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IPS - Inter Press Services

• ARGENTINA: Through the Lens of Young Slum Dweller ...
  
  
  BUENOS AIRES, Oct 10 (IPS) - Two dozen young slum dwellers in Buenos Aires began filming a documentary about themselves this month, in an attempt to break down the negative stereotypes with which they are portrayed in the media.
  
  
  
• RIGHTS: Police Force HIV Tests for Sex Workers
  
  
  LILONGWE, Oct 10 (IPS) - It was, Malawian police say, a routine sweep for criminals at one of the country’s busiest border posts. They were looking for criminals.
  
  
  
• EAST TIMOR: Slow Progress for Corruption Watchdog ...
  
  
  DILI, Oct 10 (IPS) - A lack of political will to tackle corruption in East Timor is holding the country back, said Sebastiao Ximenes, East Timor’s Ombudsman for Human Rights and Justice.
  
  
  
• ENERGY: Crisis Has Hurt Investment in Renewables
  
  
  LEÓN, Mexico, Oct 10 (IPS) - In Latin America, Brazil is the leader in the development of renewable energies, while nations like Mexico, Peru, Chile and Argentina are taking slow steps to change their energy mix.
  
  
  
• COLOMBIA: US Should Opens Its Files on Palace of ...
  
  
  BOGOTA, Oct 9 (IPS) - A declassified U.S. State Department cable dated January 1999 blames Colombian soldiers for the killings of civilians rescued by the military operation to retake the Palace of Justice from guerrillas who had seized the building in November 1985.
  
  
  

Scoop - NZ

• So we steal the future from our kids and they get ...
  
  
  Ever wondered why we dont make the changes that we know we have to on climate change . Here are some of the answers  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  
  
  
• Norway adopts 40% target and leaves NZ light years ...
  
  
  Today I witnessed what could prove to be an historic moment. At the negotiations in Bangkok this afternoon, Norway announced that it's the first country outside of the European Union to adopt a target of 40% below 1990 levels by 2020. The announcement received a loud and sustained applause from de ...
  
  
  
• More than 16% young Aussies unemployed
  
  
  A new report has found a large jump in the number of young Australians who are unemployed or not studying.The annual How Young People are Faring report looks at education and employment for people aged 15 to 24 years of age.It found that more than 16 per cent of the nation's teenagers are not workin ...
  
  
  
• A letter to the Minister of Conservation
  
  
  Mining in the national conservation estate . Please explain ?  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  
  
  
• China calls time on $US hegemony
  
  
  Beijing does not need to raise money abroad since it has $2 trillion (£1.26 trillion) in reserves. The sole purpose is to prepare the way for the emergence of the yuan as a full-fledged global currency."It's the tolling of the bell," said Michael Power from Investec Asset Management. "We are only ...
  
  
  

Independent ( London )

• Around 70 feared dead in Nigeria tanker crash
  
  
  As many as 70 people were feared dead after a fuel tanker and six commuter buses crashed in the southern Nigerian state of Anambra last night, Nigerian newspapers said yesterday.
  
  
  
• Polish president signs EU treaty
  
  
  Polish President Lech Kaczynski signed the European Union's reform treaty into law today, leaving the Czech Republic as the only country still to ratify the document.
  
  
  
• Gunmen attack Pakistani army HQ
  
  
  Suspected militants dressed in army uniforms attacked Pakistan's army headquarters on today, killing four guards and triggering a battle in which four gunmen were killed, military officials said.
  
  
  
• Eleven die as UN surveillance plane crashes
  
  
  Crews battling rough, remote terrain hope to remove the bodies of 11 military personnel today, a day after their UN surveillance plane slammed into a mountain in Haiti, killing everyone on board.
  
  
  
• Death sentence for man in brawl that prompted ethn ...
  
  
  China's official news agency said a man was given the death sentence for his role in a factory brawl linked to deadly riots in China's western Xinjiang region.
  
  
  

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Israel's nukes and Iran
  
  
  Summary: Dimona nuclear plant Intelligence experts Ray McGovern and Greg Thielmann respond to a question from the floor on the significance of Israel's nuclear weapons arsenal in the discussion of Iran. McGovern notes that "an unpardonable mistake in US politics is to mention the Israeli arsenal ...
  
  
  
• Obama Should Sanctify IAEA Safeguarded Facilities
  
  
  Summary: Even if you’ve been a faithful reader of these columns, you were still probably unprepared for the decision by the Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize to Barack Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." source: ...
  
  
  
• When 5+1 = 1+1
  
  
  Summary: With the "Iran Six" nations agreeing at their meeting in Geneva last week to hold further talks on the Iran nuclear standoff, the chances of a breakthrough have increased considerably. source: Asia Times read more
  
  
  
• Ahmadinejad calls Geneva talks a 'step forward'
  
  
  Summary: TEHRAN (AFP) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in his first comment on last week's talks in Geneva between Iran and six major powers, said on Wednesday that they were a "step forward". source: AFP read more
  
  
  
• Is McChrystal dovish on Iran?
  
  
  Summary: There's no love lost between Iran and the Taliban, in part because the Taliban murdered ten Iranian diplomats in Mazari Sharif back in 1998. But Iran does retain some influence there -- as McChystal points out --and they would undoubtedly be looking for some way to pay us back if we wer ...
  
  
  

The Daily Galaxy

• What's Left in the Cosmic Fuel Tank? Hundred Thous ...
  
  
  Everyone knows that everything ends, with the possible exception of Madonna's career, but only scientists can take omniversal extinction and put it into equation. Some scientists have summed up everything that ever was, is, or will be, and put a...
  
  
  
• NASA Bombing the Moon Today
  
  
  We're going back to the moon today- to blow it up! NASA's LCROSS craft at this very moment is on its way for the highly scientific mission of "smashing into the moon's South Pole in an effort to find water....
  
  
  
• Apophis Nixes Earth's One-Million-Year Asteroid-Im ...
  
  
  “The threat of the Earth being hit by an asteroid is increasingly being accepted as the single greatest natural disaster hazard faced by humanity.” Nick Bailey of the University of Southampton's School of Engineering Sciences team Using updated information, NASA...
  
  
  
• Darwin Trumped: Robots Evolving at Warp Speed - A ...
  
  
  “I see a strong parallel between the evolution of robot intelligence and the biological intelligence that preceded it. The largest nervous systems doubled in size about every fifteen million years since the Cambrian explosion 550 million years ago. Robot controllers...
  
  
  
• The Dangers of Immortality ("There are Reasons Evo ...
  
  
  Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szotack: you don't know those names because they aren't on American Idol, they just did something silly like discover the key to immortality and an essential ingredient in curing cancer. But don't worry, the...
  
  
  

Natural News

• CSPI "top 10 risky foods" list gets it wrong: We n ...
  
  
  (NaturalNews) This week, the CSPI released a "risky foods" list aiming to reveal the top ten riskiest foods responsible for most food-borne illnesses. Number one on the list is "leafy greens." Does this mean people should stop eating leafy greens? Of course not: The list itself is flawed from the ve ...
  
  
  
• Spirulina helps treat anemia
  
  
  (NaturalNews) Many people don't know this, but spirulina is an outstanding dietary aid to help prevent (or reverse) anemia. What follows is a compilation of expert quotations on precisely this topic, cited from some of the most authoritative books and authors in the world. Feel free to cite this inf ...
  
  
  
• Bogus Science: Medical "Fact" About Aging Brains ...
  
  
  (NaturalNews) As people age, the chance of dementia rises. The most dreaded form of this memory robbing condition is Alzheimer's disease (AD). Already the seventh-leading cause of death in the U.S., the incidence of Alzheimer's is expected to soar as the huge Baby Boomer generation ages. According t ...
  
  
  
• Urgent lawsuit filed against FDA to halt swine flu ...
  
  
  (NaturalNews) Health freedom attorney Jim Turner is filing a lawsuit in Washington D.C. mid-day Friday in an urgent effort to halt the distribution of the swine flu vaccine in America. On behalf of plaintiffs Dr. Gary Null and other licensed health care workers of New York State, the lawsuit charges ...
  
  
  
• Vitamin D prevents breast cancer
  
  
  (NaturalNews) You've heard the good news about vitamin D for years: It's a "miracle" medicine that reduces cancer rates by 77% according to previous research (http://www.naturalnews.com/021892_cancer_Vitamin_D_cancer_industry.html). It also happens to be a powerful anti-cancer medicine that can both ...

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• Remembering Robert . . . .
  
  
  The Braidwood Inquiry into the death of Robert Dziekanski resumes tomorrow. Today's "24 Hours-Vancouver " had an interview with Robert's mother, Zofia Cisowski. Excerpts are below: Who was Robert Dziekanski? Polish immigrant killed at YVR remembered as a 'fantastic person' By MATT KIELTYKA | Sep ...
  
  
  
• bishop Kiddie Porn . . . .
  
  
  Another of pope bennie's jerks makes the news. CBC reports today: Former N.S. bishop charged with possession of child porn Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - CBC A former Roman Catholic bishop from Nova Scotia is facing child pornography charges. Raymond Lahey, the former bishop of the dioce se of A ...
  
  
  
• The SPP is dead; long live the SPP
  
  
  Just three months shy of 2010 - the date by which the Canadian Council of Chief Executives originally projected the goals of the Security and Prosperity Partnership would be completed - yet some people have been mourning or celebrating for years already. The SPP is dead - a short history : Oct. 10 ...
  
  
  
• Maybe Winter is useful, after all
  
  
  THE NATIONAL is an interesting site out of Abu Dhabi, with a report by Tom Scocca about the "Bites of passage", the progressive world-wide spread of the Asian tiger mosquito. In the past few decades, the Asian tiger mosquito has travelled from its natural home in Southeast Asia to the ends of the ea ...
  
  
  
• Moyers Takes on dickhead armey . . . .
  
  
  A Bill Moyers essay last week on the Washington, DC "wrong"-wing protest, and dick armey's involvement in it. Moyers takes armey to task at 3 minutes into the video, with particular emphasis on armey's own publicly-funded health care. What is it about repugs named "dick"; armey, cheney, ni ...
  
  
  

Media Matters for America

• Smears of "sick and immoral" "pervert" Jennings: ...
  
  
  In recent weeks, the right-wing media have embarked on a witch hunt against Department of Education official Kevin Jennings, often advancing the repeatedly debunked falsehood that Jennings failed to report or even encouraged a 15-year-old student's relationship with an adult or the baseless ...
  
  
  
• NY Post uses false premise to dispute C ...
  
  
  A New York Post editorial claimed that the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) determination that the current version of Sen. Max Baucus' health care plan would reduce federal deficits is deceptive because the bill begins creating tax revenues three years before it begins increasing spending, ...
  
  
  
• Yet another falsehood-based smear of Jennings on ...
  
  
  Continuing the smear campaign against Education Department official Kevin Jennings, Sean Hannity claimed that Jennings is in favor of "indoctrinat[ing]" schoolchildren about homosexuality, and radio talk show host Sandy Rios said of Jennings, "[W]e're talking about raping the innocence of our c ...
  
  
  
• Media figures call on Obama to turn down the Nobel ...
  
  
  Following the news that President Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, numerous media figures have called for him to "turn it down" or "give it back," often asserting that he has not accomplished enough to deserve the prize. On his radio show, Glenn Beck said Obama "has to turn it dow ...
  
  
  
• Still rooting against America: Right-wing media u ...
  
  
  Numerous conservative media figures have seized on the Nobel Committee's decision to award President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize as an excuse to attack Obama or his policies. Media conservatives previously rooted against Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games, similarly using the bid as ...
  
  
  

Global Research.ca

• US, Georgia to hold security talks
  
  
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• Collapse of the Greenback? Will the Dollar get an ...
  
  
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• Obama’s Test: Democracy or Chaos in Latin Americ ...
  
  
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• Georgia to enter NATO?
  
  
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• Greater Albania: Threat of A New US-NATO sponsored ...
  
  
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TPM Cafe

• Obama's 'Unclenched Fist' Won the Prize
  
  
  Below follows the lead from a piece I just wrote for CNN on Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. An interesting tidbit that I learned from a TWN reader -- though I'm not sure it's accurate -- is that... Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - CNN - United States - Nobel Peace Prize - President O ...
  
  
  
• Nobel Prize Honors America, Not Just Our President ...
  
  
  Awarding the Nobel peace prize to President Obama after only nine months in office is less a tribute to him than a tribute to the United States. That is because the President's indisputable accomplishment in his short time in office... Sponsored Topics: United States - Nobel Peace Prize - Barack ...
  
  
  
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• Leaked Ahmadinejad Diary Proves Iran Prez Is Jewis ...
  
  
  A controversy has erupted recently about whether Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is actually a Jew. Pundits and professors alike are divided over whether his original last name, which his family changed when he was 4, is exclusively Jewish. I attended Camp... Sponsored Topics: Recreation - ...
  
  
  
• Why Obama Should Not Have Received the Peace Prize ...
  
  
  President Obama's only real diplomatic accomplishment so far has been to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy from unilateral bullying to multilateral listening and cooperating. That's important, to be sure, but not nearly enough. The Prize is... Sponsored Topics: Foreign pol ...
  
  
  

TruthOut

• Civilian Contractor Toll in Iraq and Afghanistan I ...
  
  
      As the war in Afghanistan entered its ninth year, the Labor Department recently released new figures for the number of civilian contract workers who have died in war zones since 9/11. Although acknowledged as incomplete, the figures show that at least 1,688 civilians have died and more than 37,0 ...
  
  
  
• Health Insurers Threaten Rate Hikes
  
  
       Though looking forward to millions of new customers who would be compelled by the U.S. government to buy health insurance, the insurance industry is threatening to raise premiums across the board if more of its demands are not met.     Industry representatives put Congress and the Obama admini ...
  
  
  
• Gunmen Assault Pakistan Army Headquarters, at Leas ...
  
  
      Rawalpindi, Pakistan - Gunmen disguised as soldiers staged a bold attack on Pakistan's army headquarters Saturday morning, sparking a shootout that left at least six soldiers and four militants dead, Pakistani authorities said.     The assault inside this garrison city, a short drive from the c ...
  
  
  
• World Leaders, Nobel Laureates Offer Obama Praise, ...
  
  
      Washington - Here are some reactions to President Barack Obama's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize:     "I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations ... To be honest, I do n ...
  
  
  
• A New Role For the IMF?
  
  
      Rescued from a state of near-irrelevance by the world recession and an infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars (mostly from the U.S., Europe, and Japan), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is now thinking of expanding its role into previously uncharted territory. In Istanbul for the fall ...
  
  
  

Planetsave

• Algae blooms in Lake Erie bring back bad memories
  
  
  Lyngbya wollei, south shore Maumee Bay in Ohio, September 23, 2009. Lake Erie, declared dead by the news media in the 1960s because of widespread, repulsive algae blooms, is once again marred, this time by both old and new causes. Some scientists and lake advocates worry that the unsightly algae i ...
  
  
  
• Dog Death Caps Summer of Blue-Green Algae in MN
  
  
  Blue-green algae blooms on Minnesota lakes are linked to a dog death and illnesses, and apparently caused by runoff pollution. The death of a dog after it frolicked in a Minnesota lake plagued with blue-green algae was a sad coda for a late summer in the state. Although no necropsy was done, a spo ...
  
  
  
• Yellowstone Grizzlies Back on Endangered Species L ...
  
  
  In 2007 federal protections were dropped for the protection of Yellowstone grizzlies. Ever since then, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition have been fighting to give protection back to the bears. They argued that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) failed to address the loss of essential food s ...
  
  
  
• Double Whammy of Pollution for Mississippi River i ...
  
  
  A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee samples river water for endocrine disrupting pollutants. Study results publicized this week suggest Twin Cities water resources and the Mississippi River downstream from the Cities are suffering from pollution by road salt and endocrine disrupting chemical ...
  
  
  
• 14 Deer Die in One Night at Zoo under Mysterious C ...
  
  
  According to reports , 13 cheetal and one swamp deer died Friday evening under “mysterious circumstances” at the Kanpur Zoo.  Viscera samples and stomach content have been sent to the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI). Results are expected sometime within the next two weeks.  The ...
  
  
  

Water Quality - WordPress

• Various & Sundry for the Weekend
  
  
  by jhwygirl Please consider this an open thread 7 Montana businesses were amongst 140 that went to W
  
  
  
• Hygienic effects and gas production of plastic bio ...
  
  
  Vo Thi Yen-Phi, Joachim Clemens, Andrea Rechenburg, Björn Vinneras, Christina Lenßen and Thomas Kist
  
  
  
• Water safety plans: assuring drinking water qualit ...
  
  
  The Water Research Commission (WRC) has completed yet another study that aims to meet the water qual
  
  
  
• Safe Drinking Water Act : Selected Regulatory and ...
  
  
  Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/RL34201/ [Abstract] Russian oil and natur
  
  
  
• Shower heads can make you ill
  
  
  New research suggests that many shower heads are teeming with Mycobacterium avium, a bacteria that c
  
  
  

Public Citizen in Texas

• Yes, We Can Quit Coal
  
  
  I was outraged when I heard Jim Rower’s response to Lesley Stahl’s question on 60 Minutes on Sunday, the 4th: “We shouldn’t get rid of coal,” said the power industry lobbyist. People like him don’t quite understand the risk caused by waste that results from burning coal, or they might ju ...
  
  
  
• Austin Students Rise Up Against Coal
  
  
  Today students from across the city of Austin came together in support of Austin moving forward in the direction of clean, renewable energy. University Democrats from the University of Texas, Campus Democrats from St. Edward’s University, the ReEnergize Texas Coalition and student Sierra Club memb ...
  
  
  
• Green-up your life! Go Organic.
  
  
  By Kirsten Bokenkamp Do you ever find yourself in the grocery store stuck in a moment of indecision?  Should you go with the $2 conventionally grown – flawless enough to win a beauty contest – cantaloupe, or the $4 smaller, uglier, but organic one; a regular tube of toothpaste for $3.50 or the ...
  
  
  
• Public Citizen Salutes Roger Duncan on His Retirem ...
  
  
  Statement from Tom “Smitty” Smith, Director, Public Citizen’s Texas Office Roger Duncan announced his retirement today. Although it is sad to see a dedicated public servant move on, Public Citizen congratulates him on a fine career as general manager of Austin Energy, a municipal power compa ...
  
  
  
• A Successful ‘Roll Beyond Coal’ Tour, Now What ...
  
  
  Yesterday marked the end of a State-Wide “Roll Beyond Coal” press tour of Texas coal plants. This tour has seen representatives from Public Citizen of Texas and Sierra Club travel across the state visiting communities which would be impacted by proposed coal plants and meeting with local organ ...
  
  
  

Press TV

• In Yemen, Houthi leader seeks dialogue
  
  
  The leader of Yemeni fighters in the north, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, says he is ready to engage with opposition leaders to put an end to 'corruption and injustice' in the country.
  
  
  
• British Museum cancels artifact loan to Iran
  
  
  The British Museum is refusing to loan the Achaemenid Cyrus cylinder to Iran, citing the country's post-election political state, a report says.
  
  
  
• Hezbollah, Druze leaders urge unity government
  
  
  In a rare meeting, Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has held talks with Druze leader Walid Jumblatt over the formation of a national unity government in Lebanon.
  
  
  
• Poor road condition claims lives in Nigeria
  
  
  A petroleum tanker truck has exploded in southeastern Nigeria, killing at least 14 people and injuring five others, an official says.
  
  
  
• Skin cancer gene 'inherited' in families
  
  
  While ultraviolet exposure and the environmental effect had long been linked to skin cancer, recent studies suggest the condition runs in families.
  
  
  

Axis of Logic

• The Nobel Peace Prize Goes To. . .
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Chesapeake’s “Island Girl” Plans “Love the ...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• How Israel Was Disarmed
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• 12 Year Old Severn Suzuki speaking at UN Earth Sum ...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

They Gave Us a Republic

• The USNS Medgar Evars
  
  
  Take that, all you racist closet cases. The Navy announced today the newest Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo/ammunition ship (T-AKE) would be named USNS Medgar Evers.  The announcement was made by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus during a Jackson State University speaking engagement in Mississippi. Co ...
  
  
  
• Jack Bauer Not Surviving Contact With Reality
  
  
  A long delayed report, a fine piece of investigative journalism and a recent scientific study have combined to seriously erode the credibility of arguments popularized by "24."  Its influence will long outlast the series, though. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears . No Ass ...
  
  
  
• Health Care Reform in the Meantime: Medicare for T ...
  
  
  While the blogosphere is busy covering the full spectrum of opinion on the "opt-out" public option trial balloon, from DINO apologists insisting it's the only way to get to 60 in the Senate to Firedoglake going on the warpath against it, Digby reminds us of a more pressing issue: What happens to peo ...
  
  
  
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  
  
  Quote of the Day "Certainly from our standpoint, this gives us a sense of momentum -- when the United States has accolades tossed its way, rather than shoes. " A spokesman for the State Department, commenting on President Obama receiving the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize If porn queens were shrinking viole ...
  
  
  
• Penrose On Politics: Limbaugh and the Rams
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Care 2

• Top 10 green U.S. cities
  
  
  Although the EPA has not established official criteria for ranking the greenness of a city, there are several key areas to measure for effectiveness in carbon footprint reduction. These include air and water quality, efficient recycling and management Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle  |    ...
  
  
  
• New cat litter is first to use organic soybean mea ...
  
  
  If you’ve gone green or are in the process of doing so to help save the earth and reduce the number of chemicals that make their way into your household, here’s a new organic cat litter you might want to try out. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
  
  
• End Aerial Gunning of Montana-Idaho Wolves ! TAKE ...
  
  
  This week in Montana, aerial sharpshooters with the U.S. Department of Agriculture gunned down the last four wolves of the eight-member Sage Creek Pack, first targeted this summer for preying on a sheep on the secretive USDA Sheep Experiment Station Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  
  
  
• Make Animal Torture Videos Illegal with a few exce ...
  
  
  My apologies for the photo-as many are against banning animal torture videos under Freedom of speech, I feel it is important to show just a tiny fraction of what they seek to protect-a terrible perversion for those who take delight, and even Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  
  
  
• WORLD POLITICAL SATIRE----Socialites Without Borde ...
  
  
  In an effort to provide relief to a people devastated by civil war, genocide, and poverty, members of the humanitarian aid group Socialites Without Borders spent several hours this week teaching destitute Rwandans how to mingle. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
  
  

GreenBiz

• National Grid Begins Sending Energy Report Cards t ...
  
  
  Utility company National Grid began sending energy report cards to 50,000 of its Boston area customers this week, hoping their ability to compare consumption with their peers will drive down energy use.
  
  
  
• Kohler, Lowe's Take Top EPA WaterSense Honors
  
  
  The two companies were awarded the Manufacturer and Retailer of the Year awards for their efforts in spreading water efficiency; Kohler has now taken home the top award for both years of the award's existence.
  
  
  
• Lipton: Now That's Green Tea!
  
  
  Smart companies that pursue zero waste are also taking us closer to an industrial system inspired by nature, where there's no such thing as garbage. Lipton's employees and management have developed just such a system in Suffolk, Va.
  
  
  
• Executive Order Firmly Commits Federal Agencies to ...
  
  
  Federal agencies must set 2020 greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals within 90 days and devise a string of action plans to size up and soften their environmental impacts, President Barack Obama ordered this week.
  
  
  
• Abbott Shifts to Green Power From Coal and Oil
  
  
  Fuel switching and a shift to renewable energy allowed health care company Abbott to cut its coal and oil consumption by 15 percent last year across its global operations, relative to 2006 levels.  When normalized against sales, which have grown since 2006, the decline in the company’s coal and ...
  
  
  

Reuters Global

• Afghanistan blames Pakistan for embassy bombing; I ...
  
  
  A growing Taliban insurgency and rising violence in Pakistan make for one of the most volatile regional mixes in the history of relations between India and Pakistan. And that makes it hard to predict the fall-out of the bombing of India's embassy in Kabul.
  
  
  
• Will Nobel Prize also take Obama to Copenhagen cli ...
  
  
  Will the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama (due to be handed over in Oslo on Dec. 10) put pressure on him to visit U.N. talks on a new climate treaty (Dec 7-18)?
  
  
  
• Does Obama deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?
  
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his calls to reduce the world's stockpiles of nuclear weapons and work towards restarting the stalled Middle East peace process. Is he a worthy winner?
  
  
  
• Indian engagement in Afghanistan, a blessing or a ...
  
  
  The attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul wil revive questions around India's engagement in Afghanistan and Pakistani concerns over it.
  
  
  
• Past and present: a correspondent in Iraq
  
  
  This month we reported that the number of civilians dying violent deaths in Iraq had hit a fresh low since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion -- about 125 for September. Sounds like a lot, but for a country that only two years ago was seeing dozens of bodies pile up in the streets each day from tit-for-tat ...

  Ezra Klein

  
  
  
• Tab Dump
  
  
  1) France's politics are really weird. 2) It's really hard to tell whether Stephen Colbert is parodying Glenn Beck or Glenn Beck is parodying Stephen Colbert. 3) The American Prospect is a great institution, and I hope it thrives. 4) The Obamas are stocking the White House with some cool art. 5) ...
  
  
  
• Obama's Nobel Prize
  
  
  I had a good time making fun of Barack Obama's Nobel prize this morning. It is undeserved. It is a bit ridiculous. But it's a laugh in the way that finding a $900 antique chair in the attic is a laugh, or getting paid $120,000 to be a celebrity dog walker is a laugh. It's an absurdity worth celebrat ...
  
  
  
• Humility in Afghanistan
  
  
  Joe Klein 's got a good column on Afghanistan this week that begins with an anecdote from a different part of Gen. McChrystal's now-famous speech: A few weeks ago, a well-known U.S. military expert gave a wise speech about the near impossibility of making a counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy work in ...
  
  
  
• I Heart the Post Office
  
  
  I had to mail a package today. I was late to do it, and busy, and there's a Fed-Ex/Kinkos storefront steps from my office. Compared to the post office, mailing my package was at least twice as expensive. But the real fun came while figuring out which speed to mail it at. I asked the guy at the fro ...
  
  
  
• What Good Are States?
  
  
  Reihan Salam wants "a far broader rethinking of state and federal responsibilities.” Matt Yglesias gives him one: [I]t’s difficult to think of what kind of issues are actually well-suited to be dealt with at a state level. It’s easy to think of kinds of issues that Arlington County, Virginia, ...
  
  
  

Booman Tribune

• Understanding the Prize
  
  
  Probably no later than when it became obvious that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, but definitely by the time that we saw the pictures from Abu Ghraib prison, I got the sense that if we were attacked again like we were on 9/11 the world would shrug and say, "Well, what the ...
  
  
  
• Frivolous Friday Open Thread
  
  
  I'm off to spend some time with one of my brothers and my parental units. I am putting the donation button up because it's only through your support that I am able to keep this blog running. I hope that I have been producing some valuable analysis throughout this year, even if you don't necessaril ...
  
  
  
• What If...
  
  
  ...the Scandinavians were conservatives? How might the Nobel Prizes be awarded differently? I think they might look something like this: Physics- Rep. Joe Barton of Texas for raising skepticism about the theory of plate tectonics. Chemistry- Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma for reminding us tha ...
  
  
  
• France Saves Earth from Al Qaeda Plot!
  
  
  Okay, that title is a little hyped. But I thought I'd give the Glenn Beck fan boys something else to lose their sanity over besides Obama winning the Nobel peace Prize. And French officials did arrest a man with a connection to Al Queda who worked at the CERN Super Collider (which some have anxio ...
  
  
  
• Rangel's Chair Should Be Suspended
  
  
  As I have said before, I like Charlie Rangel. He served his country in the Korean War and he has represented the people of Harlem ably for three decades. He's charming. He's witty. He had a great sense of humor. He's on the right side of the vast majority of the issues facing this country. I e ...
  
  
  

European Tribune

• Saturday Open Thread
  
  
  Saturday talk...
  
  
  
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 10 ...
  
  
   A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1901 – Alberto Giacometti,...
  
  
  
• Friday Open Thread
  
  
  What did you do to deserve a Nobel?...
  
  
  
• The waking of the Seven Dwarfs
  
  
  In the selection of the future President of the European Council, the BeNeLux heads of...
  
  
  
• They never give up - and neither should we
  
  
  The Economist has lent its cover this week to what can only be labelled a...
  
  
  

Futurismic

• Virtual economies, virtual reputations and virtual ...
  
  
  Once the hype over Second Life died out, virtual worlds kinda disappeared from the high-profile headlines. But there’s still plenty of stuff going on in the metaverse, not least its use as a test-bed for theories to apply in reality. [image by Ramona.Forcella] Economics is a popular choice; we’v ...
  
  
  
• How dangerous could a hacked robot really be?
  
  
  That’s the question SlashDot posed as they relinked to a research study at Washington University’s Computer Science & Engineering department entitled “A Spotlight on Security and Privacy Risks with Future Household Robots: Attacks and Lessons”, which reports on the potential for currently av ...
  
  
  
• Send Uncle Warren money for a death ray… or mayb ...
  
  
  So, d’you remember us mentioning the TubeSat company back in summer? Y’know, the outfit from whom you can buy a one-shot tubular satellite from for only US$8,000 - the people at H+ Magazine gave them a good grilling last month, too. Well, Warren Ellis certainly noticed, and he’s now in this mo ...
  
  
  
• Happiness is an amorphous beige robotic caterpilla ...
  
  
  Part of the contract for the flat I rent states that I’m not allowed to keep pets, and there are plenty of other folk in the same situation. Plus pets are expensive – food, vet bills and so on – and demanding of your time. How might one get all the psychological benefits of pet [...] Project W ...
  
  
  
• Tombstone2.0: the Grief Olympics move online
  
  
  The Guardian has an interesting article about the recent rise of memorial websites and online tributes to the dead – a phenomenon which, until now, I was largely unaware of. Perhaps because it’s a fairly new thing… [image by kevindooley] The blossoming of memorial websites is a relatively new ...
  
  
  

Therapy News

• Journal Kicks Off Series on Mental Health in Disad ...
  
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The academic journal PloS Medicine is set to launch the first of six issues in a series that will explore the needs of those with mental health concerns, as well as those with careers in the mental health disciplines, in areas with little or no relevant resources. The ...
  
  
  
• The Bad Side of Buying Green?
  
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Environmentally-friendly products are often associated with more positive feelings and experiences, and many studies have been developed to investigate the effects that exposure to green products can have on feelings of altruism and compassion. At the University of To ...
  
  
  
• Emotional Abuse: What it is and Why it is so Impor ...
  
  
  By Roni Weisberg-Ross L.M.F.T., Abuse Topic Expert Contributor Sticks and stones may break my bones but … bullying and name-calling can emotionally scar me forever. Not the original ending to the classic verse, but probably the more accurate one. It seems that broken bones will heal far more qui ...
  
  
  
• Residual Effects of Childhood Abuse in Female Adul ...
  
  
  By Joyce A. Thompson, MS, LMFT, Abuse Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Joyce and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Many survivors have heard the terribly painful comments from others who just did not ‘get it’, telling them that their abuse was in the past and to basically ‘get o ...
  
  
  
• What Every Client of Hypnotherapy Needs to Know
  
  
  By Holly Holmes-Meredith, D. Min., MFT, Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Hypnotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Holly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Hypnotherapy is effective, short term, and very result oriented. When you choose your practitioner, make sure he o ...
  
  
  

Mountaintop Removal

• Seniors continue mountaintop removal mining march ...
  
  
  MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Eleven senior citizens protesting mountaintop removal mining in southern West Virginia are continuing a 25-mile trek from Charleston to a mine owned by Virginia-based Massey Energy.
  
  
  
• Seniors continue mountaintop removal mining march ...
  
  
  Associated Press - October 9, 2009 1:55 PM ET MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Eleven senior citizens protesting mountaintop removal mining in southern West Virginia are continuing a 25-mile trek from...
  
  
  
• Seniors continue mountaintop removal mining march ...
  
  
  MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Eleven senior citizens protesting mountaintop removal mining in southern West Virginia are continuing a 25-mile trek from Charleston to a mine owned by Virginia-based Massey Energy.The protesters began the five-day march Thursday.T...
  
  
  
• Seniors march 25 miles to fight mountaintop remova ...
  
  
  CHARLESTON — Eight environmental activists between 50 and 83 years old began the first leg of a five-day, 25-mile march Thursday to protest mountaintop removal mining practices they believe are destroying communities and lives across southern West Virginia.
  
  
  
• Rahall, Jay join call for Massey to fund new schoo ...
  
  
  Read more in Coal Tattoo CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- As a group of citizens ranging in age from 50 to 83 began a march against mountaintop removal Thursday, two more West Virginia political le...
  
  
  

Memeorandum

• Restaurant Sign Attacking Obama Sparks Race Debate ...
  
  
  Michelle Marsh / CBSAtlanta.com : Restaurant Sign Attacking Obama Sparks Race Debate   —  Restaurant Owner Opposes Obama Healthcare Plan  —  TEMPLE, Ga. — When you walk into the Georgia Peach Oyster Bar in Paulding County, you feel like you've walked into a different era.  —  Behind ...
  
  
  
• What I Heard in Honduras (Jim Demint/Wall Street J ...
  
  
  Jim Demint / Wall Street Journal : What I Heard in Honduras   —  Our ambassador is the only person I met there who thinks there was a ‘coup.’ Let's release the State Department legal analysis.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Tegucigalpa  —  In the last three months, much has be ...
  
  
  
• Obama's Nobel remarks: four very skillful paragrap ...
  
  
  James Fallows : Obama's Nobel remarks: four very skillful paragraphs   —  Six months ago I mentioned that it would be hard to improve on Barack Obama's impromptu press conference answer as to whether he believed in such a thing as “American exceptionalism.”  I think the same is true of his ...
  
  
  
• DNC official: GOP siding with terrorists (Ben Smit ...
  
  
  Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog : DNC official: GOP siding with terrorists   —  A top Democratic National Committee official reacted furiously to a statement from Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele mocking — and describing as “unfortunate” — President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize.  — ...
  
  
  
• Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize. No, really. Update ...
  
  
  Allahpundit / Hot Air : Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize.  No, really.  Update: “It's not April 1, is it?”   —  Am I awake? … In other words, they gave him a Nobel for ... being Hopenchange-y.  And you thought Mark Halperin's grade inflation was bad.  This makes three times, incidentally, ...
  
  
  

Energy & Environment News

• New Way to Tap Gas May Expand Global Supplies
  
  
  Huge new reserves of natural gas, especially in Europe, could alter the political landscape for energy, experts say.
  
  
  
• Citigroup Sheds Energy Unit and Its $100 Million T ...
  
  
  With the sale of the energy-trading unit to Occidental, Citigroup could potentially avoid controversy over the compensation of Andrew J. Hall, who ran the firm.
  
  
  
• After 16 Years, Ecuador Oil Pollution Case Only Gr ...
  
  
  The legal case between Amazon peasants and Chevron over oil pollution in Ecuador keeps unfolding like a mystery thriller, and in recent days the plot has thickened further.
  
  
  
• Legal Cost for Throwing Monkey Wrench Into the Sys ...
  
  
  Tim DeChristopher decided to make bids on oil and gases leases, though he had neither money nor an interest in drilling. Now he may pay a price.
  
  
  
• E.P.A. Moves to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  
  
  The Environmental Protection Agency plan, long anticipated and highly controversial, would regulate emissions from thousands of power plants.
  
  
  

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.3, Vanuatu
  
  
  Saturday, October 10, 2009 15:35:00 UTC Sunday, October 11, 2009 02:35:00 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  
  
  
• M 5.3, Antofagasta, Chile
  
  
  Saturday, October 10, 2009 15:26:18 UTC Saturday, October 10, 2009 11:26:18 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  
  
  
• M 5.1, Samoa Islands region
  
  
  Saturday, October 10, 2009 14:39:48 UTC Sunday, October 11, 2009 03:39:48 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  
  
  
• M 5.2, Vanuatu
  
  
  Saturday, October 10, 2009 14:36:35 UTC Sunday, October 11, 2009 01:36:35 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  
  
  
• M 5.8, Vanuatu
  
  
  Saturday, October 10, 2009 14:25:17 UTC Sunday, October 11, 2009 01:25:17 AM at epicenter Depth : 48.10 km (29.89 mi)
  
  
  

China Dialogue

• Slideshow: Times of crisis (2)
  
  
  Emerging from recession, the world remains challenged by unprecedented climate change and by grinding poverty. Maryann Bird introduces more images from a Reuters multimedia project depicting a year of upheaval. The 10 photographs in the slideshow are Copyright 2009 Thomson Reuters and published by c ...
  
  
  
• China’s green maverick
  
  
  Zhang Yue, air-conditioning magnate and one of the country’s best-known businesspeople, wants to put the planet before profits. In fact, Zhang tells Huo Weiya, he is happy to put himself out of business. Zhang Yue was born in 1960 in Changsha, Hunan province, in southern China. In 1988 he founded ...
  
  
  
• Kenya’s last nomads?
  
  
  In the country’s isolated northern and eastern border lands, families have always clung to a precarious existence. Now a decade of droughts is driving them to the brink. Peter Beaumont reports. Hawa Hassan comes leading three donkeys, accompanied by two female relatives and a handful of the family ...
  
  
  
• “China is on the right track”
  
  
  How has China’s low-carbon path developed – and what lies in the future? chinadialogue spoke to Wu Changhua, director for Greater China at the Climate Group. Wu Changhua is Greater China director at the Climate Group, leading their operations and strategic development across the region. She was ...
  
  
  
• Catching the wind
  
  
  Wind power could provide all of China's electricity, says a new study, if the country raises its subsidy and improves its grid. Ben Block reports. Wind power alone could provide electricity for all of China if the country overhauls its rural grids and raises the subsidy for wind energy, a new study ...
  
  
  

AlterNet Top Stories

• Bobby Jindal Fires State Worker After She Criticiz ...
  
  
  Jindal maintains that he fired her due to her handling of a food stamps program started after Katrina, others say that's bunk.
  
  
  
• No More Excuses: John Tester Brings 51st Senate Vo ...
  
  
  The count's there if they get an up-or-down vote.
  
  
  
• Why Conservatives Are Really Afraid of a Black Pre ...
  
  
  The president reminds Glenn Beck, and those who identify with his white neo-nationalism, of the lie of their own professed superiority.
  
  
  
• Barbara Ehrenreich: The Relentless Promotion of Po ...
  
  
  The author talks about how a plague of positive thinking is permeating our society, from medicine to business, and is even contributing to our financial crisis.
  
  
  
• Marriage Equality in Califorina: Why We Can't Wait ...
  
  
  Every day that Prop 8 remains part of the California Constitution, we each lose something. Here's why we should not lose a moment in the fight to repeal it.
  
  
  

Threat Level

• Report: 41 Percent of Personal Computing Software ...
  
  
  The Business Software Alliance is taking the offensive, sending out millions of takedown notices the first six months of the year in a bid to combat piracy. Reason: if the BSA is to believed, about 41 percent of all software on personal computers is pirated – socking the industry with some $53 ...
  
  
  
• Senate Panel to Examine Sale of Diebold Voting Mac ...
  
  
  The Senate Rules and Administration Committee announced on Friday that it plans to examine the sale of Diebold’s voting machine division to a rival voting machine company, according to the Associated Press. Sen. Charles Schumer (D - New York) says putting the Diebold business into the hands of El ...
  
  
  
• Twitter Suspends Researcher Over Security Warning
  
  
  Twitter suspended the account of a security researcher after he posted a message to his followers warning them about a threat, according to ZDnet. The company has since restored his account, but has left the researcher perplexed about why it occurred in the first place. Mikko Hypponen, chief resear ...
  
  
  
• Judge Revives Question of Retail Liability in Hann ...
  
  
  A federal judge in Maine this week reversed an earlier decision to dismiss a class-action lawsuit against Hannaford Brothers, and is asking the state’s Supreme Court to weigh in on whether a consumer’s loss of time in dealing with the after-effects of a data breach constitute actual losses worth ...
  
  
  
• Telephone Company is Arm of Government, Feds Admit ...
  
  
  The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: the  nation’s telecom companies are an arm of the government — at least when it comes to secret spying. Fortunately, a judge says that relationship isn’t enough to squash a rights group’s open records request for communica ...
  
  
  

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Pressure on Czechs after Poland signs EU treaty
  
  
  WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish President Lech Kaczynski signed the European Union's reform treaty into law on Saturday, leaving the Czech Republic as the only country still to ratify the document.
  
  
  
• China ministry says not received Hummer buy applic ...
  
  
  BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Commerce Ministry said on Saturday that it has not yet received an application about machinery maker Tengzhong's bid to buy General Motors' Hummer brand.
  
  
  
• Gunmen attack Pakistani army HQ
  
  
  RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suspected militants dressed in army uniforms attacked Pakistan's army headquarters on Saturday, killing four guards and triggering a battle in which four gunmen were killed, military officials said.
  
  
  
• Obama says Nobel Peace Prize is "call to action"
  
  
  WASHINGTON/OSLO (Reuters) - Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision that honored the first-year U.S. president more for promise than achievement and drew both praise and skepticism around the world.
  
  
  
• Gunmen attack Pakistani army HQ, 10 dead
  
  
  (For more Pakistan and Afghanistan stories, click [ID:nAFPAK]) * Gunmen dressed as soldiers attack Pakistani army HQ * Four gunmen killed, two escape, military officials say * Six soldiers also killed (Updates death toll among soldiers) By Augustine Anthony RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Oct 10 (Reuters) - ...
  
  
  

Godspace

• Is Being Fat Really Our Fault?
  
  
  I had no intention of adding another post today but just came across this concerning article on Alternet that I wanted to share. Chemicals called ‘obesogens’ are in our food, cars and homes, according to recent scientific studies — and they may be making us fat…. Already in Japan, scientist ...
  
  
  
• Resources from Down Under
  
  
  One of the privileges of Tom’s and my life is the opportunity to wander, meet good people and gather good resources.  This trip is no exception.  I am particularly impressed with some of the resources that we have discovered over the last few days. Rowland Croucher director of John Mark Ministri ...
  
  
  
• Report from Down Under
  
  
  It is hard to believe that the first week of our trip Down Under is over.  Much to my discouragement the weather here in Sydney has been cold and wet – not much fun for Black Stump where most of the speaking was in tents.  I came back to my mother’s with very muddy shoes [...]
  
  
  
• Are the Turbulent Times Already Here?
  
  
  Tom & I arrived in Sydney yesterday and are still fighting to get our clocks turned around.  The weather here is warm and balmy.  Quite a contrast to Seattle where it was heading towards winter temperatures and rain when we left on Tuesday.  The fact that it is now Friday is hard to believe.  Go ...
  
  
  
• Turbulent Times: Ready or Not
  
  
  We leave this afternoon for Australia – the house sitter has moved in (well more of a dog sitter actually as Bonnie told us she does not like being alone) and are furiously working to get our contributions for the MSA Seed Sampler done – as well as working on powerpoint presentations for all ou ...
  
  
  

Equality Trust

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

IntelNews

• Congress briefing on CIA activities halted after o ...
  
  
  A US Congressional briefing on CIA activities was unexpectedly halted on Wednesday, after Justice Department officials refused to take the oath.
  
  
  
• News you may have missed #0136
  
  
  US Senate panel votes to extend PATRIOT surveillance powers. So who was behind GhostNet cyberespionage? US Pentagon creates website for access to secret science.
  
  
  
• Was woman convicted of hi-tech exports to Iraq vic ...
  
  
  The case of a Detroit woman convicted of exporting mobile communications equipment to the Saddam Hussein regime took an unexpected turn this week, after the man who mediated in the equipment transfer said he was acting on behalf of the CIA.
  
  
  
• Iran blames US, Saudis over defection of Iranian n ...
  
  
  Iran’s foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, has accused American and Saudi Arabian intelligence agencies of complicity in the recent disappearance of an Iranian nuclear scientist.
  
  
  
• News you may have missed #0135
  
  
  More revelations in "unprecedented" book on MI5 history. Court lets Canadian spies snoop on targets overseas. CIA endorses cloud computing.
  
  
  

PDA AMERICA

• Letter to President Barack Obama…
  
  
  Dear President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle: Congratulations! At a time like this, when so many Republicans, rightwingers, malcontents, are targeting you over and over . . . it is refreshing and welcome ...
  
  
  
• Tim Says It’s Time - “Time to go to Ja ...
  
  
  Tim Says It’s Time - “Time to go to Jail,” - Tim Carpenter, PDA National Director Crossposted from PDA Illinois Tim Carpenter’s statement below is: “One of the most serious calls to action I’ve ever ...
  
  
  
• The Film That Can Stop the War
  
  
  The Film That Can Stop the War, How to Put it on Your Community Access TV Station It’s do or die time for the peace movement, as the Obama administration heads for granting all or part ...
  
  
  
• Now or Never
  
  
  They said single-payer was off the table. In the next two weeks there will be a floor vote on HR 676 in the House. We need to get a big majority of Democrats to ...
  
  
  
• Video: Greg Palast at Fighting Bob Fest–Arm ...
  
  
  Palast was the last speaker of the day at FBF 2009. Everyone stayed to hear Greg’s report on HealthCare, Afghanistan and a host of other issues crippling our nation. Here he is….
  
  
  

Marler Blog

• Comparing the Food Safety Record of Pasteurized an ...
  
  
  Part 1 and part 2 of this series examined the historical context of the debate surrounding dairy product food safety, and the mechanisms by which pasteurized or raw dairy products may become contaminated with foodborne pathogens. This section compares foodborne illnesses and disease outbreaks linke ...
  
  
  
• Larry King Live - Guess Who is on Monday to talk a ...
  
  
  Tune in at 6:00 PM Pacific Time to find out.
  
  
  
• Michigan Reports 12 Salmonella Cases Linked to Spr ...
  
  
  The Michigan Department of Community Health and Department of Agriculture said 12 cases of Salmonella Typhimurium infections caused by eating raw alfalfa sprouts have been reported in Kent, Bay, Genesee, Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw and Wayne Counties. One of the 12 cases was found in Kent County, sa ...
  
  
  
• Meatingplace - Cargill confirms settlement with vi ...
  
  
  By Rita Jane Gabbett Cargill confirmed to Meatingplace that on Wednesday it reached a settlement with the parents of Ruth Hemmingson, an 11-year-old girl from Mahtomedi, Minn., who became ill from a 2007 E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to beef ground by Cargill. The settlement relates to the same E. ...
  
  
  
• Listeria Blog Information
  
  
  Listeria monocytogenes (Listeria) is a foodborne disease-causing bacteria; the disease is called listeriosis. Listeria can invade the body through a normal and intact gastrointestinal tract. Once in the body, Listeria can travel through the blood stream but the bacteria are often found inside cells ...
  
  
  

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 10.09.09
  
  
  AltCar 2009: GM hints it could sell Chevy Volt gliders Could the Volt become a kit car? First Drive: 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport improves on original, keeps quirks Man, it's fast. It's also bat ...
  
  
  
• AutoblogGreen for 10.08.09
  
  
  AltCar 2009: Riding in Green Vehicles' Triac, a prototype that is not quite ready This trike is going into full production in 60 days. Is that enough? Chevy Volt heads to Pikes Peak to practice mountain c ...
  
  
  
• 2010 Green Car of the Year finalists announced, di ...
  
  
  Filed under: LA Auto Show , Hybrid , Diesel Last year, Volkswagen's new Jetta TDI was named the 2009 Green Car of the Year at the LA Auto Show , which means that the Volkswagen Golf TDI has a bit of baggage if it wants to win the 2010 award. Regardless, the Golf was named one of five finalists today ...
  
  
  
• AutoblogGreen for 10.07.09
  
  
  AltCar 2009: EF9's "unlimited clean energy" turbine could go into cars, if it works No comment. Dear Santa: Mission One number two on Neiman Marcus Christmas Book Fantasy List We've been good ...
  
  
  
• REPORT: GM sees more demand than supply with the C ...
  
  
  Filed under: Hybrid , Sedan , Chevrolet , GM 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery General Motors has already said the Chevrolet Volt will be in short supply at launch . But that isn't stopping Bob Lutz from going out and talking about how popular the hybrid already is -- ev ...
  
  
  

Rafe's Radar

• Reporters Roundtable #5: Tablets' uncertain future
  
  
  Next year will probably see new tablet computers from Apple and maybe even Microsoft. What do these companies know that our panel does not? Featuring Ryan Block and Harry McCracken. Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video) Subscrib ...
  
  
  
• In defense of fanboys
  
  
  I'm on the take. Microsoft pays my salary. I'm an Apple elitist. If you listen to the "fanboys," as tech product boosters are often called, you'll find that I've been accused, as have most tech writers, of all these things. Often in the same day. But ...
  
  
  
• Twitter while you work: Socialcast makes it good f ...
  
  
  The enterprise microblogging service Socialcast is getting some interesting analytical functions. Unlike the data you can get from Bitly (the closest most people get to seeing real analytics on microblogging), Socialcast's new Social Business Intelligence feature is designed to help the mucky-mu ...
  
  
  
• OneRiot aims to make money from Twitter search
  
  
  The real-time search company OneRiot is launching an advertising play for Twitter. The new feature, called RiotWise, lets content companies push links to their stories on the OneRiot search result pages. It's unlike every other online ad play out there in that the advertisements are for content, ...
  
  
  
• RR04: How to launch a product
  
  
  Should you launch your product at a trade show like Demo or CES, or should you try to drum up interest on your own? This week on the Roundtable, Revision 3 CEO Jim Louderback and Stage Two Consulting's Jeremy Toeman discuss successful and doomed strategies for introducing new products to the mark ...
  
  
  

Camera Obscura

• Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
  
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so frequ ...
  
  
  
• The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
  
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
  
  
  
• Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...
  
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...
  
  
  
• Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...
  
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...
  
  
  
• Dangerous spaces: Safe.
  
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, wit ...
  
  
  

Democracy Now!

• Watch What You Tweet
  
  
  A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 protests, then subjected to an FBI raid this week at home—all for using Twitter. Elliot Madison faces charges of hindering apprehension or prosecution, criminal use of a communication facility and possessio ...
  
  
  
• Nomi Prins on "It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bail ...
  
  
  Nomi Prins is a former investment banker turned journalist. She worked at Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns. She is the author of several books; her latest, just out, is called It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street . She spoke on the them ...
  
  
  
• Scanning the Horizon of Books and Libraries
  
  
  A battle is raging over the future of books in the digital age and the role that libraries will play. One case now before a U.S. federal court may, some say, grant a practical monopoly on recorded human knowledge to global Internet search giant Google. The complex case has attracted opposition from ...
  
  
  
• Police Crackdown on G20 Protests: Democracy Now! R ...
  
  
  World leaders are gathering in Pittsburgh for the G20 summit under the shadow of a police crackdown on protesters in the streets. Heavily-armed riot police are out in force all over the city, using tear gas, stun grenades, smoke canisters, and sound cannons, which direct extremely loud shrill sound ...
  
  
  
• Arun Gupta asks "What Anti-War Movement?"
  
  
  It has now been eight years since 9/11. The United States is still engaged in Iraq and is escalating its wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan with no end in site. Speaking at the Bluestockings Bookstore on the Lower East Side in New York, Arun Gupta, a founding Editor of The Indypendent , takes a cr ...
  
  
  

Farming Pathogens

• I Do Like Green Eggs and Ham
  
  
  Much of what we’ve addressed on this blog has focused on the epidemiological failures of industrial farming. But what of the alternatives? Can we farm in another way? Is another world possible?    It’s only since I’ve moved to the Midwest that I’ve learned that not only is that world p ...
  
  
  
• Heart of Modeling
  
  
  Greed is often mistaken for humanity’s heart of darkness. Look instead to the rationalization that transforms the most rapacious pillaging into an act of benevolence. A one-ton bomb dropped on a peasant wedding party is dissembled into regret without responsibility or, baser yet, a tough love offe ...
  
  
  
• Bird Flu’s Industrial Revolution
  
  
  Public talks can be private affairs. In sharing our work we bare the triumphs and limits of a thinking born in long hours alone or with a few fellow conspirators sworn to secrecy. But in breaking our oaths we are able to take the next step.   In talking bird flu twice this past month I learned [... ...
  
  
  
• The Agro-Industrial Roots of Swine Flu H1N1
  
  
  Mexico appears ground zero for an outbreak of deadly human-specific H1N1.   Of the over 1400 people that have been reportedly infected there so far, 86 have died. Short chains of transmission of the virus have also been reported in California, Texas, Kansas, Ohio, New York City, Canada and New Zeal ...
  
  
  
• The NAFTA Flu
  
  
  Cases of swine flu H1N1 are now reported in Honduras, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, Austria, Thailand, Israel, etc. Can’t keep up at this point.    H1N1 is making its way across the world by hierarchical diffusion. By the world’s transportation network it is bouncing down a hierarchy of citi ...
  
  
  

Digg Green

• Climate Talks End, Diplomats Look to Obama for Lea ...
  
  
  Global climate change talks came to an end in Bangkok today in an atmosphere of distrust and recrimination, with the rift between rich and poor countries seemingly wider than ever.
  
  
  
• Pigs Use Mirrors to Find Hidden Food
  
  
  In just five hours, an average farm pig can learn how to interpret an image in the mirror and use it to find hidden food.
  
  
  
• Ships that Ooze Slime Could Cut Fuel Consumption b ...
  
  
  Ships which exude slime from their hulls could cut fuel consumption by 20% and make it difficult for barnacles to attach. Shipowners who employ the new technology should also be able to save remarkably on costs.
  
  
  
• Volcanoes Wiped Out All Forests 250 Million Years ...
  
  
  Massive volcanic eruptions wiped out the world's forests about 250 million years ago, leaving the planet teeming with wood-eating fungi, according to a new study. The finding confirms that even hardy trees didn't survive the Permian mass extinction, one of the most devastating losses of life Earth h ...
  
  
  
• How Safe Is Coal Ash?
  
  
  If coal ash is safe to spread under a golf course or be used in carpets, why are the residents of Kingston, Tenn., being told to stay out of a river where the material was spilled last December?
  
  
  

Invisible Opportunity

• The IGNOBLE NOBEL Peace Prize goes to Howdy Doody! ...
  
  
  By keeptonyblairforpm 9th October, 2009 UNBELIEVABLE! ABOLUTELY CRAZILY INCREDIBLE As I lifted my jaw, Gordon-Brown style, up an inch or two, the value of the Nobel Peace Prize dropped several miles in my estimation. They’ve awarded it to WHOM? BARACK (THE WORLD’S SAVIOUR) OBAMA!? What? THE NOTH ...
  
  
  
• Mr. President, you are a Low-Down, Snake-eyed Liar
  
  
  Mr Visible is tapped in.  Less than 24 hours before the ridiculous Nobel Peace Prize was awarded, he published this scathing essay on the man he calls Howdy Doody… By Les Visible You were elected on the platform of ‘hope and change’. Hope’s a hard thing to kill because it will re ...
  
  
  
• Urgent lawsuit filed against FDA to halt swine flu ...
  
  
  By Mike Adams Health freedom attorney Jim Turner is filing a lawsuit in Washington D.C. mid-day Friday in an urgent effort to halt the distribution of the swine flu vaccine in America. On behalf of plaintiffs Dr. Gary Null and other licensed health care workers of New York State, the lawsuit charges ...
  
  
  
• Video – How did the H1N1 virus get into the ...
  
  
  RT contributor and investigative journalist Wayne Madsen reports that scientists researching the Spanish flu epidemic from 1918 may have intentionally or accidentally manipulated genetic material to create the H1N1 virus that exists today.
  
  
  
• Vioxx maker Merck and Co drew up doctor hit list
  
  
  By Milanda Rout AN international drug company made a hit list of doctors who had to be “neutralised” or discredited because they criticised the anti-arthritis drug the pharmaceutical giant produced. Staff at US company Merck &Co emailed each other about the list of doctors – mainly researchers ...

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• Beneath the hype: Is Iran close to nukes?
  
  
  Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern speaks on disinformation, Iran, and "faith-based intelligence : he presented morning intelligence briefings at the White House ( Part 1 of 2 ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
  
  
• Stop Dish Network from trafficking underage girls ...
  
  
  Every evening, after dinner, Dish Network broadcasts "sponsors" selling "hot chat" with underage teenage girls on the Comedy Channel. Please help stop Dish network from this lascivious irresponsible behavior that attracts and reinforces predatory acts ag Submitted by Suzybell H. to Society & Cultur ...
  
  
  
• Apple Priased for Cutting Down on Dangerous Chemic ...
  
  
  Apple and 6 other companies have taken major steps to remove dangerous chemicals, Chlorine and Bromine from their products according to a report issued by not for profit organization ChemSec. Submitted by Steve Roper to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
  
  
• Small Farms Making a Big Comeback
  
  
  Despite the presence of Big Agriculture in the White House, many people in America are realizing that they do have options when it comes to the food they eat, and many are taking on the responsibility themselves. Submitted by Beth B. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
  
  
• Maldives underwater cabinet meeting to highlight c ...
  
  
  The president of the Maldives came up with the idea to hold a cabinet meeting underwater to publicize the plight of these idyllic islands in the Indian Ocean. By 2100, they may be underwater caused by climate change. Submitted by Joann B. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
  
  

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize triumph praised by ...
  
  
  Obama's Nobel Peace Prize triumph praised by many Auburn Citizen In Afghanistan, where US forces are engaged in a war against Taliban insurgents, President Hamid Karzai praised the Nobel decision, but others seemed ...
  
  
  
• Walz talks Afghanistan at Winona State University ...
  
  
  Walz talks Afghanistan at Winona State University Post-Bulletin Rood said the country should pursue agreements with the Taliban , stating that American troops would leave the region if the Taliban would stop harboring ...
  
  
  
• Pak Army Headquarter attacked in Rawalpindi &#8211 ...
  
  
  Zee News Pak Army Headquarter attacked in Rawalpindi Zee News It may be noted that Tehrik-e- Taliban Pakistan and Taliban have repeatedly threatened attacks against the military installations.
  
  
  
• Pakistan Army Headquarters Attacked – india- ...
  
  
  Pakistan Army Headquarters Attacked india-server.com Pakistan has been fighting an ever-intensifying campaign against Islamist militants including the Taliban and groups linked to al-Qaida.
  
  
  
• Death toll from suicide bombing hits 52: officials ...
  
  
  AFP Death toll from suicide bombing hits 52: officials AFP ... offensive against Taliban rebels in the northwestern Swat valley launched in April. Friday's blast is the deadliest in Pakistan since March this year, ... and more »
  
  
  

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Why Are Cops Tasering Grandmothers, Pregnant Women ...
  
  
  Police officers are brutalizing innocent civilians with accelerating lunacy. How did this happen? How can we make it stop?
  
  
  
• Let The Sun Shine In: Marriage Equality Comes to B ...
  
  
  The classic protest musical, Hair, is back to tackle what many consider to be the biggest civil rights issue of our era: marriage equality.
  
  
  
• Pelosi Is an Expert at 'Drowning out Opposing View ...
  
  
  Why Speaker Pelosi's "drowning out opposing views is un-American" remark is steeped in irony.
  
  
  
• Right-Wing Militias Haven't Always Been Racist -- ...
  
  
  There are growing signs that militias are on the rise again. This time, many of their partisans are angry at Blacks and Latinos.
  
  
  
• In Illinois, Another Workers' Rebellion Flares Up ...
  
  
  In Illinois, a dozen union members blocked a road outside Wells Fargo’s local headquarters -- the latest in a wave of direct actions by workers.
  
  
  

Sideways News

• Global fly-tipping: rich world dumps and runs
  
  
  It’s an immoral but not isolated incident. The dumping of waste on poor countries by the developed world is a frequent occurrence.
  
  
  
• Colin Beavan is No Impact Man
  
  
  In 2007, author Colin Beavan set out on a No Impact Project , turning his New York apartment into an eco-friendly haven.
  
  
  
• Winner of the Week: Barack Obama
  
  
  US President Barack Obama was today awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”.
  
  
  
• The papers win the vote?
  
  
  Does the media influence voters? The media itself certainly thinks so. The decision by the Sun, Britain’s best-selling daily, to throw its weight behind the Conservative Party – after three successive elections in which it has endorsed Labour – has had politicians and media pundits in a tizz.
  
  
  
• Week in pictures: 5th October
  
  
  A picture for every day, taking a snapshot view of what is happening in the world around us. Come and browse through our gallery of this week's most inspiring images.
  
  
  

Fabius Maximus

• Powerful and insightful new articles by Macgregor
  
  
  “Illusions of Victory – There’s No Strategy To Win in Afghanistan“, Douglas MacGregor (Colonel, US Army, retired), Defense News, 28 September 2009 — I recommend reading it in full. Excerpt: Douglas MacArthur is regarded as a great commander because he got some very important things right, ...
  
  
  
• More examples of Americans waking up – shoul ...
  
  
  Getting what I asked for — why am I not happy about it?  A follow-up to The American public is organizing and getting involved! Are we happy now? (12 August 2009). “Something New on the Mall“ By Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books, 22 October 2009 It’s about public protests by ...
  
  
  
• Update: about the swine flu epidemic
  
  
  Update to What about all the hype, the extreme warnings, about swine flu?, 3 September 2009. Contents Stratfor’s summary Recent articles about Swine Flu Sources of information about Swine Flu Afterword (1)  Stratfor:  A(H1N1): Just Another Flu, 14 September 2009 — As always, Stratfor ...
  
  
  
• The latest figures on income inequality in the USA
  
  
  America has one of the most unequal distributions of income among the developed nations.  Here are the latest numbers on that trend.  It’s boring stuff.   Unless you consider its importance to the survival of our political order.  Throughout history, extremes of income inequal ...
  
  
  
• DoD did not consider troop levels when devising ou ...
  
  
  This is an update to How many troops would it take to win in Afghanistan?, 15 September 2009.  Today we see more evidence that the White House and DoD did virtually ignored the key question of troop levels when devising their latest Afghanistan strategy — and (on a larger scale) that o ...
  
  
  

sibeledmonds - tweets

• sibeledmonds: Just Published: Recent interview wit ...
  
  
  sibeledmonds: Just Published: Recent interview with Peter B Collins: http://bit.ly/4mVM86
  
  
  
• sibeledmonds: Boiling Frogs Interview Series Prese ...
  
  
  sibeledmonds: Boiling Frogs Interview Series Presents Richard Barlow on CIA, Pakistan Politics, AQ Khan, Congress,&more http://123realchange.blogspot.com
  
  
  
• sibeledmonds: @JohnMCole and we want to thank YOU ...
  
  
  sibeledmonds: @JohnMCole and we want to thank YOU for your integrity, John. Your Boiling Frogs Interview will be posted next week, with info on your book
  
  
  
• sibeledmonds: From BradBlog:FBI Veteran Executive ...
  
  
  sibeledmonds: From BradBlog:FBI Veteran Executive Calls For Special Counsel Investigation, Prosecutions in Sibel Edmonds Case http://tinyurl.com/yd5crbb
  
  
  
• sibeledmonds: Just Posted: Afghan Civilian Deaths- ...
  
  
  sibeledmonds: Just Posted: Afghan Civilian Deaths- Where Have All the Photos Gone... http://123realchange.blogspot.com
  
  
  

WIRED Magazine | Science

• 35 Years of the World’s Best Microscope Photogra ...
  
  
  This image of the male sex organ of a flowering plant took first place in Nikon’s annual Small World photomicrography competition this year. Chosen for both its scientific and artistic qualities from among a record 2,000 entries, this image was captured by Estonian scientist Heiti Paves. “As ...
  
  
  
• Can Life Survive Deep Space? Let’s Send It There ...
  
  
  LIFE on Earth was all neatly packed up inside a puck-like container and ready to blast off on an unmanned Russian mission to a Martian moon this month. After more than 10 months traveling through deep space, the Planetary Society’s Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment would land on the surface ...
  
  
  
• Crash Into the Moon With LCROSS Friday Morning
  
  
  Tomorrow morning you’ll have a rare opportunity to experience a live moon crash. At 7:31 a.m. EDT, NASA’s LCROSS satellite will send a rocket hurtling toward the moon at a whopping 1.55 miles per second, and a camera mounted on the spacecraft will send live footage back to Earth. Four minutes l ...
  
  
  
• Your Bug-Coated Windshield Is Lousy With Genomes
  
  
  That disgusting layer of bug guts plastered across your bumper after a road trip could also be a great way to analyze the biodiversity of where you’ve been. After a long-distance drive to a conference yielded a tremendous number of squashed bugs on his bumper, genomics researcher Anton Nekrutenko ...
  
  
  
• Direction of NASA’s Future at an Impasse
  
  
  The committee charged with rethinking American human spaceflight is done thinking, but it’s still unclear what the future of NASA’s astronaut corps might be, and some nagging issues have yet to be resolved. The U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee — known informally as the Augustine com ...
  
  
  

The Progressive Realist

• The Iraqi Government's Contentious Dealings with A ...
  
  
  China and South Korea have increasingly become involved in Iraq’s petroleum industry. They have signed deals with both the central government in Baghdad and the regional government in Kurdistan. This has placed the Asian businesses in the middle of the on-going dispute between the two sides, which ...
  
  
  
• A Nobel Prize for Hope
  
  
  President Obama's efforts to achieve a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and the Arab states, including a Palestinian state, received a much appreciated, if surprising , boost with the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to the US president. It's fair to assume that the Nobel prize committ ...
  
  
  
• Pakistan's Trust Deficit
  
  
  Before we throw caution to the wind and build a new embassy in Islamabad, a la Baghdad, fit for 1,000 employees, let's first acquire a proper understanding of the nature of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship. A majority of Pakistanis believe Sept. 11, 2001, was a CIA-Mossad conspiracy designed to enlist ...
  
  
  
• Peace Prize Dissent: Bad News for All Concerned
  
  
  I first learned that President Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize from a congratulatory IAEA press release e-mail. "That's funny," I thought. "Looks like the Onion hacked the IAEA's server." But lo and behold, a quick google search revealed that this was not a spoof. WTF?!? This is a horribl ...
  
  
  
• Obama Wins Nobel: Has Created New Opportunities Th ...
  
  
  Forget the Chicago Olympics foul up. Barack Obama has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize -- the first sitting US President to win the Prize since Woodrow Wilson. The Nobel citation reads : The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to Presid ...
  
  
  

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: A Bit Early to Declare Obama's Pa ...
  
  
  Obviously, Barack Obama did not win the Nobel Peace Prize for his achievements. The award is a political statement, an expression of relief that George W. Bush is no longer president. And as surely as the sun rises and sets, American conservatives are outdoing each other in their efforts to point o ...
  
  
  
• Russia, Iran, and Nukes.
  
  
  Are Russian nuclear scientists helping Iranians build a nuclear warhead? For years, people have been concerned that Russian scientists would take off and help some rogue country, whether Iran or North Korea, develop weapons. As David Hoffman , author of The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold Wa ...
  
  
  
• No Abortion Shift, No Need To Cater to Anti-Aborti ...
  
  
  In his U.S. News and World Report column, Dan Gilgoff buys into the idea that President Obama and the Democratic Party should be mindful of voters who worry that Obama will "overreach on abortion rights," based on the new Pew poll out on abortion attitudes. But that poll doesn't show any seismic s ...
  
  
  
• Winning With the Economy -- or Without It.
  
  
  Stanley Greenberg argues that candidates running with the economy against them have a tougher go, but that its possible to win by changing the conversation: No future candidates for president and few of their advisers will read Lynn Vavreck' s new book -- her statistical methods and academic style ...
  
  
  
• Elizabeth Warren's Panel Knocks Obama's Anti-Forec ...
  
  
  The Congressional Oversight Panel, which keeps a weather eye on the controversial TARP financial-sector bailout program, has released a new report criticizing the Administration's plan to keep troubled borrowers from losing their homes. I've written about the short-comings of the program before, as ...
  
  
  

Andy Worthington

• Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize: OK, He’s A Nice Gu ...
  
  
  Is it really appropriate for the Nobel Peace Prize — granted “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoplesâ€� — to be given to a man who, as Commander-in-Chief, is still presiding over two wars, in which, as the announcement was made ...
  
  
  
• Lawyer Blasts “Congressional Depravity” On Gua ...
  
  
  In a recent article, “On Guantánamo, Lawmakers Reveal They Are Still Dick Cheney’s Pawns,” I spelled out my despair and disgust at lawmakers from both parties (their names can be found here, here and here), who, since May, have voted for legislation severely curtailing President Obama’s abi ...
  
  
  
• FILM LAUNCH: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantá ...
  
  
  Where: Cochrane Theatre, Southampton Row, London WC1 When: Wednesday October 21, 2009. Doors open 6 pm, film starts 7 pm. Q&A with Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash starts 8.30 pm. Tickets are free but must be booked via the Cochrane Theatre website. This event is in assoc ...
  
  
  
• Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo And Bagram ...
  
  
  On Friday, just a few hours before I spoke to Jeff Farias, I was interviewed by Scott Horton for Antiwar Radio (the 22-minute show was broadcast on Monday, and is available here). In our tenth outing, Scott and I ran though some recent history: the administration’s decision not to push for new leg ...
  
  
  
• On Guantánamo, Lawmakers Reveal They Are Still Di ...
  
  
  I like to believe that, despite studying Guantánamo for four years, I still have a sense of humor, but last Thursday I lost it, after 258 members of the House of Representatives (including 88 members of President Obama’s own party) voted for an idiotic, paranoid and unjust motion proposed by Rep. ...
  
  
  

Buzzflash

• George Will Keeps Getting It Wrong on Global Warmi ...
  
  
  BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK George Will For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America. George Will is one of these tired conservative columnists who should stick to areas that he knows ...
  
  
  
• Progressive Vs. Regressive: The Right Wing Wants H ...
  
  
  BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG By Mark Karlin The latest right wing psychotic hysteria over Barack Obama's Nobel Prize is part of a broader movement of primitivists who fashion themselves "conservatives" because they can't emotionally cope with progress. Obama represents the reintegration of America into t ...
  
  
  
• The smallness of the right's big bad temper
  
  
  Body Of all the right's sputtering and spitting and foaming and fulminating yesterday, my favorite came down to this rather meek entry in the Weekly Standard: "Obama could turn it down on the grounds that not all his peace plans have come to fruition yet, but why should he? And the Swede ...
  
  
  
• Progressive Face-Off: Native American Tribes and E ...
  
  
  GREEN IS GOOD by Margaret Smith With a population of 6,946 people, the Hopi Tribe in northeastern Arizona has always been known as a relatively peaceful group. Short for Hopituh Shi-nu-mu , their name literally translates to "The Peaceful People" or "Peaceful Little Ones" in English, and the Hopi cu ...
  
  
  
• Conservatives Caught Recreating the Bible in Their ...
  
  
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White We've been hearing rumblings all around the blogosphere, from news tips to tweets to comments on our stories , submitted by progressives worried about conservatives trying to rewrite the Bible in their own political language. Because we so value our readers conce ...
  
  
  

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• On the government's owners
  
  
  The most revealing political quote of the last year came, in my view, from the second-highest ranking Democratic Senator, Dick Durbin, who told a local radio station in April :  "And the banks -- hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created -- are st ...
  
  
  
• Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
  
  
  When I saw this morning's top New York Times headline -- " Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize " -- I had the same immediate reaction which I'm certain many others had:  this was some kind of bizarre Onion gag that got accidentally transposed onto the wrong website, that it was just some sort of st ...
  
  
  
• A historian's account of Democrats and Bush-era wa ...
  
  
  (updated below) The American Propsect 's Adam Serwer notes that , yesterday, Sen. Joe Lieberman successfully inserted into the Homeland Security appropriations bill an amendment -- supported by the Obama White House -- to provide an exemption from the Freedom of Information Act's mandates by ...
  
  
  
• The still-missing central fact in the Iran drama
  
  
  (updated below) Ever since Iran reported the existence of its Qom enrichment facility to the IAEA, one central assertion has been repeated as fact over and over by the American media to make the story as incriminating as possible:  namely, that Iran only disclosed this because they discover ...
  
  
  
• The suffocatingly narrow Afghanistan "debate"
  
  
  Washington Post , September 21, 2009 : McChrystal's assessment, in the view of two senior administration officials, is just "one input" in the White House's decision-making process. The president, another senior administration official said, "has embarked on a very, very serious review of all op ...
  
  
  

The BiPartisan Report

• Bipartisanship: The Eulogy
  
  
  A pretty ironic title for a post on a site called Bipartisan Report, isn’t it? Back in January I joined this site with a strong belief that it is possible to have a conversation around issues... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  
  
  
• #WeLovetheNHS
  
  
  The astroturf organization, Conservatives for Patients' Rights (CPR), started a backlash across the Pond yesterday. As reported by the Daily Times the Brits didn't take too kindly to have their... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  
  
  
• Conservatives and “The Big Lie”
  
  
  It was GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss who pushed me over the edge. Not that I should be surprised that Chambliss would make up a lie out of whole cloth about health care. The only way that he got elected... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  
  
  
• Why the GOP can’t afford to have Obama succeed o ...
  
  
  I’m no big fan of Newt Gingrich, but I also know that he has a lot of political smarts (not that he always uses them appropriately). In the early part of the year, he made a very interesting... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  
  
  
• Senator Edward Kennedy – 1932-2009
  
  
  Senator Edward Kennedy has died, one year to the day after he gave a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention. In that speech, he restated the cause he has fought for consistently... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  
  
  

Sciencebase

• Moon, Earthquakes, Chemical Weapons
  
  
  The media was today almost drenched with the idea that water and other wonders would be been found on the Moon, but unfortunately LXPRESS was the least moist of damp squibs ever and no 50 km plume was seen, not even a little splash. NASA scientists are trying to figure out why. Meanwhile, in th ...
  
  
  
• Gen-F Scientists Ignoring Social Networking
  
  
  A quick analysis of online social networks, such as LinkedIn and Xing would suggest that a mere 1 in 7 research scientists use such tools as part of their work. This contrasts starkly with the business world where uptake is up to 88%. In other words almost 9 out of every ten employees in the [. ...
  
  
  
• Organic, Nano, Pharma
  
  
  Challenging natural products succumb to radical synthetic prowess, the Alchemist hears this week, while US researchers find a way to construct macroscopic crystals from tiny DNA triangles. The growing problem of obesity drug abuse in the UK is highlighted in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacol ...
  
  
  
• File Sharing for Scientists
  
  
  In the olden days, scientists used to send out paper reprints of their research papers to colleagues…maybe they still do. I get the occasional request for such an archaic entity for the items I have had published in Science, PNAS, and other journals. These days, you’re more likely to simply ask ...
  
  
  
• Chemical-free Gardening
  
  
  It may come as a shock to anyone thinking of taking up gardening as a hobby or as a way to beat back the credit crunch by doing a little grow-your-own that gardening is based entirely on chemistry. There is no escaping this simple truth. Chemicals grow in the garden. There is no such thing [...] Che ...
  
  
  

change: org.

• Can Silicon Valley and NPR Save the News?
  
  
  Journalism is dying! News has no business model! Reporting is for crap! Ahhhhhhhhhhh! Welcome to the conversation about news media today. Faced with the onslaught of "citizen reporting" and social media, traditional news media is hemorrhaging resources and wondering if the whole house of cards is a ...
  
  
  
• Desperation Reigns In Detroit
  
  
  You may have heard by now of the crush of Detroiters who descended on Cobo Hall this week to apply for homelessness prevention assistance.  50,000 - 60,000 residents have received applications for 3,400 packages of up to $3,000 to cover utility bills and fees associated with keeping one's home or ...
  
  
  
• "Why I Slept with 1300 Women"
  
  
  Editors Note: The text of Sebastian Horsley's manifesto, available from the link below, contains adult language which I find disrespectful and degrading to women. Read with caution. British, self-proclaimed "prostitute connoisseur" Sebastian Horsley begins his commercial sex manifesto "Why I Slept ...
  
  
  
• Get Your Favorite Nonprofit Featured on YouTube
  
  
  The folks at YouTube have dropped us a line to let us know about a new project going called Video Volunteers. With a focus on animal welfare this month, the project asks people to choose a nonprofit they support, create an under-3-minute promotional video for that org, and submit it to be voted on ...
  
  
  
• Bill Maher on Scaring the Hell Out of Right-Wing H ...
  
  
  Today marks Day 1 of the National Equality March weekend, and in honor of the weekend of action, training and marching for equal rights, Bill Maher is out with a column that will likely provide fits for the anti-LGBT right-wing . His message for LGBT activists in D.C. this weekend is simple: scare ...
  
  
  

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Conservationists Call For Continued Protection of ...
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 8, 2009 Conservation Groups As the Department of Interior and Bureau of Land Management evaluate the impacts that oil and gas development would have on red rock wilderness lands in Utah, conservation groups are calling for ongoing protection of these treasured areas. Fo ...
  
  
  
• US: New Legislation on Military Commissions Doesnâ ...
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 8, 2009 Human Rights Watch (HRW) Draft legislation on military commissions fails to remedy the system's serious flaws, Human Rights Watch said today. The amendments to existing military commissions legislation - to be called the Military Commissions Act of 2009 - were ...
  
  
  
• Human Rights First Praises Final Passage of Hate C ...
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 8, 2009 Human Rights First Praising House passage of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, legislation that was included in the Department of Defense authorization bill, Human Rights First noted the victory sets the stage for renewed U.S. influence to combat h ...
  
  
  
• The Pressure Is Building – Confirm Dawn Johnsen ...
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 8, 2009 People For the American Way (PFAW) People For the American Way President Michael B. Keegan issued the following statement: "For months now, Senate Republicans have been blocking the confirmation of President Obama's nominees to key positions in the federal gover ...
  
  
  
• Amnesty International Calls on Governments to Susp ...
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 8, 2009 Amnesty International - USA Amnesty International today called on all nations to suspend international supplies of military and police weaponry, munitions and other equipment that could be used to commit human rights violations by the Guinean security forces. Th ...
  
  
  

Common Dreams-Views

• Lethal Injection Revisited
  
  
  by Christopher Brauchli Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to. read more
  
  
  
• On Afghanistan, We Need a Policy, Not a Macho Hiss ...
  
  
  by Yifat Susskind A small delegation from the women's peace group CODEPINK spent last week in Kabul, on a kind of listening tour, to refine their understanding of what women in Afghanistan want to see from the US. read more
  
  
  
• In Washington, The Revolving Door Is Hazardous to ...
  
  
  by Bill Moyers & Michael Winship On Tuesday, October 13, the Senate Finance Committee finally is scheduled to vote on its version of health care insurance reform. And therein lies yet another story in the endless saga of money and politics. In most polls, the majority of Americans favor a non-profit ...
  
  
  
• The Price of Peace
  
  
  by Jerica Arents While waiting to be processed at the Anacostia Park Police Station, I was drawn to a mounted post-9/11, Bush-era FBI reward poster. "The Cost of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance", propagated the sign.  The unrestrained madness is as prevalent today as it was eight years ago: Obama ...
  
  
  
• The High Human Cost of Unsafe Food
  
  
  by Marion Nestle I think we need a whole lot more public outrage about unsafe food. Maybe the recent front-page articles in the Washington Post and New York Times will do the trick. read more
  
  
  

Karl Burkart

• Amsterdam goes car-free for a day
  
  
  On September 20, one city did the unthinkable -- it banished cars from the streets. See video footage of Amsterdam's Autovrije Dag.
  
  
  
• A whirlWIND adventure in Denmark
  
  
  MNN blogger Karl Burkart joins a pack of environmental bloggers and journalists on a week-long tour of Denmark and the city that will host the most important climate summit to date – Copenhagen.
  
  
  
• The great Climate Cover-Up
  
  
  How one book hopes to change the way people think about climate change and the corporations who pay to deny it.
  
  
  
• Bioneers to celebrate 20th anniversary
  
  
  The upcoming Bioneers conference will feature leading thinkers in environmental advocacy, youth activists and social media pundits (including yours truly). Discount code below!
  
  
  
• Mom and son face off with the law for biking to sc ...
  
  
  Saratoga Springs school district prohibits kids from biking to school, but a mom and her son defied the law. A state trooper was there to greet them.

  Rogue Government.com

  
  
  
• Few Pictures From NASA Of Moon Blast
  
  
  NASA smacked two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon at 7:31 a.m., followed four minutes later by a probe with cameras taking pictures of the first crash.
  
  
  
• What Horse Shit This Is! - War Time President Oba ...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• NASA Crashes Rocket Into Moon
  
  
  NASA crashed a rocket and a satellite into the moon's surface on Friday morning, a $79 million mission that could determine if there is water on the moon.
  
  
  
• Madeline Albright Confronted On New World Order B ...
  
  
  Madeleine Albright was confronted and exposed as a New World Order shill by a coalition of WeAreChange activists from Ohio and Chicago. As the activists attempted to ask the former Secretary of State some probing questions, they were shoved and assaulted by Albright’s entourage.
  
  
  
• 36% Of Women Would Rather Have A Cell Phone Than ...
  
  
  According to a recent online survey of Chicago residents, three out of 10 people said they'd give up sex for a year rather than sacrifice their mobile phone, officials said.
  
  
  

Innovation Canada

• i2eye with Bif Naked
  
  
  The last few years have been a roller-coaster ride for Bif Naked. After two years of touring, TV work and datelessness following her 2005 album Superbeautifulmonster, the Vancouver-based alt-rock singer-songwriter — whose real name is Beth Walker — met and married her husband, sportswriter Ian W ...
  
  
  
• Cultural evolution
  
  
  When Jane Goodall reported her observations of tools use by chimps to famed anthropologist Louis Leakey, he responded by saying, “Now we must redefine tool, redefine man or accept chimpanzees as humans.” Leakey would have likely had a similar reaction to the current work of University of Calgary ...
  
  
  
• Faces of aggression
  
  
  Even if you can’t distinguish NHL enforcers Todd Bertuzzi and Chris Neil from a referee, you’d probably know at first sight not to mess with them. And not just because of their physical size. The men employed to intimidate the opposition tend to have wide faces, and that, Brock University’s Ch ...
  
  
  
• i2eye with Bruce McNaughton
  
  
  One of the world’s foremost neuroscientists, Bruce McNaughton is renowned for his groundbreaking research into how the human brain stores, processes and transmits information. One year ago, the Ottawa-born McNaughton was lured back to Canada after spending more than a quarter century in the United ...
  
  
  
• Little boxes
  
  
  With more than half the Canadian population now living in the suburbs, Jill Grant says it’s an obvious time to study this increasingly popular living option, one that remains a bane to urban planners and downtown boosters. Are people drawn to the concept of perfectly matching houses throughout a n ...
  
  
  

Signs of the times

• Tony Blair branded 'war criminal' after Iraq memor ...
  
  
  Tony Blair was branded a "war criminal" today by the father of a soldier killed in the Iraq war after a memorial service to honour the dead at which the Archbishop of Canterbury criticised "policy makers" for failing to consider the cost of the conflict. Rowan Williams, who has previously described ...
  
  
  
• Telephone Company Is Arm of Government, Feds Admit ...
  
  
  The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: The nation's telecom companies are an arm of the government - at least when it comes to secret spying. Fortunately, a judge says that relationship isn't enough to squash a rights group's open records request for communications be ...
  
  
  
• Al-Walajah, a symbol of Israeli ethnic cleansing
  
  
  While American officials continue to claim that the mission of US Middle East Envoy George Mitchell is by no means over, and that he will still pursue his efforts to convince the Israeli government to agree to some sort of settlement freeze, Israeli plans for further colonization of Palestinian land ...
  
  
  
• Israel's export of occupation police tactics
  
  
  Israel's specialized policing and fighting capacity, which it is currently exporting to other countries, including the US, began to take shape after the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war. In the territories it occupied during the conflict, especially the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip ...
  
  
  
• Market Car Bombing in Pakistan's Peshawar Kills 50
  
  
  A car bombing in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar today killed 50 people as the army prepares to strike the main stronghold of Taliban guerrillas. The bombing at the Khyber Bazaar wounded at least 90, many seriously, Sher Gul, a spokesman for the Edhi Foundation ambulance service, said in a ...
  
  
  

Threat Level

• Report: 41 Percent of Personal Computing Software ...
  
  
  The Business Software Alliance is taking the offensive, sending out millions of takedown notices the first six months of the year in a bid to combat piracy. Reason: if the BSA is to believed, about 41 percent of all software on personal computers is pirated – socking the industry with some $53 ...
  
  
  
• Senate Panel to Examine Sale of Diebold Voting Mac ...
  
  
  The Senate Rules and Administration Committee announced on Friday that it plans to examine the sale of Diebold’s voting machine division to a rival voting machine company, according to the Associated Press. Sen. Charles Schumer (D - New York) says putting the Diebold business into the hands of El ...
  
  
  
• Twitter Suspends Researcher Over Security Warning
  
  
  Twitter suspended the account of a security researcher after he posted a message to his followers warning them about a threat, according to ZDnet. The company has since restored his account, but has left the researcher perplexed about why it occurred in the first place. Mikko Hypponen, chief resear ...
  
  
  
• Judge Revives Question of Retail Liability in Hann ...
  
  
  A federal judge in Maine this week reversed an earlier decision to dismiss a class-action lawsuit against Hannaford Brothers, and is asking the state’s Supreme Court to weigh in on whether a consumer’s loss of time in dealing with the after-effects of a data breach constitute actual losses worth ...
  
  
  
• Telephone Company is Arm of Government, Feds Admit ...
  
  
  The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: the  nation’s telecom companies are an arm of the government — at least when it comes to secret spying. Fortunately, a judge says that relationship isn’t enough to squash a rights group’s open records request for communica ...
  
  
  

PERRspectives : Blog

• Will Red States Opt Out of Blue State Generosity?
  
  
  Just in time for the debate over the merits of a state-by-state "opt out" of a national public health insurance option, the Commonwealth Fund has released its 2009 state health care scorecard. As in 2007, the data reveals the critical...
  
  
  
• Premature Elation over Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
  
  
  That Barack Obama has changed the trajectory of American foreign policy and U.S. global standing is hard to dispute. In just one year, as the recent survey by the Pew Research Center revealed, Obama has dramatically reversed world opinion of...
  
  
  
• The False Equivalence of the Birther vs. Truther P ...
  
  
  Among the most discussed if least enlightening polls in recent months is the PPP survey revealing that Republican "birthers" far outnumber Democratic "truthers." That is, there are many more delusional right-wingers who doubt President Obama was born in the United...
  
  
  
• The Return of Iran/Contra
  
  
  As the United States begins multiparty talks with Iran over its nuclear program, many of the cast of characters from Tehran fiascos past are coming out of the woodwork to weigh in once again. Jimmy Carter advised President Obama that...
  
  
  
• "Hong Kong" Palin vs. "Katie Couric" Palin
  
  
  Turning to Sarah Palin to explain the international economy and the role of government is like asking a dog why it likes to lick its ass. But as an audience of investors and fund managers learned today in Hong Kong,...
  
  
  

Blackspot News Feed

• No More Excuses -- John Tester Brings 51st Senate ...
  
  
  The count's there if they get an up-or-down vote.
  
  
  
• Why Was a Lightweight Montana Senator on the Finan ...
  
  
  Entrusting Baucus with the heavy job of shepherding health care reform through the upper chamber is like asking Tweety Bird to lift a bowling ball.
  
  
  
• Marriage Equality in Califorina: Why We Can't Wait ...
  
  
  Every day that Prop 8 remains part of the California Constitution, we each lose something. Here's why we should not lose a moment in the fight to repeal it.
  
  
  
• Barbara Ehrenreich: The Relentless Promotion of Po ...
  
  
  The author talks about how a plague of positive thinking is permeating our society, from medicine to business, and is even contributing to our financial crisis.
  
  
  
• Why Conservatives Are Really Afraid of a Black Pre ...
  
  
  The president reminds Glenn Beck, and those who identify with his white neo-nationalism, of the lie of their own professed superiority.
  
  
  

Consortium News

• Can US Make Sound Decisions?
  
  
  Lack of Bush-era accountability at the Washington Post and other elite outlets hampers today's decisions, writes Robert Parry. October 8, 2009
  
  
  
• Why Global Capitalism Crashed
  
  
  Repeal of banking regulations a decade ago opened the gates for financial disaster, reports TheRealNews. October 7, 2009
  
  
  
• Obama's Mideast Peace Dilemma
  
  
  In pursuit of Mideast peace, President Obama's finds himself with unlikely allies and surprising adversaries, says Robert Parry. October 6, 2009
  
  
  
• Pragmatic Empathy for One's Enemies
  
  
  Arrogance has often been the hallmark of U.S. foreign policy, but Ivan Eland argues that empathy makes more sense. October 6, 2009
  
  
  
• Afghanistan: Eight Years and Counting
  
  
  The war in Afghanistan reaches its eighth anniversary with more Americans doubting its rationale, notes Dennis Loo. October 6, 2009
  
  
  

CounterPunch

• Alexander Cockburn : War and Peace
• Kathleen and Bill Christison : New Crisis Developi ...
• Marc Levy : Talking Dirty to the Kids
• Mike Whitney : The Securitization Boondoggle
• Michael Leonardi : Ships of Poison

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Abbas's loss is Palestinians' gain (Sherri Muzher ...
  
  
  There is a famous Arabic expression: 'he who doesn't respect himself shall not be respected.' Apparently, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas doesn't believe in this. At least, he didn't until now. ...
  
  
  
• U.S. strategy in doubt as Abbas loses popular supp ...
  
  
  Just two months ago, many western commentators were jubilant that Mahmoud Abbas, the U.S.-supported head of both the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the interim Ramallah-based Palestinian Authori ...
  
  
  
• To many Palestinians, Obama Nobel Peace Prize unju ...
  
  
  President Barack Obama has been credited for making the Israeli Palestinian peace process a priority at the start of his administration, unlike previous U.S. leaders. However, news that Mr. Obama won the Nob ...
  
  
  
• Going under in the Gaza Strip (BBC)
  
  
  Blockaded, impoverished and ever open to Israeli attack, the Gaza Strip has little to offer investors on the surface of things. Which is largely why, by the end of 2008, an estimated 4,000 Palestinians decid ...
  
  
  
• Ali Abunimah on Obama Part 2 (Sabeel)

Water - AlterNet

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

TruthHugger

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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Celebrating Slaughter: War and Collective Amnesia ...
  
  
  Submitted on Buzzflash by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Oct. 5, 2009 War
  
  
  
• Both Forgotten and Misread: Robert Taber's The War ...
  
  
  by Daniel N. White Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Oct. 5, 2009 Just finished re-reading the
  
  
  
• In Need of A Kingfish by Guadamour
  
  
  by Guadamour Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Guadamour’s blog post Sept. 17, 2009 Oct. 9 2009 Th
  
  
  
• Can We Win in Afghanistan and is it Worth the Pric ...
  
  
  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com October 9, 2009 Does
  
  
  
• Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo And Habeas ...
  
  
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 4 Oct. 2009 [DS add
  
  
  

Unexplained Mysteries

• Brain waves surge moments before death
  
  
  A new study has found that terminally ill patients experience a surge in brain activity moments before death, a find that may constitute physiolog...
  
  
  
• Baby's voice wakes mother from coma
  
  
  A mother who fell in to a coma after contracting food poisoning was brought back to life after hearing the sound of her baby's voice, a recording ...
  
  
  
• A cure for jet lag ?
  
  
  Scientists have discovered how signals from the brain control our biological clocks, research which could lead to treatments for cancer and Alzhei...
  
  
  
• Moon 'bombed' by space probes
  
  
  The unmanned LCROSS rocket modules have successfully hit their target on the lunar surface, it is hoped that the information gathered through the ...
  
  
  
• New Saturn ring is largest known
  
  
  A new ring discovered around the planet Saturn is the largest known planetary ring in the solar system, it is in fact so large that if it were vis...
  
  
  

Grassroots

• What is the Global Week of Action on Trade?
  
  
  Subheadline:  15 Years of NAFTA - Enough is enough! The Global Week of Action is a collaborative action between different communities worldwide, to protest the atrocities caused by free trade  while highlighting alternatives to NAFTA, CA ...
  
  
  
• Honduras: 19 Days of Democracy
  
  
  der-protestas--13979.jpg The standoff in Honduras is reaching a critical point. The coup government, led by Roberto Michelleti Bain, has suspended five constitutional rights for 45 days. According to the Executive Decree, it is prohibited to a ...
  
  
  
• Farmers are central to the success of any African ...
  
  
  Mamadou Goita, the Executive Director of the Institute for Research and the Promotion of Alternatives in Development (IRPAD) in Mali, was interviewed at the Salzburg Global Seminar by Susanna Thorpe, of WREN Media. IRPAD is a Grassroots International ally that works closely with our partner, the Via ...
  
  
  
• Amigo, Can You Spare a BTU?
  
  
  Subheadline:  Mexican Peasants Pay the Price for U.S. Energy Consumption Outside Author Bio:  Daniel Moss is a Grassroots International consultant who spent a year living and working in Oaxaca ...
  
  
  
• Calling President Obama
  
  
  DSC09338.JPG   With the dramatic return of President Manuel Zelaya to Honduras, the hemisphere is hoping for a solution to the political crisis that has lingered for 87 days. Still, President Obama has not taken a strong enough position on thi ...
  
  
  

Climate

• October 9, 2009
  
  
  Negotiator: US Might Not Make Emissions Pledge in Copenhagen (Bloomberg) The U.S. might not agree to cut greenhouse gas emissions in a new treaty this year because there is no domestic law setting a framework, the country’s top negotiator said at United Nations climate talks in Bangkok. Commi ...
  
  
  
• October 8, 2009
  
  
  US Threatens Climate Talks by Opposing Kyoto Targets (Guardian) The U.S. threatened to derail a climate deal today in a public showdown with China by expressing deep opposition to the existing Kyoto Protocol. It urged other rich countries to join it in setting up a new agreement that would requir ...
  
  
  
• October 7, 2009
  
  
  G77 Members Walk Out Over Plan to Change Kyoto Pact (Reuters) Senior G77 members walked out of a meeting during climate talks in Bangkok last night, saying they would not discuss a future without the Kyoto Protocol climate pact. Mexico Describes US as a ‘Stumbling Block’ in Climate Talks (R ...
  
  
  
• October 6, 2009
  
  
  Big Business Flexes Muscle on Capitol Hill for Climate Action (Politico) Two coalitions of top U.S. corporations are pouring into Washington this week and launching $1 million in advertising to prod the Senate and White House to accelerate an energy and climate bill. Apple Leaves Chamber of C ...
  
  
  
• October 5, 2009
  
  
  China, 130 Countries: Rich Nations Trying to Sabotage Climate Treaty (Guardian) A joint statement by China and 130 developing countries at UN climate talks in Bangkok today accuses the US and other developed countries of attempting to "fundamentally sabotage" the Kyoto protocol and the negotiati ...
  
  
  

TomDispatch

• Tomgram: Are We the Martians of the Twenty-First ...
  
  
  [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: Every now and then, I recommend books that especially appeal to me. Let me suggest three today. First published in 1999, Beverly Gologorsky's gripping, gritty, moving set of linked stories on Vietnam vets and their wives and kids, The Things We Do to Make It Home ...
  
  
  
• Tomgram: Ira Chernus, Cold War's Ghost Blocks Mid ...
  
  
  And you thought "don't ask, don't tell" was a U.S. law on gays in the military that Barack Obama has promised to change . As it turns out, the same phrase plays quite a different role in the Middle East, where Obama seems to have no intention of changing it at all. Successive administrations hav ...
  
  
  
• Tomgram: Matt Bivens, Pox Americana
  
  
  With up to 61% of Americans, according to a recent poll, convinced that things are going badly indeed in Afghanistan and an official 9.8% of Americans unemployed, Congress is set to respond. This week, it's slated to pass a $636 billion appropriations bill for the Pentagon that will include anoth ...
  
  
  
• Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, Pipelineistan's Ultimate O ...
  
  
  Back before email, a world traveler who wanted to keep in touch and couldn't just pop into the nearest Internet café, might drop you a series of postcards from one exotic locale after another. Pepe Escobar, that edgy, peripatetic globe-trotting reporter for one of my favorite on-line publication ...
  
  
  
• Tomgram: John Feffer, Will NATO's 60th Anniversar ...
  
  
  If you think the Afghan War is increasingly unpopular in the United States, try Europe. A recent German Marshall Fund poll offered these figures on the question of the "share of population who want to reduce or withdraw troops" from that country: Romania, 71%; Poland, 68%; United Kingdom, 60%; G ...
  
  
  

Smirking Chimp

• Yes, You Can Oppose Obama's Nobel Prize, Be Progre ...
  
  
  UPDATE: In his remarks this morning, President Obama (quite commendably IMHO) said he didn't feel like he deserved the award. Big props to him for the intellectual honesty in the admission. As I said, this is really more about the Nobel committee and our society's obsession with celebrified politics ...
  
  
  
• That Nobel screams: "Out of Afghanistan & Go for S ...
  
  
  Above the din, the Nobel message screams: "U.S. OUT OF AFGHANISTAN, & GO FOR SOLARTOPIA!"  It's now up to US to use that Nobel to win that dual prize.  This award never went to two of the most critical peacemakers of the 20th Century: Mahatma Gandhi, who pioneered the successful use of mass non-vi ...
  
  
  
• "Something is wrong with this picture"
  
  
  VETERANS FOR PEACE REACTS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA RECEIVING NOBEL PEACE PRIZE by Mike Ferner, President, Veterans For Peace Once you had to help lead one of the most important social movements in U.S. history or minister to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Now you can ...
  
  
  
• Nobel Insiders: Beer Summit Sealed it for Obama
  
  
  OSLO, NORWAY (The Borowitz Report) - As the world responded with a mixture of surprise and amazement to the announcement of President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel insiders revealed that the President's "beer summit" at the White House put him over the top. "The committee was definitely split dow ...
  
  
  
• Choice Resort Opens the Sanford Juarez Vacation Ex ...
  
  
  Press Release—for Immediate Distribution Choice Resort Opens the Sanford Juarez Vacation Exclusive JUAREZ, Mexico, Choice Resorts Mexico continues to bring exceptional and charming lodging options to U.S. travelers with the opening of the former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s new resort ...
  
  
  

Ten Percent

• Friday! Whipping Boy- When We Were Young
  
  
  Lovely indie pop choon from one of Ireland’s finest. Seen here entertaining the Nobel Committee.
  
  
  
• Students In Colombia Live Under The Gun
  
  
  Machetera says- Welcome to Colombian public university, where for at least the last ten years, the Colombian armed forces and paramilitaries associated with the (U.S. puppet) government of Álvaro Uribe and that of Pastrana before him, have been rolling tanks, harassing, threatening and even killing ...
  
  
  
• Well They Gave It To Kissinger…
  
  
  And Peres, so…seems the contemporary criteria is the ability to look statesmanlike and peaceful while bloodily expanding your empire, guess the Nobel committee realise the value of powerful friends (and this nuclear disarmament is bullshit, they want to dump their old stock -they cost too much and ...
  
  
  
• 8 Years Ago Today
  
  
  “A US military attack would be another catastrophe for Afghanistan” Behjat, RAWA spokeswoman 25th September 2001 Sunday October 7th 2001 US President George W Bush has addressed the nation to announce the start of attacks on Afghanistan… “On my orders, the United States military has begun s ...
  
  
  
• How Blair Helped Abbas Betray Palestinians
  
  
  Disgracefully the Palestinian Authority helped Israel bury the Goldstone report and the mechanics of power are as murky and dirty cash soaked as usual, as well as Abbas being blackmailed in Washington with his keenness for Gaza to continue to be hit to destroy his rivals in Hamas, guess which Peace ...
  
  
  

Paul Krugman

• The madness of the monetary hawks (wonkish)
  
  
  It seems to be really hard for central bankers to accept the need for prolonged easy money, even if all the data say that's what is needed.
  
  
  
• Beware the dollar hawks
  
  
  The declining dollar will, I'm sure, be used as yet another justification for bizarrely premature Fed hawkishness.
  
  
  
• Modified goldbugism at the WSJ
  
  
  The WSJ may not realize it, but it wants us to be France in the 1930s. Let's not.
  
  
  
• Opt-out public option
  
  
  At first blush, it sounds good.
  
  
  
• Lost in translation
  
  
  A "fully conservative Bible translation"????
  
  
  

No Quarter

• Krugman worries about college while K-12 founders; ...
  
  
  1) Paul Krugman talks about the decline in American education today. It can be difficult to know how seriously to take such talk, since people have been in despair over education since the first attempt to teach someone how to create fire. But Krugman’s take is interesting, if simplistic. He do ...
  
  
  
• The “square root” Economy and Goldman “Surpr ...
  
  
  The economy was center stage at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Istanbul this week. So I thought I would share a few interesting bits that may have gotten overlooked in the reporting by the MSM. From Politico: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner expressed guarded optimism befor ...
  
  
  
• Here’s A Guy Who Deserves a Prize!
  
  
  Never heard of him? Well, Wendell Potter Should be a Household Name! If you care about your health and the health and well-being of your loved ones, you’ve got to know this fellow by name. Wendell Potter started speaking out against his old company, health insurance giant Cigna, last June and h ...
  
  
  
• Nobel Gets Punk’d
  
  
  Where is fucking Ashton Kutcher? I am sure he is skulking around Oslo whipping up mischief and mayhem. There is no way that today’s announcement of a Nobel Peace Prize is not an upcoming episode of Punk’d. If he could snooker Kanye using Jesus then it only makes sense to go after [...]
  
  
  
• CONGRATULATIONS, TOTUS!
  
  
  You too Favreau! Oh, the Absurdity of it all. For winning the Nobel peace prize with your cliches and words, just words. They have given the Nobel peace prize to a man who could not turn around poverty or violence in his own district or the city for however long he was the [...]
  
  
  

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• The Goldstone Report: Killing the Messenger
  
  
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• Losing the Moral High Ground
  
  
  With the deadline for closing Guantanamo looming, the Obama administration risks repeating many of the errors of the Bush years.
  
  
  
• Opportunities and Risks in Honduras
  
  
  Three months after Honduran President Zelaya was escorted out of the country under gunpoint, the crisis continues.
  
  
  
• From Killing Fields to Fields of Dreams
  
  
  Joe Cook had a vision: build a field in Cambodia and they will come.
  
  
  

Global Elite

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  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
  
  
  
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  
  
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Al Jazeera

• Pakistan attackers 'take hostages'
  
  
  Dozens are being held by gunmen following attack on military headquarters in Rawalpindi.
  
  
  
• Turkey and Armenia seek normal ties
  
  
  Planned signing of accords to end animosity, is culmination of Swiss-brokered talks.
  
  
  
• Philippine floods begin to recede
  
  
  Waters flow into lower-valley cities while northern villages remain buried under mud.
  
  
  
• Death sentences for Iran protesters
  
  
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• Three-way summit on N Korea begins
  
  
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Green Inc. - NYT

• Report Offers Road Map to a Green Indiana
  
  
  Coal-dependent Indiana could become one of the nation's greenest states by tapping rural resources to generate renewable energy, according to a report issued by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
  
  
  
• Lemnis Concedes Bulb Label May Mislead
  
  
  The company is considering changing the labeling on its new Pharox60 L.E.D., since its light output, measured in lumens, falls well shy of that given off by 60-watt incandescent bulbs.
  
  
  
• Critics Contest Dam Plan in Northwest
  
  
  In court filings, critics argue that the Obama administration's new plan to show that salmon and hydroelectric dams can coexist along the Columbia and Snake Rivers is not all that different from that of the Bush administration.
  
  
  
• Prospects Distant for Offshore Wind in West
  
  
  While eastern states forge ahead with offshore wind power, a sharp dropoff in the continental shelf hinders offshore turbines in western states.
  
  
  
• Norway Pledges 40 Percent Emissions Cuts
  
  
  The pledge prompted an environmental group to say the country was less generous than it appeared.
  
  
  

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• Even the Camels Are Dying
  
  
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• Fresh Views of Climate Risk: Contest Winners
  
  
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• Over the Summer, a Spread of Thicker Arctic Ice
  
  
  A reprieve, at least for a while, from the recent stretch of remarkable summer meltdowns in the Arctic?
  
  
  
• Climate Auditor Challenged to Do Climate Science
  
  
  A climate "auditor" responds to challenges that he should try undertaking climate science.
  
  
  
• On Walruses and Warming
  
  
  Walruses face rising stress, although not extinction, in a warming Arctic, scientists warn.
  
  
  

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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  I was proud to help contribute some footage to this video - soon enough there will be more video out from what happened at the G20. For now please just check this out. It's certainly a "rough cut" and needs some help in the narrative & so forth, but it's a great intro to the widespread police abuse ...
  
  
  
• Afghanistan UN elections approval unit breaks up u ...
  
  
  Gold busted up and out of the old confines as good ol' snarly British antiwar journalist Robert Fisk broke the big news: the Petrodollar cycling system is finally going off the rails as the world's central bankers start digging for a new solution. [This Petrodollar system was the big achievement of ...
  
  
  
• Sibel Edmonds case: spelled out with the names & d ...
  
  
  For those of you just tuning in... Sibel Edmonds worked at the FBI after 9/11, bumped into a big criminal conspiracy, tried to blow the whistle in 2002, got the "States Secret Privilege" gag, which she defied a couple months ago for a deposition in an Ohio case. In a new interview with Phil Giraldi, ...
  
  
  
• Yr humble correspondent reports back on G20 with A ...
  
  
  Alright so I've been out in Pittsburgh helping cover the G20 conference -- things got pretty hairy out here. We've hunkered down at the Pittsburgh Indymedia Center ( http://indypgh.org ) and the crew has turned out a ton of videos of police brutality that have gone viral over Internets! I just did a ...
  
  
  
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  Boliviana negra - Wikipedia, Also known as supercoca or la millionaria , Boliviana Negra is a relatively new form of coca that is resistant to herbicide Roundup , or the isopropylamine salt of glyphosate . The coca plant is the precursor to the addictive stimulant cocaine , one of the most widely c ...
  
  
  

Daily Censored

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  Read the full story at CommonDreams.org Headlines by Ben Pershing The House is inching closer to voting on a comprehensive health-care bill, even as the chamber appears so divided that the measure may not attract a single Republican supporter. The final vote, likely in late October, is impossible t ...
  
  
  
• Michael Moore vs. Sean Hannity: Round 2
  
  
  Read the full story at News Hounds The rest of Sean Hannity’s lengthy interview with Michael Moore was aired tonight (10/9/09). I think Moore once again got the better of Hannity. But I just wish Moore had confronted Hannity on his record on racial issues, including his association with white supr ...
  
  
  
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  Read the full story at News Hounds What planet does S.E. Cupp live on? Somehow, she seems to have missed the inflammatory, extremist rhetoric coming from the right these days. Instead, she whined on Hannity last night (10/8/09), “Frankly, the rhetoric on the left has gotten so ugly.” She was ref ...
  
  
  

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  WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish President Lech Kaczynski signed the European Union's reform treaty into law on Saturday, leaving the Czech Republic as the only country still to ratify the document.
  
  
  
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• Obama says Nobel Peace Prize is "call to action"
  
  
  WASHINGTON/OSLO (Reuters) - Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision that honored the first-year U.S. president more for promise than achievement and drew both praise and skepticism around the world.
  
  
  
• Gunmen attack Pakistani army HQ, 10 dead
  
  
  (For more Pakistan and Afghanistan stories, click [ID:nAFPAK]) * Gunmen dressed as soldiers attack Pakistani army HQ * Four gunmen killed, two escape, military officials say * Six soldiers also killed (Updates death toll among soldiers) By Augustine Anthony RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Oct 10 (Reuters) - ...
  
  
  

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  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Dollar plunge highlights fault lines in global economic "recovery" ©   World Socialist Web Site By Barry Grey October 10, 2009 The U.S. dollar fell to a 14-month low against other currencies Thursday, capping seve ...
  
  
  
• Rumors of Jewish, Israeli involvement swirl around ...
  
  
  [ Blogmaster note : Rumors of Israeli involvement in the Honduran coup were reported in this blog as early as July 2, 2009, citing an article from Havana news agency, Prensa Latina, quoting Venezuelan deputy Adel El Zabayar.] IntelTrends - The following article is from Israeli newspaper Haaretz. ...
  
  
  
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  The following article is from Mehr News Agency (MNA), Tehran. Opportunities, threats are major characteristics of digital age ©   Mehr News Agency By Parviz Esmaeili October 9, 2009 BEIJING, China, Oct. 9 (MNA) - In a speech to the first-ever World Media Summit (WMS) held in Beijing, Parviz Esmaei ...
  
  
  
• Collapse of the Greenback? Will the Dollar get an ...
  
  
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. Collapse of the Greenback? Will the Dollar get an "Arab Oil Shock"? ©   Global Research By F. William Engdahl October 8, 2009 Arab oil producing nations and some of the world's largest oil consumers including China and Jap ...
  
  
  
• Is Obama's Stance On Iran Based Upon His Faith
  
  
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin. Is Obama's Stance On Iran Based Upon His Faith ©  Stanislav Mishin Source:   Mat Rodina October 7, 2009 As many of us in Russia have noted, America, under the so called "peace" loving Barack Obama, has become much more mi ...
  
  
  

PsyBlog

• How to Make People Believe in Telepathy
  
  
  Have you ever been thinking about someone and then moments later they've called you? Is that random coincidence or something more? People love to believe in supernatural powers like telepathy. At least one-third of Americans report a belief in extra-sensory perception (ESP), with a further 40% refu ...
  
  
  
• Are You a Liar?
  
  
  Do people really lie 3 times within 10 minutes of meeting someone new? It's a statistic often quoted to show how callous and heartless people are. It's the kind of number the misanthrope TV doc Gregory House (played by Brit Hugh Laurie) should have tattooed across his forehead. But what kinds of li ...
  
  
  
• PsyBlog Now on Twitter
  
  
  PsyBlog is now on Twitter, right here. So many people have kindly been sharing articles from PsyBlog with others on Twitter that the tweet count for recent articles is now fairly hefty. Thanks very much to all the Twitterers who've been spreading the word! PsyBlog's Twitter feed is another way to ...
  
  
  
• How Long to Form a Habit?
  
  
  Research reveals a curved relationship between practice and automaticity. Say you want to create a new habit, whether it's taking more exercise, eating more healthily or writing a blog post every day, how often does it need to be performed before it no longer requires Herculean self-control? Clear ...
  
  
  
• Why You Can’t Help Believing Everything You Read
  
  
  You shouldn't believe everything you read, yet according to a classic psychology study at first we can't help it. What is the mind's default position: are we naturally critical or naturally gullible? As a species do we have a tendency to behave like Agent Mulder from the X-Files who always wanted t ...
  
  
  

After Downing Street.org

• Veterans for Peace Reacts to President Obama Recei ...
  
  
  VETERANS FOR PEACE REACTS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA RECEIVING NOBEL PEACE PRIZE: "Something is wrong with this picture" - October 10, 2009 By Mike Ferner, President | Veterans For Peace Once you had to help lead one of the most important social movements in U.S. history or minister to the poor, sick, orph ...
  
  
  
• Alfred Nobel's Will
  
  
  Message from Nick - Here is what Alfred Nobel stipulated in his will about the awarding of the prizes: "The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way: The capital shall be invested by my executors in safe securities and shall constitute a fund, the interest on ...
  
  
  
• Visions
  
  
  Visions By Cindy Sheehan Today, a President of the largest violently military empire in the world, won the Nobel Peace Prize while his nation is mired in wars in three countries where his actions have oftentimes made things worse. Let’s also make this clear that the Nobel prizes are supposed to ...
  
  
  
• DC! TONIGHT! 6 PM - Join No Escalation of Troops i ...
  
  
  What: Crash the HRC Event No Escalation of Troops in Afghanistan When: 6pm Where: Convention Center Mt Vernon Metro stop Dress for success with the REAL NOBEL Winners the peace community as we send a message to the White House. Words are never enough now fulfill your many PROMISES of peace & ...
  
  
  
• Berkeley Law Students to Launch Torture Accountabi ...
  
  
  Berkeley Law Students to Launch Torture Accountability Initiative By Riya Bhattacharjee | Berkeley Daily Planet A group of UC Berkeley law students will launch a torture accountability initiative next week dedicated to holding the authors of the infamous torture memos accountable, reinstating respe ...
  
  
  

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  Kurt Michael Friese cooks in Iowa, the state that produces more eggs than any other in the nation. So believe him when he says to avoid flavorless, ecologically troubling industrially produced eggs—and listen to his ideas for cooking with pastured eggs from small farmers.
  
  
  
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• Lion And The Lamb
  
  
  In from the Internet The Jesusita Fire in Santa Barbara, California caused these two to take shelter together. The fawn is three days old and the bobcat about three weeks. The fawn came from somewhere in the fire and the bobcat from Carpenteria. They immediately bonded and snuggled together under a ...
  
  
  
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  Eric Toensmeier gave a wonderful workshop at the Financial Permaculture Convergence in Hohenwald. He has a marvelous sense of how to take permaculture to profits. For those in the New England area keen on building your local food supplies and plugging into a powerful permaculture network, here is a ...
  
  
  
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  View Larger By Jesse Gold has apparently broken out of a big inverse Head and Shoulder formation, possibly an ascending triangle if you prefer that for reliability. In combination, as they often are, this is a powerful sign of buying pressure, accumulation and a sharp rise in price. The targets we ...
  
  
  
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  THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
  
  
  
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  In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
  
  
  
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  Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...
  
  
  

Insurgency Watch - Posts

• At Home with a Swat Lashkar
  
  
  I just finished up a few days in Swat and while I’m working on a story about it, I thought you might like to see a few pictures I took while there. Enjoy. Share/Save
  
  
  
• FACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in Pakistan ...
  
  
  Washington PostFACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in PakistanReutersBy this time he is thought to have fled the region for the safe haven of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. * Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader ...Pakistan to Target Taliba...
  
  
  
• Editorial: Indo-Pak dialogue: some basic questions ...
  
  
  Editorial: Indo-Pak dialogue: some basic questions Daily Times Neither of these conditions obtains in the case of India and Pakistan . * We all know that the Taliban and Al Qaeda get their “terror money” from diverse ... and more »
  
  
  
• A US Counteroffensive In Pakistan - International ...
  
  
  A US Counteroffensive In Pakistan International Analyst Network ... news service accusing Pakistan of refusing to join the US in eliminating one of the Afghan local parties – the Afghan Taliban – whom her own government ...
  
  
  
• Somalia’s Al Shabaab Releases Extensive Training ...
  
  
  The Mujahideen Youth Movement, also known as al-Shabaab, released yesterday an extensive 48-and-a-half minute training video titled, “At Your Service, Osama.” It shows extensive footage from the Commander Abu Suleim Training Camp somewhere in Somalia — likely southern Somalia where the al Sh ...
  
  
  

AlterNet - DrugReporter

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

Twilight Earth

• Twilight Earth Visits The DC Solar Decathlon. Info ...
  
  
  The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2009 is held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Oct. 9-13 and 15-18, 2009. One of the wonderful things about working in Washington DC is having access to things like the bi-yearly Solar Decathlon which is held on the Washington Mall. So on a bea ...
  
  
  
• Senior Citizens March 25 Miles Against Mountaintop ...
  
  
  Fifteen participants between the ages of 50 and 83 set off on a Senior Citizen’s March to End Mountaintop Removal at 10 a.m. this morning. Related posts: Ending Streamlined Mountaintop Coal Removal Permits Is Not Enough EPA Approves More Mountaintop Removal Mines: MTR = WTF? Daryl Hannah and Ja ...
  
  
  
• Toilets Help Stop Overpopulation – Heres How
  
  
  Lack of private, clean and working toilets helps contribute to overpopulation in many developing countries. Related posts: 6 Ways to Stop Feeling Consumer Guilt Green Wont Be The Norm, Until We Stop Calling Things Green Lets Make a Healthier World for Our Children
  
  
  
• President Obama Gives Federal Agencies 90 Days to ...
  
  
  The Obama administration has given federal agencies 90 days to submit aggressive targets to reduce greenhouse gasses and energy use. Related posts: President Obama on the Clean Energy and Security Act (Video) President Allocates 786M in Recovery Act Funds to BioFuel Infrastructure Federal Governm ...
  
  
  
• Caribou Herds Getting Smaller as a Result of Globa ...
  
  
  Caribou herds are growing thin on the Porcupine river Tundra in the Yukon Territory. It's not the only place where the caribou are suffering. Related posts: Reindeer About to Go the Way of the Polar Bear? How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic ANWR – Is It The Caribou, Or Ourselves That Need S ...
  
  
  

Inhabitat

• Antarctic Icebergs Make Their Own Art
  
  
  Stunning, no? Apparently some icebergs have stripes, and it’s not the result of Photoshop or internet pranks or penguin sledding or any outside manipulation. You might have seen these shots in an email that’s made the rounds– it’s even been examined by snopes.com and hoax-slayer.com.  The ...
  
  
  
• Win a $1700 Folding Bike and Meet the Inhabitat Ed ...
  
  
  CALLING ALL INHABITAT READERS – Don’t miss your chance to win this awesome $1700 Biomega bike! Hey Inhabitat readers! Want to win a super-slick folding bike valued at $1700? We’re excited to announce that we’re giving away this awesome Biomega Boston bike, and all you have to do to win is jo ...
  
  
  
• Links Roundup of the Week: Solar Decathlon
  
  
  It’s finally the week of the Solar Decathlon competition! From Thursday, October 8 to Friday, October 16, 20 multi-disciplinary students teams made up of architects, engineers, and designers will participate in 10 contests to determine the winner. You can take a peek at each team’s standing here ...
  
  
  
• KOZ Architects’ Colorful, Green Sports & Leisure ...
  
  
  KOZ Architects’ Sports & Leisure Center is a rainbow colored wonderland for kids in Saint-Cloud, France. Designed for festive celebrations and entertainment and featuring the ‘coolest’ indoor climbing wall in France, the vibrant hues from the outside of the building correlate via color coding ...
  
  
  
• Rice University’s Low Budget ZEROW House Keeps U ...
  
  
  The Solar Decathlon, the super solar architecture event held in Washington D.C. bi-annually, has officially begun, and Rice University’s low budget ZEROW House is already making waves. The first round of evaluations took place yesterday, and this underdog placed 4th among the twenty competitors af ...
  
  
  

Pogue's Posts

• AT&T Does the Right Thing
  
  
  You'll soon be able to make unlimited phone calls on your iPhone - without using up any of your monthly airtime minutes.
  
  
  
• Tech's Most Elusive Innovation: Plain-Old English
  
  
  It's 2009, tech industry. Can we lose some of the jargon and gobbledygook, please?
  
  
  
• A New Campaign: Squash the Bug!
  
  
  Those little network logos that live in the corner of your TV screen--what's the point of those, other than to get in the way?
  
  
  
• The Secret of the Dancing Boxes Revealed
  
  
  Shen Wei was the principal choreographer of the stunning opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. I learned some of his backstage secrets.
  
  
  
• Pogue Addresses Common Complaints About Tech
  
  
  My e-mail box overflows each day with reader comments and questions, and most express some form of discontent: complaints about how they've been treated, critiques on columns, gripes about a product, and so on.
  
  
  

Open Your Eyes News

• Gore Vidal’s United States of fury
  
  
  The Independent - At 84, the writer and activist may be confined to a wheelchair, but his rage – at his country, its leaders and citizens – burns as fiercely as ever. Read Article
  
  
  
• UN extends controversial US war in Afghanistan
  
  
  Press TV - Despite widespread discontent over the US’ handling of war in Afghanistan, the UN Security Council has extended the mandate of foreign troops for one more year. A resolution by the 15-member council called for bolstering NATO-led forces in the country to counter growing Taliban in ...
  
  
  
• Afghan War Top Troop Request Exceeds 60,000
  
  
  Washington Post - The request for troops sent to President Barack Obama by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan includes three different options, with the largest alternative including a request for more than 60,000 troops, according to a U.S. official familiar with the document. Although the top ...
  
  
  
• UK Government Hyping up the Global Warming Scam on ...
  
  
  The Times - Climate change sceptics are to be targeted in a hard-hitting government advertising campaign that will be the first to state unequivocally that Man is causing global warming and endangering life on Earth.The £6 million campaign, which begins tonight in the prime ITV1 slot during Coron ...
  
  
  
• Russian regional elections ‘rigged by Kremlin’ ...
  
  
  Daily Telegraph - Russia’s embattled opposition movement has accused the Kremlin of holding Soviet-style “non-elections” as more than a fifth of the population prepares to vote in key regional polls on Sunday. Read Article
  
  
  

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Obama wins Nobel “Peace” Prize, gives imperial ...
  
  
  Obama wins Nobel “Peace” Prize, gives imperialism a facelift for the 21st Century (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)   Today, Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Given his cult of personality and his stature in the so-called “international community,” it is not a big surprise ...
  
  
  
• KKKolumbus Day in Amerikkka
  
  
  KKKolumbus Day in Amerikkka is the celebration of white supremacy, land theft, genocide, slavery, and the exploitation of the Third World. Maoist-Third Worldists seek to abolish this racist holiday just as we seek the abolition of Amerikkka itself. MSH issues the Anti-Kolumbus Program for the Dest ...
  
  
  
• RAIM: Afghan Locals Give U.S. Occupiers Proper Goo ...
  
  
  Afghan Locals Give U.S. Occupiers Proper Goodbye (http://raimd.wordpress.com) On Saturday, October 3rd hundreds of insurgents stormed two remote military bases near the Pakistan border in Afghanistan. A proper goodbye– the attack killed eight occupiers from Fort Carson and injured many more as th ...
  
  
  
• Indigenous of Ecuador confront state and corporati ...
  
  
  Indigenous of Ecuador confront state and corporations (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)   Hundreds of Shuar people, an Indigenous tribe in Ecuador that constitutes 35 percent of the country’s population of 14.5 million, have occupied a highway in protest over state and corporate exploitation o ...
  
  
  
• IJC: White settler admits crimes of his parasite c ...
  
  
     White settler admits crimes of his parasite class against the Azanian nation By Jacob Brown (jacobinternationalism.wordpress.com) Klanada’s Globe and Mail’s Sept. 17 article reads: “Brandon Huntley, a white South African who had overstayed his Canadian work permit, applied for ...
  
  
  

PakAlert

• GHQ Attack: Time To End Foreign Meddling In Pakist ...
  
  
  By AQUIB MOIN Saturday, 10 October 2009. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—On October 10, 2009, we witnessed a deadly attack on the Pakistan Army GHQ in Rawalpindi.  We take this as a direct assault on the national security, sovereignty, integrity and dignity of the State of Pakistan.  We suggest and rec ...
  
  
  
• EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS REVEALED: How Pakistan Interio ...
  
  
  On US Ambassador Anne W. Patterson’s personal request, Interior Minister Rehman Malik kept Pakistan’s security agencies in the dark and helped the US embassy in Islamabad create and equip private American-run militias with sophisticated weapons that are prohibited in the country outside military ...
  
  
  
• Again, US Embassy In Islamabad Involved In Shelter ...
  
  
  The Pakistan Foreign Office summoned US and Dutch diplomats after the Pakistani police arrested members of the US and Dutch embassies roaming Islamabad’s streets in unmarked cars carrying sophisticated weapons that diplomats are banned beyond military use.  In the latest incident, Dutch diploma ...
  
  
  
• India Fuming At Pakistani Newspaper For Leaking St ...
  
