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"The Nobel prize for economics is not even a “real” Nobel prize anyway, having only been set up by the Swedish central bank in 1969."

I don't care - they all pay the same.

-- Professor Farnsworth

+1 It's fake price
"The Nobel prize for economics is not even a “real” Nobel prize anyway, having only been set up by the Swedish central bank in 1969."

I have a right to free speech

The article is about the UK - therefore this is irrelevant. Whether or not you have free speech doesn't affect us in the UK.

Even saying that, rights have provisos. You have the right to live - but even in a certain "free" country that has different political regions - they call them States - some of these "States" will irreversibly revoke that right under certain circumstances. (And this is ignoring things like war)

I have the right to travel freely, does that obligate the government to buy me a car?

The Government not buying you a car doesn't mean you can't travel. I'm assuming you can get around without a car...? (To quote Eric Idle, "I have two legs from my hips to the ground. When I move them I walk around") Other Forms Of Transport Are Available.

I have the right to eat, does that obligate the government to buy me food?

You have the right to eat? Really?

A recent debate is that medical care is a "fundamental right". So I find myself in need of medical care, does that obligate the government to provide it?

It's a shame, really. The NHS was quite good. Bits of it still are. Successive Governments have managed to dilute it - and the current lot would like nothing more than to privitise it - but knows they can't explicitly do that. They believe in privisation, even when it makes no sense (The recent big success story on the UK rail network - the one where customer satisfaction was particularly high and everything was mostly on time and running well was one of the publicly owned part - to a couple of firms that have little or no customer satisfaction and don't run on time. They'll probably actually end up costing the Government in subsidies where they were making them money)

As it is, the buildings don't typically belong to the hospitals in question - a previous Government set up PFI (Where a third party gets the building built and then that particular hospital pays rent) on hospitals and the last lot (That were partly the current lot and partly the lib dems) said that this was terribly inefficient (It is - it costs far, far more for the hospital in question) and then continued with the deals, regardless.

Who is the "government" anyway? Government is people.

Yes, we're all in this together. Except when there are some laws for MPs and some laws for everybody else. (The 2 main ones I'm thinking of are that the MPs have double the pension allowance of everybody else (I know, potentially, they may only be in power for a short period of time but - really) and the Wilson doctorate. (MPs communication is protected - because there may be whistleblowers. Except that only works on the MPs. What if somebody wanted to whistleblow on an MP? Only the MP is protected, not the source. If the MP is *okay* with the person being traced...)

That phrase is what brought us Marxism, communism, and socialism.

And is socialism so bad and terrible? No system is perfect. You need bits and pieces of all of them to work properly.

Let's assume we have a society that everyone gets what they need, and everyone provides to their ability, who enforces that? Who decides what people need and another can provide Usually the answer is that the government does. Which means that phrase translates to, "the government takes and the government gives."

Indeed. But where we're on a planet where a very small number of people have the same total wealth as half of the planet, would taking more money from that very small number of people be a bad thing? What are they going to do with it anyway?

To me a "fundamental right" means the government cannot interfere. A "fundamental right" to healthcare

He's still thinking about it.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-...
FWIW, Australian gun law is no more than a gun grab...

This should come as no surprise. A few days ago, TransCanada requested a delay in approval because the low price of oil has made the pipeline construction less appealing. This reduced opposition to, and so political cost of, Obama's decision.

http://www.theguardian.com/env...

The emoji of the people in the sauna shows them as being naked. This is highly offensive to most religious people.

In highly related news, the following articles were linked in the story from TFA:
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

The emoji of the people in the sauna shows them as being naked. This is highly offensive to most religious people.

In highly related news, the following articles were linked in the story from TFA:
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

One of recent headline in The Guardian maintains your point.

Sinai plane crash may show price of Putin's military adventurism in Syria

So although the experts don't know what caused the crash, it seems that the British PM David Cameron does know, and it's ISIS.

In other news, Cameron wants British airstrikes on ISIS but can't get the support of parliament.

No matter how much I tell myself that correlation is not causation, this just looks like too much of a coincidence.

Maybe because the VW CEO resigned in disgrace and the Porsche CEO took over with a mandate to clean up VW's act, purportedly because Porsche was squeaky clean?

Your nation's made itself a prime target for hostile invasion. You have a completely unarmed populace.

So what you're saying is, my firearm's license doesn't exist and the weapons I have at home don't exist?

Think your enemies don't think thus?

The only 'enemies' I am particularly concerned about are certain nationalists that would have us secede from the union through the use of certain methods that guns can't help with.

You get outta line, do you really think those 'rulers' won't come out with guns to take you out?

Considering how soft touch enforcement is around here when it comes to using projectile weapons, I'm not really seeing a vicious problem you're implying. The only people I really see out of line in the UK tend to be murderers and such (arrested without needing to carry a projectile weapon too), not a guy driving away in a car.

You're long past being "iron men in wooden ships" and more like tinfoil men in balsa wood toy boats.

Wow, you have some wild imagination as to what people think. Most people (sadly) in the UK are thinking about what's in HEAT or the dailymail has to say for gossip, I doubt anyone is thinking this rubbish you're coming up with.

A brand outside the UK and 5 eye nations offers an openvpn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... file to user in the UK ensuring a less easy to log internet connection.
That hop is from within a domestic like network after the providers "modem" like product.
Will the UK ban, track, investigate and demand credit card payments to VPN providers be blocked in the UK?
With "no plans to ban encryption services" that will be very cheap and simple way around the most simple provider level logging.
Why is the UK not interested in the networking solution thats a way out of the UK thats simple and cheap?
"Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security" http://www.theguardian.com/wor... (6 September 2013)
Did Cheesy Name and Tempora advance to a level that the UK feels confident to trace the entry and exit of any VPN service?
Re 'a duty on companies to be able to access their customer data in law" will be interesting for any UK brand offering services. Who gets the keys and when can government officials make the request? The term "prevent criminal acts" sounds like realtime and collect it all even with any oversight.

It's not a lawsuit, it's criminal charges brought by the district attorney after journalists uncovered the evidence.

By publicly denying that fossil fuels cause global warming they have been making false claims about their primary product - fossil fuels. You are generally required to disclose to customers any potential (and definitely any guaranteed) risks or negative side effects that your product has so they can make an informed decision.

Here is a sampling of the news reports that followed the work of two different groups of journalists who both independently found proof of the cover-up, one from the left-end and one from the far-right end of the spectrum:
http://www.theguardian.com/env...
http://fortune.com/2015/09/16/...

And here is a report on congress asking the DA to investigate the events and charge them if it's found to be criminal:
http://www.latimes.com/local/l...

Re "Shame it's gonna be illegal in the UK soon"
Yes with older efforts like "Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security" (6 September 2013) http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
"codenamed Cheesy Name, was aimed at singling out encryption keys, known as 'certificates', that might be vulnerable to being cracked by GCHQ supercomputers."
Thats the key to gov thinking on any consumer grade secure applications.
If that fails 'responsible for identifying, recruiting and running covert agents in the global telecommunications industry"
The "Take 5 minutes and up your opsec game with Tor Messenger [Updated]" (Nov 1, 2015) http://arstechnica.com/securit...
had some of the setting up options and shared secret swap.
If under total digital surveillance ie collect it all, doing things digitally will be interesting to keep anonymity while trying to set up or looking to download message privacy.
All the gov has to do is watch for the downloads of the application again :)

"There *is* a guaranteed right to privacy"

Which means little in the age of technology and physics, given that the mass of the public is technologically illiterate and using technology explicitly designed to be compromised. Look at the released docs specifically.

