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Thomas Paine

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Friday, October 2, 2009

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Innovation Canada

  • 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 ...
  • FISHing for answers
    University of Alberta (U of A) researchers have developed a cancer-testing technology with a snappy name but a serious purpose. The “FISH on a chip” is a complex test that detects abnormalities in chromosomes which characterize particular types of cancer. To create it, researchers miniaturize a ...

Signs of the times

  • Using Synthetic Evolution to Study the Brain: Rese ...
    The human brain has evolved over millions of years to become a vast network of billions of neurons and synaptic connections. Understanding it is one of humankind's greatest pursuits. But to understand how the brain processes information, researchers must first understand the very basics of neurons ...
  • Physicists observe magnetism in gas for the first ...
    An international team of physicists has for the first time observed magnetic behaviour in an atomic gas, addressing a decades-old debate as to whether it is possible for a gas or liquid to become ferromagnetic and exhibit magnetic properties. "Magnets are all around us - holding postcards on the ...
  • Excreted Tamiflu found in rivers
    The premier flu-fighting drug is contaminating rivers downstream of sewage-treatment facilities, researchers in Japan confirm. The source: urinary excretion by people taking oseltamivir phosphate, best known as Tamiflu. Concerns are now building that birds, which are natural influenza carriers, ar ...
  • World Bank could run out of money 'within 12 month ...
    The World Bank is close to running out of money, its president, Robert Zoellick, has disclosed. The Bank, whose job it is to support low-income countries, has had to hand out so much cash in the wake of the financial crisis that its resources could run dry within 12 months. "By the middle of next ...
  • Leaked video: The Crying Game- Glenn Beck 'uses Vi ...
    A video posted to YouTube a few weeks ago making the rounds across the internet apparently shows Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck having Vicks applied under his eyes in order to cry on cue for a photo shoot. The following video was posted to YouTube on September 17

Threat Level

  • Secure Flight Comes to Southwest Airlines, Six Yea ...
    Six years ago the federal government proposed taking over the job of comparing passenger names against the terrorist watch lists. Just this week, Southwest Airlines frequent fliers are being asked to update their profiles with name, gender and date of birth information in order to let the feds try ...
  • Credit Card Skimming Survey: What’s Your Magstri ...
    Ever wonder how much the data on the back of your credit card is worth to a corrupt food service worker? The answer, it turns out, depends on which restaurants you frequent in Florida. For some reason, the Sunshine State is a hotbed of federal prosecutions for “skimming”, in which a retail or se ...
  • Wireless Network Signals Produce See-Through Walls
    Researchers at the University of Utah have found a way to see through walls to detect movement inside a building. The surveillance technique is called variance-based radio tomographic imaging and works by visualizing variations in radio waves as they travel to nodes in a wireless network. A person ...
  • Google Pulls Pirate Bay From Search Results
    The homepage of Pirate Bay disappeared from Google’s search results Friday, after Google allegedly received a DMCA takedown notice targeting the site. The move is unexpected because, while the Pirate Bay is rife with pirated material, the site’s spare landing page contains no content to speak of ...
  • Lawmakers Cave to FBI in Patriot Act Debate
    Powerful Senate leaders on Thursday bowed to FBI concerns that adding privacy protections to an expiring provision of the Patriot Act could jeopardize “ongoing” terror investigations. The Patriot Act was adopted six weeks after the 2001 terror attacks, and greatly expanded the government’s pow ...

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...
  • "Going Rogue" by Sarah Palin, Editor's Cut
    Buoyed by bulk advance purchases by the right-wing faithful, Sarah Palin's upcoming book Going Rogue as expected catapulted to the top of the Amazon.com bestseller list. That Palin turned to ghostwriter Lynn Vincent, whose past conservatives screeds branded Democrats "treasonous"...
  • The Return of Iran/Contra
    As the United States begins multiparty talks with Iran over its nuclear program, many of the cast of characters from Tehran fiascos past are coming out of the woodwork to weigh in once again. Jimmy Carter advised President Obama that...
  • 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...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • WTimes, Bushes Hail Rev. Moon
    The Bush Family joined in a Washington Times celebration of South Korean theocrat Sun Myung Moon, reports Robert Parry. October 2, 2009
  • Honduran Coup Leaders Tighten Grip
    As the Honduran coup cracks down on dissent, the U.S. State Department maintains its ambivalent stance, reports TheRealNews. October 1, 2009
  • Obama and the Afghan Quagmire
    President Obama's skepticism about military solutions will be tested by pressure to escalate in Afghanistan, says Ivan Eland. October 1, 2009
  • Why Afghanistan Really Fell Apart
    President George H.W. Bush set Afghanistan on the road to chaos with a fateful decision in 1989, Bruce P. Cameron writes. September 30, 2009
  • US Press Corps Fails Again on Iran
    Learning little from the Iraq debacle, the U.S. press corps is repeating its professional lapses on Iran, says Robert Parry. September 30, 2009

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Planetsave

  • Dog Death Caps Summer of Blue-Green Algae in MN
    Blue-green algae blooms on Minnesota lakes are linked to a dog death and illnesses, and apparently caused by runoff pollution. The death of a dog after it frolicked in a Minnesota lake plagued with blue-green algae was a sad coda for a late summer in the state. Although no necropsy was done, a spo ...
  • Yellowstone Grizzlies Back on Endangered Species L ...
    In 2007 federal protections were dropped for the protection of Yellowstone grizzlies. Ever since then, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition have been fighting to give protection back to the bears. They argued that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) failed to address the loss of essential food s ...
  • Double Whammy of Pollution for Mississippi River i ...
    A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee samples river water for endocrine disrupting pollutants. Study results publicized this week suggest Twin Cities water resources and the Mississippi River downstream from the Cities are suffering from pollution by road salt and endocrine disrupting chemical ...
  • 14 Deer Die in One Night at Zoo under Mysterious C ...
    According to reports , 13 cheetal and one swamp deer died Friday evening under “mysterious circumstances” at the Kanpur Zoo.  Viscera samples and stomach content have been sent to the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI). Results are expected sometime within the next two weeks.  The ...
  • The Greening of Paint
    Oregon this summer became the first state to enact in law a product stewardship law for the collection of leftover consumer paint.  The pilot program, which expires in 2014, involves a consumer fee that a nonprofit organization established by paint producers uses to pay for the collection and pro ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • San Antonio Anti-Nuclear Film Series
    Thursday, October 8th the Esperanza Peace & Justice center continues the Other and Out & Beyond film series with a day on nuclear energy and the devastating effects of uranium mining, nuclear waste and contamination. This event is Free and open to the public, though donations are appreciated. All fi ...
  • CPS has dropped the ball on alternatives to nuclea ...
    CPS has dropped the ball on alternatives to nuclear By Arjun Makhijani – Special to the San Antonio Express-News CPS Energy is asking its board and the San Antonio City Council for permission to sell $400 million of bonds to follow the $276 million CPS Energy has already spent to get an option to ...
  • King Williams Parade Pics 051 [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • Climate-Change Bill: Is It Really Bad for Texas?
    Public Citizen hopes for climate change legislation that will direct us in becoming more energy efficient, less dependent on foreign oil, and better stewards of out state’s environment. As we await the outcome of the Waxman/Markey and Kerry/Boxer legislation in Congress, Governor Perry irresponsib ...
  • King Williams Parade Pics 062 [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • 27 years ago today
    ...about thirty people, pretty much evenly split between family and friends, got together in the only church in that small town in northern Missouri willing to lend their sanctuary and minister to a couple of non-Christians who wanted to get hitched, and bore witness as we stepped off into adult, ma ...
  • Yarmuth Challenges The Boner
    Via The Bridge and Media Czech: (Washington, DC) This afternoon, Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3) issued the following statement in response to Minority Leader John Boehner's (OH-8) assertion that he has yet to meet a regular American who is in favor of the public insurance option. "There are plenty ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    How can this possibly be? Iran comes to the table to negotiate in good faith - and the United States didn't have to get all puffed up and belligerent and threaten to bomb the hell out of them? I don't understand how that is possible! The only way that can be right is if the neo-cons have been wrong ...
  • We are not helpless
    I know first hand the exact location of the loneliest place on earth.   It is the hallway between mammography and sonography, where the minutes crawl by with interminable slowness as you wait to be worked in because the technician saw something on your films and went right then to fetch the radiolo ...
  • Where we were
    Cross posted from Show Me Progress The crowd waiting to see and hear Michelle Obama at 18th and Vine in Kansas City on October 1, 2008. We sometimes tend to forget where we were and how we got here. It's especially that way with campaigns and elections. A year ago we hoped against hope that we were ...

Care 2

  • Iran agrees to send enriched uranium to Russia
    Deal would reduce Iran's ability to make a nuke and buy time for talks Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Insurance Industry Whistleblower Wendell Potter Bl ...
    Potter: By no means final answer on this! Optimistic final bill will reach Pres’s desk WITH public option. Connection to new poll results: public feels profoundly shut out of current overhaul debate - 71% say Congress not paying attention to us! Submitted by Alba Nuova to US Politics & Gov't  |    ...
  • Western University Researchers Receive Grant to Im ...
    The researchers chose snow leopards because they are on the brink of extinction--about 550 are maintained in captivity worldwide--and they are susceptible to a number of infectious disease Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Susie, the burned puppy, is happy and healing (vid ...
    She lied outside in her dog bed and played with her toys and some friends from the shelter. "She lost her first tooth and played until she was just about worn out," Williams said. This picture is of her "sunbathing." Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Cuba Encourages Ecotourism in Largest Wetland
    The Cienaga, declared a biosphere reserve in 2000 and a protected wetland site under the international Ramsar convention in 2001, has a diversity of ecosystems, including swamps, rivers, lagoons, grasslands, mangroves, semi-deciduous, evergreen and sub-co Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |  ...

GreenBiz

  • Abbott Shifts to Green Power From Coal and Oil
    Fuel switching and a shift to renewable energy allowed health care company Abbott to cut its coal and oil consumption by 15 percent last year across its global operations, relative to 2006 levels.  When normalized against sales, which have grown since 2006, the decline in the company’s coal and o ...
  • EPA Calls for Chemical Law Reform, More Responsibi ...
    The EPA has released a set of principles that reflect changes the Obama Administration would like to see made to the country's chemical management law, including support for green chemistry efforts and requiring manufacturers to provide more detailed data on chemical hazards.
  • How to Design for a Post-Consumption Economy
    It's clear our consumption-centered lifestyle has challenged our planet's ability to support us. Our economy doesn't need to be focused solely on spurring consumption. Here's a guide on how to design for a post-consumption economy.
  • Smart Grid: Where Do We Grow From Here?
    While much progress has been made toward developing a smarter grid in the U.S., further strides must still be taken. Leaders from business, utilities and government recapped work so far and mapped out next steps at the GridWeek Conference.
  • Six Keys to Running an Efficient Green Business
    A new study from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change identifies the practices that separate the most efficient companies from the rest of the pack, and finds that firms are embracing energy efficiency as a core corporate strategy.

Reuters Global

  • Irish fly from Brussels to push through EU treaty
    If the flight from Brussels to Dublin is an indication of how Irish people will vote in a referendum on the EU's Lisbon reform treaty, then the result will be an emphatic Yes.
  • Talk of Waziristan offensive picks up in Pakistan
    There is increasing talk in Pakistan that the army might be about to launch a major offensive into South Waziristan, stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban. Pakistan's Dawn newspaper says the army is preparing to launch "the mother of all battles" in the coming days.
  • A costly U.S.-Mexico border wall, in both dollars ...
    The U.S. border wall is proving to be costly to maintain and thousands of people have died trying to circumvent it, two new reports say.
  • Dalai Lama: Afghan war a failure
    The Dalai Lama says foreign military intervention against Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan has only served to make the fundamentalist group more determined.
  • Greece’s grey election campaign turns voters to ...
    Greek elections have traditionally been raucous, ebullient affairs, a true celebration of democracy in the country that gave birth to the concept. This year, the mood is noticeably more sombre ahead of Sunday's vote.

