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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • LATIN AMERICA: Journalistic Prize for "Grey" Dep ...
    SANTIAGO, Nov 5 (IPS) - The second "Latin America and the Millennium Development Goals" Journalism Prize, sponsored by the UNDP and IPS, was awarded Thursday in the Chilean capital in a ceremony addressed by the head of the U.N. agency, Helen Clark.
  • US-SYRIA: Diplomatic Thaw Just Penetrating the Su ...
    WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (IPS) - Four months ago, the Barack Obama administration announced that it would appoint an ambassador to Syria, ending a four-year freeze on diplomatic relations between the two countries.
  • LESOTHO: AIDS Orphans get Helping Hand
    MASERU, Nov 5 (IPS) - Fifteen-year-old Ntsebeng Tlokotsi* sighs with relief as she is given 140 dollars. Along with it she receives a bag of maize meal and cooking oil. It is a government handout, and she qualifies for this only because both her parents are dead.
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Carbon Trading Welcomed, Critic ...
    NIASSA PROVINCE, Mozambique, Nov 5 (IPS) - A visit from Dutch contractors to Niassa Province, in northwestern Mozambique has got communities excited about the prospect of a carbon credit scheme in the area.
  • ARGENTINA: Child Benefits Expanded to Unemployed ...
    BUENOS AIRES, Nov 5 (IPS) - A new monthly family allowance of nearly 50 dollars per child that will be paid out as of December to parents who are unemployed or work in the informal economy in Argentina was heralded by experts as an extraordinary step forward in terms of social policy.

Scoop - NZ

  • Solar Bonus Scheme for NSW
    The NSW Government announced details of a new Solar Bonus Scheme for NSW on 23 June 2009.The Scheme is a net feed-in tariff model. A feed-in tariff provides payments for electricity produced by small-scale distributed sources like solar photovoltaic (PV) systems when their output is fed back into th ...
  • 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 ...

Independent ( London )

  • MDC pushes for power-share deal
    Zimbabwe's MDC party yesterday ended its boycott of the government, giving President Robert Mugabe a month to settle a new power-sharing deal.
  • US officer goes on killing spree at army base
    Accustomed to terrible human loss overseas, the United States Army was last night struggling to come to terms with a savage outbreak of violence at home after an officer opened fire on the sprawling Fort Hood military base in Texas, which is at the tip of the spear of regular US troop deployments ...
  • Prosecutor arrives in Kenya on trail of war crimes
    Some of Kenya's most powerful figures could find themselves in the dock at The Hague charged with crimes against humanity after the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said he would pursue the masterminds behind the country's post-election violence last year.
  • Dalai Lama's monastery visit angers Chinese
    High in the Himalayas, the biggest Buddhist monastery in India is preparing for a visit from the Dalai Lama that is set to anger and antagonise China as much as it will delight the red-robed monks that he meets.
  • Business booms as Dr Doom plans company expansion
    The depths of a financial crisis might not seem the most auspicious moment to be setting up a new investment advisory business, even if you are one of the bigger optimists about the economic recovery. How much more surprising, then, that a new entrant into the industry is Nouriel Roubini, the dour ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran wants to be seen as regional power: ElBaradei
    Summary: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran says is only intended to generate electricity, is an attempt to force the world to acknowledge it as a regional power, U.N. nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei said on Wednesday. source: Reuters read more
  • Update on Iran Negotiations: Gareth Porter says U ...
    Summary: Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses Iran’s counter-proposal to the IAEA enrichment deal, the ambiguous meaning and political sensitivity of nuclear “breakout capability,” continued defense of the 2007 Iran NIE by U.S. intelligence ...
  • 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

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • H1N1 vaccine shortage fabricated to create hysteri ...
    (NaturalNews) There's a fascinating book by author Robert Cialdini called Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion . As someone who frequently writes about Big Pharma's social engineering tactics, I've read and studied many of these tactics, noting carefully how governments and Big Business use them ...
  • H1N1 swine flu infects commercial swine in USA, re ...
    (NaturalNews) The pork industry desperately wants you to believe "the Big Lie" about swine flu: That it can't infect pigs, and therefore it's perfectly safe to buy and eat lots and lots of pork products. It's a merry little tale, and it would be a nice little piece of information to pass along if on ...
  • Proposed law would requiring employers to pay work ...
    (NaturalNews) It sounds good at first: When employers send sick workers home so they don't spread swine flu around the work environment, they must still pay those workers for the full day's work. The idea behind this bill is that many workers can't afford being sent home without pay, and therefore t ...
  • Brooklyn girl winds up in hospital after being inj ...
    (NaturalNews) A six-year-old Brooklyn girl, Nikiyah Torres-Pierre, was hospitalized recently after being injected with the swine flu vaccine. The vaccination was conducted entirely without her parents' permission in an incident school nurses are calling "a mistake." Mother Naomi Troy told the NY Dai ...
  • Parents: Send this note to your school principal t ...
    (NaturalNews) After reading about the forced vaccination of a Brooklyn schoolgirl who ended up in the hospital, many parents are concerned about how they might protect their own children from school-based vaccination schemes. To help parents protect their children, I've written a letter that you may ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • Our head spook isn't happy
    CSIS DIRECTOR RICHARD FADDEN isn't happy with you and me. He feels like Rodney Dangerfield — just can't get no respect . According to Ian Macleod of the OTTAWA CITIZEN, Ricky believes "Almost any attempt to fight terrorism by the government is portrayed as an overreaction or an assault on libe ...
  • The Fat Lady practices the Mikado
    THE TELEGRAPH IN THE UK has an article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, titled " It is Japan we should be worrying about, not America ", that is worthy of your consideration. Japan is drifting helplessly towards a dramatic fiscal crisis. For 20 years the world's second-largest economy has been able to bo ...
  • The SPCA needs a little of your help
    You click on the link . You ask your friends to do the same thing every day. Dogs, cats and other abandoned pets get the food they need to survive in the hands of the SPCA until adoptive humans rescue them. Pretty simple really . H/T Dana
  • Smith & Wesson's Pink Breast Cancer Awareness 9mm ...
    Good. I was already getting bored with my Breast Cancer Awareness Pink Slice Toaster and my Breast Cancer Awareness Pink Inflatable Beer Pong Table. . As noted by PR Watch : "According to a 2008 report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, firearms are the second most common cause of violent d ...
  • Cross Out in Italy . . . .
    Today's BBC notes the Italians are a bit miffed at the European Court of Human Rights: Italy school crucifixes 'barred' BBC News | Tuesday, 3 November 2009 The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the use of crucifixes in classrooms in Italy. It said the practice violated the right o ...

Media Matters for America

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • The Homebuyers Tax Credit and Free Market Fundamen ...
    The Senate just voted unanimously for extending unemployment compensation. The bill also included an $8,000 handout of taxpayer dollars to some people who buy homes (first time buyers and long-time homeowners). This $8,000 credit is not chump change. It is... Unemployment benefits - United Stat ...
  • Keith Ellison Blasts Colleagues For Shameful Golds ...
    I have never simply cross posted something I wrote elsewhere but this is important and I am rushed big time. Besides, I am proud to be associated with Media Matters for America and proud that it is my home base... Media Matters for America - Keith Ellison - United States - Michael Chabon - Med ...
  • Grover Norquist and Anti-Tax Movement Big Loser of ...
    A lot of folks are declaring Obama -- who wasn't on the ballot -- the loser of the night based on two state elections, but the defeat of three anti-tax initiatives that were on the ballot in Washington State and... Grover Norquist - Economic - Taxation - United States - New York
  • Connected Cars: The 'Killer App' For The Smart Gri ...
    Job figures are lagging indicators but nobody feels reassured right now. It is hard to imagine Americans returning to something like the full employment of the 1980s and 1990s without new industries like telecom and computers engendering a vast new... United States - 1990s - 1980s - Technology ...
  • 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 ...

