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All of them end in tragedy and mass death. From trains asphyxiating their passengers to sonic weapons killing spectators, the hubris and ineptitude of the rentier class which took over the U.S. government was on display in all its glory.
So, every time I see some hare-brained idea in service of a politically-motivated lie I just look at my wife, shake my head and say, "Act III, Atlas Shrugged, hon."
The latest is the patently insane idea of dimming the sun by dispersing sulfate particles into the atmosphere to reflect and absorb some of the energy coming from it to slow the rate of global warming.
I would hope, at the very least, they are thinking of something thoroughly inert like barium sulfate, but they aren't. They are talking about injecting SO2 into the atmosphere. Another word for SO2 is SMOG. This is the very compound we have been regulating power plants to not emit.
Many establishment people in the US, who have been traumatized by Donald Trump's election as well as domestic political debate over the ties between the two nations, got hurt, the veteran staff member of the progressive US publication told RT's Sophie Shevardnadze.
"Trump was a shock to the American system, and I think for many Americans, particularly Democrats, I am sad to say. Instead of looking deeply into themselves and looking at their own pathologies and problems that America has, the financial crisis, the inequality, the disinformation, the dark money, the suppression of the vote, it's easier to blame others," she said.
Since Russia was blamed for imposing Trump on the country, he and Russian President Vladimir Putin got intertwined in the minds of many, and opposing one means automatically opposing the other.
Fits adds that things are so uncertain that "the old system could go five years or five months."
Kate Harrison, a council member who helped author the Green Monday resolution, explains, "I'm not asking people to give up meat, I'm asking us to all think about what it is that we do every day, how we can reduce our meat consumption."
Comment: The push from the mainstream to try and get more and more people to adopt veganism to 'stop climate change' is so woefully misguided it's pathetic. It's simply driving an increasing number of people to compromise their health for absolutely no good reason. It won't stop climate change, it is not more green. It's only encouraging the populace to become malnourished while feeling that they're helping the planet.
See also:
- No, George Monbiot, Dropping Meat and Dairy Will Not Reduce Your Impact on the Earth
- A Discussion on Ecology Ethics with Joel Salatin and Mother Earth News
- Making the Case for Sustainable Meat
- Latest study confirms an animal-free food system is not holistically sustainable
- The Meat-Guilt Industry: The Quest For The Perfect Veggie Burger Can't Remove The Taste of Lies
Leger, who is covering the standoff, posted a selfie with a wound on the right side of his cheek.
It is estimated about 72% of Scottish prisoners smoke regularly, although sales of tobacco ceased in last week in preparation for the ban on Friday.
Vaping is still allowed and the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has offered e-cigarette kits free of charge to prisoners who want them.
Comment: Ahh, vaping, the 'healthy' alternative: Vaping damages DNA and may increase cancer risks, says study
The SPS chief executive said the ban would bring "significant improvements".
Comment: Any objective data to back up that spurious statement?
The date of the ban was announced following a major report into prison workers' exposure to second-hand smoke in July 2017.
Comment: Contraband is big business in prison and so tobacco will just become another item for smugglers, and at rates that will require prisoners to engage in shady activity in order to be able to afford them. Making more work for already overstretched wardens in the process.
However it's no surprise to see this legislation enacted, because councils in the UK are considering threatening tenants with homelessness if they don't comply with their no smoking policies. All in the name of 'health promotion', of course.
Now, where have we seen this duplicitous behaviour before? Anti-smoking campaigns aren't new: The Nazis' forgotten drive to eliminate tobacco from the Reich
See also:
- A comprehensive review of the many health benefits of smoking Tobacco
- Nicotine - The Zombie Antidote
- The oldest people on Earth are all smokers!
- UK hospital asks snitches to trigger anti-smoking alarm if people smoke outside

In this Oct. 22, 2018 file photo, a fentanyl user holds a needle near Kensington and Cambria in Philadelphia. Suicides and drug overdoses helped lead a surge in U.S. deaths last year, and drove a continuing decline in how long Americans are expected to live. U.S. health officials released the latest numbers Thursday, Nov. 29. Death rates for heroin, methadone and prescription opioid painkillers were flat. But deaths from the powerful painkiller fentanyl and its close opioid cousins continued to soar in 2017.
Overall, there were more than 2.8 million U.S. deaths in 2017, or nearly 70,000 more than the previous year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. It was the most deaths in a single year since the government began counting more than a century ago.
The increase partly reflects the nation's growing and aging population. But it's deaths in younger age groups - particularly middle-aged people - that have had the largest impact on calculations of life expectancy, experts said.
According to the latest research conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), 46 percent of Russian citizens have expressed a negative opinion of the US leader. The findings are based on interviews with 1,500 Russian citizens, conducted across the country late in November.
The fresh figures record nearly a twofold growth compared to the FOM's poll conducted last June, when only 25 percent of respondents viewed Trump negatively. 13 percent of the respondents have expressed a positive opinion of the US leader, while 41 percent were indifferent. Favorable views of Trump among Russians tanked twofold as well; last year 24 percent of Russians thought well of him.
Hunting Boko Haram: Nigerian warrior 'queen' leads flintlock-armed fight against Islamist extremists

Aisha Bakari Gombi (center), leader of the anti-Boko Haram vigilante squad in Nigeria.
Boko Haram roughly translates to 'Against Western Education'. Its ruthless militants have been plaguing Sub-Saharan Africa for decades.
The Islamists know no mercy, as their attacks wreak havoc on Nigerian towns and rural villages. When they aren't setting off bombs, they raid the area for hostages. While doing so, Boko Haram often targets women and girls.
MSF personnel work in four hospitals and five postoperative clinics in the Gaza Strip, providing dressing changes, physiotherapy, and plastic and orthopedic surgery. The cumulative needs of wounded patients are creating a medical emergency, as the lack of appropriate treatment in Gaza's crippled health system leads to a high risk of infection, especially for patients with open fractures.
"Osteomyelitis is a deep infection of the bone," Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughaiseeb, MSF medical referent in Gaza, wrote recently. "If it goes untreated, it can lead to non-healing wounds and increase the risk of amputation. And as time goes on, it gets worse. These infections need to be treated as soon as possible. It's terrifying to think they could lead to amputation for these young men. But the infection is not easy to diagnose and there is currently no structure in Gaza for analyzing bone samples to identify it."













Comment: Whether out of greed, ignorance or the need to acquire control of some kind (or all these), the global warmists continue propagating their narrative against all facts and reasoning to the contrary. They will continue to do so right up until the ice is pressed firmly up their noses.
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