I’m going on a Summer hiatus and will be back in around 2 weeks with many new photos. Until then I hope you use the warm weather to get out and appreciate our amazing nature.

After spending 3 days calmly away from all news and media, I came back to find a war torn by increasing conflict.

War and Conflict:

• 63 killed as army and Darfur rebels clash near border
• Rights Group: 97 Afghan Civilians Killed in US Strikes
• Nearly Two Million Pakistanis Displaced by Offensive Against Taliban – Remember the ones doing the bombing and the displacing are the good guys fighting against the evil Taliban.
• Japan Big Guns prepare to Rejoin World Arms Industry – This to me is the most exciting story. I have been suspecting Japan to return to the weapon market for some time now. This will surely give their depressed economy a lift. What’s even more interesting is that Japan is going to focus on War Robots fulfilling the prophecy of their manga and anime like Ghost in the Shell and others.
• 3 Americans die in Iraq roadside bombing – Bush’s war is now Obama’s war. Embrace the change.
• Iran Sends Warships To Gulf Of Aden
• Israel To Ignite All-Out Regional War? – From Iranian media “During the drill, Israeli forces and civilians will exercise a war against Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran and will also practice counterinsurgency tactics against Israeli Arabs”

Apparently the recovery hoax is working, not surprising knowing that most people will believe anything the media spoonfeeds them.

• US Economy: Consumer Confidence Jumps by Most in Six Years

Only countries allied with the USA are allowed to test weapons. Anyone else doing it is very inappropriate and deemed provocative.

• US Ambassador to UN: North Korea Will ‘Pay a Price’
• N Korea Fires Two More Rockets After Nuke Test – This is North Korea’s response to the US.
• N Korea Nuke As Powerful As Hiroshima Bomb
• N Korea Claims To Conduct 2nd Nuclear Test

• US, Japan Want to Cut North Korean Financial Ties – because North Korea’s government launched a few missiles, the starving of its population is being discussed

Geopolitics:

• France Opens First Military Bases in the Gulf – Sarkozy is proceeding with his course to turn France militant again. The military base is called “Peace Camp”. We officially live in Orwell’s 1984.
• Georgia’s Opposition Rallies in Tbilisi – How much longer will Saakashvili last?
• Pakistan opposition leader wins right to polls – The USA is trying to organize its puppets to prevent losing its outpost in Pakistan
• Taiwan Governing Party Leader Visits China – Now that China is more nationalistic than communist, there really is no difference between Taiwan and the mainland.
• Mongolia opposition wins election – A Harvard educated politician beat a Moscow educated politician near Russia’s borders. This resembles what happened in Ukraine and Georgia. The puppets which the West installed there are now political corpses. If Mongolia’s new ruler turns against Russia, I doubt he’ll have a much longer term.
• Putin to the West: Hands Off Ukraine
• Putin, Chavez discuss military, technical cooperation
• Putin: Russia, Turkey to extend natural gas deal – Turkey is the center piece of a crucial geopolitical game between the West and Russia. Both are courting it hard, because both want to be in control of the gas supply from the Caspian sea to Europe. So far it seems that Russia has the upper hand.
• South Stream outflanks Nabucco – These are the 2 competing projects. South Stream is Russia’s project to keep Europe hooked on Russian gas. Nabucco is the West’s project to bypass Russia.
• Gas issues cannot be solved with Ukraine’s leadership divided – Putin
• Venezuela – Vietnam Joint Oil Exploration

Obama’s Admin:

• Obama Urged To Curb ‘Buy American’ Ban – Obama’s protectionist measures that were sneakily included in the stimulus bill are coming under fire.
  
• Darth Vader Cheney Returns To DC – Obama and Cheney are playing good cop bad cop again. Then they will meet in the middle which was the intention of their puppet masters all along.
• Obama Govt Borrowing 50 Cents Of Every $1 It Spends
• Miliband – Major Reform Only Way To Restore Faith – Here comes Britain’s “CHANGE”
  
• US Reveals Iran’s Nuke ‘Shopping List’
• Obama Orders Gates To Update Iran Strike Plans

Golden State Crisis:

• Arnold Plans Total End Of Welfare For CA Families

Russia is the aftermath of disaster.

The USA is disaster happening in front of our eyes.

China is a disaster in the making.

Whether you like him or not, you have to agree – Chavez is tireless, effective and either a valuable ally or a formidable enemy. He is the face and main propaganda man of the recent upheaval of the Latin Left and as history is written by victors he will go down in history either as a great hero or a monster, depending on who gets to write the history books for our time.

Castro Congratulates Chavez on 1,536 Hours of ‘Alo Presidente’

May 28 (Bloomberg) — Cuba’s former president, Fidel Castro, congratulated Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez for spending 1,536 hours over the past decade on his weekly “Alo Presidente” television program.

“The case of Hugo Chavez is exceptional in the history of politics,” Fidel wrote in a note published yesterday on the Cubadebate.com Web site. “Others have gained fame through the written press, radio and television, but never has a revolutionary idea made use of a communications media with such efficiency.”

Chavez is scheduled to begin hosting a four-day, special edition of “Alo Presidente” today to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the program, in which the president has sung songs, interviewed ministers, announced policy decisions, ridden a horse and ordered tanks to the Colombian border.

Castro said that he’s calculated that Chavez has spent the equivalent of 64 days on the live television transmissions.

Health:

• Can You Die From Lack of Sleep? – Sleep deprivation undermines health severely.
• Overpopulation – 60% In US Breathe Toxic Air

Effects of media fear mongering:

• Deserted Mexican hotels offer flu-free guarantees to lure visitors

Obama’s admin:

• US Poised For Finance Regulation Shake Up – Financial regulation goes the opposite of the notion of a free market.
  
• FBI – Closing Gitmo A Bad Idea – Big parts of America’s government are not in agreement with Obama’s direction
  

The Science religion vs the God religion / The Left vs the Right:

• The God Chemical: Brain Chemistry And Mysticism - Together with Obama’s change there comes a rejuvinated effort to deny or disprove God.
• Rumsfeld Hid Iraq Documents Under Bible Texts – Past Bush they are saying that he messed everything up, because he was a Christian Zealot and got Christianity and Islam in a fight, but in the same the Democrats have escalated the war against Muslims. Go figure.

Economic gloom continues. No recovery in sight:

• Green shoots or yellow weeds? A trifecta of risks to the early bottoming out of the recession and short-term economic recovery and to the medium-term actual and potential growth prospects of the global economy – A MUST READ By Nouriel Roubini.
• Japan’s Economy Suffers Record Plunge
• Japanese Housewives Back in the Game?
• Europe in deepest recession since War as Germany suffers – (D)eepest rec(ession) = Depression
• Economic Recovery Still Months Away: Roubini, Rogoff – Or more so, the beginning of a slow recovery is months away. Recovery to 2006-2007 level of prosperity is not likely any time soon. Roubini says he sees yellow weeds not green shoots and beginning of recovery 6 to 9 months from now. Rogoff says that any increase in GDP growth above 0 will be because of the stimulus spending of borrowed money and we’re likely to have another dip after that wanes.
• Housing Starts at Record Low in April
• Govt says Fiat ‘must keep Italy plants’ – Protectionism on the rise.
• US Economy To Shrink 2% Says Fed
• John Deere 2Q Profit Dives 38 Percent

War and Conflict:

• Obama, Netanyahu Call Iranian Nukes Biggest Threat to Global Stability
• Islamist insurgents close in on Somali capital
• Past US policy on Pakistan ‘incoherent’ -Clinton – Says the one who incited a civil war in Pakistan.
• US says only 30 Afghan civilians died in bombing – Wow. The insolence of Western media never ceases to amaze me. “Only” 30 civilians died, no big deal.
• Iran Tests Long Range Missile
• Iran Missile Test Playing With Fire Warns Israel -Threats and muscle flexing have escalated lately.
  
• Don’t Count On China To Rescue World Economy
• Three US soldiers killed in Baghdad as bombs in Iraq claim 25 lives – This war is widely considered over by the mainstream media, yet the American occupation force is still in Iraq and still losing soldiers.

Technology:

• What Is Google’s Next Move? – The Cloud. Making browsers into OS’s and pushing Microsoft out of the game.

Geopolitics:

• Obama - Iran Must Meet Nuclear Deadline – Obama trying to give orders to a sovereign nation he is not the president of. Why would the president of America have the right to say if Iran should have a nuclear program or not? Perhaps America wishes to think it rules the world?
• Brazil And China Eye Plan To Ax Dollar
• Russia Dumps US Dollar as basic reserve currency – The Western media has been gloating that Russia had to tap into its foreign reserve currencies to prop its own, but it now turns out that Russia dumped its dollars and has actually accumulated more Euro. The dollar is more and more unpopular and this will definitely affects its value dealing a huge blow to America’s economic well being.
• Rise Of Europe’s Extreme Politics – Notice how the article says that extreme means anti-EU. I guess the only way to be normal is to bow down to international consolidation of power.
• Asia will author its own destruction if it triggers a crisis over US bonds – Thearticle says that Asian creditors to the USA suspect it will stealthily try to pay back less than it has borrowed due to quantitative easing.
• Ahmadinejad: I’m defending Iran’s dignity by standing up to West – Ahmadinejad is promoting his campaign using his defiance to the West. This makes him admired by the Muslims who feel like they are under attack by the West and want to retain their strength and dignity.
• Rothschild’s roadmap for Dubai’s economic recovery – Just as expected and hinted in my  Dubai post (click here), Dubai is the project of heavy Western involvement. Rothschilds are at the top of the Western financial elite.
• Moscow: US and NATO Biggest threats to International and Russian Security

The economic recovery talk was either fake or foolish:

• US To Roll Out Latest Phase In Rescue Plan
• German Economy Shrinks 3.8%
• Germany Faces £16B Hole In Budget
• Hitachi Posts Record Loss In Japan
• China’s Exports Suffer – Demand Drops
• Krugman Fears Lost Decade For US
• HSBC Profits Fall As Bad Debt Worsen
• Gasoline Prices Jump In CA And US – The USA is experiencing inflation and deflation in the same time. It’s like living between the hammer and the anvil.
• Eurozone Industrial Output Plunges
• Steel Workers Storm ArcelorMittal HQ
• IMF Collects Debts For World’s Largest Banks
• Medicare Fund Broke By 2017
• GM Shares Lowest Since Great Depression
• Intel Fined ¤1bn For Breaking Competition Law
• BoE Cuts Growth Forecast
• Credit Card Companies Pile On Fees, Raise Rates
• GM Says It’s More Probable It Will File Bankruptcy
• The Credit Card Squeeze
• Are Taxpayers Bailing Out Troubled Banks Twice?
• “Enjoy the rally while it lasts – but expect to take a sucker punch” – Most of the economists I consider truthful enough to follow agree that the market is poised for another slump. Most people especially Obama lovers think recovery has started and everything is rosy now.
• Home Prices in US Drop Most on Record in Quarter – Recovery? Green shoots? Yeah, right…
• US ’Sham’ Bank Bailouts Enrich Speculators
• GM To Export Cars From China To US
• Green Shoots Wither On Poor US Retail Figures
• Even BoE Has No Idea What Will Happen – Or so it says
• Banks May Need More State Aid – BoE Warns
• BT Doubles Job Cuts To 30,000
• Stock Optimists Should Read Of Great Depression
• Dubai – No ‘Green Shoots’ In The Desert
• Industrial Production Declines, now 16% Below Peak
• U.S. banking crisis may last until 2013: S&P – from Reuters
• The happiest places on Earth are heavily taxed MarketWatch

