The Philippines is bracing for the world’s most powerful tropical cyclone yet in 2020. The super typhoon now coming ashore has winds up to 315kph and gusts up to 350kph, over 200mph

Rolly (Goni), already considered the strongest this year even when it was still classified as a typhoon, intensified further into a super typhoon. The effects? Expected to be catastrophic.

An estimated 35.7 million people (6.74 million households) and $232 billion (USD) of infrastructure (total replacement value) are potentially exposed to moderate to severe damaging winds (with damage expected closer to the shores).

Goni is not a big typhoon and it is hoped it will weaken rapidly before nearing the Manila met area.

After passing through the Phillipines it will head directly for Vietnam, already devastated by recent storms. It is hoped that meteorological conditions will make it a weaker tropical storm before then.

Latest predictions show Goni tracking south of Manila, but still through a heavily populated area. Climate Change has ramped up this astonishing storm, due to unprecedented ocean heat. Survivors could possibly sue the Major Oil Companies who have invested for a generation in suppressing news of Climate Change caused largely by their products.

Abdan Bay on Catanduanes island, in a Google Earth image, is directly in line on the Zoom forecast for Super Typhoon Goni, which at the time has 315kph winds. The image shows no sea wall protection. Its just after 4.00 am in Abdan Bay, and hopefully the town and whole coast has been evacuated. Catanduanes has 250,000 population!

Catanduanes, Albay residents now in evacuation..

EVACUATION. Police officers assist in the evacuation of residents living in high-risk areas in Viga, Catanduanes on Saturday (Oct. 31, 2020). Typhoon “Rolly” is expected to bring gusty winds and intense rains as it passes through Catanduanes-Camarines provinces on Sunday morning. (Photo courtesy of Viga police Station FB page) 

Bicol coast in Catandunes in 2016. Facing possibly the strongest landfalling storm in recorded history

from The Most Revolutionary Act shared with thanks

The Coming War on China

Directed by John Pilger (2016) Film Review

They’re Baaack: US Navy Returns to Philippines’ Subic Bay Amid China Fears ….. The Real Secret of the South China Sea

Two things I’ve learned over the years about John Pilger films are 1) there’s virtually no link between the film’s title and its content 2) they all include include considerable hidden history not taught in public schools. .

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The main focus of this documentary is US empire building in the Pacific and its disastrous effect on US-China relations.

A good third of the film concerns the US annexation of the Marshall islands following World War II, followed by the cynical US government decisions to use residents (referred to as “savages” in classified documents) as radiation guinea pigs in atmospheric nuclear tests. .

After bombing some of the islands daily for 12 years, residents were forcibly returned to Rongelap despite dangerously high water and soil radiation levels. The US government then subjected them to repeated scans and blood tests to assess their response to the irradiated food they were eating.

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Fracking can permanently poison groundwater, causes cancers and early death, and contributes badly to Climate change, through huge methane leakages and producing gas and oil for burning. Now we discover it also releases radioactivity.

Posted on October 29, 2020 by el comunista in ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT

Especially vulnerable are poor communities that are often found in affected areas.

A team of American scientists has discovered that people who live near the places where ‘fracking’ operations are carried out, or hydraulic fracturing, may be exposed to radioactive particles released by this oil extraction activity.

After analyzing the radiation in the vicinity of 157 sites where hydraulic fracturing is practiced, the researchers detected high levels of radiation in a radius of 19 kilometers around the wells, reaching the maximum level in the vicinity of the well.

“We found that, as the [sampling] sites get closer to these complexes, the radioactivity of the particles increases,” quoted a member of the team, Petros Koutrakis, in The Harvard Crimson.

Regarding the effects that high levels of radiation have on people living in areas near the ‘fracking’ sites, the researcher warned that, although it does not cause immediate diseases, it can increase the risk of chronic health problems , affecting the functioning of the lungs and the heart, in addition to increasing the rate of birth defects and mortality. Especially vulnerable are poor communities that are often found in affected areas.

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