@;Isn’t the celebration of the lizard,decadence,the new western mantra?Hatred of all those who believe in God,or some purpose to this life?Seems that way to me.
Mondoweiss says the Israelis deny entrance to Mads Gilbert,a courageous Norwegian doctor who helps the Palestinians,for life.WTF?We need a new flotilla,made up of more Western contingents,to break this evil blockade.

Posted by: dahoit | Nov 14 2014 19:46 utc | 3

Good stuff here on open threads. Everyone has a chance to express their own pet issues and concerns.
Mine (actually only one of many) is global climate destabilization, or for me more appropriately, anthropogenic fucking around with eco processes of which, in our hubris, we have little interest and no concern or appreciation.
Naomi Klein has a new book out, “This Changes Everything” which is, in my opinion, her best and most readable book yet. She talks only cursorily about the validity of the science, which for anyone with even a half a wit is consensually settled, but more appropriately she examines the cultural/economic/political paradigms that insulate the major perpetrators from the collective will to work to solve the crisis.
I haven’t finished the book yet but I’m far enough into it that I can recommend your consideration of checking it out and perhaps buying and reading it.

Posted by: juannie | Nov 14 2014 21:04 utc | 5

even better than wasting ones hard earned cash on some Clima-crap written by Naomi Whatsherface, one can read the scientific work Scientist Guy Stewart Callandar wrote back in the 1930s which completely contradicts the laughable Anthropogenic Global Warming theories as propagandised by dishonest pseudo-scientists and compeltely misinformed political activists
Callendar actually proposed a logarithmic relationship between CO2 levels and global temperature. This means that CO2 initially has a discernible effect BUT it’s effect gets weaker and weaker as it increases – which is the exact opposite of what the pseudo-scientists and gullible political activists like Naomi Whatsherface like to claim.
In his 1938 paper “The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and its Influence on Temperature” Callendar implicitly discounted the arguments for substantial positive feedbacks on initial forcing that characterize subsequent claims by the latter-day so-called Climate “Scientists”, the majority of whom seem to be political activists masquerading as scientists
Callendar observed the negative feedback from clouds as follows:

On the earth the supply of water vapour is unlimited over the greater part of the surface, and the actual mean temperature results from a balance reached between the solar ” constant ” and the properties of water and air.
Thus a change of water vapour, sky radiation and temperature is corrected by a change of cloudiness and atmospheric circulation, the former increasing the reflection loss and thus reducing the effective sun heat.

This is in contrast to the claims that pseudo Scientists often try to attribute to Callendar
Callendar even described the Urban Heat Island effect in his 1938 paper.

It is well known that temperatures, especially the night minimum, are a little higher near the centre of a large town than they are in the surrounding country districts; if, therefore, a large number of buildings have accumulated in the vicinity of a station during the period under consideration, the departures at that station would be influenced thereby and a rising trend would be expected.

UHI is something that the dishonest pseudo-scientists refused to admit, until a few short years ago, had any discernible effect on their hysterical little theories, despite Callendar describing it all the way back in 1938
Callendar also speculates on whether changes in carbon dioxide levels could have caused the ice ages. He states that he doubts CO2 could have done it, saying:

I find it almost impossible to account for movements of the gas of the required order because of the almost inexhaustible supply from the oceans, when its pressure in the air becomes low enough to give a fall of 5 to 8°C in mean temperatures.

Unlike the pseudo-scientist Clima-hysterics of today normally end their “Scientific” papers with some sort of warning of the dangers of rising CO2, impending Thermageddon, plagues, famines, rains of frogs, and the like.
Callendar refuses to to engage in the sort of childish hysterical alarmism indulged in by the likes of pseudo-scientists and the misinformed Naomi Whatsherface. Here’s what he wrote:

In conclusion it may be said that the combustion of fossil fuel, whether it be peat from the surface or oil from 10,000 feet below, is likely to prove beneficial to mankind in several ways, besides the provision of heat and power.
For instance the above mentioned small increases of mean temperature would be important at the northern margin of cultivation, and the growth of favourably situated plants is directly proportional to the carbon dioxide pressure (Brown and Escombe, 1905):
In any case the return of the deadly glaciers should be delayed indefinitely.

Posted by: Cloud9 | Nov 14 2014 21:38 utc | 7

@b #4
The fact that there are chants of Allahu Akbar in the video is clearly meant to point the finger at Government troops “shooting” at the children. Some credit to the BBC for getting to the bottom of the story, despite publicising it originally as fact. Butin this BBC article which questioned the authenticity earlier in the week, even their own reporter says that what they can say for certain is that it’s filmed in Syria because there are oil drums with the Syrian flag on them. Moron, try Malta. And these are professionals?
The video has served its purpose, just as the story of the Damascus lesbian did right at the beginning of the war, who blogged about her plight at the hands of a brutal regime, only that she was in fact a he and was living in Scotland.
Tales of the oppressed make the front pages to create a lasting impression in people’s minds. 5 million views that video has got. People commenting that it’s proof of the Syrian army’s brutality, others agreeing. Who knows how many Mohammad-no-mates have been inspired by the video to blow their guts out. Maybe that was the intention.
News that the stories are fake are then hardly mentioned.
The Telegraph, for example, also ran the story on its home page. I’ve seen no correction to state that it was a fake – just quietly removed from the website.
Wankers, the lot of them.

Posted by: Pat Bateman | Nov 14 2014 22:15 utc | 9

@8 – link is dead..

Posted by: james | Nov 14 2014 22:46 utc | 11

@8 The MH17 photo is a collage of Google Maps image from 2012, official Boeing photo of another airplane and image of Mig instead of Su.

Posted by: Ulster | Nov 14 2014 23:17 utc | 13

Guy_Stewart_Callendar

‘ In 1938, Callendar compiled measurements of temperatures from the 19th century on, and correlated these measurements with old measurements of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. [1] He concluded that over the past hundred years the global land temperatures had increased, and proposed that this increase could be explained as an effect of the the increase in carbon dioxide.[3] These estimates have now been shown to be remarkably accurate,[4] especially as they were performed without the aid of a computer.[5] Callendar assessed climate sensitivity value at 2°[6] , which is on the low end of the IPCC range. ‘

You can click on the link to read the footnotes. While I share cloud9’s rather tepid fondness for professional ‘activist’ Naomi WHF, I note that Callendar got the facts right but the spin wrong – he was not exactly a disinterested observer …

Guy Stewart Callendar (February 1898 – October 1964) was an English steam engineer and inventor.

Nuclear scientists think nuclear reactors are an acceptably risky means of boiling water and, unsurprisingly, Guy Stewart Callendar thought burning fossil fuels to be as well. They are wrong, in my humble opinion. But … “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
I think we ought to develop Algal Biohydrogen Production From Water. It is an inherently distributed process – no utilities required, no supertankers, no wars for control of pipeline routes. Which is, of course, the reason that there is no ‘Manhattan’ project to develop any renewable energy source.
The PTB are too stupid and too lazy to allow ‘life as we know it’ to continue for their own grandchildren if it inconveniences them in the present.
Did I say greedy? Too stupid, lazy and greedy to allow ‘life as we know it’ to continue for their own grandchildren if it inconveniences them in the present.

Posted by: jfl | Nov 14 2014 23:23 utc | 15

@13 “image of Mig instead of Su.”
I don’t know if it a collage or not, but it sure looks a hell of a lot more like and Su-27 than a Mig-29. You’re wrong on that… who knows what the hell else you’re wrong on (knowing your posts, its quite a lot).

Posted by: guest77 | Nov 14 2014 23:29 utc | 17

I note that Callendar got the facts right but the spin wrong
Posted by: jfl | Nov 14, 2014 6:23:16 PM | 15
This is nonsense – unlike the rats that call themselves “Climate Scientists” Callender wasn’t “spinning”. All you seem to be doing is trying to erect a smokescreen to try and distract people from reading and possibly understanding Callendar wrote 76 years ago.
Had you bothered to read Callanders paper, or even bothered to read and more importantly take the time to understand the quotes from it which I already posted, rather than rushing of to sample the biased views of Wikipedophiles such as the excerable William Connelley, Callendar talks about how the climate system is not static, but instead it responds to changing temperature, saying (emphasis mine):

On the earth the supply of water vapour is unlimited over the greater part of the surface, and the actual mean temperature results from a balance reached between the solar “constant” and the properties of water and air. Thus a change of water vapour, sky radiation and temperature is corrected by a change of cloudiness and atmospheric circulation, the former increasing the reflection loss and thus reducing the effective sun heat

Callendar is saying that the temperature of the planet is self-correcting, that is to say that the Earth has inherent temperature-regulating mechanisms, and that it naturally balances at a certain temperature, and it corrects itself when it departs from that balance.
This is in stark contradiction from the views of the Climate Hysterics. In fact it contradict the theories at the root of the whole ridiculous Climate Hysteria Circus, which are built on the notion of “runaway positive feedbacks”. Water vapour, rather than the trace gas CO2, is the deciding factor when it comes regulating temperatures, because as temp rises there is a negative feedback in the form of clouds which in turn help reduce temp by reflecting solar energy.
Rather than actually address the science, you attempt to smear the messenger by claiming that Callendar is “spinning” because he was “was an English steam engineer and inventor”. It’s clear just who is attempt to “spin” here. (hint : it ain’t Callendar)
You are clearly unable to fault his science so, lacking the integrity of Callendar, you have instead chosen to try to smear his reputation by ignoring the science and attacking the Scientist

Posted by: Cloud9 | Nov 15 2014 0:17 utc | 19

Climate science as determined by the “consensus”… isn’t science.
Normal science – you reassess when your predictions and models fail.
Consensus climate science – you keep finding new excuses.
The list of utterly disproven memes put forward as the consequences/evidence of a tipping point has gotten to the point of utter hilarity: hurricanes were going to be more frequent and stronger after Katrina – but there has not been a Cat 3 or stronger hurricane landfall in the US since 2005…nearly 9+ years and counting.
Rains, then drought are alternately cited as being due to global warming.
Hot weather, then freezing cold is because of global warming.
Species extinctions are due to global warming, except they are then discovered to be due to shoddy science or fungal infections spread by researchers.
Really, I have no issue with the statement that man has made an impact on global climate – the problem is that all the hyperbole behind CO2 being the end-all be-all, the billions spent on models based on CO2 being the end-all be-all – has all come up completely without credibility at time continues marching on with no resemblence whatsoever to IPCC projections, much less the panic-mongering crap noted above.
Even amongst the CO2-catastrophe believers – the hypocrisy of rejecting nuclear in favor of highly lobbied for wind, solar and biomass subsidies is simply breathtaking.
Epic Fail.

