By Paul Craig Roberts

April 19, 2013

(LifeSiteNews) – A recent National Weather Service report predicted that if the western United States were to witness another “cataclysm” type earthquake, as some observers have predicted, the damage could be substantial enough to destroy homes and damage tens of thousands of families and businesses.

The “big-3″ hurricanes of 2004 were the deadliest single events on record with the deaths of many thousands of people being recorded.

The catastrophic “Big 3″ of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Ike were the worst storm records on record to that date, accounting for the deaths of up to 11,000 persons and businesses. Both Hurricanes Thomas and Karl were also major disasters of great human damage.

Since 1999, several major earthquakes have devastated the Western United States. In the late 1990’s, for example, a tremor of magnitude 7.6 was felt as far south as South Dakota and Oklahoma City, and near New York City. That quake triggered a tsunami wave that killed many people, including the head of the United States Congress, Thomas Jefferson. The following year, during a particularly intense season, an 8.7 magnitude earthquake devastated eastern Canada.

NWS, in conjunction with NOAA, recently released the first annual, updated earthquake hazard maps that show just how dangerous a global “catastrophe” like the “Big 3″ of hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Ike were compared to the relatively safe and easy days leading up to them.

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Of the 33,731 deaths recorded in the United States during the 2012 calendar year, about 5 percent were caused by natural disasters. In comparison, during the same period, in 2001, the U.S. experienced 9,078 dead, 1,728 killed and 3,099 more damaged.

Of the 19,895 deaths recorded in 2012, 1,743 (or 12 percent) of the total number of fatalities were due to natural disasters.

The “Big 3″ of hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Ike produced a total of 14,841 deaths, an average of roughly seven deaths every minute. Since Katrina, the three powerful hurricanes are now all at sea; in August 2013, a massive tropical depression devastated Puerto Rico and is expected to strengthen into a devastating hurricane of destructive force if not stopped by the swif

Teachers have been known to claim to be improving the “educational outcomes” of students – if teachers who aren’t actually learning how to learn are 모나코 카지노the only ones getting these “unearned” gains. And the myth that there’s no difference between male and female education, which is common on the Left in this country, should not be ignored either.

On the positive side, when we look at our school systems that are actually doing pretty well, they show that boys perform as well as girls on math, literacy and science tests when compared to their female counterparts.

Source: The Conversation on Education.

And we don’t have this, especially within our public institutions, as in the public schools that we teach our children about. It may surprise you to hear that our public education is not the best that it could be – not even among the best on Earth. The top 3.3 countries have the highest levels of achievement in science. I suspect that the United States is close to that as well, but it may just be that we need to change that.

As for those who think their education is better than a teacher’s who doesn’t have to go through a classroom in order to teach, it’s no different than if you said you were a better person without having to work or go to school. For those who believe their ability to be good people without having to go to school is just one more advantage of working in the service sector (and it is), maybe that’s not worth pointing out.

What the Left thinks is more important

The “social justice” ideology of the Left uses fear, hatred and division to create a climate in which people fear that their views would be taken as threats.

In one study, I have been doing on “the social justice divide” I have identified the following divide: Those who are in support of social justice, those who believe the country, and those who believe the nation cannot afford to be in support of social justice. An

The NSW Rural Fire Service issued a road closure on State Highway 37 at the western end of Daylesford Drive yesterday afternoon.

Emergency crews from the State Emergency Service (SES) and NSW Emergency Services Bureau (NSBE) were on scene assessing the situation as water from the surrounding areas entered the motorway.

SES fire captain Scott Micallef said the road was closed as firefighters worked to maintain the road and the road bridge.

“The road is about three metres wide and the side of t바카라h더킹카지노e road is about four metres wide,” Mr Micallef said.

“[The water] is starting to go into the road and is already quite deep.”

Rural Transport Minister Andrew Constance said the road remained closed to traffic and crews were inspecting the bridge, which is also in serious condition, for any damage and water damage.

He said water from the area had not reached the main bridge but the road should be cleared in time to allow vehicles to travel the 200 kilometres from Gisborne to Gatton tomorrow.

NSW Emergency Services Bureau spokesman David Phelan said in some remote areas a major flood affected a bridge but he did not have information on the cause of today’s closure.

Mr Micallef said the closure in this area would take at least another hour.

A spokesman for the SA Police Service said they had called in an extra officer to help with the rescue of motorists who had fallen on top of a motorist who had run over him while making a left turn into a creek on State Highway 37.