Why Believe In Science When You Can Believe In The Free Market Gods?

The Article: Study: Belief in Free-Market Economics Linked to Distrust of Science by Steven Hsieh in AlterNet.

The Text: People who support free-market economics are more likely to reject proven science, according to a study published in Psychological Science last month.

Examining 1,377 visitors to climate change denial blogs, researchers found that belief in a hands-off approach to economics predicted denial that human activity causes climate change, a fact accepted by 97 percent of scientists. The study’s authors—which include Stephan Lewandowsky of the University of Western Australia and Klaus Oberauer of the University of Zurich—noted that the anti-science movement is especially prevalent in the United States.

“The conspiracist ideation that all of the world’s scientific academies have conspired together to create a hoax known as global warming has found traction in American mainstream politics,” the study reads.

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Meet Cutski Bear

Students, get used to spending more and getting less. Workers, you need to get used to working more and being paid less. This is the mantra of Cutski Bear and he’s not one for nuances.

Make Way For Koch News

The Article: Koch Brothers Plan to Buy up Eight Major Newspapers by Annie Rose Strasser in AlterNet.

The Text: The billionaire oil moguls Charles and David Koch are pushing ahead with their plans to purchase several news outlets across the United States, according to a detailed report in the New York Times on Sunday.

At a recent seminar in Aspen, one attendee reported that the brothers — infamous for bankrolling conservative candidates and causes — put forth the question of, “How do we make sure our voice is being heard?” Their answer, it seems, will be to purchase the entire Tribune company, which constitutes a huge swath of American print media:

The papers, valued at roughly $623 million, would be a financially diminutive deal for Koch Industries, the energy and manufacturing conglomerate based in Wichita, Kan., with annual revenue of about $115 billion.

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The Problem Of Mass Murders And Media

But if they stop propagating mass murders with their coverage of them, how will the media keep getting killer ratings?

Lakota Tribe Brings Genocide Complaint To UN, Denied Entry

Part of the 16-day Truth Tour across the country calling for an end to genocide and reclamation of traditional Lakota Oyate territory as recognized by the United States Gov’t in the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty.