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Pakistan blast targets Quetta's Shia minority
At least 72 killed in attack on vegetable market that targeted members of Hazara community in southwestern city.
Geoengineering: The real climate change threat
by James Corbett GRTV.ca February 13, 2013 For decades now, we have been told to be afraid of the long-term effects of manmade carbon dioxide on our climate. Seemingly every day some new storm, drought, warm spell or cold snap is featured on the news, with government-funded scientists warning us that this is a sign of things to come unless the world reduces its CO2 production. The problem, of course, is that this is a third-rate scientific hoax propagated on the strength of the public’s ignorance of the underlying science, or lack thereof. The models and predictions used to scare the public in
The Emerson v Bolt argument on air… does Emerson not know statistics?
Is this “national debate”? There’s been a big “todo” over a tweet made by  Trade Minister Craig Emerson saying that Andrew Bolt was wrong to claim the world hadn’t warmed for 16 years. (Which means Emerson disagrees with the UK Met boys, the latest IPCC draft report and all the major data.) Werner Brozek at WUWT went through the largest global temperature data sets: For RSS the warming is not significant for over 23 years. For UAH, the warming is not significant for over 19 years. For Hacrut3, the warming is not significant for over 19 years. For Hacrut4, the warming is not significant for ove

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Speed-Blogging: Imaginary Rightwing 'News'; a Weighty Defense; of Pandas and Hilary...
A few seemingly remarkable items coming in via our Twitter feed today, all fueled by folks on the Right who are hoaxed into giving their hard-earned dollars to con-men... • The crew at the pretend "news" site, Breitbart.com (specifically, Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro) have successfully pushed a story about "Friends of Hamas" supporting SecDef-nominee, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R) somehow into the
Two asteroids in one day but we spend 6000 times as much to change the climate
The two asteroids were going in opposite directions, so were not related. While everyone was expecting and watching Asteroid 2012DA14, which missed Earth by 26,000 km (17,000 miles), another asteroid blasted through the atmosphere in Russia, injuring more than 1,000 people (mostly by shards of glass caused by the sonic boom). One estimate makes it out to be a 10 tonner (seems a bit small), traveli
How To Know When Your Charter School Sucks
Wisdom by Mark Naison:It's leader calls himself/herself a CEO.The CEO's salary is more than three times the salary of the highest paid teacher in the school.The board of the school is full of hedge fund executives [or corporate directors].Teachers in the school are terrorized and students treated as though they were in prison or on the verge of being sent to prison.The construction company who bui

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Solutions: Defeating the Secret Societies
[CLICK HERE to continue watching the video on BoilingFrogsPost.com] by James Corbett BoilingFrogsPost.com February 12, 2013 In this Eyeopener series we have been examining those organizations of influence that wield power over our countries from behind the scenes. Groups such as the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, the Zionist Organization of America, the Royal Institute of International Affa
Interview 604 – Sibel Edmonds on Turkey, the Hood Event, Israel and Gladio B
Sibel Edmonds of BoilingFrogsPost.com joins us for the third part of our series on Gladio B, the NATO-directed effort to radicalize, enable and protect Islamic terrorists to further their own geopolitical ends. In this edition we discuss the Hood Event, the Gladio A / B transition, Israel’s role in funding both sides of the regional conflict, and how the Kurds have been used and abused by every wo
Interview 600 – James Corbett on The Mind Renewed
James appears on The Mind Renewed podcast as part of their series “Does Anybody Really Believe in World Government?” In this wide-ranging and in-depth interview, we discuss meanings of the term ‘New World Order’, and James analyses the structure, ideology and aims of well-known/less-well-known semi-secret globalist organizations being steered towards the goal of oligarchical world government.
Episode 258 – Know Your Terrorists: Ayman Al-Zawahiri
We are told a certain tale about the story of Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden’s right-hand man and the inheritor of the Al Qaeda operation…but we are not told everything. Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we go in search of the real Ayman Al-Zawahiri and uncover some surprising connections. For those with limited bandwidth, CLICK HERE to download a smaller, lower file size version of t

The EnvironmentaList
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Environmental Leaders Stage Civil Disobedience Protest at White House
Sierra Club ED and former chair of NAACP among those arrested while calling on Obama to take strong action on climate (updated)
The Kochs and the Keystone XL Pipeline
Billionaire brothers’ use of fronts for corporate donations to politicians was illegal until Citizens United decriminalized this game
Carbon Tax Adds to Australia’s Climate Confusion
The fierce political debate over the country's carbon legislation has led to mixed messages and public mistrust in climate science
Whale Oil to Fuel Whaling Ships is a Gruesome and Surreal Proposition
Icelandic whaler Kristján Loftsson's perverse concept has a long pedigree and a remarkable resonance with Moby-Dick

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“Reckless investment another disaster for Africa” by Nkwazi Mhango
This week I was musing about two historical colonial and imperiliastic atrocities which reminded me of the death of Chilean deomocratically-elected president, Salvador Allende (1973) and that of the first and democratically-elected PM of DRC, Patrice Lumumba (1961). Both leaders were toppled and killed by CIA. Allende was killed by CIA just because he introduced what was known as Chileanization of
Blacks Withouth Borders
Greeting’s Everyone! I want to thank you for your comment’s. Let’s continue to grow and learn. I want to introduce another film today. This can offer just one perspective on African Diaspora in South Africa. I personally couldn’t have made the journey without the support of the producers of the movie called, Blacks Without Borders. Thank you to Stafford & Judith Bailey. I had several question
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Craig Murray
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The Appalling Sir Daniel Bethlehem
This is Sir Daniel Bethlehem, a man who is to me an embodiment of the appalling moral vacuum at the heart of the British establishment. Sir Daniel in a public international lawyer who has specialised in Middle eastern issues, and has always found it to be his genuine and considered legal opinion that the law supports the neo-conservative agenda for the Middle east. Bethlehem first came to the att
John Bolton’s Fake Applause
The Oxford Union has dubbed fake applause onto the videos of John Bolton’s address to the Union. It has not done this for any other speaker. If you listen to these videos of Bolton itching for war with Iran, you can hear precisely the same burst of ultra enthusiastic applause at the start, fading “naturally” as he begins to speak. This dubbing in of applause is not used for any other speaker on
The Iranians Are Coming – Aaaaargggh!
The undertow of anti-Iranian fearmongering becomes stronger. This is a tremendous bit of totally baseless fearmongering from an Obama administration official in the New York Times, positing nuclear bomb collaboration between Iran and North Korea: The Iranians are also pursuing uranium enrichment, and one senior American official said two weeks ago that “it’s very possible that the North Koreans a
Celebrating Correa’s Re-election
I am going to an election party in the Ecuador Embassy on Sunday. I shall do so with no sense of guilt. Since Correa gave political asylum to Assange, many with no record of concern for human rights in Ecuador – and who still show absolutely no concern for human rights in Bahrain or Uzbekistan – are suddenly immensely critical of Correa’s human rights record. Many of the same people are suddenl

Centauri Dreams
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Cultural Diffusion and SETI
What happens to us if our SETI efforts pay off? Numerous scenarios come to mind, all of them speculative, but the range of responses shown in Carl Sagan’s Contact may be something like the real outcome, with people of all descriptions reading into a distant message whatever they want to hear. Robert Lightfoot (South Georgia State College) decided to look at contact scenarios we know something more
The Draco Kill Shot
When I was in Huntsville for the recent interstellar conference, I noticed people walking around with black rubber wristbands that said ‘Build a Star Ship.’ Space educator Mike Mongo was handing these out to all concerned, and I soon picked one up to give my grandson. They’re an interesting form of marketing — leave these in the right places and kids pick them up. Maybe it becomes a fad to wear th
Interstellar Studies: Surveying the Landscape
One of the things I love about writing Centauri Dreams is that I learn something new every day. Often this comes from the research needed for individual stories, but just as often it comes from readers suggesting new directions or seeing nuances in an earlier story that I had missed. Yesterday’s post on long-term thinking led to an exchange with Centauri Dreams regular NS, who questioned my ideas
Alpha Centauri Sunrise
If the title of this piece conjures up exotic images, that’s all to the good. In fact, I’m surprised that “Alpha Centauri Sunrise” hasn’t been the title of a science fiction story somewhere along the line, but a quick check shows no such reference. Thus when Robert Kennedy (The Ultimax Group) created a drink called the Alpha Centauri Sunrise at our recent conclave in Huntsville, he was breaking ne

Obsidian Wings
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Wednesday Book Meme
by Doctor Science This has been going around on livejournal and dreamwidth, and seems a reasonable way of keeping track of my reading. Especially given that I'm surrounded by unfinished post drafts, and now the Accord's transmission is circling the drain -- and since it's a 2001 with 130K miles, replacing the transmission may be throwing good money down a hole. But I *hate* shopping for cars, and
A solfege Friday open thread
by liberal japonicus A bit early, but I have meetings all day tomorrow. My youngest daughter has started piano. The older daughter started at a Yamaha school and is now taking private lessons and the younger one had to have the same as her older sister is doing now, so she has started private lessons with the same teacher. With Yamaha, there were lesson books and homework, so there wasn't much

Syria Comment
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Why Are Syrians So Prone to Factionalism? by Abdul Ahad; Ahrar al-Sham Takes Jarrah Air Base
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad - a must read – in the LRB ….We in the Middle East have always had a strong appetite for factionalism. Some attribute it to individualism, others blame the nature of our political development or our tribalism. Some even blame the weather. We call it tasharthum and we loathe it: we hold it as the main reason for all our losses and defeats, from al-Andalus to Palestine. Yet we love
Obama’s State of the Union – Reactions; Battle for Damascus Promises to be Long
The Avoider Barack Obama’s State of the Union address makes one thing clear: The world is no longer America’s problem. BY AARON DAVID MILLER | FEBRUARY 13, 2013 – FP ….Not the Destroyer and Rebuilder of Worlds Surprise, surprise: There was scant mention of Syria in the president’s speech — just one throwaway line about supporting Syria’s opposition. Obama did not disengage from Iraq and Afghanista

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Memphis falls, one more time S.C.V.-U.D.C. Southern strategy fails!
by Mark Vogl:    Once again the Sons of Confederate Veterans and United Daughters of the Confederacy were inept in their political skills, and Forrest falls!
Let's outline a new national second political party called Dixiecrat!
by Mark Vogl:    The Democrats have an identity and agenda, the Republicans do not. A new party is needed to offer a modern American alternative view!
Freedom, like virginity, is not something you can get back.
by Mark Vogl:    The slippery slope has always been with us, and gets steeper as we tumble down hill. The GOP has failed, we need a new party now!
"This is what happens when your commander stops being an American ...
by Mark Vogl:    Benghazi reveals an American senior leadership who never even attended the equivalient of a squad leader course and lost lives to no purpose

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The Kochs_Hopefully Not The Face Of Even The 1%
By @TomBales1 Yeah, I know.  Wishful thinking, right? "We've got to save the middle class!", shouts the middle class.".  Yeah, sure. So what are you gonna do about the situation today?  "Today?  Oh uh... well the college football games are on today, lots of big games going on.  Promised the guys they could come watch at my house if they bring the beer and chips.".  Uh
Lindsey Graham Got His Answer
By @TedFrier Senator Lindsey Graham asked Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hegal to name one Senator who was "intimidated by the Jewish Lobby," name one "stupid thing" the Senate had done "as a result of pressure from the Israeli Lobby." Well now we know: The Senate has just filibustered a President's cabinet nominee for the first time in the history of the Republic. Like everything else, Republ
Only Liberals Now Stand Up For Standards
By @TedFrier Andrew Sullivan said something today that helps to explain why many former conservatives like me now call ourselves liberal. Regarding the potential that the Senate for the first time in its history may filibuster a cabinet nominee, Sullivan said liberals, far more than conservatives, can now be reliably counted upon to defend traditions and institutions or standards of evidence and a
Rubio, GOP Exhibit "Active Inertia" of a Dying Party
By @TedFrier Take pity on poor Marco Rubio. You'd be reaching for a bottle of Poland Springs, too, if you had to spit out the dry-as-dust bromides and the well past their sell-by date Reagan-era platitudes that Rubio was forced to expectorate as the Republican Party's designated responder to President Obama's State of the Union address last Tuesday. "More government isn't going to help you get ahe

