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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.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • RIGHTS-PERU: Gov't Seeks Legal Shield for Securit ...
    LIMA, Oct 14 (IPS) - The Peruvian government has moved to protect the armed forces and police against investigations for crimes committed in the line of duty, especially in areas convulsed by social protests or where remnants of the Maoist Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas are still ac ...

  • MEXICO: Indigenous Enterprises Unite
    MEXICO CITY, Oct 14 (Tierramérica) - Mexico is about to become the first Latin American country with an indigenous chamber of business, dedicated to promoting and representing more than one million micro and small enterprises that are on the frontline in the fight against poverty.

  • MIDEAST: Turkey-Israel Rift Good for Palestine
    RAMALLAH, Oct 14 (IPS) - Turkey's cooling relationship with Israel comes in tandem with its improving relations with the Arab and Muslim world, and this development is expected to impact positively on Palestinian politics.

  • Q&A: Small Sugar Farmers Not so Sweet on End of ...
    PORT LOUIS, Oct 14 (IPS) - The Sugar Protocol enabling developing world sugar farmers to produce for the European market over the past 34 years ended on Sep 30. Among these, the small island state of Mauritius built two major industries -- tourism and textile and clothing – on the back of its ...

  • EUROPEAN UNION: 'Giving With One Hand, Taking Wit ...
    BRUSSELS, Oct 14 (IPS) - "EU policies continue to undermine the economic, social and human development of developing countries" despite repeated commitments in treaties and declarations, a group of European NGOs said in a report published Wednesday.

Scoop - NZ

  • 2009: How Young People are Faring
    A major research report released today by The Foundation for Young Australians (FYA) reveals a sharp rise in the rate of youth a4˜disengagement' from work and study.The 2009 How Young People are Faring (HYPAF) report shows that the proportion of teenagers not learning or earning full-time has jumpe ...

  • The Real Eleanor Roosevelt
    Eleanor Roosevelt, a woman known for her upright back and moral certitude, secretly enjoyed having her palms read. One particular analysis, in October 1939, tickled her so much that she kept it in the drawer of her desk, along with poems that inspired her. The palmist wrote that the finger which sho ...

  • Albatross-Cam: Spectacular Pics
    An international team of scientists recently attached mini cameras to the backs of albatrosses. The unique pictures taken shed new light on the hunting habits of the birds, showing how they even hook up with killer whales to find food.Sailors have often been astounded by how an albatross could follo ...

  • Ed Miliband finds a relative in Moscow
    It was supposed to be about enlisting Russia's help on climate change, and possibly sneaking a peak at the Kremlin and other historic sights.But Ed Miliband's first-ever trip to Russia ended with the cabinet minister discovering that he had a long-lost relative - an 87-year-old great-great-aunt call ...

  • Pandemic Payoff from 1918: A Weaker H1N1
    Although the swine flu outbreak of 2009 is still in full swing, this global influenza epidemic, the fourth in 100 years, is already teaching scientists valuable lessons about pandemics past, those that might have been and those that still might be. Evidence accumulated this summer indicates that the ...

Independent ( London )

  • Money and Mandarin lessons fuel China's African in ...
    This afternoon more than a dozen Liberians are expected at the Samuel Doe sports stadium in the capital, Monrovia. In a makeshift classroom with some plastic chairs and a whiteboard their teacher, Li Peng, is waiting to finish the group's second week of instruction in Mandarin Chinese. Early attend ...

  • Russian MPs walk out in a rare show of dissent
    Russian opposition parties walked out of parliament yesterday in a rare act of protest against disputed regional elections, with the Communist Party blaming Vladimir Putin for an unworkable system of governance.

  • World Focus: Why Palestinians have lost faith in O ...
    For a man who is sometimes seen as the Palestinian politician that the Israelis and the Americans like best, Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad was in a strikingly robust mood during a two-hour press conference in Ramallah yesterday. While too polite to criticise the Obama administration, he nevertheless ...

  • Steel from Ground Zero finds new home in US Navy a ...
    The US Navy's new amphibious assault vessel, 684 feet long and built at a cost of $1.2bn (£750m), earned a rousing reception as it nosed its way out of the Mississippi to the Atlantic yesterday. Because although it looks like any other vessel of its class, it is subtly different: the steel in its ...

  • Zimbabwean court orders MDC official back to priso ...
    A Zimbabwe court has ordered the prison detention of Roy Bennett, a senior official in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party, and ruled that he should stand trial on terrorism charges.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Russia Rejects US Threats for Iran Sanctions: US ...
    Summary: Speaking today in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rejected US threats to press for more sanctions against the Iranian government, insisting that the focus should be on diplomacy and that the repeated threats were “counterproductive.” source: antiwar.com read more

  • 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

The Daily Galaxy

  • Einstein's Telescope: Searching for Dark Matter an ...
    “Such stunning cosmic coincidences reveal so much about nature.” ~ Leonidas Moustakas, Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye...

  • A Guaranteed Discovery of Extraterrestrial LIFE (W ...
    The Planetary Society's Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment will answer vital questions about the possibility of interplanetary life (as well as having the best acronym ever). Not by waiting around to see if anything ever decides to show up, but by...

  • Robot Satellite Hunters Coming Soon (No, It's Not ...
    German scientists are designing robots to target orbiting communications scientists, and just this once Bond won't kill them. In fact, if he doesn't want communications problems which make Die Hard With A Vengeance look like four-bar reception they'll stay the...

  • The Nuclear Monsters of Cernobyl
    Each of these drawings which depict a morphologically disturbed insects, collected by artist Cornelia Hesse-Honegger at the fallout areas of Chernobyl as well as near nuclear installations. The drawings are the life's work of the artist, born in 1944. She...

  • Image of the Day: Stunning Island Universe Challen ...
    This gorgeous island universe just begs the question: "are we alone?" Well, perhaps in the Milky Way. NGC 7331, 50 million light-years distant in the northern constellation Pegasus, is often touted as a twin spiral analog to our Galaxy. NGC...

Natural News

  • Flu vaccines revealed as the greatest quackery eve ...
    (NaturalNews) Prepare to have your world rocked. What you're about to read here will leave you astonished, inspired and outraged all at the same time. You're about to be treated to some little-known information demonstrating why seasonal flu vaccines are utterly worthless and why their continued pro ...

  • Capsaicin could stop a heart attack in progress, s ...
    (NaturalNews) The late, famed herbalist Dr. John Christopher was nicknamed "Dr. Cayenne" because he was constantly recommending the healing powers of cayenne, the substance found in chili peppers that produces a sensation of heat. He especially advocated using it for cardiovascular health and even m ...

  • Natural remedies for acne
    (NaturalNews) Acne sucks. But you don't need antibiotics or harsh chemicals to treat it. In addition to altering your diet so that you consume fewer acne-producing foods (dairy products and fried foods, mostly), there are some effective natural remedies that are also useful for clearing up your skin ...

  • Sixty million years of evolution says vitamin D ma ...
    (NaturalNews) People still don't get it: Vitamin D is the "miracle nutrient" that activates your immune system to defend you against invading microorganisms -- including seasonal flu and swine flu. Two months ago, an important study was published by researchers at Oregon State University . This stud ...

  • Vitamin D is nutritional key for prevention of bre ...
    (NaturalNews) You've heard the good news about vitamin D for years: It's a "miracle" medicine that reduces cancer rates by 77% according to previous research (http://www.naturalnews.com/021892_cancer_Vitamin_D_cancer_industry.html). It also happens to be a powerful anti-cancer medicine that can both ...

TheGallopingBeaver

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  • And the hits just keep on comin' . . .
    THE LA TIMES has a marvellous report by Jeffrey Fleishman and Amro Hassan on something that maddens the mullahs. Titled, " Gadget to help women feign virginity angers many in Egypt ", it gives an account of an enterprising Chinese company's Artificial Virginity Hymen Kit . Islamic cultures are the ...

  • Stealth Public Option . . . .
    This one from SF Gate is too good to edit or trim down: The menace of the public option M.C. Blakeman | Saturday, September 19, 2009 Of all the current assaults on our noble republic, perhaps none is more dangerous than the public option - specifically, the public library option. For far too l ...

  • Our own little Nixon
    Lots of fuss in the blogosphere about Steverino's big singing debut . Pale makes some nice points with a pop-up version of the video here . Last year, big gala's were "elitist" and Steverino was hot and heavy to chop all the arts funding he could get away with. Now, he's appearing on stage with Yo Y ...

  • What the Customer Wanted . . .

Media Matters for America

  • Fox and other media conservatives still in denial ...
    Fox News personalities and other conservative media figures have recently claimed or suggested either that a public health insurance option is unpopular among the American public, that it is costly, or both. But they ignored that numerous major public opinion polls contradict their claims; that ...

  • Serial smearer Corsi's explanation for mortgage b ...
    Appearing on Hannity to promote his latest book, America for Sale , author Jerome Corsi purported to explain the causes of the mortgage bubble by advancing a litany of falsehoods and misinformation: repeating the myth that the Community Reinvestment Act was responsible for the bubble; claiming ...

  • Washington Examiner falsehood: "$373 mi ...
    On October 14, The Washington Examiner ran the false headline, "Michelle: $373 million in stimulus money for better vending machine food." However, Michelle Obama, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Examiner article itself contradict the headline; HHS will award $373 mi ...

  • Conservative media fearmonger that Fox News is pa ...
    Following White House criticism of Fox News for its ideological slant, conservative media figures are again fearmongering that the White House has an "enemies list," and that Fox News is -- in the words of Glenn Beck -- "another enemy" that "warmongers" in the Obama administration would fight wi ...

  • Beck continues long history of invoking Nazis by ...
    During the October 13 edition of his radio show, Glenn Beck likened the Obama administration's treatment of Fox News to Nazi persecution of Jews, telling other media outlets: "When they're done with Fox, and you decide to speak out on something," it would be like "[t]he old, 'first they came fo ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • 160 Representatives Endorse J Street Conference Bu ...
    t is pretty impressive that 160 House members have signed on as hosts to the J Street conference. Here's the list. If your representatives are not on the host committee, you may want to ask them why not. I am... Sponsored Topics: Middle East - United States - J Street - Warfare and Conflict - Is ...

  • NOBLE EFFORTS MUST YIELD TWO STATES
    The surprising announcement of President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize received immediate headlines in Israel, with the right wing fearing that he will redouble his efforts to force a two state solution. Let's hope that is true. Arafat didn't... Sponsored Topics: Nobel Peace Prize - Israe ...

  • Obama's Disarmament Prize
    My first reaction was "how can a guy who's only been in office for nine months win the Nobel Peace Prize?" But once I woke up and thought about it for a few minutes I realized that the honor being... Sponsored Topics: Nobel Peace Prize - Warfare and Conflict - Weapons - Nuclear - Barack Obama

  • 160 Representatives Endorse J Street Conference Bu ...
    t is pretty impressive that 160 House members have signed on as hosts to the J Street conference. Here's the list. If your representatives are not on the host committee, you may want to ask them why not. I am... Sponsored Topics: Middle East - United States - J Street - Warfare and Conflict - Is ...

  • The Lost Generation
    This is the most frightening economic chart I have seen in the last decade. Net private investment, which includes spending on everything from machine tools to new houses, minus depreciation, fell to 0.1% of gross domestic product in the second... Sponsored Topics: Gross domestic product - Inve ...

TruthOut

  • Judge Confirms Detainee Tortured to Make False Con ...
    (Photo: sfar / flickr ) read more

  • Bush-Era EPA Document on Climate Change Released
         Bush-era EPA document on climate change released The 2007 draft suppressed until now calls for regulation of greenhouse gases, citing global warming as a serious risk to the U.S. A finding by the Obama administration is nearly identical. read more

  • A Decent Job Allows You to Earn a Living Without L ...
         What's a decent job? Liberation.fr posed that question to participants in a Paris demonstration last Wednesday that took place near the headquarters of the Medef - the French employers' association. read more

  • Seniors and Their Doctors
        See last weekend's "NOW" on PBS, which explored the truth behind charges of "death panels."     "Death Panel? Life Panel?" What exactly is a death panel? The truth about end-of-life planning.     See the entire show RIGHT NOW .read more

  • Let's Get Real About Israel and Iran
        The military option for dealing with Iran remains on the table, President Obama repeatedly reminds us .read more

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

  • Austin Community Energy Forum
    The Catholic Diocese of Austin states on its website that Austin’s plan to increase its dependence on renewable energy in providing electricity to the city will have a negative impact on the poor, “We support initiatives to preserving and protecting our environment, but not at the expense of tho ...

  • San Antonio Says “No Nuclear” Demonstration Oc ...
    JOIN THE LARGEST COMMUNITY ACTION YET! Say NO to NUCLEAR Community Demonstration! Wed Oct 14th 4pm – 8pm City Hall {103 Main Plaza,78205} ..next to Main Plaza downtown SA Come to the demonstration! BRING 3 people with you! BRING: street theatre props & political costumes, signs, puppets, bikes, h ...

  • Sierra Club and Citizen’s Groups Challenge Seco ...
    Texas only State in Nation with such a Deadly, Costly Coal Rush Advancing (Austin) Attorneys for Sierra Club and a Goliad and Victoria county-based group, Citizens for a Clean Environment, plus Environmental Defense Fund began arguments today against one of a large number of proposed new coal plant ...

  • Good Day, (for Texas) Sunshine [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: This morning marks a good day for Texas sunshine! Public Citizen Texas gives you the early morning scoop -- late last night the Texas Senate passed through HB 1423, a net metering bill to provide owners of solar installations with fair buy-back rates for the ex ...

  • 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 ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Health Care Deform Just What the Repugs Ordered
    When you hear that Mitch McConnell and the repugs want to stop health care reform at all costs, that's true, but not the whole story. What Mitch McConnell and the repugs really want is to fatally cripple President Obama and the Democrats, destroying any chance of them saving the country from economi ...

  • Pipeline Politics
    I have been watching as Russia moves to consolidate power in Europe for a while now. Well, the pieces are starting to move around the board. Construction is nearing completion on the Nord Stream Pipeline, and the power balance that currently exists in Europe will change, and eastern Europe could onc ...

  • Invest in Liberty, Families, Equality
    When you donate money to a political candidate, it's not a direct investment.  You don't really know that candidate is going to do what she promises to do, much less what you hope she will do. But there's a campaign going on right now that has a single, direct consequence of success:  preserving the ...

  • If they want to do COIN right...
    I want to get our military forces the hell out of Afghanistan as quickly as possible. But it really isn't as easy as just declaring victory and going home. One of the first lessons taught to every officer is the simple fact that some basics always apply, and one of those basics is that getting into ...

  • "When They Leave, We're Stuck With This Problem."
    It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. ---Upton Sinclair, US novelist & socialist politician (1878 - 1968) There are few sights more heartbreaking than that of abused humans desperately defending their abusers. PIKEVILLE - Coal miners who w ...

Care 2

  • Long dead grouse gets the last laugh
    An easy shot at dinner turned out to be costly for 33-year-old Rockmon Davisson of Sterling, according to Alaska Wildlife Troopers, who caught Davisson ground-sluicing a grouse on the Kenai Peninsula Monday. Two problems for Davisson: One, the grouse in Submitted by Wolfweeps Pommawolf to Offbeat   ...

  • Hunting asteriods by hovercraft
    According to Wired, two scientists now have the ability to chase down a mystery More info: Click here Submitted by Wolfweeps Pommawolf to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  • FBI Chief to Indian Museum: Support Truthful Nativ ...
    In a letter to the Director of the National Museum of the American Indian, former FBI Agent in Charge Joseph H. Trimbach writes that a book sold in the museum's bookstore denigrates Native American history by depicting a murderer as a Native American Submitted by Lone Wolf to Society & Culture  |  ...

  • Israelis flatten Palestinian home
    Israeli authorities have demolished two Palestinian-owned structures in East Jerusalem, in defiance of international calls to stop such actions. Submitted by Elderberry T. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  • Your morning adorable: Dogs compete for charity at ...
    Over the weekend, some of Southern California's most talented animal athletes turned out for the first-ever Surf City Surf Dog competition in Huntington Beach. During the event, dogs ranging in size from tiny, such as Bobby Gorgeous (above, a Pomeranian Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it! ...

GreenBiz

  • Nike, HP and SC Johnson Navigate Path to Greener C ...
    Strong supplier partnerships, green design objectives, and sharing best practices with government, NGOs and peers have allowed Nike, HP and SC Johnson to weed out toxic materials from their products, according to a new report.

  • Climate Corps: 54 Million Reasons to Celebrate Ene ...
    An Environmental Defense Fund program that pairs MBA students with companies to find energy efficiency opportunities will save host firms $54 million over the lifetime of the projects and avoid 100,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually.

  • Modular Building Designs Take Top Prize in Lifecyc ...
    Reusable and transformable facilties and materials were the top prize-winners in the 2009 Lifecycle Building Challenge awards handed out by the U.S. EPA and its partners; additional awards went to the greenest building product and the best job-creating product in the country.

  • 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 ...

Reuters Global

  • It’s still the economy, stupid, in Pakistan
    Pakistan's anaemic economy remains the biggest challenge, more than even the threat from militants, says a diplomat

  • YOUR TURN TO ASK: Karel De Gucht, EU humanitarian ...
    The European Commission is one of the biggest donors of humanitarian and development aid in the world. But like all donors the Commission faces challenges, not least on how to reform the aid process. Here is your chance to put questions to the EU's new humanitarian aid chief Karel De Gucht - via thi ...

  • North Korea’s Great Leader knew his cabbage
    (Photo: North Koreans offer flowers to a statue of state founder Kim Il-sung to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the founding of the state, in Pyongyang September 9, 2009, in this picture released by North Korea's official news agency KCNA.)

  • Afghanistan and Pakistan: is it time to ditch &#82 ...
    The weekend raid on the Pakistan Army's headquarters has raised new questions about the different militant threats to Afghanistan and Pakistan. So is it time to ditch the "AfPak" label?

  • 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.

Ezra Klein

  • The House That Private Insurance Built
    Following the old adage to never stop digging when you've created such a nice hole for yourself, AHIP is now touting a report (pdf) released by one of its member insurers: the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. Like AHIP's report, Blue Cross Blue Shield finds that premiums will shoot into the sky ...

