tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39510927635393592412024-02-20T00:53:45.848-08:00Jedi CommandJedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-37741580825279010772019-08-08T12:46:00.001-07:002019-08-08T12:47:18.607-07:00Biggest Crisis No One Is Talking About': Quarter of Humanity Faces 'Extremely High Water Stress' Intensified by Climate Emergency<b>
'Biggest Crisis No One Is Talking About': Quarter of Humanity Faces 'Extremely High Water Stress' Intensified by Climate Emergency<br><br>
<a href="http://commondreams.org/news/2019/08/06/biggest-crisis-no-one-talking-about-quarter-humanity-faces-extremely-high-water">http://commondreams.org/news/2019/08/06/biggest-crisis-no-one-talking-about-quarter-humanity-faces-extremely-high-water</a><br><br>
August 6, 2019<br>
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An analysis released Tuesday warns that 17 countries which are collectively home to a quarter of the global population face "extremely high water stress" that is on track to get worse—particularly because of the human-caused climate emergency.
The data is part of the World Resources Institute's (WRI) Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, a publicly available database and interactive tool designed to enhance global understanding of water scarcity, which WRI calls "one of the defining issues of the 21st century."
"The newly updated Aqueduct tools allow users to better see and understand water risks and make smart decisions to manage them," WRI president and CEO Andrew Steer said in a statement. "A new generation of solutions is emerging, but nowhere near fast enough. Failure to act will be massively expensive in human lives and livelihoods."
"Water stress is the biggest crisis no one is talking about," said Steer. "Its consequences are in plain sight in the form of food insecurity, conflict and migration, and financial instability."
The WRI statement noted that "the world has seen a string of water crises in recent years, as what's now known as 'Day Zero'—the day when the taps run dry—has threatened major cities from Cape Town to São Paolo to Chennai."
Betsy Otto, who directs WRI's global water program, told The New York Times that "we're likely to see more of these Day Zeros in the future."
Otto, speaking to The Guardian, added that "our populations and economies are growing and demanding more water. But our supply is threatened by climate change, water waste, and pollution."
In a blog post announcing the new data, WRI outlined three ways that communities and countries around the world can reduce water stress, regardless of where they rank on the group's list:
Increase agricultural efficiency by using seeds and irrigation techniques that require less water, investing in developing technology that improves farming, and cutting back on food loss and waste;
Invest in "grey"and "green" infrasturcture, improving everything from pipes and treatment plants to wetlands and watersheds.
Treat, reuse, and recycle "wastewater."
The blog explained that countries rank at WRI's highest level for water stress if their "irrigated agriculture, industries, and municipalities withdraw more than 80 percent of their available supply on average every year."
A dozen of the top-ranked countries are located in the Middle East and North Africa. "The region is hot and dry, so water supply is low to begin with," wrote WRI, "but growing demands have pushed countries further into extreme stress."
India, which has a population exceeding 1.3 billion, also ranks among the most water-stressed nations.
Shashi Shekhar—former secretary of India's Ministry of Water Resources and a senior fellow at WRI India—noted that "the recent water crisis in Chennai gained global attention, but various areas in India are experiencing chronic water stress as well."
"India can manage its water risk with the help of reliable and robust data pertaining to rainfall, surface, and groundwater to develop strategies that strengthen resilience," Shekhar said. "Aqueduct can help identify and prioritize water risks in India and around the world."
Behind the 17 nations at WRI's top level are 44 countries—collectively home to another third of the world's population—that face "high" water stress, withdrawing on average more than 40 percent of their available supply annually.
However, as WRI's blog post pointed out, "pockets of extreme water stress exist even in countries with low overall water stress."
"For example, South Africa and the United States rank #48 and #71 on WRI's list, respectively, yet the Western Cape (the state home to Cape Town) and New Mexico experience extremely high stress levels," the group explained. "The populations in these two states rival those of entire nations on the list of most water-stressed countries."
US water stress
"The data is clear: There are undeniably worrying trends in water," WRI concluded. "But by taking action now and investing in better management, we can solve water issues for the good of people, economies and the planet."
See the group's full ranking—which is based on United Nations member countries and does not include some small island nations due to model limitations—below:
<i></i></b>Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-82131031883365866822019-07-05T11:25:00.000-07:002019-07-05T11:25:37.742-07:00Citing $69 Trillion Price Tag by 2100, Moody's Warns Central Banks of Far-Reaching Economic Damage of Climate Crisis<b>
Citing $69 Trillion Price Tag by 2100, Moody's Warns Central Banks of Far-Reaching Economic Damage of Climate Crisis<br><br>
commondreams.org/news/2019/07/03/citing-69-trillion-price-tag-2100-moodys-warns-central-banks-far-reaching-economic<br><br>
July 3, 2019<br><br>
Noting previous warnings that the human-caused climate crisis could cause trillions of dollars in damage to the global economy by the end of the century, a new report from Moody's Analytics explores the economic implications of the international community's failure to curb planet-warming emissions.<br><br>
Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi told The Washington Post—which first reported on the new analysis—that this is "the first stab at trying to quantify what the macroeconomic consequences might be" of the global climate crisis, and it comes in response to European commercial banks and central banks. The climate emergency is "not a cliff event. It's not a shock to the economy. It's more like a corrosive," Zandi added. But it is "getting weightier with each passing year."<br><br>
The financial research and consulting firm's analysis (pdf) highlights a few key projections from a report published last October by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): if the average global temperature soars to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels—the lower limit of the Paris climate agreement—the cost to the global economy is estimated to be $54 trillion in 2100, and under a warming scenario of 2°C, the cost could reach $69 trillion.<br><br>
Moody's—whose clients include multinational corporations, governments, central banks, financial regulators and institutions, retailers, mutual funds, utilities, real estate firms, insurance companies, and investors—notes researchers have found that "warming beyond the 2°C threshold could hit tipping points for even larger and irreversible warming feedback loops, such as permanent summer ice melt in the Arctic Ocean."<br><br>
One of the key takeaways, the report emphasizes, is that economically, "the more draconian effects of climate change are not felt until 2030 and beyond. And they do not become especially pronounced until the second part of the century."<br><br>
"That's why it is so hard to get people focused on this issue and get a comprehensive policy response," Zandi told the Post. "Business is focused on the next year, or five years out."<br><br>
"Most of the models go out 30 years," he said, "but, really, the damage to the economy is in the next half-century, and we haven't developed the tools to look out that far."<br><br>
Responding to the Post report, which emphasized Moody's warning of the anticipated damage to the global economy, some advocates of ambitious global action to slash human-generated greenhouse gas emissions pointed to recent findings from climate experts that the world's temperature could rise 3°C or higher by 2100, implying that the economic costs could exceed the IPCC's upper estimate.<br><br>
Linking to the Post report, Defend Our Future—a project of the Environmental Defense Fund that aims to empower young people interested in advancing climate and clean energy solutions—tweeted: "There is no denying it: The longer we wait to take bold action to curb emissions, the higher the costs will be for all of us."
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Moody's analysts examined the climate emergency's expected economic damage across six impact channels—sea-level rise, human health effects, heat effect of labor productivity, agricultural productivity, tourism, and energy demand—and created forecasts through 2048.
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"This analysis reveals that some countries are significantly exposed to rising temperatures while others, particularly in Northern Hemisphere climates, are well insulated," the report says. Those at the greatest risk, analysts found, are "countries in hot climates, particularly those that are emerging economies such as Malaysia, Algeria, the Philippines, and Thailand, and oil producers such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman."
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On the agricultural front, rising temperatures are expected to impact both the health of farmworkers and crop yields, which particularly threatens less-developed nations that are economically dependent on farming. Echoing a U.N. report published this week, Moody's notes that "heat stress, determined by high temperature and humidity, lowers working speed, necessitates more frequent breaks, and increases the probability of injury."
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The report says that in terms of human health, the number of heat-related deaths worldwide is expected to increase as the global temperature does, and a hotter world "can lengthen the season and increase the geographic range of disease-carrying insects such as mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas, allowing them to move into higher altitudes and new regions."
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Recognizing some limitations of its analysis, Moody's acknowledges that "there are a number of factors that were not considered in this work. The foremost of these is the increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters." The report points to a U.S. government calculation that in the United States alone, disasters caused more than $300 billion in damage in 2017.
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As the environmental legal organization Earthjustice concluded in response to the report, "We literally cannot afford inaction on this crisis."
<i></i></b>Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-44319460116044244082019-07-05T11:21:00.002-07:002019-07-05T11:23:05.311-07:00'We Are in a Climate Emergency, America': Anchorage Hits 90 Degrees for First Time in Recorded History<b>
Friday, July 05, 2019<br>
by
Common Dreams<br>
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'We Are in a Climate Emergency, America': Anchorage Hits 90 Degrees for First Time in Recorded History<br>
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"This is unprecedented. I tease people that Anchorage is the coolest city in the country—and climatically that is true—but right now we are seeing record heat," said Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz<br>
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"The Anchorage International Airport has just reached 89 degrees. The all-time record high temperature for Anchorage has officially been broken," the Anchorage National Weather Service announced in a tweet late Thursday (Photo: Shutterstock)<br><br>
With Alaska in the midst of an unprecedented heat wave that experts say is driven by the climate crisis, Anchorage—the state's largest city—reached an all-time high temperature of 90 degrees on Thursday.<br><br>
"At 5 pm [Thursday] afternoon, Anchorage International Airport officially hit 90 degrees for the first time on record," the Anchorage National Weather Service announced in a tweet early Friday.<br><br>
"We are in a climate emergency, America," wrote meteorologist Eric Holthaus in response to the news.<br><br>
Anchorage reached the 90-degree mark just hours after the city hit 89 degrees, shattering the previous high of 85 degrees set in June of 1969, according to the Anchorage National Weather Service.<br><br>
"This isn't just breaking a record—it's obliterating a record that's stood for more than half a century," tweeted Bill McKibben, environmentalist and founder of 350.org.<br><br>
The record heat in Anchorage forced officials to cancel planned Fourth of July firework celebrations due to wildfire concerns. The Alaska state fire marshal had already banned the sale and personal use of fireworks throughout much of the state due to the unusually hot weather.<br><br>
"This is unprecedented," Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz told the New York Times. "I tease people that Anchorage is the coolest city in the country—and climatically that is true—but right now we are seeing record heat."<br><br>
And the 90-degree record may not stand for long.<br><br>
As the Times reported, temperatures could rise even higher over the weekend.<br><br>
"With the combined forces of climate change that has disrupted temperature trends around the state, a remarkable dearth of ice in the Bering Sea and weather patterns generating a general heat wave, Alaska is facing a Fourth of July unlike any before... city officials are worrying about air quality and forecasters expect temperatures to rival those in Miami," according to the Times.<br><br>
News of Anchorage's record-breaking heat comes after data from the U.N.-backed Copernicus Climate Change Service showed that last month was the hottest June ever recorded.<br><br>
"Summer has just begun for many, but already temperature records are being broken," said 350.org. "We need to act like this is the climate emergency it is."<br><br>
<i></i></b>Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-89030148992042184062018-07-19T13:28:00.002-07:002018-07-19T13:29:49.863-07:00REMOVE Black POW/MIA Flags from New Mexico CapitalJuly 21 2018<br>
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Letter to the Editor:<br>
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Time to change New Mexico's flag color from yellow/red to turquoise/yellow.<br>
Turquoise is new mexico's true color. Its also time to REMOVE the black ISIS POW/MIA skull and crossbones flags from ALL of New <br>Mexico's state buildings and replace them with either a UN flag or, better yet, an EARTH FLAG. The US military and their <br>incessant warmongering have no place in this country anymore. War is obsolete. We live in ONE WORLD now. Let's start promoting<br> our unity and solidarity. There are no borders when one looks down upon our planet from space.<br>
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Steve Jones<br>
Global Environmentalist<br>
Taos, New Mexico<br>
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==> Global Manhattan Project:
<a href="http://alquedahq.20m.com/manhattan.html">http://alquedahq.20m.com/manhattan.html</a>
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By National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) US Department of Energy
The China syndrome refers to a scenario in which a molten nuclear reactor core could fission its way through its containment vessel, melt through the basement of the power plant and down into the earth. While a molten reactor core wouldn’t burn “all the way through to China” it could enter the soil and water table and cause huge contamination in the crops and drinking water around the power plant. It’s a nightmare scenario, the stuff of movies. And it is happening at Fukushima and there is no technology known to man to stop it continuing.
TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Company however is trying to play down the full impact of this nuclear accident.
According to scientist Micho Kaku there is a mathematical formula which can determine at what level the accident really is.
Apparently the stricken nuclear plant has already released 50,000 trillion Becquerel’s of radiation which would put Fukushima in as a category 7 nuclear accident which is still less than Chernobyl however The Fukushima plant is still continuing to leak radiation from its reactors and TEPCO have claimed the problem could take another 40 years to fix, and to top that statistic the whole situation is less than stable.
Fukushima is basically a ticking time bomb.
The slightest disturbance i.e. a small earthquake and there are many as the stricken plant sits on a fault line causing a pipe to burst and an evacuation of the crew could set off a full scale melt down at all 3 nuclear power stations taking the catastrophe far and beyond what happened at Chernobyl.
To make matters worse TEPCO in a moment of panic pumped in sea water from the Pacific in a desperate attempt to keep water above the melting core but as we well know sea water contains salt which corroded any remaining working pumps at the site.
They resorted to sending in suicide squads into the crippled plant to hose water onto the melting reactor.
And the situation has now worsened.
This accident has released enormous amount of iodine into the atmosphere, Iodine is soluble, and when it rains it soaks into the soils and of course into the food system.
Farmers there are now dumping milk and crops and the local economy has collapsed.
It's been over half a decade since Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station suffered a catastrophic meltdown which topped the International Nuclear Event Scale due to its severity. Radiation loves to hang around, and researchers conducting operations with robots inside the damaged reactors were met with radiation levels at their highest point since the actual meltdown back in 2011.
In fact, the radiation level is so elevated that the robot operators had to quickly recall one of their robotic probes because it began to literally go blind.
Like sending a rover to another planet, the mission for robot operators from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is to monitor the status of the failed reactors and the nuclear materials housed within.
Unfortunately, the radiation level of the reactor units was high enough to actually begin to damage one of the robots' camera systems, and could have completely blinded the view for the operator and left the bot stranded in the radioactive hellscape. (In layman's terms what they are saying here is no technology has yet been invented to fix the problem, humans or robots cannot get anywhere near the rector long enough to fix the problem so TEPO's claim it will take another 40 years to fix the problem is probably a very conservative guess)
However, TEPCO was able to study some of the readings taken by the robots before things went awry.
