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Thomas Paine

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

Sunday, November 15, 2009

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • GENDER: "Truly Exciting If the U.S. Could Ratif ...
    ROME, Nov 15 (IPS) - CEDAW or the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1979.
  • GENDER: Laws, Budgets and Pigeonholes - Part 1
    ROME, Nov 15 (IPS) - The fight for women's rights came about hand in hand with the struggle for democracy, civil rights and national liberation in different countries and periods, says Ines Alberdi, executive director of UNIFEM.
  • WATER-ZAMBIA: Worries Ahead of Flood Season
    SHANGOMBO DISTRICT, Zambia, Nov 14 (IPS) - 
The Zambezi is home to the fishing community on Mbeta Island. But after the river rose and swallowed their homes last year, they have learned to fear it as well.
  • KENYA: Foreigners in Their Homeland
    NAIROBI, Nov 14 (IPS) - Resistance to a government scheme to upgrade housing in Nairobi's Kibera slum is enmeshed in economics, history and identity.
  • FILM: Challenging 500 Years of Globalisation
    NEW YORK, Nov 14 (IPS) - To end poverty, you have to know how it began - with globalisation. No, not the 20th century variety engendered by multinationals and their friends at the IMF, World Bank and WTO. They just codified practices that kept developing countries poor.

Scoop - NZ

  • Love letters to the future
    A time capsule has been built that will be permanently installed in Copenhagen - the site of the upcoming UN Climate Summit this December. The capsule will store love letters from this generation to the future - either as text, images or video  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • The Oil Situation Is Really Bad
    On the eve of the International Energy Agency's release of its annual World Energy Outlook (WEO), a whistleblower at the IEA claims the agency "has been deliberately underplaying a looming [oil] shortage for fear of triggering panic buying" in the world markets. As the young fan said to "Shoeless" J ...
  • Can you imagine the low carbon future
    So often climate change is couched as a negative . Can you begin to imagine what a low carbon future might be like - and the opportunities that open up with that ? Some joint action from Scoop, Celsias and Hot Topic to help you do that -good on them !!  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • US: Lining up at Midnight to buy Food at Wal-Mart
    There seems to be a growing divide in the current U.S. economy. On the one hand, you have the financial sector swimming in their bailout-induced profits like a modern day Scrooge Mcduck. In their circles, it appears as if the recession is over. On the other hand, you have average Americans seeing ...
  • Choice: Fossil Fuels or Climate Change Management ...
    According to Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard economist Linda Bilmes, the Iraq War cost three trillion dollars. While much of the money used to conduct the war was borrowed (most notably from Chinese institutions), ultimately American taxpayers will be responsible for many years to come fo ...

Independent ( London )

  • Suicide attack kills 10 at Peshwar checkpoint
    A suicide car bomber killed 10 people, including four children, Saturday at a police checkpoint on the outskirts of the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, in the latest in a string of militant attacks targeting the city, officials said.
  • 9 killed, 80 injured following Indian train derail ...
    A speeding train derailed in western India early today, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 80.
  • Obama speech on Asia well-received in region
    US President Barack Obama's first big speech on Asia had a little something for just about everyone. He was tough on North Korea and Myanmar, but offered a way back to the fold. He was big on Japan and on China, whose rise, he said, should be welcomed, not feared.
  • Blast in Pakistani city of Peshawar
    A suspected suicide car-bomber set off explosives near a police checkpost in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Saturday, killing a policeman and wounding 15 people, police said.
  • Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest Intel Sabbath work
    More than a thousand devout Jews are protesting in Jerusalem against plans by computer chip maker Intel to operate on Saturdays.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • NIAC Stands by its Record of Pursuing Peace Throug ...
    Summary: Dr. Parsi The following statement was issued by National Iranian American Council (NIAC) in response to today's article in the Washington Times. source: NIAC read more
  • Diplomats: Iran Not Expanding Enrichment Program
    Summary: Bushehr Nuclear Reactor According to diplomats familiar with the IAEA’s surveillance of Iran’s nuclear program, the nation stopped expanding its enrichment program in September, and has left nearly half of the centrifuges at the Natanz site idle. source: antiwar.com read more
  • US Moves to Seize Four Mosques, Claiming Secret Ir ...
    Summary: In a move being touted as “a sharp blow against Iran,” the United States government is attempted to seize four Shi’ite mosques across the United States, calling it the largest ‘anti-terror’ seizure ever and claiming the non-profit which operates them is secretly a front for th ...
  • Erdogan promises Iran Turkish intelligence aid aga ...
    Summary: Erdogan In the secret part of their talks in Tehran on Oct. 28, DEBKAfile's military sources reveal that Turkish prime minister Tayyep Recep Erdogan and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck military cooperation deals which promised Iran Turkish military intelligence and air forc ...
  • Brazil: Ties with Iran important to Mideast peace
    Summary: Lula BRASILIA, Brazil — President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended Brazil's friendly relations with Iran on Wednesday, saying such ties are necessary to build lasting peace in the Middle East. source: AP read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • New Clues Discovered to Detect Alien Planets (A We ...
    Finding alien worlds is an idea older than science-fiction itself. The problem is how planets are exceptionally difficult to spot at the best of times, what with being small dull rocks insanely far away, never mind their nasty habit of...
  • Russian Nukes Lighting Up America
    The US and Russia still have five thousand live nuclear warheads prepped and ready to glass-craterize each other and big chunks of the rest of the world. Just in case the complete collapse of the insane rivalry that lead to...
  • We'll Have a Bite of that Apple, Please!
    On December 27th, 1996, Apple had $1.8 billion in cash and securities. Apple brought Steve Jobs back to the company in December 1996. Today it has $34 billion.
  • The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (11/12)
    Journey to PlutoAn epic 10-year, 3-billion-mile journey from Cape Canaveral to the rim of the solar system is almost halfway complete, and in 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will allow us to lay eyes directly on the mysterious, beloved Pluto...
  • Image of the Day: The Ethereal Beauty of Galaxy Gr ...
    The galaxies of HCG (Hickson Compact Group) 87 are about four hundred million light-years distant interacting gravitationally,influencing their fellow group members' structure and evolution. . The large edge-on spiral near picture center, the fuzzy elliptical galaxy immediately to its right,...

Natural News

  • A to Z of what's wrong with America
    (NaturalNews) America has some major challenges. Lots of things could use some improvement. To help create this A-to-Z list of what's "wrong" with America, we tapped into the collective wisdom of our Facebook fans (http://facebook.naturalnews.com) who came up with a nice collection of both serious a ...
  • A to Z of what's right with America
    (NaturalNews) Ah, America. Land of the free. Home of the brave. Baseball and apple pie. It's all so irresistibly attractive that it's begging for a list of 26 awesome things about America. So I asked the NaturalNews Facebook team to come up with an A-to-Z list of what's right with America. You'll fi ...
  • Artificial Sweeteners are Continually Found to be ...
    (NaturalNews) A recent study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology in San Diego found that adult women who drink at least two diet sodas a day experience a 30 percent drop in kidney function over the course of a decade. Findings indicate that artificial sweeteners suc ...
  • Facebook crowdsourced investigation exposes vaccin ...
    (NaturalNews) When you publish a hard-hitting story containing links to lots of little-known documents, you never know what kind of bizarre blow-back you'll receive. The latest episode of reactive strangeness occurred following our publication of the story about SIGA Technologies and the conflicts o ...
  • Prevent kidney disease by saying no to diet sodas ...
    (NaturalNews) According to the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), the number of people in the US diagnosed with kidney disease has doubled over the past 20 years. About 20 million Americans are at risk for developing kidney disease and the ASN web site states another 20 million Americans already ...

TheGallopingBeaver

  • Joya to the World . . . .
    Since my friend was singing in the pre-show choir for Malalai Joya's Vancouver book tour kick-off, I walked up the hill to her performance this evening. I had previously heard Ms. Joya on a PBS program in the US, but to hear her story live in person was very moving. It is something I would recomm ...
  • How the US funds the Taliban
    From Aram Roston at The Nation : "Welcome to the wartime contracting bazaar in Afghanistan. It is a virtual carnival of improbable characters and shady connections, with former CIA officials and ex-military officers joining hands with former Taliban and mujahedeen to collect US government funds in t ...
  • Gay Eternity
    The Guardian UK today reveals: Censored gay sex scenes in From Here to Eternity revealed Daughter of author James Jones discloses details of cuts insisted upon by the novel's original publisher * Alison Flood | * guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 November 2009 It is one of the most celebrated images in ...
  • H1N1 Poll
    For what it's worth, CBC is asking if "you think the government mishandled the swine flu vaccination process?"
  • The stupidity . . .
    THE LA TIMES has an obituary written by Claire Noland, that details the life and times of Qian Xuesen , who died at the ripe old age of 98. So, who was Qian Xuesen, and why should you care? He was one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in California, that did the early ground-breaking ...

Media Matters for America

  • Cavuto let Giuliani attack KSM's civilian trial a ...
    Fox News' Neil Cavuto allowed Rudy Giuliani to criticize the Obama administration's decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) in the U.S. criminal justice system in New York City as a "terrible, terrible mistake" because KSM "should be prosecuted in a military tribunal." Cavuto did not ask G ...
  • Quick Fact: Beck still falsely claiming you "go to ...
    Glenn Beck is still falsely claiming that Americans face jail time as a penalty for failure to buy insurance under the House health care bill. From the provides that an individual must be "covered by acceptable coverage at all times." "Acceptable coverage" includes "qualified health benefits plan ...
  • Limbaugh, Fox News at odds over whether Palin memo ...
    On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh claimed that Sarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue: An American Experience , is "one of the most substantive policy books I've read." By contrast, later that night, Fox News' Carl Cameron stated that the book "largely steers clear of politics and policy" and that the ch ...
  • Quick Fact: Hannity used insufficient H1N1 vaccine ...
    Sean Hannity blamed the H1N1 vaccine shortage on the government and suggested that the shortage is indicative of the government's ability to reform health care. From the November 11 edition of Hannity : HANNITY: There are some parents that don't want to vaccinate their kids. Which by the way, D ...
  • Conservative media attacks of detainee trials un ...
    Following Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to hold criminal trials for five Guantánamo detainees, conservative media figures have criticized the decision as a "disaster," "impossible to put into perspective" and -- in the words of Rush Limbaugh -- done only to "satisfy the rabid radical ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • An Open Letter to Harry Reid on Controlling Health ...
    Dear Senator,I know you're in a tough spot. It would be bad enough if you only had to get Ben Nelson, Evan Bayh, Mary Landrieu, and Blanche Lincoln on board, but anyone who has to kiss Joe Lieberman's derriere deserves... Ben Nelson - Harry Reid - Mary Landrieu - Blanche Lincoln - Evan Bayh
  • Krauthammer: Why Can't We Just Say That the Proble ...
    I'm going to write about Charles Krauthammer today without telling about the time he freaked out royally in synagogue on Yom Kippur. I'll get right to his column today which is a diatribe against the media for not attributing the... Yom Kippur - Synagogue - Religion and Spirituality - Charles K ...
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  • Veterans Week 2009: We've Got Your Back
    Somewhere, high atop the mountains of Afghanistan, Marine Staff Sergeant Todd Bowers is smiling. He's not thinking about Cameron Diaz or all the Jack Daniels he'll consume when he comes home. Or at least not this minute. He's reflecting on... Veterans Day - United States - Military - Afghanista ...
  • Neocon-Realist Collaboration on Ending Cuba Embarg ...
    Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw "Radek" Sikorski, husband of Washington Post editorial writer (and Polish cuisine expert) Anne Applebaum, is a compelling, brilliant, eclectic political intellectual who I admire a great deal. In part, I admire Sikorski because while tenacious and... Washingto ...

TruthOut

  • Journalist Murders in Mexico Hit a New Record
    Mexico City, Mexico - Like on any other Monday morning, reporter Bladimir Antuna kissed his family goodbye and set off in his Ford SUV to work the crime beat at a local newspaper in Durango city. Hours later his lifeless corpse was found beaten, strangled and dumped outside a public hospital. “Thi ...
  • Huge Rise in Birth Defects in Falluja
    Iraqi former battle zone sees abnormal clusters of infant tumours and deformities. read more
  • Decision to Try 9/11 Suspects in US Court Hailed a ...
    In a rare display of agreement between advocates who have spent years in fierce opposition, the American Civil Liberties Union yesterday paid tribute to the Department of Justice for its decision to try five of the alleged planners of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in a civilian federal court. read more
  • The Ghost of Jesse Helms Haunts Health Care Debate
    Here we go again. Whenever conservative stalwart Jesse Helms didn't like something in a bill, he would pull out an abortion amendment to slow things down. Helms is dead and gone but the tactic is alive and well and may just kill health care reform. On the Senate side, the hurdle is the public ...
  • Welcome Home, War! How America's Wars Are Systemat ...
    In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Obama has to a surprising extent embraced the expanded executive powers championed by his conservative predecessor, George W. Bush. This bipartisan af ...

Planetsave

  • The Western Lake Erie Waterkeeper
    One of the leading voices in the campaign to rescue Lake Erie from dying again is a persistent, thoughtful, dedicated water protector promoting awareness of the Lake’s benefits, supporting lighthouse restoration, fighting resurgent algae and proposed new pollution sources, and seeking funding to ...
  • Green Books Campaign: The Lazy Environmentalist on ...
    This review is part of the Green Books campaign . Today 100 bloggers are reviewing 100 great books printed in an environmentally friendly way. Our goal is to encourage publishers to get greener and readers to take the environment into consideration when purchasing books. This campaign is organized b ...
  • Environmentalist, Conservationist, Or Neither?
    Darby Nelson, a member of a Minnesota state panel that advises the Legislature on fish, game and wildlife habitat spending, is a classic conservationist. Almost 40 years after the first Earth Day, the term environmentalist is in some disrepute. Once a badge of honor for public-spirited citizens se ...
  • NASA to Irradiate Monkeys. Horrible Animal Experim ...
    When I first read the news that NASA was going to start experimenting on monkeys with radiation to study the effects of deep space travel, my heart sunk. As an anthropologist who has studied non-human primates I have seen up close the emotions, the feelings, and the physical qualities we share wit ...
  • Great Lakes Get $475 Million in New Money, Questio ...
    Pollution from industrial facilities like this one at East Harbor in Indiana up to the 1970s left a legacy of contamination still in need of cleanup from new Great Lakes restoration funding. Giving President Obama a major victory, Congress on Thursday sent him a spending bill containing $475 milli ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Straight Talk on Jobs
    As the Cowardly Democrats in Washington prepare to cut the budget, thus smothering what little economic recovery the too-small spring stimulus provided, one of the few sensible voices on economics in D.C. explains what's really going on with the lack of jobs: What exactly is going on with the econom ...
  • They Voted for Coathangers, Send 'em Coathangers
    Click here to send a message they can't misinterpret. Did 20 pro-choice Democrats forget what happens when women are denied access to abortion? Why did pro-choice Democrats vote to approve the Stupak Amendment, the most serious assault on abortion rights in a generation? According to FiveThirtyEight ...
  • Commies Trying to Take Over in Nicholasville, Kent ...
    This is how the Commies controlled people in Russia and China and North Korea: government employees deciding what people could and could not read, even overruling parents' decisions about their own children. And it's happening again. Not, as you might think, in some Obama-worshipping socialist hell- ...
  • On What Planet Does Barney Frank Spend Most of His ...
    The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee has cultivated a pugnacious persona, but on financial reform he may be fighting for the wrong side. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears . No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Barney Frank h ...
  • Nightowl Newswrap
    This is going to get worse before it gets better. "At least two people have been killed after a series of explosions and fires at a weapons depot in central Russia, officials say. The blasts ripped through the defence ministry navy depot on the outskirts of Ulyanovsk when soldiers attempted to decom ...

Care 2

  • RCMP Sgt. Michael Harvey Criminalizes all Indians ...
    Because the RCMP violently attacks Indians that refuse to become tax-paying citizens of Canada, Indians are forced to operate on their waters and lands with no lights at night. The St. Lawrence River is a water highway within Akwesasne Submitted by Lone Wolf to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |    ...
  • At 75, Charles Manson still has power to influence ...
    Corcoran, California (CNN) -- At 75, Charles Manson has spent more than half his life in prison for masterminding the notorious Helter Skelter Submitted by Lone Wolf to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Police arrest sixth member of family accused of ch ...
    STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: Darrel Mohler, another relative, charged with two counts of rape Friday Five relatives were arrested Tuesday after six people accused them of abuse Submitted by Lone Wolf to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Let's Make a Deal
    A look at the lobbying groups that shelled out the big bucks to influence health-care reform. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Food & Water Watch: Help Make Sure Small Farmers C ...
    Our current food system is built for the largest producers, and it's often hard for small farmers to get their foot in the door. This is the case with meat and poultry. Many small sustainable farmers have a hard time finding processing plants for their Submitted by Jelica R Is Away to Green Lifest ...