  • Great Moments in Chutzpah
    A lot of people have quoted this today and termed it a shining moment in international chutzpah: Saudi Arabia is trying to enlist other oil-producing countries to support a provocative idea: If wealthy countries reduce their oil consumption to combat global warming, they should pay compensation to ...

  • Reasons for Hope on Cap-and-Trade?
    I'm pretty pessimistic on the chances for cap-and-trade to pass the Senate anytime soon, but David Roberts offers seven arguments for optimism , and they're more convincing than I'd have originally thought. The first one is the biggest one: the steadfast presence of Senate Republicans might make thi ...

  • Wall Street Loves Money
    It's a bad time for the country, but struggling Americans can take some comfort in knowing that Wall Street is finally having fun again. According to the Wall Street Journal , "major U.S. banks and securities firms are on pace to pay their employees about $140 billion this year — a record high t ...

  • Adventures in Cable News
    It's hard out there for a ... talking head ? Bruce Bartlett explains: [A] friend of mine, economist Richard Rahn, recently had a segment on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer canceled. In this case, however, it wasn't because he had the wrong point of view, but because the show found a better guest to sa ...

Booman Tribune

  • AHIP's "Mask of Sanity" Slips
    Maya Angelou has been credited with saying "When people show you who they really are, believe them," which is sometimes expanded to "When people show you who they are, believe them the first time." The idea is that doing so may be crucial to protecting your well-being and your life. Well, the folks ...

  • GOP: Unbelievable Cowardice
    The party that is just chock full of Hawks who got deferments from serving in the Vietnam War never ceases to set new records for cowardice: Senate Republicans plan to push a provision aimed at blocking the Obama administration from trying in U.S. civilian courts any terrorists who plotted the Se ...

  • Advice for the White House
    A nice catch by David Waldman. Evan Bayh assured us that the caucus could control Lieberman back when he endorsed letting the Connecticut senator keep his committee chairs. Now that the time is approaching for the caucus to exert that control, in order to get cloture for the health care bill, Bayh ...

  • Billo's War on Sex
    Bet that got your attention. Or maybe not. But actually, in all honesty, Bill O'Reilly, perhaps warming up for his annual War on Christmas mini-series, has decided to go after Rio Americano High School in California for the "too sexy" dance moves of its Song Team. Because God knows (and who among ...

  • Memo to Democratic Senators
    The Democratic Party of Connecticut decided they did not want to be represented by Joe Lieberman anymore in a 2006 primary. Joe Lieberman decided he didn't want to serve in Congress under a Democratic president in 2008. To my way of thinking, those are two pretty big strikes against Mr. Lieberman. ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Images of Heroic Slavery – Gears of War, God of ...
    The third-person shooter genre of video games is largely populated by lead characters for whom violence and aggressive self-interest is both a means and an end – but are they heroic individuals, or slaves to a system? ### It may not be obvious from reading them, but there is a process behind the ...

  • Google’s Building Maker: crowdsourcing the world ...
    Is there anything that can’t be crowdsourced? Google sure don’t think so, as they’ve just announced another new project for Joe Public to muck in on. Google Building Maker will be used to populate Google Earth with 3D models of major buildings: We like to think of Building Maker as a cross bet ...

  • Packaging the genre: publishers as curators
    There aren’t many business methods worth copying from the record business at the moment, but should book publishers be trying to work more like record labels? Over at the if:book blog, one Bob Stein thinks there’s something to be learned from the days when books had a distinctive look that immed ...

  • The transparency trap: why open government might b ...
    If you’d asked me to make a list of people I thought would be opposed to political transparency and “open government”, Lawrence Lessig would not have appeared in my top hundred. But here he is, writing at The New Republic, saying that while the intentions of government transparency movements a ...

  • Rogue (satellite) hunter
    Things are going to get a little busier up in geostationary orbit… not only are there destined to be an increasing number of broken satellites cluttering up this important orbital region, but soon there’ll be little robot repair bots flying around up there trying to fix them (or push them out of ...

Therapy News

  • Ivan J Miller’s Rebuttal to Sharon Begley, Newsw ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Readers of Newsweek may be familiar with a column written by Sharon Begley, who has on numerous occasions extended her editorial opinion, research, and writing ability to the realm of the mental health professions. Notably, Begley wrote in her columns of May 4th, 2009 ...

  • Healthcare Reform… Blinded by Fear
    GoodTherapy.org Featured Column written by Judith Barr, MA, LMHC Click here to contact Judith and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile So much is being said and felt about healthcare reform. But do we know if our fears surrounding the issue of healthcare reform are from the here-and-now, or from once- ...

  • Mediterranean Diet May Help Ward Off Depression
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline There have been many positive effects reported by those who maintain strict Mediterranean diets, from lowered cholesterol and related heart problems and risks to greater longevity and beyond. Recently, however, a study has suggested that this specific type of diet â ...

  • Roles of Planning, Positive Attitude in Job Search ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Most of today’s prospective job seekers do their best to put a positive spin on their search, even as the national market proves difficult for a wide range of professions. Considering the factors that can influence successful job hunting, a team from the University ...

  • Celebrations of Mental Illness Awareness Week Ensu ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Across the country and in many places around the world, mental health professionals and advocates are marking their calendars for Mental Illness Awareness Week, which takes place the week of October 5th. The week is committed to highlighting the plight of those with m ...

Mountaintop Removal

Memeorandum

  • House Republicans accuse Muslim group of trying to ...
    Jordy Yager / The Hill : House Republicans accuse Muslim group of trying to plant spies   —  Four House Republicans are accusing a Muslim advocacy group of trying to plant spies on Capitol Hill.  —  Republican members of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus said the Council on American I ...

  • Snowe: Public option could be dealbreaker (Eric Zi ...
    Eric Zimmermann / The Hill : Snowe: Public option could be dealbreaker   —  The public option is likely a deal breaker for Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the sole Republican who voted for healthcare reform in the Finance Committee yesterday.  —  In a number of interviews this morning, Snowe, ...

  • An Apartment Complex Teeters (Wall Street Journal)
    Wall Street Journal : An Apartment Complex Teeters   —  High-Profile Tishman/BlackRock Property in New York in Danger of Default  —  The giant Stuyvesant Town apartment complex on Manhattan's East Side, shown Tuesday, was developed by MetLife for World War II veterans.  —  One of the b ...

  • Palin Plans New Political Group (Washington Wire)
    Washington Wire : Palin Plans New Political Group   —  Michael M. Phillips reports on the doings of conservative favorite Sarah Palin.  —  Sarah Palin fans can expect to see a new Palin political organization surface as her memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life,” hits the shelves next ...

  • Stanley McChrystal's Long War (Dexter Filkins/New ...
    Dexter Filkins / New York Times : Stanley McChrystal's Long War   —  Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal stepped off the whirring Black Hawk and headed straight into town.  He had come to Garmsir, a dusty outpost along the Helmand River in southern Afghanistan, to size up the war that President Obama ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
    Thursday, October 15, 2009 00:13:35 UTC Wednesday, October 14, 2009 04:13:35 PM at epicenter Depth : 26.90 km (16.71 mi)

  • M 5.0, Santa Cruz Islands
    Wednesday, October 14, 2009 09:34:36 UTC Wednesday, October 14, 2009 08:34:36 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)

  • M 5.1, Tonga
    Wednesday, October 14, 2009 07:59:00 UTC Wednesday, October 14, 2009 08:59:00 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

  • M 5.0, Vanuatu
    Wednesday, October 14, 2009 06:54:49 UTC Wednesday, October 14, 2009 05:54:49 PM at epicenter Depth : 89.10 km (55.36 mi)

  • M 5.2, Vanuatu
    Tuesday, October 13, 2009 20:48:11 UTC Wednesday, October 14, 2009 07:48:11 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Greening Infosys
    Two years ago, the Indian IT giant Infosys decided to clean up its act. Rohan Parikh, head of sustainable development at the company, explained to Isabel Hilton how they went about it. Isabel Hilton (IH): Why did Infosys [ Infosys Technologies Limited ] adopt its green initiative? Rohan Parikh ( ...

  • Poisoned children test China
    Central planners have resolved to clean up the country’s heavy industries, but they don’t always get what they want, writes Patti Waldmeir. In the provinces, local officials often have another agenda. Xiao Wang is a toddler, trapped in the body of an octogenarian. His lungs fight for breath, his ...

  • 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 ...

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  • Special Interests Get Peek at ‘Classified’ Cop ...
    Want to know the language of the ever-transforming proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? It’s highly classified. And, according to the Obama administration, it carries national security implications. According to leaked documents on WikiLeaks, the proposed treaty would require ISPs to term ...

  • E-Mail Mocking Obama Is ‘Exhibit A’ in Wrongfu ...
    The president of a Midwest office supply company is in court after a salesman claimed the boss’ pre-election e-mail rant against Barack Obama amounted to an edict: Vote for Obama and you’re fired. The lawsuit (.pdf) claims the president of KK Office Solutions’ pre-election e-mail criticizing O ...

  • Passenger Advocate Sues Delta for Allegedly Hackin ...
    An airline passenger advocate has accused Delta Airlines of hacking her e-mail accounts and computer in order to sabotage her organization’s lobbying efforts to pass federal legislation to help stranded fliers, according to a lawsuit filed in Texas Tuesday. Kate Hanni, the executive director and ...

