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World War III is here, but it’s not what we expected
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Movies and books have often portrayed World War III as either the final chapter of the human epoch or as a new but primitive restart for those who survive the nuclear conflagration. We cannot know if such prophesies will ultimately come true. For now World War III appears to have started with Russia’s attack on Ukraine, but without nuclear missiles so far.
Make no mistake. The battlefield for this war is worldwide; it’s just that it is primarily an economic battlefield. When Russia attacked Ukraine, the other great powers did not send soldiers and tanks. Instead, they orchestrated one of the most comprehensive economic warfare schemes ever devised.
Measures included cutting Russia out of the international payments system called SWIFT, blocking Russian exports (except most commodities) and discouraging commerce of many kinds with Russia. Many countries froze accounts owned by Russia’s central bank and also accounts owned by prominent wealthy Russians. Wealthy Russians targeted by sanctions also saw yachts moored outside Russian territory seized. The value of the yachts runs into the billions of dollars.
In the wake of these unprecedented sanctions, many non-Russian companies have reduced, suspended or eliminated operations in Russia. Here is a list of over 400. Not all were forced to take action because of the sanctions. But companies expected that doing business inside Russia would become extraordinarily difficult and also did not want to get on the bad side of governments around the world participating in the sanctions.
Russia has responded with an export ban covering more than 200 products. Notably, Russia did NOT include its major exports, energy and other minerals in the ban. It did curtail wheat and sugar exports temporarily. Wheat has become a scarce commodity after Ukraine, the fourth largest wheat exporter in the world—behind only the European Union, Russia and Australia— announced a halt to those exports to preserve grain stocks for domestic consumption in the war-torn country.
The United States and the United Kingdom have banned Russian oil exports. But this is mostly symbolic as oil can be rerouted quickly so that Russian oil will go to countries accepting its oil while oil bound for those countries from other suppliers is rerouted to the United States and the UK.
What has astonished those operating in the oil market is the voluntary decisions made by companies NOT to buy Russian oil even though (except in the United States and the UK), sanctions do not prohibit such purchases. As a result, oil futures hit $130 per barrel briefly in early March. On Friday oil futures in New York closed at just under $105, well above the price in late January of around $85.
A ban on fertilizers may be the most consequential Russian export restriction. Russia produces 23 percent of the world’s ammonia, 14 percent of its urea and 21 percent of its potash. (Ammonia and urea are major sources of nitrogen for crops and potash provides potassium.) Without adequate amounts of fertilizer, crop yields could decline worldwide causing food prices to jump even higher than they are today.
The length of the economic war depends in part on the length of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. It is, however, difficult to see why those sanctioning Russia would want to reward it by lifting sanctions if the conflict ends with Russia forcing an agreement on Ukraine that includes recognition of Crimea as part of Russia (seized in 2014) and independence for two of Ukraine’s primarily Russian-speaking provinces. The Russians will also insist that Ukraine be prohibited from joining NATO and likely restrict the size of the Ukrainian armed forces.
The sanctioning countries will reasonably ask: Who can trust that the Russians will abide by the agreement which will probably include a military withdrawal and respect for Ukraine’s new boundaries? Won’t Russia simply invade Ukraine again when it has something else that it wants?
This is what I mean when I say we’ve entered World War III. I see no clear end to the economic warfare or geopolitical jockeying. Countries opposing the invasion of Ukraine will want to keep the pressure on Russia with the hope of undermining Russia’s war-making capability. Russia will counter with attempts to integrate its economy with that of China, India and other countries in Asia, Africa and Central and South America including Mexico and Brazil which have not embraced sanctions.
That means the United States, European nations and their allies around the world will have to decide whether to impose secondary sanctions on those countries retaining normal trading relationships with Russia. It’s a complex situation and could turn out to be a real mess.
It’s instructive that China understood that power in the 21st century would be primarily economic and so focused on growing and diversifying its economy. Russia seems to have missed this important development.
China’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for 1989 was almost $344 billion. Russia’s GDP for that year was $506 billion. Chinese per capita income was less than a 10th of that of Russia in 1989. Thirty years later in 2019 China’s GDP was $15.47 trillion and Russia’s was $1.67 trillion according to the International Monetary Fund. The Russian economy expanded three-fold in that time though its emphasis remains on the extraction of natural resources. China’s economy grew 45-fold and China’s emphasis has been on manufacturing—though real estate development, finance, retail (both online and brick-and-mortar) and a variety of services are figuring more prominently. Chinese companies operate worldwide, competing with their largest international competitors. Russia has few such successes.
Russia’s per capita income as of 2019 still exceeds that of China ($11,436 vs. $10,679). But China’s dynamism and entrepreneurial culture suggests that it will blaze past Russia soon and keep going.
