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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, October 12, 2009

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • GERMANY: The Berlin Wall Came Down, Others Went U ...
    TURIN, Italy, Oct 12 (IPS) - Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, circumstances leading to that landmark event and what really happened behind the scenes remain a subject of debate. Equally controversial is what the fall of the wall brought in its wake.
  • CANADA: Harper Courts Religious Right, But Quietl ...
    TORONTO, Oct 12 (IPS) - Stephen Harper's ruling Conservative government has managed to muddy the ideological right-wing aspects of his political agenda to stay in power in Canada without alienating his western and rural base of moral and social conservatives.
  • ARGENTINA: Opposition, Media Giants to Fight New ...
    BUENOS AIRES, Oct 12 (IPS) - While civil society groups celebrated Argentina's new broadcasting law, media giants threatened to fight it with a wave of lawsuits, and opposition lawmakers pledged to revise it after the next Congress convenes in December.
  • Q&A: Invest in Young People in Latin America
    SANTIAGO, Oct 12 (IPS) - To fight inequality, Latin American countries must double the financial commitment they made at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Marcela Suazo, the regional director for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), told IPS.
  • MIDEAST: Rift Developing Between PA and Fatah
    RAMALLAH, Oct 12 (IPS) - An increasingly isolated and unpopular Palestinian Authority (PA) has again made a 180-degree turn in the Goldstone report fiasco as it tries to fend off mounting criticism from all and sundry, including its own organisation.

Scoop - NZ

  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Four Degrees of Devastation
    The prospect of a four-degree Celsius rise in global average temperatures in 50 years is alarming - but not alarmist, climate scientists now believe.Eighteen months ago, no one dared imagine humanity pushing the climate beyond an additional two degrees C of heating, but rising carbon emissions and i ...
  • Hotel defaults, foreclosures rise in California
    More California hotels are being pushed into foreclosure as tourists and businesses alike scale back their travel plans and owners are unable to pay their mortgages.Statewide, more than 300 hotels were in foreclosure or default on their loans as of Sept. 30 -- a nearly fivefold increase since the st ...
  • The 4 things we need to do to avoid catastrophic c ...
    4 things- quite easy ones, and the costs of those things  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • How Iceland copes with a broken economy
    It's been one year since Iceland slid into the financial abyss with the failure of leading banks. The economy still hasn't recovered, but Icelanders appear to have gotten used to life in the crisis. They live more modestly now and seem surprisingly content.The prize came almost exactly a year later. ...
  • What a difference an election makes ! John Key bef ...
    Quotes from John Key before the election and how they stack up with the actions after the election . There is a massive disconnect !!  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

Independent ( London )

  • Charges filed against 'al-Qa'ida' physicist
    A French judicial official says preliminary charges have been filed against a physicist who works at the world's largest atom smasher and is suspected of al-Qa'ida links.
  • Man injures himself in Spanish barracks blast
    A Libyan man set off a bomb while trying to enter an army barracks in Milan today, seriously injuring himself and lightly wounding the guard who stopped him, Italian law enforcement officials said.
  • Body found in hunt for missing toddler
    Police in New Zealand today found a body in a drain near where a toddler went missing a week earlier.
  • North Korea fires 5 short-range missiles
    North Korea fired five short-range missiles off its east coast today, a news report said, even as South Korea proposed working-level talks with its communist neighbor.
  • Bombing in Pakistan market kills at least 41
    A suicide car bombing targeting Pakistani troops killed 41 people Monday, the fourth grisly militant attack in just over a week, as the Taliban pledged to mobilise militants across the country for more strikes.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran deplores language of threat, sanction
    Summary: Ahead of a planned nuclear meeting in Vienna, Iran slams the West's use of the language of "sanctions and threats" against the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic. source: Press TV read more
  • Eagle is grounded over Turks’ Gaza snub
    Summary: The US has cancelled its biggest air-defence exercise with Israel after Turkey refused to allow Israeli aircraft to participate in the war games, due to begin out of Turkish air bases today. source: Times on line read more
  • The Nuclear Riddle
    Summary: As with Iraq, the threat of weapons of mass destruction is again marketed as a causa belli. As with Iraq, the claim is disputed by weapons inspectors and intelligence analysts. The Iraqi programme had been shut down a dozen years before the invasion. In Iran, there is no evidence that u ...
  • Iran will enrich uranium further if talks fail
    Summary: Iran warned Saturday it will enrich uranium to a higher level needed to power a research reactor if talks with the U.N. nuclear watchdog and world powers fail to help Iran obtain the fuel from abroad. source: AP read more
  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy" Turns 30 ...
    It has now been thirty years since October 12, 1979 when The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novelization of a popular British radio series, first saw print. Douglas Adams, our icon of humorous geek literature, would write four sequels to...
  • Image of the Day: Arecibo's Ear to the Cosmos
    Arecibo is an immense three-hundred-meter radio telescope with "unmatched precision and accuracy" in detecting comets and asteroids located in Puerto Rico. The observatory is the best there is at what it does, like Wolverine except actually useful. It's not just...
  • Are Humans the Limit of Evolutionary Complexity?
    "I certainly think that humans are not the limit of evolutionary complexity. There may indeed be post–human entities, either organic or silicon–based, which can in some respects surpass what a human can do. I think it would be rather surprising...
  • 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....

Natural News

  • NaturalNews Talk Hour features Dr. Mitch Fleisher ...
    (NaturalNews) This week's NaturalNews Talk Hour features Dr. Mitch Fleisher, M.D., D.Ht., discussing the topic of "Profound Healing with Homeopathy." It runs this Thursday evening at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern, and registration is free. Simply enter your email address in the registration form on the ...
  • Astragalus "super herb" protects, supports immune ...
    (NaturalNews) Astragalus has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for literally thousands of years. Today, in the western world, it's being rediscovered as a powerful adaptogenic herb with a remarkable ability to balance and boost immune function. With more and more people concerned about ...
  • Vaccine revolt! Swine flu vaccine support crumbles ...
    (NaturalNews) Public support for the swine flu vaccine is evaporating by the day as the rationale for the vaccine appears increasingly ludicrous to anyone paying attention. Moms, nurses, day care workers and members of the general public are increasingly realizing that Big Pharma's rationale for swi ...
  • Children exposed to harmful radiation from unneces ...
    (NaturalNews) If a child is accidentally hit in the head with a baseball or kicked in the forehead during roughhousing, it can be scary for the youngster and the parents, too. After all, traumatic brain injuries are sometimes serious. They result in about 7,400 deaths a year to American kids 18 year ...
  • Three Reasons Coconut Oil can Help You Lose Weight
    (NaturalNews) Sorting through fact and fiction when it comes to weight loss is a tough order, especially when fad diets spring to life and wither away all in the same season. Many claims have been made about coconut oil and weight loss, but a number of whole food enthusiasts know this one is the rea ...

TheGallopingBeaver

  • "Take Off the Pajamas," You Lefties . . . .
    Ya'll got all excited 'bout the prez comin' to the HRC dinner and makin' promises , didn't ya'? Well, since you're part of what one White House advisor refers to as the "internet left fringe" ya' might wanna put the champagne and noisemakers away for a bit: Partial transcript of Harwood: Sure ...
  • The Blob in your future
    THERE COULD BE A BLOB in your future. Blob-existance is a perceived problem, according to the National Geographic's report by Christine Dell'Amore, " Giant, Mucus-Like Sea Blobs on the Rise, Pose Danger ". Giant? Mucus-like? We're talking considerable blobbage, here: As sea temperatures have risen i ...
  • 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 ...

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

TPM Cafe

  • Empty Hands on the Climate, and What Obama Needs t ...
    On Friday, Denmark's climate and energy minister, Connie Hedegaard, who will be chairing U.N.-sponsored climate talks in December in Copenhagen, said President Obama needs to do more on climate. "It is hard to imagine that he will be receiving... Sponsored Topics: Denmark - Copenhagen - White Ho ...
  • Won't You Please Come to Chicago?
    The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political world where the elites call the shots. Inside accounts reveal the extent to which Johnson and Nixon's conduct... Sponsored Topics: Richard Nixon - United States - Bar ...
  • Neocons In Agony: They Know That Obama Peace Prize ...
    I continue to be delighted that the President won the Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, it was, in part, given not in recognition of past achievements but prospectively. The Nobel Committee wants him to be the kind of President who earns...
  • 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 ...

TruthOut

  • The Price of Peace
        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 is contin ...
  • Trade in Health Care: When "Free Traders" Become P ...
    (Photo Illustration: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adaptod From: artbymags / flickr and fadderuri /flickr ) read more
  • He Won Because He Speaks of Peace
        He won because he spoke about peace and people listened. That is rare. The whole world listened, and is still listening to this man who speaks of peace, who clearly believes in it, although his actions don't always seem to move towards that goal. Think of how few people have spoken abou ...
  • "Training Citizens Who Are Well-Informed About Sci ...
        An astonishing convergence: A great number of countries, from China to India by way of Europe, worried by the decrease in scientific vocations, have undertaken an overhaul of their teaching of the sciences. With a change in perspective, however. The primary reason invoked to justify the ...
  • Obama to Visit New Orleans for a Post-Katrina Surv ...
        Washington - When President Barack Obama visits New Orleans next week to survey how its recovery is going four years after Hurricane Katrina, he'll have a lot to tout about the help his administration's given -- and plenty to worry about as the nation's top Democrat in a city quaking wi ...

Planetsave

  • Is Great Lakes Shoreline Public or Private?
    Legal skirmishes in Ohio and Michigan are reviving debates over whether those who own Great Lakes shoreline properties exclusively control their waterfront land or whether the public can access and travel along the coast.  The same legal doctrine at issue in these battles is a central focus in cu ...
  • 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • The Business of Climate Change
    Environmentalists may soon find a powerful ally in big business.  Some of the United States’ top corporations are now rallying together in support of climate and energy reform, after finally realizing the severity of climate change and the negative effects of global warming on our society.  Seve ...
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
    The Texas Progressive Alliance is enjoying the fall weather too much to think of a clever opening to this week’s blog roundup. This week on Left of College Station, Teddy writes about what it is like to share a birthday with a war and how we have been unable to learn from the mistakes we have [... ...
  • 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 ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • How Obama Did Earn the Nobel Peace Prize Before Fe ...
    On Friday, I excerpted Steve Benen's post on the aspirational nature of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Obama. On Saturday afternoon, John Nichols made a different case in The Nation. No, the Nobel Peace Prize is and should always be given with the purpose of honoring action not aspiratio ...
  • Could there possibly be a better argument for sing ...
    With the Senate Finance Committee set to vote tomorrow on their healthcare bill, the health insurance industry is suddenly getting cold feet on the whole reform thing and threatening to raise premiums precipitously if the government threatens their obscene profits derived from denying care to sick p ...
  • When...
    ...is it okay to quote anonymous sources when talking shit? Answer:  Never. But that is exactly what was done when John Harwood, one of the biggest douches ever to burst forth from basic cable, cited an 'anonymous source' to dismiss fire coming at the administration from the left as "the internet fr ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    You think we don't need healthcare reform? Tell it to Jen's family. Tell her heartbroken husband and her daughter who is too young to remember her. Then come back and tell us. The anti-Obama hysteria is going too far when people are going to spend their day tomorrow (Monday) protesting outside the e ...
  • Why don't we punish egregious abuses of the legisl ...
    One night last week, I saw a segment on Rachel Maddow's show that set me off. It was about a law in Oklahoma that is not yet in effect, but that will, if it goes into effect, violate any number of Federal statutes.  The law would require physicians who perform abortions to collect a survey from wome ...

Care 2

  • Is positive thinking destroying America?
    A plague of positive thinking is permeating our society, from medicine to business, and is even contributing to our financial crisis. It's believing that the world is shaped by our wants and desires, by focusing on the good, the bad ceases to exist??? Submitted by David Buchan to Health & Wellness ...
  • The First Movie Ever Made And The First Song Ever ...
    And its a Horse of Course....LOL The singing is something to be desired if you can even understand it....lol Had to post Gorilly Submitted by Gorilly Girl to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • VIDEO - Illinois School Police Attack and Beat Spe ...
    One might ask who is brain damaged in the video. Is it the student, who was quietly walking down the school corridor at class change, or is it the enraged officer who deemed the child's shirt tail being out so offensive that the student deserved to possi Submitted by Mary Neal to Society & Culture ...
  • Naresh Kadyan, renowned animal rights activist and ...
    by the Haryana Khadi and Village Industries Board for no reason as he was working as a District Khadi and Village Industries Officer at Faridabad -Please help him in his work for both animals & people by getting him his freedom Submitted by Janet Solomon to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tai Chi Can Help You -- chicagotribune.com
    This gentle form of exercise can prevent or ease many ills of aging and could be the perfect activity for the rest of your life. Tai chi is often described as "meditation in motion," Submitted by Larry M. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • There's No Magic Bullet for Companies Going Green ...
    Too many corporate leaders are waiting for a silver bullet to drive sustainability changes in their companies -- and are missing out on a prime opportunity to seize a competitive advantage.
  • Report Reveals Secrets Behind Successful Industria ...
    The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy studied energy efficiency programs for the industrial sector in order to catalog best practices of those that got it right. Among the critical lessons learned from successful programs: identify internal champions, get to know the customer, and sta ...
  • 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.

Reuters Global

  • Afghanistan’s angry Norwegian bites back
    The UN's top man in Afghanistan strikes back against charges from his sacked deputy that he failed to tackle election fraud. The very public and deeply personal row won't make it easier to convince outsiders or Afghans that the eventual vote result will be legitimate.
  • Attack in Rawalpindi: are Pakistan’s militan ...
    An attack on the Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi raises new fears about the threat from Islamist militants. Are militants based in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan working more closely with those in Punjab, the country's heartland?
  • 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?

Ezra Klein

  • Better Shopping Through Technology
    Mark Bittman's vision of a world where online grocery shopping is the norm is an appealing one. Keeping a stocked kitchen is one of the time costs of food that cooking advocates don't talk about that often. A meal can be assembled from raw ingredients, but procuring those ingredients is a real ann ...
  • The Ugliest Buildings in the World?
    Travel and Leisure magazine has rounded up the 15 ugliest buildings in the world. The only problem? Almost all the buildings are pretty cool-looking. Not perfect, but visually interesting and ambitious. The headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service in London is a brightly-colored fortress (whi ...
  • What Do the Insurers Want?
    The " analysis " the insurance industry commissioned should not be treated as a policy document. It's a political document. In it, the insurers assail policies they don't like (though under the guise of concerning themselves with consumer premiums) and pump up policies they do like. There's no real ...
  • Did the Kyoto Protocols Succeed?
    It's fairly common to hear the Kyoto protocols dismissed as a well-intentioned failure. This is generally a reflection on the first year or two of the program, which got off to a bumpy start. But since then, the program has been doing quite well, and the "Annex B" countries -- the industrialized c ...
  • Lunch Break
    A puppy. Moon walking. I'm pretty sure this is why Al Gore invented the internet. Moonwalking Puppy - watch more funny videos

Booman Tribune

  • Rand Paul: Answering Bowers's Question
    With Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky retiring, his seat is open in the 2010 election. The most interesting candidate to replace Bunning is Ron Paul's son, Rand Paul. Rand is running to be the Republican nominee against a more establishment candidate, Secretary of State Trey Grayson. The Democrats ha ...
  • Bring It On
    Could these two headlines from Political Wire be related? On the surface, this is no different than what the Democrats did when Newt Gingrich was speaker. But talking about putting a woman "in her place" comes with a few optical problems.
  • George Will: Dumber than a Bag of Hammers
    For George Will there is nothing more contemptible than an heirloom tomato. Heirloom tomatoes and Toyota Prius automobiles represent all that is wrong with the Washington Metro area and the country in general. Do you know who drives Toyota Priuses and eats heirloom tomatoes? You guessed it. Libe ...
  • Open Thread
    If you enjoy what we do here at Booman Tribune, please consider making a donation. Your support is what allows me to continue blogging. Thank you. And if you can tell me why the Oakland Raiders are allowed to play in the NFL, let me know. They're pathetic.
  • Thoughts on Harry Reid
    Probably more than any other sitting U.S. Senator up for reelection next year, Harry Reid's prospects cannot be judged by present polls. Reid will be judged by Nevadans' interpretation of his job performance as Majority Leader, and if they think he has accomplished a lot, his poll numbers will rebo ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Solar system looking more resource-rich by the day
    There’s water on Mars, and there’s water on the Moon. And now there’s water out in the asteroid belt, too – if spectral analysis of the rock known as 24 Themis is to believed, that is [via SlashDot]: Analyses of the sunlight reflected off the asteroid also show that organic compounds are wid ...
  • New rules for news
    Via Chairman Bruce, here’s a list of 22 rules for the New New Journalism from Dan Gillmor at The Guardian. As Bruce points out, there more than a hint of the idealist networked society about them, but they’re still worth reading – think of it more as a manifesto for a society where journalism ...
  • Welcome to the Networked City
    Adam “Everyware” Greenfield doesn’t seem to have much luck with editors mangling his articles and essays before publishing them. His misfortune is our gain, however, as it means he ends up putting the originals up on his website, as with “The Kind of Program A City Is“, a piece which appea ...
  • Horror movies
    Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped heads! ] Project Wonderf ...
  • 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 ...

Therapy News

  • An Open Secret to All: We’re All Just Bozos on t ...
    By Rachel Fleischmann, LCSW, Dance / Movement Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Rachel and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “We’re all bozos on the bus, So we might as well sit back And enjoy the ride” ~Wavy Gravy As psychotherapists, we wear many hats; that of thinke ...
  • Mental Health and the 35-Hour Workweek
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Commonly-held ideas about the superiority of mental health and personal well-being in many European countries are often backed up by statistics about the average workweek in such countries, and among the nations with the most coveted working conditions, France is typic ...
  • Psychotherapy Calling: Phone Treatment May Be Effe ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline While the benefits of psychotherapy for clients with thoughts and feelings of depression have been well-documented, it is often difficult to reach those in need of treatment via traditional sessions and in traditional settings. A study investigating the efficacy and c ...
  • Optimism Could Hamper Weight Loss Efforts
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The weight loss industry is one which attracts several billion dollars each year from the United States alone, a fact which speaks to the national preoccupation with feeling and looking slim. A percentage of these funds are spent by those who suffer from obesity, which ...
  • 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

Memeorandum

  • Rethinking Institutional Analysis: Interviews with ...
    Mercatus Center at George Mason University : Rethinking Institutional Analysis: Interviews with Vincent and Elinor Ostrom   —  Entrepreneurship, Institutional Analysis, Social Change Project, Mercatus  —  On November 7th, 2003, the Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders, the Atlas Econom ...
  • WaPo Page A1 breaking news: Conservatives are horr ...
    Michelle Malkin : WaPo Page A1 breaking news: Conservatives are horrible ogres, Part 99,999   —  The Sunday edition of the Washington Post featured a massive, front-page article by Ann Gerhart decrying the “incivility” of conservatives.  “The nation's political discourse seems sour, ang ...
  • Hillary Clinton says she won't run for president a ...
    Mark Preston / CNN : Hillary Clinton says she won't run for president again   —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday she would not run for president again, and brushed off suggestions that she is being marginalized in the Obama White House.  —  Clinton, who lo ...
  • What's with all the @#%! language? - President Bar ...
    Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico : What's with all the @#%! language?   —  President Barack Obama called rap star Kanye West “a jackass.”  Vice President Joe Biden told a senator to “Gimme a f—ing break!”  Economic adviser Christina Romer declared that Americans had yet to have thei ...
  • The Insurance Industry's Deceptive Report (Ezra Kl ...
    Ezra Klein : The Insurance Industry's Deceptive Report   —  In the hallowed tradition of the tobacco and energy industries, the health insurance industry has commissioned a report (pdf) projecting doom and despair for those who seek to reform its business practices.  The report was farmed … ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.3, Kuril Islands
    Monday, October 12, 2009 16:51:13 UTC Tuesday, October 13, 2009 04:51:13 AM at epicenter Depth : 44.10 km (27.40 mi)
  • M 5.0, Vanuatu
    Monday, October 12, 2009 10:29:23 UTC Monday, October 12, 2009 09:29:23 PM at epicenter Depth : 93.40 km (58.04 mi)
  • M 5.2, eastern Honshu, Japan
    Monday, October 12, 2009 09:42:24 UTC Monday, October 12, 2009 06:42:24 PM at epicenter Depth : 30.20 km (18.77 mi)
  • M 6.4, Santa Cruz Islands
    Monday, October 12, 2009 09:37:17 UTC Monday, October 12, 2009 08:37:17 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.1, Santa Cruz Islands
    Sunday, October 11, 2009 19:59:13 UTC Monday, October 12, 2009 06:59:13 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

