Thursday, November 30, 2017

Jewish Zionist Trump’s ‘Pocahontas’ jab stuns families of Navajo war vets


Jewish Zionist Trump’s ‘Pocahontas’ jab stuns families of Navajo war vets

https://www.timesofisrael.com/trumps-pocahontas-jab-stuns-families-of-navajo-war-vets/


Trump’s ‘Pocahontas’ jab stuns families of Navajo war vets
Members of community say US president needs to 'grow up and quit saying things like that'

By FELICIA FONSECA and LAURIE KELLMAN
28 November 2017



US President Donald Trump, right, meets with Navajo Code Talkers Peter MacDonald, center, and Thomas Begay, left, in the Oval Office of the White House, on November 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
FLAGSTAFF, Arizona (AP) — Families of Navajo war veterans who were honored at the White House say they were dumbfounded that President Donald Trump used the event to take a political jab at a Massachusetts senator, demeaning their work with an unbreakable code that helped the US win World War II.

Trump turned to a nickname he often deployed for Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren during the 2016 presidential campaign: Pocahontas. He then told the three Navajo Code Talkers on stage Monday that he had affection for them that he doesn’t have for Warren.

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“It was uncalled for,” said Marty Thompson, whose great-uncle was a Navajo Code Talker. “He can say what he wants when he’s out doing his presidential business among his people, but when it comes to honoring veterans or any kind of people, he needs to grow up and quit saying things like that.”

Pocahontas is a well-known historical figure who bridged her own Pamunkey Tribe in present-day Virginia with the British in the 1600s. But the National Congress of American Indians says Trump wrongly has flipped the name into a derogatory term, and the comment drew swift criticism from American Indians and politicians.

“Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the Navajo Code Talkers, whose bravery, skill & tenacity helped secure our decisive victory over tyranny & oppression during WWII,” Arizona Republican Senator John McCain, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, tweeted Tuesday.

“Politicizing these genuine American heroes is an insult to their sacrifice.”



White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, asked about criticism of Trump’s remarks, said a racial slur “was certainly not the president’s intent.”


White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during a briefing at the White House on November 27, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
Trump made the comment as he stood near a portrait of President Andrew Jackson, which he hung in the Oval Office in January. Trump admires Jackson’s populism. But Jackson is an unpopular figure in Indian Country because he oversaw the forced removal of American Indians from their southern homelands.

The Navajo Nation suggested Trump’s remark was an example of “cultural insensitivity,” and they resolved to stay out of the “ongoing feud between the senator and President Trump.”

“All tribal nations still battle insensitive references to our people. The prejudice that Native American people face is an unfortunate historical legacy,” Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye said in a statement.

Still, Begaye and relatives of Navajo Code Talkers said they’re honored the story of the men recruited from the vast Southwest reservation to become Marines could be told on a national stage. Peter MacDonald, a former Navajo chairman and trained Code Talker, who stood beside Trump, also took the opportunity to ask for support for a Navajo Code Talker museum. Trump obliged.

MacDonald didn’t return messages left Monday by The Associated Press. He didn’t visibly react to Trump’s “Pocahontas” comment and later told the president he was certain he would succeed, crediting military generals.

Michael Smith, a Marine whose father was a Code Talker, said most of the Code Talkers would be skeptical about going to the White House because it could be construed to mean they support a political cause.



“So, why did they go? Why were they there? He’s putting them in the Oval Office to say ‘You did a good job, and say hi to Pocahontas?'” Smith said. “They should be taken care of as heroes, not as pawns.”


Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren attends a press conference to on November 28, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP)
Michael Nez, whose father helped develop the code based on the Navajo language, said his father would have been upset to hear Trump’s Pocahontas comment. But, as other Code Talker relatives said, his father was taught to respect the president as the commander in chief.

“It’s too bad he does put his foot in his mouth,” Nez said. “Why he does it? I don’t know.”

Helena Begaii said her 94-year-old Navajo Code Talker father, Samuel T. Holiday, declined an invitation to the White House on Monday.

She said he would have a better feel for what happened once he reads the newspaper.

“I feel really sad that they didn’t get treated with respect,” she said.

Trump’s Pocahontas comment is the latest in a long list of remarks Trump has made about people from specific ethnic and racial groups.

In announcing a run for the presidency in 2015, Trump said many Mexican immigrants are rapists. He’s sought to ban immigrants from certain Muslim-majority nations. He’s come under fire for what some said was a too-slow federal response to hurricane damage in Puerto Rico.