Posted by: c1ue | Nov 15 2014 0:38 utc | 21

Callendar assessed climate sensitivity value at 2°[6] , which is on the low end of the IPCC range. ‘

This is totally false, and is a good lesson in why no one should ever trust a Wikipedohile on the subject of climate and co2
Callendar predicted sensitivity to be in the region of 1.5 deg C to 1.67 deg C.

Posted by: Cloud9 | Nov 15 2014 1:00 utc | 23

@guest77 #17:
It’s a pretty obvious fake.
The Russian blogger No Fly Zone thinks that this fake was created to discredit Russia, and the same idea occurred to me. Unfortunately, Russia’s Channel One took the bait, this reinforcing Western propaganda that Russian media just make things up and create an “alternate reality”. This fake also has the effect of discrediting the Russian theory that a Ukie fighter downed MH17. (Sorry, the spam filter doesn’t let me give links.)

Posted by: Demian | Nov 15 2014 1:06 utc | 25

The Russian blogger No Fly Zone thinks that this fake was created to discredit Russia
given that it only appeared a few weeks ago, long after the incident itself, he’s probably correct.
Had it appeared much earlier, just after the incident, I probably would have suspected Russians of creating it for propaganda purposes, which would have been excellent timing had they done so, even if it was fake.
The idea of a russkie satellite just happening to be in the right place at the right time to capture the event itself, is laughable.

Posted by: Cloud9 | Nov 15 2014 1:23 utc | 27

@Ray Bergmann #25:
You should not post on open threads without reading other comments first to make sure you aren’t making a duplicate post.
@james #26:
Exactly. Hence this black propaganda.

Posted by: Demian | Nov 15 2014 1:33 utc | 29

I hadn’t heard of this interview before, in which a former Frankfurter Allgeimeine Zeitung reporter explains how many German journalists are “non-official cover” of the CIA or its sister organization the BND. The interview helps one understand how the US manages to keep Germany and the EU in general as its colony.
Washington’s Blog: Leading German Journalist Admits CIA ‘Bribed’ Him and Other Leaders of the Western ‘Press’

Posted by: Demian | Nov 15 2014 3:11 utc | 31

Risen in the NY Times today has an article about the American Psychological Association (APA) and its involvement in torture carried out by the US government after 911. In 2005 the APA issued a report sanctioning the involvement of its members in crafting the enhanced interrogation techniques that are now widely understood to be nothing less than torture. The committee that made that report was composed of people directly connected to the CIA as it has been subsequently learned.
Apparently they are now re-opening a new investigation. This is one horrible chapter in how professional doctors were recruited into inhumane actions on behalf of the US government. I would hope that next the American Medical Association would conduct a similar review. There is no doubt that US doctors working for the US armed forces were actively involved in torture. To this day there has not been any discussion in US medical schools about the morality of their graduates, using their training in medicine and then engaging in torture when they join the US armed forces (many medical students have their tuition and expenses covered by the government if they commit to joining the armed forces). I know from my own experience when I tried to bring this issue up when I was still on a medical school faculty. My efforts were quickly voted down in a committee and the issue was never presented to the full faculty.

Posted by: ToivoS | Nov 15 2014 6:01 utc | 33

@18 There are two reasons why they don’t publish any Su-25 photo. First, you can’t shoot down a Boeing with Su-25. Second, because of this they don’t have any such photo. And as for the Saker, thank you, after seeing this sentence Does anybody seriously believe the Russians don’t know about 9/11? I’m pretty confident now what kind of “expert assessment” he can deliver.
@24 Russian media have been spreading lies about MH17 from the very beginning: that Kiev air control ordered them to fly lower, that they ordered them to fly more to the north, that they allowed them to fly at all over a no-fly zone. And there was this “Spanish air control guy” who was very active for a moment after the crash. All that was done to “discredit Russia”?

Posted by: Ulster | Nov 15 2014 6:32 utc | 35

29
What a bunch of hooey about RFIDs! I asked for, got a free copper-foil lined (Faraday Cage) envelope to keep my credit cards in. It still is in pristine shape, costs may $1.95, and blocks all electronic eavedropping.
Chirst, why don’t you beat the drum about warm galoshes, or something?
You’re far more likely to lose your identity through your HMO insurer.
You’re far more likely to lose your identity through IRS subcontractors.
You’re far more likely to lose your identity through DHS subcontractors.
Do you realize an Isreali company has a copy of every net and cell user name and password communication you send? Do you realize an India(n) company has a copy of your W-1040 and all your bank W-1099s, for sale!?
Who do you think processes all your identity paperwork? 17 virgins?!