Obama’s admin:

• Obama To Bar Release Torture Photos – Change?
• Geithner Seeks To Regulate Derivatives
  
• Insurance Companies Approved for TARP Money – Insurance companies will be getting tax payer money too

Swine Flu Aftermath – Pharmaceutical Corps cash in:

• Roche Ramps Up Production Of Tamiflu

GeoPolitics:

• Control Of Russian Venture TNK-BP Slips Away From BP
• Japan, Russia Sign Nuclear Cooperation Pact
• China makes Yuan International – China starts establishing the Yuan as a main currency for countries who want to buy Chinese made products. This along with the accumulation of Gold and cutting back on US treasuries means China is departing from the current Bretton-Woods system.
• Roubini – Yuan Set As World New Reserve Currency
• Turkey-EU Gas Deal Breaks Russian Grip – Attempt to revive Nabucco as an alternative to Russian gas. It hasn’t broken anything already as it is still in planning stages. This headline is wishful thinking.
• The IMF Is Hurting Poor Countries
• Proof UK Oil Co Dumped Toxic Waste In Ivory Coast – Western corporations dumping waste in Africa thus destroying its nature and its people’s means for survival
  
• Russia Warns Of War Over Arctic Oil And Gas – This is another misleading UK headline about Russia. What Russia did is issue a report in which it says that a security threat to it may be the race for resources in the arctic and that war may spark out of it. The headline makes it sound like Russia is threatening to start a war.
• Pope Visits Holy Sites in Jerusalem

War and Conflict:

• More Than 50% Of Children Born Out Of Wedlock
• US Drones Fire Four Missiles Into Pakistan
• Obama Warns Natanyahu – Don’t Surprise Me With Iran Hit
• Scouts Trained To Fight Terrorists
• 60 Yr Old US Soldier Killed In Iraq
• Georgian opposition says talks with president fail
• Georgia’s political stalemate could end in violence
• Putin Says NATO Exercises in Georgia Hinder US-Russia Relations
• Nepal: MPRF leader dismisses Maoists allegation of Indian interference
• Nepal Maoist protesters clash with police
• 5 US Soldiers Are Killed on Military Base in Iraq – Violence begets violence
• Top Commander in Afghanistan Expected to Resign
• Jordan Ultimatum To Isreal – Peace Now…Or War
• Gaza Families Down To A Meal A Day

Internet and free media:

• The End Of The Age Of Free – Media has started propaganda against the Internet. Something is about to go down.

Surveillance:

• Google To Reshoot Japan Street View After Complaints – Many places in the world are outraged over Google’s car taking photos of their houses and putting them up on the Internet
• Gypsies Smash £5M Cop Chopper For Spy Flights

Science:

• Mystery Of How Life On Earth Began Solved – Or so the scientists claim. We will see if this theory manages to convince people.

The Poverty;

Almost half the world — over three billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day.
At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day.
Nearly half the children in the world live in poverty.
1.6 billion people — a quarter of humanity — live without electricity:

Breaking that down further:

Number of people living without electricity

Region	Millions without electricity
South Asia	706
Sub-Saharan Africa	547
East Asia	224
Other	101

For every $1 in aid a developing country receives, over $25 is spent on debt repayment.

The poorer the country, the more likely it is that debt repayments are being extracted directly from people who neither contracted the loans nor received any of the money.

The Wealthy;

The poorest 10% accounted for just 0.5% and the wealthiest 10% accounted for 59% of all the consumption:

The total wealth of the top 8.3 million people around the world “rose 8.2 percent to $30.8 trillion in 2004, giving them control of nearly a quarter of the world’s financial assets.”In 2005, the wealthiest 20% of the world accounted for 76.6% of total private consumption. The poorest fifth just 1.5%: In other words, about 0.13% of the world’s population controlled 25% of the world’s financial assets in 2004.

The wealthiest nation on Earth(The United States) has the widest gap between rich and poor of any industrialized nation.

A mere 12 percent of the world’s population uses 85 percent of its water, and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World.

The Disparity;

An analysis of long-term trends shows the distance between the richest and poorest countries was about:

• 3 to 1 in 1820
• 11 to 1 in 1913
• 35 to 1 in 1950
• 44 to 1 in 1973
• 72 to 1 in 1992

The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income.

For economic growth and almost all of the other indicators, the last 20 years [of the current form of globalization, from 1980 - 2000] have shown a very clear decline in progress as compared with the previous two decades [1960 - 1980]. For each indicator, countries were divided into five roughly equal groups, according to what level the countries had achieved by the start of the period (1960 or 1980). Among the findings:

• Growth: The fall in economic growth rates was most pronounced and across the board for all groups or countries.
• Life Expectancy: Progress in life expectancy was also reduced for 4 out of the 5 groups of countries, with the exception of the highest group (life expectancy 69-76 years).
• Infant and Child Mortality: Progress in reducing infant mortality was also considerably slower during the period of globalization (1980-1998) than over the previous two decades.
• Education and literacy: Progress in education also slowed during the period of globalization

Consider the global priorities in spending in 1998

Global Priority	$U.S. Billions
Cosmetics in the United States	8
Ice cream in Europe	11
Perfumes in Europe and the United States	12
Pet foods in Europe and the United States	17
Business entertainment in Japan	35
Cigarettes in Europe	50
Alcoholic drinks in Europe	105
Narcotics drugs in the world	400
Military spending in the world	780

And compare that to what was estimated as additional costs to achieve universal access to basic social services in all developing countries:

Global Priority	$U.S. Billions
Basic education for all	6
Water and sanitation for all	9
Reproductive health for all women	12
Basic health and nutrition	13

All this and more here

The IMF & The World Bank;

The International Monetary Fund(IMF) and the World Bank were created during The Bretton Woods Conferences in 1944. Created in the fallout of WW2 to assist in economic recovery and mainly spearheaded by the United States and Great Britain. They soon turned their attention to developing countries and under the guise of eliminating poverty, they were able to secure many third world countries from communist influence during the Cold War. Here is a list of countries that were or are under a Military dictatorship whilst being members of the IMF/World Bank, note these brutal regimes were/are friendly towards American/European corporations.

Country indebted to IMF/World Bank	Dictator	In power from	In power to	Debt % at start of Dictatorship	Debt % at end of Dictatorship	Country Debts in 1996	Dictator debts generated $ billion	Dictator generated debt % of total debt
Argentina	Military dictatorship	1976	1983	9.3	48.9	93.8	39.6	42%
Bolivia	Military dictatorship	1962	1980	0	2.7	5.2	2.7	52%
Brazil	Military dictatorship	1964	1985	5.1	105.1	179	100	56%
Chile	Augusto Pinochet	1973	1989	5.2	18	27.4	12.8	47%
El Salvador	Military dictatorship	1979	1994	0.9	2.2	2.2	1.3	59%
Ethiopia	Mengistu Haile Mariam	1977	1991	0.5	4.2	10	3.7	37%
Haiti	Jean-Claude Duvalier	1971	1986	0	0.7	0.9	0.7	78%
Indonesia	Suharto	1967	1998	3	129	129	126	98%
Kenya	Moi	1979	2002	2.7	6.9	6.9	4.2	61%
Liberia	Doe	1979	1990	0.6	1.9	2.1	1.3	62%
Malawi	Banda	1964	1994	0.1	2	2.3	1.9	83%
Nigeria	Buhari/Abacha	1984	1998	17.8	31.4	31.4	13.6	43%
Pakistan	Zia-ul Haq	1977	1988	7.6	17
Paraguay	Stroessner	1954	1989	0.1	2.4	2.1	2.3	96%
Philippines	Marcos	1965	1986	1.5	28.3	41.2	26.8	65%
Somalia	Siad Barre	1969	1991	0	2.4	2.6	2.4	92%
South Africa	apartheid	1948	1992		18.7	23.6	18.7	79%
Sudan	Nimeiry/al-Mahdi	1969	present	0.3	17	17	16.7	98%
Syria	Assad	1970	present	0.2	21.4	21.4	21.2	99%
Thailand	Military dictatorship	1950	1983	0	13.9	90.8	13.9	15%
Zaire/Congo	Mobutu	1965	1997	0.3	12.8	12.8	12.5	98%

Clearly their policies have not helped to eliminate poverty, and by all accounts it seems to have made things much worse.

The World Bank and IMF are supposed to assist nations in their development. What actually happens is another story. A poor country borrows from the World Bank to build up some aspect of its economy. Should it be unable to pay back the heavy interest because of declining export sales or some other reason, it must borrow again, this time from the IMF.

But the IMF imposes a “structural adjustment program” (SAP), requiring debtor countries to grant tax breaks to the transnational corporations, reduce wages, and make no attempt to protect local enterprises from foreign imports and foreign takeovers. The debtor nations are pressured to privatize their economies, selling at scandalously low prices their state-owned mines, railroads, and utilities to private corporations.

They are forced to open their forests to clear-cutting and their lands to strip mining, without regard to the ecological damage done. The debtor nations also must cut back on subsidies for health, education, transportation and food, spending less on their people in order to have more money to meet debt payments. Required to grow cash crops for export earnings, they become even less able to feed their own populations.

So it is that throughout the Third World, real wages have declined, and national debts have soared to the point where debt payments absorb almost all of the poorer countries’ export earnings—which creates further impoverishment as it leaves the debtor country even less able to provide the things its population needs.

Here then we have explained a “mystery.” It is, of course, no mystery at all if you don’t adhere to trickle-down mystification. Why has poverty deepened while foreign aid and loans and investments have grown? Answer: Loans, investments, and most forms of aid are designed not to fight poverty but to augment the wealth of transnational investors at the expense of local populations.

There is no trickle down, only a siphoning up from the toiling many to the moneyed few.

In their perpetual confusion, some liberal critics conclude that foreign aid and IMF and World Bank structural adjustments “do not work”; the end result is less self-sufficiency and more poverty for the recipient nations, they point out. Why then do the rich member states continue to fund the IMF and World Bank? Are their leaders just less intelligent than the critics who keep pointing out to them that their policies are having the opposite effect?

No, it is the critics who are stupid not the western leaders and investors who own so much of the world and enjoy such immense wealth and success. They pursue their aid and foreign loan programs because such programs do work. The question is, work for whom? Cui bono?

