Climate Science RIP

Climate changes: always has, always will.

And human activity affects the climate:

Deforestation above a latitude of around 45 degrees causes climate cooling, reports a paper in Nature by a Yale University led group. (Phew: that's good news, then, since here in Canada we've already logged most of the boreal forest.)

Airborne soot from forest fires, diesel engine exhaust, and coal burning, may warm the climate almost as much as all of the current human-caused increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a recent study in the Journal of Geophysical Research.

Then there's methane from leaking gas pipelines and  flatulent cows, which is about 50 times more potent a so-called greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

And we shouldn't forget the US military that burns through 100 million barrels of oil a year.

But forget it. Al Gore and the other 50,000 or so climate scientists and their political backers and hangers on who recently gathered in Paris at the cost of much emitted carbon have so crassly turned the issue of anthropogenic climate warming/change/cooling/whatever into an instrument of self-advancement or political control that it is impossible now to discuss the subject publicly without becoming the target for vicious insults from proponents of one or other extremist view.

Under those circumstances no scientist other than a charlatan or a dimwit would enter the field. This is unfortunate, because the consequences of changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere should be a matter for careful study by competent persons, not the exclusive preserve of verbal pugilists and the proponents of political correctness.

Doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration may or may not have much effect on the weather, but studies from top labs indicate that it has an extraordinarily severe negative impact on human cognitive capacity. So when Trump says, "we are led by very stupid people" the reason may not be so hard to find.

What is as scary is that raising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration boosts global primary production, particularly in dry zones. Thus, today, the Australian outback is greening up, as is the African Sahel and the Argentinian pampas. The estimate is that global primary production has been boosted by ten billion tons a year, and CO₂ is up only 40% so far. Double the pre-industrial concentration and the population carrying capacity of Africa and many other parts of the world will double, which should really exacerbate the European immigration crisis.

But, at least we need no longer worry about that damned hockey-stick temperature chart produced by Professor Michael Mann and associates. The thing was, if not a hoax, the result of a remarkably dumb error, as is very nicely explained in this article in MIT's Technology Review. Nature magazine, a leader in the politicization of science, naturally refused to publish the work of Canadians Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, who discovered this error, on the grounds of insufficient interest. Well, Nature, for sure, had insufficient interest.

And here's what happens to a distinguished scientist who asserts the necessity for open inquiry, skepticism and vigorous debate for the effective pursuit of scientific truth:

Professor Judith Curry of Georgia Tech, giving evidence before 
a Congressional committee:



Related: 

CanSpeccy: Extreme Weather? Don't Worry. It's Normal

CanSpeccy: How stupid people win debates

CanSpeccy: The State of Climate Science: Have We Passed Peak Civilization?

CanSpeccy: MIT Meteorology Prof, Science Magazine and the Pope Concur: The Reality of Human Caused Climate Change Is an Article of Religious Faith

CanSpeccy: Nulius in verba: On the word of no one. Or how the Royal Society betrayed its original purpose and became another quasi governmental organization spewing the scientifically correct official line

CanSpeccy: Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration, Part I: Carbon Dioxide Is Not a Greenhouse Gas

CanSpeccy: Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration, Part II: Ecosystem Disruption

CanSpeccy: Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration, Part III: Induced Stupidity and the Decline of the West

CanSpeccy: Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration, Part IV: Reversing the Trend

The Economic Consequences of Mr. Trump

Donald Trump has a near lock on the Republican nomination for the US Presidency. Most polls show him leading the 15-candidate race "bigly," to use a Trumpism. Moreover, seventy percent of Republican voters, i.e., including many of those supporting a candidate other than Trump, believe Trump will be their nominee.

And in a contest with Hillary Clinton, a former Secretary of State with a criminal indictment threatening, who is a loyal adherent of Democrat President Barack Obama, surely among the worst presidents the United States has had to endure, Trump's chance of gaining the Presidency look distinctly better than even. Time then to consider the consequences of a Trump presidency.

Trump has promised to cut corporation tax and income tax, and to eliminate the estate tax. He's also promised to tackle America's $19-trillion, going on $20- and $21-trillion, burden of debt. How could he square that with reduced taxes?

First, Trump would undoubtedly abolish a few departments of the Federal Government, notably Education, thereby saving at most a drop or two in the bucket of red ink.

Second, he would surely make good on his implied commitment to restructure the debt. Of the total, approximately $2.6 trillion is held by the US Federal Reserve. This is debt that was created by money printing. The cost has already been passed to the public in the form of inflation. This debt can simply be written off. Although the Fed collects interest on that debt, it returns the proceeds to the Treasury less the Fed's own operating costs, so writing off these loans means nothing financially, but it greatly improves the optics: at a stroke, national debt reduced by 14%. As for the remaining debt, a write down of ten, twenty, thirty percent could happen. Going back to the Nineteenth Century, debt default is as American as apple pie.

But there are other options. Trump has promised to bring jobs back from China, Japan, Mexico and the rest of the World. How to do that? Easy, reinstate America's nineteenth century across-the-board import tariff, giving American factories, mines and oil wells a competitive advantage. Soon you have more American jobs, rising wages and an addition of several hundred billion a year — an amount rising with economic recovery to maybe four, five hundred billion a year  — in revenue to the US Treasury.

In addition, if necessary, and perhaps anyway, a special import tariff on oil to insure a minimum of $60 a barrel for domestic production. That would restore the US fracking industry, while keeping energy prices high enough to drive continued improvements in energy-use efficiency. And note that revival in US shale oil would further depress the world oil price. Thus a US oil import tariff could yield the government $20, 30, or even 40 dollars per imported barrel of oil — for a total of up to six or seven hundred billion dollars a year: Government budget deficit RIP. And without driving gas prices anywhere near last year's high.

The only real complication is how such changes would affect the price of the dollar. Tariffs will tend to strengthen the dollar and thus negate their intended effect. Overall, however, Trumponomics would be strongly inflationary, and inflation would likely check any upside to the dollar. As manufacturing and energy industry jobs return to the US (and as the flood of illegal immigrants — who man the below-minimum-wage, no-tax, underground economy — is checked and reversed), wages and prices will rise quickly. Inflation of five, ten, twenty percent will drive interest rates, way, way up and bond prices way, way down, providing the Federal Government an opportunity to buy down the national debt at  a huge discount.

What are the net results? On the negative side, bond investors will be hurt. Investors in global corporations that depend on offshore sweatshop labor will be hurt, savers will be hurt, although as interest rates rise, savers will at least get a significant rate of interest on their money.

Who will gain? Americans for Trump, obviously. That is, most of the 95 million Americans of working age who are not working but would be if they could find a job. Plus tens of million of other Americans who have part-time jobs but want full-time work. And not least, all the Americans with lousy low-paid work (the average yearly earned income of the lowest paid half of the American workforce is less than $13 thousand) who want a pay raise. In addition, hundreds of thousands of small businesses in competition with off-shore sweatshops that will prosper greatly in the shadow of a tariff wall. Plus all those parents with twenty- and even thirty-something-year-old "kids" living at home because they don't have the income to set up a home of their own.

Bring it on.

Related: 

A prophetic interview on globalization with late Sir James Goldsmith in 1994:

Part 2:



Jon Rappoport: What is Donald Trump doing to media reality?

CanSpeccy: The 2014 Average Income of the 81 Million Lowest Paid Half of American Workers: $12,681

Trump Terrorizes the Cucks Promoting Mass Muslim and Hispanic Immigration

Rolling Stone magazine (Prop. Bill Gates) finds terrifying a new poll from North Carolina that "underscores the popular appeal of Trump's anti-Islamic bigotry among rank-and-file Republican voters."

In particular, what the cucks at Rolling Stone find alarming is the widespread public support for the perpetuation of the United States as a democratic sovereign nation state with effective borders and enforced immigration laws. That's what Rolling Stone calls "bigotry."

By smearing the majority of Trump supporters, and probably most Americans, as bigots, racists and Islamophobes, Rolling Stone aims to serve the interests of the billionaire media owners who for some reason wish to swamp the West with a seething mass of settler immigrants from Africa and the Middle-East intent not on assimilation to Western values, but on imposing an Islamic tyranny.

And more of the same anti-American rhetoric from Fox News (Poop Murdoch, Prop.): Trump ‘Representing the Worst, Darkest Part of All That Is America’

In what is surely an unintentionally revealing article in Britain's wishy-washy, Lib-Left, tiny-circulation newspaper, the Independent, a headline asserts: "The rise of Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen shows Ukip has failed in Britain." What they actually mean is: Thank God Britain's only party apparently opposed  to the racial and cultural genocide of the Brits by mass immigration has failed. 

And we say, "apparently opposed" because there seems good reason to believe that, in this year's national election, UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, threw his supporters under the bus, just as did Nick Griffin of the now moribund British National Party during the 2011 national election. Perhaps that will prove to be Trump's role too, although it remains to be seen. 

Meantime, over at Time magazine (the CIA house organ), Angela Merkel has been declared a saint for cucking the Germans with over a million mostly strong, young, Islamic, male draft dodgers with a high propensity to rape, raise the flag of ISIS and demand a European caliphate.

And Now for Some Music: The Trump Campaign Theme Song?



Related:

Ilana Mercer: No Wonder the Pols Think Businessman Trump’s Crazy; He Understands Scarcity

Daily Mail: France's Jewish leaders call for a 'civic uprising' against French people who vote against Muslim invasion and subjugation

Meantime in America:

Zero hedge: Mark Zuckerberg welcomes Muslims to America

Breitbart:Poll: 65 Percent Of GOP Likely Primary Voters Support Trump’s Plan To Block Islam

Daily Mail: London police confirm Trump's claim: "we are at war" (with Islam)"

Charles-Hugh Smith: The "American Dream" Is Over... And Voters Know It

Deep Resource: Anti-Trump Media Shit Storm Begins

Breitbart: Why Trump’s Winning: 9 Facts About Islam The Media Doesn’t Want You To Know

YouGov: Almost one third of Americans could support military coup against the Peace Prize Winner

David Swanson: Trump Didn't Vote to Kill 1 Million Muslims in Iraq, Hillary Did

Trumposaurus Rex?

Donald Trump has led the race for the Republican Presidential nomination for months, but has long been stuck with the support of only 30–40% of those inclined to vote Republican. Now his chances appear to be fading fast as Ted Cruz cruises past him in the state of Iowa.

Breitbart: Iowa Poll: Ted Cruz Leading Trump by Five Points

Here is how it currently stacks up:

Ted Cruz 24

Donald Trump 19

Marco Rubio 17

Ben Carson 13

Jeb Bush 6

But is Ted Cruz really in 1st place in Iowa, or only fourth?

Not according to the latest CNN poll which shows Trump still comfortably ahead 33 percent to 20. 

