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Fox

Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| Rusty Shackleford wrote: |
| Don't you think the cost, and more importantly the net benefit (or loss), should be a prerequisite piece of knowledge that should be obtained before you commit to a course of action? |
I agree, but continuing on as we currently are as just as much committing to a course of action as changing to a less carbon-intensive system would be. Before choosing either it would of course be wise to have full information on the costs involved, both economic and environmental.
My primary point was that the changes that global climate change might neccesitate for the most part have reasons to be implemented entirely independent of climate change itself, which means the idea that climate change might not be happening is insufficient to argue against these changes occuring.
Again, if you have some information about those costs, feel free to mention it. Otherwise, you're adding nothing to the discussion.
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:01 am Post subject: |
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Mass Psychosis. A large group, perhaps a majority, of the US suffers from a kind of mass mental illness which causes them to careen in hysteria from one crisis to the next. Ultimately this is a failing of democracy and is why we must support Liberty as an alternative to Democracy. These two concepts are not only not the same, they are inevitably mutually exclusive.
The hot crises: global warming, the war on drugs, the war on terror, the financial crisis, national health care ... are all spun out of control by mass hysteria, a national mass psychosis, which is fostered by the machinations of a few in the fascist-socialist political and media elite, parroted by the ignorant, deluded and fellow psychotics who make up the bulk of the media and political class, and force fed in a daily media barrage of disinformation to the ignorant, deluded, uneducated, psychotic mass public that supports the political class in a mass rush into self destruction.
America has become a land where a fascist-socialist elite class is leading the psychotic masses of talking lemmings in a final march of democracy into the sea.
After they all drown, perhaps we can get back to Liberty. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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Mass hysteria in the war on terror leads to these kinds of intolerable fascist attacks:
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Bollywood star held in U.S. airport, fans outraged
MUMBAI (Reuters) � Indian Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan said he felt angry and humiliated after he was detained and questioned at a U.S. airport, sparking an uproar in India among his fans.
Khan, 43, one of India's best known actors, was enroute to Chicago for a parade to mark the Indian independence day on Saturday when he was pulled aside at Newark airport Friday, he said.
"I was really hassled perhaps because of my name being Khan. These guys just wouldn't let me through," he said in a text message to reporters in India.
After a couple of hours' interrogation, he was allowed to make a call, he said, and he got in touch with the Indian consulate who vouched for him and secured his release.
"Absolutely uncalled for, I think. I felt angry and humiliated," said Khan, who had just finished a month-long shoot in the United States for his upcoming film "My Name is Khan," which is about a Muslim man's experience with racial profiling.
A U.S. consul official in India told a television channel they were inquiring into the matter.
As news of Khan's detention broke on Indian television channels, which have played up attacks in Australia on Indian students, fans and actors began posting angry comments on the Internet.
"Shocking, disturbing n downright disgraceful. It's such behavior that fuels hatred and racism. SRK's a world figure for God's sake. Get real!!," tweeted actor Priyanka Chopra.
Indian Information Minister Ambika Soni told a television station that while she could not say if Khan had been detained "on religious grounds, there have been too many instances like these in the U.S. concerning Indians."
Last month U.S-based carrier Continental Airlines apologized to former Indian president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam for frisking him at New Delhi airport. |
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Julius

Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:17 am Post subject: |
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| No_hite_pls wrote: |
I have never understood the reasoning behind making up global warming.
Because their comies right that want to take over the world with their global warming propagada.
I certainly understand a reason to deny it. Money! |
I always noticed that the deniers appeared to view the world in entirely political terms and demonstrated little or no understanding of the environment or natural world.
Thankfully they are finally in decline and environmental awareness is increasing worldwide- albeit slowly. |
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visitorq
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 3:55 am Post subject: |
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| Julius wrote: |
| No_hite_pls wrote: |
I have never understood the reasoning behind making up global warming.
Because their comies right that want to take over the world with their global warming propagada.
I certainly understand a reason to deny it. Money! |
I always noticed that the deniers appeared to view the world in entirely political terms and demonstrated little or no understanding of the environment or natural world.
Thankfully they are finally in decline and environmental awareness is increasing worldwide- albeit slowly. |
Oh, and you do understand about the environment? Better than the rest of us? Funny how you've yet to demonstrate any of your superior 'knowledge' on this forum. What laughable arrogance. |
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Fallacy
Joined: 29 Jun 2015 Location: ex-ROK
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2015 10:03 pm Post subject: RE: Global Warming as Mass Neurosis |
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| Threadsurection. Global Warming as Mass Distraction. |
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chellovek

Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 9:43 am Post subject: |
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| Mises, vistorq, ontheway, and the rest of the libertarian clown car as mass lol. |
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Fallacy
Joined: 29 Jun 2015 Location: ex-ROK
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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 4:53 pm Post subject: RE: Global Warming as Mass Neurosis |
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| chellovek wrote: |
| Mises, vistorq, ontheway, and the rest of the libertarian clown car as mass lol. |
I know. Good times, right? Read them while you can. Dave's will not last forever. |
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