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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, September 5, 2009

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • ECONOMY-US: Activists Demand Real Change as Forec ...

    BOSTON, Sep 5 (IPS) - Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. continue to lose their homes each month in an ongoing crisis that is wreaking chaos on communities, advocates say.

  • /CORRECTED REPEAT*/UGANDA: Carbon Trading Scheme ...

    MOUNT ELGON, Uganda, Sep 5 (IPS) - As the world's attention increasingly turns to the impact of climate change, at least one project intended to reduce global carbon emissions is accused of displacing indigenous persons from their home in Uganda.

  • CHINA: Han Chinese Blame Regional Chief for Xinji ...

    BEIJING, Sep 6 (IPS) - Chinese communist party’s monopoly on power in the restive western region of Xinjiang is now contested not just by the disgruntled Turkic-speaking Uyghur ethnic group but also by the Han Chinese, who up till now had shown support of Beijing’s policies and rallied to ...

  • Q&A: ‘We Need Small Government That Can Res ...

    TOKYO, Sep 6 (IPS) - Many of the old guards of Japan’s longtime ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) were banished from the political landscape in the aftermath of the Aug. 30 general election in Japan. Ending the LDP’s long-running grip on power is opposition Democratic Party of Japan ( ...

  • DEVELOPMENT: Getting REDDy for Copenhagen

    NAIROBI, Sep 5 (IPS) - "African farmers will play a major part in the solution of climate change mitigation," predicts Dennis Garrity, head of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF).

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

  • The Burial Box of Jesus' Brother: A Case Against F ...

    The world of biblical archaeology was stirred in 2002 by the unveiling of a limestone burial box with the Aramaic inscription Yaakov bar Yosef akhui di Yeshua ("James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus"). Allegedly dating to an era contemporaneous with Christ, the names were a tantalizing collation of ...

  • US: California - Three bright flashes of light and ...

    Occurred: 8/6/2009 02:05 (Entered as : 080609 2:05) Reported: 8/6/2009 2:44:11 AM 02:44 Posted: 8/27/2009 Location: Pico Rivera, CA Shape: Light Duration: ten seconds Light speedily flying across the sky with three bright flashes east to west. My seventeen yr. old daughter was absent from the livi ...

  • England: Brilliant blue streak of light speeds off ...

    Occurred: 8/5/2009 22:35 (Entered as : 05/08/09 22:35) Reported: 8/5/2009 3:04:04 PM 15:04 Posted: 8/27/2009 Location: Exmouth (UK/England), Shape: Flash Duration: Blink of an eye Brilliant blink of the eye blue streak of light followed by very small, bright blue explosion!!! I was just looking ou ...

  • US: New Mexico - String of large yellow lights in ...

    Occurred: 8/5/2009 21:09 (Entered as : 08/05/2009 21:09) Reported: 8/11/2009 9:22:25 AM 09:22 Posted: 8/27/2009 Location: Kenna, NM Shape: Formation Duration: 5 minutes Lights flashing in sky. Low flying string of large yellow lights in northwest sky above canyon, approx. 10-15 lights in sideways ...

  • US: Washington - Silver triangle shape sighted

    Occurred: 8/5/2009 14:05 (Entered as : 08-05-2009 14:05) Reported: 8/5/2009 2:52:32 PM 14:52 Posted: 8/27/2009 Location: Yelm, WA Shape: Triangle Duration: 35 sec Silver triangle shape sighting in Yelm WA The craft was triangle and silver in color and was the size of dime in the sky at first. Then ...

Threat Level

  • Court Allows Woman to Sue Bank for Lax Security Af ...

    An Illinois district court has allowed a couple to sue their bank on the novel grounds that it may have failed to sufficiently secure their account, after an unidentified hacker obtained a $26,500 loan on the account using the customers’ user name and password. As initially reported by legal blogg ...

  • Want a Wiretap Warrant? No Problem, Court Says

    Despite refusing to “endorse” the government’s tactics in securing a warrant for a wiretap, a federal appeals court is ruling the authorities could use the fruits of their questionable eavesdropping in prosecuting an alleged drug dealer. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower ...

  • Diebold Unloads Beleaguered Voting Machine Divisio ...

    It took about three years but Diebold has finally managed to get out of the election business. The company announced Thursday that Premier Election Solutions, Diebold’s beleaguered voting machine division, has been acquired by Election Systems and Software (ES&S). ES&S purchased the company for a ...

  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Why Right-Wing Hissy Fits Work

    On Wednesday, the fact checking web site Politifact deemed a "pants on fire" lie the Republican claim that President Obama planned to indoctrinate America's school children in a broadcast next week. On Friday, press secretary Robert Gibbs rightly noted that...

  • GOP: Health Care Needs More Senate Votes Than Soci ...

    Once upon a time - a time before the 2006 midterm elections consigned the GOP to minority status in Congress, a bill generally required 51 votes in the Senate to become law. But not content to rest on their record...

  • In New Book, Tom Ridge Decries Politicized Bush Te ...

    "In his new book, former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge confirms what most long suspected: the Bush administration manipulated the terror threat level for the President's political advantage. But while his long overdue admission is welcome, his suggestion that he...

  • The 5 Symptoms of Incurable Republican Schizophren ...

    The Mayo Clinic, the world famous institution cited by all sides in the contentious health care debate, defines schizophrenia as a serious brain disorder "in which reality is interpreted abnormally" resulting in "hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking and behavior." Apparently,...

  • 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...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Planetsave

  • Locks of Love: The Evolution of My Hair, and a Sta ...

    Hi, you might recognize that beautiful smiling face before you. That is my face, well it was my face over the last couple of years. I am not here to talk about my face or my smile, which some have called “winning.” I am not even here to talk about myself, although I could do that all day, and ...

  • Cure for AIDS? Possible AIDS Vaccine in the Works

    Researchers in California believe they have hit the jackpot in modern medical breakthroughs. The cure for AIDS. The researchers have published a study in the journal Science, demonstrating two powerful new antibodies which could hold the key to achieving a viable AIDS vaccine. It has been well kn ...

  • 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Casual Friday Video Roundup

    And because we won’t stop til we get enough… Posted in Global Warming Tagged: climate change, drought, edf, Global Warming, lake, wwf

  • San Antonio Nuclear Show Down: VIDEO from KSTX Tow ...

    Last week we invited folks to attend KSTX’s Town Hall on Energy in San Antonio. This event featured Michael Kotara, Executive Vice President for Energy Development, CPS Energy and Mayor Julián Castro, Lanny Sinkin, Executive Director, Solar San Antonio and co-founder of Citizens Against Nuc ...

  • 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 ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Ready to fight back yet?

    So what we're trying to do, first of all, is say, O.K., here is a government monopoly plan. We're designing a free-market plan. Now, they're very different models. You know, we tell Boris Yeltsin, "Get rid of centralized command bureaucracies. Go to the marketplace. O.K., what do you think the Heal ...

  • Joe Klein: Still Haunted By His Shoddy FISA Report ...

    One of Time magazine's star columnists blew up over a seemingly minor incident several weeks ago. Personal animus can't explain the outburst, but internal turmoil certainly could. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears . No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing o ...

  • 2009: A Right-Wing Odyssey Of Spaced-Out Idiocy

    The right wing seems to have gone completely into orbit this year, outdoing itself at every turn. The galaxy of Goonville stars is lit up with names old and new. Pat Buchanan: This mainstay of the kook right is often good for laughs, albeit pretty dark-hued ones. I have to confess that in 1996, with ...

  • The Nightowl Newswrap

    Here is the speech we wish President Obama would give next week. If he did give a speech like this, we would be so freakin' elated they would have to give us something for it. So, what's the relief? World Trade Organization rules that billions in illegal subsidies from European governments for Airb ...

  • Bye-bye, Jack

    And fuck you very much. The state Friday appealed a court ruling that declared unconstitutional the references to God in a law creating the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security. Attorney General Jack Conway, who represents the state, decided to appeal the ruling because the law in question "merely a ...

Care 2

  • Afghanistan isn't worth one more American life!

    It's time to make a decision, Mr. President, and I hope that for our sake and yours, you make the right one. Afghanistan isn't worth the life of one more American soldier, much less the millions of dollars comitted to a war we cannot win. Submitted by David Buchan to US Politics & Gov't | Note-i ...

  • Shot cat reunited with owner today - update

    Dillon Eads was reunited with Brownie this afternoon, nearly two weeks after the tabby cat had surgery to remove an arrow from its head. "I can't believe the people that this has touched," Eads said, his eyes filling with tears. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Man who beat, poisoned Allegan dog is sent to jail

    A 23-year-old Grandville man who once worked for a dog day care center was sentenced today to 45 days in jail for trying to kill his dog by feeding it anti-freeze and beating the animal while it hung from its leash. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Dawn Rose banned from keeping horses after cruelty ...

    A horse owner in North Wales has received a three-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay £250 costs after admitting six charges of cruelty to 72 horses. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Leather Jacket: The Rebel Icon That Lost Its Gall

    Losing its gall. The image of leather no longer defines outcasts, rebels, and counter-culture; instead, it is the epitome of mainstream, problematic realtionships with ecosystems and violent and exploitative relationships with animals. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat | Note-it! | Add a Commen ...

GreenBiz

  • GreenBiz Weekly Roundup: Verizon Wireless Awash in ...

    Verizon Wireless takes heat for its sponsorship of a rally backed by coal interests. This item, news of Japan's $21B project for a giant solar-power generator in space and more are featured in this week's roundup.

  • The Food We Waste in Scotland

    This report from Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) Scotland finds that the country disposes of £1 billion (US$1.6 billion) in food every year, much of which could be avoided with better planning or storage.

  • The Green Connection Between Singapore and the O.C ...

    In this excerpt from a longer podcast interview with the CEO of Siemens Water Technologies, Chuck Gordon explains how wastewater recycling and reuse are the bridge between the West Coast and Southeast Asia.

  • USGBC Confronts Challenges of Green Building Perfo ...

    Ramping up efforts to ensure that green buildings deliver on their promise, the U.S. Green Building Council rolled out a sweeping initiative this week to amass data on all LEED-certified structures and use the information to help close any gaps between expected and actual performance.

  • GreenBiz Weekly Roundup: Verizon Wireless Awash in ...

    Verizon Wireless takes heat for its sponsorship of a rally backed by coal interests. This item, news of Japan's $21B project for a giant solar-power generator in space and more are featured in this week's roundup.

Reuters Global

Ezra Klein

  • Tab Dump

    • Ed Glaeser considers Jane Jacobs. • Starvation amid abundance. • Ta-Nehisi Coates considers the logic — or lack thereof — of street violence. • The "Great Arteries" theory of history. • Mosquitoes do not like us all equally. • The Brookings Institution gets a bunch of experts ...

  • Touching the Stove

    It's a pretty good thing that touching hot things causes us sharp and relatively immediate pain. It means the incentives to avoid touching hot things are well-aligned. That's less true with health-care reform (and much less true with global warming). So much as families feel a bit burdened by health ...

  • Al Franken: Mob Whisperer

    Presumably, years of stand-up in front of angry, illogical and intoxicated crowds gets you good at this sort of thing:

  • More on the Deficit Double-Standard

    To say a few more words on the double-standards that afflict Democrats with regard to the deficit, take a look at how Bush passed his tax cuts. Since he didn't have 60 votes for the hefty package he wanted, he used the budget reconciliation process. This was, to observers, a surprise: the idea behin ...

  • The Primacy of Congress

    The problem with David Brooks's column today isn't that it's wrong on the specifics. It's not, really. It would be good if the health-care proposals on the table accorded more closely with the views of the most ambitious experts. But Brooks's explanation of why health-care reform differs from this ...

Booman Tribune

  • Serious Questions

    Which NFL teams are going to make the playoffs this season and who are the best fantasy players?

  • Casual Observation

    Per Juan Cole, the three most popular selections in the Guantanamo Bay prison library are: 1. The Harry Potter novels 2. Cervantes' Don Quixote 3. Barack obama's Dreams from my Father Shakespeare gets no respect.

  • Open Thread

    Whoever is creating hundreds of phony spam user accounts at this site, if I figure out who you are, I will see that you are prosecuted or take other legal action against you. I will report your IP addresses to Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and all the other addresses you are using. If you use your accoun ...

  • Why Be Bipartisan?

    Really. What's the point? What benefit is there to meekly seeking compromise with people who are simply crazy, mean, nasty liars, like this guy: Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) believes that President Obama is bent on turning the United States into a totalitarian state and already has all the tools he n ...

  • Dumb Policy, Dumb Politics

    Anyone who tries to do something in this country to help the underclass usually winds up like the defenders of FSB Mary Ann: politically dead or wounded. It's much more popular to help the middle class, like what Obama announced this morning. President Barack Obama announced a series of policy ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Fascist transhumanists and 21st century politics

    Charlie Stross has written an interesting and engaging blog post on the future of politics in the 21st century, specifically he identifies the emergence of a new form of fascism that draws on transhumanism, the overhumanists: To get to the money shot: transhumanism is going to influence the next cen ...

  • Fascist transhumanists and 21st century politics

    Charlie Stross has written an interesting and engaging blog post on the future of politics in the 21st century, specifically he identifies the emergence of a new form of fascism that draws on transhumanism, the overhumanists: To get to the money shot: transhumanism is going to influence the next cen ...

  • The imminent future of contextual advertising

    Virtual worlds of all stripes are becoming the next gold-rush frontier for an increasingly beleaguered advertising industry, with lots of research being expended on finding the best way to gets brands in front of the captivated gaze of the average computer gamer. Trouble is, it’s not quite as simp ...

  • Compressed-air-punk, chemical-punk: non-silicon co ...

    Computers are made from slices of etched and doped silicon, right? Well, yeah, most of ‘em are – but you can use other substances or mechanisms as a processing substrate, too. While the mechanical clockwork computer remains a fascinating and romantic anachronism in the steampunk style, how about ...

  • The imminent future of contextual advertising

    Virtual worlds of all stripes are becoming the next gold-rush frontier for an increasingly beleaguered advertising industry, with lots of research being expended on finding the best way to gets brands in front of the captivated gaze of the average computer gamer. Trouble is, it’s not quite as simp ...

Yahoo! Canada News

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Currently On Our Radar ...

    A brouhaha over Obama's green jobs guru, plus capturing carbon with coconuts, and more.

  • LEED Seeks to Beef Up Its Credentials

    While a good starting point for many building developers looking to go green, the LEED certification program also has lots of shortcomings. Its supporters say its a work in progress that's getting better.

  • New Solutions for Oil's 'Produced Water'

    Several companies are beginning to look at new ways to deal with polluted water generated during the oil extraction process.

  • A Skeptic Finds Faith in Geoengineering

    Bloomberg News Bjorn Lomborg, the director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center at the Copenhagen Business School. Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish political scientist who found fame as the author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist," has completed a study of the best ways to address the warming of the plane ...

  • Lawsuit Filed to Block Pipeline Project

    Less than two weeks after the State Department gave the go-ahead for a major new 36-inch diameter pipeline to carry Alberta oil sands crude into the United States, a network of environmental and Native American groups filed a lawsuit to block it.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Carbon Market+Sun=FAIL? Sunspot Maunder Minimum vs ...

    Another Little Ice Age? Solar activity and climate change - Ars Technica : Some scientists are suggesting that the slow return to a more active phase of the solar cycle may portend a general decline in solar activity. If sunspots shut down, does that mean that we could stop worrying about climate ...

  • NZ Cellphone racket! LOL This article officially c ...

    In a stunning surprise, apparently the New Zealand mobile phone system is a complete racket, wherein grumpy ministers set the pay rate and thereby influence the balance of corporate power. Or something. In any case, New Zealand's version of the Man officially censored this article about the stupid h ...

  • 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, ...

Daily Censored

  • What the Police Won’t Apologize For In St. Louis ...

    What the Police Won’t Apologize For In St. Louis by Don Fitz In early September, St. Louis police will send an apology for their illegal arrest of biodiversity activists. Be assured that it will not mention their role in destroying public dialogue on dangers of genetically contaminated food. O ...

  • Progressives Pay the Price for Confusing a Party W ...

    Progressives Pay the Price for Confusing a Party With a Movement by David Sirota The difference between parties and movements is simple: Parties are loyal to their own power regardless of policy agenda; movements are loyal to their own policy agenda regardless of which party champions it. This is ...

