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By the way, Christopher Browning's critique of Goldhagen is based on his investigations according to the infamous Millgram experiments where the so-called good guys were trying to understand the minds of the bad guys, the nazis, who all followed orders. The Calley Vietnam massacres, the massacres perpetrated by US soldiers in Iraq show how easy it is to get groups of men to shall we say behave badly. There is also the famous British General who after WW 2 delivered holus bolus all the Yugoslav emmigrants who sought protection in the British zone of Austria to Tito, all of the White Russians to Stalin. Count Tolstoy wrote about this in 'The victims of Yalta' and the 'Minister and the Massacres'. The British general who delivered thousands of people to Tito and Stalin's butchers - many were murdered literally around the corner, within earshot, sued Tolstoy for libel. He admitted delivering these people to be butchered, his excuse: I was only following orders. No doubt there were instances of Wermacht involvement in Einsattsgruppen atrocities but it was, despite what's imputed by Golhagen and others, not common practice. The fact that so many Mishling soldiers returned to Germany after the war to discover not only the full extent of the Nazi horrors but also the fate of their Jewish relatives indicates that Wermacht involvement was not widespread. There is a very sad book published in about 2002 about the fate of Mishling German soldiers: Hitler's Jewish Soldiers by Bryan Mark Rigg. This is, in the end, a very sad and horrific topic. The reason I'm interested in it is because what my mother and father told me does not in the main co-inside with what the victors want people to believe. I fully and totally accept that the Nazis did horrific things to Jews, Gypsies, the insane, Poles, Russians etc. I also know that it is not as black and white a story as people like Goldhagen want us to believe. I leave you with Roman Polanski's answer to why there are decent Germans and Jews behaving badly in his film 'The Pianist'. Polanski replied: There were good Germans, there were bad Germans. There were good Jews, there were bad Jews'.

Further to this: The Evil of Banality[edit] In 1992, the American historian Christopher Browning published a book titled Ordinary Men about the Reserve Police Battalion 101, which had been used in 1942 to massacre and round up Jews for deportation to the Nazi death camps in German-occupied Poland. The conclusion of the book, which was much influenced by the Milgram experiment on obedience, was that the men of Unit 101 were not demons or Nazi fanatics but ordinary middle-aged men of working-class background from Hamburg, who had been drafted but found unfit for military duty. In the course of the murderous Operation Reinhard, these men were ordered to round up Jews, and if there was not enough room for them on the trains, to shoot them. In other, more chilling cases, they were ordered simply to kill a specified number of Jews in a given town or area. In one instance, the commander of the unit gave his men the choice of opting out of this duty if they found it too unpleasant; the majority chose not to exercise that option, resulting in fewer than 15 men out of a battalion of 500 opting out. Browning argued that the men of Unit 101 agreed willingly to participate in massacres out of a basic obedience to authority and peer pressure, not blood-lust or primal hatred.[6] In his review of Ordinary Men published in July 1992,[7] Goldhagen expressed agreement with several of Browning's findings, namely, that the killings were not, as many people believe, done entirely by SS men, but also by Trawnikis; that the men of Unit 101 had the option not to kill, and – a point Goldhagen emphasizes – that no German was ever punished in any serious way for refusing to kill Jews.[8] But Goldhagen disagreed with Browning's "central interpretation" that the killing was done in the context of the ordinary sociological phenomenon of obedience to authority.[8] Goldhagen instead contended that "for the vast majority of the perpetrators a monocausal explanation does suffice".[9] They were not ordinary men as we usually understand men to be, but "ordinary members of an extraordinary political culture, the culture of Nazi Germany, which was possessed of a hallucinatory, lethal view of the Jews. That view was the mainspring of what was, in essence, voluntary barbarism."[10] Goldhagen stated that he would write a book that would rebut Ordinary Men and Browning's thesis, and prove instead that it was the murderous antisemitic nature of German culture that led the men of Reserve Battalion 101 to murder Jews. ANd: Goldhagen's book stoked controversy and debate in Germany and the United States. Some historians have characterized its reception as an extension of the Historikerstreit, the German historiographical debate of the 1980s that sought to explain Nazi history. The book was a "publishing phenomenon",[1] achieving fame in both the United States and Germany, despite its "mostly scathing" reception among historians,[2] who were unusually vocal in condemning it as ahistorical and, in the words of Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg, "totally wrong about everything" and "worthless".

By the way, Goldhagen's book contains a lot of anti German venom and has been severely criticized, Browning and Hillberg among the chief critics. 'Browning argued differently. Rather than seeking one cause, he emphasized a variety of factors that influenced people. In the case of Reserve Police Battalion 101, he found that these men were mostly average, middle aged German men, largely from Hamburg. They were not extensively indoctrinated, nor were they terribly receptive to that which they received. Some were initially anxious, even uneasy, with the task they were set out to do; but they carried it out nonetheless. They described how they feared being viewed as weak by their peers, as not being able to do the tough job they were given. Alcoholism was extensive, consumption before or after killings being common; alcohol does desensitize, so it served as a coping mechanism, CLEARLY demonstrating that these men were not subconscious, rampant anti-Semites, but 'Ordinary Men'. The more they killed, the more routine and less exceptional these acts became, leading the killings to become almost 'banal'. They killed both Poles AND Jews, so they were clearly not solely driven to kill by a hatred of Jews. Goldhagen's thesis is deeply flawed, and has been attacked and largely dismantled by historians and psychologists. Notably Raul Hilberg, practically the godfather of Holocaust Studies, dismissed 'Hitler's Willing Executioners' as 'totally wrong'. And, for the record. my father deserted the German army in 1944 in Italy. He was lucky to have been able to surrender to a British officer rather than being killed by either Italian partisans or the German army. He was in a POW camp in Port Said until 1947. When he and his fellow prisoners were shown the footage of the labour camps where the eastern Europen Jews were held they believed it was propaganda, akin to the first WW charge that Germans bayoneted babies in Belgium. However, my father did once come across a soldier who had served in the Eastern Front for most of the war - my father was wounded on the way to Stalingrad and recovered in Germany and was then sent to Bordeaux and Italy - who said if the Germans lost the war some very unsavoury things would come to light. In other words - and this was corroborated by the Romanian father of a Jewish friend who worked as slave labour for a Wermacht unit - German soldiers were by and large not involved in killing Jews. The notion that they were comes from Hollywood, as did the 'soap and lampshades' myth. Also, just for the record, my grandmother lived within two kilometres of Bergen Belsen. Neither she or any of her neighbours had any inkling about what happened there.

Sorry for responding so animatedly. Hamas and Al Quada are other examples. ISIS is the most cynical though, I believe.

