globalisation

Erdogan and PutinS-400's reported to be Turkey bound

Huffington Post

Project Reconciliation says the investment will help alleviate First Nations poverty.

Of course the banks will make the loans to the Indigenous group. And help Trudeau to win re- election.

  That’s a provocative title, isn’t it? Since I consider myself an environmentalist it seemed an extreme position to take. But, the article, linked below, is not talking about my kind of environmentalism. The environmentalism that includes human kind.  This article is talking about the extreme elitist type of environmentalism. One that does not include humans as part of the environment. Though we actually are part and parcel of the environment and the planet as a whole.

Well, I've got to admit this interview was a real treat for me!Jasun Horsley's site has been linked in the sidebar for some time now. If you missed it? Here it is again: Auticulture This interview gives me the opportunity to mention Jasun's latest book. Which, I just so happened to have finished reading a couple of months back. Was it thought provoking, interesting and imminently readable? Yes, it was.Is it recommended?

 "The heat is on" is not a reference to temperature or the cult of global warming.Slang:  a time of great activity and/or pressure has begun Stormy. Acrimonious. And surely there were outside hands setting this fire alight. There are some points of interest in the articles below.

Following up on: Part 1: Syria's Northern Border- Hot Spot Getting HotterWhich contained the first news article covering the situation on the northern border. From west to east- Mediterranean to Iraq.  2- Wheat: Damascus offering better price for wheat, of course, the Kurds won’t let the wheat leave the annexed territory.

Big Oil has NEVER been opposed to the carbon control agendaI will repeat this statement of fact... Big Oil has NEVER been opposed to the carbon control agenda. They were always going to profit from the agenda through higher energy prices. Getting more for less.  Therefore they were not in opposition Covered this in 2015- 4 years ago

 The capitalized 'thought' is to draw attention to the fact that scientists did NOT know.They thought? Or assumed?   Which opens up a pile of questions about unproven hypothesis. Thoughts without supporting evidence... Ideas that have no reason/reasoning. Patagonia's ice sheets are more massive than scientists thought

"Sometimes referred to as nature's calendar, phenology looks at the seasonal life cycle of plants and animals."

Link- Science Daily

Excellent discussion from James Corbett @ Corbett Report In honour of the continued below normal temperaturs in my neck of the woods;Warming? Not here. Not for years...Left the comment below for Geofish in his post "Northern cold is causing Arctic ice to linger"