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Thomas Paine

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Thursday, September 10, 2009

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  • IRAN: Govt Ups Ante Against Reformists Probing Ab ...

    TEHRAN, Sep 9 (IPS) - The stepped-up crackdown against reformist leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, notably the arrest of key aides, signals that the crisis faced by the Islamic regime in Iran has reached new heights.

  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Zimbabwe Must Abide By SADC De ...

    KINSHASA, Sep 9 (IPS) - Condemning Zimbabwe’s withdrawal from a regional tribunal which ruled its state-orchestrated land seizures illegal, civil society groups have said the country should abide by decisions of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) or pull out of the regional body ...

  • HONDURAS: Vote to Go Ahead Despite Int'l Refusal ...

    TEGUCIGALPA, Sep 9 (IPS) - Although the international community has warned that it will not recognise the results of the November elections in Honduras, the de facto government in power since the Jun. 28 coup d'etat says the vote is going ahead.

  • KENYA: Police Reform? Return To Sender, Say Right ...

    NAIROBI, Sep 9 (IPS) - The top policeman accused of supporting Kenya's post-election violence, in which thousands were killed or raped because of their ethnicity, has been given a cushy job as head of the country’s postal service.

  • HEALTH: Diabetes Wreaks Havoc in Mauritius

    PORT-LOUIS, Sep 9 (IPS) - Every year 400 Mauritians undergo amputations, another 400 have heart surgery; 175 people's eyes are under the knife every week - all due to a disease that is easily prevented, Type 2 diabetes.

The Intelligence Daily

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Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Little boxes

    With more than half the Canadian population now living in the suburbs, Jill Grant says it’s an obvious time to study this increasingly popular living option, one that remains a bane to urban planners and downtown boosters. Are people drawn to the concept of perfectly matching houses throughout a n ...

  • FISHing for answers

    University of Alberta (U of A) researchers have developed a cancer-testing technology with a snappy name but a serious purpose. The “FISH on a chip” is a complex test that detects abnormalities in chromosomes which characterize particular types of cancer. To create it, researchers miniaturize a ...

  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Job openings down 50% from the peak in 2007

    The number of open U.S. jobs fell 50% over the past two years to a seasonally adjusted 2.4 million in July, the lowest in the brief history of the data, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. The job-opening rate fell to a record-low 1.8% in July. Job openings track the demand for labor, the fl ...

  • Another Wave of Foreclosures Looms

    The housing market faces the prospect of a new round of foreclosures as hundreds of thousands of risky home loans known as option adjustable-rate mortgages reset to significantly higher payments that could force borrowers to fall behind, according to a report released Tuesday by Fitch Ratings. Abou ...

  • Another financial crisis inevitable: Greenspan

    Another global financial crisis is inevitable because human nature always reverts to "speculative excesses" during a period of sustained prosperity, former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said. "The crisis will happen again but it will be different," he told BBC Two's "The Love of Mone ...

  • Crystal Cave Of Giants: Inner Space Terranauts

    This week, while astronauts orbited high above Earth installing new science equipment in the laboratories of the International Space Station, a team of terranauts descended into the Earth on their own mission of discovery. "We were not in outer space, but inner space," says explorer George Kouroun ...

  • Senate must raise debt ceiling above $12T

    The Senate must move legislation to raise the federal debt limit beyond $12.1 trillion by mid-October, a move viewed as necessary despite protests about the record levels of red ink. The move will highlight the nation's record debt, which has been central to Republican attacks against Democratic co ...

Threat Level

  • Feds Crack ‘Rabid Neurosis’ Pre-Release Piracy ...

    Four high-level members of a pre-release music piracy group, “Rabid Neurosis,” including one of its leaders, were indicted on criminal copyright infringement charges Wednesday. The indictment (.pdf) brings to six the number of alleged Rabid Neurosis defendants ensnared in what the authorities ar ...

  • ‘Anonymous’ Declares War on Australia Over Int ...

    “Anonymous” has struck again — this time declaring war on Australia. Hackers identifying themselves as “Anonymous” launched a denial-of-service attack Wednesday against a web site for Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to protest a government proposal to filter internet content, accord ...

  • Today Show’s Dan Brown Clue Leads to De Vious Co ...

    It’s the shocking mystery hidden for a millennium: What will Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown’s next book be about? But, beware, truth seekers: chasing the latest clues to the upcoming novel The Lost Symbol could expose you to a vast and secret conspiracy that’s been manipulating Google search ...

  • NSA-Intercepted E-Mails Helped Convict Would-Be Bo ...

    The three men convicted in the United Kingdom on Monday of a plot to bomb several transcontinental flights were prosecuted in part using crucial e-mail correspondences intercepted by the U.S. National Security Agency, according to Britain’s Channel 4. The e-mails, several of which have been repri ...

  • ‘Google Books’ Plan Hits Privacy Snag

    Opposition to the pending “Google Books” settlement took a turn Tuesday as civil rights groups told a federal court that the pending plan to digitize millions of books threatens readers’ privacy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Samuelson Law, Tech ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • America Wins When Democrats Go It Alone

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

  • 10 Missing Republican Talking Points on Health Car ...

    As President Obama's make-or-break health care speech to Congress approaches, the focus of media tea leaf readers is on what specifically he will say. Will the President overcome his marketing failures to date and commit his political capital to a...

  • 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...

  • McDonnell and the GOP's "Youthful Indiscretion" De ...

    The once lopsided Virginia gubernatorial race has suddenly gotten a lot more interesting with the revelations surrounding Republican front-runner Robert McDonnell's reactionary 1989 master's thesis. As it turns out, it's not just Democrats clamoring that McDonnell "can't shrug it off...

  • Wall Street Journal Debunks GOP Talking Point on S ...

    While the Wall Street Journal editorial page can always be counted on to cheerlead the flat-earth economics of the Republican Party, on occasion the paper's reporters contradict GOP orthodoxy. And so it is today on the subject of the Obama...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • Obama Must Respect Afghan Humanity

    President Obama needs new thinking to reverse the poisonous violence of Afghanistan, argues Sherwood Ross. September 7, 2009

  • Anti-Hillary Movie Tests Legal Limits

    A movie attacking Hillary Clinton may prompt a Supreme Court standard for corporate money in politics, writes Michael Winship. September 6, 2009

  • Colin Powell and Lessons of My Lai

    William Calley voices remorse about the My Lai massacre, but Colin Powell has never been called to account, says Robert Parry. September 4, 2009

  • Broder Is Latest Torture Apologist

    David Broder has joined the list of Washington Post columnists finding excuses for torture, writes Melvin A. Goodman. September 4, 2009

  • Mercenaries Hide Costs of War

    Washington's use of mercenaries shields the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from their full political costs, writes Sherwood Ross. September 3, 2009

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Planetsave

  • The Greening of Paint

    Oregon this summer became the first state to enact in law a product stewardship law for the collection of leftover consumer paint. The pilot program, which expires in 2014, involves a consumer fee that a nonprofit organization established by paint producers uses to pay for the collection and pro ...

  • The Great Lakes: Whose water is it anyway?

    In a century of rising fresh water scarcity, a community of activists in the Great Lakes region is working to prevent private ownership of that water resource, although most mainstream conservation and environmental activists are focused elsewhere. If the activists’ concerns are valid, their bat ...

  • Locks of Love: The Evolution of My Hair, and a Sta ...

    Hi, you might recognize that beautiful smiling face before you. That is my face, well it was my face over the last couple of years. I am not here to talk about my face or my smile, which some have called “winning.” I am not even here to talk about myself, although I could do that all day, and ...

  • Cure for AIDS? Possible AIDS Vaccine in the Works

    Researchers in California believe they have hit the jackpot in modern medical breakthroughs. The cure for AIDS. The researchers have published a study in the journal Science, demonstrating two powerful new antibodies which could hold the key to achieving a viable AIDS vaccine. It has been well kn ...

  • California Fires Not the Only Thing Hurting Commun ...

    Communities of all sorts are being disturbed by the fires in California. As another result of climate change, bird communities are expected to see some big changes in other ways, according to a new report released on September 1. Read more of this story »

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • San Antonio Protest of Nuclear Reactors TOMORROW, ...

    Hey San Antonio! There will be a protest against nuclear power tomorrow at lunchtime downtown outside of City Hall. Join us and the rest of the Energia Mia coalition and make your voice heard! Details below. WHAT: Protest against CPS Energy’s pursuit of more nuclear reactors at the Sout ...

  • The battle begins in the Supreme Court today

    At 10 a.m. EDT today, a grave test for our democracy began. Whether you’re taking to the streets or hanging our printed poster in your window, help us show the media, the Supreme Court and Congress that citizens across the U.S. won’t stand for more corporate influence in politics. Send your phot ...

  • EPA Calls for Proper Enforcement of Clean Air Act ...

    Environmental Groups welcome EPA’s proposed rejection of key elements of TCEQ’s air permitting plan and call for proper enforcement of Clean Air Act protections in Texas (Austin) — Sierra Club, Public Citizen, and the Galveston/Houston Association for Smog Prevent (GHASP) welcomed th ...

  • Austin Rally Against Corporate Influence in Politi ...

    Austin Rally to Protest the Possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court Will Allow Corporations to Unleash Flood of Money Into Elections Court Is Considering Sweeping Away a Century’s Worth of Campaign Finance Principles WHAT: Rally to raise awareness about the U.S. Supreme Court re-hearing Wednesday ...

  • Good Day, (for Texas) Sunshine [Flickr]

    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: This morning marks a good day for Texas sunshine! Public Citizen Texas gives you the early morning scoop -- late last night the Texas Senate passed through HB 1423, a net metering bill to provide owners of solar installations with fair buy-back rates for the ex ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • "Now is the time to deliver on health care"

    What was your favorite part? Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Full text here.

  • Laptop Woes

    Both Yellow Dog and I are struggling with ill laptops. As soon as the one in Kentucky gets out of the shop, the one in KC needs to go in. This poor thing has been beat to hell since I took it out of the box a few days before Super Tuesday. Since then, it has written over 3000 posts, the letters are ...

  • Barack Milhous Nixon

    I know, but bear with me. tristero at Hullabaloo makes the excellent point that today's Democrats - not the Blue Dogs and DINOs and other corporate cocksuckers like Rahm Emanuel, but actual real Democrats like the members of the Progressive Caucus - are to the right of Richard Nixon. Nixon was a cri ...

  • Quell Surprise!

    That piece of crap legislation Max Baucus is so pleased with himself for coming up with was not crafted by the legislators in the so-called "gang of six" on the Senate Finance Committee. Instead, it was written by Liz Fowler , an aide hired by Baucus last year as "Senior Counsel to the Chair of the ...

  • Or what? They'll all vote "NO"?

    Give me a fucking break! Saxby "I am a draft dodger chickenshit who spits on war heroes and questions their patriotism for my own political gain because I am a soulless, dishonorable jerk" Chambliss is running his fetid maw and demanding humility from the president when he speaks to a joint session ...

Care 2

  • Tigers in India: Cats' return to reserve angers vi ...

    Mention tigers to the residents of Indok Village and you elicit an immediate growl. The community of 300 families on the periphery of the Sariska Tiger Reserve says it has lost 20 cows and water buffaloes in the last several months and 1,000 in a Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | A ...

  • Cheetah sets world speed record

    Sarah, an 8-year-old Cincinnati Zoo cheetah, succeeded Wednesday in setting the world speed record for land mammals. Sarah covered 100 meters in 6.13 seconds at the zoo’s Regional Cheetah Breeding Facility, also known as the Mast Farm, in Clermont County Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-i ...

  • Wild horse roundup captures at least 131 Montana m ...

    As of Monday night, Bureau of Land Management contractors had gathered 131 wild horses as part of the agency's effort to reduce the size of the herd in the Pryor Mountain National Wild Horse Range. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Stop the Trophy Hunting of Polar Bears ! TAKE ACTI ...

    Tell the Obama Administration to end the trophy hunting of polar bears. Send your comment to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service supporting an urgent upgrade in international protection for the polar bear. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • One in 33 Female Worshipers Is Target of Sexual Ad ...

    One in every 33 women who attend worship services regularly has been the target of sexual advances by a religious leader, according to a survey released Wednesday. Submitted by Terry West to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • Setting a New Standard for Green Meetings

    The concept of green meetings should be more clearly defined by year's end under proposed Green Meeting and Events Voluntary Standards that are being reviewed by stakeholders from industries ranging from lodging to transportation.

  • Sempra Energy Heads the List of Top 25 Smart Grid ...

    Sempra Energy leads the list of the top 25 smart grid utilities in the first ranking of its kind conducted by IDC Energy Insights and Intelligent Utility magazine

  • Manna from Houston Brings Clean Water Systems to R ...

    Of all the problems threatening the world today, two loom large. One is the climate crisis. The other is the fact that billions of people lack access to clean water and sanitation.

  • ANSI Approves Green Seal Standard for Restaurants ...

    Green Seal's certification standard for restaurants and foodservice operations has been approved by the American National Standards Institute, making the guidelines the first of their kind to be nationally recognized, Green Seal said today.

  • ANSI Approves Green Seal Standard for Restaurants ...

    Green Seal's certification standard for restaurants and foodservice operations has been approved by the American National Standards Institute, making the guidelines the first of their kind to be nationally recognized, Green Seal said today.

Reuters Global

Ezra Klein

  • Morning Meeting

    If you'd like to see a live action version of this blog, I'll be on MSNBC's Morning Meeting With Dylan Ratigan from 9am to 10:45am Eastern. Fun for the whole family, or at least the part of the family that likes to watch the news fairly early in the morning.

  • Obama Promises Improvement, Not Change

    Barack Obama is considered a great speaker. But he's not typically been great at giving this kind of nuts-and-bolts policy speech. He's good at handling grand, sweeping topics. He's better at talking about how the arc of history bends towards justice than how the provisions of health-care reform b ...

  • Transcript of Obama's Health Care Address

    Below the fold, as that's where these things go. Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people: When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. ...

  • Live...Tweeting?

    Liveblogging is happening over at my public Twitter feed, where snarky one-liners make more sense. That makes it livetweeting, but it doesn't make it less fun. Follow here .

  • John Dingell's Blackberry

    Rep. John Dingell -- whose father got a big shout-out at the beginning of the speech -- is sending out Blackberry missives during the speech. Here's the first: Dad is smiling down on us right now. He started the fight for universal coverage and we will finish it this year. I'll update as necessary ...

Booman Tribune

  • Froggy Bottom Cafe

  • What I Learned Tonight

    I watched the speech tonight and afterwards I participated in a conference call with the White House. Dan Pfeiffer, the White House deputy communications director, fielded our questions. So, what did I learn? Number one, I learned that the South Carolinian GOP's problems don't end with their ...

  • Obama Speech Thread

    When the speech is over people are probably going to say it was a great speech. Obama gives great speeches. But a speech isn't going to change much. What we'd really like is some guidance on how to fight for this bill. That's what we didn't get before the recess. Instead, we were forced to figh ...

  • Quote of the Day

    From the Mustache of Understanding's column: “Globalization has neutered the Republican Party, leaving it to represent not the have-nots of the recession but the have-nots of globalized America, the people who have been left behind either in reality or in their fears,” said Edward Goldberg, a g ...

  • Serious Questions

    If you are 25 years old, underemployed, and in good health, are you going to buy health insurance if it costs you several thousand dollars a year? Well, how about if the price of not buying it is a substantial fine? More importantly, how are you going to feel about the political party that forced ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • First bot with a human brain?

    OK, so it won’t be a whole human brain… but two researchers at the University of Warwick are preparing to upgrade their rat-neuron robot to use human brain cells instead: To make the system a better model of human disease, a culture of human neurons will be connected to the robot once the curren ...

  • Get your Flurb on – Rudy Rucker’s webz ...

    Ever since I stopped doing the Friday Free Fiction round-ups here a little while ago, I’ve tried hard not to play favourites… but when news got out from the man himself that Rudy Rucker’s superbly-named fiction webzine Flurb had just rolled over to issue #8, I couldn’t let it pass by without ...

  • Book review: Kramer Wand – me:topia

    Kramer Wand, me:topia (Indicia, 2009) [pp.197. $20.00. ISBN: 723485522826] “Great title”, said a friend when I emailed him to say I’d received this book to review; “what’s it about? No, don’t tell me, let me guess—” I bet this book is arguing that the problem with utop ...

  • Singularity lacking in motivation

    MIT neuroengineer Edward Boyden has been speculating as to whether the singularity requires the machine-equivalent of what humans call “motivation”: I think that focusing solely on intelligence augmentation as the driver of the future is leaving out a critical part of the analysis–namely, the ...

  • Book review: Kramer Wand – me:topia

    Kramer Wand, me:topia (Indicia, 2009) [pp.197. $20.00. ISBN: 723485522826] “Great title”, said a friend when I emailed him to say I’d received this book to review; “what’s it about? No, don’t tell me, let me guess—” I bet this book is arguing that the problem with utop ...

Yahoo! Canada News

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Currently on Our Radar...

    Obama's environmental record, the next generation of nuclear power and more in our roundup of energy and environment news from around the Web.

  • Electric Car-Charging Network Expands

    Having secured almost $108 million in federal and state grants this summer a Scottsdale, Ariz., firm sprints to the front of the pack among companies racing to build networks of electric vehicle charge stations.

  • $4.1 Billion in Orders for Thin-Film Solar

    On Wednesday, Nanosolar pulled back the curtain on its thin-film photovoltaic cell technology, and announced that it has secured $4.1 billion in orders for its solar panels.

  • Green Diplomacy on Display at U.S. Mission

    The U.S. Mission in Geneva is festooned with solar panels and uses a frictionless, oil free chiller system.

