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April 9, 2019 Sorcha Faal Sorcha Faal
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 01: (L-R) Hansjorg Wyss, Michael Bloomberg and Sam Waterston attend Oceana's 2015 New York City benefit at Four Seasons Restaurant on April 1, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Oceana)
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A compelling new Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin states that barely a year after President Donald Trump ordered his Department of Justice to reopen the criminal rape case against Hillary Clinton mega-donor Hansjörg Wyss, the US Air Force has begun a series of massive war exercises centered in the American West to target and destroy suspected to be radical leftist terror cells under the command of Clinton—but are war exercises a radical leftist environmental group funded by Wyss, named Great Old Broads for Wilderness, is fanatically attempting to stop by their filing a lawsuit against the US Air Force this past week. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 01: (L-R) Hansjorg Wyss, Michael Bloomberg and Sam Waterston attend Oceana's 2015 New York City benefit at Four Seasons Restaurant on April 1, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Oceana)
President Donald Trump prepares for destruction of reclusive multi-billionaire Hillary Clinton mega donor Hansjörg Wyss (above)
According to this report, Hansjörg Wyss is a Swiss citizen whose multi-billion fortune was built upon his "side business" of selling airplanes to terror organizations and his being the founder of a company behind illegal human experiments that killed three—thus making him a natural ally to Hillary Clinton who protected him from criminal charges in the US—and whom he thanked by funneling millions-of-dollars into her money laundering organization known as the Clinton Foundation.
Though protected by Hillary Clinton from criminal charges, this report continues, Hansjörg Wyss was forced to sell the medical company he used to illegally experiment on human beings—and whose over$20 billion of wealth gained from, he vowed to use half of to acquire vast amounts of land in the American West—a vow supported by his Swiss-American daughter Amy Wyss, who created an organization known as the LOR Foundation whose sole purpose of has been to insert into the American West radical leftists.
In early January-2018, this report details, the most historic and unprecedented event in modern US-Russia relations occurred when President Putin authorized Russia's top three intelligence agency chiefs to travel to Washington D.C. to meet with top American intelligence officials loyal to President Trump—one of whom was SVR Director Sergei Naryshkin, who briefed his US intelligence counterparts on what Hansjörg Wyss and Hillary Clinton were really doing in the American West—and that immediately thereafter, saw the US Department of Justice reopening a Hillary Clinton covered up criminal rape case against Hansjörg Wyss.
At the same time US intelligence operatives had Hansjörg Wyss under constant surveillance, this report notes, the US military began preparations to begin taking out his and Hillary Clinton's suspected terror cells secreted throughout the American West—the logistics of which the US Air Force detailed in their November-2018 report titled "Establishment of Urban Close Air Support (CAS) Air and Ground Training Spaces near Mountain Home Air Force Base-Idaho"—some whose details and planned actions include:
The Air Force's Urban CAS Training Project will involve military training exercises conducted in major urban centers across southern Idaho, including the greater Boise metropolitan area and Twin Falls, as well as Burley, Glenns Ferry, Bruneau, Hammett, Grand View, Mountain Home, and the Mountain Home Air Force Base.
The Urban CAS Training Project will involve repeated overflights by F-15 jets and coordinated operations by military personnel on the ground. The training operations will use existing American F-15E and Singaporean F-15SG aircraft and flight teams operating out of Mountain Home Air Force Base, located in southwestern Idaho.
Once the military jets are in their holding patterns, a convoy of up to five vehicles and twenty soldiers will enter the urban center and act as the "Opposing Forces," while a convoy of up to five vehicles and twenty soldiers would act as the "Friendly Forces."
These convoys will be comprised of both American and Singaporean forces and they will drive unmarked cars, travel through public spaces, and be disguised as plainclothes civilians.
An F-15E Strike Eagle flies over Afghanistan. The F-15E's primary role in Afghanistan is providing close-air support for ground troops. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon)
Knowing they were now being targeted for destruction by US military forces loyal to President Trump, this report concludes, Hansjörg Wyss directed his Great Old Broads for Wilderness funded radical leftist organization to file a lawsuit against the US Air Force in a desperate attempt to stop these war preparations—and in whose complaint, filed 1 April 2019 in the United States District Court For The District Of Idaho, comically claimed these war drills must be stopped because the US Air Force didn't conduct an environmental assessment of how wildlife would be impacted by fighter jets flying at altitudes up to 30,000 feet—with their further stating that "the Air Force did not do enough to inform the public or municipalities about its plans"—all of whose spurious claims would immediately be thrown out of any US Federal Court upon its filing—except in this case because its been filed within the jurisdiction of the fanatically leftist United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit whose Hillary Clinton supporting socialist judges have waged a jihad against Trump to prevent him from protecting his own nation and its peoples.
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[Note: Many governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the manybu catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagree with in believing that it is every human beings right to know the truth. Due to our missions conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their 'agents' has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit us, and others like us, that is exampled in numerous places, including HERE.]
[Note: The WhatDoesItMean.com website was created for and donated to the Sisters of Sorcha Faal in 2003 by a small group of American computer experts led by the late global technology guru Wayne Green (1922-2013) to counter the propaganda being used by the West to promote their illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq.]
[Note: The word Kremlin (fortress inside a city) as used in this report refers to Russian citadels, including in Moscow, having cathedrals wherein female Schema monks (Orthodox nuns) reside, many of whom are devoted to the mission of the Sisters of Sorcha Faal.]
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Interpol President Meng Hongwei opened an investigation into the suspicious activities of Hillary Clinton as it related to her fascination with obtaining information on acid throwing attacks—but that unexpectedly led to Meng disappearing and China then reporting that he had resigned his post, but whose terrified and tearful wife is now warning that he is in "great danger"—none of which actually surprised Russian intelligence officials as both Hillary and her husband Bill Clinton have been long time operatives of the Chinese communist government who put them into power in the first place. […]
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April 13, 2018 Sorcha Faal Sorcha Faal
Western powers were placed in shock just hours ago after a massive Chinese naval fleet suddenly left port to stage a surprise live-fire drill to warn Taiwan and show support for Russia—which fulfills its mutual defense pact obligations with Russia—and whose defense pact with Iran, along with the Russia-Iranian defense pact, and with the entirety of Russia's military forces being put on their highest alert, gives a terrifying glimpse into the opening moments of World War III—and is why the Russian people are being stridently advised what to bring when they enter their nuclear war protected bomb shelters. […]
God Emperor Trump Conquers Italy, Terror Stricken European Socialists Cower In Fear
February 12, 2019 Sorcha Faal Sorcha Faal
Over 600,000 peoples attending the Carnevale Di Viargeggio festival in Viareggio-Italy burst into ecstatic cheers upon seeing in their midst a nearly 50-foot statue called "God Emperor Trump"—and to the horror and fear of cowering European socialists, had in its right hand a sword with a ring of blue Twitter birdies on its hilt having the Latin phrase "Dazi Vostri", which translates to "your taxes"—and had inscribed on its blade the Latin phrase "Cazzi Vostri"—an expression that is actually a play on words meaning "none of your fucking business." […]
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Afghan manufacturers emphasize on implementing national electro-technical standards
On November 2nd, 2013 more than 40 Afghan manufacturers of electro-technical products such as transformers, cables, bulbs or plugs met in Kabul to discuss how national electro-technical standards implementation can contribute to their own growth, to the development of the Afghan economy and to the enhancement of energy efficiency in Afghanistan.
By complying with national standards, Afghan small and medium sized enterprises of the power sector enhance both energy efficiency and consumer safety. Furthermore, products complying with standards are more competitive on domestic and international markets. All these factors help the development of the Afghan economy. It also reduces dependence on often low-quality imported products from abroad and increases local employment opportunities.
Since 2010, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has been supporting the Afghan National Standards Authority (ANSA) in its effort to pro-mote electro-technical standardization in Afghanistan.
