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  • in reply to: Climate change: Learning to think like a geologist #60447
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    I’ve been looking at ‘the list’ of sites where ‘fake news’ and ‘russian propaganda’ are supposed to be prevalent. Todays blog was: “Activistpost”

    The article i read was from a climate change denial point of view.

    Almost all the denial articles read link the climate-change view with ‘globalism’ — ie, an attempt by the powers that be to ‘use’ the climate-change idea to make money and gain power.

    btw, James Lovelock, the ‘gaia’ guy, has changed his mind and now thinks climate change is not real. He also thinks robots will rule the world someday.

    link:http://www.activistpost.com/2016/12/global-warming-hustle-finally-falling-apart.html

    “…Global warming is one of the Rockefeller Globalists’ chief issues. Manipulating it entails convincing populations that a massive intervention is necessary to stave off the imminent collapse of all life on Earth. Therefore, sovereign nations must be eradicated. Political power and decision-making must flow from above, from “those who are wiser.”

    Al Gore is one of their front men….
    …Their real agenda is clear: “The only solution to climate change is a global energy-management network. We (the Globalist leaders) are in the best position to manage such a system. We will allocate mandated energy-use levels throughout planet Earth, region by region, nation by nation, and eventually, citizen by citizen.”

    Yes, citizen by citizen.

    This is the long-term goal. This is the Globalists’ Holy Grail.

    Slavery imposed through energy.”

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    in reply to: Robots and Jobs #60444
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    Protecting full time employment should be a priority of government. AI and robots that eliminate a job should be taxed at a higher overall rate than the worker it replaced.

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    Fine by me, but they are coming. And they are gonna displace a shitload of working people.

    So something fundamental is gonna have to happen, like a ‘living wage’ just for being alive. Or something.

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    in reply to: informal poll: should the Patz even bother to show up? #60440
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    It is the same defense that looked pretty bad against the 49ers, you may recall. The ONLY game the 49ers have won all year.

    Who will win the rematch?

    I cannot wait to see that game. All the epic 9er/Rams battles over the decades! This one promising to be among the most tightly contested fiascos in that proud history.

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    True, zooey. All the rest of the games leading up to that one
    are just insignificant. Its all about the rematch.

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    Did anybody notice the thousand of vets showing up in Standing Rock right before they decide to shut down the pipeline ? Trump who was the guy saying no one was a stronger supporter of veterans. They shut it down because when they lose the military they lose their power and the vets taking a stand was the first step.

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    I noticed. Its been quite a protest. Lots of layers and cross-currents of interests and complexity.

    I have read btw, that indigenous peoples have become the most sophisticated protestors on the planet. They have learned much, by doing.

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    link:http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/12/02/veterans-arrive-standing-rock-act-human-shields-water-protectors
    “…The “Veterans Stand for Standing Rock” action has garnered widespread support, with the National Nurses United (NNU) union sending $50,000 to fund their expenses and a popular fundraiser surpassing $800,000 by Friday afternoon.

    “We salute the brave veterans who are standing up for the rights of the water protectors, and all of us who support this critical defense of the First Amendment right to assemble and protest without facing brutal and unwarranted attacks,” said NNU co-president Jean Ross.

    Also on Friday, water protectors fulfilled a wishlist of supplies created by the Morton County Sheriff’s Department in Mandan, North Dakota, as an act of goodwill.

    The generosity was striking, as officers from Morton County have subjected the Indigenous activists to extreme uses of force in recent days—including water cannons in subfreezing temperatures, mace, rubber bullets, and allegedly concussion grenades. One activist is still in danger of losing an arm after being struck with by what witnesses described as a concussion grenade thrown directly at her by police in riot gear.

    “North Dakota taxpayers have already bankrolled the Morton County Sheriff Department with approximately ten million dollars for the suppression of peaceful water protectors. Despite this excessive financial support, Morton County officers are asking taxpayers to donate supplies,” said the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Indigenous Peoples Power Project in a joint statement….see link

    in reply to: informal poll: should the Patz even bother to show up? #60436
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    The defense has looked terrible against two of the best offenses. Now they face a third good offense. It aint gonna be pretty.

