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The Rising Seas Are Not Down To Global Warming Alone.
Rising Seas Not Down To Global Warming A new study shows that global warming is not the only cause of swelling seas. Much comes from "water mining" – the pumping of vast amounts of groundwater from beneath the earth, mainly to irrigate crops. This inevitably ends up in the oceans after it evaporates from farmland and comes down as rain.
The study which will be published in the next issue issue of Geophysics Research Letters – estimates that extraction of ground water for domestic and industrial use accounts for about 25% of sea-level rise around the world, the same as the melting ice from the glaciers outside Greenland and Antarctica.
Rising Seas Level Not Entirely Down To Warming
by Ian R Thorpe.
KEYWORDS: climate, rising, sea, level, water, mining, ground, pumping, extraction, science, scientists, climate change, global warming, argriculture, irrigation, rain, ocean
An interesting new perspective on the various crises threatening humankind and the the diversionary tactics such as the Carbon Driven Global Warming "science is settled" scare. If it was truly only carbon emissions that are responsible for the current climate chaos and the other, even more serious problems we face, securing our future would be a piece of cake.
The problem is climate scientists are not very bright. If a thing cannot be reduced to mathematics their narrow little minds which run of railway lines - straight ahead or straight back only - cannot cope with it. And the environment is so complex and has so many inter - related aspects it would take a million years just to formulate the core algorithm of the computer models needed to accurately analyse what is happening. Unfortunately as this piece by environment writer Geoffery Lean shows we don't have a million years or even the hundred climate science predicts it will take warming to destroy life.
from The Daily Telegraph - 10 October 2010
Water Mining Prime Culprit For Rising Seas
Nowhere in the Maldives juts more than 10 feet above the Indian Ocean, making it extremely worried about sea level rise. Its president, Mohamed Nasheed, illustrated the point by holding a cabinet meeting under water in the run-up to last year's Copenhagen summit.
But a new study shows that global warming is not the only cause of swelling seas. Much comes from "water mining" – the pumping of vast amounts of groundwater from beneath the earth, mainly to irrigate crops. This inevitably ends up in the oceans after it evaporates from farmland and comes down as rain.
Even more disturbing is the theory that increased pumping threatens food supplies. Underground reservoirs and aquifers are shrinking by more than 280 cubic kilometers a day, well over twice as much as in 1960. Nature cannot keep pace with the loss to replenish the levels of water tables. The enormous Ogallala aquifer – which underlies eight states in the USA, helping to grow food on which people in a hundred nations rely – is being drawn down by a three feet a year. How much of that is replenished by rainfall percolation? A mere inch.
There is of course another reason for rising sea levels in some parts of the world and it is related to climate change - climate change that happened thousands of years ago. It is well known and thoroughly documented that parts of Britain's coastline are crumbling while others are rising. This is because our islands sit right on the fore bulge created by the ice cap at the last glacial maximum. What this means can be demonstrated with a rubber ball. Put one hand under the ball, the other on top and squeeze the 'poles' together. Notice how as the pressure compresses the sphere a bulge forms, the ball is no longer a true sphere but a slightly flattened one.
OK, but the earth is not a rubber ball. It is not dissimilar however, think of a rubber ball twenty - five thousand miles in circumference and how much pressure would be needed to compress that. Now think of the enormous weight of ice in glacial sheets on average 3000 feet thick and covering the land down to not far north of the 49th parallel. That ice took thousands of years to build up but geological evidence shows it receded comparatively quickly, I don't know how accurate this could possibly be but some researchers have estimated the dates of three great inundations at 19,000; 14,000; and 10,000 years ago (the last of these being the Biblical flood and that described in the Sumerian Epic Of Gilgasmesh). Naturally the earths crust is not going to spring back instantly.
As the planet returns to a ball shape Britain is tilting, the north west of England band Scotland slowly rising while the south and east of England slowly sinks. There are other factors at work too, the geology of the regions, the softer rocks and clay shales of the east coast are more susceptible to erosion by tides and currents than the granite and basalt of the north west.
Britain's sinking coasts are a side issue, a tiny, local problem in the bigger scheme of things, but are water related and are illustrative of the complexity of problems we face. Putting catalytic converters on coal and oil fired power stations does not begin to address the situation. The American climate lobby, noisy buy typically inward looking is asking the world to sign up to solutions that may relieve America's problems when other regions face very different threats requiring different solutions.
Clearly then the blinkered focus of the climate 'science' lobby on carbon driven global warming has only served to divert attention from even more urgent and potentially catastrophic problems.
If the atmosphere does warm by as much as six degrees celsius by the end of the century as the most alarmist of doomsday prophets predict, it will not matter because we will all have died of thirst long before that. On the other hand once water shortages start causing millions of deaths thus relieving the pressure of overpopulation on the ecosystem nature will be able to start restoring the balance and the few humans who survive will rebuild civilisation.
Or we could all get the message now, ignore the scientists who are only the hired lackeys of big food, big oil and big money and all just do our best to consume less. There is nothing wrong with using a computer with a I.6 Ghz CPU if it does the job, we don't have to throw out clothes because they are last year's fashion and we should heed the old wisdom of the thrifty, buy cheap - buy twice.
All the science I have seen that claims to address his issue, all the statistics that are chanted like mantras and said to support the 'science' that was done with made up or manipulated data, all the crackpot geo-engineeering theories and all the carbon trading schemes are aimed at only one thing, not saving the planet but saving the unsustainable perpetual growth economic model.
It Is Not Carbon Dioxide but Water That Will Destroy Civilisation
About three years ago we reported it was water rather than carbon dioxide that would pose the biggest threat to western civilisation in the twenty first century. Those of us fortunate enough to live in developed societies are profligate in our use of water, forgetting that while we can drain reservoirs and aquifers quickly it takes a ling time for nature to refill them. Las Vegas is the first city in the drought is south west of the USA to dry up, other heavily populated areas will follow quickly
The Floods, The Government, The Environment and The Bottomless Purse
The recent freak weather and floods caused by heavy rains have provoked a storm of criticism about the environment agency's inept response to the problems. More public spending called the left, but the proplem is too much public spending, science and too many experts. What needs to be done is simple and straightforwards, not scientific enough for the experts and not expensive enough for the contractors.
Standing Up To The Climate Science BulliesThe climate science scammers, the pusillanimous poltroons who tried to help their political and corporate pymasters steal £$trillions from the taxpayers of the world with a campaign to spread fear and panic about carbon dioxide have lost the fight with sceptics so comprehensively in the end they resorted to bullying. Now one of the most prominent physicists in the world, Prof. Freeman Dyson has denouched them as fools and frauds.
Climate Change Act: An Inspired Way To Waste £400 BillionAs the attempts of the science lobby and government (whose strings are pulled by the New World Order) to force us to believe the hopelessly flawed and totally discredited case for carbon driven global warming here is some clear thinking on the question of climate change..
Are The Cultural Poles FlippingReligion and Science (which some people have turned into their religion) have failed to provide the certainties, the sense of security, that many people seek. First religious convicion was eroded by science and then faith in science collapsed when it's certainties dod not stand up to the logical tests of the real world. Can existentialims offer a third way or is its acceptance of uncertainty to challenging?
Flight From FreedomFleeing from freedom seems like a contradiction, after all we usually asdsiciate flight with escaping from captivity. In this first part of Existentialism for Beginners however the author identifies a human instinct that predisposes us to seek illusory safety by conforming and being part of the crowd rather than embarking on the lonely life of the free thinker, the person who truly makes their own decisions and follows their own path.
GM Food Needed To Avert World Food Crisis
The GM Foods Nazis are revving up for a good whine again. Professor Sir John Beddington said there was no scientific qick fix to the ''enormously serious'' problem of producing enough fod to feed the world's rapidly growing population in the future as we face problems such as climate change, population growth and energy shortages. He told BBC Breakfast News: ''If there are genetically modified (GM) organisms that actually ...
Rare Earth Mine Reopens - Triumph For Common Sense.Politicians and the science community rave about how carbon is destroying the planet. But what's the truth about how clean green energy will be. Rare earth metals used in digital devices, electric car batteries, wind turbines and many other processes that are being promoted as necessary to restart the global economy. Mining and refining the ores is a huge pollutant but new mining licences are being granted ever so quietly.
Cancun Climate Conference Will Ignore Big QuestionsThis years international conferrence on climate change is taking place in Cancun, Mexico this week. Will it be any more successful that last years fiasco in Copenhagen? Unlikely unless the politicians grpw some balls, kill the scientists, sideline the limp wristed politically correct wimp Obama and face up to the read causes of climate problems which all come back to one thing, TOO MANY PEOPLE.
Climate Scientists And The Honesty Question As the world's media turns its attention to the latest shenanigans of world leaders and climate scientists in Cancun, Mexico, The Daily Stirrer's Ian R Thorpe invites us to look at the basic homesty of the carbon trading industry. In the run up to Cancun there has been a flurry of activity in the climate science community, including contributions from those discredited crooks and liars the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit trying to push the old line that people who see through the climate science scam "are not scientists and therefore cannot understand the science. Should we take any notice of people who have demonstrated they have serious integrity issues...
Coal Fired Power Stations Win ReprieveIn what looks like a u-turn on green energy policy the coalition government have abandoned plans to support and subsidiese operators of sustainable energy generating plants. While environment activists and green campaigners are calling this a betrayal the case may well be that in the harsh reality of governing claims made by green energy firms look totally unrealistic ...
Freaky Frankenstein FishesOnce again we find ouselves questioning the sanctity of science as a new scheme to farm genetically modified (G.M. salmon that grow to twice the size of a normal adult salmon in half the time nears approval by the United States F.D.A.. It this another case of scientists blinding themselves with science and failing to see the very obvious flaws in the plan?
Leading Sceptic's Climate Change U Turn?When one of the world's best known climate change deniers starts talking about how we can deal with climate related problems you might expect the climate scienceology cultists to be cheering. They are remarkably quiet however about Bjorn Lomborg's new book because it reveals he has never been a climate change denier as he was dubbed but was merely questioning the shaky science on which the carbon driven AGW case was based ...
The Growing Problem Of Rising Food PricesWhile the warmists rant about carbon and the Church of Scienceology Cult rave about climate science. there are threee real and immediate problems facing us that nobody is talking about. These are overpopulation, water shortage and food price inflation. This article deals with food prices, links at the bottom lead to our posts on population and water scarcity.
Eminent U.S. Pysicist Pulversises Climate Science ScammersIn another blow to the climate change alarmists an eminent US Physicist has denounced the whole climate science academic community as motivated by self interest and the pursuit of wealth and glory and the anthropogenic global warming scare as the greatest and most successful scam he has seen in his long life.
The Cancer Of Modern Life
Medical research insititutes continue to spend vast amounts of money on cancer research and the less level headed types involved, the boy - scientists twiiter about finding a cure for cancer as if it were one disease with a single identifiable cause. New research however suggests cancer is just one of the hazards of modern life. ( Health Menu )
How Our Creature Comforts Are Baking The WorldAs the arguments rage on between the Climate Science Wankers lobby and the sceptis, realists and out and out deniers we observe that still nobody who gets media coverage, nobody who is talking sense about climate chaos, carbon based fuels, deforestation or over population is really being heard. Quite simply there are too many of us and we want too much. Who needs science or politics to understand that?
Climate Change Sacred CowsMany people have accused the climate science community of trying to turn climate change science into a religion. The demands that climate change denial be made a crime like Holocaust denial certainly lends weight to this. But 'denial' (or scepticim to be accurate - few people deny we have problems with our climate, what is being questioned is the climate science religionists fixation on carbon driven anthropogenic global warming) is healthy as is questioning the other sacred cows of the climate change cult, wind power ...
Climate Change Crooks And LiarsThough climate change alarmists claim that that "the science is settled" no longerr holds water the arguments rage on. If anything they are getting more heated as the climate science lobby, knocked from the moral high grounds show their true colours. But more and more evidence is showing the climate change science was never settyled and the global warming Armageddonists had built their whole case on very flimsy evidence.
Climate Science Debunked By Science Superstar Max Planck.One of the lies most often repeated by the Climate Science lobby is that 'the science stands' i.e. that no fault was found in the scientific work of the CRU. This is both true and a lie, true in that no fault was found, a lie because the reason no fault was found is that to examine the scientific work was outside the Russell panel's terms of reference. This report features the Max Planck Institute's take on climate science and the IPCC.
Obama Deepwater HorizonPresident Obama described the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico as America's worst environmental disaster ever. That is not true, the oil spillng from the fractured well has a long way to go before overtaking a similar blowout in the Gulf in 1979. What do we expect from the rock star President other than posing, posturing and crude attempt to make political capital out of in order to rally dwindling support for his climate change legislation...
Climate Change, Pollution and Coal Fired Power Stations.The debate on climate change or AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) is not lost despite the dishonesty of the climate science lobby and the United Nations IPCC. The argument was hijacked by science and yet the mindset of modern scientists is much to narrow and inflexible to cope with the complexities of climate variations and their global effects. Here is an example of the dishonest presentation of information to hype the case for "scientific solutions.
The Evil Green Bastards Who Want To Save The PanetSo you heard all the politically corect propaganda and you thought going green wouls show you are a good person. Wrong. According to scientists adopting a green lifestyle is more likely to make you an evil, selfish bastard...
Ethical Knickers For Your Green ValentineA sexy valentine gift for your green lover? Why not some ethical big knickers. Hemp knickers are all the rage with planet friendly females this year. If your girlfriend is more of a thong wearing climate change sceptic than a lentil loving Earth goddess howeer dont blame us if she kills you.
The True Hockey StickBeliever in the new religion of AGW, anthropogenic global warming or climate change will be sick of having their science based faith mocked and their scientist priests ridiculed. To help them hold to their belief we offer a change to own a fragment of the true hockey stick, the sacred symbol of their religion.
Our Car Of The Year - The Toyota ScadenfreudeIt turns out their much hyped Prius, the car of choice for the kind of B list celebrity who likes to talk publicly of how green they are but when they have to go anywhere hire a chauffeur driven limo, as well as not being very reliable is not very green. Scroll down to read how the green credentials of the Toyota Prius fall short of the target...
Former Government Adviser Condemns Green Scaremongering.Some people accuse The Daily Stirrer of being anti - science. This is not so, we are simply endowed with a healthy scepticism about all things. Thus the trend among people who like to label themseves "scientists" to brush aside criticism from highly educated and well informed individuals outside their specialist field by saying "You're not a scientists, you don't understand science," arouses deep suspicion. We are rght to be sceptical and suspicious ...
BBC Weathermen To Be Sacked?News that BBC weathermen may be sacked for always getting the weather forecast wrong is wecome. This unfortunate breed of humans are an example of what happens when scientists become besotted with their science and lose contact with reality. Weather forecasts are not that big a deal but when the arseoles cannot correctly tell us what the weather is like outside by looking through the window we have to ak are they worth their salary
We're All Going To Die. WTF?Another seasonal rebellion from Boggart Blog against the annual crop of killjoy health warnings from governmet departments aimed at spoiling the holiday for the impressionable by spreading fear and panic. More hilarious stuff from the UK's top satire and humour blog.
Climate Change:How Much Blame Must Science Take?After the Copenhagen climate summit failed to agree a plan of action to combat climate change the science lobby have been quick to blame capitalism, business, politicians and the public. But a critical and objective analysis reveals there is oly one culprit. Science alone is to blame.
HREF="copenhagen_climate_change_lies.shtml">Climate Change: Little White Lies and Big Brown LiesThe Copenhagen summit conference on climate change was never about climate change. It was about money, power, control and the need to divert attention from the failure of globalization by the spreading of fear and panic. The idea was to make us feel dependent on our leaders. Pity the science used to back up the case for action was so easily exposed as fraudulent....
Copenhagen Climate Change LiesThe Copenhagen summit conference on climate change was never about climate change. It was about money, power, control and the need to divert attention from the failure of globalization. Pity the science used to back up the case for action was so easily exposed as fraudulent
