JimmyBourke

JimmyBourke

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3 years ago @ http://www.information... - Opinion: - \'The EU is... · 0 replies · +1 points

For the Blind.
"Emperor for life Xi and his treatment of Uighurs"
Obviously you can read the propaganda about China but it may be more useful for your education to look as to why that propaganda is being constructed. https://www.marktaliano.net/ent-of-uyghur-muslims...
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-fueling-terroris...
https://today.line.me/hk/v2/article/46+countries+...
https://www.globalresearch.ca/biggest-lie-china-x...
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detainin...

And for another side of the story – a bit from China.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1205505.shtml.
Keep your mind open .
Peace and prosperity is never the result of propaganda.

3 years ago @ http://www.information... - Opinion: - \'The EU is... · 0 replies · +1 points

A good Summary.
The USA is but a pawn and executioner . Its public mind well controlled and influenced by an industry set up to do just that.
But a few thinkers remain who are courageous and share the vital facts omitted from the general mindwash.

3 years ago @ http://www.information... - Opinion: - · 0 replies · +1 points

Unbelievable!
Deniers extend beyond climate into Covid19.
The hard evidence for covid19 is there in spite of deniers clinging to rumor and bogus experts who often have an agenda.
Long covid19 has some terrible consequences and not at all like the flu.
While the WHO is a UN arrangement so therefore needs to have its findings examined carefully. the scientists producing reports independent of politics just have to be given some weight.
When the WHO gets to the USA will they be allowed in and if so will records of covid19 like symptoms some months before Wuhan, be made available.

3 years ago @ http://www.information... - Opinion: - · 0 replies · +1 points

Drew I think you are backing the wrong horse this time.

3 years ago @ http://www.information... - Opinion: -Enough with ... · 1 reply · +1 points

It is significant that the appeal to reason focuses on the tragedy of US troops harmed.
The real picture is a more global one of the damage done to many many times more people and often civilians, by the US actions overseas.
1,4 million dead with US invasion of Iraq & Afghanistan.
3 million in Korea, at least 1.5 million in Vietnam, 200 thousand in Cambodia. At least 50 thousand in Laos: just to list a few.
No empathy for these people and millions others maimed and grieving. Just no trace of empathy from a public full of themselves and self righteous justification in wiping out millions just to steal resources.
The USA has never been threatened except for Hawaii which was annexed by the USA against the indigenous peoples will. Hawaii had a long association with Japan prior to the annexation, with many Hawaiians having Japanese ancestry.
US wars are not to do with defense but are acts of aggression.
Yes wake up youngsters the troops are working for crooks who don't give a stuff about young American lives, nor the damage done to young spirits, minds and bodies, nor to the grieving families betrayed.

3 years ago @ http://www.information... - Opinion: - You’r... · 7 replies · +1 points

Charlotte
Do you accept supporting the genocide of Palestinians as normal or even avoiding speaking about it as normal

3 years ago @ http://www.information... - Opinion: - Fact or Fic... · 0 replies · +1 points

Cont:
The runaway effect is fairly obvious as the planet warms then there is more release of methane coupled with the loss if reflective ice which both feed the runaway process.
Mankind has written its own gloom as to the consequence of the thirst for energy being a terminal quest.
We need to reduce our energy harvesting across more than just fossil fuels for reasons I won't go into here as its a very complex picture.

Prior to say 1700 energy harvested by humans caused the decimation of forests in cooler areas of Europe, Asia and the Americas, but with a relatively small increase on atmospheric CO2.
Harvesting energy with water wheels. windmills, tide rising, animal power and wood fires were associated with minimal use of Non Renewable Natural Resources, compered with post 1800 fossil fuel based industrialization.

Your comment

"The climate is constantly changing. It always has and it always will"

Is of course true as the effects of Earth's orbit, geological processes, living organisms and solar cycles are interactive in the realm of Earth's surface temperatures.
But that statement does not preclude the impact of human release of sequestered carbon into the atmosphere.
As temporary as that release might be in geological time scales, in human time scales it is a catastrophy in the making for most species on the planet.

Skepticism is always healthy but should not be confused with just finding quick answers to block off further examination, which must be ongoing as new information is coupled with hard tested evidence.

