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IPS - Inter Press Services

• CULTURE: Young Women in Chat Rooms Beware

  MANAMA, Aug 6 (IPS) - Internet and mobile phones have spawned a new kind of marriage in the Gulf.

• CUBA: Fullest Possible Social Inclusion for the D ...

  SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Jul 5 (IPS) - Arnoldo Ramón Virgilio’s legs are of little use to him, but he has a way with words that more than makes up for any physical limitations. He’s one of the outpatients at the "América Labadí Arce" Medical and Education Centre, which provides health car ...

• RIGHTS: UN Anti-Racism Committee Concerned for In ...

  GENEVA, Aug 5 (IPS) - The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) expressed concern this week over the treatment received by indigenous communities in Peru.

• RIGHTS: Outspoken Activists Defend Africa's Sexua ...

  COPENHAGEN, Aug 5 (IPS) - The second World Outgames, held in the Danish capital, offered up a veritable smorgasbord of sport, politics and arts while celebrating sexual and gender diversity. But it also reminded participants that bigotry against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) peop ...

• POLITICS: Security Council Reform Remains Deadloc ...

  UNITED NATIONS, Aug 5 (IPS) - After 15 long years of closed-door bickering, the United Nations remains irrevocably deadlocked on how to revamp the most powerful political body in the Organisation: the 15-member Security Council.

The Intelligence Daily

• Panetta Seeks to Whitewash CIA Crimes

• William Blum's Monthly Anti-Emipre Report

• Chasing Terrorists VS. Chasing Swine Flu

• An Ominous Glimpse into the Future of Human Labor

• Elderly man resisting eviction shot by Detroit pol ...

My AntiWar

• Wednesday: 1 US Soldier, 13 Iraqis Killed; 23 Iraq ...
• 64 Years Later, US Support for Hiroshima Nuking Li ...
• Israeli FM Tells Border Villagers: You Weren&#8217 ...
• Pentagon Delays Afghan War Review
• Sadrists Say Too Early to Announce Stance on New A ..
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Rogue Government.com

• Residents flee China's quarantined plague town

  Frightened residents of a Chinese town sealed off after an outbreak of pneumonic plague have begun to flee under cover of darkness, sneaking around checkpoints set up to stop the spread of one of the world’s deadliest diseases.

• ATF worries about cartel grenades coming into US

  It was a scenario U.S. law enforcement had long feared: A fragmentation grenade from Mexico's bloody drug war tossed into a public place.

• Murdoch vows to charge for all online content

  Rupert Murdoch has vowed to charge for all the online content of his newspapers and television news channels, going well beyond his prediction in May that the company would test pay models on one of its stronger papers within the year.

• House Orders Up Three Elite Jets

  But apparently Congress is not philosophically averse to private air travel: At the end of July, the House approved nearly $200 million for the Air Force to buy three elite Gulfstream jets for ferrying top government officials and Members of Congress.

• Alabama Sheriff May Call For The National Guard T ...

  The sheriff in Alabama's most populous county may call for the National Guard to help maintain order, a spokesman said Tuesday, after a judge cleared the way for cuts in the sheriff's budget and hopes dimmed for a quick end to a budget crisis.

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

• Ponerization: Hamas dress code aims to make Gaza ...

  Police order a lingerie shop to hide its scantily clad mannequins. A judge warns female lawyers to wear headscarves in court. Beach patrols break up groups of singles and make men wear shirts. It's all part of a new Hamas campaign to get Gazans to adhere to a strict Muslim lifestyle. Hamas insists ...

• Back treatment for elderly no better than placebo

  A common treatment that uses medical cement to fix cracks in the spinal bones of elderly people worked no better than a sham treatment, the first rigorous studies of the popular procedure reveal. Pain and disability were virtually the same up to six months later, whether patients had a real treatme ...

• Robert Gibbs backtracks on Ahmadinejad 'elected' r ...

  The welfare of three Americans reportedly arrested at the Iran border remained murky Wednesday as the White House sought to clarify its view on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presidency. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs referred to Ahmadinejad, who was sworn in for a second term Wednesday, as "the elected ...

• Obama lawyer who pushed to release Bush torture me ...

  The Obama administration lawyer perhaps most associated with the president's decision to close Guantanamo Bay and the decision to release secret Bush-era memorandums authorizing torture may leave his post as White House Counsel, according to a report Tuesday. Gregory Craig, 64, leads the White Hous ...

• Purloining the People's Property

  Every week, Marcia Carroll collects examples of privatization (that is, corporatization of the peoples' assets). Looking at her website, privatizationwatch.org, will either make you laugh helplessly or make your blood boil. The "off the wall" giveaways at bargain-basement prices of what you and oth ...

Threat Level

• Lawsuit: Twitter Method Infringes Patents

  Twitter’s microblogging service breaches the patents of a Texas-based technology company, which is demanding unspecified damages and licensing fees, according to a federal lawsuit. TechRadium, of Sugar Land, claims it has patents to what it calls the “mass notification” concept. According to t ...

