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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: Use RICO Laws to Prosecute Global Warming Skeptics

Posted by jceockwood 8 years, 11 months ago to News
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A better idea would be to use rico to prosecute those colluding to perpetuate this scam.

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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    the days of trusting people face-to-face are gone,
    it appears, unless you're in the black market. -- j
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  • Posted by MinorLiberator 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    IMO, as they say,"follow the money". If a study comes out of any academic institution, public or private, and the study was paid for with a government grant, immediately discount it to a value of zero, or less. In particular if it incites fear and/or justifies and expansion of government/bureaucratic powers. Then it's called "propaganda"...
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  • Posted by MinorLiberator 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ah, weren't those the days: in the 50's I rode my bike when I was 10 years old, to Smith's Drugs to pick up some cartons of cigarettes ($2/carton) and a bottle of my mother's prescribed "green medicine". No questions asked, they knew me from church.

    The other day I was out of the country and needed cash deposited to my checking account (no,not $10,000). I told my son to go with $60 cash, fill out a deposit slip with my account number, go to the counter and deposit the cash. Nope: he had to physically have my ATM card and put it in the machine, to make a cash deposit. So a few things bounced...grrrr...

    Sorry, not exactly on topic, mini-rant over...
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  • Posted by MinorLiberator 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah. Al will give back the billions he's made on crony Cap green investments the day he conveniently and truthfully returns his Oscar...which actually may have been deserved in the fantasy and/or 3D animation categories (covering 90% of the "film")...but "documentary"? Puleeeeze...
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    well, I'll just drag my knuckles over to the harley,
    get on and drive down to walgreen's for an Rx
    and some milk. . maybe someone will think of the
    50s as a result. . back when men were men and
    sheep were nervous. -- j
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  • Posted by MinorLiberator 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes: until if was discredited with both the resurgence of theoretical free-market economics in the early'70's (the Austrians, Friedman and others) combined with it's real-world collapse in the USSR and elsewhere, to be considered an "intellectual" and not a Philistine, you had to accept some form of Socialism,or be subject to thinly disguised ad-hominem attacks vs. argument.

    When the God of Socialism died, the God of Gaia or Environmentalism replaced it. If you are not with the Environmentalists, you are dismissed as a knuckle-dragging throwback. Pure bunk, but popular bunk.
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  • Posted by blackswan 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Even the EPA has found that fracking is safe. However, there is scientific evidence that GMO foods are NOT safe, based on animal studies.
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  • Posted by blackswan 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's not global warming any more. It's climate change. So, no matter what happens - warming or cooling - they've got it covered.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    that's a good point -- climate change is a cloak
    replacing socialism / communism -- and a good one
    by the way the sheeple are following ... this wizard
    of "smart" and "social conscience" ... sickening! -- j
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  • Posted by MinorLiberator 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I remember reading in depth about East Anglia (ClimateGate) at the time. It had all the ingredients to make a great investigative story: a whistle-blower who was a techie (as I am) and first saw how the data was being faked in the models, also a treasure trove of emails indicating that "the truth" would hurt the "cause" and must be kept hidden. (In this sense it went beyond the UK, as it called into question Michael Mann's (in)famous "hockey-stick graph" purporting to show a recent spike in global temperatures, and he was included in the "circling the wagons" emails.)

    Perfect for an MSM expose, possible Pulitzer prize. Did it go anywhere beyond a few initial reports (other than in those pesky, "academically" unacceptable "truth and junk science" sites?

    Of course not...without global warming to replace discredited Socialism as the reason we need "global action" and associated world expansion of power, where would we be?
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    don't we all wish that were true?! . but if google
    found it, we wouldn't be safe!! -- j
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  • Posted by strugatsky 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am not sure if the senator is stupid, but there's no doubt that he is convinced that the voters are stupid. And you know, come to think about it, he just may be right...
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  • Posted by strugatsky 8 years, 11 months ago
    In the past, I have held to the view that government should be limited to national defense and the legal system, only. I am now of the opinion that government has no legitimate business in the legal system and coming to a conclusion that it may not add much benefit to the national defense, either.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Greetings ohiocrossroads,
    Truth. “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.” ― Edmund Burke. We as a people are learning to depend upon our devices instead of education. Primary education is not what it used to be. Intentional? It is much easier for government to govern/manipulate mindless sheep.
    Respectfully,
    O.A.
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  • Posted by ProfChuck 8 years, 11 months ago
    One should always be skeptical when a scientific "finding" supports a political agenda. To the "progressive" true believer it makes no difference if AGW is real or not. It is a powerful political tool because it incites fear.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes. If they'd only go through and stay there. Then they could screw up their reverse world to their heart's content.
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  • Posted by MinorLiberator 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Can we put "them" all through the glass...then break it...? Damn, sometimes I wish whims and dreams were real... ;-)
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