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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

12 Aug - Early BlogRoaming + RSS SnapShot

Have You Turned Your Neighbor In Yet?

I'm talking about flag@whitehouse.gov, that email address that has conservatives hollering that we're turning into a police state or, at the very least, a land of snitches. I guess two terms worth of warrantless wiretaps weren't quite enough to peg the old outrage meter.

From what I understand there was a blog published on the White House's Briefing Room website, called "Facts Are Stubborn Things", which stated, "Scary chain emails and videos are starting to percolate on the internet, breathlessly claiming, for example, to "uncover" the truth about the President’s health insurance reform positions."

But, the real trouble begins with this statement:

  • There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
SmallGovTimes.com,establishment of this email address is diverting attention away from truly frightening invasions of the privacy of the American people within the National Security Agency and other domestic intelligence groups that need to be further investigated.

Nazi sex gynoids…and why we still need them

Loki is the trickster god, a troublesome spirit who is not entirely evil but rather keeps things in motion by needling the other gods whenever they start feeling too comfortable.

Why We Trust Jon Stewart


Digby has an excellent post up about the Rolling Stone's Matt Taibi, and why he is so popular. Among many other excellent points, I think she touches on a critical point:

Hacking The Deep Ecology of War

There's a deep ecology of virtual violence, ambient warfare, and fluid interfaces, and no single discipline has a lock on how best to decipher and map out its surfaces to get at the underneath of things.

Corporate vulnerability

Göran Svensson is one of the leading key figures in supply chain vulnerability research and his concepts and models of supply chain vulnerability are usually well thought-out and easy to understand. So is Key areas, causes and contingency planning of corporate vulnerability in supply chains: A qualitative approach. Here Svensson builds the construct of supply chain vulnerability around three components: time dependence, functional dependence and relational dependence.
( Sounds like an Environmentally Aware person! )
Two generic determinants influence the perception of corporate vulnerability in the upstream and downstream supply chains, namely the degree of transparency and the degree of obscurity.
( You always heard information is power! )

Solar-Powered Ferries
In November, Hong Kong’s harbor will see four solar-powered ferries. On a sunny day, 3/4 of ferries’ energy needs will be met by solar power.

Deep Sea News

Simple Summer Recipes for Dead Seafloor Carrion

Why do macrourids, obviously opportunistic scavengers/predators, not eat the most abundant food source in the deep?

The Policy and Politics of Deep Sea Corals

Filed under Conservation & Environment, Coral by Peter Etnoyer

This is a special guest post by Ken Stump of the Marine Fish Conservation Network for Deep Sea News, intended to help build awareness about how political action translates into deep-sea research and fisheries management.

New Habitat Authority for Fishery Managers and a Research Program at NOAA Raise the Profile of Deep-Sea Corals, But Will Protection Follow?

In 2006, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution calling on States and regional fisheries management organizations to take measures to protect vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems. In the United States, Congress responded by adding new habitat language authorizing U.S. fishery managers to protect deep-sea corals in the reauthorized Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 2006 (“MSA”). The law also authorized the establishment of a deep-sea coral research and technology program, and requires NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service to submit regular reports to Congress describing their progress in conserving deep-sea corals.

This hard-won recognition is a big step forward in the conservation of deep-sea corals and ecosystems, but it remains to be seen if fishery managers will put their new authority to good use. Making good on the promise of greater protection through the regulatory mechanisms of the fishery management councils will require political support, congressional oversight, and sustained program funding in the years ahead.

China’s Incinerators Loom as a Global Hazard

China has embarked on a vast program to build incinerators as landfills run out of space. But these incinerators have become a growing source of toxic emissions, from dioxin to mercury, that can damage the body’s nervous system.

And these pollutants, particularly long-lasting substances like dioxin and mercury, are dangerous not only in China, a growing body of atmospheric research based on satellite observations suggests. They float on air currents across the Pacific to American shores.

The Chinese government is struggling to cope with the rapidly rising mountains of trash generated as the world’s most populated country has raced from poverty to rampant consumerism. Beijing officials warned in June that all of the city’s landfills would run out of space within five years.

Studies at the University of Washington and the Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., have estimated that a sixth of the mercury now falling on North American lakes comes from Asia, particularly China, mainly from coal-fired plants and smelters but also from incinerators. Pollution from incinerators also tends to be high in toxic metals like cadmium.

Incinerators play the most important role in emissions of dioxin. Little research has been done on dioxin crossing the Pacific. But analyses of similar chemicals have shown that they can travel very long distances.

$500-million settlement reached in suspension of Social Security benefits

Up to 200,000 people who were cut off on unfounded suspicions that they were felons evading law enforcement or prosecution will receive back payments.

"What's remarkable about this case is the sheer number of individuals who were unfairly denied benefits and the size of the financial settlement they will receive," said David H. Fry of Munger, Tolles & Olson, one of the pro bono attorneys who represented victims. "Hundreds of thousands of impoverished seniors and people with disabilities will once again receive their benefits, and countless others will avoid the same problem in the future."