The president has long feuded with Warren, an outspoken Wall Street critic who leveled blistering attacks on Trump during the campaign.

Trump seized on questions about Warren’s heritage, which surfaced during her 2012 Senate race challenging incumbent Republican senator Scott Brown.

Warren said in an interview on MSNBC that, unfortunately, Trump cannot make it through a ceremony honoring heroes “without having to throw out a racial slur.”

Democratic New Mexico Senator Tom Udall, vice chairman of the Indian Affairs committee, added: “Donald Trump’s latest racist joke — during Native American Heritage Month, no less — demeaned the contributions that the Code Talkers and countless other Native American patriots and citizens have made to our great country.”

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Death Drug Squad Connected Israel soldier heading child prostitution ring deported from Colombia

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20171129-ex-israel-soldier-heading-child-prostitution-ring-deported-from-colombia/

Ex-Israel soldier heading child prostitution ring deported from Colombia



A former Israeli soldier was deported from Colombia for alleged links to a criminal network suspected of drug trafficking, child prostitution and tax offenses that spanned across several countries in Latin America.
Forty-three-year-old Assi Moosh was expelled by Colombia and returned to Tel Aviv under escort by immigration officers last weekend. In a statement confirming the deportation, security officials said: “Police in Santa Marta, capital of the Magdalena department, hereby announce the removal of an Israeli citizen who owns a spa hotel frequented by many foreign tourists. Deportation procedures have been commenced as per law and will be carried out due to the Israeli’s conduct, which has harmed Colombia’s national security.”
Colombian news agencies reporting on the deportation revealed details surrounding the expulsion of Moosh who was exposed as being part of a group of ex-Israeli soldiers that had turned a small fishing village in Taganga into a “sex and drug den” from their base in a luxury resort that was known to locals as “little Israel”.
El Heraldo, a regional newspaper, revealed Moosh as the head of an “international network of human trafficking, micro-trafficking and sex tourism”. The Israeli gained a reputation locally for organising private parties in a room within his hotel. From their base in “little Israel” Moosh is reported to have run similar clubs exploiting drugs and children in Cartagena, Bogotá, Medellín, Ecuador, Mexico and Brazil.
Local sources reported that Moosh was arrested when he arrived in the immigration office in Santa Marta accompanied by a group of armed men. It’s believed that he had been trying to obtain Colombian citizenship.
According to the national police, Moosh had raised suspicion after it was discovered that his permits for tourism and hotel operation were obtained through a third party, enabling him to carry out criminal activities undetected for a decade.
Locals are said to be “relived” by the arrest. Residents told journalists that Moosh “had been one of those who destabilised the social order of the people.” Many felt he should have been arrested long ago.
The mystery for many locals, according to El Heraldo, was the Benjamin hotel. Residents of Taganga described the resort as a “bunker” run by Moosh “exclusively for Jews”. While it’s unlikely that many of the locals would have actually seen the inside of the luxury resort, the feeling that it was an unwelcome place for non-Israelis has even been reported by visitors on TripAdvisor. “Not Israeli? Forget about it” wrote one visitor who had given the hotel two stars in the review. “First off this is a good hotel/hostel but if you are not from Israel I wouldn’t go there my wife and I were made to feel very uncomfortable even had people come up to us and say ‘are you from Israel?’ I said ‘no’ to their reply ‘then why would you come here’.”
Reports of how “ex-soldiers turned a Colombia fishing town into a sex and drug den” had been on the media’s radar for a while. In February Colombia Reports uncovered the tension within the popular tourist region caused by the Benjamin hotel. The report found that “Benjamin [hotel] employs and accommodates almost exclusively Israeli citizens, and was officially opened by 20 rabbis brought over especially from Israel”.
Security in the hotel is reportedly coordinated by a Willington Vasquez, who, according to the report is also known as “Manuel, a former member of a paramilitary death squad”. Locals from Taganga complained that the Israeli “tourism entrepreneurs” were running a drug trafficking network and prostitution business....................


A former Israeli soldier was deported from Colombia for alleged links to a criminal network suspected of drug trafficking, child prostitution and tax offenses that spanned across several countries in Latin America.

Forty-three-year-old Assi Moosh was expelled by Colombia and returned to Tel Aviv under escort by immigration officers last weekend. In a statement confirming the deportation, security officials said: “Police in Santa Marta, capital of the Magdalena department, hereby announce the removal of an Israeli citizen who owns a spa hotel frequented by many foreign tourists. Deportation procedures have been commenced as per law and will be carried out due to the Israeli’s conduct, which has harmed Colombia’s national security.”

