Molly’sBlog 2010-07-31 20:26:00 8:26 pm / 31 July 2010 by mollymew, at Molly'sBlog
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Daily Briefing—27th July 2010 7:30 am / 27 July 2010 by Editors, at Little Alex in Wonderland
News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:
- U.K. Prime Minister: Israel and Egypt Turned Gaza Into ‘Prison Camp’ (Video) | Little Alex in Wonderland 27 July 2010
- Government Has Run Amok Since 9/11 – Sheldon Richman | FFF 27 July 2010
- Cameron urges lifting of Gaza seige | AJ English 27 July 2010
- US, Korean naval crew stage military drills | AFP 27 July 2010
- ‘The worst thing to be is an Afghan woman’ | AFP 27 July 2010
- China bans “shame parades” of criminal suspects | Reuters 27 July 2010
- Iraq crisis deepens as parliament session scrapped | AFP 27 July 2010
- GE settles SEC charges on Iraq kickback scheme | Reuters 27 July 2010
- Lockheed Posts 12% Jump in Profit, Lifts Forecast | BusinessWeek 27 July 2010
- BP oil spill: UK taxpayers face clean-up loss | The Guardian 27 July 2010
- Russia objects to EU Iran sanctions | AP 27 July 2010
- David Cameron accuses France and Germany of double standards over Turkey | The Guardian 27 July 2010
- India, Latin America Have ‘Massive’ Trade Potential, IDB Says | BusinessWeek 27 July 2010
- CHINA: Youngsters Rebel Against ‘Authoritarian’ Parenting – Mitch Moxley | IPS 27 July 2010
- Obama’s Afghanistan Strategy Increasingly Under Siege – Jim Lobe | IPS 27 July 2010
- US rules out military action against Venezuela | AFP 27 July 2010
- Google unveils government software | The Independent 27 July 2010
- Nike Agrees to Help Laid-Off Workers in Honduras | NY Times 27 July 2010
- Document Leak May Hurt Efforts to Build War Support | NY Times 27 July 2010
- WikiLeaks disclosures unlikely to change course of Afghanistan war | WaPo 27 July 2010
- Pentagon can’t account for how it spent $2.6 billion in Iraqi funds, audit finds | WaPo 27 July 2010
- The oil spill: The latest developments | WaPo 27 July 2010
- Afghan intelligence contracts apply some limits | WaPo 27 July 2010
- Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Prisoners Win 3 out of 4 Cases, But Lose 5 out of 6 in Court of Appeals (Part Two) | Andy Worthington 27 July 2010
- Confirmed: U.S. Fiscal Woe Is Worse Than Greece – Dian Chu | zero hedge 27 July 2010
- US Threatens to Pull Pakistan Aid Over WikiLeaks Details | Antiwar.com 27 July 2010
- Israel: Settlement Expansion to Return to Normal | Antiwar.com 27 July 2010
- GOLDMAN ‘TOO BIG TO PROSECUTE’ 27 July 2010
- WikiLeaks Founder Responds to Government-Based Scrutiny After Leaking 90k+ Records on Af-Pak War | Little Alex in Wonderland 27 July 2010
- WikiLeaks Afghan War Diary Reactions | HuffPo 27 July 2010
- Illegal Immigration Fingerprint Program, Secure Communities, Has Advocates Up In Arms | AP 27 July 2010
- Counter-Narco Ops Pretext for U.S. ‘Invasion’ of Costa Rica (mp3) | Little Alex in Wonderland 27 July 2010
- Philip Giraldi on Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton 27 July 2010
- Leaked Reports Make Afghan War Policy More Vulnerable – Gareth Porter | IPS 27 July 2010
- Chavez beefs up border troops in Colombia spat | Reuters 27 July 2010
- Pentagon Says Bradley Manning a Possible Suspect in Afghan Leak – Kim Zetter and Kevin Poulsen | Wired.com 27 July 2010
- Obama finds that the Internet bites back – Dana Milibank | WaPo 27 July 2010
- WikiLeaks Counters Government’s ‘Religion of Secrecy’ (Video) | Little Alex in Wonderland 27 July 2010
- Is Religion Special? – Opinionator Blog | NY Times 26 July 2010
- AU force raid on Somali rebels leaves 11 dead | AFP 26 July 2010
- For reporters, the rules at Guantanamo change daily – Carol Rosenberg | McClatchy 26 July 2010
- No Substitute for Economic Justice – Kevin Carson | Little Alex in Wonderland 26 July 2010
- Leaked Afghanistan files reveal corruption and drug-dealing | The Guardian 26 July 2010
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Ted Haggard’s new ministry 9:20 pm / 23 July 2010 by Raționalitate
Ted Haggard, the disgraced Evangelical megapastor caught doing meth with a gay prostitute and last seen hocking debt reduction software, has started up a new church in his backyard. The whole article is almost too good to excerpt, but I'll try:
He acknowledged grave lapses of judgment in the episode he refers to as "my crisis." But Mr. Haggard also said that in his sorrow and shame, he accepted too much guilt after the scandal broke.
"I over-repented," he said. [...]
He portrays his encounter with the prostitute as a massage that went awry and said he doesn't have same-sex attractions. He dismisses as a "witch hunt" the findings of his former church that he engaged in a pattern of misconduct, including sordid talk and inappropriate relationships. (He said his only fault was cracking a few crude jokes.) [...]
Mr. Haggard plays up his new regular-guy image. At the picnic, he asked a friend whether anyone noticed he had said "hell" in the sermon—and not in a Biblical context.
"I cuss now," he said proudly.
Molly’sBlog 2010-07-11 19:37:00 7:37 pm / 11 July 2010 by mollymew, at Molly'sBlog
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eye of the storm 2010-07-11 07:34:31 7:34 am / 11 July 2010 by Captain Capitulation, at eye of the storm
on the other hand, "politicizing" science is inevitable, and obviously actual science does not directly draw policy conclusions. you sort of get the vague feeling that we could actually be ruled by scientifically discovered facts, or by dudes down in a laboratory somewhere. but ask yourself whether that makes any sense or, even if it did, whether that's something you want. that the earth is getting warmer does not itself dictate any given policy, obviously. science can bear on policy, of course. but i would strongly advise you to stare directly at the history of science for awhile before you just, for example, embrace the equation of science and truth. the nazis had a science of racial differences, for example, but that already had a hundred-year history, and stood at the origin of anthropology. science takes place in a social and political and physical context, and you had better start thinking about who's funding what and why.
really it's funny that the public/political cult of science - its ever-growing pop prestige as the only outlet of truth - has been accompanied by actual work showing the way scientific truths are produced within power structures: foucault's, for example (esp with regard to the social sciences as handmaidens of subordination) and latour's (in the phsyical sciences).
but any way you look at it, science - even if it were the only source of objective truth - does not itself, or should not itself, articulate values or make policy decisions in a democracy. and really what this is all about is annexingthe epistemic prestige of science for whatever program you want to push, like evangelicals annexing the bible in the same way: as the only origin of truths. the cult of science is profoundly hierarchical, corresponding to a technocratic model of governance through expertise, which means: we want power.
what you need to see is that there are many and varied sources of knowledge and value. high-school dropouts have access to truths no ph.d. has ever clearly contemplated.
