Tag Archives: thousands

Living Terrors – Michael T. Osterholm Phd., M.P.H. & John Schwartz

READ GREEN WITH E-BOOKS

Living Terrors

What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe

Michael T. Osterholm Phd., M.P.H. & John Schwartz

Genre: Science & Nature

Price: $4.99

Publish Date: September 12, 2000

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Seller: Penguin Random House LLC


America is one killer organism away from a living nightmare that threatens all we hold dear…. A deadly cloud of powdered anthrax spores settles unnoticed over a crowded football stadium…. A school cafeteria lunch is infected with a drug-resistant strain of E. coli…. Thousands in a bustling shopping mall inhale a lethal mist of smallpox, turning each individual into a highly infectious agent of suffering and death…. Dr. Michael Osterholm knows all too well the horrifying scenarios he describes. In this eye-opening account, the nation’s leading expert on bioterrorism sounds a wake-up call to the terrifying threat of biological attack — and America’s startling lack of preparedness. He demonstrates the havoc these silent killers can wreak, exposes the startling ease with which they can be deployed, and asks probing questions about America’s ability to respond to such attacks. Are most doctors and emergency rooms able to diagnose correctly and treat anthrax, smallpox, and other potential tools in the bioterrorist’s arsenal? Is the government developing the appropriate vaccines and treatments? The answers are here in riveting detail — what America has and hasn’t done to prevent the coming bioterrorist catastrophe. Impeccably researched, grippingly told, Living Terrors presents the unsettling truth about the magnitude of the threat. And more important, it presents the ultimate insider’s prescription for change: what we must do as a nation to secure our freedom, our future, our lives.

Originally posted here: 

Living Terrors – Michael T. Osterholm Phd., M.P.H. & John Schwartz

Posted in alo, Anchor, Citizen, FF, GE, LAI, LG, ONA, Oster, oven, PUR, Ultima, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Living Terrors – Michael T. Osterholm Phd., M.P.H. & John Schwartz

Democrats send Trump a literal trash pile to protest government shutdown

Subscribe to The Beacon

The U.S. government has been partially shut down for 18 days and counting. Thousands of government employees are going without paychecks, the IRS is in chaos, and the national parks are filling up with human excrement and trash. President Trump says he’s prepared to play this shutdown game for months or years, but a couple of folks in Congress have had enough.

Representatives Jackie Speier and Jared Huffman, two Democrats from California, delivered a blue bin full of garbage collected from national parks to the White House on Tuesday afternoon. It was labeled “Trump Trash.”

The two representatives participated in a cleanup effort in national parks in the San Francisco area last weekend. “Let it never be said that I didn’t give anything to Donald Trump,” Huffman said in a live-streamed video in front of the White House, “because today I am bringing boxes of trash from that rainy Saturday in San Francisco to provide a reality check to the president.”

“There is no reason for this shutdown,” Speier said, thumping the top of a box of garbage for effect. Watch the video to catch Huffman joking that there might soon be enough trash to build that wall Trump wants so badly.

Trump is expected to deliver an address about immigration and the shutdown on Tuesday evening, but Huffman thinks that’s unnecessary. “We don’t need a nationally televised address from the White House to solve this problem tonight,” he said. “What we need is President Trump to wake up and smell the coffee cups and the diapers and burrito wrappers and the trash that is piling up.”

Link – 

Democrats send Trump a literal trash pile to protest government shutdown

Posted in Accent, alo, Anchor, FF, GE, ONA, Radius, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Democrats send Trump a literal trash pile to protest government shutdown

West Antarctic glaciers lost more than 1,000 feet of ice in just 7 years.

Turns out, they’re not all true.

The Republican presidential nominee appeared on Herman Cain’s radio show on Tuesday, and he had quite a bit to say about wind and solar power, and birds too. Here’s part of the transcript, courtesy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, with our fact-checking notes added in brackets:

Trump: Our energy companies are a disaster right now. Coal. The coal business is — you know, there is such a thing as clean coal [False]. Our miners are out of work — now they’re just attacking energy companies like I’ve never seen them attack anything before.

They want everything to be wind and solar. Unfortunately, it’s not working on large-scale [False]. It’s just not working [False]. Solar is very, very expensive [False]. Wind is very, very expensive [False], and it only works when it’s windy [False].

Cain: Right.

Trump: Someone might need a little electricity — a lot of times, it’s the opposite season, actually. When they have it, that’s when you don’t need it. So wind is very problematic [False] and — I’m not saying I’m against those things. I’m for everything. I’m for everything.

