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• Marines blame cancer cluster on water; 20 Marines ...
• Nearly two million Britons forced to delay retirem ...
• MSNBC Pimp: Trust The Government And “Get Your D ...

  Dr. Nancy Snyderman, billed as chief medical editor at NBC News, says when the HHS bureaucrat Kathleen Sebelius speaks, we have to listen. Snyderman tells the talking heads on MSNBC that we should all line up and take our eugenics soft kill H1N1 vaccine.

• The Libyan despot’s son, the Rothschilds and oth ...

  Mutual connections, ‘chance’ meetings and social back channels are often what make the diplomatic and economic worlds go round. But Lord Mandelson’s Adriatic vacations with his rich friends are in danger of becoming an annual cause celebre.

• Russian press allege Mossad connection to 'Arctic ...

  A Russian newspaper claimed Friday that suspected pirates who boarded the freighter Arctic Sea were actually agents of the Israeli secret service trying to stop it smuggling arms to Iran. According to Russian media, the Arctic Sea may have been carrying illegal X-55 cruise missiles destined for Iran ...

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

• Photography Forum NZ, Photographers Online New Zea ...

  New Zealand's photographer forums, interact with photographers in NZ using our forum, membership free, register and login to post. » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

• H1N1 School Outbreaks in Southern US

  A total of 122 Camden County High School students visited the school nurse's office and several of those were sent home because they were displaying flu-like symptoms on Monday, she said.There are also two elementary schools - Mamie Lou Gross Elementary and St. Marys Elementary - that reported sendi ...

• Abdullah alleges rigging in Afghan poll

  The main rival to President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan's presidential election accused the government of widespread rigging on Saturday but said he would use legal means to seek redress and not urge his supporters onto the streets.Abdullah Abdullah, who once served Mr Karzai as foreign minister, sa ...

• China seizes the Green Energy Crown

  Suntech Power in Wuxi has just broken the world record for capturing photovoltaic solar energy, achieving a 15.6pc conversion rate with a commercial-grade module.Trina Solar is neck-and-neck with America's First Solar, the low-cost star that has already broken the cost barrier of $1 (61p) per watt w ...

• New Bubble Threatens Rebound

  The United States is beginning to report data showing strong economic growth. Analysts are upgrading their outlooks for the U.S. economy, which is expected to grow at an annualized pace of 3 to 4 percent. And even before the U.S. revival emerged in the third quarter, China's data pointed toward a qu ...

Independent ( London )

• Ted Kennedy: A final tribute

• Taliban denies reponsibility for Afghan blast

  The Taliban denied responsibility today for a massive attack in the southern city of Kandahar that killed and wounded dozens of Afghan civilians the previous day.

• Legal challenge over 'unsafe' Laos drugs convictio ...

  A woman jailed in Laos on drugs charges who returned to the United Kingdom to serve her sentence launched a legal challenge today against her conviction.

• Obama on brink of West Bank settlement breakthroug ...

  Israel and the US are making headway in defusing an unusually public disagreement over West Bank settlements, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said as he met a top American envoy in London today.

• Obama on brink of Middle East peace breakthrough

  Israel and the US are making headway in defusing an unusually public disagreement over West Bank settlements, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said as he met a top American envoy in London today.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Top Jundallah Figure Says US Ordered Attacks

  Summary: Zahedan bus bomb In a high profile press conference in the city of Zahedan, Iran, international media gathered to hear a statement from Abdolhamid Rigi, a high ranking member of the Balochi separatist movement Jundallah who is awaiting execution by the Iranian government for his role in ...

• Obama Bows to Israel Over Settlements, Iran

  Summary: In a deal scheduled to be finalized tomorrow during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to London, Israel will accept a resumption of peace talks with the Palestinian Authority. The deal came as a result of President Obama caving to virtually every demand made by Israel. sourc ...

• Iran summons Argentine diplomat over minister nomi ...

  Summary: Vahidi TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned on Monday the Argentine charge d'affaires in Tehran, Mario Enrique Quinteros, to "protest strongly" against Buenos Aires over its criticism of the nomination of Iran's new defense minister, the official IRNA news agency ...

• 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

• The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (8/24)

  Bogosphere: The Strangest Things Pulled Out of Peat Bogs A few thousand years ago, someone living in what is now Ireland made some butter, stuck it into an oak barrel, wandered out into a bog about 25 miles west of...

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

  Is the Human Brain a "Belief Engine"? A Galaxy Classic "Future Present" - Is Science Fiction a Religious Experience? 2.5 Billion-Year-Old Microbial Event Triggered the Greatest Environmental Change Earth Has Ever Seen: Paved Path for Human Evolution "Creating Artificial Personalities"...

• Coming of Age in the Holocene - A Galaxy Classic

  Many of us are blissfully unaware that almost the whole of human history -from the hunters and gatherers to the rise of towns and cities, the development of science and medicine -the whole of our great human pageant- has taken...

• Our Tech Future? A Machine That Can Sense What You ...

  A sound-powered cellphone might sound like donuts that help you lose weight, an anti-hangover alcohol or an ad for "Guaranteed returns, work from home, APPLY NOW" - but it might well be possible. A team of Texan scientists have published...

• Antarctica Yields Relics from the Creation of The ...

  Rocks can be many things: they were probably our earliest weapons, they've been ballast on our journeys of exploration, even modern-art pieces. But a pair recovered from Antarctica may be the grandest application yet - tombstones for an entire world....

Natural News

• Don't Inject Me - Swine Flu Vaccine Song and Music ...

  (NaturalNews) We've just launched the latest song and music video in the Beyond All Reason album. It's an anti-vaccine song entitled Don't Inject Me (the Swine Flu Vaccine Song) , and it's already making waves on YouTube and peer-to-peer file sharing networks. You can hear the song and watch the mus ...

• Another Danger from High Glycemic Foods: Research ...

  (NaturalNews) Anyone interested in healthy and nutritious foods has probably heard that whole grains are far better for you than the processed variety like white bread and sugar-laden cereals. There are several reasons for this, including the fact whole foods tend to be richer in fiber and they also ...

• Strontium, Not Calcium, Builds Strong Bones

  (NaturalNews) Calcium is known to prevent broken bones. But a study conducted on nurses from Harvard University showed that calcium was not an important nutrient for bone density. However, the mineral strontium has been shown to prevent bone loss and bone fractures. Over ten million Americans have w ...

• 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 ...

• TheGallopingBeaver

• Rightwing violence and US healthcare

  An early morning line of thought... The issue of firearms, rightwing violence (at least the implication) and Obama's healthcare is all over the news and blogs these days. It subsequently dawned on me this morning that every potentially violent divisive period in American history has a common macro-t ...

• Vive la différence

  THE LA TIMES has an interesting article on human gender, following the brouhaha over concerns about the gender of the South African athlete, Caster Semenya. For years, sports authorities considered only the sex chromosomes: If they are XX, the athlete is female, XY and he is male. Technicians would ...

• Child detainee going home after four years in Gitm ...

  A child detained in Guantanamo Bay for seven years for allegedly throwing a hand grenade at US soldiers in Afghanistan when he was 14 years old is on his way home after a US Federal Court ruled the government was holding him illegally. His initial confession, obtained under duress, was thrown out ...

• The "Three C's" . . . .

  Once again, the group over at The Progressive Economics Forum has a great post. This one references the historical profiteering from US-inspired coups overseas. Why are we not overly surprised? A tidbit: It turns out that the stock of several companies rose sharply after secret meetings in whic ...

• The Guns of August

  First this dingbat , now the floodgates are open .One can only assume that since we are told Obama gets dozens of death threats daily, that this latest effort on the part of the wingnuts to intimidate their political opponenets by bringing assault rifles to demonstrations at appearances by the pre ...

Media Matters for America

• Mitchell puts words in Cheney's mouth, overstates ...

  On NBC's Nightly News , Andrea Mitchell falsely suggested that Dick Cheney said one of two recently released CIA memos on detainee interrogation proved that enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs) "saved lives and prevented terrorist attacks." In fact, Cheney did not go that far, saying only that ...

• Rove falsely claimed Obama admin. pushing vets t ...

  Continuing Fox News' pattern of falsely suggesting that the Obama administration is pressuring veterans to end their lives prematurely, Karl Rove claimed that the Veterans Health Administration is directing veterans to an end-of-life educational booklet, "Your Life, Your Choices," that includes ...

• During Bush administration, Fox ignored what it n ...

  In the past few days, Fox News has repeatedly forwarded the smear that an end-of-life planning booklet used by the Veterans Health Administration is a "death book," echoing Fox's previous promotion of false claims that an end-of-life planning provision included in Democratic health care reform ...

• Fox hosted Specter to attack booklet for veterans ...

  On August 25, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly hosted Sen. Arlen Specter to discuss his call for hearings regarding a Veterans Health Administration booklet about end-of-life decisions -- a booklet Specter characterized during the segment as "tough on veterans" and not "appropriate counseling." Howe ...

• AP again advances falsehood that health reform "w ...

  In an August 24 article, the Associated Press uncritically reported that "[s]eniors worry that paying for the $1 trillion-plus, 10-year [health care] overhaul will mean cuts in Medicare benefits" without noting that, in the words of FactCheck.org, "[t]he claim that Obama and Congress are cutt ...

Global Research.ca

• The Rising Tide of Unemployment in America

  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

• Iraqi Natural Gas by Pipeline to Western Europe

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• Israel wants Swedish apology over “organ trade†...

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• "Food Standards Guidelines" Threaten Human Health

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• Gloom Versus Optimism: Is the Global Economic Rece ...

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TPM Cafe

• Three Myths About Healthcare Reform

  Since Congress began considering healthcare reform, conservatives and their industry allies -so-called opponents of healthcare reform- have embarked on a shameless misinformation campaign about the consequences and implications of expanding access to affordable coverage. Here, debunked, are three of ...

• Many Health Care Debates, All Real

  Howard Dean writes that when it comes to health care "The real issue is: Should we give Americans under the age of sixty-five the same choice we give Americans over sixty-five?" This is without a doubt an important issue,... Sponsored Topics: Howard Dean - Health care - Insurance - Health - Busi ...

• Don't Succumb to Deficit Hysteria

  Today, as expected, the White House announced that the deficit projections are worse than it had thought. And as expected, the same old group of deficit hystrics went ballistic. "A 10-year deficit of $9 trillion is $30,000 for each man,... Sponsored Topics: White House - Deficit - Economic - Uni ...

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• Zionist Crybabies

  I am one of the old time Zionists. I'm proud of Israel and hate the occupation. I am proud of the Israeli army and air force and, like some Quentin Tarantino character, fantasize about an alternate universe in which it... Sponsored Topics: Israel Defense Forces - Quentin Tarantino - Zionism - Mi ...

TruthOut

• The Senate's Fighting Liberal

  Sen. Ted Kennedy is shown in this 1979 photo speaking to reporters at the Washington National Airport. Kennedy's family announced his death early this morning. (Photo: AP) read more

• Iraq Shiite Leader Hakim Dies in Tehran Hospital

  Tehran - The leader of Iraq's largest Shiite party, Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, died in a Tehran hospital on Wednesday aged 60 after a long battle with lung cancer, five months ahead of key parliamentary elections. "He died a few minutes ago after battling cancer for 28 months," his son Mo ...

• How to Save the American West

  Leslie Thatcher for Truthout: Please describe the genesis of your book "The American West at Risk." Jane Nielson : Very few geoscientists speak about the scientific bases for environmental protection, because they either depend for employment on industry or developers, or they wo ...

• Obama on Brink of Deal for Middle East Peace Talks

  Washington - Barack Obama is close to brokering an Israeli-Palestinian deal that will allow him to announce a resumption of the long-stalled Middle East peace talks before the end of next month, according to US, Israeli, Palestinian and European officials. read more

• Bonuses on Trial

  Bonuses are one of the summer's ongoing soap operas. They contain all the elements: money intoxication, the mysterious image of those invisible people who are traders and news fed by some banks' sensational declarations about the continuation of their precrisis practices and by governme ...

The Heathlander

• ‘Israel’s Terror Inside’

  Latest mini-doc from Max Blumenthal, via lenin: As Noam Chomsky has observed, and as this video makes clear, ‘those who call themselves “supporters of Israel” are in reality supporters of its moral degeneration and probable ultimate destruction’. Posted in Israeli / Palestinian, Videos ...

• 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 ...

Water - AlterNet

• Mining's Destructive Legacy on Waterways

  Scientists are now beginning to see that mining's most lasting damage may be the massive amounts of debris dumped into valley streams.

• The CA Legislature Unveiled 5 New Water Bills -- A ...

  I would urge that California's water warriors hold their opinions until they actually read and digest these bills.

• Vitaminwater's Empty Calories Are at the Heart of ...

  Vitaminwater tells its customers to "hydrate responsibly." That means not drinking 125-calorie sugar rushes like ... Vitaminwater.

• Why Corporations, Emerging Powers and Petro-States ...

  In the past six months, big players in the global economy have grabbed 50 million acres of arable land, from Africa to Southeast Asia.

• Goodbye Pools, Lawns and a Whole Lot More: Why Lif ...

  Water in the very near future will be neither cheap nor plentiful, and much of the Southwest is destined for real trouble.

TruthHugger

• Who Will Carry The Kennedy Torch? Op Ed

  The passing of Ted Kennedy may have dealt a blow to progressive humanitarian warriors. The Senate is missing the most effective voice for the disenfranchised. From his perch atop the mountain of comfort built by his family, Ted Kennedy used his position to battle legislative discrepancies that ...

• 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 drilling”–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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Year The Levees Broke By Greg Palast

  by Greg Palast in New Orleans Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com originally posted

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

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

• Exclusive: The flag is a very touchy subject by Sh ...

  by Shawn S. Grandstaff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Shawn’s blog post August 22, 2009 order he

• Expert Fired Who Warned Levees Would Burst - Hurri ...

  by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com August 25, 2009 For Crooks and L

• "The Astonishing Experience of Gift": Pope Benedic ...

  by Richard C. Cook Featured Writer Dandelion Salad richardccook.com August 26, 2009 We Hold These

Unexplained Mysteries

• Loch Ness Monster sighted on Google Earth

  A security guard believes he has spotted the Loch Ness Monster on a Google Earth satellite photo which shows an anomalous object in the water. Res...

• Landing sites on Europa identified

  Scientists have been examining the images returned by the Galileo spacecraft in an attempt to identify potential sites to land a spacecraft on Jup...

• UFO mystery deepens at Sylvan Lake

  Sylvan Lake has become the scene of a mystery after a local woman witnessed a strange disturbance in the water which prompted an investigation tha...

• Upwards lightning caught on film

  Scientists have succeeded in photographing the rare phenomenon of "upwards lightning", also known as "gigantic jets" these bolts can be just as po...

• Universal vaccine could put an end to all flu

  The flu virus can kill up to half a million people a year at the best of times, with the current threat of a swine flu pandemic scientists are wor...

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 26, 2009

  US Budget Update Stands Pat on CO2 Permit Auction (Reuters) The White House budget update released yesterday still reflects the Obama administration's plan to combat global warming by auctioning all permits to emit greenhouse gases even though Congress plans to give away a large part to industry. ...

• August 25, 2009

  Chinese Legislators Deliberate Climate Change Resolution (Xinhua) China's top legislature is deliberating a draft resolution on climate change that says China will firmly "maintain the right to development” and developed nations should "support developing countries with funds and technology tra ...

• 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 ...

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

• Ted Kennedy: Health Care Reform Is The "Cause Of M ...

  [Q]uality care shouldn't depend on your financial resources, or the type of job you have, or the medical condition you face. Every American should be able to get the same treatment that U.S. senators are entitled to. read more

• Gullible America And The Corporate Exploitation Of ...

  When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad, that corporations were entitled to every Constitutional Right that individual Americans enjoy, perhaps the greatest blow ever in American history, was struck against democracy. The next shock to democracy came wi ...

• Obama's Fight for Reform: Lay off the footwork and ...

  Almost a year after the Great Giddy Swarming of the Obamians last November, some of the revelers are waking up with one booger of a hangover. And they are asking themselves, "What were we thinking when we had that tenth drink of Democratic Party Kool-Aid?" It was a clear cut case of seduction and da ...

• Want to Stimulate the Economy? Lower the Retiremen ...

  One of the most powerful forms of stimulus we could apply to our economy right now would be to lower the current Social Security retirement age from the current 65-67 to 55, and increase the benefits back to where they were in inflation-adjusted 1960s dollars by raising them between 10 to 20 percent ...

• Media: Angry right-wingers are important; angry li ...

  I guess Howard Dean was just ahead of his time. When the liberal anti-war candidate ran for the White House in 2003 and 2004, the Beltway press was uniformly clear that Dean had an "anger" issue. When Dean launched his campaign and gave voice to the hundreds of thousands of activists who had marched ...

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

• What if they held a network and nobody came?

  Fox Business News is available in 49 million homes and has 21,000 viewers.

• Where are the bond vigilantes?

  For now, at least, interest rate movements seem to reflect views about the economic situation and the prospects for eventual Fed tightening.

• More on density and rail

  I think it's fair to guess that at least a quarter of the US population is well-positioned for better rail service.

• Yes, the New Yorker

  I go through the New Yorker cover to cover as soon as it arrives. But that's just for the cartoons.

• Deficits, debt, and the economy

  What everyone should be focused on is the sheer awfulness of the economic projections. These numbers cry out for a more aggressive economic policy.

No Quarter

• BREAKING NEWS: SENATOR TED KENNEDY DIES AT 77

  AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in a political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a year-long struggle with brain cancer. He was 77. In nearly 50 years in the Senate, Kennedy served a ...

• Amerivet Complaint Against FINRA Alleges Madoff In ...

  Note: I originally posted this piece on my blog this morning (Tuesday, August 25th) at 10:47 a.m. Shortly thereafter, the article (”FINRA Rebuffs Amerivet’s Demand to Inspect Records”) that I reference in my post was removed from the Financial Planning website. I was able, however, to get a ...

• The End of Cash for Clunkers Leaves the Obama Admi ...

  The CARS (Car Allowance Rebate System) program, better known as Cash for Clunkers, came to an end at 8 pm Monday night. But for a short-lived program that burned through $3 billion in about a month, it has successfully managed to hit an amazing amount of sour notes for all its claims to be [...]

• I’ve Changed My Mind About “Death Panels”

  My good friend and neighbor, let’s call him, Roger, depends entirely on his pitifully small Social Security check as well as Medicare. He called up his senators and representative yesterday, and also sent all three of them this e-mail: I am stunned that the Obama administration has the nerve to r ...

• JoinNocturnal Warrior and Puma Pam on No Quarter R ...

  Tonight, join the one and only Nocturnal Warrior on No Quarter Radio. from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. ET. Join the live chat and call in to the show via (347) 677-0792. Here are the plans for tonight: ” Tonight the Nocturnal Warrior and Puma Pam take a final bow. The longest running show in the [...]

Environmental Graffiti

• Lighthouses Vs Waves
• Leaves That Look Like Abstract Maps
• Mount Vesuvius Erupting in 1944
• Walking Between the Twin Towers
• The Lost Cities of the Cloud People

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Chinese Assassination Squads

  FPIF's weekly update.

• Multilateral Money

  IMF's SDR "currency" may be best tool to combat crisis in developing countries.

• 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.

Therapy News

• Weight Loss Culture May be Hurting Kids

  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Society at large has been praising the merits of thinness for many years, with super models and silver screen stars proudly strutting svelte figures. But recently, as awareness grows about worldwide “obesity epidemics,” media is becoming ever more harsh on the ma ...

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  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Working through a mental health difficulty can be personally challenging for the self, but most people who confront such concerns also encounter issues within their families. In extreme cases, some people may become separated from their loved ones, as is the case of ...

• Aussie Researcher Pleads for Mental Health Investm ...

  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline There are multiple costs associated with poor mental health at work; companies must grapple with the ramifications of sick leave, decreases in the quality of performance, and even spread of aggression and rudeness among overly stressed employees. Recently, an Australi ...

• Dubai Investigates Internal Drug Addictions, Possi ...

  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Dubai has been in continuous and remarkable growth for decades, exemplifying the inspiration and diligence of the region as it improves services and highlights its cultural specialties to its residents and to the world at large. But as with every area of the world, Dub ...

• Pain and Loss of Sleep May Benefit from Cognitive ...

  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline It has long been suspected that insomnia, rather than being a symptom of other health concerns, is a standalone issue that tends to be accompanied by any number of physical and mental difficulties. Those who experience chronic pain, such as in the case of people affl ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Mountaintop mining protesters take to trees (Charl ...

  PETTRY BOTTOM - Two activists trying to stop mountaintop removal mining climbed into treetop platforms near a Massey Energy mine in southern West Virginia early Tuesday, vowing to stay put until the coal company stops blasting and compensates residents for...

• Mountaintop mining protests take to the trees (The ...

  PETTRY BOTTOM, W.VA. — Two West Virginia activists trying to stop mountaintop removal mining are roosting in trees within 300 feet of a Massey Energy blasting zone.

• Mountaintop mining protests take to W.Va. trees (A ...

  Two activists trying to stop mountaintop removal mining climbed into treetop platforms near a Massey Energy mine in southern West Virginia early Tuesday, vowing to stay put until the coal company stops blasting and compensates residents for health care and home repair.

• 2 Cited at Mountaintop Mining Protests in Trees (W ...

  Two activists trying to stop mountaintop removal mining are roosting in trees within 300 feet of a Massey Energy blasting zone, and two others have been cited for trespassing.

• Mountaintop mining protests take to W.Va. trees (A ...

  Two activists trying to stop mountaintop removal mining climbed into treetop platforms near a Massey Energy mine in southern West Virginia early Tuesday, vowing to stay put until the coal company stops blasting and compensates residents for health care and home repair.

Memeorandum

• Some Surprised By 'Clunker' Tax (Shawn Neisteadt/K ...

  Shawn Neisteadt / KCLO-TV : Some Surprised By ‘Clunker’ Tax — The Cash For Clunkers program is adding to the activity at treasurers' offices all around South Dakota. First, people were asking for proof of ownership, so they could show they owned their vehicle for a full year, allowing ...

• Obama on brink of Middle East peace breakthrough ( ...

  Guardian : Obama on brink of Middle East peace breakthrough — • US to adopt much tougher line over Iran's nuclear ambitions — • Israel to freeze construction of settlements on West Bank — • France and Russia offer to host Middle East peace conference

• Kennedy's Death Raises Issues of Succession (Sarah ...

  Sarah Wheaton / New York Times : Kennedy's Death Raises Issues of Succession — The death of Edward M. Kennedy immediately raises the question of who will succeed the senator — and how quickly — as Congress is embroiled in a bitter battle over plans to overhaul the nation's health care s ...

• Kennedy dead at 77 - Liberal lion of the Senate .. ...

  Martin F. Nolan / Boston Globe : Kennedy dead at 77 — Liberal lion of the Senate, symbol of family dynasty succumbs to brain cancer — Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who carried aloft the torch of a Massachusetts dynasty and a liberal ideology to the citadel of Senate power, but whose perso ...

• Edward Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Dies (John M. Bro ...

