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Well, shucks. (Totally reliable source, right?)

Not a corporation, though. Give that one some time.

While you're waiting, why not watch a documentary? Editorializing included free of charge.

Ton for ton, really? Some half-assed math puts fly ash at about 68 million tons per year[1] times 30 years .. compared to 29000 tons .. puts it at about 12g. I still wouldn't want that in my backyard (though it probably wouldn't kill or even harm me), but the energy density of nuclear fuel is so amazing that it's really quite hard to ignore. There are few parts of everyday science where you find a hard 6-orders-of-magnitude difference.

Here's what a ship with a 30,000 ton cargo capacity looks like: http://previous.presstv.ir/pho...

Big, yes, but pretty amazing for 30 years of worldwide energy production.

Half-assed references:

[1] http://www.epa.gov/radiation/t...

Weren't we about to enter an ice age? That's what some news stories said lately...
Like this one: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/01/20/346654/new-mini-ice-age-may-hit-earth/
The Express wrote about it too: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/454657/Ice-age-on-the-way-as-scientists-fear-the-Sun-is-falling-asleep

This is an article I found seems quite related as it connects global warming (doesn't deny it) and the coming ice age: http://www.technologyreview.com/article/416786/global-warming-vs-the-next-ice-age/

It is in the works: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/200632.html

Canada, with a population of 35 million and over 70 times the land mass of New York state, is still able to conduct federal elections using only pencils and paper.

Come back to me when Canada can hold a federal election without voter fraud.

Also, they're close friends with Venezuela. That alone could be a threat to the entire western hemisphere.

another Islamist suicide bomber kills 20 at a Peshawar political rally.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-97057-Peshawar:-Blast-near-ANP-rally-kills-17,-injures-60

while Pakistan condemns the latest US drone killings.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/16/298603/pakistan-condemns-us-drone-attack/

Unless Wikileaks gets the footage, it will never make the TV news though.

False flag operations are extremely risky, and don't happen as often as you would think.

... and don't happen as often as you would think.

But how is it humanly possible to enforce ban on drones as small as these:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/03/287119/british-army-unveils-new-spy-drone/

http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/02/04/British-army-unveils-toy-sized-Black-Hornet-drones/7671360008879/

??

I've tried over a dozen times to post on my favorite Iranian comedy site. I'm starting to think maybe their editors are the sole authorised commentators. Most people seek the sites that confirm their own viewpoint. Some stuff is hard to read , but I struggle through in hopes I can disabuse myself from any presumptions and erroneous perceptions.

Gorbachev: Soviet-style disintegration awaits US

Fuck you. Children die all the fucking time. Want some examples?
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/afgh-o24.shtml
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/24/3-killed-kids-hurt-as-fury-grows-over-u-s-drone-strikes-in-pakistan/
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/177737.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-team-obama-justifies-the-killing-of-a-16-year-old-american/264028/

So stop with the knee-jerk attempts to shout down civilised debate. Shit, I just handed you several compelling reasons to disarm Americans, you really shouldn't need to resort to appeals to emotion.

Citation?

Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/20/1
UK teenager arrested for anti-war Facebook post
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/232192.html
April Jones: Matthew Woods jailed over explicit Facebook comments
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/08/april-jones-matthew-woods-jailed

So, what? They are good terrorists? Rebels torture pro-Assad people, kill them by hundreds of Ak-47 bullets. Watch this please. Considering active position of Al-Qaeda between rebels, they're far from being guys who deserve sympathy.
They even have Stinger missiles, so pretending their firepower comes from garbages in junkyard and playstations morphed into next generation warefare is total hypocrisy. Let's hope CIA does not create another Taliban, this time in Syria.

Nonsense. It's freely available here: http://www.presstv.ir/ (works for me, I'm in the UK). What they've done is restrict companies who want to re-broadcast it. The original is still there and still accessible.

A state owned media isn't media--it is propaganda. Any country has a right to censor propaganda from another state.

Think of it this way, corporate speech is not the same as an individual's speech, nor is state owned media the same as independent media. They are completely different concepts and they serve completely different purposes. One is designed for political and corporate power and the other is designed to disseminate information.

And no state has to allow another state to broadcast hate speech within their borders. Among the other things Iranian Press TV have broadcast include the discredited Protocols of the Elders of Zion. You know, the book that Hitler used as a 'warrant' to commit mass murder. So yes, vile hate speech by another state broadcast into different state's borders for propaganda purposes should by suppressed. And it is completely ethical to do so.

Anyone who doesn't realize the difference between an antisemitic hate speech propagandizer and a free press is a mental midget and does not deserve to be debated.

The "framing" of photographs is a long standing practice and almost seems to par for the course these days. When you have as many photojournalists as participants in events ... and you see it standard practice ....

http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/145812.html

Take a look there, while it captures a dramatic moment in a frame that is designed to cause "outrage" at the treatment of Palestinians at the hand of the "evil" Jews ... it doesn't tell the whole story. In the following link is a video of the entire scene and one thing you'll notice, is that these were not "innocent kids playing in the street" being run over, but part of a Photo Op setup to capture just exactly what they ended up capturing. Count the number of people tossing rocks, and the number of photographers (aka Photo Journalists) there to capture the entire event.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3966413,00.html

It is only by examining the entire scene, up close, and from a distance can one ever get the "whole picture". Mind you, I'm not talking about the plight of the Palestinians vs Israelis nor am I taking sides here, but using this as an example of how by capturing the "truth" might mislead people because it isn't "the whole truth"

Photo Journalists are not journalists. They are Photographers with an agenda (maybe even legitimate agenda) As they say, a photograph is worth a thousand words, the problem is those thousand words are left up to the Photographer and the interpretation of the viewer, and may not reflect the truth.

I guess Microsoft has never heard of goo.gl

--
PressTV - The News Channel the UK Government doesnt want you to watch

There are now 12,000 US troops in Libya.

Was it Iran or someone else? It appears most of the hacking (and killing of nuclear power plant scientists) has been done by Israel, Britain, and the U.S.. The more I read the more I think Iran is being used as a patsy by Western warhawks:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html?_r=2&hp

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/230303.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#Speculations_about_the_target_and_origin

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334001/Iranian-nuclear-scientist-killed-wounded-separate-bomb-attacks.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/washington/11iran.html?scp=1&sq=january 2009 sanger bush natanz&st=cse

... who wants you to declare independence and try to be seen as a Nordic country.

Not that that would necessarily be a bad thing... ;)

http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/21983.html

The S-400 would have no problem taking out a U2.

This also isn't the first time that they've shot down a drone. I imagine that they make a big deal about this in part because they can't do much about U-2 overflights

U2? Really?

I didn'e know it was still used in potential war zones.
Are they actually employed where they might be shot down?
The day when the U2 was safe from even surplus Russian missiles is LONG past. http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/21983.html

Why do Europeans always hold us up as the poster child for rampant xenophobia?

The UK rhetoric sounds a lot like some of the commentary coming out of Arizona, United States. Italy's Northern League is doing the same thing.

So seriously, just stop. Xenophobia and over-the-top patriotism is indicative of a people wallowing in fear prodded by power hungry governments distracting their own citizens with an "us versus them" construct. It's visible and present in every culture on the planet because other cultures are the easiest scape goat to lay your problems upon.

We aren't wanted there? Ask the protesters. They want us there.

Depends on when you ask.

At the beginning, they didn't want us there (March 2nd). Of course, once the government started using tanks, fighters, etc. the opinions kinda changed...

In a speech last night Gaddafi, an ally of the ousted president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, said he was "pained" by the fall of the Tunisian government. He claimed protesters had been led astray by WikiLeaks disclosures detailing the corruption in Ben Ali's family and his repressive regime. The leaked cables were written by "ambassadors in order to create chaos", Deutsche Press-Agentur reported Gaddafi as saying.

The Iranian government have claimed that Wikileaks is a U.S. plot to destabilise anti-colonislist governments.

the release was an organized coordinated move, adding that such a huge volume of documents could not have been released without the cooperation of intelligence services of Western governments, in particular the US.

A former Pakistanti General has also claimed Wikileaks is a CIA/Mossad plot:

The US has a hand in this plot, and these reports (posted by the WikiLeaks website) are part of the US psychological warfare

Disclaimer: Tunisia: Don't Call It a WikiLeaks Revolution

I mean Israel keeps shooting over the border. And now Israel is threatening to invade Lebanon again

"as far as you're aware"?
Do you watch Iranian TV channels? How about international news channels based in the region like Al Jazeera? Don't speak Arabic or Farsi? How about PressTV or AJE? (they both have "Watch live online" buttons)

Still No? Then it's kinda bold of you to say that it's something like zero people who articulate balanced critiques of Israeli foreign policy. Has it occurred to you that news outlets like CNN will never air such material unless it's inflammatory and "News-worthy?" Believe it or not, there are intelligent and rational people in other parts of the world who have forums, commentators, and Op-ed pages just like the US and Europe do.