  • A 'Nuclear Renaissance' Stumbles Forward

    With a recession that has both reduced demand for electricity and made it difficult for utilities to borrow money, considerable uncertainty surrounds planned reactor projects. A look at the approval process for two new reactor designs.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Supercoca Boliviana Negra cocaine win: Glyphosate/ ...

    Boliviana negra - Wikipedia, Also known as supercoca or la millionaria , Boliviana Negra is a relatively new form of coca that is resistant to herbicide Roundup , or the isopropylamine salt of glyphosate . The coca plant is the precursor to the addictive stimulant cocaine , one of the most widely c ...

  • Believe it or not, the flu will always be with us

    I am sort of amazed by the establishment view that's crystallized around this. Everyone is supposed to cut corners to whip out various runs of vaccines. It's amazing how quickly people forget that influenza has always been with us - a more holistic view is that it basically co-evolves with humans i ...

  • Video with Peter Schiff: A black hole called Feder ...

    I got a kick out of this video and the funny animations. It's all about the mysterious black hole called the Federal Reserve System. Gotta love it! Just posted yesterday: Additionally, the landscape of ruined houses in the first couple shots caught my notice. I'll explain why later... read more »

  • Carbon Market+Sun=FAIL? Sunspot Maunder Minimum vs ...

    Another Little Ice Age? Solar activity and climate change - Ars Technica : Some scientists are suggesting that the slow return to a more active phase of the solar cycle may portend a general decline in solar activity. If sunspots shut down, does that mean that we could stop worrying about climate ...

  • NZ Cellphone racket! LOL This article officially c ...

    In a stunning surprise, apparently the New Zealand mobile phone system is a complete racket, wherein grumpy ministers set the pay rate and thereby influence the balance of corporate power. Or something. In any case, New Zealand's version of the Man officially censored this article about the stupid h ...

Daily Censored

  • Hannity And Cantor Complain About Partisanship In ...

    Read the full story at News Hounds Sean Hannity and Republican Congressman Eric Cantor last night (9/9/09) blithely accused President Obama of being too partisan in his health care speech to the Joint Session of Congress while they just as blithely ignored the heckling and disrespect from Republican ...

  • Obama’s Speech: The Doctor Is In

    Read the full story at MoJo Articles Can a speech change a political dynamic? President Barack Obama and his political wizards obviously hope so. Together they came up with an address that at least on Wednesday night made it seem as if Obama was in charge of the health care reform process–which ha ...

  • Drug Deficits Threaten HIV Patients

    Read the full story at Byline Portal by Haru Mutasa, Al Jazeera, Qatar – More than 320,000 Zimbabweans are in need of anti-retroviral (ARV) drug treatment and of the 1.7 million living with HIV, only about 150,000 are receiving medication from the public health sector. …

  • The Mystery of Chernobyl

    Read the full story at Byline Portal by Sanjida O’Connell, Telegraph, UK – A bitter dispute is raging over whether the fallout zone is a wasteland or wonderland. Now, a team of scientists is heading back into the contaminated area to find out the truth. …

  • Zardari’s popularity sags – will it undermine ...

    Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories One year after becoming president, the widower of Benazir Bhutto has been battered by economic crises and political missteps – despite some military successes. …

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Pine River World News

  • Of British Conspiracies and Channel Pirates

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin. Of British Conspiracies and Channel Pirates © Stanislav Mishin Source: Mat Rodina September 8, 2009 Recently, a Russian transport, the Artic Sea, carrying about $3-million in timber, having left Kalingrad and heading f ...

  • Unease over oil revenues in Sudan could spark war

    IntelTrends - The following article is from The East African Standard, Nairobi. Unease over oil revenues in Sudan could spark war © The Standard By Macharia Kamau September 8, 2009 Mistrust over the sharing of oil revenues in Sudan could spark another round of armed conflict in Africa's largest ...

  • Paul Craig Roberts: U.S. Hypocrisy Astonishes the ...

    The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. U.S. Hypocrisy Astonishes the World © Paul Craig Roberts September 7, 2009 Americans have lost their ability for introspection, thereby revealing their astounding hypocrisy to the world. U.S. War Secretary Robert Gates ha ...

  • Discontent in Yemen: Central Plateau Movement to b ...

    IntelTrends - The following article is reprinted with permission from Yemen Times, Sana'a. Popular movement demands rights for central Yemen © Yemen Times By Nadia Al-Sakkaf September 6, 2009 TAIZ - There are four rebellious popular movements in Yemen, named for their locations: the Southern Mo ...

  • The U.S. Health Care System - Values and Prioritie ...

    [ Blogmaster note : It has been my position that those opposed to universal healthcare already have medical insurance. They also have little concern for the needs of those who lack coverage. My wife's family, for example, are among the 47-million Americans without health insurance, and, while I am ...

Res'Eau-WaterNet

PDA AMERICA

  • Subsidies for Wal-Mart, but Not for Working Moms

    By Jayne Lyn Stahl Thank goodness America wasn’t in recovery from eight years of a Republican contract on America back when another president, Lyndon B. Johnson, signed Medicare into law back in 1965, a program that ...

  • Thom Hartmann in support of Bill McKibben’s ...

    Video from our friend and PDA Advisor, Thom Hartmann. Bill McKibben, author, environmentalist, activist is asking the PDA community to join him on October 24th, 2009 in a global day of Action. On Saturday, Oct. 24th wherever ...

  • Video: Can’t Go Home

    What do you think of when you imagine an American living in exile, unable to return home? This is a profile of a couple living in Canada who can’t return to the US because ...

  • Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton and Rep. Gwen Moore sp ...

    Rep. Gwen Moore and Lt Gov. Barbara Lawton (running now for Gov.) spoke eloquently on the need for healthcare reform in Milwaukee WI.

  • Plumbers & Fitters Local Phone Banks for HR 676

    Plumbers & Fitters Local Phone Banks for HR 676 San Jose, California. The news item below was sent to us by Fred Hirsch, Executive Board member and former Vice President of Local 393, Plumbers, Steamfitters ...

Marler Blog

  • The only thing the President missed tonight in the ...

    President Obama once said: "There are certain things only a government can do. And one of those things is ensuring that the foods we eat are safe and do not cause us harm.” A few days ago I penned this Op-ed (declined by the Washington post) - it seems a bit more on point tonight after our Presid ...

  • Food Safety Widget from our Government

    Food Safety Widget. Flash Player 9 is required.

  • Steinbeck Country Produce and Ocean Mist Farms Rec ...

    Two California produce shippers have recalled thousands of cases of green onions supplied by an onion farm in Mexicali, Mexico, over fears the onions could be contaminated with salmonella. U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors found salmonella in a routine test taken in New York last month. No i ...

  • FDA and USDA "Relaunch" New Food Safety Site - Is ...

    Secretaries Sebelius and Vilsack at National Food Policy Conference in DC today announced a redesigned www.foodsafety.gov . However nice it looks, is our food any safer? Follow live tweets from conference @foodsafetynews and @obamafoodorama and @AgLawLLM

  • Glass Microbiology - E. coli - Deadly in a Beautif ...

    Someone emailed me this link to some very interesting glass art by Luke Jerram. I guess I know what I will be asking Santa for:

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.10.09

    OEMs go all out to defend fuel cells... but hide hydrogen angle Hydrogen cars are now "electric vehicles with fuel cells," capice? Survey says... nearly half of Americans want to buy something like the Vo ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.09.09

    Aerodynamics adds 7 miles to Volt electric range Example #253790 why shape is so important. Fisker announces fuel economy estimate for Karma - 67.2 mpg and CO 2 emissions of just 83 g/km Fisk ...

  • EMC Flash truck unveiled: 40 miles of electric pow ...

    Filed under: Truck , Alternative Fuel Electric Motors Corporation has been working on upgrading Ford F-150 trucks with more advanced powertrains for a while now. The company's drives incorporate PML-Hi-Pa electric motor technology and were in the F-150 that was at SEMA last year (see more here ). ...

  • Fisker announces fuel economy estimate for Karma - ...

    Filed under: Hybrid , Sedan , Fisker , Luxury Fisker Karma - Click above for high-res image gallery The miles per gallon rating of a vehicle that can get energy from an electrical outlet is a difficult thing to accurately calculate and get the public to accept. Just ask AFS Trinity, with their "1 ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.08.09

    Frankfurt Preview: Reva to show next-gen EVs, remote wireless charging? Texting the company for an "instant remote recharge." WTF? REPORT: Opel Ampera pricing hint suggests Chevy Volt might cost $35,000 ...

Rafe's Radar

  • TimeBridge: No place to hide from our meetings

    The meeting scheduler utility TimeBridge is growing up and expanding its mission. No longer just a schedule helper, the service is getting more tools to keep meetings that have already started running on time. The company is still selling an online meeting product, based on DimDim . It's adding ...

  • Google Voice and Gmail are sort of merging

    Two new little Google Voice features just made their way into Gmail . A new option lets text messages sent to Google Voice show up as e-mail messages in Gmail. You can reply to messages from Gmail, too, which makes it a nice platform for carrying on a text message conversation. ...

