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korbyn
Bat Cave, NC
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Meet singles at DateHookup.dating, we're 100% free! Join now!
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| 6/17/2017 2:19:53 PM |
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korbyn
Bat Cave, NC
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| 6/17/2017 4:49:58 PM |
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apokernut
Elk Grove Village, IL
55, joined Jan. 2008
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one of them is masculinity insecurity!
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| 6/17/2017 5:16:10 PM |
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stratus55
Jackson, GA
52, joined Jan. 2017
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women who think they own you,or try to..an they want you to talk etc as an when,and only when they want you.......do as they say,or someone is waitin that will maybe..some dont even realize maybe there doin this,i dont know.. too many people,not enough help to ones who really need it......
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| 6/17/2017 5:31:46 PM |
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rightguyforu652
Lisle, IL
40, joined May. 2017
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Too many players like me getting all the women
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| 6/17/2017 5:32:38 PM |
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track_empirion
Pineville, NC
50, joined Mar. 2014
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| 6/17/2017 5:45:09 PM |
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condor_0000
Tampa, FL
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"We're Going To Become Extinct, Probably Within 100 Years," " Eminent Scientist, Frank Fenner, Says
September 17, 2016 "Information Clearing House
June 16, 2010
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45495.htm
Excerpts:
FRANK Fenner doesn't engage in the skirmishes of the climate wars. To him, the evidence of global warming is in. Our fate is sealed.
"We're going to become extinct," the eminent scientist says. "Whatever we do now is too late."
Fenner is an authority on extinction. The emeritus professor in microbiology at the Australian National University played a leading role in sending one species into oblivion: the variola virus that causes smallpox.
And his work on the myxoma virus suppressed wild rabbit populations on farming land in southeastern Australia in the early 1950s.
He made the comments in an interview at his home in a leafy Canberra suburb. Now 95, he rarely gives interviews. But until recently he went into work each day at the ANU's John Curtin School of Medical Research, of which he was director from 1967 to 1973.
Decades after his official retirement from the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, which he set up in 1973, he continued a routine established when he was running world-class facilities while conducting research.
He'd get to work at 6.30am to spend a couple of hours writing textbooks before the rest of the staff arrived.
Fenner, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and of the Royal Society, has received many awards and honours. He has published hundreds of scientific papers and written or co-written 22 books.
His deep understanding of evolution has never diminished his fascination with observing it in the field. That understanding was shaped by studies of every scale, from the molecular level to the ecosystem and planetary levels.
His biological perspective is also geological.
He wrote his first papers on the environment in the early 1970s, when human impact was emerging as a big problem.
He says the Earth has entered the Anthropocene. Although it is not an official epoch on the geological timescale, the Anthropocene is entering scientific terminology. It spans the time since industrialisation, when our species started to rival ice ages and comet impacts in driving the climate on a planetary scale.
Fenner says the real trouble is the population explosion and "unbridled consumption".
The number of Homo sapiens is projected to exceed 6.9 billion this year, according to the UN. With delays in firm action on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Fenner is pessimistic.
"We'll undergo the same fate as the people on Easter Island," he says. "Climate change is just at the very beginning. But we're seeing remarkable changes in the weather already.
"The Aborigines showed that without science and the production of carbon dioxide and global warming, they could survive for 40,000 or 50,000 years. But the world can't. The human species is likely to go the same way as many of the species that we've seen disappear.
"Homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years," he says. "A lot of other animals will, too. It's an irreversible situation. I think it's too late. I try not to express that because people are trying to do something, but they keep putting it off.
"Mitigation would slow things down a bit, but there are too many people here already."
In 1980, Fenner had the honour of announcing the global eradication of smallpox to the UN's World Health Assembly. The disease is the only one to have been eradicated.
Thirty years after that occasion, his outlook is vastly different as he contemplates the chaos of a species on the brink of mass extinction.
"As the population keeps growing to seven, eight or nine billion, there will be a lot more wars over food," he says.
"The grandchildren of today's generations will face a much more difficult world."
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| 6/18/2017 1:42:41 AM |
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korbyn
Bat Cave, NC
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ms_Champagne
AngualastoAustralian Capital
Australia
97, joined Aug. 2016
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Peeps don't look after "mother Earth" .... People being selfish all over the world.
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| 6/18/2017 2:40:57 AM |
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eyesofmedusa
San Antonio, TX
53, joined Jun. 2012
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Peeps don't look after "mother Earth" .... People being selfish all over the world.
I'm going with this..selfishness...
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| 6/18/2017 4:26:11 PM |
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korbyn
Bat Cave, NC
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| 6/18/2017 4:31:14 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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That any other DH member would mistake me for KORBYN.
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| 6/18/2017 4:45:28 PM |
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condor_0000
Tampa, FL
60, joined Feb. 2013
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"We're Going To Become Extinct, Probably Within 100 Years," " Eminent Scientist, Frank Fenner, Says
September 17, 2016 "Information Clearing House
June 16, 2010
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45495.htm
Stephen Hawking warns humans will have to leave Earth in another 100 years to survive
Sarmistha Acharya
International Business Times
May 3, 2017
https://www.yahoo.com/news/stephen-hawking-warns-humans-leave-114313402.html
Humans must leave Earth within 100 years in order to survive, warns renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.
In his new documentary Expedition New Earth as part of BBC's science season Tomorrow's World, Hawking will claim time is running out for Earth, and humans need to leave the planet to survive situations like climate change, asteroid strikes, epidemics and overpopulation.
This is not the first time Hawking is warning about the need to move out to a new planet. In November 2016 at the Oxford Union, Oxford University's debating society, Hawking said humans would have to leave Earth and move to a new planet if we are to survive as a species beyond 1,000 years.
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| 6/18/2017 4:53:49 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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Who the hell cares?
Most of us won't be here in 100 years anyway.  damn duh
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| 6/18/2017 5:39:07 PM |
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uber_goober
Danielsville, GA
51, joined May. 2016
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Willful, arrogant stupidity
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| 6/18/2017 5:42:15 PM |
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rubyrose2015
Seagrove, NC
98, joined Sep. 2015
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People who Never keep their word.
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| 6/18/2017 6:35:39 PM |
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condor_0000
Tampa, FL
60, joined Feb. 2013
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Who the hell cares?
Most of us won't be here in 100 years anyway. damn duh
That's exactly the kind of "f**k you all" sentiment that we've all come to expect from right-wing capitalists.
Additionally, it's all happening at an exponentially much faster pace than was previously anticipated. Only a few years ago Stephen Hawking was saying that humans would have to leave Earth within 1000 years. Now he's saying 100 years. Personally, I doubt we'll make it another 50.
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| 6/18/2017 6:58:20 PM |
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criminal_1
FPO, AP
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| 6/19/2017 1:54:01 AM |
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korbyn
Bat Cave, NC
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| 6/19/2017 3:43:34 AM |
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condor_0000
Tampa, FL
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How about the Evil American Empire and their proxy army of ISIS terrorists? That's a pretty big problem for the world today. It's probably going to lead to World War III.
Imagine the Allies for World War III. The US will team up with ISIS, Al Qaeda, Saudi Arabia and Israel. That's a line-up of the most evil scum the world has ever united.
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US shoots down Syrian government aircraft
By Peter Symonds
19 June 2017
World Socialist Web Site
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/19/syri-j19.html
In a marked escalation of the war in Syria, a US F-18 fighter jet yesterday shot down a Syrian government fighter bomber for the first time, claiming that it had been attacking pro-US rebel forces on the ground near Raqqa. While nominally fighting Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) forces, the US shoot-down makes clear that the real target of American-led operations is the ousting of the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad.
The US military justified the provocative act by claiming that the Syrian SU-22 had been bombing near so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) troops. It cited fighting that had taken place hours earlier between the Syrian military and SDF forces holding the town of Ja’Din as showing “hostile intent” and declared that attacks on “legitimate counter-ISIS operations will not be tolerated.” The statement absurdly declared that it was not seeking “to fight Syrian regime, Russian or pro-regime forces partnered with them.”
There is nothing legitimate about the military activities of the US and its allies inside Syria, which, under the guise of the “war on terror,” are seeking to carve out areas that can be used to mount operations against the Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian backers. As ISIS militias in both Syria and Iraq are in retreat, the US preparations to move against Assad are coming increasingly into the open.
