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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • ZIMBABWE: Football Fails to Feed Families

    BULAWAYO, Sep 18 (IPS) - Football was never a ticket to fabulous wealth in Zimbabwe, at least not for players who stayed in the country. But the economic situation has made it ever harder to play simply for the pride and pleasure of pulling on local team colours.

  • Q&A: Regional Prescriptions for Water Management

    MASERU, Sep 18 (IPS) - The Orange-Senqu River has a one million square kilometre basin that covers Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. The water it provides is crucial to industry in South Africa, but is also relied on by farmers and domestic users.

  • MUSIC: Afro-Brazilians Priced Out of Back2Black C ...

    RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 18 (IPS) - On stage, singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil highlighted Brazil's "genetic and cultural" connection to "Mother Africa," to applause from a predominantly light-skinned audience at a concert that black people generally could not afford - symbolic of the country's "veil ...

  • LATIN AMERICA: Desertification – an Invisib ...

    BUENOS AIRES, Sep 18 (IPS) - "Desertification is the cancer of the earth," Argentine geographer Elena Abraham told IPS. "It is a process of degradation that does not manifest itself in spectacular ways but furtively advances, and by the time it is visible there is nothing to be done, and people ...

  • POLITICS: Libya's Mercurial Leader Keeps U.N. Gue ...

    UNITED NATIONS, Sep 18 (IPS) - Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi, who will be making his maiden appearance before the United Nations next week, has been described as a gadfly with a penchant for stirring up controversies.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Innovation Canada

  • i2eye with Bruce McNaughton

    One of the world’s foremost neuroscientists, Bruce McNaughton is renowned for his groundbreaking research into how the human brain stores, processes and transmits information. One year ago, the Ottawa-born McNaughton was lured back to Canada after spending more than a quarter century in the United ...

  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Housing Agency's Cash Reserves Will Drop Below Req ...

    The Federal Housing Administration has been hit so hard by the mortgage crisis that for the first time, the agency's cash reserves will drop below the minimum level set by Congress, FHA officials said. The FHA guaranteed about a quarter of all U.S. home loans made this year, and the reserves are me ...

  • Forty percent of U.S. junk bonds to default by 201 ...

    New York - About 40 percent of all U.S. junk bonds outstanding in late 2008 will likely default by 2013 as government aid measures end and a wall of corporate debt comes due, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said on Thursday. By contrast, the cumulative five-year default rate was about 30 percent in t ...

  • Indus Valley Civilisation: Who were they?

    Karachi: The undeciphered script of the Indus Valley civilisation holds the key to a question with sharp political overtones: were the people of the subcontinent's earliest recorded civilisation Aryans or Dravidians? Or neither? In 1946, an India's archaeological survey team was at one of its favou ...

  • Ancient objects found on remote Mokumanamana 'an a ...

    Researchers on a rare expedition to a now uninhabited rocky outpost north of the main Hawaiian islands found a partially finished human stone carving and the remnants of what may be a craftsman's workshop. The findings at the remote Mokumanamana island, about 460 miles northwest of Honolulu, were p ...

  • Quietly, Sotomayor turns on corporations

    Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's newly installed Supreme Court Justice, has a few words for corporations seeking protection under law. You're not people. During arguments in a recent campaign-finance case - that may upend campaign finance law to allow more spending by corporations - Sotomayo ...

Threat Level

  • Intelligence Analyst Says Hacking Charge Doesn’t ...

    A Defense Department intelligence analyst hit with a federal computer hacking charge last week says he’s being made a scapegoat for a security slip-up that sent a password in a nationwide terrorism investigation to “tens of thousands” of analysts without the need-to-know. “I think on one of ...

  • Court: Disloyal Computing is not Illegal

    A federal appeals court is ruling employees are not liable for damages under anti-hacking laws for accessing their employers’ computers for disloyal purposes. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled (.pdf) that workers authorized to access company computers do not lose or exceed that access un ...

  • Linden Lab Targeted in Second Life Sex-Code Lawsui ...

    Having virtual sex in Second Life isn’t what it used to be. The 6-year-old virtual world, run by Linden Lab of San Francisco, is apparently so littered with bootlegged sex toys that it’s hard to know whether you’re getting the right bang for your buck. Raising the stakes on a two-year-old inte ...

  • Color-Coded Threat Level Advisory Under Attack

    The often-spoofed, color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System may get an overhaul – moving from five colors to three in a bid to win the public trust. The nation has been at Yellow, “an elevated significant risk of terrorist attacks” for three years. International and domestic flights ha ...

  • Obama Backs Extending Patriot Act Spy Provisions

    The Obama administration has told Congress it supports renewing three provisions of the Patriot Act due to expire at year’s end, measures making it easier for the government to spy within the United States. In a letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Senate Judiciar ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Republicans' Zombie Myth of 9/11 and Iraq

    Among the most disturbing legacies of the horrific Al Qaeda attacks on the United States 8 years ago has been the appropriation of September 11 by Republicans as just another arrow in their quiver of partisan warfare. Former New York...

  • The Bad Medicine of the Republican Doctors

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • 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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Planetsave

  • Double Whammy of Pollution for Mississippi River i ...

    A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee samples river water for endocrine disrupting pollutants. Study results publicized this week suggest Twin Cities water resources and the Mississippi River downstream from the Cities are suffering from pollution by road salt and endocrine disrupting chemical ...

  • 14 Deer Die in One Night at Zoo under Mysterious C ...

    According to reports , 13 cheetal and one swamp deer died Friday evening under “mysterious circumstances” at the Kanpur Zoo. Viscera samples and stomach content have been sent to the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI). Results are expected sometime within the next two weeks. The ...

  • 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Ruling your world with fear

    What voters can do is use the threat of staying home and not voting to rule the democrats with fear and force them to produce results. The voters can easily say to all their reps and senators who are running next year " You are guaranteed my support and my contributions, and my vote on election day ...

  • As Cheney might say...So?

    So seven craven, venal fucks worried about saving their own skins former heads of the CIA are in a tizzy because the agency they collectively lost control of is being investigated. That's some fine leadership there - making an argument that boils down to "when our guys and gals break the law, they ...

  • Snowe takes a shot at her own party

    Back in 1962, when Ronald Reagan left the Democratic Party, when he made the announcement he said that he didn't leave the party, the party left him. Republicans made hay out of that for 35 years, and even elected him to the presidency. Twice. In landslides. For reals. (Future historians are gonna ...

  • We tried to tell them

    We, the dirty fuckin' hippies, have been right all along. That is why we will never be forgiven. We committed the unforgivable sin. We were, are, and shall remain - right . About every single issue that has faced this country in the last half century. Every. Single. One.

  • J. Craig Venter to receive National Medal of Scien ...

    J. Craig Venter, like our President, is living proof that you can goof off and surf your youth away and still make something of yourself and turn out okay. Venter was a lackadaisical youth, bringing home report cards with C's and D's as a middle school student, much preferring water and sand to stu ...

Care 2

  • 'Racist' claims defuse once powerful word

    With the word being used so often, it's harder to define its meaning Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Volkswagen L1 Concept

    A one-liter car? This moniker describes a car that uses one liter of fuel—about a quarter of a gallon—to propel a car for 100 kilometers, or 62 miles. The one-liter car’s fuel economy translates to almost 240 mpg, and VW has Submitted by Terry West to Science & Tech | Note-it! | Add a Comm ...

  • Proposal To Reintroduce Iberian Lynx On Abandoned ...

    Spanish scientists have developed a model to identify the agricultural areas with the greatest potential for restoring the habitat of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus), which is at risk of extinction. The study shows that olive groves with low production Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it ...

  • Selective Deficit Disorder

    Watching the health care debate unfold these days is a little like watching scenes from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" — the ones showing a collage of strung-out, deranged or otherwise incapacitated patients rotting away in a squalid psychiatric ward. Submitted by Just Carole to US Politics & Go ...

  • Asiatic Wild Dog

    IT’S STRANGE how a creature so endangered once had a substantial bounty on its head, mainly for game by hunters who saw it as a competitor predator! Much of its (undeserved) ill-repute is owed to Nobel Laureate Rudyard Kipling for portraying the ‘red dog Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note- ...

GreenBiz

  • CDP 2009 Preview: Tackling Environmental and Energ ...

    This year's S&P 500 report reveals that companies involved in the climate change issue are increasingly reporting that their involvement in environmental and energy concerns is both a social and financial must.

