For Toxic Sake, Have A Stiff Drink Of Nuclear Hubris

Today I saw a report of a 5.8 quake that hit the east coast of Japan.  This quake was located 75 miles southeast of  the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.  There have been no reports of damage nor any tsunami risk.  I still am reminded of the March 11th quake that shook most of Japan with a violent 9.0  magnitude.   The resulting tsunami associated with this was horrific. This is the 5th largest recorded earthquake in history.

The videos that came out after this terrible disaster are some of the most amazing footage of destruction I have seen by nature.  I remember the week-end this happened very well and I have a very weird story about it.  This particular week-end is our “guys week-end” where 40-50 of us rednecks gather near the entrance of J.P. Coleman State Park near Indian creek in Tishomingo county  We get together for a 4-wheeler ride and three-day party.  I remember after the big cook out on the night of the 10th, a conversation struck up between Robert Ackerman and myself.  We were talking about what would happen if a major quake hit the New Madrid area close to Memphis, Tn.  The entire time I lived in Memphis the fear of such a quake was always in the back of my mind.  I only live 110 miles east of there now and that is still on my mind.  Robert and I talked for over an hour while others chimed in.  The destruction the Memphis area would take has been estimated to destroy the whole downtown riverfront.   We all finally went to bed that night.  I got up early as I do every year to go turkey hunting the next morning.  I happened to listen to the radio after an unsuccessful trip.  It came across the air wave of an earthquake and I just had caught the end of the story.   I stopped by my house on the way back to Indian creek and turned on the T.V.  There it was.  I have always been fascinated by earthquakes and actually it is more than just scared of them, it is a fear of mine.  It was all over the news and I couldn’t stop thinking about the previous nites topic.  We probably embellished the damage Memphis would take due to the George Dickel that was being guzzeld down as my splitting head was reminding me.  I watched the story for about an hour as I put away the hunting apparel and got ready for the days ride.  I caught Robert in the kitchen of the cabin we were staying at when I returned to the camp.  We just looked at each other and he said ” Be careful what you wish for”.  I don’t remember wishing for a quake but it was a weird feeling we both had and it shook our being to the core.

Explosion At Tepco Plant After Quake and Tsunami

 Where this cabin is that we are gathered for this week-end is less than one mile from the Yellow Creek Nuclear plant site that was scrapped.  I often wondered if this Yellow Creek site had ever been completed what a large New Madrid quake might do to the plant.  It would have been built right on the TN river. Today the problem in Japan is as bad as ever and is getting worse.  I have heard reports of being 30cm from a China Syndrome event.   The area around the Fukushima plant is decimated.  People have long evacuated in a 50 mile radius or larger.  Around 43,000 residents have moved out of three Tohuku prefectures from March to November last year.  Iwate and Miyagi prefectures have seen 16,000 deaths and another 3,500 missing.  The deaths from radiation poisoning  in the future will be hard to calculate.  The damage to the environment and the ocean will be tremendous.

I named this post after the group on Facebook called “Toxic Sake, A Stiff Drink of Nuclear Hubris” that does a great job keeping up to date information on this disaster.  It also has some people who report readings as to radiation in the U.S.  I am not sure if Kristi Bruce started this group,  but I joined because she is a friend on FB and we were in the 4P group before I left.  I don’t guarantee all my facts as spot on and this is more to bring awareness on the 10 month anniversary of this terrible event.  It is another example when mother nature and mankind team up to do unheard  damage to human life and the planet.  This,  like all other stories of any relevant content have been swept under the rug by the MSM.

Exactly what went wrong

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The Knee Jerk

Most of you remember when B’man made some posts about the group 4P on Facebook. I am the main reason that he even joined the group. I use fb for my band and actually had to use an alias to participate in this group. My mom is still alive and she actually knows how to get on fb (to a point). I could never set it up in that group to where my dear Ole Mom couldn’t see some of my posts there. Plus she is a devoted Christian and there is a tad bit of foul language from time to time.

One of the reasons I liked the group was the like-minded people when the group was first started. It was called Peace, Pot, Poker, And Paul (4P). All that the title included, I was really interested in. I love peace! No war! I love pot and the recent push to legalize the stuff. Poker has been a little more than a hobby of mine since I lived in the big city and was close to the casino’s along the MS river. Then Paul. For Dr. Ron Paul. Even though he is in the GOP there is enough of the Libertarian aspect of the man who I identified with. The man tells you what you want to hear too. His voting record in his 34 years on the hill is almost above reproach. He too has switched his views on the Iraq situation. First he was for it and now he sees it for what it is. Then back in October he put out his plan to restore America and gave us all hard numbers as how this would play out if he ever got elected.  B’man has laid that out here on this site and has picked a part the numbers as to what the percentages are on each line item.  It shows you that the plan is not good for the hurting people in this country.  After he and I combed the numbers over it was obvious that the anti-war message Paul has been touting in all the debates leading up to this primary season were not reflected in his numbers.  We all know he plans to cut military spending just 15% in his first year.  Also there are funds added back to the budget in each year after the first. (inflation)??

 Dr. Ron Paul  IN 08′

This guy had me.  His Libertarian views and all the talk about ending the wars, the Fed, and all of these other agencies that seem useless were just what I needed to hear.  I have never compared him to a lunatic or any of the crazy loon types that my former GOP  ‘frens’ seem to use when describing the man.  The radio show I was asked to help with,  was the platform in where we let the cat out of the bag on this Paulsterity economic plan.  I have yet to see where the numbers laid out are in error or have been refuted.  I was begging someone to show me where we were wrong on these number.  They can’t ! Until someone shows me a “new” restore America plan, this is all we have to go by.  Here is my rub about the whole plan.  If you are running for the nomination and your putting yourself on an island by doing so, how do your economic budget numbers not reflect this?  15% cuts in the military spending are just not the numbers  for someone who is running on the stop the wars platform.  We heard this three years ago.  It hasn’t happened yet and will not under your plan.  Instead you want to cut out all the money in the social programs when the country is in the worst shape economically with the number of poor people at 50%.  50 million people are on food stamps.  You want to cut that program 63% basically making it impossible for these people to eat.  You’re starving the poorest of the poor and it shows how out of touch you are.  But wait here is a vid showing you would not want to touch the food stamp program.

Skip To the 9:00 Mark

Paul states he doesn’t think cutting the food stamps program should be a priority in this vid.  Then the biggest cut in his restore plan is in the food stamp program.  I don’t get it.   It is just GOP politics and there is no change in this man.  He is showing how republican he really is.  I thought better of this man and am pissed.  I was ready for change.  It is just the same ole same ole. I’d give the man props for talking about issues no one else talked about.  I didn’t mention the Newsletters here.  I never believed any of it.  However, if you delegated this to someone and allowed your name to be put on something you claim not to know anything about.?.  What in the hell??? You can’t delegate authority very well.  Is that what happened with this restore plan?  If so,  you don’t have what it takes to be a leader.  You have been a great representative.  Your record stands alone.  I don’t know if it is age or what, but things just don’t add up now.  I doubt you will get the nomination any way.

As to the group on FB.  I left that group.  I joined because of Paul and my support of the man. Since I can no longer support him I choose to opt out of that group.   People also tried to make light of this Paulsterity plan and actually agreed or had no problem with the cuts to the social programs.  Calling it illegal in the first place and so on.  I WILL NOT VOTE in the upcoming POTUS.  I will not support anyone else.   There is no one to support.  When it becomes the lesser of two evils for me I choose not to participate.  If someone thinks that I think my life is worth more than some other persons life …I have a problem with that.  I am nothing special.  Life is equal for each person.  I got tired of hearing that Americans think their life is worth more than people in other countries. We don’t make any foreign policy and do not support any of these wars that are going on.  The spin masters in that group are outrageous.  I did find some people there I resonated with.