  • TweetDeck gets updates, MySpace support

    The new 0.30 version of TweetDeck , due out Wednesday, supports MySpace . Maybe it's me. Maybe it's my demographic. But who the heck cares about MySpace? The MySpace addition to TweetDeck, though, shows how much CEO Iain Dodsworth wants TweetDeck to become, in his words, "a browser for ...

  • Subvert the HR department with Workscore

    Workscore , set to launch tonight, lets you build a "social resume," a profile of your skills, with ratings from the co-workers you've invited to comment on them. Once you have enough ratings, you can send private Workscore links to the people at the companies where you want to work. ...

  • Does your reality need augmenting? Try these apps

    A contact lens with metal circuit elements has been tested in rabbits. (Credit: University of Washington) Reading the news about a University of Washington professor's experimental electronic contact lens , I wondered if my dream of the ultimate personal technology has finally moved from over the ...

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!

  • Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck

    Glenn Beck was mad. He’s the right-wing talk radio host who has a television program on the Fox News Channel. Advertisers were fleeing his Fox program en masse after the civil rights group Color of Change mounted a campaign urging advertisers to boycott Beck, who labeled President Barack Obama a ...

  • New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks

    On Sept. 1, the European Union stopped manufacturing and importing incandescent light bulbs. Europeans will now turn to the much more efficient compact fluorescent, halogen and LED (light-emitting diode) bulbs. Incandescents, critics argue, waste up to 95 percent of energy as heat, using only 5 per ...

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

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

  • Who is Obama Playing Ball With?

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

  • Youssef Megahed Released as Government Loses Depor ...

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

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

  • Googles Custom Solar Technology Will Reduce Costs ...

    Google is developing solar technology that would reduce costs from 18 cents a kilowatt hour to less than 5 cents.

  • First Woman to Row Solo Across Pacific Gets Her Me ...

    Roz Savage is an incredible eco-warrior, putting the planet front and center on her mission. Stage 1, a 2,700 mile row from California to Hawaii, focused on the pollution found in the ocean. Stage 2, bringing her from Hawaii to Tarawa, focused on climate change. And stage 3 will take her all the way ...

  • TED: Time-Lapse Proof of Extreme Ice Loss

    Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.

  • 135mph Racing Car Built from Recyclables, Fuled by ...

    Built from recycled cars, plastic bottles and off-cuts from aeroplanes, the Formula 3 vehicle has a steering wheel made from carrot fibre and can run on biodiesel made from waste chocolate and stale wine.

  • The Wilderness Act: A 'Down Payment on Forever'

    Every once in awhile, Congress outdoes itself and gets something really right. One of those somethings is the Wilderness Act of 1964, whose 45th anniversary was celebrated September 3. The Wilderness Act included 54 initial wilderness areas covering 9.1 million acres. 45 yrs later, there are 756 wi ...

Suzie-Q

  • What did you think of President Obama’s&#823 ...

    What did you think of President Obama’s Health Care speech tonight?

  • President Obama’s Health Care Speech To Cong ...

    Obama Health Care Speech: Text Excerpts The Huffington Post First Posted: 09- 9-09 05:50 PMÂ Â Â |Â Â Â Updated: 09- 9-09 06:44 PM The White House has released advance excerpts from President Obama’s address to Congress tonight. In them, Obama proclaims that he is “determined to b ...

  • Baucus Health Care Plan Is Totally Nightmarish

    Yesterday, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) finally released a proposal for his committee’s health care reform bill — the framework for the eventual Senate Finance Committee legislation. Predictably, the Baucus Plan is totally nightmarish. Naked on the subway while being accosted by prostitutes that re ...

  • Ramsey Clark: ‘A Free People Will Not Permit Tor ...

    By Ramsey Clark, Information Clearing House, September 9, 2009 Throughout history, torture has always been an instrument of tyranny. The very purpose of the Grand Inquisitor was to compel absolute obedience to authority. Torture was the weapon he used in the struggle to force freedom to submit to ...

  • Howard Dean takes “Gin Grinch” to the ...

    Howard Dean takes “Gin Grinch” to the wood shed My humble apologies for the Faux news video, it’s all I can do to keep from gaggin, but John Dean and John Podesta do such a good job of decimating the Grinch I figured it might pass muster. I take no responsibility for any ill effects suffered ...

Solari

  • An Anniversary Prayer - September 11, 2009

    An Anniversary Prayer — September 11, 2009 Lord, we gather in prayer on the seventh anniversary of 9-11; We thank you for the many blessings you have given us, among them the gift of life; Let our hearts be in your heart, our mind in your mind; Help us to speak life into this anniversary and this ...

  • The Amazing US Manufacturing Worker

    View Larger Chart Continue reading The Amazing US Manufacturing Worker

  • UN Calls for New Global Currency

    By Jonathan Tirone The dollar’s role in international trade should be reduced by establishing a new currency to protect emerging markets from the “confidence game” of financial speculation, the United Nations said. UN countries should agree on the creation of a global reserve bank to issue th ...

  • Game Over: Barrick Dilutes by $3 Billion to Buy Ba ...

    By Cameron French Barrick Gold (ABX.TO) will issue $3 billion in stock to eliminate all of its fixed-price gold hedges and a portion of its floating hedges, taking a $5.6 billion hit to third-quarter earnings, the world’s top gold miner said on Tuesday. For Barrick, which expects gold prices to k ...

  • China to Issue Renminbi Bonds to Offshore Investor ...

    By Robert Cookson in Hong Kong China will issue sovereign bonds denominated in its own currency to offshore investors for the first time this month – a crucial step towards making the renminbi a global currency. The country’s finance ministry said it would issue Rmb6bn ($879m) of bonds in Hong ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away

    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware. George Green will be a featured speaker. September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CA Click here for Tickets & Reservations

  • The Georgia Guidestones

    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...

  • The Creation

    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...

  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...

    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...

  • About George Green

    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...

Insurgency Watch - Posts

  • Fast, Cheap and Out of Control?

    Stepping away from insurgencies and kidnapped reporters for a moment, the Open Source Center has a translation of an Aug. 31 interview between Pakistan’s nuclear Fu Manchu, A.Q. Khan, and Nadeem Malik of Aaj News Television out of Karachi. In it, Khan reveals details of the panic in Pakistan in ...

  • Help With Feeds, Facebook, etc.?

    Greetings all. This post is for the hive mind and social media experts. As you may know, I’ve been having much trouble with FeedBurner and other social networking sites in my attempts at republishing. Whenever I try to burn the feed, FeedBurner says the feed times out. However, it checks out OK wi ...

  • Pakistan: Show us the money!

    This is a non-starter for D.C., I reckon: Shaukat Tarin, Pakistan’s finance minister, has urged the US to channel its assistance through Pakistani agencies instead to save on high intermediation costs incurred by US counterparts. … “Whatever aid [the US is] giving must have full impact on the ...

  • Swat Girls Get a Haven in Islamabad

    Embedded video from CNN Video My friend Shiza Shahid has spent this summer working on a retreat for schoolgirls of the Swat Valley after the Taliban prevented them from attending school. CNN has the report on it. School-age girls are among the victims in the fierce fighting between government soldi ...

  • UN voices concern on lack of health f... - Pakista ...

    UN voices concern on lack of health facilities Pakistan Observer United Nations—With many health centres in north-western Pakistan having been destroyed or looted during recent anti- Taliban operations, the UN health ... and more »

    Blacklisted News

  • A year after financial crisis, the consumer econom ...

    One year later, the easy-money system that financed the boom era from the 1980s until a year ago is smashed. Once-ravenous U.S. consumers are saving money and paying down debt. Banks are building reserves and hoarding cash. And governments are fashioning a new global financial order

  • China alarmed by US money printing

    The US Federal Reserve's policy of printing money to buy Treasury debt threatens to set off a serious decline of the dollar and compel China to redesign its foreign reserve policy, according to a top member of the Communist hierarchy.

  • FBI Whistleblower: Hastert, Burton, Blunt, Other M ...

    Breaking Down the Under-Oath Disclosures of the Formerly-Gagged Sibel Edmonds...

  • Child-safety software sells your kids' IM conversa ...

    You know that "child-safety" software that monitors your kids' every click and sends it to some spyware creep whose main profit-center is running national firewalls for totalitarian states who use the same service to figure out whom to hood, kidnap and torture?

  • Vladimir Putin’s Dark Rise to Power: GQ Censors ...

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

  • Pat Dodson: Indigenous Policy & the Green Economy.

    Last month I camped on the banks of the Mary River in Western Arnhem Land with 100 other Aboriginal and Islander peoples who had met to discuss issues related to the use and management of the water resources across northern Australia. The Mary River, as it is known to non-indigenous Australians, is ...

  • Dolphin Documentary halts the annual dolphin hunt

    the power of film to make good things happen . "The Cove" works its magic » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

  • AEP: China alarmed by US money printing

    Cheng Siwei, former vice-chairman of the Standing Committee and now head of China's green energy drive, said Beijing was dismayed by the Fed's recourse to "credit easing"."We hope there will be a change in monetary policy as soon as they have positive growth again," he said at the Ambrosetti Worksho ...

  • US job creation -35% yoy; Consumer spend -33%.

    Gallup Daily economic data aggregated on a monthly basis show that job creation in August is just not taking place in the U.S. economy. While Gallup data for the month also show a slight moderation in job loss, this is not sufficient to take up the slack for a 35% decline in the rate of job creation ...

  • Music-Brazil: A School Without Teachers

    The participation of renowned professional musicians as instructors and special guests at workshops, instead of academic professors, is what sets Brazil's Bituca University of Popular Music apart, and is earning it a reputation as a model of experimentation and excellence in music education."Just li ...

Independent ( London )

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Lack of Evidence Over Iran ‘Nukes’ Alarms US

    Summary: Natanz plant With US Poised to Press for New Sanctions, Rumors About Iran's "Breakout Capability" Are Spread source: AntiWar.com read more

  • Iran's New Nuclear Diplomacy

    Summary: Afrasiabi Global diplomacy surrounding Iran's nuclear standoff is very likely to reach a critical fork in the road this fall. In the coming weeks and months, this potentially dangerous crisis could either escalate or veer toward hopeful signs of a mutually satisfactory resolution. sou ...

  • Will not surrender nuclear rights: Iran

    Summary: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced that Tehran’s “undeniable” nuclear rights are non-negotiable and nuclear talks with global powers in the future would be narrowed down to “cooperation on peaceful use of atomic energy” and “non-proliferation”. source: ...

  • Russia opposes sanctions against Iran

    Summary: MOSCOW, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Russia opposes sanction against Iran, said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov here at a news conference Tuesday. source: China View read more

  • Chavez ready to export gasoline to Iran

    Summary: TEHRAN, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that his country is ready to provide Iran with gasoline, the local satellite Press TV reported on Monday. source: China View read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Is the World's Largest & Deepest 25-million-Year-O ...

    As the oldest, largest and deepest lake on planet Earth, ancient Lake Baikal is known as the “grand dame” of all lakes. UNESCO declared it a World Heritage due to its stunning bio-diversity. Most of its 2500 some odd plant...

  • "Homo Sapiens' Last Invention": The First Self-Rep ...

    "Let an ultra-intelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultra-intelligent machine could design even better...

  • Hubble's Back! The First Images of Cosmos Since S ...

    Leading the list of exciting new Hubble views are stunning multi-wavelength pictures of far-flung galaxies, a densely packed star cluster, an eerie "pillar of creation" and a butterfly-shaped nebula. Hubble's suite of new instruments, NASA reports, now allows it to...

  • Image of the Day: The Fiery Beauty of Orion

    Orion, often referred to as "The Hunter," is one of the largest, most conspicuous, and most recognizable constellations in the night sky. Betelgeuse, also known by its designation "Alpha Orionis," is a massive M-type red supergiant star nearing the end...

  • Antimatter: The Cosmos Answer to Red Bull

    When I was in middle school if you wanted to work up a solid caffeine buzz you pretty much were reliant on Mountain Dew or the rarer, but more treasured Jolt Cola. After all, with the tag line "All the...

Natural News

  • Titanium dioxide in vitamins and supplements: Is i ...

    (NaturalNews) Because I take a large number of nutritional supplements, I've become increasingly concerned over the years about supplement excipients, binders and fillers. One ingredient frequently used in vitamin manufacturing is titanium dioxide , a nanoparticle powder made of fine titanium bits. ...

  • Home Births with Midwife Safe As Hospital for Babi ...

    (NaturalNews) The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has a long-standing opposition to home births. In fact, their official statement released last year actually accuses women who want a home birth of placing "the process of giving birth over the goal of having a healthy baby ...

  • 1918 Influenza: A Treatment That Worked

    (NaturalNews) At least twenty million people died in the 1918 influenza epidemic and Eleanora McBean, Ph.D., N.D. tells us something pretty interesting about it. Drug-oriented medical doctors and hospitals, she tells us, "were losing 33% of their flu cases," while "non-medical hospitals such as Batt ...

  • Interview with Ed Begley, Jr., start of "Living wi ...

    (NaturalNews) Mike Adams interviews Ed Begley, Jr., the start of the hit TV series Living with Ed (http://www.livingwithed.net). Mike: We're here with Ed Begley, Jr. What's on your mind these days Ed? Living with Ed Ed: Mike, I've been enjoying this show that I have been doing with my wife called Li ...

  • Greatest Health Risk Isn�t Cancer or Heart Disea ...

    (NaturalNews) We are constantly bombarded with gloom and doom news stories warning us that heart disease is America's number one killer, followed closely by cancer. What's more, there's a worldwide epidemic of diabetes and fear mongers are also warning that swine flu, H1N1, is lurking around every c ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • Matt Strikes Again . . . .

    My apologies for missing the release of this a couple of days ago, but "better late than never," right? Matt Taibbi's "Sick and Wrong" Rolling Stone article is finally available online. Check it out for his take on the USofexpensivehealthcare's fiasco in the attempt to "reform" the health care sy ...

  • The BC "Liberals" fly their true colours

    When things get dirty, so do conservatives, and that's what Gordon Campbell really is . T he provincial Environment Ministry has suffered deep cuts in Tuesday's budget and a levy that raised $25-million annually for clean energy has been repealed, raising questions about the direction of Canada's gr ...

  • well played, douche bag, well played

    You have to hand it to the Republicans, they know how to play the press and work the rubes. Obama gives a major speech to Congress in which he lays out what he want to see in a health care bill and how important it is that U.S. fix its health care system right now - important stuff, no doubt about i ...

  • Cue the screeching brakes

    So, I'm doing my usual morning news surf finding the usual stuff - war, famine, disease and politics and I notice this story about a memorial for Walter Cronkite at the Lincoln Center: Obama spoke and called for journalists to do a better job. Bill Clinton talked about Walter offering to take him sa ...

  • Better Than a Stapler ? ? ? ?

    The following was a news report from the local newspaper in our former NW Florida home: Fugitive drops to his knees, prays A man who later told cops he was afraid of being Tasered fled when a _______ Police Department officer tried to pull him over for not wearing a seat belt, according to the ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox News' partisans accuse Obama of "partisan hac ...

    Responding to President Obama's September 9 speech to Congress on health care reform, in which Obama denounced "bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform," Sean Hannity, Karl Rove, and Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. asserted that the speech was, in Hannity's wor ...

  • Hannity falsely claimed Obama called insurance ex ...

    On his Fox News show, Sean Hannity falsely claimed that President Obama said during his health care speech that insurance company executives are "bad people," and that Obama's remarks "took [Hannity] back because it was so harsh." In fact, as was made clear by the video Hannity himself showed ...

  • Rove advances "glaring misstatements" and "disto ...

    Purporting to examine President Obama's health care speech, Karl Rove claimed that while discussing "the so-called lies and misstatements about his proposal," Obama "made a series of very glaring misstatements or distortions." In fact, it was Rove who was advancing falsehoods and distortions. R ...

  • Fox News on a witch hunt for Obama "czars"

    On September 8, Fox News host Megyn Kelly stated that "more of President Obama's special advisers are now under scrutiny after the resignation of his green jobs czar," Van Jones and described "criticisms" being lodged against Obama science and technology adviser John Holdren and Obama nominee C ...

  • Media ignore evidence Boustany endorsed "birther" ...

    The Associated Press, The Boston Globe , CNN's Wolf Blitzer, and Fox News' Major Garrett ignored Rep. Charles Boustany's (R-LA) past comments regarding whether President Obama was born in the United States in reporting on the GOP's decision to have Boustany deliver the party's response to Obama ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Do We Care About The Questions?

    "Don't be afraid to ask questions." That's what the President of the United States told the schoolchildren of America. Sounds good. But is our public school system one in which students are encouraged to ask questions? In such an... Sponsored Topics: United States - Public school - Education - E ...

  • The Death Of Why?

    Hope you all enjoyed the holiday - we're ready to get back to business! This week at Cafe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger joins us for a discussion of her book The Death Of Why? The Decline Of Questioning And The Future... Sponsored Topics: Andrea Batista Schlesinger - United States - Michael ...

  • Spirit I Can Believe In

    Others more knowledgeable than I about the mechanics of health care reform, like TNR's Jonathan Cohn, have already begun commenting on the details that Obama elevated in his Wednesday night speech. I want to say only a small thing about... Sponsored Topics: Jonathan Cohn - Health care - Health - ...

  • Obama's Health Care Speech

    Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is on Countdown saying it's the best speech to a joint session he's seen in 18 years in Congress. It certainly was the best I've ever seen. He bitch slapped the right wing Repubs, Beck, Limbaugh and... Sponsored Topics: Health care - Ohio - Sherrod Brown - Right-wing polit ...

