10.30.10
New Theory of Money
Ellen Brown: Time for a New Theory of Money
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2921?akid=240.96588.ZemGXZ&t=24
Bat Disease
Bat Disease Threatens Ecological Catastrophe
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2916?akid=240.96588.ZemGXZ&t=14
Prison Economics and AZ law
Private Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2915?akid=240.96588.ZemGXZ&t=12
“Fiscal Train Wreck”?
With GOP-Controlled Congress, Roubini Predicts US “Fiscal Train Wreck”
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2914?akid=240.96588.ZemGXZ&t=10
Child Soldiers ‘No Bar’
Child Soldiers ‘No Bar’ for US Aid
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2913?akid=240.96588.ZemGXZ&t=8
‘Repealing the 20th Century’
Post-Election GOP Agenda? ‘Repealing the 20th Century’
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2910?akid=240.96588.ZemGXZ&t=2
A funny thing happened on the way to the wars in Iraq…
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http://www.progressiveavenues.org/Ind_Con_Art_M%26L_H.html
NOW IN CONTROL — THE INDEPENDENT PRIVATE CONTRACTOR MILITARY
By Marti Hiken and Luke Hiken
A funny thing happened on the way to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
The U.S. military became privatized.
Socialism
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The Rich Are Winning the US Class War:
Facts Show Rich Getting Richer, Everyone Else Poorer
by Bill Quigley
CommonDreams.org (October 25 2010)
The rich and their paid false prophets are doing a bang up job deceiving
the poor and middle class. Read the rest of this entry »
Chomsky on China
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http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6390/china_and_the_new_world_order/
In These Times September 2, 2010 China
and the New World Order By Noam
Chomsky
As every Mafia don knows, even the slightest loss of control might lead to
unraveling of the system of domination as others are encouraged to follow a
similar path.
HTML 5 and privacy
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HTML 5 opens Pandora’s box of tracking in the Internet
by Tanzina Vega
New York Times (October 11 2010)
Worries over Internet privacy have spurred lawsuits, conspiracy theories
and consumer anxiety as marketers and others invent new ways to track
computer users on the Internet. But the alarmists have not seen anything
yet. Read the rest of this entry »
Habermas on immigration
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OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Leadership and Leitkultur
Julia Hasting
By JÜRGEN HABERMAS
Published: October 29, 2010
Frankfurt
SINCE the end of August Germany has been roiled by waves of political turmoil over integration, multiculturalism and the role of the “Leitkultur,” or guiding national culture. Read the rest of this entry »
10.29.10
Cycle, System Return: The Axial Age
The Axial Age is tricky to deal with, the more so after its commentators have misread the data. Indian religious history, the Greek Archaic Age, the Old Testament history of the era of the Prophets, and the Age of Confucious in China, make no sense without this kind of analysis.
Indian religion and history
http://darwiniana.com/2010/10/19/aryans-hinduism-and-a-buddhist-revolution-2/: The mini history of India in the Axial Age chapter of WHEE is not designed to please proponents of the usual mythology here. I think this history actually contains the clues needed to unravel the confusion of Indian religious history.
Supreme Court and creationism case
Supreme Court Smackdown on Creationism By EUPRAX
Added: Friday, 29 October 2010 at 8:34 AM
http://richarddawkins.net/discussions/539829-supreme-court-smackdown-on-creationism
Good news for evolutionists…the Supreme Court just refused to hear a case by a Christian school that challenged the right of the University of California to reject creationism courses as real biology.
Economic darwinism, paranoid politics
Why the Politicians with the Most Dangerous, Wrong Ideas Are Probably Going to Win the Congress
Shaken by an assault on their assumptions, many Americans become more adamant in defense of discredited ideology.
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Redistributionist — as epithets go, the moniker is so mild, so…2008. Today, we’re hammered by screeds against Democrats’ alleged socialism and President Obama’s supposed Marxism. The class war is clearly on — the paranoids and royalists of the world have united, seizing the means of propaganda production in these waning days of this year’s election campaign.
The onslaught, of course, is predictable. After all, this is an election season — which inevitably evokes redbaiting crusades by the plutocrats. Less predictable is this crusade’s traction. As Wall Street executives make bank off bailouts, as millions of Americans see paychecks slashed and as our economic Darwinism sends more wealth up the income ladder — it’s surprising that appeals to capitalist piggery carry more electoral agency than ever.
Gov 2.0′s Social Darwinism
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-w-silberberg/eat-or-be-eaten-gov-20s-s_b_775692.html: Eat or Be Eaten. Gov 2.0′s Social Darwinism
NCSE info
The end of two lawsuits involving a teacher preaching creationism in
the classroom in Mount Vernon, Ohio, is on the horizon. Kudos for
Evolution vs. Creationism from the International Society for Science
and Religion. And news of a webcast on “Molecular Insights into
Classic Examples of Evolution.”
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Stone-Tool-Sharpening Method Pushed Back More Than 50,000 Years
Origin of Skillful Stone-Tool-Sharpening Method Pushed Back More Than 50,000 Years
ScienceDaily (Oct. 28, 2010) — A highly skillful and delicate method of sharpening and retouching stone artifacts by prehistoric people appears to have been developed at least 75,000 years ago, more than 50,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Maturing brain
Brain’s Journey from Early Internet to Modern-Day Fiber Optics: Computer Program Shows How Brain’s Complex Fiber Tracks Mature
ScienceDaily (Oct. 26, 2010) — The brain’s inner network becomes increasingly more efficient as humans mature.
Immunity and fertility
Wild Scottish Sheep Could Help Explain Differences in Immunity
ScienceDaily (Oct. 28, 2010) — Strong immunity may play a key role in determining long life, but may do so at the expense of reduced fertility, a Princeton University study has concluded
Earlier human emergence?
Modern Humans Emerged Far Earlier Than Previously Thought, Fossils from China Suggest
ScienceDaily (Oct. 28, 2010) — An international team of researchers, including a physical anthropology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, has discovered well-dated human fossils in southern China that markedly change anthropologists perceptions of the emergence of modern humans in the eastern Old World.
Halliburton and the Upcoming Election
Published on Friday, October 29, 2010 by Robert Reich’s Blog
by Robert Reich
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/29-1
Next Tuesday Americans will be deciding whether to hand over even more of our government to corporations that have been plundering America – such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Wellpoint insurance, Massey Energy, and Halliburton, the giant oil services company.
Not every large corporation is irresponsible, of course, but plunderers that get away with it gain a competitive advantage over the more responsible, and thereby lead a race to the bottom.
Case in point: The staff of the presidential commission investigating the BP oil spill has just revealed that Halliburton executives knew the cement it was using to seal BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil well was likely to be unstable but didn’t tell BP or act on the information.
Thomas Jefferson Constitution vs…
Published on Friday, October 29, 2010 by The Nation
The Tea Party Constitution Versus the Thomas Jefferson Constitution
by John Nichols
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/29-0
The default position for Tea Party candidates such as Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, Joe Miller in Alaska, Sharon Angle in Nevada, Ken Buck in Colorado and Ron Johnson in Wisconsin is to declare that—if elected—they will follow the dictates of the Constitution.
Climate Change Denial Pervades US Elections
Published on Friday, October 29, 2010 by Inter Press Service
by Matthew O. Berger
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/10/29-0
WASHINGTON – In the run-up to the U.S. elections set to take place Nov. 2, the amount of money being spent and eccentricities on display have reached record levels. This has been particularly obvious in debates over energy and climate change.
The War That Dares Not Speak Its Name
Class War in America
By DAVID ROSEN
http://www.counterpunch.org/rosen10292010.html
The great unspoken two words of American political discourse are class war. The moral and political premise of the modern, post-World War II “American Century” is that the U.S. had overcome class divisions and struggle. Everyone, or nearly everyone save the very poor and the very, very rich, was absorbed into a vast, undifferentiated middle class. [See “The End of the American Century?: Suffering the New Normal,” CounterPunch, September 10-11, 2010.]
Anemic economy
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NY Times October 29, 2010
U.S. Economy Grew at a 2% Rate in the Third Quarter
By MICHAEL POWELL
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