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Thomas Paine

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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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Innovation Canada

  • Cultural evolution
    When Jane Goodall reported her observations of tools use by chimps to famed anthropologist Louis Leakey, he responded by saying, “Now we must redefine tool, redefine man or accept chimpanzees as humans.” Leakey would have likely had a similar reaction to the current work of University of Calgary ...
  • Faces of aggression
    Even if you can’t distinguish NHL enforcers Todd Bertuzzi and Chris Neil from a referee, you’d probably know at first sight not to mess with them. And not just because of their physical size. The men employed to intimidate the opposition tend to have wide faces, and that, Brock University’s Ch ...
  • i2eye with Bruce McNaughton
    One of the world’s foremost neuroscientists, Bruce McNaughton is renowned for his groundbreaking research into how the human brain stores, processes and transmits information. One year ago, the Ottawa-born McNaughton was lured back to Canada after spending more than a quarter century in the United ...
  • Little boxes
    With more than half the Canadian population now living in the suburbs, Jill Grant says it’s an obvious time to study this increasingly popular living option, one that remains a bane to urban planners and downtown boosters. Are people drawn to the concept of perfectly matching houses throughout a n ...
  • FISHing for answers
    University of Alberta (U of A) researchers have developed a cancer-testing technology with a snappy name but a serious purpose. The “FISH on a chip” is a complex test that detects abnormalities in chromosomes which characterize particular types of cancer. To create it, researchers miniaturize a ...

Signs of the times

  • Parties in Madagascar agree on unity cabinet
    Madagascar's political rivals have agreed on cabinet posts in a new unity government, officials at power-sharing talks have said. The announcement follows weeks of discussions aimed at ending a political crisis that began earlier this year. Under the agreement, Andry Rajoelina remains president, d ...
  • Thousands of people protest IMF and World Bank in ...
    Thousands of people protested against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank during their annual meetings in İstanbul on Tuesday. Police fired tear gas and used water cannon to disperse the protesters. Riot police armed with shields and firing gas canisters rushed to disperse protesters in ...
  • 2 men of the 1950s showed that women have 'The Rig ...
    Bethesda, Maryland - In the early years of the "space race" (1957-1975) two men sought to test a scientifically simple yet culturally complicated theory: that women might be innately better suited for space travel than men. In 1960 the thought of a woman in space was a radical one, and justifiably ...
  • Communicating person to person through the power o ...
    New research from the University of Southampton has demonstrated that it is possible for communication from person to person through the power of thought alone. Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) can be used for capturing brain signals and translating them into commands that allow humans to control ( ...
  • Israeli jets intercept plane over Dimona
    Israel has scrambled fighter jets after a civilian ultra-light aircraft flew over its Dimona nuclear reactor in the southern Negev desert, the military says. The warplanes intercepted the aircraft and forced it to land at an airstrip near the southern city of Arad, Ynet reported Tuesday. Based on ...

Threat Level

  • Twitter: Tweeting Method is Not Patent Infringemen ...
    With a fresh infusion of $100 million in venture funding, Twitter is fighting a lawsuit claiming the tweeting method amounts to patent infringement. The San Francisco-based, venture-funded microblogging service, in its first public response to the lawsuit, is telling a Texas federal judge that the p ...
  • Most Common Hotmail Password Revealed!
    A researcher who examined 10,000 Hotmail, MSN and Live.com passwords that were recently exposed online has published an analysis of the list and found that “123456″ was the most commonly used password, appearing 64 times. Forty-two percent of the passwords used lowercase letters from “a to zâ ...
  • Bank Botnet Serves Fake Info to Thwart Researchers
    Researchers tracking a gang of online bank thieves found that the criminals have deployed a devious means to thwart law enforcement and anyone else trying to monitor their activities. The gang behind the URLZone trojan, which siphons money from online bank accounts and then alters a victim’s onlin ...
  • FBI Investigated Coder for Liberating Paywalled Co ...
    When Aaron Swartz, a 22 year-old programmer, decided last fall to help an open government activist amass a public and free copy of millions of federal court records, he did not expect he’d end up with an FBI agent trying to surveil his house. But that’s what happened, as Swartz found out this we ...
  • Secure Flight Comes to Southwest Airlines, Six Yea ...
    Six years ago the federal government proposed taking over the job of comparing passenger names against the terrorist watch lists. Just this week, Southwest Airlines frequent fliers are being asked to update their profiles with name, gender and date of birth information in order to let the feds try ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Forgetting Right-Wing Terrorism at the Atlanta Oly ...
    Conservatives may be having a blast now celebrating America's loss of the 2016 Olympics, but during the 1996 Atlanta games the explosion was literal. Right-wing terrorist Eric Rudolph detonated a bomb that killed one and injured over 100 people at...
  • Republican Leaders Remind Steele GOP Hates Medicar ...
    As Politico reported Monday, Republicans leaders took RNC chairman Michael Steele to the woodshed for his high profile role in the health care debate. Furious that Steele's so-called "seniors' bill of rights" committed the GOP to "no cuts to Medicare,"...
  • "Going Rogue" by Sarah Palin, Editor's Cut
    Buoyed by bulk advance purchases by the right-wing faithful, Sarah Palin's upcoming book Going Rogue as expected catapulted to the top of the Amazon.com bestseller list. That Palin turned to ghostwriter Lynn Vincent, whose past conservatives screeds branded Democrats "treasonous"...
  • The False Equivalence of the Birther vs. Truther P ...
    Among the most discussed if least enlightening polls in recent months is the PPP survey revealing that Republican "birthers" far outnumber Democratic "truthers." That is, there are many more delusional right-wingers who doubt President Obama was born in the United...
  • "Hong Kong" Palin vs. "Katie Couric" Palin
    Turning to Sarah Palin to explain the international economy and the role of government is like asking a dog why it likes to lick its ass. But as an audience of investors and fund managers learned today in Hong Kong,...

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Institute for Middle East Understanding

Planetsave

  • Algae blooms in Lake Erie bring back bad memories
    Lyngbya wollei, south shore Maumee Bay in Ohio, September 23, 2009. Lake Erie, declared dead by the news media in the 1960s because of widespread, repulsive algae blooms, is once again marred, this time by both old and new causes. Some scientists and lake advocates worry that the unsightly algae i ...
  • Dog Death Caps Summer of Blue-Green Algae in MN
    Blue-green algae blooms on Minnesota lakes are linked to a dog death and illnesses, and apparently caused by runoff pollution. The death of a dog after it frolicked in a Minnesota lake plagued with blue-green algae was a sad coda for a late summer in the state. Although no necropsy was done, a spo ...
  • Yellowstone Grizzlies Back on Endangered Species L ...
    In 2007 federal protections were dropped for the protection of Yellowstone grizzlies. Ever since then, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition have been fighting to give protection back to the bears. They argued that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) failed to address the loss of essential food s ...
  • Double Whammy of Pollution for Mississippi River i ...
    A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee samples river water for endocrine disrupting pollutants. Study results publicized this week suggest Twin Cities water resources and the Mississippi River downstream from the Cities are suffering from pollution by road salt and endocrine disrupting chemical ...
  • 14 Deer Die in One Night at Zoo under Mysterious C ...
    According to reports , 13 cheetal and one swamp deer died Friday evening under “mysterious circumstances” at the Kanpur Zoo.  Viscera samples and stomach content have been sent to the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI). Results are expected sometime within the next two weeks.  The ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Texas: Sparkly Mythical Wonderland of Green Jobs
    Texas is a sparkly mythical wonderland full of unicorns.  And by unicorns, I mean green jobs.  And by green jobs, I mean well-paying, long-term jobs ranging from maintenance to operations, project management, and high-tech engineering. Wortham: Unicorns are alive, well and working the wind out wes ...
  • King Williams Parade Pics 048 [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
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  • “Psst! Hey, you wanna buy a carbon offset?” O ...
    For any of you worries about the 1 Billion tons of carbon offsets in the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, or the 2 billion tons in the just-released Kerry-Boxer draft, here’s another reason to be worried.  Some have decried offsets as being similar to a medieval indulgence, where the bearer p ...
  • Public Citizen Urges Texas Court to Force State Ai ...
    AUSTIN – Saying that climate change must be considered when new coal plants and other facilities are approved, Public Citizen today sued the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in the Travis County District Court to require the commission to regulate global warming gases. This cas ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Mousing Fun with the Freakazoids
    In case you missed the Link of the Day , Wonkette definitely has the best comments. But via comments at Pharyngula, we have an alternative version which should stop the vomiting almost immediately. Remember, the true meaning is in the alt-text connected to every figure.  Mouse carefully; it's not we ...
  • When you think they can't possibly be more offensi ...
    Oh my. Where to even fucking start? Just what the fuck, exactly, is the NRCC trying to say ? In a ridiculous attack against the Speaker of the House after an interview she gave to Charlie Rose, in which she said that General McChrystal ought to be using the chain of command to communicate with the ...
  • How sweet it is!
    This year's Nobel in Medicine is especially sweet. For starters, while the prize has been shared before, the team that received the honor has never before been female-dominated like this one was. Being a scientist-chick, I think that is way cool. And the women who won it are at the top of the heap i ...
  • Feintstein Responds On HR 2996 Amendments.
    Got the following email this A.M. and for once it's not just the normal form letter I usually get.  Many thanks to BG for the advice.   I promised the senator that her response would be blogged, so here it is.  There's a copy of her statement in opposition to the Murkowski amendment available also. ...
  • Drama and Shenanigans Behind the Senate Scenes
    It's enough to make you wonder if Max Baucus has been putting on an act to cover up his true intention of preventing any weak-ass Finance Committee bill from getting to the floor so that the Senate is forced to vote on Ted Kennedy's strong-public-option HELP bill. Nah.  But .... Jane Hamsher has the ...

Care 2

  • Ancient Rainforests Resilient To Climate Change
    These discoveries radically change our understanding of the Earth’s first rainforests. We used to think these were stable ecosystems, unchanged for tens of millions of years. Now we know they were incredibly dynamic, constantly buffeted by climate change. Submitted by Tom M. to Environment  |   No ...
  • Afghanistan's "Black Hawk Down" II: It Just Happen ...
    Eight Americans and six Afghan troops died Saturday after being outnumbered in an attack strikingly similar to an insurgent assault 15 months ago in which nine U.S. soldiers died in an outpost in the same northeastern province, Nuristan. Submitted by Tom M. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment ...
  • As troops draw down, more contractors hired - gree ...
    "The wages are attractive. With bonuses, income can surpass $95,000 a year. The first $84,000 is nontaxable for contractors who agree not to return to the United States within the first 11 months of the contract. What's more, food and shelter are free! Submitted by David Buchan to US Politics & Gov' ...
  • Monty Python to reunite in New York for 40th anniv ...
    The Pythons will meet again to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the creation of the troupe on Oct. 15 at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City. While the event will feature no cows being flung by catapult the reunion will involve the complete troupe? Submitted by David Buchan to Society & Culture ...
  • Petition - GUINEA: STOP THE CRACKDOWN! - No sancti ...
    The military gunned down civilians attending a peaceful pro-democracy rally in the West African country of Guinea. Over one hundred and fifty people were killed and women were stripped and raped in the streets. Please sign the petition to help stop this? Submitted by David Buchan to World  |   Note ...

GreenBiz

  • Abbott Shifts to Green Power From Coal and Oil
    Fuel switching and a shift to renewable energy allowed health care company Abbott to cut its coal and oil consumption by 15 percent last year across its global operations, relative to 2006 levels.  When normalized against sales, which have grown since 2006, the decline in the company’s coal and ...
  • Reinventing Fire: RMI's Quest to Foster a Future F ...
    What will it take to secure a future free of fossil fuels and transition to efficient and renewable energy that is not just economically viable, but profitable? The Rocky Mountain Institute proposes to drive such a change and ignite further interest in efforts to transform the way people get and use ...
  • Abbott Shifts to Green Power From Coal and Oil
    Fuel switching and a shift to renewable energy allowed health care company Abbott to cut its coal and oil consumption by 15 percent last year across its global operations, relative to 2006 levels.  When normalized against sales, which have grown since 2006, the decline in the company’s coal and o ...
  • EPA Calls for Chemical Law Reform, More Responsibi ...
    The EPA has released a set of principles that reflect changes the Obama Administration would like to see made to the country's chemical management law, including support for green chemistry efforts and requiring manufacturers to provide more detailed data on chemical hazards.
  • How to Design for a Post-Consumption Economy
    It's clear our consumption-centered lifestyle has challenged our planet's ability to support us. Our economy doesn't need to be focused solely on spurring consumption. Here's a guide on how to design for a post-consumption economy.

Reuters Global

  • Swine flu vaccination finally starts
    "very unpleasant consequences for humanity"
  • Are Pentagon contracts funding the Taliban?
    A U.S. military aid program that favors Afghan vendors is being used by the Taliban as an extortion racket to the tune of a projected $80 million in the last year.
  • Bishops see more selfish Europe 20 years after Ber ...
    Europe has become increasingly selfish and materialistic In the 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the heads of the Roman Catholic bishops' conferences across Europe said.
  • Ireland puts the EU show back on the road
    The EU show is back on the road. Sixteen months after Irish voters brought the European Union's tortured process of institutional reform to a juddering halt by voting "No" to the Lisbon treaty, the same electorate has turned out in larger numbers to say "Yes" by a two-thirds majority. This is an im ...
  • Western Afghanistan, a new worry ?
    Should the world begin worrying about western Afghanistan ? A spate of violent incidents have stoked concern about a spreading Taliban insurgency.

Ezra Klein

  • Tab Dump
    1) The Institute of Medicine weighs in on health-care reform . 2) Robert Reich explains "specifically" what we should do for jobs . I support suggestion #2. 3) A primer on the cost of climate legislation . 4) Gerrymandering apparently does not make House districts uncompetitive .
  • Condé and McKinsey
    Condé Nast has long had a reputation for being more than just a company: They're a publisher . Some of their titles make money, of course. But many, like The New Yorker and Gourmet, don't. They protected them anyway. On Monday, they announced that they're shuttering Gourmet. But not totally. They' ...
  • Party Like It's 1994
    Ever wanted to read the Congressional Budget Office's evaluation of the 1994 health-care reform plan? Well, thanks to my colleague Lori Montgomery, you can . (Warning: it's a 10 megabyte download.) On page 28, you'll see something a little dispiriting. The bill envisioned $927 billion in subsidies ...
  • The Fake Health-Care Debate
    On Monday night, Ben Smith moderated a debate between Betsy McCaughey and Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.). Reflecting on the night, Smith said that McCaughey is "nowhere near the player she was in 1994 -- in part perhaps because she's seen as a partisan, not an honest broker, and that's due in no sma ...
  • Should America Copy the Dutch?
    I wrote this a few months back for the Outlook section, but because of various scheduling issues, it never got published. But with Jon Cohn talking about the Dutch health-care system, and with risk adjustment and failed exchanges in the news, it seems worth posting. The basic story is that the Dutch ...

Booman Tribune

  • Open Thread
    It's 3-1 Tigers in the bottom of the fifth. Is Detroit really going to pull this out? Update [2009-10-6 19:35:44 by BooMan]: Now 4-3 Twinkies in the bottom of the seventh. Update [2009-10-6 19:45:52 by BooMan]: Damn. Went to the kitchen and missed Magglio Ordonez tie it 4-4 on the first pi ...
  • Annoying Stupid Politicians
    Never mind that the administration says it doesn't want them right now and that they will complicate its diplomatic efforts; lawmakers always think that they know best and that the public always rewards bellicosity. So, it's new sanctions on Iran, full speed ahead. Idiots.
  • Why So Pessimistic?
    David Sirota thinks that the the left doesn't exist in this country. Depending on how you define 'exist' and 'the left,' I might agree with him. Certainly, we don't have any viable political parties that are as far left as what you'll see in most of Europe. The majority of the conservative partie ...
  • Another Dimension on the Chessboard
    If you've been following the health care debate closely, this is not news to you: Emanuel and other White House advisers made a calculation early in the healthcare debate that they needed at least one powerful industry on board with their plans to overhaul the nation’s healthcare system. Suspect ...
  • Bush Fired Scientist Wins Nobel
    Three Americans won the Nobel prize for Medicine the other day. (Cue U-S-A! U-S-A! chants). They recieved the award for discovering the existence and role an enzyme, telomerase, plays in repairing damaged DNA strands (actually something quite important for the future of medical treatments for genet ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Changing the world with Charter Cities
    Many thanks to former Futurismic staffer and all-round top bloke Tobias Buckell for flagging up an interview with Paul Romer at the NYT Freakonomics blog, which pushed a whole bunch of my buttons at once. [image by geoftheref] Romer’s big idea is that of the Charter City: a developing nation strik ...
  • Prosthetics porn
    There is an arc of progress with human technologies: first comes functionality, then gradual acceptance, and then the aesthetic overhaul. The transition from practicality to personality has always interested me, because it hinges on that point of acceptance, be it grudging or enthusiastic; only then ...
  • The Troll Crusade: Anonymous, Scientology and all ...
    To paraphrase the lovely Pat Cadigan, reality is always weirder than fiction… because fiction is constrained by the need to appear plausible. Which is why, had someone tried to write a novel about an ad-hoc tribe of sociopaths united by membership of an internet bulletin board attempting to take d ...
  • DIY junk lathe
    There are some mighty resourceful and inventive people out there, and arguably the best thing about the intermatubes (at least in my humble opinion) is that it’s easier than ever before to learn from them. Example: say you wanted a lathe, so as to teach yourself woodturning or some such similar cr ...
  • The socioeconomics of human longevity
    Almost as if they timed it to coincide with the just-finished Singularity Summit, a group of medical researchers published a paper last week in the prestigious journal The Lancet which shows that life expectancy in Western nations is increasing steadily, alongside quality of life in those later year ...

Therapy News

  • Ongoing Research Uses Computational Brain Models t ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Typically, studies examining the precise functioning of the brain are lengthy and expensive, given the need to use advanced MRI equipment and recruit patient participants. But a student at the University of Missouri is proving that such studies can extract meaningful ...
  • Study Finds Links Between Stress, Stroke
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Severe and prolonged bouts of stress have been identified as playing crucial roles in a number of physical health problems, but in many cases, the extent of the impact of stress on physical health is imprecise at best. A new study produced by the Sahlgrenska Academy a ...
  • Scientist Predicts Importance of Mental Exercise W ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Neurological exercises, logical thinking, and meditation are just some of the methods through which people regularly challenge their minds, whether as a necessity or by choice. Recently, a noted neuroscientist has predicted that by the year 2050, mental exercise will ...
  • Experience, Intensified: Listening with Closed Eye ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Though closing one’s eyes is sometimes offered as a quick way to soothe fear and anxiety in stressful situations, doing so may prompt the brain to engage in a higher degree of activity, resulting in more intense experiences. With an itch to identify the ways in which ...
  • Study Suggests Time May Heal for Bipolar Youths
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline There are many treatment options for bipolar disorder, which has a negative impact on the health and happiness of scores of people around the world. From distinct medications to various psychotherapy models, options are aimed at helping clients overcome difficulties a ...

Mountaintop Removal

Memeorandum

  • The Cup of Coffee: White House's David Axelrod Mee ...
    Michael Scherer / Swampland : The Cup of Coffee: White House's David Axelrod Meets With Fox News' Roger Ailes   —  On a recent visit to New York, White House adviser David Axelrod met over coffee with Roger Ailes, the president of the Fox News Network, which President Obama has described as a â ...
  • How Health Care Reform Won (Jonathan Chait/The New ...
    Jonathan Chait / The New Republic : How Health Care Reform Won   —  The biggest story in health care reform this year has not been the town hall meetings, or President Obama's big speech on health care.  It's that the Senate Democrats have decided they're going to pass a bill.  You just haven ...
  • MSNBC's Ratigan battles McCaughey (Ben Smith/Ben S ...
    Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog : MSNBC's Ratigan battles McCaughey   —  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy  —  Anthony Weiner and Betsy McCaughey brought their act to MSNBC this morning, where Weiner — unlike last night — was a relatively mellow pres ...
  • Guantanamo closing unlikely in January (Mark Silva ...
    Mark Silva / The Swamp : Guantanamo closing unlikely in January   —  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said today that the Obama administration may not meet its own Jan. 22 deadline for closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and that the fate of more than 220 foreign terror ...
  • Pelosi says new tax is 'on the table' (Michael O'B ...
    Michael O'Brien / The Hill : Pelosi says new tax is ‘on the table’   —  A new value-added tax (VAT) is “on the table” to help the U.S. address its fiscal liabilities, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday night.  —  Pelosi, appearing on PBS's “The Charlie Rose Show” ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • “China is on the right track”
    How has China’s low-carbon path developed – and what lies in the future? chinadialogue spoke to Wu Changhua, director for Greater China at the Climate Group. Wu Changhua is Greater China director at the Climate Group, leading their operations and strategic development across the region. She was ...
  • Catching the wind
    Wind power could provide all of China's electricity, says a new study, if the country raises its subsidy and improves its grid. Ben Block reports. Wind power alone could provide electricity for all of China if the country overhauls its rural grids and raises the subsidy for wind energy, a new study ...
  • Slideshow: Times of crisis (1)
    The collapse of Lehman Brothers shook the world from Wall Street to Beijing. Maryann Bird introduces some images of China from a Reuters multimedia project charting 365 days of upheaval. The 10 photographs in the slideshow are Copyright 2009 Thomson Reuters and published by chinadialogue with the pe ...
  • A birthday wish list
    The 60-year history of the People’s Republic saw a move from an era of revolution to one of pragmatism. The country’s low-carbon future, writes Julian L Wong, requires both approaches. This week marks the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. The first 30-year phase was one of re ...
  • River of discord
    Hydropower projects in China have created tensions along the Mekong. Rivers know no borders, writes Michael Richardson, but dams do. Back in 1986, when China began building the first of a series of dams on the Mekong River, hardly anyone in the downstream countries of south-east Asia paid attention. ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Twitter: Tweeting Method is Not Patent Infringemen ...
    With a fresh infusion of $100 million in venture funding, Twitter is fighting a lawsuit claiming the tweeting method amounts to patent infringement. The San Francisco-based, venture-funded microblogging service, in its first public response to the lawsuit, is telling a Texas federal judge that the p ...
  • Most Common Hotmail Password Revealed!
    A researcher who examined 10,000 Hotmail, MSN and Live.com passwords that were recently exposed online has published an analysis of the list and found that “123456″ was the most commonly used password, appearing 64 times. Forty-two percent of the passwords used lowercase letters from “a to zâ ...
  • Bank Botnet Serves Fake Info to Thwart Researchers
    Researchers tracking a gang of online bank thieves found that the criminals have deployed a devious means to thwart law enforcement and anyone else trying to monitor their activities. The gang behind the URLZone trojan, which siphons money from online bank accounts and then alters a victim’s onlin ...
  • FBI Investigated Coder for Liberating Paywalled Co ...
    When Aaron Swartz, a 22 year-old programmer, decided last fall to help an open government activist amass a public and free copy of millions of federal court records, he did not expect he’d end up with an FBI agent trying to surveil his house. But that’s what happened, as Swartz found out this we ...
  • Secure Flight Comes to Southwest Airlines, Six Yea ...
    Six years ago the federal government proposed taking over the job of comparing passenger names against the terrorist watch lists. Just this week, Southwest Airlines frequent fliers are being asked to update their profiles with name, gender and date of birth information in order to let the feds try ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Dow sees huge market in solar shingles
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dow Chemical Co said on Monday it would begin selling a new rooftop shingle next year that converts sunlight into electricity -- and could generate $5 billion in revenue by 2015 for the company.
  • U.S. to house detained migrants in converted hotel ...
    PHOENIX (Reuters) - The United States, criticized for holding illegal immigrants in overcrowded and poorly run jails, on Tuesday announced plans to convert hotels to detain some noncriminal immigrants.
  • ANALYSIS-McChrystal is the talk of Washington
    (For more on Afghanistan, click on [ID:nAFPAK]) * Publicly chided by Pentagon's Gates, Obama adviser Jones * Open airing of internal debate on Afghanistan strategy * Republicans backing McChrystal, Democrats critical By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Nothing gets Washington's attention ...
  • Verizon to sell 2 Google phones this year
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless said on Tuesday it will sell two mobile phones with Google Inc's Android operating system this year, part of a partnership that could boost Google's efforts to challenge Apple Inc in the fast-growing smartphone market.
  • Iran plans to use new centrifuge at nuclear plant
    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran plans to use a new generation of faster centrifuges to enrich uranium at a newly-revealed nuclear site, its atomic energy chief said in remarks published Tuesday.

