The elephant ears are not as relevant as the elephants foreskin.
The biggest “drawback in the climate change jungle” is :

IT HAS HAPPENED MANY TIMES BEFORE in the geological record.

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Delirious article

Thank you, excellent!

‘Rockefeller wants us to believe in Global Warming for nefarious reasons, namely he needs a “new Big Idea with which to get the masses to follow the leadership of the upper class”. They want to frighten us – with GW or terrorism or whatever – into submission.’

Interesting article, with the above being the best quote. This Kathy Griffith monster should be put in her place, perhaps in a manner she suggests. Ditto about half the population.
But Shamir is far too upbeat and positive about Trump, almost naive (not that I believe he’s naive, but playing some politics game more probably). Trump never cared for middle Americans. He’s only ever been interested in himself and his own power. If he had real power he might try to prove it, by doing what he said he would, ie not continuing the sabre rattling, bringing manufacturing back etc. A symbolic gesture here and there, while not bad things, don’t come to much. Halting the insane trade agreements are the only good things he has done so far. Also, like all these cats (Corbyn included), if they were real they would expose the great lie about TERROR. They would let the people know just how deep the lies go. But no, they’re all bullshitters.

Thank you for that. Like usual, the real story is richer and more complex than the cartoon version.

Re: “The Taliban did a better job of controlling the Poppy fields than do US forces.”

McCoy, in “The Politics of Heroin” gives a more complete picture:

In 1996, following four years of civil war among rival resistance factions, the Taliban’s victory caused further expansion of opium cultivation. After capturing Kabul in September, the Taliban drove the Uzbek and Tajik warlords into the country’s northeast, where they formed the Northern Alliance and clung to some 10 percent of Afghanistan’s territory. Over the next three years, a seesaw battle for the Shamali plain north of Kabul raged until the Taliban finally won control in 1999 by destroying the orchards and irrigation in a prime food-producing region, generating over 100,000 refugees and increasing the country’s dependence on opium.

Once in power, the Taliban made opium its largest source of taxation. To raise revenues estimated at $20-$25 million in 1997, the Taliban collected a 5 to 10 percent tax in kind on all opium harvested, a share that they then sold to heroin laboratories; a flat tax of $70 per kilogram on heroin refiners; and a transport tax of $250 on every kilogram exported. The head of the regime’s anti-drug operations in Kandahar, Abdul Rashid, enforced a rigid ban on hashish “because it is consumed by Afghans, Muslims.” But, he explained, “Opium is permissible because it is consumed by kafirs [unbelievers] in the West and not by Muslims or Afghans.” A Taliban governor, Mohammed Hassan, added: “Drugs are evil and we would like to substitute poppies with another cash crop, but it’s not possible at the moment because we do not have international recognition.”

More broadly, the Taliban’s policies provided stimulus, both direct and indirect, for a nationwide expansion of opium cultivation. . . Significantly, the regime’s ban on the employment and education of women created a vast pool of low-cost labor to sustain an accelerated expansion of opium production. . . . In northern and eastern Afghanistan, women of all ages played ” a fundamental role in the cultivation of the opium poppy”—planting, weeding, harvesting, cooking for laborers, and processing by-products such as oil. The Taliban not only taxed and encouraged opium cultivation, they protected and promoted exports to international markets.

In retrospect, however, the Taliban’s most important contribution to the illicit traffic was its support for large-scale heroin refining.
. . .
Instead of eradication, the UN’s annual opium surveys showed that Taliban rule had doubled Afghanistan’s opium production from 2,250 tons in 1996 to 4,600 tons in 1999–equivalent to 75 percent of world illicit production. (508-509)
. . .

War on the Taliban

All this [heroin] traffic across Central Asia depended on high-volume heroin production in politically volatile Afghanistan. In July 2000, as a devastating drought entered its second year and mass starvation spread across Afghanistan, the Taliban’s leader Mullah Omar ordered a sudden ban on opium cultivation in a bid for international recognition. (p.517)

However, no such energy requirement is necessary for the production of perovskite solar cells.

Yes and no. It seems that they are nowhere near the production stage. Stability is a serious issue. Moisture, temperature and ultraviolet kill the cells. As they are working on it the solutions become more exotics and possibly more costly. By I agree that energy input probably will be lower than in silicon cells.

Even so, the economics of solar will remain in doubt. Solar is super labour intensive compared to standard technologies.
See https://mises.org/blog/more-solar-jobs-curse-not-blessing

It’s even more glaring when you look at the amount of electricity generated per worker. Coal generated an incredible 7,745 megawatt-hours of electricity per worker; natural gas 3,812 MWH per worker; wind a measly 836 MWH for every employee; and solar an abysmal 98 MWH per worker.

Now, some of that is due to the fact that solar is still building its base generation capacity, but the spread between coal and solar is 30x. That’s not gonna be made up in a foreseeable future. The article goes on to point out the extent to which solar also requires vastly more acreage and raw material resources to generate the same power. It’s as Avery said, you can’t beat HCs for energy density, or economic “density” either.
Harnessing the energy in HCs is how the modern world was built in little over a century. We simply couldn’t have built it with any of the alternatives.

