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NATO Proxies Using WMD’s in Syria – Dozens Dead
March 19, 2013 0

NATO Proxies Using WMD’s in Syria – Dozens Dead

By News Desk

Links NATO Proxies Using WMD’s in Syria – Dozens Dead March 19, 2013 (LD) UPDATED – After a 10 year war/occupation in Iraq, the death of over a million people including thousands of US soldiers, all based on patently false claims of the nation possessing "weapons of mass destruction," (WMDs), it is outrageous hypocrisy to see the West arming, funding, and politically backing terrorists in Syria who in fact both possess, and are now using such weapons against the Syrian people. At least 25 are reported dead after a chemical weapons attack targeting Syrian soldiers was carried out by NATO-backed terrorists in the northern city of Aleppo. While NATO-backed terrorists claim they lack the "expertise" to even use chemical weapons, it was reported by CNN in their December 2012 article, " Sources: U.S

Not Enough Fingers to Contain the Leak in the Dike
March 10, 2013 0

Not Enough Fingers to Contain the Leak in the Dike

By News Desk

Please consider Dutch support EU referendum Dutch lawmakers have been forced to debate a referendum on any further transfers of power to the EU after a citizens’ petition demanding a plebiscite garnered 40,000 signatures in two weeks. Although parliament is not obliged to follow through with legislation, the move underlines the surge euroscepticism in one of the EU’s founding members, which could pose an obstacle to any further integration needed to bolster the eurozone.

Not Enough Fingers to Contain the Leak in the Dyke
March 10, 2013 0

Not Enough Fingers to Contain the Leak in the Dyke

By News Desk

Please consider Dutch support EU referendum Dutch lawmakers have been forced to debate a referendum on any further transfers of power to the EU after a citizens’ petition demanding a plebiscite garnered 40,000 signatures in two weeks. Although parliament is not obliged to follow through with legislation, the move underlines the surge euroscepticism in one of the EU’s founding members, which could pose an obstacle to any further integration needed to bolster the eurozone

Not all priors are equally defensible.
March 4, 2013 0

Not all priors are equally defensible.

By News Desk

There appears to be a lot of Bayesian thumb sucking going on, maybe the first was Eli’s duo with Socrates , and, of course the bunnies know that James has been going on about uniform priors , and there is always Andrew Gelman .  Now some, not Eli to be sure, might think that the recent election also gave a strong push to priors and p values and such.  Nate Silver of the NYTimes blog five thirty eight has a book out which is reviewed in Science by Sam Wang and Ben Campbell, who also are in the election prognostication business.  Silver, of course, is another guy with a Bayesian hammer looking for statistical nails and finding them all about.  Eli thought a  couple of paragraphs towards the end capture what the Rabett has been trying to beat into bunnies heads. Our biggest criticism of the book is that although statistics and Bayesian inference are powerful ideas, they are not a cure all.  In his enthusiasm for the good Reverend, Silver has stuffed a fair bit into the same Procrustean bed.  Silver uses the old fox-hedgehog analogy, saying that foxes (including himself) use many ideas, whereas hedgehogs focus on one subject only.  But here he is a hedgehog with one big idea:statistics.

West Pours Arms into Syria as Al Qaeda Mass Slaughters Civilians
February 24, 2013 0

West Pours Arms into Syria as Al Qaeda Mass Slaughters Civilians

By News Desk

In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, " To Check Syria, U.S. Explores Bond With Muslim Brothers " which stated:  On a humid afternoon in late May, about 100 supporters of Syria’s largest exile opposition group, the National Salvation Front, gathered outside Damascus’s embassy here to protest Syrian President Bashar Assad’s rule.

Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood Propped Up by US Since 2007 Under Bush
January 24, 2013 0

Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood Propped Up by US Since 2007 Under Bush

By News Desk

The report, written by Jay Solomon, echoes similar foreshadowing of the coming violent sectarian bloodbath now engulfing Syria, found in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s New Yorker piece titled, " The Redireciton: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism? " Solomon begins by stating:  On a humid afternoon in late May, about 100 supporters of Syria’s largest exile opposition group, the National Salvation Front, gathered outside Damascus’s embassy here to protest Syrian President Bashar Assad’s rule. The participants shouted anti-Assad slogans and raised banners proclaiming: "Change the Regime Now." Later in the article, it would be revealed that the National Salvation Front (NSF) was in contact with the US State Department and that a Washington-based consulting firm in fact assisted the NSF in organizing the rally: In the weeks before the presidential election, the State Department’s Middle East Partnership Initiative, which promotes regional democracy, and NSF members met to talk about publicizing Syria’s lack of democracy and low voter turnout, participants say