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American democracy: We also vote with our feet
Filed under: Uncategorized — Jane Stillwater @ 2:09 pm
According to Gayle Greene in her excellent book Insomniac, sleep is very important. According to me, I do my very best thinking in my sleep. So when I went over to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco recently to hear a lecture by Peter Dale Scott, I couldn't really understand what he was talking about — until I slept on it. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520259966/insomniac
Scott said that American history has been composed largely of various social movements. Even the American Revolution was more of a social movement than a war. "For instance, when the majority of Americans finally got fed up with all that wealth disparity during the Gilded Age, they initiated the graduated income tax back in 1909."
This tax was originally designed to cut wealthy Robber Barons down to size — except that now it has become graduated in the opposite direction. You and I pay more. Billionaires pay less.
And after a good night's sleep last night, another idea just dawned on me with regard to current social movements here in America. Let's take a look at our current voting system for instance. What do you think about that? America's wealthy elite have hacked our voting machines, smothered us with commercials paid for by Citizens United, gerrymandered us like pretzels, bought off Congress, stacked the Supreme Court, put a yes-man in the White House and even physically crossed a whole bunch of us off the voters' rolls.
Even despite all these vote-suppression tactics, Americans still arise from the ground up to vote with our feet. We march. We sign petitions. We boycott. We picket. We strike. We turn to alternative news sources. We even sometimes begin to think for ourselves. Yikes! https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2017/12/04/derrick-jensen-keynote-speech-earth-at-risk-conference-2014/
And another social movement that is developing here in America is a new anti-war surge. "You know you want it," our leaders tell us. "That war on Iran is gonna be even better than Christmas morning!" No, it's not. We Americans are finally becoming sick and tired of having our money spent on oil-baron piracy in the Middle East and our kids coming home in a box. And so an anti-war social movement is gradually building up again too. https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/feel-like-im-fixin-to-die-rag-1969/
According to Scott, however, the biggest American social movement of all is about to happen and is now in the works. Consensus is about to be reached here — no matter what the pundits tell us or Washington decides.
"And what movement is that?" you might ask. The climate crisis movement. Apparently when all our forests burn down, we can no longer breathe safely and our toes curl up from the heat, Americans are finally going to reach a consensus and join together in a movement that will cross political, regional, religious, class and even racial lines. And then Americans are going to truly vote with their feet.
Stop Wall Street and War Street from destroying our world. And while you're at it, please buy my books. https://www.amazon.com/Jane-Stillwater/e/B00IW6O1RM
Soleimani, Iran's General Washington. Trump, America's mad King George
Boy howdy, Trump has truly pissed off the Arab world this time. "It's as if, back in 1776, that crazy King George III of England had somehow managed to pop a cap on General George Washington," said a friend of mine yesterday. "People are furious in the Middle East right now. There's no do-overs here. The colonists are truly up in arms now!" https://resistancenews.org/2020/01/08/iran-strikes-us-bases-in-iraq-to-avenge-martyr-soleimani-threatens-to-target-israel-and-us-bases-in-the-region-al-manar/
That bad? "Yeah."
It seems that Iranians are sick and tired of "Taxation without Representation" when it comes to their freedom (and their oil too, of course). Who can blame them? John Hancock would have also hated sanctions. If some crazy monarch on the other side of the ocean had murdered Hancock's top general and sanctioned all his tea, he too would have left Valley Forge and crossed the Strait of Hormuz.
But enough about analogies. You get the point. It has been absolute insanity for Trump to piss off the entire Middle East (and Russia, China and the rest of the world as well) by murdering General Soleimani in cold blood — especially considering America's own history of demanding self-rule.
And now Trump has got almost everyone in West Asia shouting "Give me liberty or give me death!"
And this new colonial Revolution east of Suez is also bad news for you and me too. Why? Because Trump hasn't even considered the fact that his monarchy has now driven America twenty-two (22) trillion dollars into debt — and Trump simply doesn't have the budget to go around murdering everyone in the Middle East without sanctioning us Americans right down to our teabags as well. https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/06/the-economic-risks-of-trumps-reckless-assassination/
Almost like a death in the family: Thoughts on letting my little red car die peacefully
Filed under: Uncategorized — Jane Stillwater @ 12:05 pm
"You gotta pass the smog test!" the department of motor vehicles screams at me. So I obediently drive my sweet little red 1990 Toyota Tercel down to the local gas station — and it passes the emissions test with flying colors.
Good job, little car!
But then the "check engine" light won't turn off. Defective part. "Sorry but they don't make that part any more," sez my mechanic. So my car fails the smog test after all. But am I really ready to let my little red car die? Just like that? After 30 long loyal years of faithful service? What would Greta Thunberg do?
Of course the right thing to do is to give up my little red car — and help save the human race. But then I look around me. No one else is giving up any of their cars.
And no one else is giving up their "wars" either. War is the number-one polluter and cause of climate crisis on the planet today — but I don't see anyone in Washington DC volunteering to give up their F-35s. https://www.globalresearch.ca/battle-liberate-idlib-province-us-supported-terrorists/5699039
Perhaps we should make it a mandatory requirement that all those thousands and thousands of gas-guzzling toxin-emitting made-in-America tanks, bomber jets, air-craft carriers, drones, space-force launchers, nuclear missiles, etc. be forced to take a smog test too!
And speaking of whether or not to die peacefully, we Americans are not being given that choice — but Medicare-for-all would go a long way toward solving that problem, right?
And speaking of all those toxic, smog-emitting tanks, bomber jets, nuclear missiles and other gross weapons of death? They have all been out there on the front lines both here and abroad, faithfully winning all sorts of "wars". They have won various "wars" on Afghans, Vietnamese, Iraqis, Central Americans, Syrians, Americans, Palestinians and Yemenis — just to name a few. The only catch to all these victories is that the winners have only been the greedy and shameless war-profiteers who started them for fun and profit in the first place. https://resistancenews.org/2020/01/04/nasrallahs-statement-about-qasem-soleimanis-murder/
It's only average Americans like you and me who have lost all these wars.
Madam Jane predicts: World Peace in ten years!
Don't you just hate being lied to? Apparently not. We Americans all get systematically lied to every single time we turn on the TV — and yet nobody seems to mind. "Pharmaceutical side effects are worth it, the climate crisis is a myth, Zionists have every right to murder Palestinians, banksters are our BFFs, the chemical attacks on Syria weren't staged, there are new well-paying jobs springing up like mushrooms…." Whatever. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/wikileaks-chemical-weapons-watchdog-ordered-deletion-of-all-traces-of-findings-that-syrian-chemical-attack-was-staged/
"But I'm not lying!" Madam Jane told me this morning. "I'd never lie to you!" Yeah, right. "There really will be world peace in ten years!"
Sorry but I just gotta call bull-dookie here. "You really have the nerve to tell me that after Americans just spent seven trillion dollars on all kinds of deadly weapons, nuclear bombs, chemical warfare, drones, aircraft carriers and even hand guns, I'm supposed to believe the human race is actually going to get its shite together and suddenly become peaceful in the next 3650 days?"
That there's no climate crisis hovering over us, that America's brutal attacks on Iraqi, Syrian and Iranian oilfields will suddenly come to an end, that Americans will actually give up their fossil fuel cars? That Big Pharma's pricey little white pills are going to miraculously cure us? Dream on.
"Are you really trying to convince me that we now live in a perfectly peaceful world? That assault rifles are an absolute fashion-accessory must-have? That there are oodles and oodles of affordable housing units available here, that homelessness doesn't exist, that America is a democracy, that mega-corporations pay their fair share and that our current President, various Congressional legislators and members of our Supreme Court all love women (but in a good way)?"
The list of lies they tell us goes on and on. "Coke Zero is good for you. Our infrastructure is safe. We can't allow big banks to fail. Corporations don't need to pay taxes like the rest of us. Al Qaeda's White Helmets are good guys." And that America's so-called wars and proxy wars on Vietnam, Korea, Chile, Afghanistan, Russia, Honduras, Cuba, Bolivia, Libya, Guatemala, Iraq, Venezuela, Syria, Palestine, Ukraine, Yugoslavia and Yemen are necessary to keep America strong?
And now Madam Jane is telling me that I'm spozed to believe that America, the greatest war-mongering liar in history, will suddenly want to start acting like Mother Theresa in just ten short years? That male White Nationalists will suddenly come to Jesus and no longer want to shoot you and me? That the climate crisis will suddenly be averted and that even our two-year-olds will all get along and never ever fight over toys ever again?
"No No No!" said Madam Jane. "I stick with my prediction. In ten years there really will be world peace…because…in ten years…the entire human race will have killed itself all off." Oh.
https://www.amazon.com/Visions-Lost-Future-World-Stillwater/dp/1532803850
Happy New Year, everyone! It's now 2020. We only have ten more years left. What can we do to prove Madam Jane wrong?
Christmas Day in America: To be old, hungry and Black….
Christmas Day was a truly grim eye-opener for me this year. "How many starving, homeless and desperate people existed in Jerusalem back when Jesus was alive?" I asked myself. "And were there as many lonely desperate outcasts to be found in Bethlehem 2019 years ago such as the ones I had just seen standing in line and patiently waiting for food in front of Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco on this current December 25th?"
It's two millennia later. Here in America. The land of the free and the home of the brave. 2019 years after Herod. After 2000 years of so-called hope and progress? And yet there they all were on Christmas Day 2019, hundreds of them, stretching far down the block and around the corner, cold and hungry and homeless and desperate. And most of them were old and Black, having been systematically ground down to the nub by America's racism — from the day they were born in their mangers.
