The John James Newsletter 182

17 June 2017

Trump is an idiot, but don’t underestimate how good he is at it

Naomi Klein

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime

Honore de Balzac

War fought without oversight is war without end

Former  Secretary of Defense Dan Feehan

Scientists stunned by Antarctic rainfall and a melt area bigger than Texas

In the Antarctic summer of 2016, the surface of the Ross Ice Shelf, the largest floating ice platform on Earth, developed a sheet of meltwater that lasted for as long as 15 days in some places. The total area affected by melt was 300,000 square miles, or larger than the state of Texas, the scientists report. That’s bad news because surface melting could work hand in hand with an already documented trend of ocean-driven melting to compromise West Antarctica, which contains over 10 feet of potential sea level rise.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/06/15/scientists-just-documented-a-massive-melt-event-on-the-surface-of-antarctica/

Climate emergency as fish abandon tropical waters 

As climate change pushes marine species towards cooler waters, and the fishing industry expands around the globe, the tropics are emptying out. Warmer waters were pushing marine species away from the equator at a rate of about 50km per decade as they followed the ideal temperatures for feeding and spawning.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/15/marine-expert-warns-of-climate-emergency-as-fish-abandon-tropical-waters

A New “Solar Paint” Lets You Transform Your Entire House Into a Source of Clean Energy

It can then split the water into hydrogen and oxygen, collecting the hydrogen for use in fuel cells or to power a vehicle. “[T]he simple addition of the new material can convert a brick wall into energy harvesting and fuel production real estate,”t he paint would be effective in a variety of climates, from damp environments to hot and dry ones near large bodies of water: “Any place that has water vapor in the air, even remote areas far from water, can produce fuel.”

https://futurism.com/a-new-solar-paint-lets-you-transform-your-entire-house-into-a-source-of-clean-energy/

Households’ share of national economic pie nears 50-year low

The share of the economic pie that households currently enjoy isn’t just small by Australia’s own standards, it’s also small by international standards, As a share of GDP, the compensation of Australian employees lies towards the bottom of the international ladder.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/10/households-share-of-national-economic-pie-nears-50-year-low

Now Just Five Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World’s Population 

Last year it was 8 men, then down to 6, and now almost 5.  While Americans fixate on Trump, the super-rich are absconding with our wealth, and the plague of inequality continues to grow. An analysis of 2016 data found that the poorest five deciles of the world population own about $410 billion in total wealth. As of now, the world’s richest five men owned over $400 billion in wealth. Thus, on average, each man owns nearly as much as 750 million people.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/12/now-just-five-men-own-almost-much-wealth-half-worlds-population

Why The Markets Are Overdue For A Gigantic Bust

The 2008 bubble blown by Greenspan was bad, the next one by Bernanke was horrible, but this one by Yellen may well prove fatal.  At least to entire  financial markets, large institutions, and a few sovereigns. It’s essential to note that more than two-thirds of the net worth tracked in the chart is now comprised of ‘financial assets.’  That is, paper claims on real things. [chart modified by JJ].  As the central banks have printed with abandon over the past decade, they’ve created the most extreme gap between real things (GDP) and the claims on those same things (Net Worth) in all of history. Following the Great Recession, the ‘plan’ of the central banks, such as it was, seems to have been to jam up people’s paper wealth, under the theory that people who feel wealthier are more likely to spend more and hopefully borrow more.

https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/109221/why-markets-overdue-gigantic-bust

Falling Interest Rates Have Postponed “Peak Oil”

The new crisis can be expected to be “Peak Economy” instead of Peak Oil. Peak Economy is

likely to have a far different shape than Peak Oil–a much sharper downturn. It is likely to affect many aspects of the economy at once. The financial system will be especially affected. We will have gluts of all energy products, because no energy product will be affordable to consumers at a price that is profitable to producers. Grid electricity is likely to fail at essentially the same time as other parts of the system. Interest rates are very important in determining when we hit “Peak Economy.” http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/06/12/falling-interest-rates-have-postponed-peak-oil/

Gulf Crisis: A Battle for the Future of the Muslim World

t is a strategy that risks nurturing the kind of anti-Shiite sectarianism that serves the kingdom’s purpose in its power struggle with Iran as well as creating an environment that potentially fosters radicalism. Libya, a landscape of rival militias and governments, is an example of the Saudi strategy at work.

http://lobelog.com/gulf-crisis-a-battle-for-the-future-of-the-muslim-world/#more-39705

US “Jihadi Express”: Indonesia, Afghanistan, Syria, Philippines

The complex web produced by Western imperialism that has literally destroyed entire countries, while locking other ones ‘behind bars’, in virtual neo-colonialist slavery. All this done in the name of ‘freedom’ and democracy, naturally, and often using various religions as tools, even as weapons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47219.htm

New Moroccan fossils suggest humans lived and evolved across Africa 100,000 years earlier than we thought

This evidence pushes back the origins of our species to 300,000 years ago, and supports the idea that important changes in our biology and behaviour had already taken place across most of Africa by that time. Compared with the more robust face and elongated skull of Neanderthals or older hominins, the faces of Jebel Irhoud specimens are slender, relatively short, and sit under a rounder braincase (the part of the skull in which the brain sits).

https://theconversation.com/new-moroccan-fossils-suggest-humans-lived-and-evolved-across-africa-100-000-years-earlier-than-we-thought-78826

‘First of our kind’ found in Morocco

The idea that modern people evolved in a single “cradle of humanity” in East Africa some 200,000 years ago is no longer tenable, new research suggests.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40194150

California teams up with Germany to tackle climate change amid US withdrawal 

In 2015, California along with the German state of Baden-Württemberg formed an intergovernmental panel ‘Under2Coalition’ to gather states and regions willing to curb their emissions. The initiative now spans 175 jurisdictions from 35 countries, intent to limit global warming below 2C by reducing emissions.  “The current withdrawal from the Paris Accord by the Washington administration is being overcome and countermanded by people throughout the whole world”.

https://www.rt.com/usa/391801-california-germany-climate-change/

What connects Brexit, the DUP, dark money and a Saudi prince?

The story of a massive donation to the DUP is like a John le Carré novel. The DUP has harmed Northern Ireland and endangered the union it exists to protect. How much did the lure of dark money influence that crazy decision? Any self-respecting voter would want to know.

http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/what-connects-brexit-the-dup-dark-money-and-a-saudi-prince-1.3083586

How Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business

‘I can’t believe that his dad is billing him for a charitable outing.’ But that’s what they wanted.” It’s also very consistent. The Donald J. Trump Foundation famously acted llke an arm of the overall business, using the charity’s money to settle a Trump business lawsuit, make a political donation and even purchase expensive portraits of its namesake. Meanwhile, Trump businesses billed the Trump campaign, fueled by small outside donors, more than $11 million to use his properties, chefs and private aircraft.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/#58602f086b4a

WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW

NEVER GIVE UP

No matter what is going on, Never give up.

Develop the heart Instead of the mind and

Be compassionate to everyone, work for peace and

Never give up no matter what is going on around you, Never give up

Paraphrased from His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Naomi Klein interview on Trump

The US has a president who embodies many of the things Naomi Klein has been warning about for years. She says her new book had to be written before things got worse. “It is undeniably terrifying that at this moment of such intense gravity for the planet this figure of such extreme stupidity has risen to power. But that means that there is more urgency to find solutions”.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/11/naomi-klein-donald-trump-no-is-not-enough-interview

US fired depleted uranium at civilian areas in 2003 Iraq war, report finds

Dutch peace group Pax says findings show US was in breach of official advice meant to prevent suffering in conflicts. Coordinates revealing where US jets and tanks fired nearly 10,000 DU rounds in Iraq during the war in 2003. PAX estimates that there are more than 300 sites in Iraq contaminated by DU, which will cost at least $30m to clean up. DU is a chemically toxic and radioactive heavy metal attractive to weapons designers because it is extremely hard and can pierce armour.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/us-depleted-uranium-weapons-civilian-areas-iraq

Up to 15 tons of depleted uranium used in 1999 Serbia bombing

An international legal team is preparing a lawsuit against NATO over the alliance’s alleged use of depleted uranium munitions during its bombing of Yugoslavia. These have allegedly caused a rise in cancer-related illnesses across the region over the years. “We expect the members of NATO to provide treatment to our citizens who are suffering from cancer,” Aleksic said, adding that the bloc “must also provide the necessary technology and equipment to remove all traces of the depleted uranium” from Serbia.

https://www.rt.com/news/392126-serbia-lawsuit-nato-depleted-uranium/

Dirty Open Secret: US Created and Supports ISIS

US Defense Intelligence Agency documents prove that ISIS, al-Qaeda and like-minded terrorist groups are the “major forces” used as US foot soldiers in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. The myth of so-called “moderate rebels” was long ago discredited. The DIA documents show America, NATO, Saudi Arabia and other regional rogue states support an Islamic caliphate to challenge, topple and replace Bashar al-Assad with an imperial puppet.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/dirty-open-secret-us-created-and-supports-isis/5594486

Without Putin, Syria Would Have Ceased to Exist’

Interview with Flemish Priest Living in Syria. Before the war the country had no government debt and there were no homeless people. On the contrary, over two million refugees from neighboring countries, such as Iraq, were taken care of and being treated in the same way as native Syrians. Daily life was very cheap, such as food. Schools, universities and hospitals were free even for us as foreigners. I spoke to a French surgeon who said the hospitals in Syria were better than those in France.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/without-putin-syria-would-have-ceased-to-exist-interview-with-flemish-priest-living-in-syria/5594692

Saudi Arabia is destabilizing the world

The Saudi’s long campaign to pull the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims back to the 7th century. We barely notice it, but every day, from Mumbai to Manchester, we feel its effects.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/06/10/saudi-arabia-destabilizing-world/ivMeb7TWGk1fQaVjZWWKGP/story.html

World Coal Production Just Had Its Biggest Drop on Record

Coal, the most polluting fuel that was once the world’s fastest growing energy source, has been a target of countries and companies alike as the world begins to work toward the goals of the Paris climate agreement. Consumption is falling as the world’s biggest energy companies promote cleaner-burning natural gas, China’s economy evolves to focus more on services than heavy manufacturing and renewable energy like wind and solar becomes cheaper.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-13/coal-s-era-starts-to-wane-as-world-shifts-to-cleaner-energy

Start your weekend with a map.

The map is unlabeled, uncaptioned thematic maps with no scales or legends. Your job is to figure out what data is being presented by the map. To solve the map, you have to find the clues on it and come up with an explanation that ties them all together. Click here for hints.

http://www.weeklymap.org/024.html

The John James Newsletter 181

10 June 2017

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious 

Carl Jung

Understand that all battles are waged on an unconscious level before they are begun on the conscious. The power structure wishes us to believe that the only options are those they present to us. We know this is simply not true

Teresa Stover

To all scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and responsible citizens who were disappointed by the decision of the President of the United States, I want to say that they will find in France a second homeland

Emmanuel Macron

For some time, I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment.  It has become an operational and a policy-making arm of the Government.  We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society.  There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic positiont

Harry Truman 1963

We are grateful to the Washington Post, New York Times, Times magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for forty years.  It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.  But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march toward a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

David Rockefeller 1991

We have to bring down the walls that separate us

Take a moment to watch this Video. It will enhance your life and that of those who you will meet on life’s journey.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47180.htm

Remember Natalie Shakova forecasting sudden massive methane release of 50Gt?

Ice Sheet Retreat Led to Rapid Methane Hydrate Release at End of Last Ice Age

Evidence of large craters embedded within methane-leaking subglacial sediments in the Barents Sea indicate that the thinning of the ice sheet at the end of recent glacial cycles decreased the pressure on pockets of hydrates buried in the seafloor, resulting in explosive blow-outs. This created the giant craters and released large quantities of methane into the water above. We have seen some recent explosions in Siberia.

https://robertscribbler.com/2017/06/07/new-study-ice-sheet-retreat-led-to-rapid-methane-hydrate-release-at-end-of-last-ice-age/

The Arctic turns ugly

The Arctic is absorbing a lot  of solar energy, and at a much greater rate, than anywhere else on the planet. In fact Arctic temperature has risen 1.0C per decade whereas the global average temperature rise has been about 0.15C per decade. 6 or 7 times more. The East Siberian Arctic Shelf  holds up to 1700 Gt of methane, of which 50 Gt could be ready for abrupt release at any time. The warning signs keep getting stronger.