Godspace

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

Equality Trust

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #0131
    CIA active in UK, British MPs told. Denmark's military spy chief resigns amid soldier book scandal. Wife of poisoned Russian spy criticizes Moscow visit.
  • “Unprecedented” history of MI5 published
    The MI5, Britain’s foremost counterintelligence organization, made headlines in 2002, when it appointed Cambridge University history Professor Christopher Andrew to produce an authorized account of its long history. The 1,032-page-long book, entitled Defense of the Realm, was published this week b ...
  • News you may have missed #0130
    One in three votes for Afghanistan's Karzai was fraudulent, says US diplomat. US lobbyist for Rep. of Georgia says Russian agents tried to kill him. Ex-CIA agent says Indian spies operating in Afghanistan.
  • Westerners arrested for “spying” in Congo had ...
    The bizarre case of two Norwegian citizens arrested in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last May on spying charges is getting ever more complex.
  • Documents show Japan government aide was CIA mole
    A senior military aide to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida in the 1950s was an informant for the CIA, according to documents unearthed at the US National Archives.

PsyBlog

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

After Downing Street.org

  • Calling all Peacemakers, Hell Raisers and Fed-up H ...
    By Cindy Sheehan "You gotta make me do it." Barack Obama I had just walked back into my hotel room yesterday after chaining myself to the White House fence and being arrested, when I saw White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, say that removing troops from Afghanistan was "not an option." Hundre ...
  • Here We Go Again – Democrats Turning off Their V ...
    When it comes to war, the Obama administration fails to learn the lessons of 2006 and 2008 as well as the health care debate By Kevin B. Zeese Monday, October 5, 2009 may have been the beginning of the end of a Democratic majority in the House and Senate. Peace advocates demonstrated at the White H ...
  • No Arbitration For Rape in DoD Contracts
    No Arbitration for Rape in DoD contracts Jamie Lee Jones was brutally gang raped when she worked for Halliburton/KBR in Iraq. When she tried to sue she learned her contract required her to use arbitration - a secret proceeding that denies civil rights. Tuesday the Senate will vote on an amendme ...
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  • Here We Go: Year Nine in Vietghanistan: Catch Me o ...
    http://democracynow.org Rep Barbara Lee will be on too. Here's her bill (22 cosponsors) to block funding for an escalation in Afghanistan: HR3699 . Why hasn't your representative signed on? Of course we have to use this to build a list of House members committed to voting No on funding bills. Th ...

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Washington Independent

  • The Next Afghan Strategy Looks Like It’ll Fo ...
    If it’s true, as reported, that the question of the CIA’s drone strikes against al-Qaeda in Pakistan is bolstering support for the so-called counterterrorism option in the Obama administration’s Afghanistan/Pakistan strategy, then tomorrow’s meeting at the White House looks, from the attenda ...
  • Club for Growth Edging Toward Rubio Endorsement
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  • Bachmann: ‘The President Has Failed to Come ...
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CowBoss' Brain Food

  • If you think drinking raw milk is weird
    Read this story to learn how a man, who was dedicated to a diet of raw vegan foods and striving to be healthy, had a powerful experience that led him to start eating raw meat: Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Seaweed invasion plagues France's pristine Brittan ...
    Hillion is a picture-postcard Breton town with grey stone houses, a pretty granite church and long sandy beaches. But the seaside idyll has been ruined by mounds of rotting seaweed that have settled across swathes of France's northwestern coast, giving o Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Business ...
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  • Animal waste agreement reached at landfill
    CLINTON — After more than a year of negotiations, cattle brain and spinal cord material could start coming to the Clinton County landfill next week, according to recent action by the Clinton County Area Solid Waste Agency board. Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it ...
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Suzie-Q

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  • Hardin Montana Stops Deal With American Police For ...
    Michael Hilton Hardin, Montana, Puts Jail Deal With APPF On Ice TPM MUCKRAKER– Justin Elliott | October 6, 2009, 9:08AM Spooked by a man who turned out to be a convicted felon and who appears to have repeatedly lied on his way to acquiring a lease for an empty jail in Hardin, MT, town leaders y ...
  • American Police Force Story Gets More Like The Twi ...
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Solari

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  • Persian Poet and Philosopher Rumi
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  • Two Leaks and the Deepening Iran Crisis
    By George Friedman Two major leaks occurred this weekend over the Iran matter. In the first, The New York Times published an article reporting that staff at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N. nuclear oversight group, had produced an unreleased report saying that Iran was much mo ...
  • Precious Metals Market Report
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  • Wall Street Housing Czars
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Global Insights

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  • 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 ...
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  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
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Insurgency Watch - Posts

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

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Twilight Earth

  • President Obama Gives Federal Agencies 90 Days to ...
    The Obama administration has given federal agencies 90 days to submit aggressive targets to reduce greenhouse gasses and energy use. Related posts: President Obama on the Clean Energy and Security Act (Video) President Allocates 786M in Recovery Act Funds to BioFuel Infrastructure Federal Governm ...
  • Caribou Herds Getting Smaller as a Result of Globa ...
    Caribou herds are growing thin on the Porcupine river Tundra in the Yukon Territory. It's not the only place where the caribou are suffering. Related posts: Reindeer About to Go the Way of the Polar Bear? How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic ANWR – Is It The Caribou, Or Ourselves That Need S ...
  • Photo Sunday – The Truth of Clarity as Darkness ...
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  • Climate Change – How Can We Dance When the Beds ...
    A re-mix of the hit "Beds are Burning", with over 60 artists and celebrities, to reflect the greatest humanitarian crisis today - climate change. Related posts: White House: The Primary Cause of Climate Change is Carbon Dioxide Emissions White House Follow-up on Global Climate Change Impacts New 3 ...
  • Solar Decathlon on the Mall in Washington DC
    For three weeks in October 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy will host the Solar Decathlon in Washington DC. Related posts: The BeauSoleil Solar Home: Self Sufficient Solar Decathlon Entry Solar Power from Outer Space: Microwaves and Frickin’ Lasers New Jersey to Double its Solar Power Genera ...

Inhabitat

  • Public Bike Sharing: Progress and Challenges Ahead
    On the chic streets of Paris, a woman wearing a purple cardigan zooms by on a chunky, mocha-grey bicycle. The woman fades from mind, but the retro bike lingers on as a memory with its decidedly unique styling. Strangely, an older gentleman with a bouquet of flowers tucked into his bag now rides by o ...
  • Mason Lane Farm Showcases Beautiful Bamboo Constru ...
    Farms are close to nature – places to harvest the fruit of the land and care for animals and livestock. As such they should be built and operated with respect for life through sustainable construction and operation. The Mason Lane Farm Operations Facility in North Carolina is just such an example. ...
  • Solé Power Tiles: Curved Solar Shingles Make Inst ...
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  • Norfolk Southern Unveils Zero Emission Plug-in Ele ...
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  • NATO says kills 100 fighters in huge Afghan battle
    Reuters - NATO forces said Tuesday they had killed more that 100 fighters in a huge weekend battle in eastern Afghanistan in which eight Americans died, the deadliest firefight for U.S. troops in more than a year. Read Article
  • Gold price rises to all-time high
    BBC - The price of gold has hit a new all-time high of $1,043.77 an ounce after a decline in the dollar boosted the attractiveness of metals to investors. Copper prices also rose above $6,000 a tonne, as the weaker dollar made metals cheaper for non-US investors. Read Article
  • Teenage girl left brain-damaged after receiving ce ...
    Daily Mail - A teenage girl has been left brain-damaged after suffering epileptic seizures just days after being given the controversial cervical cancer jab. Stacey Jones, 18, suffered her first seizure in March when she was 17, days after she had the Cervarix injection. In the following weeks she ...
  • Bloomberg: Federal Reserve Should Release Borrower ...
    Bloomberg — The Federal Reserve should be forced to identify companies that received loans from the central bank because it can’t demonstrate that borrowers would be harmed by the disclosure, according to lawyers who won a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. There’s nothing prop ...
  • Excreted Tamiflu found in rivers
    Science News - The premier flu-fighting drug is contaminating rivers downstream of sewage-treatment facilities, researchers in Japan confirm. The source: urinary excretion by people taking oseltamivir phosphate, best known as Tamiflu. Concerns are now building that birds, which are natural influenz ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Indigenous of Ecuador confront state and corporati ...
    Indigenous of Ecuador confront state and corporations (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)   Hundreds of Shuar people, an Indigenous tribe in Ecuador that constitutes 35 percent of the country’s population of 14.5 million, have occupied a highway in protest over state and corporate exploitation o ...
  • IJC: White settler admits crimes of his parasite c ...
       White settler admits crimes of his parasite class against the Azanian nation By Jacob Brown (jacobinternationalism.wordpress.com) Klanada’s Globe and Mail’s Sept. 17 article reads: “Brandon Huntley, a white South African who had overstayed his Canadian work permit, applied for ...
  • Settler hypocrisy in Zimbabwe
    Settler hypocrisy in Zimbabwe (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)   In 2000, Mugabe’s regime removed roughly 4,000 colonial-era white farmers from their land and resettled the land with Africans. The land reform was meant to address injustices and poverty suffered by Africans at the hands of the ...
  • China stood up sixty years ago
    China stood up sixty years ago (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)   Sixty years ago, Mao announced the founding of People’s Republic of China, “China has stood up.” One billion people, a quarter of humanity at the time, walked down a new path.  Just as today, there are two roads to walk. O ...
  • Excerpt from Malcolm Caldwell on wealth and people ...
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PakAlert

  • Video: CIA threats to Pakistan | Episode 8
    BrassTacks presents another bitter-facts series exposing threats to Pakistan and deliberate ignorance of current government. Zaid Hamid exposes the covert war which CIA is waging against Pakistan, as he explains the current domestic scenario of Pakistan and the threats to our nationals security that ...
  • Gulf Arabs, China, Russia, Japan and France Plan t ...
    Robert Fisk The Independent In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, ...
  • CAUTION ALERT: Stock Market Crash /Collapse Dead A ...
    After a massive upswing in US stocks over the last six months, the recent rally may finally be coming to an end. It seems that the trend of rising stocks on bad or better than expected news may be in a reversal, as evidenced by market participants’ caution over the last couple of weeks. For [...] ...
  • In The DARK, AMERICA’S DESCENT INTO A POLICE STA ...
    By G Duff MANIPULATED AMERICA:  DIVIDED WE FALL “From Turkey, they were putting all these bin Ladens on NATO planes. People and weapons went one way, drugs came back…A lot of the drugs were going to Belgium with NATO planes. After that, they went to the UK, and a lot came to the U.S. via milit ...
  • Wakeup Pakistan: Operation Blue Tulsi – Urdu Ver ...
    Read full English version: Operation Blue Tulsi: 15 Years in Planning, 10 Years in Preparation and Today in Execution Spread the word! Also See: Operation Blue Tulsi: How India Approached Israel For Help Against Pakistan Pakistan: CIA Involved in Fueling Sectarian Violence ...

ecogeek

  • Google PowerMeter Finds a Gadget Partner
    Before now, the Google PowerMeter software could only estimate your energy use, unless you happened to be a customer of the handful of utilities it was working with.  That has changed.  The company announced yesterday that they have partnered with The Energy Detective (TED), allowing you to bypas ...
  • Recycling Your Cell Phone Just Got Easier
    While some cell phone companies are introducing convenient ways for you to recycle your phone once you're done with it, a new start-up is making it just plain simple.  EcoATM will be deploying kiosks at retailers around the country where you can drop off your old phone, have its value assessed and ...
  • Is Renewable Energy the Biggest Threat to Land Con ...
    I'm a conservationist. I was a conservationist before I was an EcoGeek. There is very little land on earth left in a sem-natural state, and I believe that we should keep as much of that land as natural as possible forever. Unfortunately, that belief does sometimes collide with my belief that we need ...
  • IBM Sponsoring 500 Mile EV Battery Project
    In the last few years, electric vehicles have gone from a dream to the next logical step for vehicles. Of course, the future of EVs is still being debated, but IBM is using its cash and influence to push for an electric vehicle battery that can carry a car 500 miles without recharging. 500 miles is ...
  • France Building EV Charging Network
    France is going after one of the key obstacles to getting electric cars on the road:  the need for a charging infrastructure.  The country is changing all that by spending $2.2 billion to build a network of charging stations. Taxpayer money will go to fund the project that will install the initia ...

Times Online - Science

  • Graduate of Woolwich Polytechnic wins Nobel Prize ...
    A graduate of Woolwich Polytechnic won the Nobel Prize for Physics yesterday. Charles Kuen Kao’s work with fibre optics paved the way for lightning-fast broadband.
  • How to meet the Carbon Reduction Commitment
    1 Conduct a self-diagnosis Harry Morrison, general manager of the Carbon Trust Standard, says that any organisation likely to be covered by the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) should act now to prepare for registration. “This means assessing your carbon emissions right across your corporate ...
  • Sole survivor: the world’s biggest footprint ...
    Amateur fossil-hunters in France have discovered the world’s largest footprints, which were left about 150 million years ago by dinosaurs ten times heavier than an elephant.
  • Scientists go out of their depth on exploration of ...
    In the crushing blackness of the ocean looms a mountain range 25 times longer than the Himalayas and all but unexplored.
  • Sexy science: the shape of things to pack
    While perusing The Times at the breakfast table this morning your eyes might have drifted over to the box of breakfast cereal. As well as being packed with nutrition information, among the small print you will also find the following phrase: “sold by weight, not volume; settling of contents may o ...

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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • The only thing between us and the terrorists?
    Is the neoconservative echo-chamber between Joe Lieberman's ears : "I don't think anybody who has any fairness or is in their right mind would think the president or the secretary of homeland security would raise an alert level and scare people for political reasons... That's outrageous." - Joe Lieb ...
  • Bethel First Selectman Arrested
    ctblogger had the story up early at HatCityBLOG and MLN , and the Newstimes got around to covering it as well, on Bethel's First Selectman, Bob Burke, being arrested for making harassing phone calls. Ellis said Burke and the alleged victim had a personal relationship that was private between them an ...
  • The Lion Sleeps Tonight
    RIP Edward Kennedy   Via WCVB Boston: Kennedy, who waged a public fight against a malignant brain tumor in the last year of his life, was surrounded by family members who had come in recent days to say a last goodbye to him. His death marks the end to a life where like the phoenix. Kennedy rose abov ...
  • A pie fight between an incompetent poseur and a re ...
    There has been a lot said and written about the current arguments between Salon's Glenn Greenwald and Time's Joe Klein . I wonder what the real journalist will have to say in response to Klein? That didn't take long? Beltway culture, checks on journalists and secrecy obligations I'm ambivalent about ...
  • Real Canadians Talking Real Health Care
    For those of you that just don't get what single payer healthcare is all about, via Karoli at US Health Crisis , real Canadians talk about healthcare: Why this video? Why now? In the spirit of truth, my friend Matte Black (@Shoq on Twitter) and his brother took their video camera to Canada on vaca ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • SUDAN: Darfur's Misery Far from Over, Watchdog Gr ...
    WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (IPS) - Details of the abuse of civilians in Darfur and southern Sudan, and reports of human rights violations committed by government officials, are emerging on the eve of a major conference in Moscow where NGOs, governments and intergovernmental organisations will discuss the ...
  • U.S.: Public Sceptical and Hawkish on Iran
    WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (IPS) - Despite strong support for diplomatic engagement with Iran, most U.S. citizens believe such efforts will ultimately fail and that Washington should be prepared to use military force to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, according to a new poll released here ...
  • MEDIA: South-South Radio from Caracas to Africa
    CARACAS, Oct 6 (IPS) - Poverty, attacks on human rights and corporate fraud will be among the main news coverage focuses of a new regional public radio network, Radio del Sur, which will link stations from South America and Africa.
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Firms Divided Over Obama's Emissi ...
    WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (IPS) - Momentum is building in Washington for an overhaul of climate policy, with President Barack Obama signing an executive order Monday directing federal agencies to monitor their greenhouse gas emissions and set targets to reduce their emissions by 2020.
  • ENERGY-BRAZIL: Putting (Human) Waste to Work
    PETROPOLIS, Brazil, Oct 6 (IPS) - Biodigester technology, which originated in Asia as a natural process for treating sewage waste, is reemerging in Latin America as an integrated system providing cheap energy, improved sanitation, and even attractive landscaping.

Scoop - NZ

  • We know the damage we're doing , but why don't we ...
    We know we are destroying the liveability of the planet . Why do we continue to do so even when we put the future of our species and of the plane in jeopardy .  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Gas-mask bra leads IgNobel awards
    Engineers who invented a bra that converts into a gas mask and Irish police officers who mistakenly wrote tickets to 'Driver's Licence' have lead the IgNobel prizes for 2009.The IgNobels - a play on the name of the Nobel prizes awarded every October from Stockholm and Oslo - are given out by the Har ...
  • IMF to Play Role of of Global Central Bank?
    "A year ago," said law professor Ross Buckley on Australia's ABC News on September 22, "nobody wanted to know the International Monetary Fund. Now it's the organiser for the international stimulus package which has been sold as a stimulus package for poor countries." The IMF may have catapulted to a ...
  • Pew: Reporting on Economy was Narrow
    A study to be released Monday of financial news coverage this year found that government, Wall Street and a small handful of story lines got the bulk of the attention while much less was paid to the economic troubles of ordinary people.The study, by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence i ...
  • Bill Gross Bets On Deflation
    Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., said he's been buying longer maturity Treasuries in recent weeks as protection against deflation. "There has been significant flattening on the long end of the curve," Gross said in an interview from Newport ...

Independent ( London )

  • Tories quizzed over links to EU allies with 'extre ...
    The Tories came under fresh pressure for allying with two controversial European figures last night after Britain's leading Jewish body admitted it had contacted David Cameron to raise concerns over their alleged far-right views.
  • Indian rules for Edwina-Nehru film: no kissing, no ...
    The deep and passionate relationship between India's first prime minister and the wife of the country's last viceroy is one of the worst-kept secrets of the Raj. Enduring and complex, the bond between Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten lasted until the end of their lives. When she died in 1960 ...
  • Chechen ruler wins libel case over murder allegati ...
    The Chechen President, Ramzan Kadyrov, won libel damages from a human rights organisation yesterday after its head implicated him in the murder of a human rights activist.
  • Mugabe calls for fresh start with West
    President Robert Mugabe has called for a new start to relations with those Western countries he has spent years insulting for their criticism of his leadership.
  • Polanski to remain in Swiss custody
    Roman Polanski lost the first round yesterday in his battle to avoid extradition to the US for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • How Israel Was Disarmed
    Summary: Dimona nuclear plant NEW YORK—When American diplomats sat down for the first in a series of face-to-face talks with their Iranian counterparts last October in Geneva, few would have predicted that what began as a negotiation over Tehran's nuclear programs would wind up in a stunning d ...
  • Will Israel Ensure that History Repeats Itself?
    Summary: The lead-up to the first U.S.-Iran talks in three decades saw a replay of the same modus operandi that induced the U.S. and its allies to invade Iraq in March 2003. Then as now, the invasion of Iran is consistent with a regime change agenda for Greater Israel described in a 1996 strateg ...
  • IAEA, Iran Settle on Date for Qom Inspections
    Summary: In a move that one can only assume will end the constant international “demands” for Iran to provide access to its Qom facility, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei has announced that the agency has finalized talks with Iran and will visit the site on October 25. source: Anti War.Com rea ...
  • Scott Ritter debunks Western charges against Iran
    Summary: In a C_SPAN radio interview, Scott Ritter, Fmr. U.N. Weapons Inspector in Iraq (1991-98), debunks Western charges against Iran and asks US to put Israels's nuclear arsenal on the table for discussion. source: C-SPAN read more
  • Real Progress With Iran
    Summary: The Geneva nuclear talks were just baby steps along a long and perilous path. Still, this was a historic moment after 30 years of mutual recriminations and hyperbole. source: The daily Beast read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Was Antarctica Once "112 Degrees F in the Shade"? ...
    An international team of scientists now have proof of a sudden, remarkably warm period in Antarctica that occurred about 15.7 million years ago and lasted for a few thousand years. Last year, as Sophie Warny, LSU assistant professor of geology...
  • Could a 1.8 Gigayear Technology Gap Exist? (The W ...
    Are we the lone sentient life in the universe? So far, we have no evidence to the contrary, and yet the odds that not one single other planet has evolved intelligent life would appear, from a statistical standpoint, to be...
  • Return Missions from Mars: Could There be BioThrea ...
    Mars has been getting a lot of attention recently, with the Phoenix Lander capturing the most exciting Martian images outside of "War of the Worlds". But a global team of scientists is already planning an even more awesome mission -...
  • The Invisible Universe: Milky Way's Ghostly Halo
    Most of the mass of the Milky Way (and the Universe) is believed to be in the form of dark matter — an invisible component that has so far been only indirectly detected through the effects of its gravity on...
  • Will Orbiting Space Colonies Replace Planets?
    Expanding into space has been a dream of scifi since before the genre had a name. Adventure, overcrowding, the chance of green-skinned women - the reasons are manifold but the idea is always the same, because the need to advance...