I was so very shocked to my core to see so many hungry desperate people all in one place. On Christmas Day. In a land claiming to be "Christian".
All I could do was go home to my cozy little apartment and try to block out these dreadful images with eggnog. Eggnog didn't work. I had just seen the ghost of America's Christmas future and it had terrified me — a future where, if Americans don't finally start acting more Christ-like, we too, sooner or later, will all end up like the desperate people I saw yesterday — and there will be no "Joy to the World" for any of us ever again. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Civilized-to-Death/Christopher-Ryan/9781451659108
Let us hope that this horror never happens — and then let's all go out and make sure that it doesn't. It's time that we take Christmas back from the corporate billionaires, the war-mongers and the haters!
Michael Bloomberg at the AGU: Was gonna write a hit piece on him but…
Front and center at a recent Michael Bloomberg event in San Francisco? Seated within mere feet from an actual billionaire? Hey, that's me! Somehow I managed to score the absolutely best seat in a room that held 3,000 people. Is karma my bitch or what! Maybe I should play the lottery too, I'm feeling that lucky. We were all waiting to hear Jerry Brown and Michael Bloomberg talk about the current climate crisis.
Then a science guy from the Midwest in the seat next to me started man-splaining about how climate-crisis-denying politicians in the pay of huge corporations are constantly battling to prevent any sort of effort to stave off extinction of the human race. "At first they denied it was even happening at all but now they just tell us that solar power will give us cancer." Uh, no. It won't. "All you need is to use one-tenth of one percent of Michigan's farmland to solar-power the entire state." Our fossil-fuel warlords don't want us to know that. https://www.forbes.com/sites/walvanlierop/2019/12/06/yes-fossil-fuel-subsidies-are-real-destructive-and-protected-by-lobbying/#724279be417e
Then Brown and Bloomberg walked onstage. Damn it, I forgot my camera. They were only 12 feet away. But there's still the old-school option of pen and ink, right? So I'm sitting here in the front row, totally ready to write a hit-piece on Bloomberg, the billionaire who has suddenly switched from being a neo-con Repub to being a climate-protecting Man of the People. Humph.
"No one in the Midwest has even heard of Michael Bloomberg," said the man seated to my right. And does Bloomberg have a facelift? I wish I look that good at his age.
But then Bloomberg speaks. Oh, crap. He's really actually into this climate crisis stuff, has been since the 1990s, puts his money where his mouth is. There goes my dream of an actual hit piece.
"This is the most important time to be working in science," he tells the 3,000 science nerds who are avidly listening. "And we desperately need politicians who are not purveyors of 'alternative facts' at this crucial time."
Yeah, we do need them. Desperately. Sometimes we Americans get so thoroughly involved in our own current soap operas that we forget the very real dangers of the Big Picture when we pull the levers of our (highly tampered with) voting machines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIBEcIFyFSk&feature=youtu.be&t=2505
"Ending the climate crisis is not a scientific problem. We can do this. It is a political problem." Oh. That's probably why he is running for prez — not for fame and glory? Hmmm. "Climate-change deniers have gone from saying 'It doesn't exist' to 'It's a commie plot' to 'It may exist — but it wasn't caused by me!' Climate capture is our only viable solution. And we need educated people to save the world."
Tell that to the current administration. America is currently # 22 in science education. There are currently twenty-one other countries who are both smarter than us and have more science nerds in the pipeline. That's just scary.
"But this is a world-wide problem and it needs a world-wide solution. We need China and India onboard with this too." This is no time to go picking a trade-war with China. "We need China to join us in this fight. The trade war isn't helping here."
Altogether Bloomberg gave a very impressive speech. However, like the guy next to me just commented, "If he really wanted to get his message across, he should just spend all this money on simply buying Fox News."
But still and all, I was impressed with the new "Mike" Bloomberg. Why? Because the climate crisis is really a big deal for me. I gots grandchildren. I would like to see them survive the next twenty years. And Bloomberg is still far better than what we are stuck with in Washington now.
PS: Neither Bloomberg nor Brown mentioned the greatest polluter of all — war-mongering. Imperialism. "Humanitarian intervention". Afghanistan. Libya. Iraq. Yemen. Korea. Palestine. Bolivia. Chile. Bosnia. Vietnam. Honduras. Guatemala. Ukraine. Syria. Bombs that go bump in the night — and calculated slaughter of women and children by the millions. Imperial "wars" that are murdering our climate too. And us as well. https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/new-attack-on-syrian-oil-fields-was-too-sophisticated-for-terrorist-groups-source/
Let's face it, guys. We Americans aren't never gonna give up our cars. We're like those lung-cancer patients who smoke til it kills us. But…. I think that Americans may finally be willing to give up on "war".
Bloody imperialism since 9-11 has been a really bad seven-trillion-dollar consumer decision. We coulda bought solar-powered cars instead. And perhaps in the future we Americans may finally wake up and chose American values and Jesus' teachings (and sustainable energy) here at home — instead of the wholesale murder of babies abroad.
Hey, it could happen.
The American Geophysical Union convention: 27,000 nerds — and me
Filed under: Uncategorized — Jane Stillwater @ 12:32 am
How far am I actually willing to go in order to score free chocolate chip cookies? Good question. Exactly how much torture am I willing to endure? Math has always been torture for me. STEM is my worst nightmare. And yet here I am, in San Francisco, actually surrounded by whole regiments of science freaks! And yet, here's me — actually having a good time.
Even though the event is mostly sponsored by Google, Lockheed-Martin, Amazon and Chevron.
But still and all, I'm learning some really interesting stuff. And they feed us here for free too. Clam chowder, Vietnamese salad and beer. "Gots any wine?" I asked. Uh, no. Most of these 27,000 nerds are basically grad students and twenty-something STEMers, apparently hoping to land their first (or next) job. Tired of working for Uber. Definitely not a wine-drinking crowd. But they are so cute — with their pocket protectors, electronic gadgets and nerdware. Gotta love them.
However, a lot of these 27,000 nerds are going to invent things someday — really important things, things that will hopefully save our lives and our planet within the next ten years.
The first seminar I went to here talked about how Jules Verne had influenced the space race. Who knew.
The next seminar was given by panel members who talked about the various ways that the federal government has tried to discourage and intimidate any discussion by them regarding our current climate crisis — but how, heroes that they all are, they risked their jobs and their future to try to make Congress aware that corporate America is playing with fire. "The fire next time". Literally.
Did you know that 97% of our climate crisis is caused by human activity? That climate change in our national parks has doubled the temperatures there as compared to the rest of the country? That wildfires have also doubled? That carbon dioxide is now at the highest level it has ever been since the dinosaurs went extinct? That American Natives are ten times more likely than the rest of us to have an oil pipeline forced onto their land? Hell, even I can do that kind of math.
Afterward I talked with one American Native presenter who had a PhD. "How did that happen?" I asked him.
"For over a hundred and fifty years, our tribe has valued education above all," he replied, "as a way to get out of our rut of defenselessness and poverty." Ah. Like how Palestinians also value education — and why their universities are constantly under attack, sometimes literally. And, as another presenter mentioned, why America has now become a diseased combination of First and Third worlds.
"Americans are either wealthy conspicuous consumers who think nothing of dropping half-a-million dollars in order to fly out into space with Elon Musk, Jeff Besos or Richard Branson — or else they are just America's existential field hands."
Up next at the convention? After lunch, Michael Bloomberg is gonna try to explain to us how and why he suddenly became a Democrat and Man of the People. Good luck with that one, Mike.
PS: Getting a press pass to the AGU convention was extremely hard. The press liaison kept asking me, "But do you work for a major publication?" Who me? Definitely not. If you are a reporter for the New York Times, say, then you gotta tow the corporate line, right? Sorry, guys, but they don't want me — and I don't want them either. However. Will still work for chocolate chip cookies! https://sana.sy/en/?p=180156
November in retrospect: Neo-cons giving thanks & my six (6) Thanksgiving dinners
What the freak is a neo-con, actually? We're about to find out. "Any person or persons who try to conquer the world at the expense of everyone else in it." If you plan to turn the world into your own little fiefdom and put everyone else to work as your field hands and maids then you are probably a neo-con. Neo-cons just wanna have fun — at our expense. "What's mine is mine — and what's yours is mine too." https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2019/11/24/ukraine-trump-biden-the-real-story-behind-ukrainegate-part-2/
And this year neo-cons are really having Big Fun — especially in places like Chile, Palestine, Yemen, Bolivia, Iran, Afghanistan, Hong Kong and Flint, Michigan. "But mostly we are happy, thankful and grateful that we have taken control of and completely colonized Washington DC." https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/06/bolivias-coup-government-a-far-right-horror-show/
But enough about them. America gets what it deserves. Let's talk about me.
For many of America's jobless and/or homeless and/or overworked and/or underpaid and/or bankrupt and/or educationally deprived and/or food insecure and/or medically uninsured citizens, there hasn't been much to be thankful for this past November. Sorry about that. But as for me? Best Thanksgiving ev-ah!
On November 26, the Golden State Warriors, the Oakland Athletics and City of Oakland sponsored a spectacular Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings for 1,500 low-income residents and seniors. Seated at my table were two blue-collar workers, four kindly Chinese grandmothers, a homeless man, a handicapped man, a young woman down on her luck — and me. Instant family! We didn't fight about one single thing! Lovely.
On November 27, my doctor's office sponsored a buffet table for all of us patients. Guacamole, potato salad and Korean barbecue. Not exactly traditional but it worked. More instant family. More gratitude.
And even more special was a very very special family un-Thanksgiving dinner celebrated by the American Indian Movement over in San Francisco that night. An elder from a tribe of American Natives spoke — telling us all about how Trump's border wall had forced the separation of half his tribe into Sonora, Mexico and the other half into Arizona, a tribal family split apart by politics after having been together for thousands of years.
