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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • AGRICULTURE-SENEGAL: Groundnut Production in Free ...
    KAOLACK, Senegal, Nov 3 (IPS) - Farmers are complaining about a lack of technical assistance and the poor quality of seeds they've planted this year in the Kaolack region, Senegal's groundnut-producing area, 200 kilometres south of the capital Dakar.
  • DEVELOPMENT: South-South Unity to Get Boost at U. ...
    UNITED NATIONS, Nov 3 (IPS) - As the global financial crisis continues to ravage the fragile economies of the world's poorer countries, the United Nations is hosting a high-level international conference next month to boost South-South cooperation.
  • RIGHTS-US: Another Legal Setback for Arar Torture ...
    NEW YORK, Nov 3 (IPS) - A federal appeals court on Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought against a former U.S. attorney general by a Canadian citizen who sought damages for being unlawfully detained by U.S. authorities in New York and then secretly shipped to Syria, where he was imprisoned for a ye ...
  • GUATEMALA: Controversy Dogs New Highway
    GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 3 (IPS) - Construction is expected to begin soon on a new highway across north-central Guatemala, the largest infrastructure project tackled so far by the government of Álvaro Colom.
  • U.S.: Obama's Outreach to Muslim World Teetering
    WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama's extraordinary efforts since his first days in office to reassure Muslims in the Greater Middle East about U.S. intentions in the region have suffered a series of setbacks that threaten to reverse whatever gains he has made over the past 10 ...

Scoop - NZ 

  • Carbon Credits 101
    How does pollution and carbon become a tradeble commodity ?The beginnings of carbon trading explained  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Green Light For Guerilla Gardeners
    Guerrilla gardens might not have 'owners' but they sure have defenders, as Yarra Council discovered when it tried to wipe the gardens out. Sue Jackson tells the storyAt its regular monthly meeting in August, Melbourne's Yarra Council won itself a green star for forward thinking. Instead of razing lo ...
  • US & NATO responsible for Afghan Fiasco
    The Afghan election fell apart on Sunday after Abdullah Abdullah pulled out of the run-off poll, leaving President Hamid Karzai as the sole candidate. Now the election commission has cancelled the vote and declared Karzai the winner. German newspapers on Monday question whether the government in Kab ...
  • Ashcroft Tipped for Top Tory Job
    Billionaire Tory donor Lord Ashcroft was embroiled in fresh controversy last night after it emerged that he accompanied the shadow foreign secretary to key meetings overseas, amid rumours that he will be given a top foreign policy role in a future Conservative government.The Observer can reveal that ...
  • Las Vegas: Tough Times in Sin City
    The financial crisis has mauled Las Vegas like no other city. What was once the land of luxury and excess is now the home of empty houses and broken dreams. While the city and its investors keep hoping for a turnaround, others see long, lean years ahead.The bar on the 64th floor of the Mandalay Bay ...

Independent ( London )

  • Zimbabwe to escape censure over abuses in diamond ...
    Zimbabwe looks set to escape any punishment over its trade in blood diamonds after a ruthless lobbying campaign by the Mugabe regime that has included threats and intimidation of a key witness at an international summit in neighbouring Namibia.
  • Crucifixes banned from Italian schools
    The European Court of Human Rights has said that the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and education freedoms, prompting an angry reaction from the Catholic Church and government officials in Rome.
  • Karadzic plays for time in court debut
    The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared before the international war crimes tribunal for the first time yesterday, but only to repeat that he needed more time to prepare his defence.
  • Father of anthropology dies aged 100
    Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about the similarities between tribal and industrial societies, has died aged 100.
  • How Precious became Hollywood's next big thing
    Its heroine is a black teenage girl made pregnant by her own father and repeatedly beaten up by her mother. She is illiterate, penniless, HIV-positive, and weighs 350 pounds. Its setting is a tough district of Harlem, and the plot is relentlessly bleak. It barely even manages a happy ending.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran 

  • Israel’s European Lobby
    Summary: Having for decades successfully steered policymaking in Washington in a pro-Israel direction, Israel’s American Lobby has more recently turned its attention to Europe. Despite its brief presence in Brussels, it appears to have already had marked success in influencing the nascent fore ...
  • Iran wants to buy uranium for Tehran reactor
    Summary: Soltanieh Vienna - Iran would rather purchase the nuclear fuel for its Tehran research reactor, Tehran's UN ambassador in Vienna said Monday - indicating that Iran is reluctant to let go of its uranium stock. source: Monsters and Critics read more
  • Clinton Demands Iran Accept Nuclear Deal As Is
    Summary: Though Iran has expressed interest in a draft proposal for third party uranium enrichment, they have also sought additional talks and a handful of clarifications before finalizing the pact. The US appears to be ruling out any additional talks however. source: Anti-War.com read more
  • Noam Chomsky: no change in US 'Mafia principle'
    Summary: Chomsky As civilised people across the world breathed a sigh of relief to see the back of former US president George W. Bush, top American intellectual Noam Chomsky warned against assuming or expecting significant changes in the basis of Washington's foreign policy under President Barac ...
  • Iran in no hurry to cut nuclear deal
    Summary: If Western leaders were still puzzling over Iran's approach to nuclear talks, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offered a timely tutorial. source: AP read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Real-Life Cyborg Astrobiologists to Search for Sig ...
    At the remote Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, astronauts wearing artificial-intelligence enhanced spacesuits with digital eyes that can see in the infrared what human eyes are unable to see developed by Patrick McGuire (a University of Chicago geoscientist who’s...
  • The Vanishing Glaciers Mount Kilimanjaro -World's ...
    This June 2009 photo of Mount Kilimanjaro by Stephen Morrison of the European Pressphoto Agency, the clearly highlights the absence of large glaciers. Climate change and forest depletion near the storied mountain that rises nearly four miles above the shimmering...
  • Genetic Mutations that Set Humans Apart from Other ...
    Although humans and chimpanzees genetically vary by just 1.2 percent, that small percentage makes a world of difference in the mental and linguistic capabilities between the two species. A study shows that a certain form of neuropsin, a protein that...
  • Image of the Day: Time Travel Through the Human Br ...
    Over the past 100-years, the way we visualize and understand the complexity of the brain has evolved due to huge strides microscope design and manufacture, together with the development of cell-staining techniques, gave neuroscientists their first glimpse at the specialized...
  • Milky Way Awe: a 648-Megapixel Panorama of Our Gal ...
    Piecing together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at Central Michigan University, describes the panorama: "This panorama...

Natural News

  • Froot Loops cures cancer! (And other health claims ...
    (NaturalNews) Have you heard the news? Froot Loops are a "Smart Choice" for children's health (even though they're made with 40% sugar), and Cocoa Krispies can boost your immunity! (http://www.naturalnews.com/027386_Kelloggs_food_cocoa.html) But there's more to this story. NaturalNews contacted empl ...
  • Ten reasons why the FDA allows Cocoa Krispies cere ...
    (NaturalNews) By now, the whole internet knows that Kellogg's is under harsh scrutiny for making ridiculous "immunity" claims for their sugary Cocoa Krispies cereal. But did you know the real reason why the FDA continues to allow this laughable medical claim on the front of Cocoa Krispies boxes? Bel ...
  • Kellogg's claims sugary "Cocoa Crispies" cereal ca ...
    (NaturalNews) The world of bizarre nutritional claims by sugary cereal makers just got a little more weird this week when Kellogg's began shipping boxes of Cocoa Krispies emblazoned with the ridiculous claim, "Now helps support your child's IMMUNITY." If processed white sugar, partially-hydrogenated ...
  • Twenty reasons why vitamin D is better than a swin ...
    (NaturalNews) The news is out: Vitamin D is better than the swine flu vaccine at halting H1N1 infections. In fact, without vitamin D, chances are that a vaccine won't generate much of an immune response in the first place. That's because vitamin D is essential for healthy, active immune function. Th ...
  • Superfood Profile: Discover the Many Health Benefi ...
    (NaturalNews) With the quality of commercially-grown produce declining rapidly, obtaining nutritious fruits and vegetables is not an easy task. Few of us eat enough fruits and vegetables on a daily basis; it's a fact that grows more true with each generation. So how do we answer these issues, knowin ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • UK search and seizure
    Operation Rize: An officer uses an angle grinder to open lockers containing safety-deposit boxes THE DAILY MAIL has a very disturbing report by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark about a police raid last Summer.  Wow. Where things get crunchy is that a lot of innocent people had to prove they had le ...
  • Conservative Humour
    Regarding opposition questions about H1N1 flu and pregnant women? Mocking laughter and jeering from the Con benches. Dr. Dawg and Impolitical have more.
  • Step Right Up . . . .
    Need more exercise? Sweden and Volkswagen have an entertaining way to get it . . . .
  • H1N1 Poll
    For what it's worth, CBC is asking if "you think the government mishandled the swine flu vaccination process?"
  • The stupidity . . .
    THE LA TIMES has an obituary written by Claire Noland, that details the life and times of Qian Xuesen , who died at the ripe old age of 98. So, who was Qian Xuesen, and why should you care? He was one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in California, that did the early ground-breaking ...

Media Matters for America

  • Media in 2001: Off-year elections have little na ...
    Conservative media are attempting to use the results of gubernatorial elections to suggest President Obama's agenda and Democrats' 2010 electoral prospects are in trouble. In the wake of Bob McDonnell's apparent victory in the Virginia gubernatorial race, Media Matters has documented examples o ...
  • Beck witch hunt for socialists, communists, Marxi ...
    Continuing his pattern, Glenn Beck suggested during the November 3 edition of his radio program that SEIU's Andy Stern  is a communist, socialist, and Marxist because he said in an interview that "workers of the world unite, it's not just a slogan anymore. It's the way we're going to have to d ...
  • Fox News finds another cause: Promoting Rep. Bac ...
    In recent days, following its pattern of advocacy, Fox News has repeatedly promoted Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) upcoming anti-health care reform protest, to be held on Capitol Hill and in the halls of Congress. Fox News has previously promoted numerous other rallies such as the April 15 tea ...
  • Following Rep. Foxx's lead, media conservatives c ...
    On November 2, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said on the House floor regarding health care legislation before the House: "I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country." Following Foxx's statement, Fox News' Glenn Beck ...
  • Washington Times adds judicial nominee ...
    A Washington Times editorial has again used select comments and decisions made by one of President Obama's judicial nominees to smear him as a "radical's radical." In addition to invoking judicial nominee Judge David Hamilton's views on "empathy" -- a favorite conservative attack -- the editoria ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • What Happened Tonight
    It's 10:45 PM at the White House and I hope Barack and David Axelrod are having a beer on the second floor. One year ago they won a generational election as the anti-establishment candidate of change. Tonight, no matter how... White House - David Axelrod - Rahm Emanuel - United States - Wall S ...
  • How Obama Can Convince Congress to Enact a Larger ...
    The Administration's biggest economic mistake so far was to badly underestimate last January how bad the employment situation would become by Fall. As a result, it low-balled the stimulus -- settling for a plan that, while avoiding even worse job... United States Congress - New York - United St ...
  • Health Care Reform is Critically Important, But Ge ...
    Presidents tend to overcompensate for the errors of their predecessors in the same party and in so doing sow seeds of their own mistakes. Bill Clinton wanted above all to avoid Jimmy Carter's fate -- losing re-election because the economy... Sponsored Topics: Bill Clinton - Jimmy Carter - Barac ...
  • Hillary Praises Neyanyahu Peace Moves While Democ ...
    Here is today's Haaretz It looks like the administration has backed down on its criticism of settlements and that America is, yet again, putting all the onus on the Palestinians. Bibi is one happy guy today. Meanwhile, the House is... Sponsored Topics: J Street - American Israel Public Affairs C ...
  • Pimping their patients
    California is hardly the only state that has identified sweetened sodas as a major contributing factor to the growing obseity epidemic among children. Now, as the state considers legislation that would tax sweetened sodas, the American Academy of Family... Sponsored Topics: California - Health - ...

TruthOut

  • Federal Courts Issue Rulings on Bush-Era Torture, ...
    Former Bush administration Attorney General John Ashcroft had a busy day in court yesterday. A federal appeals court ruled he could not be held responsible for kidnapping a Canadian citizen in New York and shipping him off to Syria where he was imprisoned for a year and tortured. read more
  • Two Sentenced, Three Absolved in Argentine "Dirty ...
    Buenos Aires, Argentina - A federal court in Buenos Aires on October 23 convicted two former army officials - Jorge Olivera Rovere and Jose Menendez - to life sentences, for crimes committed during Argentina's "Dirty War." Rovere, 83, was commander of the city of Buenos Aires for the army d ...
  • Little Joe
    Senator Joe Lieberman managed to shoehorn himself into the center of the national debate over health care reform last week with his announcement that he would filibuster any health care legislation that contained any kind of a so-called "public option." Lieberman, the erstwhile Democrat tur ...
  • Ponzi Schemer Madoff Describes SEC Investigator as ...
    Bernard Madoff, who became known as the operator of the Ponzi scheme thought to be the largest investment fraud in Wall Street history, said he wasn't impressed by the people that the Securities and Exchange Commission sent to investigate him in 2006. He even called one SEC investigator a " ...
  • Film: "The Good Soldier"
    Airtime: Friday, November 6, 2009, at 9:00 PM (EST) on PBS (check local listings here ). read more

Planetsave

  • 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 ...
  • Study Suggests Insecticide Causes Lupus and Arthri ...
    New research out of Philadelphia suggests a link between women’s exposure to household insecticides (including roach and mosquito killers) and the autoimmune disorders rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Previous research has shown a link of agricultural pesticides to higher risk of rheumatoid arthr ...
  • An Ocean of Effort
    Ocean trash is one of the problems photographed by Christopher Swain on his 1,000-mile ocean advocacy and education journey. As the Obama Administration’s Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force moves into its sixth public meeting on an interim report in Cleveland this week, one determined ocean adv ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Good Day, (for Texas) Sunshine [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: This morning marks a good day for Texas sunshine! Public Citizen Texas gives you the early morning scoop -- late last night the Texas Senate passed through HB 1423, a net metering bill to provide owners of solar installations with fair buy-back rates for the ex ...
  • Join The Fight for Green Energy, Post on Repower A ...
    In the month of October, we all witnessed the very impressive Blog Action Day where bloggers from all over the country and the world addressed the issue of climate change through their writings. Repower America has taken it a step further. Their website now has a wall for everyone to go and post th ...
  • Texas Farming Industry Struggles To Exist
    Millions of people have been farming in Texas for a very long time. In fact, agriculture is one of the major components of the state’s economy. But news reports have been showing that the farming industry is facing real problems that pertain to climate change. That’s right, many farmers have to ...
  • Public Citizen 25th Anniversary Party this Friday!
    Don’t forget, this Friday is the big event for all you Public Citizen Texas fans out there.  We’ll be hosting our 25th anniversary party at Austin’s own Barr Mansion on Friday, November 6th.  This is a two-part, multiple option event, so listen carefully: PART ONE: Schoozefest Dinner Par ...
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up
    The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you to get out and vote on Tuesday. Here are this week’s highlights. Aruba Petroleum is drilling a Barnett Shale gas well in the backyard of Tim and Christine. Their property was taken, it’s value diminished, they were threatened and now Aruba Petroleum spi ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • What Happened in Virginia - and How to Prevent the ...
    At Firedoglake, Ben Tribbett offers details to back up what I posted yesterday about the Lessons of Virginia. For those of you following the 2009 elections, I don't have to tell you that Virginia-one year after voting Democratic for President for the first time since 1964-is about to sweep our most ...
  • Paranoia on Parade
    First off, let me say I love my guns, and you can take them away from me when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.  I have way more than I need and not nearly as many as I want.   I am the resident gun nut in these parts and I make no apology for that, and often part ways with my liberal brothers ...
  • Demand the Rest of the Stimulus
    Way back in February, the always-right Paul Krugman warned that not only was the compromise $750 billion stimulus too small, but so was the original $1 trillion plan.  There was a $2 trillion hole in economic demand, and only $2 trillion in spending would fill it. Nine months later, here we are, wit ...
  • Now Being Drunk is a Capitol Offense, Too
    Digby brings us more evidence that taser-instigated murder is the rule, not the exception: A drunk man tries to get away from the tasering and so they shot him dead: "We're really concerned about a guy leaving the parking lot of Chuckwagon [Inn] on Evergreen Way - in a white Corvette, he's extremely ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Fortunately, the irredeemably corrupt Karzai is unlikely to form a government anyone could consider legitimate. Get. Our. Troops. Out. Now. "US President Barack Obama has urged Afghan leader Hamid Karzai to "write a new chapter" in governing Afghanistan, after its disputed presidential poll. Mr Obam ...

Care 2

  • Film on the Dolphin Hunt Stirs Outrage in Japan
    For years, dolphin hunts off the seaside town of Taiji, which turn coastal waters red with blood each winter, have drawn the ire of Western activists. But few among the Japanese public seemed to care, or even know, about the slaughter. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Commen ...
  • Toxic shipwreck an ecological disaster for souther ...
    Toxic waste from a ship which went down off the coast in southern Madagascar in August has had severe impacts on the health of local people and on the rich coastal and marine environment, according to a study supported by WWF. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Capitalism and Health Care
    Isn’t it perfectly clear that the uproar over a public option in the health care reform bill now squeezing its way through Congress is about nothing but the foot in the door to socialized medicine and ultimately to other socialized things? What a break Submitted by Jill P. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • A Special Kind of Hero
    Last week, one of the FBI working dogs, Freddy, was killed in the line of duty while federal agents raided the hideout of men suspected of involvement with an organized crime ring and who were also allegedly part of a radical Islamic sect. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...
  • Giving Sight by Therapy With Genes
    By the time Corey Haas was 7, the retinal disease he was born with had already stolen much of his vision. “He always clung to me or my wife,” said Corey’s father, Ethan Haas. Submitted by Dee C. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • Owens Corning Works to Keep Roof Shingles Out of L ...
    The company's Preferred Roofing Contractors who pledge to recycle their shingle tear-offs will be able to take them to drop-off recycling and processing centers provided by Heritage Environmental Services.
  • Atlanta Named Most Toxic U.S. City, Las Vegas is L ...
    Forbes has ranked the 40 largest metro areas to determine the most, and least, toxic cities in the United States. Las Vegas and Sacramento rank among the cleanest, while Atlanta and Detroit were named the dirtiest.
  • Hotel Guests Need Help Staying Green on the Road, ...
    A study by researchers at Virginia Tech's Pamplkn College of Business finds that even individuals who are resource-efficient at home are much more wasteful when on the road, and stronger education programs are needed to bridge this gap.
  • Next Wave of TerraCycle Products to Come From Hugg ...
    The company that built an empire by turning worm poop into fertilizer and cookie wrappers into backpacks has set its sights on the used plastic packaging from Huggies diapers, Scott toilet paper and Kleenex tissue.
  • Water-Saving Technologies Help Abbott Save 1 Billi ...
    The pharmaceutical giant set a goal of cutting its water consumption to 40 percent below 2004 levels by late 2011, relative to sales. The company announced Monday its efforts have yielded a 37 percent normalized reduction, bringing the company very close to its goal two years ahead of schedule.

Reuters Global

  • Indonesia goes for digital people power
    Just over a decade ago, Indonesians took to the streets to protest. Now they can make themselves heard online.
  • Remembering Charlie
    Over three years, in my way, I got to know the guards at Checkpoint Charlie, the emblematic Cold War crossing between two enemy worlds. In one stormy night, the Berlin Wall was breached and Charlie consigned to history. A couple of years later, however, i was to meet three of them again in a chance ...
  • A glimmer of hope in Afghanistan
    An Asia Society survey of the Afghan people finds that a slightly higher number of people believe the country to be heading in the right direction than the previous year.
  • Bombs and tipping points: Pakistan and Northern Ir ...
    Will the indiscrimate killing of civilians eventually destroy support for Pakistani Taliban.
  • Pakistan’s slow path to salvation in Waziris ...
    Pakistan's military offensive in South Waziristan is maming slow and deliberate progress, despite the militants launching a wave of attacks in towns across the clountry.

Ezra Klein

  • Tab dump
    1) "When my brother developed kidney disease and his health insurance refused to pay to treat it," recalls Karen Tumulty, "I looked into Texas' high-risk pool and discovered it would be far out of his reach, with premiums that typically run twice as expensive as regular insurance policies." 2) Rick ...
  • Will the iPhone kill love?
    David Brooks thinks twitter has killed romance. "Across the centuries," he says, "the moral systems from medieval chivalry to Bruce Springsteen love anthems have worked the same basic way. They take immediate selfish interests and enmesh them within transcendent, spiritual meanings. Love becomes a ...
  • The bipartisanship test
    As Tim Fernholz notes , Republicans have been arguing that the country needs a bipartisan health-care bill. Fair enough: Where's theirs? [A]side from not doing much, this Republican bill isn't even remotely bipartisan. They don't even bother to include any Democratic ideas about health-care reform. ...
  • High-risk pools
    Republicans like to bring up so-called "high-risk pools" as an alternative to health-care reform. They're in the plan Boehner released this morning, they were featured in McCain's campaign proposal, and they're generally popular among people who want to say they're doing something to help the sick b ...
  • Ever wondered how to spend $47,221.09 on lunch for ...
    Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich walks you through it . On the other hand, Abramovich is worth $8.5 billion. If my math is right, for him to spend $47,000 on lunch is equivalent to someone with $70,000 in the bank spending 38 cents on lunch. Viewed that way, Abramovich was downright thrifty.

Booman Tribune

  • Elections Returns Thread
    I'm tired tonight. I think I'll just put up an elections returns thread and discuss things in the comments. Virginia: Board of Elections | Virginian-Pilot New Jersey: Division of Elections New York: State Board of Elections Maine: Bureau of Elections | WMTW-TV
  • Predictions Thread
    Well, kos has his predictions. I don't have a clue about the Maine ballot question, New Jersey, or NY-23, so I'm not offering any. Maybe you have an opinion?
  • Heads vs. Tails
    Sarah Palin, Dick Armey, and Rush Limbaugh are pushing for a purge of moderates from the Republican Party. To be sure, this is about book sales, radio ratings, and fundraising, but it is also about something else. The way to keep the GOP as the Party of No is to threaten every member of their cauc ...
  • Serious Questions
    First, have you voted yet? No? What are you waiting for? Do it. Second, do you share my reaction to this, which is a cautious optimism in the short-term combined with a vague sense of dread over the long-term?
  • Casual Observation
    I think the general public is weakened enough now by PlayStation and reality shows to consent to a dictatorship without too much fuss. But I just can't picture the U.S. Army firing shells at the Capitol or storming the White House. Maybe the grandeur of our architecture contributes a small amount ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • One world… one language?
    While we’re discussing matters of global cultural diversity, here’s an interesting essay on language extinction by a linguistics professor called John McWhorter [via MetaFilter; Rosetta Stone image fromWikimedia Commons]. Now, it’s pretty widely known that lesser-spoken languages are disappear ...
  • The Apex Book Of World SF – available now
    So, did you enjoy Lavie Tidhar’s story “Spider’s Moon” which we published yesterday? It’s been a busy year for the globe-trotting Mr Tidhar, whose last email to me came from a small internet cafe in Bangkok; not only has he been writing his own material (of which a lot is scheduled for pu ...
  • NEW FICTION: SPIDER’S MOON by Lavie Tidhar
    There were Weathermen on the islands, too, Melkior knew – though Melkior, born on the ship, had only once visited the home islands. They were unique to Earth, weather-artists performing in that vast ecology of rivers and clouds, rain and sun, communicating with the hidden machines in the atmosp ...
  • Are zombies a proxy for the American Zeitgeist?
    Via SlashDot, here’s a brief piece at Forbes that wonders whether the zombie is Americas equivalent of Godzilla – a symbol of technology run amok, but one that can be dealt with in hand-to-hand mano a mano combat rather than by the deployment of the state’s military resources: [...] there’s ...
  • Karl Schroeder deflates further Mars FUD
    After dismantling the suggestion that a Mars mission is too inherently dangerous for humans to undertake, Karl Schroeder has a new target – Science Daily announces a paper that claims that we can’t go to Mars because the spacecraft will fill up with nasty bacteria and make everyone sick [via Sla ...

Therapy News

  • Elements of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
    By Arthur Becker-Weidman, Ph.D., Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Arthur and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, which is an evidence-based, effective, and empirically validated treatment is composed of a variety of ...
  • Aspects of the Power of Position: Reflections on t ...
    A GoodTherapy.org Featured Column written by Cedar Barstow, M.Ed., C.H.T. Click here to contact Cedar and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I had a long talk the other day with someone who wanted to understand more about this odd word: “power differential.” Since he associated power with, in ...
  • Mother Love - Female Abusers
    By Roni Weisberg-Ross, L.M.F.T., Abuse Topic Expert Contributor “A Social Problem Does Not Exist For A Society Until It Is Recognized By That Society To Exist” – H. Blumer The following is the first of a three-part series of articles: It was in a high school literature class that I was first i ...
  • Feeling Worse than You Were: Depression Inflates P ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline There are many negative aspects of thoughts and feelings of depression that can interfere with an individual’s daily life, and the emergence of physical symptoms associated with the issue may play a major role in overall outlook and mood. A study conducted at the Un ...
  • Mood Issue Meds for Kids, Infants May Cause Mental ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The prevalence of anti-depressants and other psychiatric medications has experienced a great increase recently, and many concerns are rising in response to the growing dependency on such substances. While there are some medications that have proven to be helpful in imp ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Jeff Biggers: Cowed Interior to Consider Mountaint ...
    It's funny how these embarrassing announcements always come on late Friday afternoon. While anti-mountaintop removal protests spread across the nation and at the EPA headquarters...
  • Interior Department Spins its Wheels on Mountainto ...
    Washington, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of the Interior intends to delay issuing a rule that would protect Appalachian streams and communities from mountaintop removal coal mining, giving even more urgency to the need for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take action to address this destr ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Mining Protests Going National ...
    by Vicki Smith MORGANTOWN, W.Va . - Activists with Mountain Justice, Rainforest Action Network and other groups planned protests at Environmental Protection Agency headquarters and across the country Friday to demand the end of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia. An online map showed more than ...
  • Mountaintop removal mining protests going national ...
    Activists with Mountain Justice, Rainforest Action Network and other groups planned protests at Environmental Protection Agency headquarters and across the country Friday to demand the end of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.
  • Mountaintop Removal Mining Protests Going National ...
    Environmentalists staging nationwide protests in battle to end mountaintop removal mining

Memeorandum

  • NY-23: [UPDATE] Hoffman Accuses Democrats of 'Stea ...
    David Weigel / The Washington Independent : NY-23: [UPDATE] Hoffman Accuses Democrats of ‘Stealing the Election’   —  PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — At a short press availability in his campaign office here, NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman said that a GOTV volunteer's tires had been ...
  • GOP sweeps gov races, Dem leads in NY (Alexander B ...
    Alexander Burns / The Politico : GOP sweeps gov races, Dem leads in NY   —  Republican gubernatorial candidates racked up major wins for the GOP in Virginia and New Jersey Tuesday night, as former Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell and New Jersey prosecutor Chris Christie claimed the gover ...
  • 'V' aims at Obamamania (Glenn Garvin/Chicago Tribu ...
    Glenn Garvin / Chicago Tribune : ‘V’ aims at Obamamania   —  Imagine this.  At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere.  He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a b ...
  • Exit polls: Independents may play crucial role (CN ...
    CNN : Exit polls: Independents may play crucial role   —  (CNN) - Independents appear to be playing an important role in the country's two off-year gubernatorial races.  —  In Virginia, where 30 percent of voters identify themselves as independent; 65 percent cast their ballots for CNN's pr ...
  • In Virginia, McDonnell Ends Democrats' Streak (Ian ...
    Ian Urbina / New York Times : In Virginia, McDonnell Ends Democrats' Streak   —  RICHMOND, Va. — Robert F. McDonnell, a Republican and a former state attorney general, won a decisive victory in Virginia's governor's race Tuesday, a stark reversal of fortune for Democrats who have held contro ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, Antofagasta, Chile
    Wednesday, November 4, 2009 01:35:46 UTC Tuesday, November 3, 2009 10:35:46 PM at epicenter Depth : 36.40 km (22.62 mi)
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    Tuesday, November 3, 2009 18:03:53 UTC Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:03:53 AM at epicenter Depth : 86.70 km (53.87 mi)
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    Sunday, November 1, 2009 21:28:59 UTC Monday, November 2, 2009 11:28:59 AM at epicenter Depth : 108.00 km (67.11 mi)
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    Saturday, October 31, 2009 19:09:52 UTC Sunday, November 1, 2009 06:09:52 AM at epicenter Depth : 139.10 km (86.43 mi)
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    Saturday, October 31, 2009 13:03:32 UTC Sunday, November 1, 2009 12:03:32 AM at epicenter Depth : 128.30 km (79.72 mi)

China Dialogue

  • “There’s no doubt it’s getting warmer”
    Receding glaciers increase the risks to already perilous lives and livelihoods high in the Himalayas. Joydeep Gupta reports from the mountains of north-west India. The annual monsoon that is the lifeline of south Asia stops at the 5,000-metre slopes of the Pir Panjal range in the Himalayas. The Tibe ...
  • Hard times in Siberia
    For 1,000 years, Nenets people have herded reindeer on Russia’s Yamal peninsula. But their survival in the remote region is under serious threat as ancient permafrost melts, Luke Harding reports. It is one of the world’s last great wildernesses, a 700-kilometre-long peninsula of lakes and squelc ...
  • Trafigura's lesson for China
    Chinese leaders will meet with African heads of state next month to discuss trade and investment. The recent conduct of Swiss-based commodity traders Trafigura, writes Salil Tripathi, presents a stern warning about due diligence. In 2005, traders at a Swiss-based multinational commodity trading comp ...
  • Cutting the costs of clean energy
    Addressing energy scarcity and climate change means adopting new energy sources. This poses different challenges for rich than for poor nations, writes Lin Boqiang. Developing nations are crucial to cutting carbon dioxide emissions. For this reason, their mode of growth and energy structure must mov ...
  • Packaging: no gift to the earth
    Traditional festivals have lost their cultural significance and become excuses for giving presents that come with too much wrapping, writes Huo Weiya. Such excess is not good for the environment. Early this year, I attended a China-Europe civil society conference. Before the meeting ended, the Europ ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Mossad Hacked Syrian Official’s Computer Before ...
    Agents of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service hacked into the computer of a senior Syrian government official a year before Israel bombed a mysterious facility in Syria in 2007, according to Der Spiegel. The intelligence agents planted a Trojan horse on the official’s computer in late 2006 whi ...
  • FBI Says ‘Money Mule’ Scams Now Top $100 Milli ...
    The hackers looting bank accounts of small and mid-sized businesses around the county are hitting new victims every week, and have now racked up approximately $100 million in attempted losses, the FBI said Tuesday. “The infection vector has not been determined in every case,” the bureau’s Inte ...
  • Feds Charge Cable Modem Modder With Aiding ‘Comp ...
    An Oregon hardware hacker and author has been hit with federal criminal charges arising from his longstanding business of selling unlocked cable modems that can be used to steal extra speed from a broadband provider, or obtain free service. Ryan Harris, known by his pen name DerEngel, was charged in ...
  • Judge OKs Challenge to Human-Gene Patents
    A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer. The first-of-its-kind lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Unio ...
  • Teens Sue High School That Punished Them for Racy ...
    Two Indiana teenagers have sued their school district after they were punished for posing suggestive photos on MySpace. The girls, tenth-graders at Churubusco High School in Churubusco, Indiana, say they were humiliated after the school banned them from fall semester extracurricular activities, and ...

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Pine River World News

  • Afghan election farce ends, escalation to begin
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Afghan election farce ends, escalation to begin ©   World Socialist Web Site By Bill Van Auken November 3, 2009 The two-and-a-half-month election drama in Afghanistan was brought to a close Monday with the incumb ...
  • Ron Paul: Be Prepared for the Worst
    The following commentary is by U.S. congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) and appears in the November 16, 2009 issue of Forbes magazine. Be Prepared for the Worst The large-scale government intervention in the economy is going to end badly. By Ron Paul ©   Forbes Issue date:  November 16, 2009 Any number ...
  • U.S. military tracker-droids to 'consider humans a ...
    IntelTrends - The following article is from The Register. Bold font appears in original article. U.S. military tracker-droids to 'consider humans as fluid' / Traffic algorithm upgrade for airborne spyeyes ©   The Register By Lewis Page November 2, 2009 Pentagon propellerhead chiefs have hatched a ...
  • Israeli columnist: America, stop sucking up to Isr ...
    The following column appeared in Haaretz, a leading Israeli daily. America, stop sucking up to Israel ©   Haaretz By Gideon Levy November 1, 2009 Barack Obama has been busy - offering the Jewish People blessings for Rosh Hashanah, and recording a flattering video for the President's Conference in ...
  • Pak editorial: Hillary's taunt
    The following editorial is from The Frontier Post, Peshawar, Pakistan. Hillary's taunt ©   The Frontier Post November 1, 2009 She has kept alive her family tradition, the U.S. secretary of state, Mrs. Hillary Clinton. When Bill Clinton, her husband, favoured this country with a brief visit as the ...

    PDA AMERICA

  • IOT: Clean, Fair and Transparent Elections
    Wayne Williams and Trent Lange updated us on the California Fair Elections Act that will be on the ballot in CA. Emily Levin updated us on Diebold-Return Our Money campiagn and a campaign the Election ...
  • IOT: Stop Global Warming 10-21-2009
    On this month’s Stop Global Warming/Environmental Issues Organizing Team call, the following topics were covered: the team's new policy statement about federal climate/energy legislation, the Price Carbon Campaign for fixed carbon pricing in place of ...
  • Bill Moyers Essay: Restoring Accountability for Wa ...
    BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Bill Moyers Essay: Restoring Accountability for Washington’s Wars| PBS
  • Winograd and PDA Santa Monica Chapter Go 350
    By Candidate Marcy Winograd Participating in 350 Day, October 24, 2009, members of Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains and Los Angeles spelled out 3-5-0 with their bicycles before riding from Santa Monica to ...
  • Crunch Time and a Grassroots View of the ‘Robust ...
    Crunch Time and a Grassroots View of the ‘Robust’ Public Option By PDA-Chicago Steering Committee: Bill Bianchi, Lorin Klugman, Arlene Gloria Hirsch, Allan Nowakowski, and Jim Rhodes The PDA-Chicago steering Committee wants to weigh in on ...

Marler Blog

  • Lawsuits Filed in Multistate Outbreaks of E. coli ...
    I am heading to a food safety conference here in Beijing sponsored by the Chinese Government.  However, we still had time to keep on top the food safety situation in the United States. The parents of Andrea Munro, 12, of Marshfield, say their daughter became infected with E. coli after eating Fairb ...
  • E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak Grows
    ABC News Reports the growing E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak is spreading West after killing two and sickening dozens in the Northeast.
  • E. coli Outbreak Update - Two Deaths and Twenty-Si ...
    The CDC now says that two deaths and 26 other illnesses may be linked to contaminated ground beef recalled by Fairbank Farms.  Lola Scott Russell, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says one of the deaths involved a New York adult with several underlying health conditi ...
  • South Shore Meats and Fairbank Farms E. coli Outbr ...
    On October 26 , South Shore Meats in Brockton recalled more than 1,000 pounds of hamburger and steak after 20 Rhode Island students and adults became sick after eating E. coli O157:H7 contaminated meat at Camp Bournedale in Plymouth. A sixth-grade class from Lincoln, Rhode Island and adult chaperon ...
  • The Third Annual China International Food Safety & ...
    Sydney and I are packing today for the long flight between Seattle and Beijing. Although we plan a bit of Daddy/Daughter sightseeing, this food safety conference is important. "The Chinese government attaches great importance to food safety because it is not only in the interest of the Chinese but ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 11.03.09
    Editorial: Henderson's fuel cell 10X cost comments are out of context Why the cost of the Volt and the Equinox should not be compared directly. REPORT: Mini's future models roadmapped; big, small, efficie ...
  • Contradiction in Terms: Green in NASCAR equals 5 m ...
    Filed under: Motorsports NASCAR has already gone solar and wants to help you (not themselves) use less fuel , but the cold hard reality is that those ovals are being made in cars that get around five miles per gallon. Not exactly hybrid SUV territory there. So, to reduce the amount of fossil fuel ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.01.09
    GM CEO: electric cars require teamwork; hydrogen cars 10x more expensive than Volt "We can't carry the load ourselves. GM can't. No way," says Fritz. Aptera officially resubmits application for DOE loan ...
  • Vroom for Everyone: Local Motors unveiling crowdso ...
    Filed under: SEMA Show , Coupe , Off-Road Local Motors Rally Fighter - Click above for high-res image gallery The wild things have left the movie theaters and are headed toward Las Vegas. Destination? SEMA . Case in point, the Rally Fighter . Local Motors, the company that plans to build the offro ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.30.09
    Greenlings: How does weight affect a vehicle's efficiency? How much is that junk in your trunk costing you? Vroom for everyone: Local Motors unveiling crowdsourced Rally Fighter at SEMA The ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Personal services get business flavor: Xobni and S ...
    IT pros will often tell you that a lot of consumer technology isn't ready for the enterprise. It's not secure, it's not priced correctly, it can't be administered, yada yada. That doesn't stop businesspeople from using consumer tools in their jobs, though. It just stops ...
  • BT's Ribbit releasing Google Voice competitor
    Sure, Google Voice is cool, but it's not necessarily the best Web-meets-phone service one can imagine, is it? The field is still open, and switchboard-in-the-cloud company Ribbit (a division of BT ) will stir things up when users get their hands on Ribbit Mobile, a new telephony service for c ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: Future of the book
    This week: Books, future of . With the success of the Kindle and its store, and the announced upcoming release of the Barnes & Noble Nook, there are very interesting question for consumers and publishers: What is the future of the book? To discuss this on the Roundtable I have two experts on dig ...
  • Let's kill the OS upgrade disc
    I love upgrades. But I hate upgrade discs and upgrade pricing. Let's find a way to do away with both, or at least make the upgrade transaction a bit cleaner. Operating system upgrades The reason I'm writing this column won't be a surprise to anyone one who ...
  • Stalqer mobile social app finds friends in new way ...
    Stalqer locates even friends who don't use the service. (Credit: Stalqer) The developers of the iPhone app GasBag, which helps iPhone users find the cheapest gas for their cars, are working on a new mobile friend locator service, Stalqer . This clever and aptly named service has two technologies ...

Camera Obscura

  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so frequ ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...
  • Dangerous spaces: Safe.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, wit ...

Democracy Now!

  • The Late Clarence Kailin in his Own Words: "We've ...
    Clarence Kailin was one of the last survivors of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a group of American volunteers who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. Kailin fought in defense of Spain’s democratically elected government against a military coup led by Gen. Francisco F ...
  • Trick or Treat for Climate Change
    Halloween is around the corner, and children will soon be dressing up and chanting “trick or treat,” their demand for candy backed up by the threat of a prank. Climate-change activists, from pranksters to presidents, are doing the same. Read More Listen to this Column
  • Lt. Choi Won’t Lie for His Country
    Lt. Dan Choi doesn’t want to lie. Choi, an Iraq war veteran and a graduate of West Point, declared last March 19 on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “I am gay.” Under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” regulations, those three words are enough to get Choi kicked out of the military ...
  • Watch What You Tweet
    A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 protests, then subjected to an FBI raid this week at home—all for using Twitter. Elliot Madison faces charges of hindering apprehension or prosecution, criminal use of a communication facility and possessio ...
  • Nomi Prins on "It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bail ...
    Nomi Prins is a former investment banker turned journalist. She worked at Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns. She is the author of several books; her latest, just out, is called It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street . She spoke on the them ...

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

  • Agassi: a Bold Plan for the Mass Adoption of Elect ...
    Forget about the hybrid auto -- Shai Agassi shares his global electric car vision for a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020.
  • Nazca Civilization Collapsed After Cutting Key Tre ...
    The ancient Nazca people, who once flourished in the valleys of south coastal Peru, literally fell with the trees they chopped down, new research has concluded. The Nazca caused their own collapse when they cleared their forests in order to make way for agriculture, thus exposing the landscape to wi ...
  • Retired Indian Engineer Builds Glaciers To slow gl ...
    Chewang Norphel, 76, has already proved his technology by building 12 new glaciers and is trying to build five more before he dies. Chewang is also training new people to continue his work and save the world’s glaciers from being transformed into rivers. The engineer, popularly known as the “Ice ...
  • Concerned about your carbon footprint, think birth ...
    Environmentalists tend to avoid the topic of population control. Too touchy. But the politically incorrect issue is becoming unavoidable as the global population lurches toward a predicted 9 billion people by mid-century.
  • How to Stop America's Creeping Water Crisis
    California has its share of problems these days; the state carries billions of dollars in debt, drug cartels have made their way in from Mexico and the wild fire season came and went with great force. As if the governor didn't have enough on his plate, California is also in the midst of one of the b ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • A little Gotter and a Little Dammerung
    By Les Visible I heard some talk about who was responsible for the Baghdad bombing. It was obvious that they knew nothing but that didn’t stop the speculation, which was all about the usual suspects, meaning whatever that means. Watching the news I came to one dominant conclusion. The news is the ...
  • Swine Flu? Typhus? Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever? Pneumo ...
    Tonight the nation of Ukraine is in an absolute state of panic as a mystery illness rips through that country.  Some reports are claiming that this mystery illness is a more virulent form of the H1N1 swine flu.  Other reports are linking the mystery illness with typhus, ebola hemorrhagic fever or ...
  • Switzerland forbids “swine flu” vaccin ...
    Swissmedic, the authority in Switzerland that gives permission for the use of drugs, today announced that the “swine flu” vaccine Pandemrix will not be allowed to be injected into pregnant women, children or young adults (below 18 years of age) or elderly (above 60 years of age). The very same v ...
  • Well, Well, Well: Flu Vaccine
    Connie Howard / health@vueweekly.com Follow flu news and you’ll soon be a little nervous, confused and probably bored. So why am I adding yet another piece? Because our major media outlets have massively underreported important findings of the Cochrane Collaboration on flu vaccines. “There is no ...
  • BREAKING: Jailed N. Y. C. Former Police Chief Bern ...
    Kerik was NYC Police Chief on 9/11/2001. Now that he has been burned by the same authorities that made him a hero on 9/11, he just might be willing to spill the beans on what happened behind the scenes…like how did Giuliani know that the towers were coming down and why weren’t fire fighters and ...

    Care2 Picks

  • ROGUE PROSECUTOR DECLARES WAR ON VETS
    Sharon McCaslin, prosecuting attorney for the United States Department of Justice, officially declared war on America’s Veterans when she defiantly pronounced in federal court that it is “desecration” and a “crime” for a Veteran to hang the American... Submitted by Just Carole to US Politics & ...
  • The ABCs (and Ks) of Vitamin Deficiency
    In the sixth grade, we spent a large portion of health class talking about nutrition. We learned about the food pyramid, cholesterol, and the mechanics of the digestive system. We also spent an inordinate amount of time discussing nutrition-related diseas Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Health & Wellne ...
  • 16 Oct -News & Atricles
    Many current articles focus on Afghanistan - where peace lovers need to understand what lies beneath the stories pushed onto people about the causes and progress of mass murder. Thanks to Brigitte T. for 'The Wrong House' Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Com ...
  • "Civil" Nuclear Agreements - India goes Nuclear Sh ...
    When US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Delhi in July this year, India said thank you for lifting sanctions by assuring usa a deal to set up two nuclear power plants... India wants to expand its nuclear power by 15 times... Submitted by Tinkie K. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment ...
  • Vaccination Justification Is Collapsing
    A study reported in the British Medical Journal reports that simple and low cost measures are highly effective for preventing the spread of viruses. And antivirals are best only for those least in need of them, healthy adults. Submitted by Judy Cross to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...

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 »

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Sideways News

  • Digital plaster 'could save lives'
    A plaster which monitors a patient's vital signs and alerts doctors to changes in condition is being tested in the UK. At the size of a mobile phone, the lightweight bandage, called the Sensium Digital Plaster , is designed to provide round-the-clock monitoring of patients.
  • Child obesity rates 'levelling off'
    Levels of childhood obesity in England appear to be levelling off, new figures from the National Heart Forum (NHF) have revealed.
  • Prehistory 'offers climate lessons'
    An ancient civilisation which caused its own demise through forest clearance offers "important lessons for our management of fragile, arid areas", a report has claimed.
  • Nature can 'help fight climate change'
    Nature- based solutions are best for tackling climate change, particularly water issues arising from droughts and floods, environmental experts claim.
  • Theo Paphitis' business scrappage scheme
    Theo Paphitis, businessman and star of hit BBC show Dragon's Den joins forces with the Carbon Trust to call on businesses to update their equipment, and in turn save a packet and the planet.

Fabius Maximus

  • A note on religion, a faith for our time and every ...
    Religion is seldom discussed on the FM website, but plays an important role in an well-founded society. There are many levels of faith, but there is a foundation on which the edifice can securely rest: collective action against the chaotic forces of nature and man’s nature. As described in Act II ...
  • Reading recommendations
    Interesting and valuable news and insights about our changing world.   Number 5 is a must-read! “The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better“, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, reviewed in the London Review of Books, 22 October 2009 “Chimera of Victory“, Gi ...
  • How to become a one man (or a one woman) army
    Quote for the day:  In short, this is what you need to become a one person company and be routinely successful. … this recipe is also a route to become a one man/woman army. — From “I’m Young and Need Advice“, by John Robb, posted at his website Global Guerrillas, 26 October 2009 Robb†...
  • Why didn’t you consider this the most fright ...
    I am constantly amazed how 21st century Americans worry about theoretical dangers, often decades in the future — while dangers looming in front of us are disregarded. Can anyone please explain why readers did not find this post more terrifying than any Halloween frightfest?   Another cra ...
  • About those headlines from the past century about ...
    Both sides of the public (not professional) climate change debate have consisted of chaff.  That’s unfortunate for a topic of such importance.  Which side has done better, sticking with verified evidence?  It’s beyond my resources to determine this.  The FM website has many article a ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Darwin’s Wolf Mystery Solved
    Genetic analysis of the now-extinct Falkland Islands Wolf has answered a biological riddle that caught the attention of a young Charles Darwin, and helped shape his understanding of evolution. During his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle, Darwin observed that the wolves — like his now-famous finches â ...
  • Russia Leads Nuclear Space Race After U.S. Drops O ...
    The Russian space agency may build a nuclear-powered spacecraft with the blessing of the country’s leader, Russian and international media reported Thursday. The craft would cost $600 million and Russian scientists claim it could be ready as early as 2012. “The idea [of nuclear-powered spacefli ...
  • Space Junk Could Be Tracked Like Vultures
    Dangerous debris near rocket launches could be tracked in real time by combining tricks from particle colliders, moon landings and vulture tracking, a new study finds. In a paper to be published in Acta Astronautica, physicist Philip Metzger of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and colleagues describe ...
  • How to Keep Planes From Colliding With Lasers
    Beaming high-powered lasers into the sky allows scientists to study changing weather patterns, pollution in the Earth’s atmosphere and even gravity on the Moon. But if one of those helpful lasers happens to cross paths with an airplane, it can temporarily blind or distract the pilot and potential ...
  • Gamma-Ray Mystery Traced to Star-Birth Frenzy
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Astronomers have for the first time traced gamma rays, the most energetic form of light, to galaxies undergoing a frenzy of star birth. The finding, which has revealed a new class of galactic gamma-ray sources, is not unexpected. But it provides new hints about the origin of ma ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Understanding Turkey's Foreign Policy
    The Economist is the latest to weigh in on Turkey's growing diplomatic role in the Middle East and to question whether Turkey is moving away from the West and toward what has been called a "neo-Ottoman" foreign policy that increasingly emphasizes strengthening ties with Turkey's southern and easter ...
  • Khamenei Launches Harshest Attack Against Washingt ...
    In a meeting with Iranian students, families of martyrs, and members of student Basij organizations, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei made some of his harshest remarks against the United States since the June 12 election. Khamenei said the United States should stop dreaming that the Iranian governm ...
  • Who is seeing the real Afghanistan?
    Last week the Washington Post printed two letters from different sources who had spent time on the ground in Afghanistan that came to very different conclusions about the American presence there. First, there is the letter from Matthew Hoh , the former Marine captain who had fought in Iraq and had ...
  • Foreign Political Reformers Are also Patriotic Cit ...
    Mehdi Karubi In one of the most telling and least-perceptive columns of the year, Jackson Diehl went to hear a spokesman for Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karoubi speak at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and came away appalled. Karoubi, you see, wants political reform in Iran a ...
  • Analysis Refutes ‘Anti-Israel’ Charge Against ...
    In response to the ongoing propaganda war against human rights NGOs by the Netanyahu government and its outriders here in the U.S. — especially the recent criticism of Human Rights Watch from HRW founder Robert Bernstein — a couple of Canadian social scientists did a statistical analysis of both ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Election Day 2009 Might Just be M ...
    It still astonishes that we can wring our collective hands over $90 billion per year for health-care reform while no one bats an eye when $680 billion is appropriated for defense spending for the same period of time. Even more so that seemingly uncontroversial things like transportation spending is ...
  • Could Ending CHIP Be Good for Health Reform?
    Medicare and Medicaid aren't the only public insurance programs that could undergo a major overhaul under the current health-care reform bill. Over at The Washington Independent , Mike Lillis explains how the House bill proposes to eliminate CHIP -- the state children's health-insurance program that ...
  • Think Tank Round-Up: Indispensable Partner Edition ...
    This election-day TTR identifies new benefits from health-care reform, warns of pernicious behavior from the credit-card industry, argues for a stronger Europe, and provides the latest data on higher education during the recession. Health-care reform will lower your premium. In a new paper, MIT ec ...
  • The GOP Fearmongers About Voter Fraud In New Jerse ...
    When I posted earlier on John Fund , I hadn't realized that his typical voter-fraud fearmongering had reached four-alarm-fire status in the rest of the right-wing blogosphere, where folks like Jim Geraghty are freaking out about relaxed standards for handing out provisional ballots, which they belie ...
  • Where's the Republican Bipartisan Alternative?
    Yesterday, I was reading about how the administration's health-care strategy is poised to produce a health-care reform bill, but one that is not bipartisan. The No. 3 Republican in the Senate, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, who attended one session with the president, recalled that in the 1960s, whe ...

