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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • /CORRECTED REPEAT*/AFGHANISTAN: Poll Fraud Probe ...

    KABUL, Sep 3 (IPS) - Partial results in Afghanistan's presidential polls tend to favour President Hamid Karzai with Abdullah Abdullah, former foreign minister, trailing in second place. Kabul lawmaker Ramazan Basherdost who is at third place, seems to have garnered more votes than former World B ...

  • HEALTH-NIGERIA: Maternal Mortality, a Rural Commu ...

    FARASINME, Nigeria, Sep 2 (IPS) - Women, their children strapped to their backs, defy the mid-morning sun and converge on the Primary Healthcare Centre, located on the outskirts of Farasinme village, the Badagry West Council Development Area of Lagos State.

  • US-HONDURAS: Zelaya Urges Tougher Stance Toward C ...

    WASHINGTON, Sep 2 (IPS) - Speaking at the Elliot School of International Affairs, the ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, encouraged the Barack Obama administration to take a harder line against the de facto government that was set up after the military forced him from the country in Ju ...

  • MEXICO: Houses Put to Flood and Hurricane Test

    MEXICO CITY, Sep 2 (IPS/IFEJ) - Federico Martínez was born in a land of hurricanes. As a young boy in Mexico he saw the wind uproot trees and roll wooden houses "as if they were shoe boxes." As an adult, he developed a house that can withstand winds up to 300 kilometres per hour and floods thr ...

  • ECONOMY-US: Still as Good as Ever to Be the Boss

    WASHINGTON, Sep 2 (IPS) - Only 12 months after the meltdown of the U.S. financial system and the ensuing taxpayer-sponsored government bailout, the pay of the nation's top Wall Street chief executive officers (CEOs) is beginning to bounce back to pre-crisis levels, according to a new study on ex ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Innovation Canada

  • FISHing for answers

    University of Alberta (U of A) researchers have developed a cancer-testing technology with a snappy name but a serious purpose. The “FISH on a chip” is a complex test that detects abnormalities in chromosomes which characterize particular types of cancer. To create it, researchers miniaturize a ...

  • i2eye with Palmiro Campagna

    Widely seen as Canada’s crowning technical achievement of the day, the Avro Arrow supersonic interceptor was scrapped after only five test planes were completed. Half a century later, aviation enthusiasts still mourn the loss and the Avro workers who left Canada to help realize NASA’s moon-rocke ...

  • Testing ground

    Think of it as a case of lab life trying to imitate real life. From behind a two-way mirror, researchers observe and record medical staff trying to use intravenous drug pumps and other devices while being continuously interrupted by a Code Blue or other emergencies that could cause them to make mist ...

  • Ocean view

    The winch at the rear of the ship slowly lowers a 13-tonne steel capsule about the size of three minivans into still water in early July. The shell, painted a garish yellow, is a trawl-resistant frame designed to deflect fishing nets. More important, once settled on the ocean floor, the capsule will ...

  • Space reader

    (Article courtesy of the University of Windsor) Bill McConkey probably won’t be around to see the day when humans are finally able to travel tremendous stretches through outer space to distant planets such as Jupiter. When they do make that journey, however, they’ll owe a significant debt of gra ...

Signs of the times

  • Strongest Storms Each Year This Decade: 2008, Supe ...

    Cyclone Nargis, which killed tens of thousands of people when it struck Burma (Myanmar) in May, was more devastating, but the title of "strongest storm of 2008" goes to Super Typhoon Jangmi, shown in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite f ...

  • Fast Times at Recruitment High

    Secretary of Education Arne Duncan invited the Pentagon into Chicago's schools. Will he promote military schools nationwide? When Arne Duncan stepped down as the head of the Chicago Public Schools to become the secretary of education in January, the school district he left behind had little to brag ...

  • Tom Ridge: Take That Untrustworthy Jacket Off My T ...

    Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge's backpedaling book tour continues! As we've reported, Ridge's new book, The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege, asserts that Attorney General John Ashcroft and Defense Secretary Donald Rumseld "strongly urged" him to raise the terror alert level ...

  • Stranger accused of slapping crying child at store

    Police say a 61-year-old man annoyed with a crying 2-year-old girl at a suburban Atlanta Walmart slapped the child several times after warning the toddler's mother to keep her quiet. A police report says after the stranger hit the girl at least four times, he said: "See, I told you I would shut her ...

  • China to approve single-dose swine flu vaccines

    China is close to approving homegrown swine flu vaccines that manufacturers say can protect people with a single dose, an encouraging development for health officials racing to prepare for an expected spike in cases this winter. Experts said China's versions could boost global efforts to fight the ...

Threat Level

  • Appeals Court Upholds Online Gambling Ban

    A move to scuttle legislation outlawing online gambling suffered a major setback when a federal appeals court set aside constitutional and other legal challenges to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals brushed aside asse ...

  • Voting Tech Experts Sought by Feds to Develop Stan ...

    Want to help improve the design and security of voting systems made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) and other companies? The federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), which oversees the federal testing and certification of voting systems, is seeking four technol ...

  • Despite Winning $675,000, RIAA Fears Defendant is ...

    The Recording Industry Association of America took the offensive Tuesday against a college student whom a jury concluded in July must pay $675,000 for file sharing 30 songs. The RIAA asked the Massachusetts judge who presided over the Joel Tenenbaum case to issue an injunction Tuesday preventing the ...

  • CIA at Odds With Obama Over Torture, ACLU Claims

    Citing national security concerns, the Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to divulge dozens of documents in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit surrounding its torture and rendition program adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. The withholding of documents dating to Preside ...

  • 5 More Indicted in Probe of International Carding ...

    Five eastern European men were indicted in New York on Monday as part of an international ring allegedly responsible for at least $4 million in credit card theft. The ring, which authorities dubbed the Western Express Cybercrime Group, operated between 2001 and 2007 and trafficked in at least 95,00 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • McDonnell and the GOP's "Youthful Indiscretion" De ...

    The once lopsided Virginia gubernatorial race has suddenly gotten a lot more interesting with the revelations surrounding Republican front-runner Robert McDonnell's reactionary 1989 master's thesis. As it turns out, it's not just Democrats clamoring that McDonnell "can't shrug it off...

  • Wall Street Journal Debunks GOP Talking Point on S ...

    While the Wall Street Journal editorial page can always be counted on to cheerlead the flat-earth economics of the Republican Party, on occasion the paper's reporters contradict GOP orthodoxy. And so it is today on the subject of the Obama...

  • RNC's Steele Backs - and Opposes - Medicare Cuts

    If nothing else the GOP is an irony producing machine. The same Republican Party which fought to block Medicare in the 1960's and tried to gut it in the 1990's is now pretending to be the defender of the popular...

  • Bill Bradley's Airball on Health Care Compromise

    In a New York Times op-ed Sunday, former New Jersey Senator and legendary New York Knicks forward Bill Bradley looked back to the future of health care reform. Citing his own role in the deal with Ronald Reagan that produced...

  • WaPo Cites Blackwater's Krongard on Low CIA Morale

    One day after Newt Gingrich, no friend of the CIA, called on Attorney General Eric Holder to resign over his plan to investigate the agency, former Vice President Dick Cheney pronounced he was "offended as hell" by the probe. Meanwhile,...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Eyewitness Honduras: Resistance to the Coup DEtat

    PHubbSeptember 02, 2009Shaun Joseph and Providence City Councilman Miguel Luna report back on the resistance to the coup in Honduras.Honduras video and photos by Shaun Joseph; reporter – Miguel LunaFilmed by Paul Hubbard at the Open Table of Christ Church in Providence RI on 8-19-09www.socialistwo ...

  • And on the most exalted throne in the world sits n ...

    by William BlumFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.killinghope.orgSept. 2, 2009The Anti-Empire Report “And on the most exalted throne in the world sits nothing but a man’s arse.” MontaigneIf there’s anyone out there who is not already thoroughly cynical about those on the board of directors of ...

  • So much for 'the good war'?

    White House stalls as US public opinion swings against Pentagon's plans to escalate war in Afghanistan

  • "American Casino" - Doc Investigates Roots of the ...

    The subprime mortgage meltdown was at the heart of what's been called the Great Recession of 2008. It caused more than a million Americans to lose their homes and brought Wall Street to its knees. A new documentary opening today in New York takes on the subprime crisis, tracking its roots on Wall St ...

  • Iraqi Journalist Detained for a Year Without Charg ...

    A year ago today, US and Iraqi forces raided the home of Iraqi journalist Ibrahim Jassam, a freelance photographer working for Reuters. Soldiers seized his computer hard drive and cameras. He was led away, handcuffed and blindfolded. For the past year the US military has held Jassam without charge. ...

Consortium News

  • WPost Helps Defend CIA Torture

    The Washington Post is back rationalizing the Bush administration's anything-goes "war on terror," writes Ray McGovern. August 30, 2009

  • Health Care for Camelot

    The goal of universal health care was always a prime political cause for the Kennedy clan, recalls Michael Winship. August 29, 2009

  • What Would Jesus Really Do?

    Translating the Bible's ancient words can be tricky, but Jesus's lessons in the modern world are clear, says Rev. Howard Bess. August 29, 2009

  • Closing In on the Torturers

    Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to probe Bush-era torture is an important step, ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern says. August 26, 2009

  • WPost Again Plays Torture Apologist

    The Washington Post resumes its long defense of Bush administration abuses, writes ex-CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman. August 26, 2009

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Axe-wielding ultra-Orthodox attack Palestinian (A ...

    Axe-wielding ultra-Orthodox Jews went on a rampage in a Jerusalem neighbourhood, wounding a Palestinian taxi driver, destroying his vehicle and setting dumpsters on fire, police and witnesses said on Wednesd ...

  • Israeli unilateralism undermines the peace process ...

    It's been four years since Israel evacuated its settlers and army from the Gaza Strip. Since then, Israel has kept Gaza under a tight siege that has undermined the economy of the already impoverished Strip. ...

  • Two killed in Gaza Strip (Al Jazeera)

    Two members of the armed wing of the Palestinian faction Hamas have been killed by the Israeli army, medical sources have said. Moawiya Hassanein, the head of Gaza's emergency services, said on Tuesday "the ...

  • Gaza fishermen say Israel trawling for informants ...

    Anyone venturing far from Gaza's shore risks not only gunfire but also blackmail as Israeli warships trawl the besieged Palestinian territory's waters for informers. Al Mezan human rights group says it has d ...

  • Outcry over violence in Israel ignoring occupation ...

    The most amazing thing about the wave of murders in recent weeks has been the collective Israeli stupefaction at the discovery of violence in our midst. Once again we have displayed our talent for excluding ...

Planetsave

  • California Fires Not the Only Thing Hurting Commun ...

    Communities of all sorts are being disturbed by the fires in California. As another result of climate change, bird communities are expected to see some big changes in other ways, according to a new report released on September 1. Read more of this story »

  • What’s In Your Bloodstream?

    A two-year-old Minnesota biomonitoring program has now confirmed that residents of suburbs east of the Twin Cities have perfluorochemicals (PFCs) in their blood, although government agencies stress that the levels are only slightly higher than those in the general population. Several landfill site ...

  • New Shipping Rules Agreed To Protect The Antarctic

    The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has agreed new rules which ban the transportation and use of heavy grade oils by ships in the Antarctic Ocean. The change was agreed during the 2009 meeting of the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee and is scheduled to come into force in 201 ...

  • Fashionable Activism and Fundraising: I’m Tired ...

    Tell the world how you feel about our dirty coal addiction by wearing your message right on your arm: I’m Tired of Coal . Read more of this story »

  • Minnesota Moose on the Run from Climate Change

    An expert advisory committee this week released recommendations on restoring Minnesota’s dwindling moose population, whose decline one expert said is related to gradual warming of the state’s climate. “The moose, of course, is not an animal that deals very well with heat,’’ pane ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Vote No to Nuclear on KSAT’s web poll

    KSAT.com is conducting an online poll on nuclear power. Please take a minute or two to vote NO on nuclear for San Antonio. This is anonymous - you don’t have to identify yourself. If you go to www.ksat.com and look in the lower right area of the home page, you’ll see a web poll re: going into ...

  • David’s Internship Testimony

    NOTE: David really wrote this and while Citizen Sarah might have put him up to it, she didn’t tell him what to say — just to write about his experience. The moral of the story is: interning at Public Citizen is awesome. Apply today (or tomorrow, if you already have plans for today). [...]

  • Proposed South Texas Project Reactors Pose Increas ...

    San Antonio, TX –Â Nuclear power is the most water intensive energy source available. When San Antonio and all of Texas are suffering from extreme drought and are increasingly in need of sources of drinking water, pursuing more nuclear reactors doesn’t make sense, especially true since cheape ...

  • Austin Energy Town Hall Meeting on the City’s ge ...

    Big event tonight for Austinites concerned about coal! Tonight, Sept. 1, will be an Austin Energy Town Hall Meeting on the City’s generation and climate protection plan. The event will be located at 721 Barton Springs Rd., Rm 130 from 6 – 8:30pm. Please attend this meeting so that Austin Ener ...

  • Late Monday LOLZ

    Posted in Global Warming Tagged: american clean energy and security act, caveman, congressman caveman, funny, solar energy

Press TV

  • Majlis votes on Ahmadinejad cabinet

    Iranian lawmakers begin casting their votes on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet line-up, after the president's calls for the approval of all his 21 nominees.

  • Federer, Nadal enjoy easy US Open wins

    Five-time defending champion Roger Federer and six-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal have both enjoyed straight-sets wins at the US Open.

  • Java quake toll hits 46, dozens trapped

    The death toll from Wednesday's 7.3 magnitude tremor in Indonesia's Java island has hit 46 while many others remain trapped under debris.

  • NASA tracks space junk threat to station

    NASA has been keeping a close watch on a flying 19-square-meter piece of a space junk and hopes the debris causes no serious threats to the space shuttle Discovery.

  • Mexico's drug violence intensifies

    At least 40 people have lost their lives in a new wave of attacks by Mexico's drug cartel gangsters in tit-for-tat operations against the government of the Hispanic state.

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap

    If we're all mutants, I want to be Mystique Scientists have discovered that every last one of us has at least 100 different mutations to our DNA. Martinez last public appearance as Senator? Mel Martinez chose to make his final appearance as a United States Senator as a part of the McBrothers McNo ...

  • Twelve Days Left to Save the Public Option

    This is no longer a matter of whipping votes; it's a matter of forcing President Obama to use the votes he's got. And that's going to take a good hard yank from the left. It might have had a better chance of working if the President had given more definitive answers to what he wanted in health care ...

  • Taliban Assassinates top Afghan Intelligence Offic ...

    The deputy chief of intelligence was killed by a Taliban suicide bomber on Wednesday morning. The blast killed 15 others and injured 54 more. Dr. Abdullah Laghmani, the deputy director of the National Directorate for Security, the country's intelligence service, was killed about 10:30 a.m. as he le ...

  • It isn't that there is opposition, it's who is doi ...

    For my entire adult life - three decades - I have watched in confusion as people all around me voted against their own best interests, and that phenomenon has come into full flower with the debate over healthcare reform. I am from one of those areas, left it thanks to a couple of government progra ...

  • This twit might be why the economy burned down

    Yesterday CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo made one of her frequent appearances on MSNBC, apparently to do what she has made a successful career of...look good while mouthing words that she may or may not know the meaning of while imparting an unwavering and tiresome republican partisanship. But yester ...

Care 2

  • Pfizer fined $2.3 billion in drug-marketing case

    The drug giant pleads guilty to illegally marketing Bextra, a painkiller removed in 2005. It's fined for illegally marketing 13 drugs. Submitted by Kellie S. to Business | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Woman tries to hide case of beer under dress

    ZACHARY, La. – Grocery store cameras caught the woman taking a 24-can case of beer from a cooler, exposing the 20-pound case between her thighs by pulling up her housedress, pulling her dress back down, and waddling Submitted by Terry West NO MESSA to Offbeat | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Tiger discovered in Mosta

    It is not everyday that one comes across a Bengal tiger in one of the smallest and densest countries in Europe, but this is precisely what was discovered on Monday in a warehouse in Mosta, where a tiger cub is being kept. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Reasons why OUR 'lion' numbers are declining

    There are two main reasons why lion numbers are declining in Kenya, as in other parts of Africa : Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • VCA veterinary clinics offer free boarding for pet ...

    Pet hospital chain VCA announced today that it will offer free boarding to all pet owners forced to evacuate or otherwise displaced by Southern California's wildfires. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • How SIGG Lost My Trust

    I waited to write this post until after I had the opportunity to speak with SIGG CEO Steve Wasik. I am still disappointed.

  • Planting the Seed for a Municipal Carbon Economy

    Local governments are looking for powerful tools to address climate change: What if our taxes and fees were calculated according to greenhouse gas emissions?

  • Michaels Cuts Energy Use Over 25 Percent with Site ...

    An energy management solution Michaels Stores Inc. crafted with Site Controls had led to a more than 25 percent drop in consumption among the retailer’s nearly 1,000 stores.

  • ConEd, Viridity, Boeing Seek $46M in Fed Funds for ...

    Consolidated Edison Inc. is partnering with the New York City Economic Development Corporation, Viridity Energy, the Boeing Company, Columbia University and others to apply for $46 million in stimulus money from the U.S. Department of Energy to help fund demonstration projects for a $435 million sma ...

  • Baxter Workers Sow Seeds for Gardens and Stronger ...

    Baxter International employees in 25 countries ventured out into their communities this summer to plant gardens and gathered internally to learn about the ways in which they could lighten their environmental footprints.

Reuters Global

  • German ‘cash for clunkers’ out of gas ...

    As "cash for clunkers" runs out, what now?

  • Watching the giants fall

    Some elections count more than others, and never more than when a longstanding dominant party is sent packing. I've been lucky enough to witness turning points in four countries on two continents.

  • Pakistani Taliban’s new chief:more ambitious ...

    Is Hakimullah Mehsud, the young, battled-hardened new leader of the Pakistani Taliban going to be even more ruthless than his predecessor ?

  • German state elections: Live

    Live blog from three state elections in Germany on Sunday, Aug. 30 -- four weeks ahead of the federal election

  • Japan two-party system — long in arriving

    Observers of Japanese politics who have long thought the country was ripe for a real two-party system are watching Sunday's election with a dual sense of incredulity -- surprise that it has taken so long to oust the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and surprise that it finally looks like ...

Ezra Klein

  • Tab Dump

    • Why are placebos becoming more effective? • William Buiter thinks that transaction taxes aren't the answer to the financial industry's woes. • David Leonhardt argues that health-care reform is a process, not a punctuation mark. • Organized labor is ready to play hardball , or is at leas ...

  • What Leverage Do Republicans Have on Olympia Snowe ...

    Whatever Chuck Grassley wants to do, he can't get away from two facts. First, he is facing a Republican primary challenge in his 2010 reelection campaign. Second, his term as ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee is coming to an end, and he needs the favor of his party leadership to smoot ...

  • The Divisions in the White House Over Health-Care ...

    This is health-care reform's endgame, or close to it. Next Wednesday, Barack Obama will give a prime-time address before both houses of Congress. But that's not all he's giving Congress. The administration is going to put a plan down on paper. The question is what it will say. Conversations with ...

  • Global Warming and the Wildfire Problem

    California's wildfires have been getting worse, larger, and more frequent over the past few decades. Estimates suggest that about half the reason is land-use decisions, but the other half is — wait for it — global warming. "The mechanism is pretty straightforward," writes Kevin Drum. "Higher t ...

  • The Stimulus is Working

    From the Wall Street Journal : Many forecasters say stimulus spending is adding two to three percentage points to economic growth in the second and third quarters, when measured at an annual rate. The impact in the second quarter, calculated by analyzing how the extra funds flowing into the economy ...

Booman Tribune

  • Saying 'Meh' to Charlie Melancon

    Rep. Charlie Melancon (D) is challenging Diaper Dave Vitter's Louisiana senate seat in the 2010 election. The Senate Guru has seven reasons why progressives should support his efforts, even though Mr. Melancon is a very conservative Blue Dog Democrat. They are good reasons. The Guru always makes ...

  • Answer These Five Questions

    George Stephanopoulos asks five questions about health care. 1 – What is “death with dignity” for the public option? Is it better for the president to sacrifice it himself? Or convince Democratic leaders behind closed doors to come to him? Some will argue for taking the public option issue to ...

  • Get Real on Torture Debate

    I get frustrated with the frequency with which people write about the treatment of detainees without getting their facts straight. But let me just make a little aside here. I am not one of the people that utilized the argument that torture doesn't work. Torture can work, in certain limited circum ...

  • Our Privatized Wars

    I always knew the US used a lot of private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. I just never suspected that the number of mercenaries the US government employed would be so large it would exceed the number of official, government issued troops over there: Civilian contractors working for the Pen ...

  • Calling Out the Concern Trolls

    Because our national media (including many of the few progressive commentators) are basically retarded and can't read a poll the narrative in Washington now goes like this: Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) on Tuesday said a partisan approach to health reform this fall ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • The slowing of technological progress

    Alref Nordmann writes in IEEE Spectrum of how technological progress is, contrary to the promises of singularitarians like Ray Kurzweil, actually slowing down: Technological optimists maintain that the impact of innovation on our lives is increasing, but the evidence goes the other way. The author†...

  • The slowing of technological progress

    Alref Nordmann writes in IEEE Spectrum of how technological progress is, contrary to the promises of singularitarians like Ray Kurzweil, actually slowing down: Technological optimists maintain that the impact of innovation on our lives is increasing, but the evidence goes the other way. The author†...

  • The internet as a literacy revolution

    One of the more perennial modern rants is the one that decries the internet (or computers in general, or modern popular culture, or text messaging) as the ultimate enemy of literacy, a corrosive reagent eroding our ability to use the written word effectively – we’ve mentioned it quite a few time ...

  • The dangerous dream of artificial intelligence

    There are plenty of artificial intelligence skeptics out there, but few of them would go so far as to say that AI is a dangerous dream leading us down the road to dystopia. One such dissenting voice is former AI evangelist and robotics boffin Noel Sharkey, who pops up at New Scientist to explain his ...

  • Augmented reality contact lenses

    All this talk about augmented reality is all well and good, but wandering around holding up a little rectangular gadget to see things through is hardly an elegant science fictional solution, now is it? As a fully paid-up cyberpunk, I want everything as tightly integrated to the meat as possible – ...

Yahoo! Canada News

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Climate Camping in London

    A group concerned with climate change has been quietly camping out in London. Is it effective?

  • The Bottom Line on Corporate Sustainability

    Corporate sustainability is a "key driver" of innovation that also yields real financial rewards rather than extra cost, a new study in the Harvard Business Review has found.

  • More Delays at Finnish Nuclear Plant

    Areva, the French company building the world's most powerful reactor, says the project is 2.3 billion euros over budget.

  • Iberdrola Wins Big on Clean-Energy Grants

    Iberdrola, the Spanish energy giant, has emerged as the early winner in the United States government's plan to aid the nation's clean-energy sector.

  • Engineering a Climate Solution

    Could engineers pump chemicals into the atmosphere to increase the amount of sunlight reflected away from Earth, cooling the planet? Yes. But what will the consequences be?

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • 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 ...

  • A.R.M. ft Brother Ali - Heaven Only Knows

    Sweet video out from M.anifest & crew featuring Brother Ali, pondering life, the universe and everything over a game of chess by the big dandelion-type fountain in Loring Park. Nicely done! (h.t to the Schnedly New Jersey Division of Urban Planning). See Arm4Arm.com for more infos.

  • Classic video: The Website is Down

    This is just a damn funny video -- featuring a busy techie who needs to play some Halo while fools bug him. A crowd favorite! read more »

  • Sibel Edmonds testimony in Ohio congressional case ...

    Sibel Edmonds testimony in Ohio congressional case exposes Turkish blackmail & espionage complex, Valerie Plame, Jan Shakowsky and the whole ball o' wax Allegations of espionage, sexual blackmail control of sitting members of Congress, the bribery of members of Congress, Dennis Hastert, Roy Blunt, ...

  • The DSM-IV Bipolar Pharma-Industrial complex: I ju ...

    Pros: Gave me energy Cons: then gave me akathisia and blurry vision The new energy quickly morphed into marked akathisia. I couldn't not move for more then 5 minutes at a time, extreme restlessness, and extreme anxiety. The akathisia if largely gone after 3 days after discontinuation b ...

Daily Censored

  • Why Jews see racism in Israel

    Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories Ethiopian immigrants say the refusal of schools to integrate their children is part of a pattern of discrimination that has diluted the idealism that drew them in the first place. …

  • Is Colombia’s Uribe pulling a Chávez on term li ...

    Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories Colombian lawmakers voted Tuesday to call a referendum on whether the conservative US ally should be allowed to seek a third straight term. …

  • Fox News Hosts Keep Pushing Bogus Nancy Pelosi Pat ...

    Read the full story at News Hounds As Think Progress reported, last night Sean Hannity and then this morning, Fox & Friends echoed the false report that Nancy Pelosi has a “problem with patriotic music” due to the fact that the music callers to her office hear when they’re on hold was recently ...

  • What Does Fox News/Nation Think Of GOP Candidate, ...

    Read the full story at News Hounds Couple of months ago, Fox Nation had their nice, white panties in a bunch because of what an Obama science advisor, John Holdren, wrote during the 70’s. The anti-science and pro-abstinence education right wingers were offended because this well credentialed man h ...

  • Anti-same-sex marriage referendum qualifies for Ma ...

    Read the full story at Think Progress In May, Maine Gov. John Baldacci (D) signed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in the state, saying “you can’t allow discrimination to stand when it’s raised to your level.” Opponents of same-sex marriage immediately vowed to pursue a public ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • NASA tracks space junk headed toward space station

    HOUSTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The International Space Station might have to fire its thrusters to avoid a piece of space junk that could pass within two miles (3.2 km) of the orbiting complex and its 13 astronauts, NASA said on Wednesday.

  • Whitney Houston comeback album headed to No. 1

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - Whitney Houston struggled with her voice during her much-hyped comeback performance on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday. But industry prognosticators don't expect the diva to trip up on the charts next week.

  • Outlook "poor" for Great Barrier Reef: study

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living organism, is under grave threat from climate warming and coastal development, and its prospects of survival are "poor," a major new report found on Wednesday.

  • Advert criticized over "young" partial nude model

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's advertising watchdog has criticized an ad for a clothing company featuring a partially nude model who appeared to be younger than 16.

  • Dying Manson follower Atkins denied parole

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Susan Atkins, a follower of mass killer Charles Manson convicted nearly four decades ago in some of the most notorious murders in U.S. history, lost her 18th bid for release on Wednesday.

Pine River World News

  • 'Israel behind Russian ship hijacking'

    The following article is from The Jerusalem Post. 'Israel behind Russian ship hijacking' © The Jerusalem Post By JPost.com Staff September 2, 2009 The conspiracy theory which names Israel as the mastermind behind the mysterious hijacking of a Russian freighter in July appears to be gaining tract ...

  • Pravda: The West May Soon Witness Major Integratio ...

    The following article is reprinted with permission from Pravda. The West May Soon Witness Major Integration on Post-Soviet State © Pravda By Sergey Balmasov September 2, 2009 South Ossetia can become a part of the Unified State of Russia and Belarus, Eduard Kokoity, the President of South Osseti ...

  • Ordinary Afghans increasingly turn to the Taliban ...

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Kavkaz Center, Caucasus mujahideen media. Taliban reestablishes its authority © Kavkaz Center September 1, 2009 Ordinary Afghans with their problems are increasingly turning to the Taliban, and not to Karzai regime. As IslamOnline pointe ...

  • Paul Craig Roberts: Why Not Crippling Sanctions fo ...

    The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. Why Not Crippling Sanctions for Israel and the U.S.? © Paul Craig Roberts August 31, 2009 In Israel, a country stolen from the Palestinians, fanatics control the government. One of the fanatics is the prime minister, Benja ...

  • NIGERIA: Bayelsa arms haul: Presidency investigate ...

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AutoblogGreen

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Rafe's Radar

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  • Bitly partners with yfrog for picture sharing

    Short URL powerhouse Bitly is baking into its Web service the yfrog picture-sharing service made by Imageshack . yfrog competes with other Twitter -friendly image-sharing services such as Twitpic . For users who want to create easy short links to images they upload from their computers, this wil ...

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    A year ago, I covered DriverSide , then in beta, a site designed to help people own cars--not buy new ones or fetishize the ones they can't afford. Since then, with the crisis in the U.S. economy, the automobile market has changed dramatically, making the boring utility of DriverSide ...

Camera Obscura

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

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Democracy Now!

  • "A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House"

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  • Part II: Tim Robbins on Activism in Hollywood from ...

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  • Who is Obama Playing Ball With?

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Farming Pathogens

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  • The Agro-Industrial Roots of Swine Flu H1N1

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  • The NAFTA Flu

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  • ‘Farming Human Pathogens’ Now Availabl ...

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  • The Hog Industry Strikes Back

    Swine flu H1N1 appears at one and the same time moving full-boar and on its cloven heels. The World Health Organization reports 15,510 official cases in 53 countries, with new countries regularly reporting in. An order or two more cases are likely unreported and together represent an atypical sprin ...

Digg Green

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    When you mix fresh water with salt water, a reaction happens so that a new salinity equilibrium can be reached. This dissipates energy that could be harnessed and turned into clean electricity using a new technique developed by Doriano Brogioli of the University of Milan Bicocca in Monza, Italy. Are ...

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    That's the view of some scientists and researchers -- that this experimental approach could significantly reduce warming in the short-term and give time to develop longer-term solutions. But, the scientists say, the testing and experiments on clouds must start immediately.

  • New solar-cell efficiency record set

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  • Wind farms can appear sinister to the weatherman.. ...

    Wind farms have been blamed for disrupting the lives of birds, bats and, most recently, the land-bound sage grouse.Now the weatherman?The massive spinning blades affixed to towers 200 feet high can appear on Doppler radar like a violent storm or even a tornado.

  • A Call for Open Source Genetic Engineering

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Suzie-Q

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    Attention politicians and traditional media people. Important announcement. Is everyone with me? Chuck Todd: stop applying your beard rouge and pay attention. Bartiromo: leave the cork on the fork. Okay, here we go. The public health insurance option as defined in both the Senate HELP bill and the H ...

  • Bill Moyers: Money-Driven Medicine (VIDEO)

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  • World War II: 70 Years and We’re Still Fighting

    American photographer Julien Bryan arrived in Warsaw by train on September 7, 1939, two days after the Polish government and the Yank press corps had exited the capital and just two days before the city was cut off by advancing German forces. Bryan spent his nights huddled with others in the America ...

  • Edward Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Dies

    August 27, 2009 By JOHN M. BRODER Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics, a man who knew triumph and tragedy in near-equal measure and who will be remembered as one of the most effective lawmakers in the history of the Senate, died ...

Solari

  • Community Call to Prayer

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  • China Eyes Ban on Rare Metal Exports

    By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Beijing is drawing up plans to prohibit or restrict exports of rare earth metals that are produced only in China and play a vital role in cutting edge technology, from hybrid cars and catalytic converters, to superconductors, and precision-guided weapons. A draft report by ...

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  • Martial Law via Swine Flu

    By Chelsea Schilling Pandemic bill allows health authorities to enter homes, detain without warrant. …the following states have implemented legal actions in response to the H1N1 virus: Florida – the Florida surgeon general suspended distribution permit requirements Florida statutes to allow ...

  • Bond Vigilantes Fret Over Japan

    By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Japans’s tax revenues have collapsed by 27pc over the last year, leaving it unclear how the incoming Democrats can pay for their blitz on welfare spending without flooding the debt markets. The International Monetary Fund already expects Japan’s budget deficit to top ...

    Blacklisted News

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    The Obama Administration is ignoring news reports that Russia is planning to sign a contract with Saudi Arabia, in which the Kingdom will receive over US $2 billion in Russian arms and military technology. Most likely, the contract will be signed by the end of this year.

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    A ‘telepathy’ chip that allows people to control computers, televisions and light switches by the power of thought is being developed by British scientists.

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Project Censored

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  • Analysis of Project Censored: Are We a Left-Leanin ...

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  • Infotainment Society: Junk Food News and New ...

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  • A Black President Doesn’t Mean Racism is gone in ...

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Scoop - NZ

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Independent ( London )

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    Bernard Madoff says he thought it was "game over" for his multi-billion dollar fraud in 2006, after he was cornered into handing over details of the empty bank account where he claimed to be holding his investors' money.

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    Verena Becker, the former German Red Army Faction member arrested last week over her links to a spectacular political murder committed 32 years ago, worked for years as a secret service informant, it emerged yesterday.

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  • Chinese guide betrayed us, reporters say

    Two US journalists rescued by Bill Clinton after being sentenced to 12 years' hard labour in North Korea have told how they were "violently" seized by troops after accidentally straying into the closed Stalinist state across its unmarked border with China.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran nuclear threat 'hyped': ElBaradei

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  • Ganging up on Iran

    Summary: US President Barack Obama is beginning to get a reputation for never failing to disappoint. People everywhere shared so many high hopes for the man who promised “change”, but after seven months in office the only real change is the White House dog. source: Arab News read more

  • ElBaradei Foes Leaked Stories to Force His Hand on ...

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  • Iran ready to hold nuke talks with world powers

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  • Germany and France reiterate Iran ultimatum

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The Daily Galaxy

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    About that hissing sound in your ear? In the early 19th century a startling discovery was made that proved Darwin's theory of evolution before he ever dreamed of joining the voyage of the Beagle. This discovery was made by a...

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Natural News

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    (NaturalNews) For the last several years, I've referred to drug companies as "criminal" operations. They have engaged in price fixing, marketing fraud, science fraud and many other criminal activities that we've written about here on NaturalNews. And yet, until today, they always managed to avoid th ...

  • Study Finds Illness, Medical Bills Root Cause of M ...

    (NaturalNews) Unemployment is high and retirement accounts have virtually disappeared for many folks in the wake of the current recession. Housing prices have plummeted, too. So it comes as no surprise that data just released by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts shows the total number of ...

