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Rick Price - Medicine Hat Alberta

"Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us."
— St. Alphonsus Liguori

Sunday 09/28 75 | 50 °F

Sunday 0% Precip. A mix of clouds and sun. High near 75F. Winds NE at 10 to 20 mph.

Sunday Night 0% Precip. Mostly cloudy. Low near 50F. Winds NE at 5 to 10 mph.

Monday 09/29 73 | 45 °F

Monday 0% Precip. Mostly cloudy skies early will become partly cloudy later in the day. High 73F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph.

Monday Night 10% Precip. A few clouds. Low near 45F. Winds SW at 10 to 15 mph.

Tuesday 09/30 65 | 40 °F

Tuesday 20% Precip. Sunshine and clouds mixed. High around 65F. Winds WSW at 10 to 20 mph.

Tuesday Night 0% Precip. Mainly clear. Low near 40F. Winds WSW at 10 to 15 mph.

SOLAR FLARE: Weekend fireworks were predicted, and the sun complied. On Sunday, Sept. 28th (0258 UT), the magnetic canopy of sunspot AR2173 erupted, producing an M5-class solar flare. The sun was high overhead in Australia when Matt Wastell of Brisbane photographed the explosion:

Taking into account all of the sunspots as well as the filaments, NOAA forecasters estimate a 65% chance of M-class flares and a 10% chance of X-flares in the next 24 hours. 

US Navy and DOD wants to use the State of Washington, all of the State of Oregon, part of the state of Idaho, Northern California, and the Pacific Ocean from California to Washington State as a weapons training range!!!  

They've  decided, without the public's consent, to use public lands, the Pacific Ocean, private property, wildlife, and humans as test subjects for warfare testing in four states.

The United States Navy and the U.S. Department of Defense have decided that their Northwest Training Range Complex, in the State of Washington, should be expanded, and have devised a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), dated December 2008, for public review and comment. The expansion of their area of operation will include all of the State of Washington, all of the State of Oregon, part of the state of Idaho, and Northern California. This area will also include large areas of the Pacific Ocean from California to Washington. (The map designating this program area also extends throughout Northern California to the San Francisco Bay Area under a “warning area” designation.)

The U.S. Commander of the Pacific Fleet has given American citizens and residents of these states only a very short time to comment on their draft EIS: Published on December 30, 2008, with a final public comment deadline extended to March 11, 2009, this document is approximately 1,000+/- pages in length with attachments. In addition to a short comment time the Navy limited public hearings to five, with only one held in Oregon, one in California and no hearings in Idaho. The Navy has allegedly failed to place information about this EIS in major newspapers or inform our elected representatives about this program.

Grown 5 apartments from me...still growing Sept 28, 2014

All Pics unless Noted are by Bob Shannon

BOB: THE TIMING WAS PURPOSELY OFF ON THIS STORY. THE INJECTIONS WILL START NEXT YEAR.I SAID IT.

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A major news story broke on AOL and countless other mainstream news media outlets, this past week, that the Obama Health Care Bill will require all U.S. citizens and babies to receive a microchip or Medchip by March 23, 2013. Whether or not the microchip requirement in the bill is implemented by 2013, remains to be seen.

In 2010, my book “Are You Ready for the Microchip?” was released, and I asked the question, “Is the microchip implant hidden in the Healthcare Bill? Are newborn children starting in 2013 going to receive a microchip shortly after birth?” Then in the book, I wrote, “ In the massive US HEALTHCARE BILL, which your elected representatives voted for without reading, there is a section titled: Subtitle C-11 Sec. 2521 – National Medical Device Registry which states:

“The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and outcomes data on each device that—‘‘(A) is or has been used in or on a patient; and ‘‘(B) is a class III device; or ‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable.”

The language is deliberately vague, but it provides the structure for making America the first nation in the world that would require every U.S. citizen to receive an implanted radio-frequency (RFID) microchip for the purpose of controlling medical care.

A number of states like Virginia, have passed “stop the mark of the beast legislation” in an effort to stop this kind of legislation.

As with numerous other things that I have written and spoken about based on solid documentation, I am regularly challenged by some, and especially those in the Christian community, who are clueless about what is going on. Their criticism has never prevented me from presenting the facts, because I never take a poll about what I write or speak on. A Christian is called to speak the truth in love, whether or not it is accepted. I am not trying to disparage any ministry, but I don’t determine what I say based on whether or not it is “seeker friendly,” or popular. The only issue is, is it true and is it wise to communicate it at that particular time? 

Colorado River Basin sees severe groundwater depletion

 Lake Mead
Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the U.S., but an ongoing drought has depleted its reserves. Former water levels can be seen as white 'bathtub rings.' Credit: ©Shutterstock.com/ArchonCodex.

Over the past 14 years, the Colorado River Basin has experienced its worst drought since precipitation records have been kept, starting in the 1960s. The basin supplies water used for agriculture and in households in seven states, affecting more than 40 million people. In a study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers have found that the reservoirs that store water in the basin are at record low levels. What’s more, the research shows that in addition to shrinking reservoirs, groundwater is being depleted much faster than previously thought, which could have major implications for the region’s future water security.
During the recent severe drought, reservoir volumes throughout the basin have been closely managed to maintain surface water demands, and many past studies have focused on the two main reservoirs serving the Colorado River Basin: Lakes Powell and Mead. But little effort has focused on groundwater supplies accessed as supplemental sources during drought, and current groundwater withdrawals in the area have gone undocumented, according to Tom Gleeson, a hydrogeologist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who wasn’t involved in the recent study. “Previous estimates,” he says, “have suggested very limited groundwater depletion in the last 10 to 20 years.”

Researchers used data from NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or GRACE, satellites to observe and record changes throughout the basin’s water supplies. GRACE satellites detect terrestrial water, including soil moisture, snow, groundwater and surface water by sensing small changes in the gravitational pull on the satellites over given areas of Earth’s surface due to changes in the mass of water present. Similar methods using GRACE data have previously been applied with success elsewhere, such as over India as well as California’s Central Valley.

Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, has lost almost 20 cubic kilometers of water since the current longstanding drought began in about 2000; when at capacity, the reservoir holds about 35 cubic kilometers of water. But based on GRACE data collected between December 2004 and November 2013, researchers determined that the equivalent of two Lake Meads — about 65 cubic kilometers of water — has been depleted from groundwater supplies in the Colorado River Basin in that period. Upon seeing the results, Stephanie Castle, a water resources specialist at University of California at Irvine and lead author of the study, says she was “absolutely shocked” that so much groundwater had been used during the study period.

Urgent Action: forest rights under threat

The legal right of tribal peoples to give, or withhold, their consent before their forests are cut down is under threat: there are reports that India’s new government is investigating ways of removing this vital protection.

This right is enshrined in the Forest Rights Act 2006 and under international law, but the Prime Minister’s office and the Ministry of Environment are examining ways that this right can be removed. Without this protection India’s tribal peoples will be powerless to stop the forests that they rely on, manage and protect, from being destroyed.

Not only is the Minister for Environment trying to deny India’s tribal people their right to say no to development they don’t want, he’s pretending he’s doing it for their own good, stating ‘tribals have every right to development and cannot be turned into anthropological showpieces’.