• Digitized Stalking is the New World Order

  You’re being followed. Stalkers are everywhere, even in your pocket. That’s the warning Wednesday from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the San Francisco-based civil liberties group. In a “white paper” dubbed On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever, the group warns how e ...

• Pirate Bay Buyer Says Record Deal Imminent

  The buyer of The Pirate Bay, the world’s most notorious BitTorrent tracker, says one of the “Big Four” record labels is set to hawk their wares on the site once Global Gaming Factory turns it into a pay-to-play destination, Swedish media reports. Global Gaming Factory, of Sweden, is expected t ...

• Inside the World’s Most Hostile Network
• Hacking the DefCon 17 Badges

  LAS VEGAS — For the last four years DefCon’s badges have been designed with circuit boards that attendees have been encouraged to hack as part of a contest. This year, the badge hackers were competing to win a black über badge, which gives the recipient free entry to DefCon for life. The c ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Bush Domestic Spying Ally Cornyn Now Fears Obama D ...

  If nothing else, Republican Senator John Cornyn is an irony producing machine. During the Terri Schiavo affair, the former Texas Supreme Court Justice was at the forefront of the GOP campaign to intimidate and threaten judges. Now after his fierce...

• The Brooks Brothers Rioters and Their Discontents

  Karl Marx famously said historical events occur twice, first as tragedy and then as farce. And so it is with the Republican "filibuster nation," the manufactured mob displays designed to disrupt, derail and destroy Democratic health care events. As I...

• GOP Returns to 2000 Dade County Recount Playbook

  Every football coach will tell you: if a play works, keep running it until the defense stops you. And so it is with the health care debate. Facing overwhelming public support for health care reform, right-wing groups have deployed mobs...

• 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...

Blackspot News Feed

• Obama Continues To Pay Blackwater (Christian Crusa ...

  MoxNewsDotComAugust 05, 2009http://earth2obama.org/ COMING SOON!!! http://MOXNews.com/August 05, 2009 MSNBC Keith Olbermann more about “Obama Continues To Pay Blackwater (Ch…“, posted with vodpod***In Explosive Allegations, Ex-Employees Link Blackwater Founder to Murder, ThreatsDemocracy Now!A ...

• Illegal stem-cell clinic raided in Budapest

  From New Scientist: Stem cell tourism – patients paying for treatment at illegal “guerrilla” clinics – continues to be a lucrative racket. Police in Hungary last week arrested four individuals they suspect of running an illegal stem cell treatment clinic in Budapest. Reuters reported t ...

• Ahmadinejad Sworn In as Iran President Amid Crisis

  Tehran - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in for a second term as Iran's president Wednesday while security forces battled hundreds of protesters chanting "Death to the Dictator" in the streets around parliament where the ceremony was held. Key opposition leaders, moderate lawmakers and all thr ...

• Five Futuristic Interfaces on Display at SIGGRAPH

  A couple of the five featured interfaces on Technology Review: Touchable Holography 3D Teleconferencing

• Health Bill Includes Abortion Coverage

  Washington - Health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions, a decision that would affect millions of women and recast federal policy on the divisive issue. Federal funds for abortions are now restricted to cases involving rap ...

Consortium News

• GE Muzzles Olbermann about Fox

  As Fox News eggs on health-care disruptions, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann respects a GE-brokered truce with Fox, says Robert Parry. August 5, 2009

• Bush's Conspiracy to Riot

  From the Archive: Today's right-wing disruptions of health-care "town halls" harken back to George W. Bush's riot in 2000. By Robert Parry

• Assessing Rumsfeld's Strategic Vision

  Ex-Defense Secretary Rumsfeld is faulted for his "small-footprint" strategy, but other options could be worse, writes Ivan Eland. August 4, 2009

• US Confronts the Russia-Iran Alliance

  Iran's warmer relations with Russia and others outside the U.S. orbit complicate President Obama's plans, reports TheRealNews. August 4, 2009

• Battling for Single-Payer Healthcare

  Right-wing media rallies Republican activists against healthcare bills, as reformers struggle to be heard, reports Siobhan Kolar. August 4, 2009

CounterPunch

• Dedrick Muhammad / Barbara Ehrenreich : The Destr ...
• Norman Solomon : The Incredible, Shrinking Health ...
• William Blum : The Myths of Afghanistan: Past and ...
• Gareth Porter : The ISI and the Taliban: US Offici ...
• Mary Lynn Cramer : The Myth of Medicare for All

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Statistical report on persons killed and property ...

  This report presents documented statistical material on the damage inflicted on civilians and their property by the IOF during Operation Cast Lead. Information in the report is based on an extensive field su ...

• Position paper on the Israel Land Administration l ...

  The Knesset Economic Committee recently considered the issue of the Israel Land Administration reform, and approved a draft law on the subject. The draft law, inter alia, institutes a regime of land privatiz ...