Ezra Klein

  • Tab Dump
    1) An ActBlue employee explains the benefits of broad fund-raising. This is why my favorite campaign-finance reforms are those that match the donations of small donors. 2) The sad tale of Ted Williams' cryogenically-frozen head. 3) The gender wage gap, state-by-state. 4) The health-care debate in ...
  • Why Bipartisanship Always Comes Too Late
    Former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told Time's Karen Tumulty that if he were still in the Senate, he'd vote for the health-care reform bill being passed out of the Finance Committee. "As leader, I would take heat for it." he said. "That's what leadership is all about." That puts Bi ...
  • Swiss Health-Care Costs
    The Swiss health-care system has the highest out-of-pocket payments of any OECD country, including the United States. They also spend a lot less than the United States. This, David Leonhardt argues , is no accident. "Because they feel the costs of their medical spending more than we do, they’re ...
  • Your Recession in Charts
    Catherine Rampell updates this bummer of a chart : The big surprise, at least to me, was that public-sector jobs experienced a sharp fall. They'd been doing pretty well throughout the recession. The culprits here are state and local governments , which are laying off workers because they're prett ...
  • Why Employers Like to Control Your Health Insuranc ...
    Matt Miller is confused : When the post-mortems on the health-care reform debate are written, the biggest mystery will be why big business fought so hard to stay in the health-care business even as soaring health costs surpassed corporate profits and diverted executive time better devoted to actual ...

Booman Tribune

  • Frivolous Friday Open Thread
    (via AlterNet)
  • What "Capitalism" Is Not
    If I were to summarize message Michael Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story in one sentence, it might be this: Capitalism is not a form of government. That's the answer to the question posed at the beginning of the movie, via 1950s educational/propaganda films.
  • Revisiting the Strategy
    Last week, I did a major piece called Understanding the Strategy, wherein I made the following argument. I said that the Obama administration canvassed the Senate back in the winter and realized that they didn't have the votes to pass a public option through the Senate Finance Committee, although t ...
  • Can McCain Undo What He Has Wrought?
    I have to confess that I've never had a high opinion of John McCain. I remember Christmas 1999, when I gave one of my brothers a book by Bill Bradley and he gave me a book by Sen. McCain. I took a look, but I was unimpressed. It seemed then, and it seems now, too, that McCain's pattern in life is ...
  • ACORN's Plot to Steal Oklahoma!
    Ohmigawd! Can this be true? ACORN plotted to takeover the entire state of Oklahoma from its lawful rulers, the Republican Party? Well, a GOP state Representative for Oklahoma City says he has dock-you-minted proof, my friends. A Republican state legislator released documents Tuesday which he s ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Climate change, ghost states and conceptual territ ...
    Warren Ellis flagged up a Guardian article about another of my perennial obsessions, the shaky future of nation-states. What happens to a nation-state when the territory it occupies disappears? Francois Gemenne, of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations in Paris, said ...
  • My secret identity is… Enzyme Man! [*catalyst ki ...
    Like science? Like manga? Two great flavours that (almost, kinda) taste great together… as evidenced by The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology. Seriously, go look; you won’t regret it. [via Pharyngula] Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 My secret identity is… Enzym ...
  • Ebooks cost a lot of money to make; will no one ex ...
    Andrew Wheeler wants people to stop saying that ebooks don’t cost publishers lots of money to make: Creating an individual ebook format — one of the current suite of them — costs roughly as much as creating a print-on-paper edition; the costs of the actual paper and ink are vanishingly small i ...
  • NEW FICTION: FLUIDITY by Eric Del Carlo
    Xen recovered from his trauma. He could still feel the vertigo-rush of his plunge; and that first impact - the only jolt he had actually felt - was recorded as a permanent sense-memory. But he couldn't and didn't fault the revivificationists, nor the convalescence staff. His body was restored. Pr ...
  • Amanda Palmer on passing the hat for art
    I imagine many of you have seen this elsewhere (judging by the dozens of different sources I saw it bounce through yesterday) but if not, here’s the one and only Amanda Palmer explaining why she’s not ashamed to ask her fans for money: artists need to make money to eat and to continue to make ar ...

Therapy News

  • Research Reveals Heavy Concentration of General Pr ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The fact that general practice physicians often prescribe anti-depression medication to their clients is well known, but the extent of the prescriptions, which account for over 50% of all prescriptions nationally, is not as renowned. Neither is the fact that general p ...
  • Conference Focuses on Psychiatric Abuse of Childre ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Rampant on the news both specific to the mental health community and delivered to the public at large, over-prescription of psychiatric medications has been developing as a major problem for several years. With scores of reports highlighting suspicious links between hi ...
  • Study Shows Group Therapy Can Help Violent Homeles ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Of the entirety of homeless people across the United States, upwards of thirty percent are veterans. Sometimes suffering with post-traumatic stress disorder and often grappling with alcohol or substance abuse, some homeless veterans find themselves leading violent liv ...
  • Stress May Make Negative Experiences Harder to Rec ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline If you’ve ever experienced difficulty in a memory-intensive task while feeling stressed or being distracted, you’ve understood the basic impetus for investigation in a study recently conducted at Bangor University in the UK. The study had participants play basic g ...
  • The Bucket of Crabs, or Why AA and Alanon Can Be B ...
    A GoodTherapy.org Featured Column written by Mary Ellen Barnes, Ph.D. & Ed Wilson, Ph.D., MAC Click here to contact Mary Ellen and/or see her Profile Click here to contact Ed and/or see his Profile The “Bucket of Crabs” is one of our favorite analogies. Pulling crabs out of traps on Kodiak Islan ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • North American Gem Inc. Not Affected by Recent Env ...
    VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwire - 10/02/09) - North American Gem Inc. (TSX-V: NAG - News ) (NAG) would like to add clarification to the recent announcement made by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on September 30th, 2009. The EPA's announcement targets the practice of "mountaintop removal" which ...
  • North American Gem Inc. Not Affected by Recent Env ...
    VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwire - October 2, 2009) - North American Gem Inc. ( TSX-V : NAG ) (NAG) would like to add clarification to the recent announcement made by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on September 30th, 2009. The EPA's announcement targets the practice of "mountaintop removal" whi ...
  • Corrections: Oct. 2, 2009 (The Charleston Gazette)
    An Associated Press story in Thursdays Gazette incorrectly listed the people held in contempt of court in protest actions against Massey Energy mountaintop removal mines. Those covered by the contempt order were Antrim Caskey, Jordan Freeman, Madeline Gard...
  • Advocates Fight Mountaintop Removal (CommonDreams. ...
    by Matthew Cardinale ATLANTA, Georgia - Environmental groups across the southeast United States, from Georgia to the Appalachia region, are stepping up their opposition to a controversial but widespread practice by coal companies of removing the tops of mountains with explosives. read more
  • Mountaintop mining fight expands to W.Va. courts ( ...
    MORGANTOWN (AP) — The fight over mountaintop removal mining in southern West Virginia’s coalfields has expanded to a second front — the courtroom. Virginia-based Massey Energy has filed three laws...

Memeorandum

  • U.S. Wonders if Iran Is Playing for Time or Is Ser ...
    Helene Cooper / New York Times : U.S. Wonders if Iran Is Playing for Time or Is Serious on Deal   —  WASHINGTON — President Obama got what he said he wanted when United States negotiators met with their Iranian counterparts this week in Geneva: direct engagement, without preconditions, with I ...
  • Senate Committee Passes Quasi-Public Option Amendm ...
    The Huffington Post : Senate Committee Passes Quasi-Public Option Amendment   —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  The Senate Finance Committee narrowly passed an amendment Thursday from Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) that moves the conservative panel as close as it will likely get to a public heal ...
  • Kristol Floats 'Plausible Rumor' ... (Matt Corley/ ...
    Matt Corley / Think Progress : Kristol Floats ‘Plausible Rumor’ That Hagel Will Replace Gates, Calls Him ‘An Advocate Of Retreat Everywhere’   —  Yesterday, Foreign Policy Initiative co-founder Bill Kristol appeared on Hugh Hewitt's radio show, where he said that he now believes “f ...
  • Reid: Final health bill will have a 'public option ...
    Benjamin Spillman / Las Vegas Review-Journal : Reid: Final health bill will have a ‘public option’   —  U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said today there will be a “public option” in whatever health insurance reform bill comes out of Congress.  —  “We are going to have a public optio ...
  • Poll: 43% say Olympics trip 'bad idea' (Andy Barr/ ...
    Andy Barr / The Politico : Poll: 43% say Olympics trip ‘bad idea’   —  A plurality of Americans thinks President Barack Obama's trip to Copenhagen to lobby International Olympic Committee officials was a “bad idea,” according to a poll released Thursday by Rasmussen Reports.  —  For ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, Central California
    Saturday, October 3, 2009 01:15:59 UTC Friday, October 2, 2009 06:15:59 PM at epicenter Depth : 0.00 km (0.00 mi)
  • M 5.1, Gansu, China
    Friday, October 2, 2009 13:49:10 UTC Friday, October 2, 2009 09:49:10 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.4, Samoa Islands region
    Friday, October 2, 2009 12:08:31 UTC Saturday, October 3, 2009 01:08:31 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.4, Tonga
    Friday, October 2, 2009 12:01:11 UTC Saturday, October 3, 2009 01:01:11 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.0, Samoa Islands region
    Friday, October 2, 2009 11:09:34 UTC Friday, October 2, 2009 11:09:34 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Slideshow: Times of crisis (1)
    The collapse of Lehman Brothers shook the world from Wall Street to Beijing. Maryann Bird introduces some images of China from a Reuters multimedia project charting 365 days of upheaval. The 10 photographs in the slideshow are Copyright 2009 Thomson Reuters and published by chinadialogue with the pe ...
  • A birthday wish list
    The 60-year history of the People’s Republic saw a move from an era of revolution to one of pragmatism. The country’s low-carbon future, writes Julian L Wong, requires both approaches. This week marks the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. The first 30-year phase was one of re ...
  • River of discord
    Hydropower projects in China have created tensions along the Mekong. Rivers know no borders, writes Michael Richardson, but dams do. Back in 1986, when China began building the first of a series of dams on the Mekong River, hardly anyone in the downstream countries of south-east Asia paid attention. ...
  • Water tensions in central Asia
    A regional crisis created mainly by disastrous Soviet policies will only be exacerbated by the challenges of climate change, a Kyrgyz water expert tells Isabel Hilton. At first glance, China's neighbour Kyrgyzstan, with more than 40,000 rivers and streams, appears to enjoy abundant water supplies. B ...
  • Fighting pollution on the Pearl River
    A unique agreement in south China could have provided a model for cooperation between provinces, writes Reut Barak. But institutional issues have impeded joint action. China’s rapid economic growth has brought not only a rise in living standards, but also serious environmental pollution, which has ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Secure Flight Comes to Southwest Airlines, Six Yea ...
    Six years ago the federal government proposed taking over the job of comparing passenger names against the terrorist watch lists. Just this week, Southwest Airlines frequent fliers are being asked to update their profiles with name, gender and date of birth information in order to let the feds try ...
  • Credit Card Skimming Survey: What’s Your Magstri ...
    Ever wonder how much the data on the back of your credit card is worth to a corrupt food service worker? The answer, it turns out, depends on which restaurants you frequent in Florida. For some reason, the Sunshine State is a hotbed of federal prosecutions for “skimming”, in which a retail or se ...
  • Wireless Network Signals Produce See-Through Walls
    Researchers at the University of Utah have found a way to see through walls to detect movement inside a building. The surveillance technique is called variance-based radio tomographic imaging and works by visualizing variations in radio waves as they travel to nodes in a wireless network. A person ...
  • Google Pulls Pirate Bay From Search Results
    The homepage of Pirate Bay disappeared from Google’s search results Friday, after Google allegedly received a DMCA takedown notice targeting the site. The move is unexpected because, while the Pirate Bay is rife with pirated material, the site’s spare landing page contains no content to speak of ...
  • Lawmakers Cave to FBI in Patriot Act Debate
    Powerful Senate leaders on Thursday bowed to FBI concerns that adding privacy protections to an expiring provision of the Patriot Act could jeopardize “ongoing” terror investigations. The Patriot Act was adopted six weeks after the 2001 terror attacks, and greatly expanded the government’s pow ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • ANALYSIS-Obama's Olympian gamble collapses
    * Obama was flying home to Washington when he got the news
  • Rio wins 2016 Games as IOC rebuffs Obama
    COPENHAGEN/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro won a resounding vote on Friday to stage the first Olympics in South America in 2016, rebuffing U.S. President Barack Obama, who had personally lobbied for his adopted hometown Chicago.
  • President and First Lady back Chicago 2016 bid
    COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Chicago played its two trump cards on Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle both making impassioned speeches as they urged the IOC to choose the Windy City as host of the 2016 Olympics.
  • Olympics-Rio makes impassioned pitch for first S.A ...
    COPENHAGEN, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made an impassioned plea to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday, urging them to award an overdue first Games to both Brazil and South America in 2016.
  • Q+A: What's behind Geneva agreement on Iran's enri ...
    GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran has agreed 'in principle' to a deal that would move most of its enriched uranium out of the country. Western officials say this would ease tensions in the Middle East caused by fears Tehran wants a nuclear weapon.