Andy Worthington

  • Who Are The Six Uighurs Released From Guantánamo ...
    At the weekend, six of the remaining 13 Uighurs in Guantánamo — Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province — were released to resume new lives in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau (population: 20,000). I have written at length about the plight of Guantánamo’s Uighurs, innocent men cau ...
  • Justice Denied: Voices from Guantánamo – ne ...
    In summer, ACLU representatives traveled to the UK to interview five former Guantánamo prisoners: Moazzam Begg and Omar Deghayes (both featured in my new film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” co-directed by Polly Nash), plus Bisher al-Rawi, Ruhal Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul (the latter ...
  • Ali al-Marri, The Last US “Enemy Combatant,” R ...
    So it’s finally over. Ali al-Marri, a legal US resident from Qatar, who was held as an “enemy combatant” on the US mainland for five years and eight months without charge or trial, was finally sentenced in a federal court last Thursday. The prosecution was seeking a 15-year sentence, following ...
  • Ali al-Marri’s Statement In Court, October 30, 2 ...
    Ali al-Marri, who was held as an “enemy combatant” on the US mainland for five years and eight months without charge or trial, was finally sentenced in a federal court last Thursday (as discussed in an article here), and he made the following statement in court, which I believe is worth reproduc ...
  • Six Uighurs Go To Palau; Seven Remain In Guantána ...
    As first reported by the Associated Press, six of the remaining 13 Uighurs in Guantánamo have just arrived on the Pacific island of Palau, where they have been given new homes. The AP’s source said that, overnight, police were guarding the house where the men will live, in the heart of the capita ...

Buzzflash

  • Al Franken Speaks Softly But Gets Results to Win B ...
    WINGS OF JUSTICE Al Franken Stirring the pot is something Republican politicians are already good at doing and where Democratic politicians are catching up. We recently profiled one newcomer who has set a tone in a brash style in Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL). But as we are learning from this week's win ...
  • Susan J. Demas: Everything you ever wanted to know ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Susan J. Demas Some people might be shocked about the carnage in the NY-23, where moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava was just forced out of the way to make room for uber-conservative Doug Hoffman, puppet of the anti-tax group Club for Growth. I'm not one of them, becau ...
  • NY-23, less 1, part 2
    Body Dede Scozzafava's Saturday understatement of withdrawal -- "Polls have indicated that my chances of winning this election are not as strong as we would like them to be" -- was the most clarity we've heard from New York's 23rd Congressional District in days. A Scozzafava-campaign ass ...
  • A Closer Look At The Republican Party -- Verse-Cas ...
    The right-wing game plan is easy to see: "BILL AYERS ! ACORN ! THE AARP !" Day after day and then week after week The same old daily double of doublespeak VERSE CASE SCENARIO read more
  • Systemic Fault Lines
    Body   The witless chatter that consumes so much media and congressional air time is never-ending. No matter how often health-care reform is defined, for example, Republicans keep repeating the same talking points about a government takeover that will destroy the doctor-patient relations ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • A court decision that reflects what type of countr ...
    It's not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with yesterday's ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Arar v. Ashcroft  (.pdf).  Maher Arar is both a Canadian and Syrian citizen of Syrian descent.  A telecommunicatio ...
  • Ongoing U.S. efforts to protect and coddle Israel
    The latest Haaretz column by the outstanding and courageous Israeli columnist, Gideon Levy, is entitled "America, Stop Sucking Up to Israel," and it highlights one of the most bizarre political facts:  criticism of Israeli actions is far more tolerated and permitted in Israeli political discours ...
  • Obama's latest use of "secrecy" to shield presiden ...
    The Obama administration has, yet again, asserted the broadest and most radical version of the "state secrets" privilege -- which previously caused so much controversy and turmoil among loyal Democrats (when used by Bush/Cheney) -- to attempt to block courts from ruling on the legality of the gover ...
  • "What journalists are supposed to do"
    (updated below) David Brooks today says he wanted to write a column about Obama's pending decision over Afghanistan, and in order to write this column, this is what he tells us he did:  "For the past few days I have tried to do what journalists are supposed to do ."  Sounds intrepid.  What, e ...
  • Joe Lieberman, Evan Bayh and Afghanistan
    Ongoing travel will make writing difficult today, so I'll post several television segments I did this morning and last night.  First is a debate over Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy with former Bush official and standard neocon Dan Senor, on Dylan Ratigan's MSNBC program from this morning: ...

The BiPartisan Report

  • How the future of the GOP is being decided in New ...
    It’s kinda odd when you think about it. The future of the Republican Party is being played out in two places that look very different at first glance: liberal New York and conservative... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Time to boycott Rush Limbaugh sponsors
    The boycott of Glenn Beck’s sponsors seems to be effective. Last I heard the man was running out of advertising options. CNN, after getting rid of Beck, is now looking to dump Lou Dobbs for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Bipartisanship: The Eulogy
    A pretty ironic title for a post on a site called Bipartisan Report, isn’t it? Back in January I joined this site with a strong belief that it is possible to have a conversation around issues... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • #WeLovetheNHS
    The astroturf organization, Conservatives for Patients' Rights (CPR), started a backlash across the Pond yesterday. As reported by the Daily Times the Brits didn't take too kindly to have their... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  • Conservatives and “The Big Lie”
    It was GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss who pushed me over the edge. Not that I should be surprised that Chambliss would make up a lie out of whole cloth about health care. The only way that he got elected... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Sciencebase

  • My Whole Cell Twitter Interview
    Laura Bonetta wrote and excellent article for the science journal Cell recently in which she quoted various science types who use Twitter on the subject of whether or not scientists should be tweeting. It’s a topic I’ve discussed more generally regarding scientists’ use of social media and onl ...
  • Categories for science tweeps
    Okay. Okay. Pressure was on to categorise my scientwist list…so I’ve made a start. First off, the spillover (lots of tweeps in the T to Z group from the TweepML.org version of my scientwist list, which has 650 members of thereabouts) have now each been given a category as I cannot squeeze them i ...
  • Scientists on Twitter
    Regulars will know that I’ve compiled and recompiled lists of science types on Twitter for mutual benefit. It started out as a list of 100 of my own Twitter friends back in January 2009, who happened to be in science and gradually grew to well over 600 members by November 2009. However, just as I ...
  • Food Chemistry News
    On the menu today, why red wine is a no-no when it comes to fishy cuisine, how chemists can help you improve your gravy, and a whole platter of food chemistry to tempt your taste buds: “Red wine with red meat, white wine with fish.” But, have you ever wondered why? Japanese chemists have discove ...
  • Don’t be such a scientist!
    Don’t be such a scientist! It’s the kind of thing I’d expect my sister to say to my face if I’ve gone off on one of my lecture mode conversations about some great discovery, or something some of my artier friends might whisper about me behind my back. Sometimes it’s a personal wish…but t ...

change: org.

  • African Nations End Climate Boycott, But Chances o ...
    African nations have won promises that there will be more in-depth talks about exactly how much rich nations will need to cut their emissions by, ending a boycott of talks. The African countries had been supported by 70 developing countries, arguing that industrialized countries were not making suff ...
  • Germany to Kosovo Roma Refugees: You Must Return
    Life isn’t easy for Roma anywhere in Europe, but it is about to become much more precarious for thousands of Kosovo Roma refugees living in Germany. Beginning early next year, the German government will start returning thousands of Roma refugees to Kosovo. The governments of the two countries are ...
  • Distribution vs. Promotion and The Rise of the Ema ...
    Nonprofits are increasingly a fan of Facebook and a flutter with Twitter. Yet there is a new old medium that is poised to make a comeback as a key vehicle for interpersonal communication: the e-mail list. The launch of the new All Day Buffet project TBD provides an interesting occasion to examine th ...
  • The Danger of Rewriting History in Afghanistan
    Wazhma Frogh, Afghanistan country director for Global Rights, recently published a long column in the Washington Post titled “Risking a Rights Disaster.” In it, she argues that a US shift to a narrow counterterrorism strategy in Afghanistan, or attempts to bring some Taliban into the government, ...
  • Rhode Island Bans Indoor Prostitution
    The end has finally come to a long and often malicious battle in Rhode Island over a 30-year-old legal loophole which allowed indoor prostitution to legally occur. Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri signed the bill into law today, and it is effective immediately. The debate which took place around this ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • New Study: Harmful Bush Policy, Still in Effect, W ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 2, 2009 Center for Biological Diversity A new study published in the international journal Conservation Biology , and authored by the Center for Biological Diversity's endangered species director Noah Greenwald, found that a policy issued by the Bush administration in ...
  • No Justice for Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Ara ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 2, 2009 Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Today, a federal Court of Appeals dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar's case against U.S. officials for their role in sending him to Syria to be tortured and interrogated for a year. Arar is represented by the Center for ...
  • Secret California Park Give-Away
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 2, 2009 Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) Conservation groups are protesting a proposed transfer of interest in approximately 1200 acres of the Tolowa Dunes State Park by the California Department of Parks and Recreation to the California Departm ...
  • Healthcare: Key Democrats Undermining Their Own?
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 2, 2009 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) ELLEN SHAFFER Shaffer is co-director of the California-based Center for Policy Analysis, focusing on health policy. She recently wrote the backgrounder " Kucinich Amendment Grants ERISA Waiver for Single Payer States ...
  • Finance Ball Shifts to US Court as Climate Talks K ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 2, 2009 Oxfam International Oxfam called on the US to join Europe in laying its climate finance cards on the table as international climate talks opened in Barcelona today. Real progress on climate finance is possible for the first time after European leaders, meeting ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Afghanistan Just Got Messier
    by Matthew Rothschild The mess that is Afghanistan just got messier for Washington. Abdullah's withdrawal from the presidential runoff leaves Hamid Karzai in power but without legitimacy. He's widely perceived to have rigged the last election, and Abdullah took himself out, he says, because he could ...
  • Breaking Up the Banks is Hard to Do
    by Dean Baker Those who like banks that are too big to fail will love the latest financial reform proposals circulating in the US Congress . The bill put forward by Barney Frank , the chairman of the House finance committee, does little to change the current structure of the financial system. read m ...
  • Cowed Interior to Consider Mountaintop Removal Rul ...
    by Jeff Biggers It's funny how these embarrassing announcements always come on late Friday afternoon. read more
  • 'Tea Party Activists Are the New GOP'
    by John Nichols Richard Viguerie, the legendary hard-right activist who spent much of the past decade arguing that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were too liberal, now declares that the days of even the most minimal moderation are now over in the Republican Party. "Tea Party Activists Are the New GO ...
  • Trading the Watershed to Trash the Catskills
    by Adam Federman Aerial photographs of land surrounding the millennium pipeline north of Sullivan County, NY show sweeping tracts of largely unspoiled forest. They are ecologically important for several species including neo-tropical migrant birds that travel from South America to breeding habitats ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • NPC gives concurrence to Angat plant privatization ...
    State-run National Power Corporation (NPC) has given its concurrence to the proposed divestment of the 246-megawatt Angat hydropower plant to comprise part of the last stretch of the on-going privatization in the country's power industry. The crucial decision, however, according to NPC president Fro ...
  • CUPE BC: Grand Forks Goes Public to Improve Qualit ...
    GRAND FORKS, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- - CUPE 4728 members will once again provide garbage and recycling collection starting Canada Day 2010 - thanks to the local's five years of work to bring solid waste collection back in-house.
  • Indian political awakening stirs Latin America (Th ...
    JESUS DE MACHACA, Bolivia — In Ecuador, the Shuar are blocking highways to defend their hunting grounds. In Chile, the Mapuche are occupying ranches to pressure for land, schools and clinics. In Bolivia, a new constitution gives the country’s 36 indigenous peoples the right to self-rule. All ove ...
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (The Peterborough Examiner)
    Flu-in-school 'threat' verges on paranoia Re: "Keep sick students from coming to school" (Letter,Oct. 30) While Joshua Card makes some good points, I have to disagree with the huge emphasis he is placing on preventative measures during this so-called H1N1 "pandemic.[...]
  • NPC gives concurrence to Angat plant privatization ...
    State-run National Power Corporation (NPC) has given its concurrence to the proposed divestment of the 246-megawatt Angat hydropower plant to comprise part of the last stretch of the on-going privatization in the country’s power industry.

Guardian

  • Obama suffers Virginia vote setback
    White House says president was not planning to stay watch returns no election night parties were planned Barack Obama suffered a major setback tonight when the Republicans secured a much-sought victory in the first elections since he won the White House a year ago. The Republicans won the governorsh ...
  • GM scraps plans to sell off Vauxhall
    • Takeover by Magna had threatened more than 10,500 jobs • GM says decision follows European business improvement America's biggest motor manufacturer, General Motors, performed an abrupt U-turn last night by deciding to keep its European car manufacturing division, abandoning a proposed sale of ...
  • Couple wrote to BBC to tell of suicide
    A couple who wrote to the BBC to say they had chosen to take their own lives and criticised British laws on assisted suicides have been found dead at their home, police said last night . Dennis Milner, 83, and his wife Flora, 81, from Newbury, Berkshire, sent a letter and statement to the BBC saying ...
  • PM paid $40,000 for speeches help
    Company headed by former speechwriters to Clinton, vice-president Joe Biden and other leading Democrats helped pitch speeches to US audience Gordon Brown's speech to the US Congress in March earned no fewer than 19 standing ovations, a congratulatory call from President Obama and plaudits for its co ...
  • Four more bodies found at Ohio rapist's home
    Anthony Sowell, 50, faces murder charges after at least 10 bodies were found at his home Authorities say more remains have been discovered at the Cleveland home of a convicted rapist, raising to at least 10 the number of bodies that have been found there. Police say four more bodies and a skull were ...

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

  • Israel's anti-Semitic friends
    There can be few supporters of the Palestinians, still less anti-Zionists, who haven't, at some time or another, been accused of "anti-Semitism." Accusations that anti-Zionism equals anti-Semit ...
  • Rights groups: UN General Assembly must adopt Gold ...
    On 4 November 2009, the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report) is scheduled to be tabled before the Plenary of the UN General Assembly in New ...
  • Rights groups condemn bid to quash Goldstone repor ...
    WASHINGTON (IPS) - International human rights groups have raised concern over a proposed non-binding resolution in the US House of Representatives which would call on the White House to oppose ...
  • Israeli physicists supply solar and wind power to ...
    SUSYA, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Hundreds of impoverished Palestinian herders and farmers living in caves and tents in a remote area of the Palestinian West Bank have been provided free electr ...
  • Legal action against Israel increases over Gaza as ...
    RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - As the legal and moral implications of the UN Goldstone report on Israel's military assault on Gaza continue to mount, Palestinians in Gaza are taking matters into ...

