Real news, MSM news, and faux news
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UPDATED: Sunday, April 19, 2026 14:49
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Forest fire prevention and biochar. OUr old forests used to be about 60-100 trees per acre: pretty light on fuel. Fire would race through, but stay mostly on the ground and do little damage because the understory was usually pretty light- a few shrubs and some grasses, it would flare up but burn out quickly.
Our new forests (since the advent of effective fire prevention= suppression circa 1940) are chock-o-block full of small trees, at about 600 per acre. That's a lot of fuel! Unfortunately, by the time forest scientists realized that stopping EVERY forest fire was a problem too, and changed policy course to "let it burn" in the 1970s, the forests has already built up so much fuel that the resulting fires were catastrophic. They turned into "crown fires", and burned so hot and so long that the soil was sterilised. Everything was killed: Trees, shrubs, root crowns from which some plants resprout, seeds, animal- even soil fungi, which are a hugely important part of tree and shrub health. The Yellowstone fire of 1988 was a huge fire which shed light (so to speak) on the consequences of "let it burn".
Heavens to Betsy!! something we agree on. I've noted in other places that the Forest Service mantra of "Stop every fire" was misguided and that regular small fires were natural and overall good for forests.
Hope that me agreeing that overmanaging fires is a good thing doesn't turn you against it, since, in your mind, I'm a lackey for the Capitalist running dogs and all.
"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."
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I'm pretty hyped on these ideas, too.
Count me in there!
I like the idea of combining environment-saving with job creation, too. Plus, with the saving lots of money on non-destroyed homes and less firefighters dying. Win-win-win.
Thanks for sharing!
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Sorry about this.
This could explain all those strange happenings in Alaska’s waters
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-could-explain-all-those-strange-
happenings-in-alaska%E2%80%99s-waters/ar-BBpA0Cf?li=BBnb4R7
"New research is shedding light on how far toxic algae blooms
have spread in Alaska, and surprised scientists are saying
this is just the beginning. ..."
... oooOO}{OOooo ...
I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.
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Can I have a cookie too??
Since we've caused almost all of our problems ... really, we haven't had a big meteorite strike to explain how fucked-up the earth is .... we CAN solve them. We CAN!
But, we won't.
For all kinds of reasons that make no sense whatsoever, except that we're a very clever but very irrational species. A failed experiment.
Damn. Now I want TWO cookies!
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Item: HBO Documentary Special on Monsanto's global raping of giant fields
and replacing organic agriculture with synthetic hybrids. I watched as
scientists collected tons of naturally growing foods and grains and placed
them into a vault hundreds of feet below the earth's surface.
Item: 60 Minutes reported on scientists measuring the receding glacial shelf
on Greenland. They measured the frequency and time table for a catastrophic event.
Item: The California wildfires and the drought. All the mainstream media outlets. Granted, these were news items and less documentaries of how,
why, when and who; but it was covered.
Item: The Revenant had to be filmed in South America because of the lack of snow here in the U.S. Read that in a Hollywood internet site.
Yet we have grown men claiming that climate change is not man-made. I
suppose they mean that only God can change the weather and climate in
this world. I have heard, over the last 30 years, that the Ozone layer is being affected by aerosol cans. That it can be measured by NASA scientists.
It didn't take much for me to read about it, or to see it on TV.
SGG
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There is real news and then there is the rest. Unfortunately, real news- which is about events that are life-altering for the vast majority of the population- aren't topical, funny, or horrific. It doesn't bring in the advert dollars. If I may use a RW comparison, it's like the overall debt versus the IRS "scandal": one is more important but has all the interest (heh, get it?) of a clock ticking, the other one has the attraction of a dogfight. And who doesn't like a good dogfight, right?
So, in the real news today:
The earth is still warming. Alaska is sweltering in an unprecedented heat wave, Calgary is unprecently flooded. Last year, the Danube was so low that boats lay in the riverbed, this year, there was historic flooding in Bavaria and part of Eastern Europe. The Sierra snowpack reached an unprecedented low. This is what climatologists have been predicting for a long time: Less snowpack, more droughts AND more floods. That's exactly what's happening.
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Demonstrations in Egypt, Brazil, Argentina etc. You don't hear much about Greece anymore, but Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and most of Eastern Europe are suffering from youth unemployed of 25%+. This does not bode well for places like Pakistan, which has a very large, angry, young population. It doesn't seem to matter whether the system is democratic, semi-democratic, or authoritarian, or capitalist or mixed... modern economies, when tied into international trade, are finding it impossible to stabilize their economies at high employment.
Developed and developing nations are "investing" in Africa: another cheap labor pool to exploit, and a possible market to suck dry. Obama is urged to follow suit, and get in line behind China and Russia before the good deals run out.
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Fertilizers are killing our oceans and lakes
Gulf of Mexico could see record-sized ‘dead zone’ from pollution this yearQuote:
The Gulf of Mexico could see a record-size dead zone this year of oxygen-deprived waters resulting from pollution, US scientists have cautioned based on government data models. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s forecasts said the dead zone could be as large as New Jersey, or up to 8,561 square miles (22,172 square kilometers).
Dead zones are toxic to marine life and are caused by excessive nutrient pollution due to agriculture runoff. They are influenced by weather, precipitation, wind and temperature.
When there is little oxygen in the water, most marine life near the bottom is unable to survive.
“This year’s prediction for the Gulf reflects flood conditions in the Midwest that caused large amounts of nutrients to be transported from the Mississippi watershed to the Gulf,” NOAA said in a statement.
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Russians feeling buyers remorse when it comes to Putin.
