Tell your ‘denier’ friends and family about these reports:
– Multiple new studies confirm that the world must cease carbon emissions altogether within a decade avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures. With ‘business as usual,’ the Earth will warm by 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100. If emissions do not drop to zero until 2300, the temperature rise at that point would be more than 15 degrees Fahrenheit…
– The British government claims that a return to coal power is needed to prevent power cuts, and will likely start building a new round of coal fired power plants…
– The European Union is planning for scarcity of energy resources, resulting in energy wars, mass migration, failed states and political radicalization. Russia and the EU both expect military conflict in the arctic for energy resources as a result of global warming…
I voted for the last category:
As presidential candidate John McCain (shown here searching GWB for WMDs) claims that the U.S. has already succeeded in Iraq, The fact that Turkey launched an invasion of Northern Iraq seems to have escaped the U.S. Media…
Turkey’s Defense minister last week resisted American pressure to withdraw and rejected the idea of timetables, declaring that the troops would not withdraw from Iraq until their mission is complete (sounds vaguely familiar…).
The international media is following the story almost as intently as if it involved a president and a blowjob. But for some reason, the American media finds that a photo of Barrack Obama in African garb is more newsworthy.
Putting Iraq back in the American consciousness would harm McCain and the GOP even further, as it would point out once again that every decision (including the surge) has been disastrous:
“How great can the situation in Iraq be when our NATO ally has invaded the country we militarily occupy in order to kill guerrillas harbored by our Iraqi Kurdish allies, who have been slipping across the border for which we are responsible in order to kill dozens of NATO troops in eastern Anatolia?”
In the words of a Middle East expert
From the New York Times:
Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, cited the Joint Economic committee’s own calculations from last fall that showed that the money spent on the war each day is enough to enroll an additional 58,000 children in Head Start for a year, or make a year of college affordable for 160,000 low-income students through Pell Grants, or pay the annual salaries of nearly 11,000 additional border patrol agents or 14,000 more police officers.
This is costing you $3,845 PER SECOND!
Hillary this week released a TV commercial using fear in the grand tradition of the republican party - check it out.
Bill Clinton on fear in 2004:
“One of Clinton’s laws of politics is this: If one candidate’s trying to scare you, and the other one’s trying to get you to think, if one candidate’s appealing to your fears and the other one’s appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person you want to think and hope.”
Obama’s response?:
“We’ve seen these ads before, trying to play on people’s fears, trying to scare up votes…But I don’t think they’ll work this time. The question is not about who will be picking up the phone. The question is what kind of judgment will you exercise when you answer the phone…”
“…She had her red-phone moment in 2002,” he said, referring to the vote to authorize the Iraq war. “And she and George Bush and John McCain made the wrong decision.”
Then he proceeded to release a video in response to Hillary’s.