Pavlof Volcano rocks and rolls, blasting ash up to 20,000 feet

Pavlof is located on the Alaskan Penisula (click for link to 'listening to volcano').

Pavlof Volcano and Pavlof Sister Volcano

ALASKA DIGEST (click on link to title)
Published: September 2, 2007

Last Modified: September 2, 2007 at 02:20 AM
COLD BAY -- One of Alaska's most active volcanoes sent a billowing white cloud almost 4 miles high late Thursday night, the biggest explosion since the 8,261-foot cone began vigorously erupting last month.
Pavlof Volcano, on the Alaska Peninsula about 600 miles southwest of Anchorage, put up a 20,000-foot plume about 9:30 p.m. Thursday, said Steve McNutt of the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
Pavlof stayed restive Friday and Saturday, blasting ash clouds 10,000 feet to 16,000 feet high, McNutt said.
"It just looked like a tall column rising, kind of like a cumulonimbus (cloud)," said Michael McLaurin, a meteorological technician with the National Weather Service in Cold Bay. "It rose about 18,000 or 20,000 feet and subsided, then built up again."
Clouds blocked the view on Saturday night.
Cold Bay and its 90 residents are about 40 miles southwest of the action.
Ash, a danger to aircraft, likely caused lightning Thursday, McNutt said.
An FAA spokeswoman said no flights were diverted Saturday. It wasn't immediately clear if Thursday's event interfered with air traffic.
The volcano set a personal record for explosions early Thursday morning -- 14 every minute, McNutt said. Seismic instruments began tracking activity at the volcano in 1973.
"I've never seen more than 10 a minute," said McNutt.
To check the volcano's activity, go to avo.alaska.edu/activity/Pavlof.php.
-- Anchorage Daily News

Trip around the globe - animate loop with controls at site

September 5, 2007
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Global Pacific Satellite



September 5, 2007
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(Click here for loop - then animate with control at site)



September 5, 2007
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Africa-Europe Satellite

There is still plenty of heat to spawn more storms in the Atlantic although the Autuminal Equinox is approaching and the sun's radiation will be crossing to the southern hemisphere.



September 5, 2007
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Tropical Atlantic Satellite



September 5, 2007
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Western hemisphere

The continent reporting stations are all below zero,but,are warmer across the board except for the very high elevations(24 hour loop missing 3 views)

September 4, 2007
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North Pole Satellite

The reason for all this colder weather over Antarctica are the heat storms, hurricanes, cyclones of the Northern Hemisphere.


September 4, 2007
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South Pole Satellite

Easily discerned are very cold high elevations over East Antarctica. There are heat transfer vortexes from nearby land masses, which explains the winds and high level intrusions on the jet stream.


September 5, 2007
1200 AM UTC
Antarctica Surface Winds (Click here for loop)

Except for the peninsula, there is little break in the higher winds. It explains why so much of the continent is the same temperature; as the wind mixes the heat with frigid air.


September 4, 2004
0600 GMT
Jet Stream satellite image for Antarctica (Click here for six day image)

Basically, no surprises. All the higher elevations are untouched by heat transfer vortexes while there is significant heat exchange at lower latitudes.


September 4, 2007
0900 PM UTC
Antarctica

The coldest reporting stations on Antarctica :

Vostok, Antarctica

Time :: 6:00 AM VOST

Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3420 m

Temperature :: -111 F / -80 C

Humidity :: 70%

Dew Point :: -113 F / -80 C

Wind :: 4 mph / 6 km/h from the West

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: in / hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 12.0 miles / 20.0 kilometers


Amundsen-Scott

Time :: 1150 AM NZST

Elevation :: 9285 feet / 2830 M

Temperature :: - 75 F / - 60 C

Conditions :: Blowing Snow Mist

Wind :: 17 mph / 29 km/h / 7.7 m/s from ESE

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 28.32 in / 959 hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 1.0 mile / 1.2 kilometers

