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September 9, 2015 0

Well it’s one solution: go marry a climate denialist

Tweet Interesting article from a man married to an anti-vaxxer . It reminds me a little about studies showing that a prejudiced people need intense contact with the members of the group they’re biased against before eliminating their prejudice; casual contact can be counterproductive. In the case of the article, overcoming bias was a two-way street, with the author having to abandon his (lazy) belief that anti-vaxxers were just uninformed and stupid.

August 26, 2015 0

Coal collapse and the first burst carbon bubble

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August 18, 2015 0

Bangkok Blast: Who Has Ax To Grind With Thailand?

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Since the first coup in 2006 aimed at his regime, Shinawatra has been represented by US corporate-financier elites via their lobbying firms including, Kenneth Adelman of the Edelman PR firm ( Freedom House , International Crisis Group , PNAC ), James Baker of Baker Botts ( CFR , Carlyle Group), Robert Blackwill ( CFR ) of Barbour Griffith & Rogers (BGR) , Kobre & Kim , Bell Pottinger ( and here ) and currently Robert Amsterdam of Amsterdam & Partners ( Chatham House ). And from 2006 until now, both Western political and media circles have continuously provided favorable spin for Shinawatra and his political proxies. This includes the use of the above mentioned Freedom House and its umbrella organization, the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) to fund and back nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and academics in Thailand to provide rhetorical and operation support for Shinawatra and serve as a constant source of sociopolitical subversion aimed at Thailand’s ruling establishment

July 3, 2015 0

The Amazon is Cool

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Tweet Well, it’s summer in the North, and the birds are singing, the bunnies, well, you know what, and people all over are sweating. Â It has been particularly bad in Europe, the Western US, and disastrous in South Asia, both India and Pakistan . As Eli could have told you the search is on for excuses, especially in light of new papers which attribute and increase in heat waves to climate change

April 16, 2015 0

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad S-300s?

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Links Whoâ€™s Afraid of the Big Bad S-300s? April 16, 2015 ( Eric Draitser-NEO ) – Â The executive order issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which lifts the ban on the export of weapons systems to Iran, has been met with sharp condemnation by Israel, and admonishment from the United States. While Moscow has yet to make a final decision on if/when it will begin supplying the S-300 air defense missiles to Iran â€“ Tehran purchased the system under a 2007 contract left unfulfilled by Russia as a result of the UN-imposed arms embargo â€“ it is clear that the possibility alone signals a significant shift in the geopolitics of the region