  • Mercury in Fluorescent Light Bulbs Poisons Factory ...

    (NaturalNews) Energy efficiency for the First World comes at a high cost for factory workers in China, with high rates of mercury poisoning being reported among employees in the plants that make compact fluorescent light bulbs. In an effort to reign in global warming caused by excessive greenhouse g ...

  • Doctors Give Rat Poison to Heart Patients for Fift ...

    (NaturalNews) A Bloomberg report just told us that millions of people worldwide have been taking rat poison as a prescription blood thinner. It also said that the risk of bleeding in the brain with this drug called warfarin was one of the drug's most feared complications. It's interesting, because t ...

  • Why swine flu vaccines just don't add up: Doing th ...

    (NaturalNews) Here's a seventh grade word problem for you: If swine flu has infected one million people and killed 500, how many people might be expected to die if it infects 150 million people (assuming no major changes in the virus)? The correct answer, of course, is 75,000 people, and that's with ..

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • M & M's, Anyone ? ? ? ? (Moyers and Maher)

    This post by Glenn Greenwald summarizing Bill Moyers' appearance on the Bill Maher show last night says it all regarding the current state of affairs in the USAofexpensivehealthcare. Go . Read . Get angry. Think Progressive Party not tied to the dems or repugs . . . . (Cross-posted from Moved t ...

  • Assault rifle at Obama speech a publicity stunt

    for conservative talk radio show Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock . Hancock and "Chris", the black man carrying the assault rifle, knew each other "through their work for presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas)". "We know what we're up against," Hancock, also packing heat at the h ...

  • Think Light . . .

    INHABITAT is a neat site that showcases all sorts of green stuff, including the Solar Shanghai Pavilion, made from used CD cases . Go read all about it.

  • Money for Vote$ . . . .

    The answer to the question asked at the end: "Whoever contribute$ the mo$t $$ to my re-election campaign!" Silly voter. What was he thinking ? ? ? ? (Cross-posted from Moved to Vancouver )

  • The Emperor Strikes Back

    What is Emperor Steve fooling around with in his pocket this time? . Oooh - it's the nine new Senators he appointed yesterday. That makes 27 Cons he's appointed in less than a year , bringing his posse in the Senate up to 46 out 0f a total of 105. . G&M : "At an event in Quebec City, the Prime Mini ...

Media Matters for America

  • Sanity on hold: Fox News warns Democrats: "Don't ...

    Fox News hosts have recently fixated on the House's decision to terminate a pilot program to -- in the words of Bret Baier -- "kill the patriotic tunes callers hear when they're put on hold." Sean Hannity claimed that it "serves as a lesson to the Democrats: Don't meddle with our patriotic musi ...

  • Fox's Kelly gives "hat tip" to birther, Obama-Hit ...

    On the September 2 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom , co-host Megyn Kelly gave a "hat tip" to the blog Gateway Pundit, which Kelly said is where "we found" video of "a new effort to silence critics of the Democrats' [health care] plan." The Gateway Pundit blog has frequently pushed the ...

  • Fox News' embedded reporter Jenkins cheerleads for ...

    Despite his claim to be "simply reporting" on the Tea Party Express rallies, Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins, who is traveling with the cross-country protest bus tour, has repeatedly expressed support for the protesters, who he has referred to as "the America that Washington forgot." Fox News ...

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    Criticizing Democratic health reform bills for allowing federally subsidized health insurance plans to cover abortion, Fox News contributor Dana Perino claimed that the "Hyde Amendment was supposed to protect against" allowing health insurance plans "that get subsidies from the taxpayer dolla ...

  • Conservatives on Obama's stay-in-school speech: "I ...

    Numerous conservatives have claimed that President Obama's upcoming September 8 speech about "persisting and succeeding in school," along with classroom activities about the "importance of education," will "indoctrinate" and "brainwash" schoolchildren. Conservatives have compared Obama's address to ...

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TPM Cafe

  • George Will is Right

    I don't often say this, but George Will gets it exactly right. But before launching New Deal 2.0 in Afghanistan, the Obama administration should ask itself: If U.S. forces are there to prevent re-establishment of al-Qaeda bases -- evidently there... Sponsored Topics: Afghanistan - al-Qaeda ...

  • The Apparent Unmotivated Idiocy of Labor Union Mem ...

    Steven Brill has a long essay in the New Yorker about the long process required to fire teachers in New York City. Now, any discussion of due process, whether in firings or criminal justice, inevitably can stack the deck by... Sponsored Topics: New York City - Trade union - United States - Steve ...

  • The Guns of August, and Why the Republican Right W ...

    What we learned in August is something we've long known but keep forgetting: The most important difference between America's Democratic left and Republican right is that the left has ideas and the right has discipline. Obama and progressive supporters... Sponsored Topics: Health care - Democrats ...

  • How Progressives Should Weigh Compromises

    The 2009 battle over health care reform is soon going to come to a head in national debates and legislative specifics. President Obama will re-set the agenda when he speaks to Congress, and in all likelihood sheer survival instincts will... Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - Health care - United S ...

  • Will Israel Attack Iran This Year?

    The neocons are getting ready for another war. The same crowd that helped get us into Iraq are desperate for war with Iran (and for many of the same reasons). Former Vice President Cheney now says publicly that we could... Sponsored Topics: Iran - Dick Cheney - Israel - Iraq War - Middle East

TruthOut

  • US Extends Iraq Contract for Blackwater Firm

    Washington - State Department officials said Wednesday they have extended a contract with a subsidiary of the security firm once known as Blackwater USA despite the fact the company is not allowed to work in the country. Three officials said the contract with Presidential Airways to provide ...

  • Obama to Deliver Health Care Address to Congress

    Washington - President Barack Obama has set a major address on health care for Sept. 9 before Congress. The speech will come a day after lawmakers return from an August recess in which critics of Obama's health proposals have dominated many public forums. Some Democrats feel Obama has been t ...

  • US Officials Cancel Contract to Profile Reporters

    Washington - US military authorities in Afghanistan have terminated a contract with a company that was producing profiles of reporters seeking to cover a war that's becoming increasingly unpopular with the American public. The media analysis work being done by The Rendon Group had become a " ...

  • SEC Fumbled Five Madoff Probes, Report Finds

    Boston/Washington - US securities regulators missed repeated chances to uncover Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, a sharply critical review by a federal watchdog said on Wednesday. A summary of a report by the U.S. read more

  • American to Cut 921 Flight Attendants' Jobs

    Dallas - American Airlines is cutting 921 flight attendant jobs as it deals with an ongoing downturn in traffic and lower revenue. The airline said Tuesday that the cuts will take effect Oct. 1. American, the nation's second-largest airline, said 228 employees will be furloughed - laid o ...

The Heathlander

  • The “British method”

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

  • ‘Israel’s Terror Inside’

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

  • A culture of fear

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

  • Fighting the fash

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

  • Silencing civil society

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

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TruthHugger

  • Texas Progressive Alliance August 31, 2009

    It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No ...

  • Who Will Carry The Kennedy Torch? Op Ed

    The passing of Ted Kennedy may have dealt a blow to progressive humanitarian warriors. The Senate is missing the most effective voice for the disenfranchised. From his perch atop the mountain of comfort built by his family, Ted Kennedy used his position to battle legislative discrepancies that ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 24, 2009

    School is starting, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is prepared as always to ace the test. Here is this week’s roundup of blog highlights. From TXsharon: Woo Hoo! EPA testing has now confirmed wells are contaminated “with various substances connected with gas drillingâ€�–proof that h ...

  • Bi-Polar America – Who is Worthy of a Healthy Li ...

    The rationing of health care is already a fact of life. The new reform will remove some of that rationing and make health care a right instead of a privilege. Bi-Polar America - I am worthy, You are not. Jesus was a socialist.

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 17, 2009

    It’s time for preseason football games, but the Texas Progressive Alliance is always in midseason form. Here are this week’s blog highlights. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders why we put up with temper tantrums and intimidation from the far right? Everyone should have their say in our d ...

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Grassroots

  • Building a Movement, Haitian Style

    pigs.jpg I spent the better part of last week crisscrossing Haiti’s arid Northwest with Grassroots International’s partner the National Congress of the Peasant’s Movement of Papay (MPNKP). MPNKP is best known to our allies and friends fo ...

  • Resilient Hondurans Lead The Way To Protect Democr ...

    IMG00292.jpg Today, thousands of people will fill the streets of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. They are students, housekeepers, children and farmers from different parts of country—many of whom walked 10-12 miles a day to get to the ...

  • Yes, We Can - But Will We Join Our Neighbors to Re ...

    More than a month after the military coup in the Central American country of Honduras (for which the term “banana republic” was originally coined due to the overwhelming influence of U.S. fruit corporations in that country), the junta is still in power and shows little real sign of budging. re ...

  • They Are Afraid of Us, Because We are Not Afraid o ...

    Tom Loudon from our ally the Alliance for Responsible Trade, which is a member of the Hemispheric Social Alliance (a Grassroots International grantee) is currently in Honduras as part of an international human rights monitoring delegation. Today, August 11th, the Global Day of Action for Honduras, h ...

  • On the Global Day of Action for Honduras, Donate y ...

    Want to do something simple to help support Honduran democracy and keep the crisis in the public eye? Donate your status! It’s free, easy, and can make a huge impact. Right now, the corporate news media is mostly silent about what’s happening on the ground in Honduras and the role of US polic ...

Climate

  • September 2, 2009

    UN: Poor Nations Need $600B a Year for Climate Change (AFP) Developing nations need a $600 billion "Marshall Plan" annually to tackle climate change with support from rich nations on a scale not seen outside wartime recovery, the World Economic and Social Survey says. China Calculates High Pr ...

  • September 1, 2009

    US Climate Bill Encounters New Senate Delay (Reuters) Senate Democrats announced a new delay on climate change legislation, which could make it more difficult for President Obama to win progress on that front before a global environmental summit in December. EPA Preparing to Declare CO2 a Dange ...

  • August 31, 2009

    Japan Election Ushers in Party of Climate Action (Carbon Positive) A landslide victory for Japan’s party of near-permanent opposition has turned the country’s political scene on its head, and the country’s climate change policy along with it. New Zealand Lawmakers Give Thumbs Up to Emissi ...

  • August 29-30, 2009

    Both Sides in Energy Debate Watching Healthcare Battle (Los Angeles Times) As the battle over healthcare unfolds, its attack ads, spin-doctoring and town hall rhetoric are being watched with special attention by the combatants in Washington's next big fight -- Pres. Obama's climate plan. Leave ...

  • August 28, 2009

    Forestry leads Indonesian Agency’s Roadmap for Emissions Cuts (Reuters) An Indonesian environment agency has set out a roadmap for the government to adopt forestry, energy, transport, industrial and agriculture policies that would slash carbon emissions by the world's No. 3 emitter. Poll: O ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: David Swanson, The More Things Change

    A presidential candidate opposed to the Iraq War is elected and enters the Oval Office. Yet six months later, there are still essentially the same number of troops in Iraq as were there when his predecessor left, the same number, in fact, used in the original invasion of Iraq in March 2003. More ...

  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, From My Lai to Lockerbie

    On this one-way planet of ours, it's hard sometimes to imagine things any other way, but for a moment let's try. Imagine, for instance, that in recent years the director of Iranian intelligence oversaw a program of "extraordinary rendition" aimed at those who were believed to be prepared to commi ...

  • Tomgram: The Next War, On-Screen and Off

    [ Note for TomDispatch readers: We're back! Refreshed and ready for action, but still on a somewhat relaxed schedule until after Labor Day. The next piece will be posted Sunday night. Tom ] G.I. Joe, Post-American Hero The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism By Tom Engelhardt The Pre ...

  • Tomgram: Withdrawing by Bike from Iraq

    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: So it's sayonara for a couple of weeks. I'm taking my usual August break. TomDispatch will return sometime the week of August 24th, but will be on a limited posting schedule through Labor Day. Let me take this opportunity once again to thank those of you who hav ...

  • Tomgram: Mark Engler, Protesting at Climate Groun ...

    We're so past the Roman Empire by now that it's probably time to update the phrase "fiddling while Rome burns." What about, for instance, "writing fake letters ostensibly from real non-profit groups to weaken a climate-change bill while the planet burns"? It's true. According to the New York Ti ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Bush's Third Term? You're Living It

    — from TomDispatch It sounds like the plot for the latest summer horror movie. Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had won or stolen it, and that we were all now living (and dying) through it. With the Democrats in control of Congress ...

  • Why Glenn Beck, and Fox News, can't escape the "r ...

    Have so many blue-chip advertisers ever fled a program as quickly as the who's who of corporate America that's sprinted away from Glenn Beck in recent weeks? I certainly cannot recall ever seeing a mass exodus of this scale. The A-list collection of disgruntled Beck advertisers is staggering: Appleb ...

  • Obama's Meaningless War

    — from Truthdig True, he doesn't seem a bit like Lyndon Johnson, but the way he's headed on Afghanistan, Barack Obama is threatened with a quagmire that could bog down his presidency. LBJ also had a progressive agenda in mind, beginning with his war on poverty, but it was soon overwhelmed by the cos ...

  • In Oligarchy We Trust: Government Fattens Bank Car ...

    Is there a headline more menacing to liberals, moderates, consumers, small-business owners or free-marketeers than " Banks 'Too Big To Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger, Three Banks Issue Half the Mortgages & 2/3s of Credit Cards - Behemoths Born of the Bailout Reduce Consumer Choice "? Shouldn't any ju ...

  • The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

    The rise of video game culture has been criticized by some as encouraging violence. The theory is that the more violent and real-looking the video game is, the more it encourages its players to actually go out and reenact the game's scenes in real life. Of course, there's no scientific evidence to b ...

Ten Percent

  • Already

    Be with you soon, September already, autumn always starts -to me- with some Cocteau Twins… The memory of youth and realising you had to go back to school -freedom ending, back to conformity- always makes me sad at this time of year.

  • Friday! The Hope Blister- Dagger

  • Killing Fields of Sri Lanka

    Channel Four report- Link to unedited clip in 3GP format -Warning, shows the execution of naked bound prisoners by military personnel- A video clip received from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) evidences the way extra-judicial killings are executed in the island. The video captured in ...

  • Is The Obama Administration Victimising A Nobel Pe ...

    Via FreeGaza- After Downing Street, by Ann Wright former US diplomat:- Less than a month ago, in late July, 2009, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire (http://www.peacepeople.com/) was travelling from Dublin, Ireland to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet Peace Laureate Jody Williams to participate in p ...

  • Selection By Occupier

    Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (albeit funded by both US & NATO govts) has reports of systematic fraud, the EU are more upbeat, try to be surprised. The one candidate Ramazan Bashardost, with some real credentials in representing the Afghan people against powerful and corrupt elite ...

Paul Krugman

  • Horse-race reporting

    There's too much reporting that focuses on how policy proposals are supposedly playing, rather than what's actually in them.

  • Getting stucco

    This isn't the first time the Sunshine State has suffered from a big real estate bubble.

  • Going fishing

    Well, cycling actually.

  • A couple of notes on the 40s and 50s

    Didn't rapid population growth make it easier to deal with debt? Didn't the fact that the rest of the world was in ruins help? No.

  • 1945

    The fact is that the war left America with a big debt -- bigger, relative to our resources, than we're likely to face when the economic rescue is over. We dealt with it.

No Quarter

  • President Obama Bites The Hand That Feeds Him…Ag ...

    ABC’s Jake Tapper reported last night that the President’s Political Arm Follows His Lead in Drumming Up Support for Health Care Reform Push — by Criticizing Media. In his August 20, 2009, meeting with supporters at the Democratic National Committee and its “Organizing for Americaâ€Â ...

  • Krauthammer Nails It - Draconian Health Insurance ...

    I’m a capitalist, not a socialist. I’m a centrist, not a liberal or libertarian. I’m definitely not a Republican or a conservative, but I want this country to achieve a public health insurance policy that actually works, not pie in the sky wishful thinking. I don’t want it to bankrupt the co ...

  • A Tale Of Two Fires

    Once again, the State of California is dealing with a massive wildfire. Sadly, two firefighters lost their lives. And it is far from being over as the title of this article indicates, Fire burns 105,000 acres with no control in sight. It is hard to even grasp the breadth of this [...]

  • Placebobama

    The use of placebos in medicine is absolutely fascinating. The effects can be stunning, despite the fact that they, by their very definition, are composed of inert matter. Some may not understand that placebo effects do not result in a cure in and of themselves. Rather, when they work, people fe ...

  • Healthcare letter: for viral distribution

    I’ve written a sample letter I’m hoping to get out to as many people as possible. This is the last week of the Congressional recess and your Senators and Representatives may think they can relax. We need to keep the pressure on to make them painfully aware that we - their constituents - are migh ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Therapy News

  • Recovering from Infidelity

    By Robert F Scuka, LCSW-C. Infidelity is one of the most difficult challenges that any marriage or committed relationship can face. Infidelity is almost universally accompanied by a deep sense of betrayal and a profound loss of trust. The reason is that the one partner experiences the infidelity of ...

  • Study Links Dopamine with Ability to Block Formati ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The experience of a traumatic event can sometimes be overcome in a remarkably quick and elegant way by the mind and consciousness, but in many cases witnesses to unsettling situations are left with traumatic memories. Such memories can have a negative impact on mental ...

  • Walking in Circles Might Not Just Be a Feeling

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The notion that one is walking around in circles has a long history in personal introspection. While many people are marvelously capable of plotting out a straight and defined course to follow, others may feel as though the path ahead is as obscured and winding as it g ...

  • Need for More Attention to Mental Health in Childr ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Epilepsy is a condition which affects scores of children around the world and can have considerable negative consequences for development and personal well-being. But the issue can also lead towards complications in mental health as well as the health of families, not ...

  • An Attitude of Gratitude: Tips for Tough Times

    By Debbie Devine, MS, LPC “In the depth of winter, I finally realized that deep within me there lay an invincible summer.” A. Camus Let’s face it, life throws us curves sometimes. We all experience the ups and downs that lead some of us to seek a counselor’s help: relationship issues, money ...

Mountaintop Removal

Memeorandum

  • WH withdraws call for students to 'help' Obama (Ma ...

    Matthew Mosk / Washington Times : WH withdraws call for students to ‘help’ Obama — The Obama administration late Wednesday withdrew a recommendation that school children who watch a video featuring President Obama next week write about how they might “help the president” as part of a ...

  • The Obama Administration: MIA on Afghanistan? (Abu ...

    Abu Muqawama : The Obama Administration: MIA on Afghanistan? — So I was on the Newshour last night debating Afghanistan with a favorite of this blog and its readers, Andrew Bacevich. As readers of this blog know, I am uncomfortable when placed in the position of being expected to lustily d ...

  • U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan (Julian ...

    Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times : U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan — Support units will be replaced by up to 14,000 ‘trigger-pullers,’ and noncombat posts will be contracted out, Defense officials say. The swap will allow the U.S. to keep its troop level unchanged. — ...

  • Under fire, Obama shifts strategy (The Politico)

    The Politico : Under fire, Obama shifts strategy — Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specifying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trou ...

  • Kennedy Memoir Talks of Chappaquiddick, J.F.K. and ...

    Carl Hulse / The Caucus : Kennedy Memoir Talks of Chappaquiddick, J.F.K. and Other Presidents — In a memoir being published posthumously, Senator Edward M. Kennedy talks remorsefully about the car accident that claimed the life of Mary Jo Kopechne - a turn of events many consider a chief re ...

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China Dialogue

  • Taking the toad’s-eye view

    Dipak Gyawali, former water minister of Nepal, explains how to approach Himalayan climate-change science from the grass-roots level. Interview by Isabel Hilton. Dipak Gyawali is a former minister of water resources in Nepal and research director of the Nepal Water Conservation Foundation. Here he te ...

  • Geoengineering: do we intervene?

    A major study published today in the United Kingdom asks what role proposed geoengineering technologies could play in regulating the climate. Tan Copsey spoke to one of its contributors, Ken Caldeira. As part of a series for chinadialogue that examines the environmental and political arguments aroun ...

  • Rethinking Sino-US relations

    Many Chinese commentators worry about the risks of the United States introducing carbon tariffs. Chu Zhaogen urges them to take a long-term view. United States energy secretary Steven Chu and commerce secretary Gary Locke visited China last month to explore where there might be mutually beneficial U ...

  • Do we know change when we see it?

    An agreement between the US and China on climate change and clean energy may be more significant than its detractors initially supposed, write Banning Garrett and Jonathan Adams. Did the United States and China recently take a game-changing step on climate change and clean energy? Quite possibly so. ...

  • Building regional cooperation

    Can people across the Himalayan region mobilise to build a common, collaborative response to the impacts of climate change? Isabel Hilton interviews Mohan Munasinghe, vice chairman of the IPCC. Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist and the vice chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Appeals Court Upholds Online Gambling Ban

    A move to scuttle legislation outlawing online gambling suffered a major setback when a federal appeals court set aside constitutional and other legal challenges to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals brushed aside asse ...

  • Voting Tech Experts Sought by Feds to Develop Stan ...

    Want to help improve the design and security of voting systems made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) and other companies? The federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), which oversees the federal testing and certification of voting systems, is seeking four technol ...

  • Despite Winning $675,000, RIAA Fears Defendant is ...

    The Recording Industry Association of America took the offensive Tuesday against a college student whom a jury concluded in July must pay $675,000 for file sharing 30 songs. The RIAA asked the Massachusetts judge who presided over the Joel Tenenbaum case to issue an injunction Tuesday preventing the ...

  • CIA at Odds With Obama Over Torture, ACLU Claims

    Citing national security concerns, the Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to divulge dozens of documents in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit surrounding its torture and rendition program adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. The withholding of documents dating to Preside ...

  • 5 More Indicted in Probe of International Carding ...

    Five eastern European men were indicted in New York on Monday as part of an international ring allegedly responsible for at least $4 million in credit card theft. The ring, which authorities dubbed the Western Express Cybercrime Group, operated between 2001 and 2007 and trafficked in at least 95,00 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • NASA tracks space junk headed toward space station

    HOUSTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The International Space Station might have to fire its thrusters to avoid a piece of space junk that could pass within two miles (3.2 km) of the orbiting complex and its 13 astronauts, NASA said on Wednesday.

  • Whitney Houston comeback album headed to No. 1

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - Whitney Houston struggled with her voice during her much-hyped comeback performance on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday. But industry prognosticators don't expect the diva to trip up on the charts next week.

  • Outlook "poor" for Great Barrier Reef: study

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living organism, is under grave threat from climate warming and coastal development, and its prospects of survival are "poor," a major new report found on Wednesday.

  • Advert criticized over "young" partial nude model

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's advertising watchdog has criticized an ad for a clothing company featuring a partially nude model who appeared to be younger than 16.

  • Dying Manson follower Atkins denied parole

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Susan Atkins, a follower of mass killer Charles Manson convicted nearly four decades ago in some of the most notorious murders in U.S. history, lost her 18th bid for release on Wednesday.

Godspace

  • Latest of the Spiritual Practices Series

    The spiritual practices blog series is coming to a close. Christine has just a few more to post after this. Here’s the round-up of posts for the last month: Celebrations and Parties as a Spiritual Discipline by Kathy Escobar, The Refuge The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea by Andy Wade Netwo ...

  • Celebrations and Parties as A Spiritual Discipline

    Well the What is a Spiritual Practice blog series is winding down but I am still continuing to receive articles so I intend to continue to post them over the next few weeks. Â today’s article comes from Kathy Escobar . Â Kathy describes herself as mommy. wife. friend. pot-stirrer. shepherd. fo ...

  • The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea

    Today’s post which seems very appropriate for me when I am heading off for a few relaxing days when I know I will be drinking lots of tea, is written by Andrew Wade He and his family have recently returned from several years working in Hong Kong where Andy worked as a Mennonite pastor. Â [...]

  • Networking as a Spiritual Practice

    I have been a little slow with posting today because Tom and I are on the road again. We are heading for a few days off in British Columbia with some friends but I wanted to make sure that I posted the last of the articles I have received for the What is a Spiritual [...]

  • Mothering as a Spiritual Practice

    Another beautiful day in Seattle and Tom and I are getting ready for a few days vacation up on Mayne Island, one of the Canadian gulf islands. Â The weather is supposed to be good and I am really looking forward to a few days off – hoping that the blackberries and apples are ready like [...]

Equality Trust

IntelNews

  • US spy agencies still lack foreign language expert ...

    A US media outlet has finally followed up on the warnings, made by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last July, about the lack of trained foreign-language speakers in the US intelligence community.

  • News you may have missed #0091

    McCain denies private agreement with CIA torture tactic. CIA rejects further declassifications on torture-related material. Taliban kill Afghan intelligence chief.

  • Document release offers new clues on MI5 activitie ...

    A batch of intelligence documents from the immediate post-World War II period released this week by Britain’s National Archives offer glimpses into previously unknown activities by MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence service.

  • Ex-CIA agent says Cheney “damaged the CIA more t ...

    Robert Baer, the retired CIA field officer whose bestselling memoir, See No Evil, formed the basis of the 2005 motion picture Syriana, has said that former Vice President’ Dick Cheney “damaged the CIA more than anybody has, including the press or the Department of Justice”.

  • News you may have missed #0090

    CIA's black sites, illuminated. Russian agents try to influence Czech politicians, says intelligence report. South Korean arrested for collaborating with North Korean spy.

PsyBlog

  • Group Polarization: The Trend to Extreme Decisions

    Say you put 10 people in a room and asked them to design a car. Would they design something average or something wacky? Would they be more likely to come up with the Ford Focus or 'The Homer', designed by Homer Simpson in this classic episode of The Simpsons? To help you decide, it's [...] » Try ...

  • The Acceptance Prophesy: How You Control Who Likes ...

    · Is interpersonal attraction a self-fulfilling prophesy? The mystical-sounding 'acceptance prophesy' is simply this: when we think other people are going to like us, we behave more warmly towards them and consequently they like us more. When we think other people aren't going to like us, we beha ...

  • Brainstorming Reloaded

    · Why brainstorming is ineffective and how to fix it. Brainstorming was once thought a fantastic way for groups to generate new ideas. Although not as fashionable as it once was, brainstorming is still frequently used in business and, often inadvertently, for all sorts of personal decisions; peop ...

  • Consumer Psychology

    · How and why we consume and how our beliefs, ideas and senses influence consumption. Peter Drucker, the management consultant, famously argued that about 80% of all products and services fail or fall well short of targets within six months of launching. Clearly markets have little understanding ...

  • Why Left to Right Punches Are More Aggressive, Pow ...

    Reading and writing from left to right is a skill so well-practised, so ingrained in language, that it's easy to ignore. Yet, according to some research, the direction in which language flows could have implications that spread into many other areas of our experience. Consider that people are often ...

After Downing Street.org

  • The Firestorm Ahead

    The Firestorm Ahead By Immanuel Wallerstein | Middle East Online There is a firestorm ahead in the Middle East for which neither the US government nor the US public is prepared. The storm will go from Iraq to Afghanistan to Pakistan to Israel/Palestine, says Immanuel Wallerstein. There is a firesto ...

  • CEO's Earning 300 Times More Than the Average Work ...

    CEO's Earning 300 Times More Than the Average Worker By Dan Arnall | ABC Newser The overall CEO-to-worker pay gap is exceptionally high; S&P 500 CEOs in 2008 earned 319 times more than the average worker. The liberal think tank Institute for Policy Studies is out with a report on excessive executiv ...

  • Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3B Penalty for Drug Promos

    Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3B Penalty for Drug Promos Repeat offender Pfizer paying record $2.3B settlement for illegal drug promotions By Devlin Barrett, Associated Press | ABC News.com As part of its illegal marketing, Pfizer invited doctors to consultant meetings at resort locations, paying their ...

  • Notes From Dennis Kucinich's Appearance At Progres ...

    Attendee's Notes from Dennis Kucinich's appearance at Progressive Democrats of America meeting in Ohio, August 22, 2009: "The health debate is about the purposes of government - the Constitution says the government exists to promote the general welfare..." (Interesting that two other Ohio Congress ...

  • Californians/Nevadans Protest Bybee Tomorrow, 9/3/ ...

    BYE BYE BYBEE: IMPEACH & ARREST THE TORTURE JUDGE Thursday, September 4, noon-2 p.m. Ninth Circuit Court, 7th & Mission, San Francisco Map PINKS and friends are invited to come to the Ninth Circuit Court at 7th & Mission this Thursday to protest "torture judge" Bybee's lifetime appointment to the ...

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  • Asus rumored to sell cheaper ultra-thin laptop nex ...

    Apple’s MacBook Air will soon be challenged on its super-slimness, by Windows-powered computers from Asus, Acer and MSI that may lack Apple’s aluminum-cased pizazz, but will cost a lot less. Digitimes reports that Asus, maker of the low-cost Eee PC netbook, will begin selling two ultra-slim n ...

  • Birthday cannon

    Happy birthday, here's your cannon ... @ Dailymail Mike Daugherty asked his 11-year-old son Logan what he wanted for his birthday. The boy said, "I want a cannon." Dad didn't scoff at Logan's request by saying, "How about a hippopotamus instead," as a Christmas song from another era lamented. No ...

  • I-Swarm, real micro-sized robots!

    These tiny I-Swarm (Intelligent Small-World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation) robots are incredibly neat! They move by using a piezoelectric transducer to vibrate across a surface in a manner similar to a bristlebot, only controllable. Because they are vibrating at audible frequencies, ...

  • Home-haircut indicator: In the footsteps of the un ...

    Filed under: Columns , Economic data , Recession , Comic Relief So, who out there cuts their own hair? I do, mainly because it is fading fast and it is a lot easier to have my wife take the clippers and then razor to my head rather than paying to go get my hair cut professionally. Now that I ...

  • Joe Jackson says ?someone should pay? for son Mich ...

    Joe Jackson: ‘Someone should pay’ for son’s death NEW YORK ? Michael Jackson’s father says he’d never heard of the drug propofol until it was implicated in his son’s death. “I’m not angry. I’m mad,” Joe Jackson said in an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show. ...

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Washington Independent

  • Rachel Maddow and Spencer Ackerman: Real Talk on A ...

    TWI’s own Spencer Ackerman appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday to discuss Afghanistan, contractors, and the shocking scandal that has recently come to light. In case you missed it, here’s the video (after the jump). Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and New ...

  • Grassley Blasts Wasteful Medicare Spending

    Medicare and its beneficiaries paid four times the average supplier cost for standard-issue power wheelchairs in the first half of 2007, according to a report released Wednesday by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. The news drew the immediate condemnation of Sen. ...

  • Curt Schilling Hearts Ann Coulter

    As long as people are discussing the possibility of legendary Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling running for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, they should check out his blog. From August 8: Ann Coulter might be extreme, but damn the woman is intelligent in ways that piss so many people off. You have to ...

  • Gary Bauer: Obama’s Speech to Children Is an ...

    Gary Bauer, the religious conservative leader who was undersecretary of Education under President Reagan, and who now runs American Values, tells supporters in his daily email that the president’s Sept. 8 speech to schoolchildren is an example of the White House “using its power in unprecedented ...

  • The Waiting Room

    Here’s a brief summary of the day’s health care news. President Obama is slated to address a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9 to lay out more detailed demands for health care reform, ABC News reported today. The move — which came on the heels of a written invitation from House Speaker Nan ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • ‘Biosecure’ Farms Not So Biosecure

    There are times when perniciously false premises are treated as the criteria by which truth is determined. We lose the argument before it’s begun. And where does that leave us in our efforts to control mortal dangers of our own making? Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business | Note-it! ...

  • Raw milk “Pepsi challenge” in Romania

    “Raw milk is very easy to find, here in Romania. Bunici (grandmas) typically stand on the busy before-noon street corners, and lean against brick walls or warped garden rails. Placed before them are a few ‘recycled’ 2-liter soda bottles filled with Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbeat | ...

  • Irish Call For Total EU Ban on Brazilian Beef

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

  • Health care debate creates new diseases

    URGENT New Flash… Breaking News…The Center for Disease Control has identified a new strain of the Mad Cow Disease called Insane Donkey Virus running rampant among elected officials, Obama Administration personnel and high profile personalities. The CDC be Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbe ...

  • Coroners 'should test for CJD to monitor spread of ...

    Coroners are refusing to carry out post-mortem tests for an infection which causes the human form of BSE despite pleas that they could help monitor the spread of the disease, it was reported today. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-120 Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Society & ...

Why Organic

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

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

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

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

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

    “THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM” = 666 — “WHICH NUMBER REPRESENTS JESUS CHRIST” = 666 —” THE ARYAN BROTHERHOOD” = 666. _______________ Using the english alphabet A = 1  B= 2   etc. Write out the phrase and assign the numbers under them. Now, add it vertically as you no ...

  • THE HPV VACCINE and our daughters….

    In case you missed my posting about the HPV VACCINE….I am including a link to it. http://whyorganic.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/do-not-give-your-daughter-hpv-vaccine

  • BIG MEDIA RULINGS

     Senate Committee Votes to Throw Out FCC RulesThe Senate Commerce Committee passed a “resolution of disapproval” that would veto the FCC’s latest attempt to dismantle longstanding media ownership limits. Free Press  Senate Panel Rejects New Media Ownership Rule A Senate committee vo ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • EDITORIAL: False reports about guns

    Washington Times Editorial Many media outlets have misfired about guns. Countless newspapers and television networks — from CBS to MSNBC — have misreported that conservative protesters are threatening President Obama with guns at public events. It hasn’t happened. In Portsmouth, N.H., a man ca ...

  • Why Our Great-Grandparents were Happier Than We Ar ...

    Bayers Heroin A bottle of Bayer’s heroin.. Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with strong cough Coca Wine, anyone? Metcalf Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market . Eve ...

  • Schoolgirls rumble Ribena vitamin claims

    By Jeevan Vasagar Two New Zealand schoolgirls humbled one of the world’s biggest food and drugs companies after their school science experiment found that their ready-to-drink Ribena contained almost no trace of vitamin C. Students Anna Devathasan and Jenny Suo tested the blackcurrant cordial agai ...

  • Pregnant women express fears over swine flu vaccin ...

