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IPS - Inter Press Services

• MIDEAST: Widows and Children Begin to Beg

  GAZA CITY, Sep 21 (IPS) - There are few parks and green spaces in Gaza, and those that exist are crowded with people hungry for nature. Day and night, people of all ages flock to the Joondi, or the park of the Unknown Soldier, in central Gaza City.

• ENVIRONMENT: Electric Fence as Lifesaver for Enda ...

  DENNAWA, Sri Lanka, Sep 21 (IPS) - Dennawa is a typical rural Sri Lankan agriculture village, located deep in the dry zone. Behind the houses made of dry brick stretch the fields where villagers tend vegetables and fruit plantations.

• POLITICS-US: Activists, Big Business Converge on ...

  PITTSBURGH, Sep 20 (IPS) - As media and government delegates prepare for the G20 Summit to be held Sep. 24-25 in Pittsburgh, local business and activist groups are promoting clashing visions of days to come.

• SOUTH ASIA: Disunity Hovers over a Region Battlin ...

  KATHMANDU, Sep 20 (IPS) - As the Copenhagen Conference on climate change draws nearer, South Asia, which appears poised for severe threats from the impacts of climate change, faces a stiff challenge on two fronts.

• ZIMBABWE: Warm Words For Investors at Mines Sum ...

  HARARE, Sep 19 (IPS) - Desperate for investment to lift its moribund economy, the Zimbabwe government welcomed hundreds of prospective mining investors to a conference in Harare this week.

The Intelligence Daily

• Blackwater Offers Training to 'Faith Based Organiz ...

• Peru: Hunt Oil contract to re-ignite Amazon uprisi ...

• Italian mafia implicated in radioactive waste dump ...

• Hong Kong central banker sounds alarm on mortgage ...

• Nearly Half Of US Households Hit By Job Losses Or ...

My AntiWar

• Medvedev: Israeli President Promised No Iran Attac ...

  Summary: PeresThough he actually has very little direct influence over foreign policy, Israeli President Shimon Peres has often been at the forefront of Israel?s long standing threats to launch a military attack against Iran. source: Anti War.Comread more

• Zbig Brzezinski: Obama Administration Should Tell ...

  Summary: The national security adviser for former President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, gave an interview to The Daily Beast in which he suggested President Obama should make it clear to Israel that if they attempt to attack Iran’s nuclear weapons sites the U.S. Air Force will stop them. ...

• Men With Loaded Weapons Stopped Near Zazi’s ...
• Left Behind by Iraq’s Oil Rush
• US Fears That Increased Aid to Pakistan Will Feed ..
  

• Rogue Government.com

• Obama To Get Warm UN Welcome

• Obama Calls For Global Financial Regulations

  President Barack Obama said tougher financial regulations are needed worldwide to protect consumers, provide economic stability and prevent future crises.

• IMF To Sell 403 Tons Of Gold

  The International Monetary Fund said its executive board on Friday endorsed the sale of 403 tons of gold, worth an estimated US$13 billion, to boost its lending capacity to poor countries.

• Too Much Radiation For Astronauts To Make It To M ...

  FORGET the risk of exploding rockets or getting sideswiped by a wayward bit of space junk. Radiation may be the biggest hurdle to human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and could put a damper on a recently proposed mission to Mars orbit.

• Blackwater Offers Training To Faith Based Organiz ...

  On its website, which was registered on February 20, 2009 and went live recently, the “program” is described as “a multi-phase course which is designed to assist Non-Government Organizations, Faith Based Organizations and Commercial Businesses by providing individual personal awareness and dr ...

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

• Investigation: Nuclear scandal - Dr Abdul Qadeer K ...

  The Pakistani scientist who passed nuclear secrets to the world's rogue states has been muzzled by his government. In a smuggled letter, AQ Khan reveals his side of the story: It could be a scene from a film. On a winter's evening, around 8pm, in a quiet suburban street in Amsterdam, a group of car ...

• Breaking down the myth of two genders

  Nicky Phillips never thought of herself as anything but a girl. As a child, growing up in the 1940s and '50s, she wore little-girl dresses, shiny shoes, and bobby socks. When she got a bit older, she started to wear lipstick and pearls and fuss about her hair. Puberty brought with it the same un ...

• Why American Education Has Declined

  Statistics Show American Education Has Declined. Over the last century, American education has declined significantly despite spending per student by the federal, state, and local governments increasing dramatically which has contributed to the United States' current fall from the top of the wor ...

• Glenn Beck's Demagoguery, Right Wing Extremism, an ...

  At a time of 24-hour news and a proliferation of television and radio talk shows featuring hatemongers and demagogues like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck may stand out as the most unhinged and extremist of all as evidenced by his jihad against anyone to the left ...

• Approaching Sunspot

  NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft stationed over the sun's eastern limb is monitoring an active region not yet visible from Earth. STEREO's extreme ultraviolet telescope captured this image on Sept. 19th. The tangle of hot, magnetized plasma circled above almost certainly overlies a large new-cycle sunspo ...

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

• Bi-Curious Baucus

  In his Washington Post column Sunday, David Broder provided some insight into the bi-curious political disposition of the Montana Senator Max Baucus. As he contemplated entering politics in the 1970's, Baucus apparently asked veteran New Dealer James Rowe, "Do you...

• Bi-Curious Baucus

  In his Washington Post column Sunday, David Broder provided some insight into the bi-curious political disposition of the Montana Senator Max Baucus. As he contemplated entering politics in the 1970's, Baucus apparently asked veteran New Dealer James Rowe, "Do you...

• 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...

• 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...

Blackspot News Feed

• FCC to Take on Telecoms in Fight for the Future of ...

  It looks like the battle for net neutrality is finally gaining some momentum. This will be the biggest telecom fight in more than a decade.

• Right-Wing Hatemongering Fueled by Christianity?

  The ugly side of Evangelical Christianity is very much to blame for the anti-Obama hyperventilating.

• Mike Rogers: The Man Who Outs Closeted Right-Wing ...

  Mike Rogers talks about why it's important to report on the secret sex lives of gay conservatives who are in bed with anti-gay forces.

• 10 Horrifying Racist Attacks on Obama

  Surely the past months of 2009 will go down in history as the "summer of hate."

• Bill Moyers: Conservative Radicals and the Politic ...

  Intellectual conservatism is dead. And the angriest, most intellectually bankrupt elements have taken over the movement.

Consortium News

• What Did Ahmadinejad Really Say?

  Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is accused of calling the Holocaust "a lie," but what was the full quote? asks Robert Parry. September 19, 2009

• Industries Battle Obama's Reforms

  Energy and financial industries take aim at more of President Obama's reform agenda, writes Michael Winship. September 18, 2009

• A Bad Vietnam Lesson for Afghanistan

  A New York Times op-ed urges Vietnam-style paramilitaries for Afghanistan without the ugly context, says Douglas Valentine. September 17, 2009

• Hate Radio Hollows Out America

  Right-wing hate radio, now targeting the first black President, is a cancer on American democracy, says Jay Diamond. September 17, 2009

• Monopoly Looms on Electronic Voting

  The sale of Diebold's election unit to ES&S could leave one company counting 75% of American votes, notes Lisa Pease. September 16, 2009

CounterPunch

• Alexander Cockburn : When Gossip Came Back and Our ...
• Fred Gardner : The Prohibitionists' Manifesto
• Lorenzo Wolff : Dialing Up The Clash
• Russell Mokhiber : Meet the Real Death Panels
• Mike Whitney : The Post-Bubble Malaise

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Justice this time around? (Ramzy Baroud, The Pale ...

  'We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the era of impunity,' Nadia Hijab, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for Palestine Studies, was quoted by IPS in response to the findings of ...

• Two killed, three injured by Israeli shelling in n ...

  Two men were killed and three others injured after Israel's military shelled targets in northern Gaza on Sunday evening, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources. The two slain Palestinians were later id ...

• Palestinians eye-role on trade body (Al Jazeera)

  Palestinians could soon get a boost to their hopes for a sovereign state as their officials redouble efforts in a decade-long bid to join the World Trade Organisation. A delegation headed by Basem Khouri, th ...

• Daily humiliation at Bethlehem checkpoint ()
• Entering Gaza 'the hard way' (Abigail Hauslohner, ...

  Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock is chaos at Rafah Crossing, the Egyptian-controlled entrance to the Gaza Strip. Black-clad Egyptian security forces stand by their trucks, ready if things get out of hand. Aid co ...

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

• Atrazine

  The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in the US has published a new report on concentrations

• Water Problems From Drilling Are More Frequent Tha ...

  http://www.propublica.org/feature/water-problems-from-drilling-are-more-frequent-than-officials-said

• News on the CBF appeals to DEP and Water Pollution ...

  This is a must read article! Group appeals DEP’s expedited permits for gas drilling Thursday,

• City's Bid for L.I.D.

  Andy Lipkis beginning the tour of LID features at TreePeople's headquarters. L.A. Creek Freak pe

• A Couple of Incidents

  Here are a couple of incidents involving gas wells going on in PA. Please make an effort to call DE

Public Citizen in Texas

• Tell Texas Senators John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hut ...

