JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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weedkila
I love the irony of this. By designating three parks in Beijing as official Olympic demonstration zones, the Chinese Government has apparently taken a page straight out of the Bush administration's book which introduced and expanded the concept of "first amendment areas."
From what I've read, these "free speech zones" were used during the Democratic and Republican Conventions in Boston in 2004 and consisted of concrete walls, barriers and metal cages with barbed wire.
As Dubya once said, "“You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.”
Posted in: Bush calls for freedom of speech in China
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weedkila
You didn't make yourself very clear. Do you mean global warming due to man and the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere?
If so one of world's leading hurricane forecasters (Dr. William M. Gray), who happens to work at the same same university as the one stated in the JT story said that... The hurricane activity of the next 20 years should resemble the period that began in the late 1920s and lasted through the 1940s. The increase is due to higher salinity content in the Atlantic Ocean, which alters its currents and increases average ocean temperatures, fueling more storms. Gray emphasizes that this is a cyclical trend and has nothing to do with global warming. (April 2000)
You can google his name and find that his position has not changed. In fact he now predicts a period of global cooling.
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weedkila
It's interesting that nobody has mentioned Zbigniew Brzezinski, (Jimmy Carter's ex-national security adviser), who is apparently the brain behind Obama's campaign. Going by his record it is not a good sign.
Obama: The real power behind the throne-to-be
Brzezinski’s brand of anti-Russian, anti-Muslim geopolitics will dominate a future Obama administration.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9649
US Policy Shift On Iran-Iraq Again Shows Brzezinski Rules In Washington
http://www.rense.com/general82/uspol.htm
Posted in: Obama addresses 200,000 in Berlin with message of unity for world's people
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weedkila
Try a test - try breathing pure O2 and see how long you last.
This will improve the gene pool and decrease global warming.
Posted in: Citing effects on U.S. economy, Bush passes global warming problem to next administration
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weedkila
Nobody is. Look at global temperatures from satellite data or any of the other info/links that've been posted. You're being selective and trying to force the argument to fit your myth of perpetual warming based on CO2 - or the heat island effect, as your "expert on global warming" friend tried to mislead us on. Too bad that annoying things like facts get in the way!
"Like the polar ice caps in summer... are rapidly melting away"
Well, you're kind of right about the Arctic ice cap, but only to an extent. Here's another inconvenient truth for you.
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) now believes that the new record for minimum sea ice coverage in the northern hemisphere was indeed reached on September 16th, 2007 as the summer melt season has appeared to have ended, and sea ice loss has either stopped, or reversed due to the change in season. Also, as of September 20th, the Northwest Passage is still open, but is starting to refreeze.
A different story in Antarctica.......
The coverage in sea ice in the southern hemisphere, around Antarctica is nearing a record maximum. Patrick Henry has been diligent in keeping us up to date on this story. If you look at the Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Area Chart, you can see that the latest data point is just shy of 16 million square kilometers.... (POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2007)
The above was posted just before the record cold winter of 2007-8 set in.
http://global-warming.accuweather.com/2007/09/updateonpolariceextremes.html
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Arctic sea ice back to its previous level, bears safe; film at 11
In the late summer and early fall of 2007, there were a number of alarming media reports about the arctic sea ice melting. Additionally, there were predictions that it would not recover to its previous levels. But, we have this graph charting the rise and fall of arctic sea ice for the last 365 days, notice that the arctic sea ice is right back where it started at in February 2007. -- From the University of Illinois Cryosphere Today.... (February 2008)
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/arctic-sea-ice-back-to-its-previous-level-bears-safe-film-at-11/
So why was there record ice loss in the Arctic but record ice cover in Antarctica? Maybe it has something to do with undersea volcanoes in the Arctic region along with naturally occurring melting due to the sun and other factors.
Volcanoes Erupt Beneath Arctic Ice
http://www.livescience.com/environment/080627-sea-volcanoes.html
Study finds Arctic seabed afire with lava-spewing volcanoes
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=81bb2fd3-63f1-476f-b0be-f48c0dc90304
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Gyudon:
You might want to check this 10 min. clip out. In one section the guy explains how the IPCC manipulated facts and figures to sell man-made global warming to the public.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W-BePJOLbw&eurl=
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weedkila
jaybeeb:
I recommend hemp! If you do a google search on hemp and "global warming" the first site at the top says ... It is possible to produce all of our energy with Cannabis Hemp. The unique growing properties of the plant make it the ideal crop for our energy needs. One acre of Cannabis Hemp can produce 1000 gallons of methanol in a single growing season. Any CO2 released from burning Cannabis Hemp would be the same CO2 the plant had already taken from the environment, creating what is called a closed carbon cycle.
