Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
It is time for the Transatlantic chattering class to realize that there is a time for problematizing, and a time for strategizing and that its first order of business should be to stop mistaking a simple transatlantic time lag for a metaphysical problem. In the wake of 9/11, there was an extreme disconnect between an America that had just experienced its first continental aggression since the "second war of independence" (the war of 1812) and a Europe convinced that the then-imminent opening of the Brussels constitutional convention was, if not the beginning of universal peace, at least the world's most important event since the Philadelphia Convention of 1787.
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The real problem, Solomon found out, is that Kim Dabelstein is protected by a Wikipedia administrator named William Connolley.
The potential for collaboration between the U.S. and India has grown exponentially in various fields of research and development. With the removal of Indian defense and space organizations from the "entity list," partnerships can be forged between the companies of both countries. Joint research in the field of green energy is another arena, as is American assistance in the fields of agricultural productivity, weather and crop forecasting and water harvesting.
National Wildlife Federation, "Educator Guide," Produced by NWF for National Wildlife Week, 1993.
These developments are far too typical. Left-Liberal thought police refuse to debate their failed ideas and policies, because they have no answers to inconvenient questions and cannot stomach dissenting views.
By the way, do not wait until the last minute to pursue your workers comp policy or renewal - expect at least 2 weeks for a decision, and even then the decision could be "no, we won't cover you" and you will have to start from square one. (Update: I have been told that in CA, if you go directly to the state fund, it can take 4-6 weeks to get a decision, but a private broker can get you into a State Fund policy in days. I never tried to go direct, but I have a State Fund policy via a private broker and can attest it was pretty quick that way. As you should with any other aspect of California business, assume that CA workers comp. is more expensive, more difficult, with more litigation land mines and more anti-business traps than most any other state you deal with).
The severe conditions in climate brought about crop failure, starvation, disease, death and social unrest.
When my kids were about 2, we had trouble with them getting out of bed and coming into our room. Increasing the likelihood of STD's in order to discourage sex strikes me as similar to if I had spread tacks on the ground around my kids bed to keep them from wandering around at night. When we come up with an HIV vaccine, are these groups going to oppose that as well?
Today, they say, Republicans stand where Democrats did in 1989. They need to be more moderate.
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
In some cases, the WTO-UNEP discussion reads like "on the one hand, and on the other." The report is bound to provide environmental groups with ammunition to argue that CO2 border taxes are WTO-compliant. However, the issues and their legal precedents are not that clear-cut. What's more likely is that the introduction of border taxes or similar measures will open up a flood of retaliatory actions and disputes.
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The Warden of the Cattle, Richard Marsh, accompanied us and answered all of our questions. I noted that unlike domestic cattle, they are stronger in the forequarters and lacking the large rear ends, so I asked him about their unusual build. He said that they are all like that, built for speed and for fighting rather than for meat. Overall they are an amazing herd, about a hundred bulls, cows, and calves, and the warden was obviously proud to be their champion.
According to the book, "Eco-Sanity," "If deforestation in Brazil accounted for half of all rainforest deforestation in the world, as is generally assumed, then the new estimate means the global rate of rainforest deforestation was just 3 million hectares per year (app. 7.5 million acres) during much of the 1980's. As a percentage of existing rainforests, the annual loss was less than a tenth of one percent."(Eco-Sanity, p.84)
14 Philippe Saunders and Charles Lutes, "China's ASAT Test: Motivations and Implications," INSS-NDU (June 2007); Bernard Cole, The Great Wall at Sea: China's Navy Enters the Twenty-First Century, 2002; James R. Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara, Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century: The Turn to Mahan, 2007; Joshua Kurlantzick, Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World, 2007.
military nuclear program, it tests the other side's sincerity to see if there is a solid basis for negotiations. Yet there is
Always the optimist, I opened with: "This is an exciting time to be alive!" and addressed the fact that we were on the cusp of achieving the holy grail of energy security that had eluded decades of American presidents. I pointed out how the Keystone pipeline was an important part of that goal. I talked about my visit to the Canadian oil sands and Mexico's new energy reforms. I bragged about New Mexico's energy riches.
I've written extensively on Abengoa, as a part of my "Obama's green-energy, crony-corruption" series, and done a detailed report published by The Daily Caller. I've interviewed many former employees and followed its shenanigans. Therefore, I wasn't surprised when, on August 3the same day Obama's Clean Power Plan was toutedheadlines announced, once again, that Abengoa shares "plunged."
