Update 1:55 PM 4/12/2009 Heh, fuckers shouln't have messed with a US ship, 3 out of 4 of them are dead now.
Pirates Seize Tug With Crew of 16 as U.S. Captain Is Still Hostage
Published: April 11, 2009
Look, here's the deal people. Until multinational corporate interests invest in the people of Africa instead of extracting raw materials and cheap labor, the violence spilling out of there will only get worse. Being that piracy is interfering with global trade, now might be a good time to do that.
The top nine out of ten birth rates are in Africa. A couple of those high birth rates are negated by the high death rates. It's all very complicated, this counting of people, even my eyes glaze over at times. What it boils down to, though, and correct me if I'm wrong, are total fertility rates. Africa's, overall, are high.
This is something that happens in "undeveloped" countries.
Declining total fertility rates in the Middle Eastern countries can be linked to female education, female empowerment, a shift to urban, rather than rural environments, and increasing availability of medical care.
Somalia
is
a
fucking
train
wreck.
And they had some help getting there. It's no wonder they are
listening to Osama bin Laden, but he's a damn hypocrite also. How many of his 51 siblings would have lived if westerners had never had anything to do with Saudi Arabia, and how would his father gotten out of Yemen and then rich in construction in SA?
These American jihadi morons aren't helping anyone.
Somehow I missed Jersey Cynic's post over at Blondesense . Yeesh, as if I needed another reason to hate Lawrence Summers.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Way to icrease the digital divide even more ya fucktards
Time Warner Tests $150-Per-Month Unlimited Internet
A pay-what-you-use model is the fairest option for customers while generating the revenue needed, Time Warner Cable COO Landel Hobbs says.
By Antone Gonsalves
InformationWeek
April 10, 2009 06:05 PM
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Cable has released new pricing for consumption-based Internet billing the company is testing in some areas of the United States. The tiered pricing, which the company plans to roll out in other regions this year, includes unlimited service for $150 a month...
...Time Warner Cable plans to being trials in Rochester, N.Y., and Greensboro, N.C., in August, expanding to San Antonio and Austin, Texas, in October...
yeah, yeah, keep those brown people offa the net
A pay-what-you-use model is the fairest option for customers while generating the revenue needed, Time Warner Cable COO Landel Hobbs says.
By Antone Gonsalves
InformationWeek
April 10, 2009 06:05 PM
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Cable has released new pricing for consumption-based Internet billing the company is testing in some areas of the United States. The tiered pricing, which the company plans to roll out in other regions this year, includes unlimited service for $150 a month...
...Time Warner Cable plans to being trials in Rochester, N.Y., and Greensboro, N.C., in August, expanding to San Antonio and Austin, Texas, in October...
yeah, yeah, keep those brown people offa the net
Tonight on PBS NOW
Can Coal be Earth-Friendly?
Can America's cheapest and most plentiful energy resource be produced without burning the environment?
Americans are addicted to coal—it powers half of all our electricity, and is both plentiful and cheap. In fact, some call America the "Saudi Arabia of Coal." But are we paying too high an environmental price for all this cheap energy?
With carbon emissions caps high on the Obama Administration's agenda, coal is in the crosshairs of the energy debate. This week, NOW Senior Correspondent Maria Hinojosa travels to Wyoming to take a hard look at the coal industry there and its case that it can produce "clean coal"—coal that can be burned without releasing carbon into the atmosphere. President Obama has been outspoken in his support for "clean coal" technology, but some say the whole concept is more of a public relations campaign....
Exactly. One Third of greenhouse gases are from coal fired power plants. There are 600 of them nationwide
Can America's cheapest and most plentiful energy resource be produced without burning the environment?
Americans are addicted to coal—it powers half of all our electricity, and is both plentiful and cheap. In fact, some call America the "Saudi Arabia of Coal." But are we paying too high an environmental price for all this cheap energy?
With carbon emissions caps high on the Obama Administration's agenda, coal is in the crosshairs of the energy debate. This week, NOW Senior Correspondent Maria Hinojosa travels to Wyoming to take a hard look at the coal industry there and its case that it can produce "clean coal"—coal that can be burned without releasing carbon into the atmosphere. President Obama has been outspoken in his support for "clean coal" technology, but some say the whole concept is more of a public relations campaign....
Exactly. One Third of greenhouse gases are from coal fired power plants. There are 600 of them nationwide
Fiber Optic Cable Cut intentionally
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Thursday, April 09, 2009
Obama continues the government spying on us
Keith Olbermann's scathing criticism of Obama's secrecy/immunity claims
Glenn Greenwald at Salon
Wednesday April 8, 2009 10:26 EDT
...Last night, Keith Olbermann -- who has undoubtedly been one of the most swooning and often-uncritical admirers of Barack Obama of anyone in the country (behavior for which I rather harshly criticized him in the past) -- devoted the first two segments of his show to emphatically lambasting Obama and Eric Holder's DOJ for the story I wrote about on Monday: namely, the Obama administration's use of the radical Bush/Cheney state secrets doctrine and -- worse still -- a brand new claim of "sovereign immunity" to insist that courts lack the authority to decide whether the Bush administration broke the law in illegally spying on Americans...
