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2009/11/252009/11/28

Journal: Climategate Update

03 Environmental Degradation, Academia, Commerce, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Key Players, Media, Policies

ClimateGate For Dummies

Core reading on one of the greatest scandals in modern history. How prominent scientists skewed the data on global warming

Click on Globe for a compendium of articles and videos on what was quickly dubbed as “ClimateGate.”

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ClimateGate: The Very Ugly Side of Climate Science

Truth be told, scientific research has been a blood sport for centuries. But a recent scandal that’s been dubbed ClimateGate is showing a very ugly side of climate science

“This is not a smoking gun; this is a mushroom cloud,” said Patrick J. Michaels, a climatologist who has long faulted evidence pointing to human-driven warming and is criticized in the documents. …

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2009/11/242009/11/24

Journal: UK Emails on Fraudulent Climate Science

03 Environmental Degradation, Academia, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Media, Non-Governmental

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EDITORIAL: Hiding evidence of global cooling Junk science exposed among climate-change believers
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Scientific progress depends on accurate and complete data. It also relies on replication. The past couple of days have uncovered some shocking revelations about the baloney practices that pass as sound science about climate change.

It was announced Thursday afternoon that computer hackers had obtained 160 megabytes of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England. Those e-mails involved communication among many scientific researchers and policy advocates with similar ideological positions all across the world. Those purported authorities were brazenly discussing the destruction and hiding of data that did not support global-warming claims.

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2009/11/17

Journal: Sarah Palin Cover Girl

Cultural Intelligence, Media

Patronizing Assholes — Sexist or Patronizing?

Phi Beta Iota: Poor Newsweek. First they can't afford a photographer of their own, then they develop a cover and story that is patronizing in the extreme, rather than sexist. And then to make it worse, their cover story is so badly ranked beneath stories about the story that they are inviisble. Great photo. Memorable. Newsweek, on the other hand, is NOT memorable.

2009/11/172009/12/05

Event: 7-10 Jan 10 University of Washington Journalism That Matters Pacific Northwest as Petri Dish for Emergent Citizen-Oriented Journalism

Civil Society, Collaboration Zones, Media

Event Details

Across the United States, the media ecosystem is quickly evolving. Some main-stream news organizations are shrinking, as advertising decouples from journalism. Remarkable new technologies and the work of committed citizens are making it easier for us to build unique communities that share civic passion and purpose.
In the Pacific Northwest, this evolution is proceeding rapidly.

Join some 150 editors, writers, broacasters, bloggers, producers, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, educators, students, digital entrepreneurs, media activists, community journalists, public advocates and public-policy experts for, “Reimagining News and Community in the Pacific Northwest.”

2009/11/14

Worth a Look: McClatchy’s Inside Iraq

Media

Iraqi to American Blog

ABOUT THIS BLOG

“Inside Iraq” is a blog updated by Iraqi journalists working for McClatchy Newspapers. They are based in Baghdad and outlying provinces. These are firsthand accounts of their experiences. Their complete names are withheld for security purposes.

Phi Beta Iota: We are impressed by McClatchy, and we are impressed by this Blog. We are reminded of the blogs in the early days, when US contractors would get $50 million no-bid contracts to fix things, and the Iraqi engineers who built the bridge/factory/road would come up in a blog and say they could do it faster, better, cheaper (one tenth to one one hundredth of the cost). No one listened. The “system” has become dysfunctionally stupid.

2009/11/142009/11/14

Journal: IndyMedia Wanted Poster on CIA Renditioners–Significant for Two Reasons

02 Diplomacy, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Civil Society, Ethics, Government, Law Enforcement, Media, Military

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TURN IN THESE CIA FUGITIVES : They’ll get 5-8 Years

By Carolyn Keuhn

NOV.4, 2009: Italy convicted 23 CIA rendition perps. All could be imprisoned if they leave the US.

An Italian judge on November 4, 2009, convicted 23 CIA agents and two Italian agents over their role in the 2003 kidnapping of a Muslim cleric. Milan judge Oscar Magi sentenced former Milan CIA station chief Bob Seldon Lady (on left in PHOTO with Luciano Pironi) to 8 years and 22 other agents (PHOTOS) to 5 years in prison for their role in the abduction of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar. Also convicted was Air Force Colonel Joseph Romano (COLOR PHOTO), who was responsible for the CIA kidnapping team’s flight to Egypt from a U.S. air base in Italy.

CONTACT: Interpol, the international police agency, by email or at this FAX number in Switzerland: +33 4 72 44 71 63. (Refer to the warrant number given in the Robert Lady photo caption.) Or contact your local or national police.

The US is shielding the perps, whose names and PHOTOS are shown [at original source].

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2009/11/132009/11/13

Journal: Versailles on the Potomac Implodes…Again

03 Economy, 10 Security, Ethics, Government, Media, Military

Chuck Spinney sends….

The Afghan debacle is becoming a case study of how political debate in Versailles drips in a naturally self-organizing way to protect the dysfunctional status quo.

As I indicated yesterday and in September, the fundamental flaw that set the stage for the current policy making fiasco was the unexamined analytical hole in General McChrystal's escalation strategy — namely, its dependence of the rapid expansion of the corrupt and ineffective Afghan national security forces. McChrystal did not analyze this corruption/ineffectiveness issue, but that crucial omission was ignored the hoorah accompanying the immediate leaking of report by his allies buried somewhere in the Versailles apparat.

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