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Bachmann Doubles Down On Drilling In Everglades, Says Only ‘Radical Environmentalists’ Would Oppose
GOP presidential front runner Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (MN) new notion to drill for oil in the Florida Everglades is compelling the public, scientists, and even a few in her own party to raise their eyebrows at her “incredible faux pas.” Ever resilient against the onslaught of facts, Bachmann doubled down on her call to drill [...]/p via Bachmann Doubles Down On Drilling In Everglades, Says Only ‘
Scientist: “The Murdoch Media Empire Has Cost Humanity Perhaps One or Two Decades in Battle Against Climate Change.”
The Australian is the country’s biggest-selling national newspaper. It is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which “also owns the sole dailies in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin and the most popular metropolitan dailies in Sydney and Melbourne.” Michael Ashley investigates the national paper’s “seriously warped” op-ed policy in this extended excerpt. [R]eality becomes so [...]/p via Scie
NASA Scientist, Religious Leaders Arrested in Tar Sands Protest
Environment News WASHINGTON, DC, August 29, 2011 (ENS) – NASA climatologist Dr. James Hansen was arrested today in front of the White House where he was demonstrating in opposition to the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that would bring thick crude oil from Alberta to refineries in Oklahoma and Texas. Dr. Hansen heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and is a
Defeating the Corporatocracy
Three Things That Must Happen for Us to Rise Up and Defeat the Corporatocracy Truthout Friday 26 August 2011 by: Bruce E. Levine, Alternet | Op-Ed Most Americans oppose rule by the corporatocracy but don’t have the tools to fight back. Here are three things we need to create a real people’s movement. Transforming the United States into something closer to a democracy requires: 1) knowledge of
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Barely Alive
BARELY ALIVEI'm officially back in major depression at the moment. Severe clinical depression. Yes, a flare-up of my lifelong problem, and part of being bipolar, combined with severe panic disorders, anxiety disorders, and a mild degree of agoraphobia. We'll hope the current bout of overwhelming pain, triggered by certain events, is a passing trend.But right now I'm highly dysfunctional
Staying Alive
STAYING ALIVESocial media is very distracting from blogging. So is real life social activity. So is severe clinical recurring depression, panic and anxiety disorders. My apologies. I'm still here. I'm still intending to get back to blogging Real Soon Now. Trying to work on the depression and forming new habits to get back in the blogging groove. Miss y'all! Read more posts at A
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Violence in Afghanistan 09/03/2011
S. AFGHANISTAN – A soldier serving with the ISAF was killed by an insurgent attack. Details and the nationality of the solider were not provided. It gave no other details. AFGHANISTAN – Afghan and foreign troops claim to have killed 21 Taliban insurgents during raids around the country over the past 24 hours. BALKH – Combined Afghan and ISAF troops killed an unarmed female civilian during a night
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Race, Heritage, & Reality
Back in 2009, I wrote a post about race & self-identification and how being Black & X is treated differently than any other form of being multiracial. (The comments were special & filled with wank from someone determined to insist that being multiracial in America is just one overarching experience.) At the time I was specifically discussing being Black & White, but really that wh
On Consent, Sex Positivity, & Cultures of Color after Colonization
I wrote this last night while we were talking about this NSFW picture on Tumblr and all the cultural connotations imbedded in the idea of the knowing sexually available black woman teaching the young white man. We got off into sex positivity, the racially specific messages about sex that WOC often get inside their communities as well as what is projected on them from the outside and what all of t
What Price A Black Girl’s Life?
A thing I’m noticing in pop culture is this idea that black women can’t be traumatized by anything that happens to them. Usually when a female character is sexually assaulted/kidnapped/abused it works to make the audience sympathetic to that character. We certainly see that trope enough in books/movies/TV shows with white characters. In fact such traumatic moments are often used to “redeem” bad g
A PSA From A Loud Angry Black Woman
I am past the point where I have any patience for people telling me how I should feel about how black women are presented in the media. Especially people who have never walked a moment, much less a mile in the shoes of black women in America. And before someone decides to break out the face paint & do a documentary? Let me tell you right now that a day or a week or even a month in makeup won’
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Uncommon alliances: Muslim and Jew, left and right
In October, the Dutch Senate will consider the ban on ritual slaughter enacted by the parliament’s lower house in June 2011. Self-described as “an institution that pays little heed to ideas which happen to be fashionable at the time,” the Senate has no one party that holds a majority. It will therefore be interesting to see whether it is able to protect religious freedom or succumb to the pressure
Sharing Ramadan: Breaking bread (not signs) in Murfreesboro
The voice of a young Middle Eastern man echoed through the room as he sounded the call to prayer amidst a crackling microphone; the time to break the Ramadan fast had arrived. Water and fresh dates are offered to the primarily non-Muslim crowd and the Iftar dinner is served. While the Muslim hosts are busying themselves setting the buffet tables for the ensuing feast, I find myself noticing that
Poll analysis: Taking stock of Muslims in America
Last year, during a raging controversy over the building of an Islamic centre in Lower Manhattan, Time Magazine ran a cover story titled, "Is America Islamophobic?" Shortly thereafter, a poll released by Time showed nearly six in ten Americans held an unfavorable view of Muslims. A Gallup poll released the same year revealed four in ten Americans admitting to “feeling at least ‘a little’ prejudice
CAP report on Islamophobia: Fighting the defamation of Muslim Americans
After a six-month-long investigative research project, the Center for American Progress Action Fund released a 138-page report, Fear Inc., Exposing the Islamophobia Network in America, which for the first time reveals that more than $42 million from seven foundations over the past decade have helped empower a relatively small, interconnected and incestuous group of individuals and organizations to
2011 Gallup Poll: American Muslims most tolerant in America
A superficial study of the media coverage in the past two years conveys a misleading picture about the state of American Muslims and their relationship with the rest of the nation. The terrible attack on Fort Hood by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the attempted June 2010 bombing of Times Square, the shrill rhetoric and legislative activism of the anti-sharia brigade, and the incessant targeting of Islam
Reflections: Lessons from a Medina graveyard
One can learn many lessons at a graveyard. I once found myself helping carry the corpse of a stranger, an old woman, to its final abode. At the time, I was a 20-year-old on a family trip to the Holy City of Medina in Saudi Arabia. Following the ish'a (night) prayers at the Prophet's Mosque (Al-Masjid al-Nabawi) and the recitation of obligatory funeral prayer, I came across a middle-aged man search
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Why we don't torture
Because it figuratively and literally puts us in bed with the bad-guys.The CIA worked closely with Moammar Gadhafi's intelligence services in the rendition of terror suspects to Libya for interrogation, according to documents seen Saturday by the Associated Press, co-operation that could spark tensions between Washington and Libya's new rulers. Canada-US efforts had Maher Arar rendered to a reg
Sparks . . .
LOOKS LIKE GOD DOESN'T LIKE ROB FORD. Then again, I might be biased. Check out the rest of the pictures at blogTO.
Drones . . .
Check out the mission symbols.WIRED has an article by Spencer Ackerman, "How the CIA Became ‘One Hell of a Killing Machine’". It's an account of how the CIA got up to speed with its efforts to attack al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to Spencer, the CIA started from zero.On April 14, 2004, CIA Director George Tenet looked so impotent he might have starred in a Viagra commercial. Tene
Stuff . . .
GEORGE CARLIN was very perceptive about our stuff. You know, all the artifacts of life we seem to assiduously acquire.How all that stuff gets made and distributed has shaped how we live for well over a thousand years. From Greek amphorae of antiquity to the 2-litre pop bottle of today. TXCHNOLOGIST is an interesting site devoted to technology and science, paid for by one of my less favored corpor
"A handful of soldiers...
...is better than a mouthful of arguments." - Stephen Harper, Trapani, Italy, 1 September 2011Sometimes a little more argument makes all the difference.
WORLD TRUTH TODAY ★ 13
9/11 Building 7 – Martin Noakes
The Georgia Guidestones: http://www.radioliberty.com/stones.htm Agenda 21: http://green-agenda.com/agenda21.html New World Order: http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/ Nikola Tesla http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaxD_4n3KMg Freeman on the Land http://www.exploringinfinity.com/2010/01/important-freeman-on-the-land-definitions-and-information/
Fear – Mind Control – The Thought Police
The Police State is alive and well in the US. I was witness to it this past week when I visited Rhode Island. You may not recognize it if you’re living with it on a daily basis, but for someone who comes from the outside, it was very obvious… The presence of cops and State troopers everywhere was astounding. On the roads you have signs saying “OBEY” speed limit… Not “respect” speed limit , which
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Don't worry, Peter Gibson will get to the bottom of it.
