25 Tons of Bombs Wipe Afghan Town Off Map | Danger Room. An American-led military unit pulverized an Afghan village in Kandahar’s Arghandab River Valley in October, after it became overrun with Taliban insurgents. It’s hard to understand how turning an entire village into dust fits into America’s counterinsurgency strategy — which supposedly prizes the local people’s loyalty above all else. But it’s the latest indication that Gen. David Petraeus, the counterinsurgency icon, is prosecuting a frustrating war with surprising levels of violence.
Some observers already fear a backlash brewing in the area. Paula Broadwell, a West Point graduate and Petraeus biographer, described the destruction of Tarok Kolache in a guest post for Tom Ricks’ Foreign Policy blog. Or, at least, she described its aftermath: Nothing remains of Tarok Kolache after Lt. Col. After two failed attempts at clearing the village resulted in U.S and Afghan casualties, Flynn’s response was to take the village out. And that was for starters, Broadwell writes. See Also: BlackListed News. A propos des « dix stratégies de manipulation de masses » attribué à Noam Chomsky par Jean BRICMONT. « Un vrai système d’éducation donnerait des cours d’autodéfense intellectuelle ». (Noam Chomsky) => (en) => (fr) Catéchisme de la manipulation selon les « Dix Stratégies de Manipulation » à travers les médias inspirées de façon simplificatrice du linguiste Noam Chomsky :: => 1/ La stratégie de la distraction2/ Créer des problèmes, puis offrir des solutions3/ La stratégie de la dégradation4/ La stratégie du différé5/ S’adresser au public comme à des enfants en bas-âge6/ Faire appel à l’émotionnel plutôt qu’à la réflexion7/ Maintenir le public dans l’ignorance et la bêtise8/ Encourager le public à se complaire dans la médiocrité9/ Remplacer la révolte par la culpabilité10/ Connaître les individus mieux qu’ils ne se connaissent eux-mêmes Sinon, ces points bien qu’anonymes restent très pertinents. 1/ La stratégie de la distraction => Ll’idéologie du sport : => « M.
Or. Julian Assange (the THINKER) and the Computer Conspiracy “To destroy this invisible government” « zunguzung. (en Español) (auf Deutsch) (in het nederlands) “To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us, and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not. The piece of writing (via) which that quote introduces is intellectually substantial, but not all that difficult to read, so you might as well take a look at it yourself.
He begins by positing that conspiracy and authoritarianism go hand in hand, arguing that since authoritarianism produces resistance to itself — to the extent that its authoritarianism becomes generally known — it can only continue to exist and function by preventing its intentions (the authorship of its authority?) Authoritarian regimes give rise to forces which oppose them by pushing against the individual and collective will to freedom, truth and self realization. Ignoring The Elephant In the Euro - Paul Krugman Blog. When the idea of the euro was first broached, there was extensive debate about whether Europe constituted an “optimum currency area”; the key question was whether European nations would have an adequate way to adjust to “asymmetric shocks”, which left some economies more depressed than others. When countries have their own currencies, they can deal with such shocks, at least in part, by devaluing — an argument made most eloquently by none other than Milton Friedman (pdf).
Lacking that alternative, something else is needed. So now we have a euro crisis, which — to me at least — hinges crucially on that very issue. What makes Greek problems so intractable is the fact that there’s little hope for growth for years to come, because Greek costs and prices are out of line and will need years of painful deflation to get back in line.
Spain wouldn’t be in trouble at all if it weren’t for the fact that the bubble years left its costs too high, again requiring years of painful deflation. Web of Debt - How Banks And The Federal Reserve Are Bankrupting The Planet... Op-Ed Columnist - A Money Too Far (Paul Krugman) Ricardo Semler. Semco 1980–1990[edit] Semler went to work for his father's company, originally called Semler & Company, then a mixer and agitator supplier in São Paulo. Semler clashed with his father, Antonio Semler, who supported a traditional autocratic style of management whereas young Semler favoured a decentralised, participatory style. Furthermore Ricardo favoured diversification away from the struggling shipbuilding industry, which his father opposed. After heated clashes, the son threatened to leave the company.