  • Abbott Develops 40 Projects to Cut Packaging

    Health care company Abbott plans to reduce the weight of its packaging by 5 percent by 2013, and has created more than 40 projects that it's started or plans to begin soon.

  • TerraCycle Collects Scotch Tape for Reuse, Expands ...

    For its latest collection effort, TerraCycle will not be upcycling the waste it brings in. Instead, after collecting used Scotch tape dispensers, TerraCycle will send them back to 3M to be reused. TerraCycle has also announced that it will use London as a launch pad for its new U.K. and Europe opera ...

  • CDP 2009 Preview: Asian Firms Step Up Their Game

    The most dramatic findings in this year's Global 500 report come from Asia, where the number of companies responding shot up by almost 40 percent, says the Carbon Disclosure Project CEO in today's preview of the CDP 2009 Global 500 and S&P 500 Reports.

  • Greening Government ICT

    This report from the United Kingdom's Cabinet Office lays out the government's green IT vision and strategies to help achieve carbon neutrality in IT usage by 2012.

Reuters Global

  • U.S. Hispanics riled over immigrants’ health ...

    A move by Democrat backers to exclude 12 million illegal immigrants from buying health coverage and restrict the participation of authorized migrants has drawn the ire of U.S. Hispanics.

  • China’s Long March into Latin America

    The United States spent years trying to keep communism out of Latin America. Now communist China is making increasing inroads into the region, but as a capitalist power. R. Evan Ellis, author of a new book on China in Latin America, says it "does not have a nefarious interest, but it has strategic i ...

  • Merkel smiles through pre-election jitters

    Chancellor Angela Merkel refuses to worry about a narrowing in opinion polls before the Sept. 27 election.

  • The missile shield and the “grand bargain&#8 ...

    It would be simplistic to say that east European interests in the planned U.S missile shield have just been sacrificed to the war in Afghanistan. But it's definitely worth looking again at proposals going back to 2008 calling for a "grand bargain" on Afghanistan and Pakistan which said Washington s ...

  • Where scientists go to learn about swine flu

    A flu meeting for the experts....

Ezra Klein

  • Good Manners and the United States Senate

    The Massachusetts Senate seems likely to follow the House and approve legislation appointing a replacement for Ted Kennedy, but they're not comfortable with it. It makes them feel dirty. After all, in 2004, when John Kerry was running for president, they worried that Mitt Romney would appoint a Re ...

  • My One and Only Post on ACORN. Hopefully.

    I haven't really written anything about the ACORN scandal, as it's just a transparent and cynical waste of everyone's time. But I do think Michael Tomasky gets the bigger picture right . So head over there if you want some commentary.

  • Atul Gawande for Senate?

    I like the idea of appointing Dr. Atul Gawande as an interim senator to Ted Kennedy's seat. No one knows health care better, and few have been as influential in this process. I'd worry that Atul himself would find it a bit of a disappointing experience, as knowing stuff is not likely to matter much ...

  • Tab Dump

    1) Why government has such trouble cutting spending. 2) Ron Brownstein thinks Baucus got a lot right. 3) Jonathan Yardley reviews Kennedy's memoir, "True Compass. " I've been reading a copy, and have been shocked at how good it is. 4) I'm also looking forward to Taylor Branch's new book on Bill C ...

  • The 50 Best Foods in the World, and Where to Eat T ...

    The Guardian, in a transparent and sure-to-be-successful bid for links, rounds up the 50 best foods in the world, and tells you where to eat them . I've had two: California cuisine at Chez Panisse, and ravioli at Babbo. only one of those was a truly great meal (Chez Panisse). What's omitted from thi ...

Booman Tribune

  • I'm For Dukakis

    Sometime next week, the Massachusetts senate will pass a bill allowing the governor, Deval Patrick, to appoint a temporary replacement for Teddy Kennedy (pending a January 19th special election). More likely than not, the Democrats will have 60 votes again by the beginning of October. Now, what I ...

  • ACORN Responds

    Whatever happened at other ACORN offices, it's clear that James O'Keefe, the right wing poster boy for this "scandal" had an agenda and went looking to tape footage of ACORN workers that would support that agenda. That doesn't make him a journalist, unless you consider that lying about your purpose ...

  • The Morality of Health Care Reform, Pt 3

    "I don't understand you Americans. You blow billions on a useless war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and billions more to bail out banks that nearly bankrupted the world economy, but you don't ensure healthcare for your own people. Even Obama can't make a difference. It's as if your democracy doesn't work ...

  • Open Thread

    Check out Ezra Klein's interview with Jay Rockefeller. What news do you have?

  • My Experience With ACORN

    When I started working for ACORN in 2004, I was one of only four white people employed in their North Philadelphia office. The office was in a very run-down tenement on North Broad Street, abutted by an abandoned lot on one side and a black baptist church on the other. The furniture could only des ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • *tap, tap* Is this thing on?

    Hi folks; If you noticed that Futurismic was unreachable for a large part of the last twelve hours or so, please accept my apologies – unexplained downtime is just one of the many extras that come bundled with our web hosting service! Everything appears to be back to normal now, though (touch wood ...

  • *tap, tap* Is this thing on?

    Hi folks; If you noticed that Futurismic was unreachable for a large part of the last twelve hours or so, please accept my apologies – unexplained downtime is just one of the many extras that come bundled with our web hosting service! Everything appears to be back to normal now, though (touch wood ...

  • Kim Stanley Robinson asks why science fiction isnâ ...

    Science fiction heavyweight Kim Stanley Robinson crops up in the current edition of New Scientist to sing the praises of British sf… and of sf in general. In addition to presenting flash-length pieces by a handful of big names – Ken MacLeod, Geoff Ryman, Justina Robson and more – he has a leng ...

  • A bearing on magnetic north growing farther away a ...

    Science writer Quinn Norton tests a new sense, that of always knowing what direction North is via an ankle-attached bracelet that indicates true north using vibrations from eight internal buzzers: The Northpaw is based on the Feelspace, a project organized by the Cognitive Psychology department of U ...

  • Kim Stanley Robinson asks why science fiction isn& ...

    Science fiction heavyweight Kim Stanley Robinson crops up in the current edition of New Scientist to sing the praises of British sf… and of sf in general. In addition to presenting flash-length pieces by a handful of big names – Ken MacLeod, Geoff Ryman, Justina Robson and more – he has a leng ...

Therapy News

  • Being Born Small May Influence Sleep, Related Issu ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Negative associations with being born smaller than average abound for physicians and expectant mothers alike, but the conclusions of a new study about the link between small birth size and subsequent sleeping problems later in life may be new among them. A research te ...

  • Aversion to Favors and Gifts

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary One of the leading principles of modern positive therapy practices is the lending of one’s own skills and support to another, and the seeking of harmonious and effective support networks for those going through difficult times emotionally and mentally. For most menta ...

  • Study Links Mental Health Issues and Violence in A ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline There are many events and situations typically experienced in childhood that can lead to distress and the formation of negative memories. But some childhoods may take place in especially turbulent areas, and may be affected by traumatic events; for the children of Afg ...

  • Sick Leave Raises Concerns in UK

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline As the financial crisis becomes a growing concern in many countries, efforts to help keep businesses afloat are being explored in great detail. The National Health Service in the United Kingdom recently released a report concerning the costs of sick leave on companies ...

  • Exploring the Unconscious

    By Michael Etts, LMSW, NBCCH Click here to contact Michael and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile “Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.â€� — Carl Gustav Jung “If she walked into my life againâ€� came onto the radio. He raised ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountaintop removal mining activists arrested afte ...

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

  • Jeff Biggers: Blood Money: Will WVU Honor Coal Min ...

    This might be the shameless story of the week: Either that, or West Virginia University president James P. Clements has a lot of explaining to...

  • Elderly Activist from VA to March from WV Capitol ...

    An elderly activist opposed to mountaintop removal mining is organizing a five-day, 25-mile march of senior citizens from Charleston to a Massey Energy operation.

  • Seniors to march in mine protest (The Charleston G ...

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- An elderly activist opposed to mountaintop removal mining is organizing a five-day, 25-mile march of senior citizens from Charleston to a Massey Energy operation. Roland Micklem, an 81-year-old military veteran from Richmond, Va., say...

  • Seniors will march to protest mountaintop mining ( ...

