The first of its kind to examine such an extended timeline for recovery and a wide range of biotic groups in boreal forests after clear-cutting, the study analyzed 190 data sets across North America, Europe and Russia. The research looked at the biodiversity of communities within different forest types, including broadleaf trees like aspen or birch, coniferous trees like spruce or pine, and a mix of the two types.
In about half the cases studied, the biodiversity of the forest communities returned to pre-logged levels in less than 30 years, particularly in faster-growing broadleaf forests, where vascular plants and mosses either weren’t affected at all or recovered within 12 to 25 years.
But in mixed and coniferous forests, recovery was much slower, taking more than 55 years for small mammals such as mice and voles, 85 years for flowering plants, 95 years for lichens, and more than 100 years for mosses and liverworts. And beetles dependent on deadwood for survival showed no signs of recovery at all within the 16 to 29 years of existing data available for review.
Not long after July 20th. Sometime within the first two weeks of August is highest probability.
However, it depends on how far out on the ledge cult leader Mark Carney is willing to take his believers. We will enter the ‘Trump playing with them’ phase, just like Trump played with them in Jan, Feb, March ’25 over the 51st state stuff….. Trump will create turmoil, because he holds all the cards for when he triggers the next sequence of events.
Essentially, the landscape is already set up. The bleachers are already built. The venue is already selected…. The Canadians have no concept of it.
At a point determined by Trump he will invite them into the gauntlet. There is no escape and only one way in.
Carney sits down at the table, Trump announces his demands, Carney balks, Trump glances to Greer, Greer hands Carney the formal exit paperwork and then suddenly everyone around Carney realizes what just happened. Trump set up a CUSMA trap.
A six-month countdown clock now ticks loudly. Trump repeats his demands. Carney looks around at his trade delegation, then asks for a few moments. They leave to huddle….
In the Canadian conference room, someone tells the group a six-month exit is now active. The walls are slowly closing.
If no terms are accepted, in six months all U.S. trade with Canada is immediately laissez-faire, no trade agreement backstops anything, meaning every trade is subject to the sectoral whims of the USA commerce department to outline the terms.
Carney asks his team what is happening. Trump tells them to take all the time in the world to think about it, and to give Jamieson or Howard a call if they have questions.
Trump and Greer then hold a press conference, telling the world the formal exit paperwork has now been issued. However, the U.S and Mexico already have a bilateral deal outlined and ready to begin, so U.S-Mexico trade is seamless. The only issue is Canada.
The following day analysts, economists, banking and finance experts begin running the numbers for Canada…… A slow and unstable Canadian economy collapse begins first with a run on the banks by Canadian dollar holders. Everyone needs to buy USD.
Europe and the U.K try to step in to assist by buying Canadian bonds….. but the risk is astronomical.
75% of Canada’s economy is based on trade that is now uncertain.
Suddenly the team around Carney look at things differently. They realize Canada doesn’t sell 75% of their output to the USA; the USA buys 75% of Canadian output.
In every economic relationship, the seller has no leverage. All leverage belongs to the buyer.
The seller can sell anything, but without buyers they are nothing. In a laissez-faire system suddenly U.S. buyers start to dictate terms and prices. The seller has no option. Life inside Canada is FUBAR.
The Chinese move quickly, buying up Canadian holdings for pennies on the ever-diminishing CAD.
Trump has made a U-turn. Instead of his usual TACO [Trump Always Chickens Out], he chose TITS – Trump Illustrates Terrific Sanity, as said an internet wit. He switched off the Purim War Against Iran, like a housewife turning off her gas stove. The wily Iranians followed Trump’s U-turn, ensuring it’s actually done. The most important result of this debacle: the frog of Israel that tried to compete with the ox of Iran had burst, as Aesop predicted. Israel really believed in his own fairy tale of superiority, of its world hegemony, of its control over the US, until reality came into the picture and slapped its face. Israel has actually been forced to cease killing the Lebanese people. This is a great historical turning point, giving us yet another opportunity to wake the world from its Hollywood fantasy of eternal Jewish might and eternal Jewish victimhood.
