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The array of names by which the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been known over the years—the Congo Free State, the Belgian Congo, and Zaire, among others—bespeaks its long history of exploitation and conflict. In the ongoing fallout from the Second Congo War alone, well over 5 million people have been killed—approximately the population of Minnesota and approaching the number of Jews killed in the Holocuast. Even now, a deadly assortment of militias, M23 and Mai Mai prominent among them, continues to fight in the eastern DRC, where reports abound of horrifying acts of murder and rape in towns such as Goma, capital of North Kivu province on the border with Rwanda.
Although most of the developed world has long been unburdened with knowledge of the violence in the DRC, the slaughter is intricately linked to electronic components carried by millions of people in the United States and Europe. The tantalum capacitor is a reliable and stable component of electronic circuitry found in smartphones, DVD players, video game systems, laptops and tablets, hearing aids, pacemakers, and jet engines. Tantalum is extracted from coltan, short for columbite-tantalite, which is a dull, black, metallic ore mined in the DRC. Artisanal and small-scale miners do the work in filthy, dangerous, and taxing conditions. At the bottom of the supply chain, these workers earn a pittance, but the mining is often their sole income source.
In Goma and other eastern Congo towns close to Rwanda, coltan and conflict go hand in hand. Revenue from the mineral trade fuels the war. A 2001 UN Panel of Inquiry stated: "Here lies the vicious circle of the war. Coltan has permitted the Rwandan army to sustain its presence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo."
Harsh public criticism of Apple and other manufacturers for essentially selling the public "blood phones" containing the conflict mineral coltan has forced electronics companies like Nokia to take a position. Although a 2010 off-the-cuff comment by Steve Jobs calling the conflict mineral trade "a very serious problem"—but seeming to dismiss it—was less than satisfactory, the Enough Project, which has been ranking companies by how well they keep conflict minerals out of their supply chains, has since shown that Apple and three other leading companies – Intel, Motorola Solutions, and HP – have been pioneers of progress. In its 2012 corporate rankings report, Enough states that "a majority of leading consumer electronics companies have moved ahead in addressing conflict minerals in their supply chains—spurred by the conflict minerals provision in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and growing consumer activism, particularly on college campuses."
But that provision in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act caused controversy as well, because in practice, as Motorola executives complained, "there currently is no recognized system to verify that the sources of minerals from the DRC are conflict free, efforts to secure supply chains have led to a de facto embargo of minerals from the region while such systems are being developed."
That could have grave consequences for the lowly Congolese artisanal miner, who could end up losing his only livelihood as a result of a blanket boycott of all DRC mines. Coltan should be conflict-free, not necessarily "Congo-free." Paradoxically, although the DRC is the heart of the coltan discussion and has among the world's largest reserves of the mineral, it has never been the largest producer. Other countries export greater amounts, including Australia and Brazil.
Like other complex war-torn regions, eastern Congo has its share of visits by journalists and filmmakers. A feature by Vice News takes the viewer on a particularly harrowing, eerie, and even sometimes amusing adventure through a region of confusing politics and an alphabet soup of militias.
Reports from the DRC in general and eastern Congo in particular are relentlessly depressing. But actor-director Ben Affleck, founder of the advocacy group Eastern Congo Initiative, combines a realistic appreciation of the region's staggering challenges with uplifting messages of hope. That can be a welcoming change from the usual negative slant. Affleck's sincerity doesn't appear in doubt, but whether it's Clooney, Jolie, or Damon, serious questions arise about the motives, goals, and ultimate effectiveness of aid for Africa, celebrity-driven or not. Dambisa Moyo, Zambian-born economist and author of the bestseller Dead Aid, is fiercely against foreign aid to Africa.
Nevertheless, the same human nature that can turn a person into a killer can also elicit a desire to relieve suffering and strife. Perhaps that's why Affleck has chosen to focus on as volatile a region as eastern Congo. He is either a visionary or a naïf. In either instance, he may be dreaming of a day when militias in Congo and Rwanda lay down their arms, kids go to school, and potable water comes to Goma. We join Mr. Affleck in that dream.


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Climate Engineering Omnicide And The Criminals Who Help Hide It
If you care about reason, justice, the planet, your children, yourself, or any other aspect of life on Earth, the 10 minute film clip below should fill you with justifiable anger. As awareness of the climate engineering insanity grows, so does the attempt by those in power to quench the growing fires of the awakening population. The "journalists" and disinformation site owners featured in this film will hopefully one day soon be held to account in a legal forum that should resemble the Nuremberg trials. Such cowardly and despicable individuals are all too willing to lie for a paycheck and a pension. They like to rant about the "conspiracy theorists" in the most derogatory tone, but what do psychologists say about the sanity of those who question as opposed to those who blindly parrot the official narrative? Studies show clearly that those who question are much more sane, what a surprise. The mainstream media disinformation in the video below tries to convince us that everything we see in the sky is just "contrails", but does this lie hold up to hard facts? What the disinformation people in this film did not tell you is that all commercial jets and military tankers have "high bypass turbofan" jet engines which is by design incapable of producing "condensation trails" except under the most extreme conditions. Did they mention the mountain of government documents and science reports on "solar radiation management" (SRM)? No, they did not even mention the term as that would have given credibility to this issue and that's the last thing they want. They show film footage of WWll B-17 bombers leaving condensation trails, but they did not tell you that these bombers had water vapor injection systems on them in addition to the very crude piston engines that put out a tremendous amount of particulate matter. Their entire video is filled with direct lies and lies of omission. If you want to make a difference in the battle to expose and halt global geoengineering, take the time to contact the two primary perpetrators in this mainstream disinformation piece and let them know you are not OK with them lying about the climate engineering crimes that will cost your children any chance for a future if these programs continue. One is Mark Allin from ATS (Above Top Secret). ATS is controlled and funded by William Irvine who has reported CIA connections. Then there is George Knapp, from Channel 8 news, who avoids completely the mountain of science relating to geoengineering and solar radiation management like the long list of patents and global governance documents. If you care about your future and that of your children, make your voice heard. Let those who lie for a paycheck and a pension know that you are not OK with their part in the cover-up of the covert climate engineering crimes.
Dane Wigington
56 Responses to Climate Engineering Omnicide And The Criminals Who Help Hide It
These persons are paid actors and actresses reading a script provided to them by their handlers. They are paid liars, nothing more.
The same is true of ALL authority figures in general. How can human beings even believe the "authority" ploy? 10,000 years of retards believing they need "leaders"… 10,000 years of war. 10,000 years of famine. 10,000 years of idiot/thugs running around in expensive costumes and destroying homes, cities, and life. Get a grip on reality for a change. It's all manufactured drama, and girly/man theater.
With over 91 anti-geoengineering events in +/- 35 countries worldwide (per the list of marches posted online, and I attended one in NC) it's hard to completely dismiss this as a 'conspiracy theory'. That label does not render the information false. There is a plethora of information online (geoengineeringwatch.org) that substantiates what is going on and its devastating impact on the planet. This is a giant big deal which is why there is little MSM coverage and a bunch of debunkers online….whoever/whatever is behind it is powerful and does not want 'us' to know. There is no verifiable scientific evidence to refute the claim that geoengineering, to the detriment of the environment and humanity, exists. Quite the contrary. Welcome to the present day "Twilight Zone". It would be well worth your while to research this and come to your own conclusions.
