NY Times — As he surveys the streets of this sprawling mega-city [Istanbul], Mustafa Erdik, the director of an earthquake engineering institute here, says he sometimes feels like a doctor scanning a crowded hospital ward. It is not so much the city’s modern core, where two sleek Trump Towers and a huge airport terminal were built to withstand a major earthquake that is considered all but inevitable in the next few decades. Nor does Dr. Erdik agonize over Istanbul’s ancient monuments, whose yards-thick walls have largely withstood more than a dozen potent seismic blows over the past two millenniums. Read article
Daily Telegraph – Despite the nation’s love affair with high fat foods like condensed milk in the sixties, people enjoyed healthier lifestyles than they do now, experts claim. Although it was an era when people had less access to gyms, those overweight were also more likely to try to slim then. Read More…
The Local.de – The number of cancer cases in Germany will likely spike by a third in the next 20 years, medical experts reported on Wednesday. Nobel Prize-winning doctor and president of German Cancer Aid, Harald zur Hausen, told daily Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung that the numbers will increase dramatically as the demographic trend tends toward an ageing population. Read article
PhysOrg.com – In recent years, DNA evidence has added important new tools for scientists studying the human past. Now, a collection of reviews published by Cell Press in a special issue of Current Biology published online on February 22nd offers a timely update on how new genetic evidence, together with archaeological and linguistic evidence, has enriched our understanding of human history on earth. Read Article
San Francisco Chronicle – Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a so-called Master Race. But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn’t originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an important, although little-known, role in the American eugenics movement’s campaign for ethnic cleansing. Read Article
Local.se – There is no evidence to support the contention that the influenza vaccine administered to the over 65s is of any more use than opening the windows and washing hands, a new study from the Cochrane Collaboration claims, according to a report in the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper. The Cochrane Collaboration, an international not-for-profit organization providing up-to-date information about the effects of health care, has compiled data from 40 flu seasons worldwide. Read Article
Physorg.com — Eventually, the day will come when life on Earth ends. Whether that’s tomorrow or five billion years from now, whether by nuclear war, climate change, or the Sun burning up its fuel, the last living cell on Earth will one day wither and die. But that doesn’t mean that all is lost. What if we had the chance to sow the seeds of terrestrial life throughout the universe, to settle young planets within developing solar systems many light-years away, and thus give our long evolutionary line the chance to continue indefinitely? Read Article
Spiegel – An Italian village is hoping to reverse its population decline by welcoming refugees from around the world. The immigrants get free room and board and are expected to work and learn Italian in return. The project is proving highly successful — but the local Mafia aren’t happy. read Article
Daily Telegraph – Before we get too worried about NASA’s latest stamping-its-little-feet claims that the world is getting hotter it is it is it IS, let us first remind ourselves why we should trust their temperature records slightly less far than we can spit. Then let’s have a closer look at the character and motives of the man in charge of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), Dr James Hansen. Last year, he was described by his former course supervisor at NASA, Dr John Theon, as an “activist” and an embarrassment. Read Article
Ed – It should also be noted that he recently endorsed the book “Time’s Up!: An Uncivilized Solution to a Global Crisis” by White House science czar John Holdren, which called for a “planetary regime” to carry out forced abortions and mandatory sterilization procedures, as well as drugging the water supply, in an effort to cull the human surplus. In his own words – “Keith Farnish has it right: time has practically run out, and the ’system’ is the problem. Governments are under the thumb of fossil fuel special interests – they will not look after our and the planet’s well-being until we force them to do so, and that is going to require enormous effort.” – source Amazon.Com
The Guardian – One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people, according to new analysis which suggests that the biofuel revolution launched by former President George Bush in 2007 is impacting on world food supplies. The 2009 figures from the US Department of Agriculture shows ethanol production rising to record levels driven by farm subsidies and laws which require vehicles to use increasing amounts of biofuels. “The grain grown to produce fuel in the US [in 2009] was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels,” Read Article
Ed – What kind of immoral system have we created that allows this to happen (for profit) rather than feed the 1 billion malnourished fellow human beings amongst us?
