Here's one for Solvee...Russians claim US employing "Climate Change Weapon"

No this is no drug-induced delusion of Solve or satirical fantasy of Alan,  this is for REAL!

"As Russia reels under broiling temperatures completely outside the range of its experience, a widely quoted Russian political scientist is voicing the suspicion that the regional climate change is the deliberate work of the US, according to Radio Free Europe."

His idea is that the US is secretly trying to kill Russians and wipe out their crops with “climate-change weapons.”

Faced with soaring temperatures and the resulting droughts, crop failures, heat stroke deaths and wildfires, the deputy director of the Strategic Culture Foundation is suggesting that it had to have been deliberate. This had to have been an act of war, perpetrated by an enemy. 

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alan.peterson
17 August 2010 - 8:31pm

That's why those guys with the sunglasses and black trench coats were passing out free bags of kidney beans on the street corners last month.

bigC
17 August 2010 - 8:51pm

I'm surprised you haven't got Areshev in your favourites Mike.  he's a Russian version of Stephen Biddle.  Talks absolute bollocks for money.  If you can get a niche it's very lucrative.  He made a fortune when the Georgians invaded South Ossetia.  Went on every Russian talk show insisting that this was the beginning of NATO's invasion of Mother Russia.  Anyone with half a brain can see through such people and you can bet that every producer that hires him knows he's a fraud - but one who ropes in viewers. 

In the US the same kind of fake iconclast  claims that the President is a fake American, or even funnier, is a socialist!  Just think Glenn Beck, Rush limbaugh, Sarah Palin etc and you've got an accurate picture of Areshev.

Iron Mike
18 August 2010 - 2:30pm

Just think Glenn Beck, Rush limbaugh, Sarah Palin etc and you've got an accurate picture of Areshev.

Actually, all three have much more credibility than Areshev.  But I figured the conspiracy would appeal to the drug-addled, "Swiss Miss" Solve, given his penchant for such clap trap.

Poltiser
25 August 2010 - 5:17am

Lies are an effective weapon. They radicalize people, stupid believe and clever need to waist time to deal with obvious lies...

Very dangerous.

alan.peterson
17 August 2010 - 8:59pm

 Anyone with half a brain can see through such people ...

That's no way to talk about Solve.

Iron Mike
18 August 2010 - 7:39pm

You're right.  It's an insult to people with half a brain.

owly
19 August 2010 - 6:05pm

Isn't Solve a paste pot ?

Iron Mike
19 August 2010 - 11:27pm

Perhaps that's all his half a brain is capable.  Solve's postings are a reminder of the risk of long term drug abuse. 

bigC
19 August 2010 - 1:39pm

Actually, all three [Beck, Palin and Limbaugh] have much more credibility than Areshev. 

They're mirror images of him Mike.  They specialise in telling the credulous what they want to hear,  irrespective of the evidence disproving it.  (eg, Barak Obama, a creature of Wall Street, is a socialist)

Iron Mike
19 August 2010 - 5:32pm
They're mirror images of him Mike.  They specialise in telling the credulous what they want to hear,  irrespective of the evidence disproving it.

That's one posibility.  The other possibility is they have examined and rejected evidence on subjects that the less critical (and more gullible) Left has embraced, such as Global Warming.

bigC
20 August 2010 - 6:55am

A good example Mike. There's a difference between  finding evidence wanting and finding it unpalatable. 

Iron Mike
20 August 2010 - 10:20am

Agreed.  But on some topics such as Global Warming and Socialism, the evidence can also be found wanting AND unpalatable.

Lol
19 November 2010 - 8:44am

Talking about stupid people, that would be anyone that believes in man-made climate change/global warming

bigC
19 November 2010 - 2:25pm

Or perhaps anyone that doesn't.  There we are then: A balanced argument.  Very profound.

lead answer
25 November 2010 - 2:16pm

Hey, if they are leading to solve the matter then what's the problem , only matter is the soultion of the problem and his cure.

Iron Mike
29 November 2010 - 6:13pm

How do you define "leading the problem" when the problems (cause and mitigation) have yet to be properly defined?  It's easy to advocate throwing money at an undefined problem when its not your money at stake.

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