While the full impact from a storm with the power and enormity of Harvey is difficult to fathom and is still being calculated, the numbers below help to put it into perspective. 

51.88 inches of rainfall measured by a gauge in Cedar Bayou, near Mont Belvieu, Texas.

An estimated 27 trillion gallons of rain water dumped over Texas and Louisiana over the last six days.

35 storm-related fatalities that have been confirmed to date.

34,575 people forced out of their homes and currently sheltered in the state of Texas in 239 facilities.

224,127 customers in Texas currently without power.

58 counties in Texas for which Gov. Greg Abbott issued disaster declarations.

2882 animals currently being sheltered in Texas.

506 highways currently closed or flooded.

10 chemical facilities and oil and gas refineries that have reported problems.

30,000-40,000 - The estimated number of homes that have been destroyed.

Even more incriminating than Sanger’s racism, however, is her close association with Nazism. Sanger was part of a community of American progressives who championed two remedies to get rid of “unfit” populations. The first was forced sterilization, which was Sanger’s preferred solution.

Sanger wanted to make it look like the sterilizations were voluntary. In a 1932 article, Sanger called for women to be segregated from the larger community onto “farms and homesteads” where they would be “taught to work under competent instructors” and prevented from reproducing “for the period of their entire lives.” If the women didn’t want to live this way, they could get out of it by consenting to be sterilized.

The other progressive solution was “euthanasia,” which basically involved killing off the sick, the aged, and the physically and mentally disabled. One of Sanger’s colleagues, the California progressive Paul Popenoe, called for “lethal chambers” so that large numbers of “unfit” People could be systematically killed.

In fact, the “lethal chambers” the Nazis employed using carbon monoxide gas to kill off “imbeciles” and other undesirables were the first death camps. Later these very facilities were expanded into Hitler’s “final solution” for the Jews, using many of the same medical personnel who manned the euthanasia killing facilities.

The creators of the petition on the website ‘We the People’ say that Soros has “willfully” tried to “destabilize and otherwise commit acts of sedition against the United States and its citizens.” To achieve these goals, the author says, “Soros has created multiple organizations with the sole purpose to apply Alinsky model terrorist tactics to destroy the US government.” The “Alinsky model” refers to American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky. In his book ‘Rules for Radicals,’ he outlines 13 rules for political struggle to seize power.

The petition calls on the Department of Justice to “immediately declare George Soros and all of his organizations and staff members to be domestic terrorists, and have all of his personal and organizational wealth and assets seized under Civil Asset Forfeiture law.”

Another recent high-profile petition, which has already exceeded the 100,000-signature threshold by three times, calls on US President Donald Trump to classify the Antifa activist group as a terrorist organization, accusing them of violence at demonstrations and incitement to kill police. The White House, however, has left almost a dozen petitions unanswered since Donald Trump took office in February, and is considering shutting the service down.

The authors state that the path to full and lasting joy through God’s good design for his creatures is being “replaced by the path of shortsighted alternatives that, sooner or later, ruin human life and dishonor God.” “Our true identity, as male and female persons, is given by God. It is not only foolish, but hopeless, to try to make ourselves what God did not create us to be,” the text reads.

The Nashville Statement immediately came under fire from LGBT activists as well as secular mainstream media, who denounced the document as bigoted, prejudiced and antiquated. In one headline, the Daily News proclaimed that the manifesto “is straight out of the 1980s,” suggesting that sexual norms have moved beyond traditional biblical morality.

The Huffington Post dubbed the statement “Anti-LGBTQ” for its denial of the moral goodness of homosexual relations and transgenderism. The Chicago Tribune similarly labeled the text as “Anti-LGBT” while offering “a more loving” statement of its own that basically says that any sex is good sex.

In a 2016 letter on marriage and the family, Amoris Laetitia (“The Joy of Love”), Pope Francis said that sex education should teach “respect and appreciation” for sexual differences, as a way of helping the young to overcome self-absorption. This respect includes self-acceptance and learning to embrace the body one is born with, rather than playing with fictional identities that deny reality. Modern gender confusion “contradicts the plan of God,” Francis said last October, “who has entrusted the world and history to the alliance between man and woman.”

