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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, September 11, 2009

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  • Russia says Iran proposals something to work with

    Summary: MOSCOW (Reuters) ? Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday Iran’s proposals to world powers could be a basis for negotiations and he ruled out imposing oil sanctions over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. source: Reutersread more

  • US Dismisses Iran?s Latest Diplomatic Proposals

    Summary: Russia Says Proposals Could Be Basis for Negotiations, Opposes Sanctions source: Anti War.Comread more

  • Full text of Iran’s proposal to P5+1

    Summary: Iran has provided a package of proposals to the group of 5+1 on Cooperation for Peace, Justice and Progress. source: CASMIIread more

  • Iran Proposes Control System Aimed at Eliminating ...

    Summary: TEHRAN, Sept. 10—Iran is not prepared to discuss halting its uranium enrichment program in response to Western demands but is proposing instead a worldwide control system aimed at eliminating nuclear weapons, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s top political aide said in an interview Thurs ...

  • Thatcher Did Not Want Germany Unified

    Rogue Government.com

  • Pregnant Women To Participate In Trial Of Swine F ...

    Pregnant women this week will offer up their arms for the start of the latest trial of a new swine flu vaccine, the government said Wednesday.

  • Millions Of Foreclosures To Come

    Only 12 percent of U.S. homeowners eligible for loan modifications under the Obama administration's housing rescue plan have had their mortgages reworked, and millions more foreclosures are coming, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.

  • ID Cards A New Layer Of Compulsion

    A week or two away from the land of surveillance and you realise what a very strange place Britain has become. On my return from holiday I understood one frightening truth, which is that surveillance systems and databases have become as much a part of the country's infrastructure as the road or rai ...

  • A year after financial crisis, a new world order ...

    One year after the near collapse of the global financial system , this much is clear: The financial world as we knew it is over, and something new is rising from its ashes.

  • Museum Scours World For New Videos Of 9/11 Attack ...

    A camera in Brooklyn points through a chain-link fence at black smoke pouring from one skyscraper, while a plane pierces another. Papers fly through the sky; some of them end up in the filmmakers' hands.

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

  • Another legacy of war: Iraqis losing faith in publ ...

    Iraqi parents who're fed up with corrupt teachers and neglected public schools are sending their kids to a place that Saddam Hussein banned: private school. Six years ago, before the U.S.-led invasion ousted Saddam's dictatorship, the country didn't have a single private school. Over the past two y ...

  • US Girl Scouts prepare for war, pestilence

    The United States wants to enlist its 3.4 million Girl Scouts in the effort to combat hurricanes, pandemics, terror attacks and other disasters. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched a campaign Tuesday to entice the blue, brown and green-clad multitudes to be even more prepared, with t ...

  • Canada: Grizzlies starve as salmon disappear

    First the salmon vanished, now the bears may be gone too. Reports from conservationists, salmon-stream walkers and ecotourism guides all along British Columbia's wild central coast indicate a collapse of salmon runs has triggered widespread death from starvation of black and grizzly bears. Those gu ...

  • Why Are Native Ladybugs Disappearing?

    Researchers in New York are breeding colonies of ladybugs from those found by scientists in Oregon and Colorado during a year-long search. Last year, entomologist John Losey from Cornell University first introduced the Lost Ladybug Project in an attempt to find out why the once-common native ladybu ...

  • Are wheat varieties losing disease resistance?

    Questions of whether old reliable wheat varieties are losing their resistance to common diseases continue to pop up as growers in the upper Southeast begin getting ready for wheat planting. It has been widely reported that sister varieties Tribute and McCormick have had increasing problems with pow ...

Threat Level

  • Vote: What’s Next for The Pirate Bay?

    Thursday’s de-listing from a Swedish stock exchange of The Pirate Bay’s corporate suitor is likely to scuttle the planned $8.5 million purchase of the world’s most notorious BitTorrent site. The removal of GGF from the AktieTorget exchange was based, in large part, on the exchange’s findings ...

  • Pirate Bay Purchase Sinking

    The company planning to purchase The Pirate Bay was de-listed from its Swedish stock exchange after concluding Thursday it duped investors and regulators in the $8.5 million deal. Threat Level has repeatedly questioned Global Gaming Factory’s intentions of turning the world’s most notorious BitT ...

