Another sun storm on the way
Link: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/08/09/4851929-another-sun-storm-on-the-way
Just days after a wave of geomagnetic activity sparked amazing displays of northern lights as far south as Iowa, another space storm is on its way from the sun - and could hit us as early as Tuesday.
PermalinkGoogle-Verizon Pact Worse Than Feared
Link: http://www.truth-out.org/google-verizon-pact-worse-than-feared62155
Washington - In response to Google and Verizon’s “policy framework” unveiled today, MoveOn.Org Civic Action, Credo Action, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, ColorofChange.org and Free Press, all members of the SavetheInternet.com Coalition, issued the following joint statement: "The Google-Verizon pact isn’t just as bad as we feared — it’s much worse. They are attacking the Internet while claiming to preserve it. Google users won’t be fooled.
Economists Herald New Great Depression
Link: http://www.darkpolitricks.com/2010/08/economists-herald-new-great-depression/
The world is currently experiencing the modern day equivalent of the Great Depression, according to a prominent economist who has added his voice to scores of others now forecasting ongoing economic doom on a scale not seen since the 1930s.
A massive crime compounded by a massive cover-up
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/aug2010/pers-a09.shtml
The Obama adminsitration is in full propaganda mode in an effort to declare an end to the Gulf oil disaster. The way is being prepared for the oil industry in the Gulf to return to business as usual, while working people, whose livelihoods were stripped away by the Deepwater Horizon disaster, will be left to fend for themselves. The administration is promoting claims that most of the oil erupting from the leak has either been contained or evaporated, with only a quarter posing a continued threat to the region.
Leading Republicans call for partial repeal of 14th Amendment
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/aug2010/amen-a09.shtml
A constituency within the political establishment has been consolidating in recent months for a repeal of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which provides that every person born in the US is guaranteed citizenship. This reactionary proposal, ostensibly to combat “illegal” immigration, has broad and far-reaching consequences for democratic rights in the US.
US-Vietnam nuclear talks heighten frictions with China
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/aug2010/viet-a09.shtml
In a move that will further raise regional tensions, the US is conducting negotiations with Vietnam over a deal to allow the purchase of nuclear fuel, as well as American nuclear technology and reactors. The talks, details of which were leaked to the US media last week, are another sign that the Obama administration is engaged in an aggressive strategy of countering Chinese influence throughout the Asian region.
U.S. Supersizes Afghan Mega-Base as Withdrawal Date Looms
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/09
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - Anyone who thinks the United States is really going to withdraw from Afghanistan in July 2011 needs to come to this giant air base an hour away from Kabul. There's construction everywhere. It's exactly what you wouldn't expect from a transient presence.
Thousands missing after mudslides in China - Video
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/aug/09/china
Hundreds dead and 2,000 missing after landslides and floodwaters sweep away whole villages in north-west China
Crabs provide evidence oil tainting Gulf food web
Link: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0809/crabs-provide-evidence-oil-tainting-gulf-food-web/
Scientists watching Gulf of Mexico's blue crabs for evidence that oil is entering food chain To assess how heavy a blow the BP oil spill has dealt the Gulf of Mexico, researchers are closely watching a staple of the seafood industry and primary indicator of the ecosystem's health: the blue crab.
Hurrah for Hugo Chavez
Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26107.htm
It's no fun being on Washington's enemies list. Just ask Hugo Chavez. Last week, the Venezuelan president had to cancel a trip to Cuba after he was told that a coup was underway and his life was in danger. The information came from an anonymous source who had delivered a similar warning prior to the failed coup in 2002. The letter said: “The execution phase is accelerating..… There is an agreement between Colombia and the US with two objectives: one is Mauricio and the other is the overthrow of the government.… They will hunt down ‘Mauricio’ (and) try to neutralize part of the Armed Forces.” “Mauricio” is Chavez's codename. Whoever is behind the coup, wants to kill Chavez.
While Obama preaches sacrifice, his family frolics in Spain - Video
AS THE US economy endures high unemployment and a jittery stock market, President Barack Obama has preached sacrifice and fiscal discipline. But the pictures coming out of a sun-splashed Spanish resort may be sending a different message.
Fury in China as female babies grow breasts after drinking milk laced with hormones
Female babies in China have grown breasts after they were given milk laced with hormones.
The horrifying scenes have caused uproar among parents in central China, who fear that the milk powder they used had led to the premature developments. The official China Daily newspaper reported today that medical tests indicated that the level of hormones in three 'test case' girls, ranging in age from four months to 15 months, exceeded those found in the average adult woman.
