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rhenley commented on the blog post Weiner is Back
I don’t understand all this chatter about those sleazy Clinton affairs here.
The topic of the day is Weiner, his wife, Huma Abedin, and both of their rather obvious naked ambitions:
Anthony Weiner’s Cardinal Sin: Rank Hypocrisy, Not Creepy Sexting
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/21/anthony-weiner-s-cardinal-sin-rank-hypocrisy-not-creepy-sexting.htmlWeiner’s Wife Didn’t Disclose Consulting Work She Did While Serving in State Dept.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/nyregion/weiners-wife-huma-abedin-failed-to-disclose-consulting-work-done-while-a-state-dept-aide.htmlSo much for an informed public discussion of political hacks that are not concerned in the least about the actual public role they are seeking beyond the mere artifice of the chosen.
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rhenley commented on the diary post The Revolution That’s Not Being Televised by David Swanson.
If anyone is looking to understand the forces at work which gave rise to the atomic bomb nuclear projects, and thus the associated lack of concerns over people who they involved on the periphery of those projects, ‘The making of the atomic bomb’ by Richard Rhodes is the book to read. You will not though [...]
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rhenley commented on the blog post Not Reading the Boston Bomber Suspect His Miranda Rights
I just noticed this article:
Boston bombing suspect under FBI surveillance for years, says mother
‘They told me my son was an extremist leader,’ says Zubeidat Tsarnaeva
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/20/boston-bombing-suspect-fbi-surveillance-claimAnd thanks to that Atlantic article you linked to, I noted this book:
The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism – Trevor Aaronson
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rhenley commented on the diary post Abrupt climate change and the dead end of eco-consumerism by cassiodorus.
There has been a large influx of crows here recently at my bird feeder, so I headed to the library to find a book about Crows. I have been reasonably impressed so far with this one: Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom for the Urban Wilderness by Lyanda Lynn Haupt http://thetanglednest.com/ The author’s suggestion to the question you [...]
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rhenley commented on the diary post “Fruitvale,” the new movie about Oscar Grant, gets rave reviews at Sundance UPDATE 2 by hotflashcarol.
There is also a short interview with Ryan Coogler on the Sundance site here talking about the film:
http://www.sundance.org/video/meet-the-artists-13-ryan-coogler/
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rhenley commented on the blog post Film Highlights Public Defenders Fighting Against Creation of Permanent Underclass
There’s also a shorter interview with Dawn about the film on the Sundance site here:
http://www.sundance.org/video/meet-the-artists-13-dawn-porter
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rhenley commented on the diary post Obama EPA Shut Down Texas Shale Gas Water Contamination Study by Steve Horn.
The problem really is the loosening of environmental standards over the years and the collusion with industry that has been ongoing for quite some time.
Don’t miss the work that ProPublica has been doing on these issues also:
Poisoning the Well: How the Feds Let Industry Pollute the Nation’s Underground Water Supply
http://www.propublica.org/article/poisoning-the-well-how-the-feds-let-industry-pollute-the-nations-undergroun -
rhenley commented on the diary post Alaska Blog and Media Coverage of the Kulluk Grounding – Updated by EdwardTeller.
Live tracking for the tow is showing here in the bay now:
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rhenley commented on the diary post List of Questions on Shell’s Alaska 2012 Arctic Drilling Fiasco Grows Longer by the Day by EdwardTeller.
That giant pie pan is actually a conical drilling unit, and looking at the plans for it here, doesn’t lend me to think of it as a pie pan:
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rhenley commented on the blog post New York Times Finally Shows Up to Cover Bradley Manning Proceedings (And Their Story Is Sloppy)
You should at least notify them of the Times of the problems. That way possibly they can pull it, or assign someone to cover their lack of details properly. Because as it stands, theirs is the report which is more likely to be read. For instance see here today:
NYT: In Manning case, “Jailers Become the Accused”
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rhenley commented on the blog post World Bank President Says Please Reduce Carbon Emissions
Well the basic issue is that our elites never frame the Climate problem in a way which we can address, nor do they use or state the actual data for the current state of affairs. Kim’s suggestion 4dC is actually avoidable is patently misleading today.