  • No title

    Teddy Kennedy the Hollow Champion By Alexander Cockburn Teddy Kennedy’s disasters were vivid. His legislative triumphs, draped in this week’s obituaries with respectful homage, were far less colorful but they were actually devastating for the very constituencies – working people, organi ...

  • Outsource and Privatize Los Angeles Schools Obamaâ ...

    Glenn Ford writes on his Black Agenda Radio commentary that in an ideological effort to attack Los Angeles teachers the city school board has voted to transfer one-third of its schools to private hands. Ford calls this ‘Corporate outsourcing now passes as education policy.’ Obama’s ploy may be ...

  • Lockerbie: Megrahi Was Framed by John Pilger:

    Lockerbie: Megrahi Was Framed John Pilger: Antiwar Forum September 04, 2009 The hysteria over the release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber reveals much about the political and media class on both sides of the Atlantic, especially Britain. From Gordon Brown’s “repulsion” to Barack Obama’s †...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Coastal home owners face huge losses from rising s ...

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australians Lesley and Doug McGrath have for decades battled ocean swells that have eaten away at the backyard of their multi-million dollar Sydney home.

  • McChrystal tries to calm Afghans after air strike

    * McChrystal gives TV address, flies to scene * Taliban fighters look on as villagers bury dead * European ministers criticise strike By Mohammad Hamed YAQOUBI, Afghanistan, Sept 5 (Reuters) - The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan flew on Saturday to the scene of a deadly air strike ...

  • Obama unveils measures to spur retirement saving

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama announced new measures on Saturday to encourage Americans to save more money for retirement, a move the White House said would put the economy on a stronger footing in the future.

  • NATO seeks to calm Afghans after deadly air strike

    KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - NATO officers met air strike victims and their families in Afghanistan on Saturday and their commander took to the TV airwaves in a bid to cool anger over an incident that undermines efforts to win hearts and minds.

  • Five banks closed by U.S. regulators

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bank regulators closed four Midwestern banks and one in Arizona on Friday, bringing to 89 the number of U.S. banks to fail this year as deteriorating loans continue to take their toll on financial institutions.

Pine River World News

  • Andrei Konurov: U.S. Objectives in Afghanistan

    IntelTrends - The following commentary is from Russia's Strategic Culture Foundation. Bold font appears in original article. U.S. Objectives in Afghanistan © Strategic Culture Foundation By Andrei Konurov September 3, 2009 Being the key player having influence over the August, 2009 elections in ...

  • '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 ...

    Res'Eau-WaterNet

  • Knowledge Transfer Workshop: Preliminary program p ...

    Join us for our inaugural two-day network event as we gather Canadian experts to discuss the scientific and technological challenges of delivering safe drinking water in small, rural and First Nations communities.

  • Too Many Canadians Without Safe Water: $5.2M to He ...

    For six million Canadians, quenching their thirst isn’t a matter of simply turning on the kitchen faucet.

  • Dr. David Wilkinson appointed Director of the Clea ...

    RES'EAU-WaterNET researcher Dr. David Wilkinson was recently appointed Director of the Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC), beginning July 1, 2009.

  • Walkerton Clean Water Centre Receives Ontario Mini ...

    The Walkerton Clean Water Centre (WCWC) – a RES’EAU-WaterNET partner – received the 2008 Emerald Award for innovation from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment at an awards ceremony held on March 3, 2009.

  • Filling the glass

    Innovation Canada : Showcasing Research Excellence in Canada

PDA AMERICA

  • Subsidies for Wal-Mart, but Not for Working Moms

    By Jayne Lyn Stahl Thank goodness America wasn’t in recovery from eight years of a Republican contract on America back when another president, Lyndon B. Johnson, signed Medicare into law back in 1965, a program that ...

  • Thom Hartmann in support of Bill McKibben’s ...

    Video from our friend and PDA Advisor, Thom Hartmann. Bill McKibben, author, environmentalist, activist is asking the PDA community to join him on October 24th, 2009 in a global day of Action. On Saturday, Oct. 24th wherever ...

  • Video: Can’t Go Home

    What do you think of when you imagine an American living in exile, unable to return home? This is a profile of a couple living in Canada who can’t return to the US because ...

  • Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton and Rep. Gwen Moore sp ...

    Rep. Gwen Moore and Lt Gov. Barbara Lawton (running now for Gov.) spoke eloquently on the need for healthcare reform in Milwaukee WI.

  • Plumbers & Fitters Local Phone Banks for HR 676

    Plumbers & Fitters Local Phone Banks for HR 676 San Jose, California. The news item below was sent to us by Fred Hirsch, Executive Board member and former Vice President of Local 393, Plumbers, Steamfitters ...

Marler Blog

  • S. 510 FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (Introduc ...

    The House has passed its version of the Food Safety Act, now it is the Senate's turn - We shall see if they can pass anything. Here is my summary: Inspections of Records • Secretary can access business records relating to any food (under FDA jurisdiction) the Secretary believes is adulterated or ...

  • Food Safety News dot com - Coming to the Internet ...

    We decided to create a "one stop shop" for everything food safety. This will be the place to get "all the news that fit to eat" - and warnings what not to eat too. There will be news and opinion feeds from Bites, Blogs ( www.marlerblog.com ) and Twitter. There will be recall notices from industry ...

  • Noted Food Safety Lawyer to Speak at School of Law ...

    From the University of Arkansas School of Law Press Room: William Marler, a noted food safety lawyer who has secured more than $500 million for victims of food-borne illness, will make a presentation to the law school’s Food Law & Policy class from 8 to 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 11, in Room 342 of the ...

  • Wisconsin Spinach E. coli O157:H7 Lawsuit filed ag ...
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    The 2006 outbreak of E. coli tied to spinach sickened more than 205 people nationwide, many gravely. More than 31 developed Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) and five lost their lives. One of the most critically ill was Jane Majeska of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, an 85-year old woman whose fight to sta ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Frankfurt Preview: Hyundai goes Blue (Drive) with ...

    Filed under: Frankfurt Motor Show , Hyundai , Alternative Fuel Hyundai ix Metro - Click above for high-res image gallery We've already seen a mini-preview of the Hyundai ix35 that will be on display at the Frankfurt Motor Show in a few weeks, but we're arguably even more interested in the concept ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.04.09

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  • REPORT: Audi of America president de Nysschen call ...

    Filed under: Hybrid , Audi , Alternative Fuel , Diesel Audi of America President Johan de Nysschen is a big fan of diesels (no surprise), and during a recent chat with veteran auto journo Lawrence Ulrich, de Nysschen imparted a few choice morsels on the pitfalls of electric cars, with an extra he ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.03.09

    Frankfurt Preview: Volkswagen to debut new BlueMotion, Polo, Golf and Passat Lower fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions are the names of the game. Hydrogen slogan contest voting begins; satire didn't make ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.02.09

    Frankfurt Preview: Toyota to show Auris Hybrid, Prius PHEV and two iQ variants More plug-in Prius is never a bad thing. VIDEO: Like, it's Elon Musk talking to Valley Girl Click to see the who ...

Rafe's Radar

  • The Real Deal 177: Home security cameras

    Rafe Needleman and Brian Cooley (a.k.a. the Cat Master) discuss the best hardware and software for monitoring your home when you're not there. Plus, your questions answered! Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe now: iTunes (audio) | iTunes (video) | RSS (audio) | RSS (video) ...

  • No money? No problem! Affordit can get you a PlayS ...

    Want a PlayStation but don't have the cash for it, nor a credit card to charge it on? You can get the device delivered to you nonetheless at the low, low price of just $120 down plus $13 a week for 24 weeks, from a new business called Affordit . ...

  • The Facebook app is dead, long live Facebook apps

    I'm at the Facebook Fund Demo Day event in Palo Alto, listening to COO Cheryl Sandberg blithely dismiss the entire Facebook Platform that the company launched in 2007 . Since 2008 the big thing has been Facebook Connect, the utility that allows developers to build sites that can be logged ...

  • Regretful upgrade: Snow Leopard incompatibilities

    (Credit: Apple) Apple's $29 operating-system upgrade, Snow Leopard , is for most users a straightforward and worthwhile upgrade. But some are regretting their haste in upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6. Little incompatibilities with existing apps are causing headaches and slowing down work flow. It's no ...

  • What's the best phone for Google Voice?

    Dear readers: We are testing a new commenting system, JS-Kit's Echo, in this post. In addition to providing a more comprehensive sign-on system and real-time updating, Echo also collates comments on this story from other Web sources, such as Twitter. Check out the action at the end of the post. -- ...

Camera Obscura

  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...

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

  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...

    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...

  • Dangerous spaces: Safe.

    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, wit ...

  • Of housewives and saints: abjection, transgression ...

    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935028/housewives-and-saints-abjection.html September 1, 2004... In the opening sequence of Velvet Goldmine (dir. Todd Haynes, UK/US, 1998), future glam-rock trendsetter Jack Fairy stands in front of a mirror and, having been brutalized earlier by a ...

  • Grainy days and Mondays: Superstar and bootleg aes ...

    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935027/grainy-days-and-mondays.html September 1, 2004... The year is 1970, and suddenly the nation finds itself asking the question, "What if, instead of the riots and assassinations, the protests and the drugs, instead of the angry words and hard-ro ...

Democracy Now!

  • New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks

    On Sept. 1, the European Union stopped manufacturing and importing incandescent light bulbs. Europeans will now turn to the much more efficient compact fluorescent, halogen and LED (light-emitting diode) bulbs. Incandescents, critics argue, waste up to 95 percent of energy as heat, using only 5 per ...

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

    Tim Robbins is the artistic director of the Actor’s Gang and an Academy-award winning actor, director, producer, and writer. He won an Oscar for his role in “Mystic River” and is well-known for his roles in numerous films over the past two decades including “The Shawshank Redemption”, †...

  • Who is Obama Playing Ball With?

    It looked like it was business as usual for President Barack Obama on the first day of his Martha’s Vineyard vacation, as he spent five hours golfing with Robert Wolf, president of UBS Investment Bank and chairman and CEO of UBS Group Americas. Wolf, an early financial backer of Obama’s preside ...

  • "A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House"

    Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in the middle of the night just over a month ago, enjoys global support for his return, with the exception of the Obama White House. Though Barack Obama first called the Honduran military’s removal of Zelaya a coup, his administration has backpedaled. Secr ...

  • Steve Earle sings "John Walker's Blues" about John ...

    In 2004, musician Steve Earle performed his song, “John Walker’s Blues,” in our firehouse studio. Go to our exclusive interview with the parents of John Walker Lindh, Marilyn Walker and Frank Lindh: Watch/Listen/Read

Farming Pathogens

  • Bird Flu’s Industrial Revolution

    Public talks can be private affairs. In sharing our work we bare the triumphs and limits of a thinking born in long hours alone or with a few fellow conspirators sworn to secrecy. But in breaking our oaths we are able to take the next step. In talking bird flu twice this past month I learned [... ...

  • The Agro-Industrial Roots of Swine Flu H1N1

    Mexico appears ground zero for an outbreak of deadly human-specific H1N1. Of the over 1400 people that have been reportedly infected there so far, 86 have died. Short chains of transmission of the virus have also been reported in California, Texas, Kansas, Ohio, New York City, Canada and New Zeal ...

  • The NAFTA Flu

    Cases of swine flu H1N1 are now reported in Honduras, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, Austria, Thailand, Israel, etc. Can’t keep up at this point. H1N1 is making its way across the world by hierarchical diffusion. By the world’s transportation network it is bouncing down a hierarchy of citi ...

  • ‘Farming Human Pathogens’ Now Availabl ...

    ‘Farming Human Pathogens’Â is now available for purchase. The book introduces a cutting-edge formalism based on the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory to describe how punctuated shifts in mesoscale ecosystems imposed by human intervention can entrain patterns of gene expressio ...

  • 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

  • Utah Wakes Up To Smell Of Coal - Fear Of Economic ...

    Utah currently gets 93% of it's energy from burning coal. Mercury emitted by Utah's coal consuming habit helps make hunting and fishing there sports of 'catch and toss.' So...what's the long-term future hold for Utahn's? More mercury filled ducks and fish? Go down fighting the climate bill instead ...

  • Burning Stuff For A Living: AWESOME! (video)

    Mike Melnechuk of the Nature Conservancy sets prairie fires for a living. Jorge Ribas finds out what it takes to be a burn boss.

  • Methane likely spewing in the oceans from vents in ...

    New research at MIT concludes that methane trapped under the ocean may already be escaping through the sea floor at a much faster rate than previously believed. Scientists have associated the release of the gas with climate change of the past and future.

  • Sugar cane waste makes power

    "Ballina Snow" - that layer of choking fine black ash that falls across northern NSW in Australia every year as farmers burn off sugar cane fields after the harvest, will be a nuisance no longer after local farmers developed a world-first process to turn sugar cane waste into electricity.

  • Can You Name the Planet's Biggest Gas Guzzler?

    For decades, fuel consumption has been a major green issue. From miles-per-gallon to hybrids to alternative energy options and beyond, we surely now realize that the term "gas guzzler" is never a compliment. However, there's a dirty little secret rarely mentioned by the corporate media...

Suzie-Q

  • Crazy Cheney: Represents Dangerous Thinking Of Man ...

    Don’t Laugh at Crazy Cheney — He Represents the Dangerous Thinking of Many Powerful Conservatives By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. Posted September 4, 2009. It’s tempting to think of Dick Cheney as a cranky old men stirring up controversy to sell books. But Cheney must not be ...

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  • Blog meets Twitter! I hope you like the…

    Blog meets Twitter! This is the new Live-Blogging and I hope you like the new format… Have a wonderful & safe weekend! Suzie-Q

  • Ashcroft in Deep Doo-doo

    Aschcroft Grilled on Interrogation Methods: Los Angeles Times: Then-Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft violated the rights of U.S. citizens in the fevered wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by ordering arrests on material witness warrants when the government lacked probable cause, a federal appeals court ...

  • Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin: The Wing-Nut Code

    The Wing-Nut Code: What Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin Are Really Saying to Their Followers By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. Posted September 2, 2009. You thought they were just unhinged. But here’s what they’re really saying to the armed and dangerous. When Glenn Beck offers an odd-looking icon for ...

Solari

  • Happy Labor Day

    Labor Day differs in every essential from other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflict and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Da ...

  • Mars Landscapes

    What would you see if you could fly over Mars in a plane and look out the window? It must be something like the thousands of curious, intriguing and spectacular images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera mounted on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The Univer ...

  • China Starts Journey to New Reserve Currency

    China began the long journey to a new international reserve currency with a single step - agreeing to buy $50 billion in notes from the International Monetary Fund. Another proverb, less distinguished than a quote from Daoist philosopher Laozi, also applies here: China put its money where its mouth ...

  • Swine Flu Doubleheader

    On this week’s Solari Report, it’s a “how to” doubleheader on Swine Flu. Dr. Laura Thompson of the Southern California Institute of Nutrition joins us to talk about the health aspects of swine flu. I asked members of my Solari Circle how Laura could best help them sort through the swine ...

  • Going to a High School Football Game Friday Night

    “Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It’s not about winning. It’s about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your friends. Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn’t let them down because you told them the ...

    Blacklisted News

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  • Banks Were Pressured to Take TARP Funds: CEO

    Banks were pressured to take government bailout funds under the Troubled Asset Relief Program whether they wanted to or not, said Bill Cooper, the chairman and CEO of TCF Financial .

  • Geoengineering May Be Mandatory, Royal Society Say ...

    The Royal Society says grand-scale geoengineering schemes, like massive tree-planting campaigns or shooting sulfur into the atmosphere to block sunlight, may be needed to stop global warming.

Project Censored

  • WALTER CRONKITE: THE END OF AN ERA – JULY 17, 20 ...

    WALTER CRONKITE: THE END OF AN ERA – JULY 17, 2009 The end of an era is a term too often over-used. But it is a term that is properly used when discussing the passing of Walter Cronkite. It is truly the end of an era in journalism. No other journalist could do what Walter did. He could cal ...

  • You Can Now Find Our Investigative Research at the ...

    You can now find all of the investigative research that we have done over the years at our new and exciting Media Freedom International Website Please check the website often for news and updates.

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

    By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” –Frederick Douglass ...

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

    By Mickey Huff and Frances A. Capell We can do the innuendo We can dance and sing When it’s said and done We haven’t told you a thing We all know that crap is king Give us dirty laundry! Don Henley, Dirty Laundry, 1982 The late New York University media scholar Neil Postma ...

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

    By Peter Phillips Racial inequality remains in the US. People of color continue to experience high rates of poverty, significant unemployment, police profiling and repressive incarceration. School segregation is a continuing concern among race scholars as well. According to a new Civil Rights re ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Unitec accommodation an uninhabitable rip-off

    Unitec accommodation is so bad that is is causing serious health problems for students. The conditions there are disgusting, it's a shock that Unitec has done nothing about it. » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

  • Eco-houses snap together using lego-style blocks

    We haven't got a big industry in eco houses here in NZ. Heres one from Germany that is soundproof, energy efficient, and structurally sound . And comes with no chemicals or toxins. And looks way fun! » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

  • Inappropriate uses of US stimulus funds

    The Hill reports that while stimulus funds are being used to create a nationwide map showing where broadband access is needed most, that map won't be finished until about half of the $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus money has already been spent [2]. As a result, a number of public-interest groups ...

  • Jesse Jackson on Ted Kennedy

    As I sat listening to President Obama giving my lifelong friend Senator Ted Kennedy's eulogy, I thought back to 1960 when I, and many other students, were jailed as we campaigned for civil rights. I thought about how he was not only there for us then, as were his brothers, but how he was there for p ...

  • ASAHI: DPJ takes power in landslide ..

    With chants of "change," the Democratic Party of Japan won control of government in the Lower House election Sunday in a historic victory that left the once-dominant Liberal Democratic Party in tatters.The DPJ's triumph will push the LDP out of power for only the second time since it was formed in 1 ...

Independent ( London )

  • China sacks Party boss of strife-torn western city

    China sacked the top official of Urumqi, the strife-hit capital of far-west Xinjiang, today, as the city crept back to an uneasy normality after days of sometimes deadly protests that have inflamed ethnic enmity.

  • Envoys hold talks over Korean nuclear claim

    Top nuclear envoys from South Korea and the US held talks today on a strategy to bring North Korea back to disarmament negotiations, a day after the North claimed to have succeeded in experimental uranium enrichment.

  • Man charged over Briton's death

    A man has been charged with a fatal attack on a Briton who was beaten up while on holiday in Magaluf, police in the resort said today.

  • Appeals court rules against Ashcroft in detention ...

    A federal appeals court has delivered a stinging rebuke to the Bush administration's detention policies after the September 11 terror attacks, ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held liable for people who were wrongfully detained as material witnesses.

  • Rift with Karzai worsens as 95 perish in Nato air ...

    Western forces were engulfed in bitter controversy yesterday after Nato air strikes on two oil tankers hijacked by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan led to carnage with a fireball killing 95 people, dozens of them civilians.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • ElBaradei’s Swan Song

    Summary: Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei – who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to prevent Bush-Cheney-Bolton from launching a war of aggression against Iraq on the basis of false accusations about Iraq’s nuclear programs, then verified by ElBaradei to be in compliance wi ...

  • Iran: US Using ‘Forged’ Documents to Make Accu ...

    Summary: In an eight page confidential letter from Iranian envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran denounced the US allegations of a covert nuclear weapons program as “baseless and false” and accused the US of using “forged documents” to make its ...

  • ElBaradei slams Western allegations against Iran a ...

    Summary: Elbaradei In an interview with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Dr Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who will retire later this year after 12 years in his post, has slammed Israel, US and EU allegations against Iran as “crazy” and ha ...

  • Plenty of Threats as Iran ‘Deadline’ Looms

    Summary: The Obama Administration has repeatedly put forth the month of September as the “deadline” for Iran to begin international talks regarding its nuclear program, and as the month begins Western officials are raising the prospect of massive new sanctions against the Iranian government ...

  • Iran nuclear threat 'hyped': ElBaradei

    Summary: Natanz Nuclear Plant Mohamed ElBaradei, the outgoing head of the UN atomic watchdog, called the threat from Iran "hyped" and said there was no evidence that the Islamic republic will soon have nuclear weapons. source: AFP read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • New Images of the Red Planet: A World Without Foot ...

    This close-up of Gullies at the edge of Hale Crater could be clues to a watery past. These new Mars pics were snapped by the High Resolution (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on August 3. It's one of...

  • The U.S. Solar Highways System -Part of Our Clean ...

    Ever hear of the U.S. Interstate Solar Highway System? You might, sometime in the future: Solar Roadways has received a grant from the Department of Energy to develop 12-by-12-foot solar panels, dubbed "Solar Roads," that can be embedded into roads,...

  • "Dark Energy in a Can" -The Cosmic X Factor?

    Dark energy is the deus ex machina of cosmology, able to save even the most inflation-prone calculations from destruction or - worse - being provably wrong. But while we've been busy watching the X-energy apparently accelerating all of creation while...

  • Sending Earth LIFE To A Martian Moon -Russia Readi ...

    In the sort of super-science we should be doing all the time, Russian scientists are sending life itself to orbit a Martian moon. It's educational, it's awesome, and insanely they had to carefully navigate regulations designed to prevent them from...

  • Robots In Space! Our Exploration Future?

    While the "man" in mankind is lacking these days, with our boldest and bravest endeavours being criticized as costly or dangerous by people who can't even spell the words involved, we're still adventuring into outer space. If we can't go,...

Natural News

  • "Mock-up" pandemic vaccines bypass genuine safety ...

    (NaturalNews) Emails and information circulating on the 'net point to a rumor that the World Health Organization (WHO) has released a pandemic virus into the population via a "mock-up" vaccine. One story cites a WHO announcement (http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/notes/h1n1_safety_vaccines_20 ...

  • NaturalNews Talk Hour features special guests who ...

    (NaturalNews) NaturalNews.com has launched a new talk show airing each Thursday evening via a call-in teleconference line. Called the NaturalNews Talk Hour , each one-hour show features a timely topic and a knowledgeable guest. The show is hosted by Jonathan Landsman, and the Health Ranger is either ...

  • Moms' Exposure to Air Pollution Lowers Children's ...

    (NaturalNews) Planning on starting a family? Determined to provide the healthiest environment possible for your kids? If you live in an urban environment, you might want to look for a new place to live with cleaner air. City pollution has long been known to contribute to high blood pressure (http:// ...

  • Medicare, Medicaid Financially Doomed

    (NaturalNews) The economic crisis has pushed forward the looming day of bankruptcy for the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs, according to a report issued by the program's trustees. Social Security is in a similarly critical position, the report said. For a number of years, the report revea ...

  • FTC orders Daniel Chapter One to lie to customers ...

    (NaturalNews) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is at war with online retailers of nutritional supplements and natural remedies, but it recently lost a major battle: Lane Labs , which has suffered under FTC and FDA tyranny for years, recently won a significant battle against the corrupt agency. Aft ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • Matt Strikes Again . . . .

    My apologies for missing the release of this a couple of days ago, but "better late than never," right? Matt Taibbi's "Sick and Wrong" Rolling Stone article is finally available online. Check it out for his take on the USofexpensivehealthcare's fiasco in the attempt to "reform" the health care sy ...

  • The BC "Liberals" fly their true colours

    When things get dirty, so do conservatives, and that's what Gordon Campbell really is . T he provincial Environment Ministry has suffered deep cuts in Tuesday's budget and a levy that raised $25-million annually for clean energy has been repealed, raising questions about the direction of Canada's gr ...

  • Better Than a Stapler ? ? ? ?

    The following was a news report from the local newspaper in our former NW Florida home: Fugitive drops to his knees, prays A man who later told cops he was afraid of being Tasered fled when a _______ Police Department officer tried to pull him over for not wearing a seat belt, according to the ...

  • Pop Quiz!

    Imagine you work as a subcontractor for a bank. The bank wants photos of a bunch of properties on which it holds mortgages to confirm the properties are being kept up and to check the condition of properties on which the mortgage is in default, so off you go in your car with your trusty camera and s ...

  • Tom Ridge : Be Alert - We Need More Lerts!

    Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge alleges in his new book that he was pressured to raise the terror alert level in 2004 to help Bush win re-election. We at the Beav would like to point out that the not-so-fine print on the Homeland Security Advisory Lozenges was always perfectly evide ...

Media Matters for America

  • Glenn Beck no stranger to conspiracy theories or ...

    Fox News host Glenn Beck has become notorious for his conspiracy theories and incendiary rhetoric. Among other things, he has flirted with the idea that FEMA is building detention camps, suggested that President Obama is purposefully "tanking" the economy to force young people to work for ACORN ...

  • Wash. Times misleads with poll to claim ...

    In an editorial, The Washington Times claimed that President Obama's efforts at Muslim outreach "may not be working," citing as evidence a poll which found that a majority or large minority of residents of several countries and territories with sizable Muslim populations do not have confidence ...

  • Sean Hannity should write a thesis about his hypo ...

    On his radio program, Fox News' Sean Hannity claimed that The Washington Post is trying to "smear, besmirch, [and] demonize" Virginia gubernatorial candidate Robert McDonnell (R) by going through "the great effort to dig up a graduate school thesis that he wrote," adding that a thesis "by desig ...

  • AP cites "sweetheart loan scandal" while ignoring ...

    The Associated Press reported that Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) "faces a tough re-election fight next year after being embroiled in a sweetheart loan scandal and legislation that allowed bailed-out insurance giant AIG to pay out millions of dollars in employee bonuses." However, the AP ignored that ...

  • Politico again allows Gingrich to promote ...

    In a September 3 Politico op-ed, Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich promoted medical malpractice reform and criticized current Democratic-backed health reform legislation. But in providing a forum for Gingrich to discuss health care, Politico again failed to disclose that his Center for Health ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • "You Can't Handle The Truth"

    Yesterday, War Department Secretary Gates excoriated the Associated Press for publishing a photo the the dying Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard in Afghanistan (above left). WTF! For those of you with short memories or who were not alive in... Sponsored Topics: Afghanistan - Associated Press - Lance ...

  • Obama Administration Codifies US-Cuba Moves: How ...

    The Obama administration today lightened travel and remittance restrictions for US-based relatives of Cuban citizens residing in Cuba. The limit on relatives is noted at "second cousins." Hooray! -- not. OK -- it's some progress. But this is progress that... Sponsored Topics: Cuba - Presidency o ...

  • Reforming Summit Diplomacy

    Last month, an annual ritual of high-level diplomacy was convened in L'Aquila, Italy by a group familiar to most of us: the Group of Eight leading industrialized powers (or G-8). More accurately, these world leaders held a series of summits... Sponsored Topics: L'Aquila - G8 - Environment ...

  • Afghanistan debate: The missing international ingr ...

    With amazing rapidity, an extremely serious debate has erupted in Washington over whether the war in distant Afghanistan can be won, and therefore whether it is worth continuing to try to fight it. The apparent skulduggery that surrounded the recent... Sponsored Topics: Afghanistan - US - Washin ...

  • The Real News About Jobs and Wages -- An Ode to La ...

    Why aren't we hearing more about the worst job and wage situation since the Great Depression?The latest employment figures (released this morning) show job losses continuing to grow. According to the payroll survey, job losses are increasing more slowly than... Sponsored Topics: Employment - Gre ...

TruthOut

  • Coming Soon to a Democracy Near You ...

    Then-Senator Clinton speaking to the Newspaper Association of America in April 2008. (Photo: Getty Images) read more

  • Could Texas's Gingrich-Based High School History C ...

    While Republicans are busy gnashing their teeth over President Obama's imminent indoctrination of the nation's schoolchildren, there's an education story bubbling up in Texas that could have considerably more far-reaching consequences. The GOP-controlled State Board of Education is wor ...

  • Ashcroft Can Be Sued Over Jailing "Witnesses"

    Former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be sued for damages for ordering Muslims jailed as material witnesses in criminal cases, allegedly as a pretext to investigate their possible links to terrorism, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Friday. read more

  • NATO Seeks to Calm Afghans After Deadly Airstrike

    Kunduz, Afghanistan - NATO officers met air strike victims and their families in Afghanistan on Saturday and their commander took to the TV airwaves in a bid to cool anger over an incident that undermines efforts to win hearts and minds. Afghan officials say scores of people were ki ...

  • HMO Claims-Rejection Rates Trigger State Investiga ...

    California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown is joining state regulators in scrutinizing how HMOs review and pay insurance claims submitted by doctors, hospitals and other medical providers. His announcement came Thursday as regulators said they had stepped up scrutiny of the payment practices ...

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 drilling”–proof that h ...

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

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

  • 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

  • Google UFO logo mystery - UM swamped

    UM is being inundated by visitors today after Google mysteriously changed its homepage logo to a UFO with a link to the search terms "unexplained ...

  • Was Rendlesham UFO a fertiliser truck ?

    A lorry driver has come forward to state that he was responsible for the famous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, claiming that the unidentified obj...

  • Fragment from world's oldest Bible found

    Fragments from the world's oldest known Bible have been discovered in an Egyptian Monastery hidden underneath the binding of an 18th-century b...

  • Goat gives birth to a 'human' faun

    In a bizarre report from Zimbabwe this week a goat has left locals in the Lower Gweru region shellshocked when it allegedly gave birth to a creatu...

  • Stroke cures grandfather's sight

    A 70-year-old grandfather who had suffered from reduced sight since the age of two has miraculously regained almost perfect vision after suffering...

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 4, 2009

    IEA to Cut 2030 Global Emissions Forecast (Bloomberg) The International Energy Agency plans to cut its forecast for CO2 emissions in 2030 due to the recession, its executive director said today. The new number, to be released Oct. 6, will be used in world talks at Copenhagen. Senator: U.S.-Ch ...

  • September 4, 2009

    IEA to Cut 2030 Global Emissions Forecast (Bloomberg) The International Energy Agency plans to cut its forecast for CO2 emissions in 2030 due to the recession, its executive director said today. The new number, to be released Oct. 6, will be used in world talks at Copenhagen. Senator: U.S.-Ch ...

  • September 3, 2009

    Climate Talks' Progress Like ‘Walking in Wet Sand’ (Reuters) Talks on a U.N. climate pact have become bogged down like "walking in wet sand," but a U.N. summit this month could give impetus for a deal due in December, the head of a key UN negotiating group says. India's Greenhouse Gases to ...

  • September 2, 2009

    Duke Energy Dumps Coal Front Group ACCCE (National Journal) Duke Energy has left the American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy over differences with "influential member companies who will not support passing climate change legislation in 2009 or 2010," the company says. UN: Poor Nations Need $ ...

  • 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 ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: William Astore, American Militarism on S ...

    Here's what Cheryl Bartholomew, described as an "Omaha Early Childhood Parenting Examiner," wrote recently about an event happening at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Nebraska, for the local affiliate of the national web portal Examiner.com: "The Offutt Air Show, Defenders of Freedom '09 loo ...

  • 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 ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Meet The Stupids

    A portly man outside a Town Hall meeting carries a sign reading "Abolish federal government." A middle-aged banshee screams "Nazi" at a pro-health care reform Israeli emigre. Tap dancing Tom DeLay, caught up in the thrall of his own voice on national TV, demands that Obama show the world his "gift c ...

  • There's no getting around the fact that conservati ...

    I'm old enough to remember that some of the very same kinds of people -- and in several cases precisely the same individuals -- who regularly invoked God to fiercely resist racial civil rights and women's equality a few decades back, are now thumping the Bible in a wicked attempt at keeping homosexu ...

  • Political Manipulation of the Threat Level: Is Rid ...

    — from FindLaw Early buzz on a new book by former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, The Test of Our Times , has attracted serious attention, and for good reason. Initially, it looked like a former Bush Administration cabinet member was about to come clean. Now, it is no ...

  • "My Fellow Americans..." The Address President Oba ...

    As imagined by Dave Lindorff My Fellow Americans. I stand before you a chastened president. I made a mistake. Two mistakes really. (wild applause from Republican side) I thought that Congress could do its job and through the deliberative process, produce a health care reform plan that would win broa ...

  • Interview with Co-Director of 'The Most Dangerous ...

    Force-feeding Democracy: 'The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers,' to premiere at Toronto Film Festival An interview with Rick Goldsmith, the co-director of a 'story about American government, secrecy, lies and power.' " … this is a self-governing country. We a ...

Ten Percent

  • American Remake

    More troops deployed now than the Soviets ever had- Compare the propaganda.