Suu Kyi to challenge verdict as global anger grows

GEICO Pulls Its Ads from Glenn Beck Show

The Left as Straw Man
If you take a look at the history of the “left” in the United States—and I mean really study the reality of it—and then compare that with the notion of the “left” as framed by conservative or “mainstream” discourse in this country, you just have to laugh. It’s a melancholy type of laughter, I suppose, but nonetheless the comparison is funny in a gallows humor type of way.

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IPS - Inter Press Services
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    KABUL, Aug 12 (IPS) - The Afghan carpet weaving industry is Afghanistan's second largest, behind only agriculture in terms of size and number of people employed.

  • SRI LANKA: With End of War, Media Shifts Focus

    COLOMBO, Aug 12 (IPS) - These days, the front pages of mainstream Sri Lankan newspapers are dominated by reports of clashes between two Muslim groups, the drama of two baby elephants separated from their mothers and government efforts to ban porn sites and curb adult-only movies. This shift in n ...

  • EUROPE: The Czar Makes Up With the Sultan

    ISTANBUL, Aug 12 (IPS) - Once the worst of enemies, involved in 12 wars in three centuries, Turkey and Russia have suddenly become the best of friends, forging strong bonds that could be a counterpoint to the European Union if it freezes Turkey out of full membership.

  • EGYPT: Israel Gas Deal Inflames Opposition

    CAIRO, Aug 12 (IPS) - Opposition figures and political activists have slammed a new deal to sell Egyptian liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Israel at what they say are vastly reduced prices.

  • MIDEAST: New Blood Invigorates Fatah Leadership

    BETHLEHEM, Aug 12 (IPS) - Despite internal divisions, much criticism and against enormous odds, the Fatah movement has emerged from its Sixth Revolutionary Council here with new blood in its leadership and hopes for a fresh agenda

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      Rogue Government.com

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      For while time machines, eternal life potions and Star Trek-style warp drives are as far away as ever, a team of scientists in Switzerland is claiming that a fully-functioning replica of a human brain could be built by 2020.

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      After being involved in the alternative research community for a few years now, I slowly began to realize that the alternative media also focuses in on issues of little significance to distract people from more pressing issues. One of the current alternative media distractions is this business with ...

    • Chris Matthews: Are "Protesters" At Hea ...

      Chris Matthews is a bought and paid for propagandist and is probably on the payroll of the CIA.

    • NASA's Advanced Space Tech Gets Turned Into Self- ...

      NASA is using decades of space exploration technology to build a new eco-aware base here in California.

    • Innovation Canada

    • Ocean view

      The winch at the rear of the ship slowly lowers a 13-tonne steel capsule about the size of three minivans into still water in early July. The shell, painted a garish yellow, is a trawl-resistant frame designed to deflect fishing nets. More important, once settled on the ocean floor, the capsule will ...

    • Space reader

      (Article courtesy of the University of Windsor) Bill McConkey probably won’t be around to see the day when humans are finally able to travel tremendous stretches through outer space to distant planets such as Jupiter. When they do make that journey, however, they’ll owe a significant debt of gra ...

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      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 ..

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      “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 ...

    • Signs of the times

    • Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor in the USA?

      It's too bad so many people are falling into poverty at a time when it's almost illegal to be poor. You won't be arrested for shopping in a Dollar Store, but if you are truly, deeply, in-the-streets poor, you're well advised not to engage in any of the biological necessities of life - like sitting ...

    • England: Spate of regional UFO sightings

      RAF Marham today ruled out any possibility its aircraft had sparked a flood of UFO sightings. Witnesses have reported seeing bright orange lights in the sky at locations including Dereham, Downham Market, Holkham, Caister and Norwich in recent days. News of the sightings comes a week after a helico ...

    • Australia: Northern Territory UFOs filmed on video

      A Territory UFO spotter says he has video evidence of UFOs flying in the Territory sky. Alan Ferguson has been claiming for more than 12 months that unidentified flying objects have been circling above his home in Acacia Hills, south of Darwin. And now he says he has the pictures to prove it. Mr Fe ...

    • US: Triangle UFO low flying over Ohio countryside

      A group of Ohio witnesses near Toledo, Ohio, saw and followed a low flying triangle-shaped object in the early morning of August 7, 2009, according to witness testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database. They first saw bright lights in the sky as they were driving east along State Route ...

    • England: UFOs landing claim after lights go out (V ...

      Video footage of a UFO sighting has been given to The Sentinel by a man who says he saw "eight gold-coloured lights" descending on a field. Christopher Wilson spotted the first as he drove towards Weston Coyney on Saturday. He said the light went out before a black object went behind some trees on a ...

    Threat Level

  • Diebold Quietly Patches Security Flaw in Voting So ...