  • A generation crippled by uranium
    The UK’s Observer newspaper has found evidence to suggest a link between the poisoning of Indian Punjabi children and the state’s coal-fired power stations. Gethin Chamberlain reports. Their heads are too large or too small, their limbs too short or too bent. For some, their brains never grew, s ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

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

  • White House blasts health insurance sector report
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House Monday blasted a report from the health insurance industry that said Senate healthcare legislation would lead to increases in annual insurance premiums of as much as $4,000 by 2019.
  • U.S. to house detained migrants in converted hotel ...
    PHOENIX (Reuters) - The United States, criticized for holding illegal immigrants in overcrowded and poorly run jails, on Tuesday announced plans to convert hotels to detain some noncriminal immigrants.
  • CORRECTED: Worst of the U.S. recession over: surve ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The worst U.S. recession since the Great Depression has ended, but weak household spending as the labor market struggles to create jobs will slow the pace of the economy's recovery, according to a survey released on Monday.
  • North Korea fires missiles and declares "no sail" ...
    SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has fired five short-range missiles off its east coast and declared a "no sail" zone in the area from October 10-20, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a government source as saying on Monday.
  • N.Korea fires missiles, declares 'no sail' zone
    (Updates number of missiles) SEOUL, Oct 12 (Reuters) - North Korea has fired five short-range missiles off its east coast and declared a 'no sail' zone in the area from Oct. 10-20, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a government source as saying on Monday. South Korean government officials were ...

Godspace

  • Spirituality in all of life
    I am currently in Launceston Australia at the World view centre for Intercultural Studies. Those of you from the US may be interested to hear that the annual fees down here are $7,500 including accommodation and meals during term time. An amazingly cheap alternative to the American schools  and wit ...
  • 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 ...

Equality Trust

IntelNews

  • Clinton’s mysterious comment raises eyebrows in ...
    A comment by US secretary of state Hillary Clinton following a meeting with a senior New Zealand government official has raised questions by intelligence observers in the pacific nation. Speaking last Friday after an official meeting in Washington with her New Zealand counterpart, minister of foreig ...
  • News you may have missed #0139
    Pakistan tells US diplomat to be quiet. Analysis: HUMINT worries al-Qaeda more than drone assassinations. Chinese spymaster complains about US news leak.
  • Indian government tells telecoms to avoid buying C ...
    The Indian government has asked the country’s telecommunications companies to “refrain from buying Chinese telecommunications equipment”, because they may be used by Beijing to spy on India.
  • News you may have missed #0137
    Colombian paramilitaries active in Honduras. Lawsuit probes US government spying on GTMO attorneys. France arrests CERN worker with alleged al-Qaeda links.
  • News you may have missed #0138
    US intelligence turf wars plague email system. CIA Climate Change Center survives funding opposition. Colombia to rename spy agency to "CIA".

PDA AMERICA

  • Step Up To Mike’s Challenge
    By Linda Milazzo, PDA Blog Contributor Our great buddy Mike is angry. For the past twenty years, Michael Moore, our everyday hero, has worked hard for us. He’s documented sadistic acts against us ...
  • Lost footage of FDR Second Bill of Rights unearthe ...
    By PDA Blog Contributor Byron DeLear Michael Moore’s new documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story” concludes with what was previously thought to be lost footage of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s State of the Union Address from 1944. Delivered ...
  • A Statement from the Campaign for Peace and Democr ...
    Dear Friend, As you know, the President and Congress are reviewing U.S. policy on the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and we are writing you at this critical moment to invite you to sign the Campaign ...
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • In case I get too nervous on Larry King this Monda ...
    Short Term 1.The President must appoint an Undersecretary for Food Safety now whose sole mission is safe food. The Undersecretary should, and needs to be the responsible person within the FSIS on this important issue, advocating and making decisions solely on behalf of public health. That person an ...
  • American Conference Institute Presents Update on F ...
    Alan Maxwell (my arch enemy) and I will be co-chairing this ACI Conference in a few weeks in Chicago.  He and I put this Powerpoint together.  My suggestion is that every company interested in safe food should attend.  It has been a very busy year and I expect the same in 2010.
  • The State of USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service ...
    Chuck Jolley is a free lance writer, based in Kansas City, who covers a wide range of ag industry topics for Cattlenetwork.com and Agnetwork.com . I wanted to look into the food safety issue and Washington’s role in it from both sides of the table so I asked Richard Raymond and Bill Marler, two of ...
  • 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.

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.12.09
    eKRAD developing eQUAD [w/VIDEO] Look out, nature. REPORT: Panasonic will supply batteries for the Tesla Model S Tesla sticking with laptop cells for upcoming sedan. ...
  • Act silly, get a Ford Fusion Hybrid [w/VIDEO]
    Filed under: Hybrid , Sedan , Marketing/Advertising , Videos , Ford Mark Malkoff lurves the Fusion Hybrid - Click above to watch the video after the jump Ford has already demonstrated strong, puppetmaster-like abilities with the whole Fiesta Agent thing. In exchange for agreeing to go on secretive ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Solar power outshining Colorado's gas industry
    As La Plata County in SW Colorado looks to shift to cleaner sources of energy, solar is becoming the power source of choice even though it still produces only a small fraction of the region's electricity. It's being nudged along by tax credits and rebates, a growing concern about the gases heating u ...
  • 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.
  • South Polar Ocean Temps Were Tropical 50 Million Y ...
    The temperature difference between equatorial and polar sea waters was minimal during the extremely warm 'Greenhouse World' 60 to 50 million years ago. A team of scientists headed by Peter Bijl has shown that circum-Antarctic sea water exceeded 30ºC (86ºF) at that time.
  • 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.
  • Terrific TreeHouses You Might Be Scared to Sleep I ...
    Visionary Treehouses by Baumraum Treehouses are an interesting branch of design. They are usually modest in size, certainly tread lightly on the ground, and can bring us closer to nature.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Video – Water
    This is an amazing look at water from a scientific perspective.  Water is not simply water.  Water has memory and structure.  Water holds within itself the very emotions and events that occur around it .  Science is finally catching up with what homeopaths have worked with for over 200 y ...
  • The not so Nobel Prize
    By Les Visible So they went and gave a serial killer of a used car salesman the Nobel Peace Prize. The rollicking irony is just too much. I keep snorting and chuckling to myself and then shaking my head. The sheer beauty of it… ah… (shaking head yet again) well… sigh… I’m thinking he might ...
  • H1N1 FluMist ~ the Nasal Spray that Keeps on Givin ...
    By Sherry Tomfield Everyone has to be responsible for their own decisions. If you are afraid of catching the H1N1 flu this year. You may be pondering whether to get a flu shot or using the H1N1 FluMist. The FluMist is administered into your nostrils. Before making your final decision, you may want t ...
  • Mercury, Vaccines and Medicine
    By Dr. Mark A. Sircus Medicine today is more and more frequently described in terms of science. With the origin and development of drugs and surgical techniques, modern medicine has thought itself to be evermore exact and evermore resembling the hard sciences of chemistry [...]
  • African Dynamo
    Here is one candidate for a Peace Prize, in case the Nobel Committee wants to try to regain some credibility… By Mark Frauenfelder William Kamkwamba’s parents couldn’t afford the $80 yearly tuition for their son’s school. The boy sneaked into the classroom anyway, dodging administra ...

Cognitive Research - Sciences

Care2 Picks

  • Obama and the Nobel Prize: When War becomes Peace, ...
    Professor Chussdovsky has maintained a reference centre for topics relating to the military and foreign policy for years. He is often referred to as an authority. My own reading tends to confirm his thoughts. Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 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

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Key senator says Afghanistan mission in jeopardy & ...
    Hurriyet Daily NewsKey senator says Afghanistan mission in jeopardyThe Associated PressWASHINGTON — Saying the US mission in Afghanistan is in "serious jeopardy," the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says more troops are needed to ...
  • Afghanistan motive suspected in Italian bombing &# ...
    ReutersAfghanistan motive suspected in Italian bombingeuronewsIt has been reported that witnesses heard him shout something about Italian troops in Afghanistan as he threw the device. But that has not been confirmed.Man sets off explosion at Italian ar...
  • Afghanistan: Obama’s Unanswered Questions &# ...
    NewsweekAfghanistan: Obama's Unanswered QuestionsCBS NewsEight years ago this month, the war in Afghanistan began, and in the coming weeks, President Obama will decide, after intense deliberation with his war ...Civilian Goals Largely Unmet in Afgh...
  • Suicide bomber kills 41 in northwest Pakistan &#82 ...
    Suicide bomber kills 41 in northwest Pakistan WashingtonTV The blast was the latest in a string of major attacks in Pakistan . On Saturday, Taliban gunmen staged a day-time raid on the army's headquarters near ... and more »
  • Suicide bomber kills 41 in Pakistan’s northw ...
    Suicide bomber kills 41 in Pakistan's northwest Long War Journal The Taliban followed up last weekend's assault on the Army General Headquarters with a massive suicide attack at a ... and more »

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Eoin Colfer pens new Hitchhiker's Guide
    Irish author Eoin Colfer has written a sixth instalment in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series first created by Douglas Adams in the late 1970s.
  • Lady Gaga honours murdered gay student
    Lady Gaga performs an updated version of John Lennon's "Imagine" in honour of Matthew Shepard, a student murdered for being gay. She was performing at the 13th annual Human Rights Campaign Dinner in Washington D.C, where Matthew's parents were honoured with the Edward M. Kennedy Leadership Award. 
  • Web offers free university education
    The Open University is now more open than ever before, as the body is making more and more study materials available for free online .
  • World Rainforest Week kicks off
    Today (12th October) marks the start of World Rainforest Week which runs until the 18th of the month and aims to make people more aware of the threats posed by logging practices, climate change and the expansion of agribusiness.
  • Week in Pictures: 12th 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

  • Stop and reflect for a moment on this key moment i ...
    Stop and savor this moment, amidst the rush of our daily lives.  The Nobel Committee highlighted for us that we ate at a  key moment in history.  Andrew Bacevich explains why in “Afghanistan – the proxy war“, op-ed in the Boston Globe, 11 October 2009 — The most important and insigh ...
  • We know nothing because we read newspapers
    Here are some articles to remember when reading the mainstream media’s frequent self-congratulations, their mourning as they lose influence, and disparagement of new media reporting. “The Vitality of Mythical Numbers“, Max Singer, Public Interest, Spring, 1971 “The (Continued) Vitality o ...
  • A question for “War of the World” fans ...
    Are we living during the … “War of the Worlds“ London, 1898; Kabul, 2009 By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, 8 October 2009 An unremarkable paragraph in a piece in my hometown paper recently caught my eye. It was headlined “White House Believes Karzai Will Be Re-elected,” but in mid-report Hel ...
  • Change, the promise and the reality
    “Entangled Giant“ By Garry Wills, New York Review of Books, 8 October 2009 — I strongly recommend reading this, about a subject of the greatest importance to Americans:  change, the promise of change, and how do we force reform.   While the right-wing condemns Obama as a dangerous lef ...
  • 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, ...

sibeledmonds - tweets

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Kinder, Gentler Spider Eats Veggies, Cares for Kid ...
    Each of the world’s 40,000 spider species survives by hunting and killing — except, that is, for Bagheera kiplingi, the world’s first vegetarian arachnid. Found in Central America, the order-defying jumping spider eats nutrient-rich structures called Beltian bodies, which are found on the ...
  • Photonic Six Pack Provides Better Quantum Communic ...
    To send a quantum message, it helps to have a photon six-pack. When bound together by a process called quantum entanglement, a set of six photons can withstand the hard knocks that ordinarily would erase quantum information, researchers have shown. Papers describing the new experiment appear in th ...
  • 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Pakistan Military and ISI Must Purge Ranks
    A few years ago, I was invited to an extraordinary set of meetings in Beijing organized by Marika Vicziany of Monash University. The meeting featured participants like then Labor Party leader (and next Australia Ambassador to the U.S.) Kim Beazley and former Ministers of Defense of India and China ...
  • Russia-Georgia Report Redux: Burying the Int'l Law ...
    I have a commentary at the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty website today on the EU's Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia . It expands on my earlier remarks about the gap between the report's findings and the political spin: "Those who read the entire report w ...
  • A Lesson in Counterinsurgency from McNamara
    Having been thinking about the Afghanistan-Vietnam parallels recently, I have been digging in to Robert McNamara's book, In Retrospect , about the lead-up to and the execution of the Vietnam War. The book, in many ways, is McNamara's self-indictment for his own role and that of his colleagues; most ...
  • The Price Tag of Afghanistan War Dwarfs Country's ...
    The cost of America's military effort in Afghanistan is $65 billion per year -- and the price tag will probably go up when a new strategy is announced by President Obama. There have been many hundreds killed and thousands wounded there. But what gets me is that the entire GDP of Afghanistan is just ...
  • The Price Tag of Afghanistan Dwarfs Country's GDP
    The cost of America's military effort in Afghanistan is $65 billion per year -- and the price tag will probably go up when a new strategy is announced by President Obama. There have been many hundreds killed and thousands wounded there. But what gets me is that the entire GDP of Afghanistan is just ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Who Cares What The White House Thinks Of Bloggers?
    Jane Hamsher talks to John Harwood , who explains that the "fringe" comment was directed at dissenting left-wing bloggers, not the LGBT community: He confirmed that the quote came from “an Obama adviser.” He did say that the comments weren’t specifically directed at “the LGBT community or t ...
  • Empty Hands on the Climate, and What Obama Needs t ...
    On Friday, Denmark's climate and energy minister, Connie Hedegaard , who will be chairing U.N.-sponsored climate talks in December in Copenhagen, said President Obama needs to do more on climate. "It is hard to imagine that he will be receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Dec. 10 and then come ...
  • The Unintentional Insights Of Liz Cheney.
    Liz Cheney , champion of the torture wing of her party and MSM darling, opines on the president receiving the Nobel Peace Prize: What the committee believes is, they'd like to live in a world in which America's not dominant. And I think if you look at the language of the citation, you can see that ...
  • Refugees of Diversity.
    Rich Benjamin on his journey into the whitest -- and fastest growing -- communities in America: Imagine moving to a place where you can leave your front door unlocked as you run errands. Where the community enjoys a winning ratio of playgrounds to potholes. Where you can turn your kids loose at 3 P ...
  • Limbaugh To Judge Miss America Contest.
    From Ben Armbruster at Thinkprogress, it seems Rush Limbaugh has been chosen to be a judge for the Miss America Contest. Armbruster lists some of Limbaugh's more outrageous sexist remarks as reasons he shouldn't have been chosen, but it seems to me that when looking for the judge of a beauty context ...

Andy Worthington

  • A Letter From Afghanistan: Bagram, Afghan sufferin ...
    Last year, I received one of those special emails out of the blue, from someone wise and compassionate, who, to my great delight, wished to thank me for the courage of my writing. This woman, who has worked in rural development and post-disaster rehabilitation for 20 years, mostly in Africa, has spe ...
  • Andy Worthington And Jason Leopold Discuss Guantá ...
    Three months ago, veteran progressive radio host Peter B. Collins interviewed me for an in-depth podcast on his website, where, as I described it at the time, he is “pioneering a listener-funded new media project to make hard-hitting political interviews available online without editorial interfer ...
  • Two More Guantánamo Prisoners Released: To Kuwait ...
    So it’s good news — of a sort — from Guantánamo, as two more prisoners were released on Thursday. The first is Khalid al-Mutairi, a Kuwaiti whose habeas corpus petition was granted by District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly two months ago, after she ruled decisively that “there ...
  • 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 peoples” — 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • BuzzFlash Mailbag for October 12, 2009
    BUZZFLASH MAILBAG Want to join the conversation? Share your thoughts with other Mailbag readers by clicking here . You also may comment below; post articles yourself at BuzzFlash.net ; or send urls for BuzzFlash to post to: www.buzzflash.com/contact/newstip.html . Subject: Hope reigns supreme The aw ...
  • Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for October 12, 2 ...
    BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE Leave it to mainstream corporate media to find sand among the pearls! Somehow I knew as soon as I heard the news that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize, I knew the media and the Repuglicans would find something about it to criticize simply because the med ...
  • What I Learned About Republicans Since Obama Won T ...
    Their reaction soon provided A quite remarkable glimpse Which proves they think peace Is for chumps & for wimps. VERSE CASE SCENARIO Tony Peyser provides daily poems and weekly cartoons for BuzzFlash and also writes the BuzzFlash column, " Blue State Jukebox ." He was a daily cartoonist for the L.A. ...
  • Andrew Lehman: Generation Abyss
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Andrew Lehman In the 1960s, there was the "Generation Gap." Youth were perceived by themselves, their parents, and society at large as feeling alienated from their parents and society. Several new forces had emerged that were embraced by youth, forces that felt foreign ...
  • Our new 'Age of Betrayal,' and what Obama can do a ...
    Body In the introduction to his magnificent The Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 , Jack Beatty notes a CBS News/New York Times poll, from 2004, in which 64 percent of the respondents answered in the affirmative to the first of these choices: "Would you say the ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Gay issues, the "Fringe Left" and the liberal veal ...
    Thousands of Americans marched in Washington yesterday to demand a fulfillment of Obama's long-stated and oft-repeated commitments on issues of gay equality, in what the NYT calls "the largest demonstration for gay rights here in nearly a decade."  That protest was preceded the day before by a vi ...
  • Salon Radio: Jonathan Weiler on authoritarianism ...
    Political scientists Jonathan Weiler and Marc Hetherington have an important new book examining the role of the authoritarian mentality in American politics.  Weiler, a Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, is my guest on Salon R ...
  • Accusing Obama critics of "standing with the terro ...
    Yesterday, I noted that the DNC accused the GOP  of having "thrown in its lot with the terrorists" and putting "politics above patriotism" because -- just like the Taliban and Hamas -- some Republicans objected to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama.   Salon 's Alex ...
  • 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 ...

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.