  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Bad Medicine of the Republican Doctors

    When the GOP trotted out the hapless Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA) to deliver the response to President Obama, the former cardiologist became just the latest Republican physician deployed to halt health care reform. As it turns out, the repentant Birther...

  • 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...

Blackspot News Feed

  • grass-covered overpass

    One of Winy Maas’s too-cool-to-come-true projects. via LedgerGerm | megan may

  • Sibel Edmonds, Ray McGovern & Ernest Hancock inter ...

    by Brad FriedmanThe BRAD BLOGSept 10, 2009My week of guest hosting the The Mike Malloy Show LIVE from Los Angeles continues, and we’ve got a big show tonight, including the first airing of extended clips from the stunning recent deposition of formerly-gagged FBI translator turned whistleblower Sib ...

  • Departure

    Photo by SvenFennema, link via imgfave.com.

  • Dandelion Rubber? Researchers Make Russian Dandeli ...

    ScienceDailySep. 11, 2009Most natural rubber comes from rubber trees in Southeast Asia, but this source is now under threat from a fungus. Researchers have optimized the Russian dandelion to make it suitable for large-scale rubber production.Anyone who has picked dandelions as a child will be famili ...

  • How 9/11 Should Be Remembered: The Extraordinary A ...

    After 9/11, saw amazing acts of courage by ordinary people, including assembled flotilla of boats evacuated 300,000 to 500,000 people from lower Manhattan.

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

  • King Williams Parade Pics 051 [Flickr]

    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

  • Don’t Get Rolled Rally: Austin Update

    Earlier this week, Public Citizen hosted a rally at the state capitol to raise awareness about the U.S. Supreme Court re-hearing Wednesday of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Representatives from Common Cause and Clean Elections Texas joined us, despite the rain and ominous weather. ...

  • King Williams Parade Pics 062 [Flickr]

    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

  • Hutchison Takes “Head in the Hot Sand” Approac ...

    Check out our editorial in the Round Rock Leader, in response to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s piece “Cap and Trade is No Good For Texas”: A rebuttal to Sen. Hutchison’s piece concerning Cap and Trade policies By ANDY WILSON Special to the Leader United States Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison takes a ...

  • 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 ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap

    Rep. Joe Wilson has a long history of embarrassing racism He was one of the South Carolina douche bags who fought like hell to keep the Confederate Battle Flag flying over the statehouse dome. I still maintain his mother is either mortified or a horrid woman with no childrearing skills at all. Preg ...

  • Last night's White House blogger conference call w ...

    Cross posted from Show Me Progress After President Obama's address to the joint session of Congress last night the White House hosted a blogger conference call with Dan Pfeiffer, the Deputy Communications Director. He made a short opening statement then took questions for about twenty minutes. Blue ...

  • Penrose On Politics: Obama Trance

  • Like Frustrated Toddlers

    David Kurtz at Talking Points Memo brings us a longtime reader's insight into the impenetrable poison behind Joe Wilson's outburst last night. Wilson's outburst reflects something deeper. One recurrent theme of extremist assaults on the president has been the deep, visceral conviction that he's hidi ...

  • Welcome To The Third World

    Found the link to the following at C&L. If ever you wanted a prime example of the hypocrisy that rules our political system today ust one line in the following excerpt epitomizes it. I highlighted it because it's easy to miss. Majikthise: Tea bagger bus company sued over blaze that killed 23 senior ...

Care 2

  • Awesome One Dollar Paper Carving Art

    Really impressive what people can do with One Dollar Submitted by Dino S. to Offbeat | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Usain Bolt has got competition... Sarah the cheeta ...

    The spotted creature took to a specially designed 100m race course at at Cincinnati Zoo's Regional Cheetah Breeding Facility in America yesterday to take part in the run. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Adopt-a-Pet: Maximus the Labrador-corgi mix

    Maximus' owners surrendered him at the shelter on Aug. 12, and, adorably strange-looking as he is, he's yet to find a new home. He's still young -- about a year old, give or take -- and is affectionate, playful and full of life, according to the shelter Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it ...

