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David Korfhage

Story of the Week: Destruction of the Tea in Boston - 10 views

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  • David Korfhage on 06 Mar 11
     
    Excerpts from the writings of John Adams, on the Boston Tea Party
Eduardo Medeiros

comunistas - Terrorista de Oslo era de extrema direita branco loiro limpinho e cheirosinho - 1 views

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  • Eduardo Medeiros on 23 Jul 11
     
    Acabei de assistir uma reportagem sobre o ataque terrorista de Oslo na Noruega. Ao contrário do que a mídia conservadora suspeitava ou, até mesmo, desejava o atentado não foi provocado por um terrorista islâmico fundamentalista. Mas o objetivo desse post não é defender o Islã e sim alertar para um fenômeno que vem crescendo no Brasil e pode ser visto mais claramente na internet: o crescimento de uma direita raivosa que usa técnicas importadas da direita americana do Tea Party.
Javier E

Opinion | The Republican Climate Closet - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • the 2015 subsidies were part of a much larger, must-pass budget bill. So was the 2018 tax credit for burying emissions. But with Republicans in full control of Congress, you can bet those measures would not have gotten through unless senior people in the party had wanted it to happen.
  • he looked me in the eye.“We know this problem is real,” he said, or words to that effect. “We know we are going to have to do a deal with the Democrats. We are waiting for the fever to cool.”
  • He meant the fever in the Republican base, then in full foaming-at-the-mouth, Tea Party mode. Denial of climate change was an article of faith in the Tea Party, and lots of Republican officeholders who had been willing to discuss the problem and possible solutions just a few years earlier had gone into hiding
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  • The fever never really cooled, of course. It transmuted into the raging xenophobia and nativism that put Donald Trump in the White House
  • What the fellow told me that day still holds true: Lots of Republicans know in their hearts that this problem is real
  • Certainly, some Republicans seem to believe that scientists are engaged in a worldwide conspiracy to cook the books on climate change. But they’re not all that crazy. And you can see this in the way that bits and pieces of sensible climate policy keep sneaking through Congress.
  • As long as nobody in those red districts back home is really watching, Republican members of Congress will adopt low-key measures to help cut emissions. They especially like ones that offer additional benefits, like building up the tax base in rural communities, as wind and solar farms do.
  • they tell you the political situation may not be quite as hopeless as it looks. Lurking below the surface of our ugly politics is, I believe, a near consensus to do something big on climate change.
  • Even if Democrats take Congress and the White House in 2020 and push forward an ambitious climate bill in 2021, they are likely to need at least a handful of Republican votes in the Senate
  • We ought to hope for more than that. The policy will be more durable if it passes Congress with substantial bipartisan majorities, as all of our landmark environmental laws did.
  • the Republicans — some of them, at least — are starting to sense political risk in continued climate denial. Their constituents, battered by the fires and torrential rains and the incessant rise of tidal flooding, are knocking on the closet door.
  • Frank Luntz, the pollster who wrote a scurrilous memorandum 17 years ago counseling Republicans to obfuscate the science of climate change, is among those who have come around
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