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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, October 26, 2009

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • TRADE-SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Rice Tariffs Snarl ASEAN S ...
    CHA-AM, Thailand, Oct 26 (IPS) - Rice, the staple dish across South-east Asia, has emerged as an apt symbol of the region’s commitment – or lack of it – to unveiling a free trade area for its 10 members when the New Year dawns.

  • CHINA: Cultural Counteroffensive at Int’l ...
    BEIJING, Oct 26 (IPS) - This year’s Frankfurt Book Fair may have been more of an embarrassment than prestige for its guest of honour – China – but the country’s cultural mandarins still believe that the future of cultural ideas belongs to the Middle Kingdom and that the global financi ...

  • AFGHANISTAN: NATO Members in Waiting Mode
    BRATISLAVA, Oct 25 (IPS) - Corruption, doubts over Afghan leadership, and faltering public support have emerged as the main stumbling blocks to a demand for more NATO troops in Afghanistan.

  • ENERGY: World Bank Looks for the Cleaner Way
    STOCKHOLM, Oct 25 (IPS) - With new energy and environment strategies in the pipeline, the World Bank and its critics are going head to head on issues of fossil fuel funding and clean energy. The Bank will now call in outside experts to ensure that its coal power financing is justifiable, but ...

  • RIGHTS: 'Too Innocent to Try, too Guilty to Fly'
    BRUSSELS, Oct 25 (IPS) - Getting blacklisted as belonging to a terrorist organisation is a punitive sanction, even though governments may say it is only an administrative measure, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Right ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Navigating Twitter for the green shoots
    Some interesting , non banal things on Twitter .Who'd a thunk ?  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

  • The Rising Tide of Climate Refugees
    One of the big issues of our time -climate refugees . Horror stories of desperation as waves of people attempt to escape desertification and failed states and poverty  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

    • Implications of US debt default for Australasia
      THE Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce is openly canvassing an economic upheaval that would dwarf the current global financial crisis, triggered by the US defaulting on its sovereign debt within the next few years.In unusually pessimistic comments for a senior political figure, Senator Joyce said ...

    • Top-Tier US Commercial RE Lender Seeks Bankruptcy
      Capmark Financial Group Inc., one of the nation's largest commercial-real-estate lenders, plans to file for bankruptcy as soon as this weekend, a person familiar with the situation said.The much-expected move underscores the deep problems in the business-property market. After suffering from the col ...

    • Will Obama's Top Aghan General Quit ?
      Yesterday morning, at a meeting of the neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative, a former top US military officer suggested that General Stanley McChrystal might resign from his post if President Obama doesn't go along with his pending request for more troops for Afghanistan.Brig. Gen. Mark T. Kimm ...

    Independent ( London )


  • Guy Adams: Oscar winning director angrily quits th ...
    Whichever way you look at it, the past few weeks have been tricky for the Church of Scientology’s normally-smooth PR machine.

  • Disgraced cloning expert convicted in S. Korea
    A disgraced cloning expert who falsely claimed major breakthroughs in stem cell research was convicted today for embezzlement and other charges connected to the scandal, but he will not serve time in prison.

  • 14 US deaths in two Afghan 'copter crashes
    A series of helicopter crashes killed 14 Americans in insurgent-wracked Afghanistan today, the US military said. It was one of the deadliest days of the war for US troops.

  • Karadzic boycotts opening of war crimes trial
    UN judges have abruptly adjourned Radovan Karadzic's war crimes trial today after the former Bosnian Serb leader boycotted the opening day to protest at what he said was a lack of time to prepare his defence.

  • Madoff fraud associate is found dead
    A philanthropist accused of pocketing $7bn (£4.3bn) from the investment scams of his friend Bernard Madoff was found dead yesterday.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Turkish PM exposes nuclear rift in Nato
    Summary: Erdogan The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has exposed divisions in Nato by accusing the west of treating Iran unfairly over its nuclear programme and describing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, its vehemently anti-western president, as a friend. source: The Guardian read more

  • 'Iran is our friend,' says Turkish PM Recep Tayyip ...
    Summary: With its stunning vistas and former Ottoman palaces, the banks of the Bosphorus – the strategic waterway that cuts Istanbul in half and divides Europe from Asia – may be the perfect place to distinguish friend from foe and establish where your country's interests lie. source: The ...

  • IAEA Inspectors Tour Iran’s Qom Facility: Weste ...
    Summary: Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) toured Iran’s still under construction uranium enrichment facility in Qom today, just over a month after Iran revealed the site’s existance to the international community. source: Anti-War.com read more

  • Soltaniyeh: Iran can enrich uranium up to 20 perce ...
    Summary: Soltanieh Iran says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had set no deadline for responding to the draft of the nuclear fuel agreement discussed in Vienna. source: Press TV read more

  • Real Breakthrough at Iran Peace Talks? Maybe, but ...
    Summary: Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the counterproductive coercive diplomacy in U.S./Iran talks, political pressure brought to bear by U.S. allies on the 2007 Iran NIE, new evidence of manufactured controversy about the Qom facility and ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Obama's H1N1 national emergency declaration could ...
    (NaturalNews) President Obama's declaration of a national pandemic emergency is "no cause for alarm," reported the mainstream media throughout the weekend. The declaration is nothing more than a "precaution," they say. "It's really more a continuation of our preparedness steps," said Anne Schuchat, ...

  • Herbicides and cholesterol drugs interfere with ta ...
    (NaturalNews) It's not unusual to hear about herbicides having suspected toxic effects or prescription drugs producing side effects. But a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded study just published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry has found another negative and surprising way common he ...

  • Kava Kava has Many Health Benefits and Uses
    (NaturalNews) Kava is a well-known herb that originated in the Pacific. Also scientifically known as Piper Methysticum, the roots and stem hold the key ingredient that has been used for medicinal purposes both in traditional and modern times. Traditionally chewed or crushed to form a liquid, Kava ca ...

  • President Obama declares national emergency over s ...
    (NaturalNews) According to the CDC, swine flu infections have already peaked, and the pandemic is on its way out. Peak infection time was the middle of October, where one in five U.S. children experienced the flu, says the CDC. Out of nearly 14,000 suspected flu cases tested during the week ending o ...

  • Beware of swine flu internet scams, counterfeit me ...
    (NaturalNews) With the swine flu pandemic upon us, the FDA is warning people to beware of swine flu scams on the internet. NaturalNews is joining in the warnings today, urging people to beware of scams that cost big money but simply don't work to prevent H1N1 swine flu. For example, both the FDA and ...

    TheGallopingBeaver


  • East German Jokes
    DER SPIEGEL   has an article by Hans-Ulrich Stoldt and Klaus Wiegrefe, about " East German Jokes Collected by West German Spies". Fun. "What would happen if the desert became communist? Nothing for a while, and then there would be a sand shortage."

  • repuglican "Must Have" Aps . . . .
  • "Hope and Change." Right . . . .
    Stuff like this is really pissing me off. From The Huffington Post yesterday: Leaderless: Senate Pushes For Public Option Without Obama's Support HuffPost | 10-24-09 President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a stat ...

  • Cyborg beetles
    PHYSORG.COM has a report that a team of scientists funded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have implanted miniature neural and muscle stimulation systems into beetles to enable their flight to be remotely controlled . Three types of large beetles from Cameroon were used ...

  • Birthdays
    ASTERIX TURNS 50! SINCE IT BEGAN ON OCTOBER  29, 1959, IMHO, Asterix is one of the most delightful comic strips ever created: the artwork is excellent, and has delighted people world-round. But according to a report by Hugh Schofield for the BBC , there are those who believe that the strip just is ...

Media Matters for America

  • Right-wing media claim Obama is criticizing Fox ...
    Several right-wing media figures have claimed that the Obama administration is criticizing Fox News because the network asks "tough questions" and is "reporting the truth." This assertion is undermined by Fox News' extensive history of advancing falsehoods, repeatedly passing off GOP materials ...

  • In latest bigoted smear, Fox leads right-wing m ...
    Advancing the newest ludicrous and bigoted attack in a long series of failed efforts by conservatives to smear Education Department official Kevin Jennings and force his firing, Fox News' Sean Hannity and the Washington Times editorial board have insisted that Jennings' past involvement with t ...

  • Right-wing smear machine falls for fake Obama quo ...
    Right-wing media figures trumpeted a blogger's fake report that in a college thesis -- which the post's author claimed was obtained by Time 's Joe Klein -- President Obama attacked the Founders and the Constitution. Lou Dobbs ran with the claim even after Klein denied the story, Michael L ...

  • Conservative media misrepresent 30K stimulus job ...
    Following the release of preliminary data from Recovery.gov indicating that around 30,000 jobs have been created or saved through federal stimulus contracts thus far, numerous conservative media figures have distorted the report to claim or suggest that the 30,000 figure represents the sum tota ...

  • Perino says it "feels un-American" for White Hous ...
    Former White House press secretary and current Fox News contributor Dana Perino has recently contrasted the Obama administration's criticism of Fox News with the Bush administration's treatment of MSNBC, saying, "I could have taken that tack, but I thought it was not the right thing to do and I ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Support for the Public Option Keeps Getting Strong ...
    Support for the Public Option Keeps Getting Stronger.    "New Life for the Public Option" is the headline of Dan Balz's excellent article in Sunday's Washington Post.  It's not an accident that this powerful idea has made yet another comeback. ... Sponsored Topics: United States - Health Care - ...

  • Whose Israel is It?
    I have spent the day in Washington, first at the Americans for Peace Now board meeting, where I am an officer, and later at the J Street conference, where I am a participant. I go to sleep tonight with this... Sponsored Topics: Israel - J Street - United States - Middle East - Americans for Peac ...

  • Too Big to Fail: Why The Big Banks Should Be Broke ...
    And now there are five -- five Wall Street behemoths, bigger than they were before the Great Meltdown, paying fatter salaries and bonuses to retain their so-called"talent," and raking in huge profits. The biggest difference between now and last October... Sponsored Topics: Wall Street - Too Big ...

  • J Streets Wins 29-29 (++MJR In Today's Po ...
    There was a famous Harvard-Yale football game back in 1968. And it's results produced an even more famous headline on page one of the Harvard Crimson. "Harvard Beats Yale: 29-29." The reason for the headline: Yale had a perfect season... Sponsored Topics: Middle East - United States - Peace - Wa ...

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TruthOut

  • Why Wall Street Reform Is Stuck in Reverse
         At a conference in London, a Goldman Sachs international adviser, Brian Griffiths, praised inequality. As his company was putting aside $16.7 billion for compensation and benefits in the first nine months of 2009, up 46 percent from a year earlier, Griffiths told us not to worry. read ...

  • A Simpleton Tries to Understand the Health Care D ...
            Now, the first thing I want you to know is that I'm no health care policy expert. Far from it.     But, like the rest of us, I have a body and a mind that can get sick. read more

  • Iran Nuclear Deal: How Serious Is Tehran's Balk?
        Tehran says it needs more time to decide. read more

  • Pelosi Disputes Reports She’ll Drop Public O ...
        The debate to fix the health care ills of the nation took a subtle turn Friday, with Nancy Pelosi disputing reports that she will drop the strongest public option in favor of a weaker one she hopes will garner more support when the Senate votes on the health care bill later this year.  Â ...

  • Latinos to CNN: Are You With Us or Against Us?
        New York - Dozens of angry demonstrators gathered in Manhattan on Wednesday to demand that the cable news network CNN fire its prime-time anchor Lou Dobbs for his denigration of Hispanic immigrants.     Similar protests took place in 18 other cities across the country Wednesday afternoon, sh ...

Planetsave

  • An Ocean of Effort
    Ocean trash is one of the problems photographed by Christopher Swain on his 1,000-mile ocean advocacy and education journey. As the Obama Administration’s Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force moves into its sixth public meeting on an interim report in Cleveland this week, one determined ocean adv ...

  • Neighborly Solar From 1Bog Could Raise Phoenix Pro ...
    This week The Bogman heads to Phoenix to offer 1 Block off the Grid solar discounts for neighbors who go solar together. And what better city to go to! Phoenix was super hard-hit by the housing crisis. It has had 54% drops in property values , some of the worst in the nation. So this may not seem ...

  • Google to Fight Deforestation from Space
    Google Inc. is joining forces with space agencies around the world and the conservation organization Group on Earth Observations (GEO) to monitor deforestation rates using satellite imagery. Among the space agencies working on the program are NASA, the ESA, and the national space agencies of Japan ...

  • Global Warming: Last Month was the Second Hottest ...
    This week The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) revealed that last month was the second hottest land and ocean temperature on record for the month of September. NOAA’s records date back to 1880. In the 100 plus year history, only Septembe ...

  • Union of Concerned Scientists and the Scientific I ...
    Have you seen the comic art for the 2010 Union of Concerned Scientists Scientific Integrity Cartoons? Shown above is a cartoon about science and the Endangered Species Act. The entire calendar shows how “ the absurdity of political interference in science is ripe for lampooning-and serves as a co ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Austin City Council Coal Action Success
    Many thanks to everyone that made it to the Austin City Council meeting yesterday for an anti-coal demonstration! Twenty five to thirty concerned citizens stood up in City Council chambers, dressed in black to represent the yearly moralities from our Fayette Coal Plant, as Ryan Rittenhouse addresse ...

  • Come out tomorrow (Oct 24th) for the International ...
    Tomorrow – October 24, 2009 – will be the largest day of climate action in the history of the world, and something you don’t want to miss. If you do not yet have anything planned for 350.org’s International Day of Climate Action, please join one of the 4641 events happening around the ...

  • King Williams Parade Pics 048 [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

  • King Williams Parade Pics 042 [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

  • Climate Change: Vets Are “On Board”
    You would think that the Veterans of the United States would be mostly outspoken about traditional war issues, such as pulling the troops out of Iraq or sending more of them to Afghanistan, but a few groups of veterans have decided to take a different route. Operation Free is the name of a veteransâ ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Cook County prosecutors get ham-handed with the Me ...
    Since the founding of the Medill Innocence Project at Northwestern University School of Journalism, eleven men have been freed from prison, five of them from death row. The work of Professor David Protess and his students cast so much doubt on the reliability of the justice system in Illinois that w ...

  • Help Small Business With a Strong Public Option
    Yes, Mr. President, small businesses do desperately need health care reform, but the last thing they need is the DEform that saboteur Olympia Snow demands. Stop kow-towing to the repugs and Blue Dogs, Mr. President - demand Congress pass a strong public option.  No trigger, no opt-out, no booby trap ...

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    That's putting it mildly. "US President Barack Obama has led international condemnation of Sunday's double suicide bomb attack in Baghdad that killed at least 132 people. Mr Obama branded the attacks - the worst in more than two years in Iraq - "hateful and destructive". UK Foreign Secretary David M ...

  • SONOFABITCH!!!
    Sebelius Prods Senate to Move on Surgeon General Nominee Gotta admit, I'd kinda dropped the ball on this one...  I actually thought it was a done deal weeks ago.  It is fricking unbelievable that they're still playing their stupid obstructionist games on this.  No... wait... it's not unbelievable at ...

  • I bet when Olympia Snowe was in high school she wa ...
    And nobody likes a tease. A coup took place in Washington and now one teeny-tiny itsy-bitsy little sliver of a woman is in charge. She has usurped both the Senate Majority Leader and the Presidency and made both of the men occupying those high perches her puppets. Funny - I don't recall seeing Olymp ...

Care 2

  • Arctic Sediments Show That 20th Century Warming Is ...
    The possibility that climate change might simply be a natural variation like others that have occurred throughout geologic time is dimming, according to evidence in a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper published October 19. Submitted by Katie Miller to World  |   Note-it!  |   Ad ...

  • 2010 Olympic Medals Made From E-Waste
    Not only are the medals for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games trippy, they are made from recycled circuit boards. Submitted by All Green Recycling to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  • Heather Mills Named VegNews “Person Of The Year”
    While VegNews gave us a small taste of some of the award winners late last week for the 2009 Veggie Awards, we still were left in the dark for their pick of “Person of the Year”. Now that we have our copy in hand, we’re not the bit Submitted by Animalib B. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |  ...

  • Trade roads change over time: silk turns into ener ...
    India and Uzbekistan relations Submitted by Maria Lewytzkyj to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  • National Level Conference “Meat & Poultry Process ...
    The International Organization for Animal Protection - OIPA in India and People for Animals (SPCA) Haryana comes forward to discuss animal rights and their welfare issues during this conference here in Delhi to promote vegetarianism / Say No to meat. Submitted by Kadyan Naresh to Animals  |   Note- ...

GreenBiz

  • Winners Named in California Competition of Cleante ...
    A firm that converts raw sewage into biodegradable plastic and another that turns recycled PET plastic into roof tiles are among the six early stage startups that have won the California competition of the Cleantech Open.

  • University of California Boosts Green Building and ...
    The University of California has stepped up its sustainability systemwide by setting higher green standards for food service operations and building throughout its 10 campuses, five medical centers and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

  • Chinese Anti-Pollution Laws Still Being Ignored, R ...
    A Greenpeace China investigation has found that 18 Chinese and multinational firms are failing to comply with new Chinese environmental laws.

  • Why a Coal Guy is Going Green
    Of all the companies in the world, Duke Energy is the 12th biggest emitter of CO2. Yet Jim Rogers, Duke’s longtime president, CEO and chairman, is pushing as hard as anyone in corporate America to get a climate change bill passed by Congress.

  • U.S. Stimulus Creates, Saves More Than 30,000 jobs ...
    At least 30,383 jobs have been created directly or saved by contractors receiving money from the U.S. government's stimulus program, according to new reports.

Reuters Global

  • Pakistan’s war within
    Pakistan is reeling from a spate of bomb and gun attacks on its cities. But its leaders have yet to forge a consensus that might point the way forward.

  • Vatican synod urges corrupt African leaders to qui ...
    Roman Catholic bishops have called on corrupt Catholic leaders in Africa to repent or resign for giving the continent and the Church a bad name.

  • Afghanistan, Pakistan and … all the other co ...
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has agreed to a second-round run-off in Afghanistan's elections. But how significant is this in the overall context of a region where instability seems to be growing by the day?

  • Pomegranates, dust, rose gardens and war
    Our new blog on Afghanistan launches with this post by visiting Reuters political editor Sean Maguire (pictured on Kabul's Swimming Pool hill). It's a taster of the blog's mix of insight, colour, analysis and personal observation from the many Reuters journalists working the Afghan story.

  • Attack in Iran: What are the links to Pakistan?
    One week after an assault on the Pakistan Army headquarters by suspected Sunni Islamist insurgents, a suicide bomber attacks Iran's most powerful military institution, the Revolutionary Guards. Are there links?

Ezra Klein

  • Tab dump
    1) " We often hear about people who are unlucky in love, but what of those who are unlucky in the business cycle? " 2) Jacob Hacker makes the case against the trigger. 3) American spends a staggering amount of money on "defense." 4) "China’s bad behavior is posing a growing threat to the rest o ...

  • Why hasn't Olympia Snowe pulled the trigger?
    “Historically, ‘trigger’ mechanisms have not been successful, and they are not a substitute for a strong public health insurance option,” said Senator Jay Rockefeller in a statement released today. “A ‘trigger’ simply delays price competition, which in turn will delay affordability f ...

  • Styles of expertise
    Tyler Cowen offers some "sentences to ponder":: Experts are more persuasive when they seem tentative about their conclusions, a study soon to be published in the Journal of Consumer Research suggests. But the opposite is true of novices, who grow more persuasive with increasing certainty. In one e ...

  • The nightmare scenario on the public option
    Imagine Reid puts Schumer's pulibc option proposal -- the national plan that states can opt-out of -- into the bill. The bill comes to the floor, and it loses Snowe and one or two centrist moderates. Byrd is sick and unable to vote. The sticking point is the Schumer plan, so it needs to come out of ...

  • White House to Reid: We hope you know what you're ...
    Things have gotten real complicated, real quick, on the public option. This roundup of contrasting quotes and statements, for instance, has a Keystone Kops quality to it. I've spent a fair bit of the day trying to figure out what went on in Thursday's endless series of meetings, and the best you ...

Booman Tribune

  • They Send Emails
    ...that I don't read for hours because I'm flipping between the Giants and Yankees on my teevee. From White House Deputy Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer: A rumor is making the rounds that the White House and Senator Reid are pursuing different strategies on the public option. Those rumors ...

  • Casual Observation
    I'm surprised that they spent an hour.

  • Casual Observation
    Joshua Kurlantzick makes a good point. If Afghanistan turns out like Vietnam, we should be grateful. Of course, Kurlantzick means the nation of Vietnam, not the war. The problem is, what are Afghanistan's prospects? It's not like people will be lining up to invest there if it cannot stop its civ ...

  • Sunday Morning Thread
    Here's a few links to mull over with your Sunday morning coffee and cider donuts or brunch... Things are going swimmingly in Iraq, with over 130 dead and over 500 wounded in the latest bomb-fest. Tell me again when we're getting out of there? A helping of stupid from the NYT...I'm trying to r ...

  • Sunday Morning Thread
    Here's a few links to mull over with your Sunday morning coffee and cider donuts or brunch... Things are going swimmingly in Iraq, with over 130 dead and over 500 wounded in the latest bomb-fest. Tell me again when we're getting out of there? A helping of stupid from the NYT...I'm trying to r ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Cyberstyle: military-spec wrist-mounted keyboard
    Because I’ve had a busy weekend (and because I’m the ed-in-chief, and because I can), I’m going to kick the week off with a blatant no-context-necessary tech-geek “I want one of those!” post. No, it’s not a Barnes & Noble Nook (though if anyone would like to send me one of those, I promi ...

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

  • Old dogs and new tricks: web use good for the elde ...
    Younger readers (or those with spousal units prone to nagging about excessive time spent in front of a computer) may wish to arm themselves with the news that internet use appears to restore and strengthen brain function, particularly in the elderly. In other words, surfing the web is keeping your b ...

  • Optogenetics: the key to our cyborg future?
    There’s a lengthy but interesting piece up over at Wired about the relatively young discipline of optogenetics – the science of isolating and communicating with specific types of neuron using light. The discovery of the process is an interesting story in its own right, but the really futurismic ...

  • Mac Tonnies, Rest In Peace
    It falls to me to pass on some very sad and unexpected news. Mac Tonnies, a long-term web-friend of mine and former columnist on the paranormal here at Futurismic, was found dead (apparently of natural causes) in his apartment yesterday. [image borrowed from UFOMystic] I’m at a bit of a loss to kn ...

Therapy News

  • Exposure to Domestic Violence when Young May Lead ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary There are many ideas about the precise functioning of the human mind when it comes to violence and the committing of violent acts. An especially prevalent idea is that rather than being an intrinsic trait, the propensity for violence is a learned behavior that has comp ...

  • What Light at Night May Do to Mental Health
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary In metropolitan as well as more rural environments, it can be difficult to experience a night of pure darkness. Light pouring in from street lamps, issuing forth from appliances and television screens, or accumulating from the advertisements and lit windows of building ...

  • Chronic Rhinosinusitis Linked to Depression
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Many different physical health issues are associated with depression, and one of the newest to be added to the list is rhinosinusitis, a condition affecting the head and throat. Interestingly, a study examining the connection between these issues found just over nine ...

  • Study Links Working Post-Retirement is Linked to M ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Most people who retain steady careers throughout their lives spend a fair amount of time thinking about, and planing for, their eventual retirement. Hailed as a momentous and positive occasion, retirement is often considered in terms of its potential to allow for some ...

  • Poor Expectations Among Parents May Encourage Adol ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline There are numerous stereotypes associated with teenagers. The idea that all or most teenagers engage in forbidden or risky behavior, including underage drinking and smoking, is prevalent throughout society, but this very prevalence may be adding to occurrences of ment ...

Mountaintop Removal

Memeorandum

  • Afghan protest over 'burnt Koran' (Andrew North/BB ...
    Andrew North / BBC : Afghan protest over ‘burnt Koran’   —  There have been protests in the Afghan capital, Kabul, over allegations that foreign troops in the country burnt a copy of the Koran.  —  Hundreds of Kabul University students led the latest protest, burning an effigy of US Pr ...

  • Newt Gingrich Says He May Run for President in 201 ...
    Patricia Murphy / Politics Daily : Newt Gingrich Says He May Run for President in 2012   —  Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker and perennial big thinker in the Republican party, said this morning that he will likely run for president in 2012 if he and his wife, Callista, assess the field o ...

  • The Public Option: Rumor Check (Dan Pfeiffer/White ...
    Dan Pfeiffer / White House.gov Blog Feed : The Public Option: Rumor Check   —  A rumor is making the rounds that the White House and Senator Reid are pursuing different strategies on the public option.  Those rumors are absolutely false.  —  In his September 9th address to Congress, Presid ...

  • How an Insurance Mandate Could Leave Many Worse Of ...
    Tyler Cowen / New York Times : How an Insurance Mandate Could Leave Many Worse Off   —  AMERICANS seem to like the idea of broadening health insurance coverage, but they may not want to be forced to buy it.  With health care costs high and rising, such government mandates would make many peop ...

  • Afghans protest rumored desecration of Koran by U. ...
    Laura King / Los Angeles Times : Afghans protest rumored desecration of Koran by U.S. troops   —  Hundreds of protesters in Kabul burn an effigy of President Obama, a sign of rising religious conservatism and anti-Americanism in the country.  The U.S. military denies committing acts of sacrile ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Outlook and obstacles for CCS (1)
    China needs carbon capture and storage technology to decrease its emissions from coal power, but the transition will be costly and difficult. In the first section of a two-part report, He Gang surveys an energy dilemma. Carbon capture and storage (CCS), a technology that stops carbon dioxide produce ...

  • Rhinos in peril
    Trade in horn to Asia has grown in demand and sophistication, creating a surge in poaching in South Africa, reports David Smith. And, writes Jonathan Watts, dealers are hoarding horn like gold. South Africa is witnessing a massive surge in rhino poaching, an activity blamed on criminal syndicates st ...

  • Against tiger farming
    Ancient Chinese tradition and modern scientific thinking both respect the tiger’s role in protecting wild nature. Farming the big cat, writes poet Ruth Padel, ruins China's reputation abroad. One of China’s oldest traditions is its respect for wild nature. Love for nature shines from the early C ...

  • Herding big cats
    Tiger farming advocates say that legally selling body parts of the big cat could thwart the poachers. But a new report puts these claims to the test – and finds dangerous flaws in the economic arguments. Jan McGirk reports. Farming tigers in order to save them may turn out to be the equivalent of ...

  • Forests at the frontline
    Nepal supports a global agreement to help protect the climate by leaving the country’s forests intact. Bhimsen Thapaliya investigates the politics of such a deal. Nepal has lobbied in favour of a global pact that will convert its community-managed forests into cash, without cutting down a single t ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Scan of Internet Uncovers Thousands of Vulnerable ...
    Researchers scanning the internet for vulnerable embedded devices have found nearly 21,000 routers, webcams and VoIP products open to remote attack, due to the fact that their administrative interfaces are publicly viewable from anywhere on the internet and their owners have failed to change the ma ...

  • U.S. Chamber Wants Fake Press Release Removed From ...
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    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The death toll from Sunday's two suicide bombs in Baghdad, one of Iraq's bloodiest attacks in years, has risen to 155 with more than 500 wounded, police said on Monday.

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  • 'U.S., British forces in Afghanistan behind terror ...
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  • Ex-CIA agent confirms U.S. ties with Jundullah
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  • S. African alleges El Al a Mossad front
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PsyBlog

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

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    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 ...

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  • UK Opposes Wars
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  • Missile Defense on the Peace Island
    By Bruce K. Gagnon, globalnet@mindspring.com I just got home from 3-weeks in South Korea. It was quite a trip. During my last two days I was visiting Jeju Island (about 500 miles south of the Korean peninsula) which is recognized by UNESCO as being a place of world class environmental quality and o ...

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  • Coal River Mountain, a symbol of hope, is slated f ...
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  • Oil spill a ‘massive’ risk to Australi ...
    by Agence France-Presse SYDNEY -- A massive oil and gas leak off Australia's northwest coast was killing seabirds and threatening thousands of marine animals, conservationists warned Friday. Oil company PTTEP Australasia is preparing to make a fourth attempt at plugging the leaking Montara wellhead ...

  • African leaders adopt landmark refugee convention
    by Agence France-Presse KAMPALA -- African leaders on Friday adopted a convention -- billed as the first of its kind worldwide -- on the protection of the 17 million people on the continent who have fled their homes. The convention, which is legally binding, requires member states to provide specia ...

  • Obama energy speech contains few policy specifics, ...
    by David Roberts Courtesy CNN.com Obama delivered a speech on energy at MIT today, marking the kick-off for what is likely to be a protracted effort by the administration and Democrats in the Senate to pass the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill. Those hoping for policy substance or firm commitments we ...

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    The Obama administration is making plans to send about 25 detainees from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay to federal prisons, to be tried in civilian federal courts, according to Newsweek. As TWI reported last week, the biggest ongoing controversy is over where to try the five suspected 9/11 co-con ...

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  • Last Time Carbon Dioxide Levels Were This High: 15 ...
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  • High Rates Of Childhood Exposure To Violence And A ...
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  • Arizona To Put State Prisons in Private Hands?
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  • Cheney A Vampire??
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  • Evans-Pritchard’s Dollar Defense
    By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Let me stick my neck out. The dollar will still be the world’s dominant reserve currency in 2030, sharing a degree of leadership in uneasy condominium with the Chinese yuan. It will then regain much of its hegemonic status as the 21st century unfolds. It may indeed end ...

  • Russia To Sell Gold
    By Polina Devitt Russia plans to sell as much as 50 tonnes of gold this year to help plug a budget deficit in the first major bullion sale by its precious metals repository since the fall of the Soviet Union, a high level source told Reuters. The sales from Russia’s State Precious Metals and Gems ...

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  • Kerry-Lugar’s First Victim
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  • Pakistan’s Civil War Heating Up
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  • UK Police in £9m scheme to log ‘domestic extrem ...
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  • Zimbabwe army and police chiefs face arrest over l ...
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PakAlert

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  • Ex-CIA agent confirms US ties with Jundullah
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  • Special Report: US Embassy Personnel Caught Spying ...
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ecogeek

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  • A Bladeless Fan?
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  • California Crowned Most Energy Efficient by ACEEE
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  • Microsoft Hohm Gets First Utility Partner
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  • Toyota Joins SmartGridCity Project
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Times Online - Science

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    The scientist who once led the world in pioneering human cloning was convicted today of fraud over his apparently ground-breaking stem cell research.

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  • Why you are cleverer than you think
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    The number of foreclosure filings hit a record high in the 3rd quarter: "Despite signs of broader economic recovery, number of foreclosure filings hit a record high in the third quarter - a sign the plague is still spreading." And banks are keeping losses off the books as they ignore the people t ...

  • Shorter Erick Erickson: "It's because he's black!"
    And he is Jimmy Carter too! "I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota for it, but that is the only thing I can think of for this news. There is no way Barack Obama earned it in the nominations period." Per usual, Red State's Trike Force always keepin' it classy ... A ...

  • The only thing between us and the terrorists?
    Is the neoconservative echo-chamber between Joe Lieberman's ears : "I don't think anybody who has any fairness or is in their right mind would think the president or the secretary of homeland security would raise an alert level and scare people for political reasons... That's outrageous." - Joe Lieb ...

SPL Center

  • New ‘Patriot’ Group Begins First ‘Border Wat ...
    The Patriots Coalition, a new antigovernment ‘Patriot’ group founded by the former vice president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, is carrying out its first border vigilante operation targeting Latino immigrants and drug smugglers. Along with Patriots Coalition members, the month-long event ...

  • UNC Chancellor Shuts Down Right-Wing Youth Group
    The chancellor of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has shut down the UNC chapter of the anti-immigrant group Youth for Western Civilization after its faculty adviser joked about his proficiency with a Colt .45 handgun. The adviser, professor of psychology Elliot Cramer, was responding to ...

  • Out and In Again; Court Sends Neo-Nazi White Back ...
    Neo-Nazi Bill White’s taste of freedom was brief. Last week, as we reported here, a federal judge allowed him to post bond and go to his home in Roanoke, Va., to await his Dec. 9 trial on charges of threatening a newspaper columnist and assorted others over the Internet and by phone. Prosecutors o ...

  • Hate-Music Songbird Takes Issue With Our Review
    Charity Pendergraft has responded to our earlier post about her white-power sister act. Pendergraft’s verdict: “I found the article very amusing.” She didn’t intend it as a compliment. Pendergraft, 18, and sister Shelby, 16, singing as Heritage Connection, have released two CDs and perform a ...

  • Sympathy from the Far Right for Limbaugh on His NF ...
    Reading news accounts of the past week, you may have thought conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh was merely rebuked for his history of controversial racial comments when he joined a group making a bid to buy the St. Louis Rams. Actually it was something far more serious, according to right- ...

Gringo Times - Rio

  • Houses for Sale in Zona Sul
    By Karen Shishiptorova, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – As with any big city, apartments are the bulk of the real estate market. However scarce, houses are also available for sale in Rio. Usually further from main public transportation, in some areas, the noiseless tree-lined cobblestone s ...

  • Interview with Rio Tourism Police Chief
    By Karen Shishiptorova, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Many Gringos coming to Rio understand the Marvelous City has its share of crime, and are careful to avoid pickpocketing and dangerous places. What many don’t know is that underneath the tourist veneer of postcard-perfect views of moun ...

  • Brazilian Nuclear Ambitions?
    By Jaylan Boyle, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Incendiary remarks from Brazilian Vice President Josá Alencar last month regarding the country’s nuclear ambitions have provoked speculation that Latin America may soon cease to be the world’s largest nuclear-free region. Although confir ...

  • Leblon Reacts to School Proposal
    By Sarah Coursey, Editor RIO DE JANEIRO - When a mansion in Alto Leblon on the street Rua Timóteo da Costa was approved as the future site of a new school, residents decided to take action. A prominent neighborhood group has taken up a petition, claiming that the school will increase traffic in the ...

  • Beaches Out West
    By Lindsay Spratt, Sub Editor RIO DE JANEIRO - Although the beaches of Copacabana, Ipanema and Leblon are a must on any Gringo’s list, in the summer months they can get so full that the ’sea’ is one of tanned bodies rather than the Atlantic Ocean.  Offering respite from the sun worshiping c ...

change: org.

  • Show Me The Money: Why Don't More Women Ask For A ...
    The New York Times had an excellent op-ed this weekend by Joanne Lipman, the former deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal who was also the founding editor in chief of Condé Nast Portfolio magazine. The piece titled, "The Mismeasure of Woman " reflects on the Shriver Report and catalogs ...

  • More and More Young People Take To Sustainable Far ...
    Newspapers sure do love their human-interest recession stories. When those stories involve people quitting their jobs for something more fulfilling, that's even better. But the perfect story, of course, is people taking to the land, turning to farms, and making a fresh start. Of course, we love eve ...

  • Meanwhile, In The Rest of the World...
    My coverage has been pretty nonstop conference-related for the past week and a half or so. I've been going back through the Reader to see what I've missed. The Web 2.0 conference has generated a huge amount of conversation in the tech space. On the nonprofit side of things, there were a lot of grea ...

  • Rape is not a Preexisting Condition
    We need health care reform in this country for so many reasons, one of which is to ensure that victims of crime get the treatment they need. The Huffington Post Investigative Fund reported horrifying tales of several women who were denied health insurance because they had received treatment after b ...

  • Healthy Americans Act Missing in Action
    Watching the Senate difficulties this week – failing to work around fancy math, having to dump fair physician payments as a result, and trying to substitute an ineffective opt-out public option for even more impotent co-ops – it makes you wonder about Wyden-Bennett. Remember S. 391, aka the Hea ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Public Option Pressure: As Stories Leak WH And Dem ...
    by Christina Bellantoni House leadership sources are telling TPMDC they think news on the "robust" public option is leaking out to pressure House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the health care discussions are getting hotter, and closer to the final deal. Politico's story this morning suggests Pelosi doesn ...

  • Congressman Grayson Wins Another Round in Healthca ...
    by John Nichols Florida Congressman Alan Grayson keeps provoking congressional Republicans and their media allies with fact-based challenges to the lies being used to block health care reform. The insurance-industry stooges keep taking the bait. And the truth about the high cost of delaying neede ...

  • Banks Blasted By Regulators In UK, US
    WASHINGTON - Big banks took a beating from government on Thursday, both in the U.S. Congress where lawmakers backed tougher industry rules, and from U.S. and UK regulators who moved aggressively to restrain bankers' pay. read more

  • Judge Refuses to Dismiss War Crimes Case Against B ...
    by Jeremy Scahill On Wednesday, a federal judge rejected a series of arguments by lawyers for the mercenary firm formerly known as Blackwater seeking to dismiss five high-stakes war crimes cases brought by Iraqi victims against both the company and its owner, Erik Prince. read more

  • American Public More Complacent About Climate Chan ...
    by Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - Less than two months before a key international conference on curbing climate change, a major U.S. poll has found a sharp drop in public concern about global warming. According to the survey by the Pew Research Centre for the People & the Press, 65 percent of the public beli ...

Lifehacker

  • Export All Your Google Docs to a ZIP File [Backup ...
    Google Docs has officially thrown open their data doors, allowing users to back up all their documents to whatever formats they choose and compressed into a ZIP file. It's serious peace of mind for those concerned about the cloud. The feature seemed to arrive very recently without any official blog ...

  • Winter's Coming: It's Time to Stay In and Geek Ou ...
    Fall's well underway and winter's fast approaching. Before you're stuck indoors, we want to help you prepare for the long winter months ahead—from beefing up your media center to prepping for the cold. Welcome to Winter Upgrade week on Lifehacker. Photo by littlerottenrobin . In addition to our re ...

  • Keep Dandruff at Bay With Aspirin [Health]
    Aspirin is a medicine cabinet staple for those prone to headaches. Combined in the right ratio with tap water, it's equally handy for keeping dandruff flakes at bay. Photo by Wikipedia With winter on its way, your hair and scalp will be taking the brunt of the constant indoor/outdoor drying climate ...

  • How to Make Almond Milk at Home [Beverages]
    Chances are, even if you like your milk to come exclusively from cows, you know someone with lactose issues. Almond milk is a healthy alternative, and DIY web site Instructables shows you how to make it in your own kitchen. Almonds are one of the healthiest nuts you can eat , but commercial almond m ...

  • Mozilla Raindrop Keeps Messaging Personal [News]
    Today, Mozilla announced a new open source project called Raindrop, a service that pulls your social content from multiple sources and organizes it in one place to create a centralized messaging experience that matters to you. The goal of Raindrop is to make email and messaging personal again, and ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • That noexistent Afghan State
    Commentary By Ron Beasley While reading Steve's post below I found this by William S, Lind (via James Fallows): Last exit before Quagmire where he discusses the General Stanley McChrystal’s report. This is the most important statement from Lind's piece:Defects begin with the study’s failure to a ...

  • Ellsberg: "No Success That Will Be Lasting" In Afg ...
    By Steve Hynd Daniel "Pentagon Papers" Ellsberg talks to Real News Network about Afghanistan. He says that he wrote McChrystal's assessment thirty years ago, only with the names changed; that counter-insurgency cannot succeed for a foreign occupier and that there can be no success that will survive ...

  • Picture of the week plus a rant
    By Ron Beasley OK, the picture of the week is an angry looking sky. A sky that is a good illustration for an angry rant. You may have noticed that the new boss is a lot like the old boss. The Obama administration makes some populist pleasing moves on the economy but they refuse to actually fix anyth ...

  • UN Election Body Head Admits Afghan Runoff Will Be ...
    By Steve Hynd Despite every member of both the Obama administration and Gordon Brown's government who has an opportunity to voice an opinion getting ready to follow Richard Holbrooke's spin that there will be less "irregularities" in the Afghan run-off election, none really believe it. It's all abou ...

  • McChrystal "wants a blank cheque for a jalopy on w ...
    By Steve Hynd. Paul McGeough is the chief correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald, author of "Kill Khalid" and a veteran reporter of over 20 years experience, including more than 20 assignments in Afghanistan since 2001. Today, he published the text of his speech to a conference on the Afghanist ...

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

McClatchey

  • Controversial study suggests vast magma pool under ...
    WASHINGTON -- A vast pool of molten rock in the continental crust that underlies southwestern Washington state could supply magma to three active volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains -- Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier and Mount Adams -- according to a new study that's causing a stir among scientists.

  • Haitians press Obama on immigration goals
    Haitian-American and immigrant activists who greeted President Barack Obama's election with high hopes are growing frustrated with the administration's failure to deliver one of their top goals.

  • Castro's sister says she worked with CIA
    Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban rulers Fidel and Raul Castro, cooperated with the CIA in the 1960s — a time when the U.S. agency was plotting to assassinate Fidel and overthrow his revolution &mdash according to an exclusive Univision-Noticias 23 report on her newly published book.

  • Two California departments have fleet of new vehic ...
    Two of the state's largest departments spent more than $5.5 million on new cars and trucks this year only to leave them idle and gathering dust for months.

  • California's GOP governor candidates have contribu ...
    One candidate in next year's gubernatorial race contributed thousands of dollars to Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer and John Kerry.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Copenhagen countdown - 45 days
    I don't think it's just my imagination; diplomatic moves and announcements and challenges on climate change really are coming thicker and faster now than at any time since it first became an issue of political note 20 years ago. And no wonder, with the start of the UN climate summit just 45 days aw ...

  • Hopping mad about money
    For some things, half a billion dollars might be a hefty sum to pay. But for the survival of the world's threatened amphibian species? Cheap at the price, you might think; but almost no-one, as yet, is paying. It was almost exactly four years ago that the Amphibian Conservation Summit , held in a ...

  • Africa re(de)fines the climate dialogue
    The African Union's 10-country meeting attempting to establish a united front on climate change marks a potentially intriguing step along what has become a forgotten avenue of the UN climate process. It's a circuitous route; but hop on board, and I'll tell you why. Back in 1992, at the Rio de Jane ...

  • Plan B for Planet Earth
    "Geo-engineering is not an alternative to emissions reduction." So not Plan A, then. "Do we need it? Maybe." So perhaps not Plan B either. The words are John Shepherd's, spoken at the launch of the Royal Society's report into whether technical fixes such as painting roofs white, putting giant pa ...

  • Can Japan change the climate?
    Word is creeping out along various streets that Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama will announce a significant change of climate policy when he travels to New York later this month. The just-out-of-office Taro Aso government pledged to cut the country's emissions by about 8% from 1990 levels ...

    Blacklisted News


  • Bosnia 'on brink of new civil war'
    Bosnia is heading for a new civil war as a constitutional crisis threatens to cause the collapse of the political system, the country's leaders have warned.

  • White House to Keep Obama’s ‘Czars’ from Tes ...
    The White House is not going to allow the president’s newly created “czars” to testify before Congress.

  • Report: Big Pharma has 2.3 lobbyists for every law ...
    The pharmaceutical industry spent $110 million in just the first half of 2009 in its efforts to influence health care reform, part of a booming lobbying effort that now has 2.3 drug lobbyists on Capitol Hill for every member of Congress, a new investigative report reveals.

  • Credit Card Company Revenue Stream: Penalty for Pa ...
    The love hate relationship with credit cards for many Americans is probably leaning more in the hate stage at the moment.

  • Russia says it 'needs to be' ready for 'large-scal ...
    "In 1993, we said that military conflicts have been ruled out, but life has shown this is not the case," AFP quoted Patrushev, as saying on Thursday.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Innovation Canada

  • Fuels of the future?
    A recession-related dip in flight demand might actually be considered a green blessing. Just a small one, mind you. The David Suzuki Foundation estimates that aviation is responsible for up to nine percent of the total global climate-change  impact of human activity, so it would take a huge drop to ...

  • i2eye with Bif Naked
    The last few years have been a roller-coaster ride for Bif Naked. After two years of touring, TV work and datelessness following her 2005 album Superbeautifulmonster, the Vancouver-based alt-rock singer-songwriter — whose real name is Beth Walker — met and married her husband, sportswriter Ian W ...

  • Cultural evolution
    When Jane Goodall reported her observations of tools use by chimps to famed anthropologist Louis Leakey, he responded by saying, “Now we must redefine tool, redefine man or accept chimpanzees as humans.” Leakey would have likely had a similar reaction to the current work of University of Calgary ...

  • Faces of aggression
    Even if you can’t distinguish NHL enforcers Todd Bertuzzi and Chris Neil from a referee, you’d probably know at first sight not to mess with them. And not just because of their physical size. The men employed to intimidate the opposition tend to have wide faces, and that, Brock University’s Ch ...

  • i2eye with Bruce McNaughton
    One of the world’s foremost neuroscientists, Bruce McNaughton is renowned for his groundbreaking research into how the human brain stores, processes and transmits information. One year ago, the Ottawa-born McNaughton was lured back to Canada after spending more than a quarter century in the United ...

Signs of the times

  • The (political) dangers of H1N1
    President Obama's decision to declare the H1N1 flu a national emergency over the weekend is a recognition of the political peril the virus could inflict on the White House. The declaration came after 72 hours of stories -- both locally and nationally -- focused on the long lines for the swine flu v ...

  • Salute All Cars, Kids. It's a Rule in China.
    Huangping, China - All the students at Luolang Elementary School, a yellow-and-orange concrete structure off a winding mountain road in southern China, know the key rules: Do not run in the halls. Take your seat before the bell rings. Raise your hand to ask a question. And oh, yes: Salute every p ...

  • Obama Quietly Deploying 13,000 More Troops to Afgh ...
    President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has also authorized -- and the Pentagon is deploying -- at least 13,000 troops beyond that number, according to defense officials. The additional troops a ...

  • Companies reap the swine flu windfall
    Chicago - Healthcare companies are reaping the benefits of a global swine flu pandemic, brightening what might otherwise have been a dismal third quarter and bringing new focus on the market for vaccines. Large European pharmaceutical companies are reporting windfall sales from flu drugs and H1N1 v ...

  • Rich should offer IMF resources to poor: Soros
    Stockholm- Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros suggested on Thursday that European nations offer some of their International Monetary Fund resources to poor countries, which could provide them as much as $100 billion in aid. Such a move would make up for the projected drop in devel ...

Threat Level

  • Scan of Internet Uncovers Thousands of Vulnerable ...
    Researchers scanning the internet for vulnerable embedded devices have found nearly 21,000 routers, webcams and VoIP products open to remote attack, due to the fact that their administrative interfaces are publicly viewable from anywhere on the internet and their owners have failed to change the ma ...

  • U.S. Chamber Wants Fake Press Release Removed From ...
    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is demanding an internet provider take down a spoofed press release set up by the culture jamming collective the Yes Men, which falsely announced the Chamber now supports legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. On Monday, a wide variety of mainstream news outlet ...

  • Open Source Voting System Code Ready for Public Re ...
    LOS ANGELES — A group working to produce an open and transparent voting system to replace current proprietary systems has published its first batches of code for public review. The Open Source Digital Voting Foundation (OSDV) announced the availability of source code for its prototype election sy ...

  • Ruling Expected on Twittering Anarchist Raided Und ...
    An anarchist social worker raided by the feds wants his computers, manuscripts and pick axes back. He argues that authorities violated the U.S. Constitution and the rights of his mentally ill clients while searching for evidence that he broke an anti-rioting law on Twitter. In a guns-drawn raid on ...

  • Cell-Tracking Bills Require Info Dump for Missing ...
    Mobile phone companies would have to immediately turn over location data to emergency responders to help them quickly track missing persons, if any one of the four bills floating in the House get traction. The law already allows, but does not automatically require, phone companies to turn over ping ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Obama and the Right-Wing "Bull" Market
    Among the rarely acknowledged truths of American politics is that the U.S. economy in general and the stock market in particular almost always do better under Democratic presidents. Of course, that oversight is no accident, but instead the predictable result...

  • Studies Confirm Americans Are Self-Rationing Healt ...
    Among the most pernicious and blatantly false Republican talking points designed to obstruct health care reform is the fear-mongering claim that Democratic proposals will lead to "rationing." Of course, with almost 50 million uninsured and another 25 million underinsured, Mitch...

  • Republican Leaders Remind Steele GOP Hates Medicar ...
    As Politico reported Monday, Republicans leaders took RNC chairman Michael Steele to the woodshed for his high profile role in the health care debate. Furious that Steele's so-called "seniors' bill of rights" committed the GOP to "no cuts to Medicare,"...

  • "Going Rogue" by Sarah Palin, Editor's Cut
    Buoyed by bulk advance purchases by the right-wing faithful, Sarah Palin's upcoming book Going Rogue as expected catapulted to the top of the Amazon.com bestseller list. That Palin turned to ghostwriter Lynn Vincent, whose past conservatives screeds branded Democrats "treasonous"...

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

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • How a Torture Protest Killed a Career
    When British Ambassador Craig Murray protested "war on terror" torture in Uzbekistan, his promising career was torn apart. October 24, 2009

  • Texas, Eyes of Justice Are Upon You
    Texas has been a laggard in the cause of justice, but one judge tried to make a difference, say Bill Moyers and Michael Winship. October 24, 2009

  • The High Price of Abu Ghraib Truth
    Army Sgt. Sam Provance testified about higher-ups implicated in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal and is paying a high price. October 23, 2009

  • Obama v. Military-Industrial Complex
    President Obama has taken a few tentative steps toward downplaying war and elevating diplomacy, notes Melvin A. Goodman. October 23, 2009

  • US Health Insurers Up the Ante
    America's private health insurers have won concession after concession in the health-reform battle, writes Robert Parry. October 21, 2009

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Arrogant Health Care Insurers make Public Option n ...
    Uninsured human beings are the greatest threat to Public Health. Healthy conservatives just don't get it.

  • Sabotage Experts: US Coast Guard Exercise on 9/11, ...
    Coast Guard to review exercise after Potomac security scare Security incident on Potomac River prompted by “training exercise,” two police sources say Coast Guard told them. With the nation already on edge and somewhat paranoid on September 11 each year, what is the LAST thing you want to do? ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance August 31, 2009
    It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No ...

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

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 24, 2009
    School is starting, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is prepared as always to ace the test. Here is this week’s roundup of blog highlights. From TXsharon: Woo Hoo! EPA testing has now confirmed wells are contaminated “with various substances connected with gas drillingâ€�–proof that h ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Did Earth's moon form around Mercury ?
    A controversial new theory has been proposed suggesting that our moon didn't form around the Earth but instead formed in orbit around Mercury and ...

  • Canada "feared alien arrival"
    The Canadian government released more than 9500 files between 2005 and 2007 pertaining to UFOs, from them it has been learned that plans were made...

  • What really scares people
    Most of us have an extreme fear or phobia of something, whether it be the sight of a certain eight-legged arachnid or the mere mention of going to...

  • Volunteers wanted for 520-day Mars trip sim
    The European Space Agency is looking for volunteers to take part in a 520-day simulated round-trip to Mars, starting in 2010 the crew will have to...

  • Real-life Harry Potter laments name
    A 20-year-old Briton who shares the name of the fictional boy wizard Harry Potter and who even has a scar on his forehead after running in to a la...

Grassroots

  • 350 or Toast! "There is no Planet B"
    And, the answer is... 350 . That is 350 parts per million of Carbon Dioxide in our atmosphere, the upper limit for sustainability of life, human life anyway. The question is why are more -- not less -- Americans not convinced about the dangers of global warming and climate change in 2009 than in 200 ...

  • Grassroots International Partner receives prize
    Via-prize-small.jpg At a gathering of food and trade activists from arounnd the world, Grassroots International's partner, the Via Campesina, receieved the 2009 Food Sovereignty Prize for its relentless struggle for people of the world and aga ...

  • Towards Food Sovereignty: Reclaiming Autonomous Fo ...
    TowardsFoodSovereignty-smallcover.jpg The International Institute for Environment and Development ( IIED ), an independent international research and development organization, recently published a book that should be of interest to Grassroots ...

  • Land + Water + Food = Resource Rights = Human Righ ...
    October 17th is marked as by the United Nations as the  International Day for the Eradication of Poverty . At Grassroots International, we have been working with our partners for over 25 years towards achieving that goal. Clearly, a lot needs to be done to get us there. read more

  • Family farmers feed Brazil
    brazil200907-078.jpg The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) recently published a report on the country’s agricultural sector. The last report had been published in 1996. The new document supports several points raised by ...

Climate

  • October 24-25, 2009
    Global Events Mark Magic Number on Climate Change (AP) Activists held events around the world Saturday to mark the number they say the world needs to hit to prevent catastrophic climate change: 350 parts per million of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere. Senate Global Warming Bill Is Seeking to C ...

  • October 23, 2009
    Notes to Obama: Time to Take Political Risks on Climate (Boston Globe) President Obama speaks at MIT this morning, and chances are he’ll use the same tactic he has used in the health care debate, working with Congress to pass something modest. In this case, good politics may be bad science, w ...

  • October 22, 2009
    EU Offers 95% Cut by 2050 If Deal Sealed at Copenhagen (Guardian) Europe attempted to reassert its international leadership in the fight against global warming, offering to slash its greenhouse gas emissions 95% by 2050 and 30% by 2020 if a climate pact is sealed at Copenhagen. China, US Lead ...

  • October 21, 2009
    Obama to Give Climate Bill a Boost with MIT Speech (ClimateWire) President Obama will try to push the Senate climate bill forward Friday with an energy-themed speech at MIT, just days before the start of a marathon of hearings. India, China Sign 5-Year Pact on Climate Change (Dow Jones) India ...

  • October 20, 2009
    Nations Leave 91% of Green Stimulus Funds Unspent (Bloomberg) The United States, China and other major economies have yet to spend 91% of the $177 billion in stimulus money promised for clean-energy development because projects haven’t been evaluated, a report shows. Concession Raises Hopes ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, What the U.S. Military Can't ...
    [ Note to Tomdispatch Readers: The other day, I appealed to you to consider writing your friends, neighbors, colleagues, and workmates to suggest that they go to the "sign up" window at the upper right of the Tomdispatch main screen, put in their email addresses, and sign on for an notification wh ...

  • Tomgram: Jo Comerford, Three Cheers for the War D ...
    [ Note to TomDispatch Readers: I'll be on the road for the next week with limited email access. I may not be answering letters and requests. Be patient. For those of you living in the Santa Fe, New Mexico area, this Wednesday night (October 21st) at 7 pm at the Lensic Performing Arts Center I' ...

  • Tomgram: Will Today's U.S.-Armed Ally Be Tomorrow ...
    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: In the past weeks, you could catch original pieces by Barbara Ehrenreich , Arundhati Roy , Pepe Escobar , Michael Klare , Ann Jones , and Rebecca Solnit , among others, at this website. It's the sort of line-up you might otherwise find at a top-notch magazine. Every ...

  • Tomgram: David Swanson, The Imperial Presidency 2 ...
    October 7th marked the eighth anniversary of the Bush administration's invasion of Afghanistan and so of the... well, can we really call it a war?... that won't end, that American commanders there now predict could last for another decade or more. And yet, here's the weird thing: because Congress ...

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

Smirking Chimp

  • Get Sterilized Or Die: Insurance Company Tells Mot ...
    Just when you thought you’d seen all the health-insurance evil possible, now comes another shocker: a UnitedHealth subsidiary in Colorado denied coverage to Peggy Robertson, mother of two, because she wasn’t sterilized after her caesarian-section delivery procedure, according to a letter made p ...

  • Americans pull strings in Afghan election
    Henry Kissinger once observed that being America's ally can be more dangerous than being its enemy. Take poor Hamid Karzai, the amiable former business consultant and CIA "asset" installed by Washington as Afghanistan's president. As the U.S. increasingly gets its backside kicked in Afghanistan, it ...

  • Iran Trying to Install Microsoft Windows 7
    TEHRAN (The Borowitz Report) - Tensions between the United States and the Iranian government have risen over the weekend amid intelligence reports that Iran is trying to install Microsoft Windows 7. Spy-satellite photos reveal a shipment of Windows 7 software, as well as a dozen IT professionals fro ...

  • "Will the Dollar still be the World's Reserve Curr ...
    Mike Whitney: What is the present composition of reserve holdings in central banks--and has there been a substantial falloff in US dollar reserves in recent years? (Are central banks ditching the dollar?) Prof. Menzie Chin: I've found it puzzling that there's all this talk about the prospects for th ...

  • After the Billionaires Plundered An Alabama Town, ...
    Earlier this week, a Goldman Sachs adviser made the mistake of publicly confirming what most of us already assumed: They believe that the shocking gap between their obscene wealth and the rest of America's declining incomes is actually a good thing. Even though the facts prove the opposite. Average ...

Ten Percent

  • Halloween Carnival of Socialism!
    I will be hosting a Halloween Special Carnival of Socialism here on Saturday the 31st. So please send links to anything you would like to be included to askHAL at gmail.com or leave them in comments. Feel free to enjoy yourself, perhaps ask what would zombie Lenin make of people still arguing over h ...

  • My Offer To Naiara Amselem, Lewis W. Amselem’s D ...
    On Friday evening I got three comments on this post about Lewis Amselem purporting to be from one Naiara Amselem, Lewis W. Amselem’s daughter. They were silly and insulting and not a little entertaining, perhaps alcohol or other drugs were involved, just a little drunk trolling. However, given ind ...

  • Friday! Jon Brion & Deanna Storey- Little Person
    I’m pretty ambivalent about Synecdoche, New York (as with all of Kaufman’s work) but this song is super lovely, enjoy.

  • Demonstrate 24 October: Bring the troops home from ...
    Assemble 12 noon Hyde Park: March to Trafalgar Square Called by Stop the War Coalition, CND and BMI The march will be lead by anti-war military families & soldiers Speakers include: Tariq Ali, Peter Brierley, who recently refused to shake Tony Blair’s hand because it had his son blood on it; Lance ...

  • Meanwhile, Posties
    A second front has been opened in the increasingly bitter industrial dispute between unions and Royal Mail that threatens to bring more chaos for millions of households and businesses. Leaders of the Unite union, representing Royal Mail’s 12,000 managers, urged them not to cover for postal work ...

Paul Krugman

  • Adjustment and the dollar
    Killing a zombie fallacy about exchange rates.

  • How the other 75 percent lives
    The idea that the typical American's retirement basically depends on the stock market is utterly wrong; that's only true for a small elite.

  • Contrarianism without consequences
    The refusal of the Superfreakonomists to take responsibility for their failed attempt to be cleverly contrarian on climate change is a sad spectacle to watch.

  • Everything is illuminated
    An emphatic no comment.

  • What's in a name?
    I sometimes think that the whole renminbi/yuan issue is a sinister plot by the Chinese designed specifically to deter people from discussing Chinese currency policy.

No Quarter

  • It Was Clinton’s Fault
    (Bumped up from Sunday morning.) Republicans chafing over Obama’s continued finger pointing at the failings of the Bush Administration need to look in the mirror and check their own glass house. Why? Because 9-11 happened because of Bill Clinton. Now I do not believe that. But when you try to d ...

  • No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doy ...
    PROMO BUMPED DOWN: Sunday night’s NQR’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle has concluded. You can listen to a recording of the episode at BlogTalkRadio or via iTunes. (See iTunes directions in the right column.) ***************** Follow the money. Despite what analysts and pundits may say, if y ...

  • REMINDER: Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s Nati ...
    (PROMO BUMPED DOWN: Tune in next Sunday to Batchelor’s radio show. We always post a reminder at No Quarter on Sundays.) Tune in to John Batchelor’s West Coast show by 11:00 p.m. EDT. From John Batchelor’s schedule for tonight’s show: Sunday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): John Fund, WSJ, Larry ...

  • Yep, It’s His Mess Now
    (Bumped up from Saturday.) General McChrystal’s proposal for Afghanistan has been on Obama’s desk for almost two months now. And what is Obama doing about it? Well, he appears to be deciding on how to decide what his decision will be, but he’s not there yet. Nope, instead, he is throwing up ...

  • The Wall Street Oligopoly Rails on Compensation Co ...
    Is there a hotter topic currently on Wall Street than compensation? I have to admit, I have a range of emotions on this issue. I pride myself on being a proponent of free market capitalism. As such, while the government needs to be actively involved in regulating the marketplace, beyond that I would ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • On Our Radar...
    The threat of climate change litigation, financing efficiency and other energy and environment news from around the Web.

  • Test Driving the Electric Ford Focus
    The Focus will hit the market in 2011, followed the next year by a plug-in electric Escape S.U.V., which Ford also showed off in San Francisco.

  • Europe Is Divided Over Climate Payments
    The European Commission has suggested that E.U. member nations should pay between $3 billion to $22 billion annually from their national budgets by 2020 to help the developing world respond to climate change. European governments, however, are badly split over the issue.

  • Angling for Europe's 'Green Capital' Award
    The European Commission on Friday began soliciting applications for its 2012 and 2013 European Green Capital Award, aimed at honoring the environmental efforts of cities.

  • Study Sees Solar Costs Declining
    The cost of going solar fell last year, resuming a decade-long decline after several years of relatively flat prices, a new study finds.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • A quick hit from the G20: Democracy 101 by Indymed ...
    I was proud to help contribute some footage to this video - soon enough there will be more video out from what happened at the G20. For now please just check this out. It's certainly a "rough cut" and needs some help in the narrative & so forth, but it's a great intro to the widespread police abuse ...

  • Afghanistan UN elections approval unit breaks up u ...
    Gold busted up and out of the old confines as good ol' snarly British antiwar journalist Robert Fisk broke the big news: the Petrodollar cycling system is finally going off the rails as the world's central bankers start digging for a new solution. [This Petrodollar system was the big achievement of ...

  • Sibel Edmonds case: spelled out with the names & d ...
    For those of you just tuning in... Sibel Edmonds worked at the FBI after 9/11, bumped into a big criminal conspiracy, tried to blow the whistle in 2002, got the "States Secret Privilege" gag, which she defied a couple months ago for a deposition in an Ohio case. In a new interview with Phil Giraldi, ...

  • Yr humble correspondent reports back on G20 with A ...
    Alright so I've been out in Pittsburgh helping cover the G20 conference -- things got pretty hairy out here. We've hunkered down at the Pittsburgh Indymedia Center ( http://indypgh.org ) and the crew has turned out a ton of videos of police brutality that have gone viral over Internets! I just did a ...

  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Events In 181 Countries Urge International Action ...
    [caption id="attachment_9906" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Afghan Youth Support International Day of Climate Action."][/caption] A total of 5,200 actions were held around the world to urge action on climate change, according to 350.org who sponsered an International Day of Climate Action ...

  • The Greeding of American
    I wonder if anyone still gets surprised when they hear about get-rich-quick schemes such as those pulled off by Bernard Madoff and Tom Petters. Junk bonds, the S&L scandal, dot.coms, pyramid schemes, etc. These newly discovered Ponzi schemes are just a continuation of greed in the US (and, of course ...

  • Steve Champlin: Health Industry’s Shadow Man
    Apparently, Steven M. Champlin is a guy who shuns the spotlight and shies away from cameras. Which is why it comes as a surprise that he burst into the headlines last week with a controversial speech at  a national forum of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a ...

  • Depleted Uranium Causes Cancer
    Depleted Uranium is nuclear waste...quite literally...and it causes cancer and birth defects. Depleted uranium is extracted from spent nuclear fuel.  It is a waste byproduct of "enriching" uranium. It is a substance with some remarkable properties.  It is denser than lead, harder than steel.   ...

  • Taking Stock in our children’s education
    For-profit providers: Wall Street wants your kids Your public schools are failing and your children aren't learning. The school system is choked by bureaucracy and over-regulation and it is being held hostage by teacher unions that won't respond to parents’ concerns nor adopt meaningful reforms. ...

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Godspace

  • How Rich Are You
    Here is another great resource that I learned about here in Adelaide.  So often we feel that we do not have enough financial resources for all that we need.  Here is a great site that helps put our incomes into perspective with the rest of the world. Global Rich List [...]

  • Reflections from the Week
    Those of you who have been following my posts this week know that there has been quite a bit of diversity – some reflections on our time here at Tabor, some looking forward to the end of the month and our celebration of All Saints and Halloween, some sharing the resources that I have come [...]

  • Getting Ready For Halloween
    One of the things that really surprised and horrified me when I first came to the US was the huge emphasis on Halloween.  Even churches organized Halloween celebrations with kids dressed as witches and no one thought twice about feeding the monsters that came to their doors trick or treating. Today ...

  • Do You Believe in the Corporation?
    This morning we have been talking about the challenges of the global economy and how it seduces us into its values.  We also talked about how easily we buy into the values of our secular culture – its work rhythms, its suburban lifestyles, its consumer patterns – and then living our Christian ...

  • A Manifesto for Slow Communication
    This morning at our Tabor College class here in Adelaide we are talking about the pressures that distract our lives.  I began with a devotional juxtaposing the version of Psalm 23 (antithesis) which I know I have quoted before and the real Psalm 23.  We are more and more concerned about how the in ...

Equality Trust

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #0153
    More on Nozette's 2009 mystery trip abroad. Armenia charges former army officer with spying for Azerbaijan. US spy chief Blair calls for spy cooperation.

  • News you may have missed #0152
    Madoff befriends Israeli-handled spy in prison. Polish undercover agent has cover blown. Finnish former prime minister says KGB tried to recruit him.

  • FBI targets US nuclear scientist who contacted Ven ...
    A team of FBI agents has raided the house of a former Los Alamos nuclear scientist who has spent two decades criticizing Washington’s nuclear weapons and energy agenda.

  • News you may have missed #0151
    More information on CIA’s interest in monitoring Internet sites. Lithuania to investigate CIA secret prison allegations. Musicians protest use of their songs in Guantánamo torture.

  • Mysterious self-destructing devices found at Leban ...
    Lebanese authorities have revealed the discovery last week of three communications interception devices near the Israel-Lebanon border.

PDA AMERICA

  • IOT: Healthcare for All October Call
    PDA’s monthly Healthcare for All Issue Organizing Team (IOT) conference call had four guests who have pivotal roles in the single-payer movement. Donna Smith updated the group about progress in the House and Senate; ...

  • Ted Turner Would Fire Lou Dobbs
    By Linda Milazzo | PDA Blog Contributor Ted Turner would fire Lou Dobbs. How do I know? Because Ted Turner said so: This excerpt from Ted Turner’s April 1, 2008 interview on PBS, in which ...

  • Fight the Freeze. Save Social Security!
    By Marcy Winograd | PDA Blog Contributor Fight the Freeze - No Diet COLA for Seniors! Let’s thank Congressman Anthony Weiner, our single payer champ, for taking to the streets of New York again, this time to ...

  • Clearing up some misconceptions
    By Laura Bonham, PDA Deputy Director and Communications Director As the frenzied healthcare debate inches forward under a cloud of misinformation, we want to reiterate that PDA is firmly committed to Medicare for All, single-payer healthcare. Our ...

  • No Surprises: Baucus-Braly-Blue Cross Bailout Adva ...
    Whew. Saddle up, America. And say it three times, really fast: Baucus-Braly-Blue Cross Bailout, Baucus-Braly-Blue Cross Bailout, Baucus-Braly-Blue Cross Bailout. Get ready for the next act in the intricate drama that has been unfolding under the ...

Marler Blog

  • Camp Bournedale E. coli O157:H7 Hamburger Outbreak ...
    Rhode Island health officials said 15 students from Lincoln Middle School suffered diarrhea after a trip to Camp Bournedale in Cedarville Massachusetts last week. Two of the students tested positive for E. coli O157:H7 . Two students were hospitalized for treatment. Rhode Island health officials sa ...

  • Meatpoulty.com - Secretary for food safety vacancy ...
    Steve Bjerklie MeatPoultry.com WASHINGTON — The real consequence of the continuing vacancy in the Undersecretary for Food Safety’s post at USDA is that there is no one "with the gravitas of a Senate appointment" to unite the industry, consumer organizations and regulatory agencies into an effort ...

  • What do "Balloon Boy's" Dad and Stewart Parnell ha ...
    Not much really. Last word from US Attorney's Office on the Peanut Corporation of America Investigation: For Immediate Release February 9, 2009 FBI Atlanta Contact: Special Agent Stephen Emmett (404) 679-6451 FBI To Assist FDA in Ongoing Investigation of the Peanut Corporation of America A ...

  • FDA Chief Testifies that Peanut Corporation of Ame ...
    I have been watching the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions food safety hearing this morning by live video . Watching and listening to the Senators' opening comments gave me hope that S 510 may well pass - and before the end of the year. It would be great to see both the Hou ...

  • Opening Statement of U.S. Senator Michael B. Enzi, ...
    “Keeping America’s Families Safe: Reforming the Food Safety System” Good morning. Food safety is not a partisan issue – we all want the safest food supply possible. The United States has one of the best food safety systems in the world. But even in the best of systems, there is always ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.26.09
    Quick Spin: GGT Cozmo NEV - rickety things come in pricey packages Giving low-speed electric vehicles a bad name. Quick Spin: Myers Motors NmG - redefining fast and small for the future If th ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.23.09
    World's Largest Rebate? Save $42,000 on Tesla Roadster in Colorado Now that's a discount. VIDEO: Mythbusters test golf ball-like dimpling effect on fuel economy (*Spoiler Alert!*) Fore! ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.22.09
    Tokyo 2009: hybrid-only, Japan-only Toyota Sai unveiled The Prius' bigger brother has arrived. Quick Spin: newly upgraded Bright IDEA delivers It's better in person than in pictures, that's ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.21.09
    Tokyo 2009: Nissan confirms three EVs for production, including Infiniti The EV onslaught continues in Japan. GM's OnStar EV Lab opens its doors, loves the Chevy Volt All those y ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.20.09
    REPORT: Nissan Land Glider could come to the States as an Infiniti Didn't see this one coming. eBay Find of the day: battery powered Porsche 356 Speedster replica Wonderful choice for a conve ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable: The Dangers of cloud comput ...
    This week we are covering the dangers of cloud computing. Get it? With the major loss of consumer data for the Sidekick smartphone users -- the Sidekick is made by Danger, a Microsoft company -- the whole idea of "cloud" safety was brought front and center for consumers. Businesses, likewise, are ...

  • Tech advice from Tim Berners-Lee
    Tim Berners-Lee at the Web 2.0 Summit. (Credit: Rafe Needleman/CNET) SAN FRANCISCO--When Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, entered the room for the final interview at the Web 2.0 Summit, the audience stood up for him. Appropriately so, since most of those present here Thursday ...

  • iCurrent: A news aggregator that works
    There have been dozens, maybe hundreds, of companies that have tried to create useful Web browser start pages and content aggregation sites. Popular themes include RSS readers, widget collection pages, and user-filtered news hubs. I've seen and tried a lot of them but rarely use them after ...

  • Hands-on with Twitterized Bing
    Bing's Twitter search starts with a zeitgeist view. (Credit: Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET) Microsoft is getting into the real-time search business, as we reported earlier Wednesday from the Web 2.0 Summit. It's good to see a mainstream product dive into this stream, as one of ...

  • HP can't save print. But big props for trying
    Hewlett-Packard is announcing two projects at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday it hopes will give new life to print--books and magazines in particular. Additions to two projects, BookPrep and MagCloud, let content that's been too expensive or difficult to print get out to reade ...

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!

  • Trick or Treat for Climate Change
    Halloween is around the corner, and children will soon be dressing up and chanting “trick or treat,” their demand for candy backed up by the threat of a prank. Climate-change activists, from pranksters to presidents, are doing the same. Read More Listen to this Column

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

  • Watch What You Tweet
    A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 protests, then subjected to an FBI raid this week at home—all for using Twitter. Elliot Madison faces charges of hindering apprehension or prosecution, criminal use of a communication facility and possessio ...

  • Nomi Prins on "It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bail ...
    Nomi Prins is a former investment banker turned journalist. She worked at Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns. She is the author of several books; her latest, just out, is called It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street . She spoke on the them ...

  • Scanning the Horizon of Books and Libraries
    A battle is raging over the future of books in the digital age and the role that libraries will play. One case now before a U.S. federal court may, some say, grant a practical monopoly on recorded human knowledge to global Internet search giant Google. The complex case has attracted opposition from ...

Farming Pathogens

  • A Visitation of the Influenza
    In seeping through the world’s every nook and cranny, pandemics have a way of forcing themselves into our lives as a lurking presence. Even the most insular of functionaries, who typically makes his living solving problems by ignoring them, straightens up and takes notice.    As an epidemic ...

  • I Do Like Green Eggs and Ham
    Much of what we’ve addressed on this blog has focused on the epidemiological failures of industrial farming. But what of the alternatives? Can we farm in another way? Is another world possible?    It’s only since I’ve moved to the Midwest that I’ve learned that not only is that world p ...

  • Heart of Modeling
    Greed is often mistaken for humanity’s heart of darkness. Look instead to the rationalization that transforms the most rapacious pillaging into an act of benevolence. A one-ton bomb dropped on a peasant wedding party is dissembled into regret without responsibility or, baser yet, a tough love offe ...

  • Bird Flu’s Industrial Revolution
    Public talks can be private affairs. In sharing our work we bare the triumphs and limits of a thinking born in long hours alone or with a few fellow conspirators sworn to secrecy. But in breaking our oaths we are able to take the next step.   In talking bird flu twice this past month I learned [... ...

  • The Agro-Industrial Roots of Swine Flu H1N1
    Mexico appears ground zero for an outbreak of deadly human-specific H1N1.   Of the over 1400 people that have been reportedly infected there so far, 86 have died. Short chains of transmission of the virus have also been reported in California, Texas, Kansas, Ohio, New York City, Canada and New Zeal ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • “ALERT: Special Swine Flu Update”
    By Dr. Joseph Mercola There are far too many points of criticism to respond to them all, but let’s review one point that has come up — a point that is commonly heralded by mandatory vaccination advocates. Many of them take serious issue with my claiming that the swine flu vaccine is not deadl ...

  • German Chancellor, Ministers Get Special Vaccine W ...
    Kurt Nimmo Infowars October 18, 2009 Spiegel Online is reporting that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and government ministers will receive a special, additive-free H1N1 vaccine. “The Vakzin [vaccine] does not contain disputed additives — contrary to the vaccine for the remainder of the populati ...

  • How to be a swine flu vaccine zealot (satire)
    By Mike Adams Swine flu vaccine zealots are like zombies… they just keep coming at you, mindless… heartless… empty-headed and a tad funky on the smell, too. But I’ve noticed from observing the behavior of a few such zealots that not all of them fully comprehend precisely how to act like a ...

  • Informing ALL Global Officials of the Inherent Dan ...
    From The Shot Heard Around the World THIS LETTER IS FOR ALL of you on this PUBLIC OFFICIALS GUEST LIST who have received certified letters and faxes. The Jig Is Up! You know the information is reaching a critical mass when people start writing rap songs and artistic essays about it! We’re start ...

  • High-Fructose Corn Syrup Produces Toxic Chemical & ...
    By Mike Adams If you know anything about the food supply, you know that honey bees are a crucial part of the food production chain. In the United States, they pollinate roughly one-third of all the crops we eat, and without them, we’d be facing a disastrous collapse in viable food production. That ...

Care2 Picks

  • Top 10 Places to Get Online Radio for Free
    Then grab a pair of headphones, the below top ten places to get online radio, and make the work fly by with your favorite music. Best of all, these stations are completely free to listen to and work with a pop up blocker. Submitted by Sophie S. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  • Coal Waste
    Sourcewatch compilation of information on coal waste includes information often radioactive/concentrated heavy metal coal ash contaminates groundwater at ALL 'containment' sites Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  • Are U.S. Government Contractors Still Supporting ...
    But just visiting the brothels wasn't enough for some of the ArmorGroup employees. Gordon claims to have overhead one AG recruit arranging to buy a girl for $20,000, but was skeptical that he could start making money off her right away. Submitted by Damaris C. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!   ...

  • National reconciliation moves forward in Algeria
    Algeria has addressed the cases of nearly 25,000 victims of terrorism through its national reconciliation programme, and many key terrorists have surrendered, leading some observers to proclaim the process a success. Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  • Rumours of War -Destroyers of Peace
    Topical news stories around Iran's nuclear generation plants and a comment with a different twist : why did Iran sign the NPT ? Doing so meant other nations were required to respect her right to use nuclear tech responsibly ! The downside is different too Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & G ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...

  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »

  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

  • An Evolving Afghan Policy - American Chronicle
    An Evolving Afghan Policy American Chronicle ... triumph for the forces of Islamic extremism, al-Qaeda would once again gain a foothold, and the return of the Taliban would likely destabilize Pakistan . ...

  • Schools close in Pakistan following university bom ...
    Schools close in Pakistan following university bombings Emirates Business 24/7 ... in Pakistan after suspected militants bombed a university close to the capital, sowing fear across the country as the army presses a major anti- Taliban ... and more »

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Week in pictures: 26th October
    A picture for every day, taking a snapshot view of what is happening in the world around us. Come and browse through our gallery of this week's most inspiring images.

  • Could Julie Andrews get her voice back?
    The hills could once again be alive with the sound of music. Legendary actress and singer Julie Andrews could be given her dulcet tones back thanks to pioneering new voice box research . The star is expected to be one of the first people in the world to have man-made tissue injected into her voice b ...

  • Liam Gallagher buzzing about honey bees
    Liam Gallagher has become the latest celebrity to add his voice to the campaign to save the UK's dwindling honey bee population. The former Oasis frontman, 37, was apparently alerted to the plight of the insects after honey helped cure the sore throat that forced his band to pull out of this year's ...

  • Glove love: uniting lonely gloves
    Glove Love is a new initiative from Do The Green Thing , seeking to take single gloves and put them together with other single gloves to make pairs.

  • 350 challenge to promote climate action
    People around the world will be taking positive action against climate change today to mark the International Day of Climate Action .

Fabius Maximus

  • The 2 most devastating 4GW attacks on America, and ...
    I am sick, no doubt with swine flue, so here is a classic post from the FM archive. — Summary:  building COIN strategies upon our ability to successfully change foreign societies (from information operations up to governmental reform) is like basing our monetary policy on our ability to c ...

  • What will America look like after this recession?
    I planned an update to the the March 2008 post What will America look like after this recession?  But nothing unexpected has happened.  We continue to slide down the slope as predicted.  So here it is unchanged, now a weekend classic on the FM site — a demonstration that the futu ...

  • Foolish but dangerous attempts to manage the media ...
     Each President for several generations whittles away our freedoms.  Each party has their preferences in freedoms to erode; neither displays much interest in expanding our political and economic interests — although all display generosity in trivial matters, and make token efforts on some ...

  • Jo Comerford explains the Joys of Perpetual War
    Introduction by Tom Engelhardt If you want a picture of how Washington deals with American war-making today, check out a moment from NBC’s October 11th “Meet the Press.” David Gregory, the show’s moderator, is conducting a round-table discussion with former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of St ...

  • Lewis Lapham holds a mirror so that American can s ...
    Here are few of the many insights given in Lights, Camera, Democracy!  by Lewis Lapham (2001), a book I strongly recommend ever America read.  He paints portraits of us, and they’re seldom pretty.   I hope they’ll help shock us back to consciousness. Observations in the preface ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • DIY Laser Market Exploding, Cosmetic Surgeons Not ...
    Want to get rid of some unsightly hair, but don’t want to spend the big bucks for electrolysis or a laser clinic? Now, you can buy your own laser and do it yourself. And people are. The growth of the at-home cosmetic-device market, which includes personal lasers, has some professionals buzzing. A ...

  • Make Like a Leaf: Next-Gen Paint Could Strike Lotu ...
    Lotus leaves stay dry by using the natural vibrations of their environments to shake off water, and manmade materials should be able to mimic the water-repelling technique. New research published today in Physics Review Letters by Duke materials scientist Chuan-Hua Chen has solved a long-standing p ...

  • Slick NASA iPhone App Puts Space in Your Pocket
    Can there ever be too many space photos? Here at Wired Science, we believe the answer is no, there can never be too many, or even enough, space photos. And now NASA is aiding our addiction by putting its huge collection of mind-blowing space photos in our pockets. The new NASA iPhone app means that ...

  • Male Humpback Whales Sing Duets
    QUEBEC CITY, Canada — Like a songbird calling another out, one male humpback whale may make another change his tune. Studying humpbacks with methods adapted from bird research has uncovered the first known instances of what look like whales responding musically to each other’s songs, says Danie ...

  • Puppets Teach Lab Safety in Music Video
    After years of suffering through dull lab safety videos, a group of Berkeley students have made a film that could spare a younger generation from watching humorless people with 80’s hair explain the dangers of wearing open-toed shoes while working with chemicals. Their music video evokes the Mup ...

The Progressive Realist

  • More on the Afghan Rorschach test
    A friend in Australia pointed me to the transcript of a speech in Canberra last week by Paul McGeough of the Sydney Morning Herald, who has reported extensively from Afghanistan over the past eight years. The war in Afghanistan has been a bigger matter for a longer time in Australia than in the US, ...

  • Neoconservatism’s Tradeoffs Problem
    One of the signature elements of neoconservative foreign policy is a complete refusal to set priorities or talk about tradeoffs. Whatever problem we happen to be talking about right now needs to be met with bold and decisive action, casting caution to the wind, irrespective of how that impacts other ...

  • Iran and Engagement Lite
    I was going to write this post this morning, but decided to hold off until Iran responded to the IAEA draft agreement on outsourcing the uranium enrichment for its experimental reactor. Good thing I did, because it's actually an easier argument to defend now that Iran has initially declined to accep ...

  • Drone Wars Kill on Average 33% Civilians
    Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann published an analysis at the New America Foundation a couple of days ago on civilian deaths from drone strikes in Pakistan . Key points from the callout on the site: "The Obama administration has dramatically ratcheted up the American drone program in Pakistan. ...

  • America Spends a Lot on Defense
    Yesterday, congress appropriated a $680 billion for the Department of Defense in FY 2010 . Chris Preble observes that, shockingly enough , this $680 billion isn’t even the whole bill: The defense bill represents only part of our military spending. The appropriations bill moving through Congress go ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Public Option Limbo.
    Perhaps the highs and lows of international diplomacy just aren't interesting enough for segments of the press, which is why the "where is Richard Holbrooke ?" question gained some currency after Sen. John Kerry 's breakthrough earlier this week. But sometimes there just isn't any real palace intri ...

  • So Long.
    It seems my week here at TAPPED has come to an end far too quickly. Thanks again to the Prospect for having me, to Alexandra and Phoebe for their ever-helpful edits, and to you all for reading. TAP has some great guest bloggers lined up for the next month, so be sure to stick around. -- Dylan Matth ...

  • What's the Impact of the Matthew Shepard Act?
    Today, the Senate joined the House in passing the Matthew Shepard Act, which provides for stricter sentences if a crime appears to be motivated by anti-gay bias. It's near certain that Obama will sign it, giving the Human Rights Campaign a public relations boost and likely a fundraising bump. But in ...

  • A Worthwhile Swedish Initiative.
    While Maine is set to vote on whether to preserve marriage equality a week from Tuesday, new strides are being made on the other side of the Atlantic: The Lutheran Church of Sweden - the country's largest - is to conduct same-sex marriages from next month. … Sweden's government introduced a ne ...

  • Obama's Foxhole.
    Terence Samuel on the war between Fox News and the White House: In normal times, it would make no sense for the White House to engage Fox News Channel in battle. That tactical decision would make as much sense as a dog chasing a crocodile into a swamp -- the White House is on Fox's turf, and the ca ...

Andy Worthington

  • New Book: The Guantánamo Lawyers – and a ta ...
    Published on November 9 by NYU Press (and available from Amazon), The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison, Outside the Law, is edited by Mark Denbeaux (Seton Hall Law School) and Jonathan Hafetz (ACLU) and “contains over one hundred personal narratives from attorneys who have represented detainee ...

  • Nick Griffin on Question Time: Did the fascist loo ...
    So did he look foolish, or did he get an easy ride? I think he often looked and sounded like an idiotic contrarian, which he obviously is, as anything resembling logic eludes the BNP consistently, and, despite being extraordinarily evasive, valid points were made — either in his own words, or t ...

  • Musicians (Finally) Say No To Music Torture
    Well, that took a while. Nearly a year after George W. Bush’s Republican party was voted out of office, and at least five years after reports first surfaced that music was being used in “War on Terror� facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo as part of a package of “enh ...

  • Photos from the launch of “Outside the Law: Stor ...
    Yesterday’s launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” at the Cochrane Theatre in London was a great success. The documentary was extremely well received, with numerous members of the audience explaining afterwards that it spelled out “man’s inhumanity to man” in the context o ...

  • FILM LAUNCH TONIGHT: Outside the Law: Stories from ...
    So the time has finally arrived when the project that filmmaker Polly Nash and I began two years ago has its first public screening. “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” has its UK premiere this evening at the Cochrane Theatre, in London’s West End. I hope to see some of you there, and ...

Buzzflash

  • A real public option: from political hurricane to ...
    Body I don't know which was more insulting: "60 Minutes"' Steve Kroft's blithering, decontextualized indictment last night of the federal government's ability to competently manage a "medical bureaucracy," or the anonymous Democratic aide who mentioned last week to the NY Times that "The ...

  • Montrealers Deliver a Fiery Message to Bush: You ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY By Charlotte Dennet       They threw shoes – so many shoes that hotel staff had to roll out a laundry bin onto the street to pick them all up, and even then, the bin could barely contain them all.        They chanted: “Bush: Assassin! Terroriste! Criminal!” and then, ...

  • Those dithering Republicans
    Body I was going to write this morning about the latest events in our epic Beltway saga of health-care reform, but, at the rate events are moving, it seems that every columnist's column on the issue is hopelessly outdated by the time he finishes it. No one has yet determined if Harry Rei ...

  • Ruth Marcus Blindly Defends Fox 'News' to Earn Buz ...
    BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK Ruth Marcus For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America. "For entertainment purposes only" is the warning you get when you watch TV ads for psychics. This ...

  • What Will You Do for Climate Change? 350.org and t ...
    GREEN IS GOOD by Margaret Smith Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun!   Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun! Wednesday morning, eight o'clock am. My alarm rings. After staying up and doing homework until about 2 am, getting myself out of bed was hard. I have to be at BuzzFlash headquarters by ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • "America's Priorities," by the Beltway elite
    (updated below) Something very unusual happened on The Washington Post Editorial Page today :  they deigned to address a response from one of their readers, who "challenged [them] to explain what he sees as a contradiction in [their] editorial positions":  namely, the Post demands that Ob ...

  • The Washington Post's 2002 "reporting" on Iran
    Anyone who believes the establishment media in the U.S. learned even a single lesson from what happened with Iraq should immediately read this featured Washington Post article by Joby Warrick, which gravely and frighteningly warns that Iran's Qom nuclear facility "was intended explicitly for making ...

  • Benjamin Netanyahu's definition of "war crimes"
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded yesterday to the U.N. Report finding Israel guilty of war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity by pointing out that Hamas committed war crimes -- a fact nobody disputes but which doesn't exonerate Israel in any way.  Netanyahu argued, accur ...

  • Tucker Carlson and the Right's perpetual self-vict ...
    The number one rule of American politics:  the greatest, most insatiable need of the standard conservative is to turn themselves into oppressed little victims.  In the Daily Beast today , Tucker Carlson devotes his entire column to complaining that Obama is "bullying" Fox News, absurdly claiming th ...

  • The unconstitutionality of the Congressional GOP's ...
    Yesterday, GOP Rep. Paul Broun  had a five-minute dialogue with Rep. Alan Grayson about the unconstitutionality of the Congressional GOP's numerous amendments directed exclusively at ACORN, all of which bar ACORN from receiving any government contracts due to alleged wrongdoing (not adjudicated by ...

The BiPartisan Report

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

  • Bipartisanship: The Eulogy
    A pretty ironic title for a post on a site called Bipartisan Report, isn’t it? Back in January I joined this site with a strong belief that it is possible to have a conversation around issues... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • #WeLovetheNHS
    The astroturf organization, Conservatives for Patients' Rights (CPR), started a backlash across the Pond yesterday. As reported by the Daily Times the Brits didn't take too kindly to have their... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Conservatives and “The Big Lie”
    It was GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss who pushed me over the edge. Not that I should be surprised that Chambliss would make up a lie out of whole cloth about health care. The only way that he got elected... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Why the GOP can’t afford to have Obama succeed o ...
    I’m no big fan of Newt Gingrich, but I also know that he has a lot of political smarts (not that he always uses them appropriately). In the early part of the year, he made a very interesting... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Sciencebase

  • A month with an electricity monitor
    Right, the kettle is on for a morning brew and apparently our household is using 3.07 kilowatts. That will include the chest freezer in the garage, the refrigerator in the kitchen, the electric kettle, my laptop and wireless network, oh and a little device sitting on my desk right now that’s monit ...

  • Breast Cancer, Plankton, Tellurides
    My latest contributions to SpectroscopyNOW.com and my current Alchemist column on ChemWeb.com are now live: Sweetening breast cancer risk – Experimental and epidemiological evidence previously suggested that circulating glucose and insulin may play a role in the emergence of breast cancer. Now a s ...

  • Climate Change Action
    It’s Blog Action Day 2009 and the subject this year is Climate Change. So, here are a few resources for readers seeking out climate information: IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – The IPCC assesses the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the unders ...

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

  • Moon, Earthquakes, Chemical Weapons
    The media was today almost drenched with the idea that water and other wonders would be been found on the Moon, but unfortunately LXPRESS was the least moist of damp squibs ever and no 50 km plume was seen, not even a little splash. NASA scientists are trying to figure out why. Meanwhile, in th ...

change: org.

  • Show Me The Money: Why Don't More Women Ask For A ...
    The New York Times had an excellent op-ed this weekend by Joanne Lipman, the former deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal who was also the founding editor in chief of Condé Nast Portfolio magazine. The piece titled, "The Mismeasure of Woman " reflects on the Shriver Report and catalogs ...

  • More and More Young People Take To Sustainable Far ...
    Newspapers sure do love their human-interest recession stories. When those stories involve people quitting their jobs for something more fulfilling, that's even better. But the perfect story, of course, is people taking to the land, turning to farms, and making a fresh start. Of course, we love eve ...

  • Meanwhile, In The Rest of the World...
    My coverage has been pretty nonstop conference-related for the past week and a half or so. I've been going back through the Reader to see what I've missed. The Web 2.0 conference has generated a huge amount of conversation in the tech space. On the nonprofit side of things, there were a lot of grea ...

  • Rape is not a Preexisting Condition
    We need health care reform in this country for so many reasons, one of which is to ensure that victims of crime get the treatment they need. The Huffington Post Investigative Fund reported horrifying tales of several women who were denied health insurance because they had received treatment after b ...

  • Healthy Americans Act Missing in Action
    Watching the Senate difficulties this week – failing to work around fancy math, having to dump fair physician payments as a result, and trying to substitute an ineffective opt-out public option for even more impotent co-ops – it makes you wonder about Wyden-Bennett. Remember S. 391, aka the Hea ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • In Approving New Agency, Lawmakers Take Significan ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 22, 2009 Public Citizen Note: Today, the House Financial Services Committee approved H.R. 3126, the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) Act, sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), by a vote of 39-29. read more

  • Free Press Welcomes Progress on Net Neutrality
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 22, 2009 Free Press The Federal Communications Commission today approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Network Neutrality policies that would preserve the open Internet on all wired and wireless networks. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Commissioners Michael Co ...

  • Polar Bears to Benefit From Proposal to Safeguard ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 22, 2009 Defenders of Wildlife Summary: • The Interior Department today announced its proposal to designate more than 200,000 square miles of critical habitat to protect struggling polar bears in the Arctic. • The critical habitat proposal includes both Arctic sea ...

  • US State Department Gets It Wrong on Chevron’s O ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 22, 2009 Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity (FACES) Chevron Corporation's recent nomination to the State Department's annual Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) for its Philippine-based operations was met with opposition from US and Philippine env ...

  • US Rep. Stupak Reverses Course on Giving Federal C ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 22, 2009 The Michigan Messenger U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D.-Mich.) has changed his proposed legislation that would have given several acres of Coast Guard property in Cheboygan, Mich. read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • NoEscalation.org: Can the Peace Movement Reach Pre ...
    by Robert Naiman If there were ever a time when the peace movement should be able to have an impact on U.S. foreign policy, that time should be now. If there were ever a time for extraordinary effort to achieve such an impact, that time is now. read more

  • Obama's Choice: Failed War President or the Prince ...
    by Nick Turse When the Nobel Committee awarded its annual peace prize to President Barack Obama, it afforded him a golden opportunity seldom offered to American war presidents: the possibility of success. Should he decide to go the peace-maker route, Obama stands a chance of really accomplishing so ...

  • America's Real Quagmire
    by Mark Weisbrot What kind of a public debate can we have on the most vital issues of the day in the United States ? A lot depends on the media, which determines how these issues are framed for most people. read more

  • Forests Count in Climate Change
    by David Suzuki with Faisal Moola In 1992, I attended an event that filled me with hope. Canada and the rest of the world had just signed a climate change treaty at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. I remember being optimistic that the world could come together to fight the greatest ...

  • The Murders at al-Sukariya
    by Reese Erlich and Peter Coyote Akram Hamid scrubs the grease off his hands after a day of labor in Abu Kamal, a small Syrian town not far from the Iraqi border. Twenty minutes later, the mechanic rides his motorcycle past the autumn-dry rushes along the west bank of the placid Euphrates River, to ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Canada pushes for lower EU subsidies at trade talk ...
    Canada is pushing European Union countries to drop subsidies for agricultural products at talks aimed at reaching a bilateral free-trade agreement.

  • Anti-catch share group stifled at NH fishery forum ...
    Last week's two-day seminar on the dynamic potential in transforming the commonly owned resources of the sea into private, tradeable catch shares produced many concerns and worries. But only one voice was heard against the transformation already underway in New England and mdash; and that voice was ...

  • Immediate rehab of Angat Dam urged (Manila Bulleti ...
    Bulacan Vice Gov. Willy Sy-Alvarado on Monday called for the immediate rehabilitation of Angat Dam following the confirmation by Phivolcs director Renato Solidum that a fracture runs across the reservoir.

  • To solve pollution problems, planners examine stea ...
    FAIRBANKS — The roots of downtown’s largest plant tunnel under much of the city, thick steel pipes twisting beneath intersections and sidewalks on their way toward the city’s biggest buildings. In...

  • French water giant spends $25,000 to back Novato S ...
    Veolia Water, a French company selected to operate the Novato Sanitary District's new $90 million wastewater treatment plant, is spending $25,000 to back board incumbents being challenged by critics of the privatization deal.

Guardian

  • War crimes trial halted as Karadzic boycotts heari ...
    Judge adjourns first day of prosecution statements after ex-Bosnian Serb leader says he needs more time to prepare defence The trial at the UN's Yugoslav war crimes tribunal of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader seen as the mastermind of the worst ethnic violence in Europe in the postw ...

  • Americans dead in Afghan air crashes
    Hostile fire ruled out in one collision involving three civilians while US engages in 'war games' for exit strategy Fourteen Americans were killed today in a series of helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, the US military said. Seven US troopers and three US civilians working for the government died wh ...

  • Blackburn play on, despite swine flu
    • Chris Samba and David Dunn laid low with illness • Other players showing symptoms, says Sam Allardyce Blackburn have confirmed that tomorrow's Carling Cup tie against Peterborough will go ahead despite an outbreak of swine flu at the club. Chris Samba and David Dunn missed Blackburn's 5-0 defe ...

  • 'Bedroom snooping' claim over 2011 census
    Government accused of planning to pry into sleeping arrangements of British people The government was yesterday accused of planning to pry into the sleeping arrangements of the British people after drawing up "invasive and intrusive questions" for the national census in 2011. The Conservatives were ...

  • Wenger left fuming over referee
    • Arsenal concede two goals from set-pieces • Criticism of free-kick and penalty awarded to West Ham Arsène Wenger lamented a "major missed opportunity" as Arsenal lost a 2-0 lead to draw 2-2 at West Ham United today but the manager reserved most of his ire for the referee Chris Foy, whom he ac ...

Diigo | Green Community

  • All About Ashtrays
    trash can, trash, recycling, waste, cleaning, environment, green, society Highlights and Sticky Notes: Far fewer people smoke now than did thirty years ago, but that's not to say it's completely left in the past. Tags: trash , can , recycling , waste , cleaning , environment , green , society by: al ...

  • Climate talks may go to last minute
    The world may have to wait until the dying seconds of a U.N. climate summit in December for a global deal to channel business dollars into low-carbon energy, industry and analysts said on Wednesday. Comments: The world may have to wait until the dying seconds of a U.N. climate summit in December for ...

  • Water Filtration Systems: What You Can Do To Stay ...
    Clear and chemical-free water is a primary way to achieve health and wellness. Thanks to the fact that these days there is a better understanding of the relationship between drinking water and health Comments: Clear and chemical-free water is a primary way to achieve health and wellness. Thanks to t ...

  • World leaders must intervene in climate deal - Bri ...
    British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday urged world leaders to intervene personally to break deadlocked talks to agree a global climate change deal in December. Comments: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday urged world leaders to intervene personally to break deadlocked talks to agre ...

  • Global Warming May Spur Increased Growth In Pacifi ...
    Global warming in the next century could cause a significant increase in the productivity of high-elevation forests of the Pacific Northwest, a new study suggests. However, forests at lower elevations – which in recent years have accounted for more than 80 percent of the region’s timber harvest ...

Electronic Intifada

  • What does China's ascendance mean for Palestine?
    George Habash, the late leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), called China Palestine's "best friend." Indeed, he was on an official PFLP visit to China when the conflict ...

  • Audio: Interviews with Olmert protesters in San Fr ...
    Last night, 22 activists were arrested at Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's speech to the World Affairs Council at the Westin St. Francis Hotel at Union Square in downtown San Francisco. Mor ...

  • Why I disrupted Olmert
    If former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had merely been a diplomat or an academic offering a controversial viewpoint, then interrupting his 15 October speech at University of Chicago's Mandel Hal ...

  • VIDEO: Citizens arrest, disruption of Olmert in Sa ...
    Twenty-two activists were arrested at Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's speech to the World Affairs Council on 22 October between 6:30 and 7:30pm at the Westin St. Francis Hotel at Union Square in ...

  • Israeli Jews take on settlers
    AWARTA, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Away from the media spotlight that focuses on the widening chasm between Israelis and Palestinians, a group of Israeli humanists is quietly working to break down bar ...

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