  John M. Broder / New York Times : Edward Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Dies — Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics, a man who knew triumph and tragedy in near-equal measure and who will be remembered as one of the most effect ...

Energy & Environment News

• Russian Power Company to Mine Uranium in Mongolia

  Rosatom will form a joint venture that will have access to a deposit that could produce about a quarter of Russia’s total current uranium output.

• China’s Drive to Go Solar Outshines U.S. Ef ...

  With cheap loans, electricity and labor, Chinese companies are pulling ahead on solar products.

• 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.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.2, Tonga

  Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:49:28 UTC Thursday, August 27, 2009 12:49:28 AM at epicenter Depth : 44.40 km (27.59 mi)

• M 5.0, central Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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• M 5.3, Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia

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

• M 5.2, Antofagasta, Chile

  Tuesday, August 25, 2009 21:35:00 UTC Tuesday, August 25, 2009 05:35:00 PM at epicenter Depth : 132.00 km (82.02 mi)

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China Dialogue

• Building regional cooperation

  Can people across the Himalayan region mobilise to build a common, collaborative response to the impacts of climate change? Isabel Hilton interviews Mohan Munasinghe, vice chairman of the IPCC. Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist and the vice chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• US Senator Ted Kennedy Dies at 77

  The last of the Kennedy brothers, who dominated US politics for decades, has died of brain cancer, his family said Wednesday.

• 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.

• Meet Larry Summers’s Ex-Boss, a ...

  If you judge a person by the company they keep, then Obama's top economic advisor has some serious splainin' to do.

• There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Hu ...

  One writer spent four years inside the world of modern-day slavery; an industry that produces huge profits and countless wasted lives.

• Black Conservatives in the Age of Obama

  The most prominent voices for conservatism in African American communities continue to be those of Christian church leaders.

Threat Level

• Federal Courts Wary of Document-Sharing Plugin

  The federal court system doesn’t seem to like Harlan Yu and his fellow merry pranksters who made a tool to free court documents from an unwieldy computer system that has a nasty habit of charging 8 cents a page for public documents. In fact, the court system’s IT managers is warning that their b ...

• Incoming CEO’s Manifesto for The New Pirate Bay

  Hans Pandeya, the Global Gaming Factory chief executive readying to purchase The Pirate Bay on Thursday, wrote a manifesto of sorts concerning file sharing, morality and the rule of law. The 5-page paper, Thoughts About The Pirate Bay, amounts to an esoteric plea to shareholders to approve the $8.5 ...

• ‘The Analyzer’ Pleads Guilty in $10 Million Ba ...

  Ehud Tenenbaum, aka “The Analyzer,” quietly pleaded guilty in New York last week to a single count of bank-card fraud for his role in a sophisticated computer-hacking scheme that federal officials say scored $10 million from U.S. banks. The Israeli hacker was arrested in Canada last year for al ...

• Defiant Pirate Bay Crew Evokes Churchill

  The Pirate Bay managed an end-run around the Swedish courts and is back online Tuesday. The site’s four cofounders each face a year in prison and millions in fines following their April convictions in a Stockholm court for facilitating copyright infringement. They remain free pending appeal. As pa ...

• It’s Baaaack … Appeals Court Resurrects SCO La ...

  A federal appeals court on Monday ruled that the SCO Group has a right to a jury trial on its claim that it owns the Unix operating system, a ruling that could lead to renewed legal entanglements for Unix’s open-source cousin, Linux. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ju ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Kennedy death puts family dynasty in doubt

  BOSTON (Reuters) - Senator Edward Kennedy's death marks the twilight of one of America's most fabled political families, with no heirs to the Kennedy name poised to emerge with the same mix of gravitas, ambition and celebrity.

• CIA memo details procedures for breaking detainees

  WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Sleep deprivation, "insult slaps", water dousing and "walling", or slamming a detainee's head against a wall, were techniques used by CIA interrogators to break high-value detainees, according to an agency memo. The memo, sent to the U.S. Justice Department's Office of ...

• CIA memo details procedures for breaking detainees

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sleep deprivation, "insult slaps," water dousing and "walling," or slamming a detainee's head against a wall, were techniques used by CIA interrogators to break high-value detainees, according to an agency memo.

• Farmers issue warning after fatal cow attacks

  LONDON (Reuters) - The deaths of no fewer than four people after being trampled by cows in the past two months has prompted Britain's main farming union to issue a warning about the dangers of provoking the normally docile animals.

• U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy dies at age 77

  BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, a towering figure in the Democratic Party who took the helm of one of America's most fabled political families after two older brothers were assassinated, died at age 77, his family said.

Godspace

• The Eight Weirdest Ways to Go Green

  I just could not resist this article in Alternet and thought that even if you are not interested in green living that you might enjoy it. 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. Â Read ...

• Colouring as a Spiritual Practice

  Greets from a cool and overcast Seattle. Â My beans are growing, tomatoes ripening and squash proliferating. Â Last night I was furiously processing some of the produce before Tom and I head out of town tomorrow afternoon for a few days – made 2 Hunza pies and a cheesy tomato bake to take with ...

• Cloister Talks – Best Read of the Summer

  The summer is almost over and I have been intending to write a review on Jon Sweeney’s Cloister Talks: Learning From My friends the Monks, for most of it but as you know my summer has not gone as I intended so I am just getting around to it. In this delightful book Sweeney relates some [...]

• 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 [...]

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

• CIA certified interrogators after two-week trainin ...

  Among numerous revelations in the CIA interrogations documents, released Monday, is information which suggests that the Agency haphazardly officially certified spies as “interrogators” after training them for only two weeks. Canadian newspaper The Toronto Star appears to be the only news source ...

• Libyan’s release prevented “explosive” appea ...

  As intelNews anticipated, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was released last week by British authorities. Al-Megrahi, who allegedly has terminal cancer, was convicted in 2001 for his role in the Lockerbie air disaster, but has now been allowed to return to Libya in order ...

• More information on ex-French spy’s escape from ...

  New information has emerged on former French spy Herve Jaubert’s alleged secret escape from Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), which intelNews reported last week.

• News you may have missed #0078

  Indian police claims busting of Pakistani spy ring. Iraq intelligence chief retired before major blasts. Backlash over plan to spy on Indonesian mosques.

• News you may have missed #0077

  US military to stay in Philippines. Egypt begins trial of 26 alleged Hezbollah spies. Obama administration renews efforts to quash wiretap lawsuit.

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

• Ted Kennedy Dies of Brain Cancer at Age 77

  Ted Kennedy Dies of Brain Cancer at Age 77 | ABC News 'Liberal Lion' of the Senate Led Storied Political Family After Deaths of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy Sen. Ted Kennedy died shortly before midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 77. The man known as th ...

• Kucinich: U.S. Playing a New Rendition of an Old S ...

  Kucinich: U.S. Playing a New Rendition of an Old Song-Torture | Press Release Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement in response to news reports that the Obama Administration plans to add increased oversight to the rendition program: “Extraordinary Rendition is an il ...

• Sen Coburn Tells Women Crying Over Health Care "Go ...

  Compassionate Conservatism from the Your-On-Your-Own's (YOYO's).

• Health Reform Failure

  Health reform failure By Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein | The Boston Globe Health reform built on private insurance isn’t working and can’t work; it costs too much and delivers too little. At present, bureaucracy consumes 31 percent of each healthcare dollar. The Connector - the n ...

• Sanders Welcomes Court Ruling on Fed Secrecy

  Sanders Welcomes Court Ruling on Fed Secrecy | Press Release BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 25 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today welcomed a court ruling that the Federal Reserve must reveal the names of banks that have received more than $2.2 trillion in secret loans. Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta ...

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; ...

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• 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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Time - Top Stories

• The Man Who Found Himself

  His family defined political style and vigor for a generation of politicians. But for years, Ted Kennedy seem to writhe in the public eye

• Bob Shrum on Ted Kennedy's Greatest Speech

  The late Senator's former press secretary and speech writer recalls some of the greatest public and private moments in Ted Kennedy's life

• Teddy: The Youngest Kennedy Brother

  Going from "kid brother" to senior statesman was an extraordinary journey for Ted Kennedy, matching the similar journeys taken by his brothers John and Robert

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Washington Independent

• Republicans Pay Tribute to Kennedy

  Without exception, elected Republicans and party leaders are reacting to the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) with the sort of measured statements usually reserved for former presidents. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele: I am saddened to hear of the passing of Senator Ted Ken ...

• Kennedy’s Rattled Reaction to Colin Powell&# ...

  Here’s another Ted Kennedy video. This is the departed Massachusetts senator in a press conference after then-Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered his fateful and now-thoroughly discredited presentation to the United Nations on the “threat” posed by Saddam Hussein. The quaver of his voice ...

• What Would Kennedy Do?

  Former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen today commends the Bush administration’s “well-run, highly disciplined CIA interrogation program, where clear guidelines were established and abuses or deviations from approved techniques were stopped, reported and addressed.” I guess Thiessen d ...

• Lunchtime Links

  Sens. Reid, Hatch and McCain weigh in on Ted Kennedy’s passing. Kennedy’s friends and colleagues remember the lion of the Senate. The SEIU urges Congress to honor Kennedy by passing health reform. Kennedy embodied a unique combination of passion for social justice and pragmatic understanding of ...

• Abu Zubaydah, Torture and Conflicts of Interest

  Marcy Wheeler has a typically excellent post going through a remarkable annex to the 2004 CIA inspector general’s torture report: the psychological profile prepared (probably by former SERE psychologist James Mitchell) of Abu Zubaydah, the first detainee to be subjected to what would become the CI ...

• IPS - Inter Press Services

• POLITICS-US: Health Reform Bogged in PR Battle

  DETROIT, Michigan, Aug 26 (IPS) - The message machine of the Barack Obama administration appears to need oiling, as the U.S. president's push for a Sep. 15 deadline for a bipartisan deal on healthcare reform in the U.S. Congress continues to meet stiff resistance.

• POLITICS-CUBA: Wanted - Socialist System that Mee ...

  HAVANA, Aug 26 (IPS) - Cuba's communist government is being challenged to move toward a more participative and inclusive socialist system, one that offers real economic well-being and responds to the social and political demands that have built up and been expressed in different ways in recent ...

• NEPAL: Women Use Porous Border Route With India t ...

  KATHMANDU, Aug 26 (IPS) - On Jul. 11, 15 women between the ages of 22 and 28 landed by a Gulf Airlines flight at Nepal's Tribhuvan International Airport.

• HEALTH: Asia Tobacco Trade Fair Tests Thai Anti-S ...

  BANGKOK, Aug 26 (IPS) - Thailand’s reputation as a South-east Asian country with strong anti-smoking laws is facing a direct challenge from the tobacco multinational companies, who are due to gather here in November for a major industry congress and exhibition.

• Q&A: "South Africa’s Black Economic Empower ...

  CAPE TOWN, Aug 26 (IPS) - Moeletsi Mbeki, brother of former South African president Thabo Mbeki, believes that the government’s centrepiece policy of black economic empowerment was in fact the creation of the country’s white economic oligarchs to co-opt black leaders.

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• Palestine film festival returns to Toronto next mo ...

  rr r r r rr r rr r rr r rr rr rrr rThe second annual Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) is coming to theaters in September. The festival will showcase 34 films, many of which are Canadian and North American premieres. TPFF is pleased to be opening and closing the festival with the critically acc ...

• Top Jundallah Figure Says US Ordered Attacks

  Summary: Zahedan bus bombIn a high profile press conference in the city of Zahedan, Iran, international media gathered to hear a statement from Abdolhamid Rigi, a high ranking member of the Balochi separatist movement Jundallah who is awaiting execution by the Iranian government for his role in a s ...

• Obama Bows to Israel Over Settlements, Iran

  Summary: In a deal scheduled to be finalized tomorrow during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?s visit to London, Israel will accept a resumption of peace talks with the Palestinian Authority. The deal came as a result of President Obama caving to virtually every demand made by Israel. source: An ...

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• Senator Warns Of Hyper-Inflation

  The economy could spiral into hyperinflation not seen since the early 1980s if the Federal Reserve does not tighten its monetary policy soon, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) warned Tuesday.

• Officials Warned About Fake DHS Intel E-Mails

  Homeland Security officials are warning that some e-mails purporting to be from the department's intelligence division were fake and contained malicious software.

• Wikipedia Testing New Method To Curb False Info

  Wikipedia says it is testing a new method for curbing false information on pages devoted to individual people.

• Obama Poll Numbers Keep Falling

  President Obama set out for a weeklong family vacation Sunday facing the first stiff headwind of his presidency, with public polls showing his popularity has dipped as he has attempted an overhaul of the nation's ailing health care system.

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Innovation Canada

• i2eye with Palmiro Campagna

  Widely seen as Canada’s crowning technical achievement of the day, the Avro Arrow supersonic interceptor was scrapped after only five test planes were completed. Half a century later, aviation enthusiasts still mourn the loss and the Avro workers who left Canada to help realize NASA’s moon-rocke ...

• 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 ...

Signs of the times

• Israel: A Stalemated Action of History

  In late 1949 I worked on a boat taking Jews from Marseilles to Haifa, Israel. Jews from Arab nations were in the front of the boat, Europeans in the rear. I was regarded by many of the Europeans as some sort of freak because I had a United States passport and so could stay in the land of milk and ho ...

• Mexican economy in free-fall

  The Mexican economy shrank at an annual rate of 10.3 percent in the second quarter of 2009. This is the worst economic performance since the National Statistics Institute (INEGI) began issuing quarterly numbers in 1981. This statistic signals a continuing deceleration for the economy, an increase ov ...

• US fears mount over Afghan election travesty

  Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission reported Tuesday that preliminary vote tallies from 10 percent of polling stations gave incumbent President Hamid Karzai a slight lead over his main rival, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, in the election held August 20. The commission said Ka ...

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• U.S. New Home Sales Jump 9.6%, Most in Four Years

  Purchases of new homes in the U.S. jumped more than forecast in July, adding to signs that the economy is rebounding from the worst recession since the 1930s. Sales increased 9.6 percent, the most since February 2005, to a 433,000 annual pace, figures from the Commerce Department showed today in W ...

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• Federal Courts Wary of Document-Sharing Plugin

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• Incoming CEO’s Manifesto for The New Pirate Bay

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• Defiant Pirate Bay Crew Evokes Churchill

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• Health Scare: When Politics is Entertainment

  "When politics is just another form of entertainment," I lamented in a presentation on the 2008 campaign last year, "the first thing that suffers is the truth." And so it is with the incendiary health care debate and so much...

• Smoking Grassley on Health Care Reform

  After his predictable experience with unified Republican obstructionism on the stimulus bill, President Obama must be high if he thinks there's a glimmer of hope for bipartisan cooperation on health care reform. Not because Sarah Palin is doubling-down on her...

• Smoking Grassley on Health Care Reform

  After his predictable experience with unified Republican obstructionism on the stimulus bill, President Obama must be high if he thinks there's a glimmer of hope for bipartisan cooperation on health care reform. Not because Sarah Palin is doubling-down on her...

• Guns and Bitter in Pennsylvania

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

• The Unbearable Whiteness of Being...a Birther

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

Blackspot News Feed

• Iraq Shiite Leader Hakim Dies in Tehran Hospital

  Tehran - The leader of Iraq's largest Shiite party, Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, died in a Tehran hospital on Wednesday aged 60 after a long battle with lung cancer, five months ahead of key parliamentary elections. "He died a few minutes ago after battling cancer for 28 months," his son Mohsen Haki ...

