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Chomsky spoke to a packed audience of over 80 people in an empty room above Café Bol via skype from his academic offices at MIT in the US. He spoke on several subjects during the one-and-a-half hour lecture. These included a brief history of the World War II, US imperialism and involvement in Latin America over the past three decades and the consequences as well as a more recent take on Pakistan.

via In US-Pakistan relations stability means obedience: Chomsky – The Express Tribune.

Steven Tyler’s baby aborted alive – Jill Stanek.

By verbal slight of hand, “local” becomes a synonym for “national.” It’s a textbook case of the Gramsci/Alinsky strategy of “the long march through the institutions”: rather than violent revolution, the gradual co-option of societal institutions.

via Articles: Publicly Funded Leftism on Community Television.

The American right, especially the Tea Party, is just as angry as the left ever was in their frothing and immature rages against the machine.  The difference is that the right knows when to shut up, for the most part, and the time for talking is past.  We have seen who will listen and who will not, and it has become perilously clear that the GOP leadership is not listening.  The time for voting comes next, and it comes with a warning.  If the GOP leadership does not manage to get untangled from Washington motivations long enough to defeat Obama and destroy or damage his anti-American program, they will leave their support out in the cold.  America is not a country where any sizeable section of the population … Continue reading →

Political Calculations: The Biggest Issue of 2010, In One Chart.

The Fannie Mae testimony that will make you scream in anger.

Stop shouting!: TEN RULES FOR LIBERTY GUERRILLAS.

Here’s a bit more about the concept as I see it now.

In this scenario, the heavily contaminated water (W1) would be drawn (hot and contaminated) from the reactor to an evap unit where it can be flashed and quenched in a perverted sort of vacuum distillation. A critical point is that our input water is very hot, whereas in most evaps it is cold, requiring significant energy to maintain the process. It should be very easy to flash W1 directly into steam, and even more critically, the steam is mostly clean. A portion of W1 will flash to steam, and a portion of that will be drawn off for separate condensation as W2, and we have reduced the volume of W1 while increasing its concentration of contamination. … Continue reading →