DOD et al predicted mass migration due to climate change for years; several of those reports and articles linked here.

graphic credit BBC Wikipedia

Millions of humans displaced by climate change would cause mass migration, DOD and other agencies have warned for more than a decade, repeating that human displacement could be a serious security risk.  

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Several reports from DOD, security and science experts warning that global warming would cause mass migration, linked below at My Blog today:

Climate change will stir 'unimaginable' refugee crisis, says military

The Guardian 8 years ago

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/01/climate-change-trigger-unimaginable-refugee-crisis-senior-military

Dec 1, 2016 — Climate change is set to cause a refugee crisis of “unimaginable scale”, according to senior military figures, who warn that global warming is ... https://www.theguardian.com/us

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Now the Pentagon tells Bush climate change will destroy us

The Guardian 19 years ago

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver

Feb 21, 2004 — They warn that 8,200 years ago climatic conditions brought widespread crop failure, famine, disease and mass migration of populations that ...

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REPORT on the Impact of Climate Change on Migration

The White House 2021 37 pages

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Report-on-the-Impact-of-Climate-Change-on-Migration.pdf   

This report marks the first time the U.S. Government is officially reporting on the link between climate change and migration. The United Nations High ...

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New climate threats force U.S. to reassess security / migration challenges

Mainstream News November 2021

 

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/us-world-news/2021/11/04/new-climate-threats-force-u-s--to-reassess-security--migration-challenges-

Nov 4, 2021—The report said that migration caused by climate change could exacerbate existing geopolitical tensions, displace millions of people and deepen...

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The Defense Department is worried about climate change – and also a huge carbon emitter

The Conversation and several other outlets June 2019

https://theconversation.com/the-defense-department-is-worried-about-climate-change-and-also-a-huge-carbon-emitter-118017.

Jun 12, 2019 — Scientists and security analysts have warned for more than a decade that global warming is a potential national security concern.

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GAO dot gov  Sept 2022

Climate change poses threats to national security, as effects like rising sea levels and catastrophic storms threaten both military and civilian infrastructure and can even affect migration patterns. 

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-105830#:~:text=Climate%20change%20poses%20threats%20to,can%20even%20affect%20migration%20patterns.

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Defense Secretary Calls Climate change an Existential Threat

DOD dot gov April 2021

Apr 22, 2021 — "Today, no nation can find lasting security without addressing the climate crisis.” Lloyd J. Austin - As families risk their lives in search of safety and security, mass migration ... DOD Integral to Combating Climate Change in Western Hemisphere.

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Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War

Feb 25, 2019 —New research shows that climate change is spurring conflict, which is driving people to abandon their homelands and seek safety elsewhere.

Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs 46 pages

Tackling the Climate Crisis  https://www.defense.gov/Spotlights/Tackling-the-Climate-Crisis/

The planet's changing climate has a significant effect on Defense Department missions, plans and installations. DOD is elevating climate change as a national security priority, integrating climate considerations into policies, strategies and partner engagements.

DOD dot gov  undated but recent…

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Climate migration is here. Is Biden ready? E&E News Climate wire September 2021

Sep 29, 2021 — Rising temperatures are expected to trigger the mass movement of people this century as food, safety and jobs become more unstable. Earlier this ... https://www.eenews.net/articles/climate-migration-is-here-is-biden-ready/

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Climate May Force Millions to Move and U.S. Isn’t Ready, Report Says– Bloomberg Nov 2018

Nov 23, 2018 — Global warming may push millions of Americans away from the coast, and the U.S. isn't prepared for the consequences of such a mass migration ..

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U.S. Intelligence Officials Warn Climate Change Is a Worldwide Threat

Inside Climate News 2019

Jan 30, 2019 — Their annual assessment says climate hazards such as extreme weather, droughts, floods, wildfires and sea level rise threaten infrastructure, health, and security.

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There are more articles out there, I'm sure, but I want to go outside and play now

As far as I can see and remember, all those warnings have been ignored at least the last ten years.  

-posted by ke

 

 

 

I can't help feeling USA deserves everything that is about to happen to us

With our decades of war crimes, I can't help feeling USA deserves everything that is about to happen to us.  

Since Dems are intimidated into inaction, I'm not really mourning the end of USA. Dems’ timid response to MAGA’s onslaught against democracy shows me that WHOEVER is orchestrating this coup is holding something over the head of every politically active Democrat.  

Except Bernie Sanders.  And Jamie Raskin. And Jasmine Crockett. A few voices try and are buried under the barrage of nonsense from Trump / MAGA. 

Every one of them is scared to take a strong stance, and it can only be because of what news stories will come out next day about them. Glad I'm so poor I've got nothing to lose…

 

 All the way at the end of above clip, Biden says he "understands" the protesters and he's trying to get Israel to decrease the war. I am glad to see all of this 

 Biden re antiwar protesters: "I understand their passion and I've been quietly working with the Israeli government to get them to reduce and significantly get out of Gaza, using all that I can to do it." At 1:10 into this clip after “Look folks”

However, the disinformation attackers are leaving Biden's efforts out of the reports and instead are convincing progressive leftists that Biden is guilty of genocide, period. I think he's doing all he can do. 

