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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, September 28, 2009

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Blacklisted News

  • U.S.-Canada Regional Economic and Energy Integrati ...
    Trilateral initiatives, such as NAFTA and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) have further advanced North American integration.  It is also at a state and provincial level that regional integration is being achieved in areas of trade, the environment and energy.
  • Bill Clinton basks in role of world savior
    World leaders gathering in New York to resolve global problems? Sounds like the UN General Assembly -- well, except when they're all across town with Bill Clinton.
  • Don’t Blame Flu Shots for All Ills, Officials Sa ...
    As soon as swine flu vaccinations start next month, some people getting them will drop dead of heart attacks or strokes, some children will have seizures and some pregnant women will miscarry.
  • Washington State Lifts Limit on Mercury Preservati ...
    In preparation for swine-flu vaccinations next month, the state's Health Department on Thursday temporarily suspended a rule that limits the amount of a mercury preservative in vaccines given to pregnant women and children under the age of 3.
  • Kuwait’s central bank governor pushes for region ...
    Gulf states should implement a monetary union and single currency in phases, Kuwait’s central bank governor said in comments published on Sunday, casting further doubt on a 2010 target date.

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

  • How we all end up subsidising big polluters under ...
    An excellent case study of Methanex from Jeanette Fitzsimmons on how we will all subsidies the big polluters . And the more they pollute, the more we subsidise  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Peugeot's new BB1 concept car- tiny and very cute
    cute car -ready to come out of Peugeot  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Dust storm born of flooding rains, climate change
    The spectacular dust storm that swept through most of eastern Australia may have had its origins twelve months ago, says an Australian expert.And with climate change set to bring more variability, Australia may experience more large scale dust storms in the future.This week's dust storm covered a la ...
  • US govt is borrowing like never before
    THE United States government is borrowing money like never before. The national debt rose by more than a third over a one-year period, far more than it ever did at any time since World War II.In the past, when the government became a heavy borrower, there was talk about crowding out private borrower ...
  • What matters most to New Zealanders ?
    GDP forgets the environment " There is no bank to bail out a bankrupt ecosystem "  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

Independent ( London )

  • The £80 curry taking India by storm
    If the price of what might be the world's most expensive takeaway chicken curry seems somewhat unlikely, then so too are the ingredients.
  • 58 killed as Guinean soldiers open fire at rally
    At least 58 people were killed when Guinean security forces fired into the crowd at an opposition rally at a football stadium yesterday, according to a human rights organisation in the country.
  • Weakened Merkel faces future with new partners
    The horse-trading for positions in the German cabinet began yesterday amid signs that Angela Merkel's second term would be heavily influenced by her new coalition partner, the Free Democrats, thanks to their sweeping gains in the weekend election.
  • Obama sports home colours in Olympic bid
    Barack Obama hopes to land at least one clear foreign policy victory before this week is out: he is jetting to Copenhagen to help persuade the International Olympic Committee that Chicago, his hometown, is the best choice for the 2016 summer games.
  • Death of the khaki king
    You may never have heard of Don and Doris Fisher, but it's a reasonable bet that at some point or another you have worn their clothes. Mr Fisher, who died at the weekend in San Francisco at the age of 81, was, with his wife, the founder of an astonishingly ubiquitous chain of clothing shops with a ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Obama, the Missile Shield and Iran
    Summary: Prof. Brenner The White House’s decision to abandon the project for a missile shield based in Eastern Europe raises an intricate set of questions. A full issue of the NATIONAL JOURNAL would be needed to do justice to them. So, I propose simply to lay down a few analytical markers as ...
  • Obama and the West’s Double Standards on Iran
    Summary: Ahmadinejad A double whammy has hit Iran in recent days. First, much of the western world and western corporate media continued its rude behavior toward Iran through demonization of its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Second, Iran made known a second uranium enrichment facility in a moun ...
  • Iran's Mousavi opposes sanctions against Tehran
    Summary: TEHRAN — Iran's opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said on Monday he opposes sanctions against Tehran, ahead of talks between the Islamic republic and world powers over its controversial nuclear programme. source: AFP read more
  • Iran vows to stick with low-level nuclear enrichme ...
    Summary: Soltanieh TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran will keep its uranium enrichment level at up to five percent -- much lower than bomb-grade -- its nuclear chief said on Sunday after news of Tehran's new atomic facility sparked a global outcry. source: AFP read more
  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Micro-Monsters Discovered Thriving on Radiation
    "Life finds a way." Thanks to a research time involving Princeton, Indiana University, and others, that isn't just a sappy Disney quote - it's an incredible fact. They found extremophile bacteria buried over two miles into solid rock, where the...
  • Mutating Matter: New Technology Creates “Soft” ...
    Like something out of Terminator 2, researchers are developing techniques for warfare of the future to create materials that self-assemble or alter their shape, perform a function and then disassemble themselves. These capabilities offer the possibility for morphing aircraft and...
  • Image of the Day: An "Astronomical Zoo"
    Normally when you see a picture this stunning, you assume it’s an “artist’s rendition”, but this is the real deal. By combining infrared, visible and X-ray light from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, ESO's New Technology Telescope (NTT) and the European...
  • Top "Daily Galaxy" on Social Media: Twitter, Faceb ...
    The Planet's Violent Epicenter -A Sweeping Arc of 160 Volcanoes The DNA Mystery: Scientists Stumped By "Telepathic" Abilities Image of the Day: The Triple Galaxy Reboot Your Brain? Science Says It's Possible -A Galaxy Classic Awesome Pulsar Lab Spans the...
  • Top "Daily Galaxy" on Social Media: Twitter, Faceb ...
    Water on the Moon: What Does It Mean for the Human Species? Evolution's Mutation Screening Process Discovered: One-Way Upgrades Only! "Asteroid Impacts are the Biggest Threat to Advanced Life in the Milky Way" -Stephen Hawking (The Weekend Feature) Mutating Matter:...

Natural News

  • Americans threatened with jail time, huge fines fo ...
    (NaturalNews) There's a popular video circulating on the 'net right now about how to escape handcuffs without using a key. Americans are watching the video to bone up on essential skills that will soon be needed for health care reform, it seems, since the new laws that are about to be put in place c ...
  • Long-term Tamoxifen Use Increases Risk of Aggressi ...
    (NaturalNews) Women with estrogen receptor-positive (ER positive) breast cancer are commonly prescribed the drug tamoxifen because it blocks the effects of estrogen in breast tissue. In fact, long-term tamoxifen use among ER positive breast cancer survivors has become a standard therapy. According t ...
  • Concerns about Dangers from Swine Flu Vaccine Grow
    (NaturalNews) Concerns about the safety of the H1N1 vaccine continue to grow as the government rushes to bring the vaccine to market. The FDA usually requires rigorous testing of any new drug, but concerns about the H1N1 pandemic has sped the vaccine through the channels without the same clinical te ...
  • Merck employees had "hit list" of doctors they sou ...
    (NaturalNews) Previously secret documents that surfaced at a Vioxx court case in April of this year reveal pharmaceutical giant Merck maintained a "hit list" of doctors to be "neutralized" for speaking out against Vioxx. Although this story was reported on NaturalNews and other sites in April, Merck ...
  • Diabetes Drug Could Cause Pancreatic Cancer
    (NaturalNews) The popular diabetes drug sitagliptin (marketed as Januvia) may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, according to study conducted by researchers from the University of California-Los Angeles and published in the journal Diabetes ."Type 2 diabetes is a lifelong disease -- people of ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • The HST will create thousands of elephants in BC
    That's right. Elephants . Or, if you've been listening to Gordon Campbell's homeboy, Colin Hansen, it will be jobs . Same thing. You see, Hansen is ready at a moment's notice to don his body armour and jump out in front of a microphone to tell you that introducing a 12 percent HST in British Colu ...
  • Moyers Takes on dickhead armey . . . .
    A Bill Moyers essay last week on the Washington, DC "wrong"-wing protest, and dick armey's involvement in it. Moyers takes armey to task at 3 minutes into the video, with particular emphasis on armey's own publicly-funded health care. What is it about repugs named "dick"; armey, cheney, ni ...
  • "No HST" Rally in Vancouver . . . .
    Today was the initial rally in BC for those opposing the HST or Harmonized Sales Tax . There were about 15 rallies taking place today across the province and I attended the Vancouver affair held outside the new convention centre . Premier gordo campbell and his LINO * party has seen fit to initia ...
  • If you Facebook . . .
    IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE FACEBOOK FLOCK, this little item by Robert Lemos, on MIT's Technology Review site may be worthy of your attention.  Now, researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario have developed a browser plug-in to help users keep their information private from prying eyes and from ...
  • The sins of the Son
    Most Canadians have never traveled through Kamloops International Airport . That's understandable. Kamloops is off the beaten air track (also known as the 32,000 foot brown smudge). There are a couple of things about Kamloops airport that you should know. First, Kamloops International Airport (YKA ...

Media Matters for America

  • Serial misinformer McCaughey exposed as Big Tobac ...
    Rolling Stone recently revealed that in 1994, tobacco giant Philip Morris implemented a "strategy to derail Hillarycare," which included an "effort to 'work on the development of favorable pieces' with 'friendly contacts in the media'" -- specifically mentioning the company's collaboration w ...
  • Fox emits misinformation about loans to fuel-effi ...
    In reports on FoxNews.com, America's Newsroom , and Your World , Fox News repeatedly advanced misinformation about Department of Energy loans recently granted to Fisker Automotive and Tesla Motors to support development of fuel-efficient vehicles, suggesting that those funds would be ill-spent ...
  • Breitbart's Big Hollywood: Same old birtherism, co ...
    Recently, Fox News and other media outlets have given increased attention and influence to conservative web publisher Andrew Breitbart. One of his web outlets, BigHollywood.com, frequently accuses President Obama of failing to release a valid birth certificate and routinely compares Obama to Hitler ...
  • After FoxNews.com truncated Jennings' quote, ...
    A Washington Times editorial accused "safe school czar" Kevin Jennings of "encourag[ing]" a relationship that amounted to "statutory rape," by suggesting that his only response to an underage student's revelation that he had sex with what the Times described as an "older man" was to "make sure ...
  • Right-wing media follow Beck in calling for inves ...
    On September 11, Glenn Beck stated that only he and BigGovernment.com's Andrew Breitbart have "been calling for" an investigation into the National Endowment for the Arts' August 10 conference call -- during which Beck claims "they," presumably the Obama administration, used the NEA "to buy p ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Progressives and the Budget Deficit
    The budget situation today looks hugely worse than it did two years ago. The reason for the deterioration is not that the country has suddenly embarked on a massive new round of social spending, undertaken another major military adventure... Sponsored Topics: Economic - Deficit - Budget - Great ...
  • The Public Option Lives On
    Tomorrow (Tuesday) is a critical day in the saga of the public option. Democrats Charles Schumer (New York) and Jay Rockefeller (West Virginia) are introducing an amendment to include the public option in the bill to be reported out by... Sponsored Topics: Jay Rockefeller - West Virginia - Chuc ...
  • Afghanistan: Obama's Vietnam?
    There's a rapidly growing discussion here in the US about "what to do in Afghanistan." Some of it is thoughtful, well-informed, and serious. Like this piece by Rajiv Chandrasekaran in today's WaPo, which argues that the two best options look... Sponsored Topics: Afghanistan - Rajiv Chandrasekara ...
  • Class Warfare Ahead?
    What's wrong with these two pictures? I believe there is a dangerous disconnect between the "investor class" and everyone else in the country. The S & P 500 keeps climbing and jobs keep disappearing. If this situation is not... Sponsored Topics: Climbing - Technology - Business - Washington - Ki ...
  • I Remember The Late William Safire, Dead at 79
    So many famous people have died lately. It's pretty depressing. My niece wrote on her Facebook page "Enough with the dying, people." Anyway, today it's the New York Times columnist Bill Safire. He was a terrific writer. And he wrote... Sponsored Topics: William Safire - The New York Times Compa ...

TruthOut

  • Street Report From the G20
    Downtown Pittsburgh was like an militarized zone during the G20. (Photo: andrewwws's posterous )     The G20 in Pittsburgh showed us how pitifully fearful our leaders have become. read more
  • Fears of Blame for Defeat Shadow Afghan War Meetin ...
        Washington - In a remarkable parallel with a similar turning point in the Vietnam War 44 years ago, President Barack Obama will preside over a series of meetings in the coming weeks that will determine whether the United States will proceed with an escalation of the Afghanistan War or a ...
  • Michael Is Not "The Man of Steele"
        Not to be outdone, in response to America electing its first African-American President, on January 30, 2009, the Republican National Committee (RNC) elected Michael Steele, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, as its chairman. It was a long and painful process, but on the sixth ...
  • Insanity Trumps Common Sense in Afghan Policy Figh ...
        The ripest moment of absurdity last week was the spectacle of Pentagon officials berating The Washington Post for publishing the supposedly confidential assessment of the situation in Afghanistan, prepared by General Stanley McChrystal, America's Man in Charge of that doomed adventure. ...
  • Face it, GOP Doesn't Really Matter When It Comes t ...
        Washington - Do Republicans matter as Congress digs more deeply into the details of writing health care legislation?     Probably not.     The Senate Finance Committee will resume its deliberations Tuesday, when it's expected to consider whether the government should create a "public optio ...

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

TruthHugger

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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Hitler's death brought in to doubt
    It is now thought that Hitler may not have shot himself in his bunker, a skull fragment believed for many years to be conclusive proof of the Nazi...
  • Plumbing of a supervolcano revealed
    Its one of the most destructive forces on the planet and now scientists have been given the chance to take a glimpse for the first time at the plu...
  • Man lives with 100,000 bees
    A man in Zimbabwe has been accused of witchcraft as he has lived with over 100,000 bees in his small house for two years. The bees were finally dr...
  • Mass extinction event spared Europe
    When a massive comet smashed in to the Earth 65 million years ago it caused widespread devastation that saw the end of the dinosaurs but strangely...
  • What will the first moon base look like ?
    With the recent discovery of large amounts of water on the moon NASA are keener than ever to get back there and establish a permanant base on the ...

Grassroots

  • Farmers are central to the success of any African ...
    Mamadou Goita, the Executive Director of the Institute for Research and the Promotion of Alternatives in Development (IRPAD) in Mali, was interviewed at the Salzburg Global Seminar by Susanna Thorpe, of WREN Media. IRPAD is a Grassroots International ally that works closely with our partner, the Via ...
  • 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 ...

Climate

  • September 28, 2009
    India to Launch Energy-Efficiency Trading (Financial Times) India plans to launch a domestic energy-efficiency trading scheme as part of its efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and combat climate change. It also plans mandatory fuel efficiency standards. Climate Negotiators Meeting ...
  • September 26-27, 2009
    China Sees Emission Trading Pilot In Next Economic Plan (Reuters) China plans to include a pilot emissions trading system in its five-year plan for economic development, the Environment Ministry said, but declined to comment on whether it would cover carbon dioxide. U.S. Says Climate Bill Mig ...
  • 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 ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Arundhati Roy, Is Democracy Melting?
    So you, as a citizen, want to run for a seat in the House of Representatives? Well, you may be too late. Back in 1990, according to OpenSecrets.org , a website of the Center for Responsive Politics, the average cost of a winning campaign for the House was $407,556. Pocket change for your averag ...
  • 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 ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Why Jim Badasci 'Went Postal': How Bullying Bosses ...
    There was another workplace rampage killing last week, just outside of Fresno, California, leaving two company employees dead and the other employees grateful to be alive. Fresno, like so much of unofficial America, is still in a state of shock these days, after suffering from a non-stop barrage of ...
  • Denver Post: Obama Aide Messina Caught "Trying to ...
    I've made my position on the Emanuel administration's attempts to crush Democratic primaries pretty plain : Beyond it being a disgusting effort to crush the kind of local democracy Barack Obama used to make Rahm Emanuel president, it also makes Democratic legislative unity even tougher to achieve. A ...
  • How ACORN Took Over the Illinois Republican Party
    While 50 ACORN members were in the Illinois Republican Party headquarters, the phone rang, and an ACORN member answered it "ACORN, Can I help you?" On the other end, they said, "What, ACORN? Wait a minute, this is the Republican Party in D.C. calling the Republican Party in Illinois." The ACORN memb ...
  • Obama's LBJ moment
    Lyndon Johnson was once on the verge of becoming one of America's greatest presidents.  But with a single wrong turn into Vietnam, LBJ plunged himself and the nation into a ghastly tragedy that still makes us all weep and bleed.  It is NOW! up to us to make sure Barack Obama does not do the same. ...
  • Arundhati Roy Asks, Is Democracy Melting?
    — from TomDispatch So you, as a citizen, want to run for a seat in the House of Representatives? Well, you may be too late. Back in 1990, according to OpenSecrets.org , a website of the Center for Responsive Politics, the average cost of a winning campaign for the House was $407,556. Pocket chang ...

Ten Percent

  • Washington Getting Worse At Hiding Its Allegiances ...
    A senior US official on Monday branded last week’s return to Honduras by President Manuel Zelaya following a coup in June as “irresponsible” and said it would not help restore democracy. “The return of President Zelaya to Honduras, absent an agreement, is irresponsible and serves neither the ...
  • Confront The BNP, Apply To Be In Question Time Aud ...
    Click here to apply to be in the audience. (I thought it was Hull on the 22nd -as the site schedule still says- UAF say London 22nd). PS. Looking at the form why is there a question about Iraq, a litmus test WTF?
  • Video & Eye Witnesses Actually Deemed Enough Evide ...
    I guarantee you if there was no video this would not even be happening, This Camera Kills Fascists. If you go on a demo, go with camera, make sure it’s charged and plenty of memory space to record. We have to be our own CCTV, because it oddly never works in the vicinity of security [...]
  • Golpistas Maintain Form, Close Media Suspend Const ...
    It would be fascinating to hear, no strike that, tedious in the extreme to hear how coup supporters argue this is a democratic regime, expelling OAS reps, closing media and suspending the constitution so that -The measure empowers police and soldiers to arrest without a warrant “any person who pos ...
  • Honduras Monday
    Tensions rose in Honduras on Sunday in anticipation of fresh unrest after ousted leader Manuel Zelaya urged his supporters to stage a final offensive and coup leaders responded with a harsh warning to Brazil. Raising the stakes further, meanwhile, five members of the Organization of American States ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Rahm’s Historic Stupidity
    Rahm Doesn’t Know a Thing About Why Conservatives Oppose Obama. When Rahm Emanuel dismissed Obama’s critics as descendants of Father Coughlin, he showed that he doesn’t know a thing about why we conservatives oppose the president.   White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel demonstrates earthy ...
  • Obama off to Copenhagen
    He is off to Copenhagen to lobby IOC to bring 2016 Olympics to Chicago. One has to wonder who is running the country, as he goes gallivanting around the globe pretending he is the world president or something. But even more importantly here is my dilemma with his trip. How will it reflect on him if ...
  • ACORN Whistleblower Anita MonCreif returns to NoQu ...
    Last week audio and phone difficulties left some listeners unable to hear and fully enjoy the significance of what Ms. MonCrief had to say about the ACORN organization. Fortunately, Whistleblower Anita MonCrief graciously agreed to return tonight and discuss more about ACORN. So please join Sins o ...
  • Paper Laws vs. Reality
    We need good laws, but they lose all meaning unless they actually work. The situation for battered women in California provides a sobering case in point. Fifteen years ago the federal government passed the federal Violence Against Women Act , reenacted in 2005 to last through 2009. Money was all ...
  • “shifting financial obligations of this magnitud ...
    “We are spending enough of our kids’ money,” the letter said. “Our country needs to get back to following the teachings of Romans 13:8, which says we should ‘let no debt remain outstanding.’” “In our view, shifting financial obligations of this magnitude to future generations is immo ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Third Major Utility Pulls Out of Chamber
    Exelon, operator of the country's largest fleet of nuclear reactors, is becoming the third major utility in just over a week to withdraw from the United States Chamber of Commerce due to differences with the Chamber's climate change policies.
  • Saudi Says $75 Oil Helps All Energy Types
    Saudi Arabia's oil minister says oil prices should remain around $75 a barrel to encourage investments in both conventional forms of energy as well as renewable fuels.
  • Debating Hybrids' Fast-Lane Privileges
    As the number of hybrid and electric cars proliferates, should they still be allowed in carpool lanes?
  • As C.F.L. Sales Fall, More Incentives Urged
    An official at the Department of Energy's Energy Star program has issued a grim assessment of the market for compact florescent light bulbs, and urging that utilities intensify their incentive programs to encourage the bulbs.
  • On Our Radar ...
    Spain's answer to unemployment and other energy and environment stories from around the Web.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

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  • Final Rounds on a Rainy Day
    Read the full story at Save Japan Dolphins By Richard O’Barry Campaign Director Save Japan Dolphins Coalition Our friends from the media left yesterday and today, preparing stories that will soon be around the world via the Internet. We spent the morning going “on patrol,” as I call it. Basic ...
  • Olympics: Obama vs. Lula? Chicago vs. Rio? Which w ...
    Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories President Obama will go to Copenhagen, Denmark, Friday to counter Brazil’s attempt to win bid to host 2016 Olympics. Lula says Latin America deserves a shot. …
  • Germany’s Merkel earns mandate for change
    Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories Chancellor Angela Merkel won a ‘center-right’ coalition in Sunday’s vote, but passing the proposed tax cuts of her main partner will be difficult in this economic crisis. …
  • Bulls & Bears Baselessly Blames Obama For G20 Prot ...
    Read the full story at News Hounds Guest blogged by Brian On Saturday (9/26/09), Bulls & Bears used a discussion about the protests at the G20 economic Summit in Pittsburgh as an opportunity to attack President Barack Obama. Rather than discuss the summit or the protests, the segment was framed arou ...
  • Misleading Fox Nation Headline Regarding Al Franke ...
    Read the full story at News Hounds I know that Mitt Romney is a fan of Fox Nation. But I do wonder what he would say if he knew about the type of slanderous headlines that are given to articles which don’t support the headline – kinda like if there was a headline that said “Mitt [...]

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  • Banged up, Allen Stanford back in jail after brawl
    HOUSTON (Reuters) - Allen Stanford, the alleged mastermind of a $7 billion fraud, is back in his jail cell after suffering a mild concussion, broken nose and two black eyes in a prison brawl last week, his lawyer said on Monday.
  • Guitar maker draws buyers, cult-like following
    STEVENSVILLE, Md (Reuters) - Three decades after defying the odds and persuading Carlos Santana to try out his hand-built guitar, Paul Reed Smith's quest for perfect tone is still reeling in enthusiasts from all over the world.
  • Iran flexes muscle ahead of talks with major power ...
    * Iran test-fires missiles ahead of talks with powers * Guards commander says "all targets" in region in reach * White House calls tests "provocative" * Pentagon chief speaks of new sanctions against Tehran (Adds White House comment, additional Solana comment) By Fredrik Dahl and Hossein Jaseb TEHR ...
  • For China, Iran uranium plant no game changer
    BEIJING (Reuters) - China's distaste for sanctions and appetite for Iran's oil may hamper Western efforts to ramp up pressure on Tehran after disclosure of the country's second uranium enrichment plant.
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    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America's customer service -- really, really unhappy.

Pine River World News

  • Eva Golinger: Urgent! Massive Repression In Hondur ...
    [The following article is reprinted with permission from Eva Golinger. She is the author of "The Chávez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela" (2006 Olive Branch Press) and "Bush vs. Chávez: Washington's War on Venezuela" (2007, Monthly Review Press).] Urgent! Massive Repression In Honduras ...
  • Saudis Will Let Israel Bomb Iran Nuclear Site
    The following article is from the Daily Express, London. Saudis Will Let Israel Bomb Iran Nuclear Site ©   Daily Express By Gordon Thomas and Camilla Tominey September 27, 2009 INTELLIGENCE chief Sir John Scarlett has been told that Saudi Arabia is ready to allow Israel to bomb Iran's new nuclear ...
  • The U.S. and Iran: A Manufactured Crisis (Part 1)
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research . The U.S. and Iran:  A Manufactured Crisis Part 1 ©  Jack A. Smith September 27, 2009 No one knows what will emerge ultimately from the talks beginning in Geneva Oct. 1 between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN ...
  • Paul Craig Roberts: More Lies, More Deception
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. The second imbedded text link (the full text of Iranian president Ahmadinejad's speech to the UN General Assembly) has been added by your blogmaster. More Lies, More Deception ©  Paul Craig Roberts September 27, 2009 "What ...
  • 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 ...

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

Marler Blog

  • Comparing the Food Safety Record of Pasteurized an ...
    On September 25, 2009, I posted Part 1 of a 4-part series that examines the food safety record of both pasteurized and raw dairy products. Below is Part 2, which provides background on the occurrence of foodborne pathogens in milk products, and mechanisms of contamination. Occurrence of Foodborne P ...
  • More Kudos for Food Safety News - Day on Torts
    Tennessee Lawyer John Day is a reader of Food Safety News. Food Safety News is a new publication sponsored by food safety expert Bill Marler and his firm Marler Clark. It contains information on the food safety issues of the day, whether they pertain to foodborne illness outbreaks, recalled product ...
  • Over at Notions Capital - Another "shout out" for ...
    Blogs With Bite , by Mike Licht - Blogs with Bite is an occasional omnivorous sampling of food blogs and sites we find particularly tasty. Follow the trail of bread crumbs back to earlier editions, starting here: Food Safety News — Comprehensive “daily Web-based newspaper … reporting on issues ...
  • The Weeks Top Six Stories on Food Safety News
    It has been another week with too much news in food safety.  Here are six that you should not have missed. Food Safety Education Month Winds Down Shootout in Tulsa – OK vs Big Chicken Q&A: Nestle on Food Safety Politics Outbreak Victims to Sue OK Restaurant Updated: Produce E. coli Outbreak in 3 ...
  • I was wrong about Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense F ...
    Mr. Cox of the Farm-to-Legal Defense Fund (CLDF) informed me (through several emails) that I was mistaken and I agree with him.  I assumed that the farmer in a raw milk E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that nearly killed two children, who claimed that he consulted with CLDF, had also consulted with CLDF a ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Arcimoto Pulse is the latest tiny three-wheeled el ...
    Arcimoto Pulse- Click above for high-res image gallery Hey, look! It's another quirky three-wheeled electric vehicle . This time, we're talking about the recently-revealed Arcimoto Pulse, a tandem two-seat electric car that looks something like a Zap Alias that's been through a compressor, or pe ...
  • AFVTech working on CNG-powered, 600 hp 1933 Ford R ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars , Coupe , Performance , Ford , Specialty , Alternative Fuel Take something old - in this case, a 1933 Ford Roadster body - and make it into something new - a CNG-powered, 600-horsepower beast, perhaps. That's what's happening over at AFVTech, which is prepping the fender ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.28.09
    Top Ten "green" cars that met their fate during Cash for Clunkers Find out which ones made the list. REPORT: Tesla Model S was designed with battery swaps in mind Not for Better Place, mind, ...
  • Top Ten "green" cars that met their fate during Ca ...
    One rule that all clunked cars needed to adhere to was a maximum rating of 18 MPG from the federal government, right? What wasn't required was that the clunked car be considered dirty. After all, it's pretty clear that CNG vehicles burn clean , but that didn't stop 232 of them from meeting their ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.23.09
    Rush Limbaugh vs. the electric car on Leno's Green Car Challenge We'll see how much he hates it soon enough. Think has an order backlog 2,300 vehicles long Restarted production should result ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable #3: Mint CEO Aaron Patzer
    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 ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...
  • Dangerous spaces: Safe.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, wit ...

Democracy Now!

  • President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action
    Manuel Zelaya, the democratically elected president of Honduras, is back in his country after being deposed in a military coup June 28. Zelaya appeared there unexpectedly Monday morning, announcing his presence in Tegucigalpa, the capital, from within the Brazilian Embassy, where he has taken refug ...
  • Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore
    On Sept. 14, 2001, the U.S. House of Representatives considered House Joint Resolution 64, “To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.” The wounds of 9/11 were raw, and the lust for vengeance seemed uni ...
  • Christian Parenti responds to Kevin Bales
    Democracy Now! recently interviewed Kevin Bales, founder of Free the Slaves. Journalist Christian Parenti wrote a response to that interview which we have posted below. Parenti is an investigative journalist who has covered issues of child labor in the chocolate industry in Côte d’Ivoir ...
  • Sandra Maria Esteves Performs "Aguacero" at the Yo ...
    This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the revolutionary community organizing group the Young Lords. The group called for self-determination for all Puerto Ricans, community control of institutions and land, freedom for all political prisoners and the withdrawal of US troops fr ...
  • Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck
    Glenn Beck was mad. He’s the right-wing talk radio host who has a television program on the Fox News Channel. Advertisers were fleeing his Fox program en masse after the civil rights group Color of Change mounted a campaign urging advertisers to boycott Beck, who labeled President Barack Obama a ...

Farming Pathogens

  • Heart of Modeling
    Greed is often mistaken for humanity’s heart of darkness. Look instead to the rationalization that transforms the most rapacious pillaging into an act of benevolence. A one-ton bomb dropped on a peasant wedding party is dissembled into regret without responsibility or, baser yet, a tough love offe ...
  • Bird Flu’s Industrial Revolution
    Public talks can be private affairs. In sharing our work we bare the triumphs and limits of a thinking born in long hours alone or with a few fellow conspirators sworn to secrecy. But in breaking our oaths we are able to take the next step.   In talking bird flu twice this past month I learned [... ...
  • The Agro-Industrial Roots of Swine Flu H1N1
    Mexico appears ground zero for an outbreak of deadly human-specific H1N1.   Of the over 1400 people that have been reportedly infected there so far, 86 have died. Short chains of transmission of the virus have also been reported in California, Texas, Kansas, Ohio, New York City, Canada and New Zeal ...
  • The NAFTA Flu
    Cases of swine flu H1N1 are now reported in Honduras, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, Austria, Thailand, Israel, etc. Can’t keep up at this point.    H1N1 is making its way across the world by hierarchical diffusion. By the world’s transportation network it is bouncing down a hierarchy of citi ...
  • ‘Farming Human Pathogens’ Now Availabl ...
    ‘Farming Human Pathogens’  is now available for purchase. The book introduces a cutting-edge formalism based on the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory to describe how punctuated shifts in mesoscale ecosystems imposed by human intervention can entrain patterns of gene expressio ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! Navy Ships breaking out with ...
    Here is an interesting story that was emailed to us yesterday. You won’t read this in your local newspaper… SPREAD this FAST FAR and WIDE!! Let The People Know From Bob Chapman’s International Forecaster: US MARKETS Data gleaned indirectly from anonymous testimony of Navy wives of the affec ...
  • Evidence emerges that seasonal flu vaccine increas ...
    By Mike Adams 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 ...
  • Most parents won’t have kids get H1N1 flu sh ...
    By Melissa Healy Germ-spreading schoolchildren are expected to be the focus of a massive U.S. vaccination campaign against the novel H1N1 flu. But if their parents are hearing the rallying cry to have their kids vaccinated, they’re not buying it, says a new national survey. In a poll of 1,678 U.S. ...
  • The Flu Case
    This website carries all the links you need to understand what is going on in the flu vaccine world http://www.theflucase.com/
  • Lockerbie Doubts
    By Lisa Pease Sometimes, these accounts match; other times, these “truths” are wildly divergent, which appears to be the case with the Lockerbie bombing. On Thursday, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of planting a bomb aboard Pan Am Flight 103 which explod ...

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  • Culling the Herd
    29 Dec 2007 article by Sheila Samples of the Smirking Chimp This is one of those horrors you wish were untrue : and are afraid that is not the case Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Climate change warning from Greenland
    Small rise in temperature thousands of years ago caused rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheet. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • NYT Investigation Exposes Severity of Nationwide W ...
    Corporations Violated Clean Water Act Over 500,000 Times in Last Five Years chemical companies violated the Clean Water Act 500,000 times e last 5 years one in ten Americans exposed to drinking water danger Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • EPA limits pesticide use near salmon waters
    The Environmental Protection Agency announced new measures to protect endangered and threatened Pacific salmon on Friday, limiting three pesticides commonly used on farms. Submitted by Meg F. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • EPA holds up 79 permits for Appalachian surface mi ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that 79 applications for surface coal-mine permits in Kentucky , West Virginia , Ohio and Tennessee might violate the nation's Clean Water Act and require closer scrutiny. Many of the 79 applications Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Environment  |    ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Change of Tactics Needed in Afghanistan War, Chief ...
    Change of Tactics Needed in Afghanistan War, Chief of NATO Says Bloomberg Should the Taliban take over the country again, they would harbor terrorists as they did before, neighboring Pakistan would be destabilized and militant ... and more »
  • Casey: Time to get tough on Iran - Pocono Record
    Casey: Time to get tough on Iran Pocono Record Congress and the administration must look at the role of the Taliban and al Qaeda in both Pakistan and Afghanistan to devise the best strategy for the ... and more »
  • Guest column: Afghanistan war important; put adequ ...
    Guest column: Afghanistan war important; put adequate resources there Florida Times-Union One thing we must not forget is that a withdrawal at this critical juncture would destabilize Pakistan , an ally in an unstable region and a country with ... and more »
  • Pak army deserves appreciation on its anti-militan ...
    Pak army deserves appreciation on its anti-militants' drive: Rehman Associated Press of Pakistan He said that Taliban either in Pakistan or Afghanistan have the same agenda. They want to de-stabilize Pakistan as they have done with Afghanistan he said ... and more »
  • Tribal leader, bodyguards killed by suicide bomber ...
    The Daily Inquirer Tribal leader, bodyguards killed by suicide bomber The Daily Inquirer Hakeem was the leader of a pro-government militia known as Lashkars organized to fight the Taliban in Pakistan . Pakistani security forces have relied in ... and more »

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Sideways News

  • Ethical chic at London Fashion Week 2009
    Ethical fashion doesn't have to mean a compromise on design. Suzy Menkes, the esteemed fashion editor of the International Herald Tribune, tours the Estethica showcase of sustainable fashion at London Fashion Week 2009.  
  • Confucius birthday prompts Google doodle
    Google has changed the logo on its homepage to mark the birthday of ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius , who was born on this day (28th September) in 551 BC near the city of Qufu, now in Shandong Province .
  • Public libraries 'open to all'
    A major UK-wide initiative has been launched that brings a very new meaning to the concept of public libraries .
  • Lost Land of the Volcano: giant rat discovered
    Watch the footage from the BBC documentary of this giant woolly rat recently discovered.
  • Week in pictures: 28th September 2009
    A picture for every day, taking a snapshot view of what is happening in the world around us. Come and browse through our gallery of this week's most inspiring images.

Fabius Maximus

  • Update: war watch – Iran
    Summary:  The wardrums continue to beat, building support for a US attack on Iran.  This is a status report, with at the end some excellent links to further information. The battle continues hot and heavy, as factions in Washington strive to shape the US citizenry’s view of Iran.  Leaks a ...
  • Welcome to American, the new Japan, as we enter a ...
    Summary:  Today we examine an article by Robert Reich about the folly of our government’s response to the worst recession since the 1930’s.  He describes several examples showing how our government has pushed America into a system of State capitalism.  But as a fan of State capitalism, ...
  • A General explains how the Green Lantern Theory of ...
    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 ...
  • Juan Cole describes A Century of Frenzy over the N ...
    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 ...
  • About those large and growing Afghanistan security ...
    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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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Electric Fish Turn Down Charge for Energy Efficien ...
    Fish that use electric fields to sense their environments dim their signals to save energy during the day when they are resting. Sternopygus macrurus, a South American river fish, is a natural practitioner of energy efficiency. It can reshape the charged-molecule channels in its electricity-produci ...
  • Quantum Entanglement Visible to the Naked Eye
    By linking the electrical currents of two superconductors large enough to be seen with the naked eye, researchers have extended the domain of observable quantum effects. Billions of flowing electrons in the superconductors can collectively exhibit a weird quantum property called entanglement, usual ...
  • Dark Matter Hunters Construct a New Weapon
    That dark matter has never been found is no deterrent to the physicists who are looking for it. “Even if we don’t know what dark matter is, we know how it must act,” said Eduardo Abancens, a physicist at Spain’s University of Zaragoza and designer of a prototype dark matter detector. digg_u ...
  • Zoom In on Lagoon Nebula with Super-High-Res Image
    A huge new image of the Lagoon Nebula, covering an area of the sky eight times larger than the full moon, has been released by the European Southern Observatory. Located four to five thousand light-years away in the direction of Sagittarius, the nebula is a cloud of dust and gas about 100 light-yea ...
  • 1 Million Spiders Make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth
    A rare textile made from the silk of more than a million wild spiders goes on display today at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. To produce this unique golden cloth, 70 people spent four years collecting golden orb spiders from telephone poles in Madagascar, while another d ...

The Progressive Realist

  • The Limits of our Diplomatic Capabilities
    I am generally supportive of President Obama's renewed emphasis on diplomacy. But, I also must admit to some skepticism about what, in the end, more "diplomacy" will be able to accomplish. For years, a core assumption of the critics (myself included) of the Bush administration and the neocons has ...
  • The Consequences Of A Strike On Iran
    During the 2008 presidential campaign, one of Sen. John “ Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran ” McCain’s favorite bons mots was that “ There is only one thing worse than military action [against Iran], and that is a nuclear armed Iran.” As with so much else that McCain said during that campaign, it’s ...
  • President Obama's important meeting with UN Peacek ...
    Samatha Power (above) briefed the press this afternoon on President Obama's meeting  today with the top troop contributing countries to UN Peacekeeping.   As Power tells it, the meeting was not intended to produce any specific outcome  so much as it was intended to get heads of state talking to eac ...
  • Obama and Gaddafi: A Tale of Two Speeches
    Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's speech yesterday at the U.N. was admittedly good for laughs, and it's no surprise that it was the butt of many mocking posts around the Web yesterday. Nevertheless, and I'll probably get in trouble for pointing this out, in his own inimitable style, Gadda ...
  • Assuming an Afghan Can Opener
    According to General McChrystal’s assessment of the situation in Afghanistan : ISAF’s center of gravity is the will and ability to provide for the needs of the population ‘by, with, and through’ the Afghan government. A foreign army alone cannot beat an insurgency; the insurgency i ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • PERU: Fujimori Admits Wiretapping, Bribery
    LIMA, Sep 28 (IPS) - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori pleaded guilty Monday to wiretapping opposition lawmakers and journalists, bribing legislators to switch over to his side in Congress, and using public funds to purchase a cable news channel to back up his reelection campaign.
  • HONDURAS: Brazil Ups the Ante
    RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 28 (IPS) - Brazil's claim to a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council could be strengthened if its decision to provide protection for ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in its embassy turns out well, or it could see complications arise as the result of a ...
  • FINANCE: World Bank Head Acknowledges Shifting Gl ...
    WASHINGTON, Sep 28 (IPS) - The world economic crisis has called attention to shifting international power structures as emerging economies gain more influence and the failure of globalisation to assist the poorest countries becomes clear, said World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick in anticipat ...
  • CARIBBEAN: British Jurist Rekindles Debate on Col ...
    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Sep 28 (IPS) - Whether or not his words were meant to rekindle debate on the merits of a Caribbean court, the statement by British jurist Lord Phillips that "in an ideal world" the former Commonwealth countries would stop using the Privy Council and instead set up their ...
  • SOUTH AFRICA: Less Water More Money
    JOHANNESBURG, Sep 28 (IPS) - South Africans may have to start paying more for water if they do not manage their water resources efficiently.

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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

  • President Obama Reaffirms Power of Indefinite Dete ...
    The Obama administration reaffirmed its belief this week that it has the power to indefinitely detain prisoners at Guantanamo and said it would not reach out and ask Congress to craft legislation to give them the authority. Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said that when Congress on Sept. 18, ...
  • Don't Israel's nuclear weapons count?
    Netanyahu has what he wants to keep up the idea of his plucky, vulnerable little state Influential Europeans - including many Muslims - recently debated freedom of expression with the Danish editor who commissioned the cartoons of Prophet Mohammed which led to riots. Held in Berlin, it was a go ...
  • G 20 Police Beat Girl Cyclist and Press Photograph ...
    Police use bikes to push back crowds at a G-20 protest. When a female cyclist uses her bike on police she gets thrown to the ground and arrested.
  • Author Arundhati Roy on the Human Costs of India's ...
    We're joined from the Indian capital of New Delhi by the Booker Prize-winning novelist, political essayist and global justice activist Arundhati Roy. Her books include the Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things and her latest essay collection, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Gra ...
  • Butterflies' Migrational Timekeeper Found
    Monarchs may navigate using clocks in their antennae. Every autumn, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies pour out of southern Canada, funnel through the United States to the central Mexican highlands and land in groves of fir trees no larger than the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The S ...

Threat Level

  • Prosecutors Set Stage to Appeal Lori Drew Ruling
    Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have filed a notice of appeal in response to the ruling in the Lori Drew cyberbullying case, where a judge threw out the government’s case against Drew for allegedly using a fake MySpace account to drive a teenage girl to suicide. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Kr ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • 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...
  • What's (Still) the Matter with Oklahoma?
    As previously detailed here, the state of Oklahoma has become the poster child for the often comic and always tragic contradictions of the Republican war on health care reform. A 2007 study by the Commonwealth Fund ranked Oklahoma dead last...
  • Washington Post Aids GOP in Medicare Role Reversal ...
    That the elderly of all groups of Americans most strongly oppose President Obama on health care reform shows the success of Republican fear-mongering over supposed Medicare cuts and "death panels". And on Monday, the Washington Post did the GOP a...
  • Bi-Curious Baucus
    In his Washington Post column Sunday, David Broder provided some insight into the bi-curious political disposition of the Montana Senator Max Baucus. As he contemplated entering politics in the 1970's, Baucus apparently asked veteran New Dealer James Rowe, "Do you...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Waiting
    Photo from ~EvidencE~’s photostream.
  • Geordi LaForge video-to-brain rig built at MIT
    The implanted chip, according to the MIT team behind it, features a “microfabricated polyimide stimulating electrode array with sputtered iridium oxide electrodes” which is implanted into the user’s retina by a specially-developed surgical technique. There are also “secondary power and data ...
  • LRAD ’sonic cannon’ debuts in U.S. at G20 prot ...
    Via dailyfinance.com: Pittsburgh police on Thursday used an audio cannon manufactured by American Technology Corporation (ATCO), a San Diego-based company, to disperse protesters outside the G-20 Summit — the first time its LRAD series device has been used on civilians in the U.S. “The police fi ...
  • Health Reform Update: Public Option Vote Expected ...
    It is not expected to pass, but could still build momentum.
  • It's Still Rape: A Much Needed Dose Of Sanity On R ...
    The message right now seems to be: If you have enough money, talent, and celebrity friends, you should just be left alone to rape underage girls and get away with it.

