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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

24 February - Night Blogging

The Beijing Botanical GardenImage via Wikipedia
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Bill McKibben: In Beijing, they celebrate when they have a “blue sky day,” when, that is, the haze clears long enough so that you can actually see the sun. Many days, you can’t even make out the next block. Washington, by contrast, looks pretty clean: white marble monuments, broad, tree-lined aven...
 
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Former Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold has formed a political action committee (PAC) to fight against corporate influences in political campaigns. Feingold's PAC, Progressives United, launched on February 16 as an "effort dedicated to mitigating the effects of, and eventually overturning, the Citizens ...
 
  Acuvue (Johnson & Johnson) Customer Relations, D-QA, 7500 Centurion Parkway, Jacksonville, Florida 32256; (800) 843-2020; www.acuvue.com/ Aim (Church & Dwight) P.O....
( The problem with animal testing is simple : results do not translate well to humanity, so you get ideas that are flat wrong. )
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The renewed violence came as opposition forces reportedly seized control of Misurata, about 75 miles west of Tripoli. Witnesses said that crowds were honking horns and waving flags from the monarchy that Kadafi overthrew in a military coup in 1969. Bob Drogan, LA Times
 
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StreetGangs.Com Staff Feb 15 2011 | 2:25 p.m. The National Enquirer is reporting that OJ Simpson, 63, was severely beat down by white skin heads in Nevada's
 
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With forecasts that the total cost could top $12 billion, insurance executives from Suncorp, one of Australia's biggest insurers, yesterday said the market for earthquake cover was likely to be ''changed forever''.
 
New TenPercent Blog Post:
Amelia Gentleman has a must read article at the Guardian toady about the use of computerised US insurance style tactics to deny people benefits, it is the same corporate strategy used to deny private health insurance holders treatment. Just as in the US people are being killed by the profit moti ...
 
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Meet Webster tarpley a historion and writer, listin as he chills you to your core with what obama and his buddys real hidden agenda is,
 
This the kind of thing we have been asked to believe for 10 years. The choice is yours, and so are the consequences.
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Attempt to Downplay Kunar Massacre Sparks Outrage One would think that the effort to downplay the killings of as many as 64 civilians, including a large number of children, would be enough to spark considerable anti-US outrage, but apparently saw an ...
 
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Young demonstrators hurled rocks and fire bombs at riot police as clashes broke out on Wednesday in Athens during a mass rally against austerity measures, part of a general strike that crippled services and public ransportation around the country. Police fired tear gas and flash grenades at proteste
 
 
 
 Truthout
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For this column, he tackles the longtime argument from the DoD, especially the Army, that contractors can do the job supporting the troops cheaper than Army military and civilian personnel (organic support units in DoD speak). This is a subject that is personal for me; for years, I have been champio...
 
It is great to have the best and most experienced foodborne illness epidemiologist in any law firm in the United States a few doors down the hall.
Source: Marler Blog
Published: 2011-02-24 00:31:19 GMT
 
http://www.bridgethegulfproject.org/node/265
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In a few short weeks the public view will, without doubt, fall back upon the coast and her people. We must take clear and insurmountable advantage of this. We must decide that this will be our stand.
 
 
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A day after Muammar Gaddafi threatened protesters with death in a televised speech, an army commander tells Al Jazeera that his forces are with the people, not the Libyan leader. The town of Misurata, in western Libya, has reportedly fallen to the opposition, and much of the east seems to be cont
 
Don Monkerud, in today's Chimp: "Extending Bush tax cuts creates a deficit of $3.7 trillion over ten years. While such cuts are supposed to create jobs, America's 500 largest non-financial corporations are hoarding $2 trillion in cash and corporate profits grew 36 percent in 2010, while hiring plummeted. Tax breaks are used to increase CEO pay and expand corporate monopolies. Does this support the common good?"
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Don Monkerud, in today's Chimp: "Extending Bush tax cuts creates a deficit of $3.7 trillion over ten years. While such cuts are supposed to create jobs, America's 500 largest non-financial corporations are hoarding $2 trillion in cash and corporate profits grew 36 percent in 2010, while hiring plummeted. Tax breaks are used to increase CEO pay and expand corporate monopolies. Does this support the common good?"
 
 
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Get more videos on twitter! http://www.twitter.com/angelicstarseed Obama will execute the following when he declares martial law. Get ahead of the game and prepare to protect yourself and your family.
 
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‎'President Obama, in a major legal policy shift, has directed the Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act - the 1996 law that bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages - against lawsuits challenging it as unconstitutional.' Charlie Savage, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NY Times
 
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Alex also talks with independent journalist James Corbett, editor and webmaster of The Corbett Report, an online multi-media news and information source, since 2007. His forthcoming book, Reportage: Essays on the New World Order, will be available this year. http://www.corbettreport.com/ http://ww/
 
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker got a call from someone identifying themselves as 'David Koch.' Walker was more than happy to talk, and talk he did for 20 minutes: To a Prankster! Here's the audio ... By Michael Scherer, TIME
 
‎"People are up in arms about the budget cuts that affect their homes, their jobs, their lives. It's time to use that rage to power a national and global movement to cut military spending."
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Rage is an important energy source. It fueled the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, and is powering the ongoing protests in Libya, Yemen, and Bahrain. People in the Arab world have directed their anti-government anger at corruption, economic mismanagement, and human rights abuses. There's no shortage 
 
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StreetGangs.Com Staff Feb 15 2011 | 2:25 p.m. The National Enquirer is reporting that OJ Simpson, 63, was severely beat down by white skin heads in Nevada's
 
 
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voters in two Vermont towns on Tuesday approved a measure that would instruct police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for crimes against our Constitution,
 
Ordered to Attack Own People, Libyan Pilots Crash Their Jets www.wired.com
On Wednesday, the Gadhafi regime ordered two of its pilots to attack the opposition stronghold of Benghazi - part of the Libyan government's ongoing attempt to
 
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Nadia Prupis: The Obama administration said Wednesday that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and the Justice Department will no longer support it. The Defense of Marriage Act is a federal law defining marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman.
 
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AFP - Tens of thousands of people protested in the Indian capital against surging prices on Wednesday, heaping pressure on the embattled government to help the inflation-hit poor in next week's budget.
 
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Governor Walker of Wisconsin got up on his hind legs on Monday and blasted public-sector unions for being wasteful. He made it very clear that he intends to continue his push to abolish collective bargaining in his state, which basically means he intends to abolish unions in his state. The polls are...
 
This is simply outrageous. . . The Pharmaburger mini-documentary takes issue with the doctor from Imperial College London whose study, published in the American Journal of Cardiology, led him to recommend that statin drugs be handed out like ketchup packe...ts at fast food restaurants. This, he claims, would "counteract" the heart risk dangers of fast foods. Just pop a pill every time you chow down a junk food cheeseburger, in other words, and the health risks will be cancelled out. It’s a juvenile, short-sighted point of view about health and nutrition, of course, but the idea has a surprisingly large number of followers among practitioners of mainstream medicine (many of which are arguably illiterate when it comes to nutrition in the first place). Ultimately, the idea seeks to turn fast food restaurants into pharmacies, lining up gullible customers to be dosed with powerful prescription pharmaceuticals based on no diagnosis, no doctor visits, and absolutely no consideration of their current health condition or possible drug interactions. To call it "medicine" is an insult to the very definition of the word. The sad truth of the matter is that some members of the medication profession want to intoxicate everyone with dangerous chemical medications, and they are hoping to use fast food restaurants to achieve that goal. This Pharmaburger mini-documentary tells the rest of this story which will surprise most viewersSee More
 
 www.truth-out.orgWhat we want to fight is the disastrous 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United v Federal Election Commission (FEC) decision....This decision effectively grants corporations the same First Amendment Free Speech protections granted to real live people. The catch is that corporations obviously are not peop..
 