• Washington summons Israel envoy over East Jerusale ...

  Washington issued another diplomatic protest over Israeli conduct in East Jerusalem on Monday, its second in as many weeks. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman summoned ...

• Traumatised children struggle to rise again (Inte ...

  Tens of thousands of children in Gaza are still suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following Israel's three-week bombing. Several crisis counselling teams run by international organisations ...

• Israelis must acknowledge how Zionism dismembered ...

  The problem with demanding more Arab concessions and "confidence-building" measures in order to make Israel feel secure enough to comply with the dictates of law and morality is that this approach has failed ...

Planetsave

• Could Trees Be the New Rubber?

  You’re waiting at a red light, your engine idling lightly. You check the crosswalk signal: 20 seconds, you have some time. You turn your classical music up a notch to the perfect volume and you close your eyes, relaxing on your way home from work. But your moment of relaxation is interrupted by t ...

• Earth’s Biogeochemical Cycles Slipping Into Disa ...

  The conductor walks on to the stage and mounts the podium with applause from the crowd. Â He bows to the audience, then turns to his orchestra and, with one fluid motion pulls music from the vast expanse of silence. Each musician moves, almost mechanically, in perfect time, in perfect concert. T ...

• 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Parkinson's Disease: Rural Well Water Linked to Pa ...

  Rural Well Water Linked to Parkinson’s Disease wordpress:

• National Resource Defense Council Reports on Water ...

  Beach name Rating details 100 yrds ENE of Little Bridge, Causeway, Nags Head 100 yrds. o

• Great Water Quality at Outer Banks Beaches

  Recently, environmental experts reported that the Outer Banks has some of the nation’s cleanes

• Water awareness: global survey of public perceptio ...

  Molson Coors Brewing Company [has] announced a strategic collaboration with Circle of Blue in suppor

• 2008/2009 Water Quality Committee Annual Report

  The Glen Lake Association Water Quality Committee has focused on the following activities during the

Public Citizen in Texas

• King Williams Parade Pics 062 [Flickr]

  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

• Austin Energy Wants to Know: What kind of an energ ...

  Austin Energy will make a recommendation to City Council in August of their future generation plan through 2020. According to their website, “an important component of the planning process is input from the community” — but as of April, only about 300 people had filled out Austin Energy†...

• Energia Mia Press Conference Today!!!

  The press conference marking the announcement of the formation the Energia Mia Coalition takes place today, Aug 5th at 4:30 at St. Paul’s Community Center, 1201 Donaldson – at Donaldson and St. Cloud Road. The media arrives at 5:00 and several people from local groups are scheduled to speak. F ...

• 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 ...

Press TV

• Tribesmen kill 11 militants in NW Pakistan

  Pakistani tribesmen have raided hideouts of pro-Taliban militants in the restive North-West Frontier Province, killing a dozen insurgents.

• Parliament 'has final say on Musharraf trial'

  The Pakistani premier says the government is bound to implement the decision of parliament if lawmakers pass a resolution to hold trial of Pervez Musharraf.

• Puntland Information Minister assassinated

  The Information Minister of the semi-autonomous administration of Puntland has been killed by six unidentified gunmen in Galka'yo town in the Mudug region of Somalia.

• South America against US bases in Colombia

  A US plan to use military bases in Colombia has met with opposition in South America despite Washington's efforts to calm the region.

• US wants Israel's guarantee over settlements

  The US calls for Israel's guarantee that it will halt the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Axis of Logic

• A Reuters Alchemist at Work in Colombia

• Of humility, love, and hope

• Israel evicts two Palestinian families - 2 Aug 09

• The Swine Flu Lie

• A Spiritual Conspiracy

They Gave Us a Republic

• Dick Morris Is a Miserable Little Bastard, Isn't h ...

  I've been trying to start a diary on Dick Morris all day but once again my inability to come up with something new that adequately describes the utter contempt I have for this slimy little lizard is driving me up the goddamned wall. I've made at least a dozen starts and every time I really start ...

• Rockefeller Not Falling for Senate Repugs' Snowe J ...

  I was recently discouraged to hear a supposed liberal praise Senator Olympia Snowe. The Maine republican is usually identified as a "moderate," meaning that unlike the rest of her party she is not actually calling President Obama a traitor live on television. Snowe is, however, the Trojan Horse on t ...

• Make-It-Yourself Kenyan Birth Certificate: For Yo ...

  Via TPM, it's the official Kenyan Birth Certificate Generator! Just answer a few easy questions, and voila! - you were born in Kenya. When the certificate is finished, the site will even provide you with a URL of the certificate's very own, plus links you can send to all those who deny your true bir ...

• Welcome Home - now just ignore the nattering nabob ...

  One would think that the entire nation would heave a sigh of relief and say a few words rooted in the belief system that comforts them when the news broke that Bill Clinton had secured the freedom of Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who had been detained by North Korea in mid-March, sentenced to 12 years at ...