There is currently 5 Gt of methane in the atmosphere. An abrupt release of 50 Gt would be very, very, very, impactful! This 50Gt methane could have the same impact as 6,000Gt of C02. We put about 40Gt of C02 into the atmosphere each year. As methane is over twenty times more effective as a greenhouse gas than C02, a single 50Gt burp of methane would multiply this many times over, and in one massive burst. Its hardly possible to work out what impact that would have on global temperatures. It could greatly increasethe present scary figure of 410ppm of atmospheric C02. You have a go at working it out.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/29/the-arctic-turns-ugly/

New “Instantly Rechargeable” Battery 

Purdue researchers have developed a flow battery that would allow electric cars to be recharged instantly at stations like conventional cars are. The technology is clean, safe, and cheap.

https://futurism.com/new-instantly-rechargeable-battery-deals-a-fatal-blow-to-fossil-fuels/

Hawaii Becomes the First U.S. State to Commit to the Paris Climate Accords

“The Hawaii State Legislature understands the importance of taking action, and I applaud its work this session to ensure that we continue to deliver the island Earth that we want to leave to our children,”

http://fortune.com/2017/06/07/hawaii-paris-climate-accord-trump/

Donald Trump faces rebel state governors vowing to continue climate change fight

“The White House’s reckless decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement has devastating repercussions not only for the United States, but for our planet. This administration is abdicating its leadership and taking a backseat to other countries in the global fight against climate change,”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/paris-agreement-donald-trump-state-governors-climate-change-new-york-washington-california-jay-a7768341.html

America Has a New Climate Commander-in-Chief

California Governor Jerry Brown went to China to meet with President Xi Jinping and sign an agreement on reducing emissions that will position his state not only as a leader on climate action, but as a quasi-nation-state looking to fill the void in reliable American leadership created by Trump. For Brown it’s a win-win proposition: He is able to polish his bone fides as an international statesman and keep up political pressure on the Trump administration.

https://newrepublic.com/article/143152/america-new-climate-commander-in-chief

France is Now Offering U.S. Scientists Grants to Research Climate Change

The French government has launched a program that gives four-year grants to scientists, teachers, business people, and even students who are working on climate change solutions.

https://futurism.com/france-is-now-offering-u-s-scientists-grants-to-research-climate-change/

WHAT YOU CAN DO

An idea that you can act on now 

Avoid the dreaded plastic bag

One single fabric bag can potentially replace 60 single-use plastic bags per month. We cannot only reduce plastic bags, we also stop unwanted or discarded fabric (mostly polyester) from going to landfill. And we can let out government and supermarkets know, that we want less plastic packaging and leave it at the cashiers. Packaging, all packaging including from overseas, should be the responsibility of the manufacturers.

The Dark, Dirty Coal Secret You Never Hear

Ice sheets are turning black from coal-fired industrial pollution and fires. This has consequences for us all.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/06/06/the-dark-dirty-coal-secret-you-never-hear-anything-about_a_22127672

CSIRO report doctored to pretend gas cheaper than wind and solar

CSIRO report on low emissions technology outlines pathway to high renewable energy grid. Cost estimates for wind and solar assumes 50 per cent more demand than in the high gas scenario, prompting Coalition to say it favours “technology neutral” approach.

http://reneweconomy.com.au/csiro-report-doctored-to-pretend-gas-cheaper-than-wind-and-solar-92725/

We the people, are leading Australia’s renewable revolution 

Our rooftops are Australia’s biggest power station! A whopping 1.6 million solar households and small businesses are saying pfffft to coal-waving politicians and greedy power companies, and repowering the country with clean, cheap renewable energy anyway.

https://www.facebook.com/solarcitizens/videos/1411565985580272/

Nuclear Chicken In Syria

Western Civilization Hanging by a Thread. Trump has taken a fateful step that no previous US president was willing to take.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47159.htm

What’s Happening in the Persian Gulf

Early Monday morning, five Arab states—Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen—along with the Maldives, broke all diplomatic and physical ties with the Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar. This is a fast-developing story, but certain core elements of it appear to have taken shape – especially the role of Shiite Iran.

http://lobelog.com/whats-happening-in-the-persian-gulf/#more-39603

UN atomic watchdog confirms Iran is complying with nuclear deal

The report was the second since the January inauguration of President Donald Trump, who has called the pact between six powers and Iran “the worst deal ever negotiated” and in contrast with his predecessor, Barack Obama, branded Tehran an enemy. Trump has vowed to dismantle the “disastrous” deal and has ratcheted up US sanctions, calling for Iran to be isolated and throwing his weight behind Tehran’s arch- rival Saudi Arabia.

http://www.france24.com/en/20170602-un-atomic-watchdog-iaea-confirms-iran-complying-nuclear-deal-cia-trump

Nine of world’s biggest fishing firms sign up to protect oceans

Voluntary initiative marks first time companies from Asia, Europe and US have joined together to stop overfishing, illegal catch and use of slave labour

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/09/nine-of-worlds-biggest-fishing-firms-sign-up-to-protect-oceans

 

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Wants to Roll Back internet Neutrality Rules: Here’s What You Need to Know 

Pai’s NPRM paints a dark future of an internet entirely controlled by a few large corporations that sell access to it. The NPRM makes it clear that Pai intends to kill the bright-line rules against paid prioritization, throttling and blocking for websites and online services. These rules, and the FCC’s ability to enforce them and adapt them over time, are what keep the internet open and free — not empty promises from cable and phone companies.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40810-chairman-pai-wants-to-roll-back-the-net-neutrality-rules-here-s-what-you-need-to-know

Theresa May says the internet must now be regulated

Any excuse will do to censor our major source for the truth

http://tinyurl.com/y89ah793

Ross Gittens on why Australia has had 26 years without a recession

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/the-really-lucky-country-rest-assured-well-have-another-bad-recession-sooner-or-later-20170601-gwhtqb.html

This is how fascism takes over a country

US anti-Trump protesters facing decades behind bars

More than 200 anti-Trump protesters are facing felony charges that could land some in prison for 70 to 80 years.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/05/anti-trump-protesters-facing-decades-bars-170522063956218.html

What causes Alzheimer’s disease? What we know, don’t know and suspect

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, but treatments are still far from successful in clinical trials. Here is what we know about the disease, and what is yet to be uncovered.

https://theconversation.com/what-causes-alzheimers-disease-what-we-know-dont-know-and-suspect-75847

Prolonged Sleep May Predict Dementia Risk

Data from the Framingham Heart Study has shown that people who consistently sleep more than nine hours each night had double the risk of developing dementia in 10 years as compared to participants who slept for 9 hours or less. Being highly educated may protect against dementia in the presence of long sleep duration,

https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2017/02/23/prolonged-sleep-may-predict-dementia-risk/

The Oldest Hominins Could Have Lived in Europe

A new examination of two 7.2 million-year-old fossils from southern Europe suggests that humans split off from the great apes several hundred thousand years earlier than we thought.  Scientists analyzing 7.2 million-year-old fossils uncovered in modern-day Greece and Bulgaria suggest a new hypothesis about the origins of humankind, placing it in the Eastern Mediterranean and not — as customarily assumed — in Africa, and earlier than currently accepted. The researchers conclude that Graecopithecus freybergi represents the first pre-humans to exist following the split from the last chimpanzee-human common ancestor.

https://www.sciencealert.com/oldest-hominins-could-have-lived-in-europe-instead-of-africa-claims-new-study

How fear led to ‘The Negro Motorist Green-Book’

