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Thomas Paine

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  • BRAZIL: Green Challenges Posed by Black Gold

    RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 16 (IPS) - Brazil's discovery of vast offshore oil and natural gas reserves raises the question of how to tap the newfound wealth without causing severe environmental impacts and without leaving aside the development of clean energy alternatives.

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    WASHINGTON, Sep 16 (IPS) - The number of political prisoners held by the ruling military junta in Burma has reached 2,200, according to a report released here by Human Rights Watch Wednesday.

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    BUENOS AIRES, Sep 16 (IPS) - While the popularity of the Argentine government of President Cristina Fernández is waning, allegations of corruption against public officials have mushroomed.

  • GRENADA: Coup Leader Calls on U.S. to "Come Clean ...

    ST GEORGE'S, Sep 16 (IPS) - For nearly three decades, Grenadians have wondered what happened to the body of their first left-wing prime minister, Maurice Bishop.

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    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 ...

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  • City of New York Concedes 9/11 Coalition Has 30,00 ...

    In a last minute decision, lawyers for the City of New York have conceded that the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN), a group comprising 9/11 family members, first responders and survivors, indeed did submit over 30,000 valid signatures to put the referendum for a new 9/11 inv ...

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    Giant cracks that crisscross to form polygons have been imaged on the floors of hundreds of Martian impact craters by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Scientists have been aware of them for years, but assumed they resulted from the expansion and contraction of the craters' floors due to temperatu ...

  • Asteroid Juno Grabs the Spotlight

    Toward the end of September, the sun will turn a spotlight on the asteroid Juno, giving that bulky lump of rock a rare featured cameo in the night sky. Those who get out to a dark, unpolluted sky will be able to spot the asteroid's silvery glint near the planet Uranus with a pair of binoculars. "It ...

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  • Obama Backs Extending Patriot Act Spy Provisions

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Consortium News

  • How the Soviet Menace Was Hyped

    A declassified document reveals how Cold War hardliners exaggerated the Soviet threat in the 1980s, Melvin A. Goodman says. September 15, 2009

  • Torture First, Justify Afterwards

    CIA's former inspector general admits that harsh interrogations preceded written legal guidance, Jason Leopold reports. September 15, 2009

  • Was the 'Lockerbie Bomber' Framed?

    U.S. outrage over release of a Libyan convicted in the PanAm 103 bombing ignores signs he was railroaded, says Morgan Strong. September 14, 2009

  • Ray McGovern Warns of 'Two CIAs'

    Ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern says President Obama may have reason to fear from CIA hardliners, writes Brad Friedman. September 13, 2009

  • 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

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Godspace

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    Well the pace of life is ratcheting up as we get ready for our trip to Australia in 12 days as well as my trip to LA tomorrow for the West Coast Healthcare Missions Conference. So many details and at the moment we do not have an assistant to help us. And that all reminded [...]

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IntelNews

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  • Sit Up Straight! Be Confident!

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  • U.S. to Shelve Nuclear-Missile Shield

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  • The Waiting Room

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Why Organic

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

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

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  • BIG MEDIA RULINGS

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Invisible Opportunity

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    Congrats to Manny Badillo for making the best of his 4 minutes on French TV. He was able to hit all the 9/11 highlights as well as implicate the NATO forces and CIA in Poppy Field Promotion. Wow!!!

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  • A STRENGTHENED VIRUS AND A POLICE STATE

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  • Melting Ice Forces Walruses to Alaska Shore

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  • Afghanistan fights with Islamic Movement of Uzbeki ...

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  • WALTER CRONKITE: THE END OF AN ERA – JULY 17, 20 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • Giant panda calls reveal sex talk

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  • Ghost Fleet of the Recession Revealed

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  • Intelligence Agencies Say No New Nukes in Iran

    Summary: The U.S. intelligence community is reporting to the White House that Iran has not restarted its nuclear-weapons development program, two counterproliferation officials tell NEWSWEEK. U.S. agencies had previously said that Tehran halted the program in 2003. Secret updates to White Ho ...

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  • They're baaaaack....

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    (NaturalNews) Patrick Swayze's death came as a shock to many people. But not to his own cancer doctor: They know that the five-year survival rates of people being treated with chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer are virtually zero. And Swayze was only the latest in a long list of celebrities dying af ...

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  • Chia is an Ancient Superfood Treasure

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  • Jihadis and whores

    FABIUS MAXIMUS has an eponymous web site which is probably one of the best sources of real-world objectivity about world affairs. Some of you already know of ol' Fabe, but if you don't, do go visit. This weekend's post is " Is Iran dangerous, or a paper tiger? ", a reprise with updates, of a 2007 ...

  • Goodbye Mary Travers.

    Peter, Paul and Mary were born in Mary's Greenwich Village apartment. In 1961 they stepped out and were forever the leaders of a movement which left others in the dust. Mary Travers, that powerful voice and that strong woman is no longer with us . There is an old saying that you are only as import ...

  • the obligatory Japanese election post

    Okay, this post is late and for that I apologize, but I've been busy down at the Ministry of Truth office rewriting the translations of what all the conservative movers and shakers think of the Japanese election. The consesus is that they are against it. Doom and gloom is widely predicted by the rig ...

  • Well, That's Depressing . . . .

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

  • Well, How 'Bout That ? ? ? ?

    New York Representative Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat, yesterday introduced a bill in Congress. From the Representative's web-site : September 15, 2009 Nadler, Baldwin and Polis Introduce the Respect for Marriage Act to Repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) Civil Rights advocates and LGBT Ame ...

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  • NY Times, Baltimore Sun ignore ...

    In September 16 articles, The New York Times and Baltimore Sun covered attacks against ACORN based on videotapes of conservative activists posing as a prostitute and a pimp while speaking to ACORN employees in several states, including California and Maryland. However, those articles did not ...

  • Conservatives express outrage about charges that ...

    Conservatives in the media have recently criticized congressional Democrats, Jimmy Carter, Maureen Dowd, and others for suggesting that attacks on President Obama are racially motivated, saying, for example, that it's a "disgusting smear," "a sign of desperation," and " despicable tactics." Ho ...

  • Fox News runs with San Bernardino ACORN video wit ...

    On September 15 and 16, Fox News devoted significant programming to conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe and TownHall.com columnist Hannah Giles' video of their interactions with an ACORN worker, who claimed she murdered her husband and gave advice on how to run a brothel, but stated after the ...

  • Fox News reports fake murder story from ACORN vi ...

    After Andrew Breitbart posted a video of an ACORN employee in San Bernardino, California, claiming that she had killed her ex-husband, Fox News' Glenn Beck, Karl Rove, Greta Van Susteren, and Sean Hannity promoted it without fact-checking it or indicating that they had contacted ACORN for a r ...

  • Media conservatives rush to defend Wilson

    Conservative media have recently rushed to defend Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) by criticizing a resolution by House Democrats that formally reprimands Wilson for shouting "you lie" at President Obama during his recent address before Congress. Their defenses have ranged from claiming that the House re ...

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  • Hoisted from the archives – my old post on Fresh ...

    Long before Paul Krugman elevated the central schism in macroeconomics to the front page I wrote about it on this blog. My old post is reprinted below (with a few trivial modifications to make it more readable than the original):... Sponsored Topics: Paul Krugman - Economic - Macroeconomics - So ...

  • The Healing of America

    The New York Times reviews Washington Post correspondent T.R. Reid's new book on Global health care alternatives, The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care. The review ends with this trenchant reminder. Mr. Reid's... Sponsored Topics: T.R. Reid - Health c ...

  • International Investigation Finds War Crimes in Ga ...

    Check out this terrific new Palestinian website. "Based in Washington, DC, Palestine Note provides daily updates of aggregated news stories, original human interest stories and blogs. Its The goal is to present a pluralistic, diverse picture of one of the... Sponsored Topics: War crime - W ...

  • Protecting State Consumer Protection from Preempti ...

    While the debate on health reform has dominated headlines, Congress is moving forward with marking up federal financial reform legislation. Currently, proposed federal legislation includes language that safeguards the ability of states to take independent action to protect consumers, but... Spons ...

  • Short Sellers: The Unsung Heroes of the Financial ...

    Last year, as the collapse of the housing bubble was threatening to turn Wall Street into a pre-industrial economy, many leading financial commentators were blaming short-sellers for the meltdown. They argued that the fundamentals of the financial industry were essentially... Sponsored Topics: W ...

TruthOut

  • We Can't Afford Health Care? You Lie!

    While $1 trillion is being spent on war, unemployment continues to rise and people continue to lose their health care. (Photo: Troy Page / t r u t h o u t) read more

  • Democracy and Action in Afghanistan

    Afghanistan's historic August election was marred by widespread voting inconsistencies, despite efforts by U.S. and Afghan soldiers - and warlords - to keep the peace. Kunar Province, Afghanistan - As gunshots rang out from the mountain tops of the Dewegal Valley in eastern Afghanistan, men ...

  • Pentagon Study Proposes Overhaul of Defense Base A ...

    Washington DC - Congress could save as much as $250 million a year through a sweeping overhaul of the controversial U.S. system to care for civilian contractors injured in war zones, according to a new Pentagon study. In the most extensive review ever of the taxpayer-financed system, the Pen ...

  • What We Hope for From Pittsburgh

    In a week, the next G20 summit will take place in Pittsburgh to take stock of the situation after the intentions and recommendations expressed in London last April. Let us hope that the controversy over traders' bonuses not be the tree that hides the forest of real challenges. Certainly, the mea ...

  • A Whiter Shade of Faith: Saturday's Tax Protests a ...

    Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeons justlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what I want to know is how do you like your blue-eyed boy Mister Death - e. e. cummings 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

  • Snake with foot found in China

    A snake with a clawed foot has been found in China, a 66-year-old woman discovered the creature after she found it clinging to her bedroom wall wi...

  • Hunters to scour lake for monster

    An expedition is being planned to search for evidence for the existence of a large serpent-like creature sighted in Cameron Lake, Canada. An initi...

  • Nepal runs out of goats to sacrifice

    Nepalese capital city Kathmandu has run out of goats to sacrifice a matter of days before the largest religious festival of the year, prompting th...

  • Google crop circle logo mystery

    Less than two weeks after its previous paranormal themed doodle, Google is once again baffling web users with a new doodle showing a UFO hovering ...

  • What is the Starchild Skull ?

    A mysterious skull known as the "Starchild Skull" has been the subject of speculation and intrigue for decades, is this the result of a child whos...

Grassroots

  • Why Do We Need a Global Climate Justice Movement?

    Outside Author Bio: Nicola Bullard is a Senior Associate with Focus on the Global South and active in the Climate Justice Now! (CJN!) network. Gopal Dayaneni is a Planning Committee member of Movement Generation, Justice and Ecology Project, using rese ...

  • Guatemala is Hungry for Justice

    guatemala200810-060.jpg Earlier this week, the BBC produced a shocking article: “ Eyewitness: Guatemala food crisis .” The piece exposes the sad reality that haunts families throughout the country, particularly those in indigenous and pea ...

  • Fasting for Honduras

    The military coup in Honduras is in its 80th day, and the Honduran people continue their peaceful resistance. In contrast, the police are cracking down on protesters. Public officials not aligned with the coup government are being persecuted. The government repression has led to several casualties, ...

  • 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 ...

Climate

  • September 16, 2009

    Reid: Climate Bill May Wait Until 2010 (ClimateWire) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid added another layer of uncertainty to the prospects for passing a comprehensive climate bill this year by opening the door to punting the legislation into 2010, only to have a top aide backtrack on the commen ...

  • September 15, 2009

    Schwarzenegger to Implement His Own California Energy Plan (Reuters) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will veto the renewable energy standard passed by the Legislature and launch his own plan by executive order today with a similar goal but different rules, possibly counting nuclear and hydropower as ...