Sure hope you are right about israel as I feel we as a nation are their puppet and trump has them in its home checking his every move.

With respect. That is indeed true in the case of single crystal or amorphous silicon, which was the old — call it “legacy” — solar cell technology. Silicon solar cells, like silicon integrated circuits, requires silicon of ***exceptionally high*** purity. That costs.

The cost of silicon as a starting material is insignificant: as cheap as sand. However “reducing” silicate to silicon and then purifying it is quite expensive. The purification process in particular involves repeatedly heating an ingot of solid silicon to the melting point, which is, as your comment implies, very energy intensive.

However, no such energy requirement is necessary for the production of perovskite solar cells.

The cheapness of PV cells will not change the fact that it still will take about 5 years for a PV cell to produce net energy output above the energy that was put into making it.

“It is cheap OR clean, not both.”

With respect,…actually, no. Though the rapid pace of technology has made it nearly impossible, I’m a lifelong techno-junkie, and I do my best to keep up.

https://singularityhub.com/2017/05/18/solar-is-now-the-cheapest-energy-there-is-in-the-sunniest-parts-of-the-world/

With the coming revolutionary reduction in cost, enabled by the cheaper materials and ease of production of square-kilometer quantities of perovskite-based solar-energy-harvesting films — “cells” is too small a term for the coming perovskite solar revolution — the clean energy revolution is on our doorstep. Within ten years, conversion to clean, carbon-free, electric everything will moot the whole global warming hysteria, and terminate, as in kill dead, the entire hydrocarbon-based energy paradigm, leaving oil and gas dirt cheap and used primarily for chemical feed-stock. Countries with oil-based economies will become poor, unless they see the writing on the wall and implement an alternate economic model.

Also, the newly-poor Gulf States, the Saudis in particular, will be unable to continue to fund radical Sunni terrorism, and that phenomenon, starved of paychecks, will come to an end.

CO2 levels are a reaction of solar activity–nothing more.

While I find myself rapidly becoming an “AGW denier” I need to check you on this one. I suggest it’s extremely easy to make the case that CO2 levels are rising due to human activity – simply by knowing the approximate volume of the earth’s atmosphere and the mass of CO2 being released.

The case that is not being made is that the resulting (and also undeniable) greenhouse effect is as strong as the computer models predict and that the “positive feedback factors” such as the (also undeniable) release of methane from warming tundra are similarly powerful.

An eighteen year stasis in the otherwise inexorable rise of global temperature (0.94 Celsius in 137 years per NASA) – during a time of major CO2 increase – is, to most physicists, suggestive of a diminished role of CO2: reinforced by the fact that neither ice cap is actually shrinking.

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“…and just maybe the Trump revolution is not such a bad thing as they are trying to make us believe.”

All the old “narratives” are dissolving. Those reassuring “truths”, which of course were never true (thus the quotes around “narrative”), are gone and the world is drifting in uncertainty, waiting for new “truths” — not — to congeal, and calm the waters. The world is changing. Sanders/Trump/Brexit are manifestations of that change. Interesting times as the Chinese say.
Fueled by the digital revolution and its destruction/liberation by the internet of control of “the narrative”.

The Trump-hate is strong, but the truth is stronger. People will come ’round. Be patient and enjoy the spectacle.

You apparently fail to grasp the distinction between belief and faith.

Try flying…

Hell, try running an aluminium smelter (or other metals)! Or, try making the silicon for solar panel cells from solar power. It’s been done, but…

Nothing comes close to the energy density of hydrocarbons.

Wholly agreed, nothing, absolutely nothing, beats the energy density and transportability of HCs. However, (E.G.) Shenzhen, China has already converted the majority of its city buses to autonomous (battery storage) electric, and there’s little to be done technically to migrate that to trucks. They run an 8hr shift of some 350km between battery exchange. The city I grew up in had electric trolley buses and streetcars operating from overhead lines on all central routes more than 60 yrs ago. It still does. The city I live in today has a large network of electric streetcars that are 100 yrs old still operating. It takes little engineering to migrate that “ancient” technology to cargo trains as all cargo trains today are diesel-electrics anyway. Of course, most passenger trains and all Metros (subways) today are electrically driven.

But for the foreseeable future there is no substitute for oil to run a modern world.

That, however, begs the question how long the world will stay “modern”? My own guess is not long. A few decades? The issue ain’t just energy, it’s everything else that HC energy helps extract. Including food from depleting topsoils that were put on steroids (HC based fertilizers) for big agra’s “green revolution” and are now almost sterile.

One quibble. Plastics cannot be endlessly recycled. Most cos don’t allow more than 10% re-grind in 1st tier production products for cosmetic reasons, so mass re-grinds, or re-cycled material generally goes into 2nd tier products like garbage cans, pallets etc.

I’m shaking my head in disbelief also….at your unimaginably tiresome comment.