In the 1930s, the freedom of the open road beckoned, but for African Americans traveling in the Jim Crow era, highways could be fraught with peril.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/06/01/life-or-death-for-black-travelers-how-fear-led-to-the-negro-motorist-green-book/

California’s Medicare for All Plan Clears State Senate 

We can act to end the nightmare of families who live in fear of getting sick and unable to get the care they need due to the enormous cost. We’ve shown that healthcare is not only a humanitarian imperative for the nation, it is politically feasible, and it is even the fiscally responsible step to take. A fiscal analysis found that the plan could provide universal coverage in the state while actually driving down overall healthcare spending by 18%.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/02/offering-moral-model-nation-californias-medicare-all-plan-clears-state-senate

Dutch prisons are closing because the country is so safe

In 2013, 19 prisons in the Netherlands closed because the country didn’t have enough criminals to fill them. Now, five more are slated to close their doors by the end of the summer. the trend of closing prisons follows a steady drop in crime since 2004.The problem of empty jail cells has even gotten to the point where, last September, the country imported 240 prisoners from Norway just to keep the facilities full. That’s a rate of 69 incarcerations per 100,000 people.  The US, meanwhile, has a rate of 716 and 2o8 in Australia.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dutch-prisons-are-closing-because-the-country-is-so-safe-a7765521.html

Monsrum Has Created These Amazing Playgrounds In Denmark

Creative design is good for children

https://futurism.com/videos/monstrum-has-created-these-amazing-playgrounds-in-denmark

Eight minutes on London Bridge: years of training led to lightning police response 

The story of how the police learned to deal with terrorists.

http://theconversation.com/eight-minutes-on-london-bridge-years-of-training-led-to-lightning-police-response-78815

The independence of think-tanks: The Australia-China Relations Institute

In one-page, six-question survey, “East China Sea: What Australians think,” which claims most Australians desire neutrality in this territorial dispute. Yet the survey contains no raw data or details on the methodology employed

http://theconversation.com/the-australia-china-relations-institute-doesnt-belong-at-uts-78743

Profits, freedom and China’s ‘soft power’ in Australia

The real reason for my ordeal was that they wanted to shut me down and set an example to dissenting views and critical voices among the Chinese diaspora and beyond.

http://theconversation.com/academic-chongyi-feng-profits-freedom-and-chinas-soft-power-in-australia-78751

How the new elite signal their status by inconspicuous consumption

Inconspicuous consumption – whether breastfeeding or education – is a means to a better quality of life and improved social mobility for one’s own children, whereas conspicuous consumption is merely an end in itself – simply ostentation. For today’s aspirational class, inconspicuous consumption choices secure and preserve social status, even if they do not necessarily display it.

https://aeon.co/ideas/how-the-new-elite-signal-their-status-by-inconspicuous-consumption

Green Cremation

it is energy efficient, has a lower carbon footprint than cremation, results in almost zero air emissions, mercury from dental amalgams is recycled, the casket is not burned, the by-product (effluent) is safe, embalming fluid is neutralized, medical implants such as pacemakers need not be surgically removed, they remain in tact and can possibly be recycled.

http://hiltonsaquagreendispositions.ca/

A New Test Could Detect Cancer Years Before Symptoms Show

Our findings show that high-intensity circulating tumor DNA sequencing is possible and may provide invaluable information for clinical decision-making, potentially without any need for tumor tissue samples. It’s generated 100 times more data than other sequencing techniques.

https://futurism.com/aa-new-test-could-detect-cancer-years-before-symptoms-show/

The John James Newsletter 180

3 June 2017

The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. With such a people you can do what you please.

Hannah Arend

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people

Spencer Johnson

The death of Fairfax, the end of newspapers and the threat to democracy

In a small robust democracy with relatively little commercial quality journalism, it has the makings of a civic catastrophe. That’s because the serious journalism of influence in Australia, apart from the government-funded ABC, resides mainly in four newspapers – the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Australian Financial Review and the Australian. Between them, these four mastheads provide most of Australia’s coverage of politics, justice, economics, business, science, health, welfare, public policy, international affairs, arts, culture and ideas. Until recently, these four employed around 1500 journalists. Today that number is closer to 1000. Within two years it could be as few as 500.

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2013/july/1372600800/eric-beecher/death-fairfax-and-end-newspapers

China Aims to Spend at Least $360 Billion on Renewable Energy by 2020

The agency said that China would create more than 13 million jobs in the renewable energy sector by 2020, curb the growth of greenhouse gasses that contribute to global warming and reduce the amount of soot that in recent days has blanketed Beijing and other Chinese cities in a noxious cloud of smog.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/world/asia/china-renewable-energy-investment.html?_r=1

Palestinian prisoners in Israel suspend hunger strike

Deal struck with Israel after intense talks hailed as ‘victory’ for Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for 40 days.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/05/palestinian-prisoners-israel-suspend-hunger-strike-170527074751097.html

WHAT YOU CAN DO

An idea that you can act on now 

NEWS AND TV IS SELECTIVE, SEEK THE TRUTH ? 

The selling of policies has developed in the same way as the selling of commodities. Package it prettily, spin the story, adjust to suit the trends in social media and any other data collection, with the one purpose of directing your beliefs and actions to suit their agenda. If you are stuck in this bog of manipulation, what can you do? Search these stories on the web, check their truth, search for others, and above all do your own investigation. Listening only to theirs turns you into a ZOMBIE.  

Assad Just Explained How The US Really Works

“The American President has no policies. There are policies drawn by the American institutions which control the American regime – the intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, the big arms and oil companies, and financial institutions, in addition to some other lobbies which influence American decision-making. The American President merely implements these policies, and the evidence is that when Trump tried to move on a different track, he couldn’t. He came under a ferocious attack. As we have seen in the past few week, he changed his rhetoric completely and subjected himself to the terms of the deep American state. That’s why it is unrealistic to make an assessment of the American President’s foreign policy, for he might say something; but he ultimately does what these institutions dictate to him. This is not new. This has been ongoing American policy for decades.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47138.htm

‘Liar, Liar’: A Song Assailing Theresa May Tops the Charts in Britain

The song has a catchy chorus and a not-so-subtle message of oppression and poverty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxN1STgQXW8&feature=youtu.be

Coral bleaching on Great Barrier Reef worse than expected

Surveys taken throughout 2016 show escalating impact from north to south, with 70% of shallow water corals dead north of Port Douglas. It is now confirmed that about 29% of shallow water corals died from bleaching during 2016, up from the previous estimate of 22%, with most mortality occurring in the northern parts of the reef.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/29/coral-bleaching-on-great-barrier-reef-worse-than-expected-surveys-show

Australians say climate change is catastrophic risk, even as government turns blind eye

