Phil Mirzoev

Apparently, lately we've had a very high - probably abnormally high - number of very powerful earthquakes around the globe (Peru, Japan, New Zealand, Turkey etc etc) in a very short period of time.

As is known from geological history (warming periods) the rapid melting of ice shields and glaciers redistribute the weigh pressure on the earth crust and can slightly influence tectonics.

So my question is: are there scientifically reasonable grounds to assume that the recent wave of deadly earthquakes has something to do with the melting glaciers and, hence, with the Global Warming? Thanks for you answers and opinions.

Apparently, lately we've had a very high - probably abnormally high - number of very powerful earthquakes around the globe (Peru, Japan, New Zealand, Turkey etc etc) in a very short period of time.

As is known from geological history (warming periods) the rapid melting of ice shields and glaciers redistribute the weigh pressure on the earth crust and can slightly influence tectonics.

So my question is: are there scientifically reasonable grounds to assume that the recent wave of deadly earthquakes has something to do with the melting glaciers and, hence, with the Global Warming? Thanks for you answers and opinions.

In the past those nations formed, if I am not mistaken, because of the American revolution and the desire of the States to get full independence from the British Crown. But back in those times the British Crown really meant something - it was no just a symbol. Now those problems of independence from Britain are not an issue any more.

So wouldn't be beneficial (at least in theory) for two the two nations unite to produce some kind of federation like the United Provinces and States of America, or just Federation of the United North America, or something of this sort? :)

I have always been struck by the fact that the nation that had had before such powerful intellectuals among its leaders like Roosevelt, got into such a great everlasting love-affair with Kennedy, a figure that is idolized even now.

What are the rationals behind this romance? What was so special and good about Kennedy? What so important did he do for the nation? Did he made America richer, or more liked by the rest of the world? Did he made American politics cleaner, or did he enriched the culture of the US or did he made the nation healthier or more educated? What so useful did he do to deserve such almost religious a veneration in the US?

I just can not help amazing how long the US people and tax-payer is going to tolerate the current sort of relationship with Israel? The UNCONDITIONAL support of Israel by the US (don't get me wrong I am not against their friendship in principle, but a more reasonable one)?

It's bitter to say that Hitler would now be quite satisfied with the long term result of his ugly crimes: strongly nationalistic militarist state (in political sense) supported by the most powerful multinational democracy - the US.

When after all are the American Jews going to understand that their great religion and culture are in fact brazenly exploited politically at their own expense and what they get on the receiving end is terrorists acts like 911, Iraq and Afghan wars and this kind of staff?

When will Israel, like any adult state be forced to account for his actions and words on his own (without parental cover-up of the US) before the international community and when it's economy stops getting advantage from endless ever-smoldering war (thanks to the goodly 'military allowance' given regularly by the US)?

The US has always supported Israel - it allowed that country to do such 'mischievous pranks' that it never allowed itself. And the result of this was that it hopelessly spoiled this 'adolescent state', having done it more harm than good. I have long been puzzling what are the actual benefits the US tax payers get from Israel in exchange for their overzealous parental care and help. You cannot hope for the better as long as Israel has this sense of ABSOLUTE impunity and the privilege to do everything it wants - the privilege which the US had never allowed itself. In some respects Israel behaves like Russia, but the main blame for this is the US overindulgence.

What can the democratic West do to avoid such absurdly unsubstantiated and extremely risky wars like in Iraq and Afghanistan in future? What's fundamentally wrong with the existing mechanisms of democratic control in the Western countries that could allow such wars to be started in the first place even in countries like UK where about 80% of the population were dead against the Iraq invasion? UK - parliamentarian democracy - plunged into Iraq war a couple of years latter only because it's PM for some absolutely unknown reasons individually decided to do so - how come?!

See http://dr-world.blogspot.com/2010/11/war-in-afghan...

What can the democratic West do to avoid such absurdly unsubstantiated and extremely risky wars like in Iraq and Afghanistan in future? What's fundamentally wrong with the existing mechanisms of democratic control in the Western countries that could allow such wars to be started in the first place even in countries like UK where about 80% of the population were dead against the Iraq invasion? UK - parliamentarian democracy - plunged into Iraq war a couple of years latter only because it's PM for some absolutely unknown reasons individually decided to do so - how come?!

http://dr-world.blogspot.com/2010/11/war-in-afghan...

Just cannot wait when the time comes when the founder of Wikileaks will get his deserved Nobel Prize. I like Obama, but afraid the Wikileaks founder has done MUCH more to promote the peace in the world than the US president.

What can the democratic West do to avoid such absurdly unsubstantiated and extremely risky wars like in Iraq and Afghanistan in future? What's fundamentally wrong with the existing mechanisms of democratic control in the Western countries that could allow such wars to be started in the first place even in countries like UK where about 80% of the population were dead against the Iraq invasion? UK - parliamentarian democracy - plunged into Iraq war a couple of years latter only because it's PM for some absolutely unknown reasons individually decided to do so - how come?!

http://dr-world.blogspot.com/2010/11/war-in-afghan...

For decades the West has not not actively enlarged its nuclear power generation sector. On the contrary, it's been preparing to shut down some old plants without any replacement. Only now interest has started to grow, perhaps too little too late when oil price and carbon emissions factors have become really critical.

But what are the true course of this 'acute nucleaphobia'? Is it really some much mentioned safety and ecological reasons that has retained the development of nuclear sector in the West, or is it a kind of 'Chernobyl post traumatic syndrome'? What so far has been almost completely left outside the public debate is the psychological detrimental effect of this disaster which in tern impacted the normal development of nuclear power generation industry the world over.

http://dr-world.blogspot.com/2010/11/ghost-of-cher...

What are your thoughts?