    By Sarah Boseley Almost half of all pregnant women say they will refuse to be vaccinated against swine flu once the jab is available, suggesting there is widespread concern about its safety, a poll has revealed. Pregnant women are one of the target groups for vaccination identified by experts advisi ...

  • Fox News Poll: Majority Think Swine Flu Vaccine De ...

    Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, August 28, 2009 According to a Fox News poll, the majority of respondents think that the swine flu vaccine is deadlier than the actual virus itself, emphasizing the growing momentum in the revolt against government plans to institute mass H1N1 vaccination ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • M & M's, Anyone ? ? ? ? (Moyers and Maher)

    This post by Glenn Greenwald summarizing Bill Moyers' appearance on the Bill Maher show last night says it all regarding the current state of affairs in the USAofexpensivehealthcare. Go . Read . Get angry. Think Progressive Party not tied to the dems or repugs . . . . (Cross-posted from Moved t ...

  • Assault rifle at Obama speech a publicity stunt

    for conservative talk radio show Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock . Hancock and "Chris", the black man carrying the assault rifle, knew each other "through their work for presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas)". "We know what we're up against," Hancock, also packing heat at the h ...

  • Think Light . . .

    INHABITAT is a neat site that showcases all sorts of green stuff, including the Solar Shanghai Pavilion, made from used CD cases . Go read all about it.

  • Money for Vote$ . . . .

    The answer to the question asked at the end: "Whoever contribute$ the mo$t $$ to my re-election campaign!" Silly voter. What was he thinking ? ? ? ? (Cross-posted from Moved to Vancouver )

  • The Emperor Strikes Back

    What is Emperor Steve fooling around with in his pocket this time? . Oooh - it's the nine new Senators he appointed yesterday. That makes 27 Cons he's appointed in less than a year , bringing his posse in the Senate up to 46 out 0f a total of 105. . G&M : "At an event in Quebec City, the Prime Mini ...

Media Matters for America

  • Sanity on hold: Fox News warns Democrats: "Don't ...

    Fox News hosts have recently fixated on the House's decision to terminate a pilot program to -- in the words of Bret Baier -- "kill the patriotic tunes callers hear when they're put on hold." Sean Hannity claimed that it "serves as a lesson to the Democrats: Don't meddle with our patriotic musi ...

  • Fox's Kelly gives "hat tip" to birther, Obama-Hit ...

    On the September 2 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom , co-host Megyn Kelly gave a "hat tip" to the blog Gateway Pundit, which Kelly said is where "we found" video of "a new effort to silence critics of the Democrats' [health care] plan." The Gateway Pundit blog has frequently pushed the ...

  • Fox News' embedded reporter Jenkins cheerleads for ...

    Despite his claim to be "simply reporting" on the Tea Party Express rallies, Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins, who is traveling with the cross-country protest bus tour, has repeatedly expressed support for the protesters, who he has referred to as "the America that Washington forgot." Fox News ...

  • Perino falsely suggests allowing federally subsid ...

    Criticizing Democratic health reform bills for allowing federally subsidized health insurance plans to cover abortion, Fox News contributor Dana Perino claimed that the "Hyde Amendment was supposed to protect against" allowing health insurance plans "that get subsidies from the taxpayer dolla ...

  • Conservatives on Obama's stay-in-school speech: "I ...

    Numerous conservatives have claimed that President Obama's upcoming September 8 speech about "persisting and succeeding in school," along with classroom activities about the "importance of education," will "indoctrinate" and "brainwash" schoolchildren. Conservatives have compared Obama's address to ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • George Will is Right

    I don't often say this, but George Will gets it exactly right. But before launching New Deal 2.0 in Afghanistan, the Obama administration should ask itself: If U.S. forces are there to prevent re-establishment of al-Qaeda bases -- evidently there... Sponsored Topics: Afghanistan - al-Qaeda ...

  • The Apparent Unmotivated Idiocy of Labor Union Mem ...

    Steven Brill has a long essay in the New Yorker about the long process required to fire teachers in New York City. Now, any discussion of due process, whether in firings or criminal justice, inevitably can stack the deck by... Sponsored Topics: New York City - Trade union - United States - Steve ...

  • The Guns of August, and Why the Republican Right W ...

    What we learned in August is something we've long known but keep forgetting: The most important difference between America's Democratic left and Republican right is that the left has ideas and the right has discipline. Obama and progressive supporters... Sponsored Topics: Health care - Democrats ...

  • How Progressives Should Weigh Compromises

    The 2009 battle over health care reform is soon going to come to a head in national debates and legislative specifics. President Obama will re-set the agenda when he speaks to Congress, and in all likelihood sheer survival instincts will... Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - Health care - United S ...

  • Will Israel Attack Iran This Year?

    The neocons are getting ready for another war. The same crowd that helped get us into Iraq are desperate for war with Iran (and for many of the same reasons). Former Vice President Cheney now says publicly that we could... Sponsored Topics: Iran - Dick Cheney - Israel - Iraq War - Middle East

TruthOut

  • US Extends Iraq Contract for Blackwater Firm

    Washington - State Department officials said Wednesday they have extended a contract with a subsidiary of the security firm once known as Blackwater USA despite the fact the company is not allowed to work in the country. Three officials said the contract with Presidential Airways to provide ...

  • Obama to Deliver Health Care Address to Congress

    Washington - President Barack Obama has set a major address on health care for Sept. 9 before Congress. The speech will come a day after lawmakers return from an August recess in which critics of Obama's health proposals have dominated many public forums. Some Democrats feel Obama has been t ...

  • US Officials Cancel Contract to Profile Reporters

    Washington - US military authorities in Afghanistan have terminated a contract with a company that was producing profiles of reporters seeking to cover a war that's becoming increasingly unpopular with the American public. The media analysis work being done by The Rendon Group had become a " ...

  • SEC Fumbled Five Madoff Probes, Report Finds

    Boston/Washington - US securities regulators missed repeated chances to uncover Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, a sharply critical review by a federal watchdog said on Wednesday. A summary of a report by the U.S. read more

  • American to Cut 921 Flight Attendants' Jobs

    Dallas - American Airlines is cutting 921 flight attendant jobs as it deals with an ongoing downturn in traffic and lower revenue. The airline said Tuesday that the cuts will take effect Oct. 1. American, the nation's second-largest airline, said 228 employees will be furloughed - laid o ...

The Heathlander

  • The “British method”

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

  • ‘Israel’s Terror Inside’

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

  • A culture of fear

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

  • Fighting the fash

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

  • Silencing civil society

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

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Texas Progressive Alliance August 31, 2009

    It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No ...

  • Who Will Carry The Kennedy Torch? Op Ed

    The passing of Ted Kennedy may have dealt a blow to progressive humanitarian warriors. The Senate is missing the most effective voice for the disenfranchised. From his perch atop the mountain of comfort built by his family, Ted Kennedy used his position to battle legislative discrepancies that ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 24, 2009

    School is starting, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is prepared as always to ace the test. Here is this week’s roundup of blog highlights. From TXsharon: Woo Hoo! EPA testing has now confirmed wells are contaminated “with various substances connected with gas drillingâ€�–proof that h ...

  • Bi-Polar America – Who is Worthy of a Healthy Li ...

    The rationing of health care is already a fact of life. The new reform will remove some of that rationing and make health care a right instead of a privilege. Bi-Polar America - I am worthy, You are not. Jesus was a socialist.

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 17, 2009

    It’s time for preseason football games, but the Texas Progressive Alliance is always in midseason form. Here are this week’s blog highlights. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders why we put up with temper tantrums and intimidation from the far right? Everyone should have their say in our d ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Building a Movement, Haitian Style

    pigs.jpg I spent the better part of last week crisscrossing Haiti’s arid Northwest with Grassroots International’s partner the National Congress of the Peasant’s Movement of Papay (MPNKP). MPNKP is best known to our allies and friends fo ...

  • Resilient Hondurans Lead The Way To Protect Democr ...

    IMG00292.jpg Today, thousands of people will fill the streets of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. They are students, housekeepers, children and farmers from different parts of country—many of whom walked 10-12 miles a day to get to the ...

  • Yes, We Can - But Will We Join Our Neighbors to Re ...

    More than a month after the military coup in the Central American country of Honduras (for which the term “banana republic” was originally coined due to the overwhelming influence of U.S. fruit corporations in that country), the junta is still in power and shows little real sign of budging. re ...

  • They Are Afraid of Us, Because We are Not Afraid o ...

    Tom Loudon from our ally the Alliance for Responsible Trade, which is a member of the Hemispheric Social Alliance (a Grassroots International grantee) is currently in Honduras as part of an international human rights monitoring delegation. Today, August 11th, the Global Day of Action for Honduras, h ...

  • On the Global Day of Action for Honduras, Donate y ...

    Want to do something simple to help support Honduran democracy and keep the crisis in the public eye? Donate your status! It’s free, easy, and can make a huge impact. Right now, the corporate news media is mostly silent about what’s happening on the ground in Honduras and the role of US polic ...

Climate

  • September 2, 2009

    UN: Poor Nations Need $600B a Year for Climate Change (AFP) Developing nations need a $600 billion "Marshall Plan" annually to tackle climate change with support from rich nations on a scale not seen outside wartime recovery, the World Economic and Social Survey says. China Calculates High Pr ...

  • September 1, 2009

    US Climate Bill Encounters New Senate Delay (Reuters) Senate Democrats announced a new delay on climate change legislation, which could make it more difficult for President Obama to win progress on that front before a global environmental summit in December. EPA Preparing to Declare CO2 a Dange ...

  • August 31, 2009

    Japan Election Ushers in Party of Climate Action (Carbon Positive) A landslide victory for Japan’s party of near-permanent opposition has turned the country’s political scene on its head, and the country’s climate change policy along with it. New Zealand Lawmakers Give Thumbs Up to Emissi ...

  • August 29-30, 2009

    Both Sides in Energy Debate Watching Healthcare Battle (Los Angeles Times) As the battle over healthcare unfolds, its attack ads, spin-doctoring and town hall rhetoric are being watched with special attention by the combatants in Washington's next big fight -- Pres. Obama's climate plan. Leave ...

  • August 28, 2009

    Forestry leads Indonesian Agency’s Roadmap for Emissions Cuts (Reuters) An Indonesian environment agency has set out a roadmap for the government to adopt forestry, energy, transport, industrial and agriculture policies that would slash carbon emissions by the world's No. 3 emitter. Poll: O ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: David Swanson, The More Things Change

    A presidential candidate opposed to the Iraq War is elected and enters the Oval Office. Yet six months later, there are still essentially the same number of troops in Iraq as were there when his predecessor left, the same number, in fact, used in the original invasion of Iraq in March 2003. More ...

  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, From My Lai to Lockerbie

    On this one-way planet of ours, it's hard sometimes to imagine things any other way, but for a moment let's try. Imagine, for instance, that in recent years the director of Iranian intelligence oversaw a program of "extraordinary rendition" aimed at those who were believed to be prepared to commi ...

  • Tomgram: The Next War, On-Screen and Off

    [ Note for TomDispatch readers: We're back! Refreshed and ready for action, but still on a somewhat relaxed schedule until after Labor Day. The next piece will be posted Sunday night. Tom ] G.I. Joe, Post-American Hero The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism By Tom Engelhardt The Pre ...

  • Tomgram: Withdrawing by Bike from Iraq

    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: So it's sayonara for a couple of weeks. I'm taking my usual August break. TomDispatch will return sometime the week of August 24th, but will be on a limited posting schedule through Labor Day. Let me take this opportunity once again to thank those of you who hav ...

  • Tomgram: Mark Engler, Protesting at Climate Groun ...

    We're so past the Roman Empire by now that it's probably time to update the phrase "fiddling while Rome burns." What about, for instance, "writing fake letters ostensibly from real non-profit groups to weaken a climate-change bill while the planet burns"? It's true. According to the New York Ti ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Bush's Third Term? You're Living It

    — from TomDispatch It sounds like the plot for the latest summer horror movie. Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had won or stolen it, and that we were all now living (and dying) through it. With the Democrats in control of Congress ...

  • Why Glenn Beck, and Fox News, can't escape the "r ...

    Have so many blue-chip advertisers ever fled a program as quickly as the who's who of corporate America that's sprinted away from Glenn Beck in recent weeks? I certainly cannot recall ever seeing a mass exodus of this scale. The A-list collection of disgruntled Beck advertisers is staggering: Appleb ...

  • Obama's Meaningless War

    — from Truthdig True, he doesn't seem a bit like Lyndon Johnson, but the way he's headed on Afghanistan, Barack Obama is threatened with a quagmire that could bog down his presidency. LBJ also had a progressive agenda in mind, beginning with his war on poverty, but it was soon overwhelmed by the cos ...

  • In Oligarchy We Trust: Government Fattens Bank Car ...

    Is there a headline more menacing to liberals, moderates, consumers, small-business owners or free-marketeers than " Banks 'Too Big To Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger, Three Banks Issue Half the Mortgages & 2/3s of Credit Cards - Behemoths Born of the Bailout Reduce Consumer Choice "? Shouldn't any ju ...

  • The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

    The rise of video game culture has been criticized by some as encouraging violence. The theory is that the more violent and real-looking the video game is, the more it encourages its players to actually go out and reenact the game's scenes in real life. Of course, there's no scientific evidence to b ...

Ten Percent

  • Already

    Be with you soon, September already, autumn always starts -to me- with some Cocteau Twins… The memory of youth and realising you had to go back to school -freedom ending, back to conformity- always makes me sad at this time of year.

  • Friday! The Hope Blister- Dagger

  • Killing Fields of Sri Lanka

    Channel Four report- Link to unedited clip in 3GP format -Warning, shows the execution of naked bound prisoners by military personnel- A video clip received from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) evidences the way extra-judicial killings are executed in the island. The video captured in ...

  • Is The Obama Administration Victimising A Nobel Pe ...

    Via FreeGaza- After Downing Street, by Ann Wright former US diplomat:- Less than a month ago, in late July, 2009, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire (http://www.peacepeople.com/) was travelling from Dublin, Ireland to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet Peace Laureate Jody Williams to participate in p ...

  • Selection By Occupier

    Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (albeit funded by both US & NATO govts) has reports of systematic fraud, the EU are more upbeat, try to be surprised. The one candidate Ramazan Bashardost, with some real credentials in representing the Afghan people against powerful and corrupt elite ...

Paul Krugman

  • Horse-race reporting

    There's too much reporting that focuses on how policy proposals are supposedly playing, rather than what's actually in them.

  • Getting stucco

    This isn't the first time the Sunshine State has suffered from a big real estate bubble.

  • Going fishing

    Well, cycling actually.

  • A couple of notes on the 40s and 50s

    Didn't rapid population growth make it easier to deal with debt? Didn't the fact that the rest of the world was in ruins help? No.

  • 1945

    The fact is that the war left America with a big debt -- bigger, relative to our resources, than we're likely to face when the economic rescue is over. We dealt with it.

No Quarter

  • President Obama Bites The Hand That Feeds Him…Ag ...

    ABC’s Jake Tapper reported last night that the President’s Political Arm Follows His Lead in Drumming Up Support for Health Care Reform Push — by Criticizing Media. In his August 20, 2009, meeting with supporters at the Democratic National Committee and its “Organizing for Americaâ€Â ...

  • Krauthammer Nails It - Draconian Health Insurance ...

    I’m a capitalist, not a socialist. I’m a centrist, not a liberal or libertarian. I’m definitely not a Republican or a conservative, but I want this country to achieve a public health insurance policy that actually works, not pie in the sky wishful thinking. I don’t want it to bankrupt the co ...

  • A Tale Of Two Fires

    Once again, the State of California is dealing with a massive wildfire. Sadly, two firefighters lost their lives. And it is far from being over as the title of this article indicates, Fire burns 105,000 acres with no control in sight. It is hard to even grasp the breadth of this [...]

  • Placebobama

    The use of placebos in medicine is absolutely fascinating. The effects can be stunning, despite the fact that they, by their very definition, are composed of inert matter. Some may not understand that placebo effects do not result in a cure in and of themselves. Rather, when they work, people fe ...

  • Healthcare letter: for viral distribution

    I’ve written a sample letter I’m hoping to get out to as many people as possible. This is the last week of the Congressional recess and your Senators and Representatives may think they can relax. We need to keep the pressure on to make them painfully aware that we - their constituents - are migh ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Therapy News

  • Recovering from Infidelity

    By Robert F Scuka, LCSW-C. Infidelity is one of the most difficult challenges that any marriage or committed relationship can face. Infidelity is almost universally accompanied by a deep sense of betrayal and a profound loss of trust. The reason is that the one partner experiences the infidelity of ...

  • Study Links Dopamine with Ability to Block Formati ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The experience of a traumatic event can sometimes be overcome in a remarkably quick and elegant way by the mind and consciousness, but in many cases witnesses to unsettling situations are left with traumatic memories. Such memories can have a negative impact on mental ...

  • Walking in Circles Might Not Just Be a Feeling

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The notion that one is walking around in circles has a long history in personal introspection. While many people are marvelously capable of plotting out a straight and defined course to follow, others may feel as though the path ahead is as obscured and winding as it g ...

  • Need for More Attention to Mental Health in Childr ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Epilepsy is a condition which affects scores of children around the world and can have considerable negative consequences for development and personal well-being. But the issue can also lead towards complications in mental health as well as the health of families, not ...

  • An Attitude of Gratitude: Tips for Tough Times

    By Debbie Devine, MS, LPC “In the depth of winter, I finally realized that deep within me there lay an invincible summer.” A. Camus Let’s face it, life throws us curves sometimes. We all experience the ups and downs that lead some of us to seek a counselor’s help: relationship issues, money ...

Mountaintop Removal

Memeorandum

  • WH withdraws call for students to 'help' Obama (Ma ...

    Matthew Mosk / Washington Times : WH withdraws call for students to ‘help’ Obama — The Obama administration late Wednesday withdrew a recommendation that school children who watch a video featuring President Obama next week write about how they might “help the president” as part of a ...

  • The Obama Administration: MIA on Afghanistan? (Abu ...

    Abu Muqawama : The Obama Administration: MIA on Afghanistan? — So I was on the Newshour last night debating Afghanistan with a favorite of this blog and its readers, Andrew Bacevich. As readers of this blog know, I am uncomfortable when placed in the position of being expected to lustily d ...

  • U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan (Julian ...

    Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times : U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan — Support units will be replaced by up to 14,000 ‘trigger-pullers,’ and noncombat posts will be contracted out, Defense officials say. The swap will allow the U.S. to keep its troop level unchanged. — ...

  • Under fire, Obama shifts strategy (The Politico)

    The Politico : Under fire, Obama shifts strategy — Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specifying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trou ...

  • Kennedy Memoir Talks of Chappaquiddick, J.F.K. and ...

    Carl Hulse / The Caucus : Kennedy Memoir Talks of Chappaquiddick, J.F.K. and Other Presidents — In a memoir being published posthumously, Senator Edward M. Kennedy talks remorsefully about the car accident that claimed the life of Mary Jo Kopechne - a turn of events many consider a chief re ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Taking the toad’s-eye view

    Dipak Gyawali, former water minister of Nepal, explains how to approach Himalayan climate-change science from the grass-roots level. Interview by Isabel Hilton. Dipak Gyawali is a former minister of water resources in Nepal and research director of the Nepal Water Conservation Foundation. Here he te ...

  • Geoengineering: do we intervene?

    A major study published today in the United Kingdom asks what role proposed geoengineering technologies could play in regulating the climate. Tan Copsey spoke to one of its contributors, Ken Caldeira. As part of a series for chinadialogue that examines the environmental and political arguments aroun ...

  • Rethinking Sino-US relations

    Many Chinese commentators worry about the risks of the United States introducing carbon tariffs. Chu Zhaogen urges them to take a long-term view. United States energy secretary Steven Chu and commerce secretary Gary Locke visited China last month to explore where there might be mutually beneficial U ...

  • Do we know change when we see it?

    An agreement between the US and China on climate change and clean energy may be more significant than its detractors initially supposed, write Banning Garrett and Jonathan Adams. Did the United States and China recently take a game-changing step on climate change and clean energy? Quite possibly so. ...

  • Building regional cooperation

    Can people across the Himalayan region mobilise to build a common, collaborative response to the impacts of climate change? Isabel Hilton interviews Mohan Munasinghe, vice chairman of the IPCC. Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist and the vice chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Appeals Court Upholds Online Gambling Ban

    A move to scuttle legislation outlawing online gambling suffered a major setback when a federal appeals court set aside constitutional and other legal challenges to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals brushed aside asse ...

  • Voting Tech Experts Sought by Feds to Develop Stan ...

    Want to help improve the design and security of voting systems made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) and other companies? The federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), which oversees the federal testing and certification of voting systems, is seeking four technol ...

  • Despite Winning $675,000, RIAA Fears Defendant is ...

    The Recording Industry Association of America took the offensive Tuesday against a college student whom a jury concluded in July must pay $675,000 for file sharing 30 songs. The RIAA asked the Massachusetts judge who presided over the Joel Tenenbaum case to issue an injunction Tuesday preventing the ...

  • CIA at Odds With Obama Over Torture, ACLU Claims

    Citing national security concerns, the Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to divulge dozens of documents in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit surrounding its torture and rendition program adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. The withholding of documents dating to Preside ...

  • 5 More Indicted in Probe of International Carding ...

    Five eastern European men were indicted in New York on Monday as part of an international ring allegedly responsible for at least $4 million in credit card theft. The ring, which authorities dubbed the Western Express Cybercrime Group, operated between 2001 and 2007 and trafficked in at least 95,00 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • NASA tracks space junk headed toward space station

    HOUSTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The International Space Station might have to fire its thrusters to avoid a piece of space junk that could pass within two miles (3.2 km) of the orbiting complex and its 13 astronauts, NASA said on Wednesday.

  • Whitney Houston comeback album headed to No. 1

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - Whitney Houston struggled with her voice during her much-hyped comeback performance on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday. But industry prognosticators don't expect the diva to trip up on the charts next week.

  • Outlook "poor" for Great Barrier Reef: study

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living organism, is under grave threat from climate warming and coastal development, and its prospects of survival are "poor," a major new report found on Wednesday.

  • Advert criticized over "young" partial nude model

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's advertising watchdog has criticized an ad for a clothing company featuring a partially nude model who appeared to be younger than 16.

  • Dying Manson follower Atkins denied parole

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Susan Atkins, a follower of mass killer Charles Manson convicted nearly four decades ago in some of the most notorious murders in U.S. history, lost her 18th bid for release on Wednesday.

Godspace

  • Latest of the Spiritual Practices Series

    The spiritual practices blog series is coming to a close. Christine has just a few more to post after this. Here’s the round-up of posts for the last month: Celebrations and Parties as a Spiritual Discipline by Kathy Escobar, The Refuge The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea by Andy Wade Netwo ...

  • Celebrations and Parties as A Spiritual Discipline

    Well the What is a Spiritual Practice blog series is winding down but I am still continuing to receive articles so I intend to continue to post them over the next few weeks. Â today’s article comes from Kathy Escobar . Â Kathy describes herself as mommy. wife. friend. pot-stirrer. shepherd. fo ...

  • The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea

    Today’s post which seems very appropriate for me when I am heading off for a few relaxing days when I know I will be drinking lots of tea, is written by Andrew Wade He and his family have recently returned from several years working in Hong Kong where Andy worked as a Mennonite pastor. Â [...]

  • Networking as a Spiritual Practice

    I have been a little slow with posting today because Tom and I are on the road again. We are heading for a few days off in British Columbia with some friends but I wanted to make sure that I posted the last of the articles I have received for the What is a Spiritual [...]

  • Mothering as a Spiritual Practice

    Another beautiful day in Seattle and Tom and I are getting ready for a few days vacation up on Mayne Island, one of the Canadian gulf islands. Â The weather is supposed to be good and I am really looking forward to a few days off – hoping that the blackberries and apples are ready like [...]

Equality Trust

IntelNews

  • US spy agencies still lack foreign language expert ...

    A US media outlet has finally followed up on the warnings, made by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last July, about the lack of trained foreign-language speakers in the US intelligence community.

  • News you may have missed #0091

    McCain denies private agreement with CIA torture tactic. CIA rejects further declassifications on torture-related material. Taliban kill Afghan intelligence chief.

  • Document release offers new clues on MI5 activitie ...

    A batch of intelligence documents from the immediate post-World War II period released this week by Britain’s National Archives offer glimpses into previously unknown activities by MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence service.

  • Ex-CIA agent says Cheney “damaged the CIA more t ...

    Robert Baer, the retired CIA field officer whose bestselling memoir, See No Evil, formed the basis of the 2005 motion picture Syriana, has said that former Vice President’ Dick Cheney “damaged the CIA more than anybody has, including the press or the Department of Justice”.

  • News you may have missed #0090

    CIA's black sites, illuminated. Russian agents try to influence Czech politicians, says intelligence report. South Korean arrested for collaborating with North Korean spy.

PsyBlog

  • Group Polarization: The Trend to Extreme Decisions

    Say you put 10 people in a room and asked them to design a car. Would they design something average or something wacky? Would they be more likely to come up with the Ford Focus or 'The Homer', designed by Homer Simpson in this classic episode of The Simpsons? To help you decide, it's [...] » Try ...

  • The Acceptance Prophesy: How You Control Who Likes ...

    · Is interpersonal attraction a self-fulfilling prophesy? The mystical-sounding 'acceptance prophesy' is simply this: when we think other people are going to like us, we behave more warmly towards them and consequently they like us more. When we think other people aren't going to like us, we beha ...

  • Brainstorming Reloaded

    · Why brainstorming is ineffective and how to fix it. Brainstorming was once thought a fantastic way for groups to generate new ideas. Although not as fashionable as it once was, brainstorming is still frequently used in business and, often inadvertently, for all sorts of personal decisions; peop ...

  • Consumer Psychology

    · How and why we consume and how our beliefs, ideas and senses influence consumption. Peter Drucker, the management consultant, famously argued that about 80% of all products and services fail or fall well short of targets within six months of launching. Clearly markets have little understanding ...

  • Why Left to Right Punches Are More Aggressive, Pow ...

    Reading and writing from left to right is a skill so well-practised, so ingrained in language, that it's easy to ignore. Yet, according to some research, the direction in which language flows could have implications that spread into many other areas of our experience. Consider that people are often ...

After Downing Street.org

  • The Firestorm Ahead

    The Firestorm Ahead By Immanuel Wallerstein | Middle East Online There is a firestorm ahead in the Middle East for which neither the US government nor the US public is prepared. The storm will go from Iraq to Afghanistan to Pakistan to Israel/Palestine, says Immanuel Wallerstein. There is a firesto ...

  • CEO's Earning 300 Times More Than the Average Work ...

    CEO's Earning 300 Times More Than the Average Worker By Dan Arnall | ABC Newser The overall CEO-to-worker pay gap is exceptionally high; S&P 500 CEOs in 2008 earned 319 times more than the average worker. The liberal think tank Institute for Policy Studies is out with a report on excessive executiv ...

  • Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3B Penalty for Drug Promos

    Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3B Penalty for Drug Promos Repeat offender Pfizer paying record $2.3B settlement for illegal drug promotions By Devlin Barrett, Associated Press | ABC News.com As part of its illegal marketing, Pfizer invited doctors to consultant meetings at resort locations, paying their ...

  • Notes From Dennis Kucinich's Appearance At Progres ...

    Attendee's Notes from Dennis Kucinich's appearance at Progressive Democrats of America meeting in Ohio, August 22, 2009: "The health debate is about the purposes of government - the Constitution says the government exists to promote the general welfare..." (Interesting that two other Ohio Congress ...

  • Californians/Nevadans Protest Bybee Tomorrow, 9/3/ ...

    BYE BYE BYBEE: IMPEACH & ARREST THE TORTURE JUDGE Thursday, September 4, noon-2 p.m. Ninth Circuit Court, 7th & Mission, San Francisco Map PINKS and friends are invited to come to the Ninth Circuit Court at 7th & Mission this Thursday to protest "torture judge" Bybee's lifetime appointment to the ...

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  • Asus rumored to sell cheaper ultra-thin laptop nex ...

    Apple’s MacBook Air will soon be challenged on its super-slimness, by Windows-powered computers from Asus, Acer and MSI that may lack Apple’s aluminum-cased pizazz, but will cost a lot less. Digitimes reports that Asus, maker of the low-cost Eee PC netbook, will begin selling two ultra-slim n ...

  • Birthday cannon

    Happy birthday, here's your cannon ... @ Dailymail Mike Daugherty asked his 11-year-old son Logan what he wanted for his birthday. The boy said, "I want a cannon." Dad didn't scoff at Logan's request by saying, "How about a hippopotamus instead," as a Christmas song from another era lamented. No ...

  • I-Swarm, real micro-sized robots!

    These tiny I-Swarm (Intelligent Small-World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation) robots are incredibly neat! They move by using a piezoelectric transducer to vibrate across a surface in a manner similar to a bristlebot, only controllable. Because they are vibrating at audible frequencies, ...

  • Home-haircut indicator: In the footsteps of the un ...

    Filed under: Columns , Economic data , Recession , Comic Relief So, who out there cuts their own hair? I do, mainly because it is fading fast and it is a lot easier to have my wife take the clippers and then razor to my head rather than paying to go get my hair cut professionally. Now that I ...

  • Joe Jackson says ?someone should pay? for son Mich ...

    Joe Jackson: ‘Someone should pay’ for son’s death NEW YORK ? Michael Jackson’s father says he’d never heard of the drug propofol until it was implicated in his son’s death. “I’m not angry. I’m mad,” Joe Jackson said in an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show. ...

Time - Top Stories

Washington Independent

  • Rachel Maddow and Spencer Ackerman: Real Talk on A ...

    TWI’s own Spencer Ackerman appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday to discuss Afghanistan, contractors, and the shocking scandal that has recently come to light. In case you missed it, here’s the video (after the jump). Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and New ...

  • Grassley Blasts Wasteful Medicare Spending

    Medicare and its beneficiaries paid four times the average supplier cost for standard-issue power wheelchairs in the first half of 2007, according to a report released Wednesday by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. The news drew the immediate condemnation of Sen. ...

  • Curt Schilling Hearts Ann Coulter

    As long as people are discussing the possibility of legendary Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling running for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, they should check out his blog. From August 8: Ann Coulter might be extreme, but damn the woman is intelligent in ways that piss so many people off. You have to ...

  • Gary Bauer: Obama’s Speech to Children Is an ...

    Gary Bauer, the religious conservative leader who was undersecretary of Education under President Reagan, and who now runs American Values, tells supporters in his daily email that the president’s Sept. 8 speech to schoolchildren is an example of the White House “using its power in unprecedented ...

  • The Waiting Room

    Here’s a brief summary of the day’s health care news. President Obama is slated to address a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9 to lay out more detailed demands for health care reform, ABC News reported today. The move — which came on the heels of a written invitation from House Speaker Nan ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • ‘Biosecure’ Farms Not So Biosecure

    There are times when perniciously false premises are treated as the criteria by which truth is determined. We lose the argument before it’s begun. And where does that leave us in our efforts to control mortal dangers of our own making? Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business | Note-it! ...

  • Raw milk “Pepsi challenge” in Romania

    “Raw milk is very easy to find, here in Romania. Bunici (grandmas) typically stand on the busy before-noon street corners, and lean against brick walls or warped garden rails. Placed before them are a few ‘recycled’ 2-liter soda bottles filled with Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbeat | ...

  • Irish Call For Total EU Ban on Brazilian Beef

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

  • Health care debate creates new diseases

    URGENT New Flash… Breaking News…The Center for Disease Control has identified a new strain of the Mad Cow Disease called Insane Donkey Virus running rampant among elected officials, Obama Administration personnel and high profile personalities. The CDC be Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbe ...

  • Coroners 'should test for CJD to monitor spread of ...

    Coroners are refusing to carry out post-mortem tests for an infection which causes the human form of BSE despite pleas that they could help monitor the spread of the disease, it was reported today. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-120 Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Society & ...

Why Organic

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

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

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

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

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

    “THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM” = 666 — “WHICH NUMBER REPRESENTS JESUS CHRIST” = 666 —” THE ARYAN BROTHERHOOD” = 666. _______________ Using the english alphabet A = 1  B= 2   etc. Write out the phrase and assign the numbers under them. Now, add it vertically as you no ...

  • THE HPV VACCINE and our daughters….

    In case you missed my posting about the HPV VACCINE….I am including a link to it. http://whyorganic.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/do-not-give-your-daughter-hpv-vaccine

  • BIG MEDIA RULINGS

     Senate Committee Votes to Throw Out FCC RulesThe Senate Commerce Committee passed a “resolution of disapproval” that would veto the FCC’s latest attempt to dismantle longstanding media ownership limits. Free Press  Senate Panel Rejects New Media Ownership Rule A Senate committee vo ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • EDITORIAL: False reports about guns

    Washington Times Editorial Many media outlets have misfired about guns. Countless newspapers and television networks — from CBS to MSNBC — have misreported that conservative protesters are threatening President Obama with guns at public events. It hasn’t happened. In Portsmouth, N.H., a man ca ...

  • Why Our Great-Grandparents were Happier Than We Ar ...

    Bayers Heroin A bottle of Bayer’s heroin.. Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with strong cough Coca Wine, anyone? Metcalf Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market . Eve ...

  • Schoolgirls rumble Ribena vitamin claims

    By Jeevan Vasagar Two New Zealand schoolgirls humbled one of the world’s biggest food and drugs companies after their school science experiment found that their ready-to-drink Ribena contained almost no trace of vitamin C. Students Anna Devathasan and Jenny Suo tested the blackcurrant cordial agai ...

  • Pregnant women express fears over swine flu vaccin ...

    By Sarah Boseley Almost half of all pregnant women say they will refuse to be vaccinated against swine flu once the jab is available, suggesting there is widespread concern about its safety, a poll has revealed. Pregnant women are one of the target groups for vaccination identified by experts advisi ...

  • Fox News Poll: Majority Think Swine Flu Vaccine De ...

    Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, August 28, 2009 According to a Fox News poll, the majority of respondents think that the swine flu vaccine is deadlier than the actual virus itself, emphasizing the growing momentum in the revolt against government plans to institute mass H1N1 vaccination ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • M & M's, Anyone ? ? ? ? (Moyers and Maher)

    This post by Glenn Greenwald summarizing Bill Moyers' appearance on the Bill Maher show last night says it all regarding the current state of affairs in the USAofexpensivehealthcare. Go . Read . Get angry. Think Progressive Party not tied to the dems or repugs . . . . (Cross-posted from Moved t ...

  • Assault rifle at Obama speech a publicity stunt

    for conservative talk radio show Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock . Hancock and "Chris", the black man carrying the assault rifle, knew each other "through their work for presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas)". "We know what we're up against," Hancock, also packing heat at the h ...

  • Think Light . . .

    INHABITAT is a neat site that showcases all sorts of green stuff, including the Solar Shanghai Pavilion, made from used CD cases . Go read all about it.

  • Money for Vote$ . . . .

    The answer to the question asked at the end: "Whoever contribute$ the mo$t $$ to my re-election campaign!" Silly voter. What was he thinking ? ? ? ? (Cross-posted from Moved to Vancouver )

  • The Emperor Strikes Back

    What is Emperor Steve fooling around with in his pocket this time? . Oooh - it's the nine new Senators he appointed yesterday. That makes 27 Cons he's appointed in less than a year , bringing his posse in the Senate up to 46 out 0f a total of 105. . G&M : "At an event in Quebec City, the Prime Mini ...

Media Matters for America

  • Sanity on hold: Fox News warns Democrats: "Don't ...

    Fox News hosts have recently fixated on the House's decision to terminate a pilot program to -- in the words of Bret Baier -- "kill the patriotic tunes callers hear when they're put on hold." Sean Hannity claimed that it "serves as a lesson to the Democrats: Don't meddle with our patriotic musi ...

  • Fox's Kelly gives "hat tip" to birther, Obama-Hit ...

    On the September 2 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom , co-host Megyn Kelly gave a "hat tip" to the blog Gateway Pundit, which Kelly said is where "we found" video of "a new effort to silence critics of the Democrats' [health care] plan." The Gateway Pundit blog has frequently pushed the ...

  • Fox News' embedded reporter Jenkins cheerleads for ...

    Despite his claim to be "simply reporting" on the Tea Party Express rallies, Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins, who is traveling with the cross-country protest bus tour, has repeatedly expressed support for the protesters, who he has referred to as "the America that Washington forgot." Fox News ...

  • Perino falsely suggests allowing federally subsid ...

    Criticizing Democratic health reform bills for allowing federally subsidized health insurance plans to cover abortion, Fox News contributor Dana Perino claimed that the "Hyde Amendment was supposed to protect against" allowing health insurance plans "that get subsidies from the taxpayer dolla ...

  • Conservatives on Obama's stay-in-school speech: "I ...

    Numerous conservatives have claimed that President Obama's upcoming September 8 speech about "persisting and succeeding in school," along with classroom activities about the "importance of education," will "indoctrinate" and "brainwash" schoolchildren. Conservatives have compared Obama's address to ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • George Will is Right

    I don't often say this, but George Will gets it exactly right. But before launching New Deal 2.0 in Afghanistan, the Obama administration should ask itself: If U.S. forces are there to prevent re-establishment of al-Qaeda bases -- evidently there... Sponsored Topics: Afghanistan - al-Qaeda ...

  • The Apparent Unmotivated Idiocy of Labor Union Mem ...

    Steven Brill has a long essay in the New Yorker about the long process required to fire teachers in New York City. Now, any discussion of due process, whether in firings or criminal justice, inevitably can stack the deck by... Sponsored Topics: New York City - Trade union - United States - Steve ...

  • The Guns of August, and Why the Republican Right W ...

    What we learned in August is something we've long known but keep forgetting: The most important difference between America's Democratic left and Republican right is that the left has ideas and the right has discipline. Obama and progressive supporters... Sponsored Topics: Health care - Democrats ...

  • How Progressives Should Weigh Compromises

    The 2009 battle over health care reform is soon going to come to a head in national debates and legislative specifics. President Obama will re-set the agenda when he speaks to Congress, and in all likelihood sheer survival instincts will... Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - Health care - United S ...

  • Will Israel Attack Iran This Year?

    The neocons are getting ready for another war. The same crowd that helped get us into Iraq are desperate for war with Iran (and for many of the same reasons). Former Vice President Cheney now says publicly that we could... Sponsored Topics: Iran - Dick Cheney - Israel - Iraq War - Middle East

TruthOut

  • US Extends Iraq Contract for Blackwater Firm

    Washington - State Department officials said Wednesday they have extended a contract with a subsidiary of the security firm once known as Blackwater USA despite the fact the company is not allowed to work in the country. Three officials said the contract with Presidential Airways to provide ...

  • Obama to Deliver Health Care Address to Congress

    Washington - President Barack Obama has set a major address on health care for Sept. 9 before Congress. The speech will come a day after lawmakers return from an August recess in which critics of Obama's health proposals have dominated many public forums. Some Democrats feel Obama has been t ...

  • US Officials Cancel Contract to Profile Reporters

    Washington - US military authorities in Afghanistan have terminated a contract with a company that was producing profiles of reporters seeking to cover a war that's becoming increasingly unpopular with the American public. The media analysis work being done by The Rendon Group had become a " ...

  • SEC Fumbled Five Madoff Probes, Report Finds

    Boston/Washington - US securities regulators missed repeated chances to uncover Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, a sharply critical review by a federal watchdog said on Wednesday. A summary of a report by the U.S. read more

  • American to Cut 921 Flight Attendants' Jobs

    Dallas - American Airlines is cutting 921 flight attendant jobs as it deals with an ongoing downturn in traffic and lower revenue. The airline said Tuesday that the cuts will take effect Oct. 1. American, the nation's second-largest airline, said 228 employees will be furloughed - laid o ...

The Heathlander

  • The “British method”

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

  • ‘Israel’s Terror Inside’

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

  • A culture of fear

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

  • Fighting the fash

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

  • Silencing civil society

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

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TruthHugger

  • Texas Progressive Alliance August 31, 2009

    It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No ...

  • Who Will Carry The Kennedy Torch? Op Ed

    The passing of Ted Kennedy may have dealt a blow to progressive humanitarian warriors. The Senate is missing the most effective voice for the disenfranchised. From his perch atop the mountain of comfort built by his family, Ted Kennedy used his position to battle legislative discrepancies that ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 24, 2009

    School is starting, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is prepared as always to ace the test. Here is this week’s roundup of blog highlights. From TXsharon: Woo Hoo! EPA testing has now confirmed wells are contaminated “with various substances connected with gas drillingâ€�–proof that h ...

  • Bi-Polar America – Who is Worthy of a Healthy Li ...

    The rationing of health care is already a fact of life. The new reform will remove some of that rationing and make health care a right instead of a privilege. Bi-Polar America - I am worthy, You are not. Jesus was a socialist.

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 17, 2009

    It’s time for preseason football games, but the Texas Progressive Alliance is always in midseason form. Here are this week’s blog highlights. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders why we put up with temper tantrums and intimidation from the far right? Everyone should have their say in our d ...

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Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Building a Movement, Haitian Style

    pigs.jpg I spent the better part of last week crisscrossing Haiti’s arid Northwest with Grassroots International’s partner the National Congress of the Peasant’s Movement of Papay (MPNKP). MPNKP is best known to our allies and friends fo ...

  • Resilient Hondurans Lead The Way To Protect Democr ...

    IMG00292.jpg Today, thousands of people will fill the streets of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. They are students, housekeepers, children and farmers from different parts of country—many of whom walked 10-12 miles a day to get to the ...

  • Yes, We Can - But Will We Join Our Neighbors to Re ...

    More than a month after the military coup in the Central American country of Honduras (for which the term “banana republic” was originally coined due to the overwhelming influence of U.S. fruit corporations in that country), the junta is still in power and shows little real sign of budging. re ...

  • They Are Afraid of Us, Because We are Not Afraid o ...

    Tom Loudon from our ally the Alliance for Responsible Trade, which is a member of the Hemispheric Social Alliance (a Grassroots International grantee) is currently in Honduras as part of an international human rights monitoring delegation. Today, August 11th, the Global Day of Action for Honduras, h ...

  • On the Global Day of Action for Honduras, Donate y ...

    Want to do something simple to help support Honduran democracy and keep the crisis in the public eye? Donate your status! It’s free, easy, and can make a huge impact. Right now, the corporate news media is mostly silent about what’s happening on the ground in Honduras and the role of US polic ...

Climate

  • September 2, 2009

    UN: Poor Nations Need $600B a Year for Climate Change (AFP) Developing nations need a $600 billion "Marshall Plan" annually to tackle climate change with support from rich nations on a scale not seen outside wartime recovery, the World Economic and Social Survey says. China Calculates High Pr ...

  • September 1, 2009

    US Climate Bill Encounters New Senate Delay (Reuters) Senate Democrats announced a new delay on climate change legislation, which could make it more difficult for President Obama to win progress on that front before a global environmental summit in December. EPA Preparing to Declare CO2 a Dange ...

  • August 31, 2009

    Japan Election Ushers in Party of Climate Action (Carbon Positive) A landslide victory for Japan’s party of near-permanent opposition has turned the country’s political scene on its head, and the country’s climate change policy along with it. New Zealand Lawmakers Give Thumbs Up to Emissi ...

  • August 29-30, 2009

    Both Sides in Energy Debate Watching Healthcare Battle (Los Angeles Times) As the battle over healthcare unfolds, its attack ads, spin-doctoring and town hall rhetoric are being watched with special attention by the combatants in Washington's next big fight -- Pres. Obama's climate plan. Leave ...

  • August 28, 2009

    Forestry leads Indonesian Agency’s Roadmap for Emissions Cuts (Reuters) An Indonesian environment agency has set out a roadmap for the government to adopt forestry, energy, transport, industrial and agriculture policies that would slash carbon emissions by the world's No. 3 emitter. Poll: O ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: David Swanson, The More Things Change

    A presidential candidate opposed to the Iraq War is elected and enters the Oval Office. Yet six months later, there are still essentially the same number of troops in Iraq as were there when his predecessor left, the same number, in fact, used in the original invasion of Iraq in March 2003. More ...

  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, From My Lai to Lockerbie

    On this one-way planet of ours, it's hard sometimes to imagine things any other way, but for a moment let's try. Imagine, for instance, that in recent years the director of Iranian intelligence oversaw a program of "extraordinary rendition" aimed at those who were believed to be prepared to commi ...

  • Tomgram: The Next War, On-Screen and Off

    [ Note for TomDispatch readers: We're back! Refreshed and ready for action, but still on a somewhat relaxed schedule until after Labor Day. The next piece will be posted Sunday night. Tom ] G.I. Joe, Post-American Hero The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism By Tom Engelhardt The Pre ...

  • Tomgram: Withdrawing by Bike from Iraq

    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: So it's sayonara for a couple of weeks. I'm taking my usual August break. TomDispatch will return sometime the week of August 24th, but will be on a limited posting schedule through Labor Day. Let me take this opportunity once again to thank those of you who hav ...

  • Tomgram: Mark Engler, Protesting at Climate Groun ...

    We're so past the Roman Empire by now that it's probably time to update the phrase "fiddling while Rome burns." What about, for instance, "writing fake letters ostensibly from real non-profit groups to weaken a climate-change bill while the planet burns"? It's true. According to the New York Ti ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Bush's Third Term? You're Living It

    — from TomDispatch It sounds like the plot for the latest summer horror movie. Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had won or stolen it, and that we were all now living (and dying) through it. With the Democrats in control of Congress ...

  • Why Glenn Beck, and Fox News, can't escape the "r ...

    Have so many blue-chip advertisers ever fled a program as quickly as the who's who of corporate America that's sprinted away from Glenn Beck in recent weeks? I certainly cannot recall ever seeing a mass exodus of this scale. The A-list collection of disgruntled Beck advertisers is staggering: Appleb ...

  • Obama's Meaningless War

    — from Truthdig True, he doesn't seem a bit like Lyndon Johnson, but the way he's headed on Afghanistan, Barack Obama is threatened with a quagmire that could bog down his presidency. LBJ also had a progressive agenda in mind, beginning with his war on poverty, but it was soon overwhelmed by the cos ...

  • In Oligarchy We Trust: Government Fattens Bank Car ...

    Is there a headline more menacing to liberals, moderates, consumers, small-business owners or free-marketeers than " Banks 'Too Big To Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger, Three Banks Issue Half the Mortgages & 2/3s of Credit Cards - Behemoths Born of the Bailout Reduce Consumer Choice "? Shouldn't any ju ...

  • The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

    The rise of video game culture has been criticized by some as encouraging violence. The theory is that the more violent and real-looking the video game is, the more it encourages its players to actually go out and reenact the game's scenes in real life. Of course, there's no scientific evidence to b ...

Ten Percent

  • Already

    Be with you soon, September already, autumn always starts -to me- with some Cocteau Twins… The memory of youth and realising you had to go back to school -freedom ending, back to conformity- always makes me sad at this time of year.

  • Friday! The Hope Blister- Dagger

  • Killing Fields of Sri Lanka

    Channel Four report- Link to unedited clip in 3GP format -Warning, shows the execution of naked bound prisoners by military personnel- A video clip received from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) evidences the way extra-judicial killings are executed in the island. The video captured in ...

  • Is The Obama Administration Victimising A Nobel Pe ...

    Via FreeGaza- After Downing Street, by Ann Wright former US diplomat:- Less than a month ago, in late July, 2009, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire (http://www.peacepeople.com/) was travelling from Dublin, Ireland to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet Peace Laureate Jody Williams to participate in p ...

  • Selection By Occupier

    Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (albeit funded by both US & NATO govts) has reports of systematic fraud, the EU are more upbeat, try to be surprised. The one candidate Ramazan Bashardost, with some real credentials in representing the Afghan people against powerful and corrupt elite ...

Paul Krugman

  • Horse-race reporting

    There's too much reporting that focuses on how policy proposals are supposedly playing, rather than what's actually in them.

  • Getting stucco

    This isn't the first time the Sunshine State has suffered from a big real estate bubble.

  • Going fishing

    Well, cycling actually.

  • A couple of notes on the 40s and 50s

    Didn't rapid population growth make it easier to deal with debt? Didn't the fact that the rest of the world was in ruins help? No.

  • 1945

    The fact is that the war left America with a big debt -- bigger, relative to our resources, than we're likely to face when the economic rescue is over. We dealt with it.

No Quarter

  • President Obama Bites The Hand That Feeds Him…Ag ...

    ABC’s Jake Tapper reported last night that the President’s Political Arm Follows His Lead in Drumming Up Support for Health Care Reform Push — by Criticizing Media. In his August 20, 2009, meeting with supporters at the Democratic National Committee and its “Organizing for Americaâ€Â ...

  • Krauthammer Nails It - Draconian Health Insurance ...

    I’m a capitalist, not a socialist. I’m a centrist, not a liberal or libertarian. I’m definitely not a Republican or a conservative, but I want this country to achieve a public health insurance policy that actually works, not pie in the sky wishful thinking. I don’t want it to bankrupt the co ...

  • A Tale Of Two Fires

    Once again, the State of California is dealing with a massive wildfire. Sadly, two firefighters lost their lives. And it is far from being over as the title of this article indicates, Fire burns 105,000 acres with no control in sight. It is hard to even grasp the breadth of this [...]

  • Placebobama

    The use of placebos in medicine is absolutely fascinating. The effects can be stunning, despite the fact that they, by their very definition, are composed of inert matter. Some may not understand that placebo effects do not result in a cure in and of themselves. Rather, when they work, people fe ...

  • Healthcare letter: for viral distribution

    I’ve written a sample letter I’m hoping to get out to as many people as possible. This is the last week of the Congressional recess and your Senators and Representatives may think they can relax. We need to keep the pressure on to make them painfully aware that we - their constituents - are migh ...

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  • Recovering from Infidelity

    By Robert F Scuka, LCSW-C. Infidelity is one of the most difficult challenges that any marriage or committed relationship can face. Infidelity is almost universally accompanied by a deep sense of betrayal and a profound loss of trust. The reason is that the one partner experiences the infidelity of ...

  • Study Links Dopamine with Ability to Block Formati ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The experience of a traumatic event can sometimes be overcome in a remarkably quick and elegant way by the mind and consciousness, but in many cases witnesses to unsettling situations are left with traumatic memories. Such memories can have a negative impact on mental ...

  • Walking in Circles Might Not Just Be a Feeling

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The notion that one is walking around in circles has a long history in personal introspection. While many people are marvelously capable of plotting out a straight and defined course to follow, others may feel as though the path ahead is as obscured and winding as it g ...

  • Need for More Attention to Mental Health in Childr ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Epilepsy is a condition which affects scores of children around the world and can have considerable negative consequences for development and personal well-being. But the issue can also lead towards complications in mental health as well as the health of families, not ...

  • An Attitude of Gratitude: Tips for Tough Times

    By Debbie Devine, MS, LPC “In the depth of winter, I finally realized that deep within me there lay an invincible summer.” A. Camus Let’s face it, life throws us curves sometimes. We all experience the ups and downs that lead some of us to seek a counselor’s help: relationship issues, money ...

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  • WH withdraws call for students to 'help' Obama (Ma ...

    Matthew Mosk / Washington Times : WH withdraws call for students to ‘help’ Obama — The Obama administration late Wednesday withdrew a recommendation that school children who watch a video featuring President Obama next week write about how they might “help the president” as part of a ...

  • The Obama Administration: MIA on Afghanistan? (Abu ...

    Abu Muqawama : The Obama Administration: MIA on Afghanistan? — So I was on the Newshour last night debating Afghanistan with a favorite of this blog and its readers, Andrew Bacevich. As readers of this blog know, I am uncomfortable when placed in the position of being expected to lustily d ...

  • U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan (Julian ...

    Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times : U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan — Support units will be replaced by up to 14,000 ‘trigger-pullers,’ and noncombat posts will be contracted out, Defense officials say. The swap will allow the U.S. to keep its troop level unchanged. — ...

  • Under fire, Obama shifts strategy (The Politico)

    The Politico : Under fire, Obama shifts strategy — Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specifying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trou ...

  • Kennedy Memoir Talks of Chappaquiddick, J.F.K. and ...

    Carl Hulse / The Caucus : Kennedy Memoir Talks of Chappaquiddick, J.F.K. and Other Presidents — In a memoir being published posthumously, Senator Edward M. Kennedy talks remorsefully about the car accident that claimed the life of Mary Jo Kopechne - a turn of events many consider a chief re ...

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  • Taking the toad’s-eye view

    Dipak Gyawali, former water minister of Nepal, explains how to approach Himalayan climate-change science from the grass-roots level. Interview by Isabel Hilton. Dipak Gyawali is a former minister of water resources in Nepal and research director of the Nepal Water Conservation Foundation. Here he te ...

  • Geoengineering: do we intervene?

    A major study published today in the United Kingdom asks what role proposed geoengineering technologies could play in regulating the climate. Tan Copsey spoke to one of its contributors, Ken Caldeira. As part of a series for chinadialogue that examines the environmental and political arguments aroun ...

  • Rethinking Sino-US relations

    Many Chinese commentators worry about the risks of the United States introducing carbon tariffs. Chu Zhaogen urges them to take a long-term view. United States energy secretary Steven Chu and commerce secretary Gary Locke visited China last month to explore where there might be mutually beneficial U ...

  • Do we know change when we see it?

    An agreement between the US and China on climate change and clean energy may be more significant than its detractors initially supposed, write Banning Garrett and Jonathan Adams. Did the United States and China recently take a game-changing step on climate change and clean energy? Quite possibly so. ...

  • Building regional cooperation

    Can people across the Himalayan region mobilise to build a common, collaborative response to the impacts of climate change? Isabel Hilton interviews Mohan Munasinghe, vice chairman of the IPCC. Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist and the vice chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

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  • Appeals Court Upholds Online Gambling Ban

    A move to scuttle legislation outlawing online gambling suffered a major setback when a federal appeals court set aside constitutional and other legal challenges to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals brushed aside asse ...

  • Voting Tech Experts Sought by Feds to Develop Stan ...

    Want to help improve the design and security of voting systems made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) and other companies? The federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), which oversees the federal testing and certification of voting systems, is seeking four technol ...

  • Despite Winning $675,000, RIAA Fears Defendant is ...

    The Recording Industry Association of America took the offensive Tuesday against a college student whom a jury concluded in July must pay $675,000 for file sharing 30 songs. The RIAA asked the Massachusetts judge who presided over the Joel Tenenbaum case to issue an injunction Tuesday preventing the ...

  • CIA at Odds With Obama Over Torture, ACLU Claims

    Citing national security concerns, the Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to divulge dozens of documents in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit surrounding its torture and rendition program adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. The withholding of documents dating to Preside ...

  • 5 More Indicted in Probe of International Carding ...

    Five eastern European men were indicted in New York on Monday as part of an international ring allegedly responsible for at least $4 million in credit card theft. The ring, which authorities dubbed the Western Express Cybercrime Group, operated between 2001 and 2007 and trafficked in at least 95,00 ...

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  • NASA tracks space junk headed toward space station

    HOUSTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The International Space Station might have to fire its thrusters to avoid a piece of space junk that could pass within two miles (3.2 km) of the orbiting complex and its 13 astronauts, NASA said on Wednesday.

  • Whitney Houston comeback album headed to No. 1

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - Whitney Houston struggled with her voice during her much-hyped comeback performance on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday. But industry prognosticators don't expect the diva to trip up on the charts next week.

  • Outlook "poor" for Great Barrier Reef: study

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living organism, is under grave threat from climate warming and coastal development, and its prospects of survival are "poor," a major new report found on Wednesday.

  • Advert criticized over "young" partial nude model

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's advertising watchdog has criticized an ad for a clothing company featuring a partially nude model who appeared to be younger than 16.

  • Dying Manson follower Atkins denied parole

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Susan Atkins, a follower of mass killer Charles Manson convicted nearly four decades ago in some of the most notorious murders in U.S. history, lost her 18th bid for release on Wednesday.

Godspace

  • Latest of the Spiritual Practices Series

    The spiritual practices blog series is coming to a close. Christine has just a few more to post after this. Here’s the round-up of posts for the last month: Celebrations and Parties as a Spiritual Discipline by Kathy Escobar, The Refuge The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea by Andy Wade Netwo ...

  • Celebrations and Parties as A Spiritual Discipline

    Well the What is a Spiritual Practice blog series is winding down but I am still continuing to receive articles so I intend to continue to post them over the next few weeks. Â today’s article comes from Kathy Escobar . Â Kathy describes herself as mommy. wife. friend. pot-stirrer. shepherd. fo ...

  • The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea

    Today’s post which seems very appropriate for me when I am heading off for a few relaxing days when I know I will be drinking lots of tea, is written by Andrew Wade He and his family have recently returned from several years working in Hong Kong where Andy worked as a Mennonite pastor. Â [...]

  • Networking as a Spiritual Practice

    I have been a little slow with posting today because Tom and I are on the road again. We are heading for a few days off in British Columbia with some friends but I wanted to make sure that I posted the last of the articles I have received for the What is a Spiritual [...]

  • Mothering as a Spiritual Practice

    Another beautiful day in Seattle and Tom and I are getting ready for a few days vacation up on Mayne Island, one of the Canadian gulf islands. Â The weather is supposed to be good and I am really looking forward to a few days off – hoping that the blackberries and apples are ready like [...]

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IntelNews

  • US spy agencies still lack foreign language expert ...

    A US media outlet has finally followed up on the warnings, made by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last July, about the lack of trained foreign-language speakers in the US intelligence community.

  • News you may have missed #0091

    McCain denies private agreement with CIA torture tactic. CIA rejects further declassifications on torture-related material. Taliban kill Afghan intelligence chief.

  • Document release offers new clues on MI5 activitie ...

    A batch of intelligence documents from the immediate post-World War II period released this week by Britain’s National Archives offer glimpses into previously unknown activities by MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence service.

  • Ex-CIA agent says Cheney “damaged the CIA more t ...

    Robert Baer, the retired CIA field officer whose bestselling memoir, See No Evil, formed the basis of the 2005 motion picture Syriana, has said that former Vice President’ Dick Cheney “damaged the CIA more than anybody has, including the press or the Department of Justice”.

  • News you may have missed #0090

    CIA's black sites, illuminated. Russian agents try to influence Czech politicians, says intelligence report. South Korean arrested for collaborating with North Korean spy.

PsyBlog

  • Group Polarization: The Trend to Extreme Decisions

    Say you put 10 people in a room and asked them to design a car. Would they design something average or something wacky? Would they be more likely to come up with the Ford Focus or 'The Homer', designed by Homer Simpson in this classic episode of The Simpsons? To help you decide, it's [...] » Try ...

  • The Acceptance Prophesy: How You Control Who Likes ...

    · Is interpersonal attraction a self-fulfilling prophesy? The mystical-sounding 'acceptance prophesy' is simply this: when we think other people are going to like us, we behave more warmly towards them and consequently they like us more. When we think other people aren't going to like us, we beha ...

  • Brainstorming Reloaded

    · Why brainstorming is ineffective and how to fix it. Brainstorming was once thought a fantastic way for groups to generate new ideas. Although not as fashionable as it once was, brainstorming is still frequently used in business and, often inadvertently, for all sorts of personal decisions; peop ...

  • Consumer Psychology

    · How and why we consume and how our beliefs, ideas and senses influence consumption. Peter Drucker, the management consultant, famously argued that about 80% of all products and services fail or fall well short of targets within six months of launching. Clearly markets have little understanding ...

  • Why Left to Right Punches Are More Aggressive, Pow ...

    Reading and writing from left to right is a skill so well-practised, so ingrained in language, that it's easy to ignore. Yet, according to some research, the direction in which language flows could have implications that spread into many other areas of our experience. Consider that people are often ...

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  • The Firestorm Ahead

    The Firestorm Ahead By Immanuel Wallerstein | Middle East Online There is a firestorm ahead in the Middle East for which neither the US government nor the US public is prepared. The storm will go from Iraq to Afghanistan to Pakistan to Israel/Palestine, says Immanuel Wallerstein. There is a firesto ...

  • CEO's Earning 300 Times More Than the Average Work ...

    CEO's Earning 300 Times More Than the Average Worker By Dan Arnall | ABC Newser The overall CEO-to-worker pay gap is exceptionally high; S&P 500 CEOs in 2008 earned 319 times more than the average worker. The liberal think tank Institute for Policy Studies is out with a report on excessive executiv ...

  • Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3B Penalty for Drug Promos

    Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3B Penalty for Drug Promos Repeat offender Pfizer paying record $2.3B settlement for illegal drug promotions By Devlin Barrett, Associated Press | ABC News.com As part of its illegal marketing, Pfizer invited doctors to consultant meetings at resort locations, paying their ...

  • Notes From Dennis Kucinich's Appearance At Progres ...

    Attendee's Notes from Dennis Kucinich's appearance at Progressive Democrats of America meeting in Ohio, August 22, 2009: "The health debate is about the purposes of government - the Constitution says the government exists to promote the general welfare..." (Interesting that two other Ohio Congress ...

  • Californians/Nevadans Protest Bybee Tomorrow, 9/3/ ...

    BYE BYE BYBEE: IMPEACH & ARREST THE TORTURE JUDGE Thursday, September 4, noon-2 p.m. Ninth Circuit Court, 7th & Mission, San Francisco Map PINKS and friends are invited to come to the Ninth Circuit Court at 7th & Mission this Thursday to protest "torture judge" Bybee's lifetime appointment to the ...

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  • Asus rumored to sell cheaper ultra-thin laptop nex ...

    Apple’s MacBook Air will soon be challenged on its super-slimness, by Windows-powered computers from Asus, Acer and MSI that may lack Apple’s aluminum-cased pizazz, but will cost a lot less. Digitimes reports that Asus, maker of the low-cost Eee PC netbook, will begin selling two ultra-slim n ...

  • Birthday cannon

    Happy birthday, here's your cannon ... @ Dailymail Mike Daugherty asked his 11-year-old son Logan what he wanted for his birthday. The boy said, "I want a cannon." Dad didn't scoff at Logan's request by saying, "How about a hippopotamus instead," as a Christmas song from another era lamented. No ...

  • I-Swarm, real micro-sized robots!

    These tiny I-Swarm (Intelligent Small-World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation) robots are incredibly neat! They move by using a piezoelectric transducer to vibrate across a surface in a manner similar to a bristlebot, only controllable. Because they are vibrating at audible frequencies, ...

  • Home-haircut indicator: In the footsteps of the un ...

    Filed under: Columns , Economic data , Recession , Comic Relief So, who out there cuts their own hair? I do, mainly because it is fading fast and it is a lot easier to have my wife take the clippers and then razor to my head rather than paying to go get my hair cut professionally. Now that I ...

  • Joe Jackson says ?someone should pay? for son Mich ...

    Joe Jackson: ‘Someone should pay’ for son’s death NEW YORK ? Michael Jackson’s father says he’d never heard of the drug propofol until it was implicated in his son’s death. “I’m not angry. I’m mad,” Joe Jackson said in an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show. ...

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Washington Independent

  • Rachel Maddow and Spencer Ackerman: Real Talk on A ...

    TWI’s own Spencer Ackerman appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday to discuss Afghanistan, contractors, and the shocking scandal that has recently come to light. In case you missed it, here’s the video (after the jump). Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and New ...

  • Grassley Blasts Wasteful Medicare Spending

    Medicare and its beneficiaries paid four times the average supplier cost for standard-issue power wheelchairs in the first half of 2007, according to a report released Wednesday by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. The news drew the immediate condemnation of Sen. ...

  • Curt Schilling Hearts Ann Coulter

    As long as people are discussing the possibility of legendary Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling running for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, they should check out his blog. From August 8: Ann Coulter might be extreme, but damn the woman is intelligent in ways that piss so many people off. You have to ...

  • Gary Bauer: Obama’s Speech to Children Is an ...

    Gary Bauer, the religious conservative leader who was undersecretary of Education under President Reagan, and who now runs American Values, tells supporters in his daily email that the president’s Sept. 8 speech to schoolchildren is an example of the White House “using its power in unprecedented ...

  • The Waiting Room

    Here’s a brief summary of the day’s health care news. President Obama is slated to address a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9 to lay out more detailed demands for health care reform, ABC News reported today. The move — which came on the heels of a written invitation from House Speaker Nan ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • ‘Biosecure’ Farms Not So Biosecure

    There are times when perniciously false premises are treated as the criteria by which truth is determined. We lose the argument before it’s begun. And where does that leave us in our efforts to control mortal dangers of our own making? Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business | Note-it! ...

  • Raw milk “Pepsi challenge” in Romania

    “Raw milk is very easy to find, here in Romania. Bunici (grandmas) typically stand on the busy before-noon street corners, and lean against brick walls or warped garden rails. Placed before them are a few ‘recycled’ 2-liter soda bottles filled with Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbeat | ...

  • Irish Call For Total EU Ban on Brazilian Beef

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

  • Health care debate creates new diseases

    URGENT New Flash… Breaking News…The Center for Disease Control has identified a new strain of the Mad Cow Disease called Insane Donkey Virus running rampant among elected officials, Obama Administration personnel and high profile personalities. The CDC be Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbe ...

  • Coroners 'should test for CJD to monitor spread of ...

    Coroners are refusing to carry out post-mortem tests for an infection which causes the human form of BSE despite pleas that they could help monitor the spread of the disease, it was reported today. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-120 Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Society & ...

Why Organic

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

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

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

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

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

    “THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM” = 666 — “WHICH NUMBER REPRESENTS JESUS CHRIST” = 666 —” THE ARYAN BROTHERHOOD” = 666. _______________ Using the english alphabet A = 1  B= 2   etc. Write out the phrase and assign the numbers under them. Now, add it vertically as you no ...

  • THE HPV VACCINE and our daughters….

    In case you missed my posting about the HPV VACCINE….I am including a link to it. http://whyorganic.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/do-not-give-your-daughter-hpv-vaccine

  • BIG MEDIA RULINGS

     Senate Committee Votes to Throw Out FCC RulesThe Senate Commerce Committee passed a “resolution of disapproval” that would veto the FCC’s latest attempt to dismantle longstanding media ownership limits. Free Press  Senate Panel Rejects New Media Ownership Rule A Senate committee vo ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • EDITORIAL: False reports about guns

    Washington Times Editorial Many media outlets have misfired about guns. Countless newspapers and television networks — from CBS to MSNBC — have misreported that conservative protesters are threatening President Obama with guns at public events. It hasn’t happened. In Portsmouth, N.H., a man ca ...

  • Why Our Great-Grandparents were Happier Than We Ar ...

    Bayers Heroin A bottle of Bayer’s heroin.. Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with strong cough Coca Wine, anyone? Metcalf Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market . Eve ...

  • Schoolgirls rumble Ribena vitamin claims

    By Jeevan Vasagar Two New Zealand schoolgirls humbled one of the world’s biggest food and drugs companies after their school science experiment found that their ready-to-drink Ribena contained almost no trace of vitamin C. Students Anna Devathasan and Jenny Suo tested the blackcurrant cordial agai ...

  • Pregnant women express fears over swine flu vaccin ...

    By Sarah Boseley Almost half of all pregnant women say they will refuse to be vaccinated against swine flu once the jab is available, suggesting there is widespread concern about its safety, a poll has revealed. Pregnant women are one of the target groups for vaccination identified by experts advisi ...

  • Fox News Poll: Majority Think Swine Flu Vaccine De ...

    Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, August 28, 2009 According to a Fox News poll, the majority of respondents think that the swine flu vaccine is deadlier than the actual virus itself, emphasizing the growing momentum in the revolt against government plans to institute mass H1N1 vaccination ...

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  • M & M's, Anyone ? ? ? ? (Moyers and Maher)

    This post by Glenn Greenwald summarizing Bill Moyers' appearance on the Bill Maher show last night says it all regarding the current state of affairs in the USAofexpensivehealthcare. Go . Read . Get angry. Think Progressive Party not tied to the dems or repugs . . . . (Cross-posted from Moved t ...

  • Assault rifle at Obama speech a publicity stunt

    for conservative talk radio show Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock . Hancock and "Chris", the black man carrying the assault rifle, knew each other "through their work for presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas)". "We know what we're up against," Hancock, also packing heat at the h ...

  • Think Light . . .

    INHABITAT is a neat site that showcases all sorts of green stuff, including the Solar Shanghai Pavilion, made from used CD cases . Go read all about it.

  • Money for Vote$ . . . .

    The answer to the question asked at the end: "Whoever contribute$ the mo$t $$ to my re-election campaign!" Silly voter. What was he thinking ? ? ? ? (Cross-posted from Moved to Vancouver )

  • The Emperor Strikes Back

    What is Emperor Steve fooling around with in his pocket this time? . Oooh - it's the nine new Senators he appointed yesterday. That makes 27 Cons he's appointed in less than a year , bringing his posse in the Senate up to 46 out 0f a total of 105. . G&M : "At an event in Quebec City, the Prime Mini ...

Media Matters for America

  • Sanity on hold: Fox News warns Democrats: "Don't ...

    Fox News hosts have recently fixated on the House's decision to terminate a pilot program to -- in the words of Bret Baier -- "kill the patriotic tunes callers hear when they're put on hold." Sean Hannity claimed that it "serves as a lesson to the Democrats: Don't meddle with our patriotic musi ...

  • Fox's Kelly gives "hat tip" to birther, Obama-Hit ...

    On the September 2 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom , co-host Megyn Kelly gave a "hat tip" to the blog Gateway Pundit, which Kelly said is where "we found" video of "a new effort to silence critics of the Democrats' [health care] plan." The Gateway Pundit blog has frequently pushed the ...

  • Fox News' embedded reporter Jenkins cheerleads for ...

    Despite his claim to be "simply reporting" on the Tea Party Express rallies, Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins, who is traveling with the cross-country protest bus tour, has repeatedly expressed support for the protesters, who he has referred to as "the America that Washington forgot." Fox News ...

  • Perino falsely suggests allowing federally subsid ...

    Criticizing Democratic health reform bills for allowing federally subsidized health insurance plans to cover abortion, Fox News contributor Dana Perino claimed that the "Hyde Amendment was supposed to protect against" allowing health insurance plans "that get subsidies from the taxpayer dolla ...

  • Conservatives on Obama's stay-in-school speech: "I ...

    Numerous conservatives have claimed that President Obama's upcoming September 8 speech about "persisting and succeeding in school," along with classroom activities about the "importance of education," will "indoctrinate" and "brainwash" schoolchildren. Conservatives have compared Obama's address to ...

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TPM Cafe

  • George Will is Right

    I don't often say this, but George Will gets it exactly right. But before launching New Deal 2.0 in Afghanistan, the Obama administration should ask itself: If U.S. forces are there to prevent re-establishment of al-Qaeda bases -- evidently there... Sponsored Topics: Afghanistan - al-Qaeda ...

  • The Apparent Unmotivated Idiocy of Labor Union Mem ...

    Steven Brill has a long essay in the New Yorker about the long process required to fire teachers in New York City. Now, any discussion of due process, whether in firings or criminal justice, inevitably can stack the deck by... Sponsored Topics: New York City - Trade union - United States - Steve ...

  • The Guns of August, and Why the Republican Right W ...

    What we learned in August is something we've long known but keep forgetting: The most important difference between America's Democratic left and Republican right is that the left has ideas and the right has discipline. Obama and progressive supporters... Sponsored Topics: Health care - Democrats ...

  • How Progressives Should Weigh Compromises

    The 2009 battle over health care reform is soon going to come to a head in national debates and legislative specifics. President Obama will re-set the agenda when he speaks to Congress, and in all likelihood sheer survival instincts will... Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - Health care - United S ...

  • Will Israel Attack Iran This Year?

    The neocons are getting ready for another war. The same crowd that helped get us into Iraq are desperate for war with Iran (and for many of the same reasons). Former Vice President Cheney now says publicly that we could... Sponsored Topics: Iran - Dick Cheney - Israel - Iraq War - Middle East

TruthOut

  • US Extends Iraq Contract for Blackwater Firm

    Washington - State Department officials said Wednesday they have extended a contract with a subsidiary of the security firm once known as Blackwater USA despite the fact the company is not allowed to work in the country. Three officials said the contract with Presidential Airways to provide ...

  • Obama to Deliver Health Care Address to Congress

    Washington - President Barack Obama has set a major address on health care for Sept. 9 before Congress. The speech will come a day after lawmakers return from an August recess in which critics of Obama's health proposals have dominated many public forums. Some Democrats feel Obama has been t ...

  • US Officials Cancel Contract to Profile Reporters

    Washington - US military authorities in Afghanistan have terminated a contract with a company that was producing profiles of reporters seeking to cover a war that's becoming increasingly unpopular with the American public. The media analysis work being done by The Rendon Group had become a " ...

  • SEC Fumbled Five Madoff Probes, Report Finds

    Boston/Washington - US securities regulators missed repeated chances to uncover Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, a sharply critical review by a federal watchdog said on Wednesday. A summary of a report by the U.S. read more

  • American to Cut 921 Flight Attendants' Jobs

    Dallas - American Airlines is cutting 921 flight attendant jobs as it deals with an ongoing downturn in traffic and lower revenue. The airline said Tuesday that the cuts will take effect Oct. 1. American, the nation's second-largest airline, said 228 employees will be furloughed - laid o ...

The Heathlander

  • The “British method”

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

  • ‘Israel’s Terror Inside’

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

  • A culture of fear

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

  • Fighting the fash

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

  • Silencing civil society

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

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TruthHugger

  • Texas Progressive Alliance August 31, 2009

    It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No ...

  • Who Will Carry The Kennedy Torch? Op Ed

    The passing of Ted Kennedy may have dealt a blow to progressive humanitarian warriors. The Senate is missing the most effective voice for the disenfranchised. From his perch atop the mountain of comfort built by his family, Ted Kennedy used his position to battle legislative discrepancies that ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 24, 2009

    School is starting, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is prepared as always to ace the test. Here is this week’s roundup of blog highlights. From TXsharon: Woo Hoo! EPA testing has now confirmed wells are contaminated “with various substances connected with gas drillingâ€�–proof that h ...

  • Bi-Polar America – Who is Worthy of a Healthy Li ...

    The rationing of health care is already a fact of life. The new reform will remove some of that rationing and make health care a right instead of a privilege. Bi-Polar America - I am worthy, You are not. Jesus was a socialist.

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 17, 2009

    It’s time for preseason football games, but the Texas Progressive Alliance is always in midseason form. Here are this week’s blog highlights. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders why we put up with temper tantrums and intimidation from the far right? Everyone should have their say in our d ...

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Grassroots

  • Building a Movement, Haitian Style

    pigs.jpg I spent the better part of last week crisscrossing Haiti’s arid Northwest with Grassroots International’s partner the National Congress of the Peasant’s Movement of Papay (MPNKP). MPNKP is best known to our allies and friends fo ...

  • Resilient Hondurans Lead The Way To Protect Democr ...

    IMG00292.jpg Today, thousands of people will fill the streets of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. They are students, housekeepers, children and farmers from different parts of country—many of whom walked 10-12 miles a day to get to the ...

  • Yes, We Can - But Will We Join Our Neighbors to Re ...

    More than a month after the military coup in the Central American country of Honduras (for which the term “banana republic” was originally coined due to the overwhelming influence of U.S. fruit corporations in that country), the junta is still in power and shows little real sign of budging. re ...

  • They Are Afraid of Us, Because We are Not Afraid o ...

    Tom Loudon from our ally the Alliance for Responsible Trade, which is a member of the Hemispheric Social Alliance (a Grassroots International grantee) is currently in Honduras as part of an international human rights monitoring delegation. Today, August 11th, the Global Day of Action for Honduras, h ...

  • On the Global Day of Action for Honduras, Donate y ...

    Want to do something simple to help support Honduran democracy and keep the crisis in the public eye? Donate your status! It’s free, easy, and can make a huge impact. Right now, the corporate news media is mostly silent about what’s happening on the ground in Honduras and the role of US polic ...

Climate

  • September 2, 2009

    UN: Poor Nations Need $600B a Year for Climate Change (AFP) Developing nations need a $600 billion "Marshall Plan" annually to tackle climate change with support from rich nations on a scale not seen outside wartime recovery, the World Economic and Social Survey says. China Calculates High Pr ...

  • September 1, 2009

    US Climate Bill Encounters New Senate Delay (Reuters) Senate Democrats announced a new delay on climate change legislation, which could make it more difficult for President Obama to win progress on that front before a global environmental summit in December. EPA Preparing to Declare CO2 a Dange ...

  • August 31, 2009

    Japan Election Ushers in Party of Climate Action (Carbon Positive) A landslide victory for Japan’s party of near-permanent opposition has turned the country’s political scene on its head, and the country’s climate change policy along with it. New Zealand Lawmakers Give Thumbs Up to Emissi ...

  • August 29-30, 2009

    Both Sides in Energy Debate Watching Healthcare Battle (Los Angeles Times) As the battle over healthcare unfolds, its attack ads, spin-doctoring and town hall rhetoric are being watched with special attention by the combatants in Washington's next big fight -- Pres. Obama's climate plan. Leave ...

  • August 28, 2009

    Forestry leads Indonesian Agency’s Roadmap for Emissions Cuts (Reuters) An Indonesian environment agency has set out a roadmap for the government to adopt forestry, energy, transport, industrial and agriculture policies that would slash carbon emissions by the world's No. 3 emitter. Poll: O ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: David Swanson, The More Things Change

    A presidential candidate opposed to the Iraq War is elected and enters the Oval Office. Yet six months later, there are still essentially the same number of troops in Iraq as were there when his predecessor left, the same number, in fact, used in the original invasion of Iraq in March 2003. More ...

  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, From My Lai to Lockerbie

    On this one-way planet of ours, it's hard sometimes to imagine things any other way, but for a moment let's try. Imagine, for instance, that in recent years the director of Iranian intelligence oversaw a program of "extraordinary rendition" aimed at those who were believed to be prepared to commi ...

  • Tomgram: The Next War, On-Screen and Off

    [ Note for TomDispatch readers: We're back! Refreshed and ready for action, but still on a somewhat relaxed schedule until after Labor Day. The next piece will be posted Sunday night. Tom ] G.I. Joe, Post-American Hero The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism By Tom Engelhardt The Pre ...

  • Tomgram: Withdrawing by Bike from Iraq

    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: So it's sayonara for a couple of weeks. I'm taking my usual August break. TomDispatch will return sometime the week of August 24th, but will be on a limited posting schedule through Labor Day. Let me take this opportunity once again to thank those of you who hav ...

  • Tomgram: Mark Engler, Protesting at Climate Groun ...

    We're so past the Roman Empire by now that it's probably time to update the phrase "fiddling while Rome burns." What about, for instance, "writing fake letters ostensibly from real non-profit groups to weaken a climate-change bill while the planet burns"? It's true. According to the New York Ti ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Bush's Third Term? You're Living It

    — from TomDispatch It sounds like the plot for the latest summer horror movie. Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had won or stolen it, and that we were all now living (and dying) through it. With the Democrats in control of Congress ...

  • Why Glenn Beck, and Fox News, can't escape the "r ...

    Have so many blue-chip advertisers ever fled a program as quickly as the who's who of corporate America that's sprinted away from Glenn Beck in recent weeks? I certainly cannot recall ever seeing a mass exodus of this scale. The A-list collection of disgruntled Beck advertisers is staggering: Appleb ...

  • Obama's Meaningless War

    — from Truthdig True, he doesn't seem a bit like Lyndon Johnson, but the way he's headed on Afghanistan, Barack Obama is threatened with a quagmire that could bog down his presidency. LBJ also had a progressive agenda in mind, beginning with his war on poverty, but it was soon overwhelmed by the cos ...

  • In Oligarchy We Trust: Government Fattens Bank Car ...

    Is there a headline more menacing to liberals, moderates, consumers, small-business owners or free-marketeers than " Banks 'Too Big To Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger, Three Banks Issue Half the Mortgages & 2/3s of Credit Cards - Behemoths Born of the Bailout Reduce Consumer Choice "? Shouldn't any ju ...

  • The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

    The rise of video game culture has been criticized by some as encouraging violence. The theory is that the more violent and real-looking the video game is, the more it encourages its players to actually go out and reenact the game's scenes in real life. Of course, there's no scientific evidence to b ...

Ten Percent

  • Already

    Be with you soon, September already, autumn always starts -to me- with some Cocteau Twins… The memory of youth and realising you had to go back to school -freedom ending, back to conformity- always makes me sad at this time of year.

  • Friday! The Hope Blister- Dagger

  • Killing Fields of Sri Lanka

    Channel Four report- Link to unedited clip in 3GP format -Warning, shows the execution of naked bound prisoners by military personnel- A video clip received from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) evidences the way extra-judicial killings are executed in the island. The video captured in ...

  • Is The Obama Administration Victimising A Nobel Pe ...

    Via FreeGaza- After Downing Street, by Ann Wright former US diplomat:- Less than a month ago, in late July, 2009, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire (http://www.peacepeople.com/) was travelling from Dublin, Ireland to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet Peace Laureate Jody Williams to participate in p ...

  • Selection By Occupier

    Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (albeit funded by both US & NATO govts) has reports of systematic fraud, the EU are more upbeat, try to be surprised. The one candidate Ramazan Bashardost, with some real credentials in representing the Afghan people against powerful and corrupt elite ...

Paul Krugman

  • Horse-race reporting

    There's too much reporting that focuses on how policy proposals are supposedly playing, rather than what's actually in them.

  • Getting stucco

    This isn't the first time the Sunshine State has suffered from a big real estate bubble.

  • Going fishing

    Well, cycling actually.

  • A couple of notes on the 40s and 50s

    Didn't rapid population growth make it easier to deal with debt? Didn't the fact that the rest of the world was in ruins help? No.

  • 1945

    The fact is that the war left America with a big debt -- bigger, relative to our resources, than we're likely to face when the economic rescue is over. We dealt with it.

No Quarter

  • President Obama Bites The Hand That Feeds Him…Ag ...

    ABC’s Jake Tapper reported last night that the President’s Political Arm Follows His Lead in Drumming Up Support for Health Care Reform Push — by Criticizing Media. In his August 20, 2009, meeting with supporters at the Democratic National Committee and its “Organizing for Americaâ€Â ...

  • Krauthammer Nails It - Draconian Health Insurance ...

    I’m a capitalist, not a socialist. I’m a centrist, not a liberal or libertarian. I’m definitely not a Republican or a conservative, but I want this country to achieve a public health insurance policy that actually works, not pie in the sky wishful thinking. I don’t want it to bankrupt the co ...

  • A Tale Of Two Fires

    Once again, the State of California is dealing with a massive wildfire. Sadly, two firefighters lost their lives. And it is far from being over as the title of this article indicates, Fire burns 105,000 acres with no control in sight. It is hard to even grasp the breadth of this [...]

  • Placebobama

    The use of placebos in medicine is absolutely fascinating. The effects can be stunning, despite the fact that they, by their very definition, are composed of inert matter. Some may not understand that placebo effects do not result in a cure in and of themselves. Rather, when they work, people fe ...

  • Healthcare letter: for viral distribution

    I’ve written a sample letter I’m hoping to get out to as many people as possible. This is the last week of the Congressional recess and your Senators and Representatives may think they can relax. We need to keep the pressure on to make them painfully aware that we - their constituents - are migh ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Therapy News

  • Recovering from Infidelity

    By Robert F Scuka, LCSW-C. Infidelity is one of the most difficult challenges that any marriage or committed relationship can face. Infidelity is almost universally accompanied by a deep sense of betrayal and a profound loss of trust. The reason is that the one partner experiences the infidelity of ...

  • Study Links Dopamine with Ability to Block Formati ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The experience of a traumatic event can sometimes be overcome in a remarkably quick and elegant way by the mind and consciousness, but in many cases witnesses to unsettling situations are left with traumatic memories. Such memories can have a negative impact on mental ...

  • Walking in Circles Might Not Just Be a Feeling

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The notion that one is walking around in circles has a long history in personal introspection. While many people are marvelously capable of plotting out a straight and defined course to follow, others may feel as though the path ahead is as obscured and winding as it g ...

  • Need for More Attention to Mental Health in Childr ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Epilepsy is a condition which affects scores of children around the world and can have considerable negative consequences for development and personal well-being. But the issue can also lead towards complications in mental health as well as the health of families, not ...

  • An Attitude of Gratitude: Tips for Tough Times

    By Debbie Devine, MS, LPC “In the depth of winter, I finally realized that deep within me there lay an invincible summer.” A. Camus Let’s face it, life throws us curves sometimes. We all experience the ups and downs that lead some of us to seek a counselor’s help: relationship issues, money ...

Mountaintop Removal

Memeorandum

  • WH withdraws call for students to 'help' Obama (Ma ...

    Matthew Mosk / Washington Times : WH withdraws call for students to ‘help’ Obama — The Obama administration late Wednesday withdrew a recommendation that school children who watch a video featuring President Obama next week write about how they might “help the president” as part of a ...

  • The Obama Administration: MIA on Afghanistan? (Abu ...

    Abu Muqawama : The Obama Administration: MIA on Afghanistan? — So I was on the Newshour last night debating Afghanistan with a favorite of this blog and its readers, Andrew Bacevich. As readers of this blog know, I am uncomfortable when placed in the position of being expected to lustily d ...

  • U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan (Julian ...

    Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times : U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan — Support units will be replaced by up to 14,000 ‘trigger-pullers,’ and noncombat posts will be contracted out, Defense officials say. The swap will allow the U.S. to keep its troop level unchanged. — ...

  • Under fire, Obama shifts strategy (The Politico)

    The Politico : Under fire, Obama shifts strategy — Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specifying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trou ...

  • Kennedy Memoir Talks of Chappaquiddick, J.F.K. and ...

    Carl Hulse / The Caucus : Kennedy Memoir Talks of Chappaquiddick, J.F.K. and Other Presidents — In a memoir being published posthumously, Senator Edward M. Kennedy talks remorsefully about the car accident that claimed the life of Mary Jo Kopechne - a turn of events many consider a chief re ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Taking the toad’s-eye view

    Dipak Gyawali, former water minister of Nepal, explains how to approach Himalayan climate-change science from the grass-roots level. Interview by Isabel Hilton. Dipak Gyawali is a former minister of water resources in Nepal and research director of the Nepal Water Conservation Foundation. Here he te ...

  • Geoengineering: do we intervene?

    A major study published today in the United Kingdom asks what role proposed geoengineering technologies could play in regulating the climate. Tan Copsey spoke to one of its contributors, Ken Caldeira. As part of a series for chinadialogue that examines the environmental and political arguments aroun ...

  • Rethinking Sino-US relations

    Many Chinese commentators worry about the risks of the United States introducing carbon tariffs. Chu Zhaogen urges them to take a long-term view. United States energy secretary Steven Chu and commerce secretary Gary Locke visited China last month to explore where there might be mutually beneficial U ...

  • Do we know change when we see it?

    An agreement between the US and China on climate change and clean energy may be more significant than its detractors initially supposed, write Banning Garrett and Jonathan Adams. Did the United States and China recently take a game-changing step on climate change and clean energy? Quite possibly so. ...

  • Building regional cooperation

    Can people across the Himalayan region mobilise to build a common, collaborative response to the impacts of climate change? Isabel Hilton interviews Mohan Munasinghe, vice chairman of the IPCC. Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist and the vice chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Appeals Court Upholds Online Gambling Ban

    A move to scuttle legislation outlawing online gambling suffered a major setback when a federal appeals court set aside constitutional and other legal challenges to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals brushed aside asse ...

  • Voting Tech Experts Sought by Feds to Develop Stan ...

    Want to help improve the design and security of voting systems made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) and other companies? The federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), which oversees the federal testing and certification of voting systems, is seeking four technol ...

  • Despite Winning $675,000, RIAA Fears Defendant is ...

    The Recording Industry Association of America took the offensive Tuesday against a college student whom a jury concluded in July must pay $675,000 for file sharing 30 songs. The RIAA asked the Massachusetts judge who presided over the Joel Tenenbaum case to issue an injunction Tuesday preventing the ...

  • CIA at Odds With Obama Over Torture, ACLU Claims

    Citing national security concerns, the Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to divulge dozens of documents in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit surrounding its torture and rendition program adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. The withholding of documents dating to Preside ...

  • 5 More Indicted in Probe of International Carding ...

    Five eastern European men were indicted in New York on Monday as part of an international ring allegedly responsible for at least $4 million in credit card theft. The ring, which authorities dubbed the Western Express Cybercrime Group, operated between 2001 and 2007 and trafficked in at least 95,00 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • NASA tracks space junk headed toward space station

    HOUSTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The International Space Station might have to fire its thrusters to avoid a piece of space junk that could pass within two miles (3.2 km) of the orbiting complex and its 13 astronauts, NASA said on Wednesday.

  • Whitney Houston comeback album headed to No. 1

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - Whitney Houston struggled with her voice during her much-hyped comeback performance on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday. But industry prognosticators don't expect the diva to trip up on the charts next week.

  • Outlook "poor" for Great Barrier Reef: study

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living organism, is under grave threat from climate warming and coastal development, and its prospects of survival are "poor," a major new report found on Wednesday.

  • Advert criticized over "young" partial nude model

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's advertising watchdog has criticized an ad for a clothing company featuring a partially nude model who appeared to be younger than 16.

  • Dying Manson follower Atkins denied parole

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Susan Atkins, a follower of mass killer Charles Manson convicted nearly four decades ago in some of the most notorious murders in U.S. history, lost her 18th bid for release on Wednesday.

Godspace

  • Latest of the Spiritual Practices Series

    The spiritual practices blog series is coming to a close. Christine has just a few more to post after this. Here’s the round-up of posts for the last month: Celebrations and Parties as a Spiritual Discipline by Kathy Escobar, The Refuge The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea by Andy Wade Netwo ...

  • Celebrations and Parties as A Spiritual Discipline

    Well the What is a Spiritual Practice blog series is winding down but I am still continuing to receive articles so I intend to continue to post them over the next few weeks. Â today’s article comes from Kathy Escobar . Â Kathy describes herself as mommy. wife. friend. pot-stirrer. shepherd. fo ...

  • The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea

    Today’s post which seems very appropriate for me when I am heading off for a few relaxing days when I know I will be drinking lots of tea, is written by Andrew Wade He and his family have recently returned from several years working in Hong Kong where Andy worked as a Mennonite pastor. Â [...]

  • Networking as a Spiritual Practice

    I have been a little slow with posting today because Tom and I are on the road again. We are heading for a few days off in British Columbia with some friends but I wanted to make sure that I posted the last of the articles I have received for the What is a Spiritual [...]

  • Mothering as a Spiritual Practice

    Another beautiful day in Seattle and Tom and I are getting ready for a few days vacation up on Mayne Island, one of the Canadian gulf islands. Â The weather is supposed to be good and I am really looking forward to a few days off – hoping that the blackberries and apples are ready like [...]

Equality Trust

IntelNews

  • US spy agencies still lack foreign language expert ...

    A US media outlet has finally followed up on the warnings, made by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last July, about the lack of trained foreign-language speakers in the US intelligence community.

  • News you may have missed #0091

    McCain denies private agreement with CIA torture tactic. CIA rejects further declassifications on torture-related material. Taliban kill Afghan intelligence chief.

  • Document release offers new clues on MI5 activitie ...

    A batch of intelligence documents from the immediate post-World War II period released this week by Britain’s National Archives offer glimpses into previously unknown activities by MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence service.

  • Ex-CIA agent says Cheney “damaged the CIA more t ...

    Robert Baer, the retired CIA field officer whose bestselling memoir, See No Evil, formed the basis of the 2005 motion picture Syriana, has said that former Vice President’ Dick Cheney “damaged the CIA more than anybody has, including the press or the Department of Justice”.

  • News you may have missed #0090

    CIA's black sites, illuminated. Russian agents try to influence Czech politicians, says intelligence report. South Korean arrested for collaborating with North Korean spy.

PsyBlog

  • Group Polarization: The Trend to Extreme Decisions

    Say you put 10 people in a room and asked them to design a car. Would they design something average or something wacky? Would they be more likely to come up with the Ford Focus or 'The Homer', designed by Homer Simpson in this classic episode of The Simpsons? To help you decide, it's [...] » Try ...

  • The Acceptance Prophesy: How You Control Who Likes ...

    · Is interpersonal attraction a self-fulfilling prophesy? The mystical-sounding 'acceptance prophesy' is simply this: when we think other people are going to like us, we behave more warmly towards them and consequently they like us more. When we think other people aren't going to like us, we beha ...

  • Brainstorming Reloaded

    · Why brainstorming is ineffective and how to fix it. Brainstorming was once thought a fantastic way for groups to generate new ideas. Although not as fashionable as it once was, brainstorming is still frequently used in business and, often inadvertently, for all sorts of personal decisions; peop ...

  • Consumer Psychology

    · How and why we consume and how our beliefs, ideas and senses influence consumption. Peter Drucker, the management consultant, famously argued that about 80% of all products and services fail or fall well short of targets within six months of launching. Clearly markets have little understanding ...

  • Why Left to Right Punches Are More Aggressive, Pow ...

    Reading and writing from left to right is a skill so well-practised, so ingrained in language, that it's easy to ignore. Yet, according to some research, the direction in which language flows could have implications that spread into many other areas of our experience. Consider that people are often ...

After Downing Street.org

  • The Firestorm Ahead

    The Firestorm Ahead By Immanuel Wallerstein | Middle East Online There is a firestorm ahead in the Middle East for which neither the US government nor the US public is prepared. The storm will go from Iraq to Afghanistan to Pakistan to Israel/Palestine, says Immanuel Wallerstein. There is a firesto ...

  • CEO's Earning 300 Times More Than the Average Work ...

    CEO's Earning 300 Times More Than the Average Worker By Dan Arnall | ABC Newser The overall CEO-to-worker pay gap is exceptionally high; S&P 500 CEOs in 2008 earned 319 times more than the average worker. The liberal think tank Institute for Policy Studies is out with a report on excessive executiv ...

  • Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3B Penalty for Drug Promos

    Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3B Penalty for Drug Promos Repeat offender Pfizer paying record $2.3B settlement for illegal drug promotions By Devlin Barrett, Associated Press | ABC News.com As part of its illegal marketing, Pfizer invited doctors to consultant meetings at resort locations, paying their ...

  • Notes From Dennis Kucinich's Appearance At Progres ...

    Attendee's Notes from Dennis Kucinich's appearance at Progressive Democrats of America meeting in Ohio, August 22, 2009: "The health debate is about the purposes of government - the Constitution says the government exists to promote the general welfare..." (Interesting that two other Ohio Congress ...

  • Californians/Nevadans Protest Bybee Tomorrow, 9/3/ ...

    BYE BYE BYBEE: IMPEACH & ARREST THE TORTURE JUDGE Thursday, September 4, noon-2 p.m. Ninth Circuit Court, 7th & Mission, San Francisco Map PINKS and friends are invited to come to the Ninth Circuit Court at 7th & Mission this Thursday to protest "torture judge" Bybee's lifetime appointment to the ...

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  • Asus rumored to sell cheaper ultra-thin laptop nex ...

    Apple’s MacBook Air will soon be challenged on its super-slimness, by Windows-powered computers from Asus, Acer and MSI that may lack Apple’s aluminum-cased pizazz, but will cost a lot less. Digitimes reports that Asus, maker of the low-cost Eee PC netbook, will begin selling two ultra-slim n ...

  • Birthday cannon

    Happy birthday, here's your cannon ... @ Dailymail Mike Daugherty asked his 11-year-old son Logan what he wanted for his birthday. The boy said, "I want a cannon." Dad didn't scoff at Logan's request by saying, "How about a hippopotamus instead," as a Christmas song from another era lamented. No ...

  • I-Swarm, real micro-sized robots!

    These tiny I-Swarm (Intelligent Small-World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation) robots are incredibly neat! They move by using a piezoelectric transducer to vibrate across a surface in a manner similar to a bristlebot, only controllable. Because they are vibrating at audible frequencies, ...

  • Home-haircut indicator: In the footsteps of the un ...

    Filed under: Columns , Economic data , Recession , Comic Relief So, who out there cuts their own hair? I do, mainly because it is fading fast and it is a lot easier to have my wife take the clippers and then razor to my head rather than paying to go get my hair cut professionally. Now that I ...

  • Joe Jackson says ?someone should pay? for son Mich ...

    Joe Jackson: ‘Someone should pay’ for son’s death NEW YORK ? Michael Jackson’s father says he’d never heard of the drug propofol until it was implicated in his son’s death. “I’m not angry. I’m mad,” Joe Jackson said in an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show. ...

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Washington Independent

  • Rachel Maddow and Spencer Ackerman: Real Talk on A ...

    TWI’s own Spencer Ackerman appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday to discuss Afghanistan, contractors, and the shocking scandal that has recently come to light. In case you missed it, here’s the video (after the jump). Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and New ...

  • Grassley Blasts Wasteful Medicare Spending

    Medicare and its beneficiaries paid four times the average supplier cost for standard-issue power wheelchairs in the first half of 2007, according to a report released Wednesday by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. The news drew the immediate condemnation of Sen. ...

  • Curt Schilling Hearts Ann Coulter

    As long as people are discussing the possibility of legendary Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling running for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, they should check out his blog. From August 8: Ann Coulter might be extreme, but damn the woman is intelligent in ways that piss so many people off. You have to ...

  • Gary Bauer: Obama’s Speech to Children Is an ...

    Gary Bauer, the religious conservative leader who was undersecretary of Education under President Reagan, and who now runs American Values, tells supporters in his daily email that the president’s Sept. 8 speech to schoolchildren is an example of the White House “using its power in unprecedented ...

  • The Waiting Room

    Here’s a brief summary of the day’s health care news. President Obama is slated to address a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9 to lay out more detailed demands for health care reform, ABC News reported today. The move — which came on the heels of a written invitation from House Speaker Nan ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • ‘Biosecure’ Farms Not So Biosecure

    There are times when perniciously false premises are treated as the criteria by which truth is determined. We lose the argument before it’s begun. And where does that leave us in our efforts to control mortal dangers of our own making? Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business | Note-it! ...

  • Raw milk “Pepsi challenge” in Romania

    “Raw milk is very easy to find, here in Romania. Bunici (grandmas) typically stand on the busy before-noon street corners, and lean against brick walls or warped garden rails. Placed before them are a few ‘recycled’ 2-liter soda bottles filled with Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbeat | ...

  • Irish Call For Total EU Ban on Brazilian Beef

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

  • Health care debate creates new diseases

    URGENT New Flash… Breaking News…The Center for Disease Control has identified a new strain of the Mad Cow Disease called Insane Donkey Virus running rampant among elected officials, Obama Administration personnel and high profile personalities. The CDC be Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbe ...

  • Coroners 'should test for CJD to monitor spread of ...

    Coroners are refusing to carry out post-mortem tests for an infection which causes the human form of BSE despite pleas that they could help monitor the spread of the disease, it was reported today. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-120 Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Society & ...

Why Organic

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

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

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

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

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

    “THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM” = 666 — “WHICH NUMBER REPRESENTS JESUS CHRIST” = 666 —” THE ARYAN BROTHERHOOD” = 666. _______________ Using the english alphabet A = 1  B= 2   etc. Write out the phrase and assign the numbers under them. Now, add it vertically as you no ...

  • THE HPV VACCINE and our daughters….

    In case you missed my posting about the HPV VACCINE….I am including a link to it. http://whyorganic.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/do-not-give-your-daughter-hpv-vaccine

  • BIG MEDIA RULINGS

     Senate Committee Votes to Throw Out FCC RulesThe Senate Commerce Committee passed a “resolution of disapproval” that would veto the FCC’s latest attempt to dismantle longstanding media ownership limits. Free Press  Senate Panel Rejects New Media Ownership Rule A Senate committee vo ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • EDITORIAL: False reports about guns

    Washington Times Editorial Many media outlets have misfired about guns. Countless newspapers and television networks — from CBS to MSNBC — have misreported that conservative protesters are threatening President Obama with guns at public events. It hasn’t happened. In Portsmouth, N.H., a man ca ...

  • Why Our Great-Grandparents were Happier Than We Ar ...

    Bayers Heroin A bottle of Bayer’s heroin.. Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with strong cough Coca Wine, anyone? Metcalf Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market . Eve ...

  • Schoolgirls rumble Ribena vitamin claims

    By Jeevan Vasagar Two New Zealand schoolgirls humbled one of the world’s biggest food and drugs companies after their school science experiment found that their ready-to-drink Ribena contained almost no trace of vitamin C. Students Anna Devathasan and Jenny Suo tested the blackcurrant cordial agai ...

  • Pregnant women express fears over swine flu vaccin ...

    By Sarah Boseley Almost half of all pregnant women say they will refuse to be vaccinated against swine flu once the jab is available, suggesting there is widespread concern about its safety, a poll has revealed. Pregnant women are one of the target groups for vaccination identified by experts advisi ...

  • Fox News Poll: Majority Think Swine Flu Vaccine De ...

    Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, August 28, 2009 According to a Fox News poll, the majority of respondents think that the swine flu vaccine is deadlier than the actual virus itself, emphasizing the growing momentum in the revolt against government plans to institute mass H1N1 vaccination ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • M & M's, Anyone ? ? ? ? (Moyers and Maher)

    This post by Glenn Greenwald summarizing Bill Moyers' appearance on the Bill Maher show last night says it all regarding the current state of affairs in the USAofexpensivehealthcare. Go . Read . Get angry. Think Progressive Party not tied to the dems or repugs . . . . (Cross-posted from Moved t ...

  • Assault rifle at Obama speech a publicity stunt

    for conservative talk radio show Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock . Hancock and "Chris", the black man carrying the assault rifle, knew each other "through their work for presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas)". "We know what we're up against," Hancock, also packing heat at the h ...

  • Think Light . . .

    INHABITAT is a neat site that showcases all sorts of green stuff, including the Solar Shanghai Pavilion, made from used CD cases . Go read all about it.

  • Money for Vote$ . . . .

    The answer to the question asked at the end: "Whoever contribute$ the mo$t $$ to my re-election campaign!" Silly voter. What was he thinking ? ? ? ? (Cross-posted from Moved to Vancouver )

  • The Emperor Strikes Back

    What is Emperor Steve fooling around with in his pocket this time? . Oooh - it's the nine new Senators he appointed yesterday. That makes 27 Cons he's appointed in less than a year , bringing his posse in the Senate up to 46 out 0f a total of 105. . G&M : "At an event in Quebec City, the Prime Mini ...

Media Matters for America

  • Sanity on hold: Fox News warns Democrats: "Don't ...

    Fox News hosts have recently fixated on the House's decision to terminate a pilot program to -- in the words of Bret Baier -- "kill the patriotic tunes callers hear when they're put on hold." Sean Hannity claimed that it "serves as a lesson to the Democrats: Don't meddle with our patriotic musi ...

  • Fox's Kelly gives "hat tip" to birther, Obama-Hit ...

    On the September 2 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom , co-host Megyn Kelly gave a "hat tip" to the blog Gateway Pundit, which Kelly said is where "we found" video of "a new effort to silence critics of the Democrats' [health care] plan." The Gateway Pundit blog has frequently pushed the ...

  • Fox News' embedded reporter Jenkins cheerleads for ...

    Despite his claim to be "simply reporting" on the Tea Party Express rallies, Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins, who is traveling with the cross-country protest bus tour, has repeatedly expressed support for the protesters, who he has referred to as "the America that Washington forgot." Fox News ...

  • Perino falsely suggests allowing federally subsid ...

    Criticizing Democratic health reform bills for allowing federally subsidized health insurance plans to cover abortion, Fox News contributor Dana Perino claimed that the "Hyde Amendment was supposed to protect against" allowing health insurance plans "that get subsidies from the taxpayer dolla ...

  • Conservatives on Obama's stay-in-school speech: "I ...

    Numerous conservatives have claimed that President Obama's upcoming September 8 speech about "persisting and succeeding in school," along with classroom activities about the "importance of education," will "indoctrinate" and "brainwash" schoolchildren. Conservatives have compared Obama's address to ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • George Will is Right

    I don't often say this, but George Will gets it exactly right. But before launching New Deal 2.0 in Afghanistan, the Obama administration should ask itself: If U.S. forces are there to prevent re-establishment of al-Qaeda bases -- evidently there... Sponsored Topics: Afghanistan - al-Qaeda ...

  • The Apparent Unmotivated Idiocy of Labor Union Mem ...

    Steven Brill has a long essay in the New Yorker about the long process required to fire teachers in New York City. Now, any discussion of due process, whether in firings or criminal justice, inevitably can stack the deck by... Sponsored Topics: New York City - Trade union - United States - Steve ...

  • The Guns of August, and Why the Republican Right W ...

    What we learned in August is something we've long known but keep forgetting: The most important difference between America's Democratic left and Republican right is that the left has ideas and the right has discipline. Obama and progressive supporters... Sponsored Topics: Health care - Democrats ...

  • How Progressives Should Weigh Compromises

    The 2009 battle over health care reform is soon going to come to a head in national debates and legislative specifics. President Obama will re-set the agenda when he speaks to Congress, and in all likelihood sheer survival instincts will... Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - Health care - United S ...

  • Will Israel Attack Iran This Year?

    The neocons are getting ready for another war. The same crowd that helped get us into Iraq are desperate for war with Iran (and for many of the same reasons). Former Vice President Cheney now says publicly that we could... Sponsored Topics: Iran - Dick Cheney - Israel - Iraq War - Middle East

TruthOut

  • US Extends Iraq Contract for Blackwater Firm

    Washington - State Department officials said Wednesday they have extended a contract with a subsidiary of the security firm once known as Blackwater USA despite the fact the company is not allowed to work in the country. Three officials said the contract with Presidential Airways to provide ...

  • Obama to Deliver Health Care Address to Congress

    Washington - President Barack Obama has set a major address on health care for Sept. 9 before Congress. The speech will come a day after lawmakers return from an August recess in which critics of Obama's health proposals have dominated many public forums. Some Democrats feel Obama has been t ...

  • US Officials Cancel Contract to Profile Reporters

    Washington - US military authorities in Afghanistan have terminated a contract with a company that was producing profiles of reporters seeking to cover a war that's becoming increasingly unpopular with the American public. The media analysis work being done by The Rendon Group had become a " ...

  • SEC Fumbled Five Madoff Probes, Report Finds

    Boston/Washington - US securities regulators missed repeated chances to uncover Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, a sharply critical review by a federal watchdog said on Wednesday. A summary of a report by the U.S. read more

  • American to Cut 921 Flight Attendants' Jobs

    Dallas - American Airlines is cutting 921 flight attendant jobs as it deals with an ongoing downturn in traffic and lower revenue. The airline said Tuesday that the cuts will take effect Oct. 1. American, the nation's second-largest airline, said 228 employees will be furloughed - laid o ...

The Heathlander

  • The “British method”

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

  • ‘Israel’s Terror Inside’

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

  • A culture of fear

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

  • Fighting the fash

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

  • Silencing civil society

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

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Texas Progressive Alliance August 31, 2009

    It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No ...

  • Who Will Carry The Kennedy Torch? Op Ed

    The passing of Ted Kennedy may have dealt a blow to progressive humanitarian warriors. The Senate is missing the most effective voice for the disenfranchised. From his perch atop the mountain of comfort built by his family, Ted Kennedy used his position to battle legislative discrepancies that ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 24, 2009

    School is starting, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is prepared as always to ace the test. Here is this week’s roundup of blog highlights. From TXsharon: Woo Hoo! EPA testing has now confirmed wells are contaminated “with various substances connected with gas drillingâ€�–proof that h ...

  • Bi-Polar America – Who is Worthy of a Healthy Li ...

    The rationing of health care is already a fact of life. The new reform will remove some of that rationing and make health care a right instead of a privilege. Bi-Polar America - I am worthy, You are not. Jesus was a socialist.

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 17, 2009

    It’s time for preseason football games, but the Texas Progressive Alliance is always in midseason form. Here are this week’s blog highlights. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders why we put up with temper tantrums and intimidation from the far right? Everyone should have their say in our d ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Building a Movement, Haitian Style

    pigs.jpg I spent the better part of last week crisscrossing Haiti’s arid Northwest with Grassroots International’s partner the National Congress of the Peasant’s Movement of Papay (MPNKP). MPNKP is best known to our allies and friends fo ...

  • Resilient Hondurans Lead The Way To Protect Democr ...

    IMG00292.jpg Today, thousands of people will fill the streets of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. They are students, housekeepers, children and farmers from different parts of country—many of whom walked 10-12 miles a day to get to the ...

  • Yes, We Can - But Will We Join Our Neighbors to Re ...

    More than a month after the military coup in the Central American country of Honduras (for which the term “banana republic” was originally coined due to the overwhelming influence of U.S. fruit corporations in that country), the junta is still in power and shows little real sign of budging. re ...

  • They Are Afraid of Us, Because We are Not Afraid o ...

    Tom Loudon from our ally the Alliance for Responsible Trade, which is a member of the Hemispheric Social Alliance (a Grassroots International grantee) is currently in Honduras as part of an international human rights monitoring delegation. Today, August 11th, the Global Day of Action for Honduras, h ...

  • On the Global Day of Action for Honduras, Donate y ...

    Want to do something simple to help support Honduran democracy and keep the crisis in the public eye? Donate your status! It’s free, easy, and can make a huge impact. Right now, the corporate news media is mostly silent about what’s happening on the ground in Honduras and the role of US polic ...

Climate

  • September 2, 2009

    UN: Poor Nations Need $600B a Year for Climate Change (AFP) Developing nations need a $600 billion "Marshall Plan" annually to tackle climate change with support from rich nations on a scale not seen outside wartime recovery, the World Economic and Social Survey says. China Calculates High Pr ...

  • September 1, 2009

    US Climate Bill Encounters New Senate Delay (Reuters) Senate Democrats announced a new delay on climate change legislation, which could make it more difficult for President Obama to win progress on that front before a global environmental summit in December. EPA Preparing to Declare CO2 a Dange ...

  • August 31, 2009

    Japan Election Ushers in Party of Climate Action (Carbon Positive) A landslide victory for Japan’s party of near-permanent opposition has turned the country’s political scene on its head, and the country’s climate change policy along with it. New Zealand Lawmakers Give Thumbs Up to Emissi ...

  • August 29-30, 2009

    Both Sides in Energy Debate Watching Healthcare Battle (Los Angeles Times) As the battle over healthcare unfolds, its attack ads, spin-doctoring and town hall rhetoric are being watched with special attention by the combatants in Washington's next big fight -- Pres. Obama's climate plan. Leave ...

  • August 28, 2009

    Forestry leads Indonesian Agency’s Roadmap for Emissions Cuts (Reuters) An Indonesian environment agency has set out a roadmap for the government to adopt forestry, energy, transport, industrial and agriculture policies that would slash carbon emissions by the world's No. 3 emitter. Poll: O ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: David Swanson, The More Things Change

    A presidential candidate opposed to the Iraq War is elected and enters the Oval Office. Yet six months later, there are still essentially the same number of troops in Iraq as were there when his predecessor left, the same number, in fact, used in the original invasion of Iraq in March 2003. More ...

  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, From My Lai to Lockerbie

    On this one-way planet of ours, it's hard sometimes to imagine things any other way, but for a moment let's try. Imagine, for instance, that in recent years the director of Iranian intelligence oversaw a program of "extraordinary rendition" aimed at those who were believed to be prepared to commi ...

  • Tomgram: The Next War, On-Screen and Off

    [ Note for TomDispatch readers: We're back! Refreshed and ready for action, but still on a somewhat relaxed schedule until after Labor Day. The next piece will be posted Sunday night. Tom ] G.I. Joe, Post-American Hero The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism By Tom Engelhardt The Pre ...

  • Tomgram: Withdrawing by Bike from Iraq

    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: So it's sayonara for a couple of weeks. I'm taking my usual August break. TomDispatch will return sometime the week of August 24th, but will be on a limited posting schedule through Labor Day. Let me take this opportunity once again to thank those of you who hav ...

  • Tomgram: Mark Engler, Protesting at Climate Groun ...

    We're so past the Roman Empire by now that it's probably time to update the phrase "fiddling while Rome burns." What about, for instance, "writing fake letters ostensibly from real non-profit groups to weaken a climate-change bill while the planet burns"? It's true. According to the New York Ti ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Bush's Third Term? You're Living It

    — from TomDispatch It sounds like the plot for the latest summer horror movie. Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had won or stolen it, and that we were all now living (and dying) through it. With the Democrats in control of Congress ...

  • Why Glenn Beck, and Fox News, can't escape the "r ...

    Have so many blue-chip advertisers ever fled a program as quickly as the who's who of corporate America that's sprinted away from Glenn Beck in recent weeks? I certainly cannot recall ever seeing a mass exodus of this scale. The A-list collection of disgruntled Beck advertisers is staggering: Appleb ...

  • Obama's Meaningless War

    — from Truthdig True, he doesn't seem a bit like Lyndon Johnson, but the way he's headed on Afghanistan, Barack Obama is threatened with a quagmire that could bog down his presidency. LBJ also had a progressive agenda in mind, beginning with his war on poverty, but it was soon overwhelmed by the cos ...

  • In Oligarchy We Trust: Government Fattens Bank Car ...

    Is there a headline more menacing to liberals, moderates, consumers, small-business owners or free-marketeers than " Banks 'Too Big To Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger, Three Banks Issue Half the Mortgages & 2/3s of Credit Cards - Behemoths Born of the Bailout Reduce Consumer Choice "? Shouldn't any ju ...

  • The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

    The rise of video game culture has been criticized by some as encouraging violence. The theory is that the more violent and real-looking the video game is, the more it encourages its players to actually go out and reenact the game's scenes in real life. Of course, there's no scientific evidence to b ...

Ten Percent

  • Already

    Be with you soon, September already, autumn always starts -to me- with some Cocteau Twins… The memory of youth and realising you had to go back to school -freedom ending, back to conformity- always makes me sad at this time of year.

  • Friday! The Hope Blister- Dagger

  • Killing Fields of Sri Lanka

    Channel Four report- Link to unedited clip in 3GP format -Warning, shows the execution of naked bound prisoners by military personnel- A video clip received from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) evidences the way extra-judicial killings are executed in the island. The video captured in ...

  • Is The Obama Administration Victimising A Nobel Pe ...

    Via FreeGaza- After Downing Street, by Ann Wright former US diplomat:- Less than a month ago, in late July, 2009, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire (http://www.peacepeople.com/) was travelling from Dublin, Ireland to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet Peace Laureate Jody Williams to participate in p ...

  • Selection By Occupier

    Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (albeit funded by both US & NATO govts) has reports of systematic fraud, the EU are more upbeat, try to be surprised. The one candidate Ramazan Bashardost, with some real credentials in representing the Afghan people against powerful and corrupt elite ...

Paul Krugman

  • Horse-race reporting

    There's too much reporting that focuses on how policy proposals are supposedly playing, rather than what's actually in them.

  • Getting stucco

    This isn't the first time the Sunshine State has suffered from a big real estate bubble.

  • Going fishing

    Well, cycling actually.

  • A couple of notes on the 40s and 50s

    Didn't rapid population growth make it easier to deal with debt? Didn't the fact that the rest of the world was in ruins help? No.

  • 1945

    The fact is that the war left America with a big debt -- bigger, relative to our resources, than we're likely to face when the economic rescue is over. We dealt with it.

No Quarter

  • President Obama Bites The Hand That Feeds Him…Ag ...

    ABC’s Jake Tapper reported last night that the President’s Political Arm Follows His Lead in Drumming Up Support for Health Care Reform Push — by Criticizing Media. In his August 20, 2009, meeting with supporters at the Democratic National Committee and its “Organizing for Americaâ€Â ...

  • Krauthammer Nails It - Draconian Health Insurance ...

    I’m a capitalist, not a socialist. I’m a centrist, not a liberal or libertarian. I’m definitely not a Republican or a conservative, but I want this country to achieve a public health insurance policy that actually works, not pie in the sky wishful thinking. I don’t want it to bankrupt the co ...

  • A Tale Of Two Fires

    Once again, the State of California is dealing with a massive wildfire. Sadly, two firefighters lost their lives. And it is far from being over as the title of this article indicates, Fire burns 105,000 acres with no control in sight. It is hard to even grasp the breadth of this [...]

  • Placebobama

    The use of placebos in medicine is absolutely fascinating. The effects can be stunning, despite the fact that they, by their very definition, are composed of inert matter. Some may not understand that placebo effects do not result in a cure in and of themselves. Rather, when they work, people fe ...

  • Healthcare letter: for viral distribution

    I’ve written a sample letter I’m hoping to get out to as many people as possible. This is the last week of the Congressional recess and your Senators and Representatives may think they can relax. We need to keep the pressure on to make them painfully aware that we - their constituents - are migh ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Therapy News

  • Recovering from Infidelity

    By Robert F Scuka, LCSW-C. Infidelity is one of the most difficult challenges that any marriage or committed relationship can face. Infidelity is almost universally accompanied by a deep sense of betrayal and a profound loss of trust. The reason is that the one partner experiences the infidelity of ...

  • Study Links Dopamine with Ability to Block Formati ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The experience of a traumatic event can sometimes be overcome in a remarkably quick and elegant way by the mind and consciousness, but in many cases witnesses to unsettling situations are left with traumatic memories. Such memories can have a negative impact on mental ...

  • Walking in Circles Might Not Just Be a Feeling

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The notion that one is walking around in circles has a long history in personal introspection. While many people are marvelously capable of plotting out a straight and defined course to follow, others may feel as though the path ahead is as obscured and winding as it g ...

  • Need for More Attention to Mental Health in Childr ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Epilepsy is a condition which affects scores of children around the world and can have considerable negative consequences for development and personal well-being. But the issue can also lead towards complications in mental health as well as the health of families, not ...

  • An Attitude of Gratitude: Tips for Tough Times

    By Debbie Devine, MS, LPC “In the depth of winter, I finally realized that deep within me there lay an invincible summer.” A. Camus Let’s face it, life throws us curves sometimes. We all experience the ups and downs that lead some of us to seek a counselor’s help: relationship issues, money ...

Mountaintop Removal

Memeorandum

  • WH withdraws call for students to 'help' Obama (Ma ...

    Matthew Mosk / Washington Times : WH withdraws call for students to ‘help’ Obama — The Obama administration late Wednesday withdrew a recommendation that school children who watch a video featuring President Obama next week write about how they might “help the president” as part of a ...

  • The Obama Administration: MIA on Afghanistan? (Abu ...

    Abu Muqawama : The Obama Administration: MIA on Afghanistan? — So I was on the Newshour last night debating Afghanistan with a favorite of this blog and its readers, Andrew Bacevich. As readers of this blog know, I am uncomfortable when placed in the position of being expected to lustily d ...

  • U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan (Julian ...

    Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times : U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan — Support units will be replaced by up to 14,000 ‘trigger-pullers,’ and noncombat posts will be contracted out, Defense officials say. The swap will allow the U.S. to keep its troop level unchanged. — ...

  • Under fire, Obama shifts strategy (The Politico)

    The Politico : Under fire, Obama shifts strategy — Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specifying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trou ...

  • Kennedy Memoir Talks of Chappaquiddick, J.F.K. and ...

    Carl Hulse / The Caucus : Kennedy Memoir Talks of Chappaquiddick, J.F.K. and Other Presidents — In a memoir being published posthumously, Senator Edward M. Kennedy talks remorsefully about the car accident that claimed the life of Mary Jo Kopechne - a turn of events many consider a chief re ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Taking the toad’s-eye view

    Dipak Gyawali, former water minister of Nepal, explains how to approach Himalayan climate-change science from the grass-roots level. Interview by Isabel Hilton. Dipak Gyawali is a former minister of water resources in Nepal and research director of the Nepal Water Conservation Foundation. Here he te ...

  • Geoengineering: do we intervene?

    A major study published today in the United Kingdom asks what role proposed geoengineering technologies could play in regulating the climate. Tan Copsey spoke to one of its contributors, Ken Caldeira. As part of a series for chinadialogue that examines the environmental and political arguments aroun ...

  • Rethinking Sino-US relations

    Many Chinese commentators worry about the risks of the United States introducing carbon tariffs. Chu Zhaogen urges them to take a long-term view. United States energy secretary Steven Chu and commerce secretary Gary Locke visited China last month to explore where there might be mutually beneficial U ...

  • Do we know change when we see it?

    An agreement between the US and China on climate change and clean energy may be more significant than its detractors initially supposed, write Banning Garrett and Jonathan Adams. Did the United States and China recently take a game-changing step on climate change and clean energy? Quite possibly so. ...

  • Building regional cooperation

    Can people across the Himalayan region mobilise to build a common, collaborative response to the impacts of climate change? Isabel Hilton interviews Mohan Munasinghe, vice chairman of the IPCC. Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist and the vice chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Appeals Court Upholds Online Gambling Ban

    A move to scuttle legislation outlawing online gambling suffered a major setback when a federal appeals court set aside constitutional and other legal challenges to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals brushed aside asse ...

  • Voting Tech Experts Sought by Feds to Develop Stan ...

    Want to help improve the design and security of voting systems made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) and other companies? The federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), which oversees the federal testing and certification of voting systems, is seeking four technol ...

  • Despite Winning $675,000, RIAA Fears Defendant is ...

    The Recording Industry Association of America took the offensive Tuesday against a college student whom a jury concluded in July must pay $675,000 for file sharing 30 songs. The RIAA asked the Massachusetts judge who presided over the Joel Tenenbaum case to issue an injunction Tuesday preventing the ...

  • CIA at Odds With Obama Over Torture, ACLU Claims

    Citing national security concerns, the Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to divulge dozens of documents in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit surrounding its torture and rendition program adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. The withholding of documents dating to Preside ...

  • 5 More Indicted in Probe of International Carding ...

    Five eastern European men were indicted in New York on Monday as part of an international ring allegedly responsible for at least $4 million in credit card theft. The ring, which authorities dubbed the Western Express Cybercrime Group, operated between 2001 and 2007 and trafficked in at least 95,00 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • NASA tracks space junk headed toward space station

    HOUSTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The International Space Station might have to fire its thrusters to avoid a piece of space junk that could pass within two miles (3.2 km) of the orbiting complex and its 13 astronauts, NASA said on Wednesday.

  • Whitney Houston comeback album headed to No. 1

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - Whitney Houston struggled with her voice during her much-hyped comeback performance on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday. But industry prognosticators don't expect the diva to trip up on the charts next week.

  • Outlook "poor" for Great Barrier Reef: study

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living organism, is under grave threat from climate warming and coastal development, and its prospects of survival are "poor," a major new report found on Wednesday.

  • Advert criticized over "young" partial nude model

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's advertising watchdog has criticized an ad for a clothing company featuring a partially nude model who appeared to be younger than 16.

  • Dying Manson follower Atkins denied parole

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Susan Atkins, a follower of mass killer Charles Manson convicted nearly four decades ago in some of the most notorious murders in U.S. history, lost her 18th bid for release on Wednesday.

Godspace

  • Latest of the Spiritual Practices Series

    The spiritual practices blog series is coming to a close. Christine has just a few more to post after this. Here’s the round-up of posts for the last month: Celebrations and Parties as a Spiritual Discipline by Kathy Escobar, The Refuge The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea by Andy Wade Netwo ...

  • Celebrations and Parties as A Spiritual Discipline

    Well the What is a Spiritual Practice blog series is winding down but I am still continuing to receive articles so I intend to continue to post them over the next few weeks. Â today’s article comes from Kathy Escobar . Â Kathy describes herself as mommy. wife. friend. pot-stirrer. shepherd. fo ...

  • The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea

    Today’s post which seems very appropriate for me when I am heading off for a few relaxing days when I know I will be drinking lots of tea, is written by Andrew Wade He and his family have recently returned from several years working in Hong Kong where Andy worked as a Mennonite pastor. Â [...]

  • Networking as a Spiritual Practice

    I have been a little slow with posting today because Tom and I are on the road again. We are heading for a few days off in British Columbia with some friends but I wanted to make sure that I posted the last of the articles I have received for the What is a Spiritual [...]

  • Mothering as a Spiritual Practice

    Another beautiful day in Seattle and Tom and I are getting ready for a few days vacation up on Mayne Island, one of the Canadian gulf islands. Â The weather is supposed to be good and I am really looking forward to a few days off – hoping that the blackberries and apples are ready like [...]

Equality Trust

IntelNews

  • US spy agencies still lack foreign language expert ...

    A US media outlet has finally followed up on the warnings, made by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last July, about the lack of trained foreign-language speakers in the US intelligence community.

  • News you may have missed #0091

    McCain denies private agreement with CIA torture tactic. CIA rejects further declassifications on torture-related material. Taliban kill Afghan intelligence chief.

  • Document release offers new clues on MI5 activitie ...

    A batch of intelligence documents from the immediate post-World War II period released this week by Britain’s National Archives offer glimpses into previously unknown activities by MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence service.

  • Ex-CIA agent says Cheney “damaged the CIA more t ...

    Robert Baer, the retired CIA field officer whose bestselling memoir, See No Evil, formed the basis of the 2005 motion picture Syriana, has said that former Vice President’ Dick Cheney “damaged the CIA more than anybody has, including the press or the Department of Justice”.

  • News you may have missed #0090

    CIA's black sites, illuminated. Russian agents try to influence Czech politicians, says intelligence report. South Korean arrested for collaborating with North Korean spy.

PsyBlog

  • Group Polarization: The Trend to Extreme Decisions

    Say you put 10 people in a room and asked them to design a car. Would they design something average or something wacky? Would they be more likely to come up with the Ford Focus or 'The Homer', designed by Homer Simpson in this classic episode of The Simpsons? To help you decide, it's [...] » Try ...

  • The Acceptance Prophesy: How You Control Who Likes ...

    · Is interpersonal attraction a self-fulfilling prophesy? The mystical-sounding 'acceptance prophesy' is simply this: when we think other people are going to like us, we behave more warmly towards them and consequently they like us more. When we think other people aren't going to like us, we beha ...

  • Brainstorming Reloaded

    · Why brainstorming is ineffective and how to fix it. Brainstorming was once thought a fantastic way for groups to generate new ideas. Although not as fashionable as it once was, brainstorming is still frequently used in business and, often inadvertently, for all sorts of personal decisions; peop ...

  • Consumer Psychology

    · How and why we consume and how our beliefs, ideas and senses influence consumption. Peter Drucker, the management consultant, famously argued that about 80% of all products and services fail or fall well short of targets within six months of launching. Clearly markets have little understanding ...

  • Why Left to Right Punches Are More Aggressive, Pow ...

    Reading and writing from left to right is a skill so well-practised, so ingrained in language, that it's easy to ignore. Yet, according to some research, the direction in which language flows could have implications that spread into many other areas of our experience. Consider that people are often ...

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  • The Firestorm Ahead

    The Firestorm Ahead By Immanuel Wallerstein | Middle East Online There is a firestorm ahead in the Middle East for which neither the US government nor the US public is prepared. The storm will go from Iraq to Afghanistan to Pakistan to Israel/Palestine, says Immanuel Wallerstein. There is a firesto ...

  • CEO's Earning 300 Times More Than the Average Work ...

    CEO's Earning 300 Times More Than the Average Worker By Dan Arnall | ABC Newser The overall CEO-to-worker pay gap is exceptionally high; S&P 500 CEOs in 2008 earned 319 times more than the average worker. The liberal think tank Institute for Policy Studies is out with a report on excessive executiv ...

  • Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3B Penalty for Drug Promos

    Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3B Penalty for Drug Promos Repeat offender Pfizer paying record $2.3B settlement for illegal drug promotions By Devlin Barrett, Associated Press | ABC News.com As part of its illegal marketing, Pfizer invited doctors to consultant meetings at resort locations, paying their ...

  • Notes From Dennis Kucinich's Appearance At Progres ...

    Attendee's Notes from Dennis Kucinich's appearance at Progressive Democrats of America meeting in Ohio, August 22, 2009: "The health debate is about the purposes of government - the Constitution says the government exists to promote the general welfare..." (Interesting that two other Ohio Congress ...

  • Californians/Nevadans Protest Bybee Tomorrow, 9/3/ ...

    BYE BYE BYBEE: IMPEACH & ARREST THE TORTURE JUDGE Thursday, September 4, noon-2 p.m. Ninth Circuit Court, 7th & Mission, San Francisco Map PINKS and friends are invited to come to the Ninth Circuit Court at 7th & Mission this Thursday to protest "torture judge" Bybee's lifetime appointment to the ...

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  • Asus rumored to sell cheaper ultra-thin laptop nex ...

    Apple’s MacBook Air will soon be challenged on its super-slimness, by Windows-powered computers from Asus, Acer and MSI that may lack Apple’s aluminum-cased pizazz, but will cost a lot less. Digitimes reports that Asus, maker of the low-cost Eee PC netbook, will begin selling two ultra-slim n ...

  • Birthday cannon

    Happy birthday, here's your cannon ... @ Dailymail Mike Daugherty asked his 11-year-old son Logan what he wanted for his birthday. The boy said, "I want a cannon." Dad didn't scoff at Logan's request by saying, "How about a hippopotamus instead," as a Christmas song from another era lamented. No ...

  • I-Swarm, real micro-sized robots!

    These tiny I-Swarm (Intelligent Small-World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation) robots are incredibly neat! They move by using a piezoelectric transducer to vibrate across a surface in a manner similar to a bristlebot, only controllable. Because they are vibrating at audible frequencies, ...

  • Home-haircut indicator: In the footsteps of the un ...

    Filed under: Columns , Economic data , Recession , Comic Relief So, who out there cuts their own hair? I do, mainly because it is fading fast and it is a lot easier to have my wife take the clippers and then razor to my head rather than paying to go get my hair cut professionally. Now that I ...

  • Joe Jackson says ?someone should pay? for son Mich ...

    Joe Jackson: ‘Someone should pay’ for son’s death NEW YORK ? Michael Jackson’s father says he’d never heard of the drug propofol until it was implicated in his son’s death. “I’m not angry. I’m mad,” Joe Jackson said in an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show. ...

Time - Top Stories

Washington Independent

  • Rachel Maddow and Spencer Ackerman: Real Talk on A ...

    TWI’s own Spencer Ackerman appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday to discuss Afghanistan, contractors, and the shocking scandal that has recently come to light. In case you missed it, here’s the video (after the jump). Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and New ...

  • Grassley Blasts Wasteful Medicare Spending

    Medicare and its beneficiaries paid four times the average supplier cost for standard-issue power wheelchairs in the first half of 2007, according to a report released Wednesday by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. The news drew the immediate condemnation of Sen. ...

  • Curt Schilling Hearts Ann Coulter

    As long as people are discussing the possibility of legendary Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling running for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, they should check out his blog. From August 8: Ann Coulter might be extreme, but damn the woman is intelligent in ways that piss so many people off. You have to ...

  • Gary Bauer: Obama’s Speech to Children Is an ...

    Gary Bauer, the religious conservative leader who was undersecretary of Education under President Reagan, and who now runs American Values, tells supporters in his daily email that the president’s Sept. 8 speech to schoolchildren is an example of the White House “using its power in unprecedented ...

  • The Waiting Room

    Here’s a brief summary of the day’s health care news. President Obama is slated to address a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9 to lay out more detailed demands for health care reform, ABC News reported today. The move — which came on the heels of a written invitation from House Speaker Nan ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • ‘Biosecure’ Farms Not So Biosecure

    There are times when perniciously false premises are treated as the criteria by which truth is determined. We lose the argument before it’s begun. And where does that leave us in our efforts to control mortal dangers of our own making? Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business | Note-it! ...

  • Raw milk “Pepsi challenge” in Romania

    “Raw milk is very easy to find, here in Romania. Bunici (grandmas) typically stand on the busy before-noon street corners, and lean against brick walls or warped garden rails. Placed before them are a few ‘recycled’ 2-liter soda bottles filled with Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbeat | ...

  • Irish Call For Total EU Ban on Brazilian Beef

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

  • Health care debate creates new diseases

    URGENT New Flash… Breaking News…The Center for Disease Control has identified a new strain of the Mad Cow Disease called Insane Donkey Virus running rampant among elected officials, Obama Administration personnel and high profile personalities. The CDC be Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbe ...

  • Coroners 'should test for CJD to monitor spread of ...

    Coroners are refusing to carry out post-mortem tests for an infection which causes the human form of BSE despite pleas that they could help monitor the spread of the disease, it was reported today. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-120 Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Society & ...

Why Organic

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

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

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

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

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

    “THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM” = 666 — “WHICH NUMBER REPRESENTS JESUS CHRIST” = 666 —” THE ARYAN BROTHERHOOD” = 666. _______________ Using the english alphabet A = 1  B= 2   etc. Write out the phrase and assign the numbers under them. Now, add it vertically as you no ...

  • THE HPV VACCINE and our daughters….

    In case you missed my posting about the HPV VACCINE….I am including a link to it. http://whyorganic.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/do-not-give-your-daughter-hpv-vaccine

  • BIG MEDIA RULINGS

     Senate Committee Votes to Throw Out FCC RulesThe Senate Commerce Committee passed a “resolution of disapproval” that would veto the FCC’s latest attempt to dismantle longstanding media ownership limits. Free Press  Senate Panel Rejects New Media Ownership Rule A Senate committee vo ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • EDITORIAL: False reports about guns

    Washington Times Editorial Many media outlets have misfired about guns. Countless newspapers and television networks — from CBS to MSNBC — have misreported that conservative protesters are threatening President Obama with guns at public events. It hasn’t happened. In Portsmouth, N.H., a man ca ...

  • Why Our Great-Grandparents were Happier Than We Ar ...

    Bayers Heroin A bottle of Bayer’s heroin.. Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with strong cough Coca Wine, anyone? Metcalf Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market . Eve ...

  • Schoolgirls rumble Ribena vitamin claims

    By Jeevan Vasagar Two New Zealand schoolgirls humbled one of the world’s biggest food and drugs companies after their school science experiment found that their ready-to-drink Ribena contained almost no trace of vitamin C. Students Anna Devathasan and Jenny Suo tested the blackcurrant cordial agai ...

  • Pregnant women express fears over swine flu vaccin ...

    By Sarah Boseley Almost half of all pregnant women say they will refuse to be vaccinated against swine flu once the jab is available, suggesting there is widespread concern about its safety, a poll has revealed. Pregnant women are one of the target groups for vaccination identified by experts advisi ...

  • Fox News Poll: Majority Think Swine Flu Vaccine De ...

    Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, August 28, 2009 According to a Fox News poll, the majority of respondents think that the swine flu vaccine is deadlier than the actual virus itself, emphasizing the growing momentum in the revolt against government plans to institute mass H1N1 vaccination ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • M & M's, Anyone ? ? ? ? (Moyers and Maher)

    This post by Glenn Greenwald summarizing Bill Moyers' appearance on the Bill Maher show last night says it all regarding the current state of affairs in the USAofexpensivehealthcare. Go . Read . Get angry. Think Progressive Party not tied to the dems or repugs . . . . (Cross-posted from Moved t ...

  • Assault rifle at Obama speech a publicity stunt

    for conservative talk radio show Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock . Hancock and "Chris", the black man carrying the assault rifle, knew each other "through their work for presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas)". "We know what we're up against," Hancock, also packing heat at the h ...

  • Think Light . . .

    INHABITAT is a neat site that showcases all sorts of green stuff, including the Solar Shanghai Pavilion, made from used CD cases . Go read all about it.

  • Money for Vote$ . . . .

    The answer to the question asked at the end: "Whoever contribute$ the mo$t $$ to my re-election campaign!" Silly voter. What was he thinking ? ? ? ? (Cross-posted from Moved to Vancouver )

  • The Emperor Strikes Back

    What is Emperor Steve fooling around with in his pocket this time? . Oooh - it's the nine new Senators he appointed yesterday. That makes 27 Cons he's appointed in less than a year , bringing his posse in the Senate up to 46 out 0f a total of 105. . G&M : "At an event in Quebec City, the Prime Mini ...