“Climate change” is a scam of epic proportions. Earth’s weather is more dependent on solar activity than anything else. CO2 levels are a reaction of solar activity–nothing more.
In fact, two long-term solar cycles were recently discovered. When they are “in phase”, they compliment each other and reinforce increased solar activity. When they are “out of phase”, they “cancel out”–the “Maunder minimum” and the “little ice age” are the result. It turns out that we are about to see colder weather–NOT “warming”…a “solar induced” climate change.
Your penchant for “renewables” will not be enough…
Regards,

Corbyn is a bigger idiot than May.

{I put my money where my mouth is on GW and put solar panels on my house.}
{On a global scale, relief from fossil fuel should mean peace for large swathes of the world.}

Try flying passenger airplanes on solar panels.
Or trucks. (~70% of cargo in US is moved by (diesel) trucks).
Or cargo rail.
Or oceangoing cargo and passenger ships.
Or agricultural harvesting machines.
Or earthmoving equipment.
Or………

Nothing comes close to the energy density of hydrocarbons.
By orders of magnitude.
That is why a heavier-than-air contraption made of metal can carry enough fuel to stay in the air and also carry useful cargo – people.

It is a shame to burn such a valuable substance (oil) for fuel, since pretty much every type of plastic is made from oil. No plastics, no modern life. And plastics can be endlessly recycled and re-used.

But for the foreseeable future there is no substitute for oil to run a modern world.

Wherever hydrocarbons come from, getting them out of the ground and transporting them is unlikely to be more efficient than harvesting renewable energy. And if, like me, you reckon that the science of climate change is more persuasive than that of abiogenesis, then supporting and using renewables is not a difficult decision. Not that I’m not open to persuasion.

When you answer me those same questions for the fuel you use, I’ll answer you them for mine. However I can tell you without doing any tiresome calculations that the equipment with the shortest expected lifespan has already exceeded it.

The term “fossil fuel” was created in the 1950s when little was known about the processes deep within the earth that create petroleum products.
It was assumed that “fossil fuels” were the result of decaying animal and plant material compressed in layers within the earth.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
It turns out that oil is “abiotic” in nature and is constantly being created by yet unknown processes deep within the earth. Oil deposits are being found much deeper than that of any plant or animal material. In fact, many of our depleted oil wells are “filling back up” with oil migrating from much deeper levels.
The latest discovery is that of methane hydrate (white oil) which is natural gas sequestered in water. This promises to be a virtually limitless form of energy, once it is harvested in great amounts.
I would not count out the future use of petroleum products for a very long time…

I am certain that a commenter so much less ignorant than his neighbours can answer the questions I asked.
How large was the governmental subsidy/tax break, how much was the electrical company subsidy?
What is the annual depreciation or conversely what is the expected life of the installation?
How much do you depreciate/set aside each year to replace the system when it reaches EOL?
Not boilerplate nor cant, just three questions each with an easy to calculate answer for a man so much less stupid than his neighbours.

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The kind of science we must necessarily apply to make a claim of anthropogenic global warming is necessary never absolutely certain. The argument for global warming is a simple one, but does not provide certainty. It never can. Global warming deniers should address the actual argument for global warming rather than trotting out authorities.

1) The paleo-record shows a correspondence between CO₂ concentrations and rises in temperature.

2) It can be shown in the laboratory that CO₂ absorbs and re-radiates heat.

3) CO₂ is increasing in the atmosphere due to human use of fossil fuels.

4) The earth is warming.

5) Variations in solar irradiance do not correspond to periods of warming, nor do any other possible known causes except CO₂ concentrations.

Some possible objections:

A) The amount of warming due to CO₂ is insufficient to account for the present warming.
This is irrelevant given the Paleo-record. All that is necessary is a correspondence of CO₂ levels and warming. Other contingent mechanisms, in particular increased evaporation can be due to the effect of CO₂ and account for the additional warming

B) Some other factor corresponds to paleo-records of warming better than CO₂.

C) Disagreement with the factuality any of the four claims above.

American are unprepared to hold two opposing views in their heads. I suspect this is because of the Protestant tradition. So they must believe in one thing. It is almost impossible to go on living w/o believing to some extent in the mainstream official reality, so they do believe but w/o leaving a room for the alternate reality as the homo sovieticus managed to do.

wow

keen insight

He meant the source of authority for believing.

The Russians – whether in Russia or elsewhere – are still rather independent of mind, as they haven’t been properly brainwashed by the Masters of Discourse.

There was this joke about the homo sovieticus that was told in communist countries. A Soviet man is interviewed by a western journalist and asked about his position on various political issues. On one issue he gives an answer that line by line of Pravda position. On another he gives Izvestia position, and so on. The journalist gets exasperated and asks him “Don’t you have your own opinions?” The Soviet man answers: “Sure I do, but I do not agree with them.”

People found this joke very funny and thought that the reality that created such a pathetic figure like this Soviet man was the most awful. Well, after 40 years of living in America I think that the homo sovieticus from the joke was on much higher level of awareness than the present homo americanus.

American are unprepared to hold two opposing views in their heads. I suspect this is because of the Protestant tradition. So they must believe in one thing. It is almost impossible to go on living w/o believing to some extent in the mainstream official reality, so they do believe but w/o leaving a room for the alternate reality as the homo sovieticus managed to do.

