June 25, 2018
By Randy Krehbiel
Tulsa County Election Board officials (click here) said Monday that early in-person voting and absentee ballot requests suggest turnout for the primary elections that conclude Tuesday could top 50 percent.
That translates into about 170,000 votes, or nearly three times as many as in the 2014 statewide primary and more then even the 2016 presidential primary.
"The people who've been around here awhile say we've been way busier than normal for mid-term elections, that it's been closer to a presidential-year election," said Tulsa County Election Board Secretary Gwen Freeman....
Monday, June 25, 2018
It sounds as though Paul Manafort needs emotional support.
Northern Neck Regional Jail
3908 Richmond Rd.
Warsaw, VA 22572
Above is the address where Paul Manafort lives. He can receive mail at that address. He is having a really difficult time settling in until his trial and he is assigned to a federal prison.
I will caution those that want to calm and support Paul Manafort, the jail management read all the materials received by the inmates.
Paul Manafort is not receiving support from his Republican friends because they are only interested in the potential of becoming a million/billionaire with 501(c)4. Paul Manafort, as a prisoner, will not be eligible for any non-profit fundraising.
Quite surprised actually, that the "Fat Man" in the White House hasn't been to visit his former campaign manager. Uncaring to say the least.
Here this guy comes to work to elect a US President and now because of some deep criminal content in his life, the "Fat Man" abandons him. Go figure.
Even when Manafort's Ukraine/Russian connection was made, Paul Manafort was marginalized, but, not fired. He resigned. Why? Would Putin be offended if Trump fired Manafort?
Well, we have come a long way and Mr. Manafort needs emotional support to accept his new life behind bars. It is something that every new inmate goes through. Obviously, other than his lawyers, no one is coming to support Manafort. A visit from the "Fat Man" in the White House would be nice. They were very close at one time.
3908 Richmond Rd.
Warsaw, VA 22572
Above is the address where Paul Manafort lives. He can receive mail at that address. He is having a really difficult time settling in until his trial and he is assigned to a federal prison.
I will caution those that want to calm and support Paul Manafort, the jail management read all the materials received by the inmates.
Paul Manafort is not receiving support from his Republican friends because they are only interested in the potential of becoming a million/billionaire with 501(c)4. Paul Manafort, as a prisoner, will not be eligible for any non-profit fundraising.
Quite surprised actually, that the "Fat Man" in the White House hasn't been to visit his former campaign manager. Uncaring to say the least.
Here this guy comes to work to elect a US President and now because of some deep criminal content in his life, the "Fat Man" abandons him. Go figure.
Even when Manafort's Ukraine/Russian connection was made, Paul Manafort was marginalized, but, not fired. He resigned. Why? Would Putin be offended if Trump fired Manafort?
Well, we have come a long way and Mr. Manafort needs emotional support to accept his new life behind bars. It is something that every new inmate goes through. Obviously, other than his lawyers, no one is coming to support Manafort. A visit from the "Fat Man" in the White House would be nice. They were very close at one time.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
We already have a space force. Every manned jet or rocket has a pilot. Space is already weaponized by Ronald Reagan.
The backlogs in the immigration courts exist because there aren't enough courts. All that is part of a comprehensive immigration policy.
There is no such thing as Due Process without representation unless that is waved as most mass murders have done.
The border crossers are not invading the USA. They come unarmed and unable to formulate a conspiracy to invade. They are CAUGHT crossing the border. That is not an invasion.
When Pope Francis stood at the Mexican side of the border with the USA it was not because the Catholic Church lacked investment in the people. Actually, the Holy Roman Catholic Church is well invested to assisting the border crossers.
The "Fat Man" in the White House can stop the idiocy of what he states at the border. So far Pope Francis has not brought a balance sheet to the statements he makes about "human need" being encountered at the USA southern border. If the "Fat Man" in the White House doesn't end his hate speech I would expect Pope Francis will call his bluff.
The backlogs in the immigration courts exist because there aren't enough courts. All that is part of a comprehensive immigration policy.
There is no such thing as Due Process without representation unless that is waved as most mass murders have done.
The border crossers are not invading the USA. They come unarmed and unable to formulate a conspiracy to invade. They are CAUGHT crossing the border. That is not an invasion.
When Pope Francis stood at the Mexican side of the border with the USA it was not because the Catholic Church lacked investment in the people. Actually, the Holy Roman Catholic Church is well invested to assisting the border crossers.
The "Fat Man" in the White House can stop the idiocy of what he states at the border. So far Pope Francis has not brought a balance sheet to the statements he makes about "human need" being encountered at the USA southern border. If the "Fat Man" in the White House doesn't end his hate speech I would expect Pope Francis will call his bluff.