I think Netanyahu is demonic, a barbarian, shocking Biden too, and it must make the President frustrated and sad to see Americans, who should see the real threat we are facing, just giving in and believing propaganda stories that are blanketing the nation, destroying USA from within. 

Propaganda created MAGA in 2017; now wonder what wonderful new thing will grow out of propaganda aimed at the Left. 

Yes! The End by The Doors, 11 minutes of it, just what I need during this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXqPNlng6uI

-ke

too late now, should have stopped Fox News in the nineties...

Trump walked out of court just now, got in front of cameras, and started dictating, talking nonstop for several minutes, not taking questions, just holding the gaggle of reporters around him enthralled. He's already our dictator. It's pre-arranged. All we can do is watch...

All he has to do to win ANYTHING coming up is appeal to the Supreme Court, which he owns. It's arranged. All we can do is watch...

AL Jazeera has best coverage of the downfall of USA here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCNeDWCI0vo

-ke

"Don't turn your back on the ocean" say many California pundits over footage of people being swept away by rogue waves today. I mumble, shouldn't a turned your back on the ocean last few decades, stupid humans, and I prepare for more extreme weather in next few years.

My 'counter culture reach-out project' for Jimmy Carter 1976, to get Vietnam war era 'dropouts' to drop back in and vote for him

I got an A ++ on the paper I wrote about the project, which I found in a box last week after months of searching, scanned below:

I had wanted Carter for President since Spring '76 so I asked the professor of a course "Introduction to Public Relations" if I could do this project for credit. He said yes if I could arrange it with local Democrats, and I did. Here is the report: 

"I have an idea," I said. "Why not create a counter culture reach-out project to bring in 'drop out' voters for Carter?" 

I put in LOTS of hours. I was living with PTSD "since age five" as years later psychiatrists explained to me. My form of PTSD helped me survive; by filling my life always with so much work, I could never think about the trauma I was running from. Most of my life, I panted in a state of frenzy, rarely sleeping. I lived "Faster Than the Speed of Life" as I blogged about it a few years back. 

I left out of the scan of a work sheet with phone numbers...  

Many persons we approached were "hostile about the election, cursing us and the whole political system." 

Similarities between then and now abound. 

Post Vietnam war, a sizable number in my generation (I was born 1948) did not trust the government or want to participate in an election they did not trust. Hmm. 

Winging it, I learned persuasion skills as I discovered them

Somehow I had money to pay for the ad below from my own pocket, to run three key days before election in The Sun, local counter culture tabloid. I was living only on low income grants and student loans... ah the seventies... 

I did get results, and learned how to deal with bad reactions too

Some of this is kinda embarrassing, like my interactions with The Sun and with Daily Texan editor Mary Walsh, who nonetheless hired me the next semester. Also politically I'm not that same person I was in 1976... 

Oh yeah. I was still going by the name "Sunshine" then. Long story ...

Some of the above I do not believe anymore... 

I forgot I had done this: The Fritz Efaw press conference and other connections with Vietnam Veterans and draft amnesty activists. 

Working jointly with National Amnesty Council 

Statesman article mentioned above doesn't seem to be in the box... 

In Conclusion

Posted by Kay Ebeling

Producer of City of Angels Blog since January 2007

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I Love Jimmy Carter

I was a single mom of a preschooler in Austin when I...

Not just L.A., the city of angels is everywhere 

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Read more about it here 

https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/2024/06/why-i-love-jimmy-carter.html 

Preview: 1976 Jimmy Carter Campaign project report, Travis County Texas, UT Austin internship

Page 14 

There is a story behind this flyer I designed and distributed, when I worked for Jimmy Carter for President in 1976. Last week after months of searching, I found the 20-plus page paper in a box, the report on my internship with Travis County Texas Democrats as a student at UT Austin. I will be scanning more in a few days, hope to find a way to make the image more sharp first. Meanwhile here is a preview, flyer to be handed out at places where counter culture persons would go. Goal of the project was to reach voters who had dropped out and convince them that it was worth it to drop back in to vote for Jimmy Carter.  

Story posted here https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/2023/12/my-counter-culture-reach-out-project.html 

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Kay Ebeling

Bethlehem is being bombed to dust, L.A. my home town looks like Calcutta; as for merry and bright, I ain't feeling it.

My reply to Democratic fundraiser w/subject line: 'We’ve tried so many times, Kathryn'

I've tried so many times to get a Democrat to notice what is happening to me and other seniors, mostly women, whose social security amounts are so low that we are deemed to live at the lowest level of poverty in the USA. Old Women, we never got paid enough when we worked so now- I live on $827 a month. I have neighbors in senior housing who live on less, all of us female. No One Has Mentioned This Unfairness Since Hillary Clinton in 2016. We American senior women just keep getting poorer. What will Democrats do to raise the minimum of SS so I can have some entertainment and fun in my final years, and not just pay for a tiny room then sit in it all month. YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN ME yet you hound my email asking for money several times a day. No Wonder Democrats are going down instead of saving this country. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS LIKE to live like us so you ignore us. 