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Quadrantid

Tonight will be the first meteor shower of 2012. The Quadrantid shower is one of the shortest shows we get in the annual type event. I have never seen any from this event in the past, however, in about 35 minutes I may bundle up and take a look. Starting around 2:00 a.m. central time one might get to see an amazing display of rocks burning in the sky as last years Perseids annual late summer show. From the Rockies to the east coast should be the best areas to view the show and the more east your location, the better. I’m a “sky nut” and forgot about this “New Year” light show until I got a call from one of my sky nut friends.  The radiant for this mornings show is just below and to the right of the little dipper (ursa minor).  That is in the NE part of the sky say one o’clock high.  The moon should have set for us here in the mid south, so viewing is expected to be awesome.

• Northeast View

• The only bad thing about this whole shower is that tonight is what you get.  It peaks and only last for around six hours unlike other shows that take days to reach their peak.  I know I am late getting this out, but by chance you see this before dawn,  there is a good chance you could 50-200 shooting stars in an hours time.  My step son wants me to wake him and he is just now getting into sky watching and I got him a beginners telescope for Christmas this year.  It is a bone chilling 24 degrees right now so I’m bundling up.NASA has a sky cam with a live stream in Huntsville, Al about 70 miles east of my location.  Well I’m off to freeze my arse off looking at the stars.

• Photo Courtesy Of NASA

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The End Is Near

Reports today of bank runs on major holding banks in Euro zone countries has been long awaited. Last week R/T (Russian Television) reported that the Euro had 48 hours if the summits being held did not come to some sort of agreement to bail out the troubled system. Germany is in no hurry to help bail out any banks and see Italy as too far gone at this point.  News of this affected the DJI in early trading this morning with a huge sell off from nervous investors.  Even the yellow metal was off on the uncertainty of this mess across the pond.

Bank Run

The gold drop is directly related to the European banks who are at zero assets using their gold reserves to secure usd funding.  That is almost a comical error in thought.  This could actually help the weak dollar to gain some foothold.  This gives some confidence to Asian holders of US securities.   It may be short lived as this could put a stress on the number of usd in circulation over the liquidation of these troubled banks over the next couple of months.

I’ve been wondering if the Dow could dip below the 10k mark before the end of the year.  I have been off on my prediction of that margin back in Nov.  If, and only if, there is a big resounding buy yell in the morning will depend on the Asian markets overnight.  If you got the nuts for it there could be some deals in the next few days, and again, it will be in the pharma trade.  Bio tech stocks have almost been oblivious to the trends in most of the recent market sells we have seen.

How is it going to end.  Will it be the end of the Euro?  Time will tell and the recent pact that was made at the summit meetings last week did little to squelch the fear investors have over the crisis.

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A Redneck, A Jew, & A Negro

The New Logo for The Show

I have agreed to host and produce an online radio program.  We are in transition from the Raw Dawg Buffalo show to the new show’s title, A Redneck, A Jew, & A Negro.  Torrence Stephens PhD. , Kelso (former writer for BuelahMan’s Revolt), and myself are the three “hosts”.  It is a 90 minute discussion of current events and whatever is on our minds at the time.  Open forum format which allows listeners the option of a chat or to call-in to add or take away.  No holds barred type of deal.  I have been part of this for the last two weeks and will take over officially in January of next year.  I am to replace Sista GP who is leaving the show due to family and work.  Torrence’s blog,  Raw Dawg buffalo, was the original idea behind the show and with Sistea GP leaving, the show has evolved into the new show starting in Jan.

The show is a lot like this blog, as it is an attempt to reverse the brainwashing that we have received all of our lives through our educational system, MSM, and the general taking away of rights by those in charge.  The show’s title is “out there” so to speak, but that is the point too.  If a redneck, a Jew, and a negro can sit down , talk, and agree mostly on current issues at hand, where is the divide?  There has been a divide and just the idea of us three hosting a show of this nature, should set an example as to how to NOT buy into the stereotypes society has placed upon us.

The show airs on the link provided every Thursday night at 9 p.m. eastern time.  You can listen there on that site and participate in the chat discussion as the show airs or call in to the number provided and go live on the air.  B’man called in last week and we had a great show.  We discuss every thing under the sun and no topic is off limits.  You are welcome to join.  I hope you do.  My hope is that more people can be reached and woke up this way.  I would like to thank Marina O’lala for the logo, its killer!

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Geminid

The Geminid meteor shower normally provides the strongest display of meteor activity each year. Unfortunately, this year, like many of the other major annual showers, the Geminids will be compromised by a bright moon. Activity from this source may be first noticed near December 4th when the radiant lies in north-central Gemini. At this time the moon will be a waxing gibbous phase, lying among the stars of the constellation Pisces. It will set near 0200, allowing good conditions to prevail the remainder of the morning. The moon will set approximately one hour later with each passing night so the window of opportunity quickly disappears. After December 8th, the moon will remain in the sky most of the night. This is around the time the Geminid rates begin to rise but the full moon will temper any increase.

Geminid Radiates From Gemini

This shower appears every year in the middle of December. There is something unusual about the Geminid meteor shower, as normally meteor showers are caused by the Earth ploughing through the debris streams created by comets and their tails. But the object that created the specific stream of debris associated with the Geminids is not a dusty icy comet, but a rocky asteroid called Phaethon 3200.  Every year this shower gets better due to the dense pattern of the stream we pass through.  Perseids was great last year, but this was an off-year due to the bright moon light.  Like Perseids this is an annual event.  I have watched this shower in years past, however, I have not paid any attention for the past few years.  I’m getting reports from my sky watching friends of low numbers so far but dazzling streaks when one busts through the light.  Almost lighting bolt like as one guy described it.  The moon is bright right now with a few clouds.  I am going to try to get a peek either tonight or the next couple of nights.  The peak is the 12th through the 14th.  I was told to look at Orion’s belt and a little to the left.  One can see a meteor  anywhere as the approach is at a straight angle.  a telescope or a pair of binoculars will not help much as these are bright and are easily seen with the naked eye.

Asteroid With A Debris Field

Earth Sky has ten good tips for viewing the Geminid shower.  It is a little cold here (in the 20′s) for sky watching.  I do intend to brave it  some, hoping to get a view of a nice one or two.  Maybe I will catch one before dawn in the tree stand in the morning.  If not maybe a nice buck will walk out for me to take home to the dinner table.  Good luck and happy hunting if you decide to take a gander the next few nights.  I almost forgot there is also going to be a lunar eclipse tomorrow on the 10th .  Actually it is in the morning here right at sunrise.  Maybe I will be able to see it too from the stand.

Night & Day At The Start Of The Lunar Eclipse

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The Times Are A Changing

They are changing fast. For the first time since the Vietnam war people have taken to the streets in this country. Protesters calling themselves Occupiers. This took a while for it to hit the media in the rural parts of the country. The media had a blackout going that made it tough for the average Joe to even know a protest was happening. They called themselves the 99%. They took to the park adjacent to Wall Street. They grew in numbers and before long, everyone knew about it. Other parts of the country were doing their version of “occupy”. Early on in the Wall Street occupy police were accused of trapping people on the Brookland bridge and arresting some 700 people.  The occupy movement seemed to be peaceful, however the police moved in and closed down Zucotti Park on November 15th.   Reports of police brutality and strong-arm tactics started appearing all over the news and the web.  A woman is reported to have miscarried after being pepper sprayed by police.  Reports from other parts of the country were not good for the occupy movement.  Protesters in Oakland, CA were met with a harsh and brutal police presence.

Oakland, CA

There are tons of stuff all over the web on the occupy movement.  What is troubling is the recent S 1167.  Or the NDAA 1031.  These National Defense Authorization bills are very troubling for the rights of all Americans.  NDAA was just recently passed and has provisions to make it legal to arrest U.S. citizens and hold them indefinitely and without due process.