TruthOut

  • Wouldn't It Be Easier Just to Apologize?
    A few years back, the FBI mistakenly linked an American lawyer's fingerprint to one found near the scene of a horrific terrorist bombing in Madrid, Spain. In the tragedy of errors that followed, the lawyer was jailed in Oregon as a "material witness" for two weeks. And what did the FBI do? ...
  • Will Green Energy and Electric Cars Drive Climate ...
    See the entire show RIGHT NOW here . Home to a worldwide summit on climate change in early December, Denmark is setting a global example in creating clean power, storing it and using it responsibly. The country's reliance on wind power to produce electricity without contributing to global w ...
  • Reflections on Being Latino in America
    I finally saw myself on television. And no, I wasn't delivering the news in Spanish. I saw myself represented on CNN's documentary, "Latino in America," along with dozens of other Latinos who, like myself, make up the largest minority in this country, 50 million and growing. Soledad O'Brien ...
  • The Next Phase of Health Care Apartheid
    In Washington, "health care reform" has degenerated into a sick joke. At this point, only spinners who've succumbed to their own vertigo could use the word "robust" to describe the public option in the health care bill that the House Democratic leadership has sent to the floor. read more
  • Europe vs. the Mammoths
    Yesterday, the City of London experienced a "new Big Bang," that wave of financial deregulation initiated by Margaret Thatcher, who allowed the British capital to impose itself as the world's premier financial center. This shock is of an entirely different character. The British want to see ...

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

  • Dr. Al Armendariz named Region 6 Administrator of ...
    Environmental Groups Applaud EPA Choice New Regional Administrator could signal change in direction for polluted state DALLAS – Environmental advocates across several states are applauding the Obama Administration’s choice of Dr. Al Armendariz to lead Region 6 of the Environmental Protection Age ...
  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Externalities of Coal
    Coal has been used by man for several centuries as a means of warmth, transportation (via Watt’s steam engine) and most recently electric power. It is currently used nearly exclusively for the generation of electricity in the US (in 2001: 86% of total US coal production). It has always been claim ...
  • Green-Up Your Life! Walk more and drive smarter
    By Kirsten Bokenkamp According to the Environmental Defense Fund,  driving leads to more than 330 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year in the United States alone.  This amounts to more than 20% of the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions!  In an effort to cut down on greenhouse gases ...
  • 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 ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Rush Limbaugh, Obama, Ad Hominem, Ad Nauseum
    One of the things that's remarkable about right-wingers is their chutzpah. Herr Rush Limbaugh, postmodern court jester for the Third Reich, may be the biggest, or at least the fattest, example. Lardbaugh's latest outrage was his tirade last week against President Barack Obama. Huffington Post report ...
  • Our rotting press corpse and the fine art of conce ...
    So let me see if I have this right...Democrats picked up two more house seats on Tuesday, including the NY 23, a district the republicans have held uninterrupted since 1871. The tea party bandits were rejected out of hand and common sense ruled the day on Tuesday. So of course our zombie media is ad ...
  • Cut the Congressional Knot
    There's a point at which procedural delays become too obstructive to untie and must be simply sliced through.  We've reached that point on the health care reform bills in the Senate. Steve Benen explains: What's the trouble? It's a combination of factors, including waiting on the CBO, dealing with c ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Cornyn and the NRSC surrender to the Palinistas and Charlie Crist felt the blade slip between his ribs. The day after the base was roundly rejected in the NY 23, John Cornyn surrendered to them anyway, saying the NRSC won't take sides in contested primaries for open Senate seats.  So far they are st ...
  • Let the Cowards Die
    This tempts me to give the fucking DINO cowards what they want just because it would absolutely guarantee that every single one of them loses next year. Steven Benen: We should probably keep our "Profile in Courage" Award nominations on hold for Congress' center-right Democrats. Vulnerable House and ...

Care 2

  • Food Industry Dictates Nutrition Policy
    New York (CNN) -- Beyond the unhealthy influence that our demand for factory-farmed meat has in the area of food-borne illness and communicable diseases, we could cite many other influences on public health, most obviously the now-widely recognized relat Submitted by Tierney G. to Health & Wellness ...
  • Monsanto & CropLife Men Have No Place In Our Gover ...
    Islam Siddiqui has been nominated as the Chief Agricultural Negotiator for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. If Congress confirms Siddiqui, he will no doubt continue to undermine public health, biodiversity, Submitted by Tierney G. to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Pet ban for cat throttle attack
    A man who throttled a kitten while shaking it from a second floor window has been banned from owning animals for five years. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Rich countries call on African bloc to keep climat ...
    Poor countries forced to make a stand over lack of commitment from rich nations on emissions cuts, claims African delegat Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Great Whites hang out in Pacific's 'shark cafe'
    Great Whites may be loners, but the ocean's most feared predators also hang out together between Mexico and Hawaii at a deep sea watering hole known as the "White Shark Cafe," a study released Wednesday reveals. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

GreenBiz

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

Reuters Global

  • The “hostile racket” that comes with North Kor ...
    North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (L) inspects eggs at a chicken farm in North Pyongyan province in North Korea in this undated photo released the the state's KCNA news agency.
  • Forget about light bulbs! Iran wants a seat at the ...
    For years Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and outgoing head of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency, has warned the United States and other Western powers against jumping to conclusions about Iran's nuclear program. While Washington, Israel and their allies see increasing indica ...
  • Berlin Wall went down with a party — rather ...
    The Berlin Wall went down without bloodshed or a single shot being fired - one of the most amazing aspects about the evening in which the Cold War ended.
  • The Berlin Wall 2.0
    As Germany prepares to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we will be following a team of multimedia journalists as they report from across Berlin. They will be live blogging from the city as well as sending back video reports, pictures, audio clips and other social media ...
  • Drawing the line against the Taliban
    A government watchdog has called for troops to come home and the line against al Qaeda to be drawn around Britain. Do you agree?

Ezra Klein

  • Tab dump
    1) Spencer Ackerman takes us deep inside the administration's Afghanistan process. 2) Mark Schmitt proclaims himself a "Title IX dad." 3) Stephen Waldman's very meta take on his sit-down with the Treasury Department. 4) Health care has now been endorsed by AARP, the American Medical Association, ...
  • Fannie Mae's burn rate
    Fannie Mae lost a shade less than $20 billion last quarter (off revenues of merely $6 billion). That's a serious burn rate. And it led some colleagues and I to try to calculate Fannie Mae's actual burn rate. If you split that into $20 bills, you'd have to burn more than 11,111,111 bills a day to rea ...
  • Why eating isn't like smoking
    I forgot to link to my latest Food policy column , but it centers around a farmer's market stroll with OMB health-care policy adviser Ezekiel Emanuel. The government is fairly sure-footed when it comes to health-care policy. But what about when it comes to health? The government really doesn't kn ...
  • The problem, and expansion, of the new homeowner t ...
    In a 403-12 vote, the House overwhelmingly backed extending and expanding the new home buyer's tax credit. Where before only first-time buyers were eligible for the $8,000 credit, the expansion will make a $6,500 credit available to homeowners who have lived in their house for at least five years. ...
  • An Interview with Kaiser Permanente CEO George Hal ...
    On Friday, I sat down with George Halvorson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed-care organization in the United States. The interview is long, so I'm transcribing it in parts. The first piece focuses on the role of private insurers, why America pays so much more for health care than any o ...

Booman Tribune

  • A Tragedy Occurred at Ft. Hood
    The massacre of at least 11 people at Fort Hood by an Army Major set to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan is a tragedy beyond words. Our hearts, prayers and thoughts go out to the survivors and family members of the victims. Until more is known about the alleged shooter, Major Malik Nadal Hasan, I ...
  • Casual Observation
    If the economy is doing so well now, or we've turned the corner, or whatever happy talk the pontificating fools financial experts at CNBC, etc. are saying to describe our current state of economic affairs, then why is the price of gold nearly $1,100 an ounce? You would think people would be pulling ...
  • Third-Party Futility
    It's even worse: Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor who is also a possible 2012 contender, urged Republicans not to support third-party candidates, warning that doing so was a recipe for defeat. “There is potential danger if people believe the way to get the attention of Washington is thr ...
  • How Conservatives View Mad Men
    If you haven't seen the AMC show Mad Men, you aren't going to understand this post. The show follows a Madison Avenue advertising firm through the early 1960's, exploring the culture and prejudices of the time. I find the show interesting because my father was working himself up to an executive po ...
  • House Health Care Vote on Saturday
    It looks like, while there are still some details to work out, the House is going to pass a health care bill on Saturday night that has a public option with negotiated reimbursement rates. They aren't going to have three weeks of debate. They aren't going to let any Democrats stop the process and ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Second Llife Enterprise: virtual worlds behind the ...
    Here’s an interesting development in the metaverse – Linden Lab, creators of Second Life, have announced the formal launch of their “Second Life Enterprise” platform, which is essentially a fragmented piece of the virtual world that runs on corporate servers behind the firewall. Private, her ...
  • Transhuman equality? Athletes with a prosthesis do ...
    Remember all the fuss last year about Oscar ‘Bladerunner’ Pistorius, the amputee athlete who was banned from competing against able-bodied runners in the Olympics because the authorities were concerned that his prosthetics might give him an unfair advantage? Well, it turns out that the authoriti ...
  • Required reading: mapping the favela
    Via Chairman Bruce, here’s some required reading for anyone writing near-future fiction that involves a favela as a setting… and given the way the world is becoming urbanised, a near-future story that doesn’t feature a favela can probably be considered to have something missing from it! It’s ...
  • Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls – affordable e-ant ...
    Regular readers will be aware of my interest in new and experimental publishing models for niche authors… and with that in mind I’m very pleased to be able to pass on news of a new digital-only anthology from the Book View Cafe collective. So, with no further ado, here’s the skinny: Book View ...
  • Sucking rats: Tarkus by Emerson, Lake and Palmer
    Ladies, gentlemen, permit me to present to you the stone cold weirdest SF music ever recorded: ELP’s 1971 magnum opus Tarkus. Interestingly, Tarkus backwards is Suk Rat, which must be more than a coincidence, because that’s precisely what the song “Tarkus” does. It sucks a rat. It ...

Therapy News

  • The ABC’s of Apologizing to Your Spouse
    By Pamela Lipe, MS, LP, Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Pam and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Somehow you have ended up on the wrong side of the “whose fault was it” argument with your spouse. You know it was your fault but you have lots of really goo ...
  • In Crisis: Where to Begin When You’ve Just Found ...
    By Dana Vince, LMHC, Infidelity Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Dana and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Where do you begin when you’ve just found out your spouse has had an affair? Or, what if you are the one who’s had the affair and your partner has just found out? If youâ ...
  • EMDR As a Healing Tool in Traumatic Grief
    By Beth S. Patterson, MA, LPC, Grief & Loss Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Beth and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The intense and painful experiences of grief are generally considered “normal.” However, when those experiences are extremely distressing, unduly interfere with ...
  • How Can We Be So Hurt By Our Partners When They Be ...
    By Mitchell Milch, LCSW Click here to contact Mitchell and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile If I’ve witnessed it once I’ve witnessed it a few hundred times during my years counseling couples. One partner reacts as if his self worth has been decimated by words or actions originating from his p ...
  • Is Your Body Totally Happy With Your Career Succes ...
    By Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D., Body-Mind Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jeanette and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Achieving her goals was a bit too easy for Nadine. Thirty-five year old writer and director Nadine got three clients as soon as she put the word out abou ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Gibson will carry powerful message about mountaint ...
    More than 14,000 people have visited Larry Gibson on Kayford Mountain to see the tragic moonscape surrounding what is left of his ancestral home. Coal companies have blasted away more than 12,000 acres of Kayford Mountain by the most destructive form of surface mining - mountaintop removal.
  • Mike Roselle and 'Tree Spiker' (Los Angeles Times)
    In his book, Roselle details his work with Earth First! and other direct-action environmental groups. Mike Roselle is in his element -- fighting a controversial coal industry practice called mountaintop removal mining in the town of Rock Creek, W. Va. "I had to bail some people out of jail," the 55- ...
  • 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 ...

Memeorandum

  • Speaker Pelosi's Government-Run Health Plan Will R ...
    GOP Leader Blog : Speaker Pelosi's Government-Run Health Plan Will Require a Monthly Abortion Premium   —  Follow @GOPLeader on Twitter for updates.  —  Health care reform should not be used as an opportunity to use federal funds to pay for elective abortions.  Health reform should be an ...
  • 12 Soldiers Killed and 31 Wounded in Fort Hood Sho ...
    Emily Friedman / ABCNEWS : 12 Soldiers Killed and 31 Wounded in Fort Hood Shooting   —  Suspected Gunman Is Identified by ABC News as Major Malik Nadal Hasan  —  Twelve people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting spree at a Texas military base by what officials believe was possibly ...
  • At Least 7 Dead, 20 Wounded in Shootings at Ft. Ho ...
    Fox News : At Least 7 Dead, 20 Wounded in Shootings at Ft. Hood in Texas   —  DEVELOPING: A pair of mass shootings at Ft. Hood military post in Texas left at least 7 dead and 20 wounded Thursday, and one suspected gunman is on the loose, the Army said.  —  A massive manhunt was under way f ...
  • Seven dead, 20 injured in Fort Hood shooting (The ...
    The Blotter : Seven dead, 20 injured in Fort Hood shooting   —  The Army says seven people were killed and 20 wounded in a pair of shootings at the Fort Hood Army base in Killeen, according to the Associated Press.  —  An Army spokesman at the Pentagon says the shootings began about 1:30 p. ...
  • Fort Hood gunman ID'd as U.S. Army major, psychiat ...
    CNN : Fort Hood gunman ID'd as U.S. Army major, psychiatrist   —  (CNN) — Eleven people plus a gunman were dead and 31 wounded after a shooting Thursday at a soldier-processing center at Fort Hood, Texas, officials said.  —  The gunman who was killed was a soldier, Army Lt. Gen. Bob Cone ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, Samoa Islands region
    Wednesday, November 4, 2009 18:35:23 UTC Wednesday, November 4, 2009 07:35:23 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.0, Tonga
    Monday, November 2, 2009 17:06:50 UTC Tuesday, November 3, 2009 07:06:50 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.3, off the coast of Oregon
    Wednesday, November 4, 2009 12:38:29 UTC Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:38:29 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.5, Mindanao, Philippines
    Wednesday, November 4, 2009 06:21:46 UTC Wednesday, November 4, 2009 02:21:46 PM at epicenter Depth : 110.00 km (68.35 mi)
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    Monday, November 2, 2009 12:18:50 UTC Monday, November 2, 2009 07:18:50 AM at epicenter Depth : 98.70 km (61.33 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Saving Kyoto
    The carbon market can be used to avoid a stand-off between the major emitters at Copenhagen and forge a consensus among nations. Graciela Chichilnisky sets out her proposal. As nations get ready for the climate-change showdown at Copenhagen in December, the pieces are falling into place for a major ...
  • Corporate values, green governance
    The failure of companies to report environmental pollution in China exposes challenges for governments in the developed and the developing world, writes Tang Hao. Eighteen multinational and Chinese companies, all of them listed in last year's Fortune Global 500 or Fortune China 100 – including She ...
  • “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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Teacher Claims Fingerprinting Is ‘Mark of the Be ...
    A 22-year veteran kindergarten teacher in the Texas Bible Belt could lose her job for refusing, on religious grounds, to give fingerprints under a state law requiring them. The evangelical Christian, Pam McLaurin, is fighting a looming suspension, claiming that fingerprinting amounts to the ...
  • Copyright Treaty is Policy Laundering at its Fines ...
    The blogosphere is abuzz over an apparently leaked document showing the United States trying to push its controversial DMCA-style notice-and-takedown process on the world. But since Threat Level already lives in the land of the DMCA, we’re more bothered by the fact that the U.S. proposal goes far ...
  • Fed’s Search of Twittering Anarchist Upheld
    Federal authorities can resume combing through the notebooks, memory cards and computers of a twittering anarchist being investigated for violating an anti-rioting law, a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled Monday. U.S. district court judge Dora L. Irizzary found no reason to throw out the government†...
  • Maryland Voters Test New Cryptographic Voting Syst ...
    It’s an election system voters and math geeks can embrace. On Tuesday voters in Takoma Park, Maryland, got to try out a new, transparent voting system that lets voters go online to verify that their ballots got counted in the final tally. The system also lets anyone independently audit election r ...
  • MPAA Wants Congress to ‘Encourage’ Three Strik ...
    The Motion Picture Association of America wants Congress to “encourage” internet providers to filter out pirated movies, and to punish customers who repeatedly engage in piracy with a “graduated response” that might include disconnection from the net. The nation’s motion picture lobbying g ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