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

  • Electronics and Atrocities: Tech Supply Chains Mus ...
    Our guest bloggers are Sarah K. Dreier, a graduate student at the University of Washington and a former researcher at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, and David Sullivan, Research Associate at the ENOUGH project. From the satellite mapping of atrocities and data-driven prosecution of wa ...
  • We Read the GOP Health Care Plan So You Don’ ...
    When the House released its 1,990 health care bill, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) criticized the legislation for including “the mandatory world ’shall’ in the bill 3,425 times.” Today, the Hill obtained the Republicans’ 230 page alternative, which the House leadership plans to offer as an amendme ...
  • GOP Health Care Bill Excludes All Immigrants From ...
    Throughout the health care debate, Republicans have been harping on Democrats for not doing enough to block undocumented immigrants from receiving public benefits. However, it turns out Republicans aren’t just opposed to expanding access to health care for undocumented immigrants, they’re again ...
  • Shelby: Consumer Protection Agency ‘Folly An ...
    or anyone hoping that the regulatory reform debate in the Senate was going to be less rancorous than that in the House, the last few days have provided ample evidence to the contrary. First, in what Tim Fernholz called “health care 2.0,” Republicans claimed that they’re being frozen out of the ...
  • In Reversal, Boxer Sharply Curbs Clean Air Act Reg ...
    In a major shift, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has changed the Clean Energy Jobs Act to significantly restrict the use of existing Clean Air Act provisions to regulate greenhouse gases. Unlike the climate bill passed by the House in June, the initial version of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says
    The estimate comes from an analysis of 30 years of national data, and it bolsters other recent evidence on the pervasiveness of youngsters at economic risk. It suggests that almost everyone knows a family who has received food stamps, or will in the future, said lead author Mark Rank, a sociologist ...
  • VIDEO: Here Comes Stimulus 2.0
    In this Bloomberg clip, commerce secretary Gary Locke says that “if there is to be another stimulus — and that’s being hotly discussed and very seriously considered within the administration as well as members of Congress
  • Estulin: G-20 Meeting in Scotland this Week about ...
    Best-selling author Daniel Estulin states that the key issue to be discussed this week at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting, being held in St. Andrews, Scotland, is how to bring down the present world financial system through dumping the US dollar.
  • Ban Ki-moon: $100 Billion Not Enough for Global Wa ...
    Money paid by rich countries to fight global warming will have to “be scaled up” from the $100bn a year on offer, the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said today.
  • TV exposure may be associated with aggressive beha ...
    Three-year-old children who are exposed to more TV appear to be at an increased risk for exhibiting aggressive behavior, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • 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 ...
  • Cultural evolution
    When Jane Goodall reported her observations of tools use by chimps to famed anthropologist Louis Leakey, he responded by saying, “Now we must redefine tool, redefine man or accept chimpanzees as humans.” Leakey would have likely had a similar reaction to the current work of University of Calgary ...
  • Faces of aggression
    Even if you can’t distinguish NHL enforcers Todd Bertuzzi and Chris Neil from a referee, you’d probably know at first sight not to mess with them. And not just because of their physical size. The men employed to intimidate the opposition tend to have wide faces, and that, Brock University’s Ch ...

Signs of the times

  • Ancient Human Metropolis Found in Africa
    They have always been there. People noticed them before. But no one could remember who made them -- or why? Until just recently, no one even knew how many there were. Now they are everywhere -- thousands -- no, hundreds of thousands of them! And the story they tell is the most important story of hum ...
  • Over 17,000 Species Threatened by Extinction
    A rare Panamanian tree frog, a rodent from Madagascar and two lizards found only in the Philippines are among over 17,000 species threatened with extinction, a leading environmental group said Tuesday. The Rabb's fringe-limbed tree frog, only discovered four years ago, is one of 1,895 amphibian spe ...
  • Strong 5.9 quake jolts Ionian Sea, Greek Islands
    An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale jolted the Ionian Sea on Tuesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. There have been no reports of injuries or damage on the Peloponnese Peninsula, a popular tourist destination on the Gulf of Corinth. According to the Athens Institute of ...
  • Taliban Declined US Offer Of 6 Provinces for 8 Bas ...
    The emboldened Taliban movement in Afghanistan turned down an American offer of power-sharing in exchange for accepting the presence of foreign troops, Afghan government sources confirmed. "US negotiators had offered the Taliban leadership through Mullah Wakil Ahmed Mutawakkil (former Taliban forei ...
  • US Government Lawyers Seek to Quash Rendition Laws ...
    The long road to the proverbial day in court just got longer for five men who claim they were "disappeared" and tortured by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The men, who say they were victims of the extraordinary rendition programme conducted during the administration of President George W. Bu ...

Threat Level

  • Mossad Hacked Syrian Official’s Computer Before ...
    Agents of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service hacked into the computer of a senior Syrian government official a year before Israel bombed a mysterious facility in Syria in 2007, according to Der Spiegel. The intelligence agents planted a Trojan horse on the official’s computer in late 2006 whi ...
  • FBI Says ‘Money Mule’ Scams Now Top $100 Milli ...
    The hackers looting bank accounts of small and mid-sized businesses around the county are hitting new victims every week, and have now racked up approximately $100 million in attempted losses, the FBI said Tuesday. “The infection vector has not been determined in every case,” the bureau’s Inte ...
  • Feds Charge Cable Modem Modder With Aiding ‘Comp ...
    An Oregon hardware hacker and author has been hit with federal criminal charges arising from his longstanding business of selling unlocked cable modems that can be used to steal extra speed from a broadband provider, or obtain free service. Ryan Harris, known by his pen name DerEngel, was charged in ...
  • Judge OKs Challenge to Human-Gene Patents
    A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer. The first-of-its-kind lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Unio ...
  • Teens Sue High School That Punished Them for Racy ...
    Two Indiana teenagers have sued their school district after they were punished for posing suggestive photos on MySpace. The girls, tenth-graders at Churubusco High School in Churubusco, Indiana, say they were humiliated after the school banned them from fall semester extracurricular activities, and ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Cheney Turns to Sgt. Schultz Defense in Plame Case
    During the controversy over the Bush administration's prosecutor purge in 2007, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales raised selective amnesia to an art form. In one single day of Congressional testimony, Gonzales uttered some variant of "I don't recall" 64 times,...
  • The Hatch Truth: GOP Blocking Health Care to Preve ...
    A gaffe, Michael Kinsley famously mused, is what results when a politician inadvertently tells the truth. And so it was Monday when Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch came clean about his party's scorched-earth opposition to health care reform being championed...
  • Bush's Iron Law of Bin Laden Still Holds
    Like a broken clock, even George W. Bush can be right twice a day. And so it was with his pronouncement on the fate of Obama Bin Laden before a weekend conference of business leaders in New Delhi, "I guess...
  • Jeb Bush's Brother and the GOP Attack on U.S. Capi ...
    On Wednesday, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush doubtless pleased his audience at the U.S Chamber of Commerce when he declared, "I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism." But in his knee-jerk assault...
  • "Emergency Room" McConnell Claims Public Option Ma ...
    Back in September, a study by Harvard Medical School found that over 44,000 Americans die each year due to lack of health insurance. Now, in a complete reversal of both logic and the truth, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Dennis Kucinich: Almost As Serious As Committing W ...
    Dandelion SaladMoxNewsDotComNovember 03, 2009 more about “Dennis Kucinich: Almost As Serious As…“, posted with vodpodseeRep. Howard Berman Confronted Over Goldstone Report + US House rejects Goldstonereport Clinton, Goldstone and true cost of theoccupation US U-turn on Middle East peace proces ...
  • Chomsky condemns immoral Afghan war + Copenhagen t ...
    Dandelion SaladBBC NEWS3 November 2009Watch the full interview with Noam Chomsky on HARDtalk on Tuesday 3rd November 2009. more about “Chomsky condemns ‘immoral’ Afghan war“, posted with vodpod***Chomsky in Dublin: Copenhagen talks will surely failhttp://www.businessandleadership.com03.11.20 ...
  • Video: During D.C. Hearing on Same-Sex Marriage, O ...
    In the middle of his testimony, Andy Hertzberg paused to "take a huge step:" he asked his partner to marry him.
  • Ten Things You Can Do to Reduce Incarceration
    Come out of the closet about your drug use; hire a formerly incarcerated person; vote for politicians who are smart on crime.
  • Why and to what end in Afghanistan by Ralph Nader
    Submitted on Buzzflash:Dandelion Saladby Ralph NaderThe Nader PageNov. 3, 2009Matthew P. Hoh, a former U.S. combat marine captain and Department of Defense civilian in Iraq starting in 2004 and until September a political officer in the Foreign Service stationed in Afghanistan is giving some conster ...

Consortium News

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • America, stop sucking up to Israel (Gideon Levy, ...
    Barack Obama has been busy - offering the Jewish People blessings for Rosh Hashanah, and recording a flattering video for the President's Conference. In all the videos, Obama heaps sticky-sweet praise on Is ...
  • Upping the ante at Al-Aqsa (Khaled Amayreh, Al-Ah ...
    Many Jews believe that the ancient Temple of Solomon stood where Al-Aqsa Mosque was built more than 1,300 years ago. Destroying Al-Aqsa Mosque and building a Jewish temple in its place is said by some extrem ...
  • How Salam Fayyad plans to save the Palestinian dre ...
    Palestinian elections are scheduled to be held in less than three months, but the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Salam Fayyad, isn't concerned about running for office. Rather, he's set hi ...
  • Settlers take control of East Jerusalem home (Ma' ...
    Israeli settlers arrogated the home of the Al-Kurd family in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Tuesday, residents of the area said. About 30 settlers were seen entering the house and throwi ...
  • Palestinians downbeat despite US backtracking (Ag ...
    Palestinians on Tuesday remained pessimistic about the likelihood of relaunching peace talks with Israel despite US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's attempt to clarify earlier remarks about settlements. ...

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TruthHugger

  • We Have One Twisted Health System, Living Organ Do ...
    The status quo for health insurers is minimalist investment in customers, maximum investment into political influence.  Greasy palms are the face of public health insurance in congress.  Genuine discussion about cost effectiveness and practical application take a back seat to the fears of equi ...
  • Barbara Ann Radnofsky Launches New Campaign Websit ...
    For Immediate Release [...]
  • Arrogant Health Care Insurers make Public Option n ...
    Uninsured human beings are the greatest threat to Public Health. Healthy conservatives just don't get it.
  • Sabotage Experts: US Coast Guard Exercise on 9/11, ...
    Coast Guard to review exercise after Potomac security scare Security incident on Potomac River prompted by “training exercise,” two police sources say Coast Guard told them. With the nation already on edge and somewhat paranoid on September 11 each year, what is the LAST thing you want to do? ...
  • Texas Progressive Alliance August 31, 2009
    It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No ...

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Unexplained Mysteries

  • Japanese fish trawler sunk by giant jellyfish
    A 10-ton fishing boat capsized off the coast of Japan after the crew attempted to haul a net filled with giant jellyfish on board. The area has be...
  • Suffolk man in UFO mystery
    Suffolk's reputation as a UFO hot spot in the UK has been renewed this week after a former US airman spotted a strange red light moving across the...
  • Space hotel on schedule for 2012
    The first ever space hotel is still on target to accept paying guests as early as 2012. The multi-billion dollar "Galactic Suite Space Resort" wil...
  • Scientists create "haunted room" experiment
    In an effort to test whether or not it's possible to artificially induce paranormal experiences scientists have created a "haunted room" filled wi...
  • 'Miracle' as wafer becomes heart tissue
    A miracle has been reported in Poland after a piece of cummunion wafer that fell in to water during a mass allegedly transformed in to what a medi...

Grassroots

  • Grassroots International partner Via Campesina rec ...
    Via-prize-small.jpg At a gathering of food and trade activists from around the United States and Canada, Grassroots International's partner, the Via Campesina, receieved the 2009 Food Sovereignty Prize for its relentless struggle for the right ...
  • Judge Goldstone Refutes Allegations in Congression ...
    On Tuesday, November 3, a bipartisan resolution ( HR 867 ) cosponsored by Reps. Howard Berman (D-CA) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) in the House will be likely voted on that condemns the Goldstone report released in September by the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict .read more
  • Act Now to Get Corporate Agriculture out of the Wh ...
    On the campaign trail, President Obama vowed to “stand up to corporate mega-farm lobbyists who have long had too much influence over rural and agriculture policies.”  But now he’s nominated to two key posts the same ‘Big Ag’ industry insiders he previously promised to oppose: Islam Siddiqu ...
  • 350 or Toast! "There is no Planet B"
    And, the answer is... 350 . That is 350 parts per million of Carbon Dioxide in our atmosphere, the upper limit for sustainability of life, human life anyway. The question is why are more -- not less -- Americans not convinced about the dangers of global warming and climate change in 2009 than in 200 ...
  • Grassroots International Partner receives prize
    Via-prize-small.jpg At a gathering of food and trade activists from arounnd the world, Grassroots International's partner, the Via Campesina, receieved the 2009 Food Sovereignty Prize for its relentless struggle for people of the world and aga ...

Climate

  • November 3, 2009
    Sen. Boxer Starting Markup, but Offers Olive Branch to GOP (ClimateWire) Hoping to avert a partisan meltdown, Senate Environment and Public Works Chair Barbara Boxer extended a deadline for amendments to the climate bill and will suspend markup at 2 p.m. to hear EPA testimony. Climate Talks T ...
  • November 2, 2009
    Climate Envoys May Want Chinese Actions to Be Binding (Bloomberg) UN climate negotiators meeting this week in Barcelona will debate how far they can push developing nations such as China and India to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming. EU Officials Meeting Obama to Di ...
  • October 31-November 1
    EPA Attorneys: Cap and Trade Claims Ignore Bills' Flaws (Washington Post) Claims that a cap and trade program would guarantee greenhouse gas reductions ignore flaws in both bills that would undermine even their weak emissions-reduction targets and would lock in climate degradation, two EPA attorn ...
  • October 30, 2009
    Sen. Boxer Aims to Pass Climate Bill as Early as Next Week (Reuters) The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will advance climate-change legislation quickly, aiming to pass a bill as early as next week, despite threats of a boycott by GOP members. Britain Declares Breakthrough in EU ...
  • October 29, 2009
    Sen. Graham Working on Compromise Bill with More Drilling (The Hill) Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said he is working on a compromise that would allow for new regulations on carbon-based pollutants in exchange for new permission to explore for oil and gas offshore as well as build new nuclear po ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, Why Your Child May N ...
    This week, the Obama White House released a very partial record of those who had visited since January 20, 2009. This it hailed as "transparency like you've never seen it before" and as the beginning of a new White House visitor transparency policy. Unfortunately, the policy applies mainly to po ...
  • Tomgram: Afghanistan as a Bailout State
    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: Last week, at an event in Santa Fe sponsored by the Lannan Foundation , I interviewed TomDispatch regular Rebecca Solnit. You can catch the audio by clicking here . The event was, in part, in honor of her superb new book, A Paradise Built in Hell , a tiny version ...
  • Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Is Obama's Iran Policy Doome ...
    [ Note to TomDispatch Readers: Recently, I launched one of this website's little campaigns to get more subscribers. Thanks to so many of you who, in response to my pleas, urged others to sign up for the email notice that goes out every time TD posts a piece, we got hundreds of new subscribers. O ...
  • Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Great Superpower Melt ...
    Think of us as just having passed through the failed era of "must" in Washington. For almost eight years, George W. Bush made speeches and appearances in which he hectored this or that country, or enemy, or people about what they "must" do. Never, I suspect, has an American president lectured mo ...
  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, What the U.S. Military Can't ...
    [ Note to Tomdispatch Readers: The other day, I appealed to you to consider writing your friends, neighbors, colleagues, and workmates to suggest that they go to the "sign up" window at the upper right of the Tomdispatch main screen, put in their email addresses, and sign on for an notification wh ...

