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Hollywood's Growing Dependency on Chinese Capital
January 29, 2017 FilmTake Distribution Comments Off on Hollywood's Growing Dependency on Chinese Capital
The media industry's increasing dependence on Chinese capital sets up a crisis once the chickens of China's property market come home to roost.
In a September 2016 interview, Wang Jialin, CEO of Wanda Dalian Group, who made his fortune in the country's real estate market, said the market was spiraling out of control, and that it's the "biggest bubble in history."
Wanda's Buying Spree
Wanda Group has gone on an entertainment-shopping spree in the U.S., with buyouts of theater chain AMC Entertainment in 2012, then last year acquiring Legendary Entertainment and Dick Clark Productions, which produces the Golden Globes.
In Europe, Wanda recently acquired London-based Odeon and UCI Cinemas for $1.2 billion, and just last week announced the buyout of Nordic Cinema Group for $930 million.
Wanda currently operates 1,352 movie theaters worldwide with 14,347 screens, giving it a share of about 12 percent of the global box office market. It aims to increase that to 20 percent by 2020.
WANDA CINEMA STOCK DOWN 55% IN 2016
Phantom Stock
When company founder Thomas Tull sold Legendary Pictures to Wanda for $3.5 billion last year, he received "phantom stock" because of China's prohibition on foreign ownership. Tull draws arbitrary payments based on convoluted interest calculations, rather than ownership interest.
Inside access to a SVOD and VOD licensing agreement between iQiyi and a US-based studio that extends through 2019.
Although Wang Jianlin has full ownership control in several US and European media enterprises, his Western counterparts are forbidden to own any interest in Chinese companies.
Read More: China's Rampant Box Office Fraud
Tull relied upon a planned reorganization of Wanda Cinema Group in 2016 to receive his payout. However, after the Shenzhen Stock Exchange thwarted Wanda's efforts to reorganize because the company wasn't profitable, any liquidity events looks unlikely in medium-term.
Last week Thomas Tull unexpectedly resigned from the company he founded in 2005 – less than a year from Wanda's takeover.
Rocky Road for the New Owners
Legendary lost $500 million according to Chinese regulators in 2016.
The now Chinese company saw its first major co-production underperformed expectations in China. The Great Wall, starring Matt Damon and Andy Lau, only managed to gross $150 million locally, on par with Kung Fu Panda 3.
The film's budget and marketing costs will likely total $250 million.
Related: China's Deserted Movie Theaters
The Great Wall is scheduled for a quiet release stateside in February as an almost certain flop. Any hopes of breaking the downward trend with Kong: Skull Island and the sequel to Pacific Rim seem unlikely.
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alif is a large-scale music theatre / concert installation project, developed by stefan goldmann, samir odeh-tamimi, jeremias schwarzer and chiharu shiota.
featured artists are salome kammer, zafraan ensemble and folkert uhde. the premiere was performed in march 2016 at maerzmusik festival / radialsystem in berlin. further performances: ION festival nürnberg and kunsthalle hamburg.
sofia's 180 degrees festival issued an open call to emerging composers to transform stefan goldmann's piece input into newly "remixed" scores for ensemble. the acoustic remixes will be performed by 180° ensemble on july 29, 2016.
at the festival's opening concert, stefan goldmann will perform live with members of ensemble modern.
stefan goldmann debuts modular synthesizer improvisation outfit w/ jeremias schwarzer, zafraan ensemble, philip marshall & kiritan flux.
input will also be presented at upgrade festival donaueschingen through two of the backwards-engineered scores for ensemble by erik janson and johannes k hildebrandt.
recorded live in concert in kyoto, japan. new CD out now on macro.


Fitness is vitally important to our health, gives us energy, and helps us to be strong and fit. Martial arts are a fitness genre in itself, but basic fundamentals in exercise should be a part of every martial artist's journey. There are many benefits fitness has on martial arts, but for the sake of this article, there are five.
Running – Running is the most well known and proven exercise. It is also probably my least favorite exercise, but you cannot ignore its benefits. Running increases improves endurance and stamina. When fights go for two, three, or five minute rounds, endurance and stamina are vitally important in the ring. It is also a great exercise in those cases you have to take the "flight" approach.
Sprints – I am separating sprints to running because they focus more on anaerobic exercise. Sprinting really pushes your body where traditional running does not. In some cases, fights can get very intense at times and sprinting provides the level needed to go toe to toe with a well conditioned opponent. Not only that, but sprinting improves agility and quickness.
Interval Training – Interval training confuses the body and pushes it further than other more traditional exercises. Sprinting drills can fall under this category. For example, sprinting for one minute and a jog for thirty seconds is a form of interval training.
Jump roping – Using a jump rope in your routine is another very proven exercise. It is widely used in a variety of sports. Jump roping has other benefits as well. From my experience jumping rope has improved my footwork and ability to move quickly as well as improving my heart rate and lung capacity.
Plyometrics – Plyometrics, vertical jumps, and other related exercises provide a multitude of benefits. You are able to improve your vertical jumping higher than before. Plyos improve strength, agility, footwork, and range of motion, and it benefits a great cardiovascular system as well.
These are just a tip of the ice when it comes to cardiovascular exercises. These exercises not only benefit the average gym rat, but also martial artists and athletes in any sport. They are great building blocks to improve your level of fitness and equip you to be better at what you do.


Home > Churches > Aisle Case of Organ, St. Thomas's Church, NY, 1914. Early Photograph. Cram, Goodhue, & Ferguson.
Aisle Case of Organ, St. Thomas's Church, NY, 1914. Early Photograph. Cram, Goodhue, & Ferguson.
A Beautifully Detailed, Original Photogravure of the Aisle Case of the Organ at St. Thomas's Church in New York. EARLY PHOTOGRAPH. Messrs. Cram, Goodhue, & Ferguson, Architect(s). The American Architect, July 1, 1914.
This picture is extremely hard to find. The Architecture League of New York had a very small circulation during this time and these original photogravures only appeared in a very limited number of issues that were distributed to a few prominent architects. It measures 12.5 by 9.5 inches. Has a mat border and foam core backing (not attached to the picture). The whole picture measures approximately 16 by 13 inches (with border). Extraordinary detail in this early photographic print. Shrink wrapped.