Natural News

  • Swine flu vaccine victims encouraged to post repor ...
    (NaturalNews) As the swine flu vaccination campaigns begin sweeping across America, NaturalNews has created a new website where victims of swine flu vaccine side effects can post their true stories about what happened to them or their children. The website is www.SwineFluVaccineReport.com and it was ...
  • John Travolta says son was autistic: Vaccines, rel ...
    (NaturalNews) John Travolta, who is testifying in a case involving a $25 million extortion attempt against him, revealed this week that his son who died this year from a seizure was autistic. Sixteen-year-old Jett suffered from severe seizures every 5 to 10 days, Travolta testified, and then slept 1 ...
  • Vaccines cause autism: Supporting evidence
    (NaturalNews) Rates of autism have skyrocketed 1000% since 1990, yet defenders of vaccines and the pharmaceutical industry keep scratching their heads in confusion: What could be causing this? Lots of clues point to vaccines as one of the primary contributing factors to increased rates of autism. In ...
  • Judge Rules GMOs Violate Environmental Law
    (NaturalNews) For those of us wondering how bad the untested genetically modified food experiment is going to get before it gets any better, a ray of hope was just offered. A San Francisco judge, the very honorable, Judge Jeffrey White just ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture`s Animal and ...
  • Will real health reform ever happen in America?
    (NaturalNews) When it comes to affordable, effective health care reform in America, there's only one question that really needs to be asked right now: What works? In other words, what works to keep people healthy? What's affordable, safe and supports the long-term health of the population? What's av ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • What the Customer Wanted . . .
  • Yo! Support bro's!
    . In comments yesterday back here Fern Hill had an excellent idea. Ok, guys, here's your chance. Go! .
  • Unintended Consequences
    THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT has a report by Daphne Eviatar on a case that will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court over the right to own firearms. What's important is the way this has been framed up, the 14th Amendment is also involved, and as a result, other rights and freedoms could also be potentia ...
  • A big, big boost for nano-tech
    ACCORDING TO THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR , David Grier, a scientist at New York University, has developed a laser technology called holographic video microscopy . Jesse Emspak's article calls it " NYU’s real-life tricorder "  Why should you care? Well, it appears Dave's little invention is the ...
  • At The Going Down Of The Sun....
    With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Private Patrick Lormand, 2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment. Killed due to enemy action. Je me souviens

Media Matters for America

  • Dear Mom, Beck has history of sexist comments
    Recently, Glenn Beck has claimed that his audience has seen an increase in its proportion of women and has promoted the website AsAMom.org -- a "Network of principled mothers, grandmothers, daughters, & guardians of our nation's children dedicated to" the 9 Principles & 12 Values Beck establi ...
  • Byron York runs with discredited Fox smear, false ...
    Reviving a smear that even Fox News has repudiated, Fox News contributor and Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York reported as fact that a student counseled by Education Department official Kevin Jennings in 1988 regarding the student's "encounter with an older man" was 1 ...
  • With their homophobic smears of Jennings exposed, ...
    Following their discredited and homophobic smears of Department of Education official Kevin Jennings, the right-wing media is at it again, this time using anti-gay rhetoric to target Chai Feldblum, President Obama's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) nominee. Rather than address Fel ...
  • Wash. Post Beck beat: Paper follows Fox ...
    On the heels of Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander's September 20 suggestion that the paper "should pay attention" to Fox News, the Post published an October 6 article headlined, "Some Criticize SEIU for Its ACORN Connections." In echoing Glenn Beck's fixation with "connections" betwee ...
  • McCaughey quoted smear merchant McKalip, mischara ...
    In her latest op-ed, serial health care misinformer Betsy McCaughey quoted Dr. David McKalip -- infamous for forwarding to fellow members of a Google listserv a picture of President Obama dressed as a witch doctor -- to support her claim that the Senate Finance Committee health reform bill woul ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Why Did We Pressure Palestinians To Deep Six Golds ...
    Mahmoud Abbas clearly knows the truth of the adage "with friends like these, who needs enemies?" The friend in this case is the United States. Last month a United Nations team headed by the distinguished South African jurist Richard Goldstone... Sponsored Topics: United States - Richard Goldsto ...
  • World Game Changer
    If this article from the U.K. Independent is true, the world financial center of gravity just moved. In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning - along with China, Russia, Japan and France... Sponsored Topics: Middle East - China - Russia - Saudi ...
  • What If Iran Offers To Trade Its Nuclear Program F ...
    Akiva Eldar, the distinguished journalist for Ha'aretz, wonders what the US would do if Iran offers to give up its nuclear enrichment program in exchange for Israel ending the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. (Israeli troops... Sponsored Topics: Israel - West Bank - East Jer ...
  • Unemployment Is Up, but the Banks Are Doing Well
    Last Friday's job report showed that most of the US is experiencing enormous economic pain, even if America's economy is now in a recovery. Overall unemployment rose to 9.8%, with the unemployment rate for men hitting a new post-depression high.... Sponsored Topics: Unemployment - United States ...
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TruthOut

  • Sotomayor Shows She's No Clarence Thomas as Suprem ...
        Washington - A recast Supreme Court kicked off its new season Monday, with novice Justice Sonia Sotomayor immediately taking center stage.     In just an hour, the court's newest justice asked more questions than Justice Clarence Thomas has asked over the course of several years. Sotomayo ...
  • Report: Nations Seek to Dump Dollar as Oil Currenc ...
    Oil producing nations are threatening to dump the dollar. (Photo Illustration: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; adapted from: Lietmotiv / flickr and thinkpanama/ flickr )read more
  • Honduras - 100 days of Repression and Resistance
        Today marks 100 days since a military coup was carried out against President Zelaya in Honduras. It also marks 100 days of massive, sustained, nonviolent resistance on the part of the Honduran people who are saying no to this brazen attempt to return to the days of dictators. read more
  • The Oligarchy and the Titanic Syndrome
        " The Titanic Syndrome, " the film by Nicolas Hulot and Jean-Albert Lièvre, which will be out on [French] screens October 7, will upset people. This environmental documentary shows almost no nature: Breaking with the postcard aesthetic customary in the genre, the film confronts the ...
  • Contractors in Iraq Are Hidden Casualties of War
        Central Point, Oregon - A nurse rocked him awake as pale dawn light crept into the room. "C'mon now, c'mon," the nurse murmured. "Time to get up."     Reggie Lane was once a hulking man of 260 pounds. Friends called him "Big Dad." Now, he weighed less than 200 pounds and his brain was s ...

The Heathlander

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

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TruthHugger

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

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Unexplained Mysteries

  • Shroud of Turin 'is a medieval fake'
    Italian scientists who have been able to reproduce an effect with the same characteristics as the Shroud of Turin in an experiment have claimed th...
  • 2012 - facts vs predictions
    With 2012 only a few years away now theories and predictions of potential disasters set to occur are rampant, but exactly how much truth is there ...
  • The Socorro UFO hoax - part two
    Anthony Bragalia continues his research in to the 1964 Socorro UFO incident that he believes is a hoax and that is now thought to have been the wo...
  • "Bluehenge" discovered
    Archaeologists have discovered a second stone circle only a mile from Stonehenge, the prehistoric circle named "Bluehenge" would have consisted of...
  • Baby mammoth reveals its secrets
    Scientists studying the amazingly well preserved 40,000 year-old remains of a baby mammoth known as Lyuba that was found in Siberia have said that...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • October 6, 2009
    Big Business Flexes Muscle on Capitol Hill for Climate Action (Politico) Two coalitions of top U.S. corporations are pouring into Washington this week and launching $1 million in advertising to prod the Senate and White House to accelerate an energy and climate bill. Apple Leaves Chamber of C ...
  • October 5, 2009
    China, 130 Countries: Rich Nations Trying to Sabotage Climate Treaty (Guardian) A joint statement by China and 130 developing countries at UN climate talks in Bangkok today accuses the US and other developed countries of attempting to "fundamentally sabotage" the Kyoto protocol and the negotiati ...
  • October 3-4, 2009
    Only 10 Days Left For Climate Deal, U.N.'S Ban Says (Reuters) UN head Ban Ki-moon warned on Saturday that negotiators had just 10 negotiating days left to secure a global climate deal and governments must not be hindered by domestic troubles. Obama Pressured to Return to Copenhagen for Climate ...
  • October 2, 2009
    Browner: Obama Unlikely to Sign Climate Bill Before Copenhagen (Reuters) President Obama is unlikely to sign climate legislation ahead of the UN global warming meeting, but he is committed to passing comprehensive legislation, White House climate and energy coordinator Carol Browner said today: ...
  • October 1, 2009
    Obama Says He’s Deeply Committed to Passing Climate Bill (Reuters) President Barack Obama welcomed a Senate bill to cut carbon emissions and said he was "deeply committed" to getting it passed, even as the White House played down chances that it would happen this year. Climate Talks Opening U ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Ira Chernus, Cold War's Ghost Blocks Mid ...
    And you thought "don't ask, don't tell" was a U.S. law on gays in the military that Barack Obama has promised to change . As it turns out, the same phrase plays quite a different role in the Middle East, where Obama seems to have no intention of changing it at all. Successive administrations hav ...
  • Tomgram: Matt Bivens, Pox Americana
    With up to 61% of Americans, according to a recent poll, convinced that things are going badly indeed in Afghanistan and an official 9.8% of Americans unemployed, Congress is set to respond. This week, it's slated to pass a $636 billion appropriations bill for the Pentagon that will include anoth ...
  • Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, Pipelineistan's Ultimate O ...
    Back before email, a world traveler who wanted to keep in touch and couldn't just pop into the nearest Internet café, might drop you a series of postcards from one exotic locale after another. Pepe Escobar, that edgy, peripatetic globe-trotting reporter for one of my favorite on-line publication ...
  • Tomgram: John Feffer, Will NATO's 60th Anniversar ...
    If you think the Afghan War is increasingly unpopular in the United States, try Europe. A recent German Marshall Fund poll offered these figures on the question of the "share of population who want to reduce or withdraw troops" from that country: Romania, 71%; Poland, 68%; United Kingdom, 60%; G ...
  • Tomgram: Arundhati Roy, Is Democracy Melting?
    So you, as a citizen, want to run for a seat in the House of Representatives? Well, you may be too late. Back in 1990, according to OpenSecrets.org , a website of the Center for Responsive Politics, the average cost of a winning campaign for the House was $407,556. Pocket change for your averag ...

