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Thomas Paine

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

27 Oct - Open Sources | What 'Conspiracy Theory' ?



Ubuntu's new Linux tries getting cloud-friendly


( Unhappily, Dr. John v. Kampen will not be available to comment further/again  until around Nov. 10  His Ubuntu-blogging is something I am following more and more all the time: I 'Friend' him on Blogger as well as My Opera.  Non Linux users aren't usually aware that support for its various iterations is 'all over the web'. Free Software Foundation  )



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Comments by www.blogger.com/profile/01621946866211400380

( This is a dual-purpose link. First, it gives you a tool to track online comments. Second...those who wonder WTF I think now know more of same.  Dr. John has a recent Privacy post. Hmmm. )



Why I choose 3G over Wi-Fi

As I sat watching the choppy FCC Webcast, trying to piece together what was being said, I experienced firsthand how an unmanaged, congested Wi-Fi connection, simply doesn't work, especially when it comes to video.


US raids hit Mexican drug cartel22 October 2009

More than 300 people have been arrested in a series of drug raids targeting a Mexican drug cartel operating in the US



The two-day operation, which involved thousands of police officers in 19 US states, is the latest aimed at the cartel known as La Familia.
It was part of Project Coronado, which has led to almost 1,200 arrests over four years

Ottawa's "Green Bin" Municipal Composting Program is About to Take Off!

 The collection of organic waste is set to begin in January 2010, and since about 45% of the waste collected by the city is compostable, and since anaerobic decomposition in landfills produces large quantities of methane (a powerful greenhouse gas), it has the potential to make a pretty big difference





US paper seeks pot correspondent




The alternative Denver newspaper, Westword, is seeking a writer for its weekly review of Colorado's booming medical marijuana dispensaries.
But there is a catch - candidates must have a medical ailment allowing them to enter a dispensary and use marijuana.
Fourteen US states now allow the sale of some sort of medical cannabis.


Saudi journalist sentenced to 60 lashes

Abdul Jawad, a 32-year-old airline employee and divorced father of four, spoke openly about his sexual escapades, his love of sex and losing his virginity at age 14 on "A Thick Red Line."
That episode caused an uproar in deeply conservative Saudi Arabia, where Shariah, or Islamic law, is practiced. Premarital sex is illegal, and unrelated men and women are not permitted to mingle.
( Must be where the quip 'Incest is best kept in the family' originated. )






























Iran has weathered sanctions since the Iranian revolution in 1979. Currently, the toughest measure imposed by the US is against Iranian banks which can't, accordingly, deal with American banks, so stifling trade - but not killing it completely.



















( This by the nation which had positioned itself as a 'global currency.' No entity repeatedly dishonouring I.O.U.'s of any nature can retain a credible reputation. For a Bank to do so should be a fatal flaw of confidence : even a nation bank. Cuba, North Korea, Saddam's Iraq.... Losing impartiality in all these cases ruins universal convertibility as a plausible claim : an underpinning of international payment for petroleum. If you were Iran...would you accept U.S. $$$ in payment ? Payment you can't spend is no payment at all. )






















Iran 'to accept UN nuclear deal'

( Except that's not really what the article itself says ! )
Iran will accept a UN deal on its nuclear programme, but only if "very important changes" are made, Iranian state media have reported.





















Terrorism - Can you spot the difference?




The government has completely abandoned us

They call us to patriotism, values, religion, family (theirs not ours, we are asked to attend at their illnesses – while single payer is verboten, by THEM ALL).   Respect, civility, obedience even, they use all of that to call us to VOTE.
For them.

Scientologists convicted of fraud

Unlike the US, France has always refused to recognise Scientology as a religion, arguing that it is a purely commercial operation designed to make as much money as it can at the expense of often vulnerable victims.









Over the past 10 years, France has taken several individual members of the group to court on charges of fraud and misleading publicity, but this is the first time the organisation itself has been charged.







