The 9/11 Lie is in Critical Condition

The 9/11 Lie is in Critical Condition link

There was a time, not long ago, when daring to question the official account of 9/11 was risky business. One was almost guaranteed to be attacked as a "crazy person" or a "traitor" or a "terrorist sympathizer." Times have changed. At this point, less than 20% of the population believes they were given the full truth regarding 9/11. Logically one might ask: "Why is that?"

Spending on forecasting can offset climate warming threat: experts - Yahoo! News

Spending on forecasting can offset climate warming threat: experts - Yahoo! News

"The threat is real," WMO chairman Alexander Bedritsky warned.

"All the money which can be invested in prevention will have positive consequences," he stressed.

Daily Kos: Did a Rightwing PR firm bribe NYT, WSJ, MIT and others? UPDATED

Daily Kos: Did a Rightwing PR firm bribe NYT, WSJ, MIT and others? UPDATED

This ain't no baseball game -

On March 7, 2007, a "media and research" company called eSapience filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against C.V. Starr & Co., the California investment firm helmed by Maurice "Hank" Greenberg.

What makes this suit so interesting is not C.V. Starr's alleged actions, but the services eSapience was hired to perform. That's because, far from being a typical p.r. firm, eSapience, run by a clique of conservative, free-market academics, is in the business of buying and manipulating influence at the very highest levels of academic and intellectual circles--a cynical strategy laid out in deep detail by the lawsuit. The suit, in fact, is a Rosetta Stone into the extremes to which a group of right-wingers have taken the phrase "marketplace of ideas"--and it has exposed the lengths to which some people will go to buy intellectual influence. [there is more]

I about puked when I saw Reagan on the cover of the latest TIME. He was the start of all this undermining of democracy and the conservatives are still pulling the wool over the public's eye. They all should have been tried and sentenced for treason for the Iran-Contra.

Read "Why Conservatives Can't Govern" to see what I mean. It's not just fraud.

But don’t be misled. Bush and Rove know how to play this game. They play by their rules, the rules that conservative administrations have followed since Nixon. And that’s the real lesson. The phrase “conservative misrule” is a redundancy. The two words mean exactly the same thing.

Robert L. Borosage, March 19, 2007

Independent Online Edition > Climate Change

Independent Online Edition > Climate Change: "A catastrophic collapse of the Arctic sea ice could lead to radical climate changes in the northern hemisphere according to scientists who warn that the rapid melting is at a 'tipping point' beyond which it may not recover.

The scientists attribute the loss of some 38,000 square miles of sea ice - an area the size of Alaska - to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as well as to natural variability in Arctic ice.

"I think there is some evidence that we may have reached that tipping point, and the impacts will not be confined to the Arctic region," he said.

Ethanol: Feed a Person for a Year or Fill Up an SUV?

AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Ethanol: Feed a Person for a Year or Fill Up an SUV?: "While politicians and Big Agriculture insist on casting the need for ethanol in terms of national security, the larger issue is a moral one: are we going to use our precious farmland to grow food, or use it to make motor fuel?"

Senators Daschle and Dole (d&d for dumb and dumber) are pushing this one, absolutely self serving and short sighted.

Minnesota Climate Change Action Alert

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Solve Global Warming

Something in my climatelab email that deserves repeating:

Lots of people are concerned about global warming and the effect it will have on Minnesota and the way we live. The good news is that the solutions to global warming will not only fight global warming, they’ll also clean up our air and water, decrease our dependence on foreign oil, and create new jobs and a stronger economy.

Right now, the Minnesota Legislature has the opportunity to pass a smart new law that will immediately start cutting global warming pollution. The Global Warming Mitigation Act takes realistic and reasonable first steps to set limits on global warming pollution.

Don’t you think it’s time to invest in an energy future that protects Minnesota’s air, water, and great outdoors and at the same time strengthens our economy and controls rising energy prices?

The Global Warming Mitigation Act will soon be debated in the Minnesota senate and house. Your senator and representative are key to passing this legislation. Please contact your legislators today and urge them to support the Global Warming Mitigation Act.

Deadline for responding: Please take action by March 6.

UN Report Exclusive: Climate Change Impact More Extensive than Thought - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

UN Report Exclusive: Climate Change Impact More Extensive than Thought - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News: "UN REPORT EXCLUSIVE
Climate Change Impact More Extensive than Thought

By Volker Mrasek

Global climate change is happening faster than previously believed and its impact is worse than expected, information from an as-yet unpublished draft of the long-awaited second part of a United Nations report obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE reveals. No region of the planet will be spared and some will be hit especially hard."

UFO science key to halting climate change: former Canadian defense minister - Yahoo! News

UFO science key to halting climate change: former Canadian defense minister Paul Hellyer

An insider breaks the official silence:

"We need to persuade governments to come clean on what they know. Some of us suspect they know quite a lot, and it might be enough to save our planet if applied quickly enough," he said.