Pine River World News

  • C.I.A.'s 'Blackwater' unit anchored in Peshawar
    IntelTrends - The following article is reprinted with permission from Kavkaz Center, Caucasus mujahideen media. Embedded photo link appears in original article. C.I.A.'s 'Blackwater' unit anchored in Peshawar Source:   Kavkaz Center November 4, 2009 Former (?) high-ranking intelligence officer of ...
  • Europe, Japan and USA To Trigger Major Debt Crisis
    The following commentary is from Pravda, Moscow, citing RBK Daily as the source. Europe, Japan and USA To Trigger Major Debt Crisis ©  RBK Daily November 3, 2009 The world may face another crisis of confidence, this time in the governments of continental Europe, Great Britain, Japan, and the USA. ...
  • Tamil Tigers look to regroup in Canada: expert
    IntelTrends - The following article is from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Tamil Tigers look to regroup in Canada: expert ©   CBC News November 3, 2009 The Tamil Tigers organization hopes to use Canada as a strategic base to continue the fight against the government of Sri Lanka, ac ...
  • Lockheed Martin in Israel amid concerns
    IntelTrends - The following article is from The Jerusalem Post. Lockheed Martin in Israel amid concerns ©   The Jerusalem Post By Yaakov Katz November 4, 2009 Senior officials from aerospace giant Lockheed Martin were in Israel on Tuesday for talks with the Defense Ministry, in an effort to conv ...
  • INDONESIA: The U.S. and our generals
    The following opinion is from The Jakarta Post, Indonesia. The U.S. and our generals ©   The Jakarta Post November 4, 2009 The failure of two Indonesian generals - Lt. Gen. Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin and Maj. Gen. Pramono Edi Wibowo - to obtain visas to accompany President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to the ...

PDA AMERICA

  • Finally—The Vote on Single Payer
    It’s ‘Put up or shut up’ time… Last night PDA got word from Congressman Weiner’s office that Speaker Pelosi is keeping her promise to allow the Weiner single-payer amendment full debate and vote on the floor ...
  • Frank Schaeffer: I’m Now a ‘Liberal&#8 ...
    By Frank Shaffer | BradBlog I grew up in a fundamentalist missionary family that in the 1970s and 80s morphed into my father’s activity as one of the founders of the Religious Right. We would hobnob ...
  • Shut Down This Murderous Racket: Change We Need an ...
    By Matt Reichel | Dissident Voice Al Capone is awake in his grave in awe at the criminal racket promulgated by the health care industry: a murderous multi-billion dollar industry that keeps the world’s Superpower in ...
  • Pelosi Arrested Us for Asking for Healthcare
    By Dan Hodges, Chair, Health Care for All-California | AfterDowningStreet Around 3PM this afternoon I was one of 12 single payer activists who were escorted from the reception area of Nancy Pelosi’s office in the San ...
  • Death to No One
    By Bitta Mostofi | AfterDowningStreet Today marks the 30th year since the 444 day Iran Hostage Crisis began in 1979. On this day the media traditionally offers us images of Iranians burning American flags and effigies ...

Marler Blog

  • Comparing the Food Safety Record of Pasteurized an ...
    Part 1 and Part 2 of this series examined the historical context of the debate surrounding dairy product food safety, and the mechanisms by which pasteurized or raw dairy products may become contaminated with foodborne pathogens. Part 3 compared foodborne illnesses and disease outbreaks linked to ra ...
  • Food Poisoning is Serious - Read Mari's Story of a ...
    I am in Beijing at yet another food safety conference.  It is odd really that at each of these conferences - regardless the continent - all tend to talk about the victims of food safety failures in the abstract.  Mari's story is jarringly real.  Click on the below and read the three part story of a ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 11.05.09
    Smart Fortwo: World's Most Fuel Efficient Drift Car? The iconic city car will get tested in a scene in Night and Day , starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. SAM begins rebirth as Re-Volt in Poland ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.04.09
    STUDY: Lots of local, green electricity possible for most of the U.S. Cost is an issue, but energy independence is totally possible. Driving for Economy: Suzuki Alto gets 117 mpg in Global Green Challenge ...
  • 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 ...

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 Tortured Logic Continues
    “Extraordinary rendition” is White House-speak for kidnapping. Just ask Maher Arar. He’s a Canadian citizen who was “rendered” by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year. Just this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York City, dismissed Arar ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The World's 200 Dirtiest Power Plants [Interactive ...
    Sixty percent of the world's electricity comes from plants burning fossil fuels and releasing carbon. The world's 200 biggest carbon offenders among power plants. Roll over any plant for more information.
  • Incredible Iceberg Photography [SLIDESHOW]
    David Burdeny's iceberg series shows that these frozen giants are far more than platforms for penguins: They are floating sculptures that are becoming increasingly endangered.
  • Evolution in the Deepest River in the World
    The number of species known to live in the lower Congo now exceeds 300 and the river contains one of the highest concentrations of "endemism," or species found nowhere else in the world. Scientists believe the river’s power is shaping evolution in the Congo.
  • 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 ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Why do Americans hate this man?

  • Former Israeli double agent shot dead near Putin&# ...
    By Andrew Osborn in Moscow and Adrian Blomfield in Jerusalem Kalmanovich, who later became a prominent businessman and allegedly had links with the Russian mafia, died after an unidentified gunman fired at least 20 shots into his chauffeur-driven Mercedes Benz. Mr Kalmanovich’s driver was seriousl ...
  • WHO ‘assumes’ Ukraine gripped by swine ...
    This report just days after the Ukraine government had ruled out swine flu…confusion and misinformation rein… GENEVA — The World Health Organisation said Tuesday that it was valid to assume that most of the cases of influenza reportedly sweeping through Ukraine were caused by the pandemic ...
  • Al Gore Set To Become First “Carbon Billionaire& ...
    Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, November 3, 2009 The New York Times has lifted the lid on how Al Gore stands to benefit to the tune of billions of dollars if the carbon tax proposals he is pushing come to fruition in the United States, while documenting how he has already lined his poc ...
  • Laughing Gas Knocks Out CO2
    By Doug Hoffman In the face of ever mounting evidence that CO2 is incapable of causing the level of global devastation prophesied by climate change catastrophists a new villain is being sought. The leading candidate is nitrous oxide (N2O), better known as laughing gas. A report in Science claims tha ...

Care2 Picks

  • Green Energy Act could create $4.5 billion in valu ...
    A detailed analysis of the business case for power generators, transmitters and local distribution companies following the introduction and enactment of Ontario's Green Energy Act, finds the act has the potential to create significant value. Submitted by David Meiser to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it ...
  • Battle at Coal River Mountain Explodes
    Start of the destruction of the range slated for wind project, blasting and forest clearing reported : mining involves hazard of release of reservoirs of toxic ash deposits threatening flood of death and groundwater poisoninghttp://opitslinkfest.blogspot. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  | ...
  • THE TRUTH | Gather
    This gentleman is amazing, and I would highly recommend that you not only read this particular post by him but, also, further explore his portfolio to read other ones of his writings. Submitted by Ainsley Jo Phillips to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Israel in Canada: Promised Lands
    On the occasion of filmmakers withdrawing last month from the Toronto Film Festival in protest of Israeli involvement in the event, Eric Walberg takes a radical look at Israel's cultural and political connections in Canada Submitted by Eric W. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • War is peace, ignorance is strength
    Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war to add to his impressive record. In Afghanistan, his agents routinely extinguish wedding parties.... Submitted by Eleanor B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Religion key to climate says Ban-Ki Moon
    United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon told faith leaders they are uniquely equipped to combat climate change at a three-day conference organised by the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) and the United Nations Development Program .  
  • Maldives in plan to build wind farm
    Plans to build a wind farm off the Maldives that will supply nearly half of its electricity could put the country one step closer to its goal of becoming the world's first carbon neutral nation. President Mohamed Nasheed said the proposals were also meant to encourage other countries to make similar ...
  • Rare Jane Austen letters go on display
    Rare letters and manuscripts penned by Jane Austen are being displayed in New York as part of a major exhibition of the British author's life.
  • Gore makes climate fight 'a moral duty'
    Climate change crusader Al Gore says campaigners need more than facts to encourage people to tackle climate change.
  • 'Ink blots' for better web security
    They are a minor inconvenience to most internet users - scrambled images requiring the input of a code or text to separate humans from software bots.

Fabius Maximus

  • Updates about hot issues discussed on the FM websi ...
    Some articles about themes discussed on the FM website. Demographics, shaping our world India  Japan American’s greatest enemy America’s rotten boroughs — States with 2 Senators, but few people (1)  About Demographics Excerpt from “Falling fertility“, The Economist, 29 October 2 ...
  • Why All the President’s Afghan Options Are B ...
    Another brilliant essay by Tom Englehardt — attempting to describe the insanity that is our Afghanistan policy.  All this are just warm-ups for Obama’s big moment in Oslo, collecting the Nobel Peace Prize just after (or before) signing orders to expand the war in Afghanistan (a moment of iron ...
  • Who to blame for the delay in producing the swine ...
    Complex technology, large-scale programs run on tight deadlines, making products with almost no margin for error.  Result:   big potential for delays.   As usual, coach-potatoes across the United States complain, and the blame game has already started.  It’s America’s fav ...
  • 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 ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Gene Therapy Halts Fatal Brain Disease
    Scientists have used gene therapy to halt the progression of adrenoleukodystrophy, a fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by a single defective gene, in two seven-year-old boys. It took more than a decade to refine the therapy, in which stem cells taken from the boys’ bone marrow were hacked wi ...
  • Hubble’s New Camera Delivers Another Stunner
    The Hubble Space Telescope’s new camera is returning incredibly detailed, stunning images of space. This close-up view of an area near the core of the iconic Southern Pinwheel galaxy, or M83, shows very rapid star birth. The image to the right of the entire galaxy, taken from the ground by the Eu ...
  • This Is Your Brain, On Sofa
    It’s either the ultimate in couch comfort or a totally bizarre idea dreamed up by a pair of designers obsessed with neuroscience. Either way, the “Brainwave Sofa” is clearly a one-of-a-kind piece of furniture. The couch’s lumpy, bumpy shape is a three-dimensional version of a brain scan, sp ...
  • Gadgets and Ideas to Revolutionize Healthcare
    The TED medicine conference gave 400 people a glimpse at the future of healthcare last week, bringing together an eclectic group of innovators, from photographers to stem cell experts, each with a different point to make. Here are some of the highlights. Craig Venter said he has spent the last twen ...
  • Early Life Hedged Its Bets to Survive
    By forcing bacteria to evolve in ever-changing conditions, scientists have induced a behavior in which colonies formed by microbes with identical genes take radically different forms, as if one sibling in a set of identical quadruplets could sprout gills. Technically known as “stochastic switchin ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Italy Outraged by Crucifix Verdict
    Vatican and Italian officials from across the political spectrum have lined up to denounce a decision by the European Court of Human Rights to penalize the government over the presence of crucifixes in Italian classrooms. The ruling could force a review of religious symbolism in public schools acros ...
  • Pakistan Military Growing Wary of United States?
    Picture: Husain Haqqani Traditionally the United States has had a strong relationship with Pakistan’s military. And Pakistan’s military has had a proclivity for overthrowing the civilian government, and for operating itself autonomously even while civilians are formally in charge. And their s ...
  • What Does The Pentagon’s ‘Afghanistan-Pakistan ...
    An interesting effort at the Pentagon caught my attention in recent weeks: the “Afghanistan-Pakistan Hands Program.” Introduced earlier this year, the program raises broader questions about the emerging Obama doctrine on U.S. national security and the right balance of resources between military ...
  • Using McChrystal's Report to Argue for Reforming D ...
    I reported last week that human-rights groups have been using Gen. Stanley McChrystal 's strategic assessment to argue for detention reforms in Afghanistan. One of my sources for that story, Sahr MuhammedAlly , is among the authors of a new report from Human Rights First that cites both McChrystal ...
  • Iran Expands Gchine Uranium Mine, Develops Domesti ...
    Bloomberg’s Jonathan Tirone has a story today revealing that Iran has dramatically expanded operations at its Gchine uranium mine. Tirone worked closely with Jeffrey Lewis at the New America Foundation, as well as other nuclear experts, to analyze satellite photographs of the Gchine mine. We be ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: How is The Onion Going to Compete ...
    Not one but two taxpayer "bill of rights" were struck down by big majorities on Tuesday, but don't tell that to the "freedom fighters" engaged in performance art on Capitol Hill today. They think health-care reform is like the Holocaust . They think reciting the Pledge of Allegiance pisses off libe ...
  • Could Surgeons and Docs Turn Against the Bill?
    Today the AARP and American Cancer Society endorsed the House health-care bill, with the American Medical Association expressing its positive (if qualified support). But amid this big news, a strong message of dissent was sent to the Senate side of things -- and it didn't come from Bachmann 's tea-p ...
  • Breaking Up the Big Banks -- Is the British Exampl ...
    Rep. Paul Kanjorski proposed legislation that would break up the banks, but the specifics are non-existant (because that's the hard part). The committee is already working on legislation that would allow regulators to chop up banks on a case-by-case basis, as Barney Frank described to me in this art ...
  • The Immigration Dust-Up Ahead.
    The House may be closer to settling the immigration issues in health-care bill this week, but the issue is sure to rear its head again further down the road in the legislative process. In the manager’s amendment to the bill released Tuesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed that the House would not ...
  • Is the Excise Tax Progressive?
    On the left, one controversial part of health-care reform is the Senate's health insurance excise tax , which forces insurance companies to pay a tax on high-cost insurance plans. Unions oppose the tax because many of their members have expensive health benefits in lieu of higher wages -- leaving th ...

