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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • BRAZIL: New Law Would Put Oil Revenue into Develo ...

    RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 31 (IPS) - On what he referred to as "a new independence day for Brazil," President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced Monday proposed new legislation that would increase state control over the management of the country's enormous offshore oil finds, with the aim of channel ...

  • MOZAMBIQUE: Technology Could Increase Food Harves ...

    MAPUTO, Aug 26 (IPS) - In rural Mozambique, increasing numbers of families are growing their own food and lifting themselves out of poverty.

  • SOUTH AFRICA: Law Failing Lesbians on "Corrective ...

    CAPE TOWN, Aug 31 (IPS) - "Women are getting killed in the Western Cape," says Ndumie Funda, who runs LulekiSizwe in her "cabin" in the township of Gugulethu near Cape Town.

  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Early Warning Systems for the Com ...

    GENEVA, Aug 31 (IPS) - Climate change is here. The challenge in Geneva this week is to find ways to help the world cope with a climate that will have more and worse extremes in terms of temperatures, floods, and storms.

  • VENEZUELA: Alarm over First Contraction of GDP in ...

    CARACAS, Aug 31 (IPS) - The Venezuelan economy, which has grown steadily for more than five years, contracted by 2.4 percent in the second quarter of this year, heightening fears of stagflation, an unwelcome combination of recession and high inflation.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Innovation Canada

  • i2eye with Palmiro Campagna

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

  • Testing ground

    Think of it as a case of lab life trying to imitate real life. From behind a two-way mirror, researchers observe and record medical staff trying to use intravenous drug pumps and other devices while being continuously interrupted by a Code Blue or other emergencies that could cause them to make mist ...

  • Ocean view

    The winch at the rear of the ship slowly lowers a 13-tonne steel capsule about the size of three minivans into still water in early July. The shell, painted a garish yellow, is a trawl-resistant frame designed to deflect fishing nets. More important, once settled on the ocean floor, the capsule will ...

  • Space reader

    (Article courtesy of the University of Windsor) Bill McConkey probably won’t be around to see the day when humans are finally able to travel tremendous stretches through outer space to distant planets such as Jupiter. When they do make that journey, however, they’ll owe a significant debt of gra ...

  • Filling the glass

    Walkerton, Ont., North Battleford, Sask., and the Kashechewan First Nation Reserve, in Northern Ontario, have all become high-profile — and tragic — examples of what can go wrong when a community’s drinking water becomes contaminated. Surprisingly, they are not alone. At any given time, 1,700 ...

Signs of the times

  • 'We hate the United States': Secessionists rally i ...

    For some folks in Texas, the prospect of a universal health care scheme isn't just cause for protest and debate -- it's reason enough to secede from the United States altogether. Some 200 people rallied at the State Capitol in Austin on Saturday, a small but vocal crowd that set itself in oppositio ...

  • US: Wildfire makes menacing advance near Los Angel ...

    Los angeles - A deadly wildfire that has blackened a wide swath of tinder-dry forest around Los Angeles took another menacing turn Monday as five people became hopelessly trapped inside a smoky canyon and thousands of suburban homes and a vital mountaintop broadcasting complex grew dangerously clo ...

  • US: Farmers' Almanac predicts numbing cold this wi ...

    Lewiston, Maine - Americans, you might want to check on their sweaters and shovels - the Farmers' Almanac is predicting a cold winter for many of you. The venerable almanac's 2010 edition, which goes on sale Tuesday, says numbing cold will predominate in the country's midsection, from the Rocky ...

  • ACLU Sues DHS over Laptop Searches

    The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday sued the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to uncover documents related to laptop searches at the border. "The ACLU believes that suspicionless searches of laptops violate the First and Fourth Amendments," the group wrote in the suit, filed ...

  • India abandons moon-orbiting satellite after losin ...

    India's space agency has abandoned the country's only satellite orbiting the moon after efforts to revive communication with it failed, an official said Monday. Communications with the Chandrayaan-1 satellite, which has been orbiting the moon for nearly a year, snapped Saturday and scientists lost ...

Threat Level

  • Last-Ditch Effort to Scuttle RIAA File Sharing Ver ...

    Much of Jammie Thomas-Rasset’s legal arguments following this summer’s $1.92 million Recording Industry Association of America file sharing jury verdict against her don’t have much weight or precedent. Clearly, that a jury in June ordered her to pay $80,000 for each of the 24 music tracks she ...

  • Code for Skype Spyware Released to Thwart Surveill ...

    A Swiss programmer who crafted malware for intercepting and recording Voice-over-IP phone calls has posted the source code online to draw attention to vulnerabilities in programs such as Skype, and to make it harder for law enforcement to surreptitiously use the malware for surveillance, according t ...

  • Cyber Bullying Case Officially Dismissed for Vague ...

    The judge who oversaw the Lori Drew cyber bullying case has released his final ruling explaining why he overturned her misdemeanor convictions. U.S. District Judge George Wu had tentatively ruled in July to acquit Drew and throw out the three misdemeanor convictions against her, with the understand ...

  • Spy Son Rats Out Mole Father

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

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

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

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Bill Bradley's Airball on Health Care Compromise

    In a New York Times op-ed Sunday, former New Jersey Senator and legendary New York Knicks forward Bill Bradley looked back to the future of health care reform. Citing his own role in the deal with Ronald Reagan that produced...

  • WaPo Cites Blackwater's Krongard on Low CIA Morale

    One day after Newt Gingrich, no friend of the CIA, called on Attorney General Eric Holder to resign over his plan to investigate the agency, former Vice President Dick Cheney pronounced he was "offended as hell" by the probe. Meanwhile,...

  • Hurricane Katrina and the "Nobody Could've Predict ...

    "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees," President George W. Bush protested on September 1, 2005. Ultimately, Bush's feeble - and false - excuse for his tragic failure in the wake of the drowning of New Orleans...

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

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

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

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

Blackspot News Feed

  • Panel to Weigh Kennedy Request for Interim Senator

    A state legislative committee will hold a hearing next week on a bill to allow Governor Deval Patrick to appoint a temporary replacement for Senator Edward M. Kennedy while a special election is held to fill his seat, a signal that Beacon Hill is moving to accommodate Kennedy's request that Mass ...

  • Mexico and Argentina Move Towards Decriminalising ...

    In a backlash against the US "war on drugs", Latin America turns to a more liberal policy. Argentina and Mexico have taken significant steps towards decriminalising drugs amid a growing Latin American backlash against the US-sponsored "war on drugs". Argentina's supreme court has ruled ...

  • Facts Are First Casualty in Health Care Debate

    People relying on TV advertising or partisan sources for information about health care legislation in Congress have heard that it will "ration" care to the nation's oldest citizens and hike premiums "95 percent." Or that Republican voters "might be discriminated against for medical treatment ...

  • Links for 2009-08-31

    British Police Will Reexamine 1969 Death of Rolling Stone Brian Jones - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com "More than 40 years after the guitarist Brian Jones, a founding member of the Rolling Stones, was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool, British police have said they will reexamine the case ...

  • PLANETARY #27: The Preview

    Here it is. Five pages, lettered, full colour by Laura Martin.

Consortium News

  • WPost Helps Defend CIA Torture

    The Washington Post is back rationalizing the Bush administration's anything-goes "war on terror," writes Ray McGovern. August 30, 2009

  • Health Care for Camelot

    The goal of universal health care was always a prime political cause for the Kennedy clan, recalls Michael Winship. August 29, 2009

  • What Would Jesus Really Do?

    Translating the Bible's ancient words can be tricky, but Jesus's lessons in the modern world are clear, says Rev. Howard Bess. August 29, 2009

  • Closing In on the Torturers

    Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to probe Bush-era torture is an important step, ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern says. August 26, 2009

  • WPost Again Plays Torture Apologist

    The Washington Post resumes its long defense of Bush administration abuses, writes ex-CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman. August 26, 2009

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • East Jerusalem shuts out thousands of prayers (Me ...

    The future of East Jerusalem and of Palestinian access to it has again been brought under the spotlight. Thousands of Palestinians were turned away at West Bank checkpoints leading into Jerusalem by Israeli ...

  • Bleak Ramadan for Gaza residents (IRIN)

    Ramadan, a festive time in many parts of the Muslim world, is bleak in Gaza because basic and traditional foodstuffs are unavailable due to the Israeli blockade, or out of reach due to soaring prices and pov ...

  • Sharing the fate of the Arab Peace Initiative (Mu ...

    The roadmap was supposed to be a performance-based plan leading to a two-state solution, Israel and Palestine, by 2005. Israel "accepted" the Quartet's roadmap, yet it presented 14 reservations, a classic mo ...