  • Obama Won Tonight

    It was a great speech, the most effective and moving speech Obama has given.as President. Will it do the job? Will it produce a bill? Yes, it will. But not because he won over the Republicans. The ridiculous Eric Cantor... Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - Eric Cantor - United States - Pres ...

TruthOut

  • Truthout Has Unionized

    On the night of Thursday, August 27, a small group gathered in a quiet, bare room in Pacific Palisades, California, preparing to sign off on the future of an organization and spur the momentum of a movement. Though the meeting was brief and inconspicuous, it made history. read more

  • Camp Runamuck: A Glimpse of the East Providence Ho ...

    Katie, who is 19 and unemployed, and her boyfriend have lived in Camp Runamuck for a month and are hoping for a spot in a couples' shelter or to qualify for Section 8 housing. (Photo: John Mottern) read more

  • Think Vietnam Vets Were Screwed?

    Far too many soldiers end up behind bars while the rest of us are free to ignore the human evidence of what our military ventures really cost. As all the other justifications for the U.S. invasion of Iraq have fallen by the wayside, it is ironic that the one that remains is "freedom," read ...

  • The Virtues of Deglobalization

    The current global downturn, the worst since the Great Depression 70 years ago, pounded the last nail into the coffin of globalization. Already beleaguered by evidence that showed global poverty and inequality increasing, even as most poor countries experienced little or no economic growth, glob ...

  • In the Chinese Grip

    Dysprosium, praseodymium, neodymium.... Their names evoke Captain Haddock's oaths rather than Communist China's predatory designs on the planet's wealth. But for the automotive, electronic, and green energy industries, these rare metals are synonymous with vital resources. read more

The Heathlander

  • The “British method”

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

  • ‘Israel’s Terror Inside’

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

  • A culture of fear

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

  • Fighting the fash

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

  • Silencing civil society

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

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TruthHugger

  • 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

  • Skull find rewrites the history of man

    A number of human skulls discovered in Georgia have put conventional views on mankind's evolution in to doubt, suggesting that humans spent a long...

  • Crypto team to hunt down orang-pendek

    A team from the Centre for Fortean Zoology is about to embark on an expedition to the jungles of Sumatra in an effort to track down the legendary ...

  • Beware of the biscuits

    A new study has revealed that over 25 million people in Britain have been injured by biscuits with 500 people a year needing hospital treatment fo...

  • What does space smell like ?

    Astronauts aboard NASA's space shuttle Discovery have stated that the smell of space is strong, metallic and unique. The shuttle's pilot Kevin For...

  • Giant statues give up hat secret

    How did the Easter Island statues get their red hats ? Archaeologists now believe that the mysterious headpieces sported by the statues were rolle...

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

  • September 9, 2009

    Salazar: Climate Bill Still High on Obama's Agenda (Reuters) Despite Washington's nearly single-minded focus on healthcare reform, the Obama administration still expects the U.S. Senate to pass climate change legislation, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says. Developing World's Energy Needs Set ...

  • September 8, 2009

    EU Ready to Shoulder 30% of Global Climate Funding (EurActiv) The EU is prepared to put up to 30% of the money required to finance an ambitious post-Kyoto climate treaty and overcome the current standoff in the negotiations, a draft European Commission document laying out “fair shares” of t ...

  • September 7, 2009

    Irish Commission Recommends Carbon Tax on Gas (Irish Times) Ireland’s Commission on Taxation is recommending a carbon tax of about 8 cents per liter on gas and diesel starting in the government's December budget. Trade War Looms in Solar Space (Reuters) China and the West, long at odds ...

  • September 5-6, 2009

    Van Jones Resigns (AP) Pres. Obama's environmental adviser Van Jones, who became embroiled in a controversy over past statements, has resigned his White House job after what he calls a "vicious smear campaign against me.'' Climate Change Funding Talks Stall at G20 (Reuters) Differences betw ...

  • September 8, 2009

    EU Ready to Shoulder 30% of Global Climate Funding (EurActiv) The EU is prepared to put up to 30% of the money required to finance an ambitious post-Kyoto climate treaty and overcome the current standoff in the negotiations, a draft European Commission document laying out “fair shares” of t ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Measuring Success in Afghanistan

    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: Let me express my awe. The Tuesday before Labor Day weekend, I posted a striking piece by organizer and activist David Swanson, "Bush's Third Term, You're Living It." It was the day his new book, Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perf ...

  • Tomgram: William Astore, American Militarism on S ...

    Here's what Cheryl Bartholomew, described as an "Omaha Early Childhood Parenting Examiner," wrote recently about an event happening at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Nebraska, for the local affiliate of the national web portal Examiner.com: "The Offutt Air Show, Defenders of Freedom '09 loo ...

  • Tomgram: David Swanson, The More Things Change

    A presidential candidate opposed to the Iraq War is elected and enters the Oval Office. Yet six months later, there are still essentially the same number of troops in Iraq as were there when his predecessor left, the same number, in fact, used in the original invasion of Iraq in March 2003. More ...

  • 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 ...

Smirking Chimp

  • What Obama Actually Said About Health Reform

    1965 - President Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare bill while President Harry Truman looks on. Truman signed up for Medicare right away. Image Address to Congress Michael Collins President Obama closed his address to the joint session of Congress by scolding those who have raised the absurd charges ...

  • No, Joe Wilson, YOU Lie.

    So Representative Joe Wilson yelled out "You Lie!" as President Obama asserted the health care bill would not give federal health care benefits to illegal aliens. The reaction was swift and ferocious. Nancy Pelosi appeared to check a seating chart and grimace in resolution. Members of both sides of ...

  • Up The Creek

    Deflation has spread to every sector of the economy; retail, travel, luxury items, autos, building supplies, home furnishings, electronics. No business has been spared. The C.P.I. inflation-gauge has slipped into negative territory and is now at -2.1 percent. Prices are headed down and spending is ...

  • Obama's Imperative in Afghanistan: OUT!

    Mr. President, you cannot continue this wretched, dishonest, disastrous war. If you do, your legacy will be poisoned by its obscene history. George W. Bush was planning and mobilizing his attack on Afghanistan as early as March of 2001, some six months prior to the horrors of 9/11. The Afghan war, ...

  • America: Like a monkey with its hand in a trap

    There are four things that human beings must have in order to survive. They need air, food and water for sure -- but also they need to feel good about themselves. So if you tell people bad things about themselves, then they are not going to like you because you are creating a life-threatening situ ...

Ten Percent

  • Why We’re All Going To Die

    Because growth-Â FTSE 100 closes above 5000 for first time in almost a year !!!!!! Woohoo!!!!!!-is still the measure of whether things are going well or not. If this ‘crisis’ didn’t teach us anything then only mass die offs will. Boy, I’m chirpy. Cassandras debate. Then that weird airport ...

  • Lost Compass

    No sense of direction… Labour is in serious danger of drifting into opposition, influential backbench MP Jon Cruddas has warned the party. He was joined on the platform by the former work and pensions secretary, James Purnell, While talk of the pair forming a “dream ticket” in any future Labou ...

  • Tribalism & Fear Mongering In The Media Part. 194

    And deference to official sources of course. Notice a Neo Nazi is not said to be part of a global movement that lurks everywhere (although they do mention his admiration of other right wing terrorists but it is as an individual, as a fan) Islamic fundamentalists always have their wider ambitions emp ...

  • Crisis is Over!

    Because the rich got our money and they are now driving down labour costs, subsidised by government, ie. your money again. Oh it’s almost funny. Mission Accomplished The number of working Americans turning to free government food stamps has surged as their hours and wages erode, in a stark sign th ...

  • American Remake

    More troops deployed now than the Soviets ever had- Compare the propaganda.

Paul Krugman

  • The speech

    Maybe this is all it takes to turn the tide.

  • Why the public option matters

    What is one to make of the practical, political argument that any public plan actually included in legislation probably wouldn't make that much difference, and that reform is worth having even without such a plan?

  • Hoping for audacity

    President Obama will give his big health-care speech tomorrow. Let's hope he does it right.

  • A few notes on my magazine article

    A few notes on my big state-of-economics piece.

  • The purpose of stimulus

    The purpose of stimulus is, first and foremost, to mitigate unemployment.

No Quarter

  • Barack’s Bullshit Healthcare Bamboozlement

    What garbage!!! Oh, it was smooth. It had some soaring rhetoric. But we’ve seen this tap dance before. The most egregious is his utter nonsense about “working with Republicans.” Sorry, Barry, but if you meant what you said then you would not have convened a Democrats only meeting at the [ ...

  • Join Us To Live Blog Obama’s Health Scare Speech ...

    We’re posting this open thread aka “live blog” thread early so that you can begin to weigh in on any leaks you’ve heard about what Obama’s speech will focus on as well as what the pundits are predicting. Besides what Obama says, we’ll all be on the lookout as the cameras pan the members ...

  • Obama Supporter Camille Paglia Roasts President an ...

    Camille Paglia’s article in Salon, Too late for Obama to turn it around? is a scathing assessment which drips disappointment and dare I say it, a sense of betrayal. Most surprising is that eight months after Obama’s inauguration, this accomplished writer has arrived at the same place most of us ...

  • Keep One Hand on Your Wallet

    With President Obama set to speak before congress tonight on health care, it seemed an opportune time to look back over some of the key players and the money issues they bring to the health care table. Insurers - Insuring for the Bottom Line: Back in June, the House subcommittee on Energy and Comm ...

  • Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Media Beats The War ...

    President Barack Obama is currently facing the most two important decisions of his young presidency. On Wednesday, we will learn whether he has the intestinal fortitude to fight for real change in reforming the nation’s health care system. And later this month, we will learn whether he will commit ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Therapy News

  • Family Conflicts May Cause Adolescent Headaches

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Headaches aren’t typically considered to be major health problems, but in some cases, they can have a significantly negative impact on quality of life and general happiness. Looking for ways to reduce toe prevalence of headaches naturally involves exploring their cau ...

  • America’s First Internet Addiction Center Opens

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Internet addiction may seem like a slippery slope to many who use the internet for working and engaging in social interactions, but some people may experience a strong tendency to crave internet and computer use to a debilitating degree. To address this issue, an inte ...

  • Austin’s Homeless Receive Care, Discuss Future M ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The healthcare issues in the United States have grown especially heated in recent months as the administration works towards introducing new policies that may bring about significant changes in the way the country’s citizens receive both physical and mental care. Whi ...

  • Greater Understanding Needed for Sensitive Claims ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline For victims of traumatic events such as rape, discussing memories, thoughts, and feelings with a mental health professional can be extraordinarily difficult, and may require that a great deal of trust be build and maintained in order to create the right atmosphere for ...

  • Study Suggests Men Experience Earlier Onset of OCD

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a mental health concern that can create havoc in the lives of those who experience its symptoms, and the individual manifestations of the issue may vary greatly from one person to the next. The consequences tend to be similar, however; ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Poll: State Favors Health Care Reform, Mountaintop ...

    A majority of West Virginia residents favor health care reform and mountaintop removal coal mining, according to the latest polling data from Mark Blankenship Enterprises.

  • In Brief - September 10, 2009 (Cumberland Times-Ne ...

    CUMBERLAND — The 60th annual South Cumberland Halloween Parade, sponsored by the South Cumberland Business and Civic Association, is scheduled for Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. to follow the same route as in past years. Costumed mummers will be judged at 6 p.m. in Smith Park and then will lead the parade. ...

  • Four arrested in protest at local Massey HQ (The C ...

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Four people protesting Massey Energys mountaintop removal practices were arrested Wednesday after linking their arms together with plastic pipe and duct tape, briefly blocking an access road to the companys regional office in Boone C...

  • Mountaintop-removal activists arrested after endin ...

    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 ...

  • Mountaintop removal mining activists arrested afte ...

    MORGANTOWN, W.VA. — Four people protesting Massey Energy's mountaintop removal mining practices were arrested Wednesday after linking their arms together with plastic pipe and duct tape, briefly blocking a private road to a coal company office in southern West Virginia.

Memeorandum

  • Washington Sketch: Republicans Behaving Badly at O ...

    Dana Milbank / Washington Post : Washington Sketch: Republicans Behaving Badly at Obama Speech — As President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, the nation's rapidly deteriorating discourse hit yet another low. — It happened at 8:40 pm, just after the pres ...

  • Wilson apologizes: 'I let my emotions get the best ...

    CNN : Wilson apologizes: ‘I let my emotions get the best of me’ — WASHINGTON (CNN) — GOP Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina issued a statement Wednesday night apologizing for his outburst during President Obama's speech to Congress:

  • White House talking points blast Palin (Ben Smith/ ...

    Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog : White House talking points blast Palin — A source sends on the talking points the White House is circulating to allies in advance of President Obama's speech, most of them reiterating familiar themes of momentum and security. — But the White House has als ...

  • WHIP COUNT: DEMS LACK THE VOTES (Drudge Report)

    Drudge Report : WHIP COUNT: DEMS LACK THE VOTES — At least 44 more moderate Members of the Democrat Caucus have gone on the record in opposition to the current health care bill in the House, a Hill source claims. Likewise, at least 57 liberal Members of the Democrat Caucus have gone on the ...

  • O.C. Assemblyman Duvall resigns amid recorded sexu ...

    Shelby Grad / L.A. Now : O.C. Assemblyman Duvall resigns amid recorded sexual comments — Orange County Assemblyman Michael Duvall, who was caught on an open mike making sexual comments, resigned today. — “I am deeply saddened that my inappropriate comments have become a major distra ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.5, Albania

    Sunday, September 6, 2009 21:49:42 UTC Sunday, September 6, 2009 11:49:42 PM at epicenter Depth : 3.00 km (1.86 mi)

  • M 5.0, southeast of the Loyalty Islands

    Sunday, September 6, 2009 21:13:30 UTC Monday, September 7, 2009 08:13:30 AM at epicenter Depth : 51.90 km (32.25 mi)

  • M 5.0, Guam region

    Sunday, September 6, 2009 09:19:28 UTC Sunday, September 6, 2009 07:19:28 PM at epicenter Depth : 75.50 km (46.91 mi)

  • M 5.9, Kuril Islands

    Thursday, September 10, 2009 02:46:52 UTC Thursday, September 10, 2009 02:46:52 PM at epicenter Depth : 58.30 km (36.23 mi)

  • M 5.1, northern Qinghai, China

    Thursday, September 10, 2009 00:20:12 UTC Thursday, September 10, 2009 08:20:12 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

  • The season of dread returns

    Decades of deforestation left Haiti defenceless against last year’s catastrophic hurricanes. But the Caribbean island hopes attempts to save it from the storms will save lives this year, Suzanne Goldenberg reports. The flood waters were washing cows out to sea and spitting up boulders as if they w ...

  • A national team for the climate

    How could China – and other developing nations – consolidate a response to the climate-change crisis? Qiu Dengke interviews Li Lailai, of the Stockholm Environment Institute. [Produced in association with Rutgers Climate and Social Policy Initiative ] Li Lailai is deputy director of the Stoc ...

  • Staying afloat

    Can the global shipping industry increase its efficiency and reduce its contribution to global warming? Arthur Bowring explores the issues. International shipping is the servant of international trade; ships carry an estimated 90% of world trade. Admiral EE Mitropoulos, secretary-general of the Inte ...

  • Taking the toad’s-eye view

    Dipak Gyawali, former water minister of Nepal, explains how to approach Himalayan climate-change science from the grass-roots level. Interview by Isabel Hilton. Dipak Gyawali is a former minister of water resources in Nepal and research director of the Nepal Water Conservation Foundation. Here he te ...

  • Geoengineering: do we intervene?

    A major study published today in the United Kingdom asks what role proposed geoengineering technologies could play in regulating the climate. Tan Copsey spoke to one of its contributors, Ken Caldeira. As part of a series for chinadialogue that examines the environmental and political arguments aroun ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Feds Crack ‘Rabid Neurosis’ Pre-Release Piracy ...

    Four high-level members of a pre-release music piracy group, “Rabid Neurosis,” including one of its leaders, were indicted on criminal copyright infringement charges Wednesday. The indictment (.pdf) brings to six the number of alleged Rabid Neurosis defendants ensnared in what the authorities ar ...

  • ‘Anonymous’ Declares War on Australia Over Int ...

    “Anonymous” has struck again — this time declaring war on Australia. Hackers identifying themselves as “Anonymous” launched a denial-of-service attack Wednesday against a web site for Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to protest a government proposal to filter internet content, accord ...

  • Today Show’s Dan Brown Clue Leads to De Vious Co ...

    It’s the shocking mystery hidden for a millennium: What will Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown’s next book be about? But, beware, truth seekers: chasing the latest clues to the upcoming novel The Lost Symbol could expose you to a vast and secret conspiracy that’s been manipulating Google search ...

  • NSA-Intercepted E-Mails Helped Convict Would-Be Bo ...

    The three men convicted in the United Kingdom on Monday of a plot to bomb several transcontinental flights were prosecuted in part using crucial e-mail correspondences intercepted by the U.S. National Security Agency, according to Britain’s Channel 4. The e-mails, several of which have been repri ...

  • ‘Google Books’ Plan Hits Privacy Snag

    Opposition to the pending “Google Books” settlement took a turn Tuesday as civil rights groups told a federal court that the pending plan to digitize millions of books threatens readers’ privacy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Samuelson Law, Tech ...

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Godspace

  • A Year in the Life of MSA

    Every year, we devote one issue of the MSA ezine, the Seed Sampler to the happenings at MSA. The other issues are all about what other people are doing to address the urgent challenges of our times. Some great stuff has been happening here: a fantastic Celtic Prayer Retreat, hands-on gardening work ...

  • The Spiritual Practice of Lament

    The post below was sent to me by Tracy Byrd Dickerson who describes herself as a lover of Jesus, wife of a fabulous husband, mother to two great guys, hospice nurse, seminarian, celebrant of life abundant. She blogs at Nacreous Kingdom In studying the Psalms for a seminary class, I was once again ...

  • The Causes of Our Times

    I am getting ready to speak at the West Coast Healthcare Missions Conference this next week and have been updating some of my statistics and presentations. As usual this kind of preparation challenges me again to look at the needs of our world and to grapple with how my life can make a difference ...

  • Spiritual Practices For Sitting in Front of the Sc ...

    At the end of last week I said that I was adding what would probably be the last post in the What is a Spiritual Practice series. Â However I continue to receive posts and will continue to add new ones that I receive. Today’s post cones from Lynne Baab. Â Lynne has written several books on spi ...

  • What Are the Top Christian Blogs?

    I just discovered that I am listed amongst the Top 100 Christian blogs according to Kent Shaffer at Church Relevance. Just snuck in at 87th. It is an interesting list which you might like to check out and I appreciate the incredible amount of work that Kent has done to put this together. I hav ...

Equality Trust

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #0102

    NSA helped UK arrest convicted bomb plotters. Bush Administration tried to alter "enforced disappearances" international treaty standards.

  • Norwegians sentenced to death for “spying” in ...

    Two Norwegian citizens were sentenced to death yesterday by a Congolese military court for arms smuggling, murder, attempted murder and spying for the Norwegian government.

  • News you may have missed #0101

    Red Army Faction member was on German spy service payroll. A.Q. Khan tells all about Pakistani nuclear program. Pakistanis worried about US embassy expansion.

  • Lost notebook reveals plans for New Zealand spy ag ...

    Plans for a possible radical reshuffling of New Zealand’s intelligence infrastructure were revealed yesterday, with the discovery of a notebook belonging to a government official. The notebook was dropped on a busy Wellington street by an employee of New Zealand’s Treasury Department, who was re ...

  • News you may have missed #0100

    Iran says US is forging nuclear intelligence. Pakistanis call for intelligence dialogue with India. US official was investigated for espionage.

PsyBlog

  • Sit Up Straight! Be Confident!

    · New study finds slouchers make less confident self-evaluations. At school all the cool kids were slouchers. No one wanted to be seen sitting up straight, paying attention or, heaven forbid making an effort to learn. It was only the geeks in the front row, hoovering up all that useless knowledg ...

  • How Groups Form, Conform, Then Warp Our Decision-M ...

    · Discover the essentials of group psychology. When we're in a group other people have an incredibly powerful effect on us. Groups can kill our creativity, inspire us to work harder, allow us to slack off, skew our decision-making and make us clam up. The keys to understanding human behaviour—ou ...

  • Group Polarization: The Trend to Extreme Decisions

    Say you put 10 people in a room and asked them to design a car. Would they design something average or something wacky? Would they be more likely to come up with the Ford Focus or 'The Homer', designed by Homer Simpson in this classic episode of The Simpsons? To help you decide, it's [...] » Try ...

  • 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 ...

After Downing Street.org

  • No Photo Necessary

  • We Want "Economic Opportunity & An End to Corrupt ...

    We want "Economic Opportunity & an End to Corrupt Politics" - PETITION NOW! We hope summer's been good. Now, we need to deal with our economy's seat of power, the Federal Reserve, which is in line to get more powers fron Congress that they have shown they will abuse. The Fed didn't protect us when t ...

  • A Threat to Fair Elections

    A Threat to Fair Elections | NYTimes Editorial The Supreme Court may be about to radically change politics by striking down the longstanding rule that says corporations cannot spend directly on federal elections. If the floodgates open, money from big business could overwhelm the electoral process, ...

  • Will Court Surrender Democracy To Corporate Intere ...

    Will court surrender democracy to corporate interests? By E. J. Dionne, Jr. | SF Chronicle President Obama's health care speech on Wednesday will be only the second most consequential political moment of the week. Judged by the standard of an event's potential long-term impact on our public life, ...

  • Why Are John Ashcroft And John Yoo Being Sued In C ...

    Why are John Ashcroft and John Yoo being sued in civil court? By Carl Herman | Examiner.com John Ashcroft was Attorney General of the United States from 2001 to 2005. John Yoo was the author of legal opinions for the White House and Mr. Ashcroft in his work for the Office of Legal Counsel from 2001 ...

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  • Jackson Family Upset Over MJ Charities

    Filed under: Exclusives Michael Jackson's family is upset over the charities that are supposed to get 20% of Michael's estate -- that's what family sources tell TMZ.Here's the deal -- the family's concern is premature. No charities have been picked yet and no money will be ... Permalink

  • Neverland Owners Make Trademark Move

    Filed under: Michael Jackson The company that owns Neverland Ranch hasn't gotten permission to turn Michael Jackson's old stomping grounds into a tourist attraction -- but they just filed a bunch of trademarks with the U.S. Patent Office just in case they do.We just got our ... Permalink

  • APSI 100 GPS packs removable PMP, can't be removed ...

    GPS devices have been packing full PMP functionality for quite some time now, but few have come up with the bright idea of using an actual, removable PMP for the heart of the unit -- although Apple and TomTom are now doing their best attempt at a one-two punch . Korean manufacturer APSI now made it ...

  • Commodities Priced in Dollars Continue to Produce ...

    We have received a number of comments regarding the recent post called " No shortage of those who want to see the dollar lower " that points to the fact that numerous parties, particularly the commodity producers, would love to see the dollar lower. Many readers however argue that because commoditie ...

  • Commercial Real Estate Loan Market Facing Two Nast ...

    The commercial real estate loan market is facing two nasty headwinds. The first one, which is more visible, is the maturity wall of commercial mortgages (many of which have been securitized via CMBS). Concentrated maturities with balloon type principal payments will make it that much more difficul ...

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Washington Independent

  • Top Dems Renew Call for Cramdown

    The White House program designed to prevent foreclosures by paying banks to alter loans voluntarily isn't doing nearly enough to keep struggling borrowers in their homes, several powerful Democrats charged Wednesday.

  • A Passionate Appeal to Salvage the Impossible

    Parts political reprimand and parts pragmatic entreaty, President Obama on Wednesday urged congressional lawmakers from both parties to put away the partisan bickering for the sake of salvaging a plan for health reform this year. Appearing before a joint session of Congress for the first time since ...

  • Rep. Joe Wilson Unearths Secret Plot to Provide Il ...

    I guess Rep. “Joe” Wilson (R-S.C.) — actually, Addison Graves Wilson, Sr. — found out about that secret Democratic plot to provide all illegal immigrants with free health care. What else could explain his outburst — “You Lie!” — during President Obama’s speech on health care reform ...

  • He Tried to Warn Us!

    Rep. Joe “you lie!” Wilson (R-S.C.), on Twitter, Sept. 7: – You can follow TWI on Twitter and Facebook.

  • Obama Promises Tort Reform

    Among the many facets of the broad health care reform plan that President Obama offered tonight during a speech before a joint session of Congress was a small but shiny bone for Republicans: tort reform. “I don’t believe malpractice reform is a silver bullet, but I’ve talked to enough do ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Common sense would cost a lot less than 'health an ...

    There are days when you wake up in the morning and think the world has gone entirely mad. I felt like that when I heard that hanging baskets are a hazard to health and safety - and that local authorities think that 24 hours constitutes reasonable notice Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbeat ...

  • Association Criticises GE Trees for Ethanol

    US - The Soil & Health Association is calling for a ban on New Zealand exports of genetically engineered (GE) organisms used to create ethanol. The intended growing in the United States of 260,000 GE eucalyptus trees from New Zealand has been described Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Green Lif ...

  • A Critical Moment in Influenza’s History

    We begin with a visceral abomination. We recoil at the sight of these chickens bred for baldness. But we recoil for reasons other than those for flinching at mystery meats, for instance. We’re repulsed by the meat because we can’t connect our food to some Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Socie ...

  • In Brazil, Paying Farmers to Let the Trees Stand

    QUERENCIA, Brazil — José Marcolini, a farmer here, has a permit from the Brazilian government to raze 12,500 acres of rain forest this year to create highly profitable new soy fields. But he says he is struggling with his conscience. Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business | Note-it! ...

  • Young Arctic Muskoxen Better At Keeping Warm Than ...

    A new study finds that young muskoxen conserve heat almost as well as adults, a finding that runs contrary to a longstanding assumption among scientists that young animals should be more vulnerable in extreme cold. The study, by biologist Adam Munn from Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Animals ...

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 ...

  • Your vote is a covenant and you don’t REALLY ...

    Flag wavers may sit this one out. Your vote is a covenant that keeps you locked into this 3D movie. You and I have no idea who these people are. You have been brainwashed to believe a bunch of hogwash. There is a much larger reason they want you to vote, than you have been [...]

  • See for yourself: Which number represents Jesus Ch ...

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