Straight Goods on Climate Change Apologist Stossel

onMay 26, 2006 @ 10:49 PDT

Georgia Straight Editor Charlie Smith weighs in with a whithering report on John Stossel, ABC‘s favourite 20/20 libertarian. Stossel is one of the guest speakers scheduled for the “Environmental Wars,” a Science Skeptics conference that will be held at the California Institute of Technology next week.

Don’t worry, though, if you can’t make the conference. The DeSmogBlog will be there, blogging live. Watch this space.

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Somalia’s Parliament and Public Are Questioning the President’s Shadowy Oil Deal With Turkey

ByOscar Rothstein

on Nov 10, 2026 @ 20:00 MST

Some MPs say the arrangement — which gives Turkish Petroleum 95% of revenues on estimated 20 billion barrels of oil — is "illegitimate".

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