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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.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

12 Sept - RSS SnapShot!

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • HEALTH-KENYA: A Glove To Save a Mother's Life

    KISUMU, Kenya, Sep 12 (IPS) - The need for gloves for health workers assisting with childbirth may be obvious, but in Yala Sub-District Hospital in western Kenya, obvious does not mean available.

  • HEALTH-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Learning From Criticism, ...

    HARARE, Sep 12 (IPS) - The United States has embarked on a mission to restore Africa’s trust in U.S. commitment to global AIDS relief.

  • GUATEMALA: Nine Arrested for Murder that Caused P ...

    GUATEMALA CITY, Sep 12 (IPS) - Nine suspects, including police officers and members of the military, have been arrested in Guatemala for the murder of prominent lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg, who had accused President Álvaro Colom of his murder in a video broadcast after his death.

  • VENEZUELA: Women Recycle for Income and Environme ...

    TACARIGUA DE LA LAGUNA, Venezuela, Sep 12 (Tierramérica) - The women of this town in northern Venezuela no longer say "garbage" but rather "secondary raw material," and instead of referring to recycling, they talk about "separation at point of origin."

  • CHINA: Communist Resort Makeover Mirrors State&#8 ...

    BEIDAIHE, China, Sep 12 (IPS) - The summer capital of China’s political intrigue is taking a break from the years of intense infighting and maneuvering that Chinese communist leaders used to engage in while hidden in their secluded villas.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

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

  • More cuts to social services in the U.S. state of ...

    The destruction of basic social services in the state of Michigan and its largest city, Detroit, have continued in recent days. Detroit has announced drastic cuts to its already limited public transportation system, while lawmakers in the state capital, Lansing, are haggling over massive reductions ...

  • Israel: 200,000 families need help to survive

    Every third child, every fourth elderly person and every fifth family lives in poverty in Israel. According to the Alternative Poverty Report published by Latet, an Israeli humanitarian group, more than 200,000 Israeli families suffer from nutritional insecurity and need help if they are to survive ...

  • Closing The Book On The Bush Legacy

    Thursday's annual Census Bureau report on income, poverty and access to health care-the Bureau's principal report card on the well-being of average Americans-closes the books on the economic record of George W. Bush. It's not a record many Republicans are likely to point to with pride. On every m ...

  • Fall Fashion and Beauty Trends May Be Hazardous to ...

    As summer winds down and women prepare to trade in their beach ware for fall flair, they should be aware of fashion and beauty trends that may be harmful to their health. "Women can pay a high price for fashion when it comes to their health," said Dr. Shazia Khan, co-medical director, Loyola Primar ...

  • How to Measure What We Don't Know

    How do we discover new things? For scientists, observation and measurement are the main ways to extract information from Nature. Based on observations, scientists build models that, in turn, are used to make predictions about the future or the past. To the extent that the predictions are successful, ...

Threat Level

  • Net Hoax Convinces Germany of Fake U.S. Suicide Bo ...

    FRANKFURT — All of Germany was bamboozled Thursday by a bizarre scheme that tricked the country’s main wire service into reporting an attempted suicide bombing in a California town — an attack supposedly perpetrated by a non-existent rap group called the “Berlin Boys.” How they did it: A ...

  • Attorneys Can See Classified Info in Coffee Table ...

    A federal judge in Washington has ordered the government to grant security clearances to lawyers on both sides of a lawsuit claiming illegal spying against a DEA agent, in a ruling that challenges the government’s long-held claim that the executive branch alone has the authority to determine who ...

  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Health Care Fight: No Echoes of Bush Social Securi ...

    On Monday, the AP portrayed President Obama's struggle to pass health care reform as the second coming of George W. Bush's unpopular and ultimately disastrous attempt to privatize Social Security. But while man each left the bill crafting to Congress...

  • Excerpts of President Obama's Speech to America's ...

    In response to the manufactured outrage over President Obama's planned address Tuesday to America's schoolchildren, the White House as promised has released portions of the text of the speech in advance. Here are excerpts from President Obama's prepared remarks: Preliminary...

  • Why Right-Wing Hissy Fits Work

    On Wednesday, the fact checking web site Politifact deemed a "pants on fire" lie the Republican claim that President Obama planned to indoctrinate America's school children in a broadcast next week. On Friday, press secretary Robert Gibbs rightly noted that...

  • GOP: Health Care Needs More Senate Votes Than Soci ...

    Once upon a time - a time before the 2006 midterm elections consigned the GOP to minority status in Congress, a bill generally required 51 votes in the Senate to become law. But not content to rest on their record...

  • In New Book, Tom Ridge Decries Politicized Bush Te ...

    "In his new book, former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge confirms what most long suspected: the Bush administration manipulated the terror threat level for the President's political advantage. But while his long overdue admission is welcome, his suggestion that he...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Monsanto Public Enemy No. 1 By Siv ONeall

    By Siv ONeallFeatured WriterDandelion Saladaxisoflogic.comSeptember 12, 2009Juliet TomatoesOriginally uploaded by Lorri37The War of the Empire has many facesThe war on terror has become nameless since our administration changed. But it is the same war, it has the same goals and it is as unwinnable a ...

  • Joe Wilson Voted to Provide Taxpayer Money for Ill ...

    by Donny ShawOpenCongressSeptember 11, 2009On Wednesday night, Rep. Joe Wilson [R, SC-2], shouted You lie! at President Obama when he said that the healthcare bill would not cover illegal immigrants. The supporters of the government takeover of healthcare and liberals who want to give healthcare to ...

  • Mad as Hell Docs Head to Salt Lake City

    Support HR 676, more info: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h676/show ~ DSKCPW09.11.2009 by Elizabeth Ziegler(KCPW News) A group of Oregon physicians is on a road trip to the nations capital to gather support for a single payer health care system. These mad as hell doctors will be in Salt Lake C ...

  • Photo Gallery: Tens of Thousands Right-Wing Activi ...

    Washington, D.C. is hosting something the town has never before seen: streets full of right-wingers, egged on by the corporate interests behind Glenn Beck and FreedomWorks.

  • Bill McKibben: Why is 350 the most important numbe ...

    thomhartmannSeptember 12, 2009Thom discusses global warming with Bill McKibben. Check out http://www.350.org more about “Bill McKibben: Why is 350 the most im…“, posted with vodpod***From an email from 350.org:Thanks for joining 350.org!We’re building a strong, diverse network of global gras ...

Consortium News

  • Bush's Interrogators Stressed Nudity

    George W. Bush's interrogators humiliated "war on terror" captives by keeping them nude, reports Robert Parry. September 12, 2009

  • Obama Faces Hard Afghan Choice

    With the Afghan War nearly eight years old, President Obama must make a fateful choice on troop levels, says Michael Winship. September 12, 2009

  • Gaps in Obama's Health Proposal

    President Obama signaled that significant health reform might be delayed for years, reports TheRealNews. September 11, 2009

  • Old Hands Picked for CIA Oversight

    Congressional Republicans and the CIA opt for "trusted old hands" for intelligence oversight jobs, says Melvin A. Goodman. September 11, 2009

  • The Real Lessons of 9/11

    The 9/11 attacks and their aftermath show that competence and rational behavior matter, writes Robert Parry. September 11, 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

  • Casual Friday Video Round Up

    It’s raining, its poring, and its Friday… so let’s stay inside and watch Youtube videos about action on climate change! Clean Energy Works national television ad, “Waste.” “Get Past the Old Lies”, Environmental Defense Fund: “Cursing Cap” “Goldfish” Posted in Global Warming ...

  • 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 ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • If someone wants to yell "YOU LIE!!!"

    Get in the Shame-of-Oberlin's face and do it...cause that nativist, anchor-baby bee-otch couldn't be more wrong or dishonest if she had help from the ghost of Lee Atwater his-own-self... To hear her tell it, today's protest was bigger than the inauguration. She even used a picture obviously taken ...

  • Make This A Buy Union Year

    I'm late in recognizing Union Label Week, which began on Labor Day, but it's high time to make every week Union Week, so keep the spirit going by buying union products whenever you can. It's easier than you think, now that one click gets you to lists of "chocolate, whiskey and more at the union stor ...

  • Road Trip!

    Tomorrow morning at 5:30 I will be rolling out of bed in Kansas City and gathering up my gear so I will be ready when Michael pulls up and we head for I-35 and Indianola, Iowa to cover the annual Harkin Steak Fry, where Al Franken is the guest of honor. We will be interviewing every politician we ...

  • By using Dick Cheney's logic?

    I think I will assert that the Obama administration is far better at national security than the Bush administration was because we have not been attacked by terrorists. Think about it - Clinton warned Bush that terrorism would be the gravest threat that he would face during his presidency. Bush i ...

  • EPA Likely To Deny 79 Mountaintop Mining Permits

    Dear Tom, Thank the EPA for taking a major step toward ending mountaintop removal mining! Take Action! We have very big news to share on mountaintop removal coal mining. After eight long years of rubber-stamp permits during the Bush Administration, the EPA announced Friday that all 79 mountaintop re ...

Care 2

  • Withdrawal of suspension orders of Naresh Kadyan w ...

    The Haryana Govt. have to withdraw the suspension orders of Naresh Kadyan, District Khadi and Village Industries Officer, Faridabad as he has placed under suspension for no reasons, his work should be recognized and recommended for Padamshri awards...... Submitted by OIPA INDIA to Offbeat | Note ...

  • World's Oldest Person Dies In Los Angeles At 115

    Gertrude Baines, the world's oldest known person, died Friday at a nursing home. She was 115. Baines likely suffered a heart attack but an autopsy will be conducted to confirm the cause of death, said her longtime physician, Dr. Charles Witt. Submitted by Kristi K. to Offbeat | Note-it! | ...

  • Home Sought for Bison in Quarantine

    BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Wildlife officials on Thursday have again delayed a decision on the fate of a small herd of wild bison that have languished in a government-run quarantine compound in Montana since they were spared from slaughter four years ago Submitted by Terry West to Animals | Note-it! ...

  • New details made available in decade-old Whiteclay ...

    The FBI has released new details in hopes of stirring up leads in the decade-old slayings of two American Indian men from South Dakota whose bodies were found near the Nebraska border Submitted by Terry West to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Victims' families tell their stories following Nat ...

    'I took some flesh home and called it my son.' The Guardian interviews 11 villagers This is a real way to make friends! Submitted by Tinkie K. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • MillerCoors Dedicates September to Improving Water ...

    During its first annual Water Stewardship Month, the company's breweries and headquarters are engaging in partnerships and volunteer projects to promote responsible water use.

  • 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.

Reuters Global

Ezra Klein

  • Tab Dump

    • Nothing is more useful than a Microplane grater. • The Atlantic collects some of its best 9/11-related coverage . • What happens when online communities die? • What Lehman teaches us about social insurance. • A very lost decade. • A very manly argument for health-care reform.

  • The Middle of the Beginning of the End

    James Kwak responds to my earlier post on employer-based insurance and notes that the problem isn't simply that employers are dropping coverage, but that there's every reason to believe that that deterioration will speed up: Not only is employer-based coverage deteriorating, but the reasons for tha ...

  • The Joys and Sorrows of Swing Voting

    According to ABC News , President Obama is spending some quality time this afternoon with 17 lucky senators: Sens. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), A ...

  • More Charts!

    Health Care for America Now has released another handy-dandy chart detailing how health-care reform will work. There's also a pretty clean page of text explaining what health-care reform will do for different groups of people. It would be nice if they'd include some larger jpegs, and maybe some colo ...

  • Short-Termism

    Speaking of financial regulation, here's Steve Pearlstein on the rise of "short-termism" : The roots of this short-termism go back to the 1980s, with the advent of hostile takeovers mounted by activist investors. This newly competitive "market for corporate control" promised to reinvigorate corpora ...

Booman Tribune

  • Open Thread

    I spent my late afternoon watching the Michigan-Notre Dame game. It was simply an amazing game. Back and forth, several lead changes, and a heroic finish for the Maize and Blue. Can't ask for more. Michigan State, on the other hand, set a new standard for choking. Mainly, though, I'm just killi ...

  • Casual Observation

    I think the main thing is that if the Congress is going to pass something other than the public option then they're going to have create something just as good under a different name. If the compromise is a trigger, the trigger needs to be a hair-trigger. Obama has already agreed to move off the p ...

  • Studying the Crazies

    Kim Phillips-Fein has an interesting essay in The Nation on the persistence of the conservative movement in this country. I think one of the key ingredients in their resiliency is that our winner-take-all federal elections make it nearly impossible for the country to maintain more than two seriousl ...

  • They are Dead Serious

    The watering the Tree of Liberty talk you keep hearing from the Glenn Beck, Michele Bachmann fanboys is getting out of hand. Way, way out of hand. These people are not simply simple minded crazy members of the lunatic fringe -- their delusions about Obama's Marxist-Socialist takeover of America ar ...

  • Open Thread

    Newt Gingrich loves and honors the porn industry. I bet you can't top that on a rainy Friday night.

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Nanotechnologically self-repairing circuits

    Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a means by which nanotube-filled capsules could repair electronic circuits when they are damaged: Capsules, filled with conductive nanotubes, that rip open under mechanical stress could be placed on circuit boards in failure-prone areas. When ...

  • How to download whole books from Google

    Just in case it isn’t obvious: the following is not an incitement to (or endorsement of) copyright infringement; I have decided to publish this link because I know a number of readers here are interested in the legal and commercial future of books in a digital age (as am I), and because the Author ...

  • Fake Big Brother, bogus Balls of Steel: the *real* ...

    Now here’s an example of the serendipitous way that stories seem to glom together when you blog regularly. A few days ago I noticed a post at MetaFilter about Ikea Heights, a rather silly guerrilla drama show filmed entirely in a large Ikea store without the permission (or, apparently, the awarene ...

  • 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 ...

  • Nanotechnologically self-repairing circuits

    Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a means by which nanotube-filled capsules could repair electronic circuits when they are damaged: Capsules, filled with conductive nanotubes, that rip open under mechanical stress could be placed on circuit boards in failure-prone areas. When ...

Therapy News

  • Searching for Links Between Love and Hate

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary There are multiple ideas about the reason as to why hate evolved as an emotion and how it has been useful in the development of human evolution. A popular idea is that the experience of hatred makes people more observant and prepared for conflict, helping them to quick ...

  • Psychotherapy and Meditation: Sitting with What Is

    By Anne Ihnen, MA LMHC Sitting in meditation means sitting with what is. The challenge, of course, is that a lot of what is doesn’t feel very good: we experience fear, restlessness, grief, anxiety, shame. For many of us, these experiences are enough to send us fleeing from the cushion, convinced ...

  • Nation Wakes Up to Need for Greater Dual Diagnosis ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Most people are well aware that some percentage of the population grapples with a substance abuse issue, and that trends in the precise substances used may change from time to time, but difficulties that arise as a result remain largely the same. Problems at work, with ...

  • Anorexia is on the Rise in the United Kingdom

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Anorexia may be expected to experience higher rates of occurrence in stressful times, and as the financial crisis tightens its grip on the United Kingdom, stress is certainly a predominant result. Unfortunately, however, this stress seems to be contributing to an alar ...

  • 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Is Mountaintop Removal Mining a Threat to Watershe ...

    U.S. EPA is conducting further environmental analysis on 79 pending permits for mountaintop mining , the agency announced today. The agency said the permits issued by the Army Corps of Engineers , identified in a preliminary list released today, could all potentially pose a threat to the mountain wa ...

  • 49 E. Ky. coal permits get another look (Louisvill ...

    Forty nine coal mining permits in eastern Kentucky will get additional scrutiny over the next two months by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of the Obama administration's pledge to make sure that mountaintop removal mining activities comply with the federal Clean Water Act.

  • EPA Suspends 79 Mountaintop Removal Coal Permits ( ...

    By Jim Efstathiou Jr. Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The Environmental Protection Agency said today that 79 permits to mine coal by removing mountain tops and discarding the debris in neighboring streams must be held for further review.

  • EPA Puts Brakes On Mountaintop Removal Mining (Nat ...

    WASHINGTON (September 11, 2009) -- In a step toward protecting America’s waterways from mining waste, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it will continue to review the permits of 79 proposed surface coal-mining projects in Appalachian states. The EPA stated that ...

  • Local News (u.tv)

    The Obama administration took its strongest action to date against highly destructive mining practice today, putting a hold on dozens of mountaintop removal projects in the Appalachian region.

Memeorandum

  • Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest a ...

    Daily Mail : Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest against Obama's spending in ‘tea-party’ demonstration — Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” as they protested the president's health ca ...

  • Anti-Government Protests Draws Tens of Thousands t ...

    Washington Post : Anti-Government Protests Draws Tens of Thousands to D.C. — Tens of thousands of conservative protesters crowded outside the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, a massive demonstration aimed at stopping what organizers called the over-expansion of the federal government under the Obam ...

  • The GOP Corporate Push Behind The 9/12 Teabaggers ...

    Alan Colmes' Liberaland : The GOP Corporate Push Behind The 9/12 Teabaggers — Stay Classy, Teabaggers! — Dick Army's group FreedomWorks, which organized last spring's tea parties, is behind Saturday's events as well. They claim to model themselves on MoveOn.org, except that MoveOn.o ...

  • Celebrating the 9/12 rallies; Update: Turnout esti ...

    Michelle Malkin : Celebrating the 9/12 rallies; Update: Turnout estimated at 2 million — Twitpic via Brooks Bayne — Twitpic via Prisminc — I can't make it to Washington DC today for the national 9/12 march, but I'm with all the marchers in spirit. — It's been an unpreceden ...

  • They Will Be Heard [UPDATED PRETTY CONSTANTLY] (St ...

    Stephen Green / Pajamas Media : They Will Be Heard [UPDATED PRETTY CONSTANTLY] — I'M BEGGING YOU — PLAYING IT DOWN — Here's the WaPo lede: … Tens of thousands? Technically accurate, but... CABBING IT HOME — Calling from a taxi on the way back home, Stacy McCain said: ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 6.4, offshore Aragua, Venezuela

    Saturday, September 12, 2009 20:06:25 UTC Saturday, September 12, 2009 08:06:25 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

  • M 5.8, Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia

    Tuesday, September 8, 2009 18:51:22 UTC Wednesday, September 9, 2009 02:51:22 AM at epicenter Depth : 22.50 km (13.98 mi)

  • M 5.1, Bali Sea

    Tuesday, September 8, 2009 15:18:18 UTC Tuesday, September 8, 2009 11:18:18 PM at epicenter Depth : 285.50 km (177.40 mi)

  • M 5.1, Fiji region

    Tuesday, September 8, 2009 09:17:42 UTC Tuesday, September 8, 2009 09:17:42 PM at epicenter Depth : 141.10 km (87.68 mi)

  • M 5.0, Veracruz, Mexico

    Tuesday, September 8, 2009 05:14:33 UTC Tuesday, September 8, 2009 12:14:33 AM at epicenter Depth : 113.60 km (70.59 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Sorting the rubbish in Beijing

    在中国首都北京，市民和专家正在审议商讨各种垃圾处理的方式。霍伟亚就讨论中的方案进行了调查。 After the 2008 Olympic Games, ...