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    I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an offense this bad
    where everyone was Healthy. For the most part they’ve had all their
    players.

    Grob – inconsistent. Kendricks – inconsistent. Tavon — inconsistent. Gurley – inconsistent. Britt – inconsistent. Quick — inconsistent. Nothing is flowing, nothing is smooth. The Oline cant get out of its own way. ITs a train-wreck.

    I have no idea if something that looks this bad, can bee quick-fixed.

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    in reply to: Snoop Dogg Trashes Rams #60366
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    Frustrating season, for sure.

    “We just have to find a way to get better,” Rams defensive end William Hayes said. “It’s just getting frustrating. Week in and week out, everybody’s taking their turns making mistakes.”

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    in reply to: Offensive Line #60351
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    Seems to me its either personnel or zn’s ‘distractions lead to lack of cohesion’
    or both.

    I dunno, but i ‘lean’ toward both. Which is bad.

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    Can Trump over-ride all that, if he wants?

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    in reply to: Patriots 26-Rams 10: Game reactions. #60241
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    How did the Rams get a TD? FOX switched the game to New Orleans with 10:48 remaining.

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    Sixty yard pass to britt took it to the one. Then TD pass to britt.
    All in garbage time.

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    in reply to: Patriots 26-Rams 10: Game reactions. #60228
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    I do not like this ram team.

    I do not like them.
    I would not watch them in a boat.
    I would not watch them on a train.
    I would not watch them with a fox.

    I do not like this ram team.

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    in reply to: I'm at the game #60220
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    Are you wearing a Dickerson jersey? Cuz I saw that guy.

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    Rams cant GIVE away sideline passes at this point. No-one wants them.

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    in reply to: 2nd Most Futile Franchise — At least we ain’t the Browns #60215
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    Dont worry, its a seven year plan. This is only year five.

    The plan, btw, is to give Fisher seven years of losing seasons,
    then fire him and start a new plan.

    Get with the program.

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    in reply to: jeff fisher got extended 2 years #60183
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    I dont see the ‘one year buy out’ theory as all ‘that’ important given the fact that Kronky is a multi-billionaire and can fire Fisher any time he wants, and just eat the contract-money.

    I assume Kronky gave his word that fisher would get a pass on any ‘move’ year and so I assume Kronky feels he has to give Fisher one more year.

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    in reply to: i dare you to try and understand this #60178
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    “…At the time, everyone noticed the attempt to weaken Syria, but no-one understood the under-lying motivation for this transfer of the population. And yet a close colleague of ambassador Samantha Powell, Kelly M. Greenhill, had published a university article on Strategic engineering of migration as a weapon of war [1], which should have caught the attention.”

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    I will say this. Just in terms of the prose, that’s English as a second language in a time when there are no editors.

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    Yes. Much like Mike Martz, or Donald Rumsfeld.

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    in reply to: jeff fisher got extended 2 years #60176
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    ED aint gettin his sideline passes anytime soon, huh 🙂

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    in reply to: jeff fisher got extended 2 years #60174
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    I think it sez a lot about Kronky. He’s very patient for one thing. I cant think of another owner who has extended a coach after four losing seasons (it was signed in preseason).

    Maybe he’s also stubborn and unwilling to admit he made a mistake?

    Or is he a genius and championships are just around the corner?

    I would have never extended him. I’d have let this season play out
    and THEN decided what to do. And given how the rams have played
    I’d have signed another coach after this season. Kronky sees it differently, obviously.

    Or does he. What if the Rams finish with five wins…

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    in reply to: jeff fisher got extended 2 years #60162
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    So he can still be fired though, right? I mean Kronky would just have to pay him two more years.

    I would ‘guess’ the next five games still matter.

    The ‘timing’ of this report is interesting. I mean, Why NOW?

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    That cant be right. Cuz ya know, he’s an ‘straight-shooting outsider’.

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    in reply to: i dare you to try and understand this #60151
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    Yes, i agree with all that. But jeezus.

