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| April 14, 2010 A Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk--an optimal helicopter for complex and difficult rescue and transport missions--lands in a Golan Heights field. The Black Hawk helicopter has high maneuverability and survivability, strong engines and high cargo-carrying capacity. The Black Hawk helicopter is also used by the Israeli Air Force to ferry Israeli defense and military officials. Photography: Sgt. Ori Shifrin, IDF Spokesperson's Unit (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| English: The Founders Plaque. Chief Whitecap and John Lake. Statue at the south entrance to the Victora Bridge. Hans Holtkamp. 2008. The City of Saskatoon acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Cultural Capital of Canada Program, a Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage. River Landing Central Business District, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Core Neighbourhoods SDA, Saskatoon (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Sometimes Our Cultural Blindness is Stunning
The entire world is angry at Russia for the downing of #mh17 – rightly- because 298 died. And sanctions are being applied.The Israeli military has killed over 1100 in #gaza and nary a word about sanctions has been uttered in the west. And we wonder why muslims think us unfair.
( I wonder if 'the muslims' also noticed - as I did - that it has not been shown that Russia is responsible for the downing of the jetliner. Certainly the author did not. )
Shooting and Crying Over Lost Moral Army
I really wonder what it says about the Guardian
or its readers that it publishes an article like this one by Yuli
Novak, a former Israeli air force officer. The discourse, even on the
left, is still so degraded on the issue of Israel-Palestine that this
seems to pass for progressive thought.
I am also appalled that I almost find myself pleased that this former soldier, an insider, is telling us that Israel is acting immorally in its current attack on Gaza. But in doing so she bolsters a patently ridiculous mythology that, for most of its history, Israel had a moral army – the …
I am also appalled that I almost find myself pleased that this former soldier, an insider, is telling us that Israel is acting immorally in its current attack on Gaza. But in doing so she bolsters a patently ridiculous mythology that, for most of its history, Israel had a moral army – the …
Medical Aid as a Weapon
Q: Why is Egypt preventing medical aid to Gaza?
A: So that Israel can use it as a weapon, that’s why.
This explains why dozens of volunteer medical personnel cannot reach the desperately understaffed hospitals in Gaza. It explains why Egypt turned away a convoy of desperately needed medical supplies.
In this time of crisis, Egypt has sealed the border with Gaza, except occasionally to Palestinians who are registered with Israel as residents of Gaza. For anything else, please apply to Israel.
That’s fine for UNRWA, ANERA, UPA and other groups Israel has approved as relief agencies and …
A: So that Israel can use it as a weapon, that’s why.
This explains why dozens of volunteer medical personnel cannot reach the desperately understaffed hospitals in Gaza. It explains why Egypt turned away a convoy of desperately needed medical supplies.
In this time of crisis, Egypt has sealed the border with Gaza, except occasionally to Palestinians who are registered with Israel as residents of Gaza. For anything else, please apply to Israel.
That’s fine for UNRWA, ANERA, UPA and other groups Israel has approved as relief agencies and …
The Emperor’s Rage: Let Chaos Envelop the World!
Chaos reigns and spreads as enraged leaders in the US, Europe and their clients and allies pursue genocidal wars.
Mercenary wars in Syria; Israel’s terror bombing on Gaza; proxy wars in the Ukraine, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Somalia.
Tens of millions of refugees flee scenes of total destruction. Nothing is sacred. There are no sanctuaries. Homes, schools, hospitals and entire families are targeted for destruction.
Chaos by Design
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Mercenary wars in Syria; Israel’s terror bombing on Gaza; proxy wars in the Ukraine, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Somalia.
Tens of millions of refugees flee scenes of total destruction. Nothing is sacred. There are no sanctuaries. Homes, schools, hospitals and entire families are targeted for destruction.
Chaos by Design
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Canadian Government and Academia: “Othering” Original Peoples
Tom Swanky, author of The
Great Darkening: The True Story of Canada’s “War” of Extermination on
the Pacific plus The Tsilhqot’in and other First Nations Resistance has written a new short book — A Missing Genocide and the Demonization of its Heroes
– that challenges information provided by academics about the
Colonialist-Chilcotin War at the website canadianmysteries.ca. The
webpage is called “We Do Not Know His Name: Klatsassin and the Chilcotin War.”
The website is sponsored by the federal government’s Department of Canadian Heritage and is based at three Canadian universities: the University of …
The website is sponsored by the federal government’s Department of Canadian Heritage and is based at three Canadian universities: the University of …
Just in case you think I am in unabashed agreement with Dissident Voice, I posted links to a Rag Blog original article - which did not show up in the repost, of course.
Obama is wrong about natural gas
JoNova does a fine job of pointing up the problem New Scientist Becomes NonScientistGet rid of the rogue EPA and pointless “climate” policies. Governments can’t change the weather.
One day people will marvel that turn of the century governments thought they could control the climate, and needed to issue decrees about how much “change” in the weather they would allow.
From different continents come two articles with a similar theme. It’s time to dump the EPA and pointless “Climate” policies."
Maybe we can get a name change for political partisans masquerading as responsible analysts as well.
But its all disinformation from 'polluters' and I am gullible. Riiight.
Bombshell UN Documents Outline Plan To Use Climategate Crooks In “End Run” Around National Sovereignty
Prison Planet.com
UN strategy documents reveal how elitists are recruiting members of academia from all over the globe in an effort to hide the “end-run” around national sovereignty that their agenda represents, emphasizing how the climategate crooks who were recently caught manipulating scientific data in order to “hide the decline” in global warming are working with the United Nations in the pursuit of a world government justified by the global warming fraud that they are helping to perpetrate.