Well, at least we now know why Moussa Koussa was allowed to leave our septic isle so swiftly. When he arrived here at the end of the March having defected from Gaddafi's regime, one of the few things that he wasn't accused of was of a long-term convivial relationship with MI6, let alone being on such friendly terms with the secret intelligence service that it appears he and Sir Mark Allen were th
Eliza Manningham-Bullshitter speech shock.
"I was actually against everything I did while I was head of MI5. Shame I didn't do something about it then."
Let's go round again.
Music isn't the only thing that goes in cycles; politics does as well. If at first you don't succeed in getting your law passed, then try try again. Gordon Brown, convinced that he had to keep the Sun on side after he became prime minister, resurrected Tony Blair's thankfully failed attempts to extend the detention without charge limit for "terrorist suspects" to 90 days, albeit finally settling
The state of music in 2011 and the Mercury.
Music it seems goes in cycles. Back in the late 90s, with Britpop (a term which now conjures up only sniggers) dying out and indie in general flat-lining, it was claimed that decks were selling in higher numbers than guitars. How accurate that story was is difficult to ascertain now, but for a time it did seem as though dance music had taken over: clubs like Gatecrasher and Cream had become bran
So who will protect the civilians of Sirte?
Compare and contrast. From March, and which has since been used as the primary justification for why intervention in Libya was needed urgently: Muammar Gaddafi told Libyan rebels on Thursday his armed forces were coming to their capital Benghazi tonight and would not show any mercy to fighters who resisted them. In a radio address, he told Benghazi residents that soldiers would search every
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Seven Reasons Why Western Officials do Not Want the Syrian Opposition to Take up Arms
Seven Reasons why Western officials do not want to encourage the Syrian opposition to take up arms. 1. Syria may slip into civil war. This could produce the sort of blood bath that we saw in Lebanon and Iraq that would destabilize the region. 2. Regional capitals will be sucked into the civil war raising the possibility of a larger regional conflagration. 3. Pressure would grow on Western governme
Ehsani on Syria Comment over the Years
Ehsani has gathered together his commentary published on Syria Comment over the last five years. I asked him to do this because his articles constitute a valuable and trenchant critic and analysis of Syria’s economic problems and challenges. The link for each article is published below with a representative quote. [Joshua Landis] Ehsani on Syria Comment My first debate in the comment section was a
Four of Syria’s Biggest Businessmen Hit with EU Sanctions as Anger and Fear Spread
Four of Syria’s Biggest Businessmen Hit with EU Sanctions for Supporting the Regime. Shock waves rippled through the Syrian Business Community this morning as people awoke to the news that four of the country’s most prominent capitalists have been added to the EU sanction list. Their homes, investments, and bank accounts are now being frozen in Europe. The US can not be far behind. Emad Ghraiwati,
Bourhan Ghalioun is Sunni; Big Demonstrations in Hama
Bourhan Ghalioun, the newly appointed President of Syria’s new Provisional Council, is NOT an Alawi, but a Sunni from a town hear Homs. I incorrectly said that Ghalioun was Alawi and posted the comment of a Commentator, who I trust, who wrote, saying Ghalioun was a non-religious Alawi. I apologize for getting it wrong. I corrected my statement with an addendum to the post of 29 August 2011 within
Syria’s First High Ranking Defection or a Forced Confession? The Taped Resignation of Hama Attorney General
Hama Attorney-General Adnan Bakkour Three Provocative Videos make the rounds today. Again It is hard to know what is true. I leave it to readers to assess them. A video clip purportedly recorded by Attorney General of Hama City shows him reading a resignation letter in protest of government atrocities against Hamwi civilians. Øماة_استقالة.المØامي الاول عدنان Ù…Øمد البكور 31/8/20
Assad Maintains a Vice-Like Grip on Syria’s Capital; Rastan
The last Friday of Ramadan in Damascus: Assad maintains a vice-like grip on Syria’s capital 26/08/2011, for Syria Comment By anonymous in Damascus The last Friday of Ramadan held a lot of expectation for the opposition activists in Damascus. While protests have certainly picked up pace over the last month they still haven’t managed to unsettle the capital, the bastion of pro-regime support. So the
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Labor Day Afternoon Barbecue Conversation Stopper
In this diffuse network of nodes and connections, stronger and weaker ties, interdependencies and feedback loops, bad decisions are punished almost as quickly as the stock market punishes bad business models.I have no idea what the rest of the article says. I couldn't get past this sentence.
Photo of the Day
Pres. Obama touring Wayne, NJ destruction from Hurricane Irene (via, but on FB).
