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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, August 28, 2009

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  • SOUTH AMERICA: Uribe Defends US Base Deal from N ...

    BUENOS AIRES, Aug 28 (IPS) - At a special summit Friday in Argentina, the presidents of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) questioned the agreement under which Colombia will allow the United States to use seven military bases in its territory.

  • RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Justice for Indigenous Leader's ...

    JAMBALÓ, Colombia, Aug 28 (IPS) - One night in February 1988 in the native Nasa territory of Jambaló, in southwest Colombia, soldiers barged into Etelvina Zapata's home and snatched her 21-year-old son, barefoot and clad only in shorts, accusing him of working with the leftwing guerrillas.

  • AGRICULTURE-ETHIOPIA: Changing Mindset Over Marke ...

    ADDIS ABABA, Aug 28 (IPS) - In 2001/2002, Ethiopia enjoyed a bumper maize harvest - so good in fact, that prices tumbled, and many farmers simply left the grain in the fields. When the rains failed the next season, famine loomed.

  • AFRICA: Climate Change 'is a Security Issue'

    CAPE TOWN, Aug 28 (IPS) - Africa is the canary in the mine of global security, as climate change threatens to redraw the maps of the continent and the world.

  • SWAZILAND: Bringing Men on Board to Reduce Matern ...

    MBABANE, Aug 28 (IPS) - Swazi men have very little involvement in caring for newborns and mothers, yet they are critical partners in ensuring their well being.

The Intelligence Daily

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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

  • Gypsy trio criticizes crowd for booing Madonna

    Bucharest, Romania - A Russian trio performing Gypsy music with Madonna said Friday they were "pained" to see the pop star booed during her Bucharest concert for criticizing widespread discrimination against Gypsies. Thousands of people applauded the trio's performance with Madonna in Bucharest o ...

  • Feelings Of Hopelessness Linked To Stroke Risk In ...

    Healthy middle-aged women with feelings of hopelessness appear to experience thickening of the neck arteries, which can be a precursor to stroke, according to new research out of the University of Minnesota Medical School. The study, published online August 27 in Stroke: Journal of the American Hea ...

  • Theft of the Biggest Thief: Bernanke personal bank ...

    Small-Time Crooks Target The Biggest Crook Of Them All! No one is safe from identity theft, not even the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Ben Bernanke's personal checking account became entangled in an elaborate identity-theft scheme after his wife Anna's purse was stolen last August at a Capitol ...

  • U.S. Regulators shut banks in Calif, Md, Minn

    Washington - Regulators on Friday shut down banks in California, Maryland and Minnesota, pushing to 84 the number of bank failures this year amid the soured economy and rising loan defaults. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over the three banks: Affinity Bank, based in Ventura, Calif., wi ...

  • A Reluctance to Spend May Be a Legacy of the Reces ...

    Austin, Tex. - Even as evidence mounts that the Great Recession has finally released its chokehold on the American economy, experts worry that the recovery may be weak, stymied by consumers' reluctance to spend. Given that consumer spending has in recent years accounted for 70 percent of the nati ...

Threat Level

  • Spy Son Rats Out Mole Father

    The son of a disgraced CIA agent convicted of funneling classified information to the Russians has pleaded guilty to charges of helping his imprisoned father collect overdue bills for his dad’s nefarious activities. The 25-year-old son, Nathaniel James Nicholson of Eugene, Oregon, traveled through ...

  • Accused TJX Hacker Agrees to Guilty Plea — Faces ...

    Accused TJX hacker, Albert Gonzalez, has accepted a plea agreement with prosecutors in Boston that will put an end to cases that authorities have described as one of the largest credit card and identity theft cases ever prosecuted in the country. Gonzalez, 28, has agreed to plead guilty to all of t ...

  • ACLU Calls Pentagon Hacker’s Extradition ‘Trag ...

    The American Civil Liberties Union came to the defense of British hacker Gary McKinnon on Thursday, decrying an extradition treaty that could soon see McKinnon standing trial in the U.S. on charges of cracking and damaging American military systems. “The recent tragic case of Gary McKinnon highlig ...

  • Accused TJX Hacker Expected to Finalize Plea Deal ...

    An attorney for accused TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez says his client is expected to finalize a plea agreement with authorities in New York and Massachusetts by this Friday, according to the Associated Press. “My client is extremely remorseful as to what has happened,” said Rene Palomino, Jr., who ...

  • Conficker Botnet Messes With Reporters’ Heads By ...

    Remember the Conficker botnet? It’s still out there, lurking, waiting, dreaming like Cthulhu, as mysterious and deadly as it was last spring when the New York Times called it an “unthinkable disaster” in the making, and 60 Minutes warned the entire internet could be disrupted. Now, five month ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Canadians Warned to Get Health Insurance for U.S. ...

    Traffic in Vancouver, as I learned the hard way during a recent trip to British Columbia, is a nightmare. The crisis has become so severe that the city is now home to North America's only commercial radio station dedicated 24/7...

  • Canadians Warned to Get Health Insurance for U.S. ...

    Traffic in Vancouver, as I learned the hard way during a recent trip to British Columbia, is a nightmare. The crisis has become so severe that the city is now home to North America's only commercial radio station dedicated 24/7...

  • America Wins When Democrats Go It Alone

    Back in January, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman presciently warned President Obama about the GOP's bad faith in negotiating the stimulus bill, announcing, "Look, Republicans are not going to come on board." Now Krugman's paper is reporting the White...

  • CBS News Slams AARP, Promotes Right-Wing ASA Inste ...

