Gotta read all!---Delingpole: Greenland Ice Melt Shock - The Terrifying Truth!

Delingpole: Greenland Ice Melt Shock - The Terrifying Truth!

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"Greenland just lost 11 billion tons of ice melted in one day because of this shocking weather event known as ‘summer’.

CBS News‘s resident climate expert Ted Scambos [loving the poetry of that first syllable in his surname!] thinks this is worrying and unusual; so does the Washington Post, which declares it “one of its greatest melting events ever recorded”; so too does renowned Canadian alarmist Bill McKibben.

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As Greenland's heat wave peaks tomorrow, rate of melting is expected to be highest ever recorded. This is ungoodhttps://www. washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/07/31/greenland-ice-sheet-is-throes-one-its-greatest-melting-events-ever-recorded/?utm_term=.01b931914899 …

The Greenland ice sheet is in the throes of one of its greatest melting events ever recorded

The heat dome that caused the extreme European heat wave is now affecting the Arctic, where the Greenland Ice Sheet is seeing one of its most intense melt events on record.

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"...Do you not realise that if the Greenland ice sheet goes on melting at this extraordinary rate, then within 12,500 years HALF of it will be gone?

Yes, you read that right. 
In 12,500 years – that’s about twice as far ahead into the future as we are now from the world’s earliest civilisation, Sumer, in 4500 BC – the Greenland ice sheet could be half gone, with almost incalculable consequences for those of us who are still alive.

We have Willis Eschenbach to thank for this timely warning. 
He has been doing the math at Watts Up With That? and this is his finding:

Here’s one way of looking at that. We can ask, IF Greenland were to continue losing ice mass at a rate of 103 billion tonnes per year, how long would it take to melt say half of the ice sheet? Not all of it, mind you, but half of it. (Note that I am NOT saying that extending a current trend is a way to estimate the future evolution of the ice sheet—I’m merely using it as a way to compare large numbers.)...

Paul Homewood isn’t much impressed with the panic-mongering either.

The ice sheet surface mass balance is running well above that of 2012:

http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/

And there is no mention of the fact that the ice sheet grew substantially last year, and also the year before:

The simple fact is that the Greenland ice sheet melts every summer, particularly when the sun shines. That’s what it does. And it grows back again in winter as the snow falls. Indeed, if it did not melt, it would carry on growing year after year..."
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Taxpayers Pay $2 Billion To Fund 30,000 Public Employees In Baltimore, Audit Shows | The Daily Caller

Taxpayers Pay $2 Billion To Fund 30,000 Public Employees In Baltimore, Audit Shows | The Daily Caller:

Taxpayers have paid nearly $2 billion in federal aid to fund 30,000 public employees in Baltimore at local and federal levels, an audit shows.
Baltimore reportedly has 13,522 employees with a combined payroll that exceeds $821 million annually. The mayor’s office paid $7 million in 2018 for the salaries of 111 employees and $1 million for public relations fees, according to an investigation auditors at OpenTheBooks.com conducted.

Their words. Their lips.

Are Schools Replacing Parents? | Intellectual Takeout

Are Schools Replacing Parents? | Intellectual Takeout
"...Tennessee will spend the next year on the task as one of eight states chosen to draft new standards focused on students’ emotional well-being and mental health in grades K-12.

"That means setting benchmarks for what students should know or be able to do in each grade when it comes to skills such as decision-making, self-awareness, social awareness, self-control, and establishing and maintaining healthy relationships..."

...But one has to wonder: is it the school’s responsibility to teach those things, or is it the responsibility of the parent in the home?

Several years ago, former teacher John Taylor Gatto addressed this question in his book Dumbing Us Down. While Gatto implies that parents are the best teachers of social and emotional learning, he also notes that it is difficult for parents to follow through and fulfill their role in this area, largely because the education system has declared themselves the experts in raising children: 

“[N]o large-scale reform is ever going to work to repair our damaged children and our damaged society until we force open the idea of ‘school’ to include family as the main engine of education. If we use schooling to break children away from parents – and make no mistake, that has been the central function of schools...we’re going to continue to have the horror show we have right now..."

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Mulvaney: Shootings Not Trump Fault — 'I Blame the People Who Pulled The Trigger' | Breitbart

Mulvaney: Shootings Not Trump Fault — 'I Blame the People Who Pulled The Trigger' | Breitbart:

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said President Donald Trump should not be blamed for mass shootings.
Mulvaney said, “I blame the people who pulled the triggers. Is someone really blaming the president? These people are sick. And until we address why people think this way. This young man —let’s be clear, we know nothing about the shooter in Dayton, we’re just talking about the shooter in El Paso. This was a sick person. You can go and read the things the person wrote, now available to the public, making the person famous.”

D.C. Metro Report: 'Single, Self-Cleaning' Toilet Cost $500K to Maintain...Hasn't Flushed Since 2017 | MRCTV

D.C. Metro Report: 'Single, Self-Cleaning' Toilet Cost $500K to Maintain...Hasn't Flushed Since 2017 | MRCTV
"Washington D.C. is known for being completely full of crap because of the politicians that inhabit it, but this is ridiculous.
The Office of Inspector General, headed by Geoffrey Cherrington, recently came out with a semi-annual report about the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) system, known to locals as the "Metro.
...According to the report:

OI [Investigations] received a referral from OA [Audits] indicating that WMATA spent approximately $500,000 maintaining a single self-cleaning toilet located at the Huntington Metro Station..."

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Well, they don't deny it.

World Bank Study Finds That Deregulation Reduces Extreme Poverty | Craig Eyermann

World Bank Study Finds That Deregulation Reduces Extreme Poverty | Craig Eyermann
Regardless of where you might live around the world, if you live on less than $2 a day, you would be considered to be living in extreme poverty.

According to the World Bank, in 2015 about 736 million people around the world, or just under 10 percent of the world’s population, had incomes that put them below this international poverty line. 
Believe it or not, that is extraordinarily good news because poverty rates around the world have fallen dramatically since 1981 when 42 percent of the world’s population lived on an inflation-adjusted $1.90 or less per day.

World Bank economists studying a portion of this decline in the nine years from 2005 through 2013, when the extreme poverty rate was cut nearly in half from 21 percent to 11 percent, have discovered that much of this reduction in global poverty came about because of deregulation, as governments around the world have been reducing the regulatory burdens they impose on their citizens..."

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#1 This day 1960-----Brenda Lee - I'm Sorry

Climatologist: July 2019 Was Not The Warmest On Record | Climate Dispatch

Climatologist: July 2019 Was Not The Warmest On Record | Climate Dispatch
"July 2019 was probably the 4th warmest of the last 41 years. 
...We are now seeing news reports (e.g. CNN, BBC, Reuters) that July 2019 was the hottest month on record for global average surface air temperatures.
One would think that the very best data would be used to make this assessment. 
After all, it comes from official government sources (such as NOAA, and the World Meteorological Organization [WMO]).
But current official pronouncements of global temperature records come from a fairly limited and error-prone array of thermometers which were never intended to measure global temperature trends. 
The global surface thermometer network has three major problems when it comes to getting global-average temperatures...

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Talk about hate-laden language.

Former Google Engineer: Google Will Try to Prevent Trump from Being Re-elected | Breitbart

Former Google Engineer: Google Will Try to Prevent Trump from Being Re-elected | Breitbart:

Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” former Google engineer Kevin Cernekee argued there was political bias within the tech giant.
Cernekee claimed to have been bullied and ultimately fired for his right-wing beliefs. However, Cernekee said it was his view that Google would attempt to thwart President Donald Trump’s re-election in 2020.

Cruz: 'Universities are trying really hard to raise a generation of pansies'

Cruz: 'Universities are trying really hard to raise a generation of pansies'

"Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz bashed universities in a Thursday speech, saying that America’s colleges are raising a “generation of pansies” and doing a disservice to students by shielding them from “scary ideas.”

Cruz let loose on academia at Young America’s Foundation National Conservative Student Conference, telling the crowd “if you are a university administrator, the ideas that are represented in this room are terrifying.”

"our colleges and universities are trying really hard to raise a generation of pansies"    Tweet This

“There are no ‘safe spaces’ in this room,” he added. 

[RELATED: 'Trigger warnings' widely used for years...but at what cost?]

During the question and answer session, one Binghamton University student shared with Cruz his experience of having to employ trigger warnings during college debate competitions, as well as everyone having to share their preferred gender pronouns before a competition and “gender minority” female-only debate tournaments.

“We’re all gonna die,” Cruz said jokingly, before taking a more serious jab at the practice of “trigger warnings” in general..."
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History for August 6

History for August 6 - On-This-Day.com
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809, Sir Alexander Fleming 1881, Lucille Ball 1911


Robert Mitchum 1917, Andy Warhol 1928, Peter Bonerz 1938


1945 - The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed. (8:16am Japanese time)


1998 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with U.S. President Clinton.

Stepping Over Mueller’s Cadaver – American Greatness

Stepping Over Mueller’s Cadaver – American Greatness:

There are few hoaxes in the history of journalism as disgraceful as Russiagate, and few events underscore the media’s shame quite like its tragic, unintentionally humorous coda.
Liberals expected Robert Mueller’s testimony to be a moment of truth for Trump; but it turned out to be the only truthful moment in this soap opera. How quickly fact goes to work; in an afternoon, the number one “news” story in America for two years had completely evaporated, along with the reputation of its protagonist.

The way we were-----Batman 1966 - The Batusi

Boob-tube-----Do You Trust Your Wife" with Johnny Carson (1958)

It's ALL about the money!-----The fact is that our earth has ice in its veins

The fact is that our earth has ice in its veins
"Climate change is a defining issue of our time, especially for young people who are persuaded that we are doomed unless urgent action is taken on carbon emissions. 
Activists, with some success, are demanding climate emergencies be declared around the world, making those demands on the basis that temperatures are at record highs, glaciers and sea ice are melting at unprecedented rates, and sea levels rising dangerously.
A cursory examination of the geological literature shows that the first two assertions are simply not true, and that rising sea levels are par for the course.
To assert that today’s temperatures are record highs is mischief-making of the highest order. 
Earth has been much hotter (up to 10C hotter) for the vast majority of geological time. 
...Sea levels were significantly higher than today just a very short time ago.
Sea levels were also significantly higher in the last interglacial 125,000 years ago; Florida Keys, for example, is the remains of a coral reef that grew then..."
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MS-13 Terrorized Los Angeles Area High School But Authorities Demanded Secrecy | Blog Posts | VDARE.com

MS-13 Terrorized Los Angeles Area High School But Authorities Demanded Secrecy | Blog Posts | VDARE.com:
"Over the last few days, the Los Angeles Times has run two front-page stories about an MS-13 murder in a San Fernando Valley high school. 
Media attention is helpful, because officials like to ignore the fact that open borders have been very harmful to young Americans, from dumbing down primary grades to allowing murderous foreign gangs to terrorize high schools..."
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Peter Thiel: Google sharing 'military tech' with top U.S. adversary - WND

Peter Thiel: Google sharing 'military tech' with top U.S. adversary - WND:

Google terminated the Pentagon contract after employees complained about the use of their research for defense purposes.
“How can Google use the rhetoric of ‘borderless’ benefits to justify working with the country whose ‘Great Firewall’ has imposed a border on the internet itself?” Thiel wrote, referring to China’s censorship of the internet.
“This way of thinking works only inside Google’s cosseted Northern California campus, quite distinct from the world outside,” he wrote.

Truth or fact?--It's the BEE!---Experts Warn We Have Only 12 Years Left Until They Change The Timeline On Global Warming Again | The Babylon Bee

Experts Warn We Have Only 12 Years Left Until They Change The Timeline On Global Warming Again | The Babylon Bee
"WORLD—Climate experts have solemnly warned that we only have twelve years left until they change the dates on global warming again.
"If we don't take action, then in 12 years we will have to explain why the world hasn't ended and come up with a new number," one UN scientist warned.
"This is a very serious threat, and we urge everyone to hand control of the economy to the government immediately before we have no more time left to change the timeline again."..."
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These fools teaching YOUR children?-----Chicago teachers travel to Venezuela to show support for socialist regime | The College Fix

Chicago teachers travel to Venezuela to show support for socialist regime | The College Fix
"Members of the Chicago Teachers Union traveled to Venezuela last month to “learn what they could from [the country’s] Bolivarian Revolution, exchange views on effective education,” and to “show solidarity with the students, teachers and social movements.”...
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Lunch video-----How Is Muslim Immigration to Sweden Working Out?

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Alleged leader of massive drug, sex trafficking ring arrested in Monroe after nearly 3-year manhunt

Alleged leader of massive drug, sex trafficking ring arrested in Monroe after nearly 3-year manhunt:

After a nearly three-year long manhunt, the accused leader of a large human trafficking and drug ring is finally behind bars Thursday morning.
Federal agents arrested 50-year-old Darrick Bell in Monroe late yesterday.
According to Homeland Security agents, Bell ran a major human trafficking ring at the since-torn-down Victory Inn on Detroit's west side. The location was even staffed with lookouts and armed enforcers, authorities say.

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