Media Matters for America

  • Sanity on hold: Fox News warns Democrats: "Don't ...

    Fox News hosts have recently fixated on the House's decision to terminate a pilot program to -- in the words of Bret Baier -- "kill the patriotic tunes callers hear when they're put on hold." Sean Hannity claimed that it "serves as a lesson to the Democrats: Don't meddle with our patriotic musi ...

  • Fox's Kelly gives "hat tip" to birther, Obama-Hit ...

    On the September 2 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom , co-host Megyn Kelly gave a "hat tip" to the blog Gateway Pundit, which Kelly said is where "we found" video of "a new effort to silence critics of the Democrats' [health care] plan." The Gateway Pundit blog has frequently pushed the ...

  • Fox News' embedded reporter Jenkins cheerleads for ...

    Despite his claim to be "simply reporting" on the Tea Party Express rallies, Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins, who is traveling with the cross-country protest bus tour, has repeatedly expressed support for the protesters, who he has referred to as "the America that Washington forgot." Fox News ...

  • Perino falsely suggests allowing federally subsid ...

    Criticizing Democratic health reform bills for allowing federally subsidized health insurance plans to cover abortion, Fox News contributor Dana Perino claimed that the "Hyde Amendment was supposed to protect against" allowing health insurance plans "that get subsidies from the taxpayer dolla ...

  • Conservatives on Obama's stay-in-school speech: "I ...

    Numerous conservatives have claimed that President Obama's upcoming September 8 speech about "persisting and succeeding in school," along with classroom activities about the "importance of education," will "indoctrinate" and "brainwash" schoolchildren. Conservatives have compared Obama's address to ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • George Will is Right

    I don't often say this, but George Will gets it exactly right. But before launching New Deal 2.0 in Afghanistan, the Obama administration should ask itself: If U.S. forces are there to prevent re-establishment of al-Qaeda bases -- evidently there... Sponsored Topics: Afghanistan - al-Qaeda ...

  • The Apparent Unmotivated Idiocy of Labor Union Mem ...

    Steven Brill has a long essay in the New Yorker about the long process required to fire teachers in New York City. Now, any discussion of due process, whether in firings or criminal justice, inevitably can stack the deck by... Sponsored Topics: New York City - Trade union - United States - Steve ...

  • The Guns of August, and Why the Republican Right W ...

    What we learned in August is something we've long known but keep forgetting: The most important difference between America's Democratic left and Republican right is that the left has ideas and the right has discipline. Obama and progressive supporters... Sponsored Topics: Health care - Democrats ...

  • How Progressives Should Weigh Compromises

    The 2009 battle over health care reform is soon going to come to a head in national debates and legislative specifics. President Obama will re-set the agenda when he speaks to Congress, and in all likelihood sheer survival instincts will... Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - Health care - United S ...

  • Will Israel Attack Iran This Year?

    The neocons are getting ready for another war. The same crowd that helped get us into Iraq are desperate for war with Iran (and for many of the same reasons). Former Vice President Cheney now says publicly that we could... Sponsored Topics: Iran - Dick Cheney - Israel - Iraq War - Middle East

TruthOut

  • US Extends Iraq Contract for Blackwater Firm

    Washington - State Department officials said Wednesday they have extended a contract with a subsidiary of the security firm once known as Blackwater USA despite the fact the company is not allowed to work in the country. Three officials said the contract with Presidential Airways to provide ...

  • Obama to Deliver Health Care Address to Congress

    Washington - President Barack Obama has set a major address on health care for Sept. 9 before Congress. The speech will come a day after lawmakers return from an August recess in which critics of Obama's health proposals have dominated many public forums. Some Democrats feel Obama has been t ...

  • US Officials Cancel Contract to Profile Reporters

    Washington - US military authorities in Afghanistan have terminated a contract with a company that was producing profiles of reporters seeking to cover a war that's becoming increasingly unpopular with the American public. The media analysis work being done by The Rendon Group had become a " ...

  • SEC Fumbled Five Madoff Probes, Report Finds

    Boston/Washington - US securities regulators missed repeated chances to uncover Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, a sharply critical review by a federal watchdog said on Wednesday. A summary of a report by the U.S. read more

  • American to Cut 921 Flight Attendants' Jobs

    Dallas - American Airlines is cutting 921 flight attendant jobs as it deals with an ongoing downturn in traffic and lower revenue. The airline said Tuesday that the cuts will take effect Oct. 1. American, the nation's second-largest airline, said 228 employees will be furloughed - laid o ...

The Heathlander

  • The “British method”

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

  • ‘Israel’s Terror Inside’

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

  • A culture of fear

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

  • Fighting the fash

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

  • Silencing civil society

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

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TruthHugger

  • Texas Progressive Alliance August 31, 2009

    It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No ...

  • Who Will Carry The Kennedy Torch? Op Ed

    The passing of Ted Kennedy may have dealt a blow to progressive humanitarian warriors. The Senate is missing the most effective voice for the disenfranchised. From his perch atop the mountain of comfort built by his family, Ted Kennedy used his position to battle legislative discrepancies that ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 24, 2009

    School is starting, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is prepared as always to ace the test. Here is this week’s roundup of blog highlights. From TXsharon: Woo Hoo! EPA testing has now confirmed wells are contaminated “with various substances connected with gas drillingâ€�–proof that h ...

  • Bi-Polar America – Who is Worthy of a Healthy Li ...

    The rationing of health care is already a fact of life. The new reform will remove some of that rationing and make health care a right instead of a privilege. Bi-Polar America - I am worthy, You are not. Jesus was a socialist.

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 17, 2009

    It’s time for preseason football games, but the Texas Progressive Alliance is always in midseason form. Here are this week’s blog highlights. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders why we put up with temper tantrums and intimidation from the far right? Everyone should have their say in our d ...

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Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Building a Movement, Haitian Style

    pigs.jpg I spent the better part of last week crisscrossing Haiti’s arid Northwest with Grassroots International’s partner the National Congress of the Peasant’s Movement of Papay (MPNKP). MPNKP is best known to our allies and friends fo ...

  • Resilient Hondurans Lead The Way To Protect Democr ...

    IMG00292.jpg Today, thousands of people will fill the streets of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. They are students, housekeepers, children and farmers from different parts of country—many of whom walked 10-12 miles a day to get to the ...

  • Yes, We Can - But Will We Join Our Neighbors to Re ...

    More than a month after the military coup in the Central American country of Honduras (for which the term “banana republic” was originally coined due to the overwhelming influence of U.S. fruit corporations in that country), the junta is still in power and shows little real sign of budging. re ...

  • They Are Afraid of Us, Because We are Not Afraid o ...

    Tom Loudon from our ally the Alliance for Responsible Trade, which is a member of the Hemispheric Social Alliance (a Grassroots International grantee) is currently in Honduras as part of an international human rights monitoring delegation. Today, August 11th, the Global Day of Action for Honduras, h ...

  • On the Global Day of Action for Honduras, Donate y ...

    Want to do something simple to help support Honduran democracy and keep the crisis in the public eye? Donate your status! It’s free, easy, and can make a huge impact. Right now, the corporate news media is mostly silent about what’s happening on the ground in Honduras and the role of US polic ...

Climate

  • September 2, 2009

    UN: Poor Nations Need $600B a Year for Climate Change (AFP) Developing nations need a $600 billion "Marshall Plan" annually to tackle climate change with support from rich nations on a scale not seen outside wartime recovery, the World Economic and Social Survey says. China Calculates High Pr ...

  • September 1, 2009

    US Climate Bill Encounters New Senate Delay (Reuters) Senate Democrats announced a new delay on climate change legislation, which could make it more difficult for President Obama to win progress on that front before a global environmental summit in December. EPA Preparing to Declare CO2 a Dange ...

  • August 31, 2009

    Japan Election Ushers in Party of Climate Action (Carbon Positive) A landslide victory for Japan’s party of near-permanent opposition has turned the country’s political scene on its head, and the country’s climate change policy along with it. New Zealand Lawmakers Give Thumbs Up to Emissi ...

  • August 29-30, 2009

    Both Sides in Energy Debate Watching Healthcare Battle (Los Angeles Times) As the battle over healthcare unfolds, its attack ads, spin-doctoring and town hall rhetoric are being watched with special attention by the combatants in Washington's next big fight -- Pres. Obama's climate plan. Leave ...

  • August 28, 2009

    Forestry leads Indonesian Agency’s Roadmap for Emissions Cuts (Reuters) An Indonesian environment agency has set out a roadmap for the government to adopt forestry, energy, transport, industrial and agriculture policies that would slash carbon emissions by the world's No. 3 emitter. Poll: O ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: David Swanson, The More Things Change

    A presidential candidate opposed to the Iraq War is elected and enters the Oval Office. Yet six months later, there are still essentially the same number of troops in Iraq as were there when his predecessor left, the same number, in fact, used in the original invasion of Iraq in March 2003. More ...

  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, From My Lai to Lockerbie

    On this one-way planet of ours, it's hard sometimes to imagine things any other way, but for a moment let's try. Imagine, for instance, that in recent years the director of Iranian intelligence oversaw a program of "extraordinary rendition" aimed at those who were believed to be prepared to commi ...

  • Tomgram: The Next War, On-Screen and Off

    [ Note for TomDispatch readers: We're back! Refreshed and ready for action, but still on a somewhat relaxed schedule until after Labor Day. The next piece will be posted Sunday night. Tom ] G.I. Joe, Post-American Hero The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism By Tom Engelhardt The Pre ...

  • Tomgram: Withdrawing by Bike from Iraq

    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: So it's sayonara for a couple of weeks. I'm taking my usual August break. TomDispatch will return sometime the week of August 24th, but will be on a limited posting schedule through Labor Day. Let me take this opportunity once again to thank those of you who hav ...

  • Tomgram: Mark Engler, Protesting at Climate Groun ...

    We're so past the Roman Empire by now that it's probably time to update the phrase "fiddling while Rome burns." What about, for instance, "writing fake letters ostensibly from real non-profit groups to weaken a climate-change bill while the planet burns"? It's true. According to the New York Ti ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Bush's Third Term? You're Living It

    — from TomDispatch It sounds like the plot for the latest summer horror movie. Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had won or stolen it, and that we were all now living (and dying) through it. With the Democrats in control of Congress ...

  • Why Glenn Beck, and Fox News, can't escape the "r ...

    Have so many blue-chip advertisers ever fled a program as quickly as the who's who of corporate America that's sprinted away from Glenn Beck in recent weeks? I certainly cannot recall ever seeing a mass exodus of this scale. The A-list collection of disgruntled Beck advertisers is staggering: Appleb ...

  • Obama's Meaningless War

    — from Truthdig True, he doesn't seem a bit like Lyndon Johnson, but the way he's headed on Afghanistan, Barack Obama is threatened with a quagmire that could bog down his presidency. LBJ also had a progressive agenda in mind, beginning with his war on poverty, but it was soon overwhelmed by the cos ...

  • In Oligarchy We Trust: Government Fattens Bank Car ...

    Is there a headline more menacing to liberals, moderates, consumers, small-business owners or free-marketeers than " Banks 'Too Big To Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger, Three Banks Issue Half the Mortgages & 2/3s of Credit Cards - Behemoths Born of the Bailout Reduce Consumer Choice "? Shouldn't any ju ...

  • The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

    The rise of video game culture has been criticized by some as encouraging violence. The theory is that the more violent and real-looking the video game is, the more it encourages its players to actually go out and reenact the game's scenes in real life. Of course, there's no scientific evidence to b ...

Ten Percent

  • Already

    Be with you soon, September already, autumn always starts -to me- with some Cocteau Twins… The memory of youth and realising you had to go back to school -freedom ending, back to conformity- always makes me sad at this time of year.

  • Friday! The Hope Blister- Dagger

  • Killing Fields of Sri Lanka

    Channel Four report- Link to unedited clip in 3GP format -Warning, shows the execution of naked bound prisoners by military personnel- A video clip received from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) evidences the way extra-judicial killings are executed in the island. The video captured in ...

  • Is The Obama Administration Victimising A Nobel Pe ...

    Via FreeGaza- After Downing Street, by Ann Wright former US diplomat:- Less than a month ago, in late July, 2009, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire (http://www.peacepeople.com/) was travelling from Dublin, Ireland to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet Peace Laureate Jody Williams to participate in p ...

  • Selection By Occupier

    Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (albeit funded by both US & NATO govts) has reports of systematic fraud, the EU are more upbeat, try to be surprised. The one candidate Ramazan Bashardost, with some real credentials in representing the Afghan people against powerful and corrupt elite ...

Paul Krugman

  • Horse-race reporting

    There's too much reporting that focuses on how policy proposals are supposedly playing, rather than what's actually in them.

  • Getting stucco

    This isn't the first time the Sunshine State has suffered from a big real estate bubble.

  • Going fishing

    Well, cycling actually.

  • A couple of notes on the 40s and 50s

    Didn't rapid population growth make it easier to deal with debt? Didn't the fact that the rest of the world was in ruins help? No.

  • 1945

    The fact is that the war left America with a big debt -- bigger, relative to our resources, than we're likely to face when the economic rescue is over. We dealt with it.

No Quarter

  • President Obama Bites The Hand That Feeds Him…Ag ...

    ABC’s Jake Tapper reported last night that the President’s Political Arm Follows His Lead in Drumming Up Support for Health Care Reform Push — by Criticizing Media. In his August 20, 2009, meeting with supporters at the Democratic National Committee and its “Organizing for Americaâ€Â ...

  • Krauthammer Nails It - Draconian Health Insurance ...

    I’m a capitalist, not a socialist. I’m a centrist, not a liberal or libertarian. I’m definitely not a Republican or a conservative, but I want this country to achieve a public health insurance policy that actually works, not pie in the sky wishful thinking. I don’t want it to bankrupt the co ...

  • A Tale Of Two Fires

    Once again, the State of California is dealing with a massive wildfire. Sadly, two firefighters lost their lives. And it is far from being over as the title of this article indicates, Fire burns 105,000 acres with no control in sight. It is hard to even grasp the breadth of this [...]

  • Placebobama

    The use of placebos in medicine is absolutely fascinating. The effects can be stunning, despite the fact that they, by their very definition, are composed of inert matter. Some may not understand that placebo effects do not result in a cure in and of themselves. Rather, when they work, people fe ...

  • Healthcare letter: for viral distribution

    I’ve written a sample letter I’m hoping to get out to as many people as possible. This is the last week of the Congressional recess and your Senators and Representatives may think they can relax. We need to keep the pressure on to make them painfully aware that we - their constituents - are migh ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Therapy News

  • Recovering from Infidelity

    By Robert F Scuka, LCSW-C. Infidelity is one of the most difficult challenges that any marriage or committed relationship can face. Infidelity is almost universally accompanied by a deep sense of betrayal and a profound loss of trust. The reason is that the one partner experiences the infidelity of ...

  • Study Links Dopamine with Ability to Block Formati ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The experience of a traumatic event can sometimes be overcome in a remarkably quick and elegant way by the mind and consciousness, but in many cases witnesses to unsettling situations are left with traumatic memories. Such memories can have a negative impact on mental ...

  • Walking in Circles Might Not Just Be a Feeling

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The notion that one is walking around in circles has a long history in personal introspection. While many people are marvelously capable of plotting out a straight and defined course to follow, others may feel as though the path ahead is as obscured and winding as it g ...

  • Need for More Attention to Mental Health in Childr ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Epilepsy is a condition which affects scores of children around the world and can have considerable negative consequences for development and personal well-being. But the issue can also lead towards complications in mental health as well as the health of families, not ...

  • An Attitude of Gratitude: Tips for Tough Times

    By Debbie Devine, MS, LPC “In the depth of winter, I finally realized that deep within me there lay an invincible summer.” A. Camus Let’s face it, life throws us curves sometimes. We all experience the ups and downs that lead some of us to seek a counselor’s help: relationship issues, money ...

Mountaintop Removal

Memeorandum

  • WH withdraws call for students to 'help' Obama (Ma ...

    Matthew Mosk / Washington Times : WH withdraws call for students to ‘help’ Obama — The Obama administration late Wednesday withdrew a recommendation that school children who watch a video featuring President Obama next week write about how they might “help the president” as part of a ...

  • The Obama Administration: MIA on Afghanistan? (Abu ...

    Abu Muqawama : The Obama Administration: MIA on Afghanistan? — So I was on the Newshour last night debating Afghanistan with a favorite of this blog and its readers, Andrew Bacevich. As readers of this blog know, I am uncomfortable when placed in the position of being expected to lustily d ...

  • U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan (Julian ...

    Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times : U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan — Support units will be replaced by up to 14,000 ‘trigger-pullers,’ and noncombat posts will be contracted out, Defense officials say. The swap will allow the U.S. to keep its troop level unchanged. — ...

  • Under fire, Obama shifts strategy (The Politico)

    The Politico : Under fire, Obama shifts strategy — Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specifying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trou ...

  • Kennedy Memoir Talks of Chappaquiddick, J.F.K. and ...

    Carl Hulse / The Caucus : Kennedy Memoir Talks of Chappaquiddick, J.F.K. and Other Presidents — In a memoir being published posthumously, Senator Edward M. Kennedy talks remorsefully about the car accident that claimed the life of Mary Jo Kopechne - a turn of events many consider a chief re ...

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China Dialogue

  • Taking the toad’s-eye view

    Dipak Gyawali, former water minister of Nepal, explains how to approach Himalayan climate-change science from the grass-roots level. Interview by Isabel Hilton. Dipak Gyawali is a former minister of water resources in Nepal and research director of the Nepal Water Conservation Foundation. Here he te ...

  • Geoengineering: do we intervene?

    A major study published today in the United Kingdom asks what role proposed geoengineering technologies could play in regulating the climate. Tan Copsey spoke to one of its contributors, Ken Caldeira. As part of a series for chinadialogue that examines the environmental and political arguments aroun ...

  • Rethinking Sino-US relations

    Many Chinese commentators worry about the risks of the United States introducing carbon tariffs. Chu Zhaogen urges them to take a long-term view. United States energy secretary Steven Chu and commerce secretary Gary Locke visited China last month to explore where there might be mutually beneficial U ...

  • Do we know change when we see it?

    An agreement between the US and China on climate change and clean energy may be more significant than its detractors initially supposed, write Banning Garrett and Jonathan Adams. Did the United States and China recently take a game-changing step on climate change and clean energy? Quite possibly so. ...

  • Building regional cooperation

    Can people across the Himalayan region mobilise to build a common, collaborative response to the impacts of climate change? Isabel Hilton interviews Mohan Munasinghe, vice chairman of the IPCC. Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist and the vice chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

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  • Appeals Court Upholds Online Gambling Ban

    A move to scuttle legislation outlawing online gambling suffered a major setback when a federal appeals court set aside constitutional and other legal challenges to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals brushed aside asse ...

  • Voting Tech Experts Sought by Feds to Develop Stan ...

    Want to help improve the design and security of voting systems made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) and other companies? The federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), which oversees the federal testing and certification of voting systems, is seeking four technol ...

  • Despite Winning $675,000, RIAA Fears Defendant is ...

    The Recording Industry Association of America took the offensive Tuesday against a college student whom a jury concluded in July must pay $675,000 for file sharing 30 songs. The RIAA asked the Massachusetts judge who presided over the Joel Tenenbaum case to issue an injunction Tuesday preventing the ...

  • CIA at Odds With Obama Over Torture, ACLU Claims

    Citing national security concerns, the Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to divulge dozens of documents in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit surrounding its torture and rendition program adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. The withholding of documents dating to Preside ...

  • 5 More Indicted in Probe of International Carding ...

    Five eastern European men were indicted in New York on Monday as part of an international ring allegedly responsible for at least $4 million in credit card theft. The ring, which authorities dubbed the Western Express Cybercrime Group, operated between 2001 and 2007 and trafficked in at least 95,00 ...

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  • NASA tracks space junk headed toward space station

    HOUSTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The International Space Station might have to fire its thrusters to avoid a piece of space junk that could pass within two miles (3.2 km) of the orbiting complex and its 13 astronauts, NASA said on Wednesday.

  • Whitney Houston comeback album headed to No. 1

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - Whitney Houston struggled with her voice during her much-hyped comeback performance on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday. But industry prognosticators don't expect the diva to trip up on the charts next week.

  • Outlook "poor" for Great Barrier Reef: study

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living organism, is under grave threat from climate warming and coastal development, and its prospects of survival are "poor," a major new report found on Wednesday.

  • Advert criticized over "young" partial nude model

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's advertising watchdog has criticized an ad for a clothing company featuring a partially nude model who appeared to be younger than 16.

  • Dying Manson follower Atkins denied parole

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Susan Atkins, a follower of mass killer Charles Manson convicted nearly four decades ago in some of the most notorious murders in U.S. history, lost her 18th bid for release on Wednesday.

Godspace

  • Latest of the Spiritual Practices Series

    The spiritual practices blog series is coming to a close. Christine has just a few more to post after this. Here’s the round-up of posts for the last month: Celebrations and Parties as a Spiritual Discipline by Kathy Escobar, The Refuge The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea by Andy Wade Netwo ...

  • Celebrations and Parties as A Spiritual Discipline

    Well the What is a Spiritual Practice blog series is winding down but I am still continuing to receive articles so I intend to continue to post them over the next few weeks. Â today’s article comes from Kathy Escobar . Â Kathy describes herself as mommy. wife. friend. pot-stirrer. shepherd. fo ...

  • The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea

    Today’s post which seems very appropriate for me when I am heading off for a few relaxing days when I know I will be drinking lots of tea, is written by Andrew Wade He and his family have recently returned from several years working in Hong Kong where Andy worked as a Mennonite pastor. Â [...]

  • Networking as a Spiritual Practice

    I have been a little slow with posting today because Tom and I are on the road again. We are heading for a few days off in British Columbia with some friends but I wanted to make sure that I posted the last of the articles I have received for the What is a Spiritual [...]

  • Mothering as a Spiritual Practice

    Another beautiful day in Seattle and Tom and I are getting ready for a few days vacation up on Mayne Island, one of the Canadian gulf islands. Â The weather is supposed to be good and I am really looking forward to a few days off – hoping that the blackberries and apples are ready like [...]

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IntelNews

  • US spy agencies still lack foreign language expert ...

    A US media outlet has finally followed up on the warnings, made by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last July, about the lack of trained foreign-language speakers in the US intelligence community.

  • News you may have missed #0091

    McCain denies private agreement with CIA torture tactic. CIA rejects further declassifications on torture-related material. Taliban kill Afghan intelligence chief.

  • Document release offers new clues on MI5 activitie ...

    A batch of intelligence documents from the immediate post-World War II period released this week by Britain’s National Archives offer glimpses into previously unknown activities by MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence service.

  • Ex-CIA agent says Cheney “damaged the CIA more t ...

    Robert Baer, the retired CIA field officer whose bestselling memoir, See No Evil, formed the basis of the 2005 motion picture Syriana, has said that former Vice President’ Dick Cheney “damaged the CIA more than anybody has, including the press or the Department of Justice”.

  • News you may have missed #0090

    CIA's black sites, illuminated. Russian agents try to influence Czech politicians, says intelligence report. South Korean arrested for collaborating with North Korean spy.

PsyBlog

  • Group Polarization: The Trend to Extreme Decisions

    Say you put 10 people in a room and asked them to design a car. Would they design something average or something wacky? Would they be more likely to come up with the Ford Focus or 'The Homer', designed by Homer Simpson in this classic episode of The Simpsons? To help you decide, it's [...] » Try ...

  • The Acceptance Prophesy: How You Control Who Likes ...

    · Is interpersonal attraction a self-fulfilling prophesy? The mystical-sounding 'acceptance prophesy' is simply this: when we think other people are going to like us, we behave more warmly towards them and consequently they like us more. When we think other people aren't going to like us, we beha ...

  • Brainstorming Reloaded

    · Why brainstorming is ineffective and how to fix it. Brainstorming was once thought a fantastic way for groups to generate new ideas. Although not as fashionable as it once was, brainstorming is still frequently used in business and, often inadvertently, for all sorts of personal decisions; peop ...

  • Consumer Psychology

    · How and why we consume and how our beliefs, ideas and senses influence consumption. Peter Drucker, the management consultant, famously argued that about 80% of all products and services fail or fall well short of targets within six months of launching. Clearly markets have little understanding ...

  • Why Left to Right Punches Are More Aggressive, Pow ...

    Reading and writing from left to right is a skill so well-practised, so ingrained in language, that it's easy to ignore. Yet, according to some research, the direction in which language flows could have implications that spread into many other areas of our experience. Consider that people are often ...

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  • The Firestorm Ahead

    The Firestorm Ahead By Immanuel Wallerstein | Middle East Online There is a firestorm ahead in the Middle East for which neither the US government nor the US public is prepared. The storm will go from Iraq to Afghanistan to Pakistan to Israel/Palestine, says Immanuel Wallerstein. There is a firesto ...

  • CEO's Earning 300 Times More Than the Average Work ...

    CEO's Earning 300 Times More Than the Average Worker By Dan Arnall | ABC Newser The overall CEO-to-worker pay gap is exceptionally high; S&P 500 CEOs in 2008 earned 319 times more than the average worker. The liberal think tank Institute for Policy Studies is out with a report on excessive executiv ...

  • Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3B Penalty for Drug Promos

    Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3B Penalty for Drug Promos Repeat offender Pfizer paying record $2.3B settlement for illegal drug promotions By Devlin Barrett, Associated Press | ABC News.com As part of its illegal marketing, Pfizer invited doctors to consultant meetings at resort locations, paying their ...

  • Notes From Dennis Kucinich's Appearance At Progres ...

    Attendee's Notes from Dennis Kucinich's appearance at Progressive Democrats of America meeting in Ohio, August 22, 2009: "The health debate is about the purposes of government - the Constitution says the government exists to promote the general welfare..." (Interesting that two other Ohio Congress ...

  • Californians/Nevadans Protest Bybee Tomorrow, 9/3/ ...

    BYE BYE BYBEE: IMPEACH & ARREST THE TORTURE JUDGE Thursday, September 4, noon-2 p.m. Ninth Circuit Court, 7th & Mission, San Francisco Map PINKS and friends are invited to come to the Ninth Circuit Court at 7th & Mission this Thursday to protest "torture judge" Bybee's lifetime appointment to the ...

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  • Asus rumored to sell cheaper ultra-thin laptop nex ...

    Apple’s MacBook Air will soon be challenged on its super-slimness, by Windows-powered computers from Asus, Acer and MSI that may lack Apple’s aluminum-cased pizazz, but will cost a lot less. Digitimes reports that Asus, maker of the low-cost Eee PC netbook, will begin selling two ultra-slim n ...

  • Birthday cannon

    Happy birthday, here's your cannon ... @ Dailymail Mike Daugherty asked his 11-year-old son Logan what he wanted for his birthday. The boy said, "I want a cannon." Dad didn't scoff at Logan's request by saying, "How about a hippopotamus instead," as a Christmas song from another era lamented. No ...

  • I-Swarm, real micro-sized robots!

    These tiny I-Swarm (Intelligent Small-World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation) robots are incredibly neat! They move by using a piezoelectric transducer to vibrate across a surface in a manner similar to a bristlebot, only controllable. Because they are vibrating at audible frequencies, ...

  • Home-haircut indicator: In the footsteps of the un ...

    Filed under: Columns , Economic data , Recession , Comic Relief So, who out there cuts their own hair? I do, mainly because it is fading fast and it is a lot easier to have my wife take the clippers and then razor to my head rather than paying to go get my hair cut professionally. Now that I ...

  • Joe Jackson says ?someone should pay? for son Mich ...

    Joe Jackson: ‘Someone should pay’ for son’s death NEW YORK ? Michael Jackson’s father says he’d never heard of the drug propofol until it was implicated in his son’s death. “I’m not angry. I’m mad,” Joe Jackson said in an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show. ...

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Washington Independent

  • Rachel Maddow and Spencer Ackerman: Real Talk on A ...

    TWI’s own Spencer Ackerman appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday to discuss Afghanistan, contractors, and the shocking scandal that has recently come to light. In case you missed it, here’s the video (after the jump). Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and New ...

  • Grassley Blasts Wasteful Medicare Spending

    Medicare and its beneficiaries paid four times the average supplier cost for standard-issue power wheelchairs in the first half of 2007, according to a report released Wednesday by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. The news drew the immediate condemnation of Sen. ...

  • Curt Schilling Hearts Ann Coulter

    As long as people are discussing the possibility of legendary Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling running for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, they should check out his blog. From August 8: Ann Coulter might be extreme, but damn the woman is intelligent in ways that piss so many people off. You have to ...

  • Gary Bauer: Obama’s Speech to Children Is an ...

    Gary Bauer, the religious conservative leader who was undersecretary of Education under President Reagan, and who now runs American Values, tells supporters in his daily email that the president’s Sept. 8 speech to schoolchildren is an example of the White House “using its power in unprecedented ...

  • The Waiting Room

    Here’s a brief summary of the day’s health care news. President Obama is slated to address a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9 to lay out more detailed demands for health care reform, ABC News reported today. The move — which came on the heels of a written invitation from House Speaker Nan ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • ‘Biosecure’ Farms Not So Biosecure

    There are times when perniciously false premises are treated as the criteria by which truth is determined. We lose the argument before it’s begun. And where does that leave us in our efforts to control mortal dangers of our own making? Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business | Note-it! ...

  • Raw milk “Pepsi challenge” in Romania

    “Raw milk is very easy to find, here in Romania. Bunici (grandmas) typically stand on the busy before-noon street corners, and lean against brick walls or warped garden rails. Placed before them are a few ‘recycled’ 2-liter soda bottles filled with Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbeat | ...

  • Irish Call For Total EU Ban on Brazilian Beef

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

  • Health care debate creates new diseases

    URGENT New Flash… Breaking News…The Center for Disease Control has identified a new strain of the Mad Cow Disease called Insane Donkey Virus running rampant among elected officials, Obama Administration personnel and high profile personalities. The CDC be Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbe ...

  • Coroners 'should test for CJD to monitor spread of ...

    Coroners are refusing to carry out post-mortem tests for an infection which causes the human form of BSE despite pleas that they could help monitor the spread of the disease, it was reported today. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-120 Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Society & ...

Why Organic

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

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

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

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

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

    “THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM” = 666 — “WHICH NUMBER REPRESENTS JESUS CHRIST” = 666 —” THE ARYAN BROTHERHOOD” = 666. _______________ Using the english alphabet A = 1  B= 2   etc. Write out the phrase and assign the numbers under them. Now, add it vertically as you no ...

  • THE HPV VACCINE and our daughters….

    In case you missed my posting about the HPV VACCINE….I am including a link to it. http://whyorganic.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/do-not-give-your-daughter-hpv-vaccine

  • BIG MEDIA RULINGS

     Senate Committee Votes to Throw Out FCC RulesThe Senate Commerce Committee passed a “resolution of disapproval” that would veto the FCC’s latest attempt to dismantle longstanding media ownership limits. Free Press  Senate Panel Rejects New Media Ownership Rule A Senate committee vo ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • EDITORIAL: False reports about guns

    Washington Times Editorial Many media outlets have misfired about guns. Countless newspapers and television networks — from CBS to MSNBC — have misreported that conservative protesters are threatening President Obama with guns at public events. It hasn’t happened. In Portsmouth, N.H., a man ca ...

  • Why Our Great-Grandparents were Happier Than We Ar ...

    Bayers Heroin A bottle of Bayer’s heroin.. Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with strong cough Coca Wine, anyone? Metcalf Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market . Eve ...

  • Schoolgirls rumble Ribena vitamin claims

    By Jeevan Vasagar Two New Zealand schoolgirls humbled one of the world’s biggest food and drugs companies after their school science experiment found that their ready-to-drink Ribena contained almost no trace of vitamin C. Students Anna Devathasan and Jenny Suo tested the blackcurrant cordial agai ...

  • Pregnant women express fears over swine flu vaccin ...

    By Sarah Boseley Almost half of all pregnant women say they will refuse to be vaccinated against swine flu once the jab is available, suggesting there is widespread concern about its safety, a poll has revealed. Pregnant women are one of the target groups for vaccination identified by experts advisi ...

  • Fox News Poll: Majority Think Swine Flu Vaccine De ...

    Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, August 28, 2009 According to a Fox News poll, the majority of respondents think that the swine flu vaccine is deadlier than the actual virus itself, emphasizing the growing momentum in the revolt against government plans to institute mass H1N1 vaccination ...

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  • M & M's, Anyone ? ? ? ? (Moyers and Maher)

    This post by Glenn Greenwald summarizing Bill Moyers' appearance on the Bill Maher show last night says it all regarding the current state of affairs in the USAofexpensivehealthcare. Go . Read . Get angry. Think Progressive Party not tied to the dems or repugs . . . . (Cross-posted from Moved t ...

  • Assault rifle at Obama speech a publicity stunt

    for conservative talk radio show Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock . Hancock and "Chris", the black man carrying the assault rifle, knew each other "through their work for presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas)". "We know what we're up against," Hancock, also packing heat at the h ...

  • Think Light . . .

    INHABITAT is a neat site that showcases all sorts of green stuff, including the Solar Shanghai Pavilion, made from used CD cases . Go read all about it.

  • Money for Vote$ . . . .

    The answer to the question asked at the end: "Whoever contribute$ the mo$t $$ to my re-election campaign!" Silly voter. What was he thinking ? ? ? ? (Cross-posted from Moved to Vancouver )

  • The Emperor Strikes Back

    What is Emperor Steve fooling around with in his pocket this time? . Oooh - it's the nine new Senators he appointed yesterday. That makes 27 Cons he's appointed in less than a year , bringing his posse in the Senate up to 46 out 0f a total of 105. . G&M : "At an event in Quebec City, the Prime Mini ...

Media Matters for America

  • Sanity on hold: Fox News warns Democrats: "Don't ...