  • East Jerusalem shuts out thousands of prayers (Me ...

    The future of East Jerusalem and of Palestinian access to it has again been brought under the spotlight. Thousands of Palestinians were turned away at West Bank checkpoints leading into Jerusalem by Israeli ...

  • Erekat: Settlements key to talks (Al Jazeera)

    Saeb Erekat, the senior Palestinian negotiator, has told Al Jazeera that any future peace talks with Israel rely on the US and Tel Aviv reaching agreement on settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and ...

Planetsave

  • What’s In Your Bloodstream?

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

  • New Shipping Rules Agreed To Protect The Antarctic

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

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

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

  • Minnesota Moose on the Run from Climate Change

    An expert advisory committee this week released recommendations on restoring Minnesota’s dwindling moose population, whose decline one expert said is related to gradual warming of the state’s climate. “The moose, of course, is not an animal that deals very well with heat,’’ pane ...

  • Greenpeace Exposes Oil Industry’s Really Dirty F ...

    We can’t expect much from the oil industry, but Greenpeace’s newest finding is as ugly as it gets. Read more of this story »

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Late Monday LOLZ

    Posted in Global Warming Tagged: american clean energy and security act, caveman, congressman caveman, funny, solar energy

  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

    It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No ...

  • Casual Friday: “I Feel Like I’m Taking Crazy P ...

    I got an email from my brother thanking me for the Zoolander references in yesterday’s blog post about the “Faces of Coal” Astroturfing. His only complaint is that there wasn’t more Mugatu. Well, after reading Bjørn Lomborg’s nonsense in today’s WSJ, I can honestly say: I FEEL LIKE I ...

  • Citizens Win Right to a Hearing in Opposing South ...

    Citizen opposition to two proposed nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project continues with another success. On August 27th the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) Panel found that the nuclear applicant, South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company (STPNOC), had failed to adequately analyze ...

  • King Williams Parade Pics 048 [Flickr]

    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Why Rahm's Money-Is-All-That-Matters Strategy Will ...

    It's possible that the single lasting legacy of the Obama/Emanuel administration will be defining the point at which raking in campaign cash starts losing you votes. Because Rahm Emanuel's determination to sell out every last Democratic principle for corporate contributions is about to blow up in hi ...

  • What a useless poll

    Of course, congressional polls always are. But this one is especially worthless. Fortunately no one is breathless over it. The right-leaning Rasmussen Reports did a poll late last week to gauge congressional satisfaction that showed 57% of respondents would like to replace the whole congress. I ...

  • The Nightowl Newswrap

    "Papers, please." La Migra deported to Mexico a native North Carolinian who was too mentally disabled to tell the assholes to fuck off. The ICE geniuses deliberately ignored documents proving the man was a, you know, American citizen. The more defenseless the person you abuse, the tinier your dick ...

  • The Crime of Being Right

    There's a pyschological phenomenon of interpersonal relationships that seems counter-intuitive: it is easier to forgive someone who has mistreated you than to forgive someone you have mistreated. Maybe it's just the reluctance of human beings to admit when we're wrong, but we're seeing a vicious ex ...

  • Now they've gone and done it...

    Someone should have warned the wingnuts not to piss off my Grandma. For the better part of five decades, she has held a special spot of authority in my heart and in my mind. I learned early on not to cross her, and still don't. She may be 98 but you would never know it. Her mind and voice are bot ...

Care 2

  • New species of fungus found on the New Forest

    The New Forest has confounded conservationists once again by yielding up a species hitherto unknown to science. But even as the new type of ‘tooth fungus' was being discovered on the Forestry Commission estate, near Lyndhurst, its future was already Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat | Note-it! ...

  • Big cat animal preserve in Acton readies for fire ...

    Lions, tigers and fire -- oh my! Flames are roaring across the street from the Shambala Preserve, an exotic animal center in Acton. But the 64 lions, tigers, leopards and other big cats that live here are staying put. As firefighters beat back Submitted by Rafael Apollo Lido to Animals | N ...

  • Learn the signs of a stressed-out cat

    You've probably heard the phrase "hair-pulling moment" in reference to stressful situations, but did you know that cats sometimes compulsively pull out their fur when they feel anxious? "Stress is a very big deal because it has a profound effect on Submitted by Rafael Apollo Lido to Animals | No ...

  • Anjana the chimp helps in childcare duties

    Anjana the chimp has learnt to helps zookeepers care for orphaned big cats at a zoo in South Carolina US. Here she is helping with a puma cub called Sierra. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Malaysian authorities rescue 98 pangolins: officia ...

    Malaysian authorities on Saturday said they have rescued nearly 100 pangolins and arrested a man attempting to smuggle the protected species, destined to be sold to restaurants and medicine shops. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • Baxter Workers Sow Seeds for Gardens and Stronger ...

    Baxter International employees in 25 countries ventured out into their communities this summer to plant gardens and gathered internally to learn about the ways in which they could lighten their environmental footprints.

  • Water Pollution: Pharma's Next Big Headache?

    The pharmaceutical industry has spent countless millions implementing comprehensive environmental and health safety programs, but the problems it may face in dealing with their products' end of life is just around the corner.

  • Gap Touts Clean Water Efforts on New Product Label

    When customers turn a pair of Gaps’ just released 1969 Premium Jeans inside out, they’ll find a label emblazoned with the message: “The water used in the process of washing & dyeing these jeans has been specially treated to ensure it is safe & clean when it leaves the factory.”

  • USGBC Confronts Challenges of Green Building Perfo ...

    Ramping up efforts to ensure that green buildings deliver on their promise, the U.S. Green Building Council rolled out a sweeping initiative this week to amass data on all LEED-certified structures and use the information to help close any gaps between expected and actual performance.

  • Scotland Sets Ambitious 'Zero-Waste Society' Goal

    Among the proposals to help the country achieve its target are possible bans on glass, metal, textiles and wood being sent to landfill; the plan will also help create thousands of jobs in the recycling and waste industries.

Reuters Global

  • Watching the giants fall

    Some elections count more than others, and never more than when a longstanding dominant party is sent packing. I've been lucky enough to witness turning points in four countries on two continents.

  • Pakistani Taliban’s new chief:more ambitious ...

    Is Hakimullah Mehsud, the young, battled-hardened new leader of the Pakistani Taliban going to be even more ruthless than his predecessor ?

  • German state elections: Live

    Live blog from three state elections in Germany on Sunday, Aug. 30 -- four weeks ahead of the federal election

  • Japan two-party system — long in arriving

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

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

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

Ezra Klein

  • Tab Dump

    • Did we execute an innocent man? • Some simple ways to reengineer the climate. • Do scarecrows work? • How do you fill empty storefronts? • Setting the record straight on antibiotics and livestock.

  • What the Fonz Can Teach Us.

    I've been trying to decide if I have anything interesting to say about Will Wilkinson's elegant demolition of the gender-equality-is-just-so- confusing argument. Ambiguity over who opens the door (I generally do) or who picks up the check (after the first date or two, we split it), has, in my experi ...

  • Reconciliation for Reconciliation's Sake

    Put aside the manifold problems of using the budget reconciliation process to pass health-care reform. Increasingly, it looks like there will be no choice. And that may be a good thing -- though not for health care. Reconciliation began as a limited way to expedite passage of the budget bill that c ...

  • News Entertainment

    You want your horse-race journalism? Politico has your horse-race journalism. The headline atop its site right now reads " Experts see double-digit Dem losses ." Big, bold type for a big, exciting story about an election that is still more than 400 days away. There are types of horse-race journali ...

  • The Gang of Six Appears to be Dead -- But How Many ...

    Brian Beutler notes that the White House has, for the first time, spoken out against a member of the Gang of Six. After Mike Enzi took the opportunity of the GOP's weekly radio address to attack the Democrats' health-care plan for promoting "the rationing of [America's] health care," Robert Gibbs ...

Booman Tribune

  • No Good Reason for Guns at Protests

    Why are guns at political protests bad? It's not because they may pose a threat to political figures like President Obama (though they do), it's because guns at such events can serve only two purposes. One of those is to silence legitimate free speech and peaceful asssembly through the use of inti ...

  • Open Thread

    I'm sorry I haven't been posting lately. I am attending to some private family matters and should be back with you sometime soon. I haven't looked at the intertubes in over 24 hours, but I got some quality hate mail nonetheless. It's always refreshing to be told that I suck.

  • Gay Hater Prejean Files Lawsuit!

    Carrie Prejean, former Miss California and NOM poster woman is back in the news and to be clear it has nothing to do about hating gay people. Allegedly. Actually, there's no evidence she hates gays, she just doesn't want any of them to have the same rights as "opposite marriage" people (the ones f ...