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- An elderly activist opposed to mountaintop removal mining is organizing a five-day, 25-mile march of senior citizens from Charleston to a Massey Energy operation.Roland Micklem, an 81-year-old military veteran from Richmond, Va., says ...

Memeorandum

  • Tapper calls Fox ad 'demonstrably untrue' (Michael ...

    Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog : Tapper calls Fox ad ‘demonstrably untrue’ — Jake Tapper, on Twitter this morning, took issue with a Fox News ad in today's Washington Post, that he says is “asserting that every other channel ‘missed’ the story of the 912 march. Demo ...

  • ABC NEWS: Zazi Admits Al-Qaeda Ties, May Plead Gui ...

    TheDenverChannel.com : ABC NEWS: Zazi Admits Al-Qaeda Ties, May Plead Guilty — 3-Day FBI Interrogation Reveals Denver Man Had Received Explosives Training — DENVER — The Aurora man under FBI investigation for alleged ties to a New York bomb plot has admitted he has ties to al-Qaida ...

  • ACORN=SEIU - Same Physical Address 1024 Elysian Fi ...

    Jimmy Z / Washington Examiner : ACORN=SEIU — Same Physical Address 1024 Elysian Fields, New Orleans — SEIU President on ACORN Advisory Board (Andrew Stern) — anys12799 — Maybe we'll see some of the SEIU-ACORN ties in response to the Louisiana Subpoena that requests ACORN an ...

  • Michelle Obama Says Women Are "Crushed" by Health- ...

    Kate Andersen Brower / Bloomberg : Michelle Obama Says Women Are “Crushed” by Health-Care System — Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) — First lady Michelle Obama sought support for the administration's health-care plans from family advocacy groups and health-care professionals, saying the treatment ...

  • Sixty-Five Views of HC Reform, One Big Trend (Char ...

    Charles Franklin / Pollster.com : Sixty-Five Views of HC Reform, One Big Trend — The trend in opinion on health care reform has been a bit tricky of late. After a long and substantial rise of opposition, and an equally long but less sizable decline in support, we came to August, the month ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.8, south of Bali, Indonesia

    Friday, September 18, 2009 23:06:57 UTC Saturday, September 19, 2009 07:06:57 AM at epicenter Depth : 71.60 km (44.49 mi)

  • M 5.6, Revilla Gigedo Islands region

    Friday, September 18, 2009 18:46:08 UTC Friday, September 18, 2009 11:46:08 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

  • M 5.8, Halmahera, Indonesia

    Friday, September 18, 2009 18:34:22 UTC Saturday, September 19, 2009 03:34:22 AM at epicenter Depth : 92.70 km (57.60 mi)

  • M 5.7, Halmahera, Indonesia

    Friday, September 18, 2009 18:34:24 UTC Saturday, September 19, 2009 03:34:24 AM at epicenter Depth : 99.00 km (61.52 mi)

  • M 5.4, Mindanao, Philippines

    Friday, September 18, 2009 11:53:51 UTC Friday, September 18, 2009 07:53:51 PM at epicenter Depth : 27.30 km (16.96 mi)

China Dialogue

  • No shared vision on climate change

    Governments have failed to understand the importance of a regional consensus to address global warming in the Himalayas, argues Rina Saeed Khan. Everest Base Camp is undergoing dramatic changes. “Usually in April the springs around the camp are frozen. Last year, we reached the camp in late April ...

  • Leader of the pack?

    China is ahead in the race towards a low-carbon economy, claims a new report. Li Taige takes another view, citing problems in the country’s renewable-energy sector. China is already a leading force in the low-carbon economy, says a new report [pdf] from the Climate Group. The study, titled Chi ...

  • Death of the Nile (2)

    For Egypt, the scale of the climate crisis is overwhelming, infecting all discussion with cynicism and fatalism. The delta’s death warrant may have been signed already, writes Jack Shenker. Ras el-Bar is a small holiday resort at the mouth of the Nile’s Damietta branch. This was the summer parad ...

  • Death of the Nile (1)

    The ancient river delta is under threat from rising sea levels resulting from climate change. Without the food the fertile region produces, Egypt faces catastrophe, Jack Shenker reports. Maged Shamdy’s ancestors arrived on the shores of Lake Burullus in the mid-19th century. In the dusty heat of C ...

  • A bold plan for India

    India could cut its carbon output in half, says a new study, dramatically improving the country’s energy security and its people’s quality of life. But it will cost, writes Anna da Costa. Growth in India's carbon emissions could be nearly halved by the year 2030 through the use of known practice ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Intelligence Analyst Says Hacking Charge Doesn’t ...

    A Defense Department intelligence analyst hit with a federal computer hacking charge last week says he’s being made a scapegoat for a security slip-up that sent a password in a nationwide terrorism investigation to “tens of thousands” of analysts without the need-to-know. “I think on one of ...

  • Court: Disloyal Computing is not Illegal

    A federal appeals court is ruling employees are not liable for damages under anti-hacking laws for accessing their employers’ computers for disloyal purposes. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled (.pdf) that workers authorized to access company computers do not lose or exceed that access un ...

  • Linden Lab Targeted in Second Life Sex-Code Lawsui ...

    Having virtual sex in Second Life isn’t what it used to be. The 6-year-old virtual world, run by Linden Lab of San Francisco, is apparently so littered with bootlegged sex toys that it’s hard to know whether you’re getting the right bang for your buck. Raising the stakes on a two-year-old inte ...

  • Color-Coded Threat Level Advisory Under Attack

    The often-spoofed, color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System may get an overhaul – moving from five colors to three in a bid to win the public trust. The nation has been at Yellow, “an elevated significant risk of terrorist attacks” for three years. International and domestic flights ha ...

  • Obama Backs Extending Patriot Act Spy Provisions

    The Obama administration has told Congress it supports renewing three provisions of the Patriot Act due to expire at year’s end, measures making it easier for the government to spy within the United States. In a letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Senate Judiciar ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Obama admin: dismiss gay couple benefits lawsuit

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday urged a U.S. court to dismiss a lawsuit by gay married couples from Massachusetts who say they were unlawfully denied federal marriage benefits.

  • Silicon Valley warning: Detroit still doesn't get ...

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - From Detroit's union halls to its boardrooms, the consensus belief is that billions of dollars in federal investment and loans kept the American auto industry from collapse.

  • U.S. regulator to unveil open Internet plan

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. communications regulator plans to unveil proposals Monday for ensuring Web traffic is not slowed or blocked based on its content, sources familiar with the contents of the speech said on Friday.

  • Conservative Christians assail Obama agenda

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. conservative Christians, a key base for the out-of-power Republican Party, gathered in Washington on Friday to rally the faithful against President Barack Obama's agenda, including his top domestic priority of healthcare reform.

  • First U.S. H1N1 vaccines will be nasal spray: CDC

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first U.S. roll-out of vaccines against the new swine flu virus will be 3.4 million doses of MedImmune's nose spray, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.

Godspace

  • Lectionary Resources

    If you are like me you are always looking for resources that help you understand the lectionary. Â Here is a great list of lectionary resources put together by Bosco Peters in New Zealand. Â I particularly appreciate the international nature of the resources. Â I would heartily recommend Bosco ...

  • Loving the Unloveable

    I was just reading an article this morning about the wildlife we like to attract to our garden. It talked about the fact that all of us love to see nice furry creatures like squirrels and winged creature like colourful birds and buuterflies out our windows. We tend to ignore the destructiveness ...

  • Too Busy to Pray

    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 [...]

  • Frio Suite by Phil Keaggy and Jeff Johnson

    My friend Jeff Johnson has just put together this promo for an upcoming CD he and Rhil Keaggy have produced. Â It Features photographs and images by artist, Kathy Hastings which inspired the instrumental collaboration between guitarist, Phil Keaggy and keyboardist, Jeff Johnson. Â As you know I ...

  • What Will The Future Hold?

    Summer is drawing to a close, and it seems to me that the end of the year is moving towards us at a very rapid clip. The MSA team has begun a series of discernment sessions to try and shape at least some of what we focus on over the next couple of years. As [...]

Equality Trust

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #0109

    Somali pirates have spies in London shipbroking. US DoD analyst hacked classified terrorism investigation system. Canada denies entry visa to Russian official due to KGB ties.

  • Total US intelligence budget revealed for the firs ...

    The US Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair, has revealed the total amount of America’s military and civilian intelligence budget for the first time in history.

