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Brad PittBrad Pitt and Maddox had a stable relationship until the two found themselves in disagreement while they were on a private plane traveling to Los Angeles in 2016. Pitt is said to have gotten physical after Maddox stepped in to defend his mother.Brad PittMaddox later moved to South Korea for college, and while he said the relationship hadn’t improved, he did mention he was open to reconciliation. Pitt and Maddox are rumored to have met in January when Maddox was home for the holidays, but the details of their encounter are unconfirmed.Demi MooreWhen Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore broke up back in 2013, Moore fought very openly with the end of her marriage. It was after this that she started to act erratically, which was too much for her daughter, Rumer Willis, to handle.Demi MooreAfter some time, Rumor Willis stepped away from her own mother while she worked through her personal issues for a while. Luckily they reconciled and seem to have mended their relationship since.Tom CruiseTom Cruise is not allowed to have a relationship with Suri, the daughter he had with ex-wife Katie Holmes, due to his affiliation with the Church of Scientology. The two haven’t been spotted together in over 6 years.Tom CruiseBecause Suri isn’t a Scientologist, Cruise is forbidden from having a relationship with her. The Mission: Impossible star still has a close relationship with his older children from his former marriage to Nicole Kidman because Isabella and Connor are both Scientologists.Billy Ray CyrusBilly Ray Cyrus was estranged from his daughter Miley Cyrus. Ray Cyrus once told GQ, “Damn show destroyed my whole family,” but he affirmed that he would take his family back and just wants everybody to be safe and happy.Billy Ray CyrusBilly expressed his concern for the well-being of his daughter and wished he could erase everything that happened in a second. At some point, Billy even defended Miley’s ex-boyfriend Patrick Schwarzenegger when he was accused of cheating.Michael DouglasMichael Douglas acknowledges that his parental shortcomings are a direct cause of some of his son Cameron’s flaws. That made Michael’s watching his son go to a federal prison possibly even more painful. Cameron pleaded guilty for possession, earning him a five-year sentence in 2010.Michael DouglasMichael chose to be positive about his son’s situation. However, he felt it was unjust for his son to spend several years in solitary confinement.Jon VoightShe is arguably one of Hollywood’s most attractive women with a great deal of success in the film industry. With movies such as the Tomb Raider series and recent releases like Maleficent, Angelina Jolie is truly at the top of her game. However, her family life isn’t as successful as her entertainment career.Jon VoightHer father, the world-renowned actor Jon Voight, deserted his family when Angelina was still a baby. From then on, their relationship has been far from perfect. She later went on to drop his name [Voight] from hers.Nicole KidmanTom Cruise married Nicole Kidman in 1990, just after his first union to Mimi Rogers ended. While with Kidman (1990–2001), the pair adopted two children and proceeded to raise them according to the Scientology doctrine. Isabella and Connor seemed set for a life of comfort, considering how high-profile both parents were.Nicole KidmanHowever, as celebrity families go, keeping it together is a tall order. Once Nicole Kidman left the church in 2001 and divorced Tom, everything fell apart. Their children opted to stay with Dad and in the process, stopped referring to Kidman as their mother. Whatever differences led to their divorce, it sure hurt the family ties.Martin SheenCharlie Sheen is well-known for his role in the hit comedy series Two and a Half Men, and like his dad before him, the youngest Sheen has made a career for himself in acting. Nevertheless, he had to stand up to addiction, more so as a kid.Martin SheenMartin Sheen never missed punishing the young Sheen for his unpredictable behavior, more so surrounding substance abuse. This has further contributed to widening the rift between the pair of actors.Laurence FishburneAnother surprising entry on this list is Laurence Fishburne and his daughter. Morpheus, as he is known in the celebrated Matrix Trilogy, is expected to be the model dad, wise and full of life’s experience. However, his daughter Montana Fishburne seems to be on a mission to discredit her father’s reputation.Laurence FishburneShe has been in adult films, arrested on charges of prostitution and assault, and even went on to work as a stripper. Her actions have damaged her relationship with her famous father as he distances himself from her antics.Anthony HopkinsAnthony Hopkins starred in BBC’s King Lear adaptation and in 2018, while promoting the film, admitted that he had been out of touch with his daughter. Abigail, Hopkins’ daughter, was abandoned by the actor while still an infant alongside her mother, Petronella Barker.Anthony HopkinsHopkins seems to have made peace with the fact that his relationship with Abigail would never be a rosy one. However, he holds no ill-will and even wishes his daughter the best.Kelly RutherfordKelly Rutherford’s kids, son Hermes and daughter Helena, have been living with her businessman ex-husband Daniel Giersch since 2012 in France. Since then, Rutherford has been fighting to get them returned to New York.Kelly RutherfordThis was after a judge in California ruled out that despite Giersch and Rutherford sharing custody, their children should continue living with Giersch. Unfortunately, Giersch’s visa was revoked, thus prohibiting him from returning to the U.S, making it much harder for Rutherford to get the kids back.Eric RobertsEric Roberts is Julia Roberts’ older brother, but you would probably recognize him from the 1985 film Runway Train and the show Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I know this might come as a surprise, but Emma Roberts is Eric’s daughter.Eric RobertsEric Roberts and Kelly Cunningham, Emma’s mother, never wed, and Eric left when Emma was just a baby. The pair had very little contact until the Scream Queens actress took on Hollywood. “We are now pals,” Eric affirmed this.Tamra JudgeTamra shares a daughter, Sidney, with her ex-husband Simon Barney. They also have two other kids, a son Spencer and a daughter Sophia. But over and over, Tamra and her daughter Sidney have had differences. Tamra Judge recently documented her real struggle with her daughter on The Real Housewives of Orange County.Tamra Judge And SidneyThis might have been the source of all problems between the two. Reportedly, Sidney doesn’t like the media attention at all, something her mother is quite comfortable with. A short term reconciliation between the two was ruined when Tamra posted a photo on Instagram of them together.Steven TylerParty animal Steven Tyler is famous for his role in the rock band Aerosmith. With his lifestyle, starting a family seemed like a distant dream, but come 1977, on the first day of July, Liv Tyler was born. She was the only child of model and Playmate Bebe Buell. Sadly, she never got to know her dad until she was eight.Steven TylerThe Armageddon and Lord of the Rings star had a strained relationship with the famous rocker when he relapsed into drug use. Today, the two maintain limited contact.Candy SpellingCandy Spelling is an American author, theater producer, TV personality, and philanthropist. She was married to fellow acclaimed media personality, Aaron Spelling. The two were married until the producer’s passing in 2006 when he left behind his vast estate to Candy Spelling. This $600 million fortune was initially meant to be shared among his wife and two kids.Candy SpellingHowever, Candy and daughter Tori hadn’t exactly been seeing eye to eye and this probably inspired Candy’s actions surrounding the wealth sharing. She gave each of her kids less than a million dollars each from Aaron’s immense wealth. It’s pretty hard to miss why these two are conflicting.Jackie ChanCelebrities receive their fame and acclaim from past achievements. Nevertheless, it is the messy stuff that happens behind the scenes that often draws the attention of everyone. For instance, who would’ve thought kung-Fu darling Jackie Chan would be on this list.Jackie ChanMr. Chan had an affair with former model Elaine Ng which resulted in the birth of his daughter Etta Ng out of wedlock. At the time, he was married to his current wife Joan Lin. Jackie Chan has never acknowledged Etta as his child, at least not in public.Curtis James Jackson “50 Cent”Mr. Jackson’s feud with his kid is probably the most amusing on this list. It all boiled down to a lack of respect from the son to his dad.Curtis James Jackson “50 Cent”Marquise, 50’s son, apparently refused to hold the door open the door for his dad. Because of this minor issue, 50 Cent disowned