  In 1977 Congress passed amendments to the Clean Air Act that provided exemptions to existing coal plants, allowing them to ignore the new emissions standards any new plants would have to adhere to. It was thought these plants would simply age and be retired quickly, but because these plants suddenly ...

• Texas Roll Beyond Coal Tour Headed Your Way

  This week Public Citizen Texas and the Sierra Club are launching a statewide media tour of Texas coal plants. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently rejected key aspects of the air permitting plan of Texas’ regulatory agency — the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and ...

• WATCH: San Antonio Clean Tech Forum- The Great Nuc ...

  Many of you have been clamoring for these videos of the clean tech forum that we attended on Wednesday, so here they are in streaming digital goodness. Outside the event we caught up with two of the panelists from the forum, specifically the ones opposed to San Antonio investing in the new nuclear e ...

• San Antonio Clean Tech forum on San Antonio’s Nu ...

  Now Cast San Antonio, a project of the Alamo Area Community Information System, will post video of the entire Clean Tech forum later on NOWCastSA.org #saenergy. Missed or couldn’t afford this event, then consider attending the free event hosted by Energía Mía at UTSA Downtown Campus a ...

• King Williams Parade Pics 048 [Flickr]

  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Press TV

• Mottaki in New York for UN General Assembly

  Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has arrived in New York to take part in the general debates of the 64th session of the UN General Assembly.

• Total's head: Oil could reach $100 a barrel

  The head of the French oil firm, Total, urges world governments to step up investment in oil production to deter an oil shortage, warning that prices could reach $100 a barrel.

• Iran practices more restrictions on Hajj

  Iran has decided to impose more restrictions on the upcoming annual Hajj pilgrimage amid fears about the rapid spread of swine flu in the northern hemisphere.

• Taliban will not recognize any Afghan govt.

  The Taliban say that they will not recognize any government that takes power in Afghanistan, adding that it would fall after the withdrawal of the foreign forces.

• Every 10 minutes an Iranian contracts Alzheimers

  Iran's new health minister, Mrs, Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi, has warned that one Iranian contracts Alzheimer's disease almost every ten minutes.

Axis of Logic

• Iraq's September Eleven

• Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

• Pakistanis Want US Declared ‘Hostile State’

• Fill 'er up

• Monsanto – Public Enemy No. 1

They Gave Us a Republic

• It's time to slash our nuclear arsenal

  During the campaign, before President Obama had secured the nomination, my friend Richard Rhodes and I were talking about the Democratic candidates - it was down to two by this point - and I was interested in which one he was backing. He minced no words. He was 110% behind Barack Obama because he s ...

• The Nightowl Newswrap

  I wonder if Fox News will stick with their insistence that the whole "9/12" charade was a "grassroots" phenomenon in light of the fact that video has surfaced of one of their producers cheerleading the crowd and telling them to get louder for the cameras? Taliban inmate dies in Pakistani custody Sh ...

• Rick 'Governor Goodhair' Perry: Recession? 'We're ...

  In case there is any lingering doubt that Texas Gov. Rick "Governor Goodhair" Perry is an authentic fool, here's what he said during a Thursday appearance in Houston: "Why is Texas kind of recession-proof, if you will? As a matter of fact ... someone had put a report out that the first state that's ...

• Why We Fight: Part 7,204

  Yes, it's Crooks and Liars Day here at Republic, but it's their fault because they keep picking up the best stuff. An insurance company's "reprehensible" decision to rescind a South Carolina man's coverage after he tested positive for HIV warrants a $10 million punitive damage award, the state Supre ...

• They're Terrified of the Left, So Let's Take Advan ...

  Ian Welsh at Crooks and Liars has a great piece on the Liberal Majority and how to use it: One constant theme which needs dealing with is the idea that the country is more conservative than liberal and that centrists are needed to hold off horrible conservative things from happening. SNIP When I loo ...

Care 2

• Better world: Be nice to people

  It sounds kind of obvious, and a little trite: the world would be a better place to live in if we were all a bit kinder to each other. But how can we make that happen? This is fast becoming a valid scientific question. Psychologists and Submitted by Daphna Jindrich to Health & Wellness | Note-i ...

• Uses for Salt: Doing the Laundry

  Salt is a super stain remover on clothing, helps maintain bright colors, and can even eliminate sticky spots on your iron. It can also reduce yellowing in clothes and mildew on shower curtains. This article includes hints on how salt can be used while doi Submitted by Daphna Jindrich to Green Lifest ...

• Try This: Shopping Bag Lampshade

  Plastic shopping bags are disastrous for the environment. This project takes a few of those wayward bags out of the landfill and puts them to work. This beautiful, earthy pendant lampshade is made of used shopping bags--the flimsy kind you get from the gr Submitted by Daphna Jindrich to Green Lifest ...

• A Guide on Growing Tillandsia

  Bromeliads are today’s “in” plants, easy to grow and can survive the neglect by its owner who maybe too busy with his work. These plants belong to a large family where the edible pineapple belongs. Submitted by Sophie S. to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment

• "Animal Care Certified"—A Case of Animal Abuse an ...

  From 2002 to 2005, the majority of U.S. egg producers labeled their egg cartons with a logo that read "Animal Care Certified." Despite the image conveyed by such a message, hens who were laying "Animal Care Certified" eggs were still subjected to abuses Submitted by Tierney G. 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.

• 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 significantly, 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.

• 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 oper ...

Reuters Global

• Germany’s ‘Pirate Party’ hopes f ...

  Germany's Pirate Party growing fast ahead of Sept. 27 election and hoping to surprise established parties with their efforts to reform copyright and patent laws.

• Aflaq, symbol of Iraq and Syria’s shared pas ...

  Blue-domed memorial to to honour Baath party founder Michel Aflaq.

• Iran’s Ahmadinejad jumps the gun on Afghan p ...

  Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad congratulates Afghan President Hamid Karzai on being re-elected - somewhat prematurely.

• 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 ...

Ezra Klein

• The Patient Is in Stable Condition and Improving R ...

  The Atlantic Politics team asks the question on somebody's mind: "Can President Obama's media blitz – appearances on five Sunday talk shows this weekend – save health reform?" Save health reform from what? Consider the recent developments: Two weeks ago, four of five committees had passed the ...

• 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 ...

Booman Tribune

• Double Amputee Tased Twice

  Two white police officers in Merced, CA used a taser twice on an African American double amputee in a wheelchair, allegedly because he resisted arrest when he held onto his wheelchair to prevent being thrown on the ground by the police officers. Then they handcuffed him while he was on the ground, ...

• More Media Idiocy

  Barack Obama told Stephanopoulos he hasn't paid a whole lot of attention to the whole ACORN thing, although did see at least one of the videos. OBAMA: George, this is not the biggest issue facing the country. It's not something I'm paying a lot of attention to. But it's a really, really big ...

• Question of the Day

  Is Barack Obama overexposed?

• Why Talk to David Gregory?

  NBC Universal helpfully sent me an advance transcript of David Gregory's interview with the president on this morning's Meet the Press. The whole interview is dreadful and depressing. Gregory touches on four issues. Issue one is health care. Gregory probes the president to find out what his bott ...

• In Broder's World

  In David Broder's world, the ideal politician is ambitious but non-ideological. They are earnest and eager to serve the public, but they have to ask which party they should belong to. That was the case with Max Baucus. I suppose there is something charming and innocent about a rich-boy from M ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 21 ...

  A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1955 – Mika Kaurismäki,...

• Sunday Open Thread

  What's been happening?...

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 20 ...

  A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1951 – Javier Marías,...

• Saturday Open Thread

  Time for the weather reports...

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 19 ...

  A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1908 – Mika Waltari,...

Futurismic

• The sexbots are coming

  Would you have sex with a robot? My money would be on most of you answering with a firm and assertive “no”… but David Levy thinks otherwise. Levy just won this year’s Loebner Prize – the Turing Test contest for chat-bots, which he last won back in 1997. But writing convincing chatbots isnâ ...

• Ultracapacitors: the game-changer for renewable en ...

  Sf author Karl Schroeder points us to a development that may redraw the map for renewable energy use. EEStor, long suspected by some to be the sort of vapourware company that spends a few years making big promises before dissolving in a puff of evaporating venture capital, are believed to have appli ...

• Yard sale

  [* - my husband actually yelled this in his sleep once.] Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Cana ...

• Yard sale

  [* - my husband actually yelled this in his sleep once.] Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Cana ...

• Quantum motor with just two atoms

  Researchers at the University of Augsburg in Germany have developed a blueprint for a kind of quantum electric motor that uses just two atoms: Their motor consists of one neutral atom and one charged atom trapped in a ring-shaped optical lattice. The atoms jump from one site in the lattice to the ne ...

Therapy News

• The Team Spirit May Ward Off Depression

  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In many work environments, a sense of collaboration and team spirit is encouraged among employees, and while some may feel that the practice is a bit cheesy or unnecessary, a recent study performed in Finland sheds light on the possibility of such an atmosphere to mai ...

• Helping Students Find their Happiness

  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Throughout popular culture, a common idea is that the college years are among life’s best. The branching out into a new and somehow freer world, without the direct supervision of parents, leads many young people to expect they’re headed for bliss, and conventional ...