If CO2 was really the problem gas it is made out to be don't you think we would have already converted to this amazing plant!? I believe the only reason cannabis become illegal back in the 30s (or thereabouts) was because there was too much money to be made in fossil fuels. The usual story.
Posted in: Citing effects on U.S. economy, Bush passes global warming problem to next administration
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weedkila
frontandcentre:
Where is your global warming? China has had it's coldest winter for 100 years and there have been record snow levels across Northeast America. Antarctica has had record sea ice coverage (but not the Arctic.) It also snowed in Baghdad and other parts of the Middle East last winter which I believe was very rare, or even a first. Even the mouthpiece of the British Gov, the BBC, has had to admit that average global temperatures have not increased since 1998.
Mr Jarraud (World Meteorological Organization's secretary-general) told the BBC that the effect was likely to continue into the summer, depressing temperatures globally by a fraction of a degree. This would mean that temperatures have not risen globally since 1998 when El Nino warmed the world.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7329799.stm
The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat
These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. .... This is puzzling in part because here on the surface of the Earth, the years since 2003 have been some of the hottest on record. But Josh Willis at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the oceans are what really matter when it comes to global warming. In fact, 80 percent to 90 percent of global warming involves heating up ocean waters. They hold much more heat than the atmosphere can.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025
Carbon emissions have never driven climate change because as ice core samples show, carbon dioxide is a result of temperature increase and not a cause of it, sometimes lagging behind by as much as 800 years. The scientists who continue to support global warming are either ignorant of the facts or are compromised by funding etc. Furthermore, it is the bureaucrats on the UN international climate change panel and not the scientists who write up the final report which is then disseminated to the world's media.
http://www.greatglobalwarmingswindle.com/co2_temperature.html
I recommend you take a quick look at what the 'experts' said were saying in the media back in the 60s and 70s about global cooling. These alarmists were given plenty of media coverage to tell us that all animal life in the sea would be extinct by 1979 and England would be underwater by the year 2000, and so and so forth.
http://www.greatglobalwarmingswindle.com/apocalypse_then.html
Rather than comparing sceptics of CO2-driven global warming with people like George Bush (or even holocaust deniers, as some do) try to be open minded and not confuse general pollution with CO2. Human-caused global warming is the biggest scam going and is worth trillions, but not to you or I, unfortunately.
By the way, since you like peer reviewed papers here is a recent report which says:
Three top scientists have once again contradicted the claim that a “consensus” exists about man-made global warming with research that indicates CO2 emissions actually cool the atmosphere, in addition to another peer-reviewed paper that documents how the IPCC overstated CO2’s effect on temperature by as much as 2000 per cent.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/two-peer-reviewed-scientific-papers-debunk-co2-myth.html
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weedkila
Taka313 at 11:18 AM JST - 13th July
I'm wondering what this got to do with CO2 and out-of-control warming? You are talking about the heat island effect and that is obviously driven by the radiance of the sun.
If you are still lurking on this thread I have a point you might like to consider. If scientists are compiling global temperatures taken from thermometers in city centres (as they have been found doing) then naturally you will get higher than average temperatures. But if average global temperatures are taken from satellites wouldn't that show a more balanced reading? According to 4 temperature tracking satellites average global mean temperatures have dropped significantly since Jan. 2007. As I think Wolfpack mentioned, before this drop global temperatures had been basically levelling out since 1998.
Wolfpack:
I believe the warmest period was not in the 1930s, but in the middle ages. See the following url for global temps over the past 2000 years (based on ice core samples etc.) If you take this period into account (Al Gore and Co. do not) global warming starts to look exactly what it is, a hoax. Global temperatures were warmer then than what they are now. Good posts, btw.
http://www.junkscience.com/MSU_Temps/Moberg2005.html
To all you people who believe the global warming theory please consider what this scientist has to say. Collectively your support of policies directed at fighting global warming may, in fact, lead to millions of deaths from starvation if it is combined with the equally ridiculous policy on biofuels. The person who was interviewed in this video talks about the current global COOLING trend which is interesting because he is/was a policy analyst to the EU and UK govts. and a former UN environmental advisor.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xvO6oLYWAQI
Taka313:
The debate is over, right! What an arrogant remark.
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weedkila
And the only people that profit are the ones that arm both sides simultaneously.
Posted in: We currently spend 11 times more money killing each other than we do trying to stop the Innocent from dying. Climate change and rising food prices hurt the poor first and foremost. They suffer for our pollution.
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weedkila
but according to Al Gore's predictions of melting glaciers and polar caps won't that put Branson's island beneath the waves soon? Or maybe they know something we don't.
Zen_Builder: you'd better not tell that to people in developing countries who struggling to survive because crops like corn are being diverted into biofuels. I think the same amount of corn converted to biofuel and used to fill the tank of an SUV would be enough to feed a child for a year.