Catholic Extension (click here) has a long history of providing crucial support to El Paso and the other Catholic dioceses at the U.S.-Mexico border. Catholics make up 80 percent of the total population in the territory of the El Paso diocese—the third highest percentage in the country.
Adjusted for inflation, Catholic Extension has provided a total of more than $122 million to help U.S. dioceses along the U.S.-Mexico border with the building and repair of churches, the education and formation of priests and other leaders, and various ministries. In the El Paso Diocese alone, Catholic Extension has funded projects totaling more than $18 million.
Catholic Extension has had a special focus on the dioceses in Texas throughout its history. The three U.S. dioceses with the highest percentage of Catholics—Brownsville, Laredo and El Paso—are all Texas border dioceses. Of all the states that Catholic Extension has supported over the years, Texas has received by far the most funding. And within Texas, the Diocese of El Paso has received funding for the greatest number of projects. Click the links and watch the videos below to learn more about how Catholic Extension is strengthening the Catholic Church in this area of the country....
"Strong Man" persona is about military hardware sales more than war. Trump has ignored Russian sanctions passed by Congress. He is not enforcing them and the US Congress does nothing.
There is also content in one article that says Russia will purchase USA military armaments from other countries. This give Russia the edge to remain competitive.
March 12, 2018
The United States (click here) remains the world's top weapons seller, accounting for 34 percent of global arms sales over the past five years, a new study shows.
Russia was the second-largest exporter with about 20 percent of all global arms deliveries, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported on March 11 in its latest overview of global weapons transfers.
The U.S. share of arms sales is up from 30 percent recorded in the 2008-12 period, SIPRI said.
"Based on deals signed during the Obama administration, U.S. arms deliveries in 2013–17 reached their highest level since the late 1990s,’ said Aude Fleurant, director of the SIPRI Arms and Military Expenditure Program.
"These deals and further major contracts signed in 2017 will ensure that the U.S.A. remains the largest arms exporter in the coming years," she added.
U.S. arms went to at least 98 countries, with a large portion of U.S. exports consisting of combat and transport aircraft, SIPRI said.
The research group said Russia exported weapons to 47 countries as well as to rebel forces in eastern Ukraine, where Moscow-backed separatists are fighting the central government in
Kyiv. Overall, Russian arms sales fell 7 percent from the previous five-year period.
France was the third-largest exporter with a 6.7 percent share, followed by Germany and China.
SIPRI said it uses a five-year cycle to evaluate global arms sales to even out abnormalities caused by any one big weapons order during a specific year....
Bolton and Pompeo are meeting with Russians to organize a trip for "Fat Man" Trump. It could well be to convince Russia to stand down from invasions by Israel and the USA into Syria and possibly Iran.
Basically, "Fat Man" Trump is trading sanctions for land. Oh, of course, it is all in the name of peace with North Korea.
June 25, 2018
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton (click here) is heading to Europe on a trip that will also take him to Moscow amid expectations he will clear the way for a July meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Bolton is scheduled to first meet with U.S. allies on June 25-26 in London and Rome before traveling on June 27 to the Russian capital, where a spokesman has said he would "discuss a potential meeting" between Trump and Putin.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said Bolton will hold talks with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during his Moscow visit.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a television interview over the weekend that Trump was likely to meet Putin "in the not-too-distant future."
The location of such a meeting has not been set, although officials have said it could take place in Vienna....
Don't take my word for it:
November 29, 2017
March 12, 2018
The United States (click here) remains the world's top weapons seller, accounting for 34 percent of global arms sales over the past five years, a new study shows.
Russia was the second-largest exporter with about 20 percent of all global arms deliveries, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported on March 11 in its latest overview of global weapons transfers.
The U.S. share of arms sales is up from 30 percent recorded in the 2008-12 period, SIPRI said.
"Based on deals signed during the Obama administration, U.S. arms deliveries in 2013–17 reached their highest level since the late 1990s,’ said Aude Fleurant, director of the SIPRI Arms and Military Expenditure Program.
"These deals and further major contracts signed in 2017 will ensure that the U.S.A. remains the largest arms exporter in the coming years," she added.
U.S. arms went to at least 98 countries, with a large portion of U.S. exports consisting of combat and transport aircraft, SIPRI said.
The research group said Russia exported weapons to 47 countries as well as to rebel forces in eastern Ukraine, where Moscow-backed separatists are fighting the central government in
Kyiv. Overall, Russian arms sales fell 7 percent from the previous five-year period.
France was the third-largest exporter with a 6.7 percent share, followed by Germany and China.
SIPRI said it uses a five-year cycle to evaluate global arms sales to even out abnormalities caused by any one big weapons order during a specific year....