Smirking Chimp

  • How Would the Right Know It's Wrong?
    While the left despairs of Barack Obama's capitulation to K Street and Wall Street, the right continues to insist that he's a Marxist, socialist, communist enemy of capitalism. What could possibly convince the right that it's wrong -- about that, or anything else? Not the press. The right gets its ...
  • The NY Times' pointless pursuit of right-wing "buz ...
    Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news, agreed with me that the paper was "slow off the mark," and blamed "insufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio." She and Bill Keller, the executive editor, said last week that they would now assign an editor to mon ...
  • Jesus would support the public option
    As the president appears to be pushing harder for the public option and Senate Democratic leaders appear to be joining him, here is one vitally important argument on their behalf: Isn't it fair to suggest that Jesus would support the public option? Jesus spoke about the need to feed the hungry, clot ...
  • Religious Right Goes After Chai Feldblum
    Thus far, no video has surfaced of her saying "I would hope that a wise Jewish lesbian with the richness of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion," a la the recently confirmed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, nor has any bizarre petition shown up with her signat ...
  • "Why I Support the National Equality March": NFL's ...
    Scott Fujita is a star linebacker for the unbeaten New Orleans Saints. He is also a 2001 graduate from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in political science. In addition to playing for the Saints, he is also is someone proudly raising his family in post-Katrina New Orleans. In the ...

Ten Percent

  • 8 Years Ago Today
    “A US military attack would be another catastrophe for Afghanistan” Behjat, RAWA spokeswoman 25th September 2001 Sunday October 7th 2001 US President George W Bush has addressed the nation to announce the start of attacks on Afghanistan… “On my orders, the United States military has begun s ...
  • How Blair Helped Abbas Betray Palestinians
    Disgracefully the Palestinian Authority helped Israel bury the Goldstone report and the mechanics of power are as murky and dirty cash soaked as usual, as well as Abbas being blackmailed in Washington with his keenness for Gaza to continue to be hit to destroy his rivals in Hamas, guess which Peace ...
  • Guinea Fragments
    Does this story seem familiar, a former colony of Western occupiers, rich in resources, a chaotic struggle for power, an impoverished people, arms sellers making their profits, atrocities and other than the IMF/World Bank plans, no help offered, ‘investor confidence’ indeed. Thousands of people ...
  • IMFerialism
    Not really news… Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, said the United States, effectively the only member with veto power in the Washington-based institution, is looking to the IMF “to play a key role in assisting the assessment of G20 economic and financial policies.” Not all were sat ...
  • Last Surviving Leader Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprisin ...
    Tributes have flowed for Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw Jewish Ghetto uprising, who died on Friday aged 87. The revolt broke out in protest at the mass transportation by the Nazis of Jews from the ghetto to concentration camps. With about 60,000 people still in the ghe ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • obama: we are held hostage by insurance companies ...
    “We are held hostage at any given moment by health insurance companies that deny coverage or drop coverage or charge fees that people can’t afford,” Obama said in August. And on whitehouse.gov, the Administration promises more stability and security with health care reform, and points out tha ...
  • Correction: Make That $5 Million
    Oh, boy. This doesn’t look good for ACORN, not that much does these days. You may recall that Dale Rathke, one of the two founders of ACORN, had embezzled $1 million dollars, according to this NY Times article. That became the widely accepted amount, not that that embezzlement stopped our gover ...
  • Should Women Back Palin in 2012?
    Editor: This article is reprinted from The Daily Beast with the express permission of its author Amy Siskind [photo left]. Obama garnered 56 percent of women’s ballots last fall. And they have precious little to show for it from this administration. Amy Siskind on why Sarah Palin deserves a secon ...
  • Quote of the Day: “Obama the Vain”
    From “An Olympic Ego Trip,” George Will’s column today on the Obamas’ Copenhagen speeches: Both Obamas gave heartfelt speeches about . . . themselves. Although the working of the committee’s mind is murky, it could reasonably have rejected Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Games on aesthetic gr ...
  • Star Dust Losing Its Glitter
    A few weeks ago, Will Ferrell and other Hollywood celebrities along with Moveon.org felt the need to educate the American public regarding health care with a satirical video/spoof ad about “protecting” insurance company profits from health care reform. It was called the Protect Insurance Compan ...

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Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • On Our Radar ...
    Wyoming considers the nature of wind power rights and other energy and environment stories from around the Web.
  • C.I.A. Climate Center Irks Barrasso
    Senator John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, said Tuesday that he would seek to block the formation of climate change center under the Central intelligence Agency.
  • Government Sees Lower Winter Heating Bills
    The government says American households will pay lower heating bills this winter thanks to lower fuel prices and a forecast for a milder winter.
  • Lumber Company Enters Carbon Market
    Sierra Pacific Industries, the second largest lumber producer in the United States, has announced a carbon sequestration project on 60,000 acres of California forest land.
  • Cork Recycler and Footwear Maker Join Forces
    ReCORK America, a wine cork recycling program, has partnered with SOLE, a Canadian footwear maker, to divert cork from landfills.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Sibel Edmonds case: spelled out with the names & d ...
    For those of you just tuning in... Sibel Edmonds worked at the FBI after 9/11, bumped into a big criminal conspiracy, tried to blow the whistle in 2002, got the "States Secret Privilege" gag, which she defied a couple months ago for a deposition in an Ohio case. In a new interview with Phil Giraldi, ...
  • Yr humble correspondent reports back on G20 with A ...
    Alright so I've been out in Pittsburgh helping cover the G20 conference -- things got pretty hairy out here. We've hunkered down at the Pittsburgh Indymedia Center ( http://indypgh.org ) and the crew has turned out a ton of videos of police brutality that have gone viral over Internets! I just did a ...
  • Supercoca Boliviana Negra cocaine win: Glyphosate/ ...
    Boliviana negra - Wikipedia, Also known as supercoca or la millionaria , Boliviana Negra is a relatively new form of coca that is resistant to herbicide Roundup , or the isopropylamine salt of glyphosate . The coca plant is the precursor to the addictive stimulant cocaine , one of the most widely c ...
  • Believe it or not, the flu will always be with us
    I am sort of amazed by the establishment view that's crystallized around this. Everyone is supposed to cut corners to whip out various runs of vaccines. It's amazing how quickly people forget that influenza has always been with us - a more holistic view is that it basically co-evolves with humans i ...
  • Video with Peter Schiff: A black hole called Feder ...
    I got a kick out of this video and the funny animations. It's all about the mysterious black hole called the Federal Reserve System. Gotta love it! Just posted yesterday: Additionally, the landscape of ruined houses in the first couple shots caught my notice. I'll explain why later...  read more »

Daily Censored

  • Cavuto And Huckabee Use False GOP Talking Point To ...
    Read the full story at News Hounds Guest blogged by Brian On Friday’s (10/2/09) Your World, Mike Huckabee came by to attack discuss Obama’s record on unemployment. Host Neil Cavuto began by noting that the jobless rate reached 9.8% last month, “much worse than expected.” Huckabee started by ...
  • MEDIA: South-South Radio from Caracas to Africa
    Read the full story at IPS Inter Press Service – Media, Technology & Communications CARACAS, Oct 6 (IPS) – Poverty, attacks on human rights and corporate fraud will be among the main news coverage focuses of a new regional public radio network, Radio del Sur, which will link stations from South ...
  • Bachmann’s agenda: ‘After we defund the left, ...
    Read the full story at Think Progress At a briefing with conservative bloggers held at the Heritage Foundation today, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) articulated “the way forward for conservatives.” Bachmann’s strategy consisted of defeating Democrats in 2010, defunding the left and passing a ser ...
  • International City – home of three faiths
    Unless you’ve been there, how do you know what’s really going on in countries and cities mentioned in news broadcasts? Who do you trust to give you the truth? In some cases, even if you’re there, you may never see the dark side of the truth. I’m recalling my personal reactions on a day last ...
  • Cavuto And Huckabee Use False GOP Talking Point To ...
    Read the full story at News Hounds Guest blogged by Brian On Friday’s (10/2/09) Your World, Mike Huckabee came by to attack discuss Obama’s record on unemployment. Host Neil Cavuto began by noting that the jobless rate reached 9.8% last month, “much worse than expected.” Huckabee started by ...

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Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Dow sees huge market in solar shingles
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dow Chemical Co said on Monday it would begin selling a new rooftop shingle next year that converts sunlight into electricity -- and could generate $5 billion in revenue by 2015 for the company.
  • U.S. to house detained migrants in converted hotel ...
    PHOENIX (Reuters) - The United States, criticized for holding illegal immigrants in overcrowded and poorly run jails, on Tuesday announced plans to convert hotels to detain some noncriminal immigrants.
  • ANALYSIS-McChrystal is the talk of Washington
    (For more on Afghanistan, click on [ID:nAFPAK]) * Publicly chided by Pentagon's Gates, Obama adviser Jones * Open airing of internal debate on Afghanistan strategy * Republicans backing McChrystal, Democrats critical By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Nothing gets Washington's attention ...
  • Verizon to sell 2 Google phones this year
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless said on Tuesday it will sell two mobile phones with Google Inc's Android operating system this year, part of a partnership that could boost Google's efforts to challenge Apple Inc in the fast-growing smartphone market.
  • Iran plans to use new centrifuge at nuclear plant
    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran plans to use a new generation of faster centrifuges to enrich uranium at a newly-revealed nuclear site, its atomic energy chief said in remarks published Tuesday.

Pine River World News

  • Niger Delta: Ex-militants to guard oil pipelines
    ©  Pine River World News / IntelTrends October 6, 2009 Nigerian president Umaru Yar'Adua has been offering amnesty to Niger Delta militants who desist kidnappings, violence and sabotage against the government, oil companies and infrastructure. Under the program, militants are expected to surrender ...
  • Obama's Olympic failure
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission of World Socialist Web Site. Obama's Olympic failure ©   World Socialist Web Site By Tom Eley October 5, 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama's failed effort to attract the 2016 Olympics to his adopted home city of Chicago reveals much about the ch ...
  • Paul Craig Roberts: How the Feds Imprison the Inno ...
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. How the Feds Imprison the Innocent ©  Paul Craig Roberts October 05, 2009 Authors of serious books seldom have cause to celebrate, but Larry Stratton and I have two reasons to open the champagne. Crown Publishing, a divisio ...
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: Human Rights Viola ...
    The following statement is available courtesy of Al Tawbah. [ Pine River World News occasionally republishes selected mujahideen statements so that readers can experience "different perspectives" on current affairs, political and military issues.] Human Rights Violations in Afghanistan Islamic Emi ...
  • MILF: Will U.S. soldiers' death lead to their dire ...
    IntelTrends - The following article is from Luwaran.com, official website of the Central Commitee on Information, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Philippines. MILF:  Will U.S. soldiers' death lead to their direct combat role in Mindanao? ©  Luwaran.com October 4, 2009 The death of two U.S. ...

    Res'Eau-WaterNet

  • Knowledge Transfer Workshop: Preliminary program p ...
    Join us for our inaugural two-day network event as we gather Canadian experts to discuss the scientific and technological challenges of delivering safe drinking water in small, rural and First Nations communities.
  • Too Many Canadians Without Safe Water: $5.2M to He ...
    For six million Canadians, quenching their thirst isn’t a matter of simply turning on the kitchen faucet.
  • Dr. David Wilkinson appointed Director of the Clea ...
    RES'EAU-WaterNET researcher Dr. David Wilkinson was recently appointed Director of the Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC), beginning July 1, 2009.
  • Walkerton Clean Water Centre Receives Ontario Mini ...
    The Walkerton Clean Water Centre (WCWC) – a RES’EAU-WaterNET partner – received the 2008 Emerald Award for innovation from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment at an awards ceremony held on March 3, 2009.
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    Innovation Canada : Showcasing Research Excellence in Canada

PDA AMERICA

  • Now or Never
    They said single-payer was off the table. In the next two weeks there will be a floor vote on HR 676 in the House. We need to get a big majority of Democrats to ...
  • Video: Greg Palast at Fighting Bob Fest–Arm ...
    Palast was the last speaker of the day at FBF 2009. Everyone stayed to hear Greg’s report on HealthCare, Afghanistan and a host of other issues crippling our nation. Here he is….
  • Congressman Grayson Has Just Begun to Fight
    Cross-posted from the Nation | by John Nichols on 10/01/2009 @ 08:15am Washington Republicans are horrified, horrified, horrified by the bluntness of Florida Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson. The tough kid from the Bronx (and Harvard Law School) ...
  • Progressive view on health care: what does the fut ...
    By Byron DeLear | Progressive Examiner Progressivism concerns itself with “what’s next”. Because if you get it right, you’ll have prepared more thoroughly for what’s going to happen. What does the future hold? Progressives also deal in ...
  • Good Government: Of, By and For the People
    Frederick Lancaster | Calistoga, CA As I write this, the Senate Finance Committee has just rejected the “public option” amendments by Senators Rockefeller and Schumer. Democrats Baucus, Conrad and Lincoln voted against each measure. Progressives favoring ...