• Obama on Brink of Deal for Middle East Peace Talks

  Washington - Barack Obama is close to brokering an Israeli-Palestinian deal that will allow him to announce a resumption of the long-stalled Middle East peace talks before the end of next month, according to US, Israeli, Palestinian and European officials. read more

• Tensions Rise as Iraq Blames Baathists in Syria fo ...

  Baghdad - Iraq Tuesday demanded that Syria hand over two high-ranking Iraqi Baath Party officials following last week's bombing of two government ministries. Iraq later recalled its ambassador to Damascus for consultations, and Syria followed suit, withdrawing its envoy from Baghdad. The bom ...

• Journalists' Recent Work Examined Before Embeds

  As more journalists seek permission to accompany U.S. forces engaged in escalating military operations in Afghanistan, many of them could be screened by a controversial Washington-based public relations firm contracted by the Pentagon to determine whether their past coverage has portrayed the U. ...

• Glenn Greenwald on CIA Interrogation Probe, Obama ...

  Attorney General Eric Holder has opened an inquiry into CIA torture. On Monday, Holder appointed veteran federal prosecutor John Durham to look into whether CIA interrogators and contractors should be charged for the torture and abuse of foreign prisoners. Holder says he ordered the probe in respons ...

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

• Gabriel Kolko : Israel: A Stalemated Action of His ...
• Danny Weil : The Charter School Hype and How It's ...
• Martine Bulard : China's Wild West
• Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada : The Cuban Five: The ...
• Bélen Fernández : Why Didn't the Leopard Eat Tom ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Israel's terror inside (TheDailyNuisance)
• Netanyahu adamant on illegal settlement building i ...

  Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has said that his government is unwilling to negotiate on the status of Jerusalem as a joint Israel-Palestinian capital. When speaking in London at a meeting with ...

• Hamas: Only breakthrough in Shalit deal is German ...

  German involvement in mediation over a prisoner swap for the release of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit has advanced the negotiations but a breakthrough is not imminent, Hamas said on Tue ...

• Fayyad unveils plan for de facto state by 2011 (M ...

  On Tuesday Palestinian caretaker Prime Minister Salam Fayyad unveiled his plan to establish a de facto state within two years. Fayyad's plan is to build up the apparatus of a state in the West Bank and Gaza ...

• Dilemma of Palestinian settlement builders (Heath ...

  "I feel like a slave," says 21-year-old Palestinian Musanna Khalil Mohammed Rabbaye. "But I have no alternative," he says, as he waits among a group of sun-beaten men in dusty work boots outside the Jewish s ...

Planetsave

• New Shipping Rules Agreed To Protect The Antarctic

  The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has agreed new rules which ban the transportation and use of heavy grade oils by ships in the Antarctic Ocean. The change was agreed during the 2009 meeting of the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee and is scheduled to come into force in 201 ...

• 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- ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Pesticides: Report Finds Inadequate EPA Regulation ...

  Report Finds Inadequate EPA Regulation of Pesticides in Water

• Syngenta in your ice cubes

  Atrazine, ever heard of it? It’s the widest used herbicide sprayed on corn products in this c

• Open Space Protection in Urban Settings

  Thursday, September 03, 2009 Open Space Protection in Urban Settings: Considerations for State-Wide

• 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

Public Citizen in Texas

• Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

  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 drilling”–proof that hy ...

• 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 ...

Press TV

• In Iran, top Reformist disapproves of court procee ...

  A top member of a major Iranian Reformist party, who is in custody over Iran's post-election violence, criticizes his detention and the court proceedings.

• Honduras military-backed leader vows not to compro ...

  The Honduran interim leader pledges to follow through with the coup, affirming that his country will go ahead with its planned presidential poll, with or without the blessing of the international community.

• High blood pressure ups memory decline

  High blood pressure can place individuals as young as 45 at an increased risk of developing memory problems, a new study finds.

• Iran reports its first swine flu death

  Iranian officials have reported the country's first death from the new H1N1 flu virus, which has already infected some 285 individuals in the country.

• Iran envoy says Reiss held for 'nuclear espionage'

  The Iranian ambassador to Paris says the charges against Clotilde Reiss suggest that the French woman was involved in nuclear espionage.

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

• The Superb Senate Health Care Reform Bill We Alrea ...

  Don't let anyone get away with sniffling "if only Kennedy were still in the Senate, we'd have a real health care reform bill." We have a Senate health care reform bill, it has a strong public option, and it's the one produced by Senator Edward M. Kennedy's own committee , the Health, Education, Labo ...

• Kennedy's Legacy: Support the Public Option

  What we've lost. 59-40. Only reconciliation can save the public option now. Reconciliation and us. Subject: Sign On to the Public Option Resolution Dear Friend, Can you call on your local Democratic Party and other local groups to adopt the Public Option Resolution demanding inclusion of a strong pu ...

• The Nightowl Newswrap

  Our top story tonight - Baitullah Mehsud is still dead. It's just that the Pakistani Taliban is admitting it now. More water over the dam This time teabaggers attacked an empty office in the middle of the night. Will the right-wing hatemongers and smear merchants accept their share of the respons ...

• Penrose On Politics: HealthScare

• Senator Claire McCaskill (D): health care town hal ...

  Cross posted from Show Me Progress At the conclusion of yesterday's town hall in Kansas City Senator Claire McCaskill (D) held a press conference. She took questions from a gathering of print reporters, television reporters, and bloggers for approximately twenty minutes. Look for Blue Girls' convers ...

Care 2

• Ovarian cancer 'is being missed'

  Women with ovarian cancer may not be diagnosed as early as they could be because their symptoms are not being recognized, a study suggests. Submitted by Dee C. to Health & Wellness | Note-it! | Add a Comment

• Town Halls and the Resurgence of the Radical Right

  How the GOP is fueling extremist paranoia. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment

• Kennedy death puts family dynasty in doubt

  Senator Edward Kennedy's death marks the twilight of one of America's most fabled political families, with no heirs to the Kennedy name poised to emerge with the same mix of gravitas, ambition and celebrity. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment

• U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy dies

  U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, a towering figure in the Democratic Party who took the helm of one of America's most fabled political families after two older brothers were assassinated, has died, his family said. He was 77 Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a C ...

• Burma: Monk Leaders Call for Boycott

  Burmese monks across Burma are preparing to launch another boycott of military personnel and their families due to ongoing abuses against Buddhist doctrine and clergy by the ruling military junta... Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

GreenBiz

• Energy Harvesting System to Gather Drive-Thru Powe ...

  New Energy Technologies is finding out how much energy it can harvest from cars stopping at a couple hotels and a burger joint.

• 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.

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

• Tab Dump

  • Is reading the best way to teach writing? • Ross Douthat and I agree: People should read Gene Healy's "The Cult of the President." • Conventional wisdom holds that people crave comfort food in times of change. Apparently not. • Rober Ebert on Alcoholics Anonymous. • Will it never end ...

• Misremembering the Past

  I'm going to quote pretty much this whole post from Nick Beaudrot because it's really, really, really good: It's simply not meaningful to compare the present circumstances to those faced by Lyndon Johnson or Franklin Roosevelt when it comes to bipartisanship . To repeat myself, "providing health ca ...

• This Vote Goes Out to the Big Guy

  I'm not a big sports fan. But I do enjoy the post-game interviews, wherein a member of the, say, Cavaliers, thanks God for his victory, implying that God simply wanted the Clippers to lose that day (in fact, it seems that God is particularly unhappy with the Clippers, and has been for some time). I ...

• Swine Flu Hearts Our Health-Care System

  The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology released its big report (pdf) on H1N1 on Tuesday. Some of the news was pretty sobering: The council estimates that swine flu could infect up to half of the population this year, hospitalizing 1.8 million and causing as many as 90,000 deat ...

• The Perfect Fed Chairman?

