AS THE ARCTIC MELTS: WORRIED ABOUT RISING SEA LEVELS? BETTER WORRY TOO ABOUT RAPID ACIDIFICATION OF ARCTIC WATERS. New scientific report, reviewed by BBC, documents the rise in pH levels in Arctic region as CO-2 emissions are absorbed in the cold waters of a polar meltdown. The degree of the environmental threat from this [...]
PUBLIC REACTIONS TO BOSTON BOMBING: SELECTIVE SYMPATHY AND IRRATIONAL FEAR. While a definitive “who did it?” narrative has yet to emerge, preliminary reactions show an all-too-familiar pattern, according to Glenn Greenwald. There is the typical quick assumption of a “Muslim” involvement that puts U.S. Muslims everywhere at fear of retaliation, and makes “heightened security” [...]
THE WAY OF THE KNIFE: THE C.I.A., A SECRET ARMY, AND A WAR AT THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. A new book of this title by Mark Mazzetti is about to be released and is excerpted in the New York Times. It describes the “secret deal” in 2004 between the C.I.A. and the Pakistani state [...]
“YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO SOMETHING…TO LOWER PEOPLE’S EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO GET.” This is Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein opening the familiar pandora’s box of rhetoric designed to fundamentalism “change” — i.e; kill off — “entitlements” like Social Security and Medicare. Almost like clockwork, the election results are being used [...]
“THIS WAS A WRETCHED DEBATE, WITH ALMOST NO REDEEMING QUALITIES.” You’d be forgiven if you thought Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were running mates instead of political adversaries if you watched the last of three presidential debate on Monday night. The pair spent much of the nearly two-hour event agreeing with each other on [...]
IF INTRA-UTERINE DEVICES AND HORMONE IMPLANTS ARE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE WAYS OF PREVENTING PREGNANCY, WHY DO ONLY 8.5% OF WOMEN USE THEM? IT’S THE COST, STUPID! An experimental program in St. Louis dispensing free contraceptives demonstrates the validity of this answer. When given the choice of contraceptives without regard to cost, 75% of women chose [...]
“FOOLISHLY ALIGNING TURKEY FOR DISASTER.” This is the description by sociologist and journalist Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya of the actions of Turkey’s government in supporting the rebel actions in bordering Syria. In doing the work and bidding of U.S. CIA and Israeli Mossad agencies in providing bases for rebel operations, Turkey is alienating its [...]
“WE HAVE SPENT OUR ENTIRE EXISTENCE ADAPTING: WE’LL ADAPT. IT’S AN ENGINEERING PROBLEM AND THERE WILL BE AN ENGINEERING SOLUTION.” (The Guardian) ` A favorite accusation routinely leveled at the business community and companies around the world is “greenwashing,” where politically correct language and pleasant sounding platitudes on their “eco-friendly” initiatives are utilized by corporations [...]
WHY IS SOCIAL SECURITY IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE? HOW ABOUT THE $2.7 TRILLION DOLLARS THE GOVERNMENT HAS BORROWED OR STOLEN FROM THE SURPLUSES GENERATED BY F.I.C.A. TAXES? (Dissident Voice) Economist Allen W. Smith continues his long-term effort to educate the public about the sources of the actual financial insecurity of the aging population. The current “baby [...]
SPANISH BAILOUT HAS COUNTRY PREPARED FOR “THUMBSCREW OF AUSTERITY” (World Socialist) A few observers declared that the European fiscal crisis took a sizable step towards a positive resolution with the announcement this week that banks and officials with the European Union and International Monetary Fund would bail out Spain with a 100 billion euro loan [...]
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