84% of 8000 people surveyed in eight countries consider climate change a “global catastrophic risk”. The figure for the Australian sample was 75%. The question asked how much participants agreed or disagreed that “climate change, resulting in environmental damage, such as rising sea levels or melting of icecaps” could be considered as a global catastrophic risk”? A global catastrophic risk was described as “a future event that has the potential to affect 10% of the global population”.

http://reneweconomy.com.au/australians-say-climate-change-catastrophic-risk-even-government-turns-blind-eye-23556/

Australia can’t lose in the global race for cheaper, cleaner energy

A new report from CSIRO outlines four pathways for Australia to hit our Paris climate targets, and get cheaper energy at the same time. Australia is well positioned to benefit from innovative low emission technologies.

https://theconversation.com/australia-cant-lose-in-the-global-race-for-cheaper-cleaner-energy-78402

UK reels from climate induced food rationing

Will we still be able to feed ourselves as the climate get hotter? Australia is a net importer of fresh food – The supermarket food gamble may be finished.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/20/supermarket-food-gamble-brexit-climate-migrant

Scientists Just Found a New Weapon That Can Combat Cancer: Coffee

British researchers have found that the amount of coffee you drink correlates to your chances of developing liver cancer. The research claims the same applies for Decaf,

https://futurism.com/scientists-just-found-a-new-weapon-that-can-combat-cancer-coffee/

Telstra signs deal for 70MW solar farm to cap energy costs

They are investing directly in renewable energy to reduce their electricity costs, which continue to soar in Australia as network costs and wholesale prices rise unchecked.

http://reneweconomy.com.au/telstra-signs-deal-for-70mw-solar-farm-to-cap-energy-costs-78281/

Brexit and the City

Some have predicted the fall of the nation-state and the rise of the city state to replace it. City states are easier to defend than nations and they breed innovation and nurture trade. The world’s mega cities have economies larger than most nations and are the hubs of commerce that fuel the globalisation that disenfranchises the working and middle classes that support Western democracy. In these megacities, life is cheap, slavery is rife and global commerce is not always top of everyone’s mind. To survive, these cities must maintain their food, water and energy supplies and sufficient infrastructure to remain connected to their sources of revenue.

/brexit-and-the-city/

Climate change could make cities 8C hotter

Nearly 5C of the total would be attributed to average global warming. The rest would be due to the so-called “urban heat island” effect, which occurs when parks, dams and lakes, which have a cooling effect, are replaced by concrete and asphalt – making cities warmer than their surrounds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/30/climate-change-could-make-cities-8c-hotter-scientists

Urban ‘heat island’ effect could intensify climate change, making cities up to 7C warmer

‘Any hard-won victories over climate change on a global scale could be wiped out by the effects of uncontrolled urban heat islands. After studying 1,692 cities around the world, they concluded about 25 per cent could warm by more than 7C by the end of this century under the worst-case scenario for carbon emissions.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/urban-heat-island-cities-climate-change-worse-global-warming-7-degrees-cool-roofs-pavements-a7761846.html

Overpopulation in Manilla

The Philippines has one of the fastest growing populations in Southeast Asia. From having fifty million inhabitants in 1980, the Philippines today is home to around ninty million people with 11 million living in Manila only. Living place is becoming increasingly satuarated. This overcrowding is causing a range of problems such as lack of education, lack of healthcare, unemployment and general poverty.

http://www.prospektphoto.net/stories/mads-nissen-overpopulation-in-manila/

Inside the Philippines’ ‘baby factory’

In the Philippines, one in 10 teenagers aged 15-19 are already mothers, according to the UN. While across the world teen pregnancy rates have been going down, in the Philippines it is growing rapidly.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-40060748/inside-the-philippines-baby-factory

The looming correction

Altair Asset Management hands back to clients fearing the Australian east-coast property market “bubble” and its “impending correction”; worries that issues around China’s hot property sector and escalating debt levels will blow up “later this year”; “oversized” geopolitical risks and an “unpredictable” US political environment; and the “overvalued” Aussie equity market. But it was the overheated local property market that was the clearest and most present danger,

http://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/fund-manager-hands-back-cash-to-clients-citing-looming-correction-20170529-gwfgua.html

This discusses the entire spectrum of UK involvement in and support for terror groups

Terror in Britain: What Did the Prime Minister Know?

Critical questions – such as why the security service MI5 maintained terrorist “assets” in Manchester and why the government did not warn the public of the threat in their midst – remain unanswered, deflected by the promise of an internal “review”. The alleged suicide bomber, Salman Abedi was part of an extremist group, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, that thrived in Manchester and was cultivated and used by MI5 for more than 20 years.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/terror-in-britain-what-did-the-prime-minister-know/5592772

British Intelligence Received Warnings that Manchester Bomber Was Plotting Attacks

The FBI passed these warnings to MI5 in January, after placing Abedi on their terrorist watch list.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47158.htm

The Government knew that the failed ‘war on terror’ could cause this attack 

Were Saddam and Gaddafi not overthrown, it is unlikely that Salman Abedi would have been in a position to slaughter people in Manchester

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/corbyn-speech-manchester-attack-war-on-terror-did-cause-it-a7758066.html

World watches as Yemen descends into total collapse 

“The people of Yemen are being subjected to deprivation, disease and death as the world watches.” Last week, 22 international and Yemeni humanitarian and human rights groups including Save the Children, the International Rescue Committee and Oxfam raised alarm over Yemen. They called on the council, in particular Britain which has the lead for addressing the conflict at the top UN body, to “end its year-long inaction on Yemen, and move decisively to end what is now the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.”

http://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/05/31/17/world-watches-as-yemen-descends-into-total-collapse-un

95 RE100 companies have made a commitment to go ‘100% renewable’.

All these companies are listed an the extent of their commitments spelled out. A great resource.

http://there100.org/companies

Bangalore water woes: India’s Silicon Valley dries up

Bangalore is known as India’s Silicon Valley. But the metropolis is running out of water fast. The job of distributing water from an ever-shifting array of dying wells has been taken up, in large part, by informal armadas of private tanker trucks. The tanker barons of Bangalore—the men who own and direct these trucks—now control the supply of water so thoroughly that they can form cartels, bend prices, and otherwise abuse their power. Public officials are fond of calling the tanker owners a “water mafia.”

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/why-bangalores-water-crisis-is-everyones-crisis/

Cape Town is almost out of water

The city faces a severe water crisis as reservoirs sank to an effective 10.5% of their capacity after five years of drought.The city was declared a disaster area in March as it confronted its worst drought in more than 100 years. The crisis mirrors a countrywide crisis last year when townships ran dry and residents of major cities staged collections of bottled water, which was donated and trucked across South Africa.

http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-southafrica-capetown-drought-20170523-story.html

Russia Calls Bill an “Act of War.” 