This section is for dancers that participate only in hip hop. If your dancer participates in another class other than Lightning or Storm Hip Hop, please skip and go to the next section.
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"A Living History of Our World" series covers both U.S. and world history. Click here to read my review of the America's Story portion of the series that covers U.S. history and is written for grades three through six. In this review, I focus on The World's Story, which will soon be a series of three courses covering world history from Creation to the present day for students in grades six through eight.
Author, Angela O'Dell, titles the entire series as "A Living History of Our World," since it reflects Charlotte Mason's recommendation that history, as well as other subjects, be taught with what she described as living books—books that are lively and interesting. For history, this means reading the stories of history rather than just names, dates, and events. To that end, O'Dell writes in a very personal, storytelling style that should appeal to students, very much reflecting a Charlotte Mason approach.
The reading level is essentially the same through all of these courses. Because these books use a storytelling approach mixed with summaries of historical events, historical coverage is not comprehensive. Even so, students will learn about many of the main events and key people.
This series is written from a strongly Christian perspective. This is evident, for example, in the attention given to scriptural accounts of history used in the first volume and in the ubiquitous inclusion of church history throughout the second volume. Church history presents a decidedly Protestant viewpoint. The World's Story 2 sometimes oversteps with anti-Catholic slants such as this description of indulgences on page 255: "Indulgences were certificates that exempted the owner from having to do penance. The selling of these certificates became a business all over Europe. Citizens could literally buy the right to sin." I noted at least a few other statements that are incorrect or misleading. Regarding Catholic teaching, O'Dell says: "At the time [when Anabaptists came on the scene], people were always baptized as infants by the Catholic Church, and adult baptism was a serious crime" (page 269). In reality, the Catholic Church has always allowed the baptism of adults, while rejecting rebaptism of adults who were previously baptized as infants. In another example, on page 267, O'Dell implies that a mild disagreement regarding the Eucharist was the only difference between Luther and Zwingli, when, in actuality, they disagreed vehemently on a number issues that resulted in deep and lasting divisions within Protestantism.
The first volume draws on biblical history to relate the story of creation and the first people, followed by the worldwide flood. Places, people, and events referred to in the Old Testament receive far more attention in this course than in other world history courses, to some extent displacing the broader scope of history. We learn most about ancient Israel along with ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. However, aside from one chapter on ancient China and a short chapter that combines information on ancient Africa and Celtic civilizations, other ancient civilizations such as India and Japan are ignored. You might want to supplement with stories from The Story of the World Volume 1 or another resource to broaden coverage.
The World's Story 2, which covers the fall of Rome through the Renaissance, primarily addresses western civilization as does the first volume, but it also includes chapters on the rise of Islam, China, Korea and Japan, Indian dynasties, Africa, and Central and South America during this time period.
Each course has a textbook and a teacher guide. The soft cover, non-consumable textbooks are printed in full-color and are heavily illustrated with photos, maps, reproductions of artworks, and other images. I find the numerous photos of still-existing, ancient structures especially fascinating. Textbooks each include an index.
Teacher guides have some teaching information as well as an answer key at the back, but they serve primarily as the source for reproducible activity pages to be handed out to students. These three-hole-punched pages can be removed and put into a binder. Since there are more than 300 such pages in each teacher guide, you might want to buy an additional copy of the teacher guide for each extra student rather than copy so many pages.
Teacher guides also have cumulative review quizzes to be used after four scheduled review days. Quizzes have both multiple-choice and essay questions.
Narration, a key element in Charlotte Mason methodology, plays a prominent role throughout this series with frequent narration breaks in the text where the student should present an oral narration to a parent about the material they have just read. Key points that should be included in those narrations are provided for parents in the teacher guides. Students will also do written narrations, but those are done after reading an entire chapter. While you can read the text aloud together, students at this level might prefer independent reading. However, you still want to require oral narrations as indicated by "narration breaks" within chapters.
Charlotte Mason purists need to be aware that some activities are more prescriptive than Mason would have used, asking for more structured and predictable accountability from students. Still, this seems to me a balance that many parents of teens will appreciate.
Teacher guides have a teacher page at the beginning of the material for each chapter. The teacher pages each have a list of objectives, a materials-needed list, and suggested responses for oral narrations. Sometimes there will also be a brief note to the teacher.
Following the teacher page for each chapter are a number of reproducible activity pages. Among the activities are a prompt for a written narration, sketching, completing a graphic organizer, brief-answer questions, essay questions, map activities, copywork, art studies, and vocabulary work. All types of activities are not included for every lesson.
Timelines are so important in these courses that they are included for every chapter, However, rather than having students create timelines, these courses have them study visual timelines and answer questions by referring to them.
A number of craft ideas in the back of each book might be substituted for Digging Deeper activities. Activities such as building a sugar cube pyramid, making a salt dough map, or creating an apple mummy (from The World's Story 1) might be fun, but you won't be doing these every week. At these grade levels, most of the craft activities are not as educationally worthwhile as they might be for younger students.
These courses require much more writing and critical thinking than did the America's Story courses. In addition, the numerous opportunities for research and writing will definitely stretch students' knowledge and skills if parents take advantage of them. (Because of the numerous options for further research and writing, you might even use these courses at high school level if students are given enough challenging assignments.) Parents will need to choose carefully those assignments most appropriate for each student. Because these courses are dependent upon the quality of a student's written work rather than traditional tests, a grading rubric is included in each teacher guide.
The design of these courses is especially well-suited to homeschooling situations. Each course can be easily adapted to use with children across a range of grade levels. Students can work independently through much of each lesson, but there are enough written or oral response opportunities for parents to be aware of what and how well students are learning.
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Q: Ember Cordova app stuck on loading screen in iOS 11.3 I have an app built with Corber for Ember-Cordova.
Xcode version 9.3
cordova-ios@4.5.4
All dependencies updated to latest versions.
I'm testing on simulator as I don't have a development iPhone that can install iOS 11.
The app loads fine on iOS 11.2 and earlier - but on iOS 11.3 it gets stuck at the splash screen. After a while I see a loading icon, but the page never changes.
By analyzing with Safari as soon as the app starts loading, I can see that the the js scripts and the css are not being loaded from /www/index.html. This is what I see in the console log:

Cannot load script
  file:///Users/username/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/07A01A47-573B-4D25-ABE3-AV9179985ABF/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/7976FE33-BLO3-21E9-A055-707AAC68468B/App%20Name.app/www/assets/vendor-e8t893cf6a6bg0f81f23d4a68ae6ffde.js.
  Failed integrity metadata check.

I've tried to find info on an 'integrity metadata check', and as far as I can see, it's being run by iOS to verify the checksum of the scripts being imported. In /www/index.html within Xcode I can see that the script tags have "integrity" properties, which are two checksums - one sha256, and one sha512. e.g.
<script src="assets/vendor-e8e903cf6a6bf0f81f23d4b68ae6ffde.js" integrity="sha256-MPm9fFc7ljuslonkMxW0TnQOAcy6KgJ4zLs+ptl/b58= sha512-oIqpQbUMPLBbSASoSCJ/+z55y2g6NlBzhTE3V+uDt8TNeJam5GAWoGT/D2u4ihIxE586JPu3c+r4GaUpjUWCAw=="></script>

So I guess what's happening is that somehow iOS 11.3 is checking the checksums of the files, comparing to their "integrity" property and not getting a match. Does anyone know what could be causing that to happen and how it could be fixed?
N.B. Although on the face of it this is about not being able to load resources, I don't think this is to do with the content security policy - I've tried several iterations of the content security policy in /www/index.html - most recently:

default-src * gap://ready file:; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' *;
  script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' *

None of those seem to have made a difference and I would expect to see an error related to content security policy if it was an issue.

A: We found the issue with ember-cli-sri - http://blog.isleofcode.com/untitled/
This comment on the ember-cli-sri repo solved it for us.
https://github.com/jonathanKingston/ember-cli-sri/issues/33#issuecomment-378448379

A: I'm also encountering this problem.
For the moment I worked around it by editing the index.html generated by the build command to just remove the integrity attribute from the script tag.
This has gotten it running in the simulator at least.
Waiting to see if it gets through appstore review.

A: The problem appears to be with an cordova plugin: cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine.
I don't fully understand how the plugin works with iOS, but it doesn't seem to play nicely with iOS 11.3. Removing the plugin does the trick. App loads normally after rebuilding.

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Speaking to the media men, Karamat Ali said that under an agreement with PILER, a German company KIK Textilien had provided 1 million dollar for immediate compensation to the families in 2012.
Yet KIK wanted to maintain the flexibility and customization to quickly adjust to the needs of its employees and business goals.
Lavo said its brands and capabilities serve as the foundation of its growth strategy and expects KIK to help create future opportunities for the company.
Police in the USA and Australia have warned against using KIK because 'risky adults' have used it to gain access to children.
One cannot run export business without proper compliance with international rules and regulations, No importer can risk placing orders without proper HSE Standards especially like the German chain KIK, which serves 3200 stores in Europe.
The campaign, supported by Lanitis Bros, also aims to support a health programme for women concerning the heart, that will be exclusively developed by KIK in the prevention of heart disease.
12) Artik dost gozuyle bakilmayan bu iki ulkenin boslugu, KIK uyeleri ile yapilan askeri anlasmalar ve Korfez'de kurulan uslerle kapatilmaya calisilmistir.
Between the solid tires, the mean rolling resistance of the Alshin was 36 [+ or -] 10 percent greater than the KIK Mako and 15.
KIK is a leading contract manufacturer and distributor of national brand and retailer brand consumer products for Fortune 500 companies including Albertson's, Colgate-Palmolive, Dial, Johnson & Johnson, Kroger, Loblaws, L'Oreal, Procter & Gamble, Safeway, SC Johnson, Sysco, Unilever, Walgreens and Wal-Mart.
The communists could ban activities, but that is all, so they had "no more than a negative influence," I was told by someone who had been a member of the Warsaw KIK since the earliest days.
The KIK development is expected to give a positive impact to the national economy with the target to attract investments up to Rp200 trillion and to employee 500,000 people.
Long term compensation for the victims of Ali Enterprise should be paid by German brand KIK Textilien, he said adding KIK should fulfillll its commitment and comply with its Legal Agreement with PILER.


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This year's show will be headlined by SA favourites Mmatema, Dumi Mkokstad, Samthing Soweto and Xolani Mdlalose.
In light of the upcoming Easter season, the Soweto Central Chorus of the Salvation Army will once again bring you a musically world class show at this year's 4th annual Easter Songs of Praise taking place at the Linder Auditorium on Friday, 12 April.
This year, music revellers at large will enjoy a show boasting performances by headline acts such as 2015 Idols finalist Mmatema, award-winning gospel music sensation Dumi Mkokstad, Afro-pop favourite Samthing Soweto and ex-Joyous Celebration lead singer Xolani Mdlalose.
"This year, we are elated to have these musical geniuses as part of this monumental event. The Easter Songs of Praise aims to encourage people to find the peace that comes from salvation, through music. It's important that the messages of hope through our music reaches and touches the lives of everyone who hears us," said Manzini Zungu, the Musical Director.
Founded in 2012, the Soweto Central Chorus is a unique brigade and musical division of the Salvation Army's Soweto Central Corps. The anointed choir boasts over 80 members who have broken generational boundaries. Since it was founded seven years ago, the Soweto Central Chorus managed to catch the attention of some of South Africa's upper echelons. In 2016, the choir was invited to perform at King Goodwill Zwelithini's palace-home to the world-renowned Zulu King.
The choir's core mandate is to minister through music and staying true to this, it has spread the word of God through song in events like the Road to Calvary, the 3rd Easter Songs of Praise 2018, Carols by Candlelight and performances at other Salvation Army Corps.
Tickets to the Easter Songs of Praise will be available from Computicket from Tuesday 26 March at a cost of R150 – R200 per person.
Mother's Day ambience created by nostalgic tunes. Photo: Supplied.
Stand a chance to win Central Square vouchers if you take the best selfie with your mom. The competition ends on 20 May.
Mothers play an irreplaceable role in nurturing everyone around them, and the world has dedicated one day when they can put their feet up and be pampered in return. Boutique shopping centre Central Square at Menlyn Maine honoured mothers in South Africa with the word "Mom" represented in all South African languages in the precinct's "mood tree".
Central Square celebrated the Mother's Day weekend from 10 to 13 May, but every day of the year is Mother's Day at Central Square. Moms are honoured and loved for 365 days in the environs of Pretoria's vibrant green city. Those who missed out on the weekend's activities can still honour their moms until 20 May at the selfie stage and enter the "Selfie for Mom" competition.
The weekend was filled with unforgettable experiences as mothers loaded up on some "me time". A popular stop-off for kids was the craft zone where children could create unique gifts for that special person called Mom. Children had fun expressing themselves and finding meaningful ways of thanking their moms.
The central piazza was pretty in pink with a bandstand playing cool tunes, while musicians created a nostalgic vibe with much-loved classics. The fun and love went on well into the evenings. Alan Hayward crooned his way through a set of vocals Ol' Blue Eyes would be proud of, while Bogan Pashovski provided smooth keyboards, with Lyndi-Lee Smith and Ayo on vocals, created an ambience to be remembered.
The perfect weather added to the pleasure on the piazza as families enjoyed a meal at the outdoor eateries that were packed to the brim. Many visitors attended the spellbinding performances of Dynamo at the Sun Arena, also in the Menlyn Maine precinct.


Watch the first 65 seconds. Up to the title screen - What do we know about Usain from this section?
Watch the first 2 minutes - write the dialogue between Usain and the coach.
Watch up to 3m 39s - How is Usain feeling now? How do we know this? Write a paragraph in the 1st person describing these feelings.
Watch the discussion between Usain and his mother then recreate this conversation punctuating it correctly.
Write a persuasive speech for another athlete in a similar position. What advice would we give them?
Describe the feeling of 'keeping it light' use a range of similes to describe running like it was through the clouds.
At the end of the film allow children to pick out key points to create a short biography, use follow up research to complete this.