• Research Probes the Possibility of Promises

  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary We make promises throughout life; sometimes we focus on major promises, such as marriage vows or in extraordinary situations where much is at stake. Other times, our promises are small; we may promise to perform some errand or to keep our word about providing an object ...

• 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Soundings (Key West Citizen)

  Universal Orlando and Warner Bros. are leaking details about the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, an "immersive environment" due to open at Universal Orlando in spring 2010. Inspired by... read more

• Yahara stop is best option, Stakes are high in Dru ...

  In Yahara Station, Madison has a golden opportunity to be a leader in shaping the future of our nation's transportation system ( Madison.gov, 9/4/09 ). The federal stimulus money has ensured that high-speed rail is going to happen, and it's going to transform the way Americans move around the countr ...

• 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.

Memeorandum

• McChrystal: More Forces or 'Mission Failure' (Bob ...

  Bob Woodward / Washington Post : McChrystal: More Forces or ‘Mission Failure’ — Top U.S. Commander For Afghan War Calls Next 12 Months Decisive — The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warns in an urgent, confidential assessment of the war that he needs more forces within t ...

• Steele 'curious' that W.H. asks black governor to ...

  Kevin Bogardus / The Hill : Steele ‘curious’ that W.H. asks black governor to not seek reelection — Michael Steele said it was “curious” on why the White House would ask New York Gov. David Paterson (D) not to run for reelection in 2010. — “I found that to be stunning, that t ...

• Newspaper journalism gets words of praise Print me ...

  Dave Murray / Toledo Blade : Newspaper journalism gets words of praise Print media's role vital, Obama says — Saying he is a “big newspaper junkie,” President Obama expressed hope on Friday that newspapers can find their way through the financial crisis most are now mired in. — In ...

• You Have No Idea What Health Costs (Ezra Klein/Was ...

  Ezra Klein / Washington Post : You Have No Idea What Health Costs — If You Did, You Might Just Want Real Reform — The most important health-care document released this week was not Sen. Max Baucus's Healthy Future Act. It was the Kaiser Family Foundation's 2009 Employer Benefits Sur ...

• Barack Obama ready to slash US nuclear arsenal (Ju ...

  Julian Borger / Guardian : Barack Obama ready to slash US nuclear arsenal — Pentagon told to map out radical cuts as president prepares to chair UN talks — Barack Obama has demanded the Pentagon conduct a radical review of US nuclear weapons doctrine to prepare the way for deep cuts in ...

Energy & Environment News

• Oil Trader Settles Ivory Coast Waste Spill

  The oil trading company said it would pay $1,546 each to people in Abidjan who said they fell ill after a tanker dumped hundreds of tons of waste.

• Op-Ed Columnist: Have a Nice Day

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• Schwarzenegger Orders Increase in Renewable Energy ...

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• By Degrees: Plugged-In Age Feeds a Hunger for Elec ...

  The rise of electronic devices amounts to the fastest-growing source of power demand in the world, and there is resistance to efficiency rules.

• Coming to Dealers Soon: An Array of Electric Cars

  After years of talk and prototypes, some automobile makers are announcing plans for electric vehicles.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 6.1, Bhutan

  Monday, September 21, 2009 08:53:05 UTC Monday, September 21, 2009 02:53:05 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

• M 5.3, Jan Mayen Island region

  Monday, September 21, 2009 08:30:14 UTC Monday, September 21, 2009 08:30:14 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

• M 5.0, central Mid-Atlantic Ridge

  Sunday, September 20, 2009 22:07:28 UTC Sunday, September 20, 2009 07:07:28 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

• M 5.1, Santa Cruz Islands

  Sunday, September 20, 2009 00:51:33 UTC Sunday, September 20, 2009 11:51:33 AM at epicenter Depth : 83.70 km (52.01 mi)

• M 5.1, Baja California, Mexico

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China Dialogue

• Chilling view of a warming world

  Standing before a Greenland glacier as it calves icebergs into an Arctic fjord is to witness the raw power of a process that humans will struggle to control. Patrick Barkham reports. The wall of ice that rises behind Sermilik fjord stretches for 2,400 kilometres from north to south and smother ...

• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Gates Makes Case For Shift in Missile-Defense Poli ...

  "Those who say we are scrapping missile defense in Europe are either misinformed or misrepresenting what we are doing," Gates said.

• Bill Moyers: Conservative Radicals and the Politic ...

  Intellectual conservatism is dead. And the angriest, most intellectually bankrupt elements have taken over the movement.

• 10 Horrifying Racist Attacks on Obama

  Surely the past months of 2009 will go down in history as the "summer of hate."

• Mike Rogers: The Man Who Outs Closeted Right-Wing ...

  Mike Rogers talks about why it's important to report on the secret sex lives of gay conservatives who are in bed with anti-gay forces.

• Right-Wing Hatemongering Fueled by Christianity?

  The ugly side of Evangelical Christianity is very much to blame for the anti-Obama hyperventilating.

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

• Emmy Awards get boost from Neil Patrick Harris

  NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Proving that he could well succeed as a critic should his current gig not work out, Jeff Probst summed up it nicely.

• U.S. commander warns of "failure" in Afghanistan

  WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) - The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan says in a confidential assessment of the war that without additional forces the mission "will likely result in failure."

• China eases Macau visas; casino shares soar

  HONG KONG (Reuters) - China has quietly eased restrictions on its citizens traveling from Guangdong province to Macau, sending casino stocks soaring on Monday as industry executives bet on record October earnings in the world's hottest gambling market.

• US commander warns of "failure" in Afgha ...

  (For more Afghanistan news, click [IDnAFPAK]) * U.S. Commander says strategy needs to be redefined * Emphasis must be on gaining support from Afghans * Extra troops request faces resistance in Washington By JoAnne Allen and Golnar Motevalli WASHINGTON/KABUL, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The war against Afgha ...

• UPDATE 1-New York Governor Paterson says he's stil ...

  NEW YORK, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Embattled New York Governor David Paterson said on Sunday he was still running for office, in the face of reports that President Barack Obama had asked him to withdraw from the 2010 race for fear that he cannot regroup from a series of political setbacks.

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

• Goodbye social democracy, hello economic democracy

  Bill Kerry writes for Labour List about the limits of social democracy and the need for economic democracy.

• Shattering the myth of equality

  An article by Boris Frankel in Melbourne's newspaper 'The Age'.

• Polly Toynbee: This bold equality push is just wha ...

  Polly Toynbee writing about the new Equality Bill today's Guardian. "Harriet Harman's bill is a frank recognition of the role of class in Britain. A decade earlier, it might have had a real impact..."

• Seumas Milne: This naked display of class egotism ...

  "It's more than a week since Alistair Darling's budget, but the howls of protest haven't stopped for a day ever since. That's not been the public sector employees facing a harsh squeeze on jobs and pay who've been squealing, or the million workers expected to join the dole queues in the next year, ...

• Bob Holman on social breakdown

  Bob Holman writes in the Glasgow Herald about the evidence in The Spirit Level.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #0111

  Obama supports extending USA PATRIOT Act domestic spy provisions. Poland jails alleged Belarusian spy. Tolkien was trained as a British spy.

• Declassified study shades new light on Soviet nucl ...

  US defense analysts exaggerated Soviet aggressiveness and understated Moscow's fears of a US first nuclear strike, according to a recently released study on Soviet Intentions: 1965-1985, prepared in 1995 by the Pentagon contractor BDM Corporation.

• News you may have missed #0110

  Was it pirates or Israeli spies that intercepted a ship carrying Russian missiles? Trial of accused Palestinian spy begins in Israel. Czech spies see Russians behind antiwar group's actions.

• Analysis: Bush focus on Daily Brief skewed policy ...

  A study by a Brookings Institution analyst says the “unprecedented” level of importance given to the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) by George W. Bush skewed his administration’s policy decisions after 9/11 and had negative consequences for the US intelligence community.

• 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.

PsyBlog

• How Long to Form a Habit?

  Research reveals a curved relationship between practice and automaticity. Say you want to create a new habit, whether it's taking more exercise, eating more healthily or writing a blog post every day, how often does it need to be performed before it no longer requires Herculean self-control? Clear ...

• 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 ...

After Downing Street.org

• David Swanson at Under the Hood Cafe Benefit - New ...

• Dallas Does Progressivism

  By David Swanson This past Saturday, I joined in a protest at a former president's house, took part in a four-hour progressive politics forum in an enormous theater packed with an enthusiastic crowd, and spoke at a fundraiser for GI resistance in a giant gay cathedral, all in the heart of the hinter ...

• Audio: Tell Somebody: David Swanson - Undoing the ...

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• Health Reform's 'Gang of 6' Reaps Political Cash

  Health reform's 'gang of 6' reaps political cash By Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer | SF Gate The bipartisan "gang of six" senators who helped craft the health care reform bill going before a key Senate committee Tuesday represent less than 3 percent of the U.S. population - but they hold a lo ...

• United States' Obama Refuses To Stop Torture Inves ...

  United States' Obama refuses to stop torture investigations | M&C Washington - US President Barack Obama rejected on Sunday a request by several former heads of the country's intelligence community to end investigations into the alleged torture of terrorist suspects. Speaking to US broadcaster CNN, ...