The scientists have estimated the level of radiation to be anywhere from 530 Sieverts per hour to 650 Sieverts per hour.
Those numbers are representative of the amount of radiation an object would expect to be bombarded with over a specific period of time.
To add a bit of scope to that, it's estimated that just one Sievert will cause fatal cancer in approximately 5% of people, while a dose of five Sieverts will kill 50% of people exposed to it within a month.
As little as 90 millisieverts (0.09 Sieverts) accumulated over time can increase cancer risk in both adults and children. (With 300 tons of this stuff washing into the Pacific every day how long will it take before it kills the Pacific Ocean, it is a big ocean but not that big)
Later this month TEPCO plans to send yet another probe into the reactor to take additional readings and hopefully paint a clearer picture of just what exactly is going on inside.
Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-49803263763572984132018-02-06T13:13:00.001-08:002018-02-06T13:13:29.251-08:00Tipping point breached! Monarch butterfly has a 95% decline since 1980's in North America: Two-thirds of ALL animals and insects extinct in 2 years
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Tipping point breached! Monarch butterfly has a 95% decline since 1980's in North America: Two-thirds of ALL animals and insects extinct in 2 years
According to researchers from WWF and the Zoological Society of London in just two years’ time, the World will have lost two-thirds of all wild animals and insects.
This amazing statistic from The Living Planet Index goes on: The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon which humanity depends.
The latest species under stress is the wonderful North American monarch butterfly.
A new report by The Xerces Society claim the number of monarchs wintering in California has dropped to a five-year low, despite more volunteers counting more sites in search of the orange-and-black insect that is arguably the most admired of North American butterflies, a report said on Friday.
The latest tally of 200,000 monarchs in forested groves in California’s central coast has dropped from the 1.2 million counted two decades ago, indicating the number of butterflies found west of the Rocky Mountains, or the so-called western population, continues to sharply decline, the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation said in a report.
Thanks to the efforts of many, this year’s WMTC tallied a total of 192,629 monarchs.
This is the lowest number counted since 2012, despite volunteers visiting nearly twice as many sites as they did that year.
The total represents less than one-sixth of the 1.2 million monarchs recorded in 1997, the first year of the WMTC, and is part of a long-term downward trend in the population of monarchs overwintering in California.
A study led by Cheryl Schultz, of Washington State University Vancouver, analyzed WMTC data and comparable historical data and demonstrated a dramatic population decline of over 95% the since the 1980s.
This is similar to the decline of over 80% seen in the monarch population that overwinters in central Mexico since the 1990s.
Earth has crossed its own tipping point and is creaking under the strain: Two-thirds of animals extinct by 2020! Climate changed forever! World population to hit 8 billion and accelerating
Planet has crossed the tipping point
Our planet is creaking under the strain
By 2020 two thirds of all wild animals who once lived on the world will be dead.
The world's primates face an "extinction crisis" with 60% of species now threatened with extinction
Unprecedented death of millions of tons of marine life around the world’s oceans and waterways
NOAA and NASA claimed 2016 marked three consecutive years of record warmth for the globe with the first eight months of 2016 unprecedented warmth!
10 of the 11 warmest years ever recorded coming in the last 16 years
Not climate change but climate "changed"
North Pole warmer than the Mediterranean in winter
World population soon to hit 8 billion and accelerating
Wars and rumours of wars
In just two years’ time, the World will have lost two-thirds of all wild animals.
This amazing statistic from The Living Planet Index goes on: The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon which humanity depends.
The analysis, the most comprehensive to date, indicates that animal populations plummeted by 58% between 1970 and 2012, with losses on track to reach 67% by 2020. Researchers from WWF and the Zoological Society of London compiled the report from scientific data and found that the destruction of wild habitats, hunting and pollution were to blame.
In another report released by journal Science, Advances are claiming the world's primates face an "extinction crisis" with 60% of species now threatened with extinction, according to research.
A global study, involving more than 30 scientists, assessed the conservation status of more than 500 individual species. This also revealed that 75% of species have populations that are declining.
Add to this the unprecedented death of millions of tons of marine life around the world’s oceans and waterways all point to a crisis which has crossed the tipping point.
Just yesterday NOAA along with NASA claimed 2016 marked three consecutive years of record warmth for the globe with the first eight months of 2016 unprecedented warmth!
With 10 of the 11 warmest years ever recorded coming in the last 16 years, it is fair to claim climate change is climate changed it will never recover.
The Sun hasn't risen over its horizon for more than two months yet the North Pole was warmer than South of France, Italy, Greece Turkey and Syria this week and not for the first time either this winter!
The world is creaking under the stress; crops are failing all over the world due to extreme weather, and with 7.5 billion people we can’t possibly feed everyone, even though the West probably throw’s away enough food to feed the poorest.
Graph worldometers
During the 20th century alone, the population in the world has grown from 1.65 billion to 6 billion.
In 1970, there were roughly half as many people in the world as there are now. We will hit 8 billion people within the next 8 years.Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-63112376048930495262017-12-18T12:00:00.003-08:002017-12-18T13:14:41.264-08:00Whole Foods/Amazon Employment<b>dec 21 2017
whole foods market, sedona, arizona<br>
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Hi kristin-<br><br>
Listen, I've decided to withdraw my employment interest in working for Whole Foods for the time being.
Any corporation or business that requires or FORCES its employees to have a phone number just to be
able to complete an online application process is not worthy of being my employer.
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FORCED phone number policies are being used by Facebook, Twitter, Google Gmail and most recently
by E-bay/Paypal in order to conduct transactions, business and online communications- among other things.
It now seems like Whole Foods, which is owned by Amazon (and receives hundreds of millions of dollars
from the CIA) is instituting similiar measures with regards to prospective employees. I'm sorry, but
its NOT a crime to NOT own or use a phone.
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I believe FORCED phone numbers are being used by these corporations to ILLEGALLY identify, track,
monitor, record, spy and surveil (both with GPS tracking and via audio records) on all American citizens
who submit to this new business protocol. Its widely known that the personal phone number is being
used today as the PRIME means through which the NSA (the National Security Agency) is ILLEGALLY
spying on the American people. Along with biometric ID cards and FORCED background/drug tests,
these policies are being used to digitally enslave every man, woman and child in this country to a tyrannical
plutocratic electronic digital police state regime that willfully and maliciously violates our core
constitutional civil liberties when it comes to the 4th Amendment and our right to personal privacy. I'm
sad to say that Whole Foods and Amazon seem to have recently joined that dictatorial cabal.
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Thus said, there is always space for corporations like WF/Amazon to turn away and reject such
tyrannical practices and policies and learn to respect the privacy and dignity of its employees and its
customers. If and when WF/Amazon turns from its wicked ways, i would be happy to to re-submit my
interest and employment prospects with Whole Foods Market. Whole Foods, on whole, is a great market,
with lots of good employees and products, however, the company also has alot of serious problems and
conflicts of interest to sort out, in my opinion.
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I was hoping to partner with WF/Amazon to further pursue the global environmental work and values i am
trying to promote to help salvage what we have left of our beautiful planet. As i stated previously, we have
ALREADY lost roughly 50% of all life on Earth. With support and employment from environmentally conscious
institutions such as WF/Amazon, i was hoping to work with the company to salvage what's left before we descend
into an irreversible downward spiral of species extinction. But, it seems, for now, I will have to take my efforts and
employment elsewhere. Out of respect, though, for the good environmental/organic values that WF/Amazon does
support and endorse, I pass onto the company my online book, SAVING THE PLANET: <a href="http://stp.neocities.org">http://stp.neocities.org</a>
AND my most recent proposal for a GLOBAL MARSHALL PLAN: <a href="http://leftcoast7.simplesite.com">http://leftcoast7.simplesite.com</a>
to save what's left of our planet.
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In summation, I would highly recommend that WF/Amazon abandon its current police state trajectory and learn
to EVOLVE a more sane and survivable business strategy that protects and upholds the right to personal privacy,
as welll as, supports and endorses an environmental ethos that most of your customers expect when doing business
with WF/Amazon.
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Regards,
<br><br>
Steve Jones<br>
Global Environmentalist<br>
Sedona, Arizona<br>
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USA<br><br>
cc: WF Customer Service, WF/Amazon CEO's, Green Festivals, Refuse Fascism, Commondreams, Democracy Now!<br><br>
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<i></i></b>Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-63080978267638581772017-12-08T10:53:00.002-08:002017-12-08T10:54:34.059-08:00'Hot New World': Raging California Wildfires Expose Reality of Climate Threat: 2017<b>
'Hot New World': Raging California Wildfires Expose Reality of Climate Threat 2017:<br>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/12/07/hot-new-world-raging-california-wildfires-expose-reality-climate-threat">www.commondreams.org/news/2017/12/07/hot-new-world-raging-california-wildfires-expose-reality-climate-threat</a>
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As a "once-in-a-generation" firestorm has raged across nearly 90,000 acres in Southern California this week—covering an area about six times the size of Manhattan and forcing more than 100,000 people to evacuate their homes—experts are warning how climate change is fueling fires on the West Coast.
LA meteorologist Anthony Yanez tweeted that he has "never seen" the wildfire threat index reach the designation for "extreme," as it did late Wednesday, and quoted Ken Pimlott, director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, who reportedly told NBC, "There will be no ability to fight fires in these winds."
Environmentalist and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben indicated the elevated threat warning is a consequence of the "hot new world," a reference to an increasingly warming planet being caused by fossil fuel emissions and other human activity.
Writing for Pacific Standard earlier this week, meteorologist Eric Holthaus notes even though it's still fire season in Southern California, "the current conditions in Southern California seem exceptional." Describing the largest of the region's five fires, he writes:
The Thomas Fire, first identified late Monday night, grew 30-fold in size in just three hours and advanced at a rate of more than an acre per second for 12 hours into neighborhoods in the cities of Santa Paula and Ventura. At the time of the fire, the National Weather Service rated the fire-related weather conditions as "extremely critical," its worst assessment level. Wind speeds near the fire were measured near hurricane force.
"This week's Southern California fires will add to an already disastrous fire season," Holthaus concludes, pointing to wildfires in Northern California that killed at least 44 people earlier this year and are collectively "ranked as the worst fire disaster in California history."
Images and videos from the fires continue to circulate virally on social media, especially from commuters and evacuees on the 405 and 101 highways. Officials were forced to shut down a section of the 101 early Thursday, which the Los Angeles Times reports left "no more open routes between Santa Barbara and Ventura counties."
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Los Angeles and writer of the Weather West blog, was among the group of experts who explained to The Verge how rain is essential to quenching the California wildfires, and how scientists believe climate change has contributed to below average rainfall in the region that is likely to persist into the future.
"By this time of year, usually, there's been some rain that's wetted things down," Swain said, but in the current warm winter dry spell, "it's just as dry as it was in the summer months."
From October to May, strong winds in the upper atmosphere, called the jet stream, typically bring rain storms to California, but National Weather Service meteorologists John Dumas and David Sweet note that so far this year, Los Angeles has seen five percent of its average rainfall, while Burbank has seen even less. In the bottom part of the state, where some areas are enduring a moderate drought, "we're quite parched," Sweet said.
As The Verge reports:
Storms in the jet stream can get diverted by high-pressure bubbles of warm air. A version of this phenomenon called an "atmospheric ridge" is to blame for Southern California's current dry spell. And even bigger one has started forming along the entire West Coast of the U.S. that could shunt rainfall into Canada or Alaska, Swain writes. "We were dry before and now the prospects for rain look even less likely because of the size of this thing," Sweet says.
This is the same atmospheric phenomenon that squatted over the state for three winters in a row during California's record-setting, five-year drought. "The real question is how long it persists," Swains says. During the drought, these ridges lasted for months at a time—but we don't know what's in store for this new one. Even worse news: these atmospheric ridges are getting more common—possibly thanks to human-caused global warming, Swain and his colleagues reported in a 2016 study.
"What should make Southern California fearful is that climate change could mean a future of more frequent and more intense wildfires," the Los Angeles Times editorial board wrote this week. "Today's fires will end, and what we do afterward—assessing how to better prepare, and how and whether to rebuild—will influence the damage from the fires next time."
But even getting to that point—where policymakers can consider taking further steps to address climate change and plan for future fires—has proven difficult, as evacuations continue and firefighters find it difficult to contain the fires due to weather conditions—particularly the powerful Santa Ana winds that are expected to remain strong throughout Thursday.
<i></i></b>Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-80844671299690777572017-12-07T12:13:00.001-08:002017-12-08T11:18:12.945-08:00US Dept of Homeland Security: America's Nazi Gestapo<b><b>December 21, 2017
The US Dept of Homeland Security, located in Washington, DC, is America's Nazi Gestapo.<i></i></b>
America is now a fascist, dictatorial Nazi Police State- a literal 4th Reich in the world today.
The TSA (Transportation Security Agency), an offshoot of the DHS (Dept of Homeland Security), is conducting ILLEGAL
searches and seizures of US citizens and their personal belongings at most of our airports today.
As long as the American people cooperate with this level of illegal police state intrusion, it will persist.
To the degree that US citizens DO NOT cooperate and challenge the TSA at our airports, so shall this illegal,
criminal, over-militarized system of oppression and control be destroyed and overthrown.
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DO NOT willingly agree to a forced pat-down, DO NOT go through a radiation scanner, which produces a full-body
biometric scan and is then entered into an ILLEGAL biometric DHS/NSA database. DO NOT willingly handover
your facial, fingerprint and/or iris scan to any official of the TSA at our airports in order to travel domestically, and especially, internationally.
The 4th Amendment of the US Constitution is the LAW here in America. This amendment states that all US
citizens are protected from any and all unreasonable and unwarranted searches and seizures. This is the LAW. The TSA, is therefore,
engaged in ILLEGAL and CRIMINAL police state activity against your fundamental civil liberties and rights as American citizens.
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It is NOW time to arrest, prosecute and incarcerate all agents of the TSA at our airports and put them in JAIL for the rest of their lives for
the CRIMES that they have all willfully and maliciously committed against the laws and rights of the American people.
There is ZERO-TOLERANCE for a fascist, nazi police state in America (or anywhere in any nation on this planet in the early 21st century).
As the JEWS said after World War 2: "Never Again".<br>Its time for ALL Americans also to stand up NOW and say "Never Again".
There will be no trade off of our liberty for any suspicious activity that strips us of our freedoms. The DHS/TSA are, in fact,
using the false pretenses of "safety" and "security" to strip the American people of their constitutional civil liberties
and corral us all into a digital enslavement Nazi police state network of total surveillance and control.
