Les rayons cosmiques, la formation des nuages et les changements climatiques

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Les rayons cosmiques, la formation des nuages et les changements climatiques

Voilà présenté candidement dans ce documentaire la compréhension qui se développe concernant le rôle du soleil et des rayons cosmiques dans le processus de la formation des nuages sur Terre, qui à leur tour influent grandement sur l’état du climat. Ses travaux avec son équipe ont démontrés la forte corrélation qu’il y a entre l’activité solaire – qui fait en sorte que les rayons cosmiques provenant de l’espace sont bloqués partiellement empêchant ainsi leur rôle démontré dans la formation des nuages- et le climat qui en résulte sur la planète.

Henrik Svensmark a même proposé une nouvelle théorie qui semble être fortement crédible et vérifiable qui pousse encore plus loin les frontières de nos connaissances mais qui bouscule les vieilles conceptions sur le climat et la formations des nuages. Le positionnement de notre système solaire qui se déplace dans la Voie lactée influence la quantité de ces rayons cosmiques qui bombardent la Terre. La corrélation entre les périodes chaudes et froides que la Terre a connue depuis des millions d’années correspondent exactement avec notre positionnement dans la Voie lactée, qui lui laisse présager un plus froid climat lorsque notre système solaire se trouve dans un des cinq bras de la galaxie et plus chaud lorsque nous sommes en orbite entre ces bras de la Voie lactée.

Complètement renversant. C’est probablement une des pièce les plus important du casse-tête qui nous manquait pour comprendre les mécanismes des changements climatiques.

Henrik Svensmark on Global Warming

Danish Scientist Henrik Svensmark has a different theory on Global Warming. He does not think that CO2 is the main cause of Global Warming. He think it is all due to the sun.

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Changements climatiques: Supplément d’information

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Changements climatiques: Supplément d’information

Après tout ce qu’on nous a présenté de la part du culte du réchauffement climatique causé par l’homme, je ne suis pas convaincu que les GES soient responsables de la plus grande part des changements climatiques.

Je pense que nous polluons beaucoup trop, que le capitalisme qui a pour Dieu que l’argent cherche à tout exploiter pour le profit détruisant cette belle planète, que nos façons de faire les choses sont dépassées et que nous avons un sérieux manque de vision pour le futur de cette planète et l’humanité.

Nous avons de nombreux problèmes et l’élite financière et nos gouvernements s’en balancent totalement.

Mais un autre de nos problèmes est notre vanité. On pense qu’on doit se donner la mission de sauver le monde, sauver la planète et ainsi se parer d’une aura de sainteté, une mission du Bien contre le Mal et on devient aveugle et tire partout causant souvent plus de trouble qu’on en avait au départ. La chasse aux sorcières est ouverte.

L’augmentation des taux de CO2 n’est pas la cause d’un réchauffement climatique, mais bien la conséquence. Étudiez les graphiques de la température et des taux de CO2 des 100 000 dernières années et vous constaterez cela en plus de vous rendre compte qu’on a eu des périodes beaucoup plus chaudes et froides et des taux de CO2 beaucoup plus élevés, tout cela en étroite corrélation avec l’activité solaire. Le soleil est la condition de la vie sur Terre. On a eu des ères glacières à chaque fois que le soleil est en dormance – comme en ce moment même : le soleil n’a pas recommencé son cycle d’activité depuis deux ans et on vient de sortir de notre plus froid hiver et année en 2007 depuis des décennies, perdant 0.7C en un an seulement. Lors des réchauffements, la vie sur Terre a été abondante et fertile, lors des ères glacières, ce fut très difficile pour la vie et les humains. On devrait se méfier plus d’un refroidissement que d’un réchauffement !

Le plus fascinant, c’est que ces changements de température s’effectuent à la grandeur du système solaire ! GES sur Pluton !???

Le fanatisme environnemental n’est différent en rien d’un culte religieux. Ses membres sont obnubilés par leur mission de sauver la planète et leur sentiment d’être les derniers gardiens de la vérité, ils s’indignent et ostracisent ceux qui les confrontent avec une autre version des faits, supportés par la science, l’observation, données historiques et analyses. Ils s’identifient sentimentalement avec ce rôle d’être plus éveillé et sensible que les autres, s’octroie un surplus d’auto-estime vaniteuse et refoulent leur insuffisance intellectuelle et spirituelle. Ils se sentent comme des justiciers accomplis alors qu’ils sont profondément malheureux car ils n’arrivent jamais à faire valoir leur propre valeur aux yeux des autres et la mission imaginaire n’est pas réalisable dans la réalité parce que déconnectée de cette dernière, d’où ce sentiment de vide intérieur, de colère, de ressentiment face à l’humanité et soi-même. Ils en veulent à la vie et à l’humanité. Celle-ci doit éventuellement disparaître pour sauver la planète. Les humains sont méchants. Perte d’espoir et de joie de vivre.

Un rapport confidentiel de la Banque Mondiale obtenu par le Gardian UK, une analyse des plus approfondie à date, a montré que l’idée de transformer notre nourriture en biocarburant est à l’origine de 75% des augmentation de la nourriture mondialement, jetant des millions de personnes sous le seuil de la pauvreté la plus abjecte, n’ayant même pas assez d’argent pour se nourrir quotidiennement.

Dans cette folie de penser que nous sommes assez puissants pour causer les changements climatiques, dans cet élan d’orgueil et de manque d’humilité face à la nature en pensant que l’on peut les « arrêter », les cultistes ont jeté une partie de l’humanité dans la misère au nom de la mission de sauver l’environnement, leur nouveau Dieu : Gaïa.

Donc avant de commencer à appauvrir le reste de l’humanité au nom de la croisade contre les GES, de causer plus de famine et de misère sans que les vrais responsables de la pollution ne soient touchés et enrichir la même élite avec des taxes sur le carbone qui ne vont JAMAIS arrêter les changements climatiques, vaudrait mieux se calmer, s’asseoire, respirer et faire bien attention à ce qu’on va imposer au reste de la planète. Il faut savoir affronter ses propres chimères avant de partir une nouvelle chasse aux sorcières.

Bonne chance.

Global Warming: Facts and Factoids

by Geraldo Luís Lino

Global Research, June 5, 2008

Here we go again! After the IPCC, Sir Nicholas Stern, Al Gore and all the plethora of Greenie NGOs that feed on the “eco-catastrophism,” now it’s the G-8 that comes out from its environmental meeting in Kobe, Japan, sounding the trumpet of global warming as a planetary emergency that would supposedly justify all sorts of drastic measures to curb the use of fossil fuels worldwide. The failure to halve the anthropogenic carbon emissions until mid-century, so they say, would usher the environmental Apocalypse in. (1) Well, fortunately for Mankind it won’t.

Global Warming Conclusively Debunked As Gore Calls For CO2 Tax

The world is cooling, sea levels are falling, ice is spreading, there are fewer extreme weather events, and it was hotter 1000 years ago, yet the myth of global warming is providing governments the excuse to micromanage every aspect of our lives, with Al Gore now openly calling for a carbon tax on the energy we use.

But such figures won’t deter the agenda of control freaks like Al Gore, who last night publicly called for a carbon tax to be imposed on the use of fossil fuels at a time when even middle class families are struggling to pay the bills as a result of a crippled economy, soaring oil prices and inflation.

Analyzing Global-warming Science

TNA: Those who blame mankind for causing global warming would respond to that point by saying that the Earth is the warmest it’s been in 400 years, and that’s significant.

Dr. Robinson: They’re right, but they only show you the data from the last 400 years. If the data for a longer time interval is considered, temperatures today are seen to be not especially warm. The current temperature is about average for the past 3,000 years.

Al Gore’s global warming debunked – by kids!

Russell Young, a Minnesota writer who captured first place in the essay competition, explained the importance of using celebrities such as Gore and the medium of movies to enhance the educational experience for students.

« Here are just a few other films schools might use for their teaching curriculums. ‘The Polar Express’ could be used for instruction on transportation systems. ‘Borat’ is a perfect teaching tool for understanding how the Democratic Party uses focus groups. ‘Alien,’ could be used to teach students about anatomy and homeland security, all at the same time, » he wrote.

« ‘Far fetched,’ you say. Maybe, but ‘Moby Dick’ taught me all I ever needed to know about whales, and I’m a marine biologist, » he said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8a3O-FHNA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjHLWwbN0SM

Correlation of Carbon Dioxide with Temperatures Negative Again

After 1998, temperatures stopped rising and since 2002 have been falling now into the 7th year. Meanwhile CO2 has continued to rise (9.69 ppm or 2.6%) although the Mauna Loa surface data has actually paused this year with the La Nina inspired cooling. The monthly global data is plotted here for Hadley and UAH MSU along the monthly seasonally adjusted CO2 from NOAA ESRL for Mauna Loa. There is no smoothing here of the monthly data. The correlation (Pearson coefficient, r) for the Hadley and CO2 is now a negative (minus 0.4) and for the MSU UAH (minus 0.21).

In praise of CO2

Their 2004 study, and other more recent ones, point to the warming of the planet and the presence of CO2, a gas indispensable to plant life. CO2 is nature’s fertilizer, bathing the biota with its life-giving nutrients. Plants take the carbon from CO2 to bulk themselves up — carbon is the building block of life — and release the oxygen, which along with the plants, then sustain animal life. As summarized in a report last month, released along with a petition signed by 32,000 U. S. scientists who vouched for the benefits of CO2: « Higher CO2 enables plants to grow faster and larger and to live in drier climates. Plants provide food for animals, which are thereby also enhanced. The extent and diversity of plant and animal life have both increased substantially during the past half-century. »

Al Gore took something that is part of the natural world and demonized it in order to charge you a tax on it, with his brokerage set to trade (and Enronize) carbon-tax credits.

Professor: Big Money Behind Global Warming Propaganda

A retired physics professor became the latest public figure to debunk the myth of a « consensus » behind man-made global warming when he slammed big money interests for pushing climate change propaganda that was at odds with real science in a speech yesterday.

See post below about the creation of a whole new « Carbon Credit » brokerage industry out of thin air.

Banks Urging U.S. to Adopt the Trading of Emissions

A group representing some of the world’s leading banks will urge the United States and other industrial nations this week to move quickly to introduce a lightly regulated system for trading carbon emissions permits.

Permit-trading systems offer banks a potentially vast new business. For it to grow, leading economies — particularly the United States — will need to set limits on the quantities of greenhouse gases that can be released and to allow companies in other parts of the world to buy emissions permits.

« Where politicians opt to implement carbon constraints, then it should be cap-and-trade, » said Imtiaz Ahmad, head of emissions trading at Morgan Stanley in London and vice president of a lobbying group called International Carbon Investors and Services, which is being created to represent the banks.

The banking companies, which include Citigroup, Lehman Brothers Holdings and Morgan Stanley, are giving strong signs that Wall Street wants Washington to open the way to reduced emissions using a trading system based on the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement the United States did not ratify, rather than by enacting carbon taxes.

The group also includes European institutions like BNP Paribas, Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank, as well as niche investment banks like Climate Change Capital and the law firms of Baker & McKenzie and DLA Piper.

Here is the payoff behind the global warming scam. Out of thin air (and a lot of speechifying) a new product is created; the « Emission Credit » or « Carbon Credit. » Once legislated into existence, these credits will be sold by companies that have too many, to companies that do not have enough … with the brokers and brokerages making huge commissions on the trade. Since these « Carbon Credits » are in effect a commodity needed to conduct business, the prices will float, there will be « futures » contracts on them, and the whole mess will get « Enronized ». The insiders will get rich, the price you pay for everything will go up even more, and you will be told to accept the impoverishment and tolerate the newly rich traders in this legal fiction because after all, it’s good for the planet!

No smoking hot spot

When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects.

The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet.

But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, « When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? »

Top Rocket Scientist: No Evidence CO2 Causes Global Warming

« The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? » writes Evans. « Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet. »

« But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming, » he concludes.

Poor more likely to take brunt of the carbon tax

Introducing a new tax is never a popular political move, so it was notable when British Columbia’s government, known more for its tax cutting, brought in Canada’s first broad-based carbon tax in February’s budget.

In politics, timing is everything. Between Feb. 19, when the B.C. budget tabled the carbon tax, and July 1, when it was implemented, prices at the pump rose to record levels.

Green shift: a loser worldwide

Dreams of a carbon tax are dashed now, although few environmentalists will publicly say so. More likely, they will soon assert the messenger failed, not the carbon tax idea. But of course, we know this is bunk. The Liberals campaigned unequivocally on a revenue-neutral carbon plan to save the planet. It was soundly rejected.

Mayor Compares Threat of Global Warming to Terrorism

While he acknowledged that scientists are unable to predict its consequences, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday compared the scourge of global warming to the threat of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

« So get those checkbooks out, kiddies, cause there’s a new carbon tax in town! »

Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate

The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming.

American physicists warned not to debate global warming

Bureaucrats at the American Physical Society (APS) have issued a curious warning to their members about an article in one of their own publications. Don’t read this, they say – we don’t agree with it. But what is it about the piece that is so terrible, that like Medusa, it could make men go blind?

It’s an article that examines the calculation central to climate models. As the editor of the APS’s newsletter American Physics Jeffrey Marque explains, the global warming debate must be re-opened.

Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh

Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.

All four agencies that track Earth’s temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at the University of Alabama, and Remote Sensing Systems Inc in California) report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us back where we were in 1930. If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.

Al Gore’s group has stopped using the phrase global warming and switched to « climate change. » That way no matter what the Earth does, they can blame it on people and suggest taxes, tax credits, and new policies of control over your life as the « cure. »

STATIONS USED TO « MONITOR » GLOBAL WARMING BUILT NEAR SOURCES OF HEAT????

This is a survey of the official monitoring stations that provide data to the scientists « promoting » global warming. As you can see from the diagrams and photographs, many of these sensor stations have been placed near sources of heat.

NOAA: Coolest Winter Since 2001 for U.S., Globe

The cult will come back claiming that global warming makes the Earth COOLER! (They saw it in « The Day after Tomorrow », so it MUST be true!)

Every adult in Britain should be forced to carry ‘carbon ration cards’, say MPs

Every adult should be forced to use a ‘carbon ration card’ when they pay for petrol, airline tickets or household energy, MPs say.

The influential Environmental Audit Committee says a personal carbon trading scheme is the best and fairest way of cutting Britain’s CO2 emissions without penalising the poor.

The real goal of the global warming cult: « Everyone must make do with less, so that we may have more! »

UK to auction carbon permits

The UK government is to auction carbon emissions permits to power firms in a sale projected to raise between 1.5 and 2bn euros (£1.2-1.6bn) by 2014.

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I keep telling you, folks; this whole global warming scam is just another excuse to impose a new tax, which in this case will be passed onto the consumers via higher rates.

The Greenhouse Conspiracy – Part 1/5

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=YptJu575KzU

The Greenhouse Conspiracy – Part 2/5

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=t65LJCF5PWM

The Greenhouse Conspiracy – Part 3/5

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y7Yu3lkJ1s

The Greenhouse Conspiracy – Part 4/5

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AEE2RkG-ssc

The Greenhouse Conspiracy – Part 5/5

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=fctjsBUn5qs

Volcanoes Cause Global Warming

So, go carbon-tax the volcano and leave the rest of us ALONE.

Volcano, Not Global Warming Effects, May be Melting an Antarctic Glacier

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Jupiter’s recent outbreak of red spots is likely related to large scale climate change as the gas giant planet is getting warmer near the equator.

So, how does Al Gore plan to blame THAT on human beings?

Czech President Challenges Al Gore to a Global Warming Debate…..Al Gore Remains Silent

America’s Climate Security Act

… and Al Gore and his buddies own the brokerage.

BBC SHUNNED ME FOR DENYING CLIMATE CHANGE

FOR YEARS David Bellamy was one of the best known faces on TV.

A respected botanist and the author of 35 books, he had presented around 400 programmes over the years and was appreciated by audiences for his boundless enthusiasm.

Yet for more than 10 years he has been out of the limelight, shunned by bosses at the BBC where he made his name, as well as fellow scientists and environmentalists.

His crime? Bellamy says he doesn’t believe in man-made global warming.

Here he reveals why – and the price he has paid for not toeing the orthodox line on climate change.

Cold – A Death Blow to Empire

The Roman Empire, which had been built by warfare and sustained by welfare, was now battling the effects of colder weather and it was too much; nothing could save the empire. By the beginning of the fifth century AD as much as one third of the cultivated land which had sustained the empire was lost to trees and deserted fields of abandoned estates left by fleeing wealthy Roman land owners.

Apocalypse now: the end of Earth brought forward

A new study published by The Open Atmospheric Science Journal says the concentration of CO2 in the planet’s atmosphere has reached the point at which irreversible changes to climate start. Even if the concentration of carbon dioxide is lowered from its current level in record time, the catastrophic effects will still occur. The scientists give us about 30 years till the end of the planet to which humans are adapted.

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« And only massive funding for more research and a carbon tax can SAVE YOU FROM SLOWLY CHOKING TO DEATH IN ENDLESS AGONY!!!!!! »

ABC Smears Scientist For Questioning Global Warming « Consensus »

In a blatantly one sided hatchet job, ABC News attempts to demonize Singer and by proxy any other scientist who questions « broad scientific understanding » that climate change is being vastly hastened by man made carbon emissions.

‘Green’ car tax will hit poorest hardest

New « green » car taxes will hit hundreds of thousands of the poorest families, new figures show, as Labour backbenchers told the Government it was heading for a repeat of the 10p tax revolt.

I keep telling you, all this « Global Warming » « Climate Change » crap is just an excuse for the government to dig deeper into your pocket.

Global temperatures ‘to decrease’

Global temperatures this year will be lower than in 2007 due to the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said.

The World Meteorological Organisation’s secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer.

This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.

« NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! » — Al Gore

‘Forget global warming, prepare for Ice Age’

SUNSPOT activity has not resumed up after hitting an 11-year low in March last year, raising fears that – far from warming – the globe is about to return to an Ice Age.

Film-makers taking on our ‘global warming hysteria’

A new Irish film claims that climate change guru Al Gore is an alarmist and that those who think they are saving the planet are only hurting the poor

What Global Warming?

Fact: All history reveals that time after time this planet of ours has experienced periods of warming and periods of cooling. A century of slight global warming, about half a degree, ended in 1998.

Fact: In this century a global cooling has set in. In 2008 most of the northern hemisphere, except for Western Europe, is coming out of what most scientists say has been the harshest winter in decades.

Malta, Israel, China and India’s New Delhi have been subjected to record low temperatures. In Afghanistan, more than 900 people and 316,000 head of cattle died as a result of bitter cold weather according to Reuters.

« Okay, okay, so it isn’t warming, it’s cooling, but it’s STILL your fault, and the only way to fix is is to buy and sell carbon tax credits through my brokerage, dammit! » — Al Bore

Uncommon cold is an antidote to warming fears

You have to hand it to the global warming crowd. A little cold and snow doesn’t scare them one bit.

Two Peer-Reviewed Scientific Papers Debunk CO2 Myth

Three top scientists have once again contradicted the claim that a « consensus » exists about man-made global warming with research that indicates CO2 emissions actually cool the atmosphere, in addition to another peer-reviewed paper that documents how the IPCC overstated CO2’s effect on temperature by as much as 2000 per cent.

« No, no, no, no, no, NO! CO2 is cooking the planet and YOU are to blame and the only way you can atone is to buy and sell carbon tax credits through my brokerage, dammit! » — Saint Al of the Bore – M. R.

There’s rain on the grill and snow in the passes

The first nine days of June are supposed to average about 68 degrees, but this year temps averaged 57 degrees, measured in downtown Seattle. That’s the coldest ever since records started in 1891.

This is nature’s way of saying « NEENER NEENER » to Al Gore.

Sun’s protective ‘bubble’ is shrinking

The protective bubble around the sun that helps to shield the Earth from harmful interstellar radiation is shrinking and getting weaker, Nasa scientists have warned.

New data has revealed that the heliosphere, the protective shield of energy that surrounds our solar system, has weakened by 25 per cent over the past decade and is now at it lowest level since the space race began 50 years ago.

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One of the more obvious weaknesses in the beliefs of the Global Warming Cult (aka the Church of St. Gore) was the insistence that the sun could not possibly be a determining factor in global climate because the sun never changed.

