Climate Change is a Fact

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Muller

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That the currently observed climate change is man-made is still disputed, in particular by president Trump who calls global warming “weather.” Scientists are not denying that Earth is undergoing glacial periods for billions of years, and the development and spread of hominins had been related to the interglacial period after the previous ice age. But now, all is accelerating. The picture above shows how much the Arctic, where I’m presently living, has changed. Temperatures in Svalbard last year had been way above average throughout, most of the time by more 6 degrees Celsius.

But most of what is going on on this planet is actually man-made. For instance, mass-extinction of species, the sixth wave in the past half billion years, is a phenomenon which must be directly related to Homo sapiens and his desperate attempts (misled by an alleged command of a non-existing divine power) to

[b]e fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:28.)

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Stürmer – Jude – Muslim

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Muller

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Tuesday’s New York truck terror attack suspect is reportedly a 29-yr-old Usbek named Sayfullo Saipov. According to investigating authorities he had been planning the attack for a year.

Sayfullo Saipov

While president Trump has called him an animal and called for his execution, pictures appear which remind me of the German Nazi filth tabloid Der Stürmer.

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Trump has not called Stephen Paddock an animal, the shooter in the Las Vegas massacre of 1 October 2017 killing 58. He didn’t want to talk about gun laws then but want to amend immigration regulations now. “We’re going to get rid of this lottery program as soon as possible,” Trump said.

2 November 2017 @ 6:10 pm.

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He Broke the Law

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Muller

UPDATE 3 November 2017

When Peace Nobel Prize laureate, law professor and then president of the United States Barack Obama made this statement in 2011 at a fundraiser in San Francisco, he was not conscious that his casual conversation was caught on camera. It did not go immediately viral but was an embarrassment, for sure. It was about Chelsea Manning who had just been relocated from the Marine Corps base in Quantico to another prison facility at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Manning was still waiting for her trial for leaking hundred of thousands classified documents to WikiLeaks, and the president and commander in chief uttered his personal opinion about her. Manning’s sentence to 35 years in military prison was commuted by Obama as his last act in office.

Today, Obama’s successor in the White House prejudged the suspect of Tuesday’s New York terror attack and called for his transfer to Gitmo and execution.

 

 

Regarding Sgt Bowe Bergdahl, who deserted his outpost in Afghanistan in 2009 and was immediately abducted by Taliban insurgents who kept him partly in a cage and tortured him until, in 2014, he was released in a controversially discussed prisoner swap in exchange of five Taliban Gitmo inmates, Donald Trump is of the opinion that he is a “dirty rotten traitor” and should be executed.

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Trump Doesn’t Know What His Troops are Doing in Niger

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Muller

“He knew what he signed up for” were reportedly president Donald Trump’s words when offering his condolences to Sgt Johnson’s wife in the car, after her husband had died in an ambush in Niger, together with Staff Sergeants Bryan Black, Jeremiah Johnson, Dustin Wright. “But it hurts anyway.”

You may indeed perceive that as insensitive, in particular in a situation when the 24-yr-old pregnant wife and mother of two apparently didn’t know what her husband had been doing in Africa. What matters is if the widow perceives that as insensitive.

President Trump, who had acknowledged the ambush only twelve days after it had happened when having been pressed by a journalist, still denies that he was insensitive; that he even forgot Sgt Johnson’s name when calling his widow. But that’s not an issue. Empathy cannot be learned later in life. One must not condemn him for another proof of insensitivity here.

What is alarming is that US soldiers (who of course know what they have signed up for) are put at risk in Africa now, with a president without a clue what they are doing there. No strategy.

May these four soldiers (who did knew) may rest in peace.

24 October 2017 @ 7:04 am.

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Five Years With the Taliban

Posted on October 22, 2017 by Muller

Thirty-one-year old Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been kept in captivity by Taliban in Afghanistan for five years after having left his post had pleaded guilty to desertion. Now he is awaiting being sentenced in Fort Bragg in N.Y. He might face life in prison.

Bowman was  freed after President Obama had agreed to release five Taliban terrorists in exchange. I have reported about that moment here. It had reminded me of the fate of Daniel Perle and Nick Berg who had been killed by al-Qaida terrorists in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Bergdahl was lucky that he survived his captivity.

President Trump had called Bergdahl a “no-good traitor” who would have been executed “in the old days” when campaigning for presidency.

22 October 2017 @ 6:43 pm.

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