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“The Houthis are well-armed with rocket-propelled grenades and surface-to-air missiles that were either captured or came from Iran.”
The Americans supplied Yemen with $500m of weaponry which may have changed hands. There is zero evidence of the Iranians supplying anything. A look at the map will show that Yemen and Iran do not share a border and are thousands of miles apart – by sea. The USN is patrolling the whole area.
“A cell from that area was responsible for the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris”
Give us a break! Charlie Hebdo was a false-flag if there ever was one.
“The Charlie Hebdo Story Simply Doesn’t Wash” by Paul Craig Roberts
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40703.htm
The skilful way in which fact and fiction is interwoven is the work of a propaganda genius.
A tiny little correction:
“Oil Majors Pile On Record Debt To Plug Cash Shortfalls (FT) ” links to
“The Central Bank Money Machine At Work: Big Oil Goes On Borrowing Spree ” by David Stockman
Thank you for leading us to these wonderful articles. 🙂
” A month or so later, on 3 December, Smith read out his translation of the tablet to the Society for Biblical Archaeology in London. The Prime Minister, William Gladstone, was among those who came to listen. It was the first time an audience had heard the Epic of Gilgamesh for more than 2,000 years.”
We have come a long way since then. I doubt very much if Cameron or Obama have ever heard of Gilgamesh – let alone read it. I guess if there is not a Disney version, it does not really exist.
re: “A recent study found that Arctic sea ice had thinned by 65% between 1975 and 2012.”
Of course, there was a partial bounce back the following year:
“Satellite data shows that Arctic sea ice was 50 per cent thicker in Autumn 2013 than it was in Autumn 2012, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).”
The Antarctic is following a very different script:
“NASA Announces New Record Growth Of Antarctic Sea Ice Extent”
NASA Announces New Record Growth Of Antarctic Sea Ice Extent
It seems that Arctic ice has stopped declining, but that of the Antarctic is still increasing. I suspect these things are cyclical and that the sun has more responsibility for what is going on than it gets credit for.
“But Hirsi is finding it difficult to forget the past. Indeed, he still has nightmares about Ukraine, a place where he became stranded for a lengthy stay on his way to Europe. He now refers to the country as “hell.” Staring at the floor, Hirsi says: “It is difficult.” He repeats the same word, “difficult,” in different languages.
After fleeing from Somalia in the summer of 2008, Hirsi tried several times to reach Europe through Ukraine. He was detained once each by Ukrainian and Hungarian border patrols, and twice by police in Slovakia. Ukrainian security forces robbed, beat and tortured him, he says. After being apprehended, he spent almost three years in four different Ukrainian prisons — for committing no crime other thanseeking shelter and protection in Europe.”
A nice little earner for people like Yats
The Australian Bureau of Meterology is not “amazed” about the temperatures in the Pacific.
“Renewed warming in the tropical Pacific Ocean”
https://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/
This journalist – Peter Hannam – is often writing scary articles about climate. The only other thing you can say about his articles is that he never allows any comments by his readers. He knows full well that he would be ridiculed if he were to permit such comments. Bluntly, he is a full-time propagandist.
Here is some of the stuff that he will never mention in his articles:
“Melbourne weather: City records its coldest January in 10 years … the city did not reach 40 degrees once in January and only breached 30 degrees seven times. ”
Personally, I went swimming in the sea only once this year. Last year, it must have been 10 times.
“Climate change was a key driver of the Syrian uprising”
Funny how the article fails to mention that the Turks dammed the rivers supplying both Syria and Iraq. It must be an oversight.“Water Wars directed against Syria and Iraq: Turkey’s Control of the Euphrates River”
Water Wars directed against Syria and Iraq: Turkey’s Control of the Euphrates River
I can only conclude that it is yet another propaganda piece.
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This BBC correspondent is blaming the destruction in Donetsk on the “burnt earth” tactics of the separatists.He gets targeted by Kiev’s artillery while in Kiev – and blames it on the separatists. Unbelievable nonsense.
“Although it has been emerging for seven years or more, one of the most extraordinary scandals of our time has never hit the headlines. Yet another little example of it lately caught my eye when, in the wake of those excited claims that 2014 was “the hottest year on record”, I saw the headline on a climate blog: “Massive tampering with temperatures in South America”. The evidence on Notalotofpeopleknowthat, uncovered by Paul Homewood, was indeed striking.
Puzzled by those “2014 hottest ever” claims, which were led by the most quoted of all the five official global temperature records – Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Giss) – Homewood examined a place in the world where Giss was showing temperatures to have risen faster than almost anywhere else: a large chunk of South America stretching from Brazil to Paraguay.
Noting that weather stations there were thin on the ground, he decided to focus on three rural stations covering a huge area of Paraguay. Giss showed it as having recorded, between 1950 and 2014, a particularly steep temperature rise of more than 1.5C: twice the accepted global increase for the whole of the 20th century.
But when Homewood was then able to check Giss’s figures against the original data from which they were derived, he found that they had been altered. Far from the new graph showing any rise, it showed temperatures in fact having declined over those 65 years by a full degree. When he did the same for the other two stations, he found the same. In each case, the original data showed not a rise but a decline.”
“Republicans To Investigate NASA Over Climate Data Tampering”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-22/republicans-investigate-nasa-over-climate-data-tamperingI have no idea why the Republicans are doing this – US domestic politics never did interest me.
A similar think went on in Australia:
“The heat is on. Bureau of Meteorology ‘altering climate figures’ ”
My guess is that someone wants us to argue and split us over something that is very long-term so that we forget about the real problems.
“An eight-inch drop over nearly two miles.”
Actually, I suspect that for a channel of this width and depth, water would be rushing past a lot faster than an olympic kayaker could paddle. I don’t have the time to do the rough calculations. 🙂Someone a while back tried to disprove something by claiming that the sea-level is the same in all the world’s oceans – a common-sensual approach. However, this is not so.
The Mediterranean sea-level is similar to that of the Red Sea – so it has no locks. The Caribbean and the Pacific are quite different and the Panama Canal would have needed locks even if it were not necessary to lift the ships over high ground to reduce the digging.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_locks
Here is a chart showing the changes in sea-level over the past 30 years. I am not sure as to their data sources. In some places, it has apparently risen by 40cm and in other it has dropped by a similar amount.
“Most people are surprised to learn that, just as the surface of the Earth is not flat, the surface of the ocean is not flat, and that the surface of the sea changes at different rates around the globe. For instance, the absolute water level height is higher along the West Coast of the United States than the East Coast.”
Re: Bangladesh’s coastal retreat.
A similar process is underway in a number of other localities where river silt no longer makes it to the sea – due to the introduction of dams and canals. New Orleans certainly falls into that category.
Another well-documented example is the river Nile. Since the construction of the Aswan High Dam some 40 years ago, the silt has been building up in the Nasser Lake – 800 km upstream from the sea. Eventually, Lake Nasser will become a new Nile Delta.The previous dam, (my Egyptian great-granddad Hanna Nassim was the main contractor for the third and final stage) which lies a few km downstream of the High Dam, could not hold back the flood waters and the sluices were opened every year to releasing the flood which carried the silt into the river. This silt coated the whole irrigated part of the country with a new layer – a precious gift from the Ethiopian highlands.
“Aswan Low Dam”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan_Low_Dam
The beautiful stone face of this dam was made by hundreds of Italian stonemasons, and they had their own pasta factory.
Now, the whole of the Nile Delta is suffering from the encroaching Mediterranean. The coast is in full retreat and the salt water is ruining some of the finest agricultural land in the world. Land which used to produce 3 annual crops. The salt intrusion is far more destructive than the actual loss of land.
Here is another article that conveniently skips over the real story. This is pure and unadulterated propaganda IMHO. They forget to ask civil engineers and hydrologists and historians what is going on, because the truth is not to their liking. They need a gullible and ill-informed public.