They all expect to be able to buy their way out of it while leaving the rest of us to deal with the consequences.
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rhenley commented on the blog post World Bank President Says Please Reduce Carbon Emissions
IF anyone listened to last week’s Radio Ecoshock program with scientist Dr. Kevin Anderson speaking on why a 4d C temperature rise is rather inevitable; we can understand how far behind the actual curve the World Bank president and the rest of our elites are in discussing this problem in any substantive way so there can be a substantive change in our consumptive patterns.
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rhenley commented on the blog post Gallup: Obama Seen as Having Won Second Debate
I rather like Rocky better than Ms. Stein, but he is not on the ballot here.
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rhenley commented on the blog post Gallup: Obama Seen as Having Won Second Debate
And since Mitt now owns the voting machines, it won’t matter whatever Obama manages to say in any of the debates:
Through a closely held equity fund called Solamere, Mitt Romney and his wife, son and brother are major investors in an investment firm called H.I.G. Capital. H.I.G. in turn holds a majority share and three out of five board members in Hart Intercivic, a company that owns the notoriously faulty electronic voting machines that will count the ballots in swing state Ohio November 7. Hart machines will also be used elsewhere in the United States…. In other words, a candidate for the presidency of the United States, and his brother, wife and son, have a straight-line financial interest in the voting machines that could decide this fall’s election.
Does the Romney Family Now Own Your e-Vote?
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rhenley commented on the blog post Romney’s Small Lies Finally Catch Up to Him
Willard’s repeated dishonestly shows he is unprincipled and characterless.
Well that is one of Romney’s best attributes so I can’t understand why you could suggest that he doesn’t have any principals.
You probably just don’t like him very much.
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rhenley commented on the blog post Romney’s Small Lies Finally Catch Up to Him
I don’t know what you are smoking, but it would be better to stick to the facts that are presented and not what you might prefer instead:
I think Candy Crowley felt sorry for President Obama, because he didn’t answer the question
Crowley told me she tried to clear up the question of how Obama had originally characterized the attack because “I was trying to move the conversation along. They got stuck on this.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/17/candy-crowley-injects-herself-into-the-presidential-debate.html -
rhenley commented on the blog post Romney’s Small Lies Finally Catch Up to Him
The exact phrasing Mr. O used is noted in this Guardian article today, since the substance of that T word was under dispute by the very principled Mr Romney:
In his Rose Garden speech Obama did use the phrase “acts of terror”, but he did so in the plural and within a general discourse on the threats facing the US rather than as a specific reference to Benghazi.
Candy Crowley takes heat from Republicans over Benghazi interjection
Moderator of the second debate criticised for fact-checking Romney on point about president’s remarks over Libya attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/17/candy-crowley-republicans-benghazi-interjectionThis was political semantics at its best on display last evening.
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rhenley commented on the diary post What Really Happened When Shell Oil’s Containment Dome Failed in Puget Sound Last Month? PEER Seeks to Find Out by EdwardTeller.
I’m sure the continued drilling fact was lost on everyone because the headlines suggested the drilling ‘stopped’. However it was clear that it didn’t with a closer read. For instance:
Shell has a flotilla of ships in the Arctic waters, and company officials say they still hope to drill several pilot holes 1,400 feet deep [...]
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rhenley commented on the diary post Why Joe Biden Will Probably Win the Vice Presidential Debate by inoljt.
Well I don’t see how you can say that when Obama just let Romney walk all over his position last week. That is why people suggest that Obama ‘lost’. However, when you compare what Rocky Anderson was saying during Democracy Now’s Expand the Debate that evening, then clearly Obama lost because he refused to cover [...]
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rhenley commented on the diary post Why Joe Biden Will Probably Win the Vice Presidential Debate by inoljt.
Well everyone expected the O man to win last week too. However it appears recent polling differs with those warm prognostications: By a 42% to 25% margin, more independents expect Ryan to do better than Biden in the debate. Biden Viewed Unfavorably, Divided Opinions about Ryan http://www.people-press.org/2012/10/10/biden-viewed-unfavorably-divided-opinions-about-ryan/1/ Romney takes slight lead over Obama in presidential [...]
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