So what has this elitist been investing in? A better question would be, what is he not investing in? That’s because his investment trust, known as RIT Capital, has been pulling tons of money out of the US.

“We do not believe this is an appropriate time to add to risk. Share prices have in many cases risen to unprecedented levels at a time when economic growth is by no means assured,” Rothschild said in his semi-annual report. Additionally, Rothschild stated that he believes quantitative easing (QE) programs employed by central banks, such as the Federal Reserve Bank in the US will “come to an end.”

Rothschild was quoted in the report as saying, “The period of monetary accommodation may well be coming to an end.” Signaling a potential disaster in the making in the United States financial markets, Rothschild reduced the investments RIT Capital Partners has in the US dollar by nearly fifty percent. On December 31, 2016, RIT Capital Partners reported a 62 percent net value asset investment in US dollars. In the latest report released by RIT Capital Partners on June 30, 2017, the company has a 37 percent net value asset investment in US dollars.

This is a massive slap in the face for the big banks, but is not surprising. The banks have been rigging markets hand in hand with the government for a long time. Just last year, Deutsche Bank was caught alongside countless other banks in court rigging both gold markets and silver markets. The Trump administration is filled with Goldman Sachs people much like most past presidencies. It’s unlikely that this suit will be successful, but it’s important for people to know about it, because it pulls together the vast rigging of markets we’ve been talking about for so long further into context.

This rigging is an attack on people’s assets. As John Crudele notes in his New York Post article on this story, “I suspect there was collusion between Washington and Goldman, perhaps for noble reasons but largely to keep bond prices high and interest rates low, since the two move in opposite directions. Low rates help borrowers like the federal government and hurt savers.” Crudele goes on to say, “As I’ve been saying for years, the government’s and Federal Reserve’s rigging of the bond market, especially during the quantitative easing period, has resulted in a secret tax on savers.” Rigging has become a regular way of life for the state and the banking system.

From entirely rigged fiat currency by the Federal Reserve forcing debt onto the populace to regulatory and tax rigging by the state, propping up massive monopolized corporations and pushing competition and small businesses out of the market. Then there’s the rigging of bond markets and derivative markets by massive banking empires like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, BNP Paribas, Scotia Bank and the list goes on. Stay tuned as we continue to call this insanity out!

In 2015, the Pope designated September 1 as "a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of creation," framing the preservation of the environment as a moral responsibility.

Similarly, Bartholomew — who backed Francis' 2015 encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si — once said:

"There has never been so much turmoil on our planet, but there has never been greater opportunity for communication, cooperation and dialogue. Basic human rights such as access to water, clean air and sufficient food should be available to everyone without distinction or discrimination. We are convinced that we cannot separate our concern for human dignity, human rights or social justice from the concern for ecological preservation and sustainability."

After that, it is difficult to predict where the storm will head. In some models, Irma will slide back out to sea, but in others it will make multiple landfalls in the Caribbean before hitting the US. The GFS models has Irma curving north before reaching the Caribbean, making a US landfall more likely. But the ECMWF models has the storm tracking further west and into the Caribbean.

It’s still too early to tell what kind of impact Irma will have on the US, but it could hit the Carolinas by September 10. WKMG Orlando meteorologist Troy Bridges said: “The American models take it to the Carolinas by next Sunday. The European models have it going to Cuba and possibly threatening South Florida.”

According to Bolton’s introduction, he was asked by former White House strategist and Breitbart News Executive Editor Stephen K Bannon to draw up a “game plan” for exiting from the Iran deal in late July. Bannon made this request because President Trump was unable to obtain such a game plan from his advisers, despite repeatedly stating that he wanted one.

Bolton states that producing a plan to “exit Obama’s failed nuclear deal” was “quite easy,” and wonders exactly who is in control of Iran policy in the Trump White House since he and Bannon can’t seem to get a paper President Trump desperately wants to read onto his desk.