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IPS - Inter Press Services

• MALAYSIA: Gov’t Urged to Stem the Tide of C ...
  
  KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 27 (IPS) - "My family was starving. . . . I was sold to people who brought me here to work and feed my family back home," said Ah Mun, a victim of child trafficking.
  
  
  
• ARGENTINA: New Voice for Sexual Minorities
  
  BUENOS AIRES, Sep 26 (IPS) - A monthly magazine published by an Argentine umbrella group of some thirty organisations of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans (LGBTs) seeks to become a major communications channel for the community and an instrument for disseminating the actions that sexual minori ...
  
  
  
• RIGHTS: Shelters Open for Battered Husbands
  
  JAGODINA, Central Serbia, Sep 26 (IPS) - One in three women is ill-treated by someone or other in family homes, survey after survey shows. And so the total of three men living in shelter in a small home for battered husbands may seem unmentionably small in comparison.
  
  
  
• RIGHTS-AFRICA: Uganda women seek gender recovery ...
  
  KAMPALA, Sep 26 (IPS) - After two decades of war during which thousands of children were used as child soldiers and many women raped, Northern Uganda’s recovery plan is to be spent on building roads rather than helping the country’s most vulnerable.
  
  
  
• SOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA: Summit for South-South Coop ...
  
  PORLAMAR, Venezuela, Sep 25 (IPS) - South American and African leaders are meeting over the weekend on the Caribbean island of Margarita in their second summit in three years, to forge stronger cooperation between the two regions and discuss their positions with regard to a number of pressing i ...
  
  
  

The Intelligence Daily

• Video: Military arrest at G20 - very scary!
  
  
  
  
  
• Brazil's President: Without political will, we wil ...
  
  
  
  
  
• Zelaya warns of assassination plots
  
  
  
  
  
• Brazilian president urges Zelaya's return to power
  
  
  
  
  
• Brazil defends Iran nuclear rights
  
  
  
  
  

My AntiWar

• Enough Rope Yet?
  
  Summary: Security CouncilBefore President Obama persuaded the UN Security Council to adopt his Resolution 1887, which prominently notes that “enjoyment of the benefits of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons by a State Party can be assured only by its compliance with the obligation ...
  
  
  
• Iran to put new uranium plant under IAEA supervisi ...
  
  Summary: TEHRAN (AFP) ? Iran said on Saturday it will put its newly disclosed uranium enrichment plant under the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog, in a move welcomed by the United States. source: AFPread more
  
  
  
• Diverse Sources Fund Insurgency in Afghanistan
• Wartime Soldier, Conflicted Mom
• Afghanistan Troop Request Splits Obama Advisers

Rogue Government.com

• TSA & GOP Rep Square Off Over Airport Body Sc ...
  
  
  
  
  
• U.S. Large-Loan Bank Losses Triple to $53 Billion ...
  
  U.S. regulators said total losses from large loans at banks and other financial institutions nearly tripled to $53 billion in 2009, due to a deteriorating economic environment and continued weak underwriting standards.
  
  
  
• U.S. Intelligence Budget: $75 Billion, 200,000 Op ...
  
  Speaking at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club September 15, Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis C. Blair, disclosed that the current annual budget for the 16 agency U.S. "Intelligence Community" (IC) clocks-in at $75 billion and employs some 200,000 operatives world-wide, including pri ...
  
  
  
• Federal Reserve General Counsel Scott Alvarez Thr ...
  
  Federal Reserve General Counsel Scott Alvarez said audits of monetary policy by the U.S. Congress could lead to higher interest rates and reduced confidence in central bank policy.
  
  
  
• Bin Laden Demands Europe Withdraw Troops From Afg ...
  
  Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden demanded that European nations withdraw their troops from Afghanistan in a new audio tape aired on Friday, saying they were sacrificing men and money in an unjust U.S.-led war.
  
  
  

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

• Iran successfully tests multi-missile launching sy ...
  
  The Islamic republic of Iran has successfully tested a multi-missile launching system in a military drill dubbed The Great Prophet IV in a bid to bolster its defense capabilities, Press TV has learned. The system which is capable of launching several home made Zelzal rockets simultaneously has succ ...
  
  
  
• Long-range Democracy: US drone hits political part ...
  
  A US reconnaissance drone has crashed into the office of one of Iraq's biggest political parties, the US military has said. The drone struck the local office of the Iraqi Islamic Party, Iraq's biggest Sunni Arab political group in the northern city of Mosul on Saturday, Reuters reported. Major Der ...
  
  
  
• Two Guantanamo prisoners sent to Ireland
  
  The US Justice Department has confirmed that two former Guantanamo Bay prisoners have been sent to Ireland. The names of the two men have not been released but both are from Uzbekistan. It's part of US President Barack Obama's plan to close the Cuban detention centre by next January. In July the ...
  
  
  
• Huge blast kills 6, injures 10 in Pakistan
  
  Six people have been reportedly killed and over ten others injured in a car bomb attack on a main road leading to the primary army compound in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar. The bomb exploded in a commercial area, AP quoted police as saying. The blast of could be heard all around, say p ...
  
  
  
• Britain's top officer secretly visited Israeli war ...
  
  The Chief of the General Staff of Britain's armed forces is reported to have visited Israel quietly last week at the invitation of his Israeli counterpart. General Sir David Richards met Israel's General Gabi Ashkenazi on September 22 and 23, according to a report by the Israeli daily Haaretz on Se ...
  
  
  

Threat Level

• Judge Orders Gmail Account Deactivated After Bank ...
  
  A California federal judge has ordered Google to temporarily de-activate a Gmail account after a bank mistakenly sent sensitive data to the account. U.S. District Judge James Ware also ordered Google to disclose the identity of the Gmail account holder. The Rocky Mountain Bank of Wyoming sued Googl ...
  
  
  
• Obama Appoints Scholar as New Copyright Czar
  
  The “copyleft” and the “copyright” are both applauding the presidential appointment Friday of Victoria A. Espinel to become the nation’s first copyright czar. Congress created the new czar position last year as part of intellectual property reform legislation. Espinel, who requires Senate ...
  
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
  

PERRspectives : Blog

• Obama, Iran and the Echoes of the Cuban Missile Cr ...
  
  To be sure, the growing tensions - and stakes - over the Iranian nuclear program are different in kind and degree from the brinksmanship of the Cuban Missile Crisis 47 years ago. But events of the past week have stirred...
  
  
  
• The False Equivalence of the Birther vs. Truther P ...
  
  Among the most discussed if least enlightening polls in recent months is the PPP survey revealing that Republican "birthers" far outnumber Democratic "truthers." That is, there are many more delusional right-wingers who doubt President Obama was born in the United...
  
  
  
• "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,...
  
  
  
• Michael Steele's Problems with Dr. King Continue
  
  Speaking at Philander Smith College in Little Rock Monday, RNC Chairman Michael Steele declared, "Dr. King would be disappointed in the political leadership of this country for failing to address the least of us." But while Steele denied "we're all...
  
  
  
• Will GOP Call for Prosecution of McChrystal Report ...
  
  One day after the Washington Post's Bob Woodward published the confidential McChrystal report on Afghanistan, the Politico asked, "Who leaked and why?" But while the article speculates on the identity and motivation of the leaker, one issue - the punishment...
  
  
  

Blackspot News Feed

• Links for 2009-09-25
  
  Sword Heaven on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads (tags: music ) Brain Scans Reveal What You?ve Seen | Wired Science | Wired.com "Scientists are one step closer to knowing what you?ve seen by reading your mind." (tags: sci neuro )
  
  
  
• Edmonds Issues Formal Response to Schakowskys Deni ...
  
  by Brad FriedmanThe Brad BlogSept 24, 2009Formerly-gagged FBI translator/whistleblower invites Congresswoman to ‘pursue facts’ of the case, use her position as member of House Intel Committee to find the truth about allegations of bribery, blackmail, nuclear espionageUPDATED: Schakowsky’s offi ...
  
  
  
• American Conservative: Sibel Edmonds by Luke Rylan ...
  
  by Luke RylandFeatured WriterDandelion SaladLukes blog post Sept. 22, 2009September 26, 2009American Conservative magazine has a new cover story interview with Sibel Edmonds. Congratulations to Phil Giraldi and Sibel.From 2-4 Eastern, Tuesday, Scott Horton will interview Phil Giraldi, David Rose and ...
  
  
  
• U.S. Launches War Against ... the Brits!
  
  Ok, not a conventional war with bullets and all that.
  
  
  
• Report: Good Immigration Policy Helps the Middle C ...
  
  Some of us already knew that.
  
  
  

Consortium News

• The Mystique of 'Free Market' Obama
  
  As the Left debates the "real" Barack Obama, media critic Jeff Cohen is troubled by the President's "free market" paeans. September 26, 2009
  
  
  
• An Insider's View of ACORN
  
  Writer-activist David Swanson explains why the Right despises ACORN --for its aggressive defense of poor communities. September 26, 2009
  
  
  
• The Republican War on ACORN
  
  The stampede trampling the poor people's group ACORN ignores the long GOP campaign of dirty tricks, says Jason Leopold. September 25, 2009
  
  
  
• WPost Blasts Obama's Missile Reversal
  
  Washington Post neocons are mad that President Obama scrapped a missile shield near Russia, writes Melvin A. Goodman. September 24, 2009
  
  
  
• Why Obama Must Demand Openness
  
  President Obama faces pressure to stop a CIA torture inquiry when he should broaden the probe, says Melvin A. Goodman. September 24, 2009
  
  
  

CounterPunch

• Alexander Cockburn : The Ruin of His Presidency
• Mike Roselle : Send Lawyers, Guns and Money
• Eshan Azari : Why Afghan Intellectuals Live in Nat ...
• Winslow T. Wheeler : The Pentagon Feedlot
• Robert Jensen : Is Obama a Socialist?

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Palestinian TV airs daring satire (Joshua Mitnick ...
  
  On "Saturday Night Live," which has long parodied politicians ranging from Jimmy Carter to Sarah Palin, these characters would be well within bounds: An Islamist judge who is a latent homosexual. A negotiato ...
  
  
  
• How Israel suppresses opposition to Its annexation ...
  
  Established in 1992, the Addameer (Arabic for conscience) Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association helps Palestinian prisoners, and works to end torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, other forms o ...
  
