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Airspace Over Virtually All Of Western And Central Europe Now Closed
Developing: Eurocontrol says airspace closed in Ireland, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, Germany and Poland. US taxpayer-backed delegations packing bags of money can still fly into Athens for the time being. Approximately 5,000 to 6,000 flights were cancelled due to volcanic ash on Thursday. Also, from Reuters, Iceland volcano plume expected to cancel 21,000 flights today, may spread to Germany and Poland on Friday, European agency says.
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Calm down, everyone, the Pentagon is just clearing airspace so Obama's kids can go whale watching in Air Force One. They need a photo of a whale for a school project, and the Surgeon General is unavailable.
They must have learned their lesson from the last class project, when the Obamlettes needed a photo of the Statue of Liberty, and the White House didn't clear the airspace first:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/air_force_one_photo_op_over_ny.html
Trying to come up with an "ashhole" joke here... See, if they could arrange a hole in the ash, then, ....well there's the initial thought. Somebody run with it.
"cash not ash" LOL (stolen from another commentor)
The whole situation has wicked irony. UK tries to dump tons of crap on Iceland, Iceland returns the favor by dumping crap on them. Love it.
False flag operation on the way? No?
I would bet a couple of wienerschnitzels something is up ahead!
I would gladly pay you a wheelbarrow of USD two years from now for a couple of wienerschnitzels today.
Ominous.
"US taxpayer-backed delegations packing bags of money can still fly into Athens for the time being."
Brilliant!
Neither rain, sleet, snow nor volcanic eruption will keep these bailout pros from their appointed rounds.
Not to Worry
Rumsfeld and Timmay G. already proved in "Operation Drop Ship Iraq" that pallets of $100 bills can be made available at the FRBNY, airlifted by C-130's to anywhere in the world, anytime and dropped and then....magically...
POOF!
Disappear into thin pockets...
haarp my ass baby!
I wonder if there are any air disasters planned...
My fellow plebes, prepare your assholes for the upcoming trillion dollar funding of the war on natural disasters.
legislation = miracles
News anouncement coming tomorrow; it was all caused by global warming!
Calling for the support of all Climate Change supporters. Help Stamp Out Volcanoes!
Unnamed sources at Hverfisbarinn in Iceland report that energy scientists conducted an energy test below the Eyjafjallajokull glacier that may have inadvertently created a volcanic event. President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson denied this.
Latest online Gallup poll results confirm that 99.4% of non-Icelanders (and 68.5% of Icelanders) prefer using their computer's 'copy-paste' function when inputting the word Eyjafjallajokull.
There were some Godzilla sightings too over in the East...
monster insurance companies are spiking right now
Oh no, there goes Tokyo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I0_QMWFpH0
Go Go Godzila...
Save us!
This can only be good for all global markets as it's given a wonderful excuse for any bad news anywhere in the economic world for the next couple of months. Once again, a buying opportunity.
The only better buying opportunity I can think of would be for the supervocano under Yellowstone to blow its top and cover the world under a foot of ash, thereby re-setting the global debt meter back to zero. Think of the risk appetite increase, and the ability to leverage back up, that such an event would create.
I got a good laugh out of that. You're the first person I ever encountered who knew about the super volcano under Yellowstone. That would set FEMA back a couple of giant steps, alright.
I post about it regularly.
The History Channel 6-part series is well worth checking out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOn3wkehluk
Be careful what you wish for...
4.9 quake shakes Utah, Wyo., Idahohttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36582902
Actually, you better take that back. I've been to the site of the last eruption of that supervolcano (Craters of the Moon, some 150 mi. west of Yellowstone), and there still aren't any trees growing there 200,000 years later. They found boulders the size of houses in Kansas after the last one. It is a game over USA event.
That one wasn't really near the Yellowstone caldera. It was much further to the south.
You can watch the regular Yellowstone earthquake swarms at
http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/Yellowstone.html
It would really be almost as much a "game over world" event as "game over USA." The problem isn't so much that Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana would be totally destroyed (although they would) as that global agriculture would be knocked out for decades.
Canned food, bottled water, seeds, and firearms, bitches!
So I guess this is bad for real estate prices in Iceland?
Actually EU trucking and EuroRail will probably benefit from this.
Chunnel traffic will also be up.
Well, I guess the war is off. Can't fly in zero visibility, and Israelis don't like to get out of their planes to fight like men, and they don't like to be inside tanks without air superiority. Because they're pussies.
I am Chumbawamba.
China has Haarp as well?
Best as I can tell, 7 nations have some sort of "HAARP" facility, with the US leading the way with 3, followed closely by Russia and China with 2 each. Even Sweden has one and of course, our favorite enemy of the day, Iran, with one. You didn't think all this is saber rattling about Iran was about nuclear reactors or bombs, did you? That's so 20th century.
