguard”
Islamic and Christian sites in the holy city of Jerusalem from what
so-called "Judaization."
| Orbit of Comet Ison |
When Comet ISON flies by Mars, it’ll have just crossed the “frost line,” a place outside
Mars’ orbit where solar heating is enough to start vaporizing ices on ISON’s
surface.
Around the world, astronomers are buzzing with anticipation over
the approach of Comet ISON. On Thanksgiving Day 2013, the icy visitor from the
outer solar system will skim the sun’s outer atmosphere. Word was that, if it
survives its pass near the sun, Comet ISON might emerge as one of the brightest
comets in years. Although the prospects for an extremely bright comet are not as good now as they appeared at ISON’s discovery
in late 2012, still, astronomers and many others are anticipating
this comet.
But, before most of us on Earth see it, Comet ISON will sweep
close to Mars.
“Comet ISON is paying a visit to the Red Planet,” says
astronomer Carey Lisse of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab. “On
Oct 1st, the comet will pass within 0.07 AU from Mars, about six times closer
than it will ever come to Earth.”
Mars rovers and satellites will get a close-up view. It’s too
early to say whether Curiosity will be able to see the comet from the surface
of Mars—that depends on how much ISON brightens between now and then. Lisse
says the best bet is NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The MRO satellite is
equipped with a powerful half-meter telescope named HiRISE that is more than
capable of detecting the comet’s atmosphere and tail. Observations are planned
on four dates: August 20th, Sept 29th, and Oct 1st and 2nd.
HiRISE wasn’t sent to Mars to do astronomy, notes the telescope’s principal investigator Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona. “The camera is designed for rapid imaging of Mars. Our maximum exposure time is limited compared to detectors on other space telescopes. This is a major limitation for imaging comets. Nevertheless, I think we will detect Comet ISON.”
HiRISE wasn’t sent to Mars to do astronomy, notes the telescope’s principal investigator Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona. “The camera is designed for rapid imaging of Mars. Our maximum exposure time is limited compared to detectors on other space telescopes. This is a major limitation for imaging comets. Nevertheless, I think we will detect Comet ISON.”
The Mars flyby comes at a key time in Comet ISON’s journey. It
will have just crossed the “frost line,” a place just outside the orbit of Mars
where solar heating is enough to start vaporizing frozen water.
“The volatiles in a comet are 80% to 90% water ice,” notes
Lisse. “Right now in August almost all the water is still frozen, and the
outgassing we see in ISON is driven by carbon dioxide and other lesser
constituents. Probably only isolated patches of the comet’s nucleus are
active.”
But when ISON crosses the frost line, “the whole comet could
erupt in geysers of gas,” says Lisse. “Mars orbiters will have a ringside
seat.”
The amount of outgassing at Mars will give researchers clues to
the size of ISON’s nucleus, which is hidden from view deep within the comet’s
dusty atmosphere.
“If ISON’s nucleus is much bigger than 0.5 km, it will probably
survive its Thanksgiving Day brush with the sun,” says Lisse. “It could turn
into one of the most spectacular comets in many years.”
McEwen sees this as a tune-up for another comet encounter next year. “The science value of observing Comet ISON is hard to predict. We’ve never tried such a thing before. However, this is good practice for Comet Siding Spring, which will pass much closer to Mars in 2014.”
McEwen sees this as a tune-up for another comet encounter next year. “The science value of observing Comet ISON is hard to predict. We’ve never tried such a thing before. However, this is good practice for Comet Siding Spring, which will pass much closer to Mars in 2014.”
For now all eyes are on Comet ISON. An unprecedented number of
NASA spacecraft – 16 – will be observing the comet. Astronauts on board the
International Space Station will be watching, too.
Meanwhile back on Earth, Lisse is working with NASA to organize a worldwide observing campaign for Comet ISON. “Our goal is to have every telescope on Earth pointed at the comet when it emerges from the sun,” says Lisse. “The Mars flyby will give us a sneak preview, providing data we need to predict what we might see.”
Meanwhile back on Earth, Lisse is working with NASA to organize a worldwide observing campaign for Comet ISON. “Our goal is to have every telescope on Earth pointed at the comet when it emerges from the sun,” says Lisse. “The Mars flyby will give us a sneak preview, providing data we need to predict what we might see.”
Friends, as you
know, a cornerstone of the Watchman’s belief is that our anti-Israel policies
and statements adversely effect the U.S. and other parts of the world.
Negotiations are currently going on between the Israelis and the Palestinians
in Washington and I believe this is effecting our weather.
A very persistent
weather pattern across the United States this summer has kept the Southeast
unusually wet and cool. Meanwhile, the western U.S. is experiencing dry, hot
conditions with over 51 raging wildfires. A constant trough of low pressure has
been across the eastern U.S. for several months providing the U.S. Southeast
plenty of rain and unseasonably cool temperatures for the heart of the summer.
Weather systems have been able to push unusually farther south this summer than
what we typically expect. As soon as these systems push into the Southeast,
they have literally stalled and provided a constant source of moisture,
producing unusually high amounts of precipitation totals. This post will show
you how unusual the weather has been across the U.S. Southeast and discuss
whether potential records may be broken, as rainfall continues across the
region.
Across
Georgia, rainfall totals are adding up to totals typically seen across an
entire average year. Atlanta, Georgia averages 49.68 inches per year based on climatology records from
1981-2010. As of August 19, 2013, Atlanta has already recorded 50.43 inches of
rain, and we still have over four months left until the year ends.
In July 2013, many cities across
the Southeast recorded their wettest July on record. These cities
include Gainesville, Florida at 16.65 inches, Asheville, North Carolina at
13.69 inches, Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina at 14.45 inches, and
Roanoke, Virginia at 12.73 inches. If many cities across the U.S. Southeast go
on to see average rainfall from September through December this year, their
overall rainfall totals for the year could easily add up to create a top 10
wettest year since record-keeping began. 2013 is already ranked as the
second-wettest year so far across the Southeast. If the region continues to see
more rain for the rest of the year, it could make 2013 the wettest year on record.
From January through July, the Southeast has recorded 39.99 inches of rain
(1,015.75 mm). The average rainfall for the first seven months of the year is
typically 30.60 inches (777.24 mm), which means the Southeast is 9.39 inches
(238.51 mm) above average. The wettest year to have occurred in the U.S.
Southeast, currently, is 2003.
Due to the constant rains, by the way, the majority of the major
Southeast cities have not had to issue air quality alerts this summer. The lack
of those alerts is a rarity at this time of year.
The
stormy and rainy weather has also kept the temperatures well below average
across the Southeast. Many locations in Alabama and Georgia barely went above
90 degrees Fahrenheit throughout the summer. Most of the temperatures have been
averaging about five to 10 degrees below average.
Over this past week, temperatures were nearly 20 to 25 degrees
below average across parts of north and central Alabama, north and central
Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina thanks to a shallow layer of cold
air spilling down on the eastern side of the Appalachian Mountains. Cities such
as Atlanta and Athens, Georgia broke their lowest maximum temperatures as highs
stuck around in the mid to upper 60s. On August 17, Atlanta had a high of only 66
degrees Fahrenheit, which was a record daily low maximum temperature that broke
the old record of 74°F set back in 1892 and 1939. The average high temperature
for this time of the year is 90°F. Whenever you beat an old record by more than
five degrees, it simply shows you how unusual and bizarre the weather can be.
While
it has been wet, we have also seen an unusual occurrence of tornadoes across
the U.S. Southeast that are not associated with tropical cyclones. Typically,
tornadoes rarely happen during the summer months as the majority of the energy
in the atmosphere stays north, across the northern United States and into
Canada. With ridging and heat across the states, there is typically very little
steering or wind shear associated with storms in the Southeast, and tornadoes
typically never form.
However, in 2013, we have seen tornadoes develop inland. Back on
June 13, a strong cold front pushed through the Southeast and produced
widespread wind damage and even a couple of tornadoes across North Georgia. The
most recent storm to produce a tornado in the month of August was an EF-1 tornado that struck Heard County along the Alabama and Georgia border
on August 18, 2013. It was an actual supercell not associated with a tropical
cyclone. It formed along a stationary front sitting across central Georgia that
was lifting northward. North of the front, a wedge of shallow, cool air was
entrenched across northeastern Georgia. With these two lifting mechanisms,
there was just enough shear to produce supercells and even a tornado on that
day.
One
of the biggest concerns across the southeastern United States is the threat for
tropical cyclones hitting the region. A tropical system impacting the Southeast
is the last thing the region needs. Such a system would likely create
widespread flooding across the region, as more rain falls on the already-soaked
ground. That scenario could easily develop into a billion-dollar disaster,
depending on the track and movement of the cyclone.
As
we enter the peak of the hurricane season, the Southeast coast becomes very
vulnerable to future hits.
Bottom
line: 2013 is already ranked as the second-wettest period for the U.S.
Southeast since record-keeping began. With additional months to go before the
year ends, 2013 could easily become the wettest period ever record in the
region. Many cities have already received their average yearly rainfall totals.
As we enter the peak of hurricane season, a major concern is the potential for
a tropical cyclone hitting the region and dumping more heavy rain. If this
occurs, we could see major flooding problems in the U.S. Southeast. Let’s pray
the rest of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season remains quiet.
Friends, the following story pinpoints the decline of the United States into socialist slavery.
In a surprise ruling, a three judge panel of the
Ninth Circus Court of Appeals issued a unanimous opinion supporting the right
of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients to unionize in
order to assure equitable access to benefits, along with an uninterrupted flow
of payments should the federal government be forced to temporarily shut down
due to congressional budget stalemates.
“For too long so-called Food Stamp beneficiaries have been denied
access to union representation seeking to protect their rights,” said Justice
Gavin Moore Freestuff. In a sharply worded rebuke to attorneys representing the
National Taxpayers Union, which sought to block a ruling by the newly
reconstituted National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Justice Freestuff cited
recent court precedents establishing the right of home health care workers,
nannies, babysitters, and dog walkers to pay compulsory dues which unions could
then use to influence elections.
Under the new rules, if a majority of SNAP recipients in any
congressional district signs ballot cards accepting the representation of a
federally recognized labor union, all SNAP beneficiaries in that district would
have 30 days to voluntarily enroll or lose benefits. Monthly union dues would
then be automatically deducted from recipients’ Electronic Benefits Transfer
(EBT) cards, minus a small fee for the card processor.
Eyeing 47 million potential new members, the American Federation
of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) immediately launched an
organizing drive, claiming that since Food Stamp recipients were on the
government payroll and contributed just as much to the economy as other government
employees, their organization would offer the most appropriate representation.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka begged to differ. “Were it not
for decades of untiring efforts by our brothers and sisters to drive domestic
manufacturers out of the country-or if necessary out of business-there is no
way we would have so many Food Stamp recipients today. It is only right that we
be allowed to recruit these critical providers of aggregate demand to replenish
our dwindling membership.”
EBT card processor JPMorgan Chase said it could begin deducting
union dues as early as October 1, provided unions selected by cardholders cover
a modest fee for software to enable funds to be deposited directly into
designated politicians’ campaign accounts. JPMorgan Chase stock rose four
dollars on the news.
If even half of the nation’s SNAP recipients elect to join a
union, the $100 per month dues would total approximately half a billion dollars
a year. Thanks to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, that money will
mostly likely be spent assuring fair and balanced elections, thereby ending
gridlock in Washington. The subsequent increase in SNAP benefits that would
occur once those goals are achieved would easily cover the monthly deductions.
“What’s not to like?” said Detroit resident and long time Food
Stamp recipient Maureen Maya Pockets, who lost her job when the tool and die
company she worked for moved to South Carolina after suffering a protracted
strike. “I only make $4 an hour now, under the table with no benefits, working
as a hired construction site picketer for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters.
Without those EBT payments I couldn’t do my part.”
The Reverend Al Sharpton declared a national day of thanksgiving,
organizing candlelight vigils to thank the Court, as well as newly appointed
member of the NLRB who made this historic civil rights achievement possible. In
related news, Grover Norquist’s doctors at the Bethesda Naval Hospital report
he is out of danger and recovering nicely after the heart attack he suffered
upon learning of the ruling.
President Obama, stopping to speak to his media entourage from the
16th hole at the exclusive Farm Neck Golf Club on Martha’s Vineyard, chose to
reflect on the long march toward income equality that this ruling represents.
“I promised to spread the wealth around when I ran for president in 2008, and
again in 2012 when you reelected me to stay the course. I intend to keep that
promise despite the protracted economic turmoil caused by fringe elements of
the Republican Party who refuse to take a balanced approach to fiscal policy,
not to mention those millionaires and billionaires who will not pay their fair
share.”
The president then called for a nine-iron, “to finish the job I
started.”
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