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• Health Care Bill Would Allow Feds To Snoop in Your ...

  Section 163 of the bill states that the government would be allowed real-time access to a person's bank records - including direct access to bank accounts for electronic fund transfers.

• Point. Click. Kill: Inside The Air Force's Frantic ...

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• 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 ...

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• 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

• Canadian medico diagnoses US health care

  Universal health insurance is on the American policy agenda for the fifth time since World War II. In the 1960s, the U.S. chose public coverage for only the elderly and the very poor, while Canada opted for a universal program for hospitals and physicians' services. As a policy analyst, I know there ...

• The Spectre of Socialism

  A discussion starter on the way the opponents of health reform in the USA are using the spectre of socialism to scare and mislead the American public. » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

• Sarah Palin on The Cost of Living.

  On Friday, Sarah Palin posted a statement on her Facebook page railing against the presidential "death panel," which she said will decide whether you are "worthy of health care" based on your "productivity in society." As many have pointed out, Palin's concerns are not rooted in fact. The "death pan ...

• In These Times: You Have The Power !

  Last November, at one of the most perilous moments in U.S. history, Americans gave Barack Obama and the Democrats a mandate to change the direction of the country. They wanted to turn a page from eight years of failure on almost every front.Majorities favored a strong government hand in healthcare, ...

• Why did Nick Smith hide the facts on forestry?

  Climate change minister Nick Smith's failure to front with the facts on forestry offsets amounts to a clear attempt to manipulate public perception of the difficulty of meeting steep targets, and raises serious questions about the agenda driving government policy. » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

Independent ( London )

• 'Miracle' as rail tragedy avoided

  Passengers today demanded urgent tests on all railway bridges around Ireland after a viaduct on one the country's busiest routes collapsed into the sea.

• Taliban cut off voters' fingers

  An Afghan vote monitoring group said Taliban militants in Afghanistan's south cut off the fingers of two voters, carrying out a gruesome pre-election threat.

• Holidaymakers face fines for buying fake gear

  Holidaymakers could be fined thousands of pounds for buying fake designer gear when they go abroad, lawyers warned today.

• Convicted US soldier apologises for My Lai massacr ...

  The only US Army officer convicted over the 1968 massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai made an extraordinary public apology while speaking to a small group near the military base where he went on trial.

• Gadhafi welcomes home Lockerbie bomber

  Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi welcomed home the only man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people with a hug and praised Scotland for releasing him.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• US Officials Rejected Key Source on '94 Argentina ...

  Summary: The Iranian defector who was the source of Argentina's allegation that Iranian officials began planning the Jul. 18, 1994 terror bombing of a Jewish community center at a meeting nearly a year earlier had been dismissed as unreliable by US officials, according to the FBI agent who led t ...

• Singling Out Iran

  Summary: The West and Russia need to rethink more than the Obama administration thus far is doing. They should offer all the civilian nuclear cooperation Iran can swallow in return for open books and regular intrusive inspections of all facilities old and new. And they should offer to end all po ...

• Iran offers nuclear concessions on eve of crucial ...

  Summary: Diplomats the United Nations and in Western capitals were cautiously hopeful last night that a new agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran on the oversight of its nuclear facilities may signal the start of a thaw in the long-running confrontation over it ...

• IAEA Legal Expert Stifles Neocrazies

  Summary: On the eve of the September report by Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei – Nobel Peace Prize Laureate as well as Bonkers Bolton’s principal nemesis – to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it’s worth reprising his June, 2009 report on Iran. source ...

• Iran Gives UN Inspectors Wider Access, Official Sa ...

  Summary: Salehi Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Iran gave United Nations inspectors access last week to its Arak heavy-water reactor for the first time in a year and allowed increased monitoring of the Natanz uranium enrichment site, a UN official said. source: Bloomberg read more

The Daily Galaxy

• "Avatar": James Cameron's New SciFi Thriller -The ...

  The official trailer for Avatar is here: After years of dismissing 3-D as child's play, Hollywood studios are betting that films shot and projected in the format will boost takings at the box office. James Cameron's sci-fi epic, Avatar,was filmed...

• The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (8/19)

  Aurora Australis Warms Up the Antarctic Sky Photos of the Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights, have become a common enough sight, but a less frequently seen phenomenon is their Southern cousin, the Aurora Australis, which create a spectacular light show...

• "The Great Silence": Why Haven't Signs of Intellig ...

  "The idea that we are the only intelligent creatures in a cosmos of a hundred billion galaxies is so preposterous that there are very few astronomers today who would take it seriously. It is safest to assume therefore, that they...

• Is the Human Brain a "Belief Engine"? A Galaxy Cla ...

  Lewis Wolpert believes that mankind's "incorrigible and wholly irrational" religiosity is as human, and as explicable, as the flint axe and the computer. It is a tool for the soul. Religion and belief in a supernatural being is a natural...

• 2.5 Billion-Year-Old Event Triggered Greatest Envi ...

  Humans might not be walking the face of the Earth were it not for the ancient fusing of two prokaryotes — tiny life forms that do not have a cellular nucleus. Endosymbiosis refers to a cell living within another cell....

Natural News

• Suicide Prevention Drug Pushing Racket - Part II

  (NaturalNews) This is part two of an article series by Evelyn Pringle. You can read part one here: http://www.naturalnews.com/026789_suicide_suicide_prevention_Eli_Lilly.html A recent study in the April 2009, Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety journal found no change in the suicide rate in teens a ...

• Warning: Imaging Tests Can Damage Kidneys, Increas ...

  (NaturalNews) No matter what your health complaint is, if you go see your doctor you might end up undergoing some kind of high tech imaging procedure such as cardiac angiography, CT (computed tomography) or MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). According to a study published last fall in the journal Hea ...

• If You Have Chronic Fatigue, You Might Just Need L ...

  (NaturalNews) Nearly everyone experiences fatigue at one time or another, but when that fatigue goes on for long periods of time or when it accompanies another health problem, it can be devastating. While there ARE many medical reasons for it, often those with persistent fatigue are left without a d ...

• Ten Things That Are Missing from Obama's Health Ca ...

  (NaturalNews) You can't fix one broken system by replacing it with another broken system. Sure, the current health care system of "that's a pre-existing condition" insurance companies, employer-funded health insurance and miserable Medicaid is a public health disaster, but if we're going to fix the ...

• Farmed Fish Could Give Humans Mad Cow Disease

  (NaturalNews) There is probably no illness that has more terrifying symptoms, or a more ghastly outcome, than variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) -- best known as mad cow disease. Abnormal proteins called prions found in brain tissue of cows suffering from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) ...

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• She's Not Happy . . . .

  Methinks Hillary is not happy with the question . . . . (Cross-posted from Moved to Vancouver )

• Gog and Magog. Good Grief, george . . . .

  According to this month's edition of the Council for Secular Humanism's " Free Inquiry ", g.w.bush felt " that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse." This is not a joke - no doubt to Bill Maher's chagrin - and James A. Haught d ...

• Afghanistan's big election day

  For a cheerful look at the Afghan election, here's the BBC : Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Western allies have pronounced the country's election a success, after voting passed off largely peacefully ... including a helpful vid explaining how the indelible ink used to mark the index finger o ...

• Passport photos?

  Given the case of Suaad Hagi Mohamud and Abdihakim Mohamed, and perhaps others, mistakenly imprisoned over apparently suspect passport photos, I wonder if part of the issue is legitimately related to the photos themselves. I've held three Canadian passports, the first two of which were the type whe ...

• Khadr ruling upheld

  CBC this morning: The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld a judge’s ruling that ordered the federal government to press for the return of Omar Khadr from a U.S. military detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Naturally this has brought out the frothing lunatics in the comments to the CBC item. I ...

Media Matters for America

• Ridge-induced flashback: Media dismissed Bush ter ...

  In his forthcoming book, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge reportedly claims that politics may have played a role in the question of whether to raise the terror threat levels on the eve of the November 2004 presidential election -- echoing contemporaneous allegations made by severa ...

• Media let Gingrich take money from insurers, slam ...

  Several media figures and outlets have provided Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich a forum to discuss his opposition to the inclusion of a public option and increased insurance regulations in health care reform legislation. But those media have not noted that that his Center for Health Transfor ...

• Jon Stewart corrects serial misinformer McCaughey ...

  After previously backtracking from a claim that Page 425 of the House health care reform bill would provide for "mandatory" end-of-life counseling, former New York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey -- a serial misinformer about health care reform proposals -- falsely claimed on The Daily Show that anot ...

• In smearing "disingenuous" Obama -- who "has not ...

  For two days, the hosts of Fox & Friends have misrepresented President Obama's reference during a conference call with religious leaders about health care reform to those "bearing false witness," suggesting that Obama -- who, in the words of Gretchen Carlson, "has not chosen a church yet" -- w ...

• Fox turns on formerly "very influential" AMA afte ...

  On August 21, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly said, "President Obama likes to point out that the American Medical Association, or AMA, supports the Democrats' health care reform bill ... it turns out that this group only represents about 20 percent of practicing doctors." Yet when the AMA was criti ...

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• Economic recovery in Europe: Rhetoric and reality

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TPM Cafe

• The Ones That Got Away

  This week, Tom Delay pranced, gun nuts preened, and Bob Novak went to the big "Crossfire" set in the sky. And, of course, TPM readers shared their thoughts with the world. Reader-bloggers Garry Owen and dickday didn't much care for... Sponsored Topics: Sarah Palin - Tom Delay - Trusted Platform M ...

• Why the Gang of Six is Deciding Health Care for Th ...

  Last night, the so-called "gang of six" -- three Republican and three Democratic senators on the Senate Finance Committee -- met by conference call and, according to Senator Max Baucus, the committee's chair, reaffirmed their commitment "toward a bipartisan health-care... Sponsored Topics: Max Ba ...

• Modelling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – Part VII

  In Part VI of this series I came to the (non-consensus) conclusion that both Fannie and Freddie were long-term solvent and that the cost to the government of their conservatorship would be zero. I also suggested that the common stock... Sponsored Topics: Fannie Mae - Freddie Mac - Foreclo ...

• Obama, Afghanistan-- and St. Augustine

  Pres. Obama gave a speech to the veterans of Foreign Wars annual convention on Monday in which he spelled out his view of the US's now-declining strategic stakes in Iraq and its continuing strategic stake in Afghanistan. His words were... Sponsored Topics: Iraq - US - Afghanistan - United States ...