One of the planning papers, entitled “The UNEP That We Want,” was produced by a specially selected group of influential environmental bureaucrats and delivered to the UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the regulatory body that established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the politicized organization that has attempted to slam the lid shut on global warming skepticism by claiming it is the supreme authority, despite the fact that scientists used by the IPCC were caught manipulating data and conspiring to hide evidence of global cooling during the climategate scandal.
Study: Climate Models Overestimated Global Warming For The Last 55 Years
It is said - with good cause - that the Daily Mail is scarcely a scientific publication. That is certainly true...and it shows.
We all know the basic thesis: that thanks to mankind burning fossil fuels, the world's temperatures are hurtling upwards, and that unless the most drastic action is taken, we can look forward to an unprecedented global catastrophe - droughts, hurricanes, killer heatwaves, melting icecaps, sea levels rising to the point where many of the world's major cities are submerged.
All this is what has been predicted by the expensive computer models relied on by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC), which the politicians tell us we must trust as the ultimate source of authority on the future of the world's climate.
On every side we are told that 'the science is settled', that '2,500 of the world's top climate scientists' agree that these terrifying predictions will all come true unless we take the most drastic action. So carried away have they all been by this belief that scarcely a single politician dares question it.
Yet the oddest thing which has become increasingly evident in the past year or two is the fact that almost none of these things is happening, certainly not in the way those computer models have been predicting. Although carbon dioxide levels have continued to increase, temperatures have not been rising in the way the computer models all agree they should have done.
97 percent of Australian renewables investment dries up without subsidies (so the ABC gives free adverts to the industry)
We’re told “clean” energy is a viable and cost effective. But cut the government subsidies, and 97 percent of investors vanish (in Australia it’s collapsed from $2.6b annually to $80m). The truth is that renewables are almost totally dependent on taxpayer largess. No wonder they lobby like their life depends on it. It does."
The Foundational Fault In Alarmists AGW Theories
Climategates I and II have done enormous damage to the ‘science’ underpinning the alarmist view of man-made CO2 driven global warming. From the exposure of the ‘hide the decline’ trick which destroys the hockey stick graph, to the realization that the unaltered, clearly represented data and results from the CRU actually cannot prove today’s climate is any warmer or cooler than previous period, to the shoddy code exposed in Climategate I, the mathematical confidence underlying the alarmists claims has been rotting away. See here for many, many posts over two years on where the math does not meet the claims.The entire proxy and tree ring paleoclimate effort (historic climate derived indirectly from geological, chemical or biological indicators) is founded on the assumption that the Uniformitarian Principle used in geology can be applied to biological and global climate systems. This is patently absurd!
Here is what the Uniformitarian Principle requires in order for the paleoclimate results to have a shred of confidence:
The theory that all geologic phenomena may be explained as the result of existing forces having operated uniformly from the origin of the earth to the present time.(email #2836) from Keith Briffa in July of 2009 referring to a NERC project that was/is addressing the ‘decline’ seen in tree rings so sinisterly hidden by Mann and Jones circa 2000:
Palaeoclimate reconstructions extend our knowledge of how climate varied in times before expansive networks of measuring instruments became available. …The divergence of modern tree rings in the cherry picked proxies of some areas of the Northern Hemisphere (NH) with present day temperatures (1960-2010, the most accurate portion of the record) used to compare past and present tenps really shook the alarmist camp. It is no surprise why this disconnect between proxy and local temperature had to be hidden in the Hockey Stick graphs. This would undercut the entire alarmist case.
Inferences about variations in past climate, based on this understanding, necessarily assume that the associations we observe now hold true throughout the period for which reconstructions are made. This is the essence of the uniformitarian principle. …
The existence of divergence casts doubt on the uniformitarian assumption that underpins a number of important tree-ring based (dendroclimatic) reconstructions.
And we know from work by Jeff Condon at Air Vent that Briffa, Mann, et al cherry picked tree rings for proxies since there is no real clear temperature signal in the rings anyway.
...Keith Briffa to communicate his until now hidden views (email #2999; July 2007):
Subsequentlty other researchers have reported “divergence” phenomena , but again associated with high latitudes only. There is as yet, no definitive answer or even concensus that these studies represent the same phenomenon. Most suggested “solutions” (see Rob’s comments)to the cause are problematic and it is important to study the nature and possible causes further. At present such studies are hampered by a lack of recent tree-ring and tree-density data (especially post 1980). The answer may lie in a mixture of methodological and biological factors.
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Tree-ring based and virtually all proxy reconstructions (including of the NH) are subject to large statistical uncertainty, arising out of diminishing quality and coverage of predictors back in time. The methods used to translate these data into quantitative estimates of past temperatures also assume uniformitarianism in the relationships between predictors and predictand. This is hard if not impossible to prove.
‘Climate models not only significantly over-predict observed warming in the tropical troposphere, but they represent it in a fundamentally different way than is observed’
New Paper by McKitrick and Vogelsang comparing models and observations in the tropical troposphere "
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I can point you to Bluedaze: Drilling Reform — Texas Sharon http://www.texassharon.com/
as an ongoing information nexus
and note stories like http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2014/06/19/former-state-health-employees-say-they-were-silenced-on-drilling/…but I cannot find one temperature reading from the future to confirm the IPCC’s ‘scientific’ climate change projections and dire warnings.
What am I missing here ?
http://fabiusmaximus.com/science-nature/science-history/