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- HONDURAS: Regime Says 'Yes' to Talks but Squelche ...
TEGUCIGALPA, Aug 3 (IPS) - While it publicly declares its willingness to continue to engage in dialogue, the de facto regime led by Roberto Micheletti in Honduras is taking a hard-line approach to protests demanding the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. So far three people have been kill ...
- MEDIA: U.S. Rights Groups Condemn Closure of Vene ...
WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (IPS) - Several U.S. rights groups condemned the closure of 34 radio stations, as well as the proposal of restrictive media legislation, by Venezuelan authorities Monday.
- ENERGY-CAMEROON: Dam Project Questioned
LOM-PANGAR, Cameroon, Aug 4 (IPS) - Construction has begun on a new dam at the confluence of the Lom and Pangar rivers in Cameroon. The government is pushing the project as key to addressing an energy shortfall, allowing for economic growth; observers believe the plan may only increase the count ...
- HEALTH-AFRICA: TB Vaccine In The Pipeline
CAPE TOWN, Aug 4 (IPS) - For the first time in eighty years, a new Tuberculosis (TB) vaccine has entered the efficacy stage of a clinical trial. While the developers are optimistic about the outcome, lung health and TB experts are warning against being overly excited.
- CAMEROON: Fears for Forest as Dam Construction Be ...
LOM-PANGAR, Cameroon, Aug 4 (IPS) - Crouched on a low, wooden stool in front of his mud hut in the village of Pangar, Alain Selembe puffs away at his clay pipe, his gaze lost in the surrounding forest, quite oblivious to the noise made by his two playing daughters. All he hears is the rumbling o ...
The Intelligence Daily
- Britain To Put CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes
- Bringing the (Bio) War Home
- Vaccination Myths and Truths
- The demise of the middle class
- The Obama opiate -- crisis deepens, crowds cheer
My AntiWar
- Shi’ite Group Agrees to Renounce Violence in ...
- Afghan War Unlawful, Says UK ‘Deserter’ ...
- Clinton Slams Israel for Evicting Arab Families Fr ...
- Al-Qaeda Tells US Conditional Truce Offer Still on ...
- Japan Opposition Says It’s Ready to Stand Up ...
Rogue Government.com
- Greece Plans Mandatory Vaccination For Entire Pop ...
Greece will vaccinate its entire population of 12 million against the H1N1 swine flu pandemic which has swept around the world in weeks, killing hundreds of people, the country's health minister said on Friday.
- NexGen AI -A Threat to Human Civilization?
What could a criminal do with a speech synthesis system that could masquerade as a human being? What happens if artificial intelligence technology is used to mine personal information from smartphones?
- Tagging Teen Drivers For Their Enslavement (Safet ...
There is no easy cure for teenage traffic deaths and injuries, but Susan Kessler believes she has at least come up with a way to help limit the carnage: When a new driver gets behind the wheel, just slap a temporary warning sign on the car.
- Lawmaker: MI5 May Have Recruited Terrorist Sympat ...
The British government on Saturday responded to a senior lawmaker's call for an investigation into whether its intelligence agency, MI5, inadvertently recruited individuals involved with terrorist activity.
- Obama Administration Eyes Military-Civilian Priso ...
The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison.
Innovation Canada
- Filling the glass
Walkerton, Ont., North Battleford, Sask., and the Kashechewan First Nation Reserve, in Northern Ontario, have all become high-profile — and tragic — examples of what can go wrong when a community’s drinking water becomes contaminated. Surprisingly, they are not alone. At any given time, 1,700 ...
- i2eye with Bartha Maria Knoppers
“Don’t plan your career — be curious.” That’s the credo that Bartha Maria Knoppers, the new director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy at McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, espouses — and one she lives by. Knoppers turned her love of books into a master’s in c ...
- Environmental legacy
(Article courtesy of University of Regina) University of Regina biologist Chris Somers is fascinated by how humans and wildlife interact and how animals respond to human-modified environments. “My research often combines animal ecology in the field, environmental chemistry and genetics,” explain ...
- Rebooting the search for dark matter
“This is just a regular day at the office,” says researcher Chris Jillings as a two-kilometre-long cable lowers an elevator down into a maze of sweltering passageways leading to the “clean rooms” at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, or SNOLAB. “But every so often, I realize this is all rea ...
- Seeking the perfect storm
Mother Nature always has the upper hand — and sometimes the last laugh. John Hanesiak knows this well. When asked about the most memorable weather he’s tracked, the University of Manitoba atmospheric scientist and storm chaser points out that he’s witnessed several tornadoes, but the event t ...
Signs of the times
- Can Obama be deprogrammed? The president is a pris ...
In my first foray into political life in the 1970s, I worked during college on the staff of a liberal Democrat in the Texas state Senate. Only a few years earlier, Patty Hearst had been kidnapped and brainwashed by the Symbionese Liberation Army, and a moral panic about cults seducing college kids w ...
- Brains of psychopaths are different, British resea ...
A difference between the brains of psychopaths and ordinary people has been identified in a study that could promise new approaches to diagnosing and treating the disorder. Research by British scientists using advanced brain-scanning techniques has revealed that a critical connection between two re ...
- Israeli Shin Bet agents to screen judges before ap ...
Israel's internal security service has been given a de facto veto over the appointment of judges in an unprecedented decision that has the country's embattled liberals up in arms. The move by the Judges Selection Committee on Friday is likely to make it harder for members of Israel's Arab minority ...
- Obama touts economic "recovery"
The Obama administration and the media have seized on second quarter gross domestic product (GDP) data to promote the notion that the recession is ending and "recovery" is underway. This effort is summed up by the cover of the current edition of Newsweek, which carries the banner headline, "The Rece ...
- Israeli rabbi urges Orthodox Jewish women to have ...
Have at least 12 children, do not use birth control, and continue having children after 40. This is the formula for overcoming sterility and long-term bachelorhood in the Religious Zionism movement put forth by renowned Rabbi David Batzri. In a women's assembly in Jerusalem held Thursday in Jerusal ...
Threat Level
- ‘Brokep’ Quits Pirate Bay
Peter Sunde, one of the four co-founders of The Pirate Bay, said Monday he is abandoning ship. Sunde, the BitTorrent tracker’s spokesman, and his fellow colleagues each are facing a year in prison following their spring convictions for facilitating copyright infringement. They remain free pending ...
- Malicious ATM Catches Hackers
LAS VEGAS — There’s no honor among thieves, nor apparently among hackers. A fake ATM kiosk was positioned in the conference center of the Riviera Hotel Casino capturing data from an unknown number of hackers attending the DefCon hacker conference before someone noticed something suspicious about ...
- Electronic High-Security Locks Easily Defeated at ...
LAS VEGAS — World-renowned lock experts Marc Weber Tobias, Toby Bluzmanis and Matt Fiddler are at it again. The three, who have made numerous headlines for bumping and picking Medeco high-security locks and other brands, have now succeeded to crack state-of-the-art, CLIQ technology electro-mechan ...
- Researcher’s “Open Sesame” Hack Bypasses Doo ...
LAS VEGAS — Security researchers have spent a lot of time the last couple of years cracking building access systems from the level of the user device — RFID and smartcards, for example. But a researcher in Texas found that he could crack one electronic access system at the network control level ...
- DefCon: ‘Credit Hackers’ Win the Credit Card G ...
Hundreds of “credit hackers” are legally gaming financial institutions by taking advantage of loopholes in the U.S. credit-reporting system, a security researcher says — warning that identity thieves could follow suit. Christopher Soghoian, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, took a secur ...
PERRspectives : Blog
- Stimulus Paying Big Dividends for GDP, State Budge ...
Beginning in early July, Capitol Hill Republicans introduced a new talking point, proclaiming the $787 billion economy recovery package (ARRA) a "dismal failure." Sadly for the GOP, as Stephen Colbert might say, reality is showing its well-known liberal bias. After...
- Owner of 13 Cars, McCain Aims to Block Cash for Cl ...
Moments after the House passed a $2 billion extension to the wildly popular "cash for clunkers" program, John McCain in a double-irony announced he would oppose the bill in the Senate. Ironic, it turns out, not merely because the Arizona...
- The Selective Amnesia of John McCain
Saturday's Wall Street Journal features a fascinating interview with John McCain by editor Stephen Moore. Fascinating, that is, as a study of revisionist history and selective amnesia by both men. While Moore now praises McCain as "one of the lead...
- Birther Movement Just the Latest Southern Patholog ...
In a jaw-dropping DaliyKos/Research 2000 poll released today, a stunning 58% of Republicans did not believe (28%) or were unsure (30%) that President Barack Obama was in fact born in the United States. To be sure, this is a Southern...
- GOP Turns to Scare Tactics, Double-Talk on Medicar ...
In his latest fear-mongering on health care reform, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned that Democrats are intent on "sticking it to seniors with cuts to Medicare." Of course, McConnell's statement isn't merely false, it is comically so. After all,...
Blackspot News Feed
- Plans For Closing Guantnamo Must Restore Due Proce ...
American Civil Liberties Union8/2/2009FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: 212 549-2666; media@aclu.orgReported Proposal Shows Troubling SignsNEW YORK According to an Associated Press report today, the Obama administration is considering plans to open a “courtroom-within-a-prison” complex on U.S. soil ...
- Guantnamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out A ...
by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk3 Aug. 2009Imagine if you were imprisoned for seven years without charge or trial, and then a judge ruled that the governments case against you consisted solely of unreliable allegations made by other prisoners who were tortur ...
- On Whitechapel Tonight (3aug09)
On my internet spiderhole tonight: * Online SF Magazines: Your Choices - what online fiction-centric sf magazines do you recommend right now? * REMAKE/REMODEL: Captain Future - the latest reinvention challenge for artists, open to all. * The three biggest reasons music magazines are dying. * My PAT ...
- Obama Calls New GI Bill "An Investment in Our Own ...
The measure earmarked for post-9/11 vets is the most comprehensive education benefits package since 1944's original GI Bill. Washington - President Obama today called a newly enacted GI Bill offering college tuition assistance for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan "an investment ...
- Israel's Jerusalem Evictions Defy Obama, Undermine ...
The international community objected strongly as Israel moved settlers in and longtime Palestinian residents out. Israel said the evictions were legal and mandated by a ruling of its supreme court. read more
Consortium News
- Panetta Pleads for No CIA Punishment
CIA Director Leon Panetta pens an op-ed that urges no "retribution" for Bush-era CIA crimes, notes Melvin A. Goodman. August 2, 2009
- How Pay-to-Play Corrupts Washington
From Washington Post "salons" to a conservative group's for-sale sign, it's all about pay-to-play in DC, writes Michael Winship. August 2, 2009
- Why Obama's Health Plan Falters
The American Left failed to fight for "single-payer" and ended up pushing for an inadequate "public option," says Jeff Cohen. August 2, 2009
- Christians Largely Mum on Torture
A poll shows American Christians tolerant of U.S. torturing detainees, a failure of church leadership, says Ray McGovern. July 31, 2009
- US Judge Orders Afghan Youth Freed
A federal judge ordered freedom for a young Afghani at Guantanamo, but his future remains in doubt, reports Jason Leopold. July 31, 2009
CounterPunch
- Roy Bourgeois / Margaret Knapke: School of Coups
- Pam Martens : Millions of Americans Pushed Into No ...
- Anthony DiMaggio : Media Backlash: Obama and the S ...
- Udi Aloni : And Who Shall I Say is Calling? A Plea ...
- Mike Roselle : See the Mountains of WestVirginia . ...
Institute for Middle East Understanding
- Gaza artist, survivor finds power in paint (Eman ...
From the entrance of the house, one can observe the whole tragedy. On 6 January 2009, an Israeli artillery shell landed in the front yard of the Deeb family home in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern ...
- Where will the strangulation of Palestine lead? ( ...
I recently returned from the Holy Land after leading about 40 Presbyterians from Galilee to Jerusalem. This isn't new territory for me. I've been in the country many times leading students, working at archae ...
- Taxi drivers scrape by in Gaza (Inter Press Servi ...
Salleh wonders how he will pay for a replacement car part he bought from the tunnels black market. "It cost over 1,000 dollars. Before the siege, it would have been 500 to 1000 shekels (roughly 125 to 250 do ...
- Top PLO member dies in Jordan (The Associated Pre ...
Samir Ghosheh, a member of Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee, died of cancer in Amman on Monday. He was 69. Ghosheh, a Palestinian politician from Jerusalem, was also the Secretary-Genera ...
- Homeward bound: Gaza in 24 hours (Dr. Mona El Far ...
As soon as I arrived home, I felt a great relief, if that is the right word. I had been unable to return home to Gaza since before the 23 days of bombing of Gaza earlier this year, because of the ongoing sie ...
Planetsave
- Why Are There Fewer Large Trees in Yosemite?
We’ve all heard the legend of Johnny Appleseed, the legendary apple tree planter of the United States. He walked across the country with his walking stick, and a bucket of seeds, just walking and planting as he went . Everywhere he went, apple trees sprouted up. And he was a hero. It is such a h ...
- Killer Kelp
When I was doing research on Catalina Island, there was a wanted poster hanging in the dive locker. Although, this wanted poster was not for any bank robber or bandit. This was a wanted poster for kelp. Undaria pinnatifida , an invasive species from Asia that has hitched a ride on boat’s hulls a ...
- Popular Gator Killed by Poachers in Texas
A 13-foot, 600-pound alligator was killed in a state-managed coastal preserve just north of the Armand Bayou Nature Center (ABNC) in Pasadena, Texas. The alligator, estimated to be 50-years-old, was a popular tourist attraction at the Center and possibly one of the largest ‘gators in the state ...
- Spider Monkeys Invent Medicinal Tools.
For years and years, humans considered themselves the one and only makers of tools. Homo sapien literally means “wise man” because we were so intelligent that it was us humans, and us humans alone, who could even have the brain capacity to create a tool. It was considered the key feature of th ...
- Horses Stolen and Brutally Butchered for Meat in F ...
Since January, nearly 20 horses have been stolen and brutally killed in Florida. The latest horse was stabbed in the neck and most likely still alive when butchered. Officials believe the mutilated horses are being killed for their meat which is being sold on the black market. Buying or selling ...
Water Quality - WordPress
- 2008/2009 Water Quality Committee Annual Report
The Glen Lake Association Water Quality Committee has focused on the following activities during the
- Pollution Is Closing More Nearby Beaches, Report F ...
The number of New York and New Jersey beaches that were either closed, or the subject of warnings, b
- How is the water quality of Lake Champlain as comp ...
In terms of litter, debris, sewage pollution and toxic pollutants (excluding mercury) one could say
- U.S.-China Memorandum of Understanding to Enhance ...
US Dept. of State http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/126802.pdf This Memorandum of Understa
- Seattle the most sustainable!
Seattle is the most sustainable large city in the nation! http://smartercities.nrdc.org/rankings/la
Public Citizen in Texas
- Austin Energy May Cut GreenChoice Power Prices
After a rash of local and national press about the recent failure of Austin Energy’s GreenChoice program, Austin Energy has decided to re-evaluate their pricing structure. The city may be able to reduce the cost of the program by as much as 25%. Turns out Austin Energy was overly conservat ...
- Public Citizen Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Campa ...
Overturning Campaign Finance Restrictions Would Allow Corporations to Dominate Elections WASHINGTON, D.C. – Public Citizen joined a team of other attorneys in submitting a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court today, urging the court to adhere to its precedents and reaffirm the longs ...
- Local Power/Energia Mia Update
Here is the latest update from the Local Power/Energia Mia Coalition: CPS has a meeting today at Firefighters Union Hall (8925-IH10 WEST) from 6:00-8:00 pm. Anyone from District 8 is encouraged to attend and speak for the cause. Each person gets three minutes of talk time and the Local Power/Energ ...
- Nuclear plans hurting Texas power companies’ (al ...
Power companies’ plans to pursue new nuclear projects are damaging their credit ratings, which may mean higher costs will be shifted onto ratepayers. In a new report by Moody’s Investors Service titled “New Nuclear Generation: Ratings Pressure Increasingâ€, the firm raises concerns ...
- 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
- Bill Clinton on surprise visit to N Korea
Former US president Bill Clinton has traveled to North Korea apparently on a mission to secure the release of two jailed American journalists.
- In south Sudan, tribal disputes leave 185 dead
At least 185 people, most of them women and children, have lost their lives in the recent spate of fierce clashes between rival ethnic groups in south Sudan.
- Karroubi's paper warned over election coverage
Defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi's newspaper, Etemad-e Melli , has received a warning over the coverage of the 10th presidential election.
- Ecuador to nationalize radio, TV stations
The Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa seeks to take control of the country's radio and television stations in a bid to stave off 'irregularities.'
- Al-Qaeda offers US conditional peace
Al-Qaeda has offered the US President Barack Obama a truce in exchange for a complete withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan.
Axis of Logic
- The Swine Flu Lie
- A Spiritual Conspiracy
- The Spider
- An Ode to Orwell
- Germany is dragged into the war in Afghanistan Aga ...
They Gave Us a Republic
- The Nightowl Newswrap
Grassley says the President will have a healthcare bill by Thanksgiving The intrepid O. Kay Henderson at RadioIowa got him on the record. "If we get a bill on the senate floor by the third or fourth week of September, it's probably going to take two weeks. Probably take a month to negotiate the di ...
- Olbermann: Legislators For Sale
Crossposted from Antemedius "Congressman Mike Ross of Arkansas. Leader of the Blue Dogs in the House. You're the guy demanding a guarantee that Reform won't add to the deficit. I'm guessing you forgot to demand that about, say, Iraq. You're a Democrat, you say, Congressman? "You saw what Sandy Barha ...
- Jake Drops the Hammer on Dr. Dan
He was warned. Page One Kentucky has been saying for months that if Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo didn't stop lying and backstabbing, Jake would start publishing all the dirt he's got on Kentucky's favorite homophobic, coal-industry-fellating, DINO Senate candidate. Mongiardo's disgusting performance at F ...
- Putting Private Health Insurers Out of Business: ...
Some of us have been screaming it for years: the real problem with health care in the United States is the for-profit health insurance industry. Get rid of them, and solve 95 percent of the problem. Now, finally, as the preventable deaths and avoidable bankruptcies and seven-figure bribes to Cong ...
- At what point does being a sore loser become a pat ...
I ask because it is obvious that John McCain is breaking down the psychiatrists door. He really doesn't seem to be handling his loss last November well at all. In the ensuing months he has gotten nastier and meaner and ever more hateful. It was painfully obvious in an interview on CNN over the wee ...
Care 2
- 10th horse killed in jump racing!!!!
Jumps racing in Victoria has suffered another fatality after the death of jumper Rough Night in the state's west on Sunday. Animal welfare organisation Animals Australia said Rough Night fell and broke a leg during the steeplechase at Warrnambool. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals | Note-i ...
- Sen. Feinstein and Rep. Miller introduce Protect A ...
New legislation to end the unnecessary and unscientific aerial gunning of wolves and bears was introduced today in the U.S. Congress. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), along with original sponsor and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife, Submitted by Simone D. to Animals | Note-it! ...
- Several Questions Remain In Investor's Disappearan ...
DANA POINT, Calif. -- Two men were aboard when the sailboat Odyssey motored out of the marina here on Feb. 16 last year, chugging past the breakwater under the power of an outboard motor installed a day earlier by the rotund, talkative man at the tiller. Submitted by Terry West to Society & Culture ...