  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Net Hoax Convinces Germany of Fake U.S. Suicide Bo ...

    FRANKFURT — All of Germany was bamboozled Thursday by a bizarre scheme that tricked the country’s main wire service into reporting an attempted suicide bombing in a California town — an attack supposedly perpetrated by a non-existent rap group called the “Berlin Boys.” How they did it: A ...

  • Attorneys Can See Classified Info in Coffee Table ...

    A federal judge in Washington has ordered the government to grant security clearances to lawyers on both sides of a lawsuit claiming illegal spying against a DEA agent, in a ruling that challenges the government’s long-held claim that the executive branch alone has the authority to determine who ...

  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

Godspace

  • First Apple Cake for the Season

    I just made my first apple cake for the season for our MSA Board meeting tomorrow. It is a great way for me to relax once I have all my materials ready for the Board members. Our apple crop is not as big as usual but there are still plenty to enjoy. This recipe was given [...]

  • God of the Bountiful – A Harvest Prayer

    This morning I was sitting in our breakfast room looking out on my gloriously productive garden and feeling a little overwhelmed. Â Then I read through one of the prayers that I had written for our Celtic retreat in August and decided that it would be a good one to adapt as a harvest prayer. Â G ...

  • 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

    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 ...

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  • Did CIA engage in non-consensual human experimenta ...

    Several observers are focusing on the CIA’s Office of Medical Services, as well as on Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) a secretive US Army unit, whose work appears to have informed the CIA’s torture program.

  • CIA censored me to avoid embarrassment, says ex-ο ...

    More than a month after Secrecy News reported the legal victory of a former CIA agent, who managed to have a censored report he wrote about the CIA’s dirty dealings in Peru declassified, a US news outlet has finally given some attention to the story.

  • News you may have missed #0104

    Pro-secrecy ex-NSA/CIA director joins declassification board. CIA agent who headed plan to lift sunken Soviet submarine dies. CIA director heads agency recruiting drive of US Muslims.

  • Lawsuit claims US government paid reporters during ...

    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.

  • News you may have missed #0102

    Iran deliberately delaying nuclear bomb plans. CIA sets up new External Advisory Board. Is the CIA's Excessive Secrecy Near an End?

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

  • US Says 6 Powers Accept Iran's Offer To Talk

    US says 6 powers accept Iran's offer to talk By Robert Burns, Associated Press | Washington Post The United States and five partner countries have accepted Iran's new offer to hold talks, even though Iran insists it will not negotiate over its disputed nuclear program, the State Department said Fri ...

  • Marine's Remains Return Home

    Marine's remains return home By Joel Currier | St. Louis Post-Dispatch Mary Jean Schimmel discouraged her son from joining the military, but she says that becoming a Marine made him a man. Lance Cpl. Patrick W. Schimmel, 21, of Winfield, died Sunday after being wounded in combat operations in Afgh ...

  • Army Experience Center Protesters Experience Jail

    I got a message from Rob Kall that Cheryl Biren and Debra Sweet were among those arrested protesting today at the Army Experience Center at a Philadelphia area shopping mall, and Biren for taking photographs. Recent news put out by the Army just prior to this long-planned protest was that the cente ...

  • DoJ Attack On Siegelman's Rights Threatens Electio ...

    DoJ Attack On Siegelman's Rights Threatens Election Rights For All By Andrew Kreig | Huffington Post On Aug. 27, holdover officials from the Bush Justice Department filed 226 pages arguing that former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and his co-defendant have presented no evidence since their 2006 briber ...

  • Whistleblowers Unveil More Armor Group Allegations

    Whistleblowers Unveil More Armor Group Allegations Former Company Officials Say State Department Contractor Involved in Myriad Fraudulent Schemes By Spencer Ackerman | Washington Independent Former employees of ArmorGroup, the private security company that holds a State Department contract to pro ...

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  • What Is the EPA Hiding?

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

  • With Liberty and Justice for Baby Names

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

  • Diehl me out

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

  • Britney Spears Has Double the Happiness

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

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

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

Time - Top Stories

Washington Independent

  • U.S. to Allow Afghan Detainees to Challenge Detent ...

    Big news from The Washington Post: Hundreds of prisoners held by the U.S. military in Afghanistan will for the first time have the right to challenge their indefinite detention and call witnesses in their defense under a new review system being put in place this week, according to administration off ...

  • Everybody Loves Wacky Tea Party Signs, Part II

    So many awesome signs. (Click to enlarge.) This one was interesting. When I asked her if she was on Medicare, she said no, but she was carrying the sign for her friend who is on the government-run, single-payer health insurance program for older Americans. I asked the friend if she was happy with h ...

  • DeMint: ‘Joe Wilson Was Telling the Truth&#8 ...

    Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), the congressman who shouted “you lie” during President Obama’s health care address to Congress, was probably the biggest hero at today’s Tea Party rally in Washington. Signs reading “Joe Wilson for President” and “Thanks, Joe” were omnipresent, as were chant ...

  • Video: A Tea Party Counterprotest

    For the most part, today’s Tea Party was harmonious, with the crowds chanting in unison, “No Obamacare” and “You lie” and such. But there were small pockets of counterprotest that led to a few heated debates. The most elaborate counterprotest came in the form of an a cappella ensemble, dre ...

  • Everybody Loves Wacky Tea Party Signs

    Here are some more choice shots (click to enlarge): – You can follow TWI on Twitter and Facebook.

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • ‘Biosecure’ Farms Not So Biosecure

    There are times when perniciously false premises are treated as the criteria by which truth is determined. We lose the argument before it’s begun. And where does that leave us in our efforts to control mortal dangers of our own making? Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business | Note-it! ...