• Single-Payer Summer

  Want to beat the astroturf hooligans on health care reform? Ignore the stupid town halls on the worthless compromise the congressional weasels are trying to sell. Demand single-payer. Fuck the public option. Fuck community rating. Fuck cost controls. Fuck individual mandates. Fuck open access r ...

Care 2

• Bombshell: Osama Bin Laden Worked for US Until 9/1 ...

  The US outsourced terror operations to al Qaeda and the Taliban for many years, promoting the Islamization of Central Asia in an attempt to personally profit off military sales as well as oil and gas concessions. US governmental silence is deafening! Submitted by David Buchan to US Politics & Gov't ...

• Help Recovery Efforts Continue for Endangered Sea ...

  Already listed as an endangered species, the sea turtle is now at risk of losing its most important nesting grounds. Please speak up today to help protect a critical habitat of this endangered wildlife. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

• The Times' Mel Melcon chronicles dogs' lives in ph ...

  Dogs are nothing if not photogenic, and Times photographer Mel Melcon has captured them over the years in a wide variety of situations and poses. (Above, a rescued German shorthaired pointer named Luna meets Dando, a Rhodesian ridgeback mix. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add ...

• Baby Panda is Born at the San Diego Zoo! Video!

  The San Diego Zoo is celebrating the birth of a fifth giant panda. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

• Frog's five legs trigger pollution concern

  Grossed-out, excited and then concerned -- that's how a nine-year-old London girl felt when she pulled from her backyard pond a frog with five legs. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

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

• India, China take a measure of each other at borde ...

  China and India are sitting down for another round of talks this week on their unsettled border, a nearly 50-year festering row that in recent months seems to have gotten worse.

• North Korea requests Clinton. So off he goes.

  It was North Korea which had suggested that former President Bill Clinton would be the best person to come and negotiate the release of two journalists who had been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in the Stalinist state.

• Punishing Baitullah Mehsud

  Pakistan's offensive against Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud is seen as very much a punitive mission. But how does that fit into a longer-term strategy for the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan?

• Bill grabs spotlight from Hillary

  Former U.S. President Bill Clinton turns up in North Korea seeking the release of two American journalists, stealing the limelight from his wife Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

• Boko Haram: a sect alone?

  The Boko Haram sect surprised many in Nigeria and elsewhere with the violence of their uprising last week.

Ezra Klein

• Tab Dump

  • A profile of Cook's Illustrated's Christopher Kimball . I have always thought that this man is probably insane. • Slate is tracking the "government isn't Medicare" meme. • The New York Times has a new restaurant critic . • On a related note, this is what Frank Bruni looks like. • Why ...

• The Role of Prop. 13

  James Fallows reminds us that California might be a liberal state, but it's constrained by the mother of all conservative tax structures: Proposition 13. Pre-Prop 13 (as Benjamin Schwarz points out in his review of the great new Kevin Starr book ), California dreamed big and spent big. Post-Prop 1 ...

• Gooz News!

  Speaking of pharmaceutical innovation, Merrill Goozner's four posts on "The Innovation Conundrum" ( 1, 2 , 3 , 4 ) are an excellent introduction to these issues. His blog, GoozNews , is also excellent, and I don't link to it enough.

• In Defense of Experts

  To recap: There is an argument that national health insurance will be a net negative because pharmaceutical companies will make less money and thus create fewer new and life-saving products. On Monday, I published an interview with Dr. Jerry Avorn, author of the excellent book "Powerful Medicines" , ...

• The Day's Weirdest Picture

  This picture led every paper today, but I still can't get over it: I want to know about the smile negotiations. Did the North Koreans demand a grin and Clinton's camp simply refused? Did the North Koreans except that Clinton was under strict order not to smile? Did they realize that not smiling w ...

Booman Tribune

• Agog at Gog and Magog

  You can say this more than once: It’s awkward to say openly, but now-departed President Bush is a religious crackpot, an ex-drunk of small intellect who “got saved.” He never should have been entrusted with the power to start wars. How much of a crackpot? It reads like an article from the ...

• Be Who You Are

  School will soon start again, and countless LGBT youth will return to classrooms all over the country. Some will return to schools where they find support and protection from harassment — where administrators and teachers work together to ensure a safe learning environment to all students. Some ...

• James Joyner Doesn't Get It

  James Joyner misses the point that Josh Marshall is trying to make. Marshall's point wasn't that everyone on the Right is a crazy nutbag while everyone on the left is cooly logical. Marshall's key point is here (emphasis mine): That’s the thing about where the GOP is right now. I don’t questi ...

• Advice for Joe Sestak

  Kos provides a useful and informative chart: The information contained in this chart is going to make up the heart of Joe Sestak's case against Arlen Specter in the 2010 primary. Arlen Specter was born in February, 1930. If he is reelected, he will turn 81 a month after he is sworn in, and ...

