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You're joking, right? You do realize that almost all those dieases you mentioned are still alive and well in large parts of the world, namely Africa? And by the way, check out what happened in the recent past when large groups of people chose not to be vaccinated against measles in Africa. Does the deaths of over 500 children sound like moral panic to you? Because THAT is what large-scale vaccine refusal results in. Death and suffering. Is that what you want for people?

If anything, the IPCC errs on the conservative side.

Like hell they [sic] are.

https://www.skepticalscience.c... ".. the evidence suggests that changes in climate are occurring faster, and with more intensity, than the IPCC have predicted. It is not credible to suggest the reports were biased in favour of the theory of anthropogenic global warming when the evidence demonstrates the IPCC were, in fact, so cautious."

http://www.irinnews.org/report...

"The international scientific community’s new assessment of the estimated sea level rise caused by global warming is a significant development, but experts say the projections for higher sea levels in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate (IPCC) assessment report (AR5) are still on the low side. The projections are of immediate concern to low-lying countries and small island states."

http://www.realclimate.org/ind...

"This is where the “conservative” estimates of IPCC, seen by some as a virtue, have lulled policy makers into a false sense of security, with the price having to be paid later by those living in vulnerable coastal areas."

http://www.scientificamerican....

http://www.carbonbrief.org/blo...

What is done in these highly politicized reports, is take the 5% extreme case, say in California and report that. Then take the 5% most extreme case in NY and report that.. So on and so forth. Now even if these "confidence" things could be interpreted as probability of the event occurring, which they can't. They present all of these 5% things all over the world as if that is what could happen, while even with this poor interpretation of data, its a million to one that even a dozen of these predictions to come true. Its total misrepresentation of the model/data at best and scientifically dishonest.

Yes, yes. And at the bottom of your garden there are fairies as well! It must be true, because you said it was. No need to provide evidence or anything boring like that.

Their fake vaccine programme that preceded their extra judicial murder of Osama Bin Laden is what has caused the distrust.

In fact, there have been problems with Muslim opposition to vaccination, including opposition from the Taliban since long before the U.S. killed Bin Laden.

But even with the express support of political leaders, polio workers have been kidnapped, beaten, and assassinated.[57] In February 2007, physician Abdul Ghani, who was in charge of polio immunizations in a key area of disease occurrence in northern Pakistan, was killed in a terrorist bombing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis_eradication

In fact Muslim suspicion of vaccines has been a problem for over a decade, causing vaccinations programs to be suspended repeatedly.

However, even if the U.S. disguising an intelligence worker was the cause of the suspicion, would you excuse the killing of firemen by AQ if the U.S. had disguised somebody as a fireman or do people have an obligation to support society and civilization?

You are a shill, and shockingly an "anonymous" shill. This is one report out of thousands I have read in the last decade.

There have been quite a bit of effort to do population-control in many countries but there are quite a few idiots working against it.

Christianity:
http://churchandstate.org.uk/2012/12/the-catholic-church-condoms-and-hiv-aids-in-africa/
Islam:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/islamethics/contraception.shtml - Leaders talking against any.

Generic regarding contraception and religion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_birth_control

Here you have a pope claiming that condoms are infected with aids:
http://www.irinnews.org/report/75412/mozambique-condom-mythology

Then you have all that crap in regards to abortion, in both Islam and Christianity....

On top of this you have this thing where people just have to have a male offspring and they will continue until they have.....

Some reasons for big families in Africa:
http://povertynewsblog.blogspot.se/2009/12/reason-for-desire-for-big-families-in.html
Summary "Historically families where big to be able to take care of the farm. When people moved to cities the urge to have many children still remained"

Another thing that can cause families in developing countries to have big families is that they don't have any care for the elderly there so they have many children so someone can take car of them when they get to old.

If religion could stop interfering with sex-education for people (both kids and adults anywhere in the world) and also stop spreading lies. (no. I'm not gonna start a flame-war here, i was just referring to the example with the pope that said that condoms can give you aids)

3 things are needed for population-control:
- Sex education. This should start before puberty.
- Provide affordable or free contraception. (condoms, pills etc)
- I know this is really bad, but if someone wants a male or female offspring allow them a free check and abortion if it's not a match. (It sounds cruel, but look at how many abandoned female children there are, how many that are actually killed after birth etc.)
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/16/it%E2%80%99s-a-girl-the-three-deadliest-words-in-the-world/

Different times, different standards. Or are you going to rail against a whole host of other sick crap too? There's no shortage, like those 10 year old Philippine boys? (Note the date) You really shouldn't open such a shoddy line of attack, only unschooled, dim witted people try that, or those without a leg to stand on. And you still haven't actually gotten back to the main point of proving your claim of imperialistic actions prior to 1941. You are now devolving into ad hominem attacks. Excellent! Now crawl your pathetic self away back into whatever holier than thou cesspit you came out of and breathe deeply. Maybe we'll get lucky.

Resistance to vaccinations in these areas was present long before the CIA stories.

http://www.irinnews.org/report/83877/west-africa-progress-on-polio-vaccinations-but-resistance-lingers

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=57603

SENEGAL: Frozen chicken imports threaten local farmers’ livelihoods

The poultry parts -- unwanted by Europe and America where consumers often prefer the breast meat -- are offloaded in Africa to be hawked by 'banabana' street vendors or at markets for a fraction of the price of locally-reared birds.
[...]
It's not that the local producers cannot satisfy the demand, it's that they cannot do it as cheaply.

Although American and European poultry farmers do not receive direct subsidies, the grains used to feed their chickens do qualify for state aid. And this assistance means that even though the frozen chicken has to travel thousands of miles to reach West African shores, it can still sell for half the price of local meat.

so, you were saying?

Hmm, which Middle East country are we talking about, exactly? You kind of sound like someone pulling factoids from thin air, but here on Slashdot you never know. Color me curious. Care to cough up some examples?

Yemen, for one. Lebanon and Palestine (the occupied Territories, whatever you want to call them) also come to mind. I'll leave you with one reference: http://www.irinnews.org/InDepthMain.aspx?InDepthId=8&ReportId=41050&Country=YesMaybe YOU should watch CNN some time, they have a lot of coverage of the Middle East. I really didn't think I'd need references for this one :(

Finally! It's about time that international police and anti-crime resources put the same effort in stopping online cross border crime that they do for offline!

Kudos to Microsoft for helping. Heck, I would accept help from Satan himself, if it reduce the spam and online crime.

Well, I suspect that even though the tech is not fully deployed yet, these sites were already showing up as scam sites in Firefox and the latest versions if IE.

I suspect the Nigerian police snarfed up the already useless sites and shut them down in a halfhearted show of being proactive even while on the take. Probably took the opportunity to get rid of a few competitors as well.

These guys have been operating there for so long that only a corrupt police force could have missed them. There is plenty of evidence these guys are less than squeaky clean: http://hubpages.com/hub/Nigerian-Police--bribe-and-fraud and http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=76458 etc.

Hmmm, link didn't work last time.

Here's a story about an African country buying and distributing textbooks for a little under a dollar per book.

The GP talked about "pollution caused by uranium mining for the indigenous people", the GP was never talking about the workers.

Actually, the workers are mostly indigenous people. And they do get paid reasonably well and even get free health care. Of course, as you say they're not the only people affected by the mining dust.

And of course, when the mine is no longer profitable, the mining company leaves. Then it's over with the free hospitals. And given that most of the bad effects from radiation poisoning only occur on a long time scale (over multiple generations)...

And the water sources don't suddenly decontaminate themselves either.

There's a lot that do fall into category 3, though. Measles and smallpox, for instance, and certain forms of cervical cancer.

I dunno, man.

• NIGERIA: Measles kills more than 500 children so far in 2005
• For smallpox, the disease has been eradicated. No one gets smallpox vaccine anymore.
• For the cervical cancer example, I assume you mean the HPV vaccine. In my opinion, this would be stupid not to get. A huge percentage of the population has HPV, so infection is probable once sexual activity begins. Infection increases risk for cancer. Who wants cancer?

