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WSJ Opinion  Page Thinks Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars of Climate Damages Are "Affordable"
To those who have already suffered from climate impacts, like the Native Americans displaced by sea level rise in Louisiana and permafrost melt in Alaska, or those who lost their homes in wildfires or lives in heat waves, the Wall Street Journal's opinion page has a message: you're expendable.
That's the gist of a pair of pieces responding to the NCA (National Climate Assessment) this week. The report says explicitly that climate change is already making extreme weather like hurricanes and wildfires worse, is already raising sea levels to the point that coastal communities are flooding on sunny days, and is already hurting the health of Americans across the country. Despite this, all the Journal seems to care about is money.
In a piece published on Monday, Steve Koonin  argues that the report says "the overall economic impact of human-caused climate change is expected to be quite small." To reiterate, this is the report that says many coastal communities will likely flood daily regardless of emission reductions, and that the entire $3.6 trillion dollar coastal real estate market is on the line.
The NCA also suggests there will be hundreds of billions of dollars in economic losses, primarily from three factors. First, Americans dying prematurely means lots of hospital spending but not much else (turns out the dead don't buy much). Second, there will be losses in outdoor worker productivity as entire swaths of the South becomes so hot that sustained outdoor work would literally be lethal. And thirdly, sea level rise will put coastal communities under water, literally and financially.
But because the economy will grow between now and then, Koonin claims that the costs won't be so bad. As a country, we'll be four times richer by 2090, so what's a few hundred billion dollars lost every year by then?
Holman Jenkins Jr.  follows Koonin's lead, and on Tuesday put a finer point on his misplaced priorities of profits over people.
In reference to the report's $510 billion in potential losses by 2090, representing thousands of dead Americans, Jenkins quips that "paying this bill would be a nuisance, not Armageddon."
Sure, a nuisance. What a great way to describe grandmothers dropping dead of heat stroke, or children gasping for air as asthma rates in communities of color climb even higher.
Jenkins helpfully advises the climate community, which he's spent years insulting, to slip a carbon tax into a larger tax reform package, because "the biggest holdup to direct action on climate is showing that preventing these changes would be cheaper than enduring them."
Apparently, $500 billion dollars a year in dead Americans, flooded coastal communities and the scorching of the South's agriculture industry is affordable, but switching from fossil fuels to renewables now is just too expensive.
While most deniers are clearly funded by fossil fuels, it's starting to feel like the WSJ's biggest advertiser might be the coffin-makers.
Quote from: Ashvin on December 07, 2018, 02:59:04 pm
No, it's not a lie. I still remember the thread where you went off on me for daring not to blindly believe your theories about ancient aliens and high-tech Atlantis type societies. What happened to all of those theories, AG? Did you finally realize it was all nonsense you were following because it sounded intellectual and made you feel superior to those without the secret "knowledge"?
Only among tarantulas could be it "trolling" or "sophistry" to simply be honest and admit you do not know something well enough to write intelligently about it. This is what you should be doing when it comes to a great many things you have written about, but wanna-be tyrants will never admit their intellectual blind spots and personal weaknesses.
If their is one thing you have NEVER done, it's "admit intellectual blind spots and weaknesses". You are always too busy inventing said "blind spots" and "weaknesses" in your perceived opponent. Disingenuous posturing does not qualify as an admission of ZIP, counselor.
Deny all you want and keep up the false accusations, as is your wont. I understand that "works for you" so you can avoid discussing the Climate Crises issue objectively. So, go head, continue keeping your Denier head firmly ensconced in your status quo worshipping descending colon. The fact that you consistently refuse to acknowledge the validity of the dire need for a worldwide effort to get the global economy off of fossil fuels (and other biosphere degrading human activities), to the point that you disingenuously claim that "tinkering" with this complex CAPITALIST system this way will "unjustly hurt the poor" (a Fossil Fuel Industry Propaganda Denier talking point for the last TWO decades, at least) means that you, like the others that cheerlead the status quo, have blood ☠ on your hands. Those of us advocating a clean energy based economy for a viable biosphere, do not, despite your Orwellian attempts to demonize us.
Be sure and IGNORE the following post because, if you read it, it will make your head hurt.
Have a nice deluded day.
Climate Crisis Critical Issue in 2020 Elections – Jane Sanders
Jane Sanders tells Paul Jay that voters shouldn't support candidates who claim to be progressive, but don't prioritize the fight against fossil fuel interests
PAUL JAY: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay.
The Gathering, a meeting of 200 or so progressive thought leaders invited to Burlington, Vermont, was a meeting to talk about what comes next in the coming 2020 elections to help create a vision, a policy framework, for what candidates might run on, what people might fight for. It comes at a rather momentous time in human history, as I said in one of the other interviews; 2020 is maybe the most important election anyplace, ever, given what's at stake. The Gathering was called by Jane O'Meara Sanders, who's co-founder of the Sanders Institute; now serves as a fellow. Jane served as a political consultant, has held appointed and elected office, and Jane was the driving force behind the Gathering. And she now joins us here in our studio at the Gathering. Thanks for joining us.
JANE SANDERS: Thanks, Paul.
PAUL JAY: Your hopes going in—and I heard this a little bit in the email back and forth—is we don't want to spend all this time trashing Trump. We really want to talk policy and what a different world might look like. How do you feel that was achieved?
JANE SANDERS: I was astounded. I mean, we had 49 speakers in 48 hours. And actually, I think a few added on during the weekend. It was thought provoking, inspiring, much better than I had ever envisioned. I had pretty high thoughts for this weekend. We came—you mentioned thought leaders. And what I realized by the end is they're not just progressive thought leaders. They are bringing the heart to the, their hearts to the causes, to the issues that we talked about. They're leading from values and principles, and then their intellect informs the rest. But the first layer is the values and the principles that we espouse, for democracy and for human dignity.
PAUL JAY: The times we live in are, as I said, this may be—the coming election may be the most important ever, to a large extent because of climate change. If a climate denier is elected again, or if a corporate Democrat is elected who pays lip service to the climate crisis and doesn't take effective action, we're kind of screwed. We're already close to 1.5 or 2 degrees above—in terms of warming, above pre-industrial averages. The tipping point is really within sight. In terms of the messaging of the extent of the crisis and what to do about it, do you think that was addressed here?
JANE SANDERS: I think it was. I think that people walked away with the concept that, and with the realization, that time is running out. And what we need to do is not just ask people what to do or inform people about the issue.
One of the things that we need to do, and the reason for the Gathering, was to amplify each other's voices, resonate on the issues. We need leadership that actually says, I'm sorry, this is a crisis. We need to address it now. Not next year, not the year after. It's leadership at the local, the statewide, the national, the international level. Not just people who are elected, but people who want to make a difference in the world.
At the end of the climate crisis panel, Bill McKibben said that we need to have healthcare, Medicare for All, a $15 minimum wage, and 100% renewable. Those are not the only things. But the 100% renewable and the focus on the climate crisis has to be at the outset of anybody running for office. Where do you stand? Where do you stand? Not [crosstalk]
PAUL JAY: Absolutely. But I'm not hearing it. Even with progressive candidates it's like, I have to say even to some extent Bernie, although he's certainly better than any of the others that actually have a mainstream role. But the extent of the threat is not like—it's got to be front and center. We're often, it's like a shopping list, healthcare, Medicare for all, $15, climate. Well, climate is, it doesn't matter if you get $15 an hour if we ain't here. There seems to be a feeling both amongst people that work on this issue in the climate sector, people involved in political campaigns, that if you talk about the extent of the crisis you're just going to scare people. Well, shouldn't we be scaring people?