NSA collaborates with tech companies to compromise hardware

Conveniently Global Warming initiative somehow morphed into the Climate Change

Yes the US government deliberately changed the terminology in the early 2000's, both phrases are technically correct but have different meanings, both phrases have been (properly) used by researchers since the 1950's. Frank Luntz (GWB's political advisor) suggested the change in official communications to sow doubt about the science in a now infamous memo. It backfired, so the GOP tried to pin the charge of "doublespeak" on the scientists.

http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

Cameron (the dead pig fucker) states himself that they leave "no place to hide", no encryption (that can't be broken) no VPN, etc.
All of this while holding the specter of the the 4 horsemen of the infopocalypse.

Dead Pig Romance
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

Cameron: No Encryption
http://www.theguardian.com/com...

4 horsemen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Couple all that with CCTV, and a garden variety of other assaults on the freedoms on the UK and you get Prison Island. (My name for the UK)

How do they plan to investigate just you by accessing the data from your Internet connection?

Man in the Middle attack

That may include data of other people.

Yes that is the plan.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

And means they will be spying on innocent people

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
--- Cardinal Richelieu

who are above suspicion.

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHA

Which can never be legal.

Oh you innocent summer child...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

How could this possibly be? How could we assume that he is an orwellian Big Brother, conpiring with the USA to build an orwellian, fascist surveillance scheme?

Because of reports like this? https://theintercept.com/2015/...

Because there is nothing holding back the GCHQ from intersepting everything including porn use to denounce any resistance? Because the GCHQ has already infiltrated legal NGOs to undermine and control those "terrorist" NGOs like Amnesty International?

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-...

Because after laying waste to the middle east he leaves the refugees to the other european countries?

Because he already annnounced that if the european human right standards might hinder his orwellian fantasies, he considers abondoning these standards and replace them with his british version?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

Because he does not even think that UN human right standards might also apply to his government?
http://www.welfareweekly.com/c...

Under which rock have you lived since the release of the Snowden files?

Every european country installed an orwellian surveillance scheme. But this government and his system to me as a foreigner seems to be by far the worst. They stop at nothing.

That is why I highly doubt he will be able to really compromise. He uses 1984 as a how to manual, even going to war with changing coalitions to keep the system going. But even George Orwell was not foreseeing a time when people buy their bugging devices and waiting in line to get their bug.

Not sure whether the timing of this article is a coincidence, but it seems that European has voted today that emissions standards should get more lax: http://www.theguardian.com/env...

The French nuclear plants, although a remarkable achievement, have had mutiple shutdowns of many units due to lack of adequate cooling - just when they're most needed ( during summer heat waves ).

"supplementing their "nuclear free" grid capacity with power generated in french nuclear plants" - it's true that a very significant chunk of French nuke power is exported - because it's too difficult to ramp more than a few plants up & down so the benefits cut both ways.

Yes, Denmark produced 110% of its demands - for less than 2 hours, on a warm afternoon with historic low demands

Actually, it peaked at 140% and it was high for a LOT longer than "less than 2 hours"
From a low of 390 MW at 10pm on July 7th, 2015, wind power production on the DK-West grid rose to 1 GW by 2am on July 8th, then to 2 GW by 8am and peaked just over 3GW by 3pm on July 9th.
At no time between 9am on July 8th and 7pm on July 10th did wind power on DK-West drop below 2GW and for the bulk of that period of two and a half days it was above 2.6GW. Gross power consumption on DK-West varied from 1.8GW - 2.8GW during that time.

For DK-East, wind power production from 6am on July 8th to 9pm on July 10th varied from 400MW to 920MW and for >80% of the time was above 800MW.
DK-East gross power consumption was from 1 - 1.6GW during that period.

  "Interconnectors allowed 80% of the power surplus to be shared equally between Germany and Norway, which can store it in hydropower systems for use later. Sweden took the remaining fifth of excess power". Looks like it was of some benefit to the neighbors.
and "The figures emerged on the website of the Danish transmission systems operator, energinet.dk, which provides a minute-by-minute account of renewable power in the national grid. The site shows that Denmark’s windfarms were not even operating at their full 4.8GW capacity at the time of yesterday’s peaks"
(from http://www.theguardian.com/env...)

