My friend a retired pilot, 747 cargo. Worked for Fed Ex, and Evergreen Airlines. His plane was the one on TV bringing back soldiers killed in action from Afghanistan I think it was. He has been in every air port in the world. He told me he spent half his life in the sky. With four jet engines spewing tons of diesel exhaust fumes straight into the atmosphere.

I asked him, being he’s looking down on the earth all the time, his view perspective about mans effect on the climate. His opinion? His experience? Volcanoes are the biggest threat. Remember Mt St Helens? It supposedly caused sunlight and heat to be blocked around the world making the earths temperature fall for a little while.

Only political uncertainty and tensions are supporting the gold price.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/global-precious/precious-gold-flat-after-hitting-2018-low-as-dollar-treasuries-firm-idUKL5N1SO4OJ

Desert Gold
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/640785/

I have studied and lived with this volcano for over 40 years.  I was here with TV crews when the eruption phase began in 1983.  This current episode is the first major change in the eruption since then.  With help from the USGS, I have removed a lot of the ‘geological uncertainty’ factors.  This volcano is well studied and the plumbing and it’s behavior are fairly well known… as are the risks.  We (the local residents) know the risks and live with them without all the excitement and drama that an outsider tends to emphasize.  The native Hawaiians always said “These are Pele’s (the volcano goddess) lands, and she can come and take them back at any time.”  Everyone who lives here acknowledges that as a fact of life here.

Those who build homes atop Pele’s house get what they ask for… a visit from Pele.

I do appreciate the kind words from one as experienced and knowledgeable as you.  Thank you.

This morning, predawn, the summit crater belched up a plume of ash to 30,000 ft.  The fissure eruptions continue, and the lava now erupting is thinner and more mobile, so I suspect that the newer lava that has drained from the summit area is now appearing at the fissures in the east rift zone.  This could generate a much larger and more mobile lava flow downslope.  At present the largest flow is heading south… away from me.  But I am not completely safe, either.  I learned that my subdivision was built on the lava flow of 1840 that came from the same area of the rift zone that is now erupting.  This explains the beautiful ropy lava domes I have exposed in my back yard.  I hope Pele lets me keep them.

Red sky glow again tonight, distant artillery booms, and ground shudders from the vents.  But I sleep just fine.  🙂

geological uncertainty has impressed me.  It is uncertain if I would be as cool under similar circumstances.  I have always respected something a geologist said on a TV documentary (do not recall for sure now, but it might have been on a documentary series titled ‘Angry Earth’).  The geologist said something like  ‘We live at various locations on this planet only by geological permission.  And that permission can be revoked at any time’ .  I recall you have mentioned that traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples in your part of the globe also incorporates this concept into daily life and their view of the natural world.   Best wishes.

Funk https://youtu.be/gNj133rSuOQ

It’s worse than socialism. At least socialism in Europe gives you free health care free college ” for its citizens” and better working conditions or did. The Demos and even some Repubs want socialism for everyone else while we pay for it.

The Democrats allow themselves to be bribed to get campaign money. They will “sell out” any American that dosent bribe them..EVEN the IRANIANS have threaten to disclose their names of those who they were able to bribe if trump walks away from the NUCLEAR DEAL Democrats made ………WELL MAKE MY DAY ! as Clint would say !

Its clear TRUMP is the right GUY, at the right time   !  JUST watch out for Israel they will they will throw you to the dogs when they are done using you !  They are Trumps achilles heel …keep your friends near and your enemies closer .

It looks to me like that “Flatline” stayed at the “HIGH end”and refused to go down despite  efforts to push it down..thats my read ,for what it s worth .

The only thing I know is that gold will open down in the am and the SM futures will be up

Pretty much the same that it has been for the last 8 years.

These criminals have all markets completely dialed in with whatever algo’s and/or software they use to rig the markets. With the ability to print endless funds, they can do whatever they want.

