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  3. And thats why I no longer subscribe or bother to watch National Golly Gee.
    Bunch of bedwetters.
    I wonder what kind of impact the end of the ice age had on our ancestors , when the northern ice dam broke and the sea levels rose leaving what was ocean front property 300 ft down in the end.
    But I guess if you don’t have insurance companies it don’t qualify as a disaster.

  4. National Geographic got the 1918 Flu pandemic wrong. It did not start in Europe or the trenches of WWI. It started in Kansas, and spread because Woodrow Wilson’s administration demand that we ship soldiers to Europe no matter what. The infected soldiers were sent to Army bases nationwide, and then the flu spread to the cities. The flu was also sent to Europe with the US Army. From there it spread world wide.
    I wonder what else this documentary got wrong?

  5. Strange, all I have ever heard from those Brit ‘squaddies’ and their civvy countrymen over and over is how they consistently outshoot, outfight, outsmart every army of every country, more particularly the armies of the old colonies — the U.S. and Canada. So, stick this in your ear you “gun-controlled” Brits. heh.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canadian-markswoman-outshoots-700-international-sharpshooters-1.3175949
    `Congrats Tatyana ….

  9. rd:
    I know that in the United States, the 1918 flu was first observed in Kansas. I’ve never heard of it starting in Kansas, and later spreading to Europe. If National Geographic researched this story, I would tend to go with their version of facts. I was always led to believe that it first started in Etaples, France. Interesting analogy!!

  10. They blamed Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy on Global Warming they blame Tornados on Global Warming the blame the drougth on Global Warming they blame Chapped Lips on Global Warming these crazy nuts Al Gore,David Suzuki,Greenpeace,Sierra Club and the United Nations

  11. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/election-expected-as-harper-meets-gg-on-sunday-1.3177113?cmp=rss
    Making lefties heads explode one writ at a time. Since the MSM seems to hate this and has been running stories about how much it is going to cost Canadians (like the CBC really gives a crap about that!) this is a power move by PM Harper.
    I remember the MSM crowing when Jean Chretien pulled this kind of move. Too back NDP and Liberals, suck it, your money will be gone before you know it!
    Also, all the lefty PACs and Unions will be crying because election finance rules kick in and their ads will start to dry up as they decide to run them now, and run out of money, or run them closer to the actual vote date. By then the CPC will have countered most of their ourt right lies, I’m looking at you Heath Care Unions!

  14. I doubt that any of that stuff which the NG is whining about would make it into the first 100 natural disasters of all time. I mean, tornados?? Nasty but very localized.
    For real disasters try some of the super-volcanic eruptions our planet has experienced, and some of the asteroid/comet impacts.

  16. …the book went a lot faster.
    According to Barry, the flu started in Haskell County, Kansas and spread to Camp Funston. (pp 91-95)
    There were alternate theories, including France, India and China. (pg 453)

  18. Don’t you just love it when the media seeks out retired people like Jean-Pierre Kingsley for political opinion? Kingsley is criticizing Harper for an early election call. What’s early about it,the date of the election hasn’t changed, it’s still October 19th, 2015. If Harper does drop the writ it will only make the campaign already started by all the parties official. Trudeau and Mulcair have been busy campaigning all along, the only change being they will all have to follow the spending rules.

  19. I just knew Katrina would get top billing in this Nat Geo bilge. They ever miss an opportunity to cement one of the Democrats’ political touchstones in any “documentary” record.
    Also, it is not scientific to rely on the politicized FEMA tallies of the costs of the storm. The agencies were forced to overspend for domestic political reasons.
    Hey, RE the influenza outbreak: has anyone ruled out bio-warfare in that pandemic? Blaming it on livestock seems a quaint dodge to me.

  20. I just knew Katrina would get top billing in this Nat Geo bilge. They ever miss an opportunity to cement one of the Democrats’ political touchstones in any “documentary” record.
    Also, it is not scientific to rely on the politicized FEMA tallies of the costs of the storm. The agencies were forced to overspend for domestic political reasons.
    Remember, if we didn’t spend big in Dem-controlled New Orleans, then we were “racists.” Republican-run Mississippi, also devastated by Katrina, not so much. Science should never rely on coerced government expenditures to gauge the “impact” of any natural disaster.
    Hey, RE the influenza outbreak: has anyone ruled out bio-warfare in that pandemic? Blaming it on livestock seems a quaint dodge to me.

  22. “Bunch of bedwetters”
    National Geographic is a joke. I call it Natural Catstrophic. It has abandoned all pretense of any objectivity. Man-made: global warming/climate change/extreme weather/species extirpation/resource depletion/poverty/etc., etc.
    It’s like the old Playboy mags – the only thing worth looking at are the photos.

  23. Wow, is PM Harper committing the country to World War three? One would think so by the media party frenzy going on over dropping the writ to make the campaign official, aka all parties follow campaign spending rules.
    Mulcair and Trudeau are blowing off about the economy, are posing as champions of economics and they can fix it, this is not the case, many G7 would love to have our economic situation. It’s up to us to ensure they don’t have a chance.
    First up Terry Milewski…rabid Harper hater….fill your boots old boy.

  24. Katrina, the 2011 tornadoes, and the San Francisco earthquake all together had less than 5,500 deaths total. The 1931 floods in China had up to 4 million and no mention. The Galveston hurricane of 1900 with 6,000 deaths was more serious than the 3 American disasters put together and isn’t mentioned despite being the worst natural disaster in the US besides the 1918 flu epidemic.

  26. I se National Geographics getting a little nasty with those who reject such junk scuence like Global Warming and Evolution well it was also the same National Geographic that published articles about the so called Di-Bird back in November 1999(Feathers for T-Rex)and that phonie tribe in the Phillapines as well and their phonie ape men and Lucy

  27. Sometime a few years back, like around 2001, the National Geographic in one of their articles described the Earth as an insignificant speck of dust, orbiting an insignificant star in a backwater part of an insignificant galaxy [I paraphrase]. I sent them a letter, and quoted some lines from the a hymn, which I think may have been “Teach Us What We Yet May Be”, by Catherine C. Arnott and asked them “Insignificant? To whom??” They did not send a response back to me, obviously a silly Bible-thumping fundamentalist.

  28. Sometime a few years back, like around 2001, the National Geographic in one of their articles described the Earth as an insignificant speck of dust, orbiting an insignificant star in a backwater part of an insignificant galaxy [I paraphrase]. I sent them a letter, and quoted some lines from an old hymn, which I think may have been “Teach Us What We Yet May Be”, by Catherine C. Arnott and asked them “Insignificant? To whom??” They did not send a response back to me, obviously a silly Bible-thumping fundamentalist.

  29. The memory of the NET is seriously flawed if used for researching the media. If you google “Roger Ailes” all the BIO information is “FOX” & Republican Politics, but that is just not true. He was the NBC consultant/executive that built CNBC & Americas Talking. It was America’s Talking that was turned into MSNBC. (I have a Team Jacket from America’s Talking) To understand MSNBC & the MSM you have to understand Roger Ailes.
    I only found this because I knew Roger’s work @ MSNBC
    https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P2-32955763/roger-ailes-talks-up-america-s-talking

  32. There is something now found on the internet called “World Geographic”.
    The newer “more inclusive” version of NatGeo’s unrelenting scaredy-cat BS?
    Looking back, the days when it was run by rich old guys with a high speed
    press Kodak colour printing fetish and was standard furnishing in doctors
    waiting rooms because no one bothered to steal it don’t seem so bad.

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