Jeffrey Goldberg's Heavy Breathing
Jeffrey Goldberg claims that comparing the numbers of deaths caused by terrorists to deaths by drowning in the bathtub misses the point that the societal impact of deaths caused by terrorists is quite different from the societal impact of deaths by drowning in the bathtub.And he is, somewhat, correct. Newspapers do not howl about bathtub deaths. Politicians do not insist that we end them; some of
Bits and Pieces - August 31, 2011
The war on women continues.Just wondering: anyone making this kind of stink about subsidized Viagra? To ask the question is to answer it.A skirmish won. J. C. Penney seems no longer to be selling this shirt, designed to teach young women their proper place in life according to some. And it's encouraging to see young women starting to recognize that, yeah, things can slip backwards.Meanwhile, money
Doing Stuff Is Hard
And requires a bit of knowledge. Of facts, rather than dogma.Maybe I'm touchy about this because I had to start out the week in a meeting where the suggestions were in the form of "I think this subject would be good," not followed by any practical ideas on how to execute that. Or "If you [note that you] got a good title and a great speaker, it would be a really good program."So I snapped at Joshua
Bits and Pieces - August 30, 2011
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has been looking at Rick Perry. She's a Catholic and is including his religious claims in her evaluation.The moral basis for an extensive state. Daniel Little's response to the Libertarian/Tea Party selfishness.This is the value of nonviolent action: the enforcers don't like to kill their fellow citizens.Vacations and breaks make you more productive. So go ahead and read
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Poaching contributes to forest elephant declines in Côte d’Ivoire, new numbers reveal
An estimated 189 African forest elephants are now living in Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park, according to the findings of a recent survey. The last reliable population estimate was conducted nearly 30 years ago and counted 800 elephants. The current population level was determined by counting dung piles throughout the park. Taking into account the estimate’s margin of error, the actual
Responsible fish farming gains new ground in Malaysia
Grouper farmers from the states of Johore, Selangor and Penang have banded together to establish the Marine Fish-Farmers Association of Malaysia (MFFAM). This development is significant as the three states account for approximately 80% of Malaysian farmed fish production. At a meeting held on the 26th June 2011 in Subang, grouper farmers from the states of Johore, Selangor and Penang have bande
Sustainable palm oil milestone reached ahead of major WWF evaluation
The world’s largest sustainable palm oil body reached a major milestone last week in its on-going efforts to halt deforestation and bring sustainable palm oil to market – the millionth hectare of plantations has just been certified, an area roughly equivalent in size to the nation of Jamaica. The result comes as WWF prepares its second instalment of the WWF Palm Oil Buyers' Scorecard, which tra
Brazil Forest Law changes threaten to send climate achievements up in smoke
Brasilia, Brazil: Proposed changes to Brazil’s forest laws that will cut back protection and offer wide ranging amnesties for illegal deforestation threaten to undo the country’s impressive performances in cutting back emissions and protecting biodiversity. "As it stands now, the forest law is a piece of legislation that looks to the future. It is the best possible legal framework for our adapta
Nearly 800 pieces of ivory seized in Hong Kong
Customs officers in Hong Kong have reported the seizure of 794 pieces of ivory tusks weighing 1.9 tonnes, concealed inside a shipping container that arrived from Malaysia Monday. The consignment was declared as products for factory use, but upon examination by officers of the Ports and Maritime Command was found to contain African elephant ivory, concealed by stones. A 66-year-old man was arre
More than 1000 ivory tusks seized in Tanzania
Police in Zanzibar have seized 1,041 elephant tusks hidden in a shipment heading for Malaysia, according to media reports. The ivory was hidden in a container of anchovies, where the strong smell would have discouraged an investigation of its contents. The consignment was discovered in Zanzibar after arriving from Dar Es Salaam. Two local transport agents are being held by police for questionin
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Establishment Media Re-Brands Racist, Bloodthirsty Rebels as Freedom
Establishment Media Re-Brands Racist, Bloodthirsty Rebels as Freedom Fighters NY Times, BBC label Belhaj 'grateful ally of the west' as his fighters
Libyan Rebels Round Up Blacks, Put Them In Prison Camps
Libyan Rebels Round Up Blacks, Put Them In Prison Camps Massacre, torture and abuse of innocents destroys NATO's "humanitarian" legitimacy Paul Joseph Watson
Establishment Prepares 9/11 Official Story Onslaught
Establishment Prepares 9/11 Official Story Onslaught The system is still in a blind panic over the flimsy credibility of the government-approved fable Paul
Next Stop For NATO Regime Change: Syria
Next Stop For NATO Regime Change: Syria No humanitarian intervention to protect victims of US and British-backed tyrants in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia Paul
Al Gore Plays The Race Card, But He's The Real Racist
Al Gore Plays The Race Card, But He's The Real Racist Soaring food prices caused by global warming alarmism and ethanol production - funded by Gore - are
Libyan Rebels Try To Arrest NATO Critics
Libyan Rebels Try To Arrest NATO Critics Mob hailed as liberators by establishment media silences dissent, tortures and rapes children Paul Joseph Watson