The bill presumes to grant the US “inspection authorities” over shipping ports (and major airports) specifically, ports in China, Russia, Syria, and Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47145.htm

Indonesian Borneo is finished: Pollution reaching epic proportions 

Wherever one looks, the entire landscape is ruined: mountains mutilated beyond recognition, forests gone, and huge tracts of land “cleared.” Despite what I already witnessed in all corners of Indonesia for years, I’m still not prepared for what opens in front of my eyes: the endless and horrifying sprawl of natural calamity: dozens of square kilometres of dust, noise, and mud. I try to avoid 100-ton trucks which almost run my car off the path. They are transporting coal. I see filthy processing plants. I see old, rusty equipment scattered all around the area.The environment is “changing,” pollution is reaching epic proportions, but there is very little awareness, even among the poorest of the poor, of the dreadfulness of the situation.

https://www.rt.com/op-edge/389992-indonesia-borneo-kalimantan-palm-oil/

Angela Merkel Stopped Relying on President Trump Only After Failing to Reason With Him

Merkel effectively threw up her hands and gave up on him. “The times when we could fully rely on others are a bit finished,” she told a crowd of her supporters in Munich. “That’s what I experienced in the last few days.” That impression had in fact taken shape over several months.

http://time.com/4797241/angela-merkel-us-german-tensions-g7-summit/

Five Reasons Why Climate Action cannot be Trumped

1. The Paris Agreement is global. 

The US, though powerful and a large emitter, is still just one country. China, Germany, France, UK, India and over 147 countries have ratified the Paris Agreement and show no signs of backtracking.

2. Renewables are unstoppable. 

Trump may favour fossil fuels, but he can’t beat economics. Solar and wind are now the cheapest form of new power in many countries, like Australia. Renewable power will continue to drop in cost as it continues to be dramatically scaled up. Just ask one of the countries capitalising on it – China. China will invest $360 billion in renewable energy through to 2020, creating 13 million more jobs in the process.

3. US States are taking the lead. 

US states are already leading on clean energy, including the Republican stronghold of Texas, and one of the world’s largest economies, California

4. Leadership is also coming from the world’s largest companies. 

95 global corporations (many of them based in the US) – including Apple, Coca-Cola, GM, Goldman Sachs, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Unilever, and even Walmart – have committed to 100% renewables in their operations.

5. The rest of the world is already responding. 

The EU and China have just announced they will strengthen their climate ties. The EU has promised to give China €10m to rollout a national emissions trading system. This comes on top of indications they could levy ‘carbon taxes’ on US imports. International markets are also signalling this as a damaging move for the US, with US energy stocks taking a plunge. It is likely the US will be one of the biggest victim of this decision, missing out on countless business opportunities and becoming increasingly uncompetitive.

However, Trump’s action will embolden those trying to hold back action on climate change.

Just this week Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg announced Australia will divert funds for renewable energy to coal, and as the Chief Scientist prepares to hand down his report on the national energy system next week, our role – in holding our leaders to account and injecting facts into the national debate – is crucial.

In 50 years time I suspect the history books will note Trump’s actions as farcical. But this story’s ending will be written by us, the people of the world who dared to stay strong, stand together and light the way to a better future.

Thanks for shining on,

(Email from Tim Flannery and the Climate Council).

The John James Newsletter 179

27 May 2017

A great nation thinks of his enemy as the shadow that he himself casts

Lao Tzu

Last week’s quote on The continual destruction of Western culture…… was mistakenly attributed to Emily Spence – for which I apologise.

When was the last time an insect was flattened against your car windscreen?

Where have all the insects gone?

When they returned to one of their earliest trapping sites from 1989, the total mass of their catch had fallen by nearly 80%. In the next year the numbers were just as low. Flies—important pollinators often mistaken for bees—show a particularly steep decline. In 1989, the group’s traps in one reserve collected 17,291 flies from 143 species. In 2014, at the same locations, they found only 2,737 individuals from 104 species.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insects-gone

Climate Change Is Claiming yet Another Victim

Climate change is disrupting the seasonal clock of nine species of North American migratory songbirds, reducing their dwindling numbers due to an inability to successfully breed.  Birds are arriving either too soon and being met with frigid temperatures or too late and missing out on the insect boom that coincides with the new plant growth. Either condition means the birds have a much lower chance of surviving and reproducing.

https://futurism.com/climate-change-is-claiming-yet-another-victim/

‘The great unknown’: New climate change data lifts the sea-level threat 

Our worst case scenario is now looking three times worse than it did previously, With ‘business as usual emissions, the questions are when, rather than if, we will cross a two-metre sea-level rise. The newest studies indicate a two-metre rise by 2100 “would be the more conservative estimate”.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/the-great-unknown-new-climate-change-data-lifts-the-sealevel-threat-20170522-gwa963.html 

Chart of contribution to sea level rise from Greenland and Antarctic, and combined

Notice that the rate of increase is itself increasing.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10712-011-9137-z 

Rapid greening of Antarctic Peninsula driven by climate change

The Antarctic Peninsula, which juts out towards South America, is one of the most rapidly warming places on Earth. “Our records are also continuous in time, so we can say with certainty that the responses that we see in our cores are unprecedented over the time scale that our cores stretch back.”

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-05-19/rapid-greening-of-antarctic-peninsula-drive–by-climate-change/8534368 

WHAT YOU CAN DO

An idea that you can act on now 

DEMAND ALL PACKAGING BE RETURNED TO THE MANUFACTURER 

Containers and cheap ship transport has made the package the means for selling internationally. Similarly packaged nails make them easier to distribute, even in twos and threes. Food is plastic wrapped not for the benefit of the food or of you, but to make handling easier. We are left with the landfill. See more on Wikipedia  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reusable_packaging

China’s Silk Road project: A trap or an opportunity?

