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

• Karzai, Warlords, & Massive Vote Fraud

  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 the opposite effect.Two U.S.-fin ...

• Collapse of Bush's "Ownership Society"

  The Obama administration, in a major shift on housing policy, is abandoning George W. Bush's vision of creating an "ownership society'' and instead plans to pump $4.25 billion of economic stimulus money into creating tens of thousands of federally subsidized rental units in American cities.The idea ...

• US home improvement stalls, consumers await bottom

  The country's two largest home improvement stores had lower profits in the Q209 than they did in Q208, and said they are reevaluating strategies to face shaky consumer confidence.Mooresville, NC-based Lowe's (LOW: 20.22 0.00%) earned $759m ($0.51 per share) in the quarter, down 19.1% from Q208. CEO ...

• Citi in Limbo

  Citigroup lingers in a limbo, caught in the cross currents of continuously re-balancing forces. The force of survival, with it's impetus of taxpayer bail-outs, insider connections and drug money laundering by the trillions, threatened at every moment to be buried under by an avalanche of imploding a ...

• 42% California mortgages with negative equity

  $1 trillion in California mortgages are underwater and swimming in the Pacific Ocean. $3 trillion in U.S. mortgages are in a negative equity position. What this means is borrowers owe more than their home is worth. A few research papers have shown that the number one factor in determining potenti ...

Independent ( London )

• Over 100 reported dead in Yemen after ceasefire ca ...

  Government forces reported more than 100 rebels killed on today as battles intensified in north Yemen two days after the government urged a ceasefire, although a spokesman for the Muslim Shi'ite rebellion disputed the claim.

• Merkel says no timeline on Afghanistan

  Chancellor Angela Merkel said today that German troops would stay in Afghanistan until their goals were achieved, dismissing the possibility of setting a timeline for withdrawal.

• New Pakistan Taliban leader named

  The commander named by members of the Pakistani Taliban as its new leader is said to be as ruthless as his predecessor, taking credit for several attacks, and could order more in the coming weeks to prove the terror network is still in business.

• Kim buried as rival Koreas meet

  The funeral today of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, whose efforts to reconcile the divided peninsula won him the Nobel Peace Prize, was marked by the rival Koreas' first top level talks in nearly two years.

• Fires reach Athens suburbs, thousands evacuated

  Fire tore through suburbs north of Athens early Sunday, destroying homes and forcing thousands to flee in nighttime evacuations, fire service and local officials said.

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

• Does Belief in a "Higher Power" Make People Happie ...

  Researchers accidentally discovered that people with religious beliefs tend to be more content in life while studying an unrelated topic. While not the original objective, the recent European study found that religious people are better able to cope with shocks...

• The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (8/21)

  New SciFi movie Avatar Images Show Airships, Sigourney Weaver, And Weird Head Accidents Futuristic airships streak across an alien sky, in a newly released image from James Cameron's Avatar. The studio also released five others, ahead of today's teaser trailer...

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  "Creating Artificial Personalities" (An Evolutionary Step Toward Replacing the Human Species?) "The Great Silence": Why Haven't Signs of Intelligent Extraterrestial Life Been Discovered? Is a Dark-Energy Fueled Spaceship Possible? Storms of Saturn's Moon Titan - A Model of the Early...

• "Creating Artificial Personalities" (An Evolutiona ...

  We can now engineer entirely artificial personalities, and we don't mean your-kid-for-cash strategies like Hannah Montana. Scientists have now evolved artificial personalities based on simulated genetic algorithms. Meaning they're only one good synthetic-skin invention from getting rid of our specie ...

• Did Early Organic Life Trigger a Massive Global Ic ...

  In what promises to be a hotly debated theory, an international team has propsed that a greenhouse gas once save the world. When Earth was just cooling down from its fiery creation, the "young sun was approximately 30 percent weaker...

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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• The SPP is dead; long live the PPA

  Last week spp.gov , the official US home of the SPP, read: "The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) is no longer an active initiative and as such this website will act as an archive for SPP documents. There will not be any updates to this site." This week it seems they did thi ...

• 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 ...

Media Matters for America

• Fox News continues to falsely claim Dems consider ...

  Fox News anchor Jamie Colby falsely characterized Senate Democrats passing health care reform legislation with a simple majority through a process known as reconciliation as "potentially changing the rules with the nuclear option." In fact, Democrats are not considering "changing the rules" -- ...

• 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 ...

Global Research.ca

• Children Who Get the Flu Vaccine Have Three Times ...

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• The Obstacles to Real Health Care Reform: Private ...

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• Both Karzai and Abdullah claim victory

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• America’s Death Squads Inc.

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• Rima Laibow, Francis Boyle, Edward Herman, Robert ...

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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

• Obama May Abandon Effort to Reach Health Deal With ...

  During a Washington, DC town hall meeting on health care, President Obama stops to ponder a question. (Photo: Getty Images) read more

• Afghan Challenger Says Election "Widely Rigged"

  Kabul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's main challenger said on Sunday he had evidence last week's election had been widely rigged by the incumbent and that he had lodged more than 100 complaints. With counting underway following Thursday's vote, the country is on tenterhooks ahead of an off ...

• Homelessness Grows in Shadow of White House

  "Part of the change in attitudes that I want to see here in Washington and all across the country is a belief that it is not acceptable for children and families to be without a roof over their heads in a country as wealthy as ours." - President Barack Obama, March 24. Washington - At 6 a.m. ...

• US "Names Secret Terror Suspects"

  The US military has begun notifying the Red Cross of the identities of terror suspects being held at secret camps in Iraq and Afghanistan, US reports say. The International Committee of the Red Cross would not comment on the report, which the New York Times carried quoting unnamed US officia ...

• Six Civilians Killed in Somali Capital

  Mogadishu - At least six civilians were killed and 17 wounded in the Somali capital when rebels and government forces backed by African peacekeepers exchanged fire, officials and witnesses said Sunday. The clashes broke out on Saturday night in southern Mogadishu's Hodan and Holwadag neighbo ...

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

• Bi-Polar America – Who is Worthy of a Healthy Li ...

  The rationing of health care is already a fact of life. The new reform will remove some of that rationing and make health care a right instead of a privilege. Bi-Polar America - I am worthy, You are not. Jesus was a socialist.

• 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 ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Guns and Warm Blankets by Malcolm Steinberg

  by Malcolm Steinberg Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 19, 2009 Enculturation is the process

• Exclusive: Sweatshops and Imperialism by Gary Sudb ...

  by Gary Sudborough Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Aug 22, 2009 Charles Kernaghan, an anti-sweats

• Obama's Corporate Health Care Scam By Timothy V. G ...

  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com August 18, 2009 The he

• Exclusive: Rob Us if You Must, But Socialism Scare ...

  by Gary Sudborough Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Aug 18, 2009 In the past 30 years Americans hav

• S.S. Camp Casey Sets Sail from and around Martha's ...

  News release from Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy

Unexplained Mysteries

• Artificial life creation "within months"

  One the of the world's most controversial biologists has claimed that his team is only a matter of months away from creating the world's f...

• Harry Potter newspaper becomes reality

  Animated newspapers such as those seen in the Harry Potter books are coming closer to reality next month as America's Entertainment Weekly is set ...

• Mega black hole twice as big as thought

  It sits at the centre of the M87 galaxy and weighs the same as 6.4 billion suns, this supermassive black hole situated over 55 million light years...

• 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...

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 22-23, 2009

  Demand for Tariffs in Global Warming Legislation Splits Allies (Los Angeles Times) A group of Midwestern Democrats is pushing for tariffs on products from countries that don't limit CO2 emissions, a controversial step that the legislators say is needed to help U.S. manufacturers survive emission ...

• 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 ...

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

• Quittin' time in Afghanistan

  An election held under the guns of a foreign occupation army cannot be called legitimate or democratic. This week's stage-managed vote in Afghanistan for candidates chosen by western powers is unlikely to bring either peace or tranquility to this wretched nation that has suffered 30 years of war. Th ...

• Tom Daschle: The Man Behind Insurance Cooperatives

  The former Democratic leader, Tom Daschle, has been very busy performing his dual roles as healthcare adviser to the White House and "highly paid policy adviser to hospital, drug, pharmaceutical and other health care industry clients of Alston & Bird, the law and lobbying firm," according to the New ...

• Liberals Have Guns Too, Ya Know...

  So, the latest way the wing-nut right has found to get everyone's attention is to show up heavy at healthcare town hall meetings. I don't know what loaded guns have to do with healthcare reform, but there they are, AR15's hanging on the shoulders of men in baseball caps, 9mm semi-automatic pistolas ...

• At Last, Liberals Get Angry

  The 1976 movie classic Network is best known for the scene where deranged newsman Howard Beale (Peter Finch) persuades his viewers to join his rant, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" 33 years later, faced with the news that the Obama Administration was considering droppi ...

• Black Conservatives in the Age of Obama

  While some white Christian evangelical leaders are trying to broaden their agenda to include poverty, AIDS in Africa and climate change, a group of conservative black Christian church leaders appear more like archeologists; digging into the past to uncover the wedge issues that have been used since ...

Ten Percent

• Is The Obama Administration Victimising A Nobel Pe ...