the boy and asked him never to contact him again. Talk about tough love.Woody AllenMia Farrow had a long-drawn battle with former partner, movie director Woody Allen. The two never formally consummated their partnership and went on to adopt kids, Dylan and Ronan Farrow. These two are estranged from their father Woody Allen over sexual abuse allegations.Woody AllenWhile she receives support from the two children, things are not as rosy with her other adopted children, Moses and daughter Soon-Yi Previn. The pair stand with their father against the sexual allegations leveled against him by Dylan.Gavin RossdaleGavin’s relationship with daughter Daisy Lowe began on a rocky start, to begin with, it seems he wasn’t aware of his daughter’s presence until 2003, just before marrying Gwen Stefani. His previous relationship with British Personality Pearl Lowe had resulted in Gavin’s daughter Daisy, but he wasn’t aware of it until she turned fourteen.Gavin RossdaleIt must be difficult to realize just how much has been kept from you after the end of a relationship. Gavin swore to keep his distance, seeing as the Lowes had opted to sideline him from their affairs.Warren BuffetWarren Buffet’s immense wealth gives him not only power but also a sort of celebrity status. Mr. Buffet’s life, like others on this list, is always under the media’s scrutiny. In 2006, Warren Buffet shocked the world as he announced he would be leaving his fortune not to any of his children, but rather to charity.Warren BuffetHis granddaughter, Nicole Buffet, however, is hardly pleased about the decision. She participated in a follow-up of Born Rich, a documentary on kids born into affluent families in an attempt to reprimand her grandad for his decision to leave her off the will.Brie LarsonThe beautiful Sacramento-born Brie Larson came to fame after her appearance in the critically acclaimed Room. However, not many people knew about her tumultuous childhood past. This was until 2016 when she revealed all on Ellen.Brie LarsonHer past family troubles helped her draw strength to reach where she is today. Brie’s parents divorced when she was just ten, and she hardly saw her dad from then on. At twenty-six, she had gone for an entire decade without setting eyes on him.Kelly RowlandKelly Rowland has, for years, wowed us with her glorious voice and hit songs during her time with Destiny’s Child, as well as her solo career. However, behind the success, all was not well at home. During her childhood, her mother left her father, Christopher Lovett, on grounds of alcoholism and violence due to PTSD which he suffered after having served in Vietnam.Kelly RowlandShe moved to Houston when she turned eight and began her music career from there. Kelly and her dad are estranged to this day.Tracy MorganThe entertaining Tracy Morgan has had us laughing for a long time now. The actor, comedian, and voice actor has starred in 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live, among other things. Tracy’s upbringing was normal up to the point when his father abandoned the family.Tracy JordanJimmy Morgan was a musician and a Vietnam veteran who struggled with addiction. This eventually caused him to leave the family. Tracy himself is not shy to admit his estrangement from much of his family including his mother.Lindsay LohanMichael isn’t a thoroughbred celebrity but came to be so after his daughter Lindsay Lohan’s acting success. It is The Parent Trap who introduced Michael to the limelight, after which he dominated tabloids with all manners of scandal. His drug use fueled his decline.Lindsay LohanHe has humiliated Lindsay several times, trying to profit from her fame and even showing up with cops at her door. Michael is hardly the ideal father and it is no wonder then that no one wants anything to do with him.EminemMarshall Mathers, or popularly known as Eminem, is probably the most notable celebrity with family issues. Eminem’s hit songs have mostly been full of lyrics exposing his mother as irresponsible. Eminem even admitted to having raised his brother, Nate, all on his own.EminemHowever, Debbie Mathers-Briggs fought back with a lawsuit claiming her son slandered her across several media outlets. Debbie asserts that Eminem’s lyrics in his hit-single ‘My name is…’ were made-up and demanded $10 million in compensation—talk about an opportunistic parent.AdeleAdele is another surprising entry on this list. The lovely English singer-songwriter has penned some of the most beautiful tracks to date. She was born to an English mother and her dad was from Wales. Marc Evans, her father, eventually left Adele and her mom, Penny Adkins, when Adele was only two.AdeleBecause of this, Adele never forgave Marc. During her Grammy acceptance speech, Adele proclaimed that she had lost all love for her dad.BeyoncéIn the world of music, very few singers can match Beyoncé’s talent, experience, and sheer work ethic. One of the reasons for her success, however, was her unrelenting father, Mathew Knowles. Their relationship throughout the years, as he managed Beyoncé’s music career, took a hit with tabloids picking up their story.BeyoncéIn 2011, the pair parted ways professionally but later on, reports lay blame on Mr. Knowles for allegedly skimming funds from Beyoncé. Things turned sour after he divorced Beyoncé’s mother after a 31-year marriage.Courtney LoveKurt Cobain’s partner, Courtney Love, has been frank about her struggles with substance abuse and even admitted how it affected her daughter, Frances Bean Cobain. After Kurt died in ’94, she was left alone to raise their daughter and failed spectacularly.Courtney LoveHer addiction got in the way of parenting and she openly confessed to using while pregnant with Frances. As a result, she lost custody of her daughter and the two have not patched things up since.Christina AguileraChristine Aguilera is a world-renown singer, actress, songwriter, and TV personality. The New York-born artist moved houses frequently because of her father’s military career.Christina AguileraHer dad, Aguilera points out, was abusive and violent towards the family, eventually leading to her parents’ divorce when she was only six. She then turned to her music career as a sort of escape from all the conflict surrounding her life.Michael JacksonMichael Jackson is another notable entry on this list. He is by far one of the most famous people on this planet and another musician whose parents took direct control over his music career. His father, Joe Jackson, did have a significant impact on his success. However, on the flip side, he was also known as an abusive dad.Michael JacksonThe failed blues musician reigned terror upon his household and one might be inclined to believe that he was the root of all of Michael’s later scandals. From physical to mental abuse, Joe Jackson was content with any, as long as it served his purpose.Demi LovatoThe “Daddy Issues” hit song maker hit the nail on the head with this tune. Since 2007, Demi Lovato and father Patrick Lovato have been at loggerheads. The two tried to reconcile their issues through the time but it seems Mr. Lovato wasn’t the ideal dad. The source of her estrangement from him was indeed himself and as Demi hinted, he always let down the only person who had faith in him.Demi LovatoAnd this proved to be his downfall. In 2013, Mr. Lovato died from cancer. A couple of Demi Lovato’s songs point to the strained relationship the father and daughter had. She released “For the Love of a Daughter” in the 2011 album Unbroken and “Father” in 2015’s Confident.Kendra WilkisonKendra Wilkison, an American TV personality and glamor model, has seen her fair share of family feuds. Her parents’ marriage hit the rocks early in her life when she was just eight. After the separation, her dad vanished from her life.Kendra WilkisonHer grandmother also died in 2004, leaving Kendra with one less family member. In 2014, she reunited with her mom but the union was to be short-lived and the two are still estranged.Leighton MeesterLeighton’s life started on the wrong foot from whichever angle you look at it from. Her mom, Constance Meester, was serving time when she was born for drug-related charges. After her release, they both had to live from hand-to-mouth. Leighton’s acting and modeling gigs helped bring some food to the table.Leighton MeesterHowever, her mother was rarely cooperative or responsible, as she was supposed to be. She spent money meant for Leighton’s brother on her personal needs and in 2012, Leighton won a court case against her, stating that she just wanted Constance out of her life.Vanessa MinnilloThe screen siren has hosted several high profile shows ranging from Entertainment Tonight and MTV’s Total Request Live as well as a myriad of reality shows. Born to a Filipino mother and an American serviceman, Vanessa and her family moved houses pretty much every year. She went to eight different schools in nine years.Vanessa MinnilloHer parents eventually separated in 1983 and finally cut ties three years later. Both remarried, Vanessa spent time with each parent and their new spouse. She, however, left her mom to join her father in the US, and the two are reported to be on bad terms because she did not bother to invite her mom to her wedding to Nick Lachey.Meg RyanIt is difficult to imagine someone having a fight with America’s sweetheart Meg Ryan and also a darling in Hollywood. Yet, Meg and her mother Susan are far from being the caring mother-daughter duo. Meg started her acting career in the 70s. She had a flourishing career and married a movie star.Meg RyanMeg did not invite her mum to their wedding. This is because of her public criticism of Quaid, after which she cut her out of her life. It is still uncertain whether there has been a reconciliation.The HudsonsActress Kate Hudson has been estranged from her dad, Bill Hudson, for decades and this culminated in her father disowning her. Bill had five other children but disowned two of them in a public interview with Daily Mail in 2015. Kate’s brother, Oliver, also faced the same fate as his sister.The HudsonsOliver’s revenge, however, was well worth it after posting a photo of himself, Kate, and Bill on Instagram. The caption read “Happy Abandonment Day” on Father’s Day.Heather GrahamParents often have a significant say in the type of career path we follow. Heather Graham’s parents were a religious bunch, and as is their upbringing, automatically opposed Heather’s participation in the film Boogie Nights.Heather GrahamHowever, it was the film that would eventually propel Heather to fame. She ultimately cut them out of her life ever since.Jennifer AnistonThe magnificent Friends actress doesn’t seem like the kind of person who has family issues. However, things were never smooth sailing between her and mother Nancy Aniston. An actress herself, Nancy authored a book detailing her relationship with Jennifer titled From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir.Jennifer AnistonBecause of this book, the two have been separated for nine years up until Jennifer’s divorce from Brad Pitt. They eventually reconciled their differences, and the younger Aniston even admitted that she was hopeful for the future. Nancy passed away in May 2016.Rosie O’DonnellRosie O’Donnell and her adopted daughter, Chelsea, have not been seeing eye-to-eye in recent years. The relationship between the two has been wrought with drama intermittently. Substance abuse has been the center of the conflict between the two, with Chelsea taking most of the blame.Rosie O’DonnellIn 2015, the 17-year old went missing and Rosie reported the matter only to find Chelsea at an alleged dealer’s home. Reconciliation followed, but as of 2017, their hostility was renewed as Chelsea married 31-year old Nicki Alliegro.Ryan O’NealThe O’Neals’ relationship with each other represents one of the worst cases of family disputes in this article. Theirs is marked by substance abuse and physical abuse, which soured the pair’s relationship even further. Tatum claims she received violent encounters with her father up until the time when she was pregnant.Ryan O’NealThe daughter, Tatum O’Neal, was the youngest person to grab an Oscar award in Hollywood and right off the bat you would expect her to be living one of the most comfortable and secure lives. However, the family unit is a bit different and up to today, the two have fruitlessly attempted to work on their relationship.Drew BarrymoreThe Barrymore name is synonymous with Hollywood and acting. Drew has also made a name for herself in the industry and has received a couple of accolades along the way including the Golden Globe, a BAFTA nomination and a Screen Actors Guild Award.Drew BarrymoreHer childhood was, however, far from perfect due to her substance abuse and constant clubbing at the time. It prompted her to author a book at 16 aptly titled Little Girl Lost. Following her rehabilitation at 13, Drew Barrymore successfully filed for emancipation from her parents at 15.Roseanne BarrRoseanne, an Emmy and Golden Globe award winner, began her career in showbiz doing standup comedy. This gradually progressed into acting and even a political career. She had a tumultuous youth when she was hit by a car causing her to be institutionalized at the Utah State Hospital for eight months at sixteen.Roseanne BarrAt 17, she had a child that she placed for adoption. When Roseanne turned 18, she moved out of her parents’ home. She has been estranged from her parents on the grounds of alleged physical abuse.Katie CassidyKatie Cassidy, daughter of actor David Cassidy, is famous for her role in Arrow as the ‘Black Canary.’ David’s relationship with Katie’s mother, actress Sherry Williams, was brief and that was pretty much the father-daughter relationship as well.Katie CassidyThe young actress was then raised by mom and stepdad Richard Benedon. Following his death, it was revealed that Katie Cassidy was not included in her biological father’s last will. This goes to show how much Mr. Cassidy thought of Katie.Ariana GrandeNot much is known about Ariana and her dad’s relationship. However, in her single Thank U Next, Ariana happens to sing with warmth towards her mother but not her dad.Ariana GrandeThis points to a rift between the two. Although the celebrated singer has rarely opened up about their relationship, she did state that it all started in 2013. Ariana is currently estranged from her dad.Ariel WinterModern Family has received critical acclaim, and this has mainly been attributed to the Winter’s family acting prowess. However, do not let their success fool you into thinking these guys have it all. Ariel, for one, had to deal with a lot of adult issues from a young age.Ariel WinterWhile 13, she was forced out of her mother, Chrisoula Workman’s, home over physical abuse allegations. This prompted her to seek emancipation from Chrisoula, and in May 2015, her wish was granted. She then took to social media to celebrate this new milestone in her life.Mackenzie PhilipsMackenzie Philips’ relationship with her dad is perhaps the most saddening on this list. It has been pockmarked with cases of sexual, mental, and physical abuse that stemmed from her father. After the sexual abuse, she confronted him after which he dismissed the incident as consensual ‘lovemaking.’Mackenzie PhilipsFor some reason, Mackenzie opted to tour with her dad’s band and this fueled her indulgence with drugs and incest with her dad. On his deathbed, she forgave her father but now took up drugs as the next course of action. Despite being born into a Hollywood family, Philips’ life has been far from glamorous.Gary ColemanAs far as family feuds go, Gary Coleman’s separation from his parents went in his favor. The Different Strokes star, despite having an illustrious childhood acting career, was left broke. This occurred after he made payments to his parents, advisers, and other associates.Gary ColemanColeman then proceeded to sue his parents for $1.3 million on the grounds of misappropriating his funds. Coleman scored a big win over his folks from the lawsuit.Nick CarterBest known for his role in the boyband Backstreet Boys, Nick’s relationship with his parents was strained from the beginning. He alleges that he started abusing alcohol from a very early age and eventually came to suffer from it. He was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, and doctors advised him to make drastic lifestyle changes or face death.Nick CarterFollowing his sister’s death due to a substance overdose, the family lay blame on Nick because of his past drug use and fell apart soon after.Selena GomezSurprisingly, Selena Gomez is on this list partly because of her previous relationship with Justin Bieber. Remember how parents have a say in practically all aspects of our lives; celebrity parents are hardly left behind when it comes to parenting matters. Family sources indicate that Selena’s mom, Mandy Teefey, was hardly pleased with the news of her daughter and Justin seeking relationship assistance.Selena GomezThat is not all, however, as the two have been at it on social media with the pair unfollowing each other on Instagram. The root of all this conflict seems to be Selena’s decision to drop Mandy as her manager.Justin BieberTechnically, only Justin Bieber is the celebrity here. But even so, Justin Bieber’s relationship with mom Pattie Mallette has seen its fair share of ups and downs. Justin admitted that theirs was pretty much absent.Justin BieberHe went on to further concede his fear of the supposed shame he bore, mainly drawn from his scandals in the public limelight. Nevertheless, the two seemed to have reconciled their differences as Pattie Mallette gushed over her son while on vacation in the Maldives.Macaulay CulkinChristmas film favorite Macaulay Culkin is a critically acclaimed actor, more so when he was a child. The Home Alone movie series had holidaymakers glued to their screens throughout the festive season with Macaulay’s antics.Macaulay CulkinHowever, things weren’t always rosy back at the Culkin household. 