• The Birthers and the 14th Amendment

  Taking umbrage at the attention that the Doonesbury comic strip has drawn to a "Birther Bill" sitting in a House committee, Texas congressman Louie Gohmert (Republican) recently told Washington Post blogger Mary Ann Akers that the bill, H.R. 1503, has... Sponsored Topics: Washington Post - Mary A ...

TruthOut

• Tom DeLay and the Woodstock Nation

  Tom Delay on his last day as Congressman. (Photo: Dallas Morning News) read more

• Joe Scarborough Is Shocked, Yet Awed by Single-Pay ...

  Former Republican Congressman-turned-pundit and talk show host Joe Scarborough. (Photo: Getty Images) read more

• Reid Under Pressure to Rein in Centrists

  Liberal activists are pressuring Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and party leaders to crack down on renegade centrist Democrats who might block President Obama's healthcare overhaul. read more

• Why Does the CIA Use So Many Contractors?

  News that the CIA worked with a private contractor on a secret assassination program is the latest evidence of how much the agency has outsourced a range of its activities, including covert missions. According to The New York Times, the CIA in 2004 worked briefly with Blackwater, th ...

• Blackwater: CIA Assassins?

  In April 2002, the CIA paid Blackwater more than $5 million to deploy a small team of men inside Afghanistan during the early stages of US operations in the country. A month later, Erik Prince, the company's owner and a former Navy SEAL, flew to Afghanistan as part of the original twent ...

The Heathlander

• A culture of fear

  Pankaj Mishra dissects the ‘culture of fear’ being manufactured by a recent spate of books and articles warning of an impending ‘Eurabia’: ‘Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking ...

• Fighting the fash

  Anti-fascist activists successfully confronted the BNP’s ‘Red, White and Blue’ hatefest [.pdf] (see also this Channel 4 report) in Codnor yesterday: One of the favourite chants of the day was reportedly: “We are black, white, Asian and we’re Jew / And they’re many, many more of us than ...

• 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 ...

Water - AlterNet

• The U.S. Is Years Behind the Rest of the World on ...

  While remarkable and innovative efforts at sustainable water management are still being pursued here, these efforts are no longer either unusual or groundbreaking.

• Are Fish from U.S. Streams and Rivers Safe to Eat? ...

  The USGS found methylmercury in every fish that it sampled -- an extraordinary indictment of the health of our nation's waters.

• Millions of Tons of Plastic Debris Floating in Oce ...

  As plastics break down in the sea they release chemicals toxic to humans and animals.

• When it Comes to Water, Can Corporations and Commu ...

  The latest fight between activists and companies such as Coke and Nestle is about who really owns water -- corporations or communities.

• The Fiji Phenomenon: It's a Human Rights and Envir ...

  How did a plastic water bottle, imported from a military dictatorship thousands of miles away, become the epitome of cool?

TruthHugger

• Texas Progressive Alliance – August 17, 2009

  It’s time for preseason football games, but the Texas Progressive Alliance is always in midseason form. Here are this week’s blog highlights. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders why we put up with temper tantrums and intimidation from the far right? Everyone should have their say in our d ...

• Without Health Options – Where Is Your Voice? Op ...

  Who needs health care

• 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 ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Bagram Isn’t The New Guantánamo, It’s The Old ...

  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 17 Aug. 2009 Back in

• Ahmadinejad: Some neighbouring countries are servi ...

  compiled by Cem Ertür Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 17 August 2009 1) Iran Lambasts Policies of C

• Arrogance And Torture: A History of Guantánamo by ...

  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 22 Aug. 2009 If you’

• The Secret of China's Miracle Economy: The Governm ...

  by Dr. Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com August 17, 2009 “The banks

• Chris Hedges on Health Care, War and the New Racis ...

  order here Interview with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig August 21, 2009 C

Unexplained Mysteries

• Global warming could change Earth's tilt

  It is thought that global warming could cause the Earth's axis to tilt significantly within the next hundred years, with the rebound from melting ice ...

• 11-year-old believed to be reincarnated pilot

  An 11-year-old American boy is believed to be the reincarnation of a World War 2 pilot who was shot down by the Japanese over the Pacific on March 3rd...

• Tests begin on age-slowing drugs

  Scientists have started testing on drugs that could one day be used to increase human life span, delay old age or even reverse it. But just how possib...

• Prehistoric ‘runway’ discovered

  Scientists have uncovered a prehistoric "runway" in the limestone deposits of an ancient lagoon that would have been used by a flying pterosaur over 1...

• Hobbits walked out of Africa

  A new study has revealed that the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis may have not only been a genuine ancestor to modern humans but would have been the fir...

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 ...

• On the Global Day of Action for Honduras, Donate y ...

  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 21, 2009

  'Clunkers' to Close Monday After Fueling Sales, Dealer Anger (Bloomberg) The U.S. "cash for clunkers" program will stop accepting applications on Aug. 24, bringing to a close an effort that helped revive auto sales and drew the ire of dealers for slow repayments. Bus Tour Crosses Coal States t ...

• August 20, 2009

  Australian Parliament Sets Renewable Energy Target (AP) Australia's Parliament passed a law today to require that 20% of the country's electricity come from renewable sources by 2020, matching European standards and up from about 8% now. Another Record for U.S. Renewable Electricity (Renewable ...

• August 19, 2009

  Lobbyists Sent 13 Fake Letters to Hill (The Politico) A lobbying firm working for a coal industry group sent lawmakers 13 fraudulent letters opposing the House climate bill — five more than initially believed, a House committee has revealed. US Unions, Green Groups to Stump for Climate Chang ...

• August 18, 2009

  Young Activists from 110 Countries Want Climate Action (AFP) More than 800 young environmental activists from 110 countries on Monday began a UN-organized meeting described as the biggest-ever youth gathering on climate change. U.S. Wind Capacity Targets to be Missed Amid Slowdown (Financial ...

• August 18, 2009

  Young Activists from 110 Countries Want Climate Action (AFP) More than 800 young environmental activists from 110 countries on Monday began a UN-organized meeting described as the biggest-ever youth gathering on climate change. U.S. Wind Capacity Targets to be Missed Amid Slowdown (Financial ...

TomDispatch

• Tomgram: Withdrawing by Bike from Iraq

  [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: So it's sayonara for a couple of weeks. I'm taking my usual August break. TomDispatch will return sometime the week of August 24th, but will be on a limited posting schedule through Labor Day. Let me take this opportunity once again to thank those of you who hav ...

• Tomgram: Mark Engler, Protesting at Climate Groun ...

  We're so past the Roman Empire by now that it's probably time to update the phrase "fiddling while Rome burns." What about, for instance, "writing fake letters ostensibly from real non-profit groups to weaken a climate-change bill while the planet burns"? It's true. According to the New York Ti ...

• Tomgram: Jamail and Lazare, Lost in Military Limb ...

  [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: In Chalmers Johnson's recent piece, "Three Good Reasons to Liquidate Our Empire," the mission of the Service Women's Action Network (SWAN) was mischaracterized. It has now been corrected at the piece. ] It's not exactly a secret that the U.S. Army and the U.S. M ...

• Tomgram: John Feffer, Their Martyrs and Our Heroe ...

  The way you imagine someone engaged in a suicide attack depends, not surprisingly, on which end of the attack you happen to be on -- in cultural, if not literal terms. In American films and pop culture, there were few acts more inexplicable or malevolent in the years of my childhood than those of ...

• Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, 64 Years Too Late and No ...

  As another August 6th approaches, let me tell you a little story about Hiroshima and me: As a young man, I was probably not completely atypical in having the Bomb (the 1950s was a great time for capitalizing what was important) on my brain, and not just while I was ducking under my school desk ...

Smirking Chimp

• American Justice Is Not Blind, But It Is Truly Sic ...

  Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Federal District Court Judge Fernando Gaitan of the Missouri Western District Court have at least two things in common: they are both appointees of President Ronald Reagan, and they both think it's just fine for the US to execute innocent people. The same can ...

• Searching for the Depression - And Finding It!

  Economic Stress Is Hidden, But It's There in a Recovery That Isn't. Last week I was telling a visiting filmmaker from overseas about the financial crisis and how it was getting worse. He looked at me askance. The market had just gone up, he said, and the White House was talking about an emerging rec ...

• Tom DeLay and the Woodstock Nation

  A sorry state of affairs. If it wasn't for all the 40th anniversary celebrations of Woodstock, the primary cultural contribution of the month would be the announcement that Tom DeLay of Texas -- birther, born again and former Republican House Majority Leader -- will be a contestant in the next round ...

• The Obama Double Standard

  As the White House continues to move toward dropping the public option, I wanted to dispel two important myths - the ones about the administration's legislative leverage and ideological outlook. Specifically, just in case you were under the illusion that the Obama White House has no ability to play ...

• Solidarity Forever

  Whataya know! A labor leader peeped out from under a rock where he'd been hiding and appeared on television! It was Richard L. Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer of the AFl-CIO and he pledged his support for the public option in the health care reform proposals currently being debated in Congress. He said ...

Ten Percent

• Friday! The Peter Serafinowicz Show

  This is a… sort of a…. best of taster, help get The Peter Serafinowicz Show released, details @ peterserafinowicz.com

• Afghan MP Malalai Joya on the Elections

  BBC Radio 4 from last week- And a short interview- Were you prepared for the consequences of the speeches you made against the government? In parliament, they couldn’t tolerate me because I told the truth. They turned off my microphone so I couldn’t talk, they insulted and threatened me. There ...

• Afghan Elections

  Gareth Porter for IPS reports- Afghanistan’s presidential election has long been viewed by U.S. officials as a key to conferring legitimacy on the Afghan government, but Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his powerful warlord allies have planned to commit large-scale electoral fraud that could have ...

• Malalai Joya- Raising My Voice (Review Part 3)

  ‘Most of the Taliban were long gone before the first bombs fell…And so, in Farah as with the rest of my country, many lives were needlessly lost.’ Glued to the radio Malalai and her family experienced the invasion first through global media reports then as terrifying air strikes rained ...

• Malalai Joya- Raising My Voice (Review Part 2)

  ‘the same donkey, only with a new saddle.’ Malalai and her family returned to Afghanistan in 1992, she was just fourteen and remembers Farah as a terrifying place as the civil war raged. Young girls would be abducted off the street, raped and killed by roaming gangs, Mujahideen troops would ...

Paul Krugman

• The answer is yes

  Is this a recovery or isn't it?

• What should we have known?

  It's really sad that those who missed the obvious, who failed to see what was right in front of their noses, still consider themselves superior to those who got it right.

• Sour sixteen

  In the course of an unwarranted attack on Christina Romer, Richard Posner sets a new record.

• Short(s) notes

  I'm traveling, so posting will be light to nonexistent for the next few days. Herewith a few notes.

• Nick Beaudrot explains it all

  Going with the flow (chart).

No Quarter

• Mercy My Ass

  A Scottish judge gave a mass murderer a pass because he has prostate cancer and is going to die. Cry me a river. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, one of the men who helped carry out the bombing of Pan Am 103 in December 1988, walked out of jail and received a hero’s welcome in [...]

• Uncle Sam Winks Again at Citigroup’s Credit Card ...

  When a company, which is a ward of the state, increases credit card fees can it be said to be the equivalent of a tax increase? I believe it can. In that vein, Citigroup is raising taxes on its credit cards by initiating annual fees. The Wall Street Journal highlights this development and reports Ci ...

• Remembrance of Things Past - Part 3

  What’s it all mean? The truth will set your fee… Well, you’re not paranoid if they really are after you. In 2008 David Rothkopf published a book called “Superclass” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) wherein he discusses the 6,000 or so people who run the world, how they got to be there and wha ...

• WHAT “Cash For Clunkers”?

  Oh, dear. This not very good advertising for the way the Feds run programs. It seems that while the so-called “Cash for Clunkers” program is a HUGE success, the automobile dealers are not getting reimbursed for all of the money they have shelled out. At least one, MAJOR, state has had it, [.. ...

• Hey Dude, You’re Fired!

  Should people who are overweight or who smoke (even if they never do it at work) be fired? Or never hired in the first place? As health care reform heats up, some are saying that those who choose unhealthy lifestyles should be barred from the workplace and also charged more for their health [...]

Environmental Graffiti

• The Chapel that Rises 280ft from a Massive Lava Pl ...
• Chernobyl 1984-2009: Then and Now
• Caught with a Cobra in your Pants
• 15 Spectacular Shots of Comet McNaught
• The Insane Bull Riders of Tamil Nadu

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Response to Chomsky

  The United States is often, but not always, wrong, and its enemies are sometimes, but not always, right.

• After the Sunshine Generation

  The death of Kim Dae Jung, the suicide of Roh Moo Hyun, and the illness of Kim Jong Il all point to the end of a generation committed to North-South engagement.

• Clinton Tone-Deaf during Africa Trip

  Hillary Clinton tried to emphasize the importance of Africa during her recent trip, but only managed to emphasize how marginal the continent remains to U.S. foreign policy.

• Iran Gas Ban: Step toward War with Iran?

  The proposed U.S. ban on gasoline sales to Iran is better than bombing the country. But, columnist Michael Klare asks, could such a ban lead to war anyway?

• Book Review: 'The Future of Global Relations'

  America is on the way out. Are regions on the way in?

Therapy News

• Sistertalk Program Brings Group Therapy to Young G ...

  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Traditionally, adolescence is one of the most turbulent periods in a woman’s life; though rich in the opportunity for great experiences, the time can also be difficult as girls work through self-image and social issues that can sometimes take a heavy toll on well-be ...

• National Alliance on Mental Health Chapter Helps O ...

  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Grappling with the symptoms of mental illness can be challenging for therapy clients and their families, with issues ranging from poor emotional feedback on a daily basis to problems with the maintenance of a house and declining personal relationships. Recognizing the ...

• Study Finds Too Much Multi-Tasking Can Harm Mental ...

  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Modern life is as commonly cited as being stressful as it is praised for affording new technologies and conveniences. Part of the difficulties of striking a balance between the stress and the ease of modern life is handling the many tasks, errands, and duties that pres ...

• Reflecting on Yesterday’s High Points May Lead t ...

  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Often, studies focusing on aspects of mental health are concentrated on specific issues or negative experiences within a group of people. But in a creative research project just carried out in the UK, participants were given the task to try and generate happiness – ...

• Therapy Help for Gang Members Takes a Hit

  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline As the economic crisis tightens its grip on many national and international organizations, the need to recognize, understand, and help support suffering services in an effort to preserve the mental health initiatives of the past few decades is clear. Among the most re ...

Mountaintop Removal

• DEP biologist criticizes Huffmans testimony to Con ...

  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A state Department of Environmental Protection biologist has warned that DEP Secretary Randy Huffman misled Congress about the damage being done by mountaintop-removal coal mining,

• Protest Charges Against Ex-WV Representative Dropp ...

  A Raleigh County magistrate has dismissed two charges against former Rep. Ken Hechler stemming from his arrest in June at a protest against mountaintop removal mining.

• Dave Cooper: Dollywood Boycott Falls Flat (The Huf ...

  Raised in the Smoky Mountains of east Tennessee, Dolly Parton is the public face of Smoky Mountain tourism. So why on earth would anyone want to boycott Dollywood?

• Prosecutor: Charges Dropped Against Ken Hechler (W ...

  A Raleigh County magistrate has dismissed two charges against former Rep. Ken Hechler stemming from his arrest in June at a protest against mountaintop removal mining.

• Prosecutor: charges dropped against Hechler (Charl ...

  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A Raleigh County magistrate has dismissed two charges against former Rep. Ken Hechler stemming from his arrest in June at a protest against mountaintop removal mining.Hechler was arrested June 23 with 30 other people outside a Mas...

Memeorandum

• Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions (News ...

  Newsweek : Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions — A long-awaited report on post-9/11 interrogation tactics will reveal harrowing new details about treatment of suspected terrorists. … A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released ne ...

• Texas to revise history textbooks: liberals out, L ...

  Lee Fang / Think Progress : Texas to revise history textbooks: liberals out, Limbaugh and Gingrich in. — The Texas State Board of Education review committee is preparing to vote on a draft of proposed standards for history textbooks. Noting that the draft has “nothing about liberals,” ...

• Obama's Big Bang could go bust (The Politico)

  The Politico : Obama's Big Bang could go bust — Barack Obama's Big Bang is beginning to backfire, as his plans for rapid, once-in-a-generation overhauls of energy, financial regulation and health care are running into stiff resistance, both in Washington and around the country.

• Obama to raise 10-year deficit to $9 trillion (Jef ...

  Jeff Mason / Reuters : Obama to raise 10-year deficit to $9 trillion — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit projection to approximately $9 trillion from $7.108 trillion in a report next week, a senior administration official told Reuters on F ...

• Major Factor In Obama's WaPo Poll Slide: Drop Amon ...

  Greg Sargent / The Plum Line : Major Factor In Obama's WaPo Poll Slide: Drop Among Dems, Liberals — A major factor in President Obama's slide in today's big Washington Post/ABC News poll, which is preoccupying the political classes today, is his surprisingly sharp drops among Democrats and e ...

Energy & Environment News

• Natural Gas Prices Plummet to a Seven-Year Low

  The sharp price decline of natural gas was attributed to declining demand and a big expansion of domestic production.

• Drilling Ordeals Are Said to Set Back a Big Geothe ...

  A major test of geothermal energy, already under review because it could induce earthquakes, has fallen behind schedule over other problems, federal scientists said.

• Continuing Education: Sustainability Field Booms o ...

  Universities and community colleges are responding to a demand from the public for degrees or ad hoc courses on sustainability.

• Toyota Falling Behind Rivals in Race to Go Electri ...

  Mitsubishi and Nissan hope to leapfrog Toyota and G.M. by focusing on battery-powered cars rather than hybrids like the Prius and the Volt.

• Oil Industry Backs Protests of Emissions Bill

  Companies say new policies from Washington could cost them billions of dollars and raise prices for consumers at the pump.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.3, central Mid-Atlantic Ridge

  Saturday, August 22, 2009 12:34:50 UTC Saturday, August 22, 2009 10:34:50 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

• M 5.3, Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia

  Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:12:48 UTC Thursday, August 20, 2009 08:12:48 PM at epicenter Depth : 58.00 km (36.04 mi)

• M 6.0, Norwegian Sea

  Thursday, August 20, 2009 06:35:04 UTC Thursday, August 20, 2009 06:35:04 AM at epicenter Depth : 6.00 km (3.73 mi)

• M 5.0, Southern Alaska

  Wednesday, August 19, 2009 18:19:27 UTC Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:19:27 AM at epicenter Depth : 61.70 km (38.34 mi)

• M 5.1, Tonga

  Wednesday, August 19, 2009 13:07:21 UTC Thursday, August 20, 2009 02:07:21 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

• Biofuels: learning from Obama

  The US president’s directive on advanced biofuels – and its implementation by government departments – sends an important message to China’s energy planners, write Zhang Jinyuan and Xu Dingming. [Produced in association with Rutgers Climate and Social Policy Initiative ] On May 5, 2009, ...

• The dangers of boosting consumption

  China’s government and the domestic market are calling for greater spending. Economic growth may be maintained, writes Huo Weiya, but US-style living may mean we need another two Earths. To maintain an 8% economic-growth target through the current global financial crisis, the Chinese government ha ...

• The Ilisu Dam’s uncertain future

  A controversial project in south-eastern Turkey hangs in the balance, writes Elizabeth Angell. The government sees it as necessary, but opponents say it will incur great social and ecological costs. Since a group of European backers withdrew funding in July, the fate of the controversial Ilisu dam â ...

• Africa looks to the sun and wind

  Amid surging demand for electricity -- and frequent blackouts – the continent is embracing renewable energy sources. Kenya is set to host the biggest African wind farm, Xan Rice reports. One of the hottest places in the world is set to become the site of Africa’s most ambitious venture in the ba ...

• Geoengineering: plastic forests

  Could synthetic trees help to cool the planet? chinadialogue continues its series that examines geoengineering proposals from scientists around the world. What’s the big idea? Forests of synthetic “trees”, designed to capture and store carbon dioxide, could be used to effectively offset cl ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• The Health Insurance Racket Is Manufacturing Enter ...

  "There ain't any health care debate going on, Bubba. What is going on are mob negotiations about insurance, and which mob gets the biggest chunk of the dough."

• Why Breast Implants Are Shrinking Along with the E ...

  Many women who invested in big busts are in deflationary mode.

• Terror from the Right: 75 Plots, Conspiracies and ...

  Including plots to bomb government buildings, banks, refineries, clinics, synagogues, mosques, memorials and bridges; to assassinate police officers, judges, politicians and more.

• Michael Moore on His Latest: 'I Made This Movie As ...

  Moore is back with his new movie, 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' wearing his trademark baseball cap to go after corporate America.

• The Top 10 Greenest Schools in the U.S.

  A must-read guide to the most eco-friendly U.S. colleges.

Threat Level

• Malware Turns Software Compilers into Virus Breede ...

  Security experts seem more intrigued than alarmed over a newly-discovered virus that inserts itself into a Delphi compiler, and replicates itself in every program compiled. Sophos says its seen 3,000 instances of the Induc virus in the wild, where it’s popped up in some production software. “Thi ...

• Guantanamo Defense Lawyers Being Investigated Over ...

  Three defense attorneys representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay are being investigated for possibly breaking the law after they showed photos of suspected CIA personnel to their clients at the prison. The lawyers, members of the military’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, showed the detainees ...

• Feds Urge Dismissal of High-Profile Spy Case

  The Obama administration is urging a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit weighing whether a sitting U.S. president may lawfully create a spying program to eavesdrop on Americans’ electronic communications without warrants or congressional authorization. The nearly 5-year-old case, having a tortured ...

• In Gonzalez Hacking Case, a High-Stakes Fight Over ...

  When Turkish police arrested Maksym “Maksik” Yastremskiy — a Ukrainian wholesaler of stolen identity data — in July 2007, they didn’t just collar one of the most-wanted cybercriminals in the world. They also got a trove of evidence about Yastremskiy’s buyers and suppliers, all locke ...

• TJX Suspect Was Near Plea Agreement Until New Char ...

  Accused TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez, who is set to go to trial next month in New York, was close to reaching a comprehensive settlement with federal prosecutors when new charges were levied against him this week in New Jersey, according to his lawyer. Rene Palomino, Jr., told the New York Times that ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Senator seeks data on health insurer profits

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate Democrat asked the top 15 health insurers to explain what portion of premiums go to profits versus patient care, putting further pressure on the companies to explain their business practices as Congress considers sweeping health reform legislation.

• Yahoo wins U.S. court ruling over webcasting fees

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court in New York ruled that a Yahoo Inc Internet radio service is not required to pay fees to copyright holders of songs it plays, a defeat for Sony Corp's BMG Music.

• Apple says Google Voice app alters iPhone

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - IPhone maker Apple Inc told U.S. regulators it has not approved Google Inc's Voice application, which could challenge the wireless industry's giants, because it interferes with the iPhone "user experience."

• Judge rules against "Octo-Mom" on child finances

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A judge on Friday ruled that an advocacy group for child actors can seek to have a guardian appointed to oversee the financial interests for the octuplets of Nadya Suleman, dubbed "Octo-Mom," in connection with a television show about the family.

• Woman sues zoo over splashing dolphins

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - A woman is suing a Chicago-area zoo for a 2008 fall near a dolphin exhibit, accusing zookeepers of encouraging the mammals to splash water and then failing to protect spectators from wet surfaces, local media reported on Thursday.

Godspace

• Did God Send a Tornado To Warn the ELCA

  So many people have commented on facebook about this thoughtful response by Greg Boyd to John Piper’s comments on the tornado in the Twin Cities that I thought I would add the link as a blog post. On Wednesday, August 19, five small tornados formed in and around the Twin Cities. Included among th ...

• Running as Spiritual Practice

  Well the posts keep pouring in for the series What is a Spiritual Discipline which is certainly encouraging me to rethink the ways that I encounter God and develop greater intimacy with God. In particular I am finding that it is making me more aware of my everyday activities as an opportunity to ...

• How To Exercise Caution When Getting Back to Exerc ...

  Today’s post in the What is a Spiritual Practice series was written by Adrienne Carlson, who regularly writes on the topic of online bible college . Adrienne welcomes your comments and questions at her email address: adrienne.carlson1@gmail.com I took to jogging a year ago and discovered that I lo ...

• Celtic Prayer Retreat is Over

  MSA’s 18th Annual Prayer retreat is over. Â We had a great time up on Camano Island and I thought that those of you who cannot make it to the Pacific Northwest would be interested in some of the prayers and photos from the event. Â Maybe you would like to conduct your own mini retreat based [. ...

• Playing Children’s Games As Spiritual Practi ...

  It is a bright and sunny morning in Seattle with the promise of a hot day ahead. For most of us it is a work day but I think that if we were honest with ourselves we would rather be out playing with the kids so this post below by Julie Clawson seemed appropriate. Julie describes [...]

Equality Trust

• Shattering the myth of equality

  An article by Boris Frankel in Melbourne's newspaper 'The Age'.

• Polly Toynbee: This bold equality push is just wha ...

  Polly Toynbee writing about the new Equality Bill today's Guardian. "Harriet Harman's bill is a frank recognition of the role of class in Britain. A decade earlier, it might have had a real impact..."

• Seumas Milne: This naked display of class egotism ...

  "It's more than a week since Alistair Darling's budget, but the howls of protest haven't stopped for a day ever since. That's not been the public sector employees facing a harsh squeeze on jobs and pay who've been squealing, or the million workers expected to join the dole queues in the next year, ...

• Bob Holman on social breakdown

  Bob Holman writes in the Glasgow Herald about the evidence in The Spirit Level.

• Inequality is the root of our unhappiness

  Former director of the Institute of Education Peter Mortimore, writing in today's Education Guardian.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #0076

  Australia's domestic spy agency considers FBI model. Weapons manufacturers planted spy on Swiss anti-military group. Retired Lebanese security official "confesses" to spying for Israel.

• News you may have missed #0075

  Release of Libyan convicted bomber raises questions. Analysis: Killing The KGB myth. Second ranking US intelligence official to visit Philippines.

• Comment: Blackwater’s role in CIA ops runs deep

  North Carolina-based military and intelligence contractor Xe had a major role in the CIA’s rumored post-9/11 assassination program and is active today in the Agency’s Predator drone strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The New York Times and The Washington Post cited “government officials and ...

• FBI investigates attorneys for trying to identify ...

  The Washington Post and The New York Times are reporting three military attorneys at Guantanamo Bay have been questioned by the FBI for allegedly showing pictures of CIA operatives to prisoners accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks.

• News you may have missed #0074

  Captured Real IRA operative tried to buy weapons in Lithuania. CIA lawyers accused of "deception" in contract dispute. Western spy agencies develop "terrorist Facebook".

PsyBlog

• Brainstorming Reloaded

  · Why brainstorming is ineffective and how to fix it. Brainstorming was once thought a fantastic way for groups to generate new ideas. Although not as fashionable as it once was, brainstorming is still frequently used in business and, often inadvertently, for all sorts of personal decisions; peop ...

• Consumer Psychology

  · 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 ...

• Why Left to Right Punches Are More Aggressive, Pow ...

  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 ...

• 10 Rules That Govern Groups

  Much of our lives are spent in groups with other people: we form groups to socialise, earn money, play sport, make music, even to change the world. But although groups are diverse, many of the psychological processes involved are remarkably similar. Here are 10 insightful studies that give a flavou ...

After Downing Street.org

• Lou Dobbs Tours Single-Payer Systems Abroad and Re ...

  Now his owners are going to hate him for pushing lies too hard AND revealing too much truth .

• Jon Stewart Interviews Betsy "Death Panels" McCaug ...

  The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Exclusive - Betsy McCaughey Extended Interview Pt. 1 www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Healthcare Protests Watch Part 2 below the fold. Click "Read more" to view it. rea ...

• US drone strike kills 13 in Pakistan: officials

  By Hasbanullah Khan, AFP MIRANSHAH, Pakistan — A pre-dawn US missile strike Friday killed at least 13 people in a border tribal area of northwest Pakistan known as a Taliban hideout, officials said. A missile hit a house near Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, at 3:50 am (2150 GMT Thurs ...

• Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions

  Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions A long-awaited report on post-9/11 interrogation tactics will reveal harrowing new details about treatment of suspected terrorists. By Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff | Newsweek Web Exclusive A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agenc ...

• Sheehan to Protest Against Obama

Grist - News

• Let’s (re)do school lunch

  It’s time to get active in the campaign to improve school lunches, says Kurt Michael Friese.

• Ruminations on the Obama era, with a side of spicy ...

• Cheap-chicken ad from KFC hides true cost of food; ...

• For a quick fix to school-lunch woes, pack an appe ...

• Stalking the wild leeks of spring

  What could improve a forest walk in early spring? Spotting a bunch of that delicious wild relative of the leek known as the ramp.

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• Facebook eCommerce May Have to Clear Security Obst ...

  Security firm Trend Micro has been researching malicious practices on Facebook, and has discovered numerous rogue apps on the social networking site this week. They've been alerting Facebook of them as they find them, but apparently more keep popping up as fast as they are eliminated. Have you e ...

• Diane Kruger Has Never Considered Drugs

  Diane Kruger has never been tempted to take drugs, because she's not interested in doing anything "crazy". " class="middle" /> Read more!

• Claire Forlani In Dispute With Art Dealer

  British actress Claire Forlani is facing a legal battle with an art dealer who alleges the star ruined his credibility. " class="middle" /> Read more!

• Laurie Higgins of the Illinois Family Institute Is ...

  First, a comment to everyone who’s been following this drama … thank you for your support. Your emails and comments have been incredible. Your offers to pitch in for legal defense if needed are so very appreciated. It’s a wonderful feeling to know that so many people have your back in a ...

• Check Out 'Smallville' Season 8 On DVD Aug. 25

  There’s a new reporter at the Daily Planet: Clark Kent, who shares a workspace with Lois Lane. There’s a new hero in Metropolis, too. No one knows who he is. " class="middle" /> Read more!

• IPS - Inter Press Services

• POLITICS-INDONESIA: After July Bombings, Life Goe ...

  JAKARTA, August 22 (IPS) - Dian Sabri likes to do a little test on the security guards whenever she goes to malls, hotels or office buildings. If she dresses up and acts busy, or if she brings along her toddler, she can avoid being frisked, said the freelance writer.

• MEXICO: Rights Groups Protest Release of US Anti- ...

  MEXICO CITY, Aug 21 (IPS) - Human rights groups criticised the decision by the U.S. Congress to release a portion of the funds for the M̩rida Initiative Рan anti-drug aid package Рto Mexico despite concern over accusations that the army has committed serious human rights violations in ...

• DEVELOPMENT: New Threats Aggravate Africa's Water ...

  STOCKHOLM, Aug 21 (IPS) - The widespread water scarcity in the African continent, impacting on the lives of nearly 300 million people, may be aggravated further by several new threats, including climate change, transboundary disputes and the negative fallout from military conflicts.

• RIGHTS: Sweet 16 Marriages Cause Controversy in ...

  LILONGWE, Aug 21 (IPS) - Malawi's president, Bingu wa Mutharika, has come under severe pressure from civil society groups who are demanding he scrap a newly-passed bill allowing 16-year-olds to marry with the consent of their parents.

• RIGHTS-US: ACLU Sues Controversial Sheriff

  NEW YORK, Aug 21 (IPS) - The man who boasts he is "America's Toughest Sheriff" - and who is being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department for civil rights violations - this week added another lawsuit to thousands already pending against him.

The Intelligence Daily

• Showdown with Russia and China: U.S. Advances Firs ...

• Global Depression and Regional Wars - Part II

• Running Out Fossil Fuels: A Cause For Glee?

• GOP Senators: US Faces Terrorist Attack If Holder ...

• Things Falling Off the Table - Economy

My AntiWar

• Singling Out Iran

  Summary: The West and Russia need to rethink more than the Obama administration thus far is doing. They should offer all the civilian nuclear cooperation Iran can swallow in return for open books and regular intrusive inspections of all facilities old and new. And they should offer to end all polit ...

• Iran offers nuclear concessions on eve of crucial ...

  Summary: Diplomats the United Nations and in Western capitals were cautiously hopeful last night that a new agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran on the oversight of its nuclear facilities may signal the start of a thaw in the long-running confrontation over its e ...

• IAEA Legal Expert Stifles Neocrazies

  Summary: On the eve of the September report by Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei ? Nobel Peace Prize Laureate as well as Bonkers Bolton?s principal nemesis ? to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it?s worth reprising his June, 2009 report on Iran. source: Anti War. ...

• Georgia Seizes Cargo Ships, Presses Naval Blockade ...
• Sunnis, Shi’ites Trade Blame Over Baghdad Bo ...

• Rogue Government.com

• As vets await checks, VA workers get $24M bonuses ...

  Outside the Veterans Affairs Department, severely wounded veterans have faced financial hardship waiting for their first disability payment. Inside, money has been flowing in the form of $24 million in bonuses.

• Obama to hike 10-year deficit to $9 trillion

  The Obama administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit projection to roughly $9 trillion from $7.108 trillion in a report next week, a senior administration official told Reuters on Friday.

• Jon Voight: Is Obama creating a civil war in Amer ...

• First Lady Requires More Than 20 Attendants

• Bernanke Declares That U.S. Economy Is On Verge O ...

  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke declared Friday that the U.S. economy is on the verge of a long-awaited recovery after enduring a brutal recession and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression .

Innovation Canada

• Testing ground

  Think of it as a case of lab life trying to imitate real life. From behind a two-way mirror, researchers observe and record medical staff trying to use intravenous drug pumps and other devices while being continuously interrupted by a Code Blue or other emergencies that could cause them to make mist ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

Signs of the times

• GOP senators warn Holder against CIA abuse inquiry

  Reporting from Washington - Leading GOP lawmakers cautioned U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. on Wednesday against opening an investigation into alleged CIA interrogation abuses, saying that such an inquiry could have serious national security repercussions. "It is well past time for the Obama adm ...

• Texas bank hit by California dreaming

  Although the failure of Austin-based Guaranty Bank looms, its problems reflect the housing bubble in the Golden State rather than issues at home. Bank regulators have a Texas-sized problem on their hands -- though it's easy to see much of the trouble resides farther west. Guaranty Bank, an Austin- ...

• Fake Terrorism: Terror Plot Emerges as Secret Ser ...

  It was announced as a terror plot busted. German police had captured three young Muslim men in the small village Medebach-Oberschledor, some 450 km southwest of Berlin Sep. 4 in 2007. The police declared they had seized 730 kilograms of hydrogen peroxide, enough to make 550 kg of explosives. The th ...

• Missing Military Hardware: UK 'can't find' $13bn i ...

  Auditors have been unable to find 6.6 billion pounds ($13 billion) worth of British military equipment including vehicles, weapons and radios used by troops, a report said Thursday. The government has ordered a shakeup at the Ministry of Defence after the auditors found holes in its record keeping, ...

• No-warrant terrorism raids proposed in Australia

  The Federal Government has unveiled plans to toughen its counter-terrorism laws, including a change to allow police to break into a suspect's home without getting approval from a judge. It also wants to make it easier to stop suspects getting out of jail on bail. But the Government is planning to ...

Threat Level

• Malware Turns Software Compilers into Virus Breede ...

  Security experts seem more intrigued than alarmed over a newly-discovered virus that inserts itself into a Delphi compiler, and replicates itself in every program compiled. Sophos says its seen 3,000 instances of the Induc virus in the wild, where it’s popped up in some production software. “Thi ...

• Guantanamo Defense Lawyers Being Investigated Over ...

  Three defense attorneys representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay are being investigated for possibly breaking the law after they showed photos of suspected CIA personnel to their clients at the prison. The lawyers, members of the military’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, showed the detainees ...

• Feds Urge Dismissal of High-Profile Spy Case

  The Obama administration is urging a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit weighing whether a sitting U.S. president may lawfully create a spying program to eavesdrop on Americans’ electronic communications without warrants or congressional authorization. The nearly 5-year-old case, having a tortured ...

• In Gonzalez Hacking Case, a High-Stakes Fight Over ...

  When Turkish police arrested Maksym “Maksik” Yastremskiy — a Ukrainian wholesaler of stolen identity data — in July 2007, they didn’t just collar one of the most-wanted cybercriminals in the world. They also got a trove of evidence about Yastremskiy’s buyers and suppliers, all locke ...

• TJX Suspect Was Near Plea Agreement Until New Char ...

  Accused TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez, who is set to go to trial next month in New York, was close to reaching a comprehensive settlement with federal prosecutors when new charges were levied against him this week in New Jersey, according to his lawyer. Rene Palomino, Jr., told the New York Times that ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• GOP: Health Care Needs More Senate Votes Than Soci ...

  Once upon a time - a time before the 2006 midterm elections consigned the GOP to minority status in Congress, a bill generally required 51 votes in the Senate to become law. But not content to rest on their record...

• In New Book, Tom Ridge Decries His Politicized Ter ...

  In his new book, former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge confirms what most long suspected: the Bush administration manipulated the terror threat level for the President's political advantage. But while his long overdue admission is welcome, his suggestion that he...

• The 5 Symptoms of Incurable Republican Schizophren ...

  The Mayo Clinic, the world famous institution cited by all sides in the contentious health care debate, defines schizophrenia as a serious brain disorder "in which reality is interpreted abnormally" resulting in "hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking and behavior." Apparently,...

• 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...

Blackspot News Feed

• Terror from the Right: 75 Plots, Conspiracies and ...

  Including plots to bomb government buildings, banks, refineries, clinics, synagogues, mosques, memorials and bridges; to assassinate police officers, judges, politicians and more.

• Why Breast Implants Are Shrinking Along with the E ...

  Many women who invested in big busts are in deflationary mode.

• The Health Insurance Racket Is Manufacturing Enter ...

  "There ain't any health care debate going on, Bubba. What is going on are mob negotiations about insurance, and which mob gets the biggest chunk of the dough."

• Michael Moore on His Latest: 'I Made This Movie As ...

  Moore is back with his new movie, 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' wearing his trademark baseball cap to go after corporate America.

• Station Ident: Low Power

  There is much to do and to see in the next several days, so broadcasts will be few and far between. I probably won’t be on Twitter that much either. I have an animation project, a screenplay, a treatment and a few books to puzzle out. Have a good weekend. ( Cristina : this photo just cracks me u ...

Consortium News

• Blackwater's Unwritten Death Contract

  President Bush's CIA farmed out assassination work to Blackwater mercs without regard to legal constraints, says Ray McGovern. August 20, 2009

• Tom DeLay Stomps Woodstock Nation

  Peaceful dreams of Woodstock lost out to the likes of GOP leader (and dance contestant) Tom DeLay, writes Michael Winship. August 20, 2009

• The Republican Ayatollahs

  Nine GOP senators protest an investigation of CIA torture with arguments like those of Iran's ayatollahs, says David Swanson. August 20, 2009

• Robert Novak Was a Liar

  Washington pundits are eulogizing right-wing columnist Robert Novak, but are leaving out that he was a liar, says Robert Parry. August 19, 2009

• Why the Right's Propaganda Works

  The Right's success in selling lies about President Obama's health reform derives from its media clout, writes Robert Parry. August 19, 2009

CounterPunch

• Patrick Cockburn : The Truth About Afghan Election
• Ray McGovern : Unwritten CIA Death Contract Awarde ...
• Alexander Cockburn : The Right Wing's Prince of Go ...
• Carl Ginsburg : Paycheck President
• Dave Lindorff : American Justice is Not Blind, But ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Settlers attack Palestinians and journalists ()
• Israel still strangles the Palestinian economy (S ...

  Palestinians are as eager as anyone to see positive economic development for their tormented country. But they know full well that real economic progress awaits their release from Israeli military occupation ...

• Women's delegation on East J'lem evictions: Words ...

  On Friday, outside the homes of evicted East Jerusalem Palestinian, the former EU parliament Vice President Luisa Morgantini stated that the international community must "suspend all military aid to Israel a ...

• Republicans attack Obama on Palestine policy (Hel ...

  Former Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has been in Israel and the occupied West Bank this week, stridently criticising Pres. Barack Obama's policies of pushing for an Israeli settlement freeze ...

• Shell-shocked Gaza children flock to martial arts ...

  Salih Al Masri, a skinny nine-year-old in a red martial arts uniform, grits his teeth as he stands barefoot on shards of broken glass and recalls his family's plight during the war in Gaza. "This sport makes ...

Planetsave

• Minnesota Moose on the Run from Climate Change

  An expert advisory committee this week released recommendations on restoring Minnesota’s dwindling moose population, whose decline one expert said is related to gradual warming of the state’s climate. “The moose, of course, is not an animal that deals very well with heat,’’ pane ...

• Greenpeace Exposes Oil Industry’s Really Dirty F ...

  We can’t expect much from the oil industry, but Greenpeace’s newest finding is as ugly as it gets. Read more of this story »

• Freshwater Dreams and Schemes

  The North American Great Lakes contain 6 quadrillion gallons of freshwater, about one-fifth of the world’s available freshwater supply. For more than 25 years, residents of the Great Lakes region have feared large-scale public works projects to take freshwater from the Lakes to thirsty, faster- ...

• Coal Strip Mine Would Destroy Salmon Streams in Co ...

  PacRim Coal’s plan to strip mine coal right through 11 miles of salmon-bearing streams in Alaska would destroy critical wetlands and headwater streams beyond the point of restoration, according to three new studies by scientists. The salmon fisheries along the Chuit River would be severely damaged ...

• Tourist Mosquitoes Threaten the Galapagos

  If you could declare a home town of evolution it would be the Galapagos Islands. Back in 1835 a sea sick young naturalist, Charles Darwin, landed on the Galapagos to conduct a little research. That research was the genesis of Darwin’s seminal work “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Images of Proposal for Studio City Golf and Tennis ...

  Studio City River Park Proposal In October 2009, L.A. Creek Freak reported details about a proposed

• A Water Quality Report

  The 2009 Drinking Water Quality Report from the Portland Water Bureau arrived in the mail today. I r

• What's the difference between PondClear and MuckAw ...

  Pond clarity results with MuckAway and PondClear Pond & Lake Q & A Q: What’s the diffe

• Fixing the Delta : How Will We Pay for It?

  Public Policy Institute of California / by Dean Misczynski http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R

• Nutrient Control Actions for Improving Water Quali ...

  National Research Council http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12544&utm_source=feeds&ut

Public Citizen in Texas

• Citizens Groups Win Right to a Hearing for Comanch ...

  Citizen opposition to more nuclear reactors at Comanche Peak continues. On August 6th the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) Panel found that Luminant had failed to adequately analyze issues brought by concerned citizens in their Petition to Intervene in the proposed expansion at Comanche Peak ...

• Pushback to Energy Citizens Rally in NC, State Rep ...

  Kudos to the North Carolina Conservation Network for rallying the troops for a real grassroots protest outside of today’s Energy Citizen company picnic in Greensboro. Fifty protesters turned out to show their support for clean energy and green jobs development, NCCN reports: Local folks gathered o ...

• 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 ...

• Energy Citizens (Corporate Employees) Say the Darn ...

  Even though we were denied access, our intrepid Citizen Sarah was able to blend in with a crowd walking in and starting talking to energy company employees about climate change legislation. You know, Energy Company Employees Can Say the Darndest Things: Look for: Global Warming Deniers! People W ...

• Real Anti-Cap and Trade Grassroots blocked from En ...

  The Energy Citizens’ rallies company picnics, such as the one we crashed yesterday in Houston, have been getting a lot of attention through the Netroots, in national publications, and even last night on Rachel Maddow (where one of our videos was featured, even if credit was not given — no worrie ...

Press TV

• Libyan leader embraces Lockerbie bomber on TV

  Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has met with Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi as the terminally ill 57-year-old vows to clear his name.

• WHO: Swine flu drug not for healthy patients

  WHO officials stress that healthy patients infected with the new H1N1 virus should not be treated with antivirals, unless they are suffering from complications.

• Rahim-Masha'i rejects suspension sentence

  The Iranian president's controversial aide, Esfandyar Rahim-Masha'i has disputed a court ruling, which found him guilty of financial misconduct.

• Cataclysm hits World of Warcraft

  Blizzard Entertainment has announced the next expansion for World of Warcraft, the world's largest internationally played massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).

• Moderate fitness linked to longevity

  Regardless of one's weight and health condition, even individuals with the lowest levels of physical fitness live longer than those who are out-of-shape, a new study finds.

Axis of Logic

• Capitalist Attacks on Tradition and Culture.

• The US War against Iraq: The Destruction of a Civi ...

• Pakistan: Interviewing Relief Workers Inside the I ...

• U.S.: Troy Davis must "prove his innocence" after ...

• Money is God, Greed is King and Corruption Runs th ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Everyone needs to contact the NPR ombudsman...agai ...

  The outcry needs to be long loud and sustained. Juan Williams did it again. On this morning's Weekend Edition Saturday he repeatedly referred to the use of the budget reconciliation process to pass healthcare legislation as using "the nuclear option." This is a blatant lie and everyone needs to ...

• Cross-tab Revelations

  One of the many ways that the repug-worshipping Village misrepresents the popularity of liberal policies in this country is by generalizing poll results. Any "disapproval" of President Obama is assumed to be of his supposed leftists tendencies and coming from the right and center. But now somebody ...

• What Is The Real Reason For Firearms At Town Halls ...

  Recently there have been several instances of people showing up to presidential town halls with loaded weapons. They claim to be defending a beseiged right of gun ownership. How well does that explanation stand up? For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears . No Associated Press ...

• Nightowl Newswrap

  Single people still get no respect Lutheran church lifts its ban on gays in the clergy, but only for gays in same-sex unions. California: still leading the way. 11.9 percent, 2.2 million unemployed makes recession in the Golden State significantly worse than the nation. How about we just give polic ...

• An apt and timely comparison

  Yesterday President Obama held a town hall style meeting at the DNC headquarters that the entire country was invited to. Those of us who couldn't attend in person were able to call in or stream it live to our computers. It was really an interesting meeting and I think I might have seen the beginni ...

Care 2

• All-out manhunt in British Columbia for reality sh ...

  Authorities in British Columbia are using helicopters and police dogs in their search for a reality TV show contestant accused of killing and mutilating his ex-wife, model Jasmine Fiore, and dumping her in a Buena Park trash bin Submitted by Terry West to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a ...

• Hillsborough woman charged in crash that injured s ...

  HILLSBOROUGH -- The Hillsborough woman charged with drunken driving after being involved in a three-car crash Tuesday that injured six people -- including three children -- is an elementary school teacher in Bedminster, the district's superintendent said Submitted by Terry West to Society & Culture ...

• Circus worker sacked in Animal Defenders Internati ...

  Responding to ADI accusations, the circus has admitted for the first time ever that they use negative reinforcement to control the animals. Though they have sacked one of the workers, the circus has still failed to address the issues of the elephant Submitted by Simone D. to Animals | Note-it ...

• Uk: More Cruelty at Circus Exposed, and Still the ...

  The results of an undercover investigation by ADI shows the animals being hit in the face, being kept chained and barely able to move for up to 11 hours a day, and displaying disturbed, abnormal behaviour. The circus, which has been touring the UK Submitted by Simone D. to Animals | Note-it! ...

• GOOD NEWS---Cancer survivor provides free health c ...

  Faith Coleman was uninsured when she found out she had kidney cancer Her experience inspired her to help others with similar financial, health issues Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Health & Wellness | Note-it! | Add a Comment

GreenBiz

• The Promise of Energy Ace's LEED Guarantee

  A first read of Energy Ace's LEED certification guarantee may raise eyebrows, but it limits potential damages if certification is not achieved.

• U.S. Colleges Set a Green Course

  The number of colleges and universities going green is growing at an incredible pace as many students will soon learn in returning to campus for the upcoming school year.

• Cash for (Electronic) Clunkers

  The Cash for Clunkers program has inspired a range of imitators, offering incentives for outdated, inefficient products ranging from refrigerators to servers. A company named Gazelle wonders why the same can't be done for unwanted electronic gadgets.

• IT's Critical Role in a Low-Carbon Economy

  IT is the bridge that connects virtually all our efforts to measure, manage and reduce our environmental footprint. IT also presents significant opportunities to increase energy efficiency in operations and the environmental responsibility of products manufactured by the industry. Bonnie Nixon of HP ...

• The Bottled Water Business Takes Another Licking

  In another sign that the worm has turned on the bottled water industry, Mother Jones magazine has an in-depth look at the impacts of FIJI Water on the planet and the island nation itself.

Reuters Global

• Iraqi faith in future of country blown away in sec ...

  Wednesday's explosions, in which almost 100 people died and more than 1,000 were wounded, exposed deep flaws in the ability of the Iraqi security forces to defend the population and obvious targets like government ministries against attack.

• Norwegian memo sparks PR crisis for UN’s Ban ...

  Ban Ki-moon isn't having a good year for public relations. Halfway through a five-year term as U.N. secretary-general, he's been hit with a wave of negative assessments by the Financial Times, The Economist, London Times, Foreign Policy and other media organizations.

• Read the Lockerbie bombing verdict

  A former Libyan agent jailed for life for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people flew home on Thursday after Scottish authorities released him on compassionate grounds because he is dying of cancer. Read the original verdict against Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, from FindLaw.com

• Where will Nigerian bank crisis lead?

  A list of the biggest debtors to bailed-out Nigerian banks includes a swathe of the business elite and politically connected figures, making this much more than just a banking crisis.

• India, Pakistan : re-opening the wounds of Partiti ...

  A new book by former Indian foreign minister Jaswant Singh challenges the conventional belief in India that Mohammad Ali Jinnah's insistence on a separate Muslim homeland forced the Partition of the subcontinent in 1947.

Ezra Klein

• Tab Dump

  • Time has a cover story on America's food crisis -- and how to fix it. • Michelle Goldberg reviews Christopher Caldwell's new book, "Reflections on the Revolution in Europe." • The Other Klein wonders: " How can you sustain a democracy if one of the two major political parties has been over ...

• The Best Paper You'll Read Today

  Elizabeth Docteur and Bob Berenson offer whether American health care really is the "best in the world." The two Urban Institute researchers take a comprehensive look at the evidence -- including the difficulties in gathering that evidence and the inadequacies in the current studies -- and conclude: ...

• Obama and Smerconish

  On Thursday, Barack Obama went on Michael Smerconish's radio show to defend his health-care reform effort before a more skeptical audience. Smerconish is a right-wing radio host, but he can conduct a very good interview, as this transcript shows: SMERCONISH: Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the prog ...

• What Are Readers Worth?

  Paul Farhi, a reporter who covers the media for The Washington Post, has an article in the American Journalism Review arguing that papers should basically kill off their online editions and retreat to a print-only model. Obviously, I'm not a big fan of that conclusion, given the fact that I'm a paid ...

• Chuck Grassley Gives Up The Game

  In an interview with The Washington Post, Chuck Grassley said that the town hall meetings have convinced him to revisit the breadth and scope of what the Gang of Six is considering. The calls for reform are "not quite as loud as people that say we ought to slow down or don't do anything," Grassley s ...

Booman Tribune

• Open Thread

  There is no better way to ruin Joe Klein's good time at a beach barbeque than to invite a liberal blogger. You just never know when we'll show up and bring the shithammer down in polite company.

• Proud to Rank Last

  Proud to be an American: Amenable mortality measures “deaths from certain causes before age 75 that are potentially preventable with timely and effective health care,” such as treatable cancers, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. According to the Commonwealth Fund, the United States ranked l ...

• Playing Hardball

  One way to play hardball is to ask all Democratic senators to vote for cloture on the health care bill or lose their chairs. So, Patty Murray would potentially replace Kent Conrad as the chair of the Committee on the Budget and Jay Rockefeller would trade his Commerce chair for Max Baucus' chair of ...

• Because the Government Lies

  There's another thing that Greenwald doesn't mention. When it comes to starting wars, the history is fairly consistent. The Mexican-American War was launched after President Polk invaded Mexico. Here is how he explained it to the American people. His message to Congress on May 11, 1846 stated ...

• Krugman: Obama's Trust Problem

  Paul Krugman thinks Obama has generated a trust issue with progressives because of the way his administration has handled a number of issues important to us, especially the wishy-washy, back and forth crapola from the White House on on a public option for Health Care reform. And he thinks that it's ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 22 ...

  A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1862 – Birth of...

• Friday Open Thread

  Time to relax!...

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 21 ...

  A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1936 – Birth of...

• Thursday Open Thread

  Inching towards the end of the Summer....

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 20 ...

  A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1901 – Birth of...

Futurismic

• A spoonful of friendly bacteria helps the medicine ...

  Genetically engineered bacteria have been used to deliver therapies for bowel disorders like inflammatory bowel disease: The bacterium is able to deliver the protein, a human growth factor called KGF-2, directly to the damaged cells that line the gut, unlike other treatments which can cause unwanted ...

• Why you have (or had) an appendix

  The image of the appendix has been getting a makeover. Two years ago, Duke U. researchers suggested it is not the useless evolutionary vestige that Darwin said it was. The appendix, they said, is a safe haven where good bacteria could hang out until they were needed to repopulate the gut after a nas ...

• A spoonful of friendly bacteria helps the medicine ...

  Genetically engineered bacteria have been used to deliver therapies for bowel disorders like inflammatory bowel disease: The bacterium is able to deliver the protein, a human growth factor called KGF-2, directly to the damaged cells that line the gut, unlike other treatments which can cause unwanted ...

• Why you have (or had) an appendix

  The image of the appendix has been getting a makeover. Two years ago, Duke U. researchers suggested it is not the useless evolutionary vestige that Darwin said it was. The appendix, they said, is a safe haven where good bacteria could hang out until they were needed to repopulate the gut after a nas ...

• Niche mag publishing model #271: World of Warcraft ...

  Still looking for new niche magazine publishing strategies? I sure am – and here’s one that doesn’t revolve around free web content. Indeed, someone’s starting a high quality print magazine on a subscription model. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you World Of Warcraft: The Magazine. Take it aw ...

Yahoo! Canada News

• YahooCanadaNews: MK here for Y! CA News. Canadian ...

  YahooCanadaNews: MK here for Y! CA News. Canadian woman stranded in Kenya sues federal government for $2.5 million. http://bit.ly/3w56ns

• YahooCanadaNews: One dead as possible tornado rips ...

  YahooCanadaNews: One dead as possible tornado rips across Ont.: report http://tr.im/wNu2

• YahooCanadaNews: Hunt on for Cdn reality TV contes ...

  YahooCanadaNews: Hunt on for Cdn reality TV contestant after wife's death http://tr.im/wNdg

• YahooCanadaNews: Ryan M. for Y! CA News. Stripper ...

  YahooCanadaNews: Ryan M. for Y! CA News. Stripper dances to big win over Canada Revenue http://tr.im/wNdb

• YahooCanadaNews: Now that's love: New Zealand man ...

  YahooCanadaNews: Now that's love: New Zealand man searches for wedding ring lost on sea floor for over a year. http://bit.ly/12HQsg

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...

  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there wil ...

• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...

  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...

• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...

  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...

• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...

  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...

• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA

  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s ...

Al Jazeera

• EU says Afghan vote 'fair not free'

  European election monitors face criticism for making statement ahead of results.

• N Korea for more talks with South

  North's delegation in Seoul has reportedly requested a meeting with the South's president.

• Al-Megrahi 'to prove his innocence'

  The convicted Lockerbie bomber says he will provide new evidence before he dies.

• Ramadan begins for world's Muslims

  US president releases video message to Muslims as Islamic holy month gets under way.

• Public apology for My Lai massacre

  Former US officer found guilty makes his remorse public after more than 40 years.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Unveiling a Plastic Bag Ban in Mexico City

  Standard plastic shopping bags were officially outlawed in Mexico City this week, but you wouldn't know from the check-out line at the supermarket.

• In Case You Missed It...

  A round-up of energy and environment stories from around the world, and around the Web.

• A Face-Off Over Arctic (Sea) Ice

  A confrontational BBC interview about the trajectory of climate change with the head of Greenpeace Greenpeace is stirring a strong reaction in Britain.

• Author's Climate Remark Ruffles Feathers

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a former financial trader and now bestselling author has ruffled feathers with remarks appearing to cast doubt on the origins of global warming.

• Will Philadelphia Become Orlando by 2050?

  A Princeton study looks at how how various American cities will feel increasingly equatorial due to global warming.

Dot Earth News

• A New View of Humanity's Planet

  An artist with a penchant for detail and vast scale explores the human imprint on Earth.

• Coming of Age as a Person and Species

  Does a film on sex and insecurity offers lessons on humanity's global growth spurt?

• Energy Frontiers: Space Solar, Hot Lots

  A closer look at potentially transformational energy ideas.

• Data Gap on Atlantic Storms and Warming

  More questions raised about recent hurricane trends.

• A Billion Teenagers, for Better or Worse

  Some of the world's poorest and most turbulent regions are witnessing explosive population growth, meaning enormous numbers of teenagers and children.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• The DSM-IV Bipolar Pharma-Industrial complex: I ju ...

  Pros: Gave me energy Cons: then gave me akathisia and blurry vision The new energy quickly morphed into marked akathisia. I couldn't not move for more then 5 minutes at a time, extreme restlessness, and extreme anxiety. The akathisia if largely gone after 3 days after discontinuation b ...

• Introducing Feidt Design LLC - yr handy electronic ...

  You better believe it! I filed for Feidt Design LLC with the Secretary of State a week ago, and got the certificate on Friday! Here's the intro message. (And there was much rejoicing!!) It's a lot of fun to set up a new biz :-) Thanks for visiting Feidt Design! Hey all, Thanks for stopping by the ...

• 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 ...

Daily Censored

• Fox News Ignores Tom Ridge Story

  Read the full story at News Hounds Eric Boehlert, of Media Matters, did the research to find out that “fair and balanced” Fox News has almost completely ignored the news that Tom Ridge says he was pressured by the Bush administration to raise the terrorism threat level near the end of the 2004 p ...

• Fox News Ignores Tom Ridge Story

  Read the full story at News Hounds Eric Boehlert, of Media Matters, did the research to find out that “fair and balanced” Fox News has almost completely ignored the news that Tom Ridge says he was pressured by the Bush administration to raise the terrorism threat level near the end of the 2004 p ...

• Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Preceded Current Violenc ...

  Written by Atheo News and sources July 31, 2009 Open conflict has erupted across northern Nigeria resulting in hundreds killed, including non-combatants. The conflict’s narrative as given by Al Jazeera begins with attacks on police officials by an Islamic group called Boko Haram: The Nigerian gove ...

• While advocating bipartisanship, Baucus admits GOP ...

  In a recent interview with the editorial board of a local Montana paper, Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus (D-MT) continued his advocacy for a “bipartisan” approach to health care, arguing that “it’s better for the country.” Yet, he also admitted that the GOP leadership is putting ...

• Hoyer: ‘I’m for a public option, but I’m als ...

  Yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said at a news conference that “there’s no way I can pass a bill in the House of Representatives without a public option.” But Pelosi’s refusal to back down on the issue was undermined a bit today by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), wh ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Former US soldier apologises for Vietnam massacre
• Former US soldier apologises for My Lai massacre
• Obama to visit Beijing in November: US ambassador
• New economic data set to test Wall Street bull run
• Afghan vote 'generally fair, not free everywhere'

Institute for Policy Studies

• After the Sunshine Generation

  The death of Kim Dae Jung, the suicide of Roh Moo Hyun, and the illness of Kim Jong Il all point to the end of a generation committed to North-South engagement.

• Their Martyrs and Our Heroes

  Powerful, developed countries have suicide bombers too.

• Taxing Wealth for the Common Good

  Business leaders and wealthy individuals call for a repeal of the Bush-era taxes on high incomes.

• The Destruction of the Black Middle Class

  Left out of the commentary on race and class over the Gates affair has been talk of the increasing impoverishment — or, we should say, re-impoverishment — of African Americans as a group.

• Asia's Axis of Evil?

  Burma and North Korea are the pariahs of Asia. Are these birds of a feather flocking together?

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Senator seeks data on health insurer profits

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate Democrat asked the top 15 health insurers to explain what portion of premiums go to profits versus patient care, putting further pressure on the companies to explain their business practices as Congress considers sweeping health reform legislation.

• Yahoo wins U.S. court ruling over webcasting fees

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court in New York ruled that a Yahoo Inc Internet radio service is not required to pay fees to copyright holders of songs it plays, a defeat for Sony Corp's BMG Music.

• Apple says Google Voice app alters iPhone

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - IPhone maker Apple Inc told U.S. regulators it has not approved Google Inc's Voice application, which could challenge the wireless industry's giants, because it interferes with the iPhone "user experience."

• Judge rules against "Octo-Mom" on child finances

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A judge on Friday ruled that an advocacy group for child actors can seek to have a guardian appointed to oversee the financial interests for the octuplets of Nadya Suleman, dubbed "Octo-Mom," in connection with a television show about the family.

• Woman sues zoo over splashing dolphins

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - A woman is suing a Chicago-area zoo for a 2008 fall near a dolphin exhibit, accusing zookeepers of encouraging the mammals to splash water and then failing to protect spectators from wet surfaces, local media reported on Thursday.

Pine River World News

• Is The Balabac Incident Clearing Operation For RP- ...

  IntelTrends - The following article is from Luwaran.net, official website of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Philippines. Is The Balabac Incident Clearing Operation For RP-US Base? © Luwaran August 22, 2009 Speculation is rife in Mindanao that the incident in Balabac island municipal ...

• Afghanistan election: Both Karzai and Abdullah cla ...

  Pine River World News August 21, 2009 IRIB News Agency, Tehran, is reporting that incumbent president Hamid Karzai and opposition candidate Abdullah Abdullah are both claiming victory is yesterday's Afghanistan election. Official results have yet to be released. Voter turnout was estimated as low ...

• Ramadan Starts Friday, Saturday

  Pine River World News wishes its many readers in the Middle East, Central and South Asia, the Caucasus, North Africa and elsewhere a blessed Ramadan. __________ The following article is from Islam Online. Ramadan begins either Friday or Saturday depending on your location. Ramadan Starts Friday, S ...

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...

  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Government is Planning Mass Graves in Case of H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic © Global Research By Michel Chossudovsky August 19, 2009 An official UK government report - quoted ext ...

• Paul Craig Roberts: Americans: Serfs Ruled by Olig ...

  The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. Americans: Serfs Ruled by Oligarchs © Paul Craig Roberts August 19, 2009 Americans think that they have "freedom and democracy" and that politicians are held accountable by elections. The fact of the matter is that the U. ...

• Res'Eau-WaterNet

• Knowledge Transfer Workshop: Preliminary program p ...

  Join us for our inaugural two-day network event as we gather Canadian experts to discuss the scientific and technological challenges of delivering safe drinking water in small, rural and First Nations communities.

• Too Many Canadians Without Safe Water: $5.2M to He ...

  For six million Canadians, quenching their thirst isn’t a matter of simply turning on the kitchen faucet.

• Dr. David Wilkinson appointed Director of the Clea ...

  RES'EAU-WaterNET researcher Dr. David Wilkinson was recently appointed Director of the Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC), beginning July 1, 2009.

• Walkerton Clean Water Centre Receives Ontario Mini ...

  The Walkerton Clean Water Centre (WCWC) – a RES’EAU-WaterNET partner – received the 2008 Emerald Award for innovation from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment at an awards ceremony held on March 3, 2009.

• Filling the glass

  Innovation Canada : Showcasing Research Excellence in Canada

PDA AMERICA

• Obama: Don’t Stop at Gitmo

  By Jayne Lyn Stahl In 1942, somewhere around 110,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans were either coered to relocate, or underwent internment in the United States. As you know, it was by executive order issued by ...

• Barney Frank Confronts Woman At Townhall Comparing ...

  At a Barney Frank town hall meeting in Dartmouth, MA, a constituent asks, “Why are you supporting this Nazi policy?” Frank responds: “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” He then calls her ...

• End the War in Afghanistan and Pakistan! Change do ...

  President Barack Obama was elected on a platform of CHANGE and with hopes for diplomacy, not war! As the war in Iraq winds down, more troops have been sent to Afghanistan. Some in the Pentagon ...

• Western & Southern U.S. Region Conference Call - A ...

  On this months call we discussed national news, IOT reports and state reports.

• IOT: Health Care Call 8-18-2009

  Our Healthcare NOT Warfare Co-Chair, Donna Smith, gave us an update on Single Payer from the Hill and also answered member's questions.

Marler Blog

• The Denis and Bill Show off to Washington DC

  Denis Stearns and I will be speaking next week at the FSIS District Managers' Conference on "FSIS' Actions in the Judicial Branch" - here is the PowerPoint:

• Obama Administration fails Salmonella test - At le ...

  California, Colorado and Wyoming health officials said this afternoon that at least 27 people have reported illnesses tied to recalled ground beef tainted with antibiotic resistant Salmonella Newport . On Thursday, Fresno-based Beef Packers Inc. (Cargill) recalled 825,769 pounds of ground beef prod ...

• So, what's up with Wisconsin Pic n' Saves and E. c ...

  As of July 1, 2009, the CDC reported twenty-three persons infected with a strain of E. coli O157:H7 with a particular "DNA fingerprint" have been reported from 9 states – Wisconsin included. Of these, 17 (likely more now) have been confirmed by an advanced DNA test (MLVA) as having the outbreak s ...

• Food Safety - Now on to the Senate - S 510

  I am in the process of reading S 510 - FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. Click below to download and read. This was introduced in March 2009 by Senator Durbin. The bill is presently in the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

• So, why is E. coli O157:H7 considered an adulteran ...

  Personally, as I said to the Los Angeles Times a few days ago, “I think that anything that can poison or kill a person should be listed as an adulterant” [in food]. According to the CDC, E. coli O157:H7 is the source of an estimated 73,000 illnesses, 2,000 hospitalizations, and 60 deaths in the ...

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• AutoblogGreen for 08.21.09

  Greenlings: Why choose a fuel cell or an internal combustion engine when using hydrogen? You've got questions, we've got answers. Pics Aplenty: Tesla unloads new set of Model S driving shots ...

• Bill Ford, AdAge chide GM over 230 MPG Chevrolet V ...

  Filed under: Etc. , Marketing/Advertising , Chevrolet , Ford , GM The Chevrolet Volt's 230 mpg number continues to be questioned. The latest to criticize is Bill Ford, who takes issue not only with the General Motors-approved 230 figure, but also Nissan's claim that its Leaf EV will get 367 mpg . ...

• AutoblogGreen for 08.20.09

  Chevy Volt's 230 mpg rating, ad campaign comes under fire from Bill Ford, AdAge Ford says the number is "meaningless" to consumers. REPORT: Eberhard drops lawsuit against Tesla No official co ...

• Toyota's "Harmony Floralscapes" bloom along LA, SF ...

  Filed under: Hybrid , Etc. , Marketing/Advertising , Toyota Toyota's "Harmony Floralscape" - Click above for high-res image gallery Toyota's TV ads for the 2010 Prius feature a world of flowers blooming whenever the iconic hybrid drives by. This visual message is now available in the physical wo ...

• AutoblogGreen for 08.19.09

  Bill Nye the Science Guy luvs electric cars And he's not shy about it. EV club members get first rides in Coda Automotive electric sedan Could the vanilla style actually work in the EV's favo ...

Rafe's Radar

• Mashups pit search engines against each other

  Can't decide which search engine to use? Use several. At once. After I covered Google's "Caffeine" beta search engine I got a link, in the story's comments, to a clever hack that puts old Google and new Google results side by side, so you can use both: ...

• Pixorial collects your video, sells it back to you

  The family video site Pixorial opens up to the public Wednesday. It solves two problems most people will probably relate to. First, it's a nice little video editor for piecing together clips from digital cameras and the like. Second, if you send Pixorial your old analog media (VHS tapes, ...

• Gnip, Betaworks create short URL seed bank

  In light of the near-shutdown of Tr.im --and the actual closing of URL shortening services like URLTea, Shurl.net, and Qurl.net--users of the URL shorteners still standing may wonder what's going to happen to their favorite services if they, too, go belly-up. On Friday, Gnip is announcing ...

• Get it while it's cheap: Pinboard's revenue model

  Pinboard is Maciej Ceglowski's Delicious competitor. Sort of. It's a one-man show, a feature-light but fast site for saving bookmarks and seeing what other people are saving, too, if you wish. It's easy to use, thanks to a collection of functional bookmarklets that do various things (I ...

• Starbucks: Stay as long as you want

  Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that some New York coffee shops were pulling the plug on customers that park themselves at tables, open their laptops, and hang out for hours, buying perhaps only a single latte as their cafe rental fee. While independent coffee shops that are strugg ...

Camera Obscura

• Grainy days and Mondays: Superstar and bootleg aes ...

  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18550637_ITM September 1, 2004... The year is 1970, and suddenly the nation finds itself asking the question, "What if, instead of the riots and assassinations, the protests and the drugs, instead of the angry words and hard-rock sounds, we were ...

• Of housewives and saints: abjection, transgression ...

  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18550638_ITM September 1, 2004... In the opening sequence of Velvet Goldmine (dir. Todd Haynes, UK/US, 1998), future glam-rock trendsetter Jack Fairy stands in front of a mirror and, having been brutalized earlier by a pack of schoolyard bullies ...

• Dangerous spaces: Safe.

  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18550639_ITM September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, with Susan Sontag, t ...

• Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...

  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18550640_ITM September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of progress and revolution, a heighten ...

• Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...

  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18550641_ITM September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous, or at least more legi ...

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Baker Roofing seeks green with renewable energy subsidiary

Bizjournals.com

- Aug 21, 2009

- 19 hours ago

Baker Renewable Energy focuses on sustainable-building systems such as rooftop gardens and solar panels. The new business unit represents a new direction ...

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China Crashing Forward into Renewable Future

EcoGeek

- Aug 21, 2009

- 19 hours ago

The first of those signs is China's commitment to be 20% powered by renewable sources by 2020. The Three Gorges Dam, of course, helps them reach this goal. ...

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The Renewable Landscape: A Look at Clean Energy in Asia

Reuters

- Aug 19, 2009

- Aug 19, 2009

Recently, South Korea boldly asserted its competitiveness in the clean energy race by announcing its five-year plant to invest 2% of its GDP in renewable ...

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8 airlines to use renewable synthetic diesel for ground equipment

Los Angeles Times

- Aug 18, 2009

- Aug 18, 2009

By Tiffany Hsu Eight major airlines have agreed to use renewable synthetic diesel fuel for their ground service equipment at Los Angeles International ...

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Traffic noise could be ruining sex lives of frogs

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- Aug 21, 2009

- Aug 21, 2009

Parris presented her research on Thursday to the 10th International Ecology Congress in the eastern city of Brisbane. Ken Thompson, a University of ...

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Idaho company claims EnergySolutions is sneaky

Salt Lake Tribune

- Aug 21, 2009

- 8 hours ago

American Ecology Corp. filed a complaint Thursday with the Idaho elections office against Harold Skamser, a veteran lobbyist working for the week-old ...

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Ecology Coatings Hosts Conference Call to Discuss Third Quarter ...

PR Newswire (press release)

- Aug 21, 2009

- Aug 21, 2009

In addition to providing a corporate update, Ecology Coatings' management team will review financial results for the third quarter, ended June 30, 2009. ...

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Chuckanut Bay Days celebrates area's ecology

TheNewsTribune.com

- Aug 21, 2009

- 11 hours ago

BELLINGHAM - Explore the natural history and ecology of Chuckanut Bay, Chuckanut Marsh and Chuckanut Creek in August and September during Chuckanut Bay Days ..

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Water leak prompts evacuation of Prudential Center

Boston Globe

- Aug 21, 2009

- 22 hours ago

Water gushed into the Prudential Center today from a leaky pipe and forced 2000 people to evacuate the 52-story skyscraper, sending waves of office workers ...

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Boil-water order issued for Gloucester

Boston Globe

- Aug 21, 2009

- 16 hours ago

By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff Gloucester residents are being asked to boil their tap water for at least a minute before drinking it and to discard any ice ...

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California moves toward stringent chromium 6 standard for drinking ...

Los Angeles Times

- Aug 21, 2009

- Aug 21, 2009

Proposed goal of 0.06 part per billion could force costly treatment on providers that get water from the heavy-metal-contaminated San Fernando Valley ...

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Climate Change Requires Better Water Management, say experts

Voice of America

- Aug 21, 2009

- 20 hours ago

By Joe DeCapua In Stockholm, Sweden, the annual World Water Week conference ended Friday with a strong call for protection of water resources. ...

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