Meantime:

The Hill: Trumps calls for end to Muslim immigration

People: Clinton's partner identifies radical Islamic ideology with race

Ted Cruz interview with Princeton mentor:



The American Mirror: VIDEO: ‘Stump for Trump’ duo bring down the house at NC rally

Patrick Buchanan: Why Liberal Media Hate Trump

Stop Climate Change: Shoot the Rich

Which explains:

(a) why there will be no carbon tax, and

(b) Why the elite want to be rid of 90% of the world's population.

Another approach: 

CanSpeccy: Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Part IV: Reversing the Trend

Related:

Business Insider: Study: Richest 10% are causing climate change

New Yorker Smears Defenders of the US Constitution

The week of the San Bernadino massacre,
perpetrated by an Islamic extremist
and his Immigrant ISIS-Linked partner,
The New Yorker portrays white Americans
who defend their constitutional right to bear
arms as maniac gun nuts. A narrative rejected
 by an increasing number of Americans if plunging 
US Magazine sales are an indication.

Putin: Time for Regime Change in Turkey Assad: J'accuse France, Britain, Turkey, the US, Saudi Arabia and Qatar of Backing the Terrorist Insurgency in Syria

After 8.00 minutes:

It was in Turkey that terrorists from the North Caucuses used to find safe haven and some of them are still there ...

We have a lot of good friends in Turkey, and they should know that we do not equate [them] with some members of the ruling elite in Turkey who are directly responsible for the deaths of our servicemen [in the downing of an SU-24 bomber and a Russian helicopter in Syria]. We will never [forget] how those[members of the Turkish elite] helped terrorists.

We have always considered betrayal the most ignoble act. Those [in Turkey] who back-stabbed our pilots should remember that. I don't even understand why they did it. Any questions, any problems, any differences... there were other ways to resolve them. ... Why they did it only Allah knows. ... and I suppose Allah stripped the ruling elite of their sanity to punish them.

We will not respond in a nervous or dangerous way. Our reaction will not be aimed to achieve short term political goals, ... they will be based on responsibility before our people, we don't want any sabre-rattling. Bit if someone thinks that by committing this vile crime they can get away with an embargo on the export of tomatoes or some restrictions on construction workers ... they're wrong. We will long remember what they did and they will long regret what they did. 




After 19.00:

I didn't destroy the infra-structure, I didn't give armaments to the terrorists to kill and to destroy. The question who did that: the West, and the Saudis and Qatar.

After 31.55:

When will there be peace in Syria?

When those countries ... France, UK, US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and some others stop supporting those killers.

Related: 

December 7, 2015

Fars News: US Attempting to Infiltrate Syria via Jordan

Fars News: US-Backed (Moderate) Opposition Calls for Extermination of Alawites in Syria

Pravda: Scenarios of real war between Russia and Turkey

RI: The destruction of Syria proceeding according to plan

The Saker: Week Nine of the Russian Intervention in Syria: The Empire Strikes Back

RI: Merkel Joins Turkey/US Alliance of Godless Commies Against Russia 

Daily Telegraph: Let’s deal with the Devil: we should work with Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad in Syria

Daily Mail: London's mayor: Britain should cut a deal with Assad and Putin to defeat ISIS

Funny guy. ISIS head-choppers and liver eaters work for us

RT: Syria slams US-led coalition deadly strike against troops as 'act of aggression'

BBC: Syrian government condemns US air strike on army camp

Intifada: Mother's letter to Cameron and Corbyn: You are creating terrorists

Sunday Times Interview: Assad: "Europe, not Syria, has become the incubator for terrorism now threatening the West."

RT: Turks fling 'dung' at President Erdogan, mull life without Russian gas

RT: Why the US, France and Britain are destroying Syria

Yahoo News: Russia Calls US Stinking Liar Over Turkey's Role in ISIS Oil Theft

Politico: Trump aligns with Putin in accusing Turkey of siding with ISIL

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/trump-putin-isil-turkey-216309#ixzz3tT8SKJGq
BBC: Iraq demands Turkish troops withdraw from near Mosul

RI: Too Late for Apologies: Russia Halts Turk Stream Gas Pipeline

Global Research: The Turkish assault the Russian Su-24 bomber was guided by the US Airforce

Bill O'Reilly Explains Why You're a Far-Right-Wing Extremist, Bigot, Racist If You Oppose the Ruling, Obama-Camoron-Merkel, Left-Liberal-Cuckservative, Treason Party's Ongoing Program to Genocide Your Own People and Culture by Mass Immigration of White-Christian-Hating, Settlers From Syria and Other Countries Destroyed by Military Intervention By Said Ruling Liberal-Left-Cuckservative Treason Party

Related: 

Deep Resource: San Bernardino Shooting – Diversity is Death

Deep Resource: Donald Tusk Warns Europe

IWB: Universities have become the sinking sand nucleus of a culture under attack

Deep Resource:

How Justin Trudeau Could Save the World from Yet Another Futile, Failed, UN Climate Conference, But Won't

James Hansen, former Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Science, is probably the World's best know climate scientist. It is noteworthy, therefore, when he states that America's position in advance of this week's UN-sponsored Paris conference to formulate mechanisms and agreements to curb human-caused climate warming is:

Unadulterated one hundred percent pure bullshit

You can read here Hanson's concise, logical, and well informed paper providing stunning confirmation of Donald Trump's contention that:

We are led by very, very stupid people.

Human activity affects climate in multiple ways, but chief among these are believed to be those activities that raise the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide; particularly the combustion of fossil fuels, but also the destruction of forests and the manufacture of cement.