The Afghan National Standards Authority (ANSA) has already adopted more than 100 national electro-technical standards. For example newly constructed power transmission lines now have to follow these standards. This avoids unnecessary electricity losses during trans-port of electricity from power plants to households and business.
To support the Afghan private sector to comply with the existing national standards, ANSA and the Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) invited Afghan companies operating in the electricity sector to this workshop in Kabul this week. ANSA Director-General, H.E. Popalzai stated during the meeting "Standardization and standards implementation is not only the task of ANSA, but it is a joint mission of all related private and public entities and could be realized via common cooperation and coordination."
The Afghan enterprises are committed to comply with the standards as it promotes their own competitiveness. This week's gathering also helped national decision makers on better considering the needs of the Afghan local enterprises when adopting new national standards. With the support of the Afghan-German Cooperation, ANSA is currently also establishing a testing laboratory for electro-technical products. The testing will help Afghan firms to certify their products. This not only enhances their competitiveness, but also ensures that products are safe for consumers and energy efficient
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Tempted by Tokarev
Bob Campbell - May 15, 2017
Today, outfits like Zastava produce Tokarevs like this Model 88 in 9mm (above) and add additional safeties—making them a reasonable and inexpensive choice for the defensive handgunner.
The original Tokarev was a simple, Browning-like service pistol developed in the 1930s.
A few months ago, during a gun shop conversation, I mentioned my top handgun choices: the Colt 1911, Browning Hi Power and CZ 75.
A gentleman older than myself nodded but added, "Well, that's okay, but when have you heard of a Tokarev failing or tying up?" He wore a leather jacket with a Vietnam veteran chevron. He brushed it back to reveal a Tokarev TT33. "You boys think that good guns are expensive. It ain't so. They just have to be good guns."
I agree on principle and favor military-grade service pistols for my own use and protection, and I have to admit the Tokarev is an effective handgun and perhaps the most rugged service pistol ever fielded. Moreover, the history of the Tokarev shows innovation and intelligent design not often credited to the pistol.
In the 1930s, a talented designer named Fedor Tokarev was tasked to design a new service pistol. There were certain criteria to be met, including simplicity and ease of manufacture, and it had to handle the 7.62x25 Mauser, which fired an 86-grain jacketed bullet at 1,400 fps.
Tokarev designed the TT30 and the improved TT33 for this cartridge. The pistol uses the Browning locked-breech system, barrel locking lugs, a swinging barrel link, a separate barrel bushing, single-action trigger and the Browning-type magazine release. The box magazine holds eight cartridges.
The pistol is compact, thin and fits most hands. The slide seems a little long for the small grip, but it works well, and it sports good battle sights. The TT33 resembles an enlarged Colt 1903 in profile, but there is no grip safety, and Tokarev also added a slide lock. Tokarev also developed a removable hammer group that greatly simplified maintenance and replacement.
The Tokarev features a positive or oversize firing pin to accommodate the inevitable dimensional differences in wartime ammunition as well as stores of German Mauser pistol ammunition.
The TT33 firing pin will always reach the primer, and while this setup would seem to preclude safe hammer-down carry because there's no manual safety, Tokarev solved this problem by adding a positive half-cock to the action.
This half cock position also locks the slide. It isn't safe to carry the 1911 on half- cock for several reasons—including the possibility of a false half-cock—but the Tokarev is another matter. A large spur hammer allows for easy cocking, even on a pants leg.
There have been changes over the years, particularly for guns imported into U.S., where crossbolt and trigger-blocking safeties have been added for legal reasons.
My 7.62x25 Romanian features a relatively unobtrusive trigger-blocking lever. I trust half-cock on this pistol and find the lever useful when doing tactical drills. I may place the piece on Safe and keep my finger off the trigger when sprinting to a different firing position.
Today, outfits like Zastava produce Tokarevs like this Model 88 in 9mm (above) and add additional safeties—making them a reasonable and inexpensive choice for the defensive handgunner.
The most useful Tokarevs are those chambered for 9mm. Most of these retain the original dimensions, although some have been designed around a thinner grip that makes the pistol even more attractive.
While I appreciate the 7.62x25 cartridge—which shoots flat and hits hard—the 9mms are interesting. As an example, Zastava has introduced an advanced Tokarev, the Model 88, with much to recommend it. This pistol resembles the French 35A in profile but is a bit larger.
The sights, trigger and hammer spur reflect the lineage of the pistol, but the slide is shorter—while still featuring good combat sights. There is a grooved portion in front of the ejection port leading to the front sight, which is dovetailed in place. The cocking serrations afford good leverage.
The pistol is reliable and as accurate as any Tokarev, and I can get 3.5-inch five-shot groups at 25 yards.
However, I am not completely happy with a couple of the modifications. The pistol has a magazine safety that prevents the pistol from firing if the magazine is removed, and the safety is a lever on the slide.
Slide-mounted safeties are never as fast as a frame-mounted safety, although I will admit this one is pretty quick to operate.
I trust this safety for carrying cocked with the safety on. It isn't cocked and locked because the safety moves to cover the firing pin, and if the hammer falls, the pistol can't fire. This adaption of the Tokarev retails for less than $300.
As for originals, they're not going to win any beauty contests, but a friend of mine regards the Polish Tokarev as the finest made, and my Romanian guns are good quality. On the flip side, I've seen Chinese versions that were poor indeed.
Like I said at the beginning, while I have my favorite handguns, I have to agree with the gentleman at the gun store.
While the Tokarev TT33 and its variants may not afford us the emotional attachment and sense of history the 1911 does—and they are not as finely made as the Browning Hi Power or as well-made and accurate as the CZ 75—for first-class reliability and function at a pittance, they are the best deal in town.
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Portuguese footballer
This is a Portuguese name; the first family name is Regufe and the second is Alves.
Bruno Eduardo Regufe Alves (born 27 November 1981) is a Portuguese professional footballer. He plays as a center back who plays for Italian club Parma Calcio 1913, who he captains.