The http://www.theguardian.com/env... has a link to
"Morocco: Works on World’s Largest Solar Plant Financed by AfDB Go Underway"
http://www.afdb.org/en/news-an...
breaking down the different phase funding AC.

Longman dictionary:
someone who uses violence such as bombing, shooting etc to obtain political demands

or, by their actions: "Insurgent" Eats Heart of Syrian Soldier, or Free Syrian Army allegedly trafficking in human organs. They are just like the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) which U.S supported before.
Moreover, U.S official admitted that they has trained only 'four or five' Syrian fighters against Isis, top general testifies, and it's cost about 500 M, and the U.S funded groups frequently desert or handed armors, weapons to the Al Qaeda.

Longman dictionary:
someone who uses violence such as bombing, shooting etc to obtain political demands

or, by their actions: "Insurgent" Eats Heart of Syrian Soldier, or Free Syrian Army allegedly trafficking in human organs. They are just like the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) which U.S supported before.
Moreover, U.S official admitted that they has trained only 'four or five' Syrian fighters against Isis, top general testifies, and it's cost about 500 M, and the U.S funded groups frequently desert or handed armors, weapons to the Al Qaeda.

Longman dictionary:
someone who uses violence such as bombing, shooting etc to obtain political demands

or, by their actions: "Insurgent" Eats Heart of Syrian Soldier, or Free Syrian Army allegedly trafficking in human organs. They are just like the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) which U.S supported before.
Moreover, U.S official admitted that they has trained only 'four or five' Syrian fighters against Isis, top general testifies, and it's cost about 500 M, and the U.S funded groups frequently desert or handed armors, weapons to the Al Qaeda.

SO WHO'S WITH ME?

The UK government, for a start. There have been big improvements made in this area after the problem was identified and gained recognition about a decade ago.

You should contact TA and ask them for advice on your own initiative. Good luck.

That said, it arguably should not have been built and the money should have been spent in the North instead:
http://www.theguardian.com/new...

That's the problem with the UK: north vs south.

If both projects make economic sense, build both! Crossrail 2 is being planned at the moment. Crossrail 3 is an idea.

CrossRail is an extraordinary engineering feat.
http://www.crossrail.co.uk/new...

That said, it arguably should not have been built and the money should have been spent in the North instead:
http://www.theguardian.com/new...

Are you as totally fucking incapable of using a search engine as you are of having a sensible debate?
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-...

This sounds like the comments of someone obviously blind to the realities of stepping into a hostile crowd alone.

Yes, there is an escalating war against the police. In fact, with one shooting per week in 2015, it is a very dangerous time to be a.. toddler? (checks link) Wow.

In America, more preschoolers are shot dead each year (82 in 2013) than police officers are in the line of duty (27 in 2013), according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FBI.

                        --- sketchy source

Well, c'mon, that was back in 2013, before the "Ferguson Effect." What are the more recent statistics--oh...

2015 may be one of the safest years for law enforcement in a quarter century.

So how are these "realities" you speak of any different now than before the new "video scrutiny"?

The numbers I've seen for smaller (and more likely) meteors are on the order of a few nukes. If we knew when and where they would hit, it's perfectly feasible to evacuate the area. Coastal towns do this all the time when a hurricane is about to hit.

Chelyabinsk received no warning when it was struck by a meteor. That rock exploded with the energy of around 500 kilotonnes of TNT. http://www.theguardian.com/sci... It sure would be nice to know if that was going to happen in your neighborhood.

For the really big one, we don't hear much about Project Orion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... much any more. But given the right circumstances, it might still have some merit.

One where we don't hand-wave away problems with hilariously oversimplified answers:

http://www.preventionweb.net/f... (jump to page 58 for the spoilers)

Not all countries have the same climate or will be affected in the same way, and the countries that are going to be worse off vastly outnumber those that will be better off with climate change.

And here's something on the costs of global warming adaptation:

http://www.theguardian.com/env...

