'50% chance of Methane burst in ESAS, could cause Climate Chaos, put us near 2C in 2 yrs'

“The East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS) is exceptionally shallow — more than 75 per cent of its entire area of 2.1 million square kilometres is shallower than 40 metres — so most of the methane gas avoids oxidation in the water column and is released into the atmosphere.” (Wadhams, pg. 123“).

”To spot methane levels breaking the 2000ppb mark so sharply in this fragile region is unprecedented.”

”Another factor that works against acceptance by the scientific community is due to native biases towards Russian researchers, namely Natalia Shakova, one of the foremost prominent researchers of ESAS.”

The Rumbling ESAS Methane Enigma

in Climate Change — by Robert Hunziker — January 18, 2020 – shared with thanks

The northern continental shelves of Russia, inclusive of the Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea (ESAS) are some of the least researched yet most controversial subjects in climate science today. It’s the one region that has the biggest potential to trigger runaway global warming because of sizeable sub sea methane deposits, thereby taking civilization down to its knees. But, that prospect is also extremely controversial within the scientific community.

Scientific opinion runs the gamut: (1) high risk-methane bursts will bury civilization with runaway global warming – a dreadful, deadly risk (2) not to worry, it’s low risk because almost all of the massive deposits of undersea methane will stay put (3) not to worry, low risk because any methane seepage via undersea permafrost is oxidized and dissolves within the seawater and not a threat to runaway global warming.

By and large, climate scientists dismiss the ESAS and some go so far as to vilify published research. In fact, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) dismisses its near-term/intermediate-term risks. The reasons are manifold (more on that later).

Unfortunately, recent events in the high Arctic lean towards option number one as the more likely outcome. In that regard, I recently met with Dr. Peter Wadhams, world-renowned Arctic expert, to discuss the issue (more on that follows).

Burning barricades in Montreal in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Gas Fight

Disruption of Port of Montreal during Rush Hour in Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Fighting Coastal GasLink.

Filed under: Action, Development, Indigenous, Quebec, Solidarity—Montreal Counter-Info

Report on recent action in Montreal in solidarity with the ongoing Wet’suwet’en struggle against Coastal GasLink and the RCMP. Originally posted to Montreal Counter-Info.

This morning around 7:30am, about sixty people enraged by the invasion of Wet’suwet’en land by Coastal GasLink and the RCMP gathered in the east of Montreal. They blocked the intersection of Pie-IX Boulevard and Notre-Dame Street East in the middle of rush hour, in order to disrupt access to the Port of Montreal as well as downtown via Autoroute 720.

Banners were deployed reading “GTFO of Wet’suwet’en land” and “Solidarity with Indigenous Sovereignties”, and flyers explained the reasons for the action to motorists.

Leaving flaming barricades, the group marched westward on Notre-Dame, forming a roving blockade and building more barricades on its way.

Flaming barricades in solidarity with #Wetsuweten this AM in #Montreal https://t.co/7mUZo6EPxA pic.twitter.com/p0qMnrA9TW

— Franklin López (@Franklin__Lopez) January 16, 2020

The repressive anti-demonstration arsenal of the Montreal police fortunately did not show up, because the call to action was not spread using social media. A couple cop cars showed up toward the end.

Billionaires are Criminals: Seize their Assets!

2019 was the year many asked the question: Should billionaires exist?

Today’s super-rich are the most privileged and powerful group of people in history.  If you’re a billionaire, you can even decide an election by funneling a little bit of your money into the race. You can choose to pay 0% tax. You can sway public opinion by buying up media outlets, and by using think tanks to influence schools and news sources. You can mobilize law enforcement agencies towards targeting your enemies, that is anyone who annoys you.

SEE ALSO.. Greta Thunberg: At Davos, we will tell the tycoons to QUIT FOSSIL FUELS… Mega rich group of 119 gusts worth $500BN will descend on Davos

They are criminals, even the very few with a conscience give away just a fraction of their ill-gotten loot. Even today, with many states openly run by neo racist, sexist and militarist neo fascists, it’s popular to campaign against the astounding and ballooning wealth and power of billionaires. Unmasking these mega robbers helps unite us and at least slows down the trend to dictatorial rule.

