Wednesday, January 08, 2020

Get new improved thinking for Middle East policy


Iran fired off 30 missiles last night in the general direction of US facilities in Iraq.  4 hit something with little or no damage.  The blame America first Iranian collaborators in the US government – Grand Nan from San Fran Peloser – were all but celebrating the Iranian response while the missiles were still flying. They feigned concern for US service members while they attacked their Commander in Chief.

They truly are despicable loathsome characters. 

Ted Cruz put a fine point on it last night when he said that the US paid for the missiles that the Iranians fired off last night thanks to Lil Barry the empty suit Obama’s cash payment to the Iranian mullahs.       

PDJT should use Iran’s feeble attack last night as cover to secretly hit their enrichment sites.  He might hit some very public site like a refinery while secretly using deep penetrating bombs to the centrifuges spinning 24/7 to enrich uranium.

The MSM will be dissected by pictures of a burning refinery while ignoring the real story of a rumpled bit of ground somewhere in the desert. 

With regard to our presence in in Iraq, I don’t know what the mission is there any more.  The Iraqi government is all but an Iranian proxy at this point.  What are the troops doing there?  Is it essential to US national interests? 

I know what happened the last time we vacated Iraq – ISIS.  Are we going to be there forever?  Can we establish an autonomous Kurdish area in the north and use them as a counter weight to resist a re-emergence of ISIS?  Can we contract our military presence out to a firm like Blackwater?  Can we maintain a rapid response team afloat rather than boots on the ground? 

The Middle East has been a disaster all of my life.  I doubt it’s going to get any better during Lex jr.’s lifetime.   It’s time to turn the model on its head and do something completely different.

Today’s JG rant

In his Jan 7, 2020 letter “Nuclear energy industry littered by false promises” Tim Tiernon calls Katie Tubb “disingenuous” for promoting a new generation of nuclear power.  After doing so, amazingly, Tiernon insists the Green New Deal is not a fantasy. 

Wow!  In Tiernon’s bizarro world advocating for proven cost effective nuclear power is disingenuous while banning air flight, requiring the remodeling every building in the country to meet green standards, free economic support for people who refuse to work, “decarbonizing” industrial and agriculture industries (whatever that means), banning meat products etc. at the cost of tens of trillions of dollars is not a pretend solution to the imaginary problem of climate change.  Tolkien’s fantasies are not nearly as vivid as Tiernon’s.

Who’s disingenuous?  How is Tiernon getting around these days?  Walking?  Riding a bike?  The bus? If not, he’s a disingenuous hypocrite.  How is he heating his living quarters?  Solar?  Wind?  Geo thermal?  If not, he’s a disingenuous hypocrite. 

Claiming the world is running out of uranium is disingenuous.  The NEA predicts a 230 year supply of uranium at current usage levels from known resources and expects technology will improve extraction methods while lessening the demand.

Tiernon and other green weenies need to remember that America is not a planet.  We could suspend all use of carbon based fuels today and it would not make any measurable long-term difference in their own climate change hoax models.           

Jan 7, 2020
Nuclear energy industry littered by false promises
The Dec. 22 article by Katie Tubb promoting a new generation of nuclear reactors is disingenuous.
Nuclear energy has been insane from inception. It is more insane when we have cleaner energy available.
The Green New Deal is not a fantasy. A stable, sustainable future without immediate climate action n is a fantasy. The only green in nuclear power is money.
It is humorous to hear a nuclear power advocate like Tubb complain about “big-government handouts” for cost-efficient, clean and renewable energy. Government-subsidized nuclear power has not lived up to industry promises. The nuclear fuel cycle is a disaster that is hazardous beyond our comprehension – from mining and processing to waste.
Nuclear power is a prime example of private profit and public liability. We will not know the real cost of nuclear power until we clean up the mess it has created.
Nuclear power is not the solution to our climate crisis for two other important reasons.
The best uranium deposits have already been mined; reactors would run out of fuel in a few decades. More importantly, we will be long past the tipping point for the warming of our planet by the time new nuclear reactors could be built.
There is no perfect energy source, but wind and solar have yet to reach their potential.
There are exciting technological advances like perovskite solar cells and creative harvesting, storing and sharing of renewable energy.
The decisions we make in the coming decade may determine the future of life on Earth.
Tim Tiernon

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