veteranstoday--2020-03-25--Covid-19 death wave comes to Spain

Covid-19 death wave comes to Spain

The COVID-19 epidemic is spreading faster in Spain than it is in Italy .
Unlike in Italy , where 80 % of infected patients die in the three most epidemiologically problematic regions ( Lombardy , Emilia-Romagna and Veneto ) , the infection is actively spreading to autonomous communities in Spain , where it had not been detected before – in Catalonia , Castile and Leon , Castile la Mancha , Valencia and other regions .
Watch an American “ military athlete ” do his thing in Wuhan , thank you Donald Trump .
On March 23 , coronavirus killed 462 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ day , from Monday to Tuesday , another 514 died , which marked the largest number of deaths since the beginning of the epidemic in the country .
As of March 24 , the number of patients , who were tested positive for COVID-19 infection in Spain reached 39,673 people , of whom 2,696 died .
About 30,000 patients remain under medical supervision .
The authorities of Spain , where people over 65 years of age account for 18 percent of the population , declared a state of emergency on March 14 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 11th .
All of Spain is quarantined , people are allowed to leave their homes only for urgent reasons .
The epicenter of the epidemic is the autonomous community of Madrid , the center of which is the capital of the country .
Up to 80 percent of residents may contract coronavirus there , Isabel Diaz Ayuso , the head of the government of the autonomous community of Madrid said .
Military men of the Spanish Armed Forces , who take part in operations to transport the bodies of the deceased and disinfect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dead bodies of deceased elderly people in their apartments and nursing homes .
According to Defense Minister Margarita Robles , soldiers often come across bodies of abandoned elderly people who died in their beds .
The situation in many nursing homes in Madrid is critical .
Personnel leave dead bodies untouched in their beads and wait for special services to arrive to pick them up .
To make matters worse , many employees of nursing homes are either infected or remain in self-isolation .
Sixty percent of all critical patients in Spain reside @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crammed with patients , many people are lying on the floor .
Like in Italy , Spanish doctors give preference to those who have bigger chances to recover – younger individuals and those with fewer chronic diseases .
Spanish Healthcare Ministry ordered not to provide artificial respiration units to elderly coronavirus-infected patients , as their chances of recovery are minimal .
Hospitals outside rarely have respiratory medical devices .
Sixty-eight percent of patients admitted to intensive care units are over 60 years of age .
Of these , at least 25 % die @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s largest exhibition complex IFEMA has become Europe ’ s largest field hospital .
All its pavilions have been redesigned to accommodate COVID-19 patients .
The complex can now accept 5,500 patients .
The exhibition complex became the country ’ s largest intensive care unit – for 500 people .
The complex is spacious indeed , which makes it possible to keep sufficient distance between the beds , which is important during a pandemic .
Forty hotels in Madrid now operate as hospitals .
For example , the Gran Hotel Colon in Madrid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ used as hospital wards to help metropolitan hospitals to cope with the crisis Madrid ’ s Ice Palace now operates as a morgue , where they bring the bodies of the deceased .
Bodies will be stored on ice rink until funeral services handle them .
Funeral service of Spain are not prepared for the pandemic .
They have neither personal protective equipment ( PPE ) , nor protective suits .
Yet , Spanish funeral homes work as usual , dealing only with the bodies of those who died for reasons other than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and other famous scientists – 69 specialists in total – wrote an open letter to the Spanish government on Saturday , March 21 , urging the authorities for even tougher restrictions on the freedom of movement in the country .
Otherwise , the Spanish health system will collapse on March 25 , they wrote .
Spain implemented the state of emergency on March 14 – residents of the 47-million-strong country were ordered to leave their homes only in exceptional cases – to buy groceries , visit pharmacies , hospitals or to go to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even imprisonment .
In Italy , the coronavirus infection has killed 743 people in the last 24 hours .
As of March 24 , a total of 409,000 cases of the disease were confirmed in the world .
Covid-19 has claimed 18,200 lives so far .
In Russia , another 57 cases of the coronavirus infection were reported in Russia .
All new patients have visited epidemiologically troubled countries in the last two weeks .
The total number of patients with COVID-19 in Russia has thus reached 495 .

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Covid-19 death wave comes to Spain
The COVID-19 epidemic is spreading faster in Spain than it is in Italy. Unlike in Italy, where 80% of infected patients die in the three most epidemiologically problematic regions (Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna and Veneto), the infection is actively spreading to autonomous communities in Spain, where it had not been detected before – in Catalonia, Castile and Leon, Castile la Mancha, Valencia and other regions.
Watch an American “military athlete” do his thing in Wuhan, thank you Donald Trump.
In October, the US military went to Wuhan for the World Military Games. 😡👇 pic.twitter.com/uO6y30V8W1 — Rosemary (@RosemaryLxiao) March 20, 2020
On March 23, coronavirus killed 462 people in Spain. Over the next day, from Monday to Tuesday, another 514 died, which marked the largest number of deaths since the beginning of the epidemic in the country.
As of March 24, the number of patients, who were tested positive for COVID-19 infection in Spain reached 39,673 people, of whom 2,696 died. About 30,000 patients remain under medical supervision.
Covid-19 in Spain: Epicenter – Madrid
The authorities of Spain, where people over 65 years of age account for 18 percent of the population, declared a state of emergency on March 14. It will last at least until April 11th. All of Spain is quarantined, people are allowed to leave their homes only for urgent reasons. The epicenter of the epidemic is the autonomous community of Madrid, the center of which is the capital of the country. Up to 80 percent of residents may contract coronavirus there, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, the head of the government of the autonomous community of Madrid said.
Military men of the Spanish Armed Forces, who take part in operations to transport the bodies of the deceased and disinfect buildings, with ever increasing frequency find dead bodies of deceased elderly people in their apartments and nursing homes.
According to Defense Minister Margarita Robles, soldiers often come across bodies of abandoned elderly people who died in their beds.
The situation in many nursing homes in Madrid is critical. Personnel leave dead bodies untouched in their beads and wait for special services to arrive to pick them up. To make matters worse, many employees of nursing homes are either infected or remain in self-isolation.
Sixty percent of all critical patients in Spain reside in Madrid. Intensive care units are crammed with patients, many people are lying on the floor. Like in Italy, Spanish doctors give preference to those who have bigger chances to recover – younger individuals and those with fewer chronic diseases.
Spanish Healthcare Ministry ordered not to provide artificial respiration units to elderly coronavirus-infected patients, as their chances of recovery are minimal. Hospitals outside rarely have respiratory medical devices.
Sixty-eight percent of patients admitted to intensive care units are over 60 years of age. Of these, at least 25% die, Noticia website reports.
Exhibition complex as hospital, ice palace as morgue
Madrid’s largest exhibition complex IFEMA has become Europe’s largest field hospital. All its pavilions have been redesigned to accommodate COVID-19 patients. The complex can now accept 5,500 patients.
The exhibition complex became the country’s largest intensive care unit – for 500 people. The complex is spacious indeed, which makes it possible to keep sufficient distance between the beds, which is important during a pandemic.
Forty hotels in Madrid now operate as hospitals. For example, the Gran Hotel Colon in Madrid provided 365 of its rooms to be used as hospital wards to help metropolitan hospitals to cope with the crisis
Madrid’s Ice Palace now operates as a morgue, where they bring the bodies of the deceased. Bodies will be stored on ice rink until funeral services handle them.
Funeral service of Spain are not prepared for the pandemic. They have neither personal protective equipment (PPE), nor protective suits. Yet, Spanish funeral homes work as usual, dealing only with the bodies of those who died for reasons other than Covid-19.
Spanish healthcare system expected to collapse
Spanish epidemiologists, molecular biologists and other famous scientists – 69 specialists in total – wrote an open letter to the Spanish government on Saturday, March 21, urging the authorities for even tougher restrictions on the freedom of movement in the country. Otherwise, the Spanish health system will collapse on March 25, they wrote.
Spain implemented the state of emergency on March 14 – residents of the 47-million-strong country were ordered to leave their homes only in exceptional cases – to buy groceries, visit pharmacies, hospitals or to go to work. Violators face serious fines or even imprisonment.
In Italy, the coronavirus infection has killed 743 people in the last 24 hours.
As of March 24, a total of 409,000 cases of the disease were confirmed in the world.
Covid-19 has claimed 18,200 lives so far.
In Russia, another 57 cases of the coronavirus infection were reported in Russia. All new patients have visited epidemiologically troubled countries in the last two weeks. The total number of patients with COVID-19 in Russia has thus reached 495.
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veteranstoday--2020-04-16--The World According to the Gates Foundation

Regarding the Covid19 pandemic , the voices of dissenting epidemiologists of impeccable reputation are being screened out of mainstream media .
In particular , an April 8 interview of Knut Wittkowski , an epidemiologist of 35 years experience studying pandemics , is an education in itself .
As interviewers remind him that his views of the pandemic and lockdown are in absolute opposition to the government ’ s , he replies , his anger barely contained , “ I ’ m not paid by the government , so I ’ m entitled to actually do science ” , implying intellectual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
His basic message is that this pandemic is like every annual flu pandemic .
If allowed to run its course , there would be a period of several weeks in which “ herd immunity ” is established , after which the pandemic dies out .
The elderly and infirm would be protected from contact , but only for that period .
He explains exactly why the lockdown , in which gatherings of people are unauthorized , and a form of mass house arrest is framed as “ self-isolation ” , is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Toward the end of the interview , his introductory comment ( above ) is followed by “ If people don ’ t stand up to their rights , their rights will be forgotten.
” And then , bitterly , as a parting comment on officialdom ’ s ability to smother unwanted opinion : “ It ’ s a struggle to get heard ” .