JANE SANDERS: I think so. I think you're absolutely right. And we have to start—I believe a lot of people have conferences, and that's the end game. Let's have a conference. This was a jumping off point. We want to have the conference inform future action. What I heard from the questions from the attendees, the hallway conversations was that we have to hold people accountable. It's not from a perception of you have to vote for this or vote for that. What do you understand about the climate crisis? Where do you stand on it, what are you willing to do, and what are you not willing to do? Don't talk to me about in sound bites, don't talk to me to say climate crisis is really bad, but no, I'm not going to fight the pipelines in the states. I'm not going to not take fossil fuel industry money. I think with the climate crisis, I think more than anything else we have to draw a very clear line and say these are the expectations. If you don't do this, I don't care how progressive you are, supposedly, it's not—we're not interested.
PAUL JAY: It's got to be a criteria people use on who they vote for. But to do that we've got to get into those sections amongst working people who right now, climate is barely on the top 20 of their list. We did some work in southern Pennsylvania, we've done work around Baltimore where we're based. And without doubt, the day-to-day suffering is such that people, they want that addressed. This thing has to be framed in a way that it is today. It's not some great future prospect. And it's your kids at stake, your grandkids at stake. The messaging is not getting through much to ordinary people.
JANE SANDERS: Well, when you look at the floods and the torrential rains and the fires, there is no analysis of that on the news. They cover it like voyeurs to say, oh, look at this terrible thing that's happening. These people are helping, this is good news. The community is coming together, great. But they don't ever ask why. Why is this occurring? Cover the science. And that is not happening. They need to cover the science.
PAUL JAY: Every day.
JANE SANDERS: Yeah, every day. But they're not, and we need to insist they do.
PAUL JAY: We're going to be, we are. and we're going to be every day doing science. Because what's missing from the whole discourse for ordinary people, people coming in on the issue, is the sense of urgency. People that understand what's going on, we feel a sense of urgency, but there's still this feeling that you can't tell people that because it's going to overwhelm them. It's like treating people like kids.
JANE SANDERS: Partly. But I also think that people don't want to have—want to just focus on a problem without a solution. Many of the people that are speaking about it or looking for votes don't want to deal with the solutions. I do think that we have an opportunity at this point in time to say, to lay out what this administration has been doing in terms of rolling back air and water and all this, and all these regulations, and to recognize the support they're giving to the fossil fuel industry with our tax dollars and not to renewables, which would help us. But to be able to say there is an answer.
The House just turned, and we should be making it very clear to the Democrats that are in control of the House, are you going to do something? If you're not going to do something, thank you very much, we're not going to be supporting you. If we say to the people, this is what you can do, and this is what we expect of you as leaders in your community or as elected leaders, we need your voice out there, then we can make a change. I think people need to not just focus only on the climate crisis, because as you say, that's what everybody is saying. Everybody is going to be very nervous about it and very concerned. They should be, but we have to give them a path forward. We have to say how are you going to be able to make this-
PAUL JAY: Well, one of the things that came out of the conference was the discussion of a new green deal, a Green New Deal, I should say, which seems to make a lot of sense. It makes a lot of sense when you already understand why we need a new green deal—Green New Deal. Most people don't even get the urgency of that.
JANE SANDERS: I think the bully pulpit really matters. The people in that room, and hopefully the people that watched on livestream, and the people that watch the things we'll be putting out in the future at the Sanders Institute, will understand more. And Real News. You've been talking to people this entire time to have the Real News be covering the science, covering the facts, and having people who are in a position to lead their communities to solution. That helps. Now, the problem is that so many of the solutions, or so many of the approaches, seem to be protesting only. That's not what we—I mean, protests are very important. That's not enough. What we need to do is demand accountability, demand that they don't take money from pipeline, they don't support banks that fund pipelines. We need to say to our representatives and to the media, we expect you to ask and answer serious questions that are complex and not just give us sound bites.
PAUL JAY: I got a suggestion for the Sanders Institute.
JANE SANDERS: Okay.
PAUL JAY: One of the things I learned over the weekend was how Barcelona has created a publicly owned energy company. It seems to me more of that kind of program, like here's what, if you actually took over a city, major city in this country, here's what a city can do, here's what a state could do. Also in terms of Congress, I think there's going to be a real fight over whether real hearings are going to be held over what to do about climate change or trash Trump. I have no problem with trashing Trump. But if the focus is on that it's just more of the same rhetorical battle.
JANE SANDERS: I agree. I think, unfortunately, the Democrats have a great opportunity, and unfortunately I'm concerned that they are going to blow it and focus on investigations, investigations, investigations. People want them to pay attention to the real issues facing their lives. And what's happening now, I know, I really want Medicare for All, I really want $15 minimum wage, we want a lot of things. And a lot of new ideas and replicable policies came out of this conference. In terms of the climate crisis, what we need to do is focus on it, and if they don't deliver to the voters that put them in, I think that it's over. I think it's over for that party. I don't, I think-
PAUL JAY: It's over for us humans.
JANE SANDERS: Well, but no. Because I think if they don't focus on real change, on effecting real change, especially in this area, I think that we will be able to lead from below.
PAUL JAY: The logic—I mean, other than the fact that a whole section of the Democratic Party is very tied up with finance and fossil fuel, but set that aside for a second. They accept the dictatorship of corporate media. What I mean by that is the corporate news media is making a fortune out of this partisan battle. Not only does it drive ratings, because it's like watching a football game, then the parties spend a billion, over a billion dollars, billions on advertising and campaigns. The partisan war, the news media loves. The logic goes if we have a hearing on climate change they won't cover it.
JANE SANDERS: That's what they said, actually. They have said that to us, that the ratings on climate change don't matter. Then, at the same time, the ratings on fires and floods, they cover ad nauseum. Now, how hard would it be to cover them in a way that said these are the facts, this is climate change at work. This is why it's happening. And this is what you can expect to happen later. These parts of the world are going to be underwater, and there's going to be mass migration, and there's going to be food shortages. They don't have to cover it all at once. But when you look at things and you see the same footage for three days of terrible personal pain that people are experiencing, the loss of their homes and of their communities and even their cities, instead of saying, okay, we don't have to put that on again, we can keep informing the people. That's my, one of my concerns, is I think the fourth estate has been letting us down. A democracy requires an informed electorate. The media, the fourth estate, is supposed to inform the public. They're not doing that. They're selling ratings. But they're not even thinking deeply about it. Because if they covered the fires and explained them, they'd get the same ratings.
PAUL JAY: I agree with you. But I have no expectation that corporate news media is going to change. This Democratic-controlled House, if they're serious about climate change, they can create hearings with as much drama as the Kavanaugh hearings. You know, subpoena the head of Exxon, create a real dramatic presentation.
JANE SANDERS: Like they did with tobacco years ago, under Henry Waxman.
PAUL JAY: Exactly. But they have to want to do it. And that's going to be a fight.
JANE SANDERS: It is going to be a fight, because people don't want to take on the banks. They don't want to take on the fossil fuel industry. They don't want to take on the large donors and the big corporations. My hope is there will be—and I know there will be a group of people that will in the new Congress. And the Progressive Caucus in the Congress is pretty good.
PAUL JAY: There is a group now pushing for hearings on a Green New Deal.
JANE SANDERS: I think we'll see some, for once, moving in the right direction. And I think the fact that under the Trump administration so many things have been so difficult for not just climate crisis, but everything, that I think people are beginning to realize we can't take six more years of this. We can't possibly survive that well. I guess that's dramatic but-
PAUL JAY: A lot of people won't survive.
JANE SANDERS: Yeah, a lot of people won't. I think people are getting that. I have more faith in the American people. I think that they're going to pay attention if they can be informed. That's why places like The Real News and the Sanders Institute and all the people that were here from different organizations are so important, because—you started it with I don't think they know. That education is extremely important.
