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February 4, 2013 0

Libya & Mali, Good extremists & Bad extremists

By News Desk

Links Libya & Mali, Good extremists & Bad extremists February 4, 2013 ( Guardian War Propaganda ) – It’s hard to contemplate the audacity of the Guardian in their feigning concern for the victims of extremism in Mali as 2 years ago they were cheering on almost identical extremists in the very same region. Image : Libya’s "rebels" were in fact Al Qaeda’s  US State Department , United Nations , and the UK Home Office (page 5, .pdf) -listed terrorist organization, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) who committed sweeping atrocities, even exterminating entire cities with little or no condemnation from the West

November 25, 2012 0

Occupy Sandy Aids Storm Victims

By News Desk

The Black Agenda Report’s article, " The Hurricane and the Failed State ," notes that: So-called advanced nations are never so advanced that they can stand up to the forces of nature. New York and New Jersey are just the latest examples of seemingly safe and “developed†places which were laid low by a change in the weather.

September 30, 2012 0

Too Many Vowels

By News Desk

Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.

September 29, 2012 0

Strained Silver and strange predictions on climate

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It’s not the usual lopsided intellectual battle we discuss here at Eli’s.  This is Michael Mann criticizing Nate Silver’s somewhat skeptical take of climate prediction capability in Silver’s new book: It’s not that Nate revealed himself to be a climate change denier; he accepts that human-caused climate change is real, and that it represents a challenge and potential threat.