Grist - News

• Nationwide “eat-ins” show way to a rev ...

  Across the nation on Labor Day, more than 20,000 people turned up at picnics to rally support for healthy school lunches.

• UPDATED: The cruelty of industrial egg-riculture&# ...

  Kurt Michael Friese cooks in Iowa, the state that produces more eggs than any other in the nation. So believe him when he says to avoid flavorless, ecologically troubling industrially produced eggs—and listen to his ideas for cooking with pastured eggs from small farmers.

• The Cruelty of Industrial Egg-riculture - plus a t ...

  Kurt Michael Friese cooks in Iowa, the state that produces more eggs than any other in the nation. So believe him when he says to avoid flavorless, ecologically troubling industrially produced eggs—and listen to his ideas for cooking with pastured eggs from small farmers.

• Say no to industrial eggs—and yes to delicio ...

  Kurt Michael Friese cooks in Iowa, the state that produces more eggs tan any other in the nation. So believe him when he says to avoid flavorless, ecologically troubling industrially produced eggs—and listen to his ideas for cooking with pastured eggs from small farmers.

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• 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 ...

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• 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

• The Risks for Democrats Going it Alone on Health C ...

  It is looking increasingly likely that Democrats will have to go it alone on health care, which is just how Republicans like it

• Letter From Detroit: What Exactly Am I Doing Here?

  For much of the last year, the Detroit crisis, or at least the auto industry aspect of it, has returned to the American consciousness in a way not seen in decades.

• Environmentalists Not All Happy About New EPA Guid ...

  The White House plan to curb greenhouse-gas emissions has some environmentalists seeing red due to abundant loopholes and funny math

• Can Oprah Lead 'Precious' All the Way to Oscar?

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• Mad Men Watch: Independence Day

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Washington Independent

• Christian Right Looks to Debt, Economic Worries fo ...

  While usually attendees at the annual Value Voters Summit focus on hot button social issues, this year the hotel buzzed with the 10th amendment and the national debt.

• Tavis Smiley Says He’s Cutting Ties to Wells ...

  Prominent author, commentator and PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley has announced that he’s cutting all business ties to Wells Fargo & Co. The move comes in the wake of a TWI story last week about Wells Fargo “Wealth Building” seminars held in black neighborhoods starting in 2005, headlined by S ...

• Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-Okla.) Chief of Staff: ...

  One of the final events of the Values Voter Summit was a Saturday breakout session on “the new masculinity,” a wide-ranging topic that one speaker used to explain how any and all pornography could lead young people into homosexual lifestyles. That speaker was Sen. Tom Coburn’s chief of staff M ...

• Rick Perry: ‘You Can’t Not Legislate M ...

  Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas), who’s become something of an icon to the Tea Party movement with his unapologetic defenses of the 10th Amendment and states rights–probably culminating with his April 15 remarks that seemed to endorse Texas secession–gave a lively speech to the Value Voters Summit th ...

• Mike Huckabee Wins Values Voter Straw Poll

  In a telling, but non-scientific, survey of the Republican Party’s social conservative base, former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) won the 2009 Values Voter straw poll with a 28 percent plurality of the vote. Five-hundred and ninety-seven people voted. In October 2007, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

• The American way of eating has become the elephant ...

  “To listen to President Obama’s speech on Wednesday night, or to just about anyone else in the health care debate, you would think that the biggest problem with health care in America is the system itself — perverse incentives, inefficiencies, unnecessary Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to US P ...

• Milk May Endanger Your Health, and the Dairy Indus ...

  A mutant protein linked to major diseases has invaded the world’s dairy supply, including, most likely, the jug of milk in your fridge. The protein, called A1 beta-casein, is well known in the scientific community. While most dairy companies, trade Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Health & Wel ...

• Irish Call For Total EU Ban on Brazilian Beef

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

• In Brazil, Paying Farmers to Let the Trees Stand

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

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

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

Why Organic

• The POPE, Prime Minister and WTF is going on here& ...

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

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

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

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

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• THE HPV VACCINE and our daughters….

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• 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 ...

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• 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

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

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  Care2 Picks

• CIA Experiments on US Soldiers Linked to Torture P ...

  illegal human experimentation on US-held "terrorism" prisoners undergoing torture experiments by a CIA researcher on human subjects undergoing SERE training went unreported Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment

• World's last great forest under threat: new study

  The world's last remaining "pristine" forest - the boreal forest across large stretches of Russia, Canada and other northern countries - is under increasing threat, a team of international researchers has found Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment

• Association Criticises GE Trees for Ethanol

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

• Ecological disaster looms in Colombia : Mining com ...

  The Serranía de San Lucas is one of the last unknown frontiers for biologists. Isolated and once covered with 2.5 million acres of forest to 7,500 feet elevation, none of it is protected and only a fraction of its forests survive. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Commen ...

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

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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Reuters World News Highlights at 1800 GMT, Sep 18 ...

  Reuters World News Highlights at 1800 GMT, Sep 18 Alibaba News Channel KOHAT, Pakistan - A suicide car-bomber killed 33 people in northwest Pakistan on Friday in an explosion on a road that brought down shops where people were ...

• Should we be worried about terror havens? - TheDay

  Should we be worried about terror havens? TheDay The US entry into the Afghan civil war succeeded in ousting the Taliban from power and rousting its al-Qaida allies, and the intervention would have ...

• Pakistan works the crowd - Asia Times Online

  Pakistan works the crowd Asia Times Online The military operation in Swat further damaged the Taliban's assets. Joint Pakistan and US operations eliminated two important leaders of the ... and more »

• Reuters World News Highlights at 1410 GMT, Sep 20 ...

  Reuters World News Highlights at 1410 GMT, Sep 20 Alibaba News Channel ISLAMABAD - A captured Pakistani Taliban commander, who was accused of killing captured members of the security forces and rivals in Pakistan's northwestern ... and more »

• Report: US general calls for more troops in Afghan ...

  Report: US general calls for more troops in Afghanistan CNN And the war has spread into Pakistan , where Taliban fighters are now battling government troops in that nuclear-armed country. Obama said he has ordered "a ... and more »

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Why Are Cops Tasering Grandmothers, Pregnant Women ...

  Police officers are brutalizing innocent civilians with accelerating lunacy. How did this happen? How can we make it stop?

• Let The Sun Shine In: Marriage Equality Comes to B ...

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• Right-Wing Militias Haven't Always Been Racist -- ...

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• In Illinois, Another Workers' Rebellion Flares Up ...

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Sideways News

• Winner of the Week: Billy Bragg reunites Clash

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• Bad news for beer drinkers

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• Trident replacement 'to cost £97bn'

  Environmental organisation Greenpeace has slammed government plans to replace the Trident nuclear missile system, which it claimed could cost five-times more than estimated.

• Winner of the Week: Billy Bragg reunites Clash mem ...

  Folk activist Billy Bragg has reunited legendary Clash members Nicky "Topper" Headon and Mick Jones to re-record a spirited version of their classic "Jail Guitar Doors". The track has been recorded in aid of Bragg's campaign, which takes its name from the song.

• Clean Up the World this weekend

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Fabius Maximus

• Ignatius proposes “A New Deal for The CIA&#8 ...

  I doubt that proposals for partial reform of the CIA make sense. Not after reading the major histories of the CIA (e.g., Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes). Even so, this specimen looks unusually daft: “A New Deal for The CIA“, David Ignatius, op-ed in the Washington Post, 17 Septemb ...

• Steve Fraser compares Obama’s Brainiacs and ...

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

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• 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 ...

  Blacklisted News

• Putin: New Global Reserve Currencies Wouldn’t Ha ...

  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said agreement is needed on several global reserve currencies, and said such a move wouldn’t damage the U.S., RIA Novosti reports Friday

• CIA launching ’surge’ of spies into Afghanista ...

  The CIA is deploying teams of spies, analysts and paramilitary operatives to Afghanistan, part of a broad intelligence “surge” that will make the agency’s station there among the largest in CIA history, U.S. officials say.

• 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.

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

• US credit shrinks at Great Depression rate

  Professor Tim Congdon from International Monetary Research said US bank loans have fallen at an annual pace of almost 14pc in the three months to August (from $7,147bn to $6,886bn)."There has been nothing like this in the USA since the 1930s," he said. "The rapid destruction of money balances is mad ...

• How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?

  Few economists saw our current crisis coming, but this predictive failure was the least of the field's problems. More important was the profession's blindness to the very possibility of catastrophic failures in a market economy. » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

• Klein: Obama - the post-racial presidency ?

  Americans began the summer still celebrating the dawn of a "post-racial" era. They are ending it under no such illusion. The summer of 2009 was all about race, beginning with Republican claims that Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama's nominee to the US Supreme Court, was "racist" against whites. Then, ju ...

• 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 ...

Independent ( London )

• Huge cash catch for Aussie teenagers

  Two Australian teenagers who found almost 100,000 Australian dollars (£53,000) in cash during a fishing trip have handed it over to police - after spending some time thinking about it.

