The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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EDIT of 23 Oct 2012: Iran has direct access to the sea to its south and controls the Strait of Hormuz. It has a direct water connection to Russia via Eastern Europe. We would not be too hard on Mitt Romney, he is no more or less ignorant than Barack Obama talking about aircraft carriers and submarines. The fact is that both of these individuals mean well, but they are puppets in a theater, the outcome of the election is already known (Romney by 1%, thank you Karl Rove and Greg Palast), and we will have another four years of two-party tyranny and military-industrial complex serving the 1% and betraying the public interest. The third party candidates debating tonight are part of the problem–doing the wrong things righter instead of the right thing. The right thing is We the People Reform Coalition. Tell others, please.
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These pieces swim together nicely.
SPAIN: Scientists Link Deadly Earthquake To Drilling Wells
Farmers drilling ever deeper wells over decades to water their crops likely contributed to a deadly earthquake in southern Spain last year, a new study suggests. The findings may add to concerns about the effects of new energy extraction and waste disposal technologies.
ITALY: Earthquake predictions and a triumph of scientific illiteracy in an Italian court
An Italian court sentenced scientists to jail time for not having a functioning crystal ball ahead of the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila. The arguments of science and reason fell on deaf ears.
USA Earthquake-Causing Fracking to Be Allowed within 500 Feet of Nuclear Plants
The American government has officially stated that fracking can cause earthquakes. Some fracking companies now admit this fact The scientific community agrees. See this, this, this, this and this. Earthquakes can – of course – damage nuclear power plants. For example, even the operator of Fukushima and the Japanese government now admit that the nuclear cores might have started melting down before the tsuanmi ever hit. More here.
Phi Beta Iota: The chasm between what can be known and what is decided in our name has never been greater.
See Also:
Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies (Princeton University Press, 1999)
Charles Perrow, The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters (Princeton University Press, 2011)
Michael Klare
4.0 out of 5 stars All the Negatives, None of the Positives,October 22, 2012
I know and admire Professor Michael Klare and have given his earlier books such as his first blockbuster, Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict With a New Introduction by the Author rave reviews. This book is valuable as a resource but I fear that it is the last beating of the dead horse Michael has been riding for the past decade. His other books also merit reading,
Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (American Empire Project)
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy
but the theme remains the same:
01) We're at Peak Everything
02) Special Interests own Governments
03) Governments go to war for Special Interests
While Michael calls for changes in our consumption, this book is missing both the convergence of the evil extractive interests and the emerging good of collective intelligence aka crowd sourcing, and the astonishingly fast forwarding of information technologies and “Open Source Everything” as a meme that I anticipate the Pirate Party (a party that went from non-existent to 50+ countries in 3.5 years) may adopt.
Source: Coverup: Risk of Nuclear Melt-Down in U.S. Higher than it was at Fukushima
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Source: Coverup: Risk of Nuclear Melt-Down in U.S. Higher than it was at Fukushima