The purpose of the Paris conference to which twenty thousand have flown, emitting in the process thousands of tons of climate-changing carbon dioxide, is to complicate the issue beyond all hope of a solution and to instigate all kinds of multi-billion-dollar bureaucratic boondogles before returning home to prepare for the next conference (the current Paris meeting being the 21st), which activity justifies their sense of well-being and self-importance while assuring continuation of their comfy, jet-setting, bureaucratic lifestyles, incomes and pensions.

So what to do?

Simple: tax carbon emissions. This was obvious when I wrote  on the subject 18 years ago following Kyoto, among the first great failed UN Conferences on limiting human-caused climate change, and as I explained in a post here the other day.

Briefly, the thing is to tax carbon emissions while imposing a countervailing duty on goods from countries without a carbon tax. The countervail both protects home industry from unfair competition, while providing countries without a carbon tax the incentive to impose one so as to gather for themselves revenue otherwise collected by their trading partners. Moreover, by adjusting the rate, a carbon tax will achieve any desired reduction in carbon emissions at the lowest overall cost to the economy.

That's it, basically, although as Jim Hansen discusses in his paper linked above, there are some refinements to the idea that may be considered. But whatever the form in which it is applied, the carbon tax is an idea so simple that if any country were to announce a commitment to it the idea would be assured of the world's attention and the world's eventual agreement.

The failure of America, Europe and the Asian giants, China and India, to show leadership in the management of the global atmospheric commons, puts Canada, a country already committed in principle to the idea of a carbon tax, in the position to lead the world. Canada should take the opportunity that the otherwise futile Paris conference provides to announce a national carbon tax with a countervailing, across-the-board duty on imports from countries without a comparable tax, thereby establishing an effective mechanism of control over atmospheric carbon dioxide pollution, which, uncontrolled, will likely have catastrophic effects not only on climate, but on both global biodiversity and human cognitive capacity.

PostScript

Justin Trudeau just announced on the CBC radio that he will be doing something or other in three months time after meeting with the Provincial Premiers. Well, OK, we'll give you three months, Justin, to sort something out with the Provinces. But don't miss this splendid opportunity (when both British Columbia and Alberta, Canada's biggest carbon emitters, already have a carbon tax) to establish a national carbon tax and end what has come to seem like an eternal debate about carbon dioxide and climate change.

PostPostcript

National Post: Bloomberg: Trudeau’s national carbon tax a model that should be ‘widely copied’ around the world

Related:

Toronto Sun: Climate cult all about appearances
(And imposing a UN tax on the world)

Breitbart: Paris Climate Talks Are Doomed Because China Knows ‘Climate Change’ Is A Hoax

Daily Mail: Global warming summit will produce '300,000 TONS of C02'

CanSpeccy: MIT Meteorology Prof, Science Magazine and the Pope Concur: The Reality of Human Caused Climate Change Is an Article of Religious Faith

CanSpeccy: Al Gore’s assault on the integrity of science

CanSpeccy: Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration, Part I: Carbon Dioxide Is Not a Greenhouse Gas

CanSpeccy: Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration, Part II: Ecosystem Disruption

CanSpeccy: Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration, Part III: Induced Stupidity and the Decline of the West

CanSpeccy: Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration, Part IV: Reversing the Trend

James Hansen: Isolation of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Part I
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2015/20151127_Isolation.pdf

CNN: COP21? Decoding the UN climate conference's weird acronyms

Telegraph: Paris climate talks: Through the smog, coal-hungry India sees ‘carbon imperialism’ in the West

Politico: Why the Paris climate deal is meaningless

Elite Treason: The National Institutions of the West Are Now Fiercely Protective of Muslims and Hostile to the Native Ancestral Populations

By John Derbyshire

Unz Review, November 21, 2015: The Paris attacks: What’s an appropriate course of action for the French government? Well, they could send their army into Syria and Iraq and defeat ISIS in battle. But even supposing they succeeded, this infestation, the Muslim terrorists, is all over: In Yemen, in Egypt, in North Africa, in Sudan, Somalia, Mali and Nigeria …and, of course, in France and Britain and Germany, in Sweden and Denmark and Russia and America.

So perhaps the appropriate course of action is mass expulsion of Muslims from our countries and really firm control of borders and visas.

None of that is going to happen, though. You see how far away from it we are. Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, and Justin Trudeau want us to bring in moreMuslims. David Cameron and François Hollande may not want precisely that, but their weak brains are so addled with globalist propaganda they will do nothing to curtail Muslim immigration.

We must face the fact: the national institutions of the West are now fiercely protective of Muslims and hostile to the native ancestral populations.

Random news story from Britain: Two Muslim brothers from Pakistan ran a welfare scam that got them half a million dollars of taxpayers’ money. Brought to trial, they were found guilty. However, the British judge let them off with suspended sentences. Why? Out of concern for their children, who number …eleven. [Two brothers who swapped houses to con taxpayer out of £315,000 walk FREE after judge claims ‘greatest punishment was loss of their good names’, By Mark Duell, Daily Mail, February 11, 2013

Another random story from Britain: 

Read more

Putin — "Turkey Has Stabbed Russia in the Back": The Peace Prize Winner — "Bravo"

Obama's model: Kaiser Wilhelm loading Turkey into the breach in
the undeclared war on Russia

November 28, 2015

Neo: The Erdogan Era is All But Over

Pepe Escobar: Why Turkey Stabbed Russia in the Back

SANA: US bombs water works in Aleppo Syria

This war crime is consistent with what the US did to Iraq during the first phase of the War of Terror, and is consistent with the Peace Prize winner's bombing of the Aleppo power plant last month: It keeps up the flow of refugees to Europe, and clears the ground for Greater Israel

Patrick Buchanan: Stumbling to War With Russia?

NEO: Russia Will Now Eliminate All Air Threats to its Forces in Syria

Sputnik: Syrian army fired on from over the Turkish border

Breitbart: Downing of Russian jet a NATO provocation

RI: The Accomplices of Terrorism Have Their Backs Against the Wall

November 26, 2015: 

Daily Mail: Putin accuses US of leaking flight path of doomed jet to Turkey

Reuters: Russian jet hit inside Syria after incursion into Turkey: U.S. official

Fort Russ: Turkish intelligence chief: ISIS is a reality and we must stop Putin from crushing the Islamic revolution



Latino-FoxNews: Obarmy: We will only support Russia in Syria if Russia changes sides

RT: Ankara defends ISIS, Turkish officials have financial interest in oil trade with group - PM Medvedev

Juan Cole: Why did Turkey dare shoot down a Russian Plane? The Proxy War in Syria

Global Research: Turkey downed Russian jet after consultation with Brussels and Washington

Fort Russ: Erdogan's son behind downing of Su-24: revenge for disruption of trade in stolen oil

Sputnik: Russian Defense Ministry Video: Su-24 Never Entered Turkish Airspace

TASS: Putin's spokesman maintains Turkey downed Russian plane in Syrian airspace

RT: Russia suspends military cooperation with Ankara

Deep Resource: Turkey is the Enemy of Europe

Sky News: Turkey shoots down Russian fighter jet near Syrian border

Russia Insider: Shoot-down was an ambush

Zero Hedge: CIA-backed Syrian rebels assassinate Russian pilot while parachuting

Reuters: Russia calls Turkey "accomplice of terrorists"

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the plane had been attacked when it was 1 km (0.62 mile) inside Syria and warned of "serious consequences" for what he termed a stab in the back administered by "the accomplices of terrorists".

Pravda: Russia will not tolerate such crimes — Putin

AWDNews: Turkey practically declared war on Russia

Putin: Erdoğan ... [an] accomplice in all atrocities committed by ISIS... a rabid dog

Obama: Yeah! Couldn't get those Old Europeans wimps to launch a war on Russia over Ukraine, but the Turks fighting Russia over Syria will do fine instead.

Zero Hedge: Syrian Rebels Destroy Russian Helicopter With US-Supplied Anti-Tank Missile

Mirror: Russian rescue helicopter 'shot down by US-equipped Syrian rebels' while searching for pilots of plane downed by Turkey

JePo: Russian ground troops arrive in Syria in unprecedented military action

Toronto Sun: ISIS calls for attacks on Canada

Does Pro-Nazi Justin Trudeau Stand for Canada?

Justin Trudeau is a good looking fella with a pleasant personality and virtually no qualifications to be Prime Minister of Canada except that of being the son of his father, the late Pierre Trudeau, a three-time prime minister of Canada, distinguished by three things: massive budget deficits, non-enforcement of legal restrictions on abortion, and introduction of no-fault devorce; the last two measures being the prime cause of Canada's present-day, far-below-replacement fertility rate.

In addition, Pierre Trudeau was known in his youth at the time of the Second World War as a pro-fascist, anti-Semite who rode around the Québec countryside on a motor cycle wearing a helmet emblazoned with a swastika.

Which raises the question: is such parentage, alone, evidence of the potential to be a good prime minister? To which the answer is that, so far, we're seeing nothing in the performance of Justin Trudeau to justify optimism.

Consider:

(1) On Friday (November 20, 2015) Canada joined the United States, Palau (WhoTF are they*), and the Ukraine, in voting against a UN General Assembly resolution on "Measures against the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that facilitate the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance related to them."

(2) At this year's G20 Meeting Trudeau warned Putin:

that Russia’s interference in Ukraine must cease, that we stand with the Ukrainian people, and expect the president to engage fully in the Minsk peace process ...

LOL.

Trudeau Warns Putin. Source

In this Trudeau emulates Stephen Harper's performance as the Mighty Mouse of the North. But was not Putin a principle architect of the Minsk Agreement, and is it not Ukraine that continues the shelling of civilian targets in contravention of that agreement?

(3) Trudeau's Defense Minister Sajjan declares war on Syria (and by implication Russia) by insisting Assad, the head of the legitimate, elected, UN-recognized government of Syria, must go.

Trudeau, it seems, is shaping up to be at least as much of a toady to the US/Israeli NeoCons as Stephen Harper and even worse than his father as PM. At least Pierre Trudeau kept Canada out of the Vietnam war. The way he's going, young, inexperienced and fairly dim-witted Justin seems bent on sending Canadian troops to fight in perhaps the stupidest war of the last 100 years, a war to replace the elected government of Syria with a band of CIA-backed terrorists.

But Justin Trudeau's Government Has One Thing Right

Canada is a large country, vast in fact, and larger than every country in the World other than Russia, but sparsely populated. The icy wastes of the North are uninhabited and virtually uninhabitable except by transient miners expensively maintained with airlifted supplies from the South, and barely 50,000 hardy Inuit. Yet along the almost 9000 kilometer-long Southern border, a fertile region with a cool but temperate climate, Canada has a mere 35 million souls. Hence Canada's perpetual call for immigrants, needed to secure the territory, a need exacerbated by anti-family institutions, laws and cultural practices that have driven Canada's birthrate to barely two-thirds of the replacement rate.

Syrian refugees or the Muslim answer to the Crusades? Source

Canada, like all other European majority states, is replacing itself with people from elsewhere: everyone welcome, including Syrian refugees. But Canada's Syrian refugee immigration program differs from that of every other country it seems in excluding those strong, young, single men who, having chosen not to fight for their country, and who constitute what most believe to be a serious threat to the security of those countries where their arrival has the appearance of an Islamic answer to the Crusades.

Canada's policy is to accept from Syria only women, children and families. It is not clear whether preference will given, as it should, to Christians and others of Syria's persecuted non-Islamic minorities, and to those with qualifications for employment in Canada. But whatever the selection criteria, whether these people will settle comfortably into Canadian society where religion is tolerated only insofar as it is devoid of social or political implications conflicting with the precepts of a secular society remains to be seen. But at least Canada's novel immigrant selection process eliminates the immediate risk of violence from single male "refugee"  Jihadis such as was as recently witnessed in Paris.

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* Palau, for those unfamiliar with Canada's pro-Nazi friend, is a dot in the Pacific Ocean one-sixth the size of Greater Vancouver. It has a population of less than 22 thousand people and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the US State Department and for some bizarre reason has a UN vote, which it casts as the US State Department dictates, just like Canada.

Related:

Toronto Sun: ISIS magazine calls for attacks on Canada

Zero Hedge: US Congresswoman Introduces Bill To Stop "Illegal" CIA War On Assad

Zero Hedge: These are the anti-Assad lies the Trudeau Government expects Canadians to believe

CanSpeccy: Ukraine: Catapulting the Propaganda, the National Putz and Stephen Harper, the Mighty Mouse of the North

CanSpeccy: Want to Know What Russia Wants in Ukraine? Listen to What Russia Says

Why the West Should Welcome Those Strong Young Men From Syria

Via WRH

Related: 

The Dumbness of a Liberal: Chrystia Freeland, Canadian MP, on Islamic Extremism 

The problem that liberals have with Donald Trump is that they claim to speak for the people, but the American people, in increasing numbers, are saying: "No, Donald Trump speaks for us."

Meantime:

Breitbart: Obama’s VA Facility Bans ‘Merry Christmas’

Breitbart: 58% of Americans “don’t identify with what America has become.”

But not to worry. Those are just older, white, poorly educated people, soon to be replaced by poorer, less well educated, but most importantly non-white, people from elsewhere, and on that both the Republican Party and Democratic Party leadership are in firm agreement. 

CanSpeccy: The Liberal Mind and the New World Order
The liberal mind is a small and uncomplicated device. That is the danger of it. It can be fitted within the narrowest cranium. In its entirety, it consists in nothing other than two absurd ideas – from which it draws what it calls its principles – plus a great deal of venom. ...

  Continued

Keynsian Economics: The Cause of Mass Unemployment in the West

In 2015, the US trade deficit is well over half a trillion
and trending upward.

In a previous post I pointed out why Keynsianism no longer provides an antidote to unemployment in the West. Instead of putting the unemployed to work, the chief effect of loose money, money printing, and government deficit spending is to pull in more imports from both the cheap labor areas of the world and the most competitive advanced economies, thereby creating a trade deficit, which is covered by the export of currency, which in turn, creates a massive foreign debt obligation.

The magnitude of the damage being inflicted on the US working classes through the inappropriate application of  Keynsian stimulus is evident from a simple calculation. A current trade deficit of around 5% of GDP equals $668 billion annually. Divide that by the average yearly income of the lowest paid half of the US workforce ($12,681) and you get 65,846,542. That's right, the US trade deficit is equal in value to 65 million times the average yearly income from employment of the lowest-paid half of the American workforce.

So that's where the missing jobs have gone: offshore. Most of the Americans who used to make shoes and shirts, car parts and computers, toys and furniture for other Americans are now among the 95 million Americans of working age who are not in the workforce. But not to worry, it's been hugely profitable for the international corporations who have exported the Western capital and technology that made possible the exploitation of Asia's teaming masses of sweatshop labor.

Unemployment and Interest Rates: Keynes Versus the Globalists

Real unemployment over vast regions of Europe and North America is at a post WWII high. Redefinition of unemployment conceals most of the damage. In the US, for example, current unemployment if measured as it was during the Reagan era would be at least equal to the Department of Labor's U6 measure, which now stands at 10%. But that is probably a vast underestimate since we know there are 95 million working-age Americans who are not working, meaning that there are many who would like a job but have given up trying to find one and who are not therefore classified as unemployed. In addition, there are millions who want full-time work but can find only part-time work.

It is now generally agreed that mass unemployment during the Great Depression was caused by a contraction of the money supply due to a failure of central banks to provide monetary easing in a timely fashion. The solution, recognized by Lord Maynard Keynes, and promptly applied, to Keynes delight, by Adolf Hitler, was money printing and deficit government spending.

Since 2008, the Western states have tried endless money printing, easy credit and government deficit spending, but with not much to show for it. Still millions and tens of millions of people in their 20's and now increasingly in their 30's, are living with their parents because they are too poor to move out. Meantime, the US labor force participation rate continues to fall, as it has done ever since 2008.

So why, then, does Keynsianism not work today if it was what worked in the 30's when and where it was tried? The answer is, globalization. In the 30's the US economy, and to a lesser extent that of Europe, was self-contained, whereas today, US exports as a share of GDP are three times greater than in the 30's, and imports as a share of GDP have quadrupled.