It’s not the first event of this kind. Many times, Jews have been stopped just at the brink of total victory. “Keshekvar kim’at”, – in the words of an Israeli song: you always ruin it when we’ve almost won. Putin ended the Seven Bankers’ Rule, by jailing the richest and most powerful of them, oil king Khodorkovsky, and exiling two others, media-lords Berezovsky and Gusinsky. Stalin ended the Jewish Terror by imprisoning the head executioner, Interior Minister Yahoda, and dismissing Foreign Minister Litvinov. So much about Jewish dominance in Russia, as some of the readers claim.
Perhaps we should explain the special Jewish role in empires. The Jews were for hundreds of years traditionally compradors or middlemen; meaning they served their foreign masters and extracted goods from the natives. In long gone times, they served their Polish landlords by forcing the Ukrainian peasants to work harder. It was said (by Jewish historians, of course) that Jews squeezed six times more wealth out of the Ukraine than the Poles ever could. When Western Europe was getting recolonised by the US after WW2, Jews switched to serving the US – but still making the natives miserable. When East Europe was subjugated by the USSR (after its liberation from the German rule), the Jews there served the USSR and ruled over the natives on behalf of the Soviets. They were so awful that the natives rebelled, as in Hungary in 1956, or expelled the Jews, as in Poland in 1967. Thus, Jews have always been a subsidiary force that always hoped to seize the commanding heights – and always failed.
All the important countries of Western Europe were subjugated under US rule after the WWII. Along with the US army came the Jews, as the bearers of the new American policies. The Jews added two techniques particular to them in the process of colonisation. One, de-Christianisation, as Jews traditionally are strongly anti-Christian. Two, encouragement of mass immigration. The Jews had a valid reason to prefer it. In the normal European order of things, the Jews (and Gypsies) stuck out as foreign element. However, in multicultural Europe, Jews would be only one of many different communities.
My most charitable understanding of Trump, especially in the Middle East, is the highlighted paragraph above. This appears to be exactly what he has been doing. It’s a classic Trump move. Shamir’s discussion of the Jewish role in Western history is well-stated and not new. It has also served as an ex post facto excuse for bad Jewish behavior, paired as ever with their false claims of victimhood. That said, if Trump’s actions in the ME and elsewhere are signaling a weakening or end to Jewish control over Western policy, we all should rejoice, including all sane Jews. ABN
DearSec Rubio and lDonald Trump, as a pragmatic American I respectfully suggest and recommend the State Dept immediately institute the “Roberts Requirement” following similar visa entry protocols previously used for COVID-19 tests prior to U.S. admittance.
The Roberts Requirement: Each female visa applicant must present a valid negative pregnancy test taken no longer than 10 days prior to travel to the United States.
The certified document, negative pregnancy test, together with all related visa approvals must be presented to Customs and Border Patrol at each port of entry. Failure disqualifies the traveler.
Same protocol as COVID-19, only using pregnancy status as the disqualifying health issue. It is a lawful regulation that does not need congressional approval.
UPDATE: The above idea is further explained here. Some excerpts below:
…Don’t get stuck on details about why it will not work, it will.
Start thinking like a person who realizes the goal is to create severe antagonism through regulation. That antagonism can then be directed.
Aim isolation, ridicule and marginalization at those who created the problem. This can be done without visible vitriol.
The objective is not just making sure pregnant women do not get visas; that is one small element. The bigger objective is to make it extremely difficult to come to the USA and THEN pin that global compliance requirement on Chief Justice John Roberts, making him live every day with the consequences of his blinded American stupidity; facing him, belittling him, ridiculing him, sitting on the front pages of his peers and global friends.
Chief Justice John Roberts created this mess, now put it on his doorstep every day.
…Example of point and counterpoints.
POINT: Canada, Mexico, India or [XXX] will scream this is unfair given the nature of our collaborative visa designations.
Counterpoint: Yes, you are correct. That was then; this is now. The nature of our visa system has changed because SCOTUS has just codified new distinctions on citizenship that now become new visa factors. Your nation does not convey birthright citizenship, so I understand your inability to accept our new terms. Unfortunately, our nation now does convey birthright citizenship, and as a consequence changes are needed.
