Monthly Archives: August 2011

Japan Gets Annual New Leaders Who Can’t Lead Anyone, Anywhere

doserate-ground-18junejg.jpg 1,061×1,468 pixels Insidiously and rapidly, Fukushima is poisoning a big part of eastern Japan.  All the way to Tokyo, the poison silently spreads while the officials at the top of society’s pyramid there continue to be in shocking denial. … Continue reading

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Jobs Will Never Come Back Until Tariffs Return

Understanding economics is all about understanding human thinking, human plotting and human religions.  But in modern times, theorists teaching in schools cut out all of that and psychology and above all, mythology, and reduced economic matters to statistics…and then proceeded … Continue reading

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Berlin NY Begins Digging Out From Hurricane Irene Floods

The floods from Hurricane Irene are subsiding in many places except the high mountains in Vermont and NY Catskill and northern tier mountains.  The rivers and streams in my own small town are still at flood level but finally dropping. … Continue reading

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Berlin, NY Devastated By Hurricane Irene Floods!

Some people are assuming that Hurricane Irene was no big deal.  Well, it is a HUGE deal here in the mountains of upstate New York, the Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts and Vermont!  My small town of Berlin is now utterly … Continue reading

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Red Sunset, Safe Sailing, Red Sunrise, Big Blow

  This morning, at sunrise, I took the camera and caught the amazing, pink sunrise that heralded a hurricane night.  An ancient saying of sailors is, a red sunset means a peaceful sea but a red sunrise means a big … Continue reading

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Hurricane Irene Evacuation Orders Are Serious

I have family sitting right in the eye of the future track of this huge hurricane, Irene.  It seems to have slowed down somewhat and has lower winds, thank heavens.  But…it is very, very big and the biggest killer hurricane … Continue reading

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Dangerous Hurricane Irene Begins To Race North

Most of my family lives in the NY/NJ/MA region.  Hurricane Irene, still building strength offshore of mainly Florida, is now plotted to run right over all of us up North.  The eye, as of the latest forecasts, is supposed to … Continue reading

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