2019/12/06 08:30:01
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The climate models are parameterised or fudged
Doctor Patrick J Michaels former President of the American Association of State Climatologists explains how the climate models are parameterised or fudged. He spent more than thirty years dedicated to environmental Science research and states that the average global temperatures are warmer by nine tenths of a degree C over the past hundred years. In my opinion this increase is insignificant.
The 2009 endangerment finding is the heart of the climate change problem. It was based on inaccurate parameterised climate models.
He goes into great detail to explain why the models are not a true representation of reality.
Doctor Patrick Michael, The Climate Change Parameterised Models, 720p Video
https://yadi.sk/i/lE77dVWvFtiB4w
Mike, one thing that he said, caught my interest and this was that :
the Russian Models give a much more accurate view than the others.
And lo and behold, with some careful structuring of search queries, I found the Russian models, their descriptions, how they work, how the models themselves have been tested, their results and more importantly, how they differ and how their results differ – In English!
So, one can recognize that painstaking and correct Scientific Method is alive and well in the Russian work. How refreshing.
With the little reading I have done, I can now understand Putin’s comment when asked about climate change .. He said ‘it depends who you ask’, obviously knowing that their results are very different.
I understand better why they are not singing the global warming song. Their data and analysis (not cherrypicked and clearly scientifically sound) gives a whole different world view. So, I’m sitting out to study a bit, and hopefully make it easier for others to follow this work via links.
It would be getting closer to The Saker’s main raison d’être as well and there are some Russian speakers that can help with more searches for English publications. What a treasure trove and I’m glad for this – just one little comment and it opened a new world for me.
Putin Putin he’s my man!
Amarynth, I posted this at the tail end of a Cafe several weeks ago, and I believe you missed it.
Long time ago, when I first heard about AGW / evil CO2, my first reaction was to search for facts, i.e. lab physics 101 of CO2.
Heat, or thermal capacity of gas is a measurable physical parameter. It is easily observed and quantified by any competent laboratory. Anyone can search for, and find the relevant laboratory data if interested in constructive dialogue.
Blighted, but easily accessible Wiki gives the following definition: Heat capacity or thermal capacity is a physical property of matter, defined as the amount of heat to be supplied to a given mass of a material to produce a unit change in its temperature.
So, what is the thermal capacity of CO2?
Here are several lab reports comparing CO2 vs N2 heat capacities, first come, first served atop of the search results (no cherry picking):
daniellefiler.weebly.com/uploads/5/5/2/8/55282799/pchem_lab_3_hcr.pdf
http://www.teacherpage.com/trindaw/docs/Final_Report.pdf
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/specific-heat-capacity-gases-d_159.html
All thermal capacity measurements of CO2 vs N2 (plain Nitrogen) state that, for all practical purposes, heat capacity of CO2 is but identical to N2.
Partial volume of CO2 in atmosphere is measured in ppm (parts per million) and is around ~ 500 ppm (0.05 %).
Partial volume of N2 in atmosphere is ~ 78 %.
Now, lets not confuse the two measurable gas qualities. Specific Heat is not a Thermal Capacity:
https://principia-scientific.org/does-carbon-dioxide-trap-heat/
(All things being equal, a bottle filled with CO2 will always warm faster and to a higher temperature when heated than does a bottle filled with regular air because the specific heat of CO2 is lower than that of air. Consequently, less energy is needed to to raise one gram of CO2 one °C than one gram of air one °C. Ergo, this experiment demonstrates nothing more than the principle of physics called “specific heat”. It does not confirm the notion that CO2 at 0.05% of the atmosphere is causing global warming via a “greenhouse effect”. Just as an aside, the effect of doubling the current concentration of CO2 on the specific heat of air would be miniscule; it would decrease it by 0.0002% )
AGW is not based on science. It is the second largest scam on the planet, right after the Fractional Banking, perpetuated and foisted upon us by the usual suspects, lovingly described by VT as Zio-gays (Saker’s moniker is much more mature). No amount of promulgating regurgitated slogans will make it a science. Last time I checked, global carbon market value, read an additional tax on Humanity, was $ 176 billion, and that was way back in 2012. That is a serious money which buys equally seriously committed hasbara.
Worst aspect of AGW is taking attention (and passion) of many good people away from real planet killing issues.
Amarynth, stay safe and warm, and carry on.
Katamaranac, thanks and you are right, I did not see your previous comment. And yes the first thing that made me speak out eventually, is just what you state: “Worst aspect of AGW is taking attention (and passion) of many good people away from real planet killing issues.”
Precisely; everybody forgets about the poisoning from burning coal, radioactive leaking, insecticides, GMO and the associated uncontrollable GE madness, all the other particulates,.space junk, all the capitalist-driven destruction.
Funny that you mention it. Burning coal is the main source of emission of toxic mercury: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/how-coal-works
Gas is cleaner.
Cheers, Rob
Rob;here in Texas we are warned to not eat but one fish out of our lakes , I forget, like once a month, because of the mercury. All over the state. Big place, Texas. If the big boys want a permit to burn Kentucky up in our yard no problem, a series of criminal governors has fast-tracked about 30 plants in the last few years. And heaven forbid they should filter the emissions. The mercury will never go away. So much for fishing. Just like roundup, you can’t get it back in the bottle. So much for food.
Katamaranac, Sorry I missed it too and it proves the point that some topics of importance require a second mention for the benefit of new forum viewers and for those who missed it. I now download information of importance and put it on yandex disk. It is free and gives you 10GB of cloud storage. No account is required to download unlike drop box. Youtube is political and have filters that eventually take content down. The content I put up is public domain and belongs to everyone to download and share and use again on this forum. I welcome repeated valid information. It is good to see your intelligent scientific explanations. I am also searching for school experiments that can be conducted by students and you are giving me ideas. Thank you
At last some down to earth physics. Thanks Katamaranac. This discussion should be done with open data and adult discussions, in stead of emotion, that’s the reason I often refrain from it.
Can *somebody* calculate for me how 100 ppm CO2 added to pre-industrial revolution values of 280 ppm can account for a mean atmospheric temperature rise of 2 degrees C ?
Can somebody explain to me why the Thunberg circus with all her handlers does avoid the greatest CO2 supplier on this earth, and that is China? Is it known, that China is planning to *add* an amount of coal-fired power plants the coming years that is close to equal to the capacity of coal-fired power plants in the EU, some 150 GW? https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/greta-thunberg-meltdown-imminent-china-unleash-tsunami-mega-polluting-coal-fired-power
(Ok, the utility rate is still low, I grant that).
The discussion seems to concentrate on Europe. Fossil fuels are *bad*. Power plants here therefore are heading towards *biomass*. You know how this works? Let me explain.
A forest in Canada is chopped (In Europe that is close to impossible). The wood is transported on a diesel burning transport ship in some weeks to here, since we don’t use sailing ships for that anymore. The wood is burned in a power plant. Unfortunately wood doesn’t have the caloric value of gas and still contains some 20 wt-% water. Since heat is required to get the turbines running, per unit of electric energy generated about twice the amount of CO2 is puffed into the atmosphere than when using gas or coal.
And here comes the kicker: while it is *biomass* and not fossile fuel, the emissions are not taken into account in the reports.
Am I the only one that tickles the thought in my mind, that this whole circus is meant to get Europe off Russian gas?
Is it my impression only, that the ‘Global warming’ was silently changed to ‘Climate change’, now ‘Climate destabilisation’? The next step will be ‘bad weather’? Wanted remedy remains the same: thou shalt pay.
Follow the money. The rest is show.
Cheers, Rob
real science you maybe also interested in Professor Garyaev. wave genetics
@ amarynth Here’s your quote of Putin and your analysis.
“With the little reading I have done, I can now understand Putin’s comment when asked about climate change .. He said ‘it depends who you ask’, obviously knowing that their results are very different.
I understand better why they are not singing the global warming song. Their data and analysis (not cherrypicked and clearly scientifically sound) gives a whole different world view.”
That’s the way you read it. But you’ve added your own bias. In fact you don’t “obviously” know what he meant. Putin said “It depends on who you ask” which might also mean that there are various viewpoints within the Russian Scientific community and he doesn’t know which to believe. I admire Putin and he spoke the most obvious truth indicating he actually doesn’t know himself. He obviously and cleverly avoided a direct answer.
@ Mike Dr. Patrick Michaels was, and continues to be, a corporate shill and professional climate mis-informer. He has admitted that 40% of his funding is from various fossil fuel industry sources. How much more corporate funding, and from where, is he not admitting? I don’t like the odor. He’s a member of the CATO Institute, an ultra right wing (total corporate freedom screw the people) “think tank”, which was formed to promote free enterprise for global corporations (screw the people) and propaganda to support those ideas. He is, was? a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council, which is the organization that holds meetings with federal and state legislatures, and which actually writes the legislation for the legislators, always to benefit corporations (screw the people), which are then presented in the governmental houses. Also it is of interest that Democrats are expelled from those ALEC meetings. They want no attempt at bipartisan agreement or input. (Screw the people) If you are looking for biased information, as most people do to support their own viewpoint, you are looking at the right person.
I’m well aware that Global Warming was originally a hoax created by the Club of Rome decades ago to inch us forward into world government.
I’m well aware of U.N Agenda 21, since modified to U.N. Agenda 2030, pretends to be for the protection of planetary biodiversity, also uses fear of climate change to promote an anti-human agenda. Yes, Agenda 2030 is a disaster for humanity but it doesn’t discount the reality of actual climate collapse or climate destabilization. Climate destabilization effects agriculture immensely. I’m also aware that Bill McKibben’s 350.org is funded by the Rockefeller Institute and I think it’s now up to 420 parts of CO2 per million, way beyond the original limited goal. I’m also aware that Al Gore and others are environmental hypocrites with an agenda. Yes, “global warming” was originally designed as a hoax to manipulate people with fear, not unlike the lies (hoax) about Saddam’s of weapons of mass destruction.
But, the many environmental problems are actually very real and complex. Few seem to be able to get beyond or think deeper than the proven hoaxes and the CO2 effect arguments and arguments over numbers and records. Weather modification is here, now, and the liars are now talking about “possibly” implementing it.
@ Mike
you might like this:
Ottmar Edenhofer, a leading member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says: “One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.” Dr. Vincent Gray has been on the IPCC Expert Reviewers Panel since its inception and now says: “The whole process is a swindle. The IPCC from the beginning was given the license to use whatever methods would be necessary to provide “evidence” that carbon dioxide increases are harming the climate, even if this involves manipulation of dubious data and using peoples’ opinions instead of science to “prove” their case. The disappearance of the IPCC in disgrace is not only desirable but inevitable….Sooner or later all of us will come to realize that this organization, and the thinking behind it, is phony.” -GEG
https://needtoknow.news/2019/12/global-warming-leaders-openly-admit-their-movement-has-little-to-do-with-the-environment-but-is-a-marxist-scheme-to-redistribute-wealth/
The Great Barrier Reef
Professor Peter Rid of the James Cook University (JCU), QLD Australia is another scientist who lost his job for revealing the truth. Scientists are not permitted to disagree with the Climate Change hoax or risk being disenfranchised. Universities rely on funding and funding is only granted if you agree with the climate change fraud. Peter has exposed the truth about the Great Barrier Reef based on his own research and it is not what the climate activists want to hear. The following link is his story.
Professor Peter Rid, The Great Barrier Reef, 1080p Video
https://yadi.sk/i/oU0bImW6yAWdvQ
I came across this video of a fallen Donbass hero. A local citizen who rose up to protect his land and family. He fell at almost the end of the major fighting. The video has English subs.Youtube is making it hard to view it.So you may or may not be able to bring it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjybJHZpiN8&bpctr=1575630430
Avov Battalion fighters have flown to Hong Kong to “help” in the protests there.
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/04/ukrainian-nazis-hong-kong-protests/
Thank you for that.
A good example which should surprise no one, of the plain fact that the world is much more complex than their oversimplified emotions….which almost invariably cloud their own judgment…as well as the judgment of others who are steered primarily by feelings….which unless checked and rechecked…………..can consistently and repeatedly lead to grievous error.
This is known and exploited to the hilt by the occult priesthood of Empire…….. and is the weakest flank …….Quite Flankly…….of the Patriot Movement in the USA:
Oversimplification of “The China Question”
Anomalies that don’t fit one’s world view are THE most emotionally “painful” ….(but opportune!) areas to explore further …in the quest to eliminate as much error as possible from one’s assumptions….and avoid being duped.
So what is your point? Do you have any positive remedies?
Having witnessed the fast paced, robust and often entertaining discourse of groups of people at different times, I will assert that there is a fine line between this, and the atmosphere becoming deleterious when no longer guided by truly human endeavor. I would suggest therefore that ” checking and rechecking feelings” could be a valuable and “positive remedy” to a whole host of varying scenario’s.
Conrad it looks like Cat-c-her answered you before I could revisit this from yesterday. Which is what one hopes for….more engagement.
Yet, because of your engagement, I’ll also answer, similarly:
Emotion clouds judgment ….not every time…..but very much of the time.
Therefore check it frequently.
Not a complicated concept!
Cheers!
Uncle Bob, you are right that You Tube is making it difficult to view. YouTube wants me to sign in to prove my age and I am not going to open an account because of what YouTube represents. If you can provide an alternate link as I do using the cloud based yandex disk, I would be most interested.
YouTube wants me to sign in to prove my age
In the URL, insert “nsfw” immediately in front of “youtube”, giving:
https://www.nsfwyoutube.com/watch?v=ZjybJHZpiN8&bpctr=1575630430
Thanks a lot. Was able to watch. Very well done.
Pavel, I thought about your comment on my comment about Yang…in the last Cafe.
You know, I was going to email Frank about further developing The Queen of Darkness (Hellary) seed of an idea I reported on there……first heard on his Dark to Light podcast two days ago with Tracey Beanz……Frank and Beans…thinking “Yang” might be the Dark Side of the Taoist Symbol………….
But it’s the reverse!
https://youtu.be/ezmR9Attpyc The Hidden Meanings of Yin and Yang
A start on this esoteric subject from a westerner’s understanding…… now to check with my Chinese sources for further depth! And possible correction……..LOL
Yang the dark side of Yin and Yang?
Not really – we’re in moving territory here in the little bits that I understand – not fixed, yet certain attributes may be fixed. In only one attribute, Yang is expressed as the forceful masculine.
But, you know what they say, The Tao that can be spoken is not The Tao.
and, from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (different perspective, different philosophy)
2.47 In effortless relaxation, dwell mentally on the Endless with utter attention.
2.48 From that there is no disturbance from the dualities.
2.49 When that exists, control of incoming and outgoing energies is next.
We can only but hope eh. The poets may find something to grab onto here and look forward to that.
Cutting Russia off from SWIFT would mean declaration of war – Russian PM
https://www.rt.com/business/475089-russia-swift-ban-war/
“Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Medvedev recalled the West once seriously considered the option, and Moscow is aware of it.
“This would in fact be a declaration of war, but nevertheless it was discussed,” the Russian prime minister said, adding that this is one of the reasons why the government is looking into ways to protect the Russian part of the internet.
In the wake of the potential threat of being cut off from SWIFT, Russia began working on an alternative – a domestically developed financial messaging network called SPFS. The system operates according to the same standards as SWIFT and is already being used domestically. It is set to be linked with the Chinese cross-border interbank payment system CIPS and India’s future payment mechanism. The Russian payment system will also work with Iran’s SEPAM, as Iranian banks have had no access to SWIFT since last year after the US reinstated sanctions.“
Interesting article.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/06/eat-an-impeachment/
It argues – and I agree – that Trump should be impeached, not for the nonsense spewed by the New York Times and Washington post, but for the commission of “war crimes.”
This is simply true.
Since Bush – and really even before that – American presidents have believed that they have a license to invade, subvert and overthrow any government in the world should they so choose. Such actions are clearly war crimes under international law and under the principles laid down – and accepted by the United States – at Nuremberg.
Of course, it won’t happen since the Democrats are every bit as hypocritical as the Republicans.
Western values going back millenial(s) (Christianity) have been exported abroad in the form of churches (and beliefs) everywhere. Even by the end of WW2 he was still paranoid about communistic expansion and got involved in Korea and shortly afterwords Vietnam, who could forget McCarthyism or hunkering down under their school house tables and chairs in preparation for some evil to enter our environment.
He to this day hasnt gotten over this need to repel any and all commers to his challenges over so many things.
Everything (well just about everything) is monitored so he can react to our/your actions and be one step ahead in the rat race. Oh i’m sure he missed something, and it may just be that something that is the only mechanism to surprise him at this point.
Music for a space of equanimity and provisional non polarity:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zU8wzllYdz4
Reasonably good article by author whom I respect: just who in hell is making what in some circles would be termed foreign policy; it certainly ain’t trump, he does not have a clue, and just responds to the latest zionist talking into his ear: gen keane, pomp, kushner, et al:
http://www.unz.com/scohen/who-is-making-us-foreign-policy/
Taras
Too true!
Below is Caitlin Johnstones take…her words not mine.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/12/07/self-validating-circle-jerk-of-war-psyops-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix/
“We really cannot afford to lose the battle to free Assange. If we’re going to let them imprison a journalist for life because he exposed US war crimes then we might as well tap out and hand the imperialists the keys to the world forever, because we’ll never reclaim what we lost.
Anybody who isn’t loudly protesting Assange’s imprisonment is now caping for Trump’s diabolical attack on the free press worldwide. Silence is complicity right now. This is endgame; without a free press holding power to account, we are done and we will freefall into dystopia.”
And the hypocrisy of it all. My God. They’re like, “Hey kids! Don’t forget to #Resist tyranny and fascism by cheerleading a Trump administration agenda to make it possible for the US government to imprison journalists for exposing US war crimes!”
Caitlin’s view on this matter is identical to mine. For Trump to appear on The Saker 2019 man of the year list is tantamount to a giant slap in the face for Assange and absolutely trivializes his tragic plight. This sort of action severely hinders his cause, the constant battle for free speech and humanities fight against Neoliberalism.
Sad times indeed
Col
Col, just a word in defense of The Saker, there is one reason only for that provocative Man of Year being Trump. The only reason is that we’ve not been dumped into major war. And we’ve come close at times and I think The Saker knows how close. It is sick, it is the lowest of the low, but it is true that in today’s world, we have to count ‘no major war’ (so far) as the best thing that could have happened from the US side.
amarynth and fellow commenters
I have the utmost admiration for The Saker, personally, the site and this extraordinarily eclectic group of intelligent commenters…CAF recently mentioned that in her view this group of people is the very best on earth at what they do. Personally I rejoice in the observation that there is an absolute minimum of selfish partisanship politically, ethnically and religiously…this gives the discussion a wonderful substance and balance and creates a powerful, inspirational and productive think-tank.
But…and this is a very big BUT…I personally am not here just to make friends, nor to be part of an echo chamber. I am here to speak from my heart and to try to help in my own small way in the desperate fight against a monumentally powerful and intimidating force. This is the obscene Frankenstein monster the West created…I will refer to it as the 3N’s… it is commonly known as Neoliberalism but it encompasses its closely related evil cousins that we know as Neoconservatism and Neocolonialism.
This enemy has…I was going to say… almost unlimited resources…I won’t… I will say instead… UNLIMITED RESOURCES. US Congress, over a century ago, had the astonishing and reckless incompetence to give the 3N Cartel, not only the keys but indeed the full and absolute ownership plus unchecked control of a printing press of the dollar which eventually became the World Reserve Currency…YCHMTSU!…and no, that is not a Japanese word.
I am not picking on The Saker, just the 3N’s.
However, an integral part of this fight is to make certain we get the horse hitched up in front of the cart rather than the other way around.
Our enemy’s network was illegally and unconstitutionally given the power and the means to buy up every damn thing they liked. No surprise that they bought the media. With that investment, they naturally gained the means to create their own narrative on everything that suited themselves, their pockets and their global agenda.
This is why the Assange case is of unparalleled importance. This IMO is the most important test case for free speech and journalism in the history of humanity. Trump managing to avoid a major war escalations [so far] by the skin of his teeth should be a relatively moot point by comparison. But if Mainstreet loses the battle of Assange and similar journalistic heroes we lose the battle proper…major war is absolutely guaranteed sooner rather than later. War is their business…IT”S WHAT THEY DO!
Apart from all of this if anyone should get the award for avoiding war then Putin stands head and shoulders above Drumpf… and anyone else on the planet for that matter. He deserves the award 100 fold in comparison to this barely literate, geographically and diplomatically ignorant baffoon.
If we lose the Assange battle we are not as CJ put it…” freefalling towards dystopia”…we have already arrived.
Cheers, very best regards and my apologies for the bluntness of my comments
Col
We’re in full agreement overall Col. – philosophically and in terms of values and you express it really well!
We will remain in some difference on the trumpanzee and Saker’s award – and that is simply that Putin will not press the war button first, and neither will Xi Jinping – we have no fear! But to think that this war button is in Trump’s hands makes me really very terrified. The time that the two honorable gentlemen is buying for us, both in terms of outright kinetic action and also economic stability, is at least in our neck of the woods an issue of much thanksgiving! The win of Maduro (so far as this is not over yet) and the stance of Iran is much much appreciated and applauded. The inability of the hegemon to respond to these and other actions is just breathtaking! There is progress – it is slow as snailsnot, but there is progress. The axis of resistance against your 3N’s grows stronger, hegemon grows weaker and perhaps the sure and certain damage can be contained in part of our world and not engulf the whole world yet again with a ‘war to end all wars’. (So she says hopefully!)
I put a small comment in the thread …
I would present Julian Assange as the Hero of Our Times.
I would present Maduro and all the leadership of Iran as the Most Honorable Leaders against Hegemony of our times.
I would present Presidents Putin and Xi Jin Ping as the the Most Outstanding Men of our times.
The Man of the Year is too small for these and more people.
(And then I sit back and wonder where the brave women are?)
On Assange, we gotto do it! I’ll go and seek out all the petitions circulating and list them here for those that want to sign.
Thank you so much Amarynth for your kind words…methinks we are very much on the same page.
We must keep up the fight. We are gradually winning. TPTB have completely underestimated the power of the internet. It is the game-changer and is a vast resource at our fingertips to self educate and inform. What’s more, it is dead easy, even dare I say it, fun! A bit like carrying every library in the world collectively in your pocket without being any more obtrusive than a small packet of cigarettes.
I spend on average 3 hours a day [1000 hours a year] reading and researching geopolitics. It has become a tremendously rewarding hobby for me. I don’t do my learning at any traditional institution…I attend the ‘Col University’… an extremely frugal little structure with a total capital investment of less than NZ$1000.
We are currently witnessing an extraordinary event in humanity’s history. This is a renaissance of enormous implications in terms of education, global power dynamics and is a rude awakening to the fact that as a species we are obscene in our actions of spending $trillions on perpetually killing and maiming one another. Indeed what was until recently our biggest global economy relies so much on the killing industry that it would suffer almost complete financial collapse without it. This is a monumental disgrace to mankind.
The great Leonard Cohen sang about this subject in his wonderful song “Anthem”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wRYjtvIYK0
To do it justice strap on a good quality headphone set.
Here are the words in full:
“The birds they sing, at the break of day
Start again, I heard them say.
Don’t dwell on what has passed away
Or what is yet to be.
Yes, the wars, they will be fought again
The holy dove she will be caught again
Bought, and soul, and bought again
The dove is never free.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
We asked for signs. The signs were sent
The birth betrayed. The marriage spent
Yeah, the widowhood of every government
Signs for all to see.
I can’t run no more, with that lawless crowd
While the killers in high places say their prayers out loud
But they’ve summoned, they’ve summoned up a thundercloud
They’re going to hear from me.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
You can add up the parts; you won’t have the sum
You can strike up the march, there is no drum
Every heart, every heart to love will come
But like a refugee.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”
I believe a self-educated and enlightened Mainstreet is the “thundercloud” Cohen references in the 5th verse.
We have indeed been “summoned up”!
Very best regards
Col
PS RIP Leonard
A current example of the MSM’s serial suppression and misinformation tactics is covered in the below link by CJ.
It relates to the OPCW’s outrageous behavior involving the so-called ‘chemical attacks’ in Syria.
This one instance is not even the tip of the iceberg. It is the story of the one in a thousand journalists brave enough to expose the truth and in doing so to risk their livelihood and in some case even their lives.
Cheers
Col
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/12/08/journalist-newsweek-suppressed-opcw-scandal-and-threatened-me-with-legal-action/
Assange best links listed here:
/moveable-feast-cafe-2019-12-06/#comment-729831
Col…’the farmer from NZ’
Strongly agree with what you wrote about Assange and trump.
Videos: Aussies Struggle to Contain Bushfires as ‘Mega’ Blaze Emerges Along Coastline
https://sputniknews.com/environment/201912061077506308-video-aussies-struggle-to-contain-bushfires-as-mega-blaze-emerges-along-coastline/
“Around five fires burning north of Sydney, Australia, merged into one large “mega fire” Friday, burning more than 335,000 hectares of land.
The country has been facing hundreds of bushfires since September. The blazes have caused hazardous air conditions in the east and southwest parts of Sydney, the capital of New South Wales (NSW). The mega blaze, raging along the entire NSW coastline, is about the size of greater Sydney, according to officials.
According to the BBC, at least six people have died and more than 860 homes have been burned to the ground since October. On Friday, more than 100 fires were burning across the country, and more than half of them were uncontrolled. Emergency warnings, which are posted for fires that pose serious risk to lives and property, were issued for at least eight fires.
In addition, NSW RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said that low rainfall and higher-than-average temperatures could result in fires ravaging the country for weeks or even months.
The NSW Department of Environment on Thursday declared that the bushfires and associated smoke and dust have resulted in “some of the highest air pollution ever seen” in the country.
Warming climate conditions can contribute to fires like the ones ravaging Australia. The past decade is set to be the hottest ever experienced in recorded history, the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) revealed in a Tuesday report, warning that additional wildfires, marine heatwaves and accelerating sea levels are forecast in the near future.”
Sadly it isn’t as straight forward as the final paragraph would indicate. Fires in Australia are natural to the climate. Many, out on a hot dry day, have seen the air thicken and shimmer and then sparks start. The fires are normally small, and run through low grade grass and low shrub. This was how the Aborigines managed them. I’ve seen them. They run in small rivulets, and then die out.
However, the powerful Greeny lobby in Aus managed to get all management low level burn offs stopped. Consequently, when the fires hit, there is a huge amount of fuel left.
The farmers who used to graze their cattle in the mountains in summer were stopped from doing so. The idiot greenies idea was that the areas were to be left alone to do their thing. Again, the undergrowth grew out of mind, thus adding to fuel load.
Then comes the maniacs, the arsonist, of whom Australia seems to have many. South Australia has coped better because, again, they started “profiling”, and watching known arsonists’. The touchy – feely mob running Australia decried this and the other states dont do it.
It’s not enough to just describe hot periods and droughts. Aus has had those for Millenia and coped.
But add in idiot rules and the current scenario was a disaster waiting to happen.
Pamela, please take some time to actually read the Green’s policy on fuel reduction for bushfires. They do support this in fact, and urge that this be done with environmental care. I agree with them completely.
Trump’s “Economic Terrorism” Directed against Venezuela and Bolivia
https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-economic-terrorism-venezuelan-social-democracy/5696869
“Trump regime economic terrorism on Venezuela includes multiple rounds of illegal sanctions and an embargo — war by other means.
Abandoning the rule of law in deference to US imperial interests, 15 so-called Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) countries banned President Nicolas Maduro, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino, and others in his government from traveling within their borders.
Along with the US, anti-democratic TIAR countries include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Trinidad and Tobago.
The Washington-based/US-controlled Organization of American States (OAS) overseas TIAR.
Venezuelan Defense Minister Padrino earlier called the treaty “an instrument of domination and interventionism that goes against the independence and sovereignty of the people, a product of the already obsolete imperialist doctrines that have done so much damage to Latin America.”
Months earlier, Venezuelan Law Professor Pablo Aure tweeted: TIAR “will be the instrument that allows the entry of a foreign military coalition” against the Bolivarian Republic.
Since social democracy replaced fascist rule in Venezuela, the Clintons, Bush/Cheney, Obama and Trump targeted the country for regime change, wanting control over its world’s largest oil reserves under pro-Western puppet rule.
For over 20 years, establishment media cheerled the imperial aim, waging all-out propaganda war on Venezuela, notably the NYT — currently blaming Nicolas Maduro for Trump regime economic terrorism on the country.
It blamed US high crimes against humanity, greatly escalated by Trump regime hardliners, on “misrule (sic),”
Trump regime viciousness bears full responsibility for hard times in Venezuela, what the scourge of imperialism is all about — supported by the Times instead of denouncing it.”
