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Clarks Fork River Canyon Ethnographic Study
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Clarks Fork River Canyon Ethnographic Study: Project Background Information: A need has been identified to determine which stone circles, cairns, and trails in the Clarks Fork Canyon vicinity are associated with the Blackfeet Tribe and to update information on previously identified sites within the area. Information gained will allow for increased land management ability and the data obtained will also allow for increased coordination with the Tribe in the management area.Project Objective: This agreement will facilitate the exchange of cultural resource data and information to include: relevance of the features and the locality to the Tribal culture of the Blackfeet Tribe. The results will be provided to the BLM in a narrative report including maps, drawings, and photographs as appropriate. The project should also produce Tribal names and traditional associations for prominent topographic features and landforms in the area, survey, inventory and mapping of traditional localities and provide this information to the Wyoming Cultural Records Information System (WYCRIS). This information will be used in developing up-to-date databases and baseline information to be available to for future use by researchers and land managers. Benefits: This cooperative venture between the BLM and the successful applicant will provide for more effective use of available technical systems such as remote sensing, GIS, ortho-photo quads, and WYCRIS; and resources by the public, government agencies and other interested parties. The resulting data, information, and maps that are obtained will ensure that cultural resource information is developed and maintained and made available as appropriate. Ultimately, management of public lands will be more efficient. The data obtained will provide guidance for the management of traditional localities on all lands, be they Federal, state or private. Knowing the locations of these traditional localities will allow managers to plan future developments around these areas to minimize impacts.Statement of Joint Objectives/Project Management Plan: The purpose of this cooperative agreement between the Bureau of land management (BLM) and the successful applicant, is to work cooperatively in the documentation of Blackfeet Tribal interests on public lands in the Clarks Fork Canyon Area, in Wyoming.
Federal Grant Title: | Clarks Fork River Canyon Ethnographic Study |
Federal Agency Name: | Bureau of Land Management |
Grant Categories: | Other |
Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
Funding Opportunity Number: | RFA-WY08-9017 |
Type of Funding: | Cooperative Agreement |
CFDA Numbers: | 15.224 |
CFDA Descriptions: | Cultural Resource Management |
Current Application Deadline: | Aug 04, 2008 |
Original Application Deadline: | Jun 20, 2008 |
Posted Date: | May 23, 2008 |
Creation Date: | Jul 09, 2008 |
Archive Date: | Aug 30, 2008 |
Total Program Funding: | $15,000 |
Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $15,000 |
Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $15,000 |
Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
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The Senate acted decisively Wednesday to override President Barack Obama's veto of Sept. 11 legislation, setting the stage for the contentious bill to become law despite flaws that Obama and top Pentagon officials warn could put U.S. troops and interests at risk.
Five weeks before elections, lawmakers refused to oppose a measure backed by 9/11 families who say they are still seeking justice 15 years after the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. The bill permits them to sue the government of Saudi Arabia for the kingdom's alleged backing of the 19 hijackers who carried out the plot. Saudi Arabia is staunchly opposed to the measure.
Senators voted 97-1 to override Obama's veto. The lone "no" vote was Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
The House voted 348-77 Wednesday to override his veto of legislation and allow the families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for the kingdom's alleged backing of the attackers.
Despite reversing Obama's decision, several senators said defects in the bill could open a legal Pandora's box, triggering lawsuits from people in other countries seeking redress for injuries or deaths caused by military actions in which the U.S. may have had a role.
In a letter delivered Tuesday to Senate leaders, Obama said the bill would erode sovereign immunity principles that prevent foreign litigants "from second-guessing our counterterrorism operations and other actions that we take every day."
But one of the bill's leading proponents, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, dismissed Obama's concerns as "unpersuasive." Cornyn, the Senate's No. 2 Republican, and other supporters said the bill is narrowly tailored and applies only to acts of terrorism that occur on U.S. soil.
"This bill is about respecting the voices and rights of American victims," Cornyn said.
Families of the victims and their attorneys disputed concerns over the legislation as fearmongering aimed at derailing the legislation that they have long urged Congress to pass.
Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, one of the Democrats who broke with Obama and voted to override, said "the risks of shielding the perpetrators of terrorism from justice are greater than the risks this legislation may pose to America's presence around the world."
The legislation gives victims' families the right to sue in U.S. court for any role that elements of the Saudi government may have played in the 2001 attacks. Fifteen of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudi nationals. Courts would be permitted to waive a claim of foreign sovereign immunity when an act of terrorism occurs inside U.S. borders, according to the terms of the bill.
Still, a group of national-security minded legislators pledged to discuss how to repair problem areas during the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress. But the fact that legislation could pass both chambers of Congress without closer scrutiny left at least a few senators chiding themselves for not examining more closely the bill's potential ramifications.
The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, or JASTA, moved to the floor of the Senate in May and passed by voice vote. The bill cleared the House earlier this month, also by voice vote.
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The Importance of Solar Energy to Our Everyday Lives
Daily headlines make everyone aware of the dangerous situation in which our environment must operate. The human population has historically overtaxed its natural resources and today we are seeing the long-term effects of this selfish behavior. While many people try to reduce their carbon footprint by recycling, spending their money in more effective ways and eating a more earth friendly diet, one of the most important practices we should all begin is improving our energy efficiency.
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Those who have the financial means can use solar energy in a significantly wider number of ways, and not just to heat their domestic hot water or supply their homes with some energy. While such functions are ideally where all home owners should be headed, currently the materials and equipment required to convert a homes energy supply entirely to a solar powered system are not within everyones budget or ability. Home owners can however employ a wide number of solar powered LED lights and appliances (including radios, solar flag light, ovens and attic fans) as an effective approach towards energy efficiency.