Bolton and Pompeo are meeting with Russians to organize a trip for "Fat Man" Trump. It could well be to convince Russia to stand down from invasions by Israel and the USA into Syria and possibly Iran.
Basically, "Fat Man" Trump is trading sanctions for land. Oh, of course, it is all in the name of peace with North Korea.
June 25, 2018
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton (click here) is heading to Europe on a trip that will also take him to Moscow amid expectations he will clear the way for a July meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Bolton is scheduled to first meet with U.S. allies on June 25-26 in London and Rome before traveling on June 27 to the Russian capital, where a spokesman has said he would "discuss a potential meeting" between Trump and Putin.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said Bolton will hold talks with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during his Moscow visit.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a television interview over the weekend that Trump was likely to meet Putin "in the not-too-distant future."
The location of such a meeting has not been set, although officials have said it could take place in Vienna....
Don't take my word for it:
November 29, 2017
The Global Military Infrastructure and Logistics Market (click here) is estimated to value $39.05 billion in 2015 and expected to grow at a CAGR of 1.47% during the forecast period to reach $42 billion by 2020....
Turkey just saw the re-election of a dictator and he is violating Russian sanctions and purchasing missiles from Russia. Get this, Turkey as a NATO member is purchasing missiles that are supposed to take down American F-35.
Huh?
Either it is about a new alliance with Russia and the missiles will prevent "Fat Man" Trump from simply dropping munitions all over the Mideast as he did in Syria and/or this is about the Kurds.
3 April 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin (click here) pressed ahead Tuesday with the $2.5 billion sale of S-400 anti-air missiles to Turkey in a deal reached over the objections of the U.S. and other NATO allies.
"A priority task in the sphere of military technical cooperation is the implementation of the contract for supplies of S-400 Triumf missile systems to Turkey," Putin said at the start of a two-day visit to Turkey, according to the Russian news agency TASS....
Then there is good old fashion bribery. Turkey will purchase missiles that take down American F-35 jets for a nuclear submarine facility
...On Tuesday, Putin joined Erdogan in Ankara, where they remotely signaled the start of the construction of a Russian-built, $20 billion nuclear power plant on the Mediterranean coast at Akkuyu. (Akkuyu is on the Mediterranian near Syria where the Russians have traditionally held a naval installation.)
Putin said the plant, to be built by the Russian nuclear energy agency Rosatom (click here), has a tentative start-up date in 2023 "to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Republic of Turkey. We agreed with my dear friend [Erdogan] to do everything necessary to achieve that goal."...
A Russian nuclear plant within NATO and in the Mediterranean Sea. Amazing. This is expansion of nuclear powers. It needs to be inspected by the IAEA and found to be within the guidelines of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Nuclear facilities are real money to an economy and Russia desperately needs an economy. But, "W" did the same thing in India. Rather than pushing alternative energies which is cheaper and within international laws and moving toward peace and a benevolent Earth climate; "W" opted to sell nuclear technology to countries like India that can't afford it. Everytime a country can't afford the technology it is purchasing, the people are deprived of quality of life.
Turkey just saw the re-election of a dictator and he is violating Russian sanctions and purchasing missiles from Russia. Get this, Turkey as a NATO member is purchasing missiles that are supposed to take down American F-35.
Huh?
Either it is about a new alliance with Russia and the missiles will prevent "Fat Man" Trump from simply dropping munitions all over the Mideast as he did in Syria and/or this is about the Kurds.
3 April 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin (click here) pressed ahead Tuesday with the $2.5 billion sale of S-400 anti-air missiles to Turkey in a deal reached over the objections of the U.S. and other NATO allies.
"A priority task in the sphere of military technical cooperation is the implementation of the contract for supplies of S-400 Triumf missile systems to Turkey," Putin said at the start of a two-day visit to Turkey, according to the Russian news agency TASS....
Then there is good old fashion bribery. Turkey will purchase missiles that take down American F-35 jets for a nuclear submarine facility
...On Tuesday, Putin joined Erdogan in Ankara, where they remotely signaled the start of the construction of a Russian-built, $20 billion nuclear power plant on the Mediterranean coast at Akkuyu. (Akkuyu is on the Mediterranian near Syria where the Russians have traditionally held a naval installation.)
Putin said the plant, to be built by the Russian nuclear energy agency Rosatom (click here), has a tentative start-up date in 2023 "to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Republic of Turkey. We agreed with my dear friend [Erdogan] to do everything necessary to achieve that goal."...