Marler Blog

  • DeLauro Calls for USDA Investigation into Tainted ...
    The Honorable Tom Vilsack Secretary United States Department of Agriculture Room 200-A, Jamie L. Whitten Building 12th Street & Jefferson Drive, SW Washington, DC 20250-0002 Dear Mr. Secretary: I am writing to strongly urge the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food Safety and Insp ...
  • Stephanie Smith is just one of many victims of Car ...
    The horrors suffered by Stephanie Smith were well set forth in the New York Times Sunday.  Yet, there were others that were part of the Cargill outbreak in 2007.  Ruth Hemmingson was one of those.  In fact, according to the CDC, 76,000 Americans are sickened each year due to E. coli O157:H7. Ruth ...
  • "Put a Trial Lawyer out of Business" t-shirts bein ...
    These packets (t-shirt, op-ed and post card) are being hand-delivered to Senators and staff today and Tuesday as part of an effort to jump-start the Senate to pass meaningful food safety legislation - before Thanksgiving.
  • Perhaps I was too hard on Secretary Vilsack?
    I received quite a few emails and calls from a variety of people - mostly from DC - telling me I was being a bit too hard on the Secretary in my post yesterday - they said I was especially hard on him if I ever expected to get the job of Undersecretary of Food Safety (yes, I did actually apply).  P ...
  • U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the Ob ...
    U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack vacated Washington DC today to give a speech at the University of Minnesota.  He was interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio following a major New York Times report over the weekend on flaws in the food safety system cited cases in Minnesota.  I leave you to lis ...

AutoblogGreen

  • REPORT: GM sees more demand than supply with the C ...
    Filed under: Hybrid , Sedan , Chevrolet , GM 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery General Motors has already said the Chevrolet Volt will be in short supply at launch . But that isn't stopping Bob Lutz from going out and talking about how popular the hybrid already is -- ev ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.06.09
    AltCar 2009: Coda Sedan test ride; wish we could drive the $30,000 (or so) electric vehicle It's a year or more from when first deliveries will take place, so and all we got to do was ride shotgun. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.05.09
    AltCar 2009: Touring the show with the Governator Arnold takes a look at the Tango, the Wheego and more in Santa Monica. AltCar 2009: NuTech battery swap trailer is fresh, kind of crazy You n ...
  • Toyota Sai to be brand's second dedicated hybrid, ...
    2009 Lexus HS 250h - Click above for high-res image gallery Even though there have been plenty of reports that Toyota would apply the Prius name to other hybrids in its lineup, thereby creating a Prius sub-brand , the upcoming second dedicated hybrid from the Japanese automaker bearing the Toyota ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.02.09
    Greenlings: Will we ever replace the standard rear- and side-view mirror? You've got questions, we've got answers. Google algorithms tweaking electric car-smart grid communication Let's hope ...

Rafe's Radar

  • OneRiot aims to make money from Twitter search
    The real-time search company OneRiot is launching an advertising play for Twitter. The new feature, called RiotWise, lets content companies push links to their stories on the OneRiot search result pages. It's unlike every other online ad play out there in that the advertisements are for content, ...
  • RR04: How to launch a product
    Should you launch your product at a trade show like Demo or CES, or should you try to drum up interest on your own? This week on the Roundtable, Revision 3 CEO Jim Louderback and Stage Two Consulting's Jeremy Toeman discuss successful and doomed strategies for introducing new products to the mark ...
  • Six Apart resurrects Pownce in new microblogging p ...
    At the Future of Web Apps conference in London this week, blog platform company Six Apart is announcing a new open-source platform called Motion , to be available for download, that enables any Web host or developer to host their own Twitter-like microblog service. The technology is derived from ...
  • Google Wave meets conference calls, with Ribbit
    Ribbit puts a conference bridge inside a Wave message. (Credit: Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET) It's becoming clear that Google Wave , which is slowly emerging from closed beta , has potential to be much more than a text-messaging platform. As the telecommunications platform company Ribbit shows ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable #3: Mint CEO Aaron Patzer
    This week, I'm joined by CNET security expert Elinor Mills in a discussion with Mint CEO Aaron Patzer, whose personal finance site is being acquired by Inuit. We grill Patzer on why he sold the company, the future of Quicken, and the security of online financial data. Listen now: Download ...

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!

  • Nomi Prins on "It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bail ...
    Nomi Prins is a former investment banker turned journalist. She worked at Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns. She is the author of several books; her latest, just out, is called It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street . She spoke on the them ...
  • Scanning the Horizon of Books and Libraries
    A battle is raging over the future of books in the digital age and the role that libraries will play. One case now before a U.S. federal court may, some say, grant a practical monopoly on recorded human knowledge to global Internet search giant Google. The complex case has attracted opposition from ...
  • Police Crackdown on G20 Protests: Democracy Now! R ...
    World leaders are gathering in Pittsburgh for the G20 summit under the shadow of a police crackdown on protesters in the streets. Heavily-armed riot police are out in force all over the city, using tear gas, stun grenades, smoke canisters, and sound cannons, which direct extremely loud shrill sound ...
  • Arun Gupta asks "What Anti-War Movement?"
    It has now been eight years since 9/11. The United States is still engaged in Iraq and is escalating its wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan with no end in site. Speaking at the Bluestockings Bookstore on the Lower East Side in New York, Arun Gupta, a founding Editor of The Indypendent , takes a cr ...
  • President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action
    Manuel Zelaya, the democratically elected president of Honduras, is back in his country after being deposed in a military coup June 28. Zelaya appeared there unexpectedly Monday morning, announcing his presence in Tegucigalpa, the capital, from within the Brazilian Embassy, where he has taken refug ...

Farming Pathogens

  • I Do Like Green Eggs and Ham
    Much of what we’ve addressed on this blog has focused on the epidemiological failures of industrial farming. But what of the alternatives? Can we farm in another way? Is another world possible?    It’s only since I’ve moved to the Midwest that I’ve learned that not only is that world p ...
  • Heart of Modeling
    Greed is often mistaken for humanity’s heart of darkness. Look instead to the rationalization that transforms the most rapacious pillaging into an act of benevolence. A one-ton bomb dropped on a peasant wedding party is dissembled into regret without responsibility or, baser yet, a tough love offe ...
  • Bird Flu’s Industrial Revolution
    Public talks can be private affairs. In sharing our work we bare the triumphs and limits of a thinking born in long hours alone or with a few fellow conspirators sworn to secrecy. But in breaking our oaths we are able to take the next step.   In talking bird flu twice this past month I learned [... ...
  • The Agro-Industrial Roots of Swine Flu H1N1
    Mexico appears ground zero for an outbreak of deadly human-specific H1N1.   Of the over 1400 people that have been reportedly infected there so far, 86 have died. Short chains of transmission of the virus have also been reported in California, Texas, Kansas, Ohio, New York City, Canada and New Zeal ...
  • The NAFTA Flu
    Cases of swine flu H1N1 are now reported in Honduras, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, Austria, Thailand, Israel, etc. Can’t keep up at this point.    H1N1 is making its way across the world by hierarchical diffusion. By the world’s transportation network it is bouncing down a hierarchy of citi ...

Digg Green

  • EPA Creates Voluntary Guidelines for Meth Lab Clea ...
    In a move that has disturbingly wide ramifications, the U.S. EPA published voluntary guidelines on cleanup procedures for methamphetamine manufacturing facilities.
  • Brad Pitt Unveils Flood-Surviving Float House
    Brad Pitt has been making waves in the green building world lately, so it’s only appropriate that the newest house completed for his Make It Right Foundation project be a floating one.
  • Dow Chemical To Ship First Solar Rooftop Shingles ...
    Dow Chemical Co said on Monday it would begin selling a new rooftop shingle next year that converts sunlight into electricity. The new solar shingles can be integrated into rooftops with standard asphalt shingles, Dow said, and will be introduced in 2010 before a wider roll-out in 2011.
  • Logbooks may yield climate bounty
    18th Century ships' logbooks may throw new light on how the climate has changed.A new UK project is digitising nearly 300 Royal Navy captains' logs from voyages dating back to the 1760s.They include the voyages of Charles Darwin on HMS Beagle, Captain Cook's log from HMS Discovery and Captain Bligh' ...
  • Water Treatment [infographic]
    A look at various water treatment techniques in various San Diego treatment plants.

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Power of Conscience in the Human Mind
    By Les Visible We’ve always known that a great deal of history is a lie. Every time we look deeply into something we find out it’s not what ‘they’ said it was. The crimes committed against the German people at the end of World War 2 were truly horrific in scope but they don’t get discussed ...
  • Rumors that Ahmadinejad has Jewish roots false
    Yesterday we picked up that Guardian story that Ahmadinejad was Jewish.  Now we have the opposite story.  The only thing we know for sure is that at least one of these stories is false.  What purpose is served? The Guardian on Monday dismissed a recent report by another British newspaper cl ...
  • Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are ...
    By Juan Cole Thursday is a fateful day for the world, as the US, other members of the United Nations Security Council, and Germany meet in Geneva with Iran in a bid to resolve outstanding issues. Although Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had earlier attempted to put the nuclear issue off the ba ...
  • Vaccine Skepticism Grows in US
    By David Knowles As the United States awaits the arrival of the H1N1 vaccine next week, growing skepticism over the overall safety and importance of vaccinations of all types is worrying health officials. A combination of factors has led a statistically significant number of people to forgo vaccinat ...
  • Thimerosal, organic mercury, swine flu and you.
    By Bill Underwood I read last week how the U.S. Geological Survey did a study that found mercury in fish from every one of 291 streams they tested across the United States. You don’t need me to tell you that mercury is dangerous, but I started researching mercury to find out how dangerous. However ...

