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November 13, 2014

Polar Vortex Comes Back With Polar Sea Ice Melt Blamed (Dial-Up Warning)

WHY'S THE POLAR VORTEX RUINING OUR LIVES? IS IT MELTING SEA ICE?

By Ap and Josh Gardner - 13 November 2014

A new study says that as the world gets warmer, parts of North America, Europe and Asia could see more frequent and stronger visits of that cold air. Researchers say that's because of shrinking ice in the seas off Russia...

That can happen for several reasons, and the new study suggests that one of them occurs when ice in northern seas shrinks, leaving more water uncovered...

Normally, sea ice keeps heat energy from escaping the ocean and entering the atmosphere. When there's less ice, more energy gets into the atmosphere and weakens the jet stream, the high-altitude river of air that usually keeps Arctic air from wandering south, said study co-author Jin-Ho Yoon of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash. So the cold air escapes instead.

That happened relatively infrequently in the 1990s, but since 2000 it has happened nearly every year, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal...

Illustration of Polar Vortex:

Niagara Falls was frozen by Polar Vortex in 2013:

Weekend forecast:

Read more:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2833543/Polar-vortex-return-winter-Expert-forecaster-warns-dreaded-arctic-blast-make-plunge-deep-U-S-braced-weekend-snow-record-November-lows.html#ixzz3IzOzT2Vq

Yes, it's the sensationalist UK Mail, but they have the best pictures.

November 13, 2014

Ferguson Is Ready for Battle as Grand Jury Decision Looms

By Gregory Krieg - November 11, 2014

...Protest leaders bristled at Nixon's plan, saying it would cause more harm than good.

"For nearly 100 days, the preponderance of violence has come from the hands of police," community organizer Damon Davis told USA Today. "We have proven we can peacefully assemble and function at a protest. Can the police say the same?"

"Reactionary policing techniques" like those Nixon had doubled down on his message today were only going make things worse, said Ashley Yates, co-creator of Millennial Activists United.

She could hardly be blamed for coming to that conclusion. The governor struck a bizarrely harsh tone in his comments. The language of conciliation, so present and important in de-escalating the clashes in late August, was gone. The stage has been set, once again, for a dangerous face-off between a swollen police force and emotional protesters...

http://mic.com/articles/104080/ferguson-is-ready-for-battle-as-grand-jury-decision-looms

We know the KKK has several groups in that part of Missouri. And the Brown family out of frustration addressed the UN. The provocation isn't from the black community. When I was growing up in the South, it was the JBS, KKK and Nazis who wanted to profit by a race war to seize control of the federal government. We know which group now stands to benefit from inciting a race war and the dismantling of all democratic institutions. Is Nixon a Koch lackey like Bundy, Paul, McConnell, Boehner, Perry, Walker, Scott and the rest?

The Idiocracy takes no prisoners.

November 13, 2014

An oldie by a goodie:

young republican freakout.

Uploaded on Mar 21, 2010 by frank wells

My brother (a young republican) freaks out after hearing that the health care bill is going to get passed. He worships Fox News and was a die hard tea party activist.

November 13, 2014