  • Raw milk “Pepsi challenge” in Romania

    “Raw milk is very easy to find, here in Romania. Bunici (grandmas) typically stand on the busy before-noon street corners, and lean against brick walls or warped garden rails. Placed before them are a few ‘recycled’ 2-liter soda bottles filled with Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbeat | ...

  • Irish Call For Total EU Ban on Brazilian Beef

    The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has written to the EU Commission calling for an immediate and complete halt on Brazilian beef imports. According to Meatinfo.co.uk, IFA president Padriag Walshe wrote to EU Commissioner for Health & Consumer Pro Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business ...

  • Mercury Contamination in Fish Nationwide

    US – Scientists detected mercury contamination in every fish sampled in 291 streams across the country, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study released today. About a quarter of these fish were found to contain mercury at levels exceeding the crit Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Health & ...

  • Sockeye Collapse: BC Indian Chiefs Accuse Canada's ...

    An Aborigine chief and Secretary-Treasurer of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs has stated his horror at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans ignorance to the full range of problems affecting salmon runs in British Columbia. Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business | Note-it! | Add a Comme ...

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 ...

    “THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM” = 666 — “WHICH NUMBER REPRESENTS JESUS CHRIST” = 666 —” THE ARYAN BROTHERHOOD” = 666. _______________ Using the english alphabet A = 1  B= 2   etc. Write out the phrase and assign the numbers under them. Now, add it vertically as you no ...

  • THE HPV VACCINE and our daughters….

    In case you missed my posting about the HPV VACCINE….I am including a link to it. http://whyorganic.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/do-not-give-your-daughter-hpv-vaccine

  • BIG MEDIA RULINGS

     Senate Committee Votes to Throw Out FCC RulesThe Senate Commerce Committee passed a “resolution of disapproval” that would veto the FCC’s latest attempt to dismantle longstanding media ownership limits. Free Press  Senate Panel Rejects New Media Ownership Rule A Senate committee vo ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Remembering the Villains, Seven come 9/11

    By Les Visible Certainly there were heroes around the WTC game-board on that fateful day. There were people like William Rodriguez and various emergency personnel who heard the various explosions and saw the controlled demolition of the towers and told their tale. There were others who just did thei ...

  • The 9/11 Fish Head Flu Pandemic

    By Les Visible With all of the press hoopla about the H1N1 flu an even bigger epidemic is being overlooked and that is the 9/11 Flu. Deaths from the 9/11 Flu have gone over a million in the last eight years while H1N1 remains a piker by comparison. The 9/11 virus is a mutation of the Zio-Flu [...]

  • Fifty questions on 9/11

    By Pepe Escobar It’s September 11 all over again – eight years on. The George W Bush administration is out. The “global war on terror” is still on, renamed “overseas contingency operations” by the Barack Obama administration. Obama’s “new strategy” – a war escalation – is in ...

  • America was behind the 9/11 atrocities, says actor ...

    By Paul Thompson Charlie Sheen has provoked outrage with claims that the U.S. government was behind the September 11 terror attacks. Ahead of today’s eighth anniversary of the atrocities that killed 3,000, the Hollywood star has insisted there was a cover-up. And he has appealed to President Barac ...

  • 80,000 New Yorkers demand a new investigation into ...

    by James aka adap2k On Friday, September 4, the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN) submitted 28,000 petition signatures as a supplement to the 52,000 signatures submitted on June 24 calling for a citywide referendum on the creation of a local, independent commission to investig ...

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  • David Icke - Freedom Road Part 1-30 HR

    YouTube 4 hour video on the history of humanity's enslavement by teaching all a planned program to restrict viewpoint, discussion and development. Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Food processors' spraying leaves west Michigan wel ...

    FENNVILLE -- John Dekker feels like he's camping out in his own home. He showers with bottled water and drags his laundry to a Laundromat. He can't sell his house without disclosing its glaring flaw -- his well is contaminated. Neighbor Kari Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business | ...

  • Sissy Farmer, Joel Salatin, speaks out

    Look, for example, at herbivores. They don’t eat fermented forage, like silage, they don’t eat grain, and they certainly don’t eat chicken manure, dead chickens or dead cows [all common food in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations]. Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business | Note-it! ...

  • Coroners 'should test for CJD to monitor spread of ...

    Coroners are refusing to carry out post-mortem tests for an infection which causes the human form of BSE despite pleas that they could help monitor the spread of the disease, it was reported today. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-120 Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Society & ...

  • 'Life chemical' detected in comet

    Scientists have identified one of the fundamental chemical buildings blocks of life in a comet for the first time, the US space agency (Nasa) reports. Glycine is an amino acid found in proteins, the sophisticated molecules that organisms use > Cont. Submitted by Rosemary R. to Science & Tech | ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Pro-Taliban officials arrested in Pakistan - Haber ...

    Haber 27 Pro- Taliban officials arrested in Pakistan Haber 27 Fazlullah, who was once a prayers leader in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, rose to power after using a radio station to broadcast his messages in ... and more »

  • Pakistani 'top insurgents' commander detained' - H ...

    Haber 27 Pakistani 'top insurgents' commander detained' Haber 27 The spokesman Muslim Khan and four other Taliban leaders were arrested from Swat in a successful operation," the military spokesman Major-General Athar ... and more »

  • Fazlullah concedes Taleban weakened - Saudi Gazett ...

    Fazlullah concedes Taleban weakened Saudi Gazette Fazlullah made a mention of the Tehrik-e-Taleban Pakistan (TTP) founder Baitullah Mehsud and stressed that all Pakistani Taleban wished to die like him. ...

  • ANALYSIS: Between democracy and anarchy —Dr Hasa ...

    ANALYSIS: Between democracy and anarchy —Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi Daily Times ... policy of public criticism of military operations against the Taliban because anti-American sentiments are shared widely in varying degrees in Pakistan . ...

  • EDITORIAL: State credibility and terrorism - Daily ...

    EDITORIAL: State credibility and terrorism Daily Times As the state shrank in front of terror, the rest of Pakistan began to favour the “Islamic” order of the Taliban and started to insist on “talks”. ... and more »

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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

  • Chinese: 'Trade wars' counterproductive

    Top Chinese diplomats in Washington on Tuesday warned against "trade wars," as President Obama faces a looming decision on whether to erect barriers against the import of Chinese tires."Trade wars between China and the United States is the last thing that our two countries need right now," said Xie ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

Independent ( London )

  • Cheers greet Obama as he defends radical healthcar ...