Davis 76.05S 65.02E

Time :: 900 AM DAVT

Temperature :: - 58 F / -50 C

Conditions :: Calm


Warmest Reporting Stations

Palmer Station, Antarctica

Time :: 8:00 PM CLT

Elevation :: 26 ft / 8 m

Temperature :: 22 F / -5 C

Conditions :: Clear

Humidity :: 75%

Dew Point :: 17 F / -8 C

Wind :: 4 mph / 7 km/h from the South

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 29.35 in / 994 hPa (Falling)

Visibility :: 10.0 miles / 16.0 kilometers



Casey 66.28S 110.52E

Time :: 8:00 AM WST

Temperature :: 21 F / -6 C

Conditions :: Heavy Blowing Snow

Humidity :: 92%

Winds :: East at 54 mph/ 87 km/h

Dew Point :: 20 F / -7 C

Pressure :: 28.70 in / 972 hPa (Falling)

Visibility :: 0.0 miles / 0.1 kilometers

The weather at Scott Base, Ross Island, Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime0 is warmer than usual.

The link at the title will take you to a collection of pictures from the photographers at McMurdo. Questionably the snow in some photos looks rather soft/wet, but, all are quality photos with extensive explanations. I found them enjoyable.

Looks like an abstract rendition of "Day on a Texas Beach" but the waves say it all.

September 3, 2007

Corpus Christi, Texas

Photographer states :: Bob Hall Pier through the rain coated windshield of the truck.

Rain expected to persist through the day (Click on title of entry. Thank you.)
Web Posted: 09/04/2007 11:59 AM CDT
Express-News
Clouds from a Pacific Ocean hurricane streamed across Texas on Tuesday, touching off widespread rains, gloomy skies and flood watches and warnings around South Central Texas.
Hurricane Henriette, near Baja, Mexico, was supplying deep mid- and upper-level tropical moisture streams, supplemented by low-level moisture from the Gulf of Mexico....

...Heaviest rains overnight will bring the threat of flooding to an area from north of Del Rio to San Antonio to LaGrange, the weather service said.

Felix seeks Henriette (12 hour loop click here)

Streets were flooded in La Ceiba, Honduras.


September 4, 2007
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UNISYS Infrared Satellite GOES East

These storms exploded after reaching land nearly at the same time. There is a slight hint of a quasi-eye in the Carribean just northeast Honduras border with Nicaragua. There is also a storm building east of Florida. It will more than likely remain in the Atlantic. There is an odd little storm that formed in a few hours over Lake Okeechobee. Everyone on the North American continent upto the Rio Grande is drenched. Texas and the Mississippi states into the middle of the USA are experiencing rains. This dual system storm is gigantic and very, very dangerous.





Hurricane Felix Strikes Central America (click here)
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Sept. 4 — The hurricane of the moment, the one that smashed ashore in northern Nicaragua today and began inundating the Honduran countryside, was Felix. But it was an earlier storm, the devastating Hurricane Mitch of 1998, that continued to haunt Hondurans.


Merchants recalled Mitch as they packed up their belongings as Felix moved in and hustled to higher ground. Residents told horror stories about Mitch as they hoped and prayed that the new storm would not do what the last one did....

The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:

North of Alaska, researchers aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy are gathering the data legally required to extend national territories across vast reaches of the mineral-rich seafloor usually blocked by Arctic ice.

Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m

Temperature :: 63 F / 17 C

Conditions :: Clear

Humidity :: 59%

Dew Point :: 48 F / 9 C

Wind :: 7 mph / 11 km/h / 3.1 m/s from the SSW

Pressure :: 29.87 in / 1011 hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers

UV :: 4 out of 6

Clouds :: Clear
(Above the ground)