1995 saw his parents’ divorce and contest custody of their seven children, especially now that Macaulay was already making inroads into Hollywood. The dad, however, was an alcoholic and violent adulterer, according to Patricia Brentrup, Macaulay’s mom. Kit Macaulay eventually disowned Macaulay as his son in the Daily Mail.Caitlyn JennerDrama and scandals have been at the center of the Kardashian family. Some people believe it is what brought them the fame that they enjoy so much today. Caitlyn, who once fathered the Kardashian offspring, is now estranged from the entire group. The first falling out occurred with the Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner.Caitlyn JennerThis spread conflict onto her daughters and Caitlyn’s estranged son Brody. Brody confronted Caitlyn about his absence from his childhood life, but the senior Jenner declined to comment on the issue.Sherri ShepherdSherri Shepard’s estrangement debacle was one of the oddest at the time. Following her divorce to ex-husband Lamar Sally, Sherri wanted to overturn custody of their unborn child over to him.Sherri ShepherdThis was because since the two had planned for a surrogate to bear the child, Sherri was technically not the biological mother to the child. Therefore, she argued that the child ought to be with the dad, Mr. Sally. However, her grievances fell on deaf ears as the court declined to abide by her wishes.

NO NO NO. Choosing to follow the unfounded man made climate change leaves many millions in energy poverty. To deny valuable cheap energy from fossil fuels like coal is not caution it is a type of genocide for the > 2 billion living off the grid and exposed to the health dangers of outside cooking. WHO research finds living off the grid causes > 4 million deaths annually. “It is the largest environmental threat in the world today” according to Harvard research.Think about the fact there is not one electric grid anywhere in the world powered exclusively by wind and solar as fossil fuels are essential as back up and primary especially in Africa, India and China. There is no such thing as a 100 % renewable grid electricity because of intermittency. This means waiting for a new cleaner (for the developed world) energy transition is waiting to die.The consequences today of voting for the Paris Accord and man made climate change when the science is not settled and much in dispute is devastating on the developing world living without electricity for cooking a warmth. People kill themselves with the air they breath to live.GREAT ENERGY CHALLENGECookstove Smoke is “Largest Environmental Threat,” Global Health Study Finds1 MINUTE READBY MARIANNE LAVELLEPUBLISHEDDECEMBER 13, 2012In a finding that confirms the devastating health impact of energy poverty, the landmark Global Burden of Disease study published today tallied 3.5 million annual deaths from respiratory illness due to burning of wood, brush, dung, and other biomass for fuel.Cooking on traditional cookstoves is a far greater risk factor than poor water and sanitation, lead or radon pollution, or smog (ozone) and outdoor soot, according to the study in today’s Lancet, the largest ever systematic effort to describe the global distribution and causes of mortality. The data indicate that respiratory illness from breathing the emissions from inefficient cookstoves causes more than double the annual deaths attributed either to malaria (1.2 million) or to HIV/AIDS (1.5 million)….Seven research institutions from around the world, including Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Imperial College London, the University of Tokyo, and the World Health Organization (WHO), collaborated on the study, which was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (Related: “How Healthy is the World?”) The research was much expanded in scope from the 1990 Global Burden of Disease study funded by the World Bank.The new study, if compared to the figures from 20 years ago, marks a decline in global deaths due to cookstove pollution (which stood at 4.6 million in the 1990 study.) But it is roughly double the 2 million annual figure that WHO has been attributing to deaths due to indoor smoke from solid fuels.“These results provide further momentum to our mission to ensure that cooking doesn’t kill,” said Radha Muthiah, executive director of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a public-private partnership that has been working to deploy cleaner, safer cookstoves.Added Kirk R. Smith, a professor of global environmental health at the University of California, Berkeley, and a co-author of The Lancet article, “One of the most alarming findings is that smoke from cooking fires was found to be the largest environmental threat to health in the world today.”Cookstove Smoke is “Largest Environmental Threat,” Global Health Study FindsFor more on this issue, see our previous coverage:“Protecting Health and the Planet With Clean Cookstoves”“The Solvable Problem of Energy Poverty”Coal is plentiful and cheap energy essential to bring these billions out of the grid poverty.THE SOCIAL INJUSTICE OF ENERGY POVERTYEnergy Poverty is devastatingEnergy poverty is devastating for more than 2 billion impoverished peoples living without electricity for light and heat. Cooking happens the way it has for centuries before – over smoky indoor fires that do no favors for lungs or life expectancies. I witnessed the tragedy first hand working in the China countryside in the winter where peasants are forced to live with their animals in a vain attempt to keep warm. Their weathered faces from the harsh life in the dark without heat is very sad.Once upon a time, social justice was synonymous with equal access to modern amenities — electric lighting so poor children could read at night, refrigerators so milk could be kept on hand, and washing machines to save the hands and backs of women. Malthus was rightly denounced by generations of socialists as a cruel aristocrat who cloaked his elitism in pseudo-science, and claimed that Nature couldn't possibly feed any more hungry months.Now, at the very moment modern energy arrives for global poor — something a prior generation of socialists would have celebrated and, indeed, demanded — today's leading left-wing leaders advocate a return to energy penury. The loudest advocates of cheap energy for the poor are on the libertarian Right, while The Nation dresses up neo-Malthusianism as revolutionary socialism.Left-wing politics was once about destabilizing power relations between the West and the Rest. Now, under the sign of climate justice, it's about sustaining them.Left-wing politicians like Al Gore, Obama and Naomi Klein crusading against cheap coal and efficient fossil fuels represents the greatest progressive reversal in history.http://***http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/voices/michael-shellenberger-and-ted-nordhaus/its-not-about-the-climate***This is immoral.Climate movement’s immoral spendingBy Tom HarrisThe consequence of overconfidence about climate science is tragic. According to the San Francisco-based Climate Policy Initiative, of the $1 billion spent worldwide each day on climate finance, 94 percent goes to mitigation, trying to control future climate. Only 6 percent of global climate finance is dedicated to helping vulnerable people cope with climate change today. In developing countries, even less, an abysmal 5 percent, goes to adaptation. Based on a theory about climate, we are letting people die today so as to possibly help those in the distant future."Providing the world’s most deprived countries with solar panels instead of better health care or education is inexcusable self-indulgence. Green energy sources may be good to keep on a single light or to charge a cellphone. But three billion people suffer from the effects of indoor air pollution because they burn wood, coal or dung to cook. These people need access to affordable, reliable electricity today. Too often clean alternatives, because they aren’t considered “renewable,” aren’t receiving the funding they deserve.We all know how well its access could help lift those without it out of poverty.The UN is more interested in chasing the chimera of “global warming” and its unproven science. The reason, of course, is power. Money and control equal power."Is the focus on "global warming" immoral?Tom Harris: Climate movement's immoral spendingWorld Bank Document/IEAWith respect to electricity, the global access deficit amounts to 1.2 billion people. Close to 85 percent of those who live without electricity (the “nonelectrified population”) live in rural areas, and 87 percent are geographically concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (figure O.2). For cooking, the access deficit amounts to 2.8 