That’s the usual boilerplate cant from fossil fuel boosters. There’s nothing but ignorance and stupidity to stop any of my neighbours doing what I’ve done.

Ivar Giaever “Global Warming Revisited”

This Nobel laureate in physics makes the most reasonable and calm arguments why to be skeptical about the global warming hoopla. He is a good antidote for the over the top arguments made by the pro and anti global warming crowds.

It is critical to clearly explain why it is financially advantageous for the conspiring puppeteers to exploit a world with a dirt poor population versus one with an economically thriving population. In other words, why is it more profitable for them to have a 1 billion Google than a 100 billion Google or a 1 trillion Google?

I look forward to those articles.

You didn’t read may last sentence, Wally – the one ending with “yet”. And, naturally, if funding is removed it will probably be “never”.

You do not know enough to prefer Avalokiteshvara to Arrhenius. (Which is a statement as inane as yours is).

Comey is a chameleon or Comeyleon

My thanks to Mr Shamir for making me realize that I really ought to look into the counter-argument to the prevailing anthropogenic global warming dogma: instead of swallowing it whole.

Almost immediately I encountered this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/05/19/updated-nasa-data-polar-ice-not-receding-after-all/#111167b28921

The media had led me to believe that at the current rate the entire arctic icecap would be gone – in a very few years – all polar bears starved and drowned.

Then I came across the following presentation by the late Prof. Bob Carter:

Fascinating stuff – wish I’d looked into this earlier. I hope they don’t send climate change deniers to jail any time soon.

Nonsense, “renewables’ are a scam:

Hilarious: Renewables Won’t Work – Even If Climate Claims are True

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/08/hilarious-renewables-wont-work-even-if-climate-claims-are-true/

British Energy Crisis: OFGEN Official Warns Renewables Will Leave Poor Britons “Sitting in the Dark”

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/12/13/british-energy-crisis-ofgen-official-warns-renewables-will-leave-poor-britons-sitting-in-the-dark/

Germany’s impossible and impractical wind and solar goal

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/12/09/germanys-impossible-and-impractical-wind-and-solar-goal/

Offshore Wind power: Even Germany Can’t get it Right

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/13/offshore-wind-power-even-germany-cant-get-it-right/

more here:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/?s=renewables

No, it’s not warming.

The Globe Has Not Been Warming . . . So Why Is It Called ‘Global’ Warming?

http://principia-scientific.org/globe-not-warming-called-global-warming/

NASA Data Proves Trump Right to Exit Paris Climate Accord

https://www.prisonplanet.com/nasa-data-proves-trump-right-to-exit-paris-climate-accord.html

It can be both cheap and clean. Not the false choice you seem to believe in. You wrote an amount of nonsense on GW. Any credible GW scientist knows that Solar influences are the primary determinant. What the scientific community, including Russians, are aiming to do is minimise what Mankind unleashes at the margins.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/world/asia/india-coal-green-energy-climate.html

Yes. Trump has blunted the advance of Universal Feudalism. And he has perhaps inadvertently exposed the crimes of the DNC and the Corporate Media and assisted the CIA and FBI to discredit themselves. Perhaps Trumps greatest achievement to date consists in separating the wheat from the chaff in the American electorate.

But he has only exacerbated the insane march to war with Russia, China and Iran.

As for global warming, whether it is real or not, the Paris Accords will do nothing to prevent it.

I always enjoy your contributions to Unz Review. Please keep up the good work.

Jun 3, 2017 Putin defends Trump – ‘Don’t worry, be happy’

President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement caused anger and anxiety across the world. But is there more than meet the eye? How many critics have actually read the agreement themselves – as President Putin rightfully points out? The agreement is a framework agreement with no particular obligations. There are no guidelines as to how resources should be spent, and the resources which the US ratified are quite substantial.

How large was the subsidy from you electricity supplier?
What is the yearly maintenance cost for you setup?
What is the expected life of the installation and how much do you depreciate each year so you can rebuild your setup when it dies?
You are neither relieved from recurring costs nor from future discomfort; but you have succeeded in shifting your cost of comfort onto your neighbours, congratulations?

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FYI- December 3, 1993 The CIA Drug ConnectionIs as Old as the Agency

LONDON— Recent news item: The Justice Department is investigating allegations that officers of a special Venezuelan anti-drug unit funded by the CIA smuggled more than 2,000 pounds of cocaine into the United States with the knowledge of CIA officials – despite protests by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the organization responsible for enforcing U.S. drug laws

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/03/opinion/03iht-edlarry.html

Jan 9, 2015 Opium Production in Afghanistan Sets Record – America Soldiers Helping Heroin Production.

http://youtu.be/FIkLYlaZ6kY

If a mini-ice age is coming, Russian mining, like the the military, needs to know what works in very cold climates if it is to continue doing what its doing in what are warmer regions today. When they get colder, it would be good to be able to employ what one’s learned, rather than learning as you go under pressure. In the meantime of course, it profits from the extraction.

Anyhow, this argument is predicated on the Kremlin’s having accepted a mini-ice age theory, and I have no idea if that’s true.

Afghanistan produces over 90% of the world’s Opium Poppy. This is hardly inconsequential, and does merit attention, and a lot of it. The Taliban did a better job of controlling the Poppy fields than do US forces. Poppy production is now 4 times what it was under the Taliban. At one time the fields came right up to American FOB’s, at times, and the fields were destroyed only after Opium began to be sold among the troops on the base. I’ve little doubt the CIA uses profits from this drug trade to fund black ops, and this is probably the source of much of their animosity to Trump. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan

“Global warming is already beyond arguments.”

Climate change is not even being argued. The climate changes. There seems to be disagreement about whether we’re warming or cooling, though. The argument is over mankind’s contribution to whatever changes in the climate are occurring. No science is ever settled, but is constantly evolving as we learn more. People tend to focus charts and data over the last several centuries (often excluding, or hiding, the medieval warming period and subsequent cool down), rather than viewing climate across the broad range of time we claim to know about. It has certainly been a lot colder, and a lot warmer, too, in the past.

No sense. In case of global cooling and more ice resources cannot be minned.

Moreover, he refused Netanyahu’s request to let him accompany the President. “The Wall has nothing to do with the state of Israel – it is a part of East Jerusalem, a part of Palestine”, his people said to Israeli officials. His visit to East Jerusalem and to Bethlehem hadn’t been presented to the Israeli Foreign Office nor of Israeli government. Thus he stated in the visible form that the Church is more important for him, that despite his positive attitude to the Jews, he is not their obedient servant.

As much as I would love to belive this occurred I have my doubts.

And he still has the evil trinity of Khan, Minuchin and Kushner surrounding him.lol

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Thank you for sharing and here are some more good links on this topic.

March 31, 2017 The Surveillance State Behind Russia-Gate

Although many details are still hazy because of secrecy – and further befogged by politics – it appears House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes was informed last week about invasive electronic surveillance of senior U.S. government officials and, in turn, passed that information onto President Trump.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-surveillance-state-behind-russia-gate/5582211

Dec 12, 2016 Georgia Official Says Homeland Security Tried To Hack Their State’s Voter Database

While most of the country frets over Russia’s role in the 2016 election, the state of Georgia has come forward saying that they’ve traced an IP from a hack of their voter database right back to the offices of the Department of Homeland Security. Apparently we need to focus on protecting our vote from our own government.

February 13, 2017 Chemistry Expert: Carbon Dioxide Can’t Cause Global Warming

Scarcely a day goes by without us being warned of coastal inundation by rising seas due to global warming. Why on earth do we attribute any heating of the oceans to carbon dioxide, when there is a far more obvious culprit, and when such a straightforward examination of the thermodynamics render it impossible. Carbon dioxide, we are told, traps heat that has been irradiated by the oceans, and this warms the oceans and melts the polar ice caps. While this seems a plausible proposition at first glance, when one actually examines it closely a major flaw emerges.

http://principia-scientific.org/chemistry-expert-carbon-dioxide-cant-cause-global-warming/

Dec 8, 2015 Climate Change is Unfaslifiable Woo-Woo Pseudoscience

Karl Popper famously said, “A theory that explains everything explains nothing.” So what do you make of the theory that catastrophic manmade CO2-driven “climate change” can account for harsher winters and lighter winters, more snow and less snow, droughts and floods, more hurricanes and less hurricanes, more rain and less rain, more malaria and less malaria, saltier seas and less salty seas, Antarctica ice melting and Antarctic ice gaining and dozens of other contradictions? Popper gave a name to “theories” like this: pseudoscience.

Interesting, wide-ranging article. Have to agree with:

“Trump should concentrate his mind on his survival, on reshuffling the government, on promoting his supporters, and undermining the Deep State. This task is big enough without going to unnecessary wars.”

To evaluate the success of a President’s foreign trip, one needs to understand what his goals were, stated or unstated. Those goals could be strategic (ntl interest, major process) or incidental (business deal)Amid all the hysterical media coverage, we can see the following: he went to a major religious area, and ‘visited’ all 3 religions. He also visited all 3 religious states (Saudis, Netanyahu, Pope). He then went to the major Western multilateral forum, G7. He then went back home and announced to Americans a sovereign, controversial decision.

Let’s say he achieved his goals. What could those have been?
1) by visiting all three religious sites, he is indeed raising the importance of Christianity in this case. It does not mean he’ll rush to help the Copts, but in politics ‘form is substance’. The media knows this, that’s why that part got little coverage. Maybe that’s also why he took his jewish daughter/son along, since religions coexist peacefully in his family. I think that’s the message: religion is important, we must recognize all three and thus their right to exist.
2) at the G7 he rattled everybody, and the goal was to leave a de facto deterrent in the war with Russia. He succeeded. Europeans (and greedy groups) will be less trigger-happy now. (He could be killed, as Shamir notes, that much money is involved). By other measures, he lost friends in Western Europe, maybe gained some trust with Putin.
If he has the stature his ego demands, his medium term goal should be to establish a ‘civilizational alliance’ that includes Russia, fosters Western identity, rolls back Muslim infiltration. Very tough, because that requires time and legal changes in the diplomatic/military int’l system. A second-term goal, then. First he would have to deliver some of his America First promises back home, to get reelected. And maybe, some friends in Western Europe.
3) I have no idea whether climate change is or is man made. But that Trump made the announcement himself made it a big foreign policy issue for his administration. It seems to me a clumsy move. He could have handled it differently, maybe through Tillerson. But being low-key is not his style, good for campaigning, not always for governing.