Regarding the Covid19 pandemic, the voices of dissenting epidemiologists of impeccable reputation are being screened out of mainstream media. In particular, an April 8 interview of Knut Wittkowski , an epidemiologist of 35 years experience studying pandemics, is an education in itself. As interviewers remind him that his views of the pandemic and lockdown are in absolute opposition to the government’s, he replies, his anger barely contained, “I’m not paid by the government, so I’m entitled to actually do science”, implying intellectual prostitution among those crafting the official narrative. His basic message is that this pandemic is like every annual flu pandemic. If allowed to run its course, there would be a period of several weeks in which “herd immunity” is established, after which the pandemic dies out. The elderly and infirm would be protected from contact, but only for that period. He explains exactly why the lockdown, in which gatherings of people are unauthorized, and a form of mass house arrest is framed as “self-isolation”, is a detrimental strategy according to epidemiological principles. Toward the end of the interview, his introductory comment (above) is followed by “If people don’t stand up to their rights, their rights will be forgotten.” And then, bitterly, as a parting comment on officialdom’s ability to smother unwanted opinion: “It’s a struggle to get heard”.


veteranstoday--2020-04-16--Vltchek: New Indonesian Capitol in Borneo-Rural Misery to Tinsel and Urban Glory

An old road between Balikpapan and Samarinda passes through the poor villages , through rural slums , as well as stalls selling second-rate local fruits .
The cheap , unhygienic eateries , are now half-empty .
While the traffic is still heavy here , the ‘ real action ’ is somewhere else ; a few kilometers away , where the new motorway is being constructed ; a motorway which will , eventually , connect Balikpapan , Samarinda and potentially the new Indonesian capital city which is expected to rise somewhere around the now dirt poor Sepaku Village , in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government of President Joko Widodo ( known as Jokowi ) is promising that the new capital will touch the skies , eclipsing places like Brasilia , Malaysian Putra Jaya , or Canberra .
Nothing short of Dubai or Manhattan , in the middle of the logged out , monstrously scarred , poisoned island of Borneo ( known as Kalimantan in Indonesia ) .
While virtually all Indonesian cities could easily be defined as urbanistic disasters , the new capital is supposed to be totally different , boasting green wide avenues and impressive architectural @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entire world .
Indonesia has already made one such an attempt in its recent history – it promised to convert its island of Batam which is located just a stone ’ s throw from Singapore – into something much more impressive than Singapore itself ( a city-state with one of the highest quality of life on Earth ) .
Two years ago , I travelled to Batam , where I discovered a grotesque , bitter reality .
I reported it in my essay published by the New Eastern Outlook ( “ Batam Island @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Create Second Singapore ” ) .
The island had been thoroughly destroyed .
Nothing public was left , and nothing , absolutely nothing was built for the people .
Precisely just as in all other parts of Indonesia .
The ugliness of the urban areas of Batam was unimaginable .
Corruption was omnipresent .
The feeble attempt to turn the island into an industrial , productive area , collapsed .
What survived , at least for some period of time , was the prostitution and gambling .
Eventually , the gambling ‘ industry @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , together with some sand exports to Singapore , prevailed .
Presently , there is not one single city in Indonesia , which could be defined as livable .
Not one .
Even the Island of Bali is heavily polluted , full of traffic jams , with ruined and privatized nature , including beaches .
Why would the new capital be any different ?
Why would Indonesian people believe the government , which has been known for lying , for building sand castles , and for many long decades of absolute ineptness ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , anywhere in Indonesia .
So why should there , suddenly be , hundreds of kilometers of beautiful avenues and promenades in the middle of Borneo ?
All public places , in all the Indonesian cities , have been commercialized , privatized , or outrightly stolen .
Why would it be different now ?
What is this talk about big parks , green areas ?
Every big project in Jakarta , Surabaya or Bandung begins like that : endless promises of “ city walks ” , of malls overflowing with green areas .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ concrete sprawl , parking lots , and nothing public whatsoever .
Maritime cities lacking promenades , urban centers without public parks , concert halls , or first-rate museums .
There is no place like this on Earth : absolute extreme corruption , and spite for the people .
So , is there any reason why the new capital would change the entire culture of graft , or lack of productivity and imagination ?
It will be , after all , constructed by the same individuals , same developers , same companies and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ parts of the country .
Along the old road on which we drive , most of the people live in poverty , or if international standards were to apply : in misery .
At Bukit Suharto ( Suharto Hill ) , a peripheral area of the planned new capital , Ms. Niah , an old woman living alone in her shack , selling traditional rice cakes for a living , is not hopeful about her future .
Here , as elsewhere in Indonesia , governments have come and gone , dropping empty promises @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just wooden walls , stained mattresses , and pasrah , which can be loosely translated as ‘ submissive melancholy ’ .
Ms. Niah is not afraid to speak : “ I did not know about the plan to move the capital here , by the government .
They tell us nothing .
What I know is that I have never felt the benefits of development carried out by the government .
For decades , there was no help that I ’ d receive .
I don ’ t even get that proverbial subsidized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ poor Indonesian is entitled to , at least in theory .
I get nothing .
On the contrary , I actually feel disadvantaged by what is called development .
Since the government built the toll road not far from here , the traffic of the vehicles on this road has been reduced , and as a result , my rice cakes do not sell.
” A few hundred meters away , Mr. Abdul Gani , a retired civil servant actually worries about his future .
The government may force him out of his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ land may be at least of some use for the new capital project .
“ A few weeks ago , an officer came to the houses in our village to collect information on the ownership deeds for land , buildings and fields , without giving us a hint of what reasons the data collected is for .
Then , there were rumors circulating in this area , that our land would be taken , confiscated by the government , because we do not have ownership certificates .
Everything is vague for us .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ expect.
” “ Dubai ?
Manhattan ?
Really ?
Please be serious .
No , we don ’ t believe that the government could build a city like Dubai here.
” All along the road , we hardly encounter any native people of Borneo .
The entire area is now populated by so called trans-migrants – individuals and families that were injected here , mainly from Java , South Sulawesi and Bali , after the 1965 military coup orchestrated by the West and by the Indonesian right-wing elites and religious cadres .
Trans-migrants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ roads , effectively fragmenting Kalimantan/Borneo .
The right-wing , in fact fascist dictator Suharto considered Dayak native people of this island to be ‘ Communist ’ , because of their traditional , communal culture and way of life .
He did not trust them .
In fact , he busied himself destroying their “ long houses ” , and their philosophy of life .
Trans-migrants have also been playing an extremely important role in Borneo , which is one of the wealthiest , in terms of natural resources , islands on Earth : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ local people would not be able to one day unite and demand independence from the colonialist Java .
The entire island is now ruined as a result of Jakarta ’ s rule , as well as the “ trans-migration ” .
It has been devastated , burned , deforested , poisoned .
Once resembling paradise on earth , it is now scarred and humiliated .
Its original inhabitants are subjugated , kept divided and badly informed , and uneducated on purpose .
Then comes the new capital project .
In an unusually bold @ @ @ @ @ @ @ December 18 , 2019 : “ A study has revealed the names of numerous national and local politicians who would reap profits from the capital city relocation mega-project , including the brother of defense minister Prabowo Subianto , Hashim Djojohadikusumo , and the coordinating minister of maritime affairs and investment , Luhut Binsar Panjaitan .
The study , “ Who Is the New Capital City For ?
” was conducted by a coalition of civil organizations ; Mining Advocacy Network ( Jatam ) , the Indonesian Forum for Environment ( Walhi ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and took three months to complete .
It studied the oligarchic connections in the mega-project and its environmental and societal impacts .
The report revealed names of people who have assets and concessions in the extractive industries such as coal , palm oil and lumber as well as energy plants in the area of East Kalimantan where the new capital is going to be built .
It also suggested the project could be used as a smokescreen to brush off the corporations ’ dirt for the environmental damage they have done there .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ so-called smart city , there are 162 mining , forestry , palm oil , coal and property concessions .
Around 158 of them are coal mines that have left at least 94 deadly-deep holes in the area… ” We met two leading researchers from the Institut Dayakologi ( “ Dayakology Institute ” ) , Richardus Giring and Julianto Makmur , in the city of Pontianak , West Kalimantan .
Mainly , we wanted to know , whether the relocation of the capital to Borneo would benefit or harm the local people .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ capital was endorsed by the Jokowi government , I have never come across any open and transparent analysis .
All the studies tend to show positive aspects , without considering the risks and negative impacts of the relocation ; ignoring the interests of the Kalimantan people .
There should be a serious study , analyzing what the relocation of the capital would do to the locals.
” “ Aside from seeing the relocation of the capital as a solution to what is happening in Jakarta , this plan should also be seen from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and its people .
We do not want this capital relocation to be a kind of escape from the problems that Jakarta is facing ; we don ’ t want to move those problems to Kalimantan.
” “ The ecological injustice and the destruction of the social structure of the people of Kalimantan have been occurring since a long time ago .
Consistently , various government sectoral ( forestry , energy , etc . )
have only made Kalimantan an area of plunder , be it its forests or other natural resources .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a dreadful legacy of the past and present .
Although there are still few areas of pristine tropical forests left on the island , they are only small remnants.
” Working all over the island , filming and writing about the dreadful situation , for years , we could only agree .
And Mr. Giring continued : “ What ’ s the point of promising a big , beautiful and magnificent new capital , if it is not preceded by proper and careful planning and study ?
So far , what they have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ positive predictions .
No studies on the risks , or on the negative impacts that may arise .
If it is not done carefully , the whole thing will definitely turn out to be a blunder .
We know that this is not just a plan : a lot of resources have already been spent .
But still , the important thing is to anticipate beforehand what lies ahead ; to study risks , the environmental impacts.
” “ If not , people will have no sense of ownership .
The new capital @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elites , and to Jokowi .
And in the end , it will only move the problems from Jakarta to Kalimantan .
It ’ s beginning to look like a beauty contest , where the important thing is how things look .
As long as they appear to look magnificent , great !
Short video clips created by designers/architects are shown everywhere by the mass media .
But it is irrelevant to the people of Borneo and for the entire Indonesia.
” “ I imagine that there will be many potential conflicts that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the politics of the state administration .
There will also be an exodus of people to the new capital which will certainly trigger conflict with local people.
” “ Well , this is our paradigm of development , which tends to sacrifice the interests of small people for the sake of the elites .
On many occasions , here , development means sacrificing the poor/small people .
In this case , they are being sacrificed solely for the sake of an ‘ image or impression , ’ as if they were not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ propaganda that is promoting the new capital is all over the Indonesian mass media , here in Kalimantan there is hardly any information , even about the precise location .
The area designated by Jokowi ’ s regime is enormous .
Everything has been hushed up , camouflaged , covered in secrecy .
We ask , and people tell us where to go , but they are not sure .
We drive back and forth , frustrated and tired .
On the second day , we finally came to a security post .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ can be seen .
We are told that it belongs to the retired General Prabowo Subianto , a man who ran against President Widodo in the last elections , in 2019 , and after being defeated , was elevated to the post of Minister of Defense of the Republic of Indonesia .
A former Lieutenant-General , he was accused of countless violations of human rights , in the territories occupied by Java , and in Jakarta itself , where his troops were involved in kidnapping and torturing student protesters .
Several security guards @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is called Hambali , a gate security officer employed by the company PT .
ITCI , which is owned by Prabowo Subianto himself .
Behind the barrier and the post , there is the vast location of the planned city center of the new capital .
Although in theory , this place is supposed to be “ public ” , after spotting us , the security personnel immediately go to work , asking us questions , checking IDs , making phone calls to some undisclosed locations .
Our documents are photocopied .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an Indonesian Dubai ?
” We ask .
“ Or perhaps Manhattan , or Canberra ?
” The senior guard utters laconically , before lifting up the barrier and letting us pass : “ I just hope that the new capital will be built as planned , although I am not sure that the new city will look like Dubai or Canberra or Manhattan.
” What follows is a nightmare , combined with Kafkaesque , grotesque images .
Indonesia always manages to surprise , and to shock me .
First , on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trucks , full of timber .
The drivers and helpers are busy fixing their engines and tires .
Flies and other insects are everywhere .
Indiscriminate logging is obviously going on , up to now .
Our car moves on ; begins climbing the rolling hills .
The devastation is appalling , even by the standards of Borneo/ Kalimantan .
Entire hills have been deforested , scarred .
Huge , monstrous stubs of enormous trees line up the road .
There are all sorts of makeshift ‘ reforestation ’ projects , obviously conducted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ result of all this is terrifying .
The higher we get , the greater the scale of destruction : the total ruin of the island can be seen for tens of kilometers , in every direction .
If this was once , decades and centuries ago , a paradise , it is now hell .
On top of all this , stands a small metal structure , called Sudarmono Tower , put together in the most amateurish manner .
It is supposed to resemble the Eiffel Tower .
Local people drive here ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , even grandmothers .
There is nothing else to do , in this part of the world : the villages are encircled by palm oil plantations , mines and other commercial ventures .
Now they have new entertainment – me .
They stare , point fingers , repeating , as they always do when they see a foreigner : “ bule , bule ” ( derogatory for “ albino ” ) .
We approached Ms. Imah , who was visiting the tower together with her family .
She is from Sepaku Dua .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ or about the ‘ colonizing and then plundering ’ of Kalimantan .
If anything , she is one of the ‘ colonizers ’ , but definitely not one of those who improved their lives by moving to the island .
She knows nothing about the ‘ grand plan ’ .
Or , she knows very little .
All she worries about are insignificant details : noise and possible overcrowding : “ This is my first time visiting the location of the planned center of the capital .
Personally , I am worried about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our village .
Now , we live in a quiet and peaceful environment .
I am sure there will be more and more people coming and it will become crowded.
” She does not know that she is living in thorough misery .
Almost nobody around here , or even in the middle of the monstrous Jakarta and Surabaya slums , realize their conditions .
‘ Quiet and peaceful ’ , she describes her environment .
Wooden shacks , a medical and education system near the hard-sub-Saharan African bottom , an entire island @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of its land ( yes , you are reading correctly ) sold to private businesses .
Ms Ponadi , a shop owner , from Sepaku Village , thinks only about the possible compensation .
But she is not even sure that the compensation will be provided by the government : “ We came to this village decades ago , as trans-migrants , who started a new life from scratch .
Now I already have enough land to pass on to my daughters and sons .
Honestly , I would not be willing if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ another place .
If we had to move , the government would have to provide adequate compensation , for the hard-earned lives we have built here for decades.
” This land she is talking about used to belong to this island , and to the people of this island .
But she does not understand .
First , the fascist government sent them here , to spread their culture and religion , all around this island , which used to be inhabited by enormous , advanced and clearly socialist cultures .
Now , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on its ‘ investment ’ .
Ms. Ponadi concludes , somehow sarcastically : “ How could they possibly be able to build a city like Dubai here ?
I am not convinced at all .
Tall buildings will immediately collapse to the ground ” .
She laughs , loudly .
We don ’ t .
All this is not funny .
It is , somehow , damn serious .
We drive through Borneo , exhausted , depressed , and with the feeling that something terrible is once again taking place here .
For @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and talking to people , all over this tremendous island , the 3rd largest on Earth , after Greenland and Papua .
We have been documenting mighty rivers like Kapuas , now poisoned by mercury , hills leveled to the ground by mining companies , tremendous sprawls of land deforested , and converted into palm oil plantations .
Chemicals , black carcinogenic creeks , and filth , are everywhere .
Coal barges exporting the bowels of the island to all corners of the world .
Villages and towns surrounded by monstrous commercial enterprises @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then abandoned .
Children playing in the middle of the roads .
Sick people running , escaping to the Malaysian part of the island , where the medical care is much better and cheaper .
For almost three years , we have been collecting material for a huge documentary film , and a book .
The world knows nothing about Borneo ; or almost nothing .
Yet , its demise is as important as that of Amazonia .
And the destruction is much more rapid here , than anything recorded in Brazil .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ all one big insanity , and we are alone , totally alone in this : no support and no backing .
And this huge , enormous country all around us , choking us .
The Fourth most populous nation on Earth , totally indoctrinated by the pro-Western , pro-business regime , with hardly any diversity , with no mercy , no production and hardly any enthusiasm .
A country that only consumes , and which lives off cutting down trees , polluting rivers and selling its riches to multi-national companies .
I do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kalimantan , because I prefer the forest to be sustainable .
Even now they are already destroyed , so what would the forests look like if they really move the capital ?
Kalimantan Island would be more devastated .
And once it gets more devastated , they will move again .
That is ridiculous.
” Yes , they always move again .
They come like locust , from Java , supported by Western , foreign , companies .
They stay for as long as there is something to plunder .
Then , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ does not produce , it only plunders , and buys toys for the rich , after selling the loot .
It is a terribly frightening sight .
Everything is make-believe : statistics lie , planners lie .
The country has been ransacked , by less than 1 % of the population .
And now , the Indonesian President , a megalomaniac , little businessman from Surakarta ( Solo ) is dreaming about something really huge .
He is like some African king who drains his national resources , in order to build a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the middle of the jungle .
The Diplomat published an article on April 3 , 2020 , by By Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Dimas Permadi .
It contains two interesting paragraphs : “ It is also important to note that domestically Jokowi ’ s plan to move the capital has been a contentious issue , which has taken a toll on the president ’ s image .
In fact , a survey carried out by the KedaiKOPI survey institute revealed that 95.7 percent of Jakartans reject the plan .
Scholars have also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and would not solve the underlying issues the government aims to address.
” Naturally , to “ elevate ” the project , Jokowi selected several unsavory individuals : “ To realize this gigantic plan , Jokowi formed a new capital steering board consisting of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi , Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan , Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son , and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
” 95.7 percent or not , the project is being criticized , increasingly , by all sectors of Indonesian society .
On 7 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Marwan Batubara , Executive Director of Indonesian Resources Studies ( Iress ) : “ The ambition of relocating the capital city , which is said to be promoted as a driver for economic growth , is a program that is burdensome to state finances , is not pro-equal distribution , is not a priority , is not supported by objective studies and considerations , will increase the weight on state debt , as well as the potential for moral hazard.
” “ Jokowi ’ s ambitious attitude to move the national capital @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 2020 state budget , on September 24 , 2019 .
Although it is still in the initial stage and does not yet have a legal basis in the form of a law , the government has allocated a budget of 2 trillion rupiah for the relocation of the national capital , which is spread throughout the ministerial sectoral budgets.
” “ The arrogant attitude and breaking of the regulations were adopted by the government amid the growing state budget deficit , and as a result , the burden of the country ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ year.
” Jokowi says he loves business , and he is enamored with the U.S. president Donald Trump .
He can hardly believe that from a furniture seller he has gone ‘ so far ’ , meeting the most notorious leaders of the West , shaking their hands , telling them how much they are wanted in Indonesia .
He talks big .
He shuts up his critics .
Journalists and activists are disappearing , or outrightly getting murdered .
Laws muzzling any criticism are being introduced , gradually and consistently .
Nobody @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
New Order ( “ Ode Baru ” ) – the fascist pro-business regime of General Suharto , is being re-introduced .
In this political climate ; in a climate of fear , intimidation and corruption , the new capital city of Indonesia is expected to rise .
As we sit in a car , in silence , driving towards Balikpapan City , my left eye begins to ache .
It is just the beginning of a horror which I will have to face in just two weeks from now .
My stomach @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I work in Indonesia , particularly in Kalimantan .
Soon , both eyes , attacked by a local parasite , will collapse .
It will happen in Hong Kong .
And I will have to fly home , to Chile , half-blind and ruined after working in Kalimantan .
My journey will take 8 days ; from Hong Kong to Bangkok , to Seoul , Amsterdam , Surinam , Brazil and Peru .
In a few weeks , COVID-19 will come to Indonesia , but instead of mobilizing , Jokowi ’ s regime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drink herbal medicine .
A tremendous amount of people will die , silently , and as always in Indonesia , unreported .
But now we slowly progressed towards the main regional center , and its airport .
