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Thomas Paine

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MIDEAST: U.S. Takes Aim Over Jordan's Shoulder

    MUWAQQAR, Jordan, Nov 17 (IPS) - In the bleak and seemingly endless desert expanse that unfolds east of Jordan's capital city, Amman, lies a crucial cog in the ambitious regional designs of the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East.


  • PHILIPPINES: Storm-Hit City under Constant Thre ...

    BAGUIO CITY, Philippines, Nov 17 (IPS) - The storm has long subsided, and the torrential rains—which battered this city known for its pristine charm and stately pine trees last month—have been gone for weeks.


  • AGRICULTURE: Exporting Afghanistan

    KABUL, Nov 17 (IPS) - The 60 hectare stretch of farmland in north Kabul's Badam Bagh neighbourhood looks much like farmland all over this country. Colourful rows of neatly planted crops stretch out from a dusty road and up the gentle slope of an arid ridge.


  • PAKISTAN: Soup Kitchens Spring Up to Stave Off G ...

    KARACHI, Nov 17 (IPS) - Until meagre resources began dwindling to almost nothing, 43-year-old Firdaus Begum had not ventured into the Khana Ghar (Food House), which serves up inexpensive but filling meals.


  • EDUCATION: Foreign Students Flock Back to U.S

    WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (IPS) - The number of international students attending colleges and universities in the United States has reached an all-time high of 671,616, largely bolstered by an increasing number of undergraduate students from China, while U.S. students are also studying abroad in higher ...


Scoop - NZ

  • Top 10 Euphemisms for Peak Oil

    10. TEOTWAWKIUse this one when you you are among peak oil friends and need a little dark humor. We all know what happens after production starts crashing. Not the end of the world - just the end of the world as we know it.9. End of cheap-and-easy-to-extract oilToo many times, when you say peak oil, ...


  • Second US Stimulus Merely Months Away

    Earlier today, Goldman came out with a harbinger piece on why a second stimulus announcement is essentially a formality. The administration has already promptly forgotten the lessons from the recent elections which were a failure for the Democrats, and a resounding vote against incremental deficit s ...


  • NZ prepares Afghan exit strategy

    The Government is working on an exit plan to pull all New Zealand troops out of Afghanistan.Defence minister Wayne Mapp has admitted that plan includes an acceptance the Taliban will have to be included in any meaningful new government in the country once the Western soldiers leave.Mapp spent four d ...


  • 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 ...


Independent ( London )

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran wants to make nuclear fuel swap on its own so ...

    Summary: In the clearest statement to date of Tehran’s attitude to the U.S.-backed proposal for a nuclear fuel swap as a step towards building trust with Washington, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said his government takes a positive view of the plan provided the exchange of e ...


  • Test of wills over Iran plan

    Summary: The Barack Obama administration's reliance on quick fixes with regard to Iran's contested nuclear program threatens to derail the White House's Iran engagement, thus delivering a severe blow to the overall edifice of the US's new Middle East approach. source: Asia Times read more


  • Ahmadinejad says Western pressure empowers Iran

    Summary: TEHRAN, Iran — An impasse in nuclear talks between world powers and Iran would only hurt the West by making Tehran push harder to advance its technology, according to the latest remarks by the Iranian president. source: AP read more


  • Iranian official urges West to drop sanctions

    Summary: Rezaei In response to Iran's previous measures to build confidence in its nuclear activities, a top Iranian official has urged the West to suspend sanctions against the country. source: Press TV read more


  • Obama, Medvedev say time running out on Iran talks

    Summary: SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Sunday the world was running out of time in using diplomatic means to resolve a crisis over Iran's nuclear program. source: Reuters read more


The Daily Galaxy

  • Project MOON EXPLOSION Blows More Than Water Out O ...

    NASA's most awesome mission since pointing at the sky and saying "I bet we can put people there" has come to fruition, with absolute proof that there's water ice on the Moon - and lots of it. The Lunar Crater...


  • Jupiter: Earth's Protector or Eventual Destroyer?

    Jupiter's been in the news a lot this past summer, as anywhere there's a Pacific-Ocean-sized explosion tends to be. The recent impact (and detonation) of an asteroid against the gas giant's hide has triggered the usual flurry of discussion with...


  • "The Earth Strain" -Could Future Space Missions In ...

    A Mars mission to be launched in October on a Russian robot spacecraft will include specimens of thale cress; tiny water creature tardigrade - or water bear - which can also survive extraordinary extremes of temperature and pressure; samples of...


  • Richard Dawkins on Evolution & the Origins of Lif ...

    "The universe could so easily have remained lifeless and simple -just physics and chemistry, just the scattered dust of the cosmic explosion that gave birth to time and space. The fact that it did not -the fact that life evolved...


  • Is the Observable Universe a Massive Computer Simu ...

    Philosophy is a vital study for the human race - from the ancient Greeks to the modern day, some of the finest thinkers have examined the human condition and produced valuable insights and conclusions on what it means "to be."...


Natural News

  • Phthalate warning: Medications contain chemicals t ...

    (NaturalNews) In a bombshell finding that has far-reaching implications for society and culture, scientists at the University of Rochester have found that phthalates -- the chemical found in many vinyl and plastic products -- tends to "feminize" boys, altering their brains to express more feminine c ...


  • Cancer Screening is Essentially Useless; Experts F ...

    (NaturalNews) Cancer experts are expressing increasing concern over the explosion of campaigns urging people to get regularly screened for a wide variety of cancers, warning that such programs may do more harm than good. "It is a real problem," said Otis W. Brawley of the American Cancer Society. "T ...


  • Vaccines and Pregnancy Do Not Mix

    (NaturalNews) From an internet forum: "I got both vaccines [seasonal and swine flu] on Thursday. I was 9 weeks pregnant. I miscarried on Sunday. I was told by several doctors to get these vaccines. Now I wish I followed my gut feeling and not get them at ALL!" This is not an isolated case. Here's an ...


  • H1N1 "super flu" plague in Ukraine spark concern, ...

    (NaturalNews) Here's what we know with some degree of certainty about the H1N1 virus in Ukraine right now: nearly 300 people have died from the viral strain, and over 65,000 people have been hospitalized (the actual numbers are increasing by the hour). The virus appears to be either a highly aggress ...


  • Farmers, Ranchers Fighting Back Against FDA Tyrann ...

    (NaturalNews) A bill that would grant the FDA expanded authority to inspect farms has come under fire from ranchers and farmers concerned about increased government interference in their operations. In response to a recent series of food-borne illness outbreaks, a bill has been approved by the House ...

    TheGallopingBeaver



  • Staring at Goats Dep't.

    WIRED'S DANGER ROOM covers all sorts of stuff that is of interest to those of us concerned about security. David Hambling has a very interesting report titled "Inside the Army’s Far-Out Acid Tests" that almost defies belief, if you aren't already acquainted with programs like MK Ultra .  The C ...


  • so sell a few Michelanglos and feed Africa

    I think most reasonable people, where ever they are on the political spectrum, would agree that hunger and poverty are objectively bad things and the fact that one in six people on this planet does not get enough to eat is pretty awful, especially when we in the wealthy developed world look at the p ...


  • H1N1 details

    NATURE weighs in with details on H1N1. Nature reports from three laboratories scrutinizing the pandemic flu virus. One is working to find out what it might do .  .  .  The profile emerging is of a distinctive virus . Although seasonal flu tends to infect just the cells high in the upper airway, H ...


  • Columbus, go home

    the General shows us someone who knows how to best handle the teabagger/minutemen xenophobic dingbats, with mockery .


  • The Fat Lady practices the Mikado

    THE TELEGRAPH IN THE UK has an article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, titled " It is Japan we should be worrying about, not America ", that is worthy of your consideration. Japan is drifting helplessly towards a dramatic fiscal crisis. For 20 years the world's second-largest economy has been able to bo ...


Media Matters for America

  • Quick Fact: Morris again falsely claimed Obama sai ...

    On Hannity , Dick Morris again falsely claimed that President Obama said "he's against a congressional investigation of Fort Hood because he doesn't want to kindle political theater." From the November 16 edition of Hannity : MORRIS: Obama on the one hand says he's against a congressional inves ...


  • Major retailers reportedly selling Palin's G ...

    Sarah Palin's memoir Going Rogue: An American Life has garnered attention in part because of the number of copies sold before publication. But the book has been offered at below-cost prices from major online retailers, and Newsmax has used the book as a loss leader to promote its magazine, ...


  • Quick Fact: In latest Beck conspiracy, SEIU's Ster ...

    In his latest conspiracy theory, Glenn Beck tied SEIU's Andy Stern to the alleged beating of SEIU critic Ken Hamidi. From the November 16 edition of Glenn Beck : BECK: It seems like this is what SEIU does. It's what they did to a TV reporter [Ken Hamidi] in California earlier this month. They l ...


  • Quick Fact: Beck smears SEIU's Stern as a communi ...

    Glenn Beck asked, "What are the goals of Andy Stern and SEIU?" then aired a clip of Stern stating on PBS's Bill Moyers Journal, " workers of the world, unite, it's not just a slogan anymore. It's the way we're going to have to do our work." Beck then commented that "workers of the world, unite ...


  • Rogue Fact: Palin, without elaboration, calls Bri ...

    On Page 237 of her memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life , Sarah Palin writes that shortly after she was tapped as Sen. John McCain's running mate in the 2008 presidential race, the media began reporting "one lie after another -- from rape kits to Bridges to Nowhere. All easy enough to disprove ...


Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Realists

    I understand the desire of New York Times columnists to appear realist. Writers who advocate for US intervention to induce Israeli-Palestinian peace, in column after column, month after month, can get to look, well, idealist. Writers are assumed to be... New York Times - Israel - Israeli–Pale ...


  • Sympathy for the Devil? Oprah and the Palin Blitz.

    I like Oprah Winfrey. She gets people to buy--if not actually read--books like Carson McCuller's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. She oozes the right amount of sympathy for people who have been mauled by chimpanzees... Oprah Winfrey - Sarah Palin - Alaska - United Stat ...


  • Is Charlie Crist Anti-Business?

    By choosing to run for the U.S. Senate in the middle of his first term as Governor, Charlie Crist has opened himself up to the fair criticism that he's putting his political ambition ahead of his day job. Meanwhile, voters... Charlie Crist - United States Senate - United States - Florida - US S ...


  • Rising China: Not Ready for Its Close-Up

    As President Obma urges China to be a "source of strength for the community of nations" -- i.e. help with the heavy lifting on international challenges such as global warming and nuclear proliferation -- Chinese leaders prefer to downplay expectations.... North Korea - People's Republic of Chin ...


  • War and Taxes

    Two stories on the front page of the New York Times this morning reminded me of a historical precedent that may be useful to recall. The first story relates the increasing cost of deploying a single additional American soldier to... New York Times - United States - Warfare and Conflict - Afgha ...


TruthOut

  • Lowering the Bar: Kindergarten Recruitment

    How old is old enough for students to be approached by military recruiters? High school? Junior high? Fourth grade? How about ten weeks into kindergarten? Last week at the dinner table, my five-year-old son announced blithely, "Soldiers came to school today." He then added, "They only kill bad peopl ...


  • Mickey Mouse Racism

    On Nov. 4, SOS Racisme, the French anti-racist NGO founded in 1984, published its report on companies that keep files on their employees’ ethnic identity and referred the case of Eurodisney to the courts. The entertainment industry giant requires that 80% of its temporary workers look “European. ...


