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Christopher Ketcham: Intellectual Prostitution and the Myth of Objectivity - Truthdig - 0 views

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Christopher Ketcham: Intellectual Prostitution and the Myth of Objectivity - Truthdig

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  • “There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”
  • thinkahol * on 06 Apr 11
     
    "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Susan Thur

Independence of Oil Myth-Video - 0 views

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  • Susan Thur on 19 Jun 10
     
    Independence of Oil Myth-Video
thinkahol *

Boff Whalley: 'In defence of anarchy' - UK Politics, UK - The Independent - 0 views

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Boff Whalley: 'In defence of anarchy' - UK Politics The Independent

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  • thinkahol * on 13 Aug 11
     
    It's the catch-all term that's being used to describe this week's riots. But is this really anarchy? Not even close, says Chumbawumba's Boff Whalley, a self-professed anarchist
thinkahol *

The Propaganda System - Noam Chomsky excerpted from the book Stenographers to Power - 0 views

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  • thinkahol * on 03 Aug 10
     
    The popular cultural representation of the U.S. media is that they are adversarial to, and independent of, state and corporate power. This well cultivated and consciously promoted image quickly dissolves under the lens of scrutiny.
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Free Press | Media reform through education, organizing and advocacy - 0 views

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  • thinkahol * on 02 Sep 10
     
    Free Press is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to reform the media. Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, quality journalism, and universal access to communications.
anonymous

Radical Islam stirs in China's remote west - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 28 Jul 08 - Cached
  • In a backstreet of the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, Chinese authorities have been spray-painting signs on dusty mud brick walls to warn against what it says is a new enemy -- the Islamic Liberation Party.
  • China says Hizb ut-Tahrir are terrorists operating in the far western region of Xinjiang, home to some 8 million Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uighurs, many of whom chafe under Chinese rule.
  • As in another strife-hit Chinese region, Tibet, many Uighurs resent the growing economic and cultural impact of Han Chinese who have in some cases been encouraged by the government to move to far-flung and under-populated parts of the country. Beijing accuses militant Uighurs of working with al Qaeda to use terror to bring about an independent state called East Turkestan.
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  • But it seems unlikely they represent the threat to Xinjiang that China likes to portray, said Dru Gladney, a Uighur expert and president of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College, California. "For most Uighurs who are activists, though some of them are very religious in their Islam, their main goal is sovereignty for Xinjiang. Hizb ut-Tahrir doesn't support that. They support a worldwide Caliphate, not any one independent region," he said.
  • In Kashgar, a city close to the Pakistan and Afghan borders, some women not only cover their heads, but also veil their faces. In some cases, dark brown cloths envelope the whole head. Clocks in many mosques, restaurants, cafes and shops are set to Xinjiang time. This is two hours behind Beijing time, the official standard for the entire country, which means China's sun does not set until after 10 p.m. in Kashgar in the summer.
  • Many are not convinced Hizb ut-Tahrir is the threat the Chinese government says it is in Xinjiang. "This does not exist. They have come up with this group's name themselves," said Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the exiled World Uyghur Congress. "They are trying to mislead the world and deflect from concern for the Uighur people."
  • China maintains the threat is real. Hizb ut-Tahrir is likewise banned in countries such as Uzbekistan, where it has also been blamed for violence.
  • In November, China's Xinhua news agency announced sentences ranging from death to life in jail for six Uighurs accused of "splittism and organising and leading terrorist groups", and implicated Hizb ut-Tahrir.
  • "What we want is simple -- freedom," said a Uighur resident of Xinjiang's regional capital, Urumqi, who asked not be identified, fearing repercussions with the authorities. "But there are too many Han and too few of us."
thinkahol *

YouTube - ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD | OFFICIAL RELEASE | 2011 - 0 views

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YouTube - ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD | OFFICIAL RELEASE 2011

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  • thinkahol * on 22 Feb 11
     
    This is the Official Online (Youtube) Release of "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward" by Peter Joseph. [30 subtitles ADDED!] On Jan. 15th, 2011, "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward" was released theatrically to sold out crowds in 60 countries; 31 languages; 295 cities and 341 Venues. It has been noted as the largest non-profit independent film release in history. This is a non-commercial work and is available online for free viewing and no restrictions apply to uploading/download/posting/linking - as long as no money is exchanged. A Free DVD Torrent of the full 2 hr and 42 min film in 30 languages is also made available through the main website [below], with instructions on how one can download and burn the movie to DVD themselves. His other films are also freely available in this format.
thinkahol *

Top Ten Reasons for a New 9/11 Investigation | Strike-The-Root: A Journal Of Liberty - 0 views

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Top Ten Reasons for New 9_11 Investigation | Strike-The-Root: A Journal Of Liberty

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  • thinkahol * on 02 Aug 11
     
    The 9/11 attacks have been used to destroy America in ways that no mere terrorist assault could ever do.   And that is the number one reason for a new, independent, unbiased investigation into the events of September 11, 2001.
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Fox Viewers Overwhelmingly Think We Should Prepare for Alien Invasion Before Fighting C... - 0 views

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Fox Viewers Overwhelmingly Think We Should Prepare for Alien Invasion Before Fighting Climate Change | AlterNet

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  • thinkahol * on 21 Aug 11
     
    A new (supposedly) NASA-funded study postulating that aliens may attack humans over climate change had all the ingredients for a perfect Fox faux controversy - it bolstered their anti-science narrative, painted their opponents as clownish radicals, and highlighted wasteful government spending on a supposedly liberal casue. Fox reported the "news from NASA" several times several times today, presenting it as official "taxpayer funded research." A chyron on Fox and Friends read: "NASA: Global warming may provoke an [alien] attack." But as Business Insider pointed out, they're "wrong" - "That report was not funded by NASA. It was written by an independent group of scientists and bloggers. One of those happens to work at NASA." NASA distanced itself from the report as well, calling reports linking the agency to it "not true." Host Megyn Kelly finally corrected the record this afternoon, saying, "I was making that up." But before she did, she was so bemused by the study that she directed her viewers to complete a poll on her website which asked how we should respond to the study: "Immediately increase efforts to curb greenhouse gases," "Develop weapons to kill the Aliens FIRST," or "Gently suggest scientists research how to create job." Not surprisingly, most suggested they research something else. But more than six times as many respondents (19 percent to 3 percent) said we should focus on building weapons to kill aliens before curbing greenhouse gases. Watch a compilation:
anonymous

