01.29.11
Al-Jazeera live coverage
Uprising in Egypt: Al-Jazeera’s Live Coverage from the Egyptian Street
http://act.commondreams.org/go/4229?akid=360.96588.MCK1a0&t=20
Clearing of Amazon forest
Brazil OKs Clearing of Amazon Forest for Controversial Belo Monte Dam
http://act.commondreams.org/go/4227?akid=360.96588.MCK1a0&t=16
The billionaires are coming
The Billionaires Are Coming: Obama’s Richest Enemies to Hold Summit
http://act.commondreams.org/go/4223?akid=360.96588.MCK1a0&t=8
Arctic defrost dumping snow
Arctic Defrost Dumping Snow on U.S. and Europe
http://act.commondreams.org/go/4222?akid=360.96588.MCK1a0&t=6
US sticks to same old script
Revolution in the Air, But US Sticks to Same Old Script
http://act.commondreams.org/go/4220?akid=360.96588.MCK1a0&t=2
The Great Recession and the Deficit
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http://urpe.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/the-great-recession-and-the-deficit-by-paddy-quick/
January 27, 2011
The Great Recession and the Deficit
The capitalist class is taking advantage of this Great Recession, both here
and in other countries, to reduce the standard of living of the working
class and thus increase its own income, in the form of profits and interest.
We need to understand that even a long recession can eventually be
“profitable” if it can accomplish that, and big capital thinks long-term.
Thus it is not at all clear that big capital even *wants* to end this
recession quickly. Instead, it seems to see this as a wonderful opportunity
to make long-term gains at the expense of the working class.
by Paddy Quick
The Start of a Global Revolution?
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22963
*Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution?*
*North Africa and the Global Political Awakening, Part 1*
By Andrew Gavin Marshall
Global Research
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*For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically
activated, politically conscious and politically interactive… The
resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for
personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world
painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial
domination… The worldwide yearning for human dignity is the central
challenge inherent in the phenomenon of global political awakening… That
awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing… T**he nearly
universal access to radio, television and increasingly the Internet is
creating a community of shared perceptions and envy that can be galvanized
and channeled by demagogic political or religious passions. These energies
transcend sovereign borders and pose a challenge both to existing states as
well as to the existing global hierarchy, on top of which America still
perches…*
The Egyptian intifada and what it may mean for Israel/Palestine
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http://mondoweiss.net/2011/01/the-egyptian-intifada-and-what-it-may-mean-for-israelpalestine.html
Mondoweiss
January 27, 2011
The Egyptian intifada and what it may mean for Israel/Palestine
The Last Industrial Civilization
by Peter Goodchild
Countercurrents.org (January 22 2011)
Both the US and China seem good candidates for the Last Stand of
industrialized humanity, but the two countries have almost opposite
problems. It’s a case of Tweedledum and Tweedledee, of whether it is
better to suffer from one syndrome or another.
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The Egyptian Revolution
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A Very Fine Thing
The Egyptian Revolution
By GARY LEUPP
January 28, 2011, Day of Rage.
I’m watching live coverage of the Egyptian revolution on Al-Jazeera TV.
Cairo is swarming with hundreds of thousands, defying the curfew,
hurling stones at the police. The images recall the Palestinian youth
waging their Intifadas. The National Democratic Party headquarters is in
flames. Downtown Suez has been taken over by the people, two police
stations torched. The security forces are out in strength and shooting
into crowds. But the people have lost their fear.
Reporters and commentators on Al-Jazeera and other
channels have no choice but to note that Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak is widely hated, and that those in the street are seeking
freedom from a dictatorship. But they also keep saying “The situation is
getting worse.”
Worse?
http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp01282011.html
Can America Be Changed?
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The political economy, not the mythical America, is really what defines
America
by John Kozy
Global Research (January 24 2011)
If the American people ever hope to take back their country, they need to
understand America’s political economy so the parts of it that are morally
offensive and economically ineffective can be repudiated. Only then will
Americans be able to make the changes that are needed to make Lincoln’s
dream of a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people a
reality. But unfortunately no one studies political economy as it was
studied in the eighteenth century, so change has become very difficult.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22938
01.28.11
Tiny Magnetic Switch Discovered
Single Molecule Controlled at Room Temperature: Tiny Magnetic Switch Discovered
ScienceDaily (Jan. 28, 2011) — A Kiel research group headed by the chemist, Professor Rainer Herges, has succeeded for the first time in directly controlling the magnetic state of a single molecule at room temperature. The paper was recently published in the journal Science. The switchable molecule, which is the result of a sub-project of the Collaborative Research Centre 677 “Function by Switching,” could be used both in the construction of tiny electromagnetic storage units and in the medical imaging.