• Do District Polling on Health Care

  One thing I hope the Democrats are doing this August is extensive district polling on health care. The opponents of health care are more motivated to show up at town-halls and to write letters, so a congressperson could get a very distorted view of what their constituents want if they just go by th ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 6 ...

  A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1946 – Birth of...

• Wednesday Open Thread

  Tell no lies in this open thread......

• So what if it's a lie?

  Save the planet by spreading lies | Green Directory, Eco Friendly Products and Services, Green...

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 5 ...

  A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1694 – Leonardo Leo,...

• Tuesday Open Thread

  Come out and chat!...

Futurismic

• First artificial organelle

  Researchers have developed an artificial cellular organelle to aid in the development of artificial synthesis the life-saving anti-clotting drug heparin: Scientists have been working to create a synthetic version of the medication, because the current production method leaves it susceptible to conta ...

• First artificial organelle

  Researchers have developed an artificial cellular organelle to aid in the development of artificial synthesis the life-saving anti-clotting drug heparin: Scientists have been working to create a synthetic version of the medication, because the current production method leaves it susceptible to conta ...

• Data pr0n: the demographics of employment and leis ...

  Just a quick one: even if you’re not particularly interested in demographic research into how different segments of the population of the United States spend their time each day, the interactive graphical data thingy that the New York Times have produced to illustrate it is pretty sweet, and good ...

• Niche magazine survival strategies and the author- ...

  The Death-Of-Magazines debate seems to have gone off the boil in the genre fiction scene (albeit temporarily), but there’s still plenty of discussion – and innovation – going on elsewhere. Former Wired columnist and Japanophile Momus takes a look at the migration of magazines onto portable dev ...

• Data pr0n: the demographics of employment and leis ...

  Just a quick one: even if you’re not particularly interested in demographic research into how different segments of the population of the United States spend their time each day, the interactive graphical data thingy that the New York Times have produced to illustrate it is pretty sweet, and good ...

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

• Many missing as Tonga ferry sinks

  Rescue operations underway after ferry sinks off the coast of Tonga.

• US to clear UN peacekeeping debts

  Move to settle $2.2bn arrears comes as UN review shows resources overstretched.

• Clashes at Honduras student protest

  Riot police use tear gas to break up protest in support of ousted president.

• US seeks 'good Africa governance'

  Secretary of state urges leaders gathered in Kenya to improve transparency.

• US announces $2.4bn industry grant

  President focuses on electric and hybrid vehicle manufacture as part of recovery plan.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Greenpeace and Kimberly-Clark Settle Feud

  In return for greener paper procurement policies, Greenpeace agreed to drop its long-running campaign against the company Kimberly-Clark, maker of Kleenex and other brands.

• Clinton-era Rule Protecting Forests Upheld

  In a victory for environmentalists, a federal appellate court reaffirmed a lower court decision to reinstate the Clinton-era "roadless rule" -- although both sides acknowledge that the legal battles will continue.

• Battle Brewing Over Giant Desert Solar Farm

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• Pirate Bay Trial and Kopimi: The Kopimi Manifesto

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Scoop - NZ

• Situation Worsens in Northern Afghanistan

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• US: Ahmadinejad is elected leader

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• Chomsky on the ‘Responsibility to Protect’

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• Global march on Gaza

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• Texas Progressive Alliance – July 13, 2009

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• Texas Progressive Alliance – July 6, 2009

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• Was there really a "Great Flood" ?

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  Cover_Mock-up_rev_13_Feb_09.jpg We’re pleased to announce the release of Food Rebellion s! , co-published by Grassroots International and our ally Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy. Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger f ...

• 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 ...

Climate

• August 5, 2009

  Study: US Consumers Spared Big Costs in Climate Bill (Reuters) A new U.S. government study adds to a growing list of experts concluding that climate legislation moving through Congress would have only a modest impact on consumers, adding a bit more than $100 to household costs in 2020. Pacific Isla ...

• August 4, 2009

  Scandal Surrounding Fake Climate Bill Letters Mushrooms (Politico) The coal front group ACEEE, caught up in a fraudulent grassroots lobbying scandal, tried to contain the damage only to see it mushroom, dragging in two more lawmakers and prompting a congressman to call for an official investigati ...

• 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†...

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

• Top Ten Ways to Tell Your President and His Party ...

  — from Black Agenda Report Barack Obama and Democratic majorities in the House and Senate were swept into office on a promise they would deliver affordable and accessible health care for all Americans. But the corporate media journalism limits the national health care conversation to what insurance ...

• A Yard Sale in Chernobyl

  "It's only a system," she said, as we floated through the sprawling supermarket's gleaming commodity lined indoor streets. "THE HELL IT IS! It's a goddamned air conditioned zombie hell of waste and gluttony," I thought to myself, before the usual vertigo completely enveloped me. Just back from Centr ...

• Hey, Did You Hear That Democrats Won The Election? ...

