Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
I will kindly avoid the discussion of some additional concepts they use such as the "superinformation medium". Those things are bullit on steroids. Reality does in no way emerge from a "cosmic copyright law" and their mixing of buzzwords from classical and modern physics with the words from everyday life such as "kettles" and "copyright laws" and "Sherlock Holmes" or with sensationally sounding redundant new clichs such as "constructors" or "superinformation medium" or "subsidiary theories" or "output attributes of substrates" (no kidding) is beyond the pale. All these things are used by them not only to mask that they're complete morons but even to look as smart folks in the eyes of people who are even more hopeless morons than themselves. I just can't stand such games that are all about people's pretense.
Meanwhile, those Gulf refineries will still import crude oil, only from the Middle East. Surely it makes more sense for them to depend on Canada rather than oppressive and often volatile regimes halfway around the world.
Then one Christmas Eve, the farmer came with an axe instead of food.
President Obama has a new climate change message for America: Protect the children!
The game official mentioned something about their efforts to locate a usable football. Shortly after, Jackson noticed that the Patriots were using the Colts footballs late in the first half. Jackson said it was odd to him that New England couldnt find a football to use, especially in the AFC Championship Game.
Mark Christian MD is a former muslim, groomed for leadership in Egypt as the son of a Muslim Brotherhood leader, who is now a Christian. He is an eloquent voice warning of the dangers of the jihadi schemers. He understands the Islamic concepts of deceit, , taqia, dawa and kitman but most well-intentioned westerners are not aware of the viper in the sheets that is intent on destroying infidel culture for the greater glory and tyranny, the ultimate goal, the world-wide sharia caliphate.
Thanks to Steve McIntyre for suggeting I do this analysis and helping me figure this out and a special thanks to RomanM who was patient to answer my questions and thanks to Eric Steig who made this so much more entertaining than it should be.
The U.S. extends its control over the internet by agreeing to a new contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
To date, at least $390 million of the GEF's funds have been channeled to projects in which Green lobbying organizations are listed as the "executing agencies" or "collaborating organizations" (see chart). Lobbyists for environmental regulations like the World Wildlife Fund, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and even the extremist Greenpeace have been on the receiving end of this green pork.
It's part of a long line of broken promises, such as Obama's pledge to enact a "net spending cut," which he discarded by offering mind-bogglingly large budgets that will explode the national debt through $9.3 trillion in massively increased deficit spending.
An interesting drama is playing out in the Mojave Desert where major national environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, the Natural Resources Defense Council among others, are on board with a plan to effectively destroy six-square miles of public lands. The project is a national energy pet project-a solar energy production facility. According to the Los Angeles Times (Feb 5, 2012),
James L. Gattuso and Diane Katz, "Red Tape Rising: Six Years of Escalating Regulation Under Obama," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 3015, May 11, 2015, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/05/red-tape-rising-six-years-of-escalating-regulation-under-obama.
Myron Ebell, who leads the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), said the GOP's efforts could dismantle the Paris agreement.
He could then add: "You might call me what you will, and if my State Department translators are right, you have used some pretty disrespectful language, of the sort you usually reserve for leaders of countries powerless to make an effective response. I call me "relevant'. Refuse to cooperate and you will make my day and the last two years of my presidency."
Just last month, 24 state attorneys general, including one quarter of all Democratic state attorneys general, filed suit to overturn Utility MACT because of the devastating effects it will have on jobs and their states' economies; these are Democrats from Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, West Virginia, and Wyoming. In other words, it appears that Democrat AG's from several states are trying to save coal, while the Democratic Senators from these same states are carrying out President Obama's war on coal.
In a press release issued August 10 assessing the state of nuclear power worldwide, the International Atomic Energy Agency regretted the lack of progress on Kyoto.
At first the audience was puzzledafter all, both the environmentalists and the unions are "friends" of the Administration. I asked: "What have the unions done lately?" And answered: "Publically embarrassed Obama on his signature legislation." The lights came on.
Scott's brief history is only two sentences, but it contains two glaring errors. First, many people predicted that the bill's passage in the House was its high water mark. I was far from being the only observer to think that the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill faced dim odds in the upper chamber.
33 Admiral Mike Mullen, "What I Believe: Eight Tenets That Guide My Vision for the 21st Century Navy," Proceedings (January 2006); "We Can't Do It Alone," Honolulu Advertiser (October 29, 2006); "Principles for a Free and Secure Global Maritime Network," RUSI Journal (February 2006); Amy Klamper, "The 1,000 Ship Navy," Sea Power (February 17, 2007). See also Joel Sokolsky, Projecting Stability: NATO and Multilateral Naval Cooperation in the Post-Cold War Era, 1998
As one of the few long-standing democracies in Asia, India shares deep values with the United States. The 3 million-strong Indian-American diaspora has enriched American life for decades and contributed in all spheres of American politics, economy and academia. Further, over 100,000 Indian students come to study in the U.S. every year, and when most of them return to India they carry back with them American ideas and American understanding, which helps to deepen the bonds between the two countries. Rantan Tata, the head of one of India's oldest and largest companies, Tata Sons, recently announced a $50 million donation to his alma mater Harvard University.
"I don't have much patience for people who deny climate change" the American President said last Wednesday. His new Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said, "I am not interested in debating what is not debatable."
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Sir Humphrys wife, Katharine, came from nearby Howick Hall. Howick is yet another Grey property and once part of the Chillingham Estates. So they have brought Grey blood home to ChillinghamCastle once again. Sir Humphry bought the lands around the Castle but was gifted the ruined building which had never been sold in its thousand-year history.
This attack on CEI is the latest in an ever increasing trend of the government intimidation of conservatives. It follows the IRS targeting scandal and the "John Doe" investigation in to Scott Walker's allies in Wisconsin.
New data and methods paint clearer picture of emissions from tropical deforestation
Yes, and it was getting warmer when the First World War broke out. And didnt Napoleon start his campaigns in Winter a lot? And last week, during that cold snap, a fight broke out at the local pub. Maybe that was caused by climate change.
Microsoft has told us about a fresh bug in its Internet Explorer web browser which is being exploited in a zero day attack.
Roughly 5,500 farmers across the country had planted more than a quarter million acres of Roundup Ready alfalfa when, in 2007, Judge Charles Breyer revoked its approval over concerns about Roundup-resistant weeds and potential effects on organic farmers concerns that USDA scientists and regulators had already considered and rejected. Fortunately, Roundup Ready alfalfa had not yet been widely adopted, and Judge Breyer's decision permitted farmers to continue to grow and then harvest the alfalfa crop they had already planted. The court's injunction only prohibited the sale of new seed until the USDA could complete the EIS and then re-approve the variety.
In this case (in which attorneys with my Competitive Enterprise Institute served as co-counsel), the two-person Nevada accounting firm Beckstead & Watts challenged the constitutionality of the board that issues the costly accounting mandates under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. In her October 2009 brief for the Supreme Court, Kagan argued that the court should throw the case out before even considering the constitutional merits.
CFACT's team arrives in Rio June 12. Our delegation will cover the UN organizing meeting in Rio, June 13-15, send part of its delegation to the ICLEI/Agenda 21 World Congress in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, June 14-17 and regroup for the Rio+20 summit, June 20-22.
You could not ask for a more clear expression of the iron law of climate change and its implications that that which was given by President Obama today in a press conference (emphasis added):
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Organic dairy producers, who are desperately in need of reasons to get consumers to buy their more expensive products, nevertheless try to scare consumers about conventionally produced milk even though the Department of Agriculture has stated that "organic" is strictly a marketing term without any health or environmental connotations, and the FDA and state regulators specifically have warned organic dairy producers against scaring consumers about rbST.
Smith further notes that while such ideas "widely disseminated in the media and among decision-makers in sociopolitical life have created the impression that Amazonia is essentially a `clean- slate' this latest wave of clearing is taking place on landscapes that have often been through several slash-and-burn cycles in the distant past."
* New polls show that Obama is doing well in swing states. In the latest Gallup survey of key swing states, Obama has a 9-point advantage.
This is a morally and politically repugnant view. What right does the West have to dictate poverty to the rest of the world? To insist that through our hard work we can live in nice houses and drive fine cars, but they should not? Yet this is the orthodoxy embodied in the notion of sustainable development.
Restore federalism and the separation of powers for Congress and state governments, and end the deference that courts too often give to agency discretion and authority for even outrageous actions and power grabs by federal agencies.
"The biggest change is for the Flip digital video camera business which is being closed down. Cisco acquired Flip as part of its acquisition of Pure Digital Technology in March of 2009 for $590 million."
WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 1997 Competitive Enterprise Institute announced today that its president and founder, Fred L. Smith, Jr. will testify before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. The Committee is holding the hearing in order to examine global warming policies and the impact on the American Economy.
Given the vast scope of the Federal government now, any conceivable agenda from any president barely scratches the surface of the thorough unshackling of American enterprise that needs to be done.
Kerry: Tonight, were joined by Senator Penny Wong.
Context clearly narrows the meaning of ?pollutant? in the CAA regional haze and NAAQS non-attainment provisions:
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The following article is an excerpt from the original posting at Orange Punch, a blog at the Orange County Register.
