The John James Newsletter 207 25 November 2017 Ain’t No Cure for Love Leonard Cohen The “Trump doctrine” has consistently sought to make his foreign policy about business and his ego, nothing more and nothing less. Malak Chabkoun Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 206 18 November 2017 It is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war was largely about oil Alan Greenspan Global temperature in October has risen to +1.2C: this was 0.8C ten years ago Climate Science The first whites to sail to America smelt the cedars of the East Coast Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 205 11 November 2017 God forgives always, men forgive sometimes, but nature never Pope Francis We have consciously chosen that guns are more sacred than life, that coal is more venerated than our children, that greed more divine than love John James The man who reads nothing at all is better Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 204 4 November 2017 Hurricane Harvey may ultimately cost $180 billion, Irma may cost $65 billion, and Maria may ultimately cost $100 billion; add in the $85 billion for the California wildfires and the total cost may top $430 billion – all linked to climate change Robert Scribbler Now that efforts Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 203 28 October 2017 To keep up with global food demand 6m hectares of new farmland will be needed every year, whereas 12m hectares are lost through soil degradation UN estimate Somalia is ranked the world’s most corrupt country Transparency International Washington’s Sunni proxies were not a division of the Pentagon; they were entirely a Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 202 21 October 2017 What if I told you that the Left wing and the Right wing belong to the same bird Cherokee Political reality must be grounded in physical reality or it’s completely useless Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, A proliferation of ‘unthinkable’ events… has revealed a new fragility at the highest Continue Reading →