It seems the toughest thing for scientists to grasp – that a cherished paradigm like the big bang can be wrong. The latest crisis was reported in Physorg.com on May 5th: “Study plunges standard Theory of Cosmology into Crisis.” The study of dwarf companion galaxies of the Milky Way support the view that a “modified Newton dynamic” [MOND] must be adopted. “This conclusion has far-reaching consequences for fundamental physics in general, and also for cosmological theories.” One of the researchers involved said, “it is conceivable that we have completely failed to comprehend the actual physics underlying the force of gravity.”
One year ago, David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital took to the stage at an annual investor conference in New York and skewered Lehman Brothers, claiming its feckless risk taking had put the financial system in peril. Read the rest of this entry »
Privacy Challenges to Smart Grid
by Susan L. Lyon – 5.27.09
What is not mentioned is how much this will increase emf radiation
Sustainableindustries
President Barack Obama’s plan to overhaul U.S. infrastructure includes constructing a nationwide “smart grid” that promises to help address many of our current energy challenges. The smart grid plan offers the hope that it “will save us money, protect our power sources from blackout or attack, and deliver clean, alternative forms of energy to every corner of our nation.” While these are noble societal goals, smart grid technologies and systems as envisioned also raise concerns about individual privacy rights. Read the rest of this entry »
ONE can make out a pattern when it comes to the popularity of the Zimbabwe Government in the West before the Land Reform Programme and after its inception.
The reason for this is not because the Government did something out of this world, the Government – all things considered – did a good thing for its people. Read the rest of this entry »
Brazil and Neighbors Are the Ones Shaping Up Any New US-Latin America Relations
Written by Toni Solo
Sunday, 24 May 2009 Brazzilmag
Global economic disruption makes it seem events are overtaking analysis faster than people can keep up. In May it was reported that China is now Brazil’s main trading partner, displacing the US after more than 75 years. Ever since the debacle at the Mar del Plata summit in 2005 of President Bush’s continent-wide free trade plan, the US has been unable to defend its formerly dominant trade position in Latin America. Read the rest of this entry »
Quatre ans après l’assassinat de l’ancien Premier ministre libanais Rafic Hariri, l’enquête internationale n’a toujours pas abouti et donne lieu à de nouvelles manipulations politiques. Loin de la rigueur qui sied à une procédure judiciaire, un article du Spiegel ouvre un nouvel épisode du feuilleton : puisqu’il a fallu renoncer à accuser la Syrie, faute de preuves, les enquêteurs proches des États-Unis et d’Israël désignent maintenant l’Iran. Ce rebondissement intervient comme un contre-feu, après qu’un journaliste états-unien s’exprimant sur Russia Today, ait accusé Dick Cheney d’avoir commandité le crime.
L’accord monétaire tacite entre Washington et Pékin est désormais rompu. Au cours des dernières années, la banque Goldman Sachs avait joué les bons offices pour convaincre le gouvernement US d’accepter la sous-évaluation du yuan, et pour convaincre en échange le gouvernement chinois d’investir en bons du Trésor US. Dés le début de la crise économique aux États-Unis, le directeur de Goldman Sachs, Henry Paulson, avait été nommé par le président Bush secrétaire au Trésor avec toute latitude pour maintenir cet accord. Plus récemment, le président Obama a nommé le lobbyiste pro-Chinois Gary Locke secrétaire au Commerce afin de poursuivre coûte que coûte cette coopération. Pourtant :
That the horrors of the Great Depression went beyond what we have received in school history books is already clear from Steinbeck’s magnificent Grapes of Wrath. The pattern of the the most unfortunate amongst us simply disappearing from media view is being reproduced now: everything is cool until you lose your job, your house or your health, at which point you too disappear from official life and your nightmare begins- you become a “loser”.
U.S. history contains a serious crime against its own people – the Great American Holodomor of 1932/33, which cost the lives of millions. Historian Boris Borisov suggests the U.S. should not lecture Russia on Holodomor in Ukraine, but take a closer look at the lessons from its own past
Following in the footsteps of well over 1,000 scientists and other professional groups who have already gone on record questioning the official theory, more than 40 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency veterans have come forward to challenge the Government’s rendition of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Their behind-the-scenes knowledge and experience of sensitive and classified issues places them in a uniquely authoritative position. In this sense, their critical stance is all the more damning for the government. Conspicuously absent from the landscape are the mainstream media professionals, as they continue to provide cover for the government’s totally bankrupt theory and fail to report on landmark developments such as this.
In These New Times 