9/12/2023

mother tucker and glenneth, the eternally stupid

glenneth greenwald is disgusting.  and remember, his best buddy is that mother tucker carlson.  if you thought tucker couldn't go lower after the interview with the man claiming to have been barack obama's lover, you were wrong.


The former Fox News host Tucker Carlson blasted Texas Gov Greg Abbott for not allowing the state’s National Guard shoot migrants at the US-Mexico border.

“How many Texans do you think are all on board with letting 7 million people cross into their state illegally?” Carlson asked the audience at an event on Sunday in Utica, Michigan, according to Newsweek.


“What percentage? Zero. I don’t care what your race or national origin — nobody is for that. Has the governor of Texas done anything meaningful to stop it? No,” Carlson added.

The fired Fox News host suggested that Mr Abbott could succeed in securing the border “in a week” if he lined up the National Guard along the southern border.


that's glenneth's buddy.  it's max blumenthal's buddy and jimmy dore's buddy and aaron mate's buddy and all these right-wing creeps who pretend that they are left..  


if you need more proof of glenneth's stupidity, there's this tweet:



In general, it's nobody's business what someone does in their private life, as long as it has no victims: meaning everyone consented. Subjecting everyone who runs to this invasive of a microscope means we'll be left with a dreary group who prepared to be politicians from birth.
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Susanna Gibson, a Democratic candidate in a race for the Virginia General Assembly, denounced reports that she and her husband had performed on a sexually explicit site, calling the leaks about the online activity “an illegal invasion of my privacy.” https://nyti.ms/3rfHVVd




if you and your husband - or you and any 1 - go online and perform sex?  that's not a privacy issue.  you are now an online performer and this is the business of any 1 who might vote for you.  equally true, you need to reveal whether or not you were paid for it (and whether or not you paid your taxes on it).

what you do in the privacy of your own bedroom is only private if it's just between you and the other person.  when you elect to broadcast it over the internet?  it's no longer a private matter.

i get now why c.i. has always pointed out that - for an attorney - glenneth doesn't seem to know anything about the law.


let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'


Tuesday, September 11, 2023.  Freaks and fools, the world's full of them and we look at three: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Zac and Gavin of THE VANGUARD.


We've got a lot to cover.  We're starting with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  He appeared yesterday on Neil Cavuto's FOX "NEWS" talk show.  

Junior declared,  "The Iraq War?  You know, we left Iraq worse off than when we found it.  We were lied to about that war.  We're now going to war in Ukraine -- a war, a war that could be catastrophic for the globe."

Wow, the bravery.  Wow, the inability to master the facts.

"We left Iraq worse off than when we found it"?  When did "we" leave Iraq?

Or is Junior so stupid that he doesn't know US troops remain on the ground in Iraq? 


Iraq and the US-led international coalition formed to fight ISIS in 2014 are to meet in the coming days to discuss what their co-operation will look like in the future, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani said on Monday.

Early last month, Iraq sent a high-ranking security delegation to Washington led by Minister of Defence Thabet Al Abbasi to meet US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin and other officials for the inaugural US-Iraq Joint Security Co-operation Dialogue.

The two sides discussed the security co-operation in different fields and the continuing fight against ISIS remnants.

They agreed to form a joint committee to "determine the future relation between Iraq and the member states of the international coalition", Mr Al Sudani told local media outlets on Monday.


This morning, PRESS TV reported:

A convoy belonging to the US-led coalition has reportedly transferred military equipment, ammunition and fuel from American bases in Iraq to neighboring Syria.

Citing unnamed sources, Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen news channel reported that the convoy had entered eastern Syria through the Faysh Khabur border crossing in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region on Monday night.

The US military has in recent months ramped up its military presence in Syria, a country gripped by a foreign-backed militancy since 2011 which has repeatedly denounced the deployment as “illegal”.

Last month, the Pentagon sent a convoy to the bases in eastern Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province through the Al-Waleed border crossing between Iraq and Syria.

Comprised of around 50 vehicles, the convoy reached US bases in the Koniko natural gas field and al-Omer oil field on August 14.


When, Junior, did US troops leave Iraq?