  • Big-Box Breach: The Inside Story of Wal-Mart’s H ...
    Wal-Mart was the victim of a serious security breach in 2005 and 2006 in which hackers targeted the development team in charge of the chain’s point-of-sale system and siphoned source code and other sensitive data to a computer in Eastern Europe, Wired.com has learned. Internal documents reveal fo ...

  • Nuclear Plants Cautiously Phase Out Dial-Up Modems
    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is asking the operators of America’s 66 nuclear power plants to voluntarily upgrade the on-site monitoring systems that report plant conditions to the government. That upgrade to the 16-year-old Emergency Response Data System? Replacing telephone dial-up modems ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • For many U.S. wealthy, housing crisis still a sque ...
    ST. CHARLES, Illinois (Reuters) - Despite some signs that the worst of the U.S. residential housing crisis may be over, many wealthy homeowners are still being squeezed by the combination of weak home prices and the stock market crash.

  • Quiet Atlantic hurricane season a boon for insurer ...
    MIAMI (Reuters) - Thanks to El Nino, the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season has been the quietest in more than a decade, offering a reprieve for residents in the danger zone and a chance for insurance firms to refill depleted coffers.

  • JPMorgan shares jump on profit surge
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co quarterly profit rocketed to forecast-beating $3.6 billion as bond trading revenue surged, boosting optimism about a strengthening rebound in top Wall Street banks.

  • World stocks hit 12-month highs, dollar at 14-mont ...
    LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks hit a 12-month high on Wednesday as forecast-beating Intel Corp results and Chinese trade data brightened the economic outlook, while the dollar plumbed 14-month lows, sending oil and gold higher.

  • House begins assembly of financial reform plan
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House Financial Services Committee is to begin work on Wednesday on a top priority for the U.S. Congress -- legislation to mend regulatory holes exposed by last fall's financial crisis.

Godspace

  • Flu Therapy
    Another day at World View Institute in Launceston.  I love the rhythm here – lectures Monday and Tuesday and then a day off (at least for me) which is just as well because I am still fighting a cold and have not felt well since I first caught the flu back in Los Angeles about [...]

  • 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 [...]

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PDA AMERICA

  • IOT: End the Occupation, Redirect Funding Call Oc ...
    On this UFPJ updated us on current legislation, Joe Comerford from the National Priorities Prpject also joined us and we rolled out our new "brown bag vigil" project.

  • Video: 350.org - In every corner of the globe&#82 ...
    On 24 October, we will stand together as one planet and call for a fair global climate treaty. United by a common call to action, we’ll make it clear: the world needs an international plan ...

  • Mobilization for Health Care for All Goes National
    In just two more days, the Mobilization for Health Care for All goes national. When we launched this campaign we envisioned about 100 people signing up to sit in in the first weeks of the campaign ...

  • County governments employ few American Indians
    By Gregory W. Paquin | The Bemidji Pioneer At election time all the politicians come looking for native American votes and our money — dollars derived from Indian gaming revenues. The real story of what these ...

  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • GAO Report on Enhancing Food Safety of Imported Fo ...
    The below GAO Report (click on image to download) that landed on my desk today points out the potential risks of imported foods and what our agencies, FSIS and FDA, can do lighten that risk.  The reality, however, in my 17 years of food litigation experience has been that domestically produced food ...

  • Say it ain't so, Mr. President and Mr. Secretary - ...
    According to OMB Watch: When Congress finalized on Thursday the Department of Agriculture’s FY 2010 budget, it fulfilled President Obama’s request to give a modest funding boost to the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS). Unfortunately, it appears the agency will be unable to close the gap in ...

  • So, I made Letterman Tuesday Night
    Well, not really, it was just the tape of my reaction when Larry King butchered the word "E. coli."  Click on the below image and watch the last part of the third monologue segment:

  • Senator Gillibrand Unveils Comprehensive Food Safe ...
    Contaminated Food Kills 5,700 Americans Each Year – Nation’s Food Safety Laws Have Not Been Overhauled In A Century U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the first New York senator to sit on the Senate Agriculture Committee in nearly 40 years, today announced a comprehensive plan to overhaul the nati ...

  • In case you missed it - Marler on Larry King Live
    Larry King was a gracious host and I thought the discussion at beginning and with Mr. Boyle and Dr. Murano was useful.  The meat/no meat discussion got everyone off topic on what should have been the focus - the safety of our food supply. Embedded video from CNN Video

AutoblogGreen

  • REPORT: Energy Secretary Chu - "I would put every ...
    U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has a penchant for making some straightforward statements about energy policy. He's said that electric vehicles are inevitable , for example, and that all American cars should be E85-capable . Recently, he apparently said that "if it were up to me, I would put eve ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.14.09
    REPORT: Energy Secretary Chu: "I would put every cent into electric cars" That should calm the fires. Last pre-production Volt comes off the assembly line Can't stop progress. ...

  • Tesla introduces Mobile Service Rangers, the Geek ...
    Filed under: Convertible , Tesla , Alternative Fuel Doctors may not make many house calls anymore, but Tesla Motors believes an at-home service is just the ticket for its pricey electric cars. The company recently announced a new Tesla Mobile Service Rangers program that makes getting the recomme ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.13.09
    Greenlings: What is CAFE? Did you know the EPA's MPG ratings don't actually measure the fuel in the tank? Zero Emission Race plans to go around the world in 80 days Sign up now. ...

  • 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. ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Sidekick's lesson: We learn by failing
    Technically, we can't blame the loss of Sidekick users' data on a failure of either the concept or the technology of "cloud computing." But Microsoft's clear bungling of basic information management practices (apparently, there were backups--but they didn't work) does cast a pall over not just Micr ...

  • 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, ...

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!

  • Lt. Choi Won’t Lie for His Country
    Lt. Dan Choi doesn’t want to lie. Choi, an Iraq war veteran and a graduate of West Point, declared last March 19 on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “I am gay.” Under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” regulations, those three words are enough to get Choi kicked out of the military ...

  • 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 ...

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • The JFK Assassination – the Last Shot


  • Who got to Dr. Diane Harper? Cervical cancer resea ...
    By Mike Adams Last week, NaturalNews reported public statements attributed to Dr. Diane Harper, a researcher who worked on both the Gardasil and Cevarix vaccines. A story appearing in the UK paper Sunday Express, entitled “Jab as deadly as the cancer,” quoted Dr. Harper as saying the cervical ca ...

  • The Questionable Efficacy Of Flu Vaccines… A ...
    By Dana Ullmann Evidence to date suggests that the “H1N1 flu is not a major threat,” and there is little evidence that flu vaccines are effective in preventing the flu, so says Tom Jefferson, MD, arguably the world’s leading expert on influenza vaccines. Dr. Jefferson has authored 10 reviews o ...

  • Three Decades Of Global Cooling
    As a Colorado Rockies playoff game is snowed out, scientists report that Arctic sea ice is thickening and Antarctic snow melt is the lowest in three decades. Whatever happened to global warming? Al Gore wasn’t there to throw out the first snowball, er, baseball, so he might not have noticed that S ...

  • Global Warming – I told you so!
    By Mike Rivero at WRH Well, I hate to say I told you so, but … no I don’t. I actually rather like it! This was all a scam. The US Government creates one crisis after the other to trick you out of money and obedience. Human Caused Global Warming was to pave the way [...]

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    Homepage of website listing news articles, documents,films, lectures,declassified documents,leaked letters & memoes,central Asian oil and gas infrastructure,links,audio,music & satire Submitted by John Farnham to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  • 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

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    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

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 »

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Fabius Maximus

  • The falling US dollar – bane or boon?
    Summary:  The US dollar is falling in value vs. most other currencies and gold.  As usual, much of the material in the mainstream media about this important economic trend is misleading or wrong.  It is potentially both bane and boon.  Which depends upon us.  This is just a sketch; please see t ...

  • Obama is just like Jack Kennedy!
    Summary:  There is no need to read the daily news when one can remain current by reading David Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest.  It’s better written than any daily paper, and more informative about today’s events (by virtue of the perspective it provides on them). Many of Obama†...

  • How the Soviet Menace was over-hyped – and w ...
    Histories of the CIA document its poor performance as an intelligence agency (e.g., Tim Weiner’s 2007 book Legacy of Ashes).  While incompetence certainly plays a role in degrading its performance, obedience to its political superiors probably plays a far more informant role.  Such as the re ...

  • 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 ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Scientists Make Desktop Black Hole
    Two Chinese scientists have successfully made an artificial black hole. Since you’re still reading this, it’s safe to say that Earth hasn’t been sucked into its vortex. That’s because a black hole doesn’t technically require a massive, highly concentrated gravitational field that prevents ...

  • Wired’s Crazy Flyer Survives with Mental Health ...
    Wired’s Terminal Man appears to have passed the ultimate mental health test — 30 days without leaving an airport terminal except by plane — with his sanity completely intact. Wired Science conducted a highly unscientific study of Brendan Ross’s mental health status (i.e., we gave him ...

  • Scientists Scan the Brains of Mice Playing Quake
    By putting sensors in the brains of mice as they ran through a Quake-derived virtual reality, scientists have found a way to study neurological activity in moving animals. The setup allows for real-time, almost-real-motion tracking of single neurons. That feat has eluded researchers who have a fuzz ...

