{"id":40295,"date":"2014-01-05T21:28:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T04:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/05\/some-knowledge-is-apparently-too-dangerous-or-inconvenient.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T18:54:54","slug":"some-knowledge-is-apparently-too-dangerous-or-inconvenient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/05\/some-knowledge-is-apparently-too-dangerous-or-inconvenient.html","title":{"rendered":"Some knowledge is apparently too dangerous or inconvenient"},"content":{"rendered":"
Getting rid of books is rarely, if ever, a good thing. It is sometimes, though, a useful thing.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Arthur Gillard<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A shameful and disgusting thing that's happening in Canada, part of \u00a0the ongoing suppression of environmental science. (Evidently the Harper government doesn't want to let little things like scientific evidence and the fate of the biosphere get in the way of oil money.)\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Canadian libricide: Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives<\/a>
\n Back in 2012, when Canada’s Harper government announced that it would close down national archive sites around the country, they promised that anything that was discarded or sold would be digitized first.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Getting rid of books is rarely, if ever, a good thing. It is sometimes, though, a useful thing. Reshared post from +Arthur Gillard A shameful and disgusting thing that's happening in Canada, part of \u00a0the ongoing suppression of environmental science. 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