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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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Thursday, December 2, 2010

2 December - More 'War' Basics

Lakeside of the Mono Lake with Tufa columns in...Image via WikipediaWho knew ?
Image representing Alexa as depicted in CrunchBaseImage via CrunchBase

Main opitslinkfest.blogspot.com's site description:

 Let's start with the basic details for this domain, which is located at 66.102.7.191 with blogspot.com hostname. The site is described as: A useful resource to visit. There are plenty of terms associated with this site . Alexa ranks it among 8 top sites in the world. You can get an idea about the traffic by reading further.

It has a pagerank 6 and 430,891 backlinks. It received approximately 765,082 daily pageviews and has a potential to earn over $2,695. A site like this, if grows to its maximum potential, might sell for $4,004,514 but that's of course is just an estimate and does not mean it would ever sell for that amount.

Alexa's Make Believe Internet
NASA Announcement -- Arsenic-Eating Life Discovered in California's Mono Lake
NASA has made an announcement that it has discovered a new form of life. The irony is, contrary to some of the media hyperventilation in the run up to the announcement, the life NASA found is of this Earth -- in California, in fact.

Scientists Forced a New Form of Bacteria to Evolve
Amid budget concerns and program revamping, NASA made a big announcement about finding new microbes that may shift thinking on alien life forms.


Chris Rock: Invading a Country with Oil
A tufa tower rock formation in Mono Lake, 2006.Image via Wikipedia
Ideas To Die For
Religion as a Tool of Repression
Christian ministers teach their flock to reject the leftist ideology of Christ by exchanging radicalism for obedience and principled action for passivity

Electric Cars Can’t Handle Cold Weather? Myth Busted HT Digg

Prison Boss Sees $2b Bill in Future
The head of Canada’s federal corrections system says he’ll need to spend about $2 billion to deal with the influx of prisoners coming from the Conservatives’ law-and-order agenda.
The crime legislation will mean an extra 4,478 people in federal prisons over the next three years, on top of growth in prison population that would normally be expected.He’ll have to hire thousands more staff, as well as renovate and expand existing prisons to handle the growing inmate population.

Plus, he says he’ll have to spend on programs that help prisoners cope, since the surge will require far more double-bunking — a practice that experts say often incites violence and discontent.Head’s $2-billion estimate is lower than costs projected by the Parliamentary Budget Officer, but far higher than costs initially projected by federal ministers.Head warned that federal prisons are increasingly becoming homes for the mentally ill, and his personnel are struggling to handle the new dynamic.
"Unfortunately we have become the default mental-health system in the country," he said.

BPA MAY INHIBIT PREGNANCYSouth Tufa, 1981Image via Wikipedia

Just about all of us have BPA in our bodies, where it can interfere with the action of estrogen and other hormones.
That process, accumulating evidence suggests, might lead to all sorts of negative health consequences, including some cancers, behavioral issues, and developmental problems.

Experiments with animals in her lab and others, Soto added, have linked very low levels of BPA with breast cancer, prostate cancer, obesity and more.
"All of these pathologies we've observed in animals perinatally exposed to BPA are on the rise in humans," she said. "For ethical reasons, comparable studies cannot be performed in humans. But what happens in animals is very likely to happen in humans."

Canned Food Seals in BPA
As BPA Concerns Rise, Can Companies Seek Alternatives

House may block food safety bill over Senate error
Prosecutors: Britain asks more info about Assange allegations
At Sweden's request, Interpol issued an international wanted-persons alert Tuesday for Assange to its 188 member countries. The Red Notice is not an arrest warrant, but an advisory and request for countries to locate a person with a view toward their arrest and extradition.
The Folly of the Israeli AND Arab Approach to Iran
Is Wikileaks being manipulated by an intelligence service?



Wikileaks : US Diplomatic Cable
Honduran Coup "Illegal and Unconstitutional"

WikiLeaks cables on Afghanistan show monumental corruption
One cable from the U.S. mission in Kabul earlier this year noted that the agriculture minister, Asif Rahimi, "appears to be the only minister that was confirmed about whom no allegations of bribery exist."


Nigeria to Charge Dick Cheney in Pipeline Bribery Case


Dozens Of Major Military Contractors Granted Legal Immunity

Russians Refuted U.S. Claim of Iranian Missile Threat to Europe


How The US Response Turns 'Failed' Terrorist Attacks Into Successes




Parable of the broken window


Not a single “Iranian expert” was capable of pointing out that the tyrants who rule Egypt and Saudi Arabia fear Iran because the Iranian government represents the interests of Muslims, and the Saudi and Egyptian governments represent the interests of the Americans

The World's Foremost Terrorist - The US Government
Our nation has blown through trillions of dollars (of new debt) with little to nothing accomplished to pursue a bogus, contrived war that was designed to take over in excess of $15 trillion in Caspian Basin oil and natural gas. The sheer cost of the failed 'war' and scheme to take over the Caspian Basin has ruined the value of the dollar, buried the US in debt and a myriad of ancillary problems, skyrocketed the cost of oil, utilities, food, and shredded the reputation of the United States around the world.  By any measure, it is a catastrophe.
One of the basics of Sun Tzu's classic 'The Art of War'. Give the delusionally arrogant enough rope and they hang themselves without any outside help...every time. There is no need to wage war on arrogant morons; nobody can trounce them quite as thoroughly as they trounce themselves.
I have no fear of 'Al Qaeda' which is a Jimmy Carter-CIA fabrication used to control the American Sheeple and keep them dead in their tracks, like deer in the headlights. The biggest enemy of the American people is the government of the United States
We have blatant liars as leaders and a gutless mainstream media that puts career promotions or 'talking head status' as being more important than the truth. Bill O'Reilly gets over $50 million a year to lie to and mislead America. The stakes are high for this criminal cabal.


I was shocked to learn that many US troops also have chronic problems with DVT, or deep vein thrombosis, after they were given 'vaccines' for CBW that they will not even encounter on the field of battle or in their Iraq or Afghanistan missions. Those injections are given, yet again, just to line the pockets of some of the DoD and BushCo insiders. Firms such as...BioPort and DynPort Vaccines, LLC, that hybrid of a biotech and a mercenary company that the FBI keeps overlooking as a suspect in the anthrax attacks in the US.
DVT causes huge blood clots if not treated. The NBC reporter David Bloom and MANY US troops have died or suffered major health setbacks due to heart attacks, strokes or pulmonary embolisms due to blood clots caused by DVT...resulting directly from the Anthrax 'vaccine' they are injecting into our young men and women. Our nanotechnology researchers have been on that matter for 4 years now, working on ways to block it or reverse it.
I was further shocked to learn that many of our troops are diagnosed at Landstuhl as having a rare disorder (only 1 per 500,000 in a normal population) that is abundantly common in our US troops after they have had the usual course of vaccine injections. It will take time to nail it down, but it currently appears that possibly as many as 25% of US soldiers have this rare disorder. That huge spike, as compared to a normal population, is too high not to be noticed as being tied to what the DoD and their pet contractors are injecting into our US troops. If that affliction rate holds up, it means from 250,000 to 500,000 US soldiers could now have it.
It's called 'amyloidosis' and while it can be deadly, it is almost always debilitating. The doctors and nurses at Landstuhl were under orders to 'diagnose' this new disorder as sprains, fatigue, wear and tear due to physical exercise, carrying heavy army packs on their backs, and hard soldiering work in the desert heat, etc. I was told that some of the soldiers were in so much pain they could not even sit in a chair...but were still expected to serve and perhaps die for Emperor Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Amyloidosis causes the human body to produce amyloid proteins which the body cannot handle properly.  These proteins destroy joints and vital organs, and over time result in permanent disability and sometimes death.  This is the same crap Bush wanted to inject into all American citizens under his lunatic Project BioShield.
Vast numbers of our troops are now confirmed as having been exposed to Depleted Uranium (DU) with often extremely heavy concentrations of it found in their blood and body organs. However, once again, the doctors and nurses were under direct orders to not disclose DU poisoning to the soldier, not to make any note of it in their medical records which would create a 'criminal chain of evidence.'  They are, instead, instructed to take blood samples only, freeze them, and that the DoD will 'check back on the soldiers' in a few years to see how they're doing.  Many, of course, will be dead or dying, or to have produced deformed children, or to have contaminated their spouses and families with it. 

 thruthout

Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to "Pharmacologic Waterboarding"

Antimalarial drug, mefloquine, an act that an Army public health physician called "pharmacologic waterboarding."

The US military administered the drug despite Pentagon knowledge that mefloquine caused severe neuropsychiatric side effects, including suicidal thoughts, hallucinations and anxiety. The drug was used on the prisoners whether they had malaria or not.

Maj. Remington Nevin, an Army public health physician, who formerly worked at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center and has written extensively about mefloquine, said in an interview the use of mefloquine "in this manner ... is, at best, an egregious malpractice."
The government has exposed detainees "to unacceptably high risks of potentially severe neuropsychiatric side effects, including seizures, intense vertigo, hallucinations, paranoid delusions, aggression, panic, anxiety, severe insomnia, and thoughts of suicide," said Nevin, who was not speaking in an official capacity, but offering opinions as a board-certified, preventive medicine physician. "These side effects could be as severe as those intended through the application of 'enhanced interrogation techniques.'"
The drug was administered to Guantanamo detainees without regard for their medical or psychological history, despite its considerable risk of exacerbating pre-existing conditions. Mefloquine is also known to have serious side effects among individuals under treatment for depression or other serious mental health disorders, which numerous detainees were said to have been treated for, according to their attorneys and published reports.
Dr. G. Richard Olds, a tropical disease specialist and the founding dean of the Medical School at the University of California at Riverside, said, in his "professional opinion there is no medical justification for giving a massive dose of mefloquine to an asymptomatic individual."
Treatment, Torture or an Experiment?
Another striking point about the DoD's decision to presumptively treat mostly Muslim detainees with mefloquine beginning in 2002 is that it is the exact opposite of how the DoD responded to malaria concerns among the Haitian refugees who were held at Guantanamo a decade earlier.


Bush's Retirement Plans
Both the Moonie and Bush land is located at what Paraguay's drug
czar called an "enormously strategic point in both the narcotics and arms
trades." And it sits atop the one of the world's largest fresh-water
aquifers.

The land, near the town of Chaco,  sits atop huge natural gas reserves

The unruly region at convergence of Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay borders is locus of money laundering, smuggling, arms and illegal narcotics trafficking, and fundraising for extremist organizations
major illicit producer of cannabis, most or all of which is consumed in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile; transshipment country for Andean cocaine headed for Brazil, other Southern Cone markets, and Europe; corruption and some money-laundering activity, especially in the Tri-Border Area; weak anti-money-laundering laws and enforcement
Here’s a version from Brazil.
Here’s one from Argentina.
And here’s one from Paraguay itself.
Here’s a little background on the base

Bush-connected Firm Involved In Opium Production In Marja Afghanistan In 1970s

The Bush-Saudi Connection

The systems of government that have evolved in Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia are paranoid family dictatorships with ancestral roots in a single city or village.

Throughout the eighties, when the United States assisted the Saudis in a giant military buildup of airfields, ports, and bases throughout the kingdom, many of the contracts were awarded to the largest construction company in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Binladen Group, founded by Osama bin Laden’s father.
The United States and Saudi Arabia spent about $40 billion on the war in Afghanistan, recruiting, supplying, and training nearly 100,000 radical mujahideen from forty Muslim countries, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Algeria, and Afghanistan itself. Among the recruits were Osama bin Laden and his followers.
With C.I.A. funding, Osama bin Laden imported engineers and equipment from his father’s Saudi construction company to build tunnels for guerrilla training centers and hospitals, and for arms dumps near the Pakistan border. After the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, the C.I.A. and the Pakistani intelligence agency sponsored the Taliban organization, a government composed of the fanatic Wahhabi Islamic sect, the same sect that is the state religion in Saudi Arabia. Although followers of the Wahhabi sect do not refer to themselves as Wahhabis, the label is useful because it applies to a single Muslim group with a set of beliefs peculiar to them alone: Wahhabis maintain that Shi'ites and Sufis are not Muslims, and that Muslims should not visit shrines or celebrate Mohammed’s birthday
Wherever they ruled, the Wahhabis imposed their medieval code on their hapless subjects, making public spectacles of stoning adulterers to death and maiming thieves, destroying decorated mosques and cemeteries, prohibiting music, sequestering women, and promoting war on infidels. The Saudi sheiks have lavished funds on anti-American and anti-Israeli terrorists-in-training while indoctrinating other Muslims through its worldwide network of religious schools, mosques, newspapers, and presses.
Members of the Wahhabist Saudi oligarchy are driven by the sometimes conflicting emotions of power lust and religious fervor. Their support of radical Islamists follows from their ambition to dominate the Muslim world, but their fear that radical Islamists might overthrow the Saudi regime at home motivates them to fund and encourage holy warriors in countries other than their own.
In Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for bin Laden, two French intelligence analysts, Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, claim that the Clinton and Bush administrations impeded investigations of bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist group in order to maintain good relations with Saudi Arabia and to maintain the stability of the oil market. 
Even after Pakistan expelled the World Association of Muslim Youth (WAMY) and India claimed that the organization was linked to terrorist bombings in Kashmir and the Philippines military accused WAMY of funding Muslim insurgency, the F.B.I. got orders to leave the "charitable association" alone.
Never before in history has a president of the United States had such a close relationship with another foreign power as President Bush and his father have had with the Saudi royal family, the House of Saud. I have traced more than $1.4 billion in investments and contracts that went from the House of Saud over the past 20 years to companies in which the Bushes and their allies have had prominent positions -- Harken Energy, Halliburton, and the Carlyle Group among them.




