Wednesday, May 14, 2014

military say "climate change" (not bankster food commodity speculation) a growing security threat


NYTimes |  The accelerating rate of climate change poses a severe risk to national security and acts as a catalyst for global political conflict, a report published Tuesday by a leading government-funded military research organization concluded.

The Center for Naval Analyses Military Advisory Board found that climate change-induced drought in the Middle East and Africa is leading to conflicts over food and water and escalating longstanding regional and ethnic tensions into violent clashes. The report also found that rising sea levels are putting people and food supplies in vulnerable coastal regions like eastern India, Bangladesh and the Mekong Delta in Vietnam at risk and could lead to a new wave of refugees.

In addition, the report predicted that an increase in catastrophic weather events around the world will create more demand for American troops, even as flooding and extreme weather events at home could damage naval ports and military bases.

In an interview, Secretary of State John Kerry signaled that the report’s findings would influence American foreign policy.

“Tribes are killing each other over water today,” Mr. Kerry said. “Think of what happens if you have massive dislocation, or the drying up of the waters of the Nile, of the major rivers in China and India. The intelligence community takes it seriously, and it’s translated into action.”

Mr. Kerry, who plans to deliver a major speech this summer on the links between climate change and national security, said his remarks would also be aimed at building political support for President Obama’s climate change agenda, including a new regulation to cut pollution from coal-fired power plants that the administration will introduce in June.

“We’re going to try to lay out to people legitimate options for action that are not bank-breaking or negative,” Mr. Kerry said.

Pentagon officials said the report would affect military policy. “The department certainly agrees that climate change is having an impact on national security, whether by increasing global instability, by opening the Arctic or by increasing sea level and storm surge near our coastal installations,” John Conger, the Pentagon’s deputy under secretary of defense for installations and environment, said in a statement. “We are actively integrating climate considerations across the full spectrum of our activities to ensure a ready and resilient force.”

The report on Tuesday follows a recent string of scientific studies that warn that the effects of climate change are already occurring and that flooding, droughts, extreme storms, food and water shortages and damage to infrastructure will occur in the near future.

In March, the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review, the agency’s main public document describing the current doctrine of the United States military, drew a direct link between the effects of global warming — like rising sea levels and extreme weather patterns — and terrorism.
“These effects are threat multipliers that will aggravate stressors abroad, such as poverty, environmental degradation, political instability and social tensions — conditions that can enable terrorist activity and other forms of violence,” the review said.

21 comments:

Constructive_Feedback said...

Brother CNu::

Why isn't the suggestion of YOU and the New York Times to offer FREE EDUCATION to the Africans and Middle Easterners who are more more dire need of UPLIFT to the vaulted living standard of the White European?

Constructive_Feedback said...

"You spend more on Prisons than you do Schools"


LIE!!!


1) Total Public Spending On Education $1.1 Trillion (2014)
Total Spending On Prisons - $75 billion total federal, state , local




2) It costs more to LOCK SOMEONE UP rather than SEND THEM TO THE 8TH GRADE because the public school doesn't need to MAKE SURE HE DOESN'T ESCAPE and there is lower overhead in keeping one 8th grader from beating the hell out of another with an iron pipe or shank

CNu said...

I'm going to go with because they have the profound misfortune of sitting on top of that small ocean of oil required to power my non-negotiable way of life!

CNu said...

Listen carefully to Chomsky. http://youtu.be/PEIrZO069Kg Then pull up your big boy pants. Accept the fact that your polity is your way of life and your way of life is non-negotiable. Take a page from Ken's book and find some or another biblical bon mot to give you moral comfort for the extractive activities required to fuel your indispensable creature comforts.

John Kurman said...

Hardly anything new here, although, bottom line, I think what Roosevelt did was brilliant in getting Uncle Joe to kill 40 million of his own while we barely got our hair mussed. And also showing the Soviets how a REAL command economy operates.

Ed Dunn said...

While Van Jones and Bonami are old school colleagues, they both got their ass handed to them. The only person who capable is post-President Obama with balls

Tom said...

I'm pretty confident that Tim Wise didn't make up his own material,


The material is a very powerful appeal to the better side of white folks who are already convinced that the country's behavior is far from its professed values.


It doesn't cut a lot of ice with people who haven't already convinced themselves. And -- my own observation trying to take concrete action with a team of folks who talked the Tim Wise line-- I think maybe it led to lots of emotion and relatively little action. We did one big project and that was all. People were just burnt out, and I'm concerned that the high-stress ideology may have been part of it.


Every time a bunch of mainstream (white and South Asian say) liberal chicks put a picture of a gorilla somewhere, we had to all go flying-monkey on them. It made sense at the time but you only have so many stress hormones in your glands per year.

Tom said...

You make a good point.