Don’t back down. Make SCOTUS own it.
Sure, there will be legal challenges, all the way up to the same SCOTUS, and what are they going to do?
Think about it!
Make everyone live by the new rules – that are created by those who didn’t think about the consequences.
This is actually a good idea and fits well with how Trump leverages foreign and domestic policies. It would also be funny and show what fools SCOTUS can be, how disloyal, ungrateful and careless of USA’s future and past. ABN
In my opinion, Tucker Carlson is no longer an option for the intellectually honest or stable-minded person. In the past several months as he has increased his anti-MAGA efforts Carlson and/or his production team have intensely avoided any guest who might challenge the outlandish nonsense he has been creating on his podcasts.
Occasionally CTH glances to see who Tucker is interviewing and generally check in on Carlson only to gain an understanding of the political network he represents. I find the dishonesty in his monologues now repellant. However, that said, President Trump Social Media Advisor Alex Bruesewitz stated he appeared on the Carlson podcast in order to finally push back against some of the malicious narratives the former Fox News host was promoting.
I watched to see how this ‘confrontation’ might unfold.
This is a first-rate overview of politics today in USA and the forces guiding it. Highly recommended for its brevity (especially considering the subject) and its completeness. If you have any interest in American politics and how our media-manufactured ‘reality’ positions its various parts, this essay is very much worth reading. ABN
Israel is turning on its last important ally in an act of suicidal hubris.
Israel is sabotaging the negotiations with Iran and alienating its last important ally by refusing to halt its attacks on Lebanon and withdraw from its occupation of the south. It is determined to reignite a regional conflagration that could see Iran perpetually close the Strait of Hormuz and plunge the global economy into a global depression. And it continues its genocide in Gaza.
Israel is contaminated by racism and genocidal violence. It is blinded by a repugnant moral superiority. It is corrupted by a class of Zionist billionaires in the U.S. who use their wealth to bend foreign policy to serve Israeli interests. It is equipped with a nuclear arsenal Israeli officials have repeatedlythreatened to use.
It is a menace to the region. It is a menace to itself. And it is a menace to us.
…Israel’s vision of a “Greater Israel,” designed to ensure Israel’s military dominance throughout the Middle East, depends on harnessing the wealth and military power of the U.S.
Over two-thirds of the major arms and munitions Israel imports — without which it could not carry out its genocide of the Palestinians, turn southern Lebanon into a moonscape and bomb Iran, Syria and Qatar — are manufactured and provided by the U.S. And because the Israel lobby, for decades, has owned Congress, because its Zionists allies police and control the media, because it is able to siphon tens of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to sustain its military adventurism, Israel is blind to its own limitations. It is willing to inflict harm on its allies, including the U.S., in service to itself.
…Israelis, intoxicated by the fantasy of being the chosen people, do not have friends. They do not have allies. They have those they use and those they slaughter.
The game is up. The Israeli domination of the U.S. political system is coming to an end. Israel’s inability to read U.S. and global opinion — or its own population, where over 90 percent believe Israel lost its war against Iran — along with its stubborn belief that its old levers of power can still work, illustrate a leadership that has rendered itself deaf, dumb and blind. It can and will do a lot of damage. It can and will inflict more death and suffering. But it is cannibalizing itself.
Hedges refers to ‘the obtuse administration of Donald Trump’ and blames much of what is happening on Trump and his admin. He could be right. Many will agree. I see another possibility, which is Trump has given Israel what they wanted and also enough rope to hang themselves. If policy is judged by its outcome, so far Trump’s policy has allowed Israel to show ‘It is a menace to the region. It is a menace to itself. And it is a menace to us.’ I am a pragmatic conservative who understands we are living in an oligarchy and have been for at least 100 years and probably since forever. Weighing Hedges views against that, leaves me in an agnostic state, a position I am very comfortable with because almost everything, including politics, is so full of unknowns, I see no other tenable position. Hedges doesn’t know what Trump and his faction are thinking or doing and neither do I. No one knows anything for certain. And not just in this case but in virtually all cases. This is a main reason, I see zero reason to get excited or inflamed over almost anything. That said, the world is a fascinating place and I remain fully interested in all of it. ABN
The President was on the call with Netanyahu, son in law Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff when they became frustrated with the prime minister following an Israeli strike on Qatar. That’s when Trump unleashed, the book claims.
