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In reply to the discussion: I'm Not Sure How To Ask This... But... Is Anybody Else Feeling A Great Nauseous Forboding About... [View all]Kaleko
(4,986 posts)118. My highly computer literate honey believes that to be true.
He's an Apple aficionado and knows what the United Surveillance States are capable of, roughly speaking.
We shut down our laptops before talking about certain topics these days - not because we're a threat to the PTB, no. Just because we cherish what's left of our privacy.
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I'm Not Sure How To Ask This... But... Is Anybody Else Feeling A Great Nauseous Forboding About... [View all]
WillyT
Dec 2011
OP
oh ok, methane trapped under the arctic ice being released causing much faster global warming...
limpyhobbler
Dec 2011
#6
Most the Methane is now trapped under the ice...so when the sea ice is melted...
Auntie Bush
Dec 2011
#128
I remember reading about this as a dangerous potential scenario, over 12 years ago.
dixiegrrrrl
Dec 2011
#8
In 1982 I had a class given by scientists that warned this IS the worse case scenario to avoid.
glinda
Dec 2011
#54
AND "we" have done NOTHING to address the problem for decades, even knowing it was so.
dixiegrrrrl
Dec 2011
#40
I saw this too. My greatest fear is the cascading effect of human caused stresses on th environment
BlancheSplanchnik
Dec 2011
#61
Is that were George Bush bought thousands of acres of land over the largest Aquafer
Auntie Bush
Dec 2011
#130
Scientists say the sun will burn out in 5 billion years...so we have plenty of time
Auntie Bush
Dec 2011
#132
Our bodies are made up of atoms and particles that came from exploding stars and galaxies of
Cal33
Dec 2011
#171
I'll bet corporations will say "It's not true," if they could make money from denying it. Somehow
Cal33
Dec 2011
#173
It's not just corporations, it's anyone who controls massive amounts of capital (like the Koch bros)
Capitalocracy
Dec 2011
#24
Clathrates we already know, they are for tomorrow. The Death of Democracy,
Fire Walk With Me
Dec 2011
#10
Clathrates are a form of methane that is locked up in ice, usually deep under ocean sediment . . .
hatrack
Dec 2011
#139
Absolutely....whether it is talks with my 83 year old mom, or during dog walks with my wife -
NRaleighLiberal
Dec 2011
#12
ANIMAL FARM seems more appropriate. We overthrew the farmer, but now the pigs are walking on their
yurbud
Dec 2011
#99
When you look back and see what happened in Texas this year, nothing that was planted was harvested,
Aaria
Dec 2011
#53
Yah. People here don't imagine that famine could happen to us but we haven't planned at all.
aquart
Dec 2011
#91
On Thom Hartmann yesterday, I heard the 2 words, "claw back," w/ref to bank accounts.
mojowork_n
Dec 2011
#19
Propaganda.... "on both sides." That's one of the key elements of the self-sustaining frame.
mojowork_n
Dec 2011
#114
If Newt's the nominee, hopefully that is enough to make the people stop complaining about Obama
Pachamama
Dec 2011
#34
Bravo WillyT. You are absolutely right. Get the money out of politics and there's hope. Go 99%
judesedit
Dec 2011
#45
As if not enough suffering has been happening to people these past few years...
AZ Progressive
Dec 2011
#174
Anyone who isn't nauseous, drinking more than usual, and figuring out how to transfer their assets
BeHereNow
Dec 2011
#78
As a Canadian I hope I'm not being presumptuous, but every time I see an American on TV or read
glarius
Dec 2011
#81
It's hard NOT to feel a nauseous forboding when our police are armed for war against us,
RueVoltaire
Dec 2011
#85
I think of the challenges to the Voting Rights Act pending at the US Supreme Court as the
Texas Lawyer
Dec 2011
#94
shortly after the election, when Obama chose Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff...
yurbud
Dec 2011
#97
I'd be willing to say the 'Representatives' of both political parties are at fault.
Beavker
Dec 2011
#102
Since when is the Party of Elizabeth Warren as at fault as the Party of Michele Bachmann? (nt)
UrbScotty
Dec 2011
#109
The Party of elizabeth Warren is also the party of Max Baucus and Rahm Emanuel
Doctor_J
Dec 2011
#148
I'm waiting for my retirement fund to be stolen and my house taken away. Too many evildoers at the
valerief
Dec 2011
#122
We are in a repeat of the Long Depression, which led up to recovery in the late 1890s and WW I
FarCenter
Dec 2011
#123
Best remedy for malaise, anxiety and hopelessness: Get out and do something! nt
SteveW
Dec 2011
#168
It is just a phase you go through in life. I started feeling that way around 1966-67
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2011
#133
I look forward to the future with much trepidation and forbidding thoughts. I just do not
RKP5637
Dec 2011
#144
Most Americans, I think, are in denial. That, is one root cause as to why these
RKP5637
Dec 2011
#153
Bonobo, if you have not yet seen this, Census data: Half of U.S. poor or low income
RKP5637
Dec 2011
#154
It is, everything seems surreal anymore. Sometimes I feel like we're living in a
RKP5637
Dec 2011
#165
Are you asking if we feel the country and the world are going to hell in a handbasket?
Jamastiene
Dec 2011
#157