Scientists (at least those not receiving funding from the Church of St. Gore) pointed out that accurate measurement of the sun has only been possible for the last 60 years. Therefore, no assumptions could be made regarding the sun’s behavior in the past. It is known that the sun has short-period variations. Long period variation, even though undetectable in the last 60 years, cannot be ruled out, especially if the long-term variation is on the order of 100,000 years, coinciding with the period of the ice ages. Yet a static and unchanging sun remains an unquestioned article of faith with the « blame humans for climate change » crowd.

The data clearly indicates that something dramatic is happening to the sun. Something has delayed the expected increase in sunspots which should be occurring as a new cycle starts. Total energy output is in decline, and if the solar wind declines, then more cosmic rays will hit the atmosphere, which stimulates cloud formation. More clouds means more light reflected back into space which accelerates the cooling of the planet.

Despite the direst (and well-funded) predictions of the Church of St. Gore, the arctic ice sheet and Alaskan glaciers have grown this last year. Last winter set records for cold, and this winter looks to be harsher. The sun appears to be the dominant force driving Earth’s climate, and no amount of carbon-tax snake oil can change that.

Sydney’s Coolest Summer in 50 Years Leaves Empty Cafes, Gloom

No day topped 31 degrees celsius (88 degrees fahrenheit) for the first time since 1956. Average daily sunshine totaled 6.7 hours, an hour less than normal and the lowest since 1991-92. The average maximum temperature was 25.2, the coolest since 1996-97.

Mild spring forecast despite heavy snowfall

Spring officially began last Thursday, but much of Switzerland has remained in the grip of unusually severe weather, with fresh snowfalls covering most of the country by Tuesday.

The Mystery of Global Warming’s Missing Heat

Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. That could mean global warming has taken a breather. Or it could mean scientists aren’t quite understanding what their robots are telling them.

Or … that global warming was politics masquerading as science, to sell the public on more taxes and more control over their lives. – M. R.

So much for Global Warming

This snow. So what you say? This is in Southern Japan!

Black Tuna. You may have heard about these fish. They can sell for over 1,000 a fish they often catch them off of Cape Hatteras and the East Coast of the US and sell them to Japan. Japan also tries to catch its own.

Now last year the Japanese caught a total of 3.

Yesterday Jan 23 (japan time) Japanese caught 199 Black Tuna and then another 29 today. Why? Because the water has gotten cooler and the squid that these fish feed on are moving further inland and bringing the black tuna with them. On TYV to day in Japan they showed graph of the water temperature and it has been getting steadily colder. In Hokaido today there was so much snow that all the schools closed and in Japan they don’t ever close school.

« No, no, no, you just don’t GET it! Global warming MAKES the weather colder as well as warmer. Global warming causeth the sun to rise and the moon to cross the skies. Global warming causeth all things to happen! All bow down and worship the Global Warming (and don’t forget to pay your carbon tax!) »

Patio heaters targeted in Europe’s climate fight

The patio heaters warming drinkers and diners on the pavements of northern Europe are also warming the planet’s climate and should be banned, according to a European Parliament report that could be adopted on Thursday.

« And no more cigarette lighters! Those are heating up the planet too! And we demand that the human body temperature be lowered from 98.6 Degrees to 65 Degrees, because all those billions of human bodies are warming up the planet too! »

Less Ice In Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 Years Ago

Recent mapping of a number of raised beach ridges on the north coast of Greenland suggests that the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean was greatly reduced some 6000-7000 years ago. The Arctic Ocean may have been periodically ice free.

Sur les 7 du Québec: Ça donne froid…

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Ça donne froid…

Je ne suis pas un climatologue, météorologue, géologue, ni un scientifique. Mais j’ai un cerveau, des facultés pour penser de façon critique et je pense savoir m’en servir. Je n’ai pas besoin d’autrui pour me dicter quoi penser et croire. Donnez-moi les bonnes informations, laissez-moi observer et j’en viendrai à mes propres conclusions. Je peux me tromper et si c’est le cas, je corrige le tir. Avec les années de recherches et de lectures intensives, on vient qu’à développer un bon flair.

Je prends pour acquis que vous êtes pareils puisque vous êtes ici. Nous sommes tous conscients que les médias nous roulent dans la farine et encore plus les politiciens. Dès qu’on essaie de nous vendre une nouvelle idée, encore plus lorsqu’elle sous-tend une justification pour nous demander de l’argent ou une taxe, nous sommes extrêmement sceptiques. Nous questionnons et sommes prudents. Et avec raison. Nous savons aussi que les scientifiques ont tendance à ne pas avoir trop de morale, d’éthique. Ils ont tendance à être subordonnés aux subventions et capitaux privés. Pensez à tous ces produits chimiques, médicaments nocifs, OGM et les armes nucléaires. Trop rares sont les esprit vraiment indépendants et intègres.

Mais pourquoi est-ce si différent lorsqu’on parle d’environnement? La vision cauchemardesque du futur climatique causé par le CO2 produit par l’homme est pourtant avancée par ces mêmes acteurs. Beaucoup seraient surpris d’apprendre d’où vient la majeure partie du financement des groupes environnementaux et du GIEC (Groupe d’Experts Intergouvernemental sur l’Evolution du Climat). Parmi eux se trouve certainement la Fondation Rockefeller. Et oui, des intérêts pétroliers. Tout comme certains ardents personnages qui se disaient en désaccord avec le fait même qu’il y avait un réchauffement et qu’on avait pris à accepter de l’argent des pétrolière.

Quoi? Les mêmes personnes financent les deux côtés qui s’opposent sur la question de la responsabilité de l’homme dans les changements climatiques? Ceci n’a rien de surprenant. Durant les deux guerres mondiales du siècle dernier, tout comme dans la majorité des guerres importantes des derniers siècles d’ailleurs, ce sont les mêmes banquiers et financiers qui ont financé tous les opposants. On ne peut pas réécrire l’histoire. Mais on peut l’ignorer.

Trouvez la suite ici…

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Global Warming Inc.

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Pour ceux qui ont encore l’esprit assez ouvert et intègre pour rechercher la vérité là où elle mène, voici un bon documentaire sur le réchauffement climatique Inc.

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Global Warming, Inc.

A very informative documentary about the real cause of global warming. It clearly discuss about the fact that CO2 is not cause of global warming. Take a look also at the Great Global Warming Swindle and Green House Conspiracy in google video. This documentary discusses many topics that are not covered in the Swindle such as the hockey stick graph, from the viewpoint of Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas.

Don’t be too hasty

I know this one is going to get some people’s knickers in a knot.

In fact, it already has.

But let’s look at some facts:

1. Automobile emissions are noxious

2. Most industrial output it FAR far more toxic than it needs to be.

So what are the UN and the rest of the world’s top-down opinion leaders focusing on?

A vague and scientifically suspect threat called « global warming. »

If you dare question the science of human-caused global warming, you’re shouted down.

Is the world getting warmer?

Yes.

Has it ever been this warm before?

Yes, MUCH warmer and long before « carbon emissions. »

Should we clean up industrial pollution?

Of course, but notice how the « global warming » hysterics conveniently let polluters off the hook.

We know EXACTLY who is putting mercury and other dangerous toxins in our air, soil and food. We don’t have to guess. We know exactly what companies are doing it and where their plants are located.

So what do we do?

We hold hands, sing Kumbaya, and make vague noises about the need to be « more green. »

This is a swindle if ever I saw one and looking at the smarmy self-righteous Al Gore being showered with Nobel Prizes and Oscars is practically all the proof I need that something is rotten in Denmark (and Greenland.)

But there is far, far more proof than that.

Ô lampes fluorescentes compactes (LFC) toxiques !

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Les lampes fluorescentes compactes ( LFC ), également appelées ampoules fluocompactes consomment environ 67 à 75 pour cent moins d’énergie que les ampoules à incandescence qu’on veut bannir et durent jusqu’à dix fois plus longtemps. Jusque là, c’est le paradis.

Ce que vous ne savez probablement pas par contre, c’est qu’elles sont principalement fabriquées en Chine et elles sont toxiques : elles contiennent des petites quantités de mercure et des isotopes radioactifs.

Deux problèmes de taille se posent :

1- Que faire avec ces lampes lorsque leur durée de vie est terminée.

2- Que faire si vous en brisez une.

Il se trouve qu’il ne faut pas les jeter à la poubelle à cause du mercure. Il faut les apporter à un centre de recyclage approprié. Si cela n’est pas possible, alors il faut les emballer dans deux sacs de plastique au cas où elles se briseraient, relâchant le mercure dans le sol, et les jeter aux ordures.

Si vous en brisez une à la maison, selon les règles de l’EPA aux É-U (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), il faut fermer tout système de ventilation, de chauffage ou d’air conditionné et ouvrir les fenêtres. Ne pas s’approcher de la zone sinistrée : évacuer tous les occupants de la maison ainsi que les animaux pour 15 minutes ou plus. Ensuite, ramasser les fragments avec un morceau de carton et les placer dans une bouteille de verre. Enlever le reste des poussières et fragments avec du ruban adhésif et les placer dans la bouteille qu’il faut refermer par la suite. Ne pas utiliser l’aspirateur ni le balais.

Ce n’est pas tout : ces bulbes peuvent causer des interférences avec la TV, radio, téléphones cellulaires, contrôles à distance.

Maintenant, multiplier ça par des millions d’usagers et vous avez une parfaite fausse solution verte qui est pire que le problème qu’elle prétend régler.

Les Lampes à Décharge et l’Environnement

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/343.html

Mercury in « Green » light bulbs

Use full spectrum bulbs instead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LOtKIIKcg

Le culte du réchauffement climatique et les 31 000 scientifiques qui s’y opposent

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www.caglecartoons.com, By Mike Lester

Le culte du réchauffement climatique et les 31 000 scientifiques qui s’y opposent

Ce texte d’analyse se veut une analyse critique des crises simultanées du réchauffement climatique, de la nourriture, du pétrole et financière à travers le monde. Il s’y trouve un peu plus de 10 pages en plus de nombreuses références à explorer pour approfondir les informations discutées. Le lecteur devrait avoir une meilleure vue d’ensemble après avoir terminé la lecture. Les pièces du casse-tête devraient tomber en place, ce qui est essentiel pour se protèger mentalement contre la désinformation qui règne dans les médias traditionnels.

La crise alimentaire mondiale que nous vivons demande d’être mieux comprise pour qu’on puisse réellement éviter le pire : des famines et de violentes révoltes. La crise actuelle semble naturelle et le simple fruit du hasard, alors qu’il en est tout autrement. Les médias ont induit en erreur l’opinion publique sur les causes de ces hausses de prix. On nous parle de coûts de production et de climat par exemple, mais en réalité, bien que ces derniers facteurs puissent affecter la situation, leur portée réelle en tant cause de cette crise sont plutôt minimes.

Cette hausse soudaine du prix de la nourriture est en grande partie le résultat d’une manipulation des marchés à travers la spéculation boursière sur les matières premières et sont ainsi donc artificiellement gonflés par ces opérations spécialement sur les marchés boursiers de New-York et de Chicago. Nul besoin pour eux d’avoir de réelles transactions de blé, maïs, soja ou de maïs pour spéculer sur leur prix.

C’est donc qu’à quelque part entre les gens qui produisent réellement de la nourriture et les gens qui la mangent, se trouve un autre groupe de gens qui ne font pas pousser la nourriture, ne la transportent pas, ne l’emballent pas, ni le la place sur les tablettes, mais qui d’une façon ou d’une autre se sont insérés dans la ligne d’approvisionnement pour le seul but la traiter comme un géant casino légal pour être capables d’en retirer des profits énormes (Voir cet article).

Voici deux extraits éclairants tirés de cet excellent texte à lire intégralement :

La famine mondiale

par Michel Chossudovsky, Mondialisation.ca, Le 4 mai 2008

Ces augmentations contribuent d’une manière très réelle à « éliminer les pauvres » à travers « la mort par la famine. » Dit dans les mots de Henry Kissinger: « Contrôlez le pétrole et vous contrôlerez les nations, contrôlez la nourriture et vous contrôlerez la population. »

À cet égard, Kissinger a fait savoir à travers le « Mémorandum d’études sur la sécurité nationale de 1974: Les implications de la croissance de la population mondiale sur la sécurité et les intérêts étrangers des États-Unis, » que des famines récurrentes pourraient constituer de facto un instrument de contrôle de la population.

Une crise d’une telle ampleur a des racines qui remontent à plusieurs décennies. Les politiques de réforme macro-économique et de restructuration économique mondiale imposées par le FMI et la Banque Mondiale, en dévaluant les monnaies nationales et en enfermant la paysannerie du monde dans un cycle d’endettement infernal ont contribué à baisser le niveau de vie mondialement. Le tout s’est dégradé davantage lorsque la crise actuelle a commencé à sévir, moment où il y avait déjà un tiers de l’humanité qui ne mangeait pas à sa faim. Pourtant, la seule solution que le FMI et la Banque Mondiale nous suggèrent est de prêter plus d’argent aux fermiers pauvres, comme ceux de l’Afrique, les enfonçant encore plus dans l’endettement, situation qui est une cause importante de cette crise sur le plan historique, depuis le début des années 1980.

– Le traitement choc du FMI

« Historiquement, les escalades de prix des produits alimentaires au niveau du commerce en détail ont été déclenchées par la dévaluation des monnaies, qui ont toujours été le résultat invariable d’une situation hyper inflationniste.

Dans le cadre du contrat de l’Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC), les géants de l’agroalimentaire ont une entière liberté d’entrer dans les marchés céréaliers des pays en développement. L’acquisition de « droits de propriété intellectuelle » exclusifs sur les variétés végétales par des intérêts agroindustriels favorise aussi la destruction de la biodiversité.

Agissant au nom d’une poignée de conglomérats de biotechnologie, des semences OGM ont été imposées aux agriculteurs, souvent dans le cadre de « programmes d’aide alimentaire. » Par exemple, en Éthiopie des trousses de semences OGM ont été remis aux agriculteurs pauvres afin de rétablir la production agricole à la suite d’une grande sécheresse. Les semences OGM ont été plantées, donnant une seule récolte. Mais après, les agriculteurs ont réalisé que les semences OGM ne pourraient pas être replantées sans payer de redevances à Monsanto, Arch Daniel Midland et al. Ensuite, les agriculteurs ont découvert que les graines ne pousseraient que s’ils utilisaient les intrants agricoles soit, les engrais, les insecticides et les herbicides qui sont produits et distribués par les entreprises agroalimentaires de biotechnologie. Toute l’économie paysanne est dorénavant enfermée entre les mains des conglomérats de l’agro-industrie. »

– La famine mondiale, par Michel Chossudovsky

Avec la pression que cette crise engendre sur les gouvernements pour arriver à nourrir leur population, les résistances qu’on avait contre les OGM tombent. Des pays comme le Japon acceptent maintenant ce qu’ils refusaient farouchement jusqu’à maintenant : importer des organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM).

Quelle coïncidence heureuse pour ces compagnies. Sur l’émission spéciale de L’Autre Monde sur la réserve de grains de Svalbard, on avait discuté de la deuxième révolution « verte » que le secteur de l’agroalimentaire-pharmaceutique-ingénierie génétique veut opérer en Afrique. Heureux hasard encore une fois pour eux, car l’Afrique risque de perdre la majorité de son blé cette année à cause d’une infestation fongueuse nommée Ug99. L’ONU a averti que cette infestation hautement pathogène est en train de se propager aux cultures de l’Iran et que 25% des cultures de blé pourraient en être affectées.

Ceci va ouvrir la porte aux compagnies de semences OGM comme Monsanto pour vendre des produits qui sont censés régler tous les maux de la Terre et qui sont vendus avec la prétention de produire plus que les semences conventionnelles. Pourtant, selon la plus importante étude du genre à être menée, conduite par le International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development, rapporté originalement dans le journal Better Crops et ensuite par le journal The Independent UK, ils ont étudié de telles cultures OGM durant les trois dernières années à l’Université du Kansas et ils ont trouvé que les cultures de soya produisaient 10% de moins que les cultures conventionnelles. C’est clair que cela ne fera pas plaisir aux producteurs d’OGM de ce monde parce qu’une de leur assertion principale est que les OGM sont la solution à la faim dans le monde.

Jean Ziegler, Rapporteur spécial de l’ONU pour le droit à l’alimentation, a condamné la conversion de la nourriture en carburant comme étant « un crime contre l’humanité » et il a déclaré que cette histoire est « une recette pour un désastre ».

Il demande l’imposition d’un moratoire de trois ans pour réévaluer la politique de convertir la nourriture en carburant alors que la planète fait face à des pénuries de nourriture. Les critiques du moratoire ne voient pas de lien entre les biocarburants et la faim dans le monde.

Bien sûr que la principale raison de convertir la nourriture en carburant « vert » a été poussé par le culte du réchauffement climatique causé par le CO2 de l’activité humaine. Ils sont grandement responsables de cette catastrophe humanitaire et feront tout pour le nier pour refuser toute responsabilité et pour continuer d’encaisser leur argent. Le reste de la population a été submergé dans la désinformation.

Le culte d’Al Gore et les « on va tous mourir à cause du CO2 » pédalent beaucoup de ces temps-ci à parce que les données empiriques des 10 dernières années ne montrent aucun réchauffement depuis 1998, année où on a connu les effets de El Niño et une activité solaire intense. En réalité, la température globale s’est légèrement refroidit, même chose pour les océans. Pourtant, les taux de CO2 ont augmenté de 5.5% durant cette même période de temps, ce qui brise le lien entre le CO2 et le réchauffement climatique. On sait avec les carottes glacières extraites aux pôles que les taux de CO2 augmentent environ 800 ans APRÈS un réchauffement climatique, et non AVANT. Et pour ceux qui pensent qu’on est responsables des changements climatiques, pourquoi est-ce que l’ensemble des autres planètes du système solaire suivent les mêmes changements à la baisse et à la hausse en même temps, en parfaite corrélation avec les cycles de l’activité solaire?

En réalité, les plantes et arbres produisent plus si les taux de CO2 sont plus élevés et en retour ils produisent plus de CO2, ce qui est meilleur pour notre santé.

– Nous vivons à une période où les taux de CO2 sont très bas comparé à d’autres périodes du passé.

– Au sommet de Bali sur les changements climatiques de l’an dernier, Dr Roy Spencer a présenté au Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat (GIEC) un rapport qui expliquait qu’au lieu d’avoir le CO2 causant la formation de vapeur d’eau qui à son tour cause le réchauffement de la température en tant que gaz à effet de serre comme ils le pensaient au début, on s’est aperçu grâce aux satellites météorologiques que les vapeurs d’eau dans l’atmosphère jouent un rôle qu’on ignorait : elles enlèvent les excès de CO2 de l’atmosphère dans un processus d’auto-balancement de ses effets en tant que gaz à effet de serre.

Vous pouvez lire le rapport complet du Dr Roy Spencer en cliquant ici.

Vous pouvez aussi lire le dernier rapport du GIEC, Climate Change 2007 en .pdf ici.

– À ce sommet de Bali en décembre dernier, Viscount Monckton, Dr David Evans et Dr Vincent Gray ont présenté un document qui démontrait qu’en dépit des prédictions des modèles du GIEC qui prévoyaient que les gaz à effet de serre produiraient des points chauds dans la haute troposphère, rien de tel ne s’est produit en réalité. Les données des satellites nous montrent aucun réchauffement rapide de la troposphère comme prédit dans les modèles informatiques du Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat (GIEC).

Monckton et Evans ont trouvé que ces larges différences sont le résultat d’erreurs de base dans leur évaluation de la loi de Stefan-Boltzmann.

Le rôle des pluies, du processus de la formation des nuages, des mouvements d’air et des courants d’eau sont encore très mal compris et très complexes et ne sont même pas inclus dans les calculs et modèles informatiques du GIEC !

– On vient de vivre l’hiver le plus froid et neigeux depuis 15 à 100 ans selon les régions du monde, avec une baisse moyenne de 0.7 degré Celcius, ce qui annule le réchauffement qu’on a connu depuis un siècle.

– La population des ours polaires a quintuplé depuis les 25 dernières années.

– Les satellites de la NASA ont mesuré que les glaces de la mer Arctique ont couvert 2 millions de kilomètres carrés de plus que la moyenne des trois dernières années et étaient en moyenne 10 à 20 centimètres plus épaisses qu’en 2007. « La neige est retournée sur le Mont Kilimanjaro » déclarait l’International Herald Tribune du 21 janvier dernier, défiant le narratif du « réchauffement ».

