Equation
Lieutenant General
That's because the Judeo-Christian media controls the narrative. Talk to any Middle Easterner outside of Palestine they would agreed that Israel in an apartheid and terrorist act state to the people of Palestine.
Miscellaneous News
- Thread starter bd popeye
- Start date
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has signaled European Union-Indonesia relationships to be at risk with the new Deforestation Regulation, warning that the EU should not attempt to dictate its sustainability standards to ASEAN if it wants to maintain its relationship with Indonesia going forward.
Meanwhile....
Energy crisis means a ‘very dark winter’ for Europe’s forests
NGOs say they speak for the trees, which they worry countries seem to be chopping as fast as they please.
Countries are sharply divided over what role forests should play in achieving the bloc's green goals | Ivo Panasyuk/AFP via Getty Images
By and October 10, 2022 3:35 pm CET
Faced with soaring energy prices and potential blackouts, many EU governments are relaxing logging rules and encouraging people to burn wood to keep their houses warm — something campaigners say spells disaster for Europe's already vulnerable forests.
NGOs and scientists warn that consuming more wood for fuel risks decimating dwindling forests and increasing illegal logging — a claim the industry strongly rejects.
Logging protected forests to guarantee energy security is "crazy" and "very, very destructive," said Katalin Rodics, biodiversity campaigner with Greenpeace Hungary, who pointed out that forests in Hungary had already been damaged by this summer's extreme heat.
Countries are sharply divided over what role forests should play in achieving the bloc's green goals.
Campaigners say wood logging and monoculture plantations can harm biodiversity and will make it harder to reach climate targets, as forests currently act as the EU's main carbon sink. They also point out that wood-burning releases harmful pollutants including fine particulate matter, which to a number of health conditions.
Now some of Europe's most forested countries are allowing more logging to cushion the blow of the energy crisis and encourage wood burning to save on more scarce resources like gas — even if it means decreasing protection for forests.
“Europe is going to burn a considerable amount of wood this year,” said Martin Pigeon, forest and climate campaigner with the NGO Fern, adding the burning will likely be a record and that forests are going to experience a “very, very dark winter."
The U.S. administration under George Bush Sr. never wanted to involve the U.S. military in that simmering conflict boiling over in Europe. Then U.S. administration wanted the Europeans to handle their own mess and at first the European leaders wanted to assert that since the mess brewing was in their garden a.k.a. backyard it was right that they show some mantle of leadership and ownership to the growing pains in the Baltic States, especially in what was then Yugoslavia.
But as I have previously said, Europe is as impotent as they were then militarily could not influence the civil war that was happening under their very nose much to the annoyance of the Bush administration. It was Bill Clinton who saw the political opportunity as his way to spruce up his foreign policy bonafides that was clearly anemic in comparison to his political opponent he was trying to replace. So when he did win the White House, he sent his first SOS in Warren Christopher to follow up on the diplomatic front left behind for him by then outgoing SOS Jim Baker, whom many in the liberal (MSM) media thought was uncaring, unmotivated with the issue occurring in Europe. You can read up on the many diplomatic files that were release pertaining to these chain of events and the action or inactions depending on one's American political leanings and geopolitical interest can be interpreted.
It was after all, under the Democratic leadership of Bill Clinton that NATO was first enlarge and began to expand, which was continued by George Bush Jr. in 2008, then Obama...Richard Holbrooke himself had a shouting match with then Lt.Gen. Wes Clark regarding the said announcement of NATO expansion since the U.S. Army and Military at that time was adamantly opposed to NATO expansion as charged by then Joints Chief Gen. Shalikashvilli (Georgian ethnic background). But Holbrooke was fully committed to the mission given to him by his President Bill Clinton. An Arkansan who then charmed his fellow Arkansan boy in Gen. Wes Clark, a trait that was used by Clark's legion of detractors a.k.a. haters within the U.S. Army. To say that Bill Clinton was unpopular in the U.S. military is an understatement. There was no stronger insult than for anyone to say you're a Clinton General = A wuss, a p...y, and not a warrior's warrior as the late Col. David Hackworth would often derogatory say to many officers he detested, including Gen. Wesley Clark whom he coined as "Perfumed Prince" but I digress....