billion people who primarily rely on solid fuels. About 78 percent of that population lives in rural areas, and 96 percent are geographically concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, and South-Eastern Asia.LOW PROBABILTY OF TOO HOT CLIMATEEarth’s climate system is unfathomably complex. It is affected by innumerable interacting variables, atmospheric CO2 levels being just one.The list of variables that shape climate includes cloud formation, topography, altitude, proximity to the equator, plate tectonics, sunspot cycles, volcanic activity, expansion or contraction of sea ice, conversion of land to agriculture, deforestation, reforestation, direction of winds, soil quality, El Niño and La Niña ocean cycles, prevalence of aerosols (airborne soot, dust, and salt) — and, of course, atmospheric greenhouse gases, both natural and manmade. A comprehensive list would run to hundreds, if not thousands, of elements, none of which scientists would claim to understand with absolute precision.Why are climate-change models so flawed? Because climate science is so incomplete - The Boston GlobeCanada’s national newspaper the Globe & Mail first published my research on the climate issue in 1991 ( ..) I urged a wait and see view as the science was not settled and any action by Canada would have no effect “like a drop in the ocean.”My article published in 1991 by the GLOBE urged "MORE RESEARCH" on global warming theory . C02 is essential to plant life. GLOBAL WARMING IS NATURAL. Climate is always changing. Canada is - "ONLY A DROP IN THE OCEAN."I relied on the safety research of Aaron Wildavsky who said if the risk is predictable or low probability then resilience is the right action. Overconfidence has been called the most “pervasive and potentially catastrophic” of all the cognitive biases to which human beings fall victim. It has been blamed for lawsuits, strikes, wars, and stock market bubbles and crashes. I blame it for the devastating impact of misguided climate alarmism called human made global warming denying cheap electricity to > 2 billion living in the dark and needing coal fired power.Overconfidence effect - WikipediaMy view hasn’t changed and the fear of unprecedented warming by fossil fuels is a very low probability and more untrue today than in 1991. Solar radiation has gone into decline making winters earlier, colder with more snow around the world. Climate is complex with many influencing variables.Earth’s climate system is unfathomably complex. It is affected by innumerable interacting variables, atmospheric CO2 levels being just one. The more variables there are in any system or train of events, the lower the probability of all of them coming to pass.The list of variables that shape climate includes cloud formation, topography, altitude, proximity to the equator, plate tectonics, sunspot cycles, volcanic activity, expansion or contraction of sea ice, conversion of land to agriculture, deforestation, reforestation, direction of winds, soil quality, El Niño and La Niña ocean cycles, prevalence of aerosols (airborne soot, dust, and salt) — and, of course, atmospheric greenhouse gases, both natural and manmade.Measuring human impacts on climate is indeed “very challenging.” The science is far from settled. That is why calls to radically reduce carbon emissions are so irresponsible — and why dire warnings of what will happen if we don’t are little better than reckless fear mongering.JEFF JACOBYWhy are climate-change models so flawed? Because climate science is so incompleteBy Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,March 14, 2017, 3:40 p.m.Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt said on CNBC's Squawk Box that he does not believe that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming.MELISSA PHILLIP /APWhy are climate-change models so flawed? Because climate science is so incomplete - The Boston GlobeMANY LEADING CLIMATE SCIENTISTS AGREE WITH HIM.Dr. Willie Soon versus the Climate ApocalypseGuest Blogger / December 2, 2018More honesty and less hubris, more evidence and less dogmatism, would do a world of goodDr. Jeffrey Foss“What can I do to correct these crazy, super wrong errors?” Willie Soon asked plaintively in a recent e-chat. “What errors, Willie?” I asked.“Errors in Total Solar Irradiance,” he replied. “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change keeps using the wrong numbers! It’s making me feel sick to keep seeing this error. I keep telling them – but they keep ignoring their mistake.”Astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon really does get sick when he sees scientists veering off their mission: to discover the truth. I’ve seen his face flush with shock and shame for science when scientists cherry-pick data. It ruins his appetite – a real downer for someone who loves his food as much as Willie does….Dr. Soon never sought the job of defending us against the slick, computer model-driven, anti-fossil fuel certainties of Climate Apocalypse. Willie just happened to choose solar science as a career and, like many solar scientists, after nearly three decades of scientific research in his case, came to believe that changes in the sun’s brightness, sunspots and energy output, changes in the orbital position of the Earth relative to the sun, and other powerful natural forces drive climate change. In brief, our sun controls our climate.Even the IPCC initially indicated agreement with him, citing his work approvingly in its second (1996) and third (2001) Assessment Reports. That later changed, significantly. Sure, everyone agrees that the sun caused the waxing and waning of the ice ages, just as solar scientists say. However, the sun had to be played down if carbon dioxide (CO2) was to be played up – an abuse of science that makes Willie sick.Unfortunately for the IPCC, solar scientists think solar changes also explain Earth’s most recent warming period which, they point out, began way back in the 1830s – long before we burned enough fossil fuels to make any difference. They also observed the shrinking of the Martian ice-caps in the 1990s, and their return in the last few years – in perfect time with the waning and waxing of Arctic ice caps here on Earth.Only the sun – not the CO2 from our fires – could cause that Earth-Mars synchronicity. And surely it is no mere coincidence that a grand maximum in solar brightness (Total Solar Irradiance or TSI) took place in the 1990s as both planets’ ice caps shrank, or that the sun cooled (TSI decreased) as both planets’ ice caps grew once again. All that brings us back to Dr. Soon’s disagreements with the IPCC.The IPCC now insists that solar variability is so tiny that they can just ignore it, and proclaim CO2 emissions as the driving force behind climate change. But solar researchers long ago discovered unexpected variability in the sun’s brightness – variability that is confirmed in other stars of the sun’s type. Why does the IPCC ignore these facts? Why does it insist on spoiling Willie’s appetite?It sure looks like the IPCC is hiding the best findings of solar science so that it can trumpet the decreases in planetary warming (the so-called “greenhouse effect”) that they embed in the “scenarios” (as they call them) emanating from their computer models. Ignoring the increase in solar brightness over the 80s and 90s, they instead enthusiastically blame the warmth of the 1990s on human production of CO2.In just such ways they sell us their Climate Apocalypse – along with the roll-back of human energy use, comfort, living standards and progress: sacrifices that the great green gods of Gaia demand of us if we are to avoid existential cataclysms. Thankfully, virgins are still safe – for now.Surely Willie and solar scientists are right about the primacy of the sun. Why? Because the observable real world is the final test of science. And the data – actual evidence – shows that global temperatures follow changes in solar brightness on all time-scales, from decades to millions of years. On the other hand, CO2 and temperature have generally gone their own separate ways on these time scales.Global temperatures stopped going up in the first two decades of this century, even though CO2 has steadily risen. The IPCC blames this global warming “hiatus” on “natural climate variability,” meaning something random, something not included in their models, something the IPCC didn’t see coming.This confirms the fact that their models do not add up to a real theory of climate. Otherwise the theory would be falsified by their incorrect predictions. They predicted a continuous increase in temperature, locked to a continuous increase in CO2. But instead, temperature has remained steady over the last two decades, while CO2 climbed even faster than before.IPCC modelers still insist that the models are nevertheless correct, somehow – that the world would be even colder now if it weren’t for this pesky hiatus in CO2-driven warming. Of course, they have to say that – even though they previously insisted the Earth would not be as cool as it is right now.Still, their politically correct commands stridently persist: stay colder in winter, stay hotter in summer, take cold showers, drive less, make fewer trips, fly less, don’t eat foods that aren’t “local,” bury your loved ones in cardboard boxes, turn off the lights. Their list of diktats is big and continuously growing.Unlike the IPCC, Willie and I cannot simply ignore the fact that there were multiple ice ages millions of years ago, when CO2 levels were four times higher than now. And even when CO2 and temperature do trend in tandem, as in the famous gigantic graph in Al Gore’s movie, the CO2 rises followed temperature increases by a few centuries. That means rising CO2 could not possibly have caused the temperature increases – an inconvenient truth that Gore doesn’t care about and studiously ignores.Unfortunately, through their powerful political and media cadres, the IPCC has created a highly effective propaganda and war-on-fossil-fuels vehicle, to herd public opinion – and marginalize or silence any scientist who dares to disagree with it. For better or worse, richer or poorer, my dear, passionate Dr. Soon is one scientist who is always ready to stand in the path of that tank and face it down: anytime, anywhere.I’m frightened by the dangers to Willie, his family and his career, due to his daily battles with the Climate Apocalypse industry. I can’t get it out of my mind that the university office building of climatologist John Christy – who shares Willie’s skepticism of Climate Apocalypse – was shot full of bullet holes last year. But let’s not let a spattering of gunfire spoil a friendly scientific debate. Right?Willie’s courage makes me proud to know him, and to be an aficionado of science like he is. When it comes to the long game, my money is on Dr. Willie Soon. We the people hunger for truth, as does science itself. And that hunger will inevitably eclipse our romantic dalliance with the Climate Apocalypse.Dr. Jeffrey Foss is a philosopher of science and Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, CanadaDr. Willie Soon versus the Climate Apocalypse

Obviously.Screenshots from videos posted to Parler showing the unfolding events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.THE INSURRECTIONInside the Capitol Riot: What the Parler Videos RevealThe trove of more than 500 videos recovered from a largely pro-Trump social platform provides a uniquely immersive account of the violence and confusion as seen from inside the insurrection.by Alec MacGillisJan. 17, 3 p.m. ESTProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.The man’s smartphone camera pans the crowd on the east side of the U.S. Capitol. It’s smaller than what had amassed on the west side, but still an impressive sight. As he pans from atop the steps, he gives a front-line dispatch at 2:10 p.m., an hour after President Donald Trump had finished his remarks goading on the thousands of supporters who had come to Washington to protest the official certification of his electoral defeat.“The cops were shooting us for a while, then they stopped,” the man says, referring to an earlier series of flash-bang grenades. “We’re up on the Capitol. I think they’re going to breach the doors. It’s getting serious. Someone’s going to die today. It’s not good at all.”He was right. Someone did die during the assault on the Capitol — not just one but five people, not counting the Capitol Police officer who took his own life three days later. And no, it was not good at all. It was an ignominious catastrophe the likes of which the country had never seen before.Get Our Top InvestigationsSubscribe to the Big Story newsletter.Email addressThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.But there was something else that set the attack apart: Not only had we not seen something like this, but we had never been able to see any major civil clash in the way we did this one, thanks to a seemingly limitless trove of video documentation. The internet has been awash with viral clips taken by participants and members of the news media — of one police officer being brutally beaten in the crush of a mob, of another officer leading attackers away from the Senate chamber, of outlandishly dressed invaders in the Capitol.In fact, there is vastly more video to examine because of the circumstances of this protest-turned-invasion. Not only were a great number of the participants using their smartphones to document themselves and their compatriots as they launched the attack, but many of them in turn shared the footage on Parler. That social media service had of late become the right’s chosen alternative to “Fascist-book,” as one participant at the Capitol referred to Facebook. Parler’s failure to “effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others” led Amazon to expel the site from its cloud-hosting servers.Some people managed to grab the material before Parler went down, and one of them shared a trove of videos with ProPublica. We culled the collection to some 500 videos uploaded to Parler by people in the vicinity of the White House and Capitol on Jan. 6, and sorted them by time and location, thus giving the public an immersive experience that would previously have been impossible to achieve without being there amid the clouds of tear gas and pepper spray and the crush of bodies pressing toward their goal.The videos are certainly not the last word on the subject, but taken together they do help us answer two key questions about the mob: Who were they and what were their motivations? In a decade, historians will still be writing doctoral dissertations about these questions, just as they did about the crowd that stormed the Bastille on July 14, 1789 or the mob in Adolf Hitler’s beer hall putsch. But these Parler videos deepen our understanding and take us beyond the glimpses visible so far from the relatively small number of people who have been charged with crimes.Interactive: See the VideosWhat Parler Saw During the Attack on the CapitolProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot.To watch most of these videos, as I sought to do in recent days, and see the seat of our representative government turned into the object of a violent attack by fellow Americans is overwhelming. And what struck me most about them is just how much this assemblage of people assaulting the Capitol reminded me of people I had seen and spoken with over the years at regular Republican campaign events, going all the way back to Sarah Palin’s electric appearances in 2008. At my first Trump rally in 2016, at an airplane hangar outside Dayton, Ohio, I had been amazed by the cross section on display: There were husbands in golf caps with well-manicured wives, frat boys, fathers with sons. All of them, all that year, had thrilled to Trump’s toxic rambles about heroin-toting Mexicans, Democratic voter fraud (a theme he had picked up from plenty of more conventional Republican politicians) and “the swamp” in Congress. Never mind that the Republican Party controlled the lower chamber of the legislature for eight years of the decade and the upper chamber for six.And now here were many of the same people, or at least, the ones with the means and will to make the trip, a sort of travel-team self-selection of the usual crowds, combined with ranks of the white-supremacist warriors who had descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. As at all those rallies, there were the rootless young men spoiling for a fight, and there was also a huge range of more bourgeois sorts — from people who presented as suburban dads to one real estate agent who flew in by private plane, announcing her plans to “storm the capitol” on Facebook — eager for a spectacle, or something more. And they were saying the same things I’d been hearing from them for years.Except there was one difference: They were actually there, in Washington, at the Capitol — the very targets of their rhetorical fury all those years. And one way of looking at the videos is that they are the story of thousands of people discovering the connection between the rhetoric and the fact of their presence there, at the actual building. Some are so stunned by the connection that they don’t really know what to do about it and mostly hang back. Many others respond to the sudden proximity as if a forgotten, dust-covered cord had been plugged into a power source. They feel the inexorable surge, and they advance.The view from atop the inaugural stands. “We took it over,” says the man with the phone. “This is our house.”Another man is panning with his camera from atop the inaugural stands on the west side of the Capitol. “They’re firing their tear gas at us, the flash-bang grenades, but there’s nothing they can do,” he says. “And we said, screw it, you’ve only got so much tear gas. They shot it all and now look, we took