They really jumped the shark on this one.
"Climate change might have contribut[ed] to the rise of terrorist entities like the Islamic State."
Yeah, climate change is the enabler of ISIS, yup.
How frikkin' pathetic that the propagandists at the Pentagon would put this out as an excuse to expand the empire when it is the same said empire that is the biggest cause of global warming on the planet.
"Pentagon says global warming presents immediate security threat" by Coral Davenport | New York Times October 14, 2014
As usual, it is another self-created "enemy!"
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon released a report Monday asserting decisively that climate change poses an immediate threat to national security, with increased risks from terrorism, infectious disease, global poverty, and food shortages.
It also predicted rising demand for military disaster response as extreme weather creates more global humanitarian crises.
The report lays out a road map for how the military will adapt to rising sea levels, more violent storms, and widespread droughts. The Defense Department will begin by integrating plans for climate change risks across all of its operations, from war games and strategic defense planning situations to a rethinking of the movement of supplies.
This is ALL COVER for the military movements of Empire!
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, speaking Monday at a summit meeting of defense ministers in Peru, was expected to highlight the report’s findings and the global security threats of climate change.
While foreign policy experts have for years warned that climate change could present a future risk to national security, the Pentagon’s characterization of climate change as a threat demanding immediate action represents a significant shift for the military.
Anything to expand attempted domination over the planet, especially when the earth has been cooling for the last 16 years and we have had record winters the last three seasons (with no summer again this year).
In the past, the Pentagon’s response to climate change has focused chiefly on preparing military installations to adapt to its effects, as in protecting coastal naval bases from rising sea levels.
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From what we have been told about rising seas, those bases should already be underwater!
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And it's coming in the form of a newspaper every day!
But the new report calls on the military to incorporate climate change into broader strategic thinking about high-risk regions, for example, the ways in which drought and food shortages might set off political unrest in the Middle East and Africa.
An excuse to seize and secure other peoples' resources, that's all it is!
“One of the differences from previous documents is that they’re really looking at the immediate threat,” said Marcus King, an expert on climate change and international affairs at George Washington University. “The other is that they’re not just looking at installations — they’re looking at a different level, the strategic impact across regions.”
King and other experts said the broadened approach would include considering the role that climate change might have played in contributing to the rise of terrorist entities like the Islamic State.
“Climate change and water shortages may have triggered the drought that caused farmers to relocate to Syrian cities and triggered situations where youth were more susceptible to joining extremist groups,” King said. The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has seized scarce water resources to enhance its power and influence.
ISIS is an excuse for the U.S. and Israel to do just that!
As the Pentagon plans for the impact of climate change, it is conducting a survey to assess the vulnerability of its more than 7,000 bases, installations, and other facilities. In places like the Hampton Roads region in Virginia, which houses the largest concentration of American military sites in the world, rapidly rising sea levels have already led to recurrent flooding.
The Pentagon report is the latest in a series of studies highlighting the national security risks of climate change. A May report by a government-funded research group, the CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board, concluded that climate change was becoming a catalyst of global conflict.
And yet Kerry and Obummer keep flying the campaign planes.
In March, the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review, the agency’s main public document describing the current doctrine of the US military, drew a direct link between the effects of global warming and terrorism.
This is so asinine and absurd it is laughable.
The new report does not make any specific budget recommendations for how the military will carry out its climate change agenda.
Oh, they need more money to save the environment after polluting so much of it with depleted uranium munitions and general bombings?
If and when the Pentagon does request funding from Congress for spending on climate change initiatives, it will clash directly with congressional Republicans, many of whom question the established scientific evidence that human activities are causing climate change.
I'm against the carbon tax that is to pay for all this -- underwritten by well-meaning Wall Street banks, of course, that are going to SAVE the PLANET!!!!!!!!!
How could you EVER DOUBT THEIR VERACITY, huh?
Now excuse me while I go turn the heat up.
Republicans have fought to block and overturn most of President Obama’s climate change policy initiatives.
That's one slim reason I trend Republican.
“ISIS is still gaining ground and causing havoc in Syria and Iraq, with foreign fighters from over 80 countries coming and going into the fight and then returning to their home country,” said Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and a prominent skeptic of human-caused climate change, of the Pentagon report. “It is disappointing, but not surprising, that the president and his administration would focus on climate change when there are other, legitimate threats in the world.”
It's all part of the same plan, Jim.
The Pentagon’s increased emphasis on the national security threats of climate change is aimed in part at building support for a UN agreement, to be signed next year in Paris, that would require the world’s largest producers of planet-warming carbon pollution to slash their emissions, while increasing aid to help the world’s most vulnerable populations adapt to the effects of global warming.
Of course, the PENTAGON is EXEMPT from such treaties!
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Now I'm told last year was the hottest year on record, even after last year’s exceptionally cold and snowy winter that slowed the economy in the first quarter.
I'm told not to expect a winter polar vortex again, and yet HERE IT IS!!
One killed as storms sweep across several states
It threatens millions! Fear, fear, fear everywhere!
