[NYT] It’s hard to believe but it was only three years ago this month ‐ just after 7 p.m., Paris time, Dec. 12, to be precise ‐ that delegates from more than 190 nations, clapping and cheering, whooping and weeping, rose to celebrate the Paris Agreement ‐ the first genuinely collective response to the mounting threat of global warming. It was a largely aspirational document, without strong legal teeth and achieved only after contentious and exhausting negotiations. But for the first time in climate talks stretching back to 1992, it set forth specific, numerical pledges from each country to reduce emissions so that together they could keep atmospheric temperatures from barreling past a point of no return.
Two weeks ago, delegates met at a follow-up conference in Katowice, Poland, to address procedural questions left unsettled in Paris, including common accounting mechanisms and greater transparency in how countries report their emissions. In this the delegates largely succeeded, giving rise to the hope, as Brad Plumer put it in The Times, that "new rules would help build a virtuous cycle of trust and cooperation among countries, at a time when global politics seems increasingly fractured."
But otherwise it was a hugely dispiriting event and a fitting coda to one of the most discouraging years in recent memory for anyone who cares about the health of the planet ‐ a year marked by President Trump’s destructive, retrograde policies, by backsliding among big nations, by fresh data showing that carbon dioxide emissions are still going up, by ever more ominous signs (devastating wildfires and floods, frightening scientific reports) of what a future of unchecked greenhouse gas emissions is likely to bring.
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And yet I have seen it reported (where?) that the US is beating its assigned, but not agreed to, goals, while most of the signatories are not meeting their goals.
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Just when I start to think the NYTs is acting like a legitimate reportage organization with a rare well-written article, they come out with the usual crap. Still the Mockingbird News and mostly fake news. Still good for the parrot cage or to line the cat scat box.
Which are different than accurate scientific reports.
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The Wayland-Yutani research paper suggested that if just one alien cocoon would reach Earth, it would be the end of civilization, and likely all life on Earth.
[Townhall] Over Christmas, there was another tragedy at the border. An eight-year-old migrant boy died while in the custody of the Border Patrol. It’s horrible. It’s not something that anyone wants in these situations, but U.S. immigration authorities didn’t murder the child, which is heavily insinuated if not suggested by members of the liberal media. We have some folks going off half-cocked saying we have full-blown concentration camps under the Trump presidency when it comes to border enforcement. It’s straight up insanity. Then again, what would you expect the reaction would be from a movement that wants open borders? Associated Press has more:
[DanielPipes] As Arabs and Moslems warm to Israel, the Left grows colder. These shifts imply one great imperative for the Jewish state.
On the first shift: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently pointed out "a great change" in the Arab world which has a growing connection to Israeli companies because it needs Israeli "technology and innovation, ... water, electricity, medical care, and high-tech." Explaining this normalization as a result of Arab states "looking for links with the strong," Netanyahu was too tactful of American liberals to add another factor: Barack Obama teachable moment... 's policy of appeasing Tehran jolted the Arab states to get serious about the real threats facing them.
It is striking to note that full-scale Arab state warfare versus Israel lasted a mere 25 years (1948-73) and ended 45 long years ago; and that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... and Iran have since picked up the anti-Zionist torch.
The second, no less important, involves the global Left's growing hostility to Israel.
This pattern can be found consistently from South Korea to Thailand to South Africa to Sweden to Brazil. The Durban conference of 2001 initially brought this phenomenon to light. Among many other examples, the Black Lives Matter platform accuses Israel of "apartheid" and "genocide." A communist labor union in India representing 16 million farmers, apparently joined the boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) movement.
Moslems show increasing indifference to the breakdown in Paleostinian-Israeli diplomacy, but Leftists express growing anger over it.
This last point has great importance: the rage against Israel is not about Ashkenazi-Sephardi relations, tensions on the Temple Mount, a possible attack on Iran's nuclear infrastructure, or Israel's own nuclear weapons. Rather, it almost exclusively concerns the status of some 3 million Paleostinians in the West Bank and Gazoo. Thanks to a mix of Paleostinian public relations expertise and continued antisemitism, the welfare of this small and powerless but fanatical population has transmogrified into the premier global issue of human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... , getting endlessly more attention than, say, Æthiopia ‐ and motivates nearly all denunciations of Israel.
Therefore, when the Left, now largely excluded from power, eventually returns to office in countries like Japan, India, Germany, La Belle France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Israel will face a crisis due to the unresolved situations in the West Bank and Gazoo.
Accordingly, a resolution of this issue should be an utmost priority for Israelis.
Only an Israel victory and a Paleostinian defeat will achieve this. In other words, getting the Paleostinians to cry uncle is an urgent priority for Israel and its supporters.
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"Therefore, when the Left, now largely excluded from power, eventually returns to office in countries like Japan, India, Germany, La Belle France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Israel will face a crisis due to the unresolved situations in the West Bank and Gazoo.
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I just blasted that on twitter without quotes. I ran out of spaces. Thank you so much for that for you to see the futures of this realistically. It is trouble for many folks.
Not me, dear newc. My in-lines are always highlighted in periwinkle. But if you look closely at the article above, you’ll see that Gazoo is lightly underlined with a grey dotted line, indicating it is the result of Fred’s autotranslator, as are the three inlines in the typewriter font highlighted in bright yellow. The untranslated article can always be seen at the link — just click on the headline.
I don’t imagine Twitter will be greatly upset that you sent out the quote with Gazoo instead of Gaza, but if your readers come here, they can go to the original article, too. :-)
It puts light in dark areas.
I quite agree, JohnQC. There are some awfully perceptive people out there.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