Pour avoir un vrai débat scientifique sur la question du réchauffement climatique, il faudrait être assez honnête pour admettre la position et les évidences de tous les partis, chose qui n’est pas le cas.

Depuis, l’hystérie causée autour de cette question s’apparente plus à un type d’endoctrinement où les faits contrariant le point de vue qu’on veut faire accepter sont rejetés avec indignation sans même engager la conversation. On a même comparé les opposants à l’idée que le réchauffement soit causé par le CO2 de l’activité humaine aux négationnistes (Négation de la Shoah). Tout est dans l’utilisation de l’intimidation pour clore le débat. Comme si tout d’un coup les politiciens et les médias commençaient à nous raconter la vérité, la main sur le coeur, pour sauver la planète! Beaucoup blâment les compagnies pétrolières pour avoir dépensé 40 millions pour acheter des scientifiques pour jeter le doute sur la thèse du réchauffement climatique, mais ce que peu de gens savent, c’est que ces mêmes compagnies, en plus de banquiers internationaux privés ont payé d’un autre côté des milliards pour nous faire accepter que nous sommes le problème, la menace qui risque de détruire la planète.

Al Gore est en sérieux conflit d’intérêts car il se positionne pour profiter des taxes sur le carbone et des « solutions vertes » qu’on va tous nous imposer, comme ces bulbes incandescents qu’on va bannir au Canada, remplacés par d’autres qui contiennent du mercure et des isotopes radioactifs. Le nouveau pouvoir que les gouvernements et les institutions internationales vont gagner sous le prétexte de lutter contre le réchauffement global va servir par ricochet à enrichir des compagnies qui se donnent et donnent bonne conscience en vendant des fausses solutions vertes.

Al Gore s’est joint à un groupe de capital-risque nommé Klein Perkins Caufield & Byers en septembre dernier. Le 1^er mai, la firme a annoncé des investissements de 500 millions dans la firme de technologies vertes Green Growth Fund et le groupe a annoncé un autre 700 millions qui sera investi sur les trois prochaines années dans ce même domaine. Alors si le climat se refroidit, il n’y aura pas de retour sur ces volumineux investissements. Il n’y aurait pas besoin de ces investissements si le réchauffement climatique ne serait pas une menace. Conséquemment, Gore a lancé une massive campagne de publicité de 300 millions de dollars pour nous convaincre qu’IL Y A MENACE. Ce n’est plus une question de science, mais seulement de CONVAINCRE.

Or, ces opposants aux Accords de Kyoto et du CO2 comme cause du réchauffement climatique ne sont pas des parvenus. 100 prestigieux géologues, physiciens, météorologistes et autres scientifiques ont écrit en décembre 2007 au Secrétaire général des Nations-Unies, Ban Ki-Moon. La lettre soulignait qu’il n’y avait aucun consensus et que la science n’est pas complète, en plus de nombreuses recherches ayant passées le processus d’évaluation par les pairs qui soulèvent de sérieux doutes quant à l’hypothèse du dangereux réchauffement causé par les humains. Ils ont aussi noté que les modèles informatiques d’aujourd’hui ne peuvent pas prédire le climat tel que l’expérience nous le montre : a contrario des projections à la hausse des températures, il n’y a pas eu de réchauffement net depuis 1998.

En décembre 2007, 400 scientifiques d’institutions respectées comme celles de Princeton, National Academy of Sciences, l’Université de Londres et l’Institut Pasteur de Paris ont déclaré leur indépendance de la « sagesse conventionnelle » pro-réchauffement devant le Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

« Non pas le CO2, mais les vapeurs d’eau constituent le plus important gaz à effet de serre » a déclaré le climatologue Luc Debontridder du Belgium’s Royal Meteorological Institute. « Elles sont responsables d’au moins 75% des gaz à effets de serre. Ceci est un simple fait scientifique, mais le film d’Al Gore a fait un tel battage médiatique à propos du CO2 que personne ne semble prendre note de cela. »

Alors, combien de scientifiques cela prend t-il pour établir que le consensus sur le réchauffement climatique n’existe pas? Cette quête a débuté avant même que la plupart des gens commencent à entendre parler de changements climatiques. En 1992, les Nations Unies étaient sur le point de tenir le Sommet de la Terre à Rio. Ce sommet fut nommé la plus grande assemblée environnementale et politique de l’histoire de l’humanité. Des délégations sont venues de 178 nations, incluant 118 chefs d’état ou de gouvernement ainsi que 7 000 bureaucrates diplomates. Les groupes environnementaux de la planète se sont aussi joint, envoyant 30 000 représentants en plus des 7 000 journalistes pour couvrir l’événement.

En février de cette année, 47 scientifiques ont signé le « Statement by Atmospheric Scientists on Greenhouse Warming » dénonçant l’assomption sans fondement selon laquelle un réchauffement planétaire catastrophique prenait place suite à l’utilisation des combustibles fossiles, situation qui demandait des actions immédiates. Ils ont ri d’eux, ridiculisant le nombre minuscule comparé aux milliers qui étaient d’avis contraire. Sachant cela, la pétition Heidelberg Appeal fut élargie et à la fin du sommet, 425 autres scientifiques l’avaient signé. Avec le temps et les années qui ont suivi, la pétition a atteint 4 000 signataires dont 72 gagnants du prix Nobel.

Ensuite, il y a eu la Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change avec 150 signataires, la Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship en 2000, signée par 1 500 personnes de tout acabit, finalement il y a eu la Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine’s Petition Project de 2001 qui a ramassé 17 800 noms de scientifiques qui ont déclaré non pas seulement qu’ils n’étaient pas d’accord avec les évidences décrivant les émissions de gaz carbonique comme étant dommageables, mais en ajoutant que Kyoto lui-même endommagerait l’environnement.

Face à la corruption de la science de Kyoto, un nouvel effort fut déployé à la demande de ces scientifiques pour repartir la pétition de l’Oregon Institute et la réponse a été extraordinaire : 31 000 signataires ont répondu avec près de 10 000 d’entre eux qui sont des titulaires de doctorat. Ce nombre de scientifiques est plus élevé que tous les environnementalistes qui sont descendus sur Rio en 1992. Est-ce suffisant pour établir que la science n’est pas définitive et consensuelle à propos du réchauffement climatique ?

En dépit de toute cette contradiction, le culte du réchauffement et toute la cohorte d’arrivistes qui en profitent ne manquent pas d’imagination pour se sortir de cette situation. Au lieu d’avouer qu’ils avaient tort, qu’ils n’auraient pas dû culpabiliser les humains et les enfants pour rien en plus de causer une crise mondiale de la nourriture et d’imposer de fausses solutions comme les OGM et les bio-carburants éthanol qui n’est plus ni moins la transformation de notre nourriture en carburant -probablement une idée des plus stupides qu’on ait vu depuis un siècle- ils en sont venus à une nouvelle stratégie : le réchauffement climatique sera en pause jusqu’en 2015, dû à l’absence de réchauffement depuis 1998 et du refroidissement des océans depuis quelques années et amplifié par El Niña de cet hiver. Alors tenez-vous bien et avalez ceci : le réchauffement climatique causé par l’activité humaine continue quand même, mais se passe en même temps que le refroidissement qui lui est NATUREL et prévalent pour le moment! Selon eux, le réchauffement n’a pas cessé et n’est pas part des cycles naturels; mais le refroidissement, pour sa part, est naturel. Désolé pour la prédiction d’une hausse de 0.3 degrés d’ici la prochaine décennie du GIEC, ils ont dû l’annuler. Mais voilà, ne vous inquiétez pas : le réchauffement catastrophique va reprendre en 2015 qu’ils nous disent. Nous avons une hausse des taux de CO2 de 5.5% depuis 1998 sans hausse des températures, mais cela ne les gêne pas pour vous prédire le futur climatique, alors qu’ils admettent du même souffle qu’ils ont dû révisé leurs modèles informatiques et qu’ils ne sont pas encore certains qu’ils représentent la réalité. En fait, ils n’incluent même pas les phénomènes comme le El Niño qui fut l’un des principaux facteur de la soudaine hausse des températures en 1998. Dire qu’on a de la misère à avoir une prédiction météorologique juste pour les 48 prochaines heures!

Parlant de fausses solutions vertes, n’oublions pas que le processus de production de l’éthanol consomme plus d’énergie et produit plus de gaz à effets de serre que ce que peut produire l’équivalent de pétrole régulier. Un litre de gaz éthanol contient moins d’énergie chimique qu’un litre de gaz normal en plus d’être plus dur sur les joints d’étanchéité et boyaux des voitures. Il faut 200kg de maïs pour produire entre 90 et 100 litres d’éthanol, ce qui représente un ou deux pleins de réservoir d’auto. La même quantité de maïs serait suffisante pour nourrir une personne pendant un an.

En conclusion, si vous pensez comme Henry Kissinger, Bill & Melinda Gates, Dr Pianka, les Rockefeller et autres partisans de la dépopulation de la planète comme Ted Turner et des groupes environnementalistes extrémistes comme le groupe Voluntary Human Extinction, vous pouvez suivre leur conseil et commencer à dépeupler volontairement la planète en commençant par vous-mêmes et cessez d’avoir des enfants. Ted Turner a donné une entrevue à Charlie Rose de PBS et a déclaré que le réchauffement climatique était directement lié au fait qu’il y avait trop d’humains sur la planète, expliquant que pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique on doit réduire dramatiquement la population mondiale. Si cela n’est pas fait, il pense que nous devoir avoir recours au cannibalisme.

Nous devons être taxés pour le CO2 que nous produisons, ce qui revient effectivement à taxer l’air qu’on respire comme dans la bonne vieille blague d’antan, étant donné qu’inspirations et expirations sont deux parties du même cycle respiratoire. Le résultat est clair : nous sommes le problème et nous devons disparaître.

Nous pouvons encore décider de nous éduquer nous-mêmes et comprendre que ces crises financières, alimentaires, pétrolières (L’Allemagne va proposer de bannir mondialement la spéculation sur le pétrole en accusant les Hedge Funds d’être responsables de la folle hausse des prix du pétrole qui doublé l’an dernier) sont de criminelles manipulations pour consolider le pouvoir de quelques puissants de ce monde tel que démontré dans le documents officiel de 1974 écrit par Henry Kissinger, ceux de l’ ONU et du Club de Rome qui ont considéré ouvertement de créer des famines de toute pièce pour protéger leurs intérêts particuliers tout en maintenant la population dans un climat de tension et de peur constante, court-circuitant leur habilité de penser rationnellement et de façon critique et indépendante.

« Comme détaillé dans un article antérieur, un calcul prudent montre que, dans le prix du baril de pétrole brut d’aujourd’hui, au moins 60% des 128 dollars sont dus à la spéculation à terme non réglementée, des hedge funds, des banques et des groupes financiers. Ils utilisent les échanges à terme du ICE Futures de Londres et du NYMEX de New York, et les échanges inter-bancaires incontrôlés ou négociés hors cote pour échapper à tout examen minutieux. Les règlements de la Commodity Futures Trading Commission du gouvernement étasunien permettent aux spéculateurs d’acheter du pétrole brut grâce à des contrats à terme sur le Nymex, en avançant seulement 6% de la valeur du contrat. Le prix en ce moment étant de 128 dollars par baril, cela signifie que le spéculateur à terme n’a qu’à donner environ 8 dollars pour chaque baril et emprunter les autres 120 dollars. Cette « force » exceptionnelle de 16 pour 1 permet d’amener le prix à un niveau follement irréaliste et de compenser les pertes bancaires du subprime et des autres catastrophes au détriment de l’ensemble de la population [mondiale]. »

« La mystification du pic pétrolier, c’est-à-dire l’argument selon lequel la production pétrolière aurait épuisé plus de la moitié des réserves, ce qui rend le pétrole bon marché et abondant sur le déclin dans le monde, a permis à cette fraude coûteuse de perdurer depuis l’invasion de l’Iraq en 2003 avec l’aide des principales banques, des négociants et des opérateurs pétroliers majeurs. Comme toujours, Washington tente d’en faire porter le chapeau aux producteurs arabes de l’OPEP. Le problème n’est pas la pénurie de l’approvisionnement en pétrole brut. En fait, l’offre est actuellement excédentaire dans le monde. Pourtant, le prix grimpe toujours plus haut. Pourquoi ? La réponse se trouve dans la politique manifestement délibérée du gouvernement étasunien, qui permet la manipulation effrénée du prix du pétrole. »

– par F. William Engdahl – 2008-05-25, Précisions sur l’origine du prix élevé du pétrole

La hausse du prix de pétrole n’est qu’une taxe déguisée imposée à tous les habitants de la planète.

Ce dont nous avons besoin c’est de cesser d’avoir peur, de se créer une vision du futur que nous voulons vivre et de reprendre les choses en mains. Il y a assez de nourriture pour tous et de génie humain, de coeur pour réinventer nos façons de faire. Nous avons laissé 7000 producteurs de semence contrôlant moins de 1% du marché mondial chacun il y a 25 ans être rachetés et consolidés sous le pouvoir de 10 multinationales incluant Monsanto, DuPont-Pioneer, Syngenta, Bayer Cropsciencie, BASF, and Dow Agrosciences qui contrôlant ensemble 50% de ce marché des semences. Nous sommes aussi responsables de toutes ces dérives par notre indifférence, naïveté ou simplement par vanité. Pendant ce temps, ne manquez pas de commencer un grand jardin et d’acheter des produits biologiques des fermiers locaux. Cessons d’être dépendants des produits dénaturés et chimiques des gros de l’industrie agroalimentaire. Cessons la pollution inutile et adaptons nous aux changements climatiques naturels sans oublier qu’un réchauffement du climat a toujours été plus favorable qu’un refroidissement!

Texte et recherche de F. Marginean, LNI.

Sources d’informations à consulter:

Germany in call for ban on oil speculation

Privatisation Making Seeds Themselves Infertile

Seeds were once for ever. After harvest, a few from the crop would be planted for the following year, and so it went on. Now, biochemical industry giants are making seeds themselves infertile. You sow them this year, and that’s it. For next year’s crop, you need brand new seeds — you would have to buy them, of course. Twenty-five years ago, there were at least 7,000 seed growers worldwide, and none of them controlled more than one percent of the global market. Today, after a takeover spree, 10 major biochemical multinationals, including Monsanto, DuPont-Pioneer, Syngenta, Bayer Cropsciencie, BASF, and Dow Agrosciences, control more than 50 percent of the seeds market.

And all it will take is a single genetics mistake (and we know they are already happening) to trigger an ecological catastrophe.

Eco Group Calls For « Voluntary Human Extinction »

There is a lot of self-hate in the radical environmentalist movement.

Setting that aside, there is a fundamental problem with this approach. The people most willing to make such a sacrifice for the good of the whole world are the very ones you would WANT to encourage to have (and teach) offspring. It’s the ones least likely to voluntarily curb their instincts that are the problem.

Speculation wreaking havoc on food prices

Speculation is exerting pressure on agriculture-based commodities – now facing competition with regard to their use as food and a source of energy – and sending prices to unprecedented levels. This is in turn fuelling the current global food crisis, according to economists.

Let me see if I understand this.

Somewhere between the people who actually grow the food, and the people who eat it, is a bunch of other people who neither grow the food, transport it, package it, or stock the grocery shelves, who somehow have inserted themselves into the supply line for the sole purpose of treating it all like a giant legal casino they are able to make huge fortunes off of.

That about sum it up?

***** Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age

Lorne Gunter, National Post Published: Monday, February 25, 2008

Has global warming stopped?

Nouvelles données sur le soleil qui signifie la fin d’une période chaude et le retour vers une ère plus froide.

***Changes in the Sun’s Surface to Bring Next Climate Change

Global Warming or Global Governance

Interviews of climate scientists and biologists from numerous sources who explain, step by step, why Al Gore and the global warming … all alarmists are incorrect. In some cases, blatantly so. It also provides evidence that the global warming agenda is being funded with tens of billions of dollars as a mechanism to create global governance. Hear from congressmen, experts and even well-known news broadcasters how global governance puts global institutions that are not accountable to the American people in control of every aspect of our economy. The U.S. government is very close to making this a reality. Very close. Every American, every citizen of the world, needs to hear the other side of the global warming story.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4860344067427439443

Ocean Cooling to Briefly Halt Global Warming, Researchers Say

By Jim Efstathiou Jr.

April 30 (Bloomberg) — Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by mankind, Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said.

Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic, said a report today by the institution based in Kiel, Germany. Temperatures worldwide may stabilize in the period.

The study was based on sea-surface temperatures of currents that move heat around the world, and vary from decade to decade. This regional cooling effect may temporarily neutralize the long- term warming phenomenon caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases building up around the earth, said Richard Wood, a research scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre, a U.K. provider of environmental and weather-related services.

AccuWeather’s Expert Senior Forecaster Joe Bastardi has stated: « People are concerned that 50 years from now, it will be warm beyond a point of no return. My concern is almost opposite, that it’s cold and getting colder. »

And on Wednesday, the respected journal, Nature, indicated that Earth’s climactic cycles have stopped global warming through 2015.

Global warming may ‘stop’, scientists predict

Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said.

Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a « lull » for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

The average temperature of the sea around Europe and North America is expected to cool slightly over the decade while the tropical Pacific remains unchanged.

This would mean that the 0.3°C global average temperature rise which has been predicted for the next decade by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may not happen, according to the paper published in the scientific journal Nature.

However, the effect of rising fossil fuel emissions will mean that warming will accelerate again after 2015 when natural trends in the oceans veer back towards warming, according to the computer model.

Noel Keenlyside of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel, Germany, said: « The IPCC would predict a 0.3°C warming over the next decade. Our prediction is that there will be no warming until 2015 but it will pick up after that. »

He stressed that the results were just the initial findings from a new computer model of how the oceans behave over decades and it would be wholly misleading to infer that global warming, in the sense of the enhanced greenhouse effect from increased carbon emissions, had gone away.

The IPCC currently does not include in its models actual records of such events as the strength of the Gulf Stream and the El Nino cyclical warming event in the Pacific, which are known to have been behind the warmest year ever recorded in 1998.

Global Cooling Slows Global Warming

This appears to be a cover to me. Scientists are now predicting a cooling period over the next ten years. This natural cooling period will counter the man-made warming. Do you see the covering of all the bases that is going on here? Because the earth is beginning to go into a cooling period, scientists hoping to hold onto their global warming grants are now beginning to cover their asses.

Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as
shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by
mankind

Not only this but we are supposed to believe that the earth is still warming even as it cools.

Those natural climate variations could be stronger than the global-warming trend
over the next 10-year period,” Wood said in an interview. “Without knowing that,
you might erroneously think there’s no global warming going on.”

If we don’t experience warming over the next 10 years, it doesn’t mean that
greenhouse-gas warming is not with us,” Keenlyside said in an interview. “There
can be natural fluctuations that may mask climate change in the short term

Let me get this right, the earth is still warming, it is just cooling faster than it is warming. We are also just supposed to believe that the cooling is natural while the warming isn’t. How stupid do these people think we are? The earth goes through natural cooling and heating periods. PERIOD!

Let us just pretend for one moment that man-made global warming exists. If the earth is going to start naturally cooling, while man is causing the earth to heat, then don’t we owe it to the planet to keep on warming the earth. Without man-made global warming during this cooling period wouldn’t we be headed to another ice age?

Just one more question. If the earth is warming how is it possible for the oceans to be cooling in the first place? Shouldn’t the oceans be warming also? Okay, so that was two more questions. I can’t help it. The more that we hear about this subject, the more absurd it becomes. Scientists will do and say anything to protect their grant money. Politicians will also do or say anything to guilt people into paying more “green” taxes.

We are now told to believe that if the earth cools over the next decade that it doesn’t mean the warming has ended. It sounds like a cover to me.

http://oism.org/pproject/

Global Warming Petition

We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.

Research Review of Global Warming Evidence

Enclosed is a twelve-page review of information on the subject of « global warming, » a petition in the form of a reply card, and a return envelope. Please consider these materials carefully.

The United States is very close to adopting an international agreement that would ration the use of energy and of technologies that depend upon coal, oil, and natural gas and some other organic compounds.

This treaty is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful.