Posted by: ChipNikh | Nov 15 2014 9:25 utc | 37

Certainly the torture doctors are war criminals. What about the bioweaponry doctors?
The ones who were working to weaponize Ebola in Liberia, for instance. Their cover story was that they were trying to make a weapon so they could then produce a defense against it. That sort of thinking began with creating a Department of War and calling it a Department of Defense.
It is not certain that the virus responsible for the current Ebola outbreak escaped from US Biowarfare laboratories but it is a sure bet the people who know will not be talking.
The doctors working on Biowarfare are undoubtedly war criminals as well whether this particular event originates with them or not.
Compare and contrast the conduct of the colossus of the north with that of the little island of Cuba during the past fifty years. Vive Cuba!
Our US is shot through and through with the War virus and it looks as though it may prove fatal to us … just as it has already to millions of innocents in Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Lao, Cambodia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and the Ukraine … to name just the ones that come readily to mind.

Posted by: jfl | Nov 15 2014 10:33 utc | 39

there is going to be a large scale attack on the suez canal the signal for this will be the shooting down of an egyptian helicopter in the sinai area

Posted by: stooge | Nov 15 2014 11:55 utc | 41

really @ 28 and 36 –
“If the cards are constantly transmitting your name and account information”, “Or should the rfid cards not be transmitting data but only readable?” and “why did you outlay $1.95 for the rfid protection apparatus? Btw, foil works to protect against would be rfid scanner thieves.”
Sorry really, you don’t quite understand how they work. They don’t “constantly transmit your name and account information”. They are entirely passive devices that do not have an internal power supply – when they are interrogated by a nearby rfid scanner that asks the question at the correct frequency and language for that particular type of rfid (most commercialy available types adher to an industry standard to assure merchant and brand interoperability and access to the databases) the rfid uses some of the energy gathered by it’s receiver to power up long enough to send out a reply – the reply contains NO names or account info – it is merely a very long unique identifying number. Whoever is using the scanner must compare that number to a database to translate the number into a particular item. That item may be the shoes you are wearing, the tires on your car as you pass by, or the id’s of all the loyalty or credit cards with rfids in your wallet. The database may be local or online or self generated.
The reason foil may help is that it weakens or blocks the signal from the scanner to the rfid and the rfid to the scanner, both of which are pretty weak – rfids and their scanners are intentionally made very lowpowered to prevent interference between one device and another just over at the other checkout register or store exit.

Posted by: sillybill | Nov 15 2014 15:18 utc | 43

Look again Bluster, Saker is “quite sure” the photo is fake. What is true is that the junta is in the east blowing up civilian infrastructure, “ATO”, lawl.

Posted by: ruralito | Nov 15 2014 16:25 utc | 45

Finance in Ukraine: snippets from the surface.
The Russian gas deal has fallen through. Mercouris is consistently good.
Mercouris http://tinyurl.com/nsmjt2v
Kiev has now severed and re-organised its banking and overall financial relations with Crimea, which is now a foreign country, like Russia, France, Finland, etc. Fait accompli.
The DPR has set up its own banking system. It has opened up a bank called (temporarily?) BANK, with 7 branches in the main spots. Reportedly, it will keep its reserves in gold. If the Swiss vote on gold goes YAY the price of gold will rise sharply. How this was accomplished idk, but help from friends must have been involved. Kiev has not commented as far as I could see.
The question of payment of pensions in the Donbass roils on. Previously, it was possible to register outside the East, and receive the pension. (Kiev stopped paying pensions to citizens of Donesk etc. long ago.)
Kiev now cracks down. See below one illustrative link. Many have interpreted this move as a way to empty the Donbass of its inhabitants. Poro almost said as much in a public speech (no link, couldn’t find it back.) I have also read and heard (you tube, personal info) that the DPR has taken on teacher’s salaries, how this works idk, and they don’t know or can’t say.
Euromaidanpress http://tinyurl.com/m78cdvt
For those who want daily news of Urk. official finance, as published in eng: 😉 :
http://minfin.gov.ua/control/en/index
Ukraine is close to default. Civil war is one of the main causes. Nobody wants to pay.
——————————-
@ ulster 13. right on, fakery from start to finish. plus the photograph of the plane comes from some russian ‘wallpaper’ pix site, imho?, which unfortunately is not responding right now, so?.

Posted by: Noirette | Nov 15 2014 17:20 utc | 47

@40 rufus: thanks for the Vitchek article.

Posted by: guest77 | Nov 15 2014 17:52 utc | 49

ISIS plans to mint its own currency to escape the ‘tyrant’s financial system’ based on ‘satanic usury’:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/11/14/isis-plans-to-mint-its-own-currency-to-escape-the-tyrants-financial-system-based-on-satanic-usury/
Yet ISIS won’t go after the tyrannical state of Israel, which has acquired much of its wealth through usury. With each piece of news that comes out, this smells more and more like the Military/Zionist/Industrial Complex is behind ISIS’s rise to power.

Posted by: Cynthia | Nov 15 2014 21:44 utc | 51

@43 sillybill
Ok if what you say is correct and I am hoing to take what you say at face value and believe it for now, the idea that the rfid signal is dormant until activated by a scanner debice does not rule my argument meaningless. The only part of my argument that may be questioned is the constant transmission of data. The fact that the rfid chip has the constant potential of being powered up by a scanner to transmit financial data only validates my overall argument.

