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Climate alarmists get to work: The Hurricane Harvey hustle

Paul Driessen
Watts Up with That
Sat, 09 Sep 2017 18:14 UTC
hurricane harvey
© NASA
Facts about Harvey negate attempts to use it to advance manmade climate cataclysm agendas

"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight," English essayist Samuel Johnson observed 240 years ago, "it concentrates his mind wonderfully." That's certainly true in the climate change arena.

After ending US participation in the Paris climate treaty and abolishing many government restrictions on fossil fuel use, the Trump Administration began preparing red team-blue team examinations of the science behind claims of "dangerous manmade climate change." Asian, African and even European countries are building still more coal and gas-fired power plants. A recent poll found that only 28% of Americans think climate scientists understand the causes of global climate change "very well."

All this is certainly concentrating the minds of climate alarmists, who are also taking former Obama advisor Rahm Emanuel's cynical advice to "never let a crisis go to waste." The new climate hustle is on.

Comment: One example of alarmism at work:
"So events like Irma and Harvey also help us understand if we are prepared for them and who will be most affected. Increasingly, the evidence is clear that the poorest, being the most exposed to many climate risks and often being the least protected, will be most affected. Addressing this inequality is at the heart of not just the climate change discussion but all discussions about how we become resilient to risk and hazards."

Jeffrey Kargel, from the Department of Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona, urged governments to question their denial of climate change and get to work making their countries resilient enough to be able to deal with such extreme weather events.

"I have one thing to ask the American government and all other climate change denying politicians around the world: have you wondered at all about climate change, hurricanes, glacier melting, ocean warming and sea level rise in connection with the safety of places near and dear to you, such as the Mar-a-Lago Resort? It is time that you start worrying about that," he said. "And while you are at it, please have some concern about the rest of the U.S. and the world.

"Put most simply, Planet Earth's climate is in upheaval and we know exactly what is causing it: right now, the rapid pace of climate change is set by government policies in the U.S. and many other countries. We cannot turn it around in a few years or even in a decade. But we can worsen it in a few years or a decade."
"We know exactly what's causing it"? Hubristic pseudo-scientificism at its best.

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Bad Guys

Inside a British prison: Drug smoking inmates brag on smartphones of comfy jail life


RT
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:35 UTC
Prison
British prisons are constantly being mocked by inmates who smoke drugs, make hundreds of pounds a day in jail and film themselves on smartphones in their cells.

Inmates serving sentences for serious crimes brag about how easy it is to hide contraband from those in charge of the prison.

In recent months, prisoners have posted videos of fights and attacks online using phones they have smuggled into London jails, on livestreaming sites.

Now, inmates are using their phones to brag about how much money they are making in prison and how prison officers repeatedly fail to find their smuggled drugs and goods.

See video here.

Comment: See also: Manhunt for convicted kidnapper who used drone to escape South Carolina max-security prison ends

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USA

9/11 anniversary: The US government has proven it 'hates our freedoms' just as much as the 'terrorists'

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:14 UTC
"They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other."

-George W. Bush addresses the nation on September 20, 2001 - 9 Days after the attacks
burning constitution
Those of us who are old enough to remember a time before 9/11 can recall "the good old days" before the police state was ramped up to the militaristic control grid that it is today.

We remember a time before fear became the only thing that your television fed you. Sure, the propaganda machine and the war machine has existed long before 9/11, but since that fateful day, the fear peddlers and the tyrants have cranked it up a notch - or ten.

Freedom diminishing step one: The TSA

Prior to 9/11, no one heard of the Transportation Security Administration because they didn't exist. The TSA was created as a reactionary security measure to hijackers sneaking box-cutters onto planes. It has since morphed into a vile organization of total domination, degradation, theft, and molestation.

If you think taking your shoes off at the airport makes you safer, you need to read more history.
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Dollars

Mormon polygamist, Warren Jeffs ordered to pay $16million to church's former child bride


Sputnik
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:03 UTC
Warren Jeffs
© AP Photo/ AP Photo/Trent Nelson, Pool, FileWarren Jeffs
Warren Jeffs, the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), a Mormon denomination whose members practice polygamy, must pay $16 million to the woman he pressured to marry her 19-year-old cousin in 2001, when she was only 14 years old.

Elissa Wall will receive $4 million in damages and $12 million in punitive damages. The ruling by Utah Judge Keith Kelly comes 12 years after the lawsuit was first filed. It accuses Jeffs of arranging Wall's marriage to Allen Steed, performing the ceremony and pressuring them to have children, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Wall endured multiple miscarriages and a stillbirth during her marriage.

Jeffs and the church did not defend themselves in the lawsuit.

Jeffs was previously convicted as a rape accomplice for officiating Wall's marriage to Allen almost a decade ago, but the Utah Supreme Court overturned his conviction in 2010.