Carl Levin Co-Authored S1031 Along With McCain

Your not hearing nightly, the assault on your rights as citizens.  The word is getting out through the web.  It is confusing, as I have read both of these monstrous bills and what they can do to our freedoms.  So Levin and McCain want to be able to arrest you and hold you on suspicion of being a terrorist.  It seems they are gearing up to squelch any future occupy movement.  Any kind of behavior they deem as inappropriate, could land you in the terror jail.  PrisonPlanet.com had a good story on how Halliburton and KRB are bidding on contracts to house and feed you when you get arrested and  put into one of the 5 area FEMA camps.  The fact that detention camps have been constructed inside America and are now being staffed and readied for “emergency” situations can no longer be ignored or ridiculed as a conspiracy theory.  They are getting their “ducks in a row” so to speak for something big to happen inside this country.  It could be anything from a natural disaster or just good ol’ martial law.    Whatever the reason, they are here and getting ready for occupation.  Get it??

I see stories everyday how we are being tracked and our every move is becoming data for big brother to comb over looking for evidence against you.  These things are for real and the language being used is not for the meek.  Looks like a plan is underway to house you indefinitely if needed.  Would it not be more efficient to just off us and be done with us?  Do they need our blood?  Are they slave shacks?  Will those put in the camps be re- educated?  Is mass genocide of our population part of the plan?  Being held for the Aliens as equity to barter with?  Could they be doing a catch and release program?  RFID chip you and if you refuse, you die or become a permanent fixture of the concentration camps?  When the economy crashes will they need a place for all the people running on the banks?    For all the reasons I can think of for these camps, none of them are good,  as if they really need a reason  This does look a lot like 1938 Germany right now here in this country.  I have written all my representatives in my state expressing my disdain for these latest bills for what it was worth.  Which, under these Draconian type laws, would constitute treason.  I love my country, just not the people that are running it.

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American Soldier

As many of you know I have been helping B’man paint some houses. It is a lot of hard work. The other day, while preparing a bedroom wall for some paint, I heard a guy ask B about a painting and if it had any meaning. It is a pic of a soldier with a helicopter in the background and you can tell it is obviously during the Vietnam war.  B went on to explain it was of his father and told the story behind it.  The guy asking was the son of the man doing the floors in the kitchen with his father.  It felt  nice to have some other people in this house, since B and I have been here working a lone for three weeks.  The conversation I was hearing was getting interesting as the guy was telling us he had just got out of the army.  He had been in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The topic of the wars and the reasons we were there and I was surprised to hear this guy felt the same way I did about my country.  We love our country but hate the government at hand.  His father also was chiming in as to his feelings to and we all four seemed to be in agreement.  It was a breath of fresh air.  The guy had been in Iraq and told “his story” of having point one day and busting in a house and taking fire and returning fire.  He called his enemy a mug.  I did not ask if that was the common tag as “Charlie” was in Vietnam.   He busted the door in and felt someone “kick” him in the chest twice as he returned fire and taking the “mug” out.  The kick in the chest was two rounds from an AK-47.  His vest had stopped both rounds but left him with a cracked rib and deep bruising.  This is a big guy 6′ or so and about 250 lbs.  I imagine he has put on a few since he got out.

He also stated that most of the guys in his company felt the same way as us four did on the whole war.  There is no objective and no reason to be there.  He had been told that the roadside bombs had stopped and it was a little better than his first tour there.  This was his second duty in country.  One night on patrol they had come across a truck blocking the road.  His “soap bar”
Lt. was in one of the trucks in his convoy and decided to go around and not wait for the rapid response team to investigate, which was protocol.  As they went around the roadblock he noticed headlights coming on and converging on his position.  They all opened fire and stopped the vehicle in its tracks.  Then the truck in the road block went up …it was a decoy and was loaded with bombs.  It was daisy chained to other trucks behind it but they failed to go off.  The next day they went back into that area and cleared all the houses.  This is when he took the rounds in the chest from the mug.  He didn’t qualify for a purple heart.  His “soap bar” Lt.  should have been reprimanded, but received accommodations for his actions that night.

