The Plum Line by Greg Sargent
Flying blind in Libya
Yesterday, the U.N. Security Council voted to authorize military action in Libya in order to “protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack.” It’s important to understand, though, that the resolution does much more than simply authorize a “no fly zone,” a term I think many people might mistake for something that doesn’t involve much violence. As national security law expert Robert Chesney points out:This authorizes whatever force is needed to “protect civilians and civilian populated areas,” not just to impose a no-fly zone. Only the introduction of a “foreign occupation force” is excluded. Of course, just what counts as sufficiently related to protection of civilians is subject to debate. But in any event, this authority certainly would extend to the use of air power against ground forces advancing on Benghazi, to give the most pressing example. And to be clear, it does not actually exclude the use of ground forces; it only excludes “occupation forces,” which is not co-extensive with ground forces in general.So, despite what you may have heard, what the U.S. is getting involved in here may ultimately become a much more significant commitment than it might seem at first glance. Indeed, fear of international action seems to have pushed Gaddafi in backing off a bit, at least for now.
...............The problem is that we still don’t know very much about who the rebels are or what they ultimately want. Libya’s internal politics were opaque to the West even before the war. We don’t know how much international involvement will be required to ensure Gaddafi falls, or what level of commitment the United States, as the world’s only superpower, will ultimately be forced to make. In other words, none of the key questions looming over the crisis have been answered — even though we’ve already learned the hard way in Iraq what happens when we fail to plan for the peace before we start a war. All we really know right now is that America is destined to own the outcome in Libya.
The Quaker Peace Testament
Quakers, or the Religious Society of Friends (members are known as 'friends'), as they are more properly known, are generally known for their Peace Testament and celebrated their 350th anniversary in 2002.
Founded in England in 1652, Quakers are somewhat unusual as they do not have a written creed. This tends to prevent them from being rigid, intolerant or bigotted, and this can be seen as one of their strengths. Quakers aspire to inclusivity.
Quakers have a number of testaments (tenets):
- Truth
- Equality
- Peace
- Simplicity
- Community
The peace testimony is based on the same understanding of the nature of God and of human beings. How can one kill another child of God, a potential channel of Truth, no matter how misguided he or she may seem at the moment? This testimony has led Friends to oppose all wars and preparation for wars.
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60 Minutes on CBS News: America's Deep, Dark Secret - Bob Simon Reports On Hundreds Of Thousands Of Warehoused Kids
Japan sends robots into Fukushima nuclear plant
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Thirty-five years ago, Dale G. Bridenbaugh and two of his colleagues at General Electric resigned from their jobs after becoming increasingly convinced that the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing -- the Mark 1 -- was so flawed it could lead to a devastating accident. Questions persisted for
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Can we please agree that in the real world corporations exist for one purpose, and one purpose only — to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible?... This is why it’s necessary to have such things as government regulators, why regulators must be independent of th...
Mainstream media halts accurate reporting on Japan's worsening nuclear catastrophe; disinfo campaign
www.naturalnews.comMainstream media halts accurate reporting on Japan's worsening nuclear catastrophe; disinfo campaign now underway
Fukushima - 1, 2, 3...! ...5, 6 ? [upd 16.3]
The lack of verifiable information on this crisis is one aspect. Confusion a next. We are left in the dark about the true circumstances of this mishap, caused by the huge earthquake on March 11th (shifting a plate of 200 x 500 km with a force of M=9) for the Tohoku coast. Another is the fact that about 45 million people live in the area up to 300 km around Tokyo,public relations disasterhere as well... encompassing some of the northerly part of Honshu island where this plant is situated. The news that 2 cooling ponds with nuclear fuel also signal heating (instead of cooling spent rods) indicate the real possibility that we might expect 2 more explosions! The so-called Nr.4 reactor was out of service during the quake for maintenance, although it is told that its nuclear fuel was in a 'pond on top' burning. A manifests itself
Apocalypse NOT now...
It concerns me that my American friends are concerned about some clouds from Japan.
Do I see a mild mass-hysteria
I wonder if we even could live without it! Cosmic rays, natural 'background' radiation from our planet itself, radiation of sorts from the Sun and x-rays 'for your security' when you take the airplane. The reality of the moment is, that we must wait and see what arrives at US' shores. When radio-activity from Japan should arrive it might be Friday or Saturday already. No need to rush for special iodine pills or a Geiger-counter though. Most of the danger will have rained down on the Pacific by then or could have dissolved somewhat due to the half-time of radiating elements measured in days and months. This uncertainty is feeding some media to create a 'hype' out of still thin air. advancing in the USA and Germany, not about 'swine-flu' this time, but 'radio-activity' from nuclear plants? We tend to fear things we can't taste, smell, hear, feel or see. That is natural. Radio-activity is one of those 'ghosts'. Yet, we are surrounded by it, day and night.