"What we all need to know are two things," he told us over green beans, dark meat, white meat and corn-bread stuffing. "We need to know where do we want to go, and also what do we want to do." Where to go and how to get there.
He also said that our government is currently building Zionist-designed 100-foot-high spy towers on his tribal land in order to keep his family separated forever — not just at each yearly un-Thanksgiving. Neo-cons are gonna be grateful as hell for that! https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/how-dreams-change-under-authoritarianism
The next morning, everyone who had been at the un-Thanksgiving dinner sailed over to Alcatraz Island to celebrate the 50th year of the A.I.M. take-over there back in 1969. Colin Kaepernick spoke. Damn, I wish I hadn't overslept. Colin K. is my hero. https://www.thefader.com/2017/11/24/colin-kaepernick-unthanksgiving-alcatraz
On November 28, an employee of our neighborhood CDB store stopped me on the street and gave me a to-go plate of gourmet turkey, cranberry sauce, candied yams, stuffing, green beans and asparagus. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about!
Then my friend down the street had me over for a huge family gathering for her friends and their children. Cute little toddlers running around in party dresses! I felt like I was in the very bosom of the wonderful happy family that I had always wished that I had.
But, wait! Thanksgiving wasn't over quite yet! My friends Hayley and David took me down to the Long Haul community center and we celebrated even more as they served us yet another Thanksgiving dinner, this time consisting of tofu turkey with brown rice stuffing and umeboshi dressing. Hey, I was totally grateful even though tofu turkey might not have been my first choice — grateful as hell that there were still some Berkeley types still left in Berkeley.
Then Hayley, David and I wandered home in the moonlight, drinking eggnog as we went and eating pumpkin pie when we got home. Neo-cons may yet conquer the world and enslave us all if we aren't constantly watchful — but in the meantime there is moonlight and friendship and pumpkin pie and eggnog that they haven't snatched away from us quite yet.
Bush's Presidential Library: What, no "Mission Accomplished" photo on display?
"I absolutely must go see GWB's new presidential library while I'm here in Dallas," I told the friend that I was staying with.
"Why in the world would you want to do that?" she replied. I just shrugged. Is it going to make me feel any better knowing that the traitorous scoundrel who stole two (2) presidential elections, unleashed a whole new level of corruption on America, failed to stop the 9-11 madness and murdered a million Iraqis, is not rotting away in jail?
"Perhaps I could just flip him the bird?" That probably won't happen either. Still and all, I was determined to go see just how bad that Bush Junior's presidential library actually was. But it was even far worse than even I had expected. I was totally shocked.
First there was the 9-11 exhibit, making GWB appear to be the hero of 9-11 instead of the cause of it. If only George had read his NSA briefings instead of going out for a beer with the boys. But he did not.
Next our George shamelessly took credit for being the hero of Hurricane Katrina, even strongly hinting that it was those uppity Blacks who caused that disaster. "It was them not me, honest!" Say what?
Moving on to the exhibits praising George Jr's glorious triumphs in Afghanistan and Iraq. Might he be referring to those so-called wars that Americans are still fighting almost twenty years later? That cost American taxpayers over seven trillion dollars? Those glorious triumphs? Gag me with a spoon.
But wait, there's even more. Dubya was also the hero of the environment. And then he actually had the gall to take credit for saving our nation from financial ruin in 2008. Shameless.
But I got my revenge — well, sort of. I approached almost every employee in the museum and sweetly asked, "But where is the famous 'Mission Accomplished' photo?" Some of the employees actually had the good grace to blush.
My advice to any of you wannabe tourists in Dallas? Don't never plan to go to the Bush Presidential Library unless you bring your own barf bag. All those lies could make you actually physically sick.
PS: What also makes me sick at heart is that Leonard Peltier, a true American Native hero and leader, has been languishing away in various maximum-security prisons, lock-downs and solitary confinements for the last 50-odd years for a crime that he didn't commit — while that lying bastard GWB is having a good old time living the good life in Dallas's ultra-rich Highland Park part of town.
If there was any fear of the wrath of God in America at all or any Christians left in this god-forsaken land, their situations would be totally reversed. https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/
PPS: When I was an embedded reporter in Iraq and also blogging everywhere from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, I never even imagined that America could ever manage to have a worse person in the White House than GWB….
To paraphrase Joe Biden, "Gaza has a right to defend itself"
When you were a little kid, did the schoolyard bully try to steal your lunch money?
When Hitler invaded Poland, did the Poles have a right to fight back?
When terrorists bombed the Twin Towers on 9-11, Americans felt violated, naked, afraid — and pissed off.
When I was attacked by a wannabe rapist with a knife to my throat and he told me, "Don't scream," guess what I did?
This week, impeachment proceedings in Congress have taken up much of our news cycle. But somewhere in the deep recesses of FaceBook there are sad photos of babies in Gaza being blown up by Zionists wielding huge missiles and bombs. https://www.facebook.com/alsheikh.fawaz/videos/168358650893188/UzpfSTEwMDAwMDU1NTczNzY0NDoyOTc5NTg3NTE1NDAzMDc3/?fref=hovercard&hc_location=none
Doesn't Gaza have a right to defend itself too?
Don't the West Bank, Palestine and even Syria and Yemen also have a right to defend themselves? https://mondoweiss.net/2019/11/joe-biden-declares-that-israel-has-a-right-to-defend-itself-after-its-military-kills-multiple-palestinians-with-missile-attacks/
Let's stop paying these vicious Zionist schoolyard bullies the blood money that they use to attack and metaphorically rape the defenseless people of Gaza again and again.
Stop Wall Street and War Street from destroying our world. And while you're at it, please buy my books: https://www.amazon.com/Jane-Stillwater/e/B00IW6O1RM
Homelessness in Dallas: Dangerous symptom of a deadly national epidemic
I arrived in downtown Dallas on a furiously cold windy wet rain-soaked night, so cold that teardrops almost froze to my face as I desperately searched for the bus stop that would take me to my friend's warm cozy nest in Oak Cliff. I asked everyone that I met on the street, "Where can I catch the #21 bus?"
And every single person I met that night was homeless. Soon the #21 bus arrived and I gratefully climbed aboard, into the light and the warmth. But for the homeless people I left behind me? They were faced with the sole option of spending an entire night in this frozen gunk.
I had just flown in from Berkeley, CA, where homelessness is a real problem. We have numerous tent cities, homeless encampments and homeless shelters there. But now I'm here in Dallas and things here are even worse.
It then became instantly clear to me that homelessness isn't just some low-level outbreak in just a few cities. It's a freaking national epidemic. It's everywhere in America. And it's highly contagious. Far worse than the so-called measles epidemic, where perhaps four (4) people died last year. Even worse than the horrific AIDS epidemic, where 15,807 people died. 1,047 homeless people died last year — in Los Angeles County alone. Even despite all that California sunshine. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/30/homeless-deaths-los-angeles-county
A lot of the homeless people I met here in Dallas were older Black men, intentional products of America's endless conveyor belt of racism and discrimination. But a lot of them looked just like you and me — only with a shopping cart and shabby clothes instead of haute couture from Macy's or Target. Homelessness is highly contagious here in America today. You and I could catch it too.
We could catch it from our bosses, from our government, from the billionaires who exploit us, from banksters, from student-loan sharks, from our children's lack of education and even from our freaking healthcare medical plans.
In America, no place is safe from the homelessness germ.
But the truly sad part of this story is that the our Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta is doing nothing to prevent this terrible contagion from spreading! In a country gone mad with its addiction to vaccinations, how come there is absolutely no vaccine against being homeless? No vaccine against a disease far more deadly than measles and HIV combined? Don't tell me that there are no homeless people in Atlanta. We all know better than that. https://prepareforchange.net/2019/02/03/vaxxed-ii-the-peoples-truth-coming-in-2019/
Victims of this deadly plague in Berkeley, Dallas and even Atlanta are not just lone samples in a petri dish somewhere in a medical lab. They are the canaries in the coal mine. You and me could easily be next.
C'mon, CDC, show us some grit. Build houses. Provide shelters. Give out weighted blankets and front door keys and central heating and bathtubs. Bring all those trillions of American dollars back from Israel and Iraq. Let Afghanistan and Syria sort out their own problems. Give that money to Berkeley and Dallas.
PS: Have you ever heard of Dallas's Silicon Prairie? It's a totally weird place. I was taking public transit in from the airport and suddenly right out in the middle of nowhere there were about 10,000 new high-end townhouses and condos, sprung up like mushrooms. Get my point? Housing can be easily provided. In a hurry. Even for the homeless. In a prefect world. "I want a Perfect World so bad!" cried Jesus.
PPS: From the top of Dallas's high-rise Reunion Tower, I looked out over all of Dallas's sprawling urban metroplex, floating far down beneath my feet. And what did I see? Freeways. Lots and lots of freeways. It looked as if at least one third of Dallas's former housing stock had been horribly disfigured and decimated in order to put in this bloodless and useless freeway octopus. Let's tear it all down and build housing instead. Let's stop this deadly epidemic in its tracks.
Let's get our priorities straight.
PPS: How can Americans keep swallowing that bare-faced lie that President Assad of Syria is an evil dictator? At least in Syria, people aren't systematically made homeless like they are here in the U.S.A. under our current government-by-oligarchs as our jobs melt away to Haiti and Bangladesh. In fact, the only way that a person in Syria can end up homeless is after we Americans and our partners in crime ISIS, the Zionists and the Saudis have bombed the shite out of his or her home. https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-created-al-qaeda-and-the-isis-terror-group/5402881
My trip to Dallas: Lee Harvey Oswald's big mistake was crying "Patsy" in a crowded theater!
Dallas TX is actually a far more complex, diverse, interesting and rewarding city than just merely the location where President Kennedy got shot. But. Here in Dallas I seem to be constantly running into reminders of that tragic and fateful day back in November of 1963. Even my first introduction to Dallas involved driving past Parkland Hospital while taking public transit in from the airport.