Iran’s Jewish Rulers
by Donny Ahzmond
June 3, 2019
It appears a couple of Saudi oil tankers were attacked off the coast of the United Arab Emirates a couple weeks ago, and the US is blaming Iran. Obviously, this is just a false flag being used to keep everyone tense, or justify the defense budget, or play with oil prices, or all the above. But it got me thinking about Iran and its rulers – who they are and where they came from. So let’s take a turn through the mainstream bios with our eyes open, and see what we see. As it turns out, they’re all Jewish. They are not “Arab” or “Persian” or “Middle Eastern”. These are all just broad ethnic terms that signify nothing. They are used merely to keep you off the scent. And none of Iran’s leaders are Muslim, either. Most of Islam’s top clerics and religious leaders have been placed there to control the religion and keep its adherents focused on the wrong things. They are doing the same thing with Christianity in the West. See the Pope, Billy Graham, the faith dealers, etc. So this paper is just more evidence that Islamic extremism isn’t a real thing, nor has Iran ever been a nuclear threat.
The current Supreme Leader of Iran is Ali Khamenei. Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 which overthrew the last imperial Shah, there have been two Supreme Leaders: Ruhollah Khomeini (1979 – 1989) and Ali Khamenei (1989 – present). We pronounce their names the same in English, and having heard the names frequently throughout my life, I had always assumed these Iranian leaders were related. When I ask Google if they’re related, I’m told the names sound very different in the Persian language, and they are both place names referring to two distant towns where the two Supreme Leaders trace their family roots. Let’s unwind that. Khamenei means “from Khamaneh”, a town in the Azerbaijan province of Iran, in the northwest. If you haven’t looked at a map of the Middle East recently, this is the area of Iran that borders Armenia. Khamaneh is only 80 miles south of the Armenian border. Why is that important? Because the crypto-Jewish Komnene family that infiltrated all the European thrones are from……
Please don’t post whole articles here – just a sample of the article and the link only – the rest of the comment was removed as it was very, very long. Mod.
Donny Ahzmond (cute) seems to be trying to give ol’ Miles Mathis a run for his money! Except he forgot to mention that the leadership of Iran are not only ALL Jewish, but they are ALL CIA assets! As is Donny Ahzmond. And you and me and everyone else on the planet! It’s all over, people! ;-)
sgage
You missed that Iran’s leaders are also Bolsheviks and seeking to control the planet through reducing the numbers of white Christian folk and destroy the west’s economies by ramming carbon footprint reductions down their throats. Oh, and obama/democrats are secretly Iran’s 5th column in america.
;-D
vot tak,
Of course! Now all the pieces fall into place! How could I be so blind! ;-)
I know nothing about Mr. Mathis or about the genealogy of Iran’s rulers. But why the nasty and immature sarcasm from Sgage and Vot Tak? Are Sgage and Vot Tak knowlegeable in these areas?Is it not possible to disagree more courteously and with more intelligence than with sophomoric cheap shots? Does Mr. Mathis’ research have no value at all?
Iran’s FM Javad Zarif Claims Israel Tested Nuke-Missile ‘Aimed at Iran’
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201912061077506395-irans-fm-javad-zarif-claims-israel-testing-nuke-missiles/
“Zarif noted that the United States, along with the three European members of the Iran nuclear deal – officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), have never complained of the Israeli nuclear arsenal, the only nuclear arsenal in the region, although Tel Aviv has missiles that are “DESIGNED to be capable of carrying nukes”.
Israel today tested a nuke-missile, aimed at Iran.
E3 & US never complain about the only nuclear arsenal in West Asia—armed with missiles actually DESIGNED to be capable of carrying nukes—but has fits of apoplexy over our conventional & defensive ones. https://t.co/r4EqXkhcCN
— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) December 6, 2019
The tested missile propulsion system is reportedly capable of launching defence or attack payloads with a range of up to 2,000 kilometers. It is also said to be capable of carrying nuclear warheads, according to Tel Aviv’s news channel i24 News.”
I have always thought that Iran should publicly agree to new talks with Trump on the pre-condition that Israel be forced to give up nuclear weapons and agree to inspections to confirm their nuclear disarmament.
Of course, the US and Israel would never agree to that. But it would get the hypocrisy of the West right out into the open.
Of course, that assumes that the Western media would publish Iran’s offer – which is far from a given.
Soros persona na grata? interesting video
Pakistan
Poland
Turkey
Russia
Hungary
Philippines
https://youtu.be/NcDZqMgjYM0
Israeli agent states that Epstein worked for Mossad.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/epstein-was-mossad-agent-used-blackmail-american-politicians-says-former-israeli-spy
There goes that man of the year, again, speaking from his heart.
Trump Sparks Outrage by Calling on American Jews to ‘Love Israel More’
https://sputniknews.com/us/201912081077513707-trump-calls-on-americans-to-love-israel-more/
“US President Donald Trump on Saturday addressed the annual Israeli-American Council (IAC) National Summit in Florida, where some 4,000 Israelis and American Jews gathered.
Speaking on Saturday at the 2019 IAC National Summit in Florida, President Donald Trump said that people in the United States should love Israel more.
“We have to get the people of our country, of this country, to love Israel more, I have to tell you that. We have to do it. We have to get them to love Israel more”, Trump said.
POTUS also suggested that there are some American Jews who do not “love Israel enough”.
“It’s truly my honour to be here this evening, to celebrate our progress, to deepen the incredible partnership between the United States and Israel, and it suffered greatly in the last administration. I don’t think they liked Israel too much, I’m sorry”, Trump said.
The US president said that Tel Aviv has never had a “better friend in the White House” than himself, claiming that unlike his predecessors, he has kept his promises to the Jewish people.”
Now that is definite man of the year material.