Arctic Ocean ice sheets smallest on record (click title to entry)
The Yomiuri Shimbun
This summer's ice sheets in the Arctic Ocean are the smallest on record since satellite observations started in 1978, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced Thursday.
The Arctic ice observed Wednesday was 5,307,000 square kilometers, falling below the previous low of 5,315,000 square kilometers recorded in September 2005.
The situation is similar to what the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted this year would happen 30 or 40 years from now, showing that global warming may be progressing much faster than anticipated.
This summer, temperatures on the surface of the sea were between 0.8 C to 0.6 C below freezing, the highest temperatures since 2000.
The decrease of the Arctic ice likely will continue until mid-September, causing the ice sheets at the North Pole to shrink even further.
JAMSTEC and JAXA have been observing Arctic ice since 1978 using satellites and vessels.
The agencies said the sea ice sheets were shrinking because the Arctic ice formed later than usual last winter and was relatively thin from the start. As a result, the ice started melting earlier than usual, causing the sea water to absorb more solar heat due to a lack of ice, which usually reflects sunlight.
Furthermore, a low pressure system off Siberia brought strong winds to the North Pole, resulting in much of the Arctic ice being driven to the Atlantic Ocean.
IPCC projected this summer's Arctic ice sheet at about 7.5 million square kilometers, dropping to about 5.5 million square kilometers in 2040 and about 4.5 million square kilometers in 2050. However, some research institutes, including one in the United States, have pointed out that the reality is 30 years ahead of the projections.
(Aug. 18, 2007)


September 3, 2007
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Pacific Ocean Satellite

This is a heat transfer event. The storm in the left lower corner of the satellite image is Typhoon-2 FITOW (click here).

Typhoon Fitow brings swells (click here)

A distant typhoon will bring long period swells to the region, according to a National Weather Service release. Typhoon Fitow, located well north of Guam, will impact north-facing reefs into the midweek. Two to four-foot northerly swells will push the rip current risk into the moderate category, the release stated. A moderate rip current risk means wave conditions support stronger or more frequent rip currents. For weather updates, visit the Pacific Daily News at www.guampdn.com or the National Weather Service at www.prh.noaa.gov/pr/guam.
Pacific Daily News

September 3, 2007

1430 AKDT

Adjustable speed loop of vortex event (click here.)




Gale warnings along the Alaska coast and southwest ...Strong wind this evening through tuesday morning along turnagain arm and higher elevations...








Flask flood warnings in southern California and along the Baha peninsula. Large pink area is regarding high wind events. There are also gale warnings off Georgia and South Carolina. There has been significant flooding in that area as well already.

September 3, 2007

Edisto Beach, South Carolina

Photographer states :: Storm flooding scenes after 4 days of rain.

South Carolina Lowcountry swamped by heavy rain (click here)
Monday, Sep 03, 2007 - 08:58 AM
By Associated Press
BEAUFORT, S.C. - The South Carolina Lowcountry has seen heavy rain that has led to flooding in some areas.
The National Weather Service says a record 1.75 inches of rain had fallen as of 5 p.m. yesterday at Charleston International Airport.
Flooding closed a section of U.S. Highway 278 on Hilton Head Island for more than six hours Saturday. The resort town got 6.39 inches of rain. That's more rain than normally falls in all of September.
The heavy rain put a damper on summer's last hurray.
Hunting Island State Park assistant manager Kenny Heater says the park is usually full during Labor Day weekend, but there only about a dozen cars in the picnic area Saturday.

Tropical storm strengthens off Mexico's Pacific coast

September 3, 2007
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UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite West and North Hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop).

The deluges of water is/will cause major flooding to Mexico on both coasts. There is also a resumption of a familiar pattern of a drenched central USA. Coastal areas along the Gulf of Mexico and Southeast Atlantic seaboard need to remain vigilant for the exacerbation of severe storms accompanying this 'dual' storm system. No one is going to tell me Texas and Louisiana isn't in for flooding. As a matter of fact I know there is flooding (flash flood warnings) in Texas (click here) and increase in percipitation in Louisiana (click here) and here.


September 3, 2007
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UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite GOES East (click here for 12 hour loop)



September 3, 2007
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UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite GOES West (click here for 12 hour loop)

Tropical Storm Henrietta clearly illustrates how 'moisture deprived' the troposphere actually is. There is virtually NO equatorial water vapor as it has gone into supporting the 'heat storm' TS Henrietta.

September 3, 2007

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Mexican Satellite

Partners prepare for Hurricane Felix in Honduras and Nicaragua

September 3, 2007
Photographer states :: Once in the eye, the view was breath taking even at night. The moon had just risen over the top of the eyewall and lightning lit up the eyewall all around us.