"Have you gone to the top of the Reunion Tower yet," suggested one long-time Dallas native. Okay. I'll do that. But, sure enough, 40 stories above the Dallas skyline there was an exhibit about the brutal murder of JFK including photos of his motorcade right before he was shot — showing the empty back bumper where his Secret Service agents were spozed to have stood but didn't. Shame on them.
"Did you go see the Old Red Museum?" It was nice. But right next to it was the Kennedy Memorial. I stood inside it and cried while a group of millennials next to me happily snapped photos for their Instagram pages, never really understanding the dark truth of the place — that Camelot had been stolen from them as well as from me. Never realizing that since that time, our White House, the very symbol of America itself, has been mostly occupied by a sorry bunch of bottom-feeders such as a depressed egomaniac, a lying crook, a B-list actor with Alzheimers, two war-mongering Bush-league types, a couple of hypocrites and a reality-show host.
I cried for the millennials. I cried for America. I cried for my grandchildren. I cried for me.
Moving on. I'm currently staying in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, famous for its Jefferson District, home to all sorts of delicious-looking Mexican restaurants. I've been eating lots of tamales and street tacos and menudo and elotes. Heavenly. And four blocks away from me is the Texas Theater — where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. And I have the souvenir T-shirt to prove it too.
"Have you been to the Bishop Arts District?" It turns out to be within walking distance of Oswald's former rooming house, now a museum. But the owner wanted $40 a pop for a tour so I only took photos from outside. And last night a Dallas TV channel showed "Jackie". Who wouldn't cry after watching Natalie Portman desperately trying to push JFK's brains back into his head.
"Have you visited the Bush Presidential Library?" Don't even remind me of how far we have fallen since Jack and Jackie made the White House stand for America's best self. America has never been that great again since — and it's certainly far from great now.
So. Did Lee Harvey Oswald actually fire the actual bullet that murdered Camelot? Probably not. But he should have kept his mouth shut. He should never have shouted "Patsy" — thus causing the CIA, the FBI and various presidential wannabes to panic and stampede toward the exits, dragging Jacob Rubenstein along with them. http://www.supersummary.com/libra/summary/
PS: At the wonderful BoucherCon book conference I'm attending here in Dallas, I also met author Christopher Brown and he supplied me with the perfect Orwellian word for what is happening in America both at this time and in the near future. "Dystopia". To quote the Lone Star Literary's review of his latest book, Rule of Capture, "Brown has taken all the dissonant noise [that is America today] and distilled it, then extrapolated to a possible logical [but horrifying] endpoint." https://christopherbrown.com/rule-of-capture/
And the roots of America's dystopian tree started to grow even more robustly on the day that Kennedy was murdered. And these roots have been growing stronger and stronger ever since as more and more oligarchs in Washington clearly realize that they can do almost anything and get away with it — as long has they can generate "plausible deniability" like they did in Dallas.
Isn't it time that we Americans cut that dystopian tree off at its roots?
America claims Syria's oil. Can Syria now claim America's oil too?
I'm off to Texas tomorrow. Going to stay with a friend in Dallas for a few days, and also try to pitch my latest murder mystery at a book conference as well. And I'm also going to find myself in the heart of the American oil industry, in that great state that gave us Texaco, James Dean in Giant, fourteen major Houston oil refineries and two of the most corrupt and mendacious presidents we've ever had — George Bush and George Bush.
Ah, Texas.
And then there's the northeastern state of Deir Ezzor, located in Syria. It's got oil too. And President Trump has just announced that Deir Ezzor's oil is actually America's oil. Who knew? https://thegrayzone.com/2019/10/23/us-troops-staying-syria-oil/
But does this mean that all the oil in Texas now belongs to President Assad? Is there a quid pro quo at work here too? I'm about to go to Dallas and find out. https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/10/25/we-want-to-keep-the-oil/
PS: Syria also owns a whole bunch of UNESCO world heritage sites as well as a whole bunch of oil. Isn't it time that the United Nations made a new rule about antiquities (as well as a new rule about oil too?) "If you invade a country that has an official UNESCO world heritage site, then you get thrown out of the UN." That makes perfect sense.
The Saudis would get thrown out of the UN for trying to destroy Saana, right? And America would get thrown out of the UN for engineering, planning, financing and/or staging invasions of Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, etc.
Hell, America should have been kicked out of the UN way back when Kissinger invaded Cambodia! Remember Angkor Watt?
But America doesn't ever have to worry about a quid pro quo with Syria with regard to antiquities. Why? Because America doesn't even have any UNESCO world heritage sites built in the post-colonial era — unless you count Las Vegas of course. And the Statue of Liberty. But Americans mostly ignore the Statue of Liberty these days. Maybe the Syrians might be more entitled to it than us right now. At least they are willing to fight for their freedom.
Maybe "Remember the Alamo" should be Syria's motto too. Or at least "Remember Deir Ezzor!"
A tourist in Syria — and Dallas…
What's on my bucket list right now? To die in Tibet. To visit the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria. To find out who really shot JFK. Murder mysteries? Tourism? I've got a lot to say about that! Give me a second here to organize my thoughts.
1. The same people who murdered President Kennedy are the same people who tried to murder President Assad of Syria — and who also murdered Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi. And the same people who will eventually murder you and me too. No mystery there. http://www.radio4all.net/files/anonymous@radio4all.net/16-1-MeetingAssad.mp3
2. I'm currently reading one of Eliot Pattison's excellent murder mysteries that take place in Tibet, and he makes that rugged land and those rugged people so appealing that all I want to do is move there for the rest of my life. https://eliotpattison.com/bone-mountain/
3. I just finished writing my own murder mystery — and it takes place in Tibet too. It's not as good as Pattison's books but writing it was totally fun. Traveling Well is the Best Revenge. Buy it and see! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1081152508/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
4. Ah, Syria! I miss it already. All those fabulous historical sites. Did you know that before Syria was ruthlessly invaded by America and its allies al Qaeda and ISIS, the tourist industry in Syria scored at least eight-point-four billion dollars in income per year. But.
Now that Syria is back to belonging to its own residents again and its torrid home-invasion tragedy is finally almost over, my true bucket-list dream is to go buy a suitcase, Hawaiian shirt and tacky sunglasses, fly off to Damascus and put the Syrian tourist route back on the map! Ancient Aleppo! Palmyra! The Roman amphitheater at Bosra! "The Krak de Chevaliers is a Crusader castle dating back to the 10th century." There are currently six (6) UNESCO sites in Syria right now and six more being vetted. I wanna go there! Put me in charge of Syrian tourism! Please. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/syria-isis-palmyra-restoration-1338257
5. And as for Dallas, I'll be going there next week — to attend BoucherCon, a famous gathering of murder-mystery readers and writers from all over the world. If anyone can name names and point fingers at who specifically murdered JFK in Dallas, it would be us. But there's certainly no mystery regarding who caused that fierce tornado in North Dallas recently — the same people who murdered President Kennedy and tried to murder President Assad. The same people who are bringing us the climate catastrophe. Those war-mongering petroleum whores. To be blunt. https://www.bouchercon2019.com/
What's on your bucket list?
The real basis for impeachment? Not phone calls but murder…
For the past eight years, our mainstream media has been constantly screaming its talking head off at us about the hysterical importance of staging a bloody and wasteful "regime change" in Syria. But, instead, shouldn't the MSM actually be telling us the unvarnished truth — that "regime-change" here at home is a much better idea.
Those grifters in Washington have been short-sheeting us Americans for decades now. Definitely time for a change.
And as for impeachment? If America was truly the Christian nation that everyone is always pretending it is and not just the Attila-the-Hun wannabe that it actually is, then Trump would have been impeached way back in 2017 for perpetrating his brutal un-Christ-like butchery in Syria almost the moment he took office. https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/59017-civilian-deaths-in-us-wars-are-skyrocketing-under-trump-it-may-not-be-impeachable-but-its-a-crime
And as for Trump's recent withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria? That too is a lie on so many levels. We've been fed a whole stomach-full of lies about Syria in the first place and now we're being fed fantasies about the Kurds too. Non-Syrian Kurds have Syrian blood on their hands as well. And America has been generously bankrolling the Kurds, ISIS and even Turkey for years now — anything to create chaos in the Middle East. And to sell weapons. https://www.globalresearch.ca/syrian-debacle-well-planned-chaos/5692332
U.S. kill-squads need to get out of Syria immediately, sure, but Turkish, ISIS, Zionist, Saudi and non-Syrian Kurdish berserkers need to get out as well. What all these gangstas are really fighting over are eastern Syria's oil fields.
Trump may or may not be withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria where they never belonged in the first place — but he is also sending them back into Iraq as well. Been there. Done that. Wrote a book about it. Bring Your Own Flak Jacket: Helpful Tips for Touring Today's Middle East
Trump and friends, however, are clearly not alone in their blood-lust for slaughtering innocent women and children in faraway places. A whole bunch of other U.S. presidents shoulda been impeached for piracy and mayhem as well — if not actually sent to jail where they belong (that is, if America actually was a real Christian nation).
For instance, President Truman should have been impeached for ordering that horrid flesh-dissolving nuclear weapon to be so callously dropped on the women and children of Hiroshima even after the Japanese tried to surrender — and then Truman should have been jailed for ordering that other dreaded nuclear device to be dropped on a Christian cathedral in Nagasaki, destroying thousands of pious parishioners on a holy Sunday morning while they were praying to Christ. https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/dr-gary-kohls/
And Truman should also have been impeached for starting that blasphemous Korean war in 1953, justified by trumped-up lies and resulting in the violent deaths of 33,686 American soldiers and the wounding of 100,000 others — not to mention the three million Koreans who were slaughtered or starved to death as well.