You, great white british subject might even be interested in this: BRITAIN: THE WORLDS WORST MASS MURDERER...or The Charles Manson of Nation States This blog summarizes the numerous episodes of genocide committed by Britain in its perfidious and ongoing ambition to maintain its imperialist grip on the indigenous world. For too long the world has been duped by the treacherous and viperous anglosphere which eagerly points their blood-stained finger at demonized foreign (i.e. non-white) individuals and groups to conceal their own massive, unsurpassed and unpunished crimes against humanity. Tuesday, 26 November 2013 Here for the first time the true genocide rap sheet of Britain is revealed in all its gory. Behold A Pale Face, And He Was The Devil Wrapped in a Butchers Apron, And Hell Followed With Him!  The Union Jack is known to many victims as the The Butchers Apron, where the sun never set on the empire and the blood of her victims never dried. British crimes against humanity are so vast and numerous it is itself a task to plot the career starting point of this most criminal of nations. For ease of reference I will start with the British slave trade which followed of course their invasion and dismemberment of indigenous North America. Although the British murder body count runs into hundreds of millions, this blog will attempt, based on documented historical estimates, to tally for the first time the total sum of murder victims up until the recent murderous British air raids against Libya in 2011. ******************************************************************************************************* UNITED NATIONS DEFINITION OF GENOCIDE Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. ******************************************************************************************************* British culture amounts to little more than a pungent skid-mark on the history canvas of civilization ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BRITISH GENOCIDE RAP SHEET N.B: due to the enormity of Britain's imperialist crimes this rap sheet can never be a complete record  not a single Briton has ever been held accountable for crimes against humanity ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE BUTCHER'S APRON RAP SHEET BRITISH AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE 1564 - 1807 SIR JOHN HAWKINS RECOGNIZED AS THE FIRST BRITISH SLAVER NOTICE HOW BRITAIN'S EXCEPTIONAL TYRANTS ARE KNIGHTED.... Estimated deaths: 4 million plus innumerable descendants of slaves Estimated slaves: 3.4 million Enduring criminality: Britain's imperialist expansion was in large part funded by the profits of slavery. Britain's anglo-American spawns became immensely rich to eventually steal the entire North American land mass from the Indigenous peoples. In short Britain spawned the current anglo-American super power ensuring the survival and prosperity of modern day Britain and to further perpetuate crimes against humanity across humanity. The exact number of British ships in the Slave Trade will probably never be known but, in the 245 years between Hawkins first voyage and the abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807, merchants in Britain despatched about 10,000 voyages to Africa for slaves, with merchants in other parts of the British Empire perhaps fitting out a further 1,150 voyages. Historian, Professor David Richardson, has calculated that British ships carried 3.4 million or more enslaved Africans to the Americas. Since the delivery of millions of slaves by the British to North America, millions of theslave descendants have been born and atrophied in racist oppression. Today across the United States hundreds of thousands of African Americans languish in jails, many more live in grinding poverty. The enduring criminality of the British slave trade is in fact infinite and unquantifiable. Even the fabled Dr Livingstone has been been proven to be a liar and butcher of Africans. As is so typical of his anglophile breed Livingstone concealed his own gory crimes by inditing other foreigners, in this case Arab slavers. This modus-operandi is a classic and enduring scam that has served British propaganda so well - the candy that coats British history and culture so thickly is in truth rank with the blood of perfidy. Enduring spoils for the British: estimated profit for Britain amounted to 5% of the economy during the trade period. Allied to its anglophile superpower spawn, the United States of America. Jolly good show eh what! Victims of the estimated 3 million slaves British abducted from Africa "The Victorian Englishman the fine flower of civilization" (Cecil Rhodes) Dr Livingstone: a murderer and liar I presume Britain still enjoys the wealth it made from raping Africa BRITISH SLAVERS References http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8863964/Dr-Livingstone-lied-in-famous-account-of-slave-market-massacre.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2056528/David-Livingstone-Discrepancies-explorers-account-Zanzibar-slave-massacre.html?ito=feeds-newsxml http://africanhistory.about.com/od/slavery/tp/TransAtlantic001.htm http://www.nmm.ac.uk/freedom/viewTheme.cfm/theme/timeline http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/slavetra.html http://abolition.e2bn.org/slavery_45.html http://www.thelawkeepers.org/gifford.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyangwe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery#Atlantic_slave_trade http://abolition.e2bn.org/slavery_45.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS 1620 - present day Estimated deaths: min 15 million and counting - non-anglo estimates up to 100 million. Absolute extinction of tribes. Bio-terrorism - intentionally infecting tribes with disease. Enduring criminality: the myth of scalping falsely attributed to Native Americans, was in fact a practice introduced by the British in search of head bounties. The myth of 'Indian' scalping and the savage connotations that goes with this has of course been propagandized in anglophile media most notably Hollywood Westerns. The British are experts in demonizing their victims; hence their genocidal success. The Average British Imperialist - Murderous Poltroon As with Canadian, Australian and New Zealand surviving indigenous populations, American Indian communities are ravaged with drugs, alcohol and despair. Absolute extinction of tribes. "One of the generals...Sheridan said: that the bison hunters had done more to control the American Indian than all the Calvary put together. We basically starved a lot of American Indians out - those that we didn't kill instantly with smallpox and measles. We stole this continent from other people. We just took it" (Dr Eric Pianka, St Edwards University Transcript 6 April 2006). Enduring spoils for the British: as with the African slave trade, British spawn (descendants) dispossessed Native Americans of their land to eventually seize and annex all fertile territory including the oil rich southern States. In spite of the American Revolution the British reconciled with their Americanized spawn to continue the resource pillaging of the indigenous world until the present. "The only good Indian is a dead Indian" General Phillip Sheridan Trail of Tears or forced march under "Indian Removal Act" killed some 5000 Indians According to anglophile media, the savages were always the "Redskins"! Who scalped who? British invaders paid bounties for Indian scalps Moral cowardice and denialism goes hand in hand with anglophile historians gloating over butchered Native Americans British Germ Warfare References: http://www.emedicinehealth.com/smallpox/article_em.htm http://cantonasylumforinsaneindians.com/history_blog/tag/andrew-jackson http://www.cherokeebyblood.com/trailtears.htm http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/ScholarsForum/MMD2263.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States http://www.aaanativearts.com/us_tribes_AtoZ.htm#A http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/bloody-sunday/bloody-sunday-victims-exonerated-after-38-years-as-saville-pins-blame-on-british-soldiers-14843789.html http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/aiholocaust.html http://hnn.us/articles/7302.html http://www.lcsc.edu/elmartin/historybehindthenews/spring%202005/delema.htm http://www.real-dream-catchers.com/Native_American_Holocaust/recognizing_a_native_american_holocaust.htm http://www.wicocomico-indian-nation.com/pages/genocide.html http://books.google.com.au/books/about/American_holocaust.html?id=RzFsODcGjfcC&redir_esc=y http://www.nativeamericanembassy.net/Holocaust.html http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/11/25/thanksgiving-celebrating-the-genocide-of-native-americans/ http://www.chgs.umn.edu/histories/victims/nativeAmerican/index.html http://pulsemedia.org/2011/07/06/american-holocaust-the-destruction-of-americas-native-peoples/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KENYA 1890 - 1963 Estimated deaths: min 30 000 and counting. Enduring criminality: post-independent Kenya distressed with internal conflict. Introduced diseases by British ravage Kenyan population Enduring spoils for the British: many anglo spawn colonists still own and farm fertile lands maintaining strong links with their mother country Britain. British meddling in Kenyan affairs continues. Imperialism is the theory, colonialism the practice. The British committed unspeakable atrocities against Kenyan children History is often invented / colonized by the 'victors' but truth cant be destroyed. References: http://international.iupui.edu/kenya/resources/Colonialism-and-Its-Legacies.pdf http://www.studymode.com/essays/Impacts-Of-The-British-Colonization-Of-324577.html http://newhistories.group.shef.ac.uk/wordpress/wordpress/?p=282 http://hj2009per4kenya.weebly.com/colonization.html http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/African%20Journals/pdfs/PULA/pula014002/pula014002006.pdf http://www.examiner.com/article/the-legacy-of-colonialism --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ZIMBABWE (formerly Rhodesia or Southern Rhodesia) 1890 -1980 Estimated deaths: unknown min 10 000 from atrophic consequences of British colonization. Enduring criminality: post independent Zimbabwe plagued by British meddling and sabotage causing great hardship. For the last decade or so Britain, led by its BBC and affiliated anglo media, has engaged in an almost farcical demonizing campaign against Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe in general. Readers will recall hysterical anglo media streams of wheelbarrows of Zimbabwean dollars required to purchase a loaf of bread or toilet paper in downtown Harare. This propaganda was followed up with the apocalyptic projections of a cholera epidemic. None of these campaigns succeeded in 'toppling' Mugabe...yet. Again its interesting to note the modus operandi of the British in demonizing their victim nations both former and current, and how the corporate media along with 'academia' reinforce this strategy. Enduring spoils for the British: Up until recently most fertile land owned by anglo farmers with strong links to their mother country Britain. anglophile media furiously peddled these often staged images in an effort to shame Mugabe for his stand against anglo / british farmers who 'owned' 90% of fertile Zimbabwe land "Britain is still complacently ignoring its gory cruelties of its empire" (Maria Misra 2002 References: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIERRA LEONE 1787 - 1961 Estimated deaths: min 150 000 and counting mainly attributed to post-independent conflict and blood diamonds Enduring criminality: legacy of British colonization and continued imperialist meddling produced horrific conflict. The hyenas of British imperialism continue to stalk impoverished and chaotic African nations waiting to pounce on opportunities brought about from relentless conlfict ridden turmoil. Enduring spoils for the British: blood diamonds and geo-politics divide and conquer - the perrenial British way British imperialist hyenas still stalk bloodied Africa for plunder References: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NIGERIA 1900- 1960 Estimated deaths: min 1 million from internal conflicts created & or exacerbated by British Enduring criminality: Nigerian economy warped in favour of anglo oil production. Independent Nigerian nation defiled and exploited by British sabotage and exploitation. Millions of Nigerians displaced from internal conflict. Enduring spoils for the British: anglo-american dominance of oil and resources. the pestilence of British imperialism kills long after the 'Kings African Rifles' sail home There's a reason why the world today is a wreck References: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UGANDA 1884 - 1962 Estimated deaths: min 1 million from internal conflicts created & or exacerbated by British and counting. Enduring criminality: ongoing conflict and atrocities largely perpetuated by Idi Amin and the Lords Resistance Army. The LRA leader Joseph Kony is currently being sought the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. These modern day conflicts are largely traced to the favorite British strategy of 'divide and conquer' ie. the creation of rival indigenous kingdoms within the colony. The ferocious and diseased legacy of Anglican missionaries who compulsively accompanied their secular imperialist brethren can be sourced to the deranged and diabolical Christian inspired crimes attributed to Kony. Enduring spoils for the British: blood diamonds, arms trafficking and geo-politics the fate of these Ugandan children sealed long ago when Africa was infested with the British Joseph Kony - Christian fundamentalist & wanted by ICC for crimes against humanity was anglicized and thus created by British imperialists & missionaries References: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/10/2011101418364196576.html http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/k/joseph_kony/index.html http://www.icc-cpi.int/menus/icc/situations%20and%20cases/situations/situation%20icc%200204/related%20cases/icc%200204%200105/uganda?lan=en-GB http://books.google.com/books?id=81ZlzUsO8EYC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=british+anglicized+africa&source=bl&ots=yUtcs--hTj&sig=duri5lAwogXhMtvCpZjfoyT9TU0&hl=en&ei=alGaTsWmEeSUiAeR97mXBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=british%20anglicized%20africa&f=false http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/14/uganda-lords-resistance-army --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUDAN 1898 - 1956 Estimated deaths: min 2 million (a very conservative estimate) Enduring criminality: famine, internal conflict and standard butchery so typical of former British African colonies. Millions of Sudanese displaced in camps living harrowing existences. The devastating war between north and south Sudan again an inextricable consequence of British notorious manipulation and vandalism of indigenous tribes, ethnics, religions, resources and power. Millions of Africans have perished and been slaughtered in a 'post-imperialist' world where the British quitted their colonies heavily poisoned with ethnic and tribal division, rivalry, famine and desperation. Nicholas Dirks explains in Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India how the British re-caste and re-tribalised their indigenous victims causing irreversible cultural chaos. In Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror (2009), Mahmood Mamdani reveals how British imperialists "tribalised" Dafur which in turn became the future source for ferocious conflict. Across Africa and the world the British perpetrated acts of cultural vandalism producing horrific and permanent consequences for the victim nations. In this regard the British remain unmatched in their sheer savagery and complicity in enduring genocides brought about by famine and conflict. Enduring spoils for the British: arms sales and geo-political exploitation. Anglo-American corps competing with China for oil the vulture of British imperialism that caused this harrowing evil was not pictured enduring legacy of British imperialism in Africa - GENOCIDAL FAMINE! Across Africa and the Indigenous world, the British perpetrated devastating acts of cultural vandalism producing eternal consequences for their victim nations. References: http://subversify.com/2011/07/29/three-episodes-in-the-criminal-history-of-the-british-empire/ http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111120132050412430.html http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7191.html http://www.randomhouse.com/book/106770/saviors-and-survivors-by-mahmood-mamdani http://earthlinggb.