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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, September 7, 2009

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • ENVIRONMENT-CHINA: What Makes A Good Dam?

    MANILA, Sep 7 (IPS) - The Chinese government needs to engage local communities in harnessing its vast water and hydropower resources and pursuing sustainable development, says environmental advocate Yu Xiaogang, recipient of the 2009 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Participatory Social Impact Asses ...

  • MIDEAST: Stolen Room Offers a Split View

    OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM, Sep 7 (IPS) - In the early morning sunlight, the smoky window of the plush new apartment reflects back a golden tinge from the Dome of the Rock that stands at the heart of Islam's third holiest shrine.

  • EDUCATION-ZAMBIA: Bicycles Help Girls Go Further

    NDAPULA, Zambia, Sep 7 (IPS) - Nine kilometres each way, rain or shine: That's how far Suzanne Chisulo has to travel to school each day.

  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Rising Seas Demand Better Family ...

    BERLIN, Sep 6 (IPS) - A rising population and climate change need to be considered together in an integrated policy, experts demanded at a forum on sexual and reproductive health and development held in Berlin Sep. 2-4.

  • SOUTH AMERICA: Glaciers - Going, Going…Gone ...

    BUENOS AIRES, Sep 6 (IPS) - South America is perhaps most often associated with the Amazon jungle, the world's largest tropical rainforest. But along its western edge, from Ecuador to southern Chile and Argentina, it also harbours huge glaciers which are rapidly melting due to global warming.

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

  • Charity: US troops stormed through Afghan hospital

    Kabul - A Swedish charity accused American troops Monday of storming through a hospital in central Afghanistan, breaking down doors and tying up staff in a search for militants. The U.S. military said it was investigating. The allegation that soldiers violated the neutrality of a medical facility ...

  • Michael Moore takes aim at money men

    Agitator supreme Michael Moore is back with a new target - and this time he wants the world to rebel against it. In his sights is the American banking system and the people who run it. Capitalism: A Love Story is Moore's latest documentary, examining some of the many things he thinks are wrong wit ...

  • "Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film

    Venice - Capitalism is evil. That is the conclusion U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore comes to in his latest movie "Capitalism: A Love Story," which premieres at the Venice film festival Sunday. Blending his trademark humor with tragic individual stories, archive footage and publicity stunts, th ...

  • BEST OF WEB: Martial Law Alert Over Swine Flu

    Fact check: -- no Swine Flu threat exists; -- reported H1N1 infections and deaths are uncorroborated; -- WHO predicting a global pandemic affecting "as many as two billion people....over the next two years" is falsified hype unless a diabolical depopulation scheme (by vaccines or other means) ...

  • Palestinians 'seriously considering' one-state wit ...

    Former US president Jimmy Carter said Sunday Palestinian leaders were "seriously considering" a one-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, following a visit to the Middle East. "A majority of the Palestinian leaders with whom we met are seriously considering acceptance of one state, b ...

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

  • Excerpts of President Obama's Speech to America's ...

    In response to the manufactured outrage over President Obama's planned address Tuesday to America's schoolchildren, the White House as promised has released portions of the text of the speech in advance. Here are excerpts from President Obama's prepared remarks: Preliminary...

  • 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,...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Wheres Your Homework, Mr. President? by Greg Palas ...

    by Greg PalastFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.gregpalast.comSeptember 7, 2009Greg Palast gets a lesson from super-teacher Bill Roney. Listen to the podcast.pictureThe Looney-Tunes Right Wing is all bent up that our President is planning to tell kids to do their homework in a broadcast to schools s ...

  • No Childs Behind Left By Greg Palast

    by Greg PalastFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.gregpalast.comSeptember 7, 2009originally posted June 12, 2006Excerpt from Armed MadhouseThey take away your overtime, your 40-hour week, your regulatory protection against corporate marauders, your right to courtroom justice, your protection against u ...

  • Food Is Power and the Powerful Are Poisoning Us by ...

    by Chris HedgesFeatured WriterDandelion SaladTruthdigSeptember 7, 2009Juliet TomatoesOriginally uploaded by Lorri37Our most potent political weapon is food. If we take back our agriculture, if we buy and raise produce locally, we can begin to break the grip of corporations that control a food system ...

  • Video: White House Honcho Mealy-Mouthed on Public ...

    In his Meet the Press appearance, presidential adviser David Axelrod refuses to say if Obama will trade away the public heath care plan.

  • An Army of Home-Schooled "Christian Soldiers" On a ...

    Take a glimpse into the little-known world of conservative Christian homeschooling.

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

  • The Nightowl Newswrap

    We made Iraq safe enough for the Chinese to be hated by the locals It wasn't such a big deal when the Chinese company signed the first post-invasion oil contract to develop an isolated area in far western Iraq. Now that oil is flowing and the prices for crude have fallen, the locals are angry that ...

  • Couldn't Resist

    Via PZ Myers.

  • Escaping the Veal Pen

    I was going to write a post about the stupidity of Van Jones' resignation on the grounds that you never, ever let a bully win. Even if denying the bully a victory hurts you in other ways, you never, ever do what a bully demands you do, because a victory empowers the bully and makes him ten times ha ...