Andy Worthington

  • Italian Judge Rules “Extraordinary Rendition ...
    In an unprecedented ruling in a courtroom in Milan, at the end of a trial that — in fits and starts — has lasted for over two years, 22 CIA agents and a US Air Force Colonel received sentences of between five and eight years (and two Italian agents received three-year sentences) for their involv ...
  • Military Commissions Revived: Don’t Do It, Mr. P ...
    I was so delighted that the Defense Authorization Act, signed into law by President Obama last Wednesday, included a hard-won concession that the administration can transfer prisoners from Guantánamo to the mainland to face trials (even though the legislation still bears the fingerprints of interfe ...
  • Guantánamo Uighurs In Palau: First Interview And ...
    In the first interview with one of the six Uighurs recently released from Guantánamo to the Pacific nation of Palau, Radio Free Asia in Washington D.C. spoke by phone to Anwar Hassan, who revealed that, although the men were enjoying their new-found freedom, they were all concerned that they were u ...
  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • House Republicans Are Our Hypocrites of the Week f ...
    House Republicans Over the past several months, the one thing that Republicans consistently said they agreed upon when it came to Democratic healthcare reform was the idea that insurance companies should not be able to deny coverage based on preexisting conditions. Think Progress illustrates here th ...
  • Humana saw their profits rise 65 percent last quar ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT November 2 Release from the Office of Senator Harry Reid Spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Jim Manley, released the following statement today in response to news that Humana had a 65 percent jump in profit last quarter mostly due to their involvement with the Medi ...
  • BP Contests Record-Breaking OSHA Fine While Allowi ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Margaret Smith It's shocking enough to hear that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a small subset of the U.S. Dept. of Labor, dropped a whooping $87.4 million fine on oil giant BP. It comes as even more of a shock, though, when you find out that BP has ...
  • GOP Direct Mail King Weighs in on NY-23, Insisting ...
    BE ELECTED by Meg White When President Obama appointed Rep. John McHugh (R-NY) to become secretary of the Army, he set up what was to become one of only two House special elections of 2009 as well as a test case for the midterm elections next year .It seems everyone and their mother is weighing in o ...
  • Dave Lindorff: Country Joe, Kenny Rogers, and Obam ...
    Country Joe McDonald said it best in his iconic "Fixin' to Die" Rag : "Oh, it's one, two, three, what are we fightin' for? Don't ask me. I don't give a damn." In fact, we were fighting for nothing in Vietnam. It was a war that started out because the U.S. didn't want the Commies to win a battle in t ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Criminal convictions of 22 CIA agents in Italy
    (updated below) The criminal conviction of 22 CIA agents (and 2 Italian intelligence officers) by an Italian court yesterday -- for the 2003 kidnapping of an Islamic cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, off the street in Italy and his "rendition" to Egypt to be tortured -- highlights several vi ...
  • Stephanopoulos and Ledeen: together in the most a ...
    (updated below - Update II) Michael Ledeen of National Review & American Enterprise Institute, writing in "Pajamas Media," January 4, 2007 : BREAKING NEWS -- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, is dead. Associated Press, January 7, 2007 -- 3 days later : Khamenei addre ...
  • Extreme unintended irony from a WH official
    From Ben Smith's Politico article on the surprisingly narrow victory by Michael Bloomberg in the New York mayoral race: Bloomberg’s meager five-point win left Democrats pondering what might have been if New York’s Democratic donors hadn’t turned their back on Thompson, if its politicians h ...
  • 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

  • The difference between politics and governing
  • The GOP and Dems win, conservatives lose
  • 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! ]]

Sciencebase

  • Alchemical Anomalies
    In the current issue of The Alchemist we learn how to stick methane molecules to metals without breaking carbon-hydrogen bonds and how to make impossible carbene catalysts without the usual prerequisite of an attendant metal centre. Another seeming impossibility comes to light: a new microscopy tech ...
  • Twitter science list categories
    The manually compiled Scientwists list of science people on Twitter grew from around 100 of my contacts in January 2009 to almost 700 members, who asked to join or who retweeted the link as of October. Justin Reid helped automate the inclusion of bios and photos and 2020science did some amazing anal ...
  • 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 ...

change: org.

  • Kucinich Calls For No Vote on HR 676
    In a stunning about-face, Dennis Kucinich made a statement questioning a scheduled stand-alone vote on HR 676, Medicare For All. It was to be voted on Friday. Then he sent an email to supporters urging them to convince congressional leaders that now is not the time to vote on the single payer bill ...
  • Real Story: Meet Pam
    I met Pam while passing through Cleveland, Ohio. She is mother and a grandmother who never thought she would become homeless. Many people think that if a person has close family members, they can just go live with family when all else fails. But for Pam and many others, it's just not that simple. Pa ...
  • Let Kids Run the Banks To Educate Them for the 21s ...
    Educating children is changing. It must change. Computing literacy and learning about the digital world is crucial, but kids also need to be geared to be literate in solving problems, thinking creatively and collaborating. Arithmatic, reading and writing are no longer sufficient skills for the US to ...
  • Innocent and Deported
    I've got bad news to share. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the case of cousins Julio Maldonado and Denis Calderon. Unfortunately, I came to the story too late. The day after I wrote, Maldonado was deported to Peru -- a country he left when he was three. He doesn't speak Spanish and found housi ...
  • Homeless Web Trends That Need to Stop
    The marginalization of people has perpetuated society and nestled its way onto the web. Twitter, blogs, and YouTube can be an excellent forum for confronting issues of poverty and homelessness. But they can also breed bad ideas, stereotypes, trends that hinder our progress towards combatting homeles ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • 100,000 Letters Support Protecting Grand Canyon Fr ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 5, 2009 Center for Biological Diversity In a resounding display of public support, tallies released today show that the public sent nearly 100,000 letters and emails to the Bureau of Land Management favoring new uranium-mining protections in the watersheds surrounding ...
  • Report Exposes Campaign of Racial Attacks From Far ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 5, 2009 People For the American Way (PFAW) People For the American Way today released its latest report, "Right Plays the Race Card."  The report covers the Right's continued use of racially charged rhetoric to excite its base and attack its opponents.  It also explo ...
  • Italian Court Convicts Operatives: What About the ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 5, 2009 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) SCOTT HORTON Horton is an attorney specializing in international law and human rights. He is also a legal affairs contributor to Harper's Magazine, where he writes the blog No Comment . read more
  • CREW Asks for Investigation Into Why Wall Street I ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 5, 2009 CREW Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) asked Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to investigate why the Center for Disease Control (CDC) approved the distribution of the H1NI vaccine to Wall Street firms a ...
  • Gulf Coast Communities Praise EPA Plan to Limit PV ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 5, 2009 Earthjustice Edgar Mouton, 74, has lived in Mossville, Louisiana for all his life and for most of those years he's lived near a PVC plant. In his community Mr. Mouton said there are unnatural rates of cancer, lung disease and asthma -- which he believes is dir ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Three Steps to Save Wall Street
    by Mike Lapham For the first time in decades, Washington is daring to tackle financial reform. It took the collapse of the whole sector and the resulting public outrage to get them started, and it will take pressure to keep them going. It’s not certain that Congress and the Obama administration wi ...
  • 2014 or Bust: In Afghanistan, The Pentagon Digs In
    by Nick Turse In recent weeks, President Obama has been contemplating the future of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan. He has also been touting the effects of his policies at home, reporting that this year's Recovery Act not only saved jobs, but also was "the largest investment in infrastructu ...
  • Who Deserves Wall Street Bonuses?
    by Jim Hightower Wall Street bankers are really mad these days - in both senses of that word! You'd think these whizzes of speculative finance would be ecstatically happy and filled with gratitude, not anger. After all, having crashed our economy, they were allowed to keep their cushy jobs, get bail ...
  • No More Women’s Unhealthy Healthcare
    by Lucinda Marshall Health insurance provider Humana's recent announcement of a 65% increase in their 3rd quarter earnings really got my attention because last week I participated in a health care reform rally at their corporate headquarters in Louisville, KY.  After an outdoor gathering attended b ...
  • Unnatural Gas: The Inflated Promise of a Not-So-Cl ...
    by Stan Cox Holding out the prospect of vast new domestic reserves, the natural gas industry is promising to make the United States an energy-rich nation once again. But we should be careful what we wish for. Spending those riches could endanger water supplies for millions of Americans while still f ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Spin Cycle - Taking action in a ‘global economy ...
    Everything is spiritual. That was the thought stuck in my head after listening to a recent lecture at the University of Waterloo by Dr. Vandana Shiva, an “eco-feminist” who has fought for a democracy that doesn’t allow for the exploitation of food and water sources.
  • Background Notes: Kyrgyz Republic (Scoop.co.nz)
    PROFILE OFFICIAL NAME: Kyrgyz Republic Geography Area: 77,181 sq. mi. Cities: Bishkek (capital), Osh, Cholpon Ata, Karakol. Terrain: 90% mountainous, with some desert regions. Elevation extremes--lowest point: Kulundy village in the Batken province ...
  • Residents reject Koke‘e entrance fees (The Garde ...
    PUHI — Michael Ornellas of Kapa‘a said his father warned him that one day he would lose access to the very place he was born and raised, the mountains of the Eastside.
  • Residents reject Koke‘e entrance fees (The Garde ...
    PUHI — Michael Ornellas of Kapa‘a said his father warned him that one day he would lose access to the very place he was born and raised, the mountains of the Eastside.
  • Catch share slow-up hailed (Gloucester Daily Times ...
    A consumer group, Food and amp; Water Watch, yesterday seconded the Pew Environment Group's motion that the Obama administration ease its ardor at commodifying public fisheries to achieve ecosystem restoration with investor principles.