Dashing All Hope? Trump Says if Kushner Can’t Bring Peace to Mideast, ‘It Can’t Be Done’
https://sputniknews.com/world/201912081077514506-dashing-all-hope-trump-says-if-kushner-cant-bring-peace-to-mideast-it-cant-be-done/
“The most amusing, however, appeared to be his remark about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, something that, according to Trump, apparently can only be achieved with the help of his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
“If Jared Kushner can’t do it, it can’t be done”, Trump said during his speech, emphasising that a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinian Authority remains challenging.”
Yup, definite man of the year material there. :-D
My apologies, amarynth, for a one week delay in finally getting to the last link in your comment:
/moveable-feast-cafe-2019-11-29/#comment-726942
What would I charge the man publicly announcing his intention to teach blockchain and crypto to the North Koreans to help them to circumvent sanctions????
Simple!: Stupidity!
Which does NOT mean I support sanctions or want the Koreas divided. But for Chrissakes don’t be an idiot about it!
As for Ross and Silk Road…I think an hour of that is enough?? It’s way past my bedtime!
It gets down to CSW’s distinction between Privacy (good) …and Anonymity (bad) which is a subtle yet fundamental distinction Ross …and a whole gaggle of crypto-anarchists in the Mt Gox/Silk Road saga were similarly stupid …and fantasy ridden about…minimally…not to excuse the bad cops, Shumer Mafia etc.
I know anarchism/libertarianism has great emotional appeal to you …..ironically the way AGW has addictive emotional appeal for Mulga….. but once again…check those emotions…..they cloud judgement…severely!
Spend an hour on craigwright.net and you will find several articles on that critical distinction…between Privacy…and Anonymity ……quote the part objectionable to you and we will take it from there!
And THEN: Let’s get to the relevant parts on that subject within the Bitcoin White Paper of 2009…..to check up on Craig’s consistency and reasons for designing Bitcoin to be private…but NOT Anonymous!.
OK??
Maybe you want something different from what Satoshi Nakamoto specified…..in 2009….and came out publicly for November 15, 2018 to restore ???
That’s the issue of more importance and lasting benefit to 7 billion people….and therefore worth the effort to comprehend…..despite opposing emotional preferences…..than these other things you might prefer to discuss.
Lloyd George new my father, my father new Lloyd George…. ad infinitum.
But Trump does not know Prince Andrew!
LOL
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/03/prince-andrew-donald-trump-golf-president
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/world/europe/donald-trump-prince-andrew.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Julian Assange
I quickly updated myself as to where things are happening for Julian Assange. The campaign has really taken shape.
The quickest and most reliable way to follow, is from Wikileaks formal twitter stream :
https://twitter.com/wikileaks?lang=en
and this is the action page that makes most sense :
https://defend.wikileaks.org/take-action/
UnityforJ seems to be the most updated as to vigils and campaigns around the world (both site and twitter)
https://unity4j.com/
https://twitter.com/unity4j?lang=en
There is something that everyone can do.
F. William Engdahl’s latest article contains an error.
https://journal-neo.org/2019/12/07/putin-and-the-biden-memorial-pipeline-to-china/
#Ukraine, EU Association Agreement, #Russia, Customs Union
Generally speaking, I enjoy the writings of F. William Engdahl. However, his statement that “The pro-NATO coup was initiated when Viktor Yanukovich’s government had decided to accept generous Russian terms to join her Eurasian Economic Union rather than a vague promise of possible EU membership candidate status.” is incorrect. This casual and irresponsible revision of history, whether intentional or not, is not appropriate, especially coming form an academic. One should not rely on academic credentials in the presence of historical records.
In addition to my own memory, a simple internet search can be helpful -perhaps even to an academic.
“We have not changed our decision, we just postponed it to find a way to sign a version (of the agreement on Association of Ukraine with the EU), which would correspond to the national interests of Ukraine”, – he said, answering questions of the Kiev court via videoconference from Rostov-on-don.
https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/3819796
https://www.rt.com/business/ukraine-eu-deal-suspended-088/
https://www.rt.com/business/eu-ukraine-agreement-yanukovich-881/
Tomorrow is shaping up to be the start of an absolutely momentous time ………in the USA ………….and possibly the wrold…………but the emotions tearing at people’s hearts distracting from the task of intensifying the Deep State’s PANIC in DC (THE Main Event globally year end 2019……..IMHO)…are at an absolute fever pitch.
I’m using Elvis’ All Shook Up to respond to my Red Pill Sister’s latest email…and to ration writing time and energy…..I will post portions of that response next…censoring the parts unallowed by Moderation Rule 15.
As a preview…………..the Lyrics to ALL SHOOK UP:
A well I bless my soul
What’s wrong with me?
I’m itching like a man on a fuzzy tree
My friends say I’m actin’ wild as a bug
I’m in love
I’m all shook up
Mm mm oh, oh, yeah, yeah!
My hands are shaky and my knees are weak
I can’t seem to stand on my own two feet
Who do you thank when you have such luck?
I’m in love
I’m all shook up
Mm mm oh, oh, yeah, yeah!
Please don’t ask me what’s on my mind
I’m a little mixed up, but I’m feelin’ fine
When I’m near that girl that I love best
My heart beats so it scares me to death!
She touched my hand what a chill I got
Her lips are like a volcano that’s hot
I’m proud to say she’s my buttercup
I’m in love
I’m all shook up
Mm mm oh, oh, yeah, yeah!
My tongue get tied when I try to speak
My insides shake like a leaf on a tree
There’s only one cure for this body of mine
That’s to have the girl that I love so fine!
The 1957 video I use to make my point is blurry…but that fits the best……..sometimes oldest is freshest!
https://youtu.be/_5v74TsY0R8
How many people, politically, are like the teenage girls in the crowd………tears streaming down their screaming , delirious faces??? Especially with each Pelvis Thrust from……….. The King……
Eroticism serves the survival of the species in a simple, elemental way….but I wouldn’t say it is the Pinnacle of Human Reason…..and All That is Needed For More Durable Survival….
Necessary…but not Sufficient.
