See Trump And Think FAT SWINDLER

The Donald Trump court case currently under way in America can be confusing but i have come up with a handy Acronym which explains it all, FAT SWINDLER.

F is for Four which is the amount of years Trump could face if he is found guilty
A is for AMI who is the publishing company of the National Enquirer who were involved in the scheme to suppress any damaging stories about Trump
T is for the other woman, playboy model Karen McDougal who was given $150,000 for her silence over her affair with Trump

S is for Sexual Assault which is what Trump admitted to doing, saying he would grab women's genitals
W is for Witch Hunt which is what Trump repeatedly calls his trial
I is for Interference which is what prosecutors claim he was trying to do when he falsified his records 
N is for New York where the trial is being held
D is for Daniels, the porn star whose real name is Stephanie Clifford who was given £130,000 hush money by Trump
L is for Liar which is what the main witness and the man who made the payment to Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen, is being painted
E is for Entries for the hush money payments made under 'legal expenses' in the Trump company books
R is for Records which the FBI seized showing emails, tax documents and business records relating to the hush money payments

There you go so every time you see the former President on the TV just think 'FAT SWINDLER' and it will all make perfect sense.

How Many Is Too Many?

Us humans are a hardy bunch, in the post 'History In 800,000 Year Old Air Bubble', i mentioned how approximately 70,000 years ago the entire human population was reduced to a few thousand following
a super-volcano eruption which caused a severe global volcanic winter of six to ten years and contributed to a 1,000-year-long cooling episode with temperatures dipping by -4.1°C (−7.4 °F).
A number of genetic studies have found that the human ancestor population greatly expanded from only a few thousand individuals that existed about 70,000 years ago and in 2022 we passed the 8 billion population mark so it may have looked a bit dicey for us but we did okay after all, maybe a bit too well because while it took all of human history until 1804 to reach 1 billion, we have been making up for lost time ever since.
In 1927 we numbered 2 billion, then 3 billion in 1960, 4 billion in 1974, 5 billion in 1987, 6 billion in 1998, 7 billion in 2010 and by 3037 it is projected we will hit the 9 million mark.
From 1 billion in 1804 to 8 billion in 2022 is only a matter of 218 years so we really didn't hang about with the reproducing and it was partly thanks to modern medicine and sanitation reducing infant mortality rates and medical science not coming up with the first modern contraceptive until the 1960's
The steep climb in the human population has not come without problems, such as polluting our land, air and sea's and using up the Earth's resources at an increasing rate.
Earth Overshoot Day, August 2nd in 2023, marks the date in the calendar when the human demand for Earth’s natural resources exceeds what the planet can generate within a year and today we need 1.75 planets to provide the natural resources for our consumption for a year. By 2030, we will need 2 planets.
According to the UN’s medium projection our population will peak around 10.4 billion in 2086, and will remain at this level for the remainder of the century although the 'high' end of the projection is  
14.8 billion by 2100 and the 'low' end 8.9 billion which is still way above the calculation that the ideal size of our species using the Earths resources would be around 2 billion people so are there now just too many of us?
The uncomfortable answer to that is obviously yes but that comes with the proviso that there are too many of us in the current way we are living so we need to be smarter and not use so much of the Earth's resources and ramp up the renewable energy sector whilst not polluting the only Planet we are capable of living upon which bizarrely, we seem reluctant to do but with humanity set to be around for many more centuries yet, reliant on a super-volcano literally not cooling our heels, we will have to find a way to rub along together and protect our environment to survive.

Sunak The Socialist?

Reform Party leader Richard Tice has branded Rishi Sunak 'a socialist'. Now i consider myself a bit of a Socialist and on behalf of Socialists everywhere i say i have given your words some thought Dicky and have concluded that you are a moron of Biblical proportions as Rishi Sunak is about as much of a socialist as Boris Johnson is truthful.
I also see Mr Tice that you are now calling yourself a climate change skeptic rather than a climate change denier in the belief that it makes you sound less of a fruitcake and yes, we all saw you get ripped
a new one by the woman from the Green Party on Question time the other day when she questioned you on your scientific background to make such claims and your slack jawed..erm..erm..erm reply will be shown on TV for decades, like that other right wing numpty Mike Graham who claimed you could grow concrete. Comedy Gold.  
Frankly if you're a supporter of him i hope you're kept away from anything sharp before you hurt yourself but then on second thoughts, as Tice's Far Right Party is attracting members from a Conservative Party who have moved so far to the right to be within touching distance of your crackpot beliefs, then let’s hope you continue to spill nonsense like this to be lapped up by the idiots who will split the Tory vote and make it even easier for Labour to get elected. Nice one Dick.