  • Be careful what you wish for

    Because you just might get it. Glenn Beck will be doing a tribal dance around a bonfire, wagging his junk about and smearing metaphorical blood on his face over the resignation late last night of Van Jones , the president's advisor on green jobs and energy. "On the eve of historic fights for healt ...

  • The State of Working America

    The State of Working America, at least here on Reality Planet, sucks. Let's hope President Obama is saving his passionate defense of American workers for his big Labor Day speech to the AFL-CIO in Cincinnati tomorrow, because his weekly address proposing new retirement savings incentives is about a ...

Care 2

  • Demand Verizon Withdraw Sponsorship from Pro-Coal, ...

    Talk about crossed wires. As a self-proclaimed eco-friendly company, Verizon has decided to co-sponsor a West Virginia rally to deny global warming. The "Friends of America" rally is organized by Massey Energy, a union-busting coal company that's a Submitted by Cher C. to Environment | Note-it! ...

  • The Kalahari meerkats that put one Botswana safari ...

    The seven sets of small furry feet kicked up quite a sandstorm as they scampered across the desert before disappearing deep underground amid a cacophony of noise. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Welcome to The Animal House!

    It is our goal that our shelter reflects a safe, healthy and clean environment for these animals. Having healthy animals, both physically and mentally, is a priority to Animal House.We ensure this by giving them quality nutrition, daily exercise and Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | ...

  • Canines get bathed at Bath Nursery to support Anim ...

    Bath Nursery, 2000 E. Prospect Road, was home to the Furry Friends Festival fundraiser in support of Animal House, a local animal shelter that has been in operation for three years. Saturday, 5 percent of sales from Bath Nursery went directly to Animal Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! ...

  • Wal-Mart aims to silence workers --I AM ONE WHO WA ...

    Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is the world's largest and most influential corporation. If it were a country, Wal-Mart's economy would be the 26th largest in the world, placing it ahead of Argentina, Greece and Denmark.Nearly one out of every hundred working North Submitted by Suzybell H. to Business | No ...

GreenBiz

  • Scotland Generates £1 Billion in Food Waste Every ...

    Scottish households are needlessly chucking away £1 billion (US$1.6 billion) of food each year, according to new research from the nonprofit WRAP Scotland.

  • 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.

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

  • Arming the World

    I'm proud to be an American, cuz at least I know I am arming the world for battle: WASHINGTON — Despite a recession that knocked down global arms sales last year, the United States expanded its role as the world’s leading weapons supplier, increasing its share to more than two-thirds of all for ...

  • Casual Observation

    Well, if there was any remaining doubt that the Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, is not a partner for health care reform, this ought to settle it.

  • How to Kill Health Reform in 5 Easy Steps

    Matthew Continetti of the Weekly Standard demonstrates how to kill health-care reform in five-easy steps. Step One: Get a small minority of people to throw a very loud hissy fit and then claim that they speak for the 'silent majority.' Avoid self-awareness of irony. Congress returns this we ...

  • Ousting Charlie Rangel

    Charlie Rangel paid his dues to become the chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means committee. He was elected in 1970. He is now 79 years old. The Democrats use a rather strict seniority system, which meant that Rangel had to bide his time (thirty-seven years) before he could take over the chai ...

  • A Kind of Pep Talk

    This past month hasn't really been very much fun for me as a blogger. It's always difficult to find material when Congress is in recess. When the president goes on vacation, it just makes it harder. A few weeks ago I wearied of writing analysis pieces on health care because I'm not the type to ob ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Profitable post-web publishing: is patronage the a ...

    OK, it may be a little cruel to ask you to do the thinking on a Monday morning (especially as you Statesiders are probably still recovering from Labour Day weekend), but I think it’s high time this one was thrown open to the floor – and by “this one” I mean, of course, the perennial [...] Pr ...

  • Tropes

    Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped heads! ] Project Wonderf ...

  • Tropes

    Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped heads! ] Project Wonderf ...

  • 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 ...

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

  • Video with Peter Schiff: A black hole called Feder ...

    I got a kick out of this video and the funny animations. It's all about the mysterious black hole called the Federal Reserve System. Gotta love it! Just posted yesterday: Additionally, the landscape of ruined houses in the first couple shots caught my notice. I'll explain why later... read more »

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

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

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

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

  • 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 »

Daily Censored

  • Pushing for Better School Food

    Read the full story at Byline Portal by Dana Hull, San Jose Mercury News, USA – There’s unusual lunchtime chatter at ACE Charter School in East San Jose: Students are actually raving about lunch. School lunch. And so are some teachers. …

  • The EU Is Right to Admit More Refugees

    Read the full story at Byline Portal by Donna Covey, Guardian, UK – Proposals to expand refugee resettlement across the EU are a step in the right direction – but the UK must do more to help. …

  • Vision of a Black nation’s struggle

    Read the full story at San Francisco Bay View by Baby Jamaica A Black nation still incarcerated But patiently awaiting release it seems that respect we have to kill for while dying for peace as my Black mental mindstate grows stronger us as Black individuals are still represented by these so called ...

  • Violence between Raza and African prisoners

    Read the full story at San Francisco Bay View by the Chicano Mexicano Prison Project The violence at Chino Aug. 8 left nearly 200 prisoners injured and most of the prison uninhabitable. – Photo: Getty Images Once again, major violence between Raza and African prisoners has erupted within the Un ...

  • Van Jones Resigns: Fox News Bigots Win A Round, Or ...

    Read the full story at News Hounds I’m sure that unrepentant bigots Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck must be licking their chops along with their pals at Fox News over the resignation of Obama advisor Van Jones late last night. However, this will do nothing to answer the charges of racism that are simm ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Obama aides leave room for healthcare compromise

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's top aides said on Sunday he still wants a government insurance option in healthcare legislation but they left room for a compromise that could disappoint his liberal backers.

  • Abu Dhabi to buy Chartered; Hynix stake up for gra ...

    SINGAPORE/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi's state-owned ATIC offered to buy Chartered Semiconductor for $1.8 billion, while major shareholders in Hynix began the sale of a $2.8 billion stake, kick-starting consolidation in a chip sector emerging from its worst ever downturn.

  • U.S. leads world in foreign weapons sales: report

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States accounted for more than two-thirds of foreign weapons sales in 2008, a year in which global sales were at a three-year low, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

  • "Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film

    VENICE (Reuters) - Capitalism is evil. That is the conclusion U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore comes to in his latest movie "Capitalism: A Love Story," which premieres at the Venice film festival Sunday.

  • S.Korea complains to North over deadly river surge

    SEOUL, Sept 7 (Reuters) - South Korea complained to North Korea on Monday about a sudden release of water into a river flowing across their border that left six people missing in the South. The incident could cast a chill over ties that have warmed between the rivals in the past month with North Kor ...

Pine River World News

  • The U.S. Health Care System - Values and Prioritie ...

    [ Blogmaster note : It has been my position that those opposed to universal healthcare already have medical insurance. They also have little concern for the needs of those who lack coverage. My wife's family, for example, are among the 47-million Americans without health insurance, and, while I am ...

  • Iraqis: Al-Sadr movement receives and trains al-Ho ...

    IntelTrends - The following article is from al-Sahwa, Yemen. Iraqis: Al-Sadr movement receives and trains al-Houthi rebels © al-Sahwa September 5, 2009 (Sahwa Net) - Iraqi parliamentarians have accused Shiite movements of pushing Iraq into political disputes with the Arab states, indicating ...

  • Mujahideen statements from Afghanistan and Iraq

    IntelTrends - Pine River World News occasionally republishes mujahideen statements so that readers have access to full-text information from which excerpts are often quoted by major media. Two statements follow - the first from Afghanistan pertaining to the recent NATO raid in Kunduz. For local co ...

  • 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 ...

    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

  • Washington DC is the place to be for Food and Publ ...

    I have a bit too much to do this week on the legal front to get to the "other Washington," but we have the DC Bureau of Food Safety News covering both conferences. So, hopefully if the internet gods play nice, you should be able to read it at www.foodsafetynews.com soon. United Fresh Produce Associ ...

  • Big Boy Food Group Recalls Ready-To-Eat Meal Kits ...

    Recall Release CLASS I RECALL FSIS-RC-046-2009 HEALTH RISK: HIGH Big Boy Food Group, a Warren, Mich., establishment, is recalling approximately 39,514 pounds of ready-to-eat meal kits that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspec ...

  • Save Money on Health Care by Making Our Food Suppl ...

    Linda Rivera’s excruciating case of food-poisoning ( Washington Post, Sept. 1 ) should shine some light on a crucial reality that is missing from all or most health care reform plans: You can’t fix America’s health care unless you provide Americans with a safe food supply. The mother of six li ...

  • Food Safety and the Law - off to University of Ark ...

    I am off to the Arkansas School of Law later this week to give a series of lectures on Food Safety and how the law can assist in making our food supply safer. I am using a video from Jack-in-the-Box and a recent Raw Milk case to add to why it is "a bad idea to poison your customer." Click on below ...

  • 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 ...

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

    Audi of America president calls Chevy Volt "a car for idiots," slams electric vehicles Of course, Audi will be showing off an EV in Frankfurt. Whoops. Greenlings: What are the promises and pitfalls of car ...

  • 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 ...

  • Youssef Megahed Released as Government Loses Depor ...

    A Florida immigration judge has dismissed the deportation case against Youssef Megahed. The The 23 year old Florida Student was arrested by federal immigration agents in April just three days after a jury acquitted him on federal explosives charges. After hearing a week of evidence put forward by ...

  • Troy Davis and the Meaning of 'Actual Innocence'

    Sitting on death row in Georgia, Troy Davis has won a key victory against his own execution. On Aug. 17, the U.S. Supreme Court instructed a federal court in Georgia to consider, for the first time in a formal court proceeding, significant evidence of Davis’ innocence that surfaced after his conv ...

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

  • Europe's Ban on Old-Style Light Bulbs Begins - NYT ...

    Restrictions on the sale of incandescent bulbs begin going into effect across most of Europe on Tuesday in the continent’s latest effort to get people to save energy and combat global warming. But even advocates concede the change is proving problematic.

  • 10 Ways To Rescue The Climate, According To Scienc ...

    Hot enough for ya? Our crazy fossil-fuel orgy is driving the planet's temperatures through the roof. Good thing science fiction books and movies have come up with 10 can't-fail solutions (well, maybe they'd work) for stopping global warming.

  • Chevron's 'Dirty Tricks Operation' in the Amazon

    If you can't win the argument, change the subject. That seems to be oil giant Chevron's strategy, as it battles a lawsuit for massive contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon.



  • None of These Rainforest Species Are Endangered

    The diversity of mechanical species in the rain forest manages to make all these metal animals beautiful. Too bad that these terrible beasts spend their lives feeding on trees, and destroying everything in their paths.

  • 16th-Century Convent "Reappears" After 40 Years Un ...

    Low water levels at a southern Mexico reservoir have revealed the remains of a 16th-century convent submerged when the lake was created 40 years ago (includes video).

Suzie-Q

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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

  • Alliance: GST increase unfair for low and middle i ...

    The Alliance Party says an increase in GST would hurt low and middle income earners.Alliance Economic Development spokesperson Quentin Findlay says suggestions from the Taxation Review Group to increase GST to subsidize corporate tax cuts would increase the pressure on many New Zealanders."The vast ...

  • Did DoD stop reporting US Detainee Deaths ?

    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 America's Wa ...

  • Is the Commercial Real Estate Market About to Impl ...

    The news is talking about how the real estate market is coming back. But there are several indications that the commercial real estate market is about to meltdown. » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

  • French winemakers fear climate change

    Christine Vernay was on holiday in Missouri when she got the call. It was August 12 2003 and the French vineyard owner was not due to return home for 10 days; the harvest on her Rhône valley estate would begin in late September. But then a friend from the same village, Condrieu, called her husban ...

  • 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

Independent ( London )

  • South Korea demands North Korea explanation for de ...

    South Korea today pressed North Korea to explain a deadly surge in a river flowing across the border from the North that killed three South Koreans and left three others missing.

  • Scuffles over woman's trouser case in Sudan

    Sudanese women's rights activists scuffled with Islamists and riot police today before a court session for Lubna Hussein, who faces 40 lashes for wearing trousers deemed indecent by the authorites.

  • Iran defiant over nuclear 'rights'

    Iran will continue its disputed nuclear work and will never negotiate on its "obvious" rights, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today, in comments that are likely to disappoint Western powers.

  • US troops 'stormed through Afghan hospital'

    A Swedish charity accused American troops today of storming through a hospital in central Afghanistan, breaking down doors and tying up staff in a search for militants. The US military said it was investigating.

  • Australian finds 10ft python in toilet

    An Australian man will be putting his toilet seat down in the future after discovering a python almost twice his size curled up in the bowl.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran rules out talks on its nuclear "rights"

    Summary: TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will continue its disputed nuclear work and will never negotiate on its "obvious" rights, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday, in comments that are likely to disappoint Western powers. source: Reuters read more

  • Chavez backs Iran nuclear strategy

    Summary: Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has given his backing to Iran's nuclear programme, which world powers suspect of having non-peaceful aims. source: AlJazeera read more

  • Brazil: Don't back Iran against the wall

    Summary: Lula Before using sanctions, we should exhaust all the limits of diplomacy," AFP quoted Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as saying on Wednesday. "I believe we should convince them (the Iranians) politically. What we can't do is back them against the wall," Lula added. source: Haber27 read mo ...

  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • NASA & Google Researching Singularity -The Future ...

    Maybe Google's posting of their enigmatic UFO logo this weekend is a not so subtle sign that they know something the rest of us don't. An ET search query, perhaps? Meanwhile down at the Googleplex, it is the best of...

  • Giant Galaxy Surrounding the Most Distant Black Ho ...

    Scientists have spotted a giant galaxy at the edge of the observable universe. Detecting this huge galaxy (the same size as the Milky Way) was a challenge because of the massive quantities of light coming from the black hole, and...

  • Evolution: Path to the Human Heart Revealed

    The heart has always been the most popular organ, be it big, warm, defining the current location of your home or simply pumping blood around your body. Its lopsided lumpy shape might not live up to the pretty valentine's card...

  • Antarctica 207 B.C. - One of the Planet's Most Mas ...

    Two British researchers contend that a volcano violently erupted around 2,000 years ago and blew a large hole through the ice sheet in West Antarctic at around the year 207 B.C., and scientists confirm it was the largest volcanic eruption...

  • Can Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle Can Change Your L ...

    Dr. Dean Ornish shares new research showcased at the recent TED Conference in Monterey that shows how adopting healthy lifestyle habits can affect a person at a genetic level. Watch this fascinating video and change your life...learn how to live...

Natural News

  • Insect repellent DEET is toxic to brain cells

    (NaturalNews) If you insist on using chemical laden insect repellents containing DEET, you may be getting more than you bargained for -- including damage to your central nervous system. In fact, scientists writing in the open access journal BMC Biology don't just say that more studies should be done ...

  • Total Carbon Released Into Atmosphere Exceeds Half ...

    (NaturalNews) More than half a trillion tons of carbon have been emitted into the atmosphere due to human activities since the Industrial Revolution, placing the planet more than halfway to the threshold signifying catastrophic warming. In an analysis published in the journal Nature , climate scient ...

  • Robert Moss and the Healing Power of Dreams, Part ...

    (NaturalNews) Robert Moss is the pioneer of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of shamanism and modern dreamwork. Born in Australia, he survived three near-death experiences in childhood. He is the author of Conscious Dreaming and most recently: The Secret History of Dreaming. He leads popular s ...

  • "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 ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • Deja view

    Dear frothing-at-the-piehole-wingnuts, I see that you are worried about President Barack Hussien Obamullah Lenin X giving a speech to the nation's schoolchildren in which he is expected to urge them to study hard and do their homework murder their parents in their sleep. Where were you the last tim ...

  • Mapping the seven deadly sins

    A must see over at Wired -- A team at Kansas State has compiled data-maps of the incidence per-capita of the seven deadly sins . Florida FTW! crossposted from the Woodshed

  • The Real Function of the Gall Bladder

    Oh, for heaven's sake. Here's our Mr. Harper fretting about the threat to Canada of having an election: The Prime Minister repeated his message that a hasty trip to the polls threatens Canada's economic recovery. “An election does nothing but present a great risk to the country,” he said. Gee ...

  • Jihadis and whores

    FABIUS MAXIMUS has an eponymous web site which is probably one of the best sources of real-world objectivity about world affairs. Some of you already know of ol' Fabe, but if you don't, do go visit. This weekend's post is " Is Iran dangerous, or a paper tiger? ", a reprise with updates, of a 2007 ...

  • When the writ gets dropped...

    We're coming for you. Because at this point, it isn't about differences in ideologies. It isn't about trade agreements or Quebec. It isn't about climate or the North. It isn't about the West. It isn't about the name of a fucking party or the public persona of its leaders and members. No. Because w ...

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

  • Should Redskins' Owner Dan Snyder Sell His Soul To ...

    This is one of the most nauseating news stories I've seen in months. The Washington Redskins football organization is suing fans who are unable to pay for their seasons' tickets even though there are tens of thousands of fans who... Sponsored Topics: Washington Redskins - NFL - sport - Daniel Sn ...

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  • Defending Van Jones from the McCarthyites

    Glenn Beck and the rightwing is hunting scalps-- and their prime target is Van Jones, the "green jobs" White House advisor who was formerly head of the organization Green for All. They are going after Van Jones, attacking him for... Sponsored Topics: Van Jones - Glenn Beck - White House - United ...

  • What Obama Must Demand from Congress on Health Car ...

    Congress returns next week to one of the fiercest and most important debates in recent memory -- whether and to what extent the nation will provide health care to all Americans, and how we will reign in the soaring costs... Sponsored Topics: Congress - Health care - Health - United States - Insu ...

  • Leaving Israel Policy Forum for Media Matters Acti ...

    After 11 years at Israel Policy Forum, I am moving over to the Media Matters Actions Network to serve as Senior Fellow on Foreign Policy -- with special emphasis on Israel, Iran, etc. My move is part of a general... Sponsored Topics: Iran - Foreign Policy - Middle East - Israel Policy Foru ...

TruthOut

  • Art as Resistance

    Combat paper. (Artwork: Jon Turner) read more

  • A Message for Labor Day

    On Labor Day 2009, we honor the tremendous contributions and sacrifices of workers who built this great nation. We must never forget that workers organized, marched, went on strike, and even gave their lives in the struggles that resulted in the 40-hour workweek, safe working conditions, secure ...

  • Unhappy Labor Day

    It's Labor Day and the American worker doesn't have a lot to celebrate. Unemployment stands at 9.7 percent-that's 15 million people out of work, officially, and millions more unofficially. "Nearly one in six workers are now unemployed or underemployed," notes the Economic Policy Instit ...

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

    Why aren't we hearing more about the worst job and wage situation since the Great Depression? The latest employment figures (released Friday) show job losses continuing to grow. According to the payroll survey, job losses are increasing more slowly than in previous months. According to the ...

  • Recession Over? Depends Who You Ask

    September 2009 Issue Unemployment was already nearing 10 percent in March during this Detroit job fair. Now the Fed says it will stay there into next year, yet orthodox economists are saying the worst is over. When the Labor Department announced that a quarter million jobs were lost in July ...

The Heathlander

  • The “British method”

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

  • ‘Israel’s Terror Inside’

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

  • A culture of fear

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

  • Fighting the fash

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

  • Silencing civil society

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

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TruthHugger

  • Texas Progressive Alliance August 31, 2009

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

  • Who Will Carry The Kennedy Torch? Op Ed

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

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 24, 2009

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

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

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

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 17, 2009

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

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Unexplained Mysteries

  • Do you believe in angels ?

    Angels remain a popular belief among both children and adults, the idea of a "guardian angel" watching over us is a comfort and source of strength...

  • Father shares home with 4,600 scorpions

    A man in Thailand has adapted his home with tree branches and stones and shares it with not only his family but also 4,600 scorpions that he breed...