Hope you learned something.

The UK has had a very successful subsidy on the electricity generated by solar PV that has encouraged large numbers of people to install panels on their roofs at home. As a result, last year the amount of solar capacity in the UK doubled to over 5GW, enough to supply over 1.2 million homes with electricity:

http://www.theguardian.com/env...

and has created a whole industry of small and medium companies to install and maintain the panels. Sadly the shortsighted new Conservative government have decided to all but remove the subsidies that have supported this growth, stunting the growth of an industry that through better economies of scale on production costs was intending to be entirely subsidy-free within 5 years.

This has cost a huge amount of renewable capacity to be lost in the short to medium term, replaced with importing ever more energy from abroad and making the UK even more reliant on Russian energy production.

People would do well to remember what can happen when trying to avoid "conflict materials". See this article from The Guardian.

A lot of these so-called "fair trade" efforts are marketing gimmicks and come from the "let them eat cake" school of thinking of rich and naive Westerners.

You grant Google tracking permissions and can opt out.

Nope. You're given the illusion of opting out. To quote that article, "Turning voice Activity off doesn’t stop Google storing your recordings".

Well, first of all, you would have us believe the same about the scientists funded by ExxonMobil. Koch brothers, et cætera. Why is suspicion more believable about the corporation-funded folks, than about the government-funded ones?

The corporation-hired folks are paid to write a paper (called a deliverable) with arguments supporting the theory of their sponsors, while government scientists are paid to do research regardless of the result, much to the annoyance of various politicians.

But the way the system is set up, the would-be "rebels" get screened-out long before making a name for themselves — if you argue in your papers, that AGW is insignificant and a misplaced concern, what are the chances of making it into a grad-school today?

As good as any one else's, unless their denying AGW is an indicator of their prowess in science.

Most people would go into sincere denial.

So you think thousands of scientists can produce bogus results without ever having an inkling that their results are wrong. So they all read their instruments incorrectly, get their math wrong, and still they all get the same results, and still none of them notices anyone else's errors despite the reviews. You call that believable?

But the way the system is set up, the would-be "rebels" get screened-out long before making a name for themselves

So on one side we have plenty of proof that a few dozens of scientists are being paid to deny or minimize AGW; and on the other we have thousands of scientists producing lies supporting AGW but we have not a single shred of evidence that anyone is pushing them to lie. And according to you that's because the selection and formatting process is so efficient that out of thousands of scientists none of them got depressed to the point where he would publicize their frustration with the system. And none of them rebelled either? And the exact same phenomenon worked across 120 countries with different cultures and opposing interests. And you really claim with a straight face that your conspiracy theory is the more plausible one? Just, wow!

A seasoned and established tenure-professor might be able to get away with it, but not scratch-free.

So Lindzen is your best example of a scientist being unfairly persecuted by the AGW crowd? The Lindzen who, from your own article, charges oil and coal interests $2,500 a day for his consulting services; his 1991 trip to testify before a Senate committee was paid for by Western Fuels, and a speech he wrote, entitled "Global Warming: the Origin and Nature of Alleged Scientific Consensus," was underwritten by OPEC. And you were the one who talking about conflicts of interests was asking people to recuse themselves! And instead of asking for Lindzen to recuse himself you try to pass him off as a martyr?

Google is trying it's hardest to spy on people. It doesn't matter if the filesystem of the device is encrypted. Google keeps its surveillance records on its servers anyway. Encrypting the hard drive of the device is no better than putting lipstick on a pig.

Despite regular assurances about the Wilson Doctrine for the last 60 years, British MPs were recently dismayed to find out that they are, in fact, being spied upon - just like any other citizen. The Wilson Doctrine was finally admitted (after a legal challenge) to be nothing more than a vague platitude with "no legal force".

Goes to show that politicians lie to each other as regularly as they do to the rest of us. The only notable part is that some of them appeared genuinely surprised by this.

Coal the only alternative?