What an idiot.

And, no, we're not "now going to war with Ukraine."  The proxy war has been going on for some time.  

Later, while babbling -- that is the only term -- about 9/11, he said, "My memory of that, Neil -- and you can go back and check the record [. . . ], and I could be wrong about that [. . .] and I could be wrong about my history."  You think?

Not could, you are wrong when you say that we are "now going to war with Ukraine" and when you say that the US left Iraq.  

He speaks of an "aggressive posture" on the part of the US today with "800 bases abroad" and insists, "When I was a kid, everybody around the world loved America for its freedoms."

When was he a "kid"?  I'm going to assume we'll leave out the struggles with drug addiction.  But let's say 21, he stopped being a kid?  I'd love to do 18 but the press usually doesn't hold you accountable -- look at Bully Boy Bush's 'youthful' issues -- when you turn 18.  So let's go to 21.  That would be 1975.

Before 1975, "everybody around the world loved America for its freedoms"?  Really?  The people in Vietnam loved America for its freedoms?  Despite the war on Vietnam?  The people in Cuba loved America for its freedoms?  Despite the Bay of Pigs?  The people in Chile loved America for its freedoms?  Despite the CIA overthrow and execution of the democratically elected Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973?  

We could do this all day.

He is a stupid moron.  Most of Europe was anti-American following the Revolutionary War (and most of Europe did not see the French Revolution as a great thing because Europe was not a proponents of democracy).  America was not seen as a great thing among many European scholars in the 1800s either.

You don't know your history, Junior.  You just know that when all you were concerned with was playing with your toys and your penis, life seemed so much simpler.  

Your stupidity at this late date is rather sad and rather telling.




We've got to look at e-mails.  Two people have e-mailed the public account accusing me of hypocrisy -- they've read "Media: Hypocrisy, thy name is THE VANGUARD" and they both feel that I am also being a hypocrite -- like THE VANGUARD -- because I've not weighed in on the Danny Masterson rape and "more significantly," writes one, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis' remarks.  

First, how does that make me like THE VANGUARD?  If I were defending Ashton and Mila -- it would not happen -- maybe I would be like THE VANGUARD.  But I  just didn't say anything about it here Friday and Monday.

Christina Ricci did and that's a friend and I stand by what she said about the issue.  I do not like Bijou and I think she's trash -- that's rapist Danny Masterson's wife.  I thought she was trash from a young age.  Couldn't help it though, look at who her parents were. 

Late to the party?  Danny Masterson raped women and got convicted of drugging and raping two.  Last week was his sentencing.

Ashton and Mila wrote letters to the judge insisting he was a good guy and his sentence for his crimes shouldn't be harsh, he told them not to take drugs and he's a good father. 

Billy Baldwin apparently wrote a letter.  If I was waiting for anything, it was probably to read that letter.  That he wrote it doesn't surprise me, he's Danny's brother-in-law.  Chynna Phillips and Bijoua are half-sisters -- Mackenzie Phillips is their other half-sister.  Of the three, Chynna's been the most sane in her own life and that goes to what happens when you have even one solid parent (Michelle Phillips).  

I keep waiting to hear that Chynna wrote a letter.  If she did and it emerges, that doesn't surprise me.  She's always been there for her two half-sisters.  Bijou has made her adulthood a nightmare (her childhood was an embarrassment but that's on her parents) and Mackenzie, of course, aborted a pregnancy in which her father might have been the father.   I'm not condemning Mackenzie, she had a very rough childhood and she was a victim (and, yes, I do consider her a victim even during the time she says she was 'willingly' sleeping with her own father).  When Mackenzie came out with that story, I backed her and defended her.  My point in bringing all this up is to make clear that I believe no one should have written a letter but if it turns out Chynna did, then she did and I'm not going to have any comment on it because she's been the glue holding that fractured family (I'm referring to the John Phillips side of the family)  together for years now, she's had to repeatedly be the adult in the room for both of her half-sisters.

Ashton and Mila?

Trash.  I've called out Mila repeatedly here.  The idea that I'm hesitant to call that fake ass out?