Smirking Chimp

  • "Conscious Capitalism" - Will the World's Sole Bel ...
    Friends, skeptics, countrymen, lend me your ears - but not brickabats. I come not to praise vile, crony capitalism, that unholy offspring of influence peddling, corporate welfare, regulatory stupor, and oversized subsidies making big, bad banks even bigger and badder. "Too big to fail" is now "too ...
  • Today's Alleged "Bellwether" Elections Aren't Bell ...
    I appeared on CNN American Morning yesterday to discuss today's highest profile elections. You can watch the segment here - I tried to make the point that while these elections are important, and while the Democratic Party certainly has its problems right now, these contests do a better job of illu ...
  • If You Liked Health Care, You'll Love Afghanistan
    If you're depressed by the way the national debate about health care has been playing out, just wait until the rubber hits the road on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Israel. If you're enraged by the way Wall Street's rescue has made us hostages to their recklessness, get ready for how the oil and ...
  • Time to Kill the Pseudo-Public Option, and Other T ...
    The other day I wrote that the final Democratic bill was probably going to be worthy of support, however compromised it may be in certain ways. It should be understood that progressives won't get everything they want, or anything close to it, in the first go-round. But, while it's wise to be reali ...
  • Loose with numbers: Medicare fraud report a fictio ...
    I haven't watched CBS' "60 Minutes" in years. But it was one of those stories that stops you in your tracks: Medicare fraud is "a $60 billion crime." Medicare is the $456 billion government health insurance program serving 46 million elderly Americans. Its credibility as a government-run program is ...

Ten Percent

  • Stop Fascists in Wrexham
    EDL/WDL are saying they will hold a march in Wrexham on November 21st, this is what went on in October in Swansea Oct 18 2009 by Catherine Mary Evans, Wales On Sunday:- THEY denied being fascists ahead of their first Welsh march – but at yesterday’s Welsh Defence League protest against Islamic e ...
  • New Chief
    North Wales Police has a new chief constable, Mark Polin, who says things like this- “An unorganised mind environment is not for me I’m afraid.” This will be interesting.
  • USA Tops Financial Secrecy Index
    Which means it is the leader in the elite’s class war against 99% of the people on planet Earth. Financial Secrecy Index.
  • Fraud Accomplished
    So how do you tell a soldier to be the last to die for a lie? I actually laughed like a gallows when I heard this on the radio, even if you accept the purpose of the war is to install democracy (and you really shouldn’t because that’s a big fat lie) but if you [...]
  • Desaparecidos
    The excavation of a mass grave on a Granada hillside where the poet Federico Garcia Lorca was murdered during the Spanish Civil War has reinforced calls for the area to be investigated. “Lorca was just one of 4,000 executions on a roadside just a kilometre long,” says Juan Antonio Lopez Diaz, a ...

Paul Krugman

  • Obama and the conventional wisdom
    Obama, being who he is, apparently feels compelled to give at least rhetorical obeisance to the CW. We can only hope that his economists, who know better, can convince him not to act on it.
  • On not listening
    You might have thought that the worst economic crisis since the 30s, a crisis that should not have happened according to non-Keynesian models, would prompt at least a little intellectual curiosity. But no.
  • The story so far, in one picture
    Basically, we started out with a year that matched the Great Depression, but have since pulled back a bit from the edge of the abyss.
  • CRE and the CRA
    The lenders didn't need government urging to dive deep into a property bubble, and drown.
  • No saving grace
    The Obama administration's "jobs created or saved" is just a way of saying "other things equal" in non-economese.

No Quarter

  • What Obama is Doing Good
    Since tonight is a bad night if you are Barack Obama (the candidates he stumped for in Virginia and New Jersey are getting an ass kicking), I though it appropriate to share with you some good news about Barack Obama that you may find surprising. Barack’s kicking some major ass on the counter terr ...
  • Election Night Open Thread (Update)
    UPDATE: A.P.: “AP: Christie Gives GOP Stunning Win In N.J.” How are races sizing up around the country? Fox News has called Virginia for the Republicans — both Governor and Lt. Governor. And the Attorney General GOP candidate is in the lead. Now for New Jersey. So far, they say, exit poll ...
  • Another Addition For Obama, The Blame Czar?
    This is rich. We know about Obama’s many, many czars. Mark Steyn believes Obama has another one, someone of whom you have heard, but who isn’t on the usual list, Obama Makes Bush His Blame Czar. You know, he has a point - we’ve been hearing for months now “He did it!” from [...]
  • Just Breaking Out of the Egg
    A little quiz. Who recently compared President Obama to a chick just now pecking its way out of its egg? Your choices are: Rush Limbaugh Glenn Beck Sarah Palin Lou Dobbs Chris Matthews If you guessed Chris “Tingle Up My Leg” Matthews, you are correct. In a recent show he stated: “[Our Pr ...
  • Pentagon’s Gates Plays Ugly American
    Reprinted from Consortium.com with the express permission of Mel Goodman, whose bio is at the end of this article. Consortium Editor’s Note: Given the Bush administration’s imperial overreach and the massive U.S. budget deficits, a new realism would suggest that President Barack Obama get seriou ...

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Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • On Our Radar...
    Fanciful gardens in Baghdad, Buffett bets big on coal, and other energy and environment news from around the Web.
  • Disney Invests $4 Million to Save Forests
    The Walt Disney Company announced Tuesday that it has made a $4 million investment in forest conservation projects to decrease carbon dioxide emissions.
  • Report: Reducing Emissions Growth in Emerging Econ ...
    The World Bank estimates that Mexico could effectively eliminate its emissions growth, using a variety of measures, at a cost of about $3 billion annually.
  • From Smart Meters to Smart Thermostats
    A California company has developed an electricity management device that monitors homeowner habits and the weather to control heating and cooling.
  • Of China, Texas and Green Jobs
    A private equity firm responds to complaints from Green Inc. readers that a planned wind farm in west Texas is sending jobs -- and stimulus funds -- to China.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Collapse, conspiracy, concern trolling, commidifie ...
    "I have heard much of the nefarious, and dangerous plan, and doctrines of the Illuminati, but never saw the Book until you were pleased to send it to me." "It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On t ...
  • The new Boiling Frogs Post/Sibel Edmonds site; Joh ...
    Sibel Edmonds & co have set up a new website called Boiling Frogs Post and they're going to be looking at a lot of shady stuff. The podcasts that have been going for a while have been really good & detailed material from whistleblowers and journalists about what's going on. [BTW here is a good recen ...
  • Ooky spooky Soviet bioscience: 1940 Soviet Zombie ...
    In all likelihood this Soviet propaganda video is fake, but it has a Zombie Dog head. I gotta say they should have had a better angle at the dog head, but it does kinda look real. Via this list of 25 scariest scientific experiments on io9.com. Tuskegee, Mengele and Unit 731 are all noted in the rund ...
  • A time for truth: New York Times reports Brother K ...
    I was a bit surprised to see the New York Times report this evening that embattled Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother has been taking mad CIA cash for some time. [Or rather, the three journalists who did the story are oddly emphasized, 'compartmentalized' on this risky exposure.] Earlier Willia ...
  • A quick hit from the G20: Democracy 101 by Indymed ...
    I was proud to help contribute some footage to this video - soon enough there will be more video out from what happened at the G20. For now please just check this out. It's certainly a "rough cut" and needs some help in the narrative & so forth, but it's a great intro to the widespread police abuse ...

Daily Censored

  • What’s New in the British Police State?
    How is the British police state choosing to close in on its citizens now-a-days? Well, firstly, a criminal background check is needed to supervise your kids in a park. Telegraph: Only council-vetted “play rangers” are now allowed to monitor youngsters in two adventure areas in Watford while pare ...
  • Virginia’s Elections Are UNCONSTITUTIONAL?!?!
    Yes, Virginia, your elections are unconstitutional, and frankly, no one in power gives a damn!
  • Is Global Warming A Corporate Fraud?
    As scientists in the field of climatology and related fields increasingly concluded that human activity was causing the Earth’s temperature to warm and thus change its climate, major sectors of the capitalist class and their representatives organized to resist this. Foremost amongst these were th ...
  • This Month in World Government
    The world government is taking oveeerrrr!!!!!!!!!! Let's see how.
  • Head Gardasil Researcher Says It’s Ineffective a ...
    Philadelphia Bulletin: Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have be ...

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Godspace

  • What Would Jesus Eat
    It seemed appropriate that just after I added my last blog post I received this information from Mike Morrell.  He and Kevin Beck are hosting a presentation with Lucas Land Thursday evening 8pm New York Time entitled What Would Jesus Eat Lucas is doing a full-immersion internship at a sustainable ...
  • Junk Food Spirituality – Are We Addicted to ...
    Following my post yesterday Fruit That Will Last, my friend Andy Wade commented I wonder, what would the difference look like between highly processed fruit and whole foods w/o all the junk? What are the parallels between how our bodies respond to processed foods and how our souls respond? It was a ...
  • Fruit That Will Last
    Tom and I are now at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg Virginia still trying to get our clocks turned around from the trip to Australia.  This is definitely not the best way to model a balanced way of life though I am really looking forward to our time here. Part of my morning Bible rea ...
  • Coming Challenges in the Global Economy
    I realize that most of you do not live in the Seattle area but for those that do I would like to extend an invitation to join us for the first of MSA’s new Turbulent Times–Ready or Not! Conversation Series.  We are planning to record the event so those of you who are not able [...]
  • A garden of solitude
    It is a beautiful evening in Seattle and I am sitting watching the sunset over the Olympic mountains.  It is great to have a quiet moment as Tom & I will be travelling again tomorrow to Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg Virginia.  This will be our last trip until after Christmas for whi ...

Equality Trust

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #0164
    Italian court to decide on CIA abduction trial this week. Iran arrests Azerbaijani laser scientist for 'spying'. Analysis: Is A.W. Karzai the CIA's man in Kandahar or a gentle benefactor?
  • Australian premier in ministerial spying scandal
    The premier of Australia’s state of New South Wales has been accused of trying to spy on local government officials by planning to install telephone surveillance equipment in their work offices.
  • CIA trickery and deception manual revealed in new ...
    A CIA manual of surreptitious behavioral and signaling tricks, which was recently discovered by researchers, has been declassified and published in a new book.
  • News you may have missed #0163
    How a mild-mannered Baltimore antique dealer became one of the FBI's best undercover agents. South Korean ex-spy master dies. Bulgaria quits plans to disband State National Security Agency.
  • News you may have missed #0162
    South Korean 1967 spy case was "trumped up", report finds. CIA torture sparked rift with FBI. Analysis: Friendship is no bar to espionage.

After Downing Street.org

  • Heeding George Kennan's Wise Advice
    Heeding George Kennan's Wise Advice By Ray McGovern | November 3, 2009 I can’t remember how many times I have said that the U.S. military adventure in Afghanistan is a fool’s errand. The reaction I frequently encounter includes some variant of, “How can you blithely acquiesce in the chaos t ...
  • Veterans for Peace Sponsors Veterans' Day Commemor ...
    Click here for the place and time of a commemoration near you. read more
  • U.S. Settles Suit With Muslims In Post-9/11 Abuse
    U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse By Christine Kearney | Reuters The report said videotapes showed some detention center staff "misused strip searches and restraints to punish detainees and that officers improperly and illegally recorded detainees' meetings with their attorneys." Th ...
  • Calif Dem Party Progressive Caucus Take Issue With ...
    The Honorable George Miller 2205 Rayburn House Office Building United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Representative Miller: On behalf of the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party, it is my painful duty to inform you of a motion and vote taken ...
  • Congressman Brian Baird Challenges Congressional L ...
    Congressman Brian Baird Challenges Congressional Leadership’s Blind Protection of Israeli Actions in Gaza By Ann Wright The massive, disproportionate force used on the people of Gaza by the Israeli military was done with the full knowledge that the United States government -- the President, Secr ...

Grist - News

  • Obama urges stepped-up efforts on climate change
    by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Tuesday said it was "imperative to redouble our efforts" to combat global warming ahead of key climate change talks in Copenhagen next month. He was speaking as European leaders urged the U.S. Congress to take action on climate change ahead o ...
  • Flurry of lobbying cash obscures U.S. climate deba ...
    by Agence France-Presse Photo: AMagill WASHINGTON -- When it comes to the debate in the United States over what to do about climate change, cash has clouded the issue. Lobbying groups for both the energy and environmental sides have boosted their spending this year, but the energy sector is still v ...
  • Rich countries halt Barcelona climate talks with i ...
    by Joshua Kahn Russell African negotiators at the U.N. climate talks in Barcelona refused to continue formal discussions about all other issues until wealthy countries live up to their legal and moral responsibility to commit to deep emissions reductions. Rich countries (also called “Annex 1 coun ...
  • German leader likens the struggle against global w ...
    by Agence France-Presse Berlin wall. Photo courtesy GothPhil via Flickr WASHINGTON -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday urged the U.S. Congress to take action on climate change, likening the struggle against global warming to the Berlin Wall. In a rare address to a joint session of Congres ...
  • Reactions to Al Gore’s book o’ solutio ...
    by Grist Al Gore’s last book , in case you hadn’t heard, was about the climate problem. The new followup to An Inconvenient Truth lays out solutions. The Vice President, Nobel laureate, and veteran climate advocate describes the most promising responses to the climate conundrum in Our Choice , ...

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  • Report: Jackson Bald, Bruised, Ribs Broken
    Filed under: Michael Jackson Michael Jackson's body was in terrible shape and he had only pills in his stomach when he died, according to a report out of London. Jackson's hips, thighs and shoulders were riddled with needle wounds, The Sun is reporting. The paper -- which claims ... Permalink
  • LiveBlog: Opinions and Orders 6.29.09
    Beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern, we will provide “live” coverage of the Court’s release of opinions and orders. In the “LiveBlog” below, we will relay all developments as quickly as possible. We will post links to the slip opinions as soon as they are available. Because the LiveBlog automatic ...
  • Windows Mobile doesn’t want your silly apps
    Section: Communications , Cellphones , Email / IM , Smartphones , Mobile We at Gadgetell talk a lot about third party applications for mobile phone operating systems and how they might make or break a platform.  The news comes today that Microsoft Product Manager for France let slip tha ...
  • Saving for College
    Our little girl is already 6 weeks old and before you know it I will probably be talking about her heading to college. Time is flying and I feel like now is the best time to get the game plan ready for college savings since I have time on my side. I would have loved to be able to set aside $5,00 ...
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Washington Independent

  • Michael Steele on Christie Win
    More end zone dancing from the Republican National Committee chairman: “Tonight, Chris Christie exceeded all expectations by charging to victory in the heart of Democrat country.  I would like to extend my sincere congratulations to Chris on becoming New Jersey’s next governor and in a special ...
  • NY-23: Watertown Mayor: ‘It’s Over&#82 ...
    SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. – I caught Watertown, N.Y., Mayor Jeff Graham, who endorsed NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman this weekend, looking very glum at Hoffman’s election party. I asked him what happened in Jefferson County, where Watertown is located, and where Democrat Bill Owens is ...
  • NY-23: All of a Sudden, Pessimism at Hoffman HQ
    SARANC LAKE, N.Y. – The mood is getting darker at NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s election party. Results from Jefferson County–Republican territory that John McCain carried–show Owens in the lead. And the Syracuse suburbs–Madison, Oswego, and Oneida County–are not show ...
  • Christie Wins in New Jersey
    On MSNBC just now, Larry O’Donnell announced that NBC is calling the New Jersey governor’s race for Republican Chris Christie. With 74 percent of the votes counted, Christie leads 50 percent to Gov. Jon Corzine’s (D) 44 percent, with 5 percent for Independent Chris Daggett. Update: The Associa ...
  • NY-23: Cautious Optimism at Hoffman HQ
    SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. – Results are trickling in from NY-23, and it’s closer than some Hoffman campaign workers were thinking it would be. The rumors that have everyone buoyed–that Democrat Bill Owens is underperforming in his home base of Clinton County, that National Republican Congressional Co ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Toyota Turns to GMO Flowers to Relieve it of Prius ...
    Are you overcome with guilt about how much carbon, sulfides, nitrides, and other emissions goodies were pumped into the atmosphere in the making of your new Toyota Prius? Do you feel dirty? Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Where's the beef? In land of cowboys, pig thrives
    The president of the National Pork Producers Council — the person who represents the people who represent the nation's pigs — appeared recently before Congress to talk about sales in the swine flu era. He wasn't happy. "Things look bleak going forward, Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Business  | ...
  • Ulema protests torture against racing cows
    A number of ulemas in Madura have been urging the regional administration to issue bylaws against the use of torture on cows used in the traditional karapan sapi (cow race). Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Dogs 'as bad for global warming as an SUV'
    PETA aren't going to like the title of a new book on sustainable living. According to Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living keeping a medium-sized dog has the same impact in the environment as driving a 4.6l Land Cruiser. Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Green Lifestyle  |   No ...
  • Only Five Years Left to Avoid Climate Catastrophe
    The world has just five years to initiate a low carbon industrial revolution before runaway climate change becomes almost inevitable. But the good news is that it can be done and that the long term benefits will be immense, according to new analysis from Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Environment ...