  • Money Talks: Report Links Donations, Cuba Embargo ...

    Supporters of the U.S. embargo against Cuba have contributed nearly $11 million to members of Congress since 2004 in a largely successful effort to block efforts to weaken sanctions against the island, a new report shows. In several cases, the report by Public Campaign says, members of Congress who ...


  • Good Cop, Bad Cop Strategy? Clinton Appoints Forme ...

    When the Iranian Revolution exploded on the world scene three decades ago, John Limbert was a greenhorn diplomat assigned to the US Embassy in Tehran. After that station was taken over by revolutionary students, he spent 14 months as a political hostage in the building that came to be known as the " ...


  • Global Warming Threatens Lake Titicaca, Imperils M ...

    La Paz, Bolivia - Global warming has accelerated the evaporation of Lake Titicaca, the water level of which has dropped to the lowest point in years, Carlos Andrade, of the Binational Autonomous Authority of Lake Titicaca (ATL), told The Associated Press last week. "Water levels have fallen 88 cm (n ...


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

  • Garry Wills Gets It Completely Backwards

    Is this Backwards Week?  What in the name of Fuck-All is Garry Wills thinking? I am told by people I respect that Barack Obama cannot pull out of both Iraq and Afghanistan without becoming a one-term president. I think that may be true. The charges from various quarters would be toxic-that he was we ...


  • The Nightowl Newswrap

    Reversal of fortune During the boom-years, immigrants from Mexico, both documented and not, sent millions of dollars back to their families - this was, after all, the main reason they went north in the first place. Now, with unemployment at ten percent and their relatives in America struggling, fami ...


  • The Wages of Compromise: Defeat

    If the White House and Senate Democrats still think, despite all evidence to the contrary, that compromising with the anti-healthcare forces is going to lead to a better reform bill - or any bill at all - they would do well to study the fresh, still warm and bloody lesson of the Stupak Amendment. Sc ...


  • There Is No Excuse For This

    As if the health care issue and the stranglehold the insurance industry has on who gets medical treatment and who doesn't weren't enough... How the hell does This happen in the richest country in the world?   Maybe it has something to do with the top 5% of the population owning or controlling more o ...


  • Is Camp Lejeune Next?

    "... in my more than 25 years of clinical practice, I've never seen such immense emotional suffering and psychological brokenness -- literally a relentless stream of courageous, well-trained and formerly strong Marines deeply wounded psychologically by the immensity of their combat experience ... in ...


Care 2

  • AK Governor Declares War on Polar Bears

    Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell wants the polar bears hanging out on top of his state's oil reserves to stop being so endangered. He's suing the feds to remove their "threatened" classification and help speed up development of oil fields. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment


  • Could Jupiter Moon Harbor Fish-Size Life?

    In the oceans of a moon hundreds of millions of miles from the sun, something fishy may be alive—right now. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment


  • Bronx girl, 14, shot in the head as she wanders in ...

    An innocent 14-year-old wearing her high school uniform was shot in the head after wandering into a gun fight on her way home after classes, police and witnesses said Submitted by Lone Wolf to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment


  • 100 Free eBooks for Your Financial Literacy

    These 100 ebooks together comprise an awesome online library that can help you better understand how to manage your finances today so they’ll last well into the future. Submitted by Katie Miller to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment


  • 100 Excellent Open Courses for International Busin ...

    These free courses can teach you about international economics, world history, local cultures and even a few words in a different language to make you a more savvy and smarter international businessman or woman. Submitted by Katie Miller to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment


GreenBiz

  • How Second Place (or Third) Can Mean a Win for Des ...

    The Cooper Hewitt People's Choice Award was the only category in the Smithsonian Institution's recent National Design Awards to be opened to public voting, and over 6,000 designers, consumers, and interested citizens spoke up. Some of the biggest design names in the country were nominated. But it wa ...


  • Companies More Likely Than Ever to Invest in Effic ...

    Seventy-four percent of corporate real estate executives now say they would be willing to pay a premium to retrofit office space they own to achieve sustainability goals, according to results of a new survey by CoreNet Global and Jones Lang LaSalle.


  • Marriott to Launch Prototype for Green Design of C ...

    In the latest move to expand its sustainability efforts, Marriott International Inc. says its green hotel portfolio will grow tenfold in the next five years with the introduction of a design prototype for new green properties.  


  • Ford Mixes Wheat Waste With Plastic in 2010 Flex

    The 2010 Ford Flex will include the auto industry's first use of wheat straw, a waste byproduct from wheat production, expanding Ford's use of bio-based and alternative materials.  


  • Greenbuild 2009: Gore Lauds USGBC for 'Leading the ...

    Nobel Laureate and former vice president Al Gore welcomed thousands of building professionals to Phoenix, praising the U.S. Green Building Council and its members for being the vanguard of the movement to green the world's buildings.


Reuters Global

  • Can the West salvage Karzai’s reputation?

    The election was the sort of travesty that can’t be easily swept under a rug. A U.N.-backed probe concluded that nearly a third of votes cast for Karzai were fake.


  • Obama bowing to convention

    U.S. President Barack Obama's bow -- and handshake -- with the Japanese Emperor has become a heated on-line topic, with sides arching into political camps as to whether the traditional greeting went too far -- literally -- or was appropriate based on customs and culture.


  • 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.


Ezra Klein

  • Tab dump

    1) " As a vegetarian I've always felt the perverse need to apologize for my dietary choice. ... But the more I learn about the negative impact of meat production, the more I feel that it's the consumers of meat who should be making apologies. " 2) Conservatives wonder whether they're filibustering ...


  • Will the Medicare Commission survive Congress?

    The easy dismissal of the Medicare Commission is that Congress will simply reject its recommendations, no matter how streamlined the process or wise the wonks. The template here is the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate, which sought a growth rate that was much lower than the reality of Medicare, and ...


  • Why does Third Way oppose the Stupak amendment?

    Third Way is a centrist Democratic group that's generally associated with calls for Democrats to compromise on divisive cultural issues, not aggressive efforts to reject compromises on divisive cultural issues. So their angry report on the Stupak compromise caught my eye. I called Rachel Laser, one ...


  • The lessons of Medicare Part D

    Mathew Yglesias : John Breaux and Bill Frist have an op-ed in Politico whose exoteric message is that Congress should use the 2003 Medicare bill as a model for bipartisan health reform. The esoteric message is a reminder that the easiest way to get a bipartisan deal passed is to just have bipartisa ...


  • Sarah Palin's unfavorables far lower than Bernie M ...

    I'm no campaign expert, but when your argument for Sarah Palin's 2012 candidacy is that high-stakes, nationally televised interviews will help her repair her image and, in any case, "Ms. Palin isn't as unpopular as John Edwards," you're on shaky ground. What baffles me, however, is why it's ground ...


Booman Tribune

  • It's the Jobs and Food, Stupid

    The "economy" isn't what its all about. Stock prices can rise, Goldman Sachs can give out bonuses galore, productivity can shoot through the roof, but until we start getting people back their jobs -- good paying jobs -- we are headed to Nowheresville. And for millions of people that means they go ...


  • Froggy Bottom Cafe




  • You Can Get Paid for That?

    You could pay me $8 million not to appear on CNN. CNN was so sick of Lou Dobbs, it gave him an $8 million severance package to leave, The Post has learned. "They wanted him out," according to a source. But I'd be happy with just a small donation. It's only through the generosity of readers ...


  • Idiotic Republican Talking Points

    Rudy Guiliani is not alone among the right in lamenting that Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize-winning change of tone is a setback for all those who believe our country is in a war with Islam. But, isn't that impression exactly what led this nutjob in Texas to resist his deployment to Afghanistan? ...


  • The Palin Image is a Fraud

    Sarah Palin appears almost stunned that the Associated Press got a pre-release copy of her book and fact-checked it. "We've heard 11 writers are engaged in this opposition research, er, 'fact checking' research!" Palin continued. "Imagine that – 11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources to ...


European Tribune

Futurismic

  • More thoughts on the LoveMachine

    Thanks to New World Notes, we get a little more detail about Philip Rosedale’s LoveMachine system, the reputation-based closed economy we mentioned yesterday. Cory Ondrejka was Linden Lab’s CTO until 2007, and he was instrumental in developing the LoveMachine system as it operated within the com ...


  • Flibanserin: Viagra for ladies?

    I guess we can look forward to a new pharmacological trade name appearing in our spam folders in the near future. A failed antidepressant, flibanserin will soon enter clinical trials in the UK to determine whether it’s safe to be marketed as the Female Viagra, accompanied by pointed questions from ...


  • Facebook as your alibi

    We’ve surely heard enough stories about how posting status updates on social networks can give away more information about you than you intended, so here’s the positive flipside of that: Rodney Bradford was a suspect in a Brooklyn mugging case, and it’s partly thanks to a Facebook status updat ...


  • The Hail Mary Cloud: slow but steady brute-force p ...

    Did you hear about the recent exploit of jailbroken jesusPhones? Yeah, the Rick-rolling one (though that wasn’t strictly the original exploit, rather some Australian script-kiddie’s repurposing of a Dutch exploit from earlier in the month); to sum it all up in a sentence, bad things can happen t ...


  • LoveMachine Inc: Second Life founder’s reputatio ...

    Oh, to be a CEO of a tech start-up… they can get bored of their projects even faster than the public can, y’know. Actually, that’s a little unfair – Philip Rosedale, the man behind Linden Lab, hasn’t lost interest in Second life so much as he’s looking for a new fish to fry with his [... ...


Therapy News

  • Affected, Interested, and Concerned to Descend on ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Schizophrenia is a mental health concern that impacts the lives of people in various walks of life, and which is also responsible for creating turmoil within families. Though many advances have been made in the treatment of schizophrenia, the issue is greatly in need ...


  • Depression Among the Very Old Eased through Family ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline An often overlooked age group, the 85 and up set face many challenges that are typically reserved for old age. Memory issues, difficulty finding energy, and the rapid or prolonged loss of friends and loved ones can all contribute to symptoms of depression, which is ex ...


  • Principles of Hakomi Body-Centered Therapy

    By Jaffy Phillips, MA, Hakomi Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jaffy and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Prospective clients often ask what first drew me to study Hakomi therapy. My answer: the principles. (And a touch of fate or providence.) I first encountered Hakomi by way of a ...


  • Mental Health Clients Mistreated in Australia

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary In many developing parts of the world, those identified as having mental health difficulties are often treated with less than ideal care, both by state authorities and by the public at large. But sometimes, seemingly backwards and unconscionable treatment is given to m ...


  • Writing Hand may Dictate Body Perception

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Whether one writes with the left or the right hand has been suggested to have an impact on various personality traits and other aspects of the life of the mind, but a study recently performed at the University of Virginia with collaborators from other colleges has fou ...


Mountaintop Removal

  • ICG says lawsuit over valley fill permit settled - ...

    ICG says lawsuit over valley fill permit settled The Associated Press It also marks a bit of a milestone in the bitter fight over mountaintop removal mining. While highly efficient, the practice is decried by environmental ... and more »


  • Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music) - Huffington ...

    Treehugger Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music) Huffington Post (blog) Use of mountaintop removal has exploded since 2002, when the Bush administration began changing the wording of exemptions to a rule requiring stream buffer ... As Massey Energy Blasts West Virginia's Coal River Mountain, a Debat ...


