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Sgt. York, Secret Afghan Cyber Warrior?

$200 million of your tax dollars are being spent to try and influence the Afghanistan conflict by a few contractors pretending to be dozens of different Taliban, Taliban sympathizers, and other Afghans who oppose efforts of Afghan government and NATO.

What if everyone in a 100 person chat room or network is actually two guys – one a NATO contractor and the other a Taliban contractor and living in the same hotel in a rich Kabul suburb? And they figure this out but continue the game because the money is pretty good.

Grin. And people want to cut money from NPR? Ha, ha, ha – as the two contractors nod to each other on the way to the bank.

US Army’s top secret psyops initiative aimed at the manipulation of social media through the use of fake online personas. This $200 million CENTCOM programme was first developed for use in Iraq and is now said to be targeted at countering Taliban propaganda in Afghanistan.
One can imagine how easy it would be to influence events via Twitter, for example, where people tend to follow particular hashtags. Astute tweeting on a popular hashtag by a lot of personas acting in unison could easily be used to divert people away from what was really happening.

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Humans Killing Bees? Seems Likely

Many flowering plants that bees depend upon being wiped out due to human induced climate change – check.

Pesticides – check.

Genetically Modified plants – check.

This will end up killing? Planet? Could be.

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Bees Under Bombardment

• Increasing use of chemicals in agriculture, including ‘systemic insecticides’ and those used to coat seeds, is being found to be damaging or toxic to bees. Some can, in combination, be even more potent to pollinators, a phenomenon known as the ‘cocktail effect’

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Over drugged poultry may kill us

New study coming out will show again that factory farming and overuse of drug on poultry is producing bacteria that can kill us because they are resistant to medicines used to fight bacteria harmful to humans. I don’t know if buying local will help. Not eating poultry products sold on mass market might help and just not eating poultry and eggs can certainly help protect you and the planet. Industrial poultry farming is unhealthy for everyone: poultry, people and the planet. It is producing superbugs and avian influenza and perhaps the next mass killing pandemic.

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Drug-resistant bacteria: To humans from farms via food

Show us the science that use of antibiotics in animal production is causing this antibiotic resistance,” Dave Warner of the National Pork Council
Clinical Microbiology and Infection
Chickens, chicken meat and humans in the Netherlands are carrying identical, highly drug-resistant E. coli — resistance that is apparently moving from poultry raised with antibiotics, to humans, via food.
The case has been proven on the population level: populations of chickens, collections of chicken meat, populations of humans. If you look at the 30 years of research on this question, it’s been proven time and time again.

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BP Board Meeting Dinner – Dead Dolphin

Not on the nightly news or first in your mind anymore but cannot be ignored by people who love and live on the Gulf. See this BP? When do you ever feel ashamed of what you do to make a buck?

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Death of a Dolphin Sparks Anger in the Gulf

The BP oil disaster put a huge dent in Capt Lori’s dolphin-watching business, but now it’s personal. Recently she watched over a young adult male dolphin that had washed up on the sandy shores of Orange Beach, lying motionless with its mouth agape.

Many on the Gulf like Capt. Lori think they know already. “The oil is toxic, and it’s even more so with all the dispersant they sprayed out there. Anytime you have that much oil in the water you should expect to be collecting dead fish and animals. Nothing will stop this from rearing its ugly head for years to come.”

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No Oil, No Help, No Rush, Women Die!

All eyes on Libya – they need help but women in Ivory Coast being gunned down. Secretary Clinton deplored but no ships deployed? No oil just chocolate?

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Sadness and anger are just some of the feelings being shared by Ivorians netizens and others in the wake of the attack. Here are some of the reactions from social microblogging network Twitter, sent to the hashtag being used for the unrest, #civ2010.

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Drug Addicted Factory Farms – Killing Us

Factory farming resembles automobile factories millions of defects and producing dangers that can kill as well as sicken us and the planet. The really dumb part – put drugs into feed and sick animals may not get the protection they need and fitter animals overdose on drugs in feed. The resulting “super-bugs” may kill off humans and herds when an oops unexpected new bacteria or virus is “manufactured.”

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Ag antibiotic use: Risky — but also sloppy and wasteful

So, to sum up: It’s always been clear that indiscriminate use of antibiotics in agriculture leads to costs outside farms, in environmental contamination and in development of drug-resistant bacteria. What this analysis shows is that antibiotic over-use has costs on the farm as well. It’s inefficient, it wastes drugs and money, and it doesn’t necessarily do what it is intended to do.

So why keep doing it?

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Friday Congress Follies

Remember, “Don’t think twice, it’s all right?”(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMGKIGpD1tk). When it comes to making or proposing laws, instead of songs, maybe these folks should think twice to make it right? Well, maybe they should just go home and leave us be.

Hard to believe but true – take a look.

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Don’t Think Twice – When You Propose a Law?

It is Friday, so maybe that is why there are stranger than strange laws proposed today by real members of the US Congress. But… Well, read a few summaries with my comments first.

Another guy wants to bring back the Confederacy – I guess. Wants to amend the US Constitution to make us the Disunited States of America

Drill Baby Drill – BP Support Bill? Not making this up; this guy is for real.

If any country every votes against our position in UN – screw them – no assistance ever!

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Don’t Think Twice – When You Propose a Law?

It is Friday, so maybe that is why there are stranger than strange laws proposed today by real members of the US Congress. But… Well, read a few summaries with my comments first.
Amend the US Constitution to define marriage – for real – that’s how much this guy wants to have government tell what you can and cannot do!
Introduced: H.J.Res. 45: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage.
Rep. Paul Broun [R-GA10] introduced this bill.

Another guy wants to bring back the Confederacy – I guess. Wants to amend the US Constitution to make us the Disunited States of America

Introduced: H.J.Res. 46: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to allow the several States to nullify a law or regulation of the United States. Rep. Morgan Griffith [R-VA9] introduced this bill.

Drill Baby Drill – BP Support Bill? Not making this up; this guy is for real.

Rep. Ken Calvert [R-CA44] introduced H.R. 903: To greatly enhance the Nation’s environmental, energy, economic, and national security by terminating long-standing Federal prohibitions on the domestic production of abundant offshore supplies of oil and natural gas, and for other purposes.

If any country every votes against our position in UN – screw them – no assistance ever! Not making this up. If Israel ever votes against us in UN, if Iraq, Afghanistan, Mexico, Egypt, Ghana – whoever – votes against us; no more Mr. Nice Guy! Grin – not sure he is in same universe as rest of us but here it is in black and white.

H.R. 921: To prohibit United States assistance to foreign countries that oppose the position of the United States in the United Nations.
Rep. Louis Gohmert [R-TX1] introduced this bill.

Let’s hope that in the coming week, that maybe they think twice before… scratch that. Let’s hope they take a week off, instead.

Mimi unplugged – saying what you are thinking – Lol!

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I have a few things to say. This is Mimi unplugged.
Hide your children.
If Kadafi  would pull a Mubarak and Mubarak would fly in the proposed no-fly zone –
all problems solved!
Does this make sense to you?
  All the teachers in Providence, Rhode Island were given pink slips but Rush Limbaugh still has a job.
Mexican border mayhem:
Please, for the love of God, stop supplying weapons to Mexican drug dealers from my corner of the globe. I am ashamed.
To Mr. Webster! Please! I have seen exactly 23 ways to spell the Libyan leader’s name in the last 24 hours. Somebody call it.

To Charlie Sheen:  
Go directly to Rehab. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200

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