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June 15, 2010
Craig Murray: Why Israel's justification for murder on the high seas is fraudulent
FT: Deported activists tell a different story As Israel began deporting pro-Palestinian activists on Wednesday, its version of what happened on board the convoy to Gaza lost its monopoly of the airwaves. ... But the FT still uses Israel's terminology. Those kidnapped on the highseas and then released are said to have been "deported," people delivering humanitarian aid are said to be "activists." They then proceed to repeat Israel's account of its grotesque act of piracy and wanton murder.
Turkish charity chief tells of carnage on ship The head of a Turkish charity that organized the aid flotilla attacked by Israeli forces said activists had rushed some of the soldiers and snatched their weapons, but had thrown them overboard without using them. ...
Israel fakes the evidence of violent intent among passengers of Gaza aid ships
BP drops diamond saw; 'top hat' back in play The Aga Khan, only the fifth person to be awarded honourary citizenship, described it as a generous and gracious gesture as he stood with the Prime Minister before a crowd of dignitaries and several hundred members of the Ismaili community. He joins a list of honourary citizens that includes Nelson Mandela, Aung San Su Kyi and the Dalai Lama, among others.
"Among others"? Is that an obtuse way the Globe and Mail has of putting it, or what? There are only five honorary citizens and the article names three beside the Aga Khan, so who is the only other among whom those named belong? Anyhow, the interesting point is that the Aga Khan, one of the richest men in the World, has donated his personal collection of Islamic art, to be housed in a new Aga Khan museum located in North York. The museum will be paid for by Canada, which seems to have annoyed Henry Makow, who equate the community of Ismailis, of which the Aga Khan is the spiritual head, with the Islamic terrorism. This probably tells us more about Henry Makow than it does about the Ismailis.
Homo sapiens: A brief account of the life cycle, nutrition and distribution
Astranaut, Former Senator, Dr. H. Harrison Schmitt: The chasm between Apollo and the Gulf
Canadian on Gaza flotilla says he was beaten in Israeli Jail
Former CIA officials: Resignation of US intel chief forced by Israeli lobby
Paul Craig Roberts: US an Israeli puppet This may not be the right way of putting it. It's not that Israel controls the US, but that both Israel and the US are controlled by the same plutocratic Zionist power brokers, some of them not even Jews, none of whom give a damn about democracy or free society. When referring to the instruments of domination employed by these bastards, we should refer not to Israel or the US but to USIsrael.
Glen Greenwald kicks brothel-going Israel apologist, Eliot Spitzer, in the balls
Turkey is ready for war with Israel But it's going to be one-sided. The Turks have no nukes.
Dem Congressman vigorously defends Israel's right to murder terrorists armed with food parcels
Craig Murray on: Israeli Murders, NATO and Afghanistan
Israeli state murder: Don't blame Israel, blame Obama The Zionists are now providing cover for their White House puppet and his IDF veteran chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel, by pretending that they are both anti-Semites. Pathetic.
Obarmy: US to stand by Israel - Israelis feels more secure when they are free to murder at will
Obarmyblocks UN Security Council investigation of Israeli relief convoy murders
Transcript: U.K. Foreign Secretary talks with NutterYahoo
BP Effort Turns to Capturing Oil, not plugging well
Israel holds relief ship passengers hostage
UN Security Council Members Demand Israel End Blockade Stuff those anti-Semites.
Israelis celebrating Gaza relief ship murders Were the Nazis so insane?
Terror on the Tube An investigation into the July 7 London Tube bombings.
Bank of Canada raises prime rate to astronomical zero point five per cent, well below the target inflation rate Let's keep the property boom going, eh.
The Bank of Canada has a target inflation rate of 2%. So right now, if you could borrow at 0.5% you'd be earnign 1.5% on every dollar you borrowed.
Meantime: Obama promises to " strengthen Israel's strategic capabilities"
Rachel Corrie Continues Towards Gaza: Will Obama Let Israel Attack? How do you know when someone is serious about pursuing a strategy of nonviolent resistance until victory for justice is achieved?
When they refuse to turn back in the face of state violence. ...
Israel planning massive attack on Gaza: Ahmadinejad These damn people and their aid ships have caused us intolerable embarrassment.