Godspace

  • Are the Turbulent Times Already Here?
    Tom & I arrived in Sydney yesterday and are still fighting to get our clocks turned around.  The weather here is warm and balmy.  Quite a contrast to Seattle where it was heading towards winter temperatures and rain when we left on Tuesday.  The fact that it is now Friday is hard to believe.  Go ...
  • Turbulent Times: Ready or Not
    We leave this afternoon for Australia – the house sitter has moved in (well more of a dog sitter actually as Bonnie told us she does not like being alone) and are furiously working to get our contributions for the MSA Seed Sampler done – as well as working on powerpoint presentations for all ou ...
  • What Does it Take To Change a Bad Habit
    “Keep it simple, make it meaningful, stick to it”  That is some of the best advice that I have ever received on how to establish a new habit.  It came to mind as I read this article from Zen Habits Our daily lives are often a series of habits played out through the day, a trammeled [...]
  • Where is Christmas?
    I am sitting at our dining room table looking out on a beautiful September morning.  It is hard to believe that in a couple of days I will be in Australia – once more heading into spring rather than into autumn.  I will miss the glory of the fall leaves around the lake but I [...]
  • Wild Camano Forest Tour
    Tom & I have just returned from Camano Island where we participated in a botanical tour on the land where we hope to create a monastic eco village.  The tour was conducted by Bob Dietal rector at St Aidan’s Episcopal church in Stanwood.  Bob used to be a botanist and was amazingly knowledgea ...

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  • Conflicting information in expulsion of Israeli di ...
    There is conflicting information about the reasons that led to the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat from Russia.
  • FBI ordered to release Cheney records in Valerie P ...
    A US federal judge has ordered the FBI to release the transcript of an interview with former US vice-president Dick Cheney, conducted during an investigation into who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
  • News you may have missed #0124
    Top Russian spy indicted in sex trafficking case. Colombian intelligence officer detained in Venezuela. Spain uncovers double agent's Russian handler.
  • US Looks Away from Worsening Philippines Rights Re ...
    Just days after Filipino prizewinning poet and dramatist Bienvenido Lumbera caught a Naval Intelligence Security Force agent spying on him outside his home, another Filipino intellectual has come forward with allegations of government spying. Pedro "Jun" Cruz Reyes, professor of creative writing at ...
  • News you may have missed #0123
    Get ready for body cavity airport searches! Did the US do a deal with Russia on Iran? Lebanese mayor accused of spying for Israel.

PsyBlog

  • Are You a Liar?
    Do people really lie 3 times within 10 minutes of meeting someone new? It's a statistic often quoted to show how callous and heartless people are. It's the kind of number the misanthrope TV doc Gregory House (played by Brit Hugh Laurie) should have tattooed across his forehead. But what kinds of li ...
  • PsyBlog Now on Twitter
    PsyBlog is now on Twitter, right here. So many people have kindly been sharing articles from PsyBlog with others on Twitter that the tweet count for recent articles is now fairly hefty. Thanks very much to all the Twitterers who've been spreading the word! PsyBlog's Twitter feed is another way to ...
  • How Long to Form a Habit?
    Research reveals a curved relationship between practice and automaticity. Say you want to create a new habit, whether it's taking more exercise, eating more healthily or writing a blog post every day, how often does it need to be performed before it no longer requires Herculean self-control? Clear ...
  • Why You Can’t Help Believing Everything You Read
    You shouldn't believe everything you read, yet according to a classic psychology study at first we can't help it. What is the mind's default position: are we naturally critical or naturally gullible? As a species do we have a tendency to behave like Agent Mulder from the X-Files who always wanted t ...
  • Sit Up Straight! Be Confident!
    · New study finds slouchers make less confident self-evaluations. At school all the cool kids were slouchers. No one wanted to be seen sitting up straight, paying attention or, heaven forbid making an effort to learn. It was only the geeks in the front row, hoovering up all that useless knowledg ...

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  • TechStars Investor Day Hits a Home Run
    With bleary eyes and bellies full of coffee, a roomful of investors, journalists and young entrepreneurs gathered this morning for the Bay Area TechStars Investor day. The Boulder and Boston-based startup incubator pulled out all the stops as 13 companies took to the stage to plead their case for ...
  • Google Wave: Do You Think It Will Succeed?
    We’re just a few hours away from the launch of Google Wave. Later tonight , a flood of invites for Google Wave will permeate the web, and around 100,000 early adopters will become part of Google’s real-time communication tool. Heck, Wave is so hot right now that people are trying to buy them ...
  • Tweetie pricing fuss highlights App Store flaw – ...
    Tweetie pricing fuss highlights App Store flaw : “But three dollars, right? I mean, with that much money I could buy a third of a movie ticket! I could take the subway one and a half times! I could pay the convenience charge on the parking ticket I got last night (thanks, City of Somerville). A ...
  • Grayson remains defiant on 'die quickly' remarks
    Rep. Alan Grayson finally apologized — but not to Republicans. WASHINGTON (CNN) – Under fire for his claim that the GOP health care plan calls for sick people to "die quickly," Rep. Alan Grayson finally apologized — but not to Republicans. "Last night, I gave a speech, and I'm no ...
  • Plaxico Takes All Expenses Paid Trip to Rome...
    Filed under: Talk Sports , Exclusives , Plaxico Burress ... New York, where he'll now be staying in a luxurious prison known as the Oneida Correctional Facility. The New York State Department of Correctional Services tells us Plaxico was moved from Ulster Correctional Facility in Napanoch, NY ...

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Washington Independent

  • Rand Paul Hauls $1.1m for Senate Race
    The son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) handily beat Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson (R) in the first quarter, raising $1.1 million to Grayson’s $600,000. As I noted when Paul first got into the race, his ability to raise a lot of money from a national base is going to muddle Republicans’ str ...
  • Gun Case Could Broaden Legal Basis for Wide Range ...
    A finding that the Second Amendment protects individuals’ right to own a gun could also provide more solid ground for recognition of the right to abortion, to sexual privacy, to gay marriage, and to a wide variety of other rights that conservative justices on the court and “originalist” Consti ...
  • The Campaign Against Kevin Jennings, Backfiring?
    Media Matters staff has been all over the manufactured scandal haunting Kevin Jennings, the U.S. Department of Education’s director of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools–a.k.a the “safe schools czar.” Jennings, who is gay, has been a target for months, but the very belated discovery ...
  • Pakistan Prepares To Invade Taliban/Al-Qaeda Stron ...
    This is a very big deal. The Obama administration has been pressing Pakistan to expand its military successes against the Taliban in the Swat Valley for months. Now, it’s about to go down. And look at what The New York Times credits as a major reason why: Now there is a sense within the military e ...
  • Gibbs On The Obama/McChrystal Meeting
    From the gaggle transcript: The President thought the meeting was very productive, an extension of the meetings that have been had thus far as we reassess and reevaluate moving forward in Afghanistan.  The President has selected General McChrystal because of his ability and his leadership and I thi ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Seaweed invasion plagues France's pristine Brittan ...
    Hillion is a picture-postcard Breton town with grey stone houses, a pretty granite church and long sandy beaches. But the seaside idyll has been ruined by mounds of rotting seaweed that have settled across swathes of France's northwestern coast, giving o Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business ...
  • Pennyslvania regulators threaten to prosecute land ...
    This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries regarding a pond on his property. It was sent by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Quality, of the state of Pennsylvania. Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Animal waste agreement reached at landfill
    CLINTON — After more than a year of negotiations, cattle brain and spinal cord material could start coming to the Clinton County landfill next week, according to recent action by the Clinton County Area Solid Waste Agency board. Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it ...
  • Vultures are making a comeback Spain finds out th ...
    PAMPLONA, Spain — Vultures circling overhead have traditionally been a harbinger of death. But in Spain, their renewed presence after a long lull is being regarded by many as a good omen — the sign of a healthy eco-system. "They're essential," said Lui Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbeat ...
  • Milk Drinking Started Around 7,500 Years Ago In Ce ...
    The ability to digest the milk sugar lactose first evolved in dairy farming communities in central Europe, not in more northern groups as was previously thought, finds a new study led by UCL (University College London) scientists published in the journal Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbeat ...

Suzie-Q

  • Iran’s nuclear threat is a lie
    John Pilger | New Statesman | 01 October 2009 Obama’s “showdown” with Iran has another agenda. The media have been tasked with preparing the public for endless war In 2001, the Observer published a series of reports that claimed an “Iraqi connection” to al-Qaeda, even describing the base ...
  • APF’s Michael Hilton Calls Himself “Ca ...
    “Captain” Michael? APF Official Admits Title Is Bogus TPM MUCKRAKER- Zachary Roth | October 1, 2009, 3:33PM Earlier we told you about Michael Hilton, the American Police Force official with a lengthy criminal record and a history of alcoholism, who inked a deal to have his mysterious securit ...
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  • American Police Force- Michael Hilton’s Crim ...
    American Police Force Leader’s Long Criminal Record TPM MUCKRAKER- Zachary Roth | October 1, 2009, 11:17AM The American Police Force, that mysterious security company that just took over an empty jail in Hardin, Montana, is looking shadier than ever. Since yesterday, details have been emerging a ...
  • American Police Force Gets Control Of Jail In Hard ...
    Mysterious Private Security Firm Gets Control Of Empty Jail In Small Montana Town TPM Muckraker- Justin Elliott | September 30, 2009, 3:16PM A shadowy private security company that has no known clients but claims to have helped foreign governments combat terrorism and will protect anything from cr ...

Solari

  • From Mother Earth News
    I just love Mother Earth News. Their latest edition has an article “Five DIY, Low-Cost & Multipurpose Greenhouses.” I have been contemplating building a pre-fab greenhouse and am inspired to rethink my plan. Perhaps all the lumber and old windows and doors stacked up in my barn are a green house ...
  • Butternut Squash Gone Wild
    Last year, we planted butternut squash at the lower end of the garden. It started to migrate south. Then this summer we put up a fence to keep out the deer. The squash simply ignored the fence with new long plants sprouting up beyond the borders. Then suddenly last month, they shot into the compost ...
  • Delegates of the Southern States Resolution and Ap ...
    Friday, October 2, 2009 (NOTE: This Resolution and Appeal was adopted by the 2nd. Southern National Congress on 12 September 2009 while assembled upon Cheaha Mountain, Alabama) To the Sheriffs, Police Agencies, Adjutants General, Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers of the National Guard and State ...
  • What Americans Really Want
    Digging still deeper, my research suggests that we can dial back American anger if we begin to fix two complaints: the lack of accountability and the lack of respect in our dealings with each other. The core American complaint about politics is that wrongdoing isn’t punished, other than at the nex ...
  • KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers Offices Raided
    By Rowena Mason Police have raided the offices of KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Reykjavik, seizing documents and computer data as part of an investigation into alleged criminal activity at three collapsed Icelandic banks. he targets of the raids were the firms’ banking clients Kaupthin ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware. George Green will be a featured speaker. September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CA Click here for Tickets & Reservations  
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...

Insurgency Watch - Posts

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Solar Decathlon on the Mall in Washington DC
    For three weeks in October 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy will host the Solar Decathlon in Washington DC. Related posts: The BeauSoleil Solar Home: Self Sufficient Solar Decathlon Entry Solar Power from Outer Space: Microwaves and Frickin’ Lasers New Jersey to Double its Solar Power Genera ...
  • Childrens Health Month Tips – Protect Children f ...
    October is Children's Health Month and the EPA is providing parents simple tips they can use to help protect children. Related posts: EPA Seeks to Protect Children Through Airborne Lead Detection Standards Lets Make a Healthier World for Our Children Coal’s Health Costs In Appalachia Outweigh ...
  • Solar Decathlon on the Mall in Washington DC
    For three weeks in October 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy will host the Solar Decathlon in Washington DC. Related posts: The BeauSoleil Solar Home: Self Sufficient Solar Decathlon Entry Solar Power from Outer Space: Microwaves and Frickin’ Lasers New Jersey to Double its Solar Power Genera ...
  • The BeauSoleil Solar Home: Self Sufficient Solar D ...
    “Designed to be completely self-sufficient, the BeauSoleil Home will generate more energy than it consumes, collect its own water using a cistern, and capture natural breezes and sunshine to reduce the amount of energy it consumes. Operable shutters serve dual functions by providing shade and hurr ...
  • White House: The Primary Cause of Climate Change i ...
    The White House Blog recently posted this article, saying that the leading cause of Climate Change is the emission of Carbon Dioxide. Related posts: White House Follow-up on Global Climate Change Impacts 2009 Global Climate Change Impact Report Released Carbon Dioxide Rise Exceeds Fears

Inhabitat

  • Links Roundup of the Week: Planning for Sustainabi ...
    Last week, Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG asked Mason White of InfraNet Lab for his thoughts on the growing interest in infrastructure and planning. White reflected that designers today that are looking to positively impact the built environment, and are subsequently thinking about the bigger picture rat ...
  • Introducing Inhabitat’s Green Talks Webcast Seri ...
    Announcing Green Talks! Starting next week, Inhabitat will be hosting a series of webcasts with sustainability luminaries from across the US, and we want you to join in the conversation! These interactive online meet-ups will focus on green architecture and design in three cities that have been maki ...
  • WEST COAST GREEN 2009: Day 1 Roundup
    Each year, West Coast Green brings together the largest conference on green innovation for the built environment with leading sustainable businesses and an eclectic group of green technology and exciting design exhibitors. This year’s batch of booths focused mainly on natural building materials ...
  • Nissan Uses Fish-Inspired Design to Increase Car S ...
    Believe it or not, vehicle designers can learn a lot from fish, which have the impressive ability to glide around obstacles, all while staying in a tightly controlled pack. If cars were able to do the same thing, traffic jams and fender benders might be virtually eliminated. That’s why Nissan buil ...
  • National Solar Homes Tour Kicks Off This Weekend!
    If you’re looking for something to do this Saturday, may we suggest checking out the amazing Solar Homes Tour, which will be happening this weekend in many cities around the country? The American Solar Energy Society (ASES) is hosting their 14th Annual National Solar Tour, which is said to be the ...

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Open Your Eyes News

  • We’ll make it real easy for y’all to get your ...
    The Biochemist - Some ‘promo’s’/convenient places to get your ‘flu shot’ in the US, UK and Australia: 1. Safeway Pharmacies 2. Drive-through vaccines! courtesy of University of Kentucky (UK) Read Article 3. Source article The fast-track clinic will be open 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Friday a ...
  • H1N1 vaccine arriving in Kentucky next week - 13yo ...
    Kentucky.com - The first shipments of nasal-spray vaccine to protect against H1N1 swine flu should be reaching local health departments around Kentucky next week, but the doses initially will be aimed at health-care workers and other target groups, state health officials said Thursday. Meanwhile, D ...
  • China weather “magic” conjures blue sky for pa ...
    Reuters – China’s air force deployed a “magic-like” range of chemicals and technology to clear Beijing’s smoggy air for a grand parade marking the 60th anniversary of Communist China, state media said on Thursday. Chemists and officials worked for weeks on the country’s most ambitious ev ...
  • Transportation Security Administration to expand u ...
    USA Today - The Transportation Security Administration plans to install 150 security machines at airport checkpoints that enable screeners to see under passengers’ clothes. The installation will vastly expand the use of the controversial body scanners, which can reveal hidden bombs and knives. But ...
  • Sedatives may slow recovery from trauma
    New Scientist - GIVING sleeping pills to soldiers and earthquake victims is common practice, yet it could be doing more harm than good. That’s the suggestion from a study of traumatised rats, which seemed to show that the drugs suppressed the rodent’s natural mechanisms for coping with trauma. ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Excerpt from Malcolm Caldwell on wealth and people ...
    Excerpt from Malcolm Caldwell on wealth and people’s war  (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Malcolm Caldwell is most known for his mysterious death in 1978 while in the care of the Pol Pot regime. He was one of the few Westerners granted access to Democratic Kampuchea. Caldwell was even grante ...
  • Real versus Fake Universal Health Care for Women
      Real versus Fake Universal Health Care for Women   (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)   The debate over “universal healthcare” dominates the political landscape in the US. Obama’s administration and the Democratic Party have committed themselves to healthcare reform. This ...
  • RAIM: Harvest Season Means Forced Labor for Uzbek ...
    Harvest Season Means Forced Labor for Uzbek Children (http://raimd.wordpress.com) Every September, hundreds of thousands of Uzbek children begin two months of forced labor in the country’s cotton fields. Receiving almost nothing in wages and acting in accordance with state mandate, schools are cl ...
  • Prachanda’s “21st century socialism” on reli ...
      Prachanda’s “21st century socialism” on religion (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)   In a recent interview Prachanda, leader of a Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), is reported to have made comments about his and his party’s view of religion. Prachanda recently remarked, “I ...
  • Dear Maoist-Third Worldist.. On MIM Thought versus ...
      On MIM Thought and Maoism-Third Worldism (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) “Dear Maoist-Third Worldist,   Why is Maoism-Third Worldism a new stage of Marxism? Why not MIM Thought?” * MSH answers: What does it mean to say Maoism-Third Worldism is a new stage of revolutionary science? Tra ...

PakAlert

  • Video: Countdown to war with Iran?
    As mutual fear, mistrust and polarisation increases between Iran and Israel, an arms race between the two sworn enemies is gathering momentum. Central to this is the Russian-made S-300 missile system. Israel and Iran both are involved in arms deals with Russia, trying to win the arms race. Also ...
  • Iran vs Israel: What The Media Wants You To Forget
    The corporate media have been given their orders to throw the focus back on to Iran. Here is a recap of what they are trying to make you forget. 1. Last Spring, Rose Gottemoeller, an assistant secretary of state and Washington’s chief nuclear arms negotiator, asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non- ...
  • A US Counteroffensive In Pakistan
    A Loose Coalition Of Pro-American Politicians, Writers, Academics To Promote US Goals, Isolate Pak Military Forget US diplomacy with the Pakistani government.  The Americans are now setting the policy agenda in Pakistan in direct talks with Pakistani political parties.  To ensure privacy, these ...
  • Satan’s Network
    The NWO Uses the SPIN Principle. By Fritz Springmeier (From “Wise as Serpents, Gentle as Doves”) S-P-l-N = Segmented Polycentric Integrated Networks If one were to diagram a SPIN organizational chart it would not be a conventional box type configuration such as an army company organization cha ...
  • Bikini vs. Burka: The Debauchery of Women
    By Henry Makow Ph.D. On my wall, I have a picture of a Muslim woman shrouded in a burka. Beside it is a picture of an American beauty contestant, wearing nothing but a bikini. One woman is totally hidden from the public; the other is totally exposed. These two extremes say a great deal about the [. ...

ecogeek

  • France Building EV Charging Network
    France is going after one of the key obstacles to getting electric cars on the road:  the need for a charging infrastructure.  The country is changing all that by spending $2.2 billion to build a network of charging stations. Taxpayer money will go to fund the project that will install the initia ...
  • World's Largest Wind Farm Completed in Texas
    It's official.  Texas is now home to the world's largest wind farm.  The 781.5 MW Roscoe wind complex has been completed and went live last night at 9:00 p.m. Built by E.ON Climate & Renewables , the $1 billion farm covers 100,000 acres of land across four counties in West Texas and will be able ...
  • Cleantech Now Tops Venture Investing
    A new report from the Cleantech Group has some reassuring news.  Investments in cleantech startups have gone back up and cleantech is now the largest venture capital investment category! Investments in the sector in North America, Europe, Israel, China and India totaled $1.59 billion across 134 de ...
  • EPA Will Regulate GHG Emissions
    As has been assumed for months , the EPA announced it will move forward with plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, but it will keep its focus on large emitters -- those that produce 25,000 tons or more of CO2 a year, like power plants and industrial facilities.  Those large emitters account ...
  • Tech Companies Top Newsweek Green List
    Tech companies dominated the top of Newsweek's "Green Rankings," with Hewlett Packard taking the number one spot.  The list ranked the 500 largest corporations in America based on their environmental impact, green policies and their social responisibility reputation. Tech companies made up four ou ...

Times Online - Science

  • Science: Stand by for the Supergrid
    If you are a glass-half-empty sort of person you might find yourself tempted by the Cheltenham Literature Festival event on October 17 entitled “2050: Did Science Save Us?”. This discussion will take participants more than 40 years into the future, when humankind has defied all sorts of shen ...
  • Scanning technique can cut thalassaemia deaths by ...
    Sufferers of one of the world’s most common genetic disorders can have their risk of dying reduced dramatically with the use of a scanning technique developed by British scientists.
  • Surgeons offer eyesight tailored to an individual& ...
    There are sportswear firms offering bespoke trainers and funeral companies that sell personalised coffins, but this latest extension of Savile Row principles may shock even the staunchest devotees of mass customisation.
  • Moon crash will create six-mile plume of dust as N ...
    A Nasa spacecraft will deliberately crash into the Moon next week on a mission that could enhance the prospects of establishing a manned lunar base.
  • Biotech impostor rivals Stradivarius violin
    We can be quite sure that the British violinist Matthew Trusler had never bowed his strings at a forest husbandry conference before — or that he had played his 1711 Stradivarius to such a bemused audience.

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • POLITICS: Marching Round the World for Peace
    MADRID, Oct 2 (IPS) - Activists from many nations will set out from New Zealand Saturday on a march for peace and non-violence that will cover more than 90 countries on five continents, winding up on Jan. 2 at the foot of Mount Aconcagua, in western Argentina.
  • US-IRAN: Geneva Talks Seen as Potential Breakthro ...
    WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (IPS) - While experts here are being deliberately tentative in their assessments of Thursday's meeting in Geneva between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany (P5+1), there appears to be a growing sense that the results could lay the basis ...
  • CAMEROON: Gearing Up for Copenhagen
    YAOUNDE, Oct 2 (IPS) - "Developed countries have failed to respect the Kyoto Protocol which compelled them to reduce latest 2008 emissions of greenhouse gases by five percent. There is therefore need for new engagements to be taken at the Copenhagen Summit." Decisive words from Cameroon's minist ...
  • TRADE: "We Won’t be Frogmarched Towards a D ...
    CAPE TOWN, Oct 2 (IPS) - In a rare meeting of minds, a parliamentarian, a civil servant and a trade unionist, all three from Africa, agreed that the current course of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Round of trade talks is detrimental to the interests of African countries.
  • SENEGAL: Scrambling to Keep Up With Education For ...
    DIOHINE, Senegal, Oct 2 (IPS) - In Diohine, a village of some 3,000 inhabitants in the Fatick region of central Senegal, real progress has been made towards educating all children, in spite of a lack of infrastructure.