ArmsControlWonk
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After (the Most Recent North Korean) Detonation–What?
Well, now that it’s happened for a third time, what now?  A third strike, and you are out?  One wonders, a day after the third North Korean test, if, in particular, one is worried about the day after Iran’s first test, just what are we to do? Joe Cirincione, made a statement:  “I still think we’re years away from North Korea having a capability to deliver a nuclear warhead on a missile even to a c
POTUS in Situ for SOTU
On February 12th, the President of the United States will deliver his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. Passages about nuclear dangers are usually included on these occasions. I asked Stimson’s Jonathan Fox to read all of these speeches, going back to President Truman, and to pass along the choicest quotes. Truman had surprisingly little to say on this subject, despite
Making Yield Estimates
Update | James says I misrepesented his method, which I may well have done.  He is going to post a comment that explains his method in better detail than I have apparently done. Apologies that it took so long to post the companion piece on yield estimatation to my Foreign Policy column, North Korea’s Big Bang. The good news is that there are now several yield estimates that help illustrate the poi
Yield Estimation Placeholder
It’s late, I am tired.  I’ve got the better part of a post done, but I’ll finish it in the morning. Short version: don’t spend too much time estimating yield using the USGS Mb number.  It gives you only a very rough approximation and there are better ways for seismologists to do it.  Until then, it’s “several” kilotons or use a range.  A very big range.

In These Times
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How Westboro Baptist Church Accidentally Raised $75,000 for LGBT Youth
The Westboro Baptist Church is not known for loving its neighbor.  Based in Topeka, Kan., Westboro has made a name for itself by publicizing its flagrant hatred of gays, Jews, atheists, liberals, Muslims, pro-choice advocates and countless other "Godless" groups. It was founded in 1955 by Pastor Fred Phelps, who, now 83, runs the church with his family. Unaffiliated with any church but calli
Yes, He Did: Obama Plugged Trans-Pacific Partnership While Touting ‘Middle Class’ Growth
Updated at 10p.m. EST on February 12 after the State of the Union address. President Obama, who disappointed workers’ rights advocates by snubbing labor in his inaugural speech, likely horrified them during Tuesday's State of the Union by not only overlooking unions again but also devoting a section of the speech to promoting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a gigantic trade pact that
Debtors’ Prisons Make a Comeback
Reprinted with permission from AlterNet. Kawana Young, a single mother of two kids, was arrested in Michigan after failing to pay money she owed as a result of minor traffic offenses. She was recently laid off from her job, and could not pay the fees she owed because she couldn’t find another source of employment. So a judge sentenced her to three days in jail. In addition, Young was charged a
The Orwellian Pols Who Call Drones ‘Humane Weapons’
In my years reporting on the intentional narrowing of political vernacular to guarantee specific outcomes, I have encountered no better example of Orwellian newspeak than that which now dominates the conversation about America's drone war. Given that, it's worth reviewing the situation because it is so illustrative of how militarist propaganda operates in the 21st century. As you know

Obsolete
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Mercy.
The tabloids: publishing death porn since the advent of the printing press.
Much comment, understandably, on the Sun's decision to run a front page splash (and in this instance it really does seem the right word) on the death of Reeva Steenkamp, illustrated with a full page photo of the model and presenter appearing to undo her bikini top.  It's certainly tasteless, and as Marina Hyde notes, just happens to come the day after the One Billion Rising protests, the campa
Time to put flesh on the bones.
2013 so far hasn't exactly been an auspicious one so far for the Conservative party.  All their gambits, and there have been more than a couple in the past six weeks, seem to have come to naught.  The attempt to portray Labour as hopelessly out of touch by jumping on their voting against the 1% uprating in benefits has had no discernible impact on the polls.  By the same token, the promise of
The conspiring of outside interests.
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports on the on-going tragedy in Syria (via B&T): We reached a point in the fighting, in spring 2012, when we needed proper support. We needed heavy machine guns, real weapons. Money was never an issue: how much do you want? Fifty million dollars, a hundred million dollars – not a problem. But heavy weapons were becoming hard to find: the Turks – and without them this revo