  That George Bush, man - what a monster, eh? I mean, could you even have imagined a president so destructive? It's actually worse than you thought, though. Lately, there's been a spate of fresh revelations about some of the incredibly disastrous policies that were executed by the Bush administratio ...

• The GOP Warns Be Afraid - PLEASE!

  America is in a real pickle. No, actually in a jar of pickles -- deadly pickles. If the terrorists don't get you, your own government will track you down and have your doctor kill your ass. All this is true. At least, that's what Republicans want you to believe. Let's look at the new national threat ...

• Tales from the Lobotomy Ward: The Stupidest Republ ...

  I happened to have tuned into Hardball two nights ago. This is a very rare experience for me (I was really waiting to see Olbermann's show), as I avoid Hardball like the plague, realizing a few years ago that every minute I am forced to look at Chris Matthews and his typically braindead guests is a ...

Ten Percent

• Dorothy Naor Writes A Great Letter

  The Israeli feminist peace activist (of the currently persecuted New Profile organisation) is here writing to Leonard Cohen. But I think the letter would work for anyone you need to broach the subject of Israel and Palestine to who may be labouring under common misconceptions about the issues and pr ...

• De-Growth

  (IPS) – Serge Latouche, professor emeritus of economic science at the University of Paris-Sud, is one of the main proponents of “the society of de-growth”. He calls for “abandoning the objective of growth for growth’s sake, an insane objective, with disastrous consequences for the environ ...

• Ian Tomlinson- IPCC Pass Their Investigation Onto ...

  As the family of Ian Tomlinson say, let a jury decide, the CPS should bring charges against the officer shown on video attacking him. Or will it be business as usual? The IPCC did not launch its criminal inquiry until six days after Tomlinson’s death, when the Guardian gave the watchdog a dossier ...

• 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’ ...

Paul Krugman

• One of these things is not like the other

  Please, no false equivalences. The campaign against Social Security privatization was energetic and no doubt rude, but did not involve intimidation and disruption.

• People who can't get over the Democratic primary

  Clinton derangement syndrome, still.

• Bouncing Britain

  Signs of an economic turnaround in Britain are getting stronger.

• Massachusetts health polling

  Has support for health care reform in MA plunged?

• All in all, you're just another brick in the Great ...

  I have a vision of a huge march down Constitution Avenue, with the marchers bearing banners that read "Forcefully support the Bureau of Economic Analysis in its heroic estimation efforts."

No Quarter

• Some Cranky Ass, Bible Toting, Gun Clutching Ameri ...

  (bumped up from August 4th at 12:01 a.m.) 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 doub ...

• Steele: Obama was the Real Problem in the Gates A ...

  I was hoping that Shelby Steele, a “self-described black conservative,” would eventually weigh in on Gates-gate. The WSJ published an op-ed, “From Emmitt Till to Skip Gates,” by the “author, columnist, documentary film maker, and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford Un ...

• Throw the Bums Out! An End to Party Politics [UPD ...

  Mickey Edwards’ weekend editorial in the LA Times, The (political) party is over, states that …“the parties once served a purpose, but they have degenerated into a system that discourages independent thought and undermines representative governmentâ€� and “…loyalty to one†...

• Now There’s A Thought Or Two…

  (bumped up from yesterday early afternoon) I just happened to catch this Tuesday morning, and thought it raised some interesting questions on the issue of health care reform: So, why isn’t this man helping to shape policy? He sounds pretty smart to me. By now, I am sure many of you have seen fo ...

• That Gaping Hole in Our Recovery is Called Jobs!

  There is a gapping hole in our recovery and more and more of Main Street America is falling through it. And that gapping hole is JOBS. Or more accurately, the place where JOBS should be. The price of U.S. recession is paid in jobs In the current recession, economists say high unemployment is like ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Terrifying Underwater Encounters With The Bengali ...
• Incredibly Realistic Ballpoint Pen Drawings by Jua ...
• The Flying Tree Snake of Southeast Asia
• 25 Objects Devoured by Sand
• The Incredible Light Shows of Niagara Falls

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Electoral Hypocrisy in Latin America

  When it comes to changing term limits on Latin American presidents, U.S. lawmakers and pundits are applying a double standard � at least in Honduras and Colombia.

• The Geopolitics of Facebook

  FPIF's weekly update.

• Book Excerpt,

  'The Will to Resist' is a book about average soldiers and their brave acts of dissent against a system that is betraying them.

• 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.

Therapy News

• Campaign to Ban Airbrushing for Teen Girls’ Ment ...

  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary It’s fairly common knowledge, and particularly plain to see with a bit of insight and experience, that the women typically depicted in fashion and beauty magazines have had their pictures significantly altered by digital artists. Steps to improve skin tone, remove an ...

• Sleep-Related Surgeries Don’t “Cure” Behavio ...