Ahead of us , there will be a horrid flight to Pontianak , in two days , on a filthy and overcrowded Boeing 737 , so filthy that it resembles an old bus in some collapsed country .
Then , a flight to Jakarta on the national carrier Garuda Indonesia , where several people sat around @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coughs .
Unlike in the Philippines , Vietnam and of course China , no temperature checking , no medical checkpoints , until much , much later .
Indonesia is a collapsed country .
I depicted it in my recent huge documentary film “ DOWNFALL !
” The fact that it has crumbled is a well-hidden secret .
If it does something really well , it obstructs the truth , tricking its own citizens and the world .
It shows its true face only when emergencies strike , as basically nothing works there : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or transportation .
Before leaving Balikpapan , we talked to several individuals there .
Although in Indonesia , more than half of the population lives in misery ( if international statistics were to apply ) , people here apply standardized neocon “ logic ” .
Even in the slums , all over the archipelago , people use stock market jargon .
It looks unnatural , terrifying , perverse .
Lusi ( known , like most people in Indonesia , by only one name ) , a housewife , a visitor to the Mall @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her “ analyses ” : “ I agree and support the relocation of the capital .
It will boost economic development , especially in the property businesses.
” Would she , personally , participate in the “ economic development and property business ” ?
When asked , she did not know what to say .
Mr. Arip Harahap , a senior architect , based in Jakarta , declared for this report , that moving the capital from Jakarta to Kalimantan , is “ immoral ” .
He elaborated : “ First , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and design process .
All technical , socio-cultural studies are still too shallow .
Second , considering the country ’ s economic situation , it is such a wasteful way of spending a budget .
Third , it seems that there are the interests of groups close to the central government that will benefit from the project.
” Apparently , there are many such interests , of many groups close to the government .
As the government and such groups are intertwined , forming one system , a regime , which has been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nation .
“ The corporations and the oligarchs have a chance to ensure their investments are safe with this project .
Meanwhile , they ignore the fact the indigenous Paser Balik tribe had their land taken away by ITCI Hutan Manunggal in the 1960s , ” Jatam coordinator Merah Johansyah said at the report ’ s launch in Jakarta on Tuesday .
The names mentioned in the report include lumber businessman Sukanto Tanoto , the owner of ITCI Hutan Manuggal ; Hashim Djojohadikusumo , Prabowo ’ s younger brother ; Rheza Herwindo , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ speaker Setya Novanto ; Thomas Aquinas Djiwandono , the treasurer of the Gerindra Party and Prabowo ’ s nephew ; lawyer and ex-Justice Minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra ; and the ubiquitous Luhut .
President Joko “ Jokowi ” Widodo announced the location of the new capital city , at Penajam Paser Utara in East Kalimantan , on April 29 , only 12 days after he won the presidential election .
“ The government never asked for approval from the people of East Kalimantan .
The decision [ to move the capital there ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election without consulting the public .
That was a crime as far as public participation in politics is concerned , ” Merah said.
” Investigating oppression against the indigenous people in Indonesia , as well as the destruction of the environment all over the archipelago by the collusion of local oligarchs , foreign multi-nationals and Indonesian government , is an extremely dangerous job , particularly now , under Jokowi ’ s administration .
People get hunted down , killed , arrested and in the case of foreigners , regularly deported .
Recently , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and imprisoned in Palangkaraya , Central Kalimantan , after attending meetings of the indigenous people of Kalimantan , and reporting for Mongabay .
The Environmental science website , Mongabay , is an outspoken publication , that is persistently critical of the situation in Indonesia .
Regarding the new capital , it reported on 6 January , 2020 : “ The site of the new capital on the island of Borneo is home to 162 existing concessions , most of them for coal mining , according to a report from a coalition of NGOs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ claim that the city will be built on vacant land , and raises the prospect of the concession-holders exploiting the opportunity for profit , said Merah Johansyah from the Mining Advocacy Network ( Jatam ) , one of the NGOs in the coalition .
“ If the government says it ’ s going to be the public who will benefit [ from relocating the capital ] , that ’ s a big lie , ” he said at the launch of the report in Jakarta .
“ The ones that will benefit are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ story goes .
Six decades of attempts to move the Indonesian capital , from Jakarta to Kalimantan , Borneo Island .
First , the enthusiastic effort by President Sukarno , to raise the socialist , Soviet-style city of Palangkaraya in Central Kalimantan , literally in the middle of nowhere .
Then , the U.S.-backed fascist coup put a full stop to all the progressive aspirations and people-oriented development .
Recently , after getting re-elected , Jokowi announced his grand plan to abandon the polluted , embarrassingly poor and ‘ sinking ’ Jakarta , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Paser Utara in East Kalimantan .
Unlike the left-wing vision of Sukarno , Jokowi ’ s design is nihilistic , and if implemented , it will benefit only big business and the oligarchs .
The great majority of the Indonesian people will gain absolutely nothing .
The great migration of morally and economically corrupt bureaucrats and their butlers from Jakarta to East Kalimantan , would further damage the already extremely devastated island .
Native people there will get more and more marginalized and oppressed .
If this happens , there will also be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ regain control of their own island .
As this report is being written , the Indonesian economy is collapsing , due to the COVID-19 epidemy .
Even before the lockdowns , the commodity-based economy of the fourth most populous nation was not doing well .
Now the situation is truly shattering .
Statistics in Indonesia are manipulated ; totally incorrect .
In reality , the majority of the nation lives below international poverty lines , living in urban and rural slums , lacking basic sanitation , access to clean water , decent medical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ education and housing .
Can Indonesia afford to waste 33 billion dollars on moving its capital city ?
And everyone knows that 33 billion will at some point inflate to 50 billion , then perhaps to one trillion , until we will all lose count .
If the project goes ahead , it will be nothing more than yet another re-distribution of the national wealth – delivering billions of dollars into the hands of very few corrupt oligarchs and so-called “ elites ” .
The ‘ project ’ should stop .
It has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be stopped ?
In Indonesia , the greed of the rulers is much greater than logic .
Most of the citizens are uninformed , lethargic and submissive .
People are resigned .
Will the new capital ever get built ?
So far , there is only the tiny fake Eiffel Tower sticking up towards the sky , surrounded by plundered nature .
Almost nothing moves .
There is almost total silence there , as if it were the silence before the storm .
Andre Vltchek is a philosopher , novelist , filmmaker and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and conflicts in dozens of countries .
Five of his latest books are “ China Belt and Road Initiative ” , “ China and Ecological Civilization ” with John B. Cobb , Jr. , “ Revolutionary Optimism , Western Nihilism ” , the revolutionary novel “ Aurora ” and a bestselling work of political non-fiction : “ Exposing Lies Of The Empire ” .
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He can be reached through his website , his Twitter and his Patreon Mira Lubis is an associate professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tanjungpura University , Pontianak , West Kalimantan , Indonesia .
She authored numerous scientific articles , focusing mainly on riverine culture and settlement in Kalimantan/Borneo .
She has co-authored a book : “ Truly Asia : a short explanation of rural and urban life of the Dayaks in Sarawak ” .
She co-wrote several essays related @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Andre Vltchek .
She has been working with him on a feature documentary film about destruction of Borneo .
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Text and photos: Andre Vltchek and Mira Lubis
An old road between Balikpapan and Samarinda passes through the poor villages, through rural slums, as well as stalls selling second-rate local fruits. The cheap, unhygienic eateries, are now half-empty. While the traffic is still heavy here, the ‘real action’ is somewhere else; a few kilometers away, where the new motorway is being constructed; a motorway which will, eventually, connect Balikpapan, Samarinda and potentially the new Indonesian capital city which is expected to rise somewhere around the now dirt poor Sepaku Village, in the area of Penajam Paser Utara.
The government of President Joko Widodo (known as Jokowi) is promising that the new capital will touch the skies, eclipsing places like Brasilia, Malaysian Putra Jaya, or Canberra. Nothing short of Dubai or Manhattan, in the middle of the logged out, monstrously scarred, poisoned island of Borneo (known as Kalimantan in Indonesia).
While virtually all Indonesian cities could easily be defined as urbanistic disasters, the new capital is supposed to be totally different, boasting green wide avenues and impressive architectural masterpieces that would be envied by the entire world.
Indonesia has already made one such an attempt in its recent history – it promised to convert its island of Batam which is located just a stone’s throw from Singapore – into something much more impressive than Singapore itself (a city-state with one of the highest quality of life on Earth). Two years ago, I travelled to Batam, where I discovered a grotesque, bitter reality. I reported it in my essay published by the New Eastern Outlook (“Batam Island – Indonesia’s Sorry Attempt to Create Second Singapore”). The island had been thoroughly destroyed. Nothing public was left, and nothing, absolutely nothing was built for the people. Precisely just as in all other parts of Indonesia. The ugliness of the urban areas of Batam was unimaginable. Corruption was omnipresent. The feeble attempt to turn the island into an industrial, productive area, collapsed. What survived, at least for some period of time, was the prostitution and gambling. Eventually, the gambling ‘industry’ collapsed, too. Only prostitution, together with some sand exports to Singapore, prevailed.
Presently, there is not one single city in Indonesia, which could be defined as livable. Not one. Even the Island of Bali is heavily polluted, full of traffic jams, with ruined and privatized nature, including beaches.
Why would the new capital be any different? Why would Indonesian people believe the government, which has been known for lying, for building sand castles, and for many long decades of absolute ineptness?
There is not one elegantly built sidewalk, anywhere in Indonesia. So why should there, suddenly be, hundreds of kilometers of beautiful avenues and promenades in the middle of Borneo?
All public places, in all the Indonesian cities, have been commercialized, privatized, or outrightly stolen. Why would it be different now? What is this talk about big parks, green areas? Every big project in Jakarta, Surabaya or Bandung begins like that: endless promises of “city walks”, of malls overflowing with green areas. In the end: nothing! A concrete sprawl, parking lots, and nothing public whatsoever. Maritime cities lacking promenades, urban centers without public parks, concert halls, or first-rate museums. There is no place like this on Earth: absolute extreme corruption, and spite for the people.