So, goals in the ME maybe reconnaissance of the terrain, building personal good will and a gesture as to the equal status of religions. In Europe, no wars with Russia. The European one was very important, worth perhaps the cost in enmity.

In any case, any attempt to control the pace of GW is akin ants trying to reduce elephant speed by pulling at elephants ears

I’m not quite sure how ants pull at elephant’s ears, but what is possible, is to rebuild green cover in hot dry countries like Australia and Spain.

The evidence is that at one time they were fully green and forested with much the same world climate as now.

Peter Andrews goes into it at some length in his excellent book “Back from the Brink: How Australia’s landscape can be saved” showing how full green cover with forest provides a strong ground cooling/water retention effect + fertility + plentiful animal habitats and can be combined with agricultural production.

https://www.amazon.com/Back-Brink-Australias-Landscape-Saved/dp/0733319629/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496669526&sr=8-1&keywords=back+from+the+brink%2C+andrews

Israel Shamir

Here is a list of Donald Trump’s War Crimes and Treason

1)slaughtered innocent Syrian Children in a cruise missile strike…boasted to Marie Bartalomo on TV that after he ordered the cruise missile strike…that he enjoyed Melania’s scrumptious Chocolate Cake aftterwards!!!

2)slaughtered innocent Yemeni children in Yemen…cruise missile slaughtered

3)selling 100 billion dollars worth of weapons to ISIS=Saudia Arabia…As Donald called it:A MAGA JOBS probram for America…

4)pre-emotive War of aggression against Shia Muslim Iran

5)Threatens Christian Russia over Crimea

6)ordered US Military excercises on Christian Russia’s border…

7)An enthusiast for importing Asian Legal Immigrants….Asian scab labor….into US labor markets=economic and demographic extermination of Native Born White American Tech Workers…

I see that you are an enthusiast for Jeremy Corbyn….does that include Corbyn’s enthusiasm for importing the young male Mohammadan Gang Rape Army into Merry Old England?

LOL. Now that’s a good ad fontem.

Hmm… I wondered what the Russians were up to in the Arctic, frankly. All that combat training and specially modified helicopters, vehicles, etc didn’t jive with any visible threat requiring combat troops. Early warning radars, comms etc made sense, but Canadian/American troops marching across the Arctic ice is laughable.

If the Kremlin is basing its planning on the conclusion that the world is cooling, Arctic preparations suddenly make perfectly good sense. Namely, “all those preparations” may be developing and testing procedures and materiel in anticipation of arctic conditions moving southwards.

I put my money where my mouth is on GW and put solar panels on my house. I now enjoy completely free energy for my whole house, clean air inside my home, and my weekends free from waiting for a truck to deliver stinking kerosene. That’s what freedom from fossil fuels means — blessed relief from recurring costs and discomfort.

On a global scale, relief from fossil fuel should mean peace for large swathes of the world.

So why are people who claim to be of good will still urging a filthy, dangerous way of life on us?

Global warming is already beyond arguments. It is here. What’s being debated is whether it is mostly natural or man made phenomenon. Were Russians to believe new ice age would be imminent soon while all those preparations for resources extraction in their North and military build up there. In any case, any attempt to control the pace of GW is akin ants trying to reduce elephant speed by pulling at elephants ears.

In the UK we can see and hear Cobyn speaking directly without the help of ‘fake news’ and unless you’re in favor of the Chevez solution for Venezuela, it’s not a pretty picture.

Whether man induced GW is true or not (Exxon & other oil Co’s apparently believed so back in the early 80′s ) it should not interfere with further research into renewables. As we are barreling towards a world of 9 billion odd people, the need for cheap, clean energy sources will only grow. We are no where near where we need to be with renewables –yet.

I would have thought that the one funded the other, no?

Blaming Russia Goes Deeper Than Hillary Clinton & the Democrats

Indeed. Is this what Trump got for the $$$audi arms deal?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gulf-qatar-idUSKBN18W0DQ

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE sever ties to Qatar over ‘terrorism’

From my blog:

May 7, 2017 – California Leaders Deny Climate Change

Climate change (aka Global Warming) is a complex subject. The Earth is becoming warmer, but our climate has always been changing, becoming warmer at times and then colder. Pollution causes warming, but the impact is debatable.

Denying this threat has become a sin to many Americans. Anyone who expresses doubts is branded a greedy idiot who refuses to accept science. There are many cities, counties, and states whose leaders express great concern about climate change, but they refuse to do anything! They should ban construction in areas that might be flooded and build levees and dams to prepare. Yet none have undertaken any serious preparations.

For example, California leaders are quick to denounce anyone who doubts the impact of climate change, but are doing nothing to prepare!

http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/The-Bay-Area-must-act-together-against-sea-level-9961153.php

Their climate change models show that the San Francisco and Oakland airports will be underwater in a few years, and some of downtown San Francisco will be flooded. Scientists tell them this, yet California leaders ignore them, so they are really climate change deniers.

