FEATURE ARTICLES. CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING. FIGHTING THE WRONG BATTLES. PT 1.

(CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING ARE NOT THE SAME, BUT ARE OFTEN USED INTERCHANGEABLY. FOR OUR PURPOSE, BOTH WILL BE INCLUDED IN THIS ARTICLE.)

                                                                                                                       

 

IT IS UNFORTUNATE, BUT THE REAL REASON THAT THESE TOPICS CAUSE SO MUCH CONTROVERSY IS TWO-FOLD:

 -  MANY PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD,

THIS INCLUDES BOTH POLITICIANS AND VOTERS.

The Scientific Method, and what makes it a Valuable Tool, is sometimes not presented in a way that sets it apart from those Opinions that are Derived from MINDSETS That Are Essentially Useless, when discussing Phenomena that Occur in Nature.

SO WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO USE THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD?

First and Foremost, THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IS NOT A SET OF BELIEFS, WITH A DOCTRINE THAT PASSES JUDGMENT ON A CATEGORY OR SUBJECT, LABELING THEM AS EITHER SCIENTIFIC OR UNSCIENTIFIC.

Like the RULES OF LOGIC AND MATHEMATICS, THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IS A PROCESS, THAT LEADS TO ANSWERS AND CONCLUSIONS THAT EITHER DEFINITIVELY EXPLAIN THE EVIDENCE, DATA AND INFORMATION PROVIDED, OR OFFERS HYPOTHESES THAT POINT OR DIRECT US TO THE MOST PROBABLE SOLUTIONS.

We do not use the Scientific Method to Evaluate Subjects, that by Definition, do not rely on LOGIC OR EVIDENCE-BASED MATERIAL TO BE ACCEPTED AS TRUTHFUL, SUCH AS RELIGIOUS FAITH OR OTHER SUPERNATURAL  SYSTEMS OF BELIEF.

-  DISCUSSING OR DEBATING THE PROBLEM OFTEN MISSES THE POINT.

When you DISCUSS OR DEBATE ANY SUBJECT, THERE ARE CERTAIN CRITERIA THAT MUST BE MET, OR THE RESULT WILL BE ESSENTIALLY USELESS.

SEE PART 2.  

ABANDONING THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT- BLAST FROM THE PAST, 7/10/2017: TRUMPS PRIORITIES, MORE INTERNET GET RICH SCHEMES.

 

DATE: 7/10/2017: TRUMPS PRIORITIES; NOT THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT, BUT MORE INTERNET GET RICH QUICK SCHEMES.

What has surprised me the most about Donald Trumps Decision to abandon the PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT is not that he went through with it, but that ANYONE IS SURPRISED.

HE WAS HANDED THE WHITE HOUSE IN A SHAM ELECTION.

-  WHAT DID YOU EXPECT, INTEGRITY?

HIS ENTIRE PRESIDENCY HAS BEEN ONE SCANDAL AFTER ANOTHER.

-  WHAT DID YOU EXPECT, A DECISION THAT ACTUALLY PUT THE NEEDS OF THE COUNTRY, AND ITS CITIZENS, FIRST?

DONALD TRUMPS FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC POLICY IS LITTLE MORE THAN THE FAR RIGHTS AGENDA OF HATE, PREJUDICE, INTOLERANCE, AND AN ALMOST COMPLETE DISREGARD OF MODERN SCIENCE, AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. 

-  WHAT DID YOU EXPECT, COURAGE?




However, I have found one thing TRUMP IS STILL PASSIONATE ABOUT. NATURALLY, IT ONLY BENEFITS HIMSELF.


"GET RICH QUICK" SCHEMES ON THE INTERNET. GUESS WHAT? HE HAS FOUND HIMSELF A NEW LACKEY/ALLY. THAT PARAGON OF VIRTUE, BILL O'REILLY.



Here are portions of the AD, as it appears on the INTERNET.

Bill O'Reilly drops a bombshell and explains the REAL reason he was fired.