PAUL JAY: Great, thanks very much.
JANE SANDERS: Thank you.
PAUL JAY: Thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.
https://therealnews.com/stories/climate-crisis-critical-issue-in-2020-elections-jane-sanders
Jordan Peterson is BOUGHT AND PAID FOR by the Koch Brothers
Who is Jordan Peterson , the 'alt-right' darling of YouTube?
Brenden Gallagher— Apr 30 2018 at 2:00AM | Last updated Apr 30 at 8:45AM
If you hang around intellectuals or academics long enough, one of them will make the joke that they wish they were conservative because there is a lot more money in it. Jordan Peterson is living proof of that.
The Koch Brothers and the Heritage Foundation are eager to fund and promote the brightest minds conservatism has to offer. They intend to use the free market language of the right, there is a high demand for "intellectuals" who will defend conservative ideas, but there is a very low supply.
So if you're wondering how 55-year-old Canadian psychology professor Jordan B. Peterson became an overnight sensation, going from obscure academic to international bestseller lauded in the New York Times  as "most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now," you don't have to look much further than that old academic joke.
Jordan Peterson is famous because in the era of the resurgent alt-right, the loose collection of conservatives that align with white supremacists, there are few intellectuals willing to align themselves with the movement. The alt-right is in need of intellectuals to justify their fascist worldview, and Peterson has been ready.
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/jordan-peterson/
Agelbert NOTE: Jordan Peterson is a stalking horse for FASCISM. He enthusiastically supports the Koch Brothers push to get Trump and his wreckng crew to eliminate Social Security and Medicare.
Jordan Peterson is a Kochroach. He is a stalking horse apologist for empathy deficit disordered, might is right, Social Darwinism. Peterson is quite fond of Hitler's favorite "philosopher", Nietzsche  , of the "Territorial Imperative" (BALONEY) and "man needs to become superman" infamy.
In short, this Peterson Canadian Climate Denying Kochroach is a defender of our present oligarchic civilization destroying status quo. 
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By Paul Thagard Ph.D.
In January, Peterson released 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote for Chaos. Several hundred pages slimmer than his earlier work, the book mixes his ideas about masculinity, individualism, and mythic destiny with a self-help style manual for living.
12 Rules breaks up his long academic and philosophical digressions into chapters with titles fitting of a book like The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, like "Stand Up Straight with Your Shoulders Back" and "Be Precise In Your Speech." With this book, Peterson rebranded as a kind of Malcolm Gladwell of the right, boiling down varied, complicated concepts into digestible chunks that support generally accepted ideas that he can then use to bolster his misogynistic, bigoted, reactionary worldview.
Peterson's claims about morality, reality, and the meaning of life are dubious.
Read still more:
Jordan B. Peterson: Climate Change Denier & Faux Lover Of Science
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New Year, Same Struggles: Climate Denial, Racism and Sexism
Back in November, Paul Krugman wrote a great column on "the depravity of climate denial," comparing climate denial to the tobacco-cancer denial industry. Krugman concludes that climate denial is even worse than the tobacco industrial complex: cancer denial most impacted those who choose to smoke, he argues, whereas climate denial hurts us all.
And it's not like those in denial have legitimate concerns. Krugman points out that "there are almost no good-faith climate-change deniers," as they are really driven by sins of greed and ego. And because one political party appears beholden to this denial, he concludes that "Republicans don't just have bad ideas; at this point, they are, necessarily, bad people."
Krugman's arguments were so upsetting it apparently took Canadian denial blogger Donna LaFramboise over a month to respond with a post of her own, decrying how Krugman's disdain for deniers "is extreme prejudice" and "outright bigotry."
"To be a climate skeptic," LaFramboise  concludes, "is to belong to a despised minority, one that respectable people think it's OK to demonize."
On the same day LaFramboise posted her complaint about how respectable people treat deniers, one of the loudest and least respectable deniers wrote a post of his own. At Breitbart last week, James Delingpole wrote up a listicle of things he'd like to see more of in 2019. It's pretty standard outrage clickbait: Delingpole laments that even conservative media fails to recognize that "Donald Trump is one of the greatest presidents in U.S. history."
The real kicker, though, is the kicker: Delingpole's "resolution this year is to be much more sexist." According to Deli, sexism "is just a made-up leftist term designed to pathologise normal male behaviour." "Girls are great," Delingpole writes, "but as we've known since Genesis they do have a tendency to get out of hand if they're either not watched carefully or overindulged."
While clearly ridiculous, it's important we not forget that the axis of denial 秊練 operates on many fronts at once. Keeping women down means keeping the pro-fossil fuel status quo going. And keeping people of color--the real minorities whose struggle LaFramboise minimizes--from positions of power also serves to support the fossil-fuel status quo.
And the tools for doing so are basically the same. As American University's Director of Anti-Racist Research and Policy Center Ibram Kendi wrote recently at the Atlantic, climate and racism deniers are functionally quite similar. Both deny observable, objective reality by framing the acceptance of climate science or acknowledgement of structural racism as a matter of opinion, which makes it difficult to hold those with different beliefs accountable. This line of reasoning what gives LaFramboise the cover to complain that deniers are reviled for simply believing something different. Therefore, one way to hold deniers accountable, Kendi argues, is by reframing questions to focus on knowledge rather than one person's opinion--asking about the evidence of climate change rather than what a person believes about it, for instance, or what racism in action looks like rather than if someone believes a person is racist.
Fortunately, this tone-deaf blindness to reality and full immersion in their false but comforting beliefs can lead to some real own-goals. For example, a tweet (from a now-deleted account) with a video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing that was meant to be an attack on her character. Because apparently conservatives think (a young woman of color) dancing is bad, which AOC respond to by doing a little dance on her way into her new office in the House of Representatives.
Then in addition to having the gall to dance, in an interview Sunday she suggested taxing the rich at historically moderate rates to pay for climate action.
Rare is the political figure who's willing to be honest about the need to raise taxes instead of cutting them, but seems like the only thing AOC wants to cut is loose: footloose!
https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/ca-utilities-confront-wildfire-bill-listening-to-the-jellyfish-more
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Quote from: Surly1 on March 16, 2019, 01:32:43 pm
Quote from: UnhingedBecauseLucid on March 16, 2019, 12:09:57 pm
Much better to suck off the centurions of the status quo. Let's never do anything, but clutch pearls and wring hands
I'm not advocating for that either, but the inertia is so immense, the problem so multi-dimensional, that whatever explanation of the Situation you provide has to be unassailable TEFLON. Whatever you'll do will have to be done steadfastly with historically unheard of resolve.
Gimmicks are prone to backfiring.
Then where to start? Young people, whose lives are in line to be trashed, have tried this gimmick to get the attention of term elders, who nod, smile, and get back to the Godswork of making their quarter.
I completely agree that the inertia is immense, and the forces of greed so richly and deeply arrayed as to make the effort seem futile. Which is right where they want ordinary people. throwing up our hands, sighing, and saying "what's the use?"
I wonder what "explanation of the cause" of anthropogenic climate change" could be made to your satisfaction?
What do you mean "you wonder" ? You're on the Doomstead Diner for crying out loud !
You know damn well the climate change issue isn't one to be looked at in isolation.
You either give a proper assessment of the WHOLE BIG PICTURE to show you're TRULY COMPETENT ... or you PROVE that you're not by throwing a grab bag of progressive policies and throw them under the umbrella of a half assed Green New Deal ...
If we wait for that, we might as well go full trump. As it is, the debate seems to be, "here we dead in ten years or 100 years?"
Perhaps the "Green New Deal" is half-assed. At least it's a start. All you get from republicans (and the corpadems who love their donors) is some variant of "drill baby, drill."
but Ocasio-Cortez majored in international relations and economics at Boston University, graduating cum laude in 2011.