  • Mysteries of Glastonbury Tor

    Glastonbury Tor is a place of legend, intrigue and mystery; a conical hill in the Somerset landscape it has been the subject of many tales ranging...

  • Google logo - Zero Wing anniversary ?

    With a clue on Google's Twitter page reading "All your O are belong to us", a take on a quote from the game "Zero Wing", many now believe the ...

  • We're all mutants, say scientists

    New research has shown that we are all in fact mutants with at least 100 new mutations in the DNA of each of us, a find that may help scientists b...

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 7, 2009

    Irish Commission Recommends Carbon Tax on Gas (Irish Times) Ireland’s Commission on Taxation is recommending a carbon tax of about 8 cents per liter on gas and diesel starting in the government's December budget. Trade War Looms in Solar Space (Reuters) China and the West, long at odds ...

  • September 5-6, 2009

    Van Jones Resigns (AP) Pres. Obama's environmental adviser Van Jones, who became embroiled in a controversy over past statements, has resigned his White House job after what he calls a "vicious smear campaign against me.'' Climate Change Funding Talks Stall at G20 (Reuters) Differences betw ...

  • 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 ...

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

  • Cartoon: The New New World

    What would old-time adventurers have done if they had faced the same fearful climate we face today? Try to get anything new off the ground, and everyone is willing to talk, but no one has the guts to put their money on the line. Instead, you get fed a line about the Internet, social networking, and ...

  • 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 ...

Ten Percent

  • Crisis is Over!

    Because the rich got our money and they are now driving down labour costs, subsidised by government, ie. your money again. Oh it’s almost funny. Mission Accomplished The number of working Americans turning to free government food stamps has surged as their hours and wages erode, in a stark sign th ...

  • 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.

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • BO is the new JFK!! - Redux - and again.

    First Post (UK) has an interesting picture of BO in the oval office. Apparently, Sasha was trying to “sneak up” on her dad as he was working. Are you kidding me? I can imagine the thinking that went into this picture. 1) It’s just so darn cute!! 2) Just like JFK and [...]

  • Larry Johnson on The John Batchelor Show Tonight a ...

    Tune in to John Batchelor’s West Coast show by 11:00 p.m. EDT. In case Larry joins the panel early, start listening at 10:30 p.m. via KFI 640 AM. From John Batchelor’s schedule for tonight’s show: Sunday 1105P (805P Pacific Time): Roundtable, Larry Johnson, No Quarter, Craig Unger, Vanity Fai ...

  • SEC “Botched” Madoff Inquiries - That’s A Co ...

    I came across this story in my daily paper Thursday, and was immediately taken by the title, first of all, but the sheer incompetence demonstrated by the SEC over a number of years, second of all. It is truly staggering. This headline is only part of the story, though SEC Botched Inquiries Into [. ...

  • No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doy ...

    In light of the Labor Day holiday, I will not be hosting my weekly radio show this evening. I hope people are able to enjoy the holiday weekend with family and friends. Rest assured the show will return next Sunday evening September 13th. I have a fabulous guest for next week’s show. Bruce Carton ...

  • Media Whitewash on Van Jones

    Jesus! How frigging dishonest can they be? To portray Van Jones as a “civil rights” activist is like portraying Fidel Castro as a mere cigar afficionado. Here’s the typical Main Stream pablum: President Barack Obama’s adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory ...

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  • Binge Drinking in Adults More Prevalent than Thoug ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The associations between young people and binge drinking or the excessive and frequent intake of alcohol are strong and seemingly omnipresent. Through the efforts of marketing officials at major alcoholic beverage companies, youths are often targeted as the ideal custo ...

  • 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 ...

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Memeorandum

  • China alarmed by US money printing (Ambrose Evans- ...

    Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph : China alarmed by US money printing — The US Federal Reserve's policy of printing money to buy Treasury debt threatens to set off a serious decline of the dollar and compel China to redesign its foreign reserve policy, according to a top member of the Co ...

  • New Fee on Health Insurance Companies Is Proposed ...

    Robert Pear / New York Times : New Fee on Health Insurance Companies Is Proposed to Help Expand Coverage — WASHINGTON — In a last effort to give the Senate a bipartisan health care bill, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee circulated a comprehensive proposal on Sunday to overhaul ...

  • We All Blew It - On Thursday evening, I got worrie ...

    Carl Pope / The Huffington Post : We All Blew It — On Thursday evening, I got worried. Friday I put in a call to ask Van Jones how to help. Saturday I started writing a blog post, which would have appeared this morning. (I've attached it below because it goes into more detail on the hi ...

  • "Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film ...

    Mike Collett-White / Reuters : “Capitalism is evil,” says new Michael Moore film — VENICE (Reuters) - Capitalism is evil. That is the conclusion U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore comes to in his latest movie “Capitalism: A Love Story,” which premieres at the Venice film festiva ...

  • Surge in Homeless Children Strains School District ...

    Erik Eckholm / New York Times : Surge in Homeless Children Strains School Districts — ASHEVILLE, N.C. — In the small trailer her family rented over the summer, 9-year-old Charity Crowell picked out the green and purple outfit she would wear on the first day of school. She vowed to try h ...