And President Eisenhower should have been impeached for ordering the bloody torture and assassination of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, thus generating a decades-long snowball effect still continuing to this day and resulting in the violent deaths of approximately three million men, women and children in the Congo. So far.
Jesus is probably up there in Heaven, just sadly shaking his head.
And impeachment proceeding should have started immediately after Eisenhower gave his infamous order to overthrow the democratically-elected president of Iran as well, a nightmare that Americans still blame Iran for creating. Ha. It was the bloodthirsty Eisenhower who done it.
And Presidents Johnson and Nixon should have been impeached for using trumped-up lies to murder 50,000 American servicemen (and women) and to butcher over a million Vietnamese and Cambodian farmers as well — not to mention an uncounted number of water buffalo.
President Reagan should have been impeached for his heartless disembowelment of Central America and for his trumped-up lies about the Iran-Contra scandal. How un-Christain is that! And America is still paying the price for that at our southern border. Thank you, Ronnie Popular — with a little help from his friend Hillary Clinton.
President George H.W. Bush lied through his teeth in order to start the infamous Gulf War wherein 250,000 American soldiers fell victim to Gulf War Syndrome, causing approximately 25,000 premature deaths.
President Clinton should have been impeached for his ruthless slaughter of Yugoslavia, including setting all those murderous post-Afghan mujahedin loose on Serbia. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/588695/the-management-of-savagery-by-max-blumenthal/9781788732291
Of course George W. Bush should have never even been allowed through the White House front door. We shoulda jailed him for election theft alone. But he was given the keys to the Oval Office instead. Yikes!
But once Bush was actually asleep in the Lincoln bedroom, we should have impeached him for all his cold-blooded butchery in Afghanistan and Iraq. Almost ten thousand American soldiers have been murdered due to his shameless and scurrilous lies — and countless young American amputees are now moving through their lives without arms or legs because of his WMD lie. And let's not even think about the million or more West Asia civilians who lost their lives because of his lies too.
President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton both should have been impeached for their blood-thirsty massacre of Libya, setting foxes loose in the Honduran hen house and orchestrating the nightmare of releasing their ISIS fiends in Syria.
And all of these presidents should have been impeached for the Hell on Earth that they helped create in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
"But, Jane," you might say, "these presidents kept us safe." Seriously? Between the financial crisis, the terror threats, the homelessness disaster, the climate crisis, the border mess, the job outsourcing, the education crisis, a secret surveillance state that includes the NSA, TSA, FBI, CIA, ICE and Homeland Security, cuddling up to the blood-thirsty Zionists and Saudis, gross voter suppression, tax cuts for the wealthy, Endless War, Citizens United deals, Big Pharma price gouging, corporatism instead of democracy, the active-shooter crisis, the infrastructure failures and all those healthcare deaths, I've never felt less safe in my life.
And another truly sad thing about all of these horrible homicides committed by our American presidents is that instead of using America's boundless wealth to create a heaven on earth for all of humanity like Jesus would have done, America's greedy corporatists and all those other made-in-the-USA Nazi wannabes in DC as well as their pond-scum allies the Zionists and Saudis have taken (stolen) our planet's immense wealth and ruthlessly squandered it away on foreign misadventures and bloody slaughter.
Instead of creating a sparkling new human paradise here, happily based on new technology and the Golden Rule, these reckless predators have scammed us into creating a whole new version of the "war" on Vietnam — only now Vietnam 2.0 is in the Middle East and West Asia.
The only real difference between the Vietnam slaughterhouse and the Middle East slaughterhouse seems to be that instead of being forced to listen to Johnson, Kissinger and Nixon's old lies about Vietnam, we now have all new lies shoved down our throats about why America is now butchering millions of men, women and children in Libya, Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq and Syria. https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=176401
And the old truth that America lost its ghoulish "war" on Vietnam is now being replaced by the new truth that America is losing its ghoulish "war" on West Asia — just in time for Halloween.
Isn't it time that we start impeaching all these blood-thirsty serial-killer presidents — past, present and even any sitting US president who tries to get blood on his or her hands in the future? And throwing them all in jail too? And creating a genuine "peace bonus" to spend on ourselves instead? Tulsi Gabbard: Hillary Clinton Attacking Me For Opposing Regime Change Wars, She Has Blood On Her Hands
PS: Vice President Pence is currently combining the Lee Harvey Oswald defense with the Richard Nixon defense in order to avoid impeachment. "I am not a patsy!" Sorry, Mike. That's not going to save you either. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/pence-i-participated-in-ukraine-plot-but-only-as-a-patsy.html
Ecuador's revolting situation: Why that can't happen here
Thank goodness for FaceTime. Thank goodness for Skype. And even Twitter, YouTube and Instagram aren't really all that bad if you want to get the real news about what is really going on in this world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxPepA-Jwr8
My friend Gabriella just Skyped me from Quito, Ecuador. "What the freak is going on down there," I asked her. Ecuadorians have staged massive protests there for the last 14 days.
"People here in my country are just sick and tired of being ripped off by international bankers, corrupt presidents and global corporations out to make a huge profit at our expense." Hmmm. Sounds like what is happening here in the USA too — only with one big exception. Salt-of-the-earth Americans never seem to mind getting ripped off.
All you gotta do here in my country is tell the American "common man" that he's just a victimized down-trodden victim of "latte-drinking liberals" and they will instantly allow you to commit any economic horror on them that you can think of — fleece their paychecks, rob them blind, steal their homes and even turn their children into mindless numb robots and set their grandmothers afloat on icebergs.
Yet nobody here in America even seems to notice that they are being screwed royally by the neo-con country-club set — let alone actually protest. Not only that but America spends billions, trillions of dollars trying to defeat countries that oppose its shoddy American empire — yet won't spend hardly a penny to help those truly in need such as women without access to healthcare in Alabama or victims of home repossession in Ohio or hurricane victims in Florida and Puerto Rico. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29058214-the-dirty-war-on-syria-washington-regime-change-and-resistance
"No one in Ecuador," said my friend, "ever trusts the local news — which lies through its teeth, falsely reporting that all us thousands of protestors are taking to the streets in support of the corrupt president, the bankers and the IMF, not against them."
Boy does that sound familiar. Didn't something similar to that just happen in our own mainstream media with regard to protests in Venezuela, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Palestine, et cetera? Where protestors in these countries all support the working class but the press here in America reports that the protesters are supporting banksters instead? Or that banksters and crass invaders are actually the good guys? https://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2019/10/union-maid-my-wonderful-visit-with.html
But, trust me, something like the current Ecuadorian protest won't ever happen here. There will never be any mass protests by working-class heroes against corrupt banksters here. Sometimes I think that America's working class is totally composed of masochists.
"They are shooting rubber bullets at protestors," continued my friend, "aiming straight for their eyes. The indigenous people are suffering the brunt of these attacks. But still we keep protesting despite the danger because all of the people down here are really pissed off. Correa was an exception, but now Moreno is trying to side with the IMF, choosing money over country. We've seen far too many of our presidents just take the money and run." http://syriangirlpartisan.blogspot.com/
That happens here too. George Bush for instance. But nobody here in America never seems to remember or even to mind that we Americans are constantly being victimized and scalped by shady politicians, war-profiteers and banksters. The Average Joe here just wants to have a beer with Bush or shake hands with Clinton or go to a Trump rally or fondly reminisce about Reagan or Obama. Or even about Nixon! Although nobody ever wanted to have a beer with Nixon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=208&v=lKZqu61IbFI
"We are stockpiling food here," said my new on-the-ground citizen-reporter in Quito. "I have enough food for three days." That sounds just like what recently happened in northern California when PG&E cut off electricity to 3,000,000 people — and once again, even in NorCal, nobody seemed to object or to even mind. https://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2019/10/powering-off-pg-just-shot-itself-in.html
"What do you expect the results of all this will be?" I asked my friend.
"There are negotiations going on now. We're getting the 'austerity measures' ended. All these protests are actually working!" Good. People power saves the day! Banksters, carpetbaggers and grifters of Equator, be gone before someone drops a casa on you as well! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/14/ecuador-protests-end-after-deal-struck-with-indigenous-leaders
Ah, if only we had that kind of people power here in the United States too….
Every single working man and woman in all 50 of our so-called united states should be out on the picket lines supporting General Motors strikers. But they are not. Let's do something about that! https://solidaritycenter.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=160
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Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news
Forums: Environment, Global Warming, Politics, Environmentalism, Science
Foxfyre
Reply	Mon 29 Sep, 2008 12:30 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
I know it because that is pretty much the consensus of the 400 disputing AGW as a done deal. And from several articles such as this--I doubt anyone can find anything credible with which to dispute them:
. . . .the so-called consensus of hundreds of scientists on the IPCC report is much worse than that. An analysis released in September 2007 on the IPCC scientific review process by Australian climate data analyst John McLean, revealed that the UN IPCC peer-review process is "an illusion." Only a few of the "hundreds" are actually involved in the UN's peer-review process. Says McLean, "The IPCC leads us to believe that this statement is very much supported by the majority of reviewers. The reality is that there is surprisingly little explicit support for this key notion. Among the 23 independent reviewers just 4 explicitly endorsed the chapter with its hypothesis, and one other endorsed only a specific section."
Putting this into perspective, at most 52 scientists wrote the IPPC's report, of which only 4 or 5 endorsed its highly politicized findings. Yet, the IPCC repeatedly gives the impression that hundreds, if not thousands of scientists endorse their conclusions. This is completely false. While many other scientists do endorse it, it is certainly not a consensus. Compared to this, every one of the 23 NIPCC's scientists and economists who authored the report released at the conference endorsed it. Likewise, most, if not all, the 100 scientists at the conference endorsed the NIPCC's conclusions.
No one should be surprised that the mainstream press got it completely wrong " again. After all, if they wrote that the polar bear, which is being considered for listing as an endangered species, is experiencing record high populations and is in fact not in danger from global warming, the reporters would suffer the scorn of their environmentalist friends and the possible wrath of their editors. If they wrote that maybe, just maybe all these scientists at the March Climate Change meeting in New York were right, it would shatter the use of global warming as a justification for global governance, as former French President, Jacque Chirac proclaimed to the world in 2000 during the Framework Convention on Climate Change's COP 6 meeting. "For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance…to organise our collective sovereignty over this planet."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Coffman/mike11.htm
Walter Hinteler
@Foxfyre,
I really would like to have some more information about this "Australian climate data analyst John McLean" who quoted so often on conservative websites.
McLean's own websites are Swiss located, he himself says that he's a member of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition (though not named there).
Otherwise, Foxfyre, your argumentation is of course very convincing ...
And I must admit that I usually support minority opinions as well as minorities, too.
ican711nm
By the way, I've started a new thread:
OBAMA VERSUS MCCAIN: ARGUMENTS FOR WHO IS BETTER FOR MOST AMERICANS
Discussion by ican711nm on 09/28/08 4:06 PM.
I'd be pleased if you--as well as others here--were to join me in this discussion.
Is this an indication that your opinion has shifted in regard to global warming, Walter?
Needless to say, I believe the hiccup in the economy, and the accompanying wringing of the hands if not outright panic, clearly shows the global warming frenzy to be much ado about virtually nothing, as compared to real problems.
Let us hope the hiccup does not turn into a choking scenario.
@okie,
No, okie, my opinion hasn't changed.
And because the US capitalism got a hiccup, problems still are problems.
But I truly believe that this is one of your, our problems: people are nowadays just and only focused on one thing, others are disregarded, forgotten, if a new problem is on the neighbourhood radar. We don't use wide range radar anymore, prevention is a foreign word, responsibility for next generations a fairy tale.
Devil-may-care.
Steve 41oo
Reply	Tue 30 Sep, 2008 03:56 am
Indeed...but that's the essence of laissez faire free market capitalism. Get what you can now.
I can think of better ways of organising an economy...but I went along with capitalism because
a) it was regulated
b) it was a fantastic generator of wealth...even if that wealth was distributed hopelessly unevenly
but now it appears it wasnt regulated, and even I underestimated the greed of the super rich.
Creating wealth and burning oil are related. Interesting the price of oil is falling as we head into recession/slump. But maybe its good news for the climate because CO2 emissions will fall too.
Richard Branson's space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, is to use its space planes to gather scientific data on climate change from the highest reaches of the atmosphere under a new collaboration with an American government laboratory.
Instruments and sensors will be added to the company's high altitude plane, White Knight Two, and the smaller rocket-propelled SpaceShipTwo, as part of a climate change research project planned by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Colorado.
The researchers will use Virgin Galactic test flights, and subsequent commercial launches, to collect air samples from high up in the atmosphere, which will be analysed for greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and other constituents.
miniTAX
Reply	Wed 1 Oct, 2008 11:53 am
Richard Branson's space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, is to use its space planes to gather scientific data on climate change
Tourism to help understand climate change ???
I presume it's called stratospheric (very high) greenwashing.
It's rather happy news : that proves those hypocrites self-proclaimed climate protectors don't believe one second in the consensus crap they are marketing.
BTW, hi all. Just trolling
Oh, this story about Branson and his eco-friends may interest you Walter
http://deceiver.com/2008/06/25/google-to-change-motto-from-dont-be-evil-to-make-it-look-like-an-accident/
Reply	Wed 1 Oct, 2008 12:15 pm
@miniTAX,
miniTAX wrote:
Well, if YOU call the project planned by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration a tourism offer, you certainly didn't read more than a couple of words from my quote .... nor the linked article.
Well, there are a lot of houses (especially in the US) not on google.earth - just look at one of the google hacker sites ...
(And a couple of German towns and cities will stay dark in google-street-view as well: they just don't allow them to video their streets ...)
Magnitude of Fanny&Freddy problem shows
the global warming frenzy to be much ado about virtually nothing, as compared to real problems.
TREND IN AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES - CELSIUS
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/hadcrut3gl.txt
(months: jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sept oct nove dec average)
2003 0.527 0.438 0.422 0.414 0.435 0.439 0.453 0.523 0.518 0.565 0.428 0.519 0.473
2008 0.050 0.189 0.446 0.267 0.278 0.312 0.412 0.387 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.293*
*average for jan thru aug.
Reply	Sat 11 Oct, 2008 12:32 pm
@Steve 41oo,
Steve - you may wish to look up "Manias, Panics, and Crashes" by an old teacher of mine, long dead. His vivid description of the South Sea Bubble (in which Isaac Newton lost 20,000 pounds of his own money, an enorm0us sum at the time) is priceless. The tulip craze in Holland is another classic. Crises like these date back to since records have been kept.
Back to the topic, one innocent victim of the global "warming" myth - who must have been reading this thread - has just been rescued from icy waters off Massachusetts:
The plan is to lure the manatee to shore with lettuce, envelop it in a net, and lift the 600- to 800-pound beast out of the water with a crane. They hope to load it into a cargo plane, where veterinarians will shower the manatee with water until it arrives in Orlando.
@High Seas,
.... and while we're dealing with this CO2 nonsense, fauna and flora are getting poisoned all over the planet:
whales retained even more toxins than polar bears, which had been believed to be the region's most toxic animals.
The finding raises the question: How did one of the planet's most untrammeled corners become a repository for these toxins?
"Most of these chemicals are not produced or widely used in the Arctic," WWF's Walker said. "But air and ocean currents are going [predominately] northward.....
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1213_051213_killer_whales.html
Reply	Wed 15 Oct, 2008 04:27 pm
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=f80a6386-802a-23ad-40c8-3c63dc2d02cb
As of December 20, 2007, over 400 prominent scientists--not a minority of those scientists who have published their views on global warming--from more than two dozen countries have voiced significant objections to major aspects of the alleged UN IPCC "consensus" on man-made global warming.
THE DISSENTS OF THE SCIENTIFIC DISSENTERS
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport#report
Indur M Goklany, Ph.D, who has represented the United States at the International Panel on Climate Change and in the negotiations leading to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also scrutinized the UN's IPCC Summary for Policymakers (SPM) released in 2007. "Once one gets past the opaque verbiage of the SPM, it is clear that most of the negative impacts listed in the SPM are overstated, while the positive impacts are understated," Goklany noted in an April 9, 2007 critique. (LINK) Goklany managed the US Environmental Protection Agency's fledgling emissions-trading program in the 1980s. "These [IPCC] studies estimate impacts for 2085 using technologies from the 1990s or earlier. This is like estimating today's food production and levels of hunger using technologies from the 1910s! You are bound to underestimate food production and overestimate hunger. In developing countries prevalence of chronic hunger declined from 37% to 17% between 1970 and 2001, despite an 83% increase in population, in substantial part because of new technologies," Goklany added. "Similarly, human health impacts are often estimated assuming that adaptive capacities are fixed as of the start date of the analysis. Under such a methodology the mortality and morbidity rates from water related diseases in the U.S., for example, would be the same in 2000 as in 1900. But in fact, these rates have declined by 99% or more during the 20th century for disease such as typhoid, paratyphoid, dysentery, malaria, etc.," Goklany noted.
SINCE 2005 AS THE DENSITY OF CO2 IN THE ATMOSPHERE HAS INCREASED, THE AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE HAS DECREASED
Of the four candidates--Obama, Biden, McCain, Paylin--only Paylin understands that CO2 density in the atmosphere has little if any effect on global warming.
INCREASES IN DENSITY OF CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2) IN THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE SINCE 2005.
ftp://ftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/ccg/co2/trends/co2_mm_mlo.txt
YEAR ..... MONTH ........ ATMOSPHERIC CO2 PPM
2003 ........... 9 ............. 376.44
Net INcrease in CO2 2005 to 2008 = 386.36 - 379.97 = 6.39 ppm
DECREASES IN AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURES SINCE 2005
year, jan, feb, mar, apr, may, jun, jul, aug, sep, oct, nov, dec, average
*average of global temperature anomalies jan thru sep
Net DEcrease in Average Global Temperature Anomalies 2005 to 2008 = 0.482 - 0.301 = 0.181 Celsius
Reply	Sat 8 Nov, 2008 04:05 pm
The association between climate change and the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events is now well established. General circulation models of climate change predict that heatwaves will become more frequent and intense, especially in the higher latitudes, affecting large metropolitan areas that are not well adapted to them. Exposure to extreme heat is already a significant public health problem and the primary cause of weather-related mortality in the U.S. This article reviews major epidemiologic risk factors associated with mortality from extreme heat exposure and discusses future drivers of heat-related mortality, including a warming climate, the urban heat island effect, and an aging population. In addition, it considers critical areas of an effective public health response including heat response plans, the use of remote sensing and GIS methodologies, and the importance of effective communications strategies.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine: Abstract: Climate Change and Extreme Heat Events