  
  
• Gunshots disrupt Gaza funeral (Al Jazeera)
  
  Five people have been injured after shots were fired at a funeral in Gaza City for two of three Palestinians killed in an Israeli air raid, Palestinian medical sources have said. The gunshots rang out from a ...
  
  
  
• Jerusalem Palestinians defining their own future ...
  
  Almost a year ago a barely noticed event took place in Sawarha, a Palestinian neighbourhood in the Israeli-occupied part of the city. On that November day, Israeli Jerusalemites were voting in a new mayor an ...
  
  
  
• Palestinians seek observer status at WTO (John Za ...
  
  Still struggling to resume peace talks with Israel, the Palestinian Authority has launched a diplomatic blitz to win observer status at the World Trade Organization. "We are seeking observer status at the WT ...
  
  
  

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

• Great Mississippi Watershed Management Organizatio ...
  
  Good Fall afternoon! (bums me out to say that) Tomorrow I am giving a presentation at Ryan Companies
  
  
  
• State probes spill at gas-drilling site
  
  Here is another article by Tom Wilbur from the Star Gazette about the spill in Dimock, PA. http://ww
  
  
  
• Albion Dairy Purchase!
  
  Breaking news: The Los Angeles City Council is voting to purchase the 6.3-acre Albion Dairy site! Lo
  
  
  
• Frack Fluid Spill in Dimock Contaminates Stream
  
  Abrahm Lustgarten has written the below article and it can be found on the ProPublica site. The auth
  
  
  
• Humboldt Bay's guiding forces – candidate forum
  
  November, 2006, Samoa Beach (photo by Terrence McNally/Arcata Eye) Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation
  
  
  

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

• 2 US, 1 British troops killed in Afghanistan
  
  Two US and one British soldiers serving under ISAF command have been killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan, according to an official statement.
  
  
  
• ETA reiterates 'right' to armed conflict
  
  The Basque separatist group ETA has reiterated its 'right' to armed conflict with the Spanish government in its quest for independence.
  
  
  
• Gabon to recount disputed presidential vote
  
  The Constitutional Court of Gabon has ruled that all the votes from the country's August presidential election be recounted after protests on 'poll-fixing' turned ugly.
  
  
  
• Brazil urged to decide on Zelaya in 10 days
  
  The Honduran government has urged Brazil not to "instigate violence" in the country by giving protection to deposed President Manuel Zelaya.
  
  
  
• 'Iran plays by IAEA rules, West fails to score poi ...
  
  The head of Iran's nuclear program says the US and its allies labeled Tehran's newly-announced under-construction nuclear plant secretive while the themselves admit they knew about the plan.
  
  
  

Axis of Logic

• What We Can’t Conquer, We Buy
  
  
  
  
  
• President Chávez Press Conference at the UN yeste ...
  
  
  
  
  
• A Ventriloquist's Dummy Sings Karaoke
  
  
  
  
  
• Separatism and Class Politics in Latin America
  
  
  
  
  
• Iraq's September Eleven
  
  
  
  
  

They Gave Us a Republic

• Nightowl Newswrap
  
  How about applying this genius to domestic problems?  Like, oh, I don't know - health care reform?   Obama wins praise for orchestrating international condemnation of Iran's secret nuclear facility. Dozens dead in Phillipine floods  "The equivalent of a whole month's rain fell in six hours as Tropic ...
  
  
  
• Coal Ash Site List
  
  Part of my ongoing education about Big Coal.  When you see the map, you'll know why it hasn't been a primary issue for us west coast types.  It damned well ought to be.   Dear Tom, Toxic Coal Ash Needs More Restrictions Than Household Trash! Tell the EPA We Need Regulations to Protect Communities On ...
  
  
  
• Get Ahead of It This Time
  
  This summer, Blue Girl and I discussed starting a feature that instead of making fun of the latest repug beyond-insane lie about President Obama, would try to predict the next inocuous thing Limpballs would freak out over. Then came the Death Panels.  And we realized the fatal flaw in our plan: We t ...
  
  
  
• Repeat the lie enough and Faux News Channel viewer ...
  
  Cross posted from Show Me Progress More of the same about misinformation and the Faux News Channel .On health care reform - via Think Progress and the Great Orange Satan :First thoughts: Obama's good, bad news Posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:16 AM by Domenico Montanaro ....Here's another way to ...
  
  
  
• Not News, and That's a Crime
  
  If only the story Zach Roth of TPM brings us were unique.   Kimberly Young of Oxford, Ohio, died Wednesday morning a few days short of her 23rd birthday. Hospital officials have said she appeared to have the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu. But here's why Young's death is news beyond her southwe ...
  
  
  

Care 2

• Lionman accused of unlawfully retaining property a ...
  
  Northland's "Lion Man" Craig Busch unlawfully retained items of property when he was sacked from Whangarei's Zion Wildlife Gardens, an Employment Relations Authority meeting was told today. Mr Busch, 44, has dropped claims against Zion for reinstate Submitted by Simone D. to Business  |   Note- ...
  
  
  
• Big Dogs Make for a Big Rescue – VIDEO
  
  In Security, CO, two big, beautiful St. Bernards were out for a walk the other day and managed to get themselves in a watery jam. Seems they decided to explore a drainage ditch near Grand Blvd. and Aspen Dr. and wound up in chest high water and couldn’t Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-i ...
  
  
  
• The Dawg Squad
  
  The Dawg Squad is a non-profit 501(c) 3 corporation established according to California laws for public benefit. This all-volunteer organization is dedicated to improving the welfare of canines, with an emphasis on the homeless, abandoned and abused Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  
  
  
• Household Cleaning Hacks that Save You Money
  
  Here is an assortment of ways to get more bang for your cleaning buck and efforts. From making your own cleaning solutions, to ensuring your appliances are working optimally, most of these techniques below can be used with what you already have on hand. W Submitted by Daphna Jindrich to Green Lifest ...
  
  
  
• Eight puppies born in the back seat of Winnipeg po ...
  
  Two policeman had a pleasant surprise waiting for them when they returned to their cruiser – eight puppies born to a dog they had picked up to take to a shelter. The officer had picked up two dogs wandering in traffic at around 2:30 a.m. But while Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat  |   Note-it! ...
  
  
  

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

• German election live blog
  
  Welcome to the live blog of the German election. More than 50 Reuters correspondents, photographers and television crews in Berlin and across Germany will tracking the story throughout the weekend.
  
  
  
• Will former minister’s stab in the back hurt ...
  
  Wolfgang Clement, former deputy leader of Germany's centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), delivered an unexpected surprise on Friday by urging the public in a newspaper advertisement to vote for the SPD's bitter rival, the pro-business Free Democrats, two days before a national election.
  
  
  
• India, Pakistan and Afghanistan: the impossible tr ...
  
  General McChrystal has highlighted rivalry between India and Pakistan in Afghanistan in his leaked assessment of the Afghan war. But can Washington do much about it?
  
  
  
• West raises stakes over Iran nuclear programme
  
  President Obama and Western leaders have raised the stakes in the confrontation over Iran's nuclear programme by disclosing the existence of a new uranium enrichment plant. But their dramatic announcement, six days before crucial talks between Tehran and six major powers, raises more questions as it ...
  
  
  
• 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
  
  
  

Ezra Klein

• Tab Dump
  
  1) Don't forget to stop tipping your waiters . 2) More than half of all industry lobbyists working on health care formerly worked for the government . That includes 55 former congressmen. 3) A Moody's insider says the ratings agencies are back to their old tricks. 4) More thoughts on tipping . 5 ...
  
  
  
• Don't Read The Bill!
  
  The first amendment considered in the Senate Finance Committee's mark-up was Sen. Jim Bunning’s demand that the bill be converted into legislative language and the CBO take two to three weeks to render a full score before there's a vote. That's not how the Finance Committee works, and it's not ...
  
  
  
• Some Thoughts on Malpractice
  
  Shadowfax gets me wrong here . I don't hate doctors, or blame them for operating room errors. But I've read a substantial number of studies where doctors and nurses did blind evaluations of malpractice suits and overwhelmingly found them meritorious. Totally overwhelmingly. For instance : The most ...
  
  
  
• The Republican Pretext
  
  On June 17, Rep. Roy Blunt made a promise : "I guarantee you we will provide you with a [health care] bill." The "we" in that sentence referred to the House Republicans. But they've not united around a bill. Glenn Thrush sat down with Rep. Eric Cantor, a member of the House leadership, to ask why. ...
  
  
  
• The Best Argument Against the Public Option -- and ...
  
  Jane Hamsher has a quick roundup of the prospects for a public option being amended to the Finance Committee's bill. As she says, the proposal to watch is Chuck Schumer's "level playing field" proposal. But should it be? The relevant question for the public plan is whether it can use Medicare's pa ...
  
  
  

Booman Tribune

• Obama's Not Going to Escalate
  
  It appears that the administration is mainly working with the Washington Post in their effort to prep the country for a scale-down of our effort in Afghanistan. That is not to say that the Post is supportive of a scale-down. If anything, the case is the opposite. But, tonight, the Post has anothe ...
  
  
  
• Quote of the Day
  
  From Chuck Schumer: “One of the strongest arguments against a public option has been that the Republicans will never go for it,” Mr. Schumer said. “Well, the Baucus bill doesn’t have a public option, and they’re still not for it in any way, with the possible exception of Olympia Snowe,” a m ...
  
  
  
• Michelle Malkin - Ace Reporter
  
  Michelle Malkin, journalist par excellance, tracked down the infamous elementary school that dared to have a few kids sing the songs in this video back in February to celebrate Black History month: One wonders what would have happened had students been "coerced" into singing a song prais ...
  
  
  
• WSJ: Bad Advice for Harry Reid
  
  You don't need me to tell you that the Wall Street Journal editorial page is dishonest. But I will point it out anyway. In his piece about Harry Reid's poor polling numbers, Jim Carlton provides this explanation: According to an independent Mason-Dixon poll Aug. 23, Mr. Reid lagged behind Mr. T ...
  
  
  
• Frivolous Friday Open Thread
  
  In honor of all the nuts at the Electric Factory tonight celebrating Lebowski Fest. And, of course, the original. Eight year-olds, Dude.
  
  
  

European Tribune

• Oh, it hurts
  
  Self-righteousness is such a nice thing: Society continues to suffer from the wounds caused by...
  
  
  
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 27 ...
  
   A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1961 – Birth of...
  
  
  
• Saturday Open Thread
  
  Here we are...
  