He said you didn’t know who you were fighting and the rules of engagement were also a lot like Vietnam.  The local people in these areas they are patrolling are paid 10,000 bucks for every American they kill.  The Taliban pays this and often times threatens family members if you do not do what they want you to do.  I cannot imagine fighting in a place like this.  It sounds the same as a lot of Vets, that fought in Asia, described.  The war is becoming more and more unpopular even amongst the fighting men and women.  He talked of Afghanistan as a wide open vast with mountains.    We didn’t discuss it in detail as much as Iraq.  B will fill you all in on the points I left out.  I found it as I said refreshing to see someone who has been there tell it like it is.  Not what you hear from the MSM.  Also his disdain for being there.  This guy is from a small town in TN, but he could have been from any state, its all the same for those guys.

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Protestors? Film At Eleven?

Yea, really, it’s going on in NYC. I have been seeing this on the web for a couple of weeks now and I searched the MSM to see what was going on. I remember watching oil come out of a pipe one summer 24/7, and just knew I could see some live video of this as it happened. I couldn’t find a damn thing on any channel I searched. I don’t watch much MSM TV except a lil’ NCIS from time to time. While looking for this protest I found three cable stations covering a trial about the doctor that is accused of killing Micheal Jackson, but no coverage of this protest. I thought I had hit the jackpot, but it turned out to be half a million people hitting the streets in Israel. They call themselves occupying Wall Street. I was finding all kinds of stuff on the web every day. I knew this was news, however, I couldn’t find any “news” channels covering it. Then finally I found a show with Keith Olbermann covering this. I am no way a fan of his and kinda thought …ok so it’s lasted so long, everyone must be covering it now. Nope. I was wrong. I asked my friends here around town what they though about the occupy. The response was the same “what are you talking about?” I have some web friends that live in NYC and was getting first hand stuff through them. I was watching videos on You Tube and seeing all this. This past week I started getting upset with all of this. This is happening here in this country where people keep their mouth shut. You know the famous silent majority was finally waking up and speaking out and actually camping out in and around Wall Street. I’m usually up early in the morning and I had been watching the major three networks to see if and when they would do a piece on this. Finally this past Friday, The Today show did a piece on it. I had seen a snippet on CNN and they had made light of all of it and interviewed the least likely participants they could find. Barry came out and did a press conference and even said he gave it his approval. Does it get any better than part of the reason this whole thing is happening, comes out in support of it? From my sources, this is all over the networks in parts of South America and in Europe.

Like I said I don’t usually watch much TV. I tend to when there is a disaster like the earthquakes or a major storm being covered live. I like to watch stuff live as most do…no matter how bad it is. It’s like watching NASCAR just for the wrecks. Google this stuff for yourself and you can get tons of stuff to read or watch. I get it. The reason for the “protest” and the reason for the news not covering it. I don’t have to explain that to anybody that visits this site. There is every thing and every point of view you could want  on the web. I would hate for this to turn “dark” and it getting purged by people who start violence to incite the police and for the mayor to declare martial law. You can find instances where there have been some police abusing their powers and intimidating this generally peaceful event.  This is really a major event for this to happen here in America.  It is a shame it is not getting the coverage it deserves.  This non coverage speaks volumes for what this is about.  I hope this continues and gets to big to fail in what the objective is.  It works for me.

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ELE (Extinction Level Event)

Update on the Elenin comet. It is approaching the time when it gets closest to us around You can refer to B’man’s earlier post for exact dates. I just wanted to add an interesting vid I found this morning.  It is being reported it is now three objects.

I find it odd, that Barry is speaking all religious on this.  I also fin it odd that Barry and Bin Laden look like the same person.  Barry does look a lil’ yellow from time to time.  My photo software I use puts any pic of him and Bin in the same album as if they were the same person when I download a pic of either one.

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Dutch

I just came across this story and thought I should share it here.
http://stevebeckow.com/2011/08/dutch-sinse-under-attack/

It’s Time For The Perseids Again.

Last year I did a piece on the meteor shower…well time flies and its that time again.  However, the full moon is going to make it more difficult. Early in the pre dawn hours this Sunday is the best time to view this event.

http://buelahman.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/perseids-meteor-shower/

Sin Nombre & WNV

On May 14, 1993, a young, physically fit man living in the American Southwest suddenly collapsed. He was rushed to a New Mexico hospital but died of acute respiratory failure within hours. The man had been on his way to a funeral — his fiancée died a similar death just days earlier. By May 17, medical center officials identified three similar deaths in the Four Corners region where the borders of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet. All of the victims had been young and otherwise healthy.

Sin Nombre is a disease that broke out in the four corners area of our country back in 1993.  It is a rodent borne disease much like the plague.  It is also called the Hantavirus.  It was last seen by Americans in the 1950′s fighting in Korea.  An outbreak leading to human infections can be linked to the weather.  There is no cure for this disease and it has shown up every year since 1993 especially around the four corners area.  It attacks the lungs and heart with most people drowning within the first 5 days of contracting this virus. By 1995 this virus had been detected in 20 states and kills half the people infected.

WNV  The West Nile Virus first came to the U.S. in 1999 from Africa.  It is a mosquito borne illness whose victims or overcome with fever and swelling of the brain.  When the first case was diagnosed the CDC had no idea what it was and first labeled it as St. Louis encephalitis.  If not for the Bronx zoo curator, Nancy Clum,  it would have been months before anyone actually knew what it was.  The CDC only investigates human deaths caused by infectious disease.  The Bronx zoo was experiencing deaths in its owls, eagles, and other bird populations the same time people were showing up complaining of fever and headaches in NY area ER’s.  The CDC did not look at her bird samples to see if the same genetic strain of virus could be blamed for the cases of “St. Louis encephalitis” they had diagnosed.  She contacted the army and they did look at both human and bird samples and determined it was the same infection.  This took several weeks and New York now had eight cases with the same symptoms.  The doctors also were puzzled why they had this many cases of encephalitis.  They might see that in one year or even two.  Even though the army said it was the same strain …even they didn’t know what it was.  So now the CDC had to do their tests.   That took several more days.

This is just an example of how two major viruses have made their way to the Northern hemisphere in the last few decades.  West Nile originated in the Euphrates area of the Nile river.  West Nile may have been around for about 1,000 years but the 1937 case in Euphrates is the first case in modern times.    The Hantavirus has been around as long as there have been mice in one form or another.  Both of these diseases  have never  been detected here until the 1990′s.  This seems to be a natural event and not “planted” by other means.  There is a vaccine for the WNV however, nothing is available for the Hantavirus. If this had been a very contagious strain of some flu or air-borne illness the number of deaths would have been staggering.  These same procedures are still in place today.  The flu is always associated with another species as most viruses are.  So if it will take a month to just identify the type or strain, millions of people could be dead before work on a vaccine could start.

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Bear In Mind

Breaking news around these parts of North Mississippi was a black bear that was spotted in Prentiss county this past week.   I live in the neighboring Tishomingo county and this bear was sighted just some 40 or so miles from where I live.  This is a big deal!  Well it is around these parts.  We don’t have bears around here!  I have never heard of one in 45 years living in the area.  Hannah Kate Jackson actually got a photo of this bear in a tree.  The MS department of wildlife, fisheries, and parks knew the bear was coming this way for some time.  It had been sighted in north Alabama on June 4th  and was headed west.  He is just looking for a home.   He has been heading in a westward direction for over a month.  Not really sure where he came from or where he is headed.  I am surprised some redneck hasn’t taken him out.  There are no plans to capture this bear as long as he minds his business.  Authorities are going to let nature do its thing.

Actual Pic By Hannah Jackson

Black bears can be found in the state near the Mississippi River and on the lower coastal counties but this is really rare for one to be seen up here in the hill country.  We have had several species of animals make this area home over the past few decades.  The fire ant, coyote, armadillo, and several fish species in Pickwick lake are new.  There have been a lot of reports of mountain lions being sighted in and around Tishomingo county but there hasn’t been any photos to prove it.    He is just looking for a new home and was probably pushed away from his mother’s home range.  He could have been relocated and is trying to find his way back, however he doesn’t have a tag.  I hope bears don’t move into this area.  They will eat a baby fawn if given the chance and I don’t need any more competition with my deer population.  I will be more aware of my surroundings when I head to my tree stand in the future.