Click here to see the rest of this letter from the past president of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

A review of the research literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion that increases during the 20th Century have produced no deleterious effects upon global weather, climate, or temperature. Increased carbon dioxide has, however, markedly increased plant growth rates. Predictions of harmful climatic effects due to future increases in minor greenhouse gases like CO2 are in error and do not conform to current experimental knowledge.

Click here to see this peer reviewed research paper.

Note: The Petition Project has no funding from energy industries or other parties with special financial interests in the « global warming » debate. Funding for the project comes entirely from private non-tax deductible donations by interested individuals.

Al Gore And Climate Ka-Ching

So why the hype? Well, global warming is a growth industry designed to keep Earth and some bank accounts green.

Gore himself joined the venture capital group groupe de capital-risque, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers just last September. On May 1, the firm announced a $500 million investment in maturing green technology firms called the Green Growth Fund.

The group announced another $700 million to be invested over the next three years in green-tech startup firms. But if the green technology business, uh, cools down, there will be no return on that investment. There would be no need for such investments if global warming wasn’t a threat. So Gore just launched, among other things, a $300 million on an ad campaign to convince us it is so.

Next – « Kill-Yourself-For-The-Earth Day »

Organized by the elite World Wildlife Fund, « Earth Hour » was a psy-op designed to remind us we are a burden on the ecosystem. The event was organized by an elite who represent one percent of the world’s population yet own over 40% of the resources.

From the elite perspective, we’re superfluous- the real message of ‘Earth Hour. »

Have they ever done anything to celebrate human life?

If we are energy challenged, it is because the Illuminati banking cartel has been suppressing non-polluting free-energy technology for almost a century. At the same time, this cartel has been fomenting wasteful and tragic wars.

A MODEST PROPOSAL

If people feel they are such a burden, why not kill themselves? Is there a more effective way to say you care about the planet? Erase your « carbon footprint » altogether.

We will need some time to get our affairs in order, and say our goodbyes, but perhaps next Spring, the World Wildlife Fund could sponsor a « Kill-Yourself-for-the-Earth Day. » Families, companies, cities and countries could offer sacrifices to the Environmental God. With proper promotion, millions might volunteer.

Why dither with symbolic gestures when we can make a real difference?

As former US vice-president Al Gore said last year in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize: « We are what is wrong and we must make it right! »

No, Al Gore. You and your Illuminati henchmen are the problem. Please consider my modest proposal.

19,000 Scientists Say Global Warming is Bunk

Gore Connection to Occidental Petroleum

Ted Turner Wants You Dead To Save The Planet

Ted Turner the largest U.S. land owner and wealthy media mogul has stated yet again during a PBS interview with Charlie Rose that the world’s population needs to be reduced. Turner also used the interview as an opportunity to continue the non stop irrational fear mongering of global warming. He stated that if something isn’t done about global warming that people would soon be forced to resort to cannibalism. Turner also stated that he believes that global warming is directly related to the fact that there are too many people on the planet using too much stuff. Therefore, to fight global warming you’d need to have a dramatic reduction in population.

Eco Group Calls For « Voluntary Human Extinction »

There is a lot of self-hate in the radical environmentalist movement.

Setting that aside, there is a fundamental problem with this approach. The people most willing to make such a sacrifice for the good of the whole world are the very ones you would WANT to encourage to have (and teach) offspring. It’s the ones least likely to voluntarily curb their instincts that are the problem.

Climate change confirmed but global warming is cancelled

In December last year, at the UN conference in Bali, I heard Viscount Monckton present a paper prepared by himself, the Australian Dr David Evans and our own Dr Vincent Gray (who were at Bali, too) that showed while the IPCC models predict that greenhouse gases would produce an extensive « hot spot » in the upper troposphere over the tropics, the satellite measurements show no such hotspots have appeared.

Monckton and Evans found a large part of this discrepancy is the result of some basic errors in the IPCC’s assessment of the Stefan-Boltzmann equation. When they applied their revised factor to the effect of greenhouse gases, the temperature rise was about a third of that predicted by the IPCC.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=21153&cid=39&cname=NBR+Comment

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aU.evtnk6DPo&refer=worldwide

UN chief calls for review of biofuels policy

The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, has called for a comprehensive review of the policy on biofuels as a crisis in global food prices – partly caused by the increasing use of crops for energy generation – threatens to trigger global instability.

Ethanol fuel is not so green

It is not green, it is not economically viable, and any move to mandate its inclusion in fuel would have enormous repercussions for other sectors of Australian industry. It is something of a relief, therefore, to read a just-released parliamentary research paper on the economic effects of an ethanol mandate.

The paper concludes that « no prima facie economic case for a mandate has been established ».

And making ethanol is a hungry process. It requires some 200kg of corn to produce between 90 and 100 litres of ethanol, enough to fill the fuel tank of a typical four-wheel-drive vehicle. That same amount of corn could supply enough calories to feed a person for a year.

Corn has doubled in price in the past two years, while stockpiles have shrunk alarmingly. As ABN Amro Morgans chief economist Michael Knox put it so well recently: « Part of this increased (grain) consumption comes from turning corn into fodder for automobiles. This is the dumbest idea that politicians have produced this century. »

Climate facts to warm to

Duffy asked Marohasy: « Is the Earth still warming? »

She replied: « No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you’d expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years. »

Perhaps The Climate Change Models Are Wrong

When they were first deployed in 2003, the Argos were hailed for their ability to collect information on ocean conditions more precisely, at more places and greater depths and in more conditions than ever before. No longer would scientists have to rely on measurements mostly at the surface from older scientific buoys or inconsistent shipboard monitors.

So why are some scientists now beginning to question the buoys’ findings? Because in five years, the little blighters have failed to detect any global warming. They are not reinforcing the scientific orthodoxy of the day, namely that man is causing the planet to warm dangerously. They are not proving the predetermined conclusions of their human masters. Therefore they, and not their masters’ hypotheses, must be wrong.

OFFICIAL: Global warming mistakes have been made

The IPCC’s computer models, used to predict the effects of global warming, it appears, failed to accurately predict the influence that water vapour has on the temperature of the earth. At the global climate change summit in Bali late last year, Dr Roy Spencer presented a paper to the IPCC, saying that rather than CO2 driving the formation of water vapour, which then drives up temperatures as a greenhouse gas, water vapour actually washes excess CO2 out of the atmosphere, dampening and balancing its affect as a greenhouse gas. This discovery was made thanks to weather satellites that showed water vapour forms a lot lower in the atmosphere than was initially suggested. Shock horror, the finely balanced system that is the global ecosystem is able to keep itself in balance… who’d have thought it?!

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Is the earth getting warmer, or cooler?

One clue we can see is that NASA has been reworking recent temperatures upwards and older temperatures downwards – which creates a greater slope and the appearance of warming. Canadian statistician Steve McIntyre has been tracking the changes closely on his Climate Audit site, and reports that NASA is Rewriting History, Time and Time Again.

Particularly troubling are the years from 1986-1998. In the 2007 version of the graph, the 1986 data was adjusted upwards by 0.4 degrees relative to the 1999 graph. In fact, every year except one from 1986-1998 was adjusted upwards, by an average of 0.2 degrees. If someone wanted to present a case for a lot of recent warming, adjusting data upwards would be an excellent way to do it.

Looking at the NASA website, we can see that the person in charge of the temperature data is the eminent Dr. James Hansen – Al Gore’s science advisor and the world’s leading long-term advocate of global warming.

Globe may be cooling on Global Warming

« Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously. » Dr. Phil Chapman wrote in The Australian on April 23. « All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead. »

What should we do? Stop listening to politicians who take what nature does NATURALLY and turn it into a crisis requiring our money and obedience to « solve. »

The link between solar cycle length and decadal global temperature

The alleged link between cosmic ray flux and cloudiness remains to be proved or disproved.

The link between solar cycle length and decadal global temperature changes is obvious throughout all the weather records. It’s not strictly a sunspot issue, it just happens that the longer the solar cycle is the less intense is the sunspot activity and presumably the overall heat output ( not necessarily the same as what we artificially term Total Solar Irradiance) during the cycle.

Short fast cycles with many sunspots result in warming. Long slow cycles with fewer sunspots result in cooling.

Astrophysicist Links Temperature Change with Sun’s Energy Output

Global temperature change can be attributed to slight variations in the sun’s energy output, not man-made carbon dioxide emissions. That’s according to astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon, who was in Salt Lake City today to present his research to a crowd at The Sutherland Institute.

World cooling – but scientists insist that warming is real

CLIMATOLOGISTS may insist the world is getting warmer and that climate change is here to stay.

But the meteorological phenomenon called La Niña, in which the central and eastern Pacific Ocean is getting cooler, means global temperatures will drop slightly this year.

« Look, dammit, they paid me to investigate global warming and dammit, THAT’S what I am going to investigate! »

Global Warming Censored: How the Major Networks Silence the Debate on Climate Change

Skeptical voices were suppressed by the networks, outnumbered by nearly a 7-to-1 ratio by those promoting fear of climate change or being used by the network for the same purpose. CBS had an even worse record: nearly 38 proponents to one skeptic.

Global Warming: First Do No Harm

Well, initially, liberal pundit Noam Chomsky has said that he would submit to fascism if it would help combat global warming:

I don’t care if Godzilla is about to attack . . . submitting to fascism is always a bad idea.

Hurricane expert reconsiders global warming’s impact

One of the most influential scientists behind the theory that global warming has intensified recent hurricane activity says he will reconsider his stand.

The hurricane expert, Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, unveiled a novel technique for predicting future hurricane activity this week. The new work suggests that, even in a dramatically warming world, hurricane frequency and intensity may not substantially rise during the next two centuries.

The Birds Are Not Being Wiped Out

Another pillar of global warming alarmism is proven to be totally wrong by fresh scientific studies

Study: Global warming not to blame for rise in hurricanes

The paper, which simulated Atlantic hurricane activity during warming 21st century conditions, found 27 percent fewer tropical storms, and 18 percent fewer hurricanes. The strongest hurricanes, the researchers found, had slightly higher wind speeds.

« This does not support the idea that we’ve already seen a large positive trend in hurricane activity emerging from greenhouse gases, » said lead author Tom Knutson, a Princeton, N.J.-based research meteorologist for NOAA. « In fact, it points in the other direction. »

SAVE THE EARTH! BUY AN SUV!!!!

(Ahem)

Here is the bottom line. WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT DRIVES THE CLIMATE WITH ANY EXACTITUDE. Certainly not enough to pin the blame solely on humans as a pretext for new taxes and further erosion of our freedoms.

Russian scientist says Earth could soon face new Ice Age

Temperatures on Earth have stabilized in the past decade, and the planet should brace itself for a new Ice Age rather than global warming, a Russian scientist said in an interview with RIA Novosti Tuesday.

« Russian and foreign research data confirm that global temperatures in 2007 were practically similar to those in 2006, and, in general, identical to 1998-2006 temperatures, which, basically, means that the Earth passed the peak of global warming in 1998-2005, » said Khabibullo Abdusamatov, head of a space research lab at the Pulkovo observatory in St. Petersburg.

« Okay, so we drop the idea of a carbon-tax and we hit ’em with an ice-tax instead! Hey, it’s all the same money, and who cares how it ends up in our pockets as long as it ends up in our pockets, right? »

Lord Lawson claims climate change hysteria heralds a ‘new age of unreason’

On one hand, we are just starting to appreciate the colossal cost of the measures being taken to meet the European Union’s target of a 60 per cent cut in our CO2 emissions in the next four decades, ranging from plans to spend hundreds of billions of pounds on wind turbines to the EU’s emissions trading scheme, already costing us billions through our electricity bills.

On the other hand, global temperatures, after flattening out, have in recent months shown a sharp fall, wholly unpredicted by those computer models on which the proponents of warming orthodoxy rely. This raises rather large question marks over whether the theory has actually got it right.

Surface Stations

A volunteer survey of the stations used to collect temperature data to « study » global warming, and why that data is compromised.

Glass Particles in the Sky Studied As ‘Global Warming’ Fix

Government scientists are studying the feasibility of sending nearly microscopic particles of specially made glass into the Earth’s upper atmosphere to try to dampen the effects of « global warming. » The idea, while « interesting, » said one leading global warming skeptic, is « not practical » and, if done on a large scale, could depress the ozone layer and cause other problems.

... such as drifting down to the lower atmosphere and being inhaled.

Radical climate action would change sky’s colour: Flannery

Professor Flannery says climate change is happening so quickly that mankind may need to pump sulphur into the atmosphere to survive.

We have a volcano here in Hawaii pouring out shiploads of sulphur into the sky.

It is not pleasant.

A typical day in the Stevenson Screen Paint Test

Given that the global warming cult is concerned about temperature increases in the tenths of a single degree it is worth noting that changing the kind of paint used on the sensor enclosures can alter the temperature reading by more than a degree.

Lawyers Embrace U.S. Climate Practice at $700 an Hour

Twenty of the 100 highest-grossing U.S. law firms have started practices advising companies on climate change, according to a Bloomberg survey of the firms’ Web sites. The attorneys help clients finance clean-energy projects and lobby Congress, typically billing $500 to $700 an hour.

Yep, it’s all about the money, not the science.

BC’s Carbon Tax Is About to Raise Our Gas Prices

I keep telling you folks, all this « Human-caused-global-warming » crap is just finding out a way to take more of your money.

Washington may charge $40-240 yearly ‘greenhouse gas’ global warming tax

I keep telling you people, the global warming « cult » is not about saving the Earth, but about selling you policies, products, and surrendering more of your money, tricking you into making do with less so that the government can have that much more.

The World Bank’s Carbon Deals

Opposition to The World Bank’s Proposed Climate Funds

The Carbon Corps

Al has acquired $300m., to further his ambitions. This vast sum is to be used in a three year marketing programme, which will ensure the imposition of swathes of carbon taxes, and a most satisfactory return on investment (assuming, as we do, that this $300 came from quasi-governmental/corporation sources, who would expect to benefit, directly or indirectly, from this new taxation revenue stream, and the trading of carbon credits).

Professor: Big Money Behind Global Warming Propaganda

A retired physics professor became the latest public figure to debunk the myth of a « consensus » behind man-made global warming when he slammed big money interests for pushing climate change propaganda that was at odds with real science in a speech yesterday.

See post below about the creation of a whole new « Carbon Credit » brokerage industry out of thin air.

Banks Urging U.S. to Adopt the Trading of Emissions

A group representing some of the world’s leading banks will urge the United States and other industrial nations this week to move quickly to introduce a lightly regulated system for trading carbon emissions permits.

Permit-trading systems offer banks a potentially vast new business. For it to grow, leading economies — particularly the United States — will need to set limits on the quantities of greenhouse gases that can be released and to allow companies in other parts of the world to buy emissions permits.

« Where politicians opt to implement carbon constraints, then it should be cap-and-trade, » said Imtiaz Ahmad, head of emissions trading at Morgan Stanley in London and vice president of a lobbying group called International Carbon Investors and Services, which is being created to represent the banks.

The banking companies, which include Citigroup, Lehman Brothers Holdings and Morgan Stanley, are giving strong signs that Wall Street wants Washington to open the way to reduced emissions using a trading system based on the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement the United States did not ratify, rather than by enacting carbon taxes.

The group also includes European institutions like BNP Paribas, Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank, as well as niche investment banks like Climate Change Capital and the law firms of Baker & McKenzie and DLA Piper.

Here is the payoff behind the global warming scam. Out of thin air (and a lot of speechifying) a new product is created; the « Emission Credit » or « Carbon Credit. » Once legislated into existence, these credits will be sold by companies that have too many, to companies that do not have enough … with the brokers and brokerages making huge commissions on the trade. Since these « Carbon Credits » are in effect a commodity needed to conduct business, the prices will float, there will be « futures » contracts on them, and the whole mess will get « Enronized ». The insiders will get rich, the price you pay for everything will go up even more, and you will be told to accept the impoverishment and tolerate the newly rich traders in this legal fiction because after all, it’s good for the planet!

Prince Charles: Eighteen months to stop climate change disaster

The Prince of Wales has warned that the world faces a series of natural disasters within 18 months unless urgent action is taken to save the rainforests.

Anyone want to bet Charles is part of that investment group that plans to make money trading carbon-tax credits?

Gore Used CG Video To Hype Climate Crisis

Al Gore’s widely discredited film « An Inconvenient Truth » that falsely hypes the threat of global warming has now been further discredited. ABC News has discovered that Gore used computer generated footage in his documentary that was taken from the 2004 natural disaster film « The Day After Tomorrow » to fraudulently emphasize the global warming threat.

Gee, I thought some of that footage looked really familiar! 🙂

Émission de L’Autre Monde du 15 mai 2008: La famine mondiale – Contrôlez la nourriture et vous contrôlerez la population

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Émission de L’Autre Monde du 15 mai 2008: La famine mondiale – Contrôlez la nourriture et vous contrôlerez la population

Pour écouter, simplement cliquer sur le lien ici:

L’Autre Monde 15 mai 2008
60 min / Radio de l’UQAM, CHOQ FM

Pour télécharger, faite un clique droit puis “enregistrer la cible sous…”

– Tour du monde avec Les Nouvelles Internationales: Série de morts douteuses aux États-Unis, on couvre aussi le Moyen-Orient et l’Asie.

–***Dossier spécial: La crise alimentaire, OGM et changements climatiques.

Hyperliens vers les sources des informations discutées sur l’émission d’aujourd’hui:

Woman fired over 16-cent doughnut

Canada‘s largest doughnut chain fired a woman in London, Ontario, for giving a customer’s toddler a 16-cent doughnut nugget for free.

Dear Tim Horton Donut company.

A 16 cent donut hole given to a child buys a lot of good will among customers. Call it cost of advertising.

FIRING an employee for giving a small child a donut in the store (we can assume the mother had made a purchase of some kind) is BAD FOR YOUR COMPANY IMAGE. There are no Tom Horton donut sops here in Hawaii, but if there were, they would join Best Buy as places I WILL NO LONGER GO INTO. I cannot abide by companies that place so much importance on a penny that they are blind to the fact that there are other aspects to running a business, like keeping customers happy.

I understand wanting to control losses. Those cops coming in for free donuts can get out of hand. But I would suggest a more reasonable policy is to simply tell employees that they must pay for anything they give out. I am certain the woman in question would not have minded the 16 cents at all.

Tim Hortons responds to firing of staff member

Unfortunately the action of the manager of this location was not appropriate nor grounds for dismissal. With an apology from management Ms. Lilliman has been rehired by the franchisee.

Mom gets job back

But even as a union official called, offering to represent her in a wrongful dismissal charge, and while outraged coffee drinkers were blasting Tims, Lilliman had been hired back on the company payroll.

No mere donut shop can stand up to the power of the blogs!!!!!! 🙂

The Slump: It’s a Guy Thing

They eat from the same dishes and sleep in the same beds, but they seem to be operating in two different economies. From last November through this April, American women aged 20 and up gained nearly 300,000 jobs, according to the household survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). At the same time, American men lost nearly 700,000 jobs. You might even say American men are in recession, and American women are not.

Feminism was sold to us on the promise of equality, but all it really did was create a new inequality.

CONTROVERSIAL DEATH MY EYE!

US police seen in kicking video

Folks, except for the uniforms, this looks just like the video we saw of drivers being pulled from their vehicles and stomped on during the Rodney King riots.

The Bumps under the Blanket and the Suicide Flu.

Sometimes it is hard to know what to talk about. You come to that point where you feel like you’ve talked about everything you could think of and you don’t know where to go next. There’s some kind of massive cleanup operation going on recently. A number of British policemen were found dead. A hooker and a madam wind up hung- the latter said she would never commit suicide. A CIA man gets shot to death by police. There’s some kind of Danny Casolaro virus going around.

Four strange deaths UPDTAED!

Seth Tobias and Paul Gillmore and now Oleg Zhukovsky all found dead, two died in their own swimming pools with signs of torture but were rules suicides anyway. Then Andrei Kozlov, connected to the same bank as Oleg was shot and killed outside his office after speaking out about cleaning up corruption in Banking. Gillmore worked on the finance committee in the US congress. Tobias was a Hedge fund manager he knew who many of these « speculators » AKA insiders were from Goldman Sacs who were going to make it big on the sub-prime crash. It came to light that Tobias was also a frequent client to a male prostitution ring in Florida. And now we have the mysterious « suicide » of the DC Madam. Somebody sure is cleaning up their loose ends. When you break it down it seems to be a massive bribing for trades scandal with a ring of sex slaves going all the way back to Russia and Israel to the US.