- Mystery killer affecting beach wildlife, dogs
North Shore City Council wants to hear from anyone whose dog has become sick, or died, after being walked on one of its beaches. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
- The Tusk Art
Mammoths are already dead for centuries, and most of their remains are being found in the deep frozen soil of Siberian regions. Just some of them are used for scientific research, thousands more are being used by locals for carving. The whole carving art Submitted by Kiki S. to Science & Tech | ...
GreenBiz
- Bottled Water is Way More Complicated Than I Thoug ...
It should be easy to phase out bottled water from company headquarters, right? Think again. It can bring up issues with a company's supply chain, cafeteria inventory and vending machines -- and don't forget the new dishwashers or glassware that may need to enter the picture.
- Green Wineries Embrace Innovation from the Fields ...
Solar-powered vineyards, biodynamic farming, organically grown grapes and innovative packaging put several California wineries on the leading edge of sustainable wine production. Their remarkable results offer valuable lessons for green leaders in any industry.
- Coca-Cola Enterprises Emissions Reductions, Recycl ...
The bottling, marketing and distribution arm of the beverage giant has set a goal to reduce CO2 emissions by 15 percent before 2020, as well as to recover 100 percent of its bottles for recycling.
- Report Urges Efficiency as a Solution to Californi ...
A new study by the Pacific Institute shows ways that California farmers can cut their water use by as much as 17 percent without cutting the productivity of the nation's most productive agricultural region.
- Sustaining California Agriculture in an Uncertain ...
This report from the Pacific Institute details the ways that California farmers can implement water efficiency practices to reduce water use by 17 percent while maintaining current levels of productivity.
Reuters Global
- Manmohan Singh’s shrinking room for manoeuvr ...
By agreeing to delink terrorism from the broader peace process and including a reference to the threats inside Pakistan's troubled Baluchistan province - which Pakistan says is stoked by India - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is seen to have gone too far to accommodate the neighbour without getting a ...
- Newsmaker: Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan
Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan will take questions from Thomson Reuters clients on how Australia managed to avoid recession and where this remarkable economy goes from here, at 915 am AEST on Tuesday (7:30 pm on Monday, EST).
- India’s nuclear submarine dream, still miles ...
The unveiling of India's top secret nuclear-powered submarine, three decades after it was conceived, has been greeted with much tub-thumping.
- Argentine president’s gender card wears thin
Since she became Argentina's first elected female president at the end of 2007, Cristina Fernandez has often complained that things are tougher for her because she is a woman. Some analysts and historians say that while women in power do face sexism, Fernandez's frequent playing of the gender ca ...
- One dent at a time, Turkey’s nation-state ed ...
One of the first things you see when you drive out of the airport of Diyarbakir is Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's famous phrase engraved on mountain slopes in big white letters: "Happy is he who calls himself a Turk."
Ezra Klein
- Tab Dump
• I don't agree with everything in this conservative farmer's rant , but it's worth reading. • A great piece on the Harlem Children's Zone. • Coca-Cola's incredible logo. • A scatterplot of the relationship -- or lack thereof -- between state tax rates and unemployment.
- Who's to Blame for Newspaper Revenues?
The headline of Sunday's lead Outlook article was "How Gawker Ripped Off My Story & Why It's Destroying Journalism." The first part was true. The second part wasn't. Gawker did rip off Ian Shapira's excellent article about "business coach" Anne Loehr. But it's much less clear that Gawker's rip-offs ...
- Will Health-Care Reform Save Medical Innovation? A ...
Since we've been talking a bit about pharmaceutical innovation and whether it could survive a universal health-care system, I wanted to bring an actual expert on the subject into the conversation. Dr. Jerry Avorn is chief of the division of pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and W ...
- More on Red State Models
David Leonhardt, in part replying to my earlier post on Texas, asks , "why haven’t Democrats had more success in creating model economic policies on the state level?" I was a bit confused by the question, as I don't know of any states conducting large-scale economic policy experiments that regular ...
- Curves
According to Clive Crook , the Congressional Budget Office has found that "the Democratic plans ... would 'bend the curve' in the wrong direction." It hasn't found that. In fact, the CBO is specifically avoiding that question. This blog post from Doug Elmendorf didn't get a ton of attention when it ...
Booman Tribune
- Obama: 30 Death Threats a Day
The number of death threats Obama is receiving is 400% higher than the number Bush received. It's also stretching an understaffed Secret Service to its limits trying to keep track of them all: Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from t ...
- A 2010 Senate Analysis
First Read has a mini-analysis of the 2010 House races. It's not overly interesting, but it does correctly note that the only president since World War Two not lose House seats in their first post-inauguration election was George W. Bush (he picked up two). And we all know that 9/11 explains that ...
- Sixteen Democrats of No Worth
The last vote the House took before their August recess was on the Corporate and Financial Institution Compensation Fairness Act (PDF). It passed 237-185. The bill gave shareholders an advisory vote on CEO compensation. Sixteen Democrats voted against it. Because this offends me, I want you to k ...
- Death, Dishonesty & The GOP
In an effort to defeat universal health care, conservatives are engaging in a campaign of lies that will ultimately cause more families to suffer needlessly at a most painful time. As someone who worked for years with end-of-life care issues, and spent years working in the HIV/AIDS community, I cann ...
- An Analysis of Where We Stand on Health Care
This is your Senate Finance Committee: These people have jurisdiction over major elements of the health care bill that is being crafted in the Senate. As the name of the committee suggests, their primary jurisdiction is over how to finance the plan. The equivalent committee in the House is ...
European Tribune
- European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 4 ...
A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1792 – Birth of...
- Monday Open Thread
What has fascinated you recently?...
- Britain leads the way...
The UK has been at the forefront of pursuing infrastructure projects in a public-private partnership...
- Transparency: handle with care
Wall Street profits from trades with Fed Wall Street banks are reaping outsized profits by...
- European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 3 ...
A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1832 – Birth of...
Futurismic
- Games and economic misbehaviour
George Dyson has an excellent and compelling essay on game theory, economics, information theory, computer science, banking, finance, technology, and John von Neumann: We are surrounded by codes (some Turing-universal) that make copies of themselves, and by physical machines that spawn virtual machi ...
- NEW FICTION: GLASSFACE by James Trimarco
This month’s fiction offering here at Futurismic is a little darker than our last story. In “Glassface”, James Trimarco takes the theme of repressive immigration control and weaves in a story of personal redemption. It’s moody and noir with a bitter-sweet flavour, and I like it a lot – we ...
- Your own satellite aloft for $8,000
If SpaceX are out of your budget range, and you’re not willing to wait for laser propulsion to mature to commercially viable levels, you’d be forgiven for thinking that you were bang out of affordable options for launching your own satellite into orbit. Not so – thanks to Interorbital Systems, ...
- Games and economic misbehaviour
George Dyson has an excellent and compelling essay on game theory, economics, information theory, computer science, banking, finance, technology, and John von Neumann: We are surrounded by codes (some Turing-universal) that make copies of themselves, and by physical machines that spawn virtual machi ...
- NEW FICTION: GLASSFACE by James Trimarco
This month’s fiction offering here at Futurismic is a little darker than our last story. In “Glassface”, James Trimarco takes the theme of repressive immigration control and weaves in a story of personal redemption. It’s moody and noir with a bitter-sweet flavour, and I like it a lot – we ...
Yahoo! Canada News
- YahooCanadaNews: 'Kindle ate my homework.' Teen su ...
YahooCanadaNews: 'Kindle ate my homework.' Teen sues Amazon after his copy of 1984 was obliterated from his Kindle without warning. http://tr.im/uX9L
- YahooCanadaNews: 'Surprised' boyfriend thought bab ...
YahooCanadaNews: 'Surprised' boyfriend thought baby cut from womb was his http://tr.im/uVcG
- YahooCanadaNews: Ryan M. for Y! CA News. Parents l ...
YahooCanadaNews: Ryan M. for Y! CA News. Parents left poor over son's fatal street racing http://tr.im/uVcw
- YahooCanadaNews: 'So-called recovery' is extremely ...
YahooCanadaNews: 'So-called recovery' is extremely fragile, says Harper http://tr.im/uNPh
- YahooCanadaNews: Ryan M. for Y! CA News. Dog on 'd ...
YahooCanadaNews: Ryan M. for Y! CA News. Dog on 'death row' unjustly accused, say supporters http://tr.im/uNjm
Global Elite
- 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 ...
- Biopiracy, GM Seeds and Rural India "Over 100,000 ...
Priya Kumar, Global Research, June 2, 2009 The reality for the average Indian remains the same: agricultural cultivation and the ability to farm is the bedrock of rural living. With its historical practices, values, and communal sentiments of ...
Al Jazeera
- Rockets strike at heart of Kabul
At least one child injured as rockets hit near US embassy in centre of Afghan capital.
- Australia arrests 'terror' suspects
Four men suspected of links to Somalia's al-Shabaab arrested in Melbourne police raids.
- US criticises Israeli eviction move
Secretary of state says removal of Palestinians from East Jerusalem is "regrettable".
- Chavez supporters storm TV station
Activists backing Venezuelan president fire tear gas as they force way into Globovision.
- Deadly clashes in South Sudan
More than 185 people are reported to have been killed in clashes between two rival groups.
Green Inc. - NYT
- Electric Car Maker Sees Market Heating Up
"The market is going to develop much faster than people expect," said Richard Canny, the chief executive of the Norwegian electric car company Th!nk.
- The Vagaries of Federal Efficiency Efforts
The government's "cash for clunkers" program, aimed at helping consumers upgrade to efficient vehicles, hits a financial speedbump, while the Department of Energy finds itself able to fund only a small percentage of proposed "transformational" energy research projects.
- Big Trees Decline in Yosemite
Tree diameters are getting smaller in Yosemite, and climate change is probably part of the cause, according to a new study by the researchers from the United States Geological Survey and the University of Washington.
- Is Nuclear Power Renewable?
Efforts to brand low-carbon nuclear technology as a renewable for of power continues to meet opposition.
- Readers Air Their (Clean) Laundry
A short slideshow featuring photographs submitted by Green Inc. readers of their high-efficiency laundry-drying devices -- aka, their clotheslines.
Dot Earth News
- Can Climate Panel Have Climate Impact?
Can a prize-winning climate panel move from fame to efficacy?
- 98 Percent 'Discouraged' in Energy Quest
More than 98 percent of proposals seeking federal money for transformational energy research are "discouraged."
- Shark Week, or Human Week?
What kind of shark are you?
- What's the Right Number of Americans?
In the United States, immigration policy is population policy, a demographer says.
- How Many D's in Obama's Energy Pledge?
Experts worry that the Obama energy innovation plan is light on "transformational" research.
Doug Feith : Hong Pong
- Hat tip for Joaquin Phoenix conspiracy
Not a bad idea! Which makes this potentially one of the greatest performances any modern actor has ever given -- or at least one of the most baldly courageous. The closest comparison would have to be Andy Kaufman's utter commitment to his obnoxious Tony Clifton persona, but Phoenix is going Kaufman ...
- Tough times south of the border
Duly noted: Mexican TV reporter ducking stray bullets: Hat tip to the thoughtful Texas farmer Don , who knows what you ought to know about the War On Drugs. This video was recently the #1 most discussed from Mexico on YooToob... Plus, don't miss the five stages of complete social collapse! http://c ...
- Pirate Bay Trial and Kopimi: The Kopimi Manifesto
I can't say I get it. But I like it. In these apocalyptic and bitchy times, it is high time to get some sarcastic Swedish hacker philsophy out there. Now is the time. The spectrial is apparently the place. How could we forget the Pirate Bay Spectrial?! They released a Pirate Bay Manifesto - POwr, Br ...
- Some notes from the Abyss; Fusion Centers going to ...
We're on the brink of disaster | Salon! As people lose confidence in the ability of markets and governments to solve the global crisis, they are likely to erupt into violent protests or to assault others they deem responsible for their plight, including government officials, plant managers, landl ...
- From ADD to Virtual Eschatonism: Twitter and rando ...
First up! Fargo flood. 'We will beat this challenge,' flood battle continues as officials plead for help | INFORUM | Fargo, ND Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service: Eastern North Dakota/Grand Forks: Red River of the North at Fargo One of my stronger memories from back in school was cleaning up in ...
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The longer Republicans obscure the real issues and obstruct healthcare reform efforts, the higher the costs will rise.
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- Sodomized to Protect Our Freedoms
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Threat Level
- ‘Brokep’ Quits Pirate Bay
Peter Sunde, one of the four co-founders of The Pirate Bay, said Monday he is abandoning ship. Sunde, the BitTorrent tracker’s spokesman, and his fellow colleagues each are facing a year in prison following their spring convictions for facilitating copyright infringement. They remain free pending ...
- Malicious ATM Catches Hackers
LAS VEGAS — There’s no honor among thieves, nor apparently among hackers. A fake ATM kiosk was positioned in the conference center of the Riviera Hotel Casino capturing data from an unknown number of hackers attending the DefCon hacker conference before someone noticed something suspicious about ...
- Electronic High-Security Locks Easily Defeated at ...
LAS VEGAS — World-renowned lock experts Marc Weber Tobias, Toby Bluzmanis and Matt Fiddler are at it again. The three, who have made numerous headlines for bumping and picking Medeco high-security locks and other brands, have now succeeded to crack state-of-the-art, CLIQ technology electro-mechan ...
- Researcher’s “Open Sesame” Hack Bypasses Doo ...
LAS VEGAS — Security researchers have spent a lot of time the last couple of years cracking building access systems from the level of the user device — RFID and smartcards, for example. But a researcher in Texas found that he could crack one electronic access system at the network control level ...
- DefCon: ‘Credit Hackers’ Win the Credit Card G ...
Hundreds of “credit hackers” are legally gaming financial institutions by taking advantage of loopholes in the U.S. credit-reporting system, a security researcher says — warning that identity thieves could follow suit. Christopher Soghoian, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, took a secur ...
Reuters - Most Popular Articles
- Fans urged to drink whisky to ward off swine flu
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian soccer fans have been told to drink whisky on their trip to Wales for next month's World Cup qualifier to ward off the H1N1 swine flu virus, the head of the country's supporter association (VOB) said Monday.
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* Concert promoter AEG seeks inclusion in estate matters
- Alabama's Jefferson County makes massive job cuts
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama's debt-ridden Jefferson County laid off about two-thirds of its 3,600 employees on Monday because of plummeting revenues, a move that will sharply curtail services in areas ranging from roads to courthouses.
- Nissan Unveils First Electric Car Design and It's ...
By Nick Chambers You've got to hand it to Nissan: they've been burning the midnight oil with their EV information blitz recently. I'm sure there are many blurry eyed and bedazzled marketing and engineering folks behind the Nissan EV scenes right now who are starting to wonder if they get paid enough ...
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Godspace
- Between the Sheets: Sleeping as A Spiritual Practi ...
I will be heading out to Australia this afternoon but am hoping to continue posting while I travel. Â The submissions continue to arrive which is wonderful and I am enjoying reading them before I post them. This morning’s post is from Teri Peterson a presbyterian pastor who loves her new bed (wh ...
- Driving as Spiritual Practice
The weather has cooled down considerably here in Seattle and everyone feels that things are back to normal. Â A little rain would be appreciated – yes we do have days and in this case months without rain in the Pacific NW. Â The garden is flourishing but definitely crying out for a good soakin ...
- Yoga & Jesus: This is a spiritual practice
I continue to be challenged and stretched by the ways that people connect to God and to Jesus Christ. The posts below are by Christina Whitehouse-Sugg. I found them particularly intriguing because of my growing interest in Christian meditation and as you know I am also passionate about Henri Nou ...
- Spiritual Discipline – Serving At the Pantry
Well yesterday afternoon all my good intentions went out the window. I had expected to post another of the excellent articles still being submitted for the series on What is a Spiritual Discipline but two things happened to change all that. First the temperature in Seattle climbed to an all time ...
- Making Space for the Rabbi
Today is likely to be a busy day on my blog – not because of those who read it but primarily because I am going away for a couple of days tomorrow and there is so much that I want to post before that – including book reviews, thoughts on Jimmy Carter’s statement about leaving [...]
Pine River World News
- Laundering Money through the Big Banks: Bernanke's ...
The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. Laundering Money through the Big Banks: Bernanke's Quid Pro Quo © Global Research By Mike Whitney August 3, 2009 Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is a man who knows how Washington works and uses that knowledge to great effect. ...
- Is Obama's new Afghanistan strategy coming unstuck ...
The following editorial is from The Frontier Post, Peshawar, Pakistan. Upcoming storm © The Frontier Post August 3, 2009 The calculated leaks in the American media that U.S. General Stanley A. McChrystal, now commanding the American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, is going to ask for more Americ ...
- Burma Army instructs Thai firm to build road near ...
The following article is reprinted with permission from Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.), Thailand. Shan army has say on cross-border road © S.H.A.N. By Hseng Khio Fah August 3, 2009 The Shan State Army (SSA) 'South' has warned a Thai firm to seek its cooperation with regards to a cross-b ...
- Intelligence sources of Caucasus Emirate report 30 ...
The following article is reprinted with permission from Kavkaz Center, Caucasus mujahideen news agency. A convoy of Russian armored vehicles moving towards Georgia © Kavkaz Center Publication time: 2 August 2009, 17:40 Intelligence sources of Armed Forces of the Caucasus Emirate reported that a ...
- South Sudan threatened Uganda with war if Omar Al- ...
The following article is reprinted with permission from the Sunday Monitor, Kampala. 'Uganda came close to war with Sudan' © Sunday Monitor By Angelo Izama August 2, 2009 KAMPALA - Uganda was warned by its neighbour, the semi-autonomous South Sudan, of grave consequences including war and instab
Blacklisted News
- VIDEO: Pregnant mother tasered at baptism party
Responding to a noise complaint in Prince William County, police sought to quell the assembled crowd — who they said were making too much of a racket — by firing a Taser at the child’s grandfather and at the pregnant mother of the baptized child.
- Humans 2.0: Replacing the Mind and Body
Recent breakthroughs in bionics and lab-grown body parts — along with news last month that a Swiss research team aims to recreate the intricacies of the human brain within a decade — show science is rapidly creating many of the parts needed to build a fully functional human almost from scrat ...
- 27 MILLION AMERICANS ON ANTIDEPRESSANTS
Antidepressant use doubles in US, study finds
- Feds Hit With Biggest Tax Revenue Drop Since 1932
The recession is starving the government of tax revenue, just as the president and Congress are piling a major expansion of health care and other programs on the nation's plate and struggling to find money to pay the tab.
- Uncovered Video: Obama Explains How His Health Car ...
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
- US: Second Stimulus Or A "Lost Decade" ?
It's worth slogging through the minutes of the June Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting. Read the deliberations of the Fed board members and staff and you see an economic horizon that is much more dangerous than what is suggested by the assurances of the White House and some of our allies ...
- Kiwi in France wants builders from home for specia ...
Based in France, kiwi Pauline is seeking kiwi tradespeople to renovate her French home using builderscrack.co.nzIf you are a tradesman who is looking to do something exciting, check it out. » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
- Power companies "profiteering"
Power companies have been increasing their charges at a higher rate than inflation and continue to do so. » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
- Vodafone plans faster network
In what looks like a reaction the Telecom's XT network, which brought Telecom's network up to the standard of Vodafone's, Vodafone are planning a new upgrade as soon as trials are finished which will bring speeds of about 21Mbit/s. Telecom plans to do the same at Christmas. » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_Orig ...
- Scammers charging for non existant advertising
Some company has been calling various businesses and demanding payment for advertising which never happened. » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
Independent ( London )
- Police thwart suicide attack on army base
Police yesterday made four arrests after uncovering a plot to launch a suicide attack on an Australian army base.
- Could Iran be plotting a Hizbollah offensive to ta ...
The house stands pulverised in the little valley behind Khirbet Silm, an unfinished two-storey villa that is now a grey mass of concrete rubble and dust, watched over by three sweating Lebanese soldiers.
- Tribal violence kills at least 160 in Sudan
More than 160 people, mostly women and children, were killed when heavily armed south-Sudan tribal fighters launched a dawn raid on a rival group.
- Hamas goes to the movies
The audience in the Gaza Strip clapped and cheered as the actor delivered the movie's most memorable line – "To kill Israeli soldiers is to worship God".
- Da, my smozhem! Russia's answer to Obama
He's standing for elected office, he brings a message of change, and he's black. This has been enough for Joaquim Crima, a watermelon salesman who lives in a small town in southern Russia, to be dubbed the "Volgograd Obama".
CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
- U.S. Weighs Iran Oil Sanctions if Nuclear Talks Ar ...
Summary: Bushehr Reactor The Obama administration is talking with allies and Congress about the possibility of imposing an extreme economic sanction against Iran if it fails to respond to President Obama’s offer to negotiate on its nuclear program: cutting off the country’s imports of gasoli ...
- U.S. briefs Israel on new Iran nuke sanctions
Summary: American officials briefed Israel this week on the administration's ideas for intensifying sanctions against Iran if it fails to respond to President Barack Obama's offer of dialogue China soon to try to enlist Beijing to join the coalition. source: Haaretz read more
- US ‘Not Happy’ as Iraq Announces Plans to Clos ...
Summary: Camp Ashraf US officials are reportedly “not happy” with the situation unfolding in the MEK’s Camp Ashraf, following yesterday’s deadly raids by Iraqi forces. Today, the Iraqi government says that it plans to close the camp down entirely. source: Anti War.Com read more
- Iraqi forces raid Iran exile camp
Summary: Iraqi forces have raided a camp north of Baghdad which for years has housed an exiled Iranian opposition group. source: BBC read more
- Middle East Show of Farce
Summary: Bush/Cheney foreign policy turned the Middle East into an analog of Cold War Europe, and incredibly, they managed to cast pismire Iran as the second coming of the Soviet Union. That the Obama administration is conducting the same clownish statecraft is a sure sign that the American Empi ...
The Daily Galaxy
- Jupiter's Dark Invader: NASA Asks "What Was It?"
"My attention was fixed on the Great Red Spot, which was setting beautifully over Jupiter's horizon," recalls Wesley. "I almost didn't notice the dark blemish near Jupiter's south pole, and when I did, I put it out of my mind."...
- Life in the Solar System: The Daily Galaxy Poll Re ...
"One lifeforms deadly radiation may be another lifeforms lunch." David Grinspoon, member of the science team for NASA's Mars rover, and interdisciplinary scientist for the European Space Agency's Venus Express mission. Prominent astrobiologists have warned that we humans may be...
- MIT Team Discovers 'Superspeed' Human Brain Progra ...
The human brain can react and rewire itself to adapt to new situations. "No duh," you might say, "That's kind of it's job." But now scientists have recorded the brain adapting far faster than it's physically possible to make new...
- NASA "Extraterrestrial-Life" Hacker Faces Extradit ...
NASA hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his latest bid to be tried in the UK, and is now almost certain to face trial in the US. The 43-year old from London has admitted hacking the Pentagon and NASA in 2001...
- Galaxy Fans - Follow Us Daily on Facebook
I've started posting our daily editorial content on our Facebook Wall, which makes it much easier to share posts you like with your friend list. Our best, Casey Kazan, editor. The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page
Natural News
- Should We Tax Sodas and Junk Food to Pay for Healt ...
(NaturalNews) Mr. Johnson weighed nearly a ton. And drank pop 'til his health came undone. His kidneys turned blue But he said, "I've got two." "So I'll drink 'til I only lose one." The debate over health care reform has run smack into a brick wall of economic reality. There's just not enough money ...
- Human Heart Regenerates Cells Automatically: One P ...
(NaturalNews) In a groundbreaking new study, researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden have demonstrated that heart cells are able to regenerate themselves, overturning the conventional wisdom that the body cannot replace damaged heart cells. Researchers immediately hailed the study as pro ...
- Caffeine May Prevent and Help Reverse Alzheimer's ...
(NaturalNews) There is probably no more dreaded and feared disease than memory-destroying and life-robbing Alzheimer's. According to the National Institute on Aging (NIA), as many as 2.4 to 4.5 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and, as Baby Boomers age, those numbe ...
- How a Simple Sugar can Stop a Urinary Tract Infect ...
(NaturalNews) Urinary tract infections are not only painful, but with a trip to the doctor's office and a regimen of antibiotics (the usual treatment), it ends up being expensive and inconvenient as well. But it doesn't have to be that way. Taken at the first signs of a urinary tract infection, a sp ...
- Omega-3s From Fish Oil Protect Against Prostate Ca ...
(NaturalNews) A higher dietary intake of omega-3 fatty acids may protect men from prostate cancer even if they have a genetic predisposition to the disease, researchers have found. "We detected strong protective associations between increasing intake of long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids ...
TheGallopingBeaver
- The lips are different
Dr. Dawg asks, "who is Lawrence Cannon?" , wondering if 'Mr. Cannon' is really a Canadian and not some sort of imposter. The question has bugged me since I read it. I keep thinking that I've seen that face somewhere before. Only I think the lips the lips and hair are a little different. ...
- Intuition and survival
THE NEW YORK TIMES has a very interesting article by Benedict Carey, " In Battle, Hunches Prove to Be Valuable ". It's a look at the experiences of the U.S. Army and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how a small segment of them are much more adept at finding and avoiding IED's and ambushes. The U ...
- Wrong Answer!
Seems the pony soldiers and their current federal bosses have a bit of a problem with Braidwood's recommendations. Surprise, surprise. Comments mine. RCMP spokesman Sgt. Tim Shields said it's too early to say whether the RCMP will comply with the Heed's directive to adopt Braidwood's recommendatio ...
- How to waste money
FOREIGN POLICY has a neat page, entitled " The List: The World's Biggest Military Boondoggles ". It's quite a list, and it seems that the U.S. is not alone in trying to make failure expensive. Britain: TYPE 45 DARING-CLASS DESTROYER Budget: $10.6 billion for six ships Status: Delayed From the p ...
- TASER™ media template
As reports of gratuitous TASER™ abuse by police pile up daily, here at The Beav we are pleased to provide this handy template to the media for all future TASER™ stories : Officers who used a Taser on a ___ in a ___ found out only later he was ____ and didn't understand ____, police said Tuesday. ...
Media Matters for America
- Drudge, Fox Nation mischaracterize Obama remarks ...
On August 3, the Drudge Report and the Fox Nation linked to a YouTube video with the headlines, "Uncovered Video: Obama Explains How His Health Care Plan Will 'Eliminate' Private Insurance" and "2007 Video! Did Obama Say He Wants to Kill Private Insurance?," respectively. However, the video cli ...
- ABC's Cuomo falsely suggests Obama is culpable fo ...
On ABC's Good Morning America , Chris Cuomo falsely suggested "a new report" found that $72 billion has been misspent this year under the Obama administration. In fact, according to the Heritage Foundation study that Cuomo cited, "The federal government made at least $72 billion in improper ...
- Malkin, Cunningham push false claim that Michelle ...
On his radio show, Bill Cunningham asked conservative columnist Michelle Malkin whether Michelle Obama's University of Chicago Medical Center "salary triple[d]" for working "the same job" "when her husband became a U.S. senator." Malkin replied by citing a chart from her book which falsely cla ...
- Ignoring D.C. rally, Matthews claims "there's no ...
Asserting that "[w]hen somebody wants something, they fill the streets of Washington," Hardball host Chris Matthews falsely claimed that "[t]here's no public demonstration of support for health care" since President Obama was elected. In fact, thousands of supporters of health care reform repor ...
- Malkin cites Katz in attack on unemployment benef ...
On ABC's This Week , conservative columnist Michelle Malkin claimed that "it was Larry Katz, who was a chief labor economist under the Clinton Labor Department, who came out with a study ... that if you keep extending these temporary unemployment benefits, you're just going to extend joblessne ...
Global Research.ca
- GLOBAL RESEARCH CHALLENGE
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- Lisa Hajjah, David Swanson, Quentin Young, Barbara ...
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- The Worldwide H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic.
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- The Federal Reserve Knew that a Financial Crash w ...
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- Russia and Former Soviet Republics plan new securi ...
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TPM Cafe
- Obama Should Say: To Hell With A Second Term, I'm ...
Senator Schumer is now saying that on health care we may need to go the reconciliation route and pass a strong health care bill without the Republicans. I agree. Our model should be George W. Bush who, with no mandate... Sponsored Topics: George W. Bush - Health care - United States - Obama - Hea ...
- Putting the Poor Far Away
I have been struck by the fact that some recent studies found that relocating poor families to middle income areas had a limited impact on the education and career path on the children. I was skeptical of this finding,... Sponsored Topics: Middle class - Education - Goldman Sachs - Children Yout ...
- Just how inept is Ross as a 'Mideast expert'?
Short answer: extremely. In case anyone is in any doubt, they should read the transcript of what Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said at the end of his meeting with Hillary Clinton in Washington yesterday. The core of what... Sponsored Topics: Middle East - Dennis Ross - US - S ...
- Calling Attention to the "Silent Revolution" in Ho ...
A few years ago, I was interviewing the program director of a nonprofit organization that offered job search and training services to low-income persons. During the interview, a woman entered the office a little frantic. She just had been... Sponsored Topics: Poverty - Non-profit organization - P ...
- Out Of Reach
This week at Cafe, Scott Allard joins us for a discussion of his book Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State. Allard surveyed upwards of 2,000 government and nonprofit agencies to put together this comprehensive... Sponsored Topics: Non-profit organization - Welfare Stat ...
TruthOut
- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
New Orleans resident Robert Green Sr. stands where his mother's home once stood in the lower ninth ward. Green's mother died during the Hurricane. (Photo: Ted Jackson / The Times - Picayune) read more
- Obama Calls New GI Bill "An Investment in Our Own ...
The measure earmarked for post-9/11 vets is the most comprehensive education benefits package since 1944's original GI Bill. Washington - President Obama today called a newly enacted GI Bill offering college tuition assistance for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan "an investment ...
- GI Resistance Under the Radar
An interview with two former soldiers who describe how they helped prevent their unit from deploying to a war zone. What do you do if you are a soldier being asked to fight a war you do not believe in? For two former soldiers whose unit was ordered to deploy to Iraq in April 2005, the ...
- Israel's Jerusalem Evictions Defy Obama, Undermine ...
The international community objected strongly as Israel moved settlers in and longtime Palestinian residents out. Israel said the evictions were legal and mandated by a ruling of its supreme court. read more
- Ahmadinejad Endorsed by Iran's Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei formally approves a second presidential term for Ahmadinejad, who is scheduled to be sworn in by parliament on Wednesday. read more
The Heathlander
- The latest anti-Hamas meme: “child brides”
Last week, Hamas sponsored a mass wedding celebration in Gaza, perhaps in an attempt to reverse its flagging poll ratings: ‘Nearly a thousand Palestinians celebrated marriage on Thursday night in a ceremony organised by Hamas in the north of the Gaza Strip. Hamas dignitaries including Mahmud Zahar ...
- Chomsky on the ‘Responsibility to Protect’
Earlier this week Noam Chomsky participated, along with Jean Bricmont, Gareth Evans (former Australian FM and long-time President of the International Crisis Group) and Ngugi wa Thiong’o, in a UN panel on the doctrine of ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P). You can watch the three hour discussio ...
- How to lose friends and alienate people
Hiring paid hasbaratchiks to “spew forth bullshit” online, parading out Ehud Olmert to convince Americans that opposing settlement construction is like opposing rainbows and kittens, launching a smear campaign against Human Rights Watch, one of the most conservative human rights organisations ar ...
- Breaking the Spin
The BBC’s report on the ‘Breaking the Silence’ testimonies of IDF soldiers describing the commission of serious war crimes during Operation Cast Lead is pretty representative of its output on the topic: there’s nothing outrageous, but there is nonetheless a systematic bias that underplays or ...
- Global march on Gaza
When Gandhi’s doctrine of non-violent resistance (satyagraha) is invoked in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, it is invariably as a propaganda weapon intended to undermine the legitimacy of Palestinian resistance and shift the blame for the continuing occupation on to its principal vic ...
Water - AlterNet
- Can California Be Drought-Proof by 2020?
The state has got a plan to cut water use 20 percent by 2020. Is it realistic? And will rate increases spur revolt?
- Why Can't the U.S. Guarantee the Most Basic of Hum ...
California is leading the way with new legislation to guarantee clean water for all, but the federal government is far behind.
- Privatize the Seas? If Only Solving Overfishing We ...
Merely having a market with clear private ownership rights does not protect against short-sightedness and greed.
- Why California Can Have Healthy Farming Even as Wa ...
The Pacific Institute show how California's agricultural sector can flourish despite threats to water supply.
- Desalination Creates More Problems than Solutions ...
Other cities considering desal would be wise to look at what happened in Tampa.
TruthHugger
- Republicans Have Government Insurance, Why Can’t ...
For weeks I have been listening to all the BS Republicans have spewed about health care reform. Republicans shouted it was socialized medicine and when that didn’t work they came up with other untruths. The fact of the matter is all members of Congress use the public option plan. Republicans are w ...
- Retire Early In Self Defense Could Be A Mistake †...
/h3> Collect Now, or Later? Timing Your Social Security Benefits With the current state of US and world economy, the alternative to jumping out a window, committing a heinous crime or planting your pup tent under an overpass, is retire early and collect your meager social security check at gene ...
- Texas Progressive Alliance – July 13, 2009
It’s Monday and it’s time for another version of the Texas Progressive Alliance weekly highlight reel. Off the Kuff suggests that a pro-science PAC could do a lot of good, nationally and in Texas. WCNews at Eye On Williamson reminds us that despite the brouhaha over transportation during the rec ...
- Protect Us From Another Celebrity Death and Networ ...
The world is reeling from political upheaval, economic meltdown and environmental catastrophe. What does the national media focus on for two weeks? The high drama of a controversial musical artist who has the audacity of dying. News that effects each and every person on this planet is buried un ...
- Texas Progressive Alliance – July 6, 2009
Now that we’ve celebrated another birthday for America, it’s time for the weekly Texas Progressive Alliance blog roundup. Here are your highlights from the holiday week. The loss of Ron Artest from the Rockets to the Lakers (essentially a trade for Trevor Arista) is a bad deal, writes PDiddie a ...
Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts
- Origins of the American Empire: Revolution, World ...
by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 28, 2009 Part 1: Global Power and Glo
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- In the face of unspeakable evil, is it even possib ...
by Jason Miller Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Thomas Paine’s Corner July 27, 2009 Disclaimer: I
- ‘Personal Responsibility’ Is the New Racism by ...
by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig August 3, 2009 LeAlan Jones, the 30-year-
Unexplained Mysteries
- 'Junk' organs are not really useless
Junk organs long considered to be expendable may actually serve an important purpose. Organs such as the spleen, appendix and tonsils could all hold v...
- Mysterious bright spot found on Venus
Astronomers are trying to determine the cause of a mysterious spot that has appeared on Venus. The spot was first observed on the very same day a dark...
- Hidden Gobi Desert relics found
A number of rare relics have been unearthed in the Gobi Desert including statues, art, manuscripts and the personal belongings of a Buddhist master. T...
- Amelia Earhart mystery solved ?
Researchers believe they are on the verge of solving one of aviation's greatest mysteries - the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. DNA evidence to b...
- Evidence of liquid water in comets
During the first million years of their formation comets would have contained large amounts of liquid water it has been claimed. Coupled with the orga...
Grassroots
- Honduras Crisis Exposes the Weakness of US Democra ...
While Honduras is on the brink of a civil war, politics-as-usual in Washington, D.C. threaten, quite literally, to block US support for democracy in that country. It also threatens to squelch democracy here as well. On Thursday, the office of Sen. Richard Lugar sent a letter to Secretary of State ...
- No, We Can't: Latin America Must Take the Lead
The junta in Honduras is still in power and shows little real sign of budging. And the human rights situation has only gotten worse with the military and police cracking down on peaceful protestors, arrests, alleged torture and forced exile of social movement leaders who have had to flee the repress ...
- "Generation 3.0" of Intervention in Haiti: What Is ...
trinidadandtobago200904-132.jpg Below is a blog by Salena Tramel, Grassroots International Program Coordinator for the Middle East and Haiti. It originally appeared on Huffington Post . Here in Haiti, a country all too often characterized by ...
- [Cassava] Bread and Roses: Brazilian Farmers Seek ...
brazil200907-300.jpg During our visit to Brazil earlier this month, Saulo Araujo and I met with Grassroots International’s partners and the communities in which they work. I had prepared myself to talk about a range of issues, from Creole se ...
- Call to Action for the International Community
Below is a letter received from one of our Honduran colleagues asking for support to end human rights violations in the country. As she describes, the situation is worsening. Please visit our action page now to send a letter to President Obama. Thank you. By Wendy Cruz read more
Climate
- August 3, 2009
Australia's Wong Rejects Carbon Trade Changes (Reuters) Australian laws for carbon trading appear to be headed for defeat in parliament's upper house Senate next week. Climate Change Minister Penny Wong today rejected nine proposed opposition amendments. Aviation Industry Expects Certified Biofuel ...
- August 1-2, 2009
India Rejects Emissions Cuts for a Decade (Financial Times) India will not discuss signing up to legally binding obligations to make absolute cuts in CO2 emissions for at least 10 years, the country's environment minister has said. Utility Raises Cleanup Cost in Tennessee (New York Times) T ...
- July 31, 2009
Koch Industries Fueling K St. Lobbying Boom - And Some Dems (Wonk Room) Oil and natural gas interests are pumping money into lobbying firms to influence climate change legislation at a furious pace, $82.2 million in just the first half of 2009 compared to $132.2 million in all of 2008, and that†...
- July 30, 2009
Analysis: Green States See Fewer Rewards in Climate Bill (Reuters) The U.S. climate bill would give states that are heavily reliant on greenhouse-gas emitting fuels, like coal, more carbon credits on a per capita basis than those that use clean fuels, an analysis from the Georgetown Climate Cen ...
- July 30, 2009
Analysis: Green States See Fewer Rewards in Climate Bill (Reuters) The U.S. climate bill would give states that are heavily reliant on greenhouse-gas emitting fuels, like coal, more carbon credits on a per capita basis than those that use clean fuels, an analysis from the Georgetown Climate Cen ...
TomDispatch
- 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 ...
- Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Dismantling the Empire
The Obama administration's plan to end production of the F-22 Raptor has received plenty of press coverage , but the Pentagon budget itself, even though it's again on the rise, hardly rates a bit of notice. In fact, amid the plethora of issues large and small -- from health care reform to Gates-g ...
- Tomgram: Juan Cole, Empire's Paranoia About the P ...
These days, it seems as though the United States is conducting its wars in places remarkably unfamiliar to most Americans. Its CIA-operated drone aircraft, for instance, have been regularly firing missiles into Waziristan , where, in one strike in June, an estimated 80 tribespeople were killed wh ...
- Tomgram: An American Hell
Don't Turn the Page on History Facing the American World We Created By Tom Engelhardt We've just passed through the CIA assassination flap, already fading from the news after less than two weeks of media attention. Broken in several major newspapers , here's how the story goes: the Agency, evi ...
- Tomgram: David Bromwich, America's Serial Warrior ...
Here's part of the way that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently defended his decision to stop production of the F-22 Raptor, the U.S. Air Force's giant boondoggle of a fighter jet. "Consider," the secretary of defense said, "that by 2020, the United States is projected to have nearly 2, ...
Smirking Chimp
- Imagine your child being tortured...for years
For weeks now, I have been telling the story, chapter by chapter, of one Guantanamo Bay detainee, Fayiz al-Kandari. I'd never heard of him before, had you? No, nobody has for nearly eight years now. Before I go on, do me one small favor, if you would. Clear your head of all other thoughts and imagi ...
- Taboo Alert: The Real - And Most Disturbing - News ...
The New York Times story about MSNBC's corporate parent, General Electric, forcing the network to soften its criticism of Fox News has generated a lot of buzz over the weekend. But what's so telling about the story and the residual chatter is that, with the exception of Glenn Greenwald's typically t ...
- New GOP Healthcare Talking Points Leaked: The Obam ...
To: Radio/TV Talk Show Hosts and Pundits From: Michael Steele, GOP Chairman Subject: FYIO - Health Plan Information Distribution NOTE: Please make sure this is sold with conviction with a choke in the voice or a Beckian single- tear-running-down-cheek approach. Always refer to Obama’s Killing Fi ...
- Obama may say that Dr. King paved his way, but Kin ...
In his rousing speech to the NAACP, President Obama praised the civil rights leaders of the past whose sacrifices "began the journey that has led me" (to the White House). He neglected to mention, however, that the majority of those civil rights leaders, most notably Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., opp ...
- Twilight Zone of Prejudice
Racial guilt, of sorts, gnaws at me. With the Cambridge flap looming large, two African-American women were handed a legitimate reason to wonder if I was dissing them. I stepped off a train at Penn Station in Manhattan, entered an elevator holding four other people and stood directly in front of the ...
Ten Percent
- Patriotism, War Criminal’s Fan Club
Immigrants who take part in protests against British troops could be denied citizenship of this country under controversial new Home Office rules. The Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, will launch a consultation tomorrow on a new points-based system for would-be migrants according to their behaviour, as ...
- Aung San Suu Kyi, Verdict Delayed
Now would be a good time to contact the Myanmar Mission in your country and let them know of your concerns, here is the list. (note the London email link creates a faulty address, try- melondon at btconnect.com) (IPS) – A political trial in Burma that could prolong its pro-democracy icon’ ...
- Instant Show Trials
From Naj- The parliament was not informed of this trial. Even the accused were not aware of this; their families and lawyers were unaware, although they were not even given a chance to seek counsel regarding their charges. This is a rare display that can only find parallel in the forgotten medival t ...
- Friday! The Cure- Boys Don’t Cry
Goff! Could post GerBillions of Cure songs but this one worked with the poster below which I liked, it’s Friday, relax everybody. From CrimethInc. (ht2 Earwicga)
- Shock Doctrine: The Motive
Money. (CBS) Several financial giants that received federal bailout money in the last year paid out bonuses to employees in 2008 that greatly exceeded the amount of profit generated by the banks, according to a study on executive compensation released by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo ...
Paul Krugman
- Black states
A slight followup on my last post. The BLS conveniently provides a map of state unemployment rates across the country, which is worth looking at: What you see, if you look at the black states - states with 10+ percent unemployment - are two great belts of suffering. One is California/Oregon/Nevada ...
- Texas is not the only red state
There has been quite a lot of commentary on my colleague Ross Douthat's use of a Texas-California comparison to claim that red states are doing better in the crisis than blue states. Some have pointed out that California, despite its liberal reputation, doesn't have especially high taxes; others hav ...
- A senior moment on Medicare
Right now the GOP's most effective attack on health reform seems to be the claim that Obama is going to ration health care to seniors; we even have legislation to prevent Medicare from taking research on the effectiveness of treatment into account in deciding what to pay for. A number of people have ...
- In defense of Michelle Malkin
No, really. She's been getting a lot of grief from progressive bloggers for saying that extended unemployment benefits cause higher unemployment, and attributing that view to Larry Katz, who has gone to some pains to say that he believes no such thing. But while Larry Katz doesn't believe that unemp ...
- Dimensionality
A number of commenters on my Michelle Malkin post objected that it's not possible to reduce political views to a one-dimensional, left-right scale. That's what I would have thought a few years ago. But then I became familiar with the Poole-Rosenthal work on Congressional voting. They use a clever al ...
No Quarter
- Some Cranky Ass, Bible Toting, Gun Clutching Ameri ...
If these videos are representative of the buzzsaw members of Congress are running into back home then we know for a fact the Obama honeymoon is over. It is one thing to find pissed off Americans in Texas. But what about Pennsylvania and New York. Any doubts that Arlen Specter has been in Washingt ...
- Iraq Says Yes to Iran
(bumped up from the pre-dawn hours of July 31st) Iran may be beating the living shit out of proponents for a less extreme regine but when it comes to Iraq our erstwhile “ally” is telling us to fuck off and siding with the regime in Tehran. The Washington Post had this report on Wednesday: Viole ...
- In 15 Minutes, Tune In to Paulie Abeles’ Show on ...
Monday night show concluded, and promo bumped down. Listen to the archived show at any time. Reminder: At 9:00 p.m. ET, tune in to host Paulie Abeles’ regular Monday night show on No Quarter Radio. Paulie will interview a leading animal protection advocate about greyhounds, revered for centuries b ...
- In 15 Minutes, Tune In to Paulie Abeles’ Show on ...
Reminder: At 9:00 p.m. ET, tune in to host Paulie Abeles’ regular Monday night show on No Quarter Radio. Paulie will interview a leading animal protection advocate about greyhounds, revered for centuries by pharaohs and kings alike for their unbelievable agility, grace and speed. Greyhounds contin ...
- no drugs for you! unless you want an overdose…?
I saw this little tid-bit on HotAir today: One patient in Oregon got a letter that made this all too clear, when in the same letter rejecting her request for life-extending chemotherapy, Oregon offered her “physician-aid-in-dying”. In other words, Oregon offered their customer a heapin’ helpi ...
Environmental Graffiti
- 25 Objects Devoured by Sand
- The Incredible Light Shows of Niagara Falls
- Mind-Boggling Photo Manipulations by Erik Johansso ...
- The Unstoppable Coal Fire Blazing Beneath Pennsylv ...
- 5 Highest Bungee Jumps on Earth
Foreign Policy in Focus
- 60-Second Expert: Ban Ki Moon and R2P
The UN secretary general has taken a forceful position on the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
- Ban Ki Moon and R2P
The UN secretary general has taken a forceful position on the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
- Against the Lisbon Treaty
The European radical left opposes the latest version of European integration.
- Book Review:'The Rise and Fall of Fast Track Trade ...
A new book on U.S. trade policy demonstrates that fast track is the wrong track.
- Time for Effective Aid in Afghanistan
Plenty of military options are on the table for Afghanistan, but solutions based on development are sorely lacking.
Therapy News
- Difficult Marriages Take Exceptional Health Toll o ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Conflicts, whether in the form of overt fights, hidden resentments, or other issues common in marriages, can be strong indicators for a range of mental health concerns, including depression. Studying the medical as well as the psychological effects of difficult marriag ...
- Schizophrenia and the Flu: Scientific American Rep ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Update A recent edition of the popular science and technology publication Scientific American begins its in-depth article on the possibility of a link between mental health concerns and biological agents with a fairly simple observation: “Schizophrenia is a devastating illne ...
- Stress-Free Spaces are Created through Fragrance
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline While not everybody subscribes to the idea that aromatherapy is all it’s cracked up to be, a study recently performed in Japan has revealed that fragrances can indeed result in lower levels of stress. Working with laboratory mice, the research team tested the effica ...
- GoodTherapy.org Considers Petitioning State Licens ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Update As most GoodTherapy.org members and frequent visitors know, our organization was born out of the desire to reduce harm to consumers of therapy. The more training, consultation, and personal work therapists do, the less likely clients will suffer an abuse of power or a b ...
- Analysis Shows General Practice Doctors Botch Depr ...
A GoodTherapy.org News Summary In the medical professions, making an exact diagnosis can sometimes be a difficult task. But a team of researchers from the University of Leicester has recently stumbled upon a remarkable fact: general practice doctors mis-diagnose cases of depression more frequently t ...
Mountaintop Removal
- Food Stamp Recipients Have More Options (WSAZ News ...
People who qualify for food stamps or the electronic benefit transfer card now have more options where they can purchase items.
- Man Dies in Pike County, Ky., Motorcycle Crash (WS ...
A 62-year-old man died Monday in a motorcycle accident in Shelbiana.
- Man Accused of Killing Another Man with His Truck ...
A 19-year-old man accused of using his truck as a deadly weapon is asking a judge to let him out of jail. Garrett Pauley was visibly upset during a court appearance Monday when he was asking to be released on bond.
- Type of Face-Down Restraint Banned in Ohio (WSAZ N ...
Gov. Ted Strickland has ordered a ban on a form of face-down restraint blamed for the death of a 17-year-old girl at a Cleveland treatment center last year.
- Former Dunbar Mayor Suffers Heart Attack (WSAZ New ...
Roger Wolfe became ill Sunday afternoon.