it over. This is our house. This is not their house. Our tax money pays for their salaries, our tax money pays for everything. It pays for their freaking $40,000 furniture allotment for their offices while we have families starving in the street.”Our house. It is the most dominant phrase of any of the chants shouted by the mob as it presses into the Capitol. It is an expression of entitlement — white nativist entitlement, as many have noted: This is our house, our country. It’s the entitlement that leads one invader to pick up a phone in a Capitol corridor in one video and say: “Can I speak with Pelosi? Yeah, we’re coming for you, bitch. Mike Pence? We’re coming for you too, fucking traitor.”What is striking about the videos, though, is how often this entitlement is laced with insecurity. The attackers profess ownership of this house, but so much of their commentary betrays discomfort and alienation within it, bordering on a sort of provincial awe. “This is the state Capitol,” a man says to his young female companion inside the visitor center, his struggle to grasp the grandeur of the place encapsulated in his incorrect terminology. “It’s amazing,” she says, as a man dressed as a Roman centurion, complete with sandals, wanders by.Read MoreWhy We Published More Than 500 Videos Taken by Parler Users of the Capitol RiotThis collection of clips from the insurrection, while incomplete, offers a unique experience of the historic event through hundreds of participants' eyes.Upstairs, an invader rushes into the Capitol Rotunda with the mob, but then he can’t help himself. He turns astonished tourist, as his camera sweeps up to the dome. Outside, a young man in the crowd pressing past the inaugural stands’ scaffolding shouts out to no one in particular: “All these fucking years I couldn’t see in here. I’m going to see it today!” Nothing, in fact, had ever kept him from seeing this public building. But in his mind, he had been barred.The uncertainty of the claim to possession of the house manifests itself in the mob’s ambivalence about whether to trash it. Again and again, various people in the crowd decry those who are actually trying to do the violent work of breaching the building that the mob is pushing to enter. When a pudgy-cheeked young man jumps up onto the sill of a large window on the east face and smashes in four panes with his fists and feet and several cops rush over to tackle him, an onlooker shouts out: “The police are just doing their job. He’s breaking the law!” When a middle-aged man climbs up to one of the arched windows over the West Terrace doors that would become the site of the most violent clashes and starts trying to smash it in with a heavy tool, many in the crowd lash out at him as others pull him down. “Oh God no, stop! Stop!” “What the fuck is wrong with him?” “He’s Antifa!”And when two men who have, to great applause, climbed up onto a painter’s rig dangling in front of the building start trying to break the windows, the crowd turns on them. “Don’t break my house!” someone shouts. “No, no, no.” It’s not hard to imagine the perplexity on the part of those attempting the violent break-in: Are you all trying to invade this building, or aren’t you?The shakiness of the claim of ownership is also apparent in the now-famous moment of Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman shrewdly leading the invaders up the stairs and away from the Senate chamber, which one of the Parler videos shows from the perspective of the mob. They might as well be Visigoths sacking Rome, so out of place are the trespassers here. (Driving home the barbarian comparison is the cry of another attacker: “Where are the fucking traitors? Drag them out by their fucking hair.”) The invaders’ disorientation is plain as they follow Goodman up the stairs, haplessly dependent on his guidance even as they threaten him. “Where’s the meeting at?” one calls out. “Where do they count the fucking votes?”Soon afterward, some marauders do reach the Senate, but it is by this time emptied of senators. They stand aimlessly in the balcony. “Where did you go?” one of them calls out. Another shouts, to no one in particular, “This is our house.” But there is less conviction than ever behind the declaration. If it was indeed their house, would they have been stood up like this?As the crowd advances west of the Capitol, police fire flash-bang grenades and the crowd hollers in anger.The flash-bang grenades sail into the crowd on the west side of the Capitol. “Fuck you, fucking traitors,” shouts someone as they explode. “Fuck you!”The traitors are, in this instance, the police. If the mob’s bewilderment over the great building before them is one dominant feature of the day — whether to trash it or venerate it — its bewilderment over the police is even greater. Watching hundreds of Parler videos shows that the disturbing ones that first surfaced publicly, of officers taking selfies with protesters and otherwise laying down for the attackers, offered a picture that was far from complete.The police visible in the videos fought tenaciously, and the resulting sense of betrayal in the crowd is palpable. All summer, as the police had battled with Black Lives Matter protesters and rioters, the American right had defended them as guardians of law and order. And this, the Capitol protesters seemed to be saying, is how we’re rewarded — with billowing tear gas and blows from batons? “You motherfuckers,” shouts a middle-aged woman in a wool pullover and a “Spread Love” cap as another tear-gas canister whistles down.Also on the west side of the building, another woman shouts: “We’re done with the police. You’re going to have Antifa, Black Lives Matter and the Republicans all hating you guys!” Nearby, a man joins in: “You’re on the wrong side of history, guys.”The cries echo for hours:“Oath over your paychecks! Fuck you, guys. You can’t even call yourselves Americans. You broke your fucking oath today. 1776, bitch.”“You should be ashamed, fucking pansies.”“They’ll play like your friend, then stab you in the back.”“You serve us.”“They don’t treat Antifa like this.”“They’re gonna fire on Americans, these bastards. You treat us like China. This isn’t China.”Here and there, there are glimpses of invaders still assuming the police must be on their side, such as the man who, describing the fatal police shooting of Ashli Babbitt inside the Capitol minutes earlier to people on the outside, says that two other cops at the scene were opposed to the shooting. “I feel sorry for these two guys, because they were just like, ‘Why did you do that?’” As reinforcements file into the Capitol, one of the invaders shouts out: “Back the blue. We love you!” as if the cops were there for some reason other than her and her mates.And here and there, there are glimpses of people trying to restrain others. “Do not throw shit at the police,” a man says through a bullhorn on the west side. “Do not engage with the police.” “Do not hurt the cops!” shouts another. But this does nothing to prevent the coming clashes, including the extraordinary melee after the mob breaks across the terrace on the west side and one man lurches forward with a nasty blind-side body-blow against an officer, toppling him over a barrier, and another man rushes forward to hurl a fire extinguisher, hitting an officer in the head. (This was separate from the attack in which a fire extinguisher was used to strike Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, in another of the day’s fatalities.)It is hard not to notice that the tension appears especially intense in the crowd’s encounters with Washington’s municipal police, which include a visibly higher share of Black officers than the Capitol Police, as in one moment where the cops strain especially hard to hold their line outside the Capitol, or when some new reinforcements march in on the periphery. “Trick or treat, trick or treat! What is this, fucking Halloween?” shouts one man, mocking their riot gear, before pivoting to mocking some of them for being out of shape: “1-800-Jenny Craig! Call Jenny Craig. She can help you assholes.”More representative, though, for its sheer contradiction is the scene as another group of cops arrives near the Senate office buildings along Delaware Avenue.A woman walking in the opposite direction, with her camera out, tells them: “God Bless. Thank you.”A man walking with her tells the cops: “Don’t kill no more of our patriots. You guys won’t kill Black Lives Matter, but you’ll shoot us.”“God Bless,” she tells them.“Remember your oath,” he tells them.