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tea Party.....radical, truth denying...weirdos.



http://mpegmedia.abc...041_9995335.m4v

The Climate Commission has released a report predicting record heatwaves, bushfires and rising sea levels in New South Wales because of climate change.

The report says the temperature in Sydney tops 35 degrees on just three days a year, but based on climate modelling, it will be 14 days per year by the end of the century.

Federal Climate Commissioner Professor Lesley Hughes says western Sydney is getting disproportionally hotter and drier than the rest of Sydney.

"If we compare western Sydney with the rest of Sydney, the number of hot days in western Sydney used to be three times as many as eastern Sydney, and now it's four times," she said.

"So what we are seeing is not only rising temperatures but some parts of the country are getting disproportionally hotter."


http://www.abc.net.a...mer-nsw/4009006


Critics Say, "what would he know!". Good Question!

Tim Flannery (1990 – revised 1995), Mammals of New Guinea, ISBN 0-7301-0411-7
Tim Flannery (1994), The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People, ISBN 0-8021-3943-4 ISBN 0-7301-0422-2
Tim Flannery (1995), Mammals of the South-West Pacific & Moluccan Islands, ISBN 0-7301-0417-6
Tim Flannery, Roger Martin and Alexandra Szalay. (1996) Tree Kangaroos: a Curious Natural History
Tim Flannery (1998), Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure, ISBN 1-876485-19-1
Tim Flannery (2001), The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and its Peoples, ISBN 0-8021-3888-8
Tim Flannery & Peter Schouten (2001), A Gap in Nature, ISBN 1-876485-77-9
Tim Flannery & Peter Schouten (2004), Astonishing Animals, ISBN 1-920885-21-8
Tim Flannery (2005), Country: a continent, a scientist & a kangaroo, ISBN 1-920885-76-5
Tim Flannery (2005), The Weather Makers: The History & Future Impact of Climate Change, ISBN 1-920885-84-6
Tim Flannery (2007), Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Creature, ISBN 978-0-8021-1852-3
Tim Flannery (2008), Quarterly Essay, Now or Never: A sustainable future for Australia?. ISBN 978-1-86395-271-2
Tim Flannery (2009), Now or Never: A sustainable future for Australia?. Melbourne: Black Inc. Books. ISBN 978-1-86395-429-7
Tim Flannery (2009), Now or Never: Why we need to act now for a sustainable future, ISBN 978-1-55468-604-9
Tim Flannery (2010), Here on Earth, ISBN 978-1-921656-66-8

Now stop laughing for a moment if you can!

There’s something about that phrase that just doesn’t sit right with us. We’re not only unaccustomed to thinking about ourselves that way, but for many it’s a concept that is one part distasteful to three parts utterly ridiculous – try mentioning it in polite company sometime. Bring a helmet.

We’ll often laugh at the cognitive dissonance displayed by our American cousins when they start banging on about American Exceptionalism – waxing lyrical about  the assumed ascendancy of their national exploits while they’re forced to take out a second mortgage to pay for a run of the mill medical procedure. That talk of exceptionalism has become little more than an exceptional disregard for the truth of their own comparative circumstances.

But in truth, we both share that common ignorance  – we share a common state of denial about the hard realities of our own accomplishments compared to those of the rest of the world. While the Americans so often manifest it as a belief that they and they alone are the global benchmark for all human achievement,  we simply refuse to acknowledge our own affluence and privilege – denialists of own hard won triumphs, often hysterically so.

Never before has there been a nation so completely oblivious to not just their own successes, but the sheer enormity of them, than Australia today.

In some respects, we have a long standing cultural disposition towards playing down any national accomplishment not achieved on a sporting field – one of the more bizarre national psychopathologies in the global pantheon of odd cultural behaviours – but to such an extreme have we taken this, we are no longer capable of seeing an honest reflection of ourselves in the mirror.

We see instead a distorted, self absorbed cliché of ourselves bordering on parody – struggling victims of tough social and economic circumstances that are not just entirely fictional, but comically separated from the reality of the world around us.

So preoccupied have we become with our own imagined hardships, so oblivious are we to the reality of our privileged circumstances, that when households earning  over $150,000 a year complain about having government welfare payments scaled back, many of us treat it as a legitimate grievance.

Somewhere along the highway to prosperity – and an eight lane highway it has been – far too many of us somehow managed to confuse Cost Of Lifestyle with Cost Of Living. We managed to confuse government assistance as a means to enable the less well off to achieve a better standard of living and greater opportunity, with government assistance being a god given right to fund the self indulgences of an aspirational lifestyle choice beyond our income means. Too many of us have demanded our dreams be handed to us on a plate, and if our income couldn’t provide for them, we demanded that government should give us handouts to make up the difference.





http://blogs.crikey....exceptionalism/

A secretive right-wing group, Veterans For A Strong America, is attempting to do to President Obama what the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth did to Sen. John Kerry in 2004. And they aren’t shy about it. The group’s leader and sole employee, Joel Arends, told Mother Jones, “Yes, it’s the swift boating of the president.”


Arends said his goal is to take “what’s perceived to be [Obama's] greatest strength” — the successful raid on Osama Bin Laden’s Pakistani compound — and make it “his greatest weakness.” The effort started this week with a web video attacking Obama for taking too much credit.

In an interview with ThinkProgress, Arends refused to discuss any information regarding how the group was financed or its leadership. Arends also declined to provide legal forms he claims to have filed with the IRS. A representative from the IRS told ThinkProgress that the agency does not have any forms from Arends’ group on file.

Here’s what we do know about Arends and Veterans For A Strong America:

1. In four days, the first ad by Veterans For A Strong America garnered almost 1 million views on Youtube. It has also been played frequently on TV news shows. [YouTube, 5/1/12]

2. Veterans For A Strong America is seeking to recruit Navy SEALS to attack Obama. “In the wake of a warm conservative reception for a web video trashing the president for ‘spiking the football’ on the anniversary of Osama Bin Laden’s death, the conservative group Veterans for a Strong America plans to gather Navy SEALs and Special Forces operators to criticize the White House during the 2012 campaign.” [BuzzFeed, 5/3/12]

http://thinkprogress...rica/?mobile=nc


WtF.. who can fathom this! The tweets were creepy!

Otto Rock ‏ @incakolanews

There are two ways of ending a war: 1) enemy all dead 2) back the FUCK down, either one side or both sides.
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2 May
Otto Rock ‏ @incakolanews

Somebody buy this dumbass The Big Book of 20th Century Phrases and go the page marked "sue for peace", please?
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2 May
Otto Rock ‏ @incakolanews

Dumbass murderer/Peaceprizer Obama got to me with "end a war responsibly" crap. It's asinine, shows ZERO understanding of war or history
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2 May
Otto Rock ‏ @incakolanews

srs, WTF does "end a war responsibly" mean? You kill enemy in a painless manner?
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2 May
Otto Rock ‏ @incakolanews

"end war responsibly" #obama goes well with other 21C bullshit phrases "drink responsibly", "drive responsibly"
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