    As its 2003 support for President Bush's overpriced, unfunded and deeply flawed Medicare prescription benefit showed, the AARP can make some strange political bedfellows. Buti in a segment Monday slamming the 40 million member organization over its role in the...

  • Obama Falling Victim to Krugman's Law. Again.

    Following President Obama's lead, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Sunday announced that a public option is "not the essential element" of the administration's health insurance reform push. Sadly, that development seems to signal that, as with the...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Designer IV Bags

    Link and photo via medgadget.com.

  • To Make A Tree

    Designed by Fabio Novembre, the trees act as an oasis in the middle of the city Milan: Link and photo via mocoloco.com.

  • RIBA, aka Robot for Interactive Body Assistance

    The Japanese are gearing up for a time when there are more elderly folks needing assistance than there are young whippersnappers available to do the choirs. The RIBA, or Robot for Interactive Body Assistance, is a 400 pound (180 kilos) device designed by engineers at the RIKEN institute and Tokai Ru ...

  • Lil’ Cyborg Room

    For the emergency deposits: Photos from bladediary.com. Thanks to Radian for the link!

  • Night Sound: Ghost Box Recordings

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Planetsave

  • What’s In Your Bloodstream?

    A two-year-old Minnesota biomonitoring program has now confirmed that residents of suburbs east of the Twin Cities have perfluorochemicals (PFCs) in their blood, although government agencies stress that the levels are only slightly higher than those in the general population. Several landfill site ...

  • 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 »

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Don't Fall for the Hype: Public Option is Still Al ...

    Robert Reich has a great explanation of how and why the "public option is dead" meme is manipulative horseshit. Horseshit that can be easily overcome, but only through organizing and mobilizing now. He closes with the perfect anecdote for dismissing the cowardly incrementalists: Years ago, as the st ...

  • Politicize My Death

    The wonderful Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon demolishes the faux pearl-clutchers in the Grand Old Poopyheads: I'm almost 32 and I'm in good health, so this might seem a little premature. But as the President pointed out that even young, healthy people should have living wills, the occasion of Ted Kenn ...

  • MOJO: The Secret History of Hurricane Katrina

    In the rush by Republicans to marginalize the accomplishments of Senator Kennedy because of one stupid move on his part forty years ago, they're once again playing their perennial idiot game of diverting attention from their own cruelty, banality and complete disregard for humanity. We could talk so ...

  • The Measure of a Liberal Man

    President Obama is going to have to stretch quite a bit to make his Saturday eulogy beat this: Finally, we must take a measure of the man. Not the person, or the legislator, or the family member. No, the man. Ted Kennedy was more of a man's man than any of the brush-clearing, hick-talking, pick-up d ...

  • I'm Proud to be a Liberal

    By David Horsey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer h/t They Gave Us A Republic commenter paulfromportland. Order reprints here.

Care 2

  • TAKE ACTION---Help Save 150 American Buffalo!

    We’ve only got weeks to go, but we’ve done it before, and with your help, we will do it again.This is an opportunity to put one's money where one's mouth is in terms of protecting endangered animals. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • The Cow Turns Green

    Few creatures would seem as beneficent as the cow. Properly grazed and groomed, it gives us burgers and brie, boot leather and fertilizer. Lately, however, radical green groups and celebrity vegans like Paul McCartney have made cows out to be weapons of m Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Green L ...

  • Urge Government to Purchase and Use Recycled Paper ...

    Urge your representative and his/her staff to always purchase and use paper products which are manufactured from post consumer waste. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Kennedy and Health Care, Then and Now

    One of the great and bitter lessons of Senator Edward M. Kennedy's political career is also the most timely for House Democrats: The need to seize the political moment on health care reform. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • US-Colombia deal could fuel arms purchases

    Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has raised the stakes for Friday's meeting of South American presidents by threatening to break relations with Colombia over plans to give U.S. troops a 10-year lease on its bases Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • Japan two-party system — long in arriving

    Observers of Japanese politics who have long thought the country was ripe for a real two-party system are watching Sunday's election with a dual sense of incredulity -- surprise that it has taken so long to oust the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and surprise that it finally looks like ...

  • Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, the world’s mo ...

    Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican town on the U.S. border where daylight murders and beheaded bodies have become the norm, is the world's most violent city, a study says.

  • Ghosts of Germany’s communist past return fo ...

    Will the party that traces its roots to the Communist East German party that built the Berlin Wall soon be in power in a west German state? Or is the rise of the far-left in western Germany to the brink of its first role as a coalition partner in a state government with the centre-left Social Democr ...

  • North Korea tries fast food. Juche Burgers for the ...

    A customer carries a tray of food at North Korea's Samthaesong Soft Drink Restaurant in Pyongyang, which is shown in an undated photo released by North Korea’s official KCNA news agency August 28, 2009

  • No Obama moment in Japan

    Opinion polls show the opposition Democratic Party of Japan is set for a runaway victory in Sunday's general election, but voters are showing none of the enthusiasm that swept Barack Obama to the U.S. presidency last year.

Ezra Klein

  • Tab Dump

    • Do we need another Church Committee? • Rumor is that Mario Batali is opening a restaurant in DC. • Blame Congress for the deficit. • Did the Education Department kill Reading Rainbow? Sigh. We'll miss you, Reading Rainbow.

  • What Happened to Chuck Grassley's Deficit-Improvin ...

    Chuck Grassley on whether the "Gang of Six" will reach a deal when the Senate returns in September: If you asked me that on Aug. 6, I would have said yes, I think so, September. But you’re asking me on Aug. 27 and you’ve got the impact of democracy in America. Everybody’s showing up at town ...

