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Russian Revenge - "Siberian Express" Blankets US In Record Cold

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Hacking - blame The Russians. Global geopolitical instability - blame The Russians. Stock market lower - blame The Russians. Extreme cold weather... guess who?

 

 

Of course The CIA have already pointed the finger at The Russians for manipulating global weather...

 

h/t @TomNiziol

 

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Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:31 | 5803454 BandGap
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I'd eat bugs if I had to.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:36 | 5803469 y3maxx
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Plus, Russia will urinate on clouds, then send them over the USSA.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:36 | 5803493 bania
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Marital strife? Blame Russian women

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:47 | 5803553 SHEEPFUKKER
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I can see Russian manipulated weather from my house. 

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:53 | 5803587 booboo
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Then that must mean we will need to sent in the Marine "Corpse"

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:56 | 5803607 Headbanger
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NO!  BLAME CANADA! BLAME CANADA!

CAUSE THEY LET IT GO RIGHT ON THROUGH !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR38552MJA

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:25 | 5803747 GeezerGeek
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40-something at dawn this morning, warmin up to mid-60s. Ft. Lauderdale weather is great right now, except for all those darned Canadians that insist on coming here and jamming up the roads this time of year.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:40 | 5803807 erkme73
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And yet somehow, 2015 will manage to be the hottest year on record... mark my words.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:47 | 5803842 knukles
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I thought it was the Norks!

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 16:23 | 5804940 flapdoodle
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Its clearly Putin who is doing this - he is directing his icy gaze at Washington D.C.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 15:53 | 5804811 daveO
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Yep, it'll be declared on the first hot (90*+) day in DC or NYC this summer. Already written into the MSM script.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 13:46 | 5804113 Metalredneck
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Minus 25 when I woke up, -20 now.  -35 on Monday morning.

Wheeeeee!!!

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:56 | 5803609 General Decline
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-7F in Chicago this morning.  My 190K mi beater car would barely start.  I'm going to blow off my last can of R-12 into the atmosphere when I get home later.  It's gotta help, right?

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 15:23 | 5804623 3Wishes
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I saw them throwing water on the SUN.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:48 | 5803562 cornfritter
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and cheetohs

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:11 | 5803685 JRobby
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Anastasia Date

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:39 | 5803517 Crash Overide
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What's that HAARP thing everyone uses to bounce waves off the ionosphere?

 

Wasn't Nikola Tesla playing with the ionosphere?

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:43 | 5803536 J S Bach
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And... there's probably fallout coming with the cold from Siberia where they do all their nuclear tests.  That'll be the next claim.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:47 | 5803554 BandGap
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Along with painful rectal itch, my comrade. Think about it.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:47 | 5803555 Dr. Richard Head
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I have been studying a lot of data about the Earth's magnetic North Pole and how quickly it is traveling, when compared to historical data over the last 420 years, and really think much of this crazy ass weather is a direct result of the accelerated movement of the Northern mangetic pole.  

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:53 | 5803588 Zirpedge
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Dear Dr. Head,

I think you forgot to say Russia was indeed influencing the magnetic north pole and inevitable polar shift. I think a doctor would know it is best to support the agenda and not show signs of independent thought. You spent so much on your degree and now risk being academically shunned if you can't conclude that Russia done did it.

Regards,

Zirp

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:56 | 5803605 NotApplicable
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You forgot to add "AGW."

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 16:05 | 5804870 flapdoodle
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The movement of the north magnetic pole is caused by man-made global warming, as is the change is the solar sunspot output flatlining. Honest.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:18 | 5803715 stant
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And the woodpecker grid

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 16:06 | 5804875 flapdoodle
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which, if I read correctly, has started up again and being dormant for many years...

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 14:02 | 5804180 Perimetr
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Not that the CIA would know anything about that . . .

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:32 | 5803462 HonkyShogun
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At least it's affecting New England.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:37 | 5803497 dobermangang
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Hopefully some of those glo-bull warming socialists get some well deserved frostbite.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 13:11 | 5803700 JRobby
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Which of the 11 tribes do you have your allegiance with?

http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2013/features/up-in-arms.html

 

If one is fortunate enough to have the chance to live in many places around the US, it becomes obvious that we all have so many things in common but look at some things differently. It is a positive thing to embrace what we all have in common instead of what we don't. You do first need to see the Conservative vs. Liberal division is a manufactured event to divide and conquer the electorate.

 

I guess I struck a nerve? The realization that one has been manipulated often hits very hard.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 14:46 | 5804408 DaveA
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Actually, New England is enjoying its warmest day in a month. My thermometer got up to 37F today! (It's now 32 and snowing.)