‘Everybody’s sick of you, Bibi. All the Jews are sick of you,’ Trump reportedly said to Netanyahu as he tried to pitch the Israeli leader on Kushner’s 20-point peace plan.
Then, referencing Witkoff and Kushner, he added: ‘Even the two Jews on this call are sick of you.’
Kushner was reported by Haberman and Swan to have later told an ally: ‘I’m f***ing out. The Israelis are crazy.’
Take more than a few thoughts to appreciate the moment. The gift within modern technology is our ability to witness and absorb inflection points as they arise – in real time.
Europe has been collapsing. Slowly at first; then, suddenly all at once. Political capital has been depreciating at an unsustainable scale.
Across Europe, President Trump has reset relationships, forcefully delivering an exacting pressure – not by forward influence, but more by creating an excruciating void they must fill themselves.
The result: weak economic growth, rising defense expenditures, a collective state assembly that can no longer deliver positive individual outcomes.
European leaders are all facing the same pressures. Look around and witness history repeating. The British Empire in chaos, the U.K Prime Minister on the point of resignation. The German industrial economy now feeling the full weight of its own short-sighted energy policy, while being stripped slowly by Chinese parasites.
As the body of the system begins to shrink rapidly, they look urgently toward Rome for moral support; they need to believe in their superiority. But Giorgia Meloni cannot get beyond her vanity. President Trump exploits it. It works.
At the exact moment when nationalistic defenses are needed most, the Spanish people find themselves facing the sunlight upon corruption within their socialist body politick. The timing is almost too perfect.
I hope and pray Trump is working the same magic in the Middle East by totally sidelining Israel’s preposterous and irremediable fantasies of controlling the entire region (and eventually the world), much as it appears to be controlling USA today. If Trump can disabuse USA and the world of the Jewish Supremacist parasite that infests the entire West and ME, he will go down in history as one of the greatest leaders ever. ABN
Better than most Trump interviews. He discusses power and who he thinks are the best world leaders. Some statements on the Iran War, Venezuela and what might happen with Cuba. ABN
US spy agencies have warned Donald Trump that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to torpedo his fragile peace deal with Iran to save his own political skin.
Netanyahu, who faces a general election in the fall, is expected to escalate strikes on Iran’s proxy terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon to shore up support at home, a fresh intelligence report warns.
An official familiar with the report told the Washington Post that Israel‘s leadership is frustrated with Trump’s 14-point plan and what it sees as a capitulation to Tehran.
The document states that Jerusalem fears the agreement will hobble its ability to defend itself against Hezbollah, a former official said.
The deal has frustrated many in Israeli government who want to continue its offensive against Iran’s proxies to their north – some have openly criticized Trump and his deal.
Further, sources reveal that Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon and attacks on Hezbollah militants there and near the capital Beirut are important to voters – a key consideration of Netanyahu’s as he faces mounting political opposition.
The report stated that a suspension of hostilities or a withdrawal from Lebanon would be considered the prime minister’s defeat, a current US intel official said.
‘For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep,’ Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s minister of national security, shockingly posted on Friday. ‘All of Lebanon must burn!’
Events seem to be showing who controls whom — Trump or Netanyahu? The above report seems to show Trump is ahead, but how will he deal with Jewish Supremacists in USA and how will they deal with him? Who controls whom is arguably the biggest question in the world today, surely it is the biggest in USA and Israel. If Trump wins this battle, we can forgive all his other mistakes. ABN
The same people who are exterminating the people who allowed them into their country when they claimed to be ‘refugees’, have been working for decades to exterminate the West by flooding it with a mass ‘refugee’ migration invasion. Mass ‘refugee’ migration invasion is an act of war, a prelude to genocide. ABN
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