  A GoodTherapy.org News Update A growing number of parents are concerned about the behavior, social aptitude, and scholastic performance of their children, but often this concern can lead to quick diagnoses of attention deficit disorder and other frequently suggested behavioral issues. With a multitu ...

• Depression Among the Very Young: Chronic Sadness i ...

  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The occurrence of apparent sad spells, lethargy, or irritability in the very young –children under three years of age– may often be written off as a stage or passing episode. But a study recently conducted on preschoolers has suggested that children this young m ...

• Anti-Depressant Use Has Doubled in the United Stat ...

  A GoodTherapy.org News Update Study Finds that Anti-Depressant Use Is Rising –Doubly The fast pace of modern life along with tense war-time environments and a growing financial crisis might be natural precursors to mental health concerns such as depression and anxiety, but along with these sometim ...

• Anxiety and Depression Have Insignificant Effect o ...

  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary When seeking fertility treatment in the quest to become pregnant, some women may experience symptoms of anxiety and depression, and may further be concerned that these issues could lower their chances of achieving a viable pregnancy. But a new study recently published ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Serving as Police Chief and Town Council Member at ...

  Serving as police chief and being a member of town council at the same time? It's happening in the Kanawha County town of Clendenin.

• City of Nitro Enjoying a Financial Turnaround (WSA ...

  The city of Nitro has seen a real turnaround when it comes to its finances. In 2007, the city was facing a deficit of $650,000. Now, Mayor Rusty Casto said they are enjoying a surplus of $110,000.

• W.Va. Teachers Participate in Statewide Technology ...

  More than 600 teachers are participating in a statewide conference in Charleston to learn about the digital world's role in education -- a world that's changing every day.

• News Brief (Ekklesia)

  On the thirtieth anniversary of a historic piece of environmental legislation, the National Council of Churches USA hosted a candlelight vigil to remember the destruction caused by mountaintop removal mining.

• 'Squeaky' Fromme to be Released After 30 Plus Year ...

  The Charles Manson follower convicted of attempting to assassinate President Gerald Ford is set to be released from a Texas federal prison later this month after serving more than 30 years behind bars, including some of that time in West Virginia.

Memeorandum

• Dem Congressman's Office: His Life Has Been Threat ...

  Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC : Dem Congressman's Office: His Life Has Been Threatened Over Health Care Bill — Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC) will not be hosting any town hall events this August — instead, he's making himself available to constituents for one-on-one meetings about health care reform â ...

• Cornyn to Obama: Stop With the Enemies Lists (Mich ...

  Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard : Cornyn to Obama: Stop With the Enemies Lists — The White House call for people to inform on anyone spreading “disinformation about health insurance reform” didn't sit well with a lot of people — Obama isn't running a political campaign anymore, he's ...

• Think Progress, MSNBC 'Manufacture' a Story With P ...

  Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard : Think Progress, MSNBC ‘Manufacture’ a Story With Putative Smoking Gun ‘Mob’ Memo — When the “manufactured” outrage the Left is trying to demonize lines up so inconveniently with public polling, it's sometimes necessary to create evidence fo ...

• CNN Refusing To Run Health Care Ad Critical Of Ins ...

  Greg Sargent / The Plum Line : CNN Refusing To Run Health Care Ad Critical Of Insurance Industry — What on earth is going on at CNN? — The network — already taking criticism for declining to run an ad criticizing Lou Dobbs — is now refusing to run an ad nationally criticizing the i ...

• Right Wing Attacks Clinton's Successful Trip To Fr ...

  Ben Armbruster / Think Progress : Right Wing Attacks Clinton's Successful Trip To Free American Journalists In North Korea — Yesterday, super-hawk John Bolton was upset that President Clinton, along with a group that included Center for American Progress President and CEO John Podesta, went ...

Energy & Environment News

• Limits on Speculative Trading Needed to Protect En ...

  Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, says domination by a few big institutions is not a good thing.

• Deal to Extend Auto Rebate Program

  Democrats said Wednesday night leaders of both parties have reached a deal that could allow the Senate to approve an extension the “cash for clunkers” program.

• Call to Curb Speculators in Energy

  The top commodity market regulator said that the U.S. should consider limiting some energy futures trading.

• Dead Zone in Gulf Is Smaller Than Forecast but Mor ...

  Researchers found that the actual volume of low-oxygen water may be higher, as the layer is deeper and thicker in some parts of the Gulf of Mexico than normal.

• Profit Plunge Hits BP, With Rivals Also Likely to ...