Reply	Sun 9 Nov, 2008 11:42 am
You know, I have often thought about growing up in the warm Southwest in the 1940s and 50s. . . without air conditioning. Cars had 4/60 air conditioning--four windows down and 60 mph. Our schools were not air conditioned but we went to school just the same in 80 and 90 degree heat. Occasionally at night it would be so hot that we would drag our beds outside to sleep.
People lived in cities in those days too.
I wonder why it is so much more a problem now WITH air conditioning than it was back then when we didn't have such a thing?
Reply	Sun 9 Nov, 2008 07:27 pm
The association between climate change and the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events is now well established.
That is a statement so obviously true that it almost qualifies as a truism..
When the climate consists of an extreme heating trend, of course the "frequency and intensity of extreme heat events" occurs. Likewise, When the climate consists of an extreme cooling trend, of course the "frequency and intensity of extreme cold events occurs.
General circulation models of climate change predict that heatwaves will become more frequent and intense, especially in the higher latitudes, affecting large metropolitan areas that are not well adapted to them.
None of these models has been scientifically verified to be valid predictors of future weather. Yes, there is an alleged consensus of scientists who believe these models are valid. Yes, there is also an alleged consensus of scientists who believe these models are invalid.
There was a consensus that the earth was flat until it was demonstrated to be spherical. There was a consensus that the earth was the center of the universe until it was demonstrated that the earth orbited the sun, and the sun along with other stars orbited around the center of our galaxy. There was subsequently a consensus that our galaxy was the center of the universe until it was demonstrated that our galaxy revolves around other galaxies which together revolve around no one knows what.
So far it has been demonstrated that the earth cools and heats even while the density of CO2 in the atmosphere increases. The cyclic varyng of sun spot density is currently hypothesized to be the principal cause of the varying of the earth's average global temperature.
@ican711nm,
One would almost think in your world there isn't an 11 year sun cycle.
Amazing isn't it how the earth's temperature decreases when the sun goes from its high to its low in that cycle? Don't worry ican, the earth is warming up as the sun puts out more energy.
Reply	Mon 10 Nov, 2008 12:41 am
Paradise almost lost: Maldives seek to buy new homeland
The Maldives will begin to divert a portion of the country's billion-dollar annual tourist revenue into buying a new homeland - as an insurance policy against climate change that threatens to turn the 300,000 islanders into environmental refugees, the country's first democratically elected president has told the Guardian. ...
He said Sri Lanka and India were targets because they had similar cultures, cuisines and climates. Australia was also being considered because of the amount of unoccupied land available.
"We do not want to leave the Maldives, but we also do not want to be climate refugees living in tents for decades," he said.
Environmentalists say the issue raises the question of what rights citizens have if their homeland no longer exists. "It's an unprecedented wake-up call," said Tom Picken, head of international climate change at Friends of the Earth. "The Maldives is left to fend for itself. It is a victim of climate change caused by rich countries."
Nasheed said he intended to create a "sovereign wealth fund" from the dollars generated by "importing tourists", in the way that Arab states have done by "exporting oil". "Kuwait might invest in companies; we will invest in land."
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Arctic ice cap grows 60% in one year, global warming mantra dies	- Discussion by gungasnake
Our planet is being destroyed, does anybody care?	- Discussion by Caroline
Will that be Paper or Plastic?	- Discussion by Khethil
Spill baby spill, slippery politics	- Discussion by rosborne979
Number 85 - To see a tree asmiling.	- Discussion by danon5
CAP AND TRADE-FOR IT/AGIN IT?	- Discussion by farmerman
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Minneapolis Teenager Charged With Wild Shootout
Kim David Published: February 27, 2022
(Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
Minneapolis (KROC AM News) - A teenager who was involved in a high-speed police chase in the Twin Cities was also involved in a shooting that was reminiscent of the Wild West.
The Minnesota BCA says 19-year-old Jovan Knight was apprehended on Feb 19th after the extended pursuit.
The BCA says a trooper tried to pull Knight over for speeding but he took off at a high rate of speed "across the metro" and a State Patrol helicopter was used to track him down. He ditched his vehicle and fled on foot but was caught in Minneapolis.
Authorities had been looking for the homeless teenager for his role in a shooting in November that took place at a busy Minneapolis intersection near a convenience store.
The complaint says Knight began shooting at another person who ran between vehicles at the store to avoid being hit. The complaint says a 15-year-old and others who were with Knight also began shooting and "seemed to fire indiscriminately and in random directions." At least one innocent bystander was hit by gunfire. Knight also faces charges in several other pending cases.
The shooting he was involved in was one of six that happened in Minneapolis in a 24 hour period that left at least 8 people injured.
The BCA assisted the MPD in the investigation as part of an ongoing partnership to address violent crime.
Here is the criminal complaint in the case:
On November 7, 2021, at approximately 0214 hours, a shooting occurred in the area of West 22nd Street and Lyndale Ave South, in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. BCA Special Agent Brandon Johnson was assigned to assist Minneapolis PD with the investigation. The shooting involved a group of at least eight males, six of whom either carried weapons or fired shots. SA Johnson obtained surveillance footage from area businesses which covered the four corners of the intersection, as well as the interior of the Speedway located on the southwest corner. The videos showed a group of people who arrived in the area together in three separate cars who then parked their vehicles and walked to the Speedway gas station together. While several members of this group wore hoods and masks while inside the store, some didn't, and video footage of their faces was captured by the cameras. One member of this group wore a white hoodie with a distinctive photo buttons on the right chest of his sweatshirt. This individual identified this male as Defendant JOVAN JOSHUA KNIGHT, born August 25, 2002. Defendant's appearance matches his appearance in a picture posted to his Instagram account four days after this incident. In addition, officers were also able to identify several other associates captured on surveillance camera, including a known 15-year-old co-respondent male. Prior bad acts and police contacts indicate that these associates have engaged in other criminal acts together, further corroborating their identification here. The group lingered inside and outside of the gas station interacting with each other for several minutes before making their way to the intersection of 22nd and Lyndale. Based on the video surveillance, group saw a person of interest to them (Person 1) and moved to the area where Person 1 had been standing on the northwest corner of the intersection. Person 1 saw the group with Defendant approaching and began moving away, up 22nd Street and in between vehicles. Video surveillance photos did not show Person 1 with any weapon. As the group neared the northwest corner of the intersection where Person 1 had been standing, several of the group appeared to remove handguns from their pockets and took up a position of cover at the corner of the building. After a few moments, Defendant walked into the intersection and began shooting in the direction of Person 1. Surveillance video shows Defendant moved in flanking position relative to Person 1 and fires several shots as Defendant runs through the Speedway parking lot, weaving through vehicles. Defendant then gets back into an SUV vehicle in the driver's seats, waits to pick-up another accomplice, and then flees the shooting, all of which occurred in a busy public intersection.
When the shooting started, video captured the 15-year-old co-respondent crossing Lyndale to the east and taking cover behind a vehicle in front of the Wedge Co-op. From there, the male took a firing stance and fired three separate volley from a fully automatic pistol towards the intersection. MPD crime lab recovered 17 discarded cartridge casings (9mm) from the area where the co-respondent fired. When the shooting started, an uninvolved person walking home was at the southwest corner of the intersection in front of Speedway, and appeared to be struck by the gunfire. During the shooting, other members of Defendant's group also fired handguns from various positions in or near the intersection, and seemed to fire indiscriminately and in random directions. Person 1 and the vehicle had been standing next to had fled, but other persons not involved were still in the area, and one was struck on the lower back next to the spine. That victim was transported to HCMC via ambulance.
Defendant has numerous pending cases, including a first degree Burglary from November 9, 2020 (MNCIS No. 19HA-CR-21-313); a first degree Burglary from December 7, 2020 (MNCIS No. 19HA-CR-21-685); a third degree Drug Sale from November 16, 2021 (27-CR-21-21375); a Fleeing in a Motor Vehicle from
October 27, 2021 (27-CR-21-20067); a Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm from January 7, 2021 (27-CR-21-527); and a Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm with a pending certification motion (27-JV-21-2618).
Defendant has numerous prior adjudications, including: a first degree Burglary from April 17, 2019 (27-JV19-3557); a felony Fleeing in a Motor Vehicle and felony Theft from April 17, 2019 (27-JV-19-2508); a felony Theft and a felony Escape from Custody on June 6, 2019 (27-JV-19-2510); a felony Theft from June 5, 2019 (27-JV-20-3569); a felony first degree Burglary from June 5, 2019 (27-JV-20-3570); and a Fleeing in a Motor Vehicle from June 19, 2020 (27-JV-20-4055).
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Early in the show Billy Mitchell gave the audience a short history of Sunday for Sammy before introducing Sammy newcomers Chris Ramsay and Jason Cook (Hebburn) plus Laura Norton (Emmerdale) Simon Donald (Him off the Viz) and Charles Lawson (Coronation Street) who joined Charlie Hardwick, Joe Caffrey, Angie Lonsdale and Les Robson in two hilarious sketches written by Trevor Wood and Ed Waugh. (Apologies in advance to Ant and Dec and Lee Hall).
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describe('VirtualDom', function () {

