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“The direction of travel is that both in the UK and globally we are already moving towards a low carbon economy. It is a clear message to any new government that they should prioritise making the UK a world leader in clean, green, technology.” Gareth Redmond-King, head of climate and energy at WWF, called the first coal-free working day “a significant milestone in our march towards the green economic revolution”. “Getting rid of coal from our energy mix is exciting and hugely important." Above from story. Don't tell trump and his supporters this. Coal is all part of making America GREAT again. One black lung case at a time.

Evidently its friendly at AA as well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KuicmwiGAk

1.) “There’s a cultural acceptance of child rape in Latino culture that doesn’t exist in even the most dysfunctional American ghettos. When it comes to child rape, the whole family gets involved.” 2.) “A lot of people are upset when I talk about Mexican child rapes, Muslims clitorectomies, Muslim honor killings…white people don’t do that. America is not used to these types of crimes. We are bringing in cultures where child rape is very common.” 3.) “These unaccompanied children (anchor babies) we [America] have, you know, hundreds of these [immigrants] being reported they have never seen a flushed toilet before. It is simply a fact; we are bringing in peasant cultures.” 4.) “If we don’t cut off bringing in millions and millions of these very backward cultures, we won’t have America again.” 5.) “I’ve never understood the argument ‘we’re going to war for oil.’ We need oil. Why shouldn’t we go to war for oil, we need it…drop a nuc, daisy cutter, it doesn’t matter.” 6.) “If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream. It’s a personal fantasy of mine.” 7.) “It’s going to be a thousand years of darkness if this country stops being this country and we just become a second Mexico, which is where we’re heading right now. http://racisminamerica.org/the-top-10-most-obnoxious-and-racist-ann-coulter-quotes/

"Average Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were very likely higher than during any other 50-year period in the last 500 years and likely the highest in at least the past 1,300 years."... During the 1,900 years before the 20th century, it is likely that the next warmest period was from 950 to 1100, with peaks at different times in different regions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record_of_the_past_1000_years Second warmest.

What data would it take to convince you that climate change as a result of man-made CO2 was real? For the 15th consecutive month, the global land and ocean temperature departure from average was the highest since global temperature records began in 1880. This marks the longest such streak in NOAA's 137 years of record keeping. The July 2016 combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces was 0.87°C (1.57°F) above the 20th century average, besting the previous July record set in 2015 by 0.06°C (0.11°F). July 2016 marks the 40th consecutive July with temperatures at least nominally above the 20th century average. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201607

I see where the confusion lies. You think a "new round of tax credits" is a solution. Kinda like throwing a suitcase off the Titanic. Public Approval of Health Care Law PPP (D) For/Favor 47, Against/Oppose 31 For/Favor +16 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/ So the latest poll suggests 16% more Americans approve the status quo ACA vr changing the law.

I'm so very sorry, so very sorry. That explains so much. From Fox news, so you know its a fact. "Exposure to the synthetic pesticide DDT may increase both the risk and severity of Alzheimer’s disease in some individuals – especially those over the age of 60." http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/01/28/exposure-to-ddt-pesticide-may-increase-alzheimers-risk-study-finds.html Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) causes a slight but noticeable and measurable decline in cognitive abilities, including memory and thinking skills. A person with MCI is at an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's or another dementia. http://www.alz.org/dementia/mild-cognitive-impairment-mci.asp

Got a link to the story? "Oath keepers" from Montana. Oh well. Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers, said he came from Montana with about 50 others to protect Trump supporters. They were joined by bikers and others who vowed to fight members of an anti-fascist group if they crossed police barricades. “I don’t mind hitting” the counter-demonstrators, Rhodes said. “In fact, I would kind of enjoy it.” http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-berkeley-trump-rally-20170415-story.html 'Shocking photos" https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3340505/donald-trump-protests-berkeley-fight-video/

Berkeley cancels Ann Coulter’s speech over security concerns "Given current active security threats, it is not possible to assure that the event could be held successfully," the letter read. But Coulter told The Hollywood Reporter that she plans to speak anyway. "Yes, it was officially banned," Coulter said, according to the report. "But they can't stop me. I'm an American. I have Constitutional rights." http://thehill.com/homenews/news/329608-berkeley-cancels-ann-coulters-speech-over-security-concerns Ah!, the right to spread lies, hate and misinformation. What was the name of that organization that beat up the protestors last week in California, "freedom fighters?? The ones from Idaho??

No one sane thinks that it did. The outcome isn't the point. The fact that another superpower actively tried to interfere at all is the point. How can you not see what a huge concern that is? What they said was there was no evidence that the physical voting process. i.e. voting machines and counting was not manipulated. The psychological manipulations of news and information was not under consideration by any US agencies. As it would be very difficult to quantify.

Bill O'Reilly was safe at Fox until General Motors, Nutrisystem, and 48 other advertisers out of 100 pulled their ads. Obviously all run by leftists and Obama lovers. Be it politics or business. Follow the money.

trump's carrier battle group instead of sending a warning to North Korea. turns out be be a big sham. Like trump; " A photograph released by the Navy showed the aircraft carrier sailing through the calm waters of Sunda Strait between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java on Saturday, April 15. By later in the day, it was in the Indian Ocean, according to Navy photographs. In other words, on the same day that the world nervously watched North Korea stage a massive military parade to celebrate the birthday of the nation’s founder, Kim Il Sung, and the press speculated about a preemptive U.S. strike, the U.S. Navy put the Carl Vinson, together with its escort of two guided-missile destroyers and a cruiser, more than 3,000 miles southwest of the Korean Peninsula — and more than 500 miles southeast of Singapore. Instead of steaming toward the Korea Peninsula, the carrier strike group was actually headed in the opposite direction to take part in “scheduled exercises with Australian forces in the Indian Ocean,” according to Defense News, which first reported the story." https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/despite-talk-of-a-military-strike-trumps-armada-was-a-long-way-from-korea/2017/04/18/e8ef4237-e26a-4cfc-b5e9-526c3a17bd41_story.html?utm_term=.b3ae703c1b67 Oh well, trump and the baby leader from N. Korea can continue on. Sabres on the ready.

They were laid off due to slowing sales, something that had been going on for centuries, not because they were replaced by robots. trump's photo stop at Boeing South Carolina received 900 million in subsidies to move that plant there. "Created 3000 "NEW" jobs" "President Donald Trump visited a Boeing aircraft factory in South Carolina on Friday, just days after workers there rejected a bid to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers." http://www.voanews.com/a/trump-visit-boeing-plant-where-workers-rejected-union/3727947.html So if one state outbids an existing union shop fly-fly-away go the jobs. A state paying $300,000 per job seems like good economics. Subsidizing aircraft manufacturing is a worldwide national pastime. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/bombardier-and-canadas-corporate-welfare-trap Bombardier lost: "In mid-January, Bombardier announced a “pause” for an “indeterminate period” in the Learjet 85 program, interpreted by some market analysts as permanently shelving the project. In light of Montreal’s taking a pre-tax special $1.4 billion write down that represents nearly 90 percent of development costs, as well as announcing a cut of 1,000 jobs at company facilities in Wichita, Kan., and Queretaro, Mexico, it appears the most ambitious Lear model ever is lapsing into a deep coma." http://aviationweek.com/bca/bombardier-learjet-85 In their failed attempt to build a carbon Learjet. The new wing on the Global 7000 was too heavy and now has to be redesigned and rebuilt. "Bombardier launched a costly redesign of the Global 7000 wing in 2015 to reduce the structural weight and not to alter its aerodynamic profile, chief executive Alain Bellemare has disclosed." https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/weight-reduction-cited-for-global-7000-wing-redesign-434265/ Which more than eats up the money from the Province of Quebec and the Gov. Canada. that it just received. Oh Airbus, Awash in subsidies from just about every EU country that it operates in. "EU rapped by WTO for $10bn a year Airbus subsidies" http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37444780

They were laid off due to slowing sales, something that had been going on for centuries, not because they were replaced by robots. trump's photo stop at Boeing South Carolina received 900 million in subsidies to move that plant there. "Created 3000 "NEW" jobs" "President Donald Trump visited a Boeing aircraft factory in South Carolina on Friday, just days after workers there rejected a bid to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers." http://www.voanews.com/a/trump-visit-boeing-plant-where-workers-rejected-union/3727947.html So if one state outbids an existing union shop fly-fly-away go the jobs.