Wall Street Journal – Over time climates do change. As author Howard Bloom wrote in The Wall Street Journal last month, in the past two million years there have been 60 ice ages, and in the 120,000 years since the development of modern man, “we’ve lived through 20 sudden global warmings,” and of course this was before–long before–”smokestacks and tail pipes.” In our earth’s history there has been both global warming and global cooling. In Roman times, from 200 B.C. to A.D. 600, it was warm; from 600 to 900 came the cold Dark Ages; more warming from 900 to 1300; and another ice age from 1300 to 1850. Within the past century, the earth has warmed by 0.6 degree Celsius, but within this period we can see marked shifts: cooling (1900-10), warming (1910-40), cooling again (1940 to nearly 1980), and since then a little warming. The Hadley Climatic Research Unit global temperature record shows that from 1980 to 2009, the world warmed by 0.16 degree Celsius per decade. As for the impact of reducing global warming, Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, outlined in The Wall Street Journal that Oxfam concluded that if wealthy nations diverted $50 billion to climate change that “at least 4.5 million children would die and 8.6 million fewer people could have access to HIV/AIDS treatment.” And if we spent it on reducing carbon emissions? It would “reduce temperatures by all of one-thousandth of one degree Fahrenheit over the next hundred years.” Read Article
Daily Telegraph – Britain must produce more food to avoid going hungry in the future, the Government will warn this week. A soaring global population, climate change, diminishing energy sources and depleted fish stocks mean that society can no longer be complacent about its ability to feed itself, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will say. Read Article
Ed – two “hot button’s for the Great British public there: The fear of climate change, and the fear of immigration.
The Australian – IMMIGRANTS used to be seen as a threat to local jobseekers. But Australia’s new migration stimulus is maintaining the economy’s growth momentum and keeping a firm lid on unemployment. In September, Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens suggested the jobless rate might already have peaked. That now seems less far-fetched given that the 5.7 per cent November unemployment reading means the jobless rate has plateaued since March. Read Article
Daily Telegraph – Population growth is the one issue accused of causing driving climate change that no one at the Copenhagen climate summit dares to talk about. The argument is that more people consume more resources, therefore producing more greenhouse gases that cause global warming. The global population is currently at 6 billion and could rise to 11 billion by 2050 if fertility rates continue, not only threatening the climate, but food shortages and conflict as well. Read Article
Ed – The best way to address the ever expanding human population is not to enrich bankers and western governments. It is to raise the rights of women, to raise the level of education and most importantly raise the standards of living of the poorest 3 billion. At the dark heart of this entire cult is the eugenics movement and their religious zeal to depopulate and remove what they describe as “the ueless eaters”
Guardian – Up to 20 million Bangladeshis may be forced to leave the country in the next 40 years because of climate change, one of the country’s most senior politicians has said. Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, Bangladesh’s finance minister, called on Britain and other wealthy countries to accept millions of displaced people. In a clear signal to the US and Europe that developing countries are not prepared to accept a weak deal at next week’s Copenhagen climate summit, Abdul Muhith said Bangladesh wanted hosts for managed migration as people began to abandon flooded and storm-damaged coastal areas. “Twenty million people could be displaced [in Bangladesh] by the middle of the century,” Abdul Muhith told the Guardian. Read Article
Ed – In politics there is a practice known as “dog whistle” policies. They wash over those already “on message”, and likewise those who are “off message”, but are heard loud and clear by those who are undecided – in this case play to middle-England’s greatest fears – immigration – so to scare them towards your path
Over the last few weeks there has been a fair bit of press stemming from a lecture on October 14 (and subsequent interviews) given by the UK peer, Lord Christopher Monckton in St. Paul, Minnesota, on the subject of anthropomorphic global warming. In this 4-minute excerpt from his speech, he issues a dire warning to all Americans regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty that is scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009.
Our opinion on it? The jury is still out on both Monckton and his claims about it all being a backdoor to create a world government. We very much doubt that he is saying this for altruistic reasons (just like his nemesis Al Gore) but we are not yet sure which corporate interests he is serving, though he almost definitely is. Or perhaps his role is actually part of a charade as the (in US eyes) stereotypical pantomime English Aristocratic villain, therefore pushing wavering sceptics towards the veneration of the holy Gore.
Regarding the world government claims, it is possible and certainly the moves towards that are coming daily from multiple angles (see our New World Order archive) however we just don’t see Copenhagen as the smoking gun that he makes out.
What Copenhagen (or whatever gets this scam over the line) is, is primarily the ability for the banks to create a multi-trillion dollar industry of carbon trading literally out of thin air.