    Fox News hosts have recently fixated on the House's decision to terminate a pilot program to -- in the words of Bret Baier -- "kill the patriotic tunes callers hear when they're put on hold." Sean Hannity claimed that it "serves as a lesson to the Democrats: Don't meddle with our patriotic musi ...

  • Fox's Kelly gives "hat tip" to birther, Obama-Hit ...

    On the September 2 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom , co-host Megyn Kelly gave a "hat tip" to the blog Gateway Pundit, which Kelly said is where "we found" video of "a new effort to silence critics of the Democrats' [health care] plan." The Gateway Pundit blog has frequently pushed the ...

  • Fox News' embedded reporter Jenkins cheerleads for ...

    Despite his claim to be "simply reporting" on the Tea Party Express rallies, Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins, who is traveling with the cross-country protest bus tour, has repeatedly expressed support for the protesters, who he has referred to as "the America that Washington forgot." Fox News ...

  • Perino falsely suggests allowing federally subsid ...

    Criticizing Democratic health reform bills for allowing federally subsidized health insurance plans to cover abortion, Fox News contributor Dana Perino claimed that the "Hyde Amendment was supposed to protect against" allowing health insurance plans "that get subsidies from the taxpayer dolla ...

  • Conservatives on Obama's stay-in-school speech: "I ...

    Numerous conservatives have claimed that President Obama's upcoming September 8 speech about "persisting and succeeding in school," along with classroom activities about the "importance of education," will "indoctrinate" and "brainwash" schoolchildren. Conservatives have compared Obama's address to ...

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TPM Cafe

  • George Will is Right

    I don't often say this, but George Will gets it exactly right. But before launching New Deal 2.0 in Afghanistan, the Obama administration should ask itself: If U.S. forces are there to prevent re-establishment of al-Qaeda bases -- evidently there... Sponsored Topics: Afghanistan - al-Qaeda ...

  • The Apparent Unmotivated Idiocy of Labor Union Mem ...

    Steven Brill has a long essay in the New Yorker about the long process required to fire teachers in New York City. Now, any discussion of due process, whether in firings or criminal justice, inevitably can stack the deck by... Sponsored Topics: New York City - Trade union - United States - Steve ...

  • The Guns of August, and Why the Republican Right W ...

    What we learned in August is something we've long known but keep forgetting: The most important difference between America's Democratic left and Republican right is that the left has ideas and the right has discipline. Obama and progressive supporters... Sponsored Topics: Health care - Democrats ...

  • How Progressives Should Weigh Compromises

    The 2009 battle over health care reform is soon going to come to a head in national debates and legislative specifics. President Obama will re-set the agenda when he speaks to Congress, and in all likelihood sheer survival instincts will... Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - Health care - United S ...

  • Will Israel Attack Iran This Year?

    The neocons are getting ready for another war. The same crowd that helped get us into Iraq are desperate for war with Iran (and for many of the same reasons). Former Vice President Cheney now says publicly that we could... Sponsored Topics: Iran - Dick Cheney - Israel - Iraq War - Middle East

TruthOut

  • US Extends Iraq Contract for Blackwater Firm

    Washington - State Department officials said Wednesday they have extended a contract with a subsidiary of the security firm once known as Blackwater USA despite the fact the company is not allowed to work in the country. Three officials said the contract with Presidential Airways to provide ...

  • Obama to Deliver Health Care Address to Congress

    Washington - President Barack Obama has set a major address on health care for Sept. 9 before Congress. The speech will come a day after lawmakers return from an August recess in which critics of Obama's health proposals have dominated many public forums. Some Democrats feel Obama has been t ...

  • US Officials Cancel Contract to Profile Reporters

    Washington - US military authorities in Afghanistan have terminated a contract with a company that was producing profiles of reporters seeking to cover a war that's becoming increasingly unpopular with the American public. The media analysis work being done by The Rendon Group had become a " ...

  • SEC Fumbled Five Madoff Probes, Report Finds

    Boston/Washington - US securities regulators missed repeated chances to uncover Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, a sharply critical review by a federal watchdog said on Wednesday. A summary of a report by the U.S. read more

  • American to Cut 921 Flight Attendants' Jobs

    Dallas - American Airlines is cutting 921 flight attendant jobs as it deals with an ongoing downturn in traffic and lower revenue. The airline said Tuesday that the cuts will take effect Oct. 1. American, the nation's second-largest airline, said 228 employees will be furloughed - laid o ...

The Heathlander

  • The “British method”

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

  • ‘Israel’s Terror Inside’

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

  • A culture of fear

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

  • Fighting the fash

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

  • Silencing civil society

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

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TruthHugger

  • Texas Progressive Alliance August 31, 2009

    It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No ...

  • Who Will Carry The Kennedy Torch? Op Ed

    The passing of Ted Kennedy may have dealt a blow to progressive humanitarian warriors. The Senate is missing the most effective voice for the disenfranchised. From his perch atop the mountain of comfort built by his family, Ted Kennedy used his position to battle legislative discrepancies that ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 24, 2009

    School is starting, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is prepared as always to ace the test. Here is this week’s roundup of blog highlights. From TXsharon: Woo Hoo! EPA testing has now confirmed wells are contaminated “with various substances connected with gas drillingâ€�–proof that h ...

  • Bi-Polar America – Who is Worthy of a Healthy Li ...

    The rationing of health care is already a fact of life. The new reform will remove some of that rationing and make health care a right instead of a privilege. Bi-Polar America - I am worthy, You are not. Jesus was a socialist.

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 17, 2009

    It’s time for preseason football games, but the Texas Progressive Alliance is always in midseason form. Here are this week’s blog highlights. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders why we put up with temper tantrums and intimidation from the far right? Everyone should have their say in our d ...

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Grassroots

  • Building a Movement, Haitian Style

    pigs.jpg I spent the better part of last week crisscrossing Haiti’s arid Northwest with Grassroots International’s partner the National Congress of the Peasant’s Movement of Papay (MPNKP). MPNKP is best known to our allies and friends fo ...

  • Resilient Hondurans Lead The Way To Protect Democr ...

    IMG00292.jpg Today, thousands of people will fill the streets of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. They are students, housekeepers, children and farmers from different parts of country—many of whom walked 10-12 miles a day to get to the ...

  • Yes, We Can - But Will We Join Our Neighbors to Re ...

    More than a month after the military coup in the Central American country of Honduras (for which the term “banana republic” was originally coined due to the overwhelming influence of U.S. fruit corporations in that country), the junta is still in power and shows little real sign of budging. re ...

  • They Are Afraid of Us, Because We are Not Afraid o ...

    Tom Loudon from our ally the Alliance for Responsible Trade, which is a member of the Hemispheric Social Alliance (a Grassroots International grantee) is currently in Honduras as part of an international human rights monitoring delegation. Today, August 11th, the Global Day of Action for Honduras, h ...

  • On the Global Day of Action for Honduras, Donate y ...

    Want to do something simple to help support Honduran democracy and keep the crisis in the public eye? Donate your status! It’s free, easy, and can make a huge impact. Right now, the corporate news media is mostly silent about what’s happening on the ground in Honduras and the role of US polic ...

Climate

  • September 2, 2009

    UN: Poor Nations Need $600B a Year for Climate Change (AFP) Developing nations need a $600 billion "Marshall Plan" annually to tackle climate change with support from rich nations on a scale not seen outside wartime recovery, the World Economic and Social Survey says. China Calculates High Pr ...

  • September 1, 2009

    US Climate Bill Encounters New Senate Delay (Reuters) Senate Democrats announced a new delay on climate change legislation, which could make it more difficult for President Obama to win progress on that front before a global environmental summit in December. EPA Preparing to Declare CO2 a Dange ...

  • August 31, 2009

    Japan Election Ushers in Party of Climate Action (Carbon Positive) A landslide victory for Japan’s party of near-permanent opposition has turned the country’s political scene on its head, and the country’s climate change policy along with it. New Zealand Lawmakers Give Thumbs Up to Emissi ...

  • August 29-30, 2009

    Both Sides in Energy Debate Watching Healthcare Battle (Los Angeles Times) As the battle over healthcare unfolds, its attack ads, spin-doctoring and town hall rhetoric are being watched with special attention by the combatants in Washington's next big fight -- Pres. Obama's climate plan. Leave ...

  • August 28, 2009

    Forestry leads Indonesian Agency’s Roadmap for Emissions Cuts (Reuters) An Indonesian environment agency has set out a roadmap for the government to adopt forestry, energy, transport, industrial and agriculture policies that would slash carbon emissions by the world's No. 3 emitter. Poll: O ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: David Swanson, The More Things Change

    A presidential candidate opposed to the Iraq War is elected and enters the Oval Office. Yet six months later, there are still essentially the same number of troops in Iraq as were there when his predecessor left, the same number, in fact, used in the original invasion of Iraq in March 2003. More ...

  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, From My Lai to Lockerbie

    On this one-way planet of ours, it's hard sometimes to imagine things any other way, but for a moment let's try. Imagine, for instance, that in recent years the director of Iranian intelligence oversaw a program of "extraordinary rendition" aimed at those who were believed to be prepared to commi ...

  • Tomgram: The Next War, On-Screen and Off

    [ Note for TomDispatch readers: We're back! Refreshed and ready for action, but still on a somewhat relaxed schedule until after Labor Day. The next piece will be posted Sunday night. Tom ] G.I. Joe, Post-American Hero The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism By Tom Engelhardt The Pre ...

  • Tomgram: Withdrawing by Bike from Iraq

    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: So it's sayonara for a couple of weeks. I'm taking my usual August break. TomDispatch will return sometime the week of August 24th, but will be on a limited posting schedule through Labor Day. Let me take this opportunity once again to thank those of you who hav ...

  • Tomgram: Mark Engler, Protesting at Climate Groun ...

    We're so past the Roman Empire by now that it's probably time to update the phrase "fiddling while Rome burns." What about, for instance, "writing fake letters ostensibly from real non-profit groups to weaken a climate-change bill while the planet burns"? It's true. According to the New York Ti ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Bush's Third Term? You're Living It

    — from TomDispatch It sounds like the plot for the latest summer horror movie. Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had won or stolen it, and that we were all now living (and dying) through it. With the Democrats in control of Congress ...

  • Why Glenn Beck, and Fox News, can't escape the "r ...

    Have so many blue-chip advertisers ever fled a program as quickly as the who's who of corporate America that's sprinted away from Glenn Beck in recent weeks? I certainly cannot recall ever seeing a mass exodus of this scale. The A-list collection of disgruntled Beck advertisers is staggering: Appleb ...

  • Obama's Meaningless War

    — from Truthdig True, he doesn't seem a bit like Lyndon Johnson, but the way he's headed on Afghanistan, Barack Obama is threatened with a quagmire that could bog down his presidency. LBJ also had a progressive agenda in mind, beginning with his war on poverty, but it was soon overwhelmed by the cos ...

  • In Oligarchy We Trust: Government Fattens Bank Car ...

    Is there a headline more menacing to liberals, moderates, consumers, small-business owners or free-marketeers than " Banks 'Too Big To Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger, Three Banks Issue Half the Mortgages & 2/3s of Credit Cards - Behemoths Born of the Bailout Reduce Consumer Choice "? Shouldn't any ju ...

  • The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

    The rise of video game culture has been criticized by some as encouraging violence. The theory is that the more violent and real-looking the video game is, the more it encourages its players to actually go out and reenact the game's scenes in real life. Of course, there's no scientific evidence to b ...

Ten Percent

  • Already

    Be with you soon, September already, autumn always starts -to me- with some Cocteau Twins… The memory of youth and realising you had to go back to school -freedom ending, back to conformity- always makes me sad at this time of year.

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  • Killing Fields of Sri Lanka

    Channel Four report- Link to unedited clip in 3GP format -Warning, shows the execution of naked bound prisoners by military personnel- A video clip received from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) evidences the way extra-judicial killings are executed in the island. The video captured in ...

  • Is The Obama Administration Victimising A Nobel Pe ...

    Via FreeGaza- After Downing Street, by Ann Wright former US diplomat:- Less than a month ago, in late July, 2009, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire (http://www.peacepeople.com/) was travelling from Dublin, Ireland to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet Peace Laureate Jody Williams to participate in p ...

  • Selection By Occupier

    Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (albeit funded by both US & NATO govts) has reports of systematic fraud, the EU are more upbeat, try to be surprised. The one candidate Ramazan Bashardost, with some real credentials in representing the Afghan people against powerful and corrupt elite ...

Paul Krugman

  • Horse-race reporting

    There's too much reporting that focuses on how policy proposals are supposedly playing, rather than what's actually in them.

  • Getting stucco

    This isn't the first time the Sunshine State has suffered from a big real estate bubble.

  • Going fishing

    Well, cycling actually.

  • A couple of notes on the 40s and 50s

    Didn't rapid population growth make it easier to deal with debt? Didn't the fact that the rest of the world was in ruins help? No.

  • 1945

    The fact is that the war left America with a big debt -- bigger, relative to our resources, than we're likely to face when the economic rescue is over. We dealt with it.

No Quarter

  • President Obama Bites The Hand That Feeds Him…Ag ...

    ABC’s Jake Tapper reported last night that the President’s Political Arm Follows His Lead in Drumming Up Support for Health Care Reform Push — by Criticizing Media. In his August 20, 2009, meeting with supporters at the Democratic National Committee and its “Organizing for Americaâ€Â ...

  • Krauthammer Nails It - Draconian Health Insurance ...

    I’m a capitalist, not a socialist. I’m a centrist, not a liberal or libertarian. I’m definitely not a Republican or a conservative, but I want this country to achieve a public health insurance policy that actually works, not pie in the sky wishful thinking. I don’t want it to bankrupt the co ...

  • A Tale Of Two Fires

    Once again, the State of California is dealing with a massive wildfire. Sadly, two firefighters lost their lives. And it is far from being over as the title of this article indicates, Fire burns 105,000 acres with no control in sight. It is hard to even grasp the breadth of this [...]

  • Placebobama

    The use of placebos in medicine is absolutely fascinating. The effects can be stunning, despite the fact that they, by their very definition, are composed of inert matter. Some may not understand that placebo effects do not result in a cure in and of themselves. Rather, when they work, people fe ...

  • Healthcare letter: for viral distribution

    I’ve written a sample letter I’m hoping to get out to as many people as possible. This is the last week of the Congressional recess and your Senators and Representatives may think they can relax. We need to keep the pressure on to make them painfully aware that we - their constituents - are migh ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Therapy News

  • Recovering from Infidelity

    By Robert F Scuka, LCSW-C. Infidelity is one of the most difficult challenges that any marriage or committed relationship can face. Infidelity is almost universally accompanied by a deep sense of betrayal and a profound loss of trust. The reason is that the one partner experiences the infidelity of ...

  • Study Links Dopamine with Ability to Block Formati ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The experience of a traumatic event can sometimes be overcome in a remarkably quick and elegant way by the mind and consciousness, but in many cases witnesses to unsettling situations are left with traumatic memories. Such memories can have a negative impact on mental ...

  • Walking in Circles Might Not Just Be a Feeling

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The notion that one is walking around in circles has a long history in personal introspection. While many people are marvelously capable of plotting out a straight and defined course to follow, others may feel as though the path ahead is as obscured and winding as it g ...

  • Need for More Attention to Mental Health in Childr ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Epilepsy is a condition which affects scores of children around the world and can have considerable negative consequences for development and personal well-being. But the issue can also lead towards complications in mental health as well as the health of families, not ...

  • An Attitude of Gratitude: Tips for Tough Times

    By Debbie Devine, MS, LPC “In the depth of winter, I finally realized that deep within me there lay an invincible summer.” A. Camus Let’s face it, life throws us curves sometimes. We all experience the ups and downs that lead some of us to seek a counselor’s help: relationship issues, money ...

Mountaintop Removal

Memeorandum

  • WH withdraws call for students to 'help' Obama (Ma ...

    Matthew Mosk / Washington Times : WH withdraws call for students to ‘help’ Obama — The Obama administration late Wednesday withdrew a recommendation that school children who watch a video featuring President Obama next week write about how they might “help the president” as part of a ...

  • The Obama Administration: MIA on Afghanistan? (Abu ...

    Abu Muqawama : The Obama Administration: MIA on Afghanistan? — So I was on the Newshour last night debating Afghanistan with a favorite of this blog and its readers, Andrew Bacevich. As readers of this blog know, I am uncomfortable when placed in the position of being expected to lustily d ...

  • U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan (Julian ...

    Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times : U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan — Support units will be replaced by up to 14,000 ‘trigger-pullers,’ and noncombat posts will be contracted out, Defense officials say. The swap will allow the U.S. to keep its troop level unchanged. — ...

  • Under fire, Obama shifts strategy (The Politico)

    The Politico : Under fire, Obama shifts strategy — Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specifying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trou ...

  • Kennedy Memoir Talks of Chappaquiddick, J.F.K. and ...

    Carl Hulse / The Caucus : Kennedy Memoir Talks of Chappaquiddick, J.F.K. and Other Presidents — In a memoir being published posthumously, Senator Edward M. Kennedy talks remorsefully about the car accident that claimed the life of Mary Jo Kopechne - a turn of events many consider a chief re ...

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China Dialogue

  • Taking the toad’s-eye view

    Dipak Gyawali, former water minister of Nepal, explains how to approach Himalayan climate-change science from the grass-roots level. Interview by Isabel Hilton. Dipak Gyawali is a former minister of water resources in Nepal and research director of the Nepal Water Conservation Foundation. Here he te ...

  • Geoengineering: do we intervene?

    A major study published today in the United Kingdom asks what role proposed geoengineering technologies could play in regulating the climate. Tan Copsey spoke to one of its contributors, Ken Caldeira. As part of a series for chinadialogue that examines the environmental and political arguments aroun ...

  • Rethinking Sino-US relations

    Many Chinese commentators worry about the risks of the United States introducing carbon tariffs. Chu Zhaogen urges them to take a long-term view. United States energy secretary Steven Chu and commerce secretary Gary Locke visited China last month to explore where there might be mutually beneficial U ...

  • Do we know change when we see it?

    An agreement between the US and China on climate change and clean energy may be more significant than its detractors initially supposed, write Banning Garrett and Jonathan Adams. Did the United States and China recently take a game-changing step on climate change and clean energy? Quite possibly so. ...

  • Building regional cooperation

    Can people across the Himalayan region mobilise to build a common, collaborative response to the impacts of climate change? Isabel Hilton interviews Mohan Munasinghe, vice chairman of the IPCC. Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist and the vice chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

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  • Appeals Court Upholds Online Gambling Ban

    A move to scuttle legislation outlawing online gambling suffered a major setback when a federal appeals court set aside constitutional and other legal challenges to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals brushed aside asse ...

  • Voting Tech Experts Sought by Feds to Develop Stan ...

    Want to help improve the design and security of voting systems made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) and other companies? The federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), which oversees the federal testing and certification of voting systems, is seeking four technol ...

  • Despite Winning $675,000, RIAA Fears Defendant is ...

    The Recording Industry Association of America took the offensive Tuesday against a college student whom a jury concluded in July must pay $675,000 for file sharing 30 songs. The RIAA asked the Massachusetts judge who presided over the Joel Tenenbaum case to issue an injunction Tuesday preventing the ...

  • CIA at Odds With Obama Over Torture, ACLU Claims

    Citing national security concerns, the Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to divulge dozens of documents in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit surrounding its torture and rendition program adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. The withholding of documents dating to Preside ...

  • 5 More Indicted in Probe of International Carding ...

    Five eastern European men were indicted in New York on Monday as part of an international ring allegedly responsible for at least $4 million in credit card theft. The ring, which authorities dubbed the Western Express Cybercrime Group, operated between 2001 and 2007 and trafficked in at least 95,00 ...

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  • NASA tracks space junk headed toward space station

    HOUSTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The International Space Station might have to fire its thrusters to avoid a piece of space junk that could pass within two miles (3.2 km) of the orbiting complex and its 13 astronauts, NASA said on Wednesday.

  • Whitney Houston comeback album headed to No. 1

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - Whitney Houston struggled with her voice during her much-hyped comeback performance on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday. But industry prognosticators don't expect the diva to trip up on the charts next week.

  • Outlook "poor" for Great Barrier Reef: study

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living organism, is under grave threat from climate warming and coastal development, and its prospects of survival are "poor," a major new report found on Wednesday.

  • Advert criticized over "young" partial nude model

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's advertising watchdog has criticized an ad for a clothing company featuring a partially nude model who appeared to be younger than 16.

  • Dying Manson follower Atkins denied parole

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Susan Atkins, a follower of mass killer Charles Manson convicted nearly four decades ago in some of the most notorious murders in U.S. history, lost her 18th bid for release on Wednesday.

Godspace

  • Latest of the Spiritual Practices Series

    The spiritual practices blog series is coming to a close. Christine has just a few more to post after this. Here’s the round-up of posts for the last month: Celebrations and Parties as a Spiritual Discipline by Kathy Escobar, The Refuge The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea by Andy Wade Netwo ...

  • Celebrations and Parties as A Spiritual Discipline

    Well the What is a Spiritual Practice blog series is winding down but I am still continuing to receive articles so I intend to continue to post them over the next few weeks. Â today’s article comes from Kathy Escobar . Â Kathy describes herself as mommy. wife. friend. pot-stirrer. shepherd. fo ...

  • The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea

    Today’s post which seems very appropriate for me when I am heading off for a few relaxing days when I know I will be drinking lots of tea, is written by Andrew Wade He and his family have recently returned from several years working in Hong Kong where Andy worked as a Mennonite pastor. Â [...]

  • Networking as a Spiritual Practice

    I have been a little slow with posting today because Tom and I are on the road again. We are heading for a few days off in British Columbia with some friends but I wanted to make sure that I posted the last of the articles I have received for the What is a Spiritual [...]

  • Mothering as a Spiritual Practice

    Another beautiful day in Seattle and Tom and I are getting ready for a few days vacation up on Mayne Island, one of the Canadian gulf islands. Â The weather is supposed to be good and I am really looking forward to a few days off – hoping that the blackberries and apples are ready like [...]

Equality Trust

IntelNews

  • US spy agencies still lack foreign language expert ...

    A US media outlet has finally followed up on the warnings, made by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last July, about the lack of trained foreign-language speakers in the US intelligence community.

  • News you may have missed #0091

    McCain denies private agreement with CIA torture tactic. CIA rejects further declassifications on torture-related material. Taliban kill Afghan intelligence chief.

  • Document release offers new clues on MI5 activitie ...

    A batch of intelligence documents from the immediate post-World War II period released this week by Britain’s National Archives offer glimpses into previously unknown activities by MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence service.

  • Ex-CIA agent says Cheney “damaged the CIA more t ...

    Robert Baer, the retired CIA field officer whose bestselling memoir, See No Evil, formed the basis of the 2005 motion picture Syriana, has said that former Vice President’ Dick Cheney “damaged the CIA more than anybody has, including the press or the Department of Justice”.

  • News you may have missed #0090

    CIA's black sites, illuminated. Russian agents try to influence Czech politicians, says intelligence report. South Korean arrested for collaborating with North Korean spy.

PsyBlog

  • Group Polarization: The Trend to Extreme Decisions

    Say you put 10 people in a room and asked them to design a car. Would they design something average or something wacky? Would they be more likely to come up with the Ford Focus or 'The Homer', designed by Homer Simpson in this classic episode of The Simpsons? To help you decide, it's [...] » Try ...

  • The Acceptance Prophesy: How You Control Who Likes ...

    · Is interpersonal attraction a self-fulfilling prophesy? The mystical-sounding 'acceptance prophesy' is simply this: when we think other people are going to like us, we behave more warmly towards them and consequently they like us more. When we think other people aren't going to like us, we beha ...

  • Brainstorming Reloaded

    · Why brainstorming is ineffective and how to fix it. Brainstorming was once thought a fantastic way for groups to generate new ideas. Although not as fashionable as it once was, brainstorming is still frequently used in business and, often inadvertently, for all sorts of personal decisions; peop ...

  • Consumer Psychology

    · How and why we consume and how our beliefs, ideas and senses influence consumption. Peter Drucker, the management consultant, famously argued that about 80% of all products and services fail or fall well short of targets within six months of launching. Clearly markets have little understanding ...

  • Why Left to Right Punches Are More Aggressive, Pow ...

    Reading and writing from left to right is a skill so well-practised, so ingrained in language, that it's easy to ignore. Yet, according to some research, the direction in which language flows could have implications that spread into many other areas of our experience. Consider that people are often ...

After Downing Street.org

  • The Firestorm Ahead

    The Firestorm Ahead By Immanuel Wallerstein | Middle East Online There is a firestorm ahead in the Middle East for which neither the US government nor the US public is prepared. The storm will go from Iraq to Afghanistan to Pakistan to Israel/Palestine, says Immanuel Wallerstein. There is a firesto ...

  • CEO's Earning 300 Times More Than the Average Work ...

    CEO's Earning 300 Times More Than the Average Worker By Dan Arnall | ABC Newser The overall CEO-to-worker pay gap is exceptionally high; S&P 500 CEOs in 2008 earned 319 times more than the average worker. The liberal think tank Institute for Policy Studies is out with a report on excessive executiv ...

  • Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3B Penalty for Drug Promos

    Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3B Penalty for Drug Promos Repeat offender Pfizer paying record $2.3B settlement for illegal drug promotions By Devlin Barrett, Associated Press | ABC News.com As part of its illegal marketing, Pfizer invited doctors to consultant meetings at resort locations, paying their ...

  • Notes From Dennis Kucinich's Appearance At Progres ...

    Attendee's Notes from Dennis Kucinich's appearance at Progressive Democrats of America meeting in Ohio, August 22, 2009: "The health debate is about the purposes of government - the Constitution says the government exists to promote the general welfare..." (Interesting that two other Ohio Congress ...

  • Californians/Nevadans Protest Bybee Tomorrow, 9/3/ ...

    BYE BYE BYBEE: IMPEACH & ARREST THE TORTURE JUDGE Thursday, September 4, noon-2 p.m. Ninth Circuit Court, 7th & Mission, San Francisco Map PINKS and friends are invited to come to the Ninth Circuit Court at 7th & Mission this Thursday to protest "torture judge" Bybee's lifetime appointment to the ...

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  • Asus rumored to sell cheaper ultra-thin laptop nex ...

    Apple’s MacBook Air will soon be challenged on its super-slimness, by Windows-powered computers from Asus, Acer and MSI that may lack Apple’s aluminum-cased pizazz, but will cost a lot less. Digitimes reports that Asus, maker of the low-cost Eee PC netbook, will begin selling two ultra-slim n ...

  • Birthday cannon

    Happy birthday, here's your cannon ... @ Dailymail Mike Daugherty asked his 11-year-old son Logan what he wanted for his birthday. The boy said, "I want a cannon." Dad didn't scoff at Logan's request by saying, "How about a hippopotamus instead," as a Christmas song from another era lamented. No ...

  • I-Swarm, real micro-sized robots!

    These tiny I-Swarm (Intelligent Small-World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation) robots are incredibly neat! They move by using a piezoelectric transducer to vibrate across a surface in a manner similar to a bristlebot, only controllable. Because they are vibrating at audible frequencies, ...

  • Home-haircut indicator: In the footsteps of the un ...

    Filed under: Columns , Economic data , Recession , Comic Relief So, who out there cuts their own hair? I do, mainly because it is fading fast and it is a lot easier to have my wife take the clippers and then razor to my head rather than paying to go get my hair cut professionally. Now that I ...

  • Joe Jackson says ?someone should pay? for son Mich ...

    Joe Jackson: ‘Someone should pay’ for son’s death NEW YORK ? Michael Jackson’s father says he’d never heard of the drug propofol until it was implicated in his son’s death. “I’m not angry. I’m mad,” Joe Jackson said in an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show. ...

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Washington Independent

  • Rachel Maddow and Spencer Ackerman: Real Talk on A ...

    TWI’s own Spencer Ackerman appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday to discuss Afghanistan, contractors, and the shocking scandal that has recently come to light. In case you missed it, here’s the video (after the jump). Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and New ...

  • Grassley Blasts Wasteful Medicare Spending

    Medicare and its beneficiaries paid four times the average supplier cost for standard-issue power wheelchairs in the first half of 2007, according to a report released Wednesday by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. The news drew the immediate condemnation of Sen. ...

  • Curt Schilling Hearts Ann Coulter

    As long as people are discussing the possibility of legendary Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling running for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, they should check out his blog. From August 8: Ann Coulter might be extreme, but damn the woman is intelligent in ways that piss so many people off. You have to ...

  • Gary Bauer: Obama’s Speech to Children Is an ...

    Gary Bauer, the religious conservative leader who was undersecretary of Education under President Reagan, and who now runs American Values, tells supporters in his daily email that the president’s Sept. 8 speech to schoolchildren is an example of the White House “using its power in unprecedented ...

  • The Waiting Room

    Here’s a brief summary of the day’s health care news. President Obama is slated to address a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9 to lay out more detailed demands for health care reform, ABC News reported today. The move — which came on the heels of a written invitation from House Speaker Nan ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • ‘Biosecure’ Farms Not So Biosecure

    There are times when perniciously false premises are treated as the criteria by which truth is determined. We lose the argument before it’s begun. And where does that leave us in our efforts to control mortal dangers of our own making? Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business | Note-it! ...

  • Raw milk “Pepsi challenge” in Romania

    “Raw milk is very easy to find, here in Romania. Bunici (grandmas) typically stand on the busy before-noon street corners, and lean against brick walls or warped garden rails. Placed before them are a few ‘recycled’ 2-liter soda bottles filled with Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbeat | ...

  • Irish Call For Total EU Ban on Brazilian Beef

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

  • Health care debate creates new diseases

    URGENT New Flash… Breaking News…The Center for Disease Control has identified a new strain of the Mad Cow Disease called Insane Donkey Virus running rampant among elected officials, Obama Administration personnel and high profile personalities. The CDC be Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbe ...

  • Coroners 'should test for CJD to monitor spread of ...

    Coroners are refusing to carry out post-mortem tests for an infection which causes the human form of BSE despite pleas that they could help monitor the spread of the disease, it was reported today. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-120 Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Society & ...

Why Organic

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

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

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

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

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

    “THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM” = 666 — “WHICH NUMBER REPRESENTS JESUS CHRIST” = 666 —” THE ARYAN BROTHERHOOD” = 666. _______________ Using the english alphabet A = 1  B= 2   etc. Write out the phrase and assign the numbers under them. Now, add it vertically as you no ...

  • THE HPV VACCINE and our daughters….

    In case you missed my posting about the HPV VACCINE….I am including a link to it. http://whyorganic.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/do-not-give-your-daughter-hpv-vaccine

  • BIG MEDIA RULINGS

     Senate Committee Votes to Throw Out FCC RulesThe Senate Commerce Committee passed a “resolution of disapproval” that would veto the FCC’s latest attempt to dismantle longstanding media ownership limits. Free Press  Senate Panel Rejects New Media Ownership Rule A Senate committee vo ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • EDITORIAL: False reports about guns

    Washington Times Editorial Many media outlets have misfired about guns. Countless newspapers and television networks — from CBS to MSNBC — have misreported that conservative protesters are threatening President Obama with guns at public events. It hasn’t happened. In Portsmouth, N.H., a man ca ...

  • Why Our Great-Grandparents were Happier Than We Ar ...

    Bayers Heroin A bottle of Bayer’s heroin.. Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with strong cough Coca Wine, anyone? Metcalf Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market . Eve ...

  • Schoolgirls rumble Ribena vitamin claims

    By Jeevan Vasagar Two New Zealand schoolgirls humbled one of the world’s biggest food and drugs companies after their school science experiment found that their ready-to-drink Ribena contained almost no trace of vitamin C. Students Anna Devathasan and Jenny Suo tested the blackcurrant cordial agai ...

  • Pregnant women express fears over swine flu vaccin ...

    By Sarah Boseley Almost half of all pregnant women say they will refuse to be vaccinated against swine flu once the jab is available, suggesting there is widespread concern about its safety, a poll has revealed. Pregnant women are one of the target groups for vaccination identified by experts advisi ...

  • Fox News Poll: Majority Think Swine Flu Vaccine De ...

    Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, August 28, 2009 According to a Fox News poll, the majority of respondents think that the swine flu vaccine is deadlier than the actual virus itself, emphasizing the growing momentum in the revolt against government plans to institute mass H1N1 vaccination ...

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- Sep 02, 2009
- 11 hours ago
The father of rehabilitating exhausted land, Aldo Leopold, lived and taught in Madison and carried out some of the first experiments in restoration ecology ...
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Ecology certifies oil spill plans
Tacoma Weekly
- Sep 02, 2009
- 9 hours ago
Washington State Department of Ecology has approved an oil spill readiness plan for the ConocoPhillips terminal in Tacoma and 12 other refining, ...
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If Los Angeles Burns, Does Anyone Care?
The Faster Times
- Sep 02, 2009
- 4 hours ago
I pulled on my big sun hat and pulled out a well-worn copy of Mike Davis's Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster for beach reading in ...
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Costa Rica offers unique perspective on ecology
The Voyager
- Sep 03, 2009
- 47 minutes ago
By Joslyn Rosado For 10 days in August, a group of University of West Florida students took a trip to Costa Rica for a new look into ecology. ...
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California: Urging Water Rules Change
New York Times
- Sep 02, 2009
- 3 hours ago
“As reservoirs remain low and water deliveries unreliable, those costs increase daily.” Across the state, 64 water agencies have mandatory rationing ...
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Inverness water rules likely after 3 dry years
San Jose Mercury News
- Sep 02, 2009
- 11 hours ago
Inverness officials are considering whether to declare a water emergency, saying drought has dramatically reduced the flow of three creeks that supply local ...
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The future first clown in space to advocate for water
AFP
- Sep 02, 2009
- 12 hours ago
MONTREAL — Cirque du Soleil founder and soon to be space tourist Guy Laliberte will launch an art project promoting access to potable water for all when he ...
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Comptroller Assails Officials on Cost of Bronx Water Plant
New York Times
- Sep 01, 2009
- Sep 01, 2009
In 2003, the Department of Environmental Protection, which is overseeing the project, the Croton Water Filtration Plant, estimated its cost at $992 million. ...
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