  • Harvey Milk Finally Gets His Day
    Harvey Milk, the legendary LGBT activist and San Francisco Supervisor who was assassinated in 1978, has finally been given official recognition by the state of California with his own day. The bill to establish May 22 -- Harvey's birthday -- as Harvey Milk Day was signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegg ...
  • Making Cities Sustainable as Billions Migrate
    Manhattan is an eco-commune, a utopian environmental community, and the most ecologically sustainable place in America explains Will Boisvert reviewing Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability . He tries to see through the gray, and through the exhaust fumes t ...
  • The Power of Youth
    I believe that people will look back on the early 21st century and make note of the explosion of youth activism and engagement as a major turning point on solving issues from climate change to economic justice. From advocacy organizations like STAND to innovative companies like Better World Books t ...
  • Maine a Medicaid Model?
    The Commonwealth Fund has released new data demonstrating "shockingly wide" health disparities across the 50 states.  This is the third annual survey, and one reflecting data from 2007, so expect the overall state-by-state performance to get much worse in the coming years. What's interesting about ...
  • Columbus Day and Oppression -- Against Humans, Aga ...
    I am no fan of Columbus Day. In the way of brief explanation, here is my sarcastic tweet on Columbus Day last year: " Happy Invade, Conquer, Enslave, Exploit, Infect, and Kill Day, everyone!" That our nation continues to celebrate this day and this man -- and this era and what humans did to fellow ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Press Conference and Action for 'Rape in the Milit ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 12, 2009 Veterans for Peace Time: 10:30am, Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Location: In front of the Armed Forces Recruiting Station, Times Square, Broadway and 42nd, New York City, NY Participants: Ann Wright, Colonel, 29 year veteran o ...
  • ACLU and PEN American Center Present Reckoning Wit ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 12, 2009 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union, PEN American Center and the Cooper Union will present Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror," an evening of readings calling attention to acts of torture and abuse carried out by the Unite ...
  • Governor Signs Bill Expanding Resources for Lesbia ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 12, 2009 Equality California (EQCA) Yesterday Governor Schwarzenegger signed a bill that will increase and expand services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) survivors of domestic violence. Authored by Assemblymember John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) and spon ...
  • Statement on President Obama's Nobel Prize
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 9, 2009 Friends of The Earth Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica had the following statement on today's announcement that the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to President Barack Obama, in part because of his work on climate change: read more
  • Berkeley Law Students Launch Torture Accountabilit ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 8, 2009 National Lawyers Guild - SF/Bay Area Chapter Berkeley Law students will announce a new initiative dedicated to restoring respect for the prohibition against torture, ending executive abuse of power and impunity, and demanding accountability for the authors of th ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Of Health Care, War, Costs and Consequences
    by David Morris In the next few weeks this country will make two decisions of great consequence: Will we send additional troops to Afghanistan? Will we reform our health care system? It is both instructive and disheartening to see the different ways our policymakers approach these issues. read more
  • Gay Issues, the 'Fringe Left' and the Liberal Veal ...
    by Glenn Greenwald Thousands of Americans marched in Washington yesterday to demand a fulfillment of Obama's long-stated and oft-repeated commitments on issues of gay equality, in what the NYT calls "the largest demonstration for gay rights here in nearly a decade."  That protest was preceded the ...
  • Premature Peace Prize or Call to Action?
    by Kevin Martin and Medea Benjamin As we demonstrated at the White House last Monday calling for an end to the U.S. war in Afghanistan, we could hardly have imagined President Barack Obama would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize four days later. While the award came as a surprise, it is somewhat unde ...
  • Obama’s Choice: Play It Safe or Risk It All to K ...
    by Sandy LeonVest President Barack Obama has a choice to make -- and it is one of Faustian proportions. He needs to decide who he wants to be, and how he wants history -- and his children -- to remember him. More specifically, he needs to decide whether he wants to be a Great Leader or whether t ...
  • The System Let Obama Be President. But He Still Ma ...
    by Gary Younge At an election night party during the primaries last year I made a throwaway comment disparaging those who believed Barack Obama's mixed-race identity gave him a unique understanding of America's racial problems. "It does," said one woman. I explained that I was joking. She was not. " ...

Karl Burkart

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

  • Democracy Now! Special: An Hour of Music and Conve ...
    In a Democracy Now! special, an hour of conversation and music with Cree Indian singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. In the turbulent 1960s, she was just out of college but already famous for her beautiful voice and moving lyrics in songs like “Universal Soldier” and “Now that the Buffalo’s ...
  • Headlines for October 12, 2009
    Insurance Industry Threatens Higher Costs Without Harsher Mandates, WFP: Rich Donors’ Aid Cuts Threaten Millions with Starvation, As Talks Continue, Honduran Coup Regime Extends Media Crackdown, UN Panel Warns of Growing Mercenary Presence in Honduras, UN Envoy Acknowledges Fraud, Defends Role in ...
  • Pakistan Says 41 Killed in Market Bombing
  • Ethiopian Troops Pour Into Central Somalia
  • Is Canada more pro-Israel than the US?
    rr r r r rr r rr r rr r rr rr rrr rSome have commented that under Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, Canada has become (at least diplomatically) the most pro-Israel country in the world. Israeli officials concur. After meeting Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister, four other C ...

Rogue Government.com

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

  • Britain has worst quality of life in Europe, study ...
    British people have the worst quality of life in Europe, according to a report which highlights the long hours, bad weather, low life expectancy and high price of many consumer goods. In a study of ten of the largest European countries, Britain comes last followed by Ireland, with France and Spain ...
  • Carla Bruni 'has spent eight years in therapy'
    Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy Bruni allegedly made the disclosure during the filming of a documentary about her life for French television, which is yet to be released. The Daily Mail reported that France's Plurielles.fr website , which said it had seen clips of the programme, said: "Bruni will bare her soul ...
  • Immigration made America strong - but it threatens ...
    Are Britain and Europe being swamped, overrun, defeated by a wave of mostly Muslim immigrants and their descendants? Or are Europe's ethnic problems the figment of a febrile political imagination - something created by racism, dishonesty and manipulation by extremist parties such as the BNP? Those a ...
  • Wife breaks taboo with exposé of MP's affairs
    France has long defended politicians' right to keep their bedroom antics out of the public eye. But this week marks a landmark in the growing debate over whether MPs' libidos are the nation's business. For the first time, a serving minister is the subject of an exposé by his ex-wife, telling all ...
  • UN admits Afghan election 'fraud'
    Kai Eide said that "ghost polling stations" had been used to return thousands of fake votes for President Hamid Karzai, but he denied that the UN had turned a blind eye to ballot rigging. Mr Eide, the head of the UN mission in Afghanistan, spoke in public for the first time since his American deput ...

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

  • Studies Confirm Americans Are Self-Rationing Healt ...
    Among the most pernicious and blatantly false Republican talking points designed to obstruct health care reform is the fear-mongering claim that Democratic proposals will lead to "rationing." Of course, with almost 50 million uninsured and another 25 million underinsured, Mitch...
  • Republican Leaders Remind Steele GOP Hates Medicar ...
    As Politico reported Monday, Republicans leaders took RNC chairman Michael Steele to the woodshed for his high profile role in the health care debate. Furious that Steele's so-called "seniors' bill of rights" committed the GOP to "no cuts to Medicare,"...
  • "Going Rogue" by Sarah Palin, Editor's Cut
    Buoyed by bulk advance purchases by the right-wing faithful, Sarah Palin's upcoming book Going Rogue as expected catapulted to the top of the Amazon.com bestseller list. That Palin turned to ghostwriter Lynn Vincent, whose past conservatives screeds branded Democrats "treasonous"...
  • Obama, Iran and the Echoes of the Cuban Missile Cr ...
    To be sure, the growing tensions - and stakes - over the Iranian nuclear program are different in kind and degree from the brinksmanship of the Cuban Missile Crisis 47 years ago. But events of the past week have stirred...
  • The 2009 Nobel Prizes for Conservatives
    In much the same way that the sun sets in the west, each fall brings the predictable spectacle of apoplectic conservatives foaming at the mouth over the Nobel prizes. Following the awards to Al Gore and Paul Krugman over the...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • Reasoning Behind Obama's Peace Prize
    Barack Obama may have earned his Nobel Peace Prize by ousting a gang of White House warmongers, writes Robert Parry. October 12, 2009
  • Obama's Deserving Peace Prise
    Despite all the ridicule of President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, ex-CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman thinks it was deserved. October 11, 2009
  • Regime Change v. Regime Modification
    Facing a choice on Afghanistan, President Obama might reflect on U.S. experiences in other conflicts, says Bruce P. Cameron. October 11, 2009
  • Ronald Reagan's Bloody Apocalypto
    From the Archive: An irony of Columbus Day is that crimes of the early conquerors are better known than more recent atrocities. By Robert Parry
  • More Doubts on Iran Nukes
    Ex-State Department intelligence chief Greg Thielmann points to gaps in the case for an Iranian nuclear bomb, via TheRealNews. October 11, 2009

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

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

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Will 2012 bring the end of the world ?
    With 2012 only a few years away and with a Hollywood movie production opening in cinemas next month the concept of 2012 bringing the end of the wo...
  • Hadron Collider could test hyperdrive
    The Large Hadron Collider could be used to test the principles behind hyperdrive populsion, a potential future technology that could one day prope...
  • New fears for species extinctions
    Extinction rates are a lot higher than previously predicted with threats to biodiversity and ecosystems such as pollution, climate change and urba...
  • A third of dinosaur species never existed ?
    A controversial new theory has suggested that a third of dinosaur species might not have even existed due to the fact that many young dinosaurs ar...
  • Russia plots return to Venus
    It has been almost three decades since the Soviet Union last sent a probe to the planet Venus, now the Russian space agency is planning to underta...

Grassroots

  • Act Now for Trade Justice - Replace NAFTA!
    For some, October 12th is commemorated as the day that Christopher Columbus "discovered" the Americas. For many more, it marked the beginning of over 500 years of foreign domination, cultural destruction and systematic exploitation. Over the last 15 years, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NA ...
  • 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 ...

Climate

  • October 12, 2009
    1 Republican on Board, but Still a Steep Climb to 60 (Politico) Environmentalists heralded Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s support for “a climate bill” as a game changer, but any climate bill still faces steep obstacles in the Senate. World Will Miss 2010 Target to Stem Biodiversity Loss ...
  • October 12, 2009
    1 Republican on Board, but Still a Steep Climb to 60 (Politico) Environmentalists heralded Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s support for “a climate bill” as a game changer, but any climate bill still faces steep obstacles in the Senate. World Will Miss 2010 Target to Stem Biodiversity Loss ...
  • October 10-11, 2009
    Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham Signs on to Climate Bill (Politico) In a major win for climate bill supporters, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina publicly announced his support for global warming legislation in a New York Times op-ed co-authored with Democratic Sen. John Kerry. 1 ...
  • 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 ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: William Astore, Apocalypse Then, Afghani ...
    Here's the thing: This may be our next "Vietnam moment," but Afghanistan is no Vietnam: there are no major enemy powers like the Soviet Union and China lurking in the background; no organized enemy state with a powerful army like North Vietnam supporting the insurgents; no well organized, unifie ...
  • 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 ...