Consortium News

  • Intelligence Vets Back Torture Probe
    A dozen U.S. intelligence veterans urge President Obama to reject a call from seven ex-CIA directors to stop a torture probe. September 28, 2009
  • Don North's 'Yesterday's Enemies' DVDs
    Veteran war correspondent Don North returned to a bloody battlefield in El Salvador to assess the human cost of war.
  • 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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Planetsave

  • Dog Death Caps Summer of Blue-Green Algae in MN
    Blue-green algae blooms on Minnesota lakes are linked to a dog death and illnesses, and apparently caused by runoff pollution. The death of a dog after it frolicked in a Minnesota lake plagued with blue-green algae was a sad coda for a late summer in the state. Although no necropsy was done, a spo ...
  • 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 ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Good Day, (for Texas) Sunshine [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: This morning marks a good day for Texas sunshine! Public Citizen Texas gives you the early morning scoop -- late last night the Texas Senate passed through HB 1423, a net metering bill to provide owners of solar installations with fair buy-back rates for the ex ...
  • Dallas Journalist Shares “6 things economists wi ...
    Dallas Morning News journalist Elizabeth Souder shares the Six things economists wish journalists knew about greenhouse gas reduction on the DMN’ Energy and Environment Blog.  They sound a lot like the 6 things EVERYONE should know about greenhouse gas reduction, so I thought I’d share them.à ...
  • Come Speak TONIGHT at CPS Public Hearing
    Tonight at 6 pm is the final CPS hearing regarding the proposed nuclear reactors. The trustees will vote at their next meeting, Oct. 5th, on whether to participate in the proposed two additional nuclear reactors and spend an additional $400 million. This could be the last chance for citizens to dire ...
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
    As early voting for the November elections looms on the horizon, the Texas Progressive Alliance says good-bye to September and hello to another weekly blog roundup. BREAKING NEWS: Natural Gas Development Brings “amazing and very high” Levels of Carcinogens and Neurotoxins to Barnett Shale area! ...
  • 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 ...

Press TV

  • Obama to lobby for Chicago Olympic bid
    Hosting the Summer Games of the 2016 Olympics has enticed US President Barack Obama to travel to Denmark to push for his hometown Chicago's bid.
  • UN slams Guinea crackdown on protesters
    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has denounced the 'excessive use of force' by security forces in Guinea, who opened fire on opposition protesters, killing at least 87 people.
  • Philippine flood death toll rises to 240
    The death toll from the disastrous flood in the Philippines has hiked to 240, as officials are facing an insurmountable number of victims in evacuation centers.
  • US probes 'Kill Obama' Facebook poll
    The US Secret Service is probing a controversial poll at Facebook which had asked if President Barack Obama should be killed.
  • Seven killed in Iraq bomb attacks
    At least seven people, including two security officers, have been killed and dozens of others wounded in a spate of bombings attacks in violence-plagued Iraq.

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Marriage Made In Hell
    Judge to Consider Blocking Merger of Two Voting Machine Makers This is one I hope gets blocked. Tomorrow morning, a New Jersey federal judge will hold a hearing to decide whether to block the merger of the nation's two largest vote counting companies. Jonathan Rubin, a Washington-based Patton Boggs ...
  • "Roman Polanski Raped a Child."
    I was horrified to discover this morning that people were using precious space in  national publications to deplore the Roman Polanski arrest.  Allow me to clarify:  they were not deploring Polanski's horrible crime, to which he confessed and from punishment for which he ran away to Europe.  They we ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Popular contraceptives under fire  Yaz and Yasmin, the two top-selling products for the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer are drawing scrutiny from researchers, plaintiff's attorneys and health advocates who claim that the drugs carry an unacceptably high risk of blood clots and strokes, as well as ...
  • Only In California? Probably Not.
    This is becoming a routine for me.  I go through all my news feeds daily, looking for the ways in which the insurance companies are inventing new ways to screw their customers out of services.   Found this one of the KPIX feed this afternoon.  I guess they've decided that they need to start coverin ...
  • State-Funded Religion Before Kentucky Supreme Cour ...
    The ways the freakazoids find to scarf up taxpayer dollars to fund their vicious, hateful crusade against everyone who doesn't follow their Bronze Age superstitions are manifold, thus we must ever be guard. In 2006, the Snidely Whiplash of Kentucky politics, repug and Senate president David Williams ...

Care 2

  • Should Roman Polanski Be Above The Law?
    Some artist's,as well as former French Premier Jaques Chirac,beleive that Polanski should be left alone..the range of reasons including his talent,the time elapsed since his alleged rape of a thirteen year old girl in America..I disagree,what about you? Submitted by Radical Panda Collective to Socie ...
  • Secret Service Probing Facebook Poll That Asked Wh ...
    The Secret Service is investigating the origins of a poll that appeared on Facebook that asked whether President Obama should be killed. Submitted by Dee C. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • YouTube - Hemp For Victory
    Industrial hemp varieties of Cannabis, also referred to as industrial hemp, fiber, or non-drug hemp, should not be confused with marijuana. Industrial hemp and marijuana are genetically distinct varieties of Cannabis, much like a St. Bernard and a Chihua Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Green Lifestyle ...
  • Gorillas in the Streets of London
    Sad gorillas, mad gorillas, crazy pirate gorillas, all running through the streets of London. What is going on? It is the annual Great Gorilla Run, sponsored by The Gorilla Organization. Here is the sad thing though: there were almost as many runners cost Submitted by Daphna Yanez to World  |   Not ...
  • Native American Tribes - The Petition Site
    Its time that our Native American to get help and soon. The winter months are comming upon them, Last year they cryed out to us and no one listen to them. I did and I still hear that cry today. They will not have enough Food, Heat, Clothes, Shoes, Eletric Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Society & Cultu ...

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • Could the “Baron from Bavaria’s” ...
    German Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg won a record number of votes in Sunday's election while his conservative Christian Social Union suffered its worst showing in 60 years in its Bavarian homeland, aggravating rivalries within the party. Could the 37-year-old's meteoric rise be an unex ...
  • Germany’s Greens celebrate victory in defeat
    Sunday's federal election threw Germany's Greens into a state of disarray -- should they celebrate their best result ever or mourn the fact they failed to prevent a centre-right coalition and languished in fifth place?
  • Germans vote for change; will they get it?
    Germans have voted for change. A centre-right government with a clear parliamentary majority will replace the ungainly grand coalition of conservatives and Social Democrats that ran Europe's biggest economy for the last four years. This should mean an end to "steady as she goes" lowest common deno ...
  • 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.

Ezra Klein

  • Morning Meeting
    I'll be hanging out on MSNBC with Dylan Ratigan and the gang from 9 to 10:30 a.m. You know you want to watch it.
  • Gut Yom Tov
    I'm atoning for my many sins today, so no blog posts. Interestingly, the Senate Finance Committee is also taking a break for Yom Kippur, despite the fact that only two of their members (Wyden and Schumer) are Jewish. I think the technical term for this is "free-riding."
  • An Interview With Barney Frank
    Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has had a big year. The acid-tongued chair of the House Financial Services Committee has been Congress's point person throughout the financial crisis and is now crafting the regulatory reform package that could reshape Wall Street. He's also the subject of a new biograp ...
  • 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 ...

Booman Tribune

  • The Next Big Train Wreck
    I can't think of two senators less likely to win over their colleagues for cap and trade: Ending some nine months of closed-door deliberations, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) will release global warming legislation Wednesday that they hope will be the vehicle for broader ...
  • Understanding the Strategy
    Last week, I had an exchange with Armando about the Obama administration's strategy for passing health care reform. I want to follow up on that a bit. As references, I want you to take a look at Joan McCarter's recent piece at Daily Kos and David Kuhn's piece at Real Clear Politics. Since we'r ...
  • A Look at the Midterms
    It's rare that I read an analysis of House races where I don't find some really fatuous reasoning. But Ed Kilgore has done a piece I agree with, word for word. All talk of a major Republican victory in the 2010 midterms is based on faulty parallels and wishful thinking. Whatever surface similarit ...
  • Froggy Bottom Cafe

  • William Safire Has Passed On
    Judith Miller got all the notoriety, but William Safire was even more dishonest. From 2001 until the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, William Safire printed a series of columns in the New York Times that must hold the Guiness Book of World Records title for warmongering. As longtime reader, wanderi ...

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Futurismic

  • Cyborg bugs and locust flight simulators
    We seem to be on an insect tip here at the moment, so entomophobes may want to click away until tomorrow. This stuff’s even creepier than software ants, too – via grinding.be (and many other places) comes video footage of the Pentagon’s latest experiments toward remote-controlling the flight o ...
  • Technology and population growth
    There’s a great interview over at New Scientist with environmentalist and techno-realist Jesse Ausubel on the subject of how technology and improved agricultural practices may enable and support continued population growth and economic prosperity: You’ve said that we could feed 10 billion peopl ...
  • Biomimicry in computer security: ants vs. worms
    We have a tendency to name software entities after biological creatures whose behaviours they remind us of – think of viruses in general, or worms. Now a bunch of computer security geeks are coming from the other direction, taking inspiration from nature’s creatures for the next weapon in the ne ...
  • Beginner’s guide to DNA sequencing
    Genetic engineering and DNA sequencing are regular features in our news posts here at Futurismic, and in many other venues much less explicitly future-focussed. The technology of life’s tiny building blocks is steadily becoming ubiquitous – hell, you can even buy a DNA synthesizer on eBay [via P ...
  • Personal panopticon
    Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped heads! ] Project Wonderf ...

Therapy News

  • Survey of Britain’s NHS Mental Health Facilities ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Spending a given amount of time at a mental health facility, whether to address an emergency or over a sustained period of time, can present diverse challenges and create many opportunities for clients. But feeling unsafe shouldn’t be part of the stay, a fact in con ...
  • Smoking Cessation Advocate: Mental Health Issues D ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Though a growing number of people are making the choice to quit smoking for a variety of reasons, physical health complications from the habit continue to be a problem of serious concern both for those who smoke and their loved ones as well as for taxpayers left with l ...
  • Successful Weight Loss May Change the Brain
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline As a growing number of people tackled the challenges of losing weight and developing healthier lifestyles, those in the mental health professions and diverse medical fields are paying rapt attention to the ways in which people are able to generate self-control and fin ...
  • 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

Memeorandum

  • Understanding the Strategy (Booman Tribune)
    Booman Tribune : Understanding the Strategy   —  Last week, I had an exchange with Armando about the Obama administration's strategy for passing health care reform.  I want to follow up on that a bit.  As references, I want you to take a look at Joan McCarter's recent piece at Daily Kos and D ...
  • Andy Williams accuses Barack Obama of following Ma ...
    Telegraph : Andy Williams accuses Barack Obama of following Marxist theory   —  Andy Williams, the veteran pop singer, has accused Barack Obama of “following Marxist theory” and “wanting the country to fail”.  —  Williams, a lifelong Republican whose hits include Moon River and Mus ...
  • Right-Wing Conference Tells Activists To Get Their ...
    Lee Fang / Think Progress : Right-Wing Conference Tells Activists To Get Their Guns Ready For ‘Bloody Battle’ With Obama The Nazi   —  At the How To Take Back America Conference last weekend, conservative speaker Kitty Werthmann led a workshop called “How to recognize living under Nazis ...
  • Palin finishes memoir, 'Going Rogue,' out Nov. 17 ...
    Hillel Italie / Associated Press : Palin finishes memoir, ‘Going Rogue,’ out Nov. 17   —  NEW YORK — Sarah Palin (PAY'-lin) has finished her memoir just four months after the book deal was announced.  Her publisher says the release date has been moved up from the spring to Nov. 17.  — ...
  • Secret Service probing Facebook poll on Obama (Ass ...
    Associated Press : Secret Service probing Facebook poll on Obama   —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. Secret Service is investigating an online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, officials said Monday.  —  The poll, posted Saturday on Facebook, was ...

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China Dialogue

  • Fighting pollution on the Pearl River
    A unique agreement in south China could have provided a model for cooperation between provinces, writes Reut Barak. But institutional issues have impeded joint action. China’s rapid economic growth has brought not only a rise in living standards, but also serious environmental pollution, which has ...
  • 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 ...

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Threat Level

  • Prosecutors Set Stage to Appeal Lori Drew Ruling
    Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have filed a notice of appeal in response to the ruling in the Lori Drew cyberbullying case, where a judge threw out the government’s case against Drew for allegedly using a fake MySpace account to drive a teenage girl to suicide. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Kr ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Banged up, Allen Stanford back in jail after brawl
    HOUSTON (Reuters) - Allen Stanford, the alleged mastermind of a $7 billion fraud, is back in his jail cell after suffering a mild concussion, broken nose and two black eyes in a prison brawl last week, his lawyer said on Monday.
  • Guitar maker draws buyers, cult-like following
    STEVENSVILLE, Md (Reuters) - Three decades after defying the odds and persuading Carlos Santana to try out his hand-built guitar, Paul Reed Smith's quest for perfect tone is still reeling in enthusiasts from all over the world.
  • Iran flexes muscle ahead of talks with major power ...
    * Iran test-fires missiles ahead of talks with powers * Guards commander says "all targets" in region in reach * White House calls tests "provocative" * Pentagon chief speaks of new sanctions against Tehran (Adds White House comment, additional Solana comment) By Fredrik Dahl and Hossein Jaseb TEHR ...
  • For China, Iran uranium plant no game changer
    BEIJING (Reuters) - China's distaste for sanctions and appetite for Iran's oil may hamper Western efforts to ramp up pressure on Tehran after disclosure of the country's second uranium enrichment plant.
  • Man sues BofA for "1,784 billion, trillion dollars ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America's customer service -- really, really unhappy.

Godspace

  • What Does it Take To Change a Bad Habit
    “Keep it simple, make it meaningful, stick to it”  That is some of the best advice that I have ever received on how to establish a new habit.  It came to mind as I read this article from Zen Habits Our daily lives are often a series of habits played out through the day, a trammeled [...]
  • Where is Christmas?
    I am sitting at our dining room table looking out on a beautiful September morning.  It is hard to believe that in a couple of days I will be in Australia – once more heading into spring rather than into autumn.  I will miss the glory of the fall leaves around the lake but I [...]
  • 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 [... ...

Equality Trust

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #0119
    CIA opens center on climate change. Brazilian political figures spied on after dictatorship. New book examines life of Franco-sympathizer British spy.
  • Comment: How did Iran know US planned to reveal nu ...
    The question may be confusing at first, but it makes perfect sense, considering the series of events. Late last week the US put together a secret plan to reveal to the world that Iran has built a previously undeclared nuclear facility to enrich uranium. However, on the morning of September 25, that ...
  • IBM bungles expensive IT project for UK intelligen ...
    The British government has scrapped a major intelligence-related network development project due to substandard security standards and several missed deadlines by International Business Machines (IBM).
  • News you may have missed #0118
    US government drops felony charges against GIA analyst. US military cannot analyze surveillance footage influx. Second spy operation against media revealed in Bulgaria.
  • Portrait of ex-spy said to be “close with milita ...
    Writing for Mother Jones magazine, David Samuels presents an interesting portrait of Alastair Crooke, a former British intelligence agent who is said to have become closely affiliated with militant Hamas and Hezbollah.

PsyBlog

  • PsyBlog Now on Twitter
    PsyBlog is now on Twitter, right here. So many people have kindly been sharing articles from PsyBlog with others on Twitter that the tweet count for recent articles is now fairly hefty. Thanks very much to all the Twitterers who've been spreading the word! PsyBlog's Twitter feed is another way to ...
  • 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 ...

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

Time - Top Stories

Washington Independent

  • Obama Administration Has Cleared 75 Gitmo Detainee ...
    The Obama administration has cleared 75 of the remaining 223 Guantanamo prisoners for release as it attempts to move toward closing the detention camp by January, Reuters reports. A task force set up when Obama took office is reviewing each case, and the administration has started posting the names ...
  • GAO Bolsters Case for Medicare Payment Reform
    Medicare is often described as a fee-for-service program, meaning exactly what it sounds like: physicians and hospitals bill the government for each individual service they provide to Medicare beneficiaries, and Washington writes them a check in return. The more services rendered, the more providers ...
  • Frank Gaffney: The North American Union Is Real (V ...
    At the “How to Take Back America” conference in St. Louis, Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy led two workshop sessions — one on “how to defeat attacks on sovereignty by U.N. treaties and North American Union” and one on “how to understand Islam.” At that first workshop, h ...
  • In Photos: The How to Take Back America Conference
    Here are some photos from the two-day conservative conference. Phyllis Schlafly, president of the Eagle Forum, poses for photos. In the background: Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) This is the heavily-decorated car of Lynda Farley, a Kentucky activist who proudly showed off the designs to other attend ...
  • SCOTUS to Consider Abuse Photos and Uighurs’ ...
    Among the cases the Supreme Court will consider reviewing in its private meeting tomorrow are two controversial cases arising out of the war on terror. Both question whether the president’s authority over detainees and information about their treatment is absolute, or reviewable by the federal cou ...