• Rebels killed in Philippine arrests move

  Attempts by government troops to arrest three militant leaders wanted by the Philippines and the US on kidnapping and murder charges sparked clashes that left up to 17 rebels dead.

• Honeymoon couple in river 'tubing' tragedy

  A distraught bride spent three days searching for the body of her husband after he was swept away in a flooded river while they were on honeymoon in Laos.

• Doctor arrested over therapy poisoning

  A doctor has been arrested after two patients died and another 10 needed hospital treatment for poisoning after a group therapy session.

• World Focus: A tough test for Obama's open-arms di ...

  President Barack Obama begins three days of non-stop conferring with other world leaders tomorrow that will highlight his commitment to multilateralism and US engagement – even with America's natural foes – but threatens also to expose the scant dividends so far yielded by his open-arms approac ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Medvedev: Israeli President Promised No Iran Attac ...

  Summary: Peres Though he actually has very little direct influence over foreign policy, Israeli President Shimon Peres has often been at the forefront of Israel’s long standing threats to launch a military attack against Iran. source: Anti War.Com read more

• Zbig Brzezinski: Obama Administration Should Tell ...

  Summary: The national security adviser for former President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, gave an interview to The Daily Beast in which he suggested President Obama should make it clear to Israel that if they attempt to attack Iran's nuclear weapons sites the U.S. Air Force will stop them. ...

• Iranians Favor Diplomatic Relations With US But Ha ...

  Summary: On Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the survey finds that eight in 10 Iranians say they consider him to be the country's legitimate president. Ahmedinejad, who will visit the United States on Tuesday and address the UN General Assembly, was the focus of large-scale protests in Tehran after oppositi ...

• New Poll Finds Strong Domestic Support for Iran Re ...

  Summary: Despite persistent mass demonstrations protesting June’s disputed reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a new survey of Iranian public opinion released here Saturday suggests majority domestic support for both him and the country’s basic governing institutions. source: Anti ...

• Iran ready to pay for probe into Israeli nukes

  Summary: Iran is prepared to allocate a budget for a probe into Israel's largely clandestine nuclear industry, Tehran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says. source: Press TV read more

The Daily Galaxy

• Jupiter's Magnetic Moon: The Ultimate Light Show

  Some scientists have seen the ultimate sky show, and the fact that the sky isn't ours only makes it cooler. Gas giant Jupiter features some epic aurora beyond-borealis (and ultra-australis) and the causes make ours look like two small sparklers...

• Can Ancient Records of the Nile Predict Sun's Impa ...

  While Congress was setting the climate-change record straight, challenging the Bush Adminstration's deliberate distortion of the facts about global warming, NASA announced that a group of NASA and university scientists has found a convincing link between long-term solar and climate...

• The Galaxy With Two Supermassive Black Holes: Will ...

  Scientist believe that most galaxies, certainly all the spiral ones, have such supermassive black holes in the center. Several have been observed or inferred by their radiation signatures, polar jets or other massively energetic effects. While the exact mechanics of...

• Silicon Valley's "Better Place" MegaDeal Promises ...

  “Today was the beginning of the electric era. And perhaps the end of the oil era.” Shai Agassi -CEO/founder Better Place Silicon Valley startup Better Place has signed a massive deal with Renault to put 100,000 electric vehicles on the...

• Holes In Sun Spew Solar Winds that Impact Earth

  If God said "Let there be light," He apparently decided it should come from a two thousand septillion tonne fusion reactor whose slightest variation has profound effects on our planet. He likes to keep things exciting it seems. While sunspots...

Natural News

• Leaked UN report claims swine flu could "kill mill ...

  (NaturalNews) A UN report leaked to The Observer claims that swine flu could "kill millions" of people in poor nations and cause a total breakdown of society unless wealthy nations come up with US$1.5 billion to pay for pandemic vaccines and anti-viral drugs. It warns that the fragile economies of d ...

• PepsiCo Tests Vending Machines Containing Greener ...

  (NaturalNews) PepsiCo is trialing a new refrigeration system in its vending machines with one that contains carbon dioxide instead of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). "This field test will help us evaluate the performance and reliability of these new machines in a real-world environment," said PepsiCo's v ...

• Vitamin C Deficiency May Damage Babies� Mental D ...

  (NaturalNews) According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), learning disabilities are disorders that affect the ability to understand or use spoken or written language, do math calculations, coordinate movements, or direct attention. And the number of Americans wi ...

• 10 things I'd rather do than get a Swine Flu vacci ...

  (NaturalNews) I admit, the thought of being injected with a chemical cocktail made by a pharmaceutical company and approved by the FDA with virtually no safety testing is somewhat tempting. Who wouldn't want the thrill and rush of being part of a grand pharmaceutical experiment, anyway? On second th ...

• Basil is a Natural Anti-Inflammatory Herb

  (NaturalNews) Basil was recently shown to reduce swelling and inflammation in arthritic patients by about 73 percent, which is on par with commonly used drugs for arthritis. The researcher who presented the results at The British Pharmacology Conference said they were going to begin studying the pro ...

TheGallopingBeaver

• Smart Guy . . . .

  The Rev. was right . Here's the evidence. Douche bag - 1, Health Care debate - 0 . . . .

• At The Going Down Of The Sun....

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

• The Eagles

  For Mr. Stewart :

• The HST will create thousands of elephants in BC

  That's right. Elephants . Or, if you've been listening to Gordon Campbell's homeboy, Colin Hansen, it will be jobs . Same thing. You see, Hansen is ready at a moment's notice to don his body armour and jump out in front of a microphone to tell you that introducing a 12 percent HST in British Colu ...

• "No HST" Rally in Vancouver . . . .

  Today was the initial rally in BC for those opposing the HST or Harmonized Sales Tax . There were about 15 rallies taking place today across the province and I attended the Vancouver affair held outside the new convention centre . Premier gordo campbell and his LINO * party has seen fit to initia ...

Media Matters for America

• NY Times disappears Fox's history of at ...

  In a September 21 article, The New York Times reported that President Obama "gave five back-to-back television interviews broadcast on Sunday," but engaged in an act of "Medici vengeance" and showed "a rare sign of frustration, and payback" by not "speak[ing] to 'Fox News Sunday.' " The Times re ...

• Father of filmmaker behind ACORN videos has backl ...

  The Washington Post recently reported that according to Young America's Foundation director Ron Robinson, Hannah Giles, who helped create the controversial ACORN videos, "may have been inspired to some extent" by the work of her father, Townhall.com columnist Doug Giles -- who has frequently u ...

• Post ombudsman adopts right-wing mantra ...

  Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander criticized the newspaper for "tardiness" in covering the ACORN videotape controversy, arguing that newspapers should pay more attention to right-wing media outlets and that the Post 's purportedly slow reaction to the ACORN story is related to institu ...

• AP transcribes false GOP attacks on health reform

  The Associated Press uncritically reported Rep. Sue Myrick's (R-NC) attacks on health care reform, including her false comparison of Democratic reform proposals to the health care systems in Canada and the United Kingdom and her claim that a study by the National Federation of Independent Busin ...

• 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 ...

Global Research.ca

• Doctors Aiding Torture

  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

• Major Conference Event on the H1N1 Swine Flu Pande ...

  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

• The Recession has Technically Ended: Surely You're ...

  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

• U.S. Redeploys Missile Shield: The Geopolitical En ...

  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

• The Iraqi who threw his Shoe at George W. Bush: "M ...

  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Obama to Stephanopoulos: No One Has Pulled a Khru ...

  I won't pull a Joe Wilson in response -- but I will suggest that President Obama either doesn't understand how Nikita Khrushchev "defined" JFK at the beginning of his term or he is stretching things to sidestep an interesting question... Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - Joe Wilson - Nikita Khrus ...

• Steve Walt: AIPAC Still Thwarting Obama on Middle ...

  Prof. Stephen Walt writes in today's Washington Post that despite the rise of J Street -- and, I'd add, the decline in Israel's public standing since the Gaza war -- AIPAC is still managing to block President Obama's efforts to... Sponsored Topics: Middle East - American Israel Public Affairs Co ...

• Palestinian State In The Making

  President Obama will be hosting both Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas this week. The subject, presumably, will be how to advance the prospects of a Palestinian state, and the agenda, almost certainly, will focus on such things as settlements... Sponsored Topics: West Bank - Middle E ...

• Irving Kristol-R.I.P.

  While Neo-cons acolytes like Jonah Goldberg are busy sanctifying Irving Kristol, I need to introduce a note of reality here. Irving Kristol and Milton Freidman are responsible for the mess we are in. Kristol's two tenants of the neoconservative faith... Sponsored Topics: Irving Kristol - Neocons ...

• Can Anything Change the Conversation? Maybe This.

  Two events this month suggest a transition from one conversation about the American republic to another. The old conversation -- often little better than a shouting match or a dance of snarky repartees -- is petering out with the passing,... Sponsored Topics: Irving Kristol - Politics - Conserva ...

TruthOut

• As ACORN Grew, so Did Its Clout and Its Problems

  (Photo: Wikipedia.org) read more

• Obama's Move Was Not Appeasement

  Boston, Massachusetts - When President George W. Bush committed the U.S. to putting up a missile shield in Poland, with radar facilities in the Czech Republic, the Russians raised holy hell. The installations would have made very little difference in the strategic balance between Russia and ...

• Battle Looms Over the Patriot Act

  Washington - As Congress prepares to consider extending crucial provisions of the USA Patriot Act, civil liberties groups and some Democratic lawmakers are gearing up to press for sweeping changes to surveillance laws. Both the House and the Senate are set to hold their first committee hear ...

• Activists, Big Business Converge on G20 Meet

  Pittsburgh - As media and government delegates prepare for the G20 Summit to be held Sep. read more

• Obama "Skeptical" About More Troops for Afghanista ...

  President Barack Obama is warning US commanders that he's "skeptical" about whether more troops will make a difference in Afghanistan, saying he'll approve an upcoming request only if the forces fit into a strategy to beat back al-Qaida and protect the United States. "Until I'm satisfied th ...

The Heathlander

• The “British method”

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

• ‘Israel’s Terror Inside’

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

• A culture of fear

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

• Fighting the fash

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

• Silencing civil society

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

Water - AlterNet

• Mining's Destructive Legacy on Waterways

  Scientists are now beginning to see that mining's most lasting damage may be the massive amounts of debris dumped into valley streams.

• The CA Legislature Unveiled 5 New Water Bills -- A ...

  I would urge that California's water warriors hold their opinions until they actually read and digest these bills.

• Vitaminwater's Empty Calories Are at the Heart of ...

  Vitaminwater tells its customers to "hydrate responsibly." That means not drinking 125-calorie sugar rushes like ... Vitaminwater.

• Why Corporations, Emerging Powers and Petro-States ...

  In the past six months, big players in the global economy have grabbed 50 million acres of arable land, from Africa to Southeast Asia.

• Goodbye Pools, Lawns and a Whole Lot More: Why Lif ...

  Water in the very near future will be neither cheap nor plentiful, and much of the Southwest is destined for real trouble.

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.

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Black Sea Crisis Deepens As Threat To Iran Grows b ...

  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/me

• Turkey detains 6 suspects for 2003 Istanbul bombin ...

  Propaganda Alert compiled by Cem Ertür Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 16 September 2009 1)

• International People's Declaration of Peace (video ...

  cindyforcongress September 16, 2009 more about “International Peoples Declaration of

• Black Sea, Caucasus: U.S. Moves Missile Shield Sou ...

  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/me

• The Best Book on Iraq Yet: Dexter Filkins' The For ...

  by Daniel N. White Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Sept. 16, 2009 The Forever War, by Dexter Filk

Unexplained Mysteries

• Google UFO doodles are H.G. Wells tribute

  Google's recent UFO themed doodles have been revealed as a tribute to H.G. Wells, the pioneering author who penned classic science fiction novels ...

• Record-breaking storm on Saturn

  A vast storm that started on Saturn back in January has now become the Solar System's longest observed lightning storm. Thunderstorms on the gas g...

• Woman's sight restored with tooth

  In a groundbreaking procedure last week specialists in the United States have succeeded in restoring a woman's sight by using tissue taken from on...

• 1940's Bermuda mystery solved ?

  A new examination in to the mysterious disappearance of two planes over the Bermuda Triangle in the 1940's has suggested that one aircraft crashed...

• Sailing the seas of Titan by boat

  A new expedition to Saturn's moon Titan by as early as 2022 could see the first ever nautical exploration of an extraterrestrial sea. Titan's ocea...

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 19-20, 2009

  Report: U.S. Climate Bill Costs Could Be Modest (AP) The long-term economic costs of a climate bill being considered in Congress would be "comparatively modest" in light of expected overall economic growth over the next 40 years, according to a CBO report released Friday. Fossil Fuels' Subsidi ...

• September 18, 2009

  Sarkozy, Merkel Call for Carbon Tax on Imports (AFP) The leaders of France and Germany called for the United Nations to support a carbon tax on imports from countries that fail to back international efforts to fight global warming. Murkowski Seeks to Thwart EPA on Greenhouse Gases (Independent) ...

• 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 ...

TomDispatch

• Tomgram: Ann Jones, Us or Them in Afghanistan?

  In Washington, calls are increasing, especially among anxious Democrats , for the president to commit to training ever more Afghan troops and police rather than sending in more American troops . Huge numbers for imagined future Afghan army and police forces are now bandied about in Congress and ...

• 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 ...

Smirking Chimp

• Media Mud Pies: CNN's Embarrassing Response To FOX

  In response to FOX's childish and embarrassing ad in the Washington Post that challenged competitors' coverage of the 9/12 teabaggers in Washington, DC, CNN is airing this equally chilidish and embarrassing ad to prove it did cover the teabaggers in Washington DC. Du-uh!! Oooh-oooh! Did I ...

• A Weakened Weekend Column Titled: Dharma Bumming ...

  Originally this columnist intended to write something with "The Week the Truth Became Irrelevant" as the headline, but then we decided to put that column off until later and do a "clear old items off the desk" type column. Wasn't that a ploy used by Stan Delaplane? Jack Kerouac, in his novel The Dh ...

• Stick A Fork In It: It's Done And The Fascists Won

  In the non-existent, National Health Care debate, Bill Clinton, speaking to a group of health care activists, encourages them, "I want us to be mindful we may need to take less than a full loaf." Less than half a loaf. Not an even half, no, less than half. This is the mindset which has delivered the ...

• Planet FOX Stokes The Right's Delusions Of Persecu ...

  FOX News took out a full page ad in today's Washington Post braying about the channel's obsessive coverage of the Tea Party protests in Washington D.C. this past weekend. The ad reads, "How did, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN miss this story?" Well, as Huffington Post 's Jason Linkins points out, the ...

• Cheering for the wrong revolution

  The story of the Boston Tea Party has long been part of our country's history and mythology. In part because of this event, Samuel Adams became one of the honored figures of the revolution. As usual, history didn't get it quite right. Sam Adams did have a major role in getting the revolution started ...

Ten Percent

• Journalist Elena Rodriguez Attacked

  On the night of Wednesday September 16th, the TV journalist Elena Rodriguez was attacked by three armed men, beaten, pistol whipped and left in the streets of Quito, Ecuador. A stencilled death threat was left on the windscreen of her car that make it clear the attack was politically motivated and s ...

• Apartheid Much

  During the attack on Gaza the West Bank also saw an increase in attacks on Palestinians, with rules that changed depending on who was present- Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict 16. Treatment of Palestinians by Israeli security forces in the West Bank, including ...

• Known Torturers, Assassins & Terrorists Flock To A ...

  The CIA is greatly expanding its presence in Afghanistan as part of a large-scale intelligence “surge” that will see the agency’s station there become among the largest in its history, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. The Central Intelligence Agency is deploying teams of spies, anal ...

• No Choices

  Now- Party leader Nick Clegg will seek to rally his rank-and-file by claiming that now is the time for the Lib Dems to supplant Labour as the main “progressive” party of British politics. Then- In his first major speech since winning the job, Mr Clegg has pretty much adopted the agenda set out i ...

• 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 ...

Paul Krugman

• Sniffling in St. Petersburg

  Posting will remain light for the next few days.

• Memories of the Carter Administration

  This post isn't about Jimmy Carter - it's about macroeconomic theory.

• 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.

No Quarter

• ACORN Insider Turned Whistleblower Anita MonCrief ...

  Join Sins of Omission Monday, September 21st at 9pm (ET) as host Paulie Abeles talks to Anita MonCrief the former ACORN insider turned whistleblower who was interviewed at length by a New York Times reporter. But that investigative news article, full of damning revelations on ACORN, was never publ ...

• Obama Don’t Know Much About ACORN?

  Barack Obama is our first Jewish President. How do I know? He’s the master of Chutzpah. Check out what he said on “This Week With George Stephanopolous when asked about ACORN: Click here to watch. http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8620668 Now take a look here. And then there is thi ...

• Larry Johnson on The John Batchelor Show Sunday Ni ...

  Tune in to John Batchelor’s West Coast show by 11:00 p.m. EDT. In case Larry joins the panel early, start listening at 10:30 p.m. via KFI 640 AM. From John Batchelor’s schedule for tonight’s show: Sunday 1105P (805P Pacific Time): LARRY JOHNSON, NO QUARTER, Jeff Bliss, Forbes.com, John Avlon ...

• In 15 Minutes, Join No Quarter Radio’s Sense on ...

  Join me at 8PM for NQR’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle as we dig deeper and work harder in navigating the economic landscape. There is no shortage of topics that deserve real attention, including: > developments within our bank deposit insurance (FDIC) > the upcoming G-20 conference in Pittsburg ...

• The Right Woman to Take Teddy Kennedy’s Senate S ...

  In Hillary Clinton’s historic run for the Presidency, Massachusetts was the most telling primary. The three most powerful men in the state, Senators Kennedy, Kerry and Governor Duval Patrick endorsed Barack Obama yet Hillary still won the state by over 15 pts. The old boys club failed to fool th ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Poverty Forces These Children to Sleep in the Stra ...
• Insects About to Kill Their Partners
• Bioluminescent Insects Glowing in the Darkness
• Free Climbing a 130ft Vertical Rock Face
• Earth’s Cousins Orbiting A Distant Star

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Afghanistan and the German Peace Movement

  The German peace movement is calling for an end to the Afghan War and the resignation of the German minister of defense.