A Russian nuclear plant within NATO and in the Mediterranean Sea. Amazing. This is expansion of nuclear powers. It needs to be inspected by the IAEA and found to be within the guidelines of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Nuclear facilities are real money to an economy and Russia desperately needs an economy. But, "W" did the same thing in India. Rather than pushing alternative energies which is cheaper and within international laws and moving toward peace and a benevolent Earth climate; "W" opted to sell nuclear technology to countries like India that can't afford it. Everytime a country can't afford the technology it is purchasing, the people are deprived of quality of life.
Americans must separate themselves from supporting the inhumane and genocidal treatment of asylum seekers at the USA border.
"Real Clear Politics" (click here)
June 19, 2018
By Ina Fried
More than 100 Microsoft workers (click here) signed an open letter calling for the company to sever its ties with Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the agency's family separation policy.
Why it matters: Microsoft said in a January blog post it was "proud" of the work it was doing with ICE. The company said Monday it was "dismayed' by the family separation practices but defended its work with the agency. CEO Satya Nadella has not commented directly on the move, which has drawn condemnation from the CEOs of Apple, Google, Facebook and many other tech companies.
An odd paradox in defining this moment in politics: The more President Trump does, says and tweets outrageous things, the more his critics go bananas and the better he does in the polls.
The big picture: Our parallel universes are spinning farther apart. The coverage (and much of the reality) is a White House in chaos, and an erratic president improvising as his own policy adviser, chief of staff, comms director and tweeter-in-chief....
Stem cells cures doggy dementia.
Leo recovered from the dementia with the stem cell treatment.
23 June 2018
By Julie Power
Therapy dog Leo (click here) appeared happy to be patted and stroked by nursing home residents with dementia until he started showing symptoms eerily similar to theirs.
Leo would forget where his food bowl was located or he'd wait at the wrong door when the door bell rang, said his owner Fiona Gibbs of Pymble. Initially the family thought the behaviour was cute.
Then Leo "became scarily aggressive" and didn't recognise Mrs Gibbs or the family's five children.
"At one stage, we were almost defending ourselves with brooms. He was like a rabid dog," she said.
Now, three years later, Leo, a Pomapoo (a mix of pomeranian and poodle), is back to his normal placid self after a stem cell transplant appears to have reversed his canine cognitive dysfunction or dementia. This success is giving researchers hope of finding a cure for human dementia....
It would seem as thought President "Fat Man" Trump can't run anything right.
What is a 15 year old boy so afraid of that he ran away from the internment camp of the USA?
June 24, 2018
By Gabe Gutierraz
A 15-year-old boy (click here) ran away from a Texas shelter for migrant children, police said Sunday. The boy is now in Mexico, according to a source with direct knowledge of the incident.
The boy ran from Casa Padre, a child care facility in Brownsville, on Saturday, and was in conversations to be reunited with a man whom he called his father, the source said.
Details about the man, such as if he had already been living in the United States and for how long, weren't immediately clear. There had been a discrepancy in a DNA test, and before they could be sorted out, the child ran away, according to the source....
The "Fat Man" in the White House is now violating USA law again, continuing his "Flip-Flop" on lawful immigration due to asylum. Children are never to be refused asylum when they are not escorted by a parent or relative.
"Fat Man" Trump just won't give up the idea of genocide, will he? Deporting people seeking asylum only to have them return to be killed in their own country is genocide. Separating children from their parents is also genocide.
June 25, 2018
By Dara Lind
On Saturday night, (click here) the Trump administration finally announced its plan for reuniting the 2,053 families who are still separated thanks to President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” prosecution policy: The administration will reunite children with their parents — in order to deport them both.
Over weeks of chaos and confusion, it became clear that the various departments and agencies involved in family separation — chiefly the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which handles immigration enforcement, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which takes separated kids reclassified as “unaccompanied alien children” into custody — were so badly coordinated that it was nearly impossible for parents and immigration attorneys to locate children.
The Trump administration is promising to fix that — but only in some circumstances....
"Fat Man" Trump is using coercion to create impossible decisions by parents that have left their homeland countries seeking asylum. Another violation of ethics and/or the law. Intimidation in the USA is against the law, especially when it imperils someone's life.
The beautiful thing about "Capture and Release" is that it never puts children or their families in peril. The risks they are taking are their own, but, if they are seeking asylum there will be court documents that say such things. So, their presence in the USA is legal and backed by the federal government.
The process works with Capture and Release and the federal government gets out of the way of "Due Process."
My understanding is that "Fat Man" Trump is using the monies from the US Treasury set aside to apprehend drug cartel members transporting heroine and other drugs, for his immoral interment camps. I thought "Fat Man" Trump stated the drug overdose crisis (click here) was real and a national emergency. So, now, Americans suffering from PRESCRIPTION drugs and others that are suicidal no longer are important so the "Fat Man" can have his campaign issue for November 2018 elections. Doesn't the "Fat Man" in the White House know he is not allowed to carry out political dogma from the US Treasury budget? ANOTHER ETHICS VIOLATION AND IT MAY EVEN BE CRIMINAL TO DIVERT DEDICATED FEDERAL FUNDS.
The "Fat Man" in the White House is now violating USA law again, continuing his "Flip-Flop" on lawful immigration due to asylum. Children are never to be refused asylum when they are not escorted by a parent or relative.
"Fat Man" Trump just won't give up the idea of genocide, will he? Deporting people seeking asylum only to have them return to be killed in their own country is genocide. Separating children from their parents is also genocide.
June 25, 2018
By Dara Lind
On Saturday night, (click here) the Trump administration finally announced its plan for reuniting the 2,053 families who are still separated thanks to President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” prosecution policy: The administration will reunite children with their parents — in order to deport them both.
Over weeks of chaos and confusion, it became clear that the various departments and agencies involved in family separation — chiefly the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which handles immigration enforcement, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which takes separated kids reclassified as “unaccompanied alien children” into custody — were so badly coordinated that it was nearly impossible for parents and immigration attorneys to locate children.
The Trump administration is promising to fix that — but only in some circumstances....
"Fat Man" Trump is using coercion to create impossible decisions by parents that have left their homeland countries seeking asylum. Another violation of ethics and/or the law. Intimidation in the USA is against the law, especially when it imperils someone's life.
The beautiful thing about "Capture and Release" is that it never puts children or their families in peril. The risks they are taking are their own, but, if they are seeking asylum there will be court documents that say such things. So, their presence in the USA is legal and backed by the federal government.
The process works with Capture and Release and the federal government gets out of the way of "Due Process."
My understanding is that "Fat Man" Trump is using the monies from the US Treasury set aside to apprehend drug cartel members transporting heroine and other drugs, for his immoral interment camps. I thought "Fat Man" Trump stated the drug overdose crisis (click here) was real and a national emergency. So, now, Americans suffering from PRESCRIPTION drugs and others that are suicidal no longer are important so the "Fat Man" can have his campaign issue for November 2018 elections. Doesn't the "Fat Man" in the White House know he is not allowed to carry out political dogma from the US Treasury budget? ANOTHER ETHICS VIOLATION AND IT MAY EVEN BE CRIMINAL TO DIVERT DEDICATED FEDERAL FUNDS.
DO NOT INCINERATE!
"Morning Papers"The Rooster
"Okeydoke"
China, along with other countries, are already sending space junk into orbit in the way of satellites, etc.
I strongly suggest China assess the amount of plastic waste that belongs to it and what percentage belongs to other countries.
China should not incinerate any of the plastic trashed dumped within it's country, it should compact the darn stuff, put as much as can in a rocket and launch toward the sun. The rest will take care of itself. If China cannot accept full responsibility to send the plastic trash into the sun, then bill the countries that advantage of China when it naively welcomed foreign plastic trash into the country.
June 20, 2018
By Shoshana Wodinsky
China’s recent crackdown (click here) on the import of plastic waste will result in millions of tons of displaced plastic trash, according to new research. The ban will force countries like the US to find new ways to deal with their own trash.
On December 31st, 2017, China put a halt to a lot of the plastic waste that foreign countries like the US sent to its shores for disposal. To calculate the impact of that ban, researchers at the University of Georgia looked at how much plastic waste China imported from 1988 to 2016. They then used that information to calculate that by 2030, the ban might leave 111 million metric tons of plastic trash with nowhere to go, according to a study published today in Science Advances.
Since 1988, nearly half of the planet’s plastic trash — like single-use soda bottles, food wrappers, and plastic bags — has been sent to China, where the material is recycled to make more plastic goods. The 2017 ban, however, has left countries like the US scrambling for what to do with all the extra plastic waste. In the US, a lot of it is already piling up in landfills, according to The New York Times. Today’s study is the first one to tally what the consequences of China’s trash ban will be. It also highlights the need for countries that have traditionally exported their plastic waste to rethink how they dispose of it....
"Good Night, Moon"
11.8 days old moon
90.5 percent lit
May 1, 2018
By Dr. Tony Phillips
May 1, 2018: Sunspots (click here) are becoming scarce. Very scarce. So far in 2018 the sun has been blank almost 60% of the time, with whole weeks going by without sunspots. Today’s sun, shown here in an image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, is typical of the featureless solar disk:...
The fact that sunspots are vanishing comes as no surprise. Forecasters have been saying for years that this would happen as the current solar cycle (“solar cycle 24”) comes to an end. The surprise is how fast.
“Solar cycle 24 is declining more quickly than forecast,” announced NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center on April 26th. This plot shows observed sunspot numbers in blue vs. the official forecast in red:...
“The smoothed, predicted sunspot number for April-May 2018 is about 15,” says NOAA. “However, the actual monthly values have been [significantly] lower.”
“Official” forecasts of the solar cycle come from NOAA’s Solar Cycle Prediction Panel–a group of experts from NOAA, NASA, the US Air Force, universities and other research organizations. They have been convening at intervals since 1989 to predict the timing and intensity of Solar Max. The problem is, no one really knows how to predict the solar cycle. The most recent iteration of the panel in 2006-2008 compared 54 different methods ranging from empirical extrapolations of historical data to cutting-edge supercomputer models of the sun’s magnetic dynamo. None fully described what is happening now....
Sunday, June 24, 2018
Give up the whaling, it is unbecoming and a foreign culture.
It hardly seems right to review Japan. Japan has been the moral leader of Earth's tropospheric protection for some time now. They developed "Kyoto Protocol" and gave the Climate Crisis a definition. The global community should be grateful for Japan and their marvellous scientists.
Japan is a leader in other areas, too. They love computers and technology and are some of the earliest achievements with the application of Artificial Intelligence. There is a high demand for electricity with that technology so Japan's scientists need to consider the electricity load to their developed technologies and do more with less.
I love Japan. It is an incredible country. It should develop it's own culture and abandon the prestige of whaling. Earth needs her whales more than the Japanese dinner table does. It really surprises me that the Japanese culture with all it's improvements in diet and health still carries out whaling. The carcinogens in whale meat of any kind is dense. The whales swim through some of the most polluted waters in the world and their meat is not safe for consumption, yet Japan still insists on whaling. It is counter-culture and it's history is mired in the recommendations for economic recovery after WWII.
The Japanese culture developed by mimicking the USA's economy, but, no one really spears whales anymore. Japan is walking in a shadow of vigilance after the bombs were dropped. The country needs to consider in shedding the delicacies of marine mammals. By all rights, those that test for endangered species in markets around the world could site Japan when the Minke whales they claim is for scientific purposes show up on the food menus of the Japanese.
Japan is a great country with great values, what went wrong with whaling?
Japan is a leader in other areas, too. They love computers and technology and are some of the earliest achievements with the application of Artificial Intelligence. There is a high demand for electricity with that technology so Japan's scientists need to consider the electricity load to their developed technologies and do more with less.
I love Japan. It is an incredible country. It should develop it's own culture and abandon the prestige of whaling. Earth needs her whales more than the Japanese dinner table does. It really surprises me that the Japanese culture with all it's improvements in diet and health still carries out whaling. The carcinogens in whale meat of any kind is dense. The whales swim through some of the most polluted waters in the world and their meat is not safe for consumption, yet Japan still insists on whaling. It is counter-culture and it's history is mired in the recommendations for economic recovery after WWII.
The Japanese culture developed by mimicking the USA's economy, but, no one really spears whales anymore. Japan is walking in a shadow of vigilance after the bombs were dropped. The country needs to consider in shedding the delicacies of marine mammals. By all rights, those that test for endangered species in markets around the world could site Japan when the Minke whales they claim is for scientific purposes show up on the food menus of the Japanese.
Japan is a great country with great values, what went wrong with whaling?
Japan has some time to respond to it's shrinking population.
By Dan Kopf
Japan is shrinking. Fast. (click here)
The health ministry recently announced that only 946,060 babies were born in Japan in 2017, the fewest births since official statistics began in 1899. At the same time, 1,340,433 Japanese people died last year. This means that the non-immigrant population declined by nearly 400,000 people.
It’s an astonishing shift. The Japanese population grew steadily throughout the 20th century, from around 44 million in 1900 to 128 million in 2000. The gains were primarily due to increased life expectancy, but also buoyed by families that typically had at least two children. But beginning in the late 1970s, birth rates crashed. While the average Japanese woman had 2.1 kids in the 1970s, today, they only have about 1.4—far lower than in comparably wealthy countries like the US and Sweden.
Today, Japan is a land of aging baby boomers and young adults who don’t want to have kids. By median age, Japan is the oldest large country in the world. More than half of its population is over the age of 46. By comparison, in Nigeria, just over a tenth of the population is over that age....
Fight the "cuteness" craze!
Otters are not happy in cages!
By Akemi Kanda
A boom in demand (click here) for otters as pets, inspired by their recent higher profile on TV and in novelty cafes, apparently led to a surge in attempted smuggling of the mammals to Japan last year.
According to Traffic, a nongovernmental organization that monitors illicit trade in wild animals, at least 45 otters intended for smuggling were confiscated in Southeast Asia in 2017, and a majority--32--were headed for Japan.