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opposing some things said by people like Chris Landsea who has said all the
So what of Crimea and the explosion of the Islamic State and al Qaeda across the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia? What of the nearly half-million Syrian lives lost or that country's 4 million refugees? What of Iran's sequential violations of its missile deals with the West? Of China's growing menace in the South China Sea? What of the exploitation of the youth Obama professes to care for in Cuba and Venezuela? What of America's stand as a beacon of democratic capitalism, of humane leadership, and compassion?
Kicking sand in this administration's face is a one way bet for the Russians. The Americans will sulk and pout and make inspiring speeches about the arc of history, but the weaker they look the less anyone cares about all that. There are no consequences to embarrassing Obama, hanging Kerry out to dry, or to walking away from a deal the Americans spent months begging you to accept. Under this President, they will just come back for another round of negotiations from a weaker bargaining position.
The Act requires EPA to regulate air pollutants which in its judgment endanger public health or welfare.
17.	"Law on financial support for renewable energies " No. Policies which mimic the style of controlled economies will torpedo the Social Market Economy, the basic pillar of our prosperity.
what the absolute values of the energy imbalance were in the past, are presently and will be in the future.
In the same way that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's background as a prosecutor contributed to the law-and-order ethos of his administration, the activist cast of the de Blasio administration finds its roots in the progressive union culture of 1199. As the liberal- and labor-friendly New York Times put it: "In Bill de Blasio's City Hall, it seems more and more, there is only a left wing." What distinguishes New York's progressive establishment from those in other cities is its political successwhich would not have been possible without 1199's financial and organizational support.
TSN is much more than an attempt to make a virtue of necessity. The Thousand Ship Navy the "Great White Fleet" of the twenty-first century represents a revolution in military affairs in that the concept raises the "network-centric" paradigm established by Admiral Cebrowsky from the domain of strategy (Network-Centric Warfare) to that of security (Global Maritime Partnership). In the process, it brings back a much-needed balance between techno-centric and culture-centric skills as components of success. Just as important, the TSN concept also represents a revolution in diplomatic affairs, in that a global maritime partnership would go beyond the traditional military-to-military contacts and, as Admiral Mullen points out, would unite "maritime forces, port operators, commercial shippers, and international, governmental and nongovernmental agencies to address mutual concerns."
Also today, in a joint letter from a dozen free market and conservative groups, CEI cautions the Senate Energy Committee that a provision in Senator Chuck Hagel's S. 388, the Climate Change Technology Deployment and Infrastructure Credit Act, would give DOE the authority it lacks under current law.
Meet the skeptics at CFACT's COP16 press conference
Oil prices fluctuate over time, but the tax and regulatory burden seems headed in only one direction up. Since Washington created this burden, Washington can also reduce it. If the federal government wants to get serious about dealing with high gasoline prices, this should be the place to start.
The productive class consists of natural liberals who want a system in which people reap the rewards of their accomplishments and receive the just consequences of their misdeeds. Such people believe in liberty and are willing to accept the personal responsibility without which liberty cannot exist. The nation's aristocracy, by contrast, needs a powerful, controlling state in order to maintain their perks, privileges, and prestige based on an elaborate scheme of mannerisms and shibboleths no less rigid and arbitrary than those of the court of Louis XIV.
This description of the situation is perhaps too optimistic but we may get pretty close to it so next week, I will be watching what is actually in the report and the summary.
Conclusion #1: Congress's intent in adopting NSR in 1997 was to protect air quality by requiring major emitters of air pollutants to install state-of-the-art emission control technology when building new plants nad when making major modifications to existing facilities that would result in significantly increased emissions.
program. Well, I have run the numbers, and it is at least 83% welfare.
Moderate, regular alcohol consumption is generally associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular events but data in patients with chronic heart failure (HF) are scarce. We evaluated the relations between wine consumption, health status, circulating biomarkers and clinical outcomes in a large Italian population of patients with chronic HF enrolled in a multicenter clinical trial.
President Bill Clinton has nominated UN Ambassador Bill Richardson as Secretary of Energy, where he will oversee the federal government's alternative energy subsidy programs. Clinton said that a top Richardson priority will be global warming. "I believe that this challenge will require the greatest energy from our labs, from our scientists and technology, from an Energy Department that can work clearly with the private sector on what plainly will be one of America's most important priorities for years and years to come," Clinton said (Reuters, June 18, 1998).
The late Petr Beckmann, a Czech physicist, fled to the U.S. in 1963. He became known here for his pro-technology and anti-environmentalist writings. In 1991, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prof. Beckmann visited Leningrad and talked to a young reporter about defending science against the Luddites. They had this exchange:
Flush It will be premiered at the Battle of Ideas festival in November well worth a visit, for the film, and for the many debates relating to the subject, whatever your views.