Alves with Portugal in 2018
Bruno Eduardo Regufe Alves[1]
(1981-11-27) 27 November 1981 (age 40)[2]
Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal[1]
1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[3][1]
Centre back
Youth career
Senior career*
Team Apps (Gls)
Porto B 58 (8)
Porto 119 (14)
→ Farense (loan) 46 (3)
→ Vitória Guimarães (loan) 26 (1)
→ AEK Athens (loan) 27 (0)
Zenit Saint Petersburg 71 (1)
Fenerbahçe 75 (3)
Cagliari 36 (1)
Rangers 20 (1)
Parma 66 (4)
National team‡
Portugal U20 10 (1)
Portugal U23 3 (0)
Portugal B 1 (0)
Portugal 96 (11)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10:04, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23:45, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
1.1 Club
1.2 International
2.3 Individual
2.4 Orders
Career statisticsEdit
ClubEdit
As of match played 2 August 2020
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Porto B 1999–2000[4] Segunda Divisão 4 0 — — — — 4 0
2000–01[4] 36 6 — — — — 36 6
2005–06[4] 1 0 — — — — 1 0
Porto 2005–06[4] Primeira Liga 7 0 1 0 — 3[a] 0 — 11 0
2006–07[4] 28 2 0 0 — 8[a] 0 0 0 36 2
2007–08[4] 27 2 2 0 0 0 8[a] 0 1[b] 0 38 2
2008–09[4] 30 5 4 0 1 0 10[a] 1 1[b] 0 46 6
Farense (loan) 2001–02[4] Primeira Liga 15 0 0 0 — — — 15 0
2002–03[4] Segunda Liga 31 3 2 0 — — — 33 3
Vitória Guimarães (loan) 2003–04[4] Primeira Liga 26 1 1 0 — — — 27 1
AEK Athens (loan) 2004–05[4] Superleague Greece 27 0 10 1 — 5 0 — 42 1
Zenit 2010[5] Russian Premier League 14 0 2 0 — 9[c] 1 — 25 1
2011–12[5] 36 0 3 0 — 5[a] 0 1[d] 0 45 0
2012–13[5] 21 1 2 1 — 6[c] 0 1[d] 0 30 2
Fenerbahçe 2013–14[5] Süper Lig 25 2 0 0 — 4[a] 0 1[e] 0 30 2
2014–15[5] 24 0 5 1 — — 1[e] 0 30 1
2015–16[5] 26 1 3 0 — 12[c] 0 — 41 1
Cagliari 2016–17[5] Serie A 36 1 1 0 — — — 37 1
Rangers 2017–18[5] Scottish Premiership 20 1 2 0 3 1 0 0 — 25 2
Parma 2018–19[5] Serie A 33 4 0 0 — — — 33 4
2019–20[5] 33 0 1 0 — — — 34 0
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Appearances in UEFA Champions League
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Appearance in Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Appearances in UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League
↑ 4.0 4.1 Appearance in Russian Super Cup
↑ 5.0 5.1 Appearance in Turkish Super Cup
InternationalEdit
Source:[6]
Portugal 2007 8 1
HonoursEdit
Primeira Liga: 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09
Taça de Portugal: 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 2006, 2009
Taça da Liga runner-up: 2009–10
Russian Premier League: 2010, 2011–12
Russian Super Cup: 2011
Süper Lig: 2013–14
Turkish Super Cup: 2014
Portugal Under-21
Toulon Tournament: 2001
UEFA European Championship: 2016
FIFA Confederations Cup third place: 2017[7]
IndividualEdit
Primeira Liga Player of the Year: 2009
OrdersEdit
Commander of the Order of Merit[8]
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Workers Who Maintain Supply Chains Issue Bone-Chilling Warning Every American Needs to Hear
October 13, 2021 Winter Watch Around the Web, Business, International News, Politics 2
By Kipp Jones | 1 October 2021
THE WESTERN JOURNAL — A group of international transport organizations issued a chilling warning of the potential collapse of supply chains in the coming months, and they're asking world leaders to do something to avert what could be a catastrophe.
Global experts in trade logistics, who know more about getting things from point A to point B than President Joe Biden does about ice cream, are asking authorities to simply let them do their jobs unrestrained after almost two years of coronavirus red tape.
In an open letter released this week, they spelled out the stakes of continued delays caused by pandemic protocols. They asked the UN, the World Health Organization and anyone else listening to intervene to prevent a "global transport systems collapse."
"Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the maritime, road and aviation industries have called loudly and clearly on governments to ensure the free movement of transport workers and to end travel bans and other restrictions that have had an enormously detrimental impact on their wellbeing and safety," the letter said. […]
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Pip October 13, 2021 at 12:20 pm
IT HAS NOTHING GOT TO DO WITH A VIRUS! IT'S ALL ABOUT THE GREAT RESET
YOUTUBE: Tucker: When do we get America back?
For Americans living under coronavirus restrictions, it's a question too rarely asked. In fact it's actively discouraged. #FoxNews #Tucker
YOUTUBE: Global Elite's "Great Reset" Agenda (Shocking Discoveries Revealed)
George Gammon
For more content that'll help you build wealth and thrive in a world of out of control central banks and big governments check out these videos!
This isn't the first time "The Great Reset" has been presented, Richard Florida tried peddling this garbage back in 2010 after the manufactured "Financial crisis" of 2007-2008. If you dig into Richard Florida's background, and realize he has been pushing this concept since 2002 in "The Rise of the Creative Class". I agree it's just lipstick on an old pig as James pointed out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Reset
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Florida
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/richard-florida (no surprise here)
Also, something worth reading regarding transhumanism would be about FM-2030 – note the 2030, it's seems to be a magical number of sorts 😉 FM-2030 created a transhumanist manifesto called "UpWingers: A Futurist Manifesto", which can be read here: https://slowlorisblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/esfandiary-up-wingers-a-futurist-manifesto.pdf some consider him the "father" of the modern transhumanism. Personally I believe this nonsense even goes further back to ancient greece and the philosophical argument of "Free will vs. Determinism" the later being the one that most "elites" would more then likely say is the case. Especially given the state of "biosecurity" meaning given enough information about an individual you could theoretically predict their behavior and their life in general. A fun filled article over at The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/ gives a window into some current thoughts of how we can be condensed down to biological machines with no real purpose. But hey we are after all just "cannon fodder"
HERE IS THE WEATHER
CARBON FOOTPRINTS
I walked through some charcoal
and I couldn't believe that I had left
so many carbon footprints"!!!
I felt dirty and shamed!
Critics of AGW – Exposing the Scam is Bad for Your
Career … Here I document several examples of harsh treatment of those who have challenged the AGW propagandists. For example, it was only after he retired that long-time newsreader Peter Sissons criticised the BBC for failing to be more sceptical about AGW25. Chris Landsea (resigned from IPCC) has now admitted some data they used came from a mountaineering magazine article and a student's dissertation26.
It seems to be true that those who haven't been affected by"programming",
"education" or indoctrination are "dealt with" by those that have been
affected… (this is very similar to what happens with the Thought Police in
Orwell's 1984).
Dr David Bellamy, a hugely popular science presenter on the BBC at one time, said he "didn't get any more phone calls from the BBC" when he started to point out the flaws in the AGW science27. He is quoted28 as saying about global warming, "This is not science – it's religion." His scepticism meant the end of his career as he had known it. He said that "They froze me out, because I don't believe in global warming. My career dried up. I was thrown out of my own conservation groups and I got spat at in London."
Another popular BBC science presenter, Johnny Ball, also rejects any consensus and was reported as saying:
"In the past decade or so I've been mocked, vilified, besmirched –
I've even been booed off a theatre stage – simply for expressing the view that the case for global warming and climate change, and in particular the emphasis on the damage caused by carbon dioxide, the so-called greenhouse gas that is going to do for us all, has been massively over-stated.
A further example of the work of the climate change "thought police" was on the case of Quentin Letts who hosted a BBC 4 series called "What's the Point Of." This light-hearted series poked fun at various organisations. One particular episode was about the UK Met Office, and the subject of climate change came up. Letts is reported as saying:
"I was accused of having shown disrespect to climate change. Mr Lilley had cracked a joke: 'They [the Met Office] come before the Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change … and tell us they need even more money for even bigger computers so they can be even more precisely wrong in future.' I chuckled. I had 'not reflected prevailing scientific opinion' about global warming. "Letts asked:
"Er, hang on, chaps. No one ever told me that. Why on earth would independent journalists accept such a stricture? Why should climate change be given such special protection?"
A further example was seen when Philippe Verdier, weather chief at France Télévisions, the country's state broadcaster, was "sent on a forced holiday" for publishing a book questioning the causes of any climate change. He did this following a "meeting with Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister, who summoned the country's main weather presenters and urged them to mention 'climate chaos' in their forecasts."
Nevertheless, there are still a sizable number of people who can see the AGW belief system for what it is. However, few or none of them have ever discussed some of the evidence I present later in this book. Neither do they seem to understand how they themselves have been manipulated into a role of, pardon the pun, "clouding the issue …"
The Myth of Climate Change/Global Warming and a '97%' Consensus on the Causes
Can we draw a comparison to the "Emperor's New Clothes" fable?
I think we can.
Frequently quoted is a figure that "97% of scientists agree on the causes of climate change."
What is the origin of this constantly repeated false belief?
We can read in the Wall Street Journal
This figure comes from a survey "The "97%" figure in the Zimmerman/Doran survey represents the views of only 79 respondents who listed climate science as an area of expertise and said they published more than half of their recent peer-reviewed papers on climate change. Seventy-nine scientists—of the 3,146 who responded to the survey – does not a consensus make."
Our CO2-starved Atmosphere
Note, the green life along the Nile river and the dead desert elsewhere. When co2 is greater in the atmosphere, plants need less water to thrive.