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Monday, March 29, 2010
Shrimp Scampi Pizza
You have to look close, but those are indeed shrimp sticking up out of that bed of cheese!
First thing I did was make a Mediterranean Herb Pizza Dough (that post to come soon, but the Mediterranean Herb rub mix is on my sister site... A Kansas Foodie in the Virgin Islands)...
Lets make the scampi...
2 TBS Garlic infused Oil
2 TBS Butter
6 cloves Garlic (minced)
3/4 pound of tiny salad Shrimp
Heat the oil, melt the butter, sauté the garlic and add... wait, slow down... Sauté the garlic for about 5 minutes to get the garlic flavors intensified into the oil/butter mixture. The garlic/scampi flavor is in the oil, not the garlic.
Meanwhile, if like me you are using a bag of frozen shrimp, be sure they are thawed, and use a paper towel to dry them off. The shrimp will release moisture while you are cooking the pizza. Don't add to the danger f a potentially soggy pizza dough.
NOW, add the shrimp and sauté. Be sure to get all the pieces coated with the oil.
I made my own pizza dough, infused with a Mediterranean Herb rub mix. If you prefer, use one of the pre-made pizza rounds.
The dough I used needed to pre-cook for 10 minutes prior to adding the toppings. Remember, shrimp cooks very fast. I only want to cook the pizza with the shrimp added for an additional 10 minutes.
Add a layer of pizza sauce (I used a store bought)
I added a layer of provolone cheese
Then I added the shrimp. DO NOT spoon the extra sauce on. Sop it up with some bread if you like, it is very good, but do not add to the pizza. The dough will get soggy.
Then I top with a layer of Italian cheese mixture.
Finally, another TBS of Mediterranean Herb rub mix is sprinkled over the cheese...
350 degrees for 10 minutes, or until the cheese is nicely melted.
OMG... I made this for my wife on Friday. I am continuing to further the cause of Christ on Earth by making a fish course on Friday's during Lent.
I do not observe the season myself (well, I guess I do just cause I eat what she eats, but she gets more out of it than I do). However, I did a little checking. In the 50's, the church would make eating meat a mortal sin and you were doomed to hell (or at the least purgatory) if you had those ribs you wanted. But, thanks to the Vatican II conference of the early 60's, meat eating was no longer a mortal sin.
It does beg the question of what happened to those souls that ate meat during the time it was a mortal sin? But, in the end, it is probably a moot point, as the type of people who eat meat on Friday are likely to be the type of people who commit other sins and they end up in the same place.
But not my wife, thanks to this Shrimp Scampi Pizza!
Now I have to find that "tongue in cheek" humor font...
24 comments:
- Tina MarieMarch 29, 2010 at 5:51 AM
Oh man, YOUR shrimp dish looks great! This is a keeper.
ReplyDelete OK - that last pic made me moan with pizza need. Sweet! - and overdue thanks for your veggie dip recipe! I am most grateful and look forward to trying it (the combo of coconut and raw carrots, I think, will remind me of carrot cake). For anyone who wants to check it out, too - Dave's Pina Colada Dip is here
CleoI think that this looks just perfect! I make my own pizza on most Friday nights and I'm going to have to add this to my line-up. Excellent combination of ingredients!
I observe the season of Lent, but do not abstain from eating meat. My husband does. I'll have to make this for him (next year...I'm unexpectedly away from home until after Easter...I probably won't cook again until Lent is over). Actually, I won't wait until next year to bake this...I want it soon. But it may be an option for a Lenten Friday dinner next year.Two favorite dishes united, bravo. Beautiful pics. And who os the fool that said never pair cheese with seafood anyway. Many eons ago I worked for an Italian restaurant that made a delicious white clam pizza and believe me it was off the charts. You have given me new found hope and good reason to make a few "seafood" pizza's. I think I'll start with this version!
ReplyDelete- Gypsy Girl GourmetApril 10, 2010 at 2:24 PM
This sounds great! My boyfriend LOVES shrimp scampi and homemade pizza. . . I'll be making this next week for sure!
ReplyDelete I am picking this as my favorite recipe you have posted in the Virgin Islands, but I think I have a few other fav's, too. Hard to pick. I didn't realize how many great pizza variations you had come up with. Then there are all the other shrimp recipes. Of course, the breads look great, too. See, too many to choose, but this one is making me really hungry, so I am picking it.


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FeaturesBusiness & EconomyCanada mulls China's massive oil takeover bid State oil firm offers $15.1bn for Nexen, worrying US politicians as China aims to increase hard assets, not buy US debt. 15 Aug 2012 12:13 GMT | Business & Economy, US & Canada, Canada, China, United States China is looking to convert more of its $3.1tn in foreign reserves into hard assets, including western oil firms [Reuters]By Chris Arsenault Backed by a massive trade surplus and bulging overseas currency reserves, and fuelled by a voracious appetite for commodities, China has launched one of its largest foreign takeover bids to date, aiming to control a Canadian oil giant. China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) wants to buy Calgary-based Nexen for $15.1bn, a premium 60 per cent above the company's listed value, in a deal analysts say Canadian regulators are likely to approve, despite opposition from some US politicians. James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, has "serious national security concerns" over the bid, while Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, said China's "blatant disregard for US intellectual property rights makes this transaction even more concerning". Canada is the largest foreign supplier of oil to the US and Nexen has operations in the Alberta tar sands, one of the world's largest petroleum deposits, along with international investments in Africa, the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea and the Middle East. Regulators from the Canadian government, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a Conservative who hails from Alberta and has close ties to the oil industry, are currently mulling whether the takeover deal represents a "net benefit" to Canada. It is unclear when exactly a decision will be announced. In search of stability China is the world's second largest oil consumer, according to the CIA, burning about 9.4 million barrels per day in 2011. "Over the past couple of years, the boom in unconventional extraction has made North America the centre of the mergers and acquisitions world," Erica Downs, a former CIA energy analyst, now with the Brookings Institute, told Al Jazeera. "Canada and the US are increasingly where these companies want to be." Canada's oil ambitions could jeopardise nature reserve In the short-term, China needs energy - and Nexen, one of Canada's ten largest oil companies, has an ample supply, producing some 213,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. The deal would increase CNOOC's reserves by 30 per cent, company officials told the Reuters news agency when the takeover plan was announced in late July. Nexen's Canadian assets in the tar sands, where oil is often mined rather than pumped, are far more expensive to access than conventional crude. But companies such as CNOCC are willing to pay an extra premium for energy which comes from a politically stable western country such as Canada. "It's no secret that geostrategic instability affects most oil exporters," Gordon Houlden, director of the University of Alberta's China Institute, told Al Jazeera. "The Chinese got burned in Libya [after rebels ousted Gaddafi's government and the Chinese lost their contracts]." "They got badly burned in Sudan with the break-up of the country [most of the oil is in South Sudan while China had signed deals with the former government in the north] and there are questions over Iranian production because of sanctions and the risks of war," he said. "The premium for security is reasonable." With 175 billion barrels of recoverable crude, Canada has the world's third largest proven oil reserves, behind Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, according to the CIA. Producing oil from Canada's tar sands requires an oil price of more than $50 per barrel to be profitable, according to Shell and other energy companies. Extracting one barrel of oil from the tar sands produces three times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional crude, leading conservationists to oppose the China takeover plan, as it is likely to mean increased production and investment in one of the world's most environmentally harmful fuel sources. "A Chinese owned company is going to want pipelines [to the Pacific coast]," said Gordon Laxer, director of the Parkland Institute, a left-leaning think-tank in Edmonton. "I don't think Canada should be increasing tar sands production, we should be capping and phasing it out," he told Al Jazeera. Two controversial pipeline proposals - the Northern Gateway spearheaded by the energy giant Enbridge and the Kinder Morgan pipeline - are hoping to bring Canadian oil to Asia, but environmentalists and some indigenous groups are battling to stop them. "As a world power, much like the Americans, the Chinese want diversity in their energy sources," Laxer said. China's ocean ambitions "China controls more than $3.1tn in official currency reserves, an unprecedented amount for any country" - The Financial Times Over the longer term, some analysts believe Beijing is eyeing Nexen's deep water drilling technology in order to cement its claims to prospective offshore oil deposits in the disputed South China Sea. The region could contain as much as 213 billion barrels of oil, according to Chinese studies, making it a geopolitical prize comparable with Saudi Arabia. Most of this potential for oil is deep under water. In May, China's first deep-water drilling rig, CNOOC 981, began operations in the South China Sea. It can operate at a maximum water depth of 3,000 metres, which is a significant improvement over past Chinese technology, but still less than the capacity of major western energy firms. "The deep sea component is one of many attractive components of Nexen to CNOOC," Houlden said, calling the acquisition "one of the ways" for the Chinese to add to their capacity. The US government will review if China's ownership of Nexen's offshore assets in the Gulf of Mexico - accounting for 14,000 barrels of oil per day, or 6.6 per cent of the company's production - poses a national security risk. Above and beyond any particular concerns about technology, some politicians are worried about firms backed by the Chinese state going after hard assets. US debt conundrum China controls more than $3.1tn in official currency reserves, an "unprecedented amount for any country" The Financial Times reported earlier this year. With a trade surplus of $160bn in 2011, the country has money to spend. Previously, this money had been invested in US treasury bonds - buying US government debt - but Chinese officials have repeatedly warned that increasing US debt levels and political paralysis in Washington are making debt investments less appealing. But China cannot sell its investments in US Treasury Bonds without causing the value to drop. As the biggest holder of the asset, any moves away from US debt would hurt China, which would be left holding a bag of worthless paper. "Just a few words from China that they wished to divest or even to stop purcashing T-Bills would hurt them [both China and the US] very much," Houlden said. For the time being, China is likely to keep buying US debt, while attempting to slowly shift reserves into other properties. Trying to convert investments in treasury bills into hard assets in western countries hasn't always been easy. Canadian officials blocked a takeover attempt by an Australian firm on mining giant Potash Co last year, saying it would not be beneficial to Canadians. In 2005, CNOOC attempted to buy the US oil company Unocal for $18.5bn, but regulators blocked it on national security grounds. State and corporate power CNOOC's operating structure is considered murky by some analysts. Its divisions are traded on international stock markets and the company has pledged to keep Nexen listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). The firm traded on the TSX is apparently a subsidiary of a bigger corporation which is owned largely by China's government, allowing the company to secure financing with low interest rates often unavailable to its competitors. "There are lots of state owned companies operating in the tar sands, none of them are Canadian" - Gordon Laxer, Parkland Institute "Chinese companies have a lower cost of capital and a lower cost of inputs," Downs, the former CIA analyst, said. "Secondly, they do not pay anywhere near the same amount of money in terms of dividends to shareholders as western publicly traded companies." With Chinese state firms, it is often unclear where national interests end and corporate interests begin, worrying some western capitalists. "In the past 10-15 years we have seen these companies emerge as increasingly powerful actors vis-à-vis the Chinese government," Downs said. "There has been a devolution of power away from the state to these powerful firms," she said, adding that top executives in major companies are still appointed by the Chinese state. The majority of the world's oil and gas reserves, some 75 per cent of total global production, are controlled by state owned companies. The big names of the oil game: Shell, Exxon, BP and Total are small players compared with Saudi Aramco, Russia's Gazprom and Petroleos de Venezuela. Canada and the US are some of the only places where foreign firms can directly buy upstream petroleum access. "There are lots of state owned companies operating in the tar sands," Laxer said. "None of them are Canadian." If anything, the power of Chinese state capitalism should give Canadian policy makers pause in how they govern their own oil sector, where critics say finite and highly polluting resources are not managed for the public good. Follow Chris Arsenault on Twitter: @AJEchrisSource: Al Jazeera and agencies
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Whether you play guitar, keys, or some other instrument, you'll find the I/O you need to record built into the Griffin StudioConnect iOS interface. That's because Griffin outfitted their StudioConnect with both a 1/8" stereo line input and an instrument-ready 1/4" input. That gives you the freedom to plug in your axe, hook up your keys, or even patch in your favorite mic pre and record straight to your iPad. The StudioConnect even gives you dedicated volume controls for both your headphones and your pro-style studio monitors.
MIDI I/O lets you hook up your keyboards and controllersAudio I/O is great for recording, but if you want to take full advantage of all of those cool iOS virtual instruments, you'll need a way to hook up your MIDI controller keyboard. Good thing Griffin gave the StudioConnect a full set of conventional 5-pin MIDI I/O. Just hook your MIDI keyboard up to the StudioConnect, launch your favorite Core MIDI compliant iOS soft synth, and you're ready to perform and write music on your iPad.
Dock-style setup keeps your iPad chargedHere's one other thing that makes the Griffin StudioConnect even more useful than your typical iOS interface: it doubles as a dock. That means even as you record, sequence, and play back music with your StudioConnect, your iOS device is happily charging away in the background. This may not sound impressive at first, but at Sweetwater we know it's a major bonus, especially during those longer music-making sessions, when running out of battery can ruin your day. What's more, because of its flexible design, you can use the Griffin StudioConnect with your iPad, your iPhone, or your iPod Touch.
Griffin StudioConnect Docking iOS Interface Features:- An easy way to turn your iPad, iPhone, or other iOS device into a portable recording studio
- Compatible audio and MIDI interface for most iOS music-creation apps
- 30-pin connector cable interfaces with most iOS devices and charges them during use
- Ergonomic tilt-back design keeps your iOS device at the optimal viewing angle
- 1/8" stereo and 1/4" DI inputs let you hook up your guitar, bass, keys, or other music gear
- 1/8" stereo headphone jack and stereo RCA outputs provide connections for your monitors
- Independent volume knobs for your headphones and monitors let you keep your levels under control
- Works with Apple's Lightning adapter
- Conventional 5-pin MIDI I/O lets you connect your controller keyboard or other MIDI-equipped gear
- Confirmed compatibility with iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 (NOT iPhone 4S), and iPod Touch 3rd and 4th generation


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Private Estate
Private Estate starts off at the edge of large estate. Rappel down from the starting area to the tennis court. There will be two guards walking around this area, so quickly move into the garage through the door on the right.
A mechanic will be working on a car inside the garage. If you don't wish to kill him, use the pipes on the ceiling to sneak past him. If you want the Blacklist Laptop next to him, it looks like you'll have no choice but to kill him. Quickly hack the laptop and shoot the light out before another guard walks in and spots you.
The front of the estate is relatively large, and is better lit than the tennis court. Two more guards and a dog will be roaming around this area. If playing on a difficulty below perfectionist, mark all three and execute at once. It'll be tough to sneak past the dog. The objective marker is in a shed on the back-right side of the house. Access the security systems from a terminal inside. Doing so will play a short cut scene.
After the scene, exit out of the nearby window. Your next objective is to cut the power. There are two paths to the power: You can either go along the upper left path or the bottom right path. Either path you take, stick to the shadows. There will be three guards and a dog in the first area. The area near the pool should have an additional four guards.
Reach the next objective marker and deploy your Tri-Rotor. Navigate it through the long crawl space. It should be a one-way path into the estate. Two guards will be talking to each other near the breaker box. Quickly take both out with a shot from the sticky shocker. One shot is enough to incapacitate them. Once they're down, take out the breaker box with an EMP.
Exit out of the shed and you'll see an HVT on the deck above. More guards and dogs will be around, too. Climb up the deck from the side and take down the HVT with a non-lethal hand-to-hand take down. With him bagged and tagged, climb up the pipe on the side of the house to get over the fence. On the other side is an entrance into the house.
A large number of enemies are inside this three floor house. Keep an eye out for the laser security system. If you break a laser, everyone in the house will be notified of your position. Sneak past or execute each enemy on the way to the third floor.
The third floor contains a Dead Drop Flash Drive in a small, dark room. For some reason, it won't display on your HUD even if you have the right Paladin upgrades.
Also on the third floor is a well-lit bathroom. This is your destination for this objective. Enter the room and breach through the floor into the panic room. A short cut scene will play after entering.
Your next objective is to extract Nouri. All you have to do is run with Nouri until he stops behind cover, then kill any commandos that run to your position. Their goggles can see through smoke and the dark, so there's no use in hiding. Follow Nouri as you escape through the basement.
Eventually, you and Nouri will reach the outside. You must escape to the docks past three commandos to complete the mission. If you get detected, reinforcements will be dispatched. Stick to the shadows along the left edge of the map. One commando will be walking around the first area, and two more will be walking around the second area down the stairs. If you can't sneak past them, get close enough to pop them in the head. Once you reach the docks, run to the boat to complete the mission.
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Liberals and Atheists Are Smarter: Study March 3, 2010
Posted by rogerhollander in Religion, Science and Technology.Tags: atheism, evolution, evolutionary psychology, intelligence, liberal, monogamy, religion, roger hollander, Satoshi Kanazawa, science, sexual morality
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If you believe in God and are cheating on your wife, look away.
New research from the London School of Economics suggests that liberal, atheist adults who believe in monogamy have higher IQs than their conservative, religious, philandering contemporaries.
The pattern was uncovered by Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist, after analyzing data from two extensive American surveys on social attitudes and IQs in teenagers and adults.
In an article, published this month in the journal Social Psychology Quarterly, Kanazawa found that teens who identified as "not at all religious" had an average IQ of 103, while those who identified as "very religious" had an average IQ of 97, reports the Toronto Star.
The study also found that young adults who identified themselves as "very liberal" had an average IQ of 106, while those who identified themselves as "very conservative" had an average IQ of 95.
And when it comes to monogamy the study found a correlation between sexual morality and intelligence.
"As the empirical analysis … shows, more intelligent men are more likely to value monogamy and sexual exclusivity than less intelligent men," London's Telegraph reported Dr Kanazawa concluded in his study.
Researchers could find no clear correlation between monogamy and intelligence in women.
Dr. Kanazawa believes the link between monogamy, liberalism, atheism and IQs is based in evolutionary development. He argues that humans' ability to deal with "evolutionary novel" situations which don't fit into our natural tendencies towards conservatism and using religious beliefs to understand the natural phenomenon, mark a greater intelligence.
While man's first dealings with "evolutionary novel" situations may have been the employment of logic and reasoning to deal with a flash flood or sudden fire, over time more and more of human activity has fallen into the "evolutionary novel" category. Kanazawa argues that people with a higher intelligence are better able to consider these novel elements and that a belief in liberalism and atheism show an ability to apply reason to novel events.
"Liberalism, caring about millions of total strangers and giving up money to make sure that those strangers will do well, is evolutionarily novel," Kanazawa says.
The same is true of monogamy. Sexual exclusivity is an "evolutionary novel" quality that would have had little benefit to early man. Kanazawa argues that as promiscuity no longer confers an advantage to the modern male a decision to be monogamous shows a man's ability to employ reason to shed an evolutionary psychology, and adopt a new model of behaviour.
"The adoption of some evolutionarily novel ideas makes some sense in terms of moving the species forward," George Washington University leadership professor James Bailey, who was not involved in the study, told CNN . "It also makes perfect sense that more intelligent people – people with, sort of, more intellectual firepower – are likely to be the ones to do that."
But Baily also points out that statements of atheism, liberalism and monogamy may stem for a desire to show superiority. "Unconventional" philosophies such as liberalism or atheism, says Baily, may be "ways to communicate to everyone that you're pretty smart."
Senate will advance torture commission February 24, 2009
Posted by rogerhollander in Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Torture, War.Tags: Abu Ghraib, anthony taguba, bush administration, cia, democracy, geneva conventions, Guantanamo, intelligence, interrogation, John Conyers, mark benjamin, military interrogation, pat leahy, president obama, roger hollander, senate intelligence, senate judiciary, sheldon whitehouse, torture, torture commission, walter jones, War Crimes
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Is there a lot America doesn't know about Bush torture policies? There is, says Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. "This is going to be big."
By Mark Benjamin, www.salon.com
Feb. 24, 2009 | WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to move forward with a commission to investigate torture during the Bush administration. Committee Chairman Pat Leahy, D-Vt., told Salon Tuesday that his panel would soon announce a hearing to study various commission plans. His staff said the announcement could come as early as Wednesday.
While Michigan Democrat Rep. John Conyers and North Carolina Republican Rep. Walter Jones drafted a bill to create a commission to review abuse of war powers during the Bush administration, Leahy's Senate commission would represent the first concrete steps toward a broad review of U.S. torture since 9/11.
Spearheading Senate efforts to establish a torture commission is Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse. As a member of both the Judiciary Committee and the Intelligence Committee, Whitehouse is privy to information about interrogations he can't yet share. Still, regarding a potential torture commission, he told Salon, "I am convinced it is going to happen." In fact, his fervor on the issue was palpable. When asked if there is a lot the public still does not know about these issues during the Bush administration, his eyes grew large and he nodded slowly. "Stay on this," he said. "This is going to be big."
Whitehouse admitted he had not discussed the plan yet with President Obama, who has been notably wishy-washy on the notion since taking office. On the one hand, Obama has consistently said that "my administration is going to operate in a way that leaves no doubt that we do not torture." Yet on the other hand, he has insisted that "nobody is above the law, and if there are clear instances of wrongdoing, that people should be prosecuted just like any ordinary citizen; but that generally speaking, I'm more interested in looking forward than I am in looking backwards."
According to Whitehouse, current politics dictate that Congress should take the lead on establishing a torture commission. "When you look at the economic meltdown that [Obama] was left by the Bush administration, you can see why he would want to reassure the American public that he is out there looking at these problems and trying to solve them and not focusing on the sins of the past," he said.
Whitehouse, however, predicted that Obama would not object to a torture commission moving forward in Congress. Besides, he said, "When push comes to shove, we are the legislative branch of government. We have oversight responsibilities. And we don't need the executive branch's approval to look into these things just as a constitutional matter."
Plans to establish the commission still remain in their infancy, as senators and staff look at previous panels, such as the 9-11 Commission, and investigations following Watergate. Whitehouse, a former U.S. attorney, noted that a torture commission might need the power to immunize witnesses on a case-by-case basis. The prospect of future prosecutions, he said, are beside the point. Most important was putting a spotlight on abuses committed by the Bush administration.
Last week, retired Maj. Gen. Tony Taguba, known for conducting an honest investigation of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, discussed his support for such a commission in an exclusive interview with Salon. Taguba joined a group of former high-level diplomats and law enforcement officials who also announced their support for a torture commission late last week, along with 18 rights groups.
During that interview, Taguba stated that any review must include close analysis of claims from Bush administration officials that abusive interrogations worked. "Some of those activities were actually not effective and those who thought so were in the academic or pristine settings of their offices," Taguba said. "What would they know?"
Whitehouse agreed, and depicted as ironic the fact that some members of the intelligence community saw themselves as "the Lance Armstrongs of interrogation," while some members of the military objected to abuse as ineffective. "In fact, the exact opposite was true," Whitehouse said about such claims from the CIA."It was amateur hour with them, and the career, tough, serious military interrogators said that this just was not effective," he said. "But it is important to prove the point, because they keep saying, 'We saved lives. We interrupted plans. We did this, that and the other.'" Whitehouse added, "Well, when you drill down, there is never a fact there. It turns into fog and evasion."
A Choice Between Peace and Peril February 23, 2009
Posted by rogerhollander in Israel, Gaza & Middle East, War.Tags: Afghanistan, ahmadinejad, aipac, Bush, chris hedges, Clinton, dennis ross, enriched uranium, europe, hamas, hezbollah, hillary, intelligence, Iran, iranian missiles, iranian nuclear scientists, Iraq, israel, jundullah, kurdistan, lebanon, Middle East, military, mossad, mujahedin, netanyahu, nuclear, nuclear reactor, Obama, pakistan, peace, politics, revolutionary guards, roger hollander, russia, security, shiite, shimon peres, sunni, Syria, Taliban, United Nations, uranium, war
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Posted on Feb 23, 2009, www.truthout.com
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By Chris Hedges
Bibi Netanyahu's assumption of power in Israel sets the stage for a huge campaign by the Israeli government, and its well-oiled lobby groups in Washington, to push us into a war with Iran.
Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program, according to U.S. and European intelligence agencies. But reality rarely impedes on politics. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama, along with Netanyahu, all talk as if Iran is on the brink of dropping the big one on the Jewish state.
Netanyahu on Friday named Iran as Israel's main threat after he was called to form a new government following the Feb. 20 elections.
"Iran is seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon and constitutes the gravest threat to our existence since the war of independence," Netanyahu said at a ceremony at President Shimon Peres' official residence. "The terrorist forces of Iran threaten us from the north," the presumptive prime minister said in reference to Lebanon and Syria, where Israel says Tehran supplies arms to Hezbollah and Hamas. "For decades, Israel has not faced such formidable challenges."
Netanyahu, whose arrogance is as outsized as his bellicosity, knows that for all his threats and chest thumping, Israel is incapable of attacking Iranian targets alone. Israel cannot fly its attack aircraft over Iraqi air space into Iran without U.S. permission, something George W. Bush refused to grant, fearing massive retaliatory strikes by Iran on American bases in Iraq. Israel's air force is not big enough to neutralize the multiple targets, from radar stations to missile batteries to Revolutionary Guard units to bunkers housing Iran's Soviet- and Chinese-made fighter jets and bombers, and also hit suspected nuclear targets. The only route to a war with Tehran for the Israeli military is through Washington.
Netanyahu's resolve to strike Iran means that we will soon hear a lot about the danger posed by Iran—full-page ads in American newspapers from Israel lobby groups have appeared in the past few days. Allowing this rhetoric to cloud reality, as we did during the buildup to the war with Iraq, would shut down the best chance for stability in the Middle East—a negotiated settlement with Iran. This may not finally stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, but a stable relationship with Iran would do more to protect Israel and our interests in the Middle East than massive airstrikes and a war that would bleed into Iraq and Lebanon and see Iranian missiles launched against Israeli cities.
"If you go into a problem with a mistaken assumption, you come out with a bad policy," said Sam Gardner, a retired colonel of the U.S. Air Force who has taught strategy and military operations at the National War College, Air War College and Naval War College, and who opposes the Israeli campaign to strike Iran.
Iran's nuclear program is currently monitored by inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Iran had amassed about 2,227 pounds of low-enriched, or reactor-grade, nuclear fuel by late January, according to the latest updates from the arms control watchdog for the United Nations. To produce the 55 pounds of highly enriched, or weapons-grade, uranium needed for an atomic warhead, Iran would need 2,205 to 3,748 pounds of low-enriched uranium. It apparently has this amount—which is why Netanyahu refers to Iran as "an existential threat" to the Israeli state. But Iran has made no move to enrich the uranium and until it does cannot be accused of having a nuclear weapons program. Iran also does not have enough high-speed centrifuges at its facility in Natanz to further refine the uranium, according to the United Nations.
Iran has turned to its old nemesis Russia for assistance as Israel has become more strident. The work on the Bushehr nuclear reactor will soon be assisted by 3,000 Russian technicians. And Russia has promised to sell the S-300 missile to Iran to boost that nation's air defense systems. The Russian Federation Security Council and the State Council's new national security strategy statement says that the primary focus of the struggle over the next decade will be on hydrocarbons. The Middle East and Central Asia are mentioned specifically. In these areas, according to the document, the struggle could develop into a military confrontation. And, while the document does not mention the United States, there is no other rival military force in the region that can match the Russian machine. The more we push Iran the more Iran flees into the arms of the Russians and the closer we come to a new Cold War struggle for control of diminishing natural resources. Iranian officials have barred inspections of facilities producing centrifuge parts, a move which worries arms control specialists. Iran may be planning to build an undeclared centrifuge facility separate from Natanz. Iran has also barred inspectors from its heavy-water reactor near Arak, an action that has concerned inspectors who hope to examine the site for possible telltale "clandestine" features that could be used in a weapons program. These signs would indicate that Iran could begin a nuclear weapons program. But as of now there is no such program. We should stop speaking as if one exists.
The destruction of Iraq as a unified state has left Iran the power broker in the Middle East. This was the result of our handiwork and the misguided militarism of Israeli politicians such as Netanyahu. Iran, like it or not, holds the power to decide the outcome of several conflicts that are vital to American security. It has enormous influence with Hamas and Hezbollah and can accelerate or diminish the conflict between Israel and these groups. It and the U.S. are now the major outside forces in Iraq. The Shiite-led Baghdad government consults closely with Iran and for this reason has told the Iranian resistance group the MEK that it has 60 days to leave Iraqi territory and may see its leaders arrested and tried for war crimes. Once American forces leave Iraq, it is Iran, more than any other nation, that will determine the future of any Iraqi government. And, finally, Iran has for centuries been embroiled in the affairs of Afghanistan. It alone has the influence to stabilize the conflict, one that increasingly threatens to spill over into Pakistan. Afghan politicians have sharply criticized the Iranian government for deporting more than 30,000 Afghans who had fled to Iran since October. Many, unable to find work or return to their villages, have signed up to fight for the Taliban, according to U.S. intelligence reports.
Iran has endured our covert support for armed militant groups from the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO) to the Free Life Party of Kurdistan to the repugnant Jundullah, also known as the Army of God, a Sunni fundamentalist group that operates with U.S. support out of Pakistan. Jundullah has carried out a series of bombings and ambushes inside Iran. The militant group has a habit of beheading Iranians it captures, including a recent group of 16 Iranian police officials, and filming and distributing the executions. Iran has coped with nearly three decades of sanctions imposed by Washington. The U.S. support for the militant groups and the sanctions, meant to help change the regime in Tehran, have failed.
There is a lot riding on whom President Obama names as his special envoy to Iran. If, as expected, it is Dennis Ross, a former official of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, we will be in deep trouble. Ross, who is expected to be placed in charge of the Iranian portfolio this week, is a vocal supporter of Israel's call for increased pressure on Iran. He is distrusted, even despised, in the Muslim world and especially in Tehran. With good reason, he is not viewed as an impartial broker.
Ross has called for more draconian sanctions against Iran, something Russia or the five companies that provide Iran's refined petroleum products are not likely to support. (The companies include the Swiss firm Vitol, the French giant Total and the Indian firm Reliance.) Ross backs the covert support for proxy groups and, I would assume, the alleged clandestine campaign by Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists. Mossad is rumored to be behind the death of Ardeshire Hassanpour, a top nuclear scientist at Iran's Isfahan uranium plant, who died in mysterious circumstances from reported "gas poisoning" in 2007, according to the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph. "Other recent deaths of important figures in the procurement and enrichment process in Iran and Europe have been the result of Israeli 'hits,' intended to deprive Tehran of key technical skills at the head of the program, according to the analysts," the paper reported.
It remains unmentioned that Israel, which refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty—signed by Iran—is in possession of 200 to 300 nuclear warheads, perhaps the single most important factor in the Middle East nuclear arms race.
"For the US to shape a peaceful relationship with Iran will be difficult under any circumstances," Stephen Kinzer, author of "All the Shah's Men," wrote recently. "If the American negotiating team is led by Ross or another conventional thinker tied to dogmas of the past, it will be impossible."
Obama has an opportunity to radically alter the course we have charted in the Middle East. The key will be his administration's relationship with Iran. If he gives in to the Israel lobby, if he empowers Ross, if he defines Iran as the enemy before he begins to attempt a negotiated peace, he could ignite a fuse that will see our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan evolve into a regional conflagration. This may be the most important decision of his presidency. Let's pray he does not blow it.
Bad News From America's Top Spy February 17, 2009
Posted by rogerhollander in Economic Crisis.Tags: administation, Afghanistan, Africa, al-qaida, bailout, banks, capitalism, china, chris hedges, christopher bond, corruption, crisis, default, Dennis Blair, department of defense, dof, economic collapse, economic growth, economy, europe, free market, government, hamas, health, hezbollah, ilo, IMF, intelligence, Iraq, islamic jihad, job loss, Latin America, martial law, marx, military, money, national intelligence, Obama, Pentagon, recession, riots, roger hollander, senate, senate intelligence, soviet union, Taliban, terrorists, violence, Wall Street, war
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Posted on Feb 16, 2009, www.truthdig.com
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By Chris Hedges
We have a remarkable ability to create our own monsters. A few decades of meddling in the Middle East with our Israeli doppelgänger and we get Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaida, the Iraqi resistance movement and a resurgent Taliban. Now we trash the world economy and destroy the ecosystem and sit back to watch our handiwork. Hints of our brave new world seeped out Thursday when Washington's new director of national intelligence, retired Adm. Dennis Blair, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee. He warned that the deepening economic crisis posed perhaps our gravest threat to stability and national security. It could trigger, he said, a return to the "violent extremism" of the 1920s and 1930s.
It turns out that Wall Street, rather than Islamic jihad, has produced our most dangerous terrorists. You wouldn't know this from the Obama administration, which seems hellbent on draining the blood out of the body politic and transfusing it into the corpse of our financial system. But by the time Barack Obama is done all we will be left with is a corpse—a corpse and no blood. And then what? We will see accelerated plant and retail closures, inflation, an epidemic of bankruptcies, new rounds of foreclosures, bread lines, unemployment surpassing the levels of the Great Depression and, as Blair fears, social upheaval.