  • September 14, 2009

    Study: Warming Could Cut Some Countries’ GDP by a Fifth (Reuters) Climate change could cut gross domestic product in countries at a high risk from weather catastrophes by as much as a fifth by 2030 unless urgent steps are taken, according to the UN-backed Economics of Climate Adaptation Worki ...

  • September 12-13, 2009

    Schwarzenegger to Veto Renewable Energy Bills (AP) Gov. Schwarzenegger's office said Saturday that he would veto legislation requiring a third of California's energy to come from renewable sources by 2020, choosing instead to mandate the change through an executive order. Minnesota Utility Pul ...

  • 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 ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Andy Kroll, The Washington Influence Mac ...

    Congressman Joe ("You lie!") Wilson is undoubtedly not completely ignorant about how our health care system actually works. After all, in the course of his career, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, he's received $244,196 in contributions from the health-care profession -- and that ...

  • Tomgram: Chip Ward, The Ruins in Our Future

    All of us have been watching drought in action this summer. When it hits the TV news, though, it usually goes by the moniker of "fire." As we've seen, California, in the third year of a major drought, has been experiencing "a seemingly endless fire that has burned more than 250 square miles of L ...

  • 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 ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Why we should feel sorry for Joe Wilson

    You have to feel sorry for Joe Wilson, that nonentity of a congressman from South Carolina who yelled, "You lie!" at the president as he spoke to a joint session of Congress last week. Wilson has had to cope with a lot of trauma in his own life. Not Vietnam; he managed to dodge that by going to law ...

  • Obama's Presidency Isn't Too Big to Fail

    — from TomDispatch A president has only so much capital to expend, both in tax dollars and public tolerance, and Barack Obama is dangerously overdrawn. He has tried to have it all on three fronts, and his administration is in serious danger of going bankrupt. He has blundered into a deepening quagmi ...

  • Tone Deaf? The White House and Unemployment

    Recently Larry Summers was quoted as saying that unemployment levels in the US are " unacceptably high ." He then went on to say that unemployment "will on all forecasts remain unacceptably high for a number of, for a number of years." Wait. If Larry Summers -- and presumably the rest of the Admini ...

  • Tomgram: Andy Kroll, The Washington Influence Mach ...

    — from TomDispatch Congressman Joe ("You lie!") Wilson is undoubtedly not completely ignorant about how our health care system actually works. After all, in the course of his career, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, he's received $244,196 in contributions from the health-care profes ...

  • The Glory of the Well Adjusted

    By Case Wagenvoord I don’t remember what triggered it, but the most terrifying epiphany I had in grad school was when it struck me that the only difference between Adolph Eichmann and a clean-cut Air Force first lieutenant sitting in a missile silo in the wheatfields of Kansas was that Eichmann h ...

Ten Percent

  • Commenting on HarpyMarx Will Get You Fired!

    Mark Anthony France has been sacked by the DWP for…well being an engaged citizen in a democracy, one reason given was he commented on Harpymarx’s site, watch and hear the hilarious slight sneer as the BBC reporter says the name. It is notable the criminal activities of a Tory MP do not get her s ...

  • One Way Obama is Different to Bush

    He has gone longer than Bush without a major terrorist attack ‘on his watch’. (ht2 David Feldman) Although he does oversee a fair few on other people.

  • He Was Tortured, He Is In Fear Of His Life From Oc ...

    Viva Muntadar al-Zaidi! The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former US President George W Bush says he was tortured by senior government officials while in jail. Shortly after his release from nine months in a Baghdad prison, Muntadar al-Zaidi demanded an apology – and said he would nam ...

  • And For Those Who Get Skittish At The Mention of C ...

    Executives at Britain’s top companies saw their basic salaries leap 10% last year, despite the onset of the worst global recession in decades, in which their companies lost almost a third of their value amid a record decline in the FTSE. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to admit for the first time t ...

  • To Those Who Resist The Idea of a Ruling Class

    This is how it works.

