Netanyahu: America is easily moved

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Thursday February 26, 2015 · 7:07 AM PST

2015/02/26 · 07:07

So said Netanyahu in a 2001 speech to terror victims. In a video reported on by the Washington Post in 2010, he brags,

"I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won't get in their way."

He also had this to say about the Oslo accords:

"They asked me before the election if I'd honor [the Oslo accords]. I said I would, but ... I'm going to interpret the accords in such a way that would allow me to put an end to this galloping forward to the '67 borders. How did we do it? Nobody said what defined military zones were. Defined military zones are security zones; as far as I'm concerned, the entire Jordan Valley is a defined military zone. Go argue."

Netanyahu is hollering that we can't trust Iran, or our own government - but why should we trust him?

Police Lives Matter - no kidding

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Monday December 29, 2014 · 7:14 AM PST

2014/12/29 · 07:14

Police Lives Matter - no kidding. Has anyone ever doubted this? Has there ever been a murder of a cop that went unprosecuted? Has there ever been a cop who didn't receive the benefit of the doubt in court? Has there ever been a cop who was convicted for killing someone while claiming self defense? Has there ever been a police funeral that wasn't attended by dignitaries?

Police Lives Matter - no shit. You might as well go around yelling "The sky is blue!"

Truly Stunning: More Americans Killed by Guns Since '68 Than In All Wars Put Together

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Saturday January 19, 2013 · 8:01 AM PST

2013/01/19 · 08:01

I'm motivated to write this diary by a diary that appears on the rec list calling my ignorance of gun nut culture "stunning". You want stunning? Try this on for size:

More than a million Americans have been killed by guns since 1968.

More than in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and various smaller conflicts. Combined.

What does Occupy want? Maybe, what Americans keep asking for.

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Monday October 10, 2011 · 6:28 AM PDT

2011/10/10 · 06:28

You know, it just doesn't seem like a hard question to me. There are a few things Americans keep asking for, over and over again. It's just that our 'representatives' don't seem to hear us. What to do? Seems like a big noisy protest is just the thing!

What do we want? Follow me over the fold!

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Monday July 18, 2011 · 11:24 AM PDT

2011/07/18 · 11:24

Fox and Friends have a deliciously desperate take on the tsunami of scandalous revelations currently swamping their parent company. Fox has largely declined to cover the scandal except as a minor (nothng to see here!) story on Fox Business. Now that the scandal has reached such proportions that it would be highly unseemly to continue pretending it doesn't exist while also pretending to be a news organization, we can enjoy the absurdity of their 'coverage'.

On Friday's Fox and Friends, Steve Doocey and PR professional Bob Dilenschneider offer their (fair and balanced!) interpretations of the larger meaning of Murdoch's troubles:

The major themes are:

All kinds of hacking is going on! DoD, Citicorp, Bank of America, etc. We don't have a problem with our company engaging in criminal behavior, we have a big ol hacking problem!

Why does the media keep piling on? We have lots of other problems! Like a default problem!

All right, we get it! It's a hacking scandal! Can't we all just move on now?

It happened a long time ago! In London! LONDON, fer chrissakes! That's all the way across the ocean!

Murdoch said he was sorry, already! Sheesh!

Enjoy...

Climate of Harassment

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Saturday July 02, 2011 · 10:52 AM PDT

2011/07/02 · 10:52

Climate change deniers have used many tactics in their fight to prevent action on greenhouse gas emissions. From manufacturing doubt (a tactic borrowed from the tobacco wars) to buying scientists to claiming that climate scientists are part of a global conspiracy to invent climate change in order to obtain grant money, there has been no tactic too sleazy or absurd to be used in defense of the fossil fuel industry's status quo.

Harassment of climate scientists has long been one of those tactics. Scientists who find themselves in the denial industry's crosshairs have been subjected to avalanches of FOIA requests, personal smears in the blogoshpere, hate mail and hackings. Recently these tactics have spread and intensified, with some scientists receiving threats of death and sexual assault against themselves and even their children.

links below the squiggle...