You are right

Boeing Co. plans to lay off hundreds of engineers amid slowing aircraft sales, the company announced Monday. The workforce reduction scheduled for June 23 comes after the Chicago-based manufacturer laid off about 1,800 mechanics and engineers earlier this year. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/04/17/boeing-laying-off-hundreds/100573444/

A Lesson in Moscow About Trump-Style ‘Alternative Truth’ Jim Rutenberg NY Times APRIL 16, 2017 MOSCOW — I wanted to better understand President Trump’s America, a place where truth is being ripped from its moorings as he brands those tasked with lashing it back into place — journalists — as dishonest enemies of the people. So I went to Russia. It was like a visit to the land of Alternative Truth Yet to Come. But it also gave me a glimpse into how our new national look is playing in the global information war, where competing narratives are clashing along a sliding scale of fact and fiction. I had picked a ghoulishly perfect week to swing through President Vladimir V. Putin’s Moscow, where spring was struggling to break out over the low-slung, slate-gray cityscape. Mr. Trump had just ordered a Tomahawk strike against Syria’s Shayrat air base, from which, the United States said, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria had launched the chemical weapons attack that killed more than 80 and sickened hundreds. As soon as I turned on a television here I wondered if I had arrived through an alt-right wormhole. Back in the States, the prevailing notion in the news was that Mr. Assad had indeed been responsible for the chemical strike. There was some “reportage” from sources like the conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones — best known for suggesting that the Sandy Hook school massacre was staged — that the chemical attack was a “false flag” operation by terrorist rebel groups to goad the United States into attacking Mr. Assad. But that was a view from the fringe. Here in Russia, it was the dominant theme throughout the overwhelmingly state-controlled mainstream media. On the popular Russian television program “Vesti Nedeli,” the host, Dmitry Kiselyov, questioned how Syria could have been responsible for the attack. After all, he said, the Assad government had destroyed all of its chemical weapons. It was the terrorists who possessed them, said Mr. Kiselyov, who also heads Russia’s main state-run international media arm. One of Mr. Kiselyov’s correspondents on the scene mocked “Western propagandists” for believing the Trump line, saying munitions at the air base had “as much to do with chemical weapons as the test tube in the hands of Colin Powell had to do with weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.” That teed up Mr. Putin to suggest in nationally televised comments a couple of days later that perhaps the attack was an intentional “provocation” by the rebels to goad the United States into attacking Mr. Assad. RT, the Russian-financed English-language news service, initially translated Mr. Putin as calling it a “false flag.” The full Alex Jones was complete. When Trump administration officials tried to counter Russia’s “false narratives” by releasing to reporters a declassified report detailing Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles — and suggesting to The Associated Press without proof that Russia knew of Mr. Assad’s plans to use chemical weapons in advance — the Russians had a ready answer borrowed from Mr. Trump himself. As the pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia put it, “Apparently it was for good reason Donald Trump called unverified information in the mass media one of the main problems in the U.S.” It was the best evidence I’ve seen of the folly of Mr. Trump’s anti-press approach. You can’t spend more than a year attacking the credibility of the “dishonest media” and then expect to use its journalism as support for your position during an international crisis — at least not with any success. While Mr. Trump and his supporters may think that undermining the news media serves their larger interests, in this great information war it serves Mr. Putin’s interests more. It means playing on his turf, where he excels. Integral to Mr. Putin’s governing style has been a pliant press that makes his government the main arbiter of truth. While talking to the beaten but unbowed members of the real journalism community here, I heard eerie hints of Trumpian proclamations in their war stories. Take Mr. Trump’s implicit threat to the owner of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, during the election campaign. In case you’ve forgotten, while calling The Post’s coverage of him “horrible and false,” Mr. Trump warned that if he won the presidency Mr. Bezos’s other business, Amazon, would have “such problems.” (The Post was undaunted, and the issue hasn’t come up again.) The government here doesn’t make threats like that. Things just happen. That was the case last year at the independent media company RBC after its flagship newspaper reported on sensitive financial arrangements of members of Mr. Putin’s family and his associates. The Russian authorities raided the offices of its oligarch owner, Mikhail Prokhorov. Within a few weeks its top three editors had left. The Kremlin denied involvement. But it must have liked the new editor’s message to the RBC staff: Journalism is like driving, and “if you drive over the solid double line they take away your license.” Mr. Prokhorov is considering selling RBC to another oligarch who is closer to the government, the Russian business journal Vedomosti reported on Tuesday. That same day, I met with one of the former RBC editors, Roman Badanin. We chatted at his new place of employment, TV Rain, in the Flacon warehouse complex here, populated by young people with beards, tattoos, piercings and colored hair. (Brooklyn hipster imperialism knows no bounds.) TV Rain has its own hard-luck tale. It was Russia’s only independent television station. Carried mainly on cable, it regularly covered anti-Putin protests and aired voices excluded from the rest of television. But after it ran an online poll asking whether Russia should have abandoned Leningrad to the Nazis to save lives — deeply offending Russian national pride, and receiving a public rebuke from Mr. Putin’s top spokesman — its landlord evicted it and its cable carriers dropped it. It now lives primarily as a subscription service on the internet, which remains fairly free given Mr. Putin’s primary focus on television as the most powerful medium in the country. (Mr. Badanin and others worry that’s going to change, too.) When I asked Mr. Badanin what would be different if Russia had full press freedoms, he looked at me wearily and said: “Everything. Sorry for that common answer, but everything.” Despite steep challenges, people like Mr. Badanin are still battling on. Their journalistic spirit couldn’t be killed, even after some of their friends and colleagues had been. One newspaper here, Novaya Gazeta, has lost five reporters to violence or suspicious circumstances since the turn of the century. Toward the end of the week, I went to its spartan offices in central Moscow to visit its longtime editor, Dmitri Muratov, who has fiercely guarded the paper’s independence through all of the killings and the crackdowns. With the gallows humor of a seasoned journalist, Mr. Muratov was in a jovial mood and told me that he was getting a great kick out of state media’s hard turn against Mr. Trump. Initially, Mr. Muratov said of the president, “he was treated as warmly as McDonald’s; he entered every home like he was our national Santa Claus.” Mr. Muratov had no doubt the sentiment toward Mr. Trump would reverse again, perhaps soon. (To borrow from “1984”: “Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”) Novaya Gazeta had the toughest coverage on the chemical weapons attack that I saw here, challenging the government narrative with reporting from the ground indicating the chemical weapons were dropped from the air. (The anti-Assad forces do not have airplanes.) There’s a lot of speculation in Russian media circles about why the Kremlin allows Novaya Gazeta to continue to operate. Mr. Muratov says he believes it’s because the newspaper is not owned by a single businessman subject to pressure. The newspaper’s staff owns a majority of the shares, and the rest of them are owned by the former Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and the Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev. (Mr. Lebedev told The Guardian last year that he was no longer financing newsroom operations because of “the strain.”) That, and a loyal subscriber base of more than 240,000, help insulate it from outside pressure, if not the violence. The very day of my visit, Mr. Muratov received a threat against his entire staff from religious leaders in Chechnya, angry over articles about anti-gay violence in the region. The Novaya Gazeta offices are scattered with reminders to take such threats seriously, like the case that holds the dusty desktop computer of Anna Politkovskaya. She was shot dead in her apartment building in 2006 after exposing human rights abuses in Chechnya and writing unflinchingly about Mr. Putin. I wondered aloud whether it scared any of Mr. Muratov’s reporters away from certain stories. He turned serious, looked straight at me and said, “I really wish it could.” Mr. Muratov follows the American news media closely. I asked him what he thought about the American press corps’ quandary when it comes to covering a president, like Mr. Trump, who trades in falsehoods and demonizes journalists. He seemed put off by the question; the answer, to him, was so obvious. “Information from the Kremlin or from the White House, it’s not for us verified information,” he said. “We don’t place our trust just on their word.” It’s a lesson American reporters should have learned long before Mr. Trump came along, especially after Iraq. Journalists in Russia like Mr. Muratov haven’t lost sight of that lesson because they can’t afford to. Neither can we. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/business/media/vladimir-putin-moscow-press-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Considering it has no engine, thats allot better price. Its getting better all the time. Price dripping and effectiveness rising. The number of ISIL fighters killed after the United States' army dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb was at least 90, Afghan officials said on Saturday, raising a death toll of 36 reported a day earlier... "We pulled out 90 dead bodies of fighters who lived underground in those tunnels and caves for years, operating and planning attack across the country.".. An elderly man who lives close to the bombing site in Achin's Momand Dara area told the AFP news agency the blast was so piercingly loud that his infant granddaughter was experiencing hearing loss... The Taliban armed group, which is expected to soon announce the start of this year's fighting season, also denounced the bombing. "Using this massive bomb cannot be justified and will leave a material and psychological impact on our people," the armed group said in a statement. ISIL has made inroads into Afghanistan in recent years, attracting disaffected members of the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban as well as Uzbek fighters But the group has been steadily losing ground in the face of heavy pressure both from US air raids and a ground offensive led by Afghan forces. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/afghanistan-scores-isil-fighters-dead-moab-raid-170415071056526.html

