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Monday, July 1, 2013
Friday, June 28, 2013
Fracking
How much evidence will finally constitute proof?
Methane in Pennsylvania Groundwater May Originate in Fracked Gas Wells: Scientific American
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Gallup poll re: NSA surveillance
Already the science without scientists is ramping up. This one just happens to make sense to me.
Monday, June 10, 2013
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Guardian on Prism
NSA's Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do
This, sadly, confirms fears that many have had for years. We already live in a security state.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
No End In Sight; the field of power
Watching No End In Sight, I am struck by the absolute lack of necessity for concerns with conspiracy. Sometimes decisions are made behind closed doors. The more questionable the decisions, the more likely they are to be hidden from the people that will be most affected by those decisions. That is not a conspiracy. That is the world of power. It is also the antithesis of democracy.
Bourdieu's ideas about fields of social relations are a helpful tool with which to organize the seeming chaos. The US federal system has effectively merged with the corporate, military, entertainment, and informational systems in a tangle of inter-related and competing forces.
It is useful to segregate periods of time so that we can focus on specific events and/or chains of events. The Bush family's longstanding relationship to Saddam Hussein is a good example of the limitations of discrete historical analysis that measures by sections of a few years at a time. There has been more than one war on Iraq, and calling them by their official names is also an insult to everyone that had war rained upon their heads at no fault of their own.
It may be that the solid integration, the synergy perhaps, between arms manufacturers and engineering firms crystalized in the persons of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, with the Bush family serving the most effective bureaucratic occupations. The apparent incompetency regarding the organizational structures and strategies of war, invasion, and reconstruction of Iraq, whether they are intentional or not, serve the interests of the overall stated goals of these same persons and groups. Privatization that is funded by public means. Make the government(s) look stupid, so that when you bring in the private agencies their overt corruption seems normal and reasonable in comparison?
Or, the reverse can also happen: the private contractors make the CIA look good in comparison.
Bourdieu's ideas about fields of social relations are a helpful tool with which to organize the seeming chaos. The US federal system has effectively merged with the corporate, military, entertainment, and informational systems in a tangle of inter-related and competing forces.
It is useful to segregate periods of time so that we can focus on specific events and/or chains of events. The Bush family's longstanding relationship to Saddam Hussein is a good example of the limitations of discrete historical analysis that measures by sections of a few years at a time. There has been more than one war on Iraq, and calling them by their official names is also an insult to everyone that had war rained upon their heads at no fault of their own.
It may be that the solid integration, the synergy perhaps, between arms manufacturers and engineering firms crystalized in the persons of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, with the Bush family serving the most effective bureaucratic occupations. The apparent incompetency regarding the organizational structures and strategies of war, invasion, and reconstruction of Iraq, whether they are intentional or not, serve the interests of the overall stated goals of these same persons and groups. Privatization that is funded by public means. Make the government(s) look stupid, so that when you bring in the private agencies their overt corruption seems normal and reasonable in comparison?
Or, the reverse can also happen: the private contractors make the CIA look good in comparison.
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