I've been reading about energy, economics and finance for over 13 years non stop now, and the time has long passed that such a resume would actually impress me.
The truth is, a science and economics background should now be mandatory qualifications for any government leadership position in all advanced countries. The system is to complex now for overly ambitious lawyers, economist and 'social scientists' to have a go at demonstrating what 'Silo Thinking' can do for us...
You are taking my comment out of context. Citing AOC's credentials was not meant to impress you, but merely to reply to the fuckwit who described her as a "twit." If you have followed her work this far in the House, she's done a really good job in her public outings. Especially for a rookie. I was much impressed with how she spent her five minutes during the House Oversight Committee hearing. I think she will represent her district, and her generation , pretty well. Expect the republicans to richly fund Joe Crowley or some other opponent to get her removed in the next election. She poses far too much of a threat to the status quo, just by mentioning certain policy issues that were never to be spoken of publicly, lest we proles get our hopes up.
Well said, Surly. I admire your patience.
I briefly looked at this thread and my BS meter pegged the needle to the right (pun in tented ) when I noticed the continual pejorative front door (and back door) sniping at the Green New Deal in general, and AOC in particular, from this fine fellow you are patiently debating.
The bottom line for EVERYONE that posts on this forum should be, but rarely is, that NONE of us here will have BEANS to do with shaping the future of humanity, PERIOD.
I am pretty sick of reading hand wringing CRAP from closet (or open) status quo defenders about how ANY attempts at transitioning to a 100% Renewable Energy, decentralized, non-exportable green jobs type economy that cleans up the environment, and consequently improves the the health of we critters that live off the environment, are "not enough", so let's just "DO NOTHING", EXCEPT, OF COURSE, BAD MOUTH anyone like AOC that claims there ARE REAL WORLD SOLUTIONS (THAT DOOM THE FOSSIL FUEL "Industry").
The people out there on the (possibly, but not guaranteed) planet saver=social justice side like AOC, Greta Thunberg, etc. et al DAILY struggling against the "people " on the GUARANTEED planet killer side like Mitch McConnel, Rex Tillerson, Koch Brothers, Trump, etc. et al ARE the ONLY HOPE we have, PERIOD.
The POLLUTING INDUSTRY SUPPORTING people should be constantly exposed for their treachery and empathy deficit disordered immoral, biosphere exploiting world view.
Ridiculing those like AOC that propose REAL WORLD SOLUTIONS, which include taking the polluters to the bankuptcy woodshed, is not rational.
Praising the efforts of AOC, Greta Thunberg, etc. et al IS rational.
GO GET EM', AOC, Greta Thunberg and RATIONAL FRIENDS all over the planet!
https://youtu.be/W5iHuSFJIEI
BY JACK HOLMES
AOC Just Tagged Republican Mike Lee 秊 for His Embarrassing Climate Change Shtick.
Meanwhile, the Green New Deal she co-sponsored is making Republicans sweat .
https://youtu.be/FNOKsJbC5zU
Full article with video:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26948857/aoc-mike-lee-climate-change/
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NAACP Shows How Fossil Fuel 秊練 Industry Manipulates Communities of Color
BEN JERVEY, DESMOGBLOG
The fossil fuel industry regularly deploys manipulative and dishonest tactics when engaging with communities of color, often working to co-opt the respect and authority of minority-led groups to serve corporate goals. A new report released by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) outlines the top 10 manipulation tactics that the group's members and partners routinely observe.
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RASHIDA TLAIB SAYS BANKS ARE 'GASLIGHTING' AND 'DUPING' AMERICANS ABOUT BACKING FOSSIL FUELS, CLIMATE CHANGE
BY DANIEL MORITZ-RABSON ON 4/10/19 AT 4:08 PM EDT
Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib said that bank executives were "greenwashing" their role in funding climate change on Wednesday.
The chief executives of Bank of America, BNY Mellon, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and State Street appeared together in front of Congress for the first time in 10 years to face questions from the House Committee on Financial Services. At the hearing, which discussed changes large banks had made since the financial collapse of 2008, Tlaib asked the CEOs if they would change bank behavior to address climate change.
The bank leaders said they had and continue to take action on climate change, leading Tlaib to respond: "Don't say that you're clean and sustainable financing because your companies' words are not consistent with your actions. I would call this gaslighting."
"But for the sake of this hearing, I'll say that you are greenwashing your own track record and duping the American people into believing that you are helping address climate change. On the record, will any of your banks make a commitment to phase out your investments in fossil fuels and dirty energy?"
Tlaib earlier told JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon that, "your bank alone has provided more than $195 billion in fossil fuel lending and underwriting over the past three years since signing of the Paris Climate agreement, making your bank the number funder of fossil fuels in the world."
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https://www.newsweek.com/rashida-tlaib-banks-gaslighting-americans-funding-fossil-fuels-1391824
How the Mainstream Media Ignores the Climate Change Crisis
The climate change crisis is real: more powerful storms, droughts, floods, and rising sea levels. However, mainstream media continues to ignore the crisis. A TRNN documentary on the lack of coverage
https://youtu.be/3QhRIzLKpp4
https://therealnews.com/stories/how-the-mainstream-media-ignores-the-climate-change-crisis
Republican Favorite Patrick  Moore Compares Young Activists to Hitler Youth
In a recent piece for PJ Media, Tom Harris and Dr. Jay Lehr wrote about the "untold scandal" of professional scientific societies accepting climate science. Harris and Lehr are with the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), the misleadingly named denier group that describes itself as a "highly credible alternative to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" and that has received funding from Heartland.
The main argument of the piece is that radical environmentalists have infiltrated and taken over scientific societies. The authors claim that in the last few years, several professional societies, including the American Physical Society and the Geological Society of America, have put out statements that affirm the reality of human-caused climate change.
The reason for this? The authors charge that these groups are more interested in making money than promoting science, and are simply "going along with popular concerns."
On that final point, they're not wrong: recent polling data shows that people are more worried than ever before about climate change. But these societies are probably instead "going along with" the overwhelming body of scientific evidence…something we would hope to see from an institution of science.
So a whole heap of professional societies, the American public, and of course the scientific community dedicated to studying the subject all think climate change is a problem… but sure, it's these guys who are right.
One specific example the authors use is Patrick Moore's claim that Greenpeace was taken over by "radical greens," and that is why he left the organization. This is a tried and true talking point from Moore, who recently went even further with this characterization of climate activists as extremists. (Unfortunately, it seems William Happer isn't the only Trump favorite to make inappropriate comparisons between climate change and Nazi Germany.)
Last week in an interview with Australian radio host Alan Jones, Moore likened Greta Thunberg and other school strike activists to the Hitler Youth. He claimed the kids are being "used mercilessly" by their parents, seemingly unwilling to believe that maybe young people are actually driven by the belief that adults aren't doing enough and just want a livable planet considering the devastating impacts of climate change they will see in their lifetime.
Moore, if you remember, is the guy who just a few weeks ago Republicans invited to testify before Congress. And Marc Morano, the other guy who they invited to that hearing? He's pushing a similar message. Last week, Morano tweeted a 30 second video of Charles Manson talking about climate change in what we assume in an attempt to disparage belief in climate change by connecting it to Manson.
We'll have to see how this strategy works out for these guys: when Heartland tried something similar a few years ago, it backfired spectacularly. After Heartland put up a billboard with a picture of Ted Kaczynski, the so-called "Unabomber", and the caption "I still believe in global warming. Do you?", several companies withdrew their support for the organization. In fact, the response was so negative, the billboard was taken down within 24 hours and plans were canceled to put up similar billboards with Osama bin Laden, Charles Manson and Fidel Castro.