Oh, I get it.. If people own guns it is a bad thing. However, the governments know how to control them and make sure everyone is safe.


I think the people of Uzbekistan, Turky, China , SUDAN, Mexico, Sri Lankan, and Ethiopia would disagree, if they had not been killed in massacres by there governments.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/world/africa/15c airo.html

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56301& SelectRegion=Middle_East

http://www.sandmonkey.org/2006/10/30/the-eid-sexua l-harassment-incident/

I read them all. Doesn't mean I have to agree with their fear mongering that's not based in reality. For instance just today
New evidence: farming is huge source of greenhouse gases
Snowpack Surveys Bode Well for L.A. Water Supply LADWP Reports Highest Snow Levels in a Decade
Adaptation the key to surviving climate change, scientists say
AFRICA: Climate change becoming a matter of life and death
Oh look, directly to your early point "It was made crystal clear at the UN climate change conference in Argentina last November that the international community won't support global systems to regulate greenhouse gases. The US, China and developing countries decided Kyoto would not extend beyond 2012. Overtures by the European Union to extend it were rejected. Most greens pretend this did not occur. They also ignore the fact that most governments are not persuaded by claims that global warming presents a cataclysmic threat.
" Liberal plan will cost Canadians billions of dollars annually, Tories say /A>


How many do you read?

Did you agree when they said the cause of the Dec 26th Tsunami was Global Warming? Or when they said that Hurricanes were on the rise due to global warming. Most people didn't because Global Warming doesn't cause Earthquakes (Certianly not warming of 1 degree Farenheit on average global mean) and Hurricanes are on the decrease, as our weather records show.

BTW You called me wrong before when I stated how much warming we had in the 20th century, but you still haven't backed that up. You would think if I was so wrong you could easily show how stupid I was, yet you just go on and use insults as a debating tactic. But that's okay, obviously your opinions on this are just fantasy perpetuated byt the Media scare tactics, I don't expect you to deal with reality in the discusion.

Could we perhaps make farm equipment powered by locusts?

With the number I see in that first picture there should be enough to power a full-sized tractor.

Then again, they seem to be most attracted to crops and unlike shit, crops are already all over the ground in locust swarmed areas. Maybe we could figure out what part of the crop most attracts them and exagerate that feature to lure them away from the real thing into our deathtraps. It would be like the locust version of a Macdonald's restaurant; nothing can top the taste and the smell but then the cardiac arrest sets in.

Blix believes the negatives outweigh the positives but.... You seem to habitually state something that supports your opponent's position and ostensibly proves you wrong, only to act like it proved you correct.

How exactly are you defining "ostensibly" in that sentence?

I understand you prefer other selections from Hillary Clinton's speech than the line that NewsMax and I quoted verbatim.

Show me any laws introduced by the Governing Council that restricted women's mobility.

I'll show you a lot more than Decision 137:

While the center of the country has seen much freedom for women in the past, since the American led war, the deteriorating security situation has confined many women to their homes. There has been a great push for greater attention to be paid to women's issues from the International NGOs, the CPA, and some Iraqi elites. However, they are working against fierce resistance, wherein the threat of violence and general lawlessness seriously hampers any possible progress. Women working with NGOs, as well as individual female members of the general population, have been the targets of both random and targeted violence. For example, Yanar Mohammed, the outspoken leader of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, has received numerous death threats. In April 2004 a leading women's advocate was also killed in a roadside ambush on her way back from a meeting celebrating the March 9th signing of the Interim Constitution. Average women in Baghdad and many other areas also fear rape or kidnap if they leave their homes. ["Climate of Fear: Sexual Violence and Abduction of Women and Girls in Baghdad", Human Rights Watch, Vol. 15, No. 7(E) - July 2003.] The increasing influence of Islamic groups in Iraq has also further restricted the movements and participation of women in the new society. Hence, the huge numbers of qualified women who are invaluable tools for societal advancement in general and women's advancement in particular, have been largely sequestered to their homes by lack of security in the south and especially the center of the country.