  • 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 ...


Memeorandum

  • Breast exam guidelines now call for less testing ( ...

    Rob Stein / Washington Post : Breast exam guidelines now call for less testing   —  Change debated Potential harm of frequent mammograms outweighs benefit, task force says  —  Women in their 40s should stop routinely having annual mammograms and older women should cut back to one scheduled ...


  • Palin Onstage, Still Moving Off Message (Alessandr ...

    Alessandra Stanley / New York Times : Palin Onstage, Still Moving Off Message   —  There were no questions about the Bush doctrine, but Sarah Palin's appearance Monday on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” to promote her memoir looked less like a celebratory comeback than a redo of the presidential ...


  • Poll: Less Than 1 in 4 Have Favorable View of Pali ...

    CBS News : Poll: Less Than 1 in 4 Have Favorable View of Palin   —  Posted by Brian Montopoli She may be among the biggest names in politics at the moment, but former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is not exactly America's sweetheart.  —  Just 23 percent of those survey ...


  • Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Re ...

    Duff Wilson / New York Times : Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform   —  Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its pri ...


  • Japan expert to ABC: Yes, Obama's bow made him loo ...

    Allahpundit / Hot Air : Japan expert to ABC: Yes, Obama's bow made him look like an idiot   —  So much of an idiot, in fact, that according to Tapper's source, at least one Japanese paper isn't running the photo out of embarrassment.  This tool actually groveled himself into a minor internatio ...


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

  • Swedish Retailer Pirates the Pirate Bay Logo

    A Swedish online clothing and tech retailer has assumed ownership of The Pirate Bay’s logo and plans to market the iconic pirate ship – with a cassette-tape image and crossbones — on USB sticks. The company, Sandryds Handel, registered the logo with Sweden’s Patent and Registration Office ...


  • Handy Chart Tracks Proposed Amendments to Patriot ...

    Confused by all the proposed changes to the Patriot Act ricocheting through the Capitol? The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) has put together a handy chart comparing the current law with the various amendments in the House and Senate. The chart compares proposed amendments (.pdf) to Natio ...


  • 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 ...


Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • China "studying" plan to delay final climate deal

    BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Monday distanced itself from proposals to delay a binding climate pact to 2010, but might be willing to sign up to a "political deal" at climate talks next month if it includes strong commitments from rich nations.


  • China hails U.S. reiteration of sovereignty over T ...

    BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao hailed U.S. President Barack Obama's recognition of sovereignty issues dear to China, after a bilateral meeting in Beijing on Tuesday.


  • "Unfriend" named word of 2009

    NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - "Unfriend" has been named the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary, chosen from a list of finalists with a tech-savvy bent.


  • China's Hu hails frank talks with U.S. Obama

    BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Tuesday that he had agreed with U.S. President Barack Obama to increase international cooperation, after "frank, constructive and fruitful" talks in Beijing.


  • KOSPI to keep beating Nikkei despite rising won

    SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - South Korea's stock market has been the clear winner this year over rival Japan and looks set to keep outperforming in 2010, despite a rising won currency, due to a robust economic outlook and cheaper valuations.


Pine River World News

  • Advocacy Group says U.S. army suicides under-repor ...

    The following article is from Inter Press Service (IPS). Bold font appears in original article. U.S.:  Army Underreporting Suicides, Says GI Advocacy Group ©   IPS By Dahr Jamail November 16, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov 16 (IPS) - According to a soldiers' advocacy group at Fort Hood, the U.S. base ...


  • U.S. House health care bill would slash Medicare s ...

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. U.S. House health care bill would slash Medicare services ©   World Socialist Web Site By Kate Randall November 16, 2009 Benefits provided under Medicare would be sharply reduced for some senior citizens under the ...


  • Intel Israel rolls out the barbed wire

    The following article is from The Register, UK. Embedded text links appear in the original article. Intel Israel rolls out the barbed wire ©   The Register By John Oates November 16, 2009 Intel Israel faced angry orthodox Jews on Saturday as they protested at the chip giant's refusal to follow the ...


  • A Dragons' Den for James Bonds

    The following article is from the Guardian UK. Embedded text links appear in the online version. A Dragons' Den for James Bonds ©   Guardian By Peter Walker November 16, 2009 International security is big business, and companies are queueing up to bring their wares to market. It was enough to mak ...


  • The Lands of Sponge Bob Square Pants and His Wonde ...

    The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin. The Lands of Sponge Bob Square Pants and His Wonderful Bubbles ©  Stanislav Mishin Source:   Mat Rodina November 15, 2009 Like the American cartoon that has flooded our televisions, for those who have cable and get the U.S. c ...


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

  • Pictures from last week's China Food Safety Confer ...

    For those avid blog readers who wondered what happened to me last week, I was doing more than hiking the Great Wall.


  • 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 ...


AutoblogGreen

  • Forget Zipcar - Smart reportedly readying car2go c ...

    Filed under: Etc. , Hatchback , Smart Steers and Smarts - Click above for a high-res image gallery Daimler announced in March it would bring the tiny Smart car to the big state of Texas through its car-sharing service car2go. At the time, the German automaker declared that entering the Austin mark ...


  • AutoblogGreen for 11.17.09

    Fuel cell vehicles finish 707-mile demonstration run in Japan Vehicles get 73+ mpg over two days. 3-Euro-cent-per-km mileage tax might become law in the Netherlands Amount will rise to about ...


  • REPORT: Toyota Prius wagon, SUV in the works

    Filed under: Hybrid , SUV , Wagon , Toyota Toyota Hybrid X Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery Exactly how the Prius name might shift from defining the world's most famous hybrid to its own sub-brand - " Not! " - or moniker for other Toyota hybirds - " Yes !" - has been a source of i ...


  • AutoblogGreen for 11.16.09

    Caveat Emptor: Columbus, Ohio dealer taking deposits on Volt Here's an idea. Nissan CEO is bullish for Leaf's success, says million plug-ins by 2015 is an easy goal Charging the same price as ...


  • 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. ...


Rafe's Radar

  • Crowdsourcing cartography with PublicEarth and Ope ...

    Can a crowd of amateur mappers create better guidebooks and maps than professionals? Signs point to yes. Originally posted at Webware


  • 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.


Camera Obscura

  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.

    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so frequ ...


  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...

    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...


  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...

    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...


  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...

    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...


  • Dangerous spaces: Safe.

    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, wit ...


Democracy Now!

  • Nomi Prins on "It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bail ...

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


  • Scanning the Horizon of Books and Libraries

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


  • Police Crackdown on G20 Protests: Democracy Now! R ...

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


  • Arun Gupta asks "What Anti-War Movement?"

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


  • President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action

    Manuel Zelaya, the democratically elected president of Honduras, is back in his country after being deposed in a military coup June 28. Zelaya appeared there unexpectedly Monday morning, announcing his presence in Tegucigalpa, the capital, from within the Brazilian Embassy, where he has taken refug ...


Farming Pathogens

  • 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

  • Solar-Powered Treehouse Classrooms

    The Elleray Preparatory School in the UK has unveiled a unique set of treehouse classrooms that are designed by Robert Gaukroger of Kita Design Company.


  • Last Ice Age took just SIX months to arrive

    It took just six months for a warm and sunny Europe to be engulfed in ice, according to new research. Previous studies have suggested the arrival of the last Ice Age nearly 13,000 years ago took about a decade - but now scientists believe the process was up to 20 times as fast.


  • Man-made Ponds 'caused Bangladesh arsenic'

    Man-made ponds may be responsible for widespread arsenic contamination of ground water affecting millions of people in Bangladesh, a new study says. Experts have described the situation as the worst mass poisoning of a population in history.


  • BBC - Earth News - Predatory coral eats jellyfish

    A coral is recorded eating a jellyfish for the first time, in intriguing photographs taken by scientists.


  • Cocaine, Spices, Hormones Found in Drinking Water

    How's this for a sweet surprise: A team of researchers in Washington State has found traces of cooking spices and flavorings in the waters of Puget Sound.


Invisible Opportunity

  • The Coming Storm and Visible Origami Radio Show

    By Les Visible Ancient traditions and many religious scriptures all talk about this time. In many cases they pinpoint this time. Other indications that tell you about this time are the tremendous effect of materialism; the breakdown of religions, the prevailing decadence and breakup of natural famil ...


  • Population Reduction: Globalist Endgame Begins?

    By SkyWatch Canada On October 30th,”2009 editors of local papers in Kyiv, Ukraine received a flood of phone calls from citizens reporting low flying aircraft spraying an unknown aerosolized substance over L’viv, Ternopil and other cities. On October 27th”the Ukrainian media broke the story th ...


  • Shocking H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Miscarriage Storie ...

    U.S. health authorities have made pregnant women one of the highest priority groups for getting the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, but is it actually safe for pregnant women and their babies? Well, the truth is that miscarriage reports from pregnant women who have taken the H1N1 swine flu vaccine are start ...


  • Deputies Hold Boy Who Fled Flu Shot

    By Shelley Hanson WHEELING – It took the strength of two sheriff’s deputies to keep a middle schooler still enough to receive a shot of the swine flu, or H1N1, vaccine at a recent clinic. During a regular Wheeling-Ohio County Health Board meeting Tuesday, health department Administrator Howard G ...


  • Teen Diagnosed With Guillain-Barre Syndrome After ...

    Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, November 12, 2009 A high school athlete from Virginia was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome hours after receiving a swine flu shot, but health authorities are attempting to dismiss the connection as a coincidence, precisely as they resolved to do l ...

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  • 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

  • Chavez calls for dieting in Venezuela

    Rising obesity has prompted Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to call on his country's people to lose weight, saying that he needs them to be fit and strong. "There are lots of fat people," he said in a televised speech reported by the Guardian. "Doing sit-ups. Eating well. One has to learn how to e ...


  • Programme explores art attractions

    A BBC programme has examined the 10 things which make art beautiful. Directed by Matthew Collings, What is Beauty? looks at 10 works of art which each possess something that makes them attractive.


  • Forest park outshines the competition

    A Scottish forest has been named as one of the world's best places for stargazing. Galloway Forest Park , from which people can easily see the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, has become one of only four "Dark Sky Parks" in the world - an award recognising the quality of the night sky in a given ar ...


  • Week in pictures: 16th 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.


  • Simple changes 'can cut cancer risk'

    Brits could cut their chances of getting cancer by making simple changes to their lifestyles, new research has indicated.


Fabius Maximus

  • The FM newswire for 17 November – news you c ...

    Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 5 sections, all with hot news. Links to interesting news and analysis Any Randian Quote of the Day Featured articles about today’s followers of Ayn Rand’ Plus, an Afterword (I)  Links to interesting news and analysis (a ...


  • Please put on every milk carton: America’s ...

    Rome’s political class was liquidated during a generation of civil war.  America’s has disappeared in a decade, quietly and suddenly.  As if kidnapped by aliens.  This would have been perfect for 1999, the ultimate Y2K mystery. The Democrats have been captured by full-time campaigner, w ...


  • News you can use: the FM newswire for 16 November

    Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 4 sections, all with hot news. Links to interesting news and analysis Featured articles Economists fight against conservatives’ faux science Quote of the Day Plus, an Afterword (I)  Links to interesting news and analysis ...


  • Is the Taliban open to negotiations with the US?

