Today’s links to interesting news and analysis. If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague.
- “The Eikenberry Cables and the Escalation in Afghanistan – Turning Sun Tzu on His Head“, Franklin C. Spinney, Counterpunch, 29-31 January 2010
- ClimateGate update — So much for the foreign intel agencies hacking into the CRU files: “David King admits to speculation over source of climate science emails“, The Guardian, 1 February 2010 — “Former government adviser backs away from sensational claims over involvement of foreign intelligence or wealthy lobbyists. … {The} UEA confirmed today, all the files and emails were archived on a single backup server on the Norwich campus. Once access was gained, it would have been simple to copy all the material.”
- Proof of our victory over communism: “Russia’s Evolution, Seen Through Golden Arches“, New York Times, 1 February 2010
- About our new economic system, state capitalism: “Privatizing Gains, Socializing Losses“, Peter T. Treadway, The Big Picture, 1 February 2010
- Nice analysis of the core problem with western banking: “Profits, not principals, move the age“, Spengler (aka David P Goldman, senior manager at Credit Suisse and B of America), Asia Times, 2 February 2010
- Good analysis of a commonly misunderstood aspect of global macroeconomics: “Never short a country with $2 trillion in reserves?“, Michael Pettis (Prof Finance at Peking U), at his website China Financial Markets, 2 February 2010
- Whitewash of climate scientist Prof Mann (Prof U Penn): “The Mann Report“, Steve McIntyre, Climate Audit, 3 February 2010 — To some people it’s important that we learn nothing from the revelations about malfunctioning of climate science.
- An important example of the flaws in peer-reviewed science: “The Lancet’s Vaccine Retraction“, op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, 3 February 2010 — “A medical journal’s role in the autism scare. … The Lancet episode shows how even reputable publications can become conduits for junk science when political causes run hot.”
Today’s feature stories
(A) One graphic tells the story about the sad story of American labor
(B) Quote of the Day about the death of American journalism
(A) One graphic tells the story about the sad story of American labor
From “The Public-Union Ascendancy“, op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, 3 February 2010 — “Government union members now outnumber private for the first time.”
(B) Quote of the Day about the death of American journalism
From “Change of Climate“, Mark Stein, National review Online, 2 February 2010 — Comment on something evident to anyone reading the FM website in the past few months. Excerpt:
You have to assume that America’s dying monodailies are now actively auditioning for state ownership. How else to explain the silence of the massed ranks of salaried “environmental correspondents” on the daily revelations emerging from the fast disintegrating “scientific consensus” on “climate change”? You get livelier coverage from the Chinese press.
But in competitive newspaper markets they still know a story when they see one. Surely the most worrying sign for the thuggish enforcers of “settled science” is that even the eco-lefties at the Guardian and the Independent, two of the most gung-ho warm-mongers on the planet, are beginning to entertain doubts.
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