Kind of sad that deniers have been reduced to recycling old tactics that didn't even work. And when your only argument is well-known logical fallacy, it's probably time to get some new material.
https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/trump-admin-inches-closer-to-screwing-over-science-britains-fortnight-craze-more?e=0fd17c5b57
Report Exposes Real Reason 秊練 Kochs Fund Regulatory Center at George Washington University
A little over a year ago, student activists at George Mason University successfully exposed just how much influence the Koch brothers had over the university and its Mercatus Center. But as we mentioned last month when the Kochs announced a supposed shift away from politics, Mercatus is just one of hundreds of academic institutions the brothers fund to protect their profits. (Okay, we will admit it's not JUST about Koch Industry profits--it's also about protecting the tobacco industry, and occasionally promoting white nationalists…)
Now, a new report from Public Citizen digs into a Mercatus-like situation at George Washington University's Koch-funded Regulatory Studies Center (RSC). As one should rightly assume about something that involves the Koch's so-called philanthropy, Public Citizen revealed it as nothing but a cog in the Koch profit machine.
Though RSC director Susan Dudley would like us to think its goal is to bring the public "an objective, unbiased look at the regulatory system," Public Citizen examined RSC's output, funders and personnel, and proves it is anything but unbiased. And Dudley herself, Public Citizen notes, has been involved with at least eight Koch-related groups, and once criticized the EPA for failing to take into account the benefits of smog as a skin-cancer-reducing form of sunblock.
Getting down to the numbers, one of the RSC's main products is public comments on proposed regulations. Between 2013 and 2018, the report's study period, over half of the RSC's comment authors have been affiliated with at least 28 other different Koch groups in addition to the RSC. Those authors, in turn, made up 75% of comments coming from the RSC. Note to Dudley: getting money from people hurt by regulations makes your regulatory work biased, pretty much by definition.
That's why it's no surprise that Public Citizen found that 96% of RSC's comments "relating to the stringency of specific regulations recommended less regulation than the proposal or status quo." If that seems low, don't worry: "100 percent of the comments relating to overarching regulatory policy recommended changes that would result in less regulation in the future."
While RSC;s funding is kept obscure, Public Citizen was able to ascertain that the Charles Koch Foundation and ExxonMobil Foundation have both given the RSC more than a million dollars. This makes the RSC less of an "objective, unbiased" source of study and more of a tool of the Koch's massive interlocking propaganda machine designed to make the public think a deregulatory agenda is an empirically sound philosophy, as opposed to simple industry advertising meant to protect profits and pollute the public.
And that they act as a component of a larger Koch strategy to warp reality to their liking is hardly accidental or hyperbolic. In fact, members of Koch organizations admitted this is exactly the case. Public Citizen's report points to a 1996 essay by the Charles Koch Foundation's chief strategist Richard Fink where he describes the foundation's philanthropic philosophy for making social change.
First, "research done by scholars at our universities" produce the "intellectual raw materials" that are "transformed into a more practical or useable form." Then think tanks and policy institutions have the job of "developing new policy and articulating its benefits," and front groups "build diverse coalitions of individual citizens and special interest groups to press for the implementation of policy change."
Thirty years later, and that's exactly what they've done. Public Citizen points to FreedomWorks president Adom Brandon, who wrote in 2018 that RSC and Mercatus team up with the Heritage and CEI to "act as the brains of the conservative regulatory fight" while Club for Growth and Americans for Prosperity exist as "the muscles of the conservative movement."
Charles Koch Foundation director of Investments Charlie Ruger explained to an audience at a conference in 2016 how the Koch network has "a constellation of network organizations that are focused on applying what comes out of the universities to change the world," because "that's sort of the core of the partnership. Money plus the network."
In summary, and using their own words, the Kochs pay for "scholars at our universities" to create "intellectual raw materials" as "the brains of the conservative" fight against regulations, waged by "a constellation" of Koch-funded groups who serve as "the muscles of the conservative movement" in order to use "money plus the network" "to change the world."
But sure, Susan Dudley, the RSC is definitely churning out "objective, unbiased" regulatory scholarship. The Kochs could afford to build a Frankensteinian monster of a political apparatus to serve them. But the only thing they couldn't buy? A conscience.
Biden releases climate plan, Trump admin proposes criminalizing pipeline protests, & more
Why Don't the Dems Want A Climate Debate?
This week, Biden endorsed the proposal for a climate debate and activists delivered a 200,000 signatures in support to the DNC. Media Matters' Lisa Hymas talks about why they're still rejecting the proposal
https://youtu.be/l57DqxsxnzQ
https://therealnews.com/stories/why-dont-the-dems-want-a-climate-debate
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Science Shows Serious Denier Pushback Is Good, But Fun and Games are Better!
On Tuesday, Scientific American ran a great story on debating deniers, covering a couple of new studies that are, to put it mildly, relevant to our interests.
The first study looked at whether it was more effective to rebut denial by addressing the factual errors presented (a topic-based approach) or by addressing the ways in which deniers are deceptive (exposing the techniques they use). It also tested if rebutting the myths actually reinforced them, a concept known as the backfire effect.
The results showed that both topic and technique-based rebuttals reduced the negative impact of anti-vaccine and climate change denial arguments. Neither proved to be significantly more effective than the other, and combining them together doesn't seem to have a greater effect than either alone. It's nice to know that climate scientists who provide the facts disproving denial are just as effective as those who expose deniers' rhetorical techniques and logical fallacies, and that there's not necessarily a need for any one person to be an expert in both types of rebuttals.
It also found that rebuttals were most effective for the groups who are most susceptible to the misinformation: those who went into the experiment less convinced about the efficacy of vaccines than the average person, and folks with more conservative political beliefs who are more likely to be skeptical of climate science.
The research adds to the now relatively robust body of evidence suggesting that the backfire effect isn't a particularly pressing problem--in other words, rebuttals were more effective than letting the denial argument go unchallenged. The study also suggests that when deniers are invited to an event it's always best to have someone show up to debunk deniers, but those who protest debates with deniers are doing good if it leads to the events' cancellation, because then no one is misled in the first place.
The most effective way of battling denial, of course, is preventing people from being deceived in the first place. A growing body of research known as the "inoculation theory" proposes exposing people to weak versions of denial in order to educate them on how misinformation is created and spread so that they are more resistant to it when it appears in the wild.
The second new study focuses on what the first calls a technique-rebuttal approach, and seeks to find a "broad-spectrum vaccine" that works just as well against climate denial as it does for anti-vaccine rhetoric or any other sort of fake news.
The study takes a novel approach: a game. Researchers designed a Fake News Game, in which players "take on the role of a fake news creator" with a goal of attracting "as many followers as possible while also maximising credibility." Through six scenarios in which players are offered a "choose your own adventure" set of options, they learn about the strategies used to spread misinformation in pursuit of becoming a Titan of Fake News (Rupert Murdoch, basically).
The game captures the sorts of fake news strategies we see all the time, from impersonation (see: NIPCC) to emotional content and polarization to conspiracy theories and attacking opponents on personal grounds.
https://mailchi.mp/climatenexus/howd-the-debate-go-swampy-air-chief-out-more?e=0fd17c5b57
5 Responses to  Climate Change Deniers
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https://youtu.be/ekmzvfKf8n0


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Australian Open tennis viewers a different breed to Aussies who play tennis
Source: Roy Morgan Single Source (Australia), October 2015-September 2016. Base: Australians 14+
Summer means tennis in Australia, and with this country's tournament par excellence – the Australian Open – starting next week, the latest findings from Roy Morgan reveal some striking differences between Aussies who watch the event on TV and those who play the sport themselves.