  • Giant Invasive Snakes Threaten U.S. Wildlife, Peop ...
    Nine different species of exotic giant snakes, released into the wild by irresponsible pet owners, could pose a major threat to U.S. wildlife, according to a new report published today by the U.S. Geological Survey. Although pet constrictors start out small and cute, the largest snakes can grow up ...

  • Jupiter Moon’s Ocean Could Be Rich in Oxygen
    FAJARDO, Puerto Rico — If there are any fish on Jupiter’s moon Europa, they can breathe easy. Researchers hunting for signs of life beyond Earth have long been drawn to Europa because several features of the moon’s icy surface — including its bright color, networks of long fractures and cra ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Pakistan Needs More than Aid
    That no good deed goes unpunished is both cliche and irony. No better illustration can be found than in the uproar that accompanied the House of Representative's passage last week of the Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill that "authorizes" an additional $1.5 billion a year for five years in non-military aid t ...

  • Regime Change in the Middle East
    Not all of it is the result of armed intervention . Two pillars of stability in the region, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, are on the verge of a potentially generational change in leadership, and of course the result is alarmism. In some ways I take a contrarian view of the Middle East: It's neither as imp ...

  • A War of Overstatements
    As I think I’ve made clear, I think the folks out there arguing that an ambitious, expensively, long-term population-centric counterinsurgency mission in Afghanistan is essential to the national interest are mistaken. Indeed, I think they’re being somewhat absurd. At the same time, I think their ...

  • Will the Russians Change their Position on Iran?
    Over the past several weeks, I've asked whether there might be a change in the Russian position on Iran. Foreign Minister Lavrov gave a pretty clear answer: no. No support for new sanctions on Iran at this juncture. The Russians were unwilling to discuss with Secretary Clinton any specific new measu ...

  • The "Bomb Iran" Lobby is Getting Kind of Amateuris ...
    Jeffrey Herf has taken to The New Republic in an effort to convince Americans that negotiations will go nowhere unless we threaten Tehran with an extensive bombing campaign. Herf is a specialist on Germany; Divided Memory is an excellent study of the different ways in which East and West Germans re ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • If Only War Were that Simple.
    The Washington Post today profiles Lt. Carey Cash , the Navy chaplain serving at Camp David, where President Obama attends services. Cash -- a great nephew of music icon Johnny Cash -- is a conservative Southern Baptist who won't, apparently, give Obama the trouble that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright did. ...

  • Rush Limbaugh Dropped From Rams Bid.
    In a cautionary tale about how blatant prejudice can affect your business interests, ESPN is reporting that Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from a bid to buy the St. Louis Rams following suggestions from black players, the head of the NFL players union DeMaurice Smith , and NFL commissioner Roger Goo ...

  • Evasive Maneuvers.
    Tara McKelvey goes to kidnapping school: How do you dress for an abduction? That was the question on my mind as I prepared for my first day of kidnapping school -- or, as it is officially known, Centurion Risk Assessment Services' Hostile Environment and First Aid Course, a weekend-long training p ...

  • Republicans Give the Game Away on Stimulus.
    Typically, whenever you see a project funded by the stimulus, there is a sign near by pointing out that it was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It lets the public know what they're getting for their money. It turns out the signs are pretty expensive -- weird, right? can't they j ...

  • The Key Word Isn't "Republican." It's "Rockefeller ...
    The GOP has been searching for a new militaristic hero to carry its standard, and the eyes of the hopeful have fallen to David Petraeus , despite the fact that he's shown no interest in the job thus far. Jason Zengerle points out that Petraeus was identified as a Republican in Steve Coll 's New York ...

Andy Worthington

  • A full house for the launch of “Outside the Law: ...
    The 300 free tickets for the UK launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” have all been booked a week before the event. The launch is taking place on Wednesday October 21 at the Cochrane Theatre, Southampton Row, London WC1, and while this is great news for all involved in the film, ...

  • Finding New Homes For 44 Cleared Guantánamo Priso ...
    In a recent article, “75 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 31 Could Leave Today,” I examined the implications of an announcement that 75 of the remaining 223 prisoners in Guantánamo have been cleared for release. This came by way of a list posted in the prison, identifying the prisoner ...

  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • Rush Limbaugh's Cluelessness About His Racist Tira ...
    BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK Rush Limbaugh For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America. Wanting to take his undeserved millions and putting it towards a failing football team (St. Loui ...

  • The ultimate simplicity of Afghanistan
    Body These instances aren't nearly as rare as we'd all like them to be, but sometimes the childlike simplicity of the neoconservative mind prompts a grimacing double-take -- one of those 'Did he really say that?' moments, such as last Sunday morning, when Sen. John McCain sat as a guest ...

  • Dee Evans: The Media Goes Mad -- Literally -- Over ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Dee Evans I awoke this morning and couldn't believe my ears. That President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize? No. That on almost every news channel that I turned to, all I heard was people who call themselves professional "news" people ranting and raving about how di ...

  • Thanks to the BuzzFlash Community for Your Comment ...
    BuzzFlash Editor's Blog By Mark Karlin Tuesday afternoon, we proudly launched a new contemporary design for the homepage of BuzzFlash.com. (We do have many other interconnecting sites that have not yet been redesigned).  read more

  • BuzzFlash Mailbag for October 14, 2009
    BUZZFLASH MAILBAG [Editor's note: For those who have been writing in on the subject, you can now click on "Classic BuzzFlash" to get the home page in the same way it has been for almost 10 years. Just go to the bar at the top of the page.] Want to join the conversation? Share your thoughts with oth ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • How to avoid the GOP's mistakes during the Bush ye ...
    The Atlantic 's Marc Ambinder makes the following observation : From day one of his administration, the left has held Barack Obama's feet to the fire way more than the right ever did to George W. Bush -- at least until Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. Put another way: the ...

  • Democrats and Afghanistan: what's at stake
    Dianne Feinstein is a fairly typical Democratic Senator from a solidly blue state.  In 2002, she voted to authorize the attack on Iraq.  Throughout the Bush years, she repeatedly stood with the GOP to fund the war without the conditions and timetables sought by some of her fellow Democrats.  Us ...

  • 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

  • Time to boycott Rush Limbaugh sponsors
    The boycott of Glenn Beck’s sponsors seems to be effective. Last I heard the man was running out of advertising options. CNN, after getting rid of Beck, is now looking to dump Lou Dobbs for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • 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! ]]

Sciencebase

  • Metal Bottle Tops and Landfill Mining
    Reduce, re-use, and recycle. Just one of the countless mantras of the twenty-first century that we are told will save the planet. Of course, my grandmother used to put it far more succinctly and in a much more accessible form: waste not, want not. Now, we have carbon footprints, emissions targe ...

  • 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 ...

change: org.

  • U.S. Carbon Emissions Plummeting
    Lester R. Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, reports today on the Institute Website that the United States “has now entered a new energy era, one of declining emissions. Peak carbon is now history.” I’m so used to doom and gloom on the topic of cutting emissions that I had to loo ...

  • Another Offspring of the Marriage Between Crime Da ...
    "Warning: Stay alert. Do not get hurt." That's what the iPhone said to me, in a very masculine voice, when I tried out the new application " Are You Safe? Sacramento ." I had typed in an address recommended to me -- I don't live in Sacramento, otherwise the phone would have used GPS to identify my ...

  • US Creates Institute to Help Feed the World, But G ...
    A new agricultural research institute launched by the Obama administration and the National Institute of Food doesn't sound like good news for global health, right? More research into how to feed ourselves even more food whilst so many miss out. Not so fast: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack explai ...

  • Using the Book of Leviticus to Beat Gay Men Into C ...
    As the U.S. Congress prepares to finally pass hate crimes legislation that includes protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, a bloody and gruesome example of why such hate crimes protections are needed is coming out of New York . Over the weekend, two men beat and mauled ...

  • Belgium's "Miss Homeless" Contest
    I'm not a fan of pageants. But I'm especially not a fan of Belgium's "Miss Homeless" beauty competition. Although the event organizers claim the event judged women on their "inner strength and determination to get themselves out of their old life and on a new path," I find that hard to believe. Thi ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Abbas Reverses on Goldstone Report
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 14, 2009 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) NASEER ARURI Aruri is chancellor professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. He said today: "The Abbas government, whose term in office has expired long ago, had succumbed to ...

  • Latinos Use Voces Verdes to Call for Strong Climat ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 14, 2009 Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Voces Verdes , an innovative platform designed to highlight the Latino community's support for strong climate and clean energy legislation was launched today by La Onda Verde, the Latino arm of the Natural Resources Defe ...

  • Groups Strongly Urge Gates to Curb Congressional E ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 14, 2009 Project on Government Oversight (POGO) Today the Center for Defense Information (CDI), National Taxpayers Union (NTU), Project On Government Oversight (POGO), and Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates urging him to make it c ...

  • Limbaugh Fumbles for Response to Accusations of Ra ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 14, 2009 Media Matters for America Today, after conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh responded to critics of his bid to purchase the St. Louis Rams who have stated that he is "insensitive" about race by claiming that he is "colorblind" and "treat[s] everyone equally," ...