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/royalist-scum-of-great-britain/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOMALIA 1941 -1960 Estimated deaths: min 2.5 million and counting. Enduring criminality: Since the departure of imperialist Britain in the 1960s famine, war and displacement of millions of Somalis has and continues to wrack Somalia. The historic imperialist grab for Somalia is chaotic.The Italians and French each sought to own a piece of the Somalia pie, with the Italians maintaining a fascist hold until the mother of all predators Britain shooed them away. After Britian had its way with Somalia, it left her in a fractured, bloodied and utterly ruined state. Since 1995 an estmated 1 000 000 Somalis have died from conflict alone. Enduring spoils for the British: geo-politics, arms trading, and conceited finger-pointing (as with all its ruined and raped African imperialist conquests, the supremely hyprocritical and cunning British continue to take great delight in pointing the finger at their crippled former colonies alluding to the [inferior] race of their victims as the cause of their current grief.) It is important to understand the significance of this racist anglo culture of finger-pointing at the 'darkies'. Essentially this finger-pointing serves (1) to deflect the culpability of British imperialism for the upheavals in former African colonies; (2) elevates the civilisation of the British above the 'inferior' victim nations through contrasting social, political and economic conditions and; (3) perpetuates the ludicrous myth that British subjugation of the 'darkies' was proper because "look at the savages now since Britian gave them independence". enduring legacy of British imperialism in Africa - GENOCIDAL FAMINE! Africa has been hemorrhaging ever since the British first plundered her References: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CANADIAN INDIGENOUS NATIONS 1629 (Scottish invasion) then 1763 to present Estimated deaths: at least 1 million attributed largely to disease introduced by colonists and counting. Post-colonization until present innumerable number of Canadian Indigenous peoples atrophied through racism, oppression and standard British viciousness. As with Australian Aborigines the British spawn (affectionately called Settlers) in Canada, formerly known as British North America, applied numerous methods in wiping out the indigenous population including mass sterilisation, stealing indigenous children (forced assimilation) and intentionally infecting tribes with disease. Enduring criminality: continued exploitation and devastation of Indigenous Canadians. Many Canadian tribes literally on their knees from the introduced ravages of drugs and alcohol. Continued British spawn occupancy of stolen lands. Enduring spoils for the British: With the exception of the Francophile 'concession' of Quebec, the British remain firmly in possession of Canada, a Commonwealth or neo-imperialist nation. Canadian indigenous children ripped from tribes being civilised by British-Canada Canadian Indian being civilised with small pox introduced by the British Worlds Worst Mass Murderer References: http://www.darknightpress.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPCONTENTSE1EP8CH1PA1LE.html http://revolution-news.com/4000-children-dead-due-residential-schools/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES 1788 - present  Estimated deaths: min 20 000 slaughtered plus 60 000 poisoned / disease infected and counting. Genocide of Tasmanian tribes. An accurate murder estimate of Indigenous Australians by the British imperialists and later their 'settler' Anglo-Celtic spawn remains difficult to source. British invaders literally started hunting "Blacks" within days of the Botany Bay landing (1788), and up until 1970s continued through Anglo-Celtic descendants "[censored]-shoots' and "boong bashing" across Australia. Aborigines were regarded as little more than fauna and flora or native pests to be eradicated to make way for the "fine flower of civilization". Records therefore of massacres along with actual censuses of the Aboriginal population were near non-existent up until the middle of the 20th century.  Australia's Constitution is the only one in the world that allows for racist discrimination against people - Indigenous Australians.  The prevailing Constitution of Australia, a vile document authored by British imperialists in 1901, is the only Constitutional document in the world that allows for racist discrimination against a group of people. Britain's genocidal ambition in Australia was to butcher the 'Natives' and chain the survivors into extinction. The unspeakable savagery the British and their Anglo-Celtic Australian spawn unleashed upon Aboriginal Australia included the 'sport' of burying Aboriginal babies and children up to their necksand then kicking the heads until decapitation. Up until 1970s (in the outback 1980s) Anglo Australian motorists could intentionally run down 'Blacks' drunk or sober with impunity. Hundreds of Aborigines continue to commit suicide in jails and police lock-ups across Australia. Many of these 'suicides' are in fact homicides A descendant of the vicious slaver John Forrest, is now a mining billionaire (Andrew Twiggy Forrest). This is an example of how the spawn of the vile British invaders are today enriched by the genocidal crimes of the past. Enduring criminality: Thousands of Aboriginal children (Stolen Generations) ripped from tribes and parents in a nazi type effort to breed out aboriginality. This genocidal campaign continued up to the 1970s, consequently many 1000s of Aboriginal Australian survivors are today still traumatized. A national apology was belatedly given in 2008 by the then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Even this token gesture outraged many Anglo-Celtic Australians including former Prime Minister John Winston Howard who refused to endorse the apology. This moral poltroon argued 'guilt is not hereditary'. British-Australians 'categorized' Indigenous Australians as part of the Fauna and Flora Act, meaning British 'Settlers' could butcher Blacks with impunity as with the wildlife. Aboriginal life expectancy is the world's worst. Aborigines are disproportionally imprisoned and hospitalized. As with American and Canadian Indigenous nations, Aboriginal communities are ravaged by drugs and alcohol including solvent abuse i.e. "petrol and glue sniffing". Suicide among the Aboriginal communities, particularly in remote areas is epidemic. The general diet of Aborigines has been spoilt by the British invasion with the consequence many Indigenous Australians suffer renal and diabetic conditions at epidemic proportions. The sum total of these British made and or introduced blights to the Aboriginal and Torre Straits nations amount to genocide and horrific subjugation for the survivors. It took the British little under 200 years to bring a 50 000 year old civilization to the brink of absolute genocide Aboriginal art, icons and culture has been hijacked by the Australian Government and tourist industry which promotes white Australia to an ignorant foreign world. Gooey eyed foreign tourists pour into Australia every day utterly oblivious to the "Great Australian Silence" or more accurately the Great Anglophile Silence. This is a standard ploy of British imperialism stripping their victim nations of everything of value, including the very culture, along with the right to protest their misery. On this last point, former Prime Minister John Howard is testament to this form of perfidy particular to the anglophile breed. Howard in his deranged adulation for his mother country, Britain, was adamant throughout the 10 years he ruled Australia, that 'white' Australia had nothing to apologize for. This 'belief' was based on the very warped cowardly logic the unconscionable cruelties meted out to Indigenous Australia were (1) perpetrated by an older generation of Anglo-Celtic Australians (or the much preferred misnomer 'Europeans') and thus modern white Australia is blameless, and (2) the cruelties such as the mass abduction and racist indoctrination of Indigenous children was done with good intentions i.e. to assimilate the "Black savages" into the fine flower of British culture. Obscene anglophile Howard to date refuses to endorse the apology - only an anglophile could behave in such a utterly contemptible manner and still retain 'credibility' among his peers. Murdering and brutalising Aboriginal Australians was an integral characteristic of being a 'dinki-di' anglophile Aussie. In addition to decapitating black babies by kicking, the British colonizers took delight in shooting pregnant Aboriginal women - here's a verbatim description by a much respected Aboriginal Elder on this unbelievable viciousness: "stories from aboriginal oral histories regarding pregnant mothers hiding in trees only to be found then shot. All that could be heard was the rustle of the leaves and branches as the aborted babies fell from their mothers" . Every 26 January, Anglo-Australians shamelessly celebrate the 1788 invasion and grand theft of Australia. Meanwhile victim Indigenous Australians are forced to witness this gross insult to injury every year. In 1956 the British in collusion with their Anglo-Celtic Australian spawn conducted nuclear weapons testing at Maralinga South Australia, poisoning the homeland and the people of the Maralinga Tjarutja tribe.  Most tourists to Australia have little or no understanding of the genocidal British imperialistic history of Australia thus perpetuating the grief of Indigenous Australians through their sheer ignorance Anglophile racism against Indigenous Australians has been so relentless, shameless and ghastly that as late as 1984, Australia's richest anglophile Lang Hancock along with several of his politician pals went on TV to lobby for a genocidal program to sterilize the Aborigines - through "herding up the savages into the outback and poisoning their water supply". Instead of being condemned and imprisoned, Hancock was applauded by mainstream anglophile Australia.This was in 1984 and the actual interview can be viewed on YouTube! Massacres of Aboriginal Tribes by British 'Settlers' was so commonplace, an entire book was authored to detail the atrocities. Most contemporary Anglophile spun literature / history on the British invasion and seizure of Australia is criminally distorted, revised, concealed, minimized and diffused. A subtle though powerful semantic deception Anglo-Celtic historians and hacks persistently and increasingly employ is to substitute the words Britain or British etc with Europe or European when describing the colonization and slaughter of Indigenous Australia. This word scam pervades most mainstream online articles, including Wikipedia pages. It is a potent psychological swindle because the replacement noun - Europe - hoodwinks the typical reader into believing Britain's culpability is shared with and subsumed into the generic Europe. This could not be further from the truth, especially so for Anglo Australia which constitutionally is still ruled by the British queen. As of 2010 the Prime Minister of Australia is the British immigrant Julia Gillard. Even Gillard's political opposite Tony Abbott is British born. UPDATED: British born Tony Abbott is the PM of Australia and is particularly reviled by Indigenous Australians. No doubt Abbott's biggest personal struggle will be the ongoing concealment of his true racist persona from the public. Occasionally Abbott's mask slides revealing the toxic anglophile racism raging beneath a facade of anglophile civility. The smiling anglophile sadist - the British were never happier when they were maiming and murdering Indigenous peoples The invasion and decimation of Aboriginal Australia was and is entirely a British affair, and in spite of the self-serving garbage penned by conniving morally coward Anglo-Celtic hacks, 'Europe' had nothing to do with this massive and ongoing imperial crime. Another favorite misnomer is the term 'settler' in place of the correct noun invader or to a lesser extent coloniser. Wikipedia pages on black and white Australia, largely authored by Anglo Australians, compulsively use the sly phrases settler and settlements, Europe and European. These sneak semantics serve to perpetuate the grief and oppression of Indigenous Australia because the deception diffuses and dilutes the reality of the enormous and enduring crime of genocide inflicted by Britain and her Anglo-Celtic Australian 'colonial' spawn. The upshot of Britain's invasion of black Australia is within a space of 200 years the British and their Anglo-Celtic spawn 'settlers' managed to devastate a 50 000 year old Aboriginal culture. In 2009 the conditions for many Aboriginal groups was so dreadful, Aborigines petitioned the United Nations for Refugee Status in their own country! When the British & spawn Anglo-Celtic 'settlers' weren't decapitating Aborigines they were putting them in chains Enduring spoils for the British: On invading Australia in 1788 the British seized the entire continent along with the Tasmanian island to eventually peddle the loathsome lie of Terra Nullius - Empty Land. Thousands of Anglo-Celtic spawn continue to enrich themselves by plundering the bounty of indigenous gas and rock wealth, including diamond and gold deposits, in the Outback. Millions of ignorant and idiotic 'foreign' tourists continue to pour into Australia supporting the rugged Aussie Outback folklore myth, blissfully unaware of the ceaseless genocide of the Aborigines. Australia remains the first choice 'emigrant' destination for millions of British citizens, usually the worst of their society, including murderers and child molesters. A nauseating irony of the endless swamping of British immigration into Australia is the fact many of these immigrants bring with them their racist rhodesian beliefs to exacerbate the racist oppression of Indigenous Australia. Another increasingly large immigrant group is the 'white South Afrikaner'. This comes as little surprise as racist Australia must resemble the glory days of apartheid for the Afrikaner, hence their passion for migrating to Australia where they can return their boots onto the nape of the Kauffer - i.e. Black Man. After murdering Aborigines, the British 'settler' would sell the skull to British museums British managed to devastate a 50 000 year old culture in less than 200 years stolen aboriginal children offered for white adoption stolen aboriginal children being inspected like cattle by the british-australian establishment The scrubs are gone, the hunting and the laughter. The eagle is gone, the emu and the kangaroo are gone from this place. The bora ring is gone. The corroboree is gone. And we are going. Oodgeroo Noonuccal: Aboriginal Australian Poet "Lets herd up all the aborigines and poison their water supply with a sterilization chemical" (Lang Hancock and various Australian politicians 1984) British Anglo-Celtic Spawn & Genocide THE GENOCIDE CONTINUES Excellent site for REAL Australian history http://treatyrepublic.net/ References: http://www.nma.gov.au/shared/libraries/attachments/atsip_newsletter/goree_november_2010/goree_november_2010/files/35857/Goree_Nov10_p18.pdf http://treatyrepublic.net/content/genocide-australia-crimes-against-australias-first-nations-peoples http://www.hreoc.gov.au/social_justice/bth_report/index.html http://www.countercurrents.org/polya120509.htm http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/essays/essay_8.