LOL. How big of an area counts as 'hovering', how often do conditions in any given place make this feasible, and what range of altitudes would a balloon need to run through to make this happen? Ballpark figure? Rough estimate? How many zeroes before the decimal point? I must have missed that. I have about 10 launches, 4-5 hours PIC in hot air balloons and another 5-6 jumps from them. Somehow I missed the lessons on hovering. Might have been drunk that day.

http://www.space.com/5401-french-space-diver-balloon-takes.html http://www.pdsol.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Why_Try_to_Jump_from_Space.pdf

Here is a start for you. As always, I'll be ready to be jumper number 1001. Call me then. http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/COSGC_Projects/space/Documents/Verhage/NearSpace0%5B1%5D.pdf

I'm a gonna say BS on all that. There is about 60# of lift per 1000 cu ft of commercial he at the surface. Which can grow to 80 times that volume at altitude. So one jumper with equipment @ 230 lbs and balloon weight, basket weight, etc. you likely have 300-400 lbs. = 5800 cu ft at the surface and 460,000 cu ft at altitude depending on height. Per jumper.

The three greatest understatements in the history of mankind. Ok ok thats a lie. But understated truths at a minimum.

Putin Is Looking Vulnerable in a Crumbling Russia At first glance, Russian actions since the 2014 annexation of Crimea appear to signal a resurgence of power in the international system. Increases in military spending, forays into the Middle East and a foreign policy punching above its weight have all served to remind the world that Russia maintains influence on the global stage. However, behind the Cold War-levels of military activity and violations of international laws are fundamental issues which will plague Russia going forward. Demographic struggles have stricken the state since World War II, commodity price fluctuations and sanctions have crippled economic output and the current defense spending trends are unsustainable. Against the backdrop of harsh economic reality, the illusion of Russian resurgence can only be maintained for so long, and NATO policymakers should take note.... The Russian people, however, are still in dire straits. In 2016, one-quarter of Russian companies cut salaries. Overall, the average Russian wage dropped 8 percent last year and 9.5 percent the year before. International sanctions imposed on Russia continue to cause problems, and energy prices have not recovered to previous highs.... Yet while a cursory examination of approval ratings may show an unassailably popular leader, Putin’s power structure is more fragile than it first appears. Financial strain will continue to pressure state-dependent segments of the Russian populace, which have historically been the bedrock of Putin’s support. It seems Putin’s Russia won’t perish in a Manichean clash in the Fulda Gap, but like the Soviet Union before it, today’s Russia will crumble under the weight of its own mismanagement and economic failure. Perhaps history does repeat itself. http://www.newsweek.com/putin-looking-vulnerable-crumbling-russia-583593

It is astonishing how long it is taking for some people to realize: 1. Trump has no ideology. He is too shallow to think that deeply. 2. He is a carnival-barker / demagogue who says whatever he thinks his immediate audience wants to hear. I think the recent flip-flopping is all about Kushner displacing Bannon as the main influence. I am becoming fascinated about exactly how Kushner has pulled this off. I had thought Trump was too much the narcissist to listen to anyone but the voices in his own head. largely agree, but there is another Steve Trump’s got a new favorite Steve But while Steve Bannon is on the ropes in Trump’s fractious White House, Stephen Miller has managed to endear himself to the man emerging as the president’s most indispensable adviser: son-in-law Jared Kushner. As the relationship between Kushner and Bannon has deteriorated, Miller has made sure his colleagues know he’s not on Bannon’s team. In interviews, seven White House officials described the emerging dynamics. ... The shifting and seemingly divergent fortunes of the president’s most ideologically committed advisers, both nationalist firebrands who forged their partnership working together to scuttle the 2013 “Gang of Eight” immigration reform bill, illustrates the changing imperatives for those closest to Trump as he learns how to govern. In conversations with colleagues, Miller has taken pains to distance himself from Bannon, despite their ideological kinship and long collaboration issues like immigration... More than anything, White House officials say, he has undeniable loyalty to the president. He will never contradict Trump, no matter what the president says. He will reinforce the president's beliefs with news articles that support them. And unlike Bannon, a wealthy man in his own right, the president doesn’t see Miller as a peer or someone trying to take the spotlight, unless he’s been allowed to take it. “I am prepared to go on any show, anywhere, anytime and repeat it and say the president of the United States is correct 100 percent,” he said in February. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/stephen-miller-white-house-trump-237216 The new Steve favorite sounds like the ultimate trump man. The ultimate yes man.