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nationalize the fed's JournalScientific American: Did Global Warming Slow Down in the 2000s, or Not?
Scientific American By Gayathri Vaidyanathan,
ClimateWire on February 25, 2016
The global warming “hiatus,” a controversy that spawned congressional hearings and thousands of skeptical blog posts before being curbed last year, is back.
The “hiatus” refers to the observation that global warming has slowed in the past 15 years. The planet is still warming, but just not as quickly as some climate scientists expected it to.
This graph shows a “slowdown” in rising temperatures until 2010. The black line shows temperatures as predicted by climate models, and the red line shows actual temperatures. Warming has recently increased, breaking historical records in 2014 and 2015.
Nature Climate Change, February 24, 2016 doi:10.1038/nclimate2938
The debate between researchers and doubters reached a crescendo last summer, when scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration updated their temperature records and concluded that global warming has not slowed down in the 2000s (ClimateWire, June 5, 2015).
Now, a group of prominent climate scientists are challenging NOAA’s conclusion in a commentary published this week in Nature Climate Change...snip
...“As scientists, we must go where the evidence takes us, we can’t allow our worries about climate contrarians and how they might seek to misrepresent our work to dictate what we do and do not publish,” he said...snip
MORE: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-global-warming-slow-down-in-the-2000s-or-not/
Making sense of the early-2000s warming slowdown
Nature.com
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v6/n3/full/nclimate2938.html
Global Warming "Hiatus" Debate Flares Up Again
Researchers now argue that the warming slowdown was real
By Jeff Tollefson,
Nature magazine on February 24, 2016
The latest salvo in an ongoing row over global-warming trends claims that warming has indeed slowed down this century.
An apparent slowing in the rise of global temperatures at the beginning of the twenty-first century, which is not explained by climate models, was referred to as a “hiatus” or a “pause” when first observed several years ago. Climate-change sceptics have used this as evidence that global warming has stopped. But in June last year, a study in Science claimed that the hiatus was just an artefact which vanishes when biases in temperature data are corrected...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-warming-hiatus-debate-flares-up-again/
Glyphosate: Germany's most popular beers contain Monsanto-produced pesticide linked to cancer
IBTimes.co.uk James Tennent
February 25, 2016
A pesticide that may cause cancer has been found in 14 of the most popular beers in Germany by the Environmental Institute, Munich. The pesticide, glyphosate, is produced by Monsanto and was classified in 2015 as probably carcinogenic to humans by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The institute tested 14 of the best selling beers in Germany and found that all of them contained traces of glyphosate. The legal limit for traces of the pesticide in drinking water is 0.1 microgrammes per litre but the lowest level found by the institute was 0.46 microgrammes in the Bavarian Augustiner beers.
The highest level found was 29.74 microgrammes per litre in the Hasseröder brewery in Saxony-Anhalt.
Translated by thelocal.de, the Association of German Brewers released a statement saying that they had not seen the original study but that all of the levels cited were well below what is considered dangerous to health: "For an adult to consume unhealthy amounts of glyphosate, he would have to drink around 1,000 litres of beer a day. According to current scientific understanding, a glyphosate level of 30 micrograms per litre doesn't pose any health risk."
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup product, widely used in industrial agriculture. The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has said that there are limited findings the chemical causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in humans and convincing evidence it causes cancer in lab animals...
Read More: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/glyphosate-germanys-most-popular-beers-contain-monsanto-produced-pesticide-linked-cancer-1546061
Obama in 2007: "We'll let folks know whether their food has been genetically modified because Americans should know what they're buying"
We'll know it's serious
when the iPhone is banned
Why is Apple allowed to stash billions and billions offshore to avoid taxes?
Apple 'failing to protect Chinese factory workers'
By Richard Bilton
BBC Panorama
18 December 2014
Poor treatment of workers in Chinese factories which make Apple products has been discovered by an undercover BBC Panorama investigation.
Filming on an iPhone 6 production line showed Apple's promises to protect workers were routinely broken.
It found standards on workers' hours, ID cards, dormitories, work meetings and juvenile workers were being breached at the Pegatron factories.
Apple said it strongly disagreed with the programme's conclusions.
Exhausted workers were filmed falling asleep on their 12-hour shifts at the Pegatron factories on the outskirts of Shanghai...
