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timosman
11-06-2016, 01:58 PM
http://freebeacon.com/politics/kerry-travel-antarctica-state-dept-grilled-over-why/


November 4, 2016


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snPChlh5538

After announcing that Secretary of State John Kerry will be traveling to Antarctica, State Department spokesman John Kirby was grilled over why Kerry was traveling there and the trip’s cost to taxpayers.

Kerry will travel to a research station at the South Pole in a trip that begins Monday.

Kirby said the foreign minister of New Zealand would not be accompanying Kerry when asked by reporters. Flights to the South Pole normally stop in New Zealand first. Reporters then asked what the diplomatic purpose of the visit is. Kirby said the reason is climate change.

“The purpose for the South Pole was to talk to researchers and scientists largely about climate change research,” Kirby said.

Kirby was unable to provide an estimated cost for Kerry’s trip.

“There’s some criticism that this trip is basically, you know, the secretary wants to knock Antarctica off his bucket list and he’s doing it on taxpayer expense,” a reporter said.

Kirby asked where the criticism was coming from given that the department was just making the announcement of Kerry’s trip then, before going back to discussing climate change.

“Given all the stakes for the planet, particularly for sea level rise by melting ice, the secretary believes this is an important trip to make, and it’s a place he’s been wanting to go for a while now,” Kirby said.

enhanced_deficit
11-06-2016, 02:02 PM
To observe sudden changes in melting of ice after any shock news of Trump win.


Or

Trump will win when hell freezes over... in Antarctica.

UWDude
11-06-2016, 02:12 PM
Good place to fake a death. Nobody will ever go look for the body.

Slave Mentality
11-06-2016, 02:44 PM
He is trying to figure out who needs some bombing down there. Antarctica needs freedom spreading too I suppose.

Occam's Banana
11-06-2016, 03:21 PM
He is trying to figure out who needs some bombing down there. Antarctica needs freedom spreading too I suppose. It's for the penguins.

A Son of Liberty
11-06-2016, 03:26 PM
The guy just wants to go to Antarctica, and is having us foot the bill.

It's good to be king.

Weston White
11-06-2016, 11:16 PM
ROFL ...And then I said, if we don't get those carbon taxes implemented by this time next year, tens of thousands of miles of snow and ice will melt and completely flood every single beach all throughout the entire world, to be followed by the explosion of Mars then likely destroying our Moon and suspending our tides ever after!

UWDude
11-06-2016, 11:19 PM
Maybe it is some kind of worldwide skull and bones ritual they are attempting to save themselves, and Kerry is to be in Antarctica.

oyarde
11-07-2016, 10:54 AM
Must be a Moloch there that needs to be feed .

bunklocoempire
11-07-2016, 11:01 AM
He can't do a video chat? Or pick up the sat phone?

The big show.

timosman
11-11-2016, 09:26 PM
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/john-kerry-lands-antarctica-highest-us-official-visit-43460760


Nov 11, 2016

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/WireAP_2bb20f2bd5db4f9f8cb8fef749c79470_16x9_1600. jpg

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry didn't comment on Donald Trump's election victory while visiting Antarctica, but did say that citizens who care about limiting emissions might have to march in the streets to push for more aggressive action.

Kerry became the highest-ranking American official to visit Antarctica when he landed for a two-day trip on Friday. He's been hearing from scientists about the impact of climate change on the frozen continent.

Trump has called climate change a hoax and said he would "cancel" U.S. involvement in the landmark Paris Agreement on global warming.

"We need to get more of a movement going," Kerry said when addressing several hundred scientists and staff at an evening event at McMurdo Station, the large base which is the hub for U.S. operations. "We need to get more people to engage."

Kerry said there was a risk that much of Antarctica's ice will eventually flow into the ocean, raising sea levels worldwide.

Despite the Paris agreement to cut the fossil-fuel emissions causing the planet to warm, "we haven't won the battle yet," Kerry said to the audience that included many young people involved in climate research.

Earlier, a planned visit to the South Pole was scrapped because of bad weather. Instead, Kerry and members of his entourage were taken on a helicopter tour of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, one of the few parts of Antarctica that are largely free of ice year-round.