When dinosaurs roamed we had 3 to 5 times current co2 and planet was nearly all green, pole-to-pole
Near catastrophe when co2 declined to 180 ppm, since below 150 ppm plants, then animals die.
If you promote a green healthy planet, then you should lobby for a co2-fertilized atmosphere, not a co2-starved atmosphere.
97% STUDY FALSELY CLASSIFIES SCIENTIST' PAPERS, ACCORDING TO THE SCIENTISTS THAT PUBLISHED THEM
The paper, Cook et al. (2013) 'Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature' searched the Web of Science for the phrases "global warming" and "global climate change" then categorizing these results to their alleged level of endorsement of AGW. These results were then used to allege a 97% consensus on human-caused global warming.
To get to the truth, I emailed a sample of scientists whose papers were used in the study and asked them if the categorization by Cook et al. (2013) is an accurate representation of their paper. Their responses are eye opening and evidence that the Cook et al. (2013) team falsely classified scientists' papers as "endorsing AGW", apparently believing to know more about the papers than their authors.
Update 1: Dr. Tol also found problems with the classifications
Update 2: Dr. Morner, Soon and Carlin also falsely classified
Craig D. Idso
Ph.D. Geography
Chairman, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
Dr. Idso, your paper 'Ultra-enhanced spring branch growth in CO2-enriched trees: can it alter the phase of the atmosphere's seasonal CO2 cycle?' is categorized by Cook et al. (2013) as; "Implicitly endorsing AGW without minimizing it".
Is this an accurate representation of your paper?
Idso: "That is not an accurate representation of my paper. The papers examined how the rise in atmospheric CO2 could be inducing a phase advance in the spring portion of the atmosphere's seasonal CO2 cycle. Other literature had previously claimed a measured advance was due to rising temperatures, but we showed that it was quite likely the rise in atmospheric CO2 itself was responsible for the lion's share of the change. It would be incorrect to claim that our paper was an endorsement of CO2-induced global warming."
Nicola Scafetta
Ph.D. Physics
Research Scientist, ACRIM Science Team
Dr. Scafetta, your paper 'Phenomenological solar contribution to the 1900–2000 global surface warming' is categorized by Cook et al. (2013) as; "Explicitly endorses and quantifies AGW as 50+%"
Scafetta: "Cook et al. (2013) is based on a strawman argument because it does not correctly define the IPCC AGW theory, which is NOT that human emissions have contributed 50%+ of the global warming since 1900 but that almost 90-100% of the observed global warming was induced by human emission.
What my papers say is that the IPCC view is erroneous because about 40-70% of the global warming observed from 1900 to 2000 was induced by the sun. This implies that the true climate sensitivity to CO2 doubling is likely around 1.5 C or less, and that the 21st century projections must be reduced by at least a factor of 2 or more. Of that the sun contributed (more or less) as much as the anthropogenic forcings.
The "less" claim is based on alternative solar models (e.g. ACRIM instead of PMOD) and also on the observation that part of the observed global warming might be due to urban heat island effect, and not to CO2.
By using the 50% borderline a lot of so-called "skeptical works" including some of mine are included in their 97%."
Any further comment on the Cook et al. (2013) paper?
Scafetta: "Please note that it is very important to clarify that the AGW advocated by the IPCC has always claimed that 90-100% of the warming observed since 1900 is due to anthropogenic emissions. While critics like me have always claimed that the data would approximately indicate a 50-50 natural-anthropogenic contribution at most.
What it is observed right now is utter dishonesty by the IPCC advocates. Instead of apologizing and honestly acknowledging that the AGW theory as advocated by the IPCC is wrong because based on climate models that poorly reconstruct the solar signature and do not reproduce the natural oscillations of the climate (AMO, PDO, NAO etc.) and honestly acknowledging that the truth, as it is emerging, is closer to what claimed by IPCC critics like me since 2005, these people are trying to get the credit.
They are gradually engaging into a metamorphosis process to save face.
Now they are misleadingly claiming that what they have always claimed was that AGW is quantified as 50+% of the total warming, so that once it will be clearer that AGW can only at most be quantified as 50% (without the "+") of the total warming, they will still claim that they were sufficiently correct.
And in this way they will get the credit that they do not merit, and continue in defaming critics like me that actually demonstrated such a fact since 2005/2006."
Nir J. Shaviv
Ph.D. Astrophysics
Associate Professor, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Shaviv, your paper 'On climate response to changes in the cosmic ray flux and radiative budget' is categorized by Cook et al. (2013) as; "Explicitly endorses but does not quantify or minimise"
Shaviv: "Nope… it is not an accurate representation. The paper shows that if cosmic rays are included in empirical climate sensitivity analyses, then one finds that different time scales consistently give a low climate sensitiviity. i.e., it supports the idea that cosmic rays affect the climate and that climate sensitivity is low. This means that part of the 20th century should be attributed to the increased solar activity and that 21st century warming under a business as usual scenario should be low (about 1°C).
I couldn't write these things more explicitly in the paper because of the refereeing, however, you don't have to be a genius to reach these conclusions from the paper."
Shaviv: "Science is not a democracy, even if the majority of scientists think one thing (and it translates to more papers saying so), they aren't necessarily correct. Moreover, as you can see from the above example, the analysis itself is faulty, namely, it doesn't even quantify correctly the number of scientists or the number of papers which endorse or diminish the importance of AGW."
Dr. Tol also found problems with the classifications,
Richard S.J. Tol
Ph.D. Economics
Professor of the Economics of Climate Change, Vrije Universiteit
Dr. Tol found 7 papers falsely classified and 112 omitted,
Tol: "WoS lists 122 articles on climate change by me in that period. Only 10 made it into the survey.
I would rate 7 of those as neutral, and 3 as strong endorsement with quantification. Of the 3, one was rated as a weak endorsement (even though it argues that the solar hypothesis is a load of bull). Of the 7, 3 were listed as an implicit endorsement and 1 as a weak endorsement.
…from 112 omitted papers, one strongly endorses AGW and 111 are neutral"
On Twitter Dr. Tol had a heated exchange with one of the "Skeptical Science" authors of Cook et al. (2013) – Dana Nuccitelli,
Tol: "@dana1981 I think your data are a load of crap. Why is that a lie? I really think so."
Tol: "@dana1981 I think your sampling strategy is a load of nonsense. How is that a misrepresentation? Did I falsely describe your sample?"
Dr. Morner, Dr. Soon and Dr. Carlin were also falsely classified,
Nils-Axel Morner
Ph.D. Quaternary Geology
Professor Emeritus of Palegeophysics and Geodynamics, Stockholm University
Dr. Morner, your paper 'Estimating future sea level changes from past records' is categorized by Cook et al. (2013) as having; "No Position on AGW".
Morner: "Certainly not correct and certainly misleading. The paper is strongly against AGW, and documents its absence in the sea level observational facts. Also, it invalidates the mode of sea level handling by the IPCC."
Willie Soon
Ph.D. Rocket Science
Astrophysicist and Geoscientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Dr. Soon, your paper 'Polar Bear Population Forecasts: A Public-Policy Forecasting Audit' is categorized by Cook et al. (2013) as having; "No Position on AGW".
Soon: "I am sure that this rating of no position on AGW by CO2 is nowhere accurate nor correct. Rating our serious auditing paper from just a reading of the abstract or words contained in the title of the paper is surely a bad mistake. Specifically, anyone can easily read the statements in our paper as quoted below:
"For example, Soon et al. (2001) found that the current generation of GCMs is unable to meaningfully calculate the effects that additional atmospheric carbon dioxide has on the climate. This is because of the uncertainty about the past and present climate and ignorance about relevant weather and climate processes."
Here is at least one of our positions on AGW by CO2: the main tool climate scientists used to confirm or reject their CO2-AGW hypothesis is largely not validated and hence has a very limited role for any diagnosis or even predicting real-world regional impacts for any changes in atmospheric CO2.