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yagan http://www.decapitation.com.au/decapitation-articles/1997/11/17/yagan-statue-beheaded/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/28/australian-pensioner-arrested-child-attacks http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=6046&page=0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maralinga,_South_Australia http://www.australian-news.com.au/maiden_speech.htm http://www.ozvisa.com/news/2009-09-04/australia/british-are-the-largest-immigrant-group-in-australia.htm http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19770816&id=e48pAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uuYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4740,4467337 http://www.topix.com/forum/world/australia/T245Q7625EC4N3JBK http://hyperhistory.org/images/assets/pdf/genpdf.pdf http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19800422&id=WOBUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=u5IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3792,3169044 http://web.overland.org.au/2010/05/top-blokes-totally-out-of-character-when-five-white-men-beat-an-aboriginal-man-to-death/ http://www.yale.edu/gsp/colonial/Madley.pdf http://www.johnpilger.com/articles/breaking-the-great-australian-silence http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/when-i-was-fauna-citizens-rallying-call/2007/05/22/1179601412706.html http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998067,00.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article3346263.ece http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~robertvk/papers/gen2.htm http://www.ub.edu/dpfilsa/coola3auguste.pdf http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/48172 http://www.darknightpress.org/ http://www.yale.edu/gsp/colonial/Madley.pdf http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/32719352 http://www.smh.com.au/comment/welcome-to-the-abbottoir-20130915-2tsrm.html https://espressostalinist.wordpress.com/category/internationalism/australia/ http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/oldstyle-racism-still-in-constitution-20100913-1598c.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW ZEALAND (AOTEAROA) MAORIS 1832 - present Estimated deaths: 60 000 includes inter-tribal wars linked to British corruption of Maori culture & food economy - Potato Wars - and the introduction and supply of guns - The Musket Wars. Enduring criminality: British introduced disease, feral animals, alcohol and drugs, and alien food products. British introduced guns which led to a massive increase in inter-tribal warfare and massacres. Consequently, at least half of the Maori population was at one time post colonization wiped from the face of earth. The only 'mitigating factor' of the Maori subjugation by British imperialists (in comparison to the standard perfidy meted out to other 'colonized' Indigenous groups) was the Treaty of Waitangi. A Treaty unsurprisingly abused and dishonored by consecutive British spawned New Zealand governments. The Treaty itself is regarded by some Maoris as a meaningless fraud perpetuated by the British invaders. New Zealand's anthem is the official "god save the queen" and as with its subjugated neighbor Australia remains a constitutional monarchy. Enduring spoils for the British: the seizure of the two New Zealand islands North and South and its economic wealth, including agriculture, mining, fishing and forestry. The biggest fraud Britain perpetuates against humanity, is innocence The British also collected Maori Heads References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_protest_movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musket_Wars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_wars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand http://history-nz.org/colonisation.html http://www.postcolonialweb.org/nz/nzmaori5.html http://library.worldhistoria.com/pros-and-cons-of-the-british-maori-occupation_topic374.html http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/10092/967/1/thesis_fulltext.pdf http://www.patuone.com/files_life/treaty.html http://www.waitangitribunal.govt.nz/reports/summary.asp?reportid={469D396B-CE85-4E30-B04F-A39DC8D03F38} http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/exhibitions/NZCross/BritNZ.html?sf_function=print http://history-nz.org/wars5.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIJI ISLANDS 1874 - 1970 Estimated deaths: min 50 000 (or a third of population) mainly attributed to introduction of disease -measles by the British and their Anglo-Celtic spawn in Sydney Australia. In 1875 a vessel carrying Fijian tribal royalty was infected with measles in a 'commissioned' visit to Sydney, an imperial colony of Britain. This blighted vessel was 'knowingly' sent back to Fiji without the Yellow Flag. Unspecified deaths from 1876 Fijian rebellion against the British invaders. The rebellion and genocidal epidermic of measles are highly unlikely to be coincidence. Enduring criminality: the permanent distortion of the indigenous population with the British 'importation' (blackbirding) of some 60 000 indentured laborers from India and South East Asia to slave on British plantations. This non-indigenous population now accounts for 38% of the Fijian population. Among other disruptions this British made alien demographic has caused, is the political upheavals beginning with Rabuka's 1987 coup against ethnic dominant Indian rule. Political upheavals continue to beleaguer Fiji and are mainly sourced to Australian, New Zealand (Anglo-Celtic spawn) and British meddling to manipulate ethnic Indian control of the islands. Logically ethnic Indian Fijians remain allied to their former master as both want the same thing - control of Fiji and her resources. Enduring spoils for the British: Fiji remains part of the neo-imperialist group of Commonwealth countries. Fiji's membership to this vainglorious mutation of British imperialism perpetuates Britain's continued ability to exploit, infiltrate and damage the indigenous world under the guise of 'common wealth'. Cow dung is still dung by any other name. Fiji remains suspended from the Commonwealth - the average Fijian must be devastated, no more genuflecting before the crown. British germ warfare...again! Ethnic Indian Fijians have become willing pawns in an enduring plot by British Anglo-Celtic spawn in Australia and New Zealand to recolonize Fiji. References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40612FA395F1A7493C0A8178CD85F418784F9 http://www.pacifichealthdialog.org.fj/Volume%205/No1%20Emerging%20and%20Re-Emerging%20Diseases%20in%20the%20Pacific/Review%20Papers/Measles%20in%20Fiji%201875%20thoughts%20on%20the%20history%20of%20emerging%20infectious%20diseases.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Fiji http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1300499.stm http://www.san.beck.org/Chronology-Asia,Africa1800-1950.html http://nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/11_16_99/story01.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8231717.stm http://newbritishempire.site11.com/ http://www.zhangshunhong.com/britishimperialismanddecolonisation.htm http://www.treatyrepublic.net/content/rascist-australia-genocidal-atrocities-overview http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbirding http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-05-21/news/8702070606_1_fijians-prime-minister-timoci-bavadra-ethnic http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-09-01/fiji-suspended-from-commonwealth/1413592 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BRITISH INDIA RAJ 1858 - 1947 Estimated deaths: min 100 million includes the Bengal famine which claimed a minimum of 5 million based on corrupt British sources only. Indian or non-Anglo sources, logically more reliably, record 14 million. The 100 million figure does not include (a) the bloody chaos caused by the 1947 Partition estimated to be 1 million (b) the ensuing violence and disaster that continues to beset both Pakistan and Bangladesh. Britain literally tore asunder the Indian sub-continent during its reign of imperial terror, enslaving and starving millions for its vampiric empire. The British made famines including the 2 that devastated Bengal, were to be called the "Late Victorian Holocaust". The 100 million figure is regarded as an extreme under-estimation by some non-anglo sources. Special Note: British imperialists cultivated the bulk of the opium in Bengal they pushed on to China in the 19th century. The opium ravaged Chinese civilization, causing enormous despair and death. This drug-pushing was Britain's way of smashing open the Chinese tea market. Enduring criminality: In spite of the revisionism by that vile anglophile, Niall Ferguson, Indian chaos and appalling poverty is inextricably linked to the plunder and pillage by the British Raj. Britain imperialism savaged the food economy and geo-politics of the India sub-continent. Indigenous tribes and ancient caste systems were vandalized and re-engineered by British imperialists to leverage greater domination of the population. British meddling gave birth to the splinter 'nations' of Pakistan and Bangladesh, both regions wracked with perennial instability and desperation. Pakistan has become an eternal enemy of its 'birth mother' India. Motivated by a mutual "furnace of animosity" both nations have developed weapons of mass destruction. An estimated 61 million Indians survive in urban slums, while in the rural areas, 300 million are mired in the tyranny of poverty. Noam Chomsky points out: "India is still devastated by the effects of British colonialism..."(How the World Works, 2011). Enduring spoils for the British: Nineteenth and twentieth century British economy was hugely supported by the rapacious crimes of the British Raj. The profit Britain flogged from India was reinvested into other imperial and iniquitous ventures, including the numerous invasions into African nations. India remains part of the neo-imperialist group of Commonwealth countries. India's membership to this vainglorious mutation of British imperialism perpetuates Britain's continued ability to exploit, infiltrate and damage the indigenous world under the guise of 'common wealth'. Cow dung is still dung by any other name. The eternal dispute, tension and instability between the partitioned Pakistan and India, a geo-political-religious fissure created by British imperialism, provides Britain exploitative opportunities in the form of arm sales and general chicanery. Bangladesh, (formerly Bengal) was ruthlessly plundered by the British who forced the local population to grow opium crops for British exports, while devastating the local food economy causing the so-called late Victorian Holocaust when 5 million Bengalese starved to death. Non-anglophile historians list the famine toll much higher into the 100s of millions. Unsurprisingly these ghastly crimes perpetrated by the British are completely ignored in all forms of mainstream media, including education curriculums. Bengalese being civilized by the British "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion" Churchill The wonderful legacy of British imperialism The vulture of British imperialism is not pictured The British never really renounced slavery References: http://jambudveep.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/how-many-indians-died-in-the-genocides-committed-by-the-british-raj/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/aug/24/india.randeepramesh http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Independent/partition.html http://cecaust.com.au/foodcrisis/H%20Carey%20British%20free%20trade.pdf http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/2005/07/forgotten-holocaust-194344-bengal.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1770 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Natural_disasters_in_Bangladesh http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38533068/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/t/pakistans-largest-city-descends-deadly-chaos-after-assassination/ http://knol.google.com/k/nomem-de-guerre/british-imperialism-niall-ferguson/220y3s198z640/9# http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/uk-churchill-crimes-exposed-from-british-raj-indian-holocaust-to-palestinian-iraqi-afghan-genocides/ https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/indian-holocaust http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230109.htm http://www.ndu.edu/library/docs/crs/crs_rs21237_17feb05.pdf http://www.einfopedia.com/india-pakistan-relations-history.php http://data.undp.org.in/poverty_reduction/IUPR_Summary.pdf http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/web/guest/country/home/tags/india https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/books/review/Hari-t.html?emc=eta1&pagewanted=all http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Templates/YearbookHomeInternal.asp?NodeID=137900 http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Internal/191086/142227/members/ http://www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/projects/imperialism/cullen.htm http://fame.org/HTM/South%20African%20Gold.htm http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/features/91_feat2.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/debates/south_asian_debates/2645759.stm http://www.stateofnature.org/blairScienceHistory.html http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ http://opioids.com/opium/history/index.html http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/622 http://asianhistory.about.com/od/india/p/indiancastesystem.htm http://sanne.squarespace.com/storage/British%20Colonialism%20in%20India%20and%20its%20Influence%20on%20Indian%20Society.pdf http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/ni/vol08/no02/blpi.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/jul/22/comment.mainsection http://greatgameindia.com/indian-holocaust-under-british-raj-1-billion-excess-deaths-ignored-by-anglo-media/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SRI LANKA / CEYLON 1802 - 1948 Estimated deaths: unspecified min 500 000 including the entire Uva region male population above the age of 18 years in revenge for resistance against British imperialist occupation. The 1818 Uva-Wellassa Uprising also know as the Great Rebellion and the Madulla Massacre resulted in multiple atrocities against Sri Lankans by British imperialists, including razing and annihilation of villages. At one point during the resistance, British imperialist considered a plan to "exterminate" the entire Kandyan population. Instead the British made do with killing at least one male member from each Kandyan family. The kill figure does include the Tamil Eelam independence struggle which saw at least 100 000 killed and 1000s more displaced. This internal rupture is a direct consequence of the geo-political vandalism perpetrated by British imperialism across India / Asia. Existing tribal and clan structures were smashed and corrupted by the British invaders with the principal agenda of creating discord and rivalry to weaken the indigenous groups while strengthening the imperialist stranglehold. Enduring criminality: Poverty and social inequity continues to ravage Sri Lanka. The Tamil independence struggle saw many thousands killed and many more displaced and subject to repression. Sri Lanka is a member State of the Commonwealth, an venal neo-imperialist entity serving to prolong the menace of British skulduggery and dominance on the international stage. Enduring spoils for the British: Once the British evicted their imperialist Dutch predecessor, and in turn slaughtered the rebellious Kandyan people, they foisted coffee and tea crops on Sri Lankan land. These plantations proved successful, further enriching the imperialist British orgre. In order to enslave the population to toil on the plantations, British Ceylon anglicized a select group of Sri Lankans to oversee the plantations and the laborers. The trigger was pulled by a Sri Lankan, but the gun was loaded by British imperialism The British never really renounced slavery Typically the British recruited local 'chiefs' to enslave the indigenous masses Butchering life was second nature to the British References: http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Sri_Lanka.html http://www.localhistories.org/srilanka.