  • Get the Facts on Dog Racing in NH

    Over the summer months, we have been hard at work on several important research projects. One result is a new fact sheet on the History of Greyhound Racing in New Hampshire, now available on our web site. If you have ever wondered how dog racing first Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! ...

  • EU bans Maltese bird hunt

    Malta has finally been forced to comply with European bird protection laws, following a landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice which has declared that Malta has been breaching European law by allowing the spring hunting of quail and turtle Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | ...

GreenBiz

  • Asia Pulp & Paper Sets Sustainability as a Require ...

    At a summit of global paper industry leaders, Asia Pulp & Paper announced a commitment to halt expansion of its pulp-processing facilities until it finds a source for sustainably produced materials. At the same time the Forest Disclosure Project has announced the next step in developing its first an ...

  • 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.

Reuters Global

Ezra Klein

  • The Rise of Wal-Mart

    Harold Meyerson tells us a story : Around the time that the young Sam Walton opened his first stores, John Kennedy redeemed a presidential campaign promise by persuading Congress to extend the minimum wage to retail workers, who had until then not been covered by the law. Congress granted an exclus ...

  • The New Bipartisanship

    Thinking about President Obama's speech on Wednesday night with a bit more distance, the address now strikes me as an effort to unravel a fairly new problem: what does bipartisanship look like with only one party participating? It won't look like the bipartisanship of yore. Even a real effort to at ...

  • Tab Dump

    • Leon Wieseltier has some very nice lines in this attack on the ethos behind the New York Times Magazine. That said, that ethos doesn't really describe the NYTM that well. • Don't look now, but the public plan(s) are winning. • Andrew Gelman questions Robert Moses's legacy. • Michael Pol ...

  • Joe Wilson Too Crude Even For The Brits

    Lots of people -- myself included -- have been comparing Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst to the chaos that reigns in Britain's House of Commons. But according to Andrew Sullivan, even the House of Commons has some minimum standards of decency . [O]ne thing you are not allowed to shout in the Commons is ...

  • A Conversation With John Dingell Jr.

    On Wednesday night, Barack Obama opened his speech by invoking Rep. John Dingell Sr., who served in Congress from 1933 to 1955 and fought a long battle to create a universal health-care system. His son, John Dingell Jr., now holds that congressional seat, and reintroduces his father's bill year af ...

Booman Tribune

  • The Wingnut View of Climate Change

    I recently had the following email exchange with a dyed in the wool conservative friend of mine about climate change and I thought I'd pass it along for what it's worth.* Teabagging Friend: Global warming? A damn hoax. A conspiracy by a bunch of leftist tree hugging junk scientists. Just igno ...

  • Casual Observation

    If there is anything that can bring about bipartisanship in Washington, it's Afghanistan. It's clear from comments made this week by Carl Levin and Nancy Pelosi that Obama doesn't have automatic support for additional troop increases in Afghanistan. If he asks for more troops, he'll have to rely o ...

  • Open Thread

    What have you learned over the last 24 hours?

  • Tricky Health Policy on Undocumented Workers

    When it comes to the question of illegal immigrants receiving health care, passions can run high. There are a lot of considerations. Basic humanity, as well as the hippocratic oath, requires doctors to treat patients in need of urgent or life-sustaining care. It doesn't matter if they can pay for ...

  • Congress Is For Grown-Ups Only

    I didn't see the president's speech on health care reform last night, because it fell right in the middle of the kids' bedtime. I read about it afterwards. But I couldn't believe this until I'd seen it myself. It happened at 8:40 pm, just after the president vowed to lawmakers that his health-care ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Your Warren Ellis moment for the week: snorting st ...

    Medical boffins looking for the best way to deliver therapeutic stem cell treatments to the brain have come up with something that sounds like a Spider Jerusalem habit: snorting stem cells into the nose like cheap speed. Other options all have their drawbacks. Drilling through the skull and injectin ...

  • Exoskeletons now available to rent

    If you’ve got some protracted heavy lifting to do in your garden, or if you just fancy indulging that long-running fantasy of re-enacting the cargo-lifter vs. alien queen deathmatch from the last bit of Aliens, then boy do I have some good news for you. Remember the ‘HAL’ agricultural exoskele ...