Paul Krugman

  • Macro situation notes

    A couple of pictures to illustrate just how big the difference is between the technical end of the recession, which has probably happened, and anything resembling a satisfactory performance.

  • Freshwater rage

    I've missed out on much of the outpouring of rage over my magazine article. I gather, though, that the usual suspects are utterly outraged.

  • 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.

No Quarter

  • [Updates] What?! There’s Yet Another Tax That Av ...

    Just how f##king stupid and naive do Barack Obama and Congress think that middle- and lower-class citizens are? Especially Finance Committee chair Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.)? Unless you’ve just fallen off the turnip truck, you learned a long time ago that ANY new business tax will end up being pai ...

  • Jon Stewart Gets It!

    Where the hell are the media scoundrels on the recent ACORN scandal? I will let Jon answer that with one wish — that he do this more often than not. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

  • Now Protesters are KKK applicants, not merely raci ...

    Are you tired of white racism being the reason for any opposition to Obama and his policies? Think that protesting his plans or talking about him negatively as a politician is part of your rights in a democratic society? Well, think again. Not only is it not right, now instead of merely [...]

  • Mr. President, Let’s Watch Where Financial Regul ...

    On the heels of President Obama’s speech on Wall Street at which he called for meaningful financial regulatory reform, I welcome submitting to him and the American public the following video clips. These clips are from Fox Business News “America’s Nightly Scoreboard” with David Asman on Sept ...

  • “now THAT’S presidential!” sarcasm or praise ...

    President Barack Obama called hip-hop musician Kanye West a “jackass” on Monday in an off-the-record comment during an interview with CNBC, an ABC News anchor reported on Twitter. AUDIO here. (Joe Wilson treatment? Please….) Obama was apparently weighing in on an interruption that occurred th ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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    Norman Borlaug's complicated legacy, a primer on E.P.A. greenhouse gas regulations and more energy and environment news from around the Web.

  • Debating Protectionism on Renewable Energy

    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has come out in support of importing clean power into California. But other states have shaped their renewable-energy requirements to protect local industries.

  • A New Way to Turn Plastic Into Fuel?

    A company in Washington, D.C., says it has a new way to convert waste plastic into fuel -- a typically messy process that has foiled entrepreneurs before.

  • Electric Motorcycle Sets Speed Record

    An electric motorcycle startup based in San Francisco said Tuesday that its prototype vehicle had set a world speed record for battery-powered bikes.

  • Critics Say Australia Forgot About Efficiency

    Unlike government car-buying programs in other countries, Australia's incentives did not carry any special efficiency requirement when purchasing a new car.

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

  • Iraq’s vice president says Iraq should call on U ...

    Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories Adel Abdul Mahdi says in an interview with the Monitor that political reluctance to ask US troops for security support should be reconsidered. …

  • Israel sees bias in Gaza war crimes charges

    Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories Israel’s Foreign Ministry charged a political campaign against Israel. Hamas welcomed the report – with reservations. …

  • WTO reform is needed today

    Read the full story at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Press Releases The languishing Doha Round of global trade talks elicits questions about the limitations of the World Trade Organization, just as economic crisis and burgeoning protectionist pressures demonstrate the urgency of streng ...

  • Fox Nation Resident Is "Proud To Be A Racist"

    Read the full story at News Hounds When Fox Nation inaugurated its website, this statement was made: “…How can we make certain that children of all races are fairly judged, not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character? FOX Nation will be a forum for Americans to speak ou ...

  • Another Defeat For Fox Nation – "Birther" Suit T ...

    Read the full story at News Hounds Whenever the sentiment of Fox Nation seems to go their way, Fox Nation puts up a thread titled “Another Fox Nation Victory.” The resignation of Van Jones was their most recent triumph. They were, however, dealt a defeat with the US Senate Confirmation of Cass S ...

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Pine River World News

  • Ramzy Baroud: Perpetual Grief over September 11th

    The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Perpetual Grief over September 11th © Ramzy Baroud September 16, 2009 The anniversary of the infamous tragedy of 9/11, 2001, and the subsequent ramifications indeed induce, throughout the world, a plethora of feelings of sorrow. ...