I hope my scientific views and conclusions are clear to anyone that will spend time reading our papers. Cook et al. (2013) is not the study to read if you want to find out about what we say and conclude in our own scientific works."
Soon: "No extra comment on Cook et al. (2013) is necessary as it is not a paper aiming to help anyone understand the science."
Alan Carlin
Ph.D. Economics, MIT
Senior Operations Research Analyst, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Retired)
Dr. Carlin, your paper 'A Multidisciplinary, Science-Based Approach to the Economics of Climate Change' is categorized by Cook et al. (2013) as; "Explicitly endorses AGW but does not quantify or minimize".
Carlin: "No, if Cook et al's paper classifies my paper, 'A Multidisciplinary, Science-Based Approach to the Economics of Climate Change' as "explicitly endorses AGW but does not quantify or minimize," nothing could be further from either my intent or the contents of my paper. I did not explicitly or even implicitly endorse AGW and did quantify my skepticism concerning AGW. Both the paper and the abstract make this clear. The abstract includes the following statement:
"The economic benefits of reducing CO2 emissions may be about two orders of magnitude less than those estimated by most economists because the climate sensitivity factor (CSF) is much lower than assumed by the United Nations because feedback is negative rather than positive and the effects of CO2 emissions reductions on atmospheric CO2 appear to be short rather than long lasting."
In brief, I argue that human activity may increase temperatures over what they would otherwise have been without human activity, but the effect is so minor that it is not worth serious consideration.
I would classify my paper in Cook et al's category (7): Explicit rejection with quantification. My paper shows that two critical components of the AGW hypothesis are not supported by the available observational evidence and that a related hypothesis is highly doubtful. I hence conclude that the AGW hypothesis as a whole is not supported and state that hypotheses not supported by evidence should be rejected.
With regard to quantification, I state that the economic benefits of reducing CO2 are about two orders of magnitude less than assumed by pro-AGW economists using the IPCC AR4 report because of problems with the IPCC science. Surely 1/100th of the IPCC AGW estimate is less than half of the very minor global warming that has occurred since humans became a significant source of CO2."
Carlin: "If Cook et al's paper is so far off in its classification of my paper, the next question is whether their treatment of my paper is an outlier in the quality of their analysis or is representative. Since I understand that five other skeptic paper authors whose papers were classified by Cook et al. (Idso, Morner, Scaffeta, Soon, and Shaviv) have similar concerns to date, the classification problems in Cook's paper may be more general. Further, in all six cases the effect of the misclassifications is to exaggerate Cook et al's conclusions rather than being apparently random errors due to sloppy analysis. Since their conclusions are at best no better than their data, it appears likely that Cook et al's conclusions are exaggerated as well as being unsupported by the evidence that they offer. I have not done an analysis of each of the papers Cook et al. classified, but I believe that there is sufficient evidence concerning misclassification that Cook et al's paper should be withdrawn by the authors and the data reanalyzed, preferably by less-biased reviewers.
One possible explanation for this apparent pattern of misclassification into "more favorable" classifications in terms of supporting the AGW hypothesis is that Cook et al. may have reverse engineered their paper. That is, perhaps the authors started by deciding the "answer" they wanted (97 percent) based on previous alarmist studies on the subject. They certainly had strong motivation to come up with this "answer" given the huge propaganda investment by alarmists in this particular number. So in the end they may have concluded that they needed to reclassify enough skeptic papers into "more favorable" classifications in order to reach this possibly predetermined "answer" and hoped that these misclassifications would go unnoticed by the world's press and governmental officials trumpeting their scientifically irrelevant conclusions. Obviously, whether this was actually done is known only to the authors, but I offer it as a hypothesis that might explain the apparently widespread and one-directional misclassifications of skeptic papers. Mere sloppy analysis should have resulted in a random pattern of misclassifications."
Further analysis reveals that Cook et al. (2013) was created as a propaganda campaign not a scientific study and is shown to be statistically worthless by Dr. Tol,
Cook's 97% Consensus Study Game Plan Revealed (PopularTechnology.net, June 4, 2013)
The Statistical Destruction of the 97% Consensus (PopularTechnology.net, June 1, 2013)
Dr. Tol has published a scathing editorial in the Guardian and a peer-reviewed paper in the journal Energy Policy completely discrediting the shoddy methodology employed by Cook et al. (2013) and showed their findings to be worthless,
The claim of a 97% consensus on global warming does not stand up (The Guardian, June 6, 2014)
Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the literature: A re-analysis
(Energy Policy, Volume 73, pp. 701–705, October 2014)
– Richard S. J. Tol
Rebuttal:
Alarmists continue to try and quote mine Dr. Scafetta's comments when he is clearly saying things that AGW "consensus" proponents do not support:
The sun can account for 40-70% of the observed warming.
The part of the warming not caused by the sun can be due to the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect and not CO2.
Climate sensitivity to CO2 is low at 1.5 C or less.
Climate models poorly reconstruct the solar signature and do not reproduce natural oscillations of the climate (AMO, PDO, NAO etc.)
IPCC 21st century projections must be reduced by at least a factor of 2 or more.
Not to mention his paper was roundly attacked in Alarmist blogs, such as RealClimate and listed as an "Anti-AGW paper" by one of the most prolific abstract raters of Cook et al. (2013), Ari Jokimäki.
The Cook et al. (2013) study is obviously littered with falsely classified papers making its conclusions baseless and its promotion by those in the media misleading.
CVs of Scientists:
Alan Carlin, B.S. Physics, California Institute of Technology (1959); Ph.D. Economics (Thesis: "An evaluation of U.S. government aid to India"), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1964); Foreign Area Fellow, Ford Foundation (1960-1963); Economist, The RAND Corporation (1963-1971); Director, Implementation Research Division, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (1971-1974); Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2 years); Founding Member, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (1979); Senior Operations Research Analyst, Office of Research and Development and Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (1974-2010)
Craig D. Idso, B.S. Geography, Arizona State University (1994); M.S. Agronomy, University of Nebraska – Lincoln (1996); Ph.D. Geography (Thesis: "Amplitude and phase changes in the seasonal atmospheric CO₂ cycle in the Northern Hemisphere"), Arizona State University (1998); President, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (1998-2001); Climatology Researcher, Office of Climatology, Arizona State University (1999-2001); Director of Environmental Science, Peabody Energy (2001-2002); Lectured in Meteorology, Arizona State University; Lectured in Physical Geography, Mesa and Chandler-Gilbert Community Colleges; Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU); Member, American Meteorological Society (AMS); Member, Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences (ANAS); Member, Association of American Geographers (AAG); Member, Ecological Society of America (ECA); Member, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi; Chairman, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (2002-Present); Lead Author, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (2009-Present)
Nicola Scafetta, Laurea in Physics, Università di Pisa, Italy (1997); Ph.D. Physics (Thesis: "An entropic approach to the analysis of time series"), University of North Texas (2001); Research Associate, Physics Department, Duke University (2002-2004); Research Scientist, Physics Department, Duke University (2005-2009); Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (2008, 2010); Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina Greensboro (2008-2009); Adjunct Professor, Elon University (2010); Assistant Adjunct Professor, Duke University (2010-2012); Member, Editorial Board, Dataset Papers in Geosciences Journal; Member, American Physical Society (APS); Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU); Research Scientist, ACRIM Science Team (2010-Present)
