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Image by marsmet541 via FlickrArsenic in RiceResearch by Meharg has shown U.S. rice has some of the highest inorganic arsenic levels in the world, and that infant rice cereal sold here is generally made from U.S. rice
"Rice-based infant cereals are often the first solid food that babies eat," the Consumer Reports article said, and cited a 2008 study from U.K. researchers that found 20-ounce packets of dried infant rice cereal contained 60 to 160 ppb of inorganic arsenic.
Because babies are small, they can ingest more arsenic for their weight compared with adults. And exposure to arsenic may be particularly deleterious when it occurs at a time of rapid development
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This week, Republicans in Congress have launched two different attempts to resurrect the delayed, and possibly dead, Keystone XL pipeline- the dreaded pipeline that would uproot American families and make the Kochs brothers richer. Discuss: http://facebook.com/
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The Pseudo-Scientists are back for another round of propaganda.
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Paul Buchheit: A hedge fund manager who makes $5 billion in a year is making enough money to pay the starting salaries of 100,000 firefighters.
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Via Dig Within: The blog of Kevin Ryan: Buddhist scholar Graeme MacQueen gave a talk that explained why Buddhists should take action to stop war and its
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Joined by actor Martin Sheen, thousands of people from across the Americas gathered this weekend in Georgia call for an end to notorious US military training school
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| Global elites are confused, reactive, and sinking into a quagmire of their own making, says author. The immense structural inequalities of the global political economy can no longer be contained through consensual mechanisms of social control. The ruling classes have lost legitimacy; we are witnessing a breakdown of ruling-class hegemony on a world scale. Global elites had hoped and expected that the "Great Depression" that began with the mortgage crisis and the collapse of the global financial system in 2008 would be a cyclical downturn that could be resolved through state-sponsored bailouts and stimulus packages. But it has become clear that this is a structural crisis. Cyclical crises are on-going episodes in the capitalist system, occurring and about once a decade and usually last 18 months to two years. There were world recessions in the early 1980s, the early 1990s, and the early 21st century. Structural crises are deeper; their resolution requires a fundamental restructuring of the system. Earlier world structural crises of the 1890s, the 1930s and the 1970s were resolved through a reorganisation of the system that produced new models of capitalism. "Resolved" does not mean that the problems faced by a majority of humanity under capitalism were resolved but that the reorganisation of the capitalist system in each case overcame the constraints to a resumption of capital accumulation on a world scale. The crisis of the 1890s was resolved in the cores of world capitalism through the export of capital and a new round of imperialist expansion. The Great Depression of the 1930s was resolved through the turn to variants of social democracy in both the North and the South - welfare, populist, or developmentalist capitalism that involved redistribution, the creation of public sectors, and state regulation of the market. The globalisation stage of world capitalism we are now in itself evolved out the response of distinct agents to these previous episodes of crisis, in particular, to the 1970s crisis of social democracy, or more technically stated, of Fordism-Keynesianism, or of redistributive capitalism. In the wake of that crisis capital went global as a strategy of the emergent Transnational Capitalist Class and its political representatives to reconstitute its class power by breaking free of nation-state constraints to accumulation. These constraints - the so-called "class compromise" - had been imposed on capital through decades of mass struggles around the world by nationally-contained popular and working classes. During the 1980s and 1990s, however, globally-oriented elites captured state power in most countries around the world and utilised that power to push capitalist globalisation through the neo-liberal model. Or are we headed towards a systemic crisis? A systemic crisis is one in which the solution involves the end of the system itself, either through its supersession and the creation of an entirely new system, or more ominously the collapse of the system. Whether or not a structural crisis becomes systemic depends on how distinct social and class forces respond - to the political projects they put forward and as well as to factors of contingency that cannot be predicted in advance, and to objective conditions. It is impossible at this time to predict the outcome of the crisis. The system is fast reaching the ecological limits of its reproduction. We face the real spectre of resource depletion and environmental catastrophes that threaten a system collapse. - The magnitude of the means of violence and social control is unprecedented. Computerised wars, drones, bunker-buster bombs, star wars, and so forth, have changed the face of warfare. Warfare has become normalised and sanitised for those not directly at the receiving end of armed aggression. Also unprecedented is the concentration of control over the mass media, the production of symbols, images and messages in the hands of transnational capital. We have arrived at the society of panoptical surveillance and Orwellian thought control. Locking up profits - Private prison companies strive to keep millions behind bars to keep their profits up 334 points | 34 comments |
Senate Bill Would Have Allowed Americans to be Detained Even After They Had Been Found Innocent
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With reports of the CIA shutting down in Beirut, Al Jazeera explores the extent of intelligence infiltration in Lebanon.
For decades now, intelligence agencies have been infiltrating the country, with up to 70 suspected spies arrested by the Lebanese authorities in 2009 and 2010 alone.
One of Lebanon's most vulnerable infiltration targets has been its telecommunications network. In 2010, Charbel Qazzi and Tarek Rabaa, both telecom engineers with Alfa (one of Lebanon's two mobile network operators), were arrested within weeks of each other and charged with spying for Israel.
Qazzi, a senior technician at the time, had access to all the passwords necessary to access the mobile network computer systems, both remotely and onsite, which he confessed to handing over to the Israelis. He said he was first contacted by Mossad in the 1990s, when he snuck across the border to consult with an Israeli doctor over a medical case concerning a relative of his.
He was charged with "entering enemy territory, collaborating with Israel, and providing it with information".
In 2010, the International Telecommunication Union - an agency of the United Nations focused on information and communication technologies - passed a resolution recognising "that Lebanon's telecommunication facilities have been and are still being subjected to piracy, interference and interruption, and sedition by Israel against Lebanon's fixed and cellular telephone networks", condemning the attacks as harmful to Lebanon's national security.
Sascha Meinrath, director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative, told Al Jazeera that it is "quite feasible" to access a mobile operating centre remotely, thus able to install backdoors, install software to monitor or manipulate phone calls.
"We know that it is relatively simple to do real-time surveillance of text messaging and even block texts based upon key words as a third party," he said. "Part of the problem is that we are still learning about just how insecure GSM [technologies for second generation cell networks] systems actually are, and there are almost no meaningful mandates from regulators and legislators to make them meaningfully secure."
"Once one has physical access to the system, it's relatively trivial to break into many of these systems," he continued. "One can both renumber systems as well as change the records of call details once you have access to these databases; likewise you can check and change affiliations of phone numbers, such as change the names associated with numbers, change the numbers associated with IMEIs [unique identification codes that verifies a mobile device]."
China's system is a potent, vast and sophisticated network of computer, legal and human censorship. The Chinese model is spreading to other authoritarian regimes. And governments worldwide, including the United States, are aggressively trying to legislate the Internet.' David Rohde, Reuters
As its original enemies were defeated two decades ago, what is Nato's new role?
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With reports of the CIA shutting down in Beirut, Al Jazeera explores the extent of intelligence infiltration in Lebanon.
For decades now, intelligence agencies have been infiltrating the country, with up to 70 suspected spies arrested by the Lebanese authorities in 2009 and 2010 alone.
One of Lebanon's most vulnerable infiltration targets has been its telecommunications network. In 2010, Charbel Qazzi and Tarek Rabaa, both telecom engineers with Alfa (one of Lebanon's two mobile network operators), were arrested within weeks of each other and charged with spying for Israel.
Qazzi, a senior technician at the time, had access to all the passwords necessary to access the mobile network computer systems, both remotely and onsite, which he confessed to handing over to the Israelis. He said he was first contacted by Mossad in the 1990s, when he snuck across the border to consult with an Israeli doctor over a medical case concerning a relative of his.
He was charged with "entering enemy territory, collaborating with Israel, and providing it with information".
In 2010, the International Telecommunication Union - an agency of the United Nations focused on information and communication technologies - passed a resolution recognising "that Lebanon's telecommunication facilities have been and are still being subjected to piracy, interference and interruption, and sedition by Israel against Lebanon's fixed and cellular telephone networks", condemning the attacks as harmful to Lebanon's national security.
Sascha Meinrath, director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative, told Al Jazeera that it is "quite feasible" to access a mobile operating centre remotely, thus able to install backdoors, install software to monitor or manipulate phone calls.
"We know that it is relatively simple to do real-time surveillance of text messaging and even block texts based upon key words as a third party," he said. "Part of the problem is that we are still learning about just how insecure GSM [technologies for second generation cell networks] systems actually are, and there are almost no meaningful mandates from regulators and legislators to make them meaningfully secure."
"Once one has physical access to the system, it's relatively trivial to break into many of these systems," he continued. "One can both renumber systems as well as change the records of call details once you have access to these databases; likewise you can check and change affiliations of phone numbers, such as change the names associated with numbers, change the numbers associated with IMEIs [unique identification codes that verifies a mobile device]."
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Rafael Correa has taken a number of journalists to court for slander; advocacy groups cry foul.The Party Line – December 2, 2011: Nuclear’s “Annus Horribilis” Confirms Its Future Is in the Past
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The nuclear power industry has been resurrected over the past decade by a lobbying campaign that has left many people believing it to be a clean, green, emission-free alternative to fossil fuels. These beliefs pose an extraordinary threat to global public health and encourage a major financial drain...
( The 'extraordinary threat' I see is continual control dysfunction in projects of different kinds : turning 'risk assessment' into a sham. Else why did 2 GE design engineers quit the original Fukushima project over safety concerns ?
Aptera is toast BTW
On March 11, 2009, the federal government summarily denied loans to Aptera Motors under the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, due to wording which limited loans to four-wheeled vehicle research and production.[12] After a lobbying effort which changed the wording of the bill to allow high-mileage three-wheeled vehicles, Aptera Corp. reapplied for federal government loans from the Dept. of Energy as of October 30, 2009.[13] The amount requested was $184 million.[14]
On December 2, 2011, Aptera Motors announced it was going out of business. [
Surely there are actual progressive countries who would welcome a chance to radically improve fuel efficiency while marketing cutting edge technology. Wouldn't that put Lada on the map ! )
The Rich do not care what you think
This simple proposition has been behind Ian's several-times-repeated view that OccupyWallStreet was necessary but insufficient. Now he has returned to this basic idea.
On December 2, 2011, Aptera Motors announced it was going out of business. [
Surely there are actual progressive countries who would welcome a chance to radically improve fuel efficiency while marketing cutting edge technology. Wouldn't that put Lada on the map ! )
The Rich do not care what you think
Once upon a time, a man informed George Bush Jr. that he didn’t like the President’s policies. Bush then said “who cares what you think?”
Bloomberg and Wall Street may not like Occupy Wall Street, but they aren’t going to negotiate in any meaningful sense.
Why should they?
What are the consequences, for them, of not cooperating? They have to see some noisy people. Does it appreciably reduce their income? No. The men or women they get to sleep with? No. The amount of power they have over DC? No. Their actual physical safety, or the safety of those they care about? No.
This simple proposition has been behind Ian's several-times-repeated view that OccupyWallStreet was necessary but insufficient. Now he has returned to this basic idea.
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My name is Kayla Simms and I am a 4th year undergraduate student in the Arts and Sciences program at the University of Guelph from the GTA. I am...
The Pseudo-Scientists are back for another round of propaganda.
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