Fascinating.
So everybody with power is belligerent.
We are so fucked.
I think I will go climb a mountain now.
The hermit in the cave at the top will have a H.A.A.R.P. facility!
/ack/
The yakuza have their own HAARP also, it was bought from corrupt former leaders in Soviet Union.
Boo, Haman!
I was going to retort that the IDF could be called a lot of names both complimentary and uncomplimentary but NOT pussies, when I realized that my recolections of the IDF were based on my 1977 tour of duty in Israel with the UN Forces. 33 years ago. Shit it seems like yesterday.
Anyway, I googled the IDF & just spent some time updating myself. Some significant changes. I still suspect though, that the only pussies in the IDF really do have pussies (woman) but I'll grant you, a lot can change in 3 decades. I will tell you, the IDF in 77 WAS an impressive military.
True story,
I served on the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in the Sinai for six months in '85-'86. I did, drunk on R&R in Eilat (Mmmm, Maccabee Beer), in fact call an IDF soldier a pussy directly to his face, exact words, BTW. To top off the insult, I pulled out a dollar bill and walked my fingers across it. I said my fingers were the IDF and the Dollar was the US, I pulled the dollar out from under my fingers and my hand fell on the table.
He just walked away, extremely insulted. But I will also say he began with arrogantly calling us, ahem, "unprofessional" in so many words probably not fit to repeat here. Nevertheless, we were very disappointed, we were itching for a good bar room brawl. I think it was that we outnumbered him and he didn't have enough friends present. A shame, really, we were looking for a good fight and who better or more worthy to fight with than the IDF?
It was the same night that a Cuban tourist was talking shit to chicks about us at another table, we picked him up and threw him down the stairs and out of the bar. He never came back but we did pay his tab for him to the bartender afterwards, it was just the honorable thing to do afterall.
Of course then, I was assigned to A Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (Strike Hold), 82nd Airborne Division and we had no fear of Israelis or Cubans. In fact we were admittedly drunk assholes itching simply for a good brawl for the sport of it.
But calling an IDF guy a pussy was nothing, we all lived by the example of the PFC who on Dec. 23, 1944 - "Battle of the Bulge" - An entire US Armored Division was retreating from a SS Panzer Division in the Ardennes when a sergeant in a tank destroyer spotted an American digging a foxhole. PFC Martin, 325th Glider Regiment (yea, a glider guy, don't hold that against him) looked up and asked "Are you looking for a safe place?"
"Yeah" answered the tanker.
"Well buddy," he drawled, "just pull your vehicle behind me...
I'm the 82nd Airborne, and this is as far as the bastards are going."
That pretty much summed up our attitude to calling the IDF pussies and our willingness and desire to back it up with a good fist fight. Unfortunately, the IDF was on duty that night and one guy in the bar, correctly and smartly, didn't want to take us on.
true story and a fucking boring story
Oh well, you can't please everybody
by chumbawamba
At least they don't put brainwashed children in explosive vests and send them off to become martyrs.
http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate/mohwar3.html
Ryanair won't be collecting potty revenue on any Euro flights today. Bummer.
I was thinking about this and how there are already news stories out concerning the lost revenue hurting the airlines. If they can't handle a few days on the ground, this recovery might not be as strong as advertised?
Hummmm, but CNBC said............
Hopefully Easy Jets relentless upward move may come to an end soon.
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?symb=uk%3Aezj&compidx=aaaaa%3A0&ma=0&uf=0&lf=1&lf2=4&lf3=2&type=4&size=3&state=11&sid=373629&style=320&time=7&freq=1&comp=NO%5FSYMBOL%5FCHOSEN&nosettings=1&rand=214&mocktick=1
But what if it's not for a couple of days, what if it keeps up for a month, a year?
££££££££ :-)
They should make some $$ off of this. Its an act of god, they
dont even have to put you up in a hotel and their flights will be full after this blows over.
Just thinking
do . do TPG owned
sometimes i feel like i am wearing my power color red, all week long, not just on sundays.
Could be a black swan event for Europe.
The ash turns white swans kinda gray, not black.
- These ash clouds can help to reduce global warming by cooling the planet through reflecting sun light. An 1815 eruption in Indonesia previously had such an effect, but also caused a "year without a summer" where European harvests suffered and economic collapse resulted.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/volcano-ash-europe-2010-4#ixzz0lCwB5ZH0Iceland has a tourist industry ? Why ? I think it's amazing they made 13%,(in round numbers), of their export earnings from this tourist. How does that work exactly ? Did they export a tourist? Is someone buying spare Icelanders? Or did they export something the tourist gave them ? His shoes ? Anyway it's just wonderful that Iceland was able to get $79 from their tourist; %13 of whatever.
