Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Is it or isn't it?

Commentary By Ron Beasley



Memclimate 



The above is a snapshot of memeorandum today.  Every headline an example of irresponsible journalism.  I may be wrong but I don't recall seeing this at memeorandum at all:



Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security

The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to
the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military
intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass
migration and pandemics, military and intelligence analysts say.





The report is an eyeopener and you can read it here.

Global climate change presents a serious national security
threat which could impact Americans at home, impact United States
military operations and heighten global tensions, according to a new study
released by a blue-ribbon panel of retired admirals and generals from all
branches of the armed services.



The study, �National Security and the Threat of Climate Change,�
explores ways projected climate change is a threat multiplier in
already fragile regions, exacerbating conditions that lead to failed states
� the breeding grounds for extremism and terrorism.



The CNA Corporation brought together eleven retired three-star
and four-star admirals and generals to provide advice, expertise and
perspective on the impact of climate change. CNAC writers and researchers
compiled the report under the board's direction and review.



The report includes several formal findings:




  • Projected climate change poses a serious threat to America's national security.

  • Climate change acts as a threat multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world.

  • Projected climate change will add to tensions even in stable regions of the world.

  • Climate change, national security and energy dependence are a related set of global challenges.


Meanwhile the center of the cult of Mormon and the least enlightened and most Republican state in the land has passed a bill disputing Climate change.  

Carbon dioxide is "essentially harmless" to human beings and good
for plants. So now will you stop worrying about global warming?

Utah's
House of Representatives apparently has at least. Officially the most
Republican state in America, its political masters have adopted a
resolution condemning "climate alarmists", and disputing any scientific
basis for global warming.

The measure, which passed by 56-17, has no legal force, though it was predictably claimed by climate change sceptics as a great victory in the wake of the controversy caused by a mistake over Himalayan glaciers in the UN's landmark report on global warming.



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  1. Malignant BouffantFebruary 14, 2010 at 4:18 PM

    My favorite on memeo recently was the "SOCIALIST PROFESSOR" shooting, based on one student's rating on "Abuse the Professor.com"
    I'm about ready to crawl into a cave & blow up the entrance behind me.

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  2. KatFebruary 14, 2010 at 4:43 PM

    Another climate-change story that hasn't gotten much press:
    Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers:
    ExxonMobil cash supported concerted campaign to undermine case for man-made warming

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