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Rebellion_of_1817-1818 http://www.lankalibrary.com/geo/madulla.htm http://www.lankalibrary.com/geo/kandy%20rebellion.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamils http://www.statistics.gov.lk/poverty/reportnew-Final.pdf http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/feb1999/sri-f09.shtml http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/srilanka0209webwcover_0.pdf http://hettiarachchi.tripod.com/history.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Ceylon http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343648/Sri-Lanka-scrub-British-colonial-Ceylon-state-institution.html http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?threadID=1999544 http://www.infolanka.com/org/srilanka/cult/32.htm http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/07/13/ten_lessons_on_empire http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2010/11/14/mon03.asp http://100surya.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHINESE OPIUM WARS 1839 - 1842 (First Opium War), 1856 - 1860 (Second Opium War). Estimated deaths: 10 million Chinese became addicted to the 100 000s of tonnes of opium trafficked by Britain into a fractured and defenseless China. Millions of casualties are attributed to Chinese resistance and addiction to the opium scourge imposed by the British. The Taiping Rebellion which followed the"humiliating Treaty of Nanking" saw an estimated 30 million Chinese die. This internal rupture was caused by an anglicized messianic-complex Hong Xiuquan and according to various sources the Taiping Rebellion is causally linked to the fallout from the toxic opium trade inflicted by the British. Total deaths 30 million. Much of the opium pushed onto China, typically traded for tea in place of silver, was sourced from the British Raj, where the British had enslaved the local population in poppy, tea and coffee plantations. Britain literally made a killing by hooking the Chinese on opium and quickly expanded its drug trafficking throughout China. Conscious of the terrible social damage opium was causing her people, China attempted to stop the British dope trade, by seizing and destroying a shipment leading to the so-called Opium Wars. With the aid of European collaborators, in particular the French, a traditional partner in crime, the Chinese were defeated in both 'wars' and forced to sign the Treaty of Nanking which essentially gave the British open slather to further poison the Chinese with narcotics. British reprisals against Chinese resistance to their cancerous dope trade were horrific as the Morning Herald explained "a more horrible or revolting crime than this bombardment of Canton has never been committed in the worst ages of barbaric darkness." In effect Britain was the worlds largest drug trafficker, literally hooking an entire nation on drugs, lauding the crime as a glorious act of "free trade", as Noam Chomsky explains: "...when the British government compelled China to open its doors to opium from British India, sanctimoniously pleading the virtues of free-trade as they forcibly imposed large scale drug addiction on China" (How the World Works, 2011). Enduring criminality: Chinese addiction, an estimated 70 million "junkies", persisted long after the British and their predator European collaborators were given chase in the Boxer Rebellion. The sum total of Britain's toxic pillaging of China left her severely weak and thus vulnerable by the time she declared herself a Republic in 1912. This made a fragile China easy pickings for imperial Japan, which engaged in an orgy of monstrous gory violence in the Rape of Nanking. Enduring spoils for the British: along with the commodity of tea grown by slaves or indentured laborers, the opium drug trade largely funded British imperialism, financing many invasions into indigenous nations across the globe. Profits from the drug trade allowed Britain to expand and improve its naval fleet ensuring Britain maintained its so-called supreme advantage on the high seas. British dope trade devastated China Opium became a new currency of the British Empire Gloating British colonialists beheading Chinese in Hong Kong The Boxer Rebellion against imperialism failed and more Chinese were butchered The perfidious British even forced little Oriental women to 'hump' their fetid carcasses across the slave-yards of the Empire. The queen of drug trafficking, queen Victoria References: http://opioids.com/opium/history/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1839lin2.asp http://www.essortment.com/opium-war-1839-1842-21590.html http://www.amoymagic.com/OpiumWar.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/opium_wars_01/ow1_essay_03.pdf http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Opium_Wars.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/empire/episodes/episode_47.shtml http://reality-bytes.hubpages.com/hub/The-Opium-Wars-In-China http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2587855/opium_wars_second_clash_18561860.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7460682.stm http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biggestsecret/biggestsecretbook/biggestsecret18.htm http://www.napoleon.org/en/reading_room/articles/files/477667.asp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzsQjQatvL0 http://wideshut.co.uk/if-opium-funds-terrorism-then-arrest-the-queen-of-england/ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3b56dac0-f992-11e0-bf8f-00144feab49a.html#axzz1e9abDlv6 http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=8311 http://www.taipingrebellion.com/ http://www.drugtext.org/library/books/McCoy/book/18.htm http://www.amitavghosh.com/seapoppies_r.html http://www.ouworldwide.com/uploads/Broadcast_Card_Opium.pdf http://www.sacu.org/opium2.html http://www.teamuse.com/article_010502.html http://www.revealinghistories.org.uk/legacies-stereotypes-racism-and-the-civil-rights-movement/articles/indentured-labour-from-asia.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre http://www.nanking-massacre.com/RAPE_OF_NANKING_OR_NANJING_MASSACRE_1937.html http://american_almanac.tripod.com/opium.htm http://rwor.org/a/china/opium.htm http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_boxer.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion http://history.cultural-china.com/en/183History6971.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/om/om15.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PARTITION OF PALESTINE & CREATION OF ISRAEL 1916 (Sykes-Picot Agreement), 1917 (Balfour Declaration) 1922 (League of Nations Edict) 1947 (UN Partition) then Israeli Occupation to the Present Background: the historic background of British meddling in the Middle-East and Palestine is complex. The definitive starting point of the British occupation is best signified by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement when the British and French carved up the Middle-East for their respective imperialist gains to counter the Ottomans. British 'rule' over Palestine was latter formalized in 1922 by the League of Nations as the British Mandate for Palestine. Meanwhile Zionist 'leaders' in London, personified by Rothschild lobbied the British imperial government to support in principle a Jewish State in Palestine. Benjamin Freedman, an ex-Zionist based in the United States explained how the British traded Palestine with Zionists in return for the Zionists manipulating America into entering WW1 and deploying against Germany. As with any person who dares criticizes and or exposes the skulduggery of Zionism, the Jewish Freedman was ironically labeled an anti-semite and is mostly ignored by establishment academia and historians. Protected by British imperial forces European Jews poured into Palestine to essentially occupy the land by proxy until the United Nations issued its now infamous Partition declaration in 1947. By 1947 again with the aid of British imperial forces, the Zionist population in Palestine steadily increased. This Anglo-Zionist meddling in the Middle-East has given birth to relentless conflict, grief and death. The original British imperialist genesis for the ongoing chaos and butchery in the Middle-East is overlooked by most contemporary observers, including 'academics'. Such wanton neglect of history serves only to conceal another enormous crime perpetrated by Britain, the consequences of which are felt everywhere, most gruesomely in the 9-11 attacks in New York City when alleged Islamic terrorists sympathetic to the Palestine cause hijacked 4 commercial jetliners. Estimated deaths: Since 1967 - 500 000 Palestinians excludes the Jaffa uprising and British counter-attack Enduring criminality: millions of Palestinians are today refugees or living in constant fear in being bombed by Israeli warplanes, and abducted by IDF. Enduring spoils for the British: weapons sales to Israel and Arab nations eternally embroiled in the Palestinian conflict. The regional destabilization effects of the Palestinian occupation immensely benefits Britain, which profits from the chaos and desperation violence produces. Divide, conquer and exploit has long been Britain's trademark vice that has hemorrhaged so many Indigenous Nations. Palestinian child victim of Israeli air attacks Israeli children happily learning how to kill Palestinians Palestinian being abducted by IDF British Zionists traded Palestine for American involvement in WW1 the alleged original source of British partitioning of Palestine as with the other anglo fable Livingstone, Lawrence was a fraud, ultimately betraying the Arabs for imperial Britain References: http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/2006/05/post-1967-palestinian-israeli-deaths.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_refugee http://www.onepalestine.org/resources/flyers/MythHistory.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Palestine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_UN_Partition_Plan http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2011/10/zionist-war-on-palestine-olives.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-leaders-rothschild.html http://www.ifamericaknew.org/history/origin.html http://www.ifamericaknew.org/stats/deaths.html http://www.globalissues.org/article/119/the-middle-east-conflict-a-brief-background http://idfspokesperson.com/ http://www.stoparmingisrael.org/ http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=18004 http://www.rense.com/general34/amaz.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_H._Freedman http://www.erichufschmid.net/TFC/Ben_Freedman.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BURMA (MYANMAR) 1824 -1948 (subsumed into British India until 1935) Estimated deaths: Enduring criminality: Enduring spoils for the British: References: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IRELAND 1845 - 1852 (famine) 1880s to present (independence) Estimated deaths: 1 million (Potato Famine) plus 1000s (independence struggle). Enduring criminality: In the 19th century Irish Catholics were regarded as little more than landless sheep by their English 'lords', consequently a million died from starvation and disease, a period identified as the Great Irish Famine. Enduring spoils for the British: continued possession of Ireland and all the strategic and economic spoils that go with the possession. References: http://mises.org/daily/2978 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INDONESIA 1811 - 1816 AND 1945 -1946 (including Anglo-Australian Regiments). Estimated deaths Enduring criminality Enduring spoils for the British References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Indonesia.htm http://asiarecipe.com/indohiseurope.html http://www.workers.org/indonesia/chap3.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MALAYSIA 1819 - 1963 Estimated deaths: Enduring criminality: Enduring spoils for the British: References: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTH AFRICA ZULU NATION & (BOERS) INVENT CONCENTRATION CAMP 1899 -1902 Estimated deaths: Enduring criminality: Enduring spoils for the British: References: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE FALKLANDS (ARGENTINA) Estimated deaths: Enduring criminality: Enduring spoils for the British: References: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHILE 1973 - 1990 Estimated deaths Enduring criminality Enduring spoils for the British References: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TAHITI 1769 – INTRODUCTION OF DISEASE BY COOK Estimated deaths: Enduring criminality: Enduring spoils for the British: References: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IRAN 1941 OPERATION COUNTENANCE Estimated deaths: Enduring criminality: Iranian parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani explains: "decades of domineering moves by the British in Iran" Enduring spoils for the British: the British have been subverting Iran for decades Iranians explaining how it really is References: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15960731 http://news.egypt.com/english/permalink/69903.html http://www.mehrnews.com/en/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=1474239 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IRAQ Estimated deaths: Enduring criminality: Enduring spoils for the British: References: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NORTH YEMEN Estimated deaths: Enduring criminality: Enduring spoils for the British: References: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OMAN Estimated deaths Enduring criminality Enduring spoils for the British References: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JAMAICA Estimated deaths Enduring criminality Enduring spoils for the British References: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EGYPT (SUEZ CANAL) Estimated deaths Enduring criminality Enduring spoils for the British References: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/201192514364490977.html Lord Palmerston declared that "no ideas of fairness [toward Egypt] ought to stand in the way of such great and paramount interests" of Britain as preserving its economic and political hegemony, expressing his "hate" for the "ignorant barbarian" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESTIMATED GRAND TOTAL BRITISH MURDER COUNT = --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWSWEEK 2009 The Guardian Murdered by British Immigrants for "Being Black" Choose to Worship the British Monarchy Evil British Empire a solution for Julian Assange against the tyranny of Britain Posted by nomem de Guerre at 00:37 36 comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Home Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) Simple theme. 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Where did I say that? All I'm saying is the greatest horrors in our time have been committed by so-called christian countries, or, countries where the majority of the population was christian. Nuff said.