Nils-Axel Morner, Fil. Kand. [B.A.], Stockholm University, Sweden (1962); Fil. Lic. [M.A.] Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden (1965); Fil. Dr. [Ph.D.] Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden (1969); Associate Professor of Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden (1969-1971); Associate Professor of General and Historical Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden (1971-1980); Secretary, Neotectonics Commission, INQUA (1977-1981); Editor, Bulletin of the INQUA Neotectonics Commission (1978-1996); Professor of General and Historical Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden (1981-1991); President, Neotectonics Commission, INQUA (1981-1991); Chairman, Nordic Historical Climatology Group (1989); Professor and Head, Department of Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics, Stockholm University, Sweden (1991-2005); Co-ordinator, INTAS project on Geomagnetism and Climate (1999-2003); President, Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, INQUA (1999–2003); Expert Reviewer, IPCC (2001, 2007); Professor Emeritus of Palegeophysics and Geodynamics, Stockholm University, Sweden (2005-Present); Golden Chondrite of Merit Award, University of the Algarve, Portugal (2008)
Nir J. Shaviv, B.A Physics Summa Cum Laude, Israel Institute of Technology (1990); M.S Physics, Israel Institute of Technology (1994); Ph.D. Astrophysics (Thesis: "The Origin of Gamma Ray Bursts"), Israel Institute of Technology (1996); The Wolf Award for excellence in PhD studies (1996); Lee DuBridge Prize Fellow, Theoretical Astrophysics Group, California Institute of Technology (1996-1999); Post Doctoral Fellow, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto (1999-2001); The Beatrice Tremaine Award, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (2000); Senior Lecturer, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2001-2006); The Siegfried Samuel Wolf Lectureship in nuclear physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2004); Associate Professor, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2006-2012); Professor, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2012-Present)
Richard S.J. Tol, M.Sc. Econometrics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands (1992); Ph.D. Economics (Thesis: "A decision-analytic treatise of the enhanced greenhouse effect"), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands (1997); Researcher, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands (1992-2008); Visiting Researcher, Canadian Centre for Climate Research, University of Victoria, Canada (1994); Visiting researcher, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, University College London, United Kingdom (1995); Acting Programme Manager Quantitative Environmental Economics, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1998-1999); Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University (1998-2000); Board Member, Centre for Marine and Climate Research, Hamburg University (2000-2006); Lead Author, IPCC (2001); Contributing Author and Expert Reviewer, IPCC (2001, 2007); Associate Editor, Environmental and Resource Economics Journal (2001-2006); Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University (2000-2008); Michael Otto Professor of Sustainability and Global Change, Department of Geosciences and Department of Economics, Hamburg University, Germany (2000-2006); Editor, Energy Economics Journal (2003-Present); Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton Environmental Institute and Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Princeton University (2005-2006); Research Professor, Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland (2006-2011); Research Fellow, Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), Center for Global Trade Analysis, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University (2007-2010); Associate Editor, Economics E-Journal (2007-Present); Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics, Trinity College, Ireland (2010-2011); Professor of the Economics of Climate Change, Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands (2008-Present); Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Sussex, Falmer, United Kingdom (2012-Present)
Wei-Hock "Willie" Soon, B.Sc. Aerospace Engineering Cum Laude, University of Southern California (1985); M.Sc. Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California (1987); Ph.D. Rocket Science with distinction (Thesis: "Non-equilibrium kinetics in high-temperature gases"); Graduate Scholastic Award, IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (1989); Rockwell Dennis Hunt Scholastic Award, University of Southern California (1991); Member, Tau Beta Phi (National Engineering Honor Society); Member, Sigma Gamma Tau (National Aerospace Engineering Honor Society); Post-Doctoral Fellow, Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (1991-1996); Astronomer, Mount Wilson Observatory (1992-2009); Astrophysicist and Geoscientist, Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (1997-Present); Visiting Professor, Department of Science and Environmental Studies, University of Putra, Malaysia (1999-2000); Annual Reviewer, Progress in Physical Geography Journal (2001-2002); Senior Scientist, George C. Marshall Institute (2001-2003); Former Member, American Astrophysical Society (AAS); Former Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU); Former Member, International Astronomical Union (IAU); Receiving Editor, New Astronomy Journal (2002-Present); Member, CANSTAT Advisory Board, Fraser Institute (2002-Present); Member, Advisory Board, National Center for Public Policy Research (2002); Smithsonian Institution Award for "Official Recognition of Work Performance Reflecting a High Standard of Accomplishment" (2003); Science Director, Center for Science and Public Policy (2003-2006); Petr Beckmann Award for "Courage and Achievement in Defense of Scientific Truth and Freedom" (2004); Chief Scientist, Science and Public Policy Institute (2007-2010); Senior Visiting Fellow, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, China (2013-2014); Courage in Defense of Science Award (2014)
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Here is a great video I used as a reference... It is in a number of parts and it shows a ton of detail on how to... I have all the steps here. NOTE: I adjusted my hat per his advice by an additional inch and it is just right.
My hat is for a standard 7-3/8 Hat size. Adjust accordingly as I note below as we go along.
Cut out the following pieces for a pattern out of tag board. THIS IS FOR A 7-3/8 HAT SIZE. YOU CAN USE ALL THE PIECES EXCEPT THE TOP COVER FOR SMALLER HEADS (to a point). THAT IS ... you might want to tape these patterns all together and fit it to your head to ensure you have peripheral vision if you keep the ear flaps as wide as mine. We made a ladies hat at the same time (Circumference was 25" - mine was 26") using the same width ear flaps and it worked great.
1 - Front Panel - 8-1/2" x 4-1/2"
1 - Ear Template (Make 2 Identical) 8-1/2" long radiused to a 4 - 3/4" wide.
1 - Top Cover - mine is 26" circumference as allowed for the extra 1 ". (Circumference = Your head Circumference + 1 " for Fur thickness allowance). To make this circle use a compass and set the pin to the scribe pencil tip equal in inches to draw a Radius (R) that is R = (Circumference +1")/6.28. This is from C = 2*pi* R.
You should have 5 patterns, as you need two ears to layout on the pelt for best fit.
1- Needle nose pliers. This is needed to push, then pull the needle through the leather. Saves your fingers.
1 - spool Waxed Leather twine - Get the heavy twine used for leather and the wax really helps grip the leather. Regular nylong will not work as it is far too slippery and cannot tighten up.
1 - Exacto knife - SHARP! Use it to ONLY cut through the skin pelt, NOT the fur. Do not use a sissors or you will cut the fur and your seams will show.
1 - Sharpie to trace the patterns. Fine point.
1 - tube Barge Leather glue. Very similar to contact cement but buy the Barge as it is formulated to be water proof and for leather. Very sticky and dries fast.
2 - leather straps for ear flap ties.
CLIPS - lots of clips to keep the seams together while sewingthe top cover. You can use quilting clips or paper black clippies work great. the smaller the better so you do not loosen up too much of the seam while sewing.
1 - rule to tuck the fur down between pelts.
1 - custom made clamping stand, and ruled to pace stitch length. - See photo.
1 - hat stand. Helps out a lot.
You will sew like lacing up a shoe. Cut off about a yard of waxed thread and thread a needle on each end. Have about 3" leader pass through on the needles. With fur to fur, you will pass a needle "A" through about a 1/4" seam allowance until half the of the yard of thread is through the material. Tie a square knot with the two leads for an anchored start. Now, pass another needle "B" through approximately 3/16" down the length of the leather to be sewn. Grab the needle with a pliers and pull it through. Pass Needle "A" BACK THROUGH THE SAME HOLE just made by needle "B". See the stitching photo. Repeat until you run out of thread, then square knot it again, and repeat until the seam is done.
The pelts I used were purchased from eBay for $50 each. It took 5 pelts to make 2 hats (with very little remaining) that are lined INSIDE and OUTSIDE with fur. Essentially we made FOUR (4) hats. The hat is essentially made twice and then one is turned inside out and sewn to meet the outer hat. You can choose to sew in a cotton or similar material liner but I wanted a very warm hat and I wanted to be assured I would not feel the seams through a thin material. I imagine there are some alternatives that would work here - keeping in mine the material must stand up to a heavy needle and thread seaming.
There are various grades of pelts. I suggest talking to the supplier and telling them you want to make a hat and not have excessive skinning holes or badly cut pelts. For the little extra money, I went with the best grade.
