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Israeli settlers steal a sheep from Palestinians
The Young Turks – X-Ray Van Sees Through Homes
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution – Researchers Find Widespread Floating Plastic Debris in the Western North Atlantic Ocean
From the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution:
August 20, 2010
Researchers Find Widespread Floating Plastic Debris in the Western North Atlantic Ocean
Despite growing awareness of the problem of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, little solid scientific information existed to illustrate the nature and scope of the issue. This week, a team of researchers from Sea Education Association (SEA), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and the University of Hawaii (UH) published a study of plastic marine debris based on data collected over 22 years by undergraduate students in the latest issue of the journal Science.
Giant oil plume appears to have climbed up the continental shelf
From the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution:
August 19, 2010
WHOI Scientists Map and Confirm Origin of Large, Underwater Hydrocarbon Plume in Gulf
Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) detected and characterized a plume of hydrocarbons that is at least 22 miles long and more than 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a residue of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The work presents a forensic snapshot of the plume characteristics in June and is reported in a study appearing in the Aug. 19 issue of the journal Science.
Climate Progress – More thoughts on the offensive ‘No Pressure’ video
From Climate Progress:
More thoughts on the offensive ‘No Pressure’ video
October 2, 2010It is laughable for any of the anti-science, pro-pollution disinformers to attack the idiotic, offensive “No Pressure” video by the British 10:10 group but give a free pass to the lies and hate speech they routinely spout. You can safely ignore the comments or posts of anyone who hasn’t denounced people like
- the widely discredited Anthony Watts (with his utterly offensive comments on the purported eco-terrorist who was shot and killed by police and general disinformation)
- the Swift Boat smearer (see “UK Guardian slams Morano for cyber-bullying and for urging violence against climate scientists“); and
- worst of all, Lord Monckton (see Monckton repeats and expands on his charge that those who embrace climate science are “Hitler youth” and fascists).
Those folks maintain a noxious double standard: They can spread endless lies and smears and never apologize for a word of it, but are outraged at everything anyone else does, whether it is beyond tasteless crap like this “No Pressure” video, which actually deserves condemnation or, merely the IPCC Fourth Assessment, a science-based effort to inform the public on how to avoid misery and suffering for billions of humans, which contains a few small errors, but mostly downplays the multiple catastrophes humanity faces if we actually listen to the disinformers.
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The ‘No Pressure’ Video
Veterans Today – GI’s Brains Fried by Military Dispensed Nose Candy
From Veterans Today:
GI’s Brains Fried by Military Dispensed Nose Candy
October 2, 2010 posted by Bob Nichols
(San Francisco) – Now it is official. Researchers have shown that uranium oxide, or DU, “travels the nerves from the nose to the brain,” in the words of a University of Chicago doc and researcher.
James Blake Miller Los Angeles Times photo by Luis Sinco
A tiny amount (a milligram) of this radioactive poison quick marches up your smelling nerves right into your brain and keeps firing 1.2 Million bullets a day – forever. That’s a bunch.
850 Rounds a Minute
The radioactive 850 rounds a minute automatic weapon is about as big as the period at the end of this sentence, never needs reloading and never jams. It’s a perfect killing machine for brain cells and other cells. The range is about 20 cells, after that there is what the famous British physicist Dr. Chris Busby calls the “bystander effect.” He discovered it, he gets to name it.
The Raw Story – Maddow: US quietly testing ‘scary new war in Pakistan’
From The Raw Story:
Maddow: US quietly testing ‘scary new war in Pakistan’
By David Edwards
Friday, October 1st, 2010 — 11:32 am
Don’t get it twisted, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow essentially told her viewers Thursday night.
“Borders matter” and “AfPak” is not the name of a single country. Contrary to popular and media opinion, America is now fighting in three countries: Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Since President Barack Obama took office, the US has increased the number of airstrikes in Pakistan by unmanned aerial vehicles. “We have shot missiles at people in Pakistan 20 times in the past 23 days,” Maddow noted Wednesday.
Who What Why – “Obama’s Wars”: The Real Story Bob Woodward Won’t Tell
From Who What Why:
“Obama’s Wars”: The Real Story Bob Woodward Won’t Tell
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Now, for a bit of cognitive dissonance. Woodward’s signature achievement - bringing down Richard Nixon - turns out not to be what we all thought. If that comes as a surprise, you have missed a few books, including bestsellers, that put pieces of this puzzle together. (Family of Secrets has several chapters on the real Watergate story, but there are others that present detailed information, including those by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin, James Rosen, Jim Hougan and others.)
Here’s the deal:…
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Media Matters – Glenn Beck’s guide to butchering a document and smearing a president
From Media Matters:
Glenn Beck’s guide to butchering a document and smearing a president
Glenn Beck and guests John Bolton and Stuart Varney mischaracterized a federal report to portray it as expressing “the worldview of the Obama administration.” In fact, the document was issued during the Bush administration and is designed to “stimulate strategic thinking,” not establish the administration’s “worldview.” Beck also falsely portrayed the report’s discussion of trends in developing nations as applying to the United States.
McClatchy – U.S. apologizes for ‘abhorrent’ Guatemala syphilis study in 1940s
From the McClatchy Washington Bureau:
U.S. apologizes for ‘abhorrent’ Guatemala syphilis study in 1940s
Exposing a dark page in its history, the U.S. government acknowledged Friday that its scientists had infected hundreds of Guatemalans with syphilis in experiments conducted from 1946 to 1948 in “appalling violations” of medical ethics.
United Nations Human Rights Council Report ‘Israeli attacks on the flotilla’
Report of the international fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, resulting from the Israeli attacks on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian assistance
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/15session/A.HRC.15.21_en.pdf
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