The purpose behind their investments, loans, and aid programs is not to uplift the masses in other countries. That is certainly not the business they are in. The purpose is to serve the interests of global capital accumulation, to take over the lands and local economies of Third World peoples, monopolize their markets, depress their wages, indenture their labor with enormous debts, privatize their public service sector, and prevent these nations from emerging as trade competitors by not allowing them a normal development.

In these respects, investments, foreign loans, and structural adjustments work very well indeed.

Full Article by Michael Parenti’

In America there are more than 3.5 million homeless, yet a portion of its population lives in multi-million dollar mansions. Movie stars live in obscene luxury and contribute nothing to society, nothing but distraction and escapism from this very tragic reality. On a global level this hording of wealth and resources is much more extreme. How could this society be seen as anything but deeply and profoundly sick and dysfunctional? The society that loves material wealth over its fellow man can not be tolerated and it is time we recognize this.

Meditation can be achieved spontaneously and naturally. Some spiritual teachers like J. Krishnamurti have often said it is the only true way to meditate, because if you are making a conscious effort to meditate you are coming from the mind/ego and that is the opposite of meditation.

This kind of meditation is also very hard to achieve and one’s mind has to be trained and silent. I have noticed that to no surprise it happens much more easily in nature. Breathtaking scenaries and mountain tops are especially powerful spots for this.

The news media has a long history of sensationalizing global climate change. For over a century reputable news sources have declared that the world is in peril as soon as cooling and or heating trends are noticed. By now you would think they would have caught on; global temperatures change naturally and are no cause for alarm. Below is a list I came across, it contains 150 years worth of climate change alarmist articles from the New York Times.

CLIMATOLOGY

January 5, 1855, Wednesday

Page 4, 863 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – As the climate of every country has an inseparable relation with the physical character of its inhabitants, the attention of the Government was directed, some few years since, to the collection of correct meteorological statistics throughout the whole of the United States.

THIS CLIMATE OF OURS; WHY THESE OPEN WINTERS AND TEMPERATE SUMMERS? THE GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF THE ALTERNATE PREVALENCE OF A SEMITROPICAL ATMOSPHERE.

Climate Perculiarities of New-York.

January 2, 1870, Wednesday

Page 4, 500 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – The climate of New-York and the contigu ons Atlantic seaboard has long been a study of great interest. We have just experienced a remarkable instance of its peculiarity The Hudson River, by a singular freak of temperature, has thrown off its icy mantle and opened its waters to navigation.

IS CLIMATE CHANGING?–

March 25, 1888, Wednesday

Page 13, 440 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – Formerly wine was made in England, the change of climate might be the principal reason that this manufacture does not now flourish. There are, however, many reasons why British wine …

IS OUR CLIMATE CHANGING?

February 3, 1889, Wednesday

Page 4, 778 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – An article in the Forum for February is upon the subject of the much-talked-of change in our climate. The writer, Prof. CLEVELAND ABBE, says that the notion that it is possible for a climate to change to a modern one. Our ancestors lived in a region …

THIS CLIMATE OF OURS; WHY THESE OPEN WINTERS AND TEMPERATE SUMMERS? THE GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF THE ALTERNATE PREVALENCE OF A SEMITROPICAL ATMOSPHERE.

June 23, 1890, Wednesday

Page 5, 1905 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – Is our climate changing? The succession of temperate Summers and open Winters through several years, culminating last Winter in the almost total failure of the ice crop throughout the valley of the Hudson, makes the question pertinent. The older inhabitants tell us that the Winters are not as cold now as when they were young, and we have all observed a marked diminution of the average cold even in this last decade.

FACT AND FANCY ABOUT CLIMATE; Prof. Ward in His New Book Discusses Various Popular Notions Regarding the Weather.

May 30, 1908, Saturday

Section: SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS, Page 18, 1432 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – AS popular misconceptions of variations in the weather are frequent and shiding, Prof. Ward has rendered the public a service in producing a book on climate which “can be read by an intelligent person who has not had special or extended training in the technicalities of the science.”

Nation Is Held on Verge of Climate Shift; Experts See Old-Fashioned Winters Back

December 16, 1934, Sunday

By The Associated Press.

Section: SECOND NEWS SECTION, Page N8, 361 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. — America is believed by Weather Bureau scientists to be on the verge of a change of climate, with a return to increasing rains and deeper snows and the colder Winters of grandfather’s day.

Warming Arctic Climate Melting Glaciers Faster, Raising Ocean Level, Scientist Says

May 30, 1947, Friday

By GLADWIN HILLSpecial to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

Page 23, 366 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – LOS ANGELES, May 29 — A mysterious warming of the climate is slowly manifesting itself in the Arctic, engendering a “serious international problem,” Dr. Hans Ahlmann, noted Swedish geophysicist, said today.

Is Climate Changing?; Habits of Mammals and Birds Suggest World Is Warmer

October 15, 1950, Sunday

Section: The Week In Review, Page E9, 461 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – Is the world warming up? Dr. Joseph J. Hickey, Professor of Wildlife Management at the University of Wisconsin, holds that it is. He has drawn his evidence from the changing habits of some half-dozen species of mammals …

How Industry May Change Climate

May 24, 1953, Sunday

W. K.

Section: REVIEW OF THE WEEK EDITORIALS, Page E11, 470 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – The amount of carbon dioxide in the air will double by the year 2080 and raise the temperature an average of at least 4 per cent. The burning of about two billion tons of coal and oil a year keeps the average ground temperature somewhat higher than it would otherwise be.

