- Prominent climate change-denying scientist has been outed as a fossil fuel-funded hack. Wei-Hock Soon, who has testified to Congress and state governments and been a guest on conservative news programs, has been destroyed in an article today that contains the following tidbits:
He has accepted more than $1.2 million in money from the fossil-fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers. At least 11 papers he has published since 2008 omitted such a disclosure, and in at least eight of those cases, he appears to have violated ethical guidelines of the journals that published his work…
Dr. Soon also received at least $230,000 from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation…
Though often described on conservative news programs as a “Harvard astrophysicist,” Dr. Soon is not an astrophysicist and has never been employed by Harvard.
But hey, he has a fancy title and says things certain rich people want to hear so he is believed by those that don’t realize what he says amounts to a steaming pile of horse manure. Sorta like the vast majority of conservative politicians.
- War on Terror is killing more innocents in Somalia, but with economics instead of military weapons. In an effort to make sure no money makes its way to terrorist groups, banks have closed off any way for immigrants to send money back to their families in Somalia. “Over 40 percent of Somalis rely on money sent from family living abroad to cover needs like food, housing and education, according to a report released Thursday”. This comes after the ugly reality that 260,000 Somalis died during the famine that lasted from October 2010 to April 2012, half of which were children under the age of 5. A surefire way to make even more people hate the West enough to join a terrorist group will be to cut off their lifelines and push them to the brink of starvation in the name of fighting extremists.
- More children in South Sudan have been abducted from school to be soldiers. 89 boys (possibly more) have been added to the 12,000 other children that have been used as soldiers in the country. It’s a sad irony they are taken so young from school when expanded education would likely lead to a quicker and lasting peace. It’s an awful cycle of violence that actions like this will likely help continue for a long time to come.
I see London, I see France, I see Satan in that Yoga stance!
- According to a Catholic priest, Yoga will lead you to having good posture and a healthy and loving relationship…with SATAN!!! No, that was not a line from an SNL “Church Lady” skit (although it kind of sounds like it). This was actually stated and is apparently believed by the church at the highest levels. Just when you think the church is starting to evolve a little…
- Giuliani now implying President Obama is a Communist. And he is totally correct. I mean, after six years of his heavy-handed rule, the United States is a Communist country in every way imaginable. Just look at how afraid people are to speak out against him and his policies and denounce him with outright lies in the media. He is such a vicious dictator!