According to Kelly, Jeff's conduct "was so extreme that it went beyond all possible bounds of decency and is regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society," reported Newser.

Comment: See also:

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Info

Awan's former tenant describes his bizarre behavior, suggests IT aide ran clandestine data center in backyard shed


True Pundit
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
Imran Awan
A Virginia woman who rented a house from Imran Awan revealed some bizarre behavior exhibited by the Pakistani IT guru who faces a host of federal fraud charges, according to an interview with the former tenant.

Awan and wife Hina Alvi were charged in a four-count indictment in August, charging the couple for defrauding the Congressional Federal Credit Union, making false statements and illegal money transfers to Pakistan. The Awans, along with two brothers, worked for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and dozens of other Democratic members of Congress, performing IT work.

Laurel Everly was a previous tenant of Awan. During a recent interview with CrowdSource the Truth on Thursday, Everly divulged what it was like to live under Awan's roof in Alexandria, VA during her nine-month lease.
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Bomb

Foreign troops and civilians injured in suicide bomber attack on NATO convoy in Afghanistan


RT
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 15:50 UTC
US Soldier
© Reuters
An attacker drove an explosives-laden vehicle towards a NATO convoy in Afghanistan on Monday. Several foreign troops and civilians were wounded in the incident in the Parwan Province, according to a NATO statement.

The injured soldiers were taken to the nearby Bagram Air Field, the Resolute Support Mission statement said, adding that neither of the injuries was life-threatening. The Afghan civilians were evacuated to a local hospital.

Reuters cited District Governor Abdul Shukor Qodossi as saying that three civilians were hurt in the attack. The official would not provide details about their condition.

A statement from Taliban militants claimed that the attack killed 13 American troops and left 11 injured. It also destroyed three armored vehicles, it said.
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Airplane

British holidaymakers abandoned in Caribbean after French rescue planes refuse to take 'refugees'


UK Telegraph
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 15:42 UTC
French Army St. Martin caribbean
French soldier secure the island
British holidaymakers say that they have been abandoned starving on a hurricane-hit island as evacuation planes leave half empty because they have no permission to take "refugees" from the UK.

Anger is growing over the "disgraceful" Government response to the disaster as families of those on one of the worst hit islands say there has been no information and no help despite the growing lawlessness and the fact they are running out of their last scraps of food and water.

Ross and Lesley McEwan, both in their early 60s, have been queuing up at the airport in the baking sunshine every day as instructed by the authorities on St Maarten, but after 14 hours they are told that "nobody wants to take us".

The couple, from Cambourne in Cambridgeshire, had been on holiday on the Dutch part of island, the northern half of which is the French territory St Martin.
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Handcuffs

US citizen pleads guilty to fighting on behalf of Somalia based Al-Shabaab terrorist group


RT
Sat, 09 Sep 2017 12:42 UTC
Somalia-based Al-Shabaab
© Feisal Omar / Reuters
A Maryland man has admitted he traveled to Africa to join an Islamic terrorist organization and fight on their behalf. The Somalia-based Al-Shabaab have been linked to more than a thousand deaths this year with the goal of implementing Sharia law.

Maalik Alim Jones, 32, pleaded guilty to three criminal counts before US District Judge Paul Gardephe Friday, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

Jones pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to provide material support to Al-Shabaab, one count of conspiring to receive military training from a designated foreign terrorist organization, and one count of possessing, carrying, and using a machine gun and other destructive devices during and in relation to a crime of violence.
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Airplane

6 people injured at Frankfurt Airport as suspected 'irritant gas' sprayed at check-in counter


RT
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:17 UTC
Frankfurt airport
© Alex Domanski / Reuters
An unknown person sprayed a suspected 'irritant gas' at a check-in counter of Frankfurt International Airport. Six people have been injured, police confirmed. People affected by the substance are being treated for inhalation and eye injuries.

The incident took place at Frankfurt Airport's Terminal 1 on Monday afternoon, German media reported. Passengers at a check-in counter complained about eye irritations, prompting the airport to dispatch emergency units.

"6 persons are slightly injured, cause unknown, the investigation is underway," law enforcement announced on Twitter.

A number of counters were temporarily closed, Focus magazine reported.
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Attention

2 trains collide in mountain village of Andermatt, Switzerland, around 30 people injured - police


RT
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 12:51 UTC
Train station
© rail.ccAndermatt train station.
Around 30 people were injured after two trains collided in Andermatt, Switzerland, Reuters reported, citing Swiss police.

At least 27 people were injured, according to local media. The collision took place at a train station in Andermatt, a mountain village and municipality in the canton of Uri.

The accident was caused by a train malfunction, according to the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn railway, as cited by the Urner Zeitung.
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