    Thot this was good:
    “…At the time, everyone noticed the attempt to weaken Syria, but no-one understood the under-lying motivation for this transfer of the population. And yet a close colleague of ambassador Samantha Powell, Kelly M. Greenhill, had published a university article on Strategic engineering of migration as a weapon of war [1], which should have caught the attention.”

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    in reply to: Polly Anderson's Christmas Party by Stuart McLean #60097
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    in reply to: Bernie on whether he'll run in four years #60071
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    Buckley could have mud wrestled with Chomsky and it would have been more intellectually honest and had more integrity than most anything happening in the public discourse right now.

    Most of what’s out there is a gigantic hippo spraying shit all over everything, tail a blur.

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    A gigantic hippo spraying shit all over everything. Tail a blur.

    I like it.

    I think it should be the new Amerikan flag.

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    in reply to: Mark Blyth – Global Trumpism #60056
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    A five minute vid. Wait for the punch line at the end:

    in reply to: Mark Blyth – Global Trumpism #60049
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    I thot what he said at the 28 through 35 mark is worth listening to.

    Essentially he said the marginalized workers all over the globe voted for racist-bricks-through-the-windows, UNLESS they had a legit leftist option….

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    in reply to: Climate change: Learning to think like a geologist #60044
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    That’s bullshit.

    The earth is only 6000 years old, ya freakin’ commie.

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    According to Mermaids, its only 4000 years old.

    Damn mermaid-denier.

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    in reply to: Tom Tomorrow #60042
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    holy shit…

    sometimes the comedy cuts a little too close…

    in reply to: Bernie on whether he'll run in four years #60041
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    Wow, partisan buzzkillary…. sweet.

    We used to have William F. Buckley, Jr debating Noam Chomsky.

    Our discourse has diminished to “Hildabeast v. Drumpf”

    I fucking hate people, sometimes…

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    Well, as i recall, Buckley threatened to punch Chomsky in the nose.

    So, ya know, politix does make it hard to get along.
    It takes a lot of effort. And practice. And stuff.

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    in reply to: Mark Blyth – Global Trumpism #60040
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    I watched half of it, and thought he was just excellent. I’ll have to check out the rest later.

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    In general, the deployment of austerity as economic policy has been as effective in bringing us peace, prosperity, and crucially, a sustained reduction of debt, as the Mongol Golden Horde was in furthering the development of Olympic dressage.”
    ― Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

    Aside from France, I was baffled by the puzzle of Sweden and other Nordic states, which are often offered as paragons of the large state “that works”—the government represents a large portion of the total economy. How could we have the happiest nation in the world, Denmark (assuming happiness is both measurable and desirable), and a monstrously large state? Is it that these countries are all smaller than the New York metropolitan area? Until my coauthor, the political scientist Mark Blyth, showed me that there, too, was a false narrative: it was almost the same story as in Switzerland (but with a worse climate and no good ski resorts). The state exists as a tax collector, but the money is spent in the communes themselves, directed by the communes—for, say, skills training locally determined as deemed necessary by the community themselves, to respond to private demand for workers. The economic elites have more freedom than in most other democracies—this is far from the statism one can assume from the outside.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

    “…raising the average income tax for the top income percentile to 43.5 percent from 22.4 percent, the level of 2007, would raise revenue by 3 percent of GDP, which is enough to close the US structural deficit while still leaving very high earners with more after-tax income than they would have had under Nixon.”
    ― Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

    in reply to: How many promises will he break before inauguration? #60026
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    If a few more state houses go Republican… you think Mike Pence won’t work with Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to use the Nuclear option in the Senate to eliminate the filibuster and then start passing and ratifying Amendments to the Constitution that MOST Americans actually don’t want, but thanks to gerrymandering, corrupt Dems and hard right evangelical Christian Republicans… we could easily see…

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    Well i guess we are gonna find out if there’s a real, actual ‘Left‘ in this country thats worth a damn.

    If there is, then there will be a battle. If there aint, there will be…Mordor?

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