When Demi (a friend of many years) had her book coming out, Mila began showing her true ugly self in public with a few remarks.  Those remarks were probably going to get worse.  Which is why I called Ashton and told him to curb his bitch because I'm not Demi.  Demi tried to be as kind as possible and put as much behind her as possible.

I'm not that sweet person. 

I made it very clear -- and I wrote about that here too when it happened -- that if Mila didn't cease and desist, I'd burn Ashton and Mila's playhouse down.  And I could still do that because they are nothing but liars. Their entire relationship is a lie.  Their actions offscreen?  A huge lie.

Demi gave into Ashton on many things.  He's a control freak who manipulates women.  "Oh, you could drink if you want to, you're just using 'addiction' as a crutch."  

That we're now shocked by Ashton goes to how pathetic celebrity is.  Demi told that tale in her book, where were you?  It's one of the few that made it into the book.  Her 80s addictions were well known.  And Joel Schumacher made it very clear that she go rehab or she wasn't going to be in ST. ELMO'S FIRE.  She went to rehab, she got the treatment she needed and she became this huge support system for many others (such as Ally Sheedy).  For Ashton to undermine her and to destroy her sobriety?

Where were you, concerned America?

He's garbage.  And the reason they broke up makes even more garbage.  If you think he pressured her to drink -- he did.  That's nothing compared to the pressure he was putting on her to do other things.  And she had the strength to walk away.  And she had the grace to leave it out of her book.  
 
So your notion that because nothing went up here about those two disgusting people since Friday afternoon when the news broke about their letters because I was/would try to cover for them?

No, you're just outright wrong.  

In terms of their video?  

They're lying garbage.  And don't say that you respect victims -- as they lie that they do -- and then lie that you weren't trying to influence the outcome.

Sentencing is part of the outcome.  Quit your lying.  Sentencing is part of the outcome.  You disrespected the women who were raped.  You tried to work over a sentencing after a jury handed down guilty verdicts.  You were clearly disrespecting the women and disrespecting the rule of law.

Everything they wrote was a lie.  Everything that they said was a lie.

And to bring up drugs, to lie that Danny kept them off drugs?  When Danny drugged the women he raped?

That's especially offensive.

Rebecca is covering this at her site. 

If you missed it, yesterday on THE VANGUARD, they were floating that Peter Daou might have been fired by Marianne Williamson.  

No one has ever made that claim before now.

Peter quit.  And I know why he quit and I knew in real time and you can go back to the archives and read about it.  I also know Marianne and have for years.  And Ava and I told you -- before POLITICO wrote its first story on what a nightmare she was to her staff -- how bad she was.  We told you.  Then the first POLITICO story comes out about it and THE VANGUARD and others -- including Krystal Ball -- want to trash the report and insist it's not true.  They attacked the second report as well although less strenuously.  Marianne is a nightmare to work for.

Peter quit for that reason.

He had no plans to make a statement and when Marianne worried how it was looking, he came out with the claim that he quit due to his family's health.  

Now he's gone to work for Cornel West's campaign.

What happened should be obvious.  

But because THE VANGUARD boys worship Marianne, they wanted to muddy the waters last night.

They also never understand a damn thing.

They are like Junior so much.

He didn't notice anti-American sentiment prior to his becoming an adult so he insists it never happened.

They attacked Peter in their segment without understanding a damn thing and only knowing what he did in 2016 -- when they were supporting the freak show that is Jill Stein.

Peter isn't someone we highlighted after 2008 here.  

We also didn't make a point to call him out after 2008.

For the same reason that I'm not going to call out Rickie Lee Jones or Meredith Brooks or any number of people.

You don't like what Peter wrote in 2016?

Well why did he write it?

Or is that too much work for you to do?

Rickie Lee gets a pass from me.  She supported Hillary Clinton in 2008.  And she saw the media work to destroy Hillary.  Peter supported Hillary in 2008.

You're crazy and insane if you don't think what the media did to Hillary was going to impact her supporters.

2008 saw the media attack her repeatedly with sexism.  When Katie Couric dared to note the sexism, Keith Olbermann attacked Katie as the worst person of the week.