American Action Just Prolonging Awful Wars

America has passed a bill to release £49 billion to Ukraine which the UK Foreign Secretary, David Cameron, called: 'a vital step forward'.
The US House of Representatives also approved bills to send foreign aid to Israel and provide humanitarian relief to Palestinians in Gaza which puts them in the bizarre position of financially backing the nation which is responsible for the Palestinians needing humanitarian relief in the first place.
Why they are supporting one nation which has been brutally invaded by Russia whilst also supporting Israel who are the invaders and actually committing genocide is some twisted logic but while the
conflicts may physically be a thousand miles away from each other, this action will have the same effect of prolonging both these horrific atrocities.
Yet despite 32,000 deaths in the Ukraine conflict and over 34,000 in the Palestinian, Israeli war, the money and arms to continue the fighting does not come with any for stipulations for making peace
in either of the battles where Ukraine is vastly outnumbered and outgunned and Israel has reduced Gaza to rubble and seem intent on destroying what's left with no thought to the slaughter of people they have been actively trying to destroy for the last 65 years.
Why are the American Government, and most of the West, so keen to keep Ukraine and Israel fighting rather than using whatever leverage they have to at least try and bring an end to the wars?
Joe Biden’s embrace of Netanyahu and his government won' t restrain him, he has destroyed Gaza and acted a genocide against the Palestinian people and yet still he can rely on Biden for financial backing while Ukrainians continue to die in a war that they cannot win.
Nobody seems to be offering an end game to either side and handing over weapons and bankrolling one nation to kill more of another nation makes me very uneasy while i have yet to hear of anyone making any overtures of peace talks to end the carnage.

Kid's Questions Not Answered

Being a mother, i have had questions posed to me by my children which i have been unable to answer, such as who finds Jerry Seinfeld funny and why does Johnny's Dad always go around to see Tommy's Mum after his Dad has gone to work although neither make an appearance in a list of the top 10 questions asked by kids parents struggle to answer.
A study by OnePoll found that on average mum and dad face eight questions a month from their offspring which they find difficult to respond to, either because they don’t know the answer or are too embarrassed although it also found that while 47% of parents just respond with an honest 'I don’t know', 28% try to cobble together an answer while 35% tell the youngster to Google it, 23% Google it themselves with another 23% admitting to just making something up and 11% go for that old of favourite of saying: 'im busy go ask your Mum/Dad'.
The study found 'what does God look like?' is the question most likely to leave parents stumped, followed by 'where do you go when you die?', 'What are black holes?’, ‘why is water wet?', 'why do people die?' and 'how did the world begin?' close behind.
'Where do babies come from?', 'why is the sea salty?' and 'why is the moon sometimes out in the day?' completed the top ten.
Other questions which leave parents scratching their heads include 'why is the sky blue?', 'what makes the earth spin?', 'how do planes fly?' and 'Where does wind come from?'
I did plan to answer all of the above questions but i'm far too busy so go ask another blogger.

We Deserve Better

Conservative MP, Mark Menzies, has today quit the Tory Party and stepped down as an MP after being accused of misusing campaign funds which means since the 2019 election, there have been multiple serious allegations levelled against serving MPs, the people who make the laws.
The allegations include drugs taking, corruption, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, sexting, sex harassment, child-sex offences, rape, thuggery, domestic violence, bullying, serial groping, fraud, perverting the course of justice, drunken yobbery, watching porn in the Commons, attending the Commons while knowingly infected with Covid, handing MPs’ private details to a blackmailer and now misusing donor funds...and these are just the ones i can remember off the top of my head which which we know about!
My question would be why does the job of an MP attract a disproportional larger amount of thugs, liars, perverts and crooks than other professions and my second question would be why can’t we do better than the shower of miscreants we currently have?

History In 800,000 Year Old Air Bubble

Air bubbles trapped in Ice Cores taken from Antarctica give us a lot of information and as they go back over 800,000 years, that is a lot of information but scientists have been using it to date major Global events, or rather for the previous 799, 800 years because they measure Carbon Dioxide and it all gets rather hazy after the late 18th Cetury because us humans began pumping the stuff out.
'As the snow was falling, it also trapped pockets of air' says Amy King, a research scientist for the British Antarctic Survey and by drilling into the ice, scientists can extract a long cylinder of ice and analyze the air and gasses from the past as a sample sample of the atmosphere as it was at that time.
The air trapped in the ice reveals information about things like droughts and volcanic eruptions charts the progress of human industry as traces of metals such as copper and lead begin to appear from mining and smelting operations as well as for our large scale use of leaded petrol as well as the rising and decline of CO2.
King explains that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a balance between the things that emit carbon dioxide and things that absorb carbon dioxide such as forests so when there is a massive reduction in human population, there is less CO2 as the forests grow back over land which was previously agricultural land and more CO2 was absorbed by those plants, thus reducing carbon dioxide levels across the world and this is recorded in the ice bubbles.
Around 70,000 years ago, humanity's global population dropped down to only a few thousand individuals due to a massive supervolcano plunging earth into an ice age and pandemics such as the Black Death which killed between 40% and 50% percent of the entire population of Europe and these are recorded in the ice cores.  
While events once had the ability to alter Earth’s atmosphere, due to there being a much larger background emissions of carbon dioxide today compared to the previous 800,000 years as for the previous 799,800 years the concentration of atmospheric CO2 naturally was between 180-280ppm and but since approximately 1850 it has been rising steadily and today it stands at 410ppm meaning we have managed to do in under 200 years what nature couldn't do in 800,000 which puts a massive hole in the numbskull argument that rapid Climate Change and rising CO2 is a natural occurrence that has been going on for tens of thousands of years.