  • News you may have missed #0108

    Is Afghan President's brother a US informant? Fatah dismisses spy chief in West Bank. Indian Intelligence Bureau wants to block all VOIP Services.

  • Comment: Daring US Raid in Somalia is Risky Policy

    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | The political aftereffect of a recent raid by US Special Forces in southern Somalia may be more significant than its outcome. The operation, which took place in the early hours of Monday, killed a number of al-Qaeda-linked militants and captured at least two, a ...

  • French former spy wanted in Dubai to be tried in F ...

    A French former spy who escaped secretly from the United Arab Emirates, where he is wanted for fraud and embezzlement, will face trial in the US, where he currently resides.

PsyBlog

  • Why You Can’t Help Believing Everything You Read

    You shouldn't believe everything you read, yet according to a classic psychology study at first we can't help it. What is the mind's default position: are we naturally critical or naturally gullible? As a species do we have a tendency to behave like Agent Mulder from the X-Files who always wanted t ...

  • 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 ...

After Downing Street.org

  • Nuclear Conference Criticizes Israeli Nukes

    Nuclear conference criticizes Israeli nukes By George Jahn, Associated Press | Google News | Submitted by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com Overriding Western objections, a 150-nation nuclear conference on Friday passed a resolution directly criticizing Israel and its atomic program for the first ...

  • Why I Threw The Shoe

    Why I threw the shoe I am no hero. I just acted as an Iraqi who witnessed the pain and bloodshed of too many innocents By Muntazer al-Zaidi | Guardian.UK.co | Submitted by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com As he flung the shoes, Mr Zaidi shouted : "This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, do ...

  • Contractor Buys Weapons With Booze, Cigars

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  • Two Prisoners From Ft. Hood Held Incommunicado at ...

    Two prisoners from Fort Hood held incommunicado at Fort Lewis Brig, Attorneys Ask Why? | Press release September 17th, 2009 – Fort Lewis, WA – War resister Travis Bishop is being held incommunicado, in the Northwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Lewis, and is even being denied h ...

  • Torture Tales: Calling John Durham

    Torture Tales: Calling John Durham By Benjamin Davis | Jurist Upon returning from “After Guantanamo,” a debate held on the eighth anniversary of 9/11 at Case Western Reserve Law School where members of the former administration regaled the audience with stories about the mistakes made and the a ...

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  • Asus rumored to sell cheaper ultra-thin laptop nex ...

    Apple’s MacBook Air will soon be challenged on its super-slimness, by Windows-powered computers from Asus, Acer and MSI that may lack Apple’s aluminum-cased pizazz, but will cost a lot less. Digitimes reports that Asus, maker of the low-cost Eee PC netbook, will begin selling two ultra-slim n ...

  • Birthday cannon

    Happy birthday, here's your cannon ... @ Dailymail Mike Daugherty asked his 11-year-old son Logan what he wanted for his birthday. The boy said, "I want a cannon." Dad didn't scoff at Logan's request by saying, "How about a hippopotamus instead," as a Christmas song from another era lamented. No ...

  • I-Swarm, real micro-sized robots!

    These tiny I-Swarm (Intelligent Small-World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation) robots are incredibly neat! They move by using a piezoelectric transducer to vibrate across a surface in a manner similar to a bristlebot, only controllable. Because they are vibrating at audible frequencies, ...

  • Home-haircut indicator: In the footsteps of the un ...

    Filed under: Columns , Economic data , Recession , Comic Relief So, who out there cuts their own hair? I do, mainly because it is fading fast and it is a lot easier to have my wife take the clippers and then razor to my head rather than paying to go get my hair cut professionally. Now that I ...

  • Joe Jackson says ?someone should pay? for son Mich ...

    Joe Jackson: ‘Someone should pay’ for son’s death NEW YORK ? Michael Jackson’s father says he’d never heard of the drug propofol until it was implicated in his son’s death. “I’m not angry. I’m mad,” Joe Jackson said in an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show. ...

Time - Top Stories

Washington Independent

  • Pawlenty: I’m Calling Obama Out

    Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s (R-Minn.) speech to the Values Voter Summit was tipped as a pivotal moment in his appeal to the GOP’s conservative base. Pawlenty hardly missed a target, and got his biggest applause when he mocked the president for saying he’d “call out” people who misled about his hea ...

  • The Waiting Room

    Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. After a tumultuous week that saw the release of the Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’ (D-Mont.) long-awaited “Gang of Six” compromise health care reform bill, all eyes turn to gang-member Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), who is a ...

  • Values Voters Ride Tea Party Momentum

    Four-year-old Value Voter conference attracted it's biggest crowd yet.

  • Panetta Says Karzai Probably Won the Afghan Electi ...

    Just two days ago, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly cautioned reporters not to jump to any conclusions about who won the Afghan presidential election just because “preliminary results” have been certified in Hamid Karzai’s favor. “I want to reemphasize that these are just preliminary, th ...

  • DOJ Defends Torture Probe

    Just after the release of the ex-CIA directors’ letter condemning Attorney General Eric Holder’s torture inquiry, here comes this statement from Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller: The Attorney General works closely with the men and the women of intelligence community to keep the Americ ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Divining the Secret of Deformed Roadkill

    Hard as it is to be a voice in the wilderness, Judy Hoy has been sounding an alarm in southwestern Montana for more than 13 years. For years she's been documenting, through autopsies, photos, articles and scientific papers, changes — mutations, really Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Environme ...

  • Tales from the Crypt of Gross Food- Are you what y ...

    You know the saying, “you are what they eat”? That’s may be true with a strange cattle feed ingredient—chicken poop. Sound disgusting? It sure is. Back in 1967, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) put out a policy statement that poultry litter Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to US Politics ...

  • Listeria L-forms: Discovery Of An Unusual Form Of ...

    ETH Zurich researchers have discovered a new life form of Listeria monocytogenes, an opportunistic pathogen responsible for serious food poisoning. These bacteria can reproduce and proliferate as so-called L-forms. The methods to detect these bacteria sho Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Busines ...

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

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

  • The Cow Turns Green

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

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

  • Four Economic Figures Dead…’Suicides&# ...

    Something is going on behind the scenes at the New World Order HQ. When “suicide” occurs this close to the 13 Families, something big is going on… Rockefeller & Co. CEO Dies From Gunshot Wound By Charles Stein James McDonald, chief executive officer of New York investment firm Rockefeller ...

  • Eighteen Reasons Why You Should NOT Vaccinate Your ...

    This year it is more important that you protect your children and loved ones from the flu vaccines than influenza itself. Here are the reasons: 1. This flu is simply another flu. It is not unusually deadly. In fact, the H1N1 swine flu in circulation is less deadly than many other influenza outbreaks ...

  • Why Millions of Americans Don’t Need a Swine ...

    By Mike Adams The FDA has now suddenly granted approval to four different H1N1 vaccines, all on the same day! With virtually no testing, these fast-tracked vaccines are now approved for use on everyone: Infants, children, adults, senior citizens and even expectant mothers. But does everyone really n ...

  • The September, Visible Origami Radio Show

    By Les Visible Some readers have taken me to task lately for my certitude and statements that positive change is upon us. One reader says that she has been hearing this for decades and it just gets worse. Let me point something out here that may assist in understanding that things’ getting worse i ...

  • Video – Mix-up on John Demjanjuk? 2nd JD liv ...

    After the revelations on the forgery on the alleged SS-ID-card of John Demjanjuk here another new indication, that the trial against John Demjanjuk could turn out as the biggest judicial scandal of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Care2 Picks

  • EPA to end 26 year delay on regulating coal power ...

    This week, the EPA announced "plans to revise the existing standards for water discharges from coal-fired power plants to reduce pollution and better protect America’s water". The move comes in the wake of a lawsuit brought forward by the Defenders of... Submitted by Joe H. to Environment | No ...

  • NASA Testing Breakthrough In Water Safety

    NASA and University of Utah chemists are developing advanced tech for testing the drinkability of water.The process just began a six month run aboard the International Space Station. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Melting Ice Forces Walruses to Alaska Shore

    Thousands of walruses are congregating on Alaska's northwest coast, a sign that their Arctic sea ice environment has been altered by climate change. Chad Jay, a U.S. Geological Survey walrus researcher, said that about 3,500 walruses were near Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals | Note-it! | ...

  • Oil threat to Australia wildlife

    Up to 400 barrels of oil per day have been pouring into the Timor Sea to Australia's north. Submitted by Ian S. to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • South Florida water managers raise questions about ...