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    Monday, August 31, 2009 10:15:30 UTC Monday, August 31, 2009 06:15:30 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

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    Sunday, September 6, 2009 21:49:42 UTC Sunday, September 6, 2009 11:49:42 PM at epicenter Depth : 3.90 km (2.42 mi)

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    Sunday, September 6, 2009 21:13:30 UTC Monday, September 7, 2009 08:13:30 AM at epicenter Depth : 54.80 km (34.05 mi)

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    Sunday, September 6, 2009 09:19:28 UTC Sunday, September 6, 2009 07:19:28 PM at epicenter Depth : 75.50 km (46.91 mi)

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    Monday, August 31, 2009 09:21:26 UTC Monday, August 31, 2009 03:21:26 AM at epicenter Depth : 76.60 km (47.60 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. ...

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  • 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

  • Obama aides leave room for healthcare compromise

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's top aides said on Sunday he still wants a government insurance option in healthcare legislation but they left room for a compromise that could disappoint his liberal backers.

  • Abu Dhabi to buy Chartered; Hynix stake up for gra ...

    SINGAPORE/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi's state-owned ATIC offered to buy Chartered Semiconductor for $1.8 billion, while major shareholders in Hynix began the sale of a $2.8 billion stake, kick-starting consolidation in a chip sector emerging from its worst ever downturn.

  • U.S. leads world in foreign weapons sales: report

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States accounted for more than two-thirds of foreign weapons sales in 2008, a year in which global sales were at a three-year low, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

  • "Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film

    VENICE (Reuters) - Capitalism is evil. That is the conclusion U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore comes to in his latest movie "Capitalism: A Love Story," which premieres at the Venice film festival Sunday.

  • S.Korea complains to North over deadly river surge

    SEOUL, Sept 7 (Reuters) - South Korea complained to North Korea on Monday about a sudden release of water into a river flowing across their border that left six people missing in the South. The incident could cast a chill over ties that have warmed between the rivals in the past month with North Kor ...

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

  • Ex-MI6 spy at center of Lockerbie prisoner release ...

    A British former intelligence official has been identified as having had a major role in the recent release from a Scottish prison of a Libyan intelligence agent convicted for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103.

  • News you may have missed #0098

    Australia prepares massive communications spying overhaul. DHS cybersecurity programs full of holes, says new report. Cyber-Scare: The exaggerated fears over digital warfare.

  • Software startup supplying CIA, FBI, DoD, with ana ...

    CIA and Pentagon insiders are crediting a virtually unknown software startup with having designed the most effective analytical tool to date.

  • News you may have missed #0097

    Polish ex-president denies he was communist spy. Are doctors involved in CIA waterboarding guilty of war crimes? Assessing CIA role in detainee deaths will not be easy.

  • News you may have missed #0096

    Iranian bodyguard detained for espionage. Secret US-Japanese nuke pact still valid, say sources. US ex-attorney general now says he doesn't support CIA probe.

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

  • Obama Names Treasury Official To Spur Manufacturin ...

    Obama names Treasury official to spur manufacturing By Steve Holland | Reuters President Barack Obama plans to announce on Monday that he has named a top Treasury Department official, Ron Bloom, to lead an effort aimed at revitalizing America's hard-hit manufacturing industry. The U.S. manufacturin ...

  • Gordon Brown Faces Labour Motion To Pull Out Troop ...

    Gordon Brown faces Labour motion to pull out troops from Afghanistan Conference activists say war in Afghanistan 'is unwinnable' By Gaby Hinsliff and Mark Townsend | The Observer Gordon Brown faces fresh questions over the war in Afghanistan at this month's Labour party conference, with grassroots ...

  • Iran To Import Venezuelan Petrol

    Iran to import Venezuelan petrol | BBC Venezuela has agreed to export petrol to Iran, in a sign of closer ties between two of America's most vocal adversaries. At the end of a two-day visit to Iran, President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela would supply 20,000 barrels of petrol a day to the country. Iran ...

  • Administration Seeks to Keep Terror Watch-List Dat ...

    Administration Seeks to Keep Terror Watch-List Data Secret By Ellen Nakashima | Washington Post The Obama administration wants to maintain the secrecy of terrorist watch-list information it routinely shares with federal, state and local agencies, a move that rights groups say would make it difficul ...

  • Wall Street Wants To Do To Life Insurance What It ...

    Wall Street wants to do to life insurance what it did to housing By Daniel Tencer | RawStory.com The “securitization” of mortgages — bundling mortgage policies and selling them on to investors — is considered to be one of the major reasons for last year’s financial collapse. Now, Wall St ...

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  • In a Post-Madoff World Investment Advisors Revise ...

    Market Folly submits: A few weeks back, we bought you a guest post entitled, ' The Future of Hedge Funds .' Dwelling somewhat along the same lines of that topic, we have another guest post today for you examining how funds will overcome the sour taste Bernie Madoff and his ponzi scheme has left in ...

  • Baltic Index Weakness Due to Additional Capacity, ...