no, i screwed up. i had to enter the url by hand because slashdot wasn't accepting an url paste

maybe someone can chime in: paste seems to work, and then not work, in the new slashdot comment system. i'm using chrome, maybe a browser specific bug?

regardless, the real link is

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/153259.html

and i pasted that just now. pasting was not possible in the top level comment ?!

messing with governments gets mixed up in equivalency and nationalism and generates more heat than anything actually useful. iran is already saying wikileaks is an american plot

http://www.presstv.ir/details/153259.html

something that hurts the usa should be a subject of celebration in the iranian government, right? no. because people are so mixed up in their prejudices, any reveal of what a government did or said can always be conveniently reexplained with some creative thinking such that your prejudices are never really examined. whether pro-usa, or anti-usa, your opinion of the usa is completely unaffected by wikileaks, as iranian spin shows

wikileaks clearly shows that the great satan is not the one who hates them and wants their destruction: all their neighboring countries secretly push the usa to topple iran, while those countries say nothing publicly. that's what wikileaks shows. this challenges the narrative of the great satan plotting your downfall, and so proof that the great satan is not a great satan. therefore, wikileaks must be explained away with plots and conspiracies, where julian assange is actually an agent of the CIA. it would be hilarious, if maintaining the prejudicial narrative weren't such a deadly serious effort by those who love, or hate, the usa, for prejudicial reasons. so it's a complete wash: wikileaks has zero effect on the usa's standing in the world, or in the minds of committed pro-usa or anti-usa partisans.

however, the corporations, they need unmasking. a lot of people in the usa have this phony narrative of their poor neighbors and their government being the enemy of their prosperity. the real enemy of their prosperity: corporations. there is nothing wrong with capitalism, but corporatism is not capitalism. corporatism is buying off the government to permanently warp the markplace against the smaller players and to entrench your dominant position in it. the government is not the enemy, corporations are. the greatest enemy capitalism has ever known, in fact, is not communism, but corporatism, in all of economic history, the big players have always warped the markplace in their direction. yet so many fools believe this phony narrative of the government and poor people being the enemy of capitalism, and large corporations heroes, or at worst, harmless victims on the sidelines, of evil government regulations (that are written by those same corporations)

so hopefully, a reveal of how corporations are your real enemy, not your government, might open some foolish eyes, for once, i hope

If you mean a stable Iraq, where the terrorist groups have no political clout and our troops aren't being shot at anymore... yes, we got exactly what we wanted.

In the FOX News fantasy. In the real world, "Data compiled by the health, defense and interior ministries show a total of 535 people were killed in attacks across the country in July. 396 of them were civilians, 89 were policemen, and 50 were soldiers."

And that a mere nine years after the war purportedly ended.

Sadly, the US media has utterly lost interest in telling us what is going on in Iraq.

Exactly. Iran is a country that

Doesn't have any gays. How exactly these executions of non-existing homosexuals work is a mystery to all ...

Doesn't have any protests against islam* (just look through the link, you'll find no mention of protests, and certainly none of what exactly was protested against). However despite there not being any protests, they must stop, or the Iranian state will start killing people

* strictly speaking it's protests against "islamic government". However, if you take the laws out of islam there's nothing left, like with judaism. All parts of the islamic "religion" and practice are centered around the islamic state (there's no real equivalent in Judaism anymore), the "caliphate". Due to the last caliph ditching the muslims after (well, actually shortly before) being ousted by a gay Ottoman colonel, however, generally one refers to the "ummah" instead of the long dead headless carcass that is the islamic state. In theory muslim laws state that any muslim who does not live in the (now non-existent) muslim state should either emigrate (but one can't emigrate to a non-existent country of course) or kill themselves, to avoid helping infidels. Not many followers of that specific law, though. Ayatollah khomeini (a child-rapist, like the muslim prophet), found of the islamic republic, famously said that there is no spirituality of note in islam, there are only laws. Factions attempting to introduce various forms of spirituality, foremost the Sufi muslims, are persecuted and even massacred for it.

How any muslim can (legally) be a muslim, given that the state islam doesn't actually exist, is not very clear, a fact that is frequently explosively illustrated by the more nutty terrorists among them. This may seem like an idiotically absurd issue, not legally (according to sharia obviously) being a muslim, but for a hell of a lot of people in the middle east this is a huge issue. Jews have a similar issue, due to Israel, while claiming to be a Jewish state, actually follows western law with a few tiny exceptions (ie. marriage). It does not, for example, follow the "a tooth for a tooth" principle of Jewish law. If you injure a Jew in a car accident in Israel, the police will not chop of your leg (muslims have inherited this law from judaism, but even in the worst muslim states, the practice is dying). Nor will you lose limbs for stealing. For many Jews, Israel is a state where Jews are safe, not so much a Jewish state. And for people who live by the most idiotic of laws, which may (or may not) have been reasonable at one time, but have long since lost all meaning, this is a huge problem.