That's a rather glib copout, Nutbean. Isis, funded and armed by the USA, Saudi Arabia and dare I say it Israel, typifies so-called Muslim extremism. What I'm getting at is it's in the interests of the countries I've mentioned to have ISIS associated with the Muslim faith. It's just cynical manipulation, and there is historical precedent for this cynical manipulation as many of your ancestors would well know.

Yes, a typical reply from someone who gets their history via Hollywood. My father was conscripted into the Wermacht in February 1941. Yes, the Wermacht had christian chaplains. People like you spell that as Chaplins... The priests who died defied the Nazis. Most German clergy didn't defy the Nazis. neither did the Popes for that matter.

There's more to the ISIS story than meets the eye. Amnesty International, for example, claim the USA provided them with billions of dollars worth of arms in 2016 etc etc

Just use of the term 'leftie' means he's a troglodyte bullyboy.

I take your point. On the other hand there was a headline on the front page of the Herald Sun about 8 years ago - the banner outside the Balwyn Newsagent proclaimed it loud and strong: MUSLIM ROBS BANK. What I'm getting at is when any crime or atrocity committed by a muslim often - especially in this day and age - people like ProDee and Wrecker and the great unwashed rabble blame it on the Muslim faith. All I did was point out that most of the most heinous crimes in history have been committed by so-called Christians. Or, as my father put it, the Wermacht chaplains told German soldiers god was on their side. My father worked out the Allied Chaplains told their soldiers the same. The same god, mind you.... In the end, it makes me angry when people who know nothing about another religion - Hanson and Lambie for example when they ooze delerium when talking about sharia law - ascribe all kinds of ghastly things to it. As a Jew you might recognize this pattern in history and I put it to you that the mad ravings of the Muslim haters in the so-called christian world come from the same people who once ranted Anti Semitism.

Well, Wreck and your favorite lunatic right raver, ProDee, might want to reconsider in the light of the simple fact that no Muslim ever caused the following: Aushwitz, the murder and displacement of millions of European Jews by Hitler and various other Progroms and examples like the Dreyfus case. Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The firebombings of WW2. The death of 38 million Indians under British Rule. WW1 Vietnam Iraq 2003 The murder of Gaddafi and the complete rape of Libya. etc etc etc. I could go on but lunatic so -called Christians like you will forever keep pointing the finger at 'The Other', totally ignoring not only your own guilty history but your total complicity in any reactions the victims of these 'christian' atrocities might deploy when seeking justice and or revenge.

And the angst is surely justified.

As Jara says, most of these points of view are tarnished and paid for by the petro/coal industry. ProDee must spend a lot of time trying to substantiate the indefensible. He sounds like Hockey and Abbott calling wind farms eyesores.

The bottom line, sweetie, being prepared to believe in man made climate change does not make you or me or the ABC a leftie. For the record, I write, bowl, bat, kick, eat, pick my nose and wipe my bum with my right hand. I am not a molly dooker.

That's just bullshite.

You might well have an earths sciences background, it doesn't mean you qualify as an intelligent human being. What indicates that maybe you're not is the reference to 'the leftist rags like the age and the ABC'. To categorize debate on this topic as 'leftist' indicates you have the proclivities of an ignorant name caller. Once upon a time people like you were called neanderthals. They used clubs instead of words. Slogans are the modern version of the club. Slogans are the enemy of logic.

