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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.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

9 March - FB and Truth

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Dimitri Khalezov on nuclear terrorism, 9/11 and other terror attacks that have killed thousands of Americans.

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"It's going to be a hard debate - but it's one that I am determined to win" - Julia Gillard

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Essential Poll: Support for Carbon Pricing - 48% oppose, 35% support a carbon pricing scheme

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sorry hereward. busy holding a baby. a quicky what is your opinion on Stop Gillard's Carbon Tax The Climate Sceptics
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Australia sold about $55 billion dollars worth of coal in 08/09, more than iron, gold, beef and wheat.

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Fascism Then and Now: A Special Report by Hereward Fenton


22 February 2011 
Since the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks many western countries have experienced an erosion of the freedom which I was brought up to believe was a guaranteed, non-negotiable part of modern society. In retrospect it appears that this freedom was only ever attained tentatively and required constant vigilance in order to prevent us slipping back into more barbaric forms of social organisation.
This backsliding has led to the global re-emergence of social and economic trends which I am calling fascist, although to the casual observer these may seem to have little in common with classic fascism of the early 20th century.

It is only by studying the underlying mechanisms of social control and economic manipulation that the current trends can be properly understood. This video identifies some of those trends with sources you can easily verify through an internet search.

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The Authoritarian Personality. New York: Harper and Row. AltmeyerRobert (1988). Enemies of Freedom: Understanding Right Wing Authoritarianism...