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Independent journalist Brandon Jourdan had all of his documents, computer, phone and camera flash drives searched and copied upon arriving at a US airport.
 

4G network 'will create GPS dead zones across the US' 

WHAT would you rather have - a superfast data connection on your cellphone, or a reliable GPS signal to pinpoint your location? If a plan to install a network of base stations for the new 4G mobile wireless protocol goes ahead, it may mean you can have one but not the other.

Pro-Union Website 'Defend Wisconsin' Blocked In Capitol

A Real Threat to Marriage

 The real threat to marriage seems to be the civil unions they dreamed up in response to the perfectly reasonable request that homosexuals be allowed to marry. Straight Couples in France Are Choosing Civil Unions Meant for Gays
(  Dad did his last service of Holy Matrimony over 40 years ago. At that time he performed two concurrent functions which together served as the 'wedding' ; as he was authorized to function as Justice of the Peace and ordained minister both...and filled out paperwork for both including Registration of the Civil Ceremony. 
To me, it's perfectly reasonable to suggest the church is being dispensed with...and 'gay marriage' has nothing to do with it. )

Surface Stations.org  A resource for climate station records and surveys
Surfacestations project reaches 82% of the network surveyed. 1003 of 1221 stations have been examined in the USHCN network. The Google Earth map below shows current coverage.
 

The Colonel's Secret Recipe

It’s like Gadhafi is telling us to get off oil or something

A combination of economic and political factors could see gas reach its highest level, ever -- higher even than the $4.11 record set in July 2008 that may have been a precipitating factor in the most recent economic collapse.

If unrest spreads, we're staring down $5 a gallon gas, say analysts:
( And if that's a conservative estimate ? Last go-round I saw prices at $1.35/l and more
160 oz Imp gal. 4.55 l  $6.14  128 oz U.S. gal 3.74 l  $4.67...and the stuff comes from here and it was higher elsewhere in Canada. Now if the Canadian buck has gone up...and it has...is there a greater shift likely ? )

Climate activist Tim DeChristopher goes to trial

 ( The story is epic...and reveals once again the extent to which global corporatism is willing to go in pursuit of its ends. That those might best be described as wrecking the planet past any hope of humanity surviving the exercise is not really what I would consider unrealistic ! 
Which thought might really puzzle 'warmers'...who are nonetheless wasting their time chasing a catastrophe which they resolutely defend as  revealed truth....not specious fortune telling....to be reliably addressed by the usual thieves and con artists.
I got enough of that at church to inoculate me against wanting more
Argumentation...is Politics. Not Science.  Dogmatism...is not a Theoretical Proof. 
Which falls right in line for a fellow with an interest in Propaganda and Media Manipulation. )




How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic
Responses to the Most Common Skeptical Arguments on Global Warming

Futurist Ray Kurzweil isn’t worried about climate change

Report: Californians paying too high a price for renewable energy

 

Regulators keep the terms of those contracts in a black box, so it's impossible to know just how much more utilities are paying for renewable energy. Most contracts are for solar power.
However, not a dime gets paid until a project comes online and begins generating electricity. So, PG&E may well have agreed to exorbitant rates in a contract it signed in 2009 with a company planning to beam solar energy from space generated by an orbiting power plant (really). But unless those rockets lift off with their payloads of solar panels, the ratepayers are off the hook.
According to the report, 14 percent of renewable energy contracts have failed so far and 15 percent have been delayed. Since 2002, photovoltaic module prices have plunged, and as some projects are scrapped they inevitably will be replaced by cheaper technology.

New tool calculates your nitrogen footprint and explains why you should be ashamed of it

( Good grief. If it's not an excess of plant food in the atmosphere it's to do with the 79% component. I'll read it later. )


 Powering a Nation

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