    Taking his pitch for healthcare reform to main-street America with a rousing rally in a basketball arena in Minneapolis, Barack Obama vowed yesterday that his plan would overturn a broken system which, according to newly released figures, leaves half of those aged under 65 without insurance at som ...

  • A swag bag of Warhol

    As multimillion-pound art heists go, it's on a par with the Thomas Crown Affair. There was no shoot-out or dramatic getaway, broken windows or forced doors: not so much as a motion sensor was disturbed when thieves entered a Los Angeles mansion and stole a series of Andy Warhol prints depicting famo ...

  • A swag bag of Warhol

    As multimillion-pound art heists go, it's on a par with the Thomas Crown Affair. There was no shoot-out or dramatic getaway, broken windows or forced doors: not so much as a motion sensor was disturbed when thieves entered a Los Angeles mansion and stole a series of Andy Warhol prints depicting fam ...

  • Crash prosecutions 'putting air safety in jeopardy ...

    Aviation experts have warned that flight safety is being jeopardised by "overzealous" criminal investigation and prosecution of pilots and other officials after accidents. The warning comes on the eve of a trial in which four airline officials, including two Britons, face manslaughter charges after ...

  • On Helmand's frontline with the US marines

    Battling through the dense, towering corn fields, the heavily armed US marines trudged through Taliban territory, every arduous step sinking into deep cloying mud. In the background, the thunder of artillery rounds boomed.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Putin warns against attack on Iran

    Summary: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned against military action targeting Iran or imposing new sanctions to curb its nuclear program. source: ABC News read more

  • Iran War Drums Begin Beating in Washington

    Summary: As nuclear negotiations between Iran and the West continue to move slowly, U.S. President Barack Obama is coming under growing pressure from what appears to be a concerted lobbying and media campaign urging him to act more aggressively to stop Iran’s nuclear program. source: Anti Wa ...

  • 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: Reuters read more

  • US Dismisses Iran’s Latest Diplomatic Proposals

    Summary: Russia Says Proposals Could Be Basis for Negotiations, Opposes Sanctions source: Anti War.Com read 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: CASMII 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

  • Study Reveals Serious HPV Vaccine Problems: Fainti ...

    (NaturalNews) At first glance, a study just published in the August 19th edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is yet another whitewash job about the safety of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus recombinant vaccine --better known as Gardasil, the genital human papillom ...

  • Culture Shock: Living in Ecuador, then visiting an ...

    (NaturalNews) It's shocking visiting the United States after living in Vilcabamba, Ecuador, even for a short while. In just a few weeks in the Valley of Longevity, you naturally get used to the connection with nature: The evening lightning bugs, the dreamscape of stars lighting up the night sky, the ...

  • Diseases Caused by Smoking will be Graphically Dep ...

    (NaturalNews) Smoking is a habit associated with numerous diseases, and the labels on cigarettes will soon more accurately reflect this. Obama recently signed a measure that might update warnings on cigarette packs to stronger and more accurate messages, like Smoking Causes Cancer and Smoking Kills ...

  • Interview with Kirt Tyson, Former Type-I Diabetic, ...

    (NaturalNews) Mike: Hi everybody. I'm here with Kirt Tyson today. How are you doing today, Kirt? Kirt: I'm doing wonderful, and I'm glad to be here. Mike: Now, just the fact that you are here is quite amazing in itself. You had quite a journey to get here and get on the raw foods lifestyle. Can you ...

  • Silver in Tiny Doses Kills Bacteria, Helps Wounds ...

    (NaturalNews) In a recent presentation before the annual American Chemical Society meeting held in Washington, D.C., scientist Ankit Agarwal revealed that he's come up with an approach to healing that can kill 99.9999 percent of bacteria in a wound using a natural substance -- silver. And he claims ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • At The Going Down Of The Sun....

    With condolences and respect to the families and friends of Corporal Jean-François Drouin and Major Yannick Pépin, both of 5e Régiment du génie de combat. Both killed due to enemy action. Ubique

  • The Eagles

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  • "Oh yeah? Well you health care reformers can just ...

    Conservatives and Republicans continue to sink to new lows in the U.S. health care reform debate with GOP chair Michael Steele heckling the audience - now we know what it takes to get thrown out, you have to ask a Republican a difficult question. The young lady involved is lucky she didn't get taser ...

  • Deja view

    Dear frothing-at-the-piehole-wingnuts, I see that you are worried about President Barack Hussien Obamullah Lenin X giving a speech to the nation's schoolchildren in which he is expected to urge them to study hard and do their homework murder their parents in their sleep. Where were you the last tim ...

  • Mapping the seven deadly sins

    A must see over at Wired -- A team at Kansas State has compiled data-maps of the incidence per-capita of the seven deadly sins . Florida FTW! crossposted from the Woodshed

Media Matters for America

  • Nets devote more coverage to Wilson's outburst th ...

    During their September 10 editions, the three evening network news programs cumulatively devoted more coverage to Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's September 9 joint address to Congress on health reform -- in which Wilson claimed President Obama lied when he said "our reform ...

  • Fox witch hunt attacks Senate-confirmed nominees ...

    As part of Fox News' witch hunt against Obama administration "czars," Fox News asserted that "czars are not subjected to congressional oversight." In fact, many of the Obama administration officials the network has labeled "czars" have been confirmed by the Senate or were appointed to positions ...

  • Todd fails to "call out" Kyl's criticism that di ...

    NBC's Chuck Todd uncritically aired Sen. Jon Kyl's (R-AZ) distortion of President Obama's September 9 address to Congress, in which Kyl falsely suggested that Obama had said, "If you disagree with us, we're going to call you out." But Obama did not promise to "call out" those who disagree with ...

  • "Voice of the opposition": Fox News openly advoca ...

    Since Barack Obama's inauguration, Fox News has frequently engaged in political advocacy against the Democratic Congress and White House. Specifically, Fox News personalities have promoted and encouraged viewers to "join" tea party protests, Glenn Beck's organization The 9-12 Project and its S ...

  • Fox figures ignore health bill's ban on subsidies ...