  • Monday News Bucket

    The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -Thomas Jefferson That said, use this as a place to post your news links of the day in the comments!

  • Froggy Bottom Cafe

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • The next 100 years

    George Friedman, writing in The New Statesman magazine, has an article up on the next 100 years, as seen through the theoretical prism of geopolitics. This is a doctrine that emphasises the importance of the permanently operating factors of geography in determining global dominance: Thus, the questi ...

  • The coldest, driest place on Earth would be a grea ...

    No human has ever set foot on Ridge A, 4,053m up the Antarctic Plateau. But a U.S.-Australian team collating satellite, ground-station, and climate-model data thinks it’s the coldest, driest place on the planet–and therefore the best place on Earth to set up an astronomical observatory. The stud ...

  • Depression may be evolution’s way of telling us ...

    “Mental disorders should generally be rare,” state researchers Paul W. Andrews and J. Anderson Thomson, Jr. ” — why isn’t depression?” It doesn’t seem to be a function of aging and culture, yet prescription drugs for it help keep pharmaceutical companies afloat. There is another ...

  • The Literary Life

    Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped heads! ] Project Wonderf ...

  • Depression may be evolution’s way of telling ...

    “Mental disorders should generally be rare,” state researchers Paul W. Andrews and J. Anderson Thomson, Jr. ” — why isn’t depression?” It doesn’t seem to be a function of aging and culture, yet prescription drugs for it help keep pharmaceutical companies afloat. There is another ...

Yahoo! Canada News

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

  • Are You On a 'Hedonic Treadmill'?

    Economists explore the human tendency to ride a consumption treadmill.

  • Do We Have to Outgrow Growth?

    A proponent of steady-state economics says it's time for humanity to grow up by shedding its growth fixation.

  • An Upside to the Consumption Chill?

    In the grip of the recession, are consumers shifting from the Vegas definition of "the good life" to that of Plato?

  • Rare Photo of Snow Leopard in Afghanistan

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

  • Nano Toothpaste

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

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Classic video: The Website is Down

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

  • Sibel Edmonds testimony in Ohio congressional case ...

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

  • The DSM-IV Bipolar Pharma-Industrial complex: I ju ...

    Pros: Gave me energy Cons: then gave me akathisia and blurry vision The new energy quickly morphed into marked akathisia. I couldn't not move for more then 5 minutes at a time, extreme restlessness, and extreme anxiety. The akathisia if largely gone after 3 days after discontinuation b ...

  • Introducing Feidt Design LLC - yr handy electronic ...

    You better believe it! I filed for Feidt Design LLC with the Secretary of State a week ago, and got the certificate on Friday! Here's the intro message. (And there was much rejoicing!!) It's a lot of fun to set up a new biz :-) Thanks for visiting Feidt Design! Hey all, Thanks for stopping by the ...

  • Thanks to Rose for finding my phone! Plus: I'm sta ...

    I nearly had a horrible day today, leaving my trusty old Helio phone on a bench at the University of Minnesota mall. A good samaritan named Rose picked it up and called the Boiler Room coffee shop back after I tried the phone. I got it back! Thanks a ton, Rose, you saved yet another messy situation ...

Daily Censored

  • Japan’s next PM: change agent, but he’s no Oba ...

    Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories Yukio Hatoyama comes from four generations of politicians from the ruling LDP, which his DPJ party just ousted from power. …

  • A year after Mexico’s massive anticrime protests ...

    Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories Activists marked the anniversary of citizen demonstrations on Sunday, but last year’s momentum to stand up to criminals has faded. …

  • Fox & Friends Openly Advocates Against Democratic ...

    Read the full story at News Hounds Fox News’ Peter Johnson spent nearly five minutes on Fox & Friends this morning engaging in a diatribe against Democrats’ health care reform. He also included several gratuitous swipes at the Democrats. Media Matters, which got the video, appropriately referred ...

  • After A Tirade Against Liberal Bloggers, Beck Says ...

    Read the full story at News Hounds Glenn Beck seemed almost dizzy with antagonism last week toward his critics, particularly the liberal bloggers. In one segment on Friday (8/29/09), Beck spent more than four minutes expounding about what a principled, fact-based, mature pundit he is. He also boaste ...

  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Early Warning Systems for the Com ...

    Read the full story at IPS Inter Press Service – Media, Technology & Communications GENEVA, Aug 31 (IPS) – Climate change is here. The challenge in Geneva this week is to find ways to help the world cope with a climate that will have more and worse extremes in terms of temperatures, floods, and ...

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Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • California wildfire more than doubles on sixth day

    * Thousands of homes remain under evacuation * Fire crews retreat from key mountain summit * Flames trap people who defied orders to leave (Recasts, adds threatened power lines, details) By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, Aug 31 (Reuters) - A massive wildfire roaring through mountains north of Los Angele ...

  • U.S. commander: Afghan strategy must change

    KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies must change strategy and boost cooperation to turn around the war in Afghanistan, the commander of Western forces in the country said on Monday after completing a much-anticipated review.

  • GM to form China venture, invest $293 million

    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - General Motors said on Sunday it has agreed to set up a light commercial vehicle production venture with major Chinese automaker FAW Group, with total investment of 2 billion yuan ($293 million).

  • Disney to acquire Marvel in $4 billion deal

    NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment Inc for $4 billion in a deal that would add characters such as Iron Man, Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four to its entertainment empire.

  • Rolling Stones guitarist's death to be re-examined

    LONDON (Reuters) - British police are to re-examine the death of former Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones after receiving new information.

Pine River World News

  • NIGERIA: Bayelsa arms haul: Presidency investigate ...

    IntelTrends - The following article is from the Nigerian Tribune. Bayelsa arms haul: Presidency investigates sources of arms © Nigerian Tribune By Donald Ojogo August 31, 2009 THERE appears a new twist to last week's surrender of arms by repentant militants in Bayelsa State as indications emer ...

  • Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnap suspect Phillip Garrido w ...

    Pine River World News August 31, 2009 The main suspect in the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping case was a blogger. His last post, dated August 14, 2009, included: "... the Creator has given me the ability to speak in the tongue of angels in order to provide a wake-up call that will in time include the ...

  • Shahzad Chaudhry: Why Obama may fail in Afghanista ...

    The following commentary is from the Daily Times, Lahore, Pakistan. Why Obama may fail in Afghanistan © Daily Times By Shahzad Chaudhry August 31, 2009 Karzai's house of cards will collapse the day America leaves. Permit him to begin talking to his real brethren so that he can find a stable orde ...

  • The U.S. Health Insurance Assault on Canadian Medi ...

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. The U.S. Health Insurance Assault on Canadian Medicare Canada's Response © Global Research By Elizabeth Woodworth August 28, 2009 There's nothing new about the U.S. health insurance industry attacking Canadian Medicare. ...

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

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

    Res'Eau-WaterNet

  • Knowledge Transfer Workshop: Preliminary program p ...

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

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

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  • Video: Tributes to Ted Kennedy and Healthcare

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  • How much security did $1 trillion buy?

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

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

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

  • Obama: Don’t Stop at Gitmo

    By Jayne Lyn Stahl In 1942, somewhere around 110,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans were either coered to relocate, or underwent internment in the United States. As you know, it was by executive order issued by ...

  • Barney Frank Confronts Woman At Townhall Comparing ...

    At a Barney Frank town hall meeting in Dartmouth, MA, a constituent asks, “Why are you supporting this Nazi policy?” Frank responds: “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” He then calls her ...

Marler Blog

  • Food Safety & Quality Magazine - Legal Issues for ...

    It is always good to give a legal perspective to the Food Industry - click below to download PDF.

  • Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" is headi ...

    I had a great talk with Tristan Baurick as he was writing “College Discourse Over Food Safety, Courtesy of Bainbridge Lawyer” – that would be me. As I said, spending a few dollars to bring Michael Pollan to the WSU campus is worth it. It puts: “Michael Pollan’s biting critique of indust ...

  • More Bad Raw Milk Stories

    Summer, or at least August, is drawing to a close in the Northwest – temperatures have dropped below 100 and rain is expected. Really, no global warming? I spent most of last week being supportive, but feeling helpless, as a client who ate E. coli O157:H7 -tainted Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough, ...

  • Marler Interview at Eating Well Magazine

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

  • The Partnership for Food Safety Education Tackles ...

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

AutoblogGreen

  • VIDEO: Zipcar has $1 billion dreams... and 46 memb ...

    Filed under: Earnings/Financials Zipcar's $1 billion ambition - Click above to watch the video after the break How many cars do you think Zipcar owns around the world? Did you know it was 6,500? How big could Zipcar one day become? How about a $1 billion company? These are two of the numbers m ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 08.31.09

    GM using bankruptcy to shirk responsibility for clunker mercury switches? Not exactly The General's best moment. VIDEO: Zipcar has $1 billion dreams... and 46 members per car? 6,500 vehicles ...

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

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

  • AutoblogGreen for 08.29.09

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

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

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

Rafe's Radar

  • What's the best phone for Google Voice?

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

  • Bitly partners with yfrog for picture sharing

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

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

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

  • Shameless plug: TechTracker updates your apps

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

  • Who owns transit data?

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

Camera Obscura

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

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

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

    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...

  • Dangerous spaces: Safe.

    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, wit ...

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

    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935028/housewives-and-saints-abjection.html September 1, 2004... In the opening sequence of Velvet Goldmine (dir. Todd Haynes, UK/US, 1998), future glam-rock trendsetter Jack Fairy stands in front of a mirror and, having been brutalized earlier by a ...

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

    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935027/grainy-days-and-mondays.html September 1, 2004... The year is 1970, and suddenly the nation finds itself asking the question, "What if, instead of the riots and assassinations, the protests and the drugs, instead of the angry words and hard-ro ...

Democracy Now!

  • "A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House"

    Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in the middle of the night just over a month ago, enjoys global support for his return, with the exception of the Obama White House. Though Barack Obama first called the Honduran military’s removal of Zelaya a coup, his administration has backpedaled. Secr ...

  • Steve Earle sings "John Walker's Blues" about John ...

    In 2004, musician Steve Earle performed his song, “John Walker’s Blues,” in our firehouse studio. Go to our exclusive interview with the parents of John Walker Lindh, Marilyn Walker and Frank Lindh: Watch/Listen/Read

  • British MP Blasts U.S. Efforts to Keep Evidence Hi ...

    A British court has heard evidence Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to prevent the disclosure of details on the alleged torture of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner. Newly revealed British government documents show Clinton warned British officials the Obama administration would end intelligence s ...

  • "Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Gr ...

    Anti-war activists in Olympia, Wash., have exposed Army spying and infiltration of their groups, as well as intelligence gathering by the Air Force, the federal Capitol Police and the Coast Guard. The infiltration appears to be in direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act preventing U.S. military ...

  • No Public Option in Secret Baucus Health Plan...Ba ...

    President Obama’s plan to overhaul the nation’s healthcare system and create a public insurance option has been dealt a possible setback in the Senate. A bipartisan group of six Senators on the Senate Finance Committee has been working in secret for weeks to draft an alternative to President O ...

Farming Pathogens

  • Bird Flu’s Industrial Revolution

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

  • The Agro-Industrial Roots of Swine Flu H1N1

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

  • The NAFTA Flu

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

  • ‘Farming Human Pathogens’ Now Availabl ...

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

  • The Hog Industry Strikes Back

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

Digg Green

  • New solar-cell efficiency record set

    Spectrolab announced that its newest triple-junction solar cells had achieved the world record in efficiency, converting 41.6 percent of specially concentrated sunlight into electricity. Those cells cost 40 cents per watt, if you happen to have the sunlight equivalent of 500 suns streaming down whil ...

  • Wind farms can appear sinister to the weatherman.. ...

    Wind farms have been blamed for disrupting the lives of birds, bats and, most recently, the land-bound sage grouse.Now the weatherman?The massive spinning blades affixed to towers 200 feet high can appear on Doppler radar like a violent storm or even a tornado.

  • A Call for Open Source Genetic Engineering

    American farmers are incredibly inventive, innovative, and accomplished. They can do whatever we ask them, we just need to give them a new set of requirements...

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  • Apocalypse 2030: food, water and energy shortages ...

    The world's population is growing, food supplies are diminishing, water supplies are becoming more scarce, the ice caps are melting, prices are rising - things, one could argue, are looking bleak.

Suzie-Q

  • Edward Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Dies

    August 27, 2009 By JOHN M. BRODER Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics, a man who knew triumph and tragedy in near-equal measure and who will be remembered as one of the most effective lawmakers in the history of the Senate, died ...

  • Senator Edward “Teddy” Kennedy – ...

    This is Ted Kennedy’s presidential concession speech to Jimmy Carter in 1980 on the floor of the Democratic Convention. It is widely recognized as the last of the famous Camelot speeches by the Kennedy’s. This is just an excerpt. To hear the entire oration, and to see his appearance at the 2008 ...

  • Waxman Gears Up for Health Care Showdown

    If you’re a reporter looking for a hot quote, Waxman’s the wrong man to see. Anyone watching his “Daily Show” appearance with Jon Stewart could tell you that. Waxman is all policy, determined to explain everything in detail. But he’s smart, tough and knows how to get results. He showed tha ...

  • Naming Healthcare After Senator Kennedy

    If they’re going to name the final healthcare reform bill after Senator Kennedy, we ought to be demanding with voices as powerful and booming as the late senator’s… The bill must not suck. But if it does, perhaps they should name it after Max Baucus and Chuck Grassley. The Blame Baucus and Gra ...

  • Jaycee Lee Dugard: alleged kidnapper launches biza ...

    Telegraph.co.uk The man who allegedly abducted American schoolgirl Jaycee Lee Dugard almost two decades ago has admitted that he did a “disgusting thing” but went on to defend himself, saying the public would be surprised by the “heart-warming story”. By Alex Spillius in Washington Pub ...

    Blacklisted News

  • New browser red-flags disputed facts on the web

    Developers of new web browsing software that flags questionable claims or outright lies on the web hope it will become a valuable tool to deal with the misinformation that litters the Internet.

  • Russia Today:Wayne Madsen Claims Ron Paul Campaign ...
  • US Hummers Enter Pakistan, Undercover American Sol ...

    Undercover armed Americans are swarming the Pakistani capital in the latest sign that the elected government has allowed Washington to dispatch what is believed to be a large number of American special operations agents and contractual security guards, including the infamous Blackwater private milit ...

  • Fed makes $14bn profit on crisis loans

    The Federal Reserve has made a $14bn profit on loan programmes that have provided hundreds of billions of dollars in liquidity to the financial system since the start of the crisis two years ago, according to Fed officials.

  • When Malthusians Become Messiahs

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

  • Jackson Hole: Bernanke on Oil

    "Strains persist" in the world banking system and finance markets across the globe, Ben Bernanke said on August 21 at the Jackson Hole, Wyoming annual Federal Reserve meeting of banking and finance deciders. He of course cautioned, like other leading bankers that the economic recovery "...is likely ...

  • Philladelphia: "For Lease" spreads like a pandemic

    On tall windows up and down Walnut Street - the luminous shopping district that is Philadelphia's mini-Madison Avenue - two words are spreading like chicken pox these days:"For Lease."The recession has provoked a reversal of fortune for a glitzy avenue near the towering new condos and old-money brow ...

  • The Truth Behind the Housing Numbers

    Recently there has been a lot of positive news about the housing market and increased sales numbers. Looking behind the numbers we see that the market is not as strong as it seems to be. » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

  • Cornell students & faculty discuss 'The Grapes of ...

    John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" is not just the fictional saga of one family's struggle in the 1930s. Its themes -- ecological catastrophe, financial collapse, poverty and discrimination -- still resonate today.Four Cornell faculty members analyzed the novel for an audience of about 3,500 fre ...

  • Cohen: The New Gilded Age

    My subject today is the grotesque wealth & income inequality that exists in the United States. I have dubbed our times the new Gilded Age, which was Mark Twain's name for the post-Civil War period when "the rich wore diamonds and many others wore rags." I could also have called it the "last" Gilded ...

Independent ( London )

  • Turkey and Armenia close to border deal

    Armenia and Turkey were a step closer to reopening their border and calling time on nearly a century of hostility, as officials on both sides agreed to sign accords within six weeks. The landlocked neighbours have no diplomatic ties, a closed border and a history of animosity stemming from the mass ...

  • Will they learn to live and let live on the Lido?

    In the Stephen King chiller Salem's Lot, the town of the same name sees its population undergo a radical change, as one by one its citizens become vampires. Today in the Italian village of Lido di Classe, another demographic shift, almost as alarming for its elderly and dwindling population, is und ...

  • Colombian President has swine flu

    South American leaders who met the Colombian President, Alvaro Uribe, at a summit on Friday have been advised that he has swine flu.

  • The Big Question: What happens now Ted Kennedy is ...

  • West 'is failing Afghanistan' says Nato commander

    Nato's commander in Afghanistan has warned that the West's military strategy is failing, saying a new approach is necessary. In his review, General Stanley McChrystal is believed to say that the initiative may have been handed to the Taliban with Nato forces charging like bulls at "matador" insurgen ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Dick Cheney saw need to strike Iran

    Summary: In an interview on Fox News Sunday, the former Vice-President Dick Cheney hinted that he was a proponent of military force to destroy Iran's nuclear program and felt isolated among advisors to the former President George W. Bush, according to The Wall Street Journal. source: Digital J ...