They all engaged in sexism -- Keith, Bill Moyers, go down the list.  And Howard Dean played dumb as late as June 2008.

Just because you didn't live through it, doesn't mean it didn't happen.  

Hillary was mocked and made fun and lied about.  At its worst, Marjorie Cohn and Keith Olbermann and others were accusing Hillary of calling for Barack Obama to be assassinated -- Keith went on air with that claim.  

It was stupid for Hillary to run in 2016 for many reasons -- but the main ones were the media had painted her as a racist and the media had painted her as someone so desperate that she'd call for Barack to be assassinated. 

This was what the media was telling America eight years before her 2016 run.  

That's a lot to overcome with the public and, no, she did not have the charm skills to pull that off.

But they were very upset, her supporters, by the media's inability to play fair (something Donald Trump supporters can probably relate to).  So I never made a point to call out Rickie Lee or anyone else who had to endure that crap in 2008.  

That's not even a full history but it's more knowledge than THE VANGUARD boys can produce because they're idiots who never do the work required.

James H. Cone.

That's a name that the idiots need to learn.  They're crediting Cornel West with inventing every wheel in history.  James H. Cone, idiots, look him up.  W.E.B. Du Bois, learn the name.

The world did not start in 2016 just because that's when THE VANGUARD boys began paying attention.

And Jimmy Dore is many bad things but that doesn't excuse Zac, on THE VANGUARD last week, using "snatch" as a smear -- "snatch" not as in swipe but as in the female anatomy.

That's misogyny. And Zac did and Gavin laughed at it.  And then they moved on pretended like it hadn't happened.

Don't compare to those two morons.


They can't get their facts right, they don't know history, their political 'arguments' are laughable and they're just as likely to resort to sexism or to dismiss concerns about trans people as Jimmy Dore is.  


THE VANGUARD had another questionable segment last week.  It was about how Briahna Joy Gray had invited Sabby Sabs on to BAD FAITH and Sabby had lied.

 

Well what else would Sabby do?  Hey, Sabby, tell us about your parents?  You don't want to go there, do you?  


So Sabby was on with Bri-Bri and Bri-Bri lied.  And THE VANGUARD called her out and congratulated themselves for doing so. 


But the cowardly boys of THE VANGUARD lied for Bri-Bri


Months ago, a ridiculous exchange took place on REVOLUTIONARY BLACK OUT.  Sabby and the fat one had brought on Marianne Williamson and then, during the interview, the RBO homophobe and the one who rages out of control to the point that he's on the verge of tears joined the broadcast.  Marianne was not being allowed to speak.  She was asked questions and when she tried to answer them, she was cut off.


It was an awful interview.

 

And Zac and Gavin, last week, called Sabby Sabs out as she tossed aside facts and flat out lied over and over about what had happened.  Zac and Gavin played segments of the interview that had not been played on BAD FAITH including Sabby herself expressing her anger and frustration over the way Marianne was ambushed.


Last week, on BAD FAITH, Sabby lied and said that things went bad because Marianne had accused one of the RBN males of "mansplaining."  


Zac and Gavin played the clip of that and showed that Marianne was being cut off by the man when she tried to answer his question, she was being insulted by him and much more.  


Now go check in real time, we didn't make this RBN interview the big issue of the year, the month or even the week.  Why?  Because politicians don't need to be fawned over.  See, we're consistent.


The boys of THE VANGUARD?  If they didn't have hypocrisy, what would those boys have besides maybe crotch rot?


They went to town on Sabby.  And she deserved it.  She lied.  She flat out lied.


But the hypocrites of THE VANGUARD didn't go to town on Bri-Bri.  They didn't even try to hold her accountable.  This wasn't Sabby's program, it was Bri's.  Sabby was on Bri's BAD FAITH.  


The hypocrites know damn well that Sabby didn't select clips for Bri's show.  Bri and her staff selected the clips they wanted to play.  Bri was complicit in the lying.  She took part in it before it ever aired as she determined what clips would air on her show and what clips wouldn't.


Bri lied.  But THE VANGUARD gave her a pass -- that's something they do repeatedly for her and it's why they look like such hypocrites.