A consequence of this opening of the US and other Western economies to the rest of the World is that money printing and deficit spending tends to pull in more imports from the cheap labor areas of the world — car parts and computers, shoes and shirts and just about any other labor-intensive manufactured product you can think of — rather than stimulating home production. Meantime, so far as it supports the labor market at home, the effect of such stimulus is to prop wages up, hence delaying the downward adjustment necessary to achieve parity with the Third-World manufacturing and service centers in China, India and many other countries.

The implication, then, is that what is needed is not looser money and abundant credit, but the exact opposite, this to drive unemployment up in the short-run to achieve price deflation, including deflation in labor costs. In other words, life may be tough for school and college leavers seeking jobs, but they need to be tougher, so tough in fact, that workforce entrants are willing to work for sweatshop wages, as do the illegal immigrants employed in the booming US and European underground economies.

Naturally, no one is going to talk about this solution to the unemployment problem since its a guaranteed loser election platform. Still it's a solution that may be about to be tried. The only alternatives being continued widespread misery due to unemployment, or a return to protectionism, a key feature of Trumponomics, but anathema to the financial elite.

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CanSpeccy: Barbgate: How Western elites opened the gates and what to do about it

After Paris Slaughter: EU to Buy Stolen Oil from ISIS to Fuel the Syrian Civil War and Drive More Syrian Refugees to Europe

ISIS Convoy of US State Department supplied trucks.

Yahoo News reports: EU lifts Syria oil embargo to bolster rebels

So, after people from Syria, allegedly ISIS members, kill 140 people in a terrorist attack on Paris, the Froggies and the rest of the Piss Prize winner's loyal vassals have agreed to stoke the war against the legitimate government of Syria by purchasing Syrian oil stolen by "the forces fighting to oust President Bashar Assad's regime," the beneficiaries of this decision including, obviously, ISIS, who are currently stealing Syrian oil worth $50-million-a-month.

The important thing about terrorist attacks is not who's responsible or why an atrocity was committed. What matter's is that it panics people so they are willing to believe the more outlandish lies of a Machiavellian leadership. If ISIS blew up the Statue of Liberty, it would be an opportunity for O'Bomber to direct more Syrian "refugees" to America.

Related: 

Tass: Russia's warplanes in Syria start hunting Islamic State tanker trucks — General Staff

Syrian Radio and TV: U.S. Senator to President al-Assad: War on Syria was an unlawful war of aggression

NJ.com: Donald Trump had it right on Vladimir Putin and ISIS

Sounds of My Youth: Telstar and the Tragic Genius of Joe Meek

Telstar: No. 1 in Britain and the US, 1962

Composed and produced by Joe Meek, recorded by the Tornados. Overdubbing with a clavioline to produce a cool space-agey sound celebrating the first live, trans-Atlantic, television broadcast via satellite.





The Joe Meek story '' t.v.documentary - 8/2/1991 - (Pt 2 of 4).

The Joe Meek story '' t.v.documentary - 8/2/1991 - (Pt 3 of 4).

The Joe Meek story '' t.v.documentary - 8/2/1991 - (Pt 4 of 4).

Meek's commercial success as a producer was short-lived, and he gradually sank into debt and depression. On 3 February 1967, using a shotgun owned by musician Heinz Burt, Meek killed his landlady Violet Shenton and then shot himself. (Wikipedia)

A Politically Correct Civilization Cannot Stand

Political Correctness (correctly spelled with caps) is now the religion of the West, and it is destroying us.

The lunatic, welcoming response of the New World and European leadership to the invasion of their homelands by hundreds of thousands of military-age Muslim males from Syria and other countries, these to be followed by millions more, confirms that a Politically Correct civilization cannot stand.

Most people in both Europe and the New World realize that multiculturalism means destruction not only of Western, Christian civilization, but of the people of the West. But the leadership is adamant: Christianity and the tradition of Western civilization must die, and if that means death of the European people, so be it.

Europe's posterity: ME migrants in Budapest. Image source

While childless Angela Merkel,* the creation of her predecessor as German Chancellor, the childless Helmut Kohl, invites literally millions of rabid Muslim males to Germany, the Germany people are failing miserably to reproduce themselves. With a fertility of 1.4 children per female (2.1 being the replacement rate) the immigrants with their weaponized reproductive strategy for the greater glory  of Allah will become the majority in Germany and Europe as a whole within the lifetime of those born today.

And long before that, PC multiculti liberal society and its obsessions with transgenderism, homosexualism, sex "ed", pornography, and gender equality will long be dead: destroyed by those it welcomed into its homelands. But the outcome will not be a revival of Christendom, it will be a victory of a philistine, mediaeval totalitarianism under which the Western world will stagnate for a thousand years.

* Merkel, like Kohl, was a recipient of the Charlemagne Prize, also known as the Treason Prize, which was first awarded to Count Coudenhove-Kalergi who advocated the mogrelization of the European people by mass immigration from Africa and the Middle-East. Other well-known advocates of Western self-destruction and recipients of the Treason Prize include the allegedly childless sex addict, Bill Clinton, who welcomes the demise of America's white majority,  and the childless homosexual, Edward Heath, who took Britain into the European Union on a false prospectus.

It is time now for those in Europe and the New World who seek a future for their own people and posterity to take a stand for Christendom and the civilization of the West.