Memeorandum
- And That's the Way It Wasn't (Weekly Standard)
Weekly Standard : And That's the Way It Wasn't — From the Scrapbook. — It seems somehow oddly appropriate that the passing of TV news giant Walter Cronkite should have produced in turn a gigantic correction in the New York Times, which we reproduce here for your delectation:
- 5 things to watch during recess (Glenn Thrush/The ...
Glenn Thrush / The Politico : 5 things to watch during recess — House Minority Leader John Boehner has predicted a “very, very hot summer.” — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bracing for what she calls “the fight of our lives.” — Sleepy, sweltering August, typically a month ...
- Obama 'Joker' Poster Causing a Stir in L.A. (KTLA)
KTLA : Obama ‘Joker’ Poster Causing a Stir in L.A. — Obama “Joker” Poster — What do you think? — When you're taking flak... ÃÂyou know you're over the target,and the person who made this poster is shining the light of truth on the Obama administration.
- Is This the Source of the Forged 'Kenyan Birth Cer ...
David Weigel / The Washington Independent : Is This the Source of the Forged ‘Kenyan Birth Certificate?’ — [Update: Credit where it's due—my source tipped me off to this in the Politijab web forums, which have become a good site for “birther” debunking.] — One of my friends i ...
- New Anti-Obama 'Joker' Poster (Steven Mikulan/LA D ...
Steven Mikulan / LA Daily : New Anti-Obama ‘Joker’ Poster — A new poster depicting President Obama as a version of Heath Ledger's Joker character in The Dark Knight has appeared in Los Angeles, according to rightwing sources. Blog posters to such online sites as American Thinker and T ...
Energy & Environment News
- By Degrees: White Roofs Catch On as Energy Cost Cu ...
Some homeowners are embracing so-called “cool roofs” that reflect heat as an affordable tool against climate change.
- Slow, Costly and Often Dangerous Road to Wind Powe ...
As demand for clean energy grows, towns are finding their traffic patterns roiled by convoys carrying huge windmills.
- Efficiency Drive Could Cut Energy Use 23% by 2020, ...
An investment of $520 billion in energy improvements could produce $1.2 trillion in savings on energy bills through 2020, a McKinsey study found.
- Exelon Drops Its Bid for NRG Energy
A nine-month $7.53 billion takeover effort ended after NRG’s shareholders rejected board nominees from its suitor.
- Advertising: An Environmental Group’s Campa ...
Tap or bottled water? That is the question for some marketers, who contend bottled water is just tap water repackaged.
5+ quakes - 7 days
- M 5.0, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
Saturday, August 1, 2009 09:45:49 UTC Saturday, August 1, 2009 06:45:49 PM at epicenter Depth : 34.30 km (21.31 mi)
- M 5.3, near the coast of central Peru
Monday, August 3, 2009 20:10:18 UTC Monday, August 3, 2009 03:10:18 PM at epicenter Depth : 48.40 km (30.07 mi)
- M 5.9, Gulf of California
Monday, August 3, 2009 18:40:50 UTC Monday, August 3, 2009 11:40:50 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
- M 5.0, Gulf of California
Monday, August 3, 2009 18:33:34 UTC Monday, August 3, 2009 11:33:34 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
- M 6.9, Gulf of California
Monday, August 3, 2009 17:59:56 UTC Monday, August 3, 2009 10:59:56 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
China Dialogue
- “Why don’t we stop hurting Earth?”
Telling children about climate change could leave them angry, worried or even traumatised. So when and how should we do it? Leo Hickman explores an issue that can only grow in importance. “A four-year-old child could understand this! Run out and find me a four-year-old child.” For the past year ...
- Green growth in the Himalayas
In the cold desert valleys of Ladakh, simple greenhouses provide fresh vegetables year round, writes Maryann Bird. For its innovative work in India, France’s GERES has won an Ashden Award for sustainability. When winter comes and the temperatures plummet to -25º Celsius in Ladakh , in the dry, re ...
- Facing Asia’s water woes
Concerns over water scarcity are particularly acute in Asia, writes Saleem H Ali. But despite the potential for conflict, there are also prospects for ecological cooperation. As countries prepare for the climate change conference in Copenhagen later this year, water scarcity concerns that are likely ...
- Geoengineering: mirror, mirror
Firing trillions of reflective discs into space sounds like science fiction, but some people think it could protect the earth. chinadialogue reports. What’s the big idea? Shooting 16 trillion glass discs into space. It sounds like a giant disco ball, but it’s actually supposed to create a 10 ...
- Rumble in the jungle
Could uncontacted Amazonian tribes in Peru be wiped out by oil giants? Not if they don’t exist. If they do, they could impede the country’s quest for a windfall. Rory Carroll reports. Stand on the muddy riverbank at Copal Urco just before dawn and it is easy to see why the Amazon breeds legends. ...
Daily Censored
- China censors Namibia corruption case that may tou ...
Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories It has blocked any references to the investigation even though Hu Haifeng is not a suspect, underscoring the taboo against covering China???s 'princelings.' ...
- Afghanistan attacks underscore insurgents’ g ...
Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories New NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussmen called for more European troops as violence in once-calm west and north complicate preparations for Aug. 20 elections. ...
- Fox & Friends’ Blatant Activism To Kill Health C ...
Read the full story at News Hounds If ever there was a segment that proved Fox News’ intrinsic unfairness, unbalance and its commitment to promoting GOP talking points, this segment from this morning's Fox & Friends is it. All three hosts offered the same anti-health-care-bill view, offered the sa ...
- What’s Not On Fox News And Fox Nation? Possible ...
Read the full story at News Hounds Can you imagine how Fox News and Fox Nation would react if a Muslim were caught taking photos of an Air Force base while carrying XM-15 assault rifle, a shotgun, and 500 rounds of ammunition?! Why Sean Hannity would be calling for the ...
- Agenda for the Copenhagen Conference, December 200 ...
genda for the Copenhagen Conference and Prepcons To, H.E. Ms. Connie Hedegaard, Minister for Climate and Energy, Ministry of Climate and Energy Stormgade 2-6 DK-1470 København K Denmark (Through Mr. Ole Lonsmann Poulsen, Ambassador, Embassy of Denmark, New Delhi) Subject: Agenda for ...
AlterNet's Breaking News
- Obama Urges Senate to Save 'Cash for Clunkers'
- Gibbs: Obama Will Not Raise Middle Class Taxes
- Clinton Slams Israeli Evictions of Palestinians
- Pentagon Plans Speeding Up 'Bunker Buster' Bomb
- GM Cuts on Track as 66,000 Workers Take Buyouts
Institute for Policy Studies
- Asia's Axis of Evil?
Burma and North Korea are the pariahs of Asia. Are these birds of a feather flocking together?
- Obama: Renegotiate NAFTA as You Promised
Mexican, Canadian, and U.S. leaders should scrap their failed "Security and Prosperity Partnership" and begin overhauling the North American Free Trade agreement at an upcoming Guadalajara meeting.
- Why Are We Letting Polluters Regulate Themselves I ...
The new energy bill would strip EPA of its power and let polluters take the reigns with a market-based system.
- Hypocrisy and the Honduran Coup
The United States needs to stop supporting coups — of all political stripes — and start supporting actual democracy.
- Military vs. Climate Security: Mapping the Shift f ...
In addition to creating an existential threat to the planet and its people, rapidly accelerating climate change is a security challenge.
Reuters - Most Popular Articles
- Fans urged to drink whisky to ward off swine flu
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian soccer fans have been told to drink whisky on their trip to Wales for next month's World Cup qualifier to ward off the H1N1 swine flu virus, the head of the country's supporter association (VOB) said Monday.
- UPDATE 1-Court OKs custody of Jackson's kids to mo ...
* Concert promoter AEG seeks inclusion in estate matters
- Alabama's Jefferson County makes massive job cuts
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama's debt-ridden Jefferson County laid off about two-thirds of its 3,600 employees on Monday because of plummeting revenues, a move that will sharply curtail services in areas ranging from roads to courthouses.
- Nissan Unveils First Electric Car Design and It's ...
By Nick Chambers You've got to hand it to Nissan: they've been burning the midnight oil with their EV information blitz recently. I'm sure there are many blurry eyed and bedazzled marketing and engineering folks behind the Nissan EV scenes right now who are starting to wonder if they get paid enough ...
- UPDATE 3-Huron shares plummet amid accounting scan ...
* Brokerages downgrade stock (Recasts, updates shares, adds analyst comments)
Godspace
- Between the Sheets: Sleeping as A Spiritual Practi ...
I will be heading out to Australia this afternoon but am hoping to continue posting while I travel. Â The submissions continue to arrive which is wonderful and I am enjoying reading them before I post them. This morning’s post is from Teri Peterson a presbyterian pastor who loves her new bed (wh ...
- Driving as Spiritual Practice
The weather has cooled down considerably here in Seattle and everyone feels that things are back to normal. Â A little rain would be appreciated – yes we do have days and in this case months without rain in the Pacific NW. Â The garden is flourishing but definitely crying out for a good soakin ...
- Yoga & Jesus: This is a spiritual practice
I continue to be challenged and stretched by the ways that people connect to God and to Jesus Christ. The posts below are by Christina Whitehouse-Sugg. I found them particularly intriguing because of my growing interest in Christian meditation and as you know I am also passionate about Henri Nou ...
- Spiritual Discipline – Serving At the Pantry
Well yesterday afternoon all my good intentions went out the window. I had expected to post another of the excellent articles still being submitted for the series on What is a Spiritual Discipline but two things happened to change all that. First the temperature in Seattle climbed to an all time ...
- Making Space for the Rabbi
Today is likely to be a busy day on my blog – not because of those who read it but primarily because I am going away for a couple of days tomorrow and there is so much that I want to post before that – including book reviews, thoughts on Jimmy Carter’s statement about leaving [...]
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.
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