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

  • US: Endorse Goldstone Report on Gaza
    Promote Justice for Victims on Both sides Human Rights Watch, September 27, 2009 (Washington, DC) – The Obama administration should fully endorse the report of the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict led by Justice Richard Goldstone and demand justice for the victims of ...
  • Entangled Giant
    By Garry Wills | The New York Review of Books, Volume 56, Number 15, October 8, 2009 George W. Bush left the White House unpopular and disgraced. His successor promised change, and it was clear where change was needed. Illegal acts should cease—torture and indefinite detention, denial of habeas ...
  • G20 Summit: Pittsburgh Police Used New Weapon On P ...
    Police Use Painful New Weapon on G20 Protesters By Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant. Posted September 28, 2009. This technology has been deployed in Iraq as an “anti-insurgent weapon” — it could easily be used as a torture tool. Pittsburgh police demonstrated the latest in crowd control techn ...
  • William Safire, Nixon Speechwriter and Times Colum ...
    By ROBERT D. McFADDEN Published: September 27, 2009 William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop’s treasury of articles on language, died at a hospice i ...
  • Roman Polanski Is Arrested in Switzerland
    By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES Published: September 27, 2009 LOS ANGELES — In a stunning move set-up by prosecutors in Los Angeles and Washington, Swiss authorities late Saturday arrested the film director Roman Polanski as he arrived at Zurich’s airport, paving the way for his possible ext ...

Solari

  • 3rd Quarter 2009: Looking Back
    In our year-end wrap up, 2008: Looking Back, I said that the big question of 2008 was the same one I have been asking since $4 trillion went missing from the US government: “Where is the money?” In our wrap up in April, 1st Quarter 2009: Looking Back, with bailouts approaching $12-14 trillion ...
  • Gold Price Down, Gold Bugs Up
    By Peter Brimelow Looks like the gold bugs had reason to be wary when gold broke through $1000. But now it’s back down, they’re not particularly worried. When I last looked, Australia’s “The Privateer” Web site was calling for a confirmation close around $1,015 on its magnificent long-ter ...
  • Obama’s Move: Iran and Afghanistan
    By George Friedman There are four permutations Obama might choose in response to the dual crisis. He could attack Iran and increase forces in Afghanistan, but he might well wind up stuck in a long-term war in Afghanistan. He could avoid that long-term war by withdrawing from Afghanistan and also ig ...
  • Quote du Jour
    If this country is worth saving, it’s worth saving at a profit. ~ HL Hunt
  • Germany’s Merkel Set To Form New Coalition Gover ...
    We have reached our election goal,” said Merkel, who is about to start coalition talks with the business-friendly Free Democratic Party. Together with the FDP, the CDU/CSU got 48.4% of the votes, enough to secure a new coalition government, preliminary official results showed Monday. “The resul ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware. George Green will be a featured speaker. September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CA Click here for Tickets & Reservations  
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...

Insurgency Watch - Posts

  • Editorial: Indo-Pak dialogue: some basic questions ...
    Editorial: Indo-Pak dialogue: some basic questions Daily Times Neither of these conditions obtains in the case of India and Pakistan . * We all know that the Taliban and Al Qaeda get their “terror money” from diverse ... and more »
  • A US Counteroffensive In Pakistan - International ...
    A US Counteroffensive In Pakistan International Analyst Network ... news service accusing Pakistan of refusing to join the US in eliminating one of the Afghan local parties – the Afghan Taliban – whom her own government ...
  • 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 ...

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Twilight Earth

  • Who’s All Wet on Rising Sea Levels? [Video]
    “Sea level rise. It’s been the subject of myth, legend and pop culture for millenia. It is going to be one of the major destructive effects of global climate change. So naturally, its something that makes deniers do and say crazy things.” var fbShare = {size:'small'} Related posts:Maldi ...
  • Aspens in SAD Condition – Sudden Aspen Decline
    Scientists report that drought conditions in the Western Rocky Mountains are contributing to SAD, Sudden Aspen Decline. Related posts: Photo Sunday – Golden Aspens “Happy Feet” Rockhopper Penguins – Species Decline is at 90 Percent India’s Vultures in Serious Decline, Due to Humans Tast ...
  • Photo Sunday – Golden Aspens
    Golden Aspen Photos with poetry by Joyce Kilmer Related posts: Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning Photo Sunday – Washington DC Fireworks Photo Sunday – Dragonflies
  • 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

Inhabitat

  • BOOK REVIEW: $20 per Gallon
    I have to admit that when I saw the title of Christopher Steiner’s new book, I scoffed a bit. Twenty Dollars per Gallon of gas seems like an outrageous, unfathomable price, even when you’re a believer in peak oil. But part of the beauty of Steiners’ book is its ability to track the effects of ...
  • Sleek Sink/Toilet Combo is an All-in-One Greywater ...
    We spotted this fancy multi-tasking toilet/sink by Roca at the London Design Festival. It’s obviously compact and perfect for any loft space or small apartment, and its sleek design houses a nifty self-contained greywater system that is capable of reducing water use by up to 25% compared to a sta ...
  • Lux LED Solar Power Necklace Highlights Future Tec ...
    This elegant LED-solar panel necklace by Swedish student designer Mae Yokoyama doesn’t really provide any function except adornment (and perhaps a dim nightlight at night), but we love this creative transformation of a purely utilitarian tech object (the humble solar panel) into a piece of stunnin ...
  • Discovery of Water on Moon Means that Lunar Servic ...
    Many environmentalists argue that it’s important to focus our attention on Earth’s problems before venturing off into space, but the recent discovery of water on the moon means that exploring other planets could be easier than ever. Now that an Indian mission has discovered hydrogen and oxygen m ...
  • Brad Pitt Receives Award From USGBC For Making It ...
    If all rich and famous actors used their superpowers for good the way that Brad Pitt does, the world would be a much better place! Last week at the Clinton Global Climate Initiative, the altruistic actor received an award from the USGBC for his commendable efforts to rebuild New Orleans with sustain ...

Pogue's Posts

Open Your Eyes News

  • Older transfused blood might increase risks to pat ...
    L.A. Times - A victim of severe trauma who gets as little as a single unit of blood that’s been stored for more than a month is twice as likely to die as an equally injured patient transfused with fresher blood, a study found. Red blood cells stored longer than 28 days significantly increased trau ...
  • Danger in Australian nuclear waste move
    ABC - Nearly 10,000 barrels of nuclear waste will be moved again in the Woomera prohibited area, to a more suitable storage facility. The Defence Department is planning to move the barrels a few kilometres from where they are stored in an old aircraft hangar, to an explosives storage building.David ...
  • Attorney: Oklahoma City bomb tapes appear edited
    AP - Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday. Read Article
  • Iraq bombings shatter Ramadan calm - 18 killed
    ABC - At least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of bombings in Iraq, which apparently targeted security forces. The bombings have ended a relative calm in Iraq during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Read Article
  • ‘Dozens killed’ at Guinea protest
    BBC - At least 58 people have been killed after troops in Guinea opened fire on a huge opposition rally in the capital Conakry, reports say. A local doctor said that many victims brought to a government hospital had suffered bullet wounds. Some 50,000 people rallied against Capt Moussa Dadis Camara ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Excerpt from Malcolm Caldwell on wealth and people ...
    Excerpt from Malcolm Caldwell on wealth and people’s war  (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Malcolm Caldwell is most known for his mysterious death in 1978 while in the care of the Pol Pot regime. He was one of the few Westerners granted access to Democratic Kampuchea. Caldwell was even grante ...
  • Real versus Fake Universal Health Care for Women
      Real versus Fake Universal Health Care for Women   (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)   The debate over “universal healthcare” dominates the political landscape in the US. Obama’s administration and the Democratic Party have committed themselves to healthcare reform. This ...
  • RAIM: Harvest Season Means Forced Labor for Uzbek ...
    Harvest Season Means Forced Labor for Uzbek Children (http://raimd.wordpress.com) Every September, hundreds of thousands of Uzbek children begin two months of forced labor in the country’s cotton fields. Receiving almost nothing in wages and acting in accordance with state mandate, schools are cl ...
  • Prachanda’s “21st century socialism” on reli ...
      Prachanda’s “21st century socialism” on religion (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)   In a recent interview Prachanda, leader of a Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), is reported to have made comments about his and his party’s view of religion. Prachanda recently remarked, “I ...
  • Dear Maoist-Third Worldist.. On MIM Thought versus ...
      On MIM Thought and Maoism-Third Worldism (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) “Dear Maoist-Third Worldist,   Why is Maoism-Third Worldism a new stage of Marxism? Why not MIM Thought?” * MSH answers: What does it mean to say Maoism-Third Worldism is a new stage of revolutionary science? Tra ...

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