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Monday May 16, 2011 · 5:53 AM PDT

2011/05/16 · 05:53

Dan Vergano of USAToday reports that the journal Computational Statistics and Data Analysis has retracted a study authored by Edward Wegman, professor of statistics at George Mason University and premiere GOP climate-denial witness. The study in question was an extension of the infamous Wegman Report, which was commissioned by Texas Rep. "Smokey" Joe Barton for the useful purpose of smearing climate science and climate scientists. After blogger Deep Climate first detailed serious problems with the scholarship in the Wegman Report, USAToday asked three plagiarism experts to review the report and found that it relied heavily on plagiarised material lifted from textbooks and Wikipedia.

The plagiarism in the Wegman Report is more than just evidence of shoddy, unethical scholarship. It indicates that the authors did not have expertise on the subject; they were unable to produce background material themselves and had to steal it from people who did know what they were talking about. Of course, expertise was not what Joe Barton was looking for - he was more interested in a willingness to produce a report that reinforced his "climate science is corrupt" narrative. Further, the report claimed that climate scientists collaborating with each other was a sign of inadequate peer-review in the field. Ironically, Wegman's now-retracted paper was accepted for publication a mere 6 days after being submitted, an unheard-of speed that most certainly did not allow enough time for peer-review.

George Mason University has been dragging its feet, refusing to deal with Wegman's plagiarism and other ethical issues in a timely manner. They will find it more difficult to continue doing so now that a journal has retracted his paper. And the GOP will have to find another professor willing to risk his career, and his soul, to lie for them.

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Monday November 08, 2010 · 7:29 AM PST

2010/11/08 · 07:29

Climate scientists prepare to fight back against deniers!

This is very heartening news to read as we watch the anti-science, global warming- denying Republicans vie to be the next chair of the House Energy committee:

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Tuesday August 31, 2010 · 6:56 PM PDT

2010/08/31 · 18:56

http://www.politico.com/...

It's an irrefutable point, truly. If Bush hadn't gotten us into the most ill-conceived, unjustified, deficit-ballooning disaster of a war in America's history, we wouldn't be declaring an end to combat operations tonight. I'm just surprised that the GOP wants to draw attention to their own responsibility.

On FOX, Hannity and McCain are lambasting the President for his lack of generosity to Bush in his speech. WTF. It's like these people inhabit an alternate reality.

Added: they also slammed him for not declaring us the winners in Iraq. You know, because it was such an awesome success. Maybe he should have done a victory lap, or thrown a ticker-tape parade. Or, here's a thought, he could have had a giant "Mission Accomplished" banner made up.

EPA to the rescue!

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Saturday July 31, 2010 · 4:06 AM PDT

2010/07/31 · 04:06

EPA has issued a strongly worded rebuttal of climate change deniers' desperate attacks on science. In the "Denial of Petitions for Reconsideration of the Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act", the EPA has rejected the arguments against regulating greenhouse gasses and affirmed its intention to do so. Congress has failed us, but the EPA appears to be stepping up to the plate and swinging hard.

But EPA did more than simply deny the petitions of the states of Texas and Virgina, the US Chamber of Commerce and several fossil fuel industry front groups. The Denial of Petitions is a thorough, point-by-point debunking of the specious, cherry-picked arguments used by deniers to spread doubt and smear the reputation of scientists. It will serve as a valuable resource and support for fighting the lies and misinformation spread by the denialist community.

Well done, EPA! Up next: the fossil fuel industry's minions in Congress will attempt to murder the Clean Air Act and cripple the EPA.

A Scientist takes down Lord Monckton - Updated

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Thursday July 15, 2010 · 11:39 AM PDT

2010/07/15 · 11:39

John Abraham, a professor of thermal sciences at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, took eight months to research and produce a thorough debunking of a talk given by notorious climate-change denier Lord Christopher Monckton. Monckton, whose credentials include degrees in classics and journalism (but none in any scientific field) is a prolific producer of nonsense on climate matters. Taking it all apart in a thorough and rigorous manner is quite a task, and I thank Dr. Abraham for this important work.

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