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  • RIGHTS-CHILE: New Wave of Mapuche Land Conflicts

    SANTIAGO, Jul 31 (IPS) - The southern Chilean region of Araucanía has been shaken in the last few days by occupations of land by Mapuche activists claiming it as part of their ancestral territory, attacks on vehicles, and the resurgence of an anti-Mapuche paramilitary group.

  • MIDEAST: Obama Maneuvres Between Jewish Israelis, ...

    WASHINGTON, Jul 31 (IPS) - Pres. Barack Obama has repeatedly declared himself a close friend of Israel. But many Israelis inside and outside their country's government have now expressed concern about the lack of closeness, or even just of attention, with which they feel Obama is treating them.

  • COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA: Conflict Heating Up - Again

    CARACAS, Jul 31 (IPS) - The latest row between Colombia and Venezuela continues to escalate, prompting Brazil to decide to intervene, in order to head off further incidents or statements that could lead to a rupture of ties between its two neighbours.

  • WATER-TANZANIA: Who Pays the Piper?

    DAR ES SALAAM, Jul 31 (IPS) - When John Rubara* and his family moved into their new house in Dar es Salaam's Tabata Kimanga, a fast-growing middle-income neighbourhood in Temeke district, the water company disconnected their supply because the previous owner was in arrears.

  • EDUCATION: Liberty, e-Quality, Humanity

    BENTO GONÇALVES, Brazil, Jul 31 (IPS) - This city of 100,000 people in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul is named after the leader of the 1835-1845 Revoluçao Farroupilha (Ragged Revolution), which under the slogan "Liberty, Equality, Humanity" resulted in the independence ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Open ID

Rogue Government.com

  • Skype Might Have To Shut Down Over Technology Dis ...

    Skype might have to shut down because of a dispute over the core technology used to make the internet telephone system work.

  • U.S. Dollar At 2009 Low

    The dollar slumped to the lowest level of the year, U.S stocks climbed to a nine-month high and gold, oil and copper rallied after a smaller-than-forecast contraction in the economy sent investors to higher-yielding assets. Treasuries increased as inflation concern eased.

  • Conspiracy To Poison Your Faith In Organic Food

  • Economy 2X Worse

    The first 12 months of the U.S. recession saw the economy shrink more than twice as much as previously estimated, reflecting even bigger declines in consumer spending and housing, revised figures showed.

  • Town Halls Gone Wild

    Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress.

Innovation Canada

  • Filling the glass

    Walkerton, Ont., North Battleford, Sask., and the Kashechewan First Nation Reserve, in Northern Ontario, have all become high-profile — and tragic — examples of what can go wrong when a community’s drinking water becomes contaminated. Surprisingly, they are not alone. At any given time, 1,700 ...

  • i2eye with Bartha Maria Knoppers

    “Don’t plan your career — be curious.” That’s the credo that Bartha Maria Knoppers, the new director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy at McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, espouses — and one she lives by. Knoppers turned her love of books into a master’s in c ...

  • Environmental legacy

    (Article courtesy of University of Regina) University of Regina biologist Chris Somers is fascinated by how humans and wildlife interact and how animals respond to human-modified environments. “My research often combines animal ecology in the field, environmental chemistry and genetics,” explain ...

  • Rebooting the search for dark matter

    “This is just a regular day at the office,” says researcher Chris Jillings as a two-kilometre-long cable lowers an elevator down into a maze of sweltering passageways leading to the “clean rooms” at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, or SNOLAB. “But every so often, I realize this is all rea ...

  • Seeking the perfect storm

    Mother Nature always has the upper hand — and sometimes the last laugh. John Hanesiak knows this well. When asked about the most memorable weather he’s tracked, the University of Manitoba atmospheric scientist and storm chaser points out that he’s witnessed several tornadoes, but the event t ...

Signs of the times

  • Medical ethics at Guantanamo Bay detention centre ...

    President Obama has pledged to close the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by Jan 23, 2010. Physicians have a special interest in how this pledge is going to be accomplished since the use of brutal interrogation and force-feeding of prisoners as sanctioned by George Bush's administration ...

  • Washington funds its Uyghur 'friends' in effort to ...

    The United States has stumbled almost unwittingly into the middle of ethnic conflict in western China from which there's no chance of coming out a winner. Official American sympathy lies with the Uyghurs, seen as the victims of the long tentacles of Chinese power, exploited, impoverished and persec ...

  • Obama Administration Must Abandon Force-Feeding at ...

    The medical professionals worked to strap the detainee "into a chair, Velcro his head to a metal restraint, then tether a tube into the man's stomach through his nose to pump in liquid nourishment twice a day." After the Miami Herald wrote about the 30 hunger striking detainees in the Guantánamo B ...

  • Tell Israel: Cool the Jets!

    Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who is wired into the cabinet of "Bibi" Netanyahu, warns that if Iran's nuclear program is not aborted by December, Israel will strike to obliterate it. Defense Secretary Gates' mission to Israel this week, says Bolton, to relay Obama's red light, was listened to ...

  • When Liberals and Conservatives Are Two Sides of t ...

    For many people I know -- especially many young people, Native Americans, and others alienated from American dominant culture -- the difference between liberals and conservatives is only in technique used to coerce conformity and gain control. My friend Roland Chrisjohn is a psychologist and a prof ...

Threat Level

  • DefCon: ‘Credit Hackers’ Win the Credit Card G ...

    Hundreds of “credit hackers” are legally gaming financial institutions by taking advantage of loopholes in the U.S. credit-reporting system, a security researcher says — warning that identity thieves could follow suit. Christopher Soghoian, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, took a secur ...

  • Jury Dings File Sharer $675,000, RIAA Prevails

    A federal jury on Friday concluded that a 25-year-old college student must pay $675,000 — or $22,500 for each of the 30 songs he was found liable of infringing, Ben Sheffner reports from the courthouse. After a week-long trial and nearly three hours of deliberations, the Massachusetts jury con ...

  • Pentagon Hacker Gary McKinnon Loses Extradition Ap ...

    Britain’s High Court on Friday rejected two appeals by Pentagon hacker and 9/11 truther Gary “Solo” McKinnon, who’s trying to avoid extradition to the U.S. for cracking nearly 100 Pentagon, NASA and civilian computers in 2001 and 2002. McKinnon, 43, faces anywhere from six months to six-and- ...

  • Security Camera Hack Conceals Heists Behind Dummy ...

    LAS VEGAS — Technology has caught up with Hollywood heist films in a new hack being demonstrated at DefCon Friday, which involves hijacking IP video streams and seamlessly replacing them with new content. In its simplest form, the hack — conducted with two free tools developed by researchers at ...

  • Spoofed Cell Phone Texts Post Malware Threat

    LAS VEGAS — Researchers at Black Hat showed how to send spoofed messages to mobile phones that appear to be messages delivered by the user’s mobile carrier. The hack allows an attacker to send the messages directly from the attacker’s phone to the recipient, bypassing the carrier’s server an ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Birther Movement Just the Latest Southern Patholog ...

    In a jaw-dropping DaliyKos/Research 2000 poll released today, a stunning 58% of Republicans did not believe (28%) or were unsure (30%) that President Barack Obama was in fact born in the United States. To be sure, this is a Southern...

  • GOP Turns to Scare Tactics, Double-Talk on Medicar ...

    In his latest fear-mongering on health care reform, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned that Democrats are intent on "sticking it to seniors with cuts to Medicare." Of course, McConnell's statement isn't merely false, it is comically so. After all,...

  • The Perpetual Republican War on Medicare

    Even as Republicans wage their new war against the latest efforts at health care reform, they are still fighting the last one. 44 years after the passage of Medicare, Republicans leaders like Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) are attacking Democratic proposals...

  • Obama Fails Marketing 101 on Health Care Reform

    Seven years ago, President Bush's chief of staff Andy Card famously explained the administration's post-Labor Day campaign for war with Iraq, "'From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August." As cynical and deceitful as the...

  • CBO Slams GOP Claim on Public Option and Employer ...

    To be sure, the preliminary analyses from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) have not always bolstered the Obama administration's case for health care reform. But on one vital issue - the impact of the so-called "public option" on employer-provided health care...

Blackspot News Feed

  • IGNITION CITY #4: The Bit Everyone’s Mentioning
  • Police: 28 Killed in Bombings Near Baghdad Mosques

    Bombs exploded near five Shiite mosques in Baghdad, killing at least 28 people. Baghdad - Bombs exploded near five Shiite mosques in Baghdad, killing at least 28 people, in an apparent coordinated attack that targeted worshippers leaving Friday prayers, Iraqi police and hospital officials said. ...

  • The beer summit and race in America

    Glen Ford: Upward mobility for black elite has not translated into a better life for ordinary blacks

  • Bush, Rove Far More Involved in Attorney Firings T ...

    George W. Bush and his former top adviser, Karl Rove, were far more involved in the firings of nine US attorneys in 2006 than they had previously let on, according to internal Bush administration documents and interviews Rove gave to two major newspapers earlier this month. read more

  • Baucus: "No Idea" How He'll Vote on Sotomayor

    Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Thursday he hasn't made up his mind on whether he will vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Baucus this summer has infuriated liberals on and off Capitol Hill by working to strike a deal with Republicans on healthcare reform. A "no" vote on So ...

Consortium News

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Israeli army abuse investigation widens (IMEMC)

    A special Israeli committee investigating abuse carried out by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian civilians in Gaza decided to widen its investigation as more shocking cases of abuse came to light. A comma ...

  • Israeli settlements: Obama should know better (Ma ...

    In the years since its first plane landed, Nefesh B'Nefesh has brought 20,000 immigrants to Israel from North America and Britain. Of those 20,000, NBN PR and communications manager Renana Levine claims that ...

  • Settlers flock to new outpost on Friday (YNet New ...

    Some 30 right-wing activists on Friday flocked to a new outpost named Mitzpe Ami, set up near the West Bank settlement of Kedumim just before sunset. Following a riot which broke out in the area and after mo ...

  • East Jerusalem is crucial to two-state solution ( ...

    In recent years, and more obviously since the election of the current Likud-led Israeli government coalition, Israel has intensified its illegal settlement activities in and around East Jerusalem. According ...

  • Gaza kids eye kite-flying world record (Ayman Moh ...

    Thousands of Palestinian children have gathered in the Gaza Strip in an attempt to break the world record on the number of kites flown at the same time, in the same place. Thursday's event was part of a UN initiative organised to restore hope and normality to the war-torn territory. Al Jazeera's Aym ...

Planetsave

  • Waste Water Mud the New ‘Green’ Fuel

    Wastewater treatment facilities end up dumping a lot of mud that is extracted from the in-flowing water. And, like everything else, that mud takes up space. Space that could be used for other things, even at the dumping yards. But researchers from the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) have suggest ...

  • Abandoned Mines Could Be Used for Other Purposes: ...

    Coal power supplies most of the electricity that we use here in America. It’s been that way for a long time. Because of coal’s popularity as a source of power, mines, both active and abandoned, lay scattered across the nation. And now, with coal’s popularity waning, the number of abandoned mi ...

  • (Free) Green iPhone Apps Reviewed. Part 1: Free Ap ...

    Before I get into this topic, please read my article on cancer dedicated to someone special to me, each view constitutes a larger donation to cancer research. http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/07/27/help-me-fight-cancer/ The “green movement” is gaining some steam in the general public, and hey I ...

  • Environmental Restoration May Not Be the Home Run ...

    I remember the good old days, playing backyard baseball. Every now and then the perfect pitch would come, and, no matter how terribly I’d been hitting up to that point, I’d knock that ball out of the park. And the crowd would go wild…until everyone saw where that ball was headed. And with a c ...

  • Small, Immediate Gains More Tempting than Large, L ...

    We’ve all done the elementary school math story problem:Â Would you rather have $10,000 right now, or a penny doubled every day for a month? Well, in the end, those of us who were greedy enough to take the $10,000 right up front ended up poorer than those who took the penny . This problem seems ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Public Citizen Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Campa ...

    Overturning Campaign Finance Restrictions Would Allow Corporations to Dominate Elections WASHINGTON, D.C. – Public Citizen joined a team of other attorneys in submitting a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court today, urging the court to adhere to its precedents and reaffirm the longs ...

  • Local Power/Energia Mia Update

    Here is the latest update from the Local Power/Energia Mia Coalition: CPS has a meeting today at Firefighters Union Hall (8925-IH10 WEST) from 6:00-8:00 pm. Anyone from District 8 is encouraged to attend and speak for the cause. Each person gets three minutes of talk time and the Local Power/Energ ...

  • Nuclear plans hurting Texas power companies’ (al ...

    Power companies’ plans to pursue new nuclear projects are damaging their credit ratings, which may mean higher costs will be shifted onto ratepayers. In a new report by Moody’s Investors Service titled “New Nuclear Generation: Ratings Pressure Increasing”, the firm raises concerns ...

  • Good Day, (for Texas) Sunshine [Flickr]

    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: This morning marks a good day for Texas sunshine! Public Citizen Texas gives you the early morning scoop -- late last night the Texas Senate passed through HB 1423, a net metering bill to provide owners of solar installations with fair buy-back rates for the ex ...

  • Jon Stewart gets ACES Right!

    If you missed Tuesday night’s episode of The Daily Show, you did not get to see John Stewart and guest Steven Chu (Obama’s Nobel Prize winning Secretary of Energy) discuss the Waxman-Markey climate bill and America’s energy future. For those who missed it here are some highlights: Jon S ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • "We're not going to let the country down."

    Last Sunday, the Washington Post Magazine featured a long piece following a class of recruits through all 16 weeks of Secret Service training. Among them are an Iraq veteran missing three fingers on his trigger hand and a 4-foot, 11-inch social worker. It's fascinating. For the members of Special ...

  • Mike Ross_Your Typical Blue Dog Pimp?

    MSNBC has an interesting article on their site this morning that puts the focus on a single Blue Dog and the manner in which he's placed himself above the sufferings and even deaths of untold numbers of serfs and commoners. Change the names, shuffle some figures around and it's a story that probabl ...

  • It's pretty simple...I want you to have what I hav ...

    Everyone knows that I am getting ready to do some traveling, and that I have a chronic pain condition that affects my quality of life if it is not managed appropriately, and I needed to get in a comprehensive visit and refills before leaving. My palliative care involves prescriptions for powerful, ...

  • Nightowl Newswrap

    Beating grandmas in mourning rarely looks good on TV. Which may be one of the reasons Iranian security forces backed down from confronting tens of thousands of opposition protesters at a cemetery. This is not remotely close to over, people. Obviously there are too many clunkers out there. Feds ar ...

  • U.S. Health Care: Mobilize Or Accept The Status Qu ...

    Crossposted from Antemedius Economist, Author, and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Richard D. Wolff , well-known for his work on Marxian economics, economic methodology and class analysis, Yale University Ph.D. in Economics, and Professor at The New Schoo ...

Care 2

  • End Forclosures. Help keep America Strong keep Fam ...

    Tell the President to stop giving money to the banks. They are only helping them selves to the money. Give the money to "the people" who are paying all of these land taxes, income taxes, gas taxes, clothing tax, and then have no money left over to pay Submitted by Cher C. to US Politics & Gov't ...

  • Vegetarian morals part two, Vegetarian partners

    Speaking about our four legged family members and whether we should subject them to our decisions with vegetarianism in the previous article Vegetarian pets, what about the rest of our family? Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • The endangered Asian baby elephant apparently lost ...

    Rescued in a remote area of northeastern Cambodia, the injured elephant was transported by truck to the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center in what turned out to be a very difficult and treacherous 26-hour journey. Besides being severely malnourished, Submitted by Terry West to Animals | Note-it ...

  • Bizarre fainting goats - video

    FAINTING goats, wooden-legged goats, stiff-legged goats, nervous goats, falling goats. No, these animals are not the latest novelty toy to hit the market, they are a real-deal breed of goat found in North America and their 'odd' behaviour is Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals | Note-it! | A ...

  • Op saves horror injury cat - update

    A FAMILY pet who had its tail skinned in a horrific act of cruelty has endured a massive operation to have it amputated - and save it from being put down. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • Green Wineries Embrace Innovation from the Fields ...

    Solar-powered vineyards, biodynamic farming, organically grown grapes and innovative packaging put several California wineries on the leading edge of sustainable wine production. Their remarkable results offer valuable lessons for green leaders in any industry.

  • Coca-Cola Enterprises Emissions Reductions, Recycl ...

    The bottling, marketing and distribution arm of the beverage giant has set a goal to reduce CO2 emissions by 15 percent before 2020, as well as to recover 100 percent of its bottles for recycling.

  • Report Urges Efficiency as a Solution to Californi ...

    A new study by the Pacific Institute shows ways that California farmers can cut their water use by as much as 17 percent without cutting the productivity of the nation's most productive agricultural region.

  • Sustaining California Agriculture in an Uncertain ...

    This report from the Pacific Institute details the ways that California farmers can implement water efficiency practices to reduce water use by 17 percent while maintaining current levels of productivity.

  • Cash for Killing Your Lawn: Cities Get Creative on ...

    In Las Vegas, the biggest desert city in the U.S., and still one of the fastest-growing regions in the nation, the local water utility is offering cash incentives to replace water-sucking lawns with drought-resistant landscapes.

Reuters Global

  • Argentine president’s gender card wears thin

    Since she became Argentina's first elected female president at the end of 2007, Cristina Fernandez has often complained that things are tougher for her because she is a woman. Some analysts and historians say that while women in power do face sexism, Fernandez's frequent playing of the gender ca ...

  • One dent at a time, Turkey’s nation-state ed ...

    One of the first things you see when you drive out of the airport of Diyarbakir is Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's famous phrase engraved on mountain slopes in big white letters: "Happy is he who calls himself a Turk."

  • Manmohan Singh’s Pakistan gamble

    Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has gambled his political reputation on talks with Pakistan. Can he succeed where others have failed?

  • How far would Obama have made it in Germany?

    What would have happened to Barack Obama if he had been born in Germany?

  • Austria’s Graf gets grief over “united ...

    A call by a far-right populist for a referendum over whether a mainly German-speaking region of Italy should rejoin Austria has challenged the taboo of old unconstructed nationalism in a country determined to live down its Nazi past.

Ezra Klein

  • Tab Dump

    • Did the Supreme Court create the health-care mess? • What lessons does the Clean Air Act hold for cap-and-trade? • Mark Schmitt examines Barack Obama's "cockeyed optimism" about American government. • What would a "common sense" health-care reform look like? • Good beer is bad politi ...

  • How Do You Decide to Run for President?

    The Post has published an excerpt from Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson's new book, " The Battle for America 2008 ," which has some extended ruminations from the winner of that battle. In particular, I'm always interested in the decision-making process that candidates go through when they choose to run ...

  • Am I a Radical?

    To make a related point to the previous post, I'm not sure I'd term calls for procedural reform "radical," much less " revolutionary ." The history of Congress is, in part, a history of procedural reforms. Newt Gingrich made a bunch of changes in 1994. Democrats made a bunch of changes in 1975. John ...

  • Misremembering the Filibuster

    Conor Friedersdorf mounts a very standard attack on those of us advocating procedural reforms in the Congress: What is most striking is the short memory of progressive bloggers on these matters. Isn’t Social Security a “serious, foreseeable and solvable” threat to America’s fiscal health? D ...

  • Klein Smackdown Watch

    A reader who seems to know what he's talking about e-mails: I enjoy reading your blog and think you are one of the more responsible and honest journalist I have read recently. But this is why I was so surprised by today's blog post on AIG and the approving link to Mary Williams Walsh's article. I ...

Booman Tribune

  • Deep Thought

    Having lived through the right-wing insanity of the Clinton years, I should have been better prepared for the insane response of the Republicans to a Democratic administration. For some stupid reason I guess I thought the Bush years woulda learned these people sumpthin'.

  • Serious Questions

    I know Max Baucus is basically a fraud, but do you think he's going beyond whoring for corporations to actually operating in bad faith? Is he aware that Chuck Grassley is never going to agree to anything worth passing or that can pass? Has he stalled this process intentionally or because he's stup ...

  • Willful and Weaponized Stupidity

    Daily Kos polling continues to humiliate the Republican Base and the southern region of our country. This week, the polling reveals that 58% of Republicans either don't believe the president was born in the United States or are unsure. This compares to 7% of Democrats and 17% of Independents. Als ...

  • Lou Dobbs Ratings Fall

    I guess that "birther" thing didn't work out as well as he hoped it would: Mr. Dobbs' first began reporting on Obama birth certificate conspiracy theories on the night of Wednesday, July 15. In the roughly two weeks since then, from July 15 through July 28, Mr. Dobbs' 7 p.m. show on CNN has avera ...

  • Over There - Afghanistan ed.

    In Afghanistan: The death in southern Afghanistan brought to 40 the number of U.S. troops killed in July, by far the heaviest monthly toll in the 8-year-old war. The worst previous month for U.S. forces was in September 2008, when 26 were killed. Within a few months we will have occupied Afgha ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Re-engineering biology

    As I’ve mentioned before, we’re entering a new phase of technological progress: engineers and technologists are not just seeking inspiration in the mechanisms of the natural world, but are actually reverse- and re-engineering biology to improve synthetic technology. In this case researchers in G ...

  • Racism and genre fiction

    This week is apparently International Blog Against Racism Week. During this year’s tumultuous RaceFail debate in the genre fiction community (and other smaller ones before it) I predominantly kept my mouth shut and tried my best to just listen; as far as middle-class white Western privilege goes, ...

  • The metaverse: booming despite your absence

    As if an invasion of psychiatrists desperate for work wasn’t hint enough, the metaverse is still big business. Despite the media furore over Second Life and other synthetic worlds having died off considerably, the virtualities themselves have not, as Victor Keegan at The Guardian reports: Actually ...

  • Racism and genre fiction

    This week is apparently International Blog Against Racism Week. During this year’s tumultuous RaceFail debate in the genre fiction community (and other smaller ones before it) I predominantly kept my mouth shut and tried my best to just listen; as far as middle-class white Western privilege goes, ...

  • The metaverse: booming despite your absence

    As if an invasion of psychiatrists desperate for work wasn’t hint enough, the metaverse is still big business. Despite the media furore over Second Life and other synthetic worlds having died off considerably, the virtualities themselves have not, as Victor Keegan at The Guardian reports: Actually ...

Yahoo! Canada News

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • The Food, Energy and Environment 'Trilemma'

    While advances in genetic engineering and biotechnology could expand the market for "second-generation biofuels," scientists warn of hurting the environment and of diverting vast tracks of arable land.

  • 'Cash for Clunkers': One Dealer's Tale

    After the popular auto trade-in program burned quickly through its cash, one auto dealer reports "all sorts of problems," and also questions whether the program's environmental goals were sufficient.

  • For Wind Turbines Trucks, Trains Pose Hazard

    In Nebraska this week, a train traveling at 60 miles per hour hit a semi carrying part of a wind turbine tower -- and this is not the first time trains have posed hazards to the transportation of wind turbines.

  • For Community Colleges, Wind Technician Training I ...

    Wind turbine technicians and solar installers are strongly in demand - and community colleges are moving quickly to fill the need.

  • New Jersey Plans Doubling of Solar Power

    PSE&G Solar, a subsidiary of a big New Jersey utility, plans a large solar power push that will maintain New Jersey's position as the nation's second-ranked solar state.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Hat tip for Joaquin Phoenix conspiracy

    Not a bad idea! Which makes this potentially one of the greatest performances any modern actor has ever given -- or at least one of the most baldly courageous. The closest comparison would have to be Andy Kaufman's utter commitment to his obnoxious Tony Clifton persona, but Phoenix is going Kaufman ...

  • Tough times south of the border

    Duly noted: Mexican TV reporter ducking stray bullets: Hat tip to the thoughtful Texas farmer Don , who knows what you ought to know about the War On Drugs. This video was recently the #1 most discussed from Mexico on YooToob... Plus, don't miss the five stages of complete social collapse! http://c ...

  • Pirate Bay Trial and Kopimi: The Kopimi Manifesto

    I can't say I get it. But I like it. In these apocalyptic and bitchy times, it is high time to get some sarcastic Swedish hacker philsophy out there. Now is the time. The spectrial is apparently the place. How could we forget the Pirate Bay Spectrial?! They released a Pirate Bay Manifesto - POwr, Br ...

  • Some notes from the Abyss; Fusion Centers going to ...

    We're on the brink of disaster | Salon! As people lose confidence in the ability of markets and governments to solve the global crisis, they are likely to erupt into violent protests or to assault others they deem responsible for their plight, including government officials, plant managers, landl ...

  • From ADD to Virtual Eschatonism: Twitter and rando ...

    First up! Fargo flood. 'We will beat this challenge,' flood battle continues as officials plead for help | INFORUM | Fargo, ND Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service: Eastern North Dakota/Grand Forks: Red River of the North at Fargo One of my stronger memories from back in school was cleaning up in ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • DefCon: ‘Credit Hackers’ Win the Credit Card G ...

    Hundreds of “credit hackers” are legally gaming financial institutions by taking advantage of loopholes in the U.S. credit-reporting system, a security researcher says — warning that identity thieves could follow suit. Christopher Soghoian, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, took a secur ...

  • Jury Dings File Sharer $675,000, RIAA Prevails

    A federal jury on Friday concluded that a 25-year-old college student must pay $675,000 — or $22,500 for each of the 30 songs he was found liable of infringing, Ben Sheffner reports from the courthouse. After a week-long trial and nearly three hours of deliberations, the Massachusetts jury con ...

  • Pentagon Hacker Gary McKinnon Loses Extradition Ap ...

    Britain’s High Court on Friday rejected two appeals by Pentagon hacker and 9/11 truther Gary “Solo” McKinnon, who’s trying to avoid extradition to the U.S. for cracking nearly 100 Pentagon, NASA and civilian computers in 2001 and 2002. McKinnon, 43, faces anywhere from six months to six-and- ...

  • Security Camera Hack Conceals Heists Behind Dummy ...

    LAS VEGAS — Technology has caught up with Hollywood heist films in a new hack being demonstrated at DefCon Friday, which involves hijacking IP video streams and seamlessly replacing them with new content. In its simplest form, the hack — conducted with two free tools developed by researchers at ...

  • Spoofed Cell Phone Texts Post Malware Threat

    LAS VEGAS — Researchers at Black Hat showed how to send spoofed messages to mobile phones that appear to be messages delivered by the user’s mobile carrier. The hack allows an attacker to send the messages directly from the attacker’s phone to the recipient, bypassing the carrier’s server an ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Honda recalls 440,000 cars for airbag risk

    DETROIT (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co said on Friday that it is recalling another 440,000 vehicles -- including some of its best-selling Accord and Civic models -- for a potentially lethal airbag defect.

  • U.S. troops killed in deadliest month of Afghan wa ...

    KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. service member was killed as the deadliest month for foreign troops in the Afghanistan war drew to a close, the U.S. military said on Friday, with commanders vowing to continue the fight despite the toll.

  • UPDATE 1-U.S. judge rules for Fed in Fox News Netw ...

    NEW YORK, July 30 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday denied a bid by Fox News Network LLC seeking details from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve about the central bank's loans to companies affected by the financial crisis.

  • GDP data offers recovery hope

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy contracted at a slower-than-expected pace in the second quarter, government data showed on Friday, but a sharp drop in consumer spending fanned fears that recovery would be sluggish.

  • "Caveman" fugitive caught after 16 years

    LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese police have recaptured a convict who had escaped in 1993 and had been hiding in the caves in the mountains for 16 years receiving help from villagers nearby, local media said on Thursday.

Godspace

  • Driving as Spiritual Practice

    The weather has cooled down considerably here in Seattle and everyone feels that things are back to normal. Â A little rain would be appreciated – yes we do have days and in this case months without rain in the Pacific NW. Â The garden is flourishing but definitely crying out for a good soakin ...

  • Yoga & Jesus: This is a spiritual practice

    I continue to be challenged and stretched by the ways that people connect to God and to Jesus Christ. The posts below are by Christina Whitehouse-Sugg. I found them particularly intriguing because of my growing interest in Christian meditation and as you know I am also passionate about Henri Nou ...

  • Spiritual Discipline – Serving At the Pantry

    Well yesterday afternoon all my good intentions went out the window. I had expected to post another of the excellent articles still being submitted for the series on What is a Spiritual Discipline but two things happened to change all that. First the temperature in Seattle climbed to an all time ...

  • Making Space for the Rabbi

    Today is likely to be a busy day on my blog – not because of those who read it but primarily because I am going away for a couple of days tomorrow and there is so much that I want to post before that – including book reviews, thoughts on Jimmy Carter’s statement about leaving [...]

  • Jimmy Carter – Losing My Faith For Equality

    Jimmy Carter, president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 has just left the Southern Baptist Convention because of their discrimination against women. I have always admired him for his involvement in peacemaking and concern for the poor. This stand has increased my estimation of him 10 fold ...

Pine River World News


  • Israeli Conundrum: 'How to Deal with Iran'

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Israeli Conundrum: 'How to Deal with Iran' © Ramzy Baroud July 31, 2009 Israeli officials face a conundrum that may take more than military muscle-flexing to resolve: how to deal with Iran? The solution to this dilemma will ...

  • Strange case of North Carolina "jihadists" used to ...

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Strange case of North Carolina "jihadists" used to heighten terror scare © World Socialist Web Site By Bill Van Auken July 31, 2009 Based on what appears to be scant evidence, U.S. federal authorities rounded u ...

  • KURDISTAN: Robert Gates's Visit to Iraq Unveils US ...

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda. Robert Gates's Visit to Iraq Unveils USA's Another Major Problem in Iraq © Pravda By Ivan Tulyakov July 31, 2009 Many connect U.S. Defense Secretary's sudden visit to Iraq with a new problem which has appeared in the U.S. adminis ...

  • NIGERIA: Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf killed i ...

    Pine River World News / IntelTrends July 30, 2009 Major media are headlining the death of Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf - reportedly killed while in police custody mere hours after his arrest. But did Nigerian intelligence services 'drop the ball' in failing to foresee large scale Muslim unrest ...

  • YEMEN: A potential war escalates the alarm in Sa'a ...

    IntelTrends - The following article is reprinted with permission from Yemen Times, Sana'a. A potential war escalates the alarm in Sa'ada Humanitarian situation aggravated © Yemen Times By Mohammed Bin Sallam July 29, 2009 SANA'A - Tribal sources in Sa'ada said that the security situation has be ..


Blacklisted News

  • Bombshell: Bin Laden worked for US until 9/11

    Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds dropped a bombshell on the Mike Malloy radio show , guest-hosted by Brad Friedman ( audio , partial transcript ).

  • Town halls gone wild

    Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress

  • REVISED: ECONOMY 2X WORSE

    The first 12 months of the U.S. recession saw the economy shrink more than twice as much as previously estimated, reflecting even bigger declines in consumer spending and housing, revised figures showed.

  • House Approves Giving FDA More Powers

    In a major step toward an overhaul of the nation’s food safety system, the House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday to require more frequent inspections of processing plants and give the government the authority to order the recall of tainted foods.

  • Israeli army 'used munitions containing white phos ...

Project Censored

  • WALTER CRONKITE: THE END OF AN ERA – JULY 17, 20 ...

    WALTER CRONKITE: THE END OF AN ERA – JULY 17, 2009 The end of an era is a term too often over-used. But it is a term that is properly used when discussing the passing of Walter Cronkite. It is truly the end of an era in journalism. No other journalist could do what Walter did. He could cal ...

  • You Can Now Find Our Investigative Research at the ...

    You can now find all of the investigative research that we have done over the years at our new and exciting Media Freedom International Website Please check the website often for news and updates.

  • Analysis of Project Censored: Are We a Left-Leanin ...

    By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” –Frederick Douglass ...

  • Infotainment Society: Junk Food News and New ...

    By Mickey Huff and Frances A. Capell We can do the innuendo We can dance and sing When it’s said and done We haven’t told you a thing We all know that crap is king Give us dirty laundry! Don Henley, Dirty Laundry, 1982 The late New York University media scholar Neil Postma ...

  • A Black President Doesn’t Mean Racism is gone in ...

    By Peter Phillips Racial inequality remains in the US. People of color continue to experience high rates of poverty, significant unemployment, police profiling and repressive incarceration. School segregation is a continuing concern among race scholars as well. According to a new Civil Rights re ...

Scoop - NZ

  • US Loan Approvals Dropping

    A new survey shows American banks cutting down on lending, as concerns over the health of the country's economy remain.The study conducted by The Wall Street Journal found that the total loans held by 15 large US banks plunged by 2.8 percent in the second three months of the year.Financial giants su ...

  • The Incredible Shrinking Boomer Economy

    Mercedes is the quintessential boomer brand. Drive down an American highway, and odds are good that the person piloting the Benz in the next lane was born between 1946 and 1962. And Mercedes-Benz (DAI) has prospered right along with America's huge postwar generation. Back in 1986, when the first bab ...

  • Where is Bear Stearns?

    J.P. Morgan continues to reap the benefits of an investment made at Jekyll Island nearly a century ago. And as the credit crisis roils in this new century JP Morgan ruthlessly applies a business plan as timeless as it is corrupt, and reaps instant investments gains at the expense of others.Officiall ...

  • Stop-and-Frisk 101: Arrest Training ?

    That's how a handful of dead-end high-schoolers ended up giving the city a big black eye.On May 16, 2007, McFarland was killed by a single gunshot to the head. He was found near the intersection of Knickerbocker Avenue and Linden Street in Bushwick. Police arrested a 16-year-old named James Kelly, a ...

  • Letter to HRH re. Credit Crunch

    When Your Majesty visited the London School of Economics last November, you quite rightly asked: why had nobody noticed that the credit crunch was on its way? The British Academy convened a forum on 17 June 2009 to debate your question... This letter summarises the views of the participants ... and ...

Independent ( London )

  • Return of Eta's summer bomb campaigns puts fear in ...

    When Eta took up arms 50 years ago in pursuit of an independent Basque homeland, Spain was an international pariah in the grip of Franco's dictatorship, the Basque language was banned and political parties were illegal.

  • Outrage over 'execution' of Nigerian leader

    Nigerian authorities collected hundreds of bodies from the streets of this northern city yesterday after days of clashes with members of a radical Islamic sect. State government and health ministry officials piled the corpses, some of them swollen after lying in the streets for days, on to open truc ...

  • 28 killed in Iraq bomb blasts

    Six bombs struck Shia mosques across the Iraqi capital yesterday, killing at least 28 people and wounding at least 130. The six apparently co-ordinated blasts occurred outside mosques and prayer centres, including one frequented by followers of the radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. They came afte ...

  • Mont St Michel's isle restored

    Seen from afar, the Mont Saint Michel looks likes a gigantic sandcastle, permanently stranded at low tide. Closer, in summer-time, it resembles Disneyland. The Mont's single, narrow, medieval street is sometimes so jammed with tourists you have the impression that you could move along without your ...

  • Suu Kyi made to wait for trial verdict amid legal ...

    A Burmese court has postponed its verdict in the trial of the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer said yesterday.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • U.S. briefs Israel on new Iran nuke sanctions

    Summary: American officials briefed Israel this week on the administration's ideas for intensifying sanctions against Iran if it fails to respond to President Barack Obama's offer of dialogue China soon to try to enlist Beijing to join the coalition. source: Haaretz read more

  • US ‘Not Happy’ as Iraq Announces Plans to Clos ...

    Summary: Camp Ashraf US officials are reportedly “not happy” with the situation unfolding in the MEK’s Camp Ashraf, following yesterday’s deadly raids by Iraqi forces. Today, the Iraqi government says that it plans to close the camp down entirely. source: Anti War.Com read more

  • Iraqi forces raid Iran exile camp

    Summary: Iraqi forces have raided a camp north of Baghdad which for years has housed an exiled Iranian opposition group. source: BBC read more

  • Middle East Show of Farce

    Summary: Bush/Cheney foreign policy turned the Middle East into an analog of Cold War Europe, and incredibly, they managed to cast pismire Iran as the second coming of the Soviet Union. That the Obama administration is conducting the same clownish statecraft is a sure sign that the American Empi ...

  • Gates Threatens ‘Tough Sanctions’ Against Iran

    Summary: Gates Following meetings with top Israeli officials, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said the US would seek tough new sanctions against the Iranian government if it rejected the US offer for talks. Gates vowed that such measures would not be incremental. source: Anti War.Com read mo ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Galaxy Fans - You Can Now Follow Us Daily on Faceb ...

    I've started posting our daily editorial content on our Facebook Wall, which makes it much easier to share posts you like with your friend list. Our best, Casey Kazan, editor. The Daily Galaxy/Facebook Page

  • Small Marine Life Powers the World's Oceans -Compa ...

    "We've been studying swimming animals for quite some time,""The perspective we usually take is that of how the ocean—by its currents, temperature, and chemistry—is affecting the animals. But there have been increasing suggestions that the inverse is also important—how the...

  • Caltech to Zero in on Lost Tomb Of Genghis Khan

    Eight hundred years after the death of Genghis Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in history, scientists are searching to locate his lost tomb using advanced visualization technologies. The iconic ruler was buried with great secrecy...

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  • The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (7/30)

    Yahoo Gives Up, Turns Search Over to Bing A search and advertising deal announced Wednesday means Yahoo’s once-dominant search engine will grind to a halt for 10 years, replaced by Microsoft’s often-revamped and newly branded Bing. Asteroid Alerts Come to...

Natural News

  • The Mothers Act Disease Mongering Campaign - Part ...

    (NaturalNews) This is part three of a four-part investigative article series by award-winning journalist Evelyn Pringle. Read part one (http://www.naturalnews.com/026634_drugs_suicide_adhd.html) or part two here (http://www.naturalnews.com/026707_health_disease_depression.html). In an article titled ...

  • Additive Used in U.S. Meat Production May Be Too D ...

    (NaturalNews) The latest session of the U.N. Codex Alimentarius ended without final adoption of a maximum residue level for ractopamine, a feed additive widely used in pork and beef production. The commission agreed to review additional information on the drug to be submitted by China, a country tha ...

  • Doctors in Class Action Lawsuit Against Insurance ...

    (NaturalNews) The American Medical Association and a number of state medical associations have filed class action lawsuits against a number of health insurance companies, accusing them of engaging in price fixing in order to underpay doctors and increase the charges paid by patients. The lawsuits, t ...

  • What's Really in Obama's Health Care Reform Bill - ...

    (NaturalNews) Mrs. Bouchard seemed upset. "I can't afford health care as yet." The new health reform bill Made her sickly and ill "But I'd rather have cancer than debt!" What's really in Obama's health care reform bill? Almost no one knows, and here's why: It's 1,017 pages long and written in an ali ...

  • Military to Deploy on U.S. Soil to "Assist" with P ...

    (NaturalNews) Until now, what I'm about to tell you would have been easily dismissed as a conspiracy theory. It's the kind of story that you might expect from some extreme fringe blogger... the kind of story that never appears in the mainstream media. Only today, it did. And it's not a conspiracy th ...

TheGallopingBeaver

  • Money, Military and Madness . . . .

    Currently I'm reading and just about to finish The Sorrows of EMPIRE – Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson. It's a great book with a look at US militarism and global monetary manipulation and their repercussions both at home and abroad. The author's explanat ...

  • Now, you know

    Tobacco Smoke Enema (1750s-1810s) The tobacco enema was used to infuse tobacco smoke into a patient’s rectum for various medical purposes, primarily the resuscitation of drowning victims. A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced the smoke towards t ...

  • Oy Vey . . . .

    A trip south of the 49th to the United States of Expensive Health Care was required due to some still-retained properties in Florida. While here, between accomplishing some outside chores in the 90+F (32+C) heat and matching humidity, I dash in to the air-conditioned comfort of the house for a brea ...

  • Ancient History

    ONCE UPON A TIME, starting in the mid 30's, five Cambridge students were recruited by the NKVD: H.A.R. (Kim) Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, John Cairncross and Anthony Blunt. They were amazing, unique characters living in an amazing, unique era, when "isms were wasms", and loyalties were passi ...

  • More Taser(tm) madness downunder

    Oh come on Australia ! Police say they used the Taser on Ronald Mitchell, 36, when he ran at them carrying a container of petrol and a cigarette lighter. They said that Mr Mitchell, who lives in a remote Aboriginal community, had been sniffing petrol. They suggested the cigarette lighter started t ...

Media Matters for America

  • Hannity just can't "get over" his Rev. Wright obs ...

    Sean Hannity -- who claimed he "broke the story" about President Obama's controversial former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, during the 2008 campaign -- has mentioned Wright on at least 45 different episodes of his Fox News show* since Obama's inauguration. Indeed, his repeated references to Wri ...

  • Fox, WSJ personalities shocked by arts gr ...

    Several media figures on Fox News and Fox Business -- including Glenn Beck -- have blasted the National Endowment for the Arts for awarding Recovery Act grants to San Francisco arts organizations, claiming the grants will pay for "porn." However, those personalities ignored significant facts: D ...

  • Facts get in the way of Klein's claim that Dobbs ...

    CNN representatives -- among them CNN president Jonathan Klein -- have disavowed responsibility for the conspiracy theories aired on Lou Dobbs' radio show by declaring that it is "separate" from what is aired on CNN and that CNN has no "control" over it. But Dobbs regularly uses his TV show to ...

  • Sour beer: Media conservatives say they wouldn't ...

    Since the White House announced that Cambridge, Massachusetts, police Sgt. James Crowley and Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. are joining President Obama for a beer at the White House, several media conservatives have stated that if they were Crowley, they would not go to the W ...

  • Beck caps off week of race-baiting by calling Obam ...

    During the past week, Glenn Beck has put forth a steady stream of race-baiting and race-based fearmongering on his television show and radio program. Beck's comments culminated in his claim that President Obama "is, I believe, a racist," a statement he subsequently claimed to stand by, in spit ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • The Ones That Got Away

    Once upon a time, TPMCafe collected the best reader posts of the week and put them together in an easily digestible round-up. Today, we're reviving that age-old tradition. For people who like beer -- and beer puns -- this was... Sponsored Topics: Beer - TPMCafe - Iraq - Drink - Food

  • John Bolton Opposed to Israel Nukes!

    The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cJohn Boltonwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorJoke of the Day Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton appeared Wednesday this week on The Daily Show for a third time and... Sponsored Topics: Israel - John Bolton ...

  • HOW TO UNITE JERUSALEM

    Jerusalem is back in the news. It's probable that the government of Bibi Netanyahu decided to give the legal green light to settler-support Irwin Moskowitz to build in the mostly Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah to strengthen Bibi's right flank.... Sponsored Topics: Jerusalem - Israel - ...

  • My Road Trip

    This summer, road trips are back, mainly because most of us can't afford to fly anywhere for a vacation, let alone pay for a resort hotel or a trip abroad. But in my book, road trips are just about the... Sponsored Topics: RoadTrip - Recreation - United States - Travel - Travelogues

  • Race and Class and New Orleans

    On this evening of the beer summit, I'm wondering if Cheryl and the other participants might want to address one of the biggest -- and most poorly elucidated -- issues surrounding the Katrina disaster and its aftermath: race and class.... Sponsored Topics: NewOrleans - HurricaneKatrina - Ka ...

TruthOut

  • Progressives Rally to Save Public Option

    Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and House progressives pushed against Blue Dog Democrats. (Photo: Somodevilla / Getty) read more

  • Government Spending Supports GDP Growth in Second ...

    The stimulus boosted the economy in the second quarter, but we will still face double-digit unemployment for years. GDP shrank at a 1.0 percent annual rate in the second quarter, as the effects of the stimulus began to be felt. read more

  • Police: 28 Killed in Bombings Near Baghdad Mosques

    Bombs exploded near five Shiite mosques in Baghdad, killing at least 28 people. Baghdad - Bombs exploded near five Shiite mosques in Baghdad, killing at least 28 people, in an apparent coordinated attack that targeted worshippers leaving Friday prayers, Iraqi police and hospital officia ...

  • Bush, Rove Far More Involved in Attorney Firings T ...

    (Photo: Brooks Kraft / TIME) read more

  • Baucus: "No Idea" How He'll Vote on Sotomayor

    Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Thursday he hasn't made up his mind on whether he will vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Baucus this summer has infuriated liberals on and off Capitol Hill by working to strike a deal with Republicans on healthcare reform. A "no" vote ...

The Heathlander

  • Chomsky on the ‘Responsibility to Protect’

    Earlier this week Noam Chomsky participated, along with Jean Bricmont, Gareth Evans (former Australian FM and long-time President of the International Crisis Group) and Ngugi wa Thiong’o, in a UN panel on the doctrine of ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P). You can watch the three hour discussio ...

  • How to lose friends and alienate people

    Hiring paid hasbaratchiks to “spew forth bullshit” online, parading out Ehud Olmert to convince Americans that opposing settlement construction is like opposing rainbows and kittens, launching a smear campaign against Human Rights Watch, one of the most conservative human rights organisations ar ...

  • Breaking the Spin

    The BBC’s report on the ‘Breaking the Silence’ testimonies of IDF soldiers describing the commission of serious war crimes during Operation Cast Lead is pretty representative of its output on the topic: there’s nothing outrageous, but there is nonetheless a systematic bias that underplays or ...

  • Global march on Gaza

    When Gandhi’s doctrine of non-violent resistance (satyagraha) is invoked in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, it is invariably as a propaganda weapon intended to undermine the legitimacy of Palestinian resistance and shift the blame for the continuing occupation on to its principal vic ...

  • Newsnight goes a bit Chomsky

    Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, FAIR, Robert McChesney, Media Lens and… Jeremy Paxman? That’s right, folks: if you’re looking for trenchant critique of media performance, rooting biased and misleading coverage in institutional structure and exploring the media’s broader social function beyond t ...

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Republicans Have Government Insurance, Why Can’t ...

    For weeks I have been listening to all the BS Republicans have spewed about health care reform. Republicans shouted it was socialized medicine and when that didn’t work they came up with other untruths. The fact of the matter is all members of Congress use the public option plan. Republicans are w ...

  • Retire Early In Self Defense Could Be A Mistake †...

    /h3> Collect Now, or Later? Timing Your Social Security Benefits With the current state of US and world economy, the alternative to jumping out a window, committing a heinous crime or planting your pup tent under an overpass, is retire early and collect your meager social security check at gene ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – July 13, 2009

    It’s Monday and it’s time for another version of the Texas Progressive Alliance weekly highlight reel. Off the Kuff suggests that a pro-science PAC could do a lot of good, nationally and in Texas. WCNews at Eye On Williamson reminds us that despite the brouhaha over transportation during the rec ...

  • Protect Us From Another Celebrity Death and Networ ...

    The world is reeling from political upheaval, economic meltdown and environmental catastrophe. What does the national media focus on for two weeks? The high drama of a controversial musical artist who has the audacity of dying. News that effects each and every person on this planet is buried un ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – July 6, 2009

    Now that we’ve celebrated another birthday for America, it’s time for the weekly Texas Progressive Alliance blog roundup. Here are your highlights from the holiday week. The loss of Ron Artest from the Rockets to the Lakers (essentially a trade for Trevor Arista) is a bad deal, writes PDiddie a ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Seeking the lost tomb of Genghis Khan

    A group of researchers with funding from National Geographic and armed with a plethora of technology and gadgets are undertaking an expedition to loca...

  • Delivering a 'vaccine' through bites

    Scientists have carried out an experiment in Europe involving the use of mosquitoes to deliver a malaria vaccine through their bite. The results were ...

  • Russian camera can see human soul

    A Russian inventor claims to have created a camera capable of seeing the human aura, the device can allegedly register the circumstances of a death an...

  • Race is on for space-junk alarm system

    The US government is running a competition aimed at finding the best way to deal with the threat posed by junk and debris to spacecraft in orbit aroun...

  • Deadly jellyfish invade UK beaches

    A number of deadly Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish have been washing up on British beaches. Growing up to 15 feet in length the jellyfish can deliver ...

Grassroots

  • Honduras Crisis Exposes the Weakness of US Democra ...

    While Honduras is on the brink of a civil war, politics-as-usual in Washington, D.C. threaten, quite literally, to block US support for democracy in that country. It also threatens to squelch democracy here as well. On Thursday, the office of Sen. Richard Lugar sent a letter to Secretary of State ...

  • No, We Can't: Latin America Must Take the Lead

    The junta in Honduras is still in power and shows little real sign of budging. And the human rights situation has only gotten worse with the military and police cracking down on peaceful protestors, arrests, alleged torture and forced exile of social movement leaders who have had to flee the repress ...

  • "Generation 3.0" of Intervention in Haiti: What Is ...

    trinidadandtobago200904-132.jpg Below is a blog by Salena Tramel, Grassroots International Program Coordinator for the Middle East and Haiti. It originally appeared on Huffington Post . Here in Haiti, a country all too often characterized by ...

  • [Cassava] Bread and Roses: Brazilian Farmers Seek ...

    brazil200907-300.jpg During our visit to Brazil earlier this month, Saulo Araujo and I met with Grassroots International’s partners and the communities in which they work. I had prepared myself to talk about a range of issues, from Creole se ...

  • Call to Action for the International Community

    Below is a letter received from one of our Honduran colleagues asking for support to end human rights violations in the country. As she describes, the situation is worsening. Please visit our action page now to send a letter to President Obama. Thank you. By Wendy Cruz read more

Climate

  • July 31, 2009

    Koch Industries Fueling K St. Lobbying Boom - And Some Dems (Wonk Room) Oil and natural gas interests are pumping money into lobbying firms to influence climate change legislation at a furious pace, $82.2 million in just the first half of 2009 compared to $132.2 million in all of 2008, and that†...

  • July 30, 2009

    Analysis: Green States See Fewer Rewards in Climate Bill (Reuters) The U.S. climate bill would give states that are heavily reliant on greenhouse-gas emitting fuels, like coal, more carbon credits on a per capita basis than those that use clean fuels, an analysis from the Georgetown Climate Cen ...

  • July 30, 2009

    Analysis: Green States See Fewer Rewards in Climate Bill (Reuters) The U.S. climate bill would give states that are heavily reliant on greenhouse-gas emitting fuels, like coal, more carbon credits on a per capita basis than those that use clean fuels, an analysis from the Georgetown Climate Cen ...

  • July 29, 2009

    Federal Court Approves Gulf of Mexico Oil Drilling Plan (Reuters) In a big win for oil companies, a U.S. appeals court said it will allow the Interior Department to move forward with oil and natural gas leasing plans for the Gulf of Mexico created by the Bush administration. US-China Talks En ...

  • July 28, 2009

    TVA Ignored Ash Spill Warnings for 20 Years (AP) The TVA failed for more than 20 years to heed warnings that might have prevented a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee, then allowed its lawyers to stifle a $3 million study into the disaster's cause to limit its legal liability, an inspector gen ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Dismantling the Empire

    The Obama administration's plan to end production of the F-22 Raptor has received plenty of press coverage , but the Pentagon budget itself, even though it's again on the rise, hardly rates a bit of notice. In fact, amid the plethora of issues large and small -- from health care reform to Gates-g ...

  • Tomgram: Juan Cole, Empire's Paranoia About the P ...

    These days, it seems as though the United States is conducting its wars in places remarkably unfamiliar to most Americans. Its CIA-operated drone aircraft, for instance, have been regularly firing missiles into Waziristan , where, in one strike in June, an estimated 80 tribespeople were killed wh ...

  • Tomgram: An American Hell

    Don't Turn the Page on History Facing the American World We Created By Tom Engelhardt We've just passed through the CIA assassination flap, already fading from the news after less than two weeks of media attention. Broken in several major newspapers , here's how the story goes: the Agency, evi ...

  • Tomgram: David Bromwich, America's Serial Warrior ...

    Here's part of the way that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently defended his decision to stop production of the F-22 Raptor, the U.S. Air Force's giant boondoggle of a fighter jet. "Consider," the secretary of defense said, "that by 2020, the United States is projected to have nearly 2, ...

  • Tomgram: The Face in the Mirror

    b[ Note for TomDispatch readers: Last year, at my birthday, I wrote "When I'm 64...," a post about war and (lack of) peace in my time. Another year has rolled around, as it tends to do, so think of what follows as further scribbled notes, stuffed in an e-bottle, and set afloat, all part of a fut ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Googling While America Burns

    Lawrence Summers told America the economy is getting better because people aren't Googling as much for terms like "total economic collapse." What kind of metrics are the douches at the Treasury Department using anyway? Unemployment is over 20 percent in real terms...what more information do they ne ...

  • The Healthcare Speech Obama SHOULD HAVE Delivered

    Here is the speech that Obama should have given on healthcare. I wrote it for him. I hope he appreciates it: ……………………………. Today I am announcing my support and my advocacy for true single payer universal health care for all Americans. My plan will enhance and even provide more ...

  • Everyone Hates the Cops

    After Professor Gates, Why Pretend? NEW YORK--The current national conversation about race and the police reminded me about an incident that occurred when I was in Uzbekistan. As I walked into an apartment complex for an appointment I noticed the decomposing body of a man lying on the side of the ro ...

  • Are Liberal Netroots Groups Helping Obama Fail?

    I've started deleting them as spam. I'm not talking about the enlarge-your-penis emails or "You've Won the Lottery" notices. I'm talking about the increasingly-urgent emails coming for weeks from liberal Netroots groups calling for a "public option" for healthcare - a government insurance plan ...

  • What if Westerners Were All Suddenly Rendered Ster ...

    I don't normally bother commenting on the writings of columnists like David Brooks, but today I can't help myself. Brooks earlier this week wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times elaborating on a blog on the site Marginal Revolution, in which that site's two economists speculated on what woul ...

Ten Percent

  • Friday! The Cure- Boys Don’t Cry

    Goff! Could post GerBillions of Cure songs but this one worked with the poster below which I liked, it’s Friday, relax everybody. From CrimethInc. (ht2 Earwicga)

  • Shock Doctrine: The Motive

    Money. (CBS) Several financial giants that received federal bailout money in the last year paid out bonuses to employees in 2008 that greatly exceeded the amount of profit generated by the banks, according to a study on executive compensation released by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo ...

  • Whitewash Manufacturers Say Recession Is Over

    An independent inquiry into Britain’s role in the Iraq war has opened in London, with its chairman promising to call Tony Blair, the UK prime minister at the time of the 2003 invasion, as a witness. Sir John Chilcot, a former civil servant, said he would “not shy away” from criticising decisio ...

  • Thugs & Child Kidnappers Charge Gray Lady of Bagra ...

    Several former detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan have said they heard the screams of a woman, who’s been dubbed “The Gray Lady of Bagram.” Ok, quick recap, are you ready?- Aafia Siddiqui is taken by US forces and disappeared for FIVE YEARS, she then miraculously reappears in the US w ...

  • Exit & Re-entry

    UK out (for now)- Britain will withdraw its remaining forces from Iraq to Kuwait by the end of the month because the Iraqi parliament failed to pass a deal allowing them to stay to protect oil platforms and provide training, a spokesman said Tuesday. Britain already has withdrawn its combat forces a ...

Paul Krugman

  • In defense of Larry Summers

    Larry and I have not always seen eye to eye. There is certainly a case against him. But this, from Willem Buiter, is nuts: Summers is not a monetary economist or macroeconomist. He has never shown any serious interest in researching and understanding the workings of the kind of complex, interdepende ...

  • How far out of line is the unemployment rate?

    There have been a number of assertions that the unemployment rate is much higher than we should have expected, given the decline in GDP. Now we have updated GDP numbers, which include a revision that makes the decline in GDP since the end of 2007 bigger than previously reported. How much mystery is ...

  • It's all fine

    There is no racism in America. No sexism, either.

  • It's a postmodern recovery

    Given today's GDP release, which showed the economy contracting slowly in the second quarter, it's a good bet that the recession has either already ended or will end soon - by which I mean that when the NBER business cycle dating committee retroactively makes its pronouncement of when the recession ...

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No Quarter

  • And This Is Why…Updated

    People are understandably wary about the government handling our health insurance. That would be the CLUNKER program. I trust you have heard about this? If not, here is a short review: Okay. I can see some wisdom in that. It is great to get these old gas guzzlers off the road, [...]

  • Here’s Racism

    Justin Barrett, a two-year police officer and national guard captain, has been suspended by both the Boston Police Department and by the Massachusetts National Guard for his e-mailed letter to a Boston Globe columnist. Barrett wrote: “Gates is a goddamned fool, and you the article writer simply a ...

  • Appeasement Date

    Script. George Mitchell’s mission to Damascus is part of the script by the White House Politburo to construct an appeasement to Tehran. The plan was put in place after POTUS visit to Riyadh in June. The next step is to offer the criminal Assad regime in Damascus a return of the [.. ...

  • What Happens When You Soak the Rich?

    If you tax policy is to “soak” the rich the reality is that the poor get fucked. Very simple. Maryland’s Governor, apparently ignorant of the basic laws of economics, decided the best approach was to slap on an additonal 1.25% tax on folks who make more than a million dollars. Look at what h ...

  • Iraq Says Yes to Iran

    Iran may be beating the living shit out of proponents for a less extreme regine but when it comes to Iraq our erstwhile “ally” is telling us to fuck off and siding with the regine in Tehran. The Washington Post had this report on Wednesday: Violent clashes continued for a second day Wednesday b ...

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    A GoodTherapy.org News Update As most GoodTherapy.org members and frequent visitors know, our organization was born out of the desire to reduce harm to consumers of therapy. The more training, consultation, and personal work therapists do, the less likely clients will suffer an abuse of power or a b ...

  • Analysis Shows General Practice Doctors Botch Depr ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary In the medical professions, making an exact diagnosis can sometimes be a difficult task. But a team of researchers from the University of Leicester has recently stumbled upon a remarkable fact: general practice doctors mis-diagnose cases of depression more frequently t ...

  • A Triumph for Positive Reinforcement

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary It’s generally agreed among most teachers, coaches, mentors, therapist and related mental health professionals that the benefits and results of positive reinforcement are far more effective than punishment. However, there are clearly some influential circles of profe ...

  • Short-Term Lack of Sunlight May Hinder Ability to ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary A short period, such as a few days or weeks, without a natural amount of sunlight and exposure can produce a gloomy mood in many people, and some may experience especially low thoughts and feelings during the winter months. But while feeling a little blue when the weat ...

  • North Carolina Celebrates Citizens’ Group Therap ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The consequences, both physical and mental, of domestic violence and related abuse can be debilitating for many people, and the addition of substance abuse problems can make it an incredible challenge to extricate oneself from a harmful situation and seek help. Still m ...

Mountaintop Removal

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    Dissing Dolly. Forging letters to Congress. Jumping out of airplanes. Violently attacking peaceful coalfield mothers and residents. Calling climate change "superstition." Blocking cemetery entrances. Stand...

  • Fight to save Jesse Morrow mountain still alive an ...

    This drawing shows the area of Jesse Morrow Mountain that will be impacted if Cemex is granted permission to build a gravel mining operation. The environmental impact report is scheduled to come before the Fresno County Board of Supervisors next month.

  • Miners Boycott Tenn. Over Bid to Stop Mountaintop ...

    The lush, rolling contours of the Great Smoky Mountains are Tennessee's pride and joy, and a major source of tourism revenue. But Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) says he is afraid of seeing those mountains transformed by the region's coal industry -- their tops blasted off for mining, rivers clogg... ...

  • Tom Eblen: Appalachian writers find family, home a ...

    HINDMAN — This is the season for family reunions in Appalachia, when people come home to cele

  • Fight to save Jesse Morrow mountain still alive an ...

    This drawing shows the area of Jesse Morrow Mountain that will be impacted if Cemex is granted permission to build a gravel mining operation. The environmental impact report is scheduled to come before the Fresno County Board of Supervisors next month.

Memeorandum

  • Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detail ...

    Lee Fang / Think Progress : Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo: ‘Yell,’ ‘Stand Up And Shout Out,’ ‘Rattle Him’ — This morning, Politico reported that Democratic members of Congress are increasingly being harassed by “angry, sign-carrying mobs and disr ...

  • What I Saw at the Beer Summit (Elizabeth Gates/Blo ...

    Elizabeth Gates / Blogs and Stories : What I Saw at the Beer Summit — Blogs and Stories — The Daily Beast's Elizabeth Gates joined her father, Skip, Sgt. Crowley, and the president to raise a beer and bury the hatchet. An inside report from the peace talks. — In a world in whic ...

  • Franken feuds with T. Boone Pickens (Eamon Javers/ ...

    Eamon Javers / The Politico : Franken feuds with T. Boone Pickens — Five years after he put his money behind the Swift Boat ads that helped tank John Kerry's presidential campaign, Senate Democrats gave T. Boone Pickens a warm welcome at their weekly policy lunch Thursday. — Or at lea ...

  • House Passes Bill to Prolong 'Cash for Clunkers' ( ...

    Washington Post : House Passes Bill to Prolong ‘Cash for Clunkers’ — White House Says Nearly Broke Program Will Continue; Bill Would Add $2 Billion — The House approved a bill Friday afternoon to provide $2 billion to continue the federal government's week-old “cash for clunkersâ ...

  • Rudy: 'Shut Up' - Rudy Giuliani, who has returned ...

    Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog : Rudy: ‘Shut Up’ — Rudy Giuliani, who has returned as a leading Republican spokesman, condemned Obama's health care plan in an interview with Sean Hannity. — He also offered, in response to the president's hope that the Gates arrest would be a “teach ...

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China Dialogue

  • Green growth in the Himalayas

    In the cold desert valleys of Ladakh, simple greenhouses provide fresh vegetables year round, writes Maryann Bird. For its innovative work in India, France’s GERES has won an Ashden Award for sustainability. When winter comes and the temperatures plummet to -25º Celsius in Ladakh , in the dry, re ...

  • Facing Asia’s water woes

    Concerns over water scarcity are particularly acute in Asia, writes Saleem H Ali. But despite the potential for conflict, there are also prospects for ecological cooperation. As countries prepare for the climate change conference in Copenhagen later this year, water scarcity concerns that are likely ...

  • Geoengineering: mirror, mirror

    Firing trillions of reflective discs into space sounds like science fiction, but some people think it could protect the earth. chinadialogue reports. What’s the big idea? Shooting 16 trillion glass discs into space. It sounds like a giant disco ball, but it’s actually supposed to create a 10 ...

  • Rumble in the jungle

    Could uncontacted Amazonian tribes in Peru be wiped out by oil giants? Not if they don’t exist. If they do, they could impede the country’s quest for a windfall. Rory Carroll reports. Stand on the muddy riverbank at Copal Urco just before dawn and it is easy to see why the Amazon breeds legends. ...

  • Designing a greener China

    Hu Jie is the landscape architect of the 680-hectare Olympic Forest Park in Beijing. In an interview with Jared Green, Hu explains the philosophy behind its design and discusses the importance of ecological ideas and Chinese tradition. [This interview was first published by the American Society of L ...

Daily Censored

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    Read the full story at News Hounds On last night’s (7/30/09), Factor, Bill O’Reilly didn’t quite remember his trip to the Harlem restaurant, Sylvia’s, the way he remembered it two years ago, right after he ate there. With video. While discussing the role of race in – what else? – the Hen ...

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    Read the full story at News Hounds There's been lots of attention paid - and rightly so - to the awful comments of Glenn Beck calling Barack Obama a racist. But while this is the most extreme, overt example from a Fox News host, the "fair and balanced" network has a ...

  • O’Reilly Rewrites History Re His Visit To Harlem ...

    Read the full story at News Hounds On last night’s (7/30/09), Factor, Bill O’Reilly didn’t quite remember his trip to the Harlem restaurant, Sylvia’s, the way he remembered it two years ago, right after he ate there. With video. While discussing the role of race in – what else? – the Hen ...

  • Fox News Racial Attacks On Obama – It’ ...

    Read the full story at News Hounds There's been lots of attention paid - and rightly so - to the awful comments of Glenn Beck calling Barack Obama a racist. But while this is the most extreme, overt example from a Fox News host, the "fair and balanced" network has a ...

  • NRCC is luring doctors to oppose reform by pretend ...

    Read the full story at Think Progress The Wonk Room has learned that the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is engaged in a misleading campaign to trick physicians into opposing health care reform. The NRCC has been placing calls and sending “hand-written” faxes to physicians acr ...

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Godspace

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    The weather has cooled down considerably here in Seattle and everyone feels that things are back to normal. Â A little rain would be appreciated – yes we do have days and in this case months without rain in the Pacific NW. Â The garden is flourishing but definitely crying out for a good soakin ...

  • Yoga & Jesus: This is a spiritual practice

    I continue to be challenged and stretched by the ways that people connect to God and to Jesus Christ. The posts below are by Christina Whitehouse-Sugg. I found them particularly intriguing because of my growing interest in Christian meditation and as you know I am also passionate about Henri Nou ...

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    Well yesterday afternoon all my good intentions went out the window. I had expected to post another of the excellent articles still being submitted for the series on What is a Spiritual Discipline but two things happened to change all that. First the temperature in Seattle climbed to an all time ...

  • Making Space for the Rabbi

    Today is likely to be a busy day on my blog – not because of those who read it but primarily because I am going away for a couple of days tomorrow and there is so much that I want to post before that – including book reviews, thoughts on Jimmy Carter’s statement about leaving [...]

  • Jimmy Carter – Losing My Faith For Equality

    Jimmy Carter, president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 has just left the Southern Baptist Convention because of their discrimination against women. I have always admired him for his involvement in peacemaking and concern for the poor. This stand has increased my estimation of him 10 fold ...

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Fed grant funds to ease Calif. water shortages
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- Jul 31, 2009
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Federal agencies have pledged to send nearly $60 million in grants to help California communities, farms and dairies suffering from ongoing water shortages. ...
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Water: Georgia must find a river to the future
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Ah, That Jersey Shore: The Fish Are Really Biting
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