  Via FreeGaza- After Downing Street, by Ann Wright former US diplomat:- Less than a month ago, in late July, 2009, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire (http://www.peacepeople.com/) was travelling from Dublin, Ireland to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet Peace Laureate Jody Williams to participate in p ...

• Selection By Occupier

  Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (albeit funded by both US & NATO govts) has reports of systematic fraud, the EU are more upbeat, try to be surprised. The one candidate Ramazan Bashardost, with some real credentials in representing the Afghan people against powerful and corrupt elite ...

• Friday! The Peter Serafinowicz Show

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• 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 ...

Paul Krugman

• Some call it recovery

  The stimulus has helped, and the conventional recession is over. But the economy is not recovering in the most crucial area, job creation, and the stimulus won't be enough to restore prosperity.

• Bandits on the Northeast Corridor?

  Have the bandits starting raiding down from the hills?

• Reflexively anti-Bush

  By 2004, it made complete sense to distrust anything the Bush administration said. That wasn't reflexive, it was rational.

• 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.

No Quarter

• The Last Night…

  I had with my beloved dog, Sweetie, was Monday night. I haven’t been able to write about it until now - if I can make it through it this time…As many of you know, Sweetie had been diagnosed with at least two kinds of cancer, both highly malignant and aggressive. After numerous conversations [. ...

• NoQuarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyl ...

  As the markets rebound and the economy seems to recover, please join me this Sunday evening for NQR’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle as we dig deeper and work harder in navigating the economic landscape. Is the market and economy truly rebounding as quickly as it may appear? Is Wall Street back t ...

• Where did the Democrats go wrong?

  He is giving up even before he started! “Obama is willing to be a one term president.” Salon.com has this story, Obama ready to be a one term president?: Rep. Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, told a local radio station recently about a conversation the two men had back in February. Boswell says the p ...

• The Young Turk Asks: Has Obama Sold Out?

  Yes, yes he has. Here’s the video of TYT pondering this question in light of the recent “revelations” of Obama’s duplicity: The question is asked, and answered. The answer is a resounding YES. Yes, Obama has sold out. Long before he ever ran for US Senate, too, I might add. But why quib ...

• Tom Ridge Finally Comes Clean

  Most in the media expressed surprise and some shock at the revelation from Tom Ridge that the Bush Administration was playing politics with the terrorist threat warnings issued by Homeland Security. Washington Post reported on Friday: Former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, the first director of th ...

Environmental Graffiti

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• 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

• Military Searches for Early PTSD Detection Options

  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, has been associated with warfare and military personnel for many decades, recent years have shown that United States soldiers return from active duty overseas with worryingly high rates of the mental health concern as w ...

• Young Adults Mostly Decline Therapy for Mistreatme ...

  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The experience of different types of abuse of mistreatment during childhood tend to indicate a fairly high risk of developing mental and emotional issues as a young adult, and addressing these issues with a course of psychotherapy is a popular choice among many child ...

• Emotionally-Charged Expressions Fall Flat on Alcoh ...

  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline There are a number of challenges that alcoholics in search of recovery face on a regular basis, but a recent study has suggested that it’s the face itself that may present one of the most difficult social aspects of recovery. The research, performed at the Universi ...

• Reviewers Reveal: Happiness Grows with Age

  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary A popular conception of the elderly is that they’re often plagued by sadness, loneliness, a decline in cognitive ability, and enjoy a poorer quality of life than their younger counterparts. As the proportion of senior citizens in the global population is expected to ...

• Seeking the Biology of Joy

  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In the field of cognitive science, as with many areas associated with mental health and well-being, traditional thought and research has been focused on the negative; inquiries into diseases, common disruptive issues, and other concerns constitute the bulk of studied ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Biologist says W.Va. DEP chief misled Congress (Ch ...

  HARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection biologist is accusing the departments secretary of misleading Congress about the damage of mountaintop removal coal mining.In a memo obtained by the Charleston Gazette, biologis...

• Kevin Grandia: Shower Congress with "Coal in Ameri ...

  I knew coal was bad in so many ways, but what David Novack's done with his film, Burning the Future: Coal in America is bring a human voice to the dirty coal story.

• 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?

Memeorandum

• 2010 SENATE CAMPAIGN: Polls show potential GOP cha ...

  Benjamin Spillman / Las Vegas Review-Journal : 2010 SENATE CAMPAIGN: Polls show potential GOP challengers would beat Harry Reid — Tarkanian claims early GOP lead — It's the highest stakes ever for a Nevada election, and former boxer Sen. Harry Reid is on the ropes early. Either Repub ...

• 'Clunkers' Program Benefits Foreign Automakers Mor ...

