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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • POLITICS: Thai-Cambodian Tension Tests Claims of ...
    BANGKOK, Oct 28 (IPS) - The relationship between South-east Asian neighbours Thailand and Cambodia enters another uneasy stretch following a round of verbal salvoes fired before and during a just concluded regional summit, where much is made of strides in achieving unity.

  • RIGHTS-CHILE: Stop Violence Against Indigenous Ch ...
    SANTIAGO, Oct 27 (IPS) - Reports of police violence against Mapuche children in the southern Chilean region of Araucanía prompted the country's UNICEF representative, Gary Stahl, to express the agency's deep concern at a meeting with three government ministers.

  • MIDEAST: 'It's the Occupation, Stupid'
    JERUSALEM, Oct 27 (IPS) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself embattled on several fronts as he tries - hitherto unsuccessfully - to ward off the enormous international pressure on Israel unleashed by the Goldstone report for its conduct of the war against Hamas in Gaza earli ...

  • BOLIVIA: Politics, a Risky Business for Women
    LA PAZ, Oct 27 (IPS) - Taking an active part in politics in Bolivia can be a hazardous undertaking. Hundreds of reports of violence against women participating in politics attest to the risk. And while attacks go unpunished, a bill designed to protect the rights of women occupying public office ...

  • RIGHTS-UGANDA: Colliding with the Fourth Estat ...
    KAMPALA, Oct 27 (IPS) - Charles Odobo Bichachi, editor of the Independent Newspaper has in a span of a year, been summoned to the police several times accused of publishing seditious statements. And just last month, Bichachi fell into trouble again: this time over a cartoon.

Scoop - NZ

  • Climate change: We are all terrorists now
    And so the UK has now joined the list of countries - like Fiji and the former Soviet Union - which restrict their people's freedom of movement based on their political views. Meanwhile, the conflation of democratic participation and public protest - already well-advanced in the UK - continues.  »  P ...

  • Madoff crony Pickower found dead
    One of the leading players in the Bernard Madoff scandal was found dead Sunday in the swimming pool of his sprawling mansion on Palm Beach.Billionaire Jeffry Picower, 67, whose reputation as a generous philanthropist was sullied when investigators claimed he was a beneficiary of Madoff's $65 billion ...

  • Honduran Regime Enlists Foreign Paramilitaries
    Even more evidence has come to light regarding the desperation and disregard for human rights of the Honduran coup regime and its elite backers. On Friday, October 9 a United Nations human rights panel issued a warning concerning the presence of contracted foreign paramilitary forces operating insid ...

  • Florida: Risks & Ethics of Strategic Defaults
    Andres Duque thought he got a real steal when he paid $125,000 for his Little Haiti condo. But four years later, similar units are selling for $35,000 and even less.And so, faced with the prospect of being underwater on his mortgage -- owing more than the unit is worth -- for the next 20 years, Duqu ...

  • Madoff Secrets Go to the Grave
    Jeffry Picower, found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool yesterday, was Suspect Number One in terms of what happened to Madoff's billions. Now, Allan Dodds Frank asks, will they ever find the money?Before he was found in his swimming trunks, dead at the bottom of the pool at Casa Del Sud, his $ ...

Independent ( London )

  • £250,000 EU presidential shower Sarkozy never use ...
    French financial watchdogs slammed President Nicolas Sarkozy for spending £160m on his country's six months in charge of the EU - including £250,000 on a personal presidential shower which he never used.

  • Scores killed in Peshawar blast
    A bomb in a crowded market killed more than 80 people and wounded 100 today in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials said.

  • 12 dead in Kabul attack on UN staff
    Gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed a guest house used by UN staff in the heart of the Afghan capital early Wednesday, killing 12 people — including six UN staff — officials said. The US Embassy said one of the UN dead was American.

  • Yacht couple family 'not over-worried'
    The brother of a woman thought to have been captured by pirates while sailing off east Africa today said his family were not "grossly over-worried".

  • Six UN staff killed in Kabul attack
    Taliban militants killed six UN foreign staff in an assault on an international guest-house in Kabul today, raising questions about security for a presidential election run-off due in less than two weeks.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran does not owe anybody any sort of confidence b ...
    Summary: Natanz nuclear plant Iran does not owe anybody any sort of confidence building measure because it is Iran that has been on the receiving end of hypocritical and illegal sanctions and related misinformation. source: Huffington Post read more

  • Iran says will not ship off uranium stockpile in ...
    Summary: Days after the negotiations in Vienna, Iran says it will not ship all of its enriched uranium in one go as it knows exactly how much nuclear fuel supply it requires to power its medical research reactor. source: Press TV read more

  • 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

The Daily Galaxy

  • Current Climate Change Not Part of Natural Cycle: ...
    The possibility that climate change might simply be a natural variation like others that have occurred throughout geologic time is dimming, according to new findings that reveal that sediments retrieved by University at Buffalo geologists from a remote Arctic lake...

  • 50 Billion Suns -The Biggest Black Hole in the Uni ...
    Scientists have determined the mass of the largest things that could possibly exist in our universe. New results have placed an upper limit on the current size of black holes - and at fifty billion suns it's pretty damn big....

  • NASA's Energy Blasting Olympics!
    The most exciting Robolympics* on Earth are starting again next week, and unfortunately you won't see a second of it on TV. Because these contestants aren't doing anything important like "throwing a round rock" or "running around in a circle"...

  • Image of the Day: The Great Andromeda Galaxy & Its ...
    Our Milky Way Galaxy is part of a gathering of about 25 galaxies known as the Local Group. Members include the Great Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud, Dwingeloo 1, several small irregular galaxies, and...

  • Is Stephen Hawking Replaceable? String Theorist Mi ...
    At the beginning of the month, Stephen Hawking retired from the prestigious position of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, after 30 years in the chair once occupied by Sir Isaac Newton. His could scarcely been a...

Natural News

  • Swine flu peaks out before vaccines even make it i ...
    (NaturalNews) Swine flu infections have peaked out in the USA, even before drug companies could get their vaccines injected into everyone. According to CDC findings announced recently in Atlanta, one in five U.S. children have already experienced the flu this month, and most of those were likely H1N ...

  • Curcumin inhibits cancers of the head and neck
    (NaturalNews) The yellowish orange Indian spice turmeric, used to flavor curries, contains a remarkable phytochemical known as curcumin -- and this natural substance is the target of feverish research across a spectrum of medical disciplines. The reason? Curcumin has shown remarkable promise in help ...

  • Vitamin D: How to Determine Your Optimal Dose
    (NaturalNews) In the wide world of supplements, vitamin D is the superstar. For the last few years, this humble nutrient has been featured prominently in allopathic and alternative circles alike. It has basked in the rays of media publicity, and has survived an onslaught of scientific scrutiny. And ...

  • All About Chelation
    (NaturalNews) Abundant, durable, malleable, resistant to corrosion: No wonder lead has been such a popular metal throughout human history. Ancient Romans found a multitude of uses for it, from lining water pipes and drinking vessels to sweetening wine. What they didn't realize were the detrimental h ...

  • Exposure to Earlier Flu Viruses Provides Many with ...
    (NaturalNews) Despite all the panic and hype about the H1N1 pandemic and the rush to immunize people in droves against the virus, the fact is -- so far -- the outbreak has been fairly mild. Now University of California (UC) Davis, researchers studying H1N1, formerly referred to as "swine flu," have ...

TheGallopingBeaver

  • Step Right Up . . . .
    Need more exercise? Sweden and Volkswagen have an entertaining way to get it . . . .

  • Ethanol from almost anything?
    AROUND THE TIME THAT THE BOTTOM DROPPED OUT of the world economy, GM invested in a start-up by name of Coskata, which has developed a proprietary process to produce alcohol from just about anything. Pundits were not impressed. Well, it seems that Coskata is the real deal. They've just opened a mediu ...

  • A winning library
    A hat-tip to Helmut; thank-you, sir.

  • On a lighter note
    LEIF PENG IS AN ILLUSTRATOR in Hamilton, Ontario, who has a wonderful site devoted to those artists he admires, called Today's Inspiration .  Here, he celebrates the art and career of Pete Hawley. So, who's Pete Hawley? Looking over the many phases of Pete Hawley's career... from his high school co ...

  • M & M . . . .
    Matt and Michael are getting a bit impatient. Is there a "movement" stirring? One can only hope . . . . (Cross-posted from Moved to Vancouver )

Media Matters for America

  • Limbaugh repeatedly refers to Obama as a "boy" an ...
    On his October 27 radio show, Rush Limbaugh referred to President Obama as "this little boy, this little man-child president." Limbaugh has repeatedly referred to Obama as a "boy" and as a "man-child", including calling him "the little boy president" and claiming that Democrats and the media cr ...

  • Media differentiate Beck's "opinions" from Wallace ...
    In discussing the Obama administration's recent criticisms of Fox News, several media figures have argued that Glenn Beck's show and other Fox News' "opinion" programming are separate and distinct from the "news" programming of Chris Wallace and others and should be viewed as such. However, Wallace ...

  • Media uncritically trumpet Lieberman's dubious pub ...
    Several media outlets have uncritically reported Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-CT) statement that he will oppose cloture for the Senate health care reform bill -- which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said will include a public option that each state could opt out of -- because he believes the publ ...

  • Commentators again tout poll results to make flawe ...
    Several conservative commentators have touted a Gallup poll finding that 20 percent of respondents identify themselves as "liberal," 36 percent as "moderate" and 40 percent as "conservative" to criticize President Obama and his agenda and to claim America is ideologically a "conservative" count ...

  • Memory lapse: Politico asks, "What if Bus ...
    In support of his dubious argument that the press is treating President Obama more favorably than President Bush, Politico 's Josh Gerstein falsely suggested that unlike David Axelrod, Karl Rove was never involved in national security meetings. In addition, Gerstein advanced the falsehood that ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Netanyahu Today: First Hell Freezes, Then The Sett ...
    In an interview in Sunday's Washington Post, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may go further than any of his predecessors in rejecting a settlement freeze -- this after President Obama went further than any of his predecessors in demanding one. In... Sponsored Topics: Washington Post - Barack O ...

  • Bring Out the Cots
    So Joe Lieberman thinks he's a mighty force? Here's what Harry Reid could tell him and his stalwart allies: Show us the mettle, Joe & Co. If you want to filibuster, make it a real filibuster. None of this namby-pamby... Sponsored Topics: Harry Reid - Joe Lieberman - Filibuster - United States - ...

  • Day 2 at J Street: Young Gaza Man Describes the H ...
    Between sessions at the amazing J Street conference, people mill around talking to friends and, sometimes, just a person standing near by. I was lucky enough to find myself talking to a young man from Gaza, in Washington for the... Sponsored Topics: J Street - Washington - Middle East - Warfare ...

  • Peggy Noonan Says That It's All Obama's Fault Now
    This is worth looking at. It is Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal arguing that supporters of the President can no longer argue that he inherited the mess (the wars, the economic collapse) because he's been President for 9... Sponsored Topics: Peggy Noonan - Wall Street Journal - United St ...

  • Whither Obama's Civic Faith -- and Ours?
    American religious historians see at least three Great Awakenings since the 1740s. In each, a lot of the country was swept up in torrents of enthusiasm that rattled defenders of established order (including churches that joined altar to throne) and... Sponsored Topics: United States - Religion - ...

TruthOut

Planetsave

  • Study Suggests Insecticide Causes Lupus and Arthri ...
    New research out of Philadelphia suggests a link between women’s exposure to household insecticides (including roach and mosquito killers) and the autoimmune disorders rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Previous research has shown a link of agricultural pesticides to higher risk of rheumatoid arthr ...

  • 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
    The Texas Progressive Alliance is ready for the start of the World Series, and it presents to you its weekly highlight reel as we await the first pitch. quizas of South Texas Chisme wonders about the US detaining a Mexican human rights activist. WWJD on Carter Avenue? TXsharon wants to know if Chesa ...

  • 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:

Press TV

  • Iran environment in grave danger
    Iran's Department of the Environment has warned that Iran is among the 10 countries which cause the most environmental destruction in the world.

  • Iraq to rebuild Saddam-era reactors
    Iraq is reportedly lobbying for approval to rebuild its nuclear reactors, 19 years after their destruction by British and American war planes under Saddam Hussein.

  • Peshawar blast toll continues to rise
    A powerful blast has ripped through a crowded market in Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar, killing at least 80 people amid fears of rising death toll.

  • Three killed in Somalia clashes
    At least three people have been killed in clashes between Somali government forces and militants in capital Mogadishu, witnesses say.

  • Iran sees rise in oil prices for 2010
    Iran's OPEC governor predicts a rise in oil prices for next year due to rising signs of recovery in the global economies.

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Health Care Reform Booby Trap Number 2
    Regardless of the ultimate fate of the again-endangered public option, the rest of the health care reform bill contains other booby traps that need attention. Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake discusses the consequences of allowing Big Pharma to keep making obscene, windfall profits off life-saving drugs. ...

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Fourteen years later, the trial finally begins.  Prosecutors at the genocide and war crimes trial of ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic have branded him the leader of an ethnic cleansing campaign. The court ruled the trial in The Hague could resume despite Mr Karadzic boycotting it for a second ...

  • "Listen to the Screams"
    Do you think seven years of our political leaders hysterically defending torture as the only way to keep us safe might have something to do with the incidence of police brutality skyrocketing to Bull Connor levels? A cell phone video shows San Jose police officers repeatedly using batons and a Taser ...

  • Here's What It's All About
    In case you ever let even the teensiest doubt creep into the darkest recesses of your mind that Wall Street parasites were fueling much of the fight against meaningful health care reform or that they will eagerly exploit the lives and deaths of the rest of us for a 2% raise in stock prices... here i ...

  • That's a nice committee chair you have there, Joe? ...
    Traitor Joe strikes again. Lieberman is threatening to go all in with the republicans and filibuster any healthcare reform bill that has a public option. He's supposed to be a public servant, but this traitorous, chickenshit cocksucker has no interest in serving the actual public. He is a chump for ...

Care 2

  • ACTION ALERT: Stop Live Animal Markets!
    San Francisco's live markets abuse not only domestic fowl like chickens and ducks -- but also frogs, turtles, rabbits, guinea pigs, game birds, fish and lobster. Turtles suffer some of the worst conditions... Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  • Help Save Walrus From Massive Stampede Deaths-Take ...
    The rapid melting of sea ice due to climate change is forcing the Pacific walrus, a well-known resident of the Arctic seas between Alaska and Siberia, into a land-based existence for which it is not adapted. Submitted by Tierney G. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  • Big Cats and Monarchs at Art Museum
    “Perfect Devotion Two” (2005) is the second work in the exhibition, featuring rescued tigers from the Shambala Preserve, a big-cat rescue ranch in Southern California. The subjects of this exhibition are Simba, Mona, and Zoë, who were discovered together Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat  |   No ...

  • Michael Moore's Action Plan: 15 Things Every Ameri ...
    It's the #1 question I'm constantly asked after people see my movie: "OK -- so NOW what can I DO?!" Well, you've come to the right place! 'Cause I got 15 things you and I can do right now to fight back and try to fix this very broken system. Submitted by Kekuhoumana K. to US Politics & Gov't  |   N ...

  • Swine flu vaccinations: Mixed messages
    THE WORLD’S dealing with a pandemic, but those on health care’s front lines — the very people the public looks to for advice during health emergencies — seem sharply divided on the merits of the primary weapon produced to combat swine flu, vaccinations. Submitted by Janet Solomon to Health & Wel ...

GreenBiz

  • Sustainable Minds Releases New, Web-Based Life Cyc ...
    Software and information services company Sustainable Minds has released a new life cycle assessment (LCA) program to help companies design greener products and understand the impacts of new and existing products. The Web-based software doesn't require any previous LCA training and provides sustaina ...

  • The Smart Grid Is On Its Way -- Slowly
    Today, President Obama travels to Arcadia, Florida, home to one of the nation’s biggest solar power plants, to announced 100 grants providing a total of $3.4 billion in recovery-act funding for the smart grid.

  • BSR 2009: The State of Sustainability in 'The Worl ...
    One session at this year's Business for Social Responsibility conference focused on how sustainability initiatives are taking root in China; the head of BSR's China operations sat down for an interview to explain how the country is succeeding -- and falling short -- on CSR activities.

  • 1.8M Federal Workers Urged to Brainstorm Ways to G ...
    The Obama Administration has called on the United States’ 1.8 million civilian workers and members of the military to help carry out the president’s federal sustainability drive by participating in a brainstorming effort that’s intended to cull the best ideas on how to green the government. ...

  • 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.

Reuters Global

  • Will Queen Elizabeth give the pope a warm welcome ...
    But what is Queen Elizabeth II likely to say when she is set to play host to the pope next year?

  • Gridlock in the Mideast
    Groups of men from the refugee camp, with no obvious authority but the odd chequered headscarf or a don't-mess-with-me moustache, started forcing apart the gridlocked mess. A few thousand years after Moses and the Red Sea, another miracle in the Middle East.

  • Denying Afghanistan to al Qaeda; is that really th ...
    How important is a safe haven such as Afghanistan to groups such as al Qaeda. A debate is raging on whether denying a sanctuary to militants is really the key to winning the war.

  • British foreign minister tries to revive Blair can ...
    British Foreign Secretary David Miliband launches a rear-guard action to revive Tony Blair's candidacy as president of the European Union. But does the former British prime minister still have a chance?

  • 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.

Ezra Klein

  • Expansion team
    For all that I'm pretty pessimistic on the chances of the public option to trigger much in the way of reform, I think it's important to get it in the bill because getting it in the bill is the first step toward making it better. As it is, the public option is shackled on three levels: It's limited ...

  • Newshouring
    I'll be on Newshour tonight talking public option compromises with Jim Lehrer and the gang.

  • Comparing the House and Senate subsidies
    Some plucky staffers in Rep. Jim Cooper's office (D-Tenn.) have been spending a few long nights huddled before Microsoft Excel, but the result is an uncommonly clear look at the way the House and Senate finance bills help the working class. To understand the graphs, remember that they're measuring ...

  • Will Joe Lieberman filibuster?
    I don't know why I don't take Joe Lieberman's threat to filibuster health-care reform more seriously, but I just don't. Take what Lieberman told reporters today: I told Senator Reid that I'm strongly inclined -- I haven't totally decided, but I'm strongly inclined -- to vote to proceed to the healt ...

  • Restaurant crushes
    I feel this way about Komi : Ever since my inaugural trip to Zuni Cafe in San Francisco with my sister last month, I've been showing all the signs of a borderline-creepy unrequited crush on the restaurant. Whatever you tell me, I guarantee I'll find a way to relate it to my dinner at Zuni. What, yo ...

Booman Tribune

  • What They Should Have Done
    When we talk about cloture, what we really mean is that if even one senator objects to a motion in the Senate, it takes 60 votes to overcome their objection and proceed to the next order of business. It's not different if one senator objects, or forty senators object, you still need sixty to overco ...

  • Quote of the Day
    On Alan Grayson: “Is this news to you that this guy’s one fry short of a Happy Meal?” asked Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)

  • Idiots
    The problem with trying to ram home a public option at Stage Two is that it can't be done unless all 60 Democrats vote for cloture to start debate and to finish debate and vote. With Lieberman promising to filibuster any bill that contains a public option, there's only downside to debating it for w ...

  • Reclaiming "We"
    Mike Elk couldn't have been more right in his thinking about what Martin Luther King, Jr. would have thought of the Teabaggers, Birthers, etc. He would have seen that those faces that at first glance seem twisted in anger are really twisted in pain. He would recognize those faces as well as the sour ...

  • Casual Observation
    Thanks to Ezra for reminding us that this health care reform debate, despite some recent progress, is still about preserving the employer-based health care system. And that system is terrible. That's one reason that I've been focused more on process than policy. I can't get excited about the refo ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • The geek finds its own use for things: Google Wave ...
    A few weeks back, all the major tech blogs were saying “well, Google Wave seems pretty neat, but we’re not really sure what it’s for”. Google themselves surely had a number of potential applications in mind, but whether using Wave as a platform for roleplaying games was one of them remains a ...

  • Natural nuclear reactors
    My magical statistics monkeys tell me that last week’s post on dissociative fugues was surprisingly popular, so I thought I’d share another article I found fascinating. Yet another hat-tip to Geoff Manaugh at BLDGBLOG for this one; it’s a Scientific American report on naturally occuring nuclea ...

  • New nanoparticle self-assembly routes “more like ...
    Here’s the latest on new techniques in nanoparticle self-assembly as discovered by researchers from the US Department of Energy: “We’ve demonstrated a simple yet versatile approach to precisely controlling the spatial distribution of readily available nanoparticles over multiple length scales, ...

  • Underground economics
    Here’s some fresh food for thought via the perpetually reliable BLDGBLOG, in the form of a report (and photoessay) on the black economy of the Gaza strip, which hinges on the many tunnels that run beneath the border: If Gaza runs off a tunnel economy, Rafah is its tunnel town. In Najma Square, in ...

  • Worlds enough, and time: NASA commitee says Mars t ...
    Even someone who struggles as badly with their personal finances as myself would be hard pressed not to realise that NASA finds it hard to balance its lofty ambitions with the number of greenbacks in the jar on the mantelpiece. Now the Agency’s recently-appointed committee is saying the same thing ...

Therapy News

  • Study Examines Attention Effects of Video Games
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Frequently, video games are cited as major factors in contributing to the prevalence of Attention Deficit Disorder, or ADD, among modern adolescents. Issues in behavior and attention span, both within an educational and a family setting, are often linked to the abundan ...

  • Study Finds Women Identify Certain Emotions Better ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline There is plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that in general, women are better able to identify emotions than men. But until recently, it has been difficult to secure objective, meaningful findings upon which furhter research can be based. The need for such eviden ...

  • Teen Smoking Cessation Program Sees Major Success
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Smoking cessation programs are frequently cited for the difficulties involved in getting smokers to volunteer, as well as to help those with addiction problems overcome the urge to start smoking again. These issues are especially prevalent when working with teenage smo ...

  • Internal Family Systems, David Brooks, and “Wher ...
    By Mona Barbera, Ph.D., Internal Family Systems Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Mona Barbera, Ph.D. and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile David Brooks, New York Times columnist, was recently inspired by the movie, “Where the Wild Things Are.” He wonders if we are one pers ...

  • AAP Presents Statements Recommending to Keep Kids ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Citing the idea that children exposed to an excess of media violence may interpret violent acts and thoughts as being acceptable, the American Academy of Pediatrics has recently delivered two reports calling for greater measures to control media intake. The group has ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Earth First! co-founder reflects on technology, pr ...
    Earth First! made headlines with its tree-spiking in the 1980s, but the guy who helped make the anti-logging tactic famous didn't invent it.

  • UK Trustees back dorm name change: Wildcat Coal Lo ...
    The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to change the name of the men's basketball dorm to the Wildcat Coal Lodge — part of a deal with 21 private donors who will spend $7 million to replace the aging residence hall with a new facility.

  • Jerry Cope: Heads Up! Massey Energy Now Blasting C ...
    The forecast in Coal River, W.V. now calls for heavy boulders and flying debris. Climate scientist James Hansen has declared it "ground zero in the fight against climate change".

  • Massey Energy 3Q Profit Falls 68% On Lower Volume, ...
    Massey Energy Co.'s (MEE) third-quarter profit fell 68% as both prices and volumes fell, but the company's earnings topped analyst estimates. However, shares were down 1.8% to $30.75 in after-hours trading and revenue fell short of expectations. The stock has more than doubled this year.

  • Rob Perks: Beware the 'Hidden' Costs of Dirty Fuel ...
    A new study found coal to be the costliest of all fossil fuels -- to the tune of $62 billion a year. Indeed, the damage caused by the nation's 406 coal-fired plants is far worse than any other energy source.

Memeorandum

  • Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the ...
    Robin Pagnamenta / Times of London : Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet   —  People will need to consider turning vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.  —  In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern ...

  • Ex-A.I.G. Chief Is Back, Luring Talent From Rescue ...
    Mary Williams Walsh / New York Times : Ex-A.I.G. Chief Is Back, Luring Talent From Rescued Firm   —  Maurice R. Greenberg, who built the American International Group into an insurance behemoth with an impenetrable maze of on- and offshore companies, is at it again.  —  Even as he has been ...

  • U.S. official resigns over Afghan war (Karen DeYou ...
    Karen DeYoung / Washington Post : U.S. official resigns over Afghan war   —  When Matthew Hoh joined the Foreign Service early this year, he was exactly the kind of smart civil-military hybrid the administration was looking for to help expand its development efforts in Afghanistan.  —  A fo ...

  • Biden's popularity plunges; lower than Cheney's (B ...
    Byron York / Washington Examiner : Biden's popularity plunges; lower than Cheney's   —  Vice President Joe Biden's favorable rating has fallen to 42 percent in a new Gallup poll, down from a high of 59 percent just after last year's election.  Biden's unfavorable rating in the new poll is 40 p ...

  • Vice President Biden's Favorable Rating Continues ...
    Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup : Vice President Biden's Favorable Rating Continues to Decline   —  Forty-two percent view vice president favorably, 40% unfavorably  —  PRINCETON, NJ — After peaking at 59% last November, Vice President Joe Biden's favorable rating continues to decline and now s ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • New order from ashes of crisis
    China, India and other developing countries will benefit from the economic turmoil at the expense of the US – and the World Bank is optimistic, writes Larry Elliott. The wrenching financial crisis of the past two years will provide the catalyst for a profound change in the global economy – which ...

  • Outlook and obstacles for CCS (2)
    In the final segment of his two-part report, He Gang sets out his technical and policy recommendations for China's adoption of an important technology. Considering China’s circumstances and strategic requirements on the energy front, discussed in the previous section of this article , there are th ...

  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Schwarzenegger Flips Off Lawmakers in Hidden Messa ...
    California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is ticked off. He’s tired of signing bills that don’t address the pet causes he deems important. So when another unworthy bill crossed his desk recently for signing — addressing funding issues for the Port of San Francisco — the guv vetoed it and se ...

  • In Industry First, Voting Machine Company to Publi ...
    Sequoia Voting Systems plans to publicly release the source code for its new optical scan voting system, the company announced Tuesday — a remarkable reversal for a voting machine maker long criticized for resisting public examination of its proprietary systems. The company’s new public source ...

  • Cyber Crooks Trick Gawker Into Serving Ad Laced Wi ...
    Remember when the global economic crisis was supposed to drive legions of desperate, unemployed computer programmers into cybercrime? It turns out the real threat comes from unemployed advertising agents. Scammers posing as the well known ad agency Spark-SMG recently tricked Gawker Media into runni ...

  • Blogger: Time Warner Routers Still Hackable Despit ...
    A blogger who stumbled across a vulnerability in more than 65,000 Time Warner Cable customer routers says the routers are still vulnerable to remote attack, despite claims by the company last week that it patched the routers. Last Tuesday, David Chen, an internet startup-founder, published informat ...

  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • U.S. foreclosures spike in new regions in 3rd qtr
    NEW YORK, Oct 28 (Reuters) - U.S. mortgage defaults ebbed in some hard-hit cities in the third quarter, but unemployment created new trouble spots as foreclosures set a record in the quarter, real estate data company RealtyTrac said on Wednesday.

  • Hulk Hogan returning to pro wrestling
    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Hulk Hogan is returning to the profession -- but not to the organization -- that made him a household name.

  • U.S. home price gains may not be sustainable: Shil ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The gains in U.S. home prices in recent months may not be sustainable and increases in some areas of the country appear to be in "bubble territory," an economist known for his property market expertise said on Tuesday.

  • Four U.N. staff killed in Kabul; blasts rock hotel
    KABUL (Reuters) - Four U.N. staff were killed when Taliban militants attacked an international guest house in Kabul on Wednesday while a rocket was fired at a foreign-owned hotel in the Afghan capital, forcing 100 guests into an underground bunker.

  • U.S. consumer confidence up for first time since 2 ...
    HONG KONG (Reuters) - Global consumer confidence is rebounding, and in the United States has risen for the first time since 2007, amid signs the world economy is picking up although spending is still restrained, a survey showed on Wednesday.

Pine River World News

  • Diego Garcia Military Base: Islanders Forcibly Dep ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. Diego Garcia Military Base:  Islanders Forcibly Deported ©   Global Research By Sherwood Ross October 27, 2009 In order to convert the sleepy, Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia into a dominating military base, the U.S. f ...

  • Pakistani journalist claims his life is in danger ...
    The following article is from The Nation, Pakistan. Pak journalist receives life threats ©   The Nation October 27, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The U.S. presence in Peshawar is being felt in a most aggressive manner, especially in the form of harassment and actual threats given to the journalists writing cri ...

  • Yemen seizes weapons vessel with Iranian crew
    IntelTrends - The following article is from Al Arabiya, Dubai. Yemen seizes weapons vessel with Iranian crew ©   Al Arabiya By Mustapha Ajbaili October 26, 2009 SANA'A  (Al Arabiya) Yemen's navy seized on Monday an Iranian ship loaded with anti-tank weapons off its north-west coast in the Red Se ...

  • INDIA: Maoists getting support, training from LTTE ...
    IntelTrends - The following article is from The Times of India. Maoists linking up with Tamil Tigers? ©   The Times of India By Siva G. October 26, 2009 VISAKHAPATNAM (TNN) - Union home minister P Chidambaram's assertion that Naxalites are acquiring arms from abroad is only the tip of the iceberg ...

  • 'El Al using Shin Bet for Berlin airport checks'
    The following article is from The Jerusalem Post. 'El Al using Shin Bet for Berlin airport checks' ©   The Jerusalem Post By Benjamin Weinthal, Berlin October 26, 2009 The German newsweekly Der Spiegel reported on Saturday that Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) intelligence agents are conducting d ...

PDA AMERICA

  • Crunch Time and a Grassroots View of the ‘Robust ...
    Crunch Time and a Grassroots View of the ‘Robust’ Public Option By PDA-Chicago Steering Committee: Bill Bianchi, Lorin Klugman, Arlene Gloria Hirsch, Allan Nowakowski, and Jim Rhodes The PDA-Chicago steering Committee wants to weigh in on ...

  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • E. coli O157 Update - With 1,039 Pounds of Hamburg ...
    At midnight Crocetti's Oakdale Packing Co., doing business as, South Shore Meats, Inc., a Brockton, Massachusetts establishment, "voluntarily" recalled approximately 1,039 pounds of fresh ground beef patties derived from bench trim as well as mechanically tenderized beef cuts that may be contaminate ...

  • Crocetti's Oakdale Packing Company dba South Shore ...
    Crocetti's Oakdale Packing Co., doing business as, South Shore Meats, Inc., a Brockton, Mass., establishment, is voluntarily recalling approximately 1,039 pounds of fresh ground beef patties derived from bench trim as well as mechanically tenderized beef cuts that may be contaminated with E. coli O1 ...

  • Rhode Island Department of Health Recalls Ground B ...
    The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) advises Rhode Islanders that the South Shore Meat packing plant in Brockton has initiated a voluntary recall on certain ground beef products based on confirmed laboratory evidence of the presence of E. coli O157:H7 in leftover ground beef samples obtain ...

  • Senator Harry Reid (D) and Senator John Ensign (R) ...
    Below - Linda Rivera and the Rivera family a few months before Linda was stricken with E. coli O157:H7 . Below - Linda Rivera and her husband, Richard, in the hospital where Linda has been since May 1, 2009 struggling for her life.  To date, medical bills at over $1,500,000.  She has lost her job ...

  • 41,411,465 Pounds of E. coli Tainted Beef Recalled ...
    Although recalls of beef have fallen off a bit in 2009 (only 571,922 pounds) from 2008 (7,083,399 pounds) and 2007 (33,756,142 pounds) ( PDF) , 2006 was the best year we had seen awhile - 181,900 pounds.  Of course this does not account for the over 143,000,000 pounds of beef product recalled due t ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.27.09
    REPORT: Detroit ignored voices who called for fuel efficient vehicles, says GM insider Thanks a lot, Detroit. Is Chrysler's ENVI electric vehicle program dead or just working quietly? ...

  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Stalqer mobile social app finds friends in new way ...
    Stalqer locates even friends who don't use the service. (Credit: Stalqer) The developers of the iPhone app GasBag, which helps iPhone users find the cheapest gas for their cars, are working on a new mobile friend locator service, Stalqer . This clever and aptly named service has two technologies ...

  • AARP aims to increase ranks through software
    The American Association of Retired Persons , or AARP, an organization with the stated mission of helping "people 50 and over improve the quality of their lives as they age," has launched a Web site for whippersnappers, people not old enough to be members, called LifeTuner . The consumer pitc ...

  • 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 ...

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!

  • Obama Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom
    President Obama presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to 16 people in a ceremony today at the White House. Check out Democracy Now!’s past interviews with some of those who received the award: * Rev. Joseph Lowery * Mary Robinson * Archbishop ...

  • The Late Clarence Kailin in his Own Words: "We've ...
    Clarence Kailin was one of the last survivors of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a group of American volunteers who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. Kailin fought in defense of Spain’s democratically elected government against a military coup led by Gen. Francisco F ...

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

  • Police Crackdown on G20 Protests: Democracy Now! R ...
    World leaders are gathering in Pittsburgh for the G20 summit under the shadow of a police crackdown on protesters in the streets. Heavily-armed riot police are out in force all over the city, using tear gas, stun grenades, smoke canisters, and sound cannons, which direct extremely loud shrill sound ...

  • Arun Gupta asks "What Anti-War Movement?"
    It has now been eight years since 9/11. The United States is still engaged in Iraq and is escalating its wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan with no end in site. Speaking at the Bluestockings Bookstore on the Lower East Side in New York, Arun Gupta, a founding Editor of The Indypendent , takes a cr ...

Farming Pathogens

  • 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

  • Current Climate Change Not Part of Planet's Natura ...
    The possibility that climate change might simply be a natural variation like others that have occurred throughout geologic time is dimming, according to new findings that reveal that sediments retrieved by University at Buffalo geologists from a remote Arctic lake...

  • Ohio Utility Ships Customers New Light Bulbs, & a ...
    Call it greening run amok. FirstEnergy, an Ohio utility, sent two $3.50 energy-saving compact florescent light-bulbs (CFLs) to customers, and then charged them $21 for the bulbs.

  • Volcanoes Play Pivotal Role In Ancient Ice Age, Ma ...
    Researchers here have discovered the pivotal role that volcanoes played in a deadly ice age 450 million years ago. Perhaps ironically, these volcanoes first caused global warming -- by releasing massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. When they stopped erupting, Earth's climate was th ...

  • Largest Solar Panel Plant In US Rises In Florida
    Greg Bove steps into his pickup truck and drives down a sandy path to where the future of Florida's renewable energy plans begin: Acres of open land filled with solar panels that will soon power thousands of homes and business.

  • The World's Most Lovable Invasive Species [Picture ...
    Invasive species, we all know, pose a huge threat to biodiversity. Still, some surprising invaders are too cute, cuddly, or just plain beautiful to hate.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Nukes in Middle East
    While Israel is one of the loudest voices calling for a tougher line on Iran’s nuclear programme, its own nuclear capability has never been put to inspection. Israel has two nuclear research centres – at Dimona and Soreq. The latest estimates suggest that Israel has produced at least 118 warhead ...

  • Video – Doctors speak out about H1N1 VACCINE ...
    Are vaccines today more dangerous, in some cases, than the diseases? Has something gone wrong with the system or the companies making them? Filmed at the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccinations (sponsored by the Nat’l Vaccine Information Center) in October, 2009, listen to what these h ...

  • First Daughters Not Vaccinated Against H1N1
    By Anne Marie Riha President Obama’s school age daughters have not been vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus.  White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the vaccine is not available to them based on their risk. More here

  • Gardasil Researcher Drops A Bombshell
    By Susan Brinkmann, For The Bulletin Sunday, October 25, 2009 Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended fo ...

  • A vaccine for anxiety? The real reason why drug co ...
    By Mike Adams There’s a new vaccine for nicotine addiction, and another one for drug addiction. There’s an AIDS vaccines (which doesn’t work) and a vaccine for cervical cancer that’s been approved for use on boys (boys don’t have a cervix). Through the pharmaceutical industry, the big push ...

Care2 Picks

  • THE TRUTH | Gather
    This gentleman is amazing, and I would highly recommend that you not only read this particular post by him but, also, further explore his portfolio to read other ones of his writings. Submitted by Ainsley Jo Phillips to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  • Israel in Canada: Promised Lands
    On the occasion of filmmakers withdrawing last month from the Toronto Film Festival in protest of Israeli involvement in the event, Eric Walberg takes a radical look at Israel's cultural and political connections in Canada Submitted by Eric W. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

  • War is peace, ignorance is strength
    Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war to add to his impressive record. In Afghanistan, his agents routinely extinguish wedding parties.... Submitted by Eleanor B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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

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

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

  • Web inventor takes Twitter by storm
    Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has taken his first tentative steps on Twitter , the microblogging sensation which has taken the world by storm.

  • Swap dogs for fish, green academics say
    Pet owners should consider swapping their dog for a rabbit or goldfish if they care about the environment , according to academics Robert and Brenda Vale.

  • Sea monster fossil found in Dorset
    The fossilised skull of a giant sea monster has been discovered on the south coast of England . Measuring around 7.5 ft long, the discovery is believed to have belonged to a pliosaur , a predator which would have been found in oceans around 150 million years ago when dinosaurs dominated the world's ...

  • Madonna plans to build school in Malawi
    She may once have been a role model for bad girls everywhere, but these days Madonna is encouraging women to empower themselves through more conventional means - education.

  • The bottle bank arcade
    In this video, recycling is put to the fun theory test. Can making recycling into an arcade game encourage more people to do so, and in turn help save the planet?

Fabius Maximus

  • Has the US financial system been nationalized?
    No, but we’ve taken big steps in that direction.  For example, the government owns a large insurance company (AIG).  More importantly, it has nationalized 95% of the single largest component in the financial sector:  home mortgages. From “Recent Developments in Mortgage Finance“, J ...

  • Update: women on top of men
    This is an update to the FM series about women in America.  Links to previous chapters appear at the end. The Shriver Report, Center for American Progress, October 2009 — “A Women’s Nation Changes Everything” “The myth that schools shortchanged girls“, Judith Kleinfeld (Prof Psych ...

  • Stratfor explains why we invaded Iraq
    Historians will consider the Iraq War one of America most interesting episodes.  We not sure why we invaded.  We are sure that we’ve won — although the reasons for this are obscure.  And what did we win?  Castles in the air! In this classic from the FM archive, we see Stratfor ...

  • 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 ...

sibeledmonds - tweets

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Silence! The Last of the Giant Radio Telescopes Is ...
    > There’s a geek mecca in them thar hills. And don’t expect your iPhone’s GPS to guide you to it. Hidden in the green hills of West Virginia, in a 13,000-square-mile National Radio Quiet Zone, is the world’s largest fully steerable telescope. The GBT (Great B ...

  • DIY Botox: Site Offers Injectable Drug Without Pre ...
    A website that sells a prescription drug similar to Botox without requiring a prescription claims it has over 2,000 customers, including some who have learned how to inject the botulism-derived drug into their own faces from YouTube videos produced for the site. Discountmedspa.com sells a variety o ...

  • Bizarre Ancient Fly With Three-Eyed Horn Discovere ...
    Dinosaurs weren’t the only critters with spikes and horns to roam the Earth during the Cretaceous. Scientists have found a tiny fly with a three-pronged horn and spiky eyes preserved in a chunk of amber dating to roughly 100 million years ago. The fly has been named Cascoplecia insolitis (Casco m ...

  • Cockroach Superpower No. 42: They Don’t Need to ...
    To survive in hostile environments, cockroaches rely on their own vermin: Blattabacterium, a microbe that hitched a ride inside roaches some 140 million years ago, and hasn’t left since. Researchers who sequenced the Blattabacterium genome have found that it converts waste into molecules necessar ...

  • Chart: How the ‘Darpa for Energy’ Is Slicing I ...
    The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency announced its first grant awards Monday morning, handing out more than $150 million for what the agency describes as “bold, transformational” energy projects. The fledgling “Darpa for energy” bet between half a million and 9 mil ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Labeling Turkish Foreign Policy
    The thrust of Soner Cagaptay's recent piece in Foreign Affairs is similar to many like-minded articles that worry about Turkey's trend towards Islamism. In this case, the fear is about the country's increasingly Eastern-facing foreign policy. Cagaptay argues that Turkey's AKP leaders are not just tr ...

  • Is the US Military Presence Driving the Afghan Ins ...
    DOD Photo Spencer Ackerman on the key issue raised by Matthew Hoh : The concern about the U.S. presence fueling the insurgency — not for what the U.S. does, but merely for the fact of its existence — was raised by Defense Secretary Robert Gates in January , but it has not yet seemed to penetra ...

  • Democracy Promotion Done Right
    Joe Biden’s recent trip to Central Europe underscores that the United States still supports democracy promotion, is not afraid to state that publicly, and encourages its allies to do the same. In Romania, the vice president said, “you delivered on the promise of your revolution. You are in a p ...

  • U.N. Vote to Condemn (Obama's?) Embargo on Cuba
    This is a guest note by Sarah Stephens, Director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas On October 28th, the United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote on a resolution condemning the United States embargo against Cuba. If past is prologue, it will pass resoundingly. The General A ...

  • The Karadzic Trial and International Justice
    Radovan Karadzic, the leader of wartime Bosnian Serbs, was a no show today at the opening of his trial at the International Criminal Tribunal on Yugoslavia. He's planning to defend himself against eleven counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other atrocities. The reason fo ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: When Stereotypes About Washington ...
    Even though the public option is already a fairly big compromise on what should be a much more liberal health-care reform bill, that doesn't mean the "strong" version of it will pass in the House , much less the Senate, where killing it isn't so much a function of a coherent objection to the provis ...

  • Think Tank Round-Up: Average American's Radar Edit ...
    In your latest TTR dispatch, we find the depressing news that fewer people are taking global warming seriously, a new "job sharing" policy that could help unemployment, some ideas to save energy and stop climate change, and an argument against the home buyer tax credit. Wonky! Belief in Global War ...

  • Harry, Louise, and Barack.
    Robert Kuttner explains why industry-dictated health reform will be a political wash: What are our fondest hopes and worst fears for the health legislation now slouching towards the president's desk? On the plus side, it will cover slightly more than half of America's uninsured, qualify more of the ...

  • Is Net Neutrality Really a Job for the Regulators?
    Last week, the Federal Communications Commission released its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on net neutrality rules that revolve around the idea of “reasonable network management.” Princeton’s Ed Felten points out that this framework would leave regulators with enormous discretion to determin ...

  • The Truth About Scalia.
    The reports of Antonin Scalia saying he would have dissented from the 1954 Brown decision striking down school segregation may confirm liberal suspicions of his personal views regarding race. The problem is he didn't say that. -- A. Serwer

Andy Worthington

  • Senate Finally Allows Guantánamo Trials In US, Bu ...
    After railing against Senators and Representatives for their cowardly, uninformed and unacceptable attempts to prevent President Obama from bringing any Guantánamo prisoner to the US mainland for any reason — even for trials — which I wrote about most recently in an article entitled, “On ...

  • Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo – ...
    Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files and co-director (with filmmaker Polly Nash) of the new Guantánamo documentary, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” will be visiting the US in November to show the film in New York, Virginia, Washington D.C., Berkeley and San Francisco. ...

  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • Obama cannot answer a political question with a mi ...
    Body If you want to know what "success" looks like in an American-tailored Middle East nation, look to Iraq. There, after years of grinding determination, a peppy escalation, 4,500 dead Americans and roughly one trillion dollars, they're blowing themselves up again with distressing pre-e ...

  • Dave Lindorff: Pentagon Dirty Bombers, Depleted Ur ...
    The Nuclear Regulator Commission will be holding hearings tomorrow and Wednesday in Hawaii on an application by the U.S. Army for a permit to have depleted uranium at its Pohakuloa Training Area, a vast stretch of flat land in what's called the "saddle" between the sacred mountains of Mauna Loa and ...

  • Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for October 23, 2 ...
    BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE To recognize that the Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin conservative movement is akin to the Afghanistan/Pakistani Taliban is being one step ahead of murdering civil rights and democracy! These people want nothing more than to turn America into ...

  • The Dirty 30 and How A Woman's Right To Her Own Bo ...
    MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON Buzz Flash,   Government is more than the sum of all the interests, it is the paramount interest, the public interest. It must be the efficient, effective agent of a responsible citizenry, not the shelter of the incompetent and the corrupt." Adlai Stevenson, Speech, Bloo ...

  • MoveOn.org Joins Democrats' Navel-Gazing on Public ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White Thursday afternoon, I received an "official ballot" from MoveOn.org. Oh no! Have I been asleep for the past year? Is it almost Nov. 2, 2010?! No, not to worry. Move On was simply asking me to vote on whether they should "refuse to support the reelection of any ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Former Marine Captain resigns in protest of Afghan ...
    (updated below) Matthew Hoh, a former Marine captain with combat experience in Iraq, resigned last month from his position with the Foreign Service, where he was the the senior U.S. civilian in the Taliban-dominated Southern Afghanistan province of Zabul, because he became convinced that our ...

  • Calling for greater religious strife with Islam
    (updated below - Update II) The New York Times today, in the form of Ross Douthat's column , has published what could fairly be described as a call for a Christian religious war -- certainly metaphorical and perhaps literal -- against Islam.  Douthat praises recent efforts by Pope Benedic ...

  • NYT condemns what it calls "Obama's cover-up"
    (updated below) The New York Times Editorial Page has long been one of the most reliable and vocal pro-Obama outlets in the nation.  When they endorsed him for President , they praised his "strength of will, character and intellect, sober judgment and a cool, steady hand," attributes they ...

  • "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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

  • How the future of the GOP is being decided in New ...
    It’s kinda odd when you think about it. The future of the Republican Party is being played out in two places that look very different at first glance: liberal New York and conservative... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • 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! ]]

Sciencebase

  • Don’t be such a scientist!
    Don’t be such a scientist! It’s the kind of thing I’d expect my sister to say to my face if I’ve gone off on one of my lecture mode conversations about some great discovery, or something some of my artier friends might whisper about me behind my back. Sometimes it’s a personal wish…but t ...

  • 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 ...

change: org.

  • The Female Economy: Be Careful Of What You're Sold
    The Harvard Business Review published this article, The Female Economy , which simply says: women are the largest economic force in the global business market. Globally, they control about $20 trillion in annual consumer spending, and that figure could climb as high as $28 trillion in the next five ...

  • Scholastic Reverses Decision to Exclude Gay Friend ...
    During the past 48 hours more than 4,000 Change.org members joined in calling for Scholastic Books to reverse their decision to exclude a book from Scholastic's popular book fairs, simply because the book featured two moms raising a child. The book in question is Luv Ya Bunches by best-selling chil ...

  • Couldn't Attend Let Live 2009? Catch Up Online
    Here's something I've been meaning to tell you about: The 2009 conference put on by the Let Live Foundation in Portland, Oregon, can now be experienced online. Head on over to Vimeo, where you'll find a library of 30-plus videos from not only the various and varied 2009 conference sessions, but also ...

  • Momentum Growing for Climate Agreement But Ecuador ...
    At a visit to a sun factory — sorry — solar farm, President Obama urged the Senate to pass emissions caps and suggested that "consensus is building." Sound vague? He continues: "It's a debate between looking backward and looking forward." Amongst the fog of vagueness there was an announcement: $ ...

  • A Community Option for Alabama Juveniles
    It was the tough-on-crime, war on drugs 1970s and 1980s. America feared a dangerous outbreak in juvenile crime, and lawmakers cracked down -- passing legislation to ensure that kids were incarcerated for breaking the law -- even if they were non-violent first-time offenders. Alabama's prison system ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • US Chamber Shuts off TheYesMen.org and Websites of ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 23, 2009 The Yes Men Hundreds of activist organizations had their internet service turned off last night after the US Chamber of Commerce strong-armed an upstream provider, Hurricane Electric, to pull the plug on The Yes Men and May First / People Link , a 400-member-st ...

  • Pediatrician and Farm Sanctuary Executive Director ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2009 Farm Sanctuary Dr. Allan Kornberg, pediatrician and executive director of Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal protection organization, today issued the following statement about the next wave of swine flu outbreaks: ...

  • Fox News Plays Host to GOP in Exile
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2009 Media Matters for America Today, Media Matters for America called attention to the numerous Republican operatives on Fox News' payroll and airwaves. Further demonstrating that Fox is effectively a conservative political organization and not a legitimate news ou ...

  • A Woman Among Warlords: Afghan Malalai Joya in US
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2009 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) MALALAI JOYA, via Sonali Kolhatkar Joya is author of the new book "A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Woman Who Dared to Speak Out." Now 31, Joya was the youngest ever woman elected to ...

  • Tom Morello, Chuck D, and Serj Tankian Call for En ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2009 PETA The U.S. Army is shooting, burning, and poisoning goats, pigs, and monkeys in barbaric field trauma exercises, prompting some of the biggest names in music to join peta2's campaign to end the cruel and archaic procedures. read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Nightmare of a Dream Student
    by Cintli Rodriguez TUCSON, Ariz. -- I’ll refer to her as Leticia X. She is undocumented, but has been in this country since the age of three and is a top student at her high school. Yet, unless the law changes soon, she will be unable to continue with her studies. She tells my students at the ...

  • Escalating Afghanistan: What Did You Do in the Cla ...
    by Peter Laarman Thirty-four years ago this month the young James Fallows published (in the Washington Monthly ) what still remains a definitive article about the class divide in times of war—“What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?” I still have a yellowed original copy somewhere. Fallows wa ...

  • Why Isn’t 122 Dead Americans Every Day a Nationa ...
    by Donna Smith Why does H1N1 call for a Presidential designation as a national emergency while the preventable deaths of 45,000 Americans every year (122 every day) is not? Swine flu leads the news. You can die from swine flu, or should we say H1N1, even if you have no underlying health conditions. ...

  • Battle at Coal River Mountain Explodes: Green Jobs ...
    by Jeff Biggers The Battle at Coal River Mountain has officially begun. read more

  • Health Care Reform Is Moral Battle for the Soul of ...
    by Scott Berman I have been asked to testify Monday about my experience with health insurance to a panel of clergy who will meet to discuss the moral issues of providing health care. What a terrific idea! read more

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Management Men of the Year 2009 chosen (Manila Bul ...
    Antonino T. Aquino, President and CEO of Ayala Land and former president of Manila Water Company, and Dr. Jesus P. Estanislao, Chair of the Institute of Corporate Directors and the Institute for Solidarity in Asia, are the Management Man of the Year 2009 awardees of the Management Association of the ...

  • Self-Governance Works (Jewish World Review)
    http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Much of what government does is based on the premise that people can't do things for themselves. So government must do it for them.

  • DETROIT MAYORAL RACE: Deficit, schools, trust issu ...
    If Mayor Dave Bing is elected on Nov. 3, he'll have to grapple with a budget deficit of more than $300 million, a host of union contractual battles, crime issues and a broken school system.

  • Inside Cincinnati issue 8 - Water Works amendment ...
    From Northern Kentucky to Cincinnati's northern suburbs, more than 230,000 homes and businesses get their water from Greater Cincinnati Water Works.

  • Head of Damascus bourse urges government to offer ...
    The head of the Damascus Stock Exchange urged the government on Tuesday to boost the nascent bourse by offering shares in public companies and shaking off the legacy of a command economy stretching back four decades.While avoiding the word privatization, still a taboo in Syria, Mohammad Jleilati tol ...

Guardian

  • Dozens killed as bomb rips through Pakistan city
    Dozens killed by terrorist strike in Peshawar coinciding with visit to Islamabad by US secretary of state A bombing in the Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed dozens of people, many of them women and children, as the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, arrived for a three-day visit. The explos ...

  • The future of UK banks - LIVE
    The European commission has given its approval to the break-up of Northern Rock today - Graeme Wearden follows the action as it happens The news is out! Early too. The EU commission has ruled in favour of Britain's restructuring plan for Northern Rock - meaning the Good Bank/Bad Bank plan is approve ...

  • MPs rebel against Kelly crackdown
    Sir Christopher Kelly accused of not living in real world after briefing leaders on proposals to clean up parliament The parliamentary watchdog faced an angry backlash from MPs today over plans to ban them from employing family members and claiming mortgage interest on their second homes on their ex ...

  • Illegal filesharers to be cut off in 2011
    Campaign against illegal filesharers will begin with warning letters only, but with option of blocks from summer 2011 How the government's filesharing plan would work (pdf) Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, warned internet users today that the days of "consequence-free" illegal filesharing ar ...

  • Review: Michael Jackson's This Is It
    In spite of the lingering sense of necrophilia, Michael Jackson's jerry-built swansong has enough juicy titbits to provide succour to die-hard fans For everyone who's thirsted for more Michael Jackson since his death little more than four months ago, the wait is finally over. For the rest of us, it' ...

Diigo | Green Community

  • 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. Comments: The possibility that climate change might simpl ...

  • Japan Pledges 0 Million Climate Change Loan To Ind ...
    Japan, the world's fifth-biggest air polluter, offered a 0 million yen-denominated loan Sunday to Indonesia, the world's third-largest air polluter, to help tackle global warming, Japanese officials said. Comments: Japan, the world's fifth-biggest air polluter, offered a 0 million yen-denominated lo ...

  • UN Chief Urges Compromise Ahead Of Climate Summit
    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged member nations Monday to reach a compromise ahead of a climate change summit scheduled for December in Copenhagen and called on the United States to stay engaged. Comments: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged member nations Monday to reach a compromise ahead ...

  • 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 ...

Electronic Intifada

  • Israeli minister's speech disrupted at London univ ...
    Students protested and disrupted a lecture on Monday at the London School of Economics (LSE) by Daniel Ayalon, the controversial Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel. More than 50 students and act ...

  • Israeli banks entrenched in settlement building
    Several Western pension funds and financial managers hold shares in two Israeli banks: Bank Hapoalim and Bank Leumi. Both banks operate in and offer loans to finance illegal settlement activiti ...

  • Book review: How aid hurt Palestine
    International relations specialist Anne Le More's first monograph, International Assistance to the Palestinians after Oslo , the first in Routledge's Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict series ...

  • 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 ...

CS Monitor - News

  • October 16, 2009
    The UN Human Rights Council votes to adopt the Goldstone Report on Israel's military incursion into Gaza.

  • October 19, 2009
    Saudi Arabia is wary of terrorists, especially from neighboring states.

  • October 20, 2009
    How some TV insiders view parents and children on reality television.

  • October 21, 2009
    How African Anglicans might respond to the Vatican's offer.

  • October 23, 2009
    US-China economic relations, Microsoft and Wall Street, and September home sales.

    Blacklisted News


  • FDA Fails to Pull Worthless Drugs from Marketplace ...
    The Food and Drug Administration has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn't extend patients' lives, say congressional investigators.

  • Bernanke Not Obama to Make “Trillion Dollar Deci ...
    The biggest decision of the economic recovery will be made in the next six months, and Barack Obama will have almost nothing to do with it.

  • 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.

  • ASEAN looks forward to realization of ASEAN-China ...
    The 15th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit issued a Chairman’s Statement Saturday, saying the bloc looked forward to the realization of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) on January 1, 2010.

  • Czech president 'satisfied' with Sweden's proposal ...
    Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president, is satisfied with a proposal by the European Union's Swedish presidency addressing his demands to modify the EU's Lisbon Treaty, his office said on Friday.

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

  • Curry spice 'kills cancer cells'
    An extract found in the bright yellow curry spice turmeric can kill off cancer cells, scientists have shown. The chemical - curcumin - has long been thought to have healing powers and is already being tested as a treatment for arthritis and even dementia. Now tests by a team at the Cork Cancer Res ...

  • How a Torture Protest Killed a Career
    Consortium News editor's note: In this modern age - and especially since George W. Bush declared the "war on terror" eight years ago - the price for truth-telling has been high, especially for individuals whose consciences led them to protest the torture of alleged terrorists. One of the most ...

  • Doctors speak out about H1N1 vaccine dangers
    Are vaccines today more dangerous, in some cases, than the diseases? Has something gone wrong with the system or the companies making them? Filmed at the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccinations (sponsored by the National Vaccine Information Center) in October 2009; listen to what these h ...

  • FLASHBACK: GMO Seeds: 'Multinational Corporations ...
    Food security campaigners are now more concerned than ever that farmers are turning dependent on large multinational corporations (MNCs) for seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and other inputs while also becoming more vulnerable to pressures to produce genetically engineered crops. Gathered here over ...

  • BEST OF WEB: War Is a Hate Crime
    Violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is wrong. So is violence against people in Afghanistan and Iraq. But in the bizarre culture of identity politics, there are no alliances among the oppressed. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the first ma ...

Threat Level

  • Schwarzenegger Flips Off Lawmakers in Hidden Messa ...
    California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is ticked off. He’s tired of signing bills that don’t address the pet causes he deems important. So when another unworthy bill crossed his desk recently for signing — addressing funding issues for the Port of San Francisco — the guv vetoed it and se ...

  • In Industry First, Voting Machine Company to Publi ...
    Sequoia Voting Systems plans to publicly release the source code for its new optical scan voting system, the company announced Tuesday — a remarkable reversal for a voting machine maker long criticized for resisting public examination of its proprietary systems. The company’s new public source ...

  • Cyber Crooks Trick Gawker Into Serving Ad Laced Wi ...
    Remember when the global economic crisis was supposed to drive legions of desperate, unemployed computer programmers into cybercrime? It turns out the real threat comes from unemployed advertising agents. Scammers posing as the well known ad agency Spark-SMG recently tricked Gawker Media into runni ...

  • Blogger: Time Warner Routers Still Hackable Despit ...
    A blogger who stumbled across a vulnerability in more than 65,000 Time Warner Cable customer routers says the routers are still vulnerable to remote attack, despite claims by the company last week that it patched the routers. Last Tuesday, David Chen, an internet startup-founder, published informat ...

  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Will Red States Opt Out of Blue State Generosity?
    Just in time for the debate over the merits of a state-by-state "opt out" of a national public health insurance option, the Commonwealth Fund has released its 2009 state health care scorecard. As in 2007, the data reveals the critical...

  • Premature Elation over Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
    That Barack Obama has changed the trajectory of American foreign policy and U.S. global standing is hard to dispute. In just one year, as the recent survey by the Pew Research Center revealed, Obama has dramatically reversed world opinion of...

  • 15 Years Too Late, Bob Dole Backs Health Care Refo ...
    When it comes to his role in health care issues, most Americans probably associate former Kansas Senator Bob Dole with Viagra. Yet this week, the 1996 GOP presidential candidate stood up (so to speak) for the cause of health care...

  • Broun Joins Palin in Backing GOP Plan to Privatize ...
    Among the more comic story lines of the Republican war on health care reform has been the Party's side-splitting defense of Medicare. After all, the GOP not only tried to block the program in the 1960's, but tried again to...

  • Study Claims U.S. Health Care System Wastes $700 B ...
    In the wake of its shocking assessment that employer-provided health insurance now covers only 54.6% of the American people, Thomson Reuters released a disturbing assessment of wasteful spending in the U.S. health care system Echoing the estimates of Obama OMB...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Chaos in Afghanistan as UN staff killed in Kabul a ...
    Dandelion SaladRussiaTodayOctober 28, 2009At least twelve people – including six United Nations staff – have been killed in an attack on a UN guest house in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Police say the situation is under control, after militants barricaded themselves inside. more about “Chaos in ...

  • Steve Williams: Organizing for the poor
    Dandelion Saladhttp://www.therealnews.com Williams: For over two decades poor people in the US have been criminalized and vilified. more about “Steve Williams: Organizing for the poor“, posted with vodpodseeMartin Sanchez: What Difference Does a Revolution Make in a Global EconomicMeltdown? Noam ...

  • Ingushetia: A second Chechnya
    Dandelion SaladAlJazeeraEnglishOctober 27, 2009People&Power investigates the desperate situation in the Russian republic of Ingushetia. more about “People & Power – Ingushetia: A second…“, posted with vodpodPosted in Dandelion Salad Posts News Politics and-or Videos 2, Dandelion Salad Videos ...

  • Lawrence Wilkerson: Will the empire end with good ...
    Dandelion Saladhttp://www.therealnews.com The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Pt3This talk by Larry Wilkerson was the keynote speech given at an event sponsored by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, American University History Department, American Universitys Nuclear S ...

  • 30 Reasons Fox News Is Not Legit
    Fox News routinely, and blatantly, breaks the code to which ethical journalists are supposed to aspire.

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

  • EU lawyers join drive to indict Israeli officers ...
    Israeli military officers who took part in Israel's incursion of the Gaza Strip last winter may need to think twice before traveling to Europe. Israeli media reported yesterday that human rights lawyers in t ...

  • The state-first mistake (Ahmad Samih Khalidi, The ...
    As President Obama seeks to jumpstart the Middle East peace process with increasingly disappointing results, a new approach has begun to emerge from within the upper circles of the PA. In essence, this appro ...

  • Houses demolished in east Jerusalem (Al Jazeera)
    Israeli authorities have torn down several Palestinian houses in occupied east Jerusalem on grounds that the structures were built illegally. Gidi Schmerling, a Jerusalem municipality spokesman, said the aff ...

  • U.S. leaning toward indirect Mideast peace talks ...
    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will arrive in Israel on Saturday night for her first official visit since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was sworn in. Clinton's visit underscores th ...

  • Nine injured as settlers rampage through olive har ...
    Nine Palestinians were injured and one was detained on Tuesday when dozens of Israeli settlers attacked farmers were harvesting olives in the West Bank village of Qaryout, south of Nablus, according to witne ...

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Barbara Ann Radnofsky Launches New Campaign Websit ...
    For Immediate Release [...]

  • 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 ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

  • 10ft shark mauled by 20ft behemoth
    Officials in Queensland have alerted swimmers to keep out of the water after a giant shark was found almost bitten in two by what is estimated to ...

  • Modern man had sex with neanderthals
    A leading geneticist has stated that neanderthals would have mated with modern man, even though it wasn't clear whether or not such couplings woul...

  • Prehistoric jungles laughed at global warming
    Evidence has been found to suggest that giant creatures such as the massive one-tonne titanoboa snake would have thrived in hot jungles millions o...

  • Manned mission to an asteroid proposed
    A panel of experts appointed by President Obama have proposed that America's manned space programme should bypass the moon and instead send humans...

  • Haunted village "cancels Halloween"
    Britain's most haunted village has cancelled Halloween this year due to villagers being fed up of all the ghost-hunters and revellers who arrive t...

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 27, 2009
    UN Lowers Expectations for Copenhagen Climate Deal (Reuters) UN climate adviser Janos Pasztor made clear that the secretary-general is planning for "post-Copenhagen" talks. Officials and diplomats say privately that a binding deal is unlikely and they most that could be expected was a nonbindin ...

  • October 26, 2009
    Senate's Climate Bill a Bit More Ambitious (Washington Post) Climate legislation took a small step forward as Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer released a version that includes big benefits for farmers, provisions for deficit reduction and a ceiling on carbon ...

  • 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 ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Great Superpower Melt ...
    Think of us as just having passed through the failed era of "must" in Washington. For almost eight years, George W. Bush made speeches and appearances in which he hectored this or that country, or enemy, or people about what they "must" do. Never, I suspect, has an American president lectured mo ...

  • 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 ...

Smirking Chimp

  • 30 reasons why Fox News is not legit
    "Journalists should be honest, fair and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information." -- Society of Professional Journalists Why the Beltway press has invested so much time and energy in recent weeks defending Fox News, with one scribe even claiming that the White House's public ...

  • The Trigger is a Lie
    The trigger is a lie. And anyone who advocates the trigger is a liar. Did you know that the 2003 Medicare prescription drug legislation had a trigger? Well, drug costs have continued to rise significantly ever since then - and guess what, it turns out the public provision in there has never been tri ...

  • Sex, Silicone, and Suits: Miss California Goes a-C ...
    There's a cat fight going on in the Miss USA operation—and it isn't pretty. It began when an openly gay judge asked Miss California, Carrie Prejean, what she thought about same sex marriage. Prejean, a student at San Diego Christian College, said that although she recognizes and accepts that other ...

  • Northwest Pilots Not in Cockpit; Found at Home Hid ...
    MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) - The mystery surrounding the Northwest Airlines flight that strayed 150 miles from its intended destination was resolved today as Northwest reported that the two pilots for the flight were never in the cockpit to begin with. "We found them safe at home, hiding in a ...

  • Fox Is Indeed a News Organization, One of the Wors ...
    As someone who believes the producers of Fox News should be behind bars for promoting illegal wars and instigating domestic violence, and as someone who advocates never watching it, I feel compelled to speak up against the notion that Fox News is not a news outlet. Now, Fox News does little invest ...

Ten Percent

  • Domestic Extremists
    I think the essence of the current expose of our police state is in Mark Thomas’ piece- The Metropolitan police circulated the card specifically for the Docklands biannual arms fair in London to help its officers identify “people at specific events who may instigate offences or disorder”. Whic ...

  • 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 ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • No Bunk: Palin Puts Obama To Shame
    (bumped up from earlier Tuesday) Reprinted from More.com with the express permission of Amy Siskind. ……………………………………….. As a onetime point guard, the thrilla from Wasilla inspires girls to join the team. Obama doesn’t…though the story of his poker-playing in Illinois ...

  • obama’s boy’s club - much ado about nothing?
    This is a follow up to my earlier post, obama and the old boy’s network Tapper tackles the issue (yeah Tapper!!) and NOW speaks out. From Jake Tapper: We asked Terry O’Neill, the new president of the National Organization for Women, what she thought of those Democratic women and others quie ...

  • The Issue Of Women And Health Insurance, As Well A ...
    There has been a great deal of talk and debate about health care in the country recently as the Democrats push Heath Care Reform. A lot of animosity has been directed at the Health Insurance Industry as a whole. As it turns out, some is justified, but some is not. I was [...]

  • No Bunk: Palin Puts Obama To Shame
    Reprinted from More.com with the express permission of Amy Siskind. ……………………………………….. As a onetime point guard, the thrilla from Wasilla inspires girls to join the team. Obama doesn’t…though the story of his poker-playing in Illinois proves he knows how important be ...

  • Obama’s Dithering Puts Troops (and Nation) at Ri ...
    (Bumped up from Monday afternoon.) Running a kick ass presidential campaign is not the same as being President, especially when it comes to being Commander-in-Chief. The inexperienced clown now installed in the White House would be a legitimate butt of jokes were it not for the fact that our soldie ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • E.U. Faces Oversupply of Carbon Credits
    The problem of surplus carbon credits is like "a gorilla" nations are unwilling to deal with, said a European official.

  • On Our Radar...
    A short list of behavioral changes that may limit greenhouses gases and other energy and environment news from around the Web.

  • Climate Change Policy and Safe Investing
    Countries that provide robust incentives for the renewable energy industry represent the safest harbors for investors looking to finance clean energy ventures, according to a new study.

  • Solar Industry Takes on Coal and Oil Lobbies
    A solar industry leader smacked down the oil and coal industries on Tuesday, calling for renewable energy proponents to open their wallets to level the playing field in Washington.

  • Wyoming Governor Says Efficiency Is a Local or Fed ...
    Wyoming has consistently come in dead last in state rankings on energy efficiency, but in an interview on Monday, governor Dave Freudenthal ruled out statewide building codes and appliance standards.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • A time for truth: New York Times reports Brother K ...
    I was a bit surprised to see the New York Times report this evening that embattled Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother has been taking mad CIA cash for some time. [Or rather, the three journalists who did the story are oddly emphasized, 'compartmentalized' on this risky exposure.] Earlier Willia ...

  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • CIA Supports Drug Kingpins
    Pretend to be surprised! http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html I want to skip right to my favorite part: "The CIA's practices also suggest the United States is not doing everything in its power to stamp out the lucrative Afghan drug trade, a major source of revenue for the T ...

  • New Well Funded Anti-Abortion Group Assaults Berke ...
    Seemingly out of nowhere a new anti-abortion group is running a national campaign on college campuses. The images this group present are frightening, disturbing, and infuriating. The Center for Bio-ethical reform CBRMidwest@cbrinfo.org a seemingly unheard of group, appeared on Berkeley’s Sproul ...

  • Do you ever just get so tired….
    I just get so, so tired of re-fighting the same old battles again and again and again with the same old, bigoted, selfish bastards.  They wear me out.  They are relentless. There are two guys fighting same sex marriage.  They say two people who love each other, who happen to be ...

  • 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 ...

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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

After Downing Street.org

  • Bush the Motivator Meets Motivated Protesters
    By Leslie Harris George W. Bush was scheduled to be one of the “inspirational speakers” at a “Get Motivated!” seminar at the Fort Worth Convention Center Arena. The irony was not missed by many of us that Bush and his administration were less than inspirational. Or, more to the point, much ...

  • Lieberman Wants to Filibuster Healthcare
    And of course he's lying about the healthcare proposals, but that doesn't mean he's lying about filibustering. Of course, the Democrats and all of their supporters are lying every time they fail to point out that the filibuster is optional, the filibuster rule could be thrown out tomorrow by 51 sen ...

  • Ehud Olmert Could Face War Crimes Arrest if He Vis ...
    Prosecution of Israelis likely, says solicitor • Lawyers working on use of universal jurisdiction By Ian Black, The Guardian/UK Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister during the Gaza war, would probably face arrest on war crimes charges if he visited Britain, according to a UK lawyer who is working ...

  • Is this the way to bring mass murderer Tony Blair ...
    He is one of the two greatest living mass murderers on earth. Getting Tony Blair elected European Union President could be the chance that many of us have been waiting for: to get him in front of a judge and held to account for his war crimes. By George Monbiot, www.guardian.co.uk, 27 October 2009 ...

  • Court to reconsider CIA torture flight ruling
    By Bob Egelko, SF Chronicle SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court granted the Obama administration's request Tuesday to rehear a case over a Bay Area company's alleged participation in CIA torture flights, setting the stage for a critical test of government claims of secrecy and national security ...

Grist - News

  • Who’s who on the EPW: Senate committee begin ...
    by Brad Johnson Cross-posted from the Wonk Room . John Kerry testifying.This week, hearings begin in the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733). This comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation ,co-sponsored by Sens. John Ke ...

  • UN chief will pressure senators on climate bill
    by Jonathan Hiskes UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at a press conference in Seattle (Oct. 26, 2009).Jon Hiskes / GristAs the U.S. Senate begins work on a climate and energy bill this week, senators shouldn't be surprised if they get a phone call from the guy who counts every person on Earth as a m ...

  • Simple lifestyle tweaks key in climate change figh ...
    by Agence France-Presse Clotheslines: A simple step to reduce carbon emissions. Photo courtesy DGHdeeo via Flickr WASHINGTON -- The United States could cut greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of France's total annual emissions by getting Americans to make simple lifestyle changes, like regul ...

  • Thousands gather worldwide on day of climate prote ...
    by Agence France-Presse Technology brings together a 3, 5, and 0 worlds apart: Sydney, London, and Copenhagen350.org via Flickr Creative Commons Kicking off with thousands gathering on the steps of Sydney's iconic Opera House, global warming protests took place around the world Saturday to mark 50 ...

  • Coal River Mountain, a symbol of hope, is slated f ...
    by Matt Wasson Coal River Mountain may be flashing the world topless without your help.Reports are coming in from residents of West Virginia’s Coal River Valley that Massey Energy has begun mountaintop removal mining operations on Coal River Mountain. Sprawling across thousands of acres of divers ...

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  • Asus rumored to sell cheaper ultra-thin laptop nex ...
    Apple’s MacBook Air will soon be challenged on its super-slimness, by Windows-powered computers from Asus, Acer and MSI that may lack Apple’s aluminum-cased pizazz, but will cost a lot less. Digitimes reports that Asus, maker of the low-cost Eee PC netbook, will begin selling two ultra-slim n ...

  • Birthday cannon
    Happy birthday, here's your cannon ... @ Dailymail Mike Daugherty asked his 11-year-old son Logan what he wanted for his birthday. The boy said, "I want a cannon." Dad didn't scoff at Logan's request by saying, "How about a hippopotamus instead," as a Christmas song from another era lamented. No ...

  • I-Swarm, real micro-sized robots!
    These tiny I-Swarm (Intelligent Small-World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation) robots are incredibly neat! They move by using a piezoelectric transducer to vibrate across a surface in a manner similar to a bristlebot, only controllable. Because they are vibrating at audible frequencies, ...

  • Home-haircut indicator: In the footsteps of the un ...
    Filed under: Columns , Economic data , Recession , Comic Relief So, who out there cuts their own hair? I do, mainly because it is fading fast and it is a lot easier to have my wife take the clippers and then razor to my head rather than paying to go get my hair cut professionally. Now that I ...

  • Joe Jackson says ?someone should pay? for son Mich ...
    Joe Jackson: ‘Someone should pay’ for son’s death NEW YORK ? Michael Jackson’s father says he’d never heard of the drug propofol until it was implicated in his son’s death. “I’m not angry. I’m mad,” Joe Jackson said in an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show. ...

Time - Top Stories

Washington Independent

  • Karzai’s Brother Is a CIA Asset
    Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has long been accused of dealing drugs. Charges, and accusations, have never quite stuck. Nor has American pressure ever been brought to bear in earnest. The New York Times, in an explosive story, provides something of an explanation: Ahme ...

  • Iraqi Reconciliation Update
    I spent most of my day at the J Street conference, but took a few breaks for recreation — in this case two impromptu roundtables with prominent aides to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki who happened to be in town. This is a delicate moment in Iraqi politics: in addition to the most destructive ...

  • Senate Advances Bill Extending Unemployment Benefi ...
    The Senate on Tuesday moved a step closer to passing a 14-week, nationwide extension of unemployment benefits, clearing a procedural hurdle that will bring the bill to the chamber floor. The vote count was 87 to 13 — well beyond the 60 yeas required to proceed to the floor debate. The proposal had ...

  • Life After Gitmo
    Winning his freedom was a big step for Mohammed Jawad, reportedly the youngest prisoner at Guantanamo Bay until he was released in August. But Jawad, who two U.S. judges have said was tortured in U.S. custody, is still suffering from the effects of his treatment during seven years in custody without ...

  • NY-23: DeMint Endorses Hoffman, Pete Olson Holds H ...
    Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) gives the exclusive to RedState – the third such exclusive a conservative leader has given to that blog, by my count. America needs more people like Doug Hoffman, Pat Toomey, and Marco Rubio to run for office and bring real reform to Washington. Americans fundamentally bel ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Dogs 'as bad for global warming as an SUV'
    PETA aren't going to like the title of a new book on sustainable living. According to Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living keeping a medium-sized dog has the same impact in the environment as driving a 4.6l Land Cruiser. Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Green Lifestyle  |   No ...

  • Only Five Years Left to Avoid Climate Catastrophe
    The world has just five years to initiate a low carbon industrial revolution before runaway climate change becomes almost inevitable. But the good news is that it can be done and that the long term benefits will be immense, according to new analysis from Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Environment ...

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

  • How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect
    In addition to assorted bad breaks and pleasant surprises, opportunities and insults, life serves up the occasional pink unicorn. The three-dollar bill; the nun with a beard; the sentence, to borrow from the Lewis Carroll poem, that gyres and gimbles in t Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Cu ...

  • Mercury danger in dolphin meat
    SAPPORO — The annual dolphin hunt in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, as documented in the film "The Cove" has sparked an emotional international debate, with animal rights activists decrying the capture and slaughter as unnecessary and cruel, and those in Jap Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Health & We ...

Suzie-Q

  • Swine Flu is concentrated in the rural areas, whil ...
    The latest on this is that New York City has rescinded the demand that health care workers get mandatory H1N1 vaccinations. Also that in the larger cities the percentage of new flu cases has dropped dramatically from the spring numbers, with increased cases in the rural parts of the US. My referen ...

  • Maddow And Olbermann Slam Fox News…
    Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann Slam Fox News Propaganda About Their Meeting with Obama AlterNet. Posted October 27, 2009. The commentators point out that liberals could not get an invitation to meet with President Bush to save their lives, while Obama meets with liberals and conservatives. Rec ...

  • Americans pull strings in Afghan election
    Eric Margolis, The Toronto Sun, October 25, 2009 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 ...

  • Thousands in London call for troops home now
    Morning Star Online, Sunday 25 October 2009 Lizzie Cocker in Trafalgar Square A soldier facing two years in jail for refusing to return to Afghanistan defied the army on Saturday to lead thousands of anti-war marchers through the streets of London. Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, along with for ...

  • Fox Nutwork Playbook (VIDEO)
    The Fox Nutwork’s coy game Daily Kos- by David Waldman Sun Oct 25, 2009 at 08:00:08 AM PDT Still puzzled about the difference between the Fox Nutwork and actual news organizations? I guess some folks weren’t convinced by the fact that Fox apparently feels free to simply change basic facts whe ...

Solari

  • Mass Media Pimping For The White House
    By Sam Smith If you see and hear a lot in the media about volunteerism and community service in the coming days, it’s no accident. Major media - ranging from Time magazine to a whole string of TV shows - are secretly serving as propaganda pimps for the Obama White House which has chosen community ...

  • A True Picture of the US Dollar
    View Larger Chart Because people generally calculate the price of goods and services only in terms of the national currency of the country where they live, it is not easy for them to recognize what is happening to the value of the currency. To truly understand what is happening to the currency, the ...

  • The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
    This talk by Larry Wilkerson was the keynote speech given at an event sponsored by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, American University History Department, American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute on Oct 21,2009 at American University in Washington DC. Lawrence (Larry ...

  • Tim Geithner’s $14 Billion Gift of Taxpayer ...
    By Jesse Tim Geithner should be given the option to resign immediately, or be fired. He is either incompetent, too conflicted to do his job with the banks properly, or possibly both. Stephen Friedman should be investigated for $5.4 million in profits made through potential insider trading. His brea ...

  • New York Fed’s Secret Choice to Pay for Swaps Hi ...
    By Richard Teitelbaum and Hugh Son In the months leading up to the September 2008 collapse of giant insurer American International Group Inc., Elias Habayeb and his colleagues worked nights and weekends negotiating with banks that had bought $62 billion of credit-default swaps from AIG, according t ...

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  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware. George Green will be a featured speaker. September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CA Click here for Tickets & Reservations  

  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...

  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...

  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...

  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...

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  • InsurgencyWatch moving to True/Slant
    In the coming days, InsurgencyWatch will be moving to True/Slant, “an original content news network tailored to both the ‘Entrepreneurial Journalist’ and marketers who want a more effective way to engage with digital audiences.” (That’s what the official about page says.) It’s not a deci ...

  • Kerry-Lugar’s First Victim
    If true, this is total bullshit: After strong criticism on the Kerry-Lugar bill in Pakistan, the government has decided to replace Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani and the announcement in this respect is expected within the next two days. There’s nothing in the bill reasonable Pa ...

  • Pakistan’s Civil War Heating Up
    In the aftermath of this weekend’s assault on the Pakistani General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the Taliban hit again in Alpuri, in the Shangla district east of Mingora in Swat. According to military sources who asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t authorized to talk to the press, a 1 ...

  • At Home with a Swat Lashkar
    I just finished up a few days in Swat and while I’m working on a story about it, I thought you might like to see a few pictures I took while there. Enjoy. Share/Save

  • FACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in Pakistan ...
    Washington PostFACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in PakistanReutersBy this time he is thought to have fled the region for the safe haven of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. * Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader ...Pakistan to Target Taliba...

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Twilight Earth

  • EPA Names Top 20 Green Powered Schools
    The Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership announces the 20 schools nationwide using the most power from renewable energy. Related posts: National Healthy Schools Day EPA Helps God go Green with an Energy Star Label Wind Powered Electric Car Charging Stations Available in Au ...

  • Energy Citizens Commercial- Big Oil and a Pack of ...
    You've seen the Energy Citizens Commercial. What you may not have noticed is that it's paid for by the American Petroleum Institute. Related posts: Senior Citizens March 25 Miles Against Mountaintop Removal Soft Scoldings behind White Lies – Shaving Close That Which is Life ABC Refuses to Air A ...

  • Photo Sunday – Hiking the Mojave Desert and Red ...
    Why travel to Las Vegas? To hike through the Mojave desert and scramble through Red Rock Canyon, why else? Related posts: Photo Sunday – Haystack Rock, Oregon Coast Photo Sunday: Arizona’s Superstition Mountains Photo Sunday – Once By The Ocean

  • International Day of Climate Action – October 24 ...
    Creative climate activist coalition 350.org has issued an invitation to everyone in the world for October 24th, "The International Day of Climate Action". Related posts: Show Your Support for Decisive Action on Climate Change: Earth Hour 2009 Action Day Saturday-Secretary of State for Climate Chan ...

  • 23 Million Starve in Kenya as Deforestation Leads ...
    Deforestation of the Mau Forest and its resulting Climate Change leads to drought as 23 million Kenyans to go hungry. Related posts: Strategic Threat to the Earths Water System – Deforestation Oil Executive Epiphany Leads to $125 Billion Climate Change Funding Human Rights Violated by Climate Ch ...

Inhabitat

  • House of Music: Denmark’s Solar Powered Symphony ...
    Multi-functional centers are great – same complex, different uses, minimal infrastructure. The House of Music in Aalborg, Denmark is just such a place, combining public and performance space with cultural and education functionality. Designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au this multifunctional center is a m ...

  • 3Prong Power Upgrades Any Prius to Plug-in Status
    Toyota is leasing 500 prototype plug-in hybrid Prius’s to lucky recipients in the U.S, Europe, and Japan next year, but what about all the other Prius owners who want to provide some plug-in juice to their cars? Enter 3Prong Power, a Berkeley, California startup that offers plug-in hybrid conversi ...

  • THE OFFICIAL ECOUTERRE LAUNCH PARTY IS THIS THURSD ...
    CALLING ALL ECO-FASHION FOLLOWERS IN NYC! Just in case you haven’t heard by now, the official launch party for our new eco-fashion website Ecouterre is THIS THURSDAY! That’s right, in just two more days you could be indulging in yummy vegan cookies and snacks by Rabbit Mafia, enjoying organic co ...

  • Bel & Bel Upcycles Vintage Vespas into Office Furn ...
    With so many slick electric motorcycles on the horizon, it’s getting increasingly difficult to justify the use of polluting, petroleum-powered older models. But instead of sending old Vespas to the trash pile, Spanish design studio Bel & Bel has a more creative solution: turn the stylish relics in ...

  • Join our Webinar With SF Mayor Gavin Newsom TOMORR ...
    CALLING ALL SAN FRANCISCANS & everyone looking to green their city! We’re thrilled to announce that we’re going to be interviewing San Francisco mayor GAVIN NEWSOM TOMORROW at 12pm PST, and we’re inviting YOU to join in the conversation! Mayor Newsom has spearheaded an impressive amount of eco ...

Pogue's Posts

Open Your Eyes News

  • History vanishes from one in 20 schools
    The Telegraph – History has effectively vanished from the classroom in almost one in 20 English secondary schools. Official figures show that in 131 state schools, not a single pupil sat GCSE history last year. That is 4.1 percent of all 3,159 maintained mainstream secondary schools whose results ...

  • Brussels ‘Home Office’ plot to snoop on all of ...
    Daily Mail – Brussels bureaucrats are plotting a massive expansion in the use of surveillance and controversial extradition powers, a report warned last night.At the same time they will also increase their meddling in Britain’s justice system, it was claimed. The EU wants to create its own versi ...

  • Venezuela seizes ‘Colombia spies’
    BBC – Venezuela has announced the arrest of a number of people whom it accuses of being agents spying for Colombia. Deputy Foreign Minister Francisco Arias Cardenas said they were members of Colombia’s DAS state security agency. He said they were “captured carrying out actions of espionage”, ...

  • British Supermarkets/Pharmacies Pushing Flu Vaccin ...
    Asda.com – Asda customers can book their winter flu jab from today in one of our in-store pharmacies – for the bargain price of £8. Trained nurses will be giving the flu vaccination at all 169 in-store pharmacies across England and Wales on 10th, 17th, 24th and 30th October. We’re ho ...

  • More than one in 10 people on UK’s DNA database ...
    Daily Telegraph – More than one in 10 people are now stored on the DNA database, as concerns grow over the scale of the surveillance state. Police forces in England and Wales have taken the profiles of 5.5 million people, meaning the proportion of the population on the system has passed a tenth fo ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Palestinians should have nukes says Gaddafi
    Palestinians should have nukes says Gaddafi (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Gaddafi has recently said that Palestinians and others in the Arab world should be armed with nuclear weapons. “If the Israelis have the nuclear weapons and the nuclear capabilities, then it is the right of the Egypt ...

  • A Speech by a RAIM Comrade on the 8th Anniversary ...
    A Speech by a RAIM Comrade on the 8th Anniversary of the Invasion of Afghanistan (raimd.wordpress.com) The following was delivered by a RAIM comrade on October 7th, 2009, the 8th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan. In the speech, the RAIM comrade tells the audience of anti-war and police br ...

  • Wysoki koszt życia w Trzecim Świecie
    Wysoki koszt życia w Trzecim Świecie by Serve The People (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com, The High Cost of Living in the Third World translated into Polish by NKP(M)) Spójrzymy na koszt życia w Ghanie. Tutaj jest lista cen (z ostatniego miesiąca lub dwóch) w cedisach ghanaweb.com/GhanaHome ...

  • Ethiopians face starvation, First Worlders waste f ...
    Ethiopians face starvation, First Worlders waste food (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Ethiopia is on the verge of a crisis. 6.2 million Ethiopians face starvation unless something is done. Already 80,000 children under 5 years of age are suffering from acute malnutrition, according to reports. ...

  • Comprador Indian State Gears Up for Massive War on ...
    Comprador Indian State Gears Up for Massive War on its Own People (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) For some months now the comprador Indian state, already up to its neck in extreme and bloody paramilitary and pig repression – police as well as government-backed Salwa Judum death squads have be ...

PakAlert

  • Insider reveals secrets of North American Union pl ...
    PREMEDITATED MERGER No ‘conspiracy theory,’ scheme hatched by CFR was sold to Bush, now Obama By Jerome R. Corsi © 2009 WorldNetDaily NEW YORK – The integration of the United States with Canada and Mexico, long deemed by many as little more than a fanciful “conspiracy theory,â ...

  • Video: Pakistan and the Kerry-Lugar Bill deception
    Apologies for the absence of subtitles but these are the conditions in simple terms: - The bill was accepted and now the Pakistan will be forced to: 1. Effectively be accepting that two major cities Quetta and Muridke are centers of terror as the bill alleges without any real evidence 2. Pakistan wi ...

  • Map of a Proposed (Post-War) New World Order
    Click to see the map at full size. Here’s a Post-War New World Map, taken from the blog Sun Bin. Created it 1942, it proposes a post-war “New World Moral Order” — a world divided among the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union. See the blue parts of the map? That’s the new United Sta ...

  • Ron Paul Questions Why Obama Daughters Haven’t T ...
    Despite declaring national emergency in response to H1N1 outbreak, President refuses to allow his own children to be inoculated with controversial shot Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Congressman Ron Paul has questioned why, despite his efforts to encourage the genera ...

  • Urgent: Meditation Exercise To Save Pakistan From ...
    Please spread the word – forward this link/text to all your friends and spend 15 mins daily for your motherland Dear Friends, Students, Well wishers and acquaintances We all who love our motherland are aware of what is happening and most of us whom have been bestowed with the gift of awareness f ...

ecogeek

  • Dell Plants Solar Trees in the Parking Lot
    Dell is doing it again, this time on-site, with a series of solar trees that will not only help power it's headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, but also serve to charge electric vehicles parked there. Of course, there aren't currently any electric vehicles parking in the Dell lot, but hopefully that w ...

  • Let's Make This Clear: Vertical Farms Don't Make S ...
    The inside of a skyscraper is, literally, the most expensive "land" in the world. So it probably isn't the best place to grow our food. The idea of vertical farming (growing food in high-rise buildings in the middle of cities instead of out on farms) has been gaining a lot of interest lately. Mos ...