So, is there any reason why the new capital would change the entire culture of graft, or lack of productivity and imagination? It will be, after all, constructed by the same individuals, same developers, same companies and the same government, as in all other parts of the country.
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Along the old road on which we drive, most of the people live in poverty, or if international standards were to apply: in misery.
At Bukit Suharto (Suharto Hill), a peripheral area of the planned new capital, Ms. Niah, an old woman living alone in her shack, selling traditional rice cakes for a living, is not hopeful about her future. Here, as elsewhere in Indonesia, governments have come and gone, dropping empty promises, leaving people with basically nothing, just wooden walls, stained mattresses, and pasrah, which can be loosely translated as ‘submissive melancholy’.
Ms. Niah is not afraid to speak:
“I did not know about the plan to move the capital here, by the government. They tell us nothing. What I know is that I have never felt the benefits of development carried out by the government. For decades, there was no help that I’d receive. I don’t even get that proverbial subsidized rice delivery, which each and every poor Indonesian is entitled to, at least in theory. I get nothing. On the contrary, I actually feel disadvantaged by what is called development. Since the government built the toll road not far from here, the traffic of the vehicles on this road has been reduced, and as a result, my rice cakes do not sell.”
A few hundred meters away, Mr. Abdul Gani, a retired civil servant actually worries about his future. The government may force him out of his home, if it felt that his land may be at least of some use for the new capital project.
“A few weeks ago, an officer came to the houses in our village to collect information on the ownership deeds for land, buildings and fields, without giving us a hint of what reasons the data collected is for. Then, there were rumors circulating in this area, that our land would be taken, confiscated by the government, because we do not have ownership certificates. Everything is vague for us. We don’t know what to expect.”
“Dubai? Manhattan? Really? Please be serious. No, we don’t believe that the government could build a city like Dubai here.”
All along the road, we hardly encounter any native people of Borneo. The entire area is now populated by so called trans-migrants – individuals and families that were injected here, mainly from Java, South Sulawesi and Bali, after the 1965 military coup orchestrated by the West and by the Indonesian right-wing elites and religious cadres. Trans-migrants have been historically placed along the important roads, effectively fragmenting Kalimantan/Borneo. The right-wing, in fact fascist dictator Suharto considered Dayak native people of this island to be ‘Communist’, because of their traditional, communal culture and way of life. He did not trust them. In fact, he busied himself destroying their “long houses”, and their philosophy of life.
Trans-migrants have also been playing an extremely important role in Borneo, which is one of the wealthiest, in terms of natural resources, islands on Earth: their increasing presence has guaranteed that the local people would not be able to one day unite and demand independence from the colonialist Java.
The entire island is now ruined as a result of Jakarta’s rule, as well as the “trans-migration”. It has been devastated, burned, deforested, poisoned. Once resembling paradise on earth, it is now scarred and humiliated. Its original inhabitants are subjugated, kept divided and badly informed, and uneducated on purpose.
Then comes the new capital project.
In an unusually bold report, the Jakarta Globe wrote on December 18, 2019:
“A study has revealed the names of numerous national and local politicians who would reap profits from the capital city relocation mega-project, including the brother of defense minister Prabowo Subianto, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, and the coordinating minister of maritime affairs and investment, Luhut Binsar Panjaitan.
The study, “Who Is the New Capital City For?” was conducted by a coalition of civil organizations; Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam), the Indonesian Forum for Environment (Walhi), Trend Asia and Forest Watch Indonesia, and took three months to complete.
It studied the oligarchic connections in the mega-project and its environmental and societal impacts.
The report revealed names of people who have assets and concessions in the extractive industries such as coal, palm oil and lumber as well as energy plants in the area of East Kalimantan where the new capital is going to be built.
It also suggested the project could be used as a smokescreen to brush off the corporations’ dirt for the environmental damage they have done there.
Within the 180,000-hectare area for the new so-called smart city, there are 162 mining, forestry, palm oil, coal and property concessions.
Around 158 of them are coal mines that have left at least 94 deadly-deep holes in the area…”
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We met two leading researchers from the Institut Dayakologi (“Dayakology Institute”), Richardus Giring and Julianto Makmur, in the city of Pontianak, West Kalimantan.
Mainly, we wanted to know, whether the relocation of the capital to Borneo would benefit or harm the local people.
Mr. Giring elaborated:
“Since the issue of relocation of the capital was endorsed by the Jokowi government, I have never come across any open and transparent analysis. All the studies tend to show positive aspects, without considering the risks and negative impacts of the relocation; ignoring the interests of the Kalimantan people. There should be a serious study, analyzing what the relocation of the capital would do to the locals.”
“Aside from seeing the relocation of the capital as a solution to what is happening in Jakarta, this plan should also be seen from the perspective of the impacts on Kalimantan and its people. We do not want this capital relocation to be a kind of escape from the problems that Jakarta is facing; we don’t want to move those problems to Kalimantan.”
“The ecological injustice and the destruction of the social structure of the people of Kalimantan have been occurring since a long time ago. Consistently, various government sectoral (forestry, energy, etc.) have only made Kalimantan an area of plunder, be it its forests or other natural resources. The Kalimantan that we see today is a dreadful legacy of the past and present. Although there are still few areas of pristine tropical forests left on the island, they are only small remnants.”
Working all over the island, filming and writing about the dreadful situation, for years, we could only agree. And Mr. Giring continued:
“What’s the point of promising a big, beautiful and magnificent new capital, if it is not preceded by proper and careful planning and study? So far, what they have done is only feasibility studies based on positive predictions. No studies on the risks, or on the negative impacts that may arise. If it is not done carefully, the whole thing will definitely turn out to be a blunder. We know that this is not just a plan: a lot of resources have already been spent. But still, the important thing is to anticipate beforehand what lies ahead; to study risks, the environmental impacts.”
“If not, people will have no sense of ownership. The new capital will only belong to Jakarta’s elites, and to Jokowi. And in the end, it will only move the problems from Jakarta to Kalimantan. It’s beginning to look like a beauty contest, where the important thing is how things look. As long as they appear to look magnificent, great! Short video clips created by designers/architects are shown everywhere by the mass media. But it is irrelevant to the people of Borneo and for the entire Indonesia.”
“I imagine that there will be many potential conflicts that will arise, such as land-grabbing caused by the politics of the state administration. There will also be an exodus of people to the new capital which will certainly trigger conflict with local people.”
“Well, this is our paradigm of development, which tends to sacrifice the interests of small people for the sake of the elites. On many occasions, here, development means sacrificing the poor/small people. In this case, they are being sacrificed solely for the sake of an ‘image or impression,’ as if they were not human beings with dignity.”
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While the propaganda that is promoting the new capital is all over the Indonesian mass media, here in Kalimantan there is hardly any information, even about the precise location. The area designated by Jokowi’s regime is enormous. Everything has been hushed up, camouflaged, covered in secrecy. We ask, and people tell us where to go, but they are not sure. We drive back and forth, frustrated and tired.
On the second day, we finally came to a security post. Behind, the enormous and devastated land can be seen. We are told that it belongs to the retired General Prabowo Subianto, a man who ran against President Widodo in the last elections, in 2019, and after being defeated, was elevated to the post of Minister of Defense of the Republic of Indonesia. A former Lieutenant-General, he was accused of countless violations of human rights, in the territories occupied by Java, and in Jakarta itself, where his troops were involved in kidnapping and torturing student protesters.
Several security guards man the post. One of them is called Hambali, a gate security officer employed by the company PT. ITCI, which is owned by Prabowo Subianto himself.
Behind the barrier and the post, there is the vast location of the planned city center of the new capital.
Although in theory, this place is supposed to be “public”, after spotting us, the security personnel immediately go to work, asking us questions, checking IDs, making phone calls to some undisclosed locations. Our documents are photocopied.
“So, is this going to be an Indonesian Dubai?” We ask. “Or perhaps Manhattan, or Canberra?”
The senior guard utters laconically, before lifting up the barrier and letting us pass:
“I just hope that the new capital will be built as planned, although I am not sure that the new city will look like Dubai or Canberra or Manhattan.”
*
What follows is a nightmare, combined with Kafkaesque, grotesque images. Indonesia always manages to surprise, and to shock me.
First, on the road shoulder, there are several broken trucks, full of timber. The drivers and helpers are busy fixing their engines and tires. Flies and other insects are everywhere. Indiscriminate logging is obviously going on, up to now.
Our car moves on; begins climbing the rolling hills. The devastation is appalling, even by the standards of Borneo/ Kalimantan. Entire hills have been deforested, scarred. Huge, monstrous stubs of enormous trees line up the road. There are all sorts of makeshift ‘reforestation’ projects, obviously conducted to impress the local media. The result of all this is terrifying. The higher we get, the greater the scale of destruction: the total ruin of the island can be seen for tens of kilometers, in every direction. If this was once, decades and centuries ago, a paradise, it is now hell.
On top of all this, stands a small metal structure, called Sudarmono Tower, put together in the most amateurish manner. It is supposed to resemble the Eiffel Tower. Local people drive here; they climb it; adults, children, even grandmothers. There is nothing else to do, in this part of the world: the villages are encircled by palm oil plantations, mines and other commercial ventures. Now they have new entertainment – me. They stare, point fingers, repeating, as they always do when they see a foreigner: “bule, bule” (derogatory for “albino”).
We approached Ms. Imah, who was visiting the tower together with her family. She is from Sepaku Dua. She has no idea about politics, or about the ‘colonizing and then plundering’ of Kalimantan. If anything, she is one of the ‘colonizers’, but definitely not one of those who improved their lives by moving to the island. She knows nothing about the ‘grand plan’. Or, she knows very little. All she worries about are insignificant details: noise and possible overcrowding:
“This is my first time visiting the location of the planned center of the capital. Personally, I am worried about the relocation of the new capital to our village. Now, we live in a quiet and peaceful environment. I am sure there will be more and more people coming and it will become crowded.”