This is why the Russian perception that its security comes primarily from military strength and from control of land near its border seems strangely outmoded and misinformed. But therein lies the danger. If Russia is further crippled by economic sanctions, it will fall even further behind in the economic contest. This outcome is not a given because sanctions may not be enforced well and because Russia may successfully integrate its economy with that of China, India and other neutral and friendly countries. (See my recent post, “Ukraine conflict may portend end to current world trading system.”) But, if Russia ultimately feels backed into a corner, the Russian leadership may see no alternative but to draw its main competitors into a wider war with the hope of instilling enough fear of a nuclear confrontation that both sides relent and a political settlement and security guarantees follow that include an agreement to end all economic warfare.
It is in just such circumstances that both sides may miscalculate or may misconstrue the words of the other and choose to escalate the conflict in a way that will make prophets out of all the screenwriters and novelists who depicted World War III as the end of civilization.
55 Comments on "World War III is here, but it’s not what we expected"
Theedrich on Sun, 20th Mar 2022 4:38 pm
“In war, truth is the first casualty” – Aeschylus (525 BC – 456 BC). Today, U.S.-paid mercenaries (in Ukro uniforms) are fighting Russia in Ukraine. With American-supplied weapons. The official (and only) narrative is that the Ukros are winning. In any case, the next step is for the Empire of Lies to annihilate Russland economically. Although aware of the constant mendacity dribbling out of Prez Biden’s mouth, the Kremlin simply did not realize how powerful America’s Ministry of Propaganda (lovingly called “fake news”) is. It can convince not only its own population but also those of its vassals that black is white, that the United States is a chorus of angels, and that its prey, Russia, must be conquered and eviscerated. Any nation like the Ukraine whose government has been overthrown by the U.S. and turned into a weapon against Russia thereby becomes “sovereign,” and must be viewed as an inviolate sanctuary.
So, when Yankeeland sends well-armed covert armies in Ukrainian uniforms to fight against Russian forces, that is not really happening, mind you. Just ask Anglo-American media and politicians. And only America has the right to carpet-bomb civilian urbanations. But if Russia does it, it is ipso facto evil. And when Ukrainian troops hide behind children in a theater and paint “ДЕТИ” (“CHILDREN” in all caps) in fresh paint on the parking aprons in front and back of it, boobus Americanus must believe that what the U.S. state media organ was portraying was all truth, innocence and honesty. So when Russian bombs hit the installation in the attempt to attack enemy forces, it must be because diabolical Putin hates children and ordered it himself. America good, Russia bad. America fight against Satan. God tell America to kill bad Russia. Russia must pay. Surrender to American billionaires who wag dog. And, following Russia’s defeat, go after China.
More docudrama: Ukrainian TV celebrity Zelensky communes with the British parliament electronically and tells its lemmings how the Ukrainian upheaval is now WW 2 déjà vu all over again, and he is Winnie Ill-Church encouraging his peons to fight until dead against the Evil One. Then he shows up on a screen before the American Congress and spins a melodramatic yarn about Pearl Harbor, the September 11 terrorist attack and (get this!) the have-a-dreamy but apotheosized Martin Luther King Jr. The ultimate point of Z’s harangues is to wag the big dog and start WW 3 to take the pressure off of poor, little, defenseless Ukroland.
Proxy wars have always been a tool of politics. But the Empire has refined them into a fine art, as seen by its current operation in Ukraine. The Imperium permanently occupies countries like Germany and Japan and replaces their natural governments with its own, masking the parasitic substitutes as indigenous. Without question, Washington’s use of military and economic force to dominate the world is historically unparalleled. Its insertion of vast numbers of mercenaries plus weapons into Ukraine is only the latest example of its psychopathy. Indeed, the Empire cannot be stopped.
Except by World War Three.
Biden's hairplug on Sun, 20th Mar 2022 5:08 pm
The Russians have captured an Azov base in Mariupol:
https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1505615277811134465?s=20&t=1sA4iX8rbbWB3nmtKpkxdg
The fall of the city is immanent.
All today’s Ukraine links here:
https://parisberlinmoscow.wordpress.com/2022/02/26/liveblog-ukraine/
Biden's hairplug on Sun, 20th Mar 2022 5:43 pm
Latest front update Ukraine:
https://readovka.news/news/91490
– Russian troops sighted 20 miles south of Kirovograd.
– Mariupol about to fall.
– Ukrainian government admits it can’t cope without foreign aid.
Endless war links here:
https://parisberlinmoscow.wordpress.com/2022/02/26/liveblog-ukraine/
For people who want to invest 90 minutes to recap how the current situation in Ukraine came about, here the documentary “Ukraine on Fire” by Oliver Stone, a rare American Putin trusts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-UJ8S63Tsw
FamousDrScanlon on Sun, 20th Mar 2022 6:58 pm
Just discovered this dude. He’s very insightful.