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Obama tells Americans: Do NOT prepare for radioactive fallout, just listen to your government
WHAT DO YOU NEED MORE THAN THIS TO WAKE YOU UP
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MOX plutonium fuel used in Fukushima's Unit 3 reactor two million times more deadly than enriched ur
www.naturalnews.comMOX plutonium fuel used in Fukushima's Unit 3 reactor two million times more deadly than enriched uranium
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Recently top US officials testified that reactor #4 was fully breached and a meltdown was underway. Japan denied it. Here are the photos to prove Japan is lying.
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THIS VIDEO IS TWO DAYS OLD. IT HAS GOTTEN WORSE SINCE THIS WAS BROADCAST!!!!!!! ALERT ALERT ALERT WEST COAST. THE REAL TIME RADIATION TRACKING WEBSSITE WE WERE MONITORING WAS TAKEN DOWN LAST NIGHT!!! http://www.radiationnetwork.co
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Suggesting that levels of radiation leaks from the stricken Fukushima plant are being grossly underreported by Japanese authorities, a Swedish government agency told Reuters today that not only will the radiation reach North America, but it will subsequently cover the entire northern hemisphere.
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White House Briefing: Obama Still Supports Nuclear Power Mar 15
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Federal Reserve reveals details of more than 21,000 transactions it had with banks and Wall Street firms during height of financial crisis.
Viscous Cycle: Quartz Is Key to Plate Tectonics
More than 40 years ago, pioneering tectonic geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson published a paper in the journal Nature describing how ocean basins opened and closed along North America's eastern seaboard. His observations, dubbed "The Wilson Tectonic Cycle," suggested the process occurred many times during Earth's long history, most recently causing the giant supercontinent Pangaea to split into today's seven continents.
"If you've ever traveled westward from the Midwest's Great Plains toward the Rocky Mountains, you may have wondered why the flat plains suddenly rise into steep peaks at a particular spot," Lowry says."It turns out that the crust beneath the plains has almost no quartz in it, whereas the Rockies are very quartz-rich."
He thinks that those belts of quartz could be the catalyst that sets the mountain-building rock cycle in motion.
"Earthquakes, mountain-building and other expressions of continental tectonics depend on how rocks flow in response to stress," says Lowry.
"We know that tectonics is a response to the effects of gravity, but we know less about rock flow properties and how they change from one location to another."
Wilson's theories provide an important clue, Lowry says, as scientists have long observed that mountain belts and rift zones have formed again and again at the same locations over long periods of time.
But why?
"Over the last few decades, we've learned that high temperatures, water and abundant quartz are all critical factors in making rocks flow more easily," Lowry says. "Until now, we haven't had the tools to measure these factors and answer long-standing questions."
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Risk is often defined as a product of two factors: probability and impact. Yet when it comes to the endless quest for fossil fuel energy, it’s become all too easy to minimize the latter.An oil spill on the scale of what happened last year in the Gulf of Mexico was considered so unlikely that BP’s dr
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WFAA lead story last night.
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Last night the Bartonville Town Council started proceedings to place a temporary moratorium on new drilling permits and fracking with chemicals. The vote was unanimous.
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A little damper on all the hype of the Eagle Ford Shale. This is how it starts. Little by little people start to realize that this oil and gas boom is not all good.
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Guess what, Dear Readers! According to Greg Palast, who was the "lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigations," they are planning to build two new nuclear reactors on the Gulf Coast of Texas.
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This is actually horrible news: Best Available Control Technology, BACT, does not work. Even with the BACT that is mandated in Wyoming, emissions from natural gas extraction and production activity has caused smog that is worse than in large cities like Los Angeles.
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Senate, House Bills Would Protect Drinking Water from Toxic Gas Drilling Chemicals
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It's not just for Fort Worth...This is an accurate description of how the drilling permit process is rigged in nearly all areas of the Barnett Shale.
Ceci est une information importante à propos de l’extraction de gaz à partir d’un système de fractur
txsharon.blogspot.comLes résultats provoqués par ce système d’extraction vont menacer non seulement l’eau potable mais pourraient également mattre en danger l’agriculture disent les experts.
This is an important information regarding the extraction of gas from a system of fractur
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Results caused by this system of extraction are not only going to threaten drinking water but also could mattre in danger agriculture say the experts.
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Results caused by this system of extraction are not only going to threaten drinking water but also could mattre in danger agriculture say the experts.
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Yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the Texas Railroad Commission's narrow view of protecting the public's interest.
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Watch 30,240,000 gallons of water go bye, bye FOREVER!
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I updated this post with some additional information.
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Wyoming, famous for its crisp mountain air and breathtaking, far-as-the-eye-can-see vistas, is looking a lot like smoggy Los Angeles these days because of a boom in natural gas drilling. Folks who live near the gas fields in the western part of this outdoorsy state are complaining of watery eyes, s...
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Bob and Lisa Parr of Allison filed a lawsuit against nine oil and gas companies this morning in the Dallas County Courthouse. They are suing the companies for environmental contamination and pollution of their property over the past two years during several phases of natural gas production.