    Care2 Picks

  • Culling the Herd
    29 Dec 2007 article by Sheila Samples of the Smirking Chimp This is one of those horrors you wish were untrue : and are afraid that is not the case Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Climate change warning from Greenland
    Small rise in temperature thousands of years ago caused rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheet. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • NYT Investigation Exposes Severity of Nationwide W ...
    Corporations Violated Clean Water Act Over 500,000 Times in Last Five Years chemical companies violated the Clean Water Act 500,000 times e last 5 years one in ten Americans exposed to drinking water danger Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • EPA limits pesticide use near salmon waters
    The Environmental Protection Agency announced new measures to protect endangered and threatened Pacific salmon on Friday, limiting three pesticides commonly used on farms. Submitted by Meg F. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • EPA holds up 79 permits for Appalachian surface mi ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that 79 applications for surface coal-mine permits in Kentucky , West Virginia , Ohio and Tennessee might violate the nation's Clean Water Act and require closer scrutiny. Many of the 79 applications Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Environment  |    ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • ‘Dead’ new Taliban chief alive and wel ...
    'Dead' new Taliban chief alive and well The South African Star ISLAMABAD: The new chief of Pakistani Taliban - who US and Pakistani officials said might be dead - has surfaced to meet journalists in his stronghold of ... and more »
  • Five die in suicide bomb attack on UN food agency ...
    Five die in suicide bomb attack on UN food agency in Pakistan Belfast Telegraph ... Taliban in their strongholds close to the Afghan border. Hours after the attack the world body said it was closing its offices in Pakistan temporarily. ... and more »
  • Bomber Kills 5 in UN Food Office – The Ledge ...
    Bomber Kills 5 in UN Food Office The Ledger ISLAMABAD, Pakistan | A suicide bomber struck the lobby of the UN World Food Program office in Islamabad on Monday, killing at least five ...
  • Afghan Insurgents Seek Superpower Defeat, Gates Sa ...
    Afghan Insurgents Seek Superpower Defeat, Gates Says Bloomberg Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates said any perceived US retreat from Afghanistan would fuel support for the Taliban ... and more »
  • Listen to Generals Regarding Taliban – Wheel ...
    Listen to Generals Regarding Taliban Wheeling News Register A few days ago, while speaking at an event in London, McChrystal warned that failure to devote the necessary military resources to defeating the Taliban in ... and more »

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Sideways News

  • Stephen Fry's Last Chance to See
    20 years on from the original broadcast with naturalist Mark Carwardine and author Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry joins Carwardine on a search for the world's most endangered animals in BBC documentary Last Chance to See.  
  • James Lovelock: A Final Warning
    James Lovelock is most commonly known as the father of Gaia theory; the idea that all parts of our planet form a complex interacting system. In this interview, Lovelock sounds a final warning about the future of planet earth and discusses his forthcoming trip into space.
  • How many lightbulbs?
    Cambridge University physicist, David Mackay, presents a fascinating, personal and passionate analysis of energy consumption in the UK . Debunking many of the existing myths surrounding energy consumption and showing us what we should be doing at home, Mackay draws some interesting, and surprising, ...
  • Charity trek for male breast cancer
    Male breast cancer survivor Tony Ryan is taking part in a 1,800km charity motorbike ride from Mossman to Brisbane to raise money for
  • Moby to donate gig proceeds to charity
    DJ and songwriter Moby has announced plans to donate proceeds taken from three upcoming gig dates in California to charity .

Fabius Maximus

  • Stratfor: “Two Leaks and the Deepening Iran ...
    “Two Leaks and the Deepening Iran Crisis“, George Friedman, Stratfor, 5 October 2009 — Reprinted in full with permission.  Linds to other posts about Iran appear at the end. Two major leaks occurred this weekend over the Iran matter. In the first, The New York Times published an article rep ...
  • Today’s hot rumor: Fisk’s story about ...
    “The demise of the dollar“, Robert Fisk, The Independent, 6 October 2009 — “In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading.” In the most profound financial change in recent ...
  • Economists discuss the impact of the stimulus on o ...
    Many comments requested this, so I have written this in haste.  It’s a partial, with more to come. Contents  Economic advisors of Bush and John McCain Other economists Government analysis (1)  Economic advisors of Bush and John McCain (a)  From The Washington Independent, 7 August 20 ...
  • Yes, it is a “mancession”. Just like ...
    The past quarter-century has been an extraordinarily stable period for the economy (as we accumulated debt to maintain growth).  With only two recessions since 1982, both mild and brief, we’ve forgotten what recessions are like.   So we get analysis like this: “Mancession Continues: Mal ...
  • Update: why has the worst recession since the 193 ...
    Summary:  The US economy continues to slow, albeit the rate of decay has slowed.  But the net damage is severe and a recovery soon is imperative — or more “black swans” will appear.   This is a follow-up to Why has the worst recession since the 1930’s had such a mild effect ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Bird Cam Captures Albatross, Killer Whale Rendezvo ...
    Tiny cameras attached to the backs of four Antarctic albatrosses have revealed a clever feeding strategy: Instead of randomly scanning the open ocean for prey, some birds appear to fly alongside killer whales and scavenge for scraps left by the mammalian predators. Albatrosses often have to fly hun ...
  • Anatomy of an Asteroid
    FAJARDO, Puerto Rico — Planetary scientists have reported a slew of new findings about the first asteroid ever spotted before pieces of it fell to Earth. The space rock contained a number of amino acids, had a flattened shape and appears to have been blasted off the surface of a larger body, rese ...
  • Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: NASA’s Lost Female Astro ...
    Imagine if the first person on the moon had proclaimed, “That’s one small step for woman, one giant leap for mankind.” digg_url ="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/mercury-13/"; It could have happened. In the late 1950s, the United States government contemplated training women as astr ...
  • The Making of a Mind-Blowing Space Photo
    One late night in 2007, Rogelio Bernal Andreo and his wife were driving down Highway 1 along California’s Lost Coast, when his wife opened the moon roof. What spread out above them looked nothing like the mauve sky near their Sunnyvale home. “It was like the Milky Way was in front of us,” sai ...
  • 7 Glow-in-the-Dark Mushroom Species Discovered
    Seven new glowing mushroom species have been discovered in Belize, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia and Puerto Rico. Four of the species are completely new to scientists, and three previously known species were discovered to be luminescent. All seven species, as well as the majo ...

The Progressive Realist

  • In the Midst of European Shift to the Right, Socia ...
    This seems to have gotten very little attention, but Greece changed governments last week. The ruling center-right New Democracy (ND) party called elections a couple of months ago, and the result was that — predictably — they got stomped hard. ND had a wafer-thin majority of 152 seats out of ...
  • McCain: Living With A Nuclear Iran ‘Very Likelyâ ...
    Newsweek editor John Meacham seems to set out to rebut Fareed Zakaria’s pro-containment argument , but ends up strengthening it. He also produces a quote from Sen. John McCain that represents a more significant shift — both in terms of McCain’s views and for the debate over Iran more generally ...
  • The Domino Fallacy: Afghanistan Worst-Case-Scenari ...
    To make a long story short about a bad way to make the case for war in Afghanistan, if you take any situation (say the war in Afghanistan) then you assume that failing to apply maximum effort will lead to the worst possible consequences, then you assume the worst possible next stage consequences, an ...
  • Poll Finds Iranians' Support for Nuclear Weapons D ...
    It's long been a given of the Iran debate -- I used it on a radio host just yesterday -- that Iranians across the political spectrum want nuclear weapons as an aspect of national pride and power, quite apart from their feelings about the regime. But WorldPublicOpinion.org comes out with new survey d ...
  • Iran and the Middle East Nuclear Arms Race
    I noticed that Stephen Walt's post questioning the risk of a nuclear or near-nuclear Iran setting off a regional nuclear arms race in the Middle East was long on nonproliferation theory and non-regional historical examples. But there wasn't much discussion of the political dynamics specific to the M ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Is Health Care Reform a Fait Acco ...
    Yesterday, I said I'd be amazed if Democrats could hold their caucus together for a cloture vote, particularly one with a public option included. Chuck Schumer has a different take, simply asking how do you introduce a bill without a public option when the majority of the House Democrats and all bu ...
  • Desperately Seeking Support For Criminalizing Abor ...
    Bob Somerby does an excellent job with a point I've been meaning to make about this NYT story, which speculates why public attitudes have turned against abortion. But the basis for the story (which, given the stability of public opinion about abortion since the early 1970s would be quite remarkabl ...
  • Shotgun Adoption and Government Funding of Faith-B ...
    RH Reality check has republished Kathryn Joyce's excellent piece, which originally ran in The Nation , about the coercive tactics used by crisis pregnancy centers -- recipients of tens of millions in federal abstinence-only funds under the Bush administration -- to persuade women not to choose an ab ...
  • Journalism in Russia.
    One of the problems that journalists -- both foreign and Russian -- have while working in Moscow is one of perception. Namely, journalists believe that they are working in an environment in which they can report the news fairly and impartially without being penalized for their work. Sadly, that has ...
  • Specifically, What Should Be Done For Jobs?
    In his Saturday radio address, President Obama acknowledged the White House is exploring "additional options to promote job creation.” It's about time. This is the worst job market in 70 years -- including the longest duration of steep job losses. If anyone had any doubt that something far more d ...

Andy Worthington

  • Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo And Bagram ...
    On Friday, just a few hours before I spoke to Jeff Farias, I was interviewed by Scott Horton for Antiwar Radio (the 22-minute show was broadcast on Monday, and is available here). In our tenth outing, Scott and I ran though some recent history: the administration’s decision not to push for new leg ...
  • On Guantánamo, Lawmakers Reveal They Are Still Di ...
    I like to believe that, despite studying Guantánamo for four years, I still have a sense of humor, but last Thursday I lost it, after 258 members of the House of Representatives (including 88 members of President Obama’s own party) voted for an idiotic, paranoid and unjust motion proposed by Rep. ...
  • 75 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 31 C ...
    Last week, the Obama administration finally admitted that it might not be possible to close Guantánamo by the President’s self-imposed deadline of January 22, 2010, when defense secretary Robert Gates told ABC News’ “This Week” that it was “going to be tough” to meet the deadline. The a ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo And Habeas ...
    On Friday (at half past midnight in the UK), I was delighted to prop up my wilting eyelids to talk to leading progressive radio host Jeff Farias about the latest disturbing developments in the Guantánamo story. The particular spur for the interview was the recent — and electrifying — District ...
  • Three Prisoners Released From Guantánamo: Two To ...
    Reuters, following up on an announcement by the Justice Department, has just reported that three prisoners have been released from Guantánamo. Two men, who have not been identified, have been sent to Ireland, following successful negotiations between the Irish government and Daniel Fried, the Obama ...

Buzzflash

  • Dawn Smith Goes to The Top in Her Fight Against CI ...
    WINGS OF JUSTICE Dawn Smith Dealing with nameless, faceless people on the phone with health insurance companies is one of the most frustrating parts of coping with the U.S. health care system. Dawn Smith certainly knows this first hand. Smith has two brain tumors and only one insurance company (CIG ...
  • GOP Candidate For CA Governor Blames Not Voting Fo ...
    The question to ask is as obvious as The moustache on the face of Gene Shalit: Hasn't Meg Whitman ever heard of The option of using an absentee ballot ?VERSE CASE SCENARIO read more
  • Bill Berkowitz: Attempted deconstruction of Chai F ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Bill Berkowitz Although no video has surfaced with her saying "I would hope that a wise Jewish lesbian with the richness of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion," a la the recently confirmed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, nor has ...
  • From Gen. Jones, a cautionary performance
    Body Reading newspapers, tea leaves and body languages for signs of what actions the Obama administration will ultimately take in its reassessment of an Afghanistan strategy can be a fruitless enterprise. Deciding the sources and motivations of leaks, interpreting the ground commander's ...
  • Is McCain plotting a McRerun?
    Body Try not to laugh, although I find this a trifle preposterous myself and I'm the one advancing the speculation -- but, don't be surprised if John McCain takes another whack at the White House. I thought I'd just get that out there, rather than creeping up on it. And why not? Republic ...

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