What about Geothermal Power ?
What about Wind Power?
What about wave power?

Japan should take the lead from Germany who replaced all their nuclear power plants with renewables following the Fukushima disaster

"The project draws a very strong analogy between the learning of computer coding skills and the learning of spoken languages"

Seems to imply speaking a language, which is not right at all. It's about writing a language. Maybe not coincidentally, male authors outnumber women authors by about the same proportion as in software development.
http://www.theguardian.com/boo...

BTW one of my favorite authors is Mary Stewart, her Arthurian Saga is awesome!

Here is what’s really going on.

For the last fifty years the 6th Fleet has been headquartered near Naples, Italy. There are no shore bases in Italy for the roughly 1,100 Marines assigned to the fleet. The fleet is routinely called the Mediterranean fleet but the area it controls includes most of the eastern Atlantic and south western Indian oceans. (See map at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ). The U.S. has only ten full sized aircraft carriers and none are operating in the Med right now The real action is in the Indian ocean and the western Pacific facing China. http://www.gonavy.jp/CVLocatio....

For some reason the U.S. government and NATO have decided to move the Naples headquarters to Rota, Spain, which is potentially a much larger facility that Naples, with room for a few thousand Marines on shore.

Of course Spain wants something in return and we had to get the deal done before the Spanish election, which might bring in a leftist government. The best article on the deal is, as usual, in the British newspaper the Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/wor.... To quote from the article (paragraph brakes removed):

“The Palomares clean-up deal is seen by many as a sweetener in exchange for Spain agreeing to Washington ramping up its military presence in the country. The number of marine personnel at the base in Morón in southern Spain is to be increased from 850 to 2,200, and to 3,000 in the event of a crisis. Meanwhile, the US navy base at Rota, near Cádiz, is set to become the largest in the Mediterranean. Talks with Spain’s right-wing government over the military build-up have intensified in recent months amid fears that a government less sympathetic to Washington’s strategic aims may be elected in December. Barack Obama said during the King of Spain’s visit to Washington in September that a change of government might harm bilateral relations. Kerry refused to comment on the possible outcome of the election but said that the US supports “a strong and united Spain”, a clear reference to the Catalan region’s aspiration to break away and become independent.”

So in the end the U.S. gets roughly 50,000 cubic meters of irradiated soil- how irradiated is still unclear. 50,000 meters equals roughly 80,000 tons. If the dirt is packaged first, it will take two-or-three medium-sized shiploads to get it to the U.S. and the equivalent of roughly 1,000 railroad freight cars or 2,000-3,000 forty-foot containers to move the dirt inside the U.S. My guess is railroad cars.

The present speculation says it will go to Idaho but I’m not sure. There is always the example of the USS Sturgis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which had a small reactor that suffered damage during storms in the 1960s and 1970s. The ship had not been designed so the interior of the reactor room could be cleaned by water spray. So for 40 years the ship was stored in Quantico and on the James river, too hot to dismantle and yet not really a danger.

Finally I should say I’m not clear on why the U.S. and NATO have decided to move to Rota although I’ll throw out a few possibilities. First, it may be hard to find places to train in the central Med because

But any sceptic today is immediately suspected of being on Big Oil's payroll anyway.

Not doing so would be failing to take into account the existence of all the groups funded by ExxonMobil, the Koch foundations and others: American Enterprise Institute, American Legislative Exchange Council, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Americans for Prosperity, Beacon Hill Institute, Cato Institute, DonorsTrust, Heartland Institute, Heritage Foundation, Institute for Energy Research, , National Center for Policy Analysis, and hundreds more.

The $1.5 bln would buy a lot of scientists — especially those, who already think AGW is a real concern and whose conscience would thus be a lot cheaper.

So you would have us believe that the thousands of scientists who contributed to the IPCC report are all corrupt and not one of them spilled the beans. Not only that but since the report is reviewed by the governments of over 120 countries with competing interests you would also have us believe that they are all in on the conspiracy and that none saw fit to expose it to discredit their adversaries! And all these scientists would be producing bogus results without anyone in the organizations and countries financing them noticing something fishy?

