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Human rights activists and many political experts in Dushanbe believe the ongoing trial of Mahmadruzi Iskandarov - - the head of the Tajik Democratic Party and the former head of the state gas company , Tojikgaz - - is politically motivated . University students , typically among the most politically active groups of civil society , were frequent targets of government repression . Distant cousins of the coup and strikes that plagued Chile have also beleaguered Venezuela , yet the latter was able to resist and overcome the attempts of the rightwing opposition movement financed and politically backed by the U.S. government . Finally , that scientists know which atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are " dangerous " and which are not ; that drastic reductions of CO2 emissions and energy use - by industrialized nations can stabilize CO2 concentration at near-present levels ; and that such economically damaging measures can be justified politically , even though there is no significant scientific support for a global " threat . Of course , the real lesson that will get learned here will be the one the Republicans have internalized long ago : when the facts go against you politically , the solution is to lie as hard as you possibly can .