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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • G20: Stiglitz and Sen Come In Too Late
    BERLIN, Sep 23 (IPS) - A new report on Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress presented earlier this month in Paris by Nobel prize winners Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen is a late, and quite modest contribution to an old debate, many experts say.
  • POLITICS-BURMA: Junta Up to Its Old Tricks, Plays ...
    BANGKOK, Sep 23 (IPS) - Having released more than 7,000 prisoners in the last few days as part of the preparations for next year’s planned polls, Burma’s military rulers are up to their old tricks, according to Burmese activists and human rights groups.
  • PAKISTAN: ‘Empty Stomachs’ Could Spar ...
    KARACHI, Sep 23 (IPS) - For a bag of flour, they risked life and limb.
  • CAMBODIA: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Ends Testimony at ...
    PHNOM PENH, Sep 23 (IPS) - After 72 days of hearings, the first international trial of a Khmer Rouge regime member has wrapped up its often horrific testimony in the Cambodian capital.
  • IRAN: Poll Finds Public Support for Nuke Power ov ...
    WASHINGTON, Sep 22 (IPS) - A poll released Tuesday shows that Iranians are still strongly in favour of continuing their government's nuclear programme, but are open to compromises which would permit uranium enrichment while allowing international inspectors access to ensure that no bomb-making a ...

The Intelligence Daily 

My AntiWar

Innovation Canada 

  • i2eye with Bruce McNaughton
    One of the world’s foremost neuroscientists, Bruce McNaughton is renowned for his groundbreaking research into how the human brain stores, processes and transmits information. One year ago, the Ottawa-born McNaughton was lured back to Canada after spending more than a quarter century in the United ...
  • Little boxes
    With more than half the Canadian population now living in the suburbs, Jill Grant says it’s an obvious time to study this increasingly popular living option, one that remains a bane to urban planners and downtown boosters. Are people drawn to the concept of perfectly matching houses throughout a n ...
  • FISHing for answers
    University of Alberta (U of A) researchers have developed a cancer-testing technology with a snappy name but a serious purpose. The “FISH on a chip” is a complex test that detects abnormalities in chromosomes which characterize particular types of cancer. To create it, researchers miniaturize a ...
  • i2eye with Palmiro Campagna
    Widely seen as Canada’s crowning technical achievement of the day, the Avro Arrow supersonic interceptor was scrapped after only five test planes were completed. Half a century later, aviation enthusiasts still mourn the loss and the Avro workers who left Canada to help realize NASA’s moon-rocke ...
  • Testing ground
    Think of it as a case of lab life trying to imitate real life. From behind a two-way mirror, researchers observe and record medical staff trying to use intravenous drug pumps and other devices while being continuously interrupted by a Code Blue or other emergencies that could cause them to make mist ...

Signs of the times 

  • Karzai Embraces Call for Further US Escalation
    Still busy fighting growing questions about his government's legitimacy in the wake of massive voter fraud in last month's election, Afghan President Hamid Karzai today embraced US General Stanley McChrystal's request for up to 45,000 more troops for the ongoing conflict, saying it was "the right ap ...
  • Haiti's politicians paid close to $125,000 to act ...
    The French original of Franck Seguy's article "Près de cinq millions pour un chien de garde" is translated by Stanley Lathan for HLLN, with the permission of Mr. Seguy. When you read it, you'll understand why Ezili's HLLN considered it important to translate this essay for our English speakers. For ...
  • Ousted leader returns to Honduras, defies arrest
    Deposed President Manuel Zelaya defied threats of arrest and returned home to Honduras Monday, three months after he was forced into exile at gunpoint. Seeking safety at the Brazilian Embassy, Zelaya called on his countrymen to come to the capital for peaceful protest. "It is the moment of reconci ...
  • Dust storm blankets Sydney, disrupts transport
    An outback dust storm swept across eastern Australia and blanketed Sydney on Wednesday, disrupting transport and placing health authorities on alert for widespread respiratory illness. The dust blacked out the outback mining town of Broken Hill on Tuesday, forcing one mine to shut down, and then sw ...
  • UK: Families may face assisted suicide charges
    Family members who help loved ones to commit suicide when they are not suffering from a terminal illness are more likely to be prosecuted, Keir Starmer, Director of Public Prosecutions, has suggested. New legal guidelines will also mean that criminal action against family or friends would be more ...

Threat Level 

  • FBI’s Data-Mining System Sifts Airline, Hotel, C ...
    A fast-growing FBI data-mining system billed as a tool for hunting terrorists is being used in hacker and domestic criminal investigations, and now contains tens of thousands of records from private corporate databases, including car-rental companies, large hotel chains and at least one national de ...
  • Anti-Speech Law Faces Court Challenge
    A Florida man who faced a year in jail for the online posting of a local police officer’s phone number and address is challenging the 37-year-old state law on First Amendment grounds. Arizona is believed to be the only other state with a similar law. A similar Washington State law was overturned o ...
  • Scribd Cries Foul on Unusual Infringement Lawsuit
    Scribd, a document hosting service, defended itself Tuesday against charges that its copyright filtering system commits infringement. If true, it would debunk a key allegation of the case. The novel lawsuit, filed by a children’s author in Texas last Friday, maintains that Scribd unlawfully copies ...
  • Bank Sends Sensitive E-mail to Wrong Gmail Address ...
    A Wyoming bank sent an e-mail containing sensitive customer data to the wrong Gmail account, and now wants Google to reveal the identity of the account holder who received the data. According to a court document in the case, in August a customer of the Rocky Mountain Bank asked a bank employee to se ...
  • Fed Blotter: First Time for Everything
    Sex offender being visited by his parole officer. Agent Adams asked Chandler if he owned any other storage devices. Chandler hesitated before answering, and then asked, “Hypothetically, what would you do if you found child pornography?” Agent Adams told him he wasn’t sure until he had all the ...

PERRspectives : Blog 

  • Teen Birth Rates Highest in Religious Red States
    Recently, I put forth the "Iron Law of Birtherism," which simply notes that the Obama citizenship denial movement is strongest in precisely those states where Republicans poll best and health care is worst. Now, a new study again confirms red...
  • Baucus Bill Latest Proof of Krugman's Law
    With his seriously compromised and deeply flawed legislation, Senator Max Baucus has achieved rare bipartisan consensus on health care: virtually everyone from both parties hates his bill. But with his feeble acknowledgement that despite all of his kowtowing to his...
  • A Look Back at the Week That Doomed John McCain
    On September 15th, 2008, the Dow Jones plummeted by 504 points as the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers triggered the implosion of Wall Street. And on that day a year ago, Republican presidential candidate John McCain declared the "fundamentals of our...
  • Employers to Raise Health Care Costs, Cut Coverage
    Even as the watered down health care reform legislation from the Senate Finance Committee is finally being delivered to growing concerns, a new study is shining a spotlight on questions the Baucus bill fails to address. Following an analysis from...
  • 10 Lessons for Tea Baggers
    Back in April, the Daily Show's Jon Stewart offered some sound advice for frothing at the mouth Tea Baggers, "I think you might be confusing tyranny with losing." Now five months after their Tax Day outburst, thousands of vein-popping Obama...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News 

  • Neocon Judge's History of Cover-ups
    Judge Laurence Silberman stopped a suit on U.S. torture in Iraq, reprising his cover-ups of the Reagan years, says Robert Parry. September 23, 2009
  • Honduran President Returns from Exile
    Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya slipped back into his country in defiance of coup leaders, reports Al Jazeera. September 22, 2009
  • The American Doomsday Machine
    Before becoming famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg was an insider on a U.S. plan for nuclear madness. September 21, 2009
  • Was the Iranian Election 'Rigged'?
    A poll of Iranians clashes with the U.S. media's view that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won through fraud, says Robert Parry. September 21, 2009
  • Why Not Look Backwards, with Clarity
    The Justice Department may be narrowing its inquiry on torture, but Dennis Loo sees reason for a wider probe. September 21, 2009

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding 

Planetsave 

  • Yellowstone Grizzlies Back on Endangered Species L ...
    In 2007 federal protections were dropped for the protection of Yellowstone grizzlies. Ever since then, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition have been fighting to give protection back to the bears. They argued that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) failed to address the loss of essential food s ...
  • 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress 

Public Citizen in Texas 

  • Join Public Citizen at the Renewable Energy Roundu ...
    Still not sure what to do this weekend, Sept 25 – 27th? Come on out to Fredericksburg and join Public Citizen Texas at the 10th annual Renewable Energy Roundup and Green Living Fair! Over the past 10 years, this community and family oriented Green Living Fair has grown to be the largest “green s ...
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
    The fall is upon us, and so the Texas Progressive Alliance closes out another summer with some more hot blogging. Halliburton was fracking for Cabot and … Oh Oops! We spilled some! TWICE! Deadly Hydraulic Fracture Fluid! Ironically, industry just released part of their $80 million propaganda camp ...
  • 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 ...

Press TV 

Axis of Logic 

They Gave Us a Republic 

  • Who says the GOP doesn't have a healtcare reform p ...
    They most certainly do! And it won't cost any tax money either, cause we all know that every penny paid in taxes is an assault on liberty! [/wingnuttery]
  • PNAC is back
    The same war-mongering neocon traitors who brought you the Project for a New American Century, whose raison d'etre , whether overtly acknowledged or not, was to turn the United States into an aggressor nation that takes the resources (read: OIL) of other nations.  "How the hell did our oil get under ...
  • Medical Giant Draws Line Against Insurance Giant
    We've heard all the horror stories of private insurers condemning sick people to bankruptcy, suffering and death by denying them coverage or dropping them as policy-holders. But private insurers have many ways to fuck over sick people, doctors, hospitals and communities, and one of those ways is pla ...
  • Nightowl Newswrap
    Secular blessings on Massachusetts, forever and ever. Tomorrow, Gov. Patrick will sign a bill allowing him to appoint someone to fill the seat of the late Senator Kennedy. Former Gov. Michael Dukakis tops the short list.  Personally, we don't care who it is as long as it's a liberal who will demand ...
  • Drawing the Progressive Line on Health Care Reform
    Once the Senate votes on whatever health care non-reform piece of shit Harry Reid thinks will annoy repugs the least, the real fight is going to take place in the Conference Committee, where Democratic representatives chosen by Nancy Pelosi and repug-fellators chosen by Reid will hash out a compromi ...

Care 2 

  • Gorilla poaching greater threat than previously be ...
    The BBC has announced that up to two gorillas are killed and sold for bush meat each week in just one area of the Republic of Congo. The gorillas in question are Western lowland gorillas, which are listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  | ...
  • CDC: Children with medical issues should get first ...
    Children with high-risk medical conditions or disabilities should be among the first to be vaccinated against H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised Thursday.That news, Dr. Anthony Fauci said, is Submitted by Suzybell H. to Health & Wellness ...
  • The Two Faces of Islam: Radical Jihad Arising Insi ...
    Many people are just now realizing that most of the Radical Islamic leadership have attended U.S. universities in the West, and once learning America's weaknesses, these same students then arose inside Traditional Islam to impose conversion toward terror! Submitted by SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT to W ...
  • Scientists Baffled As Scale-less Fish Found Float ...
    A large fish without scales that turned up floating off the coast of Brazil baffled scientists and specialists from the region who are studying the rare specimen and ensure that the species is totally unknown. Submitted by Angela Y. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Oldest Lunar Calendar on Earth
    The Oldest Lunar Calendars and Earliest Constellations have been identified in cave art found in France and Germany. The astronomer-priests of these late Upper Paleolithic Cultures understood mathematical sets, and the interplay between the moon annual cy Submitted by Daphna Jindrich to Science & Te ...

GreenBiz 

  • New Scorecard Shows Path to Greener Plastics
    The Plastics Scorecard, to be released this month, rates plastics based on their lifecycle impacts and health hazards in an effort to advance sustainable raw material choices, greener chemistry and closed loop systems.
  • IBM's Smart Grid Test Run Cuts Power Use by 15 Per ...
    Using personalized profiles on software developed by IBM and Consert, a smart grid pilot project allowed businesses and residences cut energy use by anywhere from 15 to 40 percent; IBM also announced a plan to make a 60,000-resident Iowa city into a 'smarter city.'
  • 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.

Reuters Global 

Ezra Klein 

  • Tab Dump
    1) James Surowiecki on reforming the rating agencies. 2) Alyssa Katz on reforming the ratings agencies. 3) Kent Conrad doesn't want the Finance Committee to hold a vote for at least two weeks. 4) Why is soda so expensive in Europe? (and could this help explain their relative thinness?) Tomorrow ...
  • Delivery System Day: Peter Orszag
    You all know who Peter Orszag is. So rather than wasting time on an introduction, I'll just jump right into our interview on the delivery system reforms. You’ve been in a lot of these internal discussions. How much of the work here has focused on reforming the delivery system? The Finance Commit ...
  • Kennedy Replacement a Go
    The Massachusetts Senate joined the state's House today in approving a bill to appoint an interim replacement for Sen. Ted Kennedy. Deval Patrick is likely to move on this quickly, and Democrats will have their 60th vote long before the bill comes to the floor.
  • Delivery System Day: Chris Jennings
    Chris Jennings served as a senior health care adviser to the White House from 1993 to 2000. He wasn't quite a czar, but close. And so he is particularly sensitive to the political structuring of some of this stuff. You will hear ad nauseam about Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and Comparative ...
  • What Washington Is Really Like
    I love the anecdotes streaming forth from Matt Latimer's tell-all about the Bush administration. And I love the counter-anecdotes angrily administered by Latimer's former boss. But what does annoy me is Latimer's refrain that this is really the tale of a wide-eyed Midwestern Everyman being slowly gr ...

Booman Tribune 

  • Froggy Bottom Cafe

  • For Shame, Tom Carper
    There is an amendment (PDF) below the fold. It's from pages 117-118 of the Senate Finance Committee's list of amendments related to reforming the health care delivery system (as opposed to amendments related to expanding health care coverage or amendments related to financing comprehensive health ca ...
  • Protect America's Insurance Companies
    Just say no to Health Care Reform. Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
  • Casual Observation
    The Weekly Standard's estimation of the length of the Arab-Israeli conflict is off by 4,940 years. That's actually not that bad. Christian fundamentalists' estimation of the age of the earth is off by approximately 4.54 billion years. Kudos to Bill Kristol and the Boys.
  • Serious Question
    Do these two stories go together?

European Tribune 

Futurismic 

  • Telepresence: virtually as good as being there
    This topic – telepresence – started knocking around in my head when I walked into a business meeting almost a year ago in Kirkland, Washington. A wall-sized (literally, exactly, one wall floor to ceiling, side to side) picture showed a room the same shape as the one we stood in. People walk ...
  • Back in business
    Hi folks; Once again, my apologies for the flaky state of the site over the last three or four days; since Sunday, a lot of people (including myself) have found Futurismic to be either ludicrously slow to load or completely inaccessible. I got an email from the hosting company this morning telling m ...
  • The demise of the humble bricklayer
    Via Chairman Bruce comes bad news for anyone hoping for a lasting career at the manual-labour end of the construction industry. A trailer-mounted bricklaying robot (imaginatively named “R.O.B.”) will be building its second stylishly curved wall on Pike Street, New York later this year. [image li ...
  • India to export thorium nuclear reactors
    Charles Stross highlights the news that the Indian government is preparing to manufacture and export nuclear reactors that use the thorium fuel cycle: The original design is fuelled by a mix of uranium-233 and plutonium bred from thorium using fast neutron power reactors earlier in a thorium fuel c ...
  • Money can buy privacy… and surveillance
    The world may be becoming something of a panopticon, but you can always buy yourself a safe haven… provided you’ve got the necessary cash, of course. Russian billionaire businessman Roman Abramovich isn’t feeling the credit crunch, it seems, as one of the latest additions to his private “yac ...

Therapy News 

  • Study Shows Soldiers Experience Neuropsychological ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline With concerns over the rates and severity of post traumatic stress disorder among returning armed service members on the rise, a number of studies and academic explorations have been launched in recent months, with one study performed at the VA Boston Healthcare Syste ...
  • Study Finds Some Computer Games May Increase Mood
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The inspiration for a recent study into the potential of certain video games to improve mood may be a bit non-traditional. The study’s sponsor, PopCap Games, was contacted by a player professing to have experienced significant relief in a mentally and emotionally tu ...
  • Soldiers Declining Participation in PTSD Programs
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Issues concerning rapidly rising rates of the development and consequences of PTSD, or post traumatic stress disorder, among active duty soldiers and those returning home have received ample attention in the news recently. With statistics that point to larger numbers o ...
  • Greater Attention Paid to Artwork in Hospitals to ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline When thinking about hospitals, most people aren’t too likely to call to mind anything about artwork, but the image of an austere or harsh-looking environment may come to the fore. In an effort to combat boring hospital artwork, a hospital art consulting firm along w ...
  • Review Finds Increase in Hospital Clients Leaving ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A principle component of useful and sound health care, whether working with medicine or with psychotherapy, is that treatment should be voluntary. The choice to leave a hospital is ultimately up to the client, but health professionals may furnish a recommendation. Rec ...

Mountaintop Removal 

  • Life after the Age of Oil (Middle East Online)
    Don't forget today's energy hotspots like Nigeria, the Middle East, and the Caspian Basin. In the Xtreme era to come, they are no less likely to generate conflicts of every sort over the ever more precious supplies of more easily accessible energy, says Michael T. Klare .
  • Group aims for coal-free campus (The Red and Black ...
    A group on campus is trying to make Athens' air a little cleaner. Last week, members of Students for Environmental Action presented several deans and members of the University's administration with reports on the environmental and social effects of coal as an energy source.
  • Protestors Demonstrate As G-20 Approaches (KDKA Pi ...
    As the countdown continues to the G-20 Summit, more protestors are arriving in Pittsburgh to send a message to world leaders. Several demonstrations were held Tuesday, including an unauthorized protest by an environmental group in front of Citizens Bank on Grant Street.
  • Michael T. Klare: The Era of Xtreme Energy: Life A ...
    Barring a staggering surprise, we will remain for years to come in a no-man's-land between the Petroleum Age and an age that will see the great flowering of renewable energy.
  • Burying Climate Change: Efforts Begin to Sequester ...
    Over the next five years at least half a million tons of carbon dioxide will be injected into rock deep underneath the Mountaineer power plant near New Haven, W.Va. Although that is less than 0.00001 percent of global emissions of the greenhouse gas and less than 2 percent of the plant’s own CO 2 ...

Memeorandum 

  • Palin slams Obama's spending in debut speech in As ...
    BREITBART.COM : Palin slams Obama's spending in debut speech in Asia   —  Former US vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin said the US government was wasting taxpayers' money and could aggravate poverty, said delegates at her first speech outside North America on Wednesday.  —  Palin, the fo ...
  • Budget chief contradicts Obama on Medicare costs ( ...
    Erica Werner / Associated Press : Budget chief contradicts Obama on Medicare costs   —  WASHINGTON — Congress' chief budget officer is contradicting President Barack Obama's oft-stated claim that seniors wouldn't see their Medicare benefits cut under a health care overhaul.  —  The head o ...
  • Obama to Set Higher Bar For Keeping State Secrets ...
    Carrie Johnson / Washington Post : Obama to Set Higher Bar For Keeping State Secrets   —  New Policy May Affect Wiretap, Torture Suits  —  The Obama administration will announce a new policy Wednesday making it much more difficult for the government to claim that it is protecting state sec ...
  • MEDICARE ISSUES NEW GUIDANCE TO INSURANCE COMPANIE ...
    cms.hhs.gov : MEDICARE ISSUES NEW GUIDANCE TO INSURANCE COMPANIES ON MEDICARE MAILINGS   —  GUIDANCE COMES AFTER HUMANA DISTRIBUTED POTENTIALLY MISLEADING MATERIALS  —  Medicare today called on Medicare-contracted health insurance and prescription drug plans to suspend potentially misleadin ...
  • PM: Israel, PA agreed to begin talks without preco ...
    Jerusalem Post : PM: Israel, PA agreed to begin talks without preconditions   —  Article's topics: Binyamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, Mahmoud Abbas  —  Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to relaunch peace negotiations without any preconditions, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu decla ...

Energy & Environment News 

5+ quakes - 7 days 

  • M 5.1, Scotia Sea
    Wednesday, September 23, 2009 07:29:57 UTC Wednesday, September 23, 2009 05:29:57 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.2, Macquarie Island region
    Wednesday, September 23, 2009 02:59:32 UTC Wednesday, September 23, 2009 01:59:32 PM at epicenter Depth : 28.90 km (17.96 mi)
  • M 5.1, Bonin Islands, Japan region
    Tuesday, September 22, 2009 22:59:36 UTC Wednesday, September 23, 2009 08:59:36 AM at epicenter Depth : 449.10 km (279.06 mi)
  • M 5.7, Bougainville region, Papua New Guinea
    Tuesday, September 22, 2009 22:58:30 UTC Wednesday, September 23, 2009 08:58:30 AM at epicenter Depth : 66.50 km (41.32 mi)
  • M 5.1, Mindoro, Philippines
    Tuesday, September 22, 2009 19:25:15 UTC Wednesday, September 23, 2009 03:25:15 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)

China Dialogue 

  • Addressing the climate challenge
    China’s president, Hu Jintao, yesterday delivered a major speech on climate change at the United Nations General Assembly. Here, chinadialogue publishes the text in full. Mr secretary-general, dear colleagues. Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of manki ...
  • Water crisis on the Euphrates
    A critical drop in river levels is threatening the livelihoods of millions of people in southern Iraq, severely reducing electricity and drinking-water supplies. Martin Chulov reports. A water shortage described as the most critical since the earliest days of Iraq’s civilisation is threatening to ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories 

Threat Level 

  • FBI’s Data-Mining System Sifts Airline, Hotel, C ...
    A fast-growing FBI data-mining system billed as a tool for hunting terrorists is being used in hacker and domestic criminal investigations, and now contains tens of thousands of records from private corporate databases, including car-rental companies, large hotel chains and at least one national de ...
  • Anti-Speech Law Faces Court Challenge
    A Florida man who faced a year in jail for the online posting of a local police officer’s phone number and address is challenging the 37-year-old state law on First Amendment grounds. Arizona is believed to be the only other state with a similar law. A similar Washington State law was overturned o ...
  • Scribd Cries Foul on Unusual Infringement Lawsuit
    Scribd, a document hosting service, defended itself Tuesday against charges that its copyright filtering system commits infringement. If true, it would debunk a key allegation of the case. The novel lawsuit, filed by a children’s author in Texas last Friday, maintains that Scribd unlawfully copies ...
  • Bank Sends Sensitive E-mail to Wrong Gmail Address ...
    A Wyoming bank sent an e-mail containing sensitive customer data to the wrong Gmail account, and now wants Google to reveal the identity of the account holder who received the data. According to a court document in the case, in August a customer of the Rocky Mountain Bank asked a bank employee to se ...
  • Fed Blotter: First Time for Everything
    Sex offender being visited by his parole officer. Agent Adams asked Chandler if he owned any other storage devices. Chandler hesitated before answering, and then asked, “Hypothetically, what would you do if you found child pornography?” Agent Adams told him he wasn’t sure until he had all the ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles 

  • China and U.S. try to jumpstart U.N. climate talks
    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - China laid out a plan to curb carbon emissions by 2020 and U.S. President Barack Obama called on all nations to act now to tackle global warming, as world leaders tried to inject momentum into climate change talks.
  • Obama star power faces new test at U.N meeting
    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama makes his United Nations debut on Wednesday calling on world leaders to shoulder more responsibility in confronting global challenges.
  • British graduate scores in sandwich-board job hunt
    LONDON (Reuters) - In a pinstripe suit, silk tie and polished shoes, David Rowe has all the trappings of a successful London city worker, except for one stark difference -- he is wearing a sandwich board that says "JOB WANTED."
  • RIM's updated BlackBerry could brighten outlook
    TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion is expected to forecast strong gains for its current quarter on Thursday as it gets set to update its BlackBerry smartphones for consumers and business users.
  • Fed to note economic improvement, may hint on exit
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to take note of an improving economy at the close of a meeting on Wednesday, while cautioning that high unemployment puts the recovery at risk.

Godspace 

  • Walk to Bethlehem During Advent
    Advent is still a couple of months away but here is a really cool idea I heard about this last weekend that would not only prepare us spiritually for the birth of Christ but also physically and emotionally. A Walk to Bethlehem is an Advent resource developed by St John’s Health Parish Nursing. ÂÂ ...
  • Everyday Justice
    My copy of Julie Clawson’s Everyday Justice: The Global Impact of Our Daily Choices arrived yesterday and i wanted to make sure that you all knew about it as soon as possible.  This is a book that I am really excited about, not just because I wrote the forward but because I think that it [...]
  • What Are We Witnessing To?
    This weekend I was in Pasadena CA at the West Coast Health Care Missions Conference.  Unfortunately I spent most of the weekend feeling miserable with a headache, temperature and nasal congestion.  It is the first time I can ever remember cancelling a workshop because of health.  And I received l ...
  • Lectionary Resources
    If you are like me you are always looking for resources that help you understand the lectionary.  Here is a great list of lectionary resources put together by Bosco Peters in New Zealand.  I particularly appreciate the international nature of the resources.  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 ...

Equality Trust 

IntelNews 

  • Busted spy ring in Lebanon was Israel’s top netw ...
    French newspaper Le Figaro has published a well-researched account of an ongoing counterintelligence operation in Lebanon, which has resulted in the dismantling of an enormous network of Israeli spy cells in the country. The paper describes the discovery of the Israeli spy network as “one of the m ...
  • News you may have missed #0113
    US intelligence caused change in missile shield plans, says Gates. Canada preparing big balloon (?) to spy on Taliban. Portugal's secret services deny spying on president.
  • Analysis: Is Afghanistan really important in the â ...
    The Deputy Chief of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center from 1997 to 1999, Paul Pillar, has authored an interesting editorial in which he asks “how important are physical havens to terrorist groups, such as al-Qaeda?”. The answer: not very.
  • Colombia to dismantle scandal-prone spy agency
    Colombia’s Administrative Department of Security (DAS) is to be dismantled and most of its 6,000 employees are to be transferred to the country’s other law enforcement agencies, according to Colombian officials.
  • News you may have missed #0112
    Obama refuses to halt CIA probe. Analyst charged with hacking denounces accusations. Naval intel agent caught spying on famous Philippine artist.

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 

  • NATO Chief Vows Afghan Success
    Embedded video from CNN Video
  • Obama to Set Higher Bar For Keeping State Secrets
    Obama to Set Higher Bar For Keeping State Secrets New Policy May Affect Wiretap, Torture Suits Carrie Johnson | Washington Post The Obama administration will announce a new policy Wednesday making it much more difficult for the government to claim that it is protecting state secrets when it hides ...
  • Ex-Cigna Exec Wendell Potter speaks with Bill Mahe ...

  • Good War vs. Great Society
    Good War vs. Great Society By John Feffer | Foreign Policy in Focus The Vietnam War ruined everything. It not only destroyed Vietnam and killed a huge number of its inhabitants. It not only killed so many American soldiers and destroyed the futures of so many veterans. It not only spread into Cambo ...
  • Siegelman Blasts DoJ and Judge In ‘Final’ Repl ...
    Siegelman Blasts DoJ and Judge In ‘Final’ Reply Seeking Hearing By Andrew Kreig | Huffington Post Facing a sentence of 20 additional years in prison recommended by Bush Justice Department holdovers, former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman finally took off the gloves Sept. 21 against his prosecutors a ...

Grist - News 

Popular Bookmarks on Del.icio.us 

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs 

  • What Is the EPA Hiding?
    Last week, I got word that the EPA and the Obama administration appears to be suppressing dissent within the career professional ranks at EPA. Here’s a portion of Joe Barton’s press release on the subject: EPA has not yet released the final, suppressed report that was written by career ...
  • With Liberty and Justice for Baby Names
    Filed under: Pregnancy & birth , Holidays If your due date falls around Independence Day, the idea has probably crossed your mind: "Born on the 4th of July." Should you mark the occasion with a name, at least a middle name? A generation ago, a founding father name like Madison or Jefferson might ...
  • Diehl me out
    Jackson Diehl’s End the Spat with Israel , is a very important op-ed. It’s also interesting that both Diehl and David Ignatius are showing skepticism of the administration’s tactics regarding Israel. That’s not to say Diehl’s column is perfect - it isn’t, but he makes some very import ...
  • Britney Spears Has Double the Happiness
    Britney Spears had two of her favorite things - Jason Trawick and Starbucks - while out in LA on Friday. The happy couple was also together earlier in the day and during their afternoon outing Brit flashed a big smile and drew some attention to the sparkling new ring on her left hand. She showed o ...
  • Parenting, Analogies, And Insults With @phdinparen ...
    A few years ago I was a co-moderator on a brand new forum that had opened. I helped moderate the breastfeeding section of the parenting board, and it was nasty. Maybe because it was a brand new forum, maybe because the site it was linked with tended to draw younger people, or maybe because the site ...

Time - Top Stories 

Washington Independent 

  • Showdown: Senate Dems Take on Obama, Baucus Over $ ...
    In the middle of June, the White House forged a deal with the nation’s largest drug makers. As part of the bargain — under which the pharmaceutical companies offered $80 billion over 10 years in reduced drug costs to seniors and the government — the administration vowed to withhold support for ...
  • Eliot Cohen Lays Into Obama at COIN Conferencce
    At a conference on leadership in counterinsurgency at the National Press Club sponsored by Marine Corps University, Eliot Cohen, the respected Johns Hopkins scholar who advised Condoleezza Rice at the tail end of the Bush administration, slowly and steadily built up a critique of the Obama administr ...
  • The Art of ACORN
    Via Connie Brimmer, a conservative blogger/artist, comes a painting titled “Hannah Giles Carving a Giant Acorn.” It’s a tribute to the 20-year-old woman who dressed up as a prostitute for the ACORN sting.
  • Debate Over Patriot Act Renewal Kicks Off Over Par ...
    Eight years after it was passed, the USA Patriot Act remains among the most controversial pieces of counterterrorism legislation in the so-called “war on terror.”
  • Levin Fends Off McCain, Lieberman, Graham on McChr ...
    Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) has rejected a written request, penned on Sept. 18, by his fellow armed-services-committee senators John McCain (R-Ariz.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to compel testimony from Gen. Stanley McChrystal on Afghanistan ahead of President Obama’s Afghan ...

CowBoss' Brain Food edit

  • 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 edit

  • The POPE, Prime Minister and WTF is going on here& ...
    Something is up. Way up. What are all these fine peeps doing here, only a few months before Bush leaves office? Why not wait for the new President to take office? Why NOW? Additionally, what took the Vatican sooooo long to fess up with some responsibility for what has taken place under their soiled ...
  • Your vote is a covenant and you don’t REALLY ...
    Flag wavers may sit this one out.  Your vote is a covenant that keeps you locked into this 3D movie. You and I have no idea who these people are. You have been brainwashed to believe a bunch of hogwash. There is a much larger reason they want you to vote, than you have been [...]
  • See for yourself: Which number represents Jesus Ch ...
    “THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM” = 666 — “WHICH NUMBER REPRESENTS JESUS CHRIST” = 666  —” THE ARYAN BROTHERHOOD” = 666. _______________ Using the english alphabet  A = 1   B= 2    etc. Write out the phrase and assign the numbers under them. Now, add it vertically as you no ...
  • THE HPV VACCINE and our daughters….
    In case you missed my posting about the HPV VACCINE….I am including a link to it. http://whyorganic.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/do-not-give-your-daughter-hpv-vaccine
  • BIG MEDIA RULINGS
      Senate Committee Votes to Throw Out FCC RulesThe Senate Commerce Committee passed a “resolution of disapproval” that would veto the FCC’s latest attempt to dismantle longstanding media ownership limits. Free Press   Senate Panel Rejects New Media Ownership Rule A Senate committee vo ...

Invisible Opportunity edit

  • Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?
    By Sibel Edmonds and Philip Giraldi Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American con ...
  • The real pandemic is caused by flu vaccines and ta ...
    By Kevin Annett Last week, many of the aboriginal people in the remote west coast village of Ahousaht were innoculated with the tamiflu vaccine. Today, over a hundred of them are sick, and the sickness is spreading. In the same week, body bags were sent to similarly remote native reserves in norther ...
  • Despite Anti-Vitamin D Bias, CDC Stumbles on Defic ...
    By Dr. Joseph Mercola So far, Swine flu, H1N1, has killed thirty-six children in U.S. and analysis of CDC data indicates Vitamin D deficient children at higher risk of death. The CDC did not realize they discovered this. However, anyone familiar with the Vitamin D literature will recognize it. Almos ...
  • FBI False-Flag Goes Bust in NYC
    By Richard Kurdt This is unfolding as we speak. Here is what happened: The FBI on 9/10 alerts the NYPD to an upcoming “terrorist attack.” But they went too far with their hype. They tell the NYPD that they are on the trail of something really big, “on the scale of September 11th” or somethin ...
  • GERMANY: Terror Plot Emerges as Secret Service Gam ...
    By Julio Godoy BERLIN, Aug 20 (IPS) – It was announced as a terror plot busted. German police had captured three young Muslim men in the small village Medebach-Oberschledor, some 450 km southwest of Berlin Sep. 4 in 2007. The police declared they had seized 730 kilograms of hydrogen peroxide, ...

Care2 Picks edit

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

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire edit

  • It Looks Like This 'Expiration Date' Stuff Is Cont ...
    It Looks Like This 'Expiration Date' Stuff Is Contagious National Review Online (blog) The fact is, al-Qaida and the Taliban —the people who actually attacked us on 9/11—have regrouped in those mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan and are ...
  • Morning Rush: Mayoral candidate Patricia Waiters f ...
    Morning Rush: Mayoral candidate Patricia Waiters files objections ... The Jersey Journal - NJ.com ... from confronting the Taliban with more US forces to scaling back the American presence and concentrating on Al Qaeda both there and in Pakistan , ... and more »
  • ANALYSIS-Obama's Afghan troop response is key for ...
    ANALYSIS-Obama's Afghan troop response is key for Europeans Reuters He said there was hope from the progress neighbouring Pakistan has made against its Taliban insurgency. [ID:nISL457876\] If this resolve could be channelled ...
  • Outside View: The Afghan debacle - United Press In ...
    Outside View: The Afghan debacle United Press International (subscription) The main threat he sees is in the form of three Taliban groups -- under Mullah Omar, the Haqqanis and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar -- and not Osama bin Laden and his ... and more »
  • President to Deliver Tough Words to International ...
    President to Deliver Tough Words to International Community ABC News ... including a plan from Vice President Joe Biden to focus more on rooting out al Qaeda and the Taliban on the Pakistan -Afghanistan border, a strategy that ... and more »

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties edit

Sideways News 

  • Lost Land of the Volcano
    Lost Land of the Volcano explores the crater of Mount Bosavi in Papua New Guinea. Up to 40 new species were discovered on their expedition, see the pictures.
  • Spacey to Inherit the Wind
    Kevin Spacey has been announced as the star of a new adaptation of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee's thought-provoking play Inherit the Wind .
  • Do or die: the euthanasia debate
  • Cakes and climate change: WI joins 10:10
    The Women’s Institute , traditionally associated with village fêtes and home cookery, recently announced that it is one of a string of organisations to join The Guardian 10:10 campaign .
  • Week in pictures: 14th September 2009
    Come and view the best pictures from around the world every day. Get a snapshot from another part of the world and open your eyes to what is happening all around you.

Fabius Maximus 

  • Let’s blow the fog away – an attempt t ...
    Summary:  the McChrystal’s Assesment consists of layers of absurdity, piled high.  Future generations will study it as a prime example of early 21st century madness, when such a thing was taken seriously. Essentials of the McChrystal’s Initial Commander’s Assessment, 30 August 2009. Amn ...
  • We need not bow before our Emperior (yet)
    We don’t see the madness of our the descent in to Empire.  The rest of the world does, however, and marvels at our madness.  This isolation of our leaders by ever-increasing pomp and grandeur can only have ill effects on their minds and spirits.  We all know this, yet the trend continues ...
  • A note from America’s diary: “My powe ...
    This could be note from America’s diary: My power proceeds from my reputation, and my reputation from the victories I have won. My power would fall if I were not to support it with more glory and more victories. Conquest has made me what I am; only conquest can maintain me. Friendship is only a ...
  • America’s dominance of the sky slowly erodes ...
    How can the USAF leaders write these things without risking laughter by their readers?  It does not take a Billy Mitchell or Doolittle to see that the rise of UAV’s — unmentioned by General Deptula — begins a new cycle in air warfare, ending the dominance of manned fighters.  Perhaps som ...
  • 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 ...

sibeledmonds - tweets 

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 

  • Klein: The Tel Aviv Party Stops Here
    When I heard the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was holding a celebratory "spotlight" on Tel Aviv, I felt ashamed of Toronto, the city where I live. I thought immediately of Mona Al Shawa, a Palestinian women's rights activist I met on a recent trip to Gaza. "We had more hope during the ...
  • Option mortgages to explode, officials warn
    The federal government and states are girding themselves for the next foreclosure crisis in the country's housing downturn: payment option adjustable rate mortgages that are beginning to reset."Payment option ARMs are about to explode," Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said after a Thursday meeting ...
  • 'Donor Developers' & Corruption in NSW
    The shooting death of Michael McGurk earlier this month triggered a media frenzy about property related corruption which has outlasted denials from all 70 NSW Labor MPs that they had any dealings with the slain standover man."Donor developers" - those property developers who are significant contribu ...
  • It couldn't happen here - or did it?
    Lincoln University students recently decided to descend on a fancy dress party dressed as Nazis and as concentration camp inmates, and to play all sorts of jolly drunken games with batons and gags. As images of the weird sadomasochistic prank flash around the world and prompt apologies from Lincoln' ...
  • USA: Commercial RE prices resume descent
    Last month commercial real estate prices took a bit of a breather, falling just 1% after seeing prices fall 9% from March to April and an additional 8% from April to May. Those are fairly stunning rates of decline. In July, the descent picked up steam again, falling 5.1% compared to June. Commerc ...

Independent ( London ) 

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran 

  • Beijing begins petrol supplies to Iran
    Summary: Chinese state companies this month began supplying petrol to Iran and now provide up to one-third of its imports in a development that threatens to undermine US-led efforts to shut off the supply of fuel on which its economy depends. source: Financial Times read more
  • Former Hostage Urges Negotiations with Iran
    Summary: John Limbert has wrestled with the ghosts of his past. He says it's time to move on. Limbert has just published a book in which he urges the United States change its approach toward the government of Iran after 30 years of confrontation. His proposal carries the weight of experience an ...
  • Iranian President Ahmadinejad to Speak at UN Amid ...
    Summary: Natanz plant Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is headed to the United States for a speech tomorrow to the United Nations General Assembly. Ahmadinejad’s UN visit comes just over a week before Iranian officials are set to hold talks with the US and five partner countries. Earlier ...
  • Iranian leader says he'll seek leniency for hikers
    Summary: NEW YORK — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday in an Associated Press interview that he will seek leniency for three American hikers who strayed across the Iranian border, and he urged President Barack Obama to see Iran as a potential friend. source: AP read more
  • Obama's Missile Defense Decision and the Iran Nucl ...
    Summary: Afrasiabi The decision by the Obama administration to drop the missile defense plan in Eastern Europe was based on a revised perception of Iran's long-range missile threat. source: World Politics Review read more

The Daily Galaxy 

  • Cosmic Flashes from Invading Black Holes (Texting ...
    Gamma Ray Bursts are the brightest things to happen to the universe since its beginning - extraordinarily intense electromagnetic events releasing more energy per second than the sun does in a billion years, and basically an excuse for astronomers to...
  • Milky Way's Monster Black Hole Awoke 300 Years Ago ...
    Astronomers have long wondered why it was that the super-massive black hole in the center of our galaxy was relatively quiet. Known as Sagittarius A*, a massive hole, containing about 4 million times the mass of our Sun. Yet, despite...
  • METI (Message Extra-Terrestrial Intelligences) - " ...
    Efforts to Search for and Message Extra Terrestrial Intelligences (SETI and METI) have met with a lot of opposition. Some say that there's no life out there, possibly because they view the universe as only slightly larger than the Earth...
  • Homo Sapiens -"The Dark Network"
    Brain researchers have recently discovered that when we perform mental activities such as adding numbers, comparing shapes, or identifying faces these areas of our brains light up, other areas go dark. This "dark network," according to Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert,...
  • Galaxy Fans/Techies/Geeks: We Need Your Help!
    Hey Galaxy Fans, We need about three minutes of your time to help convince the Intel's, Apple's, Google's, and Microsoft's of the world that our fans are the smartest, richest (ha!), best ad targets on the planet (and help us...

Natural News 

  • Huge California study concludes soda consumption u ...
    (NaturalNews) Much like Big Tobacco once did with nicotine, the soda industry and high-fructose corn syrup producers of America have maintained a ridiculous state of flat-out denial about the links between soda consumption and obesity. "Sodas don't make you fat," they insist. Meanwhile, as Americans ...
  • Dangerous Mercury Contamination of Human Body Incr ...
    (NaturalNews) It's no secret mercury is a dangerous toxin that accumulates in the human body and can produce disastrous health problems involving multiple organ systems. It's known to be a risk to unborn babies, too. Unfortunately, as NaturalNews has reported, mercury contamination of our environmen ...
  • CDC Lead Levels Cause Learning and Social Problems
    (NaturalNews) British researchers recently found that children with levels of lead in their blood that the U.S. Center for Disease Control deems as safe were having problems in school and developing antisocial behavior. In fact, "acceptable" levels of lead were connected with 49 percent lower readin ...
  • "Smart Choices" food label is marketing fraud; Tuf ...
    (NaturalNews) The big food companies have dreamed up yet another clever con to sell processed junk foods to parents and children: A "Smart Choices" label that implies the food product is a smart choice for health and nutrition. The problem is that the standards for qualifying for this designation we ...
  • New Study Finds Antioxidants Do Not Increase Melan ...
    (NaturalNews) Melanoma is the most serious form of skin cancer. However, if it's recognized and treated early, it is almost 100 percent curable. On the other hand, if melanomas are ignored, they can spread to other parts the body and be fatal. According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) about 6 ...

    TheGallopingBeaver 

  • At The Going Down Of The Sun....
    With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Private Patrick Lormand, 2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment. Killed due to enemy action. Je me souviens
  • The Choice - Not That Tough . . . .
    Now let's see how he does . . . . Unfortunate video capture. Caribou Barbie is NOT the featured player in this short video . . . . H/T BTO (Cross-osted from Moved to Vancouver )
  • Why are we in Afghanistan?
    Map of Taliban presence in Afghanistan from The International Council on Security and Development : Data detailing the presence of the Taliban in Afghanistan was gathered from daily insurgent activity reports between January and September 2009. ICOS believes that the level of incidents recorded by ...
  • "Million" "Moran" March
    They can't read the health care bill, they can't behave in public meetings - hell, they can't even count - but they sure are angry. And ignorant. And racist. The 9/12 movement - typical conservatives: A day late and a clue short. Please America, don't let these modern-day know-nothings bul ...
  • Proud to be a member of that 'left-wing fringe gro ...
    "I'm thinking of making T-shirts: "Proud to be a member of that 'left-wing fringe group' called 'Women,' " wrote Antonia Zerbisias two days ago. She was referring of course to Steve's unplugged nonsense from Wednesday : "Instead of subsidizing court challenges, the previous government was doing, ...

Media Matters for America 

  • RedState's ACORN "exclusive" based on theft? Anot ...
    In a recent "exclusive" report, RedState.com editor-in-chief Erick Erickson analyzed "a list of [ACORN CEO] Bertha Lewis's contacts" that "just showed up one day unsolicited" from "a credible source who is no fan of ACORN," and claimed, "We did not ask for it. We did not expect to get it. But ...
  • Limbaugh, Beck help rally GOP lawmakers to call f ...
    In a recent Politico article, Rush Limbaugh was quoted as saying that he doesn't "rally people" to take action because when he tried to do so early in his radio career, "the reaction to it from the media was that the response was not genuine ... because people only did what they did because 'L ...
  • Fox News' left-wing conspiracy chart fetish
    Glenn Beck unveiled yet another liberal conspiracy chart during the September 21 edition of his Fox News program, purporting to connect George Soros, the Tides Foundation, Health Care for America Now, the Apollo Alliance, ACORN, and SEIU. In light of Beck's growing obsession with conspiracy cha ...
  • Fox's Megyn Kelly now notes some ACORN w ...
    During a segment on the fallout from the undercover ACORN videos, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly noted on September 22 that "it appears that not every ACORN worker did go along with it" and that "as ACORN pointed out when this thing first broke, some of their workers did the right thing." But dur ...
  • Media conservatives denounce Glenn Beck's "hatred ...
    On September 22, conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough announced an "honor roll" for conservatives who are willing to denounce Glenn Beck's "hatred," making specific reference to Beck's statement that President Obama is "a racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people." Several media co ...

Global Research.ca 

TPM Cafe 

  • Gingrich: The Right's Moment Has Arrived
    Writing in today's Washington Times, Newt Gingrich declares that "it may seem hard to believe, but the conservative hour in America has once again arrived." "Seven months after Barack Obama was inaugurated, the left has so mismanaged its opportunity that... Sponsored Topics: Newt Gingrich - Wash ...
  • Method in Madness
    I've been wondering whether there's any rationality at all to Republican strategy now. Sometimes the leadership, if that's the right word, embrace the spasms of their farthest-gone crazies, as when Chuck Grassley endorses Glenn Beck, the militias tote guns to... Sponsored Topics: Chuck Grassley ...
  • Do the Ten Commandments Support Gays in the Milita ...
    In Ted Kennedy's new memoir, the Senator describes his first meeting with Bill Clinton in the White House. The new president had stumbled into a firestorm about gays in the military and had invited the Democratic members of the Armed... Sponsored Topics: Bill Clinton - White House - Ted Kennedy ...
  • Nuclear Weapons and the Poltics of Impatience
    President Obama's decision to chair a special session of the UN Security Council focused on nuclear disarmament is an historic step, but you wouldn't know it from reading and watching some of the media coverage that has come out in... Sponsored Topics: Nuclear weapon - United Nations Security C ...
  • Handling Victims With Sensitivity
    The story of Columbine seems so familiar as it's become part of our national consciousness. One word, and we all nod our heads. Ah, yes, Columbine. And we think we know it. Yet revisiting it through your deft, sensitive... Sponsored Topics: Columbine - Columbine High School - Violence and Abuse ...

TruthOut 

  • The Real Failure of the Afghan Election
    Robert Naiman writes that the inability of the US to support a credible Presidential election in Afghanistan was "both a military and a diplomatic failure." (Photo: Eric Kanalstein / UNAMA) read more
  • Honduras: US Appeals for Calm, Repeats Support for ...
        Washington - Confirming that that exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has secretly returned to Tegucigalpa, the U.S. State Department Monday appealed for calm and reiterated its recognition that he is the legitimate president.     "We have confirmed that he is in Honduras. Where exactl ...
  • A New Nuclear Debate in India
        As an anti-nuclear-weapon activist of India, I am abashed to admit this. But the main nuclear debate in the major South Asian country has not been the one between nuclear militarists and their opponents. It has been the one between two schools of nuclear militarism. The debate has acqui ...
  • States Can Sue Utilities Over Emissions
        A two-judge panel of a federal appeals court has ruled that big power companies can be sued by states and land trusts for emitting carbon dioxide. The decision, issued Monday, overturns a 2005 District Court decision that the question was political, not judicial. read more
  • The Era of Xtreme Energy
         Tom Dispatch: Introduction read more

The Heathlander 

  • The “British method”
    Following a political campaign by the BNP, a Muslim man was abducted from his home in Essex and threatened at knifepoint to stop organising weekly prayer sessions at the community centre. Asked to response, local BNP councillor Pat Richardson denied the BNP was behind the attack, explaining: “Fire ...
  • ‘Israel’s Terror Inside’
    Latest mini-doc from Max Blumenthal, via lenin: As Noam Chomsky has observed, and as this video makes clear, ‘those who call themselves “supporters of Israel” are in reality supporters of its moral degeneration and probable ultimate destruction’. Posted in Israeli / Palestinian, Videos ...
  • A culture of fear
    Pankaj Mishra dissects the ‘culture of fear’ being manufactured by a recent spate of books and articles warning of an impending ‘Eurabia’: ‘Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking ...
  • Fighting the fash
    Anti-fascist activists successfully confronted the BNP’s ‘Red, White and Blue’ hatefest [.pdf] (see also this Channel 4 report) in Codnor yesterday: One of the favourite chants of the day was reportedly: “We are black, white, Asian and we’re Jew / And they’re many, many more of us than ...
  • Silencing civil society
    Former Israeli military commander Efran Efrati recently testified to the BBC that Palestinian children are ‘routinely ill-treated’ by Israeli soldiers: “You take the kid, you blindfold him, you handcuff him, he’s really shaking… Sometimes you cuff his legs too. Sometimes it cuts off the ci ...

Water - AlterNet 

TruthHugger 

  • Sabotage Experts: US Coast Guard Exercise on 9/11, ...
    Coast Guard to review exercise after Potomac security scare Security incident on Potomac River prompted by “training exercise,” two police sources say Coast Guard told them. With the nation already on edge and somewhat paranoid on September 11 each year, what is the LAST thing you want to do? ...
  • Texas Progressive Alliance August 31, 2009
    It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No ...
  • Who Will Carry The Kennedy Torch? Op Ed
    The passing of Ted Kennedy may have dealt a blow to progressive humanitarian warriors.  The Senate is missing the most effective voice for the disenfranchised.  From his perch atop the mountain of comfort built by his family, Ted Kennedy used his position to battle legislative discrepancies that ...
  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 24, 2009
    School is starting, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is prepared as always to ace the test. Here is this week’s roundup of blog highlights. From TXsharon: Woo Hoo! EPA testing has now confirmed wells are contaminated “with various substances connected with gas drilling”–proof that h ...
  • Bi-Polar America – Who is Worthy of a Healthy Li ...
    The rationing of health care is already a fact of life. The new reform will remove some of that rationing and make health care a right instead of a privilege. Bi-Polar America - I am worthy, You are not. Jesus was a socialist.

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts 

Unexplained Mysteries 

  • Immortality only 20 years away ?
    Scientist Ray Kurzweil has claimed that immortality will be a possibility within as little as 20 years due to advancements in nanotechnology that ...
  • Iran shot down 'unknown objects' over Gulf
    A report from the Press TV network has reported that Iran has allegedly shot down "Unidentified shining objects" over the Gulf. No wreckage has ye...
  • Mystery noise drives couple from home
    A couple in England have been plagued so much by a mysterious noise that they have been forced to move from their home and live in a caravan. Desp...
  • How Mars turned red
    A new theory has suggested that Mars was not always red and that the red dust would have never come in to contact with liquid water, instead being...
  • The handwriting of liars
    A new study has claimed that the most effective way to determine whether someone is a liar is not to use a polygraph lie detector test but to inst...

Grassroots 

  • Calling President Obama
    DSC09338.JPG   With the dramatic return of President Manuel Zelaya to Honduras, the hemisphere is hoping for a solution to the political crisis that has lingered for 87 days. Still, President Obama has not taken a strong enough position on thi ...
  • Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission ...
      Last week, Justice Richard Goldstone of the United Nations Human Rights Council's Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict and his colleagues relesaed their report  on Israel's war on Gaza during December 2008-January 2009. Justice Goldstone is a former judge of South Africa's Constitutional Cour ...
  • 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, ...

Climate 

  • September 23, 2009
    Nations Headed Toward Independent Climate Goals (Washington Post) The vision President Obama and others outlined at the United Nations climate summit — in which countries offered a series of individual commitments — suggests that a potential deal may look much different from what its backers ...
  • September 22, 2009
    Obama, Hu Address UN Climate Summit Today (ClimateWire) Chinese President Hu Jintao will unveil an "ambitious" suite of voluntary targets for emissions with domestically enforceable measures and standards for industrial-sector emissions, automobiles and building efficiency, according to the UN cl ...
  • September 21, 2009
    UN Plans ‘Shock Therapy’ at Climate Summit (Guardian) This week’s UN summit in New York will force heads of rich states to listen to those of third world nations in the hope that one-on-one meetings can kick-start radical action. Sen. Lieberman Proposes Cash for Coal, Nuclear (Politico) ...
  • 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 21, 2009
    UN Plans ‘Shock Therapy’ at Climate Summit (Guardian) This week’s UN summit in New York will force heads of rich states to listen to those of third world nations in the hope that one-on-one meetings can kick-start radical action. Sen. Lieberman Proposes Cash for Coal, Nuclear (Politico) ...

TomDispatch 

  • Tomgram: Michael Klare, Energy Xtremism
    Talk about roller-coaster rides: the price of a barrel of crude oil, which was still under $20 the week after September 11, 2001, made it to $147 in July 2008, just before the global economic meltdown, only to hit a low of $32.40 early this year. And yet, in recent months, hardly noticed, it's c ...
  • 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 ...

Smirking Chimp 

  • Animated Cartoon: Legion of Superzeroes
    OK, so this a rare geek-out by yours truly. A couple of weeks ago, the Disney Company acquired Marvel Comics, which has the rights to most of the most famous superhero characters. Although other editorial cartoonists posited superhero downsizing, I was particularly interested in the bizarre cor ...
  • How Fox's Chris Wallace became irrelevant
    You think the Obama White House hit a nerve over the weekend when it purposefully left Fox News Sunday off the president's generous list of Sunday talk-show appearances? The subsequent whining and childish name-calling from Fox News Sunday 's Chris Wallace became incessant and, of course, revealed m ...
  • In Obama We Trust
    Reluctantly, I part company with top labor leaders, the "left wing of organized labor," and activist-filmmaker Michael Moore, for all still "trust" the president. I don't question this report's accuracy, last week from Randy Shaw, Beyond Chron's editor-in-chief, only his comment, "labor's trust of O ...
  • The Mindless Class: The Left’s Evil Twin
    Who are those people? They look like ordinary citizens but they act like maniacs, screaming at members of congress who want to discuss health care coverage for the tens of millions, including themselves, who are either uninsured or may become so tomorrow. They shout gibberish into the microphones ...
  • Irving Kristol's Alliance With Anti-Semites
    By the time Irving Kristol died on September 18 at the age of 89, he had transformed the Republican Party through the neoconservative philosophy he helped pioneer. A former Trotskyist, Kristol promoted the supply-side economic theories that formed the foundation of the Reagan administration's domest ...

Ten Percent 

  • A Nation Under House Arrest
    The Field- The Honduran coup regime’s 26-hour martial curfew upon the entire country effectively places 7.5 million Honduran citizens – men, women, children and elders – under house arrest. They are prohibited from going to work, to the store, or to walk down the street to visit a neighbor. An ...
  • Honduran Coup Links
    Big list here, latest is the military have shut down various media and have occupied the building next to the Brazilian Embassy, meanwhile US rightists are supporting the coup regime, lying through their teeth to support a military dictatorship whose members in the past raped, murdered and tortured ...
  • District Neuf
    Look how the Daily Mail (ht2 Lenin) celebrate the violence of the Calais refugee camp being bulldozed. It is weird that the dynamic here is best relayed in fiction Banlieue 13 told how a Sarkozy figure plotted to kill and ethnically cleanse walled in migrant ghettos and the current District 9 puts a ...
  • Honduras Fighting The Coup
    The must read Al Giordano’s The Field @ Narconews, latest- 5:50 p.m.: The coup regime has just cut electricity to entire neighborhoods surrounding the Brazilian Embassy and Channel 36 TV. How long do you think it will take the people to install a generator in each place? The same will happen when ...
  • Chris Hedges- Globalization Goes Bankrupt
    The rage of the disposed is fracturing the country, dividing it into camps that are unmoored from the political mainstream. Movements are building on the ends of the political spectrum that have lost faith in the mechanisms of democratic change. You can’t blame them. But unless we on the left move ...

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 

  • If Only Blue Dogs and RINOs Could Breed!
    This is not a news piece. This is just my opinion. I do not speak for the staff of No Quarter, nor the majority of readers, because this blog is not of one mind. A recent discussion among the writers revealed that there are few things on which we universally agree! The one thing we [...]
  • If Only Blue Dogs and RINOs Could Breed!
    This is not a news piece. This is just my opinion. I do not speak for the staff of No Quarter, nor the majority of readers, because this blog is not of one mind. A recent discussion among the writers revealed that there are few things on which we universally agree! The one thing we [...]
  • Obama Throws Afghanistan and America Under the Bus
    I will beat this dead horse until we get a ton of glue. Barack Obama waffling on Afghanistan has now crossed a line that puts our nation at risk. His word means nothing. Here is what he said to a veterans group a little over a month ago about the nature of [...]
  • A Pat On The Back Will Make It All Better?
    You may have heard that this weekend, the White House strongly suggested that David Paterson, the current governor of New York, really shouldn’t consider a run in 2010. You know, the way only Chicago politicians can: leak out a strong encouragement, deny that they did any such thing, and make it ...
  • Krauthammer: Race is last the refuge of liberal sc ...
    We’ve all heard this famous condemnation: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Now, Charles Krauthammer (syndicated columnist and Fox News analyst), along with others, have adopted a critically important new variation on this old saying. Watch the video (h/t to Reverand Amy!): ...

Environmental Graffiti 

Foreign Policy in Focus 

Global Elite 

Al Jazeera 

Green Inc. - NYT 

  • Bringing Solar Power to Africa's Poor
    A variety of small-scale -- and sometimes large-scale -- solar projects are bringing clean, renewable energy to rural African communities.
  • Utility Leaves Chamber Over Climate Issue
    Pacific Gas & Electric has pulled out of the United States Chamber of Commerce, due to what its chairman termed "fundamental differences" over the climate change issue.
  • Currently on Our Radar ...
    Bill Clinton on climate change and other energy and environment stories from around the Web.
  • Texan Sees 'Economic Disaster' in Climate Bill
    Gov. Rick Perry assailed the bill, which would create a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions, as a "legislative monstrosity" that would do grave damage to the Texas economy.
  • Inhofe Pans Obama Climate Speech
    Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma argued that Mr. Obama's speech offered "no constructive solutions for the challenges ahead," and the World Wildlife Fund also criticized the speech for a lack of specifics.

Dot Earth News 

Doug Feith : Hong Pong 

  • Supercoca Boliviana Negra cocaine win: Glyphosate/ ...
    Boliviana negra - Wikipedia, Also known as supercoca or la millionaria , Boliviana Negra is a relatively new form of coca that is resistant to herbicide Roundup , or the isopropylamine salt of glyphosate . The coca plant is the precursor to the addictive stimulant cocaine , one of the most widely c ...
  • Believe it or not, the flu will always be with us
    I am sort of amazed by the establishment view that's crystallized around this. Everyone is supposed to cut corners to whip out various runs of vaccines. It's amazing how quickly people forget that influenza has always been with us - a more holistic view is that it basically co-evolves with humans i ...
  • Video with Peter Schiff: A black hole called Feder ...
    I got a kick out of this video and the funny animations. It's all about the mysterious black hole called the Federal Reserve System. Gotta love it! Just posted yesterday: Additionally, the landscape of ruined houses in the first couple shots caught my notice. I'll explain why later...  read more »
  • Carbon Market+Sun=FAIL? Sunspot Maunder Minimum vs ...
    Another Little Ice Age? Solar activity and climate change - Ars Technica : Some scientists are suggesting that the slow return to a more active phase of the solar cycle may portend a general decline in solar activity. If sunspots shut down, does that mean that we could stop worrying about climate ...
  • NZ Cellphone racket! LOL This article officially c ...
    In a stunning surprise, apparently the New Zealand mobile phone system is a complete racket, wherein grumpy ministers set the pay rate and thereby influence the balance of corporate power. Or something. In any case, New Zealand's version of the Man officially censored this article about the stupid h ...

Daily Censored 

  • Beck Tells Couric He’s Sorry The Way He “Phras ...
    Read the full story at News Hounds In his lengthy interview with Katie Couric last night (9/22/09), Glenn Beck claimed he didn’t give much thought to the advertising boycott organized by ColorOfChange.org which to date has resulted in a loss of 62 advertisers. But it’s clear he has at least some ...
  • The O’Reilly Factor: Newt Gingrich’s Three Li ...
    Read the full story at News Hounds On Tuesday night on The O’Reilly Factor (9/22/09), Bill O’Reilly hosted Newt Gingrich to offer “three things . . . that would bring us all together . . . give me three things.” With video. Gingrich was more than happy to oblige. “One, we ought to have a ...
  • Censored 2010: What would you expect in return if ...
    You’ll find the answer to that question and other puzzling social and political issues among the new top 25-censored stories just revealed by Project Censored. Here’s the rest of the story. The Top Censored Stories of 2008-09, edited by Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff in cooperation w ...
  • The Cove Exposed
    Read the full story at Save Japan Dolphins Dear Friends of Dolphins: Your donations and letters to the Japanese Ambassador are saving dolphins every day. Ric back on the shore of the Cove in Japan, with attendant international media. Photo Copyright Mark J. Palmer. Join Me in Taiji. We were in Tai ...
  • More troops for Afghanistan: When will Obama decid ...
    Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories The Pentagon wants Obama to make his choice soon, but if he’s leaning against sending more troops, he might play for time to consider his options. …

AlterNet's Breaking News 

Institute for Policy Studies 

Reuters - Most Popular Articles 

  • China and U.S. try to jumpstart U.N. climate talks
    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - China laid out a plan to curb carbon emissions by 2020 and U.S. President Barack Obama called on all nations to act now to tackle global warming, as world leaders tried to inject momentum into climate change talks.
  • Obama star power faces new test at U.N meeting
    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama makes his United Nations debut on Wednesday calling on world leaders to shoulder more responsibility in confronting global challenges.
  • British graduate scores in sandwich-board job hunt
    LONDON (Reuters) - In a pinstripe suit, silk tie and polished shoes, David Rowe has all the trappings of a successful London city worker, except for one stark difference -- he is wearing a sandwich board that says "JOB WANTED."
  • RIM's updated BlackBerry could brighten outlook
    TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion is expected to forecast strong gains for its current quarter on Thursday as it gets set to update its BlackBerry smartphones for consumers and business users.
  • Fed to note economic improvement, may hint on exit
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to take note of an improving economy at the close of a meeting on Wednesday, while cautioning that high unemployment puts the recovery at risk.

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 

  • IOT: Stop Global Warming 9-16-09
    On this month’s Stop Global Warming/Environmental Issue Organizing Team call, the following topics were covered: Update on ACESA climate/energy legislation bill, review of a principles/guidelines document to direct action between calls, quick update on the ...
  • IOT: End the Occupation, Redirect Funding Call 9- ...
    Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign co-chair Norman Solomon has just returned from Afghanistan. He gives a report on the conditions he found there, suggests the next steps for the peace movement, and answers questions.
  • Western & Eastern Regional Call 9-19-09
    State coordinators, chapter leaders, and congressional district point people met on a conference call to discuss chapter development and coordination, local and state actions, and strategies for actions on single-payer healthcare and opposing the war ...
  • Dallas Does Progressivism
    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 ...
  • Grijalva and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, ...
    No doubt Congressman Raul Grijalva (AZ-07) is a Progressive champion who is deeply committed to bringing about real reform of our nation’s health care system. But his recent statements made in an article printed ...

Marler Blog 

  • About Botulism - An Updated Resource - Botulism Bl ...
    Botulism is a rare, life-threatening paralytic illness caused by neurotoxins produced by an anaerobic, gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium, Clostridium botulinum. Unlike Clostridium perfringens, which requires the ingestion of large numbers of viable cells to cause symptoms, the symptoms of botu ...
  • Food Safety and recalls of your kids' food - What ...
    From the GAO: Over the past few years, several food recalls, such as for beef and peanut products, have affected schools. It is especially important that recalls affecting schools be carried out efficiently and effectively because young children have a higher risk of complications from food-borne il ...
  • New Food Safety Legislation is needed - to protect ...
    The other evening when the President was pitching his health legislation, his biggest ovation - from both sides - came when he threw medical malpractice trial lawyers under the bus in an effort to get a few republican votes.  It was not much of a surprise.  Lawyers have been hated throughout the a ...
  • BBC reports that Godstone Farm animals test positi ...
    Experts from the Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) said 33 of 102 samples were likely to contain the O157:H7 strain of the infection. This included samples from Lambs, pigs, goats, cattle, ponies and rabbit droppings at a Surrey farm at the centre of an E. coli outbreak. During its visit to God ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen 

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.23.09
    Rush Limbaugh vs. the electric car on Leno's Green Car Challenge We'll see how much he hates it soon enough. Think has an order backlog 2,300 vehicles long Restarted production should result ...
  • BREAKING: Fisker gets $528.7 million loan from U.S ...
    Filed under: Hybrid , Sedan , Government/Legal , Fisker , Alternative Fuel Fisker Karma - Click above for high-res image gallery Fisker's goal of becoming profitable by 2011 received a shot in the arm today thanks to the U.S. Energy Department's announcement that the upstart automaker will receive ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.22.09
    Martin Eberhard and Elon Musk reach settlement in lawsuit Details are being kept under wraps, but the fight seems to be over. REPORT: BYD only sells 100 plug-in F3DM hybrids in eight months N ...
  • 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? ...

Rafe's Radar 

  • Scenes from DemoFall 2009
    Twice a year, well-funded entrepreneurs face off with venture capitalists and the press at Demo events. DemoFall 2009 is currently under way in San Diego, where 70 companies are pitching their new products or strategies. Here's a walk-through of the main pitch sessions and the Demo Pavilion, where ...
  • Point of Wealth: The reverse ATM
    Point of Wealth co-founder David Prehn (left) pitches to USA Today writer Ed Baig. The POW system lets employees who are paid in cash deposit their money, pay bills, and top off pre-paid credit cards. (Credit: Rafe Needleman/CNET) At DemoFall 2009 , one of the few hardware companies launching is ...
  • New mobile content solutions for commuters from My ...
    You can share comments on streams you're listening to in RadioWeave with your friends. (Credit: RadioWeave) MyVocal is launching what looks like a useful service for anyone who ever gets bored while commuting in a car. The service lets you combine into a single stream your audio podcasts, ...
  • Rseven records life according to your mobile phone
    Everything you've done on your phone gets pushed to the Web. (Credit: Rafe Needleman/CNET) SAN DIEGO-- Rseven makes an interesting service that archives everything you do on your mobile phone so you can review and analyze your activities later. With the app on your phone (it was ...
  • Micello maps the indoor world
    Micello brings indoor maps to mobile devices. (Credit: Rafe Needleman/CNET) SAN DIEGO--At Demo09, the second demonstrator on the stage (and the first interesting one) was Micello , a mapping platform for the indoor world. As the company pitchmen say, Google Maps takes you to the door, Micello take ...

Camera Obscura 

  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so frequ ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
  • 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 ...

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’  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 

  • Will New GPS System Save Airline Fuel and Curb Emi ...
    Supporters say ADS-B is the ticket to modernize air traffic control, but can it really green up our airspace?
  • Eco Skyscrapers: Green Architecture Reaches for th ...
    To meet the sustainable standards of the future, green architects design ultra-tall buildings that combine a range of functions like farming and housing. many architects are looking up for sustainable solutions that will prevent further sprawl and provide fresh food to urban residents. Vertical farm ...
  • California renewable power legislation creates a t ...
    More big solar power plants in the Mojave Desert. Fewer solar panels on homes and businesses. More hydroelectric dams in British Columbia. The flurry of recent renewable power decisions in Sacramento could have far-reaching - even contradictory - results.
  • Google Maps Earth's Carbon Cycle
    Earth has a new application that shows carbon dioxide in different layers of the earth's atmosphere.
  • MIT develops initial step toward carbon sequestrat ...
    Researchers at MIT have shown the benefits of a new approach toward eliminating carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions at coal-burning power plants. Their system, called pressurized oxy-fuel combustion, provides a way of separating all of the carbon-dioxide emissions produced by the burning of coal, in the ...

Suzie-Q 

  • America has been here before
    By Eric Margolis, The Toronto Sun, Sep 20, 2009 “We should hang a huge neon sign over Afghanistan: “CAUTION: DEJA VU.” Afghanistan’s much ballyhooed recent election staged by its foreign occupiers turned out to be a fraud wrapped up in a farce — as this column predicted a month ago. It ...
  • Christian Right Scrambles To Claim It Isn’t ...
    Overshadowed by Tea Party Movement, the Christian Right Scrambles to Claim It Isn’t Racist By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. Posted September 22, 2009. The Tea Party movement has the juice as the religious right is on the wane. Survival may mean joining up, but that presents an image problem for Chr ...
  • Settling for Failure in the Middle East
    Stephen M. Walt, The Washington Post, Sep 20, 2009 Like so many of his predecessors, President Obama is quickly discovering that persuading Israel to change course is nearly impossible. Obama came to office determined to achieve a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians. His opening mov ...
  • 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]

Solari 

  • The Option ARM Armageddon
    View larger chart Continue reading The Option ARM Armageddon
  • National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement
    I recently received an Action Alert about the National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (NLGMA) from Weston Price (available to subscribers only.) From the Weston Price alert: “A National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement could harm family-scale farmers-putting at a disadvantage some of the safest ...
  • Community Call to Prayer
    Art By Caravaggio Blessed is the one who makes the Lord his trust, And does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. ~Psalm 40:4 Heartfelt thanks and many blessings to all who have joined us in prayer, either on the conference line or at home. [...]
  • Four Major Developments All Gold Investors Should ...
    By Jason Hamlin A series of new and significant events have unfolded over the past few weeks that have influenced the precious metals markets and will likely continue to support gold’s price advance. Continue reading Four Major Developments All Gold Investors Should Watch
  • Will Ireland Scramble the European Union?
    Click for larger map The bureaucratic grind to end national sovereignty in Europe continues with German approval of The Lisbon Treaty challenged in the courts and the second Irish referendum scheduled for October 2, 2009. The first Irish referendum seeking approval of the Treaty was rejected last y ...

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 ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter 

Twilight Earth 

  • Chemical Time Bomb in Ukraine Endangers 7 Million ...
    The health of at least 7 million inhabitants in Moldavia and Ukraine is seriously threatened by a single stock of old pesticides. Related posts: One Million Acts of Green: The Power of People Coming Together Despite Warnings, FDA Approves Chemical in Plastic Dow Chemical and Ford Motor Co. to Joi ...
  • Top 10 Corporate Renewable Energy Purchasers
    Here is a list of the top 10 green energy purchasers compiled by the EPA’s Green Power Partnership. Related posts: Poll Suggests that 71 Percent of Americans Want a Clean Energy Bill President Obama on the Clean Energy and Security Act (Video) Senate Finance Committee Approves $31 Billion in Alt ...
  • Van Jones First Public Letter Since Resigning From ...
    This is Van Jones first public letter since resigning from the White House on September 15th. Related posts: Van Jones Resigns Reactions to the Clean Energy Bill that Passed the House (Obama and Gore) A Letter from 2030
  • First Day of Fall – 2009
    The first day of Fall, or the “Autumnal Equinox” for 2009, falls on Tuesday, September 22nd. Related posts: First Day Of Fall – 2008 The First Day of Spring, 2009 – Photo Sunday African Lion Numbers Fall From 200,000 to 30,000 in 20 Years
  • White House Farmers Market a Success. Photos and S ...
    First Lady Michelle Obama gave an inspiring speech at the opening of the White House Farmers Market and Twilight Earth was there! Enjoy the photos. Related posts: Win a Copy Of Disney Natures EARTH DVD – Twilight Earth Giveaway Farming the White House Lawn: Victory Garden for Obama? This Little ...

Inhabitat 

  • Mobile Treehouse: Log Cabin on Wheels Sells for $1 ...
    Online auctions are an easy way to browse for a dream residence without the use of your four-wheel gas guzzler, but the recent sale of a particular mobile home is far from your ordinary listing. A lucky Australian bidder just won the ownership of a portable, yet grandiose, “log” cabin – litera ...
  • Green Roofed High School in France by Off Architec ...
    High school students in Revin, France will soon be attending classes in a stunning new terraced building covered in green roofs. Seen from above the new Lycee Jean Moulin school will simply appear as a terraced landscape, practically disappearing into the hillside. Designed by Paris-based, Off Archi ...
  • Urban Infill Strikes Gold in San Francisco
    Of all the pads chosen for this year’s AIA San Francisco Living: Home Tours, only one found me smiling from start to finish. I wondered why as I wandered through this intriguing Glen Park residence… suddenly, on an upstairs landing, I spied a strange note stuck inside a fire-engine red Royal typ ...
  • Portable buBbLe House Pops Up in a Snap
    The real estate bubble may have burst, but we’ve found a better, more sustainable bubble to get into: The buBbLe Prototype! This inventive housing alternative is the result of a design collaboration between the office of MMAS and architect-artist Cipriano Chas. The design team aimed to develop a p ...
  • Envi: Composting Trash Can Provides Urban Greenery
    By now you have probably heard that composting helps make a garden green because it is an effective way to deliver nutrients to plants and reduce food waste. Previously we featured the Jarst planter, which makes composting food waste in your home easy with a side compartment that can distribute the ...

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