None of the total of 14 otters confiscated in Southeast Asian countries in 2015 and 2016 were planned to be sold in Japan. But evidence of a black market for the animals in Japan existed in 2016, when seven oriental small-clawed otters smuggled from Thailand were confiscated at Narita Airport.
Tomomi Kitade, director of Traffic Japan, said, “It is possible that Japan’s boom of having otters as pets has led to an illegal trade.”
Four kinds of otters are found in Southeast Asia, three of which, including the oriental small-clawed otter, are designated as endangered species in the “red list” of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources....
A different kind of Amazon. The reverse curve of carbon sinks increases the carbon load of Earth.
June 21, 2018 Paris - Earth’s intact forests shrank (click here) by an area larger than Austria every year from 2014 to 2016 and at a 20 percent faster rate than during the previous decade, scientists said Wednesday as the U.N. unveiled an initiative to harness the “untapped potential” of the land sector to fight climate change.
Despite a decades-long effort to halt deforestation, nearly 10 percent of undisturbed forests have been fragmented, degraded or simply chopped down since 2000, according to the analysis of satellite imagery.
Average daily loss over the first 17 years of this century was more than 200 square kilometers (75 square miles).
“Degradation of intact forest represents a global tragedy, as we are systematically destroying a crucial foundation of climate stability,” said Frances Seymour, a senior distinguished fellow at the World Resources Institute (WRI), and a contributor to the research, presented this week at a conference in Oxford.
“Forests are the only safe, natural, proven and affordable infrastructure we have for capturing and storing carbon.”
The findings come as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and five major conservation organizations launched a five-year plan, Nature4Climate, to better leverage land use in reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming....
The USA introduced the whale culture into Japan after WWII. It is time Japan end it as an invasive culture.
Baleen whales are vitally important to ending the carbon pollution problem. They eat algae and plankton that remain in their bellies, muscle, blubber and babies forever. When a baleen whale dies naturally, they fall to the bottom of the ocean and the carbon dioxide they ate in their lifetimes remain sequestered in the depths of the oceans forever.
We lost the corals, we need to expand the populations of baleen whales in the oceans.
30 May 2018
By Jacinta Bowler
Every Christmas, (click here) sailors from Japan go out into the Southern Ocean, taking "biological sampling" that aims to investigate "the structure and dynamics of the Antarctic marine ecosystem".
We lost the corals, we need to expand the populations of baleen whales in the oceans.
30 May 2018
By Jacinta Bowler
Every Christmas, (click here) sailors from Japan go out into the Southern Ocean, taking "biological sampling" that aims to investigate "the structure and dynamics of the Antarctic marine ecosystem".
But no, they aren't trying to understand more about climate change, or investigating the mating songs of the ocean. They're out killing hundreds of Antarctic minke whales, and then letting the flesh be sold in markets and restaurants.
The latest figures have been released from meeting papers by the International Whaling Commission's scientific committee earlier this month.
According to those figures, 333 minke whales were killed in the 2017/2018 summer season in Australia. Of those, 122 were pregnant, and 114 were immature, meaning they were not yet able to breed.
The researchers wrote that killing the whales is necessary, as "age information can be obtained only from internal earplugs and therefore only through lethal sampling methods."
However, most researchers do not agree witBut no, they aren't trying to understand more about climate change, or investigating the mating songs of the ocean. They're out killing hundreds of Antarctic minke whales, and then letting the flesh be sold in markets and restaurants.
The latest figures have been released from meeting papers by the International Whaling Commission's scientific committee earlier this month.
According to those figures, 333 minke whales were killed in the 2017/2018 summer season in Australia. Of those, 122 were pregnant, and 114 were immature, meaning they were not yet able to breed.
The researchers wrote that killing the whales is necessary, as "age information can be obtained only from internal earplugs and therefore only through lethal sampling methods."
However, most researchers do not agree with this, as you can estimate the age of a whale by comparing its size to other whales that you know the age of.
The claims that whales need to be killed 'for science' have been debunked many times.h this, as you can estimate the age of a whale by comparing its size to other whales that you know the age of.
The claims that whales need to be killed 'for science' have been debunked many times....
The Trump Secretary afraid of his own shadow is over reaching his authority.
If Perry can't do his job he needs to leave.
By Sam Mintz
EPA sent some surprising advice to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (click here) this week about tools the independent regulator could use to consider greenhouse gas emissions as part of pipeline reviews.
FERC launched a notice of inquiry about its natural gas pipeline certificate policy in April and is taking comments from members of the public on a series of questions about factors it considers when reviewing pipeline applications.
One of those categories is the evaluation of environmental impacts of proposed pipeline projects, which has been a controversial issue at FERC in recent months and divided its commissioners.
