Thursday, July 10, 2014

GLOBAL WARMING WTF–A POLAR VORTEX TO HIT THE MIDWEST IN JULY–TO DUMP TEMPERATURE IN THE 60F TO 70F DURING THE DAY AND–40F TO 50F AT NIGHT

THE HIGHLY ANOMALOUS AMPLIFICATION OF THE LARGE SCALE PATTERN IS  A VIRTUAL LOCK BY THE END OF THE PERIOD AS INDICATED BY ALL MEDIUM  RANGE GLOBAL NUMERICAL MODELS AND ENSEMBLE SYSTEMS. THIS WELL- ADVERTISED HIGH MERIDIONAL EVENT WILL FEATURE A FULL-LATITUDE  RIDGE AND SEARING HEAT OUT WEST…NOT TO BE OUTDONE BY THE RETURN  OF THE POLAR VORTEX IN THE EAST OVER QUE/ONT AND THE UPPER GREAT  LAKES. CONSIDERING THE MAGNITUDE OF THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WITH  500MB STANDARDIZED ANOMALIES ON THE ORDER OF -3 TO -4SD IN BOTH  THE DETERMINISTIC GLOBAL MODELS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE ENSEMBLE  MEANS…CONFIDENCE IN A PERIOD OF BELOW AVG TEMPS /DURING WHAT IS CLIMATOLOGICALLY THE HOTTEST TIME OF THE YEAR/ IS VERY HIGH FROM TUE-THU OF NEXT WEEK.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/07/10/poor-mans-polar-vortex-to-make-shocking-summer-return-in-eastern-u-s-next-week/

ALL THESE DEMOCRATS IN POWER SHOULD BE KICKED OUT OF OFFICE JUST LIKE ERIC CANTOR FOR SUPPORTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO ADDS FURTHER STRAIN TO THE WIDENING UNEMPLOYMENT (90million now no longer looking) AND ADD BURDEN TO THE CITIZENS WHO MUST PAY FOR THE DEMOCRAT SOCIALIST DRIVE–THE CHAOS DRIVE TO SINK WHAT IS LEFT OF THE AMERICAN DREAM FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS

The effect on the congressional immigration debate after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s surprising primary loss should not be about whether to have reform, but whether that reform should be about increasing foreign labor or reducing it.

Cantor represented the unanimous views of the leadership of both parties, which have only differed in how and how much to increase lifetime immigrants, guest workers and legalizations of unlawful foreign visitors.

By stressing the opposite option — reductions in legal immigration — during his campaign against Cantor, victorious economics professor Dave Brat has suddenly given hope to the many members of Congress whose immigration policy vision for wage-earning Americans has been blocked by their parties’ leaders. Echoing themes articulated tirelessly by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., Brat argues for dramatic cuts in future visas for immigrant and other foreign labor, The purpose is to allow the labor supply to tighten, raise wages and make it more likely that employers will recruit from the neglected American populations in today’s economy.

This is a prescription that has worked well in the past. Perhaps the most stunning example was 100 years ago, when the outbreak of World War I abruptly stopped a three-decades-old massive importation of immigrant labor into the United States.

Northern manufacturers responded by aggressively recruiting, training and employing the still-living freed slaves and their descendants. Since the 1880s, manufacturers had virtually ignored this source of workers, preferring to send ships to Europe to bring in immigrants to expand their factories. But 1914 began a domestic people movement from plantations to cities that has been celebrated in literature and art as “The Great Migration.” It was the start of a decades-long mass movement of black Americans into the non-agrarian economy of the nation and the building of a large black middle class. But it happened only after easy access to foreign labor was removed.

Brat’s campaign focused on the current three-decades-long surge in immigration. He views the country’s over-supply of working-age adults — constantly engorged by more than a million new immigrants each year — as offering employers little market-based reason to figure out how to hire from groups of Americans with low labor participation rates.

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Monday, July 7, 2014

THE GOAL BY CHINA IS TO CONTROL ASIA–AND THE PATH IS THE INVASION OF TAIWAN AND JAPAN WITH SURFACE NAVAL BATTLE GROUPS AS CHINA MODERNIZED HER WAR MAKING CAPABILITY–THE ONLY DETERENT ARE US SUBMARINES AND TIME–TIME CHINA WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN ITS PRESENT MILITARY BUILD UP THROUGH ITS ECONOMIC ENGINE–BUT THEN IN THE USA WE HAVE OUR OWN SOCIALIST LIBERALS IN POWER AKA POTUS BHO AND THE DEMOCRATS WHO LIVES WITH CHAOS READY TO COLLAPSE INTERNALLY THE USA

The bad news first. The People's Republic of China now believes it can successfully prevent the United States from intervening in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan or some other military assault by Beijing.

Now the good news. China is wrong — and for one major reason. It apparently disregards the decisive power of America's nuclear-powered submarines.

Moreover, for economic and demographic reasons Beijing has a narrow historical window in which to use its military to alter the world's power structure. If China doesn't make a major military move in the next couple decades, it probably never will.

The U.S. Navy's submarines — the unsung main defenders of the current world order — must hold the line against China for another 20 years. After that, America can declare a sort of quiet victory in the increasingly chilly Cold War with China.

How China wins

The bad news came from Lee Fuell, from the U.S. Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center, during Fuell's testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 30.

For years, Chinese military planning assumed that any attack by the People's Liberation Army on Taiwan or a disputed island would have to begin with a Pearl Harbor-style preemptive missile strike by China against U.S. forces in Japan and Guam. The PLA was so afraid of overwhelming American intervention that it genuinely believed it could not win unless the Americans were removed from the battlefield before the main campaign even began.

A preemptive strike was, needless to say, a highly risky proposition. If it worked, the PLA just might secure enough space and time to defeat defending troops, seize territory, and position itself for a favorable post-war settlement.

But if China failed to disable American forces with a surprise attack, Beijing could find itself fighting a full-scale war on at least two fronts: against the country it was invading plus the full might of U.S. Pacific Command, fully mobilized and probably strongly backed by the rest of the world.

That was then. But after two decades of sustained military modernization, the Chinese military has fundamentally changed its strategy in just the last year or so. According to Fuell, recent writings by PLA officers indicate "a growing confidence within the PLA that they can more-readily withstand U.S. involvement."

The preemptive strike is off the table — and with it, the risk of a full-scale American counterattack. Instead, Beijing believes it can attack Taiwan or another neighbor while also bloodlessly deterring U.S. intervention. It would do so by deploying such overwhelmingly strong military forces — ballistic missiles, aircraft carriers, jet fighters, and the like — that Washington dare not get involved.

The knock-on effects of deterring America could be world-changing. "Backing away from our commitments to protect Taiwan, Japan, or the Philippines would be tantamount to ceding East Asia to China's domination," Roger Cliff, a fellow at the Atlantic Council, said at the same U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission hearing on Jan. 30.

Worse, the world's liberal economic order — and indeed, the whole notion of democracy — could suffer irreparable harm. "The United States has both a moral and a material interest in a world in which democratic nations can survive and thrive," Cliff asserted.

Fortunately for that liberal order, America possesses by far the world's most powerful submarine force — one poised to quickly sink any Chinese invasion fleet. In announcing its readiness to hold off the U.S. military, the PLA seems to have ignored Washington's huge undersea advantage.

Read More http://theweek.com/article/index/264032/china-thinks-it-can-defeat-america-in-battle