Smirking Chimp

  • What lies beneath the war in Afghanistan
    Truth is war's first casualty. The Afghan war's biggest untruth is, "we've got to fight terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them at home." Many North Americans still buy this lie because they believe the 9/11 attacks came directly from the Afghanistan-based al-Qaida and Taliban movements ...
  • Insurance industry Brutus stabs Democratic Caesar ...
    After the Senate Finance Committee wrote a healthcare bill that would create windfall profits for insurers, the insurers plunged the knife into the back of the committee with a bogus report to frighten consumers on the eve of committee action. Windfall profits aren't enough for the Gilded Age lobbyi ...
  • Tomgram: William Astore, Apocalypse Then, Afghani ...
    — from TomDispatch Here's the thing: This may be our next "Vietnam moment," but Afghanistan is no Vietnam: there are no major enemy powers like the Soviet Union and China lurking in the background; no organized enemy state with a powerful army like North Vietnam supporting the insurgents; no well ...
  • A Dollar Rout or just more Bernanke Trickery?
    Consumer credit is falling fast. In July, consumer credit plunged by $19 billion, followed by an August drop of $12 billion, a 5.8 percent annual rate. Credit card spending decreased by nearly $10 billion in August, while non-revolving debt, including auto loans, fell by $2 billion. Credit has shru ...
  • Obama's Nobel Prize Statement At Odds With Reality
    Can President Obama be serious when he says he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize as "an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people of all nations"? Among "all nations" does he include the people of Iraq? Polls show folks there overwhelmingly want the U.S. to get out. Appa ...

Ten Percent

  • Hip Op & You Don’t Stop
    Once again it is hip arthroplasty time! If I look back it was January ‘08 when mi madre had her left hip done and as is often the case it soon became apparent the pain was not just from that naughty joint, the right needed doing too, so factor in enough recovery from first op [...]
  • ‘…a series of suspicious deaths of Iraqi citiz ...
    “I believe that I was serving in something that was party to covering up quite serious allegations of torture and murder,” said the former Royal Military Policeman of his time in the corps. “I’ve seen documentary evidence that there were incidents, running into the 100s, involving death and ...
  • I’m Shocked…
    Boris Johnson, who is leading the fight against a European crackdown on City financiers, faced accusations of being “bought off” today, when it emerged that more than half the money donated to his mayoral campaign came from the financial sector including hedge funds and private equity. Johnson h ...
  • Concentration Camps ARE Popular
    This also makes it hard to argue there is not deep rooted racist animus against Tamils amongst the population that is being stirred by demagogues under the guise of the War on Terror, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition won the latest in a string of provincial elections this weekend, a stro ...
  • The Hollowing Out Proceeds
    Oddly I was just talking about the Shock Therapy applied to Russia in the 90’s and also hearing how a debt collector was doing so well they were eyeing up a shiny new car… Gordon Brown is to announce the sale of £16bn-worth of assets by the government in a bid to shore up public finances.  ...

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No Quarter

  • The Most Amusing Quote of the Day
    This statement is rather unfair to the gay rights coalitions, but it is “dead on” about the hard-left blogosphere. And it’s damn funny that the White House is as sick of the leftie bloggers’ angry rants as all of us are. From “BREAKING FROM NBC: White House official calls gays part of ‘ ...
  • No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doy ...
    The October 11th program is concluded. Listen to the archived show Please join me tonight from 8-9pm EDT for my weekly radio program No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle. This show is an extension of my regular work at Sense on Cents where I attempt to provide insightful analysis and ...
  • Why Obama Will Increase Your Health Care Costs
    Today’s major newspapers are leading with an announcement from a coalition of the health insurance industry that, as my daddy used to say, simply states “good ol’ c.s.” (common sense): Here’s the skinny on the announcement: When Obama’s health care plan forces higher expenses on health ...
  • Month to Date Market Review: October 11, 2009
    We are reaching a point in our new “Uncle Sam” economy where rhetoric from Wall Street, Washington, and global financial centers seems to be having greater impact than true market and economic fundamentals. Why? Our financial and political ‘wizards’ are working overtime to reconnect the grea ...
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    Join me at 8PM for NQR’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle as we dig deeper and work harder in navigating the economic landscape. Tonight we will go “Inside the Black Box” with Rishi Narang, author of this insightful book which provides ‘the simple truth about quantitative trading.’ In addit ...

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  • 'Carbon War Room' Takes Aim at Shipping
    A new nonprofit, which aims to fight climate change with the aid of entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, is mounting its first campaign -- against inefficient ships.
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    The G.A.O. takes aim at ethanol, a clean energy battle in France, and other energy and environment news from around the Web.
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    The California Public Utilities Commission is charged with sorting out how to regulate a fledgling electric car charging industry.
  • Firms Announce Major Offsets Transaction
    In what may be the largest deal of its kind thus far in the United States, Goldman Sachs and two other firms are expected to announce a $12 million carbon offset deal.
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    A new report suggests that the total potential market size for greentech solutions in China is enormous - and that opportunities for foreign companies abound.

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  • A quick hit from the G20: Democracy 101 by Indymed ...
    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 ...
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    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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  • Conservative Talking Points I Phone App (As seen o ...
    Read the full story at News Hounds Guest blogged by notveryhow I was watching Fox and Friends Weekend yesterday (10/11/09). Just the usual tripe. There was a discussion of Obama’s proposal for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. The Chamber of Commerce is opposed (surprise!). The discussion fe ...
  • Music Monday: A Fine Frenzy, the Next Kate Bush?
    Read the full story at MoJo Articles One of the great wonders of pop music is the way studio artifice can be deployed to convey genuine passion. On this winning sophomore album, Alison Sudol, a.k.a. A Fine Frenzy, constructs dazzling walls of sound from intricately layered voices, keyboards, and per ...
  • In Climate World Series, Time to Call the Bullpen
    Read the full story at MoJo Articles I didn’t make the trip to Thailand for the pre-Copenhagen negotiating session last week, and I’m glad I didn’t. For one thing, the weather was doing its best to remind delegates what global warming feels like: Bangkok can do hot and muggy like no place on E ...
  • The 2009 ‘Ig Nobel’ Prizes
    Read the full story at Byline Portal by Kristin Deasy, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic – This year, groundbreaking research on bras, beer bottles, and panda poo is getting the attention it deserves. …
  • Climate Change: A Lack Of Urgency In Bangkok?
    Read the full story at Byline Portal by Marianne de Nazareth, Counter Currents, India – How much more death and devastation does the world need to sit up and realise that the catastrophic effects of Climate Change are already upon us? …

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  • White House blasts health insurance sector report
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House Monday blasted a report from the health insurance industry that said Senate healthcare legislation would lead to increases in annual insurance premiums of as much as $4,000 by 2019.
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    PHOENIX (Reuters) - The United States, criticized for holding illegal immigrants in overcrowded and poorly run jails, on Tuesday announced plans to convert hotels to detain some noncriminal immigrants.
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    SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has fired five short-range missiles off its east coast and declared a "no sail" zone in the area from October 10-20, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a government source as saying on Monday.
  • N.Korea fires missiles, declares 'no sail' zone
    (Updates number of missiles) SEOUL, Oct 12 (Reuters) - North Korea has fired five short-range missiles off its east coast and declared a 'no sail' zone in the area from Oct. 10-20, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a government source as saying on Monday. South Korean government officials were ...

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  • Afghanistan: Taliban uses helicopters to get to th ...
    IntelTrends - The following article is from Ferghana Information Agency, Moscow. Afghanistan:  Taliban uses helicopters to get to the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan ©   Ferghana.Ru October 12, 2009  16:41 msk On October 12, giving a speech before the journalists in Kabul, Hamid Karzai, the ...
  • 'Saudi forming militia to fight Houthis'
    IntelTrends - The following article is from Press TV, Tehran. 'Saudi forming militia to fight Houthis' ©   Press TV October 11, 2009 The Houthi fighters say Saudi Arabia is recruiting gunmen to form a militia in a bid to help the Yemeni government's crackdown on the Houthis. In a statement issue ...
  • Saudi editorial: Ingushetia
    IntelTrends - The following editorial is from Arab News, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Editorial:  Ingushetia ©   Arab News October 11, 2009 Last week the president of the tiny Russian federal republic of Ingushetia in the Caucasus sacked his prime minister and Cabinet because, apparently, they had not s ...
  • Dollar plunge highlights fault lines in global eco ...
    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. ...

    PsyBlog

  • How Rewards Can Backfire and Reduce Motivation
    Surely one of the best ways to generate motivation in ourselves and others is by dangling rewards? Yet psychologists have long known that rewards are overrated. The carrot, of carrot-and-stick fame, is not as effective as we've been led to believe. Rewards work under some circumstances but sometime ...
  • 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 ...

After Downing Street.org

  • Surprise! Another Of Those War Supplementals We We ...
    Surprise! Another of those war supplementals we weren't gonna do anymore! by David Waldman | Congress Matters Step into the Way Back Machine... and come with me to last May : Oh yeah, another thing. I'm sure many of you are wondering what ever happened to the whole, "we're not gonna do suppleme ...
  • Andy Worthington And Jason Leopold Discuss Guantá ...
    Andy Worthington And Jason Leopold Discuss Guantánamo And Torture With Peter B. Collins Three months ago, veteran progressive radio host Peter B. Collins interviewed me for an in-depth podcast on his website , where, as I described it at the time, he is “pioneering a listener-funded new media pr ...
  • Nonsense From Blair
    Nonsense from Blair Posted by Helena Cobban | Just World News Mondoweiss today gives us a Youtube clip of Tony Blair dodging a tough question from a University of Buffalo student about the Goldstone report. The student, Nick Kabat, asked Blair why the US and Israel should be allowed to get away wit ...
  • Church Crowd Silent After Protesters Are Grabbed, ...
    Church Blogging # 23 CHURCH CROWD SILENT AFTER PROTESTERS ARE GRABBED, SHOVED By Nick Mottern On Sunday, October 4, Martha Conte, Gayle Dunkelberger, Nora Freeman, Debbie Kair and I attended St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Armonk, NY in our bannering campaign to encourage clergy and pa ...
  • Afghanistan Strategy on This Week: Find Yourself i ...
    Afghanistan Strategy on This Week: Find Yourself in Hole, Dig A Bigger One? By Susie Madrak | Crooks & Liars You can't go wrong doing the opposite of almost anything Sen. Saxby "Toy Soldier" Chambliss, the man who specializes in smearing real soldiers like Max Cleland, proposes. And Dianne Fei ...

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

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Washington Independent

  • A USAID Economist Dissents From Holbrooke
    Politico’s Laura Rozen obtained a formal dissent filed by a senior USAID development economist, C. Stuart Callison, against the development approach for Afghanistan and (mostly) Pakistan imposed by the Obama administration’s special representative, Richard Holbrooke. Holbrooke pledged in August ...
  • Chomsky Book Banned From Guantanamo
    The donation of an anthology of post-9/11 commentary by Professor Noam Chomsky has been rejected from the library at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, reports The Miami Herald. While the prison offers inmates books and videos on Harry Potter and the World Cup, which are among the more than 16,000 item ...
  • Obama Decisions Complicated by Progressive Opposit ...
    Powerful groups and members of Congress that quietly accepted Obama's infusion of 21,000 new troops this spring are finding their footing to oppose the current one.
  • New CNN Series, “Latino in America,” D ...
    Lou Dobbs may be the most hated man in television today among immigrant advocacy groups, so the fact that CNN is planning to run a new series about the Latino experience in America without even mentioning the role Dobbs has played in vilifying them isn’t going over so well with the advocates. Toda ...
  • CBO: Tort Reform Would Cut Health Spending by 0.2%
    Enacting a comprehensive set of medical malpractice reforms would reduce nationwide health care spending by 0.2 percent, according to a report released today by the Congressional Budget Office. Over 10 years, the changes would reduce federal deficits by $54 billion. Estimating that providers will sp ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Last Time Carbon Dioxide Levels Were This High: 15 ...
    You would have to go back at least 15 million years to find carbon dioxide levels on Earth as high as they are today, a UCLA scientist and colleagues report Oct. 8 in the online edition of the journal Science. Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • High Rates Of Childhood Exposure To Violence And A ...
    A new study from the University of New Hampshire finds that U.S. children are routinely exposed to even more violence and abuse than has been previously recognized, with nearly half experiencing a physical assault in the study year. Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  | ...
  • Mercury danger in dolphin meat
    SAPPORO — The annual dolphin hunt in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, as documented in the film "The Cove" has sparked an emotional international debate, with animal rights activists decrying the capture and slaughter as unnecessary and cruel, and those in Jap Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Health & We ...
  • Most English and Welsh rivers too dirty for new Eu ...
    Only five of the 6,114 rivers in England and Wales are in pristine condition, and more than three-quarters are expected to fail new European quality standards, says the government's fullest-ever ecological assessment of water quality. Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   A ...
  • Divining the Secret of Deformed Roadkill
    Hard as it is to be a voice in the wilderness, Judy Hoy has been sounding an alarm in southwestern Montana for more than 13 years. For years she's been documenting, through autopsies, photos, articles and scientific papers, changes — mutations, really Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Environment   ...

Suzie-Q

  • Obama, US media ignore Palestinian suffering
    John S. Hancock, Concord Monitor, Oct 12, 2009 The United Nations reports that the lives of the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, over half of whom are children, remain seriously threatened by severe shortages of essential supplies of food, drinkable water and medicine because of Israel’ ...
  • What Lies Beneath the War in Afghanistan
    by Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun, Oct 11, 2009 Truth is war’s first casualty. The Afghan war’s biggest untruth is, “we’ve got to fight terrorists over there so we don’t have to fight them at home.”Many North Americans still buy this lie because they believe the 9/11 attacks came directl ...
  • American Police Force Ends Bid for Hardin Jail
    VIDEO By NEWS KULR Story Published: Oct 9, 2009 at 2:49 PM MDT Story Updated: Oct 9, 2009 at 5:26 PM MDT BILLINGS – A California company drops its proposal to take over the Hardin jail. The news comes just days before the Montana Attorney General’s deadline for American Police Force to hand ove ...
  • President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
    Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE | 10/ 9/09 11:42 AM | OSLO — President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to build momentum behind his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions [...]
  • NASA Bombs Moon- LIVE VIDEO & PHOTOS
    NASA Moon Bombing: WATCH NASA’s LCROSS Mission Crash The Moon (LIVE VIDEO, PHOTOS) First Posted: 10- 9-09 07:52 AM   |   Updated: 10- 9-09 12:15 PM *See video of NASA moon bombing and photos of LCROSS below* WASHINGTON — NASA has successfully bulldozed two spacecraft into th ...

Solari

  • Prices of Gold And Silver Charts
    The most wonderful Nick Laird at www.sharelynx.com has charted the prices of gold and silver using the latest CPI series as adjusted by John Williams at Shadowstats.com. Here is what he found. View Larger Chart View Larger Chart
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  • BlackRock Up for Role Rating Risk at Insurers
    By Leslie Scism BlackRock Inc., which scored multiple government assignments during the financial crisis, is a contender for another prestigious gig: helping state regulators size up risks in insurers’ investments. The money manager and risk-advisory outfit is among a handful of firms that have t ...
  • Money & Markets - Week of 10.11.09
    Cash Binge to End as Central Banks Jive to Exit: Mark Gilbert Bloomberg.com (11 Oct 09) Taiwan Central Bank Highlights Benefits of Capital Controls Bloomberg.com (11 Oct 09) Fed Begins Testing ‘Reverse Repo’ Trades Financial Times (09 Oct 09) [Must subscribe to read full article.] Simon Jo ...
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  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware. George Green will be a featured speaker. September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CA Click here for Tickets & Reservations  
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
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  • Kerry-Lugar’s First Victim
    If true, this is total bullshit: After strong criticism on the Kerry-Lugar bill in Pakistan, the government has decided to replace Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani and the announcement in this respect is expected within the next two days. There’s nothing in the bill reasonable Pa ...
  • Pakistan’s Civil War Heating Up
    In the aftermath of this weekend’s assault on the Pakistani General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the Taliban hit again in Alpuri, in the Shangla district east of Mingora in Swat. According to military sources who asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t authorized to talk to the press, a 1 ...
  • 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 »

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  • 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
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    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 ...
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    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 ...

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    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 ...
  • Stadium Franco Sensi: Rome’s Solar-Powered Stadi ...
    Forget decorative crystalline stadium skins; Gino Zavanella’s recently unveiled stadium is completely plastered in energy-generating photovoltaic panels. Stadium Franco Sensi, set to be built in Rome, Italy, will feature a museum of Rome’s football team, restaurants, lounges, and bars in additio ...
  • Top 5 Coolest Green Jobs That are NOT Desk Jobs
    There has been a lot of talk about green jobs, but if becoming the next in line for the desk of the Green Czar in the Whitehouse is a bit too constraining for you, then maybe a hands-on eco career is a better option.  As a part of the recovery stimulus package, $60 billion dollars [...]
  • Eco Towers for Hamburg by Greeen! Architects
    With a focus on connecting workers and visitors to nature and providing a green ambiance, this proposal for an office building in Hamburg talks the talk and walks the walk. Designed by Düsseldorf-based firm Greeen! Architects for the Building and Environment Authority (BSU) of Hamburg, the Eco Towe ...
  • Harvard Scientists Create Dirt Powered Bacteria Ba ...
    Harvard scientists believe in the power of the good earth — literally. A team at the Boston-based college have created microbial fuel cell (MFC) batteries that derive energy from naturally occurring bacteria in soil. If the product takes off, the eco-friendly batteries could provide power for some ...

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  • ‘No Major Role For Fish’ In The Prevention Of ...
    ScienceDaily (Oct. 11, 2009) — The consumption of fish has no major role in the prevention of heart failure, according to results from a large prospective population study. The study, which was started in 1990 and involved all men and women over the age of 55 living in a suburb of Rotterdam, found ...
  • Indian Coca-Cola plant pollution scandal
    The Hindu - The Additional Chief Secretary said the government, if necessary, would consider bringing in a law making it mandatory on the part of companies indulging in such pollution to pay compensation to the affected people as in some other States including Tamil Nadu. Read Article
  • Plugging of 7 week old oil spill leak delayed agai ...
    WA Today - A second attempt to stop oil leaking into the Timor Sea has been delayed more than seven weeks after it first began spilling from an offshore well. Read Article
  • Madagascar’s forests under threat from illegal t ...
    Daily Telegraph - Environmental campaigners claim that an executive decree issued last month legalising the export of raw hardwood, including rosewood and ebony, has given free rein to criminal gangs who fell endangered trees to sell on the international market. Read Article
  • British PM’s fire sale of public assets to raise ...
    The Guardian - The prime minister is to mark the first day of the new political term by detailing an asset sale worth £16bn, in what the Liberal Democrats have called the “largest sell-off since the 1980s privatisations”. Gordon Brown will attempt to leap ahead of the Tories in ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Significant numbers of PLA fighters in Nepal decom ...
    Significant numbers of PLA fighters in Nepal decommissioned (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The decommissioning of an estimated 4,000 members of the People’s Liberation Army of Nepal has begun. Since the end of the people’s war, roughly 19,000 PLA fighters have been placed into what Maoists ...
  • Facelifting imperializmu: Obama dostaje Nagrodę N ...
    Facelifting imperializmu: Obama dostaje Nagrodę Nobla (in English: Obama wins Nobel “Peace” Prize, gives imperialism a face lift for the 21st Century) (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com,  Polish translation by KPN(M)) Dzisiaj Barack Obama został nagrodzony Pokojową Nagrodą ...
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    A new page to watch: Fight All Fakes! Posted in ..Fight All Fakes!, ..Monkey and the Troublemakers, Communism, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo, web page reviews
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Video: Phase 3 (pt. 3) – Age of Awesome Deceptio ...
    The Age of Awesome deception. Its time use our spiritual/intuitive intelligence to understand the reality around us. We remind our viewers that patience is a virtue. Kindly remain patient as we upload the rest of the series. This is still the introduction chapter, things will start picking up very s ...
  • 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 ...

ecogeek

  • George Soros Investing $1 Billion in Clean Energy
    Hedge-fund manager George Soros is the latest billionaire to throw his money behind clean technology.  Soros announced yesterday that he will be investing $1 billion in clean energy technology and will also be spending $100 million to create a climate policy advisory organization. He made it clear ...
  • 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 ...

Times Online - Science

  • Hadron Collider physicist Adlene Hicheur charged w ...
    A French physicist with the European atomic research centre at Geneva was charged with terrorism offences by a Paris judge tonight after investigators alleged that he had offered to work with the north African wing of al-Qaeda.
  • Climate change committee tells a truth that politi ...
    It falls to the Committee on Climate Change to tell a truth that politicians dare not mention. Unencumbered by the need to win elections, the committee can say what we must do to meet our legally binding targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Kirklees cuts carbon emissions with its free insul ...
    Insulation freebie wins Kirklees praise Local authority cuts annual carbon emissions by 28,000 tonnes by offering residents free home insulation package Promise a Yorkshireman something for nothing and he will immediately ask for the catch.
  • Man-made noise is blamed for driving whales to the ...
    Scientists say man-made noise equipment, including anti-seal sonar devices used in fish farms, is driving deep-water animals such as whales to shore, where they die.
  • Green and confused: Scrunch, if you’ve got t ...
    My wife and I argue about whether or not to squash plastic milk bottles into the recycling bin. I try to scrunch them up to squeeze more in: she says this means they can’t be recycled into more bottles. Who’s right?

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

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  • 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

  • When It Comes to Peddling Hate Music, iTunes Appea ...
    “Let’s see out the Fuhrer’s dream/To break the back of the eternal jew/Rid the world of the evil we’ve seen/Make it safe for me and you.” — From “Under the Hammer” by Brutal Attack “When the battle is over and the victory is won/And the White man’s lands are owned by true white p ...
  • Website: Accused Nativist Killer Set Up By Hispani ...
    Last week, prosecutors in Pima County, Ariz., announced they’re seeking the death penalty for Minuteman American Defense leader Shawna Forde, who allegedly masterminded a May 30 home invasion robbery in which a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter were shot to death. But those prosecutors have i ...
  • Gun-Toter’s Interview Was Staged — And In ...
    As President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have learned this month, an antigovernment, pro-militia mentality is alive and well in the United States. On Monday, a guy named Ernest Hancock staged a videotaped interview with a man carrying a semiautomatic rifle slung over his shoulder outsid ...
  • Leaked Neo-Nazi E-mails Show Contacts With Militar ...
    Hatewatch recently posted a report about private E-mails of the National Socialist Movement (NSM) showing up on the Internet. While that post focused on the infighting that has dogged America’s largest neo-Nazi group, some of the E-mails also shed light on a more serious matter: racial extremists ...
  • New SPLC Report on Latino Immigrants in Suffolk Co ...
    Last Nov. 8, Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant living in Suffolk County on New York’s Long Island, was murdered in the town of Patchogue. Lucero was attacked by a gang of teenagers calling themselves the Caucasian Crew, who targeted Latino residents as part of a sport they called “beane ...

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 ...

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  • Harvey Milk Finally Gets His Day
    Harvey Milk, the legendary LGBT activist and San Francisco Supervisor who was assassinated in 1978, has finally been given official recognition by the state of California with his own day. The bill to establish May 22 -- Harvey's birthday -- as Harvey Milk Day was signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegg ...
  • Making Cities Sustainable as Billions Migrate
    Manhattan is an eco-commune, a utopian environmental community, and the most ecologically sustainable place in America explains Will Boisvert reviewing Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability . He tries to see through the gray, and through the exhaust fumes t ...
  • The Power of Youth
    I believe that people will look back on the early 21st century and make note of the explosion of youth activism and engagement as a major turning point on solving issues from climate change to economic justice. From advocacy organizations like STAND to innovative companies like Better World Books t ...
  • Maine a Medicaid Model?
    The Commonwealth Fund has released new data demonstrating "shockingly wide" health disparities across the 50 states.  This is the third annual survey, and one reflecting data from 2007, so expect the overall state-by-state performance to get much worse in the coming years. What's interesting about ...
  • Columbus Day and Oppression -- Against Humans, Aga ...
    I am no fan of Columbus Day. In the way of brief explanation, here is my sarcastic tweet on Columbus Day last year: " Happy Invade, Conquer, Enslave, Exploit, Infect, and Kill Day, everyone!" That our nation continues to celebrate this day and this man -- and this era and what humans did to fellow ...

Common Dreams -News

  • US Strategy in Doubt as Abbas Loses Popular Suppor ...
    by Helena Cobban WASHINGTON - 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 Authority (PA), was making a comeback and reducing the influence in Pa ...
  • Testimony Rebuffs Common Rhetoric About Al Qaeda i ...
    by Greg Kaufmann On Friday President Obama said he was "surprised" to win the Nobel Peace Prize and doesn't "view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments." Here's hoping he will feel more worthy after announcing a new strategy for Afghanistan. read more
  • 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 ...

Lifehacker

  • CrimeReports Maps Out Local Crimes [Crime]
    If you want to check out a neighborhood you're planning on moving too or just want to see how things are looking in your corner of Sunnyvale, CrimeReports mashes up local police reports with map of the area. CrimeReports will display, when data is available, a variety of crimes including homicide, b ...
  • October 15th Last Day to Get Taxes Back on Your R ...
    If you decided to take advantage of the simple power of a Roth IRA —something we've encouraged before —take note: October 15th is the deadline to change your IRA for tax savings if you converted to a Roth last year. In a nuthsell: Say your IRA was worth $100,000 last year when you converted it ...
  • Photo Uploader for Facebook Is a Dedicated Deskto ...
    Windows/Mac/Linux: Free application Photo Uploader for Facebook sounds like its simply a tool for uploading pictures to the popular social networking site (which it does via a simple drag-and-drop), but it's also a robust desktop client for Facebook complete with notifications. (Click the image abov ...
  • Google Wave Sends Invites to First Round of Invit ...
    Late last week Google started rolling out a new round of Wave invites to folks who were invited by those first 100,000 Wave users . That means that if someone was nice enough to share a Wave invitation with you in our big Wave invite exchange or you tried the dedicated Google Wave Invites web site a ...
  • CleanScores Dishes the Dirt on Local Restaurants ...
    CleanScores catalogs restaurant inspections so you're not left guessing whether or not the place you're planning on eating is a rat-riddled dive. You can search by restaurant name or by city/region to locate the restaurant you want to dig the dirt on. If the restaurant can be found you'll receive a ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Cannon Fodder
    By Steve Hynd The London Times reports today that the Afghan army is dropping its standards again in an attempt to keep up with growing Western demands for a local face on the occupation. Lieutenant-Colonel Nick Ilic, the head of the British team that is training Afghan officers and non-commissioned ...
  • Counterfactual, Not Counterintuitive
    By Steve Hynd In the L.A Times today, CNAS members Richard Fontaine and John Nagl put forward the claim that Afghanistan's incredibly fraudulent election doesn't undermine the Afghan government's legitimacy, and therefore doesn't undermine the notion of foreign occupying powers practising a counter- ...
  • Civilians Ebb instead of Surge
    Is propping up the Karzai government, whose legitimacy is a joke after the August elections, and whose competence has always been in question worth several trillion dollars, several decades and tens of thousands of lives lost or massively disrupted?
  • Replicating the Awakening
    Loyalty leasing and minimizing the goal set to regional pockets of stability whose elite understand that the US maintains a very credible deterrant of pounding the snot out of fixed and high value targets in the case of long-distance "far enemy" terror strikes originating from certain sections of Af ...
  • Levin Was For Timelines Before He Was Against Them
    By Steve Hynd This is what a partisan shill looks like. Carl Levin (D-Mitch) today: I think it would be a mistake for us to do anything other than to look for ways to succeed in Afghanistan. And there's a legitimate debate going on as to how do we succeed in Afghanistan. And that's what we ought to ...

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Feds, Schwarzenegger sign pact to aid renewable energy efforts
Los Angeles Times
- Oct 12, 2009
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Arnold Schwarzenegger this morning signed a memorandum of understanding to streamline siting and approval of renewable energy facilities on public lands. ...
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Renewable energy workshop set for Saturday
Henderson Gleaner
- Oct 12, 2009
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By Mark Wilson There will be a renewable energy workshop at 10 am Oct. 17 in the Diamond and Emerald Rooms of the Ohio Township Library, at 4111 Lakeshore ...
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Renewable energy
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- Oct 12, 2009
- 5 hours ago
VIENNA — A decade ago, renewable energy was viewed as an unwelcome offspring of fossil fuels, but the recent establishment of the International Renewable ...
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Moncada Energy mulls IPO to boost green business
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- Oct 12, 2009
- 3 hours ago
By Svetlana Kovalyova MILAN (Reuters) - Family-owned Moncada Energy Group may float a stake at the end of 2012 to provide funds for expanding in renewable ...
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Governor for pooling expertise to conserve wildlife, ecology
News Agency of Kashmir
- Oct 12, 2009
- 4 hours ago
... conservationists and experts to come together for preserving, conserving and sustaining the environment, ecology, fauna and flora and water bodies in ...
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Pierce County solid waste plan supplement approved
Tacoma Daily News
- Oct 12, 2009
- 4 hours ago
Pierce County received the green light from Department of Ecology to pursue actions to reduce waste disposal from four pounds per person per day to just one ...
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Development not at cost of ecology
Assam Tribune
- Oct 12, 2009
- 2 hours ago
Development here should not be ushered in at the cost of environment and ecology, said chairman of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage ...
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Himachal CM asks astrologers to help preserve ecology
North India Times
- Oct 12, 2009
- 7 hours ago
Preservation of ecology was one of the essential ingredient of the ancient scriptures of the country motivating people to worship air, water, fire, tree, ...
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Schwarzenegger vetoes Logue's water bill
Appeal-Democrat
- Oct 12, 2009
- 3 hours ago
Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill by Assemblyman Dan Logue, R-Linda, on penalties for water violations by small governments, and signed a handful of ...
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Red-nosed circus billionaire returns to Earth
Reuters
- Oct 12, 2009
- 2 hours ago
The show, aimed at highlighting the scarcity of clean water for people in many parts of the world, involved singers, dancers and celebrities in 14 cities ...
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The Claim: Always Wash Your Hands With Hot Water, Not Cold.
New York Times
- Oct 12, 2009
- 1 hour ago
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR Soap and warm water have long been said to prevent the spread of infections, but is warm or hot water really more effective than cold? ...
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- Oct 12, 2009
- 53 minutes ago
By Joseph Checkler Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Some hedge-fund managers are getting their heads above high water. ...
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