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Is there a link between climate change and terrorism?

May 27, 2015

Is there a link between climate change and terrorism?

U.S. president says yes, but some climate analysts not so sure

Barack Obama has spent considerable time in recent months publicly explaining his positions on both climate change and violent extremism.

But in a Coast Guard commencement address last week, the U.S. president deliberately combined the two, saying that climate change “constitutes a serious threat to global security.”

Security analysts say the idea has been percolating in Western military circles for the past few years, but there is still skepticism about a direct link.

Francesca de Châtel, an Amsterdam-based researcher with an expertise in water issues in the Arab world, says that while issues such as climate change and terrorism are real, “bundling them all together” is problematic.

“Climate change implies a lot of unknowns, and then if you add to that conflict, which also implies unknown outcomes, it just creates an air of uncertainty and fear,” she says.

Stage-setting for climate talks

Still, for Obama, “climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country,” he told over 200 graduating Coast Guard cadets in Connecticut.

U.S. President Barack Obama used a recent commencement address for Coast Guard graduates to talk about the link between climate change and regional conflicts. (AP file photo)

The same day as Obama’s speech, the White House released a paper called “The National Security Implications of a Changing Climate.”

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Obama’s New National Security Strategy Is Rabidly Anti-Russian

February 12, 2015

Obama’s New National Security Strategy Is Rabidly Anti-Russian

U.S. President Barack Obama’s just-issued National Security Strategy 2015 uses the term “aggression” precisely 18 times, all but one of which are either explicitly, or else possibly, referring to Russia, as allegedly doing the alleged “aggression” — never the U.S., and on only one occasion is he identifying North Korea with that term of opprobrium. Presumably, he thinks that Russia is by far the most “aggressive” country.

His new National Security Strategy is actually even obsessed with Russia, as being the virtually exclusive “aggressor” in the world. He especially alleges Russia’s “aggression” in Ukraine, where Obama himself was the actual aggressor: Obama’s Ukrainian coup in February 2014 replaced a neutral Ukrainian President with an entire regime that is passionately anti-Russian; and many members of this regime are on record as aiming to wipe Russia entirely off the map — but Obama is not the “aggressor,” supposedly.

Every specific reference in this Obama document, to “Russia,” is negative, even extremely hostile — as if Russia is encircling the U.S. with its military bases, instead of the U.S. and its NATO partners who have been encircling Russia with U.S. military bases.

 

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Only 44 Percent Of U.S. Adults Are Employed For 30 Or More Hours Per Week

February 7, 2015

Only 44 Percent Of U.S. Adults Are Employed For 30 Or More Hours Per Week

Jim Clifton, the Chairman and CEO of Gallup, says that the percentage of Americans that are employed full-time has been hovering near record lows since the end of the last recession.  But most Americans don’t realize this because the official unemployment numbers are extremely misleading.  In fact, Clifton says that the official 5.6 percent unemployment rate is a “big lie”.  Gallup regularly tracks the percentage of U.S. adults that are employed for 30 or more hours per week, and it is currently at 44.2 percent.  It has been hovering between 42 percent and 45 percent since the end of 2009.  This is extremely low.  As I discussed the other day, there are 8.69 million Americans that are considered to be “officially unemployed” at this point.  But there are another 92.90 million Americans that are considered to be “not in the labor force”.  Millions upon millions of those Americans would work if they could.  Overall, there are 101 million U.S. adults that do not have a job right now.  But you won’t hear that number being discussed by the mainstream media, because it would make Barack Obama look really bad.

Most Americans just assume that the economic numbers that we are being given accurately reflect reality.  That is why it is so refreshing to have men like Jim Clifton step forward and tell the truth.  His recent article entitled “The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment” is making headlines all over America.  The following is an extended excerpt from that article…

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