Great. So I guess I'll never know if the NSA enjoys my friends and I jokingly telling them "Hi and fuck you, you fucking fucks!" when we are discussing current events. D'ya think they'll report me to Mossad if I'm critical of the rabid right Israeli warhawks running US foreign policy in the Middle East? Hope they like PMS and period discussions because we talk about that too, bwaaaa haha ha ha ha ha!
Mark Klein - AT&T WhistleBlower
Glenn Greenwald at Salon
Wednesday April 8, 2009 10:26 EDT
...Last night, Keith Olbermann -- who has undoubtedly been one of the most swooning and often-uncritical admirers of Barack Obama of anyone in the country (behavior for which I rather harshly criticized him in the past) -- devoted the first two segments of his show to emphatically lambasting Obama and Eric Holder's DOJ for the story I wrote about on Monday: namely, the Obama administration's use of the radical Bush/Cheney state secrets doctrine and -- worse still -- a brand new claim of "sovereign immunity" to insist that courts lack the authority to decide whether the Bush administration broke the law in illegally spying on Americans...
Great. So I guess I'll never know if the NSA enjoys my friends and I jokingly telling them "Hi and fuck you, you fucking fucks!" when we are discussing current events. D'ya think they'll report me to Mossad if I'm critical of the rabid right Israeli warhawks running US foreign policy in the Middle East? Hope they like PMS and period discussions because we talk about that too, bwaaaa haha ha ha ha ha!
Mark Klein - AT&T WhistleBlower
Sickness bubbling up
from PBS's Sick Around America.
I'm still digging around, but I tend to believe the CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER when they say that
PBS Lashes Back
23 Corporate Crime Reporter 15, April 7, 2009
Last week, I wrote an article – “Something is Rotten at PBS” – about a slanted PBS Frontline documentary – “Sick Around America.”
Frontline hired former Washington Post reporter T.R. Reid to put together the documentary.
Reid did the reporting.
He turned over his interviews to the Frontline producers.
And they came back with a documentary Reid couldn’t agree with.
Frontline tried to get Reid to narrate the film anyway – whether he agreed with it or not.
Reid refused.
Reid and Frontline parted ways.
After “Something is Rotten at PBS” ran last week, I got a ton of e-mail.
So did Frontline.
“Something is Rotten at PBS” struck a nerve.
This week, Frontline lashed back.... (if you haven't already, please read the whole thing )
And viewers of the PBS show have questions and concerns about the show here .
One of the sponsors was The Colorado Health Foundation
nonprofit, yet:
Our assets total $800 million, including an investment portfolio as well as our ownership interest in Denver's Health ONE hospital system.
Somehow in the midst of following the Google links, starting with the names of the organizations who sponsored the PBS show I ended up with this woman's name
( Comcast and Do Gooder TV put together makes me laugh)
Who? "spent 12 years with the group whose mission is to burnish downtown Denver's image to spur business,..."
I'm still digging around, but I tend to believe the CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER when they say that
PBS Lashes Back
23 Corporate Crime Reporter 15, April 7, 2009
Last week, I wrote an article – “Something is Rotten at PBS” – about a slanted PBS Frontline documentary – “Sick Around America.”
Frontline hired former Washington Post reporter T.R. Reid to put together the documentary.
Reid did the reporting.
He turned over his interviews to the Frontline producers.
And they came back with a documentary Reid couldn’t agree with.
Frontline tried to get Reid to narrate the film anyway – whether he agreed with it or not.
Reid refused.
Reid and Frontline parted ways.
After “Something is Rotten at PBS” ran last week, I got a ton of e-mail.
So did Frontline.
“Something is Rotten at PBS” struck a nerve.
This week, Frontline lashed back.... (if you haven't already, please read the whole thing )
And viewers of the PBS show have questions and concerns about the show here .
One of the sponsors was The Colorado Health Foundation
nonprofit, yet:
Our assets total $800 million, including an investment portfolio as well as our ownership interest in Denver's Health ONE hospital system.
Somehow in the midst of following the Google links, starting with the names of the organizations who sponsored the PBS show I ended up with this woman's name
( Comcast and Do Gooder TV put together makes me laugh)
Who? "spent 12 years with the group whose mission is to burnish downtown Denver's image to spur business,..."
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Jean-Michel Cousteau
Sea Ghosts.
I loved watching the Jacques Cousteau specials when I was a kid. I've always loved the water and watching fish and marine mammals' graceful movements. This show was disturbing to me because once again, humans leave a trail of death and destruction in their wake. No irony of course, that the show was brought to us by Dow Chemical. One item that the narrator mentioned stood out in my mind and that was that she said something about the noise from searching for oil and gas might possibly be harming the Belugas.
No, really?