  • Friday! Voice Of The Beehive- I Say Nothing

    As Ash would say ‘Groovy’

  • IDF Attack Journalist

    Jacky Rowland, formerly of the BBC now at Al Jazeera reporting from Bil’in at protests against the apartheid wall is tear gassed by IDF troops. As well as that the IDF are also firing live ammo on non violent protesters at West Bank village of Ni’lin. Likely Ruger .22 calibre even though the J ...

  • 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

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Dick Cheney’s Chutzpah Moment [Update]

    Last week Dick Cheney was on Fox News bemoaning the declining morale at the CIA in the wake of Eric Holder’s appointment of a Special Prosecutor to investigate whether or not charges should be brought against people who were involved in the torture of suspected terrorists. Isn’t that special. ...

  • It’s WHOSE Meeting??

    There seems to be some confusion over whose meetings these town halls are. Silly me, I thought they were held for the constituents of the particular representative or senator holding them. Evidently, I was wrong, at least according to this organizer for HCAN at the town hall held by Jan Schakowsky ...

  • More Clunker Updates - OPEN THREAD

    I know, I know. Enough all ready with the clunker stuff. But these clunker programs are such clear and convincing examples of how politically driven and dysfunctional our government has become that I can’t seem to help myself. And could anything says it better than this cartoon? _____ If you ...

  • Weekend Wrap Up, It Sucks to be Obama

    Wishing you a happy labor day. Unfortunately, in light of the dismal unemployment numbers out today (see LD’s excellent analysis) the number of people laboring is shrinking. That’s a bad thing. We warned several months ago that the so-called Obama stimulus was no stimulus at all. Why? Most ...

  • What is with the Whole Foods Nation?

    You have heard about the boycott of the store Whole Foods Market by the Lefties. The CEO of Whole Foods Market, John Mackey wrote an Op Ed in the WSJ and dared to criticize Obama on his health care plan. He has a different view and proposes a different solution. Single Payer proponents don’t like ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Therapy News

  • Two Movies Battling Mental Health Stereotypes Laun ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The name of a new movie launched online in an effort to counteract popular stereotypes about mental health services and those who receive them, “Schizo,” may not seem like the brightest way of removing such terms from the collective consciousness. But the film, al ...

  • US Health Policy Cited as Major Shortcoming

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary During the lead-up to the election of US President Barack Obama, the administrative campaign was hailed as being one of the most marvelous to be conducted in the country’s history. Health care has been one of the most greatly discussed topics and most important issue ...

  • A Different Kind of Deficiency: Getting Kids Back ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The modern prevalence of technology and entertainment may be at least partially responsible for the large amounts of time that today’s children spend in front of the computer or television screen, and the trend may have negative consequences for physical and mental ...

  • Review of Mental Health Treatment During Pregnancy ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Working through feelings of depression can be a significant challenge at any point of life, but women who become pregnant may experience additional difficulty in the face of numerous restrictions regarding traditional treatment. As a number of psychiatric medications ...

  • The Death of a Parent: Healing Children’s Grief

    By Beth Patterson, MA, LPC The death of a parent is the most elemental loss that a child can experience. Many in our culture believe that children cannot understand death and lack the capacity to grieve. Because of this misconception, coupled with confusion and anxiety in communicating with childr ...

Mountaintop Removal

Memeorandum

  • Calls to boycott Obama's speech to kids offer a di ...

    Tim Rutten / Los Angeles Times : Calls to boycott Obama's speech to kids offer a disturbing lesson in paranoia — Those who are whipping up hysteria over the president's address are playing a dangerous game with an unhinged segment of public opinion. — While it long ago crossed the bord ...

  • What Obama will say in his address - President Bar ...

    The Politico : What Obama will say in his address — President Barack Obama plans to reach out to Republicans and reassure — rather than confront — his liberal supporters when he addresses an extraordinary joint session of Congress at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday. — But he will warn lawmake ...

  • Appeals Court Rules Against Ashcroft in 9 / 11 Cas ...

    Associated Press : Appeals Court Rules Against Ashcroft in 9 / 11 Case — BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal appeals court delivered a stinging rebuke Friday to the Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 detention policies, ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held liable for pe ...

  • Sing It... Van Jones Cut Nasty Hate-Filled Music A ...

    Gateway Pundit : Sing It... Van Jones Cut Nasty Hate-Filled Music Album, Too! (Video) ...Update: Album Cover Found! — VAN JONES CUT A CD... The CD starred Van Jones and cop killer Mumia abu-Jamal. — UPDATE: Kristinn found the album (CD) cover: — Jones used his Ella Baker Cen ...

  • Obama looking for retirement plan reforms (Eric Zi ...

    Eric Zimmermann / The Hill : Obama looking for retirement plan reforms — Among the changes are expanded access to 401k plans and a pledge to let workers convert vacation days into retirement savings. — President Barack Obama announced a series of policy changes Saturday aimed at making ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, southern Peru

    Saturday, September 5, 2009 03:58:40 UTC Friday, September 4, 2009 10:58:40 PM at epicenter Depth : 215.30 km (133.78 mi)

  • M 5.4, south of Africa

    Friday, September 4, 2009 22:16:47 UTC Saturday, September 5, 2009 12:16:47 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

  • M 5.0, Fiji region

    Tuesday, September 1, 2009 17:33:39 UTC Wednesday, September 2, 2009 05:33:39 AM at epicenter Depth : 574.30 km (356.85 mi)

  • M 5.2, Halmahera, Indonesia

    Sunday, August 30, 2009 22:04:34 UTC Monday, August 31, 2009 07:04:34 AM at epicenter Depth : 61.60 km (38.28 mi)

  • M 5.0, New Britain region, Papua New Guinea

    Friday, September 4, 2009 09:59:45 UTC Friday, September 4, 2009 07:59:45 PM at epicenter Depth : 92.80 km (57.66 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Staying afloat

    Can the global shipping industry increase its efficiency and reduce its contribution to global warming? Arthur Bowring explores the issues. International shipping is the servant of international trade; ships carry an estimated 90% of world trade. Admiral EE Mitropoulos, secretary-general of the Inte ...

  • 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. ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Court Allows Woman to Sue Bank for Lax Security Af ...

    An Illinois district court has allowed a couple to sue their bank on the novel grounds that it may have failed to sufficiently secure their account, after an unidentified hacker obtained a $26,500 loan on the account using the customers’ user name and password. As initially reported by legal blogg ...

  • Want a Wiretap Warrant? No Problem, Court Says

    Despite refusing to “endorse” the government’s tactics in securing a warrant for a wiretap, a federal appeals court is ruling the authorities could use the fruits of their questionable eavesdropping in prosecuting an alleged drug dealer. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower ...

  • Diebold Unloads Beleaguered Voting Machine Divisio ...

    It took about three years but Diebold has finally managed to get out of the election business. The company announced Thursday that Premier Election Solutions, Diebold’s beleaguered voting machine division, has been acquired by Election Systems and Software (ES&S). ES&S purchased the company for a ...

  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Coastal home owners face huge losses from rising s ...

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australians Lesley and Doug McGrath have for decades battled ocean swells that have eaten away at the backyard of their multi-million dollar Sydney home.

  • McChrystal tries to calm Afghans after air strike

    * McChrystal gives TV address, flies to scene * Taliban fighters look on as villagers bury dead * European ministers criticise strike By Mohammad Hamed YAQOUBI, Afghanistan, Sept 5 (Reuters) - The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan flew on Saturday to the scene of a deadly air strike ...

  • Obama unveils measures to spur retirement saving

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama announced new measures on Saturday to encourage Americans to save more money for retirement, a move the White House said would put the economy on a stronger footing in the future.

  • NATO seeks to calm Afghans after deadly air strike

    KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - NATO officers met air strike victims and their families in Afghanistan on Saturday and their commander took to the TV airwaves in a bid to cool anger over an incident that undermines efforts to win hearts and minds.

  • Five banks closed by U.S. regulators

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bank regulators closed four Midwestern banks and one in Arizona on Friday, bringing to 89 the number of U.S. banks to fail this year as deteriorating loans continue to take their toll on financial institutions.

Godspace

  • Thirsting for Coffee With God- A Very Spiritual Pr ...

    This will probably be the last post in the What is a Spiritual Practice series and it seems appropriate that because I live in Seattle the last post is about drinking coffee. Today’s post comes from Richard Dahlstrom senior pastor at Bethany Community Church in Seattle. Â Richard blogs at Pastor ...

