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Showing posts with label secrets. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 8, 2010

9 Aug - Late Links

YouTube - State Crimes Against Democracy

The Shameless War Propaganda of the Corporate Media

 More Salon.com War Propaganda

 More Salon.com War Propaganda for "Progressives"

BP Disaster Response Workers Report Low Morale, Lack of Pay, Sickness

BP oil disaster response workers are reporting endemic problems, such as not being paid on time, low morale, rampant sickness, equipment failures and being lied to regularly.

Pfc. Manning and the Value of Truth

In times like this we must be careful to keep our bearings, lest we come to love the chaos that passes for reality.
This is why we need to honor our brother Bradley Manning. He was not afraid to face the unknown; not afraid to resist the seduction of conformity; not afraid to follow his conscience, AND not afraid to give us the wherewithal to distinguish truth from lies so that we, too, can follow our conscience.
The principalities and the powers, including the Fawning Corporate Media, have no hold on citizens like Private Manning, who refuse to live in a moral vacuum.
Bradley Manning dared to mock the falsity parading as reality after our country had a nervous breakdown as a result of 9/11 and the efforts of those who would use 9/11 to stoke our fear.
THAT false “reality” has lost its power, because it cannot live in the light of truth.

Indoctrination Tactics and Educational Alternatives

Genuine Situations Wanted

 We're All Partisans Now

Here is Senate candidate Sharron Angle accidentally telling the truth about why she only talks to Fox News and other members of the right wing press: 

 PETITION: STAND WITH ME TO SAVE NET NEUTRALITY AND STOP THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF OUR MEDIA

 Marriage counselling makes people think their relationship is over

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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

9 June - Night Links

Mark Curtis On His New Book- Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical IslamThe book tells the story of the long history of British collaboration with radical Islam, including terrorist groups. 7/7 and the present broader terrorist threat to Britain is to some degree a product of British foreign policy – the bombings derived from a terrorism infrastructure established by a Pakistani state long backed by Whitehall and involving Pakistani terrorist groups which had benefitted from past British covert action. Throughout the postwar period Britain has covertly supported radical Islamic groups in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, the Balkans, Syria, Indonesia and Egypt, and the book aims to documents this drawing on the declassified British files.The roots of all this are in the ‘divide of rule’ policies of empire when Britain used Islamic forces to promote imperial interests in various countries such as India, Palestine, Jordan and Yemen. The book tries to show how British collusion with radical Islam is intimately related to its postwar imperial decline – policy-makers have been expedient and pragmatic, lacking any moral compass, and have aimed to counter nationalist forces in a desperate attempt to uphold their power in a changing world.Given the mainstream “war on terror” narrative the idea that Britain colludes with radical Islam will seem counterintuitive to many. How do you justify such claims?The reality is often the exact opposite of mainstream discourse – in fact, this is not far off being a general rule, on major issues. The ‘war on terror’ has clearly been a war on targets specially designated by London and Washington, not a war on terrorism. 

Security company hired by RCMP for G20 not licensed in Ontario

Contemporary Security Canada, a subsidiary of a U.S.-based company that did private security for the Vancouver Olympic Games, was selected by the RCMP to provide about 1,100 workers to screen pedestrians throughout the summits in Huntsville and Toronto.
According to CSC advertisements in Toronto newspapers, private security guards at the G8 and G20 summits will be paid $20-$24 an hour.This is double the average wage for security guards in Ontario,
CPAP Therapy Restores Brain Tissue in Adults With Sleep Apnea, Study FindsSignificant grey-matter volume increases were observed after three months of continuous positive airway pressure therapy in hippocampal and frontal structures.

Scientists Uncover Protein That Thwarts Tumor Invasion

cancer cells lacking a key protein are more invasive and more likely to metastasize, providing a possible drug target to combat certain tumor types.

At U.S. Bases In Iraq, The Fire Sale Is On

"The Americans turn over every base to the Iraqi army and police — and they are all thieves"

Rethinking Islamism II

Misconceptions and fears about Sharia
"In the West," writes Ramadan, currently Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford, "the idea of Sharia calls up all the darkest images of Islam...It has reached the extent that many Muslim intellectuals do not dare even to refer to the concept for fear of frightening people or arousing suspicion of all their work by the mere mention of the word". The punishments that cause the greatest outcry are the exception, not the rule, in most Muslim countries.
They are, in fact, an embarrassment to the many Muslims who consider them barbaric.

A resilient Iran shields itself from pressure by building alliances

Tehran is demonstrating remarkable resilience, insulating some of its most crucial industries from U.S.-backed financial restrictions and building a formidable diplomatic network that should help it withstand some of the pressure from the West. Iranian leaders are meeting politicians in world capitals from Tokyo to Brussels. They are also signing game-changing energy deals, increasing their economic self-sufficiency and even gaining seats on international bodies.