  The perfect Federal Reserve chairman, writes Simon Johnson, would have had both the right jobs before the crisis and the right opinions before the crisis. "Unfortunately," he says, "there is essentially no one who meets both criteria." The people with the right opinions weren't given the right jobs. ...

Booman Tribune

• Froggy Bottom Cafe

• Ted Kennedy Has Died

  Teddy Kennedy died tonight. I think we lost our best and most effective senator.

• On Blue Dogs

  One of the interesting things about the Blue Dogs is that very few of them are actually vulnerable. In fact, the Republicans don't even appear to be overly eager to defeat most of them. One of the Republican leaders in [Mike] Ross’s district, Garland County GOP Chairman Glenn Gallas, was less ...

• Death Threats to the President Are Getting Routine

  Well, isn't this special? POCAHONTAS - President Barack Obama is a fascist. This and other assertions flew through an emotionally-charged town hall meeting conducted by Sen. Chuck Grassley Monday in Pocahontas. "The president of the United States, that's who you should be concerned about. B ...

• Quote of the Day

  "If we need to save our penises from anybody, it's Obama" - Rush Limbaugh

European Tribune

• Wednesday Open Thread

  Wednesday already......

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 26 ...

  A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1885 – Birth of...

• Tuesday Open Thread

  Time to thread...

• French Socialists will have open primaries in 2012

  Le Monde reports that the Socialist Party is about to formally agree to organise open...

• The enlightenment myths need revisiting

  Madeline Bunting, in a piece in the Guardian today, outlines some of issues being thrown...

Futurismic

• New PlaceboTM! Now 50% more effective!

  You’ve heard of the placebo effect, right? Well, apparently it’s becoming stronger, much to the chagrin of the pharmaceuticals industry who are finding that less drugs are passing clinical trials as a result: MK-869 wasn’t the only highly anticipated medical breakthrough to be undone in recent ...

• Rushkoff is bullish on book futures

  Things don’t look great for the publishing industry right now, with retailers folding en masse and publishers consolidating. It’s convinced some folk to read publishing its eulogy, but Douglas Rushkoff has a more positive long-term outlook for the world of books in a short article for Publisherâ ...

• Propellantless propulsion

  Following on from solar sails we have a discussion of that other science fictional bastion of propellantless propulsion – the space elevator – it turns out that space elevators and space tethers can be used for more than just getting into orbit: A series of bolo tethers, each tether passing a s ...

• Propellantless propulsion

  Following on from solar sails we have a discussion of that other science fictional bastion of propellantless propulsion – the space elevator – it turns out that space elevators and space tethers can be used for more than just getting into orbit: A series of bolo tethers, each tether passing a s ...

• Personas: vanity searches as unique digital artfor ...

  Ever Google yourself? C’mon, we’ve all done it a few times – just to see what’s out there that might be about us. Or what might be mistaken for being about us… Well, a chap called Aaron Zinman at MIT’s Media Lab has made an installation called Personas which takes your name, does a vanit ...

Yahoo! Canada News

• YahooCanadaNews: Ryan M. for Y! CA News. U.S. poli ...

  YahooCanadaNews: Ryan M. for Y! CA News. U.S. political icon, liberal lion, last of band of brothers Edward 'Ted' Kennedy dies at 77 http://bit.ly/CVJ2d

• YahooCanadaNews: Canadian scientist aims to turn c ...

  YahooCanadaNews: Canadian scientist aims to turn chickens into dinosaurs http://bit.ly/jfQXT

• YahooCanadaNews: Ryan M for Y! CA News. Cheney sla ...

  YahooCanadaNews: Ryan M for Y! CA News. Cheney slams Obama as soft on national security

• YahooCanadaNews: Layton, PM look for common ground ...

  YahooCanadaNews: Layton, PM look for common ground in rare meeting

• YahooCanadaNews: U.S. cops use Taser on man, 76, d ...

  YahooCanadaNews: U.S. cops use Taser on man, 76, driving tractor in parade http://tr.im/x1Ze

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

• Taliban denies Kandahar bombing

  At least 43 people killed as blast devastates residential district of southern city.

• Iraqi Shia party leader Hakim dies

  Head of one of Iraq's most powerful Shia groups dies after fight against lung cancer.

• Karzai widens early poll lead

  Complaints of election fraud continue to rise as more partial results are released.

• Sri Lanka rejects 'execution' video

  Row flares after footage apparently showing killing of naked Tamils is aired in UK.

• US and Israel spar over settlements

  Binyamin Netanyahu and George Mitchell meet for talks in London amid tension.

Green Inc. - NYT

• After 150 Years, Whither Oil?

  This week marks the 150th anniversary of Colonel Drake drilling his first successful oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania. The commodity drove the modern era, but it is now facing unprecedented challenges.

• Concerns Remain as Europe Changes Bulbs

  Concerns remain about the mercury content of some energy-saving bulbs and sensitivity to the light they emit.

• Prius Diary, First Anniversary Edition

  Through unprecedented peaks in gas prices, the collapse of Detroit, and the introduction of the federal Cash for Clunkers program, Micheline Maynard looks back on a year of Prius ownership.

• Study Warns of 'Energy Sprawl'

  A new study by the Nature Conservancy predicts that by 2030, biofuels and other new forms of energy production will occupy a land area larger than Minnesota.

• Does Carbon Labeling Confuse Consumers?

  The British supermarket Tesco has added "carbon footprints" to its milk pints.

Dot Earth News

• Saving the Flying Fox

  Researchers have calculated that, based on the number of flying fox bats being legally killed by hunting, the species could be extinct within decades.

• Climate Change = Beets in December?

  Climate change does indeed seem to have extended crop times. But is that enough to be planting Bok Choy in October or harvesting beets in December as Green Guerillas suggest?

• 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?

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Sibel Edmonds testimony in Ohio congressional case ...

  Sibel Edmonds testimony in Ohio congressional case exposes Turkish blackmail & espionage complex, Valerie Plame, Jan Shakowsky and the whole ball o' wax Allegations of espionage, sexual blackmail control of sitting members of Congress, the bribery of members of Congress, Dennis Hastert, Roy Blunt, ...

• 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 ...

Daily Censored

• The Foreclosure Rescue Mirage

  Read the full story at MoJo Articles Fausto Ordoñez tells his story for what must be the 10th or the 15th time, but the edge in his voice is as fresh as if this were the first. It began near the end of 2007, as the Great Housing Crisis swept across the country and all but [...]

• Central Europe’s Misguided War on Drugs

  Read the full story at Byline Portal by Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Guatemala Times, Guatemala – Addressing drug use through criminalization and rehabilitation centers does nothing to curb demand, however, and usage rates have failed to decline. By driving users underground, criminalization contrib ...

• Gardening for Life

  Read the full story at Byline Portal by Kristin Palitza, Mail & Guardian, South Africa – With the back of her hand, she wipes beads of sweat from her forehead and adjusts the headscarf that protects her from the sun. It is mid-morning, but Maggie Mbovu has already put in a good few hours of [...]

• US Deaths in Afghanistan Headed for Another Record

  Read the full story at CommonDreams.org Headlines by Nancy A. Youssef and Jonathan S. Landay WASHINGTON – With the deaths of four U.S. soldiers Tuesday, the U.S.-led NATO coalition in Afghanistan now has lost more troops this year than in all of 2008, and August is on track to be the deadliest mo ...

• Police to Photograph Climate Camp Demonstrators

  Read the full story at CommonDreams.org Headlines All environmental protesters attending the Climate Camp demonstrations today will be photographed by police, although organisers have told activists that they do not need to co-operate by showing their faces. Senior officers said the tactic of reco ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• US new home sales leap 9.6 percent

• Videos of US homeless beatings spike online

• Atheists on the march in America

• US durable goods orders post steep jump

• Apple in hot water in France over 'exploding iPhon ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Elections Unlikely Barometer for Change in Afghani ...

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

• 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.

