10.29.10
Global Militarization
A Look at Global Militarization
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2897?akid=239.96588.heT-AD&t=18
Largest US Polluters and EPA
Largest US Polluters Want EPA to Keep Their Emissions Secret from Public
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2895?akid=239.96588.heT-AD&t=14
$1 Trillion in Reserves, But Not Hiring
$1 Trillion in Reserves, But Not Hiring: Is Business ‘Anti-Jobs’?
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2892?akid=239.96588.heT-AD&t=8
Species loss, and markets
Green Group: Market Solutions Wrong Answer for Species Loss
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2889?akid=239.96588.heT-AD&t=2
Put Corporate Criminals in Jail
Economist Joseph Stiglitz interviewed
by Sam Gustin
dailyfinance.com (October 22 2010)
An institutionalized system of skewed incentives allowed Wall Street
bankers and other corporate executives to gamble with America’s wealth
and then get away largely scot-free after the house of cards came
tumbling down, plunging the US into the worst economic crisis in
decades and destroying trillions of dollars of wealth worldwide.
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‘Death of the Liberal Class’
Book Excerpt: Chris Hedges on the Liberal Class
“‘Death of the Liberal Class’” — In a traditional democracy, the liberal class functions as a safety valve. It makes piecemeal and incremental reform possible. It offers hope for change and proposes gradual steps toward greater equality. But the assault by the corporate state on the democratic state has claimed the liberal class as one of its victims.
Killing Reconciliation
RG mai;
http://www.thenation.com/article/155622/killing-reconciliation?page=full
The Nation (http://www.thenation.com) October 27, 2010
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Killing Reconciliation
Jeremy Scahill
On March 26, 2009, Mullah Sahib Jan, a militant Taliban imam from the
Mohammed Agha district in Afghanistan’s Logar province, walked into the
office of the Independent National Reconciliation Commission, the main body
encouraging the Taliban to lay down their weapons and work with the
government. He was escorting fifty Taliban fighters who, he said, had
committed to ending their fight against the Afghan government and entering
the process of integration. To the government, Sahib Jan was a shining
example of how reconciliation with the Taliban is supposed to work. But less
than a year later, the former militant’s story would stand as a devastating
symbol of how the actions of US Special Operations Forces are sabotaging the
very strategy for reaching a political settlement that US officials claim to
support.
10.28.10
Early Sauropod
Early Sauropod Dinosaur: First Complete Skeleton Found
ScienceDaily (Oct. 28, 2010) — Scientists have discovered in China the first complete skeleton of a pivotal ancestor of Earth’s largest land animals — the sauropod dinosaurs. The new species, tentatively dubbed Yizhousaurus sunae, lived on the flood plains around Lufeng in the Yunnan Province of South China about 200 million years ago. The species helps explain how the iconic four-footed, long-necked sauropod dinosaurs evolved.
Darwinism is a pretense of observing evolution
History and Evolution: A Paradox
Darwinism is a pretense of observing evolution that, in reality, speaks about deep time in a way that noone can really contradict.
Falsifying Darwinism Once we see that history and evolution are braided together and that the descent of man is ‘all of a piece’, we can use the data of history to assess the earlier stages of human evolution. Armed with the eonic effect we see at once that something is missing in standard accounts. In the process we can see that natural selection is not what is driving historical macroevolution.
From Darwinism to table-rapping
Darwinists are too far gone to grasp the ironic humor of Wallace’s realization of the limits of observation as to the body.
Rajneesh and New Atheism
http://www.gurdjieff-con.net/2010/10/27/rajneesh-book-on-christianity/
The strange resemblance of the New Atheism, in a distorted brand, to the critique of religion by the religionist Rajneesh in the eighties is striking.
I think the New Atheist cult ought to understand this broader perspective compared to their own version that won’t work in the end.
A J Ayer on Logical Positivism
A J Ayer on Logical Positivism By RICHARD DAWKINS
Added: Thursday, 28 October 2010 at 4:55 AM
http://richarddawkins.net/discussions/539333-a-j-ayer-on-logical-positivism
A constitutional offense
A constitutional offense against our nation
Christine O’Donnell, Delaware’s Tea Party nominee for Senate, showed constituents once again that she is an unqualified candidate.
Last week, in a debate at Widener University Law School, O’Donnell and her Democratic opponent Chris Coons debated about the place of intelligent design and evolution in public schools.
Coons argued that evolution has no place in public schools, and that parents should use church as the way for their children to gain religious education.
Christine O’Donnell, on the other hand, argued that local communities have the right to decide what is taught in schools — even if that includes the concept of intelligent design.