PEOPLE around the world need to face what ALL OF THIS KILLING is about.. and finally realize: IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY and CONTROL WHICH WAS PLANNED a long time ago by those in THE MONEY LAUNDERING AND DRUG BUSINESS who began using Cocaine and Heroine as "bartering tools" and "collateral" when all the banks, Indistry, manufacturing ceased to all "Jobs" which create "Money" in the market place.. It was planed long ago by those involve with BCCI Banking.
That is why all the BANKS MERGED to COVER THE PAPER TRAILS, The PAPER TRAILS that were not covered WERE BURNED such as Cantor Fitzgerald at the WTC Incident on 9/11/01.. It was Credit Lyonaise which suffered records being burned "twice".. there was the WINDSOR TOWERS which was burned to destroy the PAPER TRAIL ON PARMALAT... and it just goes on, and on.. without the True Criminals ever having to show up in a Court of Law..
CONNECT THE DOTS WITH THE AFGHANISTAN WAR AND UPDATE: WHO TRIED TO TAKE THE U.S. & GLOBAL BANKING, FINANCING AND ECONOM






World failing to dent heroin trade, U.N. warns


Private Firms Undermine U.S. Occupation of Iraq




Despite the high-level political connections of the mercenary organization Blackwater, the scandals about its recklessness and ruthlessness in Iraq are expanding. And they are increasingly being reinforced by new scandals about other big corporations’ undermining the U.S. occupation by unrestrained pursuit of private profit.


The latest are the revelations about Dyncorps, the company entrusted with the training of the Iraqi police, one of the Iraqi security forces that are supposed ultimately  to achieve the U.S. aims in Iraq and allow the scaling down of the U.S. military operation.


The BBC website reported Oct. 23: "The US government audit, due to be released in Washington, says the State Department cannot say 'specifically what it received' for most of the money paid to DynCorp, the largest single contractor to the department."


Even the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, nominally a Democrat but an ardent supporter of Bush's policy in Iraq, expressed uneasiness. The BBC noted:


"Senator Joe Lieberman ... said it could take the State Department up to five years to review invoices and demand repayment from DynCorp for unjustified expenses. 'This scenario is far too frequent across the federal government,' he said."
.......




Blackwater, then operating under a Defense Department contract, was supposed to use vehicles with armored protection kits, but as of the date of the killings, no such vehicles had been obtained. A Blackwater internal report obtained by the committee quoted an employee who said the contract ’paid for armor vehicles’ but that ’management in North Carolina … made the decision to go with soft skin due to cost.’


“The report disclosed that another complicating factor was a contract dispute with a different company. The report suggested that Blackwater never intended to armor its own vehicles. Instead, Blackwater employees were told to ‘string along’ the other company in hopes of forcing them out of their contract or giving them ’no choice but to buy us armored cars,’





'Bittersweet return' for soldiers

Soldiers from a Northern Ireland-based battalion which lost 13 men during a six-month tour of Afghanistan have returned to their base in County Down.




Jane Mayer: The Risks Of A Remote-Controlled War

Mayer examines the ethics and controversies surrounding the CIA's covert drone program, in which remotely controlled, unmanned planes target terror suspects in Pakistan and elsewhere.
Mayer writes that unlike the military's publicly acknowledged drone program in Afghanistan and Iraq — both official war zones — the CIA's campaign doesn't operate in support of U.S. troops on the ground. Instead it's a secret program, run partly by private contractors, that amounts to "targeted international killings by the state," in the words of one human-rights lawyer. Because of its covert status, there's "no visible system of accountability in place," Mayer writes, and a sharp increase in the number of reported drone strikes has raised questions about whether the moral costs and the political consequences have been adequately considered.




The Great American Arm-Twist in Afghanistan

Exactly what Mr. Kerry told Mr. Karzai last week is unknown, but it seemed likely that he communicated Mr. Emanuel’s — and Mr. Obama’s — sentiments. Diplomats in Kabul said afterward that the senator made it clear to Mr. Karzai that if he refused to accept the election results, domestic support for his government, in the United States and Europe, would collapse.
“It took a lot of convincing,” said a Western diplomat here, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Yet even with the immediate crisis resolved, there remains the matter of the runoff election, which will pit Mr. Karzai against his rival, the former foreign minister, Abdullah Abdullah. Despite assurances from officials with the United Nations and Western governments, there seemed little reason to expect that the fraud and vote stealing that occurred in August wouldn’t happen again. Unless something changes by Nov. 7 — the day of the runoff — most of the same officials are likely to be in place who carried out the fraud the first time around.







How data-dependent is health care reform?

If the visualization of America’s Healthy Future Act (also known as the Baucus Bill) — immediately below is any indication, data is pretty important to health care reform plans. The word occurs 275 times in the text — there are new data banks, data collected, data submitted and data shared.





Entering digital age an expensive proposition for GOP


Correction: Fees for Livingston Group corrected in FLIT

Foreign Lobbying Influence Tracker





Fighting net neutrality, telecom companies, outside lobbyists, cluster contributions to members of Congress

While the Federal Communications Commission considers the first steps toward ensuring net neutrality–making certain that broadband providers do not discriminate against high traffic sites–the telecom firms that would be affected by the rules and their trade groups have been swamping Congress with a one-two punch of campaign contributions from the companies and their registered lobbyists. Some 244 members of Congress were the beneficiaries of these contribution clusters–totaling more than $9.4 million–from January 2007 to June 2009, an investigative collaboration of the Sunlight Foundation and the Center for Responsive Politics has found. Telecom interests and their lobbyists engaged in more clustered giving than any industry save pharmaceuticals.
Overall, the top recipient of the largess was Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who took in $894,379 (many of those contributions were directed to his 2008 presidential campaign). The telecom interests also targeted House and Senate leaders: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was next with $341,089, followed by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. ($275,275), Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus, D-Mont. ($248,999) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ($198,972).
Broadband providers have attempted to enlist members of Congress in an effort to block action on net neutrality rules by the FCC. Verizon and AT&T have beenparticularly active in this effort; they also were the sources of all the clustered contributions among broadband providers, with AT&T and its outside lobbyists combining to give to 110 members, followed by Comcast (105 members) and Verizon (96 members).











REMARKABLE VIDEO: GARY NULL SPEAKS OUT AGAINST SWINE FLU VACCINE AT NYS ASSEMBLY





Swine flu fears grow, Obama declares H1N1 a national emergency



Swine flu vaccine approved in Canada

( Comments are livelier than usual )
littlemac.cawrote:Posted 2009/10/23
at 2:38 PM ET
Listen to the CDC's Own Admissions!

So, how does the CDC respond to this discrepancy reported by the Harvard scientist?

Please read carefully the CDC's own statement:

"Typically, influenza causes death when the infection leads to severe medical complications... [and as most such cases] are never tested for virus infection...

...CDC considers these figures to be very substantial undercounting of the true number of deaths from influenza. Therefore, the CDC uses indirect modeling methods to estimate the number of deaths associated with influenza."

In an earlier 2003 article JAMA, William Thompson from the CDC's National Immunization Program attempted to explain "influenza-associated mortality." He wrote,

"Based on modeling, we think it's associated. I don't know that we would say that it's the underlying cause of death."2

In summary, the CDC is admitting:

Deceased are not tested to determine the presence of the flu virus, and

They do not directly perform any direct testing to determine the exact cause of death. "Indirect modeling methods" is a professional way of saying they use subjective mathematical equations to arrive at their figures.

The 36,000 mortality figure is nothing more than a mathematical model. The British Journal concluded that the only possible rationale for the CDC's complete disregard for scientific fact, even in face of independent research to discredit its statistics, is a public relations effort between the CDC and the vaccine manufacturer's campaigns to increase flu vaccination.




































































































Mahmoud Ahmadinejad belongs to a minority sect of Shia Islam with a pronounced strain of anti-clericalism.




FIND OUT MORE...
Grand Ayatollah Montazeri's seal contained in his email
Analysis: Ayatollogy is on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 19 October at 2030 BST, and Sunday 25 October at 2130 BST
Or hear it later on the iPlayer
Or download the podcast
One of the mainstream teachings of Shia Islam is that the Prophet Mohammed's authority was inherited by a line of spiritual leaders known as Imams, and that in the 10th century the last of them, the 12th Imam, went into what's known as occultation - that is to say he didn't die, but he has been hidden from humanity ever since.
One day, the teaching goes, he will return, ushering in an age of justice and peace and, shortly thereafter, the end of times.
It is very like the Christian doctrine of the Second Coming, and most Shia Muslims understand it in a similar way - as something that will happen in God's good time.
But Mr Ahmadinejad belongs to a minority sect called the Hasteners; they believe that it is the duty of the faithful to prepare the way for the return of the Hidden Imam - or Mahdi - and perhaps even to create propitious conditions.

( I think that would be called Brinkmanship. Think he's a buddy of Bush/McCain under the surface ? )








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