Rising CO2, increase and other pollution, rising human population and encroachment of wilderness, stripping the natural environment of resources, decimation of ocean fish stocks and many other species, is pretty much ignored by the confused public.

Short term there is money to be made by the few groups called corporation that remove individual responsibility and proceed into areas such as the production of toxic biocides.
The natural balance is increasingly under attack.
Where have the bees, other insects and invertebrates gone as their populations are plummeting globally.
We depend on them.

From a recent report but entirely compatible with the many scientific analyses of data in the field.

“More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles. The total mass of insects is falling by a precipitous 2.5% a year, according to the best data available, suggesting they could be decimated or extinct within a century.
The planet is at the start of a sixth mass extinction in its history, with huge losses already reported in larger animals that are easier to study. But insects are by far the most varied and abundant animals, outweighing humanity by 17 times. They are “essential” for the proper functioning of all ecosystems, the researchers say, as food for other creatures, pollinators and recyclers of nutrients.”

3 years ago @ http://www.information... - Opinion: - Fact or Fic... · 0 replies · +1 points

IM
Yes I agree that crises are promoted regularly so a more science based perspective is a better guide to exploring likely possibilities of what lies ahead.

Doom and gloom is a matter on one hand of a comment used to dismiss information out of hand so it can be a ploy to obfuscate examination of prospects in a conversation.
But there is another summative description where doom and gloom may well have relevance.
For example the prospect for survival of many species in the wild as human impact removes their natural environment and extinction is the result.

To an increasing degree the human species and present way of life has created a doom and gloom prospect on many fronts.

The climate changing as an ongoing process is a reality if you bother to examine the findings of the climatology community, and put to one side the political and popular comment as found in the MSM by reporters who are not the people who can give qualified comment.

The last mini ice age was fairly recent and affected by the rise in CO2 as the industrial revolution got underway with an increased harvesting of energy from sequestered fossil fuels, which affected the cycle causing the mini ice age by shortening its cycle.

The warming effect is very much dependent on the atmospheric CO2 but the mechanisms for absorption of CO2 are affected by the orbital fluctuations of the planet which occur over very long periods of time.
The ice ages are often used as a point of confusion by folk who find it comforting to throw doubt on the evidence of warming and the dramatic rise in atmospheric CO2 by human activity.

I use CO2 loosely as a collective term for the group of "green house" gasses.

The tipping point where runaway release of methane coupled with the loss of arctic ice, glaciers and Greenland's ice shield, reducing the reflective area that in the immediate past reduced the absorption of solar energy, is not clearly defined as its new ground for human experience.
Models constructed to look at this are experimental but not to be dismissed by deniers who just don't want to work through the exploration of what seems to be happening guided by the best minds applying up to date data to the picture of what is, and where that is likely to lead.

It looks likely that we have entered a runaway period with the massive increase in release of methane from the Northern areas of permafrost and that includes the ocean floor whee clear evidence of methane gas streaming has drawn attention the process of methane release.
A scientist Jim Kennet found evidence of massive marine methane "bombs" release leaving large crater in the ocean floor many thousands of years ago.

But methane release its a growing event as warming has taken place with a 1 degree C being evident in many parts of the globe. Sea temperature on the average has risen by almost a degree which is the author of changes that are seen in marine methane release.
Atmospheric methane is up to 90 times more potent in absorption of solar energy, but over time its effect is reduce as it is converted to mainly CO2 so an average figure of 25 times more potent that CO2 is commonly used. Co2 on the other hand remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years.
https://www.nature.com/articles/climate.2009.24

Jim has worked on this for over 50 years with an open mind.
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3 years ago @ http://www.information... - Opinion: -  · 0 replies · +1 points

After Nixon's visit to China, the advantage of cheaper labour became the reason US businesses moved their production into China, using Chinese labour and facilities. Production in the US then declined relatively and that trend continues.
The Chinese infrastucture is different to that of the USA which has helped US investors.
Most of Walmart's shelves are populated with goods from China as are most homes. That has made many US billionaire richer with the higher profit margins and lower expenses.

3 years ago @ http://www.information... - Opinion: -  · 0 replies · +1 points

And the carpet bombing of Laos and Cambodia did not get a mention in US MSM while it was happening.
Investigative journalism brought that into the light of day well after it had happened.