Guardian

  • Twelve killed in shooting at US army base in Texas
    • Shootings suspect named as Major Nidal Malik Hasan • Barack Obama calls attack 'horrific outburst of violence' Twelve people were killed and 31 wounded yesterday when a US soldier went on a rampage at Fort Hood military base in Texas. It is believed that among the dead were troops making their ...
  • Gordon Brown vows to fight Taliban
    Prime minister vows not to 'walk away' from fight with Taliban as poll shows 35% believe troops should come home Gordon Brown will today pledge not to "walk away" from Afghanistan in the wake of the deaths of six British soldiers this week and mounting polling evidence that public support for the wa ...
  • Papers allegedly link Mark Thatcher to coup plot
    • Police yet to interview pair named by freed mercenary • Officers look into London connection to operation Documents detailing Sir Mark Thatcher's alleged involvement in the botched coup in Equatorial Guinea are among evidence being examined by Scotland Yard. The counter-terrorism command has y ...
  • Why I tweeted about my miscarriage
    When Penelope Trunk tweeted that she was sitting in a meeting having a miscarriage, she didn't expect the uproar that followed Recently, I updated my Twitter feed: "I'm in a board meeting. Having a miscarriage. Thank goodness, because there's a fucked-up three-week hoop-jump to have an abortion i ...
  • I'm a 45-year-old virgin
    Virginity means different things to different people, advises Pamela Stephenson Connolly I am a 45-year-old virgin who has only recently started to date women seriously. I was just one of those people whom girls were never interested in. It was only after a serious illness a few years ago, and the u ...

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

  • Interview: Living under constant fear of arrest
    Mohammed Ahmed Issa Yassen, 20, lives in the occupied West Bank village of Bilin, where he works in his family's car garage business as a mechanic. He is also a student at the al-Quds Open University, ...
  • Why I am not a Zionist
    I have come to realize it is actually simple and clear. I am a Jewish-American man in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Justice and resistance to imperialism is a global, human concern for all p ...
  • New York Mets called on to cancel settlement fundr ...
    Eleven organizations from the US, Palestine and Israel have called on baseball's New York Mets to cancel a 21 November dinner at the Caesars Club at Citi Field for the Brooklyn-based Hebron Fun ...
  • J Street conference only step one
    Was the recently held J Street conference the herald of an incipient peace treaty in Israel-Palestine? The supporters of the new lobby group hope so. Its name is a riff on K Street, the real Washingto ...
  • Book review: "A World I Loved"
    "This is my story, the story of an Arab woman," Wadad Makdisi Cortas states in the opening line of her memoir A World I Loved . Born Wadad Makdisi in Beirut in 1909, which at that time was considered ...

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

  • Vitter Demands Apology From Reid Before Census Ame ...
    Today, the Senate voted 60 to 39 in favor of cloture and effectively ended debate on the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill without considering an amendment proposed by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) which sought to cut off financing for the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 su ...
  • The ‘Party Of No’ Becomes The ‘P ...
    Our guest bloggers are Daniel J. Weiss, a Senior Fellow and the Director of Climate Strategy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, and energy team interns Jaren Love and Michael McGovern. Senate Republicans are demanding lengthy economic analyses of progressive clean energy policy, despit ...
  • Rule Of Law, Local Ownership Essential For Securit ...
    Nearly every major U.S. plan for Afghanistan under serious consideration by the Obama administration as it deliberates its options involves some form of an expanded train-and-equip program for the Afghan security forces. General Stanley McChrystal’s leaked assessment calls for expanding the Afghan ...
  • Same EFCA Opponents Claiming To Defend Democracy O ...
    Opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) like to portray themselves as the great defenders of democracy, protecting the “secret ballot” for workers everywhere. “There are sacred principles that epitomize American democracy,” wrote Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the ranking member on the Hou ...
  • Is Senator Shelby A Bank-Buster?
    ep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) has turned some heads by proposing legislation that would give the federal government authority to break up any large financial institution that poses a systemic threat to the economy. According to Bloomberg News, Kanjorski is “coordinating with the European Union, which ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Jeffrey Simpson, Rick Hillier and Brian Platt
    I don't have a whole heckuva lotta time for Jeffrey "Public Healthcare is Expensive!!!!" Simpson, but yesterday he had something interesting to say. It seems there's a bit of a difference between how former CF head Rick Hillier sees his contribution to Canada's getting mixed-up in Afghanistan and ho ...
  • I'm Not Even Sure if This is a Good Version
    I'm just posting something for the sake of posting something ...
  • Excellent Murray Dobbin Editorial
    I'm linking to this editorial at "The Tyee" so that I can find it more easily when I want to: " Canada Must Forge Its Own Economic Fate " I don't agree with everything in it, particularly some of his pessimism about the US economy, but the overall idea, .... that our geniuses in politics and busines ...
  • One Difference Between Tea-Baggers & Sane People
    There are many among the tea-baggers who decry the massive tax-payer funded bailouts to Wall Street and who call for a populist revolt against this domination of the political system by financial elites. The problem is that a large number of them wilfully pretend that the problem started with Obama ...
  • Help Me Out Here People ...
    Help me figure this out. In this post I observed (among other things) that some people who take offence at the suggestion that "America had it coming" when it came to the 9-11 attacks, don't have any problem whatsoever with the idea that "Afghanistan had it coming" when it comes to explaining the U ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Twelve dead in shooting rampage at Fort Hood US mi ...
    At least 12 people have been killed and more than 30 injured in a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood US military base in Texas.
  • The Great Foreclosure Robbery Of The 21st Century
    Thanks to our controlled and uncontrolled media, we know when you take the derivative of the foreclosure crisis you get those greedy predatory lenders at AIG, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America plotting to steal our tacky (I mean tract-y) houses.
  • Top 10 Weirdest CIA Programs
    Over the years, the American Central Intelligence Agency has gained a reputation for being the most far-reaching, sophisticated, and effective government intelligence agency on the planet. At the same time, the CIA has also become known for its incredible paranoia and propensity to undertake costly, ...
  • Duh?: Occupiers involved in drug trade: Afghan min ...
    The Afghan minister of counter narcotics says foreign troops are earning money from drug production in Afghanistan. General Khodaidad Khodaidad said the majority of drugs are stockpiled in two provinces controlled by troops from the US, the UK, and Canada, IRNA reported on Saturday.
  • A Black Hole Engine That Could Power Spaceships
    Artificially generated black holes could provide us with the power to make inter-solar travel a possibility. New research shows how strapping a black hole to your starship might just give you the juice to get to Alpha Centauri.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Pentagon pursuing new investigation into Bush prop ...
    The Pentagon's Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bush administration Defense Department program that used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage. Last May, the Inspector General's office rescinded and repudiated a prior internal ...
  • Shattered Minds And The Children of Gaza
    It's the most terrifying place I've ever been in... it's a horrifyingly sad place because of the desperation and misery of the way people live. I was unprepared for camps that are much worse than anything I saw in South Africa. - Professor Edward Said 1993 [1] They may be living but they're not al ...
  • The Daily Harassments at Qalandiya Checkpoint
    Qalandiya Monday afternoon, 2.11.2009 Phyllis W. and Natanya G. (reporting) 15:30: We drove past Atarot CP on our way to Qalandiya. Twenty-five vehicles were wending their way slowly past the CP. 15:40 - Qalandiya: Already on our arrival a Palestinian ran to ask us to go into the checking area whe ...
  • UK: Pupils to be forced to have sex education unde ...
    Parents are to be forced to allow their children to have sex education before the age of consent, the Government announced today. Under the new laws, when children reach 15 their parents will lose the right to withdraw them from sex education. At present parents can remove their children from lesso ...
  • Oklahoma: "You Hit a What?" SUV Nearly Slams into ...
    It's not unusual to see a deer or a cow crossing Oklahoma's rural highways. But an elephant? An Oklahoma couple driving home from church nearly slammed into a giant pachyderm that had escaped from a nearby circus late Wednesday. "Didn't have time to hit the brakes. The elephant blended in with th ...