  Fox News : ‘Clunkers’ Program Benefits Foreign Automakers More, Data Shows — Smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles like the Toyota Corolla are top sellers, while buyers are trading in SUV's like the Ford Explorer to be scrapped, turning the already dwindling number of American car owner ...

• Garofalo: Tea Party Protesters 'Functionally Retar ...

  Jeff Poor / NewsBusters.org : Garofalo: Tea Party Protesters ‘Functionally Retarded Adults’; Says ‘I Want My Country Back’ Code for ‘I Want My White Guy Back’ — You probably already knew Jeanane Garofalo was no fan of conservatives, Republicans or just about anything that could be ...

• Daschle Has the Ear of the White House and the Hea ...

  David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times : Daschle Has the Ear of the White House and the Health Industry — WASHINGTON — Six months have passed since the morning when Tom Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader, under fire for not paying certain taxes, called President Obama in his stud ...

• President Hannity? Talker drops hint (WorldNetDail ...

  WorldNetDaily : President Hannity? Talker drops hint — Talk-show host says he won't rule out bid for White House — WASHINGTON - Talk-show host Sean Hannity, a vocal opponent of Barack Obama's policies, said today he would not rule out a bid for the presidency in 2012.

Energy & Environment News

• Energy Dept. Fails to Use Thermostats to Cut Costs

  The agency could save millions by adjusting the temperature when buildings are not occupied.

• Green Inc. Column: Firm Brings Farming to the Mass ...

  The British company Omlet has seen sales of the Eglu, its chicken hutch, roughly double each year since it came to the market in 2004.

• Debating How Much Weed Killer Is Safe in Your Wate ...

  New research suggests that atrazine may be dangerous at lower concentrations than previously thought, particularly for fetuses.

• 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.

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• M 5.1, Kuril Islands

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• M 5.7, southeast of the Loyalty Islands

  Friday, August 21, 2009 11:15:46 UTC Friday, August 21, 2009 10:15:46 PM at epicenter Depth : 64.60 km (40.14 mi)

• M 5.3, southwestern Ryukyu Islands, Japan

  Thursday, August 20, 2009 14:18:13 UTC Thursday, August 20, 2009 11:18:13 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.40 km (22.00 mi)

• M 5.1, Kepulauan Mentawai region, Indonesia

  Tuesday, August 18, 2009 09:28:58 UTC Tuesday, August 18, 2009 04:28:58 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 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."

• 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."

• Whoa, 'District 9' Is a Really Good Sci-Fi Action ...

  There are a couple of strokes of genius in District 9 that renew hopes for the future of genre film.

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

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

• Why Do Women Orgasm?

  Scientists are still mystified about the evolutionary advantages of many aspects of women's sexuality.

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

• UBS chairman says clients "not harmless victims": ...

  ZURICH (Reuters) - Clients of UBS facing disclosure of their accounts to U.S. tax authorities were not harmless victims and legal cases against former UBS bankers did not affect the bank, its chairman told Swiss Sunday newspapers.

• New deficit projections pose risks to Obama's agen ...

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's domestic policy proposals will face the reality of skyrocketing deficits on Tuesday when officials release two government reports projecting huge budget shortfalls over the next decade.

• Winds fan wildfire near Athens, thousands flee

  * Thousands flee Greek fires fanned by strong winds * Fires a test for conservative government * Help from EU allies arrives (Updates with WWF comment, fresh quotes) By Angeliki Koutantou and Dina Kyriakidou ATHENS, Aug 23 (Reuters) - A huge wildfire fanned by strong winds cut a swathe of destruct ...

• Out of Africa and into China, emigres struggle

  GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Sweating heavily and yelling at Chinese police officers, a group of Nigerians dragged the lifeless body of an injured compatriot up to a Guangzhou police station, blood dripping from a deep gash on his head.

• 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.

Godspace

• Civil Disobedience as Spiritual Practice.

  I don’t usually do blog posts on Saturday morning but because I still have several articles that I have not been able to get posted I thought that I would post this interview today which was sent to me by Jarrod McKenna from Perth Australia. Â Tom met Jarrod McKenna the last time he was in [...]

• 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 [. ...

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

• Former Colombian spy director surrenders in assass ...

  Miguel Maza Marquez, a fugitive from justice who briefly directed Colombia’s Administrative Department of Security (Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad, or DAS) in the late 1980s, has turned himself in at a DAS academy. His arrest was ordered in June by the office of the Colombian Attorney Ge ...

• News you may have missed #0077

  US Army documents reveal Mexican military's role in massacre. Tamils in the UK continue fundraising despite spy fears. Major purge at Bulgarian intelligence agency.

• Lithuania also hosted CIA black sites, says ABC Ne ...

  After Poland and Romania, the former Soviet republic of Lithuania has been identified by US information outlet ABC News as another European nation that secretly hosted CIA prisons after 9/11.

• 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.

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

• Lula Calls Obama About Honduras and Colombia

  Brazil Calls for Stronger U.S. Action on Honduras Xinhua (China) http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90852/6736422.html Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday, in a bid to ask for a stronger U.S. action on the Honduran issue, local media r ...

• Jokes Iraqis Tell

  Most of Iraqis gave up on electricity and out of frustration people tell this joke : An Iraqi man found a Genie’s lamp quickly he rubbed it and a Genie appears: Master, all your wishes will come true. The Iraqi man quickly asked for only one wish not three: Make us a bridge from Baghdad to Sweden ...

• McCain Says Obama's Fightin Wars Just the Same Way ...

  McCain: Obama Doing What I Would Do on Battlefields .

• 9 Months Later Obama's List of 200 Bush Orders to ...

  Remeber this on November 9th? "Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone...." Has anyone yet heard what more than a dozen of these could have been? What counts as swift around h ...

• Without Reform, Health Insurance Rates To Nearly D ...

  Without reform, health insurance rates to nearly double in 11 years By Daniel Tencer | Raw Story Insurance rates will rise 94 percent by 2020 if cost-saving reforms to the US health care system aren’t enacted, a new study from the Commonwealth Institute finds. The 90-year-old non-profit health ca ...

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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• White House Admits It Hired Firm to Spam Americans ...

  As Ace notes, the White House's admission is so bad that the Friday afternoon data drop was still too much exposure, so it dumped the news today:The White House hired a private communications company based in Minnesota to distribute mass e-mails, helping to shed light on how some recipients received ...

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Time - Top Stories

• On Eve of Election, Japan's Youth Shows a New Acti ...

  For too long, Japan's youth have been a silent minority. Now, on the eve of a crucially important general election, they seek a bigger voice in forging the future of their aging nation

• Why Afghanistan is Very Different from Anbar

  The latest news coming out of Afghanistan is not good. There is likely to be a second round of voting in the presidential race, which will keep the government in flux and U.S. troops preoccupied for at least another month

• Medvedev's War on Russians' Love for Alcohol

  Gorbachev tried it and failed. Now Russian President Dimitri Medvedev is on a mission to get Russia to sober up, proposing new legislation that he thinks can curb the country's love affair with alcohol

• In Drought, India's Economy is Feeling the Heat

  As this year's drought hits the country's rural economies hard, India looks for solutions to better prepare itself for the next one

• Ron Bloom Monitors GM -- And Eyes The Exit

  Auto task force chief Ron Bloom wants the government out of the domestic auto business, and he may be the first to leave

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• Georgia seizes ships

  GEORGIA said Thursday it had seized two cargo ships visiting its rebel Abkhazia region this week, as it steps up efforts to enforce a naval blockade of the Moscow-backed breakaway province.

• Ridiculous - Sean Hannity Considering Run For Pre ...

  Talk-show host Sean Hannity, a vocal opponent of Barack Obama's policies, said today he would not rule out a bid for the presidency in 2012.

• White House deficit estimate jumps - by $2 trilli ...

  US President Barack Obama’s administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit forecast to about nine trillion dollars, up about two trillion from the previous forecast, a US official said Friday.

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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

• FLASHBACK: Did the Secret Team bring down Pan Am 1 ...

  "For three years, I've had a feeling that if Chuck hadn't been on that plane, it wouldn't have been bombed," says Beulah McKee, 75. Her bitterness has still not subsided. But seated in the parlor of her house in Trafford, Pennsylvania, the house where her son was born 43 years ago, she struggles to ...

• 5.8 Earthquake Strikes Off Indonesia's Sumatra Isl ...

  A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra island, meteorologists said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The quake hit at 2:20 pm (0720 GMT) with the epicentre 139 kilometres (86 miles) southwest of Gunungsitoli city in North Sumatra province, 86 kilometre ...

• 5.0 Earthquake Hits Philippines

  An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale rocked the Philippine Islands Region at 4:27 p.m. Sunday Hong Kong time (0827 GMT), according to a bulletin released by the Hong Kong Observatory. The epicenter was initially determined to be at 20.1 degrees north latitude and 121.5 degrees east long ...

• UK: Boy Finds Meteorite When Egg Collecting

  It's been quite a summer for things dropping out of the sky. In June, German teenager Gerrit Blank was struck by a pea-sized meteorite on his way to school in Essen: the projectile glanced off his hand and then left a foot-wide crater in the road next to him. In the same month, reports reached us o ...

• Mock Executions of Terror Suspects: Report reveals ...

  As the Justice Department considers whether to investigate alleged harsh interrogation practices sanctioned by the Bush administration, sources say a soon-to-be-released report by the CIA's inspector general reveals that agency interrogators conducted mock executions of terror suspects. These lates ...

Threat Level

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

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• 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 ...

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• In New Book, Tom Ridge Decries Politicized Bush Te ...

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  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,...

• Press Prostitutes and the Bush Prosecutors Purge

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• 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...

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  During a Washington, DC town hall meeting on health care, President Obama stops to ponder a question. (Photo: Getty Images) read more

• Afghan Challenger Says Election "Widely Rigged"

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• Homelessness Grows in Shadow of White House

  "Part of the change in attitudes that I want to see here in Washington and all across the country is a belief that it is not acceptable for children and families to be without a roof over their heads in a country as wealthy as ours." - President Barack Obama, March 24. Washington - At 6 a.m. ...

• US "Names Secret Terror Suspects"

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• Six Civilians Killed in Somali Capital

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Consortium News

• Lockerbie Doubts

  Lost in U.S. outrage over release of a Libyan convicted of the PanAm 103 bombing is the doubt about his guilt, Lisa Pease notes. August 21, 2009

• CIA: Osama Helped Bush in '04

  From the Archive: Osama bin Laden's pre-election video in 2004 was viewed at the CIA as a bid to boost George W. Bush. By Robert Parry

• 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

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

• A serial thorn in the side of the Israeli state ( ...

  If a single person deserves the title of serial thorn in the side of the Israeli state, Uri Davis, a professor of critical Israel studies at al Quds University on the outskirts of East Jerusalem, might be th ...

• "A lack of evidence." ()
• Germany calls for Israel to take urgent action on ...

  The German government said ahead of a visit next week by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that urgent action was needed on Israeli settlements in the West Bank in order to move towards peace in the Middle E ...

• Case against settlers who beat Palestinians closed ...

  Police, citing lack of evidence, said Friday they have closed a case against masked settlers who were seen on a widely broadcast videotape beating Palestinian shepherds in the occupied West Bank. "The file w ...

• L.A. Jews mull boycott of Israel university over ' ...

  Members of the Los Angeles Jewish community have threatened to withhold donations to an Israeli university in protest of an op-ed published by a prominent Israeli academic in the Los Angeles Times on Friday, ...

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

• Blake Lake Report

  Melancholy is about how I’d describe this weekends at the lake. This was our last official “family

• 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

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

• Iran raps Argentina for pursuing 'Zionist agenda'

  Iran has slammed Argentina for meddling in its domestic affairs after Argentinean officials made allegations against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's defense minister- designate.

• X-ray technique to unveil painted-over paintings

  Scientists have developed a special X-ray technique that can unveil the hidden layers of paint and patterns in painted-over paintings.

• No gas in South Pars phases 9, 10

  Two phases of Iran's South Pars gas field have still not started production despite five months have passed since their inauguration.

• Lung cancer genes discovered in smokers

  UK scientists have discovered the genetic mutations that place smokers at an increased risk of developing lung cancer.

• New guidelines for antidepressant use in pregnancy

  The dangers antidepressants pose to unborn babies of the pregnant women taking such drugs outweigh their benefits, a new report states.

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

• When "Repent or Die" Becomes Literal

  If health insurance reform fails, there's something worse than a system that provides health care only to people who can afford private insurance: a system that provides health care only to people who worship an invisible sky wizard. Yes, we've had faith-based health care in this country since its f ...

• Lying to Students

  Just when I start to despair that the idiocracy of our current political discourse is being perpetuated by Texas' control over textbook standards , I am reminded that sometimes - though not often enough - the lies backfire. PZ Myers has the latest example: A short letter in this week's Science echoe ...

• The Nightowl Newswrap

  We could learn a lot from Cuba We are doing now what they did for three decades, starting in 1960: Practicing a heavily industrialized, energy-devouring, unsustainable form of agriculture. When the Eastern Bloc came apart and the crops-for-oil scheme came to a screeching halt, Cuba was forced to a ...

• Myths and Morality in Health Insurance Reform

  Personally, I'm not going to be satisfied until President Obama makes Rahm Emmanuel apologize personally to every single-payer-supporting liberal in the country, and then abase himself at the feet of Howard Dean live on national television, but this is a step forward. "This is our chance to march fo ...

• Accept No Apologies

  For those of us who just missed being old enough to die in the jungles of Southeast Asia, the defining event of the Vietnam War was the My Lai Massacre , and the trial of Lt. William Calley for murdering innocent Vietnamese civilians. My Lai confirmed everything we'd suspected about the war - the wa ...

Care 2

• Change of venue court cases are extremely rare

  Andrew Thomas Gallo, charged with driving drunk and killing promising Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others this spring Submitted by Terry West to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment

• Hunt focus on Canada

  As gruesome details of the crime emerged, Calgarian Ryan Jenkins, believed to have fled to Canada following the strangulation death of his swimsuit model ex-wife in southern California, has been charged with murder. Police ... Continues: Submitted by Rosemary R. to World | Note-it! | Add a ...

• Holy cow! Cambodian villagers worship calf with hi ...

  DAMNAK SANGKE, Cambodia — Villagers in this poor community in central Cambodia live hand to mouth, but many dug into their pockets to help pay for a funeral here Friday for a three-day-old calf with a dark, reptilian hide that many believed was Submitted by Terry West to Animals | Note-it! | ...

• WWF celebrates saving of Himalayan forest and not ...

  An initiative by Pakistan’s Supreme Court and a media and legal campaign has ended a proposed large tourism development in one of the best remaining representative areas of Himalayan forest in the Punjab Submitted by Cher C. to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment

• Canadian police seek reality TV contestant charged ...

  CALGARY - California prosecutors have charged a former reality television contestant with the murder of his ex-wife and Canadian authorities are searching for him after signs he may have illegally slipped across the border and disappeared. Continiued> Submitted by Rosemary R. to World | Note-i ...

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

• Harry Reid and Economic Populism

  Everytime they do any polling in Nevada, they discover that the people there are fed up with Harry Reid and inclined to vote him out of office. The latest polling shows Reid losing to Republicans who have little stature. Nevada has been hit extremely hard by the collapse of real estate values and ...

• Fake Grassroots

  We all saw real grassroots movement in action last week in the progressive reaction to support Congressional members who pledged to fight for the public option. George Soros didn't manufacture it. Michael Moore didn't create it, ACORN didn't fund it, nor did a bunch of rich Hollywood Liberals. Led ...

• Dumb Strategy By Blue Dogs

  Rep. Allen Boyd (D-FL) represents the panhandle of Florida, which is one of the most conservative places in the country. I don't expect him to vote like a Democrat from New York City. But I also don't think he's a good example of what most Blue Dog Democrats are facing with the health care bill. ...

• Tell Us the Plan for Afghanistan, Please

  I don't have an opinion on whether it will ultimately be better for Afghanistan if Abdullah Abdullah wins the presidential election or if the victory goes to the incumbent, Hamid Karzai. The final numbers are not in yet, and it looks quite possible that it will go to a run-off election. In some wa ...

• CIA Uses Power Drills in Interrogation

  The long-suppressed CIA Inspector General's report on interrogations will be released tomorrow but Newsweek has a preview: A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock executions as part of the ...

European Tribune

• When America did not fall for the Anglo Disease

  From Devilstower's most recent diary (worth, as always, a full read) comes this priceless quote,...

• Sunday Open Thread

  What's occurring?...

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 23 ...

  A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1905 – Constant Lambert,...

• Saturday Open Thread

  Land here-the chimney's warm......

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

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

Futurismic

• Dramatic Elements

  Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped heads! ] Project Wonderf ...

• The attention economy: curation by duration

  This Short Manifesto on the Future of Attention by Michael Erard pushed a lot of my buttons, and I reckon it’ll be of some considerable interest to other art creators and consumers (writers and readers, for example, which is most of you lot): I imagine attention festivals: week-long multimedia, cr ...

• The attention economy: curation by duration

  This Short Manifesto on the Future of Attention by Michael Erard pushed a lot of my buttons, and I reckon it’ll be of some considerable interest to other art creators and consumers (writers and readers, for example, which is most of you lot): I imagine attention festivals: week-long multimedia, cr ...

• 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 ...

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

• Emergency declared over Athens fire

  At least 10,000 people ordered to evacuate as blazes destroy homes in Greek capital.

• Karzai rival claims vote rigging

  Afghanistan presidential hopeful says he has evidence of "widespread" election fraud.

• 'Zaidi fighters die' in Yemen clash

  Troops kill more than 100 opposition fighters fleeing town, government says.

• Deaths in Peshawar suicide bombing

  Victims of attack in northwest Peshawar reported to be innocent passers-by.

• Malaysia caning case sparks debate

  Kartika Shukarno, 32-year-old mother of two, faces punishment for drinking beer in nightclub.

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

• CIA staged ‘mock execution’ of detainees, then ...

  Newsweek reports that a forthcoming CIA Inspector General report that will be released next week “reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock executions as part of the agency’s post-9/11 program to detain and question terror suspects.” CIA interrogators used a handgun and an electric drill to t ...