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

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

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

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

  • Iran uranium enrichment 'slowed'

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

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

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

The Daily Galaxy

  • Harvard Team Zeroing in on How Life Arose from No ...

    How did life on Earth begin? An giant step toward solving this puzzle was taken in the 1980's with the Nobel Prize–winning discovery by Tom Cech and Sidney Altman that RNA, the sister molecule of DNA, can catalyze certain chemical...

  • Saturn's Titan - Is It a Living Lab on the Origins ...

    "Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material -- it's a giant factory of organic chemicals." "We are carbon-based life, and understanding how far along the chain of complexity towards life that chemistry can go in an environment like Titan will...

  • The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (8/27)

    Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful. So how come when you arrive at the most popular dating site in the US you find a stream of...

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    Our major brand advertisers at the top of the page and on the right pay the bills that let us deliver great daily news on the discoveries, people and events changing the planet. Please give our advertisers your support -click...

  • The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (8/28)

    What Robots Don't Know Can Hurt You Doctor Popular's short comic Robots Don't Know Anything About Twitter outlines all those little things robots just don't understand — cupcakes, The Public Option, NSA, world domination — and the funny, sometimes disastrous,...

Natural News

  • Aleni Prokopius speaks out on vaccines and a cure ...

    (NaturalNews) In a new online interview just posted, Aleni Prokopius from "Green Diva Mom" (www.GreenDivaMom.com) shares her story of vaccines causing autism in her son. As a healthy new mom, Aleni thought the health of her newborn son would be well protected, but after subjecting her son to a round ...

  • Natural Therapies: Simple Solutions for Complex Pr ...

    (NaturalNews) One question I'm routinely asked is "If you had to recommend just one supplement for __________ (fill in the blank), what would it be?" I could easily spout off a laundry list of safe, natural therapies for virtually all common health concerns. Narrowing it down to only one therapy per ...

  • CT Scans Cause Cancer

    (NaturalNews) A computed tomography (CT) scan can detect calcified plaque in coronary arteries. And because this calcium-laced plaque is believed to be associated with the presence of heart disease, CT scans are being widely advertised and hyped at many medical centers. Mostly, the scans are aimed a ...

  • Historical facts about the dangers (and failures) ...

    (NaturalNews) Vaccines are the quackery of modern medicine. Mass vaccination programs not only fail to protect the population from infectious disease, they actually accelerate the spread of disease in many cases. Many website have cropped up over the last few years to counter the pro-vaccine propaga ...

  • Avoid Table Salt: Learn Why You Should Switch to U ...

    (NaturalNews) Most modern health problems that have been linked to sodium are actually caused by the condition of the salt we eat. The typical modern salt product can be compared to refined sugar and refined flour - it used to be a healthful, whole food, but it has now been stripped and processed in ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • Afghanistan's big election day

    For a cheerful look at the Afghan election, here's the BBC : Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Western allies have pronounced the country's election a success, after voting passed off largely peacefully ... including a helpful vid explaining how the indelible ink used to mark the index finger o ...

  • Passport photos?

    Given the case of Suaad Hagi Mohamud and Abdihakim Mohamed, and perhaps others, mistakenly imprisoned over apparently suspect passport photos, I wonder if part of the issue is legitimately related to the photos themselves. I've held three Canadian passports, the first two of which were the type whe ...

  • Khadr ruling upheld

    CBC this morning: The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld a judge’s ruling that ordered the federal government to press for the return of Omar Khadr from a U.S. military detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Naturally this has brought out the frothing lunatics in the comments to the CBC item. I ...

  • Conservatives getting things done for some Canadia ...

    The Toronto Star's Haroon Siddiqui has it exactly right, Stephen Harper is an embarrassment. Part of the problem in the case of Suaad Hagi Mohamud lies with the Canada Border Services Agency, who have done stupid and embarassing things before , but for Harper to say that it is now his top priority t ...

  • Making a killing in Afghanistan

    LA Times : Four men with the U.S. firm once known as Blackwater are said to be under investigation in the deaths of two Afghans. A U.S. report found serious fault with private security firms in Afghanistan. Kabul : Residents say the U.S. contractors opened fire without provocation after one of thei ...

Media Matters for America

  • Following Wash. Post article, conservativ ...

    Citing a misleading Washington Post article that stated that alleged 9-11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed became cooperative after being subjected to waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and other interrogation techniques, conservative media have advanced the falsehood that three recently release ...

  • Wash. Post claim that KSM "cooperated af ...

    An August 29 Washington Post article charged that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed "cooperated" with the CIA "after waterboarding" and that this occurred "to an extraordinary extent, only when his spirit was broken in the month after his capture March 1, 2003, as the [CIA] inspector general's report and o ...

  • McCaughey returns to CNBC with another false healt ...

    On CNBC, serial misinformer Betsy McCaughey again advanced a falsehood about health care reform, claiming that the "legislation that's now in Congress will force everyone under age 65 to buy the same one-size-fits-all government plan" and that "Page 16" of the House bill "says you must be enrolled ...

  • In NY Times op-ed, Finder finds contradi ...

    The New York Times published an op-ed by Joseph Finder, who contrasted statements Attorney General Eric Holder made in 2002 and in 2008 to suggest that after originally stating that the United States government should not extend rights consistent with the Geneva Convention to detainees held a ...

  • John King provides a forum for Hatch's public opt ...

    On State of the Union , CNN's John King allowed Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) to baselessly claim that "the vast majority of people" don't support the creation of a public health insurance option, and that the public option would cost "four to five hundred billion dollars" which would be taken "out ...

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TPM Cafe

  • The Guns of August, and Why the Republican Right W ...

    What we learned in August is something we've long known but keep forgetting: The most important difference between America's Democratic left and Republican right is that the left has ideas and the right has discipline. Obama and progressive supporters... Sponsored Topics: Health care - Democrats ...

  • Will Israel Attack Iran This Year?

    The neocons are getting ready for another war. The same crowd that helped get us into Iraq are desperate for war with Iran (and for many of the same reasons). Former Vice President Cheney now says publicly that we could... Sponsored Topics: Iran - Dick Cheney - Israel - Iraq War - Middle East

  • Irresponsibly Following the Congressional Budget O ...

    Suppose that a prominent member of Congress were to press for spending an additional $450 billion a year over the next three years on infrastructure projects. Suppose that they did this at a time when the unemployment rate was near... Sponsored Topics: Congressional Budget Office - Economi ...

  • Gov. Patrick: Appoint Mrs. Kennedy

    There is only one person who can carry the torch for Ted Kennedy. It is his widow, Victoria Reggie Kennedy. She;s qualified. She's been a very successful lawyer and was a political activist before marrying Kennedy. But, of course, the... Sponsored Topics: Ted Kennedy - United States - Senate - L ...

  • Bill Richardson Should Be Special Presidential US- ...

    Anyone who knows New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson knows he can be a handful, can be complicated, and can too often want the story about him more than others. Those are characteristics of most who aspire to the presidency. However,... Sponsored Topics: Bill Richardson - United States - Cuba - ...

TruthOut

  • Resisting Homophobia in the Military

    Jeff Key (right), a lance corporal in the Marine Corps Reserve, was deployed to Iraq in 2003. After coming out on CNN during an interview in March 2004, he was finally discharged two years later in April 2006. (Photo: Getty Images) read more

  • Panel to Weigh Kennedy Request for Interim Senator

    A state legislative committee will hold a hearing next week on a bill to allow Governor Deval Patrick to appoint a temporary replacement for Senator Edward M. Kennedy while a special election is held to fill his seat, a signal that Beacon Hill is moving to accommodate Kennedy's request that Mass ...

  • Mexico and Argentina Move Towards Decriminalising ...

    In a backlash against the US "war on drugs", Latin America turns to a more liberal policy. Argentina and Mexico have taken significant steps towards decriminalising drugs amid a growing Latin American backlash against the US-sponsored "war on drugs". Argentina's supreme court has rule ...

  • Facts Are First Casualty in Health Care Debate

    People relying on TV advertising or partisan sources for information about health care legislation in Congress have heard that it will "ration" care to the nation's oldest citizens and hike premiums "95 percent." Or that Republican voters "might be discriminated against for medical treatmen ...

  • Japan, Year One

    The Japanese have chosen change. The crushing victory of the (center/left) Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in the August 30 legislative elections is historic, after over a half-century of the exercise of power being monopolized by the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) conservatives alone and of ...