Work of prominent climate change denier was funded by energy industry Willie Soon is researcher at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Documents: Koch brothers foundation among groups that gave total of $1.25m Willie Soon does not accept that rising greenhouse gas emissions cause climate change, instead blaming the sun. Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images View more sharing options This article is 2 years old Shares 14,707 Comments 878 Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent @suzyji Sunday 22 February 2015 08.32 AEDTFirst published on Sunday 22 February 2015 08.14 AEDT A prominent academic and climate change denier’s work was funded almost entirely by the energy industry, receiving more than $1.2m from companies, lobby groups and oil billionaires over more than a decade, newly released documents show. Over the last 14 years Willie Soon, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, received a total of $1.25m from Exxon Mobil, Southern Company, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and a foundation run by the ultra-conservative Koch brothers, the documents obtained by Greenpeace through freedom of information filings show. According to the documents, the biggest single funder was Southern Company, one of the country’s biggest electricity providers that relies heavily on coal. The documents draw new attention to the industry’s efforts to block action against climate change – including President Barack Obama’s power-plant rules. Lobbyist dubbed Dr Evil behind front groups attacking Obama power rules Read more Unlike the vast majority of scientists, Soon does not accept that rising greenhouse gas emissions since the industrial age are causing climate changes. He contends climate change is driven by the sun. In the relatively small universe of climate denial Soon, with his Harvard-Smithsonian credentials, was a sought after commodity. He was cited admiringly by Senator James Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who famously called global warming a hoax. He was called to testify when Republicans in the Kansas state legislature tried to block measures promoting wind and solar power. The Heartland Institute, a hub of climate denial, gave Soon a courage award. Soon did not enjoy such recognition from the scientific community. There were no grants from Nasa, the National Science Foundation or the other institutions which were funding his colleagues at the Center for Astrophysics. According to the documents, his work was funded almost entirely by the fossil fuel lobby. “The question here is really: ‘What did API, ExxonMobil, Southern Company and Charles Koch see in Willie Soon? What did they get for $1m-plus,” said Kert Davies, a former Greenpeace researcher who filed the original freedom of information requests. Greenpeace and the Climate Investigations Center, of which Davies is the founder, shared the documents with news organisations. “Did they simply hope he was on to research that would disprove the consensus? Or was it too enticing to be able to basically buy the nameplate Harvard-Smithsonian?” From 2005, Southern Company gave Soon nearly $410,000. In return, Soon promised to publish research about the sun’s influence on climate change in leading journals, and to deliver lectures about his theories at national and international events, according to the correspondence. The funding would lead to “active participations by this PI (principal investigator) of this research proposal in all national and international forums interested in promoting the basic understanding of solar variability and climate change”, Soon wrote in a report to Southern Company. Harvard's high-profile alumni join fossil fuel divestment campaign in open letter Read more In 2012, Soon told Southern Company its grants had supported publications on polar bears, temperature changes in the Arctic and China, and rainfall patterns in the Indian monsoon. ExxonMobil gave $335,000 but stopped funding Soon in 2010, according to the documents. The astrophysicist reportedly received $274,000 from the main oil lobby, the American Petroleum Institute, and $230,000 from the Charles G Koch Foundation. He received an additional $324,000 in anonymous donations through a trust used by the Kochs and other conservative donors, the documents showed. Greenpeace has suggested Soon also improperly concealed his funding sources for a recent article, in violation of the journal’s conflict of interest guidelines. “The company was paying him to write peer-reviewed science and that relationship was not acknowledged in the peer-reviewed literature,” Davies said. “These proposals and contracts show debatable interventions in science literally on the behalf of Southern Company and the Kochs.” In letters to the Internal Revenue Service and Congress, Greenpeace said Soon may have misused the grants from the Koch foundation by trying to influence legislation. Soon did not respond to requests for comment. But he has in the past strenuously denied his industry funders had any influence over his conclusions. “No amount of money can influence what I have to say and write, especially on my scientific quest to understand how climate works, all by itself,” he told the Boston Globe in 2013. As is common among Harvard-Smithsonian scientists, Soon is not on a salary. He receives his compensation from outside grant money, said Christine Pulliam, a spokeswoman for the Center for Astrophysics. World's biggest PR firm calls it quits with American oil lobby – reports Read more The Center for Astrophysics does not require scientists to disclose their funding sources. But Pulliam acknowleged that Soon had failed to meet disclosure requirements of some of the journals that published his research. “Soon should have followed those policies,” she said. Harvard said Soon operated outside of the university – even though he carries a Harvard ID and uses a Harvard email address. “Willie Soon is a Smithsonian staff researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a collaboration of the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,” a Harvard spokesman, Jeff Neal, said. “There is no record of Soon having applied for or having been granted funds that were or are administered by the University. Soon is not an employee of Harvard.” Both Harvard and the Smithsonian acknowledge that the climate is changing because of rising levels of greenhouse gas concentrations caused by human activities. Pulliam cast Soon’s association with the institutions as an issue of academic freedom: “Academic freedom is critically important. The Smithsonian stands by the process by which the research results of all of its scholars are peer reviewed and vetted by other scientists. This is the way that the scientific process works. The funding entities, regardless of their affiliation, have no influence on the research.” Topics Climate change

Climate Misinformer: Richard Lindzen Richard Lindzen is an American atmospheric physicist and Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Quotes Articles Arguments Blogs Links Search Quotes by Richard Lindzen Climate Myth What the Science Says ""We’ve already seen almost the equivalent of a doubling of CO2 (in radiative forcing) and that has produced very little warming"" 25 July 2012 (Source) This argument ignores the cooling effect of aerosols and the planet's thermal inertia. "If I’m wrong, we’ll know it in 50 years and can do something." 30 April 2012 (Source) A large amount of warming is delayed, and if we don’t act now we could pass tipping points. "Only with positive feedbacks from water vapor and clouds does one get the large warmings that are associated with alarm. What the satellite data seems to show is that these positive feedbacks are model artifacts." 22 February 2012 (Source) Evidence is building that net cloud feedback is likely positive and unlikely to be strongly negative. "...one can see no warming since 1997." 22 February 2012 (Source) Global temperature is still rising and 2010 was the hottest recorded. "As Phil Jones acknowledged, there has been no statistically significant warming in 15 years." 22 February 2012 (Source) Phil Jones was misquoted. "You have to remember, this is an issue where what most scientists agree on has nothing to do with the alarm. I think the real problem is so many scientists have gone along with it without pointing out that what has been established reasonably well has nothing to do with the urgency that’s being promoted, which is largely a political matter." 6 April 2011 (Source) A large amount of warming is delayed, and if we don’t act now we could pass tipping points. "In the North Pole, you don’t have a [ice] cap, you have sea ice; it’s very variable. And as far as Greenland and Antarctica go, there’s no evidence of any significant change. I mean, you know, again your measurements aren’t that great, but any reports you hear are again focusing on tiny changes that would have no implication." 6 April 2011 (Source) Arctic sea ice has shrunk by an area equal to Western Australia, and summer or multi-year sea ice might be all gone within a decade. "The crucial thing is sensitivity: you know, what do you expect a doubling of CO2 to do? If it's only a degree, then you could go through at least two doublings and probably exhaust much of your fossil fuel before you would do anything that would bother anyone." 6 April 2011 (Source) Net positive feedback is confirmed by many different lines of evidence. "[Emissions cuts] would be a moral disaster, because it would mean that much of the world would preclude development and so they'd be more vulnerable to the disasters that occur regardless of man [...] Your vulnerability increases as your wealth decreases." 6 April 2011 (Source) Those who contribute the least greenhouse gases will be most impacted by climate change. "The evidence is pretty good that even if everyone [cut emissions] in the whole world it wouldn't make a lot of difference." 6 April 2011 (Source) If every nation agrees to limit CO2 emissions, we can achieve significant cuts on a global scale. "It's a heavy cost for no benefit, and it's no benefit for you, no benefit for your children, no benefit for your grandchildren, no benefit for your great-great-great-great-grandchildren. I mean, what's the point of that?" 6 April 2011 (Source) The benefits of a price on carbon outweigh the costs several times over. "For Australia to act now is, you know, a bit bizarre, and certainly cannot be justified by any impact it would have on Australia or anyone." 6 April 2011 (Source) A large amount of warming is delayed, and if we don’t act now we could pass tipping points. "I think even Flannery acknowledged that Australia doing this [a carbon tax] would have no discernible impact for virtually a millennium, even if Australia's output during that millennium was increasing exponentially." 6 April 2011 (Source) CO2 limits won't cool the planet, but they can make the difference between continued accelerating global warming to catastrophic levels vs. slowing and eventually stopping the warming at hopefully safe levels "If we doubled CO2, it's well accepted that you should get about 1 degree warming if nothing else happened. [...] But 1 degree is reckoned as not very significant. The question then is: is what we've seen so far suggesting that you have more than that, and the answer is no." 6 April 2011 (Source) Net positive feedback is confirmed by many different lines of evidence. "If we doubled CO2, it's well accepted that you should get about 1 degree warming if nothing else happened." 6 April 2011 (Source) Net positive feedback is confirmed by many different lines of evidence. "The models do say you should have seen 2-5 times more than you've already seen, you know, you have to then accept, if you believe the models, that you actually should have gotten far more warming than you've seen, but some mysterious process has cancelled part of it." 6 April 2011 (Source) This argument ignores the cooling effect of aerosols and the planet's thermal inertia. "If nothing else changed, adding the amount of CO2 that we've added thus far should account for maybe a quarter of what we've seen." 6 April 2011 (Source) Theory, models and direct measurement confirm CO2 is currently the main driver of climate change. "There's not too much disagreement that there has been a very small increase in temperature [...] This is pretty tiny; it's a fraction of a degree." 6 April 2011 (Source) A few degrees of global warming has a huge impact on ice sheets, sea levels and other aspects of climate. "If it's greenhouse warming, you get more warming in the middle of the troposphere, the first 10, 12 kilometres of the atmosphere than you do at the surface. There are good theoretical reasons for that, having to do with how the greenhouse works." 12 December 2010 (Source) We see a clear "short-term hot spot" - there's various evidence for a "long-term hot spot". "CO2 for different people has different attractions. After all, what is it? – it’s not a pollutant, it’s a product of every living creature’s breathing, it’s the product of all plant respiration, it is essential for plant life and photosynthesis, it’s a product of all industrial burning, it’s a product of driving..." 26 November 2008 (Source) Through its impacts on the climate, CO2 presents a danger to public health and welfare, and thus qualifies as an air pollutant "There has been no warming since 1997 and no statistically significant warming since 1995." 11 March 2008 (Source) Statistical significance requires sufficient timescales but many lines of evidence indicate global warming is still happening. "the main greenhouse gas is water vapor which is both natural in origin and highly variable in its distribution. In the absence of good records of water vapor we aren't even in a position to say how much total greenhouse gases have increased." 10 June 1997 (Source) Rising CO2 increases atmospheric water vapor, which makes global warming much worse. "On the planet the most wonderful constituent is water with its remarkable thermodynamic properties. It's the obvious candidate for the thermostat of our system, and yet in most of these models, all water-related feedbacks are positive. I don't think we would have existed if that were true" 27 September 1989 (Source) Net positive feedback is confirmed by many different lines of evidence. "In the current models, for reasons that puzzle almost everyone, the cloud feedbacks are positive rather than negative" 27 September 1989 (Source) Evidence is building that net cloud feedback is likely positive and unlikely to be strongly negative. "Water vapor is far and away the most important greenhouse gas, except for one form which isn't a greenhouse gas: clouds. Clouds themselves as liquid water are as important to the infrared budget as water vapor. Both swamp by orders of magnitude all the others. With CO2 one is talking about three watts per square meter at most, compared to a hundred or more watts per square meter for water" 27 September 1989 (Source) Rising CO2 increases atmospheric water vapor, which makes global warming much worse. "in 1983 a panel of the National Academy of Sciences recommended a technique to validate climate models known as "fingerprinting"--efforts to find at least regional effects in modeling that are correct. This has turned out to be a disaster in methodology, because all the models differ even in their signs [directions] of predicted change, and they don't even agree on these features for the present climate" 27 September 1989 (Source) Models successfully reproduce temperatures since 1900 globally, by land, in the air and the ocean. "It is interesting that before this last appearance of 'greenhouse warming' (1970 to present), there were actually quite a log of books on the coming ice age. Now a new set of books on the coming warming are hitting the stands" 27 September 1989 (Source) The vast majority of climate papers in the 1970s predicted warming. "the models showing that warming will occur with increasing CO2 predict after-the-fact (post-predict) that since the 19th century we should have seen between about one and two degrees of warming" 27 September 1989 (Source) This argument ignores the cooling effect of aerosols and the planet's thermal inertia. "What we have is data that says that maybe [warming] occurs, but it's within the noise....The point we have to keep in mind is that without any of this at all our climate would wander--at least within limits" 27 September 1989 (Source) Internal variability can only account for small amounts of warming and cooling over periods of decades, and scientific studies have consistently shown that it cannot account for the global warming over the past century. "The trouble is that the earlier data suggest that one is starting at what probably was an anomalous minimum near 1880. The entire record would more likely be saying that the rise is 0.1 degree plus or minus 0.3 degree...I would say, and I don't think I'm going out on a very big limb, that the data as we have it does not support a warming" 27 September 1989 (Source) The warming trend is the same in rural and urban areas, measured by thermometers and satellites. "Urbanization also creates problems in interpreting the temperature record. There is the problem of making corrections for the greater inherent warming over cities--in moving weather stations from a city to an outlying airport, for example" 27 September 1989 (Source) The warming trend is the same in rural and urban areas, measured by thermometers and satellites. "I personally feel that the likelihood over the next century of greenhouse warming reaching magnitudes comparable to natural variability seems small" 27 September 1989 (Source) Multiple sets of independent observations find a human fingerprint on climate change. Back to Climate Skeptics 00 : 00 : 97 The Consensus Project Website THE ESCALATOR (free to republish) Smartphone Apps iPhone Android Nokia © Copyright 2017 John Cook

