Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Study: No Link Between Cell Phones, Tumors
BREITBART.COM - Just The News
Compare the first paragraph: "Mobile phone users can dial without concern after another study found no evidence of a link between the ubiquitous devices and brain tumors" with the last two: "'However, scientists have said it may not be a good idea for children to use the phones for long periods because their brains are still developing. Also, it is too early to tell what the effects of long- term use will be on adults. 'The results of our study suggest that there is no substantial risk in the first decade after starting use," said lead investigator Anthony Swerdlow. "Whether there are longer-term risks remains unknown, reflecting the fact that this is a relatively recent technology.'"
Compare the first paragraph: "Mobile phone users can dial without concern after another study found no evidence of a link between the ubiquitous devices and brain tumors" with the last two: "'However, scientists have said it may not be a good idea for children to use the phones for long periods because their brains are still developing. Also, it is too early to tell what the effects of long- term use will be on adults. 'The results of our study suggest that there is no substantial risk in the first decade after starting use," said lead investigator Anthony Swerdlow. "Whether there are longer-term risks remains unknown, reflecting the fact that this is a relatively recent technology.'"
"Transformation" and the Beginning of Global Resistance
Information Clearing House
"...the military is being converted into a taxpayer subsidized security apparatus for multinational corporations that will seize foreign resources through force of arms and then crush the indigenous elements that resist US aggression. On the home front, the changes are equally dramatic. "Transformation" is a conspicuous attempt to weaken traditional defenses provided by the National Guard so that the Pentagon can insert itself into domestic affairs and establish an ongoing military presence within the United States."
"...the military is being converted into a taxpayer subsidized security apparatus for multinational corporations that will seize foreign resources through force of arms and then crush the indigenous elements that resist US aggression. On the home front, the changes are equally dramatic. "Transformation" is a conspicuous attempt to weaken traditional defenses provided by the National Guard so that the Pentagon can insert itself into domestic affairs and establish an ongoing military presence within the United States."
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Rising floodwaters bring huge humanitarian crisis to New Orleans
Yahoo! News
Local television reported that as conditions worsened, martial law was imposed in two areas, Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish, a day after murderous Hurricane Katrina slammed into the city.
Local television reported that as conditions worsened, martial law was imposed in two areas, Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish, a day after murderous Hurricane Katrina slammed into the city.
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Friday, August 26, 2005
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Bird flu bound for Britain: top vet
Bird flu bound for Britain: top vet - Yahoo! UK & Ireland News
Note the difference of opinion with the next article about likelihood of migratory bird spreading flu to Europe.
Note the difference of opinion with the next article about likelihood of migratory bird spreading flu to Europe.
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Monday, August 22, 2005
Warming hits 'tipping point'
Guardian Unlimited
"Siberia feels the heat It's a frozen peat bog the size of France and Germany combined, contains billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas and, for the first time since the ice age, it is melting"
"Siberia feels the heat It's a frozen peat bog the size of France and Germany combined, contains billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas and, for the first time since the ice age, it is melting"
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Friday, August 19, 2005
"All Roads Lead to Rove" Vanity Fair blames the media
The Xoff Files
I have to take time out from all the exciting developments on the pandemic front to comment on this "affair" which I refer to affectionately as the Plame Game.
When I first heard of it, over a year ago, Mike Ruppert of FTW was crowing that it would be the straw that at last brought down the Bush camel. They were caught red handed; it was clear who was behind it; they had fupped up this time. This was not the first time Ruppert had pronounced Bush doom, so I wasn't very excited, but there were things about the whole "affaire" that troubled me.
In the early days of the war in Afghanistan, a video was made claiming that the US had observed, if not participated in, on of the worst war crimes in recent memory at Kali i-Janghi (sp?) prison near Mazar i-Sharif (?), a summary execution of over 800 prisoners by the warlord Dostum. The methods were barbaric (and have since been repeated elsewhere: jamming survivors of a massacre of prisoners into container trucks, shooting them full of holes "for air," and leaving them parked in the desert heat until dead), and the film was shown to several sitting Parliaments around Europe. It was an early example of the astounding control of the US media by the Bush faction that neither the film nor whisper of its conclusions ever saw the light of American day.
Because of this early attrocity and the subsequently attrocious response to it, all subsequent allegations of war crimes that were at last surely to "bring down the Bush administration" could only elicit from me: "but what about Mazar i-Sharif?" I.e., if the brutal massacre of 800 rebel fighters, potential rebel fighters, and peasants caught in the wrong place at the wrong time didn't do it, how can eg. scaring prisoners with unmuzzled police dogs "bring down the Bush administration?" On the contrary, every new revelation seemed merely a way of implying that, whilethe Pirates of Pentagon were legally guilty of "war crimes," these were sometimes shocking, but relatively mild matters of understandably aggressive interrogation methods, in order to counter any rumors of worser offenses drifting over from Europe.
