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hatrack

(59,574 posts) Sat Oct 17, 2015, 10:35 AM Oct 2015

NatGeo Climate Change Issue Arrives - Better Get It Done Before Murdoch Visits, I Guess . . . .

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/climate-change/special-issue/

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NatGeo Climate Change Issue Arrives - Better Get It Done Before Murdoch Visits, I Guess . . . . (Original Post) hatrack Oct 2015 OP

Bill Nye has been Wellstone ruled Oct 2015 #1

Yep, Murdoch went to war with Aus. gov't over the carbon tax cprise Oct 2015 #2

There's no "like" about it ... Nihil Oct 2015 #3

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

1. Bill Nye has been

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sat Oct 17, 2015, 11:29 AM

Oct 2015

screaming to high hell for years about climate changes and showing proof of these changes. I wonder if the major of the populace has a clue? If they have a app for this,then maybe the clueless will be educated. Not.

cprise

(8,445 posts)

2. Yep, Murdoch went to war with Aus. gov't over the carbon tax

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sun Oct 18, 2015, 02:47 PM

Oct 2015

...got them booted out and replaced with climate deniers who repealed the tax.

He controls about 60% of the newspaper circulation in Australia. Its like a brainwashing machine at work.

Nihil

(13,508 posts)

3. There's no "like" about it ...

Reply to cprise (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 19, 2015, 07:55 AM

Oct 2015

> Its like a brainwashing machine at work.

It *IS* a brainwashing machine and a very successful one as well,
both in terms of profitability and in producing a self-sustaining
level of ignorance in the population that will continue to support
the mould-like growth of the deniers.

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