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Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-29983458308463872152017-07-31T15:20:00.002-07:002017-08-05T10:32:07.119-07:00To Governor, US State or Oregon<b>To Governor, US State of Oregon <br><br>
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Greetings-<br><br>
Governor of Oregon. I have submitted this type of letter to other US states governors facing similar
problems and issues discussed in this letter. To put it plainly and bluntly, we have an "out of control" militarized Nazi American Fascist
Police State that has, unfortunately, taken control of our government and arisen here in America. This is NOT acceptable and will NOT be tolerated in this country, especially here in the US state or Oregon.
<br><br>
The US Dept of Homeland Security, the TSA and the whole slew of overfunded, overmilitarized local, state and federal police
and security agencies are destroying our precious constitutional freedoms and civil liberties in the name of "safety" and "security".
What the TSA is doing at our airports with radiation scanners, forcable searches, seizures of technology and intrusive pat-downs, are ILLEGAL and a direct violation of our 4th amendment right to be free from any unreasonable and unwarranted searches and seizures. I want these ILLEGAL practices STOPPED and reversed NOW. This type of intrusive and ILLEGAL police state activity has filtered out into the state's business community as well with forced background checks and unwarranted drug tests in our state's employment field. As a result of these and other illegal and criminally intrusive fascist police state activities, I want you to cut ALL state funding to ALL local, state and federal police operating in the state of Oregon until these types of fascist police state activities are halted and reversed.
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I want the US Dept of Homeland Security's "threat fusion" centers shut down, gutted, criminalized and removed from the state of Oregon, permanently. I want their intelligence centers and operation commands shut down and their battalions of nazi gestapo jack booted thugs physically and forcibly thrown out our state (at gunpoint). I want you to send in the Oregon National Guard
to arrest, prosecute and imprison these nazi gestapo filth for the CRIMES they have all willfully and maliciously committed against the rights, freedoms and liberties of the American People.
The 1st, 2nd and 4th amendments are at the central core of keeping and maintaining the freedoms we are blessed with in this nation. Without these fundamental rights and freedoms, we might as well be living in Communist China. Our Bill of Rights and our civil liberties are specifically what protects us from devolving into a fascist nazi/communist police state. Unfortunately, we have now abrigated our national LAW and have crossed this line. Its time to reverse course and set our state on a path of freedom,
sustainability and survival on into the 21st century and beyond. Its time to leave behind the fascist overmilitarized American empire and build a Green World Order for Mankind.
<br><br>
More people die of bee stings in America than through terrorist attacks. The US Dept of Homeland Security was founded upon the false pretense of fighting terrorism. 9/11 was an inside job used to turn America into a fascist, dictatorial nazi police state. The REAL job of the US Dept of Homeland Security has been to turn America into such a police state and strip the American people of their constitutional freedoms and civil liberties. Along with the overfunded and "out of control" global military-industrial-intelligence-security complex, the plan is to digitially enslave every man, woman and child on Earth with a worldwide economic buying and selling system known as the "Mark of the Beast". (see Revelations 13, New Testament). This is their endgame.
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The REAL threats to America and the world are ENVIRONMENTAL. The threats of global climate change, shortages of food, water, soil, mineral and energy resources, the radiation releases from the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns in Japan and the pressures of world overpopulation easily trump any so-called "terrorist" threat to the American people and the US corporate empire. The US Dept of Homeland Security needs to be re-directed, re-oriented and re-named the US Dept of Earth and Environmental Security. We need educated and competent environmentalists securing our future, not right wing militarists making war on the peoples, nations and environments of the world.<br><br>
Our public libraries have been turned into literal police state prisons. Security guards, intrusive surveillance cameras, censorship of the public internet, the theft of free book exchanges etc.., all testify to the militarized fascist right wing police state takeover of what is probably the core public educational and citizen activist institution the public has access to within any given municipality. I have witnessed the militarized police state takeover of many public libraries (as well as colleges and universities) across this nation these past 17 years since 9/11. Our public libraries, colleges and universities are NOT police state prisons, they are educational institutions, where freedom, creativity and innovation are the necessary qualities and prerequisites necessary for a healthy and functional democratic society. Its time our public libraries, colleges and universities be returned to the people of this nation, where they truly and rightly belong.<br><br>
The American fascist nazi police state has the HIGHEST per capita prison population on Earth. More people are locked up in American gulags than in the so-called dictatorial states of Russia and China. The USA alone spends over 1 TRILLION US dollars on war, weapons, defense and security. War is obselete and can never be fought in an interconnected and interdependent world. The US flag is literally drenched in the blood of millions (if not billions) of innocent men, women and children across this planet. The USA is, by far, the #1 TERRORIST nation on Earth. This nation has committed more war crimes than any other nation in the entire history of human civilization. Every single year on this planet, at least 40 MILLION innocent men, women and children die from hunger, starvation, disease and malnutrition (thats over 6 jewish holocausts annually), brought about largely through US based corporate and development policies designed to kill off a large part of the 3rd world in the name of eugenics and population control.<br>
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Willingly, or per force, this nation must be brought down and re-booted onto a path of green based environmental sustainability and ecological development. Planet management is the new world enterprise. Business as usual with the worldwide war profiteering industry is over, permanently. We must now lead the planet into building a Green World Order for Mankind on into the 21st century and beyond or we will collectively perish as a species. NOW is the time to evolve into an advanced, enlightened and intelligent species capable of surviving the 21st century. We are at the critical tipping point RIGHT NOW with regards to a species breakdown or breakthrough.<br>
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If the US state of Oregon is unable to extricate the criminal fascist nazi police state infrastructure that has infiltrated itself here, i would urge you and the oregon state legislature to pass legislation (along with a decisive state citizens vote) to have the US state of Oregon exit the United States of America. This can be done in collusion with the US states of California and Washington. California has already drafted its "Cal-Exit" proposal to exit the Union. ( see: https://yescalifornia.org/). California, Oregon and Washington state can form a new union called: Pacifica. This 3 state union will be separate and independent from the US national terrorist nazi fascist police state infrastructure of overmilitarized defense and security organizations, corporations and institutions run out of Washington, DC.<br><br>
Pacifica can become a light beacon to the world in the areas of free energy, sustainable green living and intelligent planet management WITHOUT a fascist nazi police state infrastructure designed to control, imprison, harass, censor, intimidate, surveil and terrorize the public citizenry. I would urge the US state of Oregon to continue down its path of green based sustainable ecological development. Work to defund, criminalize and terminate the fascist nazi police state infrastructure that is ILLEGALLY operating in the US state of Oregon. First order of business: BAN, criminalize and arrest the TSA at all of our states airports. Lets kick the US dept of Homeland Security OUT of our towns, cities and state, by force, if necessary. Lets cleanse our states public libraries of all the prison/police state operatives that currently run these institutions.
And, thirdly, its time to bring down the cameras. I urge to the US state of Oregon to pass legislation banning all public surveillance cameras- on our streets, in our businesses and in our public institutions. This will go a long way in exorcising the evil nazi criminal fascist police state elements that have created this Big Brother penopticon in our state's wonderful communities.<br><br>
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<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Steve Jones<br>
Global Environmentalist<br>
aka- Jonas the Prophet<br>
Messenger of the Covenant<br>
Salem, Oregon<br>
USA<br>
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ENVIRONMENTAL LINX:<Br>
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- Saving the Planet: stp.neocities.org<br>
- Global Marshall Plan: leftcoast7.simplesite.com<br>
- Runaway Arctic Methane Meltdown Emergency: arctic7.simplesite.com<br>
- Antigravity for Power and Propulsion: antigrav7.simplesite.com<br>
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RELIGIOUS/SPIRITUAL/ENDTIME LINK:<br>
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- Jonas the Prophet/The Prophet's Linx: jonah7.neocities.org<br>
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Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-81651563453761845462017-07-10T15:44:00.000-07:002017-07-13T14:51:53.804-07:00Antigravity for Power and Propulsion<b><b>july 11, 2017<br><br>
Antigravity for Power and Propulsion<br><br>
The Carbon Age is over. The hydrocarbon economy has caused the #1 international security threat to our
species today- global climate change- and must be terminated immediately if human civilization is to survive
the 21st century<br><br>
Luckily, we have 2 key free, non-polluting energy sources that can not only provide unlimited amounts of free
electrical energy into our homes and businesses (zero point energy), but also provide us with free and unlimited
non-polluting forms of power and propulsion (antigravitic energy). Antigravitic free energy will provide human civilization
with unlimited mobility anywhere on Earth and in space, and give us the power systems we need in order to shift
into air based dimensions of human and cargo transportation. There will be no more gas pumps, no more cargo ships
to fill with crude oil and no more jet fuel to fly our airplanes with. Most importantly, there will be no more
hydrocarbon pollution emitted from the burning of fossil fuels. This is how we will end the threat of global warming<br><br>
Currently, both zero point and antigravitic
free energy propulsion systems are locked up in the black vaults of the global military industrial complex.
Most of todays sightings of UFO craft are, in fact, advanced antigravitic craft developed
by the world's militaries (predominently in the black budget labs in the USA). Saucer type craft and the control of antigravitic
power for lift, propulsion and flight was actually first achieved back in 1954. So, the technology readily
exists, it just needs to be introduced to the world community, mass produced and incorporated into the new 3rd
dimensional air/space transportation corridor that is projected to evolve once we abandon the antiquated
and highly destructive 19th century based hydrocarbon economy<br><br>
Steve Jones<br>
Global Environmentalist<br>
Sisters, Oregon<br>
USA<br>
<i></i></b>
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SOURCES:<Br>
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1. Zero-Point Energy/Thrive Movement: <a href="https://youtu.be/lEV5AFFcZ-s">https://youtu.be/lEV5AFFcZ-s</a><br>
2. Dr Steven Greer/The Disclosure Project/Project Orion/Antigravitic Free Energy: <a href="http://www.siriusdisclosure.org">http://www.siriusdisclosure.org</a><br>
3. Book: Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion: Tesla, UFOs, and Classified Aerospace Technology, by Paul A. LaViolette Ph.D.: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Antigravity-Propulsion-Classified-Technology/dp/159143078X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481741298&sr=8-1&keywords=anti+gravity+laviolette">https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Antigravity-Propulsion-Classified-Technology/dp/159143078X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481741298&sr=8-1&keywords=anti+gravity+laviolette</a><br>
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<i></i></b>Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-58497678195176191712017-06-28T11:28:00.002-07:002017-06-28T11:30:17.195-07:00Bend, Oregon Public Library Police State<b>June 28 2017
<br><br>
TO: The Bend Public Library Board:<br><br>
<br><br>
The Bend Public Library has recently REMOVED the Mozilla Firefox browser from their public library internet network.
As a library patron who only uses this particular browser (and NOT google or microsoft), this is a blatant act of state sponsored CENSORSHIP of the
public internet by our local library board who have made this unfortunate decision. Along with a roving police state agent spying and harrassing patrons in our library (I have witnessed this on numerous occasions)
and an intrusive and ILLEGAL camera surveillance system violating patrons privacy, dignity and security when entering and exiting the library, the recent REMOVAL of the Firefox
Mozilla internet browser has turned the entire bend public library into a literal fascist police state PRISON.
<br><br>
Forcing Patrons to use google chrome and microsoft explorer browsers when using the public internet opens up the bend library patron community to ILLEGAL police state spying and surveillance, since both of these browsers
are notorious for violating users privacy and security by ILLEGALLY monitoring, confiscating, recording and storing all users internet activity, e-mail and web searches.
With Mozilla Browser, at least users have a modicum of personal privacy when accessing the internet.
The fact that google ads pop up with oregon state police dept advertisements on them when using certain e-mail services also tells me that the bend library internet network is
linked to the bend police department and other similiar so-called specious "security" agencies. This is a further VIOLATION of our personal privacy as US citizens.
<br><br>
The Bend Public library also uses a phone number type of log-in system when accessing the internet at the library. Either patrons are FORCED to reveal their identity and ID numbers
when obtaining a library card OR they can purchase an access card with a truncated phone number format on them to use to log-in to the computers (541003****).
Phone numbers are being used as the PRIME ELECTRONIC IDENTIFICATION means to ILLEGALLY monitor, track (gps with smart phones), identify and record all users electronic communications
here in the United States. Such a phone number log-in system at the bend public library needs to be TERMINATED IMMEDIATELY to protect users identity and privacy from those
who wish to violate our personal communications and internet activity. Our SECURITY as public library patrons demands that a new system be developed. Many libraries
across this nation DO NOT require log-ins or username/passwords at all in order to access the PUBLIC INTERNET. As well. many libraries have free printing available that does NOT track
or record what and when a document gets printed from the internet. Many libraries PROTECT patrons privacy by using a simple anonymous number or sign-up sheet in order
to access the public internet.
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As a global environmentalist working hard to Save Our Planet from environmental destruction and secure what's left of our children's future, i can tell you right now that the level of consciousness
that creates and justifies fascist prison police states such as we now witness at our precious local library here in bend oregon, is precisely the level of degraded, psychotic control freak, security obsessed, fear-based, warped and inverted level of consciousness that is destroying our planet today. Unless and until we RADICALLY shift our consciousness away from the dark side
(to use a STAR WARS phrase) and into the light side of the Force in the way we do business and operate our lives today, we are headed for total and absolute destruction as a species.
<br><br>
All i can do is put forth a path and a vision for progressive human evolution and advancement. However, i will NOT violate your right to go through the process of state tyranny if that
is part of your evolutionary path of conscious development and advancement as sentient beings on this Earth. Hopefully, this will NOT be the case, though, since the state or Oregon seems to be a cut above most states in the realm of environmental consciousness and Earth security. Let us work together to bring true salvation and survival to a world NOW in TOTAL and ABSOLUTE crisis.
I need full and unfettered access to the public internet in order for me to continue my work, and for that i NEED Firefox Browser. Please re-install this browser on the bend
public library computers, or i will be forced to re-locate elsewhere to pursue my interests.
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Regards,
<br><br>
Steve jones<br>
Global environmentalist<br>
Bend, oregon<br>
USA<br>
<br>
==>My Online Book: SAVING THE PLANET:<br>
stp(dot)neocities(dot)org<br>
<br><br>
==>My Plan for a Global Marshall Plan:<br>
leftcoast7(dot)simplesite(dot)com<i></i></b><br>
<br><br>Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-29252987872205338392017-06-20T14:54:00.001-07:002017-06-20T16:04:48.081-07:00REAL ID for Oregon<b>REAL ID for Oregon June 20, 2017<br>
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The US Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) is America's new nazi gestapo.
Regarding the so-called "security enhanced" Real ID that this leviathan is trying
to shove down the throats of the American citizenry, i urge the state of oregon
(and all other US states) to outright REJECT this measure and enact legistlation
to thrown the DHS and the TSA out of our state, permanently.<br><br>
The TSA is ALREADY engaged in ILLEGAL searches and seizures at our airports
and other transportation hubs, in DIRECT violation of our 4th amendment right to
be free from any unreasonable and unwarranted searches and seizures of our
persons and personal belongings- all in the name of "safety" and "security", of course.
I,m sure the jews were told to march to the gas chambers by the Nazis in World War 2
for their own "safety" and "security"...<br><br>
The TSA, along with its parent agency, the DHS, are engaged in outright CRIMINAL
fascist police state activity. This agency's administrators and policy makers need to be arrested, prosecuted
and thrown into PRISON for the rest of their lives for the CRIMES they have all willfully
and maliciously committed against our precious civil liberties and freedoms here in America. Our precious civil liberties specifically
protects us from all forms of state tyranny. As well, our Bill of Rights and our national Constitution
are the Supreme LAW of the land until deemed otherwise in this country.<br>
<br>
To all American citizens: You DO NOT need a security enhanced REAL ID to travel anywhere
in this country, despite what the DHS/TSA tells you. You don't need to "show your papers"
and be electronically identified, tracked, monitored and digitially enslaved by RFID (radio frequency
identification) chips embedded in any drivers license you may possess. This level of
fascist police state tyranny and control belongs in the dust heap of nazi germany, not in the USA.<br><br>
America was founded upon the REJECTION of all forms of oppression and state tyranny.
This nation is a beacon of freedom and liberty to the world. Lets keep it that way.<br><br>
Craig Stevens<br>
Bend, Oregon<i></i></b><br>
<br><br><br>Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-81046792576049737442017-06-20T11:31:00.000-07:002017-06-20T16:06:06.780-07:00A Wall Mall: Bend, Oregon<b>June 19 2017<br>
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letter to editor:
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nice town this bend. wonderful library, good internet access.
great social services to feed the poor and homeless. Really like the roundabouts at the intersections and all the beautiful sculptures. And, of course, all the marijuana distributors, really, really nice as the trump would say...<br><br>
The town is a bit of a sprawl though. We REALLY need to get out of the Carbon Age, get out of these gas guzzling trucks and SUV's, downsize to the electric car and go GREEN in a very BIG way. <br><br>
With regards to global climate change, the rapid melting of the north pole region of the Arctic is happening quickly. Massive amounts of methane are being released into the atmosphere annually.
Estimates are that up to 50 -500 gigatons of methane may be released from this particular region alone in the coming years and decades. Already, the Earth has had 5 gigatons of methane released into its atmosphere since the pre-industrial age. Methane is 50-100 times more lethal in terms of greenhouse gases such as CO2 in trapping thermal heat within our atmosphere. We are now witnessing a runaway methane arctic meltdown emergency of staggering proportions. All efforts must NOW be made to END the hydrocarbon economy and rapidly transit our civilization onto a non-polluting, free energy path of energy independence. If we do NOT end the runaway release of methane from the Arctic region, we will most likely end all life on Earth. In fact, it will be between 2017 and 2020 where we will witness, for the first time EVER, an ice free Arctic. It could very well happen this year.<br><br>
I would like to recommend that the city of bend build a brick mall
on its wall and bond downtown streets, so that people can walk around, relax and not have to worry about getting hit and run over by a stray car. A downtown mall could be complimented with waterfalls, flowers, benches, scultures and fruit and nut trees to beautify the downtown experience and build a sanctuary of peace and tranquility in the area.
Examples of cities with malls are boulder, colorado and burlington, vermont- they're beautiful and everybody loves them!<br><br>
Locally, the juniper recreation center and the city buses need to be made FREE. Ive been in communities where rec centers are free and open to anyone without regard to financial handicap and everyone has equal access to community recreation facilities. Ive also been in ALOT of communities in this country where the city buses are FREE so people and drivers don't have to worry about the hassle and handicap of waiting for passengers to pay bus fares (If they can even afford it).<br><br>
Free buses and free rec centers make the world go around bend oregon. If nothing else, the rec center should provide free showers for bicyclists, to encourage the use of alternative transportation, diminish traffic sprawl and encourage community bicycling.<br><br><br>
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Eclipse 2017!<br>
eclipse2017.org<br>
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Best,<br>
<br>
Steve Jones<br>
Global Environmentalist<br>
Bend, Oregon<br>
USA<br>
<br>
==> Global Marshall Plan: <a href="http://leftcoast7.simplesite.com">leftcoast7.simplesite.com</a><i></i></b>
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<br>Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-49486278470936401942017-05-09T12:00:00.002-07:002017-05-09T12:07:35.508-07:00Final Warning to Humanity<!DOCTYPE html>
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*** The FINAL WARNING TO HUMANITY ***<br><br>
Planet Earth is now at the razors edge "tipping point" for runaway global climate change
<br>(re: arctic methane meltdown at the north pole- see: <a href="http://arctic7.simplesite.com">http://arctic7.simplesite.com</a>)<br>
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The survival or extinction of human civilization is now in the balance.<br></h2></i>
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<u><i>==>Primary Causational Forces:</u></i><br>
- The US National Security Agency (NSA), GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) in the UK, Israeli Mossad and the entire
global military-industrial-intelligence-security complex, all funded, directed and operated by the psychopathically evil, wicked and perverted
International Jewish Rothschild Banking Cartel, headquartered in the CITY of London, UK.<br>
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<u><i>==> Secondary Causational Forces:<Br></u></i>
- The University of California Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College, the Santa Cruz Public Library System and the IT computer/internet
access policies instituted thereof to ILLEGALY spy, surveil, track and monitor its users.<br>
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As a global environmentalist and a prophet of the Most High God, i am given the responsibility to WARN the human species of the impending DOOM
it is now facing with regards to runaway global climate change. As a product of the excellent educational establishment here in Santa Cruz, California USA and as the founder and webmaster
of Santa Cruz 350: <a href="http://santacruz350.webstarts.com">Santa Cruz 350</a>, it is given to me to use my knowledge, talent, status, authority and prophetic insight to leverage
the present dire circumstances on Earth towards either a breakthrough in the creation of a sustainable planetary civilization or a breakdown and consequential extinction of the human species.
The means i will use in this task is the computer/internet access policies at 3 of Santa Cruz's public educational institutions: UC Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College and the Santa Cruz Public Library System-
both colleges of which i am an Alumni.<br>
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Both Cabrillo College and the Santa Cruz Public Library System have ALREADY instituted privacy violating username and password protocols in order to access the internet. Cabrillo College
is now a fully fledged fascist police state institution complete with an ILLEGAL internet spy and surveillance network, an array of spy and surveillance cameras spread all throughout its campus
(resembling a PRISON), and an intrusive and overwhelming police state presence on its campus grounds in the form of a sprawling on-campus police station.<br>
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The Santa Cruz Public Library has forced internet users to use privacy violating usernames and passwords in the form of library card numbers linked to one's state ID card which patrons
are forced to give up in order to recieve a library card. These library numbers are also being used to print, again violating patron's privacy to a local fascist police state
spy and surveillance control grid hell-bent on monitoring, tracking, recording and ILLEGALLY violating the privacy and dignity rights of all Santa Cruz County residents.<Br>
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UC Santa Cruz is one small step away from a total "lockdown" of its public internet access with a system known as "Cruz ID". Cruz ID forces students, staff and faculty into privacy violating
usernames and password protocols and is similiarly requiring those linked ID usernames to printing facilities. This gives IT monitors exact records of what and when material gets printed. For those not
using Cruz ID, forced disclosure of bank account ID is required in order to print. UC Santa Cruz is the only educational institution left that allows patrons to "log-in" anonymously, although
this small sliver of internet freedom is scheduled to be removed in the near future- which brings me to the CORE message of this final warning to humanity.<br>
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As stated previously, we now stand at the razors edge "tipping point" for runaway global climate change with regards to the massive methane meltdown that is now transpiring in the Arctic.
The prime causational force responsible for this threat to our survival is the cancerous, diseased, psychotic, negative and evil disposition of human consciousness exibited from those in positions of temporal power and authority in our society. This level of consciousness
has created a fascist spy and surveillance police state internet access control grid that has now been instituted at 3 of Santa Cruz's educational institutions. Both Cabrillo College and the Santa Cruz
Public Library System are now total spy and surveillance fascist police state institutions. UC Santa Cruz, as mentioned previously, is one small step away from total "lockdown" of its public internet access as well.
Metaphorically, holographically and metaphysically speaking, this level of devolutionary consciousness has led us to the current impasse in civilization's continuity with regards to runaway global climate change.
We now stand at the "tipping point" of life or death for the human species. We are at the very brink right now (as of spring, 2017). In fact, it will be between 2017-2020 where we will witness, for the first time ever,
an ice free Arctic. <br>
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If UC Santa Cruz goes along with its well laid plans to publically censor and fully "lockdown" its internet access with Cruz ID, the line will be crossed and we will have lost the planet. Once we cross this line, its over. There is no turning back.
This is the final warning I am now presenting to humanity.<br>
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Thus said, there is another path forward. It is the path of survival for the human species which i am now ordained to present. This option to Save the Planet <a href="http://stp.neocities.org">Save the Planet<a/>
will REQUIRE the complete dismantling and termination of the ILLEGAL NSA/Homeland Security spy and surveillance fascist police state control grid from UC Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College and the Santa Cruz Public Library System. This will result
in an upholding of the internet privacy rights of all students, staff, faculty and public patrons at these institutions. Learning centers are places of creativity, innovation and freedom. Spy and surveillance police state control grids are dialectically opposed and contrarily antithetical to the spirit of free expression found at most colleges and universities throughout the world. These types of psychotic practices and policies have absolutely NO PLACE in any of our institutional
libraries and learning labs anywhere, period. Those who build, run, fund, operate and support such human control systems need to be arrested, prosecuted and jailed for their crimes.<br>
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At the core of this warning is the complete termination of the military-industrial-intelligence-security complex from which college level spy and surveillance control grids have been spawned. The level of consciousness
that creates and sustains war, fear, evil, camera surveillance, forced internet access usernames and passwords, jack booted TSA goons at our airports and GPS/RFID tracking in our clothes and smart phones, must come to a complete
and utter end, now. We need a Global Marshall Plan <a href="http://leftcoast7.simplesite.com">Global Marshall Plan<a/> to save what's left of our planet, and we need it right now. We are OUT OF TIME.<br>
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This is the choice before us now. We are at the razors edge "tipping point" for runaway global climate change, just as we are now at the "razors edge" of complete public internet access "lockdown" here in Santa Cruz, California with regards to our fine public educational institutions. The point of NO RETURN regarding CO2 content has ALREADY been breached. We are now "locked-in" to a
5-10 fahrenheit increase in global temperatures by 2100. At issue now is the expedition (or expediting) of how how fast this civilizational collapse will progress through runaway arctic methane meltdown releases.
Methane is 100 times more powerful in regards to trapping thermal heat in the atmosphere than CO2. We could see temperatures increase into the 15-40 degree fahrenheit range by 2100 if these projections unfold.
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If UC Santa Cruz goes ahead with its planned full Cruz ID username/password "lockdown", then we will have crossed the rubicon and will have "locked-in" our path to complete and total civilizational collapse
and destruction in the fullness of time. This is how close we are to the end of human civilization on Earth. We need to do an immediate 'about-face', restore internet freedom at our colleges, universities and public libraries by dismantling
and removing all internet access username/password/forced ID protocols. We need internet access that is free, open, unrestricted, unrecorded, privacy protected and anonymous (with printing not linked to user ID's and
bank accounts). We can step back from the brink now by permanently removing CRUZ ID from the UC Santa Cruz campus. If we make this critical step, we can turn back from the brink, turn the tide and create a sustainable
and survivable world civilization. This is the path to life and not death. It can begin here in Santa Cruz, California and spread worldwide as a light beacon to all the peoples and nations of the world.