Threat Level

  • Teacher Claims Fingerprinting Is ‘Mark of the Be ...
    A 22-year veteran kindergarten teacher in the Texas Bible Belt could lose her job for refusing, on religious grounds, to give fingerprints under a state law requiring them. The evangelical Christian, Pam McLaurin, is fighting a looming suspension, claiming that fingerprinting amounts to the ...
  • Copyright Treaty is Policy Laundering at its Fines ...
    The blogosphere is abuzz over an apparently leaked document showing the United States trying to push its controversial DMCA-style notice-and-takedown process on the world. But since Threat Level already lives in the land of the DMCA, we’re more bothered by the fact that the U.S. proposal goes far ...
  • Fed’s Search of Twittering Anarchist Upheld
    Federal authorities can resume combing through the notebooks, memory cards and computers of a twittering anarchist being investigated for violating an anti-rioting law, a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled Monday. U.S. district court judge Dora L. Irizzary found no reason to throw out the government†...
  • Maryland Voters Test New Cryptographic Voting Syst ...
    It’s an election system voters and math geeks can embrace. On Tuesday voters in Takoma Park, Maryland, got to try out a new, transparent voting system that lets voters go online to verify that their ballots got counted in the final tally. The system also lets anyone independently audit election r ...
  • MPAA Wants Congress to ‘Encourage’ Three Strik ...
    The Motion Picture Association of America wants Congress to “encourage” internet providers to filter out pirated movies, and to punish customers who repeatedly engage in piracy with a “graduated response” that might include disconnection from the net. The nation’s motion picture lobbying g ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Pat Boone and the Right-Wing War on the AARP
    Back in 2003, Republican leaders praised the AARP for its support of President Bush's unfunded and deeply flawed Medicare prescription benefit. But now that the 40 million member organization has endorsed the House Democrats' health care reform bill, the GOP...
  • Broun Joins Palin in Backing GOP Plan to Privatize ...
    Among the more comic story lines of the Republican war on health care reform has been the Party's side-splitting defense of Medicare. After all, the GOP not only tried to block the program in the 1960's, but tried again to...
  • Study Claims U.S. Health Care System Wastes $700 B ...
    In the wake of its shocking assessment that employer-provided health insurance now covers only 54.6% of the American people, Thomson Reuters released a disturbing assessment of wasteful spending in the U.S. health care system Echoing the estimates of Obama OMB...
  • When Opting Out is Not An Option
    While the Obama White House, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Congressional Democrats debate among themselves whether a so-called "opt out" public health insurance option will be included in reform legislation, Minnesota Governor and GOP presidential wannabee Tim Pawlenty has...
  • Pat Boone and the Right-Wing War on the AARP
    Back in 2003, Republican leaders praised the AARP for its support of President Bush's unfunded and deeply flawed Medicare prescription benefit. But now that the 40 million member organization has endorsed the House Democrats' health care reform bill, the GOP...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • How Two Elections Changed America
    Secret Republican operations around elections in 1968 and 1980 set the U.S. on today's troubled course, says Robert Parry. November 4, 2009
  • Heeding George Kennan's Sage Advice
    Famed diplomat George Kennan's early warning about Vietnam applies as well to Afghanistan today, writes Ray McGovern. November 3, 2009
  • Will a Surge Work in Afghanistan
    Washington insiders are pressing President Obama to order a "surge" in Afghanistan, but Ivan Eland questions that wisdom. November 3, 2009
  • Chomsky Doubts Change from Obama
    Noam Chomsky says Barack Obama alone cannot change the course of U.S. foreign policy, Mamoon Alabbasi reports. November 3, 2009
  • The Incredible Shrinking Public Option
    Congressional concessions to the insurance industry have shrunk the public option to almost nothing, says Robert Parry. November 2, 2009

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Jerusalem artists go underground (BBC News)
    Jerusalem has played host to a two-day arts festival with a difference as part of Palestinian attempts to celebrate the city's year of being Capital of Arab Culture. A group of about 100 specially invited gu ...
  • Toll rises in Israeli siege on Gaza (Al Jazeera)
    The number of Palestinians who have died as a result of the Israeli siege on Gaza has passed 360, a statement released by the health ministry of the deposed Palestinian government in Gaza has said. The stat ...
  • Abbas 'not to seek re-election' (Al Jazeera)
    Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has said he will not seek re-election when elections are held in January, Palestinian officials have said. "The president insists on not running in the upcoming ele ...
  • Wide support for UN Gaza report (BBC)
    Dozens of nations at the UN have backed a non-binding resolution calling for independent inquiries by Israel and the Palestinians into war crimes in Gaza. The UN General Assembly is set to vote on the resolu ...
  • Abbas says will not seek reelection (Ali Waked, Y ...
    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday he would not seek reelection in a January ballot, Palestinian officials said. An official from the PLO executive committee told Reuters: "The president in ...

Water - AlterNet

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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  • Alien worlds spotted outside our galaxy
    A University student has discovered evidence of extrasolar planets outside of our own galaxy, up until now scientists have only identified exoplan...
  • Nessie hunter Robert Rines dies, aged 87
    Famous Loch Ness Monster hunter Robert Rines reported his own sighting of the creature in 1972, an encounter that sparked a lifelong passion and p...
  • UFO plunges Sicilian town into darkness
    A UFO that was sighted by several witnesses over Sicily back in September has been making news headlines this week, particularly because as it mov...
  • Debunking the Socorro UFO
    Anthony Bragalia continues his research in to the Socorro UFO incident in 1964 which now seems more like a prank than a genuine encounter thanks t...
  • Somali man, 112, weds girl, 17
    A 112-year-old man in Somalia has married a 17-year-old girl in a wedding that hundreds attended. Her new husband is old enough to be her great gr...

Grassroots

  • Investing in Food Commodities = Betting on Hunger
    Commodity_Casino.JPG As the food crisis showed us last year, adding food to the speculation market can have serious -- and sometimes deadly -- consequences when the bubble bursts. Surprisingly, the food and gas crises weren’t caused by a sho ...
  • Congress, Accountability, and the Goldstone Report
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  • 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 ...

Climate

  • November 5, 2009
    Senate Environment Committee Moves Climate Bill Without GOP (Hearst) The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 10-1 to approve the Kerry-Boxer climate bill. Democrat Max Baucus was the lone no vote; the committee's Republicans refused to attend the session. US Chamber Backs Parts ...
  • November 4, 2009
    Cost Analysis to Delay Senate Climate Vote (Hearst) Senate Leader Harry Reid has committed to requesting a cost analysis of the climate bill that could take five weeks — a plan that would delay full Senate debate on the proposal until after next month's international climate talks in Copenhagen ...
  • 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 ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, In Afghanistan, the Pentagon ...
    In our day, the American way of war, especially against lightly armed guerrillas, insurgents, and terrorists, has proved remarkably heavy. Elephantine might be the appropriate word. The Pentagon likes to talk about its "footprint" on the geopolitical landscape. In terms of the infrastructure it ...
  • Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, Why Your Child May N ...