The airing of that segment on THE VANGUARD -- and the pass that they gave Bri -- should have led to reflection on Zac and Gavin's part but clearly they are not capable of self-reflection and that is one thing that makes them so dangerous.  Read the quote we provide of Zac at the end of our piece and you'll grasp the other reason that they're becoming so dangerous.  That's not what media does.

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they are so creepy

 

that's an update to my last post ('mila and ashton rush forward to vouch for a convicted rapist').


there's no excuse for the letters those 2 wrote.  and their creepy video 'apologizing' only makes it worse.

in other news of disgusting?  drew barrymore.




let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'


Monday, September 11, 2023.  Iraq's already feeling the effects of climate change and Iraqi leaders join leaders around the world in ignoring this reality.



Starting with Iraq where Mahmoud Abdelwahed (ALJAZEERA) reports on The People's Melody -- a music festival in the KRG. 




On events in Kurdistan, IRAQI 24 reports:

 Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani on Monday received United States Ambassador to Iraq Alina L. Romanowski and an accompanying delegation, according to a statement from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

A major focus of the discussion was the Kurdistan Region's constitutional rights and financial entitlements under the federal budget law.

PM Barzani pointed out that there are parties within Iraq that wish to exploit the Kurdistan Region for their own illicit financial gain. The KRG has provided the Iraqi government with its interpretation of the budget law based on constitutional grounds. As the premier further explained, Kurdistan Region civil servants should be paid federally-funded salaries as their counterparts in Iraqi provinces.

Another topic of the meeting was to discuss the recent events in Kirkuk, in which both sides stressed the importance of normalizing the return of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) headquarters and maintaining security in Kirkuk.


It wasn't apparently very important to Alina L. Romanowski since she Tweeted about this:



Yet she couldn't be bothered Tweeting about meeting with Barzani. On the "recent events in Kirkuk," Julian Bechocha (RUDAW) reports:



Iraq’s State Administration Coalition has agreed to send a “leadership committee” from the coalition to the multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk a week after unrest between Kurdish, Arab, and Turkmen protesters turned deadly.
 
Tensions escalated in Kirkuk on September 2 after Arab and Turkmen demonstrators staged a sit-in near the headquarters of the Iraqi military’s Joint Operations Command (JOC), located on the main Kirkuk-Erbil road in what used to be an office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), angry that Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani reportedly ordered Iraqi forces to evacuate the headquarters and two other buildings to allow the Erbil-based KDP to return to its offices.
 
As the city’s disgruntled Kurdish majority staged a counter-protest, Iraqi security forces opened fire and killed at least four Kurdish protesters.
 
The State Administration Coalition agreed to “form a leadership committee from the coalition to visit Kirkuk province, hold meetings with official and social activists for all components of the province, finding solutions to immediate problems, most notably the issue of the headquarters, and make administrative adjustments in Kirkuk to maintain balance between all its components,” said an early Sunday statement by Sudani’s office.
 
The meeting was also attended by Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid and Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi, in addition to Sudani.
  

In other news, RUDAW notes:

 Iraq is facing a “human rights emergency” as a result of the effects of climate change on the country, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights warned on Monday. 

Speaking before the United Nations Human Rights Council, Volker Turk, used Iraq as an example of the “environmental horror” the planet is facing as the global climate change crisis worsens. 

“In Basra - where 30 years ago, I was told, date palms lined lush canals - drought, searing heat, extreme pollution and fast-depleting supplies of fresh water are creating barren landscapes of rubble and dust,” Turk said. 

Iraq is among the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including water and food insecurity, according to the United Nations. 

“Last month, in Iraq, the cradle of so many civilizations, I witnessed a small piece of the environmental horror that is our global planetary crisis,” he stated. 

The high commissioner in June visited Iraq and the Kurdistan Region where he met officials and discussed human rights issues, including climate change. 

“This spiraling damage is a human rights emergency for Iraq - and many other countries,” Turk warned. 

He decried the lack of unity among global leadership to tackle climate change, accusing them of instead adopting a “politics of division and distraction” as well as the “politics of indifference, the numbing of our mind and soul” referring to the lack of compassion to the increasing death of migrants. 