As hard as it is for most of us here to believe, American foreign policy is not as coherent as many of us here would think or concluded. It is subjected to the malign influence of in my opinion, arm chair quarterbacks, academic hacks, and chicken hawks like John Bolton, Bill Kristol, Canadian-American David Frum and many think tanks dominated by these charlatans. After all, one of the enduring legacies of these think tank monkeys is one PNAC or Project of the New American Century which William Kristol was a prominent member. Wrote a famous letter to Bill Clinton urging him to take action against Saddam Hussein, which they also tried to do in 1998 but could not get or hood winked the support of the American people at that time. They tried trotting out then SOS Madeline Albright to make the case for attacking Saddam Hussein in a live townhall meeting at Georgetown University where she was trashed by students questioning American sanctions that were actually killing more people that what Saddam Managed to do in his tenure as the leader of that country. I am sure some of you have seen her interview on 60 minutes in which the stenographer Leslie Stahl questioned the morality of sanctions where it was estimated to have killed over 500,000 people mostly women and children. She was asked point blank if the loss of lives were worth it, and without blinking SOS Albright said Yes....And they call Russians barbaric lol...
Anyway, my point here is that U.S. foreign policy decision makers aren't lead by serious people. They are being lead by losers, supremacist blinded by their own rhetoric that indeed the End of History had occured and PAX Americana is here to stay regardless of the changing new world order. That America has managed to eke out it's continued but declining lead is primarily the by product, sacrifice of the generation almost gone and will be forgotten sometime soon.. The country is instead lead by people who has never made great sacrifices, paid a heavy price to be sober in their thinking and approach with respect to any word issues. Who's America's foremost strategic thinker nowadays? Joe Rogan a f...ng podcaster? lol George Kennan he ain't.
Well if these idiots don’t want to freeze in winter and given that these NGOs ensured that they cannot get cheap energy like they can normally do, well either they have to chop down trees to keep warm, thus they should stfu about climate change given that they have no moral high ground want so ever, or either they offer their heads on a plate to Russia in hopes that they can have even a little bit of an access to the energy they once could use until they did everything they have done to sever ties with Russia. I really do believe the world will be a better place when these evil interest groups get rounded up, put onto a pacific island and nukes to kingdom come so that the world can finally move on because these POS are holding the world backMeanwhile....
Energy crisis means a ‘very dark winter’ for Europe’s forests
NGOs say they speak for the trees, which they worry countries seem to be chopping as fast as they please.
Countries are sharply divided over what role forests should play in achieving the bloc's green goals | Ivo Panasyuk/AFP via Getty Images
By and October 10, 2022 3:35 pm CET
Faced with soaring energy prices and potential blackouts, many EU governments are relaxing logging rules and encouraging people to burn wood to keep their houses warm — something campaigners say spells disaster for Europe's already vulnerable forests.
NGOs and scientists warn that consuming more wood for fuel risks decimating dwindling forests and increasing illegal logging — a claim the industry strongly rejects.
Logging protected forests to guarantee energy security is "crazy" and "very, very destructive," said Katalin Rodics, biodiversity campaigner with Greenpeace Hungary, who pointed out that forests in Hungary had already been damaged by this summer's extreme heat.
Countries are sharply divided over what role forests should play in achieving the bloc's green goals.
Campaigners say wood logging and monoculture plantations can harm biodiversity and will make it harder to reach climate targets, as forests currently act as the EU's main carbon sink. They also point out that wood-burning releases harmful pollutants including fine particulate matter, which to a number of health conditions.
Now some of Europe's most forested countries are allowing more logging to cushion the blow of the energy crisis and encourage wood burning to save on more scarce resources like gas — even if it means decreasing protection for forests.
“Europe is going to burn a considerable amount of wood this year,” said Martin Pigeon, forest and climate campaigner with the NGO Fern, adding the burning will likely be a record and that forests are going to experience a “very, very dark winter."
A pirate is always a pirate. A thief that uses national security to force sales of a very profitable foreign company. Even shutting down TikTok would be more legit. It is just astonishing that some members want to give Google, FB, and Twitter access to the Chinese market.
Brentwoods already died on Dec 9th 2022... he is a bit slow
Will this move improve their chances of defending against the PLA?