September 3, 2007
Photographer states :: The first eyewall penetration was a bit rough but not too bad. The wind field was incredibly tight.We had winds less than 50 knots at flight until we got within a few milesof the eyewall. Once inside, the plane was surrounded on radar by a ring of high winds and rain.


September 3, 2007
Somewhere under the 'eye' of Felix
Photographer states :: Once in the eye, the view was breath taking even at night. The moon had just risen over the top of the eyewall and lightning lit up the eyewall all around us.

These are such incredible pictures, the photographer needs to be known. Thank you, Mr. Byron.:

Randy Byron - I was an aviation weather forecaster for 15 years for the Air Force. I am now a dropsonde systems operator and load master flying with the Hurricane Hunters at Keesler AFB, MS. I have been an amateur photographer for 20 years. I am also a private pilot.

The misanthropic deeds of George Walker Bush and Richard Cheney and every Republican that has supported them...

... doesn't end there. Currently, they are attempting to override States' Rights and limit the ability of states to provide health insurance to their children. There have been roll backs, under the guise of 'cost cutting measures' to subsidized housing and every humanitarian right Americans should and could at one time have access.

The Republican Party no longer exists as a balance to the spending policies of the USA, they have become destructive and deadly while exhibiting grossly corrupt strategies against the people of the USA.

It's time to be a little misanthropic toward them and give them a taste of their own medicine. Cut the Republicans off at the knees and put an administration and legislature in DC that will return the USA to it's benevolent nature while protecting it's citizens from further terrorist agendas.

The USA needs a fresh start with fresh leadership with good ideas and the will to see them through.

Good luck. I did my part, it's time everyone else do theirs.

The misanthropic priority of a destroyed benevolent troposphere of Earth

In every measure the Bush Administration and the Republican House and Senate have looked the other way hoping the USA can weather the storm of an Earth turned hostile by the abuses of the very country they lead.

While climate changes have brought 'large death events' as witnessed in France several years ago, the USA continues to do nothing in response to the rapidly changing Earth that will in time prove too hostile to support life as carbon dioxide emissions from the USA are unrelenting with no change in sight.

Currently there are no alternatives largely exploited from civilian energy sources. Coal technology, while touting an ability to be 'clean' there is little evidence supporting coal's ability to able to capture carbon dioxide within current sequestering measures.

This is one of the studies conducted in recent years research has been conducted by Duke University and Harvard that clearly states a 'saturated Earth's troposphere' results in little available carbon sequestration in addition to the existing saturation (click here).

"Above Ground Sink Strengths in forest controls, the allocation of carbon below ground and it's [CO2]-induced enhancements", Ecology, December 19, 2006; Vol. 103, No. 51, pp. 19632 - 19367.

This is an update of Clean Coal Technology as of 2001 (click here). I don't find it promising. The type of coal conversion technologies Bush refers to hopes of creating two Saudi Arabias from the USA coal stocks, which can be difficult to reach causing miner deaths; are very polluting to communities and their water and land resources. It's not at all a viable alternative to any other fossil fuel.

There is no better answer for teh USA regarding energy infrastructure than to eliminate the use of fossil fuels from it's menu of options. The cleaner the energy the USA can produce the greater the benevolence to Earth and hence the global community.

Every Earth System has it's limits and the USA has pushed them to breaking, it's time to stop.

Bush's misanthropic Department of Defense turned into The Deparment of War operating outside any international treaties and violating human rights

The sense deprivation of ineffective techniques which were a mish-mosh of every conceivable study on Earth since humans were able to 'set type.' The detainees at Gitmo were guinea pigs to Rumsfelds' 'dreamscape' of breaking down hardened terrorists. These detainees were on many occassions people whom had nothing to do with al Qaeda or terrorism but were sold to the USA military by warlords for rewards.

The latest speculation inside the World Bank revolves around how long it will be before investigators come knocking on Wolfowitz's newly reinforced doors to quiz him about the Iraq debacle, Abu Ghraib, Plamegate, and other scandals.

The least of all the damages to the USA was not simply it's international esteem as a leader in freedom and democracy, but, the damages to it's own soldiers manifested in lost limbs, lives deemed worthless by many veterans outside the 'juice' of war. "I lost one leg and they gave me another, why not have a matching set?" That is a demoralized soldier that sees life as a battlefield where a damaged body has value not readily found in the society back home. Add to that the brain damage in concussion incidents of improvised devices of nearly every kind imaginable. The USA veteran out of Iraq might be alive, but, returned to a demoralized value of self including PTSD resulting in suicide met by VA waiting lists and homelessness if we as a nation were lucky to have them alive long enough to 'get past' a mind full of violence.

Homeland Security is the most misanthropic cabinet department in Bush's administration. I could write a dissertation and someone should. .

The dangers to the USA food supply first manifested as a deadly mix in pet foods, killing many precious companion animals.

Pet food contamination mystery unlocked (click here)
SEATTLE - There are new developments in the on-going story of contaminated pet food. Federal health officials confirm that the ingredient believed to be killing cats and dogs, has also entered the human food supply.When this story broke back in mid-March, it was assumed the contamination was limited to pet food. But now it's clear that various livestock in the U.S. have been given animal feed containing the chemical melamine -- a chemical that is not supposed to be in pet or people food.Last week we learned contaminated animal feed was fed to hogs. Just Monday, there was confirmation that tainted feed was fed to chickens.The FDA says 38 poultry farms in Indiana received contaminated feed from China in early February. Of those, 30 of the farms raise broiler chickens for human consumption....

And let's not forget the misanthropic Bush Advisory Council to the FDA which allows heart disease in order to combat arthritis. Some kind of priorities they are.

The editorial by Hanlon at the Wall Street Journal was when it was still worth the time of day to read The Wall Street Journal.

The obvious misanthropic mission of Homeland Security is completely obvious here. First it's first Secretary, Tom Ridge 'set up' the USA for the 'culture of fear' by advocating 'duct tape' and plastic over windows as a measure to prevent WMD from reaching people inside any home. That not only provided to be the anticipated fearful permission for Bush's illegal invasion into Iraq, but was completely baseless in it's science as if a residence was so tightly closed to any outside air, the occupants would die of suffocation.

The 'idea' the USA's food supply is contaminated causing deaths among pets and endangering the well being of citizens is simply outrageous. Welcome to the misanthropic Bush outsourcing economy, guaranteed to rob the American worker blind of good paying jobs while killing them in the process through water and food contamination. Don't forget, the first Executive Order Bush signed allowed increases in arsenic. Hello?

The 'puzzle' as to whom gets Homeland Security dollars is simple. The monies go to where the greatest density of citizens live. Why? Because there is the most potential of the country to maintain it's populous in the face of devastating attacks of any nature on the USA. Where are the ports found that would have to be monitored to secure the USA borders. In the heartland of Kansas? No. The coastal cities of the USA, New York, Wilmington, New Orleans and nearly every MAJOR city on the seaboards of North America. Additionally, if food and water contamination were to be success to disable the USA from protecting it's homeland it would have to succeed against large populous, not small and distant communities. The BEST chance the USA has in protecting any of it's citizens is to insure the major cities survive any and all attacks so they in turn can respond to the emergencies of the interior of the country in numbers that would facilitate large movement of American infrastructure efforts. This isn't that difficult to understand or master a plan to survival of the USA and it's Consitution.

The obvious misanthropic mission of Homeland Security is clearly dividing it's funds into crony favors to enhance Republican votes within the Bush Culture of Misanthropic and Irrational Fear. By doing so, it should have been clearly evident to the citizens of the USA, any and all calls of terrorist alerts were simply misanthropic attacks on the psychi of the American populous.

Any Homeland Security of the USA involves not 'individual' efforts but the cumulative efforts of the entire country in it's ability to respond to other areas under attack or in distress. The greatness of the people of the USA has always been in the understanding they are a United States prepared to respond as a nation, not a simple city or local authority. To 'make weak' the great cities of the USA allows vulnerability nearly impossible to recover from, the prime and obvious example of same, the attacks on New York City on September 11, 2001.

The free flow of guns throughout the USA as a misanthropic political gesture by Bush in appreciation of the NRA

Norris Hall at Virginia Tech

What is there to say? Except guilty. Post Columbine, the USA got it's act together with The Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban. What occurred under this administration was a demoralization of the USA in a political agenda WITHOUT any valid research to back it up, in that people are better off personally armed than not. Well, at least one young man took that estimation of Bush's misanthropic America seriously.