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Bipolar Therapy
Apologies, having a bit of bipolar down side trouble, but I think I am coming out of it. Except in the direst extremity, I have stayed away from the drugs they use since the horrible, deadening experience of lithium for a brief while in my student days. It remains my opinion that the sharpness and creativity is worth the days of lack of will to…anything. I have, however, a rather strange therapy
Hating the Internet
The meeting in Paris to hand out the Libyan oil and reconstruction contacts to Western companies, the NATO assault on Sirte and surrounding towns, the continuation of control orders in the UK, even the unchallenged Israeli spokesman on TV saying that the Mavi Mamara was laden with arms and that all those killed were terrorists: all of these things make me feel that liberalism is so otiose that the
Wikileaks
Wikileaks have apparently finally published the main load of unredacted diplomatic cables. Could someone kindly point me at them.
Strange But True
This comment appeared beneath the Guardian leader on Ned Kelly: The defrocked ambassador to Uzbekistan , Craig Murray , had an earlier career as a barman in Aviemore. His party piece was somewhat bizarre. He would take a used cardboard box , cut out Ned Kelly style eye and mouth holes in it and then stand on the bar at drinking up time singing “Time to go Home” a la Andy Pandy He was defrocked fro
Ramsgate Again
Sorry, been a hectic few days but have now left Edinburgh and am back in Ramsgate, remembering this morning how much I actually like the place. Loads of admin to catch up on, but will be back blogging shortly.
Sleeping With An Eerie Sexiness
Today is the last performance of Medea. I am going to miss it. Very nice line about Nadira in The Spectator: “Nadira Janikova brings an august and eery sexiness to the title role.” I like it, though I have no idea what it means. The Spectator calls it an “exemplary” production. It is perhaps not surprising that The Spectator shares my own preference for text based classical drama over the sta
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Your typhoon/hurricane Sunday open thread
by liberal japonicus I'm in Kyoto for a conference. It was a bit iffy, as Typhoon #12 (Japanese number them rather than name them) was scheduled to park itself over Osaka. I took the shinkansen up, which had no problem, but many of the regular train lines south of the area were stopped because of the water the storm system was dumping. However, it seems to have passed by, but being in Kyoto wa
Who's going to pay for this mess? Hurricane Irene Division; plus bonus Open Thread
by Doctor Science If anyone tries to claim that Irene was "no big deal", I plan to punch them in the neck. Here in NJ (within range of my fist) there are no such people, fortunately for us all. Our house had very little trouble during Irene, only a little water in the basement. We're plenty stressed, though, because the salle where my husband fences was very heavily damaged by flooding. The d
Extraordinary Rendition
by liberal japonicus The Guardian has a piece today about revelations about CIA extraordinary rendition network as revealed by recent court filings in upstate New York. This article (which confusingly has the same picture at the top and so could be confused with the previous one) gives more details while this companion opinion notes how the information was essentially hidden in plain sight. This A
View of an outsider
by liberal japonicus I mentioned that I was really attracted to the Guardian site after reading it quite a bit for the Murdoch phone hacking scandal. The paper has been, strangely enough, a thread for me in my wanderings. I remember getting it in the UK when I visited my uncle on numerous occasions and turning to it when I lived in Europe. When I first came to Japan, I got an international subscri
Bunker Hunkering
by Doctor Science Incoming Tide, Scarboro, Maine by Winslow Homer, IMHO the greatest painter of the ocean in the canon of Western art. We're finishing up our Irene prep, so I'll keep this short. We're 30 miles from the ocean, so we don't have to worry about storm surges and such. Using Hurricane Floyd as our baseline, we expect a power outage, a couple inches of water in the basement, and poss
Your conching Friday open thread
by liberal japonicus If you are like me, you may have assumed that the conching in this title is another bizarre and short-lived stunt like planking or owling. It's not: Attention hipsters and other people seeking hipness: there’s a new fad catching on in Western Australia's Shark Bay, and you won’t want to be the last to to post pictures of yourself imitating it to your Tumblr feed. “Con
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Preview of a Coming Attraction
If you somehow missed the Asan Plenum back in June, here’s your chance to catch an encore performance. Of one presentation, anyway. The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies is holding a breakfast roundtable featuring yours truly with the University of Pittsburgh’s Dennis Gormley. The subject is — you guessed it! — the rise and fall of North Korean missile exports. And since there was n
Debating the CTBT in 2011
Monitoring for nuclear tests: an IMS infrasound station array at infrasound station IS49, Tristan da Cunha, U.K. (Image Credit: CTBTO Preparatory Commission. Click to enlarge.) Two weeks ago, I noticed that the conversation about the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) seemed to be picking up the pace. This was among people on the Hill, so I set about interviewing several policy analysts, essent
IAEA DG Reports on Iran, DPRK
Here are the IAEA Director-General’s, entitled Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran (GOV/2011/54) and Application of Safeguards in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (GOV_2011_53).