More sophistry from The Australian on coral reef science in wake of Great Barrier Reef bleaching Bleached and algae covered coral at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, May 2016: Credit: XL Catlin Seaview Survey If you’ve been reading The Australian recently, you might think that coral reef science is in some kind of crisis. The Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper has been attempting to spin the worst coral bleaching event in the reef’s recorded history as a beat-up by environmentalists and high-profile scientists. It isn’t. The latest instalment came earlier today from the newspaper’s environment editor Graham Lloyd, under the print headline “The bleaching of parts of the reef is dividing the scientific world” and online under the headline “Great barrier battleground over coral bleaching.” Lloyd seems to be trying to construct a narrative that the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and the subsequent death of about a quarter of all the corals has opened some sort of schism among scientists. The bleaching, writes Lloyd, has “unleashed long-simmering tensions over the quality of reef research.” This is, in my view, bollocks [sorry kids]. Lloyd includes three individuals to back up his claims. They have two things in common. One is that none of them are anywhere close to being actual experts in coral biology. The second thing Lloyd’s “experts” all have in common is a broad rejection of the science linking dangerous human-caused climate change to fossil fuel burning, something Lloyd does not mention. Let’s look for a minute at who Lloyd quotes to back up his narrative. First there is Prof Judith Curry, of Georgia Tech University, who has no peer-reviewed publications at all in relation to coral reefs. Having a solid body of peer-reviewed research behind you in the relevant scientific field should be the pre-requisite for assigning “expertise”. Curry is a favourite among climate science deniers for her view that human-caused climate change is a beat up. Then there is the curious inclusion of Jim Steele, of San Francisco State University. According to that university’s website, Steele is “emeritus” – which means he is retired. I cannot find a publication listing for Steele, but this biography suggests expertise in biology and, in particular, birds. In 2013, Steele released a book claiming that climate change was natural and not being caused by humans. Then there is James Cook University’s Prof Peter Ridd, who is not a coral biologist. He has published work on how sediments and waters move around coral reefs, but I am told he has no expertise on the biology of corals. Lloyd again neglects to mention Ridd’s work on projects to support the construction of fossil fuel export facilities along the Queensland coastline close to the reef. Nether does he mention Ridd’s tendency towards climate science denialism. Lloyd does get quotes from one actual expert on coral bleaching – arguably one of the the world’s foremost authorities on the issue, Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, of the University of Queensland. Lloyd includes a discussion of Hoegh-Guldberg’s seminal 1999 paper on coral bleaching which warned that “present and future increases in sea temperature are likely to have severe effects on the world’s coral reefs within 20 – 30 years”. Hoegh-Guldberg is currently at the International Coral Reef Symposium in Hawaii with a couple of thousand other reef and coral experts. He has read the story in The Australian, and told me: But in my view, not only did Lloyd choose people who were “simply not experts” but he also missed some key facts and nuance in his scrambled narrative. For example, Lloyd looks at the issue of calcification rates of corals saying that “one paper claims there has been a 15 per cent decline in calcification rate between 1990 and 2005.” Lloyd is referring to this 2009 Science paper by Dr Glenn De’ath, of the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). You can see if you follow that link that this paper was corrected by the authors in 2013, to show that calcification rates had actually dropped by a likely 11.4 per cent, rather than 14.1 per cent, as had originally been estimated (not 15 per cent, as Lloyd had written). Lloyd cites “quality assurance work” carried out by Ridd (and published in the journal Marine Geology) that claimed to have found “two major flaws” in the 2009 De’ath et al paper. One of those flaws had been addressed in the correction, which Lloyd had not mentioned. Neither had Lloyd mentioned that De’ath et al had actually responded to Ridd’s paper in the same Marine Geology journal and explained why they thought his criticisms were not valid. Lloyd also raises the issue of historical coral bleaching, writing that “there is certainly documented evidence of earlier bleaching” than prior to 1980. He cites a paper (actually a book chapter) from retired AIMS scientist Ray Berkelmans which pointed out that British scientists visiting the reef in 1929 witnessed bleaching. But does this Berkelmans paper show that this 1929 event was evidence of “reef-wide bleaching” as Lloyd claims? I asked Berkelmans, who retired from AIMS in March 2015. He told me: So does Berkelmans think his work, cited in The Australian, is evidence that mass coral bleaching is not a modern day phenomenon driven by global warming? “No,” he said. “There are of course early reports of bleaching – there was one in the US in the late 1890s. But we certainly know that since the 80s we are seeing many, many more [episodes of bleaching] and they are widespread and include widespread losses of coral.” So the point is this. Nobody has claimed that some corals have not occasionally bleached when under local stresses, such as high water temperatures or high pollution levels (Hoegh-Guldberg points to this 1993 paper to illustrate this). The issue at hand is whether there has been mass coral bleachinghappening simultaneously across not only the Great Barrier Reef, but across multiple ocean basins around the globe, and that this is a new phenomena. The answer to that, from all genuine experts, seems to be yes. So is there debate in the scientific literature about the precise nature of coral bleaching and the multiple and interweaving factors that contribute to it? Of course there is. But does this mean that the current bleaching event has opened up some kind of schism among marine scientists that is distinct from the everyday cut and thrust of science? No.

https://climatecrocks.com/2015/12/12/denier-for-hire-its-still-a-thing/ This is what Wrecker and Pro Dee should be advocating, not their collection of Climate Change Sceptics for Hire.

Dear Wrecker and ProDee You can present all the 'evidence' you like, the bottom line is that the Scientific community,as such, believes that the likes of you and Mr Roberto of the Hanson Rejects are preaching unscientific crap. I hope you can live comfortably in your skins while the world fries because it ain't gonna affect you. Your grandchildren may remember you both as ignorant dogmatic yes sayers, the type that just upholds the status quo so we can make a buck or two in the short term.

W Who is the back pocket Jones? You surely mean Johnson...

Why do you think Copernicus was afraid???????You forget how powerful the so-called Church was - was and still is in this country, witness DLP split, the lunatic fringe beliefs of Bernardi and the Abbottoir ( a very keen Santamaria acolyte ) and Andrews, the same sex marriage debacle where even Spain and Ireland have allowed common sense and compassion to rule - and, yep you mentioned it, the bastards burnt you if you flouted their fundamentalist patriarchal ideology. If you think I'm maybe a bit bitter and twisted about the so called church, you're right. I attended Salesian College Rupertswood as a day boy therefore I missed the 'warm cuddly' stuff. Unfortunately my best friend didn't. He still wears the scars. What we did get in regular abundance was lies and propaganda rammed down our throats - not all of them were lunatics, mind you. The Headmaster, for example, took Social Sudies in Matric and he used to turn apoplectic about the rape of Vietnam by the USA and Australia Most of all we faced the viscious brutality born from a goulash of bigotry, sexual frustration and the unconscious rage they must have felt when they inevitably faced the fact they were living a futile anachronistic lie where on the one hand they were supposed to be the sheppards of Jesus but in reality most of the were just indoctrinated order followers and child beaters and child molesters.

Who you callin dear?