  • Ted Kennedy's (Interim) Successor

    Like Matt Yglesias , I'm puzzled by the charge that it's somehow hypocritical for the Massachusetts legislature to modify their 2004 modification to their succession laws. Basically, the 2004 change blocked Mitt Romney from appointing a successor if John Kerry vacated the seat to assume the presiden ...

  • Let's All Go to the Movies ...

    I finally saw "District 9" last night. Good movie! Thought I'd let it get a bit overhyped. Go in expecting a somewhat gruesome horror/survival film rather than an incisive art film, or an action-oriented summer blockbuster, and you'll really enjoy it. And for a slightly more nuanced exploration of m ...

  • Burn Carbon Responsibly

    One thing that Elizabeth Kolbert's broadside against eco-stunt literature (the books about going green by living without carbon, or electricity, or trash, or toilet paper) didn't do a very good job of explaining is that making sensible decisions about how to reduce carbon emissions is really, real ...

Booman Tribune

  • Serious Question

    Andrew Cohen raises 10 issues related to the CIA's bad week. Here's the one that interests me: 5. The aforementioned [Eric] Holder now is truly caught between legal and political pincers—to prosecute or not, to look backward or forward-- and how he handles that tension will go a long way in det ...

  • Why Mass Extinction Matters

    A lot of people will tell you we shouldn't care that much if many of the species of the planet go extinct as appears to be occurring right before our eyes. Well, for those of you who don't give a damn about the spotted owl, much less all those unknown plants and insects and creepy crawlies you'd ju ...

  • Kos is a Little Harsh

    I think Markos is getting a little rough with Max Baucus. In my opinion, the biggest part of the problem with the Finance Committee is that there are Dems serving there like Kent Conrad, Tom Carper, and Blanche Lincoln who don't support the public option. Baucus has said that he supports it. But ...

  • Quote of the Day

    David Foster Wallace: Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Don't you get the sense that this is precisely what happened to Republicans and conservatives and right wing loons like Dick Cheney and Tom ...

  • Investigating Yourself

    There's probably nothing more awkward than a government investigating itself for murder and torture. You get weird details, like the announcement by DCI Panetta that the CIA will cover all the legal expenses of case officers who come under suspicion for being murderers or torturers. "Panetta w ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Swarming to it

    One of my favourite[1] plausible science fictional tropes is that of tiny robotic insects. The latest step towards their instantiation has been taken by researchers in Sweden, Spain, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland as they put forward their conception of how swarms of mass-produced robotic fleas cou ...

  • Books you wish had been written, but weren’t

    Wired’s GeekDad blog has a post by Corrina Lawson in which she lists five books she wishes had been written, but which were not. They’re mostly continuations of a much-loved series or character, but none of the ones there particularly flick my switches. So, I thought “why not throw that one op ...

  • Books you wish had been written, but weren’t

    Wired’s GeekDad blog has a post by Corrina Lawson in which she lists five books she wishes had been written, but which were not. They’re mostly continuations of a much-loved series or character, but none of the ones there particularly flick my switches. So, I thought “why not throw that one op ...

  • The intersection of gaming and guilt

    Over at The Guardian, Keith Stuart finds himself distressed by the rise of computer games that focus on physical fitness; his concern is that the whole appeal of computer games has always been the ability to live vicariously as someone other than yourself, and that this development suggests that bod ...

  • Three speculative economies: which would you pick?

    Jamais Cascio is stirring things up at Fast Company again, this time with a multi-part article on speculative future economies. In this second part thereof, he lays out three possible economic scenarios, one each for the United States, Japan and the European Union – the other major powers have bee ...

Yahoo! Canada News

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

  • Rare Photo of Snow Leopard in Afghanistan

    Dot Earth likes a good animal photo as much as the next blog, particularly when the animal is beautiful and endangered. So we're pleased to present a photograph of a snow leopard, taken by a camera trap in the Wakhan Corridor in northeastern Afghanistan.

  • Nano Toothpaste

    Many people worry about the unanticipated consequences of otherwise beneficial developments. For some of them, nanotechnology has been a hot topic. And according to a report this week by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, there is more than ever for them to worry about.

  • Giving Earth That Worn-Down Feeling

    We've all heard about how modern farming isn't good for the land. Tilling and other practices leave farmland vulnerable to erosion; precious topsoil is literally being washed away. The real problem, it seems, is that the land that humans are washing away is not being remade.

  • An Environmentally Friendly Mosquito Repellent?

    Researchers report that they have identified a compound that blocks the ability of mosquitoes to detect carbon dioxide. It is the carbon dioxide we exhale that draws mosquitoes to us.

  • 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.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Classic video: The Website is Down

    This is just a damn funny video -- featuring a busy techie who needs to play some Halo while fools bug him. A crowd favorite! read more »

  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Interview: Sara Ziff and Ole Schell

    Read the full story at MoJo Articles Sara Ziff began her career as a top runway model when she was just 14 years old. For a decade, she worked for designers like Ralph Lauren and Marc Jacobs. Now, Ziff and her partner Ole Schell made a documentary on what modeling is really like backstage. The two [ ...

  • Texas ‘tenthers’ plan pro-secession rally tomo ...

    Read the full story at Think Progress A organization calling itself the “Texas Nationalist Movement” plans to march on the Texas capitol tomorrow to demand “Sovereignty or Secession”: Texans will converge on Austin to deliver a petition to Restore America by Demanding our Sovereignty or w ...

  • Huckabee: Kennedy Was Fighting Cancer To Deny Canc ...

    Read the full story at Think Progress Today, in an attempt to criticize Democrats for using Ted Kennedy’s legacy to pass health care reform, Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AK) argued during a radio segment on ABC Radio Networks that Kennedy would have died sooner under health care reform: It was President ...

  • Big Brother is Here

    Yes, Big Brother is here, and amazingly, the local press helped with most of the funding. Of course, the video surveillance camera manufacturer “donated” a lot of cameras for this social experiment which naturally the local government claims is not a social experiment. Unbelievably, the executiv ...

  • In Brazil’s Wild West, police press politician w ...

    Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories Police say the Amazonas congressman and former host of a TV crime show Wallace Souza led a gang to carry out violence to boost ratings and appeal. …

AlterNet's Breaking News

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Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Jackson death ruled homicide, focus on doctor

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop star Michael Jackson's death was ruled a homicide from drug overdose on Friday, fueling speculation his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, may soon be charged with manslaughter or another crime.

  • Drunk badger disrupts traffic

    BERLIN (Reuters) - A badger in Germany got so drunk on over-ripe cherries it staggered into the middle of a road and refused to budge, police said on Wednesday.

  • U.S. credit card issuers pare lending limits

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of Americans have already seen their credit card limits shrink, and millions more face the same fate as lenders prepare for tougher U.S. consumer protection rules.

  • Republicans, Democrats honor Kennedy at memorial s ...

    BOSTON (Reuters) - Republicans and Democrats came together on Friday to honor Senator Edward Kennedy, the standard-bearer for liberal Democrats and patriarch of America's fabled political dynasty, at a private memorial service.

  • EXCLUSIVE: Berlusconi sues local, foreign media fo ...

    ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is launching legal actions against media in Italy and abroad, including Britain, France and Spain, for libel in their coverage of his private life, his lawyer said on Friday.

Pine River World News

  • U.S. debt to hit $20 trillion by 2020

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. U.S. debt to hit $20 trillion by 2020 © World Socialist Web Site By Tom Eley August 28, 2009 Forecasts published this week by the Obama administration and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate that the ...

  • BURMA: Rebels say junta shell kills Chinese soldie ...

    IntelTrends - The following article is reprinted with permission from Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.), Thailand. Rebels say junta shell kills Chinese soldiers © S.H.A.N. August 28, 2009 11:55 The United Wa State Army (UWSA) that has joined battle with its Kokang ally against the Burma ...

  • IRAN: Death row terrorist says U.S. has supporting ...

    IntelTrends - The following article is from Iran Daily, Tehran. Rigi Implicates U.S. in Terror Attacks © Iran Daily August 27, 2009 A terrorist mastermind on death row in Iran said the United States has a supporting role in the terror attacks inside Iran. "After meeting with U.S. officials in ...

  • 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 ...

  • Res'Eau-WaterNet

  • Knowledge Transfer Workshop: Preliminary program p ...

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

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

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

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

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

  • Walkerton Clean Water Centre Receives Ontario Mini ...

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

  • Filling the glass

    Innovation Canada : Showcasing Research Excellence in Canada

PDA AMERICA

  • Video: Tributes to Ted Kennedy and Healthcare

    Health Care Is A Right Not A Privilege! “What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system” - on health care reform for which he campaigned throughout ...

  • How much security did $1 trillion buy?

    From RethinkAfghanistan The war in Afghanistan is increasing the likelihood that American civilians will be killed in a future terrorist attack. Part six of Rethink Afghanistan brings you three former high-ranking CIA agents on the record ...

  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • Marler Interview at Eating Well Magazine

    Myself, along with a number of others concerned about the safety of our food supply, were recently interviewed for Eating Well Magazine. Here is my interview: SPECIAL REPORTS - Food Safety Expert: Bill Marler Bill Marler is a managing partner and personal injury lawyer at Marler Clark LLP, PS, and ...

  • The Partnership for Food Safety Education Tackles ...

    Recipes can be handed down from generation to generation and so can myths surrounding food safety -- sometimes with sickening consequences. September is National Food Safety Education Month and the Partnership for Food Safety Education (PFSE), in cooperation with the Food and Drug Administration, th ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

  • VIDEO: They Might Be Giants ask "How can you deny ...

    Filed under: Etc. , Videos , Alternative Fuel They Might Be Giants "Electric Car" - Click above to watch the video after the break They Might Be Giants are proving that Neil Young isn't the only musician who can sing about cleaner transportation . The quirky band is releasing a CD/DVD album Tuesd ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 08.29.09

    Greenlings: Can I convert an older vehicle to something more environmentally-friendly? Options for greening up the clunker you didn't turn in. Tesla Motors co-founder Marc Tarpenning explains why Roadster ...

  • How did GM arrive at 230 mpg for the 2011 Chevrole ...

    Filed under: Hybrid , Chevrolet , GM , Alternative Fuel Neither General Motors nor the EPA are making declarative statements about how, exactly, the 2011 Chevy Volt will achieve it's much-touted 230 mpg rating that was announced today. GM's most clear statement (available in full after the break) ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 08.12.09

    Two new GM concepts go back to the Bare Necessities (w/VIDEO) Just in case that whole Volt thing doesn't work out, how about these vehicles? Why did the U.S. grant $2.4 billion for batteries? Independence ...

  • GM shows off 120V and 240V chargers for 2011 Chevy ...

    Filed under: Technology , Chevrolet , GM , Alternative Fuel Chevy Volt Home Chargers - Click above for high-res image gallery As part of the massive media blitz being rolled out today by General Motors in preparation for the new 230-mpg Chevy Volt and some B20 biodiesel trucks (more on these lat ...

Rafe's Radar

  • What's the best phone for Google Voice?