I'm on D3 vitamin supplements. My tests came out pretty low. Have had a history of sinus and upper respiratory infections and have been on too many antibiotics. My allergies have increased, when I used to have none. Something's amok. I've had fevers of "unknown origin" or FUO's for months and months. I've cut down drastically and have found alternative "medicines" to help me. We all have to learn to detoxify our bodies of this crap that's being sprayed upon us and to let others know, even if we are ridiculed for it. People used to think the world was flat, too….and we've persevered for truth's sake, and on truth's side. Wake up. Look up. Follow The Money.
Full film online, thank you, James! 🙂 That makes a solid verification of the lie being perpetrated by the "newscasters". The other film they cited was probably a fake too. Most likely someone on staff found the badly photo-shopped pic online (as it has made the rounds on every 'chemtrail' debunker site) and the I-Team news dept didn't bother to fact check. And it's a fraud – not even well executed. We should point it out as it comes up, using the actual footage.
Beyond photo books, check out real estate photography going back over a decade compared to now. Skies are usually involved in the ext shots. It's dramatic. After that sports photography both video & stills show marked differences in eras as well. They can't photoshop and add trails to the original photos and films. The last good challenge is to ask people to go through their old family albums, especially of trips when they tend to shoot outdoor scenery. And to produce outdoor pix with the grid patterns.
Good job Anne. NO trails in original Spartacus film. We must also get outdoor picture books that were made prior to 1990 as evidence.
Heavy spraying over Portland Oregon today. Are there any support groups here in Portland. I want to find like minded people to take action with. Thanks
One of the best documentaries I have seen. In subtitles but really good.
Chemtrails- The Secret War
Dane thanks again for all you have, are and will continue to do for us all!
I would love it if you had a forum!
I am sure I am not the only one to feel this way!
George Knapp can go to hell. He is a liar and he knows it. Maybe he can get together with John Coleman and go live together on fantasy island.
We are sick of being stonewalled by our elected officials and the media.
Please continue to be active against ongoing geoengineering programs! The only way we will succeed with our goal is to use our great voices and speak out!
YOU can send this letter to any and all representatives and officials. ❤ https://onedrive.live.com/redir?page=view&resid=743CAF6E3757220A!106&authkey=!AOBPWIMSMewJXrY
Thank you Wyatt for your honest representation of our current situation. I am also very concerned that a false flag event will take place soon for the current administration to further there agenda. The long cooling event in the east is projected to maintain it's structure for at least a another week to 10 days. That will lead us into the beginnings of March where violent Tornadoes will be possible in the southeast. The current weather setup is very precarious in that the systems originate from Mexico and pull up moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. These patters can really enhance upper level wind shear meeting with the cold air from the north. There are articles appearing now about how Global Warming May Spawn More Southeast US Tornadoes. The ones in power can use these events as a excuse to further there agenda. I am very concerned as I live in the southeast and am tired of these manufactured Tornado events. I remember to well the day of April 27 2011 when record breaking long track major Tornadoes killed many. I watched the Helicity factors that were off the charts. The anomalies were everywhere if you knew what you were looking for. The local meteorologist you could see it in there eyes were scared but as usual said nothing about this manufactured event. There is a article about Global Warming May Spawn More Southeast US Tornadoes and I will enclose the link.
As long as the original screencaps are still up…take a, look at 8:22 in the video above…and then look at the skies in the same scene of the original film .. Captured in screencaps here:
Compare. Observe. Remember.
Keep your old VHS, DVD, transfer to new media and retain.
My 38th email to my contacts, titled: What will you do?
1. What will you do…. when you realise that life as we know it could change dramatically within 4 years, probably within 2 years, and rapidly lead to major extinction events?
Will you:
try to warn others?
treasure every moment with family and friends?
do as much good as you can?
seek retribution against those who have kept this information from us (often for their own financial benefit, and at great cost to our health and finances)?
make some basic preparations, or rely on our government to protect us?
If you make the time to read this regularly updated essay, you will be able to make some informed decisions:
'Abrupt Climate Change' means a global temperature rise of about 3ºC in two years.
A 50 gigaton methane burp will probably cause a global temperature rise of about 2ºC in 2 years.
If they stopped spraying (adding toxic particulates into our atmosphere), there would probably be a 1.5ºC global temperature rise in a few weeks – but it is still our best option, the spraying has already made a bad situation exponentially worse.
A global temperature rise of 4ºC leads to several extinction level events. Talk of higher global temperatures increases is immaterial. Nearly everything else is a distraction.
According to NOAA the atmospheric methane concentration is now above 1820ppb – largely due to the arctic methane release from melting methane clathrates. Atmospheric methane concentration has not been this high for over 420,000 years and correlates to 9 °C average Earth temperature increase (Wikipedia).
Methane levels as high as 2503 ppb were recorded on January 31, 2015:
2. Still think we are being told the whole truth by the 'authorities'?
The intergovernmental IPCC only uses information that is about 9 years old, fails to include most of the recognised feedback loops, and the report has to receive government approval.
Dr Shakhova's dismay at The Royal Society is shown in her letter of 14th Oct 2014: https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/tag/arctic-methane-monster/
Multi Year Ice Loss in the Arctic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqEtgcJ6LmU (loss of arctic sea ice creates extinction level events – a 100m sea level rise is probably the least of our worries). Arctic ice should be thickest in March and thinnest in September.
3. For some humour, listen to the first 18 mins of this: http://prn.fm/nature-bats-last-02-03-15/
I have heard it said that this is probably the first time science and religion are in agreement:
"Scientists now agree that prayer is the only thing that can save us from climate change."
I pray that someone proves them wrong!
Hey Andrew, I just skimmed your in depth blog of Feb 11. I must say, I feel the same, I tell others. Andrew, there will be a retribution for "them that destroy the earth." Guy is right, I think. And his message does speak to believers that the scenarios in Revelation will come to pass, both climatic and geopolitical, soon. So, I seek for more I can do, I love others best I can, and I prepare to meet my God. My church asked me to contribute to a class on the NWO (!) and my contribution will be on geoengineering. I try, we try, I like you, man God bless you.
ok someone please tell me what the skies will look like if TPTB get their way and start climate engineering. i would recommend everyone to stock up on vitamin D supplements as we aint gonna see the sun very often. wake up people its ongoing already!
please tell me just exactly what the skies will look like when the ipcc and geoengineers finally decide to implement climate engineering. i would suggest people stock up with vitamin d supplements cos we aint gonna see the sun very often. either the atmosphere has changed drastically already or TPTB are at it now.something aint right thats for sure.
Sorry, but this is the better link to the Robert Harris post about his 1990s restoration work of the film Spartacus. The other link takes you to reader comments after his post, also interesting.
I sent this to about 12 people I know today. I figured that I would share it here as well.
To my contacts,
Within the past 24 hours many major news networks have published dozens of articles regarding geoengineering – specifically the subset of solar radiation management (SRM). This is a coordinated release. Each week I search Google news for the terms "geoengineering" and "chemtrails" (the latter term is highly censored in Google) and I have never seen so many articles about this issue published in such a short period of time. The artificially nucleated snowstorms that have hit the Northeast region and dumped an unprecedented amount of snow during the past two weeks are part of a massive psyops to convince the most affluent and densely populated areas in our country that the planet is not warming, but that it is actually cooling.
This coordinated release of geoengineering articles into the news is intended to promote discussion about this "previously fringe science" after years of flat out denials about "chemtrails" by the mainstream media. This is doublethink at its finest – convince the public that these schemes are just mere "proposals" while the skies above their heads become increasingly saturated with sunlight-reflecting heavy metal aerosols.
The elites' control over the masses has never been so threatened in the course of human history as it is this very day.
[2014 surface temperature anomaly map]
The above map displays the extent to which surface temperatures during the year 2014 have departed from a 1950-1980 baseline average. The Eastern United States does not fit the trend. Ongoing covert weather modification projects are responsible for this. Notice how the arctic is burning up. Certain regions in Alaska barely went below freezing (32F) during the entirety of 2014. There is an abundance of evidence to suggest that ionosphere heating facilities (HAARP/SBX) are being utilized in conjunction with aerosol deposits ("chemtrails") in the Eastern Pacific to divert moisture to the north of California so that it can be supercooled in the arctic and then dragged back down via a manipulated jet stream in order to artificially cool down the lower 48, e.g. the so-called polar vortex; a term that the meteorologists have meticulously latched onto during the past year. All the while the geoengineers are sacrificing California by subjecting it to never-before-experienced droughts and heatwaves for the sake of cooling the rest of the country.
As a result of extremely high temperatures, the arctic permafrost is melting at an unprecedented and accelerating rate. A massive methane expulsion event may be imminent. We have not years to repair this, but possibly only so many days. The media categorically lies to us regarding the true state of our climate. The damage has been done and now we can only watch as the feedback loops accelerate.
Last year The Weather Channel began naming each individual winter storm as part of a deliberate attempt to condition viewers and distract them from this issue. (TWC is owned by the Rothschilds and is absolutely complicit in these aerosol crimes – recently they upgraded their site and now display image banners full of aerosolized cloud cover.)
Folks, we are watching the sixth mass extinction unfold before our eyes RIGHT NOW. Throughout the past two years I have witnessed an extreme proliferation of persistent trails being produced by jet aircraft. These persistent trails are reported all over the United States and around the world. They are not normal condensation trails. My research indicates that the climate engineering program has accelerated even more rapidly since this past November. Much of the continental United States was underneath incessant artificial cloud cover between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Many people are noticing that the skies no longer appear as they did two decades ago when these programs are alleged to have been deployed full force. And no, it is not simply a result of increased air traffic, as many detractors will claim. These aerosol trails create cirrus clouds when atmospheric conditions strictly forbid the formation of persistent contrails.
I share this with you because you happen to be one of the few people in this world whom I happen to give at least an iota of a shit about. And I realize that this knowledge, for the time being, will likely fall on deaf ears, as it usually does.
All I have to say is that you should be prepared for the revelations that will begin this year. Many do not want to know that the governments around the world have been deliberately poisoning us and our environment. I have voiced my concerns many times to my political representatives. They stonewall everyone regarding this issue. Soon the population will be forced to choose sides. No one will be able to ignore this in due time. Until then, you must remain vigilant. Do not believe a damn thing that the mainstream media states regarding geoengineering. I have debunked the "they're just contrails" claims over and over. In the past year alone the counterintelligence services have been working overtime to derail and discredit this movement. While they may have bought some time, we are finally witnessing the facade collapse. Unfortunately there still exists a shrinking majority who have succumbed to the exceptionally strong social programming. I tell you this from personal experience. I am not sorry for sharing this information with you, even if few wish to know. Just because it is not discussed on the news does not make it false. I have many resources to which I can direct any of you who express interest.
When disclosure does occur, if we are still here, I will be as ready as always to talk.
Your friend,
Around 8:22, the embarrassing, alleged Spartacus image they use as evidence… with bright blue skies filled with trails (from the 1960 film). I challenge anyone to find anything resembling that image in the original version of the film… And yes, some people do still have minimally a pre-1990 version, when that film was fully "restored". A painstaking, costly restoration was done in the 1990s by Robert A. Harris & James C. Katz. Harris has complained extensively about the effort at the time overseen by Universal and the results of "heavy handed digital scrubbing" described by critics of the product. You can read more here.
The industry of Hollywood's restoration and remastering of its classics unfortunately does not bode well for an accurate historical record of skies present during the original shoot dates and we will likely see them continuing to be manipulated- as that sloppy Spartacus image was.
FYI…below are a few older films whose "updated" versions are due out this year at the Turner film festival. Will be interesting to see the skies in them. Hang on to your old movies–original versions… They may come in useful as Exhibit A.
"Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has landed four film restorations set to make their world premieres during the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival, taking place March 26-29, 2015, in Hollywood. The movies, each from a different era in cinema history, including Ron Howard's Apollo 13 (1995), Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960), William Dieterle's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) and Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928). "
how do suppose they can get away with SUGGESTING??? geoengineering….
are they really this stupid??? are we that ineffective in bringing it to the attention of everyone we meet? are there really that many people covering this up???? I just can't wrap my head around this whole issue any more.
Fed Report: Time to Examine Purposely Cooling Planet Idea
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFEB. 10, 2015, 1:38 P.M. E.S.T.
Previous comment was for al and the link provided.
What really sickens me is when these TV weather criminals broadcast live when Tornadoes are on the ground. These Tornadoes can be stopped because they are produced by certain forms of electro magnetic pulses that follow transmitters on the ground. These weather TV whore criminals just watch as people's lives are lost and they loose everything.
Yeah, and they're presenting it to the sheep like it's something new they're thinking about trying out… when all along it's been happening right above our heads. So now the lame stream media starts to carry sensational stories and eventually the dumbed down masses will gladly follow without questioning anything and all the while we've been subjected to it all these years. Is this the CYA (cover you a..) move of the gov?
NUMBER 1. I'm gonna say WOW this is the MOST I have EVER seen broadcasted or covered by the local news media EVER on geo engineering even if they do not use the proper term so there is clearly a change happening we need to recognize this is amazing in itself regardless of how backwards it is. NUMBER 2. By 9 minutes in, I'm gonna tell ya why "Spaticus" and "the 90's" and :more jet traffic" is a lie and that is because these bastards turned their jets around after I flipped them off, and they dumped a TON of chemshit right on my rooftop and after that they have been here every day and let me tell you they are at LOW altitudes I can practically reach up and grab a friggen wing and I have the pictures to prove it, so this is NO COMMERCIAL AMERICAN AIRLINES PASSENGER CARRYING FLIGHT that is visiting our RURAL location at 3500 feet.NUMBER 3. NO ONE can be as stupid as these broadcasters. They DO KNOW they are LYING about what they are personally experiencing and for me the worst of the worst are those who full well know but refuse to admit it, talking all around the topic without coming out and stating they are experiencing it too. These are COWARDS who do not care about their own families let alone ours.
Let's carry on the good fight! The odds are not in our favor but what else do we do for our kids and this planet we love?
Thank you so much Dane! Nicole
If there are no planes in the sky spraying various chemicals and substances down over us and there are no chemtrails that are made up of all these things, then where in the holy hallelujah did the following things come from that were found when the rainwater harvested in our front garden was analysed?
I, personally, authorized and paid a local testing laboratory to analyse the chem cloud fallout rainwater that I had harvested in my front garden — not just one time but twice to get a comparison. The following is the list of what was found both times in this water: Chloride, Phosphate, Calcium, Potassium, Sodium, Strontium, Aluminum, Arsenic, Boron, Barium, Cadmium, Chrome, Copper, Iron, Manganese, Nickel, Lead, Uranium and Zinc.
This is not normal rain water!
Okay, any "CONtrail" supporters out there with an answer?
These men are not paid to do research they are paid to read scripts given to them by their puppet master.
Last Friday (2/6) we had a "strange" rain fall. Big drops with distance between them (was the talk at the am meeting at work). When I took my dog out right after the rain she went crazy sniffing the ground. I have NEVER seen her do that!
This past Monday (2/9) after the rain my grand kids went out and took a video of the rain run off. It look very much like the "toxic chemicals in our water" segment of the news video. The material had an iridescent look to it. Some looked globular neon white-blue. They pierced it with a stick and parts separated away from the globular into small pieces and then disappeared.