The Syrian army issued a statement saying that its aircraft had been on a mission against ISIS when it came under fire, accused the US of “coordinating” with ISIS and warned that the incident would have “dangerous repercussions.” The pilot has not been found and is presumed dead.
The US attack follows its shooting down of an unmanned pro-Syrian government drone earlier in June after it allegedly fired on US-backed troops in southern Syria near the border with Iraq. The US military has unilaterally declared “a deconfliction zone” with a radius of 55 kilometres around a training base at al-Tanf—a key border crossing between the two countries.
In effect, Washington has carved out an area of Syria where US and British special forces train so-called rebels—supposedly to fight ISIS, but in reality for its proxy war against the Assad regime. The US has already conducted air strikes against pro-Syrian government forces that have sought to regain control of the vital border area.
Last week Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov phoned US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and demanded that the US stop attacking Syrian government forces as they seek to drive ISIS militias out of the border areas. “Lavrov expressed his categorical disagreement with the US strikes on pro-government forces and called on him to take concrete measures to prevent similar incidents in the future,” the Russian foreign ministry reported.
The situation throughout Syria remains extremely fraught with the Assad regime accusing the US-led forces besieging Raqqa of allowing ISIS fighters to escape to the south where government troops are battling ISIS for control of the city of Deir es-Zor.
Over the weekend, Iran’s military fired ground-to-ground missiles for the first time from Iranian territory against ISIS positions inside Syria. While claiming that they were in retaliation for the June 7 ISIS attacks in Tehran, the missile attacks into the Deir es-Zor area were clearly aimed at bolstering the Syrian government forces.
The US proxy war in Syria is part of a broader confrontation which is not just aimed at the Assad regime but more broadly against its backers—Iran and Russia. Trump’s trip to the Middle East last month was above all aimed at forging an alliance with Saudi Arabia and its allies in the Gulf States against Iran and its allies in the region.
The immediate outcome was the imposition of an all-out, Saudi-led economic blockade against Qatar—itself an act of war. Riyadh accused Qatar of sponsoring terrorism, but the real reason lies in Qatar’s relations with Iran and its reluctance to join Saudi Arabia in its anti-Iranian war drive.
The Saudi monarchy, which has long regarded Iran as its chief regional rival, is deeply hostile to the Assad regime in Damascus, which it regards as part of a Shiite crescent that includes Shiite parties and militias in Iraq and Lebanon. Backed to the hilt by the US, Saudi Arabia is waging its own war in Yemen against Houthi rebels, who, it claims, are being supported by Iran and who ousted the US-Saudi puppet government in 2014.
The Trump regime signalled its determination to ramp up the war in Syria in April when it launched a barrage of cruise missile strikes against a Syrian government air base on the pretext of unsubstantiated claims the regime had carried out a gas attack. The US military is determined to rebuild anti-Assad forces after the devastating blow suffered by these pro-US militias in being driven out of Aleppo.
The shooting down of the Syrian SU-22 is another demonstration that the US is prepared to resort to the most reckless means to defend its footholds in Syria and lay the basis for the broader war that is being prepared.
While proclaiming its own “deconfliction zones” or no-go areas, the US military reiterated last month that it will operate at will throughout Syria. “We don’t recognise any specific zone in itself that we preclude ourselves from operating in,” Lieutenant General Jeffrey Harrigan, commander of the US air forces in the region, declared.
As a result the stage is set for a dramatic escalation of the Middle East conflict where a relatively minor incident or clash involving US forces and their Syrian, Iranian or Russian counterparts could erupt into a war that draws in major regional and world powers.
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yetskimama
Walterboro, SC
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How crazy everything has gotten in this World,,, Morning Korbyn  :
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| 6/20/2017 5:29:31 AM |
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korbyn
Bat Cave, NC
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korbyn
Bat Cave, NC
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bumblebee7
Fort Payne, AL
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Too many people on the planet.
The solution?
Huge natural disaster.
Selective thinning of the herd.
Outlaw having kids for about 30 years.
Who knows?
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| 6/22/2017 7:45:56 AM |
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korbyn
Bat Cave, NC
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| 6/22/2017 7:48:00 AM |
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rightguyforu702
Lisle, IL
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Money.
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| 6/22/2017 7:02:25 PM |
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korbyn
Bat Cave, NC
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| 6/22/2017 11:35:35 PM |
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korbyn
Bat Cave, NC
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