President of the Royal Society to criticize Bush for renegging on climate change commitments.
There is a huge difference between daily fluctuations, and global averages sustained year on year; the difference in average global temperatures between today and the last ice age is only about 5°C.
Today on DemocracyNOW Seymour Hersh talked about Where the Iraq War is Headed Next.
… for political purposes, a pullout won’t end the war. That’s the critical thing.
It won’t bring victory to us. It will simply change the color, if you will, of the people who die there.
Anti-offshoring legislation heats up
Lobbying efforts to pass legislation severely limiting or stopping outsourcing practices is intensifying
By Nancy Weil, IDG News Service
November 29, 2005
It’s not clear this sort of legislation will solve the problems. But the fact that it’s being considered is a refreshing change from long-standing endemic free-market fundamentalism. Populist barriers and limits are only a part of the essential dialogue that has been missed.
Note from Catherine Austin Fitts on the Fed’s Cancellation of M3
On March 23, 2006, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System will cease publication of the M3 monetary aggregate. The Board will also cease publishing the following components: large-denomination time deposits, repurchase agreements (RPs), and Eurodollars. The Board will continue to publish institutional money market mutual funds as a memorandum item in this release.
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The cancellation of M3 is Tapeworm Economics at its best.
Parallels between 21st century USA and the Roman empire go beyond the superficial. They can help us understand mechanisms at work today.
Paul and Anne Ehrlich point out in One With Nineveh (p. 241), that after the empire began to decline, political leaders went from true military leadership exemplified by Julius Caesar to a sham campaign by Claudius
The Romans increasingly depended on barbarian mercenaries to man their legions as the empire declined. The personal involvement of the Roman elite in actual combat likewise declined — Caesar led his troops in battle; Nero did not. Claudius had a faux campaign in Britain, complete with an elephant. He paraded up and down the beach collecting seashells and the like, which he took back home as booty. It was the first-century equivalent of prancing on the deck of an aircraft carrier in a military costume you haven’t earned.
Denial Stops Here - From 9-11 to Peak Oil and Beyond is now available at FromTheWilderness.com. I’ll post a review as soon as I have seen it. Ruppert’s Truth and Lies of 9-11 broke new ground when it came out.
Robert Fisk, one of the few journalists to report unembedded from Iraq, was on Pacifica’s Flashpoints program recently, talking about his new book and discussing the breakdown in the Middle East.
NSA patents packet sequence numbers
United States Patent
6,957,374
Redeske
October 18, 2005
Method of acknowledging receipt of data packets
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Warning on Jazeera bombing report - Yahoo! News
November 23rd, 2005 5:56 pm
Warning on Jazeera bombing report
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has warned media organizations they are breaking the law if they publish details of a leaked document said to show U.S. President George W. Bush wanted to bomb Arabic television station Al Jazeera.
The government’s top lawyer warned editors in a note after the Daily Mirror newspaper reported on Tuesday that a secret British government memo said British Prime Minister Tony Blair had talked Bush out of bombing the broadcaster in April last year.