The most notable feature of the comments from EPA, which were filed by the director of the Office of Federal Activities, Robert Tomiak, yesterday, is the suggestion of several tools FERC could use in evaluating upstream and downstream greenhouse gas emissions from new pipelines.
"In situations where FERC decides to conduct analysis of [greenhouse gas] emissions of proposed projects, EPA recommends a number of available tools that can be used," the letter says....
Clean energy is growing quickly. But time is running out to rein in carbon emissions.
25 April 2018
By Jeff Tollefson
...So it was in 2017, (click here) when, after staying relatively flat from 2014 to 2016, carbon emissions grew by about 1.5% (see ‘A brief lull’). All it took to create that spike was a small rise in economic growth across the developing world, according to a final estimate released in March by the Global Carbon Project, an international research consortium that monitors carbon emissions and climate trends....
...That small blip in China’s coal emissions might have been a major contributor to the spike, but developments in other countries also played a part (see ‘The big contributors’). India’s emissions rose faster than expected, owing to stronger economic growth. Thanks to changes in fossil-fuel consumption, emissions in the United States and European Union dropped more slowly in 2017 than in years past. Then there is the rest of the world, whose emissions rose by 2% in 2017, according to the Global Carbon Project’s analysis. That includes developing countries, where tapping fossil fuels remains a relatively cheap and easy way of making economic progress....
...Kejun’s calculations suggest that, driven both by policy and economics, China’s carbon emissions are still on track to peak as early as 2020, and its coal consumption could drop by as much as 40–50% by 2030. “The transition has already started,” says Kejun....
...Today, the solar-power industry is booming in India, thanks to government incentives and falling prices, and the Indian government aims to install 100 gigawatts of solar capacity by 2022 — nearly double the current solar-generation capacity in the United States. Meeting that goal could be challenging, because solar power will increasingly need to compete with existing coal-fired power plants for limited space on the electricity grid, says Rahul Tongia, an energy researcher at the non-profit public-policy organization the Brookings Institution in New Delhi. Still, he says, the trends are impressive. “Maybe it takes a bit longer to hit the targets. Who cares?” Tongia says. “The progress is still remarkable, measurable, dramatic and meaningful.”...
The Japanese economy has always been vibrant and the Japanese people have an exceptionally good quality of life.
USA GDP per capita 2008: $49,364..6
Japan GDP per capita 2009: $42,724.5
USA GDP per capita 2009: $47,575.6
Japan GDP per capita 2016: $47607.7
USA GDP per capita 2016: $52,194.9
Regardless, of the difference in GDP, Japan never abandoned it's morals and national conscience.
July 26, 2016By Benjamen DoVale
There is little correlation between “working hard” (click here) (usually measured as hours worked per week) and GDP per capita levels. If this were the case, the Germans would rank lowest on productivity scales and Japanese/Koreans/Mexicans at the top....
...In terms of differing levels of productivity on a sectoral basis, the Japanese economy is infamous for its “two Japans” phenomenon where export-oriented industries such as autos and electronics are highly efficient while other “protected industries,” e.g. retail, agriculture, are comically inefficient (Google the “Large Scale Retail Store Law” and the quasi-NRA “Japan Agriculture” political pressure group).
The United States, while seeing inequality yawn ever wider, has maintained robust economic growth with the rise of the Silicon Valley and financial sectors....
Japan is the fifth most polluting country in the world. BUT, the national conscience developed Kyoto Protocol.
December 11, 2017
Tokyo - Japan’s greenhouse gas (click here) emissions fell 0.2 percent to a six-year low in the financial year that ended last March, government figures showed on Tuesday, amid growing use of renewable energy and the gradual return of nuclear power.
Emissions in the 2016 financial year fell for a third straight year to 1.322 billion metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent from 1.325 billion tonnes the year before, hitting their lowest since fiscal 2010, according to preliminary data from the environment ministry.
The world’s fifth-biggest carbon emitter, Japan has set a goal to cut its emissions by 26 percent from 2013 levels to 1.042 billion tonnes by 2030....
The US is the biggest carbon polluter in history.
by Justin Gillis and Nadja Popovich
“In cumulative terms, (click here) we certainly own this problem more than anybody else does,” said David G. Victor, a longtime scholar of climate politics at the University of California, San Diego. Many argue that this obligates the United States to take ambitious action to slow global warming.
But on Thursday, President Trump announced the United States would withdraw from a 195-nation agreement on climate change reached in Paris in 2015.
The decision to walk away from the accord is a momentous setback, in practical and political terms, for the effort to address climate change.
An American exit could prompt other countries to withdraw from the pact or rethink their emissions pledges, making it much harder to achieve the agreement’s already difficult goal of limiting global warming to a manageable level....
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