• The Global Health Debate

  It's time to make "health for all" a global reality.

• The IMF's New Toolkit: New Opportunities, Old Chal ...

  The IMF has made some positive changes to adapt to new economic realities.

• IMF Reforms: Mere Tinkering or Change We Can Live ...

  The IMF has introduced reforms with some positive features. But it has not questioned, much less shifted away from, the "market-fundamentalist" orientation it has prescribed and enforced for so long.

• Response to Ambrose

  The IMF is more flexible and transparent than ever before.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...

  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there wil ...

• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...

  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...

• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...

  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...

• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...

  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...

• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA

  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s ...

Al Jazeera

• G20 braces for summit showdown

  Bankers' salaries among issues threatening to divide EU and US in Pittsburgh talks.

• Deaths in west Somalia fighting

  At least 17 people die as African Union representative calls for bigger mandate.

• Deaths in Abu Sayyaf arrest bid

  Gunbattle erupts after Manila's military tries to arrest three Abu Sayyaf commanders.

• China warns Taiwan over Uighur film

  Beijing tells city not to "stir up trouble" with film on Uighur leader.

• Ex-French PM on trial for slander

  De Villepin accused of conspiring to smear Sarkozy's name during battle for presidency.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Moving Ahead on Gadget Efficiency Rules

  Virtually no electronic gadgets in American households are subject to federal energy efficiency requirements, but some states are establishing their own rules.

• Zeta to Mass-Produce Efficient Homes

  Amid a lingering economic slump, a maker of high-efficiency modular homes prepares to open a 91,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in California.

• Currently on Our Radar ...

  How a warmer world would affect airport runways, and other energy and environmental news from around the Web.

• California Unveils TV Efficiency Standards

  California today unveiled energy-efficiency requirements for televisions, becoming the first state in the nation to craft regulations for one of the largest users of energy in American households.

• Report: Future Bright for Solar Thermal

  A new research report suggests that the tiny market for concentrated solar power is poised to take off.

Dot Earth News

• A Day in the Park(ing Space)

  Parking spaces turned into parks for a day.

• Dot Earth Themes in 140 Characters

  A sampler of 140-character tweets on Dot Earth themes.

• Finding Meaning in Arctic Ice

  In the climate debate, a dispute over the meaning of shrinking Arctic sea ice.

• Who's Walking The Sustainability Walk

  Many businesses report that their green efforts are more on the surface than at the roots.

• August Seas Warmest in at Least 120 Years

  Scientists measure the warmest global sea surface for June through August in more than 100 years.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily Censored

• Folsom Embodies California’s Prison Blues

  Read the full story at Byline Portal by Laura Sullivan, NPR, USA – California’s prison system costs $10 billion a year. Its crumbling, overcrowded facilities are home to the highest recidivism rate in the country. And the state that was once was the national model in corrections has become the m ...

• Building Awareness to Reduce Maternal Mortality

  Read the full story at Byline Portal by Jessie Boylan, IPS, Italy – In the Niassa province of northwest Mozambique, one doctor has been working with local communities to overcome the delays responsible for three-quarters of maternal deaths each year. …

• Bill O’Reilly: The power has shifted to Fox New ...

  Read the full story at News Hounds It’s nice of Bill O’Reilly to admit that the goofy BS coming from the right is being driven by Fox News. But it’s not nice to try to ram a panel consisting of conservative author, Tammy “Michelle Obama is trash in the White Houseâ€� Bruce (what’ ...

• Obama on the public option: ‘I absolutely do not ...

  Read the full story at Think Progress In recent weeks, lawmakers opposed to passing a public option have been insisting that it is “dead” and Democratic leaders need to move forward without it. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) has said that the “public doesn’t support it,” Sen. Lindsey Graham ...

• Bill O’Reilly’s “Courage” Award Speech Sme ...

  Read the full story at News Hounds Bill O’Reilly is a “pro-life” Catholic whose campaign against Dr. George Tiller, a provider of legal late term abortions, included (at least 29 times) accusations that Tiller was a “baby killer. As we know, Dr. Tiller was shot by a man whose rabid anti-abor ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• 'Mad Men,' '30 Rock' lead winners in Emmy repeat

• Choi struggles but survives to win LPGA Samsung

• US tax amnesty deadline on offshore accounts promp ...

• Bloody Afghan rescue puts journalism in the dock

• Mariners catcher hurt hailing homer

Institute for Policy Studies

• Billionaires Thank Tea-Baggers at Glenn Beck's Mar ...

  The Billionaires motto is: "If we’re not broke, don't fix it."

• The Recession's Racial Divide

  African Americans are taking on the brunt of the recession with disproportionately high rates of unemployment and foreclosure.

• CEO Pay Still Outrageous

  Public funds support many bailed-out companies. So why are we still paying CEOs outrageous salaries?

• Remember the Real Villain--Wall Street

  We're pointing fingers at President Obama — when those responsible for the economic crisis escape blame.

• The CEO Pay Debate: Why Reform is Going Nowhere

  Would you let shareholders regulate their CEOs' reckless behavior?

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Emmy Awards get boost from Neil Patrick Harris

  NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Proving that he could well succeed as a critic should his current gig not work out, Jeff Probst summed up it nicely.

• U.S. commander warns of "failure" in Afghanistan

  WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) - The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan says in a confidential assessment of the war that without additional forces the mission "will likely result in failure."

• China eases Macau visas; casino shares soar

  HONG KONG (Reuters) - China has quietly eased restrictions on its citizens traveling from Guangdong province to Macau, sending casino stocks soaring on Monday as industry executives bet on record October earnings in the world's hottest gambling market.

• US commander warns of "failure" in Afgha ...

  (For more Afghanistan news, click [IDnAFPAK]) * U.S. Commander says strategy needs to be redefined * Emphasis must be on gaining support from Afghans * Extra troops request faces resistance in Washington By JoAnne Allen and Golnar Motevalli WASHINGTON/KABUL, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The war against Afgha ...

• UPDATE 1-New York Governor Paterson says he's stil ...

  NEW YORK, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Embattled New York Governor David Paterson said on Sunday he was still running for office, in the face of reports that President Barack Obama had asked him to withdraw from the 2010 race for fear that he cannot regroup from a series of political setbacks.

Pine River World News

• To my readers...

  It has been my pleasure to publish this newsblog these past five years. It started on Angelfire but I later moved it to Blogger to take advantage of the syndication and link opportunities - and I truly believe that the flexibility of Blogger makes it the best blogging platform out there. Throughout ...

• 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 ...

  Res'Eau-WaterNet

• Knowledge Transfer Workshop: Preliminary program p ...

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

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

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

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

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

• Walkerton Clean Water Centre Receives Ontario Mini ...

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

• Filling the glass

  Innovation Canada : Showcasing Research Excellence in Canada

PDA AMERICA

• Media Mud Pies: CNN’s Embarrassing Response ...

  Media Mud Pies: CNN’s Embarrassing Response To FOX By Linda Milazzo In response to FOX’s childish and embarrassing ad in the Washington Post that challenged competitors’ coverage of the 9/12 teabaggers in Washington, DC, CNN is airing ...

• Video: Imagine — I Want My Doctor My Way

  THIS IS GREAT!!! PLEASE SEND THIS TO YOUR LISTS!!! Michelle Morton did this EXCELLENT video done after attending one of our Universal Single Payer Healthcare forums that we hosted this summer. We’ve already done them ...

• 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)

Marler Blog

• Food Safety News - Top 5 Stories of the Last week

  It has been a great first week at Food Safety News . Hopefully we are covering stories that the larger media is not and in a way that is helpful. If some of my readers here on Marler Blog have story ideas and/or want to write a contributed article on FSN , please click here . Here are my favorit ...

• A Good Day Watching Soccer

  My 10 year old daughter's soccer team, the "butt kickers," lost 5 to 0 today. Still was fun to watch.

• E. coli O111 Lawsuit against Country Cottage of Lo ...

  This coming week we will be filing suit against Country Cottage Restaurant and its owners on behalf of a dozen seriously injured victims of this outbreak. Combined, our clients' medical bills are over $1,000,000 to date. Although, we offered the owners, the restaurant, it's lawyers and insurance c ...

• Food Safety News takes the Internet by storm - www ...

  Spending most of the week in DC gave me a chance to promote and get feedback on the now six day old online publication - www.foodsafetynews.com . So far, so good. Not only are we able to highlight some of the best sources of Food Safety information on the web - like Bites and Barfblog - but we wil ...

• 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 09.21.09

  Nissan to lease LEAF battery for $150/month Interested? VIDEO: Drew Barrymore hits the Leno track in the Focus BEV Was it worth the hype? ...

• 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

• LogMeIn can control some PCs, even when off

  During a recent talk with LogMeIn CEO Michael Simon, I learned about the company's new LogMeIn Central dashboard for IT managers, designed to help them keep tabs on thousands of computers at a time. I also heard about the new version of virtual network service Hamachi , which makes it ...

• 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 ...