We now know from toxicology reports that Seth Tobias had been drugged and Oleg Zhukovsky was tortured and zip cuffed. Ryan Dawson has the scoop on a not so secret underground sex slavery operation tagging both government and banking officials. Who is holding the system hostage through blackmail? All Roads lead too…. « Foreign country A »

Don Clark’s Big Lie About Roland Carnaby

Apparently Carnaby’s vehicle was disabled by the police in some manner or another or he just stopped. This point’s a little unclear. What is clear is that the police were enraged and attempted to smash the front passenger window after the vehicle stopped. Carnaby was shot in the back while exiting the vehicle and then shot again in the chest by another officer. He was put in handcuffs and left on the road to die.

Do I still have your attention? Good. This is where you need it.

Man found in Lady Bird Lake was teacher, FBI target

Austin police said Thursday that they are leaning toward a ruling of suicide in the death of a middle school teacher and activist whose body was found Wednesday in Lady Bird Lake with his hands and legs bound and tape over his eyes.

Police identified Riad Hamad, 55, at a news conference Thursday and said the binding of his limbs and the placement of the tape was consistent with Hamad having done it himself.

See Mossad death squads operating in the US

Have Mossad death squads been activated in the US?

Roland Carnaby

Roland Carnaby was shot dead by police after an hour-long car chase on April 29, 2008.

After two police officers stopped Carnaby for speeding, Caraby showed them CIA identification. The officers were unsure whether the ID was genuine. According to reports, Carnaby drove off when the officer discovered his concealed weapon license. After they managed to stop Carnaby’s Jeep, the officers claim Carnaby made a sudden move and the officers opened fire. He died on his way to hospital.

Wayne Madsen is saying Houston has become a major ops base for Mossad, and weapons were planted in Carnaby’s car AFTER it was impounded

More on Carnaby shooting

Carnaby confirmed as CIA asset. VIDEO SHOWS HE WAS SHOT WHILE GETTING OUT OF THE CAR!!

ABC News Shielding Cheney after DC Madam Hanging?

One more point I wish to make. In the so-called « suicide notes » (now reported exposed as forgeries) mention is made of leaving jail penniless, yet we know that Palfrey owned a condo in Florida, PAID FOR (how many of us can claim that?) and had just finished making certain that the condo fees would be paid out of a special account during her absence.

Does that sound like she was expecting to come out of jail penniless?

Does that sound like a women without hope?

Palfrey Suicide: Wayne Madsen Goes On Record Against Cheney

Having seen this vast panoply of weirdness unfolding before our very eyes while creampuffs and lightweights like Matt Lauer and Brit Hume have made all the money — perhaps Madsen has just had enough. Perhaps he is ready to be a hero. Or a martyr.

At any rate, our intrepid Wayne Madsen wanted our beloved Vice President, Richard « the Dick » Cheney to know that his dealings with Palfrey’s escort agency in the 1990’s weren’t going to be forgotten.

Do you know what the difference between kinky and perverted is?

Kinky is using a feather to tickle your lover. Perverted is using the whole chicken.

The word is that Dick owns a chicken ranch!

9/11 Conspiracy Connection To DC Madam Murder

Former NSA analyst and Navy intelligence officer Wayne Madsen tells the The Alex Jones Show that one of the key motives behind the DC Madam’s murder may have been the information her call girls picked up from Washington’s top brass concerning foreknowledge and government complicity in the 9/11 attacks.

Former NSA analyst and Navy intelligence officer Wayne Madsen tells the The Alex Jones Show that one of the key motives behind the DC Madam’s murder may have been the information her call girls picked up from Washington’s top brass concerning foreknowledge and government complicity in the 9/11 attacks.

****Wayne Madsen Interrogated, Harrassed At Airport After DC Madam Controversy

It is now clear from a review of the events that unfolded that I was pre-selected for an intensive search and battery of questions even before arriving in line for the security screening. A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screener was overheard saying, « the guy with the beard. » Since I was the only person in line who also had a beard, it was evident that a red flag had earlier been raised.

Contrived Media Ploy As DC Madam Tape Ignored

« She wasn’t going to jail, she told me that very clearly. She told me she would commit suicide, » Dan Moldea told Time Magazine. « She had done time once before [for prostitution], » Moldea recalls. « And it damn near killed her. She said there was enormous stress — it made her sick, she couldn’t take it, and she wasn’t going to let that happen to her again. »

Of course, Moldea never got this alleged « quote » on tape, as a truly responsible journalist would have done.

And we are to believe him just because he is making this claim?

Rational people wouldn’t, because they understand that he has utterly no basis in fact for these statements.

What we do have on tape is the absolute opposite of what he has claimed, period, end of discussion.

And unfortunately, this is what passes for « responsible journalism » in the so-called main stream media these days.

Media outlets simply hire people to bend, or distort the truth, (or outright lie) to place their favored « spin » on any topic or event, then feed that as the truth to their audience.

LISTEN to Deborah Palfrey, the so-called D.C. Madam, who tells Alex Jones she would never commit suicide!

WASHINGTON BREATHES BIG SIGH OF RELIEF
In an interview last year, Palfrey vowed to fight the federal prosecutors who brought the charges against her. « They just destroy you on every level, financially, emotionally, psychologically, » she said, but still she refused to accept any deal they offered. The Audio interview is with Alex Jones

DC Madam: « They will make it look like suicide »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzvrgQ5hOM4

List of Suicides by whistle blowers or those that knew things

The Palfrey-Cheney Connection

Palfrey believed her life could be in danger, and stated that it would not be suicide if she were found dead; she said so on a radio program along with implicating that the VP himself, and other extremely powerful, high-profile men in Washington were clients.

Is it possible that facing of a 55-year sentence, Ms. Palfrey was going to do some talking, in hopes of a reduced sentence? Were some persons concerned that an angry or vindictive Palfrey might write tell-all?

D.C. madam’s mystery death: The Orlando connection

On Thursday, Palfrey was found dead, hanging by a nylon rope from a metal beam in a backyard shed near her mother’s home in Tarpon Springs, on the coast 100 miles west of Orlando. Police said it was an apparent suicide.

« It’s hard to believe, » said Joseph Strizack, a condominium-association manager at Park Lake Towers who got to know Palfrey during her decade as an owner there. « She did not seem the least bit distraught. »

Okay, so let me get this straight, Palfrey went to visit her mother, then decided to commit suicide at Mom’s place?!?!?!?

FLASHBACK: DC Madam hookergate expands beyond Cheney & ABC to Maryland Governor, US Attorney, murder

Hookergate involves fired US Attorney. US District Judge for the District of Columbia Gladys Kessler, a Clinton appointee, has re-issued an order prohibiting DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey from releasing any more phone lists of her Pamela Martin & Associates customers. Secrecy of the phone records has been a priority for DC Assistant US Attorney William Cowden.

Since Palfrey was headed to jail anyway, she had little to lose by releasing the rest of her client lists in her planned book.

Police: Woman believed to be ‘D.C. madam’ kills herself

Palfrey was convicted April 15 by a federal jury of running a prostitution service that catered to members of Washington’s political elite.

Deborah Jeane Palfrey found dead of supposed suicide at her mother’s home in Florida. Brandy Britton was also found dead of a suicide hanging. Strange that both women decided to hang themselves?

DC Madam hauls big box of evidence to Mom’s before suicide

On one trip down the stairs, she lugged a 2-foot-wide box she suggested carried materials related to her infamous court case. « This is my evidence, » she told Strizack before carrying it out the door.

1 DC Madame….: had clients with the Pentagon and Govt

2 Lt. Col. Marshall A. Gutierrez Iraqi/Kuwait procurement officer: http://iraq.pigstye.net/article.php/GutierrezMarshallA

3 Abdulrahman,US citizen, contractor whistle-blower: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmView…

4 Charles D. Riechers – Air Force- Ret. d: 10/07 suicide Boeing Tanker Deal: Still no autopsy report:
http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=9396

5 Col. Theodore S. Westhusing
General Dave Petraeus: http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/77313 /

6 Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil {re Westhusing letter to Maj. Gen. Fil on May 28, 2005],: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_S._Westhusing

7 Darleen Druyun , http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1004/100104g1.htm

8 Brandy Britton who worked for the DC madam : http://www.examiner.com/a-714063~Accused_D_C__madam__Br…

9 Clifford Baxter, Enron executive: http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/01/25/enron.suicide/ind…

10. David Kelly, British Weapons Expert on WMDs : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly

11. James Hatfield, wrote book on George Bush and his crimes : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hatfield

12 Gary Webb, a prize-winning American investigative journalist, on Iran Contra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb

13 Margie Schoedinger (1965?-2003) was an American woman who filed a civil suit against former Texas governor and current U.S. President George W. Bush in 2002, alleging that Bush had sexually assaulted her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margie_Schoedinger

Voting Machine Company Co-Founder Killed in Small Plane Crash

Smartmatic Co-Founder, Employee and Shareholder Dead After Both Engines on Small Plane Reportedly Failed Just After Takeoff

Cartoon creator Mike Adams / www.NaturalNews.com

Crise de la nourriture et OGM

*****La famine mondiale

par Michel Chossudovsky

Mondialisation.ca, Le 4 mai 2008

En cette époque d’après-guerre froide, l’humanité est confrontée à une crise économique et sociale d’une ampleur sans précédent et qui entraîne un appauvrissement rapide de larges secteurs de la population mondiale. Les économies nationales s’effondrent, le chômage est endémique. Des famines se déclarent en Afrique subsaharienne, en Asie du Sud et dans certaines parties de l’Amérique latine. Cette « mondialisation de la pauvreté, » qui a annulé bon nombre des progrès de la décolonisation d’après-guerre, a commencé dans le tiers-monde avec la crise de la dette du début des années 1980 et l’imposition des réformes économiques meurtrières du Fonds monétaires international (FMI).

Ce Nouvel Ordre Mondial se nourrit de la pauvreté humaine et de la destruction de l’environnement. Il engendre la ségrégation sociale, il encourage le racisme et les conflits ethniques et s’attaque aux droits des femmes et il précipite souvent les pays dans des affrontements destructeurs entre les nationalités. Depuis les années 1990, il s’étend, par l’entremise du « libre marché », dans toutes les régions du monde y compris l’Amérique du Nord, l’Europe occidentale, les pays de l’ex-bloc soviétique et les « nouveaux pays industriels » (NPI) de l’Asie du Sud-est et de l’Extrême-Orient.

Cette crise planétaire est encore plus dévastatrice que la Grande Dépression des années 1930. Elle a de lourdes conséquences géopolitiques; le démembrement économique donne lieu à des guerres régionales, à la fracture des sociétés nationales et, dans certains cas, à l’anéantissement de pays. Elle constitue de loin la plus grave crise économique des temps modernes. (Livre de Michel Chossudovsky intitulé : Mondialisation de la pauvreté et le nouvel ordre mondial)

*****Biofuels ‘crime against humanity’

A United Nations expert has condemned the growing use of crops to produce biofuels as a replacement for petrol as a crime against humanity.

Man-made crisis pushing 100m into poverty: WB

The World Bank chief warned on Tuesday that 100 million people have already been pushed into poverty due to a man-made food crisis while as many as two billion are on the verge of disaster.

« This is not a natural disaster, » said Robert B. Zoellick, president of the World Bank. « Make no mistake; there is nothing natural about this. But for millions of people it is a disaster. »

Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis

Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. And speculation is helping to drive the prices of basic foodstuffs out of the reach of the hungry.

The prices of wheat, corn and rice have soared over the past year driving the world’s poor – who already spend about 80 per cent of their income on food – into hunger and destitution.

The World Bank says that 100 million more people are facing severe hunger. Yet some of the world’s richest food companies are making record profits. Monsanto last month reported that its net income for the three months up to the end of February this year had more than doubled over the same period in 2007, from $543m (£275m) to $1.12bn. Its profits increased from $1.44bn to $2.22bn.

Cargill’s net earnings soared by 86 per cent from $553m to $1.030bn over the same three months. And Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest agricultural processors of soy, corn and wheat, increased its net earnings by 42 per cent in the first three months of this year from $363m to $517m. The operating profit of its grains merchandising and handling operations jumped 16-fold from $21m to $341m.

Similarly, the Mosaic Company, one of the world’s largest fertiliser companies, saw its income for the three months ending 29 February rise more than 12-fold, from $42.2m to $520.8m, on the back of a shortage of fertiliser. The prices of some kinds of fertiliser have more than tripled over the past year as demand has outstripped supply. As a result, plans to increase harvests in developing countries have been hit hard.

How the rich starved the world

World cereal stocks are at an all-time low, food-aid programmes have run out of money and millions face starvation. Yet wealthy countries persist with plans to use grain for petrol.

Well, Ted Turner has a solution! If you are not rich, kindly kill yourself!

Corn Futures Advance to Record as Weather Delays U.S. Planting

Corn futures in Chicago climbed to a record on supply concerns after a government report showed farmers in the U.S., the world’s biggest producer, had planted only half as much as a year ago because of cold, wet weather.

Well, here is a double body-blow to the global warming people, first because it is the COLD weather than is the problem here and because their much vaunted biofuels program eroded away the safety margins in US corn production which would have made it far easier to survive a shortage.

Riots, instability spread as food prices skyrocket

Grain prices up 120%; hungry people riot all over the world!

India considers ban on trading in food futures

India‘s finance minister said on Monday he was considering a blanket ban on trading in food futures, underlying growing concerns in Asia over the role of hedge funds and financial market traders in the recent surge in commodities prices.

Food vs fuel debate shakes Canadian breadbasket

« None of that has worked, » said Boyle. « I just don’t think they’re willing to take the risk. They’re used to selling food and so when prices go up, they go back to that. »

This, say biofuel defenders, means market economics is naturally determining whether grain is needed for food primarily or not. This, they say, should quell alarmist fears that biofuels will provoke higher prices globally and more hunger in developing countries.

« The price of food has gone up, and producers will produce if the prices go up, » Judie Dyck, president of the Saskatchewan Biofuels Development Council, told FoodNavigator-USA.

Judie’s comment betrays a terrible ignorance. There is only so much land and only so much that can be taken form the land. Existing farms are already working at maximum capacity. Producers cannot simply produce more to meet increased demand. Farms do not work that way.

But Judie, like many in « the cult », doesn’t think these things all the way through. They get sold an idea in the media, they are told it is a great idea and they accept it as a matter of faith, oblivious to the fact that everything they do has to have a consequence.

The food crisis we are in is a direct result of the theory that crops can be converted to fuel for cars, coupled with an assumption (and we know what « assume » means) that the farm land to grow those crops would simply appear out of thin air.

Needless to say, it didn’t work. And in « politicking » a solution to a problem that did not exist in the first place, « the cult » has triggered a real human crisis, as seen in places like Haiti.

An entire village turns against supermarkets and grows its own food

« They can;t do that!!! They are not ALLOWED to do that!!! » — ConAgraMonsanAmalgamated

Finance Ministers Emphasize Food Crisis Over Credit Crisis

Haiti was the warning shot. Left to itself, the food crisis will bring down governments, and the new governments that replace them may not honor debts to the World Bank. So, in order to protect those loans, now we will see a scramble to alleviate the starvation around the world.

… Except Palestine, of course.

Food Shortages, Creating import dependent states.

Brilliant idea. While there is a food shortage for billions of people, convert food into fuel even though at the root it is still using fossil fuels like coal to make it. It’s OK just claim global warming (theory) as the rationalization, don’t let global starvation (fact) stand in the way.

Food and energy costs lead wholesale prices to soar in March

Inflation at the wholesale level soared in March at nearly triple the rate that had been expected as the costs of energy and food both climbed rapidly.

Rice Futures Tumble in Chicago as U.S. Crop Sowing Accelerates

Rice futures in Chicago plunged the most in three weeks after a government report showed planting of the U.S. crop accelerated last week, easing concern that global demand will outstrip supply.

The food crisis begins to bite

Rioting in Haiti. Rationing in America. Queues in Egypt. Protests in Afghanistan. As the price of food continues to soar, the impact is being felt by people around the globe

« But we have all this lovely ethanol to put in your gas tank! And we’re sorry it melts the hoses and gaskets, but we really had good intentions! »

Emptying the breadbasket

Half a continent away, in the North Dakota country that grows the high-quality wheats used in Fleishman’s bagels, many farmers are cutting back on growing wheat in favor of more profitable, less disease-prone corn and soybeans for ethanol refineries and Asian consumers.

Wheat Crop Failures Could be Total, Experts Warn

On top of record-breaking rice prices and corn through the roof on ethanol demand, wheat is now rusting in the fields across Africa.

Officials fear near total crop losses, and the fungus, known as Ug99, is spreading.

« It’s Al Qaeda! » — Official White Horse Souse

Seriously, look at all the trillions of tax dollars wasted chasing after Iraq’s non-existent ‘nookular’ bombs.

Where did that money come from? Well, Bush borrowed a lot of it., but he got the rest CUTTING THE DOMESTIC BUDGET. That means no money to repair levees, no money to inspect bridges, no money to clear up dead brush in California, etc.

Tons of money was spent trying to « promote » global warming at the expense of the less glamorous task of protecting our food supply from calamity.

UN alert: One-fourth of world’s wheat at risk from new fungus

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned in March that Iran had detected a new highly pathogenic strain of wheat stem rust called Ug99.

In lean times, biotech grains are less taboo

Reuters

Soaring food prices and global grain shortages are bringing new pressures on governments, food companies and consumers to relax their longstanding resistance to genetically engineered crops.

Which is odd, since the latest studies show that GM crops produce LESS food than their natural counterparts.

Major new study shows that modified soya produces 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent

Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.

Last week the biggest study of its kind ever conducted – the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development – concluded that GM was not the answer to world hunger

Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.

The study – carried out over the past three years at the University of Kansas in the US grain belt – has found that GM soya produces about 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent, contradicting assertions by advocates of the technology that it increases yields.

And we only had to kill a lot of the bees to find this out.

Japan’s hunger becomes a dire warning for other nations

While soaring food prices have triggered rioting among the starving millions of the third world, in wealthy Japan they have forced a pampered population to contemplate the shocking possibility of a long-term — perhaps permanent — reduction in the quality and quantity of its food.

A 130% rise in the global cost of wheat in the past year, caused partly by surging demand from China and India and a huge injection of speculative funds into wheat futures, has forced the Government to hit flour millers with three rounds of stiff mark-ups. The latest — a 30% increase this month — has given rise to speculation that Japan, which relies on imports for 90% of its annual wheat consumption, is no longer on the brink of a food crisis, but has fallen off the cliff.

Changements climatiques

Climate change confirmed but global warming is cancelled

In December last year, at the UN conference in Bali, I heard Viscount Monckton present a paper prepared by himself, the Australian Dr David Evans and our own Dr Vincent Gray (who were at Bali, too) that showed while the IPCC models predict that greenhouse gases would produce an extensive « hot spot » in the upper troposphere over the tropics, the satellite measurements show no such hotspots have appeared.

Monckton and Evans found a large part of this discrepancy is the result of some basic errors in the IPCC’s assessment of the Stefan-Boltzmann equation. When they applied their revised factor to the effect of greenhouse gases, the temperature rise was about a third of that predicted by the IPCC.

Ocean Cooling to Briefly Halt Global Warming, Researchers Say

By Jim Efstathiou Jr.

April 30 (Bloomberg) — Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by mankind, Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said.

Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic, said a report today by the institution based in Kiel, Germany. Temperatures worldwide may stabilize in the period.

The study was based on sea-surface temperatures of currents that move heat around the world, and vary from decade to decade. This regional cooling effect may temporarily neutralize the long- term warming phenomenon caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases building up around the earth, said Richard Wood, a research scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre, a U.K. provider of environmental and weather-related services.

Globe may be cooling on Global Warming

« Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously. » Dr. Phil Chapman wrote in The Australian on April 23. « All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead. »

What should we do? Stop listening to politicians who take what nature does NATURALLY and turn it into a crisis requiring our money and obedience to « solve. »

NASA satellites found that last winter’s Arctic Sea ice covered 2 million square kilometers (772,000 square miles) more than the last three years’ average. It also was 10 to 20 centimeters (about 4-8 inches) thicker than in 2007. The ice between Canada and southwest Greenland also spread dramatically. « We have to go back 15 years to find ice expansion so far south, » Denmark’s Meteorological Institute stated.