    After Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) accused President Obama of lying for stating that health care reform "would not apply to those who are here illegally," media have cited a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, highlighted by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), which found that under t ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Why the Employer Mandate Matters

    With all the focus on the public option debate, there has been far less on the importance of maintaining a strong mandate for employers to provide health care -- another feature of the House bill that conservatives have vigorously opposed.... Sponsored Topics: House - Health care - Health - Unit ...

  • Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – closing the modelli ...

    The last post – which was incredibly difficult to write – received remarkably little comment – and almost no feedback. So I am going to close the modelling sequence early – and write a few posts about the politics of... Sponsored Topics: Fannie Mae - Freddie Mac - Business - Financial Se ...

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  • It Begins: Jewish Organizations In DC Today For I ...

    Check out this press release announcing Iran Advocacy Day. It's today and it marks the start of the fall push on Iran The United Jewish Communities (formerly called UJA) is about as mainstream a Jewish organization as exists in this... Sponsored Topics: Iran - United Jewish Communities - Middle ...

  • Leon, Norman, and the Times: Still Together

    Leon Wieseltier's disingenuous put-down of Norman Podhoretz's Why Are Jews Liberals? in this weekend's New York Times Book Review makes me think of Jonathan Landman, a Times editor who in 2001 boldly told his superiors that "It's time to stop... Sponsored Topics: New York Times Book Review - Boo ...

TruthOut

  • Marine's Photo Reminds Us of War That Will Not End

    The falling soldier. (Photo: Robert Capa / I.C.P. Collection) read more

  • Health Care vs. Warfare: The Future Costs of the A ...

    On Wednesday, President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress on health care. Later this year, he will decide whether to deploy additional troops to the war in Afghanistan on top of the 69,000 troops already deployed. The struggle for health care and the struggle to end warfare ar ...

  • Democrats in Congress Wary of Afghanistan Escalati ...

    Washington - Congress will examine next week the future of American military involvement in Afghanistan, a future that many key lawmakers hope won't include sending more U.S. troops than President Barack Obama already has committed. "There's a significant number of people in the countr ...

  • Barack Can't Speak to School Children? Why?

    President Barack Obama wanted to do what he and his staff probably thought was an innocuous and very positive gesture – send a message to school kids at their institutions that it was a good thing for them to study hard and stay in school because their future and the future of the ...

  • Book Says Obama's Life Is at Risk

    Every American knows that politics can be an ugly business, rife with mudslinging, underhandedness and, in the worst of times, outright sabotage. 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

  • Sabotage Experts: US Coast Guard Exercise on 9/11, ...

    Coast Guard to review exercise after Potomac security scare Security incident on Potomac River prompted by “training exercise,” two police sources say Coast Guard told them. With the nation already on edge and somewhat paranoid on September 11 each year, what is the LAST thing you want to do? ...

  • 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.

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

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

  • In Praise of Joe Wilson: What's Wrong with Calling ...

    Liberals are acting all righteous and offended that a member of the Republican opposition, Rep. "Joe" Wilson of South Carolina, would deign to besmirch the "dignity of the presidency" by calling out "Liar!" in the middle of President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday evenin ...

  • UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser ...

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the first time yesterday suggested she may be backing off her support of the public option. According to CNN , Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "said they would support any provision that increases competition and accessibility for health insurance - whethe ...

  • The Real Lessons of 9/11

    On this eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, it’s worth reflecting on how even a mildly competent U.S. President might have prevented the terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and drove the United States into a spasm of revenge that has wasted untold blood and treasure. The evidence of ...

  • Marine's Photo Reminds Us of War that Will Not End

    There was a certain ironic and painful symmetry at work last month. As one iconic image of war was called into doubt, another was being created, a new photograph of combat's grim reality that already has generated controversy and anger. When it was first published in 1936, during the Spanish Civil W ...

  • Go Inland, Young Progressives

    Separating the Midwestern state of Ohio, where soda's called "pop" and workers are sometimes allowed to unionize, from my East Coast home state of Virginia, where a governor perched on a diseased branch of my own family tree gave the nation its first right-to-work-for-less law, is nothing other than ...

Ten Percent

  • EU Negotiating With Honduran Coup Regime

    Caroline Lucas via Socialist Unity- The military coup which took place in Honduras on 28 June this year was 2009’s first such Central American coup. Following the installation of a de facto government, the EU firmly condemned the and made it clear that all negotiations for a preferential trade pac ...

  • State of Play in Iran

    Muhammad Sahimi sums up the present and possible future in Iran (ht2 Naj), the part about the IRGC and the middle class is interesting, I’d like to see something on the working class’s relationship. Speaking of which Mansour Ossanlu, leader of the Union of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus C ...

  • Friday! Nine Inch Nails- The Hand That Feeds

    Seemed appropriate…

  • 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 ...

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

  • ACORN, Little Girls, and the Red Light Business

    A couple of staff members at the Baltimore office of ACORN know an awful lot about helping people with very special housing needs. You’ve already no doubt seen how they helped cook up multiple schemes as to how a couple they believed to be a prostitute and her partner could set up a brothel [... ...

  • By The Numbers

    Yes, it is a Numbers Game today. My blogging buddy, Diamond Tiger at Logistics Monster had this video at her blog today, which I am shamelessly stealing (hey - she’s on HI time - she is up when we East Coasters are dead asleep, even though she is at the March on Washington. [...]

  • Trig-Truther Sullivan Busted for Possession - Shou ...

    Trig-truther Andrew Sullivan just got busted for possession. In a national park. By a park ranger. That’s gotta be embarrassing. Andrew Sullivan won’t face charges though. They were dropped by the office of the US Attorney. The judge at Sullivan’s hearing wasn’t too happy about that. ...

  • ACORN scandal: baltimore city state’s attorneys ...

    STATEMENT OF STATE’S ATTORNEYS OFFICE FOR BALTIMORE CITY RELATIVE TO THE ALLEGED BALTIMORE ACORN INCIDENT Baltimore, MD – September 11, 2009 – We have received inquiries from citizens and the media asking whether the Baltimore City State’s Attorneys Office would initiate a criminal investiga ...

  • Two More Obstacles To Intelligence Reform

    The appointment of former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Hayden to the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) and former senator Warren Rudman to the CIA’s External Advisory Board (EAB) will ensure less openness in the intelligence community and more obduracy in the CIA. The l ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Catalonia Steps Up Clean Energy Ambitions

    The government of Catalonia approved a decree last month calling for the construction of solar panels on the roofs of 108 public schools.