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George Carlin and Bill Hicks are comedic geniuses whose material is still very relevant today.
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A British doctor realized that a 4-year-old boy had leukemia after seeing his picture on Facebook — and now the boy's father is crediting the picture with saving his son
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On Feb. 20, Kamal Abbas, Egyptian union leader and prominent figure in the Jan. 25 movement, sent a message to the “workers of Wisconsin”: “We stand with you as you stood with us.” Egyptian workers have long fought for fundamental rights denied by the U.S.-backed Hosni Mubarak regime. Kamal is righ...
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The first GM food crop containing human genes is set to be approved for commercial production. The laboratory-created rice, developed by Americans, produces some of the human proteins found in breast milk and saliva
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Australia to Introduce Carbon Tax. Free-Market Thinking. Dominant Social Themes. Power Elite Memes exposed. Ron Paul and Libertarians. Ludwig von Mises and Austrian Economics. Gold is Money. Gold and Silver are Honest Money. Central banks create inflation. Human action is only solution. Special Gu
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BOYCOTT SHELL - FREE NIGERIA http://www.protectthehuman.com/shell Shell Nigeria is one of the largest oil producers in the Royal Dutch/Shell Group. 80% of the oil extraction in Nigeria is in the Niger Delta, the southeast region of the country. The Delta is home to many small minority ethnic gro
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Pay particularly close attention to the bruises all over this poor women's body. Something is terribly wrong here. Now is the time for BP and the entire criminal Military Industrial complex to become extinct. Mad as hell and not taking it anymore.
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Taking Liberty is a comprehensive look at the lower 48 states showing, region by region, how the Environmental Movement is rapidly abolishing Private Property in America.
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The United States media has been portraying the conflict in Libya in different ways that has confused many ad left people wondering what is really going on there. War Correspondent Keith Harmon Snow says there is a psychological operation performed by the Pentagon to persuade the American people thr
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Jesus Diaz — This mountain of shredded paper taking over several rooms was found inside the Egyptian Secret Police's headquarters in Cairo last Saturday. About 2,500 angry demonstrators invaded the building in what Egyptians are now calling their Bastille Day, finding documents and tapes that may so
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Protest group Topple the Tyrants seizes what it describes as the Libyan government's 'corrupt and stolen assets'
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Charlie Sheen is gutting his life for all to see, the ultimate bread and circus, and the "news" is all too happy to follow the plunging arc of his career for the same reason they show car chases and house fires. Meanwhile, Governor Walker of Wisconsin is preparing to fire state workers out of spite,...
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Dina Rasor: For this week's Solutions column, I am looking at a new handbook, "The Pentagon Labyrinth," edited by Winslow Wheeler. This handbook is a collection of ten essays on how to understand and begin to tackle reforming the Pentagon. There are many good solutions in this 150-page book put out ...
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Middle-class families in Mexico are having tiny transmitters implanted under their skin so that satellites can track them if they are kidnapped.
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http://www.preventcancer.com/consumers/general/milk.htm Why is American Milk Banned in Europe? American dairy milk is genetically-modified unless it's labeled "NO rBGH" Genetically-engineered bovine growth hormone (rBGH) in milk increases cancer risks. American dairy farmers inject rBGH 
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Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine, talks with Rachel Maddow about Republicans using economic crisis (real of ginned up) as an excuse to push through radical conservative and corporate agenda items. 
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Japan halts vaccines from Pfizer, Sanofi after deaths of four children
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It's been a long time coming: Facebook video streaming and a gang of similar competitors could be the straw that...
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The most revealing comments by politicians are rarely revealed. This is because they're made in unrecorded conversations, when politicos let their guard down.
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Since 2001, Americans have been living with a nightmare Arab, a Muslim monster threatening us to the core, chilling our souls with the cry, “God is great!” Yet after two months of world-historic protest and rebellion in streets and squares across the Arab world, we are finally waking up to another r...
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here is the truth behind the middle east conflict. ask yourself: Why aren't Americans shown these honest facts on any of the over 1,700 major media outlets? and WHAT OTHER INFO IS BEING WITHELD? Rachel Corrie: 'a true hero' was killed by the state of Israel, and by its brutal regime that pr
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Please give a 'Thumbs up'! There's nothing they are leaving untouched: the mustard, the okra, the bringe oil, the rice, the cauliflower. Once they have established the norm: that seed can be owned as their property, royalties can be collected. We will depend on them for every seed we grow of ever
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Made by Pfizer, Despondex is the first drug designed to treat the symptoms of excessive perkiness.
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Facebook has partnered with suicide prevention groups in the US and UK to help users deal with distressed friends when...
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Available on iTunes: http://www.newvideo.com/new-video-digital/healing-cancer/ Anderson exposes the failings of conventional cancer treatments and how the medical establishment and the cancer industry wildly - and deceptively - exaggerate the benefits of treatments. Interviews with people who have 
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The third set of demolition notices handed out to Palestinians in two days, the Yatta neighborhood is also the second cave-dweller community targeted in the south Hebron hills district. 
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Dr. Virgil Meier is a former employee of Scotts Company, the Ohio-based grass seed company that partnered with Monsanto to petition to commercialize genetically modified Roundup Ready bentgrass in 2003. He later joined the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), where he was one of the scientists charg
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Henry A. Giroux: In order to protect the interests of the wealthy and powerful corporations, the formative cultures, social formations and institutions necessary for a viable democracy are under a wide-ranging assault.
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Reader Supported News is actually growing in the Great Recession, and we sincerely believe that we are more stable with community support than we would be with corporate support. If that sounds like a community-based economy then fine, we hope others follow. No shortage of drama out there right no...
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Rep. Peter King (R-New York) is a tough guy - the kind of man you call on to do distasteful, but necessary things. In his first hearing since regaining the chairmanship of the House Homeland Security Committee, King publicly reaffirmed his intention to hold hearings into the extent of jihadist radic...
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The 2011 Iraqi government looks bleak for progress on women's rights. The new national partnership in government has one woman named to a 42-member cabinet, in a minor position with no budget or portfolio. The United States owes reparations to the people of Iraq for this unsanctioned war of aggressi...
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Truthout is proud to bring you a new, exclusive series from America's No. 1 progressive radio host, Thom Hartmann. We'll be publishing weekly installments of Hartmann's much-lauded book, "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People' and How You Can Fight Back." Join us as, chapter by chapter...
Allen Goldstein, in today's Chimp: "But now the easy targets are all hit, the small game is wiped out—shot, stuffed and mounted on the Trickle Down Country Club Wall of Shame. Who’s left to take the heat? The good guys, that’s who. Sorry cops, sorry firefighters, not-quite-so sorry teachers, it’s your turn now. You are the new scapegoats, your pay, your healthcare, your pensions, and most of all, your unions."
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The president supports state innovation in health care, but vigilance is required to ensure state reforms improve health as we continue to call for national reform.
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From state legislatures to Congress to tea party rallies, a vocal backlash is rising against what are perceived as too-generous retirement benefits for state and local government workers. However, that widespread perception doesn't match reality.
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Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been tr

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Because when you go after the jugular, and try to put workers out of business, that is when they will mean business in the way they respond." Cenk Uygur, MSNBC
RJ Eskow, in today's Chimp: "...they let me know exactly what these politicians and pundits feel toward me, my family, and the people I grew up with: Contempt. This isn't the old-school,"look down your monocle with a lofty air" genteel antipathy once practiced by the gentlemen at the club. We're talking about complete and utter contempt, a repugnance so white-hot it feels like it could melt your face off."
'On Wednesday, the Supreme Court was asked to help right an egregious violation of human rights that occurred in the aftermath of 9/11.

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The case involved a US citizen who was confined for two weeks on the pretext of securing his testimony at someone else's trial. In fact, the government regarded him as a suspect but had no probable cause to hold him.' Los Angeles Times, Editorial

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The Brussels reporter who made headlines around the world last year for attempting to place former UK prime minister Tony Blair under a citizen's arrest has done it again, this time with the foreign minister of Israel, the hard-right Avigdor Lieberman...
When "justice" is a crime. "It is not philosophically or morally possible to make better the indefinite and extra-legal detention of individuals who have not been formally accused of a crime or who are not detained under a category recognized by international law."

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In the nine years since the opening of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, the country has moved incrementally towards institutionalising the existence of the facility. On Monday, the Obama administration took the process of institutionalisation one step further, issuing both an executive order o
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March 8, 2011
U.N. Report “Today’s scientific evidence demonstrates that agroecological methods outperform the use of chemical fertilizers in boosting food production where the hungry live -- especially in unfavorable environments.”
This document is available in English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian at: www.srfood....org and http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/food/annual.htmSee More

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United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food. Olivier De Schutter
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Dozens of Shia Muslim political activists in Bahrain have gathered outside the US embassy, one of several scenes of protest in the Gulf state, calling on Washington to press for political reforms.

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It may not fold as conveniently as dollar bills, but the Utah House took a first step Thursday to recognize gold and silver as legal
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I´ve witnessed spraying frequently over the las few months here where I live, in Portugal. We indeed are beeing attacked. after the spraying, the weather normaly turns worse, heavy rain or hail ensues. we all need to spread this info. we are the resistance. keep up the fight.
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Progressive groups threw a one-two punch at the nation's richest banks on Monday. A coalition of watchdogs and activists released a new report revealing how the wealthiest bailed-out banks have caused the current economic crisis by dodging taxes, and hundreds of demonstrators rallied in Washington, ...
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As states struggle to meet their budgets, public pensions are on the chopping block, but they needn’t be. States can keep their pension funds intact while leveraging them into many times their worth in loans, just as Wall Street banks do. They can do this by forming their own public banks, following...
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Editorial cartoonist Khalil Bendib on the future of the American Middle Class.
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Follow me on Twitter and on Facebook A NASA scientist, publishing his findings on Friday, March 4 in the March edition of the Journal of Cosmology, believes he
And of course, the official government rebuttal.
If the premise of even microscopic ET life is accepted, many professors with department grants will become unemployed or retired early real fast. I guess we have to wait until they all die before even this simple paradigm is changed.

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On Saturday, aliens invaded. On Monday, NASA denied their existence.

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Dean Baker: With the recent spate of attacks on climate science and evolution, it should not be a surprise that traditional defined-benefit pensions in the public sector are now also under attack. There are powerful political actors in this country who are anxious to build a bridge back to the 19th ...

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‎'Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, whose recently proposed bill to gut benefits, wages, and bargaining rights for unionized public workers inspired weeks of protests in Madison, has justified the move as necessary for balancing the state's budget. But is it?' Ellen Brown, Reader Supported News

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Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine, talks with Rachel Maddow about Republicans using economic crisis (real of ginned up) as an excuse to push through radical conservative and corporate agenda items.

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The president supports state innovation in health care, but vigilance is required to ensure state reforms improve health as we continue to call for national reform.
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As states struggle to meet their budgets, public pensions are on the chopping block, but they needn’t be. States can keep their pension funds intact while leveraging them into many times their worth in loans, just as Wall Street banks do. They can do this by forming their own public banks, following...

