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agelbert a day ago
Victoria Nuland is involved with this up to her evil eyeballs. For those who did not quite connect all the dots from the above article, here is the summary of the pro-fascist US skullduggery in Ukraine:
What Happened in Ukraine?
The turmoil today in Ukraine has its roots in the 2014 when democratically elected Ukrainian President Yanukovych was toppled in a US-backed coup. Victoria Nuland was instrumental in orchestrating that US-backed coup.
Why did the US want to get rid of Yanukovych? Because he was against Ukraine joining NATO.
The current comedian president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, repeated two days ago his desire to join NATO. Volodymyr Zelenskyy literally is a comedian who ran for office and won.
McCain dined with Svoboda Party leader Oleg Tyagnibok. The Svoboda Party is a group of neo-Nazis. The citizens of Ukraine were used as pawns in yet another US mission that backfired. Victoria Nuland and Obama and Biden (and McCain and so on and so bipartisan fascism loving forth) did not care then, and do not care now, about the Neo-Nazi massacre of ethnic Russians as long as the US-backed Neo-Nazis continue to want Ukraine in NATO. Birds of a fascist feather, and all that.

That's the real story the (Fascist loving) US media will not discuss.

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dmorista ✨ 6 hours ago
Thank you so much for a good comment on a fine article; a comment that further illuminates the events that took place in Ukraine back during the 2014 Coup period. Yanukovich was not an ideal leader, nor was he a Jeffersonian Democrat, but that is pretty well typical of the sort of leadership we see in places like Ukraine. Whatever the failings of the Yanukovich administration, the Coup that replaced him was far worse and was run by much more ruthless operatives.

Famously, or infamously, the protests at the main square in Kiev in the winter of 2014, saw about 95 deaths, most of people shot by secretive snipers lurking on the roofs and upper floors of various buildings. These snipers shot protesters from both the pro and anti Yanukovich forces and also killed several police and military personnel. A couple of emergency room physicians noted that it appeared that the same weapons and ammunition were used in all the shooting deaths. The sniper force was apparently acting to sow as much chaos, hatred, and disorder as possible. This has all the hallmarks of the operations, run by both the U.S. and Israel, in previous coups and regime change exercises.

The connection to the U.S. and its allies was highlighted by the intercepted cell phone call, in which Victoria Nuland exclaimed that, Yats is our guy, F**k the E.U., and tells the other person that the U.S. spent $5 billion in Ukraine to support our allies and enable a political change favorable to U.S. interests. We must note that Nuland, was Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian affairs at the US Department of State, at the time of the call. She is also the wife of Robert Kagan, the notorious Neo-Con, Ultra Zionist Israel Firster, and founding member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

Yanukovich considered an offer from the European Union (E.U.) and decided it was not as good as the arrangements that Ukraine already had with Russia. This enraged the interests in Ukraine that wanted to change over to closer economic relations with the E.U. These interests stood to benefit handsomely from the graft and theft made possible from loans to Ukraine by the European Central Bank and to take a rake off the top of any funding the E.U. provided. The cost to the bulk of the population of Ukraine would have been severe. These costs included International Monetary Fund (IMF) type austerity cuts to social services and “structural adjustment” policies. Those policies inevitably require cuts in social services and the sell-off of publicly owned assets, at fire sale prices, to well connected finance capitalists from the U.S. and Western Europe loomed in the background.

Ukraine is a large country with several distinct regions. Western Ukraine is wheat growing country, sort of like Kansas or Nebraska. Populated largely by right-wing farmers. Eastern Ukraine is more like Ohio or Michigan, a declining industrial region, but with a long history of worker activism and left-leaning politics. The areas near the Black Sea, including both the actual Crimea that voted overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and join Russia, as well as neighboring areas not within the boundary of Crimea, are all largely Russian Speaking. Fascist operatives launched various attacks against the Russian Speaking population there in 2014, shortly after the Coup occurred in Kiev. These attacks included the intentional burning of the Labor Center in Odessa, a fire that killed 39 people who had taken refuge in the Union Building. They were under attack by rightist gangs on the streets near the Labor Center when they took refuge there. The Coup government made all kinds of threats against the Russian Speaking population of Ukraine (they compose close to half the country) including a declaration by a female member of the inner circle that all Russian Speakers should be exterminated.

