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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.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

6 Feb - Quick Picks

Meet Photographer Marian Matta 
Mountainscapes

Despite Lancet Retraction, the Vaccine-Autism Controversy Remains
http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Non-food/Drug/vaccine-autism_controversy_remains_0502100618.html

Germany Confronts the Meaning of War
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,675890,00.html

Planetary Skin - Global Surveillance Infrastructure

Google Inc.Image via Wikipedia
http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=9750
So Never Get Into The Space War..
http://bruceleeeowe.wordpress.com
A defense can interfere with the [a] location of the target by evasive maneuvers. There isn’t really a way to interfere with [b] the characteristics of a shot, short of inserting a saboteur into the crew of the firing ship. A defense can interfere with the environment through which the shot passes by such things as jamming the weapon’s homing frequencies or clouds of anti-laser sand (which may work in the Traveller universe, but not in reality). There isn’t really a way to directly interfere with [c] the weapon’s aiming precision (again short of a saboteur), though one can indirectly do so by decreasing the target’s signature, increasing the range or jamming the firing ship’s targeting sensors and degrade their targeting solution.
( How would you apply this analysis to the practicality of Planetary Defense ? )


Spy’Bots? Just Google the NSA!
http://dad2059.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/spybots-just-google-the-nsa
 Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, according to cybersecurity experts familiar with the matter. The objective is to better defend Google — and its users — from future attack.
The seal of the U.S. National Security Agency....Image via Wikipedia

Kooiker: Censure attempt politically motivated
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_451c56d4-1082-11df-af66-001cc4c03286.html
The proposed resolution of censure accuses the alderman of violating the official Code of Conduct for Elected Officials by creating a hostile work environment for city staff through an “ongoing pattern of harassing conduct” in pursuit of information

Lender forecloses on homeless shelter
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/lender-forecloses-on-homeless-290533.html 

The task force has been fighting with the city of Atlanta about its controversial shelter, which at time houses  more than 700 homeless men.Debi Starnes, the homeless czar for Atlanta, contends the shelter's philosophy of sheltering men without requiring them to take steps such as entering a drug-treatment program prolongs their life on the street.


South Dakota-Pine Ridge Indian ReservationImage by jimmywayne via Flickr
Bill would make Pine Ridge nursing home first in S.D. in 20 years
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_c7262f80-10f3-11df-96ca-001cc4c002e0.html
A Senate committee endorsed a plan Wednesday to build a nursing home on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation after the measure's sponsor said elderly tribal members now must move to nursing homes far from their families.

South Dakota has had a ban on new nursing homes for more than 20 years, but the bill would grant an exception to allow construction of a nursing home on the reservation in the southwestern part of the state.

Location of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sou...Image via Wikipedia
Sioux reservation struggling after winter storms
http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3001:sioux-reservation-struggling-after-winter-storms&catid=54&
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1,500 to 1,700 homes were still without power Monday, and said it would take “better than three weeks” to get the reservation up and running again.

The tribe has spent “enormous amounts” of money on such needs as fuel and water, and an emergency fund that had $175,000 a few months ago has been drained

Kerli’s Creepy Video About Mind Control

http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=3181

Spate of Sinkholes Open Up in Florida

http://news.discovery.com/earth/sinkholes-florida-groundwater.html

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