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Thursday, 05 January 2023 / Published in Commodity Insights
Crude oil and Natural Gas plunge on recession fears and a warmer weather
Crude oil and natural gas prices have started the new year on the left footing as the growing worries about the global economy, the contraction of global manufacturing activity, the soaring Covid-19 cases in China, and the unexpected warmer winter weather have weighed on the energy prices.
Crude oil plunged 10% in two trading days:
The price of the international crude oil benchmark Brent tumbled 5.2% to near $78/b and the U.S-based WTI crude slid 5,5% to $73/b on Wednesday, as the energy participants worry that the resurgence of Covid cases in China could damage demand growth outlook for petroleum products in the coming months.
Both Brent and WTI prices have lost nearly 10% over the first two trading days of 2023, posting their worst yearly start since January 1991, as investors also worry about a potential global recession coupled with the deterioration of the industrial activity in the world's three biggest oil consumers, the United States, China, and Eurozone.
U.S. and Chinese manufacturing activity contracted further in December, dropping for a second and fifth straight month respectively, while similar industrial weaknesses occurred in Germany and France during the final months of last year, adding to the pessimism around industrial crude oil products demand.
Natural gas price sink on warmer weather:
The record-high winter temperatures across Europe, the lower-than-expected gas demand, and the full gas storage have been weighing on the prices of Dutch TTF recently, the benchmark European gas contract, which fell more than 10% on Wednesday to as low as €64/MWh (per megawatt hour), the lowest level since November 2021.
Dutch TTF natural gas contract, Daily chart
The contract reached a record-high of €342/MWh last August, after Russia cut the gas flows to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for maintenance reasons, as part of Moscow's weaponization of gas to the Western allies. Russia was supplying as much as 40% of the EU's yearly gas demand before the energy embargo at the end of the year.
The warmer weather in Europe has declined the demand for heating by more than 15%, allowing the countries to send more gas into their storage facilities, which stood at nearly 84% at the begging of 2023. The storage levels stand some 30% higher than in 2021 and more than 10% higher than the average of the previous five years.
At the same time, the milder-than-normal winter weather in China and Japan, the world's two largest LNG buyers, has curbed the local gas demand in the heart of winter, which could free LNG cargo to go elsewhere, especially in gas-thirsty Europe and ease further the energy crisis.
A similar picture in the U.S. Henry Hub gas prices, which dropped as low as $4 per million British thermal units yesterday, near its lowest price in almost a year, and 40% cheaper than its level in mid-December.
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Brent oil falls to $83/b on Russian exports and rate hikes
Gold falls below $1.800/oz on improving risk appetite
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The GOP's "Sequester Cheerleaders" Greatest Hits … So Far
by Terrance Heath | Mar 5, 2013 | The Sequester | 0 comments
Gimme an "S"! Gimme an "E"! Gimme a "Q"! Gimme a "U"! Gimme an "E,S, T, E, R"! What's that spell? That depends. If you're almost everyone else, the sequester spells an onslaught of unnecessary, painful, and "just plain dumb" spending cuts. If you're one of the GOP's "Sequester Cheerleaders," it spells sweet, sweet, victory.
The GOP's pro-sequester cheering section is considerable and growing. One of the latest Republicans publicly declare his membership is tea partier Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R, Kan.).
Tea Party Republicans are crowing about the harsh and indiscriminate "sequestration" cuts beginning Friday. "This will be the first significant tea party victory in that we got what we set out to do in changing Washington," says Rep. Tim Huelskamp (Kan.), a Tea Partier who was first elected in 2010.
Now we know, Huelskamp is far from the only one. A disturbing number of GOP representatives have publicly cheered for the sequester's spending cuts. Here's just a few:
[T]here are way more Republicans than just Paul Ryan cheering it on. They can't wait for sequester! They want it so badly they can taste it. They don't care that the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office warn it could push our economy back into recession.
Here's a round up of quotes from the DCCC, which will give you a good sense of the real reason Speaker John Boehner is not proposing a sequester replacement bill (hint: he doesn't have the votes):
Republican Congressman Paul Broun (R-GA). "I want to see it go into place." [Cherokee Tribune, 2/9]
Republican Congressman Mike Coffman (R-CO). "I don't think going over the fiscal cliff would have been a huge deal" [kdvr.com, 1/02/13]
… Republican Congressman Scott DesJarlais (R-TN). "Sequestration needs to happen…Bottom line, it needs to happen and that's the deal we struck to raise the debt limit." [Cleveland Daily Banner, 2/1]
Republican Congressman John Fleming (R-LA). "The sequester is law. Those cuts happen no matter what. We're willing to hang in there and insist that those cuts go into place…" [NHPR, 1/30/13]
Republican Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis (R-WY. "Sequestration will take place…I am excited. It will be the first time since I've been in Congress that we really have significant cuts." [Billings Gazette, 2/11]
… Republican Congressman Mick Mulvaney (R-SC). "We want to keep the sequester in place and take the cuts we can get." [Dow Jones Business News, 2/8]
Republican Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-KS). "It's going to be a homerun…I am very optimistic that on March 2nd, we'll all wake up and America will have tremendous respect for what its House of Representatives led and what it's federal government was able to accomplish." [Politico, 2/13]
Outside of Congress, conservative organizations like Americans For Prosperity have three words for the sequester's deep cuts: "Bring it on."
Mark Lucas wouldn't mind seeing America's defense budget cut by billions.
"There's quite a bit of waste within the military," Lucas, who serves as Iowa state director for the conservative group Americans for Prosperity (AFP), told ABC News. "Being in there for 10 years, I've seen quite a bit of it."
… Lucas cited duplicative equipment purchases, military-run golf courses and lavish food on larger bases -- unlike the chow he endured at a combat operations post in Afghanistan with about 120 other soldiers.
"These guys would have very good food, and I'm talking almost like a buffet style, shrimp and steak once a week, ice cream, all this stuff," Lucas said. "They had Burger Kings and Pizza Huts and McDonald's. And I said to myself, 'Do we really need this?'"
As I pointed out in a post last week, the sequester's brutal, automatic, across-the-board cuts were never supposed to take effect. No, they were designed to be so damaging and stupid that both parties would be forced to come up with a compromise on spending cuts and revenue. Letting such draconian, damaging cuts take effect was supposed to be the last thing any member of Congress wanted to happen.
It' turns out that Republicans see the sequester as an opportunity to inflict painful cuts that Americans don't want and didn't vote for, and the GOP's ultra-conservatives want it to happen because they believe it's the right thing to do.
[P]ointing out Republican-caused harms to millions of people — many of them Republicans — does not sway the ultra-right. Why? Democratic pundits say that Republicans want to hurt the president, to show government doesn't work by making it not work, and to protect "special interests" from higher taxes. All true. But there is an additional and deeper reason. Ultra-conservatives believe that the sequester is moral, that it is the right thing to do.
Progressives tend to believe that democracy is based on citizens caring for their fellow citizens through what the government provides for all citizens — public infrastructure, public safety, public education, public health, publicly-sponsored research, public forms of recreation and culture, publicly-guaranteed safety nets for those who need them, and so on. In short, progressives believe that the private depends on the public, that without those public provisions Americans cannot be free to live reasonable lives and to thrive in private business. They believe that those who make more from public provisions should pay more to maintain them.
Ultra-conservatives don't believe this. They believe that Democracy gives them the liberty to seek their own self-interests by exercising personal responsibility, without having responsibility for anyone else or anyone else having responsibility for them. They take this as a matter of morality. They see the social responsibility to provide for the common good as an immoral imposition on their liberty.
Their moral sense requires that they do all they can to make the government fail in providing for the common good. Their idea of liberty is maximal personal responsibility, which they see as maximal privatization — and profitization — of all that we do for each other together, jointly as a unified nation.
They also believe that if people are hurt by government failure, it is their own fault for being "on the take" instead of providing for themselves. People who depend on public provisions should suffer. They should have rely on themselves alone — learn personal responsibility, just as Romney said in his 47 percent speech. In the long run, they believe, the country will be better off if everyone has to depend on personal responsibility alone. Sequestration offers Republicans to potentially irresistible opportunities: the chance to bring President Obama down a peg or two, as well as a shot at implementing spending cuts that the majority of Americans have repeatedly rejecting at the polls. The consequences of those spending cuts doesn't bother tea party conservatives in the least.
They've a lot of spirit and some really big megaphones. So, the GOP's "Sequester Cheerleaders" will probably rack of even more stunners as this manufactured crisis drags on. We might as well keep track of them, so as to remind Americans who wanted the sequester — and its attendant economic pain and suffering — to happen.
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MILWAUKEE — He threw 96 mph heat on the hands, spotted knee-buckling breaking stuff on the corners.
Carlos Zambrano never let up, never lost his velocity, will or composure.
Zambrano finished off the Chicago Cubs' first no-hitter in 36 years by getting Darin Erstad to lunge at a third strike in a 5-0 victory over the Astros on Sunday night at Miller Park. He then pumped his fists and screamed for joy as his teammates joined him for a wild celebration.
All those worries about his health suddenly seemed unfounded.
This Carlos Zambrano bore no resemblance to the righthander the Astros kicked around just 12 days earlier. He entered the game just 5-3 with a 4.40 ERA since the All-Star break.
Even more troubling for the Cubs was that his velocity was down at times, so much so that Zambrano occasionally resorted to throwing sidearm, seemingly to relieve the pain in an aching shoulder. He took the mound Sunday night after a 12-day rest that included a cortisone shot in his right shoulder.
Carlos Zambrano faces Miguel Tejada.
"I guess I'm back!" he screamed.
Thus ended what surely was one of the strangest days the Astros have had, a day that saw the dynamics of the pennant race perhaps redefined.
The Astros began this strange weekend chasing the Milwaukee Brewers in their improbable run for a seventh playoff appearance in 12 years. They had come from nowhere, trimming the Milwaukee deficit from 11 games to 21/2 in less than three weeks.
And despite Sunday's loss, the Astros got closer to the wild-card lead. Thanks to a doubleheader sweep by the Phillies over the Brewers, the Astros trail Milwaukee, which has lost 11 of 14, and Philadelphia by two games. So a dream that once seemed so improbable for the Astros is alive and well.
The Astros must take care of their own business, but they appear to be chasing the Phillies, who have only the Marlins, Nationals and Braves left on their schedule.
The Astros lost for just the second time in 16 games Sunday night, this one coming after the originally scheduled weekend Cubs-Astros series was disrupted because of Hurricane Ike.
This day began with an 8:45 a.m. bus at Minute Maid Park and ended in an unlikely place for a home game against the Chicago Cubs. That Zambrano (14-5) threw the fourth no-hitter against the Astros only added to the strangeness.
That Major League Baseball decided to play the game in Milwaukee didn't sit well with the Astros. To emphasize that point, they wore their gray road uniforms and dressed in the visiting clubhouse at Miller Park.
And it was a road game in every sense of the word. The Brewers sold only lower-deck seats, but the game attracted 23,441, virtually all of them wearing Cubs gear and screaming with delight as Zambrano, who struck out 10, walked one and hit a batter, closed in on history.
Astros owner Drayton McLane said his team was left with no choice except to play at Miller Park because every other stadium had a schedule conflict or possible weather issues. The Astros could have played the games in a real neutral site, but McLane didn't trust the weather forecast about Hurricane Ike or was reluctant to give up three big home crowds.
He said the games couldn't be played after the season because there wasn't enough time to play all three and still start the playoffs in time to satisfy Fox television.
Randy Wolf (10-12), who shut out Chicago at Wrigley Field on Sept. 3, lasted only 2 1-3 innings, allowing five runs (four earned), six hits and a walk. But the way Zambrano pitched, Alfonso Soriano's homer to lead off the game would have been enough for the Cubs.
Still, the Astros have played so well for so long that they seemed unbothered by one defeat, no matter how it happened.
"That's just another loss," Miguel Tejada said. "We've got to go back to playing the way we've been playing. I don't want to use any excuses. Give Zambrano credit.


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Don´t be afraid to see what you see (Ronald Reagan)
Obama´s "austerity" program: A new $21 million climate change "embassy" in Papua New Guinea
We all know that the Obama administration is trying to improve the dismal US government finances through an austerity program. However, even when ordinary Americans are suffering, the president is wasting US taxpayers´ money on senseless climate change projects:
The top U.S. diplomat for East Asia and the Pacific, Kurt Campbell,
said despite enduring strategic and political interests in the region
dating from before World War II, Washington has reduced diplomatic
missions there and assistance over the past 20 years.
As part of efforts to reverse that trend as the Obama
administration steps up engagement across the Asia-Pacific, the U.S.
Agency for International Development will open a regional office in
Papua New Guinea this year to administer a $21 million grant to help
islands cope with the effects of climate change.
Campbell described low-lying atolls in the Pacific as the "canary in
the coal mine" for climate change.
Read the entire article here
Or maybe the new "regional office" will use the money to cope with this "effect" of "climate change" ?:
"200 new species found in Papua New Guinea"
With the rate at which new species are being found and extinct species are being rediscovered and with unknown marine species being estimated to be between 1 and 10 million and micro-organism species thought to be in excess of one billion, I am beginning to wonder if humans are not soon going to be crowded off the planet.
From Reuters today: Some 200 news species of animals and plants, including an orange spider, a jabbing spiny-legged katydid (bush cricket) and a minute long-nosed frog, have been discovered in Papua New Guinea's remote jungle-clad mountains. A team of international scientists made the discoveries during a two-month expedition in the remote Nakanai and Muller mountains in 2009, Conservation International said on Wednesday. In the Nakanai mountains on New Britain island, the team found 24 new species of frogs, two new mammals, nine new species of plants, nearly 100 new insects including damselflies, katydids and ants, and approximately 100 new spiders.
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Tags: climate change, global warming, Papua New Guinea, US
New major American study: The US should not appease China by sacrificing Taiwan
A new study sends a clear message to president Obama: The US should sell Taiwan the F-16 fighters it has requested:
"However frightening or seductive China is, appeasing it by sacrificing Taiwan would not be good policy," said Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, a professor at Georgetown University, and Bonnie Glaser, a senior fellow and China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Their joint paper, titled Should the United States Abandon Taiwan?, has just been published by the CSIS journal, the Washington Quarterly.
It comes as the administration of US President Barack Obama is nearing a decision on the sale of the fighters.
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said that the decision will be announced by Oct. 1.
"The US should neither abandon nor reduce its commitments to Taiwan, but strengthen them," the authors wrote.
"A decision to jettison Taiwan, or even cut back significantly on US support, would prove to an increasingly confident China that Washington has become weak, vacillating and unreliable," they said.
At least in part, the study is in response to a growing chorus of critics in Washington who have called on the White House to stop supporting Taiwan to better promote relations with Beijing.
Abandoning Taiwan could simplify and improve US-China relations temporarily, but in the longer run Beijing would conclude that a weaker US, lacking vision and ambition, could be pressured and manipulated, they said.
"Both friends and rivals regionally and globally would decide that the US was not to be trusted," they said.
Tucker and Glaser urged Obama to "stop equivocating" and move forward with arms sales now because "there will never be a good time."
"Upgrading existing aircraft would be welcome, but Taiwan's aging and shrinking air force also needs new planes. Were the US to wait and the F-16C/D production line to close, Taiwan would have no other source," they said.
The entire study can be downloaded here
The CSIS study comes almost simultaneously with a Pentagon report outlining the risks of China´s expanding military:
The reach and capability of China's navy and air force are expanding, posing a growing risk to security in Asia, military officials say.
A new aircraft carrier that began sea trials this summer and the public test flight in January of an advanced fighter jet designed to rival U.S. technology are just two examples of China's growing military might, U.S. officials say.
China's new focus on air, naval and missile capabilities reflects its desire for greater mobility to conduct operations at a greater distance from its mainland.
That's according to a new 84-page Pentagon report outlining some of the latest intelligence on the Chinese military.
Economically the US is now weak, but that is not a good excuse for giving up its support for traditional allies like Taiwan in order to appease China´s authoritarian, communist leaders. Such an appeasement would perhaps appear to bring some short term benefits, but in the long term it would lead to a fatal loss of trust for US leadership all over the world.
Tags: China, Taiwan, US
Another environmental lecture from Prince Charles
Prince Charles continues his doomsday scaremongering. He demands that people should "change their lifestyles so they consume less petrol, food and other resources":
Mankind faces extinction, the Prince of Wales has warned, unless humans transform our lifestyles to stop mass consumption, run away climate change and destruction of wildlife
He referred to a "sustainability revolution" that would force people to change their lifestyles so they consume less petrol, food and other resources.
"History will not judge us by how much economic growth we achieve in the immediate years ahead, nor by how much we expand material consumption, but by the legacy for our grandchildren and their grandchildren," he said. "We are consuming what is rightfully theirs by sacrificing long-term progress on the altar of immediate satisfaction. That is hardly responsible behaviour. There is an urgent need for all of us to concentrate our efforts on sustaining, nurturing and protecting the Earth's natural capital and, moreover, reshaping our economic system so that Nature sits at the very heart of our thinking."
Reality check 1:
Accounts released by the prince's Clarence House office show that Charles spent £1.08 million (€1.2m) on air and rail travel in 2010-2011, a rise of 56% from the previous year.
Charles's spending is spiralling out of control. Why on earth are taxpayers continuing to fund his lavish lifestyle when public services are being cut," Republic spokesman Graham Smith said.
Clarence House, the former London residence of the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, is the Prince of Wales' current official residence. Previously, he resided in an apartment at St James's Palace. Charles also holds a private estate in Gloucestershire, Highgrove House, and one in Scotland, the Birkhall estate near Balmoral Castle and also previously owned by the Queen Mother. Upon the occasion of his marriage to Diana, Charles had reduced his voluntary tax contribution from the profits generated by the Duchy of Cornwall from 50% to 25%.
In 2007 the Prince purchased a 192–acre (150 acres of grazing and parkland, and 40 acres (160,000 m2) of woodland) property in Carmarthenshire, and applied for permission to convert the farm into a Welsh home for him and the Duchess of Cornwall, to be rented out as holiday flats when the royal couple is not in residence. Though neighbours said the proposed alterations flouted local planning regulations, the application was put on hold while a report was drafted on how the alterations would affect the local bat population. Charles and Camilla took residence at the new property, called Llwynywermod, in June 2008.
In 2006 the Prince bought a house in the village of Viscri in south-eastern Transylvania, one of the Saxon villages with fortified churches in Transylvania designated in 1993 as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO; in 2008 he bought another house in the village of Valea Zălanului / Zalánpatak in the Székely Land region of Transylvania, a 16th century village probably founded by one of the Prince's Transylvanian ancestors. Both properties are rented out as guest houses when the Prince is not in residence
My free advice to His Royal Highness: Why not begin by changing your own lavish lifestyle? It might increase your credibility as an environmentalist.
This is not quite enough :
Britain's Prince Charles has converted his 38-year-old Aston Martin to run on biofuel made from surplus wine, his office revealed Tuesday.
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Tags: climate change, environment, global warming, UK
Dutch professor: "To assume we human beings have a golden key to keep the world at zero position, is arrogance"
Salomon Kroonenberg, professor of geology (ret.) at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands is worth listening to:
Kroonenberg argues that climate change has been happening since antiquity and humans are known to have survived "two ice ages, with bear skins and ice axes".
In 2008, Kroonenberg published an enlarged, revised edition of his book, which has since been translated in several languages, including a recent Chinese edition (Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House). In it he challenges Gore's "alarmist rhetoric".
"We're smart enough to evolve flexible solutions" to deal with a devastating deluge should the glaciers melt and inundate the earth, Kroonenberg suggests.
But more importantly, he insists that reducing carbon footprints would not necessarily make a difference to the future of the world.
Urging his audience to see things in terms of geological time, (10,000 years at a stretch), the geologist contends that we are, in fact, living at the peak of summer between ice ages, and, if the cyclical rhythm of climate change is anything to go by, we should be preparing for a "little ice age" like the one experienced between 1350 and 1800.
Often labeled a "climate skeptic" by the anti-CO2-emissions lobby, and criticized for his indifference to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, in which parliaments of 55 countries decided to cut down on greenhouse emissions, Kroonenberg prefers to call himself a climate relativist. He doesn't consider CO2 emissions "an insurmountable problem" in the context of nature changing and adjusting itself as a continuous process.
"I don't deny climate has been warming and I also do not deny that humankind has emitted large quantities of CO2. I only challenge the importance of that for climate change.
"To assume we human beings have a golden key to keep the world at zero position, is arrogance," he adds.
Kroonenberg is spot on when he describes the arrogance of the warmist doomsday prophets. Fortunately, recent polls show that ordinary people are increasingly sharing his view. That´s why there is hope that decision makers and environmentalists before long will again begin to focus on fighting real pollution.
For those interested, here is a link to Dr. Kroonenberg´s home page.
Tags: climate change, global warming
Ban Ki-moon thinks Kiribati is sinking - Study says it is growing!
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon:
Regarding climate change, he urged sceptics to visit the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, where rising sea levels are a very real threat.
The impoverished nation was facing a bill of $947 million just to protect infrastructure from the effects of climate change, and had yet to come up with viable ways to relocate some of the population.
Ki-moon added the country was running out of time and hoped Australia would lead the way "for your own good as well as well as that of the planet".
A new geological study has shown that many low-lying Pacific islands are growing, not sinking.
The islands of Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among those which have grown, because of coral debris and sediment.
One of the authors of the study, featured in the magazine the New Scientist, predicts that the islands will still be there in 100 years' time.
So, no need to make flight reservations to exotic Kiribati - although it would be nice to visit the island state and other Pacific islands now, when summer is over in Europe and the US (as the Secretary General is doing now). A little bit of reading, instead of the constant traveling could do good for Ki-moon. That would also reduce his huge carbon footprint!
Tags: climate change, Kiribati, UN
Former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer calls for a federal Europe
European concerns about sovereignty loss are "almost amusing"
Former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer (green party) called for a federal Europe at a gathering of federalists:
"We need to hand over some budget prerogatives to the EU ... we need similar pension ages ... we are going to have to draw all the threads together ... [and] future integration steps need a political Europe," he said.
What Fischer really wants, is a federal United States of Europe, led by its biggest and most powerful state, Germany. Even if many European political leaders admire the German economic success story, most of them - and their electorates - would probably not want to become citizens of Fischer´s new "green" German Europe.
Tags: EU, Germany
Nord Stream pipeline launched - but its future does not look great
Former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, former chancellor Gerhard Schröder and former Stasi agent Matthias Warnig smiling. (Schröder is Chairman of the Nord Stream AG Shareholders' Committee and Warnig is Managing Director of Nord Stream AG. Both men have to thank their "friend" Putin for their lucrative jobs.
A former KGB spy, a former Stasi agent and a former German Chancellor were hand on former Finnish territory (The Finnish name of Portovaya is Satamalahti) in order to launch the Nord Stream pipeline, which will start pumping gas to Germany and a couple of other countries, next month.
Although the smiling Putin was bullish about future gas deliveries, the long term prospects for the Nord Stream are less than good. The combined effects of the shale gas and the LNG revolutions will before long seriously weaken Gazprom´s ability to dictate prices in Europe, as well as elsewhere.
Tags: energy, Germany, Russia
Swiss USB bank scaremongering about euro breakup
The Swiss bank USB is scaremongering about the effects of a breakup of the euro zone:
A breakup of the euro zone would have grim, long-lasting social and political consequences that extend far beyond its economic costs--an ugly risk that is widely underestimated, according to UBS AG (UBS).
The Swiss bank warned that the economic cost of a breakup should in many ways be the least of investors' concerns.
"The economic costs of breaking up the euro are high, and extremely damaging. The political costs of breaking up the euro, even in part, are too great to quantify in bald cash terms," Stephane Deo, an economist at UBS, said in a note to clients Tuesday.
Following a breakup, euro countries would barely have a whisper on the world stage, Deo said. What is more, past instances of monetary union breakups tend to spark either an authoritarian response from the government or create social disorder and civil war.
While UBS isn't seriously suggesting that euro-zone states will inevitably descend into social chaos and civil war if the currency union were to break up, it warns that "monetary union breakup is not something that can be treated as a casual issues of exchange rate policy."
Sovereign default, corporate default, collapse of the banking system and international trade are just some of the problems a seceding peripheral euro-zone country would have to face, said UBS. That could entail an initial cost of around EUR9,500 to EUR11,500 per person in that country followed by an annual cost of EUR3,000 to EUR4,000 per person.
Even if a stronger country like Germany were to leave, UBS still thinks it is going to set every German back by about EUR6,000 to EUR8,000 in the first year and then around EUR3,500 to EUR4,500 per person in every year thereafter. A stronger euro-zone country wouldn't face sovereign default but it is still vulnerable to corporate default, recapitalization of the banking system and a collapse of international trade.
It appears clear that the USB´s Stephane Deo - who is speaking for the endangered banks - is clearly exaggerating the effects of a possible euro breakup. And in addition, nowhere does Deo seem to define what kind of breakup he(she?) is talking about. As there are many scenarios, it is rather populistic e.g. to talk about setting "every German back by about EUR6,000 to EUR8,00".
In this case, I prefer the opinion of the eminent economist/historian, professor Hans-Joachim Voth, who in a recent interview said:
I believe that the consequences of ending the euro have been overstated. Not every dumb economic idea needs to be defended to the bitter end. Europe is infinitely more than the European Union, and the European Union is infinitely more than the euro.
In addition, professor Voth (together with Dr. Jacopo Ponticelli) has a fresh paper out (Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2009), which shows that austerity measures have tended to go hand in hand with politically motivated violence and social instability.
This is something we should really be worried about, as the EU leaders continue on the austerity track in dealing with the euro crisis.
Tags: EU, euro
"Green jobs" - A total failure in Germany as well
Green jobs turning to Green Hell in Germany
News about the total failure of the "green energy jobs" ideology are coming in almost daily now. This report by Der Spiegel makes somber reading for the greenies, who have been touting the success of "green jobs" in Germany:
Green energy used to be Germany's great hope for its economic future. But now the German solar industry is in trouble amid huge losses, job cuts and the threat of bankruptcies. Chinese firms are gaining an ever greater share of the German market -- and are benefitting from German subsidies for renewable energy.
The situation is desparate in town of Bitterfeld-Wolfen, once nicknamed the "German Solar valley":
One photovoltaic manufacturer after another located in the area. The clean, future-oriented industry generated jobs and income, employing as many as 10,000 people in its heyday.
But now Q-Cells is struggling to survive. The company made a heavy loss in the second quarter of 2011. It doesn't take a business degree to recognize the desperate situation in which the company, once the world's largest solar cell manufacturer, now finds itself.
Solar Valley threatens to turn into a vale of tears. Mayor Wust fears that her town is heading toward another historic watershed. This time the fates of 3,000 workers are at stake
The outlook has turned bleak for the entire solar industry. Companies that were the darlings of the stock market and the political world until recently are now experiencing a sharp downturn. Their share prices have plunged, as they downsize and write off millions in losses.
Only a few months ago leading German politicians were boasting that Germany´s manufacturers of renewable energy systems would be among the winners of the so-called energy revolution:
"Germany is the global market leader in the renewable energy sector," German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen recently crowed. "If we expand this position, it will enhance the competitiveness of our industry and our country." Meanwhile, Chancellor Angela Merkel said she anticipated "opportunities for exports, development, technology and jobs."
Now, of all times, the green industries of the future are faltering. The goal of developing a new leading industry with global aspirations has become a distant hope. German players play only a secondary role in global markets and are steadily losing market share -- despite being heavily subsidized. Or maybe the industry is ailing precisely because of the billions in government aid.
Hardly any other industrial sector has received such generous political support as the producers of green electricity, especially the solar industry.
The Chinese manufacturers are now cashing in:
Chinese competition is now more likely to benefit from the billions in feed-in tariffs in Germany than domestic producers. To a substantial degree, German electricity consumers are helping to fund the rise of Chinese solar producers. According to the Rhenish-Westphalian Institute for Economic Research, the average German household pays about €123 a year to subsidize green electricity.
And, as we reported earlier, the German (and other EU taxpayers) are now also asked to finance a huge solar power project in bankrupt Greece!
Tags: climate change, energy, Germany
Finally proven: Humans behind decline of Greenland glacier
"Iluliaq Original Iceberg Water is the ideal water for distinctive gourmets and fine liquor amateurs. It will pair beautifully with the best wines too".
Finally, there is definitive proof , (that even sceptics must accecpt) for the alarmists´ claims that Grenland glaciers are declining because of human activities. Trendhunter magazine reports:
You thought Evian was expensive, the Iluliaq Iceberg Water will make it look like a second rate brand.
According to the company, this water comes from the Sermeq Kujalleg glacier in Greenland. In other words, it's pure, it's icy, and it's likely reserved for the rich and famous. This high-end drink is packaged in a crystal clear bottle that even comes with a glass cork. The Illuliaq Iceberg Water will set you back $50 so at that price it's bound to be good… right?
More info from the producers:
It began as snow, falling from an ice age sky onto what is now the Greenland ice cap. There it remained preserved, untouched and pristine throughout the millennia. Located north of the Arctic Circle on the west coast of Greenland, the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier has been a protected site on UNESCO's (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage List since 2004.
This human induced decline of the glaciers should be good news for the climate alarmists, too: The more you drink of this unique water, the less likely the catastrophic rise of sea levels becomes.
The only problem is that the iceberg water is so damned expensive, that only Al Gore and a few of his friends can afford it. But this need not be a serious setback: The European Union could use a tiny part of its multi million euro climate aid package to subsidise the Illuliaq. Instead of wasting money on all kinds of more or less useless climate projects, these subsidies would make the Greenland iceberg water availaible everywhere, even the "sinking" Maldives. Something for EU climate change commissioner Connie Hedegaard to consider!
Tags: climate change, global warming, Greenland
World leaders in New Zealand for climate talks (read: Rugby World Cup)
Ban Ki-moon: "In rugby, you lose teeth. In diplomacy, you lose face"
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, US Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides, Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma, China's Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai, Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa and East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao ....