By Michael Pearson, Faith Karimi and Joe Sutton, CNN

Updated 8:11 AM ET, Fri June 2, 2017

(CNN) -- Bill O'Reilly finally breaks his media silence to reveal the real reason he was asked to leave Fox News. - It's not what you've heard.

Bill O'Reilly says he was fired from Fox News because he knows the truth about something called the Complete Profit Code and not because of the alleged complaints against him.

"It's time people knew the truth -- not just about me, but about the entire operation. It's about the money. I thought they cared about me, and about the truth... they only care about one thing."

"We were going to be telling people about The Complete Profit Code, so that we could help the American People create more income for themselves. We spent months researching and vetting this story, to make sure it was 100% legit, and now, no one will ever see it."

"The real key to this story is what this woman, Judy Greer is able to do for average folks, people who need a way out. This is a real game changer, and I'm ashamed to admit it, BUT FOX NEWS TRIED TO SHUT ME UP..."

...AND NOW THE ENDORSEMENT.

"My only saving grace here is that the President backs me on this. He knows Judy Greer and he knows me and he knows I'm right."

Neither Ms. Greer or President Trump is attempting to distance themselves from O'Reilly as this very public scandal plays out in the media, even though neither stands to gain from a continued relationship with him.

"The truth is, my name is toxic right now. But they have continued to stand by me, because they know I've done nothing wrong. That's why I'm so dedicated to still spreading the word about The Complete Profit Code. If nothing else comes of this, at least we can help some people save themselves financially."

OF COURSE, IT WOULDN'T BE A DONALD TRUMP ADVERTORIAL
WITHOUT THE FOLLOWING DISCLAIMER AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE.

These statements have not been evaluated or endorsed by Donald Trump or the Trump companies.

The use of CNN, CNN.com and any and all trademarks belonging to or relating to CNN are used for entertainment purposes only. 

This information was not written, reviewed or approved by any employee or representative of CNN or any of its affiliates. CNN does not endorse or approve any of the comments made in this advertorial.

Complete Profit Code is not affiliated with Donald Trump, or any of the Trump companies. Any and all quotations attributed to Mr. Trump in the above advertorial do not represent the opinions of Mr Trump in any way. These products and services not affiliated with Donald Trump or any of the Trump companies. This piece is purely for entertainment purposes only.

........................................................................................................

Since most of the above "Information" is just reprinted material from previous ADVERTORIALS, FEEL FREE TO READ THE PREVIOUS POSTS ON THIS TOPIC.

I WONDER ABOUT THE FOLLOWING MOST OF ALL: IS THERE ANYTHING DONALD TRUMP HAS DONE, THAT MAKES YOU THINK HE WOULD DO ANYTHING THAT DOESN'T PUT HIS DESIRES OR PREJUDICES FIRST?

TRUMP, MAGATS, FASCISM AND TERRORISM. PART 1. (UPDATED)

  "DON'T IT ALWAYS SEEM TO GO, THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU GOT 'TIL IT'S GONE."

FROM THE SONG "BIG YELLOW TAXI."

FASCISM - FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN WHICH ALL POWER, POLITICAL ,LEGAL, SOCIAL RESTS WITH ONE PERSON AND/OR A SELECT FEW.

DICTATOR- ALL POWER RESTS WITH ONE PERSON.

JUNTA OR RULING COUNCIL- POWER RESTS WITH A FEW, HALF-DOZEN OR SO.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CIVIL RIGHTS. LAW ENFORCEMENT AT ALL LEVELS IS CONTROLLED BY ONE SOURCE.

THE MILITARY PLEDGES ALLEGIANCE TO THE RULER(S).

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IS ALLOWED ONLY AS FAR AS PERMITTED, DEPENDING ON HOW IT SERVES THE PURPOSE OF THE RULING GOVERNMENT.

COURTS ARE ADMINISTERED BY SELECTED JUDICIAL FLUNKIES, WHO KNOW THAT THEIR DECISIONS MUST BE AGREEABLE TO THE FASCIST LEADERSHIP, OR THEY ARE OUT.