• GOP Rep. Herger: ‘Our democracy has never been t ...

  At a town hall meeting this week, “a partisan crowd of over 2,000 people” cheered on Rep. Wally Herger’s (R-CA) fear-mongering about the Obama administration and its policy proposals: Herger did not hold back on his opinion of the health care plan and the administration’s appointment of à ...

• Poll: Baucus’ work on health care lacks strong s ...

  Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) has frustrated progressives with his work on health care reform as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, refusing to back a public option. A new DailyKos/Research 2000 poll finds that Baucus’ constituents are also unhappy with his work. Just forty-two percent of Montanan ...

• FACT CHECK: The Right-Wing Smear Campaign Against ...

  Since the FCC appointed Mark Lloyd as the agency’s Chief Diversity Officer/Associate General Counsel on July 29, conservatives have made him their new target in the ongoing campaign to baselessly warn about the reemergence of the Fairness Doctrine. The most absurd attacks have come from pundits l ...

• Hannity Reportedly Considering Run For President

  Read the full story at News Hounds OK, it’s according to World Net Daily but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Noel Sheppard, at NewsBusters, says, “Go get ‘em, Sean. Just the idea of this would make liberals in the media apoplectic.” I don’t know about liberals in the media but having ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• United States wins women's 4x400 metres relay titl ...
• S.Africa to give Semenya heroine's welcome
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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

• UBS chairman says clients "not harmless victims": ...

  ZURICH (Reuters) - Clients of UBS facing disclosure of their accounts to U.S. tax authorities were not harmless victims and legal cases against former UBS bankers did not affect the bank, its chairman told Swiss Sunday newspapers.

• New deficit projections pose risks to Obama's agen ...

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's domestic policy proposals will face the reality of skyrocketing deficits on Tuesday when officials release two government reports projecting huge budget shortfalls over the next decade.

• Winds fan wildfire near Athens, thousands flee

  * Thousands flee Greek fires fanned by strong winds * Fires a test for conservative government * Help from EU allies arrives (Updates with WWF comment, fresh quotes) By Angeliki Koutantou and Dina Kyriakidou ATHENS, Aug 23 (Reuters) - A huge wildfire fanned by strong winds cut a swathe of destruct ...

• Out of Africa and into China, emigres struggle

  GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Sweating heavily and yelling at Chinese police officers, a group of Nigerians dragged the lifeless body of an injured compatriot up to a Guangzhou police station, blood dripping from a deep gash on his head.

• 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.

Pine River World News

• Libyan news agency reports on al-Megrahi's preside ...

  Libya's official JANA news agency reports on freed Lockerbie bomber Abd al Bassat al Megrahi's return to his country and reception by President Muammar Gaddafi. In Front of his Steadfast Home the Leader of the Revolution Receives Abd al Bassat al Megrahi, His Family Members and Gives Statement © ...

• Robert Fisk: Yes, the Afghans wanted to vote - but ...

  The following column is from the Belfast Telegraph. Yes, the Afghans wanted to vote - but there's a problem © Belfast Telegraph By Robert Fisk August 21, 2009 So they voted. But for what? Democracy? Certainly not "Jeffersonian" democracy, as President Obama reminded us. Yes, the Afghans wanted t ...

• 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 ...

• 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 Largest E. coli O111 Outbreak Remembered - Vic ...

  Kim Archer of the Tulsa World has done a great job of recalling the horrors of the United States’ largest E. coli O111 outbreak. •341 were sickened •70 people were hospitalized, including 22 children •17 people received kidney dialysis, including eight children •1 man died Excerpt ...

• Super Lawyer - the list that keeps on giving

  Law and Politics Magazine yearly picks lawyers who are voted in by other lawyers as "Super Lawyers." This year I actually made it on the cover when they did an issue of food poisoning litigation. Nice to have the recognition. Perhaps we need a magazine for "Super Clients," so we don not forget wh ...

• 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

• 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 ...

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Debating How Much Weed Killer Is Safe in Your Water Glass

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- Aug 22, 2009

- 22 hours ago

Articles in this series will examine the worsening pollution in American waters and regulators' response. But atrazine often washes into water supplies and ...

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China drought leaves 5 million short of water

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- Aug 22, 2009

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BEIJING — A drought in China's north has left nearly 5 million people short of drinking water and damaged crops, while dry weather in the south could cause ...

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NYC school makes harbor its classroom

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- Aug 22, 2009

- 14 hours ago

Fisher follows the students along a grassy dune to the water's edge, pointing out clams, oysters and scallops, before climbing back on the school bus to ...

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Water leak prompts evacuation of Prudential Center

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- Aug 21, 2009

- Aug 21, 2009

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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