Your username is missing a decimal point.
yours doesn't have a decimal point either; what a co-incidence !
no - in coincidence
What, are you a foreigner or something???
LOL, thank you for the laugh, despite the offended Iceland(-erite? -ian?)
Hey, you're welcome. Are you Canadian, or am I going blind? well actually, I know I'm going blind. I lived there for a while in a little town called Nakusp that was about, I forget miles from Nelson; which you may never have heard of either. I love Canadians ! and Canada ! Nothing directed at the Icelanderish, just tripping on the portentious pontificating doom guy.
Oh fuck me.
You mean to tell me if global warming is mitigated mankind faces a cold growing season and will stave to death?
Quick men, a political solution!
The diversion has arrived!
I suppose they won't consider unleashing capitalism...
This last happened in 1642. There was so much volcanic ash they had to completely shut down airspace over the entire Spanish empire, the chunnel was so frigid they used it as a meatlocker and the DOW went to 36001 before falling back a point.
Joe Biden, is that you?
+3
Exactly. I especially liked the part about the French Revolution and countering the global warming; slight practical difficulty there; there isn't any global warming; but that's not what we're going to be hearing from the Untied Nations. "This is all your fault, you messy people who don't listen; We're from the UN and we're here to help you with your global warming,(cooling, change, stapler, whatever), so give us all your money immediately. That's approximately what we're going to hear.
And in 1683, the Muslim horde was defeated at The Gates of Vienna Pork Sausage, smoked during aforesaid eruption.
The O team will somehow link this to climate change legislation.
BLACK SWAN!
Or maybe grey sooty swan. Is that the same thing?
And why is Iceland trying to kill us?
Mother Nature has a pretty much inexaustible stable of black swans to deploy at any given moment. They would all be a lot greyer if people weren't so systematically stupid about risk.
Poetic justice, courtesy of Mother Nature?
Uhh; I laughed so hard I hurt my stomach. Why is Iceland trying to kill us? That's the pressing question of the day folks from your busy reporters at NBC; Now I'm laughing so hard I can't type. Yes. It's "perfect" media cycle fodder, I want this; I really want this. Please NBC pick up this, "why is Iceland trying to kill us"; or "Iceland plots to spoil our global warming !" / film at eleven.
/pre-emptive strike before they ash us again/
Are you saying they are a bunch of ashholes?
Sounds like the Greeks just got another great excuse for their failing bond sale roadshow
FYI to All:
Bloomberg reported earlier that every time this particular volcano erupts another neighboring volcano ALSO erupts. This second volcano is larger and can emit smoke and ash for a longer period of time.
Kinda like Bernanke.
+14
all three being holes that emit ash
Three ashholes. Hmmm...
But are they ashhats?
Is this on the official list of bad things I should worry about this week? If so, where is it on the list ?/ and, should I be merely worried, very worried, or completely and irrationally hysterical ? Thank You.
There is no doubt this is a "smokescreen".
Look at the pictures in the prior post. The idea that they could be dangerous to airlines seems ridiculous to me.
Indeed - the eruption may/not have been manmade, but the response to it certainly is.
You have got to be f'ing kidding... Go google it. Do you know what volcanic ash does to a turbine engine!??!?! It's a F'ing Turbofan!! It doesn't have an air filter! Use the brain god gave you!
http://sacs.aeronomie.be/pages/imgs/BA-engine.gif
Great opportunity for a jet engine hepafilter startup!
I'm speaking less about the groundings and more about the economic responses governments are likely to make. But it is a little troubling to see how quickly and easily a huge multinational no-fly zone can be proclaimed.
You try flying your airline through that many pictures and see how you like it.
I predict a great darkness will fall over Europe tonight.
flying an abstraction through a visual construct could cause stress, alright.
So, Iceland finally gets to POOP on Europe!
I think Triumph can do a good weather forecast for this unfortunate situation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdoYXdcqT54
So how are all the foreign leaders going to get into Poland for Kaczynski's funeral this coming weekend?
These poor Poles just cannot catch a break...
Get into Poland?
Maybe they'll never get out.
I can't believe you guys are falling for the MSM bullshit. Like a little ash would actually cause ALL FLIGHTS OVER the Atlantic to stop. It's not like they can't fly around it. It's totally a European/US joint coverup.
I'm sure the US government is using this as an excuse to do something shady, like sending over their fleet of F-29s over to Israel to help with the impending attack on Iran (shit you'll never hear about in the MSM) or maybe transporting gold from Fort Knox to another gold deposit so that it can appear to actually the gold exists.