THERE CAN BE ELECTIONS, WHERE ALL CANDIDATES ARE CAREFULLY SELECTED BY THE DESPOTS IN POWER. THERE IS NO PARTY SYSTEM ALLOWED. NO REAL OPPOSITION.

EVEN IF SOME FORM OF ELECTION(S) IS ALLOWED, THE RESULTS MUST BE AGREEABLE TO THE POWERS THAT BE, OR THEY ARE VOIDED. 

THE NEWS MEDIA IS NOTHING MORE THAN A SYSTEM OF PAID PROPAGANDISTS, NO OPPOSITION IS PERMITTED.

MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL- THE LEADERSHIP IS ACCOUNTABLE TO NO ONE. SINCE THEY ARE THE SOURCE OF ALL LAW, THEY CAN NOT AND WILL NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR ANY ACTIONS THEY UNDERTAKE. 

MAGATS AND TRUMPIANS- ONE IN THE SAME. INDIVIDUALS WHO PLACE THEIR LOYALTY TO DONALD TRUMP ABOVE ALL OTHER POLITICAL, LEGAL, AND SOCIAL OBLIGATIONS.

BY DEFINITION: THEY MAY SAY THEY ARE AMERICANS, BUT THAT DEFINITION IS DEFINED BY DONALD TRUMP, NOT THE U.S. CONSTITUTION.

DONALD TRUMP IS THE FINAL JUDGE ON ALL THINGS- CRIMINAL ACTS, ELECTION LAW, THE COURT SYSTEM, ALL FORMS OF THE MEDIA. etc.

IN FACT, GIVE ANY EXAMPLE OF A BEHAVIOR THAT HE HAS ENGAGED IN, THAT YOU CONSIDER TO HAVE BEEN DISAPPROVED OF BY A MEASURABLE % OF MAGATS OR TRUMPIANS. (NOT EVEN A MAJORITY, BUT A LARGE ENOUGH GROUP THAT COULD BE IDENTIFIED AND RELIED UPON TO MAINTAIN THAT OPINION)

TERRORISM-  THE USE OF VIOLENCE, OR THREAT OF SUCH, TO ADVANCE THE DOCTRINE, IDEOLOGY, RULES, OR GOALS OF A GIVEN AND IDENTIFIABLE GROUP THAT IS NOT GENERALLY REGARDED AS A LEGITIMATE POLITICAL ENTITY, OR THE RECOGNIZED LEGAL AUTHORITY FOR A RESIDENT POPULATION OR GEOGRAPHICAL AREA.

FURTHER, TERRORISM GENERALLY REFUSES ANY TYPE OF REASONABLE MEDIATION TO SETTLE DISPUTES OR FORM COALITIONS TO BECOME PART OF A STABLE ESTABLISHED GOVERNMENT. IT IS A "MY WAY, OR ELSE" AGENDA.

IN ADDITION, TERRORISTS WILL OFTEN FOCUS ATTACKS ON "SOFT TARGETS," SUCH AS COMMERCIAL CENTERS, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, OR EVEN LIGHTLY PROTECTED GOVERNMENT OFFICES. IN THIS WAY THEY DO NOT COME AGAINST WELL-ARMED, LARGE CONTINGENTS OF MILITARY OR POLICE FORCES THAT ARE TRAINED AND EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH SUCH ATTACKS.

NO, I DO NOT CONSIDER MAGATS OR TRUMPIANS A LEGITIMATE POLITICAL GROUP. THEIR ACTIONS AND GOALS PLACE THEM AS ADHERENTS TO A WANNABE ALL-POWERFUL DICTATOR- DONALD TRUMP.

BREAKING DOWN THE MUELLER REPORT...EXONERATES NO ONE, ANSWERS NOTHING.

 

The introduction addresses the nature of the RUSSIAN INVOLVEMENT, AND POSSIBLE "COLLUSION" WITH THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN.

TEXT FROM THE REPORT:
"As set forth in detail in this report, the Special Counsel's investigation established that Russia interfere~ in the 2016 presidential election principally through two operations. First, a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Second, a Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations against entities, employees, and volunteers working on the Clinton Campaign and then released stolen documents. The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign. Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."
END TEXT.