Evening Briefing—8th July 2010 4:00 pm / 08 July 2010 by Editors, at Little Alex in Wonderland
News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:
- Peace bullish or ‘bullshit’ – Marwan Bishara | AJ English 8 July 2010
- Greeks strike before pension vote | BBC News 8 July 2010
- AP Exclusive: Priests who abuse impaired targeted 8 July 2010
- Bank of England keeps interest rates at record low | AFP 8 July 2010
- ICC suspends DR Congo ex-militia chief’s trial | AFP 8 July 2010
- Kashmir streets under army lockdown to end protest | AP 8 July 2010
- Indian govt warns youths over Kashmir protests | AFP 8 July 2010
- Facebook deal creates virtual ‘credits’ | AFP 8 July 2010
- The Chinese in Japan: Department stores and sweat shops | The Economist 8 July 2010
- US to spend $3B to combat Afghan homemade bombs | AP 8 July 2010
- U.S. gives China pass on currency | Reuters 8 July 2010
- US Gen James Mattis nominated to replace Petraeus | BBC News 8 July 2010
- Drug war hits Mexico’s richest city | Reuters 8 July 2010
- Cuban dissident ends 134-day hunger strike | AP 8 July 2010
- U.S. casualties to mount as Afghan war widens, general says | McClatchy 8 July 2010
- Guatemalan tied to massacre pleads guilty in U.S. | Reuters 8 July 2010
- Argentine ‘dirty war’ general gets life sentence | AP 8 July 2010
- HIV-Blocking Antibodies Stop 90% of Strains in Study | BusinessWeek 8 July 2010
- Consumer Credit in U.S. Fell $9.1 Billion in May, Fed Says | BusinessWeek 8 July 2010
- NY National Guard Involved In Mass Arrests Of U.S. Citizens – Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet 8 July 2010
- U.S. Tomahawk Missiles Deployed Near China Send Message | TIME 8 July 2010
- Report: NSA creating spy system to monitor domestic infrastructure | Raw Story 8 July 2010
- Afghan Companies Say U.S. Did Not Pay Them | NY Times 8 July 2010
- Why CNN Firing Octavia Nasr for Tweeting About Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah Was Spineless | Stephen M. Walt 8 July 2010
- Octavia Nasr’s firing and what the liberal media allows – Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com 8 July 2010
- News Analysis: Administration’s Challenge to Arizona Law Is Not Over Profiling | NY Times 8 July 2010
- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac move to over-the-counter trading | WaPo 8 July 2010
- Criminalizing Art: Two Prominent Art Curators Face Three Years in Jail for Offending Orthodox Church | JONATHAN TURLEY 8 July 2010
- Accused Russian Spy Stunner Anna Chapman to Fly Home Today, Her Attorney Says | ABC News 8 July 2010
- LeBronomics: Could High Taxes Influence James’ Team Decision? | Business & Media Institute 8 July 2010
- Rail firms’ wartime records: What did you do in the war? | The Economist 8 July 2010
- Ron Paul – The Situation Room, 7/7/10, Pt. 2 8 July 2010
- Ron Paul – The Situation Room, 7/7/10, Pt. 1 8 July 2010
- In Israel, the Noble Vs. the Ugly – Nicholas Kristof | NY Times 8 July 2010
- Repeal the Drinking Age – Jeffrey A. Tucker | LRC 8 July 2010
- IMF Says India May Expand at Fastest Pace in Four Years in 2010 | BusinessWeek 8 July 2010
- Bank of England Governor Mervyn King calls for merger of G20 and IMF | Telegraph 8 July 2010
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More Climate Creationism 12:23 am / 26 June 2010 by anarchist, at Anarchist6[zero]6
Even more linkages between the voodoo cult of anti-evolution and the bat-shit crazy of climate change denial. Here's the new Texas Republican Party Platform on science teaching:Realizing that conflict and debate is a proven learning tool in classrooms, we support objective teaching and equal treatment of all sides of scientific theories, including evolution, Intelligent Design, global warming,
Are Secularists and Atheists A Persecuted Minority? 9:27 am / 23 June 2010 by Lila, at LILA RAJIVA: The Mind-Body Politic
Atheists and agnostics often imply that they are a persecuted minority. I decided to look it up.
Turns out that after Christianity and Islam (which the elites have conveniently set at each others’ throats), secularists command the largest following (along with Hindus). By the time the Christians and Muslims get done polishing each other of, I [...]
Molly’sBlog 2010-06-17 21:44:00 9:44 pm / 17 June 2010 by mollymew, at Molly'sBlog
LOCAL EVENTS – CANADIAN POLITICS: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION HEARINGS BEGIN:Appropriately enough the public events for Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission have begun here in Winnipeg, the aboriginal capital of Canada and perhaps of al…
Molly’sBlog 2010-06-17 20:04:00 8:04 pm / 17 June 2010 by mollymew, at Molly'sBlog
WEIRD STUFF:INSTANT SONS- JUST ADD MILK:The following from the Care2 site is way off the beaten path. I mean it, way off the beaten path. I present it here as a cautionary example of why clerics of all persuasions should never be allowed even the sligh…