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To: longnshort who wrote (1125881)3/22/2019 7:29:21 AM
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2041 People Killed in More Than 360 Islamist Attacks in 2019, MSM Silent As Crickets
by BornaMarch 21, 2019

The problem is that the attackers were not “white supremacists”. Following the attack in New Zealand and its fallout, and the apparent black-hole-esque lack of





The problem is that the attackers were not “white supremacists”.

Following the attack in New Zealand and its fallout, and the apparent black-hole-esque lack of coverage on Islamist attacks, I would like to draw your attention to the hypocrisy and two-faced-ness of it all.

Firstly, this is no condonation of violence because it is to be condemned. This is exclusively to discredit the MSM for their, now normalised, sensationalist behaviour.


The sad statistics of Islamic extremism in the world in 2019.| Source: thereligionofpeace.com
In the last 30 days (between 15.02 and 17.03), Islamic terrorists have killed 777 people in 114 attacks in 21 countries. Among those countries are:
Syria, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Iraq, Cameroon, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Somalia, Yemen, The Philipines, Kenya, Mozambique, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, all countries with Muslim populations, some large, some small…

The modus operandi include: suicide bombers, shootings, sniper assasinations, beheadings, stonings, knife attacks and so on.

Diversity + Proximity = Conflict

The attack with the most victims happened in Nigeria, where, on the 11th of March, 46 people were killed, among whom was a local priest. Along with that, a mass grave in Iraq was revealed to be hiding 47 victims of ISIL executions. Yet, it is a single terror attack by a no name extremist in the West that we hear about non stop…


Black Christians in Nigeria at the burial of 17 victims of Islamic terror.| Source: GettyIn numerous terror attacks the targets were Christians or other religious groups. In Nigeria alone in March, 120 Christians were killed. The lack of coverage when compared to the over-saturation of the New Zealand terror attack show which kind of violence, or more precisely and importantly, which kind of perpetrator, the MSM seem want to amplify and imprint into the public consciousness of Europeans and Westerners more broadly.

And yet, the MSM have not been so vigorous in carrying out “investigations” of the backgrounds of these crimes, to make up for that shortcoming they took seriously the spreading of a sea of nonsense and lies about the attack in New Zealand. The reason for that is, after all, the fact that whites or pro-white organisation simply do not commit such attacks knowing that such would be counterproductive to their ideas. Shocker.

“Stop mass immigration, start mass deportation” – An oft thought but private thought of millions of Europeans.

Many, us included, have warned the public that similar tragedies will surely happen in Europe. The blame for that falls not on the immigrants, because they have simply brought their culture and way of life into Europe from their lands. The main culprits are those who wash their hands daily and speak of “human rights” and “humaneness” while they babble on about the “evil of nationalism” and “populism” and some of them are bringing “new Europeans” across the borders in a vain attempt to create and illusion of timely “equality” “diversity” and multiculture.

The results of this utopia are the ghettoisation of immigrants, mass rapes, rise of crime, culturecide, the ethnic cleanising of Europeans, the rise of religious and racial intolerance and inevitable violent clashes. History is called “the teacher of life” for a reason for it has shown this through countless examples, but the media, establishment and their pawns don’t care about problems and causes, they like to deal with the symptoms and superficiality. Thanks to this, hypocrisy reigns among the Mainstream Media, and the violence and inter-ethnic hatred in society is hidden from the public.

A toxic cocktail, and one that should be avoided and escaped whenever possible.



To: longnshort who wrote (1125881)3/22/2019 7:55:44 AM
From: sylvester80  Respond to of 1574589
 
GOP HYPOCRITES: Carl Hiaasen Imagines The Right-Wing Freakout If Obama Acted Like Trump
The columnist and bestselling author calls out Republicans and Fox News in an alternate history column.
03/18/2019 03:36 am ET Updated 3 days ago
By Ed Mazza
huffpost.com

Columnist and bestselling author Carl Hiaasen dived into alternate history in his latest Miami Herald column, picturing the reaction from the right if former President Barack Obama had acted like President Donald Trump.

Point by point, Hiaasen described the things Trump has done but changed the name to Obama. Then, he envisioned the reaction from Republicans, conservative evangelicals and Fox News.