“Stay safe,” she tells them.The view from inside an office suite on the first floor of the Capitol that the marauders have taken over.Inside the Capitol, in a stately, high-ceilinged office suite, marauders mill around, grabbing things off the desks, knocking things over. “Don’t break stuff!” a young woman hollers at them. “Stop! That’s not why we’re here.”But why are they there? The more videos one watches, the more overwhelmed one is by the variety of motivations and profiles. Seen one way, this is one of the most homogenous large crowds one could ever find in America 2021, so heavily white is it. Seen another way, it is a hodgepodge, a cross section of America that includes hardcore white supremacists and people you might run into at a mall or a country club.It is mostly men, but there are also many women. There are young women who look like they could have come straight from a college campus, in puffy jackets and pompom hats. One, watching the invaders scale the lower Capitol walls on the west side, tells her friends: “They are climbing the walls! I mean, I wish I could, but I didn’t bring the shoes for it.”There are many middle-aged and older women, too. Some keep warm by wrapping themselves in the Stars and Stripes, like marathon runners with their tinfoil sheets. Others are draped in wool scarves and nice blankets, presenting a far more conventional and even upper-class vibe than the viral images of young men costumed with animal horns and pelts. Some of these women even enter the building.There are so many older men. Some of them are walking with canes or in wheelchairs or scooters. And some of them are at the front lines. Here, two sixtyish men bashing in an ornamental wooden window box, one using a flagpole. There, a white-haired man, easily 70, engaged in some of the most violent brawling at one of the east-side entrances.There are men, older and younger, who slide gleefully into war-reenactor mode, tossing off battle lingo as if they are at Antietam or the Ardennes. “OK, what’s happening is at the front, we’re pushing forward as hard as we can,” one paunchy man with a white beard and white MAGA hat recounts. “While we’re pushing forward, they’re shooting us with percussion grenades. They’re also pepper-spraying us. They’re bull-spraying us.” He takes his cap off to show off the brown pepper-spray stain on the back. “We’re not going to stop. We’re going to push forward.” One young man, barely out of boyhood, clambers up the inaugural scaffolding wearing a full GI Joe getup of fatigues and vintage-style M1 helmet.And here and there are glimpses of the men who fancy themselves closer to actual warriors, like the twentysomething ones furtively removing their black tactical gear under the cover of a tree outside the Capitol as the action is subsiding and pulling on red MAGA sweatshirts to pass as mere Trump supporters. But there are actually few such ominous glimpses in all these videos — perhaps because these men are too discreet to be caught on camera, or possibly because there were actually relatively few such organized elements in the mix. If the latter, it would help explain why there was not more violence done within the Capitol itself, or why there was such chaos on display that at one point, a man was left hollering hopelessly at a motley crew of invaders inside a Capitol corridor, like a nursery school teacher before naptime: “Quiet! Quiet! Calmly and quietly sit down in this room.”More typical in the videos than the furtive crew under the tree are characters like the young bearded man who speaks to the phone he is holding just outside the building while brandishing a Capitol Police shield. “All right guys, we are at the Capitol right now. We are going to go back in,” he says, and then comes the deadpan boast. “I’m the only one with a shield. I don’t know why no one else brought a shield, but I brought one just in case they start shooting. Make sure, if you ever take over the Capitol or take over any other big place, you bring a shield.” He pauses for comic effect. “You can’t get one any place except out of a cop’s hands.” He grins. “OK, guys, thanks for watching.”There are so many flags — mostly American, but also Confederate, Gadsden, Canadian, Israeli, Romanian. One young woman accidentally whacks a young man with her flag and apologizes profusely. “Oh, my goodness, you’re fine,” he responds, smiling. “What better flag to be hit with?”There are many such snatches of fellowship in the videos: strangers advising each other on how to get the pepper spray out of their eyes, or sharing news updates from the Electoral College proceedings inside the Senate, before the senators fled to safety. Watching these moments of cooperation and social warmth, the same thought crossed my mind as did in watching last year’s mass protests over the police killing of George Floyd: that these events were grounded in political anger but intensified by the social dislocation of a pandemic and its associated lockdowns, which had left so many hungering for human contact and stimulation more than they themselves probably even realized.A young man leaving the Capitol is eager to show off video of himself and others being pepper-sprayed.As the assault is winding down, an older man stands on the west side of the Capitol recording people as they walk away from the building. “Good job, patriots. Whoo! Good job, man. Real Americans, right here. Americans! Women. Look at the women. Went up there. Good-looking guys. Nobody feared.”An older woman walking by stops and interrupts his encomiums. “You know they shot and killed a girl up there, don’t you?”“No!”She tells him about the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt. At that moment, a young man marches up to the older man. He is wearing an expensive-looking winter coat and a MAGA cap clipped to his backpack, and he is full of bravado over his hijinks during the Capitol takeover. He wants to share them with a random stranger.“I got pepper-sprayed,” he tells the man, proudly. “Not me, but the people in front of me in the crowd, and the wind came and hit me. Dude, you got to check out this video I got.” He reaches around to his back pocket for his phone, but the older man breaks in.“They said a girl got killed in the House,” he says, somberly.“How?” asks the young man.“In the House. She went in the House and they told her to stop three times and they shot her in the neck.”The news of this death doesn’t faze the young man at all. Still smiling coolly, he wants to pick right back up with the story of his adventure storming the Capitol. “See, I went all the way up there underneath the scaffolding. … I climbed up it. … Everyone was like push-push-push and the cops started pepper-spraying. … You got to look at this — ”“They killed an American girl,” the older man says, trying to get him to focus on that fact. But it’s no use. The young man keeps trying to show him his video clip of the pepper spray.At almost exactly the same time, a man standing outside near the northwest corner of the Capitol — middle-aged, professorial-looking with glasses and a face mask dangling below his chin — speaks into his camera for a sober-minded report on the day. “Well, we were here,” he says. “Until they can run free and fair elections in this country and make people believe it, we’re going to have problems. They just have to figure out how to get these elections to work properly so there aren’t all these irregularities and things that appear to be cheating, even if they’re not. They just got to figure it out.”Read MoreThe InsurrectionReporting on the mob that attacked and breached the Capitol, the fallout from that day, and ongoing far-right violence.The man goes on. “I’m usually a pretty even-keeled, level-headed kind of guy, but all you’ve got to do is look at some of the videos to realize there was some shit that was really fucked up about the election.” He pauses. “Clearly, there’s millions of people in town today. There’s people packed like sardines from the White House to the Washington Monument today. For the first time as far I’m aware in history, they broke the perimeters at the Capitol. I mean, they’re pissed. I’m not keen on violence and breaking doors. But outside of that, there seemed to be no violence, and after hearing all summer long about city after city getting burned down, this was a mostly peaceful protest. This was what a mostly peaceful protest looks like.”He didn’t appear to know about the deaths and extent of the violence. He had only his vantage point. But we now have many more vantages. And they give us the picture of what happens when something that was gathering across the land for years, and recklessly and cynically fomented by those who knew better, reached a culmination. There undoubtedly were some dangerous organized elements within the mob that attacked the Capitol. But what is scariest about these videos is that they show the damage that can be done by a crowd of unorganized Americans goaded and abetted by the leaders of an organized political party. The radical fringe is a cause for concern. The thousands of regular people whipped into a murderous rage is the real nightmare.Correction, Jan. 18, 2021: This story originally misstated the location of the inaugural stands at the Capitol. 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