The main problem facing women in the south since 2003 has been the strong influence of very patriarchal interpretations and practice of Islam. Many Shiite women have also internalized and accepted such interpretations of Islam. In any case, whether due to conviction or practicality, extremely rarely will one see a women out of the Hijab in these regions, and those who dare uncover their heads are shunned or even have rocks thrown at them. Even Christian women have begun to cover their heads in southern Iraq. ["Iraq: Female Harassment From Religious Conservatives," April 14, 2004, IRIN] There are plenty of educated women in Shiite areas - lawyers, engineers, teachers - however, it is expected that once a woman marries (which every respectable Shiite woman must do), household work will claim priority and usually, the second job will be dropped.

In the Southern and Shiite areas, far fewer NGOs are present than in the North and center of the country but the situation is just as, if not more, dire. The few writings on the Southern areas of Iraq show that violence against women is very widespread and accepted. According to a Boston-based Physicians for Human Rights report, of 2000 families surveyed in Basra, 50 percent reported abuse in their household either in the form of beatings, torture or murder ["Iraq: Women Afraid to Seek Healthcare in south", 5 April, 2004, IRIN]. There have been very few initiatives put in place to provide shelter to these threatened women and to educate these women of their human rights ["Iraq: Focus on Increasing Viole

Blix believes the negatives outweigh the positives but.... You seem to habitually state something that supports your opponent's position and ostensibly proves you wrong, only to act like it proved you correct.

How exactly are you defining "ostensibly" in that sentence?

I understand you prefer other selections from Hillary Clinton's speech than the line that NewsMax and I quoted verbatim.

Show me any laws introduced by the Governing Council that restricted women's mobility.

I'll show you a lot more than Decision 137:

While the center of the country has seen much freedom for women in the past, since the American led war, the deteriorating security situation has confined many women to their homes. There has been a great push for greater attention to be paid to women's issues from the International NGOs, the CPA, and some Iraqi elites. However, they are working against fierce resistance, wherein the threat of violence and general lawlessness seriously hampers any possible progress. Women working with NGOs, as well as individual female members of the general population, have been the targets of both random and targeted violence. For example, Yanar Mohammed, the outspoken leader of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, has received numerous death threats. In April 2004 a leading women's advocate was also killed in a roadside ambush on her way back from a meeting celebrating the March 9th signing of the Interim Constitution. Average women in Baghdad and many other areas also fear rape or kidnap if they leave their homes. ["Climate of Fear: Sexual Violence and Abduction of Women and Girls in Baghdad", Human Rights Watch, Vol. 15, No. 7(E) - July 2003.] The increasing influence of Islamic groups in Iraq has also further restricted the movements and participation of women in the new society. Hence, the huge numbers of qualified women who are invaluable tools for societal advancement in general and women's advancement in particular, have been largely sequestered to their homes by lack of security in the south and especially the center of the country.

The main problem facing women in the south since 2003 has been the strong influence of very patriarchal interpretations and practice of Islam. Many Shiite women have also internalized and accepted such interpretations of Islam. In any case, whether due to conviction or practicality, extremely rarely will one see a women out of the Hijab in these regions, and those who dare uncover their heads are shunned or even have rocks thrown at them. Even Christian women have begun to cover their heads in southern Iraq. ["Iraq: Female Harassment From Religious Conservatives," April 14, 2004, IRIN] There are plenty of educated women in Shiite areas - lawyers, engineers, teachers - however, it is expected that once a woman marries (which every respectable Shiite woman must do), household work will claim priority and usually, the second job will be dropped.

In the Southern and Shiite areas, far fewer NGOs are present than in the North and center of the country but the situation is just as, if not more, dire. The few writings on the Southern areas of Iraq show that violence against women is very widespread and accepted. According to a Boston-based Physicians for Human Rights report, of 2000 families surveyed in Basra, 50 percent reported abuse in their household either in the form of beatings, torture or murder ["Iraq: Women Afraid to Seek Healthcare in south", 5 April, 2004, IRIN]. There have been very few initiatives put in place to provide shelter to these threatened women and to educate these women of their human rights ["Iraq: Focus on Increasing Viole