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Kennedy death puts family dynasty in doubt

  BOSTON (Reuters) - Senator Edward Kennedy's death marks the twilight of one of America's most fabled political families, with no heirs to the Kennedy name poised to emerge with the same mix of gravitas, ambition and celebrity.

• CIA memo details procedures for breaking detainees

  WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Sleep deprivation, "insult slaps", water dousing and "walling", or slamming a detainee's head against a wall, were techniques used by CIA interrogators to break high-value detainees, according to an agency memo. The memo, sent to the U.S. Justice Department's Office of ...

• CIA memo details procedures for breaking detainees

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sleep deprivation, "insult slaps," water dousing and "walling," or slamming a detainee's head against a wall, were techniques used by CIA interrogators to break high-value detainees, according to an agency memo.

• Farmers issue warning after fatal cow attacks

  LONDON (Reuters) - The deaths of no fewer than four people after being trampled by cows in the past two months has prompted Britain's main farming union to issue a warning about the dangers of provoking the normally docile animals.

• U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy dies at age 77

  BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, a towering figure in the Democratic Party who took the helm of one of America's most fabled political families after two older brothers were assassinated, died at age 77, his family said.

Pine River World News

• Ian Williams: Compassion - A Scots term with no Am ...

  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Ian Williams. Although this was clipped from his blog, it also appears in today's Asia Times, Hong Kong, under the title Lockerbie deal leaves no clean hands . Compassion - A Scots term with no American translation © Ian Williams August 25 ...

• China moves troops to Sino-Burma border

  IntelTrends - The following article is reprinted with permission from Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.), Thailand. PLA moves to the Kokang border © S.H.A.N. August 25, 2009 11:29 In anticipation of any hostilities that might break out between Kokang and the Burma Army, China's People's L ...

• Gloom Versus Optimism: Is the Global Economic Rece ...

  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. Gloom Versus Optimism: Is the Global Economic Recession Over? © Global Research By Shamus Cooke August 24, 2009 Few would consider the opinions of the world's central bankers to be unbiased or even accurate. These self- ...

• 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 © ...

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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.

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• 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 08.26.09

  Electric car drivers forget to act rationally Range anxiety means the battery gauge looks emptier than the gas gauge. REPORT: Tesla Model S could have 95 kWh battery We'll say it: that's a bi ...

• REPORT: Cadillac Converj has a new lease on life, ...

  Filed under: Concept Cars , Coupe , Hybrid , Cadillac , GM , Rumormill , Alternative Fuel , Luxury Cadillac Converj Concept - Click image above for high-res gallery Last we knew, the fate of the Cadillac Converj vehicle was unknown and remained " a concept vehicle undergoing a review that has not ...

• AutoblogGreen for 08.25.09

  As a green brand, will the Volt be able to compete with Prius? Toyota has a ten-year head start on owning the "green car" brand. Can GM break in? REPORT: Upcoming Toyota Prius Coupe to get Italian design ...

• 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

• Bitly partners with yfrog for picture sharing

  Short URL powerhouse Bitly is baking into its Web service the yfrog picture-sharing service made by Imageshack . yfrog competes with other Twitter -friendly image-sharing services such as Twitpic . For users who want to create easy short links to images they upload from their computers, this wil ...

• DriverSide: World's least sexy (but useful) car si ...

  A year ago, I covered DriverSide , then in beta, a site designed to help people own cars--not buy new ones or fetishize the ones they can't afford. Since then, with the crisis in the U.S. economy, the automobile market has changed dramatically, making the boring utility of DriverSide ...

• Shameless plug: TechTracker updates your apps

  I could use some updates. (Credit: Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET) Back in the old days of CNET, we had a product I loved called CNET Catchup. It scanned your computer and told you which software on it had updates available. I'm happy to report that we've brought ... Originally posted at The D ...

• 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: ...

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 ...

Democracy Now!

• Who is Obama Playing Ball With?

  It looked like it was business as usual for President Barack Obama on the first day of his Martha’s Vineyard vacation, as he spent five hours golfing with Robert Wolf, president of UBS Investment Bank and chairman and CEO of UBS Group Americas. Wolf, an early financial backer of Obama’s preside ...

• Youssef Megahed Released as Government Loses Depor ...

  A Florida immigration judge has dismissed the deportation case against Youssef Megahed. The The 23 year old Florida Student was arrested by federal immigration agents in April just three days after a jury acquitted him on federal explosives charges. After hearing a week of evidence put forward by ...

• Troy Davis and the Meaning of 'Actual Innocence'

  Sitting on death row in Georgia, Troy Davis has won a key victory against his own execution. On Aug. 17, the U.S. Supreme Court instructed a federal court in Georgia to consider, for the first time in a formal court proceeding, significant evidence of Davis’ innocence that surfaced after his conv ...

• Supreme Court Orders New Hearing For Death Row Pri ...

  The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a new evidentiary hearing for death-row inmate Troy Anthony Davis. The court ruled that Davis should have another chance to prove his innocence before the state of Georgia puts him to death. Watch/Listen to Democracy Now! coverage of Troy Davis case. ‘Global D ...

• Obama Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom

  President Obama presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to 16 people in a ceremony today at the White House. Check out Democracy Now!’s past interviews with some of those who received the award: * Rev. Joseph Lowery * Mary Robinson * Archbishop ...

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Renewable Energy Firms May Buy Old Ford Plant

BNET

- Aug 26, 2009

- 3 hours ago

They need a really clear example — an example like two renewable energy companies buying Ford's shuttered Wixom plant in Michigan and refilling it with ...

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Enel Talks on Spanish Grid, May Sell Renewable Stake

Bloomberg

- Aug 26, 2009

- 9 hours ago

Conti told Bloomberg his company still expects to complete the sale of a stake in Enel Green Power, its renewable energy unit, this year and may consider an ...

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State accepting proposals for wind, solar stimulus grants

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- Aug 26, 2009

- 1 hour ago

The grants, part of the Deploying Renewable Energy: Wind and Solar program, will be handed out in chunks ranging from $250000 to $1 million. ...

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More Stimulus Dollars Delivered to States for Renewables

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- Aug 24, 2009

- Aug 24, 2009

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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Summer school adds life skills and ecology

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- Aug 25, 2009

- 12 hours ago

Then last week the students in both courses joined those in a life-skills summer school program and together they held an ecology fair to show off what they ...

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Saving the Flying Fox

New York Times

- Aug 25, 2009

- 17 hours ago

The findings were published Tuesday in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology. The researchers, who surveyed over 30 known roost sites ...

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ELA Implementation Helps Washington Department of Ecology Take Its ...

DirectionsMag.com (press release)

- Aug 26, 2009

- 55 minutes ago

Redlands, California—The Washington Department of Ecology and ESRI signed a comprehensive enterprise license agreement (ELA) in June. ...

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Ecology Coatings Stock Trading Symbol Mistakenly Changed to ECOCE

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- Aug 24, 2009

- Aug 24, 2009

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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Herbicide Found in Water May Pose Greater Danger

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- Aug 24, 2009

- Aug 24, 2009

24 -- Drinking water containing a common herbicide could pose a greater public health risk than previously thought because regular municipal monitoring ...

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Contaminated water keeps businesses on ice

Boston Globe

- Aug 25, 2009

- 12 hours ago

The cocktail has been off the menu, along with all other mixed drinks requiring ice, since a water contamination problem forced Gloucester businesses to ...

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Plans for the San Joaquin delta meld policy with plumbing

Los Angeles Times

- Aug 26, 2009

- 9 hours ago

An overall strategy to manage the hub of the state's water supply finally has it right. By Timothy F. Brick Ageneration ago, Southern California water ...

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LCRA defends actions in water with San Antonio

Houston Chronicle

- Aug 25, 2009

- 23 hours ago

2009 AP SAN ANTONIO — Officials from the Lower Colorado River Authority say a lawsuit filed by San Antonio over excess water is meritless and a waste of ...

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