Scoop - NZ

  • Obama Rethinking Afghan Strategy
    From his headquarters in Kabul, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal sees one clear path to achieve President Obama's core goal of preventing al-Qaeda from reestablishing havens in Afghanistan: "Success," he writes in his assessment, "demands a comprehensive counterinsurgency campaign." Inside the White House ...
  • Fisk: Everyone agreeing with Bin Laden now
    Obama and Osama are at last participating in the same narrative. For the US president's critics - indeed, for many critics of the West's military occupation of Afghanistan - are beginning to speak in the same language as Obama's (and their) greatest enemy.There is a growing suspicion in America that ...
  • Naked Wanderlust: Germany's First Nudist Hiking Tr ...
    Nude hikers in Germany have a new place to indulge their hobby. One keen naturalist has announced the opening of a hiking trail exclusively for those who enjoy walking in the buff.Heinz Ludwig, who owns a campsite and restaurant in the small village of Dankerode in the eastern German state of Saxony ...
  • Bernard Madoff 'victims' to be sued
    The prospect of Bernard Madoff's clients battling each other in court is becoming increasingly likely after prosecutors revealed that half of those who invested in the fraudster's $65bn Ponzi scheme withdrew more than they put in. Assistant US Attorneys Marc Litt and Lisa Baroni disclosed that "near ...
  • Massive quake generates tsunami off Samoa
    A powerful 8.0 magnitude earthquake in the Pacific off the Samoa islands region generated a tsunami and waves of more than five feet (1.57 metres) had already been observed, U.S. government agencies said on Tuesday.An official of the U.S. National Park Service said there had been deaths in American ...

Independent ( London )

  • Girl pulled from quake rubble as time runs out for ...
    Amid scenes of grief and destruction in the Indonesian city of Padang, a ray of light pierced the gloom yesterday when a 19-year-old girl was rescued after 40 hours buried under rubble. But time was running out for other survivors, who called in desperation to emergency workers unable to reach them ...
  • Court rejects appeal by Aung San Suu Kyi
    A court in Burma upheld its guilty verdict on the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday, a ruling likely to keep the Nobel laureate in detention until after next year's elections. The judge dismissed an appeal by Ms Suu Kyi's legal team, which argued that her 18-month house arrest for a secur ...
  • Last leader of East Germany mourns loss of the Wal ...
    Egon Krenz still wears a kipper tie and big-shouldered jacket, trademarks of the Cold War Communist, but these days he combines them with jeans, a garment his regime once derided as a symbol of capitalist oppression. If it weren't for his disturbing stare, he could be any ex-Communist east German in ...
  • Sicilian mudslides leave 20 dead
    Rivers of mud unleashed by heavy rains overnight flooded parts of the Sicilian city of Messina, leaving at least 20 people dead yesterday while sweeping away cars, collapsing buildings and driving hundreds of people out of their homes.
  • Women prisoners go free in return for a glimpse of ...
    The Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit who was seized by Gaza militants in June 2006 appears in good health in a video handed over by his captors in exchange for the release of 20 Palestinian women prisoners.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • October surprise in US-Iran relations
    Summary: NEW YORK - Defying the onslaught of pessimistic predictions, the Geneva meeting on Thursday of Iran and the "Iran Six" nations did not end in failure, given the recent revelations of a second Iranian uranium-enrichment plant. source: Asia Times read more
  • Top things you think you know about Iran that are ...
    Summary: Prof. Cole But on this occasion, I thought I'd take the opportunity to list some things that people tend to think they know about Iran, but for which the evidence is shaky. source: Informed Comment read more
  • Iran, U.S. make 'constructive' start
    Summary: WASHINGTON–Iran could be fast-tracked toward peaceful nuclear generation in a technology exchange aimed at ending its ambitions to weaponize uranium, officials said after the first round of crucial talks that will test the limits of President Barack Obama's doctrine of soft diplomacy. ...
  • US Sounds Skeptical Tone as Iran, Powers Agree to ...
    Summary: Today’s high profile meeting between Iranian officials and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) ended with some optimism and a welcoming of agreements from Iran by several officials, and a pledge by the various nations to meet again before the ...
  • Obama Endorses Iran Proposal on Uranium Enrichment
    Summary: Speaking in the wake of today’s Geneva talks, President Barack Obama publicly endorsed yesterday’s Iranian proposal to export uranium for third-party enrichment abroad for use in its US-built Tehran reactor, saying it was a good step in showing Iran wanted nuclear energy for peacefu ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Galaxy Fans/Techies/Geeks: We Need Your Help!
    Hey Galaxy Fans, We need about three minutes of your time to help convince the Intel's, Apple's, Google's, and Microsoft's of the world that our fans are the smartest, richest (ha!), best ad targets on the planet (and help us...
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  • Does Genius Have a Genetic Advantage? Experts Say ...
    One of the most important discoveries in human history is how we're really a couple of pounds of gooey jelly inside our own skulls. Since then we've been working on exactly how we come to be us: from the psychology...
  • "Free AWE!" The New, Improved Cosmos: GigaGalaxy Z ...
    The European Southern Observatory (ESO) have been celebrating the International Year of Astronomy in fine style: instead of insisting on how awesome astronomy is they've decided to simply show people so they can see for themselves. The GigaGalaxy Zoom (which...

Natural News

  • How to Stay Sharp as a Tack
    (NaturalNews) A few days ago a song got stuck in my head- the slow, haunting violin melody that set the mood in the movie Platoon. But I couldn't recall who wrote it, and it bugged me. Later, when I wasn't thinking about it, I suddenly remembered it was Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. We all hav ...
  • Globalization and Complexity Has Made Our World Mo ...
    (NaturalNews) Economic experts are warning that the complex interconnectedness of the global economy makes it highly susceptible to collapse from one or two sharp shocks. "While [complexity] helps the system diversify across small shocks, it also exposes the system to large systemic shocks," wrote R ...
  • New book reveals secret Brazilian Aloe recipe for ...
    (NaturalNews) Living in South America, I often find myself steeped in abundant natural cures for many diseases, including cancer. You can hardly walk out your front door without finding yourself surrounded with natural medicines made by Mother Nature, and it's true across the continent, from Ecuador ...
  • Cervical cancer vaccine continues killing young gi ...
    (NaturalNews) Natalie Morton is dead. One week ago, she was an energetic and lively 14-year-old student who was just following doctor's orders. Like all her other classmates, she believed she was dutifully protecting her health by submitting to a cervical cancer vaccine jab. But a few minutes after ...
  • Resveratrol, the miracle nutrient to prevent heart ...
    (NaturalNews) If you're looking to prevent heart disease, you need to know about resveratrol. More compelling research on resveratrol is appearing around the world as word spreads about its natural healing potential. Here, we present a collection of powerful quotes about resveratrol and heart diseas ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • At The Going Down Of The Sun....
    With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Private Patrick Lormand, 2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment. Killed due to enemy action. Je me souviens
  • The More Things Change . . . .
    Since there is not a whole lot of current television programming that is worth the time to watch, recently I've been checking out DVDs from the local Vancouver Public Library. Yes, one of those "Socialist" organizations - Horrors! At any rate, this week I've been re-viewing Series #1 of "The Wes ...
  • Why are we in Afghanistan?
    Map of Taliban presence in Afghanistan from The International Council on Security and Development : Data detailing the presence of the Taliban in Afghanistan was gathered from daily insurgent activity reports between January and September 2009. ICOS believes that the level of incidents recorded by ...
  • "Million" "Moran" March
    They can't read the health care bill, they can't behave in public meetings - hell, they can't even count - but they sure are angry. And ignorant. And racist. The 9/12 movement - typical conservatives: A day late and a clue short. Please America, don't let these modern-day know-nothings bul ...
  • Proud to be a member of that 'left-wing fringe gro ...
    "I'm thinking of making T-shirts: "Proud to be a member of that 'left-wing fringe group' called 'Women,' " wrote Antonia Zerbisias two days ago. She was referring of course to Steve's unplugged nonsense from Wednesday : "Instead of subsidizing court challenges, the previous government was doing, ...

Media Matters for America

  • Rooting against America: Beck, other conservativ ...
    Conservative media figures have celebrated the International Olympic Committee's elimination of Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics and used the event to bash President Obama, who flew to Copenhagen to lobby IOC members on behalf of Chicago's bid. For instance, Glenn Beck called the ...
  • The smear campaign continues: Fox Nation, Was ...
    The Fox Nation and The Washington Examiner linked Department of Education official Kevin Jennings to the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) based on a 1997 speech in which Jennings praised gay rights activist Harry Hay, who had spoken in support of the organization. But like many o ...
  • Hannity opens mouth, falsehoods about "czars" spi ...
    Continuing Fox News' witch hunt against Obama administration officials the news network has labeled "czars," Sean Hannity advanced a laundry list of false, baseless, or misleading claims about Department of Education official Kevin Jennings, White House science adviser John Holdren, State Depar ...
  • Fox News attack machine smears Chicago as a viole ...
    Led by Fox News, the conservative media have opened a new front from which to attack President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama's support of Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics: smearing the city as unfit to host the Olympic Games, often by citing individual instances of violen ...
  • Conservative media figures demanding ACORN invest ...
    Conservative media figures including Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Newt Gingrich have called for an investigation of ACORN's activities and its supposed link to President Obama and Democrats, often while spreading misinformation about ACORN. However, these same media figures opp ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Addendum: The Job Numbers for September
    This morning's job numbers are bad enough -- 263,000 more jobs lost in September, and unemployment now at 9.8 percent -- but look behind them and the news is even grimmer. The only reason the numbers don't look worse is... Sponsored Topics: Unemployment - Employment - United States - Business an ...
  • Corruption in Kabul
    A month ago, I referred to the "spooky parallels" between the Karzai government and the terminally corrupt Diem regime we found ourselves backing in Vietnam 50 years ago. Well today Peter Galbraith, the most experienced U.S. diplomat in Afghanistan was... Sponsored Topics: Afghanistan - Kabul - ...
  • On Afghanistan, Obama Should Take Page Out of Eise ...
    Politico's Mike Allen has the attendance roster for President Obama's big Afghan pow-wow today: At 3 p.m., the President will participate in a THREE-HOUR meeting with his national security team on Afghanistan in the Situation Room. . .Expected manifest for... Sponsored Topics: Afghanistan - Bara ...
  • Ducks in sewerage treatment works, drug resistance ...
    The day the swine flu story broke in the global press I wrote up for the blog a possible influenza hedge.  It was a stock I thought would make money – but I did not really want to win big... Sponsored Topics: Influenza - Swine influenza - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Infectious Diseases
  • The new rapid SEC
    Mary Schapiro has not got great press amongst financial bloggers – however this time she beat me to the punch. Emergent Health Corp was a heavily promoted pink-sheets biotech which (fraudulently) claimed to have a pill (yes a simple oral... Sponsored Topics: Mary Schapiro - U.S. Securities and ...

TruthOut

  • Marching Backwards: The Spectacle of Fear
    (Photo Illustration: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t)     Everything old is new again.     It may be 2009 but the rhetoric is strictly 1950 when a man held up a sheet of paper and declared, "I have here in my hand a list of names ..." read more
  • Karl Rove Blasts Obama for "Outsourcing Afghanista ...
    Rove blasting anyone for outsourcing anything is like David Vitter lecturing the losers exiting a strip club about the evils of prostitution.     Now this just simply could not be made up in that Frankenstein laboratory where the cuckoos on the right wing cook up their witches brew of batshit ...
  • Ugliness on the Right
        Republicans and the conservative media should think twice about the frantic irrationality they are courting with their attacks on Obama and the Democrats. From the "birthers" who question the President's U.S. citizenship to the town-hall-meeting shouters stirred up about creeping "socia ...
  • "Socialism" and Sham in the Senate
         Listening closely to the politicians with the most clout in the debate over health care, it is startling to discover how little they actually seem to know about the subject.      Ignorance rules, even among the bipartisan group of senators known as the "Gang of Six," who supposedly hav ...
  • Hélène Cixous: "At Work, a Kind of Murder of the ...
    For writer and philosopher Hélène Cixous, the wave of suicides at France Télécom is "a metaphor for the cruelty that is also manifested elsewhere." The "dehumanization machine" does not spare the university either.      Yves Housson for L'Humanité: The series of suicides at France T ...