Nuclear Physicist Describes Vast UFO Cover-Up

In the Name of Love

How to achieve emotional connection. Getting to that thing called love—from distance and alienation to contact and caring.

Does Averting Cyberwar Mean Giving Up Web Privacy?

Robert Knake focuses on Internet governance at the Council on Foreign Relations.
"If what you want is an Internet where you can freely discuss human rights in a country in which doing so is not allowed, you don't want to see attribution improve," Knake says.
He has found that the Internet "attribution problem" prompts disagreement between privacy and human rights advocates on one side and cybersecurity experts on the other.
"In many ways, it's the crime fighters versus the freedom fighters," he says.
Some experts, such as Rebecca MacKinnon of Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy, argue that improving the attribution of Internet transactions may not produce sufficient security benefits to justify the cost to privacy.
"Criminals and militaries are most likely going to figure out ways to do what they need to do on the Internet and minimize their traceability," says MacKinnon. "The people who are really going to be hurt are dissidents in countries like China or Iran."
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

6 Jan - Natural Gas Drilling

Pro Publica

Natural Gas Drilling: What We Don’t Know
by Abrahm Lustgarten
http://www.propublica.org/feature/natural-gas-drilling-what-we-dont-know-1231
It takes brute force to wrest natural gas from the earth. Millions of gallons of chemical-laden water mixed with sand -- under enough pressure to peel paint from a car -- are pumped into the ground, pulverizing a layer of rock that holds billions of small bubbles of gas.
The chemicals transform the fluid into a frictionless mass that works its way deep into the earth, prying open tiny cracks that can extend thousands of feet. The particles of sand or silicon wedge inside those cracks, holding the earth open just enough to allow the gas to slip by.
Gas drilling is often portrayed as the ultimate win-win in an era of hard choices: a new, 100-year supply of cleaner-burning fuel, a risk-free solution to the nation’s dependence on foreign energy. In the next 10 years, the United States will use the fracturing technology to drill hundreds of thousands of new wells astride cities, rivers and watersheds. Cash-strapped state governments are pining for the revenue and the much-needed jobs that drilling is expected to bring to poor, rural areas.
Drilling companies assert that the destructive forces unleashed by the fracturing process, including the sometimes toxic chemicals that keep the liquid flowing, remain safely sealed as much as a mile or more beneath the earth, far below drinking water sources and the rest of the natural environment.
More than a year of investigation by ProPublica, however, shows that the issues are far less settled than the industry contends, and that hidden environmental costs could cut deeply into the anticipated benefits.
The technique used to extract the gas, known as hydraulic fracturing, has not received the same scientific scrutiny as the processes used for many other energy sources.
For example, it remains unclear how far the tiny fissures that radiate through the bedrock from hydraulic fracturing might reach, or whether they can connect underground passageways or open cracks into groundwater aquifers that could allow the chemical solution to escape into drinking water. It is not certain that the chemicals – some, such as benzene, that are known to cause cancer – are adequately contained by either the well structure beneath the earth or by the people, pipelines and trucks that handle it on the surface. And it is unclear how the voluminous waste the process creates can be disposed of safely.

Bluedaze Drilling Reform for Texas

By the numbers: Texas Oil and Gas Wells and Enforcement Staff

Last week Texas made national news when we learned thatTexas has the most drilling but the worst regulation in the nation.

Wilma Subra, MacArthur Fellowship "Genius" Award winning scientist, President of Subra Corp. and Board Member for EARTHWORKS takes the information a step further with a statistical comparison.





Concern as China clamps down on rare earth exports


Britain and other Western countries risk running out of supplies of certain highly sought-after rare metals that are vital to a host of green technologies, amid growing evidence that China, which has a monopoly on global production, is set to choke off exports of valuable compounds.

Failure to secure alternative long-term sources of rare earth elements (REEs) would affect the manufacturing and development of low-carbon technology, which relies on the unique properties of the 17 metals to mass-produce eco-friendly innovations such as wind turbines and low-energy lightbulbs.
China, whose mines account for 97 per cent of global supplies, is trying to ensure that all raw REE materials are processed within its borders. During the past seven years it has reduced by 40 per cent the amount of rare earths available for export.




Harassed War Reporter: We Must Stand Up To TSA Thugs


A war reporter who was detained, interrogated and handcuffed at Seattle airport for refusing to answer personal questions about his income has warned that Americans need to start standing up to TSA thugs because entering the country is now a more stifling experience than some of the worst police states on the planet.
“No country has ever treated me so badly,” Michael Yon wrote in a Facebook message. “Not China. Not Vietnam. Not Afghanistan. Definitely not Singapore or India or Nepal or Germany, not Brunei, not Indonesia, or Malaysia, or Kuwait or Qatar or United Arab Emirates. No county has treated me with the disrespect can that can be expected from our border bullies.”
The public whispers and the right wing’s open talk of Muslim-only airport lines are fueling even greater racial division, fear and hysteria.

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