How White Empire Blames Everyone Else
“The most powerful empire in human history is somehow completely powerless. Mexico makes them do drugs. Russia makes them elect idiots. Oligarchs make them launder money.
Somehow all the drugs, dumbasses, disease, and dirty money got pushed onto White Empire while they were innocently sitting there. Fentanyl just ran across the border and crawled into peoples veins. A few well placed Facebook ads made Americans lose their minds. And all those bankers just had to take the oligarch’s money.
Empire is the real victim here. It’s last call at the Imperial Bar, and these guys are sitting around, complaining and blaming everybody.”
https://indi.ca/how-white-empire-blames-everyone-else/
Scratch A Liberal, Find A Warmonger
Too many have died to make this point. America’s Terror Wars have been the biggest disaster since WWII. They areWWIII, it just doesn’t count because white people aren’t dying. After killing millions and displacing tens of millions, your good intentions don’t count anymore. Y’all need to sit down and shut the fuck up.
As Davis said, all of this ‘investment’ in military materiel was just dropping expensive bombs on poor people. It’s just useless fighter jets that crash into the sea. It’s a military that can’t win any wars, but just prolongs them endlessly. Why? It makes more money.
None of this is an investment in the real economy of America, which is why America really sucks. This is why India has better airports and Laos has better trains. America is not a ‘developed’ country. They’re in terminal decline.
The military-industrial complex is just part of the dying cannibalization of White Empire. A few people at Raytheon and Halliburton get obscenely rich, bribe the people in power (Biden has taken plenty of blood money, and a Raytheon director is his SecDef), and the blood money pours on and on. They are devouring poor, brown bodies for sure, but it is also the treasure of Empire this cancer devours.
https://indi.ca/scratch-a-liberal-find-a-warmonger-2/
Biden's hairplug on Mon, 21st Mar 2022 2:42 am
“America is not a ‘developed’ country. They’re in terminal decline.”
They are, because they are no longer thoroughly white. America is the Third World:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOMsCUeZ6rw
“Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: U.S. Is A Third World Country By 2024”
Clairvoyant video from the nineties.
RIP USA, yet another victim of international jewry, after the Roman and Russian Empire went down the drain first, because of them.
Reason downfall:
Roman Empire: Christianity
Russian Empire: Bolshevism
US Empire: diversity and Open Society ideology and mass immigration from the Third World
You either destroy them in a good pogrom, or they destroy you. The only human final solution is to park them in a country of their own, like Israel. Or Upstate New York, because Palestine is stolen land, that soon will be liberated by Turkey and/or Iran.
Let’s hope that the US balkanizes at the first opportunity, so at least Europe can be saved and reconstructed.
Biden's hairplug on Mon, 21st Mar 2022 2:53 am
Globalism, the Anglo-Zionist ideology, designed to destroy Anglos:
https://twitter.com/GhostManchu/status/1505397984372174849?s=20&t=60HRwSbK9KrpyNyemJIWdA
“This is so fucking classical and hilarious. Indian IT careerist shrewdly climbs the American corporate ladder, becomes CEO, takes over company, fires 900 Americans over a zoom call, hires 1000 Indians in India.
Americans: Diversity is strength.”
Biden's hairplug on Mon, 21st Mar 2022 8:31 am
Signs that the Ukrainian army is collapsing:
https://twitter.com/Levi_godman/status/1505837951305068544
“The JFO command requested a large-scale retreat from Donetsk in order not to be surrounded.”
Simple Questions on Mon, 21st Mar 2022 1:34 pm
Considering the United States was built on forced (slave) labor, on stolen land, when was it ever all-white?
If Europe is so great, why don’t all the whites in the United States just go back there?
Biden’s hairplug on Mon, 21st Mar 2022 2:47 pm
“If Europe is so great, why don’t all the whites in the United States just go back there?“
No place, Europe is overpopulated and Yanks do not really fit in European culture.
No, there is a different solution and the Indians, err native Americans give the good example: give whites a reserve of their own, that is the Red States, read the Mississippi River delta:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River#/media/File:Mississippiriver-new-01.png
The US is more than big enough to accomodate different demographics.
Have no illussions, it is going to be much more messy than what is currently happening in Ukraine. But if very similar Russians and Ukrainians go at each other throats, what hope is there that US Euros, Afris and Hispanics “will get along” together? None.
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 21st Mar 2022 2:52 pm
clog is never short on excuses.
Again you just demonstrated how mighty Jews are.
You know the saying “everybody loves a winner”?