Amy Solomon, Lisa Goddard, Arun Kumar, James Carton, Clara Deser, Ichiro Fukumori, Arthur M. Greene, Gabriele Hegerl, Ben Kirtman, Yochanan Kushnir, Matthew Newman, Doug Smith, Dan Vimont, Tom Delworth, Gerald A. Meehl, and Timothy Stockdale.
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Liberal and leftish economists in the audience, please explain the line in bold.
a) Asian women working full-time in 2014 earned more per week on average ($841) than black ($680) and Hispanic men ($616). Stated differently, Hispanic men earn only 73 cents for every $1 the average Asian woman earns, and black men earn only 81 cents for every dollar the average Asian woman earns. Do those pay disparities reflect gender discrimination against men? Or minority (Asian) privilege?
announced in your budget, for national health insurance, for a cap-and-trade
The Obama adminisitration's global warming strategy was left lying on a hotel computer where it was discovered and leaked to John Vidal of the Guardian. According to this document the American delegation intends to press ahead towards a treaty, is prepared to take unilateral action in the U.S. and plans a large-scale campaign to placate environmental NGOs, spin the media and bypass it as needed. Details at www.cfact.eu.
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You'd think by now Sen. Boxer would get it. Maybe she does. Maybe what really bugs her is that the Bush administration today narrowly avoided a public policy disaster. Just think, if EPA had rushed to set CO2 standards for new cars and trucks, the ensuing regulatory cascade could have given us the equivalent of a dozen Kyoto Protocols, yet without Sen. Boxer or any of her allies on the Hill voting for it or taking responsibility for the economic fallout. It would all have been George Bush's mess. How convenient for them!
Apple Inc rejoined the EPEAT environmental ratings system on Friday, acknowledging that its decision to stop participating in a program that rates the green credentials of electronic products was a mistake.
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Ryan Young: As predicted, he is not acknowledging that while a higher minimum wage would give raises to some workers, there is a tradeoff. Other workers will be fired, or will not be hired at all. It's perfectly fine to argue that the increase is worth that tradeoff. But one must acknowledge that the tradeoff exists. If it didn't, I'd propose a $1,000/hour minimum wage.
BP Supported Obama Stimulus Package, Global Warming Bill, and Corporate Welfare; BP Bankrolled Obama Campaign
Jimmy Carter hung a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Georgia Capitol. Bill Clinton combined Arkansas roots with East Coast education and connections.
Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) discussed the role of the U. S. Senate during the treaty process and expressed concern that the Clinton Administration is negotiating a treaty without input from the Senate.
Families will face severe sleep deprivation, greater stress and depression, and more drug and alcohol abuse, spousal and child abuse, theft and robbery. Nutrition and medical care will suffer. More people will have strokes and heart attacks. More will die prematurely or commit suicide. More elderly people will perish from hypothermia, because they cannot affordto heat their homes properly.
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The U.S. Agriculture Department last week raised its estimates of food price inflation due to soaring grain prices tied to the drought, saying prices could rise as much as 3.5 percent this year and another 3-4 percent in 2013, led by meat.
John: Sorry, should have mentioned it earlier. The Labor Party will be resigning on Monday. Well probably be the first government in history to resign in protest at their own incompetence.
some witty dialog (clever), a dangerous wagon ride (cruel), Calvin acting like a
The April issue of AEI's Political Report covers polls on the presidential contest, environmental and energy issues, and world affairs.
It is amazing to me that there can be numerous health care plans in Congress plus a jillion speeches on the topic by the President and not once does anyone mention "torts." Now, I am not one to ascribe all cost problems in the medical field to defensive medicine and tort settlements. Buthey t certainly are a factor. It is just stunning that a President can stand up and talk numerous times about "unnecessary tests and procedures" and ascribe all of these to some weird profit motive by the doctors - weird because generally, the doctor gets no extra revenue from these tests, so somehow he or she is motivated by the profits of a third party lab.
The Cooler Heads Coalition has posted a remarkable criticism by Professor Ross McKitrick on globalwarming.org .
The author of Energy Freedom, Marita Noon serves as the executive director for Energy Makes America Great Inc. and the companion educational organization, the Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE). Together they work to educate the public and influence policy makers regarding energy, its role in freedom, and the American way of life. Combining energy, news, politics, and, the environment through public events, speaking engagements, and media, the organizations' combined efforts serve as America's voice for energy.
The following discussion is Chapter 4.7 of my book Who Turned on the Heat?