Undernews For August 2, 2009
Undernews For August 2, 2009
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BRITAIN'S SENIOR DIPLOMAT SEES AF-PAK WAR GOING ON FOR DECADES
Independent, UK - Britain's most
senior diplomat warned that Britain's involvement in the
country will last for "decades". Sir Nigel Sheinwald,
British ambassador to Washington, painted a bleak future for
British forces in the week that the Panther's Claw operation
in Helmand was declared a success. In an intervention laying
out the longest official timetable yet seen for Britain's
commitment to Afghanistan, he predicted that the tide would
turn against the Taliban "over the next year or so" rather
than in a matter of weeks.
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"We're going to have a very long-term commitment to Afghanistan's future. This is not just one year," Sir Nigel said in an interview with The Boston Globe. "This is going to be for decades. We're going to help them get to a state which can they can ward off the return of the Taliban and al-Qa'ida. That's our strategic objective. We need to avoid the vacuum returning. And that's what this huge effort is about."
MILITARY CAUGHT SPYING ON WEST COAST PEACE ACTIVISTS
Democracy Now - Peace activists in Washington state have revealed an informant posing as an anarchist has spied on them while working under the US military. The activists are members of the group Students for a Democratic Society and Port Militarization Resistance, which protests military shipments bound for Iraq and Afghanistan.
Before his true identity was revealed, the informant was known as "John Jacob," an active member of antiwar groups in the towns of Olympia and Tacoma. But using documents obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request , the activists learned that "John Jacob" is in fact John Towery, a member of the Force Protection Service at the nearby Fort Lewis military base.
The activists claim Towery has admitted to them he shared information with an intelligence network that stretches from local and state police to several federal agencies, to the US military. They also say he confirmed the existence of other government spies but wouldn't reveal their identity
The military's role in the spying raises questions about possibly illegal activity. The Posse Comitatus law bars the use of the armed forces for law enforcement inside the United States.
GMO PRODUCERS PROHIBIT RESEARCH ON THEIR PLANTS
F. William Engdahl, Global Research - One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990's in the USA and Argentina has been the absence of independent scientific studies of possible long-term effects of a diet of GMO plants on humans or even rats. Now it has come to light the real reason. The GMO agribusiness companies like Monsanto, BASF, Pioneer, Syngenta and others prohibit independent research.
As a precondition to buy seeds, either to plant for crops or to use in research study, Monsanto and the gene giant companies must first sign an End User Agreement with the company. For the past decade, the period when the greatest proliferation of GMO seeds in agriculture has taken place, Monsanto, Pioneer (DuPont) and Syngenta require anyone buying their GMO seeds to sign an agreement that explicitly forbids that the seeds be used for any independent research. Scientists are prohibited from testing a seed to explore under what conditions it flourishes or even fails. They cannot compare any characteristics of the GMO seed with any other GMO or non-GMO seeds from another company. Most alarming, they are prohibited from examining whether the genetically modified crops lead to unintended side-effects either in the environment or in animals or humans.
The only research which is permitted to be published in reputable scientific peer-reviewed journals are studies which have been pre-approved by Monsanto and the other industry GMO firms.
In the United States a group of twenty four leading university corn insect scientists have written to the US Government Environmental Protection Agency demanding the EPA force a change to the company censorship practice. It is as if Chevrolet or Tata Motors or Fiat tried to censor comparative crash tests of their cars in Consumer Reports or a comparable consumer publication because they did not like the test results. Only this deals with the human and animal food chain. The scientists rightly argue to EPA that food safety and environment protection "depend on making plant products available to regular scientific scrutiny." We should think twice before we eat that next box of American breakfast cereal if the corn used is GMO .
TIME DISCOVERS ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES
This is not news to Progressive Review readers as we've been writing about alternative currencies for decades; but it is news when conventional media like Time finally notice it.
Time Magazine - With local economies flailing communities across the U.S. are trying to drum up more action on Main Street. "Buy Local" campaigns are one way to go. But many towns--from Ojai, Calif., to Greensboro, N.C.--are considering going a step further and printing money that can only be spent locally.
Issuing an alternative currency is perfectly legal, as long as it is treated as taxable income and consists of paper bills rather than coins. In the U.S., where local currencies were popular during the Depression, the biggest alterna-cash system is in Massachusetts' Berkshire County. Go to one of several banks there, hand a teller $95 and get back $100 worth of BerkShares, a nice little discount designed to reel in users. BerkShares are printed on special paper (by a local business, naturally--a subsidiary of Crane Paper Co., which has been printing U.S. greenbacks since 1879). And since the program's inception in 2006, more than $2.5 million in BerkShares have circulated through bakeries, vets' offices and some 400 other businesses that choose to accept the colorful bills, which feature famous former Berkshire residents, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Norman Rockwell.
What's the point of all this pretty, community-printed currency? Money spent at locally owned companies tends to create more business for local suppliers, accountants, etc. The New Economics Foundation, a London think tank, compared the effects of purchasing produce at a supermarket and at a farmer's market and found that twice the money stayed in a community when folks bought locally. A study of Grand Rapids, Mich., released last fall by consulting firm Civic Economics, concluded that a 10% shift in market share from chain stores to independents would yield 1,600 new jobs and pump $137 million into the area. "Money is like blood," says NEF researcher David Boyle. Local purchases recirculate it, but patronize mega-chains or online retailers, he says, and "it flows out like a wound."
Interest in cash alternatives has skyrocketed in recent months BerkShares.org logged nearly 42,000 hits a day in April) as the recession has encouraged more innovation. For example, a Vermont business association is getting ready to launch a statewide cashless trading network. Ithaca, N.Y., which has the nation's longest-running independent currency, agreed in June to let people start using the 18-year-old bills to buy transit passes.
SEIU AUTHORIZES CALIFORNIA STATE WORKERS TO STRIKE
Reuters - California's largest state employees' union voted on Saturday to approve a strike authorization measure to protest furloughs of state workers and pressure state officials to ratify its labor contract
A spokesman for Service Employees International Union Local 1000 said a strike was not imminent but that the vote authorized union officers to initiate certain job actions, including a strike if necessary.
The SEIU represents about 95,000 state employees, including clerical workers and teachers.
The group's labor contract with the state expired last year, SEIU spokesman Jim Zamora said. The union negotiated a new deal with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration in February, but the contract has not been ratified by the state Legislature.
Earlier this week, the Republican governor signed a bill that closed a more than $24 billion budget gap. Under the legislation, furloughs will continue for state workers for three days a month, cutting their pay by 15 percent.
GATES AFFAIR JUST ANOTHER IRISH BRAWL
ABC - Henry Louis Gates Jr., the black professor at the center of the racial story involving his arrest outside his Harvard University-owned house, has spoken proudly of his Irish roots.
Strangely enough, he and the Cambridge, Mass., police officer who arrested him, Sgt. James Crowley, both trace their ancestry back to the legendary Niall of the Nine Hostages.
In a PBS series on African-American ancestry that he hosted in 2008, Gates discovered his Irish roots when he found he was descended from an Irish immigrant and a slave girl. . .
Ironically, James Crowley, whose name in Gaelic means "hardy warrior," is also descended from the same line as Gates, having very close links to Niall of the Nine Hostages.
So the two men who took part in what is now an infamous confrontation outside the Gates home near Harvard this month are actually related through common Irish lineage -- one of the more extraordinary aspects of the incident that has sparked worldwide headlines. . .
A team of geneticists at Trinity College led by professor Dan Bradley have discovered that as many as 3 million men worldwide may be descendents of the Irish warlord, who was the Irish "High King" at Tara, the ancient center of Ireland from A.D. 379 to A.D. 405.
Adam Winkler, Huffington Post -[Henry] Gates did not violate any law. Under Massachusetts law, which the police officer was supposedly enforcing, yelling at a police officer is not illegal.
There are clear decisions of the Massachusetts courts holding that a person who berates an officer, even during an arrest, is not guilty of disorderly conduct. And yet that is exactly what Gates was arrested for.
The Massachusetts statute defining "disorderly conduct" used to have a provision that made it illegal to make "unreasonable noise or offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display," or to address "abusive language to any person present." Yet the courts have interpreted that provision to violate the Massachusetts Constitution's guarantee of freedom of speech. So police cannot lawfully arrest a person for hurling abusive language at an officer.
In several cases, the courts in Massachusetts have considered whether a person is guilty of disorderly conduct for verbally abusing a police officer. In Commonwealth v. Lopiano, a 2004 decision, an appeals court held it was not disorderly conduct for a person who angrily yelled at an officer that his civil rights were being violated. In Commonwealth v. Mallahan, a decision rendered last year, an appeals court held that a person who launched into an angry, profanity-laced tirade against a police officer in front of spectators could not be convicted of disorderly conduct.
So Massachusetts law clearly provides that Gates did not commit disorderly conduct.
LOCAL HEROES: ED WALKER
Washington Post - On a recent afternoon at WAMU, an
engineer cues some melodramatic theme music -- the swelling
strings and sonorous piano of a more earnest age -- and the
smooth man in smoked shades leans into the mike. "Hello
again everybody," he croons. "My name is Ed Walker and this
is 'The Big Broadcast.' "
Walker has been doing this every week since becoming host of the popular old-time radio series Sunday nights on 88.5 FM almost 20 years ago. He roooounds his vowels and pops his final T's and K's, just as he's done throughout a career of talking on the radio that spans nearly six decades. And he smoothly runs two right-hand fingertips over the bumpy sheets of Braille that help him negotiate his world -- a unique realm of rich sound, high drama and absolute darkness -- just as he has done since the day he was born in 1932. . .
Now, Walker is poised to ascend into the Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, awaiting the outcome of an online vote that ends Aug. 1. . .
Since he and [Willard] Scott signed on as a DJ duo at WOL in 1952, Walker's voice has been heard on Washington radio more than just about any sound short of the emergency broadcast test signal. He's been a big band jock, talk show host and, most famously, half of the "Joy Boys" tandem through which he and Scott dominated Washington airwaves for nearly two decades. Each day on the old WRC, the two buddies sang their theme song ("We are the Joy Boys of radio, we chase electrons to and fro!"), voiced a multitude of silly characters, ad-libbed clunky sound effects and riffed seamlessly about everyday absurdities, a pair of Siamese jesters joined at the mike. . .
He became AU's first blind student, helped launch WAMU, then a tiny AM campus station, and hit it off with Scott, a fellow student broadcaster "We were doing satire from the first words we ever spoke to each other," says Scott, who once let Walker take the wheel of his car on Whitehurst Freeway to satisfy his friend's curiosity about driving. "We're like brothers, only better. We really love each other."
VIDEO FROM LAST SHOW OF THE 'JOY BOYS'
SCHWARZENEGGER APPROVAL RATING PLOPS
Political Wire - A new PPIC Poll in California shows Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's (R) job approval rating dropped to a new low of 28%. The last time a California governor's approval rating was that low was in 2003 when then-Gov. Gray Davis faced a recall election and was in a budget standoff with the Legislature.
GREAT MOMENTS IN HOMELAND SECURITY
Boing Boing - A handsome, welcoming new border crossing has had its 21-foot-high yellow "United States" letters scrapped because crazy border people are afraid that the words "United States" will serve as an irresistible temptation for terrorists.
Four years ago, when the federal General Services Administration unveiled its plans for a new border-crossing station here in northeastern New York State, the design was presented as part of the agency's campaign to raise the dismal standards of government architecture. Even many in the famously fractious architectural community celebrated the complex -- particularly its main building, emblazoned with glossy yellow, 21-foot-high letters spelling "United States" -- as a rare project the government could point to with pride...
Yet three weeks ago, less than a month after the station opened, workers began prying the big yellow letters off the building's facade on orders from Customs and Border Protection. The plan is to dismantle the rest of the sign this week...
"There were security concerns," said Kelly
Ivahnenko, a spokeswoman for the customs agency. "The sign
could be a huge target and attract undue attention. Anything
that would place our officers at risk we need to
avoid."
PLACES TO STAY AWAY FROM: HAWAII TO TAX
GROSS GAMBLING RECEIPTS
Advertiser, HI - A new bill
signed into law this month by Gov. Linda Lingle has some
frequent Las Vegas visitors and local CPAs scratching their
heads. Under House Bill 1495, no longer will gamblers be
able to offset their winnings with their losses for Hawai'i
state income tax purposes. Previously gamblers would be
taxed only on their net winnings, but now they will be taxed
on gross winnings.
A Hawai'i resident who wins $10,000 in a year, for example, and loses $9,000 in the same year used to be taxed only on the $1,000 in net winnings. Under the new law, that resident would be taxed on the full $10,000 in winnings.
UNEMPLOYMENT CHECKS RUNNING OUT FOR 1.5
MILLION AMERICANS
NY Times - Over the coming months,
as many as 1.5 million jobless Americans will exhaust their
unemployment insurance benefits, ending what for some has
been a last bulwark against foreclosures and
destitution
Because of emergency extensions already enacted by Congress, laid-off workers in nearly half the states can collect benefits for up to 79 weeks, the longest period since the unemployment insurance program was created in the 1930s. But unemployment in this recession has proved to be especially tenacious, and a wave of job-seekers is using up even this prolonged aid.
Tens of thousands of
workers have already used up their benefits, and the numbers
are expected to soar in the months to come, reaching half a
million by the end of September and 1.5 million by the end
of the year, according to new projections by the National
Employment Law Project, a private research group. . .
STUDY: POT HAS MINIMAL EFFECT ON BRAIN
FUNCTION
NORML - The consumption of cannabis, even
long-term, has a "minimal" impact on brain function,
according to a systematic literature review just published
online by the journal Psychological Medicine.
An international team of investigators from the United Kingdom, Spain, Brazil, Australia, and Switzerland conducted a systematic review of the effects of cannabis on brain structure and function.
Investigators concluded, "Minimal evidence of major effects of cannabis on brain structure has been reported," noting that marijuana users and controls perform similarly on cognitive tasks.
According to a 2001 study published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry, long-term cannabis smokers who abstained from pot for one week "showed virtually no significant differences from control subjects (those who had smoked marijuana less than 50 times in their lives) on a battery of 10 neuropsychological tests." Investigators added, "Former heavy users, who had consumed little or no cannabis in the three months before testing, [also] showed no significant differences from control subjects on any of these tests on any of the testing days."
JUST POLITICS
Governing - Massachusetts lawmakers provided $6.5 million in their latest budget to help fund the Franklin Park Zoo. That figure represents about half the zoo's annual budget. Gov. Deval Patrick rescinded $4 million of that sum as a line-item veto. That led Zoo New England to send out a press release saying they would not be able to keep their doors open past October. As a result, zoo officials said, they would have no choice but to kill many of the soon-to-be homeless animals. Gov. Patrick's spokesman complained that the zoo was spreading "inaccurate and incendiary information.". . State legislators quickly pledged to make good on the $4 million by overriding Patrick's veto.
Fair Vote - Party officials in Iowa are moving their 2010 caucuses from a weekday to Saturday. Caucuses can be lengthy events full of socializing, deliberation, and negotiation. Last year, the presidential caucuses were held on a Thursday, and though they were held in the evening, many people still had to work, or couldn't make it from work in time before doors closed. Having the event take place on a Saturday allows far more people to take part. . . It's not a flawless idea, of course. Plenty of people will still be working on a Saturday, and as the Politico points out, observant Jews will face a problem due to the Sabbath.
HEALTH
USA Today - Americans . . . shell out
roughly $34 billion a year out-of-pocket on alternative
therapies that aren't covered by insurance, a new study
shows. That's a growth of more than 25% in the past decade,
says an in-person survey of 23,000 Americans from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National
Institutes of Health. Alternative therapies, which range
from herbs to yoga classes, now account for 11% of the total
amount that Americans spend out-of-pocket on all health
care. .
Many people combine conventional and
"complementary" approaches, Lee says. For example, cancer
patients may undergo chemotherapy at a hospital, but also
use acupuncture for chronic pain. .
Press Watch, UK - More than half of children taking the swine flu drug Tamiflu experience side-effects such as nausea and nightmares, research by the Health Protection Agency suggests. Studies of children attending three schools in London and one in the South West showed that 51-53 per cent had one or more side-effects from the medication, which is offered to everyone with swine flu symptoms in England. A total of 103 children took part in the London study, of which 85 were given the drug as a precaution after a classmate received a diagnosis of swine flu. Of those, 45 experienced one or more side-effects. The most common was nausea (29 per cent), followed by stomach pain or cramps (20 per cent) and problems sleeping (12 per cent). Almost one in five had a "neuropsychiatric side-effect", such as inability to think clearly, nightmares and "behaving strangely", according to the research, published in Eurosurveillance, a journal of disease.
MEDIA
The Washington Post is back in the black, but as it admits, "The Post Co. is now largely an education company -- its Kaplan Inc. education unit provided 58 percent of the parent company's second-quarter revenue, as opposed to the newspaper division, which chipped in 15 percent. " The Kaplan income rose 23% in the quarter helped no doubt by the paper's endless flaking for fake education reform that helps NCLB bottom feeders like Kaplan.
SCIENCE
Marc Abrahams, Annals of Improbable Research - Clarence Robbins and Marjorie Gene Robbins visited theme parks hoping to find a good, representative mix of hairy-headed strangers. They then wrote a study called Hair Length in Florida Theme Parks: An Approximation of Hair Length in the United States of America. It tells how Robbins and Robbins gathered data, combed through it, and extrapolated the strands to gain new understanding. . . Robbins and Robbins could not, of course, ensure that their hairy-headed sample accurately represented the American populace. But the monograph tells how they tried: "In an attempt to try to determine how this population relates to the general US population, several telephone calls were made to the Walt Disney Corporation including to their market research department. Those contacted refused to provide any helpful information, indicating that their data and results were proprietary."
Metro UK - The food dye that gives blue M&M's their color can help mend spinal injuries, researchers say. The compound Brilliant Blue G blocks a chemical that kills healthy spinal cord cells around the damaged area - an event that often causes more irreversible damage than the original injury. BBG not only reduced the size of the lesion but also improved the recovery of motor skills, tests on rats showed.
WAR DEPARTMENT
Washington Post - A Washington state Quaker filed a federal lawsuit y alleging that the U.S. government is discriminating against him because it will not recognize his status as a conscientious objector on military draft forms. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the suit on behalf of Tobin D. Jacobrown, 21, in the District's federal court. The suit asks U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina to order the government to recognize conscientious objectors when men register for the draft. The United States, which has an all-volunteer military, has not had a draft since 1973. But the Selective Service System collects information from men ages 18 to 25 in case Congress reinstates conscription into the armed forces. Jacobrown, of Indianola, Wash., said he has not filled out his Selective Service forms, as required by law, because they do not have a space for him to indicate his status as a conscientious objector. As a Quaker, he said, he cannot sign the forms without such a provision. Although Quakers do not have a specific creed, pacifism is a long-standing belief.
ECO CLIPS
Fast Company - While countries throughout Europe (and some U.S. states) are actively trying to encourage the use of rooftop solar panels with feed-in tariffs, Colorado utility Xcel Energy has decided to punish residents who want to go solar. The utility is toying with the idea of charging a fee to all customers who install solar systems after April 2010. While Xcel claims that it will be minimal--$23 annually for a Boulder home with a 4.5 kilowatt solar array--the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association says that super-efficient homes could be charged up to $200 or more. So why is Xcel discouraging solar power? Officials say that the fee will be used to pay for transmission lines. It's a charge that's built into the average customer's electricity rates, but solar-powered homes use so little power that they don't pay it. But as Scientific American's George Musser points out, solar users pay for their own net meters to monitor consumption and generation, pay $6 to $7 per month for meter reading costs, and pay for backup power from the grid. And solar users do utilities a favor by making to easier for them to fulfill demand during peak times and by helping meet federal renewable energy requirements. Utilities in Maine, Vermont, California, and Florida get this; that's why they pay solar panel owners above-market rates for their electricity. For a utility that is trying to turn Boulder into the first Smart Grid City, Xcel is doing a good job of making things difficult for forward-thinking customers.
Herman Daly, Common Dreams - What would the US look like if we had one-half of our current energy consumption? I think there are two ways to kind of get a handle on that. The first is to go back in US history to such a time when we did live off of one-half of the current levels of energy consumption. That would put us somewhere around 1960. And gee, life in 1960 wasn't bad. There were all sorts of good things - you were a long way from freezing in the dark, and life was quite good, materially good, and so forth. Another way of thinking about it is to take the same year and look for another country with half the energy consumption per capita, like France, and life in France is pretty good. So society could cut energy consumption in half and, if it was done diligently, it wouldn't be a big deal in terms of how it would affect people's welfare. . .
INDICATORS
USA Today - Jobless rates for men and women older than 55 are at their highest level since the Great Depression, government data show. White men over 55 had a record 6.5% unemployment rate in the second quarter, far above the previous post-Depression high of 5.4% in 1983. The jobless rate for older black men was higher - 10.5% - but more than a percentage point below its 1983 peak. The most remarkable change is in the unemployment rate for black women: 12.2%, far below the historic peak of 20% in 1983. Hispanic unemployment is about 6 percentage points below historic highs, too. In other words, this recession has shrunk the racial gap in unemployment, largely because white men are doing so much worse than usual. Those above 55 also are spending more time than ever between jobs. Older workers spend an average 27 weeks between jobs, about five weeks longer than younger workers.
HOW BIG IS THE INTERNET?
News,
Australia - internet has permeated everything from buying to
banking to bonking.
But just how big is it?
Microsoft's Bing team puts the amount of web pages at "over one trillion".
And Google has already indexed more than one trillion discrete web addresses.
There are more addresses than there are people on Earth. The current global population stands at more than 6.7 billion.
That means there are about 150 web addresses per person in the world.
Translated: If you spent just one minute reading every website in existence, you'd be kept busy for 31,000 years. Without any sleep. . .
Mark Higginson, director of analytics for Nielsen Online, said the global online population had jumped 16 per cent since last year.
"Approximately 1.46 billion people worldwide now use the internet. . The largest internet population belongs to China, which claimed this week to have more users online – 338 million - than there were people in the US.
However InternetWorldStats.com a website that combines multiple data sources, claims China's online population is more like 298 million, just a few million shy of overtaking the US population. . .
Measuring the online population can be tricky. There are servers, users, per capita numbers, and penetration percentages to evaluate. It's an epic-scale guessing game using a series of sources to get just one number.
IWS combines data from the UN's International Telecommunications Union, Nielsen Online, GfK and US Census Bureau.
Its latest global figures puts the number of internet users in the world at 1,596,270,108.
STUDY: ONLY 3% OF NEWSPAPER READING IS
ONLINE
Martin Langeveld, Nieman Lab - All generally
accepted truths notwithstanding, more than 96 percent of
newspaper reading is still done in the print editions, and
the online share of the newspaper audience attention is only
a bit more than 3 percent. That's my conclusion after I got
out my spreadsheets and calculator out again to check the
math behind the assumption that the audience for news has
shifted from print to the Web in a big way.
. . NAA reports the daily newspaper online audience as measured by Nielsen in both unique visitors and page views. For 2008, it averaged 3.2 billion online page views per month.
. . So, U. S. daily newspapers deliver a total of 90.3 billion page impressions per month, print and online. The online share of these page is only 3.5 percent - 96.5 percent of page impressions delivered by newspapers are in print.
Another massage of the numbers, this time in terms of time spent: The NAA's Nielsen numbers say that the average unique visitor to newspaper web sites spends about 45 minutes per month. So with a unique visitor audience that averaged 67.3 million during 2008, newspaper web sites were viewed a total of 3.03 billion minutes per month.
How much time was spent with printed newspapers? NAA doesn't offer a study providing an average, nor can I find one elsewhere, but I'm going to use 25 minutes Monday-Saturday and 35 minutes on Sunday. Multiplying this out, we get 96.5 billion minutes per month spent with printed newspapers.
So in terms of attention span, newspapers hold readers a total of 99.5 billion minutes per month, of which only 3.0 percent is online. This correlates nicely with the page view split.
AMERICANS SPEND $34 BILLION ON ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
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