How can we make sense of this? At one point, the report comments about the contacts between the TRUMP CAMPAIGN, AND THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT: "The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign."
Yet, at another point, it seems to exonerate the TRUMP CAMPAIGN with the following: "...the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."

Further Down, we see the reasoning used in evaluating any CRIMINAL LIABILITY THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN MAY HAVE, INVOLVING THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENTS ACTIVITIES TO INFLUENCE THE OUTCOME OF THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. IT IS HERE THAT WE FIND OUT HOW MUCH OF A "WITCH HUNT" THIS INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN. THE TRUTH MAY SURPRISE YOU. 

TEXT FROM THE REPORT.
1) "In evaluating whether evidence about collective action of multiple individuals constituted a crime, we applied the framework of conspiracy law, not the concept of "collusion." In so doing, the Office recognized that the word "collud[ e ]" was used in communications with the Acting Attorney General confirming certain aspects of the investigation's scope and that the term has frequently been invoked in public reporting about the investigation. 2) But collusion is not a specific offense or theory of liability found in the United States Code, nor is it a term of art in federal criminal law. For those reasons, the Office's focus in analyzing questions of joint criminal liability was on conspiracy as defined in federal law. In connection with that analysis, 3) we addressed the factual question whether members of the Trump Campaign "coordinat[ ed]"-a term that appears in the appointment order-with Russian election interference activities. Like collusion,4) "coordination" does not have a settled definition in federal criminal law. We understood "coordination" to require an agreement-tacit or express- between the Trump Campaign and the Russian government on election interference. 
5) That requires more than the two parties taking actions that were informed by or responsive to the other's actions or interests. We applied the term coordination in that sense when stating in the report that the investigation did not establish that the Trump Campaign coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities." 

END TEXT.

THE NUMBERS 1-5 ABOVE CORRESPOND WITH THOSE BELOW, IN GIVING A BASIC INTERPRETATION OF THE MEANING OF THE ABOVE TEXT.

1) THE POPULAR TERM "COLLUSION" HAS NO BASIS IN LAW, THE LAW REGARDING "CONSPIRACY" WAS USED.

 2) JOINT CRIMINAL LIABILITY WAS DETERMINED BY THE FEDERAL LAW REGARDING "CONSPIRACY."

3) DETERMINED WHETHER OR NOT MEMBERS OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN "COORDINATED" WITH THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENTS INTERFERENCE ACTIVITIES.

4) THE OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL COUNSEL DECIDED THAT TO ACCUSE THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN OF "COORDINATING" WITH THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT, THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN BOTH BODIES, "TACIT OR EXPRESS." 

5)"That requires more than the two parties taking actions that were informed by or responsive to the other's actions or interests."

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? A MEMBER OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN COULD HAVE ENGAGED IN "CONSPIRITORIAL CONDUCT" WITH THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AND/OR AFFILIATED INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS, BUT IF IT WAS NOT DONE AT THE EXPRESS ORDER OF THE CAMPAIGN ITSELF, with the approval of the Russian Government, NO CRIME WAS COMMITTED.

CUTTING THROUGH THE NOISE, HERE IS WHAT IT MEANS: THAT NO ONE IN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN IS EXONERATED. BY THIS VERY NARROW DEFINITION, ANY INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP IN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN COULD HAVE "CONSPIRED" WITH THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT, OR ANYONE WORKING ON BEHALF OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT, AND AS LONG AS THERE WAS NO EXPRESS AGREEMENT AMONG BOTH THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT, THE FINDING WOULD BE THAT OF NO "COLLUSION" OR NO "CONSPIRACY."

THIS IS A TRAVESTY. IT LITERALLY GIVES INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS A FREE PASS TO HAVE COMMITTED ELECTION FRAUD, AS LONG AS THE "LEADERSHIP" DID NOT FORMALLY APPROVE IT.