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Marc Durand specializes in rock mechanics and hydrogeology. He gets it. Not only does he know that hydraulic fracturing will cause "irreversible harm" has says it will last for thousands of years. He also knows who will ultimately be stuck paying for the cleanup: the taxpayers. And, it won't be chea...
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Air Date: March 17 2011 - HERE WE GO AGAIN ANOTHER UNPROVOKED WAR. WTF IS GOING ON HERE! U.N Votes Yes To Bomb Libya
Daniel Ellsberg on Bradley Manning’s Solitary Confinement: "The Conditions Clearly Violate the Const
www.democracynow.orgEarlier this week, U.S. State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley resigned after describing the confinement of accused WikiLeaks whistleblower Army Private Bradley Manning as "ridiculous" and "stupid." Manning is being held in "maximum security confinement" at the U.S. Marine Corps base in Quantico, V
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This is the first part of a two part series looking at the trend by the DoD to hire contractors to oversee other DoD contractors instead of doing the management and oversight themselves. Both Charles Smith and Robert Bauman are former DoD oversight and investigative personnel and they will explain f
WikiLeaks has given the mainstream media yet another opportunity to vilify Iran. A typical headline, from the New York Times was: "Around the world distress over Iran." And, ironically, it is true, but not in the way the headline writer meant. Around the world there is distress over Iran, distress at the way it is being cast in the role of the Evil Doer, when all but the most ignorant observers realise that it is nuclear-armed Apartheid Israel that is the real threat to world peace, not Iran.
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FOX NEWS Reporters (Reporters Steve Wilson & Jane Akre) uncover that most of the Milk in the USA and across some parts of the world is unfit to drink due to Monsanto Corporation's POSILAC®, which has been proven to be a cancer-causing growth hormone.(known in short as "BGH" "BST" or "rBGH" ), but th
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There is overwhelming evidence that we are entering the final chapter of class warfare in the US.
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This is just too fascinating not to post. Enjoy!
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Lurking in a proposed mortgage fraud settlement with the state attorneys general is a clause that could be worth billions for the big banks.
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http://tinyurl.com/47uajqx Inside Job Documentary Part 1 HD - Watch Inside Job Documentary Online Free Full
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We live now in a country which is perceived...as having turned upside down. A plutocracy has emerged from previous aspirations toward egalitarian democracy; a "trickle down" economics in which tax burdens are transferred from rich to poor persists even though it has only continued to redistribute th...
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The Bilderberg group and their secret and not so secret meetings have all had one main objective - how to reduce the number of people on the planet. These New World Order elitists are dictating who has the right to live and who doesn't. ELITIST QUOTES: "The world today has 6.8 billion people. That
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This presentation shows how Steven Jackson knew the plot of the Illuminati so well that he fortold events like 9/11 and others events, including future events which still are to come to pass.
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“I knew exactly what I was doing – I was going for broke,” she told Playboy in the magazine’s April interview. “I had reached the point of no return. You finally get fed up…I finally wanted to speak the truth.” Thomas, of course, left her perch as the dean of the White House press corps last year, a
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Google: The Council on Foreign Relations The Bilderberg Group Trilateral Commission New World Order World Government North American Union Military Industrial Complex Federal Reserve fraud Security and Prosperity Partnership Martial Law Freedom to Fascism Big Brother Society Police
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The idea is developing slowly - too slowly, undoubtedly, but surely - in sync with the awakening of the collective consciousness: a maximum acceptable income (MAI) is a necessity to repair societal connections and to institute environmental and social policy.
In an editorial in the Guardian condemning the US torture paradigm being applied to Bradley Manning they rather ruin their point with this sentence- There was at least the ghost of an excuse for bullying and sometimes torturing Arab and Afghan "combatants". It was done in the name of saving Ame ...
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Libya's foreign minister announces an end to military operations hours after the UN Security Council backs no-fly zone.
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AWARTA, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Food supplies are running low, ambulances have been detained for hours at checkpoints and hundreds of young men have been held, interrogated and beaten up, some requiring hospitalization, in the Palestinian village of Awarta in the northern West Bank. The village h
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This was recorded at 10:15 on the 16 of March 2011 at night . Please make up your own mind as to what this stuff is..
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No one knows for sure what caused this signal. There is a slight possibility that it just might originate from an extraterrestrial intelligence. The bright colors on the blue background indicate that an anomalous signal was received here on Earth by a radio telescope involved in a Search for Extrate
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Where the Elites Will Go When TSHTF First off, I want to warn you that I have an inside source at Denver International Airport. This source has…
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An award winning collection of 4 public service commercials designed to save your life in an earthquake and/or a tsunami. All real like nothing you have ever seen before. A collaboration of Doug Copp, Rescue Chief, American Rescue Team International (ARTI) and Lisa Haywood of Stardust TV productions
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www.greenmedinfo.comGreenMedInfo contains 20 articles on Radiation Disaster Associated Toxicity indicating that the following substances may be helpful: Potassium Iodide, Curcumin, and Calendula
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