Copenhagen Climate Conference: The Stink Of Shit And CorruptionThe spiel from the control freak governments of developed nations in the run up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference billed as the last chance to save the planet from a global warming catastrophe went something like this."You must listen to the scientists, you must not think for yourselves, you must never question authority," Luckily we all knew the scientists chanting this mantra were as much crooks and liars as the politicians and billionaires they worked for...
Copenhagen Climate Summit Chaos.We hate to say we told you so folks (no we don't, we love it) but it looks as if the Copenhagen Climate Summit, "our last chance to save the planet" according to politicians and their lap dog scientists, is in disarray and on the verge of collapse after a confidential document detaing a power grab by certain rich nations that seems mainly to hve been cooked up by the authoritarian Obama administration for American and the equally authoritarian Labour government in the UK.
Copenhagen Climate Conference Chaos
The Man We Would Like To be God Speak Out On ClimateTF for David Attenborough, the man British people would overwhelmingly support if there was a vote to elect somebody as God. Vteran naturalist Sir David will tomorrow present a TV programme in which he will dare to name the real cause of climate change, the factor the Politically Correct Thought Police have prevented us discussing and the lying cheating...
Climate Change Killed A Guardian ReaderThe Copenhagen Climate Summit threatens to be the biggest ever festial of bullshit and hypocrisy. Can politicians emplty talk save the planet? Are they even talking about the right things? Does the planet need saving? Do we really care? Which way is the party?
An Inconvenient Truth About Climate Change ScienceI've said many times I became suspicious of "climate change science" when the climate change scientists started attaching the word "anthropogenic to it. I mean, anthropogenic, WTF is that all about? Anthropologists study hominids; primitive man, chimps and those dwarf chimps that are always wanking, baboons, gibbons, gorillas and monkeys. Anthropology is the study of human development right? The study of humankind according to the OED if we are being picky (there is bound to be some boy-scientists along who wants to brandish the Wikipedia definition and I can't be arsed slapping them down. Similarly anthropogenisis, the word from which anthropogenic must derive , relates to....
Copenhagen, The Real Agenda.The Copenhagen climate summit organised by the United Nation, it's about saving the planet, right?
We all know now the scientific data used as "evidence of anthropogenic climate change" was faked, made up, manipulated to changed by ...
Why Copenhagen Climate Change Conferene Must FailIn a surprise statement today the world's leading climate change expert annouced that he hopes the Copenhagen climate change summit, billed as our last chance to avoid a global warming catastrophe, ends in failure. Any deal struck, according to James Hansen, would involve the creation of a carbon trading market and in putting the interests of capitalism ahead of solving the problem would only make matters worse...
Domestic Heating Oil ShortageAs snow began falling again across the country, the Government confirmed that the situation could become "very serious," with some households already facing waits of up to four weeks before they can receive supplies [ ... ] With prices of fuel oil for domestic heating systems escalating rapidly as demand from developing nations puts pressure on the available supplies there is no respite in sight for consumers. As well as problems obtaining deliveries due to stocks running low and the difficulty of getting deliveries through to remote areas due to weather conditions there is a hidden problem here. Many households that rely on oil for ...
In a recently published science paper, Dr. Wallace Manheimer said Net Zero would be the end of modern civilisation. Writing about wind and solar power he argued it would be especially tragic "when not only will this new infrastructure fail, but will cost trillions, trash large portions of the environment, and be entirely unnecessary".
January however, can be quite depressing after all the Christmas hype and festivities. Back on the treadmill, another year of unfulfilled expectations beckons, and all the usual miserableists emerge from their hiding places to tell us how important it is we do 'dry January', adopt a vegan lifestyle, swear a vow of celibacy, and give up happiness …
Germany Forcing Farmers To Use LESS Fertilizer To Satisfy EU's Green Agenda
A growing backlash by members on the Conservative benches of the House of Commmons over the Government's restrictions which bar asylum seekers from working while they await the outcome of their applications, is the latest embarrassment for Rishi Sunak's Conservative In Name Only government. The rebels demand that Britain must stop vilifying asylum seekers, dump its "mad" work ban on asylum seekers who could plug labour shortages, says a former minister in the immigration department.
Germany haemorrhaging cash to keep country running on as 'net zero' becomes zeroeconomic activity
Germany was so desperate to achieve 'net zero' CO2 emissions that for years the country's government closed its fossil fuel-fired and nuclear power plants,replacing those plants with wind and solar power — as well as impoorting huge volumes of natural gas and oil from Russia. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, when NATO (aka the U.S.A.) mandated that the West impose retaliatory sanctions on Russia, including a ban on importation of Russian gas and oil, Germany found itself in a hole:
Germany is Now A "Total Dictatorship" Says Dutch Journalist
A Dutch journalist has claimed that Germany is now a "total dictatorship". This may seem like a case of the pot calling the kettle black given the Dutch government's plan to evict up to 3000 farmer from their land and return those acreages 'to nature' in a bid to lead the way among EU member states, to enforce total compliance with the latest loonytoons EU climate policy which requires EU members to reduce that dangerous pollutant nitrogen, which accounts for 78% of the air we breathe ...
Yet when politicians are asked directly: "How do we keep the lights on and our homes warm when the wind does not blow and the sun is too low in the sky to make much impression on photovoltaic cells that do the business in solar panels?
So far the autumn of 2022 has been unusually mild which has had eco-warriors getting worked up and gluing their arses to motorways and airport runways to demand that we stop using oil. However winter temperatures across Europe predictably dropped sharply in late November and through most of December to date have been positively arctic. Scientists have offered the opinion that the cold weather spell the ongoing European gas crisis is now "likely" to worsen significantly as usual seasonal weather spreads across the northern half of the continent, bringing with it an increased need for domestic heating.
In the wake of attacks on the on the Stream pipelines, that effectively halted the flow of natural gas which German industry, commerce, agriculture and society relies on, and the terrorist attack on the Kerch Bridge, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gloated that the attacks were a "tremendous opportunity" to weaken Moscow [...] And shortly after news of the Nord Stream sabotage broke on mainstream media, gas supply companies in the USA were offering to supply Europe with shipments of Liquid Natural Gas carried by supertanker to be sold to European nations at vastly inflated prices.
Dutch farmers block roads with tractors in protest of government plan to seize thousands of farms over "climate change"
AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they're creating
In 2018 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai had something to say: "AI is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire." Pichai's comment was met with a healthy dose of skepticism. But nearly five years later, it's looking more and more prescient. College professors are tearing their hair out because AI text generators can now write essays as well as your typical undergraduate ...
Majority of the British people feel that migration is too high'
Among the people raising the topic on media platforms this week is Professor Matthew Goodwin. A Politics academic at The University of Kent, Prof Goodwin declared today that a majority of people in Britain think imigration levels are too high.
The UK Online Safety Bill is presented to parliament for its final reading next week. Secretary of State for Digital Culture Michelle Donelan announced this morning that the controversial "legal but harmful" clause has been removed and thus free speech has been protected. Anti self-harm activists and groups opposinthe Gay BLTQ movement's push for paedophile equal rights and the sexualisation of children don't like it one little bit, though free-speech enthusiasts should take no comfort from that. The Bill puts into legal jeopardy anything that creates "a material risk of significant harm to an appreciable number of adults in the United Kingdom".
As we reported earlier in the year, in order to comply with new, economically suicidal European Union environmental laws the Dutch government's plans to force the closure of thousands of dairy and livestock farms in order to comply with the latest and most insane to date batch of EU environment laws which aim to limit notrogen as well as Carbon Dioxide emissions. The European Union green agenda directive has been branded as the "Great Reset turned up to eleven".
According to a new study based on satellite data, in 2022 there is more Artic sea ice that at any time in the past 30 years. So why after all those dire predictions of doom and devastation has Arctic sea ice cover come roaring back so quickly over the last few years? Nobody knows – apparently not one scientist on the planet can tell you, writes Willis Eschenbach in a short essay for the climate alarmism watchdog site Watts Up With That?
Animal Rebellion' Vegan Nazis Pour Milk On Supermarket Floor in 'Plant-Based Future' Protest
1,200 Scientists and Professionals Go Public With: "There is No Climate Emergency"
So much for all the COP 26 banter late last year. Let me remind you. The elites all flew in on their private jets and promptly told us we're all (royal we) getting off fossil fuels and killing coal.So how's that turning out? The usage of coal is now at record highs:
Climate Scientists' Mathematical Models Of Reality Wrong Again…New Study Shows Jet Stream Strengthening, Not Weakening
recent research by Samantha Hallam et al published in the journal Climate Dynamics looks at the seasonal variations over decades in Northern Hemisphere jet stream latitude and speed over land for the period 1871–2011. The authors report that they found no evidence of weakening of the sort climate alarmists have been warning about for the past three decades.
Have MPs got smaller or has Ed Miliband got bigger? Has he grown into his boots? Has he outgrown them? It's easy to forget he has had more affect than any Labour politician in living memory. And not just because of his £2 membership drive that put the Labour party into special measures for five years. What other contenders are there? It's true that Tony Blair's war in Iraq had a widespread effect on the prospects of hundreds of thousands in the Middle East – but that will be insignificant against the leadership Ed displayed with his Climate Change Act.
We have learned vial a piece in OilPrice.com that turbines at a wind farm in western Germany are being dismantled to allow for the expansion of open cast coal mining operations at an adjacent site. The propsal to increase output at the Garzweiler open-pit lignite coal mine has been described as a "paradoxical" situation given that in recent years the German government has been pushing ahead with the closure of coal and nuclear generating plant to appease its nutty but powerful Green party ... Continue reading >>>
Germany's interior minister, Nancy Faeser, is trying to fend off claims that she has faked statistics on refugee numbers to hide number of illegal immigrants claiming entry to Germany by posing as asylum seekers since the beginning of this year. While official figures show only 57,647 refugees have been admitted to Germany, the federal police have registered 101,900 arrivals of undocumented migrants since January
Government of Ireland announced new hate speech laws which will permit courts to jail 'Hate Speech' offenders for up to five years, but still cannot decide on a legal definition for what constitutes hate speech. Meanwhile the Irish government is finding itself accused of suppressing free speech while its new anti - hate laws are arousing a lot of hate
A whole host of tree huggers, pimped up milk float drivers and Greta Thunberg fan club members think the recently ascended King Charles should go to COP27 as "sovereign of Tuvalu, a cluster of Pacific atolls sinking underwater." The vision of Tuvalu island losing land to a rising sea is emotive, and it calls for a reaction. However, it might be best to first check the claim that Tuvalu is under threat because thirty seconds research will reveal such claims are bollocks. ... Continue reading >>>
it seems most people in Boris Johnson's cabinet during the run up to lockdowns were kept in the dark about many things, including the fact that 'The Science' on which lockdown policy was based was not science at all. Government was effectively reduced to a "quad" of ministers and their 'scientific advisers' deciding on Britain's future. Rishi Sunak, at that time Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance secretary) was one of them. There were rumours at the time that Sunak repeatedly warned that lockdowns would inflict economic damage that was likely to endure for decades.
The latest week's data for UK deaths, for the week to 12 August 2022, reports some 1,082 more people than would be expected for this period in a normal year died in the UK. These represent the so - called excess deaths so-called that during the fear and panic stages of the COVID saga were reported so gleefully. Yet now, with the scare narrative winding down, excess deaths in the UK have averaged 1,000 for 15 weeks of this year. Bizarrely this newsworthy story has gone completely unreported by mainstream media, leaving the alt_news community to get out news of what is really happening to the world.
"Science" no longer trustworthy: BMJ suggests treating all health research as fraudulent until proven genuine
Former The British Medical Journal (BMJ) editor Richard Smith penned an opinion piece suggesting health research has become so corrupted people should just assume it is fraudulent. Entitled "Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?" Smith's article reveals how research fraud is a systemic problem that dates back decades – and is only getting worse.
World Economic Forum Calls for Merging of Human and Artificial Intelligence to Censor 'Hate Speech' & 'Misinformation'
Despite the fact that they represent only the interests of big business, big finance and themselves, the oligarchs of the World Economic Forum are now calling for a policy of merging human and artificial intelligence systems so that computer chips implanted in our brain can edit and censor "hate speech" and "misinformation" online before it is articulated trough spoken of written word online.
As many people in Britain slap on the apres sun gloop in the wake of what passes for a heatwave in these cool cloudy climes, our inept politicians caught with their pants down by unusual weather as usual have heard that that winter is coming and are making plans for a coldwave. We are in the grip of an energy crisis at the height of summer. Last week, it was reported that the UK government is laying down plans for a "reasonable worst-case scenario" including blackouts for industry and even households. And this is as energy prices spiral out of control to new records every day.
As the war in Ukraine grinds on and Russia steps up its economic war against the west and in particular The European Union, claims made recently by the idiotically 'woke' leaders of Europe's main economic and military powers that the West has a once-in-a–generation chance to severely weaken Russia's capabilities, both militarily and geopolitically, look increasingly hollow. Putin's critics have cited 'Western unity' as one of the main reasons why Russia will be economically destroyed and politically humiliated when the Ukraine's military finally claim victory.
Legal Complaint Filed Against Food Retailer's "Orwellian" Facial Recognition Surveillance System
A report last week that a major UK retailer, The Co - Operative Society (Co - OP) was planning to install in - store surveillance systems with facial recognition capabilities, supposedly to reduce shoplifting by repeat offenders, caused quite a stir in the media and the privacy protection community. Privacy rights campaign group Big Brother have denounced the scheme which would capture and store biometric scans of "thousands of shoppers" is "unlawful" and "Orwellian in the extreme."
Russia and China announce a new global reserve currencyIt was always on the cards that Russia, China and rest of the BRICS countries would use the CIA / NATO engineered war in Ukraine to launch the main thrust of their economic war on the west, in fact after having written so much in our Currency Wars page about the inevitability of Russia and China challenging the US dollar's global reserve status, now, it's happening we can only say: "We Told You So".
With the Nord Stream 1 pipeline closed for maintenance, with the possibility that President Putin will not allow it to reopen at the end of the scheduled 10 days downtime in retaliation for the EU's continued support or Ukraine in their conflict with Russia, Germany is facing an unprecedented crisis that could erase the prosperity Germans have grown accustomed to, warned Rainer Dulger, head of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations.
So, the government of New Normal Germany is contemplating forcing everyone to wear medical-looking masks in public from October to Easter on a permanent basis. The fanatical New Normal fascists currently in charge of Germany's government are discussing revising the "Infection Protection Act" in order to grant themselves the authority to continue to rule the country by decree, as they have been doing since the Autumn of 2020, thus instituting a "permanent state of emergency" that overrides the German constitution, indefinitely ...
As the country celebrates tradition and prepares for change, one major shift is closer than ever – our move towards becoming a cashless society. It is hard to imagine money without the Queen's profile proudly embossed, defining our Elizabethan generation in a centuries-old British tradition, but the monarch's face is fast disappearing from our pockets.
Nurses and the nursing profession largely caved in over Covid-19 and turned on anyone—like yours truly and the remarkable Dr Niall McCrae—who dared to speak out against the prevailing narrative. Probably the profession saw its chance to bask in the 'Save the NHS' limelight, and seek a substantial pay rise [...] As a Registered Nurse and Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing I largely despaired of my nursing colleagues.
Even though the efforts of politicians, the health industries and media doom mongers to keep up the fear factor over COVID looking increasingly desperate in the face of public scepticism, billionaire psychopath and wannabe vaccine messiah Bill Gates, whose 'charitable' foundation owns several for-profit biotech companies and who made $£€billions out of COVID, is already planning his next pandemic scam ...
A British university is reportedly instructing students studying to become midwives (since when was a university degree needed to be a midwife?) on how to deliver babies from a"birthing persons" with a penis.
New UN Report on Climate Change – Nothing New, Nothing True
The latest United Nations ("UN") Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ("IPCC") report, published this week, once again, in scaremongering tone and the language of the panic stricken, claims that the planet is in peril (we are facing climate disaster, the clock is at one minute to midnight, we must take urgent action to destroy civilisation if we are to save the planet, the usual over - dramatised guff designed to spread fear and panic,) basically the same claim as they have been making at least twice a month for the past 20 years.
We need energy security – not Net Zero
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted a major rethink in the West. We have suddenly found ourselves vulnerable not just to rising prices in oil and gas, but also to inflation in other commodities – such as food and fertiliser. Of all these problems, the security of our energy supply has most exercised minds.
After three weeks of non-violent civil disobedience outside the Canadian parliament in Ottawa by truckers and other Canadian citizens struggling to uphold their right to not be subjected to forced "vaccination," Justin Trudeau unleashed the goon squads. Thousands of militarized riot police (and other unidentified heavily-armed operatives) swarmed the area, surrounded the protesters, started breaking into trucks and arresting people, and beating them with batons and the butts of their rifles.
Psychologists say Government nudge unit 'used grossly unethical tactics to scare public into Covid compliance'
The British government on Saturday accused Russia of organizing a plot to install a pro-Moscow government in Ukraine, as the Kremlin masses troops near the Ukrainian border. The U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office gave relatively little information about the intelligence unveiled Saturday other than to say that the Russian government was considering trying to make a Russia-leaning former member of Ukraine's parliament, Yevhen Murayev, the country's new leader. Continue reading >>>
A study published in November by the University of Pennsylvania exposes the insanity of projects such as spraying particles of sulphur compounds into the stratosphere, self - anointed vaccime messiah Bill Gates' latest scheme to "save" the planet with "geoengineering" According to the mathematical modellers Gates pays hansomely to provide him with "scientific" data to persuade politicians to spend taxpayers money on projects run by companies his "charitable foundation" has invested in. Far from saving the planet this latest idiocy is actually destroying environments. Continue reading >>>
We Told You So - Government-funded Report Confirms World's Largest offshore Wind Farm is UnprofitableA report commissioned by the Norwegian government has contradicted Boris Johnson's recent claim that offshore wind costs have fallen by 70% in a decade. The report also blows a huge hole in Johnson's grandiose pledges to the COP26 conference that offshore wind power would propel Britain to its net - zero target for Carbon Dioxide emissions well before 2050, the target set by the climate conference for achieving that target.
As with membership of the EU, the political elite is imposing a revolution on the public without consent. Does the blob never learn? Voters don't like being treated like naughty children
Mainstream media reporting of the conflict in Ukraine has disappointed. Perhaps I was naive to suppose that lessons might have been learned from the hits their print sales and online traffic rates took as a result of their handling the COVID pandemic But instead of focusing on the most obviously newsworthy aspect of the build up to and escalation of the war, Russia's view of NATO expansion into Ukraine and even further to Georgia and Kazakhstan, news reports have simply demonised Russia and portrayed Ukraine as the good guys.
I am a First Gulf War veteran and one of my sons, when very young, asked me which 'team' I had been on as if that was a choice for a British soldier. I was recently asked by one of my not so young grandsons which 'team' I supported in the war between Ukraine and Russia. Years of online gaming combined with a crumbling state educational system have led young boys to consider that war really is just a game.
It was just a couple of weeks ago that I wrote an article arguing that the economic sanctions we have cast upon in Russia, due to its invasion of Ukraine, likely mark the beginning of a period where China and Russia would bifurcate the global monetary system, leading them to eventually challenge the U.S. dollar's reserve status.
Telling voters that the spiralling inflation we are now experiencing, and the effect on living standards might sound like a politiian trying to be honest for once . Or might it be the case that Boris Johnson, never a man known for plain speaking, is preparing us to be told that Russia's war against Ukraine, rather than the follies of 'net zero' policies and transitioning from fossil fuels to intermittent 'sustainable' energy sources are to blame for price rises that coming down the lione long before the first Russian boot stepped over ~Ukraine's border?
COVID cover-up: UK media refuses to report that 4 of 5 coronavirus deaths over the past month occurred in the vaccinatedEarlier this evening Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in a broadcast to the nation, implored British citizens to continue doing what they've been told to do throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately everything the government has told us to do: Stay at home, Work from home, Wear masks, wash your hands every twenty seconds, do not touch anything, Shun your friends and relatives especially if they are sick, Get a vaccine, Get a second, vaccine, Get a booster vaccine, ... etc, etc, etc,
Covid Vaccine Refusers 'Thrive On Attention' Says Prime Attention Seeker And Chief Clown Boris JohnsonIronic isn't it that the one person guilty of telling more lies and spreading more misinformation about COVID throughout the pandemic, our so - called Prime Minister and according to observable evidence, the chief idiot Boris Johnson launched another attack on 'anti - vaxxers' today, saying they "thrive on the attention"? This outrageous farrago of lies and calumnies spewed at people who have simply chosen not to be injected with a shot of toxic shite that does not immunise anybody against anything
UK School that 'canceled' JK Rowling as a role model over transgender views replaces her with ex - Olympic athlete who has even stronger views
A few weeks ago this blog reported a Swedish study which showed that natural immunity provides much better protection against infection by the SARS2-COV virus which causes COVID (COrona VIrus Disease,) than the Pfizer vaccine which is currently hyped as the most effective on the market, though it is no more effective than the others at provinding immunity. The more responsible voices in mainstream media that actually reported the story described by the news as "a bit of a bombshell". Continue reading >>>
On the day we reported elsewhere that thousands of Germans had taken to the streets to protest against the latest fascistic measures imposed by their federal government Ulrike Guérot, a German political scientist has effectively shown that the so called vaccination opponents were far better informed on the CoVID vaccine effectiveness and adverse affects than the jabbed ones. Continue reading >>>
Study: At least 400,000 people in America have died from covid "vaccines"
Columbia University researchers have found that the true death count from Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) "vaccination" is substantially higher than the official figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC claims that only 20,000 people have died from Fauci Flu injections, but Columbia's underreporting factor estimates that 20 times that number, or around 400,000 deaths, is far more accurate.
#211115-doctors"> Why have we doctors been silent? — by Lucie Wilk
AS an NHS hospital doctor, I have had a front-row seat as the drama of the coronavirus pandemic has unfolded. It has been a year and a half of confusion, frustration and anger for me as I've watched our profession drawn into complicity with what I anticipate will be regarded as one of the most egregious public health disasters in history. I have watched as 'the science' has been presented on the national stage flanked by Union Jack flags as an unassailable truth. For something so apparently inviolable, it seems to shift and change disconcertingly from week to week ...
Press freedom groups have warned Assange's prosecution is a grave threat. The Biden DOJ ignored them, and today won a major victory toward permanently silencing the pioneering transparency activist. In a London courtroom on Friday morning, Julian Assange suffered a devastating blow to his quest for freedom. A two-judge appellate panel of the United Kingdom's High Court ruled that the U.S.'s request to extradite Assange to the U.S. to stand trial on espionage charges is legally valid.
Cancer expert says U.K. seeing spike in "non-covid deaths," nobody willing to call out vaccine elephant in the room
Excess mortality in the United Kingdom is off the charts, and yet nobody is willing to call out Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) "vaccines" as the culprit. Cancer expert and Prof. Carl Heneghan describes the current situation in Great Britain as a "national scandal." A shocking 9,300 more people than usual have died in the U.K. over the past several months, and officials are blaming everything else except the injections. Continue reading >>>
Throughout history there have been sports players who suffered from multiple conditions who have "collapsed" on the field during practice and during live games. However, a recent article from the German newspaper, Berliner Zeitung has highlighted an "unusually large" increase in the number of these collapses recently, leading to much speculation. Continue reading >>>
According to a new report "An increasing number of businesses are investing in advanced technologies that can help them forecast the future of their workforce and gain a competitive advantage". Almost every day we see more bollocks being written by supposedly intelligent people who believe that by using things called 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence,' and 'Big Data', machines can already be relied on to make better decisions than humans, and that soon computers will equal or even surpass us in actual intelligence. ... Continue reading >>>
It is ironic that in the week world leaders and flat faced Swedeish trolls are gathering in Glasgow for an orgy of virtue signalling that will inevitably drive millions of people in the developed world into fuel poverty and result in more industrial jobs being exported from the west to the world's major produceres of Carbon Dioxide emissions, China and India, the energy crunch that is affecting the whole of Europe is about to hit the United Kingdom extremely hard. ... Continue reading >>>
Analyst Reports 'Hundreds of Thousands' of COVID Vaccine Injury Reports Backlogged in VAERSThe latest episode of "Doctors and Scientists" on CHD.TV, features regular host Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., interviewing Jessica Rose, Ph.D., a Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) analyst and computational biologist who specializes in biomathematics and molecular research. OK, I know this publication does not have much time for mathematical modelling, but that is because so much of it is obviously rigged to support propaganda narratives. We will always give an honest scientist a fair hearing even if we do not agree with their contribution to debate.
The leader of the UK's official opposition party, Labour, Sir Kier SStarmer after a year of starring in a remake of The Invisible Man has finally decided to let us see who he is. Responding to remarks made by Home Secretary Priti Patel, SStarmer said education authorities should be allowed to use exclusion orders to stop anti-vaccine activists from protesting outside schools ... Continue reading >>>
Conflict in Syria's Idlib Province has escalated during the past week, with Turkish forces attacking the Syrian army and claiming to have killed over 50 soldiers. Russia, the main Syrian ally in the conflict, took the pressure off Assad and sent a clear message to Turkey's President Erdogan by sending in warplanes to halt to Turkish assault ...
In another signal that Boris Johnson's government has sold out to globalist ambitions and is lurching headlong towards fascism, The Information Commissioner's Office has announced that as part of their pursuit of a Single View of the Customer (SVoC), they plan to create a database in which all "behavioural data" of people who enjoy a bet ...
Justice Secretary Dominic Raab told the Conservative Party Conference last month Boris Johnson had given him the task of rewriting the The Human Righrs Act when he moved him from the Foreign Office in September's reshuffle. This week Raab revealed details on how he plans to block interference from Strasbourg in British matters as part of his remit.
2 October: Those who just one year ago were celebrated are now being vilified. The architects of this drastic rebrand? The ruling elite. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Saturday that she would call in the National Guard to replace healthcare workers who did not meet Monday's vaccination deadline.
Boris' Government Trying To Bypass Parliament, Introduce Vaccine Passports By Back Door
Vaccine shocker From Germany: "Out of ten autopsies, five deaths would be "very probably" linked to vaccines
he cultural elite says our new culture secretary is uncultured, yet I'd wager she's the first best-selling author to hold the job, and the only one I know of to have eaten an ostrich anus on TV, which sounds positively French. The appointment of Nadine Dorries – an outspoken former nurse, businesswoman and star of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here – is not a two fingers up to the culture industry but the direction of travel. That's what so terrifies the gatekeepers.
How many more young lives will be sacrificed on Gates's vaccine altar?
It's remarkable that the man who has become the unelected global health czar and population control advocate is not being questioned on his past more closely. Though we are living through a crisis predicted by Gates and a response triggered and bankrolled by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which are driving us towards a vaccination and biometric ID solution which Gates has been working on for years, he's still regarded as a benign philanthropist.
17 September 2021: The French government have today suspended 3,000 health workers who have defied a manadte requiring all medical personnel to be vaccinated against COVI|D, The Guardian reports. Announcing the move France's health minister said that many have since agreed to be inoculated now that they had seen "the mandate was a reality". This of course violates the workers human rights under the Geneva Convention as well as about a million French civil and employment rights laws.
16 September 2021: A leaked Zoom conference reveals a doctor questioning how to increase the count of COVID-19 patient numbers on the hospital's dashboard report.National File and other local media outlets that reported on the leak identified the people in the video as Mary Kathryn Rudyk, a physician at the medical center, who is asking Carolyn Fisher, the hospital's director of marketing, how to inflate the number of people classified as COVID-19 patients for the purpose of generating fear in the unvaccinated.
As a physician, I am certainly aware of ivermectin but don't recall ever writing a prescription for it in my 30+ years' medical career.
There is a fundamental question that needs to be asked when examining the vaccine passport issue, and what I find is that almost no one in the mainstream is tackling it directly. The question is this: "Is it legally and morally acceptable to constrict the rights and economic access of people in order to force them to submit to an experimental "vaccine", or any other medical procedure for that matter?"
Johnson's Proposed National Insurance Hike Threatens Jobs And Recovery
Entire vaccine theory OBLITERATED as Biden promises you can't catch Covid if you get the vaccinationIf the Covid vaccines really work, then everyone who gets them should not ever be worried about catching it from anyone who doesn't get the jab. The installed fake president Joe Biden said, "You're not going to get Covid if you have these vaccinations." So if vaccines protect you 100 percent, why does it matter if others around you aren't vaccinated? The claim that unvaccinated people are somehow a risk to the vaccinated just got obliterated.
Blood doctor releases findings showing Moderna's mRNA Covid vaccines change red blood cells
27 July: it's time to become your own "medical investigator," because these vaccine manufacturers and regulatory agencies do not have our best interest in mind. Would you like to know exactly what the mRNA vaccines do to your blood that's far more dangerous than the Covid-19 virus or any of its variants? You don't have to be a mechanic to learn and understand how dirty oil can ruin a motor, and you don't have to be a doctor or scientist to understand how mRNA Covid vaccines are changing red blood cells to make them stick together.
Authorities in Germany have indicated that unvaccinated people could be banned from cinemas and restaurants and that those who have taken the jab will have "more freedom." Angela Merkel's chief of staff Helge Braun told Bild that if cases keep rising, new rules will be brought in that will ensure the unvaccinated are deprived of basic lifestyle activities.
July 28: Scamdemic! Leaked Data Shows Over Half of UK 'COVID Hospitalizations' Tested AFTER Admission
NHS figures exclusively provided to The Telegraph allegedly show patients counted as COVID-positive by the British government were originally admitted to the hospital for separate ailments.No wonder the UK requires a COVID test to everyone admitted to hospitals, they're trying to pump up the numbers!
Scamdemic! Leaked Data Shows Over Half of UK 'COVID Hospitalizations' Tested AFTER Admission Proving the COVID "pandemic" to be a total scam, leaked data out of the UK shows 56% of alleged COVID hospitalizations were people who tested positive after going to the hospital for a different health issue.
Scientists want to insert 'their mark', be called 'your creator' and 'own you'
We've said it before and we'll no doubt say it again, scientists are dangerous. Ranging from the downright stupid (climate scientists, to the unashamedly neo – Nazi (cOVID vaccines eugenicists) to the criminally psychopathic (the transgender mob who believe their irresponsible tinkering with the human genome will create a race of superbeings.
Authorities in Germany have indicated that unvaccinated people could be banned from cinemas and restaurants and that those who have taken the jab will have "more freedom."
Angela Merkel's chief of staff Helge Braun told Bild that if cases keep rising, new rules will be brought in that will ensure the unvaccinated are deprived of basic lifestyle activities."The number of new infections is increasing even faster than in the previous waves. That worries me very much," said Braun.
As the UK government stepts up its push to introduce vaccines passport which would exclude unvaccinated people from many basic, everyday activities, huge crowds gathered in London and other UK cities to protest against lockdowns, track and trace apps, coercive measures to force unwilling people to accept experimental vaccines, mask mandates, social distancing and all the other oppressive and fascistic measures imposed by Boris Johnson's authoritarian government
July 21, Reports of numerous protests, with the total number involved estimated at over 1 million, took place across France on Saturday. They were protesting against authoritarian policies of forcing vaccination of health workers as a prelude to mandate the vaccination of all citizens and residents and requiring a COVID-19 free certificate, colloquially known as a "vaccine passport" to enter places such as sports stadia, theatres, restaurants, cinemas. and even shopping malls.
The vast majority of people who are getting injected for Covid-19 will die within a few short years from heartfailure, warns Dr. Charles Hoffe, M.D., a medical practitioner in British Columbia, Canada. In one of his latest updates, Dr. Hoffe explains that he is observing in patients who took an mRNA (messenger RNA) "vaccine" from either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna that their capillaries are now plugging up, which he says will eventually lead to a serious cardiovascular event.
Sacked by the NHS – a Doctor with the courage to say No to vaccines
A GP who resigned his 'job for life' as a partner with a Hampshire practice because of his doubts about Covid-19 vaccines has been suspended by NHS England for questioning coronavirus protocol. Dr Sam White received a letter on Friday informing him that he was suspended with immediate effect, which stops him practising as a doctor within the NHS. On Saturday he was telephoned by a senior clinical adviser to NHS England, who condescendingly called him 'poppet'.


Registration for all students begins on Tuesday, October 30th at 7:30 AM. Registration will be online only.
IMPORTANT! If you have a registration hold for any reason (student accounts, library, etc.), you may not be able to register for any May Term trips! Please check your Self-Service account and make sure you don't have a registration hold. If you do, please clear it and confirm that it's clear prior to October 30th so you can register!
If the trip is full by the time you register, you will automatically be placed on a wait list. I know it's disappointing that you aren't on the list, but there are always cancellations, so please put your name on the wait list.
To register successfully and reserve a spot on the trip, you MUST place a $300 deposit at the time of registration. This must be done online when you register for the trip. All major credit and debit cards are accepted. This deposit is nonrefundable (unless the trip is officially cancelled by the College due to lack of enrollment or other unforeseeable reasons). Please be ready with your credit card or debit card when you register on the 30th.
The registration deadline for all May Term trips is January 31, 2019.
The total trip cost for May Term Thailand XI is $4,400. This includes round trip airfare from SLC to Bangkok, all lodging, meals in Thailand, fees for guides, transportation within country, trip and event fees, travel insurance, and cell phones (or SIM cards) to use within Thailand along with initial amount of minutes. It does not include passport or visa costs (no visa is required, unless you plan on traveling after the official trip), vaccinations, meals at airports during transit, or optional outings. Spending money varies wildly depending on your spending habits and what you decide to buy, but around $200-300 is typical. You will want money to buy gifts and souvenirs, for optional outings in Chiang Mai and Ko Samet, snacks and food, and evening activities on your own (but not for dinner, which is included in the trip fee).
Final payment is due February 1, 2019. Your account at that point must be at $4,400.
Please note the dates for REQUIRED pretrip orientation sessions.
More details on registration, tuition, fees, and deadlines can be found on the Westminster College May Term Study Experience page.
Please note that this trip has traditionally filled very quickly. Last year, it filled VERY quickly. If you are planning on going, I strongly suggest you register as early as possible. If you cannot register for May Term Thailand XI, and you have one or more years left before graduation, May Term Thailand XII for May 2020 has already been approved, and we will for certain be going again!


To a person familiar with Urdu and Arabic, alchemy may simply seem like a word which refers to chemistry: 'al' meaning 'the' and 'chemy' referring to the study of chemicals. But with a peculiar history, the subject is the root of many branches of modern-day science as well as philosophy, dating back centuries when the concept of elements and compounds had not yet been developed .
Although some of the most famous alchemists were European, such as Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton, the subject originates from Egypt and Babylon . Later, as time progressed, China and India came to the forefront of alchemical practices. Where Chinese Taoist alchemy was based more on producing gold via transmutation as a medicine for perpetual health and immortality, Indian alchemy was more focused on herbal cures and remedies, although both had the same end goal: to increase the longevity of human life .
The first experiment for turning lead into gold was done in ancient Egypt, and the fascination with this concept carried through generations of alchemists worldwide. In the TV show, 'Forbidden Histories', a group of scientists at University College London performed an experiment to turn lead into gold, and it worked! Well, visually at least. The process involved preparing an electrolytic cell with a metal electrolyte in solution and electroplating brass onto an ordinary penny. This experiment is carried out all over the world by people who make imitation jewellery and is no extraordinary feat anymore.
Although the concept of experiment and observation stems from ancient alchemy, it is a subject that is looked upon as fictitious and unreliable in the modern-day world. This is because of the role superstitions and ancient philosophy plays on modern-day alchemists. After all, if someone wants to truly study metals and matter, they should be studying metallurgy and chemistry, not this. But many of the core foundations of life sciences as well as pure sciences stem from alchemy. Back in the time when mass spectrometers and high-end microscopes did not exist, Aristotle believed that only four basic elements constituted all matter on earth. Fire, earth, air, and water (later aether was added to the list) were hypothesised to be the basic constituents of matter . This idea was used as a background for many pieces of fiction over time, but was later disproved by Robert Boyle, more famously known as the scholar behind Boyle's law of gas pressure. Boyle proved that matter could be broken down into its constituent elements, which then could not be broken down any further. The periodic table—which is now the standard to which we refer to in chemistry—was introduced by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869, nearly three centuries after the alchemist Robert Boyle first laid the foundation of elemental concepts .
One reason why alchemy did not receive its due share of attention was caused by difficulties in deciphering ancient alchemical data. A major problem in deciphering ancient alchemical data stems from the secret coding the alchemists used, as they kept their work secret and did not want it to be stolen and duplicated by anyone else. Jabir Ibn Hayyan is a famous example of such practices . His work was written in a highly esoteric code, only decipherable by people who studied under him and used many symbols that historians today have not been able to interpret properly. It may also possibly be the root of the word 'gibberish', i.e. indecipherable writing. Apart from deciphering difficulties, a significant amount of Greek literature based on alchemy was destroyed in the third century. The reliability of the data that remained often cannot be quantified as the mystic aspect of alchemy was never separated from the scientific aspect.
Palingenesis—meaning rebirth or regeneration—is a concept often used in ancient alchemy and is closely entwined with present day religious beliefs in India. It has been tested by alchemists over time by experiments to revive dead plants. Many Ayurvedic texts also have mentions of medicines and compounds that have been taught in India for many centuries . The use of toxic metals specifically to create compounds with healing properties is a very prominent feature in Indian alchemy.
In Christianity, the belief among some alchemists was that just like Jesus had to suffer through torments and be crucified before he could obtain salvation for his nation, similarly the ingredients used in alchemy must be tormented by the effect of heat and alteration to be 'redeemed' as the possible elixir of life, or philosopher's stone. Alchemy also served as a tool to confirm pre-existing religious concepts, which may have been hinted at in holy scriptures over time. Some believed that by the formulation of medicines, they could prevent the tribulations that royalty and people of political influence would face at the end of times .
The history of alchemy is entwined with the development of modern-day chemistry and many important aspects of philosophy. It shows how different people have tried to achieve the same goals—immortality, physical context to their beliefs, and the hidden secrets of the world—through different means.


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Q: How to calculate the normal matrix? I have some trouble with my normal matrix.
vs.glsl
#version 440

in vec3 vPosition;
in vec3 vNormal;

out vec4 eyeCordFs;
out vec4 eyeNormalFs;

uniform mat4 model;
uniform mat4 view;
uniform mat4 proj;

void main()
{
    mat4 modelView = view * model;
    mat4 normalMatrix = view * transpose(inverse(model));
    vec4 eyeNorm = normalize(normalMatrix * vec4(vNormal, 0.0));
    vec4 eyeCord= modelView * vec4(vPosition, 1.0);

    eyeCordFs = eyeCord;
    eyeNormalFs = eyeNorm;

    gl_Position = proj * modelView * vec4( vPosition,1.0);
}

fs.glsl
#version 440

in vec4 eyeCordFs;
in vec4 eyeNormalFs;

out vec3 outputColor;

uniform vec4 lightPos;

void main()
{
    vec4 s = normalize(lightPos - eyeCordFs) ;
    vec4 r = reflect(-s,eyeNormalFs);
    vec4 v = normalize(-eyeCordFs);
    float spec = max( dot(v,r),0.0 );
    float diff = max(dot(eyeNormalFs,s),0.0);

    vec3 diffColor = diff * vec3(1,0,0);
    vec3 specColor = pow(spec,3) * vec3(1,1,1);
    vec3 ambientColor = vec3(0.1,0.1,0.1);

    outputColor =  diffColor + 0.5 * specColor + ambientColor;
}

The output of this looks like

Which seemed a bit strange to me. But I knew that I am not scaling anything so I thought I could use the modelView matrix to transform my normals.
So I changed the line
vec4 eyeNorm = normalize(normalMatrix * vec4(vNormal, 0.0));

to
vec4 eyeNorm = normalize(modelView * vec4(vNormal, 0.0));

And the output now looks like this

which looks correct. Am I calculating my normalMatrix the wrong way?

A: The normal matrix is the transpose inverse of the modelview matrix. So in GLSL it would be
mat4 normalMatrix = transpose(inverse(modelView));

However you should NOT calculate the normal matrix in the shader. Doing that in the shader wastes a lot of precious GPU cycles. Matrix inversion is not a cheap operation to start with and doing it in the shader forces the GPU to perform the calculation for each and every vertex again and again. Precalculate it on the CPU and pass it as a uniform.

A: It is also a default uniform in GLSL. You can just declare it as such
uniform mat3 normalMatrix;

See here.

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Language, literature and culture are the essential components of this interdisciplinary field group which places emphasis on oral and written expression and critical thinking. The field group brings together faculty with expertise in broad areas of international studies. The Modern Languages, Literature and Cultures Field Group offers a major in Spanish. The Claremont Colleges Coordinated Modern Languages Program provides courses in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish. The field group also offers courses in Spanish literature and culture and in writing, in English language studies. For English and other world literature in translation, see English and World Literature.
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Suburbia (1997)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 15
Rotten: 8
Critics Consensus: Suburbia succeeds in its blistering, ensemble-driven exploration of middle America, though it never quite reconciles the disparate stylings of director Richard Linklater and writer Eric Bogosian.
Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 5
Average Rating: 3.3/5
User Ratings: 5,604
Critic Consensus: Suburbia succeeds in its blistering, ensemble-driven exploration of middle America, though it never quite reconciles the disparate stylings of director Richard Linklater and writer Eric Bogosian.
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A gang of suburban slackers spend an evening hanging out at a local convenience store in hopes of seeing an old high-school buddy whose career as a rock singer is about to hit the big time. As they wait, memorable portraits of their young lives emerge. Directed by Richard Linklater and featuring a script by Eric Bogosian, Suburbia is a strongly character-driven comedy that offers sharp insight into the joys, sorrows and struggles of being 20 in the mid 1990s.
Eric Bogosian
In Theaters:
Feb 7, 1997 wide
WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
Jayce Bartok
as Pony
Amie Carey
as Sooze
Nicky Katt
as Tim
Ajay Naidu
as Nazeer
Parker Posey
as Erica
as Jeff
Samia Shoaib
as Pakeesa
Dina Spybey
as Bee-Bee
Steve Zahn
as Buff
Jonn Cherico
as Shopping Channel Host
Kitt Brophy
as Sooze's Mom
Keith Preusse
as Officer Chip
Eric Park
as Officer Gary
William Martin Hayes
as Scuff
as Limo Driver
M.J. Lin
as Restaurant Hostess
Critic Reviews for Suburbia
All Critics (23) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (8) | DVD (1)
Their conversation, originally written by Bogosian for a stage play, is talky, but I like that. It doesn't seem too theatrical to me because these characters have absolutely nothing else to do except talk.
January 1, 2000 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Top Critic
Linklater's finessing of acting ensembles is very proficient -- again.
January 1, 2000 | Rating: 3/4
Mike Clark
Effortlessly funny, Linklater's film is also devastating and spooky in its dead-on rendering of middle-class, Middle America nothingness.
October 24, 2019 | Full Review…
Linklater is collaborating with a certified grown-up who also happens to be the screenwriting equivalent of a shock-jock; laid-back bong-hits have been supplanted by endless black-comic cruelty and a lot of sociocultural pissing and moaning.
September 1, 2009 | Full Review…
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
This brooding comedy fails to blend the sensibilities of two artists, director Richard Linklater and writer Eric Bogosian, which couldn't have been more different--the only thing they share together is a concern with youth's discontent.
February 9, 2007 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Hard-edged drama about some soulless twentysomethings.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality & Practice
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Audience Reviews for Suburbia
"Idealism is guilty middle-class bullshit" Having already delivered Slacker and Dazed and Confused beforehand, Richard Linklater's third film, SubUrbia, somewhat confirmed him as a voice for the disillusioned youth and their struggling transition into adulthood. This is a common theme among his films and has lasted from his debut in 1991 to his most recent 2014 film Boyhood. It's seems to be his niche and one that will surely continue in his future endeavours. Jeff (Giovanni Ribisi), Tim (Nicky Katt) and Buff (Steve Zahn) are three aimless friends that do nothing more than hang around their all-night convenience store, drinking, eating pizza and bitching about life in general. On one particular evening, they await the arrival of old high-school friend Pony (Joyce Bartok) who is now a successful musician. As the night progresses, though, tension, jealousy and resentment grow. Taking a break from writing duties and focusing on the work of playwright (and sometime actor) Eric Bogosian, Linkater finds a project that is not unlike his own material. However, there's a slightly angrier and darker piece of work here that's a little out of Linklater's usual comfort zone. Like a lot of his films there's very little in terms of plot as it focuses on a bunch of friends hanging out and discussing their lives, the choices they've made and where their futures might lie. Again, like many Linklater films, it doesn't sound too appealing on the surface but he has a real knack for capturing natural dialogue and performances and that's where the film really finds it's feet. The always reliable Giovanni Ribisi waxes philosophical in true Linklater fashion while we have Steve Zahn lightening the mood in a film that's predominantly concerned with pessimistic conversation. Linklater, once again, has a good eye and feel for small town, Texan mentality and he films with a colourful vibrancy whereby many scenes and exchanges of dialogue could have been cut and pasted directly into Dazed and Confused and they'd appear seamless. The sticking point of the whole affair, however, is the running time; it's just shy of the two hour mark and you do get the feeling that characters overstay their welcome, particularly as the tone of the material gets darker and more depressing. That being said, this is still another enjoyable outing from Linklater. A sharp and observant character piece that fits comfortably into Linklater cannon of films and once again showcases his ability to capture the disenchanted, cynical youth on the periphery of society. It's one that fans of his will not be disappointed in. Mark Walker
"Let's take a ride, and run with the dogs tonight, in Sub[u]U[/u]rbia!". Yes, Pet Shop Boys, it's "Sub[u]U[/u]rbia", not "Sub[u]u[/u]rbia"; there's enough of a difference for Wikipedia to not bother specifying the year differences in the article titles. Shoot, you're more likely to think that this is "Clerks 2" or something, because it's mostly about a bunch of bums hanging out around a convenience store. Speaking of years differences to distinguish titles, they ended up having a "Clerks 2", so this is more like "Dazed and Confused 2", or, if you want to go by the full title, "Dazed and Confused 2 Hours Later". Yeah, I can't help but notice that after this film, Richard Linklater tried to put a little more dynamicity into his narratives, or rather, put in some narratives to begin with, probably because he realized that two hours of aimless chatter might be a little too much, even though it's certainly better than an hour-and-a-half of "It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books". Yeah, Dick, I understand that it was your first film, and you made perfectly decent films after... "Slacker" (Come to think of it, you didn't really start out at that well for me), but I'm not letting that go. This film might help, because it is indeed quite decent, but you know how sequels can be, so, as you can imagine, "Dazed and Confused 2 Hours Later" here goes held back, and isn't even all that refreshing as a sequel. Yeah, yeah, I've done all my joking about how this is sort of like "Dazed and Confused 2", or "Clerks 2", and what have you, but the fact of the matter is that even a film of this offbeat of a nature has been done time and again, largely by Richard Linklater, hitting more than a few tropes as a very 1990s, dialogue-driven dramedy, complete with flawed characters who, well, might be a little too flawed. Written and portrayed well enough, the characters are reasonably compelling, but whether it be young intellectual pretense, or simply, of all things, immaturity, there are a number of defining characterization traits that get to be a little obnoxious after a while, partly because you have only so much time to get used to certain characters before focus switches a little too swiftly for consistency's comfort. As a layered ensemble study, the film gets to be uneven in focus, as surely as it gets to be uneven in its realism as a brutally honest character portrait, meeting many a grounded dramatic layer with a pinch of melodrama that, while not recurrent, is hard to ignore, as it breaks believability, and has plenty of time to hit those beats. I joked about it earlier, but quite frankly, while this film has more meat than one might fear it would when looking at some of Linklater's other early, super-minimalist efforts, at two hours, its runtime is simply way too long, being well-handled enough for you to be adequately entertained through all the slow spells, but nonetheless repetitious in its being driven by ramblings, and not much outside of that. The film's story concept is plenty compelling, make no mistake, enough so for the final product to rise to the brink of rewarding on the back of dramatic inspiration, which was always to find trouble getting the dramedy much further than that, - seeing as how the narrative, as a talkative character story that is generally too grounded to be all that interestingly distinguished - and doesn't exactly make the natural shortcomings easier to get past with the aforementioned consequential shortcomings. I suppose it's the natural shortcomings that most subdue the engagement value of this affair of limited consequence, but that's something that could have been said about some of Linklater's other, more compelling minimalist dramedies, which don't see quite as many of the problems that just barely, but surely hold the final product back as barely consequential. The film could have been a little more, and yet, at the same time, it also could have been so much less, and it would have been if it didn't have some inspiration to the interpretation of a worthy, if, as I said, subdued story concept. An ostensibly faithful adaptation of a dialogue play, this film's story concept is minimalist and talkative, and not even all that unique, although it still has a certain meat to it, with intrigue to its sheer humanity as a drama, sold by subtle inspiration off of the screen and, of course, on the screen. A classic Richard Linklater type of cast that mixes recognizable names, then-up-and-coming names and unknowns, this film's collection of talent delivers on individually commendable performances, with Steve Zahn stealing the comedy side of the show with his over-the-top commitment to an eccentric roles, while dramatic depth proves to be rich within such performances as those by Jayce Bartok, Dina Spybey, Amie Carey, a particularly devastating Nicky Katt, and leading man Giovanni Ribisi, whose trademark quiet range that encompasses anything from a sense of awkwardness to a sense of aggression as a repressed ambitious. Just about everyone delivers as best he or she can with individual charisma and dramatic layering, and that, combined with dynamite chemistry, drives a lot of the depth of this ensemble dramedy, although, in all fairness, the performers have pretty solid roles to work with. Flawed to the point of being distancing at times, and not even consistently as grounded as they're supposed to be, the characters remain compellingly well-drawn, staying effective as reflections on themes of personal struggles on the road to fulfilling ambition, but still being distinguished enough to be memorable by their own rights. Characterization is pretty solid, but the strengths in screenwriter Eric Bogosian's adaptation of his own play don't end there, because as surely as it thrives on its characters, the film thrives on razor-sharp dialogue whose humor and audacious extensiveness holds a fair deal of your intrigue throughout the course of this overly, but entertainingly talkative dramedy. Of course, it's Linklater's direction that really sells things, even if it's only to a certain extent, for although Linklater cannot overcome the natural shortcomings and other missteps in Bogosian's writing, his plays on the scripted flare keeps entertainment value surprisingly consistent, no matter how much the film drags, and when more thoughtful slow spots come into play, dramatic weight bites, flowed into organically enough to give the final product a sense of dynamicity that beefs up a minimalist narrative which gradually gets a little meatier. The film gets a little more heavy as it goes along, until you're presented with thoroughly compelling latter acts that reflect what could have been, and while those glimpses aren't enough to get the film to a rewarding point on the whole, on top of further reflecting Linklater's potential as a filmmaker, the final product endears enough to entertain and often compel, even though it could have gone further. Overall, a lack of originality and an inconsistency in character engagement value, focus and buyable drama, all behind the dragging telling of a narrative which is too minimalist for its own good drive the final product just short of rewarding, yet the value of a humanly worthy story concept is ultimately done enough justice by solid acting, memorable characterization, clever dialogue and thoughtfully well-layered direction that gradually grows more endearing to make Richard Linklater's "SubUrbia" a generally improvable, but consistently entertaining and often compelling portrait on flaws and potential within young adults. 2.75/5 - Decent
Cameron Johnson
Jeff: It doesn't matter what I do as long as I don't care about the results. And that's why now, I'm getting naked. I really didn't think I was going to like this movie after the first twenty minutes. All that was going on was the characters saying "Fuck you" a lot and flipping everybody off, while they walked away backwards. But from the movie turned into a good little hang out/what are we going to do with are lives, "Oh nothing, that sound good" film. It's sporadically funny and takes some turns towards the dark and tragic. I do like the honesty of the film. The characters sit around and the ones that have given up drink heavily and the ones that have aspirations of bettering their lives talk about stuff they truly don't understand. When it comes to these hang out movies, this isn't one of the better ones. Linklater did it better with Dazed and Confused and there are others like Barry Levinson's Diner which far exceed SubUrbia. That isn't to say that this is a bad movie, because it happens to be an intelligently written(Eric Bogosian) and directed film. The movie runs a little long for the content and it doesn't seem like they really knew how to end it. I wasn't expecting so much to occur during the last act because nothing occurred during the first two. This is a plotless movie, that threw a lot of heavy issues into the mix, especially down the home stretch. It sort of started to feel like a mess and it started to feel a little longwinded, but overall it made its points while being funny and entertaining. Suburbia is worth a look, especially if you like movies that occur in a day or a night. Don't watch it if you don't like movies that really don't have an active plot. All this really is, is conversations between characters. Think Mallrats, but a lot heavier.
Melvin White
I saw this years ago when I was a completely different person, so I freely admit I'd need to see it again before giving it a proper review. What 1997 Me though was that it was pretentious, really didn't go anywhere and that its soundtrack was so much better than the movie itself. It was like the asshole little brother of Singles or something. Oh, and for as smoking as Parker Posey was at the time, it didn't justify having to see Giovanni Ribisi's dick. I don't care how good an actor the guy's become.
Michael Gildea
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Suburbia Quotes
Nazeer: You throw it all away.