Posted by: really | Nov 15 2014 22:18 utc | 53

53
Except that with a copper-foil lined sleeve you can get for FREE, your RFID card is always safe and secure inside your wallet or purse.
The ‘constant transmission of data’ is from your cell phone. Always on, always transmitting, your audio-visual-GPS location, with live voice- and facial-recognition feeds, courtesy of Apple, Amazon and Samsung cell phones, (c) Big Brother 1984, that cannot be disabled.
The other ‘constant transmission of data’ is the live feed from your PIDs stored in Federal and State computers: Defense, Healthcare, SSTF, DMV, already hacked, already online, for sale to the highest bidder.
The Pentagon quietly informed Federal Contractors just a few years ago that all their corporate data and bank accounts required to register as a Federal Contractor has been hacked! The Pentagon offered one-year of ‘free’ credit check, by a company operating as subsidiary out of Israel.
They know everything. They know where your every bank account is, your every user name, every password. Their websites like Yahoo and Google, Facebook and Twitter are constantly demanding ‘security’ upgrades to know your personal cell phone number. Their supercomputers match the codes in nanoseconds, to your hacked PID, user names, access passwords.
Everyone wants to know your cell phone number. Governments will soon require it, pipelined on to hack. There are vast sums of money and vast numbers of humans disappearing all the time, like a Las Vegas Casino of the Damned in cyber-space. Once you were Found, now you are Lost.
What was your urgent missive about RFID chips, again?

Posted by: ChipNikh | Nov 15 2014 22:41 utc | 55

50
How nice for the Russia Oligarchs and Chinese Martial Elites!!
Too bad the Oligarchs are being bled out by USEU sanctions, the
ruble is crashing, Chinese credit availability has contracted
by -97%, Brazil on the brink of financial default, India selling its
gold bullion for IMF/WB credits to build Oligarch palaces and Enron powerplants, pushing 10,000,000s off to starve in the hinterlands,
like they did in Russia and China, and continue to do even today.
Millions of people are starving and displaced in BRIC.
The Zeks.
The Kǔlìs.
The Dalits.
The Quilombolas.
Nothing to see here, citizen. Move along.

Posted by: ChipNikh | Nov 15 2014 23:02 utc | 57

@55 chipnik
Tell me something I don’t already know. I am not afraid of the nosey all intrusive intelligence apparatus. You boast about it with a degree of pride, so you must be a cog in the intelligence blackhole. My rfid argument is valid, you fail to realized that because you are more than likely a rfid criminal or part of the empires intel gestapo. You may fire another salvo at me, but as of this post, I am finished with you regarding this subject matter.

Posted by: really | Nov 15 2014 23:03 utc | 59

59
I’ll tell you something you really don’t know, really.
Cheap, ad hominem, caste-baiting attacks in debate means that you lost.
Free copper-lined credit card sleeves stop 100% of RFID data-streaming.
Your personal cell phone is 1,000 times the identity breach of an RFID.
Really!

Posted by: ChipNikh | Nov 15 2014 23:27 utc | 61

56, in 60
Hey, I don’t mean to imply you are a war criminal, only that the only way to save civilization has nothing whatsoever to do with the Global Carbon Tithe being promoted by an UN-ELECTED ANTI-HUMAN IPCC and UN.
Go visit your grocery store. Every aisle is packed with processed shit, much of is just WATER, flown around the world using precious fossil fuels that the world’s humanity needs, trucked today right to your door if you want by Amazon, direct from slave plantations around the world.
I live ‘around the world’. I see the effects of USEUs obsession with control of oil and gas: the Cheney Oil Wars, the Gore Carbon Tithes. Locals who live hand to mouth, where a bottled Cola is like champagne to you or me, who live on Ramen and SPAM, and pray to their saints that the price of gasoline doesn’t rise another rial, or kopek, or they will starve, because gasoline and food and rent takes 110% of their income.
Carbon Tithes are ethnic genocide, and because they are based on fallacy, deliberate social engineering, then they are war crimes.
Just look at the pigs promoting it! Look . at . them! Listen to Michael Mann defending the reverse lawsuit against him for fraud, by claiming his research is ‘proprietary data’. He’s a scofflaw Mil.Gov.Sci.Edu priest, and promoting global starvation. He’s just laughing at you!
Look at James Hansen, former NASA Director of AstroPhysics. His degree was in Astronomy, but parlayed his POSITION, not his Science expertise, into a $1,200,000 Green Award from IPCC-some-Eu-Green-Whatever, then immediately had to RETIRE, because the US Hatch Act prohibits Federal government scientists from 1) making political statements or joining PACs, as Hansen did, and 2) accepting any gifts or financial awards. Hansen’s got his NASA pension for life now, and his $1,200,000 Green speaking fee, as a US felon scofflaw. He’s just laughing at you!
Look at Bill McKibben, the Green Fear Monger. His degree is in journalism. Ne is not a climate scientist. He had a short, abortive career writing schlock for New Yorker, then discovered Eco-Fiction. He parlayed that into a series of books, blogs and for-hire articles that made him a millionaire, living in an exclusive Vermont farm estate, served by hand-made cheese and beer artisans, and Central American groundskeepers. He’s just laughing at you!
Look at Al Gore, …if you can. His degree is in Politics. He laughed once that he never took a single course in math or science. The impact of his ‘Inconvenient Propaganda’ and Carbon Credit efforts to monetize human energy use caused starvation in my part of the world, while he Twitters from his two bi-coastal estates:
“Larry, NAFTA is a GOOD DEAL for America!!” Al Gore, 1993
“There is only one country that threatens the US — that is Iraq!” 2003
“I believe it’s about time the world had a Carbon Tithe.” 2013
They’re all just laughing at you!
Better to cut your tongue off than carry their water.

Posted by: ChipNikh | Nov 16 2014 0:03 utc | 63

Not a war criminal! Phew! Dodged a bullet there.
Yes, I know lots of opportunists are hitching there wagons to Teh Green. But my sentence stands: if you blow up a little gunpowder at a time, it’s not a problem; blow up a lot and your house comes down.
“I live ‘around the world’. I see the effects of USEUs obsession with control of oil and gas: the Cheney Oil Wars, the Gore Carbon Tithes. Locals who live hand to mouth, where a bottled Cola is like champagne to you or me, who live on Ramen and SPAM, and pray to their saints that the price of gasoline doesn’t rise another rial, or kopek, or they will starve, because gasoline and food and rent takes 110% of their income.”
Well, that’s all very sentimental, you’re a mensch. But it doesn’t make me wrong. What does having to live on Spam have to do with not facing doom?

Posted by: ruralito | Nov 16 2014 0:53 utc | 65

No shirt fronting of Putin as of yet, however Steven Harper was so outright rude that it probably amounted to a form of violence for a Canadian:
“I guess I’ll shake your hand, but I have only one thing to say to you: You need to get out of Ukraine,”
And then the leader of the free world, after an unusually quiet week among the wives of the future leaders of the free world, disinterred MH17. Because it felt right:
““As your ally and friend, America shares the grief of these Australian families, and we share the determination of your nation for justice and accountability,” Mr. Obama said.
I look forward to an interesting week.

Posted by: Nana2007 | Nov 16 2014 2:11 utc | 67

Russian Spring
11/16/2014-02:09
Evening summary from fronts by combatant Prokhorov:
About 4 p.m. Ukrainians organized a raid and even shelled – all in search of combatants’ reconnaissance near hamlet Orlovka (west of Avdeevka). Hamlet Lastochkino was also hit.
Seems, neither Tonen`koye nor Lastochkino are controlled by Ukrainians, at least not strictly.
Ukrainians brought troops in full alert. Either from serious expectations or for high preparedness.
As usual, live was being made dreadful for outpost 31 of National Guard (same – for outpost 29, as I told before).
Under Debal`tsevo, Ukrainians were blasted near settlement Orlovo-Ivanovka and the hight Mogila-Ostraya (very east of Debal`tsevo half-caldron).
Detachment “Somali” (it fights for the airport) basted Ukrainians, who attempted to dislodge the combatants from the positions in airport, handsomely by mortar fire.
Russian Spring
11/16/2014-01:11
From data by the counter-intelligence, On November 15 tonight, Ukrainian troops were brought in full alert. High activity was detected in the air, such as dense information exchange between units of occupant forces and the command.
Russian Spring
11/15/2014-14:39
Donetsk airport. On November 14, 8 a.m., Ukrainian army started a massive attack on a combatants’ position “Firefighters’ Tower”. Tanks, APCs were engaged in the attack. Mortars worked as well. No one controls this position anymore, entirely destroyed and lies in ruins. Killed 7 combatants, other seven wounded reside in hospital.
The arrangement of forces in the airport remains intact: the new terminal is occupied by the combatants; the old terminal is controlled by battalions of National Guard.

Posted by: Fete | Nov 16 2014 5:20 utc | 69

The English have lost any sense of who they are, pressured by the Americans from one side and from Muslims on the other:
Welcome to Hotel Sharia: No more bacon or booze as trendy venue bought out by a Muslim multi-millionaire

An exclusive hotel has banned alcohol and pork after being taken over by a Middle Eastern businessman who wants to run it ‘in accordance with Sharia law’.
The strict Islamic policy was imposed without warning this week at London’s Bermondsey Square Hotel – where the bar and grill was previously run by Masterchef judge Gregg Wallace.
Staff said the new rules were swiftly implemented on Tuesday on the orders of the new Muslim owner, forcing waiters to tell disgruntled guests that much of the menu was no longer available.

Posted by: Demian | Nov 16 2014 7:02 utc | 71

The consensus on global warming is very clear: temperature increases solely due to CO2 levels, natural variation is all accounted for.
CO2 levels have been increasing steadily for 100+ years, yet temperature has not – the latest being 18 years of no temperature increase despite a more than 7% increase in CO2.
Equally, the models which supposedly take into account all natural variation have been dismally bad at both predicting and post-modeling natural variation like the PDO and AMO.
Lastly, fossil fuel replacement: I’m all for it, if in fact the alternative is equal or better.
The reality of alternative energy outside of hydro and nuclear is that it is extremely expensive, unreliable, and cannot replace fossil fuels and/or hydro/nuclear because of its variability. Pretty much a slam dunk: costs more, works badly.
Rather than throw billions away forcing installation of half-assed solar, wind, and biomass alternative energy tech – it would make far more sense to spend a fraction on researching improvements such that said alternative energy will be directly competitive with fossil fuels. Note further that as fossil fuel reserve deplete, the bar for alternative energy should get somewhat easier.
The policies in place now are simply ridiculous.
If you really want to learn something about real science as opposed to agenda driven agitprop – look at the work Jim Steele has done in documenting both the ridiculous practices of Parmesan and in showing actual results in High Sierra environmental mitigation. Hint: CO2 doesn’t matter.