Like nearly all large capitol cities, Kiev is more cosmopolitan than the surrounding right-wing Ukrainian countryside. A significant part of its population is composed of people much like the Russian speaking populations of the Donets, Luhansk, and Crimean regions.

agelbert > dmorista  13 minutes ago
Excellent analysis ✨ of the situation. Thank you for posting this.
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Climate Lab Book

February 25, 2022 Ed Hawkins

Climate Change 2021 – the physical science basis

SNIPPET:

This blog post is a short summary of key points that are of current relevance to society from the physical science of climate change. It is based on the headline statements of a report published in 2021 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC is a United Nations body responsible for providing impartial assessments of climate science. Its reports inform international negotiations on tackling climate change.

Written by Jonathan Gregory, Matt Palmer and Ed Hawkins

How and why has the climate changed?

Widespread and rapid changes have taken place in the atmosphere, in the ocean and on land. There is no doubt that the climate has warmed because human activities have increased the amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4).

Greenhouse gases warm the climate by making it harder for the atmosphere to radiate heat into the surrounding universe (space). They insulate the atmosphere against losing heat, rather like making it warmer inside a house by insulating the roof. The physics of this greenhouse effect has been understood for more than a century.

The largest human-caused effect on climate is due to the build-up of CO2, mostly from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas). The size and speed of recent changes in many aspects of the climate system exceed any seen for hundreds or thousands of years (Figure 1).

Figure 1: Changes since the year 1 (of the Common Era, or AD) in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and in the global-average surface temperature. The industrial revolution and the burning of fossil fuels to produce energy began with the invention of the steam engine.

The warming causes changes in many other aspects of climate. For example, many extreme weather and climate events in every region across the globe have already become more severe or more frequent due to human-caused climate change (Figure 2).

Figure 2: This diagram depicts how much more often extremely high temperatures occur as the climate gets warmer. As an example, it considers the temperature which was reached only once in 50 years on average at any given place in the climate before the industrial revolution. This extreme happens more frequently in today’s climate, and will become still more common in warmer climates.

What climate change will happen in future?

Improved scientific knowledge has narrowed the range of warming expected as a result of increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Full article:
https://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2022/climate-change-2021/


SEE BELOW THE YEAR 2100 +4° C WORLD 😱
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February 24, 2022

What Happened in Ukraine?


The turmoil today in Ukraine has its roots in the 2014 when democratically elected Ukrainian President Yanukovych was toppled in a US-backed coup. Victoria Nuland was instrumental in orchestrating that US-backed coup.

Why did the US want to get rid of Yanukovych? Because he was against Ukraine joining NATO.

The current comedian president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, repeated two days ago his desire to join NATO. Volodymyr Zelenskyy literally is a comedian who ran for office and won.

McCain dined with Svoboda Party leader Oleg Tyagnibok. The Svoboda Party is a group of neo-Nazis.

The citizens of Ukraine were used as pawns in yet another US mission that backfired.

Victoria Nuland and Obama and Biden (and McCain and so on and so bipartisan forth) did not care then, and do not care now, about the Neo-Nazi massacre of ethnic Russians as long as the US-backed Neo-Nazis continue to want Ukraine in NATO. Birds of a fascist feather, and all that. 

That's the real story the (Fascist loving) US 🐍 media will not discuss.

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I am posting this here because the blatant efforts of the "Federal" Reserve Board market manipulators to keep the hydrocarbon industry stocks from a well deserved tanking over the last 6 years constitutes a de facto MASSIVE invisible SUBSIDY that YOU and I are being FORCED to fund indirectly.