Physics and stealth anti-theology?
A Physicist Explains Why Parallel Universes May Exist
The idea of parallel universes is suspect as a ploy by physicists to perform stealth anti-theology. We will see!
The Great Transition/beyond the Darwin thugs
http://history-and-evolution.com/whee4th/chap7_6_2.htm
There is great danger that Darwinism and the Darwinian thugs it spawns will spoil the real future evolution of man with a gross fallacy about its dynamics.
From Reformation to Revolution
http://history-and-evolution.com/whee4th/chap6_1_1.htm
The massive compression of innovations leading up to ca. 1800 in the period of the Enlightenment is massive, and non-random: the explanation?
Can embedded observers understand history/evolution?
The Modern Turn: Looking Backward
Can embedded observers understand history/evolution if they are inside it, and long before its endstates?
How could virtual entities evolve if they don’t interact with environment?
http://history-and-evolution.com/whee4th/chap3_5.htm
Wallace pointed unwittingly to the basic flaw in Darwinism, man has a complex potential, difficult to realize, how could this be the result of adaptation? Man is confronted with the demand to understand himself, his latent potential, and consciousness. In simplest terms, we need the evolution of an agent, not of an ethical robot with altruistic genes. It is hard to see how adaptation could account for the man behind the man. Without this there is no definition even of what organism it is that has evolved at all. Whatever the case, Darwinism offers us no such account. Committed to absolute beginnings, a full and total account, it must plug the gaps with a universal generalization, a claim on a law of evolution. Natural selection is perfect for that. It is devastating to consider that Darwinism has missed the main issue altogether. It seems an insoluble puzzle. Where did Darwin go wrong?
Observations over a million years at close range?
It is exceedingly difficult to really observe evolutionary dynamics since that requires global observatins over miillions of years, over an entire planet.
We can easily deduce the fact of evolution, but the dynamics is not so simple.
Universal Histories: The Old Testament Enigma
http://history-and-evolution.com/whee4th/intro1_2.htm
Monotheistic tradition turned the OT history into a hopeless confusion. Secularists need to appropriate this deep and profound history using the data of the eonic effect. The degradation of the whole legacy into vulgar theism is a tragedy of religious history.
Genetic History of Pneumonia-Causing Superbug Unraveled
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/01/pneumonia-superbug-antibiotics/
Intelligent Economic Design
Intelligent Economic Design
J. Bradford DeLong
BERKELEY – As Stephen Cohen, with whom I wrote The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money, likes to say, economies do not evolve; they are, rather, intelligently designed. He also likes to say that, though there is an intelligence behind their design, this does not mean that the design is in any sense wise.
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Dinosaurs Survived Mass Extinction
Dinosaurs Survived Mass Extinction by 700,000 Years, Fossil Find Suggests
ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2011) — University of Alberta researchers determined that a fossilized dinosaur bone found in New Mexico confounds the long established paradigm that the age of dinosaurs ended between 65.5 and 66 million years ago.
A Mix of Tiny Gold and Viral Particles
A Mix of Tiny Gold and Viral Particles, and the DNA Ties That Bind Them
ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2011) — Scientists have created a diamond-like lattice composed of gold nanoparticles and viral particles, woven together and held in place by strands of DNA. The structure — a distinctive mix of hard, metallic nanoparticles and organic viral pieces known as capsids, linked by the very stuff of life, DNA — marks a remarkable step in scientists’ ability to combine an assortment of materials to create infinitesimal devices.
How bacteria adapt
How Bacteria Keep Ahead of Vaccines and AntibioticsScienceDaily (Jan. 28, 2011) — New research provides the first detailed genetic picture of an evolutionary war between Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria and the vaccines and antibiotics used against it over recent decades. Large-scale genome sequencing reveals patterns of adaptation and the spread of a drug-resistant lineage of the S. pneumoniae bacteria.
Brain ‘GPS’: Monarch butterflies
Brain ‘GPS’ Illuminated in Migratory Monarch ButterfliesScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2011) — A new study takes a close look at the brain of the migratory monarch butterfly to better understand how these remarkable insects use an internal compass and skylight cues to navigate from eastern North America to Mexico each fall. The research, published by Cell Press in the January 27 issue of the journal Neuron, provides key insights into how ambiguous sensory signals can be integrated in the brain to guide complex navigation.
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