Environment

After going more than a month without a missile test, North Korea has reportedly launched what appear to be several short-range ballistic missile into the East Sea, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.

According to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, the North fired several "unidentified projectiles" from the vicinity Gitdaeryong in Gangwon Province at around 6:49 a.m local time. The projectiles flew more than 250 kilometers in the northeastern direction, it added. South Korea and U.S. militaries are analyzing additional information.

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,

It’s not surprising that so many people believe the idea that global warming is being caused almost entirely by human activity, given the fact that most scientists seem to believe the same thing. But scientists should probably ask themselves why there is still such a large cohort of “deniers” as they like to call them, who are adamant that anthropogenic climate change is a scam.

Hurricane Harvey, which until this morning a Tropical Storm, is now set to be the first hurricane to strike the Texas coast since 2008. According to the NHS, which issued a hurricane warning from Port Mansfield to Matagorda, TX including Corpus Christi, Harvey is "rapidly intensifying", and is forecast to be a "major hurricane."

Energy traders who had hoped to make an easy profit by betting that spot electricity prices would climb around midday on Monday – an idea they may have found on this website - were bitterly disappointed when, instead of spiking, prices tumbled because of an unexpectedly large drop in demand.

"Everybody has a plan...until they get punched in the face."

-Mike Tyson

Paul Alster has an interesting story this month in The Jerusalem Post.  It begins by informing us that...

"A fierce battle is being waged in the north of Israel."

Then goes on to say...