Another London Terrorist Attack

[Dill]

(06-05-2017, 05:26 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: You don't know what's going on in our country anymore than we know what's going on in your country other than what we read, which is not always the truth, it's a partial truth designed to make you biased one way or the other.

Bullies? Who bullied Greece and UK? The EU? Angela Merkel is a big bully, I don't hear you crying about her.

Actually, Mike, Hollo does have a better idea of what's going on in the US than many Americans do.

There are ways of vetting and cross-checking what one reads to eliminate the "partial truth" and outright distortions.
You just threw up a long, misinformed post about climate change, confusing air pollution with global warming and offering a link from the Fraser Institute, funded by the Koch brothers and Exxon--before the latter finally turned the corner and agreed with their own scientists, that global warming is anthropogenic.

Every statement and press release and "study" put out by the Fraser Institute should not be immediately disqualified because it is from the FI. But it certainly needs to be checked against other sources. You should know that the point of the FI is political, not scientific. It was created with support from the extraction industries to counter growing scientific consensus regarding global warming. And its funders are angry that Ontario has almost completely phased out coal as an energy source. Good for Ontario, bad for coal profits.

You have also accepted as valid Trump's characterizations of the Paris Accord without checking. You ran with your first impression, taking no time to learn what individual countries are actually agreeing to and why. As soon as you are challenged, you claim "same old crap" and you are "done."  This is simply to operate at the level of first impressions.

All news and all science are not all BS and "bias." But one can indeed BS a BSer if he's inclined to read only sources that confirm his worldview and not inclined to check them at all. There are people who take much more care in assessing what they read. They are not "done" when their views aren't confirmed by authoritative sources.