The Heathlander

  • The “British method”

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

  • ‘Israel’s Terror Inside’

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

  • A culture of fear

    Pankaj Mishra dissects the ‘culture of fear’ being manufactured by a recent spate of books and articles warning of an impending ‘Eurabia’: ‘Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking ...

  • Fighting the fash

    Anti-fascist activists successfully confronted the BNP’s ‘Red, White and Blue’ hatefest [.pdf] (see also this Channel 4 report) in Codnor yesterday: One of the favourite chants of the day was reportedly: “We are black, white, Asian and we’re Jew / And they’re many, many more of us than ...

  • Silencing civil society

    Former Israeli military commander Efran Efrati recently testified to the BBC that Palestinian children are ‘routinely ill-treated’ by Israeli soldiers: “You take the kid, you blindfold him, you handcuff him, he’s really shaking… Sometimes you cuff his legs too. Sometimes it cuts off the ci ...

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Texas Progressive Alliance August 31, 2009

    It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No ...

  • Who Will Carry The Kennedy Torch? Op Ed

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

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 24, 2009

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

  • Bi-Polar America – Who is Worthy of a Healthy Li ...

    The rationing of health care is already a fact of life. The new reform will remove some of that rationing and make health care a right instead of a privilege. Bi-Polar America - I am worthy, You are not. Jesus was a socialist.

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 17, 2009

    It’s time for preseason football games, but the Texas Progressive Alliance is always in midseason form. Here are this week’s blog highlights. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders why we put up with temper tantrums and intimidation from the far right? Everyone should have their say in our d ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Building a Movement, Haitian Style

    pigs.jpg I spent the better part of last week crisscrossing Haiti’s arid Northwest with Grassroots International’s partner the National Congress of the Peasant’s Movement of Papay (MPNKP). MPNKP is best known to our allies and friends fo ...

  • Resilient Hondurans Lead The Way To Protect Democr ...

    IMG00292.jpg Today, thousands of people will fill the streets of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. They are students, housekeepers, children and farmers from different parts of country—many of whom walked 10-12 miles a day to get to the ...

  • Yes, We Can - But Will We Join Our Neighbors to Re ...

    More than a month after the military coup in the Central American country of Honduras (for which the term “banana republic” was originally coined due to the overwhelming influence of U.S. fruit corporations in that country), the junta is still in power and shows little real sign of budging. re ...

  • They Are Afraid of Us, Because We are Not Afraid o ...

    Tom Loudon from our ally the Alliance for Responsible Trade, which is a member of the Hemispheric Social Alliance (a Grassroots International grantee) is currently in Honduras as part of an international human rights monitoring delegation. Today, August 11th, the Global Day of Action for Honduras, h ...

  • On the Global Day of Action for Honduras, Donate y ...

    Want to do something simple to help support Honduran democracy and keep the crisis in the public eye? Donate your status! It’s free, easy, and can make a huge impact. Right now, the corporate news media is mostly silent about what’s happening on the ground in Honduras and the role of US polic ...

Climate

  • August 31, 2009

    Japan Election Ushers in Party of Climate Action (Carbon Positive) A landslide victory for Japan’s party of near-permanent opposition has turned the country’s political scene on its head, and the country’s climate change policy along with it. New Zealand Lawmakers Give Thumbs Up to Emissi ...

  • August 29-30, 2009

    Both Sides in Energy Debate Watching Healthcare Battle (Los Angeles Times) As the battle over healthcare unfolds, its attack ads, spin-doctoring and town hall rhetoric are being watched with special attention by the combatants in Washington's next big fight -- Pres. Obama's climate plan. Leave ...

  • August 28, 2009

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

  • August 27, 2009

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

  • August 27, 2009

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

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, From My Lai to Lockerbie

    On this one-way planet of ours, it's hard sometimes to imagine things any other way, but for a moment let's try. Imagine, for instance, that in recent years the director of Iranian intelligence oversaw a program of "extraordinary rendition" aimed at those who were believed to be prepared to commi ...

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

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

  • Tomgram: Withdrawing by Bike from Iraq

    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: So it's sayonara for a couple of weeks. I'm taking my usual August break. TomDispatch will return sometime the week of August 24th, but will be on a limited posting schedule through Labor Day. Let me take this opportunity once again to thank those of you who hav ...

  • Tomgram: Mark Engler, Protesting at Climate Groun ...

    We're so past the Roman Empire by now that it's probably time to update the phrase "fiddling while Rome burns." What about, for instance, "writing fake letters ostensibly from real non-profit groups to weaken a climate-change bill while the planet burns"? It's true. According to the New York Ti ...

  • Tomgram: Jamail and Lazare, Lost in Military Limb ...

    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: In Chalmers Johnson's recent piece, "Three Good Reasons to Liquidate Our Empire," the mission of the Service Women's Action Network (SWAN) was mischaracterized. It has now been corrected at the piece. ] It's not exactly a secret that the U.S. Army and the U.S. M ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Change We Can't Hope For: Obama's Narrowing Window ...

    The way I see it, President Obama has a couple of months to turn his failing administration around. The war in Afghanistan is going south, and within a couple of weeks, his General William Westmoreland, Gen. Stanley McCrystal, will be coming to him asking for more troops. Things are getting hairier ...

  • We Have Met the Nazis, And They Are Us.

    CIA Atrocities Revealed to a National Shrug NEW YORK—Nazis. Americans are Nazis. We are Nazis. Godwin's Law be damned—it's impossible to read the newly-released CIA report on the torture of Muslim prisoners without thinking of the Third Reich. Sadism exists in every culture. A century ago, for e ...

  • The Incumbency Amendment

    Part of the problem with Washington is Washington. It's too easy for incumbents to win. They get all the money, they get all the free press, they get all the sway. Yet term limits is a non-starter, and I agree with it. An electorate does have the power to limit someone's term in office. I fully acce ...

  • Rise of Mercenary Armies Menace World, Help White ...

    The growing use of private armies not only subjects target populations to savage warfare but makes it easier for the White House to subvert domestic public opinion and wage wars. Americans are less inclined to oppose a war that is being fought by hired foreign mercenaries, even when their own tax do ...

  • President Obama: Jack Johnson Punched Back

    In a recent monologue, Bill Maher said that the United States has two main political parties: one party on the center-right: the Democrats, and one party in a mental institution: the Republicans. Frankly, his comment insults those who receive care at psychiatric facilities; at least they are looking ...

Ten Percent

  • Friday! The Hope Blister- Dagger

  • Killing Fields of Sri Lanka

    Channel Four report- Link to unedited clip in 3GP format -Warning, shows the execution of naked bound prisoners by military personnel- A video clip received from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) evidences the way extra-judicial killings are executed in the island. The video captured in ...

  • Is The Obama Administration Victimising A Nobel Pe ...

    Via FreeGaza- After Downing Street, by Ann Wright former US diplomat:- Less than a month ago, in late July, 2009, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire (http://www.peacepeople.com/) was travelling from Dublin, Ireland to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet Peace Laureate Jody Williams to participate in p ...

  • Selection By Occupier

    Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (albeit funded by both US & NATO govts) has reports of systematic fraud, the EU are more upbeat, try to be surprised. The one candidate Ramazan Bashardost, with some real credentials in representing the Afghan people against powerful and corrupt elite ...

  • Friday! The Peter Serafinowicz Show

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

Paul Krugman

  • Horse-race reporting

    There's too much reporting that focuses on how policy proposals are supposedly playing, rather than what's actually in them.

  • Getting stucco

    This isn't the first time the Sunshine State has suffered from a big real estate bubble.

  • Going fishing

    Well, cycling actually.

  • A couple of notes on the 40s and 50s

    Didn't rapid population growth make it easier to deal with debt? Didn't the fact that the rest of the world was in ruins help? No.

  • 1945

    The fact is that the war left America with a big debt -- bigger, relative to our resources, than we're likely to face when the economic rescue is over. We dealt with it.

No Quarter

  • Some Suggestions If You Are Traveling Into The USA

    After seeing this article the other day, Bush’s Search Policy For Travelers Is Kept; Obama Officials Say Oversight Will Grow, I felt compelled to share some helpful suggestions when you are traveling into the USA: carry some change to make phone calls, bring some paper and a pen to be able to writ ...

  • Baby’s First Number

    It used to be, not so very long ago, that the first numbers assigned to each newborn were date and time of birth, weight, and Apgar test scores (ratings on muscle tone, respiration, reflex irritability, pulse, and skin color). Now, the instant babies pop out their sweet heads (or butts, out of resp ...

  • Canceled for this evening only: No Quarter Radio†...

    Host Paulie Abeles had to cancel her show “Sins of Omission” for 9:00 pm Monday, August 31st due to illness. Please join me in wishing her a speedy recovery. You can link to archived shows with guests– CARL BERNSTEIN, AMY GOODMAN, MICHAEL SHNAYERSON & AYELET WALDMAN — here. Paulie h ...

  • You Wanna Talk Softball Questions??

    This was a recent blurb at memeorandum.com regarding the big Cheney interview on Sunday by Chris Wallace of Fox News: Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: Chris Wallace, A Teenage Girl Interviewing The Jonas Brothers — Here are the tough and penetrating questions asked by Chris Wallace of a man w ...

  • “Success” Breeds More Clunkers - OPEN THREAD

    Taxpayers get your wallets out. It seems the government was so pleased with the success of their Cash-for-Clunker car program that it rushed through a $300 million spin off “Cash for Refrigerators” before leaving for the August recess. So just in case you missed out on the “free” Cash-for ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Therapy News

  • Cornwall Welcomes Sailing Therapy

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline There are a number of activities that, when combined with quality mental health care, can lead to meaningful and even accelerated recovery from difficult emotional and behavioral concerns. Among them, as residents of Cornwall in the UK are finding out, sailing may com ...

  • The Personal Is Political

    A GoodTherapy.org Featured Column written by Judith Barr, MA, LMHC In the Prologue of Power Abused, Power Healed, I quote Claude Steiner, author of The Other Side of Power: “The personal is political; our personal struggles follow the same patterns and motivations observed in local, regional, nati ...

  • Depression May Signal Brain to Ignore Pleasure

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary For music lovers, there aren’t many experiences as pleasing as listening in on a favorite piece of music. Most people report feeling happy or satisfied when hearing their favorite band or instrumentalist, but a recently performed study has suggested that people with ...

  • Review Questions Classification of Obsessive Compu ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Typically, those who experience strong compulsions to perform certain tasks or routines repeatedly with concerns about the perceived consequences of not doing so are associated with obsessive compulsive disorder, a mental health issue that can become debilitating for ...

  • Psoriasis Patients May Adapt to Cope with Social R ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Those who experience visible skin lesions and irritations due to the skin condition psoriasis are often faced with negative reactions from others, as the appearance of the dermatological issue can be surprising and unusual. Though people with psoriasis often exhibit s ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Tree-Sitters Protest Mountaintop Removal Mining (G ...

    Tree-sitters continue to oppose mountaintop removal coal mining from high up in the trees at a Massey Energy mine in Coal River Valley, West Virginia. The two Red Creek protesters, Nick Stocks and Laura Steepleton, are perched on a platform at the edge of the Edwight Mine site above Pettry Bottom an ...

  • Tree sitters end mountaintop-removal protest (The ...

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Two anti-mountaintop removal activists came down from a pair of Raleigh County treetops Monday morning, after a week protesting blasting by a Massey Energy mining operation. Nick Stocks and Laura Steepleton were arrested after separate...

  • 2nd tree-sitter leaves post, ending W.Va. protests ...

    MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A tree-sitting protest designed to halt blasting at a Massey Energy mountaintop removal mine in southern West Virginia ended Monday when the activists descended from the trees and were arrested. State Police confirmed that Laura Steepleton and Nick Stocks were taken into c ...

  • 2nd tree-sitter leaves post, ending W.Va. protests ...

    MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A tree-sitting protest designed to halt blasting at a Massey Energy mountaintop removal mine in southern West Virginia ended Monday when the activists descended from an 80-foot high platform and were arrested. State Police confirmed that Laura Steepleton and Nick Stocks we ...

  • 2nd tree-sitter leaves post, ending W.Va. protests ...

    PETTRY BOTTOM, W.Va. (AP) — The tree-sitting protest near a Massey Energy mountaintop removal mine site is over after six days. State Police confirmed Monday afternoon that the two activists affiliated with Climate Ground Zero had descended from the trees and were arrested. The two protesters were ...

Memeorandum

  • Why are we still in Afghanistan? - George Will wri ...

    George Will / NorthJersey.com : Why are we still in Afghanistan? — George Will writes for Washington Post Writers Group. — YESTERDAY," reads the e-mail from Allen, a Marine in Afghanistan, “I gave blood because a Marine, while out on patrol, stepped on a [mine's] pressure plate and l ...

  • Glenn Greenwald - Twice in the past month, my priv ...

    Joe Klein / Swampland : Glenn Greenwald — Twice in the past month, my private communications have been splashed about the internet. That such a thing would happen is unfortunate, and dishonorable, but sadly inevitable, I suppose. I ignored the first case, in which a rather pathetic woman ...

  • There Goes the Meritocracy - What can a young woma ...

    Eric Etheridge / The Opinionator : There Goes the Meritocracy — What can a young woman's new job tell us about America? A lot, apparently, if the young woman is Jenna Bush Hager, the 27-year-old daughter of the most recent President Bush, and the job is “Today Show” correspondent. †...

  • ABC News Exclusive: National Security Adviser Says ...

    Political Punch : ABC News Exclusive : National Security Adviser Says President Obama Is Having Greater Success Taking Terrorists Out of Commission Than Bush Did — Responding to criticism from former Vice President Cheney that President Obama is making the nation more vulnerable to terrorism ...

  • Who is Jennifer? Another Case of Inter-Campaign T ...

    Anita Kumar / Virginia Politics : Who is Jennifer? Another Case of Inter-Campaign Trickery — Bob McDonnell's campaign received a call this morning from a woman who called herself “Jennifer” and claimed to be a freelance reporter from the Connection newspapers in Northern Virginia. Sh ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Rethinking Sino-US relations

    Many Chinese commentators worry about the risks of the United States introducing carbon tariffs. Chu Zhaogen urges them to take a long-term view. United States energy secretary Steven Chu and commerce secretary Gary Locke visited China last month to explore where there might be mutually beneficial U ...

  • Do we know change when we see it?

    An agreement between the US and China on climate change and clean energy may be more significant than its detractors initially supposed, write Banning Garrett and Jonathan Adams. Did the United States and China recently take a game-changing step on climate change and clean energy? Quite possibly so. ...

  • Building regional cooperation

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

  • Glaciers and guesswork

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

  • Biofuels: learning from Obama

    The US president’s directive on advanced biofuels – and its implementation by government departments – sends an important message to China’s energy planners, write Zhang Jinyuan and Xu Dingming. [Produced in association with Rutgers Climate and Social Policy Initiative ] On May 5, 2009, ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Last-Ditch Effort to Scuttle RIAA File Sharing Ver ...

    Much of Jammie Thomas-Rasset’s legal arguments following this summer’s $1.92 million Recording Industry Association of America file sharing jury verdict against her don’t have much weight or precedent. Clearly, that a jury in June ordered her to pay $80,000 for each of the 24 music tracks she ...

  • Code for Skype Spyware Released to Thwart Surveill ...

    A Swiss programmer who crafted malware for intercepting and recording Voice-over-IP phone calls has posted the source code online to draw attention to vulnerabilities in programs such as Skype, and to make it harder for law enforcement to surreptitiously use the malware for surveillance, according t ...

  • Cyber Bullying Case Officially Dismissed for Vague ...

    The judge who oversaw the Lori Drew cyber bullying case has released his final ruling explaining why he overturned her misdemeanor convictions. U.S. District Judge George Wu had tentatively ruled in July to acquit Drew and throw out the three misdemeanor convictions against her, with the understand ...

  • Spy Son Rats Out Mole Father

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

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

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

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • California wildfire more than doubles on sixth day

    * Thousands of homes remain under evacuation * Fire crews retreat from key mountain summit * Flames trap people who defied orders to leave (Recasts, adds threatened power lines, details) By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, Aug 31 (Reuters) - A massive wildfire roaring through mountains north of Los Angele ...

  • U.S. commander: Afghan strategy must change

    KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies must change strategy and boost cooperation to turn around the war in Afghanistan, the commander of Western forces in the country said on Monday after completing a much-anticipated review.

  • GM to form China venture, invest $293 million

    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - General Motors said on Sunday it has agreed to set up a light commercial vehicle production venture with major Chinese automaker FAW Group, with total investment of 2 billion yuan ($293 million).

  • Disney to acquire Marvel in $4 billion deal

    NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment Inc for $4 billion in a deal that would add characters such as Iron Man, Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four to its entertainment empire.

  • Rolling Stones guitarist's death to be re-examined

    LONDON (Reuters) - British police are to re-examine the death of former Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones after receiving new information.

Godspace

  • The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea

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

  • Networking as a Spiritual Practice

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

  • Mothering as a Spiritual Practice

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

  • The Eight Weirdest Ways to Go Green

    I just could not resist this article in Alternet and thought that even if you are not interested in green living that you might enjoy it. From the solar-powered bikini that can charge your iPod to the benefits of eating free range snails, here’s few things you may not have thought of yet. Â Read ...