This was my reaction when I first heard about the Plame Game: "if the massacre at Mazar-i-Sharif didn't do it, how could the mere threat to the life of a single CIA spook, one of their own spooks, 'bring down the Bush administration?'" I nevertheless agreed to keep hope alive; after all, they finally got Al Capone on tax evasion. Then other things began to happen that ate away at my confidence. First, none of the cream of American journalism ever (or have ever) noticed that Karl Rove publicly lost his job with the Bush's over the same plot (I mean like in a play) in the 1980's, with the same characters. As we now can see, this was not the personal tragedy it was hyped up to be when we were shown how the swift hand of correction still moved among the American power elite. A natural born privy counsellor, Rove inevitably got an even better job with Jr. Either history is more repetitive than the writing staff of the Rambo series, or the Bush buccaneers were getting away in the press (not just ethically, but professionally interested in the case) with mere rewrites of tried and true political theater.
Second, according to the new version, Mr Ambassador Wilson, characterized as a critic and opponent of the Bush administration, had been sent to Africa to look into this nuclear shopping spree of Sadam Hussein by Dick Cheney. This plot then presumes that: Cheney ever thought that the lies he himself made up for causi belli would be supported by evidence to be found by a professional ambassador in Nigeria; for this he chose a political opponent (rather than a loyal-to-the-death Halliburton contractor) who might include the overwhelming evidence of Sadam's utter innocence of his trumped up charges in his debriefing report; this career ambassador/criminal investigator was himself shocked to find that Mr Vice President, Dick "Apartheid forever" Cheney might be looking for causi belli rather than actual threats to US security (if the failure to launch an imperialist oil grab is not itself understood as a threat to US security); it is unusual for a sitting administration to tailor CIA intelligence for public consumption as causi belli, which is why so many books have been written lately by dissillusioned retired spooks; it is somehow shameful and damaging to future income prospects to be married to a spook; if they were disposed to retaliate against political opponents, the Bushaneers could come up with no better tactic than to blow the cover and current operations of their own spook; the multitude of attrocities laid to their charge do not amount to the enormity of perhaps (but not in the event, we can only thank God) endangering the life of a spook during a war. Only this last presumption suggests a motive: when the smoke has cleared, whether Karl Rove or some underling must suffer the merciless hand of justice and leave his post a year early to take up a paying job, no publicly acknowledged violation of national and international law presents a better prospect for bitter opponents of the Bush administration to recover the costs of two stolen elections; reporters eagerly look to expose the secret identity of spooks and undercover law enforcement agents because Americans love to read the latest on which Clinton era ambassador's wife was expelled from her country club last week for being a spook trained in hand-to-hand homicide with items commonly found in a purse.
Third, Judith Miller, The New York Times, the US Supreme Court, never had anything to do with the Plame Game. The Times, least of all Miller, doesn't stoop to that kind of "outing the undercover" tabloidism so popular in the nation's check out lines. Unsuccessfully defending the right of the press to protect the identity of whistle-blowers from their powerful accussees is more their speed. By the time the game left the Supreme Court, the administration leaker's identity was nobly protected, and the right to blow the whistle on the administration was dismantled: pretty impressive Karl Rove or whoever.
Judith Miller is in prison, or so claims The New York Times, and even if Justice Scalia was in the same duck blind with Cheney that time, rather than a couple of duck blinds down, it doesn't mean that if you're not with Dick you're with the ducks.
Vanity Fair blames the media
I have to take time out from all the exciting developments on the pandemic front to comment on this "affair" which I refer to affectionately as the Plame Game.
When I first heard of it, over a year ago, Mike Ruppert of FTW was crowing that it would be the straw that at last brought down the Bush camel. They were caught red handed; it was clear who was behind it; they had fupped up this time. This was not the first time Ruppert had pronounced Bush doom, so I wasn't very excited, but there were things about the whole "affaire" that troubled me.
In the early days of the war in Afghanistan, a video was made claiming that the US had observed, if not participated in, on of the worst war crimes in recent memory at Kali i-Janghi (sp?) prison near Mazar i-Sharif (?), a summary execution of over 800 prisoners by the warlord Dostum. The methods were barbaric (and have since been repeated elsewhere: jamming survivors of a massacre of prisoners into container trucks, shooting them full of holes "for air," and leaving them parked in the desert heat until dead), and the film was shown to several sitting Parliaments around Europe. It was an early example of the astounding control of the US media by the Bush faction that neither the film nor whisper of its conclusions ever saw the light of American day.
Because of this early attrocity and the subsequently attrocious response to it, all subsequent allegations of war crimes that were at last surely to "bring down the Bush administration" could only elicit from me: "but what about Mazar i-Sharif?" I.e., if the brutal massacre of 800 rebel fighters, potential rebel fighters, and peasants caught in the wrong place at the wrong time didn't do it, how can eg. scaring prisoners with unmuzzled police dogs "bring down the Bush administration?" On the contrary, every new revelation seemed merely a way of implying that, whilethe Pirates of Pentagon were legally guilty of "war crimes," these were sometimes shocking, but relatively mild matters of understandably aggressive interrogation methods, in order to counter any rumors of worser offenses drifting over from Europe.