Posted by: c1ue | Nov 16 2014 12:19 utc | 73

re 72
he English have lost any sense of who they are, pressured by the Americans from one side and from Muslims on the other:
Don’t be silly. That story is from the Daily Mail, a notorious anti-Muslim stirrer.
There probably is a movement in London, as there is in Paris, to provide the possibility of a halal environment for British-born Muslims, as there is for French Muslims, but I should think that is about the limit. Whether it works depends on the finance, on how many it.

Posted by: Laguerre | Nov 16 2014 13:42 utc | 75

Here’s an interesting article on the recent report from the International Energy Agency:
“In the good old days — a month ago — when oil was holding at $100 a barrel, the major oil companies were already cutting back drastically on their capital expenditures, or capex, which is their name for funding the search for new sources of oil. They were in effect giving up, because they had tripled their capex spending over the previous decade without significant results. An oil company that is not constantly finding new sources of oil is a company in liquidation. And that’s where they were before oil dropped below $80.
In the US oil patch they are still throwing confetti in the air and blowing tin horns about America’s fracking renaissance, insisting they can drive on through this little price deviation toward American energy independence, but in the background you can hear the thuds of oil derricks hitting the ground — being laid down by companies that cannot afford to keep them going. [See Shale Drillers Idle Rigs From Texas to Utah Amid Oil Rout, Bloomberg News Nov. 7. and Oil Below $80: The First Shoes Drop, Forbes Nov. 4.)
Extravagant predictions that other parts of the world will soon enjoy a boom in fracked oil, says the IEA report, are not realistic. With few identified shale-oil deposits, with environmental opposition at a fever pitch almost everywhere, and with most countries lacking infrastructure — pipelines, rail capacity, and the like — the fracking movement is failing to thrive anywhere else.
When one discounts the significance of the fracking boom and looks over the rest of the world’s oil supply, the prognosis gets grimmer, faster. Virtually every conventional oil field in the world is in decline, and many of them in the Middle East, North Africa and South America are in danger of disruption by social unrest. This is how the IEA sums it up:
“The global energy system is in danger of falling short of the hopes and expectations placed upon it. The short-term picture of a well-supplied oil market should not disguise the challenges that lie ahead as reliance grows on a relatively small number of producers.”
Kind of makes the whole global warming debate moot.
http://www.dailyimpact.net/2014/11/12/international-energy-agency-says-brace-for-impact/#more-2539

Posted by: Nana2007 | Nov 16 2014 20:21 utc | 77

@76 rufus m.. perhaps you meant cloud9 @66, not 71.
@77 nana – it is always changing.. thanks for the note.
@78 fete. thanks for these updates..

Posted by: james | Nov 17 2014 5:40 utc | 79

Israeli Settlers Torture and Hang Palestinian
http://falastinews.com/2014/11/17/israeli-terrorist-settlers-torture-hang-bus-driver-west-bank/

Posted by: Anonymous | Nov 17 2014 8:15 utc | 81

@Rufus Magister
Cloud9’s doing a bit of fakery. His superficial argument is that temperature rises logarithmically with CO2 concentrations, not linearly. Let’s grant this, for argument’s sake. Over a small enough variation in CO2 concentration (e.g. 20%), the mean temperature to CO2 is approximately linear (d log(x) / dx = 1/x, so one can do a nice linearization at 1/350, or 1/400, wherever we are now in CO2). So his argument goes nowhere, as anyone who took high school calculus can show.
The other bit of fakery relates to lack of increase in temperature. Allow, for argument’s sake, that temperature has not been observed to increase. We know that the standard deviation of temperature is much greater than the mean annual increase, and as such, the increase, or lack thereof, the last 20 years, is largely immaterial, until much better accounting of planetary heat is made.
Note that the above two points hold, irrespective of whether one believes AGW to be real or not. As such, it is patently obvious that Cloud9 is a con-artist.

Posted by: Johan Meyer | Nov 17 2014 20:25 utc | 83

C9 @ 85
Why would I worry about the planet becoming uninhabitable?
As I said, it seems more about your smug sense of intellectual superiority. I really don’t know where you get it from. But you know what you can do with it, right?
Johan Meyer @ 84 has kindly explained your scam to me.
To jas. @ 79 — You’re right.