    Environmental concerns are growing for plans to expand rock mining in an agricultural area targeted for Everglades restoration. Star Ranch, mined by Ron Bergeron's excavation operation, would expand its digging to almost 600 additional acres west of Submitted by Rafael Apollo Lido to Environment ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Shiites are targets of car bomb; 35 killed - Minne ...

    Shiites are targets of car bomb; 35 killed Minneapolis Star Tribune At least 35 people were killed Friday in a suicide car bomb attack in a Shiite village in northwest Pakistan , a top provincial official said. ... and more »

  • Car bomb kills 39 in Pakistan - The Daily Inquirer

    The Daily Inquirer Car bomb kills 39 in Pakistan The Daily Inquirer The residents had received threats from Taliban in the past, he said. It is not yet clear why the bomb was detonated in a Shia community but most of the ... and more »

  • Report: Colo. man admits al-Qaida ties - United Pr ...

    Report: Colo. man admits al-Qaida ties United Press International ... who have been victims of sectarian violence in predominantly Sunni Pakistan , Dawn reported. The Taliban militants belong to the Sunni community. ... and more »

  • Denver Man Admits to a Possible Al Qaeda Connectio ...

    Denver Man Admits to a Possible Al Qaeda Connection, Officials Say New York Times Peshawar is the capital of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province and a gateway to the tribal areas where the Taliban and Al Qaeda have made a base. ... and more »

  • Can we move on, please? - DAWN.com

    Can we move on, please? DAWN.com AS I try and follow events in Pakistan from a distance on the Internet and cable TV, I find that of late, all the country's problems seem to ...

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Critically endangered mammals

    The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) report found 49 species are at risk because of development and desertification destroying their habitat.

  • World Water Monitoring Day takes place

    People across the globe are being urged to help in the conservation of their water resources as part of an educational initiative.

  • Michael Palin releases new diaries

    Michael Palin , travel writer and star of Monty Python , has released the second volume of his diaries – Halfway to Hollywood. The book covers Palin's life through the 1980s after the Pythons went their separate ways and he embarked on a solo career in film and television.

  • Barack Obama shelves US missile defence

    President Barack Obama has shelved controversial plans to build a nuclear missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic . The Pentagon said that Obama's administration had made a "major adjustment" to the planned defence system, which was first mooted by the Bush government to shield again ...

  • The promise of biochar

    Discover how a totally virtuous, carbon negative energy cycle may be possible.

Fabius Maximus

  • Tom Engelhard asks “Is America is hooked on ...

    Good question. I wish I knew the answer. This is one of the best articles to date by Englehardt, IMO one of the sharpest knives in America’s drawer of geopolitical observers. “Is America Hooked on War?“, Tom Engelhardt, posted at TomDispatch, 17 September 2009 — Posted in full wit ...

  • Fears of flying into the future

    This is another FM weekend classics, originally posted on 25 February 2008.  The subject is vital, as our fears increasingly drive US public policy. —– Climate change, peak oil, 4GW, social decay, ecological collapse, economic collapse, pandemics of new and old diseases … The ...

  • More evidence that all our enemies are al Qaeda

    In the great spirit of UK tabloid journalism, the Telegraph gives us this headline: Â ”Al-Qaeda allies build huge Pakistan base” — “A banned terrorist group which counts British-born al-Qaeda suspect Rashid Rauf as a member is setting up a huge new base in Pakistan’s most heavily populat ...

  • How many troops would it take to win in Afghanista ...

    Summary:  How many troops must we send to win in Afghanistan. It’s a key question that receives too little attention in public sources, other than guessing.  What have our generals told DoD planners? Are we being guided into a larger war according to a well-considered p ...

  • Two articles to read this morning

    Two article that deserve your attention this morning. The war’s advocates continue to push back, hoping that their demolished arguments will prove effective if frequently repeated using the media’s bullhorn: “Only Decisive Force Can Prevail in Afghanistan“, by Senators Graham, L ...

    Blacklisted News

  • US Moves Missile Shield From Europe To Israel, Aze ...

    Deputy US army chief, Gen. James Cartwright and defense secretary Robert Gates amplified President Barack Obama's statement on the US missile shield in East Europe in Washington Thursday, Sept. 17, by announcing that a new and better anti-missile missile system would be deployed in Israel and the Ca ...

  • VIDEO: Chertoff Gets Pounded With 9/11 Questions B ...
  • The Global Credit Crunch Is Not Receding, It Is In ...

    Granted, you wouldn’t know it if you followed the stock market melt up as the wild rush to eek out any and all P&L before tax loss selling season hits (assuming there even is one this year), but read on. If nothing else, SocGen’s Albert Edwards, unlike many others, has stuck to his convictions.

  • Gordon Brown urges EU to back new economic order

    France and Germany square off against US and UK on action needed to reduce financial risk-taking

  • U.S. About to Hit Debt Ceiling – Again

    Congress has raised the debt ceiling four times in the past two years and will probably have to do it again in the next month

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

  • This Recovery is an Imposter

    It is amazing how many things have NOT happened.Probably most incredible is that the dollar has NOT collapsed. It has lost ground, and was trading at $1.43 per euro on Friday, but no one laughs at you when go to exchange dollarsa4¦or offer to pay in dollars rather than the local currency.For the la ...

  • Obama: US still faces a complex economic crisis

    President Barack Obama declared Monday that modern benefits like paid leave, minimum wage and Social Security "all bear the union label," as he appealed to organized labor to help him win the health care fight in Congress."It was labor that helped build the largest middle class in history. So, even ...

  • Latvia Sets Precedent On Fed Transparency

    With the IMF bailing out every failed European country (click the link for a useful map), it has now set a useful precedent of how to obtain full clarity into the operations of Central Banks of "organization wards." Latvia's most recent near death experience has translated into a requirement by the ...

  • MPs allowance exceeds what most NZers live on

    Alliance Party co leader Kay Murray says it is good news that MP's have decided to shave $1.5 million off their taxpayer funded housing allowance.But MP's will still be entitled to $37,500 a year on top of their $130,000 plus salaries and other allowances, to spend on their accommodation - regardles ...

  • Anti-MMP moves selectively leaked

    According to NZ Herald Columnist Fran O'Sullivan the issue of a referendum on MMP was discussed at cabinet on Monday 31 August 2009. Yesterday Ms O'Sullivan informed Newstalk ZB drive time host Larry Williams of how this information was conveyed to her - presumably by Mr Key - and how the parliamen ...

Independent ( London )

  • US envoy fails to break stalemate on settlements

    Current US efforts to kick-start serious negotiations on a future two state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict were in the balance yesterday after presidential envoy George Mitchell failed to bridge the gap between the two sides on settlement construction.

  • Parisians get backstage pass to Moulin Rouge

    The Moulin Rouge, the Parisian nightspot celebrated for more than a century for its scantily clad dancing girls, will unveil secret parts of its own anatomy to the public this weekend.

  • Nato overture to Russia

    Nato has proposed a new era of co-operation with Russia, calling for joint work with Moscow and Washington on missile defence after the US scrapped a planned anti-missile system.

  • A battle of wills: Gayatri Devi's £250m legacy

    She was once named by Vogue magazine as one of the world's 10 most beautiful women, the third wife of a Rajasthan prince who counted British royalty and Jackie Onassis among her friends. During the summer months that she spent every year in London's Knightsbridge she would mingle with aristocracy, ...

  • Spanish music maestro in £2.7m swindle

    Catalonia's high-minded cultural elite, renowned for its exquisite taste and probity, has been shocked to discover that the former director of Barcelona's Palace of Music, a symbol of regional identity and an architectural jewel, had swindled the concert hall out of more than €3m (£2.7m).

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Who's really behind that "bipartisan" call to atta ...

    Summary: Raimondo Covert operations invariably involve deception: front groups that aren’t what they appear to be, hidden interests that masquerade under false pretexts, and ostensibly "respectable" individuals who serve purposes other than those announced. This is what the "Bipartisan Policy ...

  • Russian FM says no new sanctions on Iran

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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 ...

  • UN says Israel should face war-crimes trial over G ...

    Summary: Israel targeted "the people of Gaza as a whole" in the three-week military operation which is estimated to have killed more than 1,300 Palestinians at the beginning of this year, according to a UN-commissioned report published yesterday. source: The Independent read more

  • IAEA Conceals Evidence Iran Documents Were Forged

    Summary: The International Atomic Energy Agency says its present objective regarding Iran is to try to determine whether the intelligence documents purportedly showing a covert Iranian nuclear weapons program from 2001 to 2003 are authentic or not. The problem, according to its reports, is that ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Reboot Your Brain? Science Says It's Possible -A G ...

    Contrary to popular belief, recent studies have found that there are probably ways to regenerate brain matter. Animal studies conducted at the National Institute on Aging Gerontology Research Center and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, for example, have...

  • The Solar System's Most Massive Volcano -Mars' 88, ...

    "No cities. No seas. No forests and no battlegrounds. No prairies. No nations. No histories and no legends. No memories. Just features, features and names. Argyre and Hellas and Isidis. Olympus and Alba and Pavonis. Schiaparelli and Antoniadi, Kasei and...

  • Image of the Day: The Starburst Galaxy

    M82 (also known as NGC 3034 or the Cigar Galaxy) is a nearby starburst galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major, five times as bright as the whole Milky Way and one hundred times as bright as our galaxy's center. In...

  • Top "Daily Galaxy" on Social Media: Twitter, Faceb ...

    Richard Dawkins & Carl Sagan: "Will the Universe Be the New Religion?" China's UFO Insanity The NEO Code -What Global Hotspots are Most at Risk Of Getting Hit by an Asteroid? Giant Galaxy Surrounding the Most Distant Black Hole Ever...

  • Mars-Earth Microbe Shuttle -Did One Exist?

    A little-known fact is that each year Earth is hit by by half a dozen or so one-pound or larger rocks that were blasted off the surface of Mars by large impacts and found their way into Earth-crossing orbits. A...

Natural News

  • Ten Swine Flu Lies Told by the Mainstream Media

    (NaturalNews) The mainstream media is engaged in what we Americans call "bald faced lies" about swine flu. It seems to be true with this issue more than any other, and it became apparent to me recently when a colleague of mine -- a nationally-syndicated newspaper columnist -- told me their column on ...

  • A Nation on Mind Altering Drugs: Antidepressants M ...

    (NaturalNews) As NaturalNews has reported in detail (http://www.naturalnews.com/antidepressant_drugs.html), antidepressants like Prozac (fluoxetine) and the growing list of similar selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor drugs (SSRIs) not only can have numerous side effects from nausea to headaches - ...

  • Superfood Profile: Blue-Green Algae and Spirulina ...

    (NaturalNews) Today's scientists are only beginning to grasp the incredible nutritional value of blue-green algae and spirulina, but these superfoods have a reputation that reaches far back into history. A form of blue-green algae was consumed regularly hundreds of years ago by Aztecs, while spiruli ...

  • The truth about chemotherapy and the cancer indust ...

    (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 ...

  • Why Millions of Americans Don't Need a Swine Flu V ...

    (NaturalNews) The FDA has now suddenly granted approval to four different H1N1 vaccines, all on the same day! With virtually no testing, these fast-tracked vaccines are now approved for use on everyone: Infants, children, adults, senior citizens and even expectant mothers. But does everyone really n ..

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • If you Facebook . . .

    IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE FACEBOOK FLOCK, this little item by Robert Lemos, on MIT's Technology Review site may be worthy of your attention. Now, researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario have developed a browser plug-in to help users keep their information private from prying eyes and from ...

  • The sins of the Son

    Most Canadians have never traveled through Kamloops International Airport . That's understandable. Kamloops is off the beaten air track (also known as the 32,000 foot brown smudge). There are a couple of things about Kamloops airport that you should know. First, Kamloops International Airport (YKA ...

  • Fakin' It ? ? ? ?

    Although I hesitate to fan the media flames of the S.C. Representative joe wilson saga, this breaking report from Andy Borowitz is too important to ignore: Wilson Shouts ‘You Lie' After Wife Fakes Orgasm Breach of Congressional Decorum, Experts Say Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) courted controversy ag ...

  • At the going down of the Sun, and in the morning.. ...

    With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Private Jonathan Couturier, 2nd Battalion, Royal 22 e Régiment. Killed due to enemy action. Je me souviens

  • 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 ...

Media Matters for America

  • Reaction to Carter, Pelosi comments show media re ...

    In responding to recent comments from former President Jimmy Carter and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that some of the strongest criticism of President Obama is race-based or could lead to extremism, several media figures have criticized those comments without addressing the specifics of recent ra ...

  • Something for the media to consider before lettin ...

    Fox News' Glenn Beck has made no secret of his desire to influence the types of stories other news outlets cover, at one point boasting that a story on his program on the community organizing group ACORN would divert the media's attention from health care reform. However, Beck's long and growin ...

  • Fox's latest conspiracy theory: Obama pressured i ...

    On the September 18 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends , guest co-host and serial health care misinformer Peter Johnson Jr. suggested that Sen. Max Baucus' (D-MT) health care plan received a favorable score from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) because the office was "taken to the woodshe ...

  • Wash. Post ignores ACORN filmmakers' cre ...

    A Washington Post article about recently released ACORN videotapes quoted Andrew Breitbart as saying the incident "is the Abu Ghraib of the Great Society," but the article did not make clear that no fraud or harm came to the government as a result of ACORN's actions. Moreover, the Post igno ...

  • Media mischaracterize Pelosi's warning against "a ...

    Media figures including Candy Crowley, Carl Cameron, Brian Kilmeade, and Gretchen Carlson have mischaracterized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's comments that recent "anti-government rhetoric" reminded her of "the late '70s in San Francisco" when "it created a climate in which violence took place," ...

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  • Irving Kristol Dies: How Will the Neocon Church N ...

    Irving Kristol has died at 89. Kristol is the primary intellectual godfather of the neoconservative movement -- which his son Bill Kristol helped transform into a major political force. Kristol and his wife, Gertrude Himmelfarb, were and are respectively profoundly... Sponsored Topics: Bill Kri ...

  • Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan "benchmarks"

    Excellent analysis, as usual, from Reidar Visser on Biden's latest trip to Iraq. Noting that this is Biden's second visit to Iraq as Vice-President, Visser writes, If anything, what these visits have demonstrated twice is that US leverage is quickly... Sponsored Topics: Iraq - Joe Biden - US - P ...

  • Steve Rosen, Indicted Under Espionage Act, Lecture ...

    I'm not going to comment on Steve Rosen's ridiculous Obama and J Steet bashing piece in Foreign Policy today except to ask why this guy has any kind of platform whatsoever. I know the espionage case against him was dropped.... Sponsored Topics: Foreign Policy - Middle East - Warfare and Conflict ...

  • Why Obama is Calm While Carter is Alarmed

    Maybe it's just that Barack Obama took heat this summer for saying that Sgt. James Crowley had acted "stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis Gates, Jr., but I think that the real reason he's down-playing Jimmy Carter's alarm about the racism... Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - Jimmy Carter - U ...

  • Travel Alert: You Can Go to North Korea (!) but D ...

    Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams ran an excellent clip last night on the "unfairness" of some Americans being allowed to travel to Cuba while others are blocked.... Sponsored Topics: Brian Williams - Breaking News - ...

TruthOut

  • Justice for Latin America's Disappeared?

    A representation of one of Latin America's Desaparacicidos outside Argentina's notorious ESMA (Naval Mechanics School), often referred to as the "Auschwitz of Argentina". (Photo: Sam Ferguson / t r u t h o u t) read more

  • Zionism vs. Zionism

    Smoke rises over Gaza on the second day of Israel's airstrikes last December. (Photo: Amir Farshad Ebrahimi / Flickr ) read more

  • Selective Deficit Disorder

    Watching the health care debate unfold these days is a little like watching scenes from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" — the ones showing a collage of strung-out, deranged or otherwise incapacitated patients rotting away in a squalid psychiatric ward. As the insurance i ...

  • Rising Threat to Aid Agencies in Afghanistan

    Geneva, Switzerland - International aid and humanitarian organizations are increasingly under the threat of attack in Afghanistan and are struggling to find ways to operate safely in areas where the U.S. read more

  • Late Breaking - Sometimes Broken - News

    WNEP-TV, a large regional station in northeastern Pennsylvania, led its noon news Friday, September 11, with the announcement that there was finally a compromise on the state budget. 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 drillingâ€�–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.

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Unexplained Mysteries

  • Unknown creature found in Panama

    A strange creature has been found in Panama, two young men are said to have stoned it to death after spotting it at the entrance to a cave. Debate...

  • Astronomers find rocky extrasolar planet

    Astronomers have discovered a rocky extrasolar planet orbiting a distant star that is 1.5 times the size of the Earth but that orbits so close to ...

  • Little brother of giant T-rex discovered

    A newly discovered predatory dinosaur has been discovered that is a perfect, miniature copy of the Tyrannosaurus rex, even though it would have li...

  • Giant man-eating eagle actually existed

    The giant man-eating "Haast's Eagle" of New Zealand really did exist according to new research, it would have weighed up to 40lbs and is thought t...

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    Scientists continue to explore the possibility of using a solar sail to propel spacecraft at great speeds through space without the need for heavy...

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 18, 2009

    EU Urges G20 to Give Poor Nations Billions in ‘Fast-Start’ Money (AFP) EU leaders are pressuring the U.S. and other rich nations to provide at least 5 billion euros of "fast-start" money next year to help poor nations deal with climate change. Murkowski May Try to Limit EPA Authority on Gre ...

  • September 17, 2009

    India Ready to Issue Non-Binding Emissions Targets (Reuters) India is ready to quantify the amount of planet-warming gas emissions it could cut with domestic actions to fight climate change, the environment minister said today, but it will not accept internationally binding targets. EPA Moves t ...

  • 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 ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: War Is Peace

    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: I wanted to thank not just those of you who have made contributions to this website, but those who, at my recent urging, have decided to do your usual Amazon buying -- whether of books TomDispatch recommends or DVDs, computer equipment, kitchen utensils, or anythin ...

  • 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 ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Can America Be Salvaged?

    I really don't know what to say anymore, about a country in which proposing a new and better version of corporate-plunder masquerading as national healthcare gets you burned in effigy for being a socialist stooge by gun-toting angry mobs. I really don't know what to say anymore, about a country in w ...

  • Obsessive Compulsive Bipartisanship Disease

    In the blogosphere, we've often discussed Washington's sick fetishization of bipartisanship. Whether it's pundits or politicians, the entire D.C. Establishment has made abundantly clear that it is first and foremost interested in bipartisanship for bipartisanship's sake before it is interested in th ...

  • Jimmy Carter Should Just Shut Up

    Heaven help us but it has come to this: The Ghost of Malaise Past is now commenting on Kanye West. (I know that the former peanut farmer never used the word "malaise" and we all know he was a helpless victim of forces beyond his control. But anyone who had the misfortune of observing the last two ye ...

  • Three Women: Nancy Pelosi (the leader), Hillary Cl ...

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) correctly warns of violence and is now the most courageous standard-bearer for progressivism in America. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has evolved into a champion of working men and women and now as a stateswoman. Former Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Sar ...

  • The Harding Affair: Evidence of Racism Rising

    — from FindLaw This is the first in a two-part series of columns on the Harding affair and letters.—Ed. Typically, I have little interest in book reviews. But I am interested in the reviews that have greeted a new book for which I have written a foreword. The book was just published: The Ha ...

Ten Percent

  • Friday! Editors- Papillon

    As befits a ‘neo post punk‘ band they are grooving it up with some synths, like an alternate universe where Ian Curtis stayed alive and Joy Division discovered pop and synths joined by Gillian Gilbert and New Order didn’t -have to- come into being (but I’m glad they do exist). It’s sort o ...

  • Island March

    WHEN: 12pm, Saturday, 19th September 2009 WHERE: Holyhead Town Hall, Newry Street, LL65 Hundreds of Unite members, along with people from across Anglesey will hold a demonstration tomorrow (Saturday, 19th September) against the proposed closure of the Anglesey Aluminium smelting plant by Rio Tinto. ...

  • Iran- Qods Day

    Guardian & Neo-Resistance are tracking events plus the obligatory Twitter of course.

  • Anti-Miscegenation Redux Israel Style

    Mondoweiss- The great Israeli blogs Promised Land and Dimi’s Notes report that the Tel Aviv suburb of Petah Tikva has established a patrol unit to break up dates between Palestinians and Jews. “A special team in the youth department of the Petah Tikva municipality will locate [Jewish – D ...

  • Troy Kennedy Martin RIP

    Troy Kennedy Martin’s death is a reminder of the importance of a tradition of popular and risky television drama over the last 50 years. From his six-part anthology Storyboard (1961), produced by his co-conspirator James MacTaggart, Troy’s aim was “to tell a story in visual terms”, breakin ...

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

  • Czar Wars

    Czars. Bush appointed a galaxy of them. Obama appointed as many or more. So, what’s the problem? The term “Czarâ€� comes from whatever authority you want to believe. It may be from “Caesar,” referring to his appointments to top-ranking positions. Or maybe it came from “ ...

  • One More Feckless Study On Intelligence Reform

    The prestigious Brookings Institution has joined the ranks of various government and public institutions to suggest reform steps for the Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence community (IC). Unlike previous reform proposals, the Brookings study manages to overlook the serious systemic iss ...

  • NQ First Responders: UK on Racist America, Joe Kle ...

    1) The Telegraph (UK) takes a look at “racist America” and isn’t so sure the label sticks. But wait a minute. Mr Obama convincingly prevailed over John McCain in last November’s election, an event that many American liberals argued could never happen in “racist” America. He has, moreove ...

  • Leno Shows APORN’s Popularity While House Votes ...

    This just in from the Boston Globe: The US House today joined the Senate in voting to defund ACORN, the community advocacy group beset by allegations of voter registration fraud and videotapes apparently showing employees advising conservative activists posing as a prostitute and pimp how to brea ...

  • Connecting the Insidious Obama and ACORN Nexus

    Barack Obama’s ties to ACORN (see Memeorandum) are not incidental nor are they casual. Bill O’Reilly displayed his fundamental ignorance on the matter last night when he pooh-poohed the notion of an Obama tie simply because “ACORN previously worked” for his campaign. O’Reilly acted like ...

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  • 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

  • Indonesia eyes militant networks after Noordin kil ...

    Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories Experts say Noordin’s death Thursday gives Indonesia a window to recalibrate its battle to confront other militants. …

  • Severe drought affects 1.3 million in Syria

    Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories More than 800,000 people have lost their livelihoods in a four-year dry spell exacerbated by climate change and rising food prices. Almost half of them live in urban makeshift camps. …

  • Fox News Caught Coaching 9/12 Protest Crowd

    Read the full story at News Hounds Media Matters has this “Candid Camera” footage of what appears to be a Fox News producer coaching the crowd behind Griff Jenkins while he was the 9/12 protest. Video after the jump. …

  • Fox&Friends Partisan Piece Promotes Christian Side ...

    Read the full story at News Hounds Rifqa Bary is the Muslim American girl who converted to Christianity and ran away to the home of an evangelical pastor whom she met on the internet. Her child custody case is still pending in Florida family court and has become quite the Christian crusade (or is it ...

  • ‘Media Courage Award’ recipient Bill O’Reill ...

    Read the full story at Think Progress Members of the press were dismayed to find out that they were banned from Bill O’Reilly’s speech at the Values Voter Summit tonight. The Washington Independent’s Dave Weigel snapped a picture of the sign letting them know that they couldn’t get in: Iron ...

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Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Obama admin: dismiss gay couple benefits lawsuit

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday urged a U.S. court to dismiss a lawsuit by gay married couples from Massachusetts who say they were unlawfully denied federal marriage benefits.

  • Silicon Valley warning: Detroit still doesn't get ...

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - From Detroit's union halls to its boardrooms, the consensus belief is that billions of dollars in federal investment and loans kept the American auto industry from collapse.

  • U.S. regulator to unveil open Internet plan

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. communications regulator plans to unveil proposals Monday for ensuring Web traffic is not slowed or blocked based on its content, sources familiar with the contents of the speech said on Friday.

  • Conservative Christians assail Obama agenda

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. conservative Christians, a key base for the out-of-power Republican Party, gathered in Washington on Friday to rally the faithful against President Barack Obama's agenda, including his top domestic priority of healthcare reform.

  • First U.S. H1N1 vaccines will be nasal spray: CDC

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first U.S. roll-out of vaccines against the new swine flu virus will be 3.4 million doses of MedImmune's nose spray, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.

Pine River World News

  • India Air Force activates Nyoma airfield close to ...

    IntelTrends - The following article is from Asian News International (ANI), New Delhi. India Air Force activates Nyoma airfield close to China border © ANI September 18, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian Air Force in a significant move today activated its Nyoma Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) to suppor ...

  • Phineas Mpofu: Which election did Tsvangirai win?

    [ Blogmaster note : The following 'Letter to the Editor' was published in today's Zimbabwe Herald. I am fully in agreement with the writer. Long time readers of this blog know my feelings about Zim's blubbering über-stooge PM, Morgan Tsvangirai, who refused to participate in the presidential electi ...

  • Niger Delta militants: Oil companies should not ta ...

    IntelTrends - The following article is from the Daily Independent, Lagos. Why We Extended Ceasefire - MEND * Says No Going Back On Oil War © Daily Independent (Nigeria) By Ofonime Umanah (Port Harcourt),Paul Arhewe, Adeola Yusuf (Lagos), Chesa Chesa (Abuja) and Harris-Okon Emmanuel (Warri) (Wi ...

  • SOMALIA: Statement from Harakat Al-Shabaab Mujahid ...

    IntelTrends - The following statement was posted by Shabelle Media, Mogadishu. Harakat Al-Shabaab Mujideen displays tough conditions for the release of French security adviser 'hostage' Posted: 9/17/2009 10:25:00 AM Shabelle: SOMALIA MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network) - Harakat Al-Shabaab Mujahideen o ...

  • 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. ...

    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.

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PDA AMERICA

  • A Safe Substitute for Alcohol?

    By David Swanson The U.S. Department of Justice says that alcohol plays a pivotal role in two-thirds of all cases of violence against an intimate (a spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend), and blames alcohol for contributing to 100,000 ...

  • 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.

Marler Blog

  • Queen Victoria and Tubby Salmonella Spinach Recall ...

    The California Department of Public Health warned consumers not to eat “Queen Victoria” and “Tubby” bunched spinach because they may be contaminated with salmonella, which can cause serious illness. The 12-count and 24-count spinach bunches were bound with a twist tie which says “PLU 409 ...

  • CDC - Update on the Epidemiology of Shiga toxin-pr ...

    Click on image to download PowerPoint:

  • I predict that Food Safety Legislation passes both ...

    Senator Harry Reid, majority leader of Senate, reached out by letter to my clients, the Rivera's, of Las Vegas. Linda Rivera is one of 80 sickened by E. coli O157:H7-tainted Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough. She has struggled with her illness since May 1. She has lost her large intestine, gall b ...

  • A busy day in Washington DC

    I must admit I like Washington DC. Every time I get here I seem to pack much in, because there is always so much to do. I had a full day today and will be on the Hill all Friday pitching food safety. I started out the morning with a presentation to the American Insurance Association . I present ...

  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.18.09

    Greenlings: How can we "refuel" electric vehicles today and tomorrow? You have questions, we have answers. VIDEO: Who Stole The Electric Car? movie trailer How funny is this? ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.17.09

    Burger King employs MotionPower to produce electricity from drive-thru Get something, give something. ExxonMobil gives $25,000 to Philly high school X Prize team for Hybrid K-1 Attack The rel ...

  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

  • RR02: The mobile computing road map

    This week: What Intel is doing to keep the momentum in computing moving from the desktop to mobile platform. A look at Atom, WiMax, Netbooks, and what to expect from the Intel Developer Forum next week in San Francisco. Guests: senior editor Dan Ackerman, and writer Brooke Crothers. Listen now ...

  • Test-drive: Office Web Apps technical preview

    Microsoft has finally started to open up its Web-based versions of Office apps to early testers. Thursday we got access to a "technical preview" of Excel and PowerPoint on the Web (not, notably, Word). The obvious comparison that will be made is to Google Docs . Excel The version of Excel that ...

  • 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 ...

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 ...

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  • SNL Weekend Update Premiere: Amy & Seth Mock Kanye ...

    Seth & Amy Mock Kanye, Joe, And Serena In Weekend Update Premiere (VIDEO) Huffington Post- First Posted: 09-18-09 09:55 AMÂ Â Â |Â Â Â Updated: 09-18-09 10:18 AM Meyers and Poehler did their first “Really?!? With Seth & Amy” of the season last night during the premiere of Weekend ...

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    A big welcome to the guys at YAHOO- nice to see you here & I hope you like what you see! How is the weather in Sunnyvale today? And, a huge welcome to MICROSOFT as well….

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    With Faux/Fox News and Rush Limbaugh providing daily hysteria on the airwaves- paranoia must be running high in the RightWingNuts brains!!

  • Rush Limbaugh: We Need Segregated Buses

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Solari

  • Joel Salatin at The Farm

    By David Liechty Wednesday I had the chance to amble on over to The Farm, with Albert Bates’ blessing, to attend the last day of the Ecovillage Training Center Tennessee Carbon Farming Course. I picked that day in particular because it featured my hero Joel Salatin, the self-described “mob-s ...

  • Shelving Missile Shield Entices Moscow

    By Steven R. Hurst President Barack Obama is betting Moscow will return the favor on missile defense by helping him blunt Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In what could shape a major geopolitical realignment, the White House is scrapping a key irritant in the soured U.S.-Russian relationship — the B ...

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    James Turk’s reports have been subscriber only since 1987. He is now making them accessible for free. James is one of the finest commentator on the precious metals markets and the economy we know. Check it out

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    By David Kravets The Obama administration has told Congress it supports renewing three provisions of the Patriot Act due to expire at year’s end, measures making it easier for the government to spy within the United States. In a letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat and chairman of th ...

  • Wall Street May Find Itself on The Hook

    by: Matthew Goldstein Sometimes legal fishing expeditions pay off. A year ago, a Connecticut hedge fund sued UBS, contending that it knowingly sold toxic mortgage-backed securities to institutional investors but never disclosed that information. At the time, the accusation by the fund, Pursuit Part ...

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  • Fazlullah may be captured

    MINGORA, Swat — I’m filing this from my iPhone, as Internet is spotty up here, but reports are tricking out that Maulana Fazlullah, leader of the Swat Taliban and a close ally of the TTP, has been either captured or has surrendered near Gulibagh. This is as yet unconfirmed, however. I will post ...

  • Fazlullah may be captured

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  • A Pakistani Awakening?

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Debating Protectionism on Renewable Energy
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- Sep 16, 2009
- Sep 16, 2009
Arnold Schwarzenegger's executive order on Tuesday increasing California's renewable energy requirements was his blunt stand against protectionism. ...
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Report: Fossil fuels' subsidies far outpace renewables'
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- Sep 18, 2009
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At the same time, government spending on traditional renewable energy sources such as wind and solar totaled $12.2 billion. Another $16.8 billion went to ...
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Wixom, MI Begins Conversion of Ford Plant to Renewable Energy Resource
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- Sep 18, 2009
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The 42 acre Ford plant will begin it's transition to a complete renewable energy park that should re-open its doors in 2011. The renewable energy park, ...
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Schwarzenegger Creates 33% RPS By Executive Order
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Schwarzenegger's communications director said the Governor was opposed to the complexity of the bill and limits placed on renewable power supply from ...
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Sidoti & Co. downgrades American Ecology (Nasdaq: ECOL) from Buy to Neutral. The firm lowered its price target from $21 to $19. The stock is currently down ...
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Gut Ecology In Transplant Patients
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- Sep 18, 2009
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The Ecology Center, a group based in Michigan, announced that it had expanded its online database, healthystuff.org, to reflect 15000 test results on more ...
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- Sep 18, 2009
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By Karl Merton Ferron, AP DUNDALK, Md. (AP) — A break in a 6-foot-wide water main flooded a large section of this Baltimore suburb Friday, washing away part ...
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AP IMPACT: Gov't stands by as mercury taints water
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Santa Rosa officials call end to water emergency
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- Sep 18, 2009
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Santa Rosa officials are ending the city's self-imposed water-shortage emergency, citing successful conservation efforts by citizens. ...
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Mueller Water Products Inc. (MWA) boosted the size of its planned stock sale and priced it Thursday night at a 4% discount to the day's closing price. ...
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I saw this 'missile shield' note and nearly choked with laughter. Those who have read my comparisons to the old abortive Bomarc program in Canada - abandoned after 2 years and citizen uproar over nukes on Canadian soil - know my thoughts on futile attempts to overcome basic physical limitations on multiple interceptions.
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