Rather than see this happen, Antonio Semler resigned as CEO and vested majority ownership in his son in 1980 when Ricardo was 21 years old. Attempts to introduce a matrix organisational structure in 1986 failed to achieve desired improvements.[2] In the late 1980's three engineers at Semco proposed setting up a Nucleus of Technological Innovation (NTI) to develop new businesses and product lines which Semler endorsed. Semco 1990–2004[edit] Other activities[edit] See also[edit] SubMedia. The Baseline Scenario. Bernanke’s Sorcery Will Fail (Roubini Global Economics - RGE Monitor -- U.S. EconoMonitor) They are the three elements in most magic tricks: a diversion, then a lightness of fingers and, finally, the astonishing result. The first is called the “pledge”, the second the “turn” and the third the “prestige”, the last meant to be accompanied by the magician’s “hey presto” call ringing over the heads of the spectators.
On March 15th 2009 US Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke had his hey presto moment when he talked about the green shoots of recovery. If his predecessor was known as the Maestro then Bernanke should be bestowed the title of Grand Sorcerer. What we were watching was a magic trick performed on a phenomenal scale by the US Federal Reserve and the US Treasury, the Penn and Teller of the American economy. They together decided on the trick, set it up and then pulled off what looked like a miraculous economic recovery. But then the central bank kept telling us – those of us who have spent a professional lifetime tracking its every move – that it was all for real. Gerald Celente - Greece Hedge Fund Crisis Being Used to Deflect What is Really Going On. The Global Debt Bomb - Forbes.com. Ralph Schoenman: The Hidden History of Zionism (1988) Inquiry into stolen climate e-mails. Details of a university inquiry into e-mails stolen from scientists at one of the UK's leading climate research units are likely to be made public next week.
Announcement of a chair of the inquiry and terms of reference will probably be made on Monday, a source says. The University of East Anglia's (UEA) press office did not confirm the date. But a spokesperson said information about the investigation into the hack at UEA's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) would be made public very soon. Scientists will be scrutinising the choice of chair and the terms of reference. One senior climate scientist told me that the chair would have to be a person accepted by both mainstream climate scientists and sceptics as a highly respected figure without strong connections to either group.
BBC News understands that senior individuals at UEA have acknowledged the potential damage to the university's reputation from the CRU affair and are anxious to clear the institution's name. Lawmakers Probe Climate Emails. Congress may probe faked global warming data. The US Congress could start an investigation into leaked emails which suggest climate change statistics have been consistently manipulated to make the case for anthropogenic global warming more credible. The emails leaked from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the UK - which claims to be the repository for the most comprehensive set of climate data on the planet - contain what many observers see as clear evidence that scientists have been altering that data to fit in with their man-made global warming beliefs.
Earlier this week, Oklahoma senator James Inhofe said on his website that the UEA emails suggest researchers 'cooked the science to make this thing look as if the science was settled, when all the time of course we knew it was not.' Other senators are also considering whether an investigation is warranted. In a transcript of a radio show, Inhofe said: "Today, I will discuss… scientific integrity and how to improve it.
Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute. Stagnating Temperatures: Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be cooperating. The Danish Meteorological Institute predicts that temperatures in December, when the city will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be one degree above the long-term average. Otherwise, however, not much is happening with global warming at the moment. The Earth's average temperatures have stopped climbing since the beginning of the millennium, and it even looks as though global warming could come to a standstill this year.
Ironically, climate change appears to have stalled in the run-up to the upcoming world summit in the Danish capital, where thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, business leaders and environmental activists plan to negotiate a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Billions of euros are at stake in the negotiations. Reached a Plateau The differences among individual regions of the world are considerable. Mixed Messages. Some Verification Of Hadley CRU Files Hacked. Global Warming ate my data. High performance access to file storage The world's source for global temperature record admits it's lost or destroyed all the original data that would allow a third party to construct a global temperature record.
The destruction (or loss) of the data comes at a convenient time for the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in East Anglia - permitting it to snub FoIA requests to see the data. The CRU has refused to release the raw weather station data and its processing methods for inspection - except to hand-picked academics - for several years. Instead, it releases a processed version, in gridded form. NASA maintains its own (GISSTEMP), but the CRU Global Climate Dataset, is the most cited surface temperature record by the UN IPCC. So any errors in CRU cascade around the world, and become part of "the science". Professor Phil Jones, the activist-scientist who maintains the data set, has cited various reasons for refusing to release the raw data. As for the raw station data, Skeptics Handbook II! Global Bullies Want Your Money.