  • First bot with a human brain?

    OK, so it won’t be a whole human brain… but two researchers at the University of Warwick Reading 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 th ...

  • Get your Flurb on – Rudy Rucker’s webzine reac ...

    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 ...

  • Exoskeletons now available to rent

    If you’ve got some protracted heavy lifting to do in your garden, or if you just fancy indulging that long-running fantasy of re-enacting the cargo-lifter vs. alien queen deathmatch from the last bit of Aliens, then boy do I have some good news for you. Remember the ‘HAL’ agricultural exoskele ...

Therapy News

  • Adult Depression and Childhood Abuse

    By Roni Weisberg-Ross L.M.F.T. Over the years I’ve discovered that a significant proportion of adult clients who present with depression have a history of childhood abuse. The abuse may have been sexual, physical and/or emotional. At first I attributed this to the fact that I specialize in abuse a ...

  • Aggressive Children May Stem from Controlling Pare ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The idea that aggression, both physical and emotional, arises in children from their observations of the methods used by their parents is fairly common, the need for greater research into the paths by which youths develop their behaviors is clear. In an effort to bette ...

  • Short-Term Stress May Boost Immune System

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Negative associations with stress are frequently observed; continuous exposure or the experience of high amounts of stress can lead to considerable difficulties in both mental and physical health. That may not be the case for all types of stress and stress-causing eve ...

  • Youth Reach Out to Aid Those Who Self-Harm

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The process of delivering self-harm, whether in the form of cutting, burning, abstaining from food, or any number of individual manifestations, can present difficult challenges for young people and their families. Often developed as a way to cope with mental health is ...

  • 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

Memeorandum

  • COVERAGE IN THE UNITED STATES: 2008 (U.S. Census B ...

    U.S. Census Bureau News : COVERAGE IN THE UNITED STATES: 2008 — The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that real median household income in the United States fell 3.6 percent between 2007 and 2008, from $52,163 to $50,303. This breaks a string of three years of annual income increases and ...

  • Obama's Big Speech: Triangulation + Airbrushed Ors ...

    Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles : Obama's Big Speech: Triangulation + Airbrushed Orszagism — Expectations: Low! ... Expectations: Exceeded. A moderately effective speech. ... 1) Triangulation: Almost always works! Obama pushed off, most notably, against single payer but also against Dems who ...

  • Sector Snap: Insurers gain ground after speech (As ...

    Associated Press : Sector Snap: Insurers gain ground after speech — NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of health insurers gained some ground Thursday after President Barack Obama reaffirmed his commitment to reforming the health care system in a televised speech to a joint session of Congress.

  • SCGOP calls for Sanford's resignation (Adam Fogle/ ...

    Adam Fogle / The Palmetto Scoop : SCGOP calls for Sanford's resignation — OVER 2/3 OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SAID DISGRACED GOVERNOR SHOULD GO — The tide of support from his own Republican Party officially turned against disgraced Gov. Mark Sanford Thursday as the South Carolina GOP call ...

  • Obama's Big Political Gamble (Karl Rove/Wall Stree ...

    Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal : Obama's Big Political Gamble — Red-state Democrats are being asked to risk their seats. — Printer — Friendly — Millions of Americans watched President Barack Obama's speech last night to a joint session of Congress. Much of it was famili ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.7, Kuril Islands

    Friday, September 11, 2009 08:49:12 UTC Friday, September 11, 2009 08:49:12 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)

  • M 5.9, Georgia (Sak'art'velo)

    Monday, September 7, 2009 22:41:37 UTC Tuesday, September 8, 2009 03:41:37 AM at epicenter Depth : 15.00 km (9.32 mi)

  • M 5.0, Hokkaido, Japan region

    Monday, September 7, 2009 16:24:27 UTC Tuesday, September 8, 2009 01:24:27 AM at epicenter Depth : 71.00 km (44.12 mi)

  • M 5.3, Easter Island region

    Thursday, September 10, 2009 23:31:24 UTC Thursday, September 10, 2009 04:31:24 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

  • M 5.1, Easter Island region

    Thursday, September 10, 2009 23:35:25 UTC Thursday, September 10, 2009 04:35:25 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Understanding the energy challenge

    China needs low-carbon development to ensure its energy security. In this effort, writes Lin Boqiang, the country could become a model for other developing nations. [Produced in association with Rutgers Climate and Social Policy Initiative ] China needs a low-carbon economy not only to meet the ...

  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Vote: What’s Next for The Pirate Bay?

    Thursday’s de-listing from a Swedish stock exchange of The Pirate Bay’s corporate suitor is likely to scuttle the planned $8.5 million purchase of the world’s most notorious BitTorrent site. The removal of GGF from the AktieTorget exchange was based, in large part, on the exchange’s findings ...

  • Pirate Bay Purchase Sinking

    The company planning to purchase The Pirate Bay was de-listed from its Swedish stock exchange after concluding Thursday it duped investors and regulators in the $8.5 million deal. Threat Level has repeatedly questioned Global Gaming Factory’s intentions of turning the world’s most notorious BitT ...

  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Police free 9 from fake Big Brother house

    ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Nine women tricked into thinking they were reality TV show contestants and lured into an Istanbul villa were rescued by Turkish military police after two months confinement, a police spokesman said Thursday.

  • U.S. government nervous about stimulus fraud, scam ...

    WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - As billions of dollars from the economic stimulus plan pour through the U.S. economy, members of Congress, the administration and regulatory agencies are increasingly worried about the risks of fraud.

  • Beckinsale wipes out with "Whiteout"

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Kate Beckinsale has to be one of the most schizoid actors working. She careens from arty dramas like "Snow Angels" to schlock like the "Underworld" vampire series.

  • Brazil's tight bank rules a blessing in disguise

    BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's stringent banking sector rules, once seen as burdensome, are suddenly being viewed as admirable as the Group of 20 nations look to fortify financial institutions against future crises.

  • UPDATE 1-Tax authorities raid Argentina's biggest ...

    * Clarin would be hurt by proposed media reforms (Recasts, adds reaction, adds byline)

Godspace

  • The Spirituality of the Long Distance Runner

    I had not intended to add another post today but just came across this one written by Steve Fouch in response to the What is a Spiritual Practice challenge. I thought that some of you would find it as interesting as I did. He describes himself as an average father, working at an average job, lo ...

  • What Do We do With All the Tomatoes?

    Yesterday I posted a twitter update that read “Enjoying the aroma of drying tomatoes.” Â Unfortunately some of my facebook friends interpreted that as “dying tomatoes” Â and so there have been a few rather pointed comments about the state of my garden. Â That of course made me realize ...

  • A Year in the Life of MSA

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  • 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 ...

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    Campaigners in support of the release of a group of Cuban government agents jailed in the US have sued the US government for allegedly influencing media coverage of the trial by paying journalists in Miami.

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

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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • Brainstorming Reloaded

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    John Gorman, the former ArmorGroup Kabul project manager turned whistleblower whose allegations against the company I wrote about yesterday, met with aides to Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) in 2007 to share with the Government Affairs Committee chairman his account of widespread fraud with the company ...

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  • A Critical Moment in Influenza’s History

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Why Organic

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    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 [...]

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  • 1918 Influenza: A Treatment That Worked

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    By F. William Engdahl It is not any alleged “Swine Flu” or H1N1 “virus” that is the danger to the lives of our loved ones, our children, our pregnant mothers. We are being literally panicked by WHO, CDC, the US Government and uncritical mass media into demanding what amounts to legalized ...

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    Melissa Sweet The Australian government’s impending programme of vaccination against H1N1 flu has been criticised by some professional groups that have raised concerns about potential risks. The Australian Infection Control Association this week warned the government against proceeding with the ...

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  • Association Criticises GE Trees for Ethanol

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  • General Motors to Try Selling New Cars on eBay

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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Pakistan arrests Taliban in Swat - Aljazeera.net

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    www.worldbulletin.net Pakistan arrests Taliban spokesman Khan in Swat www.worldbulletin.net Pakistani security forces have arrested the spokesman of the Taliban in the Swat valley, the military said. Pakistani security forces have arrested the ... and more »

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    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 ...