  
  
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 26 ...
  
   A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1919 – Matilde Camus,a...
  
  
  
• (Late) Friday Open Thread
  
  It's the week-end, soon...
  
  
  

Futurismic

• Here comes everyone – why the internet won’t b ...
  
  Wired UK has a passing mention of a keynote speech by BBC internet pundit Bill Thompson, who points out that the days of the internet’s predominantly white Western constituency are numbered: Thompson has just returned from a BBC trip to Kenya, where he explored the internet take-up in Africa, spec ...
  
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
  

Therapy News

• Work Discusses Paths Towards Overcoming Shame
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Much of modern society is often termed as “shameless,” especially in terms of media and product promotion. But shame is still very much a part of the average human experience, and while some people may quickly and easily be able to overcome the feeling of shame, ot ...
  
  
  
• Study Shows Once and for All that Men Lose Minds O ...
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The experience of being bewildered or mind-blown in the presence of an attractive woman is something that most men can attest to having had, but many may suspect that the analogy is simply a matter of hyperbole or romantic language. Not so, suggests a recent study perf ...
  
  
  
• Prozac Approved in Europe for Children as Young as ...
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Those with concerns over the risks of suicide and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among young people who are given anti-depressant medications may be alarmed at recent news that the EMEA, or European Medicines Agency, has given its stamp of approval to prescriptions o ...
  
  
  
• Questions Arise About Potential of “Brain-Traini ...
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary While it’s a popular and commonly-held idea that the brain grows stronger and people become more knowledgeable and mentally apt as they cage, the facts of brain biology can be harsh. Into one’s 30’s, mental decline has likely already begun to take place, with som ...
  
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
  

Mountaintop Removal

• Up close and Life-size (Lexington Herald-Leader)
  
  Thorney Lieberman spent years in New York trying to shoot architectural images of the city that repl
  
  
  
• Harnessing the sun (Lexington Herald-Leader)
  
  It's a little too early to tell what the weather will be like next Saturday, but, rain or shine
  
  
  
• To G-20 climate protesters, voyage poses ethical d ...
  
  If a group of climate activists drives cars to an environmental protest, is their message polluted? No, those activists say -- especially when the protest takes place during the G-20 summit, offering the largest global stage from which to share beliefs. "The cost of inaction is much greater -- infin ...
  
  
  
• Protesters weigh impact of their carbon footprints ...
  
  If a group of climate activists drives cars to an environmental protest, does that pollute their message? Those activists say people still would hear their message.
  
  
  
• EPA announces major science review of mountaintop ...
  
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Memeorandum

• All About Obama (Michael Gerson/PostPartisan)
  
  Michael Gerson / PostPartisan : All About Obama   —  I've refrained from commenting on President Obama's address to the United Nations General Assembly because the speech made me angry.  And most postings — or letters, or e-mails — written while angry are better discarded or deleted.  †...
  
  
  
• Tuning In Too Late - ON Sept. 12, an Associated Pr ...
  
  Clark Hoyt / New York Times : Tuning In Too Late   —  ON Sept. 12, an Associated Press article inside The Times reported that the Census Bureau had severed its ties to Acorn, the community organizing group.  Robert Groves, the census director, was quoted as saying that Acorn, one of thousands ...
  
  
  
• U.S. to Demand Inspection of New Iran Plant 'Withi ...
  
  New York Times : U.S. to Demand Inspection of New Iran Plant ‘Within Weeks’   —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to tell Iran this week that it must open a newly revealed nuclear enrichment site to international inspectors “within weeks,” according to senior administratio ...
  
  
  
• Three Guantanamo detainees sent to Ireland, Yemen ...
  
  Jeremy Pelofsky / Reuters : Three Guantanamo detainees sent to Ireland, Yemen   —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three detainees held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been sent to Ireland and Yemen, the Justice Department said on Saturday, the latest transfers as President Ba ...
  
  
  
• Afghanistan Troop Request Splits Advisers to Obama ...
  
  New York Times : Afghanistan Troop Request Splits Advisers to Obama   —  WASHINGTON — As President Obama weighs sending more troops to Afghanistan, one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency, he has discovered that the military is not monolithic in support of the plan and that ...
  
  
  

Energy & Environment News

• Emissions of CO2 Set for Best Drop in 40 Years
  
  The global recession as well as government actions were cited as factors in the falloff in greenhouse gases.
  
  
  
• Refitted to Bury Emissions, Plant Draws Attention
  
  The world watches a coal-fired power plant’s effort to capture and bury some of the carbon dioxide it creates.
  
  
  
• States Can Sue Utilities Over Emissions
  
  A ruling overturns an earlier decision that any action should be taken by the legislative branch, not the judicial one.
  
  
  
• Novelties: Solar Power, Without All Those Panels
  
  Now shingles, siding and tiles can contain the photovoltaic cells that homes need to harness the sun’s power.
  
  
  
• Enter the Recession’s Waiting Room
  
  In a factory town in Nebraska, workers and companies alike are in callback limbo.
  
  
  

5+ quakes - 7 days

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  Friday, September 25, 2009 15:47:23 UTC Friday, September 25, 2009 11:47:23 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  
  
  
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  Friday, September 25, 2009 14:07:09 UTC Saturday, September 26, 2009 02:07:09 AM at epicenter Depth : 65.60 km (40.76 mi)
  
  
  
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China Dialogue

• Can the bailout produce a green recovery?
  
  As the G20 leaders meet and discuss the likely shape of the economic recovery, John Elkington examines how we might plan for and achieve a green rebound. The western alphabet has been much discussed in recent months in relation to the shape of the eventual economic recovery. Some see a “U” shape ...
  
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
  

AlterNet Top Stories

• U.S. Launches War Against ... the Brits!
  
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• Report: Good Immigration Policy Helps the Middle C ...
  
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• Disturbing: 375 Palestinian Children Jailed By Isr ...
  
  Most Palestinian children are held for stone-throwing, which can bring a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment, five years less than the average murder sentence in Israel.
  
  
  
• Taser Torture: Crippled Octogenarian One of the Lu ...
  
  Every American needs to realize that if they look at a police officer sideways they will be shot with electricity regardless of whether the officer has other choices.
  
  
  
• 5 Ways the Government Used Our Money to Save Big B ...
  
  The government hasn't exactly been forthcoming about how it has made buckets of money available to the banking sector. But here's what really happened.
  
  
  

Threat Level

• Judge Orders Gmail Account Deactivated After Bank ...
  
  A California federal judge has ordered Google to temporarily de-activate a Gmail account after a bank mistakenly sent sensitive data to the account. U.S. District Judge James Ware also ordered Google to disclose the identity of the Gmail account holder. The Rocky Mountain Bank of Wyoming sued Googl ...
  
  
  
• Obama Appoints Scholar as New Copyright Czar
  
  The “copyleft” and the “copyright” are both applauding the presidential appointment Friday of Victoria A. Espinel to become the nation’s first copyright czar. Congress created the new czar position last year as part of intellectual property reform legislation. Espinel, who requires Senate ...
  
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
  

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Iran test-fires missiles amid nuclear tension
  
  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran test-fired short-range missiles as its elite Revolutionary Guards began war games on Sunday aimed at boosting the Islamic Republic's deterrent capabilities, official media reported.
  
  
  
• China formally begins probe into U.S. chicken part ...
  
  BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Sunday formally launched an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into chicken parts imports from the U.S., two days after U.S. lawmakers agreed to end a gag order that prevented the U.S. from even considering importing Chinese cooked poultry.
  
  
  
• ANALYSIS-Will "It worked" come back to h ...
  
  * Unemployment, real estate loan losses, among pitfalls * Finding political backing for regulatory reform not easy * Some worry for global economy once supports removed By Emily Kaiser PITTSBURGH, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The G20 may face a "mission accomplished" moment akin to former President George W. ...
  
  
  
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• Crawford says Time Warner will sell magazine unit
  
  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc will eventually sell the Time Inc magazine unit and could buy holdings in its core entertainment category, Gordon Crawford, managing director of its largest shareholder, said during a presentation this week.
  
  
  

Godspace

• Wild Camano Forest Tour
  
  Tom & I have just returned from Camano Island where we participated in a botanical tour on the land where we hope to create a monastic eco village.  The tour was conducted by Bob Dietal rector at St Aidan’s Episcopal church in Stanwood.  Bob used to be a botanist and was amazingly knowledgea ...
  
  
  
• Social Media and the Church
  
  Bosco Peters made me aware of these videos recently which are very sobering news for all of us who aspire to communicate our message to others and really does make me wonder how effective our social media communications are.  Is it just a way to connect to people or can we really develop meaningful ...
  
  
  
• 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 [...]
  
  
  

Equality Trust

• Goodbye social democracy, hello economic democracy
  
  Bill Kerry writes for Labour List about the limits of social democracy and the need for economic democracy.
  
  
  
• Shattering the myth of equality
  
  An article by Boris Frankel in Melbourne's newspaper 'The Age'.
  
  
  
• Polly Toynbee: This bold equality push is just wha ...
  
  Polly Toynbee writing about the new Equality Bill today's Guardian. "Harriet Harman's bill is a frank recognition of the role of class in Britain. A decade earlier, it might have had a real impact..."
  
  
  
• Seumas Milne: This naked display of class egotism ...
  
  "It's more than a week since Alistair Darling's budget, but the howls of protest haven't stopped for a day ever since. That's not been the public sector employees facing a harsh squeeze on jobs and pay who've been squealing, or the million workers expected to join the dole queues in the next year, ...
  
  
  
• Bob Holman on social breakdown
  
  Bob Holman writes in the Glasgow Herald about the evidence in The Spirit Level.
  
  
  

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #0117
  
  Were CIA interrogations based on bad science? Ex-KGB officer loses court fight to avoid deportation from Canada. US building spy balloon (it's not a joke).
  
  
  
• Chechnya President says US, UK spies active in reg ...
  
  The pro-Moscow President of Russia’s Chechen Republic has accused American and British intelligence services of collaborating with Muslim separatists in the region, in order to “split [Russia] apart”.
  
  
  
• News you may have missed #0116
  
  Australia blocks Chinese mining investment on security grounds. Declassified files reveal massive FBI data-mining project. Book by Danish special forces soldier reveals dirty tricks.
  
  
  
• CIA using US consulate in Dubai to recruit Iranian ...
  
  The CIA routinely uses the US consulate in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to recruit Iranian spies, according to a new book.
  
  
  
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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

• Gore-Backed Car Firm Gets Large U.S. Loan
  
  Gore-Backed Car Firm Gets Large U.S. Loan By Josh Mitchell and Stephen Power | WSJ A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000. The award this week to Ca ...
  
  
  
• Canada Says India Nuclear Deal Imminent
  
  Canada says India nuclear deal imminent | Reuters Canada is close to signing a deal with India to sell nuclear technology and materials, Trade Minister Stockwell Day said on Friday, adding he was confident that remaining security concerns would be resolved. Day made similar comments in May, saying a ...
  
  
  
• U.S. Fed To Work With Lawmakers On Naming Borrower ...
  
  U.S. Fed to work with lawmakers on naming borrowers | Reuters "I would say, however, that that's different from saying that after a suitable time period, so that there won't be this market effect, you don't have a right to go to a federal agency, borrow money and keep it secret forever," added Frank ...
  
  
  
• One Year After Her Family Died In U.S. Airstrike, ...
  
  One Year After Her Family Died In U.S. Airstrike, Seven-Year-Old Afghan Girl Lives In Constant Fear By Mustafa Saber, Institute for War and Peace Reporting | Alternet On the night of August 22, 2008, Zahra's father, mother, sister and two brothers were killed by American bombs. This is her life now ...
  
  
  
• 10 Ways the U.S. Military Has Shoved Christianity ...
  
  10 Ways the U.S. Military Has Shoved Christianity Down Muslims' Throats By Chris Rodda | Alternet The Military Religious Freedom Foundation was founded in 2005 by Mikey Weinstein, a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and Reagan administration White House counsel, after the harassment his own sons fac ...
  
  
  

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  Across the nation on Labor Day, more than 20,000 people turned up at picnics to rally support for healthy school lunches.
  
  
  
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  Kurt Michael Friese cooks in Iowa, the state that produces more eggs than any other in the nation. So believe him when he says to avoid flavorless, ecologically troubling industrially produced eggs—and listen to his ideas for cooking with pastured eggs from small farmers.
  
  
  
• The Cruelty of Industrial Egg-riculture - plus a t ...
  
  Kurt Michael Friese cooks in Iowa, the state that produces more eggs than any other in the nation. So believe him when he says to avoid flavorless, ecologically troubling industrially produced eggs—and listen to his ideas for cooking with pastured eggs from small farmers.
  
  
  
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• Apple updates green website
  
  Filed under: Desktops , Hardware , Apple Macworld has spotted a new page over on Apple's website highlighting their dedication to making their products as environmentally healthy as possible. We've seen this pitch from Apple within the past few years -- they've recently slimmed down their ...
  
  
  
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  We had a pretty clear indication that this one was coming, but it looks RAmos has finally gotten official with its once mysterious Android-based MID, now known from here on out as the W7. As rumored, this one is a Rockchip -powered device, and packs a 4.8-inch, 800 x 480 touchscreen, 720p video s ...
  
  
  
• The CW Cancels Mischa Barton's 'Beautiful Life' Af ...
  
  We have the first casualty of the fall season. After two episodes, The CW has canceled Ashton Kutcher's scripted drama "The Beautiful Life." Production on the the show, which had been filming its seventh episode, was shut down Friday.
  
  
  
• The (Slightly Evil?) Competition: Google Targeting ...
  
  UPDATE: Google’s response , with commentary from Casey. According to sibling site Android Central , Google has sent a cease & desist order to well-known Android custom ROM maker, CyanogenMod. Google is not happy that CyanogenMod is distributing closed source Android applications like G ...
  
  
  
• Seth Rogen Gets Simpsonized: Actor Joins Cartoon C ...
  
  LOS ANGELES — Seth Rogen has fulfilled a dream, and he's not talking about starring in the box-office hit "Knocked Up" or playing a superhero in the upcoming "The Green Hornet." Rogen co-wrote an episode of "The Simpsons" and lends his voice to a character in the episode that airs 8 p.m. EDT Su ...
  
  
  

Time - Top Stories

• Detroit Mayor Dave Bing: Can He Stop the City's De ...
  
  Mayor Dave Bing has been an NBA star and a steel magnate. His third career is by far his most challenging
  
  
  
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  A new in-patient facility in Washington State aims to treat people who are addicted to Internet use and video game playing.
  
  
  
• Fair Trade: What Price for Good Coffee?
  
  Fair Trade practices were created to help small farmers. But they may have hit their limits
  
  
  
• Can Former Iraqi Baathists in Syria Ever Go Home?
  
  Former Iraqi Baathists who fled to Syria after the war broke out say theyare ready to make amends with the Iraqi government and return home. There'sjust one problem: Iraq doesn't seem to want them
  
  
  
• Ken Burns' Parks: Grand, but Too Sprawling
  
  The National Parks is a lot more politically pointed than you'd expect from a Burns documentary about trees. But is it a good miniseries? It is. For three or four hours. After that, your feet may start itchin' to wander
  
  
  

Washington Independent

• Bachmann in St. Louis: Defund the Left, Beware One ...
  
  ST. LOUIS — Speaking to a packed hotel ballroom at the conservative How to Take Back America Conference, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said that exposes of “criminal tomfoolery” inside of ACORN could kick off a campaign to “defund the left.” Bachmann was introduced warmly by Phyllis Schl ...
  
  
  
• Obama Speaks, Again, on Iran’s Nuclear Conce ...
  
  This morning the president emphasized the years of concealment of the as-yet-unfinished nuclear enrichment facility at Qom as the most serious problem posed by the Iranian nuclear file. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad parried that he wasn’t in any specific violation of Iran’s international obligations. A da ...
  
  
  
• SFRC: ‘Multilateral Sanctions’ Will Re ...
  
  In response to some of the talk about Iran sanctions coming from the Hill — like from the House Foreign Relations Committee’s chairman, Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) — Frederick Jones, communications director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a warning that everyone needs to h ...
  
  
  
• Ahmadinejad Says He Hasn’t Violated Any Inte ...
  
  Here’s a perfect example of why President Obama didn’t want to be locked into saying that Iran’s heretofore-undisclosed nuclear facility has violated international law. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad just delivered this statement to the press in Manhattan: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his c ...
  
  
  
• The Birthermercial
  
  Justin Elliot has the video and story behind LivePrayer.com’s infomercial “Where Was President Obama Born?” Besides being a forum for prayer requests, LivePrayer.com features the Birther infomercial and a “False Hope” program advertised with a picture of Obama crudely photoshopped next to ...
  
  
  

CowBoss' Brain Food

• Belatedly, Egypt Spots Flaws in Wiping Out Pigs
  
  Pigs were the champion garbage consumers in Cairo. Goats just don't seem up to the task. CAIRO — It is unlikely anyone has ever come to this city and commented on how clean the streets are. But this litter-strewn metropolis is now wrestling Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Society & Culture   ...
  
  
  
• Beware the dog, and cat, contracting horrific rabi ...
  
  If you've never seen old film clips of animals with rabies, you're really missing something. All that slobbering, slathering aggression and piteous disorientation is truly disturbing stuff. It's not that I want to subject you to a serious Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Animals  |   Note-it! ...
  
  
  
• Death on the wing
  
  DURING the Middle Ages, flea-infested rats spread bubonic plague across Europe. Seven centuries later, it's fruit bats that are being blamed for a 21st-century scourge. Queensland opposition health spokesman Mark McArdle reckons they are "flying petrie Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Health & ...
  
  
  
• Vultures are making a comeback Spain finds out th ...
  
  PAMPLONA, Spain — Vultures circling overhead have traditionally been a harbinger of death. But in Spain, their renewed presence after a long lull is being regarded by many as a good omen — the sign of a healthy eco-system. "They're essential," said Lui Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbeat ...
  
  
  
• Milk Drinking Started Around 7,500 Years Ago In Ce ...
  
  The ability to digest the milk sugar lactose first evolved in dairy farming communities in central Europe, not in more northern groups as was previously thought, finds a new study led by UCL (University College London) scientists published in the journal Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbeat ...
  
  
  

Suzie-Q

• Thousands march against G20 in Pittsburgh
  
  AFP By Karin Zeitvogel (AFP) – 17 hours ago PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — Thousands of people peacefully demonstrated during the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, but police reportedly arrested 40 as they clashed with a smaller group late Friday. Waving banners and chanting slogans, protesters on Friday f ...
  
  
  
• U.S., NATO Poised For Most Massive War In Afghanis ...
  
  by Rick Rozoff Global Research, September 24, 2009 Stop NATO Over the past week U.S. newspapers and television networks have been abuzz with reports that Washington and its NATO allies are planning an unprecedented increase of troops for the war in Afghanistan, even in addition t ...
  
  
  
• Census Worker Bill Sparkman: Found Naked, Gagged A ...
  
  ROGER ALFORD and JEFFREY McMURRAY | 09/25/09 11:26 PM | BIG CREEK, Ky. — A part-time census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with duct tape, said an Ohio man who discovered the body [...]
  
  
  
• SNL: Mocks Glenn Beck’s Lack Of Sanity- 9/24 ...
  
  SNL Mocks Glenn Beck For Conspiracy Theories, Lack Of Sanity (VIDEO) Huffington Post |  Alex Leo First Posted: 09-25-09 07:22 AM   |   Updated: 09-25-09 07:50 AM SNL’s Weekend Update took on President Obama’s decision to exclude Fox News from his Sunday media tour last ...
  
  
  
• ACORN Is Suing Makers Of Hidden-Camera Video
  
  ACORN Sues Makers Of Pimp And Prostitute Video BEN NUCKOLS | 09/23/09 05:15 PM | BALTIMORE — Community activist group ACORN is suing the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed employees of its Baltimore office giving tax advice to a man posing as a pimp [...]
  
  
  

Solari

• From Business Week Archives
  
  I had several requests for old clippings. A member of the Solari team called Business Week about several articles. They recommended we simply scan in our copies. So we did. Austin Fitts Better Be Good With Hammer and Nails Business Week (27 Nov 1989) Wonder Woman of Muni Bonds Business Week (23 Feb ...
  
  
  
• Vatican Revamps Its Bank’s Ranks
  
  By Stacy Meichtry The Holy See announced a sweeping overhaul of the Vatican bank’s management as part of Pope Benedict XVI’s push for greater transparency at one of the world’s most secretive financial institutions. In a statement Wednesday, the Holy See said it had appointed Ettore Gotti Ted ...
  
  
  
• Where’s the Ammo?
  
  By Mary Foster Bullet-makers are working around the clock, seven days a week, and still can’t keep up with the nation’s demand for ammunition. Shooting ranges, gun dealers and bullet manufacturers say they have never seen such shortages. Bullets, especially for handguns, have been scarce for mo ...
  
  
  
• Is There Water Out There?
  
  By Kenneth Chang There appears to be, to the surprise of planetary scientists, water, water everywhere on the Moon, although how many drops future astronauts might be able to drink is not clear. Data from three spacecraft indicate the widespread presence of water or hydroxyl, a molecule consisting ...
  
  
  
• Economics 101 - Michel Chossudovsky on the Banker ...
  
  Continue reading Economics 101 - Michel Chossudovsky on the Banker Bailouts
  
  
  

Global Insights

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• 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

• Burning Questions for the Authors of 'Marijuana Is ...
  
  The authors of a new book on misconceptions about marijuana respond to the torrent of comments on an excerpt published on AlterNet.
  
  
  
• The Epidemic of Pot Arrests in New York City
  
  Marijuana possession is legally decriminalized in NY State. Nonetheless, NY City makes more pot arrests than any city in the world. How do they do it?
  
  
  
• The Shocking Benefits of Legalizing Pot
  
  Here are some pluses to legalization that you probably haven't heard about.
  
  
  
• Does the Marijuana Pill Work?
  
  The government says a pill called Marinol offers the same benefits as medical marijuana. Is it true?
  
  
  
• Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People t ...
  
  A new book explains how we're steering people away from cannabis and toward the use of a very harmful and deadly substance: alcohol.
  
  
  

Twilight Earth

• Activist Invites 6,000 Chevron Employees to Watch ...
  
  The controversial documentary about the pending lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador, CRUDE, may just reach the people that could make a difference: Chevron employees. Activist Trudie Styler has invited all 6,000 San Francisco Bay area Chevron employees to view a free screening of the film. Styler, al ...
  
  
  
• McDonalds Map Shows Distance Between Big Macs. Nev ...
  
  Behold, a visualization of the contiguous United States, colored by distance to the nearest domestic McDonald’s! Related posts: Dirty little secret’s of an Environmentalist Sydney Dust Storm Photos List of thing I’ve learned about Going Green
  
  
  
• Sydney Dust Storm Photos
  
  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 ...
  
  
  
• Maldives President Nasheed Calls for 350 Action on ...
  
  “Mohamed Nasheed, the president of the Maldives, isn’t just brave because he endured five years as a political prisoner before finally ousting the country’s longtime ruler in an election last fall. He’s brave, too, because he’s confronting head-on the question of the country’s survival, ...
  
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
  

Inhabitat

• Floating Green: A Grassy Bench
  
  A lush lawn can be a wonderful thing to stretch out on. Unfortunately, the high-maintenance needs, which include frequent seeding and fertilizing, of grass can make it more of a pain than a joy, leaving would-be loungers disappointed. Fortunately, grassy seating can put back some of the fun. The ide ...
  
  
  
• Inhabitat at London Design Festival 2009
  
  The London Design Festival is in full swing, and Inhabitat has been on the scene to give you the scoop on the dazzling examples of sustainable design presented at this year’s event. Read on for our favorite products and innovations that we spotted this year. Fragile Future (p ...
  
  
  
• Links Roundup of the Week: Roofs and Walls
  
  For years, we have been trying to control our interior environments — by putting up four walls and a roof, and then by stuffing insulation into walls and painting coats of funny chemicals on the outside. Today, we know that environmentally-sensitive indoor climate control will require re-wiring of ...
  
  
  
• Win a Free West Coast Green Tradeshow Pass!
  
  Heads up all readers in the San Francisco Bay Area! West Coast Green is just one week away, and we’re giving away free tradeshow floor passes to 20 lucky readers! These passes are your gateway to over 280 exhibitors and 12 demo sessions showcasing the greatest green building developments around, a ...
  
  
  
• NTT Docomo Reveals Scrap Wood Cell Phone Concept
  
  We’ve covered wooden gadgets before, but NTT Docomo’s TOUCH WOOD concept phone is possibly the first wood-encased smart phone ever. The phone, developed in conjunction with Sharp, Olympus, and a reforestation project called “more trees,” contains surplus wood from forest-thinning operations ...
  
  
  

Pogue's Posts

• Pogue Addresses Common Complaints About Tech
  
  My e-mail box overflows each day with reader comments and questions, and most express some form of discontent: complaints about how they've been treated, critiques on columns, gripes about a product, and so on.
  
  
  
• Taxi Tidbits and Techno-Tales
  
  David Pogue hosted a panel on the future of taxi technology at annual conference of the International Association of Transport Regulators. Here's what he learned.
  
  
  
• Apple's New Nano: Now The World's Smallest Camcord ...
  
  Among the iPod Nano's new features: a microphone, a speaker, an FM radio, a voice recorder, a pedometer that counts how many steps you walk or run, and a camcorder.
  
  
  
• Your Favorite Uninvented Gadget
  
  Have a gadget that no one's ever made? Share your genius here!
  
  
  
• AT&T Relents, Drops Paging Instructions from Voice ...
  
  AT&T bows to public pressure and shortens its prerecorded voicemail-instruction message.
  
  
  

Open Your Eyes News

• Australian town in ‘world-first’ bottled water ...
  
  PhysOrg - An Australian town pulled all bottled water from its shelves Saturday and replaced it with refillable bottles in what is believed to be a world-first ban. Read Article
  
  
  
• UN urged to move on hunger - more than 1 billion h ...
  
  AP — U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday led calls for quick action to ensure global food security as millions suffer from hunger due to the economic crisis. ”There is more than enough food in the world, yet today, more than one billion people ...
  
  
  
• No deal on Megrahi, says Gaddafi
  
  BBC - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has denied any deal was done to secure the release of the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing. Read Article The Historian - Sure there wasn’t
  
  
  
• Lord Mandelson: I would work for Tories
  
  Daily Telegraph - In an interview, the Business Secretary said he would be willing to put his experience at the disposal of the country, if Labour lost power. “As I grow older, I can imagine more ways of serving my country than simply being a party politician,” he said. Asked whether he mi ...
  
  
  
• Iran test-fires missiles amid nuclear tension
  
  Reuters - Iran test-fired short-range missiles as its elite Revolutionary Guards began war games on Sunday aimed at boosting the Islamic Republic’s deterrent capabilities, official media reported. Read Article
  
  
  

Water | AlterNet

• Mining's Destructive Legacy on Waterways
  
  Scientists are now beginning to see that mining's most lasting damage may be the massive amounts of debris dumped into valley streams.
  
  
  
• The CA Legislature Unveiled 5 New Water Bills -- A ...
  
  I would urge that California's water warriors hold their opinions until they actually read and digest these bills.
  
  
  
• Vitaminwater's Empty Calories Are at the Heart of ...
  
  Vitaminwater tells its customers to "hydrate responsibly." That means not drinking 125-calorie sugar rushes like ... Vitaminwater.
  
  
  
• Why Corporations, Emerging Powers and Petro-States ...
  
  In the past six months, big players in the global economy have grabbed 50 million acres of arable land, from Africa to Southeast Asia.
  
  
  
• Goodbye Pools, Lawns and a Whole Lot More: Why Lif ...
  
  Water in the very near future will be neither cheap nor plentiful, and much of the Southwest is destined for real trouble.
  

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• US sends 2 missile defense satellites into orbit
  
  The pair was launched aboard a Delta 2 rocket on Friday morning as part of the Space Tracking and Surveillance System demonstration for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.
  
  
  
• Why Consolidation in the Banking Industry Threaten ...
  
  As everyone knows, the big banks have gotten bigger and bigger . Noted economist Mark Zandi says we have an oligopoly of banks, and that "the oligopoly has tightened".
  
  
  
• Real Science Sets Up Surrogates‘ Futuristic Robo ...
• TSA, GOP Rep. square off in airport over body scan ...
  
  A Republican congressman who recently had an unpleasant run-in with the Transportation Security Administration in a Utah airport is denying allegations that he acted out over being ushered into a line for a full body scanning machine.
  
  
  
• U.S. Large-Loan Bank Losses Triple to $53 Billion
  
  U.S. regulators said total losses from large loans at banks and other financial institutions nearly tripled to $53 billion in 2009, due to a deteriorating economic environment and continued weak underwriting standards.
  
  
  

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

• The ice is cracking and the world isn't noticing
  
  The evidence of the thinning ice is real , so how long do we think we can ignore it . Prof Chris Turney looks at the impacts and the consequences  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  
  
  
• Impact of Dust Storm on Agriculture
  
  Experts say a huge orange dust storm rolling through Australia's east coast is lining up to become one of the largest on record.The storm is a major health hazard for people with lung problems and is stripping valuable topsoil from farms.It has swept up enough dust every hour to fill thousands of se ...
  
  
  
• Kabul: Largest CIA Station In History
  
  Once the influx is complete, the CIA's presence will likely rival that of its massive stations in Iraq and Vietnam at the height of the wars there....The increase of intelligence personnel, it added, involves not only the CIA but every major spy service, including the National Security Agency, which ...
  
  
  
• Suspected Trojan war era couple found.
  
  Archaeologists in the ancient city of Troy in Turkey have found the remains of a man and a woman believed to have died in 1,200 B.C., the time of the legendary war chronicled by Homer, a leading German professor said on Tuesday.Ernst Pernicka, a University of Tubingen professor of archaeometry who i ...
  
  
  
• LAT: CIA expanding Afghan presence
  
  The CIA is deploying teams of spies, analysts and paramilitary operatives to Afghanistan, part of a broad intelligence "surge" that will make its station there among the largest in the agency's history, U.S. officials say.When complete, the CIA's presence in the country is expected to rival the size ...
  
  
  

Independent ( London )

• Film director Polanski taken into Swiss custody
  
  Film director Roman Polanski was arrested on a 1978 US arrest warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl, Swiss police confirmed today.
  
  
  
• Three French soldiers killed in Afghan storm
  
  Officials in France say three French soldiers have been killed in a violent storm in northeastern Afghanistan.
  
  
  
• Obama hails police for anti-terror work
  
  President Barack Obama praised the police department for its work in disrupting a possible terrorist bombing plot aimed at commuter trains.
  
  
  
• Afghan minister survives assasination attempt
  
  Police said a bomb targeting Afghanistan's energy minister exploded outside a girl's high school in the country's west.
  
  
  
• Iranian military stages missile exercises
  
  The Iranian military staged missile exercises today in a move that is sure to further inflame an international row over the country's nuclear capability.
  
  
  

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Enough Rope Yet?
  
  Summary: Security Council Before President Obama persuaded the UN Security Council to adopt his Resolution 1887, which prominently notes that "enjoyment of the benefits of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons by a State Party can be assured only by its compliance with the obligati ...
  
  
  
• Iran to put new uranium plant under IAEA supervisi ...
  
  Summary: TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran said on Saturday it will put its newly disclosed uranium enrichment plant under the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog, in a move welcomed by the United States. source: AFP read more
  
  
  
• Iran confirms building new enrichment plant
  
  Summary: Salehi TEHRAN: The head of Iran’s nuclear programme confirmed on Friday that his country was building a new uranium enrichment plant and suggested that UN inspectors would be allowed to visit the previously secret facility. source: AP read more
  
  
  
• Obama: Iran Is on Notice, Won’t Rule Out Militar ...
  
  Summary: Citing Iran’s revelation earlier this week that it is constructing a second, smaller uranium enrichment facility, President Barack Obama demanded that the Iranian government “come clean” about his long-standing accusations of a nuclear weapons program, and said he would not rule o ...
  
  
  
• U.S. was aware of ‘new’ Iranian nuke site for ...
  
  Summary: WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United States was aware of Iran’s unfinished uranium enrichment site for several years, senior U.S. officials told CNN on Friday. source: CNN read more
  
  
  

The Daily Galaxy

• "Asteroid Impacts are the Biggest Threat to Advanc ...
  
  Stephen Hawking believes that one of the major factors in the possible scarcity of intelligent life in our galaxy is the high probability of an asteroid or comet colliding with inhabited planets. We have observed, Hawking points out in Life...
  
  
  
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• Did Clay Trigger 1st Life on Earth?
  
  In the early 1990s, Jack Szostak of Harvard Medical School began investigating the molecular origins of life in order to understand how chemicals combined to form the first living organisms on primitive Earth. Inspired by Tom Cech and Sidney Altman’s...
  
  
  
• Was a Form of Inorganic Life Observed in Outer Spa ...
  
  This summer, an international research team announced a breakthrough in self-replicating plasma crystals which could be an early form of inorganic life. New studies of dust that form lifelike structures suggest that extraterrestrial life may not be carbon-based at all....
  
  
  
• GigaGalaxy Zoom!
  
  GigaGalaxy Zoom sounds like the battle cry of two teenage Japanese robot pilots, not a seriously exciting astronomical imaging project. It's an effort to show just how incredible the sky is and the fact they're doing this with wonderful images,...
  
  
  

Natural News

• Swine flu pandemic: How will it impact Ecuador and ...
  
  (NaturalNews) Living in Ecuador, I've overheard many discussions about the swine flu pandemic and its possible impact on Ecuador, South America and Central America. This article offers an analysis of likely scenarios based on what has been observed so far with the behavior of the swine flu around th ...
  
  
  
• Yucatan Excavation Reveals Catastrophic Rise in Se ...
  
  (NaturalNews) Geological data from the Yucatan Peninsula reveals that the Earth's sea levels can rise dramatically over a much shorter time period than researchers had previously believed, according to a study conducted by researchers from Mexico's National University and published in the journal Na ...
  
  
  
• Removing Ovaries Ups Women�s Lung Cancer Risk
  
  (NaturalNews) Ovaries, the almond-shaped organs that sit on each side of the uterus in a woman's pelvis, contain eggs and produce hormones that control the menstrual cycle. Mounting research shows they must do more than that, too, because after the surgical removal of ovaries, women are at heightene ...
  
  
  
• Evidence emerges that seasonal flu vaccine increas ...
  
  (NaturalNews) To hear it from the vaccine makers, their vaccines are perfectly safe and have no side effects. A person can receive an unlimited number of vaccines (10, 100 or even 1000) and have absolutely no ill effects, they claim. This is the quack science mythology upon which mass vaccination po ...
  
  
  
• EPA Slams FDA as "Unscientific"
  
  (NaturalNews) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has blasted the FDA's analysis of the benefits and risks of fish consumption. The analysis is "not a product [we] should endorse," the EPA concluded, "as it does not reach the level of scientific rigor." In the last days of the Bush administrat ...
  
  
  

TheGallopingBeaver

• The sins of the Son
  
  Most Canadians have never traveled through Kamloops International Airport . That's understandable. Kamloops is off the beaten air track (also known as the 32,000 foot brown smudge). There are a couple of things about Kamloops airport that you should know. First, Kamloops International Airport (YKA ...
  
  
  
• Fakin' It ? ? ? ?
  
  Although I hesitate to fan the media flames of the S.C. Representative joe wilson saga, this breaking report from Andy Borowitz is too important to ignore: Wilson Shouts ‘You Lie' After Wife Fakes Orgasm Breach of Congressional Decorum, Experts Say Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) courted controversy ag ...
  
  
  
• At the going down of the Sun, and in the morning.. ...
  
  With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Private Jonathan Couturier, 2nd Battalion, Royal 22 e Régiment. Killed due to enemy action. Je me souviens
  
  
  
• The Afghan Army — Is It a Figment of Washington' ...
  
  TOMDISPATCH.COM is a fine source of articles of concern to us all. Afghanistan has rightly come to their attention: it's remarkable how little we actually know about the staggering expensive American and NATO effort to train the Afghan army and police. Stop and think for a moment. When was the last ...
  
  
  
• Goodbye Mary Travers.
  
  Peter, Paul and Mary were born in Mary's Greenwich Village apartment. In 1961 they stepped out and were forever the leaders of a movement which left others in the dust. Mary Travers, that powerful voice and that strong woman is no longer with us . There is an old saying that you are only as import ...
  
  
  

Media Matters for America

• Fox distorts evidence to invent new White House/a ...
  
  A FoxNews.com article distorted a report about a meeting Obama administration officials had with artists, falsely claiming that the report indicated that the White House "convened" the meeting in order to "push the president's domestic agenda." In fact, it reportedly was the artists involved - ...
  
  
  
• Drudge's suggestion that Obama "Caught by Surpris ...
  
  The Drudge Report posted a headline that falsely claimed that President Obama was "Caught By Surprise" by Iran's acknowledgement that it is building a second nuclear facility. In fact, the Washington Post article to which Drudge linked quoted a senior White House official stating, "We've been ...
  
  
  
• Hannity, oblivious to "scientific nuances," takes ...
  
  On his September 23 show, Sean Hannity claimed that a New York Times article reporting that "global temperatures have been relatively stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years" is in conflict with President Obama's comments at the United Nations that "[i]f we continue down our ...
  
  
  
• Fox military analyst undercuts Hannity's, Krauth ...
  
  In recent days, Fox News' Sean Hannity and Charles Krauthammer have criticized President Obama for not immediately following the advice of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's reported request for additional combat troops in Afghanistan, with Hannity stating, "Just listen to what the generals on the grou ...
  
  
  
• Limbaugh, others run with GOP attack on Obama for ...
  
  Right-wing media including Rush Limbaugh, National Review Online's The Corner blog, the Gateway Pundit blog, and the Say Anything blog have attacked President Obama over funding that the State Department plans to give to Libyan organizations, including the Gaddafi Development Foundation, run by ...
  
  
  

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• U.S., NATO Poised For Most Massive War In Afghanis ...
  
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TPM Cafe

• Obama: Pressuring Israelis and Palestinians Is As ...
  
  President George W. Bush once explained his failure to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process with the excuse that, "We can't want peace more than the parties themselves." Dennis Ross, who tried and failed to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace for several decades... Sponsored Topics: Middl ...
  
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  In today's speech to the UN General Assembly, President Barack Obama underscored his commitment to a world without nuclear weapons. The speech reiterated the steps his administration has taken or promised to take since his historic April speech in Prague,... Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - Nucl ...
  
  
  
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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 - ...
  
  
  

TruthOut

• US Commander in Afghanistan Submits Request for Mo ...
  
  Near the village of Kowtay, Afghanistan, US soldiers patrol an area. General McChrystal has submitted a request for up to 45,000 more troops to be deployed to Afghanistan. (Photo: Staff Sgt. Andrew Smith / DVIDSHUB / Flickr ) read more
  
  
  
• Kirk Sworn in as Kennedy's Replacement
  
      Sen. Paul Kirk (D-Mass.) was sworn in on Friday as Massachusetts' junior senator, filling the seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.).     The ceremony officially gives Democrats in the upper chamber their full 60 seat representation as the body prepares to vote on healthcare reform ...
  
  
  
• Obama Strikes Tough Tone on Iran, but Experts Wary ...
  
  Analysis: Obama strikes a tough tone on Iran. But the diplomacy needed to get Iran to halt its nuclear program will require more than tone.     Boston - At the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh, President Barack Obama locked arms with the leaders of France and the United Kingdom to warn Iran th ...
  
  
  
• Neocon Judge's History of Cover-Ups
  
      Laurence Silberman, a U.S. Appeals Court judge and a longtime neoconservative operative - part of what the Iran-Contra special prosecutor called "the strategic reserves" for convicted Reagan administration operatives in the 1980s - is back playing a similar role for the Bush-43 admin ...
  
  
  
• Vacant Homes Give Habitat a Leg Up
  
  Famed for building homes for the poor from scratch, Habitat for Humanity sees a silver lining to thousands of foreclosed homes available for a pittance.     Shanta Brown, a nursing assistant in Charlotte, N.C., walked through her soon-to-be home in August, pointing out favorite features - t ...
  
  
  

The Heathlander

• Docs to watch
  
  First up, American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein: There’s a good review in the Daily Star, which begins: ‘A dissenting voice is a peculiar thing. For those with a stake in a political status quo, the more contentious the issue, the more the dissident must be silenced. How this is do ...
  
  
  
• Goldstone’s report on the Gaza massacre
  
  Reading through the Goldstone report [.pdf], one theme becomes immediately apparent: the deliberateness of the destruction in Gaza. The authors keep returning to this point throughout the text, in a direct rebuke to those liberal apologists for Israel who insist, contrary to all the evidence, that w ...
  
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
  

Water - AlterNet

• Mining's Destructive Legacy on Waterways
  
  Scientists are now beginning to see that mining's most lasting damage may be the massive amounts of debris dumped into valley streams.
  
  
  
• The CA Legislature Unveiled 5 New Water Bills -- A ...
  
  I would urge that California's water warriors hold their opinions until they actually read and digest these bills.
  
  
  
• Vitaminwater's Empty Calories Are at the Heart of ...
  
  Vitaminwater tells its customers to "hydrate responsibly." That means not drinking 125-calorie sugar rushes like ... Vitaminwater.
  
  
  
• Why Corporations, Emerging Powers and Petro-States ...
  
  In the past six months, big players in the global economy have grabbed 50 million acres of arable land, from Africa to Southeast Asia.
  
  
  
• Goodbye Pools, Lawns and a Whole Lot More: Why Lif ...
  
  Water in the very near future will be neither cheap nor plentiful, and much of the Southwest is destined for real trouble.
  
  
  

TruthHugger

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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• An Epoch of Rest by William Bowles
  
  By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Creative-i 17 September 2009 “It is right and ne
  
  
  
• Combat "Enablers": DON'T GO!!! Open letter to the ...
  
  submitted on Buzzflash by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox B
  
  
  
• American Conservative: Sibel Edmonds by Luke Rylan ...
  
  by Luke Ryland Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Luke’s blog post Sept. 22, 2009 September 26, 2009
  
  
  
• Honduran President Zelaya: Israeli mercenaries are ...
  
  compiled by Cem Ertür Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 26 September 2009 1) Honduran Preside
  
  
  
• What We Can’t Conquer, We Buy By Siv O'Neall
  
  By Siv O’Neall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad axisoflogic.com September 25, 2009 Lunacy is rulin
  
  
  

Unexplained Mysteries

• The man with half a brain
  
  A new paper has detailed the study of a man who suffered a rare condition leaving him with a large portion of his brain missing. Despite the lack ...
  
  
  
• World's first shark sanctuary in Pacific
  
  The Pacific nation of Palau has set up the world's first shark sanctuary to help protect species from extinction. The sanctuary contains over 130 ...
  
  
  
• Dalek created out of 480,000 matchsticks
  
  A 66-year-old man in Bognor Regis, England has spent the better part of two years creating a full scale model of one of TVs most iconic sci-fi vil...
  
  
  
• Was the Zamora UFO incident a hoax ?
  
  One of the world's most well known UFO incidents is now believed to be a hoax. The "Zamora Incident" involved a policeman in New Mexico who report...
  
  
  
• When exactly was the Great Pyramid build ?
  
  Controversial new research aimed at determining the exact date on which the Great Pyramid of Giza had started construction has come up with August...
  
  
  

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

• GOP Learns Definition Of ‘Investigation,' Freaks ...
  
  Republicans from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence say that they will no longer participate in an investigation into the Bush administration's interrogation policies, arguing that they were all for investigations until Attorney General Eric Holder outrageously called for investigations . I ...
  
  
  
• Hollywood and Motown Slip Through an Economic Look ...
  
  Tesla Fisker According to the Michigan Film Commission Facebook page , 35 feature films were shot in the state in 2008. This, as Variety reports feature film location shoots in Los Angeles dropped 56% in the first quarter of this year. Meanwhile, American auto manufacturing is fleeing Detroit , ...
  
  
  
• Was Jesus A Libertarian?
  
  Last weekend so-called “values voters” had their annual summit , featuring speeches and workshops with conservative political and religious leaders. The Christian right has always arrogated to themselves the title of “values voters” implying that everyone else votes by flipping a coin. (And ...
  
  
  
• The Best Health 'Reform' Money Can Buy
  
  When the White House or Democrats in Congress talk about health care reform, and about wanting to preserve the central role of the private insurance industry in health care, it pays to look at just what it is that they they're so anxious to preserve. According to the Health and Human Service's depar ...
  
  
  
• An Idiot's Guide to Tom Friedman's Idiocy
  
  Tom Friedman may be the single stupidest figure in American public life, and certainly is the stupidest writer with such a large platform. I don't mean that he's wrong on everything (although he is substantively wrong on a lot of things) - I mean that he's actually an extremely dim bulb in that he d ...
  
  
  

Ten Percent

• Honduran Golpistas Are Using Sonic & Chemical Weap ...
  
  As the Peruvian government threaten to sue Narcosphere for reporting what appear to be Peruvian police munitions used by the Honduran coup regime more detail of the weapons being deployed against the Brazilian embassy (and for that matter G20 protesters in Pittsburgh) even after the UN condemned the ...
  
  
  
• Friday! Wheat- Changes Is
  
  I love me some Wheat (no intolerance) since Hope & Adams, this is from their new album White Ink Black Ink, the video is a bit self consciously indie. I like when they wander off on their albums into their own haltingly, chaotically melodic world. Spotify (sorry to those geolocked out) link to my f ...
  
  
  
• Tories, Thugs & Cheats
  
  If you are in the practice of investigating and exposing naughty business, investigate reporting, it helps to have an organisation supporting you, not just from a financial or institutional point of view but once your work is published the people who are exposed will come after you, it’s good to h ...
  
  
  
• Guardian Employs Judith Miller
  
  In a CiF piece entitled Keep Gitmo open. No I’m not linking because the reason they do this is to spark ‘controversy’ which equals hits and discussion which equals revenue and public profile. Now pointing out may be construed as playing that game but really Judith fucking Miller in the Graunia ...
  
  
  
• G20 Shindig
  
  Use of force was authorized against G20 protesters in Pittsburgh this afternoon. Indymedia Pittsburgh
  
  
  

Paul Krugman

• Pigou, Glenn Beck, and the false case against cap- ...
  
  Of Glenn Beck and the economists.
  
  
  
• Me on Skidelsky on Keynes
  
  My review of The Return of the Master.
  
  
  
• 90-minute warning
  
  Sarah Palin's long, long speech.
  
  
  
• Econotourism
  
  For economists visiting Scotland, a hearty recommendation that you visit Verdant Works in Dundee -- a museum devoted to the history of the jute industry.
  
  
  
• The freshwater backlash (boring)
  
  Chicago really, really didn't like my article. Surprise.
  
  
  

No Quarter

• Harry Reid Won’t Follow Conyers’ Lead
  
  Harry Reid has finally grown a backbone, it seems. His timing for it, though, is disturbing, to say the least. When he was first picked for Senate Majority Leader, I thought that maybe he really would be a stand up guy, a fighter, as his former boxing career would suggest. Well, he’s [...]
  
  
  
• No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doy ...
  
  Please join me this Sunday evening for NQR’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle as we dig deeper and work harder in navigating the economic landscape. My special guest will be Wall Street veteran and author Norb Vonnegut. The 1980s saw dramatic swings on Wall Street. The ’80s brought us the start o ...
  
  
  
• Welcome To The Party, Rep. Conyers, And Maybe You ...
  
  Well, it’s about damn time - again. Yes, Rep. Conyers has finally been persuaded - again - to investigate ACORN. Oh, yes, all the recent brouhaha about ACORN, all of the exposure from the faux pimp and prostitute, have FINALLY gotten the House Judiciary Chairman to get off his duff, and investig ...
  
  
  
• The Obama Soap Opera, A Chick Flick
  
  Written by none other than the noted author, novelist, reporter, Helene Cooper of the number one newspaper in the nation, The New York Times. Drum roll, please. Mr. Obama: “Where’d my First Lady go?” Mrs. Obama: “Right here,” stepping beside him, as it started to drizzle. Mr. Obama pok ...
  
  
  
• WPost’s Neocons In High Dudgeon Over European Mi ...
  
  Reprinted from The Public Record (pubrecord.org) with the express permission of author Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this article. For the past several months, the editorial and oped writers of the Washington Post have railed against Russia as expansionist and assertive toward the We ...
  
  
  

Environmental Graffiti

• Hobgoblin’s Playground, Nevada
• Curaçao: The World’s Most Diverse Island
• Female Bugs ‘Make Out’ to Attract Males That C ...
• 18 Creepiest Landscapes On Earth
• Incredible Bamboo Architecture by Vo Trong Nghia

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Going Beyond Kyoto
  
  Paul Hockenos interviews The Nature Conservancy's Sascha M�ller-Kraenner about the upcoming Copenhagen gathering on climate change.
  
  
  
• G20: Form, not Substance
  
  At the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh, columnist Walden Bello expects a decline in substance and a growth in protest.
  
  
  
• Want Climate Security? Raise National Security Spe ...
  
  The Pentagon has begun studying the effects of environment on security. But will we see real change?
  
  
  
• People's Voices: Challenging the G20's Agenda of C ...
  
  Research shows the G-20 needs to shift priorities.
  
  
  
• The Goldstone Report
  
  The Obama administration must take this report on atrocities committed during the Gaza War very seriously.
  
  
  

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
  
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there wil ...
  
  
  
• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
  
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
  
  
  
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
  
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
  
  
  
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
  
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
  
  
  
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s ...
  
  
  

Al Jazeera

• Palestinians injured in Aqsa clash
  
  Muslim worshippers arrested and detained on first day of Jewish Yom Kippur.
  
  
  
• Dozens die in Yemeni clashes
  
  At least 30 Houthi fighters killed in renewed fighting in northern city of Saada.
  
  
  
• Germans vote in federal election
  
  Chancellor Merkel looking to gain enough votes to permit new centre-right coalition.
  
  
  
• Iran tests missiles amid war games
  
  Tehran test-fires two short-range missiles during military exercise, state TV reports.
  
  
  
• Afghan minister escapes bomb attack
  
  At least four killed as roadside bomb targets energy and water minister in Herat.
  
  
  

Green Inc. - NYT

• On Our Radar ...
  
  Spain's answer to unemployment and other energy and environment stories from around the Web.
  
  
  
• Electric Utilities Commit to Plug-In Hybrids
  
  To take off, the emerging electric vehicle market will need early adopters, and two Southern-based utilities just stepped up to the plate.
  
  
  
• Aiming to Create Green Jobs and Returns
  
  A new investment fund set to launch Friday hopes to cash in on the billions of dollars set aside by the government for environmentally friendly "green" projects.
  
  
  
• The Future of Cars Was Hydrogen, Once
  
  During a New York energy conference, clean-tech venture capitalists reflected on the sudden popularity of electric vehicles.
  