Climate change will impact the entire planet.  Iraq is predicted to be one of the countries impacted hardest and yet nothing is being done to address this.  


Over and over, we see that governments are more than willing to ignore the harm of climate change but they're eager to attack those who protest their inaction.  Jon Queally (COMMON DREAMS) reports:


Climate campaigners calling for an end to fossil fuel subsidies were fired upon with water cannons and physically abused Saturday near The Hague in the Netherlands as the global movement demanding an end to the dominance of the coal, oil, and gas industry continues to call on world leaders to act.

Members of Extinction Rebellion spearheaded the direct action on the A12 Utrechtsebaan highway near the center of the Dutch government. With an estimated 10,000 participants overall, the jovial protesters sat down in the road, bringing traffic to a standstill as they chanted, "The seas are rising and so are we!" even as police vehicles sprayed them with water at high velocity.

The Associated Press reported that the protesters vowed to stay until the Netherlands ends public subsidies for the fossil fuel industry or, if removed by police, to return each day until the financial support is suspended.

"This is much larger than any one of us," one participant, Yolanda de Jager, told the AP. "This concerns the whole world."

Dutch police carted some protesters off in carts while others were beaten with batons or dragged off the roadway:

Earlier this week, a new report detailed how the Dutch government spends nearly $38 billion in taxpayer funds each year to support fossil fuels. The authors of the peer-reviewed report—a joint research effort by SOMO, Oil Change International, and Milieudefensie—argued that such subsidies should be eliminated by 2025 in order to help the nation meet its emission reductions goals and also help fund the necessary transition to renewable energy.

"Phasing out fossil subsidies kills two birds with one stone: it reduces fossil fuel emissions and raises additional revenue needed to accelerate a social and equitable transition," said Audrey Gaughran, director of SOMO, also known as the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations.

OCI director Elizabeth Bast said, "The Netherlands has taken the international stage to promise an end to fossil fuel subsidies multiple times already, but it is failing to live up to its promise."

"While the world is going up in flames, the government continues to add fuel to the fire by propping up the biggest source of the climate crisis, fossil fuels, with billions in subsidies," she added. "With an urgent and fair phase-out plan the Netherlands can deliver on longstanding promises and take the lead within the EU and internationally to ensure other countries follow through."


That was Saturday.  REUTERS notes, "Dutch police on Sunday said more than 500 climate activists had been detained on a second consecutive day of protests against government subsidies for the fossil fuel industry."  And the same government that refuses to confront climate change, confronted protesters for the third day in a row, "Police in the Netherlands said they were deploying a water cannon to clear a major highway blocked by climate activists for the third straight day on Monday in protests over government subsidies for fossil fuels."  Who needs to be locked up?  Who needs water cannons trained on them?


Climate scientists across the world have been alarmed over the past three months by fast-spreading wildfires, prolonged and deadly heatwaves, and numerous shattered heat records across the northern hemisphere both in the oceans and on land—and data released Tuesday confirmed that the past three months have been the hottest summer on record, driven by humans' continued emission of heat-trapping gases and compounded by El Niño.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the European Union's climate agency, found that the global average temperature during June, July, and August reached 16.77°C (62.18°F), which was 0.66°C or 1.18°F above the 1991-2020 average.

The previous temperature record was set in 2019 and was 0.29°C (0.5°F) lower than this year's high.

Last month was the hottest August on record "by a large margin," said the World Meteorological Organization, with the average temperature 1.5°C higher than the preindustrial average.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Wednesday the world is experiencing the consequences of "our fossil fuel addiction," which "scientists have long warned" would be unleashed if humans continue extracting oil and gas instead of rapidly shifting to renewable energy sources.

"Our planet has just endured a season of simmering—the hottest summer on record. Climate breakdown has begun," said Guterres.

"In the southern hemisphere Antarctic sea ice extent was literally off the charts, and the global sea surface temperature was once again at a new record. It is worth noting that this is happening BEFORE we see the full warming impact of the El Niño event."

C3S released the data as the Eastern United States experienced a "dangerous heatwave," with cities including New York and Washington, D.C. announcing heat advisories.

