I’m watching Rachel Maddow again. She starts her show with a long winded chat about the USA’s work on working up Penicillin into quantities that needed in wartime. She moves the conversation to the fact that this is department that is being shutdown by Trump and friends. All you scientists. Move to Kansas on 30 days notice or you are out of a job. No. We can’t show you your new lab because it doesn’t exist yet.

She talks about what research won’t be published.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V07Zc3wBCiE
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Senator Nick McKim
1 hr ·

Farmer Pete Mailler is right on saying there is “widespread wilful ignorance” about climate change, and it’s directly tied to corporate donations. I’m back in Canberra and the place is crawling with corporate lobbyists, many here to collect on their political donations. Our farmers are watching extreme weather events destroy the land and their livelihoods and must be listened to.

‘Action now’: the farmers standing up against ‘wilful ignorance’ on climate

The challenge for farmers is how to discuss global warming without scaring people out of food production
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jul/02/action-now-the-farmers-standing-up-against-wilful-ignorance-on-climate

I watchers her show tonight too.

and I also agree with the Guardian Article “Willful Stupidity” indeed

Not to make light of the situation:
Ogmog said:

party_pants said:

We could breed zooplankton, fed on algae. Would probably be the most efficient method of farming meat proteins. The zooplankton would be ground up into a paste or powder and then pressed into pellets, or formed into other shape to resemble products obtained from higher food chain animals.

Now there’s the real “final” solution to the Protein/Population Problem…
…convince people that the green wafers are zooplankton…
…while actually…
…well, you know…

• wink * wink * nudge * nudge *

Sorry…
…not a fan of man…
having always seen people
as THE Plague upon the Face of the Earth,
Feeding our sorry arses to each other seems like social justice.

Seriously: Don’t miss Sarahs Mums original Post/Point

it’s well worth the wait for Rachel to (as usual) come to her point

Ogmog said:

Seriously: Don’t miss Sarahs Mums original Post/Point

it’s well worth the wait for Rachel to (as usual) come to her point

That’s the problem, she must get paid by the word as she’s never shy of one. I normally just can’t be bothered wading through it all.

Ogmog said:

Seriously: Don’t miss Sarahs Mums original Post/Point

it’s well worth the wait for Rachel to (as usual) come to her point

That’s the problem, she must get paid by the word as she’s never shy of one. I normally just can’t be bothered wading through it all.

sibeen said:

Ogmog said:

Seriously: Don’t miss Sarahs Mums original Post/Point

it’s well worth the wait for Rachel to (as usual) come to her point

That’s the problem, she must get paid by the word as she’s never shy of one. I normally just can’t be bothered wading through it all.

Seems you aren’t short of a word either.

sibeen said:

Ogmog said:

Seriously: Don’t miss Sarahs Mums original Post/Point

it’s well worth the wait for Rachel to (as usual) come to her point

That’s the problem, she must get paid by the word as she’s never shy of one. I normally just can’t be bothered wading through it all.

Zip to about 9 minutes if you want to miss the pencillin rant.

I think Rachel is one of the things that makes me think there is still hope for the USA.

Oh, i thought this was sbout funding cuts for csiro atmospheres division.

There have been plenty of those over the past 40 years.

mollwollfumble said:

Oh, i thought this was sbout funding cuts for csiro atmospheres division.

There have been plenty of those over the past 40 years.

Not cuts, productivity dividends.

AwesomeO said:

mollwollfumble said:

Oh, i thought this was sbout funding cuts for csiro atmospheres division.

There have been plenty of those over the past 40 years.

Not cuts, productivity dividends.

> All you scientists. Move to Kansas on 30 days notice or you are out of a job.

We get one like that in csiro just about every year.

mollwollfumble said:

AwesomeO said:

mollwollfumble said:

Oh, i thought this was sbout funding cuts for csiro atmospheres division.

There have been plenty of those over the past 40 years.

Not cuts, productivity dividends.

> All you scientists. Move to Kansas on 30 days notice or you are out of a job.

We get one like that in csiro just about every year.

We’ve almost laid out the groundwork on how to shutdown climate research.

I remember a conversation from back when I was doing my Master’s about how there was a time when lots of the research had the word ‘multicultural’ in the header and how that had changed into ‘climate change’ and how now that had disappeared too.

sibeen said:

Ogmog said:

Seriously: Don’t miss Sarahs Mums original Post/Point

it’s well worth the wait for Rachel to (as usual) come to her point

That’s the problem, she must get paid by the word as she’s never shy of one. I normally just can’t be bothered wading through it all.

Personally, I find it entertaining trying to follow where she’s going on her daily rambles…

I’m often stunned when she brings the threads together, weaving a rope with which to hang
some a_hole that would otherwise have slipped the noose by getting away with slime that got
passed many other reporters who hadn’t made the connection between long strings of misdeeds
that taken together create a picture of their character, motive & agenda.

I also appreciated when she brings in corroborating experts …and the first thing she asks is;
“Did I get the story right? Is there anything I left out?”…and they say, “Nope! You nailed it!”

I doano… I guess viewers with a short attention span that need their meat cut up into byte sized
easy to swallow chucks, they might be more comfortable getting their information via FOX NEWS.

Ogmog said:

sibeen said:

Ogmog said:

Seriously: Don’t miss Sarahs Mums original Post/Point

it’s well worth the wait for Rachel to (as usual) come to her point

That’s the problem, she must get paid by the word as she’s never shy of one. I normally just can’t be bothered wading through it all.

Personally, I find it entertaining trying to follow where she’s going on her daily rambles…

I’m often stunned when she brings the threads together, weaving a rope with which to hang
some a_hole that would otherwise have slipped the noose by getting away with slime that got
passed many other reporters who hadn’t made the connection between long strings of misdeeds
that taken together create a picture of their character, motive & agenda.

I also appreciated when she brings in corroborating experts …and the first thing she asks is;
“Did I get the story right? Is there anything I left out?”…and they say, “Nope! You nailed it!”

I doano… I guess viewers with a short attention span that need their meat cut up into byte sized
easy to swallow chucks, they might be more comfortable getting their information via FOX NEWS.

I also like to watch her hands.

I remember one of my Master’s supervisors desperately wanting me to make hand signals and lively gestures while talking. I get it. I’m not good at it. Sometimes I am talking to someone and notice my hands have become animated and it surprises me.

Rachel is so good at it.

Rachel is also about history and metaphor. And I like that too.

Rachel’s smarter than the average Yank
…an Oxford Educated, Rhodes Scholar…
She’s kilometers ahead of the average Bimbo
reading someone else’s news from a prompter.