Cloud Seeding In UAE

 
The United Arab Emirates was on the receiving end of a colossal storm during the week which dumped a years worth of rain (5.59 inches in a nation that averages 4.7 annually) in just one day on the country, causing floods and four deaths and questions are being asked whether the UAE's practise of Cloud Seeding was the culprit.
The UAE have been trying to increase precipitation by sending planes through clouds where they spray chemicals to try and make it rain and days prior to the downpour, meteorologists at the National Centre for Meteorology said they flew seven cloud seeding flights and for some that's the smoking gun they needed to pin the blame on the daft plan.
Not so quick said an array of meteorologists who said that cloud seeding can't create clouds from nothing and seeding encourages water that is already in the sky to drop as rain so if the experts don't think seeding was to blame, what do they think was?
The Met Office pointed firmly at Climate Change and the effect of cloud seeding was negligible and said that rising global temperatures are leading to more extreme weather events such as this around the world which may be worth remembering the next time some wally tries to argue that Climate Change isn't a thing because unfortunately it is and even more unfortunately, it is something we have done to ourselves despite decades of warnings of what would happen. Yep, we really have been that stupid.

God Had A Wife?

We have been watching the brilliant Lucifer and all the Biblical characters are there, Satan, Mazikeen, Lilith, Cain, Eve, Uriel and other named Angels and demons and then suddenly up pops God's wife and i was 'God had a wife?'
As i have a man of the cloth literally on my doorstep i went and asked him and got the vague answer that in the old Jewish texts, when God was going by the name of Yahweh, they ruled side by side as a divine man and wife and her name was Asherah and there were statues to both everywhere in ancient times but for today Christian's and Jews there is only God, so what happened?
'Mentions of the goddess Asherah in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) are rare and have been heavily edited by the ancient authors who gathered the texts together' according to an associate professor of Bible and archaeology at the Pacific School of Religion so it seems that she was edited out of the Bible when the Christians began taking bits and pieces from the Jewish text for their own religion, in some cases referring to her as a sacred tree in an effort to hide her although references to her did have to be edited out in later versions of the Bible because they missed a few references such as in Deuteronomy 33.2-3, when she is said to be 'at his right hand his own Asherah'.
After being written out of the Christian Bible, to further kick her further away from her ex-husband, she became morphed into a Pagan goddess and worshiping Pagans was a huge no-no and any statues to her had to be destroyed because of the whole False Idols bit of the commandments.
Obviously, today's Christians don't want to know that their top banana has an ex-wife knocking around and definitely don't want to acknowledge the 70 kids they supposedly had together, preferring to concentrate on the 1 Godly offspring which was a result of making a 14 year girl who was betrothed to another pregnant because that is so much better apparently.

UK Should Avoid Backing Israel Aganist Iran

The Iran strike on Israel was a bit of a strange occasion. They signposted to America what they were going to do hours in advance which gave Israel plenty of time to get their defences ready, and then sent relatively slow moving drones which were thankfully sitting ducks to be shot down before they reached their destination. Hezbollah did not launch a barrage of rockets to tie up the Israeli Iron Dome as anticipated so overall it looks more likely it was an Iranian message to their own people that they hit back at Israel for what they did in bombing the Embassy compound in Syria.
What Israel, and Benjamin Netanyahu, will do in response is now a topic of debate but whatever they do, Britain should not be involved and stay well away from what could spark off a major conflict with multiple players on either side and we would be forced into fighting on behalf of the nation conducting a genocide.
What the Iranian action has done is move the focus away from what Israel are continuing to do in Gaza where the death toll has topped 33,000 and the warned of famine in the North has now arrived and the UN blame Israel for delaying aid delivery and  the European Union's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, accusing Israel of intentionally using starvation as a weapon of war.
The Save the Children US president said, after American aid was refused delivery that she had: 'never seen anything like the level of barriers being put in place to hamper humanitarian assistance' and Amnesty International stated that children are dying from malnutrition and the result of an Israeli 'engineered famine'.
At the start of this phase of a conflict, an Israeli military occupation which has been ongoing for decades, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said 'We are imposing a complete siege on Gaza. There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel, everything will be closed. We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly'.
Devastatingly, they have been true to their word so the ICJ should be on the case and doing whatever it can to force Israel into today's version of  the 80's pariah South Africa.