“Nile Delta: ‘We are going underwater. The sea will conquer our lands'”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/aug/21/climate-change-nile-flooding-farming
The other point that I noticed is that the farmer mentioned had 6 kids. Obviously, that is only making matters worse. I can see no solution when people have so many kids for several generations.
Hi Ilargi,
If you want to meet up for a drink in Melbourne, give me a call on 0432513062 or drop me a line at anassim at gmail dot com
Cheers,
Alfred
Apparently, the British have sent 50 “defensive” armoured cars – Saxons – to Ukraine. They were used in Iraq – another defensive operation – and have been refurbished.
“Ukraine crisis: Former British armoured vehicles arrive in conflict zone after being sold off by private firm”
“Mega drought”
It is believed that the Sahara desert was green – until some 5,000 years ago. Coptic – the language of the Ancient Egyptians – and some Nigerian and Senegalese languages share a lot in common. Modern Egyptian dialects of Arabic contain thousands of words that come from Coptic. This suggests that the ancestors of the Ancient Egyptians and Nigerians etc. shared the area now occupied by the Sahara desert.
Things move in cycles. Some cycles are of short duration and some of very long duration.
“Mega drought”
I have some good news which does not seem to have percolated outside the rural areas of Australia. The red centre of Australia has for once turned verdant. Tourists visiting Ayre’s Rock are surprised to find it surrounded by vegetation. It does not happen very often, but that is the way it is right now.
“Red Centre businesses hoping to turn green grass into tourism dollars”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-12/green-grass-to-lure-tourists-to-red-centre/6089222
“Todd River flowing, cattle stations cut off as rain drenches central Australia”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-08/todd-river-flowing-as-rain-drenches-central-australia/6007246
They have had 12 months of normal rainfall in one month.
“A magic start to the year for Hayfield cattle station in the Northern Territory”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-09/hayfield-station/6080762?section=nt
“Flooded police station and roadhouse spark quick building of levees to protect remote NT community of Kulgera”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-13/kulgera-flood-levee/6091258
Sarkozy is probably flying a flag for Hollande. The current president could not be the first to say it, so he asked Sarkozy to do him the favour. Doubtless, Sarkozy will get favours in return – e.g. the abandonment of court proceedings against him and so on. He never does anything without a good personal reason.
“Accusations ‘Grotesque,’ Nicolas Sarkozy Says of Inquiry”
Let’s not forget that the French political class is highly incestuous. For many years, the main political parties – supposedly political enemies – shared in the wealth extracted from African tyrants. They did not share it with the Communist party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_political_scandals
Funny thing. I just opened a HSBC account yesterday. In Australia, one of their accounts can hold up to 12 currencies.
A long time ago, Hong Kong and Shangai Banking Corporation was very big in China.
“After the British established Hong Kong as a colony in the aftermath of the First Opium War, local merchants felt the need for a bank to finance the growing trade between China and Europe (with traded products including opium). They established the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company Limited in Hong Kong (March 1865) and Shanghai (one month later).”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hongkong_and_Shanghai_Banking_Corporation
Raleigh,
A land tax is just that – it is not a tax of the liveable square footage. If the apartment building occupies that same area of land as a single residence, and they are both in the same locality, they should both pay the same tax.
“The rentier is an obscure, quaint character but he is the key character for Varoufakis.”
I think that one of their promises during the election was to get rid of a property tax that was annoying a lot of middle class Greeks.
“Tsipras pledges measures to ease burden on Greece’s middle class, including abolition of the ENFIA property tax, raising the tax-free threshold to 12,000 euros and settlement of overdue taxes.”
https://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_23/01/2015_546413
Euan Mearns – only an engineer like me and not a “climate scientist” – has some good articles with lots of interesting data. Not much change for past 18 years – despite rocketing CO2
“NASA Satellite Climatology Data”
“Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover”
Frankly, I don’t care a stuff as to the qualifications of Lt Col Roy White. I am only interested in the raw – unimproved – data. The story seems to be pretty consistent.