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Last May, the Obama administration promised $80 billion to the nuclear weapons establishment for "modernizing" the arsenal. Three large H-bomb laboratories will share about $10 billion annually to "upgrade" US warheads and they will get equal sums for the next ten years.
 
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Monday, March 7, 2011

7 March - Late Links

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 Food Freedom
North Carolina’s Farmer Freedom Act criminalizes S.510
Bradley’s bill, H.B. 65, the North Carolina Farmer’s Freedom Protection Act, nullifies S. 510 by making it a Class 1A misdemeanor to enforce S. 510 within the borders of North Carolina.
H.B. 65 is now stuck in the Agriculture Committee.

 Killing Mother

Spotted Owls, Extinct Oceans and the Poverty of Western Culture

Imagine you live in a perpetual war zone. All around, houses are being destroyed, landscapes flattened and people, trees, plants and animals are raked up and ruined. As soon as the neighborhood recovers, maybe over a period of years or decades, another onslaught ensues. The few who manage to endure and flee find adjacent locations under similar assault. Survival under such conditions is impossible. This is the scourge Western, Christian, capitalist culture inflicts upon the natural world. 

Sex and Nature

Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychoanalysis, famously postulated that all of human behavior can be summarized as an expression of subconscious sexual urges. In more recent history, Freud’s analysis been assessed as oversimplified and reductionist. In truth, he understated and restricted the role plays in human nature. The procreative urge weaves its way through all of humanity’s cultural institutions, but sex is not simply the expression of base self-gratification as Freud postulated. The creative life force of nature is sex

Oedipus, Gilgamesh, Hubris and the Contemporary Failures of Western Civilization

For most of the hundreds of thousands of years that chart human history, people lived sustainably and peacefully on the Earth. Some still do. The myriad tribes of First People lived on the North American continent for tens of thousands of years without diminishing the resource base.

Beginning approximately six-thousand years ago, a cultural shift swept across the Eurasian continent. Warriors on horseback, armed with military weapons of iron drove into Europe in waves from the Volga Steppe and Caucasus Mountains of modern day Russia. Over time, archaeological evidence records a violent cultural shift. Fortifications appear around settlements where none previously existed. Burial sites, once simple, respectful tributes to the deceased, are replaced with shrines to powerful men. Mass graves of murdered men, women and children convey a period of brutal warfare. Most telling is the replacement of once ubiquitous ceramic figurines depicting a voluptuous female form, tributes to the Great Mother, with ceramic images of male gods of war and domination (3). The peaceful, egalitarian people of Europe and their goddess Mother Earth had no defense against the armed horsemen from the East and their male gods of domination, and this is where the history of Western Civilization’s sustainable relationship with nature ends. Dating from approximately 3,000 B.C.E., a steady and constant deterioration of Earth’s natural infrastructures can be traced into the modern era.


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What do GOP superstar Ann Coulter, the head of the GOP's California voter registration firm Mark Anthony Jacoby, and, as of yesterday, Indiana's newly elected GOP Secretary of State Charlie White all have in common? Unlike the four-decade old community organization ACORN, each of the Republicans app
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‎'Given the evidence that many banks have cut corners and made colossal foreclosure mistakes, does anyone know who owns what or owes what to whom anymore?' Michael Powell and Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times
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For-profit colleges are expanding enrollments at a rapid pace, but it is questionable whether these revenue-seeking universities give adequate consideration to students’ welfare, retention/graduation rates, and overall economic well-being alongside their bottom line profits.
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TSA, DHS plan massive rollout of mobile surveillance vans with long-distance X-ray capability, eye movement tracking and more

This is what anti-Muslim hate looks like

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Some call it labor's swan song, others call it labor's wake-up call. Right now it's a grassfire spreading across the upper Midwest, and RSN is staying on it.
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How to build with cob, how to mix cob, earth building, cob walls. cob building techniques, cob courses. This short video is from BBC1 INside Out - shows Kate Edwards running one of her famous cob courses in Norfolk uk. If you want to find out more about cob building courses visit Kate Edwards' cob

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The Persian Gulf island nation of Bahrain erupted on February 14 when protesters gathered at the “roundabout,” or Pearl Square, in the capital city of Manama. A country of one million, Bahrain’s citizens constitute only half the population, the rest being foreign workers. Tensions are intense betwee
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Iranian Jews to Israel: Our National Idenity is Not for Sale
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Both sides of the conflict in Libya were girding for more confrontations on Sunday, a day after militia forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi launched a new round of attacks on the rebel-held city of Zawiyah, just 30 miles west of the capital, and a ragtag rebel army moving from the east won its f...


