What’s Wrong With the Sun?

From: newscientist.com… Sunspots come and go, but recently they have mostly gone. For centuries, astronomers have recorded when these dark blemishes on the solar surface emerge, only for them to fade away again after a few days, weeks or months. Thanks to their efforts, we know that sunspot numbers ebb and flow in cycles lasting about 11 years. But for the past two years, the sunspots have mostly been missing. Their absence, the most prolonged for nearly a hundred years, has taken even seasoned sun watchers... Read article

Tea Party — We are the Pruners

“The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt, are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.” Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Spencer Roane, March 9, 1821 “The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.” Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 21, 1787 The Urgency in the air is almost palpable. The Tea Party movement is already making inroads into the political arena in the... Read article

Futuristic weapon approach a possible rainmaking breakthrough

From: RT.com… A powerful laser can be shot into humid air to cause intense water condensation, scientists have discovered. The technology has the potential to replace cloud seeding widely used today. When a short laser pulse is shot into the air, it forms a path of ionised nitrogen and oxygen. Some military researchers want to use this “plasma channel” to conduct electricity in futuristic direct energy weapons, but there appears to be a peaceful application. The ionized molecules act as natural nuclei... Read article

Much Ado about Helen Thomas

These guys are always purple in the face because of indignation – or is it constipation? Every second headline with the word “Jews” in it also has the word “Outraged”. In 0.27 seconds the Google search engine discovered 8,230,000 hits for the search term “outraged Jews”. That’s fifty times the number of “outraged Frenchmen” per head. The reasons for the Jewish outrage are all over the globe, although the French tend to be outraged closer to home. The Frenchman was outraged because... Read article

Overpopulation in 21st Century America: You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere Without Water

Part 13: Water, meat and fish If you look at California today, you see more filtered water outlets than anywhere in the world.  More people buy bottled water than anywhere else in the USA.  However, water diminishes with the addition of 1,700 people added 24/7.  At 38 million, California expects to add close to 20 million within 30 years.  At 1,700 added net gain per day, that equals 620,000 a year. In three decades, well, work the math! California may be the first state that introduces ‘toilet to the tap’ water... Read article

Party Goers – What Do You Take With Your Tea?

The Tea Party phenomenon erupted with a spontaneity seldom seen in a laid back political culture. Whatever your perception or the impression depicted in the media, there is no dispute that Rick Santelli’s “rant” on the CME trading floor in Chicago, telecast live by CNBC on Feb. 19, 2009 initiated and tapped into a frustration brewing under the surface. Not exactly, the shot heard round the world; but more like a St Helens explosion, the economic and a moral argument rang... Read article

When Will Direct Action Blossom?

Anais Nin sez: “There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” I think of her words when I consider this question: How much more are we willing to tolerate before we take direct action? For those of you scoring at home, here is just a small taste of what we’re already enduring without any serious fuss: Epidemics of preventable diseases: cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc. Poisoning of our air, water, and food (including breast milk) Global... Read article

Did CIA Doctors Commit War Crimes For Bush?

Not only were terrorism suspects tortured under the Bush administration, it now appears that they were used as human guinea pigs as well. On June 7, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) released a report containing evidence that CIA doctors and other medical personnel engaged in illegal experimentation on prisoners regarding “enhanced interrogation techniques” (i.e., torture). It was apparently part of the Bush administration’s lame attempts to justify the unjustifiable. According to the report, as part... Read article

Bulging Inventory Signals Next Leg Down in Housing

Did the Federal Reserve collude with the big banks to hold millions of houses off the market until the Fed finished adding $1.25 trillion to the banks reserves? Did the Fed do this to make it appear that its bond purchasing plan (quantitative easing) was stabilizing prices when, in fact, it was the reduction in supply that stopped prices from plunging? It sure looks that way. This is from Bloomberg News: “U.S. home foreclosures reached a record for the second consecutive month in May, with increases in every state,... Read article

Israel, the West, and the Rest

A Realist Scenario… The recent unpleasantness in eastern Mediterranean has unleashed a torrent of self-serving nonsense on both sides of the issue. In reality, it was a sordid affair. A bunch of nasty Jihadist types and their enablers who have taken over the government in Ankara devise a brilliant scenario for drawing Israel into a lose-lose situation. The Israelis play on cue, with their customary subtlety and sensitivity. Most of the rest of the world recoils in shock and horror. The elite class of the Western... Read article

Whither the Nobel Peace Prize?

To the disappointed and dejected people of the world who had witnessed the dark and gloomy years of George W. Bush’s presidency, Barack Obama’s electoral slogan of “change” seemed to be an encouraging pledge of rebirth and revitalization which could eventually extricate them from war, destruction, sanction and militarism. Obama’s catchphrase of “change” was so inspirational and exciting that 140 heads of state sent him congratulatory messages upon his election as the President... Read article

Freedom’s Real Enemies

Politicians in Washington, D.C., love to manufacture a crisis. The crisis generates fear within the citizenry, thereby allowing the federal government to centralize more and more power. During a crisis, the citizenry becomes much more forgiving of federal abuses and accommodating of federal encroachments than it otherwise would be without a crisis. Hence, we have a federal “war on drugs,” and a “war on poverty,” and a “war on terror,” and an “oil crisis,” and an “energy crisis,” and a “domestic terrorism... Read article

City on a Hill to City in the Gutter

Reality is Evasive… “Corrupted by wealth and power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They’ve got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side. But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen.”  Huey Long    Huey Long (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935) was a maverick Democratic politician from Louisiana who opposed and berated the Federal Reserve,... Read article

Shocking Testimonials from the Mavi Marmara survivors. And one Israeli fembot

By Lauren Booth One of the most striking trends following the flotilla attack has been how quickly Israeli hasbara is being exposed by internet journalists. The doctored IOF audio clips, where amateurs with mock Arab accents hiss ‘Go back to Aushwitz’ to Israeli naval officers. Well they didn’t take long to pull apart did they? Then there are the (so-pathetic-they’re-almost-funny claims the flotilla was linked to Al Quaeda. I laughed out loud to read in an Israeli paper that humanitarian activist (and former US... Read article

Fantasizing a U.S.-Israel Relationship Without Hypocrisy

The worst thing that ever happened to the Jewish people is the Holocaust. The second worst thing that ever happened to the Jewish people is the state of Israel. Things internationally are so dispiriting there’s nothing left to do but fantasize. I picture Turkey, as a member of NATO, demanding that the alliance come to its defense after being attacked by Israel. Under Article 5 of the NATO charter an armed attack on one member is deemed to constitute an armed attack on all members. That is the ostensible reason NATO... Read article

U.S. Seeks to Punish Iran with New Sanctions Resolution

The United Nations Security Council yesterday passed a fourth sanctions resolution against Iran for its insistence on enriching its own uranium under its nuclear program and for what the resolution described as insufficient cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Experts criticized the U.S. policy of continually seeking tougher sanctions on Iran by pointing out how ineffective it is. Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and current director of the Peterson Institute for International ... Read article

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