I think all your Jew bashing has made folks previously unaware of Jews & their success jump on the band wagon.
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
Kyle Harper
A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire
Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power―a story of nature’s triumph over human ambition.
Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. He takes readers from Rome’s pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted. Harper describes how the Romans were resilient in the face of enormous environmental stress, until the besieged empire could no longer withstand the combined challenges of a “little ice age” and recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague.
A poignant reflection on humanity’s intimate relationship with the environment, The Fate of Rome provides a sweeping account of how one of history’s greatest civilizations encountered and endured, yet ultimately succumbed to the cumulative burden of nature’s violence. The example of Rome is a timely reminder that climate change and germ evolution have shaped the world we inhabit―in ways that are surprising and profound.”
https://b-ok.cc/book/3487826/1d9f8e
Biden's hairplug on Mon, 21st Mar 2022 5:27 pm
“U.S. admiral says China has fully militarized islands”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/20/china-islands-militarized-missiles-00018737
Have no illusions, we’re in the early stages of WW3. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is like Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939… and that is where the comparison stops, as China is not Italy or Japan, not even Germany, but the next geopolitical #1, preparing for prime time and termination of the US empire.
Biden's hairplug on Mon, 21st Mar 2022 6:10 pm
Bill Roggio – “Who is winning the war in Ukraine”
https://unherd.com/thepost/bill-roggio-who-is-really-winning-the-war-in-ukraine/?=frpo
Bill Roggio: Who is really winning the war in Ukraine? The military analyst tells Freddie Sayers that the media is giving a misleading picture.
It is only by looking at the maps of territory, Roggio argues, that we can track the Russian advances with precision. Here, it becomes clear that the Russians are making progress, albeit slowly, and taking over significant terrain on all its fronts. Currently the Russians have forces building around Kiev and are building inroads into the Luhansk Oblast and Mariupol. Even though the Russian strategy may be difficult to understand, we should be careful before saying that it is failing
Biden's hairplug on Mon, 21st Mar 2022 7:07 pm
Ukrainian Nazis do have a Fuehrer, however, she doesn’t have a mustache:
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/03/20/meet-ukraine-azov-figurehead-olena-semenyaka-europe-female-fuhrer/
“Meet Ukraine’s Azov Figurehead Olena Semenyaka, Europe’s Female Führer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDCHO_zXIic
Ukraine, an interesting country.
Kevin Cobley on Mon, 21st Mar 2022 11:29 pm
The Russian teddy bear’s only threat is to launch 50-year-old nuclear weapons in missile systems that military officials have already stolen and sold all the copper wiring and brass.
It’s clear that nothing works in the Russian militatry.
The Russian military is a threat to themselves.
Ukrainian jokes
“What is the main armament of an AMARTA tank”? “A white flag”.
How many gears does a T80 have? 2, reverse and park.
How do Russian soldiers eat? “They hand over their guns to Ukrainian women and ask directions to McDonalds”
Biden’s hairplug on Tue, 22nd Mar 2022 3:28 pm
American military professional on why the Russian invasion hasn’t stalled at all and that their advance is nothing less than remarkable:
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/larry-c-johnson-the-ukrainian-army-has-been-defeated-whats-left-is-mop-up/
“Larry C. Johnson: “The Ukrainian Army Has Been Defeated. What’s Left Is Mop-Up”“
FamousDrScanlon on Tue, 22nd Mar 2022 4:25 pm
Sure, no country knows defeat like America, so, hats off to Larry.
Nobody dreads peace more than the MIC + MSM Complex. Great, ‘Trump like’, ratings & great weapons sales like with every POTUS.
https://youtu.be/uaagl9rY9do
FamousDrScanlon on Tue, 22nd Mar 2022 4:48 pm
Dystopia: This Horrible Time We Live In
“This is the most nightmarish period in human history. It is the age of Splitting: This is the age of splitting: black vs. white, 100% right against 1000% wrong. Nothing in between, no subtleties or nuances. The world as a morality play of angels fighting demons.
Public intellectuals, “experts”, gurus, and coaches thrive on splitting. They sacrifice their intellectual integrity for the sake of dumb popularity.
Splitting is an infantile psychological defense mechanism. It is a hallmark of immaturity and an antidote to empathy. It precludes cooperation and compromise and fosters conflict.”
“The marriage rate is at an all time low, having declined by 50% since 1990. Birth rates in industrial countries have plummeted and the populations in many nations are aging and declining at dizzying speeds.
Since 2016, aloneness is the new normal for the majority of men and women worldwide.”
https://youtu.be/oacE4IgaQ74
Biden's hairplug on Wed, 23rd Mar 2022 9:05 am
Your daily those of smirk…
It is not true that whites invented everything:
http://www.kirksvilletoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/556b4a61c45cd548-2054545.jpeg
http://www.kirksvilletoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/4962229b2a48414c-6538711.png
http://www.kirksvilletoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/7eededc2616da77a-3509328.png
http://www.kirksvilletoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cec0cc72695323da-5546124.png
FamousDrScanlon on Wed, 23rd Mar 2022 11:36 am
clog why haven’t y’all supremeO’s blamed climate change on da jews? Plenty of mileage there.
As it enters a third year, California’s drought is strangling the farming industry
“… the hope that a wet end to 2021 would bring more water has disappeared, too. The same sentiment holds across much of the parched American west.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/as-it-enters-a-third-year-california-e2-80-99s-drought-is-strangling-the-farming-industry/ar-AAVjy54
That’s right – let go of that hope, as it only makes whatever time you have left a drag.
Da jews dun it
FamousDrScanlon on Wed, 23rd Mar 2022 11:50 am
clogs favorite ‘news’ source
Texas wildfires wipe out 86 homes and incinerate majority of small town of Carbon as four fires west of Dallas burned 54,000 acres and kill a sheriff’s deputy
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10633997/Wildfires-wipe-86-homes-Carbon-Texas-fires-west-Dallas-burned-54-000-acres.html
Carbon Texass. I bet they thought they were so clever coming up with that one.
Now it’s Carbon Consequences and nobody’s laughing now.
FamousDrScanlon on Wed, 23rd Mar 2022 11:51 am
U.S. Drought Monitor
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
OUCH!
FamousDrScanlon on Wed, 23rd Mar 2022 12:33 pm
Can We Actually Clean Up the Plastic Pollution Problem?
“There’s been a lot of talk on YouTube lately about ocean plastic pollution and #TeamSeas. But there hasn’t been enough talk about the **ridiculously unthinkable scale of the ocean plastic pollution problem** or how it intersects with other environmental issues like climate change. And here’s a big spoiler alert: Nearly all environmental scientists agree that ocean plastic pollution isn’t a problem we can clean our way out of. So what CAN we do? That’s what this video is about.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jkN50X9gZc
WILLY WORRYING Plastic ain’t fantastic…for your penis! Chemicals in food packaging ‘make your manhood SMALLER’
Scientists in Australia have warned chemicals in plastics are the number one threat to male fertility.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6871840/plastic-chemicals-food-packaging-make-penis-smaller/
Only Collapse or peak oil will halt plastic production.
Biden’s hairplug on Wed, 23rd Mar 2022 2:16 pm
“why haven’t y’all supremeO’s blamed climate change on da jews? Plenty of mileage there.“
That would give you an importance you don’t have. The blame list is long enough as it is:
– Stealing the Fed
– US entry in WW1
– WW2
– promoting mass third world immigration
– holotale
– JFK hit
– 9/11 false flag
– Euro-Maidan, Syria, Libya
Biden’s hairplug on Wed, 23rd Mar 2022 2:19 pm
“clogs favorite ‘news’ source“
Absolutely not, but I regularly quote this source because it is not behind a paywall and written in the rare language you folks somewhat command.
FamousDrScanlon on Wed, 23rd Mar 2022 4:08 pm
The English language developed similar to how Canada & the US developed – by bringing in immigrants & incorporating them. Dutch is one of the many languages we borrowed from. Well over a thousand words if I remember correctly.
They were thinking of borrowing ‘clog’ but decided against it since we already had over fifty words for ‘shite’.
Biden's hairplug on Wed, 23rd Mar 2022 4:59 pm
“They were thinking of borrowing ‘clog’ but decided against it since we already had over fifty words for ‘shite’.”
Clog is NOT another word for shit(e).
As I said, English, a language you folks somewhat command.
FamousDrScanlon on Wed, 23rd Mar 2022 7:25 pm
If you say so clog.
In here they comment on the most unusual fact about English.
Which countries are best at English as a second language?
“English is the world’s most widely spoken language but is unusual in the fact that the vast majority of speakers are not ‘native’.
Of the approximately 1.5 billion people who speak English, less than 400 million use it as a first language. That means over 1 billion speak it as a secondary language.
The English Proficiency Index has published its latest research on where English is learned around the world and quality of teaching in each country to find the places with the highest proficiency of English as a second language.”
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/countries-that-speak-english-as-a-second-language/
I guess credit goes to some, now extinct, forward thinking politicians & bureaucrats in those countries.
English b da most bestest langgauge in duh hole world.