CIA & AL QAEDA'S PLANS FOR EGYPT

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Cairo, Egypt — Trudging through dungeon-like cells and mounds of shredded documents, hundreds of Egyptians on Saturday surged into the Cairo headquarters of the dreaded State Security apparatus for an unprecedented look inside buildings where political prisoners endured horrific torture.


Welcome to the Jungle 

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Recent polls suggest that while a majority of US people disapprove of the war in Afghanistan, many on grounds of its horrible economic cost, only 3 percent took the war into account when voting in the 2010 midterm elections. The issue of the economy weighed heavily on voters, but the war and its cos

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http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/politics.html   Japan's Self-Defense Forces will join a multinational disaster rescue drill as part of the nation's plan to beef up their activities in international cooperation and disaster management. The government has decided to send 300 tr
For the Pics and Vids use links.....   A new fissure erupted between Pu‘u O‘o and Napau Crater Saturday (March 5) causing a swarm of earthquakes in the area. Spatter is reaching 15-20 m into the air, above the trees. http://www.hawaii247.com/2011/03/06/new-fissure-opens-up-betwee
March 6, 2011   MANALI: Landslides triggered by heavy snowfall…
Not sure if anyone has posted this yet, however I saw this posting of a Chinese broadcast about seeing two suns in the sky. Could you please comment on what it is? http://networkedblogs.com/eXRS9, …
Explosion of Violence hits Ivory Coast Capital   In the West African nation of Ivory Coast, forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo shot dead six women protesting his rule. Gbagbo is Ivory Coast's incumbent president who refuses to concede defeat to his challenger in November elections. T
Flood waters lingered in Pakistan in late February 2011, roughly seven months after devastating monsoon rains first struck the country http://climatesignals.org/2011/02/flood-waters-still-cover-pakistan/

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Climate Realists 

The story of environmentalism is generally portrayed as one of citizens triumphing over evil corporate polluters, of public awareness, science, and affluence working together to solve pressing problems...
CLEVELAND - Think the thoughts of man-induced climate change are new? Think again! Even back in the 1800s, there were scholars that were convinced that civilizations make climate milder as they progress. Read the words of Italian poet and essayist extraordinaire Giacomo Leopardi ...
Grant Tamino Foster studied this question in a very interesting article on his blog,8000 Years Of Amo and the obvious conclusion of his graphs is that the 66-year cycle seems to be much more than a coincidence of chaotic 20th century graphs.

In particular, the data from the Agassiz ice cap between the years 6000 and 4000 B.C. were Fourier-transformed and this is the power one may obtain:

There is a pretty sharp peak near the frequency "0.0152 cycle per year" which corresponds to the periodicity "66 years" or so. Tamino says that there is only a 7% probability that such a strong peak appears in a similar graph by chance - but he claims to be unimpressed.

Well, especially if I combine it with the apparent cycle in the 20th century, I am somewhat impressed. You know, in the IPCC terminology, it is "very likely" (more than 90%, in this case 93%) that judging by the past data, the cycle will manifest itself in the future. We're not really far from the 95% threshold of the "extremely likely" and 93% is a higher number than what one obtains for many key propositions of the IPCC. It would be a good idea to check for such peaks in the broadest possible collection of ice core and similar data one can find. Of course, if the effect is real, the confidence level could be (and, actually, should be) substantially increased.

