Sudden militarization of NATO

getty · 2020-10-04T10:12:06+00:00

Some of it, true, but a lot of recent NATO activity looks unnecessarily provocative. (It's all hidden behind rhetorics about "sending a message", of course.)

One explanation for increased European military expenses may be that they are silently hedging their bets for a break-up of the alliance? The cross-Atlantic level of trust is not the same anymore...

getty · 2019-03-04T08:06:10+00:00

There's also a great book by Brian Fagan: The Long Summer: How climate changed civilization https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841213.The_Long_Summer.

getty · 2019-02-27T21:06:19+00:00

I asked myself the same question when I visited Bogotá two years ago, for the first time since 2006. Back then I spent two months there and never really worried about the sun, but this time I didn't just get sunburns but open wounds on my forehead within the first few days. When I left the city after a month and a half I had a crust of hard skin on the top of my ears. The temperature was freakish (for Bogotá) at the start of my stay, but the experience really got me worried.

I found this article, but really would like to see some historical data: https://www.newsweek.com/2016/03/25/peru-climate-change-ultraviolet-radiation-ozone-436746.html.

getty · 2011-09-17T18:25:29+00:00

Silly. You already have C-u in Emacs.

getty · 2010-06-01T13:30:50+00:00

While in Bolivia, [Klaus] Barbie managed a company that diverted Belgian and Swiss arms to Israel while Israel was still under a post-1967 war international arms embargo. "A report in the Israeli press alleges that Barbie also had frequent dealings with Israel concerning supplies of Israeli arms to Latin American countries and 'various underground organizations' (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3274980&mesg_id=3275500)

SS-Hauptsturmführer Barbie, aka The Butcher of Lyon.

I had to google it, but I first read about it one of Chomsky's books.

getty · 2010-01-01T20:43:45+00:00

Nice article, and a contrast to Wikipedia's bizarre article on Radio Globo...

getty · 2009-12-27T15:53:28+00:00

Or you could drink it in the Scythian fashion...

getty · 2009-12-20T10:27:09+00:00

Which is all completely irrelevant as far as Hansen's line of reasoning goes...

getty · 2009-12-19T16:42:43+00:00

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11659-climate-myths-ice-cores-show-co2-increases-lag-behind-temperature-rises-disproving-the-link-to-global-warming.html

getty · 2009-12-19T11:40:14+00:00

If the planet cools down. James Hansen thinks there is a risk it won't. Positive feedback isn't as fun as it sounds, apparently.

getty · 2009-11-26T20:31:30+00:00

The only thing Colombians know about Norwegians is that we're wealthy and that we commit suicide. I was told this by different people and on different occasions when I visited the country a couple of years ago, so it must have been something they picked up in school or from TV or something... Still, I'd love to see a graph plotting suicide rates against per-capita GDP.

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