Very strange bid action for gold showing around 4:00 pm today .
Flatline with three blips :

Lol on something’s always gonna cause that. Yeah politics.
I kinda don’t feel sorry for the politicians there getting what they deserve after the way they treat their people not to mention the half of million people who died in Syria. There want to separate from Russia’s oil and unseat Assad who won’t agree to a bigger pipeline going through their country. Now their flooded with hostile immigrants and jihadist. Some how I think they can just assimilate them and all will be good but it’s not gonna happen. After all that’s happened they still keep their borders and many of these people aren’t even refugees.
They have legitimate fears of war with Russia due to reliance to their oil and procimity. Russia is low on the totem pole as far as richest economies. Cutting off exports isn’t going to help peace.
I wonder what they’re gonna do about that uranium deal Killary got all that money? Why isn’t that stopped?

Spinning a Crossfire Hurricane: The Times on the FBI’s Trump Investigation

Now protests against the Iranian regime are growing around Iran…

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/17/deadly-protests-continue-in-southern-iran-for-second-day-streets-look-war-torn.html

An appeals court says CA can list the herbicide glyphosate as a carcinogen

After much fanfare, a state appeals court has ruled that California can list glyphosate as a carcinogen — and that the state’s ban on discharging the herbicide into public waterways stands, too. Despite Monsanto’s best efforts to keep the toxicity of their product under wraps, the ruling in California is undoubtedly a small victory for concerned consumers and environmental advocates everywhere. The great debate surrounding glyphosate has been in full swing for quite some time now. But in spite of this ruling, its clear that the drama and the controversies (and the health risks) coming from Monsanto and their flagship product, glyphosate-containing Roundup, are far from over.

cont. https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-05-17-appeals-court-ca-can-list-the-herbicide-glyphosate-as-a-carcinogen.html#

Would be nice if we could get along better with the EU but there does have to be some changes.

Trying to force The EU to stop using Russian gas is a giant mistake. Just not going to happen.

I don’t think that’s too smart either. One of the basic rules of politics is never put your opponents in a position that they can’t retreat from. Might be some bad results from that policy.

Just for the record.  They failed, they wanted over a 100,000 demonstrators, but got only 40,000, most of them paid to show up.  Taking a page out of the George Soros playbook…

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/16/hamas-admits-most-killed-in-gaza-violence-were-its-members.html

Yeah, looks like the EU is increasingly thumbing their noses at Trump and his Neocon cronies. I think I read yesterday that the EU was going to bypass the USD and use Euro’s to buy Iranian oil – also balked at the Iran sanctions.

Works for me. Big win for Vlad.

https://intellectualfroglegs.com/red-tsunami

You Tube has blocked this.  What the Cabal is doing is blocking anything that goes against their narrative. They need to win the House and Senate back so they can impeach Trump and go on destroying this country. Ain’t going to happen if people start seeing what is going on.

Click on the picture to watch the video.

Socialism causes the spread of more socialism. Inaccurate, unstable or fundamentally flawed currencies cause unstable prices. Like Oil going to $145 and back down to $28 and NOW its around $80/bbl. >>>Oil up then down screwed up Venezuela by going up, then down. Not their fault they have a mess.

PEOPLE ARE DRYING TO DO BUSINESS OUT HERE!!

Globalization is global socialism. The USA USED to be the only capitalist country on a socialized planet. After 1913, the USA got SUCKED in. Over time the greedy grabby global Bernie Sanders in charged, sucked the USA dry. And now the USA is pretty much a socialized country. How can you have “capitalism” with fake money and fake exchange rates?

I just stopped to empty my mailbox of GARBAGE. The taxpayers paid a grown man with generous benefits, to deliver with a small truck, GARBAGE in my mailbox. I don’t EVER want to hear anyone complain about hamburger flippers getting a raise.

These mailmen of today are getting away with murder, compared to a burger flipper job. Burger flipper should be paid equal to a mailman, or vice versa.