The fringe benefits for the elite will include: an ever more vociferous depopulation agenda; a continuing ignoring of the world’s real environmental problems so not to harm corporate interests; the ever deeper split between the 3 billion haves, and 3 billion have nots; new anti-CO2 taxes all round which are less unpopular to introduce for politicians than the usual taxes; and proof once and for all that the proletariat will believe and buy anything if you scare the hell out of them and you control the information coming out of the system.
It is not beyond the realms of possibility that their next campaign will be to turn us all against the threat caused by the biggest greenhouse gas of them all, di-hydro monoxide as it sounds even scarier than carbon dioxide, and is many times more prevelent. (if you weren’t concentrating in school chemistry, di-hydro monoxide is water)
Daily Telegraph – The United Nations Population Fund said if women are empowered to take control of their reproductive health they may choose to have fewer children, reducing pressure on resources and the environment. “Slower population growth would help build social resilience to climate change’s impacts and would contribute to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions,” it reads. Read Article
Ed – There is considerable merit in raising women’s empowerment in this world, however to link a depopulation agenda to anthropomorphic climate change illustrates the dark heart at the centre of this huge money making religious cult
CNS News – Clinton Accepts Blame for ‘Global Warming’ Role, Ponders Link Between Climate Change and Family Planning. Urging India not to emulate America’s “mistakes,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the weekend accepted responsibility on behalf of the U.S. and other developed nations for contributing towards climate change. Read Article
The Historian – There are multiple dark hearts of the cult of climate change including easy taxation, multi-trillion dollar banking opportunities, and most perniciously of them all eugenics and the desire to de-populate the human race for the benefit of control by the elite
The Guardian – America’s thirst for oil is a gathering threat to its national security – and the risk will grow further as the world’s population touches 7 billion, a military adviser to the Pentagon told the Senate today. Read Article
The Times – It took 57 years for the population to rise from 50 million to 60 million. New figures predict that it will take just 24 years to increase by 10 million to 70 million. Read Article
The Biochemist – The term ‘immigrants children’ is inappropriate here. People that have immigrated and obtained citizenship are now citizens. Using this term seems inflammatory to current racial/ethinicity, and seems unnecessary. ‘Recent immigrants’ would be a more appropriate ajdective, though it doesn’t define such a large group.
BBC – Centenarians with the bodies of 50-year-olds will one day be a realistic possibility, say scientists. Half of babies now born in the UK will reach 100, thanks to higher living standards, but our bodies are wearing out at the same rate. To achieve “50 active years after 50″, experts at Leeds University are spending £50m over five years looking at innovative solutions. Read Article
The Biochemist – This is always assuming that Morgellons – or something like it – is not infecting virtually the entire human population. Not to mention what GMO crops are doing to people – illnesses have been reported. Otherwise we could end up rather crowded on the earth in this Brave New World
CNS News - Andrew Revkin, who reports on environmental issues for The New York Times, floated an idea last week for combating global warming: Give carbon credits to couples that limit themselves to having one child. Revkin later told CNSNews.com that he was not endorsing the idea, just trying to provoke some thinking on the topic. Read Article
The Historian – The dark hand of the eugenics movement again?
Washington Post – On October 16, as millions of people were riveted to video of a runaway balloon thought to be carrying a 6-year-old boy named Falcon, a statistic was released on a problem that affects millions of children around the world: hunger. A billion people today are chronically hungry or malnourished, more than ever before in human history. Read atricle
Daily Telegraph – Consultancy Oxford Economics pointed to surveys that indicated there were now around 6.6 million UK residents who had been born abroad, compared with 4.3 million in 2001. The figures emerged in a study carried out for the Department for Communities and Local Government, published on its website last month. Read article
The Historian – Human beings are unfortunately very predictable, especially during an economic downturn. The political class of the UK (but in every other country too) has always known what the upshot of uncontrolled immigration policies would be – racial conflict. Thus enabling them to impose ever more stringent laws to “protect” and thus reduce civil liberties. Classic divide and conquer strategy, and as usual using humanity’s worst traits against us.
ABC (US) – When Peggy Robertson went shopping for a more affordable health insurance plan for her self-employed husband and two young boys, she ran into an unexpected problem: the birth of her son Luke in 2006 by caesarean section. The healthy young mother was shocked when the Golden Rule Insurance company denied her coverage due to the C-Section birth of her son. “I called Golden Rule and they said that if I would get sterilized, they would then be able to offer insurance to me.” Read Article
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