« Snows Return to Mount Kilimanjaro, » cheered a January 21 International Herald Tribune headline, as Africa also defies the « warming » narrative.

While neither anecdotes nor one year’s statistics confirm global cooling, a decade of data contradicts the « melting planet » rhetoric that heats Capitol Hill and America’s newsrooms.

« The University of Alabama-Huntsville’s analysis of data from satellites launched in 1979 showed a warming trend of 0.14 degrees Centigrade (0.25 Fahrenheit) per decade, » Joseph D’Aleo, the Weather Channel’s first Director of Meteorology, told me. « This warmth peaked in 1998, and the temperature trend the last decade has been flat, even as CO2 has increased 5.5 percent. Cooling began in 2002. Over the last six years, global temperatures from satellite and land-temperature gauges have cooled (-0.14 F and -0.22 F, respectively). Ocean buoys have echoed that slight cooling since the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration deployed them in 2003. »

These researchers are not alone. They are among a rising tide of scientists who question the so-called « global warming » theory. Some further argue that global cooling merits urgent concern.

« In stark contrast to the often repeated assertion that the science of climate change is ‘settled,’ significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming, » 100 prestigious geologists, physicists, meteorologists, and other scientists wrote United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon last December. They also noted « today’s computer models cannot predict climate. Consistent with this, and despite computer projections of temperature rises, there has been no net global warming since 1998. »

In a December 2007 Senate Environment and Public Works Committee minority-staff report, some 400 scientists — from such respected institutions as Princeton, the National Academy of Sciences, the University of London, and Paris’ Pasteur Institute — declared their independence from the pro-warming « conventional wisdom. »

« Not CO2, but water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas, » asserted climatologist Luc Debontridder of Belgium’s Royal Meteorological Institute. « It is responsible for at least 75 percent of the greenhouse effect. This is a simple scientific fact, but Al Gore’s movie has hyped CO2 so much that nobody seems to take note of it. »

AccuWeather’s Expert Senior Forecaster Joe Bastardi has stated: « People are concerned that 50 years from now, it will be warm beyond a point of no return. My concern is almost opposite, that it’s cold and getting colder. »

And on Wednesday, the respected journal, Nature, indicated that Earth’s climactic cycles have stopped global warming through 2015.

Global warming may ‘stop’, scientists predict

Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said.

Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a « lull » for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

The average temperature of the sea around Europe and North America is expected to cool slightly over the decade while the tropical Pacific remains unchanged.

This would mean that the 0.3°C global average temperature rise which has been predicted for the next decade by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may not happen, according to the paper published in the scientific journal Nature.

However, the effect of rising fossil fuel emissions will mean that warming will accelerate again after 2015 when natural trends in the oceans veer back towards warming, according to the computer model.

Noel Keenlyside of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel, Germany, said: « The IPCC would predict a 0.3°C warming over the next decade. Our prediction is that there will be no warming until 2015 but it will pick up after that. »

He stressed that the results were just the initial findings from a new computer model of how the oceans behave over decades and it would be wholly misleading to infer that global warming, in the sense of the enhanced greenhouse effect from increased carbon emissions, had gone away.

The IPCC currently does not include in its models actual records of such events as the strength of the Gulf Stream and the El Nino cyclical warming event in the Pacific, which are known to have been behind the warmest year ever recorded in 1998.

« So, never mind the cold weather, global warming is still real and you better pay that carbon-tax and do what we tell you to do or YOU’RE ALL GONNA DIE HORRIBLE PAINFUL DEATHS AND BURN IN HECK FOREVER!!!!! »

Global Cooling Slows Global Warming

This appears to be a cover to me. Scientists are now predicting a cooling period over the next ten years. This natural cooling period will counter the man-made warming. Do you see the covering of all the bases that is going on here? Because the earth is beginning to go into a cooling period, scientists hoping to hold onto their global warming grants are now beginning to cover their asses.

Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as
shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by
mankind

Not only this but we are supposed to believe that the earth is still warming even as it cools.

Those natural climate variations could be stronger than the global-warming trend
over the next 10-year period,” Wood said in an interview. “Without knowing that,
you might erroneously think there’s no global warming going on.”

If we don’t experience warming over the next 10 years, it doesn’t mean that
greenhouse-gas warming is not with us,” Keenlyside said in an interview. “There
can be natural fluctuations that may mask climate change in the short term

Let me get this right, the earth is still warming, it is just cooling faster than it is warming. We are also just supposed to believe that the cooling is natural while the warming isn’t. How stupid do these people think we are? The earth goes through natural cooling and heating periods. PERIOD!

Let us just pretend for one moment that man-made global warming exists. If the earth is going to start naturally cooling, while man is causing the earth to heat, then don’t we owe it to the planet to keep on warming the earth. Without man-made global warming during this cooling period wouldn’t we be headed to another ice age?

Just one more question. If the earth is warming how is it possible for the oceans to be cooling in the first place? Shouldn’t the oceans be warming also? Okay, so that was two more questions. I can’t help it. The more that we hear about this subject, the more absurd it becomes. Scientists will do and say anything to protect their grant money. Politicians will also do or say anything to guilt people into paying more “green” taxes.

We are now told to believe that if the earth cools over the next decade that it doesn’t mean the warming has ended. It sounds like a cover to me.

http://oism.org/pproject/

Global Warming Petition

We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind. There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.
This petition has been signed by over 19,000 American scientists. Click here to sign a mail-in copy of this petition. It cannot be signed by Internet.

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Letter from Frederick Seitz

Research Review of Global Warming Evidence

Enclosed is a twelve-page review of information on the subject of « global warming, » a petition in the form of a reply card, and a return envelope. Please consider these materials carefully.

The United States is very close to adopting an international agreement that would ration the use of energy and of technologies that depend upon coal, oil, and natural gas and some other organic compounds.

This treaty is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful.

Click here to see the rest of this letter from the past president of the National Academy of Sciences.

Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

A review of the research literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion that increases during the 20th Century have produced no deleterious effects upon global weather, climate, or temperature. Increased carbon dioxide has, however, markedly increased plant growth rates. Predictions of harmful climatic effects due to future increases in minor greenhouse gases like CO2 are in error and do not conform to current experimental knowledge.

Click here to see this peer reviewed research paper.

Note: The Petition Project has no funding from energy industries or other parties with special financial interests in the « global warming » debate. Funding for the project comes entirely from private non-tax deductible donations by interested individuals.

OFFICIAL: Global warming mistakes have been made

The IPCC’s computer models, used to predict the effects of global warming, it appears, failed to accurately predict the influence that water vapour has on the temperature of the earth. At the global climate change summit in Bali late last year, Dr Roy Spencer presented a paper to the IPCC, saying that rather than CO2 driving the formation of water vapour, which then drives up temperatures as a greenhouse gas, water vapour actually washes excess CO2 out of the atmosphere, dampening and balancing its affect as a greenhouse gas. This discovery was made thanks to weather satellites that showed water vapour forms a lot lower in the atmosphere than was initially suggested. Shock horror, the finely balanced system that is the global ecosystem is able to keep itself in balance… who’d have thought it?!

A far more thorough summary is available in Owen McShane’s column in the National Business Review (click here), which contains gems like this quote: « The delusion that by recycling and catching public transport we can help save the planet will quickly come to be seen for the childish nonsense it was all along. »

You can also read Dr Roy Spencer’s report in full by clicking here.

Or the IPCC’s latest report, Climate Change 2007, in .pdf format by clicking here.

Climate facts to warm to

Duffy asked Marohasy: « Is the Earth still warming? »

She replied: « No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you’d expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years. »

Weather Service: Whitest Easter in Detroit in decades

Already digging out from a storm that buried the state under up to 10 inches of snow near the Ohio border, forecasters are predicting a chance of snow showers Sunday across most of the Lower Peninsula and the western Upper Peninsula.

The weekly meeting of the first church of global warming has been canceled due to ice.

Perhaps The Climate Change Models Are Wrong

When they were first deployed in 2003, the Argos were hailed for their ability to collect information on ocean conditions more precisely, at more places and greater depths and in more conditions than ever before. No longer would scientists have to rely on measurements mostly at the surface from older scientific buoys or inconsistent shipboard monitors.

So why are some scientists now beginning to question the buoys’ findings? Because in five years, the little blighters have failed to detect any global warming. They are not reinforcing the scientific orthodoxy of the day, namely that man is causing the planet to warm dangerously. They are not proving the predetermined conclusions of their human masters. Therefore they, and not their masters’ hypotheses, must be wrong.

Fishing opener on ice for some MN lakes

For anglers it’s what separates heaven from nirvana. Ice too thin for a fish house, too thick for a boat.

« You’re looking at a lot of ice out there, » says Leech Lake resort owner Roy Huddle. One day from the fishing opener, Huddle is still missing his lake.

« But, but, but, Saint Al of the Gore said we would see boiling steam by mid-May if we didn;t all pay zillions of dollars in carbon taxes!!!! »

Al Gore And Climate Ka-Ching

So why the hype? Well, global warming is a growth industry designed to keep Earth and some bank accounts green.

Gore himself joined the venture capital group, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers just last September. On May 1, the firm announced a $500 million investment in maturing green technology firms called the Green Growth Fund.

The group announced another $700 million to be invested over the next three years in green-tech startup firms. But if the green technology business, uh, cools down, there will be no return on that investment. There would be no need for such investments if global warming wasn’t a threat. So Gore just launched, among other things, a $300 million on an ad campaign to convince us it is so.

UN chief calls for review of biofuels policy

The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, has called for a comprehensive review of the policy on biofuels as a crisis in global food prices – partly caused by the increasing use of crops for energy generation – threatens to trigger global instability.

Ethanol fuel is not so green

It is not green, it is not economically viable, and any move to mandate its inclusion in fuel would have enormous repercussions for other sectors of Australian industry. It is something of a relief, therefore, to read a just-released parliamentary research paper on the economic effects of an ethanol mandate.

The paper concludes that « no prima facie economic case for a mandate has been established ».

And making ethanol is a hungry process. It requires some 200kg of corn to produce between 90 and 100 litres of ethanol, enough to fill the fuel tank of a typical four-wheel-drive vehicle. That same amount of corn could supply enough calories to feed a person for a year.

Corn has doubled in price in the past two years, while stockpiles have shrunk alarmingly. As ABN Amro Morgans chief economist Michael Knox put it so well recently: « Part of this increased (grain) consumption comes from turning corn into fodder for automobiles. This is the dumbest idea that politicians have produced this century. »

BBC Caught Editing Story To Appease Global Warming Lobbyist

The BBC has sensationally been caught red-handed editing a news story about global warming in order to appease a rhetorical e mail sent by an environmental activist, while it has also emerged that BBC writers are aware of the growing suspicions about apparent attempts to censor skeptics of man-made global warming.

Recipe for Catastrophe: Climate, Fuel, and Food

This didn’t start with the current economic crisis which comes with the so-called « mortgage crisis. » It doesn’t start with the recent sky rocketing increase in oil and gasoline. It started with the U.S. turn to bio-fuels production. It has been accelerated by multiple other issues.

The U.S. bio-fuels incentives put not just the U.S. food supply, but the global food supply, in competition with the fuel supply. Farmers (and corporate agriculture) in the U.S. took much of the corn crop to the refinery rather than to the food processing plants. Most of the food price increases seen in the U.S up until about a month ago were due solely to this shift.

Thanks a lot global-warmers. You took a non-existent danger built on selective data, tried to sell a tax agenda with it, and created a real human catastrophe in the process.

« Triggered global starvation » Imagine how that will look on your resume! Who is going to hire you now? I sure as hell won’t!

Scientists Unveil High-Res Map of the U.S. Carbon Footprint

And, since all animals exhale carbon dioxide, no surprise that the map shows higher levels of carbon dioxide where there is a higher concentration of living things.

But as property values are salaries drop, count on the government at all levels, which does NOT want to have to learn to get by with less like those of us living in the real world, will jump onto the global warming tax bandwagon, claim that the expected and obvious result of higher carbon dioxide where there are concentrations of animal life as proof of our « guilt », followed by calls for taxes to « correct » the « problem » to shore up their sagging revenues.

Wise leaders try to make the entire country prosperous. Poor leaders only worry about making themselves prosperous. We are cursed with the latter.

Finance Ministers Emphasize Food Crisis Over Credit Crisis

Haiti was the warning shot. Left to itself, the food crisis will bring down governments, and the new governments that replace them may not honor debts to the World Bank. So, in order to protect those loans, now we will see a scramble to alleviate the starvation around the world.

… Except Palestine, of course.

Wind Powers 40% Of Spain

World’s oldest tree discovered in Sweden

The tree has rewritten the history of the climate in the region, revealing that it was much warmer at that time and the ice had disappeared earlier than thought.

The tree has rewritten the history of the climate in the region, revealing that it was much warmer at that time and the ice had disappeared earlier than thought.

Previously, pine trees in North America were thought to be the oldest, at around 5,000 years old.

But Swedish scientists report that in the mountains, from Lapland in the north to Dalarna in central Sweden, there are much more ancient spruce trees (Picea abies).

Prof Leif Kullman at Umeå University and colleagues found a cluster of around 20 spruces that are over 8,000 years old.

BEWARE THE TRASH-BIN POLICE!!!!!!!

Bin Brother is Watching You.

About 500,000 trash bins across England has been fitted with an electronic bug that monitor the homeowner’s waste disposal habits

With his rubbish collected only once a fortnight, Gareth Corkhill’s wheelie bin was so full the lid wouldn’t shut.

And for that, the father of four finds himself with a criminal record.

Magistrates convicted the 26-year-old bus driver after hearing evidence that the lid was four inches ajar, which is against rules to stop bins overflowing.

Four inches too far: Gareth Corkhill with wife Claire and son Josh

He was ordered to pay £210 – a week’s wages – after he declined to pay an on-the-spot fine imposed by the local council’s bin police, who visited him wearing stab-proof vests and carrying photographic evidence of his crime.

To add insult to injury he was told to pay a £15 victim surcharge to help victims of violence – despite there being no victim – and threatened with prison if he failed to pay.

Rapists, murderers and other violent criminals who have earned a jail sentence rather than a fine are immune from the penalty.

Yesterday the council, Copeland in Cumbria, said that Mr Corkhill’s family had caused problems for « the battle to reduce waste ».

His penalty compares with the typical on-the-spot fine of £80 given to shoplifters – even repeat offenders.

Next – « Kill-Yourself-For-The-Earth Day »

Organized by the elite World Wildlife Fund, « Earth Hour » was a psy-op designed to remind us we are a burden on the ecosystem. The event was organized by an elite who represent one percent of the world’s population yet own over 40% of the resources.

From the elite perspective, we’re superfluous- the real message of ‘Earth Hour. »

Have they ever done anything to celebrate human life?

If we are energy challenged, it is because the Illuminati banking cartel has been suppressing non-polluting free-energy technology for almost a century. At the same time, this cartel has been fomenting wasteful and tragic wars.

A MODEST PROPOSAL

If people feel they are such a burden, why not kill themselves? Is there a more effective way to say you care about the planet? Erase your « carbon footprint » altogether.

We will need some time to get our affairs in order, and say our goodbyes, but perhaps next Spring, the World Wildlife Fund could sponsor a « Kill-Yourself-for-the-Earth Day. » Families, companies, cities and countries could offer sacrifices to the Environmental God. With proper promotion, millions might volunteer.

Why dither with symbolic gestures when we can make a real difference?

As former US vice-president Al Gore said last year in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize: « We are what is wrong and we must make it right! »

No, Al Gore. You and your Illuminati henchmen are the problem. Please consider my modest proposal.

19,000 Scientists Say Global Warming is Bunk

Gore Connection to Occidental Petroleum

Ted Turner Wants You Dead To Save The Planet

Ted Turner the largest U.S. land owner and wealthy media mogul has stated yet again during a PBS interview with Charlie Rose that the world’s population needs to be reduced. Turner also used the interview as an opportunity to continue the non stop irrational fear mongering of global warming. He stated that if something isn’t done about global warming that people would soon be forced to resort to cannibalism. Turner also stated that he believes that global warming is directly related to the fact that there are too many people on the planet using too much stuff. Therefore, to fight global warming you’d need to have a dramatic reduction in population.

Eco Group Calls For « Voluntary Human Extinction »

There is a lot of self-hate in the radical environmentalist movement.

Setting that aside, there is a fundamental problem with this approach. The people most willing to make such a sacrifice for the good of the whole world are the very ones you would WANT to encourage to have (and teach) offspring. It’s the ones least likely to voluntarily curb their instincts that are the problem.

Pétrole

Oil hits record high of $126 a barrel ahead of summer driving season

Oil rose above $126 a barrel for the first time Friday, bringing its advance this week to nearly $10, as investors questioned whether a possible confrontation between the U.S. and Venezuela could cut exports from the OPEC member.

Many analysts believe the dollar’s protracted decline has much to do with the doubling in oil prices since this time last year. Another school of thought thinks tight global supplies of oil, driven by growing demand in countries such as China, Brazil and India, is the primary factor driving oil higher.

Pump prices lift Shell and BP to record £7.2bn

£7bn profit for oil giants as £5 gallon arrives

BP and Shell fuelled the anger of UK motorists today after the two firms racked up combined profits of more than £7 billion in three months.

Oil speculators push price to £5 gallon

Petrol is likely to hit £5 a gallon today as « hot money » from speculators drives the oil price to record levels.

Lehman Brothers, the investment bank, has estimated that fuel is 30 per cent overpriced because of an influx of money into the oil market from investment funds.

Chevron profit rises 9.5 percent in 1Q on higher oil prices

Exxon posts $10.9 billion profit

Bolstered by record crude oil prices, Exxon Mobil Corp. yesterday reported huge first-quarter profits and fueled new congressional vows to come up with legislation that would tax windfall profits or demonstrate concern about high gasoline prices.

The oil giant earned $10.9 billion in profits, up 17 percent from the previous year. The amount was short of the all-time record Exxon set the previous quarter but high enough to put it on the defensive amid consumer ire and congressional indignation.

Enron Schemes Caught On Tape
2005-02-03, CBS News

During the West Coast Power crisis homes went dark and streetlights were out … causing injuries and accidents. But the danger didn’t stop Enron’s energy traders from having a good laugh. CBS … reports on the Enron scheme, as caught on new audio tape. The traders and plant operator laugh and plot in a display that seems to prove the theory that years before the energy crisis, Enron manipulated markets. « They had to do a rolling blackout through the town and there was a red light there he didn’t see, » one Enron trader says on tape. « That’s beautiful, » a second voice responds. The new tapes … confirm what CBS News has been reporting for four years: That Enron secretly shut power plants down so they could cause, and then cash in on, the crisis. « We want you guys to get a little creative… » one voice says on the tape, « and come up with a reason to go down. » Plant operators were coached on how to lie to officials. « Just call ’em, Hey guys…we’re coming down, » one Enron trader says. The plant operator replies, « OK, so we’re just comin’ down for some maintenance? » « Right, » the trader says. « And that’s cool? » the plant operator asks. « Hopefully, » the trader responds, to which the men are heard laughing. Enron also pulled power out of states like California, causing emergency conditions to worsen. The « shut downs » and « pull outs » triggered sky high power prices. « We’re just making money hand over fist! » one voice is heard saying on the tape. And when states complained, the guys at Enron seemed to have a response. « Get a f****** clue, » one says. « Yeah, » another chimes in. « Leave us alone. Let us make a little bit of money. »

Note: To watch short video clips on CBS of these blatant manipulations, click here. For lots more reliable, verifiable information on the energy cover-up, click here.

Refiners Maintain a Firm but Legal Grip on Supplies
2005-06-18, Los Angeles Times

California refiners are simply cashing in on a system that allows a handful of players to keep prices high by carefully controlling supplies. The result is a kind of miracle market in which profits abound, outsiders can’t compete and a dwindling cadre of gas station operators has little choice but go along. Refiners « not only control how much supply is in the marketplace, they control who gets it and at what price, » said Dennis DeCota, executive director of the California Service Station and Automotive Repair Assn. The recent history of California’s fuel industry is a textbook case of how a once-competitive business can become skewed to the advantage of a few, all with the federal government’s blessing. Refiners acknowledge their CaliforniaCalifornia — specialty fuels, a refinery shortage, the growing dominance of a few companies — have begun to plague other gasoline markets. businesses have become the most profitable in the nation. The rest of the country isn’t far behind. Characteristics once unique to

Documentaire: Réchauffement global ou gouvernance globale?

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Global Warming or Global Governance

Interviews of climate scientists and biologists from numerous sources who explain, step by step, why Al Gore and the global warming … all alarmists are incorrect. In some cases, blatantly so. It also provides evidence that the global warming agenda is being funded with tens of billions of dollars as a mechanism to create global governance. Hear from congressmen, experts and even well-known news broadcasters how global governance puts global institutions that are not accountable to the American people in control of every aspect of our economy. The U.S. government is very close to making this a reality. Very close. Every American, every citizen of the world, needs to hear the other side of the global warming story.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4860344067427439443

Ex-Pharma représentante parle / Environne-mentalisme, nouvelle religion d’un nouvel âge

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Ex-Pharma représentante parle / Environne-mentalisme, nouvelle religion d’un nouvel âge

VIDEO – Ex-Pharma Sales Reps blows whistle

Environ-Mentalism: A New Religion for a New Age

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYl4hkFRdTk

This video highlights the connection between the environmental movement and those who are striving to bring about a new system of control to the world.

Also be sure to check out part II of this video, titled ‘Environ-Mentalism II: Means to an End’.

The Global Warming Myth – Dr Noah Robinson – Telecosm 2007

http://www.discovery.org/v/30

Émission de L’Autre Monde du 6 mars 2008: Économie, Pétrole, Santé, Réserves de grains

Émission de L’Autre Monde du 6 mars 2008: Économie, Pétrole, Santé, Réserves de grains

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L’Autre Monde 6 mars 2008
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– Dans notre tour de monde avec Les Nouvelles Internationales, nous abordons les sujets suivants: l’économie mondiale, le pétrole, la réserve de semences de Svalbard, et le Moyen-Orient.

– On se penche aussi sur l’épineux dossier de la santé et de la pratique médicale.

Hyperliens vers les sources des informations discutées sur l’émission d’aujourd’hui:

CANADIAN ACTION PARTY (CAP) / (PAC) PARTI ACTION CANADIENNE

P.O. Box 385-916 West Broadway Vancouver, BC V5Z1K7

Phone: 604-708-3372 Fax: 604-872-1504

! INTERNATIONAL CALL TO ACTION !

To all fellow citizens of the North American Continent:

The 2008 Security and Prosperity Partnership (S.P.P.) meeting will take

place in New Orleans on April 21st and 22nd. This partnership is a wide

ranging agreement meant to harmonize trade regulations, standards ,and laws

across Canada the U.S. and Mexico. It also incorporates security and

immigration measures designed to make North America into one continental

security zone wherein labour and goods flow freely between transnational

corporations without the hassle of borders or democratically imposed trade

barriers. It also enables military and para-military forces of ANY of the

three countries to operate freely ANYWHERE within the North American

continent. This is the pivotal step towards a North American Union and it

is being implemented by banking, corporate, and governmental powers, working in concert without public consent or serious media scrutiny.

ON APRIL 19th, across the continent, people from all walks of life will come

together and demand that their voices be heard. International demonstrations

against the S.P.P. and North American Union will take place in cities and

towns across North America. We will stand united and make it known within

the halls of government that our heritage and our future are not for sale.

We will act to ensure that ourselves and our children live in a country

where our identities and our rights and freedoms are respected and

preserved. Canadians, Americans, and Mexicans will mobilize to inform their

fellow citizens and to call out their respective governments, demanding to

know exactly what the Security and Prosperity Partnership really means to

them. Once the full intent of the S.P.P. has been disclosed, the citizens

of North America will demand it be stopped. We will order the investigation

and impeachment of our elected representatives for going behind our backs

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More Americans turning to Web for news

Nearly half of the 1,979 people who responded to the survey said their primary source of news and information is the Internet, up from 40 percent just a year ago. Less than one third use television to get their news, while 11 percent turn to radio and 10 percent to newspapers.

Afghanistan

Le vendredi 29 février 2008

L’armée canadienne reprend le transfert de détenus afghans

Afghanistan mission close to failing – US

After six years of US-led military support and billions of pounds in aid, security in Afghanistan is « deteriorating » and President Hamid Karzai’s government controls less than a third of the country, America’s top intelligence official has admitted.

Hamid Karzai was part of the Unocal working group that went before the US Congress in 1998 and urged war on Afghanistan to make way for a pipeline project from the Caspian Sea to a tanker port on the Indian Ocean.

IT’S ALL ABOUT OIL!

Israël, Palestine et la bande de Gaza

Blood-thirsty ISRAEL seeks « clean break » to ensnare Iran/Syria into the war after « shoah » attacks on Gaza & Lebanon

« We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai. » Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, May 1948

IS THE MIDDLE EAST ABOUT TO BLOW?

The situation in the Middle East has become extremely volatile over the last few days what with the Israelis killing Palestinians by the score in the Gaza and the US provocatively placing their warships just outside of territorial waters off Lebanon. After months of festering, the Israelis and the US seem set to bring the entire Middle East to a head with the ultimate endgame being the final confrontation between Iran and the US and Israel.

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Kuwait have all ordered their nationals to leave Lebanon within the next 48 (now 36) hours.

US sending warships to eastern Med

Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters the deployment should not be viewed as threatening or in response to events in any single country in that volatile region.

Expect some fur to fly shortly.

Between Israel making threatening noises at Hezbullah, Hamas, Lebanon, Syria, and of course, Iran, this is probably not about presenting a show of strength: this is strategic.

Egypt leaks information about an American military action against Syria

Jordanian newspaper Al-Arab Al-Youm reported today, through sources that an American message leaked by Egypt to Syria shows that the United States is ready to launch a broad military operation against Syria if it insists on its position on the Lebanese crisis and this is the real reason behind the deployment of “USS Cole” in front of the Syrian – Lebanese waters

Israeli troops train for next battle in South Lebanon

Amid renewed tensions and a political crisis in Beirut, the United States said on Thursday it was deploying the warship USS Cole off Lebanon in the eastern Mediterranean as a signal aimed at bolstering regional stability.

That line about the US Naval presence « bolstering regional stability » is ironic, because the US presence in this part of the world can only create more instability.

The timing of Israeli war games is rather interesting.

This, coupled with the the Saudis, Bahrainis, and the Kuwaitis urging their citizens to get out of Lebanon within the next 36 hours, indicates that something profoundly ugly is about to happen here.

ZIONISTS IN A FRENZY DENYING THE HOLOCAUST

My last post was about Israeli leaders calling for a holocaust against the Palestinians….

This was reported throughout the world…. upsetting the zionists. Rather then get Israel to call off it’s stormtroopers… they merely call it all a ‘bad translation’ of what was actually said….

Embarrassed by the legitimization of holocaust against the Palestinians, Israel tries to back-peddle by claiming it was all a mistranslation.

THE HOLOCAUST HAS A NAME!!

Israel likes to name it’s wars, it makes them more personal I guess… The holocaust that is occurring in Gaza at the moment was just named… ‘Operation Warm Winter’…. probably to give the impression that the electrical and fuel stoppages are not causing too much suffering to the freezing population… it’s part of their new PR campaign.

GAZA IS GOING DEAF FROM THE SILENCE

The population of Gaza was about 1.5 million as of yesterday morning… there are 13 less this morning. Last night Israel murdered 13 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including the gorgeous baby in the photograph above. The child had a name, it was Muhammed Al-Bura’i. He was six months old. Israel felt the need to kill him as he might have been responsible for a Qassam rocket that was fired into Sderot killing an Israeli civilian.

Israeli jet bombs Palestine labor union HQ in Gaza

Gaza Strip Is Suffering – Need Actions – Not Talks

Israel insists it has no choice but to kill Palestinians. Of course there is another choice. Israel could give back the land it stole and allow the Palestinians to have their own nation on their own soil.

All this misery and threat of war exists because Israel is never content with what it has, but always must have more, taking at away from its neighbors.

Look at the maps. It is Israel that is the aggressor nation.

Punishing the people

Four months have passed since the peace meeting in Annapolis, and the smouldering fire of the Israel-Palestine conflict has once again combusted. Up to 70 Palestinians have died in two days of fighting, after Israel launched an offensive – involving ground troops, air strikes and shelling – to stop the firing of Qassam rockets. Half the casualties of Israel’s onslaught are civilian, including women, children and a 21-month-old baby. Yesterday Ehud Barak, Israel’s defence minister, said an even broader offensive was on the cards to crush the rocket squads – and maybe even bring down Hamas’s rule.

It is really simple folks; 60 years ago Israel started taking land away from the Palestinian people by force. They are still taking it away today.

The core problem is that Israel demands the world recognize the Jewish state, but refuses to recognize a Palestinian state. If Israel would simply to give Palestine exactly the same thing it demands for itself, there would be peace.

Israel insists it has a right to do what it does in Palestine because of the suffering of Jewish people in Germany in the middle of the last century. But what did Palestine have to do with any of that? Why should they pay the price for other peoples’ crimes?

Israel screams about Qassam rockets, but if a new nation was declared in the middle of the North American continent without your permission, a nation that refused to actual declare its borders, a nation that continued to take more and more land from you until you and your family were barely clinging to survival as the lights went dark and the sewage piled up, would you not fight back?

What Palestine is doing to Israel is no different than what the American patriots did to the British in 1776. A foreign power occupies their land, and they want it back.

Amnesty rips IDF for ‘reckless disregard of life’ in Gaza

« Israeli military attacks over the past few days have killed more than 75 Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 10 children, and other unarmed civilian bystanders not involved in the confrontations » Malcolm Smart, director of Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa program, said Sunday. « Israel has a legal obligation to protect the civilian population of Gaza. Such attacks are disproportionate and go beyond lawful measures which Israeli forces may take in response to rocket attacks by Palestinian armed groups. »

AN ISRAELI AND A PALESTINIAN SPEAK OF THE HORRORS

Over 112 Palestinians Killed in Five-Day Israeli Attack, Mohammed Omer Reports from Gaza.

ISRAELIS START TO TALK OF MOVING GAZAN CITIZENS.

The first tentative talk of moving Gazan citizens has begun in Israeli government circles. Israeli Minister for Terrorism against the Palestinian People, Ehud Barak, has suggested that Gazans be cleared out of areas where Palestinian fighters are launching rockets and mortars. In order to ensure that they then stay out of the area one of two things need to happen; one, the Gazans that are removed will need to moved out of the Gaza altogether, perhaps to the West Bank, or as many Zionists would prefer, to Jordan or the Sinai in Egypt, or two, the Israeli IDF occupies the area evacuated. The third option, of course, is that they do both.

I’ll bet Israel turns around and demands that the US take in the Palestinians since we « complained » so much about their living conditions in Gaza.

israeli Defense Minister vows to unleash « Shoah » on Gaza

PICTURES

Speaking on Israel Army Radio, [israeli deputy defense minister] Mr Vilnai said if Palestinians increased rocket fire, they will bring upon themselves what he called a « shoah » – a Hebrew word for catastrophe, and for the Nazi Holocaust.

Israel threatens to unleash ‘holocaust’ in Gaza

An Israeli minister gave warning today that the army may unleash a “holocaust” on the Gaza Strip if Islamists there do not end their daily barrages of home-made Qassam rockets and their increasing use of Iranian-built Grad missiles.

Note the attempt to link Iran into this mess.

Olmert: Don’t preach morals to Israel

In cabinet meeting, prime minister slams international criticism leveled at Israel over Gaza operation, saying country has right to defend its citizens against rocket fire; Olmert vows military operation to continue.

This is about territory, and de-legitimizing (read: « neutralizing ») the political party which actually won the last Palestinian elections which were characterized as primarily free and fair.

Look for a truly major incursion into Gaza just as soon as Israel decides that the timing is right.

ISRAELI MINISTERS ARGUE OVER BEST WAY OF KILLING PALESTINIANS.

Two Israeli ministers are openly debating the best way to kill Palestinian people. It seems that the Israeli Minister for Terrorism Against Palestinians, Ehud Barak, favours an invasion of the Gaza Strip to kill as many Palestinian fighters that they can lay their hands on, while the Israeli Minister for the Interior, Meir Sheetrit, would prefer a massive targeted killing spree. Either way, it is likely that many innocent civilians will die as well as many Palestinian fighters.

Olmert threatens to assassinate Hamas political leaders

Israeli premier Ehud Olmert has threatened to assassinate the Hamas Movement’s political leaders, adding that « no one was immune ».

Olmert: Any minister who votes against gov’t to be dismissed

Middle East Online

The report — posted on the UN Human Rights Council’s Web site — says that while Palestinian terrorist acts are deplorable, « they must be understood as being a painful but inevitable consequence of colonialism, apartheid or occupation. »

This assessment speaks for itself.

Liban

Israeli warplanes breach Lebanese airspace

Al Jazeera English – News – Saudis Urged To Leave Lebanon

The manure is about to hit the ventilation system.

Lebanon Orders Army to ‘Achieve High Combat Readiness’

There are more signs of a wider regional war as Tears for Lebanon (TFL) and Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) are reporting Army Commander General Michel Suleiman has ordered his officers to « achieve high combat readiness of their units to confront all expected possibilities, especially defending the southern land, maintain domestic security and stability. » General Suleiman was issuing the directives to his senior commanders of Lebanon’s most important units from his headquarters at Yarze a suburb east of Beirut. This is definitely within the time-table of Tehran as most of Lebanon’s military has close relations with Damascus-Hezbollah. He said the army’s « basic duty is to prevent the Israeli enemy from occupying Lebanese territories or attempting to use them as a passage to launch an aggression against Arab brethren. »

Now we understand why various Middle Eastern countries were imploring their foreign nationals still in Lebanon to « get the heck out of Dodge », and do it very quickly.

Iran

Iran shifts oil sales away from dollar

Analysts are of the view that Iran’s oil revenues have enabled the country to bear the costs of UN sanctions and US attempts to prevent dollar transactions through third party banks.

US pushes EU to shut down Iranian banks

The US is pushing the European Union to increase the pressure on Tehran over its nuclear programme by stopping two Iranian banks from operating on European soil.

This has nothing to do with nuclear weapons (which Iran is not building anyway) and everything to do with preventing other nations from being able to purchase oil from Iran’s non-dollar bourse.

Of course, Iran will be perfectly happy to sell their oil to Russia and China, and so the end result of this pig-headed policy is that instead of conquering Iran’s oil the US will have succeeded in cutting us off from it completely.

Iran no threat to region, says UAE premier

Israel and the US, on the other hand …

ElBaradei ‘to declare Iran clean’

The IAEA Chief’s report on Iran’s nuclear program would be positive and it would rule out the possibility that Iran may running a clandestine nuclear arms program, informed sources familiar with the UN nuclear watchdog’s issues said on Wednesday.

Now then, about that reactor complex at Dimona …

Iran calls for UN sanctions against U.S.

Supreme National Security Council Secretary Saeed Jalili has urged the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on the U.S. for developing nuclear weapons.

“The Security Council must issue sanctions resolution against the U.S. which has a long record in proliferation and use of nuclear weapons,” Jalili told Japan’s NHK television aired on Friday.

That is true. In the whole wide world there is only one nation that has ever actually used nuclear weapons of mass destruction on the civilians of another country. That nation is the United States.

UN Approves New Sanctions Against Iran

I understand why Russia went along with the sanctions. If Iran stops making fuel rods for their reactors, then they will have to buy them from Russia.

As for China, the lever used on them is obvious. This round of sanctions bans trade with Iran in goods which have both civilian and military uses. That means the oil, which Iran wants to sell for non-dollar currencies. If Iran were allowed to continue to sell their oil for non-dollar currencies, the dollar would fall, and every nation, China included, that is holding large reserves of dollars would see the value of those reserves plummet.

So, the UN vote is essentially a vote not for concern about nuclear weapons, but pure self interest. The other member nations of the security council have been taking US dollars and sticking them in warehouses to keep the value of the dollar high and now they are stuck. They HAVE to do whatever it takes to prop those dollars up.

Russia, China Block UN Iran Resolution

Russia and China on Tuesday scuttled a Western attempt to introduce a resolution on Iran’s nuclear defiance at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, diplomats said.

Famine, Semences et Changements climatiques

***** Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
Michael Asher– February 26, 2008

World Temperatures according to the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction. Note the steep drop over the last year.

Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile — the list goes on and on.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C — a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year’s time. For all four sources, it’s the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn’t itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age

Lorne Gunter, National Post Published: Monday, February 25, 2008

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January « was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average. »

B.C. budget hikes fuel costs with new carbon tax

I keep telling you; this whole « Humans cause global warming » thing is a SCAM to justify taking more money from you.

Look at all the record-setting cold we have this winter. If global warming were the issue, the proponents would slow down and re-evaluate the model in light of this new and unexpected data. But the agenda is really about grabbing money, so the global warming cult doesn’t even break stride, imposing their carbon tax on you even as the snow and ice rise to record levels.

Cold Water on « Global Warming »

A whole cottage industry has sprung up among people who get grants, government agencies who get appropriations, politicians who get publicity, and the perpetually indignant who get something new to be indignant about. It gives teachers something to talk about in school instead of teaching.

Those who bother to check the facts often find that not all those who are called scientists are really scientists and not all of those who are scientists are specialists in climate. But who bothers to check facts these days?

Wheat prices doubled almost overnight

And the blame falls on the global warming cultists who insisted farmers grow fuel instead of food.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you, because … I did! – M. R.

VIDEO:

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4320837

World Grain Demand Straining U.S. Supply

Okay, so the global warming « cult » promised us all that if we turned food production farmland into ethanol production, that we would have a zero carbon footprint source of energy.

Of course, it didn’t work out that way because the process used to turn corn into ethanol actually produces more greenhouse gas than just burning an equivalent amount of gasoline. And since ethanol actually contains less chemical energy than the equivalent amount of gasoline, you have to buy MORE of this already-expensive concoction to drive the same number of miles.

Meanwhile, because less land is growing food, now we have food shortages, and because the US dollar is in decline, American agricultural corporations are selling the food grown in the United States to foreign markets … leaving US store shelves empty.

Good thinking, guys. Real Einstein-class brains you got there! – M. R.

Food shortages loom as wheat crop shrinks and prices rise

The world is only ten weeks away from running out of wheat supplies after stocks fell to their lowest levels for 50 years.

The crisis has pushed prices to an all-time high and could lead to further hikes in the price of bread, beer, biscuits and other basic foods.

Famines May Occur Without Record Crops This Year, Potash Says

People and livestock are consuming more grain than ever, draining world inventories and increasing the likelihood of shortages, Doyle said yesterday in an interview on Bloomberg Television.

Food Riots already happening

Here in Jordan, the cost of maintaining fuel subsidies amid the surge in prices forced the government to remove almost all the subsidies this month, sending the price of some fuels up 76 percent overnight. In a devastating domino effect, the cost of basic foods like eggs, potatoes and cucumbers doubled or more.

In a few places the price increases have led to violence. In Yemen, prices for bread and other foods have nearly doubled in the past four months, setting off a string of demonstrations and riots in which at least a dozen people were killed. In Morocco, 34 people were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for participating in riots over food prices, the Moroccan state news service reported. Even tightly controlled Jordan has had nonviolent demonstrations and strikes.

In Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, inflation is in the double digits

In the oil-producing gulf countries, governments that are flush with oil money can soften the blow by spending more. The United Arab Emirates increased the salaries of public sector employees by 70 percent this month; Oman raised them 43 percent. Saudi Arabia also raised wages and increased subsidies on some foods. Bahrain set up a $100 million fund to be distributed this year to people most affected by rising prices. But all this government spending has the unfortunate side effect of worsening inflation, economists say.

Mr. Abdul Raheem, the clothing store employee in Amman, potatoes have jumped to about 76 cents a pound from 32 cents. A carton of 30 eggs went to nearly $4.25 from just above $2; cucumbers rose to 58 cents a pound from about 22. All this in a matter of weeks.

Middle Class May Be Subject To Food Rations, Warns UN

« The WFP crisis talks come as the body sees the emergence of a “new area of hunger” in developing countries where even middle-class, urban people are being “priced out of the food market” because of rising food prices, » reports the Financial Times.

I think I have the curse of Cassandra on me.