The United Nations' International Labor Organization estimates that some 50 million workers will lose their jobs worldwide this year. The collapse has already seen 3.6 million lost jobs in the United States. The International Monetary Fund's prediction for global economic growth in 2009 is 0.5 percent—the worst since World War II. There are 2.3 million properties in the United States that received a default notice or were repossessed last year. And this number is set to rise in 2009, especially as vacant commercial real estate begins to be foreclosed. About 20,000 major global banks collapsed, were sold or were nationalized in 2008. There are an estimated 62,000 U.S. companies expected to shut down this year. Unemployment, when you add people no longer looking for jobs and part-time workers who cannot find full-time employment, is close to 14 percent.
And we have few tools left to dig our way out. The manufacturing sector in the United States has been destroyed by globalization. Consumers, thanks to credit card companies and easy lines of credit, are $14 trillion in debt. The government has pledged trillions toward the crisis, most of it borrowed or printed in the form of new money. It is borrowing trillions more to fund our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And no one states the obvious: We will never be able to pay these loans back. We are supposed to somehow spend our way out of the crisis and maintain our imperial project on credit. Let our kids worry about it. There is no coherent and realistic plan, one built around our severe limitations, to stanch the bleeding or ameliorate the mounting deprivations we will suffer as citizens. Contrast this with the national security state's strategies to crush potential civil unrest and you get a glimpse of the future. It doesn't look good.
"The primary near-term security concern of the United States is the global economic crisis and its geopolitical implications," Blair told the Senate. "The crisis has been ongoing for over a year, and economists are divided over whether and when we could hit bottom. Some even fear that the recession could further deepen and reach the level of the Great Depression. Of course, all of us recall the dramatic political consequences wrought by the economic turmoil of the 1920s and 1930s in Europe, the instability, and high levels of violent extremism."
The specter of social unrest was raised at the U.S. Army War College in November in a monograph [click on Policypointers' pdf link to see the report] titled "Known Unknowns: Unconventional 'Strategic Shocks' in Defense Strategy Development." The military must be prepared, the document warned, for a "violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States," which could be provoked by "unforeseen economic collapse," "purposeful domestic resistance," "pervasive public health emergencies" or "loss of functioning political and legal order." The "widespread civil violence," the document said, "would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security."
"An American government and defense establishment lulled into complacency by a long-secure domestic order would be forced to rapidly divest some or most external security commitments in order to address rapidly expanding human insecurity at home," it went on.
"Under the most extreme circumstances, this might include use of military force against hostile groups inside the United States. Further, DoD [the Department of Defense] would be, by necessity, an essential enabling hub for the continuity of political authority in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or disturbance," the document read.
In plain English, something bureaucrats and the military seem incapable of employing, this translates into the imposition of martial law and a de facto government being run out of the Department of Defense. They are considering it. So should you.
Adm. Blair warned the Senate that "roughly a quarter of the countries in the world have already experienced low-level instability such as government changes because of the current slowdown." He noted that the "bulk of anti-state demonstrations" internationally have been seen in Europe and the former Soviet Union, but this did not mean they could not spread to the United States. He told the senators that the collapse of the global financial system is "likely to produce a wave of economic crises in emerging market nations over the next year." He added that "much of Latin America, former Soviet Union states and sub-Saharan Africa lack sufficient cash reserves, access to international aid or credit, or other coping mechanism."
"When those growth rates go down, my gut tells me that there are going to be problems coming out of that, and we're looking for that," he said. He referred to "statistical modeling" showing that "economic crises increase the risk of regime-threatening instability if they persist over a one to two year period."
Blair articulated the newest narrative of fear. As the economic unraveling accelerates we will be told it is not the bearded Islamic extremists, although those in power will drag them out of the Halloween closet when they need to give us an exotic shock, but instead the domestic riffraff, environmentalists, anarchists, unions and enraged members of our dispossessed working class who threaten us. Crime, as it always does in times of turmoil, will grow. Those who oppose the iron fist of the state security apparatus will be lumped together in slick, corporate news reports with the growing criminal underclass.
The committee's Republican vice chairman, Sen. Christopher Bond of Missouri, not quite knowing what to make of Blair's testimony, said he was concerned that Blair was making the "conditions in the country" and the global economic crisis "the primary focus of the intelligence community."
The economic collapse has exposed the stupidity of our collective faith in a free market and the absurdity of an economy based on the goals of endless growth, consumption, borrowing and expansion. The ideology of unlimited growth failed to take into account the massive depletion of the world's resources, from fossil fuels to clean water to fish stocks to erosion, as well as overpopulation, global warming and climate change. The huge international flows of unregulated capital have wrecked the global financial system. An overvalued dollar (which will soon deflate), wild tech, stock and housing financial bubbles, unchecked greed, the decimation of our manufacturing sector, the empowerment of an oligarchic class, the corruption of our political elite, the impoverishment of workers, a bloated military and defense budget and unrestrained credit binges have conspired to bring us down. The financial crisis will soon become a currency crisis. This second shock will threaten our financial viability. We let the market rule. Now we are paying for it.
The corporate thieves, those who insisted they be paid tens of millions of dollars because they were the best and the brightest, have been exposed as con artists. Our elected officials, along with the press, have been exposed as corrupt and spineless corporate lackeys. Our business schools and intellectual elite have been exposed as frauds. The age of the West has ended. Look to China. Laissez-faire capitalism has destroyed itself. It is time to dust off your copies of Marx.


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