Well, as they say, extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof and all you have are unsubstantiated accusations.

I do not doubt, that you share the concerns over the fabled "Military-Industrial Complex" influencing the government towards "perpetual war" so it can forever sell the armaments.

Wow! Aren't you a bit quick putting people you disagree with into neat little boxes! What will you accuse me of next?

But any sceptic today is immediately suspected of being on Big Oil's payroll anyway.

Not doing so would be failing to take into account the existence of all the groups funded by ExxonMobil, the Koch foundations and others: American Enterprise Institute, American Legislative Exchange Council, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Americans for Prosperity, Beacon Hill Institute, Cato Institute, DonorsTrust, Heartland Institute, Heritage Foundation, Institute for Energy Research, , National Center for Policy Analysis, and hundreds more.

The $1.5 bln would buy a lot of scientists — especially those, who already think AGW is a real concern and whose conscience would thus be a lot cheaper.

So you would have us believe that the thousands of scientists who contributed to the IPCC report are all corrupt and not one of them spilled the beans. Not only that but since the report is reviewed by the governments of over 120 countries with competing interests you would also have us believe that they are all in on the conspiracy and that none saw fit to expose it to discredit their adversaries! And all these scientists would be producing bogus results without anyone in the organizations and countries financing them noticing something fishy?

Well, as they say, extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof and all you have are unsubstantiated accusations.

I do not doubt, that you share the concerns over the fabled "Military-Industrial Complex" influencing the government towards "perpetual war" so it can forever sell the armaments.

Wow! Aren't you a bit quick putting people you disagree with into neat little boxes! What will you accuse me of next?

But any sceptic today is immediately suspected of being on Big Oil's payroll anyway.

Not doing so would be failing to take into account the existence of all the groups funded by ExxonMobil, the Koch foundations and others: American Enterprise Institute, American Legislative Exchange Council, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Americans for Prosperity, Beacon Hill Institute, Cato Institute, DonorsTrust, Heartland Institute, Heritage Foundation, Institute for Energy Research, , National Center for Policy Analysis, and hundreds more.

The $1.5 bln would buy a lot of scientists — especially those, who already think AGW is a real concern and whose conscience would thus be a lot cheaper.

So you would have us believe that the thousands of scientists who contributed to the IPCC report are all corrupt and not one of them spilled the beans. Not only that but since the report is reviewed by the governments of over 120 countries with competing interests you would also have us believe that they are all in on the conspiracy and that none saw fit to expose it to discredit their adversaries! And all these scientists would be producing bogus results without anyone in the organizations and countries financing them noticing something fishy?

Well, as they say, extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof and all you have are unsubstantiated accusations.

I do not doubt, that you share the concerns over the fabled "Military-Industrial Complex" influencing the government towards "perpetual war" so it can forever sell the armaments.

Wow! Aren't you a bit quick putting people you disagree with into neat little boxes! What will you accuse me of next?

Yawn...The family monetizes its 15 minutes of fame.

Worker's Paradise!

This is for you:

http://www.theguardian.com/com...

From what I understand it's actually 1 kill in 70+ years by the whole police force, not only the special squad.

Oddly, why didn't you suggest a story on how Taxi drives are on strike right now at this very moment over Uber, which you mysteriously, inexplicably failed to mention! http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/84e1... https://www.bostonglobe.com/bu... http://algarvedailynews.com/ne... http://www.chicagobusiness.com... http://www.cbsnews.com/picture... http://www.abc.net.au/news/201... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... http://www.theguardian.com/tec... https://euobserver.com/connect... http://www.wftv.com/videos/new... http://in-cyprus.com/nicosia-t...

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/sep/05/men-victims-domestic-violence Roughly 40% of domestic violence victims are male.

Many men are taught that it's always wrong to strike a woman, even in self defense. There exist women who take advantage of that.