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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

25 January - News Lineup

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Obama may get power to shut down Internet without court oversight
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/power-shut-internet-court-oversight
A bill giving the president an Internet "kill switch" during times of emergency that failed to pass Congress last year will return this year, but with a revision that has many civil liberties advocates concerned: It will give the president the ability to shut down parts of the Internet without any court oversight.

The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act was introduced last year by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) in an effort to combat cyber-crime and the threat of online warfare and terrorism.

Critics said the bill would allow the president to disconnect Internet networks and force private websites to comply with broad cybersecurity measures. Future US presidents would have those powers renewed indefinitely.

According to a report Monday at CNET News, the bill will be back on the Senate agenda in the new year. But a revision introduced into the bill in December would exempt the law from judicial oversight. According to critics, this change would open the law to politically-motivated abuse by any administration, no matter how narrowly the law is interpreted.



Egypt Protests

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/01/25-5

Cairo protesters in violent clashes with police
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/25/egypt-protests-mubarak
Egyptian protesters call for end to Hosni Mubarak's rule and hail 'first day of revolution'
Egyptian police used teargas and rubber bullets and beat protesters in a bid to clear thousands of demonstrators from a central Cairo square late last night after people had taken to the streets earlier today demanding the end of President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule in mass demonstrations inspired by the toppling of the government in Tunisia.

Why the GOP should be worried about England
http://www.salon.com/news/us_economy/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2011/01/25/austerity_in_england_backfires
The British government announced huge spending cut
The numbers are staggering -- an average 19 percent cut for all government departments, resulting in half a million public sector layoffs.

And look! Just as the Keynesians predicted, the economy immediately slumped, apparently proving that the last thing a government should do in a weak economic climate is suddenly kick the legs out of the demand side of the economy

Practical Full-Spectrum Solar Cell Comes Closer
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110125141810.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know


Mortgage Giants Leave Legal Bills to the Taxpayers
http://www.truth-out.org/mortgage-giants-leave-legal-bills-taxpayers67103
Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives in civil lawsuits accusing them of fraud. The cost was a closely guarded secret until last week, when the companies and their regulator produced an accounting at the request of Congress.

The bulk of those expenditures — $132 million — went to defend Fannie Mae and its officials in various securities suits and government investigations into accounting irregularities that occurred years before the subprime lending crisis erupted. The legal payments show no sign of abating.

Turbulence Ahead
http://www.truth-out.org/turbulence-ahead67100
No recovery can be called real without bringing down unemployment. As in the euro zone, the haunting number in the U.S. hovers around 10 percent. (In Spain, it's twice that.) And there is a wide consensus among economists that something like the pre-crisis unemployment level of 5 percent remains years away, at least.
But rather than putting people back to work, economic leaders have embarked on a misguided austerity mission. Stimulus cash in Europe and America is now fading away, with no real robust recovery to take its place. And we've been here before. From President Hoover in the Great Depression, to global responses to the East Asia crisis in the late 1990s, it's clear that government cuts weaken economies rather than alleviating malaise. Slashing spending hobbles economic growth; we already see the effects in Ireland, Greece, and other countries on the vanguard. And after the cuts, the cycle takes hold: those out of work for extended periods see their savings accounts eroded and their skills attenuate. Less spending means a slower economy. Anemic growth further hobbles state fiscal positions, sparking more cutbacks.
But the seeming contradictions of this "recovery" go further. Big banks may be booming back (JPMorgan just posted a $4.8 billion quarterly profit; Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are comfortably in the black, too), but the financial sector remains dysfunctional. Pre-crisis, high finance failed its societal functions of allocating capital efficiently and managing risk -- it did neither. After the crash, some indulged a momentary fantasy that regulations would curb excessive risk taking, do something about too-big-to-fail banks, and otherwise incentivize banks to return to the essential business of providing capital to small and medium-size enterprises. Instead, today we have a less competitive banking system with hundreds of firms still in deep trouble.


Health & Wellness
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/221963
The Big Lie
 A couple of years ago, I wrote a long post about the invalidity of observational studies as proof of much anything, but in that post I neglected to mention that although observational studies can't show that correlation equals causation, they probably are valid in demonstrating the opposite: if there is no correlation, there probably isn't much of a case for causation. So, if there isn't a lot of correlation between saturated fat intake and elevated cholesterol and/or heart disease, is doubtful that saturated fat intake is causal.

Loose Lips Sink Ships and 747s Too
http://aircrap.org/loose-lips-sink-ships-and-747s-too/33516
Evergreen (International Aviation) is part of the major crap dump on the planet. Chemtrails made up aluminum, barium and other ingredients contribute to respiratory ills and change the acidity of the soil.

Evergreen works from over a 100 bases and employees 4,500 people. Delford Smith privately owns the company. They admittedly “perform” for the CIA.

Evergreen was given a no contest bid that gave them all the facilities in Marana, Arizona that previously belonged to CIA’s Air America (Pinal Air Park, Arizona).

The security at the Pinal site is said to be as severe as that of  Area 51. It is run as a military base where one lost pilot got an armed escort immediately off the operational base. The 10 year pilot said it was nothing like anything he has ever seen.

Evergreen International Aviation brags of their planes that have 7 times the capacity of other fire fighters. One can carry 20,000 galleons. Firefighting … Right … and next we will be told the chem trails are to prevent global warming as millions more are advancing to an early death.

Breaking Chemtrail News

"World on the Edge," a Must-Read for 2011
http://www.truth-out.org/world-on-edge-a-must-read-201167108
"We now have an economy that is destroying its natural support systems. … We are liquidating the earth's natural assets to fuel our consumption," Academy Fellow Lester Brown writes in his latest book, World on the Edge, the must-read book of 2011.

He warns: "If we continue with business as usual, civilizational collapse is no longer a matter of whether but when—a time period more likely measured in years than decades." Before offering a road map for change, he tells a gripping tale of converging trends and missed signals.
"How can we assume that the growth of an economic system that is shrinking the earth's forests, eroding its soils, depleting its aquifers, collapsing its fisheries, elevating its temperature, and melting its ice sheets can simply be projected into the long-term future? What is the intellectual process underpinning these extrapolations?"

The Deindustrialization Of America... 19 Shocking Facts
http://www.knowthelies.com/?q=node%2F5987
We have created the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world in an effort to maintain a very high standard of living, but the current state of affairs is not anywhere close to sustainable. Every single month America does into more debt and every single month America gets poorer.

So what happens when the debt bubble pops?

The deindustrialization of the United States should be a top concern for every man, woman and child in the country. But sadly, most Americans do not have any idea what is going on around them.

For people like that, take this article and print it out and hand it to them. Perhaps what they will read below will shock them badly enough to awaken them from their slumber.


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