  • Need to Measure Wind Speed? There's an App for Th ...
    The potential of small-scale wind power is starting to be discussed more.  Soon, like small-scale solar installations, wind turbines will be springing up in backyards and on rooftops.  If you're thinking that you'd like to be one of the people with a turbine out back , you'll need to assess the w ...

  • A Bladeless Fan?
    The Dyson Air Multiplier fan is the latest invention to come from Sir James Dyson, father of the Dyson vacuum cleaner series and the Dyson Airblade hand dryer. Air Multiplier is a 'bladeless' fan that provides a smooth airflow and that induces air circulation in the surrounding air, getting a great ...

  • California Crowned Most Energy Efficient by ACEEE
    The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) released their third annual state energy efficiency scorecard yesterday and the most energy efficient state was, no surprise, California, while Wyoming was ranked dead last. The organization judged all 50 states plus D.C. on six criteria ...

Times Online - Science

  • Climate change ‘will put endangered monkeys ...
    Several endangered species of monkey are likely to be pushed further towards extinction by the effects of climate change, research has suggested.

  • The men exploring aviation's final frontier
    For most people, this would be a recipe for torture: you are strapped into a tight space for five days and nights. You are unable to move or sleep for more than 20 minutes at a time. Nod off for longer and you die in a plane crash.

  • Fossilised skull of ferocious prehistoric pliosaur ...
    He returned alone to the same cliff almost every day for five years, sifting through the rocks on the shore. But when his work was done, Kevan Sheehan had pieced together one of the most remarkable fossils ever discovered: the 2.4m-long (7ft 8in) skull of a ferocious prehistoric sea monster.

  • Sexy science: wave hello to little green men
    My favourite moment of science fiction comes from Carl Sagan’s novel, Contact. Ellie Arroway is a young scientist working at SETI ( the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). She spends her time listening to the background hiss of the Universe picked up by the large satellite dishes pointing ...

  • Doctors engaged in ‘slow euthanasia’ f ...
    Patients with terminal illness are being heavily sedated by doctors before their deaths in a form of “slow euthanasia”, research suggests.

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Gov. Rell: "The Computer Ate My Homework!"
    When you read stuff like this you really don't have to wonder if Dautrich focus group tested this message before she sent it out: A review of documents provided by the university to The Day also shows that the governor's office did not fully comply with previous requests for public records, leaving ...

  • If you are like most Single Payer supporters...
    I think you'll find the following links are the bomb! Weiner Amendment || Kucinich Amendment || Public Option || Healthcare Reform || Republican Healthcare Plan || Democratic Healthcare Plan || Doctors on Healthcare Reform || Nurses on Healthcare Reform Don't be shy to click on them and feel free ...

  • Flushing Out the Ongoing Bank Fraud and Financial ...
    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

  • In Christian vs. Atheist Documentary, a Bizarre Ad ...
    In a new documentary pitting atheism against faith, contrarian critic Christopher Hitchens debates evangelical pastor Douglas Wilson on the merits of Christianity. “Collision,” released today, has already generated buzz: Hitchens and Wilson have appeared on National Public Radio’s “All Th ...

  • Dobbs Boosts Conspiracy-Monger as Immigration Expe ...
    It’s no surprise when CNN’s Lou Dobbs bashes immigrants on his TV and radio programs. But recently the factually challenged talk show host has been veering even further toward the far-right fringe. Last week, as Media Matters documented, Dobbs approvingly introduced conspiracy hound Jerome Corsi ...

  • Olson, Michigan Militia Leader in ’90s, Back ...
    A key figure of the 1990s antigovernment “Patriot” movement who largely dropped from public view in 2002 has resurfaced in Alaska, where he’s recruiting for his newly formed Alaska Militia. Norm Olson, who founded the Michigan Militia in 1994, held an organizational meeting last Thursday at a ...

  • A Peek Behind the Curtain: Views of a Racist Filmm ...
    As we reported yesterday, white supremacists are enamored of first-time filmmaker Craig Bodeker’s A Conversation about Race, presumably because the polished documentary lends a veneer of respectability to their racist beliefs. Bodeker, who narrates the film, comes across as an affable guy intent o ...

  • Huge Bust in Los Angeles Targets Anti-Black Street ...
    Police mounted a large-scale raid this week aimed at weakening a violent Los Angeles street gang that regularly targets blacks. Some 1,300 local, state and federal law enforcement officials were involved in the pre-dawn sweep on Tuesday that followed a year-long investigation and led to the arrest o ...

Gringo Times - Rio

  • Gringo, What’s in a Word?
    By Juliana Tafur, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - “A-tok-a” is the term used to refer to foreigner in Taiwanese. Curiously, the word’s approximate translation is “big nose”. In Haitian Creole, “blan” is synonymous for white person, derived from the french word “blanc”. Ask a ...

  • Outrage Over Afroreggae Evandro João da Silva’s ...
    By Lindsay Spratt, Sub Editor RIO DE JANEIRO - Evandro João da Silva, coordinator of Afroreggae, one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest non-profit organizations, was shot to death after being mugged on Sunday morning, October 18.  Evandro was on his way to the nightclub Dito e Feito in Rio ...

  • Lula’s PMDB Party Backs Dilma
    By Jaylan Boyle, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - President Lula’s chosen successor Dilma Rousseff has received a significant boost to her campaign to succeed the enormously popular Luis Inácio Lula da Silva. Rousseff officially gained the support of the nation’s largest political ...

  • Brazilian Drivers Reject Biofuel
    By Bruno De Nicola, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - The price of biofuel has risen by more than twelve percent over the past two months. A liter of alcohol, that had an average cost for fuelers of R$1.55 (US$ 0.80), now stands at around R$1.75. The strong rise is forcing drivers to ditch biof ...

  • Record Production for Petrobras
    By Jaylan Boyle, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian government-managed oil giant Petrobras reported in a recent press release record production levels for the month of September. Domestic output increased by 1.2 percent in August. The record figures translate to two million barrels pe ...

change: org.

  • The Female Economy: Be Careful Of What You're Sold
    The Harvard Business Review published this article, The Female Economy , which simply says: women are the largest economic force in the global business market. Globally, they control about $20 trillion in annual consumer spending, and that figure could climb as high as $28 trillion in the next five ...

  • Scholastic Reverses Decision to Exclude Gay Friend ...
    During the past 48 hours more than 4,000 Change.org members joined in calling for Scholastic Books to reverse their decision to exclude a book from Scholastic's popular book fairs, simply because the book featured two moms raising a child. The book in question is Luv Ya Bunches by best-selling chil ...

  • Couldn't Attend Let Live 2009? Catch Up Online
    Here's something I've been meaning to tell you about: The 2009 conference put on by the Let Live Foundation in Portland, Oregon, can now be experienced online. Head on over to Vimeo, where you'll find a library of 30-plus videos from not only the various and varied 2009 conference sessions, but also ...

  • Momentum Growing for Climate Agreement But Ecuador ...
    At a visit to a sun factory — sorry — solar farm, President Obama urged the Senate to pass emissions caps and suggested that "consensus is building." Sound vague? He continues: "It's a debate between looking backward and looking forward." Amongst the fog of vagueness there was an announcement: $ ...

  • A Community Option for Alabama Juveniles
    It was the tough-on-crime, war on drugs 1970s and 1980s. America feared a dangerous outbreak in juvenile crime, and lawmakers cracked down -- passing legislation to ensure that kids were incarcerated for breaking the law -- even if they were non-violent first-time offenders. Alabama's prison system ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Canadian Climate Protesters Disrupt House of Commo ...
    A loud protest in the visitors gallery of the House of Commons resulted in several arrests and the brief shutdown of question period on Monday. Around 200 young protesters chanted slogans to support Bill C-311, an NDP private member's bill on climate change. Six people were reported to have been de ...

  • Protesters in Chicago March on Offices of Goldman, ...
    by Lauren Etter CHICAGO - Hundreds of union members and organizers descended on the streets of downtown Chicago on Monday morning to picket the offices of Goldman Sachs Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. read more

  • What If, Instead of Fox, Team Obama Tackled Insura ...
    by John Nichols Suppose President Obama and his aides had decided to take on the worst offender among the big insurance companies this fall. Suppose the White House had highlighted the failure of the company to provide quality care, the abuses in which it has engaged and the behind-the-scenes camp ...

  • Leaderless: Senate Pushes For Public Option Withou ...
    by Sam Stein and Ryan Grim President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as part of health care reform. In its place, say multiple Democratic sources, Obama has indicated a preference for an alternati ...

  • Reid: Senate Bill to Include Public Option
    by David Espo Majority Leader Harry Reid says health care legislation headed to the Senate floor will include an option for government-run insurance. Reid says states will have the prerogative of opting out of the program if they choose. Reid noted that polls show widespread public support for givin ...

Lifehacker

  • Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day [Dealhacker]
    We've got discounted netbooks, cheap HDTVs, and a slew of hard drives and gear. You don't really care about any of that though, you're here for the free MP3s and Snuggie. Computer Gear! Compaq Presario CQ5210F Desktop for $299.98 + Free Shipping (Regular Price: $399) Dell Vostro 220 Desktop with V ...

  • Cheap, Money-Saving Winterizing Moves Worth the H ...
    That aisle at Home Depot with all the winterizing gear? It's jam-packed with overly-expensive stuff that might not do your home any good. Here's a few relatively cheap and easy moves you can make to cut your heating bills. Lock down your windows In every home, there's a trade-off between visibility ...

  • What's Your First Impression Ritual? [Ask The Rea ...
    We all know that first impressions are powerful things. Billionaire Steven A. Cohen makes the most of first impressions taking a deep breath and holding it before he enters a room. How about you? Poorly named weblog The Art of Manliness rounds up a few tips for commanding a room, including this int ...

  • Google Voice Offers Voicemail Without Changing Yo ...
    Want in on Google Voice's web-based, transcribed, custom-greeted voicemail, but you're not quite ready to adopt a new number? Starting tonight, Voice users can choose to keep their number and still get Google's upgraded voicemail features. You'll still need a Google Voice invitation to get started, ...

  • Get Quicksilver Working in Snow Leopard [Troubles ...
    Quicksilver is easily one of our favorite tools ever, but since its future isn't all that bright , die-hard users cross our fingers every time OS X updates. In Snow Leopard, Quicksilver stopped working for many users; here's how to fix it. Santana over at all-things-Apple weblog AppleDoes details ho ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Karzai's Narco-Trafficking Brother Is On CIA's Pay ...
    By Steve Hynd The New York Times, in what must be a measure of how sure they are of their information, rolled out the big guns today - Filkins, Mazzetti and Risen - to write the story of how Afghan president Hamid Karzai's brother has been on the CIA payroll for years. Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother ...

  • China, Russia, India Send Signal To U.S. On Afghan ...
    By Steve Hynd The Pakistani paper Dawn has an interesting report from a press conference in Bangalore, India: The foreign ministers of Russia, China and India said on Tuesday that the world must remain engaged in Afghanistan, with Moscow seeking a greater role for regional powers in stabilising the ...

  • Past The Tipping Point In Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd The guy who is making AfPak news today is Matthew Hoh, a fairly junior Foreign Service officer and former Marine officer who has resigned his post as the most senior U.S. civilian in the Zabul province of Afghanistan over the conduct of the occupation. His resignation letter is here. O ...

  • 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 ...

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

McClatchey

  • Insurgents strike U.N. guesthouse in Kabul
    KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents killed six United Nations workers and injured nine others in a Wednesday attack at a guesthouse that struck at the international community in the Afghan capital.

  • Commentary: My broadband life
    My life is not that different from most men in their early 40s. Weekends are hectic, filled with kids' games, events and errands — all while never straying too far from "work mode" as I am connected via BlackBerry and laptop seven days a week. Was life this crazy for my father when I was young?

  • Commentary: More voters are souring on health refo ...
    No wonder the Obama administration wanted the House to finish work on its health care bill before the summer recess. The more people learn about the legislative blob slouching toward passage, the less they like it.

  • Commentary: We have promises to keep in Afghanista ...
    In the media and in conversations anywhere people gather, all sorts of compelling arguments are being made against the United States deepening its military commitment in Afghanistan. But somehow they're not quite compelling enough.

  • Palin got at least $1.25 million for book, forms s ...
    WASHINGTON -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was paid at least $1.25 million for her upcoming memoir, a book that's one of the top pre-orders on online bestseller lists even before its release next month.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • A forest of issues
    An innovative proposal recently emerged from the foliage that aims to keep fossil fuels in the ground while preserving some of South America's most startling biodiversity and securing the traditional territories of indigenous peoples. About one-third of the Ecuadorian government's income now derive ...

  • 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun



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