 If we have more volcanoes, will Earth cool back down?

Landlords use Ellis Act to displace people, demolish affordable housing, and build luxury condos, plus other current injustices (Stacey Segarra-Bohlinger to LA City Council 12/15/23)

City Attorney: Next speaker, Stacey Segarra-Bohlinger

1:50:27 (see video below)

Good morning.  Which items would you like the speak to?

SGB:  All items.

 CA:  So, you have three minutes for the items, please begin. 

SGB: Great. Item 33 is just Referencing that closed session items are going to be heard because of significant exposure To litigation regarding three potential cases.

1:50:53

It's kind of amazing how often this body has to recess into closed session to litigate what's usually liability claims where the city has failed to meet certain obligations like making sure sidewalks are safe and accessible, or making sure the police aren't Setting off explosives on the sidewalk or, you know, all these myriad things the city might have a claim against them and they have to pay out millions out In liability and when you want to do something like fix the sidewalk, they say we have no money for that. So it's an interesting sort of cycle.  Item 21 is regarding Funding to support operational and capital costs for Jewish family services.

1:51:38

I really like this motion because this organization is one Of the few in Los Angeles that offers 24/7 support For domestic violence victims. They actually pick up the phone when you Call. I've completed presentations and workshops about domestic violence and what resources exist locally.

We have this thing called dart with the LAPD and the thing is it's pretty ineffective, so it's good we have These programs that are run by private or religious institutions so that Someone has someone to call or a place to go when they're a victim of domestic violence. Because as we Know domestic violence is one of the main reasons why people, particularly women, become Homeless. So, I’m glad to see this on the agenda.

We'll just go to Item 29.  I like this item although I wish it were a little bit more expansive. Also I would appreciate more specific language when We're talking about an interim control ordinance prohibiting the issuance of demolition permits On rent stabilized multifamily housing and converted affordable housing units. 

01;52;50

And then It goes on specifically to mention other permits affecting contributing features Of historical districts and things like that and it mentions Boyle Heights, the Brooklyn Corridor historic center and specific area,. So I’m curious if this Demolition permit prohibition applies to everywhere and then the specific neighbors apply to  second half of that? Or if This is all just within the Boyle Heights region because we really need this throughout Los Angeles. 

We can't keep having landlords using like the Ellis Act as an illegitimate reason to displace people and demolish affordable housing to build luxury condos, and what's affordable to someone making 70 or 80 thousand dollars a year. Thank you.

1:53:46

 CA :          Next speaker, please. 

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Watch Stacey’s public comment from December 15 in L.A. City Council session on YouTube here:  Https://www.youtube.com/watch?V=uzyzivr2fwy&t=6618s or at the bottom of this post at City of Angels Blog. 

Please come back to CofA Blog soon to read and see more coverage of the L.A. City Council’s handling of L.A.’s homeless crisis.  This blog also covers significant testimony in front of the council during public comment sessions.

I especially want to feature testimony of Stacey Segarra-Bohlinger on this blog, because since I've been watching L.A. City Council meetings online last two years, she stands out with her comments.  She’s always Right On, hits the nail On The Head, and sums up everything that the city is doing wrong in a few sentences, with originality and often even with song.

Since Segarra-Bohlinger  may run for City Council someday, this blogged record of what she says in front of council will live here in perpetuity.  Her comments are almost always brilliant and when I finally come up for the housing I've been waiting for more than five years near my family in my hometown Hollywood CA, I hope Stacey is a city councilmember by then. 

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Posted by Kay Ebeling 

Producing City of Angels Blog since 2007

More at CofA Blog about recent LACC meetings

• With 2.5 vacant units for every unhoused resident,... 
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• TRANSCRIPT: Public speakers beg for housing; L.A. ...

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Other comment of interest from meeting: Brock Landers private investigator called in, as he often does, to say:

"On the agenda item 26, maybe the the reason there's been an open seat on the ethics commission for six months is Paul doesn't know anybody ethical.... Why shouldn't the people that own the property be able to demolish what's on the property and build what they want?" 

 "Movements can really scramble your personal life."

-Thom Hartmann this AM amen

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Carbon dioxide becomes more potent as climate changes. Phys.org

This article explains in part why climate change is happening so much faster than originally predicted. Since CO2 is becoming "more potent as more released into atmosphere," climate changes we see in near future will likely also be exponential... wow

PHYS.ORG

Carbon dioxide becomes more potent as climate changes, study finds

A team of scientists found that carbon dioxide becomes a more potent greenhouse gas as more is released into the atmosphere.

our uncertain future

So now along with financial / climate catastrophes, we'll have Israeli vigilantes scouring the world for Hamas?