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Monday, October 25, 2010

25 October - Surfing News

 Daniel Ellsberg: “I’ve waited forty years for a release of documents on this scale.”

Open Left

Greenwald points out media witch hunt against Assange (TravisDisaster) 

Rightwing credo: I'm not evil, cause I see no evil! You're the one that's evil!

Conservatives or Republicans say or do something that progressives see as racist, and then get all in a huff when somebody calls them on it.   The only problem is, it's demonstrably true that these yahoos wouldn't know a racist act if it came up and bit them in the ass. 

http://www.latimes.com/news/na...

U.S. looks to British model to improve offshore drilling safety (The Big Hurt) 

German minister accuses US of currency manipulation (counterspin) 

 Bloomberg:

NSA recruiting children to join cyberwar (counterspin) 
Wired: 

Youngest Guantanamo detainee pleads guilty
"He is anxious to avoid a trial before that kangaroo court," Nate Whitling said in reference to the U.S. military commission at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility.

WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs Expose US-Backed Iraqi Torture, 15,000 More Civilian Deaths, and Contractors Run Amok

Why Karzai readily admits receiving bags of Iranian cash 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan as a means of stabilizing the region.  

( Destabilizing the region is what it's all about, of course. Blue Girl adds more, but in 'Documents' - Topical Index -  is a link to the War Game 'Post Saddam Iraq : Desert Crossing' which outlines how removing the stabilizing influence of Saddam Hussein will once again throw the region into chaos...not just Iraq. )

They are worried that Afghanistan will agree with having a base for American troops here,” Ms. Saqib told the Monitor last month. Iran wants friendly lawmakers to head off any legislation that would grant permanent basing rights. “They are trying to have people around who – if this would be the case – they would disagree.”

State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told Bloomberg that “Iran should not interfere with the internal affairs of the Afghan government."

( Receiving the big bucks to make a hypocritical fatuous ass of himself. )



Speaking power to truth – the unfortunate case of David Nutt
November 1, 2009
Read more: http://2020science.org/2009/11/01/speaking-power-to-truth-the-unfortunate-case-of-david-nutt/#ixzz13PvOdqeR
Sitting 3000 miles away from London in Washington DC, I’ve been following the dismissal of Professor David Nutt as the UK government’s senior scientific advisor on the misuse of drugs, with interest.  Not being steeped in British drugs politics, I was only vaguely aware of the tensions between the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, which Nutt chaired until Friday, and UK policymakers.  So as the story broke, I found it tough to disentangle whether this was a case of a respected scientist demonstrating a blindingly naive understanding of policy, or a government forfeiting science in favor of ideology.  But the more I dig into the situation, the more it seems to highlight a worrying disdain for science and evidence* amongst policy makers.

David Nutt's dangerous drug list

Research by Nutt and his colleagues, published in the medical journal the Lancet in 2007, rates the following as the most dangerous drugs. (They are listed in descending order from the most harmful and all figures are for England and Wales in 2008 unless stated otherwise.)