Nearly one-third of Aussies aged 14 or older (32.4% or 6.4 million people) watch the Australian Open almost always or occasionally. Considering that less than half (45.1%) of Australian Open viewers tune in for other tennis broadcasts, this speaks volumes for the tournament's popularity among the general population, who are likely drawn to the excitement of such a high-profile local event.
The Australian Open is particularly popular among people aged 50 or older, surpassing the national average with the 50-64 year-old bracket (36.3% of whom tune in to watch it) and tracking upwards to peak among the 65+ demographic at 46.3%.
Australian Open viewers vs tennis players: by age
In contrast, younger Aussies show a distinct lack of interest in watching the Australian Open on TV, especially 14-17 year-olds (20.2%) and 18-24 year-olds (21.8%).
Not surprisingly, given the strenuous nature of tennis, the opposite pattern applies to playing the sport. Tennis participation is at its greatest among teenagers aged 14-17 years (16.2%), but starts slipping from 18 years onwards. While 7.0% of Australians overall play tennis, this slips to 4.3% of 50-64 year-olds and heads steadily south from there to 2.9% of the 65-plus group: the same two age groups most likely to be glued to the box during the Australian Open next week.
"Tennis is not gentle on the body, hence participation dropping off so sharply among the over-50s. But with over four of every 10 Australian Open viewers being 50 or older, it is clear that watching and playing tennis are not as strongly correlated as one might expect. This high proportion of mature viewers also has implications for advertisers and sponsors of the event, particularly brands aiming to reach an older audience.
"Obviously, however, age is just one of many factors at play here: indeed, the deep consumer data contained within Roy Morgan's Single Source allows brands to profile Australian Open viewers by variables as diverse as geographic location, gender, income and socio-economic status, attitudes to advertising, leisure activities and media consumption.
"Australian Open sponsors such as Kia, the ANZ, Coopers, Optus and Emirates clearly understand the importance of striking a chord with the event's audience; indeed, these viewers are substantially more likely than average to associate all five brands with the tournament.
"Of course, tennis clubs and organisations wishing to encourage greater participation could also benefit from Roy Morgan data. For example, bearing in mind the sport's global nature, it's interesting to note how a person's ethnic background can influence their likelihood of playing tennis and/or watching the Australian Open. Aussies born in China, India, and South Africa come in at above-average for playing the sport but below average for watching the Australian Open, while those born in mainland Europe are above average in both respects and those born in New Zealand are less likely to either watch or play. Insights such as these provide a clearer understanding of the market."
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Over 10 million Australians play Commonwealth Games Sports - 7 million Australians make swimming Australia's favourite
AFL is clearly Australia's most watched Football Code, while V8 Supercars have the local edge over Formula 1
Tennis viewers a valuable audience for advertisers
Wimbledon is here again, and for many Australian tennis fans, that means a fortnight of heavy TV viewing. And for brands advertising during the Wimbledon broadcast, that means a great time to catch the attention of some valuable c...
Tennis, cycling and socio-economic advantage
With Wimbledon and the Tour de France both kicking off this week, there will no doubt be plenty of sleepy sports fans in the coming few weeks – many of them from the wealthier end of the socio-economic spectrum, as the...
Summer sport showdown: tennis, cricket and soccer vie for Aussie TV viewers ...
Australian Open, Asian Cup, test cricket...TV sports fans have a lot of viewing options to enjoy this month. Roy Morgan Research reveals Australia's most avid tennis, cricket and soccer viewers.
Tennis fans like a tipple
If 2014 is anything like previous years, spectators at Wimbledon will polish off around 28,000 bottles of Champagne during the tournament. But do Aussie tennis fans share this love of bubbles? Read on...
Australian Open viewer profile
This profile contains data to help you understand people who watch the Australian Open on TV in terms of their demographics, attitudes, how they spend their leisure time and what media they use.
Tennis player profile
This profile contains data to help you understand Australians who play tennis, either occasionally or regularly, in terms of their demographics and attitudes, how they spend their leisure time and what media they use.

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TOLUCA, IL A freight train hit a garbage truck Friday near Toluca, killing a driver from Streator and injuring the train's engineer.
Dwayne A. Wilinski, 29, was pronounced dead Friday morning on Marshall County Road 2900 East.
The engineer, G.E. Hailey, 48, of Fort Madison, Iowa, was taken to St. Mary's Hospital in Streator with minor injuries.
The Marshall County coroner's office and the Burlington-Northern-Sante Fe Railroad are investigating the accident, which occurred around 11 a.m. at the crossing a mile and a half south of Illinois 17.
Wiliniski was driving a southbound truck owned by Illinois Valley Waste Co. when he started crossing the tracks and was struck by the eastbound train.
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STAMFORD, Conn. – April 5, 2016 – Four months from today, on Friday, August 5, NBCUniversal's coverage of the Games of the XXXI Olympiad begins from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Mary Carillo and Jimmy Roberts will be there in prominent roles as NBC Olympics correspondents.
With 27 Olympics between them, Carillo and Roberts will chronicle the stories of the day, offer essays, and present feature stories from a wide variety of locales ranging from the rainforest to the beach, and stopping many places in between.
"With nearly three decades of Olympics experience, Mary and Jimmy are adept at getting to the heart of unknown Olympic stories that viewers look forward to over the course of our coverage," said Jim Bell, Executive Producer, NBC Olympics.
Rio marks Carillo's 13th Olympic assignment overall and 10th for NBC. She has spent nearly three weeks traversing Brazil to film her travelogues, which have been a fundamental part of introducing the people, culture, and history of the host country and city to the U.S. television audience since the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Carillo also served as a correspondent for the 2014 Sochi Olympics and was the host and interviewer for a primetime 20-year retrospective documentary on Olympic figure skaters Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. She was late night host and correspondent at the 2012 London Olympics, 2010 Vancouver Olympics and 2008 Beijing Olympics.
A 13-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and writer, Roberts will reprise his role reporting on the stories of the Games, his 16th Olympic assignment. He has reported on "Ping Pong Diplomacy" in Beijing, Bode Miller in Vancouver, changes to Wimbledon for the Olympics in London, and hockey in Russia from Sochi. Over a career that spans more than 35 years in broadcasting and journalism, Roberts has covered major sports events including the Olympics, the Super Bowl, the World Series, the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the NBA Finals, Wimbledon, and all of golf's biggest events. As part of his work for NBC Sports and Golf Channel, Roberts will be a contributor for Masters.com this week.


According to The Wine Institute — who just sent me and my friend Jen Miner to the Northern California wine country on a research mission — September is California Wine Month.
September is a gorgeous time to visit Sonoma County, home to over 250 wineries and the towns of Petaluma, Kenwood and Sonoma. The grape harvest has just begun, so some vines have been picked clean, while others hang heavy with fruit. Mornings are cool and overcast, midday is sunny, and by 4:30 p.m., the sky starts to turn golden.
For a little travel-planning inspiration, here are some of the adventures that Jen and I enjoyed in Sonoma County, from Chardonnay-sipping to sleeping (on high thread-count sheets) in a former California mission.
We like wine. Specifically, Adam likes to drink it and I like to learn about it, think about it, seek it out and hunt it down.
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A working mom, a dedicated student and an inspiration to the community: Sondra Allen first became a Peirce College student in 1984.
Upon graduating high school, Sondra knew being a young mom would add some challenges as she made the decision to further her education. She already had overcome most peoples' expectations after having her first child in 10th grade and still choosing to pursue her high school diploma. Sondra knew attending college would certainly defy some odds and cause some controversy. But, that didn't stop Sondra; it inspired her.
After working with her high school counselor and doing some personal reflection, Sondra found Peirce to be the college she needed to succeed. For Sondra, it was the "perfect fit" for where she was in her life. "[Peirce] would be a perfect fit for me and my situation. It had a great reputation, it was local and not too far from where I was working," explains Sondra of why she decided to join the Peirce community.
In 1986, Sondra conquered her first goal and graduated with an Associate in Science for Administrative Office Assistance. This accomplishment was what she needed to continue moving forward with her career and life. But, in the back of Sondra's mind, she knew she had always wanted that four-year degree, and she wasn't fully done yet.
She knew it was time to return to school, despite how long she'd been away from it. She was ready for more.
So after twenty-eight years, Sondra returned to Peirce!
In 2014, Sondra started classes again, and before she knew it was graduating with that bachelor's degree she had always dreamed of. But, once again, Sondra had the desire to do more.
This time – there was no waiting. In 2016, the same year she graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Management, Sondra enrolled in Peirce's Master of Science in Organizational Leadership and Management (MSOLM) program.
As Sondra continues beating the odds as a former teen mom chasing her master's degree, she still finds time to connect with students on how they, too, can accomplish their goals no matter who they are or where they come from. Sondra is currently in the Vice President position of the Graduate Student Association where she also has served as a Student Senator in 2016. This has allowed her the opportunity to share her story while also gaining leadership experience.
As of June 2018, Sondra will walk across the commencement stage for the third time. She'll be surrounded by the Peirce community who has watched her grow over the past 34 years chasing the dream she has had since she was a little girl. We are all so proud of Sondra and cannot wait to watch her continue to grow in her career and motivate others with her enthusiasm, dedication and inspirational story.
If you or someone you know is interested in returning to school, like Sondra did, contact an Enrollment Specialist today at 215.670.9000 or admissions@peirce.edu.


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After the grueling four month season and two weeks of high-intensity playoff games, we are left with four NFL teams that still have a chance to make their way to the Super Bowl and compete for the Lombardi Trophy.
2012's postseason attrition continued this weekend as four more very good teams were proved to be not quite good enough. The Denver Broncos, the Green Bay Packers, the Seattle Seahawks and the Houston Texans all find themselves on the outside looking in as the playoff dance continues. Each team fought the good fight the Broncos and Seahawks were especially dogged in their pursuits but in the end, they came up short.
Four teams left standing. One more victory to gain access to the most celebrated championship game in all of American team sports. One more win and you're in.
Let's take a look at those conference championship games.
The Ravens surprised me (and just about everyone not living in the mid-Atlantic region) with their victory over the Broncos. Denver looked like the real deal, but Baltimore stepped up when they needed to, battling through two overtimes on their way to victory. The much-maligned Joe Flacco has looked excellent spearheading the Ravens offense receivers Anquan Boldin and Torrey Smith have looked great. If Ray Rice can get going too, Baltimore will put up some points. Their aging defense looks to have drunk from the fountain of youth; the entire unit is riding high. Sure, they allowed 35 points to the Broncos it doesn't matter. They are riding high and playing without fear.
New England took care of business, beating Houston 41-28 in a game that wasn't even that close. Tom Brady was his usual unflappably efficient self. Running backs Stevan Ridley and Shane Vereen, along with receiver Wes Welker and tight end Aaron Hernandez, helped the Patriot offense move the ball at will. The rapid-fire play calling and execution had the Texans on their heels all day. The loss of tight end Rob Gronkowski will hurt, but the team already learned how to play without him earlier this season. The defense looked great against the run, but the passing defense left something to be desired, both in terms of pass rush and coverage. If they can improve in those areas, the sky's the limit.
Baltimore won the first meeting between these two teams, but that was months ago. It's a whole new ballgame. The Ravens have a puncher's chance, but the New England offense will likely prove to be too much for them.
At the beginning of the season, the 49ers were considered a contender due to their stout defense and a powerful running game. They were led by an efficient game-manager of a quarterback. Now, while the defense remains fairly tough and the running game looks good, they also just happen to have the most dynamic player still standing in the playoffs under center. QB Colin Kaepernick set an NFL record with 181 rushing yards against the Packers along with two touchdowns. He also threw for nearly 300 yards and another pair of scores. And while the defense gave up four TDs, they were up against one of the most proficient offenses in the league. Their defensive line is a bit banged up, but they still have one of the best linebacking corps in the league. All systems are go in San Francisco.
It's been awhile since a top playoff seed received the sort of disdain the Falcons have seen this year. I'm as guilty as anyone; I picked them to lose their game against the Seahawks (though in my defense, I was almost right). Led by QB Matt Ryan, the Falcons pulled one out in the final seconds against one of the hottest teams in the league. Tight end Tony Gonzalez had a great game and finally got his first playoff win despite being in the NFL since the days of leather helmets. The Atlanta running game has looked so-so at times this season, but they got it together against Seattle. The defense looked great for three quarters before almost coughing it up in the end. They might be lucky to be here, but heythey're here.
Atlanta might have gotten a monkey off their collective backs with this win, but they're going up a San Francisco squad that looks legitimately great right now. The Falcons will put up a fight, but there's no denying the 49ers.


Thailand has seen rapid economic development in the past ten years, and most multinational corporations now have a presence here. Key industry sectors are Industrial & Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Hospitality & Leisure, and service industries such as Advertising & Media, and Professional Services & Consulting.
The sophistication of Thai HR has improved dramatically in recent years, with English communication skills becoming more the 'norm' rather than the exception for senior HR leaders. Thailand has now emerged as the sub-regional HR headquarters in many companies for the 'Indochina' countries of Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Occasionally Bangkok has been selected as the Asia Pacific HR headquarters of some multinationals. Today, top Thailand-based regional HR leadership positions still tend to be filled by expatriates, but we expect this this situation to evolve over time.


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What does illustration mean to Weapons of Reason magazine?
Weapons of Reason magazine recently deservedly won the Stack Award for 'Best Use of Illustration' for the Power issue.
Stack's is the world's only awards scheme dedicated entirely to independent magazines, and this year's Illustration section was judged by House of Illustration curator, Olivia Ahmad, and Simon Armstrong, book buyer for Tate museums.
Weapons of Reason is chunky magzine dedicated to tackling issues that don't usually get a visually impactful approach applied to them, using illustration to clarify, shine a new light and emphasise the 'human' element of the story. Their favoured style is very graphic illustration which can have an immediate impact without any distracting extraneous clutter.
The magazine is described as 'A project to understand the interconnected challenges shaping our world'. Did you see a consistently illustrated approach as an essential part of making these challenges clear to the reader?
Yes, illustration has the ability to clarify the complex in an artful and impactful way. It illuminates difficult to understand subjects and imbues the story with a sense of humanity. It also conveys visual thinking and helps to create 'penny drop' moments where a someone can suddenly see a concept or idea in a new light.
The illustration has a graphic emphasis – what was the thinking behind using this style of illustration? And were there any challenges finding graphic illustrators with a conceptual bent to their work for commissioning?
We aim to produce, lean, powerful images that travel fast to the brain, but contain enough craft and sophistication to delight the mind of the viewer – that's the balance. One of our biggest challenges is simplicity – crafting concepts and data visuals to achieve the leanest message possible. Simplicity isn't as easy as it seems, it requires many revisions and constant alertness to embellishments creeping in, and we tend to avoid illustrators that sprinkle excess decoration over their work.
What does winning the Stack Award for 'Best Use of Illustration' mean to Weapons of Reason?
It makes us incredibly happy to be recognised for sticking our neck out and pursuing an overtly illustration-led path in the expression of the magazine. To us, illustration is magic – it can be both visual poetry, and incredibly informative. Winning the award will only encourage us to carry on developing our visual language and brand.
Has the magazine had the impact you'd hoped for on it's readers?
