How much proof do the deniers need?
by Johann Hari
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THANK God man-made global warming was proven to be a hoax. Just imagine what the world might have looked like now if those conspiring scientists had been telling the truth. No doubt Nasa would be telling us that this year is now the hottest since humans began keeping records. The weather satellites would show that even when heat from the sun significantly dipped earlier this year, the world still got hotter. Russia’s vast forests would be burning to the ground in the fiercest drought they have ever seen, turning the air black in Moscow, killing 15,000 people, and forcing foreign embassies to evacuate. Because warm air holds more water vapour, the world’s storms would be hugely increasing in intensity and violence – drowning one fifth of Pakistan, and causing giant mudslides in China.
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Updated: 09:45AM Thu, 09 Sep 2010
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Goodbye Iraq, hello Iraq
by Eric S. Margolis
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US President Barack Obama told Americans last month his nation’s seven-year US occupation of Iraq was over. America is leaving Iraq. But it is also staying. Obama looked grim, uncomfortable and out of character as he delivered this confusing message. He even praised former President George W. Bush, the man responsible for the destruction of Iraq in an unnecessary war that wounded America’s image around the globe.
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Updated: 10:10AM Wed, 08 Sep 2010
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In Washington, nice guys finish last
by Eric S. Margolis
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NEW YORK has picked up the bad Euro-habit of going lazy in August, when it’s so hot you can fry eggs on 42nd street. Even so, angry mobs of New York rednecks were protesting against the building of an Islamic community centre two blocks from the 9/11 Ground Zero.
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Updated: 10:27AM Fri, 03 Sep 2010
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Managing racial bias in the civil service
by Lim Hong Hai
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RECENT incidents of racial bias in schools are worrying. After each reported case, officials typically deny: it did not happen and it is all a misunderstanding. Or they play it down: it is exceptional, so no big deal and no need to get excited. But almost certainly those things happened and they are corrosive of our 1Malaysian fabric.
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Updated: 09:34AM Thu, 02 Sep 2010
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America’s Islamic centre
By Ziad Haider
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TO BUILD or not to build. That is the rancorous debate America is engaged in regarding a proposed Islamic community centre near Ground Zero - the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York.
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Updated: 11:11PM Wed, 01 Sep 2010
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