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Apartheid News
Sheldon Adelson, the casino oligarch who has financed far right causes as well as the political careers of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahoo, has died. In 2013 Adelson had called for nuking Tehran (vid).
Good Riddance.
Unfortunately his money will continue to flow to the far right as his Israeli wife is the one who is now running the show.
In other news B'Tselem, the topmost Israeli human rights organization, finally describes both Israel and its control of the Palestinian territories as a single apartheid regime:
B’Tselem rejects the perception of Israel as a democracy (inside the Green Line) that simultaneously upholds a temporary military occupation (beyond it). B’Tselem reached the conclusion that the bar for defining the Israeli regime as an apartheid regime has been met after considering the accumulation of policies and laws that Israel devised to entrench its control over Palestinians.
Nothing really new there but it makes it official.
With B'Tselem finally speaking out it is much easier to refute those who falsely denounce the much justified condemnation of Zionism and Israel as anti-semitic.
This comes at a time when Israel is scheming to derail the incoming Biden administration's plan to return to the nuclear deal with Iran:
Israel will start by sending a stream of envoys on visits to Washington, the official said, requesting anonymity to discuss private deliberations. It’s stated publicly that it doesn’t want the U.S. to abandon sanctions on the Islamic Republic without a new deal, and that a tougher stance should be taken toward its nuclear project, ballistic missile program and regional proxy forces.
That strategy runs against the Biden team’s willingness to re-enter the deal, then negotiate an expansion of its terms. It’s conditioned on Iran’s returning to compliance with the accord, whose limits it breached after President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the agreement in 2018.
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Israel also has a higher-risk card up its sleeve: the potential to upend diplomatic efforts through covert operations against Iran.
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Netanyahu has been open about his intention to thwart renewed U.S. participation. In a rare public split, he rebuked his envoy to Germany for supporting Berlin’s push to expand the deal.
“There should be no return to the Iran nuclear agreement of 2015 — a deal which is flawed to its foundations,” Netanyahu said.
With Biden being an arch-Zionist and with a team of Zionist Jews leading the State Department the chances of a fast return to the deal can be regarded as slim.
@Stonebird | Jan 13 2021 15:27 utc | 121
Those temperatures would be the ones calculated “Downstream” from the impact? All your references are Canada/US.
No, the Younger Dryas cooling was a sudden global cooling, and it lasted 1200 years. Short term local effects were much more extreme, but temperature was probably not the main issue. Imagine kilometer-size ice boulders raining all over the US east of the rockies (I said west of the rockies in the last post but that was a typo). Everything was shattered as the fossil records show.
Personally, I also suspect that similar mega-ice boulders rained also into the Atlantic, causing mega-tsunamis in Europe and South America, possibly all around the world.
If you want to be a little speculative, look up all the megalithic structures you can find around the world, notably in Peru/Bolivia showing very andvanced structures crushed by a mega flood (Puma Punku). You could possibly make a similar case for the damage to the pyramids at Giza, Egypt. Also the 1200 ton rectangular “stone of the pregnant woman” in Baalbek, Lebanon is extremely strange. There are lots of other places that show signs of being subject to a cataclysm.
The vacuum created by the enormous impact could also have caused cold, at a lot lower temperature than simply -15°c to be drawn in over Russia – Siberia.
I don’t think there is any claim that the Michigan impact caused flash freezing of mammoths in Siberia. I think that is probably a different event, not sure if it even happened at the same time. But I have seen the question about how to deep freeze a large mammoth in seconds, which really happened at some stage. They have been found with food in their mouth, and the meat was edible thousands of years after. You probably need a very shallow angle comet sweeping away the atmosphere and hypersonic ice cold winds to fill the void after to instantly dry freeze a mammoth.
I doubt that minus -15° would have caused so great an immediate effect on civilisations and animals. At least that is how the argument goes.
Instant and prologed effects are two different things. If you survived somewhere in the US following the impact in Michigan you would die soon after anyway because there would be no food. There is no controversy that the north american megafauna dissapeared virtually at an instant, the only controversy is how it happened. The mainstream theory is it happened because a few hunter gatherers arrived over the Behring land bridge and proceded to kill all the animals on the continent, but I don’t buy that…
That temperatures many orders of magnitude lower would have been necessary to flash freeze tons of hot meat. Particularly important is the speed at which they were frozen.
Indeed, for Siberia this is a real problem to solve, because it happened. But probably not in America.
I am not sure I now have the courage to back outside and shovel snow – what if it fell on ME?
Then your worries would be gone. It would be worse for you if it fell on a different continent and average temperatures fell 15C, as you would have time to consider your fate.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 13 2021 17:42 utc | 152
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