    The record is unclear – have we’ ever tried to negotiate with the Taliban?  The 9-11 report and Saddam’s fruitless attempts to placate the US suggest that President Bush had decided to invade both nations, and his only concern was to erect a suitable scaffolding of lies to support the ...


  • FM newswire, 15 November 2009 – links to old ...

    Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 5 sections, all with hot news. Links to interesting news and analysis Valuable Advice – more hand-to-hand combat tips Featured articles – peak oil updates The essence of the problem in a single sentence, by the Director of ...


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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Size and Strength Not a Mate-Choice Factor for Eve ...

    Unlike most Western guys and gals looking for love, Africa’s Hadza foragers pair up without regard to each other’s size and strength, a new study finds. And that stature-may-care approach underscores the often unappreciated variety of human mating strategies, the researchers say. Hadza marriage ...


  • Civilian Supercomputer Shatters Nuke Simulator’s ...

    The retooled Jaguar supercomputer blew away the competition on the latest list of the 500 fastest computers in the world, clocking an incredible 1.759 petaflops — 1,759 trillion calculations per second. VIDEO: How to Upgrade a Supercomputer, 37,376 Chips at a Time The machine, housed at the De ...


  • Birth of a New Species Witnessed by Scientists

    On one of the Galapagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in two. In many ways, the split followed predictable patterns, requiring a hybrid newcomer who’d already taken baby steps down a ...


  • Titanic Thirty-Meter Telescope Will See Deep Space ...

    SANTA CRUZ, California — Four hundred years after Galileo’s telescope revolutionized humanity’s view of the universe, a gigantic telescope is in the works that could take us to a new, deeper level of understanding. The enormous Thirty Meter Telescope, with a primary mirror the size o ...


  • Plastic Boat: The Building of a High-Tech Eco-Stun ...

    > Not all plastics are created equal — and to prove it, a rakish banking heir and a team of young adventurers have built a huge ship out of plastic. Called Plastiki, the 60-foot catamaran’s hull is made of a newly developed plastic that’s easier to recycle than the sta ...


The Progressive Realist

  • Bi-Partisan Team of Berman and Lugar Call for End ...

    Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Richard Lugar (R-IN) and House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) have jointly written a compelling case to end the travel ban for all Americans desiring to go to Cuba. In fact, their piece, titled " Lift the Ban -- Let Ameri ...


  • Counterterrorism, Real and Imagined

    I've felt for a while that the "safe havens don't matter" argument -- the idea that somehow terrorist networks can substitute online connectivity for actual physical space -- is the weakest argument against the strategic relevance of the Afghanistan war. For all sorts of reasons having to do with tr ...


  • India Must Have a Role in U.S. Afghan Strategy

    While the nation awaits the administration's plans for Afghanistan, few expect that decision to make any mention of India. But it should. When Richard C. Holbrooke was introduced as the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, India was a glaring gap in his portfolio. However, durin ...


  • Rising China: Not Ready for Its Close-Up

    As President Obma urges China to be a "source of strength for the community of nations" -- i.e. help with the heavy lifting on international challenges such as global warming and nuclear proliferation -- Chinese leaders prefer to downplay expectations. They're not witholding their support and assis ...


  • Local Reaction to Obama's Shanghai Town-Hall

    After my real-time late-night note a few hours ago saying that I thought things had gone OK for Obama in Shanghai, I wake up to see this report from my friend Adam Minter, on the scene in Shanghai, about ways in which Obama's answers seemed disappointing from the local perspective: "Obama's perform ...


TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: The Great Rebranding Effort of 20 ...

    In light of the latest conservative freakout over diplomatic protocol and following the rule of law, here's a handy fill-in-the-blanks statement you can use for the next one: "I am shocked and appalled that this president would take the unprecedented step of _____ before ______ on his overseas tri ...


  • Largest Publisher of Gay Newspapers Shuts Down.

    Window Media, the nation's largest owner of gay newspapers, shut its doors today bringing D.C.'s local gay newspaper The Washington Blade as well as four others down with it. The Washington Blade , you could say, was the New York Times of LGBT news. It was the second-largest gay newspaper by circu ...


  • What "Throwing Someone Under the Bus" Actually Mea ...

    Via Mike Crowley , I see that gossip columnist Lloyd Grove has a piece detailing all of the people that Barack Obama has supposedly "thrown under the bus" over the last year or so, with Grove implying that most of these people deserved better ( Greg Craig , for one, did) and that this dastardly pres ...


  • Mike Castle, the Latest Self-Inflicted GOP Casualt ...

    Crack reporter Dave Weigel is surprised by news that Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden , son of Vice President Joe Biden and putative Senate candidate, has suddenly jumped into a five-point lead over Delaware Representative Mike Castle , the popular moderate Republican who is the state's only rep ...


  • Unemployment Solution–Pay People to Work Shorter ...

    With the unemployment rate the highest it's been 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 ...


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 Guantánamoâ€� 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

  • Confusing Options

    Body We are quite possibly the most confused nation in the universe. Many people, urged on by a raft of imbecilic politicians, have absolutely no idea what the terms they use mean. Socialism, Fascism it’s all the same to them - - Hitler, Mao, Lenin, Marx they’re interchangeable depen ...


  • Will America ever 'go rogue' -- again?

    Body The good news is that 7 out of 10 Americans don't believe that Sarah Palin is qualified to be president of the United States; the bad news is that 3 out of 10 do, which only confirms my long-held theory that we can always expect about one-third of the American electorate to believe ...


  • Tom 'Dr. No' Coburn Wins Our GOP Hypocrite Award f ...

    Tom Coburn Earlier this week on Veterans Day, we noted that the Senate was hoping to pass legislation aimed at helping injured vets , including the Caregiver Bill, which would provide funding, support and healthcare coverage for those who provide care for wounded veterans of the current wars in Iraq ...


  • George W. Bush might have been our best lesson eve ...

    Body So, it turns out there's at least one major upside to George W. Bush's fiscal recklessness: Reuters reports that his successor -- having just suffered a $1.4 trillion deficit and spent the mammoth sum of $6.7 billion in Afghanistan in merely one summer month (June) -- sees prodigiou ...


  • The Eternal Sadness of the Bigoted Book Burner, As ...

    BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White I got an e-mail from Josh Glasstetter of the People for the American Way 's Right Wing Watch Thursday evening, letting me know how that ol' fashioned book burning went down in Dixie over Halloween. In his words, it was the "Worst. Book burning. Ever." Watch the v ...


Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Ex-Islamic radicals on what motivates -- and imped ...

    (updated below) The British journalist Johann Hari has written an absolutely vital article for The Independent , examining a growing movement of former hardened Islamic militants who are now devoted to teaching a more moderate and less fundamentalist Islam.  Hari focuses on understanding wh ...


  • 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 ...


The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Latest science headlines

    Time to bring you up to date on the latest science headlines I’ve put together for other sites this last couple of weeks, so here’s a quick round-up: On the SpectroscopyNOW site, this issue, I covered natural chemicals that can help sunflowers soak up toxic cadmium from the soil (another example ...


  • 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 ...


change: org.

  • How to Shame Senate Healthcare Obstructionists

    Remember Rachel Maddow announcing a 3-prong Democratic strategy to get healthcare reform passed last month? The audacious “shame them, demote them, and do an end run around them” strategy seemed lifted right out of the Tea Party sensationalistic playbook. The basic approach was to 1) do good wh ...


  • Kellogg Foundation Funds Local Food

    When you think of local food, Kellogg is not the first name that springs to mind. No, instead it's sugary cereals (okay, and some non-sugary ones), which are some of the most iconic products of our industrial, processed food system. So it may come as somewhat of a surprise to hear that the W.K. Kell ...


  • Long-term Unemployment Worst Since the Great Depre ...

    Record-setting joblessness: it's not just for the elderly . 5.6M Americans have been out of work for at least 6 months; this is the highest proportion of workers out of work for that long since the Great Depression. Joblessness is highest among younger workers. I've written about unemployment and jo ...


  • Glacier in a Freezer Helps Scientists Study Meltin ...

    Iowa State University professor Neal Iverson has a freezer like no other. This is much more than your average walk-in ice box. This is a massive beast, over nine feet tall, on which he has been working for three long years. Science Daily introduces us to the "glacier sliding simulator." Inside is a ...


  • A Jail Journal

    A Michigan man who spent five months in the Washtenaw County Jail in 2008 has been posting about his experiences in installments on the Ann Arbor Chronicle site. It's a moving and detailed account of life on the inside, and well worth a look . The journal started as a twitter feed, doling out jail e ...


Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • U.S. groups call for leadership from the Obama adm ...

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 13, 2009 IATP  As the World Summit on Food Security begins next week in Rome, U.S. civil society organizations expressed concern with the Obama administration’s support for increasing intensive, large-scale agriculture production and trade expansion as a solution to ...


  • Keeping a Global Eye on Copyright Law

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 13, 2009 Electronic Frontier Foundation We spend a lot of our time at EFF trying to spot new proposals in copyright across the world, and understanding whether they're good or bad for civil liberties. We're not the only ones: our understanding depends on the work of hu ...


  • Washington as Wall Street's 'Biggest Profit Center ...

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 16, 2009 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) ROBERT WEISSMAN Public Citizen today released a report titled "Financial Industry Invests Heavily in Key Lawmakers." The group states: "The industry -- including banks, investment firms, insurance companies and real ...


  • Judge Approves Historic EPA Settlement: EPA and Fl ...

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 16, 2009 Earthjustice A federal judge in Tallahassee today approved a historic consent decree which requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to set legal limits for the widespread nutrient poisoning that triggers harmful algae blooms in Florida waters. The ch ...


  • On Trying Guantanamo Bay Detainees

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 13, 2009 Senator Russ Feingold “I’m pleased that after more than eight years, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks will finally be brought to justice.  I commend the Obama administration for deciding to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York, which shows th ...


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

  • Committee looks at consolidating local government ...

    Redding could improve services and perhaps save money by finding a few more ways to pool talent with other agencies or private firms around Shasta County and the north state, a committee studying privatization options for the city decided Monday.Redding already shares dozens of duties with Shasta Co ...


  • Walker uses veto to revive spending cuts, privatiz ...

    Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker also used vetoes to revive $1-an-hour lakefront parking meters, add more furlough days for county workers next year, cut funding for day treatment mental health services and eliminate 39 parks worker jobs.


  • More government cooperation could save taxpayers, ...

    Redding could improve services and perhaps save money by finding a few more ways to pool talent with other agencies or private firms around Shasta County and the north state, a committee studying privatization options for the city decided Monday.Redding already shares dozens of duties with Shasta Co ...


  • Pittsburgh mayor's tuition tax in trouble (Pittsbu ...

    State overseers ready to reject budget plan today; they suggest cuts, shared services


  • Garbage fee proposal meets tough crowd at Clevelan ...

    Discussion over Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's proposed garbage-collection fee gets heated as council members raise concerns from constituents.


Guardian

  • Miliband wants Afghanistan to reintegrate Taliban

    'Dividing the insurgency' is key part of Britain's strategy, says foreign secretary Britain wants to find a way to allow the "vast majority" of Taliban fighters who are not Islamic extremists to reintegrate into Afghan society, David Miliband said today. The foreign secretary said that "dividing the ...


  • Bomber held over soldier murders

    Marion Price, who was jailed for 1973 court bombing, arrested in Belfast over shootings outside army barracks One of two sisters who bombed the Old Bailey in the 1970s is in custody today being questioned about the murders of two soldiers in Northern Ireland last March. Republican sources confirmed ...


  • Ex-SS man charged with killing Jews

    Man named in German media reports as Adolf Storms accused of killing 58 people near Austrian village A 90-year-old former member of the Nazi SS has been charged with 58 counts of murder over the killings of Jewish forced labourers in Austria, officials said today. The man is suspected of killing his ...


  • Cameron attacks Queen's speech

    Tory leader says Gordon Brown's legislative programme – to be set out by the Queen tomorrow – will be divisive and short-termist David Cameron has claimed that tomorrow's Queen's speech will be "the most divisive, short-termist [and] shamelessly self-serving ... in living memory". The Conservati ...


  • Inflation jumps from five-year low

    City economists believe energy costs and the impending VAT rise could temporarily push CPI inflation to 3% or above early next year • Datablog: UK inflation back to 1948 Inflation in the UK jumped from a five-year low to 1.5% in October, with analysts predicting it could hit 3% in the coming month ...


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

  • Resisting through education

    Ahmad's first day of school was in 1991 during the first Palestinian intifada. Then six years old and living in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, Ahmad was a good student who enjoyed school. He ...


  • Right-wing groups creating climate of fear at Isra ...

    Right-wing groups in Israel want to create a climate of fear among left-wing scholars at Israeli universities by emulating the "witch-hunt" tactics of the US academic monitoring group Campus Watch, Is ...


  • Interview: "My film makes you part of Gaza's reali ...

    Directed by Alberto Arce and Mohammed Rjuailah, To Shoot an Elephant is a documentary film that offers an eyewitness account from the Gaza Strip during Israel's assault last winter. During the attacks ...


  • 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 ...


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

  • What’s Next For Health Care Reform?

    Tomorrow, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will unveil the merged Senate health care bill and the accompanying score from the Congressional Budget Office. The legislation, which should cost no more than $900 billion over 10 years and help lower the deficit, will include a new payroll tax, hi ...


  • Tennessee Sheriff Pulls Out Of CIS Event Citing Th ...

    The Nashville City Paper reports that Sheriff Daron Hall of Davidson County, Tennessee has pulled out of an event hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). Local immigration activists brought the group’s nativist history to his attention and Hall canceled his meeting with CIS so as not t ...


  • SuperFreaks Retrench: ‘It’s Harder To ...

    Appearing on PBS’s influential Charlie Rose Show last week, SuperFreakonomics authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner expanded upon their destructively uninformed portrayal of climate science, even throwing into question man’s influence on global warming. When Rose asked him about the controver ...


  • Hawaii Governor Ends ‘Mind-Boggling’ F ...

    n order to deal with their budget shortfalls and constitutional mandates to balance their budgets, many states have unfortunately turned to cutting education funding. Hawaii, however, took its cost-cutting to the extreme by imposing “Furlough Fridays,” a series of state-mandated school closures ...


  • Napolitano: ‘If You Don’t Do Anything, ...

    In an interview this morning on Fox & Friends, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano defended the proposals she offered as part of her first comprehensive discussion on immigration reform. Last Friday, Napolitano announced that immigration reform should consist of “serious an ...


thwap's schoolyard

  • Economists as Priests

    It's not an original idea, but here's some of my thoughts: Priests deliver an unrealistic code of ethics and say that divergence from this code will bring disaster and adherence to the code will bring happiness and success n' life. There's enough commonsense in this ethical code ("do not kill," "d ...


  • 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 ...


Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: Predatory Lending and Outsourc ...

    by Rob Kirby. "Ms. Fitts has worked tirelessly to expose the extent of the “looting of America” as per revelations of conversations she has had with such highly placed individuals as Bill Christ – [then] President of CalPERS"


  • Fixing Unfunded Liabilities

    by Steve Puetz. "A major dilemma currently faces money managers, politicians, bankers, and accountants. Resolving mispriced assets and unfunded liabilities in Social Security, banking balance sheets..."


  • A tale of three cycles

    by Bob Clark. "I use cycles as a road map, to do this I apply what I call my theory of relativity, it is based on the premise that there are multiple cycles in effect all the time and each cycle is subservient to the next larger cycle."


  • Gold Trends, Oil, and the US Dollar

    by John Winston. "In this world we are faced with an ever changing landscape. Nowhere is it truer as soon as you learn the game, the rules are changed. For instance, we are told that gold is signaling an inflationary future coming for the USA..."


  • Robbed Blind by A Lipstick Wearing Pig

    by Davos Okst. "This is a guest article written by our old friend, Davos. It would seem that a particular posting got his gander up, his blood boiling… and so here is his unbridled, unedited, and unapologetic response"


on Government Oversight

  • New SIGTARP Audit Takes a Critical Look at AIG Cou ...

    The Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) has just released an audit looking at one of the most controversial moments in the bailout: the government's decision to pay AIG's counterparties in full for their credit default...


  • Panel Takes an In-Depth Look at UBS Whistleblower ...

    The Government Accountability Project's (GAP) most recent episode of "Whistle While You Work" is a must-watch for those interested in the ongoing struggle of UBS whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld. The episode features a panel discussion with Jack Blum, Chair of Tax...


  • Morning Smoke: New Study Says Supreme Court Decisi ...

    A Critical Look at Navy v. Egan [Secrecy News] UBS Criteria Release May Unveil Model for IRS Crusade [Bloomberg] Tracking contractors' conflicts of interest [Federal Eye] Finance panel to debate government power to break up big financial firms [The Hill]...


  • 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...

    Blacklisted News



  • Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Is Stronger Than the Wall It ...

    Holy crap, you guys, bomb proof wallpaper. This stuff is strong enough to keep very heavy flying objects from breaking walls—in tests, one thin layer was enough to keep a wrecking ball from knocking down a concrete wall.


  • Blackmailed by the Bomb: Nuclear Anxiety and the C ...
  • Arctic ownership update

    This report builds on the previously published Arctic ownership backgrounder. Its aim is to highlight new developments in the scramble for Arctic oil .


  • Gordon Brown: Britain can lead new world order

    PRIME Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday Britain must play a comprehensive role in 'changing the world' as he defended the country's military mission in Afghanistan.


  • New Derivatives Legislation "Was Probably Written ...

    As I have repeatedly written (see this and this), the new derivatives legislation is so bad that it probably increases - rather than decreases - the risk to the financial system.


The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

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

  • Thousands protest Peres' visit to Argentina

    Thousands of anti-Israel demonstrators gathered in the square opposite the Argentinean parliament in Buenos Aires to protest President Shimon Peres' visit to Argentina. "It's a disgrace that the president of our country is meeting today with the child-murderer, Shimon Peres... There are thousands o ...


  • Farmers Not Invited to Food Summit?

    Rome - World farmers are not part of the official delegations at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food summit on food security that opened here Monday. But they came anyhow to express their views, since, they say, it is their communities that are most impacted by the food crisis. Small-s ...


  • Palestine: The New State Solution

    The collapse of the Palestinian Authority, the result of Israel's 42-year refusal to implement a two-state solution, leaves the Palestinians no option but to unilaterally declare an independent state. Israel acted unilaterally when it announced independence in 1948. It is the Palestinians' turn. It ...


  • Russian who spied on Israel shot dead in Moscow

    Shabtai Kalmanovitch, an Israeli immigrant from the former Soviet Union who served time in prison for spying for the KGB, was shot and killed while driving in downtown Moscow, news agencies reported on Monday. According to the Interfax news agency, Kalmanovitch was shot while driving in his Mercede ...


  • Bolivia re-invents democratic socialism with Indig ...

    On December 6, Bolivia will hold a general election where Evo Morales, the first Indigenous President in South America will no doubt be re-elected. His party, the MAS, has recently released an election programme that Susan Harvie has kindly summarized and translated. Bolivia is reinventing democr ...


Threat Level

  • Swedish Retailer Pirates the Pirate Bay Logo

    A Swedish online clothing and tech retailer has assumed ownership of The Pirate Bay’s logo and plans to market the iconic pirate ship – with a cassette-tape image and crossbones — on USB sticks. The company, Sandryds Handel, registered the logo with Sweden’s Patent and Registration Office ...


  • Handy Chart Tracks Proposed Amendments to Patriot ...

    Confused by all the proposed changes to the Patriot Act ricocheting through the Capitol? The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) has put together a handy chart comparing the current law with the various amendments in the House and Senate. The chart compares proposed amendments (.pdf) to Natio ...


  • 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 ...


PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP Embraces Medicare Official Bush Tried to Fire

    Politics, especially Republican politics, makes for strange bedfellows. With the AARP by their side, President Bush and his GOP allies in 2003 pushed for their unfunded and deeply flawed Medicare prescription drug plan. Now in their scorched earth campaign to...


  • Born Again Deficit Virgins

    Everything you need to know about the descent of the conservative movement into a hypocritical caricature is illustrated by two of its proudest constituencies: Republican deficit hawks and so-called "born again virgins." Having already violated the moral strictures they claim...


  • 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...


Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • Shining Light on Roots of Terrorism

    A taboo in talking about 9/11 is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's stated motive, Israel's abuse of Palestinians, notes Ray McGovern. November 15, 2009


  • On Bended Knee to Bob Gates

    Washington pundits are on their knees before Pentagon chief Bob Gates, but ex-CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman dissents. November 14, 2009


  • Leaving Afghanistan to US 'Experts'

    Being wrong on Iraq has credentialed many U.S. "experts" to dominate the debate on Afghanistan, observes David Swanson. November 14, 2009


  • Ray McGovern Talks about Torture

    Speaking in Seattle, ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern says George W. Bush followed a "demonic" descent into torture. November 14, 2009


  • 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


CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Texas Progressive Alliance Round Up Nov 16, 2009

    The Texas Progressive Alliance is starting to feel an odd craving for can-shaped servings of cranberry sauce as it brings you this week’s highlights from the blogs. TXsharon continues to follow the abuses of Aruba Petroleum in a Barnett Shale backyard and Wednesday the Wise County Messenger picked ...


  • 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 ...


Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Human evolution: the shrinking brain

    It is a common minsconception that humans have stopped evolving in recent times, one example of this is the fact that our brains have actually bee...


  • Global warming poll reveals skepticism

    A poll held by British newspaper The Times has revealed that less than half the population believe that humans are contributing to global warming ...


  • The search for Genghis Khan

    Legend has it that when Genghis Khan died in 1227 his lieutenants went to great lengths to keep his death a secret including the murder of anyone ...


  • Scientists identify gene to live to 100

    Scientists studying a group of elderly people with an average age of 97 have discovered a gene that each had inherited and which seems to be respo...


  • Mona Lisa "had eyebrows"

    A French art expert who has analysed Leonardo Da Vinci's famous painting the Mona Lisa using a 240 megapixel camera has determined that the pictur...


Grassroots

  • Resource Rights and the Right to Food at the World ...

    wfs-pic09.jpg In 1996 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) organized the first World Food Summit in Rome to, in their own words, “renew global commitment to the fight against hunger. The FAO called the Summit in respons ...


  • Grassroots Signs Call for U.S. Leadership at the W ...

    unitedstates200604-015.jpg As a founding member and part of the ad hoc steering committee, Grassroots International proudly announces the following Call from the US Working Group on the Food Crisis. The statement coincides with the World Food ...


  • 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 ...


Climate

  • November 16, 2009

    US, China Cuts Now Key to Climate Pact (Washington Post) The scaled-back climate strategy endorsed by President Obama and other leaders could put pressure on the U.S. and China to resolve the biggest stumbling block to an agreement — how much they will cut emissions in the next decade. Obama ...


  • November 15, 2009

    APEC Leaders Reject Possibility of December Climate Deal (CNN) Big promises, no climate deal and consensus that pulling the plug too quickly on stimulus spending could undermine the global economic recovery — those are the results (or lack thereof) from the APEC summit. Copenhagen Hopes in ...


  • 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 ...


TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Max Blumenthal, How Palin Became a Rogue

    It can't get better than this, can it? A first printing of 1.5 million copies sent out into an otherwise dead book market. Possibly as much as $7 million dollars going to the author, who already has interviews lined up with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. A bus tour of the "real America" tha ...


  • 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 ...


Smirking Chimp

  • Double Crossed: War Vets Deported

    Astonishingly, more than 30,000 foreign born detainees face deportation at some 350 facilities nationwide. Nearly half are legal residents who committed crimes that range from homicide to misdemeanor drug possession, and were turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement after serving their pri ...


  • Going Vogue

    Before it even reaches the bookstores, everyone’s favorite ex-news reader, ex-Mayor, ex-Governor, ex-VP Candidate and now author (or, more precisely, co-author) Sarah Palin’s book, “Going Rogue” is #1 on Amazon’s best seller list. That said, in an extraordinary bit of marketing, the book ...


  • The Palin Effect: How Sarah Palin Made Herself Ind ...

    — from TomDispatch Sarah Palin's heavily publicized book tour begins in earnest this Monday, but weeks before, her ghostwritten memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life , had already vaulted into the number one position at Amazon. Warming up for a tour that will take her across Middle America in a bus, ...


  • President Obama: Don't Lecture China on Censorship

    President Obama, in his visit to China, held a "town meeting" with Chinese students in which he praised openness and lectured them on the value of freedom of information, saying that he is a "supporter of non-censorship" and that open access to information was a "source of strength." And yet America ...


  • Afghan Escalation Would Make One-Year Pentagon Bud ...

    In pitting the 10-year cost of Democrats' health care bill against the 10-year projected cost of the bloated Pentagon budget, my newspaper column last week made a simple comparison rarely ever made in politics today - a comparison that might provide citizens with much needed context, but a compariso ...


Ten Percent

  • Afghanistan Timetable?

    Maybe the massive opposition to the Afghan occupation is getting through- Gordon Brown tonight raised the prospect of agreeing a timetable for international withdrawal from Afghanistan, in a speech in which he claimed that almost half of al-Qaida’s leadership had now been killed. Brown said he hop ...


  • Good Words

    But we are used to his talk by now, what of actions- President Barack Obama on Sunday told Myanmar’s junta to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an unusual face-to-face interaction with a top leader of the ruling military. Obama delivered the strong message during his summit with ...


  • Movies

    Director and star fired from his own movie by producer who revels in commerce’s superiority over creativity- “That’s why they call it show business and not show art.”


  • Press Corruption Club

    So what sort of person should regulate commercial media? Would your answer include any of these- *Enthusiastic & highly active member of the Conservative party who in her debut PCC speech makes clear her allegiances to Cameron’s tribe, so press regulation under a tory government, hmm do you suppos ...


  • Secret Inquests & The Workhouse

    So now the govt can murder people and cover it up and force people below the poverty line into work that makes them worse off or else pay a fine, yep really they just made poverty and receiving welfare a crime. Apparently raising child is not work to our ruling classes (well it isn’t for [...]


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No Quarter

  • NoQuarter Radio’s Sins of Omission with Paulie A ...

    Promo bumped down: The November 16th program has concluded but you can listen by clicking on the link, or by following our instructions for iTunes in the right column. Join Sins of Omission Monday, November 16th at 9pm (ET) as host Paulie Abeles — finally recovering from a serious bout of H1N1 f ...


  • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Will Destroy Obama

    Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement last Friday that five prisoners currently held at Guantanmo will be put on trial in a civilian Federal court in New York City is absolute lunacy. I say this as one who rejects the Bush Administration nonsense that we “can’t fight terrorism with law ...


  • NoQuarter Radio’s Sins of Omission with Paulie A ...

    Join Sins of Omission Monday, November 16th at 9pm (ET) as host Paulie Abeles — finally recovering from a serious bout of H1N1 flu — talks to a great friend of this blog, Dr. Lynette Long. ____ Women are everywhere in our society–comprising more than 51% of the population. And representations ...


  • Code Pink Fundraisers Have Lost Their Frikkin’ M ...

    Let me just warn you now. If you are drinking or eating anything as you read this, you might want to stop. This article is disturbing on so many levels, but even more, it is infuriating at the way in which it paints Major Hasan, the alleged mass murderer. This is way [...]


  • On Bended Knee to Bob Gates

    Reprinted from Consortium.com with the express permission of Mel Goodman, whose bio is at the end of this article. Consortium Editor’s Note: It’s been said that Official Washington moves like a school of fishes, darting in different directions but always together in a pack. That school of fishes ...


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Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Morocco: Endangered 'Model'?

    Morocco might have a better record on domestic reforms than its neighbors, but that's no excuse to ignore its recent retreat on human rights.


  • Postcard from...Tirana

    George W. Bush has a cafe and a street named for him in Tirana. Is a statue next?


  • 'Legitimacy' in Afghanistan

    Escalation has just brought more death and destruction. More escalation could close off opportunities for a political solution.


  • Why the Afghan Surge Will Fail

    President Obama is on the verge of making a profound mistake by sending more troops to Afghanistan, argues columnist Conn Hallinan.


  • Obama: Visit Hiroshima

    Here's one way President Obama can prove he's worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.


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  • Robert Erickson punks Tea Party The Full Story HD

    Have a lol. My buddy Robert & I put a lil sequence together :) Please repost!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rry_SlPW7oU and http://blip.tv/file/2859263 TC Indymedia gives a new look at the infamous Robert Erickson Tea Party punk with crowd reactions and the assault on a counter-protester in HD. ...


  • 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 ...


Daily Censored

  • The Republican Party, Fox News, and the Importance ...

    Republican Party and Fox News Challenges Department of Justice Decision To Begin Guantanamo Bay Trials in the United States District Court  for the  Southern Judicial District of New York (Criminal) The poster child of Muslim terrorism,  Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the Am ...


  • Swine Flu (H1N1) in 2009+ and 1918 Flu Pandemic

    Sheila Parks, Ed.D. A month or so ago there was a serious attack against homeopathy going on.  I do not think it is a coincidence that this attack on homeopathy came around the swine flu vaccination time and controversy It is known that many of us will not take the swine flu shot and some of us [.. ...


  • REAL-ID is in big trouble

    Americans hate it. The states hate it. Everyone has been balking at the implementation of REAL-ID, the government’s program to create a defacto national ID card masquerading as a new kind of driver’s license. States have been fighting against it since the very beginning. Now, it seems that R ...


  • Change, Be Careful What You Wish For…

    Change is coming, it is in the papers daily.  Yesterday I saw an ad that took up an entire page.  It showed two pictures of the Himalayas.  One was taken at the turn of the twentieth century and the other was fairly recent.  It showed how almost all the ice is gone.  That ice supplies [...]


  • Change, Be Careful What You Wish For…

    Change is coming, it is in the papers daily.  Yesterday I saw an ad that took up an entire page.  It showed two pictures of the Himalayas.  One was taken at the turn of the twentieth century and the other was fairly recent.  It showed how almost all the ice is gone.  That ice supplies [...]


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Godspace

  • Waiting for Advent – A Prayer from the litur ...

    Tomorrow I am hoping to upload my Advent 2009 meditation video.  It has taken me a little longer this year because I moved to using a Mac a few months ago and have been on a steep learning curve as I have grappled with Imovie.  At first i thought of giving this year a miss [...]


  • 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 [...]


Equality Trust

  • Archbishop of Canterbury: higher taxes "good for s ...

    A divine intervention from Dr Rowan Williams reported in today's Daily Telegraph .


  • 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 ...


IntelNews

  • Abducted Iranian defense official reportedly held ...

    Iran’s former deputy defense minister, who went missing during a 2006 official visit to Turkey, was kidnapped in a joint Israeli-German-British operation, according to an Iranian newsmagazine.


  • News you may have missed #0186

    UN shares intel with Rwandan rebels, says paper. Pakistan militants target spy agency. US bases in Colombia to be used for spying, says Chávez.


  • Book claims CIA turned blind eye on Pakistan&#8217 ...

    A new book by France’s former leading investigating magistrate on counterterrorism affairs alleges that the CIA allowed the Pakistani army to train members of a notorious Islamist militant group, even after 9/11.


  • News you may have missed #0185

    Article claims US employed cyberwar in 2007. Somali suicide bomb recruiter had US residency. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial a huge challenge for US judiciary.


  • Happy birthday, IntelNews

    A year ago today, on November 16, 2008, intelNews began its beta preview period, with the airing of a brief note by Ian Allen on on “Obama’s intelligence policy”.


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  • 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

  • Senate Public Option Scoreboard

    In addition to senators' perspectives on the public option, the Scoreboard now lists uninsured numbers in senators' home states, as well as state-by-state public option polling data.


  • Here’s One Way to Cut Health Care Costs

    Women should screen for breast cancer less frequently and at a later age, according to new recommendations issued Monday by a well-respected preventative medicine panel. The United States Preventive Services Task Force, which in 2002 recommended that women begin getting mammograms at age 40, now say ...


  • NY-23: Absentees (Still) Point to a Democratic Win

    I see that Doug Hoffman has “un-conceded” in the NY-23 special election after some prodding from Glenn Beck. Unfortunately for the Conservative Party candidate, the absentee ballot count so far points to a victory for Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.). The key problem for Hoffman: Dede Scozzafava, the Re ...


  • UPDATED: Sessions Will Vote to Block David Hamilto ...

    Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, just said on the Senate floor that he will vote against cloture on the nomination of David Hamilton, the district court judge in Indiana nominated to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Sessions earlier wrote a ...


  • DeVore Swings at Fiorina for ‘Helping Democr ...

    In my story on the surprisingly fractious GOP primary for the right to challenge Sen. Barbara Boxer (R-Calif.), I mentioned that backers of Carly Fiorina had successfully placed negative oppo about Republican underdog Chuck DeVore. Today, DeVore’s swinging back with a Web video that accuses Fiorin ...


CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Ecosmackdown: Pets Versus Solar Panels

    It takes 17 times more land to feed American pets than would be required by solar farms producing enough electricity to meet all the demand in the United States. Why do we know this? Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment


  • New Study Finds Canned Food Laced With Toxic Chemi ...

    Consumer Reports has unleashed its findings on toxic levels of Bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging on a largely unsuspecting public. Before the report, many felt the BPA danger had passed with the introduction of BPA-free baby bottles and so-called microw Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Health & Wel ...


  • Life and Death on the Ranch

    We prefer focusing on the enjoyable parts of farming but there are tough days, too. Even painful ones. Like last Friday. The morning started well. We began our chores as the sun burned through early fog, and moisture wafted up from the earth. Then we foun Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Cu ...


  • Meat needn’t mean murder to the planet

    It felt like a political act to order an English breakfast last week after Lord Stern of Brentford’s remarks about a vegetarian diet being better for the planet. I happened to be staying at the Farmers’ Club, so the significance of the moment weighed heav Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & ...


