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The accumulation of cometary dust in the Earth's atmosphere plays an important role in the increase of tornadoes, cyclones, hurricanes and their associated rainfalls, snowfalls and lightning. To understand this mechanism we must first take into account the electric nature of hurricanes, tornadoes and cyclones, which are actually manifestations of the same electric phenomenon at different scales or levels of power. Because of this similarity, we will refer to these three phenomena collectively as 'air spirals' in the following discussion.See also:
McCanney [in his book Planet-X, Comets and Earth Changes] describes the electric nature of hurricanes in these terms:A simple model showed that these [tropical] storms formed when electrical currents connected between the ionosphere and the top of the clouds. [...] the reason hurricanes lost power when they approached land was that the powering electrical current from the ionosphere to the cloud tops and to the Earth's surface had no connection (anode) while over the ocean so it drew up vast surface areas of ionized air from the ocean surface and sucked them up a central column (the spinning vortex was caused by the moist air rising 'up the drain') ๏ผ whereas the land provided a 'ground' for the current and therefore it shunted out the storm's power source. [...] I also calculated that the warm water theory for hurricane development lacked sufficient energy to account for the energy in these massive storms. We later witnessed hurricanes on Mars where there is no water at all. Clearly, the warm water concept did not work [...]1From this perspective, air spirals are simply the manifestation of electric discharges between the ionosphere and the Earth's surface. The image above shows a waterspout and a lightning bolt occurring in the same place at the same time, suggesting that indeed electric potential difference between the clouds at the top of the picture and the ground at the bottom is what powers both the lightning and the tornado.This additional feature of dust particles - their ability to carry an electric charge - means that dust accumulation enables any given area of the atmosphere to carry potentially massive electric charges, which can differ from the charge of adjacent regions, from the charge of the ionosphere and from the charge of the Earth's surface.
European foreign ministers have agreed to move toward sanctions on Alexander Lukashenko's regime, after reports of the systematic abuse and torture of Belarusians swept up in the brutal crackdown on protests.Lukashenko has responded by moving troops to the country's western borders.
A diplomatic source said the EU's 27 foreign ministers had agreed that individuals responsible for the falsification of Sunday's presidential elections and subsequent violence against protesters should face asset freezes and travel bans into the bloc.
Officials will now be charged with drawing up a list of names for a legal agreement, which could happen in late August or September. "It was a surprising consensus," the diplomat said, while pointing out the 27 still had to reach consensus on the names.
The emergency video meeting on Friday was called to discuss the disputed elections in Belarus, after a string of EU countries called for action against those responsible for the violence and arbitrary detention of protesters.
Ahead of the meeting Poland, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Denmark had called for "restrictive measures against officials" responsible for the election result, which gave Lukashenko 80% of the vote following a contest the EU said was "neither free nor fair". Germany, Austria and Sweden had also voiced support for sanctions.
"We need additional sanctions against those who violated democratic values or abused human rights in Belarus," the head of the EU executive, Ursula von der Leyen, tweeted on Friday. "I am confident today's EU foreign ministers' discussion will demonstrate our strong support for the rights of the people in Belarus to fundamental freedoms & democracy."
The German foreign minister, Heiko Maas, said. "The brutality and the detention of peaceful protesters and journalists in Belarus isn't acceptable in the Europe of the 21st century. This is why we have to increase the pressure on those in power there."
EU sanctions must be agreed unanimously.
Hungary was considered the main obstacle to EU action after the country's prime minister, Viktor Orbรกn, visited Minsk in June and called for existing EU sanctions to be dropped.
The country did voice caution over new sanctions, as did Austria and Greece, but they did not oppose the political decision to move in that direction.
Budapest had already backed an EU statement on Tuesday that threatened sanctions against those "responsible for the observed violence, unjustified arrests and falsification of election results". Following talks with the Latvian foreign minister, Edgars Rinkฤviฤs, his Hungarian counterpart, Pรฉter Szijjรกrtรณ, said on Thursday that the two countries shared the same assessment of the situation.
EU sources suggested Hungary could exert influence in narrowing the number of individuals on the sanctions list.
The EU will also explore new funds to support civil society activists in Belarus, and a fact-finding mission to help mediate between the government and opposition.
The British government has not revealed if it supports sanctions against Belarus, but under the terms of the Brexit transition the UK would have to enforce any EU measures that came into force before the end of the year.
The foreign office minister Wendy Morton described the violence as "appalling" and called on the Belarusian authorities to release "all those unjustly detained" and engage in dialogue with the opposition.
An EU spokesperson for foreign affairs and security said the bloc was "regularly in touch with it likeminded partners", including the UK on shared concerns and priorities, but added: "It remains to be seen if there will be a specific contact after [Friday's foreign ministers] video conference."
EU foreign ministers are also expected to discuss how the EU could mediate between Lukashenko and protesters. Poland and the three Baltic states have called on the autocrat to "immediately initiate a dialogue with the Belarusian people".
The EU lifted most sanctions against Belarus in 2016 as it sought a rapprochement with Lukashenko, who has ruled the country with an iron fist since 1994.
The decision to ease sanctions followed the release of political prisoners and a downturn in Minsk's relations with the Kremlin, but one former presidential candidate, Andrei Sannikov, called it "a grave mistake".
The EU retains a ban on arms sales and sanctions on four individuals linked to the unsolved disappearances of opposition politicians, a journalist and businessman in 1999-2000.
Belarus is not the only crisis at the EU's border vying for attention. Ministers will discuss rising tensions in the eastern Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey and the political crisis in Lebanon following last week's catastrophic explosion.
France announced this week it was sending a naval frigate and two fighter jets to the eastern Mediterranean, amid a growing row between Athens and Ankara over offshore energy reserves.
Emmanuel Macron last month called for EU sanctions against Turkey over what he called "violations" of Greek and Cypriot sovereignty in their territorial waters. But that has met a cool response from Berlin, which has called for "de-escalation and solution-orientated dialogue". Brussels also stopped short of proposing sanctions in a recent statement on the "extremely worrying" situation.
Comment: Can you guess what color the perps were? Not even Tucker would mention that.
Once you figure that out, you have your answer for why you didn't hear about the 2020 Washington DC mass shooting before now.
But that wasn't the main thing Carlson spoke about in this segment. He spoke about a 'demographic shift' taking place in the US; people (mostly white people) are packing up and moving out of the cities because of the explosion in (mostly black) crime/rioting.
In short, American cities are becoming no-go zones.
Here's the full transcript to go with the above video: