Key findings of Pentagon report on climate change

Their prediction is far worse than anything those us of active in the global warming movement could have imagined, or in our most paranoid fantasies, dared to predict. If only half of what the Pentagon predicts actually happens, the planet as we know it will cease to exist.

Remember, this report is from the Pentagon…

Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters

A secret report, suppressed by US defense chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

Key findings

· Future wars will be fought over the issue of survival rather than religion, ideology or national honor.

· By 2007 violent storms smash coastal barriers rendering large parts of the Netherlands inhabitable. Cities like The Hague are abandoned. In California the delta island levees in the Sacramento river area are breached, disrupting the aqueduct system transporting water from north to south.

· Between 2010 and 2020 Europe is hardest hit by climatic change with an average annual temperature drop of 6F. Climate in Britain becomes colder and drier as weather patterns begin to resemble Siberia.

· Deaths from war and famine run into the millions until the planet’s population is reduced by such an extent the Earth can cope.

· Riots and internal conflict tear apart India, South Africa and Indonesia.

· Access to water becomes a major battleground. The Nile, Danube and Amazon are all mentioned as being high risk.

· A ’significant drop’ in the planet’s ability to sustain its present population will become apparent over the next 20 years.

· Rich areas like the US and Europe would become ‘virtual fortresses’ to prevent millions of migrants from entering after being forced from land drowned by sea-level rise or no longer able to grow crops.

· Nuclear arms proliferation is inevitable. Japan, South Korea, and Germany develop nuclear-weapons capabilities, as do Iran, Egypt and North Korea. Israel, China, India and Pakistan also are poised to use the bomb.

· By 2010 the US and Europe will experience a third more days with peak temperatures above 90F. Climate becomes an ‘economic nuisance’ as storms, droughts and hot spells create havoc for farmers.

· Europe will face huge internal struggles as it copes with massive numbers of migrants washing up on its shores. Immigrants from Scandinavia seek warmer climes to the south. Southern Europe is beleaguered by refugees from hard-hit countries in Africa.

· Mega-droughts affect the world’s major breadbaskets, including America’s Midwest, where strong winds bring soil loss.

· China’s huge population and food demand make it particularly vulnerable. Bangladesh becomes nearly uninhabitable because of a rising sea level, which contaminates the inland water supplies.

This story was broken by the Observer in London and has barely been reported in the US, except by alt media and blogs.

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More on Nader and Greens

Did you see the headlines on websites and newspapers yesterday? Nader’s announcement he is running was a major story and got substantial coverage everywhere. Love him or hate him, people paid attention. I rather enjoyed called my Dad yesterday, jokingly saying, “Hello sir, I’m with the Nader For President campaign, and we were hoping you’d make a contribution”. Um, when he finally stopped swearing, we did laugh about it!

And therein lies one of the Green Party dilemma’s. Nader announces he is running and it makes worldwide press. When Greens choose a candidate in June at their convention, do you think it’ll make the lead story in Yahoo News, like Nader did today? Not a chance. They’ll be lucky to get two paragraphs on page 20 of the LA Times.

The Green Party had four years to find, groom, encourage candidates to run in 2004. The sad fact is they did practically nothing. There is no national structure for a Green Presidential run. In 2000, Nader brought his own people in, and they ran the campaign. They had to. There was no Green Party national structure for running a campaign in 2000 either.

There are many hard working dedicated Greens. The problem lies in the  embedded-in-Green-DNA values of consensus and decentralization. These values, while noble in concept and well-meaning, in practice mean that things will always take an inordinately long time to do, that anything controversial will probably never pass, and that the few can always block the many from acting.

So, the squabble among Greens over Nader has probably precluded him from running as a Green (see below). Except for Peter Camejo - who favors Nader running  as a Green - there are no Greens with any national stature. Thus, a nonentity Green running for President will, especially with Nader running, probably be almost completely ignored.

It’s no secret that some Greens are re-registering as Democrats to vote in the primary. If you factor that into the quite possible outcome of a Green Presidential candidate maybe getting 1% of the vote, then 2004 could signal the collapse of the Green Party as a national organization.

Greens need a plan, they need focus, and they need it now.

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Haiti

Haiti’s political class has failed it, but the first black republic has also been squeezed dry by a vengeful west

Vengeful? Yes, this goes back to the first successful slave rebellion, which was in Haiti.
 
And it continues to the current day:

But, in return for political freedom, Aristide was compelled to accept economic enslavement, bound by terms imposed by the IMF and the World Bank. Post-colonial military aggression gave way to the brutal forces of globalisation. Before Aristide had even considered fixing the elections, the west had already rigged the markets. Take rice. Forced by the agreement to lower its import tariffs, Haiti suddenly found itself flooded with subsidised rice from the US, which drove Haitian rice growers out of business and the country to import a product that it once produced.

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