Posted in: Richard Branson plans world's most eco-friendly resort in British Virgin Islands
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weedkila
shouldn't that be 'vandalism'?
Posted in: English graffiti 'Hack' grounds bullet train
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weedkila
Not supporting the global warming crowd almost puts a person in the same camp as the holocaust deniers. The green movement has been hijacked and any worthwhile campaigning they do is now compromised by the gloom and doomers/profiteers.
It's funny that the global warming hype is being pushed by the likes of Al Bore and Tony BLiar. These two had no problems destroying the environment during their terms as VP/PM (think DU shells in Iraq/Yugoslavia or their support of laws in favour of heavily polluting corporations etc.) Few people seem to see the hypocrisy and even fewer question their real motives.
Posted in: Fukuda calls for major emitters to join climate change framework
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weedkila
...but I mostly agree with your second post about changing to cleaner and more efficient technologies. Nothing to do with CO2 (not a pollutant) but to cut down on pollution in general.
Posted in: Fukuda calls for major emitters to join climate change framework
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weedkila
So what's that got to do with carbon emissions? China's apparent water shortage could be caused through any one of a number of reasons.
Perhaps it has something to do with undersea volcanism? Perhaps you didn't know but the Antarctic ice sheet is actually increasing in size and depth. Naturally you would not hear about that in the corporate owned media.
Expedition yields first evidence of explosive volcanism on Arctic seafloor
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/33630/description/Under_Ice
Arctic seabed afire with lava-spewing volcanoes
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=81bb2fd3-63f1-476f-b0be-f48c0dc90304
Posted in: Fukuda calls for major emitters to join climate change framework
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weedkila
re. your 08:34 AM JST post
Posted in: Everything spinning out of control
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weedkila
tkoind: I agree and good to hear you're ready to do something about it : ). Perhaps if you follow the money you'll also start to understand more fully the media obsession with topics like the carbon emissions 'problem' and even peak oil (although we don't seem to hear so much about that these days.)
As I mentioned further up the page, the Fed is privately owned and is one of the reasons the US is currently in deep trouble. (An ex president, Wilson, sold out to a bunch of banking families in 1913.) It is these parasitic families (and corporations) who really pull the strings. Interestingly, there is not even a law that requires US citizens to pay income tax, although it's enforced anyway for the elite's wars and so on. This is not a conspiracy theory and has all been thoroughly documented. A couple of online vids that explain it quite well are "America: freedom to fascism" (Aaron Russo) and "Money as debt" (both on google vid.)
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weedkila
not sure what "men in black" have to do with this thread but by completely rejecting any ideas other than your own preconceived version of reality shows how easy it would be to further any agenda a shadow government or the Bilderberg grp might have, if that's what you are talking about.
It's not only "paranoid" Americans who "imagine these absurdities." In fact an increasing number of non-Americans (I'm one of them) know or suspect the situation is not quite as the politicians and ABCNNBC et al portray things. History is replete with stuff like this but people fail to learn.
Posted in: Everything spinning out of control
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weedkila
tkoind: Don't you think there might be some method behind the madness? The late George Carlin (God bless him) said it best in "Education and the owners of America" : )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMqJvhmD5Yg
Most of the ckrap that's going on is being done intentionally to scare people into giving up their rights willingly (false sense of security), not to mention their money. Don't be afraid or fooled, be educated. It's interesting that the upcoming G8 gets all the media attention, but when the likes of Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller, the Queens of Spain & the Netherlands, Condi Rice, Wolfowitz, Pearl and the CEOs of some of the biggest corps and banks in Europe/America got together earlier this month there was a total media blackout. And it's the same every year. (Click the first link in the story for a list of the attendees.)
http://warofillusions.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/my-analysis-of-bilderberg-2008/
This was not reported in the mainstream media. I wonder why not? (Imagine the biggest movie stars getting together for a similar meeting.)
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weedkila
Spinning out of control by design and the above article is a good example of it. Apart from sensationalism in the corporate media we have others manipulating the situation too like the privately-owned US Fed and lackey politicians. Bush and co. have been total failures for the American people/world but they've done an outstanding job for the super rich and the corporations. Order out of chaos is the way to global governance.
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weedkila
Why have they got Fukuda standing on an iceberg with a polar bear!? Polar bears are not endangered.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKAC4kfHruQ&eurl=
If Fukuda wants to show that he is concerned for the environment then perhaps it would be better if were supporting of victims of minamata-byo, or itaiitai-byou, or some other group which has been on the losing end of Japan's environmental failures and court decisions. The polar bear is doing just fine. The real victims are sweep under the carpet.
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