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IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM PUTS MIDDLE EAST IN DANGER = Honestly is anyone surprised?

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To the son of the legal and only president of our home country - Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia - Tsotne Gamsakhurdia

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PEACE JUNKIE/EPISODE 3: HAITI

Although your donations to NGO's such as the Red Cross and ActionAid DO COUNT. With all the government money in the form of... more

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Peter Eigen: How to expose the corrupt

Some of the world's most baffling social problems, says Peter Eigen, can be traced to systematic, pervasive government... more

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Gibbs mocks Sarah Palin's palm-writing at briefing

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs flashed a left palm with notes written on it at the news briefing Tuesday, an apparent... more

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"Nashville" and Nashville's Tea Party Convention

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Tea Party: Life imitating art in Nashville
February 7, 2010 | 9:41 am

Am I the only one to notice the coincidence that the Tea Party Convention met in Nashville, which is also the title of a 1975 Robert Altman movie about (among other things) an anti-establishment presidential candidate? Hal Phillip Walker, the standard-bearer of the Replacement Party, would have felt at home last weekend in Nashville.

Walker's populist platform included forbidding lawyers from serving in Congress ("Did you ever ask a lawyer the time of day? He told you how to make a watch, didn't he?"), taking on oil companies, abolishing the Electoral College and eliminating farm subsidies. Some of his positions, such as taxing churches, might not go over so well with some Tea Partiers, but the ethos of his campaign was distinctively populist/outsider. Consider this quote:

"Fellow taxpayers and stockholders in America. On the first Tuesday in November, we have to make some vital decisions about our management. Let me go directly to the point. I'm for doing some replacing. I've discussed the Replacement Party with people all over this country and I'm often confronted with the statement -- 'I don't want to get mixed up in politics,' or 'I'm tired of politics,' or 'I'm not interested.' Almost as often, someone said, 'I can't do anything about it anyway.' Let me point out two things. No. 1: All of us are deeply involved with politics whether we know it or not and whether we like it or not. And No. 2: We can do something about it. When you pay more for an automobile than it cost Columbus to make his first voyage to America, that's politics."

Also, he was capable of surreal Sarah Palin-esque rhetoric: "Have you stood on a high and windy hill and heard the acorns drop and roll? Have you walked in the valley beside the brook, walked alone and remembered? Does Christmas smell like oranges to you?"

Was "Nashville" prophetic? You betcha!

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Fox news begins to spin Palin's Snowbilly Palm Pilot story

On Fox & Friends this morning, the hosts defended their colleague’s Telepalmer notes. Carlson suggested that it was a... more

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Colbert: "Sarah Palin is a f*cking retard"

Stephen Colbert has fine words for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who defended Rush Limbaugh's use of the word... more

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Blair attacks his critics' tendency to 'conspiracy theories'

In an interview with Mike Huckabee for Fox news Tony Blair talked about a obsession with scandal and conspiracy in answering a... more

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Stephen Colbert calls Sarah Palin, 'Retarded'

Using Sarah Palin's logic, Stephen Colbert has finally said on television what so many of us have been dying to hear! If... more

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Democratic Gubernatorial candidates, post-debate

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Pentagon Considers Climate Change a National Security Threat

Thankfully, for the sake of those of us relying on them for our safety, the U.S. Department of Defense seems to understand both the difference between climate and weather and that an attempted assassination by 1,000 cuts cannot change the underlying truths of the IPCC's 2007 climate assessment.

In its recently released Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), the DoD states, "Climate change and energy are two key issues that will play a significant role in shaping the future security environment." No debate. According to the U.S. security apparatus, these are issues that the U.S. security apparatus will have to deal with.

The QDR states two "broad" ways in which climate change will affect U.S. security. Global warming will "shape the operating environment, roles, and missions that we undertake", and DoD will be forced to deal with "the impacts of climate change on our facilities and military capabilities."

The QDR doesn't blink:

The U.S. Global Change Research Program, composed of 13 federal agencies, reported in 2009 that climate-related changes are already being observed in every region of the world, including the United States and its coastal waters. Among these physical changes are increases in heavy downpours, rising temperature and sea level, rapidly retreating glaciers, thawing permafrost, lengthening growing seasons, lengthening ice-free seasons in the oceans and on lakes and rivers, earlier snowmelt, and alterations in river flows.

What effects does this have on American national defense? The QDR continues:

Climate change will contribute to food and water scarcity, will increase the spread of disease, and may spur or exacerbate mass migration. While climate change alone does not cause conflict, it may act as an accelerant of instability or conflict, placing a burden to respond on civilian institutions and militaries around the world. In addition, extreme weather events may lead to increased demands for defense support to civil authorities for humanitarian assistance or disaster response both within the United States and overseas.

Note the certainty. Climate change "will" cause resource scarcity and "will" cause the spread of disease. For the DoD, these changes have a two-pronged effect, as an "accelerant" of instability and conflict, as well as an increased burden on the military to engage in humanitarian assistance, limiting its ability to focus solely on defense.

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