  
  
• Chamber of Commerce Departures Continue
  
  New Mexico-based PNM Resources became the second utility in a week to withdraw from the United States Chamber of Commerce due to disagreements with the Chamber's climate stance.
  
  
  

Dot Earth News

• An E.P.A. Economist's Climate Complaints
  
  Documents illuminate issues surrounding a government economist who challenged climate consensus.
  
  
  
• Pacific Nation Declares Itself a Shark Haven
  
  A small island nation in the Pacific creates a big sanctuary for sharks.
  
  
  
• Don't Engineer Climate, Engineer Yourself?
  
  A (mock) company unveils Survivaball, a suit enabling anyone to live with global warming.
  
  
  
• Can Leaders Act as Public Climate Runs Hot or Cool ...
  
  What could happen to diplomatic efforts on climate change if conditions in the next decade meet the prediction of some scientists that flat or cooling temperatures lie ahead before things heat up in a big way again?
  
  
  
• Obama Speaks on Climate at the U.N. Summit
  
  Obama's climate speech presses case for helping poorest nations as carbon dioxide is cut.
  
  
  

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

• Poised For Progress At The U.N. Climate Summit In ...
  
  Read the full story at Think Progress While Mother Jones’ David Corn is an excellent reporter, he is a lousy tealeaf reader. Mr. Corn misread a recent article by Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Nobel Peace Prize winner, and myself in advance o ...
  
  
  
• G20 Protest Coverage
  
  Check out Republic Media’s coverage of the G20 protests in Pittsburgh. If you want to know why “law” enforcement and the government can get away with beating and shooting peaceful protestors who are simply trying to exercise their 1st Amendment rights to assemble and speak out against the G20, ...
  
  
  
• In Taiji and the Cove is Empty
  
  Read the full story at Save Japan Dolphins By Richard O’BarryCampaign DirectorSave Japan Dolphins Coalition Today, we had a long train ride from Tokyo to Katsura, a small resort and tuna fishing town just ten minutes from Taiji. I rented a car and drove over to our hotel in Taiji, but first ...
  
  
  
• Sean Hannity Talks ACORN Corruption While Ignoring ...
  
  Read the full story at News Hounds During his September 18th “Great Americanâ€� Panel, Sean Hannity brayed about the alleged criminality of ACORN, and going after “corrupt radicals in the Obama administrationâ€� – corruption that Hannity wasn’t outraged about during the Bush ...
  
  
  
• While Decrying "Indoctrination," Hannity Tried To ...
  
  Read the full story at News Hounds Just one night after Sean Hannity blatantly pimped for the legal defense fund of conservative darling (and possible criminal) Hannah Giles, he tried to browbeat his guest into calling for the firing of the principal of the school that was caught on video having its ...
  
  
  

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Institute for Policy Studies

• Let’s Get America’s Health Out of th ...
  
  As a nation, we're in the emergency room in desperate need for someone to stop the bleeding.
  
  
  
• A Health Care Revolution that is Second to None
  
  Instead of closing public hospitals, as is happening across the United States, Cuba and Venezuela are building them.
  
  
  
• Want Climate Security? Raise National Security Spe ...
  
  The Pentagon has begun studying the effects of environment on security. But will we see real change?
  
  
  
• Billionaires Thank Tea-Baggers at Glenn Beck's Mar ...
  
  The Billionaires motto is: "If we’re not broke, don't fix it."
  
  
  
• The Recession's Racial Divide
  
  African Americans are taking on the brunt of the recession with disproportionately high rates of unemployment and foreclosure.
  
  
  

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Iran test-fires missiles amid nuclear tension
  
  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran test-fired short-range missiles as its elite Revolutionary Guards began war games on Sunday aimed at boosting the Islamic Republic's deterrent capabilities, official media reported.
  
  
  
• China formally begins probe into U.S. chicken part ...
  
  BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Sunday formally launched an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into chicken parts imports from the U.S., two days after U.S. lawmakers agreed to end a gag order that prevented the U.S. from even considering importing Chinese cooked poultry.
  
  
  
• ANALYSIS-Will "It worked" come back to h ...
  
  * Unemployment, real estate loan losses, among pitfalls * Finding political backing for regulatory reform not easy * Some worry for global economy once supports removed By Emily Kaiser PITTSBURGH, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The G20 may face a "mission accomplished" moment akin to former President George W. ...
  
  
  
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• Crawford says Time Warner will sell magazine unit
  
  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc will eventually sell the Time Inc magazine unit and could buy holdings in its core entertainment category, Gordon Crawford, managing director of its largest shareholder, said during a presentation this week.
  
  
  

Pine River World News

• Saudi editorial: The next G8 summit
  
  The following editorial is from Arab News, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Editorial:  The next G8 summit ©   Arab News September 27, 2009 As the G20 leaders jetted away from Pittsburgh, the Canadians were busy preparing to host the next G8 summit in Huntsville, Ontario next June. It must be wondered why t ...
  
  
  
• Anthony Judge: We Are on the Brink of Failure in R ...
  
  The following is reprinted with permission from Anthony Judge. Additional writings can be found on his website, Laetus in Praesens . We Are on the Brink of Failure in Responding to Global Crises Afghanistan as a strategic metaphor ©  Anthony Judge September 2009 The following text reframes the glo ...
  
  
  
• Pak editorial: Duplicitous preachers
  
  The following editorial is from The Frontier Post, Peshawar, Pakistan. Duplicitous preachers ©   The Frontier Post September 26, 2009 With its non-binding resolution to purge the world of nuclear weapons, UN Security Council's special summit, hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama, may have grabbed ...
  
  
  
• Pro-Russia president of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, ...
  
  The following article is reprinted with permission from Kavkaz Center, Caucasus mujahideen media. Kadyrov says he is waiting for revelation from above, to expose a spy ©   Kavkaz Center September 25, 2009 Apostate gang leader Kadyrov specified to "Zavtra" newspaper his version of reasons for conti ...
  
  
  
• Toxic Gases on Brazilian Embassy in Honduras
  
  The following article is from Latin America news agency, Prensa Latina, Havana. Toxic Gases on Brazilian Embassy in Honduras ©   Prensa Latina September 25, 2009 Tegucigalpa, Sep 25 (Prensa Latina) - Constitutional Honduras President Manuel Zelaya denounced on Friday the de facto regime is usi ...
  

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    This week, I'm joined by CNET security expert Elinor Mills in a discussion with Mint CEO Aaron Patzer, whose personal finance site is being acquired by Inuit. We grill Patzer on why he sold the company, the future of Quicken, and the security of online financial data. Listen now: Download ...
    
  • The most promising launches at DemoFall 2009
    Before the DemoFall start-up conference kicked off, I wrote a " What to watch " story covering what I thought would be the hot products at the show. As usual, I identified a few of the interesting companies, missed some others, and misidentified some that I thought would be hot but weren'...
    
  • 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 ...
    

  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 ...
    
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    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 ...
    
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    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!

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    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 ...
    
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    Tim Robbins is the artistic director of the Actor’s Gang and an Academy-award winning actor, director, producer, and writer. He won an Oscar for his role in “Mystic River” and is well-known for his roles in numerous films over the past two decades including “The Shawshank Redemption”, †...
    
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    It looked like it was business as usual for President Barack Obama on the first day of his Martha’s Vineyard vacation, as he spent five hours golfing with Robert Wolf, president of UBS Investment Bank and chairman and CEO of UBS Group Americas. Wolf, an early financial backer of Obama’s preside ...
    

  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 ...
    
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    ‘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

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    In our online poll, an overwhelming 78.8% of you voted to continue conservation efforts to save the beleaguered panda. Here is a collection of photos of the panda in its natural environment.
    
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    The good news: 28 leading scientists have drawn up a list of nine planetary boundaries that must not be crossed if we want to avoid drastically changing the global environment and imperiling our own existence. The bad news: We’ve already crossed three of those thresholds.
    
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    The Environmental Protection Agency is looking at what is in our drinking water, and considering regulating chemicals used in hormone replacement therapy and in birth control pills, where about 85% of the hormone is peed out into the water system.
    
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  Invisible Opportunity

  • Fluffy Toilet Paper and Old Growth Trees
    By Les Visible If Obama or Bush had wanted to camp in a tent before an important speech there would have been no great outcry because an outcry requires what? It requires the transmission tools of the S&MSM to manufacture the outcry. As anyone with a brain knows by now, Libya had nothing to do with ...
    
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    By Ellen Brown A landmark ruling in a recent Kansas Supreme Court case may have given millions of distressed homeowners the legal wedge they need to avoid foreclosure. In Landmark National Bank v. Kesler, 2009 Kan. LEXIS 834, the Kansas Supreme Court held that a nominee company called MERS has no ri ...
    
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    By Mike Adams Here’s the scene from some dark, present-day action movie: David Balfour breathed hard. He could hear the thumping of heavy boots outside his door, down the hall, mixed with the muffled grunts of military men. He had known they would come. It was obvious from the moment he refused th ...
    

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    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 ...
    

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    Brisbane Times New road paved with promises and projects Brisbane Times The Herald's chief correspondent, Paul McGeough, and the SBS Dateline cameraman David Brill travelled to Afghanistan's south-east, where a Taliban warlord ...
    
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    18 years of metal detecting has paid-off for 55 year old treasure hunter Terry Herbert, who has discovered the largest and most valuable hoard of Saxon gold in history.
    
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    Military veterans are in prison and homeless. Do we blame the services or a lack of social support?  Or are the media pedaling a problem out of proportion? Homeless charity for ex-servicemen, Veterans’ Aid , give their surprising opinion. 
    
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    More exhortations to continue the course in ”Losing the War of Exhaustion” by Mark T. Kimmitt (Brigadier General, US Army, retired), Foreign Policy, 21 September 2009 — “It’s not low troop levels that stand to defeat the United States in Afghanistan. It’s plain old public fatigue.”à ...
    
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    One great oddity of our wars is their archetics lack of knowledge.  Not about war, or COIN.  But in the specifics of the conflict — the people and area, their history and beliefs.  Joshua Foust (writing at Registan) has often remarked about this, as have some posts on this website. Â ...
    
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    Our war strategy in Afghanistan rests on two pillars: Building up a vastly larger, more skilled and better equiped Afghanistan police and army, Using NATO troops to train and supplement them. Two recent articles cast doubt on both of these. “Afghan police: More foreign troops not the answer“, ...
    
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