    Calafia Beach Pundit submits: The Baltic shipping index may have slipped from its highs, but commodity prices show no signs of weakness. That suggests that weakness in the Baltic index is primarily due to additional shipping capacity coming on line, and not to any drop in the deman ...

  • A Glimmer of Good News in the Jobs Data

    Calafia Beach Pundit submits: The headlines on Friday bemoaned the continued loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs and the rise in unemployment to 9.7%. While none of this is good, the pace of job losses continues to slow. Recall that the economy lost 741,000 jobs in January, and the loss i ...

  • Parents Nag Via Text-Messaging

    As school starts again, there's so much more for a parent to nag about. Homework. Bedtime. Lost hours on Facebook and Xbox. The chores that need to be squeezed in. But in the age of the digital childhood, Jacky Longwell, 45, mother of three in McLean, often text-messages what she once uttered as ...

  • Secret 911 Call After Francis/Jenner Brawl

    Hours after Joe Francis got into a violent confrontation with Brody Jenner and his gf Jayde Nicole, cops responded to a 911 call that could help authorities determine -- who's lying and who's truth-telling.The bar fight went down early morning 10 ... Permalink

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Washington Independent

  • Climate Change Skeptics Oust Jones With ‘Gre ...

    Van Jones' rapid downfall is an educational moment for the wing of the conservative movement that has tried, without much success, to paint environmental activists as anti-capitalist radicals.

  • WorldNetDaily Does Victory Lap on Van Jones

    I reported on Friday that the earliest attacks on Van Jones came from WorldNetDaily. Today, the Website is taking full credit for Jones’ resignation. President Barack Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones quit late last night after pressure mounted over his extremist history first exposed in W ...

  • Van Jones Resigns

    Van Jones, President Obama’s green jobs “czar” and best-selling author of “The Green Collar Economy,” announced his resignation late Saturday. “On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me,” Jones, ...

  • 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.

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 [...]

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

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

  • THE HPV VACCINE and our daughters….

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

  • BIG MEDIA RULINGS

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • WHO Admits to Releasing Pandemic Virus into Popula ...

    If you have any doubt about where novel flu viruses originate, here is your answer… By Dr. Joseph Mercola What you may not know, however, is that WHO, together with health officials, regulatory authorities and vaccine manufacturers, have been working since 2007 – long before this new “th ...

  • BBN, Raytheon and a fresh JFK conspiracy theory

    By Paul McNamara Because lots of good stuff goes unnoticed in comment strings … Earlier this week we learned that Raytheon, long one of the nation’s most powerful defense contractors, is acquiring venerable BBN Technologies, a networking pioneer perhaps most famous for its role in designing the ...

  • Former High-Ranking Intelligence Officer: Cheney R ...

    By Washington’s Blog David Steele is a former 20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer, the second-ranking civilian in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence, and former CIA clandestine services case officer. Steele has previously written that “9/11 was at a minimum allowed to happen as a ...

  • Obama Warns not to challenge Official 9 11 Story

    President Barack Obama continues to tell the treasonous tale of al Qaeda being the ones who attacked and killed 2,973 people on September 11, 2001

  • Why Won’t Healthcare Workers Take The Swine ...

    By Rachel Friedman Can vaccinations actually fuel pandemics? According to a study released August 26, 2009 by the British Medical Journal, more than half of Hong Kong’s healthcare workers surveyed said they would refuse the H1N1 shot, which is not yet available, because they are afraid of side eff ...

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- Sep 07, 2009
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In this audio interview Alan discusses in depth how renewable energy companies can position themselves in today's marketplace. He answers the following ...
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Advocacy group hails Villaraigosa's coal promise
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- Sep 06, 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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- Sep 07, 2009
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As utilities work to get more of their electricity from renewable projects, transmission is becoming a major barrier. The grid is aging and, in in the US, ...
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Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm
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- Sep 06, 2009
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In tones ranging from poetic to professional to preachy, he tells the 30-year story of the restoration in Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of ...
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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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Ecology body orders suspension of bioethanol plant's ECC
Business Mirror
- Sep 06, 2009
- Sep 06, 2009
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY—The Committee on Ecology late last week ordered the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural ...
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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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Broken water main floods Studio City neighborhood
Los Angeles Times
- Sep 06, 2009
- 10 hours ago
Water reaches up to 3 feet on some streets. Some cars, businesses and homes are damaged. By Corina Knoll and Ari B. Bloomekatz Robert Lee was standing in ...
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South Korea protests North's deadly water surge
Reuters
- Sep 07, 2009
- 4 hours ago
By Jack Kim SEOUL, Sept 7 (Reuters) - South Korea protested to North Korea on Monday about a sudden release of water into a river flowing across their ...
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Wyo. community blames fracking for water woes
The Associated Press
- Sep 06, 2009
- 17 hours ago
A glass of water drawn from John Fenton's underground well outside his rural log home built against a rocky ridge looks and tastes as clear and refreshing ...
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Mexico water shortage becomes crisis amid drought
Los Angeles Times
- Sep 06, 2009
- 12 hours ago
Crops are wilting in the countryside, and the capital's water shortage has turned dire as Mexico grapples with its worst drought in more than half a century ...
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