All it takes is a change in human consciousness and a progressive vision of transformation that trumps the devolutionary death spiral vortex we are now collectively spinning into as a species.<br>
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Finially, as one who deeply loves California, our progressive educational institutions and the expectation that our wonderful state and its people can lead the world to peace, i am deeply honored
to have this opportunity and ordination to present this final warning to humanity to all parties involved. Through me, the hand and the authority of the Most High God in Heaven moves on this Earth. As the messenger
of the covenant to this evil, wicked and perverted generation, all i can do is put forth a path to progressive human evolution and survival. It is my hope that cooler heads will prevail and that we will
choose the path of righteousness, truth, peace, prosperity and planetary salvation for all Mankind at this very late hour.<br>
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Selah,<br>
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Steve Jones<br>
Global Environmentalist<br>
aka- Jonas the Prophet<br>
Messenger of the Covenant<br>
Santa Cruz, California <br>
USA<br>
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August 21, 2017<br>
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=> The Prophet's Sites: <a href="http://prophet7.neocities.org">The Prophet's Sites</a><br>
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CC:<br>
-Senator Kamuela Harris (D-CA)<br>
-Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA)<br>
-Governor Jerry Brown, State of California<Br>
-Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA)<Br>
-Congresswoman Anna Eschoo (D-CA)<br>
-Panetta Institute<br>
-Mayor of Santa Cruz, California<br>
-University of California Board of Regents<br>
-Mayor of San Francisco, California<br>
-Major of Berkeley, California<br>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Its time to TERMINATE the American 4th Reich.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>The USA is the #1 terrorist nation on Earth. This nation has committed more war crimes</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>than any other nation in the entire history of civilization.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>The American flag is literally drenched in the blood of millions (if not, billions) of innocent men, women and children across this globe. If you fly an American flag, then you are an American terrorist, plain and simple. </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>There are 2 parties in America: right wing and extreme right wing, the democrats and the republicans, respectively. Both are warmongering parties and DO NOT represent the people of the United States.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>The US defense establishment spends over 1 trillion dollars annually on war, weapons, death and destruction. This is more than the combined military spending of the rest of the world's nations combined. The American economic and political class uses the US Military and International Development Organizations such as the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organization (all of which are based in the USA) to enforce its corporate will around the world- especially in 3rd world nations- to starve, kill, maim and destroy the lives of millions of innocent men, women and children every year on this planet. Every single year, at least 40 million people die from hunger, starvation, disease and malnutrition throughout our world- that's more than 6 jewish holocausts annually- brought upon them by American policies of corporate greed and selfish enrichment at the expense of others and the subsequent environmental destruction of the biosphere.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>This is the GREATEST HOLOCAUST of human, plant and animal life to have ever occurred in all of human history.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Currently, the USA and its corporate military, economic and political system of death, destruction and devolution is THE primary threat to the security, continuity and survival of all life on Earth.</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>America is now a global tyrannical fascist "Nazi" 4th Reich.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>The entire military-industrial-intelligence-security complex in America needs to be absolutely and </b></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>unequivocally terminated.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>It was right to organize the world to defeat Hitler's 3rd Reich during World War 2. It is also right to organize the world to defeat and destroy the new American "Nazi" 4th Reich. The entire American War Machine needs to be terminated. War is obselete and can never be fought in an interdependent and interconnected world.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>In computer terminology, America is now infested with right wing and extreme right wing warmongering viruses that are destroying our planet. Its time to SHUT DOWN this system and reboot the American economy onto a green, sustainable path of enlightened world order.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>It looks like this is going to have to take an EMP strike, or a number of EMP strikes, detonated over the American continent, to shut down America's physical infrastructure, especially major portions of the US defense establishment, which are headquartered primarily on the East Coast. The target here is the physical infrastructure of the American corporate military-industrial-intelligence-security complex, not the American people, who will not be harmed in any way by this necessary surgical strike.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>If America does not end its warmongering willingly, then it must, and will, be brought down by force. In the interests of protecting and preserving the biosphere from the ravages of global climate change, expanding global famine and irreversible global environmental destruction, the American War industry must be terminated.</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>August 21, 2017 is the red line date that America has to radically re-orient and re-direct its massive corporate economic war machine into peaceful life enhancing and life supporting businesses and enterprises.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>If the deep state establishment refuses to turn, then the solar eclipse scheduled to transit and spiritually divide this nation on August 21, 2017 will open the window for the forcible destruction of the new American "Nazi" 4th Reich.</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Whether it is a deliberate EMP strike, a geomagnetic pole reversal, a supervolcanic eruption, catastrophic or abrupt climate change, a nuclear war, an asteroid strike or a coronal mass ejection from the sun that takes out the nation's electrical grid, then that's what its going to be.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Willingly or per force, the American "Nazi" 4th Reich must and will be terminated. The mandate of evolution and spiritual advancement of the human species REQUIRES this correction in order to survive</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>the 21st century. The entire accumulated weight of human evolution throughout known human history will push this nation over the edge if it does not radically change its ways. Lets just hope America has the will and the intelligence to conform itself to changing evolutionary circumstances and become the world leader in working to Save Our Planet from near certain environmental destruction.</b></i></span><br />
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& Chris Wilcox - and it's set for a ten-fold increase over the next
decade, adding to the already terrible toll on marine life from turtles
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<i><span class="bodycontents">Plastic has enormous
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turtles, seals, and other marine wildlife. Around 10,000 turtles have
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You might have heard the oceans are full of plastic, but how full
exactly? Around 8 million metric tonnes go into the oceans each year,
according to the <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1260352" target="_blank">first rigorous global estimate</a> published in <i>Science</i>.<br />
That’s equivalent to 16 shopping bags full of plastic for every metre
of coastline (excluding Antarctica). By 2025 we will be putting enough
plastic in the ocean (on our most conservative estimates) to cover 5% of
the earth’s entire surface in cling film each year.<br />
Around a third of this likely comes from China, and 10% from
Indonesia. In fact all but one of the top 20 worst offenders are
developing nations, largely due to fast-growing economies but poor waste
management systems.<br />
However, people in the United States - coming in at number 20 and
producing less than 1% of global waste - produce more than 2.5 kg of
plastic waste each day, more than twice the amount of people in China.<br />
While the news for us, our marine wildlife, seabirds, and fisheries
is not good, the research paves the way to improve global waste
management and reduce plastic in the waste stream.<br />
<b>Follow the plastic</b><br />
An international team of experts analysed 192 countries bordering the
Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the Mediterranean and Black
Seas. By examining the amount of waste produced per person per year in
each country, the percentage of that waste that’s plastic, and the
percentage of that plastic waste that is mismanaged, the team worked out
the likely worst offenders for marine plastic waste.<br />
In 2010, 270 million tonnes of plastic was produced around the world.
This translated to 275 million tonnes of plastic waste; 99.5 million
tonnes of which was produced by the two billion people living within 50
km of a coastline. Because some durable items such as refrigerators
produced in the past are also thrown away, we can find more waste than
plastic produced at times.<br />
Of that, somewhere between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes found its way
into the ocean. Given how light plastic is, this translates to an
unimaginably large volume of debris.<br />
While plastic can make its way into oceans from land-locked countries
via rivers, these were excluded in the study, meaning the results are
likely a conservative estimate.<br />
With our planet still 85 years away from 'peak waste' - and with
plastic production skyrocketing around the world - the amount of plastic
waste getting into the oceans is likely to increase by an order of
magnitude within the next decade.<br />
Our <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-oceans-are-full-of-our-plastic-heres-what-we-can-do-about-it-31460" target="_blank">recent survey</a>
of the Australian coastline found three-quarters of coastal rubbish is
plastic, averaging more than 6 pieces per meter of coastline. Offshore,
we found densities from a few thousand pieces of plastic to more than
40,000 pieces per square kilometre in the waters around the continent.<br />
<b>Where's the plastic going?</b><br />
While we now have a rough figure for the amount of plastic rubbish in
the world’s oceans, we still know very little about where it all ends
up (it isn’t all in the infamous '<a href="http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/how-big-great-pacific-garbage-patch-science-vs-myth.html" target="_blank">Pacific Garbage Patch</a>').<br />
Between 6,350 and 245,000 metric tons of plastic waste is estimated
to float on the ocean’s surface, which raises the all-important
question: where does the rest of it end up?<br />
Some, like the <a href="http://www.beatthemicrobead.org/en/" target="_blank">plastic microbeads</a>
found in many personal care products, ends up in the oceans and
sediments where they can be ingested by bottom-dwelling creatures and
filter-feeders.<br />
It’s unclear where the rest of the material is. It might be deposited
on coastal margins, or maybe it breaks down into fragments so small we
can’t detect it, or maybe it is in the <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/111/28/10239.full0" target="_blank">guts of marine wildlife</a>.<br />
Wherever it ends up, plastic has enormous potential for destruction. <a href="https://theconversation.com/ghostnets-fish-on-marine-rubbish-threatens-northern-australian-turtles-11585" target="_blank">Ghost nets</a>
and fishing debris snag and drown turtles, seals, and other marine
wildlife. In some cases, these interactions have big impacts.<br />
For instance, we estimate that <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.12355/full" target="_blank">around 10,000 turtles</a> have been trapped by derelict nets in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria region alone.<br />
More than <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X14008571" target="_blank">690 marine species</a> are known to interact with marine litter. Turtles <a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/14/14" target="_blank">mistake floating plastic for jellyfish</a>, and globally around one-third of all turtles are estimated to have <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.12126/full" target="_blank">eaten plastic</a> in some form. Likewise seabirds eat everything from plastic toys, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_particle_water_pollution" target="_blank">nurdles</a> and balloon shreds to foam, fishing floats and glow sticks.<br />
While plastic is prized for its durability and inertness, it also
acts as a chemical magnet for environmental pollutants such as metals,
fertilisers, and persistent organic pollutants. These are adsorbed onto
the plastic. When an animal eats the plastic 'meal', these chemicals
make their way into their tissues and - in the case of commercial fish
species - can make it onto our dinner plates.<br />
Plastic waste is the scourge of our oceans; killing our wildlife,
polluting our beaches, and threatening our food security. But there are
solutions - some of which are simple, and some a bit more challenging.<br />
<b>Solutions</b><br />
If the top five plastic-polluting countries - China, Indonesia, the
Philippines, Vietnam and Sri Lanka - managed to achieve a 50%
improvement in their waste management - for example by investing in
waste management infrastructure, the total global amount of mismanaged
waste would be reduced by around a quarter.<br />
Higher-income countries have equal responsibility to reduce the
amount of waste produced per person through measures such as plastic
recycling and reuse, and by shifting some of the responsibility for
plastic waste back onto the producers.<br />
The simplest and most effective solution might be to make the plastic
worth money. Deposits on beverage containers for instance, have <a href="http://www.csiro.au/Portals/Media/Plastic-on-the-coasts-is-ours.aspx" target="_blank">proven effective</a>
at reducing waste lost into the environment - because the containers,
plastic and otherwise, are worth money people don’t throw them away, or
if they do others pick them up.<br />
Extending this idea to a deposit on all plastics at the beginning of
their lifecycle, as raw materials, would incentivize collection by
formal waste managers where infrastructure is available, but also by
consumers and entrepreneurs seeking income where it is not.<br />
Before the plastic revolution, much of our waste was collected and
burned. But the ubiquity, volume, and permanence of plastic waste
demands better solutions.</span></i>Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-64170790370662884402015-04-04T13:03:00.001-07:002015-04-04T13:03:21.402-07:00The Future of Freedom: Interview with NSA Whistleblower William Binney <span style="font-size: x-large;">see url:</span><br />
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*****************************************Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-41998934426851681942015-04-04T12:16:00.002-07:002015-04-04T12:16:40.694-07:00How Many People Will Have To Migrate Out Of California When All The Water Disappears?<i><b><span class="st_plusone_buttons"></span></b></i><br />
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<i><strong><a href="http://amzn.to/1FU5nGl" target="_blank"><img alt="Drought - No Swimming Sign - Photo by Peripitus" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-8551" height="201" src="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Drought-No-Swimming-Sign-Photo-by-Peripitus-300x201.jpg" width="300" /></a>The drought in California is getting a lot worse. As you read this, snowpack levels in the Sierra Nevada mountains are the lowest that have ever been recorded.
That means that there won’t be much water for California farmers and
California cities once again this year. To make up the difference in
recent years, water has been pumped out of the ground like crazy. In
fact, California has been losing <a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/california-is-turning-back-into-a-desert-and-there-are-no-contingency-plans" title="more than 12 million acre-feet of groundwater a year">more than 12 million acre-feet of groundwater a year</a>
since 2011, and wells all over the state are going dry. Once the
groundwater is all gone, what are people going to do? 100 years ago,
the population of the state of California was 3 million, and during the
20th century we built lots of beautiful new cities in an area that was
previously a desert. Scientists tell us that the 20th century was the
wettest century in 1000 years for that area of the country, but now
weather patterns are reverting back to normal. Today, the state of
California is turning back into a desert but it now has a population of
38 million people. This is not sustainable in the long-term. So when
the water runs out, where are they going to go?</strong></i><br />
<i><b>I have written quite a few articles about the horrific drought in
California, but conditions just continue to get even worse. According
to NPR, snowpack levels in the Sierra Nevada mountains are <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/04/01/396780035/scary-times-for-california-farmers-as-snowpack-hits-record-lows" target="_blank" title="“just 6 percent of the long-term average”">“just 6 percent of the long-term average”</a>…</b></i><br />
<blockquote>
<i><b>The water outlook in drought-racked California just got a
lot worse: Snowpack levels across the entire Sierra Nevada are now the
lowest in recorded history — just 6 percent of the long-term average.
That shatters the previous low record on this date of 25 percent, set in
1977 and again last year.</b></i></blockquote>
<i><b>California farmers rely on that water. Last year, farmers had to let
hundreds of thousands of acres lie fallow because of the scarcity of
water, and it is being projected that this year <a href="http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2015/03/31/record-low-sierra-snowpack-will-drive-home-drought-impacts/" target="_blank" title="will be even worse">will be even worse</a>…</b></i><br />
<blockquote>
<i><b>More than 400,000 acres of farmland were fallowed last
year because of scarce water. Credible sources have estimated that
figure could double this year.</b></i></blockquote>
<i><b>Fortunately, many farmers have been able to rely on groundwater in
recent years, but now wells are running dry all over the state. Here is
more <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/04/01/396780035/scary-times-for-california-farmers-as-snowpack-hits-record-lows" target="_blank" title="from NPR">from NPR</a>…</b></i><br />
<blockquote>
<i><b>Last year was already a tough year at <a href="http://www.lajollafarming.com/" target="_blank" title="La Jolla Farming">La Jolla Farming</a> in Delano, Calif. Or as farm manager Jerry Schlitz puts it, “Last year was damn near a disaster.”</b></i><br />
<i><b>La Jolla is a vineyard, a thousand-or-so acres of neat lines of
grapevines in the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley. It depends on
water from two sources: the federal <a href="http://www.usbr.gov/mp/cvp/" target="_blank" title="Central Valley Project">Central Valley Project</a> and wells.</b></i><br />
<i><b>Until last year, Schlitz says, wells were used to supplement the federal water.</b></i><br />
<i><b>“Now, we have nothing but wells. Nothing. There’s no water other than what’s coming out of the ground,” he says.</b></i><br />
<i><b>Last year, one of those wells at La Jolla dried up. The farm lost 160
acres — about a million dollars’ worth of produce, plus the wasted
labor and other resources.</b></i></blockquote>
<i><b>Are you starting to understand the scope of the problem?</b></i><br />
<i><b>Despite all of the wonderful technology that we have developed, we are still at the mercy of the weather.</b></i><br />
<i><b>And if this drought continues to drag on, it is absolutely going to
cripple a state that contains more than 10 percent of the total U.S.