I see the only "solution" to this problem is to address the source that is now spending BIG money to keep the conspiracy going. Maybe Eric Gault can help with that.
Such are the times we live in … That average citizens no longer will believe what they see with their own eyes unless the capitalist propaganda machine tells them it's okay to believe. We have become fools and willing participants in our own destruction.
Lonnie!!! Thank you so much for your suggestion! I typed *geoengineering* in google. The first thing that came up on my PC was an article from the NY Times: *Panel Urges Research on Geoengineering as a Tool Against Climate Change* and then I clicked on *more news for geoengineering* and articles from Grist, Slate, The Guardian and Washington Post came up on my PC from just the last 10 hours!!!!!!! Wonderful! Also when I clicked on: *Explore in depth* 78 more articles all in the last 14 hours came up!!!! Dane, I hope and pray all your HARD WORK and TIRELESS COMMITMENT is beginning to come to fruition. This is so exciting. It is also a plethora of information to read…
I never saw one contrail prior to 2000. There was tons of air traffic then so why didn't we see days loaded with them? Your odds of seeing a true contrail are not good. God these people piss me off. They omit most of the story….the patents, the turbo by pass fans,…..damn.
looks like their trying to garner public support for their mission http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/climate-geoengineering-scary-idea-should-be-tried-out-n303901 unbelievable
This was a difficult video to watch but I hung in there. The smirking buffoons on the right provide a counterbalance to the main reporter, Mr. Knapp. I have enjoyed George Knapp on Coast for years but am well aware of his erroneous stands on certain issues of the day. I was actually amused to see the extent to which Mr. Knapp read his script and went through the motions of appearing to present a sophisticated piece of reporting on the phenomenon. But the video was a piece of theater targeting countless thousands of slack-jawed TV watchers who just might be starting to wake up to something not being right. Yes, the trails are getting more and more press, and for obvious reasons: their numbers have increased radically in the last number of years and the resulting solar dimming and near incessant cloud cover are beginning to be questioned by more and more people.
This "news video" was ill-conceived from top to bottom and felt like nothing more than a "tabloid" treatment of the topic, intended for rapid consumption by virtue of the topic's "trendiness".
You can see it separating by weight.
But I was told that the planes have not been switched over to unleaded.
Let me know if you know anything different. I just tested rainwater and added lead to the mix to see if it was included.
Let's see if either of these guys are willing to debate Dane or another expert on SRM, etc (Clifford Carnicom perhaps). But oh – forgot they can probably add 'cowardice' to the long list of vices they would possess.
I guess these goofs in the video never look at the sky to see these "Contrails" which never disappear like the contrails I watched as a child. They also missed the fact that real contrails never stayed visible from horizon to horizon.
@Dylan, it is a very interesting point you raise. In my many discussions on German strategy in WW2 I often expose the severe winter of 41-42 which halted the Wehrmacht, as a direct consequence of the intense bombardment in the incendiary opening and consequent phases of Barbarossa. I am shocked every time I read about the non chalance of Hitler in the disposition of his forces, a modicum of preparation would have insured victory for the Wehrmacht; the disregard warfare had on the weather of the Napoleonic invasion is inexcusable. I often think Napoleon caused his own dreadful calamity with the innumerable fires created by his then largest invasion in recorded history, if one tends to disbelieve the gross exaggerations of Herodotus. Nevertheless it is doubtful the Wehrmacht would have been defeated had Hitler simply reviewed history and noted the prevalence of intensely cold winters following incendiary summer campaigns. Had he thought of this we would all be speaking German today.
"Contrails during the war actually affected the weather" yes they did, but the gas was full of LEAD. Lead was removed from gas for health reason, I believe in the 1960's.
That;s why I don't turn on/watch TV.
Stupid, stupid news reporters. It pains me to listen to them, idiots.
Contrails during the war actually affected the weather
Did Colossal WWII Bombing Raids Alter Weather?
Streamline the process and you get a global program to do the same.
This fellow even implies, in 1970, that they MIGHT BE PART OF SOME COVERT OPERATION TO MODIFY THE GLOBAL CLIMATE AS PROPOSED BY ANOTHER SCIENTIST IN 1965.
"The writer himself has seen instances in which a single contrail seemed to grow until it became an overcast covering the whole sky. If the contrail were indeed responsible, which is by no means certain, this would constitute definite proof that contrails are capable of SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON LOCAL WEATHER, AND EVEN POSSIBLY ON
It's no longer modest.
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
― Albert Einstein
The Orwellian state exists because far too many Americans are paid to keep it that way. There are none so blind as those paid not to see. If you follow the money it tells all. The FED prints money at will, a bureaucracy that isn't even audited by the Federal Government, then feeds the Government agencies trillions of dollars to do its bidding for the sole profit and control of the elite powers of the world. Such as the NSA, which is set up to feed corporations the info they need and want to maintain their monopolistic practices, suppress groups wanting to be minimalist and healthy, such as raw milk producers and organic poly-farming to maintain Big Agriculture, etc.
Welcome to Plantation Earth. Many many slaves, many paid to keep it that way and the very, very few that manipulate it all.
Unfortunately Joe Public tends to follow what they perceive to be experts so disinformation articles like the above do cover up what is really going on. This is why it is essential to reach a critical mass of awareness as soon as possible. It seems very hard to wake some people up to reality but it must be done!
Anybody with a half of a brain can see what they are trying to do here! MANIPULATION of public opinion again!
Their arguments are so ridiculous that I would give a big laugh if it was not an important issue to all of us(the geoengeneering issue) here in debate.they like a lot to refer geoengeneering only as Chemmtrails (as if the substances for SAG or SRM in the documents of the patents were not chemicals at all) and as if we were not already eating chemicals on our manufacturated food ,gmos,and breathing chemicals or being injected with chemicals in vacines ,radiation ,methane etc.
They almost look like the men in black from CIA .These guys are paid liers but not convencing at all with their nervous fake smiles!
DANE you are giving them(and their bosses) a "BAD DIGESTION " !… they laugh but they are consumed by rage cause you already have more than than 15 000.000 visits and growing !…From now on you need to be prepared to be under the spotlight,be careful cause they are too focus on you wich means they fear you ,wich means you are begining to be a "target" to them because of your awakening rates and growing …you don´t need false data or false explanations about the spraying and the chemical trails in the skies to make "news"!And you are a free man and they already sold their souls to the devil !
they also are so wrong and no clever at all in their phony conclusions cause this is a spraying donne at a global scale ! I live in Portugal ,not in the states and like me there´s other people so this is not from the heads of Americans crazy conspiracy theorists as they probably are trying to make other Americans believe!!Why their concern now seems to try to convence people that this is not global ? YES ,IT`S GLOBAL ,only rats of employees from the oficial Media to say otherwise!
Forget about these scum bags ! your work is your answer to all the scum bags on the planet!…
I expect these lies to continue up until the last. Even when everyone is awake to the deployment of Geoengineering, they will still be lying.
The problem is, these lies will work for many of those of who do not know about the realities of weather modification. They will conveniently swallow the sugar pill and get on with their lives, unprepared for whatever may come in the future.
For those who know thus far that something is definitely going on, the future is most uncertain. We don't know where this is all heading. Destruction of much if not all of earth's biosphere seems likely, but with no disclosure from 'authorities', we are not totally aware of the intended outcome.
It seems so bad, that it might be possible they (The Powers That Be) are just buying time to prepare for something cataclysmic. Destruction of the earth's life support systems might be collateral damage for an attempt to save themselves.