Obviously this is some government conspiracy, we just need to figure out what they are doing.
Well I've heard that there are actually US government agents placed inside of that volcano shooting fake ash out of nuclear fusion powered fans, but I'm still looking into whether the source on that is credible. I'll tell you this much, the MSM will cover it up if it does turn out to be true.
This just in, They got a video of the volcano base:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSRU8OL2Vj4
A volcano has a base ? Ehh. Who knew. I don't why I think this is funny, I live on a active volcano; Mauna Loa, I think; or else it's the other one. Actually, I guess I live on its "base" ?/ whatever.
The US government is really bad at movie plot conspiracies. You give them way too much credit. Trust me... Think about how well the DMV works, etc. It's a miracle when a mission goes reasonably well, let alone as planned. There's a reason there's several acronyms for systemic failure in the military / intelligence community (SNAFU, FUBAR, etc).
Read: Project Azorian
Also, Read this, you'll get a whole new perspective of how spook sh*t gets done, and do enough historical research, you'll think it's a miracle we didn't blow up the planet already.
Jawbreaker: http://www.amazon.com/Jawbreaker-Al-Qaeda-Personal-Account-Commander/dp/...
Jet engines are expensive, and nobody wants the responsibility of a large passenger aircraft falling out of the sky weighing on their concience.
"nobody wants the responsibility-----etc." Oh reallys, think that over again. start with 9/11 and consider where they came from, humm? And there aren't any more? You're sure about that ?
It's not so much the ashes but the sulfur in various forms that corrode the engine guts very quickly, specially at high temperatures.
Can't remember the full story now but a research helicopter failed, few years ago, after like half an hour circling a volcano. The team was rescued somehow, but in bad shape.
You might want to look up "great circle route" and consider the routes airliners actually fly. I have heard that the earth is actually 3-dimensional, a sort of sphere if you will, rather than the distorted flat image commonly seen on maps.
Ummm, F29s? Got a picture or some data on those?
Anyway, I'll keep my tinfoil tight. Better add another layer for "meteor" protection.
moved
Well, this is ZH after all; it just wouldnt seem normal to read a conspiracy theory on said website.
Katla is the second most active volcano in Iceland is notorious for its violent eruptions and is under the large Myrdalsjokull ice cap.
If this volcano triggers the Katla volcano which is overdue (1918) We could have a short summer and a long winter. I'd keep an eye on commodities.
Wow, dude you're so educated; how did you ever put all those letters together to make that WORD. Is that a word? I guess it is, huh/ a word in Icelandish? And I never guessed there was a volcano named Kathy. Dude, I live in Hawaii and we don't actually do summers and winters here, is that all right, do you think?
Keep going IQ 14.5, you have yet to defile yourself
I think it's 1.45.
You've been with ZH an entire 3 days and 3 hours and already you're insulting ZH veterans. Please return to Yahoo where you belong.
Resident detective on henceforth?
@ carbonmutant.Katla has erupted in tandem with the current volcano before.It is also infamous for truly epic ash emissions.If it goes off soon, major crop failures in Europe and massive heating bills too.Go long commodities is right!
Katla is bad news.Oh, and horrific floods from the glacier in the caldera as well.
Are you sure that wasn't Iceland's central bank that blew?
www.Gold-Silver.US
Yeah, they wish; then they could say it was an act of Dog;(Idon't think you can put that other word here, you know the one that people who believe weird things like so much?)
Watch live online as aircraft clear northern airspace: FlightRadar24 receives information from several ADS-B receivers in real time. This is presented as airplanes on a Google-map
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/15/watch-live-online-as-aircraft-clear-the...
Oh thanks, but I already have a video game I bought for $29.95 at a yardsale, and it does little airplanes on a video screen too.
Looks like a Pelosi fart - except instead of ash, it would be dust, misery, and creeping death
Chumbawamba is a bitch boy !!!!!!!!!
2 weeks 6 hours. Why does this not surprise me. We've got to make the CAPTCHA harder to keep trolls like this out.
MESSAGE FROM ICELAND:
http://williambanzai7.blogspot.com/2010/04/message-from-iceland.html
LOL. Thanks for that.
What will be the effect on job losses And consumer spending stateside? We saw what kindof damage the snow storms did.
Well, the folks over at USGS must be very excited. Volcanoes, earthquakes, etc. How else can a geologist get excited?
Damn. This calls for a bad joke: Two geologists walk into a bar...
<insert joke>
</end joke>
Ok fellas I think we can all put our tin foil hats away on this story or at least our largest one. It is true volcanic ash can certainly cause engine failure and I doubt anything is underway.
Or so the Germans would have us believe.
I will wait for airline stock to go up
now they can post results which are not as bad as expected with the volcano effect.