The odd indictment of the Virginia Tech University authorities as holding some degree of responsiblity for the 32 deaths simply overlooked the larger culture and it's spawning of violence. God forbid the misanthropic Bush, his culture of fear and the crony favors to the NRA should be indicted along with any other impetus to the death of the innocent in the USA.

Hokie healing (click here)
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports

August 30, 2007

BLACKSBURG, Va. – It's a dignified memorial, simple and sad, 32 stones in a semi-circle set up on a hill overlooking Drillfield here in the center of campus....

When does this insanity stop? Certainly the blood thristy Republicans don't have a vision of peace even within the borders of the USA. So long as the misinformation of the misanthropic NPA continues to be a 'belief system' there will be repeated events to match and exceed the one at Virginia Tech.

The Misanthrophic Bush and Michael Brown inexcuseable official death toll 1723. The largest death toll of ANY hurricane to strike the USA.

The infrastructure damage of New Orleans was met with 'speculation of opportunity' rather than seeking to return the city to it's millions of displaced residents. Today, New Orleans is still struggling to rebuild and reorganize with very high crime rates persisting.

The search for the missing of Katrina continues (click here).

The events of Katrina causing catatrophic loss was completely avoidable. The USA ignored the 'real' dangers of surmounting intensity of storms due to Human Induced Global Warming. As a result all plans to refurbish the wetlands of the Gulf Coast and improve the levees of New Orleans was all but abandoned. The latest 'drill' before Katrina arrived showed the deficits of preparedness of the Gulf Coast, yet, those drills meant absolutely nothing to the federal government. People of the Ninth Ward were left to hack their way out of attics to their roofs with axes as a last resort to survive an anticipated storm such as Katrina by the residents there.

Relief efforts have reached the Lower Ninth, but, were the last to be addressed (click here). We have recently opened a new relief site in the Lower 9th Ward. We need a lot of help getting our new site off the ground.

Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, LA: Hurricane Katrina Aftermath in Photographs - January 2006
No part of The City of New Orleans was devistated in the same magnitude as the Lower Ninth Ward. The photographs below were taken three months after the hurricane struck. (click here)

The events of Katrina are inexcusable and anyone who thinks differently is grossly "W"rong in their estimation to the neglect and disregard practiced at the highest levels of this government under the current leadership. In order to recognize the dangers of Human Induced Global Warming one has to FIRST and FOREMOST accept the scientific information provided by competent practioners of their professions employed by the federal government to do exactly what they have been doing in preparing the USA for drastic changes in the climate to protect citizens. As the circumstances surrounding Human Induced Global Warming have become 'dire' and 'immediate' the misanthropes of the Bush administration and their crony Republicans simply placed politics with the lives that were and remain most at risk across this country, continent and globe with the USA contributing the largest carbon dioxide load on planet Earth. To look the other way is not just unconscionable, it's criminally misanthropic. God forbid, the best interests of the USA demanded 'peace' rather than illegal and irrational Neocon war, and the scaling back of a drastically dangerous fossil fuel economy.

This is a graph from Wikipedia regarding average 'household income.' Click here for a link.

There is a signifcant amount of households below the poverty level. There are even more below the average 'gross' household income below $55,000. In the table of this link it is noted the income of individuals doesn't increase until they achieve a Bachelor's degree. The 'idea' the USA could subsist on High School educations without factories to soak up the undereducated has created an 'exclusive' disparity of opportunity in the USA.
The USA must return to a 'gear up' economy for supplying consmer demands for a nation desiring new forms of energy and transporation. Do you the income level increase a national high speed magnetic rail would create? With increased income across the board for Americans, the tax base increases, the deficit is better managed and the 'opportunity' for young Americans to be well educated by their families increases.
Does the USA have a choice? Do families believe children are worth the investment to rebuild their nation and it's economy?

There are 191 million people in the USA 25 years old and older. This is a graph of the USA 'brain trust.' I am not impressed.