    Dear readers: We are testing a new commenting system, JS-Kit's Echo, in this post. In addition to providing a more comprehensive sign-on system and real-time updating, Echo also collates comments on this story from other Web sources, such as Twitter. Check out the action at the end of the post. -- ...

  • 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 ...

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!

  • Part II: Tim Robbins on Activism in Hollywood from ...

    Tim Robbins is the artistic director of the Actor’s Gang and an Academy-award winning actor, director, producer, and writer. He won an Oscar for his role in “Mystic River” and is well-known for his roles in numerous films over the past two decades including “The Shawshank Redemption”, †...

  • 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 ...

Farming Pathogens

  • Bird Flu’s Industrial Revolution

    Public talks can be private affairs. In sharing our work we bare the triumphs and limits of a thinking born in long hours alone or with a few fellow conspirators sworn to secrecy. But in breaking our oaths we are able to take the next step. In talking bird flu twice this past month I learned [... ...

  • The Agro-Industrial Roots of Swine Flu H1N1

    Mexico appears ground zero for an outbreak of deadly human-specific H1N1. Of the over 1400 people that have been reportedly infected there so far, 86 have died. Short chains of transmission of the virus have also been reported in California, Texas, Kansas, Ohio, New York City, Canada and New Zeal ...

  • The NAFTA Flu

    Cases of swine flu H1N1 are now reported in Honduras, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, Austria, Thailand, Israel, etc. Can’t keep up at this point. H1N1 is making its way across the world by hierarchical diffusion. By the world’s transportation network it is bouncing down a hierarchy of citi ...

  • ‘Farming Human Pathogens’ Now Availabl ...

    ‘Farming Human Pathogens’Â is now available for purchase. The book introduces a cutting-edge formalism based on the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory to describe how punctuated shifts in mesoscale ecosystems imposed by human intervention can entrain patterns of gene expressio ...

  • The Hog Industry Strikes Back

    Swine flu H1N1 appears at one and the same time moving full-boar and on its cloven heels. The World Health Organization reports 15,510 official cases in 53 countries, with new countries regularly reporting in. An order or two more cases are likely unreported and together represent an atypical sprin ...

Planetsave

  • What’s In Your Bloodstream?

    A two-year-old Minnesota biomonitoring program has now confirmed that residents of suburbs east of the Twin Cities have perfluorochemicals (PFCs) in their blood, although government agencies stress that the levels are only slightly higher than those in the general population. Several landfill site ...

  • 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 »

  • Blacklisted News

  • Plan To Increase U.S. Access To Military Bases In ...

    South American leaders are due to square off tomorrow over a plan to increase US access to military bases in Colombia , a deal that has damaged Barack Obama's attempt to mend relations with the region.

  • VIDEO - Rep. Frank: House will pass Ron Paul’s â ...

    Powerful House Financial Services Committee chairman says central bank’s lending powers to be ‘curtailed’

  • Child's play may revolutionize video gaming, polic ...

    What do hide-and-seek, police searches and video games such as Half-Life 2 have in common? More than you would think, say two University of Alberta researchers.

  • A "Dark Winter" for Public Health: Meet Homeland S ...

    In the wake of the 2001 anthrax attacks, successive U.S. administrations have pumped some $57 billion across 11 federal agencies and departments into what is euphemistically called "biodefense."

  • Forced vaccinations, quarantine camps, health care ...

    The United States of America is devolving into medical fascism and Massachusetts is leading the way with the passage of a new bill, the “Pandemic Response Bill” 2028, reportedly just passed by the MA state Senate and now awaiting approval in the House. This bill suspends virtually all Constituti ...

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 ...

  • You Can Now Find Our Investigative Research at the ...

    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

  • Who's Paying to Kill US Health Reform ?

    In watching town hall after town hall, many of us have looked at attendees frantically spouting nonsense about "death panels" and comparing the public health insurance option to Hitler and wondered, "where do they get these people?"Inspired by John Boehner and friends, Campaign for America's Future ...

  • Microsoft fails; NZOSS steps up; NZ public wins

    Talks between the government and Microsoft fell apart. The government was trying to get a bulk deal from Microsoft, and remove the need for each government agency to enter negotiations individually. Unfortunately Microsoft walked away. SSC spokesperson Marian Mortensen says government looks for t ...

  • Govt has Roundtable on speed dial for advice

    During the Clark-Cullen years there was at least an attempt when setting up advisory boards and review panels to get a range of voices - not that the Clark-Cullen administrations would then necessarily utilise the advice given.In 2000 for example the Labour-Alliance Government picked Rob McLeod - th ...

  • CIA used Blackwater to kill Jihadists

    The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials. Executives from Blackwater, which has generate ...

  • 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

Independent ( London )

  • Jackson's death ruled as homicide

    Michael Jackson's death was a homicide, the Los Angeles coroner formally ruled yesterday, saying the pop star died from acute intoxication from the drug propofol and other conditions.

  • Australians rediscover the 'million dollar mermaid ...

    Dubbed Australia's mermaid and "the perfect woman", Annette Kellerman was a household name a century ago, in Britain and the US as well as at home. But the marathon swimmer, vaudeville performer and silent movie star faded from view and nowadays she has been all but forgotten, even in her own count ...

  • Missing girl could have been found in 2006

    He snatched the little girl at random, bundling her into a car as he cruised for victims around the holiday resorts of California's Sierra Nevada. Then he drove more than 200 miles to his rambling home on the outskirts of a blue-collar city called Antioch.

  • Dutch court orders yacht girl, 13, into state care

    A court in Utrecht yesterday becalmed the plans of a 13-year-old Dutch girl to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.

  • Crying over spilt milk: exasperated dairy farmers ...

    Christophe Voivenel is a dairy farmer, and the son of dairy farmers, in one of the finest dairy regions in the world. At some point in the next few days, he will commit an act of sacrilege. He will rise, as usual, at 6am to milk his 60 cows and then throw away the warm, white liquid which is his fam ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • U.N. nuclear watchdog denies hiding Iran informati ...

    Summary: Marc Vidricaire The U.N. nuclear watchdog on Friday hit back at reports that it had hidden information about Iran's disputed atomic program, in a rare public comment on the agency's sensitive inspections work. Some media reports, citing unnamed Western diplomats and Israeli officials, h ...

  • Nuclear report on Iran finds cooperation. Problem ...

    Summary: If China and Russia do prove over the coming weeks to be reluctant to proceed with toughened sanctions on Iran, some world leaders are beginning to suggest that new measures might be adopted by key economies independently of the Security Council. In a closely watched meeting Thursday in ...

  • Iran uranium enrichment 'slowed'

    Summary: In a confidential report obtained by the BBC, the IAEA said Iran was continuing its sensitive uranium enrichment work, in defiance of the UN Security Council. But it said there has been a slowdown in production. A senior UN official said the reasons for the slowdown were not clear. Enri ...

  • Netanyahu calls for 'crippling sanctions' against ...

    Summary: BERLIN — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Thursday for "crippling sanctions" against Iran to stop its disputed nuclear work, on a solemn visit to Berlin marked by Holocaust remembrance. source: AFP read more

  • Iran's Khamenei says protest leaders not foreign-b ...

    Summary: TEHRAN — Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that he has no proof the leaders of the post-election violence in June were backed by foreign states, state television reported. source: AFP read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • 2009: The Status of "Spaceship Earth"

    The understanding that life of this planet is composed of an interconnected system must be considered as one of the great discoveries of science, perhaps as profound as Darwin's discovery of natural selection. One of the leading experts on this...

  • "Monster of the Milky Way": The Supermassive Black ...

    While they are difficult to see for the obvious reason that they give off no light, we now know that they exist because there are circumstances in which they can be located by their effect on other stars. Although it...

  • Top "Daily Galaxy" on Social Media: Twitter, Faceb ...

    How Our Ancestors Won Out Over the Neatherthals: They Ate Them -A Galaxy Classic The "Great Wall" Of Space: Galactic Superclusters a Billion Light Years Away Extend for 5% of Observable Universe Saturn's Titan - Is It a Living Lab...

  • "Dark Flow" Discovered at Edge of the Universe: Hu ...

    "Dark Flow" sounds like a new SciFi Channel series. It's not! Back in the Middle Ages, maps showed terrifying images of sea dragons at the boundaries of the known world. Today, scientists have observed strange new motion at the very...

  • BioBombers of the Deep-Ocean Cosmos

    The depths of the ocean and space have a lot in common: they're hard to get to, often very dark, and we always end up with alien-looking things firing glowing projectiles at us. A brand new species has been discovered,...

Natural News

  • Wake Up, America: Forced vaccinations, quarantine ...

    (NaturalNews) The United States of America is devolving into medical fascism and Massachusetts is leading the way with the passage of a new bill, the "Pandemic Response Bill" 2028, reportedly just passed by the MA state Senate and now awaiting approval in the House. This bill suspends virtually all ...

  • The Mothers Act Disease Mongering Campaign - Part ...

    (NaturalNews) This is part four of an article series by Evelyn Pringle. Find previous parts here: Part One (http://www.naturalnews.com/026634_drugs_suicide_adhd.html), Part Two (http://www.naturalnews.com/026707_health_disease_depression.html), Part Three (http://www.naturalnews.com/026742_depressio ...

  • Health Care Reform: How It Should Look

    (NaturalNews) Health care reform is the hottest debate around, but unfortunately, Washington has it all wrong. Health care reform shouldn't be about who is going to pay for more drugs for people; health care reform should be about how to create and keep healthy people, so that symptoms of disease ar ...

  • The Mothers Act Disease Mongering Campaign - Part ...

    (NaturalNews) This is part four of an article series by Evelyn Pringle. Find previous parts here: Part One (http://www.naturalnews.com/026634_drugs_suicide_adhd.html), Part Two (http://www.naturalnews.com/026707_health_disease_depression.html) and Part Three (http://www.naturalnews.com/026742_depres ...

  • Statins Cause Serious Structural Muscle Damage

    (NaturalNews) If there is a super star in Big Pharma's list of money making drugs, it may well be the group of medications known as statins. The New York Times reported last year that statins are, in fact, the biggest selling drugs in the world. Their names, like Lipitor and Crestor, are familiar fr ...

  • 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

  • Media ignore GOP proposal that would cause many t ...

    Several media outlets have purported to fact-check claims about government funding for abortion but have ignored the fact that a proposed amendment by abortion opponents would have had the effect of forcing many who currently have abortion coverage to lose such coverage even if they receive no ...

  • Conservative media call review of interrogations ...

    Following Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement that a federal prosecutor will be conducting "a preliminary review into whether federal laws were violated" during interrogations of detainees suspected of terrorism, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) asserted that the investigation would be a "declara ...

  • Fox News "hops" aboard Tea Party Express with ramp ...

    On August 28, Fox News devoted live coverage and publicity to the kickoff of the Tea Party Express, a bus tour organized by the Republican PAC Our Country Deserves Better, whose mission is to oppose President Obama and the Democrats. Fox News' kickoff coverage foll ...

  • Wash. Times falsely, hypocritically claim ...

    The Washington Times falsely claimed in an editorial that in an "extreme" attempt "to portray opponents of government health care as irrational hatemongers," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced "fictitious" crowds carrying swastikas at health care reform town hall meetings. In fact, swastikas have ...

  • ABC quoted Hatch saying Kennedy "wouldn't want [he ...

    On ABC's World News , senior congressional correspondent Jonathan Karl stated that "Republicans, even those close to Senator [Ted] Kennedy, are not buying" the argument that health care reform should be passed to honor Kennedy's memory, then aired a clip of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) claiming Kennedy ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Comparing Obama to Hitler

    Political scientists and historians from Rush Limbaugh to Sean Hannity to Lyndon LaRouche to that woman with short brown hair who, I deduce, must be a scholar of German history, are comparing Obama to Hitler and his likening his... Sponsored Topics: Rush Limbaugh - Lyndon LaRouche - Sean Hannity ...

  • Road to a 2010 Democratic Victory

    The general handwringing in Washington from the Repubs on the new deficit numbers are the classic response of people like John Boehner who partied too hard in college to ever get to that morning Econ 101 lecture. Paul Krugman straightens... Sponsored Topics: Paul Krugman - John Boehner - Washing ...

  • Beware Authoritative "Inside Washington" Sources W ...

    Washington, D.C. is an echo chamber in which anyone who sounds authoritative repeats the conventional authoritative wisdom about the "consensus" of inside opinion, which they've heard from someone else who sounds equally authoritative, who of course has heard it from... Sponsored Topics: W ...

  • Wife of Brandeis Pres Intervenes On Tenure for Pal ...

    This comes from Richard Silverstein out in Seattle and is pretty incredible. I know that Shulamit Reinharz, the Brandeis First Lady, has tried to squelch debate on the Middle East before but I thought she confined her neocon/McCarthyist efforts to... Sponsored Topics: Middle East - Brandeis Univ ...

  • Palestinians and Israelis reclaiming a village's m ...

    I just got the latest mailing from the great Israeli organization Zochrot, about a tour they organized last Saturday to the ruins of the Palestinian village al-Damun. This report is written is such a vivid and humanistic way, it really... Sponsored Topics: Palestinian people - Middle East ...

TruthOut

  • How Nixon Gave Ted Kennedy Bodyguards - to Spy on ...

    Richard Nixon. (Photo: Keystone / Getty Images) read more

  • The Arsonists

    Why do banks act as though the crisis they provoked shouldn't change anything? The crisis hasn't finished producing its devastations and bankers and traders are already resuming - continuing? - to grant themselves insane remunerations. This situation is shocking coming from establishmen ...

  • State Department Recommends Aid Cutoff to Honduras

    After two months, the State Department is poised to formally declare what was obvious to most of the world: On June 28, Honduras experienced a military coup. State Department staff have recommended to Secretary of State Clinton that the ouster of Honduran President Zelaya be formally d ...

  • Health Industry Donates Heavily to Blue Dog Democr ...

    Washington - As the Obama administration and Democrats wrangled over health care overhaul efforts during the first half of the year, the Democratic Party's Blue Dog political-action committee was receiving more than half of its $1.1 million in campaign contributions from the pharmaceuti ...

  • Bill Richardson Sees No Charges in US Graft Probe

    Santa Fe, New Mexico - New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson's office said on Thursday it did not expect federal prosecutors to bring charges in a legal probe that led him to withdraw his nomination for a post in President Barack Obama's Cabinet. "While the U.S. Attorney's office has ...

The Heathlander

  • The “British method”

    Following a political campaign by the BNP, a Muslim man was abducted from his home in Essex and threatened at knifepoint to stop organising weekly prayer sessions at the community centre. Asked to response, local BNP councillor Pat Richardson denied the BNP was behind the attack, explaining: “Fire ...

  • ‘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 ...

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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

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Unexplained Mysteries

  • The “spirit or alien” question

    Peter Fotis Kapnistos: At the dawn of our social development, humans believed that the sky or firmament was the abode of spirits. In most traditio...

  • Patrick Stewart saw ghost at haunted theatre

    Actor Patrick Stewart has reported seeing a ghost in one of Britain's most haunted theatres during a performance of Waiting for Godot with Sir Ian...

  • Ancient cathedral found on Orkney

    Archaeologists have discovered a massive ancient cathedral dating back thousands of years between two of Orkney's most famous landmarks, the Ring ...

  • Museum moon rock is a fake

    A piece of moon rock featured in the Dutch national museum that was supposedly retrieved from the moon by the Apollo astronauts and donated after ...

  • Creating dinosaurs from chickens

    Canadian palaeontologist Hans Larsson believes that he can manipulate the embryos of chickens in order to create a dinosaur, research that could o...

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 ...

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Climate

  • August 28, 2009

    Forestry leads Indonesian Agency’s Roadmap for Emissions Cuts (Reuters) An Indonesian environment agency has set out a roadmap for the government to adopt forestry, energy, transport, industrial and agriculture policies that would slash carbon emissions by the world's No. 3 emitter. Poll: O ...

  • August 27, 2009

    African Leaders Consider $67 Billion-a-Year Climate Plan (Bloomberg) African leaders meeting in Libya next week will consider a plan to ask industrialized nations to pay developing countries $67 billion a year as part of a common negotiating position for climate talks in Copenhagen. Coal India ...

  • August 27, 2009

    African Leaders Consider $67 Billion-a-Year Climate Plan (Bloomberg) African leaders meeting in Libya next week will consider a plan to ask industrialized nations to pay developing countries $67 billion a year as part of a common negotiating position for climate talks in Copenhagen. Coal India ...

  • 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 ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: The Next War, On-Screen and Off

    [ Note for TomDispatch readers: We're back! Refreshed and ready for action, but still on a somewhat relaxed schedule until after Labor Day. The next piece will be posted Sunday night. Tom ] G.I. Joe, Post-American Hero The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism By Tom Engelhardt The Pre ...

  • 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 ...

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    President Barack Obama has staked his presidency on winning his "necessary" war in Afghanistan. Coming into office, one of his first acts, on Feb. 18, was to boost US troop levels in that country by 17,000, bringing the total number of soldiers and Marines in the country to about 57,000, to which ...

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    In a New York Times story today about health insurance executives and their employees complaining about criticism of the health insurance industry, one executive acknowledges that the industry is all about rationing care: "I believe we're getting the pushback because we are standing up for what we b ...

  • Health Care Reform: A Time for Real Action

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    Not us, apparently, if Congress has its way. Believe it or not, some people are actually going through these proposed health care bills. Not many of our elected officials, mind you, but SOME people are. Thank heavens, since you won’t believe some of the more egregious proposals contained in it ...

  • How Will Bank Failures Impact the Economy?

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    A GoodTherapy.org Featured Column written by Judith Barr, MA, LMHC Ten-year old Ann is playing outside on her family’s patio. There’s a bush at the edge of the patio with a funny-looking hanging sack attached to it. Ann watches as the sack seems to swing back and forth on the branch. After some ...

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  • Do we know change when we see it?

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  • Building regional cooperation

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  • Glaciers and guesswork

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  • 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, ...

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  • Accused TJX Hacker Agrees to Guilty Plea — Faces ...

    Accused TJX hacker, Albert Gonzalez, has accepted a plea agreement with prosecutors in Boston that will put an end to cases that authorities have described as one of the largest credit card and identity theft cases ever prosecuted in the country. Gonzalez, 28, has agreed to plead guilty to all of t ...

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    The American Civil Liberties Union came to the defense of British hacker Gary McKinnon on Thursday, decrying an extradition treaty that could soon see McKinnon standing trial in the U.S. on charges of cracking and damaging American military systems. “The recent tragic case of Gary McKinnon highlig ...

  • Accused TJX Hacker Expected to Finalize Plea Deal ...

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    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop star Michael Jackson's death was ruled a homicide from drug overdose on Friday, fueling speculation his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, may soon be charged with manslaughter or another crime.

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    BERLIN (Reuters) - A badger in Germany got so drunk on over-ripe cherries it staggered into the middle of a road and refused to budge, police said on Wednesday.

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    BOSTON (Reuters) - Republicans and Democrats came together on Friday to honor Senator Edward Kennedy, the standard-bearer for liberal Democrats and patriarch of America's fabled political dynasty, at a private memorial service.

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  • The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea

    Today’s post which seems very appropriate for me when I am heading off for a few relaxing days when I know I will be drinking lots of tea, is written by Andrew Wade He and his family have recently returned from several years working in Hong Kong where Andy worked as a Mennonite pastor. Â [...]

  • Networking as a Spiritual Practice

    I have been a little slow with posting today because Tom and I are on the road again. We are heading for a few days off in British Columbia with some friends but I wanted to make sure that I posted the last of the articles I have received for the What is a Spiritual [...]

  • Mothering as a Spiritual Practice

    Another beautiful day in Seattle and Tom and I are getting ready for a few days vacation up on Mayne Island, one of the Canadian gulf islands. Â The weather is supposed to be good and I am really looking forward to a few days off – hoping that the blackberries and apples are ready like [...]

  • 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 ...

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    How the ACLU got the CIA agents' photos. Russian espionage case is bigger than initially thought, say Czech officials. US spy community builds Wikipedia-style database.

  • Has Skype’s VOIP encryption been broken?

    I have explained before that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence agencies have found it impossible to intercept Skype's instant messaging and voice traffic. Remarkably, on August 25, a Swiss software developer released what he claims is the source code of a program for tappi ...

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    Cargo ship with Israeli weapons destined for Philippines seized. Even more CIA documents to be disclosed. Double spy’s son admits guilt.

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    Reiss was nuclear spy, claim Iranians. Indonesian police denies plan to spy on mosques. Canada still trying to deport Indian spy. Somali militants use many tactics to woo Americans.

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    The spy who prayed. Shadowy Turkish group used journalists as spies. CIA sacked Baghdad station chief after deaths.

PsyBlog

  • The Acceptance Prophesy: How You Control Who Likes ...

    · Is interpersonal attraction a self-fulfilling prophesy? The mystical-sounding 'acceptance prophesy' is simply this: when we think other people are going to like us, we behave more warmly towards them and consequently they like us more. When we think other people aren't going to like us, we beha ...

  • 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 ...

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    Racketeering 101: Bailed Out Banks Threaten Systemic Collapse If Fed Discloses Information By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge And so the guns come out blazing. The Clearing House Association, another name for all the banks that were bailed out over the past year with the generous contributions from all o ...

  • Torture Memos in a Book

    By David Swanson The New Press has just published seven of the torture memos with a 40-page introduction by David Cole and a 3-page forward by Phillipe Sands. For those who prefer books to lengthy PDFs or printouts thereof, this is a real service. If we were a literate society, a book like this wo ...

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    PO BOX 9576 Washington, D.C. 20016 info@velvetrevolution.us August 8, 2009 Attorney General Eric Holder U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 Re: The Convention Against Torture Requires the Investigation and Prosecution of Torture by an Independen ...

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