She does not know that she is living in thorough misery. Almost nobody around here, or even in the middle of the monstrous Jakarta and Surabaya slums, realize their conditions. ‘Quiet and peaceful’, she describes her environment. Wooden shacks, a medical and education system near the hard-sub-Saharan African bottom, an entire island robbed, with more than 100% of its land (yes, you are reading correctly) sold to private businesses.
Ms Ponadi, a shop owner, from Sepaku Village, thinks only about the possible compensation. But she is not even sure that the compensation will be provided by the government:
“We came to this village decades ago, as trans-migrants, who started a new life from scratch. Now I already have enough land to pass on to my daughters and sons. Honestly, I would not be willing if we were told to move, to another place. If we had to move, the government would have to provide adequate compensation, for the hard-earned lives we have built here for decades.”
This land she is talking about used to belong to this island, and to the people of this island. But she does not understand. First, the fascist government sent them here, to spread their culture and religion, all around this island, which used to be inhabited by enormous, advanced and clearly socialist cultures. Now, the Javanese regime wants to cash in on its ‘investment’. Ms. Ponadi concludes, somehow sarcastically:
“How could they possibly be able to build a city like Dubai here? I am not convinced at all. Tall buildings will immediately collapse to the ground”.
She laughs, loudly. We don’t. All this is not funny. It is, somehow, damn serious.
*
We drive through Borneo, exhausted, depressed, and with the feeling that something terrible is once again taking place here.
For almost three years we have been filming and talking to people, all over this tremendous island, the 3rd largest on Earth, after Greenland and Papua. We have been documenting mighty rivers like Kapuas, now poisoned by mercury, hills leveled to the ground by mining companies, tremendous sprawls of land deforested, and converted into palm oil plantations. Chemicals, black carcinogenic creeks, and filth, are everywhere. Coal barges exporting the bowels of the island to all corners of the world. Villages and towns surrounded by monstrous commercial enterprises. Beaches covered by concrete, and then abandoned. Children playing in the middle of the roads. Sick people running, escaping to the Malaysian part of the island, where the medical care is much better and cheaper.
For almost three years, we have been collecting material for a huge documentary film, and a book.
The world knows nothing about Borneo; or almost nothing. Yet, its demise is as important as that of Amazonia. And the destruction is much more rapid here, than anything recorded in Brazil.
Our nerves are stretched. It is all one big insanity, and we are alone, totally alone in this: no support and no backing. And this huge, enormous country all around us, choking us. The Fourth most populous nation on Earth, totally indoctrinated by the pro-Western, pro-business regime, with hardly any diversity, with no mercy, no production and hardly any enthusiasm. A country that only consumes, and which lives off cutting down trees, polluting rivers and selling its riches to multi-national companies.
A Balinese thinker, Gung Alit, wrote a comment for this report:
I do not agree with moving the capital to Kalimantan, because I prefer the forest to be sustainable. Even now they are already destroyed, so what would the forests look like if they really move the capital? Kalimantan Island would be more devastated. And once it gets more devastated, they will move again. That is ridiculous.”
Yes, they always move again. They come like locust, from Java, supported by Western, foreign, companies. They stay for as long as there is something to plunder. Then, they move again. It is because Indonesia does not produce, it only plunders, and buys toys for the rich, after selling the loot. It is a terribly frightening sight. Everything is make-believe: statistics lie, planners lie. The country has been ransacked, by less than 1% of the population.
And now, the Indonesian President, a megalomaniac, little businessman from Surakarta (Solo) is dreaming about something really huge. He is like some African king who drains his national resources, in order to build a useless, huge palace or a cathedral in the middle of the jungle.
The Diplomat published an article on April 3, 2020, by By Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Dimas Permadi. It contains two interesting paragraphs:
“It is also important to note that domestically Jokowi’s plan to move the capital has been a contentious issue, which has taken a toll on the president’s image. In fact, a survey carried out by the KedaiKOPI survey institute revealed that 95.7 percent of Jakartans reject the plan. Scholars have also argued that the plan is not feasible and would not solve the underlying issues the government aims to address.”
Naturally, to “elevate” the project, Jokowi selected several unsavory individuals:
“To realize this gigantic plan, Jokowi formed a new capital steering board consisting of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.”
95.7 percent or not, the project is being criticized, increasingly, by all sectors of Indonesian society. On 7 April 2020, RMOL.ID published an essay by Marwan Batubara, Executive Director of Indonesian Resources Studies (Iress):
“The ambition of relocating the capital city, which is said to be promoted as a driver for economic growth, is a program that is burdensome to state finances, is not pro-equal distribution, is not a priority, is not supported by objective studies and considerations, will increase the weight on state debt, as well as the potential for moral hazard.”
“Jokowi’s ambitious attitude to move the national capital has been reflected in the establishment of the 2020 state budget, on September 24, 2019. Although it is still in the initial stage and does not yet have a legal basis in the form of a law, the government has allocated a budget of 2 trillion rupiah for the relocation of the national capital, which is spread throughout the ministerial sectoral budgets.”
“The arrogant attitude and breaking of the regulations were adopted by the government amid the growing state budget deficit, and as a result, the burden of the country’s debt is getting heavier year after year.”
Jokowi says he loves business, and he is enamored with the U.S. president Donald Trump. He can hardly believe that from a furniture seller he has gone ‘so far’, meeting the most notorious leaders of the West, shaking their hands, telling them how much they are wanted in Indonesia.
He talks big. He shuts up his critics. Journalists and activists are disappearing, or outrightly getting murdered. Laws muzzling any criticism are being introduced, gradually and consistently. Nobody dares to guess what may come next. New Order (“Ode Baru”) – the fascist pro-business regime of General Suharto, is being re-introduced.
In this political climate; in a climate of fear, intimidation and corruption, the new capital city of Indonesia is expected to rise.
*
As we sit in a car, in silence, driving towards Balikpapan City, my left eye begins to ache. It is just the beginning of a horror which I will have to face in just two weeks from now. My stomach has been destroyed, as always when I work in Indonesia, particularly in Kalimantan. Soon, both eyes, attacked by a local parasite, will collapse. It will happen in Hong Kong. And I will have to fly home, to Chile, half-blind and ruined after working in Kalimantan. My journey will take 8 days; from Hong Kong to Bangkok, to Seoul, Amsterdam, Surinam, Brazil and Peru.
In a few weeks, COVID-19 will come to Indonesia, but instead of mobilizing, Jokowi’s regime will tell its citizens to pray and drink herbal medicine. A tremendous amount of people will die, silently, and as always in Indonesia, unreported.
But now we slowly progressed towards the main regional center, and its airport. Ahead of us, there will be a horrid flight to Pontianak, in two days, on a filthy and overcrowded Boeing 737, so filthy that it resembles an old bus in some collapsed country. Then, a flight to Jakarta on the national carrier Garuda Indonesia, where several people sat around us would be emitting dry, persistent coughs. Unlike in the Philippines, Vietnam and of course China, no temperature checking, no medical checkpoints, until much, much later.
Indonesia is a collapsed country. I depicted it in my recent huge documentary film “DOWNFALL!” The fact that it has crumbled is a well-hidden secret. If it does something really well, it obstructs the truth, tricking its own citizens and the world. It shows its true face only when emergencies strike, as basically nothing works there: rescue operations, the medical system, or transportation.
Before leaving Balikpapan, we talked to several individuals there. Although in Indonesia, more than half of the population lives in misery (if international statistics were to apply), people here apply standardized neocon “logic”. Even in the slums, all over the archipelago, people use stock market jargon. It looks unnatural, terrifying, perverse.
Lusi (known, like most people in Indonesia, by only one name), a housewife, a visitor to the Mall Pentacity, in Balikpapan, readily offered her “analyses”:
“I agree and support the relocation of the capital. It will boost economic development, especially in the property businesses.”
Would she, personally, participate in the “economic development and property business”? When asked, she did not know what to say.
*
Mr. Arip Harahap, a senior architect, based in Jakarta, declared for this report, that moving the capital from Jakarta to Kalimantan, is “immoral”. He elaborated:
“First, it is not based on a proper planning and design process. All technical, socio-cultural studies are still too shallow. Second, considering the country’s economic situation, it is such a wasteful way of spending a budget. Third, it seems that there are the interests of groups close to the central government that will benefit from the project.”
Apparently, there are many such interests, of many groups close to the government. As the government and such groups are intertwined, forming one system, a regime, which has been, for long decades, cannibalizing the nation.
The Jakarta Globe continued its damning report, naming names:
“The corporations and the oligarchs have a chance to ensure their investments are safe with this project. Meanwhile, they ignore the fact the indigenous Paser Balik tribe had their land taken away by ITCI Hutan Manunggal in the 1960s,” Jatam coordinator Merah Johansyah said at the report’s launch in Jakarta on Tuesday.
The names mentioned in the report include lumber businessman Sukanto Tanoto, the owner of ITCI Hutan Manuggal; Hashim Djojohadikusumo, Prabowo’s younger brother; Rheza Herwindo, the son of corruption convict and ex-House speaker Setya Novanto; Thomas Aquinas Djiwandono, the treasurer of the Gerindra Party and Prabowo’s nephew; lawyer and ex-Justice Minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra; and the ubiquitous Luhut.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo announced the location of the new capital city, at Penajam Paser Utara in East Kalimantan, on April 29, only 12 days after he won the presidential election.
“The government never asked for approval from the people of East Kalimantan. The decision [to move the capital there] was taken 12 days after the presidential election without consulting the public. That was a crime as far as public participation in politics is concerned,” Merah said.”
Investigating oppression against the indigenous people in Indonesia, as well as the destruction of the environment all over the archipelago by the collusion of local oligarchs, foreign multi-nationals and Indonesian government, is an extremely dangerous job, particularly now, under Jokowi’s administration. People get hunted down, killed, arrested and in the case of foreigners, regularly deported. Recently, Philip Jacobson, 30, was arrested and imprisoned in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, after attending meetings of the indigenous people of Kalimantan, and reporting for Mongabay.