Finally, Part II in the Skeptics Handbook series – the bluster and bluff, the deceit, and the money. Enjoy & Share. It’s unthinkable. Big Government has spent $79 billion on the climate industry, 3000 times more than Big Oil. Leading climate scientists won’t debate in public and won’t provide their data. What do they hide? Twenty pages of concise commentary and cartoons: The short synopsis of how we paid to find a crisis.The one flaw that wipes out the catastrophe.
“Bullying is their root strength. It’s going first to Australian Senators Full color copies are being printed right now so that all Australian Senators and crucial people in the Australian Government can have this in their hands next week. Thousands of copies will be printed in the next two weeks in Australia, and be distributed to journalists and other leaders. I welcome your feedback and ideas, especially this weekend before it goes to the printers. Rating: 5.5/10 (2 votes cast) Skeptics Handbook II! Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released « Watts Up With That? Response from CRU in interview with another website, see end of this post. The details on this are still sketchy, we’ll probably never know what went on. But it appears that University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit has been hacked and many many files have been released by the hacker or person unknown. Original image was for Met Office – corrected This image source: www.cru.uea.ac.uk I’m currently traveling and writing this from an airport, but here is what I know so far: An unknown person put postings on some climate skeptic websites that advertised an FTP file on a Russian FTP server, here is the message that was placed on the Air Vent today: {*style:<i>We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps.
The file was large, about 61 megabytes, containing hundreds of files. It contained data, code, and emails from Phil Jones at CRU to and from many people. I’ve seen the file, it appears to be genuine and from CRU. From: Timo H‰meranta To: Mike, Hacked e-mails fuel climate change debate. A hacker has ignited an online debate on climate change. Hacker steals e-mails from climate researchers, posts them online The documents ignite an online debate about climate science Some bloggers claim the scientists colluded on their findings about the climate Others say the correspondence shows their research is thorough (WIRED) -- An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming and posted them online. Global warming skeptics are seizing on portions of the messages as evidence that scientists are colluding and warping data to fit the theory of global warming, but researchers say the e-mails are being taken out of context and just show scientists engaged in frank discussion.
"We are aware that information from a server in one area of the university has been made available on public Web sites," the statement read. Leaked FOIA files 62 mb of gold « the Air Vent. This is the biggest news ever broken here. The first thing I have to say is that I have no connection to the source of these files. It was left as a link on my blog while I was hunting for cloaked deers (fruitlessly) in the Upper Penninsula. These files are real IMO but they cannot be one hundred percent verified as such. How can we be certain but IMO, real. They were potentially scraped from multiple computers in my opinion by a hacker or an insider involved in some of the endless FOIA requests.
I’ll say this delicately – this person risked one f..k of a lot to show us this data. I need some legal advice regarding the files received today. There are several comments about scientists wanting to hide their environmentalist views to promote the best results. What I need to know is what are my legal obligations as to posting a link to this file and what is allowed to be shown from it. One of the biggest criticisms of skeptics is non-publication. Like this: Like Loading... The global warmist conspiracy - and the Australian link. The leaked emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit indicate an astonishing conspiracy of the world’s leading warmist scientists, involving collusion, rigged evidence, suppression of dissent, the possibly illegal destruction of evidence under FOI request, and the smearing of sceptical scientists.
(To the BBC, however, it’s just about naughty hackers - not whistleblowers. To the Guardian, it’s about poor scientists being frustrated by the “intense scrutiny”, with the celebration of the death of mild-mannered sceptic John Daly being scientists ”reacting badly to the personal attacks [from sceptics]”.) I’ve published some of the most extraordinary of the emails so far, but now there’s also an Australian link which shows just how closely activists and these scientists, as well as possibly the CSIRO, worked together to present the most alarmist scenarios.
Well, yes, indeed. Money, money, money. The BBC’s amazing U-turn on climate change. Science & Environment | What happened to global warming?