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• The Continuing Militarization of Biological Scienc ...
• Mexican Army takes over customs on US border

  Mexico's Army took control of customs Sunday on the busy US border, as federal authorities pulled agents off the job in a massive anti-corruption shakeup, officials told AFP.

• Brookings “Experts” Admit Stimulus a Bust

  President Obama has now been in office for over six months and despite his signature $787 billion stimulus, unemployment remains above 9 percent.

• Obama’s Spending Plans Will Nearly Double the Na ...

  In news leaked late Friday to the Reuters news agency, the White House conceded that the national debt will increase by $9 trillion over the next ten years, nearly doubling a national debt that now stands at $11.67 trillion.

• Artificial life will be created 'within months' as ...

Project Censored

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scoop - NZ

• Upwards lightning captured on film

  Scientists have photographed "upwards lightning", a rarely-seen phenomenon where electricity from storms flows into the upper atmosphere.During last year's Tropical Storm Cristobal, lightning reached more than 60km (40 miles) up.Also known as "gigantic jets", these events are just as powerful as clo ...

• Afghans 'Gloomy about Future'

  Millions in Afghanistan voted on Thursday despite widespread violence and Taliban intimidation. But, with turnout lower than it was at the 2004 ballot, many German commentators were disheartened by the latest vote, voicing concern about the country's unstable outlook and its fledgling democracy.Mill ...

• What A Jobless Recovery Today Means For Tomorrow

  The three of us -- the president of the United Steelworkers from Pittsburgh, a Corporate CEO now living in New York, and the former senior U.S. Senator from Michigan -- wrote in this space on August 5 about the jobless economic recovery we believe the nation is in, one in which, 20 months after this ...

• Do Progressives Have What It Takes To Win ?

  Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean.My fist got hard and my wits got keen.- from A Boy Named Sue by Shel SilversteinMaybe it is something congenital about the left. Faced with lies, propaganda and intimidation, liberals go to Google to arm themselves with more and better facts.Here! See my data ...

• Dreyfuss: Iraq Explodes

  The news from the war capitals isn't good. In Kabul, the Taliban is carrying out attacks at the very center of Afghanistan's capital, rocketing the grounds of the presidential palace, launching suicide bombs at Kabul convoys, and last week setting off huge bombs on the heavily guarded road between t ...

Independent ( London )

• Fires near Athens recede

  Dying winds today helped fire-fighters beat back wildfires that swept through suburbs of Athens, forcing thousands to flee and putting the government on the defensive before an expected snap election.

• Three NATO troops killed in Afghanistan

  Three NATO troops — two from Estonia and one from the United States — were killed in attacks in southern Afghanistan, the latest casualties in a particularly bloody summer, authorities said today.

• Malaysian state to cane woman after Ramadan

  Religious authorities in Malaysia today postponed the caning of a Muslim woman convicted of drinking alcohol until after the holy month of Ramadan.

• Greek fires spread despite weather change

  Massive wildfires raging north of Athens spread today despite a lull in the gales that have been fanning them.

• Fugitive reality TV contestant Ryan Jenkins found ...

  The Reality TV contestant, Ryan Jenkins, on the run and wanted in connection with the murder of his Playboy model ex-wife, Jasmine Fiore, has been found dead in Canada.

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

• Is the Human Brain a "Belief Engine"?

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

• Top "Daily Galaxy" Posts on Twitter, Facebook, SU ...

  2.5 Billion-Year-Old Event Triggered the Greatest Environmental Change Earth Has Ever Seen: Paved Path for Human Evolution "Creating Artificial Personalities" (An Evolutionary Step Toward Replacing the Human Species?) "The Great Silence": Why Haven't Signs of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life Been D ...

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

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

• Has Human Civilization Turbo Charged Evolution?

  “It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. This is the final paradox, which men call evolution.” Loren Eiseley -The Immense Journey According to most theories of...

• Galaxy Fans - Follow Us Daily on Twitter

  We think Twitter's realtime delivery and social media community is the future of the web. The Daily Galaxy believes that Twitter will also evolve into a major search service that rivals Google. You can check us out at DailyGalaxy@Twitter

Natural News

• A Real Reason to Boycott Whole Foods?

  (NaturalNews) Whole Foods is in a public relations crisis. After its CEO John Mackey posted a widely-read opinion piece that insisted Americans have no intrinsic right to health care, it was slammed with angry liberal customers who picketed stores and organized a national Whole Foods boycott at a Fa ...

• Chemotherapy Treatment of Children Multiplies Risk ...

  (NaturalNews) Adults who underwent chemotherapy as children are at a significantly higher risk of developing cancer as adults, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen, Denmark, and published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute ...

• Eating Prebiotics is Essential for Health and Well ...

  (NaturalNews) Awareness of the link between diet and health has led to an increase in foods that promote wellbeing. Prebiotics are components present in food which give health by supporting the gastrointestinal tract (GI), and by giving the body what it needs to defend itself and promote health and ...

• Breast Cancer Discovery: Vitamin A Derivative Norm ...

  (NaturalNews) What if a substance was found that normalizes out-of-control cell growth? The result could be a way to treat and prevent cancer. And a new study offers hope that discovery may have already been made. Scientists from the University of Chicago have just published groundbreaking research ...

• Hypnosis Going Mainstream: Doctors Urged to Use Hy ...

  (NaturalNews) A psychiatric researcher has called upon the United Kingdom's medical regulatory body to add hypnotherapy to its list of approved treatments for a much wider variety of conditions, in a presentation at a joint conference of the joint conference of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Bri ...

• TheGallopingBeaver

• G.I. Jane

  THE NY TIMES has an interesting article by Lizette Alvarez, " G.I. Jane Breaks the Combat Barrier as War Evolves ". It's about the experience of women in the conflict in Iraq. In a Taliban wonderland, women cannot go to school or have a job; in Saudi, they are forbidden to drive; in Iraq, they colle ...

• He's not sayin', he's just...you know...sayin'

  Sure, he's a block away from where the president is speaking, and he's carrying a sign suggesting the need for violent revolution/assasination and bloodshed while packing heat, but it isn't a threat. He's just a patriotic American exercising his legal second amendment rights. Remember when George B ...

• Pop Quiz!

  Imagine you work as a subcontractor for a bank. The bank wants photos of a bunch of properties on which it holds mortgages to confirm the properties are being kept up and to check the condition of properties on which the mortgage is in default, so off you go in your car with your trusty camera and s ...

• Tom Ridge : Be Alert - We Need More Lerts!

  Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge alleges in his new book that he was pressured to raise the terror alert level in 2004 to help Bush win re-election. We at the Beav would like to point out that the not-so-fine print on the Homeland Security Advisory Lozenges was always perfectly evide ...

• But can they handle Godzilla?