HOW can that be if you don't own or buy any hydrocarbon industry stocks?

You see, the Fed buys these stocks with "ex nihilo" money. "Ex nihilio" is from latin, meaning "from nothing". The Fed is authorized to electronically "print" money to buy or sell whatever they want to buy or sell, ostensibly for the "good" of the US government.

They "finance" the ex nihilo money creation by "selling" bonds to we-the-people (i.e. the US Treasury Department). We-the-people than have the obligation of paying principal AND interest to the 1% who OWN the "Federal" Reserve Board at whatever interest rate the Fed sets.

To make a long story of 🎩 elite legalized counterfeiting to pick💰🦖😈 winners and shaft everyone else short, this causes a 🎩 few people with a lot of stocks to have lots of new money in their pockets, which they spend into the economy. By the time we-the-people get some "trickle down" from all this new money, the value of the money itself has been reduced. This is called inflation. The elite greedballs who first got the money were able to use it BEFORE the inflation hit from THEIR use of that money. So, the rich get richer and everyone else gets debased currency.

Economist Keynes had something to say about that:

While it is true that hydrocarbon industry stocks are not the only beneficiary of this invisible subsidy SCAM, their profit over people and planet MO makes this grand larceny by the Fed all the more injurious to our civilization.

The fourth most viewed graphic in my gallery is from 2016 (Views: 590 Date: August 08, 2016, 06:47:20 pm By: AGelbert.) Here it is:

Today I prepared a similar graphic to show you that the totally unjustified rigged jacking up of hydrocarbon stocks is more pronounced than ever!


The following two graphics are the second and first most viewed graphics in the gallery. I post them to show you that good people do understand that the hydrocarbon industry business model is a death sentence for ALL of us AND that we are being deliberately and methodically lied to about what is really going on by EVIL humans corrupting TPTB:

Natural 🦕 Gas Bridge to nowhere 👉 Views: 818 Date: July 27, 2018, 06:25:09 By Agelbert

Agontology 2 👉 Views: 2120 Date: March 18, 2015, 06:56:56 pm By: AGelbert
The 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon 👹 Hellspawn Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, Government corrupting, human health depleting CRIME. Since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE!  Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on! 
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Advances in Health Care / Re: COVID-19 WEEKLY UPDATE with Emphasis on Vermont
« Last post by AGelbert on February 23, 2022, 12:47:57 pm »
February 23, 2022

COVID-19 WEEKLY UPDATE with Emphasis on Vermont

SOURCES for the Stats: 🦉
COVID-19 Vermont Public Dashboard
COVID-19 Dashboard by CSSE at Johns Hopkins University

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY:
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February 21, 2022 By Vel Moonien in Mauritius

MT Tresta Star pictured February 4, 2022. Photo courtesy Lé bon la Réunion

Grounded Tresta Star Breaking Up on Reunion Island

The Mauritian-flagged tanker that ran aground earlier this month on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean is in the process of breaking up.

A breach on the port side of the MT Tresta Star, exposed to the heavy swell caused by the recent passage of tropical cyclone Emnati, has “widened significantly” in size, according to an update from the Préfet of Reunion Island.

Parts of the hull have also been torn off, revealing a gaping hole of “several meters” through which water can enter the vessel, the Préfet reported. The Préfet also says it fears “an “imminent dislocation with pieces of the vessel breaking off and sinking on the spot or coming aground on the coast.

It is also dismayed by “new discharges of oily water” expected in the coming days after an oil slick of 2.5 km in length has been reported off the coast of Saint-Philippe.

A trail of brownish water, symptomatic of an oily substance emulsified with sea water is the proof of a sea pollution,” said the Préfet. A marine pollution plan will be initiated after the passage of Cyclone Emnati.

