Author: JohnJames

The John James Newsletter 8
21 August 2014.

Interview with Sergei Glaziev – Advisor to President Putin
Gaziev, was born in the Ukraine and is an economistHe understands the behind-the-scenes power plays in the Ukraine and in Russia. He is one of the leading “Eurasian Sovereignists”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39461.htm
One comment was “I wonder what odds he’s giving on Kiev crushing the militias in the Donbas? I wonder if he saw Iran’s switch to the western camp with promised gas sales to Europe, cutting out much Russian leverage with the EU. Instantly this kills Russia’s “south stream” and drives a wedge between the EU and Russia and between Iran and Russia. Will Syria continue to be Russia or Iran’s buddy? The Sauds have a new friendship developing with China. This switch throws a lot of alliances up in the air to fall back to earth, but in what order?”

A comment from Sovereign Man on the US.
We’re seeing people’s trust in the state beginning to crumble, not just with police, but with one government agency after another. More and more people are waking up to the fact that none of these institutions are really there to protect them. NSA says it’s there to keep you safe from terrorists, but in reality they’re spying on you to protect their power over the populace. The Fed says it’s there to make the economy more stable, but they intentionally fuel economic volatility in ways that benefit their friends. The FDA says it’s there to protect people from unsafe foods, but their regulations and endorsements of certain ingredients actually make your food more dangerous. There’s an invisible wall going up around us, everywhere in Western civilisation. People are starting to realize it.
It’s time to get ready. Rational people have a plan B.

Australia risks being ‘dead dog last’ on renewables
Reports that the Abbott government is pushing his Renewable Energy Target Review panel to abolish the 20 per cent by 2020 target have triggered an angry response from industry and green groups, warning of the risk to billions of investment dollars, to jobs and to the nation’s solar and wind energy markets.
Australia risks being “dead dog last” on renewables

Former CIA agent: “the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was trained by the Israeli Mossad”
Snowden said that the American and British Intelligence collaborated with the Israeli Mossad to create a terrorist Organization that is able to attract all extremists of the world to one place, using a strategy called “the hornet’s nest”.
http://worldobserveronline.com/2014/08/12/former-cia-agent-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-trained-israeli-mossad/

How Many Bombs Has Israel Dropped On Gaza?
The explosive power Israel has fired on Gaza by land, sea and air so far is roughly equivalent to one of the atomic bombs the United States dropped on Japan in August 1945.
http://www.countercurrents.org/abunimah200814.htm

The 35.4 Percent: 109,631,000 on Welfare
In 2012, according to the Census Bureau, there were 103,087,000 full-time year-round workers in the United States. The welfare-takers outnumbered full-time year-round workers by 6,544,000.
http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/354-percent-109631000-welfare

The John James Newsletter 7
18 August 2014.

There are high officials in China and the US who understand that the only way to achieve rapid phase-down of emissions is via a rising carbon fee, which would be made near-global via border duties on products from non-cooperating countries. It will gain approval of conservatives only if the fee is not used to grow the government.
James Hansen  http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2014/20140814_JeremiahsProgeny.pdf

One more step to undermine the dominance of the dollar
Following earlier posts, Russia is taking steps to protect itself from any future dollar or euro sanctions. Moscow boasts the world’s 5th biggest foreign exchange reserves and the 6th largest gold reserves. In total, the assets amount to over $1.5 trillion.
Since the US has been interfering in the Ukraine Russia and China have taken serious steps to create an alternative international currency
http://rt.com/business/180588-russia-central-bank-gold/
Also creating a parallel credit card system, now internationally recognised
http://en.ria.ru/business/20140815/192039920/Russian-Bank-to-Start-Issuing-UnionPay-Cards-Next-Week.html

The Empire Reaps the Jihadist Whirlwind
“The resurgence of al-Qa’ida-type groups means that all 1.6 billion Muslims, almost a quarter of the world’s people, will be increasingly affected. It seems unlikely that non-Muslim populations, including many in the West, will be untouched by the conflict. Today’s resurgent jihadism is already having far-reaching effects on global politics with dire consequences for us all…. Imperialism has let loose a plague upon the world, that will – sooner, rather than later – consume the kings, emirs and sultans the U.S. depends on to keep the empire’s oil safe. The pace of imperial decline just got quicker.”
The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the new Sunni uprising. Patrick Cockburn.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39403.htm

Megacities and the US Army: Preparing for a complex and uncertain future
“As inequality between rich and poor increases … Stagnation will coexist with unprecedented development, as slums and shanty towns rapidly expand alongside modern high-rises. This is the urban future.”
http://usarmy.vo.llnwd.net/e2/c/downloads/351235.pdf

Watch a swarm of 1000 mini-robots assemble into shapes:
The world’s largest robotic swarm has been created using small, simple bots. For the first time, an army of more than 1000 robots has autonomously formed complex 2D shapes like stars or letters of the alphabet (see video).
http://tinyurl.com/m8pntm9

Not Just Ferguson: America’s Militarized Police Forces
The “war on terror” has come home — and it’s wreaking havoc on innocent American lives. The culprit is the militarization of the police.
billmoyers.com/2014/08/13/not-just-ferguson-11-eye-opening-facts-about-americas-militarized-police-forces/

The John James Newsletter 6
15 August 2014.

