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UN May Ban Blotting Out the Sun
Supervillains and Mr. Burns are among those to be most affected by the United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity decision on space sunshades. Even though organizations like NASA have been looking into them as a possible way to slow climate change, the UN is expected to limit research into the technology or ban it outright. From the article: "The Convention may consider banning or limiting research into space sunshades. Some question their wisdom. A space sunshade would have a rapid effect on global warming and provide time to develop more permanent measures, they say. The technique has already received serious attention from NASA and other organizations. But others, such as the ETC group, an environmental and social advocacy group, fear simply blocking the sun is a bandage, meant to cover up the problem, and allow humans to continue using fossils fuels. Another fear is that geo-engineering, as techniques like this are called, could have unforeseen consequences on the weather, ecosystem and agriculture."
Yes but not in as entertaining and ignorant way that Fox News does.
Two words: Glen Beck
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Of course he knows that.
That's why he gets his news from The Daily Show with occasional doses of The Colbert Report to keep things fair and balanced.
I actually had to explain to my girlfriend that Colbert is NOT a conservative, that he is a "parody" of a conservative. She didn't understand the difference. She thought that John Steward had a liberal show and Colbert had a conservative one.
I honestly have to wonder how many people also think that. When I hear about people getting their primary news from The Daily Show, I doubt they can tell the difference. There are probably loads of people who think Colbert is what conservatives are.
The really ironic thing is that lately John Stewart has been highly critical of the democrats, sounding almost like a conservative...while Colbert just acts like a cartoon character.
By "true word" you must mean "liberal slant."
Fox doesn't make everything up. You just haven't heard the stuff in question on any other stations because they avoid reporting on a lot of topics that hurt their respective causes.
Yes, it is extreme sometimes, and even often, but the Fox News hate has more to do with politics than a lack of truth.
CNN is just as bad.
You are telling me that no other channel has "shock jock" opinion shows? What the hell have I been watching on the other channels all this time then? When a segment is labeled "news" I will assume it has a some random facts sprinkled with opinion. When a segment is labeled opinion, I assume it is an entertainment section utilizing facts. The two are very different and do no automatically void any channel they maybe on. Last time I checked, Fox was dominating all other stations because of their opinion shows, and MSNBC was dominating CNN for the same reason. People want to be entertained.... staying current on the petty happenings of the world are just a side effect. The real issue has nothing to do with the shows as much as it is becoming personal to people that disagree with the politics. If you are explicitly Democrat or Republican, you are already too bias to have a valid opinion on entertainment like this.
This is exactly what Rachel Maddow and John Stewart have accomplished. The only argument you have against Fox News is: "if you don't think they are the worst news organization ever, you are an idiot." What a great argument. Do you get most of your news from the Daily Show?
Yeah... As someone that does tend to lean towards the right on more topics than I lean left (I'm an equal opportunity asshole), even I think Glenn Beck is freak show. He's nothing but a FUD-monger with his head up his own ass.
I love how people compare Fox News and the Daily Show... They're both entertainment shows based on the news.
I've been reading lots of stupefyingly idiotic stories recently, including this one (mountains will collapse and cities will be destroyed due to Global Warming).
It is now my firm opinion that the whole world has gone stark raving mad, and that the Scientific establishment has been so hopelessly corrupted by special interests, Government institutional and research funding and the new philosophy of post-normality, that it has regressed to a kind-of pre-enlightenment age.
It is my firm belief that the UN, a body that has a Human right commission chaired by Libya, should not be given any power over anything whatsoever.