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Hello This blog's been created in the hope that knowledge is power, and the certainty that ignorance is its antithesis. It's mainly a compilation of information and insight from various sources that I thought worth passing along. I'll be tossing in my grossly overvalued two cents, as well (denoted by asterisks). That said, I'd like to think I'm smart enough to know what I don't know, and that I'll make that clear when necessary. I'm happy to hear from folks. Disagreement is welcome ... but only if it's civil. You can be as vociferous as you wish ... but personal attacks will simply be flushed as soon as they're apparent. Let's do the mensch thing. Make sense? If so, you can reach me at unlikelysource@webtv.net. For easier navigation, links to previous pages can be found here: http://community.webtv.net/unlikelysource And a note on DEMOCRACY NOW! posts: I may be stating the obvious, but it's a good idea to check the DN! Headlines every weekday. There's a link to them at the bottom of each segment I post ... and of course you can go to http://www.democracynow.org on the rare days when I don't have anything from the program. Thanks for visiting ... I hope you'll find it worth your while. * Do what your conscience demands and your courage allows, and never be satisfied with the limits of either * HAITI RELIEF Here's a link to several groups with a rep for getting the right help where it's needed: http://community.webtv.net/unlikelysource/haitirelief

2/9 Tritium Hot Zone Expands Around Vermont Nuclear Plant by Susan Smallheer The Rutland Herald (Vermont) *Dirty water "Clean" energy http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/09-7 . Climate Scientists Hit Out at 'Sloppy' Melting Glaciers Error Experts who worked on the IPCC report say the error by social and biological scientists has unfairly maligned their work by David Adam The Guardian/UK http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/09-8 . Haiti Numbers - 27 Days After Quake by Bill Quigley *Numbers that don't add up in human terms, do they? http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/09 . When Snow Melts: Vancouver's Olympic Crackdown by Dave Zirin *We already know the losers of the Games, don't we? http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/09-9 . NY Times: No Conflict of Interest - With the Conventional Wisdom by Robert Jensen *Imbalancing act http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/09-4 . Taking a Bullet on Wall St. by Derrick Z. Jackson *I'd call that more FIRING a bullet, wouldn't you? http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/09-5 . DEMOCRACY NOW! Obama Administration: US Forces Can Assassinate Americans Believed to Be Involved in Terrorist Activity *The world is our free fire zone http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/9/obama_administration_us_forces_can_assassinate Rep. Dennis Kucinich v. Glenn Greenwald on the Supreme Court's Landmark Campaign Finance Ruling on Corporate Money *Why don't we just dispense with the pretense and sell off the naming rights to federal departments, buildings and monuments? The Halliburton Pentagon, the ADM Agriculture Department, the Chevron Energy Department, the News Corp Supreme Court, the Goldman Sachs White House ... I'd propose a lease auction for naming rights on an annual basis. Might make a bit of a dent in the national debt, don't you think? http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/9/rep_dennis_kucinich_v_glenn_greenwald David Price: "The CIA Is Welcoming Itself Back onto American University Campuses" http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/9/david_price_on_how_the_cia Eamon Javers on the Secret World of Corporate Espionage and Moonlighting CIA Operatives http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/9/eamon_javers_on_the_secret_world . FAIR Action Alert USA Today's Social Security Scaremongering *Scaring old (and young, and middle-aged) folks Not cool, dude - but par for the corpress course, innit? http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4013 . FAIR Blog NYT and the IPCC: Little Evidence, Big Story *Comments left at link http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/02/09/nyt-and-the-ipcc-little-evidence-big-story/comment-page-1/ Tea Party Popularity in Perspective *Comment left at link http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/02/09/tea-party-popularity-in-perspective/ 2/8 The Terror-Industrial Complex by Chris Hedges http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/08 . Murder Capital of the World by Laura Carlsen *An addiction to inhumanity http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/08-7 . Operation Breakfast Redux Could Pakistan 2010 Go the Way of Cambodia 1969? by Pratap Chatterjee http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/08-0 . The Sex Ed Bait and Switch by Amanda Marcotte http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/08-4 . Globalization Is Killing the Globe: Return to Local Economies by Thom Hartmann http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/08-5 . Oxfam International Survey Shows Few Haitians Willing to Move Far to Camps Outside the City Residents must be consulted on new camps Camp residents have little official information about plans to re-site camps http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/02/08-0 . DEMOCRACY NOW! Michael Pollan on "Food Rules: An Eater's Manual" *Food for rational thought http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/8/michael_pollan_on_food_rules_an 2/5 The Expanding US War in Pakistan by Jeremy Scahill The Nation *"Black", "white" and a "battlefield" that runs red http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/05-9 . The Lynch Mob Mentality by Glenn Greenwald *Liberals Limbaugh would love http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/05-6 . Haiti - Still Starving 23 Days Later by Bill Quigley http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/05 . There's Real Hope From Haiti and It's Not What You Expect When people live so close to the edge, even small price increases can break them by Johann Hari *Vexing the vultures - for now http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/05-1 . Message to President Obama: Why Trade Will Not Save Rural America by Paula Crossfield *Trading away a fruitful food future http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/05-0 . FAIR Extra! Sidelining Cap and Trade's Green Critics As with healthcare, right-wing complaints framed the debate by Neil deMause http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4005 'Climategate' Overshadows Copenhagen Media regress to the bad old days of false balance by Julie Hollar *Welcome to the state of Denial Leave your reason at the border http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4006 Environmental Journalism in the Greenhouse Era Looking for climate news beyond corporate media by Miranda Spencer http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4007 . FAIR Blog CNN: Secretary Duncan Right to Celebrate Katrina *What we need is a political Katrina to blow all the bastards like Duncan out of DC. That would be a beneficial climate change, wouldn't it? http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/02/05/cnn-secretary-duncan-right-to-celebrate-katrina/comment-page-1/ . DEMOCRACY NOW! Pro-Choice Advocates Criticize CBS for Accepting Anti-Abortion Super Bowl Ad *I could've done without the Obama ass kissing "Oh, you're so wonderful for doing what you have no right not to do. Which cheek would you like me to kiss?" Jesus http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/5/pro_choice_advocates_criticize_cbs_for Dave Zirin on Super Bowl Fever in New Orleans and the Militarization of Sport's Biggest Spectacle *I think Gladwell's right, and this is comng from someone who played football in junior high and high school (I had enough sense to pass on it as a sophomore, but that sanity didn't last). But yeah, I'll watch the goddamn game Sunday. But not the commercials. I may be a hypocrite, but I'm not a masochist. http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/5/dave_zirin_on_super_bowl_fever Yemeni Journalist Nasser Arrabyee: US Involvement Undermines Sound Response to Yemen-Based Militants http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/5/yemeni_journalist_nasser_arabyee_us_involvement 2/4 How Corporations Secretly Move Millions to Fund Political Ads A Raw Story Exclusive by Brad Jacobson Raw Story http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/04-3 . On the Claimed 'War Exception' to the Constitution by Glenn Greenwald *Fear, folly and fanaticism http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/04-3 . Shrimp's Dirty Secrets: Why America's Favorite Seafood Is a Health and Environmental Nightmare The environmental impact of shrimp can be horrific. But most Americans don't know where their shrimp comes from or what's in it. by Jill Richardson http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/04 . A Festival of Peace by Robert C. Koehler http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/04-6 . 30-Second Warnings Chips, Beer, Voyeuristic Horndogs, Hot Babes, Flatulent Slackers, and God's Quarterback Star in the Big Game by Robert Lipsyte *Lipsyte wonders what the ads mean, and I wonder what his last paragraph meant, don't you? Luckily, I haven't seen hardly any of these ads - thank somebody's (Tebow's?) god http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/04-5 . The Yes Men ADM Tries to Take Down Funny Video; Big Business Has No Solutions; Now What? http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/02/04 . DEMOCRACY NOW! Ignoring Torture Claims and Questionable Evidence, New York Jury Convicts Pakistani Scientist Aafia Siddiqui *What is this "image" that the US needs to "repair"? For anyone with any grasp on reality, that image has been one of an empire determined to maintain and expand its power by any means necessary, hasn't it? http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/4/ignoring_torture_claims_and_questionable_evidence Robert McChesney and John Nichols on "The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again" *We'll see just how committed Dear Misleader is to net neutrality when the corps put their money where his mouth is, won't we? http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/4/robert_mcchesney_and_john_nichols_on . Institute for Public Accuracy Haiti: * Canceling Debt * Adoptions * Just Back http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2172

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