  There a general election at the end of the month here in Japan so the parties are busy running around trying to show how on top of things they are and how they have every possible contingency covered in their little policy books. Naturally, the papers have been full of policy stuff for weeks, much o ...

Media Matters for America

• Fox News freak-out: Guests make extreme claims an ...

  In recent weeks, Fox News has hosted numerous individuals who advanced extreme, outrageous claims about health care reform at prior congressional town hall meetings, during their interviews, or both. For example, on Fox, one guest claimed that under health reform, he might have to "let" his wi ...

• Fox News, NRO, Limbaugh run with "death book" sme ...

  Following false accusations that Democrats' health care reform legislation would institute "death panels" for the elderly, H. James Towey claimed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the Obama administration revived a Veterans Health Administration (VHA) booklet on advanced planning directives t ...

• Fox's Carlson claims Obama yet to name Army secre ...

  During the August 24 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends , co-host Gretchen Carlson claimed that "a lot of the top" White House positions are "anonymous because they haven't been named yet to certain posts," citing the Army secretary as an example. However, President Obama named Rep. John McHugh ...

• Schieffer allows Grassley to criticize reconcilia ...

  CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer allowed Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) to criticize Democrats for reportedly considering using the budget reconciliation process to pass health-care reform with a simple majority of 51 votes in the Senate by claiming that "reconciliation was put in place to ...

• "Death book" distortions abound on Fox News S ...

  On Fox News Sunday , Chris Wallace hosted former Bush administration aide Jim Towey to discuss his recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, "The Death Book for Veterans," and in doing so promoted numerous distortions about an end-of-life educational booklet used by the Veterans Health Administration ( ...

Global Research.ca

• VIDEO; Compulsory Vaccination in America?

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• The “Populist Revolt” against the Obama Admini ...

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• Crisis of Solvency or "Double-dip Recession"

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• War to escalate after Afghan election

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• Iraqi Natural Gas by Pipeline to Western Europe

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TPM Cafe

• The Real Debate About Health Care

  While employers are guaranteed the right to purchase health insurance, the great majority of states -- which govern the individual insurance marketplace -- do not extend the same protection to Americans who buy individual insurance politics. In most states,... Sponsored Topics: Health insurance ...

• Howard Dean's Prescription For Real Healthcare Ref ...

  Ah, August - allegedly the slowest news month of the year, according to general wisdom among the media and political junkies. Not so this year, despite Congress being on recess and Obama now on vacation. The battle for health care... Sponsored Topics: Howard Dean - Health care - Congress - ...

• CBO Warns of Higher Unemployment: Washington Worri ...

  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will release a new set of economic and budget projections for the next decade on Tuesday. These projections are likely to show a cumulative deficit over the next 10 years that is $2 trillion higher... Sponsored Topics: Congressional Budget Office - Deficit - ...

• Guns, the NRA and the Obama Opposition

  Guns, ammo and paraphernalia were bought and sold like baseball trading cards at sixty-one gun shows in twenty-seven states during the ten days between August 14 and August 23. Certainly, there are still sportsmen at these gun shows who use... Sponsored Topics: Gun Control - National Rifle Assoc ...

• RECONCILIATION NOW!!!

  You know the saying: life is unpredictable, eat desert first! I think it applies to the present moment when we Democrats control both Houses and the Presidency. It is all very nice to think about the long-term and how it... Sponsored Topics: Australian Democrats - Republican - United States ...

TruthOut

• Rep. Maxine Waters a Hard-Liner for Public Healthc ...

  The Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corp is a non-profit organization providing free medical care to remote areas. Congresswoman Maxine Waters attends a clinic in Inglewood, California to talk with patients. (Photo: Reuters) read more

• Obama Backs Interrogation Revamp

  US President Barack Obama has approved a new elite team to question key terror suspects, the White House has said. The unit will be housed at the FBI headquarters in Washington and be overseen by the White House. The announcement came hours before the publication of fuller details ...

• Vetting the Health Care Rhetoric

  As politicians and interest groups try to shape the outcome of the health care overhaul, they've offered interpretations that are so wildly different that truth sometimes seems to be taking a vacation. Some - like the contention that a House health care overhaul (HR 3200) would crea ...

• Report: Justice Department Advises Pursuing CIA Ab ...

  Attorney General Eric Holder. (Photo: Getty Images) read more

• Iraqi Refugees Find US Life Not What They Expected

  Arriving from a former life of privilege into a U.S. deep in the throes of recession, these Iraqis wonder if they made the right choice. On a pleasant afternoon in Amman, the genteel Jordanian capital, a petite Iraqi woman with carefully coiffed hair, heavy makeup and lots of gold jew ...

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

• Thanks to EPA You May Be Unknowingly Drinking Wate ...

  One of the nation's most widely-used herbicides has been found to exceed federal safety limits in drinking water.

• 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.

TruthHugger

• Texas Progressive Alliance – August 24, 2009

  School is starting, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is prepared as always to ace the test. Here is this week’s roundup of blog highlights. From TXsharon: Woo Hoo! EPA testing has now confirmed wells are contaminated “with various substances connected with gas drillingâ€�–proof that h ...

• 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 ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Labor Day, socialist holiday, approaches! By Jerry ...

  By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com Au

• "Enough Already" by Cindy Sheehan

  By Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soap

• Blame the Democrats! (My Republican Townhall Meeti ...

  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com August 20, 2009 I atte

• American Economy: The Hazards of Recovery by Josh ...

  by Josh Sidman Dandelion Salad Featured Writer Josh’s Blog Post August 24, 2009 Capitalism Orig

• AFRICOM: Pentagon's First Direct Military Interven ...

  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/me

Unexplained Mysteries

• NASA tests inflatable heat shield

  NASA have successfully tested a new inflatable heat shield made of silicone-coated Kevlar that can be used in future space missions to help slow d...

• Channel guilty of hypnotising viewers

  Australia's Channel Nine has been found guilty by the Australian Communications and Media Authority of attempting to hypnotise its viewers during ...

• Science can't improve on bat's bizarre nose

  Scientists have been conducting a new study in an attempt to understand how the noses of horseshoe bats operate in producing sounds. Bats use echoloca...

• 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 ...

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 24, 2009

  China Nears Climate-Change Deal Over Fuel Efficiency (Bloomberg) While China and India won’t support a treaty that caps their greenhouse gas emissions, they’ll probably agree to steps such as improving automobile fuel economy, raising the efficiency of power plants and installing wind turbi ...

• 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 ...

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

• My Country, Misery

  So... Tom Ridge came clean this week. Woo-hoo. What a brave and selfless act. Reminds me of Colin Powell completely and totally kinda sorta dissing the Iraq invasion. Great to hear that everything we knew and said and got clobbered for saying at the time was in fact true. Thanks a lot, General. ...

• Astroturfing on the Left

  We've grown accustomed to recognizing astroturfing on the right. A corporate lobbyist sends letters to congress members forging the signatures and letterhead of local grassroots groups. Oil corporations create front groups to generate town-hall presence against legislation that could slow climate ...

• Ben Saves the Day

  By Case Wagenvoord It’s nice to know that in the depth of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the world’s central bankers can still afford to hold a little soiree amid the luxurious digs of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. One would think they’d be hard pressed to afford a diner in H ...

• The irony of the "socialist" scare

  Back in the 1950s, Senator Joe McCarthy tried to instill fear in the American people over Communism. Many in Hollywood were accused of being Communists or Communist sympathizers. So were academics, trade unionists, and free thinkers in general. Now McCarthyism is back, but updated for today's time ...

• Our Children Shouldn't Be Messengers Of Hate

  The photo below was taken on Friday, August 21, 2009 in El Segundo, California, outside the office of Congresswoman Jane Harman (36th CD). It shows three adorable children wearing stickers with the word fascism below a supposed image of the President of the United States, fashioned as Batman's male ...

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

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

• Afghan MP Malalai Joya on the Elections

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

• Afghan Elections

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

Paul Krugman

• Dense about density

  Yes, America overall has low density, but many of us live in high-density corridors; very few of us live in the wide open spaces.

• Picturing purgatory

  Judging from comments I've received, there's still a lot of confusion about how it's possible to be in economic purgatory, aka a jobless recession. So I thought a few pictures might help.

• How big is $9 trillion?

  The debt outlook is bad. But we're not looking at something inconceivable, impossible to deal with; we're looking at debt levels that a number of advanced countries, the US included, have had in the past, and dealt with.

• Turns of phrase

  The origins of getting worse more slowly.

• Charles Grassley, coward

  We talk a lot about ideology, we talk a lot about the influence of moneyed interests, and all that is relevant. But we should not ignore the sheer personal cowardice of many politicians.

No Quarter

• Time For The CIA’s Chief Apologist to Apologize

  Editor: This op-ed was first published at PublicRecord.org, and is reprinted with the express permission of Mel Goodman. For the past two decades, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius has been the mainstream media’s most active apologist for the transgressions of the Central Intelligence Agency. ...

• A CIA Melt Down?

  Lots of CIA issues in the news today–alleged assassination teams, a new White House led system for interrogating High Value Terrorists, and Eric Holder appointing a special prosecutor to look into allegations of criminal conduct in torturing terrorist suspects. Whew! I will focus in this piece o ...

• The Death of a Corvette - Open Thread

  Warning! This is painful to watch and listen to for anyone who loves autos and racing. Traded in as part of the “Cash for Clunkers” program, sodium silicate solution is used to freeze up the engine of this Corvette. The death throes start about the three minute mark. It just seems incredibly ...

• No Quarter Radio’s Sins of Omission with Paulie ...

  At 9:00 p.m. ET, join host Paulie Abeles for her Monday night show on No Quarter Radio. Tonight, Paulie talks with guest Ayelet Waldman (www.blogtalkradio.com/NQR) author of Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace. In 2004, AYELET WALDMAN famousl ...

• Barack is a Liar? (Reprint)

  (This one is too good to miss. Greg Palast is inteviewed on Air America and claims we’ve been “cheneyed” by Obama and host Christiane Brown calls Obama a “charming liar.” Reprint of Aug. 20th original.) Gee, shocking. Looks like the folks over at Air America have discovered that Barack ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Walking Between the Twin Towers
• The Lost Cities of the Cloud People
• The Chapel that Rises 280ft from a Massive Lava Pl ...
• Chernobyl 1984-2009: Then and Now
• Caught with a Cobra in your Pants

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Postcard From...Damascus

  The Iraqi refugee situation in Syria is becoming increasingly problematic.

• Elections Unlikely Barometer for Change in Afghani ...

  After eight years of bloody fighting, elections are unlikely to bring dramatic change.

• 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.

Therapy News

• Sending the Clowns into Critical Areas

  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Having a good laugh at the expense of a trained professional may be a favorite activity at the circus, but for many children around the world in poverty and war stricken areas, such experiences have traditionally been few and far between. This is changing, however, t ...

• Personality Type May Influence Physical Health Dif ...

  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline To some, the idea that an individual’s personality type can play a major role in their physical health may not come as a surprise. But for those with peripheral arterial disease, or PAD, having a certain type of personality may be an indication for a greater risk o ...

• Walking Gains Recognition as Depression Helper

  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Taking a leisurely stroll at sunset or starting off the day with a brisk walk has often been hailed as a healthy and invigorating way to incorporate exercise into a healthy lifestyle. Increasingly, the benefits of walking and other forms of exercise are being recogni ...

• Study Says: Lay Back to Ward Off an Attack

  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Emotional responses to being insulted may vary from person to person, but results are typically negative. In many cases, people may feel inclined to demonstrate aggressiveness when provoked, either through verbal or physical attacks. Curiously, however, a recent study ...

• 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Investors Achieve Major Company Commitments on Cli ...

  Ever Majority Vote, Tougher Mountaintop Removal Scrutiny, Cancelled Coal Plants Among Highlights

• 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.

Memeorandum

• Senate Democrats Consider Tactic to Push Through G ...

  Robert Pear / New York Times : Senate Democrats Consider Tactic to Push Through Government Health Plan — WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats said Sunday that they were fleshing out plans to pass health legislation, particularly the option of a new government-run insurance program, with a simple ...

• Feingold to Obama: Announce Withdrawal Timetable f ...

  The Note : Feingold to Obama: Announce Withdrawal Timetable from Afghanistan — ABC News' David Chalian Reports: — The Obama administration has been keenly aware of discontent among many in its liberal base with regard to its Afghanistan policy and an expected request for additional tr ...

• The 2004 CIA Inspector General Report on Torture ( ...

  Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent : The 2004 CIA Inspector General Report on Torture — Classified for years — and still heavily redacted — here is former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson's 2004 report into the CIA's Bush-era interrogations operations. The ACLU sued to o ...

• Healthcare insurers get upper hand (Los Angeles Ti ...

  Los Angeles Times : Healthcare insurers get upper hand — Obama's overhaul fight is being won by the industry, experts say. The end result may be a financial ‘bonanza.’ — Reporting from Washington - Lashed by liberals and threatened with more government regulation, the insurance i ...

• Now the Birthers are demanding to know: Was Obama ...

  David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars : Now the Birthers are demanding to know: Was Obama circumcised? — The General digs up the, ah, hot tip: … Anyone remember how Republicans wound up obsessing over Bill Clinton's Johnson, ad nauseam, even on TV? I remember Ann Coulter speculating over Pau ...

Energy & Environment News

• Project to Power Europe With Sahara Sun Gains Mome ...

  Critics warn of risks over starting a large corporate project with new technologies in north African countries with weak rule of law.

• By Degrees: In Brazil, Paying Farmers to Let the T ...

  In an effort to prevent farmers from cutting down rain forest, environmental groups are offering money.

• 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.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.5, Kepulauan Mentawai region, Indonesia

  Wednesday, August 19, 2009 02:55:08 UTC Wednesday, August 19, 2009 09:55:08 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

• M 5.1, southwestern Ryukyu Islands, Japan

  Tuesday, August 18, 2009 23:47:55 UTC Wednesday, August 19, 2009 08:47:55 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

• M 6.3, south of the Fiji Islands

  Tuesday, August 18, 2009 21:20:47 UTC Wednesday, August 19, 2009 09:20:47 AM at epicenter Depth : 269.00 km (167.15 mi)

• M 5.6, Bougainville region, Papua New Guinea

  Tuesday, August 18, 2009 17:59:16 UTC Wednesday, August 19, 2009 03:59:16 AM at epicenter Depth : 60.90 km (37.84 mi)

• M 5.9, Kepulauan Batu, Indonesia

  Tuesday, August 18, 2009 17:50:37 UTC Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:50:37 AM at epicenter Depth : 34.70 km (21.56 mi)

China Dialogue

• Glaciers and guesswork

  The “third pole” is hugely vulnerable to the effects of glacier retreat -- but the science is scarce. Isabel Hilton speaks with Andreas Schild, a specialist in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region. Andreas Schild is director general of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development ( IC ...

• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• The 8 Weirdest Ways to Go Green

  From the solar-powered bikini that can charge your iPod to the benefits of eating free range snails, here's few things you may not have thought of yet.

• Thanks to EPA You May Be Unknowingly Drinking Wate ...

  One of the nation's most widely-used herbicides has been found to exceed federal safety limits in drinking water.

• Obama Can't Afford to Take Right-Wing Lunatics Ser ...

  A GOP senator's apologia for far-right fanatics bearing arms at presidential events -- that the government makes them do it! -- cannot stand.

• Holder Tapping Prosecutor to Probe 'Nearly a Dozen ...

  America's torture debate is nowhere near over.

• Thanks to EPA You May Be Unknowingly Drinking Wate ...

  One of the nation's most widely-used herbicides has been found to exceed federal safety limits in drinking water.

Threat Level

• ‘Skanks’ Blogger Unmasked by Google Vows to Su ...

  An anonymous blogger unmasked by Google last week following a court order has vowed to sue the internet giant for violating her privacy. Rosemary Port, who operated a blog called “Skanks in NYC,” was outed last week after failing in her efforts to quash a subpoena served on Google, whose Blogge ...

• Court Tries to Kill Pirate Bay; Cat-and-Mouse Game ...

  The Pirate Bay, the world’s most notorious BitTorrent tracker, was unavailable Monday after a court ordered a leading Swedish ISP to block access. But some users were able to reach the site again just hours later. The order by a Swedish district court came months after the four co-founders of The ...

• 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Madoff dying of cancer, fellow inmates say-NY Post

  NEW YORK, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Bernard Madoff, convicted of swindling $65 billion through the biggest-ever Ponzi scheme, has told fellow prison inmates that he is dying of cancer, the New York Post reported on Monday, citing unnamed prison sources.

• Madoff tells inmates he's dying of cancer: reports

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff has told fellow prison inmates that he is dying of cancer, the New York Post reported on Monday, citing unnamed prison sources.

• Woman sues zoo over splashing dolphins

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

• Africa wants $67 bln a year in global warming fund ...

  * Leaders seek unity ahead of Copenhagen talks * Climate change seen hitting poor nations hardest By Tsegaye Tadesse ADDIS ABABA, Aug 24 (Reuters) - African leaders will ask rich nations for $67 billion per year to mitigate the impact of global warming o ...

• Q+A-Does Malaysia caning herald a more Islamic sta ...

  KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 24 (Reuters) - A Malaysian state is to proceed with the caning of a Muslim woman who drank alcohol once the holy month of Ramadan is over. [ID:nSP362899]

Godspace

• Re-establishing Spiritual Practices in a New Place

  This morning I have decided to post two articles in the What is a Spiritual Practice Series. The first is by my good friend Eliacin Rosario Cruz who is obviously having a little fun with his post. He has entitled it Being Quiet as a Spiritual Practice. The second is by Ed Cyzewski author of [... ...

• 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 ...

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

• Israeli secret agents guarding Palestinian Preside ...

  Israeli agents of Shin Bet are guarding Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on their trips around some parts of the West Bank, Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz revealed last week.

• Taliban execute Mehsud’s family members on espio ...

  Four relatives of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud have been reportedly arrested and executed by Taliban militants, who suspect them of having informed Pakistani and US intelligence about Mehsud’s whereabouts.

• News you may have missed #0076

  Revealing CIA report published today. North Korean spy director meets South Korean officials. Changes imminent at South African spy agency.

• 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.

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

• CIA Report: 'Inhumane' Tactics Used On Detainees

  CIA report: 'Inhumane' tactics used on detainees By Steven R. Hurst and Devlin Barrett, Associated Press | Yahoo! News CIA interrogators threatened to kill the children of one detainee at the height of the Bush administration's war on terror and implied that another's mother would be sexually assau ...

• Universal Health Care Message to Americans From Ca ...

• Is America a Sick Country or What?

  By Dave Lindorff You see, here's the thing. When you hear about the sick, twisted things that America's torturers have been doing, courtesy of President George W. Bush and Vice President Darth Cheney, you have to remember that the US military and the CIA were not really all that reliable when ...

• Officials: Obama To Tap FBI To Interrogate Terrori ...

  Officials: Obama to tap FBI to interrogate terrorists | CNN President Obama has approved the establishment of a special unit of terrorist interrogators based out of the FBI, senior administration officials said Monday. The move comes in the wake of criticism of questionable CIA interrogation techniq ...

• This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery

  This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery By Chris Hedges | Truthdig Percentage change since 2002 in average premiums paid to large US health-insurance companies: +87% Percentage change in the profits of the top ten insurance companies: +428% Chances that an American bankrupted by medical bi ...

Grist - News

• Let’s (re)do school lunch

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

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

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

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

• Stalking the wild leeks of spring

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

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

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  Saturn's rings have fascinated scientists ever since they were first spotted in the 17th century. But how the icy rings came into being remains a mystery that has only deepened.

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Time - Top Stories

• The Rage Over Goldman Sachs

  CEO Lloyd Blankfein has a great backstory. But it's lost in the noise over his firm's lopsided earnings--and its outsize bonuses--as the rest of the country struggles. Is Goldman a paragon of Wall Street smarts or a showcase of its greed?

• White House Announces New Interrogation Team

  The White House announced new procedures for the interrogation and transfer of suspected terrorists just hours before the release of embarrassing new revelations about what the CIA did to detainees during the Bush years

• New Clues in the Mass Death of Bees

  Why do beehives suddenly collapse? The explanation may be a perfect storm of viruses

• Murder Suspect Dead; Is Reality TV to Blame?

  As this story went on, however, I was pleasantly surprised to see that there wasn't as much "Did reality TV drive him to kill?" coverage as I would have thought there might be.

• How Abortion Coverage Could Affect Health-Care Ref ...

  Obama claims that reform will not mean government funding of abortions. But it does mark a change in policy that has some antiabortion Democrats up in arms

• IPS - Inter Press Services

• HEALTH-SAO TOME: The Forest is the Pharmacy

  SAO TOME, Aug 24 (IPS) - If you live in São Tomé, a good investment in your health is to plant a po-sabom tree (Dracaena aroborea) in your backyard. Leave space: it can grow up to 20 metres high, with sword-shaped leaves.

• RIGHTS-US: Justice to Probe Detainee Abuses

  NEW YORK, Aug 24 (IPS) - The issue of detainee interrogation and abuse – lately eclipsed by the debate over U.S. health care reform – bubbled back to the surface Monday in a number of headline-making developments.

• LATIN AMERICA: Investigative Journalists Show The ...

  LIMA, Aug 24 (IPS) - "One way of ensuring the future of journalism is to improve content quality, and this means investigating what is deliberately hidden, like corruption," said Gerardo Reyes, a reporter for the Miami newspaper El Nuevo Herald, on a visit to the Peruvian capital.

• RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: The Unfinished Story of the "Di ...

  BUENOS AIRES, Aug 24 (IPS) - "The night of Oct. 23, 1976, nearly 33 years ago, was the last time I saw my son Pablo. He was 17 years old, and he was terrified. Since then I have had no reliable news about his fate. My family and I have been left at the mercy of the anguished torments of our ima ...

• HEALTH-ZIMBABWE: No Treatment for Sick as State ...

  BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Aug 24 (IPS) - Before, Zimbabwean families would take their ill relatives to rural clinics where medication was readily able and payment plans lenient. But now they are taking them there to die.

The Intelligence Daily

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• Govt-Funded Reporter Urged Lynching of Black Congr ...

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My AntiWar

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• Rogue Government.com

• China Reduces Holdings In U.S. Debt

• Mexican Army takes over customs on US border

  Mexico's Army took control of customs Sunday on the busy US border, as federal authorities pulled agents off the job in a massive anti-corruption shakeup, officials told AFP.

• Brookings â��Expertsâ�� Admit ...

  President Obama has now been in office for over six months and despite his signature $787 billion stimulus, unemployment remains above 9 percent.

• Feds Cracking Down On Garage Sales

• Competition lacking Among Private Health Insurers ...

  One of the most widely accepted arguments against a government medical plan for the middle class is that it would quash competition — just what private insurers seem to be doing themselves in many parts of the U.S.

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

• Kenya begins contentious ethnic census

  Kenya has begun holding its first national census for 10 years, amid controversy over a question which asks which ethnic group people belong to. Many Kenyans believe the question is insensitive, coming 18 months after more than 1,000 people were killed in ethnic violence after an election. Minis ...

• US: Maine spectators ignored warnings before wave ...

  Augusta - Rangers at Acadia National Park insisted Monday that they had done all they could to warn visitors before beauty suddenly turned brutal, launching a hurricane-generated wave over a group of gawkers, dragging three into the roiling Atlantic and killing a 7-year-old girl. Many visitors di ...

• Holder to Appoint Prosecutor to Investigate CIA Te ...

  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes when they allegedly threatened terrorism suspects, according to two sources familiar with the move ...

• UK cops eye shotgun cartridge Taser

  'eXtended Range Electronic Projectile' a bad mofo The Home office has confirmed it's eyeing the Taser eXtended Range Electronic Projectile (XREP) for possible deployment with UK police forces, the Guardian The company elaborates: "It delivers a similar Neuro Muscular Incapacitation (NMI) bio-effe ...

• Bored bureaucrat pleads guilty to passport snoopin ...

  A fifth person who has worked for the U.S. Department of State has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing passport application files stored in a computer database, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Kevin M. Young, 42, of Temple Mills, Md., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for the ...

Threat Level

• ‘Skanks’ Blogger Unmasked by Google Vows to Su ...

  An anonymous blogger unmasked by Google last week following a court order has vowed to sue the internet giant for violating her privacy. Rosemary Port, who operated a blog called “Skanks in NYC,” was outed last week after failing in her efforts to quash a subpoena served on Google, whose Blogge ...

• Court Tries to Kill Pirate Bay; Cat-and-Mouse Game ...

  The Pirate Bay, the world’s most notorious BitTorrent tracker, was unavailable Monday after a court ordered a leading Swedish ISP to block access. But some users were able to reach the site again just hours later. The order by a Swedish district court came months after the four co-founders of The ...

• 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Guns and Bitter in Pennsylvania

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

• The Unbearable Whiteness of Being...a Birther

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

• Press Prostitutes and the Bush Prosecutors Purge

  The Bush White House was notoriously famous for its purchases of positive press coverage. While columnists Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher pocketed $240,000 and $41,500 to push the Bush line on education and marriage initiatives, paid-for Pentagon pundits took to...

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

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

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

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

Blackspot News Feed

• Whistle blower Sibel Edmonds Deposition Video

  http://newsdemocrat.comAugust 24, 2009Watch the video:Sibel Edmonds video depositionWhistle blower deposed in Schmidt versus Krikorian election complaintOhio Second District Congresswoman Jean Schmidt, R-Cincinnati, filed nine election complaints against independent candidate David Krikorian concern ...

• Between the Rhetoric and the Reality by Ralph Nade ...

  by Ralph Nader The Nader PageAugust 24, 2009The Obama White Housefull of supposedly smart political advisors led by the President of the Change You Can Believe In campaign movement of 2008is in disarray. Worse, multiple, confusing varieties of disarray provoking public confusion, internal Democratic ...

• The Punk Patriot: You Dont Want to Pay Taxes?

  trichenosisAugust 24, 2009MY NEW CHANNEL: http://youtube.com/ThePunkPatriotBLOG: http://punkpatriot.blogspot.comSTORE: http://punkpatriot.etsy.comOur society simply is not possible without government investing in infrastructure and welfare, funded by taxes. No Business wants to invest in an area wit ...

• Rep. Maxine Waters a Hard-Liner for Public Healthc ...

  The Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corp is a non-profit organization providing free medical care to remote areas. Congresswoman Maxine Waters attends a clinic in Inglewood, California to talk with patients. (Photo: Reuters) read more

• American Economy: The Hazards of Recovery by Josh ...

  by Josh SidmanDandelion SaladFeatured WriterJoshs Blog PostAugust 24, 2009CapitalismOriginally uploaded by Lorri37It is said that people living in war zones become so acclimated to horror and destruction that they hardly even notice it after a while. While a car bomb in Manhattan would bring the ent ...

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

• Danny Weil : Obama and Duncan's Education Policy: ...
• Neve Gordon : Stopping the Apartheid State Boycot ...
• John Ross: Mexico's Supreme Court Tosses a Bombs ...
• Open Letter to Kenneth Roth : Why Has Human Rights ...
• Dan Bacher : A Burston-Marsteller Greenwash: West ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Empty chairs as Gazans mark first postwar Ramadan ...

  When Dalal Abu Aisha breaks the Ramadan fast this year, the chairs once occupied by her parents and three siblings will sit empty, a nightly reminder of last winter's war in the Gaza Strip. The 14-year-old w ...

• Proposal for ban on Palestinian citizens of Israel ...

  Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has proposed a new regulation that would prevent most Israeli Arabs from becoming career diplomats. He said that only those who complete military service should be ...

• Israeli forces kill Palestinian on Gaza border (R ...

  Israeli forces killed a Palestinian on the Israel-Gaza border on Monday, Palestinian medical workers said, and militants in the Gaza Strip fired three rockets at southern Israel, wounding a soldier. The fron ...

• West Bank tourists can get visas if they visit Isr ...

  The Interior Ministry promised the Tourism Ministry last week that tourists who declare that they intend to enter only the Palestinian Authority will have their passports stamped "Palestinian Authority only, ...

• Why Israeli Jew Uri Davis joined Fatah to save Pal ...

  Uri Davis is used to denunciations. A "traitor", "scum", "mentally unstable": those are just some of the condemnations that have been posted in the Israeli blogosphere in recent days. As the first person of ...

Planetsave

• Fashionable Activism and Fundraising: I’m Tired ...

  Tell the world how you feel about our dirty coal addiction by wearing your message right on your arm: I’m Tired of Coal . Read more of this story »

• 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Atrazine: How Much Weed Killer's in your Water?

  After researching John Snow and his “Ghost Map” of cholera cases in Victorian London for

• 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

Public Citizen in Texas

• Most Energy Citizen Rallies Organized By Oil Lobby ...

  A new line of intrigue in the Energy Citizen astroturf events: turns out that, on top of being funded by the American Petroleum Institute and stocked with (at the Houston event, exclusively) energy company employees, the majority of them are also being organized by oil-industry lobbyists. Kate She ...

• 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 ...

Press TV

• Swedish author clarifies article on stolen organs

  Donald Bostrom offers clarification on his article They plunder the organs of our sons , which caused controversy in Israel for claiming that Israeli soldiers kidnap Palestinians to steal their organs.

• In another U-turn, Obama upholds Bush's rendition ...

  The US President Barack Obama makes another U-turn, recycling the Bush administration's controversial 'extraordinary rendition' exercise.

• US plans long-term training center for war in Afgh ...

  The US plans to launch an intelligence organization at US Central Command that will train military officers, covert agents and analysts who will commit to Afghanistan and Pakistan for 10 years.

• Iran discovers vast new oil reserves

  Iran has discovered more than 8.8 billion barrels of oil in four layers of reserves in the country's southwestern Susangerd oil field.

• In post-vote Iran, Army seeks more Judicial action

  Months after Iran's controversial presidential election, officials at the military and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) say the security situation in the country calls for prompt punitive action against voices of dissent.

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

• This Crap Will Never End

  People... like it or not... he is the president. Get the f**k over it and move on! Now the Birthers are demanding to know: Was Obama circumcised? "Yeah, we're just treating Obama like "they" treated Bush!". Uh huh. I have never seen Democrats sit and blather about dick inspections for sitting pr ...

• Remember Kyle Sampson & Monica Goodling? The firi ...

  The National Law Journal is reporting today: The District of Columbia Court of Appeals quietly granted a rare waiver this spring to allow D. Kyle Sampson to continue practicing law, despite an ongoing criminal investigation into politicized hiring and firing [of U.S Attorneys] It happened in the SP ...

• Nightowl Newswrap

  Never underestimate a force of nature named "Bill." A wave from the last remnants of Hurricane Bill sweeps five people in Maine out to sea as they watched the storm rage from a cliff overlooking the Atlantic in Acadia National Park. The Coast Guard responded immediately and plucked three of the vict ...

• The Master Sausage-Maker Back in the Kitchen

  For all the claims that President Obama and Senate Democrats have finally accepted reality and stopped thinking any republican will vote for any health care reform bill, no matter how castrated and worthless, both the White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are letting repug Sen. Charles G ...

• A Peek at a Villager Stripped Naked

  The Beltway Villagers who direct and destroy our national political discourse pride themselves on their insider "knowledge," the personal relationships with lawmakers and powerbrokers that give the Villagers "insight" denied to the hoi polloi, especially the blogger variety of hoi. But now Aimai giv ...

Care 2

• EU could ban bluefin tuna this autumn

  The sale of bluefin tuna could be banned by the European Union this autumn when the bloc decides whether to add the fish to a list of endangered species. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

• 'Israel won't accept limitations on its sovereignt ...

  Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will make it clear in his discussions with US and European officials abroad that Israel will not accept any limitations on its sovereignty in Jerusalem, sources at the prime minister's office said, immediately before his Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World | No ...

• Feline Attraction

  Stuck on the pedestrian island, the dirty kitten tried to make itself as noticeable as it could to the pedestrians waiting to cross to the other half of the road by mewing and getting close to their legs. Finally, its efforts to draw attention to itself Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals | Note ...

• Surprise Family Dog Viciously Killed

  A family is devastated after finding their dog's throat cut overnight. The dog's owner says someone must have jumped the backyard fence to slit the dog's throat. She's afraid to give her name. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

• SEE THE TRAILER----MICHAEL MOORE'S 'CAPITALISM--A ...

  'CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY' - In Theaters October 2nd "It's a crime story. But it's also a war story about class warfare. And a vampire movie, with the upper 1 percent feeding o Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment

GreenBiz

• Selling Intangibles: How to Sell What the Customer ...

  In these uncertain and cash-strapped times, how do you convince customers that buying green is smart and profitable? We asked four companies for their tips on selling the real value of green products and services.

• 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 ...

Reuters Global

• Athenians lament Attica forest destruction

  Dark smoke covered the Athens sky over the weekend, its thick plumes rising over the Acropolis and rekindling memories of the huge, deadly fires of 2007 that nearly cost Greece's ruling conservatives their re-election

• Afghanistan, still the new Vietnam ?

  Will Afghanistan become President Barack Obama's Vietnam ? As public support drops for the war, a spate of articles are again drawing analogies between the two wars.

• 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

Ezra Klein

• Political Conservatives, Personal Statists

  Daniel Gross says obvious, and true, things: If you add the failure of employer-linked health care with Medicare, Medicaid, government employment and the military, a huge chunk of Americans already have taxpayer-funded health care. It's a diverse lot. Rich old people and poor kids, university profe ...

• The High Cost of Knowledge

  Niraj Choksi runs the numbers and finds something interesting: Education costs have been rising even faster than medical costs: Per capita spending on health care is more than $7,000. It's nowhere near as high in education, and so this is less of a problem. But it's still interesting. More broadl ...

• The Other Klein Says True Things

  I wish Joe Klein was wrong about this : How can you sustain a democracy if one of the two major political parties has been overrun by nihilists? And another question: How can you maintain the illusion of journalistic impartiality when one of the political parties has jumped the shark? I'm not goi ...

• Where Are Reform's Beneficiaries?

  "The main constituency for health reform consists of people who don’t think the present system is fundamentally sound," writes Matt Yglesias. "That’s a big part of the reason the public plan element of Obama’s proposals has become such an emotional touchstone for the left. The public plan is a ...

• Michael Steele Hearts Single-Payer Health Care

  There's no real secret behind Michael Steele's sudden adoration of Medicare: Seniors are the age group most solidly opposed to health-care reform, they vote in particularly large numbers in midterm elections, and they are uniquely active on the local level. Still, what we're seeing here is the GOP ...

Booman Tribune

• Obenis or Barenis

  Muslims, like Jews, circumcise their male children. Circumcision is much rarer in the Christian world (as there is no religious mandate for it) but it did become quite normal in the mid-to-late 20th-Century among American Christians. Barack Obama's father came from an Islamic background and may ha ...

• Casual Observation

  It's not just that the press hasn't been honest about the extent of our barbarism during the Bush administration, it's that they are actively in denial about it. Any cursory glance at the analysis being done currently on the cable teevee will prove this to you. They simply assumed that no one woul ...

• Detainee Day

  Sometime today, the administration is going to release a declassified version of the CIA's Inspector General report on the treatment of detainees that was produced in 2004. For a preview, go over to Emptywheel. Even though it is unlikely that we are going to learn anything spectacular that has not ...

• Open Thread

  I'm a taxi service this morning. It looks like the Obama administration has coordinated a rolling release of info on detainee disclosures, reforms, and investigations today. Let me know what you're hearing.

• Froggy Bottom Cafe

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 25 ...

  A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1938 – Frederick Forsyth,...

• Monday Open Thread

  Here we go!...

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 24 ...

  A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1916 – Léo Ferré,...

• 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?...

Futurismic

• Globalisation is still going just fine for the big ...

  Everyone’s suffering from the economic downturn, right? Well, not quite everyone; the really big corporations – the ones like IBM who are truly globalized – are doing just fine… and they’re managing it largely through detaching themselves from their parent nation-states, such as the US. IB ...

• Thrown off course by relativity

  A preview of space-flight issues of the future: how do you account for the effects of relativity when travelling long distances? A solar sail launched from close to the Sun would have to account for relativistic effects when navigating to the edges of the solar system: And even though those effects ...

• Eyes in the sky: ubiquitous real-time aerial surve ...

  The United States Army has seen a lot of success with airborne surveillance systems in recent years, and it’s given them the taste for more. Wired’s Danger Room blog takes a look at the current state of the art as well as the latest ground surveillance specifications DARPA is bandying around to ...

• Mexico gov’t decriminalizes personal drug po ...

  The headline says it all, basically – with very little fanfare or ceremony, the government of Mexico has voted to formally decriminalize small-scale possession of controlled drugs and intoxicants. The law sets out maximum “personal use” amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamine ...

• Globalisation is still going just fine for the big ...

  Everyone’s suffering from the economic downturn, right? Well, not quite everyone; the really big corporations – the ones like IBM who are truly globalized – are doing just fine… and they’re managing it largely through detaching themselves from their parent nation-states, such as the US. IB ...

Yahoo! Canada News

• YahooCanadaNews: Documents show CIA threatened rap ...

  YahooCanadaNews: Documents show CIA threatened rape, murder of children during interrogations of terror suspects http://tr.im/x1Fn

• YahooCanadaNews: Mystery woman in Jenkins case ide ...

  YahooCanadaNews: Mystery woman in Jenkins case identified, say RCMP http://tr.im/x1Dc

• YahooCanadaNews: Mystery woman helped check fugiti ...

  YahooCanadaNews: Mystery woman helped check fugitive into B.C. motelhttp://bit.ly/Qqbg8

• 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

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

• CIA report alleges detainee abuse

  US intelligence agents threatened terrorism suspects with violence, documents say.

• Iraqi Shias form new alliance

  Shia Muslims announce coalition without participation of the prime minister's party.

• Voters targeted after Afghan polls

  Taliban video shows fighters stopping vehicles and rounding up those who voted.

• Afghanistan 'needs more US troops'

  US military chiefs say more soldiers are needed to provide security, newspaper says.

• MacAskill defends Lockerbie release

  Scottish justice minister says Libya had agreed to give al-Megrahi low-key return.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Federal Carbon Storage Grants Awarded

  The Department of Energy announced awards of $27.6 million over four years to projects that will assist with the monitoring and verification of carbon sequestration technologies.

• A Solar-Powered Oil Field?

  Chevron cuts a deal with BrightSource Energy to create a solar thermal plant to help squeeze crude out of a California oil patch.

• Buying Into the Health of the Planet

  An economist draws parallels between the climate-change debate and the health-care debate in Washington, and discusses a cap-and-dividend proposal.

• A Rare Peek at Green Energy Economics

  Innovative financing and royalties agreements appear to be part of a major deal between Pacific Gas & Electric and BrightSource Energy, a solar power plant builder based in Oakland, Calif.

• Urban Farming Back in Vogue

  Will growing vegetables and fruit, and raising chickens in cities, continue to catch on?

Dot Earth News

• Blackberries (the Edible Kind) and Breaks

  The merits of picking homegrown fruit and taking a break from the "Instanet."

• 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.

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

• Deepening division in Palestine threatens diplomat ...

  Read the full story at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Press Releases The widening division between Fatah and Hamas threatens any chance for a diplomatic breakthrough on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Neither Palestinian faction is moving closer to reconciliation with or capitula ...

• Fox&Friends&Anti Health Care Reform Propaganda Fro ...

  Read the full story at News Hounds As News Hounds Julie pointed out, in her excellent “Examiner” article about the hypocrisy of Fox News (and those who love and defend it), “Fox is an over-the-top, right-wing, Christian coalition propaganda machine masquerading as a news organization – and b ...