  BP said its net income in the second quarter fell 53 percent to $4.39 billion. The company was the first of the large oil companies to report earnings for the period.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.1, Guam region

  Monday, August 3, 2009 01:47:56 UTC Monday, August 3, 2009 11:47:56 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)

• M 5.0, Solomon Islands

  Monday, August 3, 2009 01:31:02 UTC Monday, August 3, 2009 12:31:02 PM at epicenter Depth : 94.40 km (58.66 mi)

• M 6.1, near the north coast of Papua, Indonesia

  Sunday, August 2, 2009 08:54:35 UTC Sunday, August 2, 2009 05:54:35 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)

• M 5.4, Alaska Peninsula

  Thursday, August 6, 2009 00:35:42 UTC Wednesday, August 5, 2009 04:35:42 PM at epicenter Depth : 30.30 km (18.83 mi)

• M 5.0, off the south coast of Australia

  Wednesday, August 5, 2009 21:43:24 UTC Thursday, August 6, 2009 06:43:24 AM at epicenter Depth : 4.40 km (2.73 mi)

China Dialogue

• Criminals join the e-waste cycle

  An EU directive on recycling was meant to clear up the problem of electronic waste – but it is being flagrantly abused in the United Kingdom. Pete Warren reports. Organised crime has moved into the recycling industry -- a development that has become clear over the past few months after a series of ...

• Are we ready for REDD?

  Climate-change negotiators in Copenhagen would be wise to pay attention to some of the challenges highlighted by early experiments using market mechanisms to avoid deforestation, writes Tan Copsey. An agreement to curb deforestation is expected to be one of the major outcomes of this year’s global ...

• “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 ...

Daily Censored

• Jon Stewart Understands Fox News Propaganda

  Read the full story at News Hounds He and his writers get it – they really, really do. They understand the not so subliminal way that Fox News structures its “spin.” They know that it’s not just about interviewing two sides (a process that usually guarantees smiley face for one side ...

• Hannity Wants Jails, Not Health Care

  Read the full story at News Hounds At the beginning of his Hannity's America segment last night, Sean Hannity distorted the remarks of Attorney General Eric Holder to suggest that Holder was going to let violent criminals out of jail in an effort to pinch Federal pennies. Multi-millionaire Hannity, ...

• Jon Stewart Understands Fox News Propaganda

  Read the full story at News Hounds He and his writers get it – they really, really do. They understand the not so subliminal way that Fox News structures its “spin.” They know that it’s not just about interviewing two sides (a process that usually guarantees smiley face for one side ...

• Hannity Wants Jails, Not Health Care

  Read the full story at News Hounds At the beginning of his Hannity's America segment last night, Sean Hannity distorted the remarks of Attorney General Eric Holder to suggest that Holder was going to let violent criminals out of jail in an effort to pinch Federal pennies. Multi-millionaire Hannity, ...

• Rep. Perriello: Coal Fraudster Impersonated Womenâ ...

  Read the full story at Think Progress The stack of forged letters opposing clean energy reform on behalf of the coal industry is growing. Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) has revealed that he not only received forgeries purporting to come from black and hispanic groups, but also senior citizen and women’ ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• About half of U.S. mortgages seen underwater by 20 ...

• Cash-starved U.S. municipalities seek $1 billion f ...

• Russian subs near US coast pose no threat: Pentago ...

• Ex-lawmaker Jefferson guilty in bribery scheme

• Court denies bail to US 'homegrown terrorists'

Institute for Policy Studies

• The Destruction of the Black Middle Class

  Left out of the commentary on race and class over the Gates affair has been talk of the increasing impoverishment — or, we should say, re-impoverishment — of African Americans as a group.

• Asia's Axis of Evil?

  Burma and North Korea are the pariahs of Asia. Are these birds of a feather flocking together?

• 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.

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Bill Clinton has quite a story to tell

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After his talks with reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, Bill Clinton sure has a story to tell.

• White House reverses statement on Iran election

  ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Wednesday said he had misspoken in calling Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iran's elected leader and that Washington will let the Iranian people decide whether Iran's election was fair.

• Government map shows dire Afghan security picture

  KABUL (Reuters) - Almost half of Afghanistan is at a high risk of attack by the Taliban and other insurgents or is under "enemy control," a secret Afghan government map shows, painting a dire security picture before presidential elections.

• Russian general shrugs off U.S. submarine worries

  MOSCOW (Reuters) - A senior Russian general on Wednesday shrugged off Washington's concern about Cold War-style patrols of Russian nuclear submarines off the U.S. coast, saying it was business as usual for Moscow to keep its navy in shape.

• WRAPUP 11-U.S. reporters freed from N. Korea retur ...

  (For full coverage of reporters' release, click [ID:nNORKOR])

Godspace

• Living in Transition as Spiritual Practice

  I am now in Sydney Australia after what has been one of the easiest long international trips I have made for a long time. Â I even slept for several hours on the flight which makes me very aware of the fact that people have been praying for me. Today’s article comes from Guy Chmieleski who is [. ...

• Recent Additions to the Spiritual Practices series

  Here’s the round-up of the most recent Spiritual Practices posts: The Spiritual Practice of Apologizing by T Freeman Love-making as a Spiritual Practice by Mark Scandrette Smoking the Glory of God by Jason Clark The Spiritual Practice of Getting Honest With Myself by Jonathan Brink Spiritual Disci ...

• 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 ...

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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