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Thomas Paine

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Friday, September 25, 2009

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • SRI LANKA: Coastal Village Rises Up from Ravages ...
    VAKARAI, Sri Lanka, Sep 25 (IPS) - Vakarai is a dust bowl of a village, right at the edge of the coast in Sri Lanka’s east. The last three decades have not been too good for this fishing village — located about 300 kilometres east of the capital Colombo — and its inhabitants, mostly fr ...
  • WATER-LESOTHO: Compensation Victory for Displaced ...
    MASERU, Sep 25 (IPS) - Mr Taelo Motseki had every reason to wear a broad smile despite the afternoon chill. His family along with 21 others displaced by Phase 1B of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project at Ha Mohale had won a decade-long struggle seeking compensation.
  • ZAMBIA: Malaria Prevention Pays Off
    MANSA, Zambia, Sep 24 (IPS) - Huge investments in malaria control and prevention have prevented as many as 75,000 child deaths over the past five years.
  • Q&A: Harmonise the Efforts of African Scientists
    ADDIS ABABA, Sep 24 (IPS) - As many as 100 million people in Africa suffer from schistosomiasis, a chronic illness caused by a parasite associated with freshwater snails. The schistosoma flatworm causes a debilitating illness that can damage internal organs, and stunt growth and cognitive develo ...
  • ZIMBABWE: Board Gives School System Failing Marks
    HARARE, Sep 24 (IPS) - Primary and secondary school education in Zimbabwe has "fallen woefully behind" other southern African countries due to shortages of textbooks and other materials as well as deteriorating working conditions and resultant low morale for teachers.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Faces of aggression
    Even if you can’t distinguish NHL enforcers Todd Bertuzzi and Chris Neil from a referee, you’d probably know at first sight not to mess with them. And not just because of their physical size. The men employed to intimidate the opposition tend to have wide faces, and that, Brock University’s Ch ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • California study links soda consumption to obesity
    The stereotypical Californian may sip chai lattes or guzzle green tea, but we actually drink lots of soda. In fact, 24% of California adults drink at least one soda or other sweetened beverage each day, and an additional 36% imbibe occasionally, according to a report released today by the UCLA Cent ...
  • Alzheimer's Linked to Lack of Sleep
    Losing sleep could lead to losing brain cells, a new study suggests. Levels of a protein that forms the hallmark plaques of Alzheimer's disease increase in the brains of mice and in the spinal fluid of people during wakefulness and fall during sleep, researchers report online September 24 in Scienc ...
  • America's Teacher
    On September 17, in the midst of the publicity blitz for his cinematic takedown of the capitalist order, Michael Moore talked with Nation columnist Naomi Klein by phone about the film, the roots of our economic crisis and the promise and peril of the present political moment. To listen to a podcast ...
  • Scientists See Water Ice In Fresh Meteorite Crater ...
    NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed frozen water hiding just below the surface of mid-latitude Mars. The spacecraft's observations were obtained from orbit after meteorites excavated fresh craters on the Red Planet. Scientists controlling instruments on the orbiter found bright ice expo ...
  • Saudi Arabia's new university to let women unveil ...
    The King Abdullah Science and Technology University opened Wednesday is meant to break ground on Saudi Arabia's scientific learning and gender norms. For the first time in Saudi Arabia's history, men attending a university north of Jeddah will have special classmates - women. The conservative co ...

Threat Level

  • Telco Spy Immunity Up for Grabs
    Lawmakers are considering key changes to the Patriot Act and other spy laws – proposals that could give new life to lawsuits accusing the nation’s telecommunications companies of turning over Americans’ electronic communications to the government without warrants. President Barack Obama sup ...
  • Online Conspiracy Theories Latch Onto Census GPS U ...
    The hanging death of a Kentucky census worker is likely to raise tensions among counters in the 2010 census, who have already been the focus of emotionally-charged online rhetoric this year because they use GPS. Internet conspiracy theories have grown in recent months over the fact that census worke ...
  • Plea Deal Clears Intelligence Analyst of Felony Ha ...
    Federal prosecutors dropped a felony hacking charge Thursday against a Defense Department intelligence analyst who poked around in a system involved in a national terrorism investigation. The analyst, Brian Keith Montgomery, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge instead, settling the case and makin ...
  • Obama Stands Behind ‘State Secrets’ in Spy Cas ...
    SAN FRANCISCO – Hours after the Justice Department announced it would limit its use of the state secrets privilege in new cases, the administration appeared before a federal judge here Wednesday and continued to invoke that defense in a closely watched spy case. The litigation at issue, now five y ...
  • Obama Issues Limits on ‘State Secrets Privilegeâ ...
    The Obama administration announced new limits Wednesday on the so-called state secrets privilege used by the government to scuttle lawsuits that involve classified information, adding layers of oversight to a power that both the Bush and Obama administration has used to kill off lawsuits challenging ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • "Hong Kong" Palin vs. "Katie Couric" Palin
    Turning to Sarah Palin to explain the international economy and the role of government is like asking a dog why it likes to lick its ass. But as an audience of investors and fund managers learned today in Hong Kong,...
  • 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...

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

  • Suggested Reading: Greg Harman on STP
    If you’re interested in the San Antonio South Texas Project nuclear issue and haven’t been reading Greg Harman’s work for the San Antonio Current, you are seriously missing out. His latest story is a cover feature titled “Nukes Mean Mines” and part of a life cycle analysis of the South Nuc ...
  • Oppose the Murkowski Amendment and Support the EPA ...
    Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has circulated a draft amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill—the Environmental Protection Agency’s annual spending bill—calling to prevent the Agency from regulating stationary sources of greenhouse gases, despite a mandate from the US Supreme Court tw ...
  • 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 ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    "I was part of the process that did all this damage, and I feel I should try to do something now to make sure it doesn't happen again."  Eric Kolchinsky, former Moody's Investors Service Analyst, on the "moral obligation" he feels to set the financial system back right.  He is testifying today in fr ...
  • An American Statesman at the UN
    Because the wingnuts and Blue Dogs are already calling him "Carter" for the unforgivable sin of speaking like a sane, responsible leader instead of a schoolyard bully making threats out of fear, maybe we should all take a good look and listen and judge for ourselves. Part One: Part Two: Part Three P ...
  • An H1N1 update from HHS Secretary Sebelius
    This afternoon I lurked on a conference call that Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Dr. Anne Schuchat of the CDC, and White House Communications Director Anita Dunn held to give reporters and bloggers an update on where we stand in the program to inoculate all citizens who ch ...
  • Quote of the day
    "I was part of the process that did all this damage, and I feel I should try to do something now to make sure it doesn't happen again."  Eric Kolchinsky, former Moody's Investors Service Analyst, on the "moral obligation" he feels to set the financial system back right.  He is testifying today in fr ...
  • BREAKING: Kirk appointed to Kennedy's Senate Seat
    Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has appointed former DNC Chairman Paul Kirk to fill the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Senator Kennedy last month.  A permanent replacement will be elected in a special election in January.   The appointment of Kirk is no surprise. He was close to Senato ...

Care 2

  • Neglected Dogs Found In Perkins Home
    Officers said they found two dogs dead on the property and others that were too sick to save. The surviving dogs are being cared for at a Perkins animal shelter. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Officer describes 'horror' of finding dogs in tiny ...
    Most of the dogs, he said, could not stand in their tiny cages. The cages were extremely dirty and rusty and there was even a carcass of a horse. One of the dogs had its paws chopped off. The dogs were all black with dirt, the animal welfare Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   A ...
  • Buddha Sculpture Made from 20,000 Dead Bugs
    In the Gunma prefecture of Japan there sits an elaborate statue of the Buddha housed within a community hall. From a distance the intricate statue seems to be covered with thousands of gems and jewels... until a closer look reveals that it is actually com Submitted by Daphna Jindrich to Offbeat  |  ...
  • E-Fuel MicroFueler Makes Ethanol From Old Beer
    The E-Fuel MicroFueler is a still that turns waste products into 100% ethanol that you can put directly into your car- and it does it in a tank you can store at your home. The 250 gallon holding tank converts organic feedstock, including wine and beer, in Submitted by Daphna Jindrich to Science & Te ...
  • Shipping Container Home Prototype in Buenos Aires
    How much do we love shipping container houses? They're built inside recycled structures, encourage people to live with less and let's face it: they look cool. Here's a new prototype from Buenos Aires, built for the interior design exhibition Submitted by Daphna Jindrich to Green Lifestyle  |   Not ...

GreenBiz

  • Walmart Digs In Deep to the Sustainability Index
    In a wide-ranging and in-depth 90-minute conversation with Joel Makower, Rand Waddoups, Walmart's Senior Director for Sustainability explores the knowns and unknowns driving the retailer's Sustainability Index.
  • Walmart Sustainability Index Means Big Business
    Oct. 1 marks the official start of the first phase of Walmart's Sustainability Index, which offers both a huge business opportunity for suppliers and a potentially huge environmental business for the bumper crop of consulting and accounting firms springing up to help them navigate the journey.
  • Pacific Seafood Company Recycles, Sells Waste Styr ...
    Oregon-based Pacific Seafood has recycled more than 300,000 pounds of foam packaging in the past year, crushing and selling its waste packaging instead of sending it to landfills.
  • 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.'

Reuters Global

  • In Pakistan, not over the moon
    Pakistan is battling Taliban militants, trying to patch up relations with old rival India and struggling to revive a limping economy but another issue has preoccupied the country over recent days: the sighting of the moon that markes the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan
  • Southeast Asia’s Islamists try the domino th ...
    Last week's killing of one of Asia's most wanted men, Noordin Top, was a coup in the decade-old battle against Southeast Asia's violent Islamist movements. Top, thought to have masterminded a series of bombing attacks that killed hundreds since 2002, had proclaimed himself al Qaeda's leader ...
  • Little help from celebs for Germany’s undeci ...
    Political endorsements by Germany's stars of stage and screen have always been earnest and low-key, in sharp contrast to the glamour Hollywood celebrities or chart-topping musicians hope to inject in U.S. elections.
  • German elections too close to call
    Has this been dullest German election campaign in decades or the most exciting? Has the battle for power in Berlin between Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier that concludes with Sunday's election been a memorable showdown or a forgettably boring contest?
  • Dust coats Australian outback myth
    Huge dust storm sweeping eastern Australia exposes the country's outback myth.

Ezra Klein

  • Why France's Health Care Is So Good, The Public Op ...
    Sen. Kent Conrad chairs the Budget Committee, serves on the Finance Committee and was a member of the Gang of Six. I spoke to Conrad today about what Americans can learn from other health-care systems, why he opposes the public option and what felled the Gang of Six. Let's talk about T.R. Reid's Th ...
  • Medicare Advantage Is Not Medicare
    Bill Nelson, the senior senator from Florida, represents a lot of retirees. He represents, more specifically, a lot of retirees on Medicare Advantage. So though the Democrat is a supporter of health-care reform, he's calling for seniors to be shielded from these "intolerable" cuts. His amendment wou ...
  • One More Time, Charlie Brown
    Chuck Grassley wants another Gang of Six.
  • Score One for the Banks
    This is the most depressing paragraph I've read today: At a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner announced that the administration had dropped one provision in its plan for a consumer financial protection agency — a requirement for banks an ...
  • The Case of the Walking Bratwurst Restaurant
    Germany is apparently filling up with a new sort of street food vendor: the type who carries his kitchen on his back. Why the rugged approach? It's a case of bad regulation giving way to some pretty serious innovation . Germany is known for both its innovative engineering and its sausages, so the t ...

Booman Tribune

  • The Powder is Good and Dry
    With over 500 amendments to wade through and each amendment taking about an hour to debate, the Senate Finance Committee is never going to complete their mark-up of the health care bill unless chairman Max Baucus brings the shithammer down on Republican obstruction. Ordinarily, I'd be skeptical abou ...
  • How Right-Wing is Congress?
    From the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll: Wow. Those tea parties really did lasting damage, didn't they? So, if you want to know just how owned by corporations our Congress is, you can now do accurate calculations. There should be no more than 26-30 senators who oppose the public optio ...
  • Ice Loss, Temps Rise & Idaho Red Wine
    An odd title, you might think to your self. However, everything is connected. Trust me. But first things first. Both Greenland and Antarctica are experiencing significant thinning of their ice fields and glaciers according to scientists. I'm sure this will be attacked as "junk science" by the ...
  • Paul Kirk to Replace Kennedy
    Well, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick has made his announcement. Paul Kirk will serve as Teddy Kennedy's interim replacement until a January 19th special election. A lot of people, including me, were pulling for Michael Dukakis. I don't like the sound of this: Patrick faced lobbying on ...
  • A Look at the Midterms
    The Hill produces a piece from a familiar genre. It's the 'nervous centrist Democrats think Pelosi is too liberal' genre. In the first midterm of a new presidency, history tells us that the president's party usually does poorly. So, there is at least one metric out there that should make vulnerab ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Augmented reality monster-hunting
    While the vast majority of the European and Stateside augmented reality ideas I see galloping through my RSS feeds are stolid and practical apps with obvious commercial potential – mapping, navigation, informational – you can always rely on Japan to come up with something that little bit more al ...
  • Friday fly-over: Mars’ Gusev Crater
    Right, it’s Friday – so have some Martian landscape porn. A guy called Doug Ellison put this together to celebrate the Spirit rover’s third birthday… counting in Martian years, natch. Pretty impressive, given it’s made purely from data collected by the Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter and Spiri ...
  • Will transparency make us boring?
    I’ve long been a cheerleader for the sort of informational transparency that our increasingly wired world seems to encourage, if not make inevitable. After all, surely a world where it’s harder for those in power or authority to lie to us behind our backs is an improvement on the status quo, rig ...
  • One hundred thousand garages: the distributed futu ...
    As Cory Doctorow’s new novel Makers is being serialised over at Tor.com, reality seems to be doing its best to catch up with the ideas he’s based it upon. Fabbaloo points us to the 100kGarages.com project, a collaboration between citizen-fabbing startup Ponoko and the CNC router company ShopBot ...
  • Alabama vs. the Evil Weed
    Battle-lines are being drawn down in Alabama for a $6million war against an alien invader. It’s tough, burns only at very high temperatures and almost completely inedible by natives… it’s cogongrass, the “Perfect Weed”, and if it’s not stopped it could wreck the ecosystem as well as regi ...

Therapy News

  • LSD Research Resumes for Anxiety
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Most people familiar with the substance LSD probably associate the drug with the psychedelic counter-culture of the 1960’s and 70’s, when recreational use was popular. But the drug and its maker had other hopes for LSD as well, hoping to see it prove useful medica ...
  • Marriage Counseling for the “You Just Don’t Un ...
    By Jim Hutt, Ph.D. Click here to contact Jim and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Your conflicts sometimes lead to painful or bitter fights. When all is said and done after your difference du jour, you both feel frustrated, hurt, dejected and misunderstood. You both know you will repeat your fa ...
  • Washington D.C. Mental Health Unions Sue Against P ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Mental health services in the nation’s capital have long experienced a need for reorganization and improvement, efforts which were given a great deal of aid when the district was ordered to provide public services to its residents in the past. But an intense push to ...
  • Study Shows Different Parts of Population Perceive ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Cognitive health is one of the most exciting and fascinating fields of modern science –that is, if you’re interested in how the mind works in the first place, or if you’re connected with the resources to learn about advances make in the past and the directions ...
  • Eight Million Americans Consider Suicide Each Year
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though suicide can be devastating to friends and loved ones when it occurs, a brief look at statistics shows that around thirty two thousand people commit suicide in the United States each year –a number that, while reflecting tragic events, seems fairly small ne ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Coal unsafe, expensive when used as energy (East T ...
    Living in Appalachia, it's hard to believe that anyone in the region believes that coal is a viable source of energy for the present, let alone for the future. Less than a year ago in Harriman, Tenn., a coal slurry at a Tennessee Valley Authority coal-fired power plant broke.
  • ICE awarded for 'leadership excellence in campus s ...
    An action-packed week of activities will begin for the ETSU community on Sept. 24, as Initiative for Clean Energy holds this year's first environmental awareness event on campus. Beginning at 7 p.m. on Thursday, the first of a series of environmental films will play at the Ball Hall Auditorium, Room ...
  • 14 arrested in Greenpeace bridge stunts as G-20 de ...
    Fourteen activists from Greenpeace trying to send a "message to the leaders of the G-20" were arrested scaling two key city bridges Wednesday as authorities continued to bulk up security with extra officers for today's economic summit.
  • Corps of Engineers granted delay to reconsider mou ...
    HUNTINGTON -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been given more time to consider suspending or revoking a permit issued for a West Virginia surface mine in 2007.
  • 14 arrested in Greenpeace bridge stunts as G-20 de ...
    Fourteen activists from Greenpeace trying to send a "message to the leaders of the G-20" were arrested scaling two key city bridges Wednesday as authorities continued to bulk up security with extra officers for today's economic summit.

Memeorandum

  • Man arrested in alleged attempt to bomb Dallas sky ...
    Dallas Morning News : Man arrested in alleged attempt to bomb Dallas skyscraper   —  Staff reports  —  Federal authorities arrested a 19-year-old Jordanian citizen whom they said placed an inactive car bomb today at Fountain Place, a 60-story skyscraper in downtown Dallas.
  • 9/24: NY Voters to Obama, "Mind Your Business" (Ma ...
    Marist Poll : 9/24: NY Voters to Obama, “Mind Your Business”   —  The White House is urging Governor David Paterson not to run for office next year, but what do New York State voters think?  62% say the Obama Administration is wrong to suggest the governor should not run while 27% think W ...
  • Pelosi shoots down public option 'trigger' (Mike S ...
    Mike Soraghan / The Hill : Pelosi shoots down public option ‘trigger’   —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday shot down a healthcare compromise that has been viewed as the best chance for getting a bipartisan bill through the Senate.  —  Pelosi (D-Calif.) rejected the idea of a “t ...
  • Palin breaks with McCain on F-22 cuts (Ben Smith/B ...
    Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog : Palin breaks with McCain on F-22 cuts   —  Sarah Palin, outlying her “common sense conservative” foreign policy views in Hong Kong yesterday, denounced her former running mate's push to cut new F-22 Raptor fighter jets, an efficiency move in which Senator John ...
  • Finance Fireworks - Cutting Benefits vs. a Govt. T ...
    The Note : Finance Fireworks - Cutting Benefits vs. a Govt. Takeover   —  ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports:  —  Tempers flared this morning as the Senate Finance Committee continues to slog through its mark up of a sweeping health care reform bill.  —  Sen. Max Baucus, who chairs the Financ ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Hu speaks — what next?
    How did the experts respond to Hu Jintao’s speech on climate change? Julian L Wong sees China sending a strong message. Isabel Hilton writes that obstacles remain on the road to Copenhagen. “China is sending a strong message” – Julian L Wong President Hu Jintao of China announced that Ch ...
  • Toward low-carbon competitiveness
    As world leaders meet in Pittsburgh, a new report from E3G and the Climate Institute explains how the G20 nations can adapt to a carbon-constrained world and create prosperity for their citizens. A concerted global effort to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions will be required if a global average temper ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Telco Spy Immunity Up for Grabs
    Lawmakers are considering key changes to the Patriot Act and other spy laws – proposals that could give new life to lawsuits accusing the nation’s telecommunications companies of turning over Americans’ electronic communications to the government without warrants. President Barack Obama sup ...
  • Online Conspiracy Theories Latch Onto Census GPS U ...
    The hanging death of a Kentucky census worker is likely to raise tensions among counters in the 2010 census, who have already been the focus of emotionally-charged online rhetoric this year because they use GPS. Internet conspiracy theories have grown in recent months over the fact that census worke ...
  • Plea Deal Clears Intelligence Analyst of Felony Ha ...
    Federal prosecutors dropped a felony hacking charge Thursday against a Defense Department intelligence analyst who poked around in a system involved in a national terrorism investigation. The analyst, Brian Keith Montgomery, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge instead, settling the case and makin ...
  • Obama Stands Behind ‘State Secrets’ in Spy Cas ...
    SAN FRANCISCO – Hours after the Justice Department announced it would limit its use of the state secrets privilege in new cases, the administration appeared before a federal judge here Wednesday and continued to invoke that defense in a closely watched spy case. The litigation at issue, now five y ...
  • Obama Issues Limits on ‘State Secrets Privilegeâ ...
    The Obama administration announced new limits Wednesday on the so-called state secrets privilege used by the government to scuttle lawsuits that involve classified information, adding layers of oversight to a power that both the Bush and Obama administration has used to kill off lawsuits challenging ...

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Godspace

  • Maybe Religion is the Answer Claims Atheist Scient ...
    Late yesterday afternoon I took a break from my usual activities and followed some of the fun and interesting links that I had come across in the last few days.  Yes that is the kind of thing that I do for relaxation. Most of them explore different aspects of autumn (sorry to my readers in the [... ...
  • Rhythms of Grace Workshop in Adelaide
    One of the things that I am really looking forward to while Tom & I are in Australia is the opportunity to conduct a Rhythms of Grace workshop at Tabor College in Adelaide. Retreat Theme Jesus said: Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay ...
  • What Is A Spiritual Practice: The Complete Series
    September is rapidly coming to a close or at least is seems so to me because we will be heading to Australia next week – for once heading into spring and not winter on our travels.  Before I go I wanted to round off the summer blog series What is a Spiritual Practice with a [...]
  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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 ...

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  • Hey Norfolk! Turn Out to See "Rethink Afghanistan! ...
    October 7, 2009 begins the NINTH YEAR!!! of the United States (undeclared) War in Afghanistan. This war has gone on longer than any war in United States history, with the exception of the (undeclared) War in Vietnam. Please come to OffBase in Norfolk for a FREE SCREENING of Brave New Films very, ...
  • Obama Leads Security Council Session on Sidelines ...
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  • Andy Card Unwelcomed in Kansas City
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  • Rep. Alan Grayson Does Alex Jones
    Freshman Democrat Alan Grayson, a bit of an iconoclast who’s backing Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) “Audit the Fed” bill, appeared on the out-there Alex Jones show to talk up that and his investigations of contractor fraud — see TWI’s Spencer Ackerman for more on that. Jones is a boisterous c ...
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CowBoss' Brain Food

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    CLINTON — After more than a year of negotiations, cattle brain and spinal cord material could start coming to the Clinton County landfill next week, according to recent action by the Clinton County Area Solid Waste Agency board. Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it ...
  • Mercury danger in dolphin meat
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  • The Georgia Guidestones
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  • Fazlullah may be captured
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  • Fazlullah may be captured
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    High winds are sweeping millions of tons of red dust from Australia's drought-ravaged interior, causing a red hued dust storm in Sydney. Related posts: New High Res Photos From the Refurbished Hubble Telescope Tropical Storm Kyle Live Radar White House Farmers Market a Success. Photos and Story b ...
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Inhabitat

  • The Bigger Picture: A Festival of Interdependence
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Scoop - NZ

  • Kabul: Largest CIA Station In History
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  • Suspected Trojan war era couple found.
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  • LAT: CIA expanding Afghan presence
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Independent ( London )

  • Warning to Iran over secret nuclear plant
    US President Barack Obama delivered a stark warning to Iran today after it was found to be developing a secret nuclear site.
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  • British man convicted of killing fellow expat
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  • Officials say Iran has second enrichment plant
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  • Five US troops killed in Afghan attacks
    The military says five US troops have died in attacks in southern Afghanistan, where American and Nato forces have ramped up operations against the Taliban.

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  • Netanyahu Leads Calls for Harsh Moves Against Iran
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  • Iran offers U.S. access to its nuclear scientists
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  • Little Hope for Progress in US-Iran Talks
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  • 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

The Daily Galaxy

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Natural News

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    (NaturalNews) In spite of claims by pharmaceutical companies that they do not discharge their products into the water supply, federal researchers have discovered that waters downstream of pharmaceutical plants are more heavily contaminated with drug residue than waters elsewhere in the country. In o ...

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TheGallopingBeaver

  • Handy Hallmark
    Believe me, I am grateful. It saves me so much time and trouble in listening to government officials, to know that once they use the word "academic" as an epithet I can stop listening at once and go take a shower instead. In their minds, "academic" means "someone who spends their whole working lif ...
  • Finally . . . .
    (Updated below) Finally, some good news out of Iraq, by way of McClatchy : Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush released to hero's welcome Hannah Allam | McClatchy Newspapers | September 15, 2009 BAGHDAD, Iraq — The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at then-President George W. Bush last year was f ...
  • Stealth Public Option . . . .
    This one from SF Gate is too good to edit or trim down: The menace of the public option M.C. Blakeman | Saturday, September 19, 2009 Of all the current assaults on our noble republic, perhaps none is more dangerous than the public option - specifically, the public library option. For far too l ...
  • well played, douche bag, well played
    You have to hand it to the Republicans, they know how to play the press and work the rubes. Obama gives a major speech to Congress in which he lays out what he want to see in a health care bill and how important it is that U.S. fix its health care system right now - important stuff, no doubt about i ...
  • Cue the screeching brakes
    So, I'm doing my usual morning news surf finding the usual stuff - war, famine, disease and politics and I notice this story about a memorial for Walter Cronkite at the Lincoln Center: Obama spoke and called for journalists to do a better job. Bill Clinton talked about Walter offering to take him sa ...

Media Matters for America

  • Hannity, Breitbart lead conservative media fundra ...
    On the heels of ACORN filing a lawsuit against conservative activists Hannah Giles, James O'Keefe, and Breitbart.com LLC, Sean Hannity, Andrew Breitbart, HotAir.com's Allahpundit, and NewsBusters have offered to -- in the words of Hannity -- "put out the word" to "help" Giles and O'Keefe raise ...
  • More witch-hunting: Fox News targets "safe school ...
    In its Glenn Beck-driven witch hunt for "czars" in the Obama administration, Fox News has turned its attention to attacking Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools director Kevin Jennings, with Sean Hannity and Fox & Friends asking whether Jennings should be "fired" and whether he is "the guy for ...
  • LA Times report further undermines ACORN ...
    On September 23, Los Angeles Times media critic James Rainey reported that ACORN official Lavelle Stewart "told me this week" that when conservative videographers James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles came to Stewart's ACORN office in Los Angeles disguised as a pimp and prostitute, Stewart "tried to g ...
  • Following coverage by Beck, media conservatives b ...
    Advancing Glenn Beck's and Andrew Breitbart's aggressive promotion of an August 10 conference call, Fox News' Gretchen Carlson and conservative columnist Ben Shapiro have alleged that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) broke laws against lobbying and electioneering during the secretly ta ...
  • New low: Beck and right-wing media minions fearmo ...
    Glenn Beck and other right-wing media figures have recently fearmongered about how President Obama and progressive policies will harm children; among other things, Beck and these other media figures have repeatedly accused Obama of "indoctrinating" school children, aired unauthorized videos of ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Exposing The Emotional Landscape
    The most difficult work a journalist can take on is an emotional autopsy of a tragedy. The breadth of the Columbine horror and its damage on the psyches of a community and nation makes this a torturous assignment. But... Sponsored Topics: Columbine - Autopsy - Violence and Abuse - School - Incid ...
  • News from the UN: Obama Rejects Pentagon Hawks on ...
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  • Obama Tells UN He Is Determined To End Israeli Occ ...
    Anyone who thought that President Obama was backing away from his commitment to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by moving away from the emphasis on a settlement freeze has already been proven wrong. In a speech to the United Nations General... Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - Middle East - ...
  • 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 ...

TruthOut

  • Where Is the Defund Blackwater Act?
         Democrats joined Republicans in voting to "Defund ACORN," yet have done nothing to stop Blackwater’s ongoing taxpayer funded crusade in Iraq and Afghanistan.     Republican Congressional leaders are continuing their witch-hunt against ACORN, the grassroots community group dedicated to helpin ...
  • UN Unanimously Backs Obama's Nuclear Disarmament G ...
        United Nations - With President Barack Obama in the chair at an unprecedented meeting of the U.N. read more
  • Administration Won't Seek New Detention System
        The Obama administration has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new system of preventive detention to hold terrorism suspects and will instead rely on a 2001 congressional resolution authorizing military force against al-Qaeda and the Taliban to continue to detain people indefinitely ...
  • Bush's Wiretapping Goes to Court in SF
        San Francisco - After years of wrangling over legal procedures, the lawyer for a defunct Islamic charity laid out his case Wednesday that former President George W. Bush's secret wiretapping program was illegal - an argument that an Obama administration attorney refused to discuss.     "May the ...
  • The Mess Left Behind
    Graffiti artwork of former President George W. Bush. (Photo: JonnyC / Flickr )read more

The Heathlander

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

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TruthHugger

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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Amigo, Can You Spare a BTU?
    Subheadline:  Mexican Peasants Pay the Price for U.S. Energy Consumption Outside Author Bio:  Daniel Moss is a Grassroots International consultant who spent a year living and working in Oaxaca ...
  • 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 ...

Climate

  • September 25, 2009
    California Sets Biggest Energy Efficiency Plan (Reuters) California has approved the most aggressive energy efficiency plan in the nation, earmarking $3.1 billion to retrofit homes and other programs that will cut power needs equivalent to three power plants. Planned Emission Cuts Still Mean F ...
  • September 24, 2009
    Court Decision Threatens to Unravel EU Carbon Market (EurActiv) In a decision that threatens to scupper Europe's cap and trade scheme, the Court of First Instance annulled the European Commission's decision to lower the carbon emission quotas of Estonia and Poland. Hu's Carbon Commitment Marks ...
  • 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) ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: A Military That Wants Its Way
    How to Trap a President in a Losing War Petraeus, McChrystal, and the Surgettes By Tom Engelhardt Front and center in the debate over the Afghan War these days are General Stanley "Stan" McChrystal, Afghan war commander, whose "classified, pre-decisional" and devastating report -- almost eight y ...
  • 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 ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Dumping Dubya: Why The Regressive Right Desperate ...
    Hey, wasn't that George W. Bush presidency really fantastic? You do still remember it, don't you? Wasn't it great? Don't you have lots of warm and fuzzy memories of it? Isn't it a shame that he couldn't have a third term? Okay, so maybe you don't see it that way. Maybe the last eight years weren' ...
  • SWINE: Why Are Insurers Blocking H1N1 Treatment Pr ...
    NEW YORK--I got swine flu. Five days later, I was at death's door--because my evil insurance company wouldn't honor my doctor's prescription. Memo to future revolutionaries: if you require a firing squad for the executives of the Health Insurance Plan (HIP) of New York, I'm handy with a rifle. I was ...
  • Desperately Seeking Snowe
    There is a great misunderstanding as to why the Democrats are desperately seeking out Olympia Snowe to make a deal with on health care. It's not that they believe that if they get one Republican vote they can call the bill bipartisan. No one believes that's credible. And they actually don't need her ...
  • Poor Health
    One of the most stunning parts of the debate about health-care reform is how often the plight of the poor gets shut out of the discussion. This is understandable, if still unconscionable. If the squeaky wheel gets the grease, then the wealthy own the wheel, the tires, the car, most of the roads, and ...
  • Your electronic vote in the 2010 election has just ...
    by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman Unless US Attorney General Eric Holder intervenes, your electronic vote in 2010 will probably be owned by the Republican-connected ES&S Corporation. With 80% ownership of America's electronic voting machines, ES&S could have the power to shape America's future wit ...

Ten Percent

  • G20 Shindig
    Use of force was authorized against G20 protesters in Pittsburgh this afternoon. Indymedia Pittsburgh
  • War Never Ends
    The number of former servicemen in prison or on probation or parole is now more than double the total British deployment in Afghanistan, according to a new survey. An estimated 20,000 veterans are in the criminal justice system, with 8,500 behind bars, almost one in 10 of the prison population. The ...
  • Hmmm
    I agree with the principle, sanctions and negotiations but in reality does that mean- we want to counter China’s influence, get some of our own and human rights can go hang. I shall judge on results. New strategy will involve high-level engagement with Burmese leaders while keeping sanctions in pl ...
  • How to Trap a President in a Losing War
    Latest By Tom Engelhardt is worth reading, (though how much Obama really disfavours war I think is debatable) empires always become a support mechanism for a military parasite, an army with a rump -increasingly undemocratic- homeland attached. A simple anecdotal survey of the ubiquity of the Support ...
  • And They Also Have Tasers Now…
    Thames Valley Police has been fined £40,000 for breaching health and safety laws when a civilian worker was accidentally shot. Pc David Micklethwaite, 52, shot control room employee Keith Tilbury, 57, during a firearms awareness course in Oxfordshire on 30 May 2007. It was revealed at Southwark C ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Volcker Locks and Unloads on Wall Street and Washi ...
    I find it interesting, but not surprising, that former Fed Chair Paul Volcker’s testimony to Congress this morning has received little to no coverage by major media outlets. Why? With few exceptions, the financial media plays along with the financial industry which pays the bills while relegating ...
  • Late-Night Only: The Most Insane Stuff
    Hoist a few first. Then read these: DISTURBING, BONKERS, AND IRRATIONAL: Michael Jackson hailed Hitler as a ‘genius’ in lost tape… COWARDS FALL ON THEIR KNEES BEFORE QUEEN NANCY: Blue Dog Opposition To Public Option Fades In Whip Count — Blocking a public health insurance option ...
  • Children Singing In Praise Of The One
    You are not going to believe this video below. I don’t care what your political persuasion is, this should ring alarm bills, raise red flags, and generally cause major concern. If this isn’t indoctrination, I don’t know what is: Here are the words, in case you can’t understand them: Ba ...
  • John Edwards Is Told Where To Get Off…
    I would not typically publish a further smack-down to a smack-down. But every now and then, something is written that is so spot on, it requires further highlight and big hooting Brava! Susan Estrich today published just such a piece telling Senator John Edwards what he ought to be doing. Here’ ...
  • Seven Former CIA Directors Want To Bury The Truth
    Reprinted from The Public Record (pubrecord.org) with the express permission of author Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this article. Last week, seven former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency, who made their own contributions to the CIA’s low esteem over the past 35 years, ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

  • Hannity, Pimpin’ for Hannah Giles’ Legal Defen ...
    Read the full story at News Hounds I usually can’t stomach Sean Hannity, even for a minute – the honor of watching Hannity is usually left to News Hounds’ resident nerves-of-steel, Ellen – but last night I inadvertently watched him for a brief moment, and caught ACORN-buster, maybe- ...
  • Brave New Films Wants Your Help Remaking Cigna’s ...
    Read the full story at News Hounds Filmmaker Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Films team write: CIGNA says they are ‘A Business of Caring,’ but the reality is that they are getting filthy rich by denying basic coverage, especially to those patients that need it the most. Sick for Profit launch ...
  • Flu Nightmare: Patients Could be Denied Ventilator ...
    Read the full story at MoJo Articles This story first appeared at ProPublica. With scant public input, state and federal officials are pushing ahead with plans that—during a severe flu outbreak—would deny use of scarce ventilators by some patients to assure they would be available for patients j ...
  • Mt. Vernon city council distances itself from mayo ...
    Read the full story at Think Progress On September 26, Bud Norris, the mayor of Mt. Vernon, WA, will award the ceremonial key to the city to Glenn Beck, who grew up there. Norris’ decision to declare “Glenn Beck Day” has led to demonstrations “on the streets and in city council meetings over ...
  • Rove Says ‘Obama Doesn’t Need More TV Time,’ ...
    Read the full story at Think Progress In his WSJ op-ed today, which the paper headlined “The President Risks Getting Stale: Continuous TV appearances can’t rescue a bad argument,” former Bush adviser Karl Rove criticized President Obama’s interviews on five Sunday morning talk shows this pas ...

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Reuters - Most Popular Articles

Pine River World News

  • [Full text:] Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ...
    Source:  UN via Payvand News, Iran Permanent Mission to the United Nations 64th Session of the United Nations General Assembly 23 September 2009 In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful "All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Universe, and peace and blessing be upon our Master and Pro ...
  • 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 ...

MSM Blogging

Res'Eau-WaterNet

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

  • Public Health Importance of Non-O157 Shiga Toxin- ...
  • From God's, errr Delish's Eric Burkett's, lips to ...
    Eric first called out Marion Nestle’s famous site – Food Politics . He then gave Food Safety News the following tip o’ the pen: The second site – Foodsafetynews.com – is a new effort by lawyer and food safety expert, Bill Marler. At first glance, it would be easy to dismiss Marler because ...
  • Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund Loses Bid to K ...
    In our Raw Milk Litigation in Missouri, Defendants and the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund tried to keep from the public documents it appears that it rather keep secret.  The Judge did not agree.
  • 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 ...

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

  • Piecing together smart cameras at DemoFall 09
    The Viaas camera (Credit: Third Iris) At Demo on Tuesday, Third Iris pitched Viaas , a video-monitoring system for business that's simple to install and use. Plug the cameras into just an Ethernet cable (if it's enabled for Power-over-Ethernet, that is), log into the Viaas Web site, and you ...
  • Time for Demo to change--a lot
    The 13-year reign of Chris Shipley as the Diva of Demo is coming to an end. The writer, consultant, and longtime content chief of the conference series, started in 1991 by Stewart Alsop, is leaving the show. Demo is now coming under the direction of Matt Marshall, founding editor of the Venture Be ...
  • 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, ...

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!

  • Coming Up: Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai
    Nobel Peace Prize-winning Kenyan environmentalist, lawmaker and civil society activist, Wangari Maathai joins us Friday in our firehouse studio. See previous Democracy Now! interviews: 4/10/09–The Challenge for Africa: Wangari Maathai on Obama, Climate Change and War 10/1/07–Unbowed: Wang ...
  • Obama Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom
    President Obama presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to 16 people in a ceremony today at the White House. Check out Democracy Now!’s past interviews with some of those who received the award: * Rev. Joseph Lowery * Mary Robinson * Archbishop ...
  • "Health Care Reform Needs an Action Hero"
    Imagine the scene. America 2009. Eighteen thousand people have died in one year, an average of almost 50 a day. Who’s taking them out? What’s killing them? To investigate, President Barack Obama might be tempted to call on Jack Bauer, the fictional rogue intelligence agent from the hit TV seri ...
  • Sexual terrorism in Congo
    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday and called on the Congolese government to do more to stamp out rape. One of the people Clinton met with is Christine Schuler Deschryver, a Congolese human rights activist. She lives in Bukavu in the east ...
  • Greg Grandin Fact Checks Lanny Davis on Honduras
    We recently hosted a debate between Latin America historian and New York University professor Greg Grandin and Lanny Davis, a former special counsel to President Clinton who’s now a paid lobbyist for Honduran business leaders backing the coup government. A few days after the debate, Grandin pos ...

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Any Day Now, as the Song Goes
    By Les Visible The Perfect Storm approaches as reptile leaders Netanyahoo, Barak and Peres plan out the critical false flag event that they will need to force America into attacking Iran for them, just as they did with Afghanistan and Iraq. Iran has no nuclear weapons program, Israel does and Israel ...
  • VIDEO – IMMUNOCONTRACEPTIVE HIDDEN IN THE FL ...
    Just when you thought that the vaccine plan couldn’t get more insidious…think again…
  • Earth approaching sunspot records
    OK, let me get this straight.  Lack of sunspots leads to cooler weather but any warming is caused by people and their carbon??? By Corey Jones But the sun’s recent activity, or lack thereof, may be linked to the pleasant summer temperatures the midwest has enjoyed this year, said Charlie Perry, ...
  • Unearthed video: Global warming alarmist Stephen â ...
    The episode in question, titled, The Coming Ice Age, has much that is worthy of discussion, and features several scientists warning of a coming ice age, including Dr. Gifford Miller, Chester Langway, and  Dr. James Hays.  But for the purposes of this post I’ll focus on Stephen Schneider who is f ...
  • Climate deal failure ‘could mean war’
    Carbon credits lead to war or, rather, lack of carbon credits leads to war???  You couldn’t make this stuff up… IF the world fails to reach agreement on tackling climate change soon then it could end in war, climate scientist Tim Flannery has warned. Like many others, he is concerned at a la ...

Cognitive Research - Sciences

Care2 Picks

  • CIA Experiments on US Soldiers Linked to Torture P ...
    illegal human experimentation on US-held "terrorism" prisoners undergoing torture experiments by a CIA researcher on human subjects undergoing SERE training went unreported Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • World's last great forest under threat: new study
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