GreenBiz

  • Nike Debuts Latest Collection of 'Considered Desig ...
    Nike will debut a new collection of athletic footwear Saturday made with environmentally preferred materials. A portion of revenue from the N7 line will support Native American youth sports through the N7 Fund.
  • Diversey Ups Emissions Reductions Investments, Ear ...
    One year after setting a goal to cut corporate emissions by 8 percent before 2013, Diversey CEO today announced the company had already surpassed that target, and upped the goal to a 25 percent reduction in the same time frame.
  • The Green Building Market and Impact Report 2009
    This second annual report, by Rob Watson and the GreenBiz.com editorial team, explores the impacts that LEED-certified buildings have already had on energy, water, waste and employee productivity -- and projects those impacts for the next 20 years.
  • Business Owners Beware: Quick Fixes Can Cost More ...
    Looking to save a little money this fall and winter by turning down the thermostats in your offices? Think again before you fiddle with those temperatures settings. Doing that alone could cost you far more than you save, especially if employees take their workplace comfort into their own hands.
  • Cadbury and Sprint to Save Tons of Waste with New ...
    Cadbury will abandon its customary round metal tins in favor of square, recyclable cardboard boxes for its Roses and Heroes chocolate lines, while Sprint's new recyclable casing for its wireless accessories will save the company about $2.1 million a year.

Reuters Global

  • New SPD leader has tough job: saving his party
    Germany's SPD elects new leader, Sigmar Gabriel. He's their 11th leader since 1990 and will have his job cut out for him trying to save the country's oldest party that has lost half of its supporters in the last 11 years.
  • Pakistan and Afghanistan: “the bad guys don& ...
    A new book by former French investigating magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere adds fresh arguments against those who say the United States should scale back its objectives in Afghanistan and Pakistan to focus more narrowly on hunting down al Qaeda.
  • Friends with issues
    They may been on first-name terms, but Barack's discussions with Yukio during his 24-hour stay in Tokyo has left unresolved a feud over a U.S. military base and deeper questions about the future.
  • Shining a light on China’s secret “Black Jails ...
    When 15-year-old Wang Xiaomei made the long trip from Gansu province to Beijing last year, she hoped to find justice for her family. Instead, she met with abuse.
  • The little coup that could, in Honduras
    Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has failed in his bid to return to office while de facto leader Roberto Micheletti has hung on to power even after being diplomatically isolated. That's because the conservative Central American country's business elite have long controlled politics in one of ...

Ezra Klein

  • Tab dump
    1) The future is street food. 2) The right kind of 'security theatre.' 3) Even the centrist group Third Way things the Stupak amendment goes too far. 4) If conservatives want to propose the Dutch or Swiss health-care systems as a compromise, I would be happy to make that deal. Recipe of the Day ...
  • Joint Tax Committee: Excise tax raises workers' wa ...
    In our chat yesterday, economist Jon Gruber mentioned that the excise tax is projected to raise worker wages by $313 billion between 2010 and 2019. That seemed, well, high. But it checks out. The numbers come from the Joint Committee on Taxation. Their analysis of the excise tax concluded that the ...
  • Why aren't the subsidies getting more attention?
    Kevin Drum : I sure wish that overall subsidy levels in the current healthcare bills produced the same kind of uproar as abortion and the public option. In terms of real-world effect on real-world people, subsidies are the biggest issue by a mile. But not a very sexy issue, apparently. That's to ...
  • Peter Orszag makes the case for Germany
    Conferences should have purple backdrops more often. "We don’t really have a jobs policy," writes Paul Krugman. "We have a G.D.P. policy." Unlike Germany, we have not prioritized keeping workers in their jobs. Instead, we've prioritized measures to increase economic growth. As Larry Summers said, ...
  • Senate skeptical of Stupak amendment
    Planned Parenthood just blasted out a roundup of senators who have voiced doubts about the Stupak amendment. It's a more impressive, and moderate, list than I would have guessed: Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid: “We’re going to continue to work with pro-choice folks, pro-life folks in the Sena ...

Booman Tribune

  • If You Elect Me to Congress...
    Hey, I promise that if you elect me to Congress that I won't ever take language from any lobbyist and use it on the House floor or enter it into the Congressional Record. I can think and speak for myself. In fact, I don't see much reason to accept advice or even talk to most lobbyists at all. The ...
  • Quote of the Day
    Why not just call them bedwetters, Jerry? "I invite any of my colleagues who say that they are afraid to bring detainees into the United States to face trial to come to New York and see how we handle them." - Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-Ground Zero) Crazy Steve King (R-Iowa) wants Nadler to share a ...
  • Learn the Lessons of Vietnam
    While working as Hau Nghia province representative for USAID in 1965, retired Lt. Col. John Paul Vann wrote the following letter to General Robert York: If it were not for the fact that Vietnam is but a pawn in the larger East-West confrontation, and that our presence here is essential to deny th ...
  • More of Cheney's 9/11 Lies Exposed
    I know this is probably not a great surprise to many of us who were never Bush worshipers, but a new book by John Farmer, The Ground Truth, offers further proof that President Cheney lied about the events of 9/11 and that the FAA and NORAD altered critical documentary evidence to support the lies th ...
  • WSJ Editorial Staff: Bedwetters
    I thought the WSJ might be different. Maybe they would be strong and full of courage like the city they work in. Nope. They saved it for the very end, but they wet their bed anyway. Terrorists also love a big stage, and none come bigger than New York. Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hij ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Want to stave off swine flu? Catch a cold
    OK, before anyone says it, the headline is not to be taken as medical advice (I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on television, etc, etc). But research into surprisingly low incidences of swine flu in France in recent months suggests that the common cold may be suppressing the ability of the [...] ...
  • NASA debunks the 2012 Mayan apocalypse myth
    NASA has taken a step into the rough-and-tumble world of conspiracy theory by posting a point-by-point debunking of the 2012 apocalypse meme, brought to public prominence by the recent movie based upon it [image by auntjojo]. You’ve got to admire the blunt certainty of it – here’s the first of ...
  • Brain-food: white hats, anti-hackers and post-mode ...
    By way of an experiment, I thought I’d round up a handful of links which made for interesting reading, but about which I felt no particular urge to editorialise (or waffle tangentially, if there’s any measurable difference between the two in my case). If you like the format, let me know in the c ...
  • But is it art? Modern Warfare 2, computer games an ...
    Serendipity, yet again… Jonathan’s latest Blasphemous Geometries column on the moral dimension of modern computer game mechanics arrived in my inbox last weekend, and hence (unless he has contacts in the industry of which I am unaware), he’d have had no idea that this week would see a firestor ...
  • The Mechanics of Morality: Why Moral Choices in Vi ...
    Moral ambiguity is an increasingly ubiquitous part of modern computer game character mechanics – so why are the moral elements to gameplay increasingly less enjoyable? ### I remember when having a game take into account the morality of your character was something of an innovation. I remember b ...

Therapy News

  • Doctors without Borders Reports on Mental Health i ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Doctors without Borders is an organization that has long been recognized for identifying needy areas around the world and supplying trained, caring health professionals in an effort to improve access. Known for providing advanced, modern care in places that are often b ...
  • UK Organization Calls for Inquiries into Causes of ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary When asked what they’d like to be when they grow up, most children will reply with some profession or other, and while the field and the exact position may change greatly with age and experience, it is rare to find an answer which focuses simply on the desire to enjo ...
  • Five Simple Steps to Choosing the Right Therapist
    By Ernest S. Schmidt, LCSW Click here to contact Ernest and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Choosing the right therapist really depends on your needs and the counseling style that will work best for you. There are several steps that you should take if you want to find a counselor that will truly ...
  • Adult Attachment Styles and Recurring Relationship ...
    By Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT, Family of Origin Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lisa and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile If you are one of the many out there who finds yourself in repetitive patterns of unhealthy relationships, perhaps you might benefit from identifying your att ...
  • Sharpen Your Knives for the Holidays
    By Lynn Somerstein, PhD, RYT, Object Relations Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynn and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The hardware store on Third Avenue has a sign in the window that says, “Sharpen your knives for the holidays.” Many of us are lucky enough to have joyful hol ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountain mine jobs under fire - Charleston Gazette
    Mountain mine jobs under fire Charleston Gazette Mountaintop-removal mining jobs are played up beyond the importance of their number in coal production and downplayed in environmental destruction, ... Mike Leonard: IU prof knows impact of coal mining The Herald-Times (subscription) Massey cited for ...
  • People and parties: justlead dinner honors Mike Ca ...
    People and parties: justlead dinner honors Mike Campbell Knoxville News Sentinel Clendenin's work is evocative of environmental concerns about coal mining and mountaintop removal . At the event, she discussed her experiences with ... and more »
  • As Massey Energy Blasts West Virginia's Coal River ...
    Mother Nature Network As Massey Energy Blasts West Virginia's Coal River Mountain, a Debate on ... Bay Area Indymedia by via Democracy Now Thursday, November 5, 2009 :There have been a number of recent developments around the controversial practice of mountaintop removal ... Many in US coal country ...
  • Many in US coal country oppose new emission regula ...
    Mother Nature Network Many in US coal country oppose new emission regulations Mother Nature Network By Agence France-Presse CONTROVERSIAL COAL: Mountaintop removal mining proponents say the practice is efficient and provides jobs and flat land. ... Coal Tattoo investigates: Is there a MTR permit cr ...
  • Rob Perks: Country Stars Come Out Against Mountain ...
    Rob Perks: Country Stars Come Out Against Mountaintop Removal AlterNet The purpose of this event was to raise awareness about mountaintop removal coal mining amongst the music industry and to recruit more artists to our ...

Memeorandum

  • For Holder, much wrestling over decision (Carrie J ...
    Carrie Johnson / Washington Post : For Holder, much wrestling over decision   —  Eric H. Holder Jr. called his order Friday to send the suspected plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks to trial in Manhattan “the toughest decision I've had to make as attorney general.”  But what the nation's chie ...
  • Memoir Is Palin's Payback to McCain Campaign (Mich ...
    Michiko Kakutani / New York Times : Memoir Is Palin's Payback to McCain Campaign   —  “Going Rogue,” the title of Sarah Palin's erratic new memoir, comes from a phrase used by a disgruntled McCain aide to describe her going off-message during the campaign: among other things, for breaking ...
  • In House Record, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyi ...
    Robert Pear / New York Times : In House Record, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyists'   —  WASHINGTON — In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with similarities.  Often, that was no accident.  —  Statements by ...
  • CMS: House health bill will hike costs $289B (Moll ...
    Molly K. Hooper / The Hill : CMS: House health bill will hike costs $289B   —  The House-approved healthcare overhaul would raise the costs of healthcare by $289 billion over the next 10 years, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan, independent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CM ...
  • Palin Calls Decision To Try 9/11 Defendants In Fed ...
    Amanda Terkel / Think Progress : Palin Calls Decision To Try 9/11 Defendants In Federal Court ‘Atrocious,’ Wants To 'Hang ‘Em High’   —  Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the five individuals accused of conspiring to commit the 9/11 attacks — including alleged ma ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • The future of oil
    New market dynamics created by climate change, geological and geopolitical pressures will transform our hydrocarbon economies, write John Elkington and Gary Kendall. The race for the world’s remaining oil reserves could get very nasty. Recently, Nigerian militants announced their determination to ...
  • Carbon trading isn’t working
    Last week, Graciela Chichilnisky wrote that carbon trading can save a climate-change agreement. Here, Kevin Smith responds that such markets haven’t worked – and won’t in future. Carbon trading isn’t working, and doesn’t show any signs of improving either. The biggest experiment in carbon ...
  • “China needs time”
    On Thursday, Graciela Chichilnisky proposed that the carbon market is used to avoid a stand-off between the US and China at Copenhagen. Here, Simon Zadek responds. Graciela Chichilnisky’s proposal (see “ Saving Kyoto ”) offers food for thought, and an innovative mechanism of moving money elega ...
  • Saving Kyoto
    The carbon market can be used to avoid a stand-off between the major emitters at Copenhagen and forge a consensus among nations. Graciela Chichilnisky sets out her proposal. As nations get ready for the climate-change showdown at Copenhagen in December, the pieces are falling into place for a major ...
  • Corporate values, green governance
    The failure of companies to report environmental pollution in China exposes challenges for governments in the developed and the developing world, writes Tang Hao. Eighteen multinational and Chinese companies, all of them listed in last year's Fortune Global 500 or Fortune China 100 – including She ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Judge Sides With RIAA in ‘Sham’ Litigation Cla ...
    A judge has dealt a major blow to a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging the Recording Industry Association of America’s nearly 6-year-old courthouse campaign against file sharers amounted to nothing more than “sham” litigation. The judge ruled that the RIAA has the right to bring civil laws ...
  • Hackers Post Private E-mails of Historian and Accu ...
    A group identifying themselves as “anti-fascist hackers” broke into the web site and AOL e-mail account of controversial British historian and accused Holocaust-denier David Irving and obtained his private communications as well as attendee lists for his current U.S. speaking tour. The hackers p ...
  • Court Silences CIA Operative Despite Yellowcake Sc ...
    Valerie Plame Wilson cannot publicize details of her work as a CIA operative, even though a government official already outed her as an agent in an attempt to discredit her husband, Joseph C. Wilson, a federal appeals court says. Plame Wilson, who served as chief of the unit responsible for weapons ...
  • Madoff Coders Charged With Aiding Massive Ponzi Sc ...
    Two programmers who worked for convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff have been arrested and charged with providing technical support for the massive Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of an estimated $65 billion. Jerome O’Hara, 46, and George Perez, 43, were arrested Friday morning and charged wi ...
  • Bush Concerned Successor Might Revoke Telco Spy Im ...
    The George W. Bush administration expressed concern future administrations might not use the legal amnesty it wanted to give the nation’s telecommunication companies that were being sued for assisting the president’s warrantless, electronic wiretapping program, according to internal documents re ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Boxing-Pacquiao stops Cotto to win WBO welterweigh ...
    LAS VEGAS, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines claimed the WBO welterweight title by stopping holder Miguel Cotto in the 12th round at the MGM Grand on Saturday.
  • China-U.S. spar over currencies ahead of Obama vis ...
    SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The United States and China sparred over exchange rates at a meeting of Asia Pacific leaders on Sunday, pointing to tricky talks ahead for President Barack Obama when he flies to China to address economic tensions.
  • Putin wins respect at hip-hop party
    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rubbed shoulders with rappers and was hailed with "respect" in a television show Friday that could help boost his flagging ratings.
  • Google eyes China as Baidu fumbles
    SAN FRANCISCO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - In 2005, China administered a spelling test that asked respondents to spell "Google" for a search market report: only 60 percent took the test and more than 20 percent got it wrong.
  • Pacquiao stops Cotto to win seventh world title
    LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Manny Pacquiao enhanced his status as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world with a commanding win over holder Miguel Cotto to claim the WBO welterweight title Saturday.

Pine River World News

  • SPECIAL REPORT: America's new Afghan strategy is a ...
    Pine River World News / IntelTrends November 13, 2009 Regular readers of this blog know that I occasionally republish mujahideen statements so that readers can access different perspectives on current affairs, political and military issues. However, having said that, I want to add that I am very s ...
  • To Georgia's Good Fortune, Russia is Winning
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin. To Georgia's Good Fortune, Russia is Winning ©  Stanislav Mishin Source:   Mat Rodina November 12, 2009 Since the mid 1990s and maybe even earlier, the leadership of Orthodox Christians Georgia has been in bed with the Saudi- ...
  • Fidel Castro: A science fiction story
    This English translation of Fidel Castro's latest article is courtesy of Granma Internacional news agency, Havana, citing Cubadebate as the source. Reflections of Fidel: A science fiction story ©  Fidel Castro Ruz Translated by Granma Internacional Post date:  November 12, 2009 HOW I regret having ...
  • 'Play the terrorist' video game disturbs players
    The following article is from The New Zealand Herald. 'Play the terrorist' video game disturbs players ©   The New Zealand Herald By James Ihaka November 12, 2009 A graphic and violent video game where the player assumes the role of a terrorist to massacre dozens of innocent people, is tipped to b ...
  • Obama exploits Fort Hood massacre to promote U.S. ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Obama exploits Fort Hood massacre to promote U.S. wars ©   World Socialist Web Site By Bill Van Auken November 11, 2009 President Barack Obama used his speech at Tuesday's service for the 13 men and women killed ...

    PDA AMERICA

  • Defeat Max Baucus Call – November 5th 2009
    Senator Max Baucus has demonstrated over and over that he is the single biggest stumbling block in the Senate to single-payer healthcare. PDA is seeking a viable progressive candidate–who supports single-payer healthcare–to run for Max Baucus' ...
  • California Dems Deliberate on Afghanistan. What Sa ...
    I’m heading down to San Diego from Los Angeles (CA-36) this weekend to attend the California Democratic Party Executive Board meeting, where we will debate an End the Occupation and Air War in Afghanistan resolution ...
  • IOT: End the Occupation, Redirect Funding Novembe ...
    Over 40 people joined Tuesday, November 10th’s End War and Occupations, Redirect Funding call with guest Norman Solomon. Norman, co-chair of PDA’s Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign, gave an update on Afghanistan, answered questions about strategies ...
  • Come Together Right Now
    By David Swanson | AfterDowningStreet If you have an interest in grassroots organizing, international alliance building, the peace movement, the labor movement, the conversion of the U.S. economy from weapons to human needs, the preservation of ...
  • IOT: Inside the Party October Call
    On this call Congressman Mike Capuano (MA08) joined us to talk about his campaign. We officially endorsed him for Senate on this call. We also discussed our new national endorsement policy.

Marler Blog

  • WHO - a Global Approach to Food Safety
    WHO was a presence at the recent China Food Safety Conference.  Here is too hoping more governments - FDA and USDA - spend a bit more time thinking about food safety as a global issue.
  • "Change?" Give me a $%&#ing Break - FDA backs off ...
    I'm still dealing with a bit of jet lag from my trip to China.  I woke up too early this morning (about 1 AM), and just woke up from a nap in my office chair to yet another move by the Obama administration that shows that "real change" in Washington is hard to come by - unless it is another cash re ...
  • What will the USDA do about non-E. coli O157:H7 Sh ...
    Several weeks ago I filed with the USDA a Petition for an Interpretive Rule Declaring all enterohemorrhagic Shiga Toxin-producing Serotypes of Escherichia coli, Including Non-O157 Serotypes, to be Adulterants Within the Meaning of 21 U.S.C. § 601(m)(1). The Petition can be found here. I just receiv ...
  • Speech at China Agricultural University School of ...
    Perhaps not quite on par with the Great Wall or the Forbidden City, yet meeting the about 150 law students was pretty exciting - even for my 10-year-old daughter, Sydney (she took the photo).  Think of China Agricultural University as a Davis/WSU/Cornell with a Law School. I had been invited to spea ...
  • Food Safety News Supported Third China Food Safety ...
    Despite postponing the Conference from late September until this week for the 60th anniversary of the Revolution, CIFSQ once again put on a quality Conference with several hundred in attendance for dozens of countries. Food Safety News – www.foodsafetynews.com was a presence – sponsoring the sp ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 11.13.09
    Greenlings: Why does mileage drop in winter? You've got questions, we've got answers. BMW mull lengthening Mini E lease times Early problems might mean extra time for the EV drivers. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.12.09
    First Drive: 2010 BMW X6 ActiveHybrid is technologically impressive... but to what end? Tell me why we'd want to own one of these, again. GM fuel cell boss explains that the technology needs to pass final ...
  • First Drive: 2010 BMW X6 ActiveHybrid is technolog ...
    Filed under: Hybrid , Crossover , BMW , First Drive , Luxury 2010 BMW X6 ActiveHybrid - Click above for high-res image gallery BMW's pitch on how great the X6 ActiveHybrid is goes like this: it's the world's most powerful hybrid vehicle, fuel consumption is reduced about 20 percent compared to a s ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.11.09
    Lutz: High-performance Chevy Volt SS a "possibility" Could the Volt become a high-performance vehicle? Brammo cuts Enertia price to $7,995 2k down, $249 a month and you're good to go. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.10.09
    At Witz' End: Notes from "The Business of Plugging In" A sampling of thoughts from PEV 2009. SEMA 2009: eVARO plug-in hybrid three-wheeler debuts, returns The golden squid is back. ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable 10: Funny business
    Humor is serious business. This week, we have two entrepreneurs who prove it: Ben Huh , CEO of the Cheezburger Network, the company behind Failblog , ICanHazCheezburger , ThereIFixedIt , and other sites you've probably wasted your lunch hours on; and Ryan Dolan, previously in business development ...
  • YouTube to get high-def 1080p player
    YouTube exec announces another bump-up in available YouTube resolution. The new resolution, as well as a new full-screen player, will roll out to all users within days. Originally posted at Webware
  • Clicker launches for all--watch it
    This online video directory service is the best TV search engine we've seen. Originally posted at Webware
  • Two new remote Webcams: Mole and Vue
    One is small and simple but fails as a security camera; the other is big and ugly but does it all.
  • Reporters' Roundtable 9: The business of app store ...
    This week on the Roundtable: the App Store revolution. Something funny has happened to software. While the model we all grew up with for the distribution of software was mostly to buy it through retail channels or other resellers, or maybe direct from manufacturers, another model emerged and has ...

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!

  • The War Condolences Obama Hasn't Sent
    U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Chancellor Keesling died in Iraq on June 19, 2009, from “a non-combat related incident,” according to the Pentagon. Keesling had killed himself. He was just one in what is turning out to be a record year for suicides in the U.S. military. Read More Listen to this Col ...
  • Afghan Peace Activist Malalai Joya Speaks on "Cris ...
    Malalai Joya is one of Afghanistan’s leading democracy activists. In 2005, she became the youngest person ever elected to the Afghan parliament. She was suspended in 2007 for her denunciation of warlords and their cronies in government. She has just written her memoir, “A Woman Among Warlords: ...
  • 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

  • A Visitation of the Influenza
    In seeping through the world’s every nook and cranny, pandemics have a way of forcing themselves into our lives as a lurking presence. Even the most insular of functionaries, who typically makes his living solving problems by ignoring them, straightens up and takes notice.    As an epidemic ...
  • I Do Like Green Eggs and Ham
    Much of what we’ve addressed on this blog has focused on the epidemiological failures of industrial farming. But what of the alternatives? Can we farm in another way? Is another world possible?    It’s only since I’ve moved to the Midwest that I’ve learned that not only is that world p ...
  • Heart of Modeling
    Greed is often mistaken for humanity’s heart of darkness. Look instead to the rationalization that transforms the most rapacious pillaging into an act of benevolence. A one-ton bomb dropped on a peasant wedding party is dissembled into regret without responsibility or, baser yet, a tough love offe ...
  • Bird Flu’s Industrial Revolution
    Public talks can be private affairs. In sharing our work we bare the triumphs and limits of a thinking born in long hours alone or with a few fellow conspirators sworn to secrecy. But in breaking our oaths we are able to take the next step.   In talking bird flu twice this past month I learned [... ...
  • The Agro-Industrial Roots of Swine Flu H1N1
    Mexico appears ground zero for an outbreak of deadly human-specific H1N1.   Of the over 1400 people that have been reportedly infected there so far, 86 have died. Short chains of transmission of the virus have also been reported in California, Texas, Kansas, Ohio, New York City, Canada and New Zeal ...

Digg Green

  • BBC - Earth News - Predatory coral eats jellyfish
    A coral is recorded eating a jellyfish for the first time, in intriguing photographs taken by scientists.
  • Heinz On Track to Reduce Waste, Water, Energy Impa ...
    The company's 2009 sustainability report shows not only has the company passed the half-way point on its goals, but its reductions are picking up speed year over year. Heinz has managed to cut its carbon footprint by 13.4% since 2005, its energy use is down 15.8%, solid waste generation is down 27.4 ...
  • Golf Balls Take 1000 Years to Decompose
    Not only do golf balls take between a century and millennium to break down, they release toxic zinc in the process. This heavy metal attaches “itself to the ground sediment and poisoned the surrounding flora and fauna” when in water. Other heavy metals used in golf ball production include tungst ...
  • Giant Iceberg Spotted Off Australia
    A giant iceberg the length of seven football pitches has been spotted floating off Australia.
  • Poultry Exec: I Didn't Check if Enviro Rules were ...
    In 2002, a top poultry executive helped create an environmental handbook to prevent pollution of waterways. Too bad he didn't make sure they were followed.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Five Hundred Lawyers on the Bottom of the Ocean
    By Les Visible What The Constitution has become is a big wedge of Swiss cheese or maybe a honeycomb, something with a lot of canals; thruways and byways and any fucking ways that you can. There are little paths and wide thoroughfares that are traveled by lawyers who move through and across them like ...
  • BAXTER ADMITS CONTAMINATING 72 KILOS ON MAIN STREA ...
    This is a 5 minute material from a TV show called “Teraz my” (“Now us”) broadcasted on 9/11/2009 on biggest Polish private station TVN. The program is very respected and has very large audience so this is real mass media in Poland. The hosts invited current Polish Health Minister Ewa Kopacz ...
  • Conflicts of interest? Dr. Mehmet Oz owns 150,000 ...
    By Mike Adams Dr. Mehmet Oz is a huge promoter of vaccines. He’s been on television reinforcing fear about H1N1 swine flu and telling everyone to get vaccinated. But what he didn’t tell his viewing audience is that he holds 150,000 option shares in a vaccine company that could earn him millions ...
  • CFR Recording Suggests Creating False Scarcity To ...
    By Steve Watson A recording of a recent Council On Foreign Relations symposium reveals attendees discussing ways and means of getting the public [...]
  • H1N1 vaccines too little, too late; most people al ...
    By Mike Adams The Big Pharma frenzy over H1N1 vaccines has turned into a circus of hilarious medical quackery thanks to the fact that by the time the vaccines are available, most people will have already been exposed to the virus. Hence, most people will have already built up their own H1N1 antibodi ...

    Care2 Picks

  • BAD BUSINESS--The palm oil scandal: Boots and Wait ...
    Retailers complicit in environmental damage caused by industry, World Wide Fund for Nature says Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • CORPORATE CRIME IN ECUADOR: Oil Giant Is Gone, Leg ...
    The story began almost 40 years ago, but when filmmaker Joe Berlinger "saw villagers eating canned tuna fish because the fish in their rivers were too contaminated to eat, [he] knew [he] had to do something". Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Globalization: Diseases Spreading From Humans To A ...
    Globalisation and industrialisation are causing diseases to spread from humans to animals, a study has shown. Submitted by Simone D. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Toxic Junk: From Our Homes to Our Landfills
    Are you like many of us? Holding on to that old T.V. or computer? Maybe you have cans of old paint you don't know how to get rid of. We all know we have to properly dispose of them, but what is the best way Submitted by Lone Wolf to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Native American veterans sought for ‘Words of War ...
    BOSTON – An anthropology professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston is inviting Native American veterans to participate in an anonymous online survey to track the relationships between Native American history, colonial wars, and U.S. military Submitted by Lone Wolf to Society & Culture  | ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »
  • An Evolving Afghan Policy - American Chronicle
    An Evolving Afghan Policy American Chronicle ... triumph for the forces of Islamic extremism, al-Qaeda would once again gain a foothold, and the return of the Taliban would likely destabilize Pakistan . ...
  • Schools close in Pakistan following university bom ...
    Schools close in Pakistan following university bombings Emirates Business 24/7 ... in Pakistan after suspected militants bombed a university close to the capital, sowing fear across the country as the army presses a major anti- Taliban ... and more »

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Data with a difference
    With computer server farms emerging across the world on a daily basis as we attempt to keep apace with the increasing demands of the Internet era, the arrival of a new data centre in Wiltshire shouldn't really be anything to shout about.
  • Winner of the week: Georgina Blackwell
    A 23-year-old beautician is an unlikely candidate to take on one of Britain's biggest householders, but Georgina Blackwell did not let a lack of formal legal training stand in her way when her mother was threatened with bankruptcy.
  • Russian president plans to 'alter time'
    He is no Dr Who, but Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has announced an intention to 'alter time' by reducing his country's 11 sprawling time zones.
  • Week in pictures: 9th November
    A picture for every day, taking a snapshot view of what is happening in the world around us. Come and browse through our gallery of this week's most inspiring images.
  • Oxygen-rich dead stars discovered
    British astronomers have spotted two stellar objects about the size of Earth and having atmospheres rich in oxygen. But the objects are unlikely to host any life forms because they are not planets, but "white dwarfs" - the remnants of huge stars that have used up all their nuclear fuel.

Fabius Maximus

  • One telling similarity between the the Wehrmacht a ...
    A weekend classic from the archive of the FM website, as timely today as when it was written on 10 March 2008. … “Center of Gravity versus Lines of Effort in COIN“, Herschel Smith, at the Captain’s Journal (3 March 2008) — An article well worth reading.  Thoroughly resear ...
  • FM newswire, 14 November – links to old-fash ...
    Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 5 sections, all with hot news. Links to interesting news and analysis Valuable Advice Quote of the Day News, updates to posts past on the FM website Plus, an Afterword (I)  Links to interesting news and analysis (a)  “ ...
  • Least we forget: lessons for us from the Battle of ...
    Here is another classic from the archives of the FM site, repeated every year on this date (until it no longer applies)… … On 14 November 1965 the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) flew to the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam, initiating the first major battle between the North Vietnamese and ...
  • FM newswire, 13 November – links to old-fash ...
    Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 5 sections, all with hot news. Links to interesting news and analysis News, updates to posts past on the FM website Quote of the Day, advice from the past News about themes from posts past on the FM website Note from the past â ...
  • Follow-up on America’s latest wetting our pa ...
    As was perfectly clear in September – but lost amidst America’s hysterical crying — the Iran atomic facility at Qom is not significant.  I will not embarrass anyone by providing links, but you know the stories.  The rest of the world must believe us daft, going through this again s ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • LHC to Finally Start Next Week, Again
    CERN is reporting that the Large Hadron Collider could circulate particle beams through both of its pipes in just over a week. If all goes well, the first collisions would begin soon after that. The LHC has had a rough time since it first started up in September last year. Just a week after it star ...
  • Lunar Impactor Finds Clear Evidence of Water Ice o ...
    There is water on the moon, NASA confirmed today, and lots of it. In the first look at results from the LCROSS mission, which sent a probe crashing into the Cabeus crater near the moon’s south pole, NASA’s main investigator said their instruments clearly detected water, despite the underwhelmin ...
  • New Brain Cells May Knock Out Old Memories
    Old memories may get the boot from new brain cells. A new rodent study shows that newborn neurons destabilize established connections among existing brain cells in the hippocampus, a part of the brain involved in learning and memory. Clearing old memories from the hippocampus makes way for new lear ...
  • Comet Hunter’s Last Look at Earth Is Haunting
    This gorgeous image of a blue arc of the Earth against the blackness of space was captured by the Rosetta spacecraft as it swung by our planet. The European Space Agency mission is on its way to intercept the comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The ship will deploy a lander onto the comet’s surface ...
  • Underwater Glider Hunts, Records Cryptic Whales
    The mysterious beaked whale is the target of a new undersea glider trying to track the deep-diving mammals by their high-frequency clicks and squeals. A Seaglider unmanned underwater vehicle with an underwater microphone began patrolling the coast of Hawaii on October 27 and will finish up its init ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Chinese Strateg-urrance
    Earlier this week, as he prepared to leave for Asia, President Obama called the U.S. relationship with China a “ strategic partnership .” This is a big move. The term is an upgrade from President Bush’s label “constructive and cooperative and candid” and a far cry from Bush’s ...
  • I Like Eik
    The news emanating from the White House is that President Obama is unsatisfied with the various proposals for Afghanistan policy recently submitted by his review team (each of which called for a substantial increase in the number of troops, with indefinite timelines).  He has asked the working gr ...
  • Nir Rosen’s New Take On Iraq – “An Ugly Peac ...
    In the November/December 2009 issue of the Boston Review, Nir Rosen has a piece called “An Ugly Peace.” In it, Rosen writes about the new status quo in Iraq that was created by the end of the sectarian war and the U.S. Surge, something that he was reluctant to talk about in previous articles. He ...
  • Obama's Heartening Indecision
    Odd though it may sound, I am vaguely heartened by Obama's continued indecision on Afghanistan - not for what it reveals about his foreign policy strategy for the region, but for what it says about the internal decision-making process in the White House. Specifically, what it indicates is that there ...
  • Off the Radar News Roundup
    - Good thing Greece blocked Macedonia's NATO bid in 2008. Now the Macedonian army chief of staff is in Beijing looking to improve military cooperation with China .- For that China-Taiwan MoU on banking regulation, the signature's ready, but the title it goes over is holding things up .- After Malays ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Weekend Viewing: Nostalgia Edition.
    Once again, I had the pleasure of joining Matt Lewis on Bloggingheads to talk about a few of the big issues this week -- the netroots boycott of the DNC over promises President Barack Obama made to the LGBTQ community, the Stupak-Pitts amendment , and the attack at Fort Hood. The above excerpt is ...
  • Lightning Round: Let's Not Act Decisively, Like We ...
    Perhaps the Obama administration thinks talking about reducing the deficit in next year's State of the Union address will win them political points. This is a mistake. Closing the gap between revenues and outlays can only be accomplished by taking policy initiatives that are currently very unpopula ...
  • As I'm Leaving.
    This has been a fun, challenging, educational week, and I want to thank you all for reading my posts. And of course, I appreciate The Prospect letting me write about everything from paid sick leave to Rupert Murdoch to chocolate milk. I'm sending special shout-outs to Adam , Phoebe , and most espec ...
  • Our Most 'Expensive' Citizens Can Become Our Clima ...
    In the wake of the highest unemployment rate in 25 years, The Roosevelt Institute asked historians, economists and other public thinkers to reflect on the lessons of the New Deal and explore new, big ideas for how to get America back to work. TAPPED will be cross-posting the 10-part series with the ...
  • The Left Splits Over Bagram.
    Adam Serwer asks if sending some Guantanamo detainees to Bagram is a good or bad idea: On his second day in office, President Barack Obama ordered Guantanamo Bay Prison closed by January of 2010. Since then, the administration has struggled to meet its self-imposed deadline -- Congress has blocked ...

Andy Worthington

  • An Evening with Andy Worthington, Discussing Guant ...
    As part of my US tour to promote my new documentary about Guantánamo, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash), I traveled on Sunday (after events in New York, discussed here) to Fairfax, Virginia, for a screening of the film at an event organized by t ...
  • On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses the F ...
    I was delighted to be invited to discuss Guantánamo on Democracy Now! this morning, just an hour after the story first broke that the Obama administration is preparing to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other prisoners to the US mainland to face trials in federal court for their alleged invol ...
  • Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo – ...
    Following the successful launch of the new documentary film “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” at the Cochrane Theatre, London, on October 21, 2009 – and the current mini-US tour of the film (with Andy Worthington showing it at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C. ...
  • Bringing Guantánamo To New York
    So it’s three days since I arrived in New York, at the start of a ten-day promotional tour (also taking in Washington D.C. and the Bay Area in California) to show my new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash) and to discuss Guant ...
  • Italian Judge Rules “Extraordinary Rendition ...
    In an unprecedented ruling in a courtroom in Milan, at the end of a trial that — in fits and starts — has lasted for over two years, 22 CIA agents and a US Air Force Colonel received sentences of between five and eight years (and two Italian agents received three-year sentences) for their involv ...

Buzzflash

  • Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for November 12, ...
    BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE Having worked at a VA hospital, I can honestly say not all veterans receive the full benefit healthcare that most of the American people think is provided ! Many vets are left to provide for themselves -- veterans with a service-related injury, a purple card, are the ...
  • Of Fox and MSNBC and polarized tribalism
    Body President Obama was only partly correct when, as Senator Obama, he ventured that we live not in a red America or blue America. Because, oh, how we love to dwell tribally in our red or blue cable networks and news. Tribalism -- even if, in the cases of Fox and much of MSNBC, it is st ...
  • Ohio Democratic Party Sends Letter To Sarah Palin, ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT COLUMBUS - Today, the Ohio Democratic Party sent the following letter to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, inviting her to campaign for John Kasich during her upcoming book tour stop in Columbus on November 20: November 12, 2009 The Honorable Sarah Palin 123 Tea Party Lane An ...
  • New Right Wing Ploy: Hasan's A Terrorist, Act Happ ...
    If this is the case , then why didn't they Back in 2002 get all huffy and hyper When John Allen Muhammad went on A Dubya-era spree as the DC sniper? VERSE CASE SCENARIO read more
  • Bill Berkowitz: Evangelical Christian groups spar ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Bill Berkowitz   If you think that the debate over health care reform has taken some decidedly nasty, and often unexpected, turns, just wait until the issue of immigration returns to the spotlight on Capitol Hill. Imagine rowdier Town Hall meetings and a slew of anti-im ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • The Right's textbook "surrender to terrorists"
    Understanding and Combatting Terrorism , USMC Major S.M. Grass, 1989 : Terrorism is a psychological weapon and is directed to create a general climate of fear. As one definition cogently notes, "terror is a natural phenomenon, terrorism is the conscious exploitation of it."  Terrorism utilizes ...
  • The new WH counsel and "Scooter Libby justice"
    Barack Obama, November 3, 2007, announcing presidential bid : Here's the good news - for the first time in a long time, the name George Bush will not appear on the ballot. The name Dick Cheney will not appear on the ballot. The era of Scooter Libby justice . . . will be over. The Atlantic 's ...
  • Detainees to get "the-state-always-wins" system of ...
    According to The Associated Press , Eric Holder will announce later today that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 defendants will be brought from Guantanamo to New York to stand trial, in a real criminal court, for the crimes they are accused of committing.  This is a decision I really wis ...
  • The sleazy advocacy of a leading "liberal hawk"
    The New York Times today details the unbelievably sleazy story of Peter Galbraith, one of the Democratic Party's leading so-called "liberal hawks" and a generally revered Wise Man of America's Foreign Policy Community.  He was Ambassador to Croatia under the Clinton administration in the mid-1990 ...
  • What do these religiously-motivated terrorist acts ...
    (updated below) From Haaretz , today : Alleged Jewish terrorist: I know God is pleased The Jerusalem District Prosecutor's Office on Thursday charged alleged Jewish terrorist Yaakov (Jack) Teitel with two murders, three attempted murders and other acts of violence. "It was a pleasu ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Genetically engineered heavy metal fans
    The wastewater released from industry often contains high levels of toxic heavy metals, which can kill organisms, damage ecosystems, and accumulate in the foodchain. Electroplating, lead smelting, mining, and countless other processes produce enormous volumes of such wastewater. In a perfect world, ...
  • Juggling cancer nano news
    Latest news reports from yours truly on Spectroscopynow.com Juggling matters on the brain – UK scientists have used magnetic resonance imaging to reveal that learning a complex task like juggling can causes changes in the white matter in the brain. The findings could have implications for developi ...
  • Berlin Wall falls in Australia
    Twenty years ago today, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I lay on a bed in a cramped backpackers’ hostel in the Katherine Gorge National Park (now Nitmiluk), in Australia’s Northern Territory, watching news of the fall of the Berlin Wall (now rubble). Outside insects were buzzing ferociously, the ...
  • Alchemical Anomalies
    In the current issue of The Alchemist we learn how to stick methane molecules to metals without breaking carbon-hydrogen bonds and how to make impossible carbene catalysts without the usual prerequisite of an attendant metal centre. Another seeming impossibility comes to light: a new microscopy tech ...
  • Twitter science list categories
    The manually compiled Scientwists list of science people on Twitter grew from around 100 of my contacts in January 2009 to almost 700 members, who asked to join or who retweeted the link as of October. Justin Reid helped automate the inclusion of bios and photos and 2020science did some amazing anal ...

change: org.

  • Business Groups Oppose Ban on Child and Slave-Made ...
    Rachel Maddow's choice of "you child labor-endorsing, pro-slavery freaks" to describe business groups' opposition to a bill that would ban the import of goods made by child labor or slave labor was pretty apt. However, I personally would describe the move as the most stunning display of corporate do ...
  • A Potential Lesbian Mayor in Houston has the Right ...
    History was made in Houston on Election Day 2009, when Mayoral candidate Annise Parker finished ahead of a slate of candidates to qualify for a December run-off ballot. Parker, who is currently the Houston City Controller, is also openly lesbian, and if she's elected in her run-off campaign against ...
  • Vice President Biden Responds to 19% Jump in Forec ...
    The Detroit News reported Friday that house foreclosures are up 19% over the previous month, a gut kick aided in part by rising unemployment and  an inadequate federal response to the continued crisis. If you're like me and tend to yawn a bit when you hear percentages, I strained a bit and did the ...
  • Meals on Wheels: the Future of Sustainable, Ethica ...
    What's got four wheels and is red all over? No, it's not a newspaper (fooled you — that would be "read" all over), but something else entirely. Thanks to alert reader Kristen Ridley , I bring you an answer to that question you might not expect: what's got four wheels and is red all over is the fut ...
  • Green Tech, Public Good
    I n a recent opinion piece , writer David Dickson, director and editor of the Science and Development Network ( SciDev.Net ) website and former news editor at Nature , writes the following: A widely-held myth among climate change activists is that discussing the need for improved technology to mitig ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • ACLU Demands Information About Bureau of Prisons A ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 12, 2009 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union today demanded that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) release all records in its possession related to attempts by prison officials to purge from federal prison chapel libraries any religious material arbitrarily deemed to be ...
  • Asian Pacific American Workers Among the Fastest ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 12, 2009 Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) A new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) documents a large wage and benefit advantage for Asian Pacific American (APA) workers in unions, relative to their non-union counterparts. read mo ...
  • Amnesty International Urges Obama to Not Ignore Hu ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 12, 2009 Amnesty International - USA T. Kumar, Amnesty International USA's director for international advocacy and one of the foremost experts on Asia, issued the following statement prior to President Obama's trip to Asia including attending the APEC forum in Singapor ...
  • Honduran Elections: Over 240 Academics and Experts ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 12, 2009 Latin American Experts and Academics Over 240 academics and experts on Latin America sent a letter to President Obama yesterday urging him to denounce the ongoing human rights violations perpetrated by the coup regime in Honduras ahead of the planned November ...
  • ACLU Urges US to Address Voting Rights for Minorit ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 12, 2009 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union today urged the U.S. government to address lingering obstacles to voting rights for minorities, including enforcing anti-discrimination provisions of the Voting Rights Act and eliminating barriers to vote based on crimin ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Public Media and the Decommodification of News
    by Jim Naureckas There have been various proposals to "save journalism" from the crisis brought on by digitalization. But by and large these ideas have less to do with meeting the information needs of a democratic society than with preserving the profit potential of existing media outlets. read more
  • Banks and Vaccines
    by Christopher Brauchli He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. - Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays read more
  • The Right's Textbook 'Surrender to Terrorists'
    by Glenn Greenwald Understanding and Combatting Terrorism , USMC Major S.M. Grass, 1989 : Terrorism is a psychological weapon and is directed to create a general climate of fear. As one definition cogently notes, "terror is a natural phenomenon, terrorism is the conscious exploitati ...
  • Time for Men to Make a Sacrifice
    by Katha Pollitt You know what I don't want to hear right now about the Stupak-Pitts amendment banning abortion coverage from federally subsidised health insurance policies? That it's the price of reform , and pro-choice women should shut up and take one for the team. read more
  • Twenty Years From Now, You Will Lie To Your Childr ...
    by David Michael Green Take a look at a video of George W. Bush speaking to the nation five or six years ago.  Like a pop single from 1962 (or 2002, for that matter), it didn't age very well.  It's astonishing that this transparently frightened man was the leader of the free world for eigh ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Sale of Angat does not mean a monopoly (Manila Bul ...
    The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) says the sale of Angat Dam does not mean absolute control of the water by any private corporation since government is mandated by the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) to protect water for household consumption and irrigation.
  • County considers acquiring attorney to probe harra ...
    Nye County commissioners will consider paying up to $25,000 to hire attorney Bonnie Drinkwater to investigate harrassment complaints against county staff and elected officials.
  • CHR airs view on Angat privatization (Manila Bulle ...
    The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) feared the Arroyo government could be violating two major United Nations (UN) human rights treaties if it pursues the privatization of Angat Dam. These international accords are the Convention on the Elimination on all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW ...
  • Background Note: India (Scoop.co.nz)
    Geography Area: 3.29 million sq. km. (1.27 million sq. mi.); about one-third the size of the U.S. Cities: Capital --New Delhi (pop. 12.8 million, 2001 census). Other major cities --Mumbai, formerly Bombay (16.4 million); Kolkata, formerly Calcutta ...
  • Morales favoured to earn new term (Angus Reid)
    At stake: President, National Assembly

Guardian

  • Brazil v England – live!
    Click the auto-update buton for the latest posts and email Simon.Burnton@guardian.co.uk to tell him why you care about international friendlies. Follow all today's live scores here 14mins: Brilliant Kaka run through and from midfield, but his pass is cut out on the edge of the penalty area. 13mins: ...
  • BNP summit backs membership vote
    BNP delegates vote 'overwhelmingly' in favour of party-wide ballot on whether to allow non-white people to join The British National party's senior members have voted "overwhelmingly" in favour of holding a party-wide ballot on whether to allow non-white people to join. The party agreed to a court o ...
  • Calorie count could rise by a burger
    Committee says recommended adult daily calorie intake could be increased by 16%, or up to 400 calories a day Slimmers struggling to control their junk food cravings may be able to enjoy a few more fatty or sugary treats without guilt, as the calorie counts used as the basis for diets and healthy-eat ...
  • Girl sneezes up to 10 times a minute
    12-year-old Lauren Johnson from Virginia, US, is unable to stop sneezing and has doctors baffled as to why
  • Music Weekly: Mumford and Sons
    Today's fresh instalment of Music Weekly features a band who we've developed rather a liking for over the last few months: Mumford and Sons. The London-based four-piece join Rosie Swash in the studio to talk about their place in the so-called "new folk" scene, their love of John Steinbeck and how it ...

Diigo | Green Community

  • U.N. Talks in Spain Seek to Salvage Climate Deal
    Climate negotiators from 175 nations meet in Spain next week for a final session to try to break deadlock between rich and poor and salvage a U.N. deal due in Copenhagen in December. Comments: Climate negotiators from 175 nations meet in Spain next week for a final session to try to break deadlock b ...
  • EU Agrees Final Stance For Copenhagen Climate Talk ...
    European Union leaders agreed an offer Friday to put on the table at global climate talks in Copenhagen in December after healing a rift over how to split the bill. Comments: European Union leaders agreed an offer Friday to put on the table at global climate talks in Copenhagen in December after hea ...
  • French Firm Pushes Carbon Capture Solution at us C ...
    Eyeing lucrative markets in China, India and beyond, French firm Alstom on Friday unveiled the world's largest carbon capture facility at a coal plant -- a technology backers hope will fuel a new multi-billion dollar industry and keep the coal industry alive. Comments: Eyeing lucrative markets in Ch ...
  • S.Africa's Tutu criticizes world leaders on climat ...
    Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu criticized European Union leaders on Friday for standing in the way of a global deal to combat climate change. Comments: Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu criticized European Union leaders on Friday for standing in the way of a global deal to combat climate change. ...
  • Will U.S. go empty-handed to world climate talks?
    Without a new law requiring cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. could end up going empty-handed to the international climate talks in December. Comments: Without a new law requiring cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. could end up going empty-handed to the international climate talks i ...

Electronic Intifada

  • A glimmer of hope
    While the Obama Administration proved twice recently that it intends to continue to consider Israel above the law, there is a glimmer of hope that the people of Gaza will see justice. The massacre bro ...
  • Report: The economic toll on Gaza after Israel's a ...
    The Israeli military offensive against the Gaza Strip last winter was the most violent and deadly offensive by Israel since the second intifada began. A new report by The Alternative Information Cente ...
  • Palestinian students at Israeli universities suppo ...
    We are Arab students at the Israeli universities writing to you in support of the proposed academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions. We believe that the boycott is timely and hopefully ...
  • Goldstone report met with muted enthusiasm in Gaza
    Tareq Abu Daya, owner of a popular souvenir shop in the heart of Gaza City, has recently offered his customers a new kuffiyeh , or traditional checkered scarf, on which the name of Judge Richard Golds ...
  • Palestinians symbolically dismantle sections of th ...
    Two decades after the fall of the Berlin wall, walls of separation still exist throughout the world. Israel's wall in the West Bank is much bigger than the Berlin wall ever was, as it encloses more th ...

CS Monitor - News

  • October 16, 2009
    The UN Human Rights Council votes to adopt the Goldstone Report on Israel's military incursion into Gaza.
  • October 19, 2009
    Saudi Arabia is wary of terrorists, especially from neighboring states.
  • October 20, 2009
    How some TV insiders view parents and children on reality television.
  • October 21, 2009
    How African Anglicans might respond to the Vatican's offer.
  • October 23, 2009
    US-China economic relations, Microsoft and Wall Street, and September home sales.

The Wonk Room

  • The Board Of The ‘Voice Of Business’ I ...
    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which purports to be “the voice of business,” is run by a Republican money machine. As the nation’s largest lobbying shop, the Chamber is spending millions of dollars from its corporate members against President Obama’s progressive agenda of health care, energy, ...
  • Napolitano Says ‘Our Hands Are Tied’ W ...
    Yesterday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano made the case for enactment of comprehensive immigration reform at the an event hosted by the Center for American Progress. One topic that Napolitano did not touch on during her speech is the plight of young undocumented im ...
  • Casey Hints He Will Oppose The Stupak Amendment
    The Pittsburgh Post Gazette is reporting that Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), a pro-life leader in the Senate, will likely oppose the Stupak abortion amendment. Casey’s office issued a press statement clarifying that the Senator supports preserving the status quo on abortion coverage: Senator Casey has b ...
  • The Only Thing That Can Destroy Us Is The Terror-I ...
    In light of the conservative meltdown over the Obama administration’s decision to bring the 9/11 plotters to trial in New York, I think it’s worth revisiting this October 2007 Colin Powell interview, in which the retired four-star general and former Secretary of State said that one of the best w ...
  • Wall Street Enlists Murdoch’s News Corp. In ...
    Yesterday, Bloomberg News reported that seven Wall Street lobbyists “trooped to Capitol Hill,” in an attempt to talk Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) out of proposing legislation that would allow the government to break up any financial firm deemed systemically risky. According to Bloomberg, the lobby ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Meet General Karl W. Eikenberry
    From Patrick Cockbourn at CounterPunch.Org, we get a blistering criticism of the Afghan government, including my first hearing of retired general Karl W. Eikenberry: In a leaked cable to Washington sent last week, the US ambassador to Afghanistan, Gen Karl W. Eikenberry, argues that it would be a mi ...
  • Obama's Bankruptcy
    From an excellent article by Alan Nasser: " Dubious Economics: Obama's Recovery Plan and the Median Wage Earner " -- It's an excellent article and I just want to point out a couple of things. First, Obama justifying US taxpayers bailing out the banks while taxpayers themselves are being put throug ...
  • Differences Between Today and the Great Depression
    Anyone who thinks this crisis is past us is dreaming in technicolour. The root causes of the "Great Recession" remain: the real economy has been squeezed almost to the limit, and the financial sector remains an unbalanced balloon stretched so thin that it can be burst by the tiniest of pin pricks. ...
  • Clarifying Things (For Right-Wing Idjits)
    When critics of "Canada's Worst Government" point to things like diplomat Richard Colvin's SIXTEEN memos from Kabul , outlining his concerns about the torture of our prisoners in the Afghan prison system, and demand AN INVESTIGATION into the government's complicity in WAR CRIMES, that's not the same ...
  • Cell Doors Slamming Shut
    For good ol' stephen harper . That's an idea that puts a spring in my step. Oh yeah. And for Paul Martin and Pierre Pettigrew. Stockwell Day. Gordon O'Connor. Lawrence Cannon. Peter MacKay. Rick Hillier. And any other doofus who got Canada into a dirty little war in Afghanistan. Forcing Can ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: Dear Prudence, Won't You Come ...
    by Brian Pretti. "For years now, I have been focused on the macro theme of the credit cycle in all its wonderful glory quite intently. For those reading the discussions over the years, you’d probably characterize it as focused “to a fault.” Again and again during the current decade I asked, is ...
  • Slow Down… or Else
    by David Galland. "Given the limited revenue-raising options, erosion of property and sales tax bases, and a general distaste for tax increases by the public, local policy makers are under increased pressures to find alternative revenue sources (Tannenwald 2001; Crain 2003; Brunori 2006)."
  • Correction Doesn't Happen
    by Carl Swenlin. "After the S&P 500 broke down from the rising wedge pattern I expected that prices would continue to head lower into a 20-Week Cycle low at the end of this month. But no. Instead prices rallied back above the rising trend line which formed the bottom of the wedge."
  • Ganesha and the Price of Gold
    by Ron Hera. "The fact that investors around the world are turning to gold is remarkable. Unlike a bond, stored gold offers no yield and, unlike a stock, gold provides no leverage to the performance of an enterprise."
  • The I.M.F. sold 200 tonnes to India, a new announc ...
    by Julian Phillips. "We have been prepped for this for so long now. It seems that the [concocted] cloud from the expected I.M.F. gold sales has been a threat to the gold price, for years. Now the clouds of speculation are being blown away and reality is presenting itself in a way never expected ...

on Government Oversight

  • Poor Government Management of Contracts Risks Bill ...
    The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently updated its bi-annual report to Congress on its High-Risk Program, which highlights areas of government that are at high risk for waste, fraud, or abuse. Of the five problems highlighted, the failure to manage...
  • Boeing: Flying High in the Friendly Export Subsidi ...
    A new study by the Pew Charitable Trusts shows that more than 60 percent of Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) loan guarantees over the last two years has disproportionately benefited one of the top companies in POGO’s Federal...
  • POGO Addresses Contractors' Role in Inspector Gene ...
    In a letter to the chair of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, POGO today clarified our recommendation that the intake function of an Inspector General’s hotline should be staffed by federal employees rather than contractors, which...
  • Morning Smoke: SIGTARP Says Bailout Will Almost Ce ...
    Barofsky Says TARP 'Almost Certainly' Will Bring Loss to U.S. [Bloomberg] Gates to War Strategy Leakers: STFU [Danger Room] Defense secretary praises Oshkosh [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel] McCain Questions KC-X Process [Air Force Magazine] How Credit Raters Fended Off Oversight From...
  • Morning Smoke: Whistleblower Claims Lockheed Knowi ...
    Ex-Lockheed engineer claims F-22 tech 'defective' [The Washington Post] Defense wants watchdogs to play nice [Federal Times] Obama Needs More Time to Find Fannie, Freddie Agency Inspector [Bloomberg] FDA Shouldn't Outsource Antibiotic Decisions [Pharmalot] White House push to reduce contractors...

    Blacklisted News

  • Bomb hits Pakistan's spy agency in northwest
    A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan 's main spy agency building in the northwest Friday, killing at least 7 people and striking at the heart of the institution overseeing much of the country's anti-terror campaign.
  • Copenhagen Agreement on Climate Change–Beginning ...
    In order to fulfill this shared vision, Parties have agreed to establish a coherent, cohesive and integrated system of financial and technology transfer mechanisms under the Convention and a follow up/compliance mechanism.
  • U.S. and Colombia bases deal signed, but what are ...
    After several months of secrecy and controversy, on October 28th the US and Colombia signed an agreement to allow the US military extensive access to seven Colombian bases, notwithstanding serious concerns about true intentions and eventual consequences.
  • Jesuit University professor cheerleads “evolutio ...
    Law Professor Trains Eye on Evolution of International Governance
  • VeriChip buys Steel Vault, changes name to “Posi ...

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Innovation Canada

  • Building better bridges
    (Reprinted with permission from ResearchLife, Summer 2009 issue, University of Manitoba, umanitoba.ca/research) It was 1952 when Aftab Mufti, a 12-year-old boy living in Karachi, Pakistan, began building bridges. His mother planted a vegetable garden that summer and to help her water it Aftab and hi ...
  • Viral control
    Depending on whom you ask, the H1N1 flu virus that is making its way around the globe could be anything from a particularly virulent form of influenza to the next worldwide pandemic. As virologists scramble to understand the virus and develop vaccines against it, a Halifax facility is already on the ...
  • Fear factor
    Let’s say you’re wandering through a deserted alley late one foggy October night. You turn a corner, and lo and behold, you’re surrounded by a crowd of brain-thirsty zombies. Your pulse quickens, your amygdala fires, your respiration is off the charts. You try to run, but you trip and fall. As ...
  • Fuels of the future?
    A recession-related dip in flight demand might actually be considered a green blessing. Just a small one, mind you. The David Suzuki Foundation estimates that aviation is responsible for up to nine percent of the total global climate-change  impact of human activity, so it would take a huge drop to ...
  • i2eye with Bif Naked
    The last few years have been a roller-coaster ride for Bif Naked. After two years of touring, TV work and datelessness following her 2005 album Superbeautifulmonster, the Vancouver-based alt-rock singer-songwriter — whose real name is Beth Walker — met and married her husband, sportswriter Ian W ...

Signs of the times

  • Undetected autism in women manifests as anorexia n ...
    According to a leading expert, severe cases of anorexia may be the result of undetected autism in women. Professor Christopher Gillberg, of the University of Strathclyde, says that autism, characterised by defects in communication and social interaction, also makes many anorexic patients unresponsi ...
  • FLASHBACK: Bigfoot creature photographed in Sierra ...
    The Bigfoot creature may have been captured on a remote trail camera placed in the Sierra National Forest, based on photography evidence released by Sanger Paranormal Society. Investigator Jeffrey Gonzalez said Tuesday night that multiple cameras were put in place in this remote area on Memorial Da ...
  • Obama's swelling ego
    PRESIDENT OBAMA was too busy to attend the celebrations in Germany this week marking the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. But he did appear by video, delivering a few brief and bloodless remarks about how the wall was "a painful barrier between family and friends'' that symbolized "a system th ...
  • Alleged Jewish terrorist: I know God is pleased
    The Jerusalem District Prosecutor's Office on Thursday charged alleged Jewish terrorist Yaakov (Jack) Teitel with two murders, three attempted murders and other acts of violence. "It was a pleasure and an honor to serve my God," said Teitel at the Jerusalem courthouse. "I have no regret and no doub ...
  • Palestinian killed on Gaza border
    Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian man, and wounded another, near a border crossing with Gaza. Gazan medics said they retrieved the body of a 16-year-old boy, who they described as an unarmed civilian, near the Karni crossing. The Israeli military said they would investigate the incident ...

Threat Level

  • Judge Sides With RIAA in ‘Sham’ Litigation Cla ...
    A judge has dealt a major blow to a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging the Recording Industry Association of America’s nearly 6-year-old courthouse campaign against file sharers amounted to nothing more than “sham” litigation. The judge ruled that the RIAA has the right to bring civil laws ...
  • Hackers Post Private E-mails of Historian and Accu ...
    A group identifying themselves as “anti-fascist hackers” broke into the web site and AOL e-mail account of controversial British historian and accused Holocaust-denier David Irving and obtained his private communications as well as attendee lists for his current U.S. speaking tour. The hackers p ...
  • Court Silences CIA Operative Despite Yellowcake Sc ...
    Valerie Plame Wilson cannot publicize details of her work as a CIA operative, even though a government official already outed her as an agent in an attempt to discredit her husband, Joseph C. Wilson, a federal appeals court says. Plame Wilson, who served as chief of the unit responsible for weapons ...
  • Madoff Coders Charged With Aiding Massive Ponzi Sc ...
    Two programmers who worked for convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff have been arrested and charged with providing technical support for the massive Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of an estimated $65 billion. Jerome O’Hara, 46, and George Perez, 43, were arrested Friday morning and charged wi ...
  • Bush Concerned Successor Might Revoke Telco Spy Im ...
    The George W. Bush administration expressed concern future administrations might not use the legal amnesty it wanted to give the nation’s telecommunication companies that were being sued for assisting the president’s warrantless, electronic wiretapping program, according to internal documents re ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Hutchison and the Republican Hypocrisy on Term Lim ...
    Among the most recycled quotes on this web site is Karl Marx's old chestnut that historical events occur twice, first as tragedy and then as farce. And so it is with the latest cynical Republican call for Congressional term limits....
  • Take the Palin-Prejean Challenge!
    Karl Marx famously said that historical events occur twice, first as tragedy and then as farce. And so it is with Carrie Prejean, the second coming of Sarah Palin. Like Palin, Prejean is a former beauty pageant contestant turned conservative...
  • Veterans Day Reflections
    This Veterans Day is an especially painful reminder of the immeasurable sacrifices American military men and women make every day to protect our nation. Even as tens of thousands of U.S. troops remain in Iraq and thousands more are poised...
  • Keeping Extremisms Out of the U.S. Military
    Revelations that the FBI, the Pentagon and even his medical colleagues were aware of Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Malik Hasan's extremist ideology have raised serious questions about the U.S. military's ability to screen, monitor and remove dangerous personnel from...
  • For Midterms, Republicans Hope to Party Like It's ...
    As Politico reported Monday, Republicans in the wake of Saturday's cliff-hanger health care vote in the House immediately began their campaign to target vulnerable Democrats in traditionally GOP districts. But for a Republican Party looking to retake the House of...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Noam Chomsky on Cindy Sheehans Soapbox (clip)
    with Cindy SheehanFeatured WriterDandelion SaladCindy Sheehans Soapbox BlogCindy Sheehans SoapboxNov. 14, 2009Tune into the show tomorrow, Sunday at 2 PM Pacific (on the website).Here’s a short clip:cindyforcongressNovember 14, 2009more about “Noam Chomsky on Cindy Sheehan’s Soapb…“, poste ...
  • Lawsuit Accuses WSUs Murrow College of Violating J ...
    Dandelion SaladSent to DS from Walter Brasch.SPOKANE, Wash. (Spectrum Features Syndicate)For Release Wednesday, October 24, 2009A Washington State University journalism professor Wednesday (Oct. 28) filed a federal lawsuit against four administrators at his university who, he says, violated his Firs ...
  • Lou Dobbs Is History at CNN ... Now What?
    Will we be seeing more Latino executives, anchors, commentators, contributors, and producers at CNN?
  • British Authorities Probing New Claims Soldiers To ...
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  • National Security Letters, the Deceitful Media & t ...
    by Sibel EdmondsFeatured WriterDandelion Saladoriginally published by Boiling Frogs Post14 November 2009National Security Letters, the Deceitful Media & the Convergence of InterestsThis week we interviewed Mike Klein, the AT&T whistleblower; the interview should be posted in 3 or 4 weeks. I know you ...

Consortium News

  • The October Surprise Crystal Balls
    A sub-plot of the 1980 October Surprise mystery is how some Reaganites foresaw the U.S. hostage release, says Robert Parry. November 13, 2009
  • The Real Thanksgiving Day
    Pleasant myths obscure the thankless behavior of the Pilgrims toward the Indians who saved them, says William Loren Katz. November 12, 2009
  • Another Option for the Public Option
    There might be a way to set a trigger for a stronger health-insurance public option starting in 2013, says Robert Parry. November 12, 2009
  • Why the Blase Attitude about Torture
    Ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern confronted a personal crisis when his old agency signed up for Bush/Cheney torture policies. November 11, 2009
  • Rev. Moon's Troubled Generation Next
    The right-wing Washington Times is caught up in the messy succession for Rev. Sun Myung Moon's empire, reports Robert Parry. November 11, 2009

CounterPunch

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TruthHugger

  • To Dave Cashin Re: Proselytizing
    To Dave Cashin Re: General Order Number One, Forbid Proselytizing Before I answer all of Dave’s points, I will say that Humanitarian Missionary work has achieved wonderful results by helping people through hunger, poverty, education and displacement.  Whether they are victims of war or natural di ...
  • Texas Progressive Alliance November 9, 2009
    The Texas Progressive Alliance hopes everyone had a happy Election Day last week, and is already looking forward to the next one. Here are this week’s highlights. TXsharon continues to report from a backyard in the Barnett Shale. Despite all the local and national press on drilling related toxins ...
  • Health Care and The Brick Wall
    So, the wellness party is short lived.  The Senate is drunk with its own power … regardless of the fact there are millions  in health care distress.  Senators are so busy posturing in front of cameras, to get elected.  They continue to sabotage the current administration, ignoring mill ...
  • Hooray for the House
    Let me ‘dis’ the local Austin news media.  The 10PM news still says congress is still debating and repeats old news.  CSPAN shows the vote passed at 8:15PM.  Austin still lives in a bubble.  We are very well versed about the Texas football dramas and Austin icon Leslie,  but US ne ...
  • The Economics of Polarization Focus on Nadal Malik ...
    American media is focusing on Hasan's religion more than the cause for his meltdown. Tragedies don't JUST happen.

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Unexplained Mysteries

  • 30th anniversary of West Lothian UFO case
    30 years ago this week Bob Taylor had a remarkable encounter with a UFO in the woods near Livingston where he came across a strange object in a cl...
  • Finding signatures of consciousness
    Scientists working on determining the intricacies of human consciousness have found the telltale signature using brain scans which may one day hel...
  • Are the oceans made from comets ?
    Earth's oceans may not have been formed as the result of vapors emitted during early volcanism but may have instead been created from the impact o...
  • Moon-bombing mission finds water
    NASA have reported that their LCROSS moon-bombing mission in which a probe impacted the lunar surface back on October 9th was successful in locati...
  • Police worker fired for backing psychics
    A police trainer in the UK is claiming he is the victim of religious discrimination after being sacked from his job for claiming that psychics sho...

Grassroots

  • Climate change and violence in Mexico
    mexico200601-003.JPG Cab drivers are often a good source of news information, or at least a good barometer of public opinion. Such was the case when I finally arrived in Mexico City this afternoon for visits with Grassroots International’s p ...
  • Climate change in Mexico
    mexico200601-003.JPG Cab drivers are often a good source of news information, or at least a good barometer of public opinion. Such was the case when I finally arrived in Mexico City this afternoon for visits with Grassroots International’s p ...
  • "The wall will fall in Bil’in; the wall will fal ...
    ME001_976.jpg   The fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago today was an epic event that literally changed the course of history. As many people in the international community celebrate what happened in Germany, today is also a painful reminder t ...
  • Grassroots International Signs Statement to Eradic ...
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  • The U.S. Can Still Do the Right Thing in Honduras
    Honduras_detenidos_22_Sept.JPG Despite a press release from the office of Senator Jim DeMint yesterday evening declaring that he has secured a commitment from the Obama Administration to recognize the Nov. 29th elections in Honduras regardless ...

Climate

  • November 13, 2009
    US Weighs Backing Interim Global Climate Deal (Washington Post) Backing an interim agreement based on “political commitments” to cut greenhouse gas emissions rather than legally binding ones would be an attempt to keep the talks from being viewed a failure. UN Official: Climate Deal Needs ...
  • November 12, 2009
    China Mulls Emissions Reduction Goal for First Time (China Daily) China should aim to reduce its carbon intensity by 4 or 5 percent a year if it is to achieve its goal of low-carbon development by 2050, a leading Chinese environmental think tank says. State media describes it as a first. Clinto ...
  • November 11, 2009
    EPA: Dangerous Mercury Levels Found in Fish in Half of US Lakes (AP) Fish in 49% of U.S. lakes and reservoirs contain potentially harmful levels of mercury, the EPA found in a new study. The Obama administration is working on new regulations for mercury emissions from power plants. Climate Take ...
  • November 10, 2009
    IEA: Fossil Fuel Use Must Peak by 2020 (Financial Times) The International Energy Agency warned as it released its World Energy Outlook report today that the world’s use of fossil fuels will have to peak by 2020 if it is to escape a dangerous spike in global temperatures. Climate Breakthroug ...
  • November 9, 2009
    Climate Rift Grows Between US, Poor Nations (NPR) As the world prepares for crucial climate-change talks in Copenhagen next month, there is a growing rift between the United States and some of the world's poorest nations. The gap grew wider this past week, at the final official pre-Copenhagen tal ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Surveillance State, U.S.A.
    Wars come home in strange, unnerving ways -- as Americans have just discovered at Fort Hood. Even before Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on his killing spree, that base, a major military embarkation point for our war zones, was already experiencing the after-effects of eight years of war and repeate ...
  • Tomgram: Droning On
    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers : A number of you have recently written in for clarification on contributing to this site through your purchases at Amazon.com. Here's my best shot at a useful explanation: If you click on any book image at this site -- like the book-cover image of The End of Vict ...
  • Tomgram: Jamail and Lazare, Who Will Be Sent to A ...
    In a grim November 3rd Wall Street Journal piece (buried inside the paper), Yochi Dreazen reported record suicide rates for a stressed-out U.S. Army. Sixteen soldiers killed themselves in October alone, 134 so far this year, essentially ensuring that last year's "record" of 140 suicides will be b ...
  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, In Afghanistan, the Pentagon ...
    In our day, the American way of war, especially against lightly armed guerrillas, insurgents, and terrorists, has proved remarkably heavy. Elephantine might be the appropriate word. The Pentagon likes to talk about its "footprint" on the geopolitical landscape. In terms of the infrastructure it ...
  • Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, Why Your Child May N ...
    This week, the Obama White House released a very partial record of those who had visited since January 20, 2009. This it hailed as "transparency like you've never seen it before" and as the beginning of a new White House visitor transparency policy. Unfortunately, the policy applies mainly to po ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?
    Both politically and economically, it's absolutely idiotic for White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to float the idea of massive social spending cuts right now. If the Great Depression taught us anything, it is that slashing spending in the name of deficit reduction is a great way to exacerbate a ...
  • Don't Believe Everything the Oracle Tells You
    ATHENS, GREECE -- Last Sunday, we visited the ruins of ancient Delphi, two hours or so from here in the Greek capital, an extraordinary site at the base of Mount Parnassus overlooking the Pleistos Valley, almost half a mile below. You could see the acres of olive trees there. The Ionian Sea shimmere ...
  • The October Surprise Crystal Balls
    In fall 1980, as President Jimmy Carter struggled to free 52 American hostages in Iran and as American voters focused on a crossroads election, key supporters of Republican candidate Ronald Reagan were confident not only of Reagan’s victory but that the hostages wouldn’t be released until after ...
  • If the Congressional Progressive Caucus Were Progr ...
    The Congressional Progressive Caucus has 82 members, 81 in the House and 1 in the Senate, but has taken the anti-progressive onslaught of recent years lying down. The CPC can be counted on to say some pleasant things, but in the end 1 or 2 or 8 or 14 of its members will vote a progressive position. ...
  • Lou Dobbs Returns to His Planet; 'My Work Here is ...
    NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - Controversial CNN host Lou Dobbs bade the people of Earth farewell today as he embarked on a long voyage back to his planet of origin. Standing on a launching pad with his rocket ship at the ready, Mr. Dobbs addressed a crowd of dozens who came to wish him a safe tri ...

Ten Percent

Paul Krugman

  • It's the stupidity economy
    Bad ideas are acting as serious constraints on policy.
  • Fiscal perspective
    The economy desperately needs more help -- and yes, we can afford to provide it.
  • Lou Dobbs
    Until now it really has seemed as if there was nothing, nothing at all, that someone on the right could say and do that would make them unacceptable in polite company.
  • Goodbye, Mr. TIPS?
    Puzzling interest rate movements.
  • The agony of Fox Business
    The economy just refuses to punish liberals and reward conservatives the way it's supposed to.

No Quarter

  • No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doy ...
    Our global economic landscape continues to present new twists, turns, peaks, valleys, and challenges. There are those who believe we are in the midst of a V-shaped recovery, while others see the next Great Depression right around the corner. What is one to do? Where can one turn to make sense of it ...
  • To NARAL, NOW, Ms Magazine, Emily’s List, all Cl ...
    (Bumped up from Saturday morning.) ARE YOU SURE????????????? There’s a little gift waiting for all of you for endorsing Barack Obama. Congratulations, the misogyny is about to complete itself. Start hauling all the water all over again. My generation did it once for you and you let it all be wh ...
  • Big Apple GITMO Torture
      Torture Debate.   The Obama administration decision just announced to transfer 9-11 Devil KSM to New York to stand trial for mass murder in a Federal court looks to be laden with risks.  The Justice Department states that it will seek the death penalty.  Right away, how does KSM get [...]
  • To NARAL, NOW, Ms Magazine, Emily’s List, all Cl ...
    ARE YOU SURE????????????? There’s a little gift waiting for all of you for endorsing Barack Obama. Congratulations, the misogyny is about to complete itself. Start hauling all the water all over again. My generation did it once for you and you let it all be whittled down. It started with things ...
  • Was Adolf Eichmann a Terrorist?
    (Bumped up from Friday evening.) Does it matter what we call someone? Is terminology essential for taking action against someone responsible for a monstrous crime? I confess I’m amused by the furor over whether to label Major Nidal Hasan a “terrorist.” But so what? If call him a terrorist ...

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Global Elite

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  • Murs and Slug: Felt 3 is recommended immediately!
    It's time to listen - embedded flash player- Felt 3 is here. There was one track on the Current earlier tonight. Don't miss this. Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez drops soon... http://www.myspace.com/mursandslug Protagonists: Murs: "So fly should have been in Starfleet". This is it!
  • The Vortex or authoritarian Singularity
    Sorry there have been some tech glitches precluding me from posting more lately. But also a lot of neat things in the works :-) In response to The Agonist thread on 8 Thoughts on 2040 : Among the Kurzweil set there is a lot of happy talk about a Singularity describing a point where the rate of ch ...
  • Collapse, conspiracy, concern trolling, commidifie ...
    "I have heard much of the nefarious, and dangerous plan, and doctrines of the Illuminati, but never saw the Book until you were pleased to send it to me." "It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On t ...
  • The new Boiling Frogs Post/Sibel Edmonds site; Joh ...
    Sibel Edmonds & co have set up a new website called Boiling Frogs Post and they're going to be looking at a lot of shady stuff. The podcasts that have been going for a while have been really good & detailed material from whistleblowers and journalists about what's going on. [BTW here is a good recen ...
  • Ooky spooky Soviet bioscience: 1940 Soviet Zombie ...
    In all likelihood this Soviet propaganda video is fake, but it has a Zombie Dog head. I gotta say they should have had a better angle at the dog head, but it does kinda look real. Via this list of 25 scariest scientific experiments on io9.com. Tuskegee, Mengele and Unit 731 are all noted in the rund ...

Daily Censored

  • DC Catholic Archdiocese-What would Jesus do?
    Washington DC is in the process of passing same sex marriage legislation. This legislation would prevent any organization that takes money from the city from discriminating against gay people who are married under the new law. Significantly, employers who take money from the city must provide bene ...
  • The US as Aging Prize Fighter: The US Capitalist C ...
    One hundred years ago (November, 1909), the famous American author Jack London, wrote a short story called “A Piece of Steak.” In it, an aging prize fighter climbs into the ring one last time. In his prime, this fighter was able to overwhelm his opponents with his strength and speed. Over the y ...
  • Welcome Amy Goodman. Now, Let’s Speak Some Truth ...
    The title of this essay may seem a bit presumptuous. After all, since when did the left-wing come to any “power” in American society? In fact, they have not ascended to any level of power, except in regard to their own internal left-wing communities. That is the intended examination here: to see ...
  • THE HASAN POWERPOINT: POINTING TO A RADICAL ISLAMI ...
    THE HASAN POWERPOINT: POINTING TO A RADICAL ISLAMIC THREAT WITHIN THE MILITARY, OR POINTING TO HIMSELF? The Hasan PowerPoint makes for interesting reading. It is 50 slides long and was apparently to be used, as with most PowerPoint presentations, in conjunction with an oral presentation. Given the c ...
  • How We Got to Zero: General Eikenberry’s Hail M ...
    Michael Collins U.S. Afghan Envoy Urges Caution on Troop Increase “WASHINGTON — The United States ambassador to Afghanistan, who once served as the top American military commander there, has expressed in writing his reservations about deploying additional troops to the country, three senio ...

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Godspace

  • Pee To Help Your Garden Grow
    Ever wondered what the missing ingredient in your compost pile was?  Here is an article I just could not resist sharing.  I thought that all my male gardening friends in particular would be interested.   Evidently peeing on the garden is a great way to contribute to the compost pile and saves wat ...
  • A Week To Remember
    This has been a busy but wonderful week. Wednesday evening we held a conversation on Turbulent Times Ready or Not, what we believe will be the first of many conversations focusing on future trends.  A group of 25 people crammed into our living room at the Mustard Seed House to hear Phil Bauntrager, ...
  • Inspiration from Geez Magazine: Neo Monasticism al ...
    Our good friend, community member and colleague Eliacin Rosario Cruz has just written a thought provoking response to an article published in Geez Magazine – one of my favourite publications.  The original article Changing the Story of Change, raises some important issues. Hosting visiting grou ...
  • My God My Rope
    While Tom & I were in Australia I had a number of opportunities to conduct my seminar Rhythms of Grace. As part of this I always get people to reflect on everyday events and encourage them to write a prayer that reflects how they have encountered God in the midst of that activity.  Here is [...]
  • Is There Life After College?
    I thought that some of you might be interested in these offerings from our time at Eastern Mennonite University. The first is an article that appeared in the Mennonite Weekly Review – Hard Times Offer Chance to Help More The second is a podcast of our address at EMU – New Possibilities for Life ...

Equality Trust

  • Thinking Allowed: Is an unequal society bad for yo ...
    Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4, broadcast Wednesday 16th July and available to Listen Again for 7 days . Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society works. Research has shown that health and social problems become more acute in an unequal society, where the gap between the ri ...
  • Beware the liberal drift. Equality, always
    Read Labour MP John Cruddas' comment piece in the Guardian. Which way forward for the left? We must tackle society's glaring wealth and income inequalities.
  • The Spirit Level - recommended holiday reading
    The Spirit Level has been picked by the Guardian as one of their best summer reads . The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (Allen Lane, £20) For anyone whose morale has been sapped by all the recent revelations of greed and di ...
  • Richard Wilkinson among social experts analysing C ...
    David Cameron's speech on poverty, the state and the mass engagement of a new generation of community activists on Tuesday set the direction of travel under a Conservative government. In the Guardian today a panel of social experts analyse the Tory leader's key points. Prof Richard Wilkinson, Direc ...
  • Social mobility and political inertia
    Ekklesia's Associate Director Symon Hill writes about the need for social and economic egalitarianism.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #0184
    Rumors of joint US-Israel-Egypt-Jordan spy meeting. Germany won't prosecute suspect in Litvinenko murder. FBI charged terrorism suspect after trying to recruit him.
  • News you may have missed #0183
    Did US Rep. Hoekstra compromise a secret NSA spy program? Blog requests readers' help to examine released documents. An opportunity in Cuba for CIA field agents?
  • Suspected IRA militant charged in undercover agent ...
    A man suspected by British authorities to be a former member of the Irish Republican Army has been charged with participating in the killing of a British army undercover agent, who tried to infiltrate the IRA in the 1970s.
  • News you may have missed #0182
    China to keep Rio Tinto boss in prison. Czech spy agency objects to outing Cold War agents. Iran reportedly creates new domestic spy agency.
  • CIA reportedly wins turf battle with DNI office
    The CIA has reportedly won a turf battle with the office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), after the White House came down in support of the CIA position on Thursday.

After Downing Street.org

  • Afghanistan: All About The Pipeline

  • Camus, Ideology, and the Will to Power
    Camus, Ideology, and the Will to Power By Wade Lee Hudson | Charter for Compassion Shortly after the end of World War Two, Albert Camus published "Neither Victim nor Executioner" in Combat, the magazine he edited for the French Resistance. This remarkable series of essays addressed key moral ques ...
  • Barack Obama DOES NOT Speak For Me
    Barack Obama DOES NOT Speak For Me By Cindy Sheehan | Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox I was facilitating a meeting in Washington, DC this past weekend, and an Iraq “War” veteran claimed that the GI resistance movement ended the Vietnam War. I started to say that I was sure that the GI movement was a p ...
  • Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to A ...

  • Pentagon's Global Reach: Around The World In 12 Da ...
    Pentagon's Global Reach: Around The World In 12 Days Rick Rozoff | Stop NATO | Blog site On January 20 a changing of the guard occurred in the United States White House with two-term president George W. Bush being replaced by former freshman senator Barack Obama. Bush had continued the policies of ...

Grist - News

  • Europe places outcome of Copenhagen squarely on Ob ...
    by Brendan DeMelle The chief negotiator for the European Commission announced this afternoon in Barcelona that the failure of the U.S. Congress to pass legislation before December has doomed the chances for success in Copenhagen . A climate protest at the Barcelona talks: World leaders with \'big ...
  • Cash for Clunkers brought us ... more clunkers!
    by Jonathan Hiskes So how did Cash for Clunkers work out from an environmental standpoint? You don’t want to know. The $3 billion federal program was kinda sorta supposed to send inefficient, high-polluting, belchy vehicles to an early grave. Instead it put a lot of new large, inefficient vehicle ...
  • Senate Democrats push climate bill through committ ...
    by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats on Thursday pushed through a sweeping climate change bill, maneuvering an end-run around opposition Republicans who continued their boycott of deliberations. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved the Kerry-Boxer bill by a v ...
  • Why developing countries cannot afford failure in ...
    by Brendan DeMelle The African delegation insisted today in Barcelona that its decision to walk out on negotiations Tuesday was necessary in order to jolt the intransigent European Union and other developed nations to move forward with serious discussions, rather than obstruct progress by bringing ...
  • U.S. puts onus on China for climate deal
    by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON - The United States will not agree to targets cutting greenhouse-gas emissions unless developing countries, particularly China, make similar moves, U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern warned Wednesday. "No country holds the fate of the Earth in its hands more than China ...

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Washington Independent

  • What’s the Point of Those Military Commissio ...
    Yesterday’s announcement that the Obama administration will try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 suspects in federal court has been hailed as everything from “an important step forward for justice” by Human Rights Watch) to “a step backwards for the security of our country [that] ...
  • Experts: CHIP Repeal Threatens Kids’ Care
    Health policy experts warn the Democrats' proposal to terminate the Children’s Health Insurance Program would hike health care costs for low-income families and increase the number of uninsured kids.
  • 2010 GOP Challenger ‘Very Disappointed&#8217 ...
    I just talked to Mike Kilburn, a county commissioner in Warren County, Ohio, who’s running against Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) in the 2010 GOP primary. He was “surprised,” he said, to find out that the Republican National Committee had–until Politico exposed it–included some coverage for ab ...
  • Limbaugh and Palin: The Exclusive Interview
    Lisa De Pasquale breaks the news of Rush Limbaugh’s interview with Sarah Palin, to be conducted in the second hour of his Nov. 17 show. Since the 2008 election, with the exception of Oprah Winfrey, it’s really just conservative talkers and stars who’ve gotten sit-downs with Palin. And even in ...
  • Steve King: The New White House Counsel Is Connect ...
    Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who seems to have made a second career in this sort of thing, is accusing the White House of promoting Democratic power lawyer Bob Bauer in order to cover up an ACORN scandal. Bob Bauer has a public record of defending Barack Obama’s relationship with ACORN. Bauer’s hir ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Fashion's Foot Print on the Environment
    According to the non-profit Earth Pledge, today some 8,000 synthetic chemicals are used throughout the world to turn raw materials into textiles. Domestically, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that one-quarter of all pesticides used nationwide g Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Business  | ...
  • We're expanding, while economy shrinks
    Americans now have another excuse for hitting the fast food establishments and getting farther out of shape by adding unwanted weight, and it's allegedly not their fault. The latest health discovery is called "recession pounds," and some researchers Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Culture ...
  • Reports call for radical rethink on food policy to ...
    The food and farming sector is not pulling its weight when it comes to tacking climate change and food shortages could be the consequence if we fail to make fundamental changes to the way we farm, process, distribute and eat our food over the next 20 year Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Cu ...
  • Struggling to Buy Local and Resist Factory Farming
    “There are no rules in place and nothing to protect the independent producer,” Callicrate said. “Industrialized food is killing us. We’ve never had such a food safety problem as we have now. Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Rogers Elementary School Students Targeted By Anim ...
    Washington – Today Rogers Elementary School, located in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills, has joined the long list of schools targeted by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, as the radical animal rights group complains about circus animals that Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & C ...

Suzie-Q

  • Joya: End the occupation of my country Afghanistan
    By Malalai Joya, CommonDreams.org, Nov 12, 2009 As an Afghan woman who was elected to Parliament, I am in the United States to ask President Barack Obama to immediately end the occupation of my country. Eight years ago, women’s rights were used as one of the excuses to start this war. But today, ...
  • Seymour Hersh: Obama puts his foot down

  • Rumsfeld, Defence Industries, 911, & Corporate Gov ...
    Rumsfeld, Defence Industries, 911, & Corporate Government in Retrospect On September 10, 2001 Rummy said this in a speech at the Pentagon “Today’s announcements are only the first of many. We will launch others ourselves, and we will ask Congress for legislative help as well. We have, for examp ...
  • Gorbachev to Obama: ‘Prepare the ground for with ...
    By Jordan Fabian,  The Hill, Nov. 10, 2009 Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Tuesday advised President Barack Obama to prepare to withdraw forces from Afghanistan, rather than adding more troops. The USSR leader, who in 1986 began the withdrawal of Soviet troops [...]
  • Pilger: Breaking The Great Australian Silence
    John Pilger | ZNet, Nov. 7, 2009 Editor’s Note: An important speech/article by a great writer who has stood for  truth and justice that  needs the attention of all of us around the world. Thank you all for coming tonight, and my thanks to the City of Sydney and especially to the Sydney Pea ...

Solari

  • Catherine on GoldSeek Radio
    Click the image to listen to the interview.
  • Quote du Jour
    “Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overwhelmed with what comes back.” ~ Morrie Schwartz Morris S. Schwartz (b. De ...
  • Reviving Local Economies: Set Up Your Own Silver E ...
    By Franklin Sanders ~ Franklin Sanders has graciously agreed to allow us to post his article which originally appeared in the October 14, 2009 issue of The Moneychanger newsletter. After I spoke in Columbia, South Carolina last month, one group working to revive their local economy asked me to put ...
  • “Oldie But Goodie” March 07, 1997
    By J.N. Tlaga Between January 3 and April 18 of 1995, the value of US dollar in Japanese yen declined 20% from 100 to 80 yen. This 20% drop created automatic 20% price subsidy in Japan for American-made products, and corresponding 25% tariff in America on Japanese-made products. To be sure, no one ...
  • Economy Is Once Again Top Issue For Voters
    The Rasmussen Report After being knocked out of first place last month for the first time in nearly two years, the economy is back as the issue voters view as most important. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 85% of voters consider the issue of the economy as very im ...

Global Insights

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

Insurgency Watch - Posts

  • InsurgencyWatch moving to True/Slant
    In the coming days, InsurgencyWatch will be moving to True/Slant, “an original content news network tailored to both the ‘Entrepreneurial Journalist’ and marketers who want a more effective way to engage with digital audiences.” (That’s what the official about page says.) It’s not a deci ...
  • Kerry-Lugar’s First Victim
    If true, this is total bullshit: After strong criticism on the Kerry-Lugar bill in Pakistan, the government has decided to replace Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani and the announcement in this respect is expected within the next two days. There’s nothing in the bill reasonable Pa ...
  • Pakistan’s Civil War Heating Up
    In the aftermath of this weekend’s assault on the Pakistani General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the Taliban hit again in Alpuri, in the Shangla district east of Mingora in Swat. According to military sources who asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t authorized to talk to the press, a 1 ...
  • At Home with a Swat Lashkar
    I just finished up a few days in Swat and while I’m working on a story about it, I thought you might like to see a few pictures I took while there. Enjoy. Share/Save
  • FACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in Pakistan ...
    Washington PostFACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in PakistanReutersBy this time he is thought to have fled the region for the safe haven of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. * Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader ...Pakistan to Target Taliba...

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  • Twilight Earth Debuts TwilighTV – Sustainable Li ...
    Twilight Earth is excited to be debuting a new feature called TwilighTV. TwilighTV will bring you a great mix of content from Current TV and Elephant Journal. Related posts: Green Living Ideas and Twilight Earth Form New Major Environmental Network, Simple Earth Media Twilight Earth News Twilight ...
  • EPA Orders Employees to Remove YouTube Climate Vid ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered two of its attorneys to remove a video they posted on YouTube about problems with climate change legislation. Related posts: Technology Transfer and Climate Change (Video) Barack Obama’s New Video to the Governors Global Climate Change Summit Activ ...
  • Keep Keeping America Beautiful
    During the spring and summer of 2009, more than 3 million volunteers worked tirelessly for 5.2 million hours during the 2009 Great American Cleanup organized by the nonprofit group Keep America Beautiful. Related posts: U.S. Petroleum Industry Responsible for 25% of Toxic Pollutants in North Ameri ...
  • Green Living Ideas and Twilight Earth Form New Maj ...
    Sean Daily, CEO of Green Living Ideas, Inc. and Adam Shake, founder of Twilight Earth, have teamed up to create online media company Simple Earth Media. Related posts: The Twilight Earth Green Friend Force – Weekly Greenosphere Picks Twilight Earth Aquires Another Green Website – Eco Tech D ...
  • Massey Energy is Blasting on Coal River Mountain, ...
    Appalachia's West Virginians unite to stop Massey Energy Mountain Top Removal Related posts: Residents to Protest at Massey Energys Toxic Coal Sludge Dam Coal Country Film: Inside Modern Coal Mining West Virginians Come to DC to Protest Mountaintop Removal at the EPA

Inhabitat

  • A Miniature Dollhouse Version of Arne Jacobsen’s ...
    There’s no better way to get kids interested in something than to incorporate it into their play! If you’re modern design fanatics like we are, may we recommend this gorgeous 1:16 scale dollhouse reproduction of designer Arne Jacobsen’s 1928 villa in Charlottenlund, Denmark as the perfect w ...
  • Terrafon Plays the Earth as an Instrument
    If the earth could make music, what kind of songs would it sing? This crazy contraption, called the Terrafon, actually lets us find out the answer to that question! Designed as a huge turntable tone arm and transducer, this musical instrument plays the earth like a big gravelly vinyl record. Artists ...
  • Cherokee Lofts: Renovated Recording Studio Seeks L ...
    We first announced Pugh + Scarpa’s Cherokee Lofts in Los Angeles two years ago, and we’re excited to say that the renovated recording studio debuted last month with a Rock N’Platinum grand opening. Anticipating its LEED Platinum certification, the opening literally rocked thanks to the musi ...
  • Trash-Powered Street Lamp!
    Think about how much trash goes into a bin in, say, New York City’s Times Square on a daily basis. What if all that garbage could be used to generate energy? That’s the thinking behind designer Haneum Lee’s Gaon Street Light – a lamppost powered by garbage!Lee’s lamppost features a trash c ...
  • Michael Jantzen’s Awe-Inspiring Wind Farm Celebr ...
    The newest building concept to spring from the mind of eco-designer and artist Michael Jantzen is a testament to the power of renewable energy. His monumental Wind Farm Celebration Center is designed to serve as a visitor center and is very appropriately powered by an awe-inspiring 1.5 MW wind turbi ...

Pogue's Posts

  • It's Q&A with DP!
    Why I use URL shorteners-even when not on Twitter.
  • Verizon: How Much Do You Charge Now?
    Verizon's cellphones are designed in such a way that you can almost never avoid getting $1.99 charge on the bill for its mobile Web services, even if you immediately cancel the action.
  • Fun With Google's Auto-Suggestion Feature
    Start a phrase in a Google and who knows how the search engine will complete it?
  • Cleaning Up the Clutter Online
    A new Web tool strips away all the flashing and the blinking and leaves you with clean, readable prose.
  • Medical Apps for the iPhone
    Last week, I spoke at the TED MED conference. My assignment was to speak for 18 minutes about medical apps for the iPhone. Sounds easy, right? Only one problem: there are about 7,000 medical apps.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Equity fund boss: US unemployment at 20%, not 10%
    Bloomberg – Leo Hindery, managing director of InterMedia Partners LP, talks with Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox about the U.S. unemployment rate. Hindrey also discusses ways the U.S. could create jobs. Watch Interview
  • Islamabad demands US end drone attacks
    Press TV – Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff tells visiting US advisor on National Security that Washington should put an end to drone attacks in his country. During a meeting on Friday with US advisor on National Security James Jones at Pakistan’s army headquarters in Rawalpindi, Gen Ashfaq Kaya ...
  • Faith groups to be key UK government policy advise ...
    Daily Telegraph – Faith groups are to be given a central role in shaping government policies, a senior minister has vowed. John Denham, the communities secretary, said the values of Christians, Muslims and other religions were essential in building a “progressive society”. He attacked seculari ...
  • Colombia detains Venezuela guards
    BBC – Colombia has detained four members of the Venezuelan national guard on Colombian soil amid continuing tension between the South American neighbours.President Alvaro Uribe said they would be returned to Venezuela with the message that there was “unbreakable affection” between the two coun ...
  • DNA of British anti-war protesters could be held f ...
    Daily Telegraph – Anti-war protesters and train spotters arrested under anti-terror laws could have their DNA kept for life under Home Office plans. Innocent members of the public detained but not charged or convicted under terrorism legislation may never have their profiles wiped from the nationa ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Third World children starve, suffer stunted growth ...
    Third World children starve, suffer stunted growth, First World children suffer obesity (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) According to a new UNICEF report, 200 million children under 5 in poor countries have stunted growth due to insufficient nutrition. Of the 200 million, almost 90 percent live ...
  • Frankly, we support our troops
    Posted in ..Monkey and the Troublemakers, Communism, Iraq, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo, Middle East
  • First Worldism underneath the Beyonce controversy
    First Worldism underneath the Beyonce controversy (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Pop diva Beyonce’s “I Am..” tour has so far made 53 million dollars, and generated controversy to boot. In giant posters that pepper the streets, Beyonce sports a revealing, flame covered outfit  in th ...
  • Fragging statement: MSH and Anwar al Awlaki
    Fragging statement: MSH and Anwar al Awlaki (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) All the facts about the Fort Hood shootings are not in yet. The facts may never be fully known. After all, the bourgeois media, the accused’s handlers, and others, will try to craft their own narratives around the eve ...
  • Floating parasitism
    Floating parasitism (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Royal Caribbean International has just launched the world’s largest cruise ship. The Oasis of the Seas weighs 225,282 tonnes. The ship is 360 meters long and 72 meters high above the water line. Passenger features include luxuries such as tw ...

PakAlert

  • Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff demands US end dr ...
    The US National Security Adviser James Jones has been told that Pakistan was severely against a sudden withdrawal of allied troops from Afghanistan. - Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff tells visiting US advisor on National Security that Washington should put an end to drone attacks in his count ...
  • US, Israel, Egypt, Jordan hold secret meeting on I ...
    The intelligence chiefs of the United States, Israel, Egypt and Jordan have held an unprecedented secret meeting to discuss Iran’s nuclear program.The conclave of intelligence chiefs was held in Amman in the first week of November, reported DEBKA an Israeli web site which has close links to the I ...
  • Video: Wake Up – Another Israeli Fraud Exposed
    Also see: Video: Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land Gaza Massacre: The Truth About Those Hamas Rockets Gaza Horror: Large Photo Gallery of Gaza Massacre by Israel Maps tell the truth: Greater Israel and Shrinking Map of Palestine Video: Ron Paul: Israel created Hamas, US created Osama b ...
  • India To Counter China, Pakistan In Deep Waters
    The Zardari government stalled a crucial deal with Germany for the purchase of submarines this year. And the main reason is that the Germans pay less commissions than the French, with whom Mr. Zardari has had a good prior experience, if French media reports are to be [...] Read More at ht ...
  • Destruction of the Trade Centers: Occult Symbolism ...
    by Robert Howard Hard Truth/Wake Up America ORDO AB CHAO (ORDER OUT OF CHAOS) Albert Pikes Masonic Master Plan 9/ 11 9+1+1=11 Twin Towers =11 Flight 11 On Tuesday, September 11, (9/11) 2001 the world watched in [...] Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/ ...

ecogeek

  • 203 MW Wind Farm Completed in Utah
    It's great to see some of the large wind farm projects that were just ideas a couple of years ago become reality. First Wind's Milford Wind Corridor project has just seen the completion of its first phase - 203.5 MW in Millard and Beaver Counties in Utah, the largest renewable energy facility in th ...
  • Solar Spacecraft to Launch in 2010
    The Planetary Society is planning to launch a solar-propelled space craft in 2010 after its first attempt landed in the ocean four years ago. The LightSail-1 would run on the pressure of light hitting its four triangular-shaped Mylar sails.  The society sees the project as a way to achieve long sp ...
  • Wind Turbines to Power Cell Phone Towers
    Small-scale wind turbines can't produce the large amounts of power that their giant brothers can, but there's still room for them in the renewable energy landscape.  As an example, cell phone company Core Communications will begin using small vertical-axis wind turbines to power their cell phone t ...
  • Finally! A Recycling Plant for Dirty Diapers
    As a new mom and an ecogeek, I know that choosing a diapering method is a huge issue.  Disposable diapers clog landfills for hundreds of years.  There are alternatives to disposables, of course, but they have their drawbacks.  Cloth diapers require extra water and electricity for laundering and ...
  • Europe Testing "Road Trains" to Cut Fuel ...
    Have you ever been driving in rush hour and wished you could just zone out and read a book during your trip instead of stressing about the traffic?  Well, the EU is testing a way to make that possible while cutting fuel consumption at the same time.  The idea is that eight vehicles would travel a ...

Times Online - Science

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • The more things change, the more they stay the sam ...
    I woke up today to the news that it has been a whole year that gay and lesbian couples have been allowed to share the same rights as everyone else in our State. The right to settle down, get married and live as a family has changed a lot of people's lives in Connecticut . I did a quick inventory o ...
  • Windsock Joe
    We really want to know which way the wind blows, Joe? The other day you were dead set against the Public Option, much to the chagrin of Connecticut voters. And now? Sen. Joe Lieberman has reached a private understanding with Majority Leader Harry Reid that he will not block a final vote on healthca ...
  • Blue Dog Mike Ross Real Estate Scandal?
    Via TomP at dKos, Rep. Mike Ross is getting his first taste of promised push-back for going against what the majority of Americans want : ProPublica is reporting that Blue Dog Congressman Mike Ross (DINO-AR) "sold a piece of commercial property in 2007 for substantially more than a county assessment ...
  • Boehner at CPAC calling all of Obama's Policies So ...
    Flushing out Boehner's lie on Meet the Press and a David Gregory that doesn't follow politics well enough to be able to call him out on the obvious: Boehner is no different then any other Bircher whackjob.
  • Senator Dodd On Snowe Delaying Legislation
    ctblogger uploaded this video and I thought I would yank it from him because it shows a lot slicker version of the material I covered: Pay no attention the Blogging geek asking the question nor the mug of Sam Adam's Octoberfest beer on the counter behind him.

SPL Center

  • Tancredo Ventures Further Out on the Fringe
    Colorado Republican Tom Tancredo was the face of the anti-immigration movement in Congress for 10 years. While he was there, he could serve up his deport-’em-all rhetoric from the House floor. And as an early contender for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, he drew supportive crowds and mainstr ...
  • A Slick DVD Defends Racism
    A new DVD is a hit among white supremacists looking for a smart-sounding defense of their beliefs. Contrary to its title, A Conversation about Race isn’t really a conversation about race at all, but a slick 58-minute documentary devoted to proving the thesis that racism is a bogus concept invented ...
  • Yankee Secessionist Back in Cahoots with Neo-Confe ...
    Last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center exposed an unsavory collaboration between the Second Vermont Republic (SVR), a quirky left-leaning band of New England secessionists, and the white supremacist League of the South, long categorized by the SPLC as a hate group. Their shared goal was to build ...
  • Dutch Lawmaker Brings His Anti-Muslim Spiel to U.S ...
    A Dutch lawmaker notorious for his Muslim-bashing is scheduled to speak tonight at Temple University in Philadelphia. Geert Wilders, who has repeatedly compared the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf, was for months banned from Britain because of concerns that his anti-Islamic views would trigger violen ...
  • Westboro Baptist Attacks ‘Filthy Jews’ in New ...
    Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) has ratcheted up its recent campaign against Jews with the release of virulently anti-Semitic music videos. This latest gimmick is somewhat of a departure for the rabidly anti-gay group from Topeka, Kan. For years, Westboro has been notorious for disrupti ...

Rio Times

  • Blackout Hits Brazil
    By Doug Gray, Senior Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – Rio, Sao Paulo and Recife were among the major cities affected by a blackout that hit nine states on Tuesday night as power problems that began over the weekend continue to affect the country. After several Rio neighborhoods were affected in the early ...
  • USAID and Esso/ExxonMobil, Film in Amazonas
    By Ananda Alves, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – Mamirauá, which is an indigenous word for “baby manatee”, is a 1,124,000 hectare Sustainable Development Reserve, located in the Amazonas state, the largest reserve of its kind protecting flooded forest (“varzea”) in Brazil. Esso/Exx ...
  • Woody Allen Film Planned for Rio
    By Harold Emert, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - A Woody Allen film shot in 2012 may happen for Rio de Janeiro after the recent visit of the director’s sister Letty Aronson and Allen’s agent Stephen Tenenbaum.The pair reportedly received an offer of US$15 Million to produce the film fr ...
  • Watching NFL Football in Rio
    By Jayme Monsanto, Senior Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - In a country renowned for its love of futebol, it is not always easy to find a place to watch any sport other than Brazilian soccer. If the sport you want to watch is American Football, things get even harder. With less than two months before the ...
  • Salgueiro: Dance With The Champs
    RIO DE JANEIRO - As temperature rises in Rio de Janeiro, Samba School madness heats up. This week, The Rio Times brings to its readers, 2009 Carnival Champion, G.R.E.S. Academicos do Salgueiro. The red and white ‘gremio’ from Tijuca, after last year’s great success, is getting ready for anothe ...

change: org.

  • Business Groups Oppose Ban on Child and Slave-Made ...
    Rachel Maddow's choice of "you child labor-endorsing, pro-slavery freaks" to describe business groups' opposition to a bill that would ban the import of goods made by child labor or slave labor was pretty apt. However, I personally would describe the move as the most stunning display of corporate do ...
  • A Potential Lesbian Mayor in Houston has the Right ...
    History was made in Houston on Election Day 2009, when Mayoral candidate Annise Parker finished ahead of a slate of candidates to qualify for a December run-off ballot. Parker, who is currently the Houston City Controller, is also openly lesbian, and if she's elected in her run-off campaign against ...
  • Vice President Biden Responds to 19% Jump in Forec ...
    The Detroit News reported Friday that house foreclosures are up 19% over the previous month, a gut kick aided in part by rising unemployment and  an inadequate federal response to the continued crisis. If you're like me and tend to yawn a bit when you hear percentages, I strained a bit and did the ...
  • Meals on Wheels: the Future of Sustainable, Ethica ...
    What's got four wheels and is red all over? No, it's not a newspaper (fooled you — that would be "read" all over), but something else entirely. Thanks to alert reader Kristen Ridley , I bring you an answer to that question you might not expect: what's got four wheels and is red all over is the fut ...
  • Green Tech, Public Good
    I n a recent opinion piece , writer David Dickson, director and editor of the Science and Development Network ( SciDev.Net ) website and former news editor at Nature , writes the following: A widely-held myth among climate change activists is that discussing the need for improved technology to mitig ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Climate Rage
    by Naomi Klein One last chance to save the world - for months, that's how the United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen, which starts in early December, was being hyped. Officials from 192 countries were finally going to make a deal to keep global temperatures below catastrophic levels. ...
  • Green Festival Features All Things Eco-Friendly
    by Carolyn Said SAN FRANCISCO - Nem Jovie hooked his knees around the bright-red OmGym - a "suspension yoga system" made from a recycled parachute - and swirled backward until he was hanging upside-down. "I'm getting a good feeling, very blissful and relaxed," he said, as he folded his legs into a ...
  • Shooting Itself in the Foot, Brazil Spreads Concre ...
    by Stephanie Brault Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world’s most biologically diverse and species-rich hothouse. Bra ...
  • Anti-Landmine Activists See Hope for US Shift
    by Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA - Campaigners to halt the use of landmines hope finally to bring the United States under President Barack Obama into the fold of countries that have banned a weapon that maims and kills thousands every year. They said the United States has registered to send a delegation ...
  • UN Food Summit 'Fails Before It Begins'
    by Nick Squires in Rome The leaked World Food Summit draft declaration falls short of a UN goal of eradicating hunger by 2025. Instead, leaders are expected to to sign a watered down declaration in Rome next week that calls for vague increases in aid for farmers in poor countries but sets no targets ...

Lifehacker

  • This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
    Paint.NET Releases Big Update, Still a Killer Photoshop Alternative (Windows) Paint.NET is a free, fast, and powerful image editor for Windows. It's a giant leap above Microsoft Paint, and a serious alternative to bigger, bloated (for most users, at least) image editors like Photoshop or GIMP. XP Qu ...
  • Drive a Car with Your iPhone [DIY]
    A lot of people have been impressed with how you can find an app for everything. What about driving your car? With this (very) ambitious DIY project you can drive a car with your iPhone. Why use your iPhone as merely an accessory to your car? You can flat out control it with this crazy DIY modificat ...
  • Keep Your Wallpaper Fresh with Cross-Platform Wal ...
    Windows/Mac/Linux: If you've been sporting the same desktop wallpaper since the Bush administration, it might be time to mix it up a little. Wally is a lightweight wallpaper changer that pulls images from a wide pool of sources. For a simple wallpaper refresh, you can simply point Wally at a folder ...
  • Increase the Quality of Cheap Vodka with a Water ...
    Save yourself some money and improve the quality of a bottle of cheap vodka with a little at-home filtration. Photo by Edwin Land . Vodka is not a complicated alcohol, and government standards on what constitutes vodka ensures that from the absolute bottom-shelf swill to the top-shelf ultra-premium ...
  • DIY Sliding Chandelier Stays Clear of Projectors ...
    So you bought yourself a brand new projector, but there's one not-so-tiny problem—your ceiling-mounted lighting is in the way. Check out the DIY, sliding solution that Swedish designer Linus Ã…kesson has implemented in his own living room. Although some of us might have taken the chandelier i ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Former UK Ambassador To Pakistan Calls For AfPak W ...
    By Steve Hynd The Pakistani press has noticed a letter by Sir Nicholas Barrington, former British envoy to Pakistan, in the London Times: “Massive foreign bases encourage ideas that the Americans and NATO want to stay in, and dominate, Afghanistan . Many think that the West is motivated by a desir ...
  • Army Arrests Single Mom, Has Baby Placed In Care, ...
    By Steve Hynd A shockingly insensitive U.S. Army has arrested a single mother and soldier who couldn't find a carer for her child while she was on deployment to Afghanistan. The Army also handed the child over to Child Protective Services and now plans to fly the soldier to Afghanistan for court mar ...
  • Foreign Diplomats Tease Pakistani Police With Fake ...
    By Steve Hynd Stories like this encourage my view that diplomatic ranks tend to be drawn from over-privileged frat boys with only a tenuous hold on reality. The interior ministry said an 'unidentified object' found recently in the vehicle of Danish embassy security advisor Chris John turned out to b ...
  • Garbage, gaffes and decision loops
    By Dave Anderson: Everyone involved in the US debate over Afghanistan fundamentally agrees that the Karzai government has serious problems. It is corrupt. It is weak. It is propped up by 100,000 heavily armed foreigners. It is a black-hole of competency. It includes various warlords and their militi ...
  • Obama to ask for greater Chinese Involvement in Af ...
    By Steve Hynd According to the Financial Times: As US President Barack Obama prepares to make a final decision on whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, his visit to Beijing next week will be an opportunity to press China to become more involved in the conflict. Since the start of the year, the ...

Water Wars

  • 2 new lawsuits to save S.F. Bay-delta smelt (San F ...
    Two environmental groups sued the federal government Friday seeking greater habitat protections for two San Francisco Bay-delta fish species, one of them the delta smelt, a small but important creature in California's water wars. One lawsuit asks a federal...
  • The Conversation: Plan is best hope to avert a dry ...
    On Nov. 4, the Legislature passed the most important water reform legislation in a quarter century. California has never been more in need of this historic change of direction.
  • The Conversation: Water pact falls short on protec ...
    Legislative supporters and some environmental groups hail the controversial package of Delta water policy bills and budget-busting $11 billion bond as "ambitious water reform" and a "huge winner for the environment." Other environmental groups and those who opposed the complex water policy legislati ...
  • Arab experts predict Mideast water wars (UPI)
    AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A Jordanian academic has predicted that Israel will go to war with neighboring Lebanon and Egypt to get their water.
  • Alameda Letters to the Editor (Alameda Times-Star)
    Think about the kidsIt is about the kids. It is about building a new Boys & Girls Club. It is about the kids. It is about a need in our community. It is about the kids.

WordPress | Economics

McClatchey

  • Political turmoil in Pakistan may slow anti-terror ...
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan is sinking into a political and constitutional crisis that threatens to sideline its vital role in the battle against Islamist insurgents and U.S.-led efforts to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan.
  • In China, Obama will glimpse world's new center of ...
    SHANGHAI — When President Barack Obama lands here Sunday night in China's largest city, he'll find many of its 20 million people intrigued by him and welcoming, but hardly deferential, and some openly skeptical of his promises of change.
  • Commentary: Don't make a Faustian deal with Iran o ...
    A startling chant rose from the crowd in the latest round of anti-government protests in Iran. The tens of thousands who took to the streets a few days ago, risking imprisonment or worse by defying the regime, cried out in their native Farsi, but in the cellphone videos sent around the world one can ...
  • To count or not to count: Will 2010 census include ...
    WASHINGTON — California Democratic Rep. Joe Baca wants to count all Latinos in the 2010 census, including millions of noncitizens. Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter wants only legal citizens included in the official count.
  • Reichert takes on AARP over health care overhaul
    WASHINGTON — It's a bit like tangling with the National Rifle Association. The AARP has 40 million members, including nearly 940,000 in Washington state, it's a potent lobbying force in Washington, D.C., highly visible nationwide and its members vote more often than just about anyone else.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Copenhagen Countdown: 24 days
    Here in London, we've reached that time of year when the Sun rises after you do and sets comfortably before you leave the office. And the hours in between are filled with grey, malevolent drizzle. Have the week's diplomatic moves shed more light than the Sun is currently doing here on the likelihoo ...
  • Copenhagen Countdown: 31 Days
    Most of those concerned with climate have had their eyes on Barcelona this week, where delegates from 192 countries plus hundreds of observers, campaigners, lobbyists - and journalists - convened for the final session of preparatory talks before the UN climate summit in Copenhagen . As I've reporte ...
  • All's fair in the climate blame game
    At the UN climate negotiations in Barcelona. It's a story that's been coming for the last few months; now that it's being written , the first cards of the blame game are being played. Remember the UN climate conference in Bali two years ago , and the road that stretched from there to Copenhagen? ...
  • Climate talks: To the wire and beyond
    At the UN climate negotiations in Barcelona. It looks like the UN climate summit in Copenhagen is shaping up to be another final-night, early-hours, last few seconds kind of affair. On the surface, what we're witnessing here at the final preparatory session in Barcelona is a stand-off between a pa ...
  • Copenhagen countdown: 38 days
    This post - my second weekly round-up of political moves as we approach December's UN climate summit - is a little delayed, partly because the week's most important event took place on Thursday and Friday. "File on final whistle," as editors say to football correspondents - most of whom are much be ...

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Want to stave off swine flu? Catch a cold
    OK, before anyone says it, the headline is not to be taken as medical advice (I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on television, etc, etc). But research into surprisingly low incidences of swine flu in France in recent months suggests that the common cold may be suppressing the ability of the [...] ...
  • NASA debunks the 2012 Mayan apocalypse myth
    NASA has taken a step into the rough-and-tumble world of conspiracy theory by posting a point-by-point debunking of the 2012 apocalypse meme, brought to public prominence by the recent movie based upon it [image by auntjojo]. You’ve got to admire the blunt certainty of it – here’s the first of ...
  • Brain-food: white hats, anti-hackers and post-mode ...
    By way of an experiment, I thought I’d round up a handful of links which made for interesting reading, but about which I felt no particular urge to editorialise (or waffle tangentially, if there’s any measurable difference between the two in my case). If you like the format, let me know in the c ...
  • But is it art? Modern Warfare 2, computer games an ...
    Serendipity, yet again… Jonathan’s latest Blasphemous Geometries column on the moral dimension of modern computer game mechanics arrived in my inbox last weekend, and hence (unless he has contacts in the industry of which I am unaware), he’d have had no idea that this week would see a firestor ...
  • The Mechanics of Morality: Why Moral Choices in Vi ...
    Moral ambiguity is an increasingly ubiquitous part of modern computer game character mechanics – so why are the moral elements to gameplay increasingly less enjoyable? ### I remember when having a game take into account the morality of your character was something of an innovation. I remember b ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • CIA to pay $3 million so Horn will not oppose vaca ...
    The CIA has decided to pay Richard Horn $3 million for a unique settlement of a fifteen (15) year-old spying case. The government not only wants Horn to dismiss the case and release the CIA and State Department officials who spied on him, but the government also wants Horn to promise that he will no ...
  • Bad Apples in a Rotten Barrel
      In the United Kingdom, a former investigator of the Royal Military Police (RMP), speaking anonymously, alleges that Senior British army commanders in Iraq refused to investigate Iraqi civilian abuse claims. According to BBC News on October 11 th , the whistleblower claims that while he has seen d ...
  • Whistleblower Film Festival Features Silkwood, spo ...
    Tomorrow, October 15th , The DC Labor Film Festival’s Whistleblower Film Series continues with a screening of Silkwood . The film is sponsored by the National Whistleblowers Center and recounts the true story of Karen Silkwood, the gutsy plutonium factory worker who took on her supervisor’s unet ...
  • 2009 National Conference and AGM of Whistleblowers ...
    Whistleblowers Australia (WBA), an association of whistleblowers in Australia, will host 2009 National Conference and annual general meeting at Aquinas College of the University of Adelaide from December 5-6, 2009. The conference theme is “blowing the whistle in the workplace.” Shelley Pezy, con ...
  • Burnham and Stockton answer questions about the Si ...
    Peter Stockton and David Burnham answer questions from the audience at the Whistleblower Film Festival last night.  After the showing of Silkwood , Burnham recounted his experience as the New York Times reporter waiting to meet with Karen Silkwood on the night she died. Peter Stockton was the s ...

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