The Environmental science website, Mongabay, is an outspoken publication, that is persistently critical of the situation in Indonesia. Regarding the new capital, it reported on 6 January, 2020:
“The site of the new capital on the island of Borneo is home to 162 existing concessions, most of them for coal mining, according to a report from a coalition of NGOs. This contradicts the government’s claim that the city will be built on vacant land, and raises the prospect of the concession-holders exploiting the opportunity for profit, said Merah Johansyah from the Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam), one of the NGOs in the coalition.
“If the government says it’s going to be the public who will benefit [from relocating the capital], that’s a big lie,” he said at the launch of the report in Jakarta. “The ones that will benefit are these companies.”
*
And so, the story goes. Six decades of attempts to move the Indonesian capital, from Jakarta to Kalimantan, Borneo Island. First, the enthusiastic effort by President Sukarno, to raise the socialist, Soviet-style city of Palangkaraya in Central Kalimantan, literally in the middle of nowhere. Then, the U.S.-backed fascist coup put a full stop to all the progressive aspirations and people-oriented development. Recently, after getting re-elected, Jokowi announced his grand plan to abandon the polluted, embarrassingly poor and ‘sinking’ Jakarta, and move the capital city to Penajam Paser Utara in East Kalimantan.
Unlike the left-wing vision of Sukarno, Jokowi’s design is nihilistic, and if implemented, it will benefit only big business and the oligarchs. The great majority of the Indonesian people will gain absolutely nothing.
The great migration of morally and economically corrupt bureaucrats and their butlers from Jakarta to East Kalimantan, would further damage the already extremely devastated island. Native people there will get more and more marginalized and oppressed. If this happens, there will also be very little chance for them to ever regain control of their own island.
*
As this report is being written, the Indonesian economy is collapsing, due to the COVID-19 epidemy. Even before the lockdowns, the commodity-based economy of the fourth most populous nation was not doing well. Now the situation is truly shattering.
Statistics in Indonesia are manipulated; totally incorrect. In reality, the majority of the nation lives below international poverty lines, living in urban and rural slums, lacking basic sanitation, access to clean water, decent medical care, healthy and nutritious food, education and housing.
Can Indonesia afford to waste 33 billion dollars on moving its capital city? And everyone knows that 33 billion will at some point inflate to 50 billion, then perhaps to one trillion, until we will all lose count. If the project goes ahead, it will be nothing more than yet another re-distribution of the national wealth – delivering billions of dollars into the hands of very few corrupt oligarchs and so-called “elites”.
The ‘project’ should stop. It has to stop, but can it still be stopped?
In Indonesia, the greed of the rulers is much greater than logic. Most of the citizens are uninformed, lethargic and submissive. People are resigned.
Will the new capital ever get built? So far, there is only the tiny fake Eiffel Tower sticking up towards the sky, surrounded by plundered nature. Almost nothing moves. There is almost total silence there, as if it were the silence before the storm.
*
[Originally published by 21 CENTURY WIRE)
Andre Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He has covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries. Five of his latest books are “China Belt and Road Initiative”, “China and Ecological Civilization” with John B. Cobb, Jr., “Revolutionary Optimism, Western Nihilism”, the revolutionary novel “Aurora” and a bestselling work of political non-fiction: “Exposing Lies Of The Empire”. View his other books here. Watch Rwanda Gambit, his ground-breaking documentary about Rwanda and DR Congo and his film/dialogue with Noam Chomsky “On Western Terrorism”. Vltchek presently resides in East Asia and Latin America, and continues to work around the world. He can be reached through his website, his Twitter and his Patreon .
Mira Lubis is an associate professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tanjungpura University, Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. She authored numerous scientific articles, focusing mainly on riverine culture and settlement in Kalimantan/Borneo. She has co-authored a book: “Truly Asia: a short explanation of rural and urban life of the Dayaks in Sarawak”. She co-wrote several essays related to Indonesia, especially Borneo, with Andre Vltchek. She has been working with him on a feature documentary film about destruction of Borneo. Lubis presently lives in Jakarta and Pontianak (West Kalimantan).
Her e-mail is: miraslubis@gmail.com


veteranstoday--2020-04-16--Sublimation and Desublimation! Phase Changes within the Troposphere!

Sublimation and Desublimation !
Phase Changes within the Troposphere !
Water for Fracking and Farming !
Some basic knowledge is required for understanding methods of Climate Geoengineering .
Most people may not be aware how important this simple knowledge is , like they are unaware of the ongoing Climate Control , at least since 1960 in the USA and UDSSR and since 1990 globally .
Dear readers , please read and test your knowledge and close your gaps .
Sublimation is the phase change of water directly from frozen to gas phase !
Desublimation ( deposition ) is the phase @ @ @ @ @ @ @ frozen phase !
The notion sublimation is often used as a general term for phase change between the frozen and gas phase .
This blog clearly separates both phase changes to prevent irritation .
Desublimation is the main mechanism used for Tropospheric Solar Radiation and Water Management ( abbreviated as TSRWM or just SRM ) , as a method of Climate Geoengineering !
By systematic dispersion of fine dust particles , which is mainly coal fly ash and sulfur powder , a premature desublimation or condensation is triggered .
The relative pressure and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ resulting in desublimation by the formation crystalline ice and below 6km in condensation by forming fluid droplets .
In both cases the accumulation of water is caused by the availability of hard surface , which may consist of fine dust particles , an airplane or whatever finds its way to the upper Troposphere .
This process is not limited to these heights , as it can be observed within any level of Troposphere , even on the Earth surface !
Natural resources of dust may be fine ash from volcanic eruptions , cosmic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be lifted by powerful thermal winds .
When enough dust finds its way above 6km and also humidity is also sufficient , ice clouds ( Cirrus , Cirri ) are formed .
If the dust remains below 6 km height and finds enough humidity , the water condensates as greater droplets , which are generally called aerosol clouds !
The artificial method is also named as Pinatubo-Effect to give it a pseudo natural character and sold as a “ solution ” to cool the “ runaway global warming “ .
If that would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would sound less fancy and more dangerous .
What about condensation without available nuclei of any kind of dust ?
When the relative humidity crosses the level of 97 % the condensation begins .
But the resulting droplets have no surface to accumulate on .
Therefore they are very dynamic , not stable and not persistent .
The source of such condensation is always thermal and has its origin on the Earth surface .
The clouds are called Cumulus ( Cumuli ) .
A Cumulus is only the visible part of a rising @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its foot on the ground .
The height and size of of a Cumulus depends on the energy contained in the rising air package .
Such clouds form in any height of the lower Troposphere and can rise up to ca .
8km height under extreme temperature discrepancies , which is less probable under natural conditions without any Climate Geoengineering .
Cummuli have a clear border and clean white to grey color , not dirty yellow , blue , brown , metallic or any other kind of non-natural shape .
The sky behind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blue light is the main driving energy for photosynthesis of plants and the healthy life of animals and humans , delivering the full spectrum of sunlight , specifically the UV-B rays for VitaminD !
Look around , forest of conifers are starving to death !
Without the blue light , plants can not breath and absorb CO2 from air and therefore the CO2 level will rise slightly during night time .
Under TSRWM the sunlight is missed also during day time for the plants .
With rising CO2 level by starving and dying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is needed for animals to breath will sink as plants will not breath it out anymore .
Playing with the Sunlight for TSRWM impacts every living creature on Earth as it steals the main energy source of life !
Can You imagine a bigger crime ?
Weird coalition of enemies may be formed and the misery of war may come over You if You don ’ t know enough about sublimation/desublimation !
!
!
That may sound like a riddle for the reader but please just read and connect the dots !
Please @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aerosol structures , forming behind airplanes are not natural and made intentionally for TSRWM .
Don ’ t be manipulated by the daily propaganda about CO2 made Globalwarming and Climatechange !
Be aware , ClimateControl is the reason of non-natural ClimateChange !
The TRUTH is always the opposite of lies !
Learn about CO2 and You will see that CO2 is the result of any clean chemical burning of carbon , but never the reason of it .
CO2 doesn ’ t burn , it is like ash !
CO2 is the foundation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the victim of the biggest Ponzi scheme , biggest finance bubble of mankind , which is professionally designed like a religion !
Obeying the orders of Geoengineering Mafia is the BIGGEST SHAME of humanity .
Politutes signing contracts , presstitutes spreading the propaganda , scientiputas framing fake studies are traitors .
They are all henchmen of the worst enemies of humanity !
Learn also from other sources , the knowledge about sublimation/desublimation is not a secret !
Basics of Meteorology should become common knowledge !
Use Your mind , don ’ t behave @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chemistry ?
– Definition , Process & Examples http : //study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-sublimation-in-chemistry-definition-process-examples.html Why some jets deliver fine dust as nuclei for Desublimation ?
Why this jets can deliver huge amounts of fine dust , if the burnt Kerosene by turbofan engines can not be the source for that ?
Why is no Desublimation observable if the fine dust was there before the airplanes flying into the airspace ?
Why the Desublimation along the trail of some airplanes is so huge and orderly that persistent icy aerosol cover hides the sun ?
Why does this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intentional Solar Radiation Management ( SRM ) ?
Do You know … .
how SRM is done ?
what is steered by SRM ?
which materials and tools are used for SRM ?
which impact SRM has on sunlight , air , water and soil ?
would SRM be good for life of fauna and Flora ?
would You like to live under a SRM airspace ?
would SRM have a bad influence on Your health ?
would You agree , if You were asked to accept SRM ?
If You suffering under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that You didn ’ t pay for water rights !
Be also aware , that this water is delivered under the pretext of “ energy security “ .
And be aware that You don ’ t only pay by drought , but also poisoned air , vitamin-D deficiency and oxygen deficiency !
You are paying with Your life and the life of all other creatures for getting energy from Arabia !
Read and look more of artificial Arabian weather in following articles : ELEPHANT in the room is SRM for water theft !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ : //geoarchitektur.blogspot.de/p/water-deliver-with-srm.html http : //geoarchitektur.blogspot.de/p/water-delivery-by-tropospheric-srm_1.html And what is done with this water : Carrying water for Saudi water pipelines ( thousands of kilometers ) & dams ( at least 230 ) & CO2 gasification !
https : //geoarchitektur.blogspot.com/p/saudi-water-pipelines-and-dams.html If You are not aware of control on global water cycle by ClimateControl , just look at the facts on the ground !
The whole topic of Geophysical Warfare and Geoengineering can not be explained in a single article or a few ones .
Please read on , connect the dots and get the full @ @ @ @ @ @ @ articles are also published on VeteransToday , please look here for them : https : //www.veteranstoday.com/ ?
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Sublimation and Desublimation! Phase Changes within the Troposphere! Water for Fracking and Farming!
by Enkidu Gilgamesh
CONTENT
Introduction Condensation without dust! Consequences of TSRWM Desublimation by Aviation! Strange extreme weather of Arabia!
.1. Introduction
Some basic knowledge is required for understanding methods of Climate Geoengineering. Most people may not be aware how important this simple knowledge is, like they are unaware of the ongoing Climate Control, at least since 1960 in the USA and UDSSR and since 1990 globally.
Dear readers, please read and test your knowledge and close your gaps.
Sublimation is the phase change of water directly from frozen to gas phase!
Desublimation (deposition) is the phase change of water directly from gas to frozen phase!
The notion sublimation is often used as a general term for phase change between the frozen and gas phase. This blog clearly separates both phase changes to prevent irritation.
youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoH7sdCaa4g
Deposition (phase transition from vapor to crystalline ice)
البردية الهائلة يوم امس الجمعة طريق الباحة __ بيده .#الجمعة_٢٢_٧_١٤٣٧هـ pic.twitter.com/TVmDggxBu7 — 🇸🇦فريق طقس الباحة (@taqs_albaha) April 30, 2016
In German: Aggregate state
http://www.seilnacht.com/Lexikon/aggreg.html
In German: Aggregate state
http://www.gerd-pfeffer.de/h2o_wasser3.html
GAS A gas has not a fixed form or volume. The particles of a gas are far away from each other and move fast into all directions. A gas can spread out and also more easily compressed than a fluid or solid. Water vapor is the gaseous phase of water. SOLID A solid is the phase of the smallest amount of energy. It as a fixed form and volume. The particles of a solid are narrowly packed. Also the particles of a solid move by vibrating back and forth, but they don’t contain enough energy to separate from each other. FLUID A fluid has a fixed volume but not a fixed form. A fluid takes the form of its container, but keeps its volume. The particles of a volume move much more free compared to a solid, but they still don’t have enough energy to move independently from each other.
Desublimation is the main mechanism used for Tropospheric Solar Radiation and Water Management (abbreviated as TSRWM or just SRM), as a method of Climate Geoengineering!
By systematic dispersion of fine dust particles, which is mainly coal fly ash and sulfur powder, a premature desublimation or condensation is triggered. The relative pressure and temperature above ca. 6km height is resulting in desublimation by the formation crystalline ice and below 6km in condensation by forming fluid droplets.
In both cases the accumulation of water is caused by the availability of hard surface, which may consist of fine dust particles, an airplane or whatever finds its way to the upper Troposphere.
This process is not limited to these heights, as it can be observed within any level of Troposphere, even on the Earth surface!
Deposition (Desublimation)
Natural resources of dust may be fine ash from volcanic eruptions, cosmic dust, fine desert dust which could be lifted by powerful thermal winds. When enough dust finds its way above 6km and also humidity is also sufficient, ice clouds (Cirrus, Cirri) are formed.
If the dust remains below 6 km height and finds enough humidity, the water condensates as greater droplets, which are generally called aerosol clouds!
The artificial method is also named as Pinatubo-Effect to give it a pseudo natural character and sold as a “solution” to cool the “runaway global warming“. If that would be named global smog cover, it would sound less fancy and more dangerous.
.
2. Condensation without dust!
What about condensation without available nuclei of any kind of dust?
When the relative humidity crosses the level of 97% the condensation begins. But the resulting droplets have no surface to accumulate on. Therefore they are very dynamic, not stable and not persistent. The source of such condensation is always thermal and has its origin on the Earth surface. The clouds are called Cumulus (Cumuli). A Cumulus is only the visible part of a rising hot humid air package, which has its foot on the ground.
The height and size of of a Cumulus depends on the energy contained in the rising air package. Such clouds form in any height of the lower Troposphere and can rise up to ca. 8km height under extreme temperature discrepancies, which is less probable under natural conditions without any Climate Geoengineering.
Cummuli have a clear border and clean white to grey color, not dirty yellow, blue, brown, metallic or any other kind of non-natural shape. The sky behind Cumuli is always clear blue.
.
3. Consequences of TSRWM
This blue light is the main driving energy for photosynthesis of plants and the healthy life of animals and humans, delivering the full spectrum of sunlight, specifically the UV-B rays for VitaminD! Look around, forest of conifers are starving to death!
Without the blue light, plants cannot breath and absorb CO2 from air and therefore the CO2 level will rise slightly during night time. Under TSRWM the sunlight is missed also during day time for the plants. With rising CO2 level by starving and dying plants the level of O2, which is needed for animals to breath will sink as plants will not breath it out anymore.
Playing with the Sunlight for TSRWM impacts every living creature on Earth as it steals the main energy source of life! Can You imagine a bigger crime?
Ignorance doesn’t protect anyone from damage!
Weird coalition of enemies may be formed and the misery of war may come over You if You don’t know enough about sublimation/desublimation!!! That may sound like a riddle for the reader but please just read and connect the dots!
Please wake up and learn, that crystalline aerosol structures, forming behind airplanes are not natural and made intentionally for TSRWM. Don’t be manipulated by the daily propaganda about CO2 made Globalwarming and Climatechange!
Be aware, ClimateControl is the reason of non-natural ClimateChange!
1960, CIA Memorandum on ClimateControl!
http://geoarchitektur.blogspot.de/p/cia-1960-memorandum-for-general-charles.html
The TRUTH is always the opposite of lies!
Learn about CO2 and You will see that CO2 is the result of any clean chemical burning of carbon, but never the reason of it. CO2 doesn’t burn, it is like ash! CO2 is the foundation of life!
The humanity has become the victim of the biggest Ponzi scheme, biggest finance bubble of mankind, which is professionally designed like a religion!
Obeying the orders of Geoengineering Mafia is the BIGGEST SHAME of humanity. Politutes signing contracts, presstitutes spreading the propaganda, scientiputas framing fake studies are traitors. They are all henchmen of the worst enemies of humanity!
Learn also from other sources, the knowledge about sublimation/desublimation is not a secret! Basics of Meteorology should become common knowledge! Use Your mind, don’t behave like sheeple!
What is Sublimation in Chemistry? – Definition, Process & Examples
http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-sublimation-in-chemistry-definition-process-examples.html
.
4. Desublimation by Aviation!
Why some jets deliver fine dust as nuclei for Desublimation?
Why this jets can deliver huge amounts of fine dust, if the burnt Kerosene by turbofan engines cannot be the source for that?
Why is no Desublimation observable if the fine dust was there before the airplanes flying into the airspace?
Why the Desublimation along the trail of some airplanes is so huge and orderly that persistent icy aerosol cover hides the sun?
Why does this buildup of this Desublimation covers look like intentional Solar Radiation Management (SRM)?
Do You know ….
what SRM means?
what Pinatubo Effect means?
how SRM is done?
what is steered by SRM?
which materials and tools are used for SRM?
which impact SRM has on sunlight, air, water and soil?
would SRM be good for life of fauna and Flora?
would You like to live under a SRM airspace?
would SRM have a bad influence on Your health?
would You agree, if You were asked to accept SRM?
.
5. Strange extreme weather of Arabia!
If You suffering under drought in Europe, be aware, that You didn’t pay for water rights!
Be also aware, that this water is delivered under the pretext of “energy security“.
And be aware that You don’t only pay by drought, but also poisoned air, vitamin-D deficiency and oxygen deficiency! You are paying with Your life and the life of all other creatures for getting energy from Arabia!
أمطار غزيرة وبرد كثيف على مدينة #خميس_مشيط جنوب المملكة اليوم #الجمعه pic.twitter.com/Ig4enfiA1J — محمد الهذلي 🇸🇦 (@Mal_hothaly) August 3, 2018
Read and look more of artificial Arabian weather in following articles:
Extreme weather is intended by ClimateControl SRM!
https://geoarchitektur.blogspot.com/p/ailstorm.html
Auxiliary spillway? Arabian soil washed away!
http://geoarchitektur.blogspot.com/p/all-arabia-is-one-spillway.html
ELEPHANT in the room is SRM for water theft! Extreme weather!
http://geoarchitektur.blogspot.com/p/water-delivery-by-tropospheric-srm.html
http://geoarchitektur.blogspot.de/p/water-deliver-with-srm.html
http://geoarchitektur.blogspot.de/p/water-delivery-by-tropospheric-srm_1.html
And what is done with this water:
Carrying water for Saudi water pipelines (thousands of kilometers) & dams (at least 230) & CO2 gasification!
https://geoarchitektur.blogspot.com/p/saudi-water-pipelines-and-dams.html
If You are not aware of control on global water cycle by ClimateControl, just look at the facts on the ground!
Coordinates of WATER THEFT!
http://geoarchitektur.blogspot.de/p/coordinates-of-water-theft.html
The whole topic of Geophysical Warfare and Geoengineering cannot be explained in a single article or a few ones. Please read on, connect the dots and get the full picture and understanding. Most of my articles are also published on VeteransToday, please look here for them:
https://www.veteranstoday.com/?s=Enkidu
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