As the World Weather Attribution (WWA) said earlier this summer, the extreme heat felt across North America and Europe in July—the hottest month ever on record, followed by August—would have been "virtually impossible" without planetary heating and the climate crisis.

Scientists at the WWA also found that the hot, dry conditions that allowed wildfires to spread rapidly in Eastern Canada were made twice as likely by the climate emergency, and independent scientists at Climate Central determined that the current heat forecast in the United Kingdom—with temperatures over 33°C or 91°F expected in London on Saturday—was made five times more likely.  






+ Since the 2015 Paris Climate Accords, international banks have provided around $3.2 trillion to the fossil fuel industry to expand operations.

+ A new study published in Energies by Joshua Pearce at the University of Western Ontario, and Richard Parncutt from the University of Graz, still climate change could led to more than one billion deaths in the next century: “If global warming reaches or exceeds two degrees Celsius by 2100…it is likely that mainly richer humans will be responsible for the death of roughly one billion mainly poorer humans over the next century.”

+ The 2023 global temperature peak was around 0.3C higher than 2022.

+ West Antarctica is warming twice as fast as climate models predicted. If it’s ice sheet collapses, it would raise sea levels by several meters.

+ At least five of the nation’s largest property insurers—Allstate, American Family, Nationwide, Erie and Berkshire Hathaway—have told regulators that extreme weather patterns caused by climate change have led them to raise premiums and stop writing coverages for natural disasters, such as hurricanes and wildfires, in some regions.

+ From 2003 to 2020 California experienced about 18,000 fires, 380 of them included at least one day when the fire grew by at least 10,000 acres. Climate change increased the likelihood of that explosive growth for most of the fires.

+ In British Columbia, four of the most severe wildfire seasons of the last century occurred in the past 7 years: 2017, 2018, 2021, and 2023.

+ By 2050, more than 5 billion people could face at least a month of extreme heat each year.

+ Africa will need around $277 billion annually to implement “nationally determined contributions” to meet the continent’s 2030 climate goals, according to the Climate Policy Initiative. Currently, however, Africa is receiving only $30 billion a year in climate financing.

+ A couple of months before Hurricane Idalia ravaged the Gulf Coast of Florida, Ron DeSantis rejected $350 million in federal funds meant to help tackle climate change. Then DeSantis refused to meet with Biden as he toured the damage and doled out emergency relief funding from FEMA….

+ When Hurricane Lee intensified into a Category 5 with more than 160 MPH winds, it became the 8th Cat 5 Atlantic storm in the last eight years. Comparing 1970-2000 with 2001-2022, the frequency of Cat 5 storms has tripled.

+ Water levels at Lake Titicaca, the world’s highest navigable lake in the world, are dropping dramatically after an historic winter heat wave, which has seen Peru smash records for both minimum (87.6) and maximum temperatures (103).

+ Currently, air pollution contributes to around ten million deaths a year. An additional two degrees of global warming will lead to an extra 153 million air pollution-linked deaths this century alone.

+ As reported in ScienceDirect, a series of epidemiological studies concluded that higher wood stove and fireplace usage is associated with a 70% higher incidence of lung cancer.

+ More than 75% of food crops depend on animal pollination, yet air pollution is drastically reducing effective pollination because it degrades the scent of flowers. For example, ozone has degraded honeybees ability to recognize odors by up to 90% from just a few meters away.

+ The reservoir behind China’s Three Gorges Dam shifted so much water it has altered the shape of the planet, extending the length of a day by 0.06 microseconds.

+ From a new report on the benefits of Walkable Cities: “Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.”

+ Brachycephalic dogs, like pugs, boxers, terriers and bulldogs, will suffer the most from climate change, since their snoutless faces make them more vulnerable to heat and wildfire smoke.

+ Alex Speed: “Coral bleaching presented as adapting to environmental change is like saying diarrhea from cholera is your body adapting to its new gut flora.”



But, again, the hoses are being turned on the protesters.  Not the leaders who are do nothing, but on the protesters. 

Let's wind down with this from Paul Rudnick.






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