Sharp decline in public’s belief in climate threat, British poll reveals:
The proportion of adults who believe climate change is “definitely” a reality dropped by 30% over the last year, from 44% to 31%, in the latest survey by Ipsos Mori.
What I don’t understand is that we’ve been here so often before. Why do people listen to the propaganda of oil companies and the like over scientific evidence? How many times do you have to have the wool pulled over your eyes by propagandists denying that smoking causes cancer, denying that CFCs lead to ozone depletion, denying that certain pollutants cause acid rain or denying that climate change is manmade (or, originally, that it even existed)?
This is a great time to be born, a great time to be alive. This generation gets to completely change the world we live in. We have a chance here to reimagine every single thing we do. But, no, perhaps we’d rather go down with the ship and listen to rich old men trying to squeeze every last dollar, euro and yen from their investments in outdated industries.
The Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war is already running a propaganda campaign that it “won’t be a whitewash.”
But you only need to realise that its members were appointed by Gordon Brown — one of the perpetrators — and read the terms of reference to realise this is a whitewash before it even starts.
Bill O’Reilly being called out again out on what can only be described as his feeble fact-free attempt to paint Amersterdam as a cesspool of crime and corruption. You can watch the original Bill O’Reilly clip here, and the Roberwter’s first response here. (via Russell Brown’s Hard News)
The Guardian: ‘Memoirs to reveal Dick Cheney thought Bush had gone soft on war on terror.’ Who knows what dark place we’d all be in if this man had become U.S. President.
Then try following the debate propaganda war on health care reform in the U.S. Daring Fireball has a couple of pearlers: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, Part One You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, Part Two Update: Stephen Hawking: I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS,” he told us. “I have…
Ahh, yes, there’s nothing like a little American exceptionalism to get one going in the morning. According to Reuters, Colonel Greg Julian, a U.S. military spokesman in Kabul, has been complaining that the Taliban is violating international law by parading a captured U.S. soldier on camera. It seems Colonel Julian didn’t get the memo: the…
Afghanistan is spun as a war we should be fighting. In fact, a fact long forgotten by the Western media and others involved in the invasion of Afghanistan is that, on 14 October, 2001, the Taliban publicly offered to hand over Osama bin Laden to a third country, provided the U.S. halted the illegal bombing…
Neda Agha-Soltan is a young women from Iran who was shot dead while protesting against repression in Iran. She has a page on Wikipedia. Photos and video and of her death have been widely broadcast by the Western media, with copious amounts of faux sympathy. She deserves our sympathy because she appears to be a…
Look no further than Media Lens: How much do you know about the increased political tensions on the Korean peninsula? The answer, even for diligent readers of the mainstream press, is likely to be ‘not much’. In place of serious, penetrating analysis the public has been sold a cartoon version of events based on a…
Fascinating article on Donald Rumsfeld in GQ magazine that will make you cringe.