  • Uganda Unveils Online Gorilla 'Tracking'

    The Uganda Wildlife Authority is planning "online gorilla tracking" as a new initiative targeting the global demand for conservation tourism.

  • A Battle Over California Emissions Rules

    The United States Chamber of Commerce is joining with the National Automobile Dealers Association to try to derail California's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

  • 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.

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

  • Fox News Isn’t Covering President’s Minnesota ...

    Read the full story at News Hounds While CNN and MSNBC are carrying President Obama’s Minnesota Town Hall appearance in which he will talk about how, under the present system of health care, folks could end up losing their health care and how health care reform will address this issue, Fox is show ...

  • Israel Timeline: The Long Way Home

    Read the full story at MoJo Articles 1881-1885—Pogroms in Russia spawn the first large-scale wave of Jewish immigrants to Palestine. 1896—Theodore Herzl, founder of modern Zionism, pens The Jewish State, predicting that a "wondrous generation of Jews will spring into existence." 1897—Zionist O ...

  • The Melting Climate Change Deadline

    Read the full story at MoJo Articles Does cap-and-trade climate change legislation belong on the endangered species list? President Obama wanted to sign a measure before the international climate talks in Copenhagen in December. The House passed the Waxman-Markey bill in June, and Senate majority le ...

  • Beck fan and 9/12 protest attendee explains why Ob ...

    Read the full story at Think Progress Despite the tea parties’ ostensible purpose of opposing taxation, many of the signs today at the 9/12 march attacked President Obama using explicit racial and ethnic smears. Glenn Beck, who helped initiated the idea for the rally, has come under fire for simil ...

  • Radical, Racist Signs Featured At 9/12 March

    Read the full story at Think Progress This morning on ABC’s Good Morning America, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) embraced the protesters at today’s 9/12 March in Washington, DC, saying that he was “glad they’re here to take back their country.” He characterized the attendees as nonpartisan, add ...

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Pine River World News

  • Israel digging tunnel near Al-Aqsa Mosque

    The following article is from Arab News, Jeddah. Israel digging tunnel near Al-Aqsa Mosque © Arab News By Mohammed Mar'i September 12, 2009 RAMALLAH: The Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage said on Friday that Israeli authorities had begun excavation to build a tunnel near Al-Aqsa Mosq ...

  • 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 ...

    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

  • PDA at Fighting Bob Fest VIII

    Fighting Bob Fest is an annual Chautauqua featuring progressive speakers, networking opportunities, and entertainment. Fighting Bob Fest carries on the tradition of Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette by providing a forum for progressive ideas on ...

  • Experience argues for ‘Medicare for All’

    By Lara Wright, M.D. I am a family physician who has firsthand experience about the need for health insurance reform. In 1999, after completing a residency in family practice, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. ...

  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • Back to Washingon DC Next Week - American Insuranc ...

    Lately it seems I seldom have time to unpack, less alone prepare for another speech. However, I am looking forward to this DC trip. I still believe that insurance companies have the ability to positively influence food manufacturers through auditing before issuing a policy and in giving incentives ...

  • Food Safety News to Go Live September 14, 2009 - T ...

    It is not live yet, but by Monday we should have all the "bugs" worked out. Our goal here is to have a place were "all the news fit to eat" can be found along with all the best information about recalls, new technology and politics. We will have contributors from government, industry, universitie ...

  • Kilwin's Quality Confections, Inc. Conducted Natio ...

    Several months after the Peanut Corporation of America forced the recall of over 4,000 different peanut products from some 200 companies, another company announced a recall on the FDA Website. Kilwin's Quality Confections, Inc. of Petoskey, MI, is recalling all of our 7 ounce packages of chocolate-c ...

  • China International Food Safety & Quality Conferen ...

    My 10-year-old daughter, Sydney and I were almost packed for the Conference at the end of the month when it was canceled due to the 60th Anniversary of the revolution. We are looking forward to attending the Conference on its new dates on November 4 and 5. I am going to also speak at a few law sc ...

  • Linda Rivera, Mother of Six, Fights for Her Life T ...

    A picture is worth multiple, multiple, millions of words: I spent the day today being feted at the University of Arkansas School of Law and meeting with Tysons and Wal-Wart. Linda, her parents, her husband and six kids spent the day watching Linda being admitted into another ICU, again. It is unl ...

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

  • Apple's next big thing is Steve Jobs

    On September 9, Steve Jobs returned to the public eye in his first major launch announcement since his medical leave and subsequent liver transplant surgery. At the event, he announced a new line of iPods, new digital formats for music and videos, and, sadly, nothing from the Beatles. Rafe Needle ...

  • 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. ...

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!

  • Sexual terrorism in Congo

    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday and called on the Congolese government to do more to stamp out rape. One of the people Clinton met with is Christine Schuler Deschryver, a Congolese human rights activist. She lives in Bukavu in the east ...

  • Greg Grandin Fact Checks Lanny Davis on Honduras

    We recently hosted a debate between Latin America historian and New York University professor Greg Grandin and Lanny Davis, a former special counsel to President Clinton who’s now a paid lobbyist for Honduran business leaders backing the coup government. A few days after the debate, Grandin pos ...

  • Guardian Newspaper Credits Democracy Now! in Break ...

    The Guardian newspaper of London published a story about the U.S. military spying on peace activists in Washington State. While the Guardian credits Democracy Now! for breaking the story in an exclusive national broadcast, The New York Times, which ran a piece a few days afterwards, doe ...

  • "A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House"

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

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

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

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

  • Skyburbs: Bringing the Burbs to the City

    This flexible and adaptable vertical space provides the infrastructure for many different uses of the space. Levels could be used for gardening, orchards, public parks, playing fields community centers, homes, and apartments. Each level has a floor plenum, which is equipped with energy, water & serv ...

  • No Impact Man's Tips for No Carbon Footprint

    Colin Beavan, star of the documentary "No Impact Man" shows you easy and challenging ways to reduce your impact on the planet.

  • Miami Beach’s Sea Turtles Threatened by Its Peop ...

    The sea turtles’ way of life here is under increasing threat because they must share their breeding ground with throngs of beachgoers.

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

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