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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.

Friday, July 1, 2011

1 July - War on Terra

CIA map showing the areas where the main Mujah...Image via Wikipedia

A clear and present danger

Many scholars feel that their freedom to question is in danger of being eroded or even lost. Zoe Corbyn examines the threat in the UK, while Christoph Bode and David Gunkel consider the state of affairs in Europe and America

Mujahideen in Shultan Valley, AfghanistanImage via Wikipedia
Federal Speech Codes


The federal government is poised to adopt or at least preside over something politically correct college administrators have yet to achieve—national speech codes.
A recent dear colleague letter from the U. S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) set the tone. The letter orders college presidents to ignore normal due process when sexual harassment is at issue.
Moreover, the letter, from the current Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at DOE, Russlynn Ali pretty much orders schools to conduct “in conjunction with student leaders, a school or campus ‘climate check’ to assess the effectiveness of efforts to ensure that the school is free from sexual harassment and violence, and using the resulting information to inform future proactive steps that will be taken by the school.”

Nutt published a controversial study on the harms of drug use in The Lancet.  Eventually, this led to his sacking from his position in the

Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

In November 2010, Nutt published another study in The Lancet, co-authored with Les King and Lawrence Phillips on behalf of this independent Committee. This ranked the harm done to user and society by a range of drugs.[9] Owing in part to criticism over the arbitrary weighting of the factors in the 2007 study.[8][10] The new study employed a multi-criteria decision analysis procedure and found that alcohol is more harmful to society than both heroin and crack, while heroin, crack and methylamphetamine (crystal meth) were the most harmful drugs to individuals.[9]  

Develop clear guidelines for marijuana use, don't take rights away (viewpoint)

 

Science policy

Mephedrone found not guilty, but the next legal high may be a killer

Former Lib Dem MP Evan Harris argues that the rush to make mephedrone illegal – despite a lack of evidence it had caused deaths – has put young people in even greater danger
The mephedrone scare started at the end of 2009 when newspapers and the BBC reported that Gabrielle Price, a 14-year-old girl from Brighton, had died after taking the drug. The story was based on rumour and police statements.
Just a month later, however, it became clear that she had died not from a mephedrone overdose but from an infection. The drug was not found in her system.

My enthusiasm for a career in science is slowly ebbing away

Nathan Ley describes what it's like to apply for a studentship in the UK just as the government's austerity measures start to bite


Rep. Dave Camp: Obama's Afghanistan exit strategy could jeopardize counterinsurgency achievements

opit June 30, 2011, 6:09PM
COIN  was the 'success story' for Vietnam. Petraus knows all about it.

(   sidebar note : Extract From Wikipedia
Counter-insurgency operations are common during occupation and armed rebellions. Counter-insurgency may be armed suppression of a rebellion, coupled with tactics such as divide and rule designed to fracture the links between the insurgency and the population in which the insurgents move. Because it may be difficult or impossible to distinguish between an insurgent, a supporter of an insurgency who is a non-combatant, and entirely uninvolved members of the population, counter-insurgency operations have often rested on a confused, relativistic, or otherwise situational distinction between insurgents and non-combatants.
Confusion is often a 'mission statement' technique or excuse of public diplomacy. )
Mujahideen in Jaji, AfghanistanImage via Wikipedia

There is a new Executive Director of the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy

 The U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy is charged with appraising U.S. Government activities intended to understand, inform, and influence foreign publics. The Commission formulates and recommends to the President, the Secretary of State, and Members of Congress policies and programs to carry out the public diplomacy functions vested in the State Department, Broadcasting Board of Governors, and other government agencies, as well as appraising the effectiveness of the public diplomacy policies and programs carried out by government agencies.
Today, Matt Armstrong, author and publisher of MountainRunner.us, was sworn in as the Executive Director of the Advisory Commission. The immediate impact is the suspension of blogging, including the publishing of guest posts, at MountainRunner.us.

Academia and Public Diplomacy: a new relationship

 There was something new at the 2011 International Studies Association conference in Montreal, Canada: a working group on public diplomacy.

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War on Terror

Let's torture the truth out of suicide bombers says new CIA chief Petraeus
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm02UbKNCKQ&feature=player_embedded#at=78
He sure knows the plot line for '24'...and can't care about Abu Ghraib.

What spin. It never changes.
1980's 'Narrative' on Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/06/24/exposing-the-official-1980s-%E2%80%9Cnarrative%E2%80%9D-on-the-soviet-invasion-of-afghanistan/
Whistleblowers have their problems ( Even General Taguba )
The Terror Within : retaliation and abuses of the PATRIOT Act in the case of Julia Davis.
www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/06/29/a-new-documentary-the-terror-within/

Carnage That College Ignores


The Air War Over Korea - 1950 to 1953

History



Carnage That College Ignores

State of Suspension

I wonder if the president got a good look at GE's home base, Schenectady, New York, a once-vibrant industrial dynamo now so sclerotic that it makes the former soviet Magnetogorsks and Traktorgrads sound like El Dorados. 

Revolutions come in many styles. This one is shaping up to look rather red-and-slippery, because the grift has really amounted to the wholesale theft of a generation's future. There are 21-year-olds out there right now laboring under massive burdens of college loans that they were swindled into signing at a time when the parts of their brain concerned with judgment had not fully developed, and they are every bit as smart as the men running the predatory corporations today. Even after they eventually give up paying their debt-peonage tuition loans, they are going to be very pissed off at the way the older generation ran their country into the ground. Let's just hope that the mental torture inflicted on them doesn't turn them into a legion of Jared Lee Loughners.

 

Statement on Police Detention

Iraq for Sale

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The Maculate Conception of FOXNoise

 

Anunaki reptiles
Dan Winter ( Index ) 

Implosive Water Treatment

 Firefly Fans
Betasite

From Michigan
Court rules Michigan's ban on the consideration of race and gender in public college enrollment illegal 11:12 AM

A federal appeals court on Friday struck down Michigan's ban on the consideration of race and gender when enrolling students at public colleges, saying it burdens minorities and violates the U.S. Constitution.

 

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