This is big news

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/05/saudi-arabia-and-bahrain-break-diplomatic-ties-with-qatar-over-terrorism

Mr. Shamir could you please give that tired old “CIA thugs have made billions smuggling and selling drugs” a rest? The weapon smuggling is what we need to focus on. The arming of al-Qaida scum in Libya and Syria.

Now that was a loss when he was killed. The homosexuals got to him after a while and he had to reign in his ridicule of them. Fantastic comedian.

Well, it’s a point of view and certainly worth expressing. Upon the whole I hate bandwagons and there isn’t much doubt there are some pretty dubious entities hitched up to the global warming one.

There is also no doubt that Trump is right about NATO and also TPP and TAP – as well as his unpopular stand on Russia and Putin – I give him a lot of credit for these at least.

I have been watching the sanctimonious outpourings from most British politicians following the events in London last night – how we have to show the world “our way” and “our values” – I thought “we” did that pretty effectively when we invaded Iraq and bombed Libya; killing and maiming countless innocents for political gain.

The establishment has much to answer for and just maybe the Trump revolution is not such a bad thing as they are trying to make us believe.

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It’d be fun to watch Trump visit Philippines

http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2017/05/united-states-philippines-joseph-mussomeli.html

France celebrated a necrophiliac “marriage” of a cadaver to his same-sex (if dead men have sex) partner in the presence of former French President François Hollande.

Mr Shamir doesn’t believe in ‘global warming’ but he believes in ‘religion’…might I shake my head in disbelief, thank you.

anonymous says

“the long-cherished principle of central bank independence seems to be under attack”

All national central banks (except for half a dozen) are controlled by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) which is the preferred weapon of the NWO. So much for in dependence.

Broadly, Semite is a descendant of Noah’s son Sem, the father of the Middle East people. It took on a special meaning during the 1860s in Germany in that christens were considered to be a Jewish sect. Since Jews were the only Semites in Germany the term was used to distinguish Jews from Christians.

Strictly speaking, this renders the term inappropriate in the Middle East where most everybody is a Semite.

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I just read Philip Geraldi’s paper concerning concerning how Trump and his team are considering Iran. Trump seems to be closed to the Zionists and it is not a good sign.

So far the US have been able to destroy Irak, Libya and creates lot of problems to Syria, Yemen and Ukraine without trigerring the third world war.

Can Trump do to Iran what Bush did to Irak ?
Is Iran as weak as Irak was ?
Can Iran strike back and erase Israel ?
Can it be done without triggering a major world crisis ?
How the US will convince Russia and China to stay aways and not to take actions against them ?

If Trump is actually marching with Netanyahu , it is not a good news for peace, it means that Trump is happy with the US and Israel being rogue states.

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Art: They say any condemnation of Jews is purely emotionally based

That is not what I have told you. I am telling you blanket condenmnation of X, Y, Z, or Jews is wrong headed, intellectually lazy, and morally reprehensible.

You say you are a Muslim. I can understand you wishing not to be group labeled. There is a difference between Jews and Muslims – 85% of Jews are Zionists – 85% of Muslims are NOT ISIS type jihadists.

The 15% of Jews who are not Zionist are not vocally against the Zionists (maybe 5% are). There is only one rational way to see Jews and that is see and acknowledge their dark side as expressed tribalists. Zionism flows out of Judaism. The only thing that they fear is being labeled as “Jews.” That is the only check on their tribal darkness.

The title of this thread is “Liberation of the Slaves”. What I am telling you is that if you harbor hate in your heart, you remain a slave: a slave to darkness and injurious to your Godly Soul.

That is an insult – we Americans are slaves to the ADL and AIPAC and the lying Jew MSM. The Great American people are the slaves of Zionism – opposing that slavery is not hateful – it is a good – it is rational.

People who label that opposition as “ pure hate” are wrong – PERIOD.

Peace — Art

Ed, I have also read Bibles with detailed concordances. Don’t understand the point of your post at all.

They say any condemnation of Jews is purely emotionally based

That is not what I have told you. I am telling you blanket condenmnation of X, Y, Z, or Jews is wrong headed, intellectually lazy, and morally reprehensible.

When we see the ADL and AIPAC control congress and the president, we must ignore it. When Israel viciously attacks Gaza – we must bite our tongue. When we see apartheid walls, we must ignore them.

Sure, but ADL and AIPAC are not representative of the entirety of the Jewish people — that is their line. And again, you have not heard from me to turn a blind eye to the cooption and corruption of the American body politic.

our godly natural humanity

The title of this thread is “Liberation of the Slaves”. What I am telling you is that if you harbor hate in your heart, you remain a slave: a slave to darkness and injurious to your Godly Soul.

100% straight out of Hasbara Central

Don’t be ridiculous. I am a Muslim and a follower of the Sons of Ali (AS). And if you ever deign to learn how to fight against darkness while maintaining the pristine luminance of your Godly Soul, you have no better teacher than Ali Ibn Abu Talib (AS).