Whistleblower Vanunu still defiant after yet another jailing
The Israeli nuclear whistleblower who spent 18 years behind bars was released from jail yesterday after serving an additional three months for violating his release terms. Mordechai Vanunu was a technician at Israel's top-secret nuclear reactor next to the desert town of Dimona. In 1986 he took hundreds of photographs of the interior of the reactor and gave them to The Sunday Times.
BP Disaster = Catastrophic Climate Change?
Link: http://www.henrymakow.com/bp_disaster_causing_weather_ch.html
An Italian theoretical physicist, Dr. Gianluigi Zangari says the BP Oil Disaster has caused a dramatic weakening in the vorticity of the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Current, and a reduction in North Atlantic water temperatures by 10 Celsius. "The breaking of a crucial warm stream ... may generate a chain reaction of unpredictable critical phenomena and ... may have serious consequences on the dynamics of the Gulf Stream thermoregulation activity of the Global Climate."
Heat Wave, Smog Double Moscow's Daily Death Rate
Link: http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Moscows-Mortality-Rate-Doubles-During-Heat-Wave-100270414.html
Smog From Spreading Russia Fires Chokes Moscow - Smoke From Russian Fires Forces Flight Restrictions in Moscow - Russia's summer of heat, drought and fire is starting to take a human toll in Moscow, Europe's most populous city. Deaths in Moscow have doubled to an average of 700 people a day as the city struggles with a deadly combination of record hot temperatures and poisonous smog from wildfires. Andre Seltsovky, Moscow's health chief, blamed weeks of heat and smog for the jump in mortality compared to the same time last year.
Enough of Uranium Mining, Say Aboriginal Communities
Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52425
KALGOORLIE-BOULDER, Australia, As a mining giant prepares to open a major uranium mining site in Western Australia next year, the clamour for the state to once more ban mining of the radioactive mineral has become louder. In fact, the Wongatha Aboriginal clan that calls this region its home does not see any wisdom in having uranium mining in Australia at all. "We don’t need uranium mining in this country," says Wongatha leader and pastor Geoffrey Stokes. "We have sun, we’ve got wind, we’ve got people. Why should we pollute our country for money?"
Nuclear Carriers on the Move An Open Letter to President Barack Obama
Link: http://www.counterpunch.org/mayer08092010.html
As Commander-in-Chief you have ordered the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier U.S.S. George Washington to carry out major naval exercises off the coast of Japan and the Korean Peninsula before proceeding, most likely, to other exercises in the Yellow Sea, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula to the east. One of the world’s largest warships, the George Washington is accompanied by some 20 armed vessels and submarines, scores of aircraft and helicopters along with thousands of naval, ground, and air personnel.
Three Days to Revolution
Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article20099
Rage is born of desperation; it is incubated and nurtured by ignorance and neglect. It’s fathered by the unfeeling and uncaring, the safe and secure. Its mother is the destitute and hungry, the needy, those too easily cast off from society as mere statistics. It is a genie that once released from its bottle will summon up all the forces of hell to seek vengeance upon guilty and innocent alike.
Wheat Crisis Threatens Inflationary Timebomb, Food Riots
Russia’s ban on wheat exports following widespread fires in the country sent food prices skyrocketing by 19 per cent in just a single week as fears grow that global volatility in foodstuffs and commodities could lead to a worldwide inflationary timebomb accompanied by widespread food riots.
U.S. Dollar Now Ripe For Catastrophic Devaluation
Link: http://neithercorp.us/npress/?p=663
Normally when I cover subjects in the economy, I try to take a “macro” approach, giving an overall view of various financial elements around the world and how they are clearly connected to one another in a greater synchronous social force. That is to say, in Chinese domestic consumption, or European debt obligations, or Russian gold reserves, and in many other factors, is encoded the very future of our own American economy. Showing others how to decipher that code is my primary mission.
Exclusive: Caught in America's legal black hole
Guantanamo still holds 176 detainees, and one of them is about to stand trial – in a test of Barack Obama's resolve to embrace the rule of law. Have a nice flight with Country Airlines," said the smiling stewardess, "and enjoy your trip." Standing on the gangway of the Sun Country 737, she could have been welcoming us aboard a jet bound for any one of America's favourite holiday destinations.
Staying Human
Link: http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/08/staying-human/#more-20440
Vittorio Arrigoni has written an on-the-spot account of what occurred in Gaza during Israel’s Cast Lead operation. Arrigoni — who lived in Gaza working as an authentic journalist and volunteer with International Solidarity Movement — exemplifies what it is to be a humanist. This comes through in his Gaza: Staying Human — an eyewitness chronicling of destruction, misery, courage, inhumanity, and humanity in Gaza during the massacre that was Cast Lead.
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