One might ask, how many of those PhDs are minority Americans? Not many. The Misanthropes haven't even begun to address the educational needs of the people of this country. Without a significantly more impressive 'brain trust' and the 'reason' to establish one, the USA's interests will be outsourced as well and we will be a 'slave nation' to a country such as China in more ways than just 'average minimum wage labor.' You might ask yourself come election day 2008, whom is going to lead this nation when they can't even graduate from high school? Where is an American economy if there are no leaders to take us there?

US high school dropout rate: high, but how high? (click title above)
By Gail Russell Chaddock Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON – The national dropout rate is notoriously hard to pin down, and the latest effort to do so - showing alarmingly low graduation rates in some parts of America - is likely to intensify the statistics wars.
Nearly 1 in 3 high school students in the Class of 2006 will not graduate this year, the Editorial Projects in Education (EDE) Research Center reported Tuesday.
This are current the statistics upto 2004....


High School Dropout Rates (click here)
...Dropout rates of young people ages 16 to 24 in the civilian, non-institutionalized population gradually declined between 1972 and 2004, from 15 percent to a low of 10 percent in 2003, where the rate remained in 2004. (See Table 2) In this indicator, dropouts are those who are not enrolled in and have not completed high school. In 1972, the dropout rate among non-Hispanic blacks was 21 percent, and, among non-Hispanic whites, it was 12 percent. These rates declined substantially for each group between 1992 and 2004, narrowing the gap between the two groups (though the rate for blacks remains twice that of whites). The dropout rate for non-Hispanic black youth reached an historic low of 11 percent in 2001. (See Figure 1) This drop is at least in part related to the dramatic increases in incarceration rates among black high school dropouts since 1980, which takes them out of the civilian non-institutionalized population on which these estimates are based.7 Rates among Hispanic youth have declined in last few years from 30 percent in 1998 to 24 percent in 2004....

The Misanthropes of the Bush Health, Education and Welfare Department can't seem to identify 'Health Insurance Company Deaths.'

The reality of 'Death in the USA by Health Insurance Company' is only recognized on one place on Earth. That place is the movie entitled "SiCKO." The only place.

This is a CDC chart. It is a shameful statement to the bias of USA Healthcare. There are socio-economic divides. That is ONLY curable with a one payer healthcare system. It's time the USA 'get over it.' The USA has an obligation to provide the best healthcare in the world to all of it's citizens, not just the 'white upper class ones.'

The Misanthropes of Bush, Bernanke and Hank's Goldman Sachs are the only folks profitting from the Stock Market Collapse of 2007

Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rallied, capping the first monthly gain since May, after President George W. Bush and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke pledged to prevent credit losses from snuffing out the nation's economic expansion.
Fannie Mae, the largest source of money for U.S. home loans, and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the biggest securities firm, climbed after Bush said the government will help people with delinquent mortgages keep their homes. Bernanke's promise to ``act as needed'' to limit the impact of loan defaults helped send consumer-related shares to the highest level in three weeks....

The foreclosures have already happened. They didn't stop them then and now Goldman Sachs sits at the the Left Hand of Bush to rake in even more Treasury dollars than Hank has already sent them through insider information. This 'bail out' plan will never achieve any help for these folks but only for those that could hold out at the top end of the income bracket. These boys don't care about Americans, only their beach homes in trouble of those high interest rates.

July Foreclosures Up 9 Percent From June (click here)

Tuesday August 21, 6:35 pm ET

By Alex Veiga, AP Business Writer
U.S. Home Foreclosures Jump Sharply in July, Up 9 Percent From June
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The number of foreclosure filings reported in the U.S. last month jumped 93 percent from July of 2006 and rose 9 percent from June, the latest sign that homeowners are having trouble making payments and finding buyers during the national housing downturn....

Just in case the Misanthropes of the Bush/Cheney White House have lost sight of the real war for USA national security...

...it's a new hundred miles east of Iraq. The people that attacked the USA are in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Let's take a look at the OTHER misanthropic characteristics of the USA since Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney misdirected the priorities of this entire nation and continues to do so, along with career military generals that rather 'play war' among the impoverished of Iraq than vanquish the real enemy of the USA.