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There’s Love In This World
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There’s Love In This World
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There’s Love In This World
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Soul Sacrifice
Now it is said that Eddie Routh, the Semper Fi guy accused of back-shooting Super Sniper Seal back-shooter Chris Kyle, arrived shortly thereafter at the home of his sister, behind the wheel of Kyle’s black Ford truck; Routh informed her he had “traded his soul for a new truck.” He stated that he was required to kill both Kyle and Chad Littlefield because “he couldn’t trust them.” So, “he killed th
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Around the Internets
Late-night flotsam and jetsam: Original Sin Obama Is Wrong: Gerrymandering Isn’t to Blame for the GOP Fever Has Obama Kept His Open-Government Pledge? Neocons vs. Realists Is So 2008 Foucault’s Boomerang: The New Military Urbanism Throwing Light on the Dark Side of Dorner’s Rampage At Least 20 CIA Prisoners Still Missing We’re All Terrorists Now No, don’t skip the drone debate The Art of Infinite
I’m Not Sayin’
The following nugget was buried at the bottom of a follow-up CP report on how CIDA helped fund the Ugandan aid work of the virulently anti-gay Crossroads Christian Communications (in full PR damage control mode now that its homobigoted Evangelical slip is showing) to the tune of half a million dollars last year: Francois Audet, director of the Montreal-based Canadian Research Institute on Humanit

Texas Liberal
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I Hope That Houston Mayoral Candidate Ben Hall’s Misspelling Of The Word “Government” Is Not Indicative Of A Hostility To The Common Good
When I have my new website up and running this April, one part of the effort will be a blog about the 2013 Houston municipal elections. Every so often along the way to that new site, I’ll have updates here at Texas Liberal. Attorney Ben Hall is running for Mayor of Houston against incumbent Annise Parker. Here is Mr. Hall’s Facebook page. Above you see Mr. Hall discussing his agenda of education
I Am Still Here As I Work On A New Website—Photo Of Emu
I’ve not been around much here on Texas Liberal of late, but I am still working hard for the blog reading public. I’m working on a new website that I plan to have up and running in April. This new website will have a photo essay of a kind, a metaphoric universe and solar system, some poems, and a blog about the 2013 City of Houston elections. There will also be other things on the website that I

The Truth is Where?
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Are you wasting money on deodorant? The answer can be found in your ears.
Posted by  Suzi Gage  Thursday 14th February 2013.   Find Full Article Here:- There really is ‘a gene for sweaty armpits’, but new research suggests that the lucky people who don’t have smelly sweat still use expensive deodorants.  Unfortunately 98% of the UK still smell……and REALLY need to do something about it….but not all of them do…. Deodorants can cause irritation and allergic reactions,
French driver trapped for an hour in speeding 125mph car with no brakes.
By Angelique Chrisafis in Paris, Wednesday 13th February 2013.  Find Article Here:- Frank Lecerf managed to call emergency services while uncontrollably speeding through the fast lane on the motorway. Photograph (for illustrative purposes; not a picture of the incident involving Frank Lecerf): James Hardy/PhotoAlto When Frank Lecerf drove off to do his weekly supermarket shop in northern France,
Chubby Checker sues Hewlett-Packard over app to measure penis size.
By  Sean Michaels  Thursday 14th February 2013.   Find Article Here:- Chubby Checker app has caused ‘irreparable damage’ to singer of same name, say lawyers. Chubby Checker’s legacy takes a phallic twist. Photograph: Getty Images Rock’n'roll pioneer Chubby Checker is suing two computer companies for allowing his name to be used as the title of an app that guesses the size of a man’s penis.
Uk Supermarkets can sell mince which is less than 50% meat after Government asks to opt out from new EU rules.
By Hugo Gye  4th February 2013.   Find Article Here:- The Government is set to allow supermarkets to continue to sell mince which is less than 50 per cent meat despite EU rules aiming to crack down on mislabelling of food. Officials say that stopping retailers from bulking up mince with fat and connective tissue would cost the industry hundreds of thousands of pounds a year. But with the revelatio

Green & White
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Acer Launched Again in Islamabad with a New Strategy
A Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics company, Acer, has re-launched itself in Lahore recently. Acer intends to capture the information technology market space through targeting youth and government functionaries. The government had announced its expenditure plan for the fiscal year of 2012-13 regarding IT projects. An amount of Rs.4.6 billion has been allocated for this purpose. Des
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