Greenland’s Moderating Climate Turns Hunters Into Fishermen; Economy Once Based on Sea Mammals Now Depends On Cod Sold for Cash

August 29, 1954, Sunday

By KATHLEEN McLAUGHLIN

Page 2, 696 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Aug. 28 — Greenland’s polar climate has moderated so consistntly that communities of hunters have evolved into fishing villages. Sea mammals, vanishing from the west coast, have been replaced by codfish and other fish species in the area’s southern waters.

CLIMATE WARMING IN THE ANTARCTIC; 5-Degree Rise Over the Last Half Century Is Recorded at Little America ICE IS FOUND THICKER Director of U. S. Program Says Sheet Drops 10,000 Feet in Many Areas

May 31, 1958, Saturday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Page 17, 778 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – An analysis of weather records from Little America shows a steady warming of climate over the last half century. The rise in average temperature at the Antarctic outpost has been about five degrees Fahrenheit.

SCIENCE IN REVIEW; Warmer Climate on the Earth May Be Due To More Carbon Dioxide in the Air

October 28, 1956, Sunday

By WALDEMAR KAEMPFFERT

Section: The Week In Review, Page 191, 904 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – The general warming of the climate that has occurred in the last sixty years has been variously explained. Among the explanations are fluctuations in the amount of energy received from the sun, changes in the amount of volcanic …

CLUE TO WEATHER FOUND IN GLACIER;

December 25, 1956, Tuesday

North American Newspaper Alliance.

Page 27, 420 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – WASHINGTON, Dec. 24– Seven years of observation of the Great Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park has given rise to some comment on weather trends.

Frozen Key To Our Climate; The world’s ice masses may be ushering in a fifth Ice Age. Frozen Key To Our Climate

December 7, 1958, Sunday

By LEONARD ENGEL

Section: Magazine, Page SM72, 2601 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – SEVERAL thousand scientists of many nations have recently been climbing mountains, digging tunnels in glaciers, journeying to the Antarctic, camping on floating Arctic ice. Their object has been to solve a fascinating riddle: what is happening to the world’s ice?

A WARMER EARTH EVIDENT AT POLES; Arctic Findings in Particular Support Theory of Rising Global Temperatures

February 15, 1959, Sunday

Special to The New York Times.

Page 112, 305 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — The theory that the world is growing slightly warmer is receiving added confirmation from temperature data

SCIENTISTS AGREE WORLD IS COLDER; But Climate Experts Meeting Here Fail to Agree on Reasons for Change

January 30, 1961, Monday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 46, 1326 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – After a week of discussions on the causes of climate change, an assembly of specialists from several continents seems to have reached unanimous agreement on only one point: it is getting colder.

EARTH’S WEATHER GROWING COLDER; U.S. Among the Exceptions, Rome Symposium Hears

October 8, 1961, Sunday

Special to The New York Times.

Page 66, 386 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – ROME, Oct. 7 — The earth, with few regional exceptions, is undergoing “a persistent cold wave” that began in the Nineteen Forties, a United States weather man told a symposium on climate this week.

Weathermen Try to Explain the Why of Spring That Never Was in 1967

May 31, 1967, Wednesday

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

Page 29, 975 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – In the year 1816 the year without summer, they called it snow fell in New England and parts of New York in June, July and August. Crops failed. People were impoverished and mystified.

Scientist Hints Earthquake Link To Wobbles in Spinning of Earth; Heirtzler of

November 29, 1968, Friday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Page 92, 1169 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – The head of Columbia University’s Hudson Laboratories, at Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., has suggested that wobbles in the earth’s spin may be responsible for such diverse phenomena as earthquakes, periods of mountain -building and climate

Expert Says Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea; Catastrophic Shifts in Climate Feared if Change Occurs Other Specialists See No Thinning of Polar Ice Cap

February 20, 1969, Thursday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Page 20, 1691 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – Col. Bernt Balchen, polar explorer and flier, is circulating a paper among polar specialists proposing that the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two.

U.S. and Soviet Press Studies of a Colder Arctic; U.S. and Soviet Press Arctic Studies

July 18, 1970, Saturday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Page 1, 1398 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – The United States and the Soviet Union are mounting large-scale investigations to determine why the Arctic climate is becoming more frigid, why parts of the Arctic sea ice have recently become ominously thicker and whether the extent of that ice cover contributes to the onset of ice ages.

Climate Experts Assay Ice Age Clues

January 27, 1972, Thursday

Special to The New York Times

Section: BUSINESS/FINANCE, Page 74, 731 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – PROVIDENCE, R. I., Jan. 26 — After invading Nebraska and Colorado, the armadillos, faced with increasingly frigid weather, are in retreat from those states toward their ancestral home south of the Mexican border. The winter snow accumulation on Baffin Island has increased 35 per cent in the last decade.

Record of a Little Ice Age Is Discovered

February 5, 1972, Saturday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Page 14, 706 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – From a study of ice extracted from deep within the Greenland ice sheet it appears that 89,500 years ago something catastrophic changed the climate from being warmer than today’s to that of a full-fledged ice age.

Scientist Fears Equable Climate Around World Could Be Ending

October 31, 1972, Tuesday

By BOYCE RENSBERGER

Page 25, 645 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – The current 12,000-year-old era of comfortable climates around the world may be coming to an end, closing another chapter in what a University of Miami scientist believes has been a history of frequent and relatively short-lived ice ages and warm ages.

FORECAST FOR; FORECASTING: CLOUDY In the long term, climate is cooling off-or is it warming up? As for tomorrow’s weather, even the world’s biggest computer can’t sayfor sure what it will be. Forecasting ‘ A really accurate three-day weather forecast would result in savings of $86-million a year just for growersof wheat in the state of Wisconsin.’

December 29, 1974, Sunday

By Alan Anderson Jr.

Section: SM, Page 156, 4834 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – A number of climatologists, whose job it is to keep an eye on long-term weather changes, have lately been predicting deterioration of the benignclimate to which we have grown accustomed.

CLIMATE CHANGES CALLED OMINOUS; Scientists Warn Predictions Must Be Made Precise to Avoid Catastrophe

January 19, 1975, Sunday

By HAROLD M. SCHMECK Jr. Special to The New York Times

Page 31, 1089 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 Changes in the earth’s climate are inevitable and mankind must learn to predict these variations to avoid potential catastrophe, a group of prominent scientists has concluded after a two-year study.

Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead; Scientists Ponder Why World’s Climate Is Changing; a Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable

May 21, 1975, Wednesday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Page 45, 2828 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – The world’s climate is changing. Of that scientists are firmly convinced. But in what direction and why are subjects of deepening debate.

WARMING TREND SEEN IN CLIMATE; Two Articles Counter View That Cold Period Is Due

August 14, 1975, Thursday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Section: Sports, Page 24, 759 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – Articles in two scientific journals have questioned widely publicized predictions that, in coming decades, the world climate will deteriorate severely affecting food production and, perhaps, initiating a new ice age.

Experts Fear Great Peril If SST Fumes Cool Earth

December 21, 1975, Sunday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Page 32, 1057 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – A federally sponsored inquiry into the effects of possible climate changes caused by heavy supersonic traffic in the stratosphere has concluded that even a slight cooling could cost the world from $200 billion to 500 times that much in damage done to agriculture, public health and other effects.

Climate Experts Decry Predictions of Disasters; Drought in

February 22, 1976, Sunday

By WALTER SULLIVAN Special to The New York Times

Page 48, 823 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – BOSTON, Feb. 21–Two authorities on climate change have termed irresponsible recent predictions of an impending ice age or other climatic disaster. The also said that any global effects of man-made air pollution on the climate to date remained obscure.

International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere

January 5, 1978, Thursday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Section: Sports, Page D17, 817 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.

Climate Specialists, in Poll, Foresee No Catastrophic Weather Changes in Rest of Century; Warning About Carbon Dioxide

February 18, 1978, Saturday

By WALTER SULLIVAN Special to The New York Times

Page 9, 967 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – WASHINGTON, Feb. 17–A poll of climate specialists in seven countries has found a consensus that there will be no catastrophic changes in the climate by the end of the century. But the specialists were almost equally divided on whether there would be a warming, a cooling or no change at all.

Scientists at World Parley Doubt Climate Variations Are Ominous; Forgetting the Past Major Shifts in Past

February 16, 1979, Friday

By WALTER SULLIVAN Special to The New York Times

Section: Business & Finance, Page D13, 688 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – GENEVA, Feb. 15 This winter Chicago was paralyzed by snow. Last winter it was Boston. European Russia has just suffered its coldest December in a century. In Britain and Western Europe, the summer of 1976 was the hottest in 250 years.

A Vast ‘Interdisciplinary Effort’ To Predict Climate Trend Urged; Neutralization Needed

February 24, 1979, Saturday

By WALTER SULLIVAN Special to The New York Times

Page 44, 913 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – GENEVA, Feb. 23–After exchanging views here for two weeks, the people who know more about climate than anyone else in the world have concluded that climate’s future trends can be predicted in a meaningful way only after “an interdisciplinary effort of unprecedented scope.”

Scientists Reviving Speculation on Climate and Slipping Antarctic Ice; Theory of Linked Events Evidence in Bones Volcanic Dust Theory In Less Than a Century

March 9, 1980, Sunday

By WALTER SULLIVAN

Page 43, 1161 words

DISPLAYING FIRST PARAGRAPH – Scientists are reviving the controversial notion that millions of cubic miles of Antarctic ice can sometimes abruptly slip off the continent into the sea, resulting in extreme increases in global ocean levels and precipitating a dramatic chilling of the world’s climate.

AfricaColumbia Also Suggests a Relationship to Climate Changes Great Ice River in Rockies Shows Long-Range Change Indicating Cold Period Thermometer of the Ages Favorable Trend in Climate

Full Article Here

Note that another ice age seems to be coming in between occasional fits of global warming. “Experts” say the Earth is warming, than cooling, and back and forth and the debate continues. Meanwhile the Earth is still inhabitable, the people go on and brace themselves for what ever comes next while so-called intellectuals continue to heat the atmosphere by blowing hot-air. Newspapers continue to sell with cheap scare-tactics and half baked science,  I guess somethings never change.

If we are to understand the fluctuations in global temperature we need to understand the main source of all temperature on our planet; The Sun. It has been found that the Sun has eleven year cycles of increasing sunspot activity which heats the solar system around it. This is not the only Solar variation cycle but it is one that has been observed currently heating up planets and moons in our solar system.

Mars’s ice caps are melting, and Jupiter is developing a second giant red spot, an enormous hurricane-like storm.

The existing Great Red Spot is 300 years old and twice the size of Earth. The new storm — Red Spot Jr. — is thought to be the result of a sudden warming on our solar system’s largest planet. Dr. Imke de Pater of Berkeley University says some parts of Jupiter are now as much as six degrees Celsius warmer than just a few years ago.

Neptune’s moon, Triton, studied in 1989 after the unmanned Voyageur probe flew past, seems to have heated up significantly since then. Parts of its frozen nitrogen surface have begun melting and turning to gas, making Triton’s atmosphere denser.

Even Pluto has warmed slightly in recent years, if you can call -230C instead of -233C “warmer.”

And I swear, I haven’t left my SUV idling on any of those planets or moons. Honest, I haven’t.

Is there something all these heavenly bodies have in common? Some one thing they all share that could be causing them to warm in unison?

Hmmm, is there some giant, self-luminous ball of burning gas with a mass more than 300,000 times that of Earth and a core temperature of more than 20-million degrees Celsius, that for the past century or more has been unusually active and powerful? Is there something like that around which they all revolve that could be causing this multi-globe warming? Naw!

They must all have congested commuter highways, coal-fired power plants and oilsands developments that are releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide into their atmospheres, too.

Full Article

So whats behind all the sensationalism and fear-mongering? This is a good question to have in mind whenever dealing with the mainstream news media. In this case there is no clear answer. Let us look at what has been done; Al Gore made a pretty penny, new legislation was passed, and a sizable portion of the general population is a little more stressed. Now lets think about what it could be used as leverage for;  More legislation can be passed specifically “Carbon emissions tax”, allowing for bigger government in response to “clean energy” solutions, an excuse to force closer relations for countries traditionally polarized like Russia and US, it can serve as a scapegoat for all kinds of ills and something to rally the people together for a common cause.

What ever the reason, it is clear that the latest global climate change crisis, “Global Warming”, is being pushed on the populaces by the mainstream media and its owners. Despite the large number of climate scientist against the hypothesis of man-made global warming the news media still tells us the majority of the scientific community agrees with it. This is not true and we must remember that the rich often buy science that suits them(e.i. Big Tobacco). It was the wealthy elite that caused the harm to our planet, and now they feign sympathy and compassion in order to sell you on their “solution”, don’t buy it.

Here is another resource about the current man-made Global Warming sensation.

War and Conflict. When will it end?:

• Georgian opposition gives president three days to start poll talks – Opposition gives the government an ultimatum. Unless it is met it will proceed with blocking the country’s highways.
  
• Nepal Maoists step up pressure on President to resign – Nepal’s Maoists want to oust the remnants of the old regime.
• US Navy ship outruns pursuing Pirates – Apparently the pirates pursued that US Navy Ship
• Pakistan Presses ‘All-Out’ Assault on Taliban in Swat – There is officially a civil war in Pakistan as the government has pledged to not stop killing until there are no more militants
• Humanitarian Crisis In Pakistan’s Swat Valley – Not surprisingly this bombing and assault have caused a humanitarian crisis.
  
• Chad troops battle advancing rebels
• Afghanistan Attacks Kill 16 Civilians, Four British Soldiers
• China-US Ships Clash Again In Yellow Sea

The failure of Capitalism:

• Epochan crisis  requires us to resolve the paradox of Capitalism
  
• Job losses ease but US unemployment rate hits 26-year high – They call another 500 000 lost jobs an easing. Don’t get fooled it is still a  free fall.
• US Retail Industry Has Record Unemployment As Cuts Continue
• Consumer credit falls a record $11.1B
• GM 1Q Loss $6B; Spent $10.2B More Than It Brought In
• UN ’stunned’ by scale of bail-out
• Obama announces $17 billion in cuts, less than .5% of total budget
• Global Crisis ‘Vastly Worse’ Than 1930s, Taleb Says
• Fannie Mae taps Treasury again after $23 billion loss
• Senior China official says world economy to worsen
• Trade collapse and international supply chains: Evidence from Japan
• Hotel RevPAR in Q1: “Worst year-over-year decline in History”
• Weekly Unemployment Claims Decline; Record Continued Claims
• Commercial Mortgage Delinquencies in U.S. Rise to 11-Year High
• How stress tests were carried out Financial Times. They got the banks to provide info, measured it against a one size fits all template, and then did a second round of questions. We’re supposed to find this reassuring?
• Never More Hungry People In The World – UN
• China Fears Bond Crisis – Hits Quantitative Easing – This is a very serious warning by China. It is clear that its economic interests and those of the West are in conflict. Why? Because China is the lender and the West is the borrower. The West wants to reduce the value of its debts by inflating.
  

The rise of the Left or the Center (fascism):

• Germany closes in on nationalisation of Hypo Real
• Chavez Moves to Take Over Oil Service Companies in Venezuela
• Bernanke Wants To Be Your Banker
• US Strategy In Latin America Was Wrong – And now as a result South America is uniting with Marxism against the North..

Geopolitics

• EU Pact Challenges Russian Influence In East – The EU is trying to organize just about all the countries that used to on the USSR’s side in the Cold War
  

Surveillance rising:

• DNA profiles of innocent to be kept for 12 years despite European ruling

Science:

• Studies from head to toe show Indonesian ‘hobbit’ is a new type of human
• Fuel for deep space exploration running low

Misinformation:

• Belarus and Europe inch closer – Anti-Russian propaganda. The article says closer to Europe means Belarus is coming out of the Cold (Russian influence).
• Moscow show of strength hides critical military weakness – The UK  has become the main agent to spread anti-Russian propaganda
• US Economy: Job Losses Slow as Economy Starts to Stabilize – 500k job losses for a month is stability?

Free Internet in danger:

• Murdoch To Charge For Newspaper Websites – says days of free Internet are numbered. The old guard is refusing to let go of its selfish ways.