Cain: Right.

Trump: But they are destroying our energy companies with regulation [False]. They’re absolutely destroying them [False].

Cain: But their viability has to be demonstrated before you shove it down the throats of the American people. That’s what you’re saying.

Trump: In all fairness, wind is fine [True]. Sometimes you go — I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Palm Springs, California — it looks like a junkyard [False]. They have all these different —

Cain: I have.

Trump: They have all these different companies and each one is made by a different group from, all from China and from Germany, by the way — not from here [False]. And you look at all these windmills. Half of them are broken [False]. They’re rusting and rotting. You know, you’re driving into Palm Springs, California, and it looks like a poor man’s version of Disneyland [False]. It’s the worst thing you’ve ever seen [False].

And it kills all the birds [False]. I don’t know if you know that … Thousands of birds are lying on the ground. And the eagle. You know, certain parts of California — they’ve killed so many eagles [False]. You know, they put you in jail if you kill an eagle. And yet these windmills [kill] them by the hundreds [False].

But solar and wind power are on a meteoric rise, whether Trump likes it or not.

Visit site – 

West Antarctic glaciers lost more than 1,000 feet of ice in just 7 years.

Posted in alo, Anchor, FF, GE, ONA, PUR, Ringer, solar, solar panels, solar power, Ultima, Uncategorized, wind energy, wind power | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on West Antarctic glaciers lost more than 1,000 feet of ice in just 7 years.

Record-breaking floods hit Paris. Get used to it.

Record-breaking floods hit Paris. Get used to it.

By on Jun 3, 2016Share

Record-breaking rains and flooding have inundated western Europe this week, killing at least 15 in France, Germany, Romania, and Belgium.

Paris has been hit especially hard by the deluge. Thousands have evacuated as the Seine reached nearly 20 feet on Friday, its highest level since 1982. Meanwhile, cultural institutions like the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay are taking no chances: They’ve closed to tourists and have relocated some valuable works out of harm’s way.

French president Francois Hollande said at a Friday press conference that “what is happening now, especially in Paris and in some regions, is exceptional.” However, scientists note that flooding of this magnitude is the new normal — thanks to climate change.

“Heavy rains? Massive flooding? Get used to it,” Princeton climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer told the Associated Press.

Incidentally, Paris was the site of the 2015 United Nations climate accord, in which nearly 200 nations agreed to limit rising greenhouse gases. While it was the most far-reaching climate accord in history, some critics say it isn’t ambitious enough to avert disaster — a disaster like the one unfolding in Paris.

See more images of the flooding below.

#palaislespiedsdansleau #palaisdejustice #quaideseine #iledelacite #paris #crue #seine #seineencrue #sousleau #innondation #3juin #6mètres

A photo posted by mawrjo (@mawrjo) on Jun 3, 2016 at 1:29pm PDT

Тут ездят машины. Не сейчас! #сена #наводнение #париж #июнь2016 #seine #inondation #flood #paris #juin2016

A photo posted by Maria Rodina (@eltormaria) on Jun 3, 2016 at 1:24pm PDT

Ça déborde encore ! #paris #seine #2016

A photo posted by @turquoiz on Jun 3, 2016 at 1:15pm PDT

Let’s make the best of it! #beachparty #parisattitude #parisflood

A photo posted by Rasmus Michau (@rasmusmichau) on Jun 3, 2016 at 9:53am PDT

#CrueParis #parisflood #inondation #paris #flood #statueofliberty

A photo posted by Bart Wander (@bartwander) on Jun 3, 2016 at 11:12am PDT

#paris #needcoffee #workday #rainyday #feelinghealthy #healthy #goodcoffee #happy #happiness #healthyfood #healthylife #healthylifestyle #sport #workingout #motivation #fruits #vegetables #healthyfood #healthier #dontdrink #dontsmoke #water #vegan #veggie #vegetarian #guiltfree #flooded #veggielife #flood #parisflood

A photo posted by @violinplayinggoat on Jun 3, 2016 at 11:07am PDT

Parisian flood #paris #flood #sortezcouvert #bridge #symetricalmonsters #underwater #rtt #solferino #cestcrue #parisflood #seine

A photo posted by Jordi Scuyer (@s_cuyer) on Jun 3, 2016 at 5:51am PDT

Get Grist in your inbox

Continue at source:

Record-breaking floods hit Paris. Get used to it.

Posted in alo, Anchor, Everyone, FF, G & F, GE, LAI, LG, ONA, Pines, Radius, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Record-breaking floods hit Paris. Get used to it.