BTW, I don’t recall any professors of petroleum technology or of business pointing out that fracking in the USA was uneconomic when oil is below $90. That does not mean that these guys were stupid – they just wanted to keep their jobs.
“ast year, as the situation in the Ukraine began to boil, I read a book called “Lost Victories” by Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, who for a time commanded the southern end of the Russian campaign of WW II. He made it abundantly clear that the main reason the Germans lost in that effort was Hitler’s insistence on running the war, micromanaging the generals in ways which ultimately led to the defeat by the Russians. ”
Swanson,
Yesterday, you explained how the German generals were messed up by Hitler – which is entirely true.
However, you should have also told us how Stalin did an even better job on the Soviet military – from long before the war and during the war. Thousands of Red army officers were executed, for example. Stalin had an excellent intelligence system – a huge number of Germans were communist – and he refused to believe their warnings about the invasion – Operation Barbarossa. Trains laiden with Russian raw materials and heading for Germany were encountered by the advancing Germans. The Soviet Union was prostrate economically when the Germans attacked – decades of famine had decimated the peasantry (not just in Ukraine).
During the actual fighting, Stalin and his commissars micromanaged everything and huge number of Soviet soldiers were executed – for not toeing the communist line, not for not following orders or fighting. I could go on.
If the Soviet Union had been properly managed, Hitler would not have contemplated attacking at all. All his information suggested that it was a collapsing society.
Funny how when there is a “scientific consensus” about GMO that is not quite on here, with Global Warming it is another story. 🙂
“Animals In France Finally Recognised As ‘Living, Sentient Beings’”
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This article brought to mind the fact that in the Middle Ages, in France, animals could be put on trial for committing sins. If a male animal mounted another male, it could lead to a court case and the animal could be put to death for sodomy. For less serious crimes, the animal could be flogged and so on.“Medieval Animal Trials”
https://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/08/medieval-animal-trials/
I guess it is back to the future.
Swanson,
Then why the secrecy?
https://terroronthetube.co.uk/2014/08/01/i-shot-down-mh17-claims-su-26-pilot/
wroblon,
One more thing. It seems the local people – Russian speakers – whose relatives and neighbors were killed believe that Kiev was behind the bombing:
“Ukrainian nationalists not welcome at Mariupol memorial service”
https://fortruss.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/ukrainian-nationalists-not-welcome-at.html
I guess when one is publicly on TV called “insects”, “vermin” and so on – for being a Russian-speaking Ukrainian – then trust in the judgement of central government in Kiev becomes a somewhat lacking.
““(because the Ukraine shelled Mariupol?!)”
Could you elaborate/substantiate?”
Here is the Russian version:
“Mariupol spotter ‘confession’ another fake by Kiev – Russian Defense Ministry”
https://rt.com/news/226451-ukraine-mariupol-spotter-confession/
You will have to make up your own mind as regards who was more likely to be the culprit. Keep in mind that the West’s MSM was telling us that Kiev’s forces had retaken Donetsk’s airport – and they did not change their story that the opposite was the case for 6 days.
Also, the investigation of MH-17 (the downing of the Malaysian plane) seems to have become awfully quiet. The captain was buried back in Malaysia and the autopsy report kept secret. It ought to be very easy to determine whether the fragments in his body are from a BUK missile (Kiev/Washington’s version) or 30mm cannon fire (Russian version)
“Another MH17 Cover-Up: Hiding a Key Autopsy”
Frankly, their control of the MSM is such that they really don’t bother any longer to make an effort to change the story – they just don’t publish what does not fit the narrative.
Correction:
Essentially, there is a 20C (36F) difference in maximum daily temperatures and a 15C (27F) difference in minimum temperatures.
Last year, at around this time, the MSM in Australia and around the world was telling people that global temperature records were being broken for Melbourne – it was during the “Melbourne Cup” tennis championship. I posted the link below to show that the record for Melbourne was actually in 1939:
https://goldbits.com.au/Melbourne_20140118.JPG
This January, it is another story. I was in Tasmania last week hence the slight difference in dates covered. You can take it from me, it was even more miserable 2 weeks ago.
https://goldbits.com.au/Melbourne_20150127.jpg
Essentially, there is a 20C (68F) difference in maximum daily temperatures and a 15C (59F) difference in minimum temperatures. Not bad.