  • It’s Easy to Be Against Healthcare reform Wh ...

    I have been thinking for some time of giving some of my views about the current debate on healthcare reform in spite of the fact that I usually try to steer away from political issues. Â Then yesterday when I was uploading Kathy Escobar’s post I visited her blog and was delighted to see that the ...

  • The Spirituality of Creating

    This morning there is much to share – lots of creative juices flowing which is very much in keeping with the theme of today’s spiritual practice. First I am in busy preparation mode for upcoming events which you might like to check out. I will be speaking at the West Coast Healthcare Missions an ...

  • 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 ...

Equality Trust

IntelNews

  • Diplomat sees Pakistani spies behind Afghan intel ...

    An Indian diplomat has authored an editorial suggesting that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) may be behind the recent assassination of an Afghan senior intelligence official.

  • US threatened Indonesia with war during 1999 East ...

    The Clinton Administration threatened to go to war with Indonesia in 1999, if Jakarta resisted an Australian-led plan to grant independence to what was then Indonesia’s province of East Timor. The revelations were made by former American and Australian military officials quoted in a new book.

  • News you may have missed #0095

    Massive domestic spying revealed in Russia. New revelations about Bulgarian domestic spying case. Taliban use CIA-supplied mines against US-led forces in Afghanistan.

  • News you may have missed #0094

    Liberia arrests six Pakistanis with fake US passports. Belgian arms dealer arrested in US sting operation. Why are Emirates authorities expelling Lebanese citizens?

  • Latest developments in ongoing Kazakh intelligence ...

    The war between the Kazakh government and Kazakh former intelligence agents living in self-imposed exile in Austria intensifies.

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

  • Could George W. Bush end up behind bars?

    CNN, of all places, claims to want to know what you think about it.

  • Did the Defense Department Stop Reporting Deaths o ...

    By Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent Dr. Steven Miles, a professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School and faculty member of its Center for Bioethics, for years tried to track the deaths of “war on terror” detainees being held in U.S. custody. The author of the book “Oath Betray ...

  • Obama Admits Who's Visited the White House for the ...

    Gotta applaud the willingness finally to comply with court rulings and partially undo Cheney's policy of secrecy, but think about what this means in terms of influence and how it fits with certain fantasies about good intentions and an heroic executive going up against a corrupted legislature.

  • Kucinich Condemns NATO Strike in Afghanistan

    Kucinich Condemns NATO Strike in Afghanistan | Press Release Says Command should be Held Responsible Washington D.C. (September 4, 2009) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a leading Congressional voice calling for an immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq, today released the following ...

  • Afghanistan: Ten reasons to resist

    Afghanistan: Ten reasons to resist By Susan Lazare | Courage to Resist 1. Like Iraq, it is also illegal 2. No military solution to terrorism 3. Funds used for war are needed at home 4. Civilian casualties are not acceptable 5. War is not good for women in Afghanistan 6. Supp ...

Grist - News

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

  • 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

  • The Waiting Room

    Here’s a brief summary of the day’s health care news. The Obama administration continues its push to drum up support for health reform. Vice President Biden is trying to tie the success of the stimulus to the need for a better health care system. And the White House circulated a memo that highli ...

  • Problems With Embassy Security Contract Crept Up L ...

    A private security company hired to protect the U.S. Embassy in Kabul lost its contract with the State Department in 2007 over the failure of its guards to speak English, according to two senior diplomats who worked in the embassy at that time.

  • Did the Defense Department Stop Reporting Deaths o ...

    Dr. Steven Miles, a professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School and faculty member of its Center for Bioethics, for years tried to track the deaths of “war on terror” detainees being held in U.S. custody. The author of the book “Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and Ame ...

  • California Gubernatorial Candidates Brawl Over Van ...

    California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner is not letting up on fellow Republican Meg Whitman after her partial walkback of her praise (from months before the current troubles began) of Van Jones. “Meg Whitman’s praise for Van Jones came just months ago, yet she’s changing her stor ...

  • Glenn Beck’s Next Target: Cass Sunstein

    As he makes a real impact in pushing conservative fringe attacks on Obama administration officials into the mainstream, Glenn Beck’s Twitter feed has become a must-read. In a message from last night, Beck told his followers to “FIND EVERYTHING YOU CAN ON CASS SUNSTEIN, MARK LLOYD AND CAROL BROWN ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • In Brazil, Paying Farmers to Let the Trees Stand

    QUERENCIA, Brazil — José Marcolini, a farmer here, has a permit from the Brazilian government to raze 12,500 acres of rain forest this year to create highly profitable new soy fields. But he says he is struggling with his conscience. Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business | Note-it! ...

  • Young Arctic Muskoxen Better At Keeping Warm Than ...

    A new study finds that young muskoxen conserve heat almost as well as adults, a finding that runs contrary to a longstanding assumption among scientists that young animals should be more vulnerable in extreme cold. The study, by biologist Adam Munn from Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Animals ...

  • Aphids Saved From Gruesome Death By Virus-infected ...

    The term "beneficial virus" sounds like an oxymoron. But for pea aphids under attack by parasitic wasps, carrying infected bacteria is the difference between life and a slow death, according to new research Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbeat | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Homes Pollute: Linked To 50 Percent More Water Pol ...

    They say there's no place like home. But scientists are reporting some unsettling news about homes in the residential areas of California. The typical house there — and probably elsewhere in the country — is an alarming and probably underestimated source Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Enviro ...

  • Chile confirms swine flu in turkeys

    Swine flu has now jumped to birds opening a dangerous new chapter in the global epidemic. Chile's health ministry says it's quarantined two turkey farms outside the port city of Valparaiso .. after genetic tests confirmed that birds there were afflicte Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to World | ...

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 [...]

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Advocacy group hails Villaraigosa's coal promise
Los Angeles Times
- Sep 05, 2009
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Jim Gonzalez, executive director of the group known as the Renewable Energy Accountability Project, said the ads are in no way meant as a rebuttal to an ...
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Renewable-power fight at crossroads
San Francisco Chronicle
- Sep 03, 2009
- Sep 03, 2009
Two bills pending in the Legislature would force the state's electrical utilities to get 33 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2020, ...
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US awards $503 mln for renewable energy projects
Reuters
- Sep 01, 2009
- Sep 01, 2009
The funding will help meet the Obama administration's goal of doubling US renewable energy production over the next three years, creating jobs and providing ...
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Alteris Renewables Helps Put Deutsche Bank Championship on the Green
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- Sep 03, 2009
- Sep 03, 2009
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Ecology approves spill plans for Whatcom refineries
Bellingham Herald
- Sep 04, 2009
- Sep 04, 2009
The Washington Department of Ecology has approved oil spill readiness plans for Whatcom County's two oil refineries, BP Cherry Point and ConocoPhillips. ...
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Monson Village: Did ecology equal destiny?
Cabinet.com
- Sep 04, 2009
- Sep 04, 2009
We might find answers by examining Monson through the lens of historical ecology, a relatively new field whose central tenet is that humans and the ...
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Washington Department of Ecology Adopts New Wetland Banking Rule
Northwest Hub
- Sep 04, 2009
- Sep 04, 2009
By Ashley DeForest The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) adopted a new rule establishing criteria and a certification process for wetland ...
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Ecology certifies oil spill plans
Tacoma Weekly
- Sep 02, 2009
- Sep 02, 2009
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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Calif. lawmakers debate cost of water projects
San Jose Mercury News
- Sep 04, 2009
- Sep 04, 2009
California lawmakers are racing to craft a legislative package that would revamp the state's decades-old water system but are at odds over how to pay for it ...
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PSC: Wis. homeowners using less water
Chicago Tribune
- Sep 05, 2009
- 11 hours ago
The Public Service Commission says residential usage of water in Wisconsin is declining. The agency says the typical residential customer used 56000 gallons ...
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The high costs of ballast-water stowaways
San Francisco Chronicle
- Sep 05, 2009
- 4 hours ago
About a third of the 186 invasive species in the Great Lakes are thought to have entered on oceangoing ships in the ballast water they take on for ...
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Drought Hinders Austin Tourist Stop, and Salamanders Too
New York Times
- Sep 05, 2009
- 2 hours ago
Lakes, rivers and creeks are evaporating, cities have ordered residents to cut back on water use, and farmers' crops have been devastated. ...
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