    Premier Election Solutions, formerly Diebold, has patched a serious security weakness in its election tabulation software used in the majority of states, according to a lab that tested the new version and a federal commission that certified it. The flaw in the tabulation software was discovered by ...

  • Judge: Trafficking in DVD Copying Software is Ille ...

    A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that it was unlawful to traffic in goods to copy DVDs. U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel’s ruling came in a decision in which she ruled that RealNetworks’ DVD copying software was illegal. She barred it from being distributed. Patel said the RealDVD softwa ...

  • Hacker with Asperger’s Sentenced to 55 Months fo ...

    A Los Angeles hacker received a slightly reduced sentence Monday of 55 months in prison for participating in a multi-million computer fraud scheme, after a federal judge took into account the man’s diagnosis with Asperger’s Syndrome. Viachelav Berkovich, 34, received five months less than the m ...

  • Google’s Patry Returns to Blogosphere

    Google’s chief copyright officer, considered one of the nation’s leading authorities on intellectual property, has resumed personal blogging following a year-long hiatus. Patry’s latest copyright blog commenced Thursday and is named after his new book, Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars. He s ...

  • Hacking, Lock-Picking, Booze and Bacon: DefCon 17 ...

    > LAS VEGAS — Braving triple-digit heat, mean hangovers and an incredibly hostile network, roughly 10,000 hackers, security experts, feds, spies and various other “computer enthusiasts” took over the Riviera last weekend for the world’s largest hackin ...

PERRspectives : Blog


  • Tom Delay and Fred Thompson, Death Panelists

    Slowly but surely, the mainstream media and even some Republican politicians are starting to roll back the GOP's vicious lies and fear-mongering over what Sarah Palin deemed Obama's "death panels." Ironically, many of the same conservatives who demanded the federal...

  • What's the Matter with Oklahoma?

    As the ever more combustible health care debate rages across America, the state of Oklahoma has become the poster child for the conflict and its contradictions. A 2007 study by the Commonwealth Fund ranked Oklahoma dead last in state health...

  • Town Halls, Teabaggers, Obama Birthers and Nixonla ...

    Once in a rare while, a book captures the spirit of its age. So it is with Nixonland, Rick Perlstein's stunning chronicle of the rise and fall of Tricky Dick. But his story of the "fracturing of America" isn't simply...

  • Guns and Bitter in Pennsylvania

    During the Democratic primaries last spring, Barack Obama almost derailed his campaign with his unfortunate remark about "bitter" people in small town Pennsylvania who "cling to guns." Now after the second Keystone State shooting rampage in four months, that clumsy...

  • The Unbearable Whiteness of Being...a Birther

    As has been documented in detail, the anti-Obama birther movement is strongest in precisely those states where Republicans poll best and, ironically, health care is worst. But despite experiencing serial embarrassments akin to learning the sun does not rise in...

Blackspot News Feed


Consortium News


CounterPunch


Institute for Middle East Understanding


Planetsave


  • BBOP | Jazzing Up Business’ Impact On Biodiversi ...

    The Business and Biodiversity Offset Program has left me torn: is this a genuine attempt to preserve biodiversity, or just another exercise in corporate greenwashing? The Business and Biodiversity Offset Program is a work in progress. Its name includes that reviled word “offset”, a red rag for ...

  • Who Needs a Phone Book?

    As the Internet becomes the resource more Americans turn to for phone numbers, lawmakers are beginning to examine the proliferation of unwanted phone books — and their environmental impact. A Minnesota legislator, Rep. Paul Gardner, has introduced state legislation to allow consumers to opt-out ...

  • Shark Repellent, Saves Sharks!

    We have all been waiting for this day. Finally, shark repellent has arrived to the world… except this shark repellent is not used to save humans from sharks. No this shark repellent was made to save sharks from humans. With good reason, while only about 4 people die of unprovoked shark attacks e ...

  • Green iPhone Apps Reviewed. Part 2: Paid Apps

    If you missed Green iPhone Apps Reviewed Part 1: Free Apps, you can see it here . After my first batch of reviews on the free green iPhone apps, I have gotten some great suggestions on green apps. If you have any you you would like to see reviewed, you can comment here, head over to my website www ...

  • Could Trees Be the New Rubber?

    You’re waiting at a red light, your engine idling lightly. You check the crosswalk signal: 20 seconds, you have some time. You turn your classical music up a notch to the perfect volume and you close your eyes, relaxing on your way home from work. But your moment of relaxation is interrupted by t ...

Water Quality - WordPress


Public Citizen in Texas


  • Texans care about climate change too

    Being an environmentalist in Texas, sometimes it feels like the whole world is against you. Â There’s a common assumption that folks around here just don’t care as much about the environment as elsewhere, and that people don’t see climate change as all that much of a threat. Â When I tell ...

  • San Antonio Mayor’s Nuclear Town Hall Tonight

    Tonight, August 10, is Mayor Castro’s Town Hall Meeting, where he wants to allow the community to tell city council and himself what they think about going the nuclear route. This is so important to attend. It will be at the City Council Chambers downtown where Flores and Commerce meet (map belo ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

    The Congress may be in recess, but the Texas Progressive Alliance is always in session. Here’s the weekly roundup of blog highlights. Off the Kuff takes a closer look at the crimefighting plan of Houston Mayoral candidate Annise Parker. WCNews at Eye On Williamson encourages everyone to get involv ...

  • King Williams Parade Pics 048 [Flickr]

    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

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    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Press TV


Axis of Logic


They Gave Us a Republic


  • Not Crazy; Just Racist

    Wow. Michael Lind manages to write 2,000 words on how those horrible non-southern liberals are so mean and stupid for calling southerners crazy without once mentioning racism. Your Texas upbringing to the contrary, Mr. Lind, no less authentic experts on southern culture, southern liberalism and sou ...

  • Nightowl Newswrap

    Thank you, fame-seeking American Asshole. Remember the idiot who swam the moat to Aun Suu Kyi's home? The Burmese dictatorship has just used it as an excuse to sentence her to another 18 months of house arrest, where she's already spent 14 of the last 20 years. It also means she'll miss upcoming e ...

  • See you in Pittsburgh

    It's that time of year again! Can I get a w00t! w00t! for Netroots Nation? Last year, you may recall, when I got home from Austin we packed up and moved over here from blogger. This year I am excited about several of the panels, especially one where the discussion will revolve around harnessing th ...

  • Man Up, Benny Boy

    On Sunday, the Lexington Herald-Leader ran a piece about repugs attacking Rep. Ben Chandler, D-KY6, over health care reform. U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler, D-Versailles, is in the political cross hairs as an increasingly vocal group of conservatives assails the congressman for his position on health care r ...

  • Candidate Obama Returns

    The guy who won over the nation last year is back, possibly in the nick of time to save health care reform. This is what I call clearing brush. Via Steve Benen. Here's the transcript of the whole event. Twenty days left in the month - two of these per day will get almost every state before Labor Day ...

Care 2


  • Holy Crap! Cuba Is Almost Out of Toilet Paper

    Officials on the communist island are saying that by the end of the year, inhabitants could be wiping their butts with leaves and newspapers because the country is running out of toilet paper. (This would never happen under the rule of the Great Cornholi Submitted by Terry West to Offbeat | Note ...

  • Help Protect Australia's Big Blue Backyard PLEASE ...

    Less than 1% of our South West oceans are protected despite being home to some of the most spectacular, unique and vulnerable marine life on earth. They need our help. Submitted by Claudia For the Oceans to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Show God's kindness to a woof in terrible distress ...

    Let us show God's kindness to an animal in terrible distress. Imagine being blind and deaf and old in a shelter - nothing familiar, no loving or caring hands, no soothing voice! We must, absolutely must do something! High Kill Shelter - urgent! Submitted by Eureka M. to Animals | Note-it! | ...

  • Bear that wandered in Weston, Wellington, shot and ...

    The 300-pound black bear who frightened Wellington residents in June was shot and killed Saturday after breaking into a home in Southeast Georgia Submitted by Terry West to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Fisheries Ministry: Shark export ban effective in ...

    The ban on exporting shark products will become effective in March 2010, the Ministry of Fisheries has said. Submitted by Claudia For the Oceans to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment

GreenBiz


  • Kraft Overhauls Its Manufacturing Ops to Cut Water ...

    In less than three years -- and a full two years ahead of its company-wide goal -- the snack giant has managed to save 3 billion gallons of water by adopting new manufacturing and cleaning methods.

  • Bottled Water is Way More Complicated Than I Thoug ...

    It should be easy to phase out bottled water from company headquarters, right? Think again. It can bring up issues with a company's supply chain, cafeteria inventory and vending machines -- and don't forget the new dishwashers or glassware that may need to enter the picture.

  • 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.

Reuters Global


  • Targeted killings inside Pakistan;are they working ...

    The U.S. strategy of targeted killings inside Pakistan would seem to be working if the death of Baitullah Mehsud the leader of the Pakistani Taliban turns out to be true, as seems increasingly likely. But the jury is out over whether such strikes are effective over the longer term.

  • Is a moral instinct the source of our noble though ...

    A growing number of psychologists, biologists and philosophers see the brain as the base of our moral views. Noble ideas such as compassion, altruism, empathy and trust, they say, are really evolutionary adaptations that are now instinctive responses fixed in our brains.

  • Beware brain scientists bearing gifts (gee-whiz jo ...

