Author Russian Presidential Press and Information Office
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Bloomberg has joined a chorus of voices hyping up the alleged Russian threat. But the real threat is to President-elect Trump.
Russia Wins in a Retreat on Climate Change
By Noah Smith
President-elect Donald Trump has signaled ambivalence about many policies, such as Obamacare and infrastructure spending. But on at least one issue, his attitude is crystal-clear: climate change. Trump has vowed to withdraw from the Paris agreement designed to limit fossil-fuel use, and presented himself as a champion of the coal industry. His transition team even demanded that the Energy Department make a list of names of employees who worked on climate change. U.S. national policy seems set for an epic shift away from alternative energy and carbon reduction.
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Who would win from a retreat in the war on climate change? Oil, coal and gas industries around the world, obviously, as well as coal-burning power companies. But the biggest winner probably would be another country: Russia.
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Without oil and gas, Russia’s economy would be a shambles, and sharp declines in energy prices in the 1990s and again in the past three years sent its economy into deep recessions.
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Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-15/russia-wins-in-a-retreat-on-climate-change
There is no doubt Putin thinks the climate movement is a joke. During the G20 conference in Brisbane Australia, when asked why a fleet of Russian warships was parked just outside Australian territorial waters, the Russian embassy replied they were performing “climate change research”.
But why should Putin care about Western governments wasting money on useless renewables? Renewables need gas turbine backup, backup turbines which likely burn more gas cycling up and down to try to stabilise the grid, than they would if they burned steadily, supplying the full base load.
Europe will need Russian gas and oil for decades to come, given Europe’s ongoing rejection of nuclear power, opposition to fracking, and political efforts to shutdown coal plants.
So why would a prestigious news organisation like Bloomberg want to muckrake empty Soviet era paranoia?
There is one possible target of all the reds under the beds lunacy hitting our media lately which makes sense. The electoral college vote on the 19th December.
Dem congressman: Electoral College has ‘right’ to weigh Russian hacking
By Kyle Cheney
A Democratic congressman is suggesting that members of the Electoral College should be able to consider Russian interference in the presidential election — and whether it influenced the outcome — when deciding how to cast their vote.
“To the extent that foreign interference in the United States presidential elections may have influenced the final result, I believe the electors have the right to consider that,” Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) said in a statement to POLITICO on Saturday.
Cicilline appears to be the first member of Congress and the highest-ranking elected official in the country to endorse the notion that electors aren’t simply rubber stamps for their states’ popular vote. Earlier Saturday, he retweeted a Rhode Island-based national security expert who argued that the intelligence community “must brief electoral college about Russia before vote.”
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/electoral-college-russian-hack-david-cicilline-232469
President-elect Trump’s political opponents, in my opinion, are hoping that their empty caricature of old style cold war paranoia will help awaken enough doubt in Republican electoral college voters minds, to cheat Trump of his victory.
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/myth-trump-called-russian-hack-started-katy-tur-lie/
Myth Trump Called for Russian Hack Started with Katy Tur
“The Trump as pro-hacking myth is a case study in the power of cleverly placed propaganda to alter the course of events. This is what the Left and the mainstream media do every day.”
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A good description of how a false narrative is created and perpetrated by the MSM.
What disappoints me is there are very intelligent people wasting years of the lives on twaddle. People! Please turn your thoughts to real problems of the Human Race I am sure you could be incredibly helpful. Gees what a waste.
I have a lot to say but don’t want to take up to much of your time. I’ll try in a few words and hope that you can fill in any blanks appropriately. (And apologies to those who came close to my observations.)
It looks to me as if the MSM, the “elite”, the UN, many university departments, and whoever else you care to name, are all pushing the Russian (= Putin) idea…..with Russian (= Putin) backing. It is less costly to them and can be more effective. Are those who innocently or otherwise are in favor of “fighting” global warming really only serving the Russian / Putin war against us? Are those who call for us to leave it in the ground really acting on behalf of communist (or other, related) goals, those of defeating the West by more subtle means than outright war.
Thoughts?
Ian M
Ian. it is a trifle more subtle than that. The environmental movement as a whole is a mass movement, as used by Eric Hoffer in “The True Believer”. As such, it has quasi-religious elements, as well as political and social. Global warming is a theme/theory picked up by that mass movement, as well as various politicians like Putin or Gore.
The common themes in environmentalism (as distict from concern about the environment, a very different thing) tend to be a faith in “nature” (people do not count as natural!) and a dislike of technological and capitalistic society. Paul Ehrlich exemplifies this sort of socialist misanthropy, and many of the organized green groups are in sympathy with Ehrlich.
As most of the writers for this site, and most of the commenters, are emphaticly not members of the green movement, there is a great deal of philosphic/political/scientific shared values antithetic to global warming and the green movement in general. If you are not a devout member of the green movement, it will probably take at least several months to get a good sense of the extendeded argument expressed by this site and it’s commenters. If you are a devout green, you will read enough to react with “gross heresy”! and stop there.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/electoral-college-russian-hack-david-cicilline-232469
President-elect Trump’s political opponents, in my opinion, are hoping that their empty caricature of old style cold war paranoia will help awaken enough doubt in Republican electoral college voters minds, to cheat Trump of his victory.
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What for, Eric. You can change the world but You can’t steer it.
Quote “——-backup turbines which likely burn more gas cycling up and down to try to stabilise the grid, than they would if they burned steadily, supplying the full base load.” That ‘thinking’ is way past obsolete.