Archive for February, 2011
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Monday, February 28th, 2011
Proof of Alien Life!
Monday, February 28th, 2011Dr. Hoover has discovered evidence of microfossils similar to Cyanobacteria, in freshly fractured slices of the interior surfaces of the Alais, Ivuna, and Orgueil CI1 carbonaceous meteorites…. The implications are that life is everywhere, and that life on Earth may have come from other planets.
via Journal of Cosmology.
What do we need health insurers for anyway? - Los Angeles Times
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
What do we need health insurers for anyway? - Los Angeles Times.
“WellPoint didn’t really want to jack up health premiums on its customers by as much as 39%, she said — it had no choice. “We care deeply about our California customers,” she said.”
Op-Ed Columnist - The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged - NYTimes.com
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
Op-Ed Columnist - The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged - NYTimes.com.
“A co-sponsor of CPAC was the John Birch Society, another far-right organization that has re-emerged after years of hibernation. Its views, which William F. Buckley Jr. decried in the 1960s as an “idiotic” and “irrational” threat to true conservatism, remain unchanged. ”
Op-Ed Contributor - We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change - NYTimes.com
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011Op-Ed Contributor - We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change - NYTimes.com.
“I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. ”
Determine if file exists in a Bourne/bash shell script | Bourne shell scripting | Tech-Recipes
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011if [ -f testfile ]
then
echo testfile exists
fi
via Determine if file exists in a Bourne/bash shell script | Bourne shell scripting | Tech-Recipes.
A special report on the new middle classes in emerging markets: Burgeoning bourgeoisie | The Economist
Monday, February 7th, 2011
“When the Chinese first got rich,” says Mr Lu, “they wanted to go to Thailand and South Korea. Now they want to go skiing.”
An Oral History of the Bush White House | Politics | Vanity Fair
Monday, February 7th, 2011
The threat of 9/11 ignored. The threat of Iraq hyped and manipulated. Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Hurricane Katrina. The shredding of civil liberties. The rise of Iran. Global warming. Economic disaster. How did one two-term presidency go so wrong?
Richard Clarke, chief White House counterterrorism adviser: “The contrast with having briefed his father and Clinton and Gore was so marked. And to be told, frankly, early in the administration, by Condi Rice and [her deputy] Steve Hadley, you know, Don’t give the president a lot of long memos, he’s not a big reader—well, shit. I mean, the president of the United States is not a big reader?”
via An Oral History of the Bush White House | Politics | Vanity Fair.
Former Gitmo Guard Tells All—By Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine)
Monday, February 7th, 2011Neely’s account demonstrates once more how much the Bush team kept secret and how little we still know about their comprehensive program of official cruelty and torture.
via Former Gitmo Guard Tells All—By Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine).
Testimony of Spc. Brandon Neely — The Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas (CSHRA)
Monday, February 7th, 2011
After we got off that day it was late. No one really spoke much. I went back to my tent and laid down to go to sleep. I was thinking “those were the worst people the world had to offer? Not what I expected.” I guess I was expecting people who looked like monsters or what-not.
via Testimony of Spc. Brandon Neely — The Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas (CSHRA).
Experts say U.S. war on terror eroded rights worldwide | Reuters
Monday, February 7th, 2011“Seven years after 9/11 it is time to take stock and repeal abusive laws and policies,” the former Irish president said, warning that harsh U.S. detentions and interrogations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba gave a dangerous signal to other countries that could easily follow suit.
via Experts say U.S. war on terror eroded rights worldwide | Reuters.
Blackwater Changes Its Name to Xe - NYTimes.com
Monday, February 7th, 2011“Blackwater Worldwide is abandoning the brand name that has been tarnished by its work in Iraq, settling on Xe (pronounced zee) as the new name for its family of two dozen businesses…. The company’s rebranding effort grew more urgent after Blackwater guards in Baghdad were involved in a shooting episode in September 2007 that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead.”
The Raw Story | Missing Iraq billions could be ‘greatest fraud in US history’
Monday, February 7th, 2011Monday, The Independent’s Iraq correspondent Patrick Cockburn reported the inspectors believe misuse may account for over $50 billion, exceeding the scope of Bernie Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme and making it potentially the “greatest fraud in US history.”
via The Raw Story | Missing Iraq billions could be ‘greatest fraud in US history’.
Frank Schaeffer: An Open Letter to President Obama About the Republicans (From a Former Republican)
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Rumsfeld Knew His Guys Were Torturing People to Death, Which Is a Serious Crime | Economy | AlterNet
Monday, February 7th, 2011“Just yesterday the ACLU got it’s hands on a truly smoking gun memo written for then Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. This document informed Rumsfeld that those he’d tasked with beating information out of suspected terrorists had not just tortured them, but tortured some of them, to death. In other words, they murdered them.”
via Rumsfeld Knew His Guys Were Torturing People to Death, Which Is a Serious Crime | Economy | AlterNet.