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The whole work agenda for this year's U.N. climate talks will be discussed at a ministerial meeting hosted by Mexico in March.  Source
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The price of misjudging the global response to climate change theories could be catastrophe: economic for developed nations and life-threatening for the world’s poorest people. One prevailing scientific view of climate change dominates world policy-making, leading to radical law-making of seismic significance. But is this view proven beyond reasonable doubt or is it just one theory among many, driven by vested interests? And if wrong, at what cost is it being followed ... and who will pay? 
....Philip Foster, conference organiser, comments: “The debate over the reality of human-induced climate change is steeped in emotion, disinformation and hysteria. Wrong responses could have catastrophic consequences for the poorest people across the planet, as well as our own economic stability, yet prevailing policies are founded purely on hypotheses which have not been proven: theories based on computer modelling and vested interests but yet to be supported by observation in the field. 
According to this article from Medpage Today:

"The "evidence has only grown stronger" that climate change is responsible for an increasing number of health ills, including asthma, diarrheal disease, and even deaths from extreme weather such as heat waves, said Georges Benjamin, MD, executive director of the APHA.
Here is the complete list of things blamed on Global Warming.

As if on cue as I was looking for a good climate story for Warming Wednesdays, via the CBC I learned of this fascinating poll (PDF) that had identical polls run in Canada and the US within a couple months to provide a very interesting comparative result for attitudes toward climate change...


The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World’s Top Climate Scientists

Today (April 20) is the official release date of my new book entitled: “The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World’s Top Climate Scientists“, published by Encounter Books.
About one-half of Blunder is a non-technical description of our new peer reviewed and soon-to-be-published research which supports the opinion that a majority of Americans already hold: that warming in recent decades is mostly due to a natural cycle in the climate system — not to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning.

Believe it or not, this potential natural explanation for recent warming has never been seriously researched by climate scientists.

American Thinker: A Climatology Conspiracy?

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The Illusion of a Sensitive Climate System: A Stovetop Demonstration

 

Direct Evidence that Most U.S. Warming Since 1973 Could Be Spurious

We are forced to use data from sites with at least some level of UHI contamination. So the question becomes, how does one adjust for such effects? 

Complexity in data analysis should only be added when it is required to elucidate something that is not obvious from a simpler analysis. And it turns out that a simple analysis of publicly available raw (not adjusted) temperature data from NOAA/NESDIS NOAA/NCDC, combined with high-resolution population density data for those temperature monitoring sites, shows clear evidence of UHI warming contaminating the GHCN data for the United States.

 

My Global Warming Skepticism, for Dummies

Are Global Temperatures Rising Now? There is no way to know

Why Do Some Scientists Say It’s Cooling, while Others Say that Warming is Even Accelerating? Since there is so much year-to-year (and even decade-to-decade) variability in global average temperatures, whether it has warmed or cooled depends upon how far back you look in time.

Haven’t Global Temperatures Risen Before? Yes

Didn’t the “Hockey Stick” Show Recent Warming to be Unprecedented? The various versions of the hockey stick were based upon questionable statistical methods.


Isn’t the Melting of Arctic Sea Ice Evidence of Warming? Warming, yes…manmade warming, no.

Is Increasing CO2 Even Capable of Causing Warming? There are some very intelligent people out there who claim that adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere can’t cause warming anyway.

Is Atmospheric CO2 Increasing? Yes


Are Humans Responsible for the CO2 Rise?
I currently believe that most of the long-term increase is probably due to our use of fossil fuels. 
From what I can tell, the supposed “proof” of humans being the source of increasing CO2 would also be consistent with a natural, biological source.

But Aren’t Natural CO2 Emissions About 20 Times the Human Emissions? Yes, but nature is believed to absorb CO2 at about the same rate it is produced.

Is Rising CO2 the Cause of Recent Warming? While this is theoretically possible, I think it is more likely that the warming is mostly natural. At the very least, we have no way of determining what proportion is natural versus human-caused.


Why Do Most Scientists Believe CO2 is Responsible for the Warming? Because (as they have told me) they can’t think of anything else that might have caused it. Significantly, it’s not that there is evidence nature can’t be the cause, but a lack of sufficiently accurate measurements to determine if nature is the cause.

How Important Is “Scientific Consensus” in Climate Research? In the case of global warming, it is nearly worthless. The climate system is so complex that the vast majority of climate scientists — usually experts in variety of specialized fields — assume there are more knowledgeable scientists, and they are just supporting the opinions of their colleagues. And among that small group of most knowledgeable experts, there is a considerable element of groupthink, herd mentality, peer pressure, political pressure, support of certain energy policies, and desire to Save the Earth — whether it needs to be saved or not.