population.</b></i><br />
<i><b>In an attempt to fight the water shortage, Governor Jerry Brown has instituted statewide water restrictions <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/california-unveils-historic-water-restrictions-over-drought-crisis-200241456.html;_ylt=A0LEVv7GlxxVHzEAh1wnnIlQ" target="_blank" title="for the first time ever">for the first time ever</a>…</b></i><br />
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<i><b>California announced sweeping statewide water
restrictions for the first time in history Wednesday in order to combat
the region’s devastating drought, the worst since records began.</b></i><br />
<i><b>Governor Jerry Brown issued the declaration at a press conference in a
parched, brown slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains that would normally
be covered by deep snow.</b></i><br />
<i><b>“Today, we are standing on dry grass where there should be five feet
(1.5 meters) of snow,” Brown said. “This historic drought demands
unprecedented action.”</b></i></blockquote>
<i><b>So what will these restrictions include?</b></i><br />
<i><b>The following is a summary from <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/049220_California_water_police_state_uninhabitable_desert.html" target="_blank" title="Natural News">Natural News</a>…</b></i><br />
<i><b>• A ban on non-drip irrigation systems for all new homes.</b></i><br />
<i><b>• A requirement for golf courses and cemeteries to “reduce water
consumption.” (And yet, the very idea of green golf courses in the
middle of a California desert is insane to begin with…)</b></i><br />
<i><b>• Force farmers to report more details on their water usage so that
the state government can figure out where all the water is going (and
where to restrict it even further).</b></i><br />
<i><b>• Outlawing the watering of grass on public street medians.</b></i><br />
<i><b>• Discussions are also under way to throw “water wasters” in jail for up to 30 days, according to <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-california-jail-water-wasters-20150330-story.html" target="_blank" title="another LA Times article">another LA Times article</a>. The most likely source of intel for incarcerating water wasters will be neighborhood snitches who monitor water usage of nearby homes and call the authorities if they see too much water being used.</b></i><br />
<i><b>If the drought does not go on for much longer, these restrictions may be enough.</b></i><br />
<i><b>But what if it continues to intensify?</b></i><br />
<i><b>The following graphic shows the <a href="http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/" target="_blank" title="U.S. Drought Monitor">U.S. Drought Monitor</a> map for the state of California for each of the last five years in late March…</b></i><br />
<i><b><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/how-many-people-will-have-to-migrate-out-of-california-when-all-the-water-disappears/california-national-drought-monitor" rel="attachment wp-att-8550"><img alt="California National Drought Monitor" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-8550" height="175" src="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/California-National-Drought-Monitor-425x175.jpg" width="425" /></a></b></i><br />
<i><b>It doesn’t take a genius to see the trend.</b></i><br />
<i><b>And scientists tell us that this might just be the beginning. There
have been megadroughts in that area of the country that have lasted more
than 100 years in the past, and there are fears that another
megadrought may have begun. The following comes from <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140213-california-drought-record-agriculture-pdo-climate/" target="_blank" title="National Geographic">National Geographic</a>…</b></i><br />
<blockquote>
<i><b>California is experiencing its worst drought since
record-keeping began in the mid 19th century, and scientists say this
may be just the beginning. <a href="http://geography.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=25" target="_blank" title="B. Lynn Ingram">B. Lynn Ingram</a>,
a paleoclimatologist at the University of California at Berkeley,
thinks that California needs to brace itself for a megadrought—one that
could last for 200 years or more.</b></i><br />
<i><b>As a paleoclimatologist, Ingram takes the long view, examining tree
rings and microorganisms in ocean sediment to identify temperatures and
dry periods of the past millennium. Her work suggests that droughts are
nothing new to California.</b></i><br />
<i><b>“During the medieval period, there was over a century of drought in
the Southwest and California. The past repeats itself,” says Ingram, who
is co-author of <a href="http://amzn.to/1F7pBZd" target="_blank" title="The West Without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climate Clues Tell Us About Tomorrow"><em>The West Without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climate Clues Tell Us About Tomorrow</em></a>. Indeed, Ingram believes the 20th century may have been a wet anomaly.</b></i></blockquote>
<i><b>If this is a megadrought, it is just a matter of time until massive migration will become necessary.</b></i><br />
<i><b>In fact, one UN official is <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/101884085" target="_blank" title="already talking about it">already talking about it</a>…</b></i><br />
<blockquote>
<i><b>If the state continues on this path, there may have to be
thoughts about moving people out, said Lynn Wilson, academic chair at
Kaplan University and who serves on the climate change delegation in the
United Nations.</b></i><br />
<i><b>“Civilizations in the past have had to migrate out of areas of
drought,” Wilson said. “We may have to migrate people out of
California.”</b></i><br />
<i><b>Wilson added that before that would happen, every option such as
importing water to the state would likely occur— but “migration can’t be
taken off the table.”</b></i></blockquote>
<i><b>So how many people will ultimately have to leave if this drought continues for many years?</b></i><br />
<i><b>5 million?</b></i><br />
<i><b>10 million?</b></i><br />
<i><b>20 million?</b></i><br />
<i><b>And where will they go?</b></i></div>
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<i>Fukushima: the Extinction-Level Event that no one is Talking About</i></h1>
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<i><strong>Doug Michael</strong></i><br />
<i><b>March 11, 2011: A massive earthquake of 9.0 magnitude struck off the
coast of Japan, triggering a devastating tsunami, which left parts of
the country in utter shambles. Official reports claim that 15,891 people
lost their lives, 6,152 were injured and 2,584 were reported missing.<span id="more-342"></span></b></i><br />
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<b>This was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to have struck
Japan, and the fourth most powerful in the world, since modern record
keeping began in 1900.<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn1" name="_ednref1">[1]</a>
This earthquake was so intense in magnitude, that it shifted Honshu,
the main island of Japan by an estimated eight feet and actually shifted
the Earth’s axis by between four and ten inches!<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn2" name="_ednref2">[2]</a></b><br />
<b>Japan is a nation containing many nuclear reactors which produce roughly 30% of the nation’s electricity.<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn3" name="_ednref3">[3]</a>
The majority of operable nuclear reactors are right along the coast, in
one of the most seismically active areas on the entire planet!</b><br />
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<b><a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/nuclear_map1.png"><img alt="Map which shows the locations of Japan’s, active reactor sights. Notice how they are along the coast, in perhaps the most seismically active location on the entire planet. " class="wp-image-343 " height="307" src="https://dougmichaeltruth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/nuclear_map1.png?w=327&h=307" width="327" /></a></b><div class="wp-caption-text">
<b>Map
which shows the locations of Japan’s, active reactor sights. Notice how
they are along the coast, in perhaps the most seismically active
location on the entire planet.</b></div>
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<b>The powerful tsunami caused complete devastation of three of the six
nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi facility, the cores of which
melted within the first three days. In November 2011, the Japanese
Science Ministry reported that radioactive cesium had contaminated
11,580 square miles of the land surface of Japan,<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn4" name="_ednref4">[4]</a> with an additional 4,500 square miles contaminated.<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn5" name="_ednref5">[5]</a></b><br />
<b>The destroyed reactor sites have been dumping hundreds of tons of
radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean, every single day for the past
four years and the devastating results are now becoming plainly obvious.
Radioactive cesium (an alkali metal) rapidly contaminates an ecosystem
and poisons the entire food chain, and this waste offshoot has been
detected in Japanese foodstuffs over a 200 mile radius of the Daiichi
facility.<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn6" name="_ednref6">[6]</a></b><br />
<b>Cesium and other radioactive waste products are bioaccumulative,
meaning that they accumulate in an organism at a rate faster than the
organism can eliminate it. Of course the Japanese government and TEPCO
(Tokyo Electric Power Company) have blatantly lied about the amount of
radioactive waste that has been leaking into the Pacific, however, the
devastating results have been impossible to ignore.</b><br />
<b>I’ve wondered since the beginning of this disaster-which has already
shown to be far worse that the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the
Ukraine, in 1986-why the world’s top, leading scientists have not come
together to figure out how to stop the leaking radiation. The reason is
because no one knows how to deal with this catastrophe.</b><br />
<b>In March of 2015, it was reported in the <em>Times of London,</em>
that Akira Ono, the chief of the Fukushima power station admitted that
the technology needed to decommission the three melted-down reactors
does not exist, and he has no idea how it will be developed.<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn7" name="_ednref7">[7]</a></b><br />
<b>More recently, Naohiro Masuda, the decommissioning chief of the
Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning Company, also stated that the
technology does not exist to remove the highly radioactive debris from
the damaged reactors:</b><br />
<b><span class="embed-youtube" style="display: block; text-align: center;"></span></b><br />
<b>Ono also claimed that decommissioning the plant by 2051 may be impossible without huge leaps in technological advancement.<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn8" name="_ednref8">[8]</a> It’s also been estimated that plutonium fallout has been 70,000 times greater than atomic bomb fallout in Japan!<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn9" name="_ednref9">[9]</a></b><br />
<b>Japan has also seen a skyrocketing of childhood Cancer rates, particularly, thyroid Cancer.<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn10" name="_ednref10">[10]</a> As of August, 2013, TEPCO admitted that between “20 trillion to 40 trillion becquerels<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn11" name="_ednref11">[11]</a> of radioactive tritium may have leaked into the sea since the disaster.”<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn12" name="_ednref12">[12]</a>
Since it’s been shown over and again, that TEPCO repeatedly lied and
covered up the true extent of the disaster, that number is most likely
far greater.</b><br />
<b>While official sources keep claiming that there is no danger from the
leaking radiation, sea life all along the west coast of the US has been
dying in alarming numbers, and many fish and sea creatures tested off
the west coast have shown extremely high amounts of radioactivity, that
far exceeds safe limits. In actuality though, there really are no “safe”
limits of radiation.</b><br />
<b>The <em>Japan Times</em> reported on Feb 25<sup>th</sup>, 2015, that cesium and other radioactive waste was pouring from the reactor one site, directly into the ocean.<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn13" name="_ednref13">[13]</a> TEPCO did nothing to prevent the leak and simply ignored the problem for close to a year!<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn14" name="_ednref14">[14]</a></b><br />
<b>There has been a massive die-off of marine life along the west coast
of the US, which has scientists “baffled.” Do you mean to tell me that
scientists studying this death of the Pacific haven’t taken into account
the possibility that it could be caused by the hundreds of tons of
nuclear waste that has been pouring into the Pacific each day for the
last four years? So few dare to admit the extent of damage caused by
this disaster or the fact that it is forcing us to face the possibility
of our own extinction. What happens when the planet’s largest body of
water is rendered lifeless on a planet made up mostly of water? What
happens when the radiation accumulates in the atmosphere and is spread
throughout the world by the jet stream?</b><br />
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<b><a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/dead-sea-lions-cali.jpg"><img alt="Massive die-off of sea lions along the west coast has left scientists “baffled.” Might it have something to do with the hundreds of tons of radioactive waste that has been pouring into the Pacific for four years? " class="wp-image-344" height="230" src="https://dougmichaeltruth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/dead-sea-lions-cali.jpg?w=307&h=230" width="307" /></a></b><div class="wp-caption-text">
<b>Massive
die-off of sea lions along the west coast has left scientists
“baffled.” Might it have something to do with the hundreds of tons of
radioactive waste that has been pouring into the Pacific each day for
four years?</b></div>
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<b>In 2013, the Huffington Post reported that massive amounts of krill
washed up along the west coast in a 250 mile stretch from Oregon to
California.<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn15" name="_ednref15">[15]</a>
Krill is an essential part of the ocean’s food chain. When marine life
on the low end of the food chain dies off, the larger animals that feed
on that marine life starve to death. Carcasses of dead sea lions and
seals that were examined revealed high doses of radiation,<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn16" name="_ednref16">[16]</a> and yet, mainstream scientists remain “baffled.”</b><br />
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<b><a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/2-sea-lion-heart.jpg"><img alt="This dead sea lion showed extremely high levels of radiation near its heart and liver. The Pacific Ocean is dying at an alarming rate, and no one seems to notice it, or, they simply put on the blinders and embrace abject denial." class="wp-image-345 size-medium" height="225" src="https://dougmichaeltruth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/2-sea-lion-heart.jpg?w=300&h=225" width="300" /></a></b><div class="wp-caption-text">
<b>This
dead sea lion showed extremely high levels of radiation near its heart
and liver. The Pacific Ocean is dying at an alarming rate, and no one
seems to notice it, or, they simply put on the blinders and embrace
abject denial.</b></div>
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<b>It has also been widely reported that massive amounts of starfish
have appeared along the west coast that have literally turned to mush.
USA Today reported on this,<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn17" name="_ednref17">[17]</a>
and of course they claim that no one knows why; it’s a mystery. Might
it have something to do with the fact that the Pacific has become a
toxic, nuclear waste dump? Of course not, that’s just crazy, paranoid,
tin-foil-hat talk. The level of cognitive dissonance that ensnares the
minds of most people is truly staggering to me.</b><br />
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<b><a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/usatodaystarfishdying.jpg"><img alt="USA Today headline from Dec, 2013. No one knows why? Might it have something to do with the fact that the Pacific Ocean has become the world’s largest, toxic waste dump?" class="wp-image-346 " height="156" src="https://dougmichaeltruth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/usatodaystarfishdying.jpg?w=366&h=156" width="366" /></a></b><div class="wp-caption-text">
<b>USA
Today headline from Dec, 2013. No one knows why? Might it have
something to do with the fact that the Pacific Ocean has become the
world’s largest, toxic waste dump?</b></div>
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<b>It’s also been reported that 98% of the sea floor of the Pacific is covered with dead sea life.<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn18" name="_ednref18">[18]</a> Not surprisingly, mainstream scientists blame this massive death of the Pacific on global warming.</b><br />
<b><em>“In the 24 years of this study, the past two years have been the biggest amounts of this detritus by far,” </em>said marine biologist Christine Huffard, who works at the research station off of California.<em> “Multiple other stations throughout the Pacific have seen similarly alarming increases.”</em><a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn19" name="_ednref19">[19]</a></b><br />
<b>The feeble efforts of TEPCO and the Japanese government to stop the
radioactive leaks, with ice walls, dams, and other paltry, makeshift
remedies have been in vain. Nobody knows how to contain the radioactive
leaks, so the Japanese govt. and TEPCO do the next best thing; they lie
about it and downplay the dangers. Business as usual!</b><br />
<b>The head of the National Cancer Research Center in Japan, reported in
Feb, 2015, that Cancer rates have skyrocketed by 6,000% and that it was
being “swept under the rug.”<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn20" name="_ednref20">[20]</a>
It must be global warming causing this unprecedented rise in Cancer
rates eh? In Jan, 2015, Japan’s nuclear regulator approved TEPCO’s
ingenious plan to simply drain waste-water into the ocean.<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn21" name="_ednref21">[21]</a></b><br />
<b>In Nov, 2014, Ken Buesseler, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution claimed:</b><br />
<b><em>“My biggest concern is what’s going on in </em><em>Japan</em><em>
today, and how that might make its way across to our coast. We know
it’s still leaking because we’re measuring higher levels off </em><em>Japan</em><em> to this day. </em><em>Even just the basic question, ‘How much radioactivity was released at </em><em>Fukushima</em><em>?’ I can’t </em><em>answer </em><em>that today. </em><em>We may never be able to</em><em> because of the lack of sampling, particularly in the ocean.”</em><a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn22" name="_ednref22">[22]</a></b><br />
<strong>An experienced, veteran sailor by the name of Ivan Macfadyen, who has
sailed the Pacific taking part in races, stated in an interview that:<br />
</strong><br />
<strong><em>“It’s dead…for thousands of miles there was nothing </em>[between US and Japan]<em>
like sailing in a dead sea…everything’s all gone. Just talking about it
makes me feel like I want to cry. No birds, no fish, no sharks, no
dolphins, no turtles, nothing.”</em><a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn23" name="_ednref23">[23]</a></strong><br />
<b>This is the legacy that humanity is leaving for their posterity; a
dead world. Humanity has allowed itself to be ruled by a ruthless,
psychopathic gang of parasites whose greed and insatiable lust for power
knows no bounds. There really is no one to blame but ourselves. The
information in this article is not even a scratch in the surface of the
true magnitude of this nuclear disaster. The radiation will
bioaccumulate in the ocean and atmosphere for centuries to come. Mankind
is staring our very extinction in the face. This is an opportunity for
humanity to face the force of our own destructiveness, and to come
together as one family. Unfortunately, the average person’s thoughts
seem to be firmly fixated on the sports scores, who’s blowing who in the
latest, celebrity scandal or the latest pop culture fad. Unfortunately,
the world’s masses suffer from a serious condition known as,
Rectal-Cranial Inversion!</b><br />
<b>Let us also not forget the Deepwater Horizon disaster that occurred
in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010. Massive amounts of oil leaked
into the gulf, and in the subsequent cleanup attempt, the well was
capped which caused a crack in the seabed, causing extreme amounts of
oil to pour into the gulf, killing marine life in droves and destroying
the fishing industry in that region. A highly toxic and controversial
dispersant called Corexit was dumped into the sea, and the results have
been catastrophic.</b><br />
<b>Fishermen have reported sea creatures being caught in the gulf that
had legions on their bodies and all sorts of other anomalies including
mutated sea life, eyeless shrimp and ulcers<a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/fukushima-the-extinction-level-event-that-no-one-is-talking-about/#_edn24" name="_ednref24">[24]</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/mutated-shrimp.jpg"><img alt="Fishermen have reported mutated and diseased sea life caught in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the subsequent dispersal of BP Corporation’s highly toxic Corexit dispersant. " class="wp-image-347 " height="153" src="https://dougmichaeltruth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/mutated-shrimp.jpg?w=345&h=153" width="345" /></a></b><div class="wp-caption-text">
<b>Fishermen
have reported mutated and diseased sea life caught in the Gulf of
Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the subsequent
dispersal of BP Corporation’s highly toxic Corexit dispersant.</b></div>
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<b>What happens when oil and a highly toxic dispersant enters the Gulf
Stream and spreads? What happens when radiation spreads throughout the
ocean currents of the Pacific? Roughly 72% of the Earth is made up of
water, and if you look at a global map, you can see that all of the
world’s oceans are connected; it’s essentially one ocean. So what
happens when two of the planet’s large bodies of water are rendered
lifeless? Since roughly 90% of Earth’s life is contained in the oceans,
and two-thirds of the planet is water, what happens when the oceans die?