Suzie-Q

  • Michael Hilton Broke And No Corporate Backing For ...
    /h2> Hilton Admits: I’m Broke And Had No Corporate Backing for Jail Bid TPMMuckraker– Zachary Roth | November 2, 2009, 9:57AM “I’m out of the game. I’m done,” Michael Hilton has told the Associated Press in a phone interview. The California grifter had just testified in court that he ...
  • Who speaks for Islam?
    Everyone, it seems, has a party line about who the good Muslims and bad Muslims are. Sadly, many of the dichotomies distort as much as they reveal, and use simple labels based on superficial preconceptions and over-simplifications, says Meena Sharify-Funk. Middle East Online, Oct 30, 2009 Waterloo, ...
  • Beck Predicts Palin Is Positioning Herself For Thi ...
    Beck’s prediction: Sarah Palin positioning herself for third-party run — and a third party will win in 2012 Crooks & Liars- By David Neiwert Saturday Oct 31, 2009 8:00am Bill O’Reilly is “fascinated” with Sarah Palin, and has been featuring segments on her a lot of late. He had Glenn B ...
  • In The Know: Are Politicians Failing Our Lobbyists ...
    Video compliments of The Onion The Best Entourage $263.4 Million of Lobbying Money Can Buy Change.org by Tim Foley Published August 14, 2009 @ 11:01PM PT An optimist sees the glass as half-full. A pessimist sees the glass, sees the water, and begins to wonder how it got there, who paid for the ser ...
  • Is Lieberman Afraid To Debate Maddow On Health Car ...
    Joe Lieberman is afraid to debate Rachel Maddow on health reform. Think Progress- By Faiz Shakir at 10:40 am For the past couple of nights on her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow has skewered Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) for his stated willingness to filibuster health reform. Decrying his “demonstrably and ...

Solari

  • Chart of the Day: First-Time Home Buyers
    First Time Home Buyers As A Percent of Total Home Purchases View larger chart at Clusterstock
  • Half of U.S. Kids Will Get Food Stamps
    By Lindsey Tanner Breitbart.com (2 Nov 09) CHICAGO (AP) - Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say. The estimate comes from a ...
  • Wall Street’s Naked Swindle
    By Matt Taibbi (14 Oct 09) A scheme to flood the market with counterfeit stocks helped kill Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers — and the feds have yet to bust the culprits. On Tuesday, March 11th, 2008, somebody — nobody knows who — made one of the craziest bets Wall Street has ever seen. The my ...
  • RBI to Buy 200 Tonnes of IMF Gold
    By Tamal Bandyopadhyay and Anup Roy Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India, or RBI, is buying 200 tonnes of gold from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), nearly half of what the fund plans to sell. In 1991, when India faced its worst ever balance of payment crisis, the country had to pledge 67 tonnes ...
  • U.S. Housing Not Affordable Yet
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Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Kilimanjaros Snows Melting at Accelerated Pace
    Kilimanjaro has lost 85 percent of the snow and ice that makes up the mountaintop glaciers and could be completely bare in 15 years. Related posts: NASA Arctic Satellite About to Die? Here Comes Operation Ice Bridge Rising Sea Levels and Loss of Coastal Areas Report – Biofuel Industry Could Be ...
  • NRDC Announces Second Annual Growing Green Awards
    The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has just announced its second annual Growing Green Awards for 2010. Related posts: Planet Green Announces New Green Materials Guide Green Wont Be The Norm, Until We Stop Calling Things Green Big Coal is in Trouble – Says 1st Annual Coal Summit
  • Canada Sets Aside its Boreal Forest for Carbon Sto ...
    Twice the size of California, Canada's Boreal Forest is being set aside to collect and store Carbon, effectively acting as a planetary lung. Related posts: Germany Says NOT UNDER MY BACKYARD to Carbon Cap and Storage Carbon Capture and Storage or has Elvis already left the building? Texas: The Sa ...
  • West Virginians Come to DC to Protest Mountaintop ...
    I had the distinct honor of meeting and speaking with Bo Webb, Mountain Top Removal Protester and Activist, outside the EPA offices in Washington DC today. Related posts: Senior Citizens March 25 Miles Against Mountaintop Removal Ending Streamlined Mountaintop Coal Removal Permits Is Not Enough ...
  • NASA Arctic Satellite About to Die? Here Comes Ope ...
    NASA, and the world, have a problem. It’s ICESAT-I (Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite) which provides critical data on rapidly changing ice volume and thickness, is going to go offline this year. The launch of its replacement, the ICESat-II, isnt schedualed until 2014-15. This creates a lar ...

Inhabitat

  • Recycled Paperpulp Cabinet by Debbie Wijskamp
    It never ceases to surprise us that much of good, sustainable design is also deliciously fun. Take Debbie Wijskamp’s paperpulp cabinets, for instance. They are what their name implies: drawers and shelves made out of pureed paper mache. And while I want to write sophisticated sentences with phrase ...
  • VOTE for Your Favorite Green Halloween Costume!
    VOTE NOW FOR YOUR FAVORITE GREEN HALLOWEEN COSTUME! We hope you all had a happy Halloween! Even though the festivities are officially over, you can still enjoy the spirit of the most creative holiday of the year by voting for your favorite eco costume in our Green Halloween Costume contest! We were ...
  • Herzog & de Meuron Unveil New Miami Art Museum
    Herzog & de Meuron recently unveiled their finished design for the new Miami Art Museum, which will be a stunning building surrounded by hanging gardens with tropical plants. Fit for a world renowned art museum, the new MAM will be three times as large as the existing building and will be aiming for ...
  • World’s Largest Solar Energy Belt Across Sahara ...
    A giant step has been made in what will be the world’s largest renewable energy project. While previously just a grand vision for the production of clean energy in the Saharan desert, the project now has a core group of backers and a signed agreement between 12 companies wanting to move forward wi ...
  • Sun-Powered Japanese Racecar Wins World Solar Chal ...
    We’ll admit it: We’ve never totally understood Nascar’s appeal. I mean, come on, it’s just a bunch of cars going round and round a track like a zillion times! But the World Solar Challenge? Now that is one car race we can really get behind. The event, which started way back in 1987, features ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Return to Sender
    Have an amazing idea? Here's why Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer and Sergey Brin don't want to hear about it.
  • Are You Nice or Am I Famous?
    Do columnists or other prominent people get special white-glove treatment from customer-service reps? Hard to say, but anecdotally, the evidence is thin.
  • Pogue Answers Reader Questions on Windows 7
    Whenever I review something that affects so many people, I can count on getting a lot of feedback - and I did, even though the review appeared only last night. Here's a sampling, with my responses.
  • Computerized Health Records
    An interview with Dr. David Blumenthal, the President's medical-records czar.
  • AT&T Does the Right Thing
    You'll soon be able to make unlimited phone calls on your iPhone - without using up any of your monthly airtime minutes.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Jung’s Red Book: Art, Psychology, Pre-cognition
    New Scientist – JUST before the first world war, the 38-year-old Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was troubled by awful dreams and visions. Analytical to the core, he embarked on what he later described as his “confrontation with the unconscious”, and documented the lot. The material went ...
  • Al Gore ‘profiting’ from climate change agenda
    Daily Telegraph – Al Gore has been accused of profiting from the climate change agenda amid claims he is on course to become the world’s first “carbon billionaire”. Since he quit mainstream politics, Mr Gore’s personal fortune has risen from £1.2 million to an estimated £ ...
  • Human rights ruling against classroom crucifixes a ...
    The Guardian – European court of human rights rules crucifixes that hang in classrooms violate religious and educational freedoms. There was uproar in Italy today over a ruling by the European court of human rights that the crucifixes that hang in most Italian classrooms are a violation of religi ...
  • U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse
    Reuters – The U.S. government will pay $1.26 million to five Muslim men detained for months without charges after the September 11 attacks who sued for unlawful imprisonment and abuse, their lawyers said on Tuesday.  The men claimed they suffered inhumane and degrading treatment in a Brooklyn d ...
  • Soros: China will emerge as winner from current ec ...
    Xinhua (China)  - Investor and philanthropist George Soros forecast in Budapest on Friday that China would emerge as the big winner of the global financial crisis. Soros called on Chinese leaders to “rise to the occasion” and take an active role in the creation of a new multilateral financia ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • The demolition of the Thälmann Memorial in Ziegen ...
    The demolition of the Thälmann Memorial in Ziegenhals (in Brandenburg, Germany, near Berlin) must be prevented! (www.mona-lisa.org) Declaration of human rights and peace prize bearers of the Society for the Protection of Civil Right and Human Dignity (GBM), and the circle of friends “Ernst Thà ...
  • Sa pagkamatay ni Corazon Aquino.
    Sa pagkamatay ni Corazon Aquino. (amihanmalaya.wordpress.com and monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Namatay si Corazon Aquino nuong nakaraang lingo. Pinaguusapan ng buong bayan ang pagkamatay ng isang dating papet. Ang midya ay muli na namang nagsimula ng kampanya para purihin siya. Ginagampanan ng ...
  • Revisionists in China and Amerikkkans want stronge ...
    Revisionists in China and Amerikkkans want stronger military ties (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Both the US and Chinese long for closer military ties. This feeling was expressed at a recent meeting attended by high ranking administration and military personnel from both countries. Both US Sec ...
  • Czy socjalizm polepszy życie ludzi w Pierwszym Ś ...
    Czy socjalizm polepszy życie ludzi w Pierwszym Świecie? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com, Will First Worlders benefit from socialism? translated into Polish by the NKP(M)) Socjalizm doprowadzi do pogorszenia się standardu materialnego mieszkańców Pierwszego Świata. Pierwszoświatowcy zarabi ...
  • Comprador Indian State Gears Up for Massive War on ...
    Comprador Indian State Gears Up for Massive War on its Own People (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) For some months now the comprador Indian state, already up to its neck in extreme and bloody paramilitary and pig repression – police as well as government-backed Salwa Judum death squads have be ...

PakAlert

  • Heavy Indian Weaponry Seized: Another Proof Of Ind ...
    The cross border involvement by Indian intelligence agencies aka terrorist organization RAW has not been a hidden story any more since both Pakistan as well as NATO forces operating in Afghanistan have shown concerns over it. According to much hyped report by General Stanley McChrystal, Indian polit ...
  • Holocaustism: A New Jewish Religion
    I believe that when the Israeli professor Yeshyahu Leibowictz defined holocaust as the new Jewish religion – he was trying to be modest – as it practice it has long passed the threshold of ‘religion’ since Israel’s 1967 invasion of its Arab neighbors during which it occupied the entire pre ...
  • Marc Faber: The Collapse Of Capitalism Is Now Inev ...
    Capitalism has been the engine driving America and the global economies for over two centuries. Faber predicts its collapse will trigger global “wars, massive government-debt defaults, and the impoverishment of large segments of Western society.” Faber knows that capitalism is not working, capit ...
  • The Protocols of Zion and the Dajjal Illuminati Ro ...
    “It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible, should not result in territorial gains: war will thus be brought on to the economic ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive in the assistance we give, the strength of our predominance,” (Protocols)   Protocol #2 st ...
  • The Mossad in the CIA
    Mega-Mossad Agents inside American CIA on taxpayer funded salaries using no Social Security Numbers. Naming names and will be naming addresses of these spies funded by American Taxpayer money ! Your U.S. taxpayer funds used to destroy you and your country ! It might be of public interest to know tha ...

ecogeek

  • Solar Projects Battling for Water
    Construction of renewable energy projects has revealed some serious environmental issues that will have to be dealt with as we speed toward a clean energy future.  We recently wrote about the conflict between land conservation efforts and renewable energy projects in deserts out west.  Land that ...
  • Bright Doling Out Advice to Army, Automakers
    Bright Automotive, best known for its 100-mpg IDEA plug-in utility van, announced a new $1.4 million contract with the U.S. Army to build a plug-in hybrid for non-combat use.  The PHEV will be designed to cut Army fuel consumption as well as to demonstrate how an EV could potentially feed power ba ...
  • Dell Plants Solar Trees in the Parking Lot
    Dell is doing it again, this time on-site, with a series of solar trees that will not only help power it's headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, but also serve to charge electric vehicles parked there. Of course, there aren't currently any electric vehicles parking in the Dell lot, but hopefully that w ...
  • Let's Make This Clear: Vertical Farms Don't Make S ...
    The inside of a skyscraper is, literally, the most expensive "land" in the world. So it probably isn't the best place to grow our food. The idea of vertical farming (growing food in high-rise buildings in the middle of cities instead of out on farms) has been gaining a lot of interest lately. Mos ...
  • Need to Measure Wind Speed? There's an App for Th ...
    The potential of small-scale wind power is starting to be discussed more.  Soon, like small-scale solar installations, wind turbines will be springing up in backyards and on rooftops.  If you're thinking that you'd like to be one of the people with a turbine out back , you'll need to assess the w ...

Times Online - Science

  • John Beddington backs Professor David Nutt's stanc ...
    Government divisons over the sacking of its chief drug adviser deepened yesterday as its most senior scientist backed Professor David Nutt for saying that cannabis was less harmful than alcohol.
  • Sexy science: Love is niffs and sniffs
    The manufacturers of Lynx deodorant know what they are doing. It’s every nerdy boy’s fantasy: a quick spray of scent and suddenly the opposite sex can’t resist you.
  • Welcome to the wasp that you named Giacometti
    In September we set readers the unusual task of coming up with a name for a new species of wasp. The creature is a member of the Ecuadorian parasitic wasp family and has resided without a name in The Natural History Museum in London since being donated by Martin Cooper, an insect collector, in 2 ...
  • One in five mammals threatened with extinction
    A fifth of the world’s known mammals, a third of amphibians and reptiles and more than two thirds of plants are threatened with extinction, according to the latest “Red List” of endangered species.
  • Kilimanjaro's snows melt away in dramatic evidence ...
    The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro will be gone within two decades, according to scientists who say that the rapid melting of its glacier cap over the past century provides dramatic physical evidence of global climate change.

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Support For Public Option In Connecticut By Distri ...
    Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com did a great job of breaking down some poll numbers for the Public Option on a district by district level and across the nation. I did a quick cut and paste of the numbers just for Connecticut : The results beg the question of why some more of Connecticut's Congre ...
  • Don't Be That Congress!
    Do you really want to be a repeat of the 80th "Do Nothing" Congress ?Pres.Truman : “On several occasions during the past year I have reported to the Congress and to the Nation on our general economic situation. These reports have told of new high levels of production and employment. Farmers are pr ...
  • A little Black history in the making...
    I was checking out The Field Negro's Blog and Wayne had something far more interesting on his sidebar than anything he has written lately, to myself at least. (Sorry Field, not knocking your writing but I am a veteran.) I have not checked out the background on this project or the "producer" myself, ...
  • We Apologize For Being Correct, Yet Again
    Those of us in the left Blogosphere of Connecticut and the nation that have a nasty habit of being right so often that it is truly embarrassing to the political elite, the media , the voters and activists that don't read and pay attention to the warnings we give you would like to apologize to all of ...
  • A cool dose of DFH reality
    Might not be safe for work... But FUCK IT! DFH by joeyess

SPL Center

  • A Peek Behind the Curtain: Views of a Racist Filmm ...
    As we reported yesterday, white supremacists are enamored of first-time filmmaker Craig Bodeker’s A Conversation about Race, presumably because the polished documentary lends a veneer of respectability to their racist beliefs. Bodeker, who narrates the film, comes across as an affable guy intent o ...
  • Huge Bust in Los Angeles Targets Anti-Black Street ...
    Police mounted a large-scale raid this week aimed at weakening a violent Los Angeles street gang that regularly targets blacks. Some 1,300 local, state and federal law enforcement officials were involved in the pre-dawn sweep on Tuesday that followed a year-long investigation and led to the arrest o ...
  • Rise Up and Fight the Swine Flu Conspiracy, Says & ...
    Of all the fantastic musings and mutterings about the H1N1 flu and vaccine, few are more outrageous than the pronouncements of retired Army Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine III and his psychiatrist wife, Rima Laibow. They run a nonprofit organization called Natural Solutions Foundation, which warns of t ...
  • California Officer Guilty of Hate Crimes for Ethni ...
    In what the prosecutor says might be the first case of its kind, a California Highway Patrol officer has been convicted of a hate crime. Four counts, no less. Seth Taylor, 35, pleaded guilty on Friday to four misdemeanor counts of disturbing the peace, admitting in each case special allegations that ...
  • Lies, Betrayals and Self-Promotions: The Shawna Fo ...
    Shawna Forde, the anti-immigration crusader who has been accused of murder in the home-invasion killings of an Arizona man and his 9-year-old daughter, got the full treatment on Sunday from her hometown paper. The full treatment — more than 5,000 words of it by reporter Scott North in The Herald o ...