I loved watching the Jacques Cousteau specials when I was a kid. I've always loved the water and watching fish and marine mammals' graceful movements. This show was disturbing to me because once again, humans leave a trail of death and destruction in their wake. No irony of course, that the show was brought to us by Dow Chemical. One item that the narrator mentioned stood out in my mind and that was that she said something about the noise from searching for oil and gas might possibly be harming the Belugas.
No, really?
In the reading queue
(click on book cover to purchase, it took so damn long to get the copy from the library I almost forgot why I wanted to read The Ayatollah Begs to Differ by Hooman Majd, yeesh)
I'm still only 1/2 way through this, and so far it's only confirming my long-standing suspicions that the land developers and defense contractors have a nasty stranglehold on Southern California politics. Click on the book cover for a very brief blurb on City of Quartz by Mike Davis.
I haven't read about street gangs yet, but according to the blurb its covered.
Krugman on Maddow last night and Chris Hedges
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Resist or Become Serfs
America is devolving into a third-world nation. And if we do not immediately halt our elite’s rapacious looting of the public treasury we will be left with trillions in debts, which can never be repaid, and widespread human misery which we will be helpless to ameliorate. Our anemic democracy will be replaced with a robust national police state. The elite will withdraw into heavily guarded gated communities where they will have access to security, goods and services that cannot be afforded by the rest of us. Tens of millions of people, brutally controlled, will live in perpetual poverty. This is the inevitable result of unchecked corporate capitalism. The stimulus and bailout plans are not about saving us. They are about saving them. We can resist, which means street protests, disruptions of the system and demonstrations, or become serfs...
Yeesh, this guy Hedges thinks like I do. Aren't you glad you don't live in my head?
And what's this here? The Russians and the Chinese want to mess with our electricity system? WTF?
US electricity grid hit by cyber attacks: report
Agence France-Presse
Published: Wednesday April 8, 2009
Chinese and Russian cyber-spies have hacked into the US electricity grid and inserted programs that could be used to disrupt the system, a report said Wednesday
...In March 2008, Canadian investigators achieved a cyber-security triumph: the exposure of a malicious data-gathering botnet...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
I've heard that sucide by cop was growing,
but suicide by fighter plane?
Stolen plane from Canada escorted by US fighters
By ROBERT IMRIE – 36 minutes ago
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — A man suspected of stealing a plane in Canada and flying erratically across three states was trying to commit suicide, hoping he would be shot down by military fighter planes, a state trooper said Tuesday.
Adam Dylan Leon, 31, was arrested at a convenience store in Ellsinore, Mo., shortly after landing the single-engine, four-seat Cessna on a rural Missouri road Monday night, ending a six-hour flight, police said...
Stolen plane from Canada escorted by US fighters
By ROBERT IMRIE – 36 minutes ago
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — A man suspected of stealing a plane in Canada and flying erratically across three states was trying to commit suicide, hoping he would be shot down by military fighter planes, a state trooper said Tuesday.
Adam Dylan Leon, 31, was arrested at a convenience store in Ellsinore, Mo., shortly after landing the single-engine, four-seat Cessna on a rural Missouri road Monday night, ending a six-hour flight, police said...
Monday, April 06, 2009
Italy in desperate race to save the buried after the earthquake
From The Times
April 7, 2009
...The 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck shortly after 3.30am local time,..
...L’Aquila, a 13th-century walled city 60km (about 40 miles) from Rome, bore the brunt of the devastation, although tremors awoke Italians as far away as Emilia Romagna, near Bologna, in the north, to Naples in the south. Emergency workers scrambled over the debris of collapsed churches and historic buildings in a desperate effort to pluck survivors from the rubble. The death toll was expected to rise...
Italy earthquake leaves 130 dead and scores more trapped under rubble
• Rescue effort hampered by debris blocking roads
• Up to 15,000 buildings destroyed by quake
...and at least 50,000 people are homeless.
That is a lot of damage and a lot of dead for a 6.3.
Update
Italy quake death toll rises, aftershocks continue
Wed Apr 8, 2009 3:14am EDT
* Italian quake death toll rises to 250, over 1,000 injured
April 7, 2009
...The 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck shortly after 3.30am local time,..
...L’Aquila, a 13th-century walled city 60km (about 40 miles) from Rome, bore the brunt of the devastation, although tremors awoke Italians as far away as Emilia Romagna, near Bologna, in the north, to Naples in the south. Emergency workers scrambled over the debris of collapsed churches and historic buildings in a desperate effort to pluck survivors from the rubble. The death toll was expected to rise...
Italy earthquake leaves 130 dead and scores more trapped under rubble
• Rescue effort hampered by debris blocking roads
• Up to 15,000 buildings destroyed by quake
...and at least 50,000 people are homeless.
That is a lot of damage and a lot of dead for a 6.3.
Update
Italy quake death toll rises, aftershocks continue
Wed Apr 8, 2009 3:14am EDT
* Italian quake death toll rises to 250, over 1,000 injured
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Film Of Police Attack On G20 Climate Camp
(click on title link)
I'm reserving judgment till there is more information.
I'm reserving judgment till there is more information.
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