  • Machine rebellion begins: Killer robot destroyed b ...

    The following article is from The Register, U.K. Machine rebellion begins: Killer robot destroyed by U.S. jet / Rogue droid 'was attempting to cross border' © The Register By Lewis Page September 15, 2009 An American "Reaper" flying hunter-killer robot assassin rebelled against its human contro ...

  • Paul Craig Roberts: Health Care Deceit

    The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. Health Care Deceit © Paul Craig Roberts September 14, 2009 The current health care "debate" shows how far gone representative government is in the United States. Members of Congress represent the powerful interest groups t ...

  • Blackwater involved in Bhutto and Hariri hits: ex- ...

    IntelTrends - The following article is from Mehr News Agency (MNA), Tehran. Blackwater involved in Bhutto and Hariri hits: ex-Pakistani army chief © Mehr News Agency September 14, 2009 TEHRAN, Sept. 14 (MNA) -- Pakistan's former chief of army staff, General Mirza Aslam Beg (ret.), has said the ...

  • America's New Left

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda. America's New Left © Pravda By Dominick L. Auci, Ph.D. September 12, 2009 Escondido, California On September 9, President Obama addressed a rare, joint session of Congress. His topic was health care reform. Universal health care ...

    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

  • Donna Edwards joins PDA Advisory Board

    Dear Progressive Democrats of America, A few weeks ago, I had the honor of speaking at PDA’s 5th birthday and Medicare’s 44th birthday at the same celebration, hosted by my friend, fellow activist and PDA Board ...

  • IOT: Health Care Call 9-15-2009

    On this call we Vic Edgerton (Legislative aide for Congressman Dennis Kucinich), Donna Smith (Co-Chair for our Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign) and Ali Thebert (Chapter Organizer/Communications Assistance for PNHP)

  • A Letter to our President on Afghanistan

    Cross-posted from | http://www.iraqpledge.org/ Dear President Obama: We are writing on behalf of the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance to seek a meeting to discuss the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. We are greatly ...

  • IOT: End the Occupation, Redirect Funding Call Se ...

    Tom Hayden joined us on the call to update us on Afghanistan, he also talked about his petition and did a Q&A session.

  • OpedNews Journalist and Six Protesters Charged Wit ...

    By Linda Milazzo | PDA Blog Contributor Philadelphia, PA, September 13, 2009: Six members of various anti-war groups, including World Can’t Wait and Military Families Speak Out, and an OpedNews journalist, were arrested yesterday at ...

Marler Blog

  • Cy Vance Jr., newly elected Manhattan District Att ...

    A little over a year ago, I hosted a fund-raiser for Cy’s run for Manhattan District Attorney. It was a bit of the “who’s who” of the Seattle legal community – primarily white-collar criminal types (that being the lawyers for those criminals). It was what you would expect from a Cy eve ...

  • Petting Zoos Sickening Kids in Britain and Canada ...

    The ongoing problems in the US led the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC ) to publish recommendations for reducing the risk of transmitting E. coli and other human pathogens at animal exhibits. In the wake of devastating E. coli outbreaks, several states including Pennsylvania and North Carolina h ...

  • Cy Vance Jr., newly elected Manhattan City Attorne ...

    A little over a year ago, I hosted a fund-raiser for Cy’s run for City Attorney of Manhattan. It was a bit of the “who’s who” of the Seattle legal community – primarily white-collar criminal types (that being the lawyers for those criminals). It was what you would expect from a Cy event ...

  • Thirteen People Sickened with E. coli at the Pacif ...

    According to press reports, eleven children and two adults came down with E. coli days after visiting the petting zoo at the Pacific National Exhibition this summer. A spokesman for B.C. Children's Hospital in Vancouver confirmed Tuesday three of the 13 cases were serious enough to warrant hospita ...

  • Donna M. Byrne, a.k.a. Food Law Professor, notices ...