This was my reaction when I first heard about the Plame Game: "if the massacre at Mazar-i-Sharif didn't do it, how could the mere threat to the life of a single CIA spook, one of their own spooks, 'bring down the Bush administration?'" I nevertheless agreed to keep hope alive; after all, they finally got Al Capone on tax evasion. Then other things began to happen that ate away at my confidence. First, none of the cream of American journalism ever (or have ever) noticed that Karl Rove publicly lost his job with the Bush's over the same plot (I mean like in a play) in the 1980's, with the same characters. As we now can see, this was not the personal tragedy it was hyped up to be when we were shown how the swift hand of correction still moved among the American power elite. A natural born privy counsellor, Rove inevitably got an even better job with Jr. Either history is more repetitive than the writing staff of the Rambo series, or the Bush buccaneers were getting away in the press (not just ethically, but professionally interested in the case) with mere rewrites of tried and true political theater.
Second, according to the new version, Mr Ambassador Wilson, characterized as a critic and opponent of the Bush administration, had been sent to Africa to look into this nuclear shopping spree of Sadam Hussein by Dick Cheney. This plot then presumes that: Cheney ever thought that the lies he himself made up for causi belli would be supported by evidence to be found by a professional ambassador in Nigeria; for this he chose a political opponent (rather than a loyal-to-the-death Halliburton contractor) who might include the overwhelming evidence of Sadam's utter innocence of his trumped up charges in his debriefing report; this career ambassador/criminal investigator was himself shocked to find that Mr Vice President, Dick "Apartheid forever" Cheney might be looking for causi belli rather than actual threats to US security (if the failure to launch an imperialist oil grab is not itself understood as a threat to US security); it is unusual for a sitting administration to tailor CIA intelligence for public consumption as causi belli, which is why so many books have been written lately by dissillusioned retired spooks; it is somehow shameful and damaging to future income prospects to be married to a spook; if they were disposed to retaliate against political opponents, the Bushaneers could come up with no better tactic than to blow the cover and current operations of their own spook; the multitude of attrocities laid to their charge do not amount to the enormity of perhaps (but not in the event, we can only thank God) endangering the life of a spook during a war. Only this last presumption suggests a motive: when the smoke has cleared, whether Karl Rove or some underling must suffer the merciless hand of justice and leave his post a year early to take up a paying job, no publicly acknowledged violation of national and international law presents a better prospect for bitter opponents of the Bush administration to recover the costs of two stolen elections; reporters eagerly look to expose the secret identity of spooks and undercover law enforcement agents because Americans love to read the latest on which Clinton era ambassador's wife was expelled from her country club last week for being a spook trained in hand-to-hand homicide with items commonly found in a purse.
Third, Judith Miller, The New York Times, the US Supreme Court, never had anything to do with the Plame Game. The Times, least of all Miller, doesn't stoop to that kind of "outing the undercover" tabloidism so popular in the nation's check out lines. Unsuccessfully defending the right of the press to protect the identity of whistle-blowers from their powerful accussees is more their speed. By the time the game left the Supreme Court, the administration leaker's identity was nobly protected, and the right to blow the whistle on the administration was dismantled: pretty impressive Karl Rove or whoever.
Judith Miller is in prison, or so claims The New York Times, and even if Justice Scalia was in the same duck blind with Cheney that time, rather than a couple of duck blinds down, it doesn't mean that if you're not with Dick you're with the ducks.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
World: Bird Flu Threatens Globe, But Might Never Spread
RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
"Prague, 10 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- The UN's World Health Organization (WHO) wants to scare you.
But not too much. "
"Prague, 10 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- The UN's World Health Organization (WHO) wants to scare you.
But not too much. "
Bird flu death toll reaches 61
News 24 South Africa
Hanoi, Vietnam - Bird flu has killed one more person in Vietnam as the country began a mass vaccination of poultry to try to slow the spread of the virus, health officials said on Tuesday.
Hanoi, Vietnam - Bird flu has killed one more person in Vietnam as the country began a mass vaccination of poultry to try to slow the spread of the virus, health officials said on Tuesday.
Journalist Hospitalized With Bird Flu Symptoms in Novosibirsk
Recombinomics Commentary
I recall that the first victim of the 2001 Ft Detrick brand weaponized anthrax was also a "reporter." Steven Hatfill, whose whereabouts were reported without explanation years ago as eastern Afghanistan is back in the US suing the NY Times for slander after the whole world has forgotten his name.
I recall that the first victim of the 2001 Ft Detrick brand weaponized anthrax was also a "reporter." Steven Hatfill, whose whereabouts were reported without explanation years ago as eastern Afghanistan is back in the US suing the NY Times for slander after the whole world has forgotten his name.
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Sunday, August 07, 2005
Up to half of ocean species lost to overfishing
Independent UK registration needed for whole article
Friday, August 05, 2005
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