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Defeated NATO Dangerously Desperate in Syria Did the West Gas Thousands to Rescue Failed Syrian War? August 25, 2013 – (Tony Cartalucci) As far back as 2007, it was a documented fact that the West, including the United States and its allies Saudi Arabia and Israel, conspired to use terrorists drawn from the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda in an attempt to overthrow the governments of Iran and Syria. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his 2007 New Yorker article, " The Redirection ," stated (emphasis added): "To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran
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To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which overleaps itself And falls on the other. – Macbeth by William Shakespeare China does Macbeth. With a slight Hollywood tweak.
View the original here: Tamino uses math to describe how denialists handle data, but I prefer visuals
Tweet Eli has been amongst those concerned with links between Arctic heating, jet stream perturbations and weird weather. Eli, of course, is neither a meteorologist nor a climate scientist, he is but a bunny, but a literate one (unusual, we know) and has been following work in this area, led by Jennifer Francis at Rutgers . Just yesterday the Rabett ran into three things that tied all this together. First Paul Douglas shows Eli a weather forecast map from NOAA, where nature has turned it up to bake in the north central US. Unusual for this time of year, but especially so because it was freezing cold for the summer just weeks ago  Next a map of the jet stream from Intellicast And finally an editorial in Nature Climate Change which ties the package together The day-to-day weather and longer-term climate are different phenomena, although there are strong links between them.
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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid.