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A stream made by a melting glacier, where the surface is covered by cryoconite near Qaanaaq, Greenland. Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images

George Will, the syndicated columnist and political commentator, responded to a question about climate change the other day with this take:

Got that?

Good. Because it's a fallacy in the U.S. climate change debate -- that climatology research, in every nation, for the last century, has been conducted to help a group of people consolidate power in 2014 in the country where George Will lives.

It's like the "Seinfeld" episode in which a mom-and-pop shop where Jerry has dropped off his sneakers suddenly comes under suspicion.

"So," Elaine asks Kramer, "Mom and Pop's plan was to move into the neighborhood, establish trust -- for 48 years -- and then run off with Jerry's sneakers."

"Apparently," Kramer reasons.

Like Elaine with Mom and Pop, we must be a little leery of concluding that the Washington progressives have laid a trap for us with these climate change shenanigans.

The "whole point of global warming" is not, as Will would have it, to execute a liberal headlock on the American people. If global warming has a "whole point" of any kind, it is, it appears, to warm the globe, perhaps intolerably. That's what progressives and conservatives of good will and common sense are seeking to stop.

No one has yet described any physical laws linking atmospheric heat retention with American liberal activism or right-wing special-interest media buys. Let's worry about that one when it's peer-reviewed and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Climate Change and Encroaching Progressive Czarism.

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For the second straight day, thousands of members of progressive groups took to the streets to protest the signing of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) and US Pres. Barack Obamas state visit to the country.

They attempted to protest in front of the US embassy in Roxas Boulevard, Manila but were blocked by hundreds of policemen who used shields and sticks and water cannons to push back the protesters.

Aquino has tried to make it appear that the US is bringing back its military bases into the Philipines in order to help the country defend our territory from Chinas incursions, but Obama did not make any statement to that effect, said labor leader Elmer Labog, chairperson of Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU, May First Movement). Labog noted that Obamas statements on the Philippine territorial dispute with China belie Aquinos propaganda for EDCA.

On Monday, April 28, Obama was noncommittal when reporters asked him if the US armed forceswhose presence in the Philippines will increase after EDCAs signingwill defend the Philippines if attacked by China.

So what did we get from the Obama visit? Not much it seems. As expected, no commitment, no assurance. Meanwhile, Obama goes home with a new military agreement that would allow more US forces to rotate in the Philippines. Such is the tragedy of neo-colonial relations, said Renato Reyes Jr., secretary general of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan, New Patriotic Alliance).

Bayan, KMU and other sectoral and progressive organizations have been protesting against negotiations between US and the Philippines for a new military pact that will significantly increase US military presence in the country. The groups maintained that such an increase in US military presence will only exacerbate the tensions between the Philippines and China, who are engaged in a much-publicized territorial dispute in West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).

In the more than 60 years since the signing of the PH-US Mutual Defense Treaty, the US armed forces have only made Philippine military more dependent on military aid, according to Reyes.

The groups also said that EDCA will only worsen the Philippines neocolonial mendicancy to the US.

(See also: The previous days text and photos of the protest action against the Obama visit.)

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President Goodluck Jonathan

THE All Progressives Congress has denied an allegation by the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State that its members were involved in the destruction of the PDP and the Nigerian flags.

The state PDPs allegation is coming ahead of President Goodluck Jonathans visit to Rivers State for the South-South PDP rally on Saturday.

But the State Chairman of APC, Dr. Davies Ikanya, described the partys claim as spurious, maintaining that no APC member was involved in the defacing of flags belonging to another political party or the Nigerian flag.

Speaking with journalists in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, Ikanya said the allegation was another ploy by the state PDP to begin to destroy the APC billboards and cause confusion in the state.

He said, We wish to state categorically clear that no member of the APC was involved in the destruction of the Nigerian flags or the PDP flags anywhere in the state, including the PDP office in Obio/Akpor.

If you look at our state secretariat and our offices in the local government areas, you will see that Nigerian flags are conspicuously mounted there. So, the allegation by the PDP that they saw some people in the night removing Nigerian and PDP flags is spurious and frivolous.

Ikanya recalled how the state PDP accused the APC and the state governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, of kidnapping three of their (PDP) members, adding that the police had since arrested the culprits, and they were not members of the APC.

Explaining that Amaechi and the APC did not believe in violence, the state APC chairman said, They (PDP) only want to embarrass our party. Instead of the PDP to talk about why the state (Rivers) has no federal presence, they have been raising frivolous allegations against the governor and the APC.

He, however, warned politicians to desist from planning to unleash violence during the 2015 elections and maintained that the APC would not allow any political party to rig the polls.

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