Here is a nice article that should cheer most people up.
“January wet turns Australia’s Red Centre into a sea of green”
Of course, no piece of good news should go to waste. The fact that they now have 30cm (12″) of grass makes it a “fire risk”.
skintnick,
Comments like yours convince me that it is wise to keep spare cash in physical gold. ZIRP and all the rest of it has decimated savers – people who save for investment, for retirement and for emergencies.
Here is a not completely atypical story about Australian weather:
This guy went inland and saw that his house was burnt down on TV. He could not drive back as the place he was at had 200mm (8″) of rain. The place where he is trapped has most years very little rainfall.
If Google is indeed removing videos showing a fake shot then it is definitely an operation “Gladio” – to scare the people of Western Europe.
https://aanirfan.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/mossad-attacks-paris.html
This article was also removed:
Personally, I am very much an enemy of the Wahabis, because they are the enemies of civilisation, history, culture and other religions and sects. They are hypocrites who impose a lifestyle on their own population that they do not adhere to with rampant prostitution, concubinage, alcohol and drug abuse. This enmity is a purely defensive mechanism on my part.
The rulers of Saudi Arabia are Wahabis and they are very much in cohorts with their counterparts in America and Israel. The cooperation of the ruling classes of these three countries is complete. Saudi Arabia and the other Sheikdoms are the only Arabic-speaking countries that Israel has not tried to undermine.
I put these stupid cartoons about Muhammad in the same category as drawing a swastika on a synagogue. To put it mildly, it is rude, offensive and racist. The fact that this weekly seems to be able to support such a large staff suggests that it has quite a circulation, which tells you something about today’s France. Ten per cent of France’s population are Muslim. Just imagine the reaction you would get if you tried printing Nazi propaganda in France where Jews are under 1% of the population.
“Charlie Hebdo will publish one million copies next week with help from Google-backed fund ”
Of course, Google is run by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The former is was a Russian Jew and the latter was born in the USA of a Jewish mother. Hardly disinterested IMHO.
“Who profits from killing Charlie?
By Pepe Escobar ”https://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-080115.html
Quite a coincidence that this should happen a few days after France recognizes Palestinian statehood and Hollande demands the winding down of sanctions against Russia.
Dirty games are going on.
“It forecast temperatures of more than 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) across the southern part of the country.”
Yesterday, in Melbourne, it went up to 41C (106F). Today, it will go up to only 23C (73F). It all depends on the wind direction – from the desert or from the southern ocean.
Ilargi,
I think your attachment to the idea that climate should be in some sort of steady-state and that we are in a position to influence it in one way or another – despite all evidence to the contrary – takes away from your other arguments.
The current pope is not trying any harder than his predecessors to publicise the suffering of Christians of the Middle East. Clearly, he is compromised in some way and the Israelis have him by the testicles – just like all the main politicians of Europe. I don’t think his opinion about “climate change” is worth anything – it is a marvelous destraction.
“Tolstoy was an interesting character”
True. He was also a massive hypocrite. You should read about how he treated the wife of his official 13 kids – of whom only 8 survived childhood – let alone those of his numerous mistresses. It is rather droll that he should have written “Anna Karenina” – a most romantic story.
https://flibbertigibbet98.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/tolstoy-the-hypocrite/
I note that the CEO of AirAsia is blaming “climate change” for the loss of QZ8501
“Referring to floods in Malaysia and Thailand, he suggested that climate change may have played a part in more dangerous conditions for air travel: “There’s a lot of rain, so that is something we need to look at carefully because the weather is changing. The weather is changing”.”
I find this bizarre in the extreme. What a cop-out!
I also note that no bodies were ever recovered from the disappeared Malaysian Airlines MH370. I guess that aircraft did not break up on hitting the water – or some such nonsense.
