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Suzie Dawson is completely correct in her analysis of the Trump administration. This is a mafia war between two rival clans - the police state vs the inteligence community. We need to understand the coup against Trump but stay aloof from both sides,

Alex Smith of Radio Eco Shock and Paul Beckwith discuss a new paper by Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov on methane hydrates

A look at an ice-free planet and the failure of governments and institutions to meet the challenges of climate change

Guy replies to an excellent question from Indianapolis about dying trees and abrupt climate change

It is a shame to receive such news that Israeli Operatives are Leading ISIS in Mosul. This report comes after the fact that INL had once before reported from sources in the Israeli Military that had first shared this information with us.

On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks — the courageous international organization dedicated to governmental transparency — exposed hundreds of internal emails circulated among senior staff of the Democratic National Committee during the past 18 months.At a time when Democratic Party officials were publicly professing neutrality during the party's presidential primaries, the DNC's internal emails showed a pattern of distinct bias toward the candidacy of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a marked prejudice toward the candidacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders. Some of the emails were raw in their tone, and some could fairly be characterized as failing to respect Sanders' Jewish heritage.The revelation caused a public uproar during the weekend preceding the opening of the Democratic convention in Philadelphia last week, and it caused the DNC to ask its own chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, to resign. When she declined to do so, President Barack Obama personally intervened and implored her to leave.She submitted to the president's wishes, gave up her public role as chair of the convention and eventually resigned as chair of the DNC late last week.In order to take everyone's eyes off this intrusive and uncomfortable bouncing ball, the leadership of the DNC, in conjunction with officials of the Clinton campaign, blamed the release of the DNC emails on hackers employed by Russian intelligence agents. Many in the media picked up this juicy story and repeated it all last week.Clinton promptly named Wasserman Schultz as a campaign consultant and complained that the Russians are trying to influence the presidential election. She did not complain about the unfairness manifested in the emails, complete with their religious prejudice; she only complained about Russian President Vladimir Putin's helping Donald Trump.But the Russians had nothing to do with it.Last week, William Binney, a 30-year career official at the National Security Agency turned whistleblower, revealed the unthinkable. Binney, who devised the software that the NSA has used to capture the contents of emails and cellphone conversations of all in America but resigned from the NSA because of the unlawful and unconstitutional manner in which the software was used, told a Philadelphia radio audience that the DNC hacking was most likely done by NSA agents.Why would the NSA hack into DNC computers, and why would the NSA leak what its agents saw?Here is where the deep state meets the political world. The deep state consists of intelligence, military, law enforcement and administrative agency personnel who aggressively protect their own interests, which transcend elections. Stated differently, many of these folks remain in opaque positions of power, and the governmental departments and agencies for which they work continue to expand, no matter which party wins the White House or controls Congress.The deep state stays in power by a variety of means, some of which are lawful and not the least of which was visited upon the DNC last week. Binney knows the inside workings of NSA computers because he designed them. He knows how easy it would have been for any of the NSA's 60,000 agents, many of whom have great antipathy toward Clinton, to employ their skills to frustrate her drive toward the presidency.The intelligence community's antipathy toward Clinton has two general sources. One is her misuse of emails containing state secrets. Among the top-secret emails that the FBI discovered on Clinton's non-secure private servers were some that revealed the names of U.S. intelligence agents operating undercover in the Middle East.Because Clinton emailed secrets to others who the FBI found were hacked by hostile foreign intelligence services and because she used a non-secure mobile email device while inside the territories of hostile governments, her "extremely careless" use of her emails resulted in the termination of the undercover work of those whose cover she caused to be revealed.Many in the intelligence community also suspect that in some cases, U.S. undercover agents lost their lives because Clinton failed to keep their identities secret.The other source of intelligence community antipathy to Clinton stems from her secret war waged against the late Libyan strongman, Col. Moammar Gadhafi. When she waged that war — using intelligence, not military, personnel — with the approval of the president and a dozen members of Congress, she exercised her authority as secretary of state to grant exemptions to a U.N. arms embargo of Libya.She wanted Libyan militias to have heavy-duty, military-grade arms with which to topple the Libyan government.

Eighty-eight New Zealanders were illegally spied on by the Government Communications Security Bureau. ONE News can reveal the identity of oneOne of the Security Intelligence Service's biggest ever anti-terrorism operations – conducted between July and August 2012 – targeted a group of pro-democracy campaigners who it mistakenly thought were planning to overthrow the military government in Fiji.

This is taken from an interview with Demcoracy Now! subsequent to Wikileaks' latest release of eamils from the DNC.

Having said that carbon emissions are the major part of record temperatures he now says they don't know and it it will take "many years of research"

Chris Brandalino in this interview gives the lie to the official party line that NIWA "do not know" how much hot conditions are due to global warming

An American climate scientist says anybody in the position of influence including the US president cannot do anything about global warming now because it is “irreversible” at this point.

I talk with Paul to get a catch-up with the fires at Fort McMurray in Northern Alberta, Canada and the melting ice at the North Pole. We also touch on the Southern Hemisphere

In this podcast I discuss the drought in Wellington and the way it has been covered in the New Zealand media.

A spike in global temperatures in February has sparked concerns about a climate emergency.NASA data found that surface temperatures in February were 1.35 degrees warmer than the average February.NIWA scientist Chris Brandolino joined Paul Henry to talk about what we can expect for autumn.

This is the continuation of a conversation between Seemorerocks, Guy McPherson and Kevin Hester

I join Kevin and Guy in a freeflowing conversation on the bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef, what is happening in Arctic and we traverse the usual topics of denial and shutdown of the narrative,Preceded by a brief conversation with Guy on his latest special edition of Nature Bats Last.The recording cut out so is brought in two parts.

A caller from Hawaii calls in to Nature Bats Last

In part two I play some of Mike's music and give some reflections on my relationship with him. I play his broadcast on the three guarantors of human extinction