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I won't take any attacks on Greta Thunberg's looks. I think she is a very brave girl. I admire her. She is only 16. She has Asperger's which she is very open with.
People making fun of her looks is in the lowest moral category in my book. We recently had a high ranking CEO here in Sweden making fun of her.
He lost his job the other day. Rightfully so.

Really? someone lost their job because they made fun of someone??!! er..something seems very wrong there..is is illegal or unlawful now to make fun of someone? Holy Crap!

Calm down, cupcake. A CEO is the public face of a multi-million/multi-billion dollar company.

Bullying a teenage girl for her looks shows a terrible lack of judgment for a supposedly-responsible adult with billions of dollars at stake. Removing him/her from that position to eliminate negative publicity makes good financial sense for that company.

oh OK Twinkie. Forget about free speech then. I guess it won't happen to an everday person then right?...

When people own shares in the company you are running, they want you making money for them, not publicly verbally abusing children. It's nothing personal, just bad for the share price.

I'm guessing you don't own any stocks.



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I don't think Woodsy made it across the pond, or anywhere else in the world for that matter,
but in the US he was a big part of my youth in the early '70's in school, tv and magazine advertisements, etc.



Give a hoot! Don't pollute!

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Cool!

Just adding a bit of lightness to the darkness this thread has evolved in to.

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Just adding a bit of lightness to the darkness this thread has evolved in to.

Yes, and on that note, when thinking of US commercials from the 70s with a public service announcement, we can't forget "the Crying Indian":



Link to 1971 TV commercial: [www.youtube.com]

Ah yes! The actor, "Iron Eyes Cody", was actually born Espera Oscar de Corti and 100% Italian, which wasn't revealed until after he died in 1999.

Run for the hills!

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The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, historically referred to as the "Big Blow,"[A] the "Freshwater Fury," or the "White Hurricane," was a blizzard with hurricane-force winds that devastated the Great Lakes Basin in the Midwestern United States and Ontario, Canada from November 7 through November 10, 1913. The storm was most powerful on November 9, battering and overturning ships on four of the five Great Lakes, particularly Lake Huron. Deceptive lulls in the storm and the slow pace of weather reports contributed to the storm's destructiveness.[1]

The deadliest and most destructive natural disaster to hit the lakes in recorded history,[2] the Great Lakes Storm killed more than 250 people,[3][4][5][6][7] destroyed 19 ships, and stranded 19 others. The financial loss in vessels alone was nearly US $5 million (or about $126,751,000 in today's dollars).[8] This included about $1 million at current value in lost cargo totalling about 68,300 tons, such as coal, iron ore, and grain.[9]

Keep running!

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The Great Blizzard of 1888, Great Blizzard of '88, or the Great White Hurricane (March 11–14, 1888) was one of the most severe recorded blizzards in American history. The storm paralyzed the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine,[1][2] as well as the Atlantic provinces of Canada.[3] Snow fell from 10 to 58 inches (25 to 147 cm) in parts of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and sustained winds of more than 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) produced snowdrifts in excess of 50 feet (15 m). Railroads were shut down and people were confined to their homes for up to a week.[3] Railway and telegraph lines were disabled, and this provided the impetus to move these pieces of infrastructure underground. Emergency services were also affected.

Baby, it's cold outside...

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The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of cooling that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period.[1] Although it was not a true ice age, the term was introduced into scientific literature by François E. Matthes in 1939.[2] It has been conventionally defined as a period extending from the 16th to the 19th centuries,[3][4][5] but some experts prefer an alternative timespan from about 1300[6] to about 1850.[7][8][9]

The NASA Earth Observatory notes three particularly cold intervals: one beginning about 1650, another about 1770, and the last in 1850, all separated by intervals of slight warming.[5] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Third Assessment Report considered the timing and areas affected by the Little Ice Age suggested largely independent regional climate changes rather than a globally synchronous increased glaciation. At most, there was modest cooling of the Northern Hemisphere during the period.[10]

Several causes have been proposed: cyclical lows in solar radiation, heightened volcanic activity, changes in the ocean circulation, variations in Earth's orbit and axial tilt (orbital forcing), inherent variability in global climate, and decreases in the human population (for example from the Black Death and the colonization of the Americas

Heat wave...

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The 1896 eastern North America heat wave was a 10-day heat wave in New York City, Boston, Newark and Chicago that killed about 1,500 people in August 1896.

There were 11 days of temperatures above 90 °F (32 °C) with 90 percent humidity and little breeze.[4] The temperatures did not drop at night.[1] It killed more than the New York City draft riots and the Great Chicago Fire combined.[2] A majority of the deaths were of working-class men in their twenties who performed manual labor.

The New York City Public Works Commissioner ordered that his workers' shifts be modified so they would not be working during midday, and he had fire hydrants opened to cool people on the street. Theodore Roosevelt, then New York City Police Commissioner, distributed free ice from local police stations. After accidental deaths from people falling off the roofs they were sleeping on, the New York City Parks Department allowed people to sleep in parks overnight.

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Just adding a bit of lightness to the darkness this thread has evolved in to.

Yes, and on that note, when thinking of US commercials from the 70s with a public service announcement, we can't forget "the Crying Indian":



Link to 1971 TV commercial: [www.youtube.com]

Yes I remember that memorable advertisment vividly.

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Ah yes! The actor, "Iron Eyes Cody", was actually born Espera Oscar de Corti and 100% Italian, which wasn't revealed until after he died in 1999.

According to this article, evidently it was revealed before he died. "Iron Eyes Cody"

"...several (real) Native American actors soon came to doubt Iron Eyes’ authenticity. Jay Silverheels, the Indian actor who played “Tonto” in The Lone Ranger, pointed out inaccuracies in Iron Eyes’ story; Running Deer, a Native American stuntman, agreed that there was something strangely off-putting about the man’s heritage. It wasn’t until years later that these doubts were affirmed.

In 1996, a journalist with The New Orleans Times-Picayune ventured to Gueydan, Louisiana, the small town Iron Eyes had allegedly grown up in, and sought out his heritage. Here, it was revealed that “America’s favorite Indian” was actually a second-generation Italian.

“He just left,” recalled his sister, Mae Abshire Duhon, “and the next thing we heard was that he had turned Indian."

"...Even after his history was revealed, Iron Eyes Cody refused to admit the truth behind it. He continued to wear his braided wig, headdress, and moccasins, and was unrelenting in supporting the Native American community".

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American blood runs hot...

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The 1901 eastern United States heat wave was the most severe and deadly heat wave in the United States prior to the 1930s Dust Bowl. Although the heat wave did not set many still-standing daily temperature records, it was exceptionally prolonged – covering without interruption the second half of June and all of July – and centered upon more highly populated areas than later American heat waves. The heat wave accompanied a major drought in the Ohio Valley and Upper Midwest, with Illinois recording what remains its driest calendar year since records have been kept,[1] and Missouri receiving only 0.21 inches (5.3 mm) above its driest calendar year of 1953.

July 1901 was the hottest month over the contiguous United States until the 1930s, and is currently surpassed only by the Julys of 1931, 1934, 1936 and 2012. It remains the hottest month on record in Kentucky and West Virginia, and throughout the eastern half, heat was extremely persistent without any cool interval – although a violent tornado hit Inwood on the northern tip of Manhattan with heavy rainfall on the fifth.[5]

With the persistent heat, most horses collapsed, and their carcasses became a source of germs that greatly added to the already high mortality rate in major cities. In one day alone, 250 horses died in New York City,[6] and by the end of July's first week, public streetcars had ceased to run because horses could not be fed. Most factories were closed by the beginning of the month,[7] and those which continued to operate had to permit their workers to wear light gymnastic costumes, as these were the only cooler alternative to the three-piece suits considered polite dress at the time.

In the most extensive study of American heat waves, it was estimated that the 1901 Eastern heat wave had claimed the lives of 9,500 people, which makes it easily the most destructive disaster of its type in US history.

Please! I don't give a @#$%&. I'm here for the music, these amazing musicians! Keep this shit out of these amazing artist's. Let's talk about a new album, the next tour. Music,music,music...

The main message in this thread is that Mick, Keith and Ronnie are supporting the Climate Strike.

This thread is now closed.

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