  • Toxic Chinese Drywall Creates A Housing Disaster

    Along the Gulf Coast and across the country, it's being called a "silent hurricane." Between 2004 and 2007, an estimated 100,000 homes in more than 20 states were built with toxic drywall imported from China. Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment


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

  • Who’s Your Sheriff?

    Related articles: Sheriff Mack.com Mack v. United States (Ninth Circuit) Continue reading County Sheriff’s Have the Ultimate Authority to Stop The New World Order


  • USDA Declares Half of Midwest as Agricultural Disa ...

    By Eric deCarbonnel The graphic below shows counties designated as disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. View Larger Chart Continue reading USDA Declares Half of Midwest as Agricultural Disaster Area


  • Big Medicare Cuts Coming

    Report: Reform would cut senior healthcare. They simply want to steal $500 Billion of “entitlements”(already paid for) health care for the elderly. More than $500 billion in cuts from Medicare spending under a U.S. healthcare plan would slash some seniors’ benefits and limit access to care, a ...


  • Till Death Do Us Part?

    By Carrie A. Moore Women diagnosed with cancer or multiple sclerosis are over six times more likely to be divorced than men with the same diagnosis, according to a new study co-authored by a former researcher at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. And while none of the study subjects came from Utah hosp ...


  • Reality? What A Read!

    I enjoy reading Barbara Ehrenreich’s work. Ehrenreich seeks reality. She goes to great lengths to personally experience the phenomenon about which she writes. She combines intimate effort with the research of a successful author who earned her Ph.D in cell biology. I just finished Ehrenreich’s ...


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  • Less Than a Week Away

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


  • The Georgia Guidestones

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


  • The Creation

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


  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...

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


  • About George Green

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


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

  • Hot Tip for a Cooler Planet

    Cooler Planet is a company created and run by passionate environmentalists to help consumers and small business owners reduce their carbon footprint. Related posts: Planet Green Announces New Green Materials Guide New Jersey to Double its Solar Power Generation – Second Only to California Introd ...


  • Chrysler Electric Car Programs Dumped… Despite B ...

    Remember how much money Chrysler received from the federal government in bailout money? $12.5 billion, according to USA Today's DriveOn blog. Related posts: Chrysler’s Pea-Pod Electric Car for the Golf Cart Elite Electric Cars Run on Coal, But are They Cleaner than Gas? GM to Build Two More Elec ...


  • Photo Sunday – Journey Through the Arctic Ice

    Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action. Susan Collins Related posts: NASA Arctic Satellite About to Die? Here Comes Operation Ice Bridge Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning Photo Sunday – Sunday Morning Coming Dow ...


  • 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 ...


Inhabitat

  • Energy Positive House to Supply Power to Grid in S ...

    We’ve seen some pretty energy efficient homes here at Inhabitat, but houses that actually give back to the grid seemed to be a thing of the future — until now. Swedish designers are currently constructing Villa Akarp, a residence that aims to combine energy conservation, energy recovery and ener ...


  • Inhabitat Tours Manhattan’s New Green Spaces Off ...

    Yuka Yoneda and Emma Grady of Treehugger Green-powered productivity, eco-minded collaboration, and a beautiful, open space to do it all in? That’s exactly what Green Spaces, the company that pioneered sustainable office space in New York, has to offer in their newly opened 5,300 sq. foot loft in d ...


  • San Francisco Offers Christmas Trees that Live on ...

    Since loads of us love Christmas trees and all things that bring Christmas cheer, here’s a way to indulge in your tree without killing it (strange tradition we’ve had all these years, eh?) The city of San Francisco has launched a program offering live local trees that you can take into your h ...


  • Gigantic LEGO House Destroyed!

    In a tragic turn of events, the supercool House of LEGOs constructed for the James May BBC television challenge was torn, hammered and shattered into nothing more than a pile of 3.3 million LEGO bricks, along with the dreams of many a young (and old) LEGO lover. This sad news was more than dishearte ...


  • Coke Announces Global Rollout of Plant-Based Plast ...

    Nearly 1.6 billion servings of Coca-Cola-branded beverages are served each day. Now some of them will be just a little bit greener now that Coke has announced the global rollout of its PlantBottle, a plastic bottle made from a blend of petroleum-based materials and 30% plant based materials (derived ...


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

  • Muslim scholars rejecting Darwin’s theory of evo ...

    Daily Telegraph – Muslim students and academics also said they felt they were being asked to make a “binary choice” between Darwinism and creationism, rather than both having a place. The claim was made by Nidhal Guessoum, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the American University of Sharja ...


  • Going high-tech to track Alzheimer’s patients

    AP — Tom Dougherty jokes that he takes “get-lost walks.” To his wife, Cleo, it’s a constant fear: When will his Alzheimer’s get bad enough that she has to end his 4-mile daily strolls? A growing number of states are adopting “Silver Alerts” programs that notify the public when an Alzhe ...


  • Iraq election is ‘Herculean task’

    BBC – The UN’s special envoy to Iraq has said it will be a “Herculean task” to ensure basic standards are met before Iraq’s planned national elections in January. Ad Melkert told the Security Council credible polls were still possible, but he was concerned about the timescale. The poll is ...


  • India puts nuclear plants on alert – report

    Reuters – India has put its nuclear power plants under alert and tightened security around them after intelligence about possible attacks, a report said on Monday. Read Article


  • Lower Tuna Limit Still Too High, Researchers Say

    NPR – An international commission meeting in Brazil has voted to sharply reduce the fishing quota for bluefin tuna, but biologists say the step probably doesn’t go far enough to save the species. Bluefin tuna is one of the most valuable fish in the sea. A single fish can fetch $100,000 at market ...


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

  • Major Hasan Of Fort Hood: A Patsy In A Drill Gone ...

    Webster G. Tarpley In the wake of the massacre at Fort Hood Texas , two principal theories have emerged to explain the conduct of the accused shooter, identified by the U.S. Army as Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist of Jordanian-Palestinian ancestry. One of these theories is embraced by ...


  • India destabilising Pakistan: More evidence

    LAHORE – Explosive material used in the deadly bomb blast which took place at Khyber Bazaar Peshawar last month, was identical to what had been used in exploding Samjhota Express in India, sources confined to The Nation Monday. The explosive material – Vehicle Born Improvised Explosive Device (V ...


  • Video: A Documentary Banned in India: “The Final ...

    The ‘Critic Magazine’ Blog The Final Solution is a 2003 documentary directed by Rakesh Sharma about the 2002 communal Gujarat Riots that arose as a response to the Godhra Train Burning incident on February 27, 2002, where 58 Hindus were burnt alive on a train carriage. An officia ...


  • Why Pakistan Is Winning Its War & US/NATO Losing I ...

    by Moin Ansari | Rupee News In Mingora, the city of 250,000 people that was until recently the headquarters of Pakistan’s Swat valley Taliban, the shopping centre is heaving. ‘Bloody Chowk’, the crossroads where the militants used to leave the butchered bodies of their victims every night, is ...


  • Pictures and Videos: Operation Rah-e-Nijat Updates ...

    New pics from Operation Rah-e-Nijat, the pic of Fazal ur Rehman is from before the operation meeting pro TTP people. No wonder he is against the operation now. More updates: Waziristan Operation (Rah-e-Nijat): Pictures and Video updates Kayani to US: Stop Indian Meddling in Afghanistan and Paki ...


ecogeek

  • Action on Climate Change Delayed: Copenhagen Won' ...

    As reports have indicated for the past several weeks, a binding agreement won't be reached in Copenhagen this December.  Leaders attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation this past weekend met and decided that the Copenhagen conference would be used to come up with an interim "politically" b ...


  • 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 ...


Times Online - Science

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • T-9 and Holding:

    About 8 minutes before the shuttle blasts off : At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis and crew are nearing liftoff at Launch Pad 39A, prepared to begin the STS-129 cargo-delivery mission to the International Space Station. The countdown clock is holding at T-9 minutes. ...


  • 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.


SPL Center

  • From a Law-Enforcement Veteran, Common Sense About ...

    Why is it a bad idea for local law enforcement agencies to act as immigration cops? Because it undermines public safety. William J. Bratton, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, explains why in this op-ed essay that ran last week in the Los Angeles Times. He also explains his decision not to ...


  • Ex-Skinhead Leader Gets 3-1/2-Year Sentence for Ra ...

    The former leader of a violent racist skinhead group will serve nearly 3½ years in federal prison on a racketeering charge. Jeremy Robinson, 37, was sentenced on Oct. 15 after pleading guilty to a felony charge of interstate transportation in aid of a racketeering enterprise, according to court doc ...


  • SPLC to O’Reilly: You Lose Dobbs Bet

    To: Bill O’Reilly The O’Reilly Factor Fox News Network Dear Bill, You lost the bet. Time to pay up! When I appeared on your show in July, you were so certain that the Southern Poverty Law Center’s call for CNN to fire Lou Dobbs was a waste of time that you bet $10,000 (with the proceeds going ...


  • Sympathy from the Far Right for Limbaugh on His NF ...

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


  • Oath Keepers Say They’re on Patrol in Iraq

    Oath Keepers, the militia/“Patriot” extremist group made up of law enforcement officers, military personnel and veterans, has posted a photo on its site showing (it says) “an active duty Oath Keeper in Mosul, Iraq” wearing two Velcro-attached “tabs” or patches, one saying “Oath Keeperâ ...


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 ...


  • Steve Yolen on Rio’s English News

    By Doug Gray, Senior Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - “Paper versus computer is the conundrum facing today’s news” says Steve Yolen, former editor of Rio’s last printed English language newspaper The Latin America Daily Post. “Newspaper is one word, but you need to lose the paper bit. Now you’d ...


  • 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 ...


  • Petrobras Takes $10B From Chinese

    By Jaylan Boyle, Senior Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - An agreement has been signed between Brazilian state-owned petroleum giant Petrobras and the Chinese Development Bank, finalizing the details of a finance package of US$10 billion over 10 years. The agreement was initially signed in May during a visi ...


  • 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 ...


change: org.

  • How to Shame Senate Healthcare Obstructionists

    Remember Rachel Maddow announcing a 3-prong Democratic strategy to get healthcare reform passed last month? The audacious “shame them, demote them, and do an end run around them” strategy seemed lifted right out of the Tea Party sensationalistic playbook. The basic approach was to 1) do good wh ...


  • Kellogg Foundation Funds Local Food

    When you think of local food, Kellogg is not the first name that springs to mind. No, instead it's sugary cereals (okay, and some non-sugary ones), which are some of the most iconic products of our industrial, processed food system. So it may come as somewhat of a surprise to hear that the W.K. Kell ...


  • Long-term Unemployment Worst Since the Great Depre ...

    Record-setting joblessness: it's not just for the elderly . 5.6M Americans have been out of work for at least 6 months; this is the highest proportion of workers out of work for that long since the Great Depression. Joblessness is highest among younger workers. I've written about unemployment and jo ...


  • Glacier in a Freezer Helps Scientists Study Meltin ...

    Iowa State University professor Neal Iverson has a freezer like no other. This is much more than your average walk-in ice box. This is a massive beast, over nine feet tall, on which he has been working for three long years. Science Daily introduces us to the "glacier sliding simulator." Inside is a ...


  • A Jail Journal

    A Michigan man who spent five months in the Washtenaw County Jail in 2008 has been posting about his experiences in installments on the Ann Arbor Chronicle site. It's a moving and detailed account of life on the inside, and well worth a look . The journal started as a twitter feed, doling out jail e ...


Common Dreams -News

  • US, Somalia Still Opt Out of Children's Treaty

    by Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS - When the U.N. children's agency (UNICEF) commemorates the 20th anniversary of its landmark international treaty protecting the rights of children next week, there will be two countries skipping the celebrations: the United States and Somalia. "It is embarrassing to fi ...


  • UN's Ban to Fast in Solidarity with World's Hungry

    UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will join a 24-hour fast called by the U.N. food chief to show solidarity with the world's 1 billion hungry ahead of a food security summit next week, a spokeswoman said on Friday. U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Jacq ...


  • Obama Must Be More Engaged on Climate Change: Gree ...

    BEIJING — Greenpeace, the global environmental group, called Friday on US President Barack Obama to become more engaged on climate change at home and abroad, just two days ahead of his visit to China. "The main thing he needs to do is improve the public debate (domestically)," Kyle Ash, the group' ...


  • Where Have All the Protests Gone? US Students in L ...

    by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON - When student Hemnecher Amen joined a protest outside the White House recently, it was the latest visible opposition here to US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hardly anyone took notice. "There's a lot of apathy and a growing disconnectedness to what's going on in world a ...


  • Trials at Ground Zero for September 11 Accused

    by David Usborne in New York More than eight years after two hijacked planes smashed into the Twin Towers of lower Manhattan killing thousands and sparking foreign wars, five men accused of helping to plot the carnage are to be brought to face trial in a civilian courthouse just a few blocks away fr ...


Lifehacker

  • Taweet Makes Scheduling Twitter Updates Easy [Twi ...

    While Twitter might have been founded on the idea of people sharing what they are doing right that moment, what about if you want to share what you're doing in the future? Taweet solves the dilemma with scheduled tweets. Sign up for a free Taweet account, link it to your Twitter account, and you're ...


  • Power Efficiency Reports Tune Up Windows 7's Ener ...

    There's a handy battery-preserving, energy-saving tool in Windows 7, but it's nowhere near the shiny graphics or slick taskbar. Online Tech Tips shows us how to audit our computers' energy efficiency using a simple command line tool. Head to your Start menu, type in cmd , and right-click on the Comm ...


  • Chrome's Sample Extensions Add Gmail Checking, Fe ...

    If you're running Google Chrome's development version, or a Mac or Linux nightly build of Chromium, you can already install three sample extensions from Google developers. Two of them add some pretty nifty Gmail and feed conveniences to your browser. They're the same kind of sample extensions we'd f ...


  • Adobe Flash 10.1 Beta Brings Hardware Acceleratio ...

    Windows/Mac/Linux: Adobe is offering up a "prerelease" of its inescapable Flash software, adding in GPU acceleration for H.264 video in Windows, multi-touch support, and bug fixes. Anyone with Adobe AIR apps can also grab a 2.0 prerelease of that platform. Yes, you read right—only Windows gets the ...


  • Lifehacker Readers Are Split on Twitter [What You ...

    We've always suspected that many of our readers weren't all that keen on Twitter, but after last week's poll , it's pretty clear why. 47 percent of Lifehacker readers who responded said they never use Twitter, nor would they ever care to. As for the rest, 26 percent of you regularly use Twitter and ...


Newshoggers - AfPak

  • India's Eastern Focus

    By Dave Anderson: Pakistan supports the Quetta Shura Taliban and other anti-government insurgent groups/networks in Afghanistan because Pakistan wants strategic depth against India. The warlords of the Northern Alliance and the Karzai government have a long history of having good working ties with I ...


  • I Hope Karzai Has Good Bodyguards

    By Steve Hynd Did the U.S. and allies just put Karzai on the "dead pool" list? The establishment of a new investigations unit with the backing of Scotland Yard's Serious Organised Crimes Agency and the FBI was announced in Kabul by senior officials flanked by the US and British ambassadors following ...


  • UK's Brown Wants NATO Summit For Afghan Exit Timet ...

    By Steve Hynd Faced with cratering support for the occupation in Afghanistan, Britain's Gordon Brown is trying to thread the needle by claiming that the UK's presence there is justified while looking for the fastest possible exit strategy- preferably a strategy that shows tangible progress before ne ...


  • Dithering?

    Commentary By Ron Beasley I covered the dangerous senile rantings of the old fool David Broder here yesterday morning. It's still getting some play over at memeorandum this morning. Steve Benen has a great reaction: I realize there's been a painful decline in the quality of Broder's analysis in rece ...


  • Hillary Prepares The Ground For An Exit Timetable

    By Steve Hynd There's been a substantial change in Obama administration rhetoric in the last week or two, which has only accelerated after Gen. Eikenberry put his spanner in the escalationists' works. Hillary Clinton, talking to ABC News this Sunday, gives the clearest indication yet that the admini ...


Water Wars

  • Water Wars: Regional cooperation drying out (News ...

    (Part 1) In 1997, the Texas Legislature developed a water development plan that divided the state into 16 regions. The bill was supported by the idea that water-rich regions would help water-poor regions; however the spirit of that idea does not always withstand the demand for an increasingly vital ...


  • Water Wars: Regional cooperation drying out (News ...

    (Part 1) In 1997, the Texas Legislature developed a water development plan that divided the state into 16 regions. The bill was supported by the idea that water-rich regions would help water-poor regions; however the spirit of that idea does not always withstand the demand for an increasingly vital ...


  • Mandatory environmental class considered (The Blue ...

    As the nation's fresh administration hits hard with a new environmental agenda, students discuss the possibility of a more aggressive policy on environmental education in the UNC Asheville curriculum.


  • 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.


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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

  • Brown offers London as summit venue for Afghanista ...

    British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has told a group of people attending the annual Lord Mayor's speech in London he would like to host a summit next year for decisions to be made on handing over Afghan security to the Karzai government.


  • Bribery is British troops' new weapon against ...

    Tehran, Nov. 17 : British forces stationed in Afghanistan have been issued new guidelines, asking them to buy off potential Taliban recruits with "bags of gold."


  • Girls school near Peshawar blown up

    Peshawar, Nov 17 (IANS) Unidentified militants blew up a girls school in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber tribal region Tuesday, the third such attack in the area bordering Afghanistan this month. There were no casualties.


  • Pakistani Taliban points to US Blackwater hands in ...

    Pakistan's Taliban denied involvement in targeting civilians and has blamed US hands for some blasts. Tehreek e-Taliban issued its first video statement over the recent attacks blamed on the group acr...


  • As Obama ponders Afghanistan, so does Europe

    President Barack Obama's delay in deciding U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan has found an echo chamber in Europe, where coalition leaders in NATO are weighing whether to send more help or bow to public...


Futurismic

  • More thoughts on the LoveMachine

    Thanks to New World Notes, we get a little more detail about Philip Rosedale’s LoveMachine system, the reputation-based closed economy we mentioned yesterday. Cory Ondrejka was Linden Lab’s CTO until 2007, and he was instrumental in developing the LoveMachine system as it operated within the com ...


  • Flibanserin: Viagra for ladies?

    I guess we can look forward to a new pharmacological trade name appearing in our spam folders in the near future. A failed antidepressant, flibanserin will soon enter clinical trials in the UK to determine whether it’s safe to be marketed as the Female Viagra, accompanied by pointed questions from ...


  • Facebook as your alibi

    We’ve surely heard enough stories about how posting status updates on social networks can give away more information about you than you intended, so here’s the positive flipside of that: Rodney Bradford was a suspect in a Brooklyn mugging case, and it’s partly thanks to a Facebook status updat ...


  • The Hail Mary Cloud: slow but steady brute-force p ...

    Did you hear about the recent exploit of jailbroken jesusPhones? Yeah, the Rick-rolling one (though that wasn’t strictly the original exploit, rather some Australian script-kiddie’s repurposing of a Dutch exploit from earlier in the month); to sum it all up in a sentence, bad things can happen t ...


  • LoveMachine Inc: Second Life founder’s reputatio ...

    Oh, to be a CEO of a tech start-up… they can get bored of their projects even faster than the public can, y’know. Actually, that’s a little unfair – Philip Rosedale, the man behind Linden Lab, hasn’t lost interest in Second life so much as he’s looking for a new fish to fry with his [... ...


geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • International Whistleblower News (November 16, 200 ...

    [UK] Develin, Kate, “NHS whistleblower ‘sacked for revealing dumped x-ray scans’,” Telegraph.co.uk, November 14, 2009. Dr Otto Chan, a consultant radiologist, believes that he was labelled a troublemaker after the revelations about the Royal London. He claims that hospital bosses decided to ...


  • 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 ...


Defense and the National Interest

  • What should we do with terrorists?

    Security guru Bruce Schneier has the right idea: We should treat terrorists like common criminals and give them all the benefits of true and open justice — not merely because it demonstrates our indomitability, but because it makes us all safer. Once a society starts circumventing its own laws, th ...


  • Sun Tzu’s Art of War

    A Modern Application For When Things Don’t Go Our Way James Gimian and Barry Boyce Presented by the Georgetown University, Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, Center for Peace and Security Studies (CPASS). November 18, 2009 Reed Alumni House 3601 O Street NW (Brick House with White Pillars) Wa ...


  • On War #317: Keeping Our Infantry Alive

    William S. Lind 29 September 2009 The headline of the September 23 Washington Post read, “Less Peril for Civilians, but More for Troops.” The theme of the article was that restrictions General Stanley McChrystal has imposed on the use of supporting arms in Afghanistan, with the objective of red ...


  • About light infantry tactics and the tactical chal ...

    Sven Ortmann 30 September 2009 William S. Lind has proposed a re-training of U.S. infantry with what he calls “true light infantry or Jaeger tactics” to solve tactical challenges in Afghanistan. He especially referenced General McChrystal’s restrictions that recently limited the Western gro ...


  • Two opinions on Afghanistan

    which I recommend everybody read: Reform or go home, by David Kilcullen in yesterday’s New York Times.  Pretty much sums it up — it’s the Afghans’ problem.  Although I think his emphasis on early elections is misplaced (in IWCKI, I quote Lee Kuan Yew as observing that elections may be ...




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- Nov 16, 2009
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SURVEY SHOWS AMERICANS WANT
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- Nov 17, 2009
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Wuerthner to speak on forest ecology and value of dead trees
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No 'bird flu' revealed in Azerbaijan: Ecology Ministry
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Drought Lowers Three Gorges Dam Water Levels
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- Nov 17, 2009
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In a season when water levels should be rising behind the dam's 600-foot-high, 1.4-mile-long concrete retaining wall, they have held mostly steady around ...
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- Nov 17, 2009
- 6 hours ago
IU geologist Abhijit Basu (Oh-bee-JEET') (Bah-Soo) says Friday's news that NASA spacecraft kicked up significant amounts of frozen water when they crashed ...
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Leaders seek support for funding Texas water plan
Fort Worth Star Telegram
- Nov 16, 2009
- 11 hours ago
By BILL HANNA FORT WORTH — The state water plan outlines a way to keep Texas from running dry over the next 50 years. The problem has been finding a way to ...
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Editorial: No Peninsula perks in big water package
Monterey County Herald
- Nov 17, 2009
- 5 hours ago
uch of the early scrutiny of the $11 billion water bond set for a vote next year has naturally centered on what is in the giant package, particularly the ...
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