I disagree on species -- There is solid proof of species at least morphing considerably. Darwin collected proof in the Galapagos. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_Finches

I'm ignorant personally about how far the proof goes though. This Cambrian Explosion stuff that Ken brings up, do we have solid proof of how that emerged through natural selection? Or do we have Faith in natural selection?

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/quickquotes/quickquotehamletdreamt.html

CNu said...

In other words, we're on our own. The establishment wants to push this meme and will continue to increase its profile.

Makheru Bradley said...

The spirit of Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau rises every 5 or 10 years. Just as Antenor Firmin KO'd de Gobineau,

http://bit.ly/PeO4cv

and Dr. Welsing took out Shockley,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ULWzSpX6sk



I'm certain that Dr. Marimba Ani could take out Wade.

Makheru Bradley said...

Bro. Dunn, who is this Bonami you are referring to?

CNu said...

Bomani Bro. Makheru http://subrealism.blogspot.com/2014/04/bomani-jones-spits-unvarnished-in.html

More knowledge, skill, ability, common sense, testicular fortitude and game - than the afrodemic punditry combined. He's safe on ESPN, and the mainstream is comparatively safe from him.

Makheru Bradley said...

I didn't want to assume that he was referring to Bomani Jones, son of Dr. Mack Jones, Professor Emeritus, Clark Atlanta Unv.

Last time I saw Bomani he was kicking the ass of the NBA, NAACP, and Donald Sterling, so I was wondering when did he get his ass handed to him.

http://www.bomanijones.com/

Same can be said for J Whitlock

http://es.pn/1szUlfy

Makheru Bradley said...

“Human evolution is a continuous process that has proceeded vigorously within the last 30,000 years…” And “white people” would have had nothing to do with 25,000 of that 30,000 year vigorous process of human evolution.”

[The Guardian reported that a team of scientists studying early homo sapiens in Europe had extracted DNA from the tooth of a male hunter-gatherer who lived in what is now the Asturias region of northern Spain around 7000 years ago. They drew some surprising conclusions from the analysis. The man was dark-skinned but blue-eyed. His nearest DNA matches with contemporary ethnicities are with Swedes and Finns, among the palest of peoples.

It now looks like European whiteness may have appeared much more recently. Maybe there were no “white people” in Europe as recently as 7000 years ago, during the lifetime of the blue-eyed hunter-gatherer, whom the Guardian article calls “swarthy.”

When and where did people first become white? It’s not clear. But it happened fairly recently, and not necessarily in Europe. Why does it matter? Because color-based notions of racial hierarchy continue to plague us, or at least haunt our sub-consciousnesses. They reside in the North American mind, there available to exploit whenever the regime decides it’s time to bomb another Asian or African country, bring “our” white-based civilization to the natives and depict any subsequent unpleasantness as a version of the “White Man’s Burden.” Understanding and demystifying the real origins of whiteness can only help us get over it.]

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/07/where-did-white-people-come-from/

Ed Dunn said...

Define "kicking ass" in your context. Saying something provocative, emotionally-stirred is considered "kicking ass" really? As Vic78 indicated words without power means nothing except rhetoric. Bonami Jones is nothing more than a member of the Black commentariat along with the rest of the chatterbox....

Makheru Bradley said...

You tell us when, and by whom, he got his ass handed to him. Kicking ass: "More knowledge, skill, ability, common sense, testicular fortitude and game - than the afrodemic punditry combined."

Ed Dunn said...

Well Bomani got his ass handed to him by his own people, specifically Operation Push years ago. The fact you don't seem to recall this event but can recall who his daddy is tells me there is some partial filtering in place.

I do not see the words "actionable","decisive","strategic" which are characteristics that ensure an ass-kicking will occur. The pimp who leaked the Sterling recordings kicked the NBA, NAACP and Sterling ass....Mr Jones is just on a soapbox...

CNu said...

Bro. Makheru, you KNOW I hold the "afrodemic punditry" in such exceedingly high regard. I respect what Bomani does, and I respect his choice to do it outside the "peasant gunner be on the lookout for threats from below" scam that has all these bitch-made jiggaboos scurred to say any kind of serious shit in public.

The minute one of them gets up off his knees and stops pleading the "moral" case against what the establishment is up to, is the minute that one gets his coveted 6 figure paycheck cut off for good. http://subrealism.blogspot.com/2014/04/from-kwaku-net-pookies-very-last-day-on.html

CNu said...

Sterling not scurred:Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is refusing to pay a $2.5 million fine imposed on him by the NBA and could sue to retain control of the team, Sports Illustrated legal expert Michael McCann reports.www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/05/16/donald_sterling_fine_lawsuit_owner_refusing_to_pay_and_might_sue.html

woodensplinter said...

Most ironic that you wrote pleading the moral case http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/371050/

CNu said...

oh lawd...., worldstar hip-hop for the tweed-jacketed set http://youtu.be/Fg6J1Skptbs

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