The eight richest people in the world hoard more wealth than the bottom 50% of humanity combined ..  they are playing with fire..’.

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Extreme inequality and declining living standards have happened everywhere that neoliberalism has been imposed, including in the Scandinavian countries that have tried to “reform” capitalism. While the world’s eight richest men now have the same amount of wealth as the bottom half of humanity, the world’s poorest 3.6 billion people are currently getting poorer.

Some call it Moneyland, others see a return to feudal times. The offshore world could also be compared to the two-tiered architecture of imperial Panem in Suzanne Collin’s dystopian Hunger Games trilogy, which is said to reflect the workings of the Roman empire.

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Income inequality is at its highest level in at least 50 years, according to one measurement from the government’s Census Bureau. Oxfam reported that the world’s wealthiest 26 individuals, as of 2018, had the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the US population, which is supposedly the richest state. There were 2,153 billionaires as of March, with the ultra-rich worth $8.7 trillion, according to Forbes.

Outrage and Support as Cops evict #Moms4Housing with tanks and guns

After Hundreds Mobilize to Defend Occupied Home, Riot Police Evict Mothers With Tanks & Robot

Filed under: Action, Featured, Housing, Police, Repression, Southwest—It’s Going Down

Cover Photos from Indybay
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On January 14th, a massive, militarized eviction by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department ended a nearly two month long takeover of a formerly vacant property by the collective, Moms 4 Housing, in West Oakland.

Despite the raid, the movement surrounding it shows no signs of letting up, as grassroots anger grows at law enforcement and the deepening housing crisis.

This is what showed up to evict black mothers from their home in Oakland last night. This is the weaponized arm of speculative real estate investment capital. #Moms4Housing pic.twitter.com/xoRUnhaSgC

— imperfect produce 🍃 (@LeeHepner) January 14, 2020

On Monday, January 13th at around 6:30 PM, word went out that a locksmith had been seen outside the occupied West Oakland home which had been re-appropriated by a collective of formally houseless African-American mothers and their children.

The lock smith explained that they were waiting for the police and that an eviction was going to be carried out that night. Within minutes, through text and social media, people mobilized and surround the house in solidarity.

#Moms4Housing
ACSO brought inciident command center vehicle, Swat truck full of gear, ambulance at the ready,

and they even brought their GI Joe armored tank-truck. pic.twitter.com/xFO7v6P2Vx

— IWOC Oakland (@iwoc_oakland) January 14, 2020

Protected by dozens of cops in armor and riot gear, flunkies are packing in plywood to seal off every window from the inside.

Now 3 arrests reported.
Noise from news choppers overhead.

That this is a war is being made clear.#Moms4Housing pic.twitter.com/mrT0ROroMv

— IWOC Oakland (@iwoc_oakland) January 14, 2020

Soon, the crowd swelled to between 200-300 people, with a line of supporters locking arms in front of the house in defense. Supporters also dropped off piles of food and supplies, while both the mothers inside and supporters outside gave short speeches and statements of solidarity.

As the evening wore on, word came down that the Sheriffs were claiming that the eviction would not be carried out that night and the crowd largely dissipated. Over all, the mobilization of hundreds of supporters in a matter of minutes was seen as a key victory and a sign of the movement’s growing strength.

Trillions of Dollars in Military Spending Are Unaccounted For – while US pillages the Planet –

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U.S. tanks, trucks and other military equipment, which arrived by ship, are unloaded in the harbour of Bremerhaven, Germany January 8, 2017. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer – RTX2XZ77

Eric Zuesse (This updated version is first published at The Saker.)

This article from 21 July 2017 is here updated and expanded to the present; and the dead links in it have been replaced by functional (this time, archived — and thus more permanent) links:

Before documenting that many trillions of dollars in U.S. Government military spending have been and are unaccounted-for, and that by far the most corrupt U.S. federal Department is the ‘Defense’ Department, it is important to document here, by means of the links that will be provided in this article, that, at least after the 9/11 event, the most respected institution in America has been and is the military, and so there exists in the United States a profoundly…

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International Week of Solidarity with the prisoners of the revolt in #Chile: January 13th to 19th 2020

Chile. A-Radio Berlin has recorded the following call by the Coordinating Committee for the Freedom of the Political Prisoners of October 18th.

Originally published by A-Radio Berlin.

Complete call in English

International Week of Solidarity with the prisoners of the revolt in Chile: January 13th to 19th 2020

After more than 80 days since the popular revolt started in Chile, the struggle and social organising persists, with an unyielding conviction to confront and break with this economic and power model which has perpetuated inequalities, injustices and abuses for decades.

Without a doubt, the revolt that is still in the air in Chile has meant an inflection point, a point of no return in a long road of struggles, but it has also brought heavy costs with it: Hundreds and hundreds of prisoners of this territory. Every week this number increases. In a clear phenomenon of massive arrests, the state looks to scare and criminalise social protests.

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Semana de agitación internacional pro-presxs de la revuelta en Chile -13 a 19 de enero- (audio)

Coordinadora por la libertad de lxs presxs políticxs 18 de octubre

A mas de 80 días del estallido social en Chile la lucha y organización social persiste en la inquebrantable convicción de confrontar y romper con el modelo económico y de poder que ha perpetuado desigualdades, injusticias y abusos durante décadas. Sin duda la revuelta que aún se respira en Chile a significado un punto de inflexión y de no retorno en un largo recorrido de lucha pero también ha traído consigo un duro costo: cientxs y cientxs de presxs de la revuelta que hoy se encuentran en las distintas prisiones de este territorio. Cada semana este número aumenta y en un evidente fenómeno de encarcelamiento masivo el Estado busca amedrentar y criminalizar la protesta social. Hablamos de presxs políticxs de la revuelta porque el hecho de encarcelar masivamente a lxs luchadorxs sociales tras el estallido del 18 responde a una decisión política de Estado y no a criterios técnicos/jurídicos dando cuenta de las complicidades de los distintos poderes del Estado con el fin de perpetuar el modelo de control existente. Es por eso que hacemos este llamado de solidaridad internacional con lxs presxs de la revuelta para así develar la condición política de su encarcelamiento y exigir su inmediata libertad. Extendemos esta convocatoria apelando a las múltiples iniciativas y acciones solidarias que surgan en cada territorio.
QUIEN OLVIDA A LXS PRESXS POLITICXS OLVIDA LA LUCHA¡¡

LIBERTAD INMEDIATA A LXS PRESXS DE LA REVUELTA¡¡¡

[Tomado de http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/529532.] Para oir el audio (duración: 2 min., 42 seg.) ir a https://archive.org/details/aradioberlinsemanainternacionalchilejan2020es

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We talk about political prisoners of the revolt because the massive arrests of those fighting after the explosion of the revolt on the 18th of October responds to a political decision of the state and not to technical or judiciary criteria, putting in evidence the complicities of the different powers of the state, all with the purpose of perpetuating the existing control model.

Solidarity call for Russian anarchists facing up to 18 years jail

text shared from Freedom with thanks

Russia: prosecutor demands prison sentences of 6 to 18 years for anarchist defendants in “Network” case

World, Dec 28th

The prosecutor in charge of the so-called “Network” aka Penza/St Petersburgh case demanded on 26th December prison time between 6 and 18 years for seven defendants. If convicted, all but two will serve their sentences in a high-security prison colony.

The Network case had begun in October 2017, when the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested six people in Penza, western Russia, accusing them of participation in a terrorist organisation “The Network”.

Two other Penza residents disappeared and were put on the wanted list by the FSB. They were subsequently detained in Moscow. In January 2018, two more people were arrested in the same case, and, in April that year, charges were brought against one more person… continues below

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SEE ALSO> The “Network” Case and the Fascist Future Everywhere
Two speeches by Russian antifascists in London,20 January 2019 (original post on People and Nature) AntiNote: Just days after the speeches featured here were delivered, the string of arrests and torture of anarchists in Russia continued. Meanwhile, the first “Network” trials approach, and solidarity and legal defense efforts are still building.