The MT Tresta Star grounded on February 3rd along the east coast of Reunion Island, at Tremblet’s Point, after losing power during Tropical Cyclone Batsirai. All 11 crew members were rescued by zip-line. The ship was not carrying any cargo at the time.

Three local non-governmental organizations, namely Attac, Extinction Rebellion and Greenpeace, have accused the Préfet of Reunion Jacques Billant and the French Minister of Overseas Territories Sébastien Lecornu, among others, of not taking appropriate measures to avoid such pollution, as fuel oil remains in the ship’s tanks.

With the vessel now breaking up, members of the Chinese salvage company Lianyungang Dali Underwater Engineering and the Greek firm Polygreen, recruited immediately following the grounding, have decided to pack up. They will leave Reunion Island this Tuesday due to a default in payment by the ship owner, Tresta Trading.

The ship owner is a subsidiary of an Indian company, also called Tresta Trading, and is owned by Shiny Shipping and Logistics, a company based in India. It had agreed with Lianyungang Dali Underwater Engineering and Polygreen, which had just completed the dismantling of the MV Wakashio’s bow in Mauritius, that a first oil transfer would be made two days after their arrival in Reunion.

“From two days, the delay has increased to two weeks. Unfortunately, we cannot continue to work without payment. Such an operation costs money. There is, among other things, the rental of a helicopter and various equipments. But nothing has been released so far,” says one of the team members in Reunion Island.

It is very likely that Five Oceans Salvage (FOS) will take over the operation. A team of the Greek firm was on the island a week ago for an assessment of the Tresta Star’s hull.

In July 2016, FOS had removed the MV Benita, a 44,183-ton cargo ship, which had run aground a month earlier on volcanic rocks near Le Bouchon, Mauritius, not far from where the MV Wakashio wrecked. Following its refloating, the Benita unfortunately sank while being towed to the shipbreakers.

FOS was also involved in the wreck removal of the South-East Asian trawlers KT Seroja, Ruang Lap and Hoi Siong from Mauritius’ Port-Louis’s harbor. Five years earlier, it had also removed the Angel 1 from the Poudre-d’Or reefs, in the northern part of the Mauritius.

Regarding the Tresta Star, an investigation has been launched by the Mauritian authorities and interviews are being conducted with crew members. “It is inconceivable that neither the ship owner, nor the shipping agent, nor the port authorities, took the initiative to give sufficient fuel to this barge to go to the high seas with the passage of the intense tropical cyclone Batsirai”, says one marine operator.

They should have brought her back to port instead of asking her to go with 8 tons of fuel in her hold. Of course she will break down! She can hold up to 250 tons of fuel. 8 tons! 🤦‍♂️ That’s the dregs at the bottom of a wine bottle… We’re going to go to another catastrophe with such superficial procedures”, he added.
https://gcaptain.com/grounded-tresta-star-breaking-up-on-reunion-island/
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February 22, 2022

The Biden administration will suspend new federal oil and gas leasing

The move was made in response to a recent 🦖😈 federal court ruling that prevents the government from considering the societal cost of carbon emissions in major decisions.

A litany of federal climate rules have been on hold while the Justice Department appeals. The Interior Department 👍 put the brakes on a lease sale for drilling across nearly 180 thousand acres in Wyoming—one of the 10  🐘 Republican- 🦕 led states that initiated the lawsuit complaining about the carbon metric used by the Biden administration in calculating the costs and benefits of agency decisions.

Amit Narang 🗽 with Public Citizen told the New York Times the decision by the Trump-appointed federal judge is “embarrassing” and “a 🦖 partisan political hit job dressed up as a legal opinion.” (New York Times $, Washington Post $, CNN, The Hill)
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CleanTechnica

February 20, 2022 By David Waterworth

Will Elon Musk End The Fossil Fuel Industry? Tesla Vs. 🦖 Exxon

Are 🦖 oil and car executives hiding their heads in the sand? (Looking for more oil reserves perhaps?) Is Musk right about the end of the fossil fuel industry? UK-based research and analysis group Rethink Energy (no affiliation with RethinkX) believes so.