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Santa María Huatulco, ou simplement Huatulco, est une ville et une municipalité à Oaxaca dans le sud-ouest du Mexique. Il fait partie du district de Pochutla. La municipalité couvre une superficie de  à une moyenne de  d'altitude. C'est en son lieu que se forme et commence la rivière Huatulco.

La municipalité abrite le parc national de Huatulco. La zone urbaine est desservie par l'aéroport international Bahías de Huatulco.

Événement sportif
 Triathlon de Huatulco

Liens externes

Ville dans l'État de Oaxaca

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A hurricane, tornado or flood is devastating to businesses, schools, homes, streets and entire communities. We see this devastation first-hand across the U.S. each hurricane season, we feverishly work to re-build these communities back to their splendor. In this surge of construction has also come a surge in home sales and home improvements. Upon any new purchase on the in a hurricane or flood zone, there needs to be a post-storm-mind-set, all homes and businesses should be thoroughly inspected with special considerations we may not have previously had. One of these being "was the HVAC system cleaned and inspected after our flood?" Considering the cleanliness of the HVAC system should be a top priority because that system will be circulating the conditioned air throughout the structure. If a dirty HVAC system has been contaminated by water and humidity, microorganisms can grow and multiply as soon as 48 hours after contamination.
DUCTZ knows this first-hand as in the case of any flood, DUCTZ works closely with restoration companies to ensure that the HVAC system is also inspected, cleaned and restored with the rest of the property.
"All surfaces of an HVAC system and all its components that were submerged during a flood are potential reservoirs for dirt, debris, and microorganisms, including bacteria and mold. In addition, moisture can collect in areas of HVAC system components that were not submerged (e.g., air supply ducts above the water line), and this also can lead to the growth of microorganisms. Therefore, all flood water‐contaminated and moisture‐laden components of the HVAC system should be thoroughly inspected, cleaned of dirt and debris, and disinfected by a qualified professional. CDC has prepared recommendations for professionals to help ensure that floodwater‐contaminated HVAC system components are properly cleaned and remediated (21). If HVAC systems are not properly cleaned and disinfected to prevent the dissemination of mold and other debris throughout a building, bioaerosols of mold and other microorganisms might exists and can cause a variety of adverse health effects to the building's occupants. Ensure that the HVAC system is shut down before any remedial activities."
Therefore, all components of the HVAC system that were contaminated with flood water or moisture should be thoroughly inspected, cleaned of dirt and debris, and disinfected by a qualified professional with a specific detailed plan for the exact location.
Please call DUCTZ if you suspect that there may be microbial growth within your HVAC system, or if your HVAC system was compromised during or after the flood. DUCTZ offers free estimates as well as a PICTURE PERFECT REPORT, a report of before and after photos of your project to ensure a job well done to your specifications.


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Transformation of the Cyprus Department of Merchant Shipping into a Deputy Ministry
The Cyprus Department of Merchant Shipping (DMS) has announced that with effect from 1 March 2018 it will be transformed into a Deputy Ministry and renamed as the Deputy Ministry of Shipping by reason of the entry into effect of Law 123(I) of 2017. The headquarters of the Deputy Ministry of Shipping will be in
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Electronic submission of tax returns for 2017
The Cyprus Tax Department has issued a further reminder that tax returns for the year 2017 must be submitted electronically, by means of its TAXISnet web portal. As this is the first year of mandatory electronic submissiService centres are being established to provide help and support, and if necessary, the deadline for submission of returns
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Supreme Court disapproves strict interpretation of Order 30 of Civil Procedure Rules
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Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission adoption of ESMA Guidelines on the management body of market operators and data reporting services providers
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a circular notifying market operators and data reporting service providers that it has adopted the Guidelines on the management body of market operators and data reporting services providers issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority in December 2017, and that they should therefore make every effort
February 21, 2018 Costas Stamatiou
New safety requirements for coastal passenger vessels enter into force
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The new Negros Occidental Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer, Valentin Talavero, yesterday pledged to step up the planting of trees of indigenous species in the province.
Talevero took over from PENRO Jesse Vego who will be assigned to Guimaras.
In line with the Green Philippines campaign of the Aquino administration, Talavero said he will push for the planting of more trees in Negros Occidental to help in the battle against global warming.
Negros Occidental is a big province comprising 40 percent of the land area of Region 6, he pointed out.
"We are in the process of finalizing the targeted areas for the planting of specific appropriate indigenous species of trees," he added.
"We will work hard at the protection and conservation of our environment in a holistic way," he said.


Our Senior Presentation was held on Saturday 15th September at St Marys. It was wonderful night with many teams attending. Thanks to our committee for working tirelessly to organize the night!
The Junior Presentation was held at Parap Pool. Kristie did an amazing job with over 70 people attending. Thanks Kristie for all your hard work over the past 2 years!
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