    It's refreshing to hear experts who can dazzle you with their work but warn against falling for any hype about it. This "let's not overdo it" approach has been a recurrent theme in the Neuroscience Boot Camp at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

  • Arizona marijuana seizures hit all-time high

    Large marijuana seizures are frequent in the sweltering Arizona deserts that straddle the superhighway for people smuggling from Mexico -- although this year they are breaking all records

  • A year later and there is still no clear winner fr ...

    One year on from the war between Russia and Georgia, the debate still rages over which side came out of the August 7-12, 2008 conflict better.

Ezra Klein


  • Tab Dump

    • A roundtable on the public plan. • Simon Johnson and James Kwak explain why you shouldn't like your health insurance . • Why did Riceland Foods get so much in subsidies between 1999 and 2003? • Robert Gibbs loves this blog. • Why "health-reform lite" is harder than people think.

  • More on Isakson and End-of-Life Counseling

    Sen. Johnny Isakson's office is not happy that Isakson is being used to rebut attacks on the "end-of-life counseling" provision in the House's health-care reform bill. "I categorically oppose the House bill and find it incredulous that the White House and others would use my amendment as a scapegoat ...

  • The Mass Appeal of Saul Alinsky

    It's pretty amusing that after mocking community organizers during the presidential campaign, conservatives have enthusiastically adopted Rules for Radicals , Saul Alinsky's community organizing how-to, as a guide for mounting an effective opposition. Dave Weigel tells the tale, but also talks to so ...

    • Organic Foods vs. Conventional Produce

      Speaking of Tom Philpott, he takes issue today with my contention that studies don't show that organic fruits and vegetables are measurably more nutritious than agriculture grown through conventional means. The most recent data on this come from a massive literature review commissioned by Britain's ...

    • Do We Need to Cook?

      I had wanted to write something brilliant and witty about Michael Pollan's long paean to cooking , but I couldn't figure out what to say about it. Something was nagging at me. Something felt off in the article. But I didn't know what. So I let it go. Until yesterday, when Tom Philpott nailed it : ...

    Booman Tribune

  • Diagnosing the Threat from the Right

    John H. Richardson of Esquire spent some quality time with the Birthers. What he has to say about them is not comforting. Others argue that the whole thing is getting overblown because it's August — the "silly season" for news — and because the more reasonable and mainstream Republicans don't ...

  • Do You Really Want to Sponsor Glenn Beck?

    Three of the top recommended diaries at Daily Kos right now are about sponsors pulling their support for Glenn Beck's television show on FOX News. Geico, Sargento Cheese, and Men's Wearhouse have all dropped Glenn Beck. Next in line are Wal*Mart, State Farm Insurance, Red Lobster, and Travelocity. ...

  • Let's Talk About Something Else

    Looking at an Iowan take on the 2012 Republican presidential race, I'm struck by how implausible all ten of the proposed candidates are. I mean, Chuck Grassley, Bobby Jindal? Seriously? And they're probably the pick of the litter. I liked this bit on Sarah Palin: Many in the national media ha ...

  • Open Thread

    Another day, another town hall meeting full of lunatics. It's going to be a long, long recess. Fortunately, no 'real Americans' are opposed to health care reform. What's gnawing at you?

  • RIP Eunice Kennedy Shriver

    Sad news: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a member of one of the most prominent families in American politics and a trailblazer in the effort to improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, died early Tuesday morning at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass. She was 88... A sister of Presi ...

European Tribune


Futurismic


  • Scaled-elextric: slot cars for transport

    Today’s dose of technocratic mass-transport conceptual design is brought to you by German designer Christian Förg. His Speedway Transport System is inspired by slot cars of his youth: Förg’s Speedway Transport System concept uses a network of linear electric motors to propel cars along the ...

  • Scaled-elextric: slot cars for transport

    Today’s dose of technocratic mass-transport conceptual design is brought to you by German designer Christian Förg. His Speedway Transport System is inspired by slot cars of his youth: Förg’s Speedway Transport System concept uses a network of linear electric motors to propel cars along the ...

  • Is psychopathy a hardware issue?

    Neuroscience continues to probe the depths of our grey matter, delivering blow after blow to that good ol’ mind-body dualism. The latest news? Psychopaths appear to have a detectable brain abnormality that “normal” folks do not. Interesting stuff, but there are some nasty implications also: Wh ...

  • Agnotology: The science of ignorance

    Many of my fellow citizens believe that the Apollo program was faked, evolution is a lie, global warming is a sinister plot by Al Gore to take away their Hummers, and President Obama is some kind of Nazi foreigner whose healthcare plan will lead to mass euthanasia. Disinformation seems to be a winni ..

  • Fusion on a budget

    Canadian company General Fusion are developing a fusion reactor that is based on a process called magnetized target fusion The reactor consists of a metal sphere with a diameter of three meters. Inside the sphere, a liquid mixture of lithium and lead spins to create a vortex with a vertical cavity i ...

Yahoo! Canada News


Global Elite


Green Inc. - NYT

  • Turning Algae Into Oil, with Help from Fish

    A California company is experimenting with a new way to produce oil from algae. It is feeding the algae to small fish - and processing the fish for oil.

  • Wave Power Setbacks in California

    After surrendering a permit for one wave power project, Pacific Gas & Electric faces local opposition for another.

  • How Green Is Rail Travel?

    A study shows some forms of train travel have a carbon footprint similar to flying, when measured per kilometer of passenger travel.

  • Friday Closings Yield Energy Savings

    Shrinking the workweek of Utah's state employees to four days has helped cut energy bills by 13 percent -- and commuters have saved up to $6 million.

  • G.M.: Chevy Volt Gets 230 M.P.G.

    With the kind of mileage that General Motors just announced for its Volt, you could practically drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas on a single gallon of gas. But it's not that simple, of course.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Thanks to Rose for finding my phone! Plus: I'm sta ...

    I nearly had a horrible day today, leaving my trusty old Helio phone on a bench at the University of Minnesota mall. A good samaritan named Rose picked it up and called the Boiler Room coffee shop back after I tried the phone. I got it back! Thanks a ton, Rose, you saved yet another messy situation ...

  • 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 ...

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  • Another Court Deals Major Blow to DVD Copying

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Godspace

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    I am sitting in Sydney on a beautiful but crisp winter’s morning watching the rainbow lorikeets out in the trees. Â My Dad’s funeral is over and I will head back to Seattle in 2 days time. Â I have been very aware of prayer and the grace of God in the midst of this. Â Thanks to [...]

  • Living in Transition as Spiritual Practice

    I am now in Sydney Australia after what has been one of the easiest long international trips I have made for a long time. Â I even slept for several hours on the flight which makes me very aware of the fact that people have been praying for me. Today’s article comes from Guy Chmieleski who is [. ...

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    I will be heading out to Australia this afternoon but am hoping to continue posting while I travel. Â The submissions continue to arrive which is wonderful and I am enjoying reading them before I post them. This morning’s post is from Teri Peterson a presbyterian pastor who loves her new bed (wh ...

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Pine River World News

  • BURMA: American Vietnam War vet John Yettaw has 'f ...

    The following article is from Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), Oslo. Yettaw has 'fulfilled duty to God' © DVB By Naw Say Phaw August 12, 2009 The U.S. citizen yesterday sentenced by a Burmese court to seven years in prison has told his lawyer that he has "fulfilled his duty to God". Lawyers for ...

  • The upcoming election in Afghanistan: An exercise ...

    Pine River World News August 12, 2009 In theory, at least, elections are designed to reflect the will of the majority of voters. The upcoming elections in Afghanistan, however, will reflect results of only those who live in Kabul and outlying areas under government control. Even then the poll will ...

  • U.S. Missile Defense System: Most Expensive Fraud ...

    The following commentary is from Pravda , citing Novy Region as the source. U.S. Missile Defense System: Most Expensive Fraud of the Century © nr2.ru August 12, 2009 The U.S. Missile Defense System, a stumbling block in Russia-American bilateral relations, may prove to be the most expensive fra ...

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  • PsyBlog

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    · How and why we consume and how our beliefs, ideas and senses influence consumption. Peter Drucker, the management consultant, famously argued that about 80% of all products and services fail or fall well short of targets within six months of launching. Clearly markets have little understanding ...

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    Reading and writing from left to right is a skill so well-practised, so ingrained in language, that it's easy to ignore. Yet, according to some research, the direction in which language flows could have implications that spread into many other areas of our experience. Consider that people are often ...

  • Persuasion: The Right-Ear Advantage

    If you want someone to comply with a random request for a cigarette, you should speak into their right ear, according to a new study by researchers in Italy. Marzoli & Tommasi (2009) had a female confederate visit a disco and approach 176 random people asking for a smoke. Clubbers were about twice ...

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  • Are Your Initials Holding You Back?

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    "Cable operators at the semi-annual CableLab's Innovation Showcase have informally voted as best new product a gizmo that can determine how many people are watching a TV . Developed by Israeli company PrimeSense , the product lets digital devices see a 3-D view of the world (the images look like som ...

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    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 ...

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Scoop - NZ

  • Spread of Tamiflu Resistant H1N1 in Texas

    We have seen some cases, few of which we are confident, El Paso and around McAllen, Texas," said Dr. Maria Teresa Cerqueira, responsible local office of PAHO, at a conference on influenza A. The persons concerned cross the border regularly and were automédicamentées, says the doctor.The above ...

  • Cynthia Banham: A chance to counter terrorism

    If the post-September 11 years have taught us anything, it's that civilised societies will not defeat terrorism by tearing down their own values. Respect for human dignity is not, as many political leaders in the wake of that terrible attack tried to tell us, incompatible with national security. Thi ...

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Independent ( London )

  • 'I held my son, but we were still washed away'

    The woman became hysterical as another helicopter landed without her loved ones. "Where are they?" she wailed, before Buddhist volunteers gathered to try to comfort her. Heartbroken, she used her mobile phone to relay the news to other relatives that so far, the search had been fruitless.

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    If president Barack Obama's Africa trip was all about symbolism, Hillary Clinton's tour has offered a detailed insight into the administration's aims on the continent.

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  • Putin pledges support for breakaway region

    The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pledged $500m (£300m) to defend the breakaway region of Abkhazia during a surprise visit yesterday which Georgia said had escalated tensions in the Caucasus.

  • Merkel ally makes a boob in low-cut poster

    With her political dream-team poised to capture 51 per cent of the vote in next month's elections, Angela Merkel hardly needed to show off her generous cleavage to attract support.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The Ever Present Military Option

    Summary: Last week, retired Air Force Gen. Chuck Wald published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal declaring "There Is a Military Option on Iran." It’s probably not a coincidence that Wald’s piece was hot on the heels of John Bolton’s "While Diplomats Dither, Iran Builds Nukes." source: ...

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    Summary: WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (IPS) - Iran is unlikely to be able to produce enough highly enriched uranium (HEU) for a nuclear weapon until at least 2013, according to a U.S. government intelligence estimate made public Thursday. source: IPS read more

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  • How Is America Going To End?

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  • Oy Vey . . . .

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  • Rightwing violence and US healthcare

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  • Is Tampa the new Ft. Sumter?

    I guess Glenn Beck did his "oh please don't commit any of the violence I've been urging you to commit for the last year" ass-covering episode just in time . What was intended to be a town hall discussion on President Barack Obama's health care reform proposal dissolved into a shouting match with ...

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Media Matters for America

  • Fox News reports on town hall protesters being ...

    During the August 12 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom , Bill Hemmer and Andrea Tantaros rebuffed Bob Beckel's claim that the protesters opposed to Democratic health care reform appearing at town hall meetings are "organized." But in reports a half-hour earlier and a half-hour later, Car ...

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    Following President Obama's comments at an August 11 town hall that "AARP would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining Medicare," ABC News' Jake Tapper and Fox News' Bill Hemmer reported that Obama was incorrect and that the AARP hadn't endorsed any specific bill. However, while the AARP ...

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    A USA Today article reported that some elderly opponents of health care reform "fear the estimated cost of a health care overhaul, generally pegged for the first 10 years at $1 trillion, would lead to cuts" in Medicare, and then quoted "a former state representative" saying, "It's going to bank ...

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    On August 12, Steve Doocy cited five "really hard" health care questions to ask elected officials at town hall meetings, which he said he received "from one of [his] friends." All of Doocy's questions, however, are virtually identical to the "five questions Americans should be pressing their el ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Anti-Obama Loonies Produce Anti-Semitic Ad

    Check this out. Of course, lobby-financed foreign junkets are always controversial (and should be). But this thing deftly uses anti-Semitism to skewer a Democrat who won't declare against Obama's plan. What a surprise that the town meeting thugs are Jew-haters... Sponsored Topics: Health care - T ...

  • The Internet Is The Beach Boys In 1963

    If I may shift gears a little, I'd like to address another section of And Then There's This---the part about indie rock. I promise that there's a political point to be made here, if you'll bear with me. But... Sponsored Topics: Indie rock - MP3 - Music - Reviews - Austin

  • How To Fight Heathcare Fearmongers and Demagogues

    My friend, Keith, from New Orleans, just emailed to say he attended a local "town meeting" on health care and tried to get a word in favor but was almost hounded out of the room.Why are these meetings brimming with... Sponsored Topics: Health care - Town meeting - New Orleans - Health - White Hou ...

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TruthOut

  • Climate Disobedience: Is a New "Seattle" in the Ma ...

    In the early morning of October 8, 2007, a small group of British Greenpeace activists slipped inside a hulking smokestack that towers more than 600 feet above a coal-fired power plant in Kent, England. While other activists cut electricity on the plant's grounds, they prepared to climb the i ...

  • Justice Sotomayor Welcomed as Newest Member of Sup ...

    US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor talks with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy during a White House reception today. (Photo: Reuters) read more

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    Professor Stephen Hawking has spoken out in defence of the NHS after high-level U.S. politicians have branded the National Health Service 'evil' and 'Orwellian.' The British professor, who has suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease for 40 years, insisted that he 'would not be here' were it no ...

  • Climate Disobedience: Is a New "Seattle" in the Ma ...

    In Oxford, England, residents hold a demonstration as floods ravage their city. A growing global movement is using direct action to combat policies that exacerbate climate change. read more

  • Taiwan Rescuers Find Some 1,000 Alive After Mudsli ...