China’s trading partners are concerned that the new Silk Road project may get them stuck in a ‘debt-trap diplomacy’. As the world’s leading trading nation, the country desperately needs the wheels of globalisation to grind on. Thus, China is willing to commit huge resources to fulfill that outcome.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/05/china-silk-road-project-trap-opportunity-170514142652061.html

China is expected to invest up to $1.3 trillion in infrastructure projects

which will connect China’s industrial heartland to Western Europe via both land-based as well as maritime transportation and communication networks.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/05/china-silk-road-project-trap-opportunity-170514142652061.html

The Death of the Republic 

The deep state’s decision in ancient Rome—dominated by a bloated military and a corrupt oligarchy, much like the US of 2017—to strangle the vain and idiotic Emperor Commodus in his bath in the year 192 did not halt the growing chaos and precipitous decline of the Roman Empire.  Commodus, like a number of other late Roman emperors, and like President Trump, was incompetent and consumed by his own vanity.  He commissioned innumerable statues of himself as Hercules and had little interest in governance.  He used his position as head of state to make himself the star of his own ongoing public show.  He fought victoriously as a gladiator in the arena in fixed bouts.  Power for Commodus, as it is for Trump, was primarily about catering to his bottomless narcissism, hedonism and lust for wealth.  He sold public offices so the ancient equivalents of Betsy DeVos and Steve Mnuchin could orchestrate a vast kleptocracy.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_death_of_the_republic_20170521

Republican candidate ‘body-slamms’ Guardian reporter 

Earlier this week, Guardian US political reporter Ben Jacobs tried to talk to Greg Gianforte, a Trump-backed tech millionaire running for Congress in a hotly contested special election in Montana, about healthcare policy. That conversation ended when Gianforte grabbed Jacobs by the neck, slammed him to the ground and punched him. Jacobs left the scene in an ambulance. Less than 24 hours later, Gianforte was elected to Congress.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/24/greg-gianforte-bodyslams-reporter-ben-jacobs-montana 

China Is Outpacing the US In Reducing Coal and Lowering Emissions

https://futurism.com/china-is-outpacing-the-u-s-in-reducing-coal-and-lowering-emissions/

All Power to the Banks! The Winners-Take-All Regime of Emmanuel Macron

Macron won only because a majority felt they had to vote against the ghost of “fascism” allegedly embodied by his opponent, Marine Le Pen.  If people had voted on the issues, the majority would never have elected a man representing the trans-Atlantic elite totally committed to “globalization”, using whatever is left of the power of national governments to weaken them still further, turning over decision-making to “the markets” – that is, to international capital,

http://www.globalresearch.ca/all-power-to-the-banks-the-winners-take-all-regime-of-emmanuel-macron/5591208 

EU declared Monsanto weedkiller safe after intervention from US 

European Food Safety Authority dismissed a study linking glyphosate to cancer following counsel with an EPA official allegedly linked to the company and who figures in more than 20 lawsuits

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/24/eu-declared-monsanto-weedkiller-safe-after-intervention-from-controversial-us-official 

Manchester Attacks: What Price Hypocrisy?

There are times when the truth is not enough, when only the unvarnished truth will do,  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47118.htm

Saudi Arabia’s most barbaric punishments: From flogging to eye-gouging

A British pensioner living in the country will be publicly flogged for possessing alcohol. 350 lashings for a 74-year-old.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/saudi-arabias-most-barbaric-punishments-flogging-eye-gouging-video-1523844 

Get Over It: The World’s First 3D-Printed Bridge Officially Opened

The world’s first 3D printed pedestrian bridge has been created. It has been installed in an urban park in Madrid, paving the way for other 3D printed outdoor structures.

https://futurism.com/videos/get-over-it-the-worlds-first-3d-printed-bridge-officially-opened/ 

8 in 10 People Worldwide Fear ‘Catastrophic’ Climate Change 

Majority of respondents say ready to change lifestyles to prevent environmental calamity. The poll of 8,000 people in eight countries—the U.S., China, India, Britain, Australia, Brazil, South Africa, and Germany—found that 84% now see climate change a “global catastrophic risk.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/25/8-10-people-worldwide-fear-catastrophic-climate-change-pol l

Trumping Democracy in America’s Empire of Bases

The 45 nations and territories with little or no democratic rule represent more than half of the roughly 80 countries now hosting US bases in an unprecedented global network of military installations the US has built or occupied since World War II.

http://lobelog.com/trumping-democracy-in-americas-empire-of-bases/#more-39392 

The war you’ve never heard of:  

There are nearly 50 terrorist organizations and “illicit groups” operating on the African continent. Between 2006 and 2015 attacks jumped from about 100 per year to close to 2,000, some being the most lethal on the planet.

https://news.vice.com/story/the-u-s-is-waging-a-massive-shadow-war-in-africa-exclusive-documents-reveal   

Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War

Michel Chossudovsky exposes the insanity of our privatised war machine. Iran is being targeted with nuclear weapons as part of a war agenda built on distortions and lies for the purpose of private profit. The real aims are oil, financial hegemony and global control. The price could be nuclear holocaust. When weapons become the hottest export of the world’s only superpower, and diplomats work as salesmen for the defence industry, the whole world is recklessly endangered.

https://store.globalresearch.ca/store/towards-a-world-war-iii-scenario-the-dangers-of-nuclear-war/ 

What an Apple-Picking Robot Means for the Future of Farm Workers

If autonomous agriculture takes off, then at some point in the future, you might be eating an apple that was planted, watered, picked, sorted and driven to your local grocery store without any human intervention.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-an-apple-picking-robot-means-for-the-future-of-farm-workers/ 

Saudi Arabia faces largest ever 9/11 lawsuit – accused of prior knowledge over terror attack

The complaint accuses Saudi officials of being aware that money was redirected from charities to al Qaeda. This is one of six other lawsuits filed against Saudi Arabia by the families of 9/11 victims.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/saudi-arabia-911-victims-lawsuit-prior-knowledge-world-trade-center-terror-attack-twin-towers-a7644016.html 

John James Newsletter 178

The continual destruction of Western culture by a barbaric, primitive, and uneducated people is sad enough.  Knowing that the people continue to vote for leaders whose policies advocate their own destruction, such as France, is stupefying

Emily Spence

Hate is too great a burden to bear

Martin Luther King

The giving of love is a real privilege, and profoundly missed when withdrawn. 

Jimmy James

Donald Trump is impulsive, and ignorant, and apparently beyond the reach of any control, even his own

James Fallows

Washington’s landbridge to Central Asia has been split in two, and the plan to control vital pipeline corridors from Qatar to the EU is no longer viable. Russia has stopped Washington dead-in-its tracks and Washington is furious

Mike Whitney

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudice

Walter Lippman

I wrote the biography of Trump. His self-sabotage is rooted in his past.

The Trump I first met in 1985 had lived nearly all his life in survival mode. His development essentially ended in early childhood. His aim is never accuracy; it’s domination. He reacts rather than reflects, and damn the consequences. This is what makes his access to the nuclear codes so dangerous and frightening.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/16/i-wrote-the-art-of-the-deal-with-trump-his-self-sabotage-is-rooted-in-his-past/ 

We currently are in the most dangerous situation of my lifetime, and there is ZERO AWARENESS AND NO DISCUSSION ! 

Are You Ready to Die?

Surely not even insouciant Americans are so stupid as to think that Russia and China will just sit there and wait for Washington’s nuclear attack. I lived through every stage of the Cold War. I participated in it. Never in my life have I experienced the situation where two nuclear powers were convinced that the third was going to surprise them with a nuclear attack. The Press has not mentioned any of this.

