Opit's LinkFest!: 19 May - Recent Developments

Beyond Nuclear and co-petitioners demand NRC come clean on flawed "fixes" at Mark I reactors 4 hours ago
Anti-nuclear "Cassandras" finally being listened to? 20 hours ago
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U.S. Conservation Group Releases Top 10 ‘Endangered Rivers’ Report 4 hours ago
Infographic: How Desalination Works 5 hours ago
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Homing In On Vapor Intrusion in Madison 5 hours ago
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Wettest April on Record 13 hours ago
Punjab Wheat Record 1.0743 Billion Tonnes 13 hours ago
Obama lends support to Arab nations promoting reform 5 hours ago
In Barack Obama's widely-anticipated speech on the Middle East and North Africa, the US president...
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Cairo military court condemns 17 year old to death 4 hours ago
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new uk 'reforms' could let milk from tb-infected cattle into food chain 3 hours ago
northern europe's farmers fear drought as bad as 1976 9 hours ago
#FoodWorldOrder 5/19 binge & purge: fizzy drinks & touchscreens: vitamin d deficiency linked to all diseases & i... http://bit.ly/jlD891 7 minutes ago
#HolyHexes vatican's new sex abuse guidelines don't require reporting: from cnn: New Vatican guidelines aimed at... http://bit.ly/iKIiCp
media monarchy
unchecked power for worldwide war hidden in 'defense authorization' - [image: unchecked power for worldwide war hidden in 'defense authorization'] *from aclu.org*: *Tucked inside the National Defense Authorization Act, being m...

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grist.org
Cash incentives for renewables are twice as effective as tax credits - by John Farrell. *This post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project.* ...

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farm wars
Cesium Rising - According to U.C. Berkeley, radioactive Cesium is rising in topsoil, grass, and strawberries.

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food freedom
The White Wave: Food Chain Radio hosts David Gumpert - By MetroFarm Saturday 9:00-10:00 AM PDT Guest: David Gumpert, author of Raw Milk Revolution Listen Live Once again the forces of Prohibition are on the mov...

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sustainable food
Health Experts Tell McDonald's to Stop Marketing Junk Food to Kids - Today is McDonald's annual shareholders' meeting. Investors and corporate higher-ups will gather to discuss how the company is doing, hear plans for the ...

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In praise of... the Anglo-Irish agreement 1 hour ago
After centuries of oppression, and two decades into the modern Troubles, the agreement changed...

Letters: Two cheers for the coalition's climate change budget 1 hour ago
I welcome the agreement on the fourth carbon budget (Editorial, 18 May) and the efforts of the...

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European Commission threatens legal action against member states over banking rules 4 hours ago

Maryland passes bill forcing railroad to disclose Holocaust activities 6 hours ago

Hungary Nazi trial resumed after test of mental capabilities 7 hours ago

Bahrain court sentences Shiite cleric, 8 others for police kidnapping 8 hours ago

HRW urges further amendments to Bangladesh international crimes tribunal 8 hours ago

Ninth Circuit allows Argentine suit against Daimler AG for involvement in 'Dirty War' 9 hours ago

Egypt revolution resulted in at least 840 deaths: Amnesty report 9 hours ago

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'Eternal Sunshine' is Just Around the Corner 1 hour ago

Is ADHD a Fictional Disease? 1 hour ago

What's Next for Canada's Armed Forces? 10 hours ago

All the News That's Not Fit to Print 11 hours ago
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- Syria Condemns U.S. Sanctions on Assad 4 hours ago
  The Syrian government condemned on Wednesday United States sanctions against President Bashar...
- Obama Draws Peace Line at ’67 Borders 4 hours ago
  President Obama said that a lasting peace would require two states with secure borders in a...
- Europe and Emerging Nations Vie to Fill I.M.F. Job 4 hours ago
  One scenario could see a European step in until late 2012, and then an emerging market leader...
  
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- Campaign Against Climate Change
- A rising tide of climate sceptic disinformation
  http://www.campaigncc.org/sceptics
- The Institute of Physics – whose statements about UEA’s “worrying scientific integrity” were jumped on by media sceptics to negate the whole phenomenon of climate change– have recently issued a clarification saying that, “the climate is changing, and we need to do something now to mitigate that change” while their submission, it has been revealed, is likely to have been influenced by an energy consultant.
- ( 'scientific opinion' being o.k. when it confirms one's position...not so much otherwise ? )
- Those who actively promote climate scepticism are well networked, and have been termed 'deniers' rather than sceptics because many show scant regard for the facts, while seizing avidly on any error in the work of climate scientists.  This article discusses the psychology of climate change denial.
  We have put together a hall of shame featuring the worst offenders.
  ( There's an idea. I've already listed disinformation about disagreement being promoted as conspiracy from the BBC and Grist. Lists of themes needing debunking take 'conspiracy theory' to new heights. ;) LOL But laRouche is different ! Riiiight.
  The Great Global Warming Swindle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The Great Global Warming Swindle is a polemical documentary film that suggests that the scientific opinion on climate change is influenced by funding and ...
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle)
  Powerful Documentary Trounces Man-Made Warming Hoax
  