In one passage, Hiaasen described Obama saying ? as Trump did ? that he “ fell in love” with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, then gave him a pass on Otto Warmbier, the American student imprisoned in the country who died shortly after being sent home in a vegetative state.

Hiaasen wrote:

“Sean Hannity’s neck gets so hot that the lacquer in his hair catches fire. Rush Limbaugh abruptly goes on a ‘personal leave’ so he can learn how to defibrillate himself. Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell says the special counsel ‘should slow down and pursue every lead, no matter how small.’”

Hiaasen also shared his thoughts about how evangelicals and Vice President Mike Pence would react if Obama was caught on tape bragging, as Trump did, about grabbing women “ by the pussy,” what would happen if he didn’t release his tax returns (again, as Trump has done) and how quickly Republicans would move to impeach him if it was revealed he pressured his staff to give security clearances to his daughters (as Trump reportedly did for Ivanka Trump, who also serves as a White House adviser).

Spoiler alert: They would not be OK with it.

Read the full column here.



To: longnshort who wrote (1125881)3/22/2019 8:22:19 AM
From: sylvester80  Respond to of 1574589
 
OOPS! Trump plan to bail out coal industry punishes red states the most; Trump plans to enrich his rich crony friends at the expense of American consumers.
JOE ROMMJUN 4, 2018, 10:52 AM
thinkprogress.org

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP EMBRACES ENERGY SECRETARY RICK PERRY JUNE 29, 2017 IN WASHINGTON, DC. ON FRIDAY, TRUMP CALLED ON PERRY TO BAILOUT MONEY-LOSING COAL PLANTS BY RAISING U.S. ELECTRICITY RATES: CREDIT: KEVIN DIETSCH-POOL/GETTY IMAGES

President Trump has ordered Secretary of Energy Rick Perry to take “immediate steps” to bailout unprofitable coal and nuclear plants.

This move, initiated on Friday, will inevitably increase electricity rates and pollution for all Americans. Perry is already drafting a plan that would prevent grid operators from replacing dirty coal power with cheaper and far less polluting natural gas, solar, and wind power.

Those hardest hit by Trump’s order will be the states where the most money-losing power plants reside. And, ironically, the most uneconomic coal plants are in the Southeastern states, which overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump.

Indeed, in March, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) released a detailed analysis of the most unprofitable plants, which “paints a particularly bleak picture for coal plants in the regulated Southeast”. As the chart below demonstrates, the biggest money losers are represented by the large, dark red dots.

THE COAL PLANTS LOSING THE MOST MONEY ARE THE DARK RED DOTS.


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According to a memo obtained by Bloomberg News, the Department of Energy (DOE) is already putting together a plan to use emergency authority (provided under two federal laws) to force the operators of the electric grid to purchase power from a list of designated plants for two years.

Invoking the laws, however, requires some sort of national security emergency — so any such ruling is expected to be challenged in court. After all, there is no security threat posed by replacing expensive dirty energy plants with cheaper cleaner ones.

Indeed, the bigger security threat to Americans would come from continuing to run unprofitable coal plants — a move that will worsen climate change, perhaps the biggest preventable threat to US security today.

This is what America will look like if we follow Trump’s climate policies

Nonetheless, on Friday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders released a statement saying the bailout of coal and nuclear plants is needed for national security purposes: “Impending retirements of fuel-secure power facilities are leading to a rapid depletion of a critical part of our nation’s energy mix, and impacting the resilience of our power grid.”

So-called “fuel-secure power facilities” are plants that have a large supply of fuel onsite and are therefore supposed to be more reliable.

Rick Perry’s plan to make taxpayers bail out coal and nuclear rejected by federal agency

But the problem for the new plan by Trump and Perry is that there is no evidence whatsoever that the retirement of money-losing coal and nuclear plants makes the electric grid less reliable and resilient.

In fact, back in January, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) — which oversees the U.S. grid — unanimously rejected a very similar plan by Perry to raise consumer energy bills in order to bail out coal and nuclear power plants.

The unanimous vote was especially notable since 3 of the 5 commissioners are Trump appointees, including the new chair.

In its ruling, FERC slapped down Perry’s main argument that somehow cheap renewables (and natural gas) are forcing essential coal and nuclear plants to be shut down. They note that “the extensive comments submitted” by the grid operators “do not point to any past or planned generator retirements that may be a threat to grid resilience.”