One thing people don't understand is the fundamental differences between ideologies. Jesus Christ (the figure, real or not, described in the new testament) abolished this practice of blindly following laws. Faith in Jesus Christ, according to the gospel, is supposed to follow not from rigid adherence to rules, but from love and trust in the Lord, Jesus Christ. The standard of behavior for Christians is not a rigid set of laws, but a following of a good example. A Christian in trouble would sit down and pray, and honestly believe, that God will rescue him/her, a strange, but very Christian, behavior you will not find amongst muslims. Even in medieval books describing good behavior you will find this reflected : Christian books lead by example, while Jewish and islamic behavioral laws are strict laws.example 1 example 2 The tinyest of behaviors is exactly regulated, and a muslim is supposed to follow these rules,

Exactly. Iran is a country that

Doesn't have any gays. How exactly these executions of non-existing homosexuals work is a mystery to all ...

Doesn't have any protests against islam* (just look through the link, you'll find no mention of protests, and certainly none of what exactly was protested against). However despite there not being any protests, they must stop, or the Iranian state will start killing people

* strictly speaking it's protests against "islamic government". However, if you take the laws out of islam there's nothing left, like with judaism. All parts of the islamic "religion" and practice are centered around the islamic state (there's no real equivalent in Judaism anymore), the "caliphate". Due to the last caliph ditching the muslims after (well, actually shortly before) being ousted by a gay Ottoman colonel, however, generally one refers to the "ummah" instead of the long dead headless carcass that is the islamic state. In theory muslim laws state that any muslim who does not live in the (now non-existent) muslim state should either emigrate (but one can't emigrate to a non-existent country of course) or kill themselves, to avoid helping infidels. Not many followers of that specific law, though. Ayatollah khomeini (a child-rapist, like the muslim prophet), found of the islamic republic, famously said that there is no spirituality of note in islam, there are only laws. Factions attempting to introduce various forms of spirituality, foremost the Sufi muslims, are persecuted and even massacred for it.

How any muslim can (legally) be a muslim, given that the state islam doesn't actually exist, is not very clear, a fact that is frequently explosively illustrated by the more nutty terrorists among them. This may seem like an idiotically absurd issue, not legally (according to sharia obviously) being a muslim, but for a hell of a lot of people in the middle east this is a huge issue. Jews have a similar issue, due to Israel, while claiming to be a Jewish state, actually follows western law with a few tiny exceptions (ie. marriage). It does not, for example, follow the "a tooth for a tooth" principle of Jewish law. If you injure a Jew in a car accident in Israel, the police will not chop of your leg (muslims have inherited this law from judaism, but even in the worst muslim states, the practice is dying). Nor will you lose limbs for stealing. For many Jews, Israel is a state where Jews are safe, not so much a Jewish state. And for people who live by the most idiotic of laws, which may (or may not) have been reasonable at one time, but have long since lost all meaning, this is a huge problem.

One thing people don't understand is the fundamental differences between ideologies. Jesus Christ (the figure, real or not, described in the new testament) abolished this practice of blindly following laws. Faith in Jesus Christ, according to the gospel, is supposed to follow not from rigid adherence to rules, but from love and trust in the Lord, Jesus Christ. The standard of behavior for Christians is not a rigid set of laws, but a following of a good example. A Christian in trouble would sit down and pray, and honestly believe, that God will rescue him/her, a strange, but very Christian, behavior you will not find amongst muslims. Even in medieval books describing good behavior you will find this reflected : Christian books lead by example, while Jewish and islamic behavioral laws are strict laws.example 1 example 2 The tinyest of behaviors is exactly regulated, and a muslim is supposed to follow these rules,

It happens in a few movies. Snakes On A Plane was another. Heh, I just found this: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=91580&sectionid=351020406

Actually, those two journals are print journals I normally pick up in a bookstore. As for online sources, I'm not aware of any academic journals that are freely available online (unfortunately). For free online stuff, reading a nice variety of newspaper-like sites is probably as good as one can get. A few worth reading:

Science:

Eurekalert, Scientific Blogging, National Academies

Politics/Current events:

Moscow Times, Al Jazeera, PressTV, YNet, UN News Service, People's Daily

All this plus heavy use of Google News with custom sections, of course.

None of this is as good as the journals, but it's more current.

Had a little time. Googled a bit for you. Please explain these:

Israeli forces moved about 110 Palestinians into a house, told them to stay inside, and later shelled it repeatedly

"The evidence we've gathered in two of the cases so far is exceedingly strong," said Fred Abrahams, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch working in the Gaza Strip. "All the research so far suggests they shot civilians that were leaving their homes with white flags." Along with the white flag incidents, Human Rights Watch is calling for an international investigation into widespread charges that Israel prevented medical teams from helping wounded Palestinians trapped in their homes and needlessly demolished hundreds of houses, including dozens in Ezbt Abed Rabbo. "This was not a rogue unit," said Abrahams. "The needless civilian deaths resulted from concrete decisions made by the military."

Israeli soldiers entering the village: attempted to bulldoze houses with civilians inside; killed civilians trying to escape under the protection of white flags; opened fire on an ambulance attempting to reach the wounded; used indiscriminate force in a civilian area and fired white phosphorus shells.

At least 40 people were killed and 55 injured when Israeli artillery shells landed outside a United Nations-run school in Gaza, UN officials have said. [...] The UN says there were no militants in the compound

Yay, a school!

About 500 people including patients were huddled in a Gaza City hospital that suffered a "direct hit" in an Israeli air strike Thursday, the international Red Cross said, condemning the incident as unacceptable.

And a hospital. It just keeps getting better, doesn't it?

Outrage as Israel bombs UN HQ, hospital, school and media building

The U.N. suspended food deliveries to Gaza and the Red Cross accused Israel of blocking medical assistance after forces fired on aid workers, killing two

Israel denies Gaza access to clean water

- all that, plus shooting children directly in the head: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/4279102/Bullets-in-the-brain-shrapnel-in-the-spine-the-terrible-injuries-suffered-by-children-of-Gaza.html

Your country is a fascist state committing full scale genocide.

Here is an article that will inform you that Georgia got the green signal to attack South Ossetia from USA. Anybody who thinks that Georgia will undertake this misadventure without certain assurances from USA doesn't really understand the world politics. By this 'war' between USA-backed Georgia and Russia, the USA was able to quickly convince Poland about the importance of missile-shield. This is the kind of situation that USA likes. By expanding NATO in the caucasus region, it will only increase the tension prevailing in the region. These political moves are meant to undermine Russia and its influence in the region, thereby tipping the power balance in America's favour. These are just beginnings of more troubled times. Unless America quits Iraq and Afghanistan and stops war-mongering against Iran, I have no reason to believe in the goodness of America.

Someone should let Bill know about this.
from: Gates: Keyboard use will decline

Chairman Bill Gates predicted computer users will increasing use voice-recognition technology and touch screens rather than keyboards. The software maker is betting big on that trend, Gates told a crowd at Carnegie Mellon Univ. In 5 years, he predicted, more Internet searches will be done through speech than through typing on a keyboard.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates says people will interact with computers mainly through speech and touch screens instead of keyboards.

Iran's Oil Bourse is the target. Can't have the world trading oil in non-dollar currency. Nowadays, you cut the Internet and there won't be much trading. Props to Jeremiah Cornelius for the link.

I am with you on the Iran oil market theory - in fact I would say that would be the primary reason for military action in any case.

Of course, there's increasing evidence that contradicts the "ship's anchor" theory as well.

Well, obviously, the White House ordered these attacks. They've been trying to delay the opening of the Iranian Oil Bourse for years and now that it is finally almost here, and their plans to invade Iran are dwindling, this is all they can do. And sadly, I'm sure it will work, too. That's how they prop up the US Dollar -- For the past 50 years, there have been only 2 places in the entire world where one can legally buy oil and both require US Dollars. Now, that will remain the case for another year. Of course, Russia is working on it, too as well as Venezuela, but they're a long way off and lots can go wrong between now and then. Maybe another military invasion? :o(

Talking about news; if you enter 'Kucinich' in google news the top hit is Press TV Iran http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=7491&sectioni d=3510203. NY Times and Whashington Post are way down the list of 300+.

Yes, you are absolutely correct, a modern army has no trouble at all keeping urban populations under control..

Widespread civil resistance, especially when well armed, eventually makes control too hard and too expensive to maintain.
I ought also to add that here you are talking about urban resistance in the USA - Uncle Sam pays his soldiers with resources from the mighty US economy, and so he really can't afford to start nuking cities. And I think it might play badly in the polls.