What happened next has turned into an Internet frenzy, causing voters to question O’Donnell’s understanding of the Constitution, and rightfully so.
Snowball earth and animal evolution
New Evidence Supports ‘Snowball Earth’ as Trigger for Early Animal Evolution
ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2010) — A team of scientists, led by biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside, has found new evidence linking “Snowball Earth” glacial events to the rise of early animals.
Habit Formation
Habit Formation Appears to Be an Innate Ability, Fine-Tuned by Experience
Thought and nerve cells
Controlling Individual Cortical Nerve Cells by Human Thought
ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2010) — Five years ago, neuroscientist Christof Koch of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), neurosurgeon Itzhak Fried of UCLA, and their colleagues discovered that a single neuron in the human brain can function much like a sophisticated computer and recognize people, landmarks, and objects, suggesting that a consistent and explicit code may help transform complex visual representations into long-term and more abstract memories.
Olbermann on Tea Party
Published on Thursday, October 28, 2010 by Countdown With Keith Olbermann
If the Tea Party Wins, America Loses
by Keith Olbermann
Globalism Comes Home to Roost
Globalism Comes Home to Roost
America’s Jobs Losses are Permanent
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts10282010.html
Now that a few Democrats and the remnants of the AFL-CIO are waking up to the destructive impact of jobs offshoring on the US economy and millions of American lives, globalism’s advocates have resurrected Dartmouth economist Matthew Slaughter’s discredited finding of several years ago that jobs offshoring by US corporations increases employment and wages in the US.
Flying the Un-Friendly Skies
Jim Hightower: Flying the Un-Friendly Skies
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2882?akid=238.96588.3kJQfT&t=34
Secret Dollars
Millions of Secret Dollars Shape Elections
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2876?akid=238.96588.3kJQfT&t=22
Plastic Pollution
Dianna Cohen: Tough Truths About Plastic Pollution
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2875?akid=238.96588.3kJQfT&t=20
Biometric Data in Afghanistan
With No Oversight, US Army Amasses Biometric Data in Afghanistan
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2871?akid=238.96588.3kJQfT&t=12
UN calls for end to embargo
UN Assembly Calls for End to US Embargo on Cuba (Again)
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2868?akid=238.96588.3kJQfT&t=6
Days of Oil and Roses
RG mail
by Peter Goodchild
Countercurrents.org (October 23 2010)
There are some curious psychological implications to peak-oil
theory, although it’s hard to speculate on these without falling
prey to a form of paranoia that is just as unrealistic as the
denial of the original problem. The main flaw with Paranoid
Conspiracy Theories (PCT) is that a conspiracy of over half a dozen
people is inherently unstable: all it takes is for one person to
speak the truth, and the conspiracy is uncovered, as the IEA
discovered with regard to its overly cheerful statements about the
world’s oil supply (Macalister, 2009).
http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild241010.htm
Venezuela and HIV meds
RG mail
Venezuela to Guarantee Access to HIV Medications, Says Health Ministry
By James Suggett
Venezuelanalysis.com
October 27, 2010
Mérida — Starting next year, the Venezuelan government will guarantee
antiretroviral medication to people with HIV, and will expand the use of a
Cuban-made medicine to treat diabetic foot ulcers nation-wide, according to
recent announcements by the Venezuelan Health Ministry.
http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/5740
French lessons
RG mail
The lessons of the struggle against Sarkozy’s pension “reform” apply beyond France.
October 27, 2010
On the march in Paris against Nicolas Sarkozy’s pension reform law (Rafael Lopez)
THE FRENCH revolt against austerity has transformed politics in
France–and it has the potential to do the same across Europe and
beyond.
http://socialistworker.org/2010/10/27/french-lessons
Weak dollar
RG mail
by Michael Hudson
Financial Times (October 19 2010)
Two weeks ago Brazil moved to deter speculators from pushing up its
currency, doubling the tax on foreign investment {1} in its
government bonds. Last week Thailand acted on similar lines by no
longer exempting foreign investors from paying a tax on its bonds,
with the Thai finance minister warning of more to come. As the
dollar falls and developing nations see speculators push up their
exchange rates, other countries are also discussing more stringent
restrictions. A damaging age of capital controls seems likely.
http://michael-hudson.com/2010/10/hudson-on-capital-controls-in-ft-today/
ADL’s ‘top ten’ list
RG mail
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/10/the-adls-top-ten-list-is-consistent-with-its-history-of-muzzling-dissent-on-israel-at-all-costs.html
Mondoweiss October 27, 2010
The ADL’s ‘top ten’ list is consistent with its history of muzzling dissent
on Israel at all costs
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