Related:
CanSpeccy: Political Correctness Has Replaced Christianity As the Religion of the West
CanSpeccy: The Rationality of Christian Faith
CanSpeccy: Damn Fool Atheists
CanSpeccy: The "Refugee" Invasion of the Baltic States and the Islamic Conquest of Europe
Rick Santorum on the Muslim Invasion of the West: Liberals Think Nothing We Stand for Is Worth Fighting For
Professor Michael Chossudovsky: Twenty-six Things About the Islamic State (ISIL) that Obama Does Not Want You to Know About
Deep Resource: Merkel Plots to Overthrow Her Own People

and, same title, different content:

Unz Review: Angela Merkel Plots to Overthrow Her People
Deep Resource: Germans to Police: You're Fighting Your Own People

Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration, Part IV: Reversing the Trend

Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has risen over the last 250 years by just over 40%, from 275 parts per million (ppm) by volume to almost 400 ppm, and is currently rising at the rate of 2.11 ppm per year, which if sustained means a doubling of the pre-industrial concentration within 70 years.

This change in the chemical composition of the atmosphere has at least three consequences of major concern:

First, by absorbing heat radiated by the Earth to outer space, the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere warms the planet, though by what amount is highly uncertain due to the complex interactions among climate variables. 

Second, by increasing the efficiency with which plants use water in photosynthesis, it has increased global primary production by, according to some estimates, as much as ten billion tons per year. But not all plants respond to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration in the same way, so that some species will increase in range and habitat dominance, while others will be at a competitive disadvantage. The net result will be the loss of many species both of plants and of the animals that depend on those plants for food or shelter. 

Third, it appears from current research that rather small increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration may severely impair certain important human cognitive capacities.

The chief causes of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide are: 

Combustion of fossil fuel (65-85% of total change).

Conversion of old-growth forests to short-rotation plantations or bare land with the resultant atmospheric release of carbon fixed in both trees and forest soils (10-25% of total change). 

and the manufacture of cement, which involves the conversion of calcium carbonate to calcium oxide with the release of carbon dioxide (5% of total change).

Cooking with wood. Image source

As the Third World modernizes, scope for reducing worldwide cement usage looks slight to non-existent. There is, however, considerable scope for reducing forest destruction. Approximately half of the timber harvested worldwide is used for fuel wood, and that mainly for cooking over an open fire. Cooking over an open wood fire is highly inefficient. Converting two-thirds of the World's population from the use of fuel wood for cooking to the use of naturqal gas would massively reduce the associated carbon emissions, while also reducing the emission of climate-warming and health-damaging soot and volatile organic compounds. Substantial reduction in timber use as a structural material will be more difficult to achieve, although increasing substitution of oil-based plastics for wood is likely to occur.

Old growth stump versus spindly second growth forest, British
Columbia. Source

Large near-term reductions in carbon emissions can only come through reductions in the use of fossil fuel. Such reduction during a period of Third World modernization may be difficult to achieve, but is essential if a catastrophic poisoning of Earth's environment is to be avoided. For this, three developments are required. 

First, the upgrading of industrial processes to achieve higher energy-use efficiencies. Gas turbine electricity generators, for example, can have an energy-use-efficiency at least 50% higher than most existing coal-fired plants. 

Second, the redesign of the human environment, including residential architecture and transportation systems, to eliminate the massive expenditures of time, capital and energy necessitated  by the suburban/commuter life-style. 

Third, the redirection of consumption from energy intensive goods and services, such as airline travel, SUV's, and monster homes, to low-energy-content goods and services, including bicycles, and health, fitness, educational and religious services.

The efficient commuter. Image source

The challenge is to devise a way of driving the necessary changes in methods of production, life-styles and thinking. But central to any effective change in course will be to tax what we don't want, i.e., carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, and to avoid taxing all the low-carbon goods and services that we do want. This means a carbon tax is essential. All that is needed is for governments to adjust their budgets to raise revenue from carbon emissions while reducing taxes on income. This will automatically adjust consumption preferences and reduce overall carbon emissions.

Beside its direct effect on carbon emissions, the carbon tax has two other important features. 

First, it will drive increases in carbon-use efficiency in the most cost effective way. Those who can reduce their emissions for less than the cost of the carbon tax will do so, whereas those who cannot reduce their emissions for less than the cost of the carbon tax will pay the tax and continue emitting, though at a reduced rate as the cost of what they sell is raised as a consequence of the carbon tax. Thus will be achieved a reduction in emissions at the lowest overall cost to the economy, with scope for increasing the reduction indefinitely by increases in the carbon tax rate. 

Second, the effective application of a carbon tax can be undertaken by any jurisdiction without consultation or agreement with any other jurisdiction. There is no need for international agreement. All that is needed is a countervailing import tax on goods or services from countries without a carbon tax of comparable severity to one's own. Such a provision not only protects the home industry from unfair foreign competition, but provides other countries with an incentive to introduce their own carbon tax.

Sadly, the beauty of the carbon tax mechanism, which we spelled out eighteen years ago, has yet to be recognized by any national government. It is encouraging, however, that the new government of Canada has promised a national carbon tax, although the value of such a measure will depend upon the details. There must be no exemptions for favored industries or regions and it must be accompanied by a countervailing import tax to protect Canadian jobs from unfair competition.

Related: 

CanSpeccy: Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration, Part III: Induced Stupidity and the Decline of the West

CanSpeccy: Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration, Part II: Ecosystem Disruption

CanSpeccy: Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration, Part I: Carbon Dioxide Is Not a Greenhouse Gas