NORTH KOREAN EMP ATTACK ‘UNSTOPPABLE’…Weapon could slip U.S. defenses via satellite, detonating over Nebraska

If North Korea were to launch a preemptive nuclear attack on the United States, it could use a long-range missile to orbit a satellite over the South Pole, putting it in line to fly over Omaha, Neb., and explode it at a 300-mile altitude where U.S. Aegis anti-ballistic missile systems cannot reach, sources have told WND.

In addition, these sources say, there is no way to determine whether a missile is [...]

Disappearing island, found on old chart.

The strange case of the disappearing and reappearing Sandy Island.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl…-old-maps.html

Australian scientists who sailed to a remote spot in the Coral Sea to investigate Sandy Island, which is shown on some modern maps, found only open water and concluded the feature was a recent cartographic mistake.

But the mystery has deepened after a librarian in New Zealand spotted the island on a 1908 British Admiralty chart.

The chart records it as having been [...]

Sea Sick: Another virus crashes Canada’s salmon farms – Critics say the farms should’ve seen this coming.

Last month a virus broke outin several open water salmon farms in British Columbia that has the region’s fish farm owners scrambling to mitigate their losses. Called infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN), the rabies-like virus was found among salmon in floating net pens belonging to Mainstream Canada, the biggest producer in the region. As a result, B.C. farms culled over 500,000 fish infected with IHN, which spreads rapidly and can kill up [...]

Seascape With Methane Plumes

This week’s article is a departure from the story arc on the American empire.

Instead, a detour into interesting discussion on the methane plumes bubbling up from the Arctic Ocean as a sign of climate change.

Seascape With Methane Plumes (April 25, 2012)
“After yet another unseasonably warm Arctic winter, Russian scientists are busy studying the methane releases reported last fall, and initial reports – well, let’s understate things considerably and call them “rather [...]

How Quickly Can Price Inflation Explode To The Upside? The Answer: Very Quickly.

by Robert Wenzel

Economic Policy Journal

The answer: Very quickly.

Amity Shlaes is a senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her writings are followed carefully by the top of the top at CFR. And to a significant degree she uses Hayekian business cycle theory in analyzing the economy. She also has the distinct honor of being hated and attacked by the Keynesian Paul Krugman.

In other words, take her very [...]

Watch Bernanke’s ‘Little’ Inflation Capsize USA

From Bloomberg:

A little is all right. That’s the message Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has been giving out recently when asked about the evidence of inflation in the U.S. recovery.

Sometimes Bernanke doesn’t even go that far. He simply says he doesn’t see inflation. The Fed chairman recently described the prospects for price increases across the board as “subdued.”

“Sudden” is more like it. The thing about inflation is that it comes out of nowhere [...]

Top economist: Inflation could soar faster than anyone expects

From Economic Policy Journal:

… Amity Shlaes is a senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her writings are followed carefully by the top of the top at CFR. And to a significant degree, she uses Hayekian business cycle theory in analyzing the economy. She also has the distinct honor of being hated and attacked by the Keynesian Paul Krugman.

In other words, take her very seriously.

Yesterday, I [...]

Global Warming Link to Drowned Polar Bears Melts Under Searing Fed Probe

Polar bears drowning in an Alaskan sea because the ice packs are melting—it’s the iconic image of the global warming debate.

But the validity of the science behind the image—presented as an ignoble testament to our environment in peril by Al Gore in his film An Inconvenient Truth—is now part of a federal investigation that has the environmental community on edge.

Special agents from the Interior Department’s [...]

ABSOLUTELY A TRUE STORY HEARD ON A WISCONSIN RADIO STATION REPORTING ON THE INCIDENT.

by Atomizer

A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator for $52,500.00 with monthly payments of
$560.00. He and a friend go duck hunting in upper Wisconsin .

It’s mid-winter…..and of course all of the lakes are frozen.

These two guys go out on the ice with their GUNS, a DOG, and of course the new
NAVIGATOR

They decide they want to make a natural looking open water area for the ducks
to focus on, something for the [...]