What happens when we can no longer fish the oceans for food? The answer
is simple: When the planet’s oceans die, all life on Earth will follow,
but who cares? There’s a game on tonight, or some stupid shitcom that
insults the intelligence.</b><br />
<b>What level of cognitive dissonance is adhered to that causes people
to look away from painful truths? How is it that people can convince
themselves that everything is just fine when we are staring our very
extinction in the face? How many actually give a shit? Far too few
unfortunately. The fact that the world’s top scientists have no idea how
to contain the radiation at Fukushima speaks volumes about what happens
when a species develops technologically yet does not operate with
wisdom. They destroy themselves.</b><br />
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<b><a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/95365504-oil-spill.jpg"><img alt="BP Corporation’s legacy of death and destruction in the Gulf of Mexico." class="wp-image-348 " height="260" src="https://dougmichaeltruth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/95365504-oil-spill.jpg?w=331&h=260" width="331" /></a></b><div class="wp-caption-text">
<b>BP Corporation’s legacy of death and destruction in the Gulf of Mexico.</b></div>
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<b>Has humanity made its decision that it will simply bow down and allow
the few, through psychopathy and corporate greed to drive the planet
into its very extinction? Is it game over for life on planet Earth? We
are certainly headed in that direction, but why would I want to face
this painful truth and find my center when Miley Cyrus is on TV sucking
off a blow up doll in her latest piece of shit video?</b><br />
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<b><a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/jackassmiley.jpg"><img alt="Most people focus on the most irrelevant and ridiculous distractions while the world falls dead all around them. " class="wp-image-349" height="176" src="https://dougmichaeltruth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/jackassmiley.jpg?w=352&h=176" width="352" /></a></b><div class="wp-caption-text">
<b>Most people focus on the most irrelevant and ridiculous distractions while the world falls dead all around them.</b></div>
</div>
<b>The time for humanity to collectively wake up and come together is
here and now! We can no longer put off the mess for future generations
to mop up because at the rate we are going, the planet will be unable to
support life and very may well become a dead rock resembling Mars. This
is where we stand as a species. Does this sound paranoid? Maybe, but
that does not negate the fact that it’s true! So as we bow our heads in
quiet approval, our home is being destroyed and your children’s futures
are being stolen right from under them. Sleep on, everything is OK, and
raise your glass to the extinction of humanity!</b><br />
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<b><a href="https://dougmichaeltruth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/fukushima-plume-map.jpg"><img alt="David Dees art: http://www.deesillustration.com/ " class="wp-image-353 " height="288" src="https://dougmichaeltruth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/fukushima-plume-map.jpg?w=324&h=288" width="324" /></a></b></div>
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<i><strong><br /><span style="font-size: small;">April 4, 2015</span></strong></i>
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<i>Red Flags Everywhere As NWO Prepares To Kill 240+ Million Americans In The Next 10 Years!<br /><br /><img alt="jadeHelm.jpg" height="263" src="http://www.allnewspipeline.com/images/jadeHelm.jpg" title="jadeHelm.jpg" width="370" /></i></h2>
<i><b><a href="http://www.allnewspipeline.com/" target="_blank"><strong>By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die</strong></a></b></i><br />
<i><b><span style="font-size: small;">As each new day brings us one day closer to <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">complete</span> <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11">economic collapse</span> in America as the dollar loses its' status as the world's reserve currency, we see <a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/are-they-arming-for-riots-across-america-homeland-stockpiling-less-lethal-specialty-munitions_04032015" target="_blank">new red flags flying everywhere</a> (such as the <a href="http://investmentwatchblog.com/whoa-first-they-bought-1-6-billion-rounds-of-ammo-now-homeland-security-is-buying-bulk-riot-control-gear-they-know-whats-coming/" target="_blank">DHS purchase of bulk riot control gear!</a>) each morning we <a href="http://www.watchmanscry.com/News_alert_jade_helm.html" target="_blank">read the latest news. </a>With Jade Helm 15 now huge news, we've decided it's an important time to <a href="http://www.allnewspipeline.com/Gov_Website_Proves_End_Is_Near.php" target="_blank">revisit</a> the Deagel.com website which <a href="http://www.deagel.com/country/United-States-of-America_c0001.aspx" target="_blank">shows a population reduction of more than 240 million Americans by the year 2025</a>,
less than 10 years from now, and ask the questions that need to be
asked: why would Deagel.com think that the population of the US in 2025
will be reduced by 240+ million Americans and how will the NWO go about
accomplishing a magic trick like that?<br /><br /><img alt="gdp.jpeg" height="183" src="http://www.allnewspipeline.com/images/gdp.jpeg" title="gdp.jpeg" width="275" /><br /><br />While
we expect nwo and govt shills and trolls to immediately pounce on this
story with comments such as 'why should we trust Deagel' and 'they don't
know anything' and 'the govt is here to protect us', it's wise to
remember who Deagel.com gets their numbers from and WHO exactly they are
tied to. Would Deagel's source groups below know anything about the US
population being ONLY 69 million people in 10 years? After visiting
Deagel's <a href="http://www.deagel.com/directory/?pag=1&tpc=7" target="_blank">full directory of source organizations</a>, we dare you to tell us that Deagel is simply 'out of touch'. <br /><img alt="deagel0.jpg" height="174" src="http://www.allnewspipeline.com/images/deagel0.jpg" title="deagel0.jpg" width="726" /><br /><br />While a recent story on <a href="http://www.allnewspipeline.com/index.php?pr=Home" target="_blank">All News Pipeline</a> warned that <a href="http://www.allnewspipeline.com/Red_List_Roundup_Commencement.php" target="_blank">between 80 and 100 million Americans were now on the NWO's 'red list' </a>of US patriots, supporters of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9">the Constitution</span>
and the 2nd Amendment to be 'eliminated' for opposing global government
and a 'new world order', does the screenshot from Deagel.com below of
projections for the US for 2025 tell us the true tale? Why the huge drop
in population, from 316 million to 69 million in less than 10 years? Is
this what <a href="http://www.allnewspipeline.com/Jade_Helm_China_Mexico_Connection.php" target="_blank">Jade Helm 15</a> taking place in mere months and the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10">various</span> martial law drills are <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">preparing</span> for? </span><br /><br /><img alt="deagel.jpg" height="410" src="http://www.allnewspipeline.com/images/deagel.jpg" title="deagel.jpg" width="640" /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Just exactly WHO is Deagel.com? We learn <a href="http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/10/23/the-target-date-for-americas-depopulation-has-been-set/" target="_blank">here</a>
that Deagel is tied to some of the most shady characters and activities
around and if these groups are telling us that America will only have
69 million residents in 10 years, it's time we all paid very close
attention to what they are telling us in their 2025 forecast seen above.<br /></span><em><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
power and influence of the corporation that you never heard of is
staggering. This is the modern day Zapata Oil, which was a CIA front
corporation run by George H. W. Bush which in turn facilitated much of
the Air America “drugs for guns” program in Latin America in the 1980’s.
</span></strong></em></b></i>
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<i><b><em><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/10/23/the-target-date-for-americas-depopulation-has-been-set/" target="_blank">My (Dave Hodges) sources tell me</a>
that Deagel is the same exact kind of organization as Zapata Oil.
Deagel ran guns through the Ambassador Chris Stevens and subsequently
delivered them to al-Qaeda in Libya and in Syria at the time of Stevens
death. Deagel was intimately involved in Benghazi in ways that will be
revealed in a later <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12">article</span>. Deagel is not just a gun running/<span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">drug</span>
running/child sex trafficking organization, they are also intimately
connected with the business as “Open source intelligence links”. This
means that Deagel and their partners serve as marketing companies for
the CIA and sell intelligence information to the highest bidder.
Stratfor and Deagel provide the CIA with a minimum of two degrees of
separation from nefarious operations which could taint the U.S.
government and in particular, the CIA. These activities will be the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">topic</span> of a future article. The focus of the remainder of this is article is the destruction and depopulation of the United States.</span></strong></em></b></i></div>
<i><b><em><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Deagel is a group that
gets their hands dirty and they play both sides of the fence. They do
business with the Russian Defense Procurement Agency, but they are
largely an American contractor with ties into the U.S. Navy, the NSA and
the CIA, through Stratfor. If anyone wanted to make the case that I
have, the “Bastard Banksters from Basel” control both sides of the
coming WW III for fun and profit, the data trail of Deagel exemplifies
this point. </span></strong></em><br /><br />In this <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">1st video</span>
from the Alex Jones channel we learn from a victim of the Castro
regime's roundup in Cuba that he is VERY concerned about the upcoming
Jade Helm 15 military activities and clearly, he has a very good reason
to be concerned.<br /><br /><br style="font-size: small;" /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">In this video, <a class=" yt-uix-sessionlink spf-link g-hovercard" data-name="" data-sessionlink="ei=iwEgVcGGIcPMqAPH1YDgCA" data-ytid="UC3oD3f_j3Tvpw9EFAWTaSHw" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oD3f_j3Tvpw9EFAWTaSHw">justinwoolee</a>
calls the US Army Special Operations Command Public Affairs Office to
ask a few questions about Jade Helm 15, FEMA Camps and the 'red list'
roundup. The response that he gets, though much expected, yields some
surprising results as we learn that SOCOM has been absolutely SLAMMED
with <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">calls from</span> concerned Americans, though many of the questions he asks are dodged. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">YouTube videographer <a class=" yt-uix-sessionlink spf-link g-hovercard" data-name="" data-sessionlink="ei=uAMgVbDsA9OHqwOcq4EQ" data-ytid="UCO8MQqy42F8B9Lnk7iQvp1A" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8MQqy42F8B9Lnk7iQvp1A">DEMCAD</a>
gives us his analysis of the economic red flags unfolding, Operation
Jade Helm 15 and the California drought in this next video.</span> <br /><br /><br /><br /></b></i></center>
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</b></i><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image: Soldiers of the U.S. Army 3rd
squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment as the troops of the “Dragoon Ride”
military exercise arrive at their home base at Rose Barracks in Vilseck
April 1, 2015. | Photo: Reuters</span></b></i><br />
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</b></i><i><b><em>Western militarism constitutes, next to climate change and
poverty, the world’s greatest scourge. As internationally acclaimed
Canadian academic Michel Chossudovsky has pointed out, NATO’s aggressive
expansion into Eurasia and the Middle East has brought about the
possibility of a “World War Three scenario.”</em></b></i><br />
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</b></i><i><b>Since the Second World War, the USA and UK have deployed troops
nearly every year: Between 1950 and 1991 the USA used or threatened to
use force about 500 times. The 1982 Falklands War constituted the
88th deployment of British troops since 1945, in a total of 51
countries.</b></i><br />
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</b></i><i><b>Most of these interventions have occurred in secret. Traditional
militarism of the type seen during World War II and the Vietnam War
posed various problems for Western elites. During World War II, the
centralisation of the economy and mass conscript participation helped to
advance the power of organised labour. As a consequence, the
“free-enterprise” economic model preferred by corporate business elites
came under challenge from progressive working class activism. During the
Vietnam War, broad mass movements exposed the aims and effects of
Western militarism and challenged the foundations of the social order.
