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On Tuesday night's The ReidOut on MSNBC, frequent guest and justice correspondent for The Nation, Elie Mystal doubled down on his claims that the criticism Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson received from Republicans was designed to get her killed. He even suggested Republicans oppose her nomination because she's black. "These attacks are designed to attack Ketanji Brown Jackson, not her record, but her personal character, and that we know that these attacks can put her life and the life of her family and children in danger. And we know they know that," Mystal said hysterically making the obviously...

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has become the latest rich elitist to buy a huge property in a remote area even as the plebs continue to be told “you’ll own nothing and be happy.” Murdoch and his wife have purchased a 340,000 acre cattle ranch and attached mansion house in Montana that was previously owned by the Koch family for a whopping $200 million dollars. The sale of the property, known as Beaverhead, is the largest ranch deal in Montana history. “The ranch is in southwest Montana near Yellowstone National Park, and features elk, antelope and mule deer. There’s also a...

Redoubt: Northwest a Haven for Dismayed Americans By Chuck Holton CBN News Reporter Monday, October 14, 2013 NORTHERN IDAHO -- You don't hear the word "redoubt" used very much anymore. It means a "fortress" or a "safe, protected place." Some conservative American Christians are so dismayed with direction of the country that they're looking for a safe place for their families. They call it the "American Redoubt." Alarm over the future of America can be seen almost daily in the headlines and on cable news. The loss of privacy, constitutional freedoms, and out-of-control government spending are just a few of...

Going Deep: “It’s Entirely Possible That Nowhere in North America is a Safe Redoubt” Eric Peters June 13th, 2012 Eric Peters Autos Comments (54) Read by 3,448 people Some friends have been actively talking about their Exit Plans – about getting out of this country before the curtain goes down. While there is still time. They believe the situation to be hopeless. That despite the upwelling of liberty-mindedness among some, the vast majority of Americans are not liberty-minded. That Americans – tens of millions of them – are stupid, unreachable, mean, irrational, authoritarian-minded Babbits and poltroons. People who always speak...

ALASKA VOLCANO OBSERVATORY CURRENT STATUS REPORT Monday, April 5, 2010 1:20 PM AKDT (Monday, April 5, 2010 21:20 UTC) REDOUBT VOLCANO (CAVW #1103-03-) 60°29'7" N 152°44'38" W, Summit Elevation 10197 ft (3108 m) Current Volcano Alert Level: ADVISORY Current Aviation Color Code: YELLOW AVO raised the Aviation Color Code to YELLOW and the Volcano Alert Level to ADVISORY at Redoubt volcano this morning. A series of small repetitive earthquakes began at 01:44 AKDT (0944 UTC) this today in the vicinity of the volcano's summit. Activity is continuing this afternoon. See http://www.avo.alaska.edu/webicorders/Redoubt/RSO_EHZ_AV.php These earthquakes may be precursory to renewed eruptive activity...

Volcano is exhibiting signs of elevated unrest above known background level

Strong signals over the last few hours on it's summit webicorder. If I remember correctly those marking indicate at some level magma is on the move.

With Redoubt volcano still active and potentially explosive, officials have given up trying to restart the nearby Drift River oil terminal anytime soon, indefinitely idling about 10 oil platforms in Cook Inlet. "It will take as long as Mother Nature decides," said a Coast Guard spokeswoman, Petty Officer Sara Francis. It's unlikely Drift River can reopen before early fall, she said. The owner of the Chevron-operated facility, Cook Inlet Pipeline Co., is studying other ways of getting oil from the west side of Cook Inlet to market, Francis said. But so far, officials have not come up with a bypass...

OK, most of us have heard that Alaska's Redoubt volcano has been erupting. The redoubtable crew behind Stromboli On-line, who have an enviable travel budget, took some remarkable pictures of some phases of the eruption. Two examples are below; try the link underneath the picture for more. Lahar on the Drift River Alaska (in case you can't figure it out, click the image links dated either "4 April 2009" or "4-7 April 2009". Next............................ La Cumbre volcano, which is basically the entire island of Fernandina in the Galapagos, had a class "curtain of fire" fissure eruption over the past few...

Pacific Energy Resources announced that due to recent volcanic activity at Mt. Redoubt in Alaska, Cook Inlet Pipe Line Company's ("CIPL") Drift River Terminal has been shut down indefinitely. CIPL is owned 50% by a subsidiary of the Company and 50% by a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, who also operates CIPL. The State of Alaska created an emergency response team with a Unified Command composed of representatives of the Coast Guard, the State of Alaska and CIPL. On April 4, 2009, following another large eruption, the Drift River Terminal was completely evacuated and the Unified Command took the decision to...

Redoubt Volcano has been erupting all day. I am in south Anchorage where ash is falling. 1/8th inch in the last 20 minutes. visibility less than 500 feet. Heavy smell of sulfur in the air. Hunkering down!

As first noticed by WUWT commenter Crosspatch last night, from seismic data, it appears Mt. Redoubt has erupted: "Looking at this Redoubt webcorder it looks like an eruption of some sort might have started at around 2045UTC. It’s dark there now, so we won’t know until morning." National Weather Service radar, Kenai, Alaska: capture at 02:42 Alaska local time, March 23rd 2009. Click for latest radar image. Because the eruptions happened at night, so far we don’t have any current photography. Hopefully soon. The radar image above shows the plume clearly though. Here is a 40 frame loop showing the...

Mt. Redoubt Volcano has finally erupted. At about 10:30 pm, local time. Not much of a blowout, and it's too dark to see anything, but it has finally occurred.

FAIRBANKS — After months of rumbling, Alaska’s Mount Redoubt volcano erupted three times late Sunday and early Monday.

February 3, 2009—Volcanic smoke and gas from two new holes eat through snow and ice high on Alaska's Redoubt Volcano on Saturday—one of them (left) about the size of a football field. "Things are shifting" on, and in, the 10,197-foot (3,108-meter) volcano—considered the ninth most dangerous in the U.S.—said geologist Kristi Wallace of the Alaska Volcano Observatory, who was on a survey flight over the two big fumaroles yesterday (Redoubt Volcano satellite map). Surrounding ice is melting rapidly, and the gases have now been confirmed to include carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide—adding to evidence that a magma chamber...

Alaska's Mount Redoubt continued to rumble and emit steam Sunday but showed no dramatic burst of energy from the previous day, geologists monitoring the volcano said, but a Japanese volcano did erupt. A snowcapped volcano northwest of Tokyo erupted early Monday, sending up a huge plume of smoke and gas and raining fine, powdery ash on parts of Japan's capital.

Over the past 48 hours, seismic activity at Redoubt Volcano has increased markedly. This has taken the form of periodic tremor bursts that are most visible on the two seismic stations closest to the summit. Beginning at 00:58 AKT (9:58 UTC) this morning, tremor became sustained and its amplitude increased markedly. AVO raised the Aviation Color Code to ORANGE and the Alert Level to WATCH this morning at 2:09 AKT (11:09 UTC). This activity could be precursory to an eruption, perhaps within hours to days. A further increase in seismicity is expected to accompany an eruption. There is no indication...

Right on CampusThroughout 2003 and into 2004, a surge of protests roiled American campuses. You probably think the kids were agitating against war in Iraq, right? Well, no. Students at UCLA, Michigan and many other schools were sponsoring bake sales to protest . . . affirmative action. For white students and faculty, a cookie cost (depending on the school) $1; blacks and Hispanics could buy one for a lot less. The principle, the protesters observed, was just that governing university admission practices: rewarding people differently based on race. Indignant school officials charged the bake-sale organizers with "creating a hostile climate" for minority students,...