One journalist beats Israeli censorship on the Gaza flotilla attack
Irish registered vessel "Rachel Corrie" still heading for Gaza Here's a chance for Israel to avenge the embarrassment their murder of Rachel Corrie caused, by murdering everyone on board.
Pravda: The surprising thing about Israel's brutality is that it no longer surprises anyone As it was with the Nazis.
Spiegel Photo Gallery: Israelis bravely defending themselves from terrorists with food parcels
Israel: Next time we'll kill everyone Strictly in accordance with the right to defend ourselves.
EU Pres.: Israeli action "inexplicable"
How to seal the GOM leak (PDF) This is a nice idea, particularly the bit about the champagne.
But it probably wouldn't work for the reason that BP's original funnel did not work, i.e., because methane coming out of the well at high pressure and mixing with cold sea water will form crystalline methane hydrate that will clog the system. Having a larger funnel may delay system failure but will not prevent it indefinitely.
UK PM Condemns Israeli massacre Weakly
Canadian leaders vie in feebleness of reponse to Israeli atrocity
Turkey will send new relief convoy to Gaza - with a naval escort Summary: All Western governments will go bust. But before they go bust they will print money, they will go to war and we will all be doomed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is in Canada, has cancelled a scheduled visit to Washington on Tuesday to return to Israel, officials said....
Israel says its soldiers boarded the lead ship in the early hours but were attacked with axes, knives, bars and at least two guns. "Unfortunately this group were dead-set on confrontation," Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev told the BBC. And Israeli bastards boarding the ships were armed with more than axes, knives, bars and at least two guns, and they were dead set on killing people.
Harper should have told the the murdering son-of-a-bitch NutterYahoo, now visiting "best friend" Canada, to fuck off. But no doubt he will say Canada stands by Israel's right to defend itself from terrorists carrying food parcels.
Harper whimps out on giving NutterYahoo the boot
Turkish PM: Israeli hijacking of Gaza relief convoy an act of terrorism Because the incident took place on the high seas does not mean however that international law is the only applicable law. The Law of the Sea is quite plain that, when an incident takes place
on a ship on the high seas (outside anybody's territorial waters) the applicable law is that of the flag state of the ship on which the incident occurred. In legal terms, the Turkish ship was Turkish territory.
There are therefore two clear legal possibilities.
Possibility one is that the Israeli commandos were acting on behalf of the government of Israel in killing the activists on the ships. In that case Israel is in a position of war with Turkey, and the act falls under international jurisdiction as a war crime.
Possibility two is that, if the killings were not authorised Israeli military action, they were acts of murder under Turkish jurisdiction. If Israel does not consider itself in a position of war with Turkey, then it must hand over the commandos involved for trial in Turkey under Turkish law.
In brief, if Israel and Turkey are not at war, then it is Turkish law which is applicable to what happened on the ship. It is for Turkey, not Israel, to carry out any inquiry or investigation into events and to initiate any prosecutions. Israel is obliged to hand over indicted personnel for prosecution. ...
So perhaps the Israeli killers were not, in the strictest legal sense, pirates. However, they sure were robbing on the high sea. They commandeered the relief ships and took them to port in the rogue state of Israel. Thus, to the lay person, pirates seems to describe the killers as well as any other term.
Craig Murray: Israeli attack on Gaza relief vesssels undeniably illegal
Turkey pulls out of joint military exercise with Israel
EU calls for inquiry into Israeli relief ship murders UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the violence, saying, "I am shocked by reports of killing of people in boats carrying supply to Gaza. I heard the ships were in international water. That is very bad." He called for a "thorough investigation. "The ships were in international water". Israel is a pirate nation.
White House party will fete Jewish culture And this week, it's the Jewish community in Washington and beyond that's buzzing over who'll be on the list when Barack and Michelle Obama host the first-ever White House reception marking Jewish Heritage Month. Everyone to dress as a pirate.
Barack Obama's credibility hits rock bottom after oil spill and Sestak scandal Judging Obama on the handling of an oil spill hardly seems reasonable. The Gulf of Mexico oil spil is a technical problem that technical people are working on. When the problem is resolved there will be an inquiry, then the President can take any necessary action. That is the point at which a President should be judged. In the interim, the US Government has assigned a Nobel Prize winning physicist to oversea the spill response. That was a smart move and, aside from the temporary ban on drilling the Gulf, is likely among the few things that Obama could have sensibly done at the time.
US Backs UN resolution calling for nuclear-free ME (that includes Israel)
Webster Tarpley: Geithner Rushes to Sabotage German Derivatives Ban
New Oil Drum Thread on Gulf Spill
Eric Sprott: Bailouts - It's your money, unwisely spent
Turkish PM says West unfair, insincere in Iran row: report
BP Exec: don't expect oil leak fixed until completion of relief well
Why It Is So Hard to Stop the Oil Gusher (And why drilling was allowed in the first place) ...Sixteen gallons of oil. That's how much the average American soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan consumes on a daily basis -- either directly, through the use of Humvees, tanks, trucks, and helicopters, or indirectly, by calling in air strikes. Multiply this figure by 162,000 soldiers in Iraq, 24,000 in Afghanistan, and 30,000 in the surrounding region (including sailors aboard U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf) and you arrive at approximately 3.5 million gallons of oil: the daily petroleum tab for U.S. combat operations in the Middle East war zone. This is the most illuminating article I have yet seen on the Gulf Oil spill.
Royal Society forced by dissident fellows to acknowledge climate warming skeptics
Greece urged to give up euro and default on debt
Analysts question Korea torpedo incident How is it that a submarine of a fifth-rate power was able to penetrate a U.S.-South Korean naval exercise and sink a ship that was designed for anti-submarine warfare? ...
STIX Fonts Version 1.0 Released A new web-based character set perfectly renders the full range of characters and symbols needed in Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) publishing. ...The fonts include more than 8,000 glyphs in multiple weights, sizes, and slants and support the complete range of Latin alphabets, as well as Greek and Cyrillic. The largest component of the fonts is devoted to the thousands of mathematical operators and technical symbols necessary to report research. ... Typography catches up with the modern world.
Deepwater Oil Spill -- The LMRP Attempt
BP says top kill has not stopped Gulf oil leak and now considering other options
Iran and Pakistan sign gas pipeline deal Iran will import 20% of Pakistan's natural gas production and use it to generate electricity in Northern Iran. The deal frees gas from Iran's southern gas fields for export.
UN talks back conference on nuclear-free Middle East
Con Black on Canada's inhumane prison plan In my present abode, I have met many rather dodgy people, but none whose ethics I consider inferior to some prosecutors and judges I have encountered in the last few years. And I have met many fine, as well as some mediocre and poor correctional officers, but few who rise above the level of benign non-skilled labour, profoundly under qualified to practise untrammeled social engineering on those entrusted to them. I believe, civilly and theologically, in the confession and repentance of wrongdoing; in the prosecution and punishment of crime, and in a maximum reasonable effort by the state to protect the public, especially from threats to person and property. But I also believe that everyone has rights, including the unborn, demented, incurably ill, military adversaries and the criminal, and that the rights of those whose entitlements are for any reason circumscribed, are not inferior for being narrower, and should be as great as they practically can be, without violating the rights of others. ... One of possibly several benefits arising from the incarceration of former Canadian, Lord Conrad Black, is that he has more time to write, which he does extremely well. It would be best, however, if the US Government were to release Black on parole subject to the condition that he spend a minimum of 40 hours a week in the editorial office of the National Post. He, if anyone, could, through the exercise of editorial inspiration, perspiration and judgment, make that paper turn a profit.
David, Bringing-You-a-Better-Britain, Cameron's opium trading ancestors
Israel's new 'best friend'? Uh, uh, that's us
BP's Spill-Kill Not Going Well? From what I understand of the operation, which may not be much, the idea is to pump high density mud down the well so the weight of it holds the oil down. Then with the flow stopped, they can cap the well with concrete.
To get mud, which is heavier than oil, down the well, they have to inject it under pressure to counteract the pressure of the upwelling oil. However, the blowout preventer (BOP), a massive device installed at the wellhead to control the flow of oil, is defective or damaged, with the result that some mud spews out through holes in the riser rather than going down the well. That the mud comes out in fits and starts may reflect the pulsating pressure generated by the 30,000 horse power hydraulic pump at the surface, which is driving the mud down the well.
Pressure at the bottom of the well is around 14,000 pounds per square inch, or an astounding 28,000 tons per square metre -- a two-metre-diameter hydraulic jack operating at that pressure could lift the Titanic from the ocean floor.
The pressure in the reservoir is largely counteracted by the weight of oil in the five-mile deep bore hole. At the ocean floor the pressure is only a couple of thousand pounds per square inch. This is the pressure against which the mud has to be pumped.
To stop the reflux of mud through the BOP, they have been shooting bits of old tyre, golf balls and knotted string in with the mud. The idea is that this stuff will lodge in some of the pipes and valves and thus check the back flow. Bits of junk can be seen shooting out the holes in the riser where the mud is spewing.
But perhaps the old tyres, etc. are supposed to block leaks elsewhere too. Anyway, they have to get the mud far enough down the well that its weight counterbalances the pressure of the upwelling oil. They cannot cap the well with concrete until it stops flowing, because flowing concrete will not set.
Sof far, things do not seem to be going very well.
Clarke and Dawe on the international credit crisis (U-Tube)
Tony Blair cashes in on climate change
US Bank bailouts a bust for US Treasury US Treasury - read US taxpayer.
BP, Coast Guard Optimistic 'Top Kill' Is Working
US money supply plunges at 1930s pace as Obama eyes fresh stimulus
G8 Summit to cost Canada $933 million for security. Lunch is extra They expecting WW3 to break out during the conference, or what?
Back to basics in UK education -- not
BBC JOURNALIST, ALAN HART, BREAKS 9/11 SILENCE Thanks to WRH for this important link. Here is a direct link the radio interview with BBC journalistAlan Hart, which reveals the powerful intellectual capability that the BBC will not unleash.
Malcolm Muggeridge on the irresponsibility of Bertrand Russell
Malcolm Mugguridge 1957 interview concerning his critique of the institution of British Monarchy
A Right-Wing Zionist Threat: Vandals Strike Tikkun Editor’s Home
Georgian President Orders Private Jet with Catapult System
Lord Monckton wins global warming debate at Oxford Union
Google Street View 'single biggest breach of privacy in history'
Toyota’s Robot Violinist Wows Crowd At Shanghai Expo 2010 Clever. But I've heard five-year-old Suzuki violin students play better than this.
Mark Twain: The autobiography, now released
Mark Twain: Man in White: A close look at the last four years of Mark Twain's life
BP's Gulf battle echoes monster '79 Mexico oil spill
Harper government monitoring online chats about politics Israel's Foreign Ministry pays shills to promote the genocide of Palestinians in online forums, our government pays shills to promote the slaughter of seals. What next? Will the nanny state by hiring shills to clutter online forums with fatuous health and safety advice?
German torpedo sank South Korean naval vessel ... The metallic debris and chemical residue appear to be consistent with a type of torpedo made in Germany, indicating the North may have been trying to disguise its involvement by avoiding arms made by allies China and Russia, Yonhap quoted the official as saying. ... Or it could have been anyone else trying to disguise their involvement, really.
At the present rate of melting, the Greenland ice sheet will be all gone in about ten thousand years
9/11 Was not an inside job: The US Government says so Ha! That settles it then.
Documents show BP chose a less-expensive, less-reliable method for completing well in Gulf oil spill
Cement encasement flaws seen as root cause of oil rig explosion
Webster Tarpley: Euro Momentarily Stabilized — German Ban on Naked Credit Default Swaps Is Working
Willis Eschenbach: Science Magazine's bogus claims about climate warming skeptics
BP Spill and ClimateGate: Steve McIntyre explores a fascinating link
Synthetic life? Synthetic hysteria more like
Democracy Now: BP has immunity from US law?
A Smoking Gun in BP's Deep Horizon Mess?
Obama's Dr. Goebbels will force bloggers to link to the Huffington Post
John Pilger: The heresy of the Greeks offers hope As Britain's political class pretends that its arranged marriage of Tweedledee to Tweedledum is democracy, the inspiration for the rest of us is Greece. It is hardly surprising that Greece is presented not as a beacon, but as a "junk country" getting its comeuppance for its "bloated public sector" and "culture of cutting corners" (Observer). The heresy of Greece is that the uprising of its ordinary people provides an authentic hope unlike that lavished upon the warlord in the White House. ...
BP capturing 5,000 bpd oil at Gulf leak site Confirming that the leak is massively greater than 5000 bpd. What a waste of oil.
U.S. Consumer Price Index turns negative Economists who are generally surprised by everything were surprised again today when the CPI Fell .1% in the April CPI Release. ...
Shock increase in US unemployment Or as Mish might have said, economists who are generally shocked by everything were shocked again today when "The US Labor Department said that new jobless claims rose to 471,000 for the week ending May 15, an increase of 25,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 446,000 and the largest rise in three months."
BP Moves Closer to 'Top Kill' of Leaking Oil Well The company has improved its ability to divert oil from the leaking well via a mile-long pipeline to a drillship, Suttles said. BP, based in London, is capturing about 3,000 barrels of oil a day, up from about 2,000 on May 18. ... In the videos, the siphon looks like a drinking staw inserted into a gushing sewer outfall. If BP are really capturing 3000 barrels a day with this device, the actual leak must be many times greater than 5000 bpd.
Heavy oil has reached wetlands in the Pass a Loutre area of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal said at a press conference yesterday. About 34.5 miles (55.5 kilometers) of the state’s shoreline has been touched by oil, he said in Venice, Louisiana.
"These are not tar balls, this is not sheen," said Jindal, a Republican. "This is heavy oil we are seeing in our wetlands."
Gulf oil spill may be 19 times bigger than originally thought
Barbara Ehrenreich: Smile or Die
Dan Pink: The surprising truth about what motivates us
Controversial Wash U Prof Jonathan Katz Cut Loose From Gulf Oil Spill Relief Yeah, we don't want a homophobic method of stopping the leak. Anyway government intervention is just BS to insure that Obama's action on the spill looks slightly more energetic than Bush's let's all eat cake response to Katrina, so why not corrupt the science by making it politically correct. The fact is, the leak will be plugged in a few days when the pressure drops sufficiently to allow BP to pump concrete down the well. Initially, oil and gas pressures were over 40,000 pounds per square inch, or an amazing 28,000 tons per square meter. As oil and gas spew out the pressure will drop and BP will then be able to seal the well. What is happening in the meantime is mitigation, cleanup, legal maneuvring and PR. Mitigation appears to be working remarkably well, with very little oil reaching the shore.
Webster Tarpley: Iran nuclear swap deal a defeat for US policy of isolation (U-Tube)
Florida Keys tar balls are not from BP oil spill
Building a boon companion: a replica of Glenn Gould's chair
Americans Torturing the Canadian citizen, Omar Khadr: A Child Detained In Bagram And Guantanamo
North Korea sank South Korean naval vessel: but everybody to carry on as if nothing happened?
Steve McIntyre: Michael Mann is not a fraud Citing a particularly controversial email in the Climategate emails that referred to hiding an unexpected but inconveniently inexplicable decline in global temperatures, McIntyre concluded, "To the extent that things like the 'trick' (to "hide the decline") were common practice, the practices need to be disavowed. The scientists do not need to be drummed out, but there has to be some commitment to avoiding these sort of practices in the future." Scientists are subject to all the weaknesses to which human flesh is heir, including the desire for influence, recognition and money. Science advances, nevertheless, by virtue of a tradition of civil debate among proponents of competing ideas and conflicting observations, a debate arising from a shared desire to advance knowledge. Steve McIntyre's conciliatory remarks about Michael Mann and "the trick" represent an effort, and one hopes an inportant step, in restoring to climate science the honest and civil debate that has been seriously undermined not only by industrial interests but also, and mainly, by the self-interested actions of those who have sought to exploit public anxieties about climate change to enhance their own power, public profile or wealth. What would be good to see now is a response from the academic community. In Canada, an admirable gesture would be to offer Steve McIntyre an honorary chair at one of the better universities -- U. of A. perhaps, a school well known for outstanding research in environmental science. Or will they be upstaged by Penn State? Or UEA? Why not think about it, Vice-Chancellor Professor Edward Acton?
Another lying Democrat warmongering son-of-a-bitch
BP "pressured rig disaster workers to drill faster"
BP Siphons more oil from broken pipe: Not many tar balls on Florida beach
Gilad Atzmon: Time for deZionification
Mish: U.K. Capital tax increase could make toast of Britain's Con-Lib coalition government Why, one wonders, do they think they need more revenue? The economy is in recession, eight million workers are on the dole, have given up looking for work or are working part-time when they want full-time work. The need is not, therefore, to reduce demand by raising taxes. The need is to increase demand. This requires a deficit. If the deficit cannot be covered by borrowing at reasonable rates, the government has the option to print the money. Money printing will not be inflationary while there remain large unused resources of plant and manpower. The real challenge is to ensure that the increase in demand due to the government deficit yields sustainable economic expansion. What's needed are incentives to invest and to hire additional labor. In the event that the government felt compelled to tax capital, they should do so with a small annual levy on all capital, subject to a personal exemption. This could be introduced with a promise to phase out estate duty over a number of years as the economy recovers, for a long-run effect that would be revenue neutral.
9-11's Dancing Israeli, Dominik Suter, is Alive and Well and Living in New Jersey?
Was Albert Einstein In Fact A Bit Thick?
BP Spill: submerged oil "plumes" Members of the National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology have been traversing the area around the scene of the Deepwater Horizon, the rig that exploded and sank on 20 April. Using the latest sampling techniques, they have identified plumes up to 20 miles away from the Deepwater Horizon well head that continues to spew oil into the water at a rate of at least 790,000 litres a day. The largest plume found so far was 90 metres thick, three miles wide and 10 miles long. ... Let's see, ten miles by three and 90 metres thick means a total volume of four tenths of a cubic kilometre, equivalent to 2.4 billion barrels.
Could there really be that much oil? If so, it would require a flow of 85 million barrels a day over the duration of the 28-day leak, or about 10,000 times the rate acknowledged by BP. If the well diameter is 7 inches or 18 cm, that would imply a flow rate of 177,000 km per hour -- not quite the speed of light, but fast. And that's just considering one "plume". So, could there be some exaggeration about the size of these "plumes," or is it that they are, in fact, considerably more than 99.99% water? One concern linked to the plumes is that the oil will reduce oxygen levels in the water as micro-organisms work to decompose it. In some parts of the Gulf, oxygen levels are already almost one-third below normal. If they fall below levels needed to support life, dead zones devoid of all marine creatures could be created. ... The oil is being rapidly decomposed through microbial oxidation, which is now deemed to be a disaster in its own right because oxidation uses, well, oxygen, so every living thing in the Gulf may be suffocated. But let's think about this. Oxidation of a ton of oil requires about 3.5 tons of oxygen. If the leak is 5,000 barrels a day, or about eight hundred tons (BP's estimate), it would required 2,800 tons of oxygen for complete microbial breakdown. At saturation and at a temperature of 10 Celcius a cubic kilometer of sea water contains 12,000 tons of oxygen. So to oxidize the oil being lost each day requires the oxygen contained in about 0.23 cubic kilometers of sea water. The Gulf of Mexico has a volume of approximately 320,000 cubic kilometers, which means that without replenishment, the oil spill will require 1.4 million days, or nearly 4000 years, to fully deplete the Gulf of oxygen (2,700 years if the oxygen content of the Gulf's waters are already 30% below saturation). Locally, the effect will certainly harm wildlife. For the Gulf as a whole, there seems no need for panic.
BP Inserts Siphon Into Oil Leak
Jonathan I. Katz: Cool thoughts on climate warming
Obama Sends Bomb, Mars Experts to Fix BP Oil Spill
Massive anthropogenic climate warming in New Zealand: the warming that wasn't
The official archivist of New Zealand’s climate records, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), offers top billing to its 147-year-old national mean temperature series (the "NIWA Seven-station Series" or NSS). This series shows that New Zealand experienced a twentieth-century warming trend of 0.92°C.
The official temperature record is wrong. The instrumental raw data correctly show that New Zealand average temperatures have remained remarkably steady at 12.6°C +/- 0.5°C for a century and a half. NIWA's doctoring of that data is indefensible. ...
USA: The insurrection has begun
Who is Bombing in Iraq?
Are the bombers Al-Qaeda, the CIA or Israel? Mere speculation, but highly plausible.
Gulf of Mexico spill: Where has all the oil gone?
U of A scientists find cheap chemical effective against brain tumor
Mish: Alice's Restaurant Theory of Central Banking Rapidly Falling Apart
New Scientist special issue: Denialism Believe the men in white coats, or they'll take you away.
But the New Scientist retains some sense yet (Editor of Nature, take note). For example: Living in denial: Questioning science isn't blasphemy, by Michael Fitzpatrick. This, in particular, is well said: "How ironic. The concept of denialism is itself inflexible, ideological and intrinsically anti-scientific. It is used to close down legitimate debate by insinuating moral deficiency in those expressing dissident views, or by drawing a parallel between popular pseudoscience movements and the racist extremists who dispute the Nazi genocide of Jews.
"As philosopher Edward Skidelsky of the University of Exeter, UK, has argued, crying denialism is a form of ad hominem argument: "the aim is not so much to refute your opponent as to discredit his motives". The expanding deployment of the concept, he argues, threatens to reverse one of the great achievements of the Enlightenment - "the liberation of historical and scientific inquiry from dogma". ...
Time for a scientific reformation
Bank of England: Britain and the US are broke
Seymour Hersh Describes "Battlefield Executions" in Afghanistan
UK: New Politics But Same Old Righteous
First moving pictures of BP oil leak
Jerusalem residents attack writer Elie Wiesel over appeal to Barack Obama There are surely no Zionists more extreme than the arm-chair Zionists of America.
George Bernard Shaw: Why the British Left supported the dictators (U-
Tube) This sociopathic advocate of tyranny and mass murder was, surely not coincidentally, also a playwright of genius. Free of the distraction of moral considerations, Shaw could view the human drama in terms solely of a conflict among indivual interests, a struggle for personal advantage in which any claim to morality, honor or decency was to be dismissed as a stratagem, a means of deception and a risible exercise in humbug.
Kevin MacDonald: Does Jewish financial misbehavior have anything to do with being Jewish?
Deep Horizon disaster: an opportunity for mindless industry-bashing
Magnetically-Induced Hallucinations Explain Ball Lighting, Say Physicists
Engineers trying multiple tactics in battle to plug oil well in Gulf of Mexico
Brits denied the right vote entitled to compensation by the taxpayer, i.e., themselves
UK Tory leader Cameron vies in stupidity with Liberal Clegg The Tories have adopted the Liberals' collectivist environmental program that will squander billions on windmills and other uneconomic methods of power generation. If they really feel it necessary to cut carbon emissions, they should chose a carbon tax, which allows the market to provide the most cost-effective means of achieving whatever enissions reduction is being targeted.
And did those feet? BBC's mystical drivel about Nick Clogg ... "He must have walked along these very pavements," mused the reporter reverently, "exactly where I am walking now." Eh? Come again? "And did those feet in ancient time…" Now, hold on just one moment – this is not "In the Footsteps of Saint Paul". We are not talking here about Mahatma Gandhi or Winston Churchill, but about the latest in a long line of failed Liberal leaders, who has led his party to a reduced presence in the House of Commons, a television game-show contestant who wowed the public for a couple of weeks, only to be voted off. If the BBC pilgrim had directed his footsteps a short distance away he would have been able to witness Nick Clegg performing that same mystical feat – negotiating the pavements of Westminster - in real life.
The BBC has lost the plot. To churn out rubbish like that demonstrates two things: a complete lack of any sense of proportion or reality and contempt for the intelligence of the listening public. ...
BP in fresh bid to stem oil leak with 'top hat' dome
Lib-Dems seek out coalition of the losers
Israel: Rationality, Missiles, and the Golan Heights
Anthony Watts: Lessons from the Gulf of Mexico blowout
Deep Horizon blowout: Not a very large spill
Bill Gates Causing Anthropogenic Climate Change
Fish farm protesters crowd Victoria
Most Brits want Brown to quit now
Hedge Fund Hyenas and Zombie Banks Attack Greece, Detonating Second Wave of World Depression
U.K. Tory-Lib Dem coalition threatened by secret hardline memo on Europe A Lib-Lab pact, or coalition of the losers, might best suit the Tories. It should fail within a year to be followed by a new election in which the Liberals would likely be harshly punished. Unless, that is, the Liberals can get a constitutional change providing for proportional representation as the price of their support for Labor. This would entail a high stakes gamble, however, as a change in voting system would need ratification by referendum. If the Liberals forced a referendum which they lost, their future electoral prospects would be poor. A switch to proportional representation would be disastrous for Britain as it would ensure perpetual Lib-Left coalition government that would lack the will to cut the bloated bureaucracy that disposes of 52% of the nations wealth. If such profligacy were continued, Britain would become another Euroschlerotic economic disaster with little prospect of future prosperity.
But not all vote "reform" measures are the same Different methods of counting votes give different results. Some can even have the perverse effect of preventing the person who is the first choice of the greatest number from getting elected. The aim of "reforming" Britain's electoral system is not, as the advocates of "reform" always claim, to make it more fair, it is to insure that the advocates of "reform" elect more MPs.
Methane hydrates plug oil leak funnel
Voting In Britain For War. Take Your Pick
Are climate scientists compulsive liars?
Here's the photo accompanying a letter from 250 climate scientists to Science magazine Stock photo description:
A polar bear managed to get on one of the last ice floes floating in the Arctic sea. Due to global warming the natural environment of the polar bear in the Arctic has changed a lot. The Arctic sea has much less ice than it had some years ago. (This images is a photoshop design. Polarbear, ice floe, ocean and sky are real, they were just not together in the way they are now)
BP Oil-Containment Box Hovers Above Seafloor in Gulf
Mish: U.S. Jobs and Jobless both up
BP Lowers Dome in Effort to Catch Oil
U.K.'s discredited PM grovels for Liberal support In a blatant attempt to win over Mr Clegg, the PM promised "immediate legislation" so people can vote in a referendum on changing our voting system -- a pivotal Lib Dem demand. In Britian, the "Mother of Parliaments," they are supposed to have just discovered that the way they do elections is all wrong and that they should adopt some new-fangled European system of proportional representation to ensure a perpetually hung parliament in which every decision is a compromise and no election results in any but a handful of the rascals being thrown out. It would also insure the election of odious carpet-bagging fools like Nick Griffin of the British National Party, a self-described Welsh nationalist, who under a system of proportional representation was elected to the European Assembly with a mere 6% of the vote in his North West England constituency.
Under present circumstances, the best solution would be a Liberal-Conservative merger under the name Democratic-Conservatives, which would end for a generation all further consideration of proportional representation.
The Liberals would get the Foreign Office and a couple of important domestic portfolios, e.g., the Home Office and Health, where they could apply their reformist zeal to worthy projects, while the Tories get on with the business of restoring control of the countries borders, cutting the bloated bureaucracy and transferring resources to the productive sectors of the economy.
Nulabor could not even organize and election
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NEWS 2010
WHY MORTGAGE DEBT AND HOUSE PRICES ARE SKY HIGH AND WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT
2009
MAKING SURE THAT CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH IS REAL SCIENCE, NOT POLITICS
HOW NEW LABOUR RE-ENGINEERED THE BRITISH NATION FOR ELECTORAL ADVANTAGE
DOING AWAY WITH THOSE BRITISH ANGLOS
POOP IN POOP OUT: MURDOCH'S CRAP MEDIA
CHICAGO OLYMPICS? OBAMA SCORES ANOTHER BIG "O"
THAT TERRRIBLE ANTI-SEMITE AHMADINEJAD
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR KNOWS THE TRUTH, BUT WON'T TELL IT
WHY THE U.S. ECONOMY WON'T COLLAPSE
HOW THE GLOBE & MAIL KEEPS YOU MISINFORMED
THE UNITED STATES: A PITIFUL HELPLESS GIANT
SEND REPRESENTATIVES TO PARLIAMENT, NOT PEOPLE IN NEED OF A JOB
GOOD RIDDANCE TO CORPORATE MEDIA RUBBISH
HATE SPEECH FROM THE MURDOCH MEDIA
HOW BERNANKE WILL TRASH THE DOLLAR WITHOUT ANYONE NOTICING
RECESSION IS OVER: BANK OF CANADA
ISRAEL STOKES RACE HATRED FOR ARABS
HOW AMERICA WILL GO TO WAR WITH IRAN
IN MEMORY OF EDWARD TEAGUE, aka, THE BLOGGER POSTMAN PATEL
ORWELL, OBAMA AND DEMOCRATIC AUTHORITARIANISM
WHY AMERICA WILL NOT ATTACK IRAN
WHEN ANTI-RACISM MEANS SELF-DESTRUCTION
2007
SPARE A THOUGHT FOR POOR GEORGE F. WILL AND THE CORPORATE MEDIA |
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