Global food crisis forecast as prices reach record highs
Cost of meat, sugar, rice, wheat and maize soars as World Bank predicts five years of price volatility

Dr. Rima - Globalist Eugenicidal Agenda!
http://www.youtube.com/naturalsolutions#p/f/1/_gWmVtn5JsA

Nutricide - Criminalizing Natural Health, Vitamins, and Herbs 

Dr. Rima 4 years ago on Codex Alimentarius

Yes, You Can Prevent Breast Cancer

Researchers analyzed years of studies and data from the International Agency for Research on Cancer to deduce that one-third of all breast cancer cases can be avoided simply through diet and exercise—a surprising conclusion that raised eyebrows worldwide and contradicts the common conception that some women are powerless against the disease due to genetic makeup or family history. What’s more, new research continues to compile to show exactly which nutritional and physical approaches can help best reduce your risk.
 

 Molly's Blog 
Blogosphere of the Libertarian Left

Sunday, October 24, 2010

 INTERNATIONAL POLITICS:
MIGRANTS IN THE MODERN WORLD:
The following item is from Z Communications. I have to say that I have serious disagreements with what follows, being as it is pretty well standard academic post modernist "theory". I have another name for this speculation that is hardly kind. To say the least the concept of "race" is hardly a novel invention derived from the Spanish Reconquista. A lot of the "geneology" of racism that follows from this is utter fantasy. I wonder if they actually belive this sort of nonsense in the academy today. It is, of course, nonsense to ascribe the actions of genocide to some European "deviation", no matter how much American influenced post modernists may want to believe this. Racism and its cause "xenophobia" predates "capitalism", and it will exist beyond the abolition of same especially if the theorists of post-modernism have their way and privilege certain "races". In that case genocide will exist under different names. In other words this sort of thing is very much a program for further ethnic conflict rather than being something "liberatory". But I'll let the reader judge. Here is the article. All that I can say for now is that I am grateful that I don't have to do the proper bows that people such as Znet have to do to be proper leftists. Who knows if they understand the implications of nonsense, and how others view them for it. But anyways here is the article that has some very good points mixed with the silliness.
ZCZCZCZCZC
Race, Racism, Xenophobia and Migration

Improving water information - Australia

Just as an aside, it struck me that Shoe somewhat resembled a short Pogo comic

 
 

Monday, April 26, 2010

More Nightblogging

Synapse. Tweaked version of :Image:SynapseIllu...Image via Wikipedia

Mojofiti Now Translates Any Blog into 28 Languages
http://eon.businesswire.com/portal/site/eon/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100414005039&newsLang=en

Images of Suicidal Thoughts

http://news.discovery.com/tech/images-of-suicidal-thoughts.html
A small percent of depressed patients develop thoughts of suicide while taking drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which are the most commonly prescribed drug for depression.
And to make things worse, there's no way to predict or test whether an antidepressant drug is making a patient better or worse.
But researchers at UCLA are working to change that.


 PLEASE READ THIS AND LOOK UP AT THE SKY
http://homepage.mac.com/carolepellatt/MATRIX/INDEXCHEMTRAILS.html
I was and continue to be exasperated that no one is talking about this, and most people aren’t noticing.


CONNECTIONS
What's Going On In The Air? Yes, We Are Being Sprayed. 

After I returned from Italy at the end of July, I began photographing the Phoenix sky with

the intention that when there was a break in the action, I could post this article.

Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened yet. We have been inundated unceasingly with aerial chemical assaults.

Looking Beyond the Sonoma Chemtrails
It was not a volcano or its ash what caused major disruptions in air travel for the past several days, but a bunch of flawed computer models scientists used to forecast how the volcanic eruption would affect air travel throughout the European continent.

Links


Three Observations On Arizona Immigration Law Where People Can Be Asked For Documentation As If We Live In A Police State Run By A Dictator



Volcanic Ash Threat in Europe was All a 'Mistake', Authorities Say
It was not a volcano or its ash what caused major disruptions in air travel for the past several days, but a bunch of flawed computer models scientists used to forecast how the volcanic eruption would affect air travel throughout the European continent. As reported yesterday, other reasons are being looked at to explain why flights were suspended if the famous ash cloud did not reach Europe in the way it was originally described. Today, authorities are blaming defective computer models and not the volcanic eruption.


The Real Agenda
The Great Global Warming Swindle
The Ice is Melting, the Hurricanes are blowing. and it is all YOUR FAULT SCARED Don't Be, Its not True.


What is Money ?


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