Indeed, to make his case, Perry had to ignore his own grid study, which had made clear renewables were not a threat to power reliability.

Oops: Rick Perry may have stumbled upon the solution to going 100 percent renewable

The new Trump plan has uniquely broad opposition. “This has got to be one for the record books,” tweeted New York Times investigative reporter Eric Lipton. “Oil industry joins with solar and wind industry to condemn Trump admin plan to prop up coal industry by forcing electric grid to buy coal power. Oil/wind/solar as allies? Fascinating times.”

The truth is that the only people who benefit from keeping money-losing plants open are rich coal barons like Bob Murray, a big Trump donor who has been pushing for this bailout for over a year.

Everyone else in the country — and most especially Trump’s own voters — would have to pay for this bailout, with higher electricity bills and with the public health costs that come from having dirtier air.



To: longnshort who wrote (1125881)3/22/2019 8:29:03 AM
From: sylvester80  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574589
 
OOPS! Climate change poses ‘nightmare scenario’ for Florida coast, Bloomberg warns; America’s trillion-dollar coastal property bubble could burst “before the sea consumes a single house.” Here’s why.
JOE ROMMAPR 24, 2017, 2:59 PM
thinkprogress.org


AS POLAR ICE LOSS SPEEDS UP, TRUMP POLICIES MAKE THIS FUTURE FOR SOUTH FLORIDA AND “MIAMI ISLAND” ALL BUT UNSTOPPABLE. CREDIT: CLIMATE CENTRAL

“Pessimists selling to optimists.” That’s how one former Florida coastal property owner describes the current state of the market in a must-read Bloomberg story.

Right now, science and politics don’t favor the optimists. The disintegration of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets is speeding up, providing increasing evidence we are headed for the worst-case scenario of sea level rise?—?three to six feet (or more) by 2100.

The impacts are already visible in South Florida. “Tidal flooding now predictably drenches inland streets, even when the sun is out, thanks to the region’s porous limestone bedrock,” explains Bloomberg. “Saltwater is creeping into the drinking water supply.”

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Rapid warming and disintegrating polar ice set the stage for ‘societal collapse’

At the same time, President Trump is working to thwart both domestic and international climate action while slashing funding for coastal adaptation and monitoring. E&E News reported earlier this month that the EPA has already “disbanded its climate change adaptation program” and reassigned all the workers.

Faster sea level rise and less adaptation means the day of reckoning is nigh. Dan Kipnis, chair of Miami Beach’s Marine and Waterfront Protection Authority?—?who has failed to find a buyer for his Miami Beach home for nearly a year?—?told Bloomberg, “Nobody thinks it’s coming as fast as it is.”

Florida’s Climate Denial Could Cause Catastrophic Recession

But this is not just South Florida’s problem. The entire country is facing a trillion-dollar bubble in coastal property values. This Hindenburg has been held aloft by U.S. taxpayers in the form of the National Flood Insurance Program.

A 2014 Reuters analysis of this “ slow-motion disaster” calculated there’s almost $1.25 trillion in coastal property being covered at below-market rates.

CREDIT: REUTERSWhen will the bubble burst? As I’ve written for years, property values will crash when a large fraction of the financial community?—?mortgage bankers and opinion-makers, along with a smaller but substantial fraction of the public?—?realize that it is too late for us to stop catastrophic sea level rise.

When sellers outnumber buyers, and banks become reluctant to write 30-year mortgages for doomed property, and insurance rates soar, then the coastal property bubble will slow, peak, and crash.

The devaluation process had begun even before Trump’s election reduced the chances we would act in time to prevent catastrophic climate change. The New York Times reportedlast fall that “nationally, median home prices in areas at high risk for flooding are still 4.4 percent below what they were 10 years ago, while home prices in low-risk areas are up 29.7 percent over the same period.”

Sean Becketti, the chief economist for mortgage giant Freddie Mac, warned a year ago that values could plunge if sellers start a stampede. “Some residents will cash out early and suffer minimal losses,” he said. “Others will not be so lucky.”

As this week’s Bloomberg piece puts it, “Demand and financing could collapse before the sea consumes a single house.”

So here’s a question for owners of coastal property?—?and the financial institutions that back them?—?as they watch team Trump keep his coastal-destroying promises: Who will be the smart money that gets out early?—?and who will be the other kind of money?