    var jasVirtualDom,
        html,
        domMocker,

        instanciate = function () {
            var require = window.getJasmineRequireObj();
            return new require.VirtualDom({
                domMocker: domMocker
            });
        };

    beforeEach(function () {
        domMocker = function () {};

        domMocker.prototype.mockWith = jasmine.createSpy();
        domMocker.prototype.unMock = jasmine.createSpy();

        jasVirtualDom = instanciate();

        html = {
            innerHTML: ''
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        spyOn(document, 'createElement').and.returnValue(html);
    });

    it('should be defined', function () {
        expect(window.getJasmineRequireObj().VirtualDom).toBeDefined();
    });

    describe('installing', function () {

        describe('when no body is passed in', function () {

            it('should add only a empty head and body', function () {
                jasVirtualDom.install();

                expect(html.innerHTML).toEqual('');

                jasVirtualDom.uninstall();
            });
        });

        describe('when body is passed in', function () {

            var body;

            beforeEach(function () {
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Hi!
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Hi2!
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                    '
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                jasVirtualDom.install(body);
            });

            it('should add the html passed in', function () {
                expect(html.innerHTML).toEqual(body);
            });

            it('should mock the API', function () {
                expect(domMocker.prototype.mockWith).toHaveBeenCalledWith(html);
            });

            describe('trying to installing again', function () {

                it('should throw an exception', function () {
                    expect(function () {
                        jasVirtualDom.install(body);
                    }).toThrow('Virtual dom already installed');
                });
            });

            describe('uninstalling', function () {

                it('should relase the mocks', function () {
                    jasVirtualDom.uninstall();

                    expect(domMocker.prototype.unMock).toHaveBeenCalled();
                });

                describe('trying to installing again', function () {

                    it('should not throw an exception', function () {
                        jasVirtualDom.uninstall();

                        expect(function () {
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                        }).not.toThrow();
                    });
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                    spyOn(jasVirtualDom, 'install');
                    spyOn(jasVirtualDom, 'uninstall');

                    jasVirtualDom.resetDom();
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Hochkar est une montagne de  d'altitude située près de Göstling an der Ybbs dans le sud-ouest du Land de Basse-Autriche en Autriche.

Le mont Hochkar accueille sur ses pentes une station de ski de taille moyenne - la plus grande station de ski de Basse-Autriche ainsi que des Préalpes de l'est, avec près de  de pistes et 9 remontées mécaniques. La première remontée y fut construite en 1965.

Le domaine skiable, situé en majeure partie au-delà de la limite de la forêt, est ouvert traditionnellement de décembre à fin avril. Il est réparti sur trois versants, le Hochkar, le Häsing () et le Leckerplan (). Relativement élevé pour la région, il est également l'un des rares domaines de Basse-Autriche à offrir quelques possibilités de ski hors piste, principalement sous le vieux télésiège 2 places Grosses Kar. Les pistes, nombreuses mais offrant un dénivelé relativement limité, sont d'un niveau technique moyen à élevé.

Hochkar est membre du regroupement de stations de ski Skiregion Ostalpen.

La Hochkaralpenstraße, longue de , est une route à péage construite en 1963 qui mène de Göstling an der Ybbs (village situé dans la vallée) jusqu'au sommet. Un système de skibus existe depuis Göstling et la station.

Voir aussi

Article connexe
 Liste des stations de sports d'hiver en Basse-Autriche

Liens externes
 , Site officiel de la station de Hochkar

Notes et références

Sommet des Alpes autrichiennes
Montagne en Styrie
Montagne en Basse-Autriche
Équipement sportif achevé en 1965
Station de sports d'hiver en Autriche

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Q: tell where System.out.print() prints to in java If I use System.out.print("Hello World") and run it in my IDE, it prints to the IDE output. If I compile it into a .jar file and run it from the terminal (mac) then it will print to the terminal; But if I just double click it and it doesn't have a GUI then it will not print anywhere. Is there a way to make it print in a certain app/exe like the terminal?
example:
Runtime runTime = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process process;
process = runTime.exec("open -a terminal");
[some code here]
System.out.print("Hello World");

and it prints hello world into the terminal
extra info: I'm using OSX and my IDE of choice is netbeans
EDIT: I don't want to print to a file, I want to print specifically to the terminal so that I can still receive input

A: print it in a file in terminal using java jar filename.jar > output.out
output file is saved in your current directory.

A: It prints to stdout.
To make output go somewhere else you can redirect stdout to print to some other stream, e.g. a file. See for instance:
System.out to a file in java
In which case, if you want to "double click" something you should create a shortcut that launches your program with a command line that redirects the output.

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How much do pilots earn on average?
A typical day for an airline pilot could include flying passengers or cargo to short-haul or more far-flung destinations.
Commercial pilots' salaries depend on the airline they're working for, the type of aircraft they fly and their level of experience.
Starting salaries range between £20-30,000 for those in the cockpit.
But what about the gender pay gap?
Earlier this year, UK companies with more than 250 employees were required to report their gender pay gap figures for the first time.
British airlines were cited as having large gender pay gaps, which is the percentage difference between average hourly earnings for all male and female staff.
The average median pay difference between men and women was 9.7% across all industries.
Ryanair reported the largest gender pay gap for an airline (71.8%). EasyJet had a 45.5% pay gap, but said that men and women in the same roles are paid equally.
But much of the gap can be explained by one thing – the proportion of male pilots.
At EasyJet, for example, pilots make up a quarter of its UK employees. 6% of its UK pilots are women – a role which pays £92,400 on average. Lower-paid cabin crew, 69% of whom are women, earn an average salary of £24,800.
Before starting their training, potential airline pilots need to hold a Class 1 Medical Certificate. Most training schools and airlines also require five GCSEs and two A-levels in the UK.
Getting an Airline Transport Pilot's Licence, or a 'frozen ATPL'. It can take around 18 months to finish the course, which is a mix of theory and flying. Costs for the course can range between £60-90,000. After at least 1,500 flying hours, you can apply for a full ATPL.
Doing a degree in aviation which includes pilot training. But a degree isn't essential and costs for flight training come on top of tuition fees.
It has said that the high cost of training can put off those from less affluent backgrounds.
Initiatives have also been set up to encourage young women's interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects, which can be useful for those looking to become a pilot.
She said: "A lot of people think it's a highly technical job, which puts them off.