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/05/11/are-you-ready-to-die/ 

America’s Secret Planned Conquest of Russia

The US government’s plan to conquer Russia is based upon the belief that “Russia has approximately 3,500 strategic nuclear warheads today, but if the US struck before Russian forces were alerted, Russia would be lucky if a half-dozen warheads survived.”  America’s strategy, ever since 1990, has been to strip Russia of allies and friends — to leave Russia increasingly isolated and surrounded by enemies.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/12/americas-secret-planned-conquest-russia.html 

Making Sense of the “Super Fuse” Scare

There is SO much redundancy and security built into the Russian and American strategic nuclear forces that a disarming first strike is all but impossible, even if we make the most unlikely and far-fetched assumptions giving one side all the advantages and the other all the disadvantages. Both the US and Russia have run hundreds and even thousands of very advanced simulations of nuclear exchanges, spending countless hours and millions of dollars trying to find a weak spot in the other guy’s system, and each time the result was the same: there is always enough to inflict an absolutely cataclysmic retaliatory counter-strike.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47038.htm 

US-Qatar Deal Threatens Russia: Reading News Between the Lines

The AN/FPS-132 system is designed to detect missile launches that take place thousands of miles away. This highly reliable radar will operate 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, providing up to 360 degrees of coverage out to 5,000km. The US-Qatar deal is a demonstration of US adamant resolve to surround the Russian Federation with BMD sites and neutralize its capability to deliver a retaliatory strike if attacked. This is a very disturbing fact. Russia will not sit idle watching the developments. The US has just taken another provocative step to undermine Russia’s security and complicate the bilateral relations.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/12/28/us-qatar-deal-threatens-russia-reading-news-between-lines.html 

Summing Up Russia’s Real Nuclear Fears

For the first time in almost 50 years, the US stands on the verge of attaining nuclear primacy. It will probably soon be possible for the US to destroy the long-range nuclear arsenals of Russia or China with a first strike. . . . Unless they reverse course rapidly, Russia’s vulnerability will only increase over time. Washington’s pursuit of nuclear primacy helps explain its missile defense strategy.

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/12/29/summing-up-russias-real-nuclear-fears/ 

Abrupt Warming – How Much And How Fast? 

The NASA Land+Ocean data from January 2012 to February 2017 polynomial trend line shows the potential for a 10°C rise four years from now. It points at a 3°C rise in the course of 2018, which would be itself be devastating.

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/abrupt-warming-how-much-and-how-fast.html 

Sea levels set to ‘rise far more rapidly than expected’

New research factors in collapsing Antarctic ice sheet that could double the sea-level rise to two metres by 2100 if emissions are not cut. As well as rising seas, climate change is also causing storms to become fiercer, forming a highly destructive combination for low-lying cities like New York, Mumbai and Guangzhou. Many coastal cities are growing fast as populations rise

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/30/sea-levels-set-to-rise-far-more-rapidly-than-expected 

Already, there is less and less of Kiribati for its inhabitants

The coastline is regularly being lost to king tides and to creeping sea levels, and in a very real sense, there is nowhere to go. The loss of land is causing conflict – Tarawa is growing ever more densely crowded, as families living on the coastline are forced inwards, infringing on another’s claim.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/14/our-country-will-vanish-pacific-islanders-bring-desperate-message-to-australia 

Pacific islands already lost to rising seas as climate change hits

Six more islands have large swaths of land, and villages, washed into sea as coastline of Solomon Islands eroded and overwhelmed.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/10/five-pacific-islands-lost-rising-seas-climate-change 

England and Wales: Over 56% of Syrian refugees committed severe crimes in less than a year

Out of 1,602 Syrian ‘refugees’ they allowed into the country over 900 has already been arrested on serious crimes. Basically, over 56% of these Muslims commit crimes in less than a year. And what’s the cost on the tax purse for this? Imagine what’s going on with the 2 million that arrived last year into Europe and the 5 million EU let in within the past five years. The figure of 900 came from a Freedom of Information request by the Sun.

https://muslimstatistics.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/england-and-wales-over-56-of-syrian-refugees-committed-severe-crimes-in-less-than-a-year/ 

The Most Disturbing Video on the Islamic Invasion of Europe 

Various clips of the Islamic refugees from the Middle East and Africa that the media isn’t showing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPKqM-TV2i8 

What ISIS Really Wants 

The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/ 

Muslims Are Creating ‘Nations Within Nations’

Followers of Islam hold very different values from the rest of society and many want to lead separate lives.

http://www.newsweek.com/muslims-are-creating-nations-within-nations-says-former-head-uk-equalities-446163?rx=us 

Rooftop solar saved NSW consumers nearly $1 billion in heatwave

Rooftop solar supplied only about 2% of the state’s total power needs over that time – or about 17GWh – but its impact on the market was to cut the price of electricity by 60%, delivering savings of $888 million.

http://reneweconomy.com.au/rooftop-solar-saved-nsw-consumers-nearly-1-billion-heatwave-45093/ 

Renewable hydrogen could fuel Australia’s next export boom after CSIRO breakthrough

Australia’s next big export industry could be its sunlight and wind, as game-changing technology makes it easier to transport and deliver their energy as hydrogen. Industry players are even talking up renewable hydrogen as the next liquefied natural gas industry, which could supply hydrogen to power cars, buses, trucks and trains.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-11/hydrogen-breakthrough-could-fuel-renewable-energy-export-boom/8518916 

Germany Confiscating Homes to Use for Migrants

“A massive attack on the property rights” In an unprecedented move, Hamburg authorities confiscated six residential units near the city center. The city is now renovating the properties and will rent them — against the will of the owner — to tenants chosen by the city. All renovation costs will be billed to the owner of the properties.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10352/germany-migrants-property-rights 

How cheap is solar? 

Cheap enough, says the head of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, to drive the transformation of our grid to zero emissions. Cheap enough to inspire some people to install air conditioners on their verandah to cool the air outside the house, as well as inside.

http://reneweconomy.com.au/how-cheap-is-solar-cheap-enough-to-cool-the-air-outside-85335/ 

Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melt

No seeds were lost but the ability of the rock vault to provide failsafe protection against all disasters is now threatened by climate change

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-stronghold-of-worlds-seeds-flooded-after-permafrost-melts 

Julian Assange Claims Victory After Sweden Drops Rape Investigation 

Assange, 45, has lived in the embassy since 2012 when he took refuge to avoid extradition to Sweden over rape allegations. He feared Sweden would hand him over to the United States to face prosecution for information leaks as thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents were published by WikiLeaks.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Sweden-Drops-Rape-Investigation-of-Julian-Assange-20170519-0002.html