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The America Strain

Conspiracy Dude got me to thinking on his latest post about measles being imported into the U. S. I have been looking into and thinking about a show’s subject matter I just saw on a History Channel documentary.  Early September of  1918, a Liberty Loan parade in Philadelphia prompts a huge outbreak of the flu epidemic in the city. By the time the epidemic ended, an estimated 30 million people were dead worldwide.  This flu ran its course.  Do you understand that no cure was found and the flu itself died.  It ran out of host.  In July 1918 Philadelphia’s Bureau of Public Health had issued a bulletin about the “Spanish Influenza”. But health officials had not listed influenza as a reportable disease, and this denial of the danger of what was happening had encouraged people to take foolish risks and this spread throughout the country and  across the world.  30 Million people died worldwide as a result.  The world had 1.8 billion people in 1918.  The amount of world travel or travel abroad way pales in comparison today.  The amount of human interaction is huge compared to 1918. “Influenza pandemics are natural phenomenon, like earthquakes,” said Klaus Stohr, coordinator of the global flu program at the WHO. “The problem is bad preparedness.”Influenza is highly contagious and has killed millions over the past 100 years. It has traditionally moved in cycles, and some scientists say a major outbreak is already overdue.

To say we are ill prepared to handle a major out break of a 8.0 on the scale of flu is an understatement.  We as people have handled the latest minor out breaks of bird and swine flu to some degree, but in time we will have an outbreak that could send us back in technology 100 or so years for the survivors.   If your lucky enough not to be killed in the first three weeks,  you might just make it,  if your prepared.  The people who make vaccinations will be so overwhelmed during this time they will not have time to come up with a shot to protect the people.  A flu this strong in today’s well-connected world will take about a month to wipe out way more per capita of the world’s population as it did in 1918.   It could have a death toll of 75 to 85 percent of the world’s population.  It will flood hospitals in the first several days to a point people will be in the street.  Shelters and triage centers will be overrun.  It will spread from these areas like wildfire.  Hundreds of flights are taking off at several hundred airports everywhere with sick people showing no symptoms.  It will be in every major populated country including both poles in ten to fourteen days.  Protocols to protect the important people who may just find a vaccine will not have provided enough time to catch a flu like this in time.   Stores run out of food and soon the gas pumps dry up.  Your power is out and your water pressure is very low.  The internet crashes.  Water is gone by the third or fourth week.  Half the people left are in shock.  You don’t know close to a billion people are dead in the world.  Neither do you know that 3 to 4 more billion are going to die.

You have made it a month so now what do you do?   Not a single person is working unless they are military if there is one left.  Do you have enough food?  Water?  A way of getting those two things?  Because those two things are all that matters to you now.  Is it just you or are you providing for your wife and kids too.  Staying in your house was the smartest thing you have ever done.  This is the way to survive the first month or so.  Did you have three months of food and water and essential meds to make it this long without having to venture out?  Did the military have enough time to move you into a camp, as will happen in most major cities?  If so,  you’re going to be in the second round of deaths from this in one way or the other.   I know you have locked yourself up at home and had enough water and food to make it.  Now have you survived the looters who are trying to get your stash of goodies?  If you have stored up enough of the right kind of goodies you might just make it.

Survivors now around the second month are dealing with dead bodies everywhere in the major populated areas.  People will literally die where they are standing with this flu.  Rural areas are now banded together and formed a network to help each other as they can.  Unless you have set this up before hand you can count yourself out.

It could be years before you have power again.  Hopefully someone who knows how to make fuel will have survived.  This is a big what if scenario.  For all the crap you have stacked up in your house, make a couple piles of food and water.  Enough to make it at least three months.  Cause politics and all the stuff we complain about will be the least of your worries.   For the sake of this argument they and the military, other than small bands will not survive either.  Some scientist say this is a when and not an if.  It is just something to think about.

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