  9 Mar 2007 ... The Great Global Warming Swindle brought together a plethora ...
  www.prisonplanet.com/articles/.../090307warminghoax.htm - Cached - Similar
  PURE PROPAGANDA - THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE
  13 Mar 2007 ... On March 8, Channel 4 screened The Great Global Warming Swindle, a documentary that branded as a lie the scientific consensus that man-made ...
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  CBC - Global Warming Doomsday Called Off
  It clearly discuss about the fact that CO2 is not cause of global warming. Take a look also at the Great Global Warming Swindle and Green House Conspiracy ...
  video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3309910462407994295...
  What's wrong with the Great Global Warming Swindle? : Deltoid
  13 Jul 2009 ... A short video on the some of the misrepresentation in "The Great Global Warming Swindle"
  scienceblogs.com/.../whats_wrong_with_the_great_glo.php -
  Global warming conspiracy theory - RationalWiki
  6 May 2011 ... The Great Global Warming Conspiracy Theory refers to the questionable ideas bandied about by global warming denialists that global warming ...
  rationalwiki.org/wiki/Global_warming_conspiracy_theory -
  Why was The Great Global Warming Swindle so persuasive?
  why were people persuaded by a programme that they knew contradicted the vast body of reputable scientific opinion. Here are some explanations.
  
  1. It followed a trusted format
  
  Fifty years of public service broadcasting has created a standard science documentary format. Interviews with scientists and animated graphics are intercut with general footage of an issue, sometimes a little montage. The whole thing is held together by the modulated authoritative voice-over of a professional male actor.
  We trust this familiar and dull format because we assume that broadcasters and science documentaries do not knowingly lie.
  ( There's my problem. I grew up taking it as an article of faith that corrupt politicians lied constantly and consistently...and that government disinformation and secrecy was an institutional condition of the 'media.')
  Professional scientists are usually extremely cautious, prefacing their statements with dithering caveats such as “it is still too early to draw a firm conclusion but the data suggests that…”. By this measure when professional scientists are highly confident and assertive we assume that what they say is beyond contest.
  
  And the programme avoided any unfortunate confrontations with real scientists and allowing them no space on the programme.
  ( But the climate change/anthropogenic global warming al la Gore is a raucous group dismissive of claims that the science is incomplete, impossible of adequate sampling/calculation/quantifying, and defective in assuming modeling is a suitable basis to project the future while also ignoring random factors taking complex interlinked processes off in competing directions in a chaotic universe.
  But we have computers !   G.I.G.O. )
  It is remarkable that people’s belief in climate change is still so fragile that the firm consensus of the world’s scientific bodies can be challenged by a polemic documentary produced, let us remind ourselves, by the same channel that put out Celebrity Big Brother.
  ( That impressive purported concensus is the most impressive point of the presentation. Appeal to Authority limits the pool of 'qualified scientific analysts'....in a political brouhaha of media manipulation. Except...authority is a known liar ! )
  R J Hill says:
  May 1, 2007 at 3:40 pm
  
  I do not doubt there is climate change but I do think that the program raised some doubts as to the causes and there seeems to be some science that suggests that it is not all due to CO2. This is heresy to the environmental lobby, wind and nuclear industries and manna to the energy lobby. Earth science has a poor record in dealing with maverick views, for example plate tectonics, because it is hard to test theories by experiment.We should be looking at the science rather than attacking the people or a
  populist tv programme.A detailed critique of the ‘Chilling Sun’ would be a good start.
  Anyway we should be concentrating on mitigation of the effects of global warming, and also reducing reliance on fossil fuels, a good thing in itself.
  
  [George says: no scientists claims that all global warming is due to carbon dioxide. Clearly there are many factors involved. But the IPCC has looked at this repeatedly and concluded that CO2 is the dominante cause. The "attack" on the contributors is highly relevant, though. One has to be extremely naive to believe people who are being paid by powerful vested interests, ignore all counter arguments and constantly change their story. Wegener (plate techtonics) was a reputable scientist who went to great lengths to collect irrefutable evidence for his theory]
  ( Right. There's your 'authority.' )
  Climate Change 2007: Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change
  http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg3/en/annex1sglossary-r-z.html
  Scenario 
  
  A plausible description of how the future may develop based on a coherent and internally consistent set of assumptions about key driving forces (e.g., rate of technological change, prices) and relationships. Note that scenarios are neither predictions nor forecasts, but are useful to provide a view of the implications of developments and actions. 
  ( There's your 'science'...as reported by the developer. 'Assume'...makes an ass of you and me. Generally I enjoy Science Fiction BTW )
  
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  Dressing Like a Terrorist 9 hours ago
  
  Nir Rosen on Western media fraud in the Middle East 10 hours ago

Japan Slides Into Recession - Wall Street Journal 14 hours ago
The GuardianJapan Slides Into RecessionWall Street JournalJapan's economy contracted much more...
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- Alberta government will aid residents from Slave Lake - Vancouver Sun 57 minutes ago
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CNN: Ex-IMF chief granted bail amid sexual assault allegations. http://on.cnn.com/laVFTA 3 minutes ago
CNN: Obama calls for Israel's return to pre-1967 borders. http://on.cnn.com/jYpC15 26 minutes ago
CNN: Breaking: Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn indicted by NY grand jury in connection with alleged attack on a hotel maid. 6 hours ago
CNN: President Obama announces "new chapter in American diplomacy." http://on.cnn.com/iYEjHq #MESpeech #CNNTV 8 hours ago
CNN: President Obama announces $1 billion in debt forgiveness for Egypt and $1 billion in loan guarantees. #MESpeech #CNNTV 8 hours ago

Adobe dominates Kaspersky Lab's top ten PC vulnerabilites list

36 minutes ago Being number one is usually an honor, but not when it comes to Kaspersky Lab's top ten PC...

The Netherlands used to flood a lot. Rather than just grow gills and be done with the matter, the Dutch blew a bunch of cash on a massive set of levees, then added this monumental storm surge.
http://www.netvibes.com/privatepage/2