May 2010
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Financial Times: Nethanyahu cancels meeting with... →
vruz: when is the U.S. cancelling those yearly 2 billion dollars that Israel supposedly gets for preserving freedom, peace and democracy?
not doing a great job really. at this point the government of israel looks more like the ‘going rogue’ playbook undermining U.S. policy whilst using U.S. money to do exactly the opposite they are committed to do with their best ally, singlehandledly setting...
“A shocked world has responded with outrage. Turkey recalled its ambassador to...”
– Turkey threatens action; Israel on alert - World - ibnlive
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Environmental Working Group - 2010 Sunscreen Guide →
Useful Info: They recommend only 39 out of the 500 sunscreens tested.
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RT @jeremyscahill Turkish Prime Minister calls...
vruz: meanwhile, the news in a parallel universe:
pathetic coverage by The New York Times: “The criticism offered a propaganda coup to Israel’s foes, particularly Hamas”
CNN reporter used phrase: “activists attacked the commandos”
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WatchOJ is Guilty, But Not of Murder
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Alexander: Very interesting.
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BP Decisions Made Well Vulnerable →
A Wall Street Journal investigation provides the most complete account so far of the fateful decisions that preceded the blast. BP made choices over the course of the project that rendered this well more vulnerable to the blowout, which unleashed a spew of crude oil that engineers are struggling to stanch.
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“White House Used Bill Clinton to Ask Sestak to Drop Out of Race”
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“BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake BP account that is mocking the oil company....”
– JIMMY FALLON, Late Night
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“I’ve been watching Corexit being used for three... →
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mattermedia: Internetwork as dynamic topology and... →
The Internet “has been conceived and evolved as a network of networks, or an internetwork, a topological formation that presents some challenging insights into the dynamics underlying the formation of a global network culture. As a technical system, the Internet consists of a set of interrelated protocols, abstract technical diagrams that give the network consistency beyond the rapidly...
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mattermedia: Internet locales and global time →
This idea of a global time corresponding to the global space of the Internet goes to the heart of the problem posed by the Internet and its relation to the world of locality - where the local is often made to coincide with the real, the heterogenous and the embodied. This debate has recently come to overlap with an earlier perspective that considered computer networks mainly as expressions of...
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“It’s fascinating to watch Rand Paul dodge and weave on the question of the 1964...”
– Rand Paul Encounters The Mainstream via azspot
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“Taking another unconventional stand, Kentucky’s Republican Senate nominee Rand...”
– Rand Paul: Obama’s criticism of BP ‘un-American’ - Yahoo! News via mikehudack
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“Encouraging anti-tax sentiment has long been a staple of business propaganda....”
– Noam Chomsky (via azspot:jhnbrssndn:ryking)
Weird how the last depression moved America to the left (FDR) and this one is one is accelerating America’s move to the right.
Glenn Beck's Favorite Gold Company →
As it turns out, Mother Jones has also been investigating Goldline’s practices and found much of what Weiner turned up and more. (Read the full investigation here.) We discovered that Beck has been “recommending a company that promotes financial security but operates in a largely unregulated no-man’s land, generating a pile of consumer complaints about misleading advertising, aggressive...
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WikiLeaks founder has his passport confiscated →
This is a reminder that one can’t run around exposing the secrets of the most powerful governments, militaries and corporations in the world without consequences (h/t):
The Australian founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks had his passport confiscated by police when he arrived in Melbourne last week.
Julian Assange, who does not have an official home base and travels every six...
Law & Order: Corporate Crime Unit →
“Manslaughter,” reads the United States Code, “is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice.” It goes on, “Whoever is guilty of involuntary manslaughter, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both.” In the disasters at the Massey coal mine in West Virginia and on the BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, people were killed. Twenty-nine miners died in...
“The Holocene - or “wholly recent” epoch - is what geologists call the 11,000...”
– Elizabeth Kolbert via azspot
I want to bring back the old Fox News show Hannity & Colmes… only I want to replace Colmes with Slavoj Zizek — and maybe Hannity with the ghost of William F. Buckley Jr.
Yes?
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“Meanwhile, a giant oil blob lies quivering in deep waters off the Gulf coast,...”
– James Howard Kunstler via azspot
Something I noticed last weekend when I was on one of the barrier islands off the Alabama coast is that from any vantage point the horizon is dotted with oil rigs. They used to just blend into the background — just like the scary high mercury levels in the...
Schadenfreude
The same folks that supported Bush’s policies — his tax cuts and his wars are now salivating over Greece’s economic woes and rooting for the Euro to fail.
In a related note I caught some of Glenn Beck’s schizophrenic rantings today and between the clips of Greek police in riot gear and talk of the founding fathers Beck kept saying one thing:
“I hope I’m wrong!...
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How Sprawl Created the Gulf Oil Spill →
But the ultimate question is “Do we matter to ourselves?” Do we have the introspection to protect our coastlines, our cities, and our citizens? Do we have the strength to reject the threat that is oil, both foreign and domestic? Do we have the vision to recognize that we have seen the enemy, and it is the suburban house? Do we have the will to embrace high-density living as the only solution, the...