Dane said start fires wherever you can, and it's working. People are seeing it and now they are telling us. Type "Geoengineering" into the google toolbar then click "explore in depth". Article after article being posted for all of the major players in just the last few hours. People are seeing it and they are realizing it.
Dane you said start fires wherever you can, and it's working. People are seeing it and now they are telling us. Type "Geoengineering" into the google toolbar then click "explore in depth". Article after article being posted for all of the Major players in just the last few hours. People are seeing it and they are realizing it.
Agree with you, they are conpirasists of the contrail conspiracy. Medias don't want to disturb the criminals that pay them.
The commentary says, Why would the people in charge expose themselves and their families to the spraying? Probably the same 'reasons' that their families are now exposed to the fallout from the 2,000 or so atomic and nuclear devices that were exploded in the atmosphere.
Reason and common sense doesn't always come into it.
I didn't watch the whole video as I could feel my blood boiling watching these idiots parrot words written for them to repeat. Seeing actual newscasters misleading the public makes it very easy to decide who the real conspiracy theorists really are. I find it ironic that they could sit there and explain how this 'so-called-conspiracy-theory' is the biggest ever and not wonder to themselves that with so many thousands of persons on board if there isn't something to it.
Double talking media… the evidence is the aluminum in the water in the air and in our bodies weather modification is patented high-powered microwave antenna arrays are real the taxpayers money shown to go into these programs same old same old media move along nothing to see here
Thank you Dane for doing the hard research that is needed to keep up on this subject. Exposing the criminals who need to be held accountable is of utmost importance. We support you and my meetup.com group: OREGONIANS for action and awareness against AIRCRIMES is meeting to make signs. Anyone who wants to join can. It's free and I know it's helping! I will be making news hopefully soon! I hope you get to see me on National news as we hold up our signs and make it so completely apparent where we stand on this issue that it brings people into the awareness. I'm excited and nervous too because we all know the risks. Namaste' Dane!
We have a president who has broke every rule in our Constitutional Book!He is a criminal as well as many others in the government. I'm not feeling real positive about anything being done about this. Sad, but true. May God protect from these animals!
You can be part of the solution or part of the problem. YOU CHOOSE to be part of the problem. My dollars do not go to your advertisers and my time does not go to watching or listening to you. I will continue to encourage anyone and everyone I meet or know to do the same. If money is all which compels you then eventually you will have to change. Sad but true.

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A prototype communications satellite flying as a secondary payload aboard a Space Exploration Technologies Falcon 9 rocket was sent into the wrong orbit because of a problem during launch Sunday evening, officials said Tuesday.
One of the nine Merlin engines powering the Falcon 9 rocket shut down early, though the other engines burned longer to make up for the loss of thrust, saving the primary mission of delivering a Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station for NASA.
The rocket blasted off at 8:35 p.m. EDT Sunday (0035 GMT Monday) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, restoring a U.S. supply line to the $100 billion orbital outpost, a project of 15 nations, following the end of the shuttle program last year.
The Dragon freighter is due to arrive at the space station, which flies about 250 miles above Earth, on Wednesday.
Space Exploration Technologies said its rocket, which was created by Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk and his team at SpaceX, as the company is known, could lose two engines and still make its intended orbit.
"Like the Saturn 5 (moon rocket) and modern airliners, Falcon 9 is designed to handle an engine-out situation and still complete its mission. No other rocket currently flying has this ability," privately owned SpaceX said in a statement.
But that flexibility didn't help satellite communications provider Orbcomm, which owned a prototype OG2 communications satellite flying aboard the Falcon 9.
The satellite was deposited in a lower-than-intended orbit, Orbcomm said in a statement.
The company declined to release details, but Jonathan's Space Report, a website that tracks space launches, says Orbcomm expected its satellite to be placed into an elliptical orbit with a low point of 217 miles and a high point of 466 miles from Earth. That would later become a circular orbit at 466 miles from Earth.
Instead, it ended up in an orbit that ranges from 126 miles to 200 miles.
Orbcomm said an analysis has begun to determine if the satellite can use its onboard propulsion system to boost its orbit.
"Orbcomm will not be able to get to its operational 750 x 750 kilometer orbit, but there's a chance they'll get a few month's of system tests out of it," concludes Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard University astrophysicist who publishes the Space Report.
The company still plans to launch 17 more OG2 satellites on two Falcon 9 rockets in 2013 and 2014.
Those spacecraft will be primary payloads and delivered directly into their operational orbits, Orbcomm said.
SpaceX declined to release financial details of its contract with Orbcomm, and Orbcomm did not respond to requests for comment.
(Editing by Jane Sutton and Philip Barbara)
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Microsoft has just released a new SSIS transform, called the SSIS Balanced Data Distributor (BDD). You can download it here.
This transform takes a single input and distributes the incoming rows to one or more outputs uniformly via multithreading. The BDD will split the data, but there is no way to know how it is deciding to split the data or to know which input records will go to which output. So, the purpose of the BDD would be to split a bunch of input records into two outputs so you can, for example, have both outputs use a data conversion task that would run on separate threads, taking advantage of multi-processor and multi-core servers, thereby converting all the records up to twice as fast. Then use a merge join task to combine all the records into one dataset again. It is useful if you want to increase parallelism in the dataflow.
Boyan Penev has done an excellent comparison to show that the overall performance improvement is around 35-45% over a script component which splits the input stream in two. And there is an excellent extended description about the BDD by Len Wyatt.
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Available — We're excited to release IE8 Beta 2 today for public download. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8. Please try it out! — You'll find versions for 32- and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008.
Discussion: Search Engine Land, Tech Tracks, LiveSide, internetnews.com, WebGuild, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Spyware Sucks, Microsoft Watch, TechBlog, TECH.BLORGE.com, I4U News, eWEEK.com, The Tech Report, BetaNews, Hardware 2.0, Digital Daily, Microsoft News Tracker, Security Bytes, SEO and Tech Daily and Mark Evans
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: Search & Internet Explorer 8
Benjamin J. Romano / Tech Tracks: Microsoft releases beta 2 of IE8; more from Firefox maker Mozilla
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide - News blog: Auto Suggest, new in IE 8 with Search Providers (and coming to Live.com?)
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch: IE 8: The Rough Cut
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: Microsoft releases beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8
Cyril Kowaliski / The Tech Report: Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 arrives, adds new features
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews: IE8 Beta 2 adds standards mode, suggestions, 'Web slices'
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 vs. Firefox 3.0.1
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Microsoft Announces Internet SafariFox Beta 2
David Hunter / Microsoft News Tracker: Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 released
Dennis Fisher / Security Bytes: Security-stuffed Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 now available
Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is here
Victoria Barret / Forbes:
Microsoft Vs. Google, Again — Forget about that $44 billion takeover bid for Yahoo. Microsoft's latest assault on Google is slier. — Since May Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) has been reimbursing people up to half of the value of items they buy using its search technology.
Discussion: TeleRead
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover — More than two years ago, when Microsoft was in the final stages of testing Internet Explorer 7, Bill Gates promised more frequent browser updates, as often as every 9 to 12 months. And yet today, nearly two years after IE7's release …
Discussion: Technologizer, The Windows Experience Blog, IEBlog, Boy Genius Report and Open Source
Harry McCracken / Technologizer: The T-List: Special Bad Stuff 'Bout the iPhone Edition
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Experience Blog: A Comprehensive Look at Internet Explorer Beta 2
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report: Microsoft Confirms IE 8 'Pr0n Mode', Real Name Slightly More Diplomatic
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source: Has Firefox already matched IE privacy features?
Brad Neuberg / Ajaxian:
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 and Web Standards
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 and Web Standards
Discussion: Microsoft Help and Support and IEBlog
Ryan Kim / The Technology Chronicles:
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 available now for download
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 available now for download
Discussion: PC World, Business Technology, Brier Dudley's blog, One Microsoft Way, Download Squad, eWeek, Gizmodo, Mashable! and Computerworld
Nick Mediati / PC World: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2: Can It Outfox Firefox?
Ben Worthen / Business Technology: Microsoft Pulls on Firefox's Tail
Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog: Microsoft's new browser: Forget "porn mode," the cookie stuff is what's hot
Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way: Microsoft releases IE8 Beta 2 to the masses
Lee Mathews / Download Squad: Microsoft Drops IE8 Beta 2 - First Impression
Sean Fallon / Gizmodo: Microsoft Confirms "Porn Mode" For IE 8, Calls it "InPrivate" (Still Sounds Dirty)
Paul Glazowski / Mashable!: Me.dium Follows Microsoft into IE8 Beta 2
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
iPods, MacBooks, iMacs up next on Apple's 2008 roadmap — With a multinational iPhone 3G launch now successfully under its belt, electronics maker Apple Inc. is preparing to close out the year with a final phase of product introductions that will stretch over the course of the next two months.
Discussion: MacRumors
New York Magazine:
CONFIRMED: Aaron Sorkin Creates Facebook Page, Writing Facebook Movie — Aaron Sorkin, a man whose discomfort with the Internet goes way, way back to the days he got angry at the Television Without Pity message boards, is writing a movie about the founding of Facebook.
Discussion: VentureBeat, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Portfolio.com, The Social, Valleywag, Industry Standard and Blog World Expo Blog
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog: Coming soon: Facebook the movie? *
Laura Rich / Portfolio.com: Facebook: The Movie in the Works
Caroline McCarthy / The Social: 'Facebook: The Movie': Now, who should play Mark Zuckerberg?
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: Who should play Zuckerberg in a Facebook movie?
Jordan Golson / Industry Standard: CONFIRMED: Aaron Sorkin writing The Facebook Movie
Jacob Morgan / Blog World Expo Blog: A Facebook Movie...Really?!
John Casasanta / tap tap tap:
F**k the VCs — When I read about Mike Lee's firing from Tapulous, it made me angry. Angry, not because I feel for Mike... he's a big boy and I'm sure he'll be fine. Angry because what we're about to experience in the iPhone world is going to be a bubble along the lines of the one in the late 90s / early 2000s.
Discussion: TUAW and Dogster Inc. Company Blog
Mike Schramm / TUAW: Bursting the iPhone bubble
Ted Rheingold / Dogster Inc. Company Blog: Revolt of the Developers
David Pogue / New York Times:
New Nikon Holds a Secret — If you saw it just sitting there, you'd never guess that the new Nikon D90 is a mind-blowing, game-changing camera. — It looks like any other big, black intermediate single-lens reflex camera: much more compact than a professional model, but much bigger and heavier than a pocket camera.
Discussion: Imaging Insider, Dvorak Uncensored and neutralday
John C Dvorak / Dvorak Uncensored: Who at Nikon is Blowing David Pogue?
Patrick / neutralday: NYT'S DAVID POGUE HEARTS THE NIKON D90
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Transcoding Is Not A Crime, Says Court In Veoh Porn Case — Finally, a judge who may have actually visited the Internet once or twice before deciding a case. Judge Howard Lloyd, a judge on the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, threw out adult entertainment company …
Discussion: NewTeeVee, Silicon Alley Insider and Valleywag
Steve Bryant / NewTeeVee: Court: Veoh Not Guilty of Copyright Infringement
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider: A Victory For Video Sites: Court Grants Veoh Its DMCA Defense …
Jackson West / Valleywag: Veoh wins DMCA case against gay porn producer Titan Media
Wall Street Journal:
More Artists Steer Clear of iTunes — Apple's Online Music Store Sells Lots of Singles, — But Labels Seek Higher Profits of Full Album Sales — ITunes has been the runaway hit of the music business, selling more than five billion song downloads since it started five years ago.
Discussion: paidContent.org and Coolfer
Glenn / Coolfer: Digital Growing Pains
Mary Kathleen Flynn / Tech Confidential:
EXCLUSIVE: FriendFeed readying RSS accelerator — Technorati — Facebook — Update, 7:30 p.m.: FriendFeed Inc. co-founder Paul Buchheit has published a detailed explanation of the social networking aggregator's planned Simple Update Protocol. In a nutshell, he describes it as a …
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Burtonator / Kevin Burton's NEW FeedBlog: Feed Update Protocols and SUP
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: Speed Up RSS? FriendFeed's Going to Try
Paul Buchheit / FriendFeed Blog:
Simple Update Protocol: Fetch updates from feeds faster
Simple Update Protocol: Fetch updates from feeds faster
Discussion: Profy, Google Blogoscoped, webmonkey, ben barren, The Inquisitr, Tech Confidential and louisgray.com
Svetlana Gladkova / Profy: Forget Your Small FriendFeed Wishes, We are Having Dream Coming True
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: SUP, a Format to Tell Which Feeds Updated
Scott Loganbill / webmonkey: What's SUP?: FriendFeed's Modest RSS Proposal
Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr: FriendFeed proposes new feed update protocol
Mary Kathleen Flynn / Tech Confidential: FriendFeed releases SUP details ahead of sked
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
BackType, A Twitter For Comments — BackType is the newest YCombinator startup to launch from their summer program. They're a blog-comment focused startup - founders Christoper Golda and Michael Montano are for the first time aggregating all comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream.
Discussion: louisgray.com, Laughing Squid and The Inquisitr
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Yep, We Redesigned — As many of our readers have noticed (and noted) already, we rolled out a new design for TechCrunch yesterday evening. — We've been watching as the initial feedback has rolled in through Twitter and in the comments to our other posts.
Discussion: Mark Evans and Valleywag
Paul Boutin / Valleywag: TechCrunch drops blog format for newspapery look
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines: Welcome to the new CNET
Corrupt File Brought Down FAA's Antiquated IT System — The Federal Aviation Administration's flight plan IT network, which went down for about 2.5 hours Aug. 26 and fouled up the takeoff plans of thousands of travelers in more than 40 airports across the country, is back up and running.
David King / The Official Google Blog:
Making money on YouTube with Content ID — Late last year, we introduced our newest tool for YouTube's content identification and management system, Video ID. While we have long provided copyright owners with similar content policies and tools, Video ID was revolutionary because it provided real choice …
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped, VentureBeat, CNET News.com, Google Watch and WebProNews
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Content Owners Profiting From YouTube Uploads
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: YouTube's Video ID Successful So Far
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: Everything You Thought You Knew About the Business of YouTube Was Wrong
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Open Market video DRM aims to let "1,000 retailers bloom" — Sequels are never as entertaining as the original films, though the movie industry has so far done its best to make its DRM trainwreck look even more spectacular than the music industry's, which ultimately had to give up in defeat …
Discussion: Electronista, p2pnet and TechCrunch
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Movie Labels To Launch New "Open Market" …
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Microsoft's new "Blue Track" mouse spotted? — We're not really sure if Microsoft is peddling a revolution here or just the mousing tech flavor of the month, but we've got ourselves a much better idea of where things might be going. After that little "Say Goodbye to Laser" …
Discussion: Gizmodo, DVICE, Maximum PC all, Electronista, CrunchGear, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, The Tech Report and Apple Gazette
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo: Microsoft: "Say Goodbye to Laser"
Charlie White / DVICE: Microsoft Blue Track mouse technology teased, revealed?