Rio Times

  • A New Name - The Rio Times
    By Doug Gray, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - The Gringo Times will have a new name, but it is not a change that was taken lightly. Following last week’s story about the meaning of the word “Gringo”, and the survey participation of over 100 of readers, the polls are in, and Rio’s only ...
  • Brazil Plans Another Nuclear Plant
    By Jaylan Boyle, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - A second Brazilian power station is to be built in the northeast of the country, at an as yet undisclosed location close to the coastline between the cities of Recife and Salvador, confirmed the president of the state-owned company Brazilian El ...
  • Ilha Grande Eco Escape
    By Tricia L Chaves, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Ilha Grande (the Big Island), was a decades-long home of a prison before the structures were destroyed in the 1950s. Now, its remote location creates the ultimate natural respite from Rio‘s bustling intensity. This getaway is ideal for the ...
  • Mangueira Samba School
    By Bruno de Nicola, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Pink and Green are the colors that represent the Estação Primeira de Mangueira, Rio de Janeiro’s most famous and infamous Samba School, home of many Brazilian music idols and TV celebrities. Certainly the most glamorous and advanced, ...
  • Sugar Recovers but Will Ethanol?
    By Jaylan Boyle, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - The Brazilian sugar-ethanol industry, which heavily indebted itself in order to expand just before the financial crisis and subsequently suffered badly, is guardedly optimistic that the worst is over. In Brazil, the world’s largest producer a ...

change: org.

  • African Nations End Climate Boycott, But Chances o ...
    African nations have won promises that there will be more in-depth talks about exactly how much rich nations will need to cut their emissions by, ending a boycott of talks. The African countries had been supported by 70 developing countries, arguing that industrialized countries were not making suff ...
  • Germany to Kosovo Roma Refugees: You Must Return
    Life isn’t easy for Roma anywhere in Europe, but it is about to become much more precarious for thousands of Kosovo Roma refugees living in Germany. Beginning early next year, the German government will start returning thousands of Roma refugees to Kosovo. The governments of the two countries are ...
  • Distribution vs. Promotion and The Rise of the Ema ...
    Nonprofits are increasingly a fan of Facebook and a flutter with Twitter. Yet there is a new old medium that is poised to make a comeback as a key vehicle for interpersonal communication: the e-mail list. The launch of the new All Day Buffet project TBD provides an interesting occasion to examine th ...
  • The Danger of Rewriting History in Afghanistan
    Wazhma Frogh, Afghanistan country director for Global Rights, recently published a long column in the Washington Post titled “Risking a Rights Disaster.” In it, she argues that a US shift to a narrow counterterrorism strategy in Afghanistan, or attempts to bring some Taliban into the government, ...
  • Rhode Island Bans Indoor Prostitution
    The end has finally come to a long and often malicious battle in Rhode Island over a 30-year-old legal loophole which allowed indoor prostitution to legally occur. Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri signed the bill into law today, and it is effective immediately. The debate which took place around this ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Karzai Declared Afghan President, Run-Off Scrapped
    by Golnar Motevalli KABUL - Afghanistan's election commission declared Hamid Karzai elected as president on Monday after it called off a runoff following the withdrawal of his only rival. The run-off, called after the first round in August was marred by widespread fraud, was to have been held on Nov ...
  • Leaking Oil Rig in Timor Sea Catches Fire
    by Bonnie Malkin in Sydney No one was injured in the blaze and all non-essential staff have been airlifted from the West Atlas rig, operators PTTEP said. The fire, which started during an attempt to plug the leak, comes as environmental campaigners criticised PTTEP and the Australian government over ...
  • Toxic Contaminants: The Other Scourge
    by Neena Bhandari SYDNEY - As the world focuses on the impact of climate change, little attention is being paid to yet another environmental bane: increasing contamination of air, water and soil. The combined effects of this environmental scourge have contributed to global epidemics of cancers, lung ...
  • Audit: KBR Must Trim Iraq Work Force or Face Fines
    by Richard Lardner WASHINGTON - The Army's primary support contractor in Iraq is being warned by Pentagon auditors to cut its work force there or face nearly $200 million in penalties for keeping thousands too many on the payroll. The Houston-based KBR Inc., responsible for everything from mail and ...
  • Diamond Producers Meet on 'Conflict Diamonds'
    WINDHOEK - Rights abuses in Zimbabwe diamond fields are set to dominate talks opening Monday by the global system charged with preventing trade in the gems from fuelling armed conflicts. Zimbabwe poses a key test for the international scheme known as the Kimberley Process, named after a South Africa ...

Lifehacker

  • What's Your Main Operating System? [Reader Poll]
    Windows 7 has only been out for about two weeks now, but statistics web site StatCounter reports that Windows 7's OS market share reached roughly three percent by the end of October. So what operating system are you using? We already know that a good 70 percent of Lifehacker readers using Windows ha ...
  • Remains of the Day: iPhone Carrier Unlocking Edit ...
    Unlock your iPhone for non-AT&T carriers, take a look at 60 Minutes' film industry propaganda, and try out Firefox 3.6 beta without losing your stable 3.5 installation. blacksn0w is live Blackra1n jailbreaks your iPhone 3.1.2 on Windows or Mac, and now there's blacksn0w, a tool to unlock your 3.1.2 ...
  • OmniDiskSweeper Helps You Easily Reclaim Disk Spa ...
    Mac only: We've all experienced full hard drives, but divining where all your hard drive space has gone is never easy. Freeware program OmniDiskSweeper easily shows you which files and folders are taking up space so you can free it up. We've featured a few disk space utilities for Mac already, most ...
  • Best Application Dock: Windows 7 Taskbar [Hive Fi ...
    Last week we asked you to share your favorite application docks and then we rounded up the results for your review . You cast your vote for the best application dock and now we're back with the results. For being a relatively new kid on the block—on the dock?—the Windows 7 Taskbar pulled in enou ...
  • Open a Bottle of Wine with Your Shoe [MacGyver Ti ...
    Got a bottle of wine on hand but no corkscrew to get it open? You can argue all you want about whether or not the guy in this video really needs more wine, but you can't argue with the results. As you can see, all it takes is a shoe and some pounding. The shoe isn't a necessary component, of cour ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • The U.S. Sold Out Afghan Women To Misogynist Allie ...
    By Steve Hynd Sonali Kolhatkar is co-director of the Afghan Women's Mission and has worked closely with RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) for almost a decade. She has an op-ed at Foreign Policy In Focus that should be read by everyone concerned about an occupation without ...
  • Leveraging Karzai And Outflanking Obama
    By Steve Hynd Mother Jones' David Corn, live-tweeting the White House presser as always, has just reported that Gibbs has refused to be drawn on specific anti-corruption measures the U.S. will demand of Hamid Karzai, saying only that the U.S. Embassy in Kabul was working on the matter. The trouble w ...
  • An Anti-Escalation Bleg
    By Steve Hynd The Seminal at Firedoglake is asking for everyone's help in keeping Derrick Crowe, their Afghanistan Fellow, writing his excellent posts. Derrick has been writing regularly on the war, bringing to bear facts, video testimony, statistics, political insight, and thoughtful arguments to d ...
  • In Wake Of Afghan Election Fiasco, COIN Becomes Co ...
    By Steve Hynd The Afghan Independent Electoral Commission stands revealed as not at all independent, as Dave noted earlier - declaring Karzai the victor in the presidential election without a run-off. That, as I understand it, isn't technically constitutional. They themselves were saying just the ot ...
  • The Villager's Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
    By Steve Hynd Robert Naiman has a good catch over at Daily Kos today. He notes that, back in November last year, David Ignatius of the Washington Post wrote that he worried whether Obama had the strength of character to negotiate with the Taliban the way John McCain would and, should Obama falter, t ...

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

McClatchey

  • Why did blue-chip Goldman take a walk on subprime' ...
    IRVINE, Calif. — Goldman Sachs was one of the last Wall Street giants to enter the subprime lending world, but when it did, it quickly climbed into bed with profligate, highflying firms — companies such as New Century Financial Corp.
  • Why did blue-chip Goldman take a walk on subprime' ...
    IRVINE, Calif. — Goldman Sachs was one of the last Wall Street giants to enter the subprime lending world, but when it did, it quickly climbed into bed with profligate, highflying firms — companies such as New Century Financial Corp.
  • Republicans set sights on 2010 after Virginia, New ...
    WASHINGTON — Republicans swept the governor's races in New Jersey and Virginia Tuesday, ending Democratic rule in both states and launching what they hope will become a comeback heading into next year's mid-term elections for control of the U.S. Congress.
  • After 15 years, ex-DEA agent wins settlement from ...
    WASHINGTON — Two colleagues who once fought drugs in California have won satisfaction in a 15-year legal battle that shone a bright spotlight on the nation's spies.
  • U.S. officials fear Karzai can't keep anti-corrupt ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai vowed Tuesday that he'd clean up his government in his second five-year term, but U.S. officials are worried that the Afghan leader will have to award key posts to ethnic warlords and regional power barons who're linked to drug trafficking in exchange fo ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • 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 ...
  • Magnetic attraction of climate 'scepticism'
    There's been interest on this blog and elsewhere about a meeting organised on Wednesday by Piers Corbyn , the independent UK weather forecaster who argues that the sources of modern-day climate change lie in magnetic interactions around the Earth rather than greenhouse gas emissions on it. So - a g ...
  • A forest of issues
    An innovative proposal recently emerged from the foliage that aims to keep fossil fuels in the ground while preserving some of South America's most startling biodiversity and securing the traditional territories of indigenous peoples. About one-third of the Ecuadorian government's income now derive ...
  • Copenhagen countdown - 45 days
    I don't think it's just my imagination; diplomatic moves and announcements and challenges on climate change really are coming thicker and faster now than at any time since it first became an issue of political note 20 years ago. And no wonder, with the start of the UN climate summit just 45 days aw ...
  • Hopping mad about money
    For some things, half a billion dollars might be a hefty sum to pay. But for the survival of the world's threatened amphibian species? Cheap at the price, you might think; but almost no-one, as yet, is paying. It was almost exactly four years ago that the Amphibian Conservation Summit , held in a ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Karzai says he will form non-corrupt government
    President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has vowed to make his government reflect society as a whole.
  • Karzai promises `national unity' government i ...
    Kabul, Nov 3 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai promised Tuesday to assemble a government of 'national unity', a day after the presidential runoff was cancelled and he was declared the winner.
  • Afghan president will have a hard time rooting out ...
    The Associated Press KABUL — President Hamid Karzai promised to stamp out corruption. The image suggested otherwise. Standing at Karzai’s side Tuesday were his two vice presidents &...
  • Taliban rejects Karzai's olive branch
    The Taliban has rejected a call for unity from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, ridiculing him as a puppet of the West. Mr Karzai has called Taliban fighters his brothers and urged them to come home an...
  • UK should leave Afghanistan - MP
    A former Labour minister has called for the "great majority" of British troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan.Kim Howells, chairman of the intelligence and security committee, said the mon...

Futurismic

  • One world… one language?
    While we’re discussing matters of global cultural diversity, here’s an interesting essay on language extinction by a linguistics professor called John McWhorter [via MetaFilter; Rosetta Stone image fromWikimedia Commons]. Now, it’s pretty widely known that lesser-spoken languages are disappear ...
  • The Apex Book Of World SF – available now
    So, did you enjoy Lavie Tidhar’s story “Spider’s Moon” which we published yesterday? It’s been a busy year for the globe-trotting Mr Tidhar, whose last email to me came from a small internet cafe in Bangkok; not only has he been writing his own material (of which a lot is scheduled for pu ...
  • NEW FICTION: SPIDER’S MOON by Lavie Tidhar
    There were Weathermen on the islands, too, Melkior knew – though Melkior, born on the ship, had only once visited the home islands. They were unique to Earth, weather-artists performing in that vast ecology of rivers and clouds, rain and sun, communicating with the hidden machines in the atmosp ...
  • Are zombies a proxy for the American Zeitgeist?
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Of China, Texas and Green Jobs
New York Times
- Nov 03, 2009
- 13 hours ago
In response to some of the concerns expressed by readers, Cappy McGarr, a managing partner with US Renewable Energy Group (US-REG), a private-equity firm ...
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SRI International Researcher to Discuss Smart Grid Technology for Renewable ...
Reuters
- Nov 03, 2009
- 8 hours ago
The conference will provide insights to the electric power industry as the power transmission and distribution market grows with the addition of renewable ...
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Export-Import Bank Adopts Carbon Policy to Encourage Renewable Energy and ...
Reuters
- Nov 03, 2009
- 4 hours ago
As a part of this policy the Bank has established for the first time a $250 million facility to finance renewable energy exports, including solar, ...
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Texas Renewables `09: Delivering the Goods
Reuters
- Nov 03, 2009
- 14 hours ago
AUSTIN, Texas--(Business Wire)-- The Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association (TREIA) is proud to announce that Governor Rick Perry will deliver the ...
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Ecology vs. need for cash: Power plant splits Hopis
Arizona Republic
- Nov 02, 2009
- 23 hours ago
by Dennis Wagner - Nov. 3, 2009 12:00 AM KYKOTSMOVI - According to tribal lore, the Hopi forefathers fled a corrupt underworld thousands of years ago by ...
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Ecology Grant Offers Lift for Flooded Homeowners
Centralia Chronicle
- Nov 03, 2009
- 11 hours ago
The Lewis County Commission on Monday approved spending a $200000 grant from the Washington State Department of Ecology to elevate three homes in the ...
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Bulgaria warns Russia on oil pipeline ecology
Reuters India
- Nov 03, 2009
- 14 hours ago
SOFIA, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Bulgaria will walk out of a Russian-backed trans-Balkan oil pipeline project if Moscow fails to provide guarantees the link would ...
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More Dissent Arises Over Shoreline Rules
Kitsap Sun
- Nov 03, 2009
- 15 hours ago
Jan Angel, R-Port Orchard, has asked the departments of Ecology and Commerce to refrain from issuing “guidance” to local governments about land-use rules ...
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Debate grinds on in California Legislature on water reforms
San Jose Mercury News
- Nov 03, 2009
- 3 hours ago
By Denis C. Theriault SACRAMENTO — The monumental effort to remake California's water system stretched into a second day of debate, with the state Senate ...
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Crews don't find possible Blue Water Bridge jumper
Detroit Free Press
- Nov 03, 2009
- 3 hours ago
AP US and Canadian rescuers have suspended their search for a person who may have jumped into the St. Clair River from the Blue Water Bridge. ...
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Ho-hum: Old Pipes and Wasted Water
EP Magazine
- Nov 03, 2009
- 9 hours ago
Despite working in the rain, the workers were feeling pretty good about the job until one of them looked up to the street and saw a new river of muddy water ...
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Cold Water Classic Rides High In Santa Cruz
KSBW
- Nov 03, 2009
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Following a delay at the Cold Water Classic in Santa Cruz on Tuesday, a good swell came through that allowed surfers to show off their skills. ...
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