    A rescuer crosses a flooded river near the village of Liugui, Taiwan. (Photo: AP) Rescuers in Taiwan found almost 1,000 people alive in villages buried by mudslides after Typhoon Morakot triggered the worst floods in half a century. read more

The Heathlander

  • Silencing civil society

    Former Israeli military commander Efran Efrati recently testified to the BBC that Palestinian children are ‘routinely ill-treated’ by Israeli soldiers: “You take the kid, you blindfold him, you handcuff him, he’s really shaking… Sometimes you cuff his legs too. Sometimes it cuts off the ci ...

  • Gaza Freedom March

    For those who don’t know, Norman Finkelstein and others are organising a mass non-violent global march on Gaza to break the siege. Some updates: - Gaza Freedom March website: http://www.gazafreedommarch.org/ - YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/GazaFreedomMarch - A list of peop ...

  • The latest anti-Hamas meme: “child brides”

    Last week, Hamas sponsored a mass wedding celebration in Gaza, perhaps in an attempt to reverse its flagging poll ratings: ‘Nearly a thousand Palestinians celebrated marriage on Thursday night in a ceremony organised by Hamas in the north of the Gaza Strip. Hamas dignitaries including Mahmud Zahar ...

  • 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 ...

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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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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Unexplained Mysteries

  • "Mermaid" sightings grip Israel

    A spate of sightings of alleged Mermaids in Israel have created quite a stir in the country, one town council is offering a $1m reward to anyone who c...

  • Two worlds collide in deep space

    Astronomers have observed two distant planets that collided thousands of years ago in what would have been a catastrophic event for both bodies, the s...

  • Bipedal humans descended from trees

    Examinations of bones from several primate species have challenged the idea that modern humans evolved from knuckle-walking ancestors and instead sugg...

  • Source of mystery 'hum' discovered

    The source of the Earth's mystery hum has been found - the low frequency sound is believed to be the result of the collision between two waves goi...

  • Fast-spinning black holes might reveal all

    A theory has been proposed suggesting that a black hole could spin so quickly that it would shed its event horizon producing a "naked" black hole, a p...

Grassroots

  • Building a Movement, Haitian Style

    pigs.jpg I spent the better part of last week crisscrossing Haiti’s arid Northwest with Grassroots International’s partner the National Congress of the Peasant’s Movement of Papay (MPNKP). MPNKP is best known to our allies and friends fo ...

  • Resilient Hondurans Lead The Way To Protect Democr ...

    IMG00292.jpg Today, thousands of people will fill the streets of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. They are students, housekeepers, children and farmers from different parts of country—many of whom walked 10-12 miles a day to get to the ...

  • Yes, We Can - But Will We Join Our Neighbors to Re ...

    More than a month after the military coup in the Central American country of Honduras (for which the term “banana republic” was originally coined due to the overwhelming influence of U.S. fruit corporations in that country), the junta is still in power and shows little real sign of budging. re ...

  • They Are Afraid of Us, Because We are Not Afraid o ...

    Tom Loudon from our ally the Alliance for Responsible Trade, which is a member of the Hemispheric Social Alliance (a Grassroots International grantee) is currently in Honduras as part of an international human rights monitoring delegation. Today, August 11th, the Global Day of Action for Honduras, h ...

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    Want to do something simple to help support Honduran democracy and keep the crisis in the public eye? Donate your status! It’s free, easy, and can make a huge impact. Right now, the corporate news media is mostly silent about what’s happening on the ground in Honduras and the role of US polic ...

Climate

  • August 12, 2009

    Oil Sands Test of Obama's Green Credentials (Financial Times) The Obama administration faces a test of its environmental credentials in deciding whether to approve a pipeline carrying greenhouse gas-intensive oil sands fuel from Canada into the US. Virginia Judge Nixes Permit for Coal Power Pla ...

  • August 11, 2009

    Alaska Lawmakers Override Palin Energy Veto (AP) In a final spat with former Gov. Sarah Palin, the Alaska Legislature voted to override her veto of $28.6 million in federal stimulus funds intended for energy efficiency projects. India Says Developing World Not Split in Climate Talks (Reuters) ...

  • August 10, 2009

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  • Decoding Health Care Reforms For Complete Idiots

    Frankly it really pisses me off that I even have to waste our time discussing these non-issues. But, if you have one of these right wingnuts in your family or on your email list, send them this cheat sheet. The Advanced medical directive euthanasia trap - "Sign here and Die" Of course. Who could pos ...

  • Man with a Gun Near Obama Rally - Hell No!

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    Predictably the rapists, murderers and torturers profiteering off the Iraq war turn out to be falling upon each other like animals now the spoils are not so easy to come by and hide. Would it be wrong to start taking bets on Erik Prince dying by his own hand, being whacked by his colleagues or Chen ...

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    Who fell for these words and voted for him? He played you like a violin, didn’t he? Would you vote for him again in 2012? Words and promises during the campaign were thrown around willy-nilly with no intention of following through them. It was all a masterful strategy to hoodwink and bamboozle th ...

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