The Heathlander

  • The ‘Spirit of the IDF’
    Good to see the Israeli military is taking the recommendations of the Goldstone report on board: ‘The Israel Defense Forces should adopt a “Code of Ethics for the War on Terror,” because its existing ethical code is insufficient, according to Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, the head of Military Intelli ...
  • Docs to watch
    First up, American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein: There’s a good review in the Daily Star, which begins: ‘A dissenting voice is a peculiar thing. For those with a stake in a political status quo, the more contentious the issue, the more the dissident must be silenced. How this is do ...
  • Goldstone’s report on the Gaza massacre
    Reading through the Goldstone report [.pdf], one theme becomes immediately apparent: the deliberateness of the destruction in Gaza. The authors keep returning to this point throughout the text, in a direct rebuke to those liberal apologists for Israel who insist, contrary to all the evidence, that w ...
  • The “British method”
    Following a political campaign by the BNP, a Muslim man was abducted from his home in Essex and threatened at knifepoint to stop organising weekly prayer sessions at the community centre. Asked to response, local BNP councillor Pat Richardson denied the BNP was behind the attack, explaining: “Fire ...
  • ‘Israel’s Terror Inside’
    Latest mini-doc from Max Blumenthal, via lenin: As Noam Chomsky has observed, and as this video makes clear, ‘those who call themselves “supporters of Israel” are in reality supporters of its moral degeneration and probable ultimate destruction’. Posted in Israeli / Palestinian, Videos ...

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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.

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  • New fossil moves mankind back 1m years
    New light has been shed on the link between chimps and humans with the discovery of Ardi, our oldest known ancestor - a seven stone, four-foot fem...
  • Top 5 natural disaster threats
    From killer asteroids to supervolcanoes, doomsday scenarios involving natural disasters have been the subject of speculation and concern for centu...
  • Half of babies 'will live to 100'
    Increases in life expectancy will mean that babies born today could live to be 100 years old a new study has claimed, it has also been found that ...
  • Expedition sights Orang Pendek in Sumatra
    A team from the Centre for Fortean Zoology have returned from a two-week expedition to Sumatra in search of Orang Pendek and claim to have not onl...
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    A series of experiments conducted at University College London on a group of 50 people have revealed that subliminal messages work better if they ...

Grassroots

  • Honduras: 19 Days of Democracy
    der-protestas--13979.jpg The standoff in Honduras is reaching a critical point. The coup government, led by Roberto Michelleti Bain, has suspended five constitutional rights for 45 days. According to the Executive Decree, it is prohibited to a ...
  • Farmers are central to the success of any African ...
    Mamadou Goita, the Executive Director of the Institute for Research and the Promotion of Alternatives in Development (IRPAD) in Mali, was interviewed at the Salzburg Global Seminar by Susanna Thorpe, of WREN Media. IRPAD is a Grassroots International ally that works closely with our partner, the Via ...
  • Amigo, Can You Spare a BTU?
    Subheadline:  Mexican Peasants Pay the Price for U.S. Energy Consumption Outside Author Bio:  Daniel Moss is a Grassroots International consultant who spent a year living and working in Oaxaca ...
  • Calling President Obama
    DSC09338.JPG   With the dramatic return of President Manuel Zelaya to Honduras, the hemisphere is hoping for a solution to the political crisis that has lingered for 87 days. Still, President Obama has not taken a strong enough position on thi ...
  • Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission ...
      Last week, Justice Richard Goldstone of the United Nations Human Rights Council's Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict and his colleagues relesaed their report  on Israel's war on Gaza during December 2008-January 2009. Justice Goldstone is a former judge of South Africa's Constitutional Cour ...

Climate

  • October 2, 2009
    Sen. Boxer: 70% of Allowances to Ease Energy Costs (Washington Post) Senate Democrats will initially devote 70% of the pollution allowances in their new climate bill to making it easier for people to pay their energy bills, Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer says in an i ...
  • October 1, 2009
    Obama Says He’s Deeply Committed to Passing Climate Bill (Reuters) President Barack Obama welcomed a Senate bill to cut carbon emissions and said he was "deeply committed" to getting it passed, even as the White House played down chances that it would happen this year. Climate Talks Opening U ...
  • September 30, 2009
    Sens. Boxer, Kerry to Unveil Climate Bill Draft Today (Tribune) The Senate's Environment Committee is set to take up an energy and climate-change bill that features a 20% cut in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, a target stricter than the House-passed legislation. EU Targets Carbon Tradi ...
  • September 29, 2009
    Copenhagen Draft Loaded with Brackets for Negotiation (Financial Times) With the Copenhagen climate talks in December now just 69 days away (and counting), the latest version of the negotiating text being thrashed out by officials in Bangkok this week gives a vivid sense of just how far there is ...
  • September 28, 2009
    India to Launch Energy-Efficiency Trading (Financial Times) India plans to launch a domestic energy-efficiency trading scheme as part of its efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and combat climate change. It also plans mandatory fuel efficiency standards. Climate Negotiators Meeting ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, Pipelineistan's Ultimate O ...
    Back before email, a world traveler who wanted to keep in touch and couldn't just pop into the nearest Internet café, might drop you a series of postcards from one exotic locale after another. Pepe Escobar, that edgy, peripatetic globe-trotting reporter for one of my favorite on-line publication ...
  • Tomgram: John Feffer, Will NATO's 60th Anniversar ...
    If you think the Afghan War is increasingly unpopular in the United States, try Europe. A recent German Marshall Fund poll offered these figures on the question of the "share of population who want to reduce or withdraw troops" from that country: Romania, 71%; Poland, 68%; United Kingdom, 60%; G ...
  • Tomgram: Arundhati Roy, Is Democracy Melting?
    So you, as a citizen, want to run for a seat in the House of Representatives? Well, you may be too late. Back in 1990, according to OpenSecrets.org , a website of the Center for Responsive Politics, the average cost of a winning campaign for the House was $407,556. Pocket change for your averag ...
  • Tomgram: A Military That Wants Its Way
    How to Trap a President in a Losing War Petraeus, McChrystal, and the Surgettes By Tom Engelhardt Front and center in the debate over the Afghan War these days are General Stanley "Stan" McChrystal, Afghan war commander, whose "classified, pre-decisional" and devastating report -- almost eight y ...
  • Tomgram: Michael Klare, Energy Xtremism
    Talk about roller-coaster rides: the price of a barrel of crude oil, which was still under $20 the week after September 11, 2001, made it to $147 in July 2008, just before the global economic meltdown, only to hit a low of $32.40 early this year. And yet, in recent months, hardly noticed, it's c ...

Smirking Chimp

  • If The Russians Did This To Us, We'd Kill 'Em
    What if the Russians invaded? It's not so far-fetched an idea, you know. We spent half a century and trillions of dollars to make sure that it would never happen, so it's really not such a strange notion. So what if the Russians invaded? What if they came and stole all of our money? What if the Rus ...
  • C Street Scandal, the Media, the Future of the Fam ...
    Before the Tea Party Express brought tens of thousands to protest in the nation's capital, and before town hall meetings about health care devolved into shout downs, there was the story of the boys of C Street. What at first seemed like a series of public sex scandals turned out to have a connectiv ...
  • The damage Olympia Snowe does to healthcare in Ame ...
    Every voter and reporter in Maine should ask Sen. Olympia Snowe (R) why she opposes the public option while she states she may not support the current bill because it may not make insurance affordable for Americans. Of course it doesn't, because it doesn't include the public option, courtesy of Sen. ...
  • History: What a Bitch
    I'm not here to praise the Afghanistan War, but to bury it. And, so doing, avoid burying another 60,000 American kids as we did 40 years ago. All in the the name of --- what? Make-up sex? I mean, that's what we did with Vietnam and, while all those kids who died to keep Vietnam from going commie are ...
  • Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, Pipelineistan's Ultimate Op ...
    — from TomDispatch Back before email, a world traveler who wanted to keep in touch and couldn't just pop into the nearest Internet café, might drop you a series of postcards from one exotic locale after another. Pepe Escobar, that edgy, peripatetic globe-trotting reporter for one of my favorite on ...

Ten Percent

  • Friday! Just A Gigolo, Ain’t Got Nobody
    David Lee Roth… Music starts at about 1.35 but the look to camera at 1.05 is worth the price of admission alone. And Louis Prima too, why not And remember, if you have to ask how much, you can’t afford me!
  • IMF & That Whole ‘Democracy’ Sham
    Neoliberal enforcers mutter how it would be shame if there was a fire round ‘ere, course if you reform like we say, that fire, might never ‘appen eh? And er, y’know we can all be sitting pretty, just stop getting in the way of profit, gives the others silly ideas like. And we wouldn’t want [ ...
  • Arms & Bribes
    In 2006, Tony Blair’s government shut down inquiries into the sale of Tornado warplanes to the Saudi royal family, a deal which had lasted 20 years and grossed £43bn in revenue for BAE. Allegations emerged that £1bn and a personal Airbus jet had been transferred to Prince Bandar, son of the ...
  • Applause For Progressive Co-operation
    Statement from GL re Birmingham The following statement was agreed unanimously last night by the Steering Group of Green Left. There will be a decision on whether to stand a candidate by Green Party members in Hall Green constituency within the next week. “Green Left calls upon our fellow Green Pa ...
  • Oh Yes
    A decision by a county court judge could mean thousands of borrowers being able to renege on their debts. Judge Jacqueline Smart at South Shields county court has decided that the MBNA credit card company cannot demand the repayment of a customer’s debt. It tried to force Mrs Lynne Thorius to repa ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Just Doing What Needs To Be Done
    The past few weeks, okay, MONTHS, have been fairly contentious: fights on Capitol Hill about Health Care Reform; the race card being played again, by a former president, no less; heightened concerns by those in the know about Afghanistan; our children being indoctrinated; and Hollywood Elite calling ...
  • Barack Obama, Surrender Monkey? [Updated]
    How weak are you when you go to little old Copenhagen and get bitched slapped by the Olympic Committee? How weak are you when the French are lecturing you on being too soft on Iran? Weak as Rooster soup. But this is more than just getting cuffed around on the Olympics or [...]
  • Headline of the Day!
    “CBS 2 Mike Flannery reports that the Chicago defeated leaves Obama politically wounded by taking on a fight that he really didn’t have to take.” - CBS2 Chicago’s story on Chicago’s elimination in the FIRST round of IOC voting. If there are similar results from Obama’s efforts with Afgha ...
  • Unemployment Report: October 2, 2009
    The widely anticipated October Unemployment Report covering the month of September was just released. Let’s dive right in and take a look at the numbers . . . I. UNEMPLOYMENT RATE July: 9.5% August: 9.4% September: 9.7% - October Consensus Expectation: 9.8% - October Actual: 9.8% >> LD’s com ...
  • “Thank You, Madam President”
    So said Ban Ki-Moon Now America’s chief diplomat, Clinton was presiding over the Security Council because the U.S. holds its rotating presidency this month. First, she called for a vote on a resolution demanding an immediate end to sexual violence by combatants in armed conflicts and announced t ...

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  • Yr humble correspondent reports back on G20 with A ...
    Alright so I've been out in Pittsburgh helping cover the G20 conference -- things got pretty hairy out here. We've hunkered down at the Pittsburgh Indymedia Center ( http://indypgh.org ) and the crew has turned out a ton of videos of police brutality that have gone viral over Internets! I just did a ...
  • Supercoca Boliviana Negra cocaine win: Glyphosate/ ...
    Boliviana negra - Wikipedia, Also known as supercoca or la millionaria , Boliviana Negra is a relatively new form of coca that is resistant to herbicide Roundup , or the isopropylamine salt of glyphosate . The coca plant is the precursor to the addictive stimulant cocaine , one of the most widely c ...
  • Believe it or not, the flu will always be with us
    I am sort of amazed by the establishment view that's crystallized around this. Everyone is supposed to cut corners to whip out various runs of vaccines. It's amazing how quickly people forget that influenza has always been with us - a more holistic view is that it basically co-evolves with humans i ...
  • Video with Peter Schiff: A black hole called Feder ...
    I got a kick out of this video and the funny animations. It's all about the mysterious black hole called the Federal Reserve System. Gotta love it! Just posted yesterday: Additionally, the landscape of ruined houses in the first couple shots caught my notice. I'll explain why later...  read more »
  • Carbon Market+Sun=FAIL? Sunspot Maunder Minimum vs ...
    Another Little Ice Age? Solar activity and climate change - Ars Technica : Some scientists are suggesting that the slow return to a more active phase of the solar cycle may portend a general decline in solar activity. If sunspots shut down, does that mean that we could stop worrying about climate ...

Daily Censored

  • Another Fox News Witch Hunt: “Safe Schools Czar, ...
    Read the full story at News Hounds Channeling Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity has been on his own McCarthy-like witch hunts against the Obama administration. Hannity’s special target du jour last night (and not for the first time) was “safe schools czar,” Kevin Jennings. Hannity is not the only Fox N ...
  • Fox&Friends Carry The Cross In Yet Another Partisa ...
    Read the full story at News Hounds If there’s one symbol that Christian right wingers revere more than Mom, Apple Pie, the Playboy Bunny, and the American Flag, it’s the Christian cross. I suspect that if they could get away with it, Christian conservatives would love to somehow get a cross work ...
  • EGYPT: Virtually, Some Real Freedom
    Read the full story at IPS Inter Press Service – Media, Technology & Communications CAIRO, Oct 2 (IPS) – Egyptians critical of their government are using new media and the Internet to expose its improprieties and press for social change….
  • Why the Banks are Winning: Nomi Prins, Dean Baker ...
    Read the full story at Byline Portal by Laura Flanders, GRITtv, USA-Earlier this month and one year after the financial collapse Barack Obama told a group of Wall Street executives that he would not allow them to return to an age of excessive risk and disregard for the consequences of financial spec ...
  • Assessing China at 60
    Read the full story at Byline Portal by Melissa Chan, Al Jazeera English, Qatar-Sixty years after Mao Zedong’s communists took power in Bejing, there are many reasons for China to celebrate. China has become the third-largest economy in the world. …

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  • ANALYSIS-Obama's Olympian gamble collapses
    * Obama was flying home to Washington when he got the news
  • Rio wins 2016 Games as IOC rebuffs Obama
    COPENHAGEN/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro won a resounding vote on Friday to stage the first Olympics in South America in 2016, rebuffing U.S. President Barack Obama, who had personally lobbied for his adopted hometown Chicago.
  • President and First Lady back Chicago 2016 bid
    COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Chicago played its two trump cards on Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle both making impassioned speeches as they urged the IOC to choose the Windy City as host of the 2016 Olympics.
  • Olympics-Rio makes impassioned pitch for first S.A ...
    COPENHAGEN, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made an impassioned plea to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday, urging them to award an overdue first Games to both Brazil and South America in 2016.
  • Q+A: What's behind Geneva agreement on Iran's enri ...
    GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran has agreed 'in principle' to a deal that would move most of its enriched uranium out of the country. Western officials say this would ease tensions in the Middle East caused by fears Tehran wants a nuclear weapon.

Pine River World News

  • Hitler Died Peacefully in His Bed in Argentina?
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Pravda. Hitler Died Peacefully in His Bed in Argentina? ©   Pravda By Ksenia Obraztsova October 2, 2009 The death of Adolf Hitler still remains one of the biggest mysteries in history. There are numerous theories that mostly come down to spec ...
  • BURMA: Junta and Wa: Do they have their numbers ri ...
    IntelTrends - The following report is reprinted with permission from Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.), Thailand. Junta and Wa:  Do they have their numbers right? ©   S.H.A.N. October 1, 2009   11:52 Since the year 2000 the Burmese military has been conducting a series of war games codename ...
  • Ramzy Baroud: Iran's Nuclear Theatre
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Iran's Nuclear Theatre ©  Ramzy Baroud September 29, 2009 World events have taken an interesting turn recently, with the Goldstone report, which wreaked havoc in the beginning of the week being nearly completely overshadowed by I ...
  • Paul Craig Roberts: Another War in the Works / Ame ...
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. Another War in the Works / America Is Led And Informed By Liars ©  Paul Craig Roberts September 29, 2009 Does anyone remember all the lies that they were told by President Bush and the "mainstream media" about the grave thr ...
  • Eva Golinger: Urgent! Massive Repression In Hondur ...
    [The following article is reprinted with permission from Eva Golinger. She is the author of "The Chávez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela" (2006 Olive Branch Press) and "Bush vs. Chávez: Washington's War on Venezuela" (2007, Monthly Review Press).] Urgent! Massive Repression In Honduras ...

    Res'Eau-WaterNet

  • Knowledge Transfer Workshop: Preliminary program p ...
    Join us for our inaugural two-day network event as we gather Canadian experts to discuss the scientific and technological challenges of delivering safe drinking water in small, rural and First Nations communities.
  • Too Many Canadians Without Safe Water: $5.2M to He ...
    For six million Canadians, quenching their thirst isn’t a matter of simply turning on the kitchen faucet.
  • Dr. David Wilkinson appointed Director of the Clea ...
    RES'EAU-WaterNET researcher Dr. David Wilkinson was recently appointed Director of the Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC), beginning July 1, 2009.
  • Walkerton Clean Water Centre Receives Ontario Mini ...
    The Walkerton Clean Water Centre (WCWC) – a RES’EAU-WaterNET partner – received the 2008 Emerald Award for innovation from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment at an awards ceremony held on March 3, 2009.
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  • Video: Greg Palast at Fighting Bob Fest–Arm ...
    Palast was the last speaker of the day at FBF 2009. Everyone stayed to hear Greg’s report on HealthCare, Afghanistan and a host of other issues crippling our nation. Here he is….
  • Congressman Grayson Has Just Begun to Fight
    Cross-posted from the Nation | by John Nichols on 10/01/2009 @ 08:15am Washington Republicans are horrified, horrified, horrified by the bluntness of Florida Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson. The tough kid from the Bronx (and Harvard Law School) ...
  • Progressive view on health care: what does the fut ...
    By Byron DeLear | Progressive Examiner Progressivism concerns itself with “what’s next”. Because if you get it right, you’ll have prepared more thoroughly for what’s going to happen. What does the future hold? Progressives also deal in ...
  • Good Government: Of, By and For the People
    Frederick Lancaster | Calistoga, CA As I write this, the Senate Finance Committee has just rejected the “public option” amendments by Senators Rockefeller and Schumer. Democrats Baucus, Conrad and Lincoln voted against each measure. Progressives favoring ...
  • Bob Schieffer interviews Donna Smith
    Watch CBS News Videos Online Bob Schieffer interviews Donna Smith from the Nurses Association and Robert Zerkilbach of IHIP on a new report on insurance claims

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AutoblogGreen

  • Toyota Sai to be brand's second dedicated hybrid, ...
    2009 Lexus HS 250h - Click above for high-res image gallery Even though there have been plenty of reports that Toyota would apply the Prius name to other hybrids in its lineup, thereby creating a Prius sub-brand , the upcoming second dedicated hybrid from the Japanese automaker bearing the Toyota ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.02.09
    Greenlings: Will we ever replace the standard rear- and side-view mirror? You've got questions, we've got answers. Google algorithms tweaking electric car-smart grid communication Let's hope ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.01.09
    Attention 2004-2009 Prius owners: Remove your floor mats Make sure to find out if you're affected by the recall. Tokyo Preview: Near-production Honda CR-Z "Concept" unveiled An updated CRX wi ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.30.09
    Tesla Model S to spawn other derivatives including van, CUV, minivan It'll take a while to get used to the idea of a Tesla minivan, but we're guessing it'll look stunning. Electric car "purch ...
  • Toyota Prius gets visual makeover from Tommi Kaira
    Filed under: Hybrid , Japan , Toyota Tommi Kaira Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery Without actually, you know, tuning anything on the powertrain of the 2010 Toyota Prius, Japanese tuning company Tommi Kaira has unveiled its tarted-up version of the third-generation iconic hybr ...

Rafe's Radar

  • RR04: How to launch a product
    Should you launch your product at a trade show like Demo or CES, or should you try to drum up interest on your own? This week on the Roundtable, Revision 3 CEO Jim Louderback and Stage Two Consulting's Jeremy Toeman discuss successful and doomed strategies for introducing new products to the mark ...
  • Six Apart resurrects Pownce in new microblogging p ...
    At the Future of Web Apps conference in London this week, blog platform company Six Apart is announcing a new open-source platform called Motion , to be available for download, that enables any Web host or developer to host their own Twitter-like microblog service. The technology is derived from ...
  • Google Wave meets conference calls, with Ribbit
    Ribbit puts a conference bridge inside a Wave message. (Credit: Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET) It's becoming clear that Google Wave , which is slowly emerging from closed beta , has potential to be much more than a text-messaging platform. As the telecommunications platform company Ribbit shows ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable #3: Mint CEO Aaron Patzer
    This week, I'm joined by CNET security expert Elinor Mills in a discussion with Mint CEO Aaron Patzer, whose personal finance site is being acquired by Inuit. We grill Patzer on why he sold the company, the future of Quicken, and the security of online financial data. Listen now: Download ...
  • The most promising launches at DemoFall 2009
    Before the DemoFall start-up conference kicked off, I wrote a " What to watch " story covering what I thought would be the hot products at the show. As usual, I identified a few of the interesting companies, missed some others, and misidentified some that I thought would be hot but weren'...

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!

  • New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks
    On Sept. 1, the European Union stopped manufacturing and importing incandescent light bulbs. Europeans will now turn to the much more efficient compact fluorescent, halogen and LED (light-emitting diode) bulbs. Incandescents, critics argue, waste up to 95 percent of energy as heat, using only 5 per ...
  • Part II: Tim Robbins on Activism in Hollywood from ...
    Tim Robbins is the artistic director of the Actor’s Gang and an Academy-award winning actor, director, producer, and writer. He won an Oscar for his role in “Mystic River” and is well-known for his roles in numerous films over the past two decades including “The Shawshank Redemption”, †...
  • Who is Obama Playing Ball With?
    It looked like it was business as usual for President Barack Obama on the first day of his Martha’s Vineyard vacation, as he spent five hours golfing with Robert Wolf, president of UBS Investment Bank and chairman and CEO of UBS Group Americas. Wolf, an early financial backer of Obama’s preside ...
  • Youssef Megahed Released as Government Loses Depor ...
    A Florida immigration judge has dismissed the deportation case against Youssef Megahed. The The 23 year old Florida Student was arrested by federal immigration agents in April just three days after a jury acquitted him on federal explosives charges. After hearing a week of evidence put forward by ...
  • Obama Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom
    President Obama presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to 16 people in a ceremony today at the White House. Check out Democracy Now!’s past interviews with some of those who received the award: * Rev. Joseph Lowery * Mary Robinson * Archbishop ...

Farming Pathogens

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

Digg Green

  • Shell Executives Accuse Oil-Covered Otter Of Playi ...
    He's fine, said Shell president Marvin Odum. Trust me, before all of the cameras and reporters showed up, our little buddy here was having no problem at all cleaning himself off. Now, all of a sudden, it's severe spastic convulsions this and complete kidney failure that.
  • Rainbows Vs Storms [PICS]
    Rainbows and powerful storms are the Yin and Yang of meteorological phenomena...Put them together and you get a battle of diametrically opposed forces - both in their own ways utterly spectacular.
  • Nitrogen Cycle Overturned By 'Tiny Ammonia Eater O ...
    Tiny organisms known as archaea play a central role in the planet's nitrogen cycle, according to new research. Experiments show that archaea appear play a key ecological role in both upper and deep ocean ecosystems. This could affect calculations made by global climate models.
  • How the tsunami alarm system works
    A beefed-up monitoring system worked quickly to sound the alarm about this week's undersea shocks in the Pacific, seismologists say.
  • Obama's Western Solar Plan Ignites Environmental C ...
    The plan to build huge new solar energy plants in the Southwest is causing heartburn in the environmental community, as it would allow construction of 24 industrial solar energy facilities requiring vast amounts of land & water. "It doesn't make any sense to slap up big industrial projects hundreds ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Glenn Greenwald, Arianna Huffington discuss Iran
    The heroic Glenn Greenwald smashes warmongers Arianna Huffington and Jonathan Capehart, and speaks a profound truth virtually never heard in the American media, that the US and Israel are threats to Iran, and not vice versa. (And good for host Dylan Ratigan for inviting Glenn.) Oh, and don’t miss ...
  • Video – The Swine Flu Conspiracy

  • Study prompts provinces to rethink flu plan
    By Patrick White A “perplexing” Canadian study linking H1N1 to seasonal flu shots is throwing national influenza plans into disarray and testing public faith in the government agencies responsible for protecting the nation’s health. Distributed for peer review last week, the study confou ...
  • World Health Organisation Admits No Deadly Mutatio ...
    By: F William Engdahl – BLN Contributing Writer The World Health Organization, the UN agency (ir-) responsible for declaring a Phase 6 “PANDEMIC” global alert over what it calls H1N1 Influenza A or Swine Flu, whose chief Dr Margaret Chan has repeatedly warned that while Swine Flu to date ...
  • Swine Flu: The Ultimate Revolution in the Making
    Zahir Ebrahim, Project Humanbeingsfirst.org October 1, 2009 The article headlined “Boston launches flu shot tracking – City to pinpoint areas of low rates of vaccination” back in November 21, 2008, today one year later, appears to have been a bellwether of the incredible prescience of politica ...

    Care2 Picks

  • YouTube - HOME (English with subtitles)
    The most visually poignant documentary on climate change and pollution I have ever seen... Submitted by Litha Moon to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • EPA to end 26 year delay on regulating coal power ...
    This week, the EPA announced "plans to revise the existing standards for water discharges from coal-fired power plants to reduce pollution and better protect America’s water". The move comes in the wake of a lawsuit brought forward by the Defenders of... Submitted by Joe H. to Environment  |   No ...
  • NASA Testing Breakthrough In Water Safety
    NASA and University of Utah chemists are developing advanced tech for testing the drinkability of water.The process just began a six month run aboard the International Space Station. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Melting Ice Forces Walruses to Alaska Shore
    Thousands of walruses are congregating on Alaska's northwest coast, a sign that their Arctic sea ice environment has been altered by climate change. Chad Jay, a U.S. Geological Survey walrus researcher, said that about 3,500 walruses were near Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |    ...
  • Oil threat to Australia wildlife
    Up to 400 barrels of oil per day have been pouring into the Timor Sea to Australia's north. Submitted by Ian S. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • AP Top News at 5:51 pm EDT - The Plain Dealer - cl ...
    AP Top News at 5:51 pm EDT The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com ... opinions on whether the US should send thousands more troops to tamp down the Taliban , or shift to a narrower focus on al-Qaida in neighboring Pakistan . ...
  • America's real intents? - Pakistan Observer
    America's real intents? Pakistan Observer It added that suspicions remain among US officials that parts of Pakistan's military intelligence agency, the ISI, are supporting the Taliban and protecting ... and more »
  • A thorny bunch of flowers - Pakistan Observer
    A thorny bunch of flowers Pakistan Observer Unfortunately, for the last many years Pakistan has been the worst target of these modern war-tools. Everyday, every moment there is something startling and ... and more »
  • Al-Qaeda chief 'dies in US missile strike' - Scots ...
    Al-Qaeda chief 'dies in US missile strike' Scotsman INTELLIGENCE officials say the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan – which is linked to al-Qaeda – is believed to have been killed by a US missile ... and more »
  • Zardari makes gains in opinion poll at Sharif's ex ...
    Zardari makes gains in opinion poll at Sharif's expense Peninsula On-line ... for a strong relationship with Pakistan and focused on describing the common enemy as Al Qaeda and the Taliban was about to begin, the official said. ... and more »

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Eminent Lucasian Professors
    This week, Stephen Hawking relinquished his post as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.  He had held the post for 30 years. As well as Professor Hawking, the post has been held by various luminaries in the fields of science, mathematics and engineering.  Here, we look at a few ...
  • World Farm Animals Day
    In homage to  World Farm Animals Day  we've taken a sideways look at our favourite farm animals , preparing a gallery of some weird and wonderful breeds. We also ask what they can do for us, and what we can do for them.
  • Stephen Fry seeks out endangered animals
    Stephen Fry, well known for his intellectual musings on programmes such as QI, has embarked on an exploratory journey of the natural world for his latest show Last Chance to See .
  • Ardi sheds new light on evolution
    Scientists have revealed for the first time details of a discovery which has helped to piece together the beginning of the human species .
  • Winner of the week: Umberto Eco
    The Louvre has invited prominent Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco to curate their latest guest series. Eco, whose most famous works include medieval detective blockbuster The Name of the Rose , has been given a free hand to put together a series of concerts, exhibitions, lectures, readin ...

Fabius Maximus

  • More about Iran, things you know that might not be ...
    Some things you might find of interest about Iran, as drift towards war. Contents I have here a statement by an obvious ally of Iran working at the highest level of the US government! Quote of the Day from Jack A Smith, “A Manufactured Crisis“, Asia Times, 30 September 2009 “Top Things you Th ...
  • American fiddles in Asia while Mexico burns on our ...
    While we squander our resources on the other side of the world, our neighbor to the South deteriorates — desperately needing aid.  In Mexico we see the decline of the State accellerating into what might soon become an advanced state of decay.  As Martin van Creveld said over a decade ago, Me ...
  • Update on our government’s deteriorating sol ...
    Summary:  Ugly August numbers from the Chief Actuary of the social security system.  This is a follow-up to Beginning of the end of the Republic’s solvency. Soon come the first steps to a reformed regime – or a new regime. (14 August 2009). Contents Monthly cash flow of the US Social Securi ...
  • Jeremy Hammond explains why “Iran’s New Nu ...
    Here we have a masterfull analysis of the mainstream media’s stream of nonsense about Iran’s atomic program.  This is an excerpt, but it deserves to be read in full. Excerpt from “Iran’s New Nuclear Site: Much Ado About Nothing“, Jeremy R. Hammond, Foreign Policy Journal, 27 Septembe ...
  • Tom explains what it costs to run for public offic ...
    Today’s reading recommendatio:  “Is Democracy Melting“, Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, 27 September 2009: So you, as a citizen, want to run for a seat in the House of Representatives? Well, you may be too late. Back in 1990, according to OpenSecrets.org, a website of the Center for Responsive ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Supermassive Black Holes Bringing Universe Closer ...
    For all its tumult — erupting stars, colliding galaxies, collapsing black holes — the cosmos is a surprisingly orderly place. Theoretical calculations have long shown that the entropy of the universe — a measure of its disorder — is but a tiny fraction of the maximum allowable amount. A ne ...
  • Teen’s DIY Energy Hacking Gives African Village ...
    Some people see lemons and make lemonade. William Kamkwamba saw wind and made a windmill. This might not seem like a mighty feat. But Kamkwamba, who grew up in Masitala, a tiny rural farming village off the grid in Malawi, was 14 years old in 2001 when he spotted a photo of a windmill in a [...]
  • Religious Experience Linked to Brain’s Social Re ...
    Brain scans of people who believe in God have found further evidence that religion involves neurological regions vital for social intelligence. In other words, whether or not God or Gods exist, religious belief may have been quite useful in shaping the human mind’s evolution. “The main point is ...
  • Reader Photo Gallery: More Stunning DIY Astrophoto ...
    This gorgeous image of the Jellyfish Nebula leads off our second installment of reader-contributed astrophotography. Also known as IC443, the Jellyfish in the upper right of the image is about 5,000 light years away in the constellation Gemini. It is the remnant of a supernova that exploded around ...
  • How Earth’s Hum Could Help Us Map Mars
    The once-mysterious planetary hum of the Earth is getting put to use by scientists mapping the planet’s interior. Ocean wave interactions, primarily along the Pacific coast of North America, generate a vibration with a frequency of about 10 millihertz, the background buzz of the globe. As the hum ...

The Progressive Realist

  • ‘Potentially Quite Significant’ Progress On Ir ...
    In his remarks yesterday morning at an Iran panel on Capitol Hill, Sen. Joe Lieberman — who claims to support the Obama administration’s Iran engagement policy, having derided it as “naive” while stumping for McCain during the 2008 campaign — set an unrealistically high bar for success in ...
  • Brazil to Host 2016 Olympics
    Rio de Janeiro! The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded Brazil the honor (and burden) of hosting the 2016 Olympics. Despite strong pitches from three heavyweight cities, Madrid, Chicago, and Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro won the bid. The Olympic Games will be held in South America for the first t ...
  • So, Did Netanyahu Really 'Win' Against Obama?
    After his triumphant United Nations visit and trilateral New York summit, the verdict apparently is in: Benjamin Netanyahu is the heavyweight diplomatic champion of the world, defeating Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas by a knockout and U.S. President Barack Obama on points. How do we know? Well, ...
  • Win-Win on Iran Talks
    I admit to being pleasantly surprised when I saw the initial reports on the outcome of yesterday's talks on the Iran nuclear program. To be sure, this is not a sufficient step to any stable resolution of the conflict. But it was a necessary one, in that any further progress would have been impossibl ...
  • President Obama's Body Language on Iran is Just Ri ...
    Given the tumultuousness in many parts of America's foreign policy portfolio, it's easy to nitpick and criticize (which I do frequently), but I have to tip my hat to President Obama's measured and positive comments today following the conclusion of what are officially called the P5+1 Negotiations wi ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Pushing the Self-Destruct Button.
    Health-care reform roundup: The Senate Finance Committee moves closer to adopting state-based public plans; it truly is a mystery why non-white voters mistrust the GOP; and is the groundwork being laid for a single-payer system? Eric Kleefeld picks up on the pattern of congressional Republicans eng ...
  • The Truth About Jobs That No One Wants To Tell You ...
    Unemployment will almost certainly be in double-digits next year -- and may remain there for some time. And for every person who shows up as unemployed in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' household survey, you can bet there's another either too discouraged to look for work or working part time who'd ...
  • Ask a Feminist: Compulsory Military Service Editio ...
    It's back ... In the latest installment of "Ask a Feminist," Dana and Ann discuss Israel's military service requirement: Please email questions for future episodes to isitsexist at gmail.com -- or leave them in comments! Previous editions of Ask a Feminist: Is the traditional wedding proposal ...
  • The Religious Right's Jennings End-Game.
    Make no mistake: the religious right's smear campaign against Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools director Kevin Jennings is not about Jennings' alleged past actions, or even about the fact that Jennings is gay. It's about a much larger, concerted campaign by the religious right to dismantle the se ...
  • Cronyism: That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What ...
    Michelle Malkin is perhaps the world's greatest practitioner of "I know you are, but what am I" conservatism . The Bush administration faced a great deal of corruption allegations --  from Jack Abramoff to the U.S. attorney scandal to Halliburton. So, Malkin writes a book titled Culture of Corruptio ...

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