Colombian news agencies reporting on the deportation revealed details surrounding the expulsion of Moosh who was exposed as being part of a group of ex-Israeli soldiers that had turned a small fishing village in Taganga into a “sex and drug den” from their base in a luxury resort that was known to locals as “little Israel”.

El Heraldo, a regional newspaper, revealed Moosh as the head of an “international network of human trafficking, micro-trafficking and sex tourism”. The Israeli gained a reputation locally for organising private parties in a room within his hotel. From their base in “little Israel” Moosh is reported to have run similar clubs exploiting drugs and children in Cartagena, Bogotá, Medellín, Ecuador, Mexico and Brazil.

Read: Israel killed 14 Palestinian children in 2017

Local sources reported that Moosh was arrested when he arrived in the immigration office in Santa Marta accompanied by a group of armed men. It’s believed that he had been trying to obtain Colombian citizenship.

According to the national police, Moosh had raised suspicion after it was discovered that his permits for tourism and hotel operation were obtained through a third party, enabling him to carry out criminal activities undetected for a decade.

Locals are said to be “relived” by the arrest. Residents told journalists that Moosh “had been one of those who destabilised the social order of the people.” Many felt he should have been arrested long ago.

The mystery for many locals, according to El Heraldo, was the Benjamin hotel. Residents of Taganga described the resort as a “bunker” run by Moosh “exclusively for Jews”. While it’s unlikely that many of the locals would have actually seen the inside of the luxury resort, the feeling that it was an unwelcome place for non-Israelis has even been reported by visitors on TripAdvisor. “Not Israeli? Forget about it” wrote one visitor who had given the hotel two stars in the review. “First off this is a good hotel/hostel but if you are not from Israel I wouldn’t go there my wife and I were made to feel very uncomfortable even had people come up to us and say ‘are you from Israel?’ I said ‘no’ to their reply ‘then why would you come here’.”

Read: 17 years after Second Intifada, Israeli police continue to kill Palestinian citizens

Reports of how “ex-soldiers turned a Colombia fishing town into a sex and drug den” had been on the media’s radar for a while. In February Colombia Reports uncovered the tension within the popular tourist region caused by the Benjamin hotel. The report found that “Benjamin [hotel] employs and accommodates almost exclusively Israeli citizens, and was officially opened by 20 rabbis brought over especially from Israel”.

Security in the hotel is reportedly coordinated by a Willington Vasquez, who, according to the report is also known as “Manuel, a former member of a paramilitary death squad”. Locals from Taganga complained that the Israeli “tourism entrepreneurs” were running a drug trafficking network and prostitution business.

The friction between locals in Taganga and the Israelis was also reported in 2012. “Four Israeli ex-soldiers are the new ‘masters’ of Taganga” was the headline in the El Tiempo. The paper alleged that the Israeli “businessmen” were selling cocaine and sexually exploiting young girls.

A journalist from El Tiempo investigating the allegations spoke with local officials, residents and the Israeli businessmen who pleaded innocence saying that “the community is wrong, everything is false”.

Read: Israeli forces kill Palestinian in pre dawn raid

But the report proved otherwise. The authorities said that they were “clear several Israeli ex-soldiers who arrived in that village” were “leaders of criminal gangs”. The authorities complained that the Israelis took over social premises, violated rules on tax payments and permits and were involved in selling drugs and sexually exploiting children.

The ex-Israeli soldiers became known as “the untouchables”. El Tiempo journalists travelled to the area and discovered that some of them were living in a concrete mass, guarded by eight security cameras. Others carry arms and move in 4×4 trucks flying the Israeli flag.

Testimonies from villagers and local authorities, who, El Tiempo said requested anonymity for fear of reprisals, exposed the drug and prostitution industry that had blighted the small fishing village.

Their standoff with the ex-Israeli soldiers led locals to create a committee and to request help from the Santa Marta administration.

Mayor of Santa Marta at the time, Carlos Caicedo, told El Tiempo that the situation in Taganga is serious and that he will ask the Israeli embassy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to review the legal status of the ex-military personnel settled in the Benjamin hotel.

Residents of Taganga appealed to their government to end the criminal activity in their village and a request was also made to the Israeli embassy, according to El Tiempo, to sanction the criminal behaviour of its nationals.

As for Moosh, it’s reported that Colombian authorities have imposed sanctions on him which prevent him from returning to the country for at last ten years.

JEWISH RITUAL MURDER OF TSAR NICHOLAS FAMILY ANASTASIA MOTHER,Karl Marx Rothschild Cousin




JEWISH RITUAL MURDER OF TSAR NICHOLAS FAMILYANASTASIA MOTHER


Karl Marx Was Rothschilds' Third Cousin - Gazeta Warszawska

gazetawarszawska.com/judaizm-islam/1409-marx
Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 - 14 March 1883), was a 19th century Jewish political ideologue who presented himself to the world as a journalist and economist. He is best known for subverting the nascent Socialist movement, likely as an agent of his cousin Rothschild; and on instructions from his mentor Moses Hess, ...

Karl Marx Was Rothschilds' Third Cousin - henrymakow.com

https://www.henrymakow.com/.../Karl-Marx-Was-Rothschilds-Third-Cousin%20.html
Apr 13, 2015 - Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 - 14 March 1883), was a 19th century Jewish political ideologue who presented himself to the world as a journalist and economist. He is best known for subverting the nascent Socialist movement, likely as an agent of his cousin Rothschild; and on instructions from his mentor ...


I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain - 
ROLLIONG STONES,SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL



A pro-Putin MP, Natalia Poklonskaya, 37, has claimed the tsar's killing had 'evil' religious motives.

She says: 'They murdered the entire royal family, they killed the children in front of their father, they killed the mother in front of the children.

'This is a crime, a frightening ritual murder.'.....


Father Tikhon Shevkunov, the Russian Orthodox bishop heading a panel investigating the Tsar's murder, 'is among  those who believe that Tsar Nicholas II was murdered in a Jewish ritual.'......

Russian Orthodox Church investigation into Tsar's 1918 killing / dailymail.

He says the communists and their allies "engaged in the most unexpected and diverse ritual symbolism'. He says that quite a few people involved in the execution saw the killing of Tsar Nicholas 'as a special ritual of revenge'.  

After the 1917 Russian Revolution, the communist government abolished all restrictions on Jews and proclaimed their opposition to all forms of anti-Semitism.- AANIRFAN.COM


The Devastating True Story of the Romanov Family's Execution

www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a8072/russian-tsar-execution/

Oct 5, 2016 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia with Tsarina Alexandra and their children Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexei. .... One was that Lenin and his henchmen, many of whom were Jewish, had demanded that the heads of the saintly Romanovs be brought to Moscow as a sort of ...

Russian Orthodox Church suggests tsar's death was a Jewish 'ritual ...

www.telegraph.co.uk › News

2 days ago - Authorities will investigate an anti-semitic theory that the 1918 killing of Tsar Nicholas II was a “ritual murder” following comments by a bishop close to Vladimir Putin. ... “Ritual murder” has in the past referred to a theory that the last emperor was the victim of a Jewish ...

Jews May Have Killed Russia's Last Czar Nicholas II In Ritual Murder ...

www.newsweek.com/jews-killed-russia-czar-ritual-murder-726568

17 hours ago - The head of Russia's Orthodox Church is launching an investigation into whether the lastCzar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his family were victims of a ritual murder carried out by angry Jews in 1918, Church leaders revealed in a statement Tuesday. "A large share of the church commission members have no ...

Russia investigates if tsar was killed in Jewish ritual | Daily Mail Online

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article.../Russia-investigates-tsar-killed-Jewish-ritual.html
2 days ago - Fury as Russia launches investigation into whether the last tsar Nicholas II was killed with his family as part of a 'Jewish ritual murder', at behest of Putin's 'confessor'. The country's final emperor was shot with his wife and five children in 1918; Some in Russian Orthodox Church insist he was murdered in a ...

Russian bishop claims last tsar murdered by Jews for ritual purposes ...

www.jpost.com/.../Russian-bishop-claims-last-tsar-murdered-by-Jews-for-ritual-purpo...

2 days ago - Russia's largest Jewish group protested a local bishop's claim, repeated by a justice ministry official, that the country's last tsar was murdered by Jews for ritual purposes. Marina Molodtsova, a senior investigator for a special ministerial committee on the 1917 slaying of Nicholas II of Russia, said on Monday ...

'Ritual Killing'? Probe Into Murder Of Tsar's Family Spotlights Old 'Anti ...

https://www.rferl.org/a/tsar-nicholas-ritual-killing-jews-anti.../28884466.html

2 days ago - MOSCOW -- Russian investigators say they are probing the possibility that Tsar Nicholas II and his family were murdered in a "ritual killing," appearing to give new life to an old conspiracy theory criticized by Jewish community members as blatantly anti-Semitic. The revelation echoes a conspiracy theory ...

http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/


'JEWISH RITUAL MURDER OF TSAR NICHOLAS'



In 1918, Russia's Tsar Nicholas II and his family were killed by Jews as part of a 'ritual murder'?

Russian Orthodox Church investigation into Tsar's 1918 killing

There is a belief that certain Jews murder Christians to use their blood for ritual purposes.

There is a belief that Russian Jews, linked to the Jewish elites in New York and London,  led the communist revolution in Russia.


Empress Alexandra with son Alexei

Under the Tsars, Russia's 'five million Jews' often faced anti-Jewish riots known as Pogroms.

After the 1917 Russian Revolution, the communist government abolished all restrictions on Jews and proclaimed their opposition to all forms of anti-Semitism.


Father Tikhon Shevkunov, who is said to be close to President Putin. 

Father Tikhon Shevkunov, the Russian Orthodox bishop heading a panel investigating the Tsar's murder, 'is among  those who believe that Tsar Nicholas II was murdered in a Jewish ritual.'

Russian Orthodox Church investigation into Tsar's 1918 killing / dailymail.

He says the communists and their allies "engaged in the most unexpected and diverse ritual symbolism'.

He says that quite a few people involved in the execution saw the killing of Tsar Nicholas 'as a special ritual of revenge'.


Yakov Yurovsky, a Jew.

Father Shevkunov says that Yakov Yurovsky, the Jewish organizer of the execution, later boasted about his 'sacral historic mission.'

Key members of a church commission linked to the criminal investigation 'do not have any doubts' the shooting was 'ritualistic'.

 dailymail.

A pro-Putin MP, Natalia Poklonskaya, 37, has claimed the tsar's killing had 'evil' religious motives.

She says: 'They murdered the entire royal family, they killed the children in front of their father, they killed the mother in front of the children.

'This is a crime, a frightening ritual murder.'

 dailymail.


Yakov Sverdlov

'Yakov Sverdlov, whose Jewish name was Yankel Solomon, ordered the massacre of Tsar Nicholas II, his family and assistants.'



A Jewish Greeting Card, prior to 1918. “This is a sacrificial animal so is my cleansing”

"Jacob Schiff, a German born Jewish Wall Street banker, was later to boast and celebrate the funding of the 1917 Bolshevik coup which overthrew Russia’s legitimate government.

"Schiff personally offered a substantial reward for the murder of the Russian royal family."

Jewish Murder of the Russian Imperial Family.



TRUMP TWEET




The alleged 'Muslim migrant' is not a Muslim and not a migrant.

The Public Prosecution Service of North Netherlands (their prosecutor's office), explained on Twitter that the video in question does not, in fact, depict a "Muslim migrant" attacking a Dutch boy.

Monday, November 27, 2017

Clinton Foundation,Yale Israeli Jew,NY Stock Exchange Fraud Aid Chinese Child Abuse Ring

Clinton Foundation,Yale Israeli Jew,,NY Stock Exchange  Fraud Aid Chinese  Child Abuse Ring

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Kindergarten-abuse-scandal-raises-questions-about-China-IPO-rush

Kindergarten abuse scandal raises questions about China IPO rush

No outsiders on RYB Education board before launch of NYSE share sale
DEBBY WU, Nikkei staff writer

Chinese special police stand guard at RYB Education Kindergarten in Beijing on Nov. 23 after parents accuse the preschool of abusing their children. © AP
TAIPEI -- A child-abuse scandal involving a prominent Beijing kindergarten is raising questions about whether China's initial public offering rush has become too heated to allow sufficient screening of candidate companies.
Parents last week alleged that their children at a preschool run by RYB Education, which listed on the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 27, were poked with needles, fed unidentified pills and forced to go naked. China's official Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday that a teacher had been detained by police in connection with the case. RYB subsequently issued a statement of apology, saying it was firing the teacher. It said it was cooperating with the authorities in their investigations and would provide doctors and psychologists to treat victims.
RYB, whose shares jumped 40% on the first day of trading after its $144.3 million IPO, is one of 15 Chinese companies that have listed in New York this year, the most in six years, according to financial data provider Dealogic. The gold rush has created several new billionaires.
RYB investors did not strike it quite so rich, but Ascendent Capital Partners, a China-focused private equity group founded by two alumni of Yale University's MBA program, pocketed $42.6 million by selling off about a third of its holding in the preschool operator during the IPO.
RYB shares however opened 41.5% lower on Nov. 24 when trading resumed after the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., even though the company announced before trading started that it would spend up to $50 million over the next year buying back potentially more than a third of the stock it had sold in the IPO two months earlier.
Ascendent, which bought a 47.1% stake in RYB in late 2015, is now the company's biggest shareholder. Soon after its investment, news broke that five teachers had been detained at a RYB kindergarten in northeastern Jilin Province on allegations they had pricked childen with needles; a year later, four were sentenced to prison, according to Xinhua.
"The education industry in China has grown fast and remains an attractive investment target," said Peter Fuhrman, chairman and chief of China First Capital, an investment bank based in Shenzhen active in private equity. "This high growth has perhaps sometimes come at the expense of the core fundamental: gaining the necessary expertise, focus and procedures to assure child safety."
Common backgrounds
Aside from the Ascendent partners, Yale School of Management was also the common factor that brought RYB together with Joel Getz, the school's senior associate dean for development and alumni relations. Getz declared in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 28 that he would join RYB's board as an independent director, just a month before the company listed on the NYSE. Getz is not believed to have been previously involved in Chinese education though he visited universities in the country a number of times on Yale's behalf.
Speaking with Nikkei Asian Review, Getz, who was previously director of development for the William J. Clinton Foundation and president of the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City during Michael Bloomberg's term in office, declined to respond to questions and simply pointed to RYB's own statement on the Beijing scandal. "I think it is best not to comment further until the investigation is completed," he said in a subsequent email.

Bitcoin Fraud Consumes More Electricity Than -CIA Connected Forbes,Main Stream Media, Aiding And Abeting

Bitcoin Fraud Consumes More Electricity Than  -CIA Connected Forbes,Main Stream Media, Aiding And Abeting



Five Reasons Bitcoin Will Be Your Best High-Growth Investment For 2018
Forbes



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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/27/bitcoin-mining-consumes-electricity-ireland

Bitcoin mining consumes more electricity a year than Ireland

Network’s estimated power use also exceeds that of 19 other European countries, consuming more than five times output of continent’s largest windfarm
Bitcoin is backed by ‘miners’, who put specialised computers to work churning through extremely power-intensive computing problems.
Bitcoin is backed by ‘miners’, who put specialised computers to work churning through extremely power-intensive computing problems. Photograph: Alexander Demianchuk/TASS



Alex Hern
@alexhern
Monday 27 November 2017 10.39 GMT Last modified on Monday 27 November 2017 11.04 GMT
Bitcoin’s “mining” network uses more electricity in a year than the whole of Ireland, according to statistics released as the currency broke $9,000 for the first time.

According to Digiconomist the estimated power use of the bitcoin network, which is responsible for verifying transactions made with the cryptocurrency, is 30.14TWh a year, which exceeds that of 19 other European countries. At a continual power drain of 3.4GW, it means the network consumes five times more electricity than is produced by the largest wind farm in Europe, the London Array in the outer Thames Estuary, at 630MW.

At those levels of electricity consumption, each individual bitcoin transaction uses almost 300KWh of electricity – enough to boil around 36,000 kettles full of water. Although power consumption of other payment networks is harder to isolate, one of Visa’s two US data centres reportedly runs on about 2% of the power required by bitcoin. Between them, those two data centres conduct around 200m transactions a day; the bitcoin network handles fewer than 350,000.

The astronomical power draw is a facet of how the bitcoin network protects itself against fraud. With no centralised authority confirming transactions, bitcoin is instead backed by “miners”, who put specialised computers to work churning through extremely power-intensive computing problems. Solving those problems both rewards the miner, handing them almost a quarter of a million dollars in bitcoin, and verifies all transactions made in the last 10 minutes.

As the price of bitcoin goes up, so does the value of the reward, meaning that more miners put more computers to the task of running the network. But since the price of bitcoin doesn’t necessarily rise in step with the number of transactions, that disconnect can mean the currency uses a significant amount of power per transaction in periods of high prices.

The value of one bitcoin neared $10,000 on 27 November, as the currency continued to grow in its third significant boom in its history. Previous periods of sustained growth, in 2013 and 2014, each ended with substantial busts, leading commentators to label them, in hindsight, as speculative bubbles.









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