In a recent email from Lead Analyst Peter White, he states: “Come 2027/8 the Electric Vehicle sales will overcome the rise of pandemic fossil fuel recovery and oil will get squeezed 💩👍.
Bankruptcy for oil follows swiftly . If total car sales do NOT recover from the pandemic (which I expect) within 5 years, then oil begins to falter sooner. Either way, only one or two oil companies survive 2030, but as ailing players whose time has come. Our forecasts assume total car sales globally recover to pre-pandemic levels in 5 years, and that 2025 or 2026 oil sales get close to 2019 levels, and then fall away rapidly at a rate of 5% per annum (the pandemic was only 9.5%).”

As the graphs above delineate, the oil industry will not recover to pre-2019 levels, and EVs will rule the highways globally long before any bans come into play. It won’t just be in Norway.

Graph courtesy of Rethink Energy.

The potential for global oil infighting inside and outside OPEC+, and the desecration of a number of emerging economies still reliant on oil but unable to compete with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Russia, and the US as the price falls, will lead to huge international unrest, debt defaults, and falling currencies. A global crash is not out of the question, despite the fact that investors and government debt agencies are perfectly clear that this has been on the cards for a while. It will be its suddenness that will make it so shocking.

Once prices fall, they will never come back, and keeping oil flowing in ever smaller amounts until the last 100 million ICE vehicles are on the world’s roads will prove more than a challenge, with rewards for only a handful of companies employing a relatively low number of people. For all intents and purposes, the oil industry will be in the past and its asset base will be destroyed. From around 2035 onwards, there will be so much wealth creation in the cleantech industry that investors will barely notice the passing of oil, nor gas when it follows it shortly after.

White anticipates the potential of the US EV market accelerating faster than the rest of the globe. New players like Tesla, Rivian, Fisker, and Lucid have optimistic expansion plans. Both Ford and GM are announcing new EVs regularly and are desperate to keep market share. Ford’s F-150 Lightning and Mustang Mach-E are good examples where demand has outstripped production and plans have had to be frequently upgraded.

Volkswagen will soon be building EVs on American soil, and Asian manufacturers are aiming to import as well (Vinfast from Vietnam is a recent example). This year’s Super Bowl had 8 commercials for EVs — and they were worth watching. Automakers are collaborating with battery manufacturers, and many new factories are being built.

By 2036, 100% of all cars sold in the US will be electric vehicles, and by 2037 more than half of all the cars on US roads will be EVs. By 2049, all cars in the US will be zero-emission vehicles, the great bulk of them EVs. We see the US increasing its total car fleet more slowly, but still ending this period just shy of 383 million cars compared to 287 million today. For the first time, this is a report which focuses on the speed at which the EV transition is happening, and doesn’t preserve any optimism for the oil majors just because they are customers. We hope you enjoy it.

Will Musk End Fossil Fuels?

Yes, I think Musk will end the fossil fuel industry, or at least be one of the major destructors.
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/02/20/will-elon-musk-end-the-fossil-fuel-industry-tesla-vs-exxon/

Agelbert COMMENT:
This is not hard. All you have to do is look at where, exactly, the profits made by the hydrocarbon industry come from as shown in the typical oil refinery product output breakdown per barrel of crude oil:


IOW, no fuel profits due to massive EV adoption 👍👍👍, no hydrocarbon industry, period.



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February 19, 2022 Environment by Ashley Curtin

New study confirms clean energy commitments from oil giants are nothing more than greenwashing

SNIPPET:

"🦖 Oil and 🦕 gas companies talk like they  care about the climate , but they keep drilling and polluting with complete disregard for the damage they cause."

Read more:
https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/02/19/new-study-confirms-clean-energy-commitments-from-oil-giants-are-nothing-more-than-greenwashing/

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