The man serving as the national chief of police in the West Bank is Hazem Atallah, a remarkably fit fifty-six-year-old Jordanian-trained former paratrooper who coordinates closely with Israel's military and clandestine services and calls Israelis "cousins" because, as he puts it, "We are all sons of Abraham." In our talk he admitted that "there is coordination with Israelis," adding, "We are not ashamed. We try to show people, do it in the sunlight because we believe it's good for our people."
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Aug 9, 2015
A little-noticed global chasm is occurring today in terms of geopolitics: As the center of gravity of world history is shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Western mind, traditionally maritime, is rapidly closing itself to anything other than continental matters, while the Asian mind, traditionally continental, is becoming increasingly maritime in outlook.
This, naturally, was music to the ears of the Socialist International (SI), the worldwide organization of socialist and communist parties, which plays an important role at all UN conferences. The Socialist International ? which counted Obama?s ?Climate Czar? Carol Browner among its leaders until she left SI to join the new U.S. administration ? joined the call for committing at least $100 billion per year into a United Nations ?Green Fund,? ostensibly to save the poor.
High Noon sponsored a conference in New Delhi, India on May 13 and 14, 2009 (see here ).
Jennifer Granholm explained that she was chosen to moderate Tuesday
It has always been a problem for me to respect superiors who are incompetent, uneducated, inconsistent in their opinions, or incapable, if I had to use one word. On the contrary, I greatly respect the "bosses and commanders" who are the "right men on their places". For the latter men, I would be able to work for them until the amortization, as Czechs figuratively say...
However, given the importance of the issues and the strength of the two dissenting opinions, the case may go to the Supreme Court. Last week, I reviewed Judge Janice Rogers Brown?s dissenting opinion. Today, I review Judge Brett Kavanaugh?s dissent.
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This has rightly caused many to point out that it is the oppositions job to hold the government to account, but Miliband had not done so. And moreover, Miliband had given his support to the interventions in question, including the plan he now claims was absent, in 2011:
Figure 1 includes the weekly sea surface temperature anomalies of the 4 most-often-used NINO regions of the equatorial Pacific . From west to east they include:
Life has a way of sending you down unexpected back alleys. One minute, you are firing along on the main street, 4 lanes each way, the whole world makes sense. Traffic cops are just traffic copes and the people on the sidewalk are just shopping. Those 3 gray cars behind you just an accident of lots of folks liking gray and the light being dim enough you cant tell that one of them is really seafoam and not gray
Their object: to persuade America and other industrialized countries to sign up for another round of greenhouse gas reductions, and to set up a $100 billion fund to help developing countries reduce their emissions. Early indications are that the meeting will achieve little.
The smart money is on Peterson, who now has all the leverage. That could be bad news because environmentalists will do anything to get a climate law, even if it means they have to embrace ethanol.
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But for most environmentalists currently writing on the subject, the story of man's impact on the rainforest is nothing but one of exploitation. Tucker tells of how in SE Asia, the extraction of spices, woods and other products were done for 300 years without hurting the forest ecosystem. And in Africa, only small amounts of hardwood and oil palm nuts were harvested. But in the America's there was a different fate. "Some New World forests were entirely eliminated by plantation agriculture before the French Revolution transformed Europe's colonial regimes. The agent was sugar, the first widespread tropical monocrop .The Portuguese, taking control of coastal Brazil after 1530, leveled a long forest belt, replacing it with sugar plantations." These sugar plantations were later moved to Caribbean islands. And besides sugar, hardwood timber was the other early-modern rainforest export.
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Environmentalists are correct in calling President Obama's decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline a "symbolic" victory, but that description is too generous. For them, it's a Pyrrhic victory of the first order because the main factor behind Obama's decision is something environmentalists hate even more than Keystone: hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Prior to his trip to the region, these allies and partners were crying out for President Obama to offer credible and convincing statements about America's staying power in Asia, and how Washington intends to create economic opportunities and enhance stability in the region.
My column in The Times is on the undeniable truth that western countries are preventing Africans getting access to the cheapest power, which is fossil-fuelled.
Mandatory GMO Food Labeling Implies Risks Where There Are None
But in the latest issue of Issues in Science & Technology, Dan Sarewitz shows that, on the evidence of Obamas presidency so far, science-led policy-making is easier said than done. Take Obamas moves to change US stem-cell policy. Bush infamously restricted the use of federal funds for embryonic stem-cell research, limiting research to existing stem-cell lines. Writes Sarewitz:
And the establishment itself, divided over its level of support for Trump, battered by a horrible political year, targeted both by the purists and the populists, will have little traction to craft the kinds of policies that both fit its broader philosophy and can achieve meaningful compromises with Democrats.