Yes, we love seeing readers Instagrams and getting feedback via Twitter and our reader surveys. We aim to serve our audience well and welcome any feedback that leads to a better, more useful product.


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You don't have to agree that what they are saying is correct, but don't give them the message they are crazy for seeing things that way. Don't dismiss or minimize.
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Do anything that is not cruel or unethical that would be different from what you usually do in the situation.
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On a lighter note, I thought that I would tell my favorite Yogi Berra story. If you were reading earlier, I went over some of the great Yogisms. My favorite being "its like de ja veux all over again." But this is not to count out or discredit.
"I didn't say everthing I said," Yogi once insisted.
"What about him?" said Berra.
Can you imagine how that announcer must have felt after he said that? lol. Everytime I read that, I laugh. I would pay to have that moment on tape.
Yogi was a quick, and amazingly skilled defensive catcher in his playing days. He was a formittable hitter, and is an even nicer man off the field. This passage shows Berra's sensitive side.
Yogi is a fun loving man, with a child like innocence. Deep thinking sensitivity and conicidental wit, characterized this brillant ledgend. My favorite player of baseball's past, and catcher of 10 Yankee World Series Championships! That also included 14 pennants! Where would the Yankees be without this guy? That is what I want to know.


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Greg Carpenter, M&AMI, CM&AP, Fellow of the M&A Source, CBI, MBA
Email: greg@mabusinessadvisors.com
Mergers and Acquisitions Master Intermediary (M&AMI)
Certified Merger & Acquisition Professional (CM&AP)
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California Association of Business Brokers (CABB)
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Greg Carpenter is the Managing Partner for M&A Business Advisors in San Jose.
Industry Specialization – representing sellers and buyers: Precision Sheetmetal & Machining, Manufacturing, Distribution, Technical Testing, Construction Materials Manufacturing & Distribution and Transportation businesses.
Greg is an expert in materials management, marketing and sales, having held management positions in public and private companies in those positions.
Business Valuation Services, Reports provided include Calculation of Most Probable Selling Price, Management Only Value Report, and Standard Report suitable for litigation support, compliant with all major business appraisal standards including USPAP, AICPA, IRS Revenue Ruling 159-60 and others.
Greg's team has experience as brokers, owners, managers and advisors in a wide range of industries with revenues between $1M – $100M.
Greg was awarded recognition as Fellow of the M&A Source in 2017 for his service to the industry for over 30 years.
Greg serves on the CABB Board of Directors for 2020 – 2021.
Business owners benefit from Greg's many years of experience and study by his guidance through and mastery of the business sale process, from evaluation and business preparation through marketing and selling, due diligence, legal and closing the sale.
Contact Greg at 408-898-0393 or greg@mabusinessadvisors.com for a confidential consultation.
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John Mittelstet, CBI, CBB
Email: JMitt@mabusinessadvisors.com
Certified Business Broker (CBB)
John is the Managing Partner of the San Jose office of M&A Business Advisors, a full-service Business Brokerage and M&A Advisory Firm in the Western US. John has over 25 years of experience representing Sellers and Buyers in the CONFIDENTIAL sale of privately owned Businesses across a wide range of industries including Manufacturing, Service, Technology, Software, Distribution, Construction, Automotive, Food & Beverage Related Businesses as well as other industries with sales from $0 to more than $90MM per year. In recent years, John has focused on companies with sales from $2MM to $30MM.
John has been licensed with the California BRE since 1992 and his credentials include a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mathematics from Texas Tech, and post graduate work at the Harvard's President's class taught in conjunction with IBM. Additionally, John has earned the designation of Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) from the International Business Brokers Association. The CBI designation is granted to a select group of individuals who are seasoned in the industry, have completed over 68 hours of course work including financial analysis, pricing/valuation, legal and tax implications related to the sale or purchase of a business and have passed a comprehensive exam. With this designation, comes the assurance that you will be working with an individual who is specifically trained and has met all the requirements to be a professional and knowledgeable intermediary on your behalf.
John is also a member of the California Association of Business Brokers (CABB) and has earned the Certified Business Broker (CBB) designation. John has served as President of CABB for 2000 – 2001. John helped design CABB's two-day Introduction to Business Brokerage class, and was an instructor for this class throughout Northern California from its inception in 2008 through 2012. John also helped design and teach the CABB's Certified Business Broker re-certification class. John was on the CABB Board of directors from 1995 through 2013, and during that time chaired several committees to include the organization's web-site and education committees.
John knows that selling or buying a business of any size can be a complex and time-consuming process. John's hallmark strength, and commitment to his clients, is to make this process as smooth and fair, as possible for both parties, so that both Seller and Buyer leave the Closing table satisfied that they have participated in a successful transaction. References are available upon request. John can be reached at JMitt@mabusinessadvisors.com or at (408) 460-5446.
Rob Hartman, CBB
Certified Business Broker
Email: rob@mabusinessadvisors.com
Rob brings his unusually broad set of professional and personal experiences, problem solving skills, enthusiasm and energy to the business of business brokerage. Working to achieve his client's goals is foremost in his daily priorities and actions. To serve both his buying and selling clients, Rob taps into his experience in management, business ownership, the skilled trades, hi tech, wealth management and athletics.
Rob is well known amongst his peers and clients for tackling challenging problems and pushing deals across the finish line to closing.
References are available upon request. Rob can be reached at rob@mabusinessadvisors.com or 650-279-3097. Contact Rob for a complimentary consultation or opinion of value.
Tom Charron
Email: tom@mabusinessadvisors.com
Tom is a Merger & Acquisition Intermediary specializing in representing sellers and buyers of metal fabrication businesses as well as other types of related manufacturing businesses. Tom's 30+ years of business ownership, and the subsequent sale of his businesses, gives him a deep understanding of what an owner is going through when contemplating the sale of his/her business. His multiple ownership experiences give him the ability to advise sellers on how to prepare the business for sale. These experiences have underscored for Tom the importance of building and quarterbacking a team of professionals (transaction attorney, real property and estate attorneys, wealth managers, CPAs and tax specialists) to make sure his clients get to keep the lion's share of the price received for the business. Along with his association with M&A Business Advisors, Tom brings a wealth of experience that he can tap at any time the need arises. See Tom's experience below.
2017 to present – Tom joined M&A Business Advisors after vetting other M&A firms. He is currently specializing in the area of manufacturing and enjoys the interaction with the owners and management teams with whom he has built relationships.
2005 – 2017 After selling his companies he joined his brother's scrap metal business, Charron Metals. Besides helping run certain parts of the company, Tom became the sales manager overseeing over 300 local manufacturing companies and creating deep relationships with quite a few owners and managers of these companies.
1996 – 2004 Tom opened a successful scrap metal business in Sacramento with a partner, running it for 8 years after which they sold the company to Sims Metals, a publicly traded worldwide leader in the recycling field.
1993 – 2001 Tom purchased an existing manufacturing company when the opportunity presented itself. It was a 100,000 sq. ft. manufacturing plant in Texas manufacturing pallet racking and shelving systems. Products were shipped nationally to other retailers as well as supplying our own locations.
1984 – 2004 Tom started a material handling company and ran the company for 20 years prior to selling. During this period, Tom opened locations in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Reno employing up to 62 people and growing the business to over $14 million in annual sales.
Tom has a solid reputation based on honesty and integrity, two fundamental ingredients for a successful and lasting relationship with clients and colleagues. His experience, persistence, strong negotiating skills, communication style, contract knowledge, networking and reputation are all utilized in the M&A field.
Tom's current business success with M&A Business Advisors is built upon past clients and the trust that has been created over many years between him and other business owners. Contact Tom for a complimentary consultation at Tom@mabusinessadvisors.com or 408-891-5440
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