• Fox&Friends&Anti Health Care Reform Propaganda Fro ...

  Read the full story at News Hounds As News Hounds Julie pointed out, in her excellent “Examiner” article about the hypocrisy of Fox News (and those who love and defend it), “Fox is an over-the-top, right-wing, Christian coalition propaganda machine masquerading as a news organization – and b ...

• LATIN AMERICA: Investigative Journalists Show The ...

  Read the full story at IPS Inter Press Service – Media, Technology & Communications LIMA, Aug 24 (IPS) – “One way of ensuring the future of journalism is to improve content quality, and this means investigating what is deliberately hidden, like corruption,” said Gerardo Reyes, a reporter fo ...

• Feingold asks Obama to announce a timetable for wi ...

  Read the full story at Think Progress With polls showing that the war in Afghanistan is becoming increasingly unpopular, members of Congress have begun to express skepticism about the administration’s strategy there. Military officials believe that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top US commander in ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• US prosecutor to probe alleged CIA abuses
• US prosecutor to probe alleged CIA abuses
• Reader's Digest files for bankruptcy protection
• Microsoft revs up low-budget mobile phones
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Institute for Policy Studies

• No Consensus on the Washington Consensus

  On local, national, and international levels, new forces have risen to challenge the Consensus and create alternatives.

• 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.

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Madoff dying of cancer, fellow inmates say-NY Post

  NEW YORK, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Bernard Madoff, convicted of swindling $65 billion through the biggest-ever Ponzi scheme, has told fellow prison inmates that he is dying of cancer, the New York Post reported on Monday, citing unnamed prison sources.

• Madoff tells inmates he's dying of cancer: reports

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff has told fellow prison inmates that he is dying of cancer, the New York Post reported on Monday, citing unnamed prison sources.

• Woman sues zoo over splashing dolphins

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

• Africa wants $67 bln a year in global warming fund ...

  * Leaders seek unity ahead of Copenhagen talks * Climate change seen hitting poor nations hardest By Tsegaye Tadesse ADDIS ABABA, Aug 24 (Reuters) - African leaders will ask rich nations for $67 billion per year to mitigate the impact of global warming o ...

• Q+A-Does Malaysia caning herald a more Islamic sta ...

  KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 24 (Reuters) - A Malaysian state is to proceed with the caning of a Muslim woman who drank alcohol once the holy month of Ramadan is over. [ID:nSP362899]

Pine River World News

• 514 of 522 Glock pistols used in crimes in Turkey ...

  The following article is from Today's Zaman, Istanbul. Underlined emphasis added. U.S. Glock guns used in 25 murders in Turkey © Today's Zaman By Sedat Güneç August 24, 2009 ANKARA - A recent report by the Security General Directorate's anti-smuggling and organized crime unit has revealed that 5 ...

• 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 ...

• 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

• OUR CHILDREN SHOULDN’T BE MESSENGERS OF HATE ...

  By Linda Milazzo | PDA Blog Contributor All photos by Mike Chickey The photo below was taken on Friday, August 21, 2009 in El Segundo, California, outside the office of Congresswoman Jane Harman (36th CD). It ...

• 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.

Marler Blog

• Another Nail in the Grass Feed Beef is better than ...

  As I wrote a year ago in a blog post, "Grass-Fed vs Grain-Fed Beef and the Holy Grail: A Literature Review," several people have commented that switching from grain to grass feeding could be one of the solutions to the problem with foodborne pathogens in cattle and other livestock. Quotes like these ...

• E. coli O157:H7, O157:NM, and non-O157 serotypes O ...

  In my ongoing effort to understand the risk to humans of non E. coli O157:H7, this weekend I read the manuscript “Molecular Analysis of Virulence Profiles and Shiga Toxin Genes in Food-Borne Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli” by Slanec, T., Fruth, A., Creuzburg, K., and H. Schmidt from the ...

• 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:

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 08.24.09

  Brammo Enertia gets marketing push, photochopping spree and logo contest These are fun to look at. Auto X Prize throws water on GM's 230 mpg claim, offers MPGe calculator The down-low on that ...

• 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

• Who owns transit data?

  If you want to find out when the bus or train that you use to commute to work is going to leave the stop near your house, the likelihood that the information will be available on a site or service other than your local transit agency's site depends on how enlightened your local agency is. In some ...

• 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 ...

Camera Obscura

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

  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...

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

  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html 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 pro ...

• Dangerous spaces: Safe.

  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html 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, wit ...

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

  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935028/housewives-and-saints-abjection.html 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 ...

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

  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935027/grainy-days-and-mondays.html 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-ro ...

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The Gas Co. commits to renewable energy

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- Aug 24, 2009

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The Gas Co. is looking to increase its renewable-energy resources within the next five years. The Honolulu company announced Monday that it has entered into ...

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More Stimulus Dollars Delivered to States for Renewables

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By Renewable Energy World - Renewable Energy World By Ernie Tucker, NREL The US Department of Energy delivered more than $119 million in American Recovery ...

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China legislators seen mulling renewables fund

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- Aug 24, 2009

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's legislators are discussing a new fund to develop renewable energy technologies, Xinhua news agency reported on Monday. ...

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Renewable Energy 101- Where are the LEED buildings in Pasadena?

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Ecology Coatings Stock Trading Symbol Mistakenly Changed to ECOCE

PR Newswire (press release)

- Aug 24, 2009

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To locate Ecology Coatings' stock symbol during the day, please enter ECOCE. Ecology Coatings, Inc. (OTCBB:ECOC) is a world leader in the development and ...

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Former Ecology watermaster starts consulting business

Walla Walla Union-Bulletin

- Aug 24, 2009

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Bill Neve, who served as the Department of Ecology watermaster for more than 20 years, is now head of Water Right Solutions, an advisement and consulting ...

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Chuckanut Bay Days celebrates area's ecology

Bellingham Herald

- Aug 24, 2009

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

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Traffic noise could be ruining sex lives of frogs

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Research finds higher acidity in Alaska waters

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- Aug 24, 2009

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Now, a marine scientist says the state's marine waters are turning acidic from absorbing greenhouse gases faster than tropical waters, ...

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San Antonio sues over shelved water project

Newsday

- Aug 24, 2009

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August 24, 2009 By AP SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A water fight between the San Antonio Water System and a neighboring river authority spilled into court Monday when ...

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New law to assure clean drinking water: gov

Chicago Sun-Times

- Aug 24, 2009

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BY MAUREEN O'DONNELL Staff Reporter modonnell@suntimes.com A new law will safeguard citizens from a repeat of the drinking-water debacle in south suburban ...

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High atrazine in water unreported, NY Times finds

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- Aug 24, 2009

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NEW YORK — Levels of the widely used herbicide atrazine spike well above the allowable maximum in many public water systems, sometimes for as much as a ...

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