Peace

Salaam.

Judas Goat Jill Stein, Following in Sanders’ Footsteps

by Stephen Lendman

Her campaign to recount votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin exposed her phony progressive credentials – showing she’s for Hillary, not peace, equity and justice.

Who ever heard of a progressive supporting a war goddess, Wall Street tool, racketeer, perjurer – dirty business as usual, not beneficial social change?

She’s Sanders with a gender difference, otherwise just the same – a con artist, Hillary supporter, indifferent about using her medical skills to help heal a sick nation, how I mistakenly described her political mission.

She double-crossed me, fooled me, suckered me, betrayed me and 1.2 million + voters supporting her. She changed me from ally to adversary, never again backing her for any public position.

She raised millions of dollars overnight, more pouring in, dirty money. Is it largely from dark forces supporting Hillary, endless wars, Wall Street, neoliberal harshness, and police state tyranny?

Was her campaign self-serving all along, not populist? Is she more opportunist than advocate for progressive change? Is she corrupted like all the rest – unfit to serve in any public capacity?

I’m embarrassed and ashamed for supporting her, thinking she’s different, a true progressive, when all along she supported what real activists condemn.

She fooled me once – never again!

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at [email protected].

http://sjlendman.blogspot.com.br/2016/11/judas-goat-jill-stein-following-in.html

Hi Anna…

If i wasn’t mistaken, there was one so called Annamarina… Right or Wrong?

Dear Anna

Art: Really — you find the US media, US congress, and US president being in the control of Zionism – BORING?

The various replies along this vein that I got here equate observation of facts with anti-semitism. I reject this notion and question the motivation of you and other posters who wish to equate objective observation of facts with a strain of dysfunctional mental and emotional process.

Your reply is 100% straight out of Hasbara Central. They say any condemnation of Jews is purely emotionally based – our words are never based on facts or observable events. When it comes to Jews, we Gentiles must not think logically – we must not believe what we see.

When we see the ADL and AIPAC control congress and the president, we must ignore it. When Israel viciously attacks Gaza – we must bite our tongue. When we see apartheid walls, we must ignore them.

Whenever we are honest and believe our eyes, and then say something against Judaism, the Jews say we are being emotional. Clearly, our godly natural humanity is their enemy.

We must not be human when it comes to the Jews. The Jews steal our humanity from us.

Peace — Art

I read it and I am not impressed. It is a mishmash of everything this guy knows about Jews and his and their anxieties.

“…as far as the other commenter (annamaria) who wishes to place the burden of the entire geopolitical mess/crimes on the shoulders of Jews, I like to point out that there are, in FACT, other strains of bipeds involved, and not just Jews….”

Of course there were “other strains of bipeds involved,” see Cheney and a swarm of war-profiteers of various ethnicities. However, here are the words of an informed neocon, which you are free to refute: Tom Friedman, “I could give you the names of 25 people (all of whom are at this moment within a five-block radius of this office) who, if you had exiled them to a desert island a year and a half ago, the Iraq war would not have happened” http://mondoweiss.net/2011/11/golden-oldies-tom-friedman-telling-an-arab-society-to-suck-on-this/#sthash.7TAhRoiF.dpuf
More: “Mearsheimer and Walt, the two preeminent realist scholars in international relations theory, maintain that both Israeli leaders and the Israel lobby in the US urged the Bush administration to invade Iraq—a course of action, they contend, that was not in the geostrategic interests of the US but that Israel saw in its interests.” http://inthesetimes.com/article/17626/what_the_Iraq_war_teaches_us
The striving for Eretz Israel by Israel-firsters has converged with striving for super-profits by weapon-manufacturers, mercenaries, and oilmen. Plus there has been the sensitive issue of “indispensable” dollar (see the tragic fate of Qaddaffi who was the best and most able leader of North Africa).
The Lobby and ziocons are perceived in the context of Holocaust museums and this context makes the rabid warmongers’ activities absolutely indefensible. To add insult to the injury, there are the belligerent Kagans (a progeny of East European Jews) who have entered into cooperation with Ukrainian neo-Nazis. This is beyond the pale. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/12289

Mr.Shamir,I think you make too much of the alleged split between liberal and conservative Jews concerning Israel and Zion.
Seems like one hive to me,and the zionists who defended Trump were who?Certainly not Boot,Krauthammer,Kristol and their ilk,all right wingers.
Even the American Conservative was anti Trump,another incredible twist on American politics.
I salute your courage for resisting the borg.
Jill Stein voters certainly weren’t Trump voters,so whats the angle with the recount crap?She stole Hell Bitch voters.Maybe they defrauded her for HRC?She certainly had a dismal showing.

I found this to be interesting and invite comments…

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/25/the-donald-and-the-jewish-question/

you may actually be nutty sir.

I am totally sure that what Jill Stein said, was and is… correct!

I don’t care one little bit what religeon/sect/race she may be….

I mean what she said is correct, and I agree with that… She is ‘Green’, well good, if you care anythingabout the future of the biosphere… (sorry to drop a big word on you doofus idiots)

Of course, even a dweeb like me knows… that these things are just a bunch a’ bull.