Back when the global warming cultists were touting ethanol as an alternative to gas because it would have zero carbon footprint (it doesn’t after you add in the emissions from the conversion process), I warned that once huge tracts of farmland were diverted from food production to ethanol production that we would see food shortages and skyrocketing prices as a result.

And here we are.

Privatisation de la Biodiversité: La Société Radio Canada impliquée dans le mensonge médiatique

Privatisation de la Biodiversité: La Société Radio Canada impliquée dans le mensonge médiatique

par Michel Chossudovsky

Mondialisation.ca, Le 26 fevrier 2008

Un reportage de Radio Canada (Le Point, 25 février) passe en revue un projet de Banque de la biodiversité situé dans l’Artique. Il s’agit d’un projet est une de « chambre forte » des semences mondiales situé à Svalbard, sur l’île norvégienne de Spitsbergen. .

(25 février 2008) – Une installation très particulière sera inaugurée cette semaine dans l’archipel du Svalbard, au large de la Norvège dans l’océan Arctique. Il s’agit d’un abri souterrain destiné à sauvegarder les graines des différentes espèces végétales de la planète.

Ce projet international ambitieux, appelé Voûte internationale des semences, vise à préserver une biodiversité de plus en plus

Le projet est une « chambre forte » des semences mondiales situé à Svalbard, sur l’île norvégienne de Spitsbergen. .

Jean-François Bélanger l’a visitée. http://www.radio-canada.ca/actualite/v2/tj22h/index.shtml#

Video du programme (real)

Ce reportage présente le projet de Svalbard comme étant une initiative à caractère humanitaire visant la protection de la biodiversité mondiale, afin de protéger l’agriculture biologique. Toutes les semences de la planète seraient déposées dans cette chambre forte de Svalbard, à l’abris des catastrophes.

Ce reportage est mensonger à plusieurs égards.

Il s’agit d’une initiative de la Fondation Bill et Melinda Gates. Le reportage ne le mentionne pas. Qui plus est, les principaux partenaires du projet sont Monsanto, la plus grande société mondiale de biotechnologie, la Fondation Sygenta, géant des semences OGM et de produits de l’agrochimie et la Fondation Rockefeller.

Également associé au projet est le géant étasunien de l’agro-alimentaire DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred, impliqué dans le brevetage d’organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM) et de semences,

La Fondation Rockefeller est impliquée par l’entremise de son réseau mondial (CGIAR) dans la promotion des OGM au détriment de l’agriculture biologique. Le gouvernment norvégien figure également comme partenaire du projet.

Il ne s’agit nullement d’un projet humanitaire. Bien au contraire.

Ce projet permet à une poignée d’entreprises de la biotechnologie de prendre le contrôle des semences biologiques de la planète. Ce projet vise la privatisation de la biodiversité mondiale au détriment des peuples.

Il est averé que les principaux partenaires (la Fondation Gates, Monsanto, Sygenta et la Fondation Rockefeller) de ce projet visant, selon Radio Canada, ‘à sauvegarder les graines des différentes espèces végétales de la planète’ constituent en réalité une des principales menaces a la biodiversité mondiale.

Le Centre de recherche sur la mondialisation (CRM) basé à Montréal vient de publier une étude détaillée de William F, Engdahl (Associé de recherche du CRM) au sujet du projet de Svaarlberg.

En voici quelques extraits

Bill Gates investit des millions dans une chambre forte pour semences sur la Mer de Barents, près de l’Océan Arctique, à quelque 1.100 kilomètres du Pôle Nord. Le Svalbard est un bout de roche stérile revendiqué par la Norvège et cédé en 1925 par un traité international (voir la carte).

Sur cette île perdue, Bill Gates investit des dizaines de millions avec la Fondation Rockefeller, Monsanto Corporation, la Fondation Syngenta et le gouvernement de Norvège, entre autres, dans ce qui est appelé doomsday seed bank [arche de Noé végétale traduit au mieux cette expression qui combine chambre forte, semences et fin des temps ou apocalypse, NDT]. Officiellement, le projet est appelé chambre forte à semences mondiales de Svalbard, sur l’île norvégienne de Spitsbergen, qui fait partie de l’archipel de Svalbard. ……

La Fondation Rockefeller avec la Fondation Gates, … investissent à présent des millions de dollars dans la préservation de toutes les semences contre un scénario « apocalyptique » éventuel, investissent aussi des millions dans un projet nommé Alliance pour la Révolution Verte en Afrique (AGRA).

L’AGRA, comme elle s’est elle-même appelée, est une alliance avec cette même Fondation Rockefeller qui a créé la « Révolution Génétique » .

Bien qu’à ce jour ils gardent profil bas, Monsanto et les principaux géants de l’agro-alimentaire OGM sont soupçonnés d’être au cœur du problème en se servant de Kofi Annan de l’AGRA pour disséminer leurs semences OGM brevetées dans toute l’Afrique sous l’étiquette trompeuse de « biotechnologie, » le nouvel euphémisme pour semences génétiquement modifiées brevetées. À ce jour, l’Afrique du Sud est le seul pays africain qui autorise légalement la plantation de cultures OGM. En 2003 le Burkina Faso a autorisé des essais d’OGM. En 2005, le Ghana de Kofi Annan a rédigé des lois sur la sécurité biologique et les principaux responsables ont exprimé leur intention de poursuivre la recherche sur les cultures OGM.

Texte an anglais de William Engdahl

« Doomsday Seed Vault » in the Arctic – by F. William Engdahl – 2007-12-04

Texte en français (traduction)

L’« arche de Noé végétale » en Arctique – par F. William Engdahl – 2008-02-15

Arctic ‘Doomsday Vault’ Filled With World’s Seeds Comes to Life

It has the capacity to hold up to 4.5 million batches of seeds from all known varieties of the planet’s main food crops, making it possible to re-establish plants if they disappear from their natural environment or are obliterated by major disasters.

It sounds good on paper, but if something comes along that drives natural food plants to extinction (such as a runaway « intellectual property » gene), the instant seeds from the vault are brought out, they will suffer the same fate.

Faults in the Arctic Seed Vault: not everyone is celebrating Svalbard

Global Research, February 27, 2008

Grain

Weather Warfare: Beware the US military’s experiments with climatic warfare

‘Climatic warfare’ has been excluded from the agenda on climate change.

www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7561

by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, December 7, 2007

The Ecologist, December 2007

« HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction, capable of destabilising agricultural and ecological systems globally. »

« ‘Climatic warfare’ potentially threatens the future of humanity, but has casually been excluded from the reports for which the IPCC received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. »

Pdf version of article on Weather Warfare by Michel Chossudovsky, The Ecologist, December 2007 (pdf)

Santé:

US Life Expectancy Drops To 29th Worldwide: 69.3 Years

So, as medical costs increase in the US, the actual benefit declines. We have the most expensive medical care in the world, yet one of the poorest quality health systems of any industrialized nation. Pay more, get less; THAT’S the American way!

Surprise! You are ten times more likely to die from prescription drugs than from recreational drugs!

Recreational drugs, including cocaine and heroin, are responsible for an estimated 10,000-20,000 American deaths per year, … an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that an estimated 106,000 hospitalized patients die each year from drugs which, by medical standards, are properly prescribed and properly administered.

Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court – Now What?

After years of insisting there is no evidence to link vaccines with the onset of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the US government has quietly conceded a vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims.

The child’s claim against the government — that mercury-containing vaccines were the cause of her autism — was supposed to be one of three « test cases » for the thimerosal-autism theory currently under consideration by a three-member panel of Special Masters, the presiding justices in Federal Claims Court.

Please make sure that you pass this forward to every parent or family member dealing with the heartbreak of an autistic child.

Please also make sure that you show this to every expectant mom you know.

22,000 died amid delayed Bayer drug recall: doctor

The lives of 22,000 patients could have been saved if U.S. regulators had been quicker to remove a Bayer AG drug used to stem bleeding during open heart surgery, according to a medical researcher interviewed by CBS Television’s 60 Minutes program.

For those who do not believe that profit runs the alleged « health care » system in the US.

FDA ties pneumonia deaths to infant vaccine

GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s rotavirus vaccine is associated with increased pneumonia-related deaths and other adverse reactions, U.S. regulatory staff said in documents posted on Friday.

Researchers Find a Bias Toward Upbeat Findings on Antidepressants

New York Times January 17, 2008

The makers of antidepressants like Prozac and Paxil never published the results of about a third of the drug trials that they conducted to win government approval, misleading doctors and consumers about the drugs’ true effectiveness, a new analysis has found.

How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness

Not complying with authority is now, in many cases, labeled a disease.

In Aldous Huxley’s « Brave New World », the population was kept permanently drugged to control them.

Looks like we are headed that way, where the government will force pills on those people suffering the « sickness » of independence.

Illinois Shooter was Treated with Psych Meds Prior to Shooting Rampage

Psychiatric medications, of course, are well known to cause extremely violent thoughts and behavior in young males. This is actually acknowledged by the FDA and is found in the black-box warnings printed on the packaging for such drugs. In Europe, the prescribing of many such drugs to children and teens is actually illegal. But in the United States, where psychiatric medications have become the « new medicine » for American youth, nobody seems to pay attention to the simple fact that every school shooting we’ve seen in the last decade has been committed by a young male with a history of treatment with psychiatric medications.

Autisme, schizophrénie et hyperactivité- Phosphates dans l’alimentation : les enfants poussés au bord de la folie

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Autisme, schizophrénie et hyperactivité- Phosphates dans l’alimentation : les enfants poussés au bord de la folie

Scientific Study Finds Fluoride Horror Stories Factual

The establishment media will have to find a new tactic with which to ridicule those who oppose the fluoridation of water after a major new Scientific American report concluded that « Scientific attitudes toward fluoridation may be starting to shift » as new evidence emerges of the poison’s link to disorders affecting teeth, bones, the brain and the thyroid gland, as well as lowering IQ.

– In Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg fluoridation of water was rejected because it was classified as compulsive medication against the subject’s will and therefore violated fundamental human rights.

– In November of 2006, the American Dental Association (ADA) advised that parents should avoid giving babies fluoridated water.

In 2005, a study conducted at the Harvard School of Dental Health found that fluoride in tap water directly contributes to causing bone cancer in young boys.

An August 2006 Chinese study found that fluoride in drinking water damages children’s liver and kidney functions.

The report also notes that « a series of epidemiological studies in China have associated high fluoride exposures with lower IQ. »

Tools of Eugenics: Fluoride

Water Fluoridation has hit the main stream media after decades being brushed aside. Scientific American had an article about the dangers of fluoride if its overused, revealing that its almost impossible not to overuse it. Many people don’t think twice about the toxic waste that we are drowning in. Fluoride is not what you think, and the deceit is painfully obvious, you just have to look.

Bay Area has first major U.S. study of Morgellons disease

Bay Area researchers are beginning the first major U.S. study into a mystery disease known for its frightening symptoms – among them, open sores and unidentifiable objects poking out of the skin – that doctors have long suspected is all in patients’ heads.

The extreme resistance of the medical establishment to looking into this condition suggests that they already know what causes it, and the cause is something that exposes some industry to a huge liability problem.

Prozac Mania – The Dark Side of Antidepressants

In October 1999, Pfizer, makers of Zoloft, settled for an undisclosed sum with the estate of Brynn Hartman, who had shot her husband comedian Phil Hartman dead, and then killed herself. Ms Hartman had been taking Zoloft at the time of the murder/suicide. According to the lawsuit, Ms Hartman had complained to friends that she felt as if she were going to « jump out of her skin. »

Then there are the well-publicized school shootings: One of the killers in the Columbine tragedy had been prescribed Luvox. Listed in the manufacturer’s warning as « frequent » adverse reactions to Luvox are « manic reaction » and « psychotic reaction. » Meanwhile, Kip Kinkel, who killed four people in Oregon, including his parents, had been on Prozac at the time.

FDA Protects SSRI Makers With Misleading Suicide Warning

« Not only is it continuing to minimize the adverse reactions of the antidepressants on the entire population, » she notes, « it has now become a cheerleader for the psychiatric community. » « When will the well-being of the American People, » Ms O’Meara asks, « get the protection it needs and deserves from the nation’s leading drug watchdog and when will this nation’s lawmakers stand up and be counted on this issue? »

Toxic Chemotherepy may not be as effective against cancer as claimed

Depression drugs don’t work, finds data review

Millions of people taking commonly prescribed antidepressants such as Prozac and Seroxat might as well be taking a placebo, according to the first study to include unpublished evidence.

How depressing! – M. R.

Mercury is good for you! – US Mainstream Media Report

Mainstream media report claiming that mercury is actually good for you! I wonder who lobbied for this one?

Alert over the march of the ‘grey goo’ in nanotechnology Frankenfoods

Professor Vicki Stone, Professor of Toxicology at Napier University in Edinburgh, is concerned about unforeseen side effects.

« We know very little about the ability of nanoparticles to move around the body, to accumulate or to be excreted, or their potential to cause toxic effects in organs, » she said.

Prozac ‘found in drinking water’

Traces of the antidepressant Prozac can be found in the nation’s drinking water, it has been revealed.

New Bacterial Infection Linked to Military

Doctors have linked the bacterium acinetobacter baumannii to at least seven deaths, as well as to loss of limbs and other severe ailments, according to the report, which found the bacterium has spread quickly since the war in Afghanistan began in the fall of 2001

« IRAN DID IT! » — Official White Horse Souse

Natural medicines – the safest way to avoid death

A report just released by the Acting Chair of the Coroner’s Council has shown natural medicines have the lowest fatality rate of all medical treatments in this country.

Research backs theory that vitamin C shrinks tumours

Let us hope that the research moving forward on this at McGill University will not be funded by the very same drug companies invested in having the outcome of this research be negative.

Homosexual activity cause of earthquake, Shas MK says

The recent earthquake that was felt across Israel was the result of the « homosexual activity practiced in the country », Knesset Member Shlomo Benizri said Wednesday.

Is it anti-Semitic to mention plate tectonics?

Économie et pétrole:

US subprime crisis costs global 7.7 trillion dollars

The meltdown in the US subprime real-estate market has led to a global loss of 7.7 trillion dollars in stock-market value since October, a report by Bank of America showed Thursday.

The crisis, which has spread beyond US shores to banks and other sectors worldwide, is « one of the most vicious in financial history, » according to Bank of America chief market strategist Joseph Quinlan.

Quinlan said in the report that the losses are worse than any in the past few decades, including Wall Street’s Black Monday of 1987, the 1999 Brazilian real currency crisis and the collapse of hedge fund Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) in 1998.

The losses were also greater than those suffered after the September 11, 2001, terro attacks, the Asian financial crisis starting in 1997, Argentina’s default on its debt in 2001 and the 1994 Mexican peso crisis.

A report last week by Standard & Poors ratings agency showed global stock markets were walloped with a collective loss of 5.2 trillion dollars in the month of January alone.

Current Account Balances….

Find the UNited States on this balance sheet.

Keep looking …

Keep looking …

Keep looking …

There now.

Surprise!

See The United States Is In Deep Doodoo!

#1 China $ 363,300,000,000 2007 est.

#14 Canada $ 28,460,000,000 2007 est.

# 163 Dernier de liste: United States $ -747,100,000,000 2007 est.

Bank of America circulating confidential proposal to Congress seeking $739 billion bailout

Here is the short version.

Bank of America thought they could get more of your money if the government would leave them alone.

But Bank of America did not become as rich as they expected, so now they want the government to help TAKE money from you and give it to them.

And remember, the terrorists only hate us because we are free.

Oil, gold prices strike historic highs

The price of oil touched an all-time peak of 101.32 dollars a barrel on Thursday, lifted by fears of supply disruptions according to traders.

Oil’s surge meanwhile helped gold to a record high of 948.59 dollars an ounce, they added.

Foreclosures: Worst hit zip codes

Foreclosures of all types rose 75 percent in 2007 according to RealtyTrac.

Remember this statistic the next time Fearless Leader (or one of his minions) chants the mantra: « the fundamentals of our economy are strong ».

Mass. foreclosures rise 128% in January

There were 799 foreclosure deeds in January, up 128.3 percent from the 350 deeds in January 2007, the firm said, and January 2008 also marks the highest number of deeds during any month since August 2007, when there were 1,018.

Can’t Pay Your Mortgage? Trash Your House And Leave

On the lookout for disturbing trends? Here’s one for your pile: According to a recent article in Fortune, there has been a noticeable increase in not just fraud but arson that has kept pace with the housing depression. Professionals in the insurance and lending industry are bracing themselves for all manner of similar situations, as homeowners either trash, or simply leave their trash lying around their houses, often taking off without even claiming their furniture. This is already a dirty problem in the housing business, with owners, lenders and banks having to figure out a way to stick each other with the check when tenants destroy their property on their way out the door. Woe is the person left behind to clean up the chaos.

Notice the use of the word « tenants » in this article.

It is the banks and lending institutions which own your home until the loan is actually paid off.

Insurers of Foreclosed Homes Brace For Arson Epidemic

Insurance fraud investigators are bracing for an epidemic of arsons as desperate borrowers torch their homes for insurance money.

Bangladesh bank offers loans to US poor

Oh come ON, now!

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Did terrorists cause the housing mess?

The Bovine Excrement Meter just exploded.

Iran opened its oil bourse today.

The first phase of Iran’s oil stock market started its work on Kish island in the Persian Gulf, southern Iran, on Sunday presenting oil and petrochemical products.

Iran Oil Bourse may use Russian ruble

« We are seeking to launch an oil exchange in Iran selling the crude in currencies other than US dollar. It is possible that in the future, we’ll be able to use the ruble, Russia’s national currency, in our operations, » the Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Gholam-Reza Ansari noted.

« Russia and Iran, two major producers of the world’s energy, should encourage oil and gas transactions in various non-dollar currencies, releasing the world from being a slave of dollar, » he added.

« Bomb ’em! Bomb ’em! Bomb ’em NOW! NOW, NOW, NOW!!! » — Official White Horse Souse

Iran’s envoy: Iran and Russia can rid world of dollar’s slavery

Iran’s Ambassador to Moscow said here Friday Iran and Russia, as major energy suppliers, can rid the world of US dollar’s slavery by promoting oil and gas deals using different currencies.

OPEC may switch to euro, will « take time » -sec-gen :: www.uruknet.info

« Maybe we can price the oil in the euro, » the London-based Middle East Economic Digest quoted Badri as saying in an interview. « It can be done, but it will take time. »

If you think the dollar is in deep distress now, things are definitely likely to get much more dicey, if and when such a move happens.

OPEC considers dumping US dollar

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries plans to discuss a proposal by Iran and Venezuela to price oil in non-dollar currencies.

This, coupled with the opening of the Iranian bourse on the 27th of this month, could be devastating to the standing of the dollar in the international currency markets.

Chavez to cut off oil supplies to Exxon

Hugo Chavez, known for his frequent run-ins with the US, is at it again. However, this time he has put his money where his mouth is. Hugo Chavez has ordered oil supplies to be cut-off to the American oil giant — Exxon Mobil.

« Invade, INVADE!!! » Official White Horse Souse.

Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth

Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.

There are two thoughts that come to mind with this story.

First, we could probably take the money we are spending on (unsuccessfully) conquering the Mideast oil fields and build a system of space « tankers » to haul all those hydrocarbons from Titan to Earth (probably cheaper). Of course, we could also develop fusion power with some of that money, but both of these solutions require foresight and imagination; two qualities in short supply in our government.

Second, I am pretty certain that Titan never had any dinosaurs, which raises the possibility that if Titan’s hydrocarbons are not created by life forms, then neither are Earth’s.

The Revolution is starting!

BREMERTON, Wash. — Bremerton police said four banks were vandalized early Thursday, with each incident involving windows broken with pieces of concrete that had notes taped to them, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

According to police, the vandals did not go in any of the banks.

“No entry was gained and nothing was taken, so it appears this was the delivery of some kind of message by the perpetrators,” Andy Oakley with Bremerton police said.

Police said the content of the notes were all the same and read as follows:

“Directions: Attach to brick and throw through window”

“Here is your brick back. »

« Recognize it? You should.”

“It is part of the wall that you, as one of the elite upper class, have helped to build between the minority ruling class, and the majority working class throughout history. By flaunting your decadence, you have made yourself a target.”

“Get used to it!”

“Social youth chaos-f___ s___ up!”