The Case Against ElBaradei
Our colleague John Carlson, the former head of the Australian Safeguards and Nonproliferation Office (ASNO), has joined the list of those burned by the Wikileaks cable dump. Apparently John wrote a non-paper entitled, The Case Against ElBaradei, for the consideration by US diplomats planning a campaign against ElBaradei’s third term as IAEA Director-General. He provided it to the USG, the cable as
De-alerting and De-legitimization
In the September/October 2010 issue of Foreign Affairs [“Smaller and Safer, A New Plan for Nuclear Postures”] Bruce Blair and his co-authors argue that de-alerting is an important step to prevent nuclear terrorism as well as a tool to de-legitimize nuclear weapons: These [high readiness] postures also perpetuate a mutual reliance on nuclear weapons that lends legitimacy to the nuclear ambitions of
No Shoot Down
In the comments over my recent post on Libya’s remaining stockpile of Scud B missiles, some commentators asked about press reports that NATO aircraft shot down a Scud B. I can now confirm that did not/not happen. Col. David Lapan, Director of the Press Office at the Department of Defense, told Global Security Newswire’s Elaine Grossman that “no shootdown occurred” in response to a question abo
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Celebrate Perpetual War on 9/11
The war at home post-9/11, as related by Adama Bah, falsely accused as a suicide bomber at the age of 16 in 2005: Later I found out why they'd taken my dad. After I'd been reported as a suicide bomber, the FBI started investigating my whole family. That's how they found out about my dad being here without papers.The FBI drove us to Pennsylvania, across state lines, without my parents' permission.
Celebrate Perpetual War on 9/11
UPDATE 1: A 50% error rate in targeting US enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan is acceptable: JSOC’s lethality was evident in its body counts: In 2008, in Afghanistan alone, JSOC commandos struck 550 targets and killed roughly a thousand people, officials said. In 2009, they executed 464 operations and killed 400 to 500 enemy forces. As Iraq descended into chaos in the summer of 2005, JSOC conducted 3
Celebrate Perpetual War on 9/11
Yesterday, President Obama made the connection between 9/11 and perpetual war explicit: US President Barack Obama today hailed the 9/11 generation of US veterans and 6200 service members who perished in the hard decade of war spawned by the September 11 attacks.Mr Obama, speaking to the 93rd annual convention of the American Legion, paid tribute to millions of servicemen and women who had signed u
Celebrate Perpetual War on 9/11
UPDATE: In case you've forgotten, the post-9/11 reaction: At a community meeting Saturday in Mountain View, civil rights leaders and local residents who described being targeted expressed fear that upcoming events could trigger another flare-up of backlash attacks.They spoke from experience -- schoolchildren taunted for wearing religious head scarves, workers discriminated against because of beard
AOL Sinking Like a Stone After Purchasing the Huffington Post
According to Pace Lattin of Technorati, AOL is for sale after purchasing the Post. If only Rupert Murdoch would buy it and shut the Post down, that would be great. Arianna would have to come up with a new scheme for making money off the work of others.
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss?
Apparently not, if the populace of Libya has anything to say about it. Contradictions within the NATO assisted rebellion are rising to the surface pretty quickly. For a similar written account, consider the following: The first cracks in Libya's rebel coalition have opened, with protests erupting in Misrata against the reported decision of the National Transitional Council (NTC) to appoint a form
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