But please guys, whatever scientists say must be done to "fight global warming", do the opposite!

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:33 | 5803472 SillySalesmanQu...
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Putin must have fired up every chiller and A/C unit in Siberia to blow all that cold air our way...

S/

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:41 | 5803528 Crash Overide
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This looks pretty cool and retro...

http://rt.com/news/170704-tesla-tower-lightning-russia/

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:56 | 5803604 centerline
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Wow.  super cool.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:37 | 5803796 GeezerGeek
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Looks like something I'd expect to see at Disney World.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:52 | 5803580 Osmium
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"Stock market lower - blame The Russians."

When was the last time the stock mart was lower?

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:31 | 5803763 Rock On Roger
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yesterday?

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:56 | 5803612 swmnguy
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I'm sure that's true.  Except...any A/C unit has to output the heat extracted from the air.  Where's that going?  Sneaky Russkies...

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:34 | 5803480 gcjohns1971
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VERY IRONIC that Russia has been unusually warm in winter for the last few years, which is blamed on.... US burning too much energy (global warming).

 

The faces and borders may change, but human nature doesn't.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:34 | 5803481 Thisisbullishright
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market is green......no worries!!

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:36 | 5803490 1stepcloser
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is that black star Al Gore's mansion?

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:36 | 5803492 Hohum
Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:37 | 5803499 pan
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If they all just paid a carbon tax they would not be suffering.

 

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:38 | 5803505 mademesmile
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Yep, haven't heard the term "polar vortex" but have heard "Siberian blast"
It's now up to 3 degrees in mid Missouri.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:06 | 5803664 General Decline
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What ever happened to the term "Alberta Clipper"?  Let's get back to blaming Canada for our problems.  Thisngs were so much simpler then.  sigh

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:44 | 5803508 Dr. Engali
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Those poor polar bears freezing up north with all that ice. Somebody should do something, maybe dump ash on the poles to make them melt. Somebody call Bono, we need to start a campaign.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:39 | 5803515 Jonesy
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Don't worry, plenty of blubber on the great american land whale, they're not gonna freeze for some time.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:40 | 5803518 mtndds
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Hey Putin!!  Send some of that shit over here to SoCal.  Its been 80-90 degrees here.  We are screwed by the drought.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:40 | 5803519 Cognitive Dissonance
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It was minus 11 at 6 AM this morning. Brr cold.

 

Minus 11

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:48 | 5803563 Dr. Richard Head
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If you like your cold, you can keep your cold.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 13:34 | 5804055 spieslikeus
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We chilled some folks

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:02 | 5803645 mademesmile
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Having a thermometer that goes from -60 to 120 is tempting God, dontcha think? :-)

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:07 | 5803672 Cognitive Dissonance
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LOL

We moved into this place in the early summer of 2013. The child unit saw the thermometer and asked why it would go so low or so high. I explained that now and then the temperatures go to extremes in either direction.

She looked at me like I was nuts.

This morning I can't even get her to open the door to feel the temperature, let alone go outside and actually experience it.

Who's nuts now?

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:46 | 5803838 GeezerGeek
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Tell her the temperature in degrees Kelvin; she'll be demanding to go swimming.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 13:23 | 5804005 hopefulbutwary
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Such severe weather must work havoc on your trees and shrubs. -11 is a lot colder than 32 degrees. I hope you, and the other good folk in your area, can survive this setback.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 16:21 | 5804920 daveO
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Yep. I have a few Mimosas. Their threshold is around 0*. The tips freeze off and they don't bloom well. Years ago, I had one to die completely at -15*, and the privet hedges died down to the ground.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 14:20 | 5804270 Village-idiot
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Where I live (rural Alberta) We have temps as low as -50 deg C (60 F) and as high as 46 deg C (115 F)

So that thermometer makes perfect sense.

 

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:05 | 5803659 Element
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I reckon the Russians are gunning for you with a cold bomb Cog.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:14 | 5803693 Cognitive Dissonance
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We live on the edge of the Blue Ridge Plateau. From our property line it drops nearly 2,000 feet down towards the lower elevations of North Carolina.

So it is always colder, windier, hotter, wetter, dryer, snowier and foggier than just a quarter mile down the dirt road to the nearest neighbor at our elevation.

At least now when visiting the local country store I can confidently blame it all on the Rooskies. :-)

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:34 | 5803780 Element
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Man that real estate guy saw you coming lol

Actually I kid, your property sounds perfect, I'd love that, I guess its time to cozy up and enjoy the weekend's display of cold - have fun you two.  ;)

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:07 | 5803669 oudinot
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we Canadians eat -11 C. for breakfast.....

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:15 | 5803684 Cognitive Dissonance
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I am certain you do. BTW that temp is in F, not C.

I was born and raised in New England so I have a tiny little idea what you go through. But this is Southwestern Virginia. The South technically speaking.:-)

Besides, when we were looking at the place the real estate agent said it never went below freezing in these parts. /sarc

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:33 | 5803777 SilverSavant
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I grew up where it didn't make any difference whether it was -40F or -40C.   How could that be?  That is the temp where both are the same.   We would play hockey in a T-shirt at -6. 

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:57 | 5803884 Cognitive Dissonance
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I'm a big guy so I generate heat. Mrs. Cog married me because I'm a portable electric blanket. :-)

When I am cutting wood it can be as low as 10 degrees F outside. As long as the wind is moderate I will strip down to a long sleeve cotton shirt. And I only go with long sleeve because there is poison ivy amongst, and on, the trees.....a lesson I learned the hard way last winter.

See, this old man can learn a few new tricks.

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 09:21 | 5807410 oudinot
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Ah, I retract my statement

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:17 | 5803706 JRobby
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Balmy

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:58 | 5803889 sam i am
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-11F = -23-24C we have it every single day this February here.

Mild weather climate, presumably.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:48 | 5803560 q99x2
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In my Global Climate Crisis of the 17th century class I learned that they blamed witches back then. The Scottish killed more than 500 witches before Cromwell came in and kicked the Scots butts.

Russians have a lot more than broomsticks to fight back with.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:58 | 5803627 cornfritter
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gonna need it, there is a lot more witches now, and they have proven to be quite resilient

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:50 | 5803855 GeezerGeek
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Readyforhillary.com?

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:48 | 5803565 sbenard
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Wow! Imagine how much colder it would be without all that global warming!

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:57 | 5803618 Zirpedge
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Well this is just plain ignorance. The russians are heating the rest of the world and accelerating a polar magnatic field reversal with their weather modification program. Future Siberian Russia is a tropical paradise once they release all those frozen methane gas deposits. I'm left here wondering why ZH hasn't got the Galts Gulch siberia adverts up. Invest in Siberian real estate gentlemen. 

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:13 | 5803676 Element
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You've got it all wrong, the warming is what's making it so much colder, you people have no clue! If you don't stop enjoying your life and driving around and buying shit and farting all the time, this warming is going to get right out of control, and everyone is going to be freezing to death! It'll be too late to cut yer emissions then, you irresponsible selfish bastards.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 14:28 | 5804295 Uber Vandal
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Yes, just like the lyrics to "Oh! Suzanna"

"The sun so hot I froze to death—Susanna, don't you cry."

Wow, we all knew about this in grade school, and are finally getting it!!

 

 

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:51 | 5803575 Winston of Oceania
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We don't care our gaz is cheap cheap cheap!

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:52 | 5803584 Yen Cross
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  This is clearly a positive for the equity markets as q-1 earnings come in lower than Barney Franks nutsac, and the Fed. pushes back any hopes of a rate~hike well into the next decade.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:58 | 5803620 Tsar Pointless
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I've seen this movie before. It's called "The Day After Tomorrow".

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:01 | 5803638 swmnguy
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Let's not give the Canadians a free pass on this.  Who's just waving this Russian air mass through?  Sure, Canadians look and act like Americans (well, at least like people from Seattle), but ask them to pronounce "Out" or "Process," or tell you what the temperature is or how far it to someplace, and suddenly they don't seem so American at all, do they.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 13:56 | 5804146 Lostinfortwalton
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Plus they drink Labatts Blue - always a bad sign.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 15:08 | 5804459 Grimaldus
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Canadiens I knew would drink until they could not stand and then lean against the wall to be able to continue drinking. They were the first people I ever saw drink until their skin was yellow.

These guys were fantastic at mixing drinks, better than pro bartenders. I am thinking because the same old concoctions day after day locked up in the cabin get so boring. Cabin fever preventative.

Grimaldus

 

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:04 | 5803655 barry2001
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If you are into drones chek out this site : http://pickyourdrone.com/

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:54 | 5803870 GeezerGeek
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Boo! No Predators listed.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:07 | 5803667 css1971
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It's not Russia you idiots. It's god.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:17 | 5803704 wonderatitall
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i was blaming bush and cheney , thank god we have obama to do some teachin!!!!

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:23 | 5803738 Rock On Roger
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The world turns and the sun shines on it.

 

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 13:25 | 5804012 lakecity55
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...plus the super low of solar activity.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:31 | 5803767 StupidEarthlings
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So..even if there really is weather manipulation... you can bet its the west doing it ...and just blaming the russians...ya know, another false flag..but with weather manip.