This method does not attempt to fashion the fox face on the hat as this requires detailed sewing to close the eyes, forms to keep the head in shape and ears standing, and creates stiffness I did not want on the front of the hat.
Turn the pelts inside out and draw a line straight down the middle of the pelt from head to tail. Use the Xacto knife and just barely cut through the skin along the line. Do not cut crazy like and damage the long hairs as these will cover your seams. Once cut to length open the pelt and note you have leg holes that need closing up.
Sew the legs holes shut and glue them to seal out water and hold the threads in place.
CRITICAL STEP: Now layout your pattern keeping watch for the way the fur lays down so the grain is correct when all sewn together, You want the Front and rear panels and ear flaps with fur pointing down and the top cover fur pointing backwards. Lay them on the pelts and trace them with the sharpie. Double check this is correct as mistakes will cost you money. As you cut the pelt open, carefully cut out the pattern pieces - JUST through the skin.
Start with the Front Panel and align it fur to fur with one of the EAR panels. The picture here is wrong and I had to pull out the stitching. Clamp them together and stitch away as I described previously. Keep tucking the fur down in between the skins as you bring the clamps together. This makes for a very neat job and an invisible seem from the fur side !!!
Then sew on the second ear flap to the opposite side of the front panel.
Then sew the rear panel edges to each of the ear flaps.
Mark the centerline of the top cover to match the fur grain. Then clip it all along the perimeter of the head tube you just sewn. Align the front panel centerline with the top cover centerline if the fur. Clip and tuck, tuck and clip all along the seam so the fur is neatly between the skins and a good seam results.
Sew along the seam, double knot, sew some more... until all done.
Get some leather straps from a local hoppy store and have them at least... approximately 2.5x the length of the flap. You can always cut them shorter after the hat is completed, but once sewn in, if too short you have a major issue to rework.
Take a punch and punch in some holes in the very end that will meet at the top cover seam, in the middle, and at the bottom of the ear flap.
Note how they are sewn on the INSIDE of the ear flap to eliminate being seen from the exterior and you would have to dig into the fur from the inside to see the thread in the center of the flap. I also glued this strap in as I wanted it secure. I don't think this is necessary however after wearing the hat now.
If you want a tail of tails on the hat, now is the time to sew them on. I glued mine and sewn them on as I was afraid they would rip out from people yanking on them or just from tossing and turning the tails. Sew them as you did the flap straps. Note the hat shown is the INTERIOR HAT. Now make another hat for the EXTERIOR that his hat will slide into!
Here is the exterior hat completed per the previous instructions less the tails.
EXCEPT WHERE? Do not sew the last 4" in the dead center of the back panel so you can turn the hat right side out through this gap. When turned out, then you can choose to leave that last 4" unsewn or glue the skins together (as I did) for secure fastening.
Walla! You are now done!
This is so well done. Very impressive work!
It wasn't that hard to make really, just be patient. I think all in all I took about 25 hours.
Amazing work, my dad had one of those when I was little. So soft and incredably warm during the winter. VOTED!
Thank You ! It was surprisingly easy to do. Just be patient and measure twice cut once!


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Multiple Kite Posts
These multiple kite posts are flight reports that describe outings involving more than one kite. For example, the weather might have changed and the back-up kite needed to come out! In other cases, testing was being done on 2 kites at once. Or, a few kites were put up just on a whim :-)
If you want to take a closer look at my own MBK designs...
The Big MBK E-book Bundle is a collection of printable PDF file downloads.
These short flight reports once appeared in the site blog page - that's the one you enter via the 'what's new!' site navigation link. Just scroll down and stop at any heading that appeals :-)
Sled And Roller Rise
On the way to the field, trees and bushes seemed to be indicating a lot less than the expected wind strength...
On getting out of the car, it still didn't seem worth taking out the Multi-Dowel Box kite. So the red Tyvek Roller was selected instead. Also, in my carry-bag, there was the Soft Sled and Parachute which together would cover a broad range of wind speeds.
First up was the Soft Sled on 30 meters (100 feet) of 20 pound Dacron. The kite never looked like coming down and absorbed the fresher gusts with ease. Yes, the wind had started to pick up! I realized the big Box would have had a chance after all. However, at this location, it was a bit of a walk back to the car so the box kite stayed put.
With the Sled doing well, I considered putting up the Roller. But this kite had a history of getting damaged sail-tethers in moderate wind. So I waited for a while...
The conditions were getting less sunny with marbled mid-level cloud starting to filter out the sunlight. In theory, the gustiness and perhaps the overall breeze strength would die down somewhat.
Having got some video of the Sled it was time to let it up higher. Soon, 90 meters (300 feet) of line was out and the bright orange kite continued pulling hard and flying steep most of the time. In lighter periods the sled would take on it's characteristic slow waggle.
Eventually the Roller was rigged and soon soared above the field. The rather uncomfortable wind speeds often pushed the kite to the left but it always recovered and returned to a 60 degree line angle. The tethers held, despite a very healthy tension in the 50 pound flying line.
Overall, the wind speeds did eventually moderate somewhat. But fresher periods still came through occasionally and tested the Roller!
With 2 kites up on 300 feet of line and one on a small block winder, it was going to take a while to bring them both down.
The Roller provided a bit of excitement when turbulence from trees upwind caused a sudden dive at the ground. I reacted by pushing the winder at the kite just in time, and the contact with the earth was soft.
A good outing, all in all!
Paper Kites Cavort
Like my corny headline? At least you're here ;-)
The purpose of today's outing was 2-fold - log some more time on the Paper Sled and test the Paper Diamond with more dihedral.
First up was the Sled which went straight up on some almost Moderate gusts. But it was a warm, thermal-filled sky and so the breeze came through in waves. It would be Gentle to Moderate for a few minutes then Light to Gentle for another few minutes. Of course, the little Sled was inevitably shot down during the latter cycle!
While this was going on, I put up the Paper Diamond up on quite a few meters of line. Apart from a small imbalance to the left, the plain-paper kite flew admirably.
At the size it is, the Diamond's paper sail formed an almost solid surface like a model aircraft wing carved from balsa wood or foam. Despite being much heavier than traditional kite sail material, the little Diamond had no trouble going to quite high line angles. Amazing! I think this and following Paper designs are really going to rock in the Gentle to Moderate wind speed range.
At this point I probably should have moved to a bigger field. Then, all 120m (400ft) of thread could have been let out for the Sled. But instead, I persisted and finally managed to log a 5-minute and two 10-minute flights. In every case, the kite simply sank out in slow air. All the way from about 150 feet off the ground.
For some reason, magpies seem to be particularly attracted to the Paper Sled. At one point I counted 10 of the black and white birds. Almost motionless, they were just standing around peering at the kite as it lay on the grass. Eerie!
Spineless Diamond, Soaring Sled
No, not the latest kiting kung fu movie - rather, the latest Paper Kites expedition...
Winds were Gentle and only just gusting into the Moderate range, down at the reserve. First up was the Diamond prototype, with a revised horizontal spar. The first spar allowed the sail tips to fold back!
The Paper Diamond proved easy to launch in the gusts that came through, with no problems at all with the horizontal spars this time. However, once high enough to catch the full force of the breeze, the kite began to exhibit a peculiar bobbing motion. Oh, that must be the the lack of a 3rd bridle leg I thought. But there was more to it...
The bobbing was quite cyclic at times, which reminded me of what Deltas do when they have a weak spine! Yep, that would almost certainly be the problem. An inadequate vertical spar that was flexing excessively under load.
So, the Diamond was placed back in the car and the Paper Sled pulled out. A bit risky, since there was barely enough consistent breeze. Surprisingly, the Sled ended up flying very high on 2 separate flights.
Thermal activity was around. The flip side to getting great height was the lulls and areas of sinking air that came through. Enough to down a not-so-light Sled kite in less than a minute!
The first flight had an interesting interlude when the kite line almost brushed a tall tree with the kite struggling for height while drifting sideways. Touching the line would end the timing for the flight, so I resisted the urge to 'work the line'. After half a minute or so the Sled crept back up again and the flight continued for several more minutes. A 10 minute flight all up.
Flight number 2 saw the Paper Sled catch a quite strong patch of lift. Stepping out of leafy shade, I looked up and couldn't believe the line angle! Really, there's no kite of modest performance that a decent thermal can't fix :-)
The next outing might be down at the beach, to get some close-up photos of the Sled. And to test a Diamond that hopefully will exhibit a bit of back-bone.
Paper Sled And Diamond Dance
A slightly risky proposition, taking out paper kites with small patches of rain on the radar! But the patches of approaching light rain were dissipating, so out I went...
After the usual fiddling about in wind shadow, the Paper Sled finally found enough height and line length at the right moment. The newly minted #2, made in colored sheets of A4 toiled upwards on a tight polyester thread.
All-paper winders are also being developed, just to be consistent. The winder paired with this Paper Sled had a total of 120 meters (400 feet) of sewing thread wound on. I'll buy some more for my wife later ;-)
Leaving a few turns on the winder for safety, the line was passed under my gear bag. It held OK, with the winder jammed up against the upwind side of the bag. And there it was - a good 35 degrees of angle with the kite quite steady up at 200 feet off the grass. And perhaps 50 feet more when rising air and fresher breeze strengths came through.
While the MBK Paper Sled did it's thing up high, it was time to test the Paper Diamond #1. Earlier tests in the back yard had established that single-line bridles would not be practical in moderate winds. Not surprised? Neither was I really. Paper and tape has it's limits. So, to drastically reduce the stresses on the horizontal spar, a simple 2-leg bridle was tried.
The Diamond lifted off with greater ease than the Sled, which was surprising, However, the horizontal spar failed at the bridle attachment points whenever the wind gusted. No problem - a bit of extra paper and tape at just the right spots will fix it. A much easier problem to solve than making a 1-line bridle work! A little extra tail will be needed too.
After 15 minutes in the air, the Sled came down. Possibly due to a bridle line finding it's way around an upper corner of the sail in rough air. No damage was evident and the kite sailed straight back up to 200 feet after one false start. This second flight lasted for 25 minutes - almost 10 of which was during the laborious wind-in of thread!
Some Kites Just Need The Beach
The local kite club bought a load of second hand gear - including kites - from interstate some months ago...
With the power supposedly being cut sometime between 8am and 3pm today, it was an opportunity to do something off-line. Several large kites from Queensland were lying packed away in the shed. It was time to pull out one or two and see what condition they were in. And, possibly, get one in the air...
The first craft to be unrolled and rigged was a large single-liner with 2 bowed horizontal spars and several battens. Interesting! The outline was an odd low-aspect-ratio shape - nothing standard like a Diamond or Rokkaku. The owner had a huge amount of bow in the lower spar but I guess he did it in response to the kite's behavior in the air. In fact, a small loop knot had been tied into the bow-line to pull even more curvature into the glass-fiber tube. Only the horizontal spars had been removed from the sail to allow the kite to be packed away.
Two tails were included with the kite...
One tail was a series of panels that formed a long rectangular shape. Thin fiberglass rods were arranged horizontally at regular intervals to hold the material flat.
The other tail was a series of Diamonds, nose to tail. Each Diamond shape had it's own little horizontal spar. Like the big long rectangle, the whole thing just rolled up for storage.
Down at the reserve...
After the breeze picked up and proved too much for my super-light-wind Dowel Diamond, the big battened kite was rigged. On some dry leaves and twigs away from the damp grass. With just the rectangular tail attached, the colorful kite seemed a little too unstable to risk flying it high. So, after attaching the nose-to-tail Diamonds as well, up the craft went for a more full-blooded attempt.
To cut a long story short as they say - the big kite didn't cope well with inland gusty air. The front end would twist and luff occasionally, sometimes coming close to pulling the kite into a dive. Eventually, that's exactly what happened - a nose-over followed by a steep dive into a wet section of the field. The nose pocket buried itself 8cm (3 inches) into the mud. At least that might have prevented any damage!
Despite this experience, I'm confident that this kite will behave itself in a smooth sea breeze. Anything in the Gentle to Moderate ranges should keep this kite up. And it does look good in the air!
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Resolutie 1244 van de Veiligheidsraad van de Verenigde Naties werd met veertien stemmen voor en één onthouding – van China – aangenomen door de VN-Veiligheidsraad op 10 juni 1999, en plaatste Kosovo onder internationaal bestuur.

Achtergrond

Toen Joegoslavië begin jaren 1990 uiteenviel ontstond een bloedige oorlog onder de voormalige deelrepublieken, waarvan de meeste onafhankelijk werden. Eén daarvan was de confederatie Servië en Montenegro, met haar zuidelijke provincie Kosovo. Het overgrote deel van de Kosovaarse bevolking bestaat uit Albanezen, waardoor de provincie onder Joegoslavië een grote autonomie kende. Die werd na het uiteenvallen door Servië ingetrokken, waarna het verzet tegen het land aangroeide. In 1996 nam het Kosovaarse Bevrijdingsleger de wapens op. Na internationale tussenkomst kwam Kosovo onder VN-bestuur te staan, en in 2008 verklaarde het zich onafhankelijk.

Inhoud

Waarnemingen
Er was niet voldaan aan vorige resoluties van de Veiligheidsraad over Kosovo, met name de resoluties 1160,
1199, 1203 en 1239.

De Veiligheidsraad wilde de ernstige humanitaire situatie in Kosovo oplossen en zorgen dat alle vluchtelingen veilig konden terugkeren. De raad veroordeelde het geweld tegen de bevolking alsook terreurdaden. Op 6 mei was een principeakkoord bereikt voor een oplossing.

Verder bevestigde de Veiligheidsraad de soevereiniteit en territoriale integriteit van Servië en Montenegro, alsook zijn oproep om aan Kosovo meer autonomie te verlenen.

Handelingen
De Veiligheidsraad besliste dat de politieke oplossing gebaseerd moest zijn op de principes in de bijlagen °1 en °2. De raad eiste dat Servië en Montenegro het geweld en de onderdrukking in Kosovo beëindigde en zich eruit terugtrok. De Veiligheidsraad besloot ook dat er internationale aanwezigheid zou zijn in Kosovo en vroeg secretaris-generaal Kofi Annan een Speciale Vertegenwoordiger aan te stellen om dit te coördineren.

De lidstaten van de Verenigde Naties en internationale organisaties werden gemachtigd in Kosovo voor de veiligheid te zorgen. Die "aanwezigheid" kreeg onder meer tot taak nieuwe vijandelijkheden te voorkomen, toe te zien op de terugtrekking van Servië en Montenegro, Kosovaars-Albanese groepen te ontwapenen en te zorgen voor een veilige omgeving waarin vluchtelingen konden terugkeren.

De secretaris-generaal werd gemachtigd een burgerlijk bestuur op te zetten om Kosovo tijdelijk te besturen met een grote autonomie binnen Servië en Montenegro. Dat bestuur moest er ook voor zorgen dat Kosovo kon terugkeren naar normale levensomstandigheden, economisch herstel, ondersteuning van de humanitaire hulp, ordehandhaving en terugkeer van vluchtelingen.

De "aanwezigheid" en het burgerlijk bestuur werden ingesteld voor een periode van twaalf maanden en konden nadien eventueel worden verlengd.

Verwante resoluties

 Resolutie 1222 Veiligheidsraad Verenigde Naties
 Resolutie 1239 Veiligheidsraad Verenigde Naties
 Resolutie 1247 Veiligheidsraad Verenigde Naties
 Resolutie 1252 Veiligheidsraad Verenigde Naties

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