LOL
A little good news here. A Newsweek reported resigned in protest over Newsweeks suppression of the OPCW scandal.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/12/08/journalist-newsweek-suppressed-opcw-scandal-and-threatened-me-with-legal-action/
Not surprisingly, Newsweek threatened to sue the reporter since he had signed a “confidentiality agreement.” The reporter has said that he will disclose as much as he can without getting sued.
That’s an example of how our “free press” works here in America.
My Red-Pilled Sister has beaten y’all to The Pelvic Punch.
She responded to my All Shook Up…Elvis meme thusly:
“gosh the girls in that video look so wholesome.. and naive… Father always laughed and said Sinatra got a wilder response.. pretty sure Sinatra was cabal handled.. was that Elvis’ problem, too.. ?
as to aftermath predictions.. I predict a lot of pain for many of the ‘bystanders’… pain and grief.. those with the ‘exhaustion’ may be the lucky ones.. but I doubt that any of us will see a true ‘afterlude’.. this phase once complete will only set the stage for a long hard haul of committed restructuring..
and, yes, it’s quite clear that we’re all in and headed for a lot more ‘confusion’.. which people tend not to handle well.. which I suspect is ‘why’ only surface layers.. ‘simple issues’.. are what is currently being fed the general public.. including those in incipient stages of ‘wokeness’… speaking of which..
https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/the-many-flavors-of-wokeness-933aadfe7957
China/Hong Kong… of course it’s ‘absurd’.. you missed the ‘arm-in-arm’ with a ‘bilateral’ Congress quickly passing resolutions of sympathy and stalwart support…
Israel: I tend to this that MOSSAD is much like every other such agency in today’s world.. multiple factions in play.. what does seem to be emerging is a general realization of MOSSAD taking its premier place of influence on the world stage.. on a par or surpassing ‘China’ and ‘Russia’ or even our own ‘C.I.A.’ in multiple areas of ‘evil’ manipulation… this swamp thing runs DEEP and WIDE.. WORLDWIDE.. I doubt if there is ONE jurisdiction that is not infected/affected in some way.. and, yes, we are all concentrating on a chorus of buffo toads croaking in the dark..
a certain amount of the simplicity of chords in that chorus just may be curtailed by a realization that those who REALLY express the depth, width, complexity, and true evil intentions of those we are dealing with.. express well and gain gravitas of audience.. tend to end up ‘eliminated’.. and not just from Twitter or Facebook.. Arkancide, ‘random’ plane crashes into mountains or oceans, ghoul gangs, etc. are not new.. more a major thread throughout millennia of human history.. yeah, currently maintaining ‘platform’ IS key.. keeping it absurdly simple from ‘our’ perspective is also key.. having the patience to stand by as ‘they’ exposed and destroy themselves is KEY… as to people get into an uproar over one or two threads out of a complex tapestry.. that we’ve gotten to a point of correctly or not estimating 10% of the general public starting to have any clue is a ‘massive’ shift largely due to those social media platforms that have cut 2 ways… given them more ‘control’ while simultaneously giving ‘us’ the means to educate ourselves to shake off that control…
VERRYY interesting times.. and quite true to the supposed ‘Chinese curse’…
ahhh.. frrresh air… we’ve got sunshine after roughly a week of cold socked in fog….”
I recommend, in my reply that you sample…The Many Flavors of Wokeness article link above, and say:
Vastly enjoyed The Many Flavors of Wokeness.
Or JOKENESS…
As in “Whose Sunglasses Are The Real Woke / Joke?”
LOL
Oh heavens, and here we go again. Just now those Russians are going to get barking angry mad and do something spectacular.
Russia banned from major sporting events for 4 years
https://www.rt.com/sport/475284-wada-russia-4-year-ban-olympics/
“Russia has been handed a four-year ban from major sporting events, including the Olympics and football World Cup, after the Executive Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) approved sanctions on Monday. ”
What do you think? We will have new sporting events arranged by Russia / China / etc pop up like fire crackers.
Hello amarynth,
Looking at this from the outside, my guess is that many Russians will (rightly) see this as yet another petty and spiteful insult from the “West”. What a repugnant turn of events.
I suppose that in the long term Russians will just stop caring about what the West thinks at all and increasingly sever those links and relationships that they deem as unimportant. Perhaps Russia will retaliate in some form or another, though I cannot really guess how this will manifest given the power and reach of the Western MSM.
Personally I would take some pleasure in seeing some of the hypocrisy and corruption here in the West exposed for all to see in a manner which cannot be obfuscated or played down. This includes the revelation that many of our own ‘holier than thou’ athletes are absolutely nothing of the sort.
I am not holding my breath though.
Just wondrin….considering Russia is aware it is under hybrid warfare attack….has there been hacking of the data base…has the process of trying to correct previous issues been faulty by those charged with dealing with those….lack of care and supervision to monitor these situations considering the issue of international prestige…..how much fabrication or misinterpretation or provocation has been done by WADA….but surely Russia needed absolute forensic care in dealing with this issue the fact that events today ( Minsk meeting Normandy 4 day) now surely indicate absolute care has not taken care …..why not….and is now either tarnished or maligned once again.
Eg the minister for sport co firmed Rusdia had submitted the data but wanted or expected WADA to set up a joint investigation or committee to check it out….but WADA just took it as proof of wrong doing seems to be the crux of the matter I think I understand…so was that agreed procedures in the system….wishful thinking…careless…..too honest…
Did the goalposts shift without due diligence?
Wishes for joint investigation not work with Skripal or MH17 either…hmmm….forewarned?
You mean like the SCO International Games? Besides, the Olympics is an elitist event to begin with. The only event that poor people stand a chance of winning is running.
Glossopteris, they will not only see it as a petty and spiteful insult – it is a petty and spiteful insult.
JJ, I saw something like that, a database intrusion but I am not up to date with the ins and outs of this thing.
sean the leprechaun – I do like your sense of humor! wicked, it is :-)