 

Just my o?..

 

 

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:48 | 5803848 semperfi
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It could be just about any major nation - they all have the advanced electromagnetic beam devices to do it.  Russia invented the technology and theirs is the most advanced, and they have been practicing emag weather "steering" for decades, since the 70's.  Nothing new here.  My guess is it is the Russians, but it could be us, China, France, UK, etc etc.  Pick your favorite scenario.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:41 | 5803775 hotrod
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Kind of odd how CO2 works in the atmoshere.  Guess it consolidates in some areas and not others.  Guess most of it is over the North West right now Green housing everyone.  Except there are alot of trees out that way sucking up CO2.  Well at just .03% of all atomospheric gases it sure appears important to liberals.  I live up in the North Ga mountains and I think all the trees sucked up our CO2.  Darn cold. 

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:59 | 5803890 GeezerGeek
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Lots of hot air coming out of that west coast progressive paradise is preventing normal weather patterns there.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:36 | 5803792 Secret Weapon
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Still not as cold as my ex-wifes heart.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:51 | 5803857 Wahooo
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We snowed some folks.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 13:08 | 5803944 eyesofpelosi
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Liberal women are blaming their periods on Russia now.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 13:15 | 5803973 world_debt_slave
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wrong, it's Bush's fault

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 13:19 | 5803989 Mike Honcho
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Economic warfare via weather systems of mass destruction, quite cunning.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 13:34 | 5804057 Jack Burton
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Over my life time, Siberian Expresses have been the norm for our winters. So this morning, our inland temperature was a cool -41 degrees. If you ever spent time outside in -40, it really doesn't hit you for a while, it's a buring sensation, followed by a shock, like jumping into freezing water. You must move quickly to generate body heat, standing still in one place and working on something like machinery is really torture. Also, you breath through your mouth in small shallow breaths ,  In any case, it is the wind speed that determines how long you last, in below zero weather, the wind is everything, wind chill is real. It measures how fast your body loses heat, wind carries away body heat very fast.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 13:54 | 5804139 Son of Captain Nemo
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Speaking of terrible psychological ops "gone bad"...  This one is to take seriously when the Western partners are losing everything and are at the proverbial end of the "shit rope"!...

These claims are being made without any source at all. However I am putting this out here in case people in Europe start to report large movements of military vehicles. It is not impossible that NATO will simply march into Ukraine to seize the eastern republics by force, following a convenient false-flag. Mike Rivero - WhatReallyHappened.com

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 15:39 | 5804740 basho
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to mike rivero, i read your posts

no fotos?

BS

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 16:01 | 5804854 Son of Captain Nemo
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BS?... 

Only if you're not a paranoid psychotic goose stepping Bandarite neo-nazi Zionist that has been on the losing end since this whole thing started!!!

"BS"! Maybe????. But with everything we've witnessed first hand starting with the conversation between Bob Kagan's wife and her "deputy" last year, your comment is a "tall order" to say that it could never happen!  Besides.  He points out in the first sentence that it's unconfirmed.

 

 

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 14:04 | 5804186 Village-idiot
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At least they're not blaming Canada this winter!

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 14:18 | 5804253 localizer
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Lewis Black: It has been way too cold this winter, I mean th-th-th-the temperatures have been UNGODLY, where the FUCK is global warming when you NEED IT!  It was a really special winter wasn't it?... if you're a fucking moose! If you've got fur on your nuts it's been a fucking festival!

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 14:22 | 5804277 Grimaldus
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Higher prices for oil will fix it.

Grimaldus

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 15:05 | 5804516 Hannibal
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US-supplied armored Humvee captured by Novorossia militia

The vehicle was one of the many seized from the UAF at Debaltsevo and its vicinity. It seems to be in perfectly good working order. I suppose the most surprising thing about it is that the UAF had no time to put it up for sale, as it did the British-supplied Saxon APCs...

http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/02/us-supplied-armored-humvee-captured...

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 15:35 | 5804720 basho
Thu, 02/19/2015 - 16:09 | 5804887 Marley
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http://squall.sfsu.edu/gif/jetstream_norhem_00.gif

Gee, according to the above jetstream map, none of the "Siberian Vortex" trademark    originates on the other side of the North Pole.  But don't let a little fact get in the way of good tabloid press.

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 16:55 | 5805081 JohnFrodo
Thu, 02/19/2015 - 17:16 | 5805083 Jorgen
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BHO planted "tree of peace" at Ghandi Memorial is dying.

Deus signum misit.

 

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