  • Colouring as a Spiritual Practice

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

Equality Trust

IntelNews

PsyBlog

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

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

  • Brainstorming Reloaded

    · Why brainstorming is ineffective and how to fix it. Brainstorming was once thought a fantastic way for groups to generate new ideas. Although not as fashionable as it once was, brainstorming is still frequently used in business and, often inadvertently, for all sorts of personal decisions; peop ...

  • Consumer Psychology

    · How and why we consume and how our beliefs, ideas and senses influence consumption. Peter Drucker, the management consultant, famously argued that about 80% of all products and services fail or fall well short of targets within six months of launching. Clearly markets have little understanding ...

  • Why Left to Right Punches Are More Aggressive, Pow ...

    Reading and writing from left to right is a skill so well-practised, so ingrained in language, that it's easy to ignore. Yet, according to some research, the direction in which language flows could have implications that spread into many other areas of our experience. Consider that people are often ...

  • Persuasion: The Right-Ear Advantage

    If you want someone to comply with a random request for a cigarette, you should speak into their right ear, according to a new study by researchers in Italy. Marzoli & Tommasi (2009) had a female confederate visit a disco and approach 176 random people asking for a smoke. Clubbers were about twice ...

After Downing Street.org

  • "The Dream" Remains a Vision

    "The Dream" Remains a Vision By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III | Truthout On August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered one of the most famous speeches in world history, "I Have A Dream." ...

  • Daybreak in Maryland Slide Show

  • Resisting Homophobia in the Military

    Resisting Homophobia in the Military By Dahr Jamail | Truthout Homophobia arguably manifests itself in the worst form of discrimination in the military, surpassing even racism. Instead of enabling recruits to vanquish their prejudices and strengthening the individual and the collective spirit, all ...

  • We Can Win With Jobs, Not Guns, In Afghanistan

    We can win with jobs, not guns, in Afghanistan By Ralph Lopez | Baltimore Sun On a recent trip to Kabul for our nonprofit organization, Jobs for Afghans, we made a startling discovery: There is no true Taliban insurgency. Yes, there is a Taliban leadership, many of whom are "foreigners," meaning, n ...

  • Afghans Move Toward Reconciliation With Taliban

    Afghans Move Toward Reconciliation With Taliban: Afghans Aim At Reconciliation With So-called 'ten-dollar Taliban' By Associated Press | CBS News.com Once the national elections are behind them, local Afghan leaders will step up efforts to reconcile with midlevel Taliban in the extremists' southern ...

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

  • What Is the EPA Hiding?

    Last week, I got word that the EPA and the Obama administration appears to be suppressing dissent within the career professional ranks at EPA. Here’s a portion of Joe Barton’s press release on the subject: EPA has not yet released the final, suppressed report that was written by career ...

  • With Liberty and Justice for Baby Names

    Filed under: Pregnancy & birth , Holidays If your due date falls around Independence Day, the idea has probably crossed your mind: "Born on the 4th of July." Should you mark the occasion with a name, at least a middle name? A generation ago, a founding father name like Madison or Jefferson might ...

  • Diehl me out

    Jackson Diehl’s End the Spat with Israel , is a very important op-ed. It’s also interesting that both Diehl and David Ignatius are showing skepticism of the administration’s tactics regarding Israel. That’s not to say Diehl’s column is perfect - it isn’t, but he makes some very import ...

  • Britney Spears Has Double the Happiness

    Britney Spears had two of her favorite things - Jason Trawick and Starbucks - while out in LA on Friday. The happy couple was also together earlier in the day and during their afternoon outing Brit flashed a big smile and drew some attention to the sparkling new ring on her left hand. She showed o ...

  • Parenting, Analogies, And Insults With @phdinparen ...

    A few years ago I was a co-moderator on a brand new forum that had opened. I helped moderate the breastfeeding section of the parenting board, and it was nasty. Maybe because it was a brand new forum, maybe because the site it was linked with tended to draw younger people, or maybe because the site ...

Time - Top Stories

Washington Independent

  • Bachmann: We Have to ‘Slit Our Wrists, Be Bl ...

    The Colorado Independent’s Ernest Luning passes along this rather remarkable quote from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), speaking earlier today at an event in Colorado. “This cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will ...

  • Ex-FBI Agent: Still No Evidence That Cheney’ ...

    It’s been an amazing thing: faced with hundreds of pages of documents disclosed last week that explicitly state and thoroughly demonstrate that it’s unknown whether “enhanced interrogation” worked, all it takes for the press to ignore the record is for former Vice President Dick Cheney to bl ...

  • Immigration Advocates Eye New GOP Florida Senator

    Immigration advocates are wondering what the newly chosen Florida senator-to-be, George LeMieux (R), is going to mean for their campaign for immigration reform — as well as how the pick could influence how the growing number of Latino voters view the Republican Party. Harsh questioning by Republic ...

  • GOPers See No Kennedy Effect in Health Care Debate

    At a town hall meeting last week in Florence, S.C., Sen. Jim DeMint acknowledged the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy, then shot a warning flare. Democrats, he said, would have no reservations about using an outpouring of sympathy for the late senator to push for passage of a health care reform bill.

  • The Daily Dose

    Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. The White House says that Sen. Mike Enzi’s (R-Wyo.) comments on health care reform might mean the now famous bipartisan “Gang of Six,” leading the charge on a bill in the Senate Finance Committee, could be down to five. Judging by th ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Where vegetarian cuisine is making history

    Hiltl in Zurich is the oldest vegetarian restaurant in Europe and is currently managed by the fourth generation of the same family. When the restaurant was first opened 111 years ago, it was ridiculed. These days, it is considered a gastronomic Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business | Not ...

  • How Cities Mimic Life: Megacities Breathe, Consume ...

    A scientific trend to view the world's biggest cities as analogous to living, breathing organisms is fostering a deep new understanding of how poor air quality in megacities can harm residents, people living far downwind, and also play a major role in glo Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Environ ...

  • 18-year kidnapping 'heart-warming': suspect

    A California man who kidnapped an 11-year-old girl and fathered two children with her after holding her prisoner for 18 years described his crimes as "heart-warming" ahead of a court appearance Friday. In a bizarre interview with a local television st Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Society & ...

  • The Cow Turns Green

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

  • The boy who cried 'pig'

    There once was a boy who needed to fill programming gaps for his 24-hour cable news channel. The boy cried out, "There is a mad cow coming to your family's dinner table! Throw away your red meat!" The villagers turned on his channel to hear his messag Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Society & ...

Why Organic

  • The POPE, Prime Minister and WTF is going on here& ...

    Something is up. Way up. What are all these fine peeps doing here, only a few months before Bush leaves office? Why not wait for the new President to take office? Why NOW? Additionally, what took the Vatican sooooo long to fess up with some responsibility for what has taken place under their soiled ...

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American Electric Technologies Accelerates Push in Renewable Energy Market With Two New Leadership Appointments HOUSTON, Aug. 31, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) ...
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Diversified Energy advances renewable technologies
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- Aug 31, 2009
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Diversified Energy Corp. has moved forward on three of its renewable energy technologies through funding from various US agencies. ...
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Research and Markets: This Essential Report on Renewable Energy in ...
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One of the fastest growing industries in Norway is the renewable energy sector. The countries geographical location coupled with strong government ...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
- Aug 31, 2009
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The Washington Department of Ecology announced the fine against Salmon Bay Sand & Gravel Co. on Monday. The company has spilled sand-and-gravel mixtures ...
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The ecology of cell phones
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- Aug 30, 2009
- Aug 30, 2009
By Sarah Mosko THE LANDFILL — aIt's not much of a stretch to liken America's relationship with cell phones to a once sizzling romance that ends in good-bye. ...
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The Ecology Center in Capistrano Plans 'Green Feast'
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- Aug 31, 2009
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The Ecology Center, an eco-conscious learning facility, is hosting its first Green Feast fundraiser dinner on Sept. 12, 2009. ...
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San Antonio gets more state money for Voelcker Park
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- Aug 31, 2009
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- Aug 31, 2009
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By DERRICK HENRY and COLIN MOYNIHAN Newark began shutting off water service on Monday to dozens of customers who were overdue on their bills, ...
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Victorian Water Minister Rescued After 2 Days Missing
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- Aug 31, 2009
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Victoria state's 37-year-old water minister, an experienced hiker, failed to return from a walk as planned by 4 pm Sydney time on Aug. 30. ...
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Gloucester residents told to continue boiling water
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- Aug 31, 2009
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