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30532463
iPhone buyers don't care that their phones are made with slave labor
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Why the Arabs don’t want us in Syria
They don’t hate ‘our freedoms.’ They hate that we’ve betrayed our ideals in their own countries — for oil.Politico.eu | By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | 2/23/16
In part because my father was murdered by an Arab, I’ve made an effort to understand the impact of U.S. policy in the Mideast and particularly the factors that sometimes motivate bloodthirsty responses from the Islamic world against our country. As we focus on the rise of the Islamic State and search for the source of the savagery that took so many innocent lives in Paris and San Bernardino, we might want to look beyond the convenient explanations of religion and ideology. Instead we should examine the more complex rationales of history and oil — and how they often point the finger of blame back at our own shores...snip
...For Americans to really understand what’s going on, it’s important to review some details about this sordid but little-remembered history. During the 1950s, President Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers — CIA Director Allen Dulles and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles — rebuffed Soviet treaty proposals to leave the Middle East a neutral zone in the Cold War and let Arabs rule Arabia. Instead, they mounted a clandestine war against Arab nationalism — which Allen Dulles equated with communism — particularly when Arab self-rule threatened oil concessions. They pumped secret American military aid to tyrants in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon favoring puppets with conservative Jihadist ideologies that they regarded as a reliable antidote to Soviet Marxism. At a White House meeting between the CIA’s director of plans, Frank Wisner, and John Foster Dulles, in September 1957, Eisenhower advised the agency, “We should do everything possible to stress the ‘holy war’ aspect,” according to a memo recorded by his staff secretary, Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster...snip
Mohammed Mosaddegh, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran from 1951-1953, pictured left in 1951, the same year he was named TIME Person of the Year. His tenure was cut short by a United States-led coup in 1953, which installed Shah Reza Pahlavi
...America’s founding fathers warned Americans against standing armies, foreign entanglements and, in John Quincy Adams’ words, “going abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” Those wise men understood that imperialism abroad is incompatible with democracy and civil rights at home. The Atlantic Charter echoed their seminal American ideal that each nation should have the right to self-determination. Over the past seven decades, the Dulles brothers, the Cheney gang, the neocons and their ilk have hijacked that fundamental principle of American idealism and deployed our military and intelligence apparatus to serve the mercantile interests of large corporations and particularly, the petroleum companies and military contractors that have literally made a killing from these conflicts.
It’s time for Americans to turn America away from this new imperialism and back to the path of idealism and democracy. We should let the Arabs govern Arabia and turn our energies to the great endeavor of nation building at home. We need to begin this process, not by invading Syria, but by ending the ruinous addiction to oil that has warped U.S. foreign policy for half a century...
Read More: http://www.politico.eu/article/why-the-arabs-dont-want-us-in-syria-mideast-conflict-oil-intervention/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy,_Jr.
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Many Americans are no longer capable of feeling shame. It's a shame.
It's a big circus
And we're all in it
Some of us are in the bleachers, and some are on the stage.
It's The World's Biggest Big Top Circus!
MSNBC Cuts Away From Bernie Sanders as He Condemns Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Intercept 2/22/2016 Zaid Jilani
MSNBC cut away from a live Bernie Sanders press conference this afternoon as the Democratic presidential candidate was talking about his opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. Watch the cutaway:
http://vimeo.com/156330769
“You’ve been listening to Bernie Sanders, less of a press conference, more of a speech. I want to turn back to the Republican side of things,” said Kate Snow, as she pivoted to news of Ted Cruz firing a press spokesperson.
MSNBC owner Comcast has lobbied for the TPP. Last year, it fired host Ed Schultz, an outspoken opponent of the agreement.
A Media Matters study found that outside of Schultz’s show, the TPP was mentioned only twice on MSNBC during an 18-month period. Last year, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough admitted to The Intercept that his network was “guilty” of ignoring the TPP.
https://theintercept.com/2016/02/22/msnbc-cuts-away-from-bernie-sanders-as-he-condemns-trans-pacific-partnership/
This is outrageous. A "free" press? What other things are they ignoring? (X-post GD-P)
MSNBC Cuts Away From Bernie Sanders as He Condemns Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Intercept 2/22/2016 Zaid Jilani
MSNBC cut away from a live Bernie Sanders press conference this afternoon as the Democratic presidential candidate was talking about his opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. Watch the cutaway:
http://vimeo.com/156330769
“You’ve been listening to Bernie Sanders, less of a press conference, more of a speech. I want to turn back to the Republican side of things,” said Kate Snow, as she pivoted to news of Ted Cruz firing a press spokesperson.
MSNBC owner Comcast has lobbied for the TPP. Last year, it fired host Ed Schultz, an outspoken opponent of the agreement.
A Media Matters study found that outside of Schultz’s show, the TPP was mentioned only twice on MSNBC during an 18-month period. Last year, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough admitted to The Intercept that his network was “guilty” of ignoring the TPP.
https://theintercept.com/2016/02/22/msnbc-cuts-away-from-bernie-sanders-as-he-condemns-trans-pacific-partnership/
This is outrageous. A "free" press? What other things are they ignoring?
Hightower: Pharma Identified 7,000 Gov Officials They Need to Control to Run Their Price Gouging Op
Hightower: Big Pharma Identified 7,000 Govt Officials They Need to Control to Run Their Price Gouging OperationThe industry's spending millions to protect you from public officials who might stop them from overcharging you.
Jim Hightower / AlterNet February 18, 2016
Big news, people! Especially for those of you upset by the skyrocketing prices of the essential prescription medicines you take — including thousands of patients who were hit last year with a 5,000 percent price increase for one lifesaving drug!
Determined to do something about those despised price hikes, drugmakers themselves have reached into their corporate toolbox for the two most effective means they have to fix their price problem. Of course, putting more corporate cash into research to produce new medicines would be one of those tools, and a renewed commitment to honest competition would be the other, right?
Right! But Big Pharma gave up years ago on doing right, turning to two other corporate tools that have reliably generated a gusher of profits for them: advertising and lobbying. So here they come, wielding bigger-than-ever ad-and-lobbying budgets to deal with that pesky matter of public anger at price gouging.
If you wonder why Congress keeps ignoring what the people want it to do — while doing things that people don’t want it doing — take a peek at the unique PR campaign now being run by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. PhRMA is America’s largest pharmaceutical lobbying group and represents Eli Lilly, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co and about three dozen other drug manufactures.
The intent of PhRMA’s multimillion-dollar PR blitz and intensified offensive in Congress is not to restrain the gouging but to improve the industry’s image in hopes of restraining lawmakers from taking steps to rein in prescription costs...snip
Read More: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/hightower-big-pharma-identified-7000-govt-officials-they-need-control-run-their
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In the US, everything and almost everyone is for sale. Everything.
And when Pharma can't buy what they want- they resort to Bribery. What a disgrace.
GlaxoSmithKline fined $490m by China for bribery
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29274822
Big Pharma's Pathetic Medical Bribes are Quite Profitable
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/big-pharma-simple-trick-obscuring-medical-bribes
Many More Examples: https://www.google.com/search?&q=pharmaceutical+bribery
Eyewitness Comes Forward, “Sirhan Sirhan Did Not Assassinate RFK”
The FreeThoughtProject.com | Andrew Emett on February 13, 2016
Despite the fact that Sirhan Sirhan shot him in the head nearly 50 years ago, Paul Schrade attended the convicted assassin’s parole hearing this week to both forgive Sirhan and defend the shooter’s innocence in the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. After decades of research into the assassination and witnessing the event first-hand, Schrade continues to assert that Sirhan physically could not have fired the fatal bullet that killed Kennedy.
Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, two months after the assassination of MLK, Kennedy entered the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles when Sirhan stepped towards him and opened fire. While Kennedy shook hands with the hotel kitchen staff, Schrade stood six to eight feet behind him. As the labor chairman of Kennedy’s presidential campaign, Schrade followed the senator through the kitchen until Sirhan emerged in front of Kennedy and shot Schrade about an inch below his hairline in the center of his forehead. The bullet struck Schrade’s skull but didn’t enter his brain.
Standing three feet in front of Kennedy, Sirhan fired a second bullet that missed completely. Hotel maîtres d’ Karl Uecker and Edward Minasian grabbed for Sirhan’s gun and began choking him, but not before he could fire the remaining six bullets from his .22-caliber revolver, wounding four more people.
Although Sirhan’s pistol only held eight bullets, four shots struck Kennedy while another five bullets wounded others. Hours after the shooting, FBI Agent William Bailey found two more bullets in the center divider of the pantry door frame. After analyzing an audio recording of the assassination, audio expert Phil Van Praag determined that 13 shots had been fired, indicating a second gunman...snip
...Less than three months after the assassination, the LAPD incinerated thousands of documents and pieces of evidence related to Kennedy’s death. Besides destroying physical evidence, including door jambs and ceiling tiles taken from the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel, the LAPD also burned 2,140 police photographs...snip
Full Article: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/witness-asserts-sirhan-assassinate-rfk/
Robert Kennedy Assassination Photos Burned
New York Times April 21, 1988
SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 20— California has released voluminous files on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, including a document showing that 2,410 photographs that were evidence in the case were destroyed that year. A scholar who pushed for release of the files says the destruction is ''deeply suspicious'' and should be investigated.
''Far and away, the blinding central fact in this event is the unbelievable destruction of these photographs,'' said Greg Stone, a University of Wisconsin political scientist who has devoted years to studying the assassination. ''This performance would be a disgrace in a routine auto accident,'' he said of the Los Angeles police, Mr. Stone's comments came after the California Secretary of State, March Fong Eu, opened the long-secret files to the public Tuesday and displayed significant items of evidence for reporters. She held aloft a boxed .22-caliber gun used by Sirhan Sirhan, who was convicted of assassinating Senator Kennedy on June 5, 1968, after Mr. Kennedy's victory in the state's Democratic Presidential primary.
Among the documents displayed was a certificate showing that 2,410 police photographs in the assassination case were burned on Aug. 21, 1968. The state's chief archivist, John Burns, who catalogued the file for release, speculated that the destroyed photos could have been duplicates but said the files had no such statement. Investigation Is Urged...snip more: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/21/us/robert-kennedy-assassination-photos-burned.html
The Strange Case of Sirhan Sirhan
James Corbett • 03/03/2012
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-220-the-strange-case-of-sirhan-sirhan/
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