TP: Die nukleare Mogelpackung - 0 views

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  • Frankreich ist stolz auf seine 58 Atommeiler, die ihm seine energetische Unabhängigkeit garantieren. Dieses und andere Ammenmärchen deckt nun eine europäische Studie auf Die Studie wurde von den europäischen Grünen in Auftrag gegeben und will den gängigsten Mythen, die von der französischen Atomlobby unablässig propagiert werden, den Garaus bereiten.
  • Noch dazu hatte die Beziehung Frankreichs zur Nukleartechnologie unter denkbar schlechten Vorzeichen begonnen, war doch Messmer höchstpersönlich 1962 im Zuge eines Unfalls bei einem Atomversuch in Algerien verstrahlt worden. Den ehemaligen Premier dürfte es allerdings nicht so arg erwischt haben, ist er doch im stolzen Alter von 91 Jahren verstorben. Ganz im Gegensatz zu den Veteranen und einheimischen Anrainern der französischen Nuklearversuche, deren Leiden Messmer bis zu seinem letzten Atemzug nicht anerkennen wollte (Die Verstrahlten der Republik).
  • Stolze 77% des französischen Stroms waren 2007 nuklearen Ursprungs. Sarkozy hat sich, wie seine Vorgänger, wohl durch diese beeindruckenden Zahlen der Nuklearindustrie blenden lassen. In einer anderen Lesart fällt dieser imposante Prozentsatz nämlich etwas kläglicher aus: Sieht man sich nämlich den gesamten Energiekonsum des Landes an, fällt der Anteil der Kernkraft auf 16% zurück! Fast drei Viertel der verbrauchten Energie kommen in Frankreich von fossilen Brennstoffen, und da wiederum zur Hälfte vom Erdöl.
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  • Die Studie der europäischen Grünen weist zudem darauf hin, dass Frankreich nach 35 Jahren Kernkraft einen höheren Erdölverbrauch hat als Deutschland oder Italien, das ja nach Tschernobyl aus der Kernkraft ausgestiegen war.
  • laut den Analysen der EU-Grünen haben die Kernkraftwerke in Frankreich einen erklecklichen Energieverbrauch. Auch mit der so hoch angepriesenen energetischen Unabhängigkeit des Landes sei es nicht sonderlich weit her. Gemessen am Gesamtenergieverbrauch des Landes belief sich diese angebliche Unabhängigkeit 2007 auf 8,5%, statt der offiziell verkündeten 50%!
  • Auch die Kosten des Uran-Imports wurden in dieser Studie berücksichtigt.
  • Zudem betreibt der französische Energiekonzern EDF trotz der Kernkraft auch noch Kohle- und Erdölkraftwerke, wovon eines aus dem Jahre 1968 stammt. EDF hat kürzlich entschieden, wieder 2600 MW aus den Erdölzentralen zu beziehen. So sauber und rentabel scheint die Atomenergie also nicht wirklich zu sein.
  • Wirklich wurde der EPR nur an Frankreich und Finnland verkauft. In beiden Fällen kommt es zu erhebliche Verzögerungen beim Bau. Der EPR in Flamanville am Ärmelkanal ist noch immer nicht fertig und hat bereits eine Budgetüberschreitung von 20% gezeitigt. 2012 soll es dann endlich so weit sein. Die finnischen Bauarbeiten haben zu 38 Monaten Verspätung und 2,5 Milliarden Verlusten geführt.
  • 3 Millionen Haushalte befinden sich laut EDF in einer prekären, energetischen Situation. Sprich: Sie können ihre Stromrechnung nicht mehr begleichen, und ihnen ist im Winter kalt.
  • och dazu haben die ungewohnten Kältewellen dieses Winters in Frankreich gezeigt, dass EDF kurzeitigen Konsumspitzen, so z.B. um 18 Uhr, wenn alle nach Hause kommen, nicht nachkommen kann. Die Kernkraft ist laut "Sortir du Nucléaire" eine Basisenergie und punktuellem erhöhtem Energiebedarf nicht gewachsen
  • noch letzten Januar vermeldeten die hochaktiven französischen Kernkraftgegner, dass die Umweltkontrollen sämtlicher Atommeiler Frankreichs nicht mehr funktionstüchtig seien. Die Genehmigungen der Laboratorien, die für die Messungen der Emissionen zuständig sind, seien allesamt ausgelaufen. Diese Laboratorien sind EDF-Unternehmen. EDF kontrolliert also die Emissionen von EDF, was nicht gerade Vertrauen einflößt.
  • Trotz alledem werkelt Frankreich, bzw. Präsident Sarkozy, fleißig an einer weltweiten Atomrenaissance. Das französische Staatsoberhaupt hat EPR-Kernkraftwerke an Libyen, Algerien, Marokko, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabien, Jordanien und Südafrika verkauft, das allerdings jetzt darauf verzichtet. Kürzlich hat Sarkozy 4 Stück davon an Berlusconi und das noch atomkraftfreie Italien verkauft.
  • bei all diesen EPR-Verkäufen vorerst bloß um Verkaufsversprechen
  • Was den Strompreis anbelangt so sei dieser ein wenig niedriger als in den anderen EU-Ländern, aber bei weitem nicht so billig, wie von der Atomlobby versprochen.
  • abgesehen davon, dass eine Weiterverbreitung der französischen Atomtechnologie dem obersten nuklearen Handlungsreisenden offenbar gar kein Kopfzerbrechen bereitet. Sogar im Falle von "Schurkenstaaten" wie Libyen.
anonymous

The Nation: Big Pharma, Bad Science - 0 views

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  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • The editors declared that they were dropping their policy stipulating that authors of review articles of medical studies could not have financial ties to drug companies whose medicines were being analyzed
  • The reason? The journal could no longer find enough independent experts.
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  • So the journal settled for a new standard: Their reviewers can have received no more than $10,000 from companies whose work they judge. Isn't that comforting?
Jack Frost

The Costs Of War « An independent voice of reason - 0 views

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  • Jack Frost on 11 May 10
     
    Some numbers and thoughts on the cost of war
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