  
  A AHMEDQURAISHI.COM Report Friday, 9 October 2009. WWW.AHMEDQURAISHI.COM ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—India is fuming because a Pakistani newspaper broke the news that the Indian military has finalized plans to deploy a unit of women sex providers in occupied Kashmir, where figures of suicides and mental ...
  
  
  
• BREAKING NEWS: Terrorists Prevented From Infiltrat ...
  
  
  US-linked Private Security Firms’ Involvement Suspected Breaking News Exclusive | PakistanKaKhudaHafiz.com An attempt to attack the General Head Quarters of the Pakistan Armed Forces has been foiled earlier today as four militants were shot dead while trying to enter the premises. ISPR (Inter-Serv ...
  
  
  

ecogeek

• Dow Introduces Stealth Solar Shingles
  
  
  This week Dow Chemical Company joined the ranks of companies trying to make renewable energy both practical and visually pleasing .  The company introduced its POWERHOUSE Solar Shingle this week and, I have to say, I'm impressed.  The new shingles almost seemlessly blend in with asphalt shingles, ...
  
  
  
• Northeastern States Joining Forces for Offshore Wi ...
  
  
  So far there's been quite a bit of competition between countries and states, all trying to plan and build the latest and greatest renewable energy projects, but a group of East Coast states has decided the key to getting offshore wind and wave projects off the ground is to stop trying to beat one a ...
  
  
  
• Researchers Proposing Method for Determining Plug- ...
  
  
  The Society of Automotive Engineers and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are recommending that the EPA come up with two different ratings for plug-in vehicles:  miles per gallon and electricity per mile. The two groups will finalize their proposal within the next six months, hoping to pre ...
  
  
  
• Google PowerMeter Finds a Gadget Partner
  
  
  Before now, the Google PowerMeter software could only estimate your energy use, unless you happened to be a customer of the handful of utilities it was working with.  That has changed.  The company announced yesterday that they have partnered with The Energy Detective (TED), allowing you to bypas ...
  
  
  
• Recycling Your Cell Phone Just Got Easier
  
  
  While some cell phone companies are introducing convenient ways for you to recycle your phone once you're done with it, a new start-up is making it just plain simple.  EcoATM will be deploying kiosks at retailers around the country where you can drop off your old phone, have its value assessed and ...
  
  
  

Times Online - Science

• Living in the city
  
  
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• For sheer ignorance, physics is bliss
  
  
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• Inherit the Wind: the old dinosaur is back on tria ...
  
  
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• Greenwash: why biofuels are just hot air
  
  
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• Keeping it real: the art of science
  
  
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Environment _ National Geographic

• Swine Flu Hits Native Groups Unusually Hard, Group ...
  
  
  Today's announcement that U.S. swine flu deaths among children are "shooting up" is generating headlines. But, under the radar, swine flu is infecting another group up to five times more often than the general public, advocates say.
  
  
  
• PHOTOS: Giant Sea "Mucus" Blobs on the Rise
  
  
  Enormous sheets of gelatinous mucilagefull of deadly bacteria and virusesare becoming a more common sight throughout the Mediterranean Sea as temperatures rise, a new study says.
  
  
  
• Giant, Mucus-Like Sea Blobs on the Rise, Pose Dang ...
  
  
  Miles-long sheets of mucus-like material are forming more often and in more places, a new Mediterranean Sea report says. More than just unpleasant, the blobs are an unexpected health hazard, the study found.
  
  
  
• VIDEO: Sea "Mucus" Blobs Pose Threat
  
  
  Giant, jelly-like sheets of dead and living organic matter, known as marine mucilages, are spreading throughout the Mediterranean. The blobs may smother marine life and carry diseases dangerous to humans.
  
  
  
• Plastic-Bottle Boat to Sail
  
  
  Plastiki , a 60-foot-long (18.3-meter-long) catamaran made of more than 12,000 plastic bottles, will soon ply the Pacific Ocean to increase awareness of environmental problems. Video
  
  
  

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Shorter Erick Erickson: "It's because he's black!"
  
  
  And he is Jimmy Carter too! "I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota for it, but that is the only thing I can think of for this news. There is no way Barack Obama earned it in the nominations period." Per usual, Red State's Trike Force always keepin' it classy ... A ...
  
  
  
• The only thing between us and the terrorists?
  
  
  Is the neoconservative echo-chamber between Joe Lieberman's ears : "I don't think anybody who has any fairness or is in their right mind would think the president or the secretary of homeland security would raise an alert level and scare people for political reasons... That's outrageous." - Joe Lieb ...
  
  
  
• Bethel First Selectman Arrested
  
  
  ctblogger had the story up early at HatCityBLOG and MLN , and the Newstimes got around to covering it as well, on Bethel's First Selectman, Bob Burke, being arrested for making harassing phone calls. Ellis said Burke and the alleged victim had a personal relationship that was private between them an ...
  
  
  
• The Lion Sleeps Tonight
  
  
  RIP Edward Kennedy   Via WCVB Boston: Kennedy, who waged a public fight against a malignant brain tumor in the last year of his life, was surrounded by family members who had come in recent days to say a last goodbye to him. His death marks the end to a life where like the phoenix. Kennedy rose abov ...
  
  
  
• A pie fight between an incompetent poseur and a re ...
  
  
  There has been a lot said and written about the current arguments between Salon's Glenn Greenwald and Time's Joe Klein . I wonder what the real journalist will have to say in response to Klein? That didn't take long? Beltway culture, checks on journalists and secrecy obligations I'm ambivalent about ...
  
  
  

SPL Center

• Justice Department Takes a Second Look at New Blac ...
  
  
  The Department of Justice has begun an internal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the dismissal in May of voter intimidation charges against members of the New Black Panther Party, a black separatist group. Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee ...
  
  
  
• Dobbs a Headliner at Hate Group’s D.C. Gathe ...
  
  
  For those two or three people remaining in America who are still uncertain if Lou Dobbs is an immigration extremist, the CNN and radio show host has removed any doubts: He is. Dobbs is a headliner next week when the Federation for American Immigration Reform — FAIR — takes its annual “Hold The ...
  
  
  
• Putting Glenn Beck to the Truth Test: He Flunks, A ...
  
  
  Fox News commentator Glenn Beck sparked a firestorm in July when he declared on the air (though not on his show) that President Barack Obama possesses “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture” and called him “a racist.” He seemed unchastened even after his own network dist ...
  
  
  
• FAIR Embraces Racist Founder
  
  
  Despite John Tanton’s long, documented history of racism, Dan Stein, the president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), called the founder of his organization a “Renaissance man” of wide-ranging “intellect” in a Washington Post article published today. It’s hard, of ...
  
  
  
• Nativist Group Founder Admits Contact with Forde H ...
  
  
  Laine Lawless, the Mexican-flag-burning founder of the Arizona-based hate group Border Guardians, admitted last week that she met with fellow nativist vigilante leader Shawna Forde less than 24 hours after Forde allegedly took part in the home invasion slayings of a Latino man and his 9-year-old dau ...
  
  
  

Gringo Times - Rio

• Copacabana: Olympic Hub
  
  
  By Jaylan Boyle, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - As hangovers subside following the Olympics announcement on Copacabana’s golden sands, it seems fitting to give real estate readers an overview of one of the key areas that will host the assembled hordes in 2016, at least as it is now. One th ...
  
  
  
• Flamengo Dominate Flu in Clássico
  
  
  By Doug Gray, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – Flamengo were clearly not prepared to do their ailing rivals any favors on Sunday night as they disposed of Fluminense 2 x 0 with another masterful display from Adriano. A record crowd packed into the Maracanã to see Flamengo reaffirm their des ...
  
  
  
• Rio Gets The Games
  
  
  By Jaylan Boyle, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - The cheer wasn’t quite what it could have been when it was announced to the expectant masses on Copacabana Beach that Chicago had been knocked out of the running. Maybe the feeling was that, if Obama’s adopted city and supposed front-runner ...
  
  
  
• Lula’s Dictionary Released
  
  
  By Karen Shishiptorova, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s President Luís Inácio “Lula” da Silva has mesmerized local and international press, as well as heads of state worldwide, with his gusto for analogies, controversial statements and history blunders. Considered a ...
  
  
  
• Fashion on Film
  
  
  By Lindsay Spratt, Sub Editor RIO DE JANEIRO - With the Rio Film Festival in full swing comes another celluloid treat, this time for the city’s fashionistas. The fourth edition of ‘FilmeFashion’ opened at the Centro Cultural do Banco do Brasil (CCBB) this Tuesday, October 6 and will run until ...
  
  
  

change: org.

• Can Silicon Valley and NPR Save the News?
  
  
  Journalism is dying! News has no business model! Reporting is for crap! Ahhhhhhhhhhh! Welcome to the conversation about news media today. Faced with the onslaught of "citizen reporting" and social media, traditional news media is hemorrhaging resources and wondering if the whole house of cards is a ...
  
  
  
• Desperation Reigns In Detroit
  
  
  You may have heard by now of the crush of Detroiters who descended on Cobo Hall this week to apply for homelessness prevention assistance.  50,000 - 60,000 residents have received applications for 3,400 packages of up to $3,000 to cover utility bills and fees associated with keeping one's home or ...
  
  
  
• "Why I Slept with 1300 Women"
  
  
  Editors Note: The text of Sebastian Horsley's manifesto, available from the link below, contains adult language which I find disrespectful and degrading to women. Read with caution. British, self-proclaimed "prostitute connoisseur" Sebastian Horsley begins his commercial sex manifesto "Why I Slept ...
  
  
  
• Get Your Favorite Nonprofit Featured on YouTube
  
  
  The folks at YouTube have dropped us a line to let us know about a new project going called Video Volunteers. With a focus on animal welfare this month, the project asks people to choose a nonprofit they support, create an under-3-minute promotional video for that org, and submit it to be voted on ...
  
  
  
• Bill Maher on Scaring the Hell Out of Right-Wing H ...
  
  
  Today marks Day 1 of the National Equality March weekend, and in honor of the weekend of action, training and marching for equal rights, Bill Maher is out with a column that will likely provide fits for the anti-LGBT right-wing . His message for LGBT activists in D.C. this weekend is simple: scare ...
  
  
  

Common Dreams -News

• Obama Defends New Consumer Agency
  
  
  US President Barack Obama has launched a staunch defence of his proposed new agency to protect the interests of the American consumer. Mr Obama said it was more important than ever to have a new consumer watchdog, and accused vested interests of trying to scupper reform. He accused the US Chamber of ...
  
  
  
• Health-Care Bill May Not Get Single GOP Vote in th ...
  
  
  by Ben Pershing The House is inching closer to voting on a comprehensive health-care bill, even as the chamber appears so divided that the measure may not attract a single Republican supporter. The final vote, likely in late October, is impossible to predict, but lawmakers and aides from both partie ...
  
  
  
• Top Troop Request Exceeds 60,000
  
  
  by Peter Speigel and Yochi Dreazen WASHINGTON -- The request for troops sent to President Barack Obama by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan includes three different options, with the largest alternative including a request for more than 60,000 troops, according to a U.S. official familiar with t ...
  
  
  
• Ex-Staffers Winning Defense Panel Pork, Study Find ...
  
  
  by Carol D. Leonnig In the coming year's military spending bill, members of a House panel continue to steer lucrative defense contracts to companies represented by their former staffers, who in turn steer generous campaign donations to those lawmakers, a new analysis has found. read more
  
  
  
• Maine Same-Sex Marriage Measure: Prop. 8 Rerun
  
  
  by Joe Garofoli Maine is the latest battleground for same-sex marriage, with voters deciding next month whether to approve a measure overturning their state Legislature's decision in May to legalize such marriages. The campaign for the measure, known as Question 1, looks like a rerun of last year's ...
  
  
  

Lifehacker

• Top 10 Reminder Tools for Forgetful Minds [Lifeha ...
  
  
  Tweak your workflow and inboxes all you want, but your mental memory might always be the weakest link in your day-to-day life. These 10 tools take some of the workload off your brain, and prevent a few forehead slaps. Photo by cogdogblog . Note: We've previously listed some whole-brain, memory-boost ...
  
  
  
• Where's My Cell Phone Gives Your Wayward Phone a ...
  
  
  You've misplaced your cellphone in your house and you don't have a land line or friend handy to call your number and make it ring. If you've got internet access, WheresMyCellPhone can fill in for your friend. The site is no-frills, for sure. You plug in your phone number, hit the "Make it Ring!" but ...
  
  
  
• Fences Desktop Icon Organizer Updates to Version ...
  
  
  Windows only: Remember Fences, the awesome desktop icon organizer we highlighted back in February? Fences just left beta and rolled out its 1.0 release, and it continues to keep your cluttered desktop icons in attractive, minimal, organized groups. The video above should give you a pretty good ide ...
  
  
  
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  One normally doesn't associate pre-teens with sophisticated workspace design and a firm grasp of programming languages, but if the Lifehacker Workspaces Show and Tell Pool has taught us anything, it's that there is a first time for everything. Click on the image above for a closer look. Today's feat ...
  
  
  
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  Part of creating a copacetic work environment is learning to work well with colleagues. The real secret, according to BusinessWeek, is to ditch your expectations and accept that some people live by a very different set of rules. Photo by Manuel Van De Weijer . Author Peter Bregman writes that the an ...
  
  
  
  
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MARKET TALK: NM Gov Asks GE To Build Renewables Plant In State

Wall Street Journal

- Oct 09, 2009

- 19 hours ago

(GE) Chief Executive Jeff Immelt to build a renewable-energy equipment manufacturing facility in New Mexico, to replace an aircraft engine factory the ...

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States not meeting renewable energy goals

USA Today

- Oct 08, 2009

- Oct 08, 2009

By Rich Pedroncelli, AP By Traci Watson, USA TODAY Across the USA, states are falling short of their goals to increase the use of renewable energy as ...

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MARKET TALK: Renewable Energy Grps Laud DOE Loan Guarantee Program

Wall Street Journal

- Oct 07, 2009

- Oct 07, 2009

[Dow Jones] Renewable energy industry groups hail announcement of US Energy Dept.'s long-awaited loan guarantee program designed to support about $8 billion ...

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New BLM Office Opens to Fast-Track Renewable Energy Proposals

Triple Pundit

- Oct 09, 2009

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The offices are part of a larger effort to fast-track the development of renewable energy systems across public lands. According to the DOI, public lands ...

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Do birth control pills alter mate selection?

USA Today

- Oct 10, 2009

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... mate choice and reproductive outcomes," said Alexandra Alvergne, lead author of a study appearing in the October issue of Trends in Ecology & Evolution. ...

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Study: Women on Birth Control Pill Less Attracted to 'Masculine' Men

FOXNews

- Oct 08, 2009

- Oct 08, 2009

A recent study featured in the journal “Ecology and Evolution” claims the birth control pill may have changed women's taste in men over the years, ...

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The Loyal Alligator

U.S. News & World Report

- Oct 09, 2009

- Oct 09, 2009

Louisiana, US - Alligators display the same loyalty to their mating partners as birds reveals a study published today in Molecular Ecology. ...

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Darigold ammonia leak kills fish in Issaquah creek

Seattle Post Intelligencer

- Oct 08, 2009

- Oct 08, 2009

The Ecology Department says most of the fish were small sculpin with a few salmon and trout. The spill was discovered Wednesday by a state biologist who was ...

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What's next for NASA's LCROSS moon-crashing mission

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- Oct 10, 2009

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Lunar explorers might drink that water, or extract hydrogen from water for use as rocket fuel, someday, if it's there in meaningful amounts. ...

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State leaders fail to reach water accord

Los Angeles Times

- Oct 09, 2009

- 13 hours ago

Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislative leaders broke off talks Friday evening without a deal on upgrading California's water supply and with a looming ...

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You may have noticed the different header on today's feeds update.

I originally set up Opit's LinkFest! as Oldephartteintraining to provide a timeline and history of my online wanderings. When 2 years of work at WordPress went up in smoke when the files were archived - they own the site, remember - I transferred to a European webhost because at the time I was paranoid about my popularity making me a target of online hackery /censorship ; trashing the record of events provided.

Who reads 'About' anyway ?

It was where I stashed basic ideas for novice surfers to access online tools and services : online orientation. I came from a country modem that took forever to load. RSS just looked like too much of a miracle not to share on a basic service without bells and whistles.

I'm sure today using computers at work, cellphones, or living in the country are still a pain in the nether regions. Nor is all the world serviced efficiently. Otherwise...things have progressed. I use a computer that was built for me almost 5 years ago...with a new board and Operating System!

This is my toy and recreation. I hope I can help you to find things of interest to you. I know the stuff I list isn't everybody's choice.

That's the kicker. You can make your own  choices without being technically able. The Web is one fantastic public library : but, Windows users. Kindly do not surf as Administrator.

Collections forwarded to Blogger*

The following list preceded availability of static Pages in the blog and was mounted on Opit's LinkFest! on Opera. Current information is the Topical Index in the left column. ( 4/15/2011 )

• Readers & Gadgets
• Essay Collections - Opit
• News Services
• Blogs
• Opit Online
  
  
  Websites,Bookmarks and Groups
  
  
  
• Answers,Dictionaries,etc.
• Alternative News & Videos
  
  
  i.e. May Not Be Not Paid Nonsense
  
  
  
• Blogs - Politics
• Indexes - Blogs, Portals,Writers' Communities +
• Notable Posts
• Blogging News Sites ( and some MSM )
• Corporate Farming
  
  
  Environment + NWO
  
  
  
• Perception Alteration
  
  
  formerly 'Overton Window'
  
  
  
• Water* - Wealth and Power
  
  
  Environment + NWO
  
  
  
• Magazines
• Context and Intel
• Documents
• Online Library
• Societies
• Mileposts
• Police State
• Curiosities
• Uranium - Mining and 'Depleted'
  
  
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• Web 2.0 - Tech, tools, tips
• Social Movements
• Not 'P.C.' | NWO
• Energy
  
  
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• Science
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