Paul Lilly / Maximum PC all: Rumor: Microsoft Plotting Blue Laser Mice?
Matt Burns / CrunchGear: New Microsoft Blue Track Mouse spotted on Amazon?
Cyril Kowaliski / The Tech Report: Microsoft preps laptop mice with new sensor
Rod Drury / Xero:
Acclipse partnership — We're delighted to announce today our partnership with Acclipse. — Acclipse is a passionate company, like Xero, who specialise in Practice Management Systems for Accountants. They have a long history in this space and they're pretty good at it …
Discussion: diversity.net.nz and AccMan Pro
Dennis Howlett / AccMan Pro: Xero's logical partnering
Stephen Shankland / Underexposed:
Microsoft, Nikon sign patent-sharing deal — Microsoft and Nikon have signed a cross-licensing deal that gives each company access to the other's patents. — The deal is one of a growing list from Microsoft, which has been seeking to establish the heft and significance of its intellectual property effort.
Discussion: Electronista and Imaging Insider
Eran Hammer-Lahav / Hueniverse:
OAuth Licensed, a Step on the Way to the Open Web — Specification are tricky creatures. On their own, they are only copyrightable. But on their own they are also not very interesting. Their value is in their implementations, and those are subject to patents.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: It's Official: Mashup Privacy Protocol OAuth Is Fair Game
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Web to get more social as OAuth is sanctioned for use
Web to get more social as OAuth is sanctioned for use
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window scroll_start
This operation moves the scrollback view to the top of the scrollback buffer (the oldest output).
When the scrollback view is active (after you use scroll_start), new output to your window is buffered (held) without bounds, so you will never lose any output. But it will use more memory.
You may want to read the window help file discussion about views.
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Difference Between Heavy Cream and Whipping Cream
Heavy and Whipping Cream Are the Same Thing . . . Right?
To those of you who've been forced to choose between heavy and whipping cream at the supermarket, you've probably pondered it yourself: isn't all cream more or less the same thing?
Not exactly. There are differences in milk-fat content. All cream contains at least 18 percent milk fat: "whipping cream" is made up of 30 percent, while cartons labeled "heavy cream" or "heavy whipping cream" must contain 36 percent or more. Whipping cream, heavy cream, or heavy whipping cream all work for recipes that incorporate whisked air, but don't reach for that half-and-half; at 10.5 to 18 percent milk fat, it simply won't cut it. The more fat content a cream contains, the more stable it's likely to be in a whipped state. Check out our honey whipped topping recipe for guaranteed success.
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NCAA punishes DePaul for basketball recruiting violation
CHICAGO (AP) - The NCAA suspended DePaul men's basketball coach Dave Leitao for the first three games of the regular season Tuesday, saying he should have done more to prevent recruiting violations by his staff.
The NCAA also put the Big East program on three years of probation, issued a $5,000 fine and said an undetermined number of games will be vacated because DePaul put an ineligible player on the floor. An unidentified former associate head coach is also facing a three-year show cause order for his role in the violations.
According to an NCAA infractions committee decision, the associate head coach arranged for the assistant director of basketball operations to live with a prospect to help ensure the player did the work necessary to meet NCAA eligibility requirements. That arrangement violated recruiting rules.
"The head coach did not promote an atmosphere of compliance because three men's basketball staff members knew about the arrangement but did not report the violation or question whether it was allowable," the NCAA said. "Even more troubling to the committee was the director of basketball operations stated he knew the contact was a violation but did not report it because he did not want to be disloyal, cause tension, get in the way of the associate head coach or otherwise hurt his career. ... According to the committee, a culture of silence pervaded the program."
Leitao was hired in 2015 and has pushed to return the Blue Demons to respectability in his second stint as head coach at DePaul. After a pair of nine-win seasons under Leitao, DePaul went 11-20 two years ago before going 19-17 and reaching the College Basketball Invitational championship last season, falling to South Florida in three games.
Leitao is also a former head coach at Virginia and his assistant stops include Connecticut, Missouri and Tulsa.
"The head coach did not monitor his staff when he did not actively look for red flags or ask questions about the assistant director of basketball operations' two-week absence," the NCAA said. "The committee recognized the head coach's efforts to require staff attendance at compliance meetings and communicate with compliance officials, but it said he needed to do more."
DePaul said it would not challenge the decision, but called it "disappointing."
"This infraction was an isolated incident directed and then concealed by a former staff member that resulted in, at most, a limited recruiting advantage relative to one former student-athlete," the university said. "Since our self-report in January 2018, DePaul has cooperated with the NCAA enforcement staff to proactively pursue the resolution of this matter and has reviewed and further strengthened related protocol and practice. ... Coach Leitao is a man of character and integrity, who has the support of the administration in leading our men's basketball program."
DePaul was among several schools mentioned at a recent federal trial involving corruption in college basketball.
Brian Bowen Sr., father of a top recruit, testified in October that DePaul assistant coach Shane Heirman paid him $2,000 a month to send his son to an Indiana high school where Heirman coached at the time. The school responded by saying it had done its due diligence on the matter and had previously investigated the allegations.


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Video game developer Andrew Hall makes no bones about his lifestyle or the game he helped make that revels in it.
"I have consensual sex and I do drugs," he told Kotaku in a recent interview. "I've never killed anybody before. But in video games you just go kill people all day, it's like nothing. Bam, that person's dead. Bam, that person's dead. That really desensitizes you. Murder is a big fucking deal."
That's why third-person action, triple-X sex game Bonetown doesn't include any blood or even the ability to kill people, instead you knock people unconscious during combat.
Hall, CEO of game developer D-Dub Software, sees the video game industry's willingness to allow graphic violence controlled by gamers, but its refusal to include sex or overt drug references as hypocrisy.
He knows that Bonetown, a cartoonish Grand Theft Auto-esque game that contains graphic sex acts (NSFW link) and almost non-stop drug use, won't change that, but he hopes it will help create a business model for other sex games that won't include having to go through the game industry to market and sell the title.
In the game, the player arrives in the fictitious Bonetown as man with no friends. The first woman that befriends him has sex with the player on the beach and "shows you the way of Bonetown," Hall says. But then she gets arrested by "The Man" because they just passed the decency act in the town.
"So The Man, who is pretty much corporate America and the video game industry, is trying to make Bonetown a decent place with no sex and drugs," Hall explains. "You see The Man coming in and messing with Bonetown and then the last missions take you to The Man's lair to stop The Man from moralizing Bonetown and keeping from being the place where sex and drugs are free to be everywhere."
There's very little about the game that can be safely described in the context of an article that can be read at work or in the view of children. The PC game can be controlled with an Xbox controller and feels a bit like an open-world action game. While there are chapters that need to eventually be completed to finish the narrative of the story, players are able to freely roam around the game's many different settings.
"This is an adult game, but it's not just about jerking off," Hall says, "it's about playing a video game too."
Players can approach any woman on the street and ask to have one of three types of sex with her. Her willingness to have sex will depend on the size of the character's testicles, which are graphically represented by a cartoon in the top left corner of the game's screen. A character can grow his testicles by having more and more sex or using some of the game's many drugs.
The drugs in the game, which include marijuana, peyote, crack and others, both give the player a temporary boost and provide them with a special attack that can be used against The Man's agents that roam the city streets.
Hall said that the developers decided to give the game a cartoon look, because trying to make it photo-realistic would have lead to failure.
"If you want to make a game about sex you couldn't make the girls look realistic because there is that uncanny barrier," he said. "Once you get so realistic it starts to get less realistic. So what we did, we tried to merge anime and Disney together.