“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the
cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”
David Ben-Gurion, (1886-1973),
from Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.

Water Disaster Hits Every Single Person In Gaza
www.countercurrents.org/abunimah140814.htm
This is the infograph mentioned
http://www.ewash.org/files/library/Gaza%20water%20disaster%20info%20graphic.pdf

A catastrophe of unimaginable proportions is unfolding in the Arctic Ocean.
Huge quantities of methane are erupting from the seafloor of the East Siberian Sea and entering the atmosphere over the Arctic Ocean. Horrific Methane Eruptions in East Siberian Sea
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2014/08/horrific-methane-eruptions-in-east-siberian-sea.html

Another 16,000 homes add rooftop solar in July, mainly in Queensland.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/graph-day-another-16000-homes-add-rooftop-solar-july-97792

The madness of WA’s multi-billion fossil fuel energy disaster
Is this the first “death spiral” for the coal industry?
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/madness-multi-billion-dollar-electricity-disaster-70983

The John James Newsletter 5
11 August 2014.

For full coverage of the emissions of methane and the consequences to our weather and our future
Spend a little time with this.
The Arctic Methane Monster’s Rapid Rise
Jennifer Hynes gave thus presentation about the situation in the Arctic and the odds that things will rapidly spiral out of control, escalating into runaway global warming a few decades from now.
youtube.com/watch?v=a9PshoYtoxo

“A Hideous Atrocity”: Noam Chomsky on Israel’s Assault on Gaza
It’s a hideous atrocity, sadistic, vicious, murderous, totally without any credible pretext.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39364.htm

Why can’t Islamic State be stopped? Analysts say it’s better armed and better organized.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/08/07/6028238/why-cant-islamic-state-be-stopped.html?rh=1

The John James Newsletter 4
6 August 2014.

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.”         Samuel Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations”

One of the two first international monitors on-site saw conclusive evidence that the Malaysian plane had been hit by “very very strong machine-gun fire,” not by ground-based missile-fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ze9BNGDyk4
And fuller description
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39341.htm

A bundle of information on the Great Siberian Craters
Not resolved, but it is thought that warming temperature created a hot pond that sank with enough heat to release the methane
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2711806/Has-mystery-Siberian-craters-finally-solved-Scientist-claims-created-SINKHOLES-erupted-outwards.html

Worse news for Australia as India taps solar, Beijing bans coal
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/worse-news-for-australia-as-india-taps-solar-beijing-bans-coal-66423

Obama’s ‘helplessness’ an act: Snowden reveals scale of US aid to Israel
http://rt.com/news/177716-us-israel-funding-aggression/

The John James Newsletter 11
6 September 2014.

How the IPCC is sharpening its language on climate change
Not only is the wording around how the climate is changing more decisive, the evidence the report references is stronger when compared to the  previous version published in 2007.
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/09/how-the-ipcc-is-sharpening-its-language-on-climate-change/

Arab Region Has World’s Fastest Growing HIV Epidemic
http://worldpress.org/link.cfm?http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/09/arab-region-has-worlds-fastest-growing-hiv-epidemic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=arab-region-has-worlds-fastest-growing-hiv-epidemic

You Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia
The dramatic arrival of ISIS in Iraq has perplexed many by its violence and its evident magnetism for Sunni youth. They find Saudi Arabia’s ambivalence in the face of this both troubling and inexplicable, wondering, “Don’t the Saudis understand that ISIS threatens them, too?” A powerful analysis.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39555.htm
also from
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39569.htm
The Caliph now controls seven oil fields and two refineries in northern Iraq, plus six oil fields in northeastern Syria. They are extracting at least 40,000 barrels a day. They sell this oil at a cut-rate $25 to $60 a barrel whereas  Brent crude is currently over $100. The Caliph is making roughly $2 million a day, and everything paid for in cash or bartered goods. No one knows who’s buying from their complex distribution network, but the fact is the oil flows from Caliph-controlled Syria to Turkey and Jordan. Being so flush, no wonder The Caliph’s armies are heading towards Aleppo; they are less than 50 km away, and could soon take over some eastern suburbs.
The Obama administration, meanwhile, prefers to excel at sanctioning Russia. If they were really serious at targeting The Caliph, they’d be following the money.

Which town will be Australia’s first Zero Net Energy Town?
The NSW consortium behind the push to create Australia’s first zero net energy town has formally issued a call for tenders, inviting service providers to develop a blueprint and business case for the project.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/which-town-will-be-australias-first-zero-net-energy-town-21965

Another step in the growing Central-Asian block that is changing the global balance of power.
Putin breaks ground on Russia-China gas pipeline to launch the construction of the first part of Gazprom’s Power of Siberia pipeline, which will deliver 4 trillion cubic meters of gas to China over 30 years.
http://rt.com/business/184176-russia-china-gas-siberian-power/

“Disaster”
Solar, wind, sugar, manufacturing sectors respond to RET review
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/disaster-solar-wind-sugar-manufacturing-sector-respond-to-ret-review-37501

Somalia famine: ‘We only have days to live’
People are starving in southern Somalia while relief efforts are blocked by government and rebel fighting.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/08/somalia-famine-only-days-live-2014830113012260245.html