Microburst confirmed as cause of Easthampton damage
Cleanup goes on after Easthampton storm
I'll bet ISIS did it!!
As for REAL environmental problems?
"Asian carp DNA found in southwestern Michigan" Associated Press October 08, 2014
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Genetic material from Asian carp has been found in the Kalamazoo River in southwestern Michigan, but there’s no indication the invasive fish have become established in the river that flows into Lake Michigan, officials said Tuesday.
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The discovery marks the first time so-called environmental DNA for silver carp has been found in Michigan’s Great Lakes waters outside of Maumee Bay in Lake Erie. The term ‘‘environmental DNA’’ refers to genetic markers that fish leave behind as they move through waters, shedding scales, mucus, or excrement.
Scientists have been testing waters for Asian carp DNA in an effort to track their progress toward the Great Lakes. Bighead and silver carp were imported to the Deep South from Asia in the early 1970s and escaped into the Mississippi River, where they have been migrating northward since. They have invaded numerous tributaries including the Illinois River, which leads to Lake Michigan, although authorities have installed electric barriers near Chicago in hopes of stopping their advance. The large, voracious fish compete with native species for food.
The discovery of genetic markers doesn’t necessarily prove the presence of live carp, as scientists say it could come from other sources, such as fishing gear or bird droppings that came in contact with the DNA. But some contend the presence of live fish is the likeliest explanation....
Government can't give a straight answer if life itself depended on it.
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Must be why Detroit's water has been shut off:
"UN officials want Detroit to restore water to poor" Associated Press October 21, 2014
DETROIT — United Nations human rights experts called on Detroit officials Monday to restore water to those unable to pay, including those with disabilities or chronic illnesses.
Two officials visiting Detroit to observe the effect of water service shutoffs said shutoffs affect the poorest and most vulnerable. They say it discriminates against Detroit’s majority black population.
Detroit isn't Ferguson.
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The city says about 27,000 shutoffs were made between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30. Most shutoffs were halted for several weeks during the summer to give customers a chance to enter payment plans.
Groups opposing the shutoffs appealed to the UN for support.
At least someone is being well-watered in Detroit:
Last week, the Detroit Institute of Arts, which is among the facilities caught up in the controversy over the city bankruptcy case, defended the six-figure salaries of its two top executives. Some suburban officials have criticized the museum over the salaries, especially because it relies on a three-county property tax for much of its budget.
This type of thing is endemic across the entirety of AmeriKan authority, leadership, and its political $y$tem. That is why this country is in horrible shape and close to collapse.
Officials are also disturbed that city-owned art will not be sold to pay creditors, while retirees would see pension cuts under the bankruptcy plan.
Director Graham Beal’s total compensation was $534,000 last year, a 17 percent increase since 2011. Chief operating officer Annmarie Erickson received $337,000 in 2013, the museum said.
It appears Erickson got a 36 percent raise in 2012, but the museum called that misleading. Some pay in 2012 was for work performed in 2011, after a promotion.
Yeah, that certainly ju$tifies it all.
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Water getting shut off is a war crime, AmeriKa.
"Expert says Detroit bankruptcy plan feasible" Associated Press October 23, 2014
DETROIT — Detroit’s plan to get out of bankruptcy is feasible, a court-appointed expert testified Wednesday as the last witness in a historic trial to determine whether the largest city in US history to file for Chapter 9 can get back on its feet.
Martha Kopacz, a Boston-based expert who has participated in hundreds of restructurings, expressed confidence that Mayor Mike Duggan and other officials can execute a long-term plan hatched by Detroit’s emergency manager.
Detroit is shedding billions in debt, taking on new debt, and cutting pensions by 4.5 percent, among many steps. At the same time, the strategy calls for spending more than $1 billion to improve services during the next decade.
At least the Arts guys got paid.
‘‘There is a genuine desire to right the ship,’’ Kopacz said in response to a question about the attitude of middle managers at city hall. ‘‘Again, that group needs more detailed plans . . . but there is a significant level of enthusiasm among the mayor, his direct reports.’’
‘‘Feasible’’ is a key word in bankruptcy because Detroit must persuade Judge Steven Rhodes that the plan is fair to creditors and feasible for the years ahead. After weeks of trial, he will hear closing arguments Monday and make a decision by Nov. 7.
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The main point to take away from that is government doesn't keep its promises to those that work in the trenches for it.
Time to park this post.
Walsh announces regional effort to tackle climate change
EU reaches deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions
The deal was aimed at countering climate change and setting an example for the rest of the world ahead of key international climate negotiations next year.
More public relations, agenda-pushing pooh-pooh.
Emissions drop puts EU just shy of 2020 goal
California drought takes bite out of rice harvest
I suppose ISIS is responsible for that, too. It certainly couldn't be government neglect of water infrastructure when all the fountains in L.A. are flowing freely.
Heck, while we are at it let's blame them for the lack of rebuilding from the hurricanes a couple of years ago.
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
Museum officially purchases Rosie the Riveter’s old plant
Sorry to leave you short this morning.