"Look at our girls, they have the big eyes, but it's not the shroomed-out big anime eyes. And we had to go cartoon because we wanted our girls to be sexy. We wanted the Jessica Rabbit appeal of 'this is obviously a cartoon, but it's still arousing to me'."
Currently the game, which is packed with sexual positions and tons of graphic cartoon sex, only supports straight sex, Hall said, but that will change.
"Right now it is straight sex only," he said. "The gay market isn't that big in video games. Gay men play video games, but we needed to hit the core market first, the 18 to 35 heterosexual males. We would love to expand to gay, we could add more sex positions too."
While sex and drugs play a big role in the game, comedy is also a chief element.
"It's really over-the-top comedy," Hall said. "When it comes to the comedy South Park is our number one main influence."
The humor of the game is built into the combat, the character design and the levels, and is certainly helped along by the main character's ability to assume the identity of anyone he defeats in combat.
For instance, Hall says, both "White Jesus" and "Black Jesus" are in the game. To prove it Hall ran his character, currently dressed as "The Man", to "Firmwood Forest" where he found a laid back, meditative, pot-smoking Jesus hanging out at a campsite.
"Jesus is chilling in the woods," Hall says as he approaches him. "In Bonetown Jesus is a stoner."
Once Hall's character lays into Jesus with a mannequin arm, the Jesus character starts to fight back with a cross yelling at the Hall's character in a tirade that always ends in the word "man."
"I'm going to beat your ass, man." "Take that man." "You're a piece of shit, man."
After dancing around kegs of water and wine, and swatting at Jesus with the prosthetic, Hall finally knocks Jesus to the ground. Standing over him he presses a button and transforms.
"Now I'm Jesus," Hall says smiling.
Despite how adeptly Hall beat Jesus in combat, he says he doesn't really play violent games. Well, maybe a few.
"I play Grand Theft Auto because I think it's funny," he says. "I don't like the new one The new Grand Theft Auto, they were trying to make it feel like you're really a person in Liberty City and you're really killing people, you know what I mean?"
Bonetown has plenty of weapons, Hall concedes, but none of them cause a character to bleed.
"One thing, we didn't want was blood in the game," he said. "We wanted to be able to have a little bit of moral standing against the video game industry, say, 'You guys in Grand Theft Auto get to go kill women and children and have blood everywhere.' In our game all there is is consensual sex, there's no rape, nothing like that, there's no blood, you never kill anyone, you're just knocking them out.
"It's consensual sex and drugs and is that really so much worse than killing people?"


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A Modest Proposal for Jacob Lew: Acknowledge Three Simple Facts about U.S. Fiscal Reality
by Robert Pollin who is Co-director, Political Economy Research Institute and Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (reposted with permission from the author from his website Back to full employment)
A Modest Proposal for Jacob Lew: Acknowledge Three Simple Facts about U.S. Fiscal Reality
January 15, 2013 by Robert Pollin
In a reasonable world, in which we recognized the culpability of big-time D.C. politicians and bureaucrats who allowed Wall Street hyper-speculation to run wild and eventually cause the 2008-09 crash and Great Recession, Jacob Lew would be understood as a terrible choice as President Obama's second-term Treasury Secretary, replacing Timothy Geithner. The outstanding journalist Robert Sheer gives us the basic background in a recent Nation article. Sheer writes:
I suppose that he can't be much worse than Timothy Geithner, but that should be scant cause for cheer over the news that the president has nominated Jack Lew as Treasury secretary. Both championed the financial deregulation craze of the Clinton administration, and both are acolytes of Robert Rubin, the former Clinton Treasury secretary who unfettered Wall Street greed and then took his own considerable cut of the action.
But because we are not living in a reasonable world, at least in terms of D.C.-insider debates on economic policy, Lew's nomination apparently faces opposition from Republicans because he appears insufficiently committed to an austerity budget that could push the economy back into recession while also devastating spending for Social Security, education, health care, family support, and unemployment insurance.
It is clear that debate over the fiscal deficit and austerity will dominate Lew's confirmation hearings and at least his initial period in office, if he ends up getting confirmed. But without pursuing any deep explorations about who should be taxed more or less, or whether 47 percent of U.S. citizens are indeed freeloaders, I would just propose that Lew be willing to recognize three sets of very simple, irrefutable facts about the current U.S. fiscal condition. Here they are:
Fact #1: The U.S. government is not facing a fiscal crisis.
In any common sense meaning of the term "fiscal crisis," we would be referring to the government's inability to make its forthcoming payments to its creditors. By that common sense definition, the U.S. federal government is in just about the best shape it has ever been. Figure 1 below tells the story.
According to the most recent data from the third quarter of 2012 (which we term "2012.3"), the federal government spent 7.7 percent of its total expenditures on interest to its creditors. As the figure shows, that figure is less than half of the average figure under the full 12 years of Republican Presidents Reagan and Bush, when the government paid, on average, 16.8 percent of the total budget to cover interest payments. Right now, as we see, government interest payments are at near historic lows, not highs. As Treasury Secretary-designate, Lew needs to just state this obvious, and highly relevant point. To my knowledge, it has been heretofore completely left out of the insider-D.C. fiscal cliff debates, by Lew, Obama, and Geithner, to say nothing of the Republicans.
Fact #2: Interest rates on government bonds are at historic lows.
Figure 2 tells this story, which is well-known, but is not being given proper recognition in the deficit debates. As the figure shows, at the end of 2012, the U.S. government was borrowing at 0.7 percent on its 5-year Treasury Bonds.
It is precisely because the federal government can borrow so cheaply that our interest payments are corresponding low. Deficit hawks—economists and politicians alike—have been insisting for years that the rates are about to spike back up. Of course, interest rates will rise back up, at some point. We need to be vigilant about that. But this hasn't happened over the full four year period since the onset of the Great Recession. This enables the U.S. government to maintain stimulus levels of spending, to get the economy onto a healthy growth trajectory. In other words, we have no reason to submit to an austerity agenda now. We should expect Jacob Lew to at least state the obvious here: that the deficit hawks have been wrong about an impending interest rate spike for four years running.
Fact #3: Current large government deficits are due to the recession, not out-of-control spending.
This is so obvious it should be barely worth mentioning. But simple facts are ignored repeatedly in the fiscal deficit debates. No doubt during the Lew hearings, there will be more discussion about the current crisis being due to the 47 percent freeloading population who, as Mitt Romney put it after his defeat, "want stuff" from the government. As we see in Figure 3, the government's fiscal deficit spiked at 10.1 percent of GDP in 2009, immediately after the onset of the recession.
But does anybody want to seriously claim that the pattern of fiscal deficits that we see in Figure 3 is due to the fact that people didn't want too much stuff as of 2007 or 2008, then all of the sudden, that demand for stuff soared in 2009, which was just coincidentally exactly when the Wall Street crash brought the economy to its knees?
The deficit has fallen modestly since 2009, to 8.5 percent of GDP in 2012. But the single most important thing we can do to lower the fiscal deficit further is to push unemployment down. This will generate increased government revenues with people paying more in income and sales taxes, and it will reduce government payments on unemployment insurance and supplemental aid for health care and family support. The U.S. has the capacity to pursue a stimulus agenda now quite easily, precisely because interest rates and interest payments to creditors remain historically low.
It shouldn't be any stretch at all for Jacob Lew to acknowledge these three simple, irrefutable points. But will he do it? My guess is that he will not. If I am right in this guess, it will provide only further evidence as to the dismal state of the economic policy debate in official Washington, including Democrats like Lew here as well as Republicans.