Hi quality culture like this can only be done in English.
https://youtu.be/m2qEhGeLb6A
FamousDrScanlon on Wed, 23rd Mar 2022 7:41 pm
WW3 Man vs Nature
Methane Acceleration Sets Record
“That level of 1,900 ppb is triple the pre-industrial level of 700 ppb. Furthermore, it is suddenly mysteriously accelerating over just the past 13 years.”
“This sudden acceleration is not good news. It’s a climate change horror story that’s starting to come true.”
“Unfortunately, the prevailing issue and big new concern is the startling fact that biogenic sources are now starting to predominate, which means that nature is outpacing the human influence.”
“This means that methane emissions are now accelerating “hands free” sans human impact. This is exactly what scientists have feared for decades.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/15/methane-acceleration-sets-record/
Methane in the atmosphere is at an all-time high – here’s what it means for climate change
“From tropical swamps in the Amazon, Nile and Congo basins to tundra in Russia and muskeg bogs in Canada, wetlands emit roughly 200 million tonnes of methane a year. As global temperatures increase, the rate at which wetlands generate and decompose biomass grows and these environments release more methane. Methane emissions accelerate climate change and climate change causes the release of more methane – a positive feedback of warming feeding more warming.”
https://theconversation.com/methane-in-the-atmosphere-is-at-an-all-time-high-heres-what-it-means-for-climate-change-174908
Biden's hairplug on Thu, 24th Mar 2022 2:26 am
English b da most bestest langgauge in duh hole world.
Hi quality culture like this can only be done in English.
Well, I can’t say I dislike English. When I throw Dutch or German pieces of texts into Google Translator, I notice that 30% of the text length gets shaved off. English is a very efficient, economic and fairly simple language, it’s an ideal language to bark instructions into a computer. And for Hottentots to express their basic desires (“me so horny”). But high culture?
Most of all, it’s an ideal doormat language, with which 1.5 billion people can wipe their dirty feet against.
I’m glad I have a native language nobody understands, apart from a few Boers from South-Africa, so to use freely to make jokes about foreigners without repercussions:
http://www.liedjesland.com/Liedjes/kinderliedjes/EenNederlandseAmerikaan/EenNederlandseAmerikaan.htm
(“Een nederlandse Amerikaan”)
Biden’s hairplug on Thu, 24th Mar 2022 8:51 am
Trudeau of Canada gets his *ss spanked in EU parliament by a member of the AfD:
https://twitter.com/AndersonAfDMdEP/status/1506905594623574020
Ouch!
In Canada they do not know what a right-winger is, now he knows. Could be seen as a form of child abuse.
Biden's hairplug on Thu, 24th Mar 2022 12:13 pm
Nobody likes Boris:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10647899/PM-briefly-left-looking-company-NATO-summit-group.html
“Awkward! PM is briefly left looking for company at NATO summit group family photo between embrace with Macron and warm handshake with Biden”
Europeans ignore him for Brexit, Biden for the same reason and because Johnson like Trump a little too much.
No worries though, Britain can always count on a sympathetic pat on the back from Poland. Especially since Poland has set it sights on western Ukraine:
https://rtde.site/meinung/134531-ukraine-teilung-polen-will-was-vom-kucken/
(76,000 km2 = Ireland)
History thingy:
https://www.euratlas.net/history/europe/1400/index.html
Last time, the Anglos helped Poland acquiring Eastern Prussia, which had been German territory for centuries. 8 million were cleansed, and hundreds of thousands of fleeing Germans were killed.
Churchill: Poland = hyena of Europe.
I’m not a fan of Churchill, but every now and then he had a point.
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 24th Mar 2022 1:28 pm
“But high culture?”
Call it whatever you want, but there’s only 1 Shakespeare & untold millions have learned English, just so they can enjoy Shakespeare.
It’s just one more fact you are bitter & envious of.
No one want’s or needs your primitive Euro language.
Without English your life would be a hundred times more boring little Dutch boy.
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 24th Mar 2022 1:37 pm
clog for years I was a right-winger. My childhood Hero was a right winger.
The Top 10 Right Wingers of All-Time
https://www.hockeyforums.net/topic/65041-the-top-10-right-wingers-of-all-time/
https://youtu.be/99K1TUbC1Fk
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 24th Mar 2022 2:18 pm
WW3 Man vs Nature
Permafrost thawing faster than expected due to extreme summer rainfall
“In the past 50 years, the Arctic region has been warming three times faster than the average rate of global warming. This warming thaws the permafrost, the permanently frozen Arctic soil. New research published in Nature Communications has revealed that extreme summer rainfall is accelerating this process. As extreme rainfall events become more frequent thanks to a warmer climate, the permafrost may thaw even faster than under the influence of rising temperatures alone.”
https://phys.org/news/2022-03-permafrost-faster-due-extreme-summer.html
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 24th Mar 2022 2:21 pm
China Faces Worst Crop Conditions Ever Due to Climate Change
The country’s agriculture minister said last year’s record-breaking floods have created “big difficulties” with food production
“More extreme weather caused by rising global temperatures — compounded by geopolitical turmoil and the pandemic — is hindering China’s effort to ensure food supplies for its 1.4 billion population.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-23/climate-change-threatens-china-s-crop-yield-food-security
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 24th Mar 2022 2:26 pm
Heat wave shatters records across California, spells trouble for drought-dried state
“California’s record-dry start to the year is converging with record-high temperatures as an early spring heat wave settles over large swaths of the state.