But Smith agrees that it is a travesty not to admit STEM graduates educated at American universities who want to apply their talents in this country.
And "some" media outlets, who don't understand or don't care that Gore is spinning them, allowed him to peddle the biggest set of urban myths to appear on the Internet since Gore "took the initiative in creating" it.
Eisenhower's Farewell Address reminds us that the risks to our future stem from the fatal conceit to which too many intellectuals are prone. Ike may not have been an intellectual, but he had seen firsthand the destruction that efforts to make the world anew could engender. He recognized the risks of seeking to do too much. Considering all this, like Mitch, I reach a similar conclusion: "I too, like Ike!"
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Some of these organizations, the Sierra Club in particular, have squelched local chapters interested in challenging the project. Again according to the Los Angeles Times:
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This division of labor creates an inescapable network of human interdependency in which each person specializes in producing one or a small handful of goods, and uses it as his means of payment to purchase from others in society all the other things that he wants, but which they are better at supplying than himself.
S was someone lacking the flesh on the festival, there was few klagoml? Ola Broquist, a founder of Way out West meant the radio program P4 Extra that it was only an occasional karlslok who lacked his sausage
Whatever happens in November, the fractured Republican Party will struggle for a long, long time to find an identity and a center of gravity. Almost certainly, given the retirements from Congress and the vulnerable incumbents, the relative influence of the Freedom Caucus radical lawmakers who want no compromises will be significantly greater.
Ive been working on adaptation for the last 10 years in the Least Developed Countries of Africa and Asia, and Bangladesh is several steps ahead of anybody else.
It is also currently being staudio or being built several power in the USA, Spain, Israel, Mexico, India, Morocco.
Boxer's Own Experts Contradict Obama on Climate Change
Anderson recalls that most of the Patriots footballs measured 12.5 psi, though there may have been one or two that measured 12.6 psi. No air was added to or released from these balls because they were within the permissible range. According to Anderson, two of the game balls provided by the Patriots measured below the 12.5 psi threshold. Yette used the air pump provided by the Patriots to inflate those footballs, explaining that he purposefully overshot the range (because it is hard to be precise when adding air), and then gave the footballs back to Anderson, who used the air release valve on his gauge to reduce the pressure down to 12.5 psi.
Some light refreezing may take place before the end of September, which could minimize the ability of wind to sharply change extent like we saw recently.
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Alison Farmer explained that we had made no interview because I apparently asked some completely crazy questions about the quark gluon plasma while her research is mostly about Saturn's rings (I really had to confuse her with someone else during my internet search) while Franziska Michor is in Japan and did not attend.
However, Lomborg directly addressed his alleged switch in a Guardian article cited indirectly:
Where the foxes caper ... Tally ho! The recently elected mayor of Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, has infuriated Britain's politically powerful homosexualist lobby by attempting to withhold local funding for this year's Gay Pride celebrations. The funding for this year's event in June went through, but Mayor Peter Davies, a member of the English Democrat party and the father of Tory MP Philip Davies, has scrapped all future funding for the annual Gay Pride event. "I'm not a homophobe," he said, "but I don't see why council taxpayers should pay to celebrate anyone's sexuality." Davies is only the second mayor of Doncaster to have been elected directly by a popular vote rather than by council members. He campaigned on a popular platform, that has reportedly alarmed the political classes on both the Labour and Tory sides of the House, in which he pledged to "stamp out political correctness" in every area of Doncaster's local government. To accomplish this, Davies has recruited the group Campaign Against Political Correctness (CAPC) to consult on his planned reforms. A spokesman for the CAPC, John Midgley, said that "people are crying out" for an end to the wave of politically correct policies in Britain. "We commissioned a survey by ICM," Midgley said, "that said 80 per cent of people are fed up to the back teeth with it." Davies promised to end council funding for "politically correct initiatives" and to "scrap politically correct non-jobs" such as "community cohesion officers" and "encourage the former employees to seek meaningful employment." In his first week in office, Davies fulfilled his promises by cutting his own salary from 73,000 to 30,000; reducing the number of councillors from 63 to 21, saving the town 800,000 a year. He immediately announced plans to reduce council tax by 3 per cent and got rid of the mayoral limousine. He ended a "twinning" arrangement with five towns around the world, which he described as "just for people to fly off and have a binge at the council's expense." More at the Daily Mail and Telegraph . (link fixed) Read 'em both. h/t Edward Michael George
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These jackasses deserve to live in a world without food, then they will saywell gee, producing food is good, and sometimes it produces things like dust.