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Scoop - NZ

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  • Stan Goff: Obamaa4™s War & the Game

    President Barack Obama is now under seige by a vocal right-wing - and I'll name it, racist - attack. The glaring absence of traditional forms of respect for opponents by leaders of the right wing (disruptions, swastikas, guns) is an intentional tactic of incremental dehumanization (a refusal of reco ...

  • 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 ...

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  • The children of 9/11 on the frontline

    Eight years ago today 2,974 died in the September 11 attacks. It led the western world into a war on terror that British and American soldiers are still battling out today. Many of Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, now stationed in the US Marines’ most remote outpost in Helmand, Afghanis ...

  • The children of 9/11

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  • Threats cancel British matador's book sessions

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  • Russia says Iran proposals something to work with

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  • Well, That's Depressing . . . .

    Reuters has this depressing bit of news following Obama's health care speech last night: Wall Street sees few surprises in Obama speech Thu Sep 10, 2009 | By Lewis Krauskopf and Susan Heavey NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shares of U.S. health insurers climbed on Thursday after analysts saw no " ...

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  • Afghanistan and the nature of hobby wars

    I'm finding it tiring to comment or even think on Afghanistan. The place is past the point of no return in the same way you and I can't go back to yesterday. A thousand thousand irreversible wrongs have been done in there, so many of which look something like this . There's are periodic utterances ...

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    On September 9, Glenn Beck said that while the media "says they're going to be talking about health care" the next day, he didn't "think so," later suggesting that a video of Baltimore ACORN employees would instead be the top story. Apparently taking their cues from Beck, through 7 p.m. the fol ...

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  • Fox & Friends advanced false suggest ...

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  • Outliers: We Stand On Guard For Thee

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TruthOut

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  • How 9/11 Should Be Remembered

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    What can the U.S. learn from health care reform in the world's most populous country? Editor's note: This is the first of a three-part series on China's attempts to reform its sprawling and troubled health care system. Kathleen E. McLaughlin and Sharron Lovell have documented the effects ...

  • For Wage-Earning Women a 21st Century Answer

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The Heathlander

  • The “British method”

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

  • ‘Israel’s Terror Inside’

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

  • A culture of fear

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

  • Fighting the fash

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

  • Silencing civil society

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

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Texas Progressive Alliance August 31, 2009

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

  • Who Will Carry The Kennedy Torch? Op Ed

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

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 24, 2009

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

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

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

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 17, 2009

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

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Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Growing hope and fighting hunger on the Gaza Strip

    Subheadline: Urban gardening as survival mechanism Previous publication: Grist Outside Link: Growing hope and fighting hunger ...

  • 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 ...

Climate

  • September 11, 2009

    US Climate Negotiator: Timing Running Out (New York Times) U.S. climate negotiator Todd Stern warned a Congressional panel that developed and developing nations remain deeply divided on plans for reducing greenhouse gases and time is running out. Australians Overtake Americans in Per Capita C ...

  • September 10, 2009

    Boxer: Climate Bill Will Include Nuclear (Wall Street Journal) Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, who will be writing key parts of the climate bill, says “there will be a nuclear title in the bill.” EU Lowers Planned Climate Funding for Poor Nations (E ...

  • 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 ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, 9/11's Living Monuments

    On September 11, 2001, a fellow New Yorker and friend of mine , a public health historian who knew instantly what the dangers were, bicycled directly into the smoke, ash, and chemicals that hung over lower Manhattan searching for his daughter whose school was only blocks away from the collapsed bu ...

  • 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 ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Obama Tries On The Uniform

    Me and Barack, we have one thing in common, I guess. We're both slow learners. Watching his long overdue speech on healthcare last night, I think maybe it's a race between the two of us to see who is the pokier. Obama seems to be slowly learning that if you're not willing to call out evil monsters ...

  • The Problem with Obama's Speech

    That was a great speech, as usual. It left people energized. It sounded like he's going to take the fight to the other guys. Obama knocks it out of the park again. So, why do I have to be bah humbug about this again? Because the speech went almost exactly as predicted. Great rhetorical flourishes, b ...

  • Reviewing President Rahm Emanuel's Health Care Spe ...

    Not to be too much of a downer, but I found Obama's speech last night a big O-bummer. Really, other than his very important reminder that "we're all in this together," it was disappointing (although that's probably not the right word, because it implies I expected something more). And remember, whil ...

  • This Living Fear: Threats against the president be ...

    Though I would like to think my country was better than this, it's clear that many Americans hate President Barack Obama for the color of his skin. Many more — though there's some overlap — hate him for being a "socialist" or "foreign" or for the simple reason that he won the presidential electi ...

  • Censorship American Style: Hide the US War Dead fr ...

    The Obama administration's freak out, as expressed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, over the Associated Press Agency's belated circulation of a photograph of a dying US soldier in Afghanistan, Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard, is the latest of example of the hypocrisy of US authorities who claim to be co ...

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

  • Mathematics and economics

    By all means let's have math in economics -- but as our servant, not our master.

  • Fetishizing free trade

    Carbon tariffs don't contradict the principle underlying free trade.

  • 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.

No Quarter

  • In Remebrance of September 11th, 2001

    Today is the 8th Anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Towers, the Pentagon, and the flight that went down near Shanksville, PA. Americans lost their lives that day, those in the Towers, those in the Pentagon, and those on that flight headed for more destruction, a mission thwarted by the b ...

  • Remembering 9-11

    [A huge thanks to Linda and Susan for help in getting this piece together.] Despite the passage of time the wounds opened on September 11, 2001 remain raw and festering. We were reminded of those events just this week with the resignation of Van Jones, who had aligned himself with those convinced t ...

  • people really do have the shortest memories…

    People are all a twitter because Joe Wilson yelled out *You Lie* last night when Obama said illegal immigrants would not be covered under his plan. But, in the very same speech, just seconds prior, Obama accuses Sarah Palin and other Republicans (and the media) of LYING. However, they have since ...

  • Want To Open A Brothel? Ask ACORN How!

    You are simply NOT going to believe this undercover discovery of just what you can get from ACORN on the Taxpayer Dime (do a search for ACORN at No Quarter for reminders about this organization,a s well as ACORN’s connections to Obama and the DNC, especially Barney Frank). Intrepid reporter James ...

  • Obama Health Care, etc.

    From a Cardiologist who practices in the midwest and, sadly, is Larry’s Brother-in-Law (sad for Tom because he has to put up with me, LJ): To me, the ‘big speech was just as scary as it has been these past weeks. Virtually all of the criticisms (from both sides of the aisle) continue to be [... ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Currently on Our Radar...

    The not-so-hidden cost of crude, Bangladesh's new green dress code, France's carbon tax and more energy and environment news from around the Web.

  • Online Tool Rates Cell Phone Radiation

    The debate over whether cell phones pose health risks is far from settled, but one environmental group has introduced an online tool for rating radio frequency radiation levels for popular handsets.

  • Habitat Teams With Utility for Energy Retrofits

    Habitat for Humanity and Exelon Corporation, one of the nation's largest utilities, to make dozens of low-income homes more energy efficient.

  • 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.

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 Gives Obama Heckler, Rep. Joe Wilson A Dos ...

    Read the full story at News Hounds Great American Hypocrite Sean Hannity – you know, the guy who accused Democrats of emboldening our enemies and undermining our troops when they criticized President Bush – has no problem with Rep. Joe Wilson, the Congressman who shouted, “You lie!” at Presi ...

  • In Their Zeal To Change Subject From Health Care T ...

    Read the full story at News Hounds As Media Matters reported, Fox News followed in lockstep with Glenn Beck in making ACORN, rather than health care, their top story of the day, yesterday (9/10/09), one day after President Obama delivered his major address on health care reform. Media Matters counte ...

  • Morocco Uses Torture to Silence Sahrawi Activists

    Read the full story at Byline Portal by Konstantina Isidoros, Pambazuka, Kenya – At 9:00 pm on Thursday 27 August, 19 year-old Nguia El Haouassi, a Sahrawi woman, a student and a human rights activist, was abducted while walking through Maatallah District in Laayoune. …

  • Green Methods Grow Better Coffee in Ethiopia

    Read the full story at Byline Portal by Brittany Schell, One World, UK – In Ethiopia, coffee growers know that what is good for the environment is also good for business. …

  • Charlie Sheen Pushes for a Real Investigation

    Charlie Sheen is pushing for a real investigation of 9/11 and pointing out that the Bush Administration’s investigation ignored key facts.  Check out his message to the President.  For more information, see this link.   If you want to know why we have to put up with cover-up ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

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Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Police free 9 from fake Big Brother house

    ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Nine women tricked into thinking they were reality TV show contestants and lured into an Istanbul villa were rescued by Turkish military police after two months confinement, a police spokesman said Thursday.

  • U.S. government nervous about stimulus fraud, scam ...

    WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - As billions of dollars from the economic stimulus plan pour through the U.S. economy, members of Congress, the administration and regulatory agencies are increasingly worried about the risks of fraud.

  • Beckinsale wipes out with "Whiteout"

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Kate Beckinsale has to be one of the most schizoid actors working. She careens from arty dramas like "Snow Angels" to schlock like the "Underworld" vampire series.

  • Brazil's tight bank rules a blessing in disguise

    BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's stringent banking sector rules, once seen as burdensome, are suddenly being viewed as admirable as the Group of 20 nations look to fortify financial institutions against future crises.

  • UPDATE 1-Tax authorities raid Argentina's biggest ...

    * Clarin would be hurt by proposed media reforms (Recasts, adds reaction, adds byline)

Pine River World News

  • Morbid Profits: Betting on life expectancy through ...

    The following perspective is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Profiting on death © World Socialist Web Site By Joe Kishore September 10, 2009 Investment banks are planning ways to bet on the life and death of individuals with life insurance policies, as described in an ar ...

  • 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 ...

    Res'Eau-WaterNet

  • Knowledge Transfer Workshop: Preliminary program p ...

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

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

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

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

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

  • Walkerton Clean Water Centre Receives Ontario Mini ...

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

  • Filling the glass

    Innovation Canada : Showcasing Research Excellence in Canada

PDA AMERICA

  • Strong Language Is Vital To Winning Back Lost Grou ...

    By Matthew Fouts | PDA Blog Contributor What did I want to hear from President Obama’s speech to the joint session of Congress? So much attention is focused on the public option; I wanted substantive details about ...

  • 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.

Marler Blog

  • China Internation Food Safety & Quality Conference ...

    I just learned that AQSIQ Minister Wang Yong has called for CIFSQ to be postponed until after the 60th anniversary of the Revolution Celebration (first week of October) is completed. The Conference is now likely to be set in late October or early November. What strikes me about this, is the power ...

  • 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

AutoblogGreen

  • Frankfurt Preview: Renault's four electric concept ...

    Filed under: Concept Cars , Frankfurt Motor Show , Coupe , Minivan/Van , Sedan , Crossover , Renault , Alternative Fuel Renault Zero Emission teaser image - Click above to enlarge A few months ago, Renault announced plans to bring three electric vehicles to the Frankfurt Motor Show : production ve ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.11.09

    How important is the appearance of a green car? Looks and efficiency. Can you have both? Frankfurt Preview: More on Toyota's new lithium-ion Plug-in Prius Are 12.5 electric miles enough? ...

  • 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 ). ...

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

  • Walruses congregate on Alaska shore as ice melts

    Thousands of walruses are congregating on Alaska's northwest coast, a sign that their Arctic sea ice environment has been altered by climate change. "What we've been seeing over the past few years with reduced sea ice conditions, we might be seeing this more and more often, and it's probably not go ...

  • The world's worst radiation hotspot

    Walking through the flat and endless Kazakh steppe, Nemytov Oleg suddenly stops, fumbles in his desert camouflage trousers and pulls out a Geiger counter. The device bleeps into life. He peers pensively at the reading. When we got out of the car it read 3. Now, within a couple of hundred yards, it h ...

  • Praying Mantis Catches a Hummingbird

    Don’t ever mess with a praying mantis.

  • Human waste dumped in Antarctica

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Reducing such emissions would improve visibility from the Pasayten Wilderness in Okanogan County to the Three Sisters Wilderness in central Oregon, Ecology ...
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Iowa agency says city water tester faked results
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AP EDGEWOOD, Iowa - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says the person responsible for testing Edgewood city water faked thousands of tests and didn't ...
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