Camera Obscura

• Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...

  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...

• Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...

  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...

• Dangerous spaces: Safe.

  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, wit ...

• Of housewives and saints: abjection, transgression ...

  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935028/housewives-and-saints-abjection.html September 1, 2004... In the opening sequence of Velvet Goldmine (dir. Todd Haynes, UK/US, 1998), future glam-rock trendsetter Jack Fairy stands in front of a mirror and, having been brutalized earlier by a ...

• Grainy days and Mondays: Superstar and bootleg aes ...

  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935027/grainy-days-and-mondays.html September 1, 2004... The year is 1970, and suddenly the nation finds itself asking the question, "What if, instead of the riots and assassinations, the protests and the drugs, instead of the angry words and hard-ro ...

Democracy Now!

• Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore

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

• Christian Parenti responds to Kevin Bales

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

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

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

• Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck

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

• New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks

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

Farming Pathogens

• Heart of Modeling

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

• Bird Flu’s Industrial Revolution

  Public talks can be private affairs. In sharing our work we bare the triumphs and limits of a thinking born in long hours alone or with a few fellow conspirators sworn to secrecy. But in breaking our oaths we are able to take the next step. In talking bird flu twice this past month I learned [... ...

• The Agro-Industrial Roots of Swine Flu H1N1

  Mexico appears ground zero for an outbreak of deadly human-specific H1N1. Of the over 1400 people that have been reportedly infected there so far, 86 have died. Short chains of transmission of the virus have also been reported in California, Texas, Kansas, Ohio, New York City, Canada and New Zeal ...

• The NAFTA Flu

  Cases of swine flu H1N1 are now reported in Honduras, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, Austria, Thailand, Israel, etc. Can’t keep up at this point. H1N1 is making its way across the world by hierarchical diffusion. By the world’s transportation network it is bouncing down a hierarchy of citi ...

• ‘Farming Human Pathogens’ Now Availabl ...

  ‘Farming Human Pathogens’Â is now available for purchase. The book introduces a cutting-edge formalism based on the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory to describe how punctuated shifts in mesoscale ecosystems imposed by human intervention can entrain patterns of gene expressio ...

Digg Green

• What ANWR Can Teach Us about Winning the Climate B ...

  The sales pitch for legislation needs to focus on America obtaining cheaper long-term energy from our own sources, creating steady jobs for Americans that pay well, and giving Americans a less polluted country.

• Global Warming & the Fascinating 'Upside' to Green ...

  While effects of global warming -- and the attendant melting of glaciers -- will likely devastate many countries around it, Greenland is already experiencing an unlikely & complex boon that may well deliver its independence from Denmark.

• China Can Generate All Electricity from Wind Power ...

  China is on a roll. The country has doubled its installed wind power every year for the past five years and a new study shows the country should keep it up. Researchers from Harvard and Beijing Tsinghua University have found that China could meet all of their electricity demands from wind power thr ...

• The New Homesteaders: Off-the-Grid & Self-Reliant

  You may have heard about them: Off-the-gridders living in radical opposition to modern amenities by cutting themselves off from the rest of society. Not so. The new homesteaders are simply DIYers who revel in self-reliance. This is their story.

• TIME: A Brief History of Lightbulbs

  Though Thomas Edison is usually cited as the father of the lightbulb, it's more accurate to give Edison credit as the creator of the first commercially viable lightbulb. As early as 1820, inventors were honing in on the principles that would lead to the first electric illumination.

Suzie-Q

• Joe Wilson: Chances Of Being Elected Damaged By Ru ...

  Joe Wilson Election: Chances Damaged By Outburst BEN EVANS and MEG KINNARD | 09/20/09 10:14 AM | COLUMBIA, S.C. — Rep. Joe Wilson may have shouted his way into the toughest election fight of his life. Just ask former Sen. George Allen of Virginia, a conservative darling [...]

• Afternoon Jukebox- Nothing Else Matters [Original ...

  Metallica – Nothing Else Matters [Original Video]

• Right-Wing Hatred Running Wild In This Country??

  The Last Time Right-Wing Hatred Ran Wild Like This a President Was Killed Posted by Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America at 8:47 AM on September 18, 2009. It’s a demented national jihad, the likes of which this country has not seen in modern times. That being John F. Kennedy, who was gunne ...

• Gideon Levy: Disgrace in The Hague

  Gideon Levy, Haaretz/Israel, Sept 17, 2009 There’s a name on every bullet, and there’s someone responsible for every crime. The Teflon cloak Israel has wrapped around itself since Operation Cast Lead has been ripped off, once and for all, and now the difficult questions must be faced. It has be ...

• Netanyahu Warns World to Reject Gaza War Crimes Re ...

  Cautions World Leaders Could Face Similar Charges for their Wars by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, September 17, 2009 While other top Israeli officials dismissed the UN’s Gaza War Crimes report with a combination of the usual accusations of personal bias by South African Judge Richard Goldst ...

Solari

• G-20 Summit, September 24-25

  G-20 meets in Pittsburgh this coming week in a meeting chaired by President Obama. This meeting follows up on the Action Plan on the Financial Markets and World Economy developed in the Washington meeting in November 2008 and followed up in the London Summit in April. The European Union positions i ...

• California Probes Credit Rating Agencies

  By Peter Henderson California Attorney General Jerry Brown issued subpoenas on Thursday to Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s Investors Service, and Fitch Ratings as he launched an investigation of whether they broke state law with the ratings they provided mortgage-backed securities. “These agencies ...

• 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 ...

• Free Gold Money Report

  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

Global Insights

• Less Than a Week Away

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

• The Georgia Guidestones

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

• The Creation

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

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

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

• About George Green

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

Insurgency Watch - Posts

• Somalia’s Al Shabaab Releases Extensive Training ...

  The Mujahideen Youth Movement, also known as al-Shabaab, released yesterday an extensive 48-and-a-half minute training video titled, “At Your Service, Osama.” It shows extensive footage from the Commander Abu Suleim Training Camp somewhere in Somalia — likely southern Somalia where the al Sh ...

• Story of Musharrafs blue eyed boy who turned most ...

  Story of Musharrafs blue eyed boy who turned most dangerous Qaeda ... Little About (blog) ... Kashmiri and he reorganized his group and joined hands with the Taliban . He also persuaded several officials of the Pakistan Army to join his brigade. ...

• Mingora Shrugs Over Rumors of Fazlullah Capture

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

• Fazlullah may be captured

  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

  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 ...

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Debating Protectionism on Renewable Energy

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worsening water crisis in southern iraq drains hope for future. - water supply problems in southern iraq are escalating, with local officials warning of a humanitarian and political crisis, and residents claiming they are being prevented from fleeing parched land by security forces. - abu dhabi national

b.c. project in ethiopia means fresh water without long walk. - three quarters of ethiopians — approximately 64 million people, nearly double the population of canada — do not have local access to clean water. - vancouver sun

kenya's pain. - children are starving, cattle are dropping dead, crops are withered, lakes are empty, and still the rains haven't come. kenya is on the verge of a catastrophe of biblical proportions. is the once stable nation a warning to the world about the perils of ignoring climate change, government corruption, and global food and water shortages? - mongabay

keeping the breadbasket from drying up. - right now, america's bread basket relies on an aquifer that's nearly drained. and, many say, it will dry up if farmers keep pumping water from it at the current rate. so, the government plans to pay farmers as one way to get them to cut water use. - environment report

new study shows river runoff decreases in driest years in oregon, northwest. -in a warming world, scientists have told us to expect more rain and less snow. new evidence, however, suggests that both rain and snowfall may decrease across the region during dry years. increasingly severe droughts could intensify water conflicts - portland oregonian

israel mourns the dying dead sea. - the sea has, from a time beyond the memory even of the bible, been fed by that most famous of waterways, the river jordan. and therein lies the problem. today, by the time the river reaches its end, there is almost no water left, and dead sea is now shrinking at a terrifying speed. - bbc

some paw paw residents unhappy with coke plant as tainted water continues to cause problems. - the accumulation of juice wastes sprayed over more than 40 years on fields behind the coca cola north america plant, released naturally occurring iron, manganese and arsenic particles into groundwater. - kalamazoo journal

step up the pace on great lakes cleanup. - the report last week the cleanup of the most polluted sites on the great lakes is going so slowly that it will take 77 years to complete the job is disheartening to say the least. - sheboygan press

the crap shoot. - most people have about 0.14 grams of feces on their bottoms that, when rinsed off, can contaminate recreational water, according to the cdc. this suggests that d.c. pools have potentially hosted as much as 50 pounds of feces this summer. - washington city paper

polluters exploit lax oversight. - the obama administration, which has pledged to build a stronger environmental record than its predecessors, needs to reinvigorate the nation's commitment to upholding the standards of the clean water act and ensure that all states are enforcing the law. - hamilton roads virginian pilot

gov't stands by as mercury taints water. - abandoned mercury mines throughout central california's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people - the ap

gender-bending fish widespread in the u.s. - a survey of "feminization" of fish finds that a large percentage of male bass are producing egg cells. scientists suspect this abnormal phenomenon is the result of synthetic chemicals in water that mimic the behavior of female hormones - npr

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