  • Modest Results of IRS Amnesty Program Highlight Ne ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 14, 2009 National Whistleblowers Center Tomorrow marks the end of the IRS' amnesty program for special voluntary disclosures by taxpayers with unreported income from hidden offshore accounts. read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • The IDF Violated Nuremberg Principles During Opera ...
    by Cesar Chelala In what can be considered a sad paradox of history, an analysis of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) actions during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza shows that the IDF violated several of the Nuremberg Principles, as well as the principles of the Geneva Conventions. read more

  • 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 ...

  • Equality March Shows What Grassroots Can Do
    by Laura Flanders Without even one cable news outlet promoting the event and even without Glenn Beck--even without corporate lobbyists sending in activists by the thousands, and corporate advertisers publicizing it--the National Equality March on the D.C. mall on October 11 drew one hell of a crowd. ...

  • Justice for the Unemployed
    by John Buell With the official unemployment rate nearly 10 percent, now is no time to let talk of recovery deter us from concern for the suffering of the unemployed. The unemployment rate continues to grow and will likely do so even if a modest growth in statistical GDP is under way. Paul Krugman p ...

Karl Burkart

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Open ID

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

  • 40,000 More U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan Won't Sol ...
    Afghan Parliament member Roshanak Wardak speaks out: Most of the women do not want more troops -- they need support to sustain their lives. Returning from my 10-day trip to Afghanistan, I pause. The United States has spent a quarter of a trillion dollars in eight years of military action: what have ...

  • New Cancer Gene Discovered
    A new cancer gene has been discovered by a research group at the Sahlgrenska Academy. The gene causes an insidious form of glandular cancer usually in the head and neck and in women also in the breast. The discovery could lead to quicker and better diagnosis and more effective treatment. The study ...

  • Sight Unseen: People Blinded by Brain Damage Can R ...
    Seeing is believing when it comes to emotions. We smile, we gasp, we yawn when we see others do the same - a phenomenon called emotional contagion. A new study published last week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that emotional contagion occurs even if the "seeing" step is b ...

  • What Drives Our Genes? Researchers Map The First C ...
    Although the human genome sequence faithfully lists (almost) every single DNA base of the roughly 3 billion bases that make up a human genome, it doesn't tell biologists much about how its function is regulated. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute provide the first detailed map of the human epige ...

  • Satire: If God Had Wanted Me To Be Accepting Of Ga ...
    I don't question God. The Lord is my Shepherd and I shall put none above Him. Which is why I know that if it were part of God's plan for me to stop viciously condemning others based solely on their sexual preference, He would have seen fit - in His infinite wisdom and all - to have given me the tini ...

Threat Level

  • Special Interests Get Peek at ‘Classified’ Cop ...
    Want to know the language of the ever-transforming proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? It’s highly classified. And, according to the Obama administration, it carries national security implications. According to leaked documents on WikiLeaks, the proposed treaty would require ISPs to term ...

  • E-Mail Mocking Obama Is ‘Exhibit A’ in Wrongfu ...
    The president of a Midwest office supply company is in court after a salesman claimed the boss’ pre-election e-mail rant against Barack Obama amounted to an edict: Vote for Obama and you’re fired. The lawsuit (.pdf) claims the president of KK Office Solutions’ pre-election e-mail criticizing O ...

  • Passenger Advocate Sues Delta for Allegedly Hackin ...
    An airline passenger advocate has accused Delta Airlines of hacking her e-mail accounts and computer in order to sabotage her organization’s lobbying efforts to pass federal legislation to help stranded fliers, according to a lawsuit filed in Texas Tuesday. Kate Hanni, the executive director and ...

  • Big-Box Breach: The Inside Story of Wal-Mart’s H ...
    Wal-Mart was the victim of a serious security breach in 2005 and 2006 in which hackers targeted the development team in charge of the chain’s point-of-sale system and siphoned source code and other sensitive data to a computer in Eastern Europe, Wired.com has learned. Internal documents reveal fo ...

  • Nuclear Plants Cautiously Phase Out Dial-Up Modems
    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is asking the operators of America’s 66 nuclear power plants to voluntarily upgrade the on-site monitoring systems that report plant conditions to the government. That upgrade to the 16-year-old Emergency Response Data System? Replacing telephone dial-up modems ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • 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...

  • KrongardGate II
    Among the most comically disturbing moments in the ongoing national embarrassment surrounding the mercenary firm Blackwater was the November 2007 revelation that the brother of the State Department Inspector General overseeing the company was on its board. Now, Howard "Cookie"...

  • Still Another 10 Moments in Mike Huckabee's Extrem ...
    During the 2008 presidential campaign, I documented 10, then 10 more and yet another 10 moments in the extremism of Mike Huckabee. Now, fresh off his victory in the straw poll at the so-called Values Voters Summit, the one-time Baptist...

  • Carper's State Run Health Plans a Bridge to Nowher ...
    As Democrats in the House are nearing a consensus on health care reform, Delaware's Tom Carper has introduced a potential compromise in the search of common ground in the Senate. Hoping to bridge the chasm between the watered down Baucus...

  • Forgetting Right-Wing Terrorism at the Atlanta Oly ...
    Conservatives may be having a blast now celebrating America's loss of the 2016 Olympics, but during the 1996 Atlanta games the explosion was literal. Right-wing terrorist Eric Rudolph detonated a bomb that killed one and injured over 100 people at...

Blackspot News Feed

  • CNN Must Drop Dobbs
    It's ugly stuff, and CNN can't ignore it forever. The network has a choice. Either attract Latino viewers, or alienate them. It certainly can't do both.

  • Obama Administration Accused Again of Concealing B ...
    Listening in on attorney-client conversations is "unlawful and unconstitutional," according to Obama. So why is the Justice Department arguing in favor of the practice?

  • Hardline Jewish 'Vigilantes' Mount Anti-Miscegenat ...
    Sick racism underlines the Middle East conflict.

  • 10 Amazing Facts About Worldwide Water Use
    Find out facts like how many million gallons per day the Tiger Woods Golf Course uses or the amount of water you can save by cutting your shower just one minute.

  • Seniors and Their Doctors
        See last weekend's "NOW" on PBS, which explored the truth behind charges of "death panels."     "Death Panel? Life Panel?" What exactly is a death panel? The truth about end-of-life planning.     See the entire show RIGHT NOW .read more

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

  • War is peace - week 2209 of Occupation (Daniel Br ...
    If Israel cannot carry out the kind of action it inflicted on the Gaza Strip this year, then it will be very bad for peace. So say Israel`s leaders as they look for allies willing to help suppress the UN Fac ...

  • PA: Punish Israel for Gaza crimes (Al Jazeera)
    The Palestinian Authority has demanded that Israel be punished for war crimes committed during its war on Gaza last winter. At a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on Wednesday, Riad al-Maliki, ...

  • Of tunnels, Goldstone and the 'peace process' (Ge ...
    In late September 1996, a tunnel was dug under the Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam. Protests in Jerusalem and the West Bank almost immediately flared once the news was out. A mini-intifada ensue ...

  • After the bombing, drug addiction strikes Gaza (D ...
    Abu Ahmed lived through last winter's Gaza war in a daze. Though the district where he lives was invaded by Israeli ground forces and came under heavy fire, including the use of white phosphorus shells, he f ...

  • Go ask Abbas (Amira Hass, Haaretz)
    On the face of it, it is merely a matter of semantics. The Israeli human rights organizations call it "a breaking off of communications," referring to the refusal of the Israeli Coordination and Liaison Auth ...

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

  • Climate change debate rages on
    The BBC have run an article on the global warming debate claiming that the warmest recent year on record was 1998 and that the last 11 years have ...

  • Pterodactyl missing link found
    A fossil hailed to be the missing link in how pterosaur dinosaurs evolved from small bird-size creatures has been discovered, the fossil has a one...

  • Jim Morrison ghost picture "authentic"
    Researchers have claimed that a photograph taken by rock historian Brett Meisner at the grave of Doors frontman Jim Morrison and that shows what s...

  • What caused the fall of the Maya ?
    For over one thousand years the Maya dominated Central America, now scientists believe that their demise may have been severely hastened as the re...

  • Cat registered as hypnotherapist
    In a demonstration aimed at showing how lax hypnotherapist regulations are in the UK a BBC presenter has been able to get his pet cat George regis...

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 14, 2009
    Analysis: US Carbon Price to Hit $15 Under Boxer-Kerry (Business Green) A new analysis by Point Carbon suggests that the carbon price in the Senate’s cap-and-trade plan is unlikely to rise much above the bill's proposed price floor. Senators Say US Climate Bill Making Progress (Reuters) Dem ...

  • October 13, 2009
    UN: Climate Negotiators Don't Meet Leaders' Pledges (Reuters) Negotiators at global climate change talks are not delivering on promises by their leaders to clinch a deal in Copenhagen in December, a top U.N. environmental official says. Coal, Environmentalists Massing for MTR Hearings (OH&S) ...

  • October 13, 2009
    UN: Climate Negotiators Don't Meet Leaders' Pledges (Reuters) Negotiators at global climate change talks are not delivering on promises by their leaders to clinch a deal in Copenhagen in December, a top U.N. environmental official says. Coal, Environmentalists Massing for MTR Hearings (OH&S) ...

  • 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 ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, Do Women Have the Bl ...
    Hardly less startling than finding herself with breast cancer was Barbara Ehrenreich's discovery of the "pink ribbon culture," of, that is, the enforced cheerfulness and positive thinking that accompanied it (and the teddy bears and "cornucopia of pink-ribbon-themed breast cancer products" which w ...

  • 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 ...

Smirking Chimp

  • How My Dispute with Joe Scarborough Sheds Light on ...
    Editor's note: Both videos of Max Blumenthal's appearances on MSNBC's Joe Scarborough's Morning Joe show appear at the bottom of this article. Before I first appeared on Morning Joe on September 22, I was warned about Joe Scarborough's tendency to filibuster guests he does not agree with, and to do ...

  • How Deep Is D.C. Corruption? So Deep That When Oba ...
    I can't tell what's more outrageous and disgusting: The fact that lobbyists have been permitted to serve on the federal advisory boards that oversee policies affecting their clients, the fact that that has been occurring with almost no Establishment outcry for years, or the fact that lobbyists have ...

  • Olympia Snowe is boss, Joe Lieberman plunges the d ...
    Who is the boss of the Democratic White House? Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine). Who is the boss of the Democratic Senate? Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe. Meanwhile, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who one year ago was slandering the Democratic nominee for president while supporting the Republican ...

  • Public Health Before Wall Street Wealth
    — from TruthDig Wonderful. The 13 Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee get one faintly rational Republican to join them in a meaningless stab at health care reform and it throws the media into a titillated frenzy about what it all means. It means very little. The main thrust of the proposal is ...

  • Dumbing way down
    Michigan needs a better-educated workforce, so why cut the schools budget? Michigan's political system no longer works, and is rapidly sending our state careening toward a future of poverty and hopelessness. That's not wild-eyed leftist talk. That's just a sad, inescapable clinical diagnosis that c ...

Ten Percent

  • RAWA Thanks War Resisters
    Solidarity statement to U.S. war resisters and Afghanistan occupation veterans from Zoya, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). October 10, 2009 Our message to all the soldiers who are fighting and veterans who were fighting in Afghanistan: We thank you because we think that ...

  • Stop the first mass deportation flight to Baghdad
    Via Earwicga- First demonstration at Communications House, London, on Wednesday 14th October, 5pm. The Stop Deportation network and the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees, along with other groups and organisations, are demanding that the first mass deportation flight to southern Iraq, expect ...

  • The Military Parasite
    …as Tom Engelhardt recently reminded us, that Obama’s “civilian” advisors include “Karl W. Eikenberry, a retired lieutenant general who is the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Douglas Lute, a lieutenant general who is the president’s special advisor on Afghanistan and Pakistan (dubbed the ...

  • Stop Welsh Fascists
    Hope Not Hate- The Welsh Defence League – a violent group of anti-Islamic football hooligans – plan on holding an event in Swansea this Saturday and in Newport a week later.  A few weeks ago racists attacked worshippers at a mosque in Swansea, culminating in a pitched battle involving sixty p ...

  • Unemployment In Wales Jumps 72%
    Alarming figures (and these are the registered claimants, so true numbers will be larger) THE number of people claiming job seeker’s allowance in Wales soared by 72% in the last 12 months. The largest rise came in the over 50 age group, which increased by 79%. There was also an 78% rise in those a ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • What A Bunch Of Racist Hicks Here In South Cackala ...
    At least according to my representative, Jim Clyburn. Let me just say that this is not at ALL what I had planned to write about this morning. I was going to write about the Senate Finance Committee voting on a bill that hasn’t even been written out yet, more a theoretical bill, if [...]

  • Democrats Rue the Obama Halloween Surprise
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    I was proud to help contribute some footage to this video - soon enough there will be more video out from what happened at the G20. For now please just check this out. It's certainly a "rough cut" and needs some help in the narrative & so forth, but it's a great intro to the widespread police abuse ...

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  • ThinkFast: October 14, 2009
    Read the full story at Think Progress Major U.S. banks and securities firms are on pace to pay their employees a record-high $140 billion this year, the Wall Street Journal reports. “This year, employees at the companies will earn an estimated $143,400 on average, up almost $2,000 from 2007 level ...

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House Financial Services Committee is to begin work on Wednesday on a top priority for the U.S. Congress -- legislation to mend regulatory holes exposed by last fall's financial crisis.

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  • 'Saudi forming militia to fight Houthis'
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  • 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 ...

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    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 ...

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  • Bleak U.S. Job Market Boosts Military Recruitment
    Bleak U.S. job market boosts military recruitment | Reuters Aided by a bleak job market, the U.S. military met all of its recruitment goals in the past year for the first time since it became an all-volunteer force in 1973, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. Military services have been stretched thin by ...

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    On October 13th, 2009, to kick off a national campaign to educate the public about a new Department of Defense study that says 1 in 3 women in the military are raped, Staff. Sgt. Sandra Lee comes forward for the first time to announce to the public that she had been raped twice while deployed to ...

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    Just a little follow-up to Ed’s post earlier, tracking the progress of The One’s global disarmament efforts.Hey — the committee did say that Nobel was aspirational.In an interview published today in Izvestia, Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the Kremlin’s security council, said the new do ...

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    Looks like today’s poll showing a slump in support for Maine’s Question 1 has rattled the National Organization for Marriage, which sent out an APB to its mailing list asking for funds. “Never before have voters had the chance to directly overturn the legislative enactment of same-sex marriage ...

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    Eric Kleefeld sees the 40th president referred to as “Ronaldus Magnus” on the GOP’s new Website and wonders what’s going on. While it’s strange to see the phrase there, it’s not like the GOP just invented it — Rush Limbaugh has popularized the “Ronaldus Magnus” nickname for years. ...

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    Today’s announcement by U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) introducing legislation to ban the use of the arsenical compound roxarsone once again shines the spotlight on the all-too common practice of the unnecessary use of antimicrobial drugs in industrial ani Submitted by cowboss at wscc to US Politics ...

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  • 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   ...

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  • 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
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  • Here Be Chickens (And They’re Roosting!)
    A progress report released last week by the Treasury Department showed that only 11 percent (about 95,000) of Bank of America’s delinquent borrowers who were potentially eligible for the program had been given a loan modification. That compares with 27 percent, or 117,000, for J.P. Morgan Chase, ...

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    On this Columbus Day, when Columbus “discovered” The New World (Really? Native Americans weren’t already here?) one should, I believe, ponder the following. Is it a defined political hierarchy centered in Washington DC? Or is it The Constitution? Is it a symbol (e.g. the flag)? Or is it A Rep ...

  • Pentagon’s Plan B ‘Massive’ Bomb
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  • Kerry-Lugar’s First Victim
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  • 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 ...

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    Straight from the pages of Blue Living Ideas, Jennifer Lance tells us about the Hydro Electric Energy System that she has been using for 13 years. Related posts: Senate Finance Committee Approves $31 Billion in Alternative Energy Tax Credits and Incentives Electric Cars Run on Coal, But are They ...

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    We’ve been in love with eco kids outfitter Oeuf for many years now, and they’ve just unveiled their cutest morsel yet: an adorable collection of baby animal hats and booties that let your tot discover his inner ‘Wild Thing‘. Available in green dino-style, cuddly white bear, and grey wolf st ...

  • SOLAR DECATHLON 2009: Team Ontario/BC’s North Ho ...
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    Which side are you on: 61% of Amerikkkans favor using force against Iran, 28% oppose (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) According to a new poll, the majority, 61 percent, of Amerikkkans favor the use of military force against Iran. Of the 61 percent, 53 percent are Democrats, 55 percent are indepe ...

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    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 ...

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    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 idea for a large substation based in Clovis, New Mexico has the potential to solve one of the biggest hurdles to clean energy growth:  transmission.  The SuperStation, as its being called, would link the three largest grids - the east, west and Texas - allowing renewable energy producers to ...

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    A recent study by the Cleantech Group revealed the much lower envrionmental impact of e-readers - specifically the Kindle - compared to traditional publishing, but the devices still require charging from the grid.  LG's new e-reader takes care of that:  it's outfitted with its own integrated sola ...

  • 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 ...

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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 ...

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  • What’s on the Menu at Georgia Eatery? A Raci ...
    We can’t vouch for the cuisine at the Georgia Peach Oyster Bar in Paulding County, Georgia, but owner Patrick Lanzo serves a heaping plate full of racist rhetoric. His most recent offering: “Obamas plan for healthcare: Nigger rig it.” Lanzo told an Atlanta TV reporter recently the sign was a c ...

  • Yankee Secessionist Back in Cahoots with Neo-Confe ...
    Last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center exposed an unsavory collaboration between the Second Vermont Republic (SVR), a quirky left-leaning band of New England secessionists, and the white supremacist League of the South, long categorized by the SPLC as a hate group. Their shared goal was to build ...

  • Tancredo Ventures Further Out on the Fringe
    Colorado Republican Tom Tancredo was the face of the anti-immigration movement in Congress for 10 years. While he was there, he could serve up his deport-’em-all rhetoric from the House floor. And as an early contender for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, he drew supportive crowds and mainstr ...

  • ‘Leave Or Else,’ YouTube Video Warns O ...
    EDITOR’S NOTE: Sometime Wednesday night, the video was removed from YouTube. No word on who’s responsible for putting it there in the first place, or taking it down. Here’s an ominous posting on YouTube from the “Patriot” crowd. It advises President Obama and other prominent peopl ...

  • A Slick DVD Defends Racism
    A new DVD is a hit among white supremacists looking for a smart-sounding defense of their beliefs. Contrary to its title, A Conversation about Race isn’t really a conversation about race at all, but a slick 58-minute documentary devoted to proving the thesis that racism is a bogus concept invented ...

Gringo Times - Rio

  • Congolese Seeks Refuge in Rio
    By Juliana Tafur, Contributing Reporter Kasongo is only 23 years old, but seems wise beyond his years. Nearly two meters tall, well-built and strong, he also looks like a 35-year-old. As he shares his life’s story, it becomes clear why he was forced to grow up quickly. Kasongo barely escaped ...

  • Brazil New Contributor to IMF
    By Jaylan Boyle, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - For the first time, Brazil has become a creditor rather than a debtor to the IMF (International Monetary Fund), pledging US$10 Billion to be spent on IMF bonds. “This is an historic moment for us,” said Guido Mantega, Brazilian Minister of ...

  • Brazil’s 2008… Pre-Crisis
    By Lindsay Spratt, Sub Editor RIO DE JANEIRO - 2008 National Census figures were released last month by the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD, National Research by Sample of Residences), carried out by the Insituto Brasileiro de Geográfia e Estatística, (IBGE, Brazilian Institute ...

  • Neurocosmetics Line to Launch in Brazil
    By Sarah Coursey, Editor RIO DE JANEIRO - The telenovela sensation of 2009, Caminho das Índias (Road to India), contained an unforgettable scene in which the character Melissa Cadore explains the secret of beautiful, youthful skin to her domestic maid. She offers the advice,” We must talk to o ...

  • Rio 2016: Economic Impact
    By Bruno De Nicola, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - The election of Rio de Janeiro as host city for the 2016 Olympic Games is expected to cause a sharp increase in foreign investment in the country. An Olympic Games Committee survey carried out by Credit Suisse estimates a R$30 Billion financ ...

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  • U.S. Carbon Emissions Plummeting
    Lester R. Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, reports today on the Institute Website that the United States “has now entered a new energy era, one of declining emissions. Peak carbon is now history.” I’m so used to doom and gloom on the topic of cutting emissions that I had to loo ...

  • Another Offspring of the Marriage Between Crime Da ...
    "Warning: Stay alert. Do not get hurt." That's what the iPhone said to me, in a very masculine voice, when I tried out the new application " Are You Safe? Sacramento ." I had typed in an address recommended to me -- I don't live in Sacramento, otherwise the phone would have used GPS to identify my ...

  • US Creates Institute to Help Feed the World, But G ...
    A new agricultural research institute launched by the Obama administration and the National Institute of Food doesn't sound like good news for global health, right? More research into how to feed ourselves even more food whilst so many miss out. Not so fast: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack explai ...

  • Using the Book of Leviticus to Beat Gay Men Into C ...
    As the U.S. Congress prepares to finally pass hate crimes legislation that includes protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, a bloody and gruesome example of why such hate crimes protections are needed is coming out of New York . Over the weekend, two men beat and mauled ...

  • Belgium's "Miss Homeless" Contest
    I'm not a fan of pageants. But I'm especially not a fan of Belgium's "Miss Homeless" beauty competition. Although the event organizers claim the event judged women on their "inner strength and determination to get themselves out of their old life and on a new path," I find that hard to believe. Thi ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Dr Rowan Williams says Climate Crisis a Chance to ...
    by Riazat Butt People should use the climate change crisis as an opportunity to become human again, setting aside the addictive and self-destructive behaviour that has damaged their souls, the Archbishop of Canterbury said today. read more

  • Obama’s Pakistan Policy in Disarray After Opposi ...
    by Jeremy Page and Zahid Hussain in Islamabad President Obama's Pakistan policy was in disarray yesterday after Islamabad raised objections to the stringent terms attached to his new $7.5 billion aid package. read more

  • Wall Street Set to Award Record Pay: Report
    WASHINGTON - US banks and securities firms could pay a record 140 billion dollars to its staff this year, a rebound in compensations that comes despite regulatory scrutiny of Wall Street pay culture, a report said Wednesday. Workers at 23 top investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers and stock a ...

  • Supreme Court Delay May Help Keep Detainee Abuse P ...
    by Stephen C. Webber The United States Supreme Court granted a request Tuesday to delay its decision on whether the Obama administration may continue to block the release of images depicting the torture of terror war detainees in U.S. custody. The decision to delay comes as Congress and the Obama ad ...

  • 'Crude' Looks at Oil Damage in Amazon Jungle
    by Anne Schroeder Mullins Filmmaker Joe Berlinger says he can't describe his latest movie, "Crude: The Real Price of Oil," in Hollywood terms. It's no simple "Erin Brockovich" meets "A Civil Action." "Crude" - about alleged corporate oil contamination in the Amazon jungle and how it has affected th ...

Lifehacker

  • From the Tips Box: Free Calls with Google Voice, ...
    Readers offer their best tips for making free calls using Google Voice, hiding icons on the desktop, and saving your eyes from your gadgets' bright LED lights. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader ...

  • Remains of the Day: RIAA Can't Stop BitTorrent Ed ...
    Firefox shows off multi-touch capabilities with a nifty drawing demo, the RIAA and MPAA can't stop the juggernaut that is BitTorrent, and Google Wave could be too fancy for its own good. a multi-touch drawing demo for Firefox 3.7 A drawing app that runs inside Firefox and uses the multi-touch fea ...

  • Omnibar Extension Collapses Firefox's Address and ...
    Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Omnibar extension makes Firefox's awesomebar act like Google Chrome's omnibar, collapsing the address bar and search into one single text box. We've mentioned Omnibar in passing in a couple of posts, namely our guide to turning Firefox into a Google Chrome clone ...

  • DIY Key-Fob Front Door Opener [DIY]
    Ever wished you could use the same technology that remotely unlocks your car with your front door? One clever college student did, and this DIY key-fob remote door opener accomplishes just that. We're talking about some pretty heavy hardware hacking here, so this guide isn't for the faint of heart ...

  • B2 Gmail Notifier is a Slick Email Notification A ...
    Windows/Mac/Linux (Adobe AIR): Email notification application [b2] Gmail Notifier tells you when you have a new email message with slick animations and a full message preview. Once you've installed the application and added your gmail account, you'll see a new animated message that shows up in the b ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Just Look Nonchalant!
    By Steve Hynd Dexter Filkins has a long piece for the NYT's magazine based upon his trailing Gen. Stanley McChrystal around Afghanistan. It's not Filkins best work ever but it's still interesting reading. One paragraph that caught my attention reveals that McChrystal's famously spartan lifestyle - s ...

  • Tom Friedman Unloads On COINdinista Pony Plan
    By Steve Hynd Tom Friedman must have already read that op-ed by John Nagl and Ricahrd Fontaine I posted about on Monday, the one where they very weakly tried to argue that it doesn't have to matter if Karzai wins a rigged election or is so corrupt as to make a Chicago politician blush. I've been ver ...

  • A Pretense At Pakistani Accountability
    By Steve Hynd Elements of the Kerry-Lugar Bill on aid to Pakistan upset that nation's military because they seemed to be metrics for making sure the money was used to serve American interests in the region: being used for counter-terrorism and reconstruction instead of weapons to face India or to li ...

  • Incrementing To Imperial Failure
    By Steve Hynd There are two important stories about Afghanistan today which between them set the inevitable scene for American disaster on the sub-continent. The first is the Washington Post's revelation of hidden incrementalism by the Obama administration: President Obama announced in March that he ...

  • Code Pink Finds Support For Exit Strategy In Afgha ...
    By Steve Hynd Reports of Code Pink doing an about-face on the occupation of Afghanistan seem to have been greatly exaggerated. Medea Benjamin, a founder of the group, Code Pink, said in an interview on Friday that most of the 150 Afghans she and seven colleagues had met with told them, “We’re af ...

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American Super Conductor to Supply First US Renewable Energy Market Hub
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- Oct 14, 2009
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... said its superconductor wire and cable system will power the first renewable energy market hub in the United States, the Tres Amigas SuperStation. ...
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Clean energy challenges: the power grid and renewable energy infrastructure
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- Oct 14, 2009
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Renewable energy generation includes hydroelectric, geothermal, solar, wind, wave and biomass resources. Power companies like Pacific Gas and Electric ...
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FGCU Announces Gift To Establish Fund Dedicated To Renewable Energy Studies
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- Oct 14, 2009
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The chair will teach classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels in renewable energy or those closely related to the discipline; conduct research on ...
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Ecology Allows Rainwater Harvesting, Issues SMP Grants
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- Oct 14, 2009
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A policy statement issued last week by the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) clarified that permits are not required for either the use of or ...
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Scientists Assess Impact of Land Slide
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That's why the Department of Ecology is urging people in the floodplain to check their homes for chemicals like paint, oil or pesticides and move them to a ...
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• Alligators Pair for Life
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- Oct 14, 2009
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WA state adopts rainwater collection policy
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- Oct 12, 2009
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New LA DWP chief says rate increases 'harsh truth' for cleaner energy
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Lake Tahoe water level back above rim level
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The water dropped below the rim level of 6223 feet above sea level to 6222.93 earlier Tuesday. But the heavy rains that added some 7.8 billion gallons of ...
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California Democrats View $9 Billion Water Bond Plan
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