Why are these, and a great number of other international top leaders suddenly in Auckland, New Zealand?
Official reason:
They are all participating in the Pacific Islands Forum in order to discuss climate change
Real reason:
New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully said the forum's final day had been deliberately planned to coincide with the opening match of the Rugby World Cup as a way to attract more international guests to the Pacific summit.
"It was a conscious strategy to make this a magnet for big multilateral organisations whose presence could only enhance the standing of the forum but also provide practical support (read: money) for its initiatives," he told the NZ Herald.
Already on his arrival in Auckland, Ban Ki-moon showed his knowledge of rugby by giving the following unforgettable statement:
"In rugby, you lose teeth. In diplomacy, you lose face"
EU Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, who - like to other dignitaries - was welcomed by traditional songs and ukuleles, did not comment on the World Cup. But already before his arrival Barroso let it be known that his intention at the meeting is to announce even more "climate change" aid to the (not) "sinking" islands:
I will reemphasise the key role the EU intends to play as the region's second largest donor to promote sustainable development and in helping to mitigate the impact of climate change in the region."
Tags: climatechange, New Zealand, Pacific islands, sport
A radar for Europe needed
"Geophysicists, archaeologists and computer specialists have discovered a well-preserved Roman gladiator school just outside Vienna -- without even lifting a shovel. Instead of digging they used a special radar to map the site in stunning detail."
If only the same special radar could be used to locate some real political leadership in Brussels - and the capitals of the EU member countries!
Tags: EU
Greece announces huge solar energy project - paid for by EU taxpayers
Is this the future for Greece - and the European Union?
Greece is de facto bankrupt, in spite of the huge sums of money provided by the EU countries and others. Still, there seems to be no end to the enormous waste of EU taxpayers´ money:
The Greek word for sun is the name of a proposal for a large scale solar project George Papaconstantinou, the Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change of the Hellenic Republic introduced on the first day of the EU PVSEC 2011 in Hamburg.
Against the background of the massive public depth and the suffering economy in Greece, the initiative is seen as an opportunity to generate economic growth in the economically battered EU-country which enjoys about 300 days of sunshine per year. Supported by EU-funds to stabilize the Greek economy the country, the plan includes the installation of 3-10 GW of solar power in the country, covering an investment volume of roughly 20 billion Euros and the interconnection of mainland electricity grids with the multiple islands.
While Papaconstantinou admitted that the project will not be feasible without EU-support, he also pointed out that HELIOS offers the possibility for other EU-member states to fulfill their national renewable energy goals set by the European Commission in the so-called 20-20-20 plan. The regulations allow allows statistical transfers of energy (?), joint projects and joint support schemes, which all could be realized within HELIOS.
The Greeks have apparently not learned anything from the Spain´s solar and wind power policy failure:
Government support of renewable energy production does not provide long-term employment and in fact destroys jobs.
In the Spanish example, we found that each renewable job cost the Spanish taxpayer between $752,000 and $800,000. Even more troubling is the fact that diverting these critical resources cost the Spanish economy 2.2 jobs for every job created. Further, the jobs created in Spain were temporary — two-thirds of them were in installation.
All signs point to a fatally flawed idea. Developing these jobs on a reliable and consistent basis requires ever-more subsidies. It's a never-ending cycle to keep a bubble inflated, which as Spain discovered costs billions in public funds. Even before Spain's investment bubble began bursting, the massive investments in renewable energy companies were producing disappointing results.
What's more, the subsidization of these inefficient sources of energy has led to significant economic hardship on the macro and micro levels. As of 2008, when our study was conducted, the Spanish government had committed approximately $36 billion to renewable energy subsidies; since then the resources committed have grown exponentially and are now well over $100 billion, an amount equivalent to more than 10% of Spanish GDP.
Or, more probably, the Greek government is well aware of these facts, but it does not care, because it is not their money, but the money provided by EU taxpayers, that is wasted. The time, when the German and other EU taxpayers will put a stop to the insane "renewable" energy/climate change policy both in Greece and elsewhere, cannot be too far away. Otherwise the entire European Union will go broke - and be transformed into a Green Hell.
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Tags: climate change, energy, EU, Greece
Europe is burning - Top EU leaders busy promoting failed carbon price scheme in Australia
European stocks tumbled 4 per cent, with banks plumbing a more than two-year low, as worries about public deficits in Greece and Italy and a regional election rout for Germany's ruling party cast fresh doubt on the euro zone's ability to tackle its debt crisis.
Europe is burning, but that does not seem to bother the un-elected top eurocrats, who have their own strange priorities: Instead of dealing with the soon to explode crisis at home, EU Commission president Jose Manua Barroso and commissioner Connie Hedegaard are busy in Australia propping up PM Julia Gillard´s crumbling election campaign:
Joining Ms Gillard on a news briefing on Monday, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso urged the Australian government to continue what it has started on its planned carbon pricing scheme, which he said only highlighted the country's commitment as a responsible member of the international community.
"Australia's decision to put a price on carbon emissions is, in our view, an important step both environmentally and economically," Barroso was quoted by ABC as saying.
Also, EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard praised Ms Gillard for integrating her carbon pricing schemes with the basic dynamics of the market as she met with members of the Australian Parliament led by Climate Change Minister Greg Combet.
"I can only say that our experience in Europe is to have a market-based system that works and we saw during the crisis when demand for allowances dropped, so also did the price," Hedegaard recalled in giving her approval to Ms Gillard's efforts to work her political solutions through existing local market conditions.
Barroso and Hedegaard should perhaps be a little bit careful when lauding the EU "carbon price system". The picture they paint of it has very little in common with reality:
Emissions trading scheme is a 'failure'
The EU Emissions Trading Scheme is like a cargo ship stranded on a beach. Expected to play its vital part in an international carbon economy, it is grounded on the hard economic realities facing Europe. It sits there looking lonely and pointless thanks to the failure to secure an international deal. Instead of lucky locals picking over crates of consumer goods, there are big businesses and financiers making handsome profits at the expense of poor consumers. Instead of an insurer picking up the bill, families get higher electricity prices. Too many manufacturing workers play the role of the crew, and will be looking for a new job.
There is a lot of money in the ETS for special interests. ArcelorMittal has enjoyed €1bn worth of surplus allowances in the last two years as steel production has fallen in the recession. Energy companies have made billions in windfall profits as a result of getting valuable allowances for free.
Even criminals are making a fortune. Europol announced, in December 2009, that governments had lost €5bn to carousel fraudsters - using the ETS. And, more recently, the whole market had to be suspended for a while thanks to repeated thefts. The price is paid by consumers – residential and business – stood at €15.6bn in 2010. For consumers, in the UK for example, the burden was about £75 a family. And that is just for a rotting failure of an ETS. At the medium term target price of £30, that cost would be more like £175 a family for the same emissions. The cost to families is tough enough. It hits the same poor and elderly families - who depend most on benefits and, therefore, makes it harder for governments to control public spending.
Tags: Australia, climate change, EU, euro
Reuters´ Chrystia Freeland and Perry´s "faith-based approach"
Chrystia Freeland, editor of Thomson Reuters Digital is doing her part in the Obama re-election campaign:
What does Obama really stand for?
To his critics on the right, the president is a socialist with dangerous foreign antecedents. To his critics on the left, he is a waffler with no real point of view and a craven desire to be liked.
Krueger's nomination points to an entirely different explanation: The president is an empiricist. He wants to do what works, not what conforms to a particular ideology or what pleases a particular constituency. His core belief is a belief in facts.
Freeland then goes on to compare the great scientific "empiricist" Obama with the Rick Perry and other Republican candidates with a "faith-based approach" (read: Christian anti-science simpletons):
But as the presidential campaign begins to heat up, starting with the Republican primary race, the empirical worldview that Obama embodies is taking a beating. The candidates who have made the strongest start are those with a proudly faith-based approach. According to a Quinnipiac University poll released this week, Governor Rick Perry of Texas is the Republican front-runner. He spoke at a Christian religious rally on the eve of entering the primary contest last month and has questioned the science of evolution and climate change.
The Republican Party has its own evidence-based candidates, and they are struggling to respond to the faith-based worldview that Perry so powerfully embodies. One of them, Jon M. Huntsman Jr., is playing up his credentials as the right's empiricist. He has said he thinks climate change is a fact and warned Republicans against becoming the "anti-science party."
Mitt Romney, who was the front-runner before Perry blazed onto the scene, has been more ambivalent. Romney's business background puts him squarely in the camp of the empiricists: it is hard to make millions in private equity without appreciating the power of data. But Romney knows who votes in Republican primaries, and last week he hedged his previously explicit position on climate change.
Read the entire blog post here
There is something almost sinister in the way Freeland and other Obama supporters are trying to portrait Christians who - together with thousands of scientists - are critical of the science of human induced global warming, as being anti-science. But expect more if it, when the election campaign intensifies.
Whether we will hear more about the great scientific "empiricist" Obama, remains to be seen. So far, it is rather difficult to find proof for Freeland´s claim that "His core belief is a belief in facts."
Tags: global warming, politics, US
An affluenct Californian lady they all are chasing
What do Greenpeace, Al Gore, Obama, WWF, the Democrats and the marketeers of luxury products have in common? Answer: they are all doing their best to empty the purse of this person:
An affluent Californian (preferably from San Francisco) lady, who believes that human caused global warming is real and happening, supports and votes democrat, drives a Prius and spends thousands of dollars on "green" luxury products and services.
Here is some background information about this "Super Green" lady:
An analysis of eight years of data from Gallup's annual environmental poll found that greater numbers of women tend to believe the body of science on climate change and be concerned about how warming will affect the planet.
Today, the consumer looking to go green is increasingly likely to be an affluent professional woman wearing an eco-friendly and animal-free Stella McCartney suit and satin shoes. And if you want her dollars and her loyalty, you need to pay attention to the priorities she finds important when making her selection of luxury goods and services.
"In all of the green issues that Unity Marketing studied, women popped as being much more concerned than men. This is an important signal for luxury marketers to sit up and take notice, as women are often the major shoppers for a family, making the primary decisions about the products and services the family will purchase. For luxury consumers, an increasing number are looking to a company's environmental practices before making a purchase."
The New York-based consumer lifestyle market research firm defines the Super Green sector as adults who engage in more than 10 environment-friendly activities regularly, such as recycling, using rechargeable batteries or re-using grocery store bags.
The Super Green accounts for five percent of the entire U.S. adult population, and are mostly found in the northwest portion of the country.
San Francisco, the most sustainable city in the world according to a study commissioned by Siemens Corporation, has the most number of "Super Greenies." At least 17 percent of San Francisco adults engage in 10 or more eco-friendly activities on a regular basis.
As to their spending habits, the Super Green sector are more likely than the average adult to spend upwards of $500 yearly on products like cosmetics, clothing, and fine jewelry. They are 49 percent more likely to buy a luxury vehicle in the coming year, and 77 percent more likely to spend upwards of $45 thousand on new car purchases in the household.
On voting patterns, almost half (42 percent) of the Super Greens are Democrats, while an additional 20 percent declare themselves as independents with Democrat-leanings. Republicans and independents with Republican leanings account for a combined 16 percent, or less than one fifth of the sector.
There are thousands of academic studies related to (bogus) global warming/climate change. However, it is apparent that one important study is missing: Shouldn´t somebody try to find out why women - particularly affluent women - are more easily than men ready to accept the global warming hoax?
Knowing the realities of the politically correct, alarmist academic establishment, such a study is not very likely to appear. Therefore one can only speculate about the reasons for womens´credulity.
Women are often perceived to be more soft and caring than men, which often is a good thing - but not always. There is a danger that this soft and emphatic side in women also makes them more inclined to believe in all kinds of snake oil sellers (including the global warming doomsday scaremongerers). The Super Green ladies are thus an easy prey for Greenpeace, Gore and the rest.
Thank God, that the Queen of Denmark is not one of them!
Tags: climate change, global warming, US, women
German professor on the euro: "a bad solution for a nonexistent problem"
The eminent German economic historian Hans-Joachim Voth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) has specialized in financial markets, long-run economic growth, as well as political risk and macroeconomic instability. That is why his views on the current euro crisis are of particular interest:
SPIEGEL: Why can't the euro survive?
Voth: Even bad economic arrangements can be kept going for a long time. But the real questions are: Whom does that help? How long can one stand the pain? And what's the use? The euro can technically survive, but so can the never-ending attacks on the bond markets that are increasing the pain. But that just exacerbates the fundamental problem: that the main shock absorber has fallen away in the countries with very rigid labor markets …
SPIEGEL: … because these countries can no longer manipulate the values of their currencies to meet their individual needs.
Voth: Before, if Spain had gotten stuck in the kinds of difficulties it has today -- unit labor costs are too high, growth is too low, and there is enormous unemployment -- the peseta would have simply been devalued by 20 percent. In those days, Spain only had to change a single price -- that of its currency -- in order to make itself competitive again, and the market would generally help out as well. Cars could keep on being built in Pamplona and Seville. Houses on the Costa Brava were still affordable. There were no forced wage cuts in Spain, and prices remained stable. That's it.
SPIEGEL: Why do you think the euro was a dumb idea?
Voth: Because, at its core, it is a bad solution for a nonexistent problem -- a political object of prestige with massive economic disadvantages. Everyone thought the common currency would cause all of the structural differences in the euro-zone countries to automatically disappear. But, after 2000, the low interest rates in the euro zone artificially fuelled growth in the weaker countries and caused real estate prices to skyrocket. This kind of speculative bubble is fun while it lasts. But every party comes to an end eventually. And then comes the rude awakening: Growth slows down, and unemployment rises. Since the banks have given out too many loans, they become a brake on growth. This causes an increase in the structural divergences that were actually supposed to decrease. The euro can't survive for long without having much more redistribution between richer and poorer member countries or much more flexible economies. And neither of those things is politically feasible.
SPIEGEL: Wouldn't abandoning the common currency sound the death knell for the entire EU project?
Voth: I believe that the consequences of ending the euro have been overstated. Not every dumb economic idea needs to be defended to the bitter end. Europe is infinitely more than the European Union, and the European Union is infinitely more than the euro.
SPIEGEL: You give the euro another five years -- what will Europe look like then, in your opinion?
Voth: I can imagine a world where there will a left-over euro: with France, Italy, the Mediterranean countries, perhaps Belgium as well. Apart from that the old Deutschmark zone will return, comprising Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, perhaps Denmark as well, perhaps Finland, which have no problems conducting the same monetary policy as Germany. We had a similar system during the European Exchange Rate Mechanism ERM. That was the optimal system, and then we gave it up for the euro.
Read the entire interview here
It is not difficult to agree with what professor Voth says. Sooner or later, the European political leaders - if not the current, less than brilliant ones, then the next generation - will make the same conclusions. Let´s hope it will be sooner rather than later.
Tags: EU, euro, Germany
Game over for the IPCC? - Railway engineer Pachauri now building a canal in India
Railway engineer Pachauri is now helping to build a canal
We all know that IPCC chairman R.K. Pachauri does not have a degree in anything close to climate science - he is a railway engineer. But now it turns out that Pachauri is also an expert on shipping and the construction of canals:
An expert team, led by Dr R K Pachauri, Chairman of Inter-governmental Panel on climate Change, has visited costal Dhanushkodi and neighbouring areas to analyse the possibility of finding an alternative site for Sethusamudhram Shipping Canal Project.
Officials said the team after visiting the area yesterday, also interacted with Coast Guard officials at Mandapam.
The panel was formed following the direction from the Supreme Court to find a solution to the problem.
The sources said one proposal suggested was digging part of land near Dhanushkodi to connect Palk Straits and Gulf of Mannar.
SSCP proposes linking Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar between India and Sri Lanka by creating a shipping channel through the shallow sea and a chain of islands known as 'Ramar Sethu and Adam's Bridge.
The fact that Pachauri now concentrates on other things than the IPCC and the global warming hoax, should be seen as a positive development. It shows that the game is over for the UN climate circus - and the Nobel laureate is turning his attention elsewhere.
It also appears that Pachauri has lost his personal belief in global warming. Why should he otherwise participate in the construction of a canal, for which there would be no need, if the alarmists´ predictions of a huge rise of the water level were true?
Should Pachauri like to return to the railway business, there are, of course, plenty of opportunities. Here is just one: The Indian railways are looking for an Assistant Station Master in Mumbai. Filling the application form should not be too difficult:
02 The candidate's Name, Address with Pin Code, Date of Birth, Father's Name and nearest Railway Station should be written legibly in English in bold capital letters, even if the candidate fills up the application form in Hindi.
03 Photographs: One recent (not earlier than three months from the date of application) colour passport size photograph with clear front view of the candidate without cap and sunglasses should be pasted on the application form in the space provided.
(image by wikimedia)
Tags: climate change, global warming, India, IPCC
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Equipment and Procedures to Measure Peanut Headspace Volatiles¹
Authors: J. W. Dickens , A. B. Slate , H. E. Pattee
An electronic meter was developed to measure the concentration of organic volatiles in the headspace over samples of comminuted peanuts. The meter consists of a commercially available semiconductor (Taguchi) and a temperature compensation circuit. The conductivity of the sensor increases in the presence of organic volatiles. Calibration of the meter can be made by measuring the volatiles in the headspace over known concentrations of ethyl alcohol in water. Good agreement between meter measurement of the concentration of organic volatiles in the headspace over samples of comminuted peanuts and the percent of freeze-damaged peanuts in the samples was demonstrated. Other tests with peanuts which were cured at 50 C or exposed to -1 C before curing demonstrated the meter can detect these types of objectionable flavors and indicated meter readings were not significantly affected by the moisture content of the peanuts.
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Keywords: peanuts, alcohol, aldehydes, flavor, volatiles, meter, Taguchi sensor
Dickens, J. & Slate, A. & Pattee, H., (1987) "Equipment and Procedures to Measure Peanut Headspace Volatiles¹", Peanut Science 14(2), p.97-100. doi: https://doi.org/10.3146/i0095-3679-14-2-12
1Paper No. 11160 of the Journal Series of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service, Raleigh, NC 276957601. The use of trade names in this publication does not imply endorsement by the United States Department of Agriculture or the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service of the products named, nor criticism of similar ones not mentioned.
Volume 14 • Issue 2 • 1987 • Peanut Science
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