Multiple temperature records were shattered Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service, including some that were nearly a century old.
In Santa Rosa, a sweltering 89-degree high Tuesday broke the previous record temperature for the date, 86 degrees, set in 1926. In Camarillo, the temperature hit 90 degrees and broke an 88-degree record last seen in 2008 and 1926.”
“The heat wave spells trouble for the drought-dried state, which is already experiencing dwindling snowpack and shrinking reservoirs after an arid start to the year. January and February were the driest on record in California, and officials say March could follow suit.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-23/early-spring-heat-wave-shatters-temperature-records
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 24th Mar 2022 2:30 pm
Cholera, cyclones and flooding: Malawi faces cholera emergency amidst severe climate events
https://www.afro.who.int/photo-story/cholera-cyclones-and-flooding-malawi-faces-cholera-emergency-amidst-severe-climate
FamousDrScanlon on Thu, 24th Mar 2022 5:54 pm
“…but there’s still a significant chance that the reservoir will reach the so-called “minimum power pool” stage some time in the next few years, at which point it will stop producing hydroelectric power altogether.”
https://grist.org/energy/lake-powell-water-crisis-is-about-to-be-an-energy-crisis/
Biden's hairplug on Fri, 25th Mar 2022 3:28 am
“Global Britain” latest, Commonwealth no more:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/24/rift-over-ukraine-exposed-as-high-powered-uk-delegation-to-india-called-off
“Rift over Ukraine exposed as high-powered UK delegation to India called off”
“Boris Johnson tries to persuade Indian PM to take a more robust approach to Russia over invasion”
The only possible way to revive the British Empire, albeit in a reverse way, is to make Sunak PM of the UK.
Seriously, India is voting with its feet, away from Anglosphere and in favor of Eurasia.
Biden's hairplug on Fri, 25th Mar 2022 5:17 am
Are we spared nothing?
“Will growing rift between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris help usher Donald Trump back into the White House? Many fear cooling relations between US President and his VP could doom Democrat hopes for the next election, writes TOM LEONARD”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10650019/Fears-rift-Biden-Harris-doom-Democrats-election-writes-TOM-LEONARD.html
Somewhere else I have read that the Trump campaign war chest (more than 100 million) is bigger than that of Dems and Reps combined.
OMG
Biden's hairplug on Fri, 25th Mar 2022 5:35 am
“Putin’s Bombers Could Devastate Ukraine But He’s Holding Back. Here’s Why”
https://www.newsweek.com/putins-bombers-could-devastate-ukraine-hes-holding-back-heres-why-1690494
The US dropped more bombs on Iraq during the first DAY as Russia did on Ukraine for the entire campaign so far!
#SlavaZ!
Biden's hairplug on Fri, 25th Mar 2022 8:34 am
Your daily dose of laughs:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOsns7AWYAo5ENY?format=png&name=small
FamousDrScanlon on Fri, 25th Mar 2022 11:49 am
clog, I wish I was there when Madeleine bumps into Hitler and says “well Adolph, was it worth it?”
https://youtu.be/ZTJc_Yt2Z4s
Biden's hairplug on Fri, 25th Mar 2022 12:18 pm
Covid vaccination campaign outright disaster:
https://twitter.com/Kees71234/status/1507103269600075787?s=20&t=IRU8EHrX7WkSnoBLf1zm_A
“UK government data proves corona vaccination campaign is a disaster; the fully vaccinated now account for 92.2% of all corona deaths in England”
But Pfizer is laughing all the way to the bank.
#SuperJewsAtItAgain
FamousDrScanlon on Fri, 25th Mar 2022 4:31 pm
clog did you look that up using Google?
It should be called Jewoogle since Larry Page and Sergey Brin are Jews.
Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/
See the Jews are everywhere & MIGHTY.
Why do you think Trump proudly let his daughter marry a Jew & squirt out 3 grand-kikes?
Those grand-kikes are vessels that will carry Trump’s genes into the future.
Trump is anti American. That’s why his wives are all foreigners. Trump knew his daughter was going to marry an American, so he arranged it so she married an American Jew who was a real estate scammer like Trump & his dad is a huge real estate criminal. That way Trump feels comfortable around them because they are the same creature as him.
The corporate state is watching you…24/7
You know those dumb elections you plebs have so much faith in? Can you vote against the interests of Google? CIA? Any fortune 500 company or any oligarch or rich families?
No.
So why keep voting for the people who take their marching orders from the very same cunts who are kneeling on your necks?
Do you need to pretend it matters that badly? Are you afraid of what you might do if you really followed the money? Followed what they do NOT what they say!
If any of you political-tard-tribal-monkeys followed the money you would be left with no choice but to flush your faith in all politicians & pundits down the toilet.
Once a country hits a certain level of corruption the only way a politician or bureaucrat can survive in a system that far gone is to turn a blind eye and/or take the money too.
Corruption has always existed & always will, but it’s the level of corruption. Once you cross the corruption Rubicon there is no going back.
Only a child or a fool would believe in reform at this stage.
Not everyone watching is a believer. For some it’s just theater – what else is there?.
The politicians & their antics are part of the circus
IMO the OJ trail was the turning point. The amount of time & emotion the chimps invested in it was mind blowing – just because the defendant used to run around on a field carrying a ball while other meat heads chased him.
In a certain way it made sense because Football is mostly just a big soap opera & like the OJ trial it’s mostly all talking.
An average NFL game: more than 100 commercials and just 11 minutes of play
“For five months of the year, the National Football League dominates Sundays in the United States; it’s more popular than church.
The NFL’s popularity is all the more remarkable when you inspect the fare it has to offer each week on television. An average professional football game lasts 3 hours and 12 minutes, but if you tally up the time when the ball is actually in play, the action amounts to a mere 11 minutes.”
https://qz.com/150577/an-average-nfl-game-more-than-100-commercials-and-just-11-minutes-of-play/
Oh & when they broadcast the Stupid Bowl the brain washed consumers even stick around for the commercials.
The Cult of Consumer Capitalism is Mighty.
FamousDrScanlon on Fri, 25th Mar 2022 6:40 pm
Dangerous chemicals found in fast-food wrappers at major chains, report says
“Alarming levels of dangerous chemicals known as PFAS were discovered in food packaging at a number of well-known fast-food and fast-casual restaurants and grocery store chains, a new report found.
The highest levels of indicators for PFAS were found in food packaging from Nathan’s Famous, Cava, Arby’s, Burger King, Chick-fil-A, Stop & Shop and Sweetgreen, according to an investigation released Thursday by Consumer Reports.
Often called “forever chemicals” because they do not break down in the environment, PFAS are used in food packaging to prevent grease and water from soaking through food wrappers and beverage cups. PFAS can also be found in the ink used to print logos and instructions on food containers.
The new report comes more than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, when the public has relied heavily on takeout and grocery deliveries.”
https://www.ketv.com/article/dangerous-chemicals-found-in-fast-food-wrappers-at-major-chains-report-says/39539906
Fucking Cancer Apes. Wherever humans go death & infection follows.
Biden's hairplug on Sat, 26th Mar 2022 10:33 am
Gone are the days that longtime poster makati1 (BillT) shone his light on international affairs. He probably either passed away or returned to the US, which would be a wise move, because of this:
https://asiatimes.com/2022/03/philippines-running-back-to-us-as-duterte-fades-away/
“Philippines reaching back to US as Duterte fades away”
…which almost certainly will make the Ps a (rare) battleground between Chinese and US forces in the upcoming WW3.
Biden's hairplug on Sun, 27th Mar 2022 4:21 am
Here is a message from the Russian Embassy, UK:
https://twitter.com/russianembassy/status/1506347652136505348
Biden's hairplug on Sun, 27th Mar 2022 4:33 am
How the Ukraine war will end?
I am buying this scenario:
– Mariupol has basically fallen, mopping up operations for the coming days.
– Russian army shifts focus to the brunt of the Ukie army in Donbass. Will perhaps take a month or so to defeat those.
– After that it is game over for Ukraine and they lost the war.
However, the interesting question is: will NATO do nothing and stand idle by?
This guy predicts a chemical or nuclear false flag by the end of next week, to justify a NATO intervention, at least in western Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2hhxh9Z6E0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9DiPWjlrB8
Biden's hairplug on Sun, 27th Mar 2022 4:56 am
China encroaches further on Australia:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/solomon-islands-confirms-proposed-security-deal-china-rcna21504
“Solomon Islands confirms proposed security deal with China”
The treaty with the Pacific nation, if concluded, would be a major inroad for Beijing in a region that Australia and New Zealand see as their “backyard.”
China has a new springboard to realize its longstanding goal of doubling its territory at the cost of Anglo-Australia.