Kerry left from New Zealand early Friday aboard a C-17 Globemaster military cargo plane after being held up for about a day by bad weather. An experienced pilot, Kerry spent much of the flight in the cockpit of the huge jet, chatting with the pilots.

After a smooth trip of about five hours, the group landed on the Pegasus Ice Runway, the strip of ice that serves McMurdo.

Kerry's aides described the trip as a learning opportunity for the secretary of state. He has been receiving briefings from scientists working to understand the effects of climate change on Antarctica.

Kerry has made climate change an intensive focus of American diplomacy during his term, and had previously spent decades working on the issue as a U.S. senator.

He planned to return to New Zealand on Saturday for a meeting with Prime Minister John Key. Kerry plans to fly next week to the Middle East for talks, and then onward to a global climate conference in Morocco, where he will give a major speech.

seapilot
11-11-2016, 09:40 PM
I am sure John is extremely concerned about the 31,500 gallons of Jet fuel burned in the C-17 that flew him from NZ to Antarctica.

Danke
11-19-2016, 11:02 PM
The scientists rotate in and out of the stations there. Why not just talk to some of them stateside? Or do a conference call?

timosman
12-03-2016, 04:45 PM
https://gizadeathstar.com/2016/12/buzz-aldrin-antarctica-update/


December 3, 2016 by Joseph P. Farrell

In last Thursday's News and Views from the Nefarium I spoke about the strangeness going on in Earth's polar continent, Antarctica, and the strange visitors there over the past few months. It began with the visit of Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow Kirill III, a visit followed by Secretary of State John Kerry, at the height of the American presidential election, which also occurred during an otherwise predominantly diplomatic tour. Then, as I noted in the News and Views, this was followed by the most recent visit of former Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who had to be medically evacuated (so we're told), as his "condition" had "deteriorated."

We were not, of course, informed that Mr. Aldrin even had a "condition", much less from what it had "deteriorated." Aldrin does follow a string of such medical evacuations, which similarly we're told little about after the fact.

All of this only highlights the strangeness of the southernmost continent, and of the strange list of people associated with it. As I pointed out in last Thursday's News and Views, this list of "top people" associated with Antarctica now includes the following very bizarre list: Rudolf Hess, Nazi Party Reichsleiter; Hermann Goering, Reichsmarschal and founder of the Luftwaffe, both of whom played sponsoring roles for the Nazi expedition to the continent in 1938-1939; Admiral Richard Byrd, who, incidentally, had been flown to Nazi Germany to brief the expedition on conditions it could expect, and who led the Operation Highjump in 1947. The outcome of that expedition, and Admiral Byrd's strange remarks at the end of it to the Chilean newspaper El Mercuio, need not be rehearsed again here. Then, in the past few months, we've see added to this list Patriarch Kiril III, the only Christian bishop and hierarch ever to visit the continent, followed within a few months by John Kerry, the highest-ranking political figure ever to visit there short of a head of state, and now, Buzz Aldrin, moon astronaut. Hess, Goering, Byrd, Kiril, Kerry, and Aldrin. The list could not be more bizarre. All that's missing would seem to be visits of the Queen, the Japanese Emperor, the Pope, the Dalai and Panchen Lamas, a couple ayatollahs, a Grand Rabbi, a yoga or two, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Benito Mussolini's heirs. And at this stage, I wouldn't be surprised to find any of them making a sudden "tourist visit."

But there's been more to this odd story that has been brought to my attention since Thursday's News and Views, this time by Mr. J.H., who shared the following tweet from Mr. Aldrin himself:


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Of course, these words can be read for what they are: nothing significant, just a retired astronaut using the rhetorical language of a thrilling departure for an exciting voyage in terms he's accustomed to.

But equally, in my penchant for high octane speculation, and given their wider context of "strange people associated with Antarctica," the words "go for departure to the launchpad" could be seen in a very different way, for they can be taken to imply that Antarctica is some sort of "launchpad." This of course conjures all the strange myths of UFOs(Nazi or otherwise), outlandish hollow earth theories, and other arcana associated with the southern continent. lest I be misunderstood, I'm not a subscriber to the Nazi-survival-and-secret-UFO-research-base-in-Antarctica theory, and certainly not a subscriber to the standard "hollow earth" theories, but the language is strange, in a continent associated with strangeness. Aldrin's choice of words only highlight, rather than diminish, the strangeness of the place, the events, and the people associated with it.

But there's more; according to this article shared by Ms. B.Z., it seems that early on in the Obama Administration, President Obama proposed extending current treaty agreements about tourism to Antarctica, and wanted to limit tourism to the continent, and hey, it's high on pretty much everyone's list as a tourist destination:

Obama Calls for Limits on Tourism to Antarctica (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/06/obama-calls-limits-tourism-antarctica.html)

Host(ess) of the Arctic and Antarctic conferences? Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Apparently Mr. Aldrin and Secretary Kerry didn't get that email (perhaps Wikileaks did). But after all, they're not ordinary "tourists" by any stretch of the imagination. Neither are Admiral Byrd, or Patriarch Kiril(who also apparently didn't get that email).

This is another case of "you tell me," but it seems fairly clear that the high strangeness associated with the place at least since Herrn Hess and Goering set their eyes on it hasn't abated. Something is going on down there, and it's high time we're told what it is. After all, they have nothing to fear, for having lied about magic bullets, the U.S.S. Maine and a whole host of other things, who would believe them anyway?

See you on the flip side...

nikcers
12-03-2016, 05:09 PM
Antartica is where the last working stargate is located wait no isn't it where the new equator wil be when the earth's axis changes?

JK/SEA
12-03-2016, 05:20 PM
Aldrin and Kerry visiting Antartica......show and tell for the alien spacecraft found frozen in the ice...

timosman
12-03-2016, 05:28 PM
Aldrin and Kerry visiting Antartica......show and tell for the alien spacecraft found frozen in the ice...

Maybe the aliens can not withstand high temperatures hence the need to fight global warming?:confused:

JK/SEA
12-03-2016, 05:32 PM
Maybe the aliens can not withstand high temperatures hence the need to fight global warming?:confused:


uhhh..thats been changed to global climate change now, as no one really knows if we're heating up or cooling down or something else...

:D

timosman
12-03-2016, 05:34 PM
uhhh..thats been changed to global climate change now, as no one really knows if we're heating up or cooling down or something else...

:D

Somebody should tell the aliens to turn A/C off. We should send HVACTech there to install proper thermostats.

Occam's Banana
12-03-2016, 06:39 PM
Aldrin and Kerry visiting Antartica......show and tell for the alien spacecraft found frozen in the ice...

:eek: Maybe Aldrin and Kerry aren't Aldrin and Kerry anymore ...

http://i.imgur.com/f7kg81o.jpg

JK/SEA
12-03-2016, 06:50 PM
:eek: Maybe Aldrin and Kerry aren't Aldrin and Kerry anymore ...

http://i.imgur.com/f7kg81o.jpg

maybe we could get trump to go investigate...

timosman
12-04-2016, 05:37 AM
:eek: Maybe Aldrin and Kerry aren't Aldrin and Kerry anymore ...

http://i.imgur.com/f7kg81o.jpg

A link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/ - so people know what you are talking about.

scm
12-04-2016, 08:41 AM
He's looking for a new place to hide his boat so he don't have to pay taxes.

kpitcher
12-04-2016, 03:27 PM
Iron Sky 2 has an entrance to the hollow earth from Antartica

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3038708/

Nazis on Dinosaurs will invade the earth.

timosman
12-18-2016, 01:13 PM
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?505520-Deep-Freeze-mission-to-Antarctica-begins

nikcers
12-18-2016, 01:20 PM
Iron Sky 2 has an entrance to the hollow earth from Antartica

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3038708/

Nazis on Dinosaurs will invade the earth.

This is way more entertaining than world war 3, maybe we will get some cool new comic book heroes out of this.



Antartica is the key

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/03/5f/99/035f997b35ea9a0a8bdcbeb3f17b0bcf.jpg
(https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/5ixx3y/antartica_is_the_key/)