The total amount of CO2 humans have added to the atmosphere in the last 100 years has upset the radiative energy budget of the Earth by only 1%. How the climate system responds to that small “poke” is very uncertain. The IPCC says there will be strong warming, with cloud changes making the warming worse. I claim there will be weak warming, with cloud changes acting to reduce the influence of that 1% change. The difference between these two outcomes is whether cloud feedbacks are positive (the IPCC view), or negative (the view I and a minority of others have).
So far, neither side has been able to prove their case. That uncertainty even exists on this core issue is not appreciated by many scientists!

New Study: 'Ice Sheet Models Are Wrong'
Knowing how the massive ice sheets atop Antarctica and Greenland work is key to predicting how global warming could raise sea levels and flood coastal cities. But a new study upends what scientists thought they knew. It turns out it’s not just ancient snow that makes up the ice sheets, but water deep under the sheets also thaws and refreezes over time.

To put it in non-scientific terms, lead scientist Robin Bell told msnbc.com, the study redefines "how squishy" the base of ice sheets can be. "This matters to how fast ice will flow and how fast ice sheets will change."

"It also means that ice sheet models are not correct," she said, comparing it to "trying to figure out how a car will drive but forgetting to add the tires. The performance will be very different if you are driving on the rims."

The Dessler Cloud Feedback Paper in Science: A Step Backward for Climate Research

( Roy Spencer ) 

It’s basically the same evidence we published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.

Yet we came to a very different conclusion, which was that the only clear evidence of feedback we found in the data was of strongly negative cloud feedback.
But how can this be? How can two climate researchers, using the same dataset, come to opposite conclusions?
The answer lies in an issue that challenges researchers in most scientific disciplines – separating cause from effect.

 

Dump the IPCC Process, It Cannot Be Fixed

There is too much conflict of interest built into the report-writing process

Meanwhile, Sea Surface Temperatures Continue to Fall


Five Reasons Why Water Vapor Feedback Might Not Be Positive

The average amount of water vapor in the atmosphere represents a balance between two competing processes: (1) surface evaporation (the source), and (2) precipitation (the sink). While we know that evaporation increases with temperature, we don’t know very much about how the efficiency of precipitation systems changes with temperature. 

 

Firms 'not prepared' for new CO2 laws by Peter Ranscombe 
ACCOUNTANTS and lawyers are failing to prepare their clients for new laws forcing them to detail their carbon dioxide emissions
The Scottish Government introduced new rules in October under its "zero waste" strategy requiring all businesses to prove that they are recycling as much waste as they can.

The UK Climate Change Act was passed in 2008 and requires the UK Government to introduce a carbon reporting scheme for all business by next year or to explain why no scheme is in place.

Whitehall is also consulting on changes to the carbon reduction commitment to try to make it more manageable for businesses.

William Dick, founder of software firm Go Green, said the "sheer complexity" of work required smacked of the Domesday Book.
"Our research has found that the vast majority of small companies are unaware of the new laws and what will be required," he said. He warned that thousands of businesses will face a huge financial and bureaucratic shock when reporting becomes legally obligatory.

He added: "So far only the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has issued advice to its members. We need other accountants and lawyers to be doing the same."
Go Green surveyed 200 accountants over two years and found not one had plans in place to prepare clients for the new carbon reporting laws.

James Delingpole: There is nothing 'smart' about rationing electricity 

Tonight on Channel 4 Niall Ferguson will be explaining why Western Civilisation is on its last legs.
let us consider the words of Steve Holliday, chief executive of the National Grid, interviewed last week on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

“The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030. We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it. It is going to be much smarter than that. We are going to change our own behaviour and consume it when it is available and available cheaply.”
I have one simple question here: what on earth is this imbecile still doing in his job?

John O'Sullivan: Power Supplier Admits Going Green Will Put the Lights Out in Britain
British families have been told the shocking truth about the price of green energy. They must prepare to go without electricity for extended periods, warns UK’s top electricity boss.

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