    Professor Donna M. Byrne of William Mitchell College of Law gave us a “shout out” about Food Safety News today: Kudos to Marler Clark for launching a promising and informative new website. Food Safety News is a news site rather than a blog (Bill Marler's MarlerBlog is still going strong too). ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Frankfurt 2009: Renault goes Twizy (with Zoe and F ...

    Filed under: Concept Cars , Frankfurt Motor Show , Renault , Alternative Fuel Renault Zero Emission line-up - Click above for high-res image gallery The more we see of Renault's all-electric line-up on display at the Frankfurt Motor Show , the more we want to hang out at company cocktail parties. ...

  • REPORT: Tesla gets $82.5 million investment; deliv ...

    Filed under: Earnings/Financials , Tesla , Alternative Fuel Go to Frankfurt, get $82.5 million. That's sort of what happened to Tesla Motors , which is at the big Frankfurt Motor Show this week and received an "opportunistic" equity investment in that amount from a group led by Fjord Capital Partne ...

  • Frankfurt 2009: Reva NXG looks ready to stomp, NXR ...

    Filed under: Concept Cars , Frankfurt Motor Show , Hatchback , Alternative Fuel Reva NXG - Click above for high-res image gallery The REVA Electric Car Company announced the price of the REVA NXR - which starts at 9,995 euros for the lead acid version with leased batteries - in Frankfurt today a ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.16.09

    REPORT: Toyota secretly tested lithium-ion Priuses for three years If you don't think they're light years ahead of where they say they are, you're not paying attention. Frankfurt 2009: all plugs and hybri ...

  • Drew Barrymore first to race Ford Focus EV on Leno ...

    Filed under: Sedan , Ford , Celebrities , Alternative Fuel Apparently, electric cars are for girls . For his new prime-time TV show, Jay Leno is going to pit celebrities against one another in his new Green Car Challenge segment and the first one in the driver's seat will be Drew Barrymore. Barry ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Aviary launches impressive audio editor, Myna

    Aviary is great at making advanced Web-based artists' tools that I haven't a hope of being able to fully use. Case in point, the new audio editor, Myna , that joins the company's suite of graphics tools like the Phoenix image editor and the Raven vector editor. I have ...

  • What's best for business microblogs: Hosted servic ...

    I recently talked to execs from two companies that do exactly the same thing but in completely different ways. In this corner, Yammer , the 2008 TechCrunch50 darling . It's a Twitter-for-the-enterprise service that's hosted by Yammer. Any company can get its employees on to the service, but all the ...

  • AOL embraces Twitter, Facebook with AIM Lifestream

    AOL's instant messenger, AIM , becomes on Tuesday the AIM Lifestream and gets support for modern social services Twitter , Facebook , Digg , Flickr , and Delicious . A multiple-platform suite of products being announced at the TechCrunch50 event will support the service. In addition to ins ...

  • Google Fast Flip: The platypus of news readers

    Google on Monday released an experimental new content browser called Fast Flip that makes it possible to see a curated set of content sites using a physical "turn the pages" metaphor. Fast Flip pages are cached by Google and load very quickly, which is cool. And if your brain is ...

  • Microsoft launches Bing 'Visual Search'

    You see that headline? "Visual Search" is in quotation marks because Monday's announcement at the TechCrunch 50 conference about Bing's new search feature is a bit of a canard. What Microsoft is launching is very cool, mind you. It's just not, strictly speaking, a search feature. At ...

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!

  • Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore

    On Sept. 14, 2001, the U.S. House of Representatives considered House Joint Resolution 64, “To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.” The wounds of 9/11 were raw, and the lust for vengeance seemed uni ...

  • Christian Parenti responds to Kevin Bales

    Democracy Now! recently interviewed Kevin Bales, founder of Free the Slaves. Journalist Christian Parenti wrote a response to that interview which we have posted below. Parenti is an investigative journalist who has covered issues of child labor in the chocolate industry in Côte d’Ivoir ...