Posted by: rufus magister | Nov 18 2014 3:10 utc | 85

In my opinion, I feel the Israeli-Arab situation is coming to a head. I believe this because the United States of America’s influence in the Middle East is changing. And it is changing for the better, because that influence is weakening. The United States is now engaging in direct talks with the Iranians and President Assad to fight the ISIL menace. That ISIL menace is a result of western powers and it’s Middle Eastern allies supporting ISIL covertly and openly. They of course will never admit their hand in creating ISIL, but that has come out in the independent media and information about just how much culpability the west and its Middle Eastern allies have in the creation, funding and nurturing of ISIL and other radical jihadi groups will come to light.
The Israeli population has two choices. They can continue to allow their politician and powers that be continue to kill, maim and annex Palestinians and their lands or they can make a statement that they will not tolerate such actions anymore. With the United States influence in the region growing smaller by the day, the Israeli’s may find themselves without their biggest ally stationed in the region. Sure the United States will probably continue to give massive amounts of arms to the Israeli’s, but Israel does not have a vast amount of foot soldiers who have extensive direct fighting experience. The Israeli forces are efficient at occupying a territory and bombing from above, but the true test will be hand to hand, muzzle to muzzle combat and from the latest conflict in the Gaza Strip, the IDF in my humble non military service opinion does not seem to be willing to engage in such tactics and/or up to the task.
Thus I get back to those two choices the Israeli population has that I mentioned earlier. Choice one is to continue to wage war against the Palestinians and act hostile to Arabs (particularly Iran) in general. This choice will have the most dire of circumstances for the nation state of Israel and its populace. The Arabs are getting stronger and stronger by the daya and I feel if push comes to shove the majority of them will band together to end the violence and vilification being inflicted upon them by Israel. I would think this would not be pretty. Imagine soviet made warplanes flown by Arabs bombing the daylights out of Tel Aviv and other major metropolitan areas like the Israeli’s have been repeatedly inflicting on the Gaza Strip. If I were an Israeli citizen as of today, I would really be thinking long and hard about what the elected officials of Israel are fostering against its neighbors and how that may boomerang and whack Israel and its population upside the head, because that is the path the Israeli government has been on and continues to tread.
The second choice the Israeli population has is to work with the Palestinians and its Arab neighbors to foster peace and economic prosperity. It is well known that the Gaza Strip has water rights in the Levant basin that is home to vast natural gas reserves. The Palestinians have been hampered in every way by the Israeli’s and their business partners in development of its natural gas by the means of embargo. This must stop and the powers in the region must equitably recoup wealth from their legal share of the natural gas reserves in the Levant. I feel if the Israeli’s and the Palestinians can sit down in the board room and broker a business deal that both are satisfied with, this could be the opening that is needed to instill a lasting and much need peace between the Arabs and Israelis. Prosperity has a way of making a person think twice about war, especially if he or she has something to lose. When a person has nothing to lose and that is the current situation the Palestinians, Arabs and especially the Gazans find themselves in a situation like that has consequences that can and will get extremely ugly. The ball has been and is in Israel court regardin Arab-Israeli relations and it is up to Israel to determine what kind of game they wish to play.

Posted by: really | Nov 18 2014 9:28 utc | 87

So 3 israelis are killed and the west cries. But killing palestinians is just fine apparently.

Posted by: Anonymous | Nov 18 2014 17:09 utc | 89

really@88-
Yes I’ve often wondered what kind of effect Obama’s early years in post genocide Indonesia had on his development. But this?
“I’ve always felt his back-story gave Obama a worldly sensitivity to the white American imperial mind. It also put him in a most precarious position as a US imperial leader at a juncture in history when US power was ebbing and the problems of imperial decline were becoming quite real. It has been my secret hope that Barack Obama might be a bit of a Mikhail Gorbachev for the American empire — someone to help guide it gracefully to a soft landing.”
No doubt he has in excess a worldly sensitivity to the white American imperial mind- but time will tell if he has any saving graces. I’m incredulous that anything but a soulless nihilist lies behind his cool facade.

Posted by: Nana2007 | Nov 18 2014 21:17 utc | 91

Proverb 24:6 “By Way of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War”

Posted by: really | Nov 19 2014 6:55 utc | 93

@ 94.
“…Putin’s isolation points to one of the greatest failures of his presidency: namely that Russia has practically no allies left….”
…except BRICS (poor lonely Vlad).
Let’s just completely forget that if Putin had played his cards like a Yankee, he’d have dozens and dozens of allies … gutless, pissant, soft-target specialists like NATO …. and “Israel.”

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Nov 19 2014 14:55 utc | 95

Russian Spring
11/20/2014-01:53
Summary from fronts by combatant Prokhorov:
Ukrainian military reported 2 wounded near settlement Chermalik (?).
The combatants also worked a bit at Stanitsa Luganskaya, Schast`ye and Ol`khovoye.
Worked at settlement Zolotoye.
Area of outpost 31 (Bakhmutka) was smashed by “Grads” a little while ago.
An Ukrainian outpost was hit near city Volnovakha (south-west of Donetsk), between Nikolayevka and Novotroitskoye
In same Volnovakha region, in area of settlement Granitnoye, Ukrainians inform of night mega-battle (more than 40 artillery raids). Wounded Ukrainians were transported to hospitals of Mariupol` and Volnovakha.

Posted by: Fete | Nov 20 2014 5:08 utc | 97

11/20/2014
Commentary: Sporadic assaults and retaliatory measures reported from numerous locations along the front line. No side prevails, or means to prevail.
Such as:
At 19:30, the punitive troops attacked a combatants` unit in area of settlement Trekhisbenka (north of Slavyanoserbsk, Lugansk region). The attack was repelled. The attackers lost two truchs of personnel.
As of 22:10, the battle Dzerzhinsk – Mayorsk (north of Gorlovka) is still under way. Also, Ukrainian army shelled west outskirts of Gorlovka, which was retaliated by the artillery of Novorossia with some success: large conflagration and thick black smoke were observed on opponent’s positions.
Firearms clashes were reported from outskirts of Avdeevka and Peski.
Yenakievo was shelled from Uglegorsk (Debal`tsevo half-caldron area). Firearms clashes followed…

Posted by: Fete | Nov 21 2014 4:33 utc | 99