Stirrings of Labor Unrest Awaken as Russia’s Economic Chill Sets In
“They say they have orders but they also cut our salaries,” Yevgeny M. Shukhin, a burly, mustachioed worker said of the factory’s management, stomping his feet against the cold at a labor protest this month on Machine-Builders Square.
Day after day, he said, the workers trudge to the factory by the thousands, only to sit out their shifts at idle assembly lines.
"In 2012, when Mr. Putin was still campaigning for the presidency, a shift foreman at the factory here in the northern Ural Mountains appeared on a nationally televised call-in show and said that he and his “boys” from the factory were ready to come to Moscow and beat up urban protesters"
"Now, as far as many workers at Uralvagonzavod are concerned, all that might as well have occurred in a different country, or lifetime. “I don’t think Uralvagonzavod will vote for Putin again, we saw what that led to,” Mr. Shukhin said. “This is the opinion of a lot of workers, but a lot of them are afraid to say it. We just don’t understand why they are firing people.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/world/europe/stirrings-of-labor-unre
st-awaken-as-russias-economic-chill-sets-in.html?_r=0
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I have bumped the story below to site a proper news source. I am surprised because of the sentiment of the story that there has not been a response. So, I guess by the fact that no one disputes that the NY Times is reputable, the story is in fact, not propaganda.
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Russians feeling buyers remorse when it comes to Putin.
Stirrings of Labor Unrest Awaken as Russia’s Economic Chill Sets In
“They say they have orders but they also cut our salaries,” Yevgeny M. Shukhin, a burly, mustachioed worker said of the factory’s management, stomping his feet against the cold at a labor protest this month on Machine-Builders Square.
Day after day, he said, the workers trudge to the factory by the thousands, only to sit out their shifts at idle assembly lines.
"In 2012, when Mr. Putin was still campaigning for the presidency, a shift foreman at the factory here in the northern Ural Mountains appeared on a nationally televised call-in show and said that he and his “boys” from the factory were ready to come to Moscow and beat up urban protesters"
"Now, as far as many workers at Uralvagonzavod are concerned, all that might as well have occurred in a different country, or lifetime. “I don’t think Uralvagonzavod will vote for Putin again, we saw what that led to,” Mr. Shukhin said. “This is the opinion of a lot of workers, but a lot of them are afraid to say it. We just don’t understand why they are firing people.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/world/europe/stirrings-of-labor-unre
st-awaken-as-russias-economic-chill-sets-in.html?_r=0
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"to site (sic) a proper news source"
The NYTimes carries administration propaganda, falsified stories, and inaccurate statements as news. You should never mistake 'source' for fact. But, you, kpo and 'G' always do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair
Jayson Thomas Blair (born March 23, 1976) is an American journalist formerly with The New York Times. He resigned from the newspaper in May 2003 in the wake of the discovery of plagiarism and fabrication in his stories.
http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/new-york-times-san-be
rnardino-correction-margaret-sullivan-public-editor/
What I’ll lay out here was a bad one. It involved a failure of sufficient skepticism at every level of the reporting and editing process — especially since the story in question relied on anonymous government sources, as too many Times articles do. Here’s the background: A Times article Sunday reported that the U.S. government had missed something that was right out there in the open: the jihadist social-media posts by one of the San Bernardino killers. Its initial paragraphs read as follows: Tashfeen Malik, who with her husband carried out the massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., passed three background checks by American immigration officials as she moved to the United States from Pakistan. None uncovered what Ms. Malik had made little effort to hide — that she talked openly on social media about her views on violent jihad.
She said she supported it. And she said she wanted to be a part of it.
It was certainly damning – and it was wrong.
http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/a-clinton-story-fraug
ht-with-inaccuracies-how-it-happened-and-what-next/
A Clinton Story Fraught With Inaccuracies: How It Happened and What Next?
The story – a Times exclusive — appeared high on the home page and the mobile app late Thursday and on Friday and then was displayed with a three-column headline on the front page in Friday’s paper. The online headline read “Criminal Inquiry Sought in Hillary Clinton’s Use of Email,” very similar to the one in print.
But aspects of it began to unravel soon after it first went online.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/039959_New_York_Times_timeswatch_false_repo
rting.html#ixzz41PSQAV1l
The dishonest deletion by columnist Maureen Dowd. The first major story broken by TimesWatch detailed an attempt at deception by columnist and former White House reporter Maureen Dowd. In her May 14, 2003 column, titled "Osama's Offspring," regarding President Bush's pursuit of the Taliban in Afghanistan, "Dowd used an ellipsis to totally misrepresent a Bush statement from a May 5 speech in Arkansas to imply he said the Al Qaeda terrorist network is 'not a problem anymore,' changing Bush's meaning to make him look naive about the war on terror," the Times watchdog reported.
Here is what Dowd wrote: "That group of terrorists who attacked our country is slowly but surely being decimated. . . . They're not a problem anymore."
Here is what Bush actually said: "Al Qaeda is on the run. That group of terrorists who attacked our country is slowly but surely being decimated. Right now, about half of all the top Al Qaeda operatives are either jailed or dead. In either case, they're not a problem anymore."
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/
Pulitzer Prize winner Judith Miller’s series of exclusives about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq—courtesy of the now-notorious Ahmad Chalabi—helped the New York Times keep up with the competition and the Bush administration bolster the case for war. How the very same talents that caused her to get the story also caused her to get it wrong.
http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-new-york-times-emails-357246
In March, the newspaper published a highly touted article about Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account that, as I wrote in an earlier column, was wrong in its major points. The Times’s public editor defended that piece, li
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Your opinion to me 1kiki means zilch. You have been identified as and proven to be, nothing more than a Russian troll.
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Thanks for the laugh!
SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.
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