It will be interesting to see how they defend their profligate and environmentally harmful ways.
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These differences follow through to the social issues. Senator Paul is pro-life. He favors giving states the authority to define marriage as they want, but he does not favor same-sex marriage. He is opposed to gun control. And his views on immigration are far from those held by Post-Moderns. In short, on a range of issues, Senator Paul himself is not the sort of person that Post-Moderns will flock to.
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With the election of FDR, the pilgrims had their chance. Those conservatives who lately have inclined to some sentimental affection for FDR (this includes Conrad Black and, occasionally, this writer) will be roundly disabused by the damning portrait Shlaes offers. "Roosevelt was not an ideologue or a radical," she judges, but his affinity for experimentation and improvisation yielded inconsistent and destabilizing economic policy at a time when certainty was the most needful thing. FDR's intellectual instability was terrifying in its fullness; fortunately, it was tempered by the rivalries and disagreements within his menagerie of New Dealers, and by the countervailing power of American political institutions (which prevented him from, e.g., packing the Supreme Court).
LIKE VIRTUALLY ALL modern revolutions, the latest Russian one was started by a hesitant liberalization "from above" and its rationale extended well beyond the necessity to correct the economy or make the international environment more benign. The core of Gorbachev's enterprise was undeniably idealistic: He wanted to build a more moral Soviet Union.
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"Abraham went on to assemble a list of things Christopher Monckton begin of the skype highlighting end of the skype highlighting didn't say, complained about things he didn't cite (even if he did and it's printed on his slides), pretended he couldn't find sources (but didn't take ten minutes to ask), and created a litany of communication pollution in an effort to denigrate Monckton's character."
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Such developments would be beneficial to New York, and especially to New York City, where 1199 now seems like an irresistible force for the progressive Left. But progressivism won't always be ascendant. New York will never be a conservative city, but it has traditionally thrived when some right-leaning force has imbued its inherent liberalism with sanity. "Sanity" is about the last thing New York gets from 1199's dominance.
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In the 2007 case Massachusetts v. EPA, the Supreme Court decided to re-prove this old maxim. Overwhelmed by the assumed righteousness of various states and environmental groups that were appealing the decision of the Bush administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reject their demand that regulatory controls be imposed on carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act, the Court ordered the agency to do so, in a decision of surpassing silliness and great potential damage.
11 H. H. Lamb, Climate, History and the Modern World (London and New York: Methuen, 1985), 387 pp.
balance sheets of the banks and other financial institutions because of carbon
These differences did not arise with Bill Clinton, though. The seeds for this Democratic division extend much further back in our political history, to the start of the current political era in the 1960s. Each side in this progressive civil war draws different lessons from what happened in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, lessons that carried through into their different paths in the 1990s and remain to the present day.
Moreover, as its name indicates, the Prevention of Significant Deterioration statute is designed primarily to prevent ?deterioration? of an attainment area?s air quality. The relevant air quality standards that define whether an area is in attainment are the NAAQS. In a statute expressly linked to the NAAQS and designed to ensure that air quality does not ?deteriorate? with respect to the NAAQS, it is somewhat illogical to read the statute as requiring pre-construction permits simply because a facility may emit substances that will not affect attainment of the NAAQS. Under EPA?s approach, a facility could be covered by the permitting requirement even if it emits no NAAQS air pollutants at all. That, too, makes little sense and suggests that EPA has misread the statute.
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But he is taking too narrow a view of his relevance. It is important to the nation that he establish that relevance not only here but to an increasingly belligerent China, which is mocking America by shoring up Putin with pre-payments for natural gas and oil, challenging our allies' territorial claims, refusing to rein in North Korea's expanding nuclear arsenal, and otherwise treating our president as if he is, well, irrelevant, a man with a pivot about as threatening as that of a ballerina.
Two other factors affecting deforestation are also worth noting. First, is that not all deforestation is the same, or has the same characteristics. For example, while much attention is paid to so-called "rainforest" destruction in the Amazon, according to wildlife ecologist Thomas Lacher of Texas A&M;, fires reported for Legal Amazonia are very often in the savannah areas where ranching and other activities are being conducted, but it is made to sound like it is in the middle of lush, green jungle.