  • Sandra Maria Esteves Performs "Aguacero" at the Yo ...

    This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the revolutionary community organizing group the Young Lords. The group called for self-determination for all Puerto Ricans, community control of institutions and land, freedom for all political prisoners and the withdrawal of US troops fr ...

  • Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck

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

  • New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks

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

Farming Pathogens

  • Heart of Modeling

    Greed is often mistaken for humanity’s heart of darkness. Look instead to the rationalization that transforms the most rapacious pillaging into an act of benevolence. A one-ton bomb dropped on a peasant wedding party is dissembled into regret without responsibility or, baser yet, a tough love offe ...

  • 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 ...

Digg Green

Suzie-Q

  • Mary Travers Of Peter, Paul And Mary Has Died

    BOSTON — Mary Travers, who as one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary helped popularize such tunes as “Puff (The Magic Dragon)” and “If I Had a Hammer,” died Wednesday after battling leukemia for several years. She was 72. The band’s publicist, Heather Lyl ...

  • Baucus And Conrad: Matchstick Men Of Health Care R ...

    There’s one positive political aspect to this epic fight for health care reform. We now know for sure which congressional Democrats have to be vigorously challenged and defeated the next time they come up for re-election. The health care reform debate has forced the toxic slag to gurgle to the sur ...

  • Ralph Reed and Randall Terry- Will Sex & Financial ...

    Religious Right Has-Beens Try for a Resurrection By Rob Boston, Church & State Magazine. Posted September 16, 2009. Will financial and sex scandals sink the hopes of middle-age culture warriors Ralph Reed and Randall Terry? Don’t count them out just yet. The last few years haven’t been easy ...

  • Evening Jukebox- Hit The Road Jack!

    Ray Charles- Hit The Road Jack!

  • Afghanistan war: Global opposition grows

    Trent Hawkins, Green Left Online, Sep 12, 2009 In the wake of the bombing of two oil tankers by the occupying NATO forces, and farcical elections controlled by warlords, international public opinion is turning against the US-led war in Afghanistan. The September 4 oil tanker bombings in Kunduz pr ...

Solari

  • Clif High - The Shape of Things to Come

    Clif High, of Half Past Human, has produced a new report! Catherine has interviewed Clif twice on The Solari Report (view the blog posts 1 / 2.) Catherine writes about Clif: As someone dedicated to helping individuals, families, and communities manage and reduce their risk, I find Clif’s work po ...

  • The Truth About the Health Care Bills

    By Michael Connelly Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were be ...

  • 45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress ...

    By Terry Jones Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted, a new IBD/TIPP Poll has found. The poll contradicts the claims ...

  • Deep Survival

    If you asked me for a list of the top ten books to help you survive, thrive and make a real difference in the 21st century, Laurence Gonzales’ Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why would be at the top of the list. Beautifully written, Deep Survival moves the reader through a series of [...]

  • The New Roth Rollover Rules Explained

    By Kimberly Lankford I’ve been getting a ton of questions from readers about the new Roth IRA rollover rules that take effect in 2010, when anyone will be able to convert their traditional IRA to a Roth regardless of their income. (You can make the switch now only if your adjusted gross income is ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away

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

  • The Georgia Guidestones

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

  • The Creation

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

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

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

  • About George Green

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

Insurgency Watch - Posts

  • Mingora Shrugs Over Rumors of Fazlullah Capture

    MINGORA, Pakistan – The Swat Valley’s beleaguered capital was taking a wait-and-see attitude to the rumors that Maulana Fazlullah, head of the Swat Taliban which had terrorized the picturesque valley for five years, had been captured or killed by security forces this weekend. The rumors first be ...

  • Fazlullah may be captured

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California moving to boost small solar projects
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- Sep 16, 2009
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Ecology fines company $36000 for Bellingham project
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Two more water mains broke overnight in the San Fernando Valley, the latest in a rash of problems hitting LA's water system. The first break occurred around ...
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Agencies Weigh New Water Standards for Firefighting in DC
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Sonoma withdraws request for more water
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