The “New Left” exposed the USA as a rogue aggressor state. For Western
elites, this became to be known as the “Vietnam Syndrome.” As a counter
measure, new militarist strategies were implemented in order to avoid
extensive military adventures and their socio-political repercussions.</b></i><br />
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</b></i><i><b>At the heart of what scholar Richard Keeble, in his book Secret
State, Silent Press, terms “new militarism” has been the Low Intensity
Conflict (LIC) strategy. LIC involves the use of special-forces, secret
services, proxy armies, air raids and modernised war technology together
with diplomatic, economic, trade, social and cultural forms of warfare
which are largely applied in secrecy. According to Keeble, LIC was
“developed in response to the perceived threats to vulnerable US
strategic interests,” to avoid unpopular “mass participatory warfare”
and act without declaring war in order to keep political aspects and
gruesome details about conflicts off the public agenda.</b></i><br />
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</b></i><i><b>As John Stockwell has argued in his book The Praetorian Guard, the
CIA had already by 1990 been secretly involved in 3,000 major and 10,000
minor operations, which were “all illegal, and all designed to disrupt,
destabilize, or modify the activities of other countries.”</b></i><br />
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</b></i><i><b>Examples of post-Cold War LIC policies include the 1990s sanction
regime imposed on Iraq as well as US/Coalition “counter-insurgency”
policies during the occupation that fuelled a Sunni/Shia civil war and
the rise of ISIS. Another more recent case of LIC constitutes Western
support for “rebels” in Syria and Libya which also strengthened ISIS and
further led to the fragmentation and destruction of the region. Remote
controlled warfare, such as US President Barack Obama’s Drone programme,
is also an essential part of LIC.</b></i><br />
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</b></i><i><b>Next to secret warfare, new militarism has involved a selected range
of major and overt “quickie” interventions against Iraq, Somalia, the
Former Republic of Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Libya among other
countries. These constituted manufactured, media-hyped “operations”
against vulnerable enemy states or movements who were depicted as
existential threats. According to Keeble “these ‘operations’ are then
spectacular, essentially PR, events providing the theatre in which the
US and its allies can claim their so-called ‘victories’” – despite the
devastating consequences for the target countries which have largely
been ignored by the mainstream news media.</b></i><br />
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</b></i><i><b>In 2012, annual military spending in the USA had increased to about
$1 Trillion (see Robert W. McChesney, Digital Disconnect). Western
militarism has been driven by this war economy. The funds invested in
the military-industrial complex must be redistributed. The vast military
machine needs to be dismantled. This can only be achieved by the
concerted and peaceful efforts of an international grass roots movement.</b></i>Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-35843614227912132102013-04-10T11:13:00.002-07:002013-04-10T11:13:27.277-07:00Axe Santa Cruz Police Force<i><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Letter to the Editor<br />Santa Cruz Sentinel<br />April 10, 2013<br /><br />In
response to the recent traitorous actions of the so-calld 'progressive"
city council of Santa Cruz to hire and fund more police in Santa Cruz:<br /><a href="https://service.mail.com/dereferrer/?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.santacruzsentinel.com%2Flocalnews%2Fci_22991140%2Fsanta-cruz-city-council-oks-police-hiring-bonuses&lang=en" target="_blank">http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_22991140/santa-cruz-city-council-oks-police-hiring-bonuses</a><br />i
hereby PUBLICALLY call for the entire Santa Cruz city council (and the
right wing mafia military homeland security police state controlled city
manager who really runs this town)<br />to be immediately FIRED and thrown out of this county.<br /><br />This
is a disgrace. There are too many cops already in this town- they are
everywhere; in our parks, on our bike paths, in our malls,<br />hassling
homeless people, struttting around looking for people to confront and
ticket and fullfilling the role of turning our beautiful oceanside
community into an east german style fascist/communist police state.
ENOUGH OF THIS INSANITY!!!! This is NOT soviet russia or communist
china!!!!<br /><br />We've got roads to fix, we've got recreation centers to
build and run, we've got bike paths to build (how about one on hwy 9
for example?)<br />we've got homeless shelters and projects to fund, we've
got green projects to fund and build, we've got green jobs to create...
the list goes on and on... Instead, the bureaucrats in this town
continue to FUND more cops with money they don't have.<br /><br />Santa Cruz
County now has (as with all major cities in the state) a so-called
"threat fusion center" in the vicinity made up of all facets of local,
state and federal law enforcement. The American people have been
designated as the new "al-qaida". A fascist NAZI police state is<br />being
built up around us to target us as American citizens- to ticket,
arrest, harass, intimidate, incarcerate and persecute all those who
don't lick the boots of the brown shirted state security thugs who are
now invading our community. They're turning our educational
instuitutions and our communities into surveillance guard tower like
prisons.<br /><br />All of this is in preparation for the coming planned economic collapse of our economy.<br /><br />We
need new leadership in this community. We need city council members
who will nuture our community into a sustainable, green, alternative
energy based city municipality, not devolve us into the dead end of a
fear based, jack booted, Nazi fascist police state.<br /><br /><br /><br />qadara sheckina<br />santa cruz</span></span></b></i>Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-782106901484336152012-11-29T13:15:00.002-08:002012-11-29T13:15:50.827-08:00Global Government Now Seeks Total Control Over the Internet<div id="navbar">
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November 28, 2012</strong></i><br />
<i><b>What is arguably the very last bastion of totally free speech is once
again under assault by the world’s tyrants, as the United Nations is
now eying regulation of the Internet – as though it was in need of being
regulated.</b></i><br />
<i><b>Why? It’s an age-old story.</b></i><br />
<i><b>Leaders of authoritarian regimes the world over hate the free flow of information that is disseminated via the Internet.</b></i><br />
<i><b>They hate the fact that they no longer have a monopoly on ideas and
opinion within their own country. They see notions of freedom and
liberty as a threat.</b></i><br />
<i><b>They despise any medium that undermines their grip on power. And
their regimes are heavily represented in the U.N., of which the United
States (once considered the bastion of liberty and freedom) is the
largest contributor.</b></i><br />
<i><b>“Who runs the Internet? For now, the answer remains no one, or at
least no government, which explains the Web’s success as a new
technology. But as of next week, unless the U.S. gets serious, the
answer could be the United Nations,” reports <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>.</b></i><br />
<i><strong>Authoritarians seek ways to control free expression, free speech, and individual liberty</strong></i><br />
<i><b>A sizable number of the world body’s 193 members simply oppose the
open and very uncontrolled nature of the Internet, the paper said,
noting the World Wide Web’s interconnected global networks that defy
international boundaries and, as such, make it extremely difficult for
governments to tax or censor.</b></i><br />
<i><b>For over a year, these authoritarian regimes have lobbied a UN agency known as the <em>International Telecommunications Union </em>to grab the reins of the Internet and take over its <em>management</em>.</b></i><br />
<i><b>The organization, which was originally created in 1865 as the <em>International Telegraph Union</em>,
last wrote a treaty on communications in 1988, years before the
commercial Internet developed into a popular communications and commerce
medium, and back when telecommunications referred to voice telephone
calls routed through national telephone monopolies.</b></i><br />
<i><b>In the coming days, the ITU plans to hold a “negotiating conference”
in the emirate of Dubai, say reports. In the past months, rumors have
surfaced that a new treaty could be in the offing – one that will no
doubt prove disastrous to a free and open Internet.</b></i><br />
<i><b>Most U.S. resolutions, as well as free-market commentary in publications such as the <em>Journal</em>,
“have focused on proposals by authoritarian governments to censor the
Internet,” the paper reported. “Just as objectionable are proposals that
ignore how the Internet works, threatening its smooth and open
operations.”</b></i><br />
<i><b>What would be the effect of having the Internet “reviewed” and
“regulated” by global bureaucrats, most of whom are sympathetic to, or
beholden to, authoritarian regimes bent on stifling free speech, free
expression and individual liberty.</b></i><br />
<i><b>The Internet consists of 40,000 networks, interconnected among
425,000 global routes that cheaply and inefficiently deliver messages
and digital content to about two billion people around the world every
day – with a half-million signing on each day.</b></i><br />
<i><b>Up to now, the Internet has been self-regulating, which has obviously
been working just fine (hence the growth figures in the previous
paragraph).</b></i><br />
<i><b>As it stands, no one has to ask for permission to put up their own blog or website. No <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/government.html">government</a> has the ability or right to tell network operators how they should do their jobs.</b></i><br />
<i><strong>‘Technology moves faster than any treaty process’</strong></i><br />
<i><b>What has transpired is an extremely rare, if <em>virtual</em>, place for innovation that requires <em>no prior permission</em> from a regulatory or government agency or bureaucrat or governing body.</b></i><br />
<i><b>Former <em>Federal Communications Commission </em>Chairman William
Kennard pointed out that 90 percent of cooperative “peering” agreements
among co-existing networks are “made on a handshake,” adjusting as needs
change.</b></i><br />
<i><b>“The Internet is highly complex and highly technical, yet governments
are the only ones making decisions at the ITU, putting the Internet at
their mercy,” Sally Wentworth of the <em>Internet Society</em> told the <em>Journal </em>recently.</b></i><br />
<i><b>She went on to say that Web developers and engineers who make the
Internet work have said it’s “mind boggling” that any government – even a
so-called world government – would ever claim the universal <em>right</em> to regulate or manage the Internet.</b></i><br />
<i><b>“Technology moves faster than any treaty process ever can,” <em>Internet Society </em>warned.</b></i><br />
<i><b>Even if the Obama administration hasn’t yet publicly stated its
position, liberty-minded officials and lawmakers in Europe (believe it
or not) have stepped up to the plate.</b></i><br />
<i><b>The European Parliament has passed a resolution that protests plans by the ITU to seize control of the Internet.</b></i><br />
<i><b>“[The European Parliament] believes that the ITU, or any other
single, centralized international institution, is not the appropriate
body to assert regulatory authority over either Internet governance of
Internet traffic flows,” says the resolution, which was passed by a
majority of EP representatives, reports said.</b></i><br />
<i><strong>Biggest backers of regulation include Russia, China</strong></i><br />
<i><b>According to Britain’s <em>The Guardian</em> newspaper:</b></i><br />
<i><b><em>What’s worrying the EP, along with an unlikely coalition of
Google, the U.S. Republican party, organized labor, and Greenpeace, is
that the meeting might try and take over regulatory oversight for
Internet communications in a closed-door coup. The U.S. government has
said it will oppose serious moves to change the current regulatory
order, but how effective that will be remains to be seen.</em></b></i><br />
<i><b>“The resolution of the Parliament is a big success for <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/internet.html">internet</a> users.
This sends a clear and positive signal to the European Commission and
the Member States”, said Amelia Andersdotter, MEP for the Pirate Party
and co-submitter of the resolution, <em>The Register</em> reported.</b></i><br />
<i><b>Some of the biggest backers of unmitigated Internet regulation
include, not surprisingly, the authoritarian regimes of Russia and
China.</b></i><br />
<i><b>As we’ve said, the Internet is truly the last bastion of genuinely
free speech and expression, not to mention a tremendous creator of
commerce and wealth. Regulating the Internet will have exactly the same
effect as regulations on industry have had – it will stifle creativity,
curb freedoms, kill jobs and destroy economic growth.</b></i><br />
<i><b>We’ll be keeping an eye on this very important issue.</b></i><br />
<i><strong>Sources:</strong></i><br />
<i><b><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324352004578136902821852508.html" target="_blank">http://online.wsj.com</a></b></i><br />
<i><b><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/un-seek-control-internet_664018.html" target="_blank">http://www.weeklystandard.com</a></b></i><br />
<i><b><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrydownes/2012/11/26/un-agencys-leaked-playbook-panic-chaos-over-internet-treaty/" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com</a></b></i><br />
<i><b><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/24/european_parliament_votes_against_itu/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk</a></b></i>Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951092763539359241.post-7558809052005459262012-11-29T13:13:00.002-08:002012-11-29T13:13:34.455-08:00Antarctic Melting and Sea Level<h1>
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relatively little solar radiation. This means that it is a very cold
continent where water is mostly in the form of ice or snow. This
accumulates and forms a giant ice sheet which covers the land. New data
which more accurately measures the rate of ice-melt could help us better
understand how Antarctica is changing in the light of global warming.
The rate of global sea level change is reasonably well-established but
understanding the different sources of this rise is more challenging.
Using re-calibrated scales that are able to weigh ice sheets from space
to a greater degree of accuracy than ever before, the international team
led by Newcastle University has discovered that Antarctica overall is
contributing much less to the substantial sea-level rise than originally
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<i><b>Instead, the large amount of water flowing away from
West Antarctica through ice-melt has been partly cancelled out by the
volume of water falling onto the continent in the form of snow,
suggesting some past studies have overestimated Antarctica’s
contribution to fast-rising sea levels.<br /><br />Using Gravity Recovery
and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite data, the team calculated ice
sheet mass loss by more accurately mapping and removing the mass changes
caused by the flow of rock beneath Earth’s surface.<br /><br />Publishing
their findings in the academic journal Nature, project lead Professor
Matt King said the data meant we were at last close to understanding how
Antarctica is changing.<br /><br />"We have tried to weigh the ice in the
past but GRACE only measures the combined effect of the ice changes and
the land mass changes occurring beneath the Earth’s surface," explains
Professor King, Professor of Polar Geodesy at Newcastle University. "The
step forward we have made is to provide a better calculation of the
land mass changes so we can correct the satellite measurements to more
accurately calculate the changes in ice mass alone."<br /><br />"Our ice
change calculations rely heavily on how well we can account for these
important changes taking place beneath the Earth’s surface. While the
land beneath the ice is moving by no more than a few
millimetres-per-year — the thickness of a fingernail —that seemingly
small effect significantly alters the rate at which we estimate the ice
is changing."<br /><br />"By producing a new estimate of the land motion
we’re effectively re-calibrating the scales — in this case the GRACE
satellite —so we can more accurately weigh the ice. And what we’ve
found is that present sea level rise is happening with apparently very
little contribution from Antarctica as a whole."<br /><br />"We’re now
confident it is shrinking," says Professor King. "Our new estimate of
land motion helps us narrow the range and shifts the best estimate to
the lower end of the ice melt spectrum."<br /><br />"Worryingly, though, the
rate of shrinking has sped up in some important locations. The parts of
Antarctica that are losing mass most rapidly are seeing accelerated
mass loss and this acceleration could continue well into the future."<br /><br />"The
sea level change we’re seeing today is happening faster than it has for
centuries with just a small contribution from the massive Antarctic ice
sheet. What is sobering is that sea levels will rise even faster if
Antarctica continues to lose increasingly more ice into the oceans."<br /><br />Sea
levels around the world are rising. Between 1870 and 2004, global
average sea levels rose 17 cm as reported in 2006 in Geophysical
Research Letters. From 1950 to 2009, satellite data showed a rise of
3.3 ± 0.4 mm from 1993 to 2009. In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) projected that during the 21st century, sea level
will rise another 18 to 59 cm (7.1 to 23 in).<br /><br />Ice sitting on the
Antarctic continent at the peak of the last ice age 20,000 years ago
forced the rock beneath to deform and slowly flow away. After that time
ice levels generally reduced and the rock within the Earth's mantle more
than 100km below the surface has been slowly flowing back in. That
change affects the GRACE satellites in exactly the same way as ice
moving into and out of the continent and it has to be factored in to get
an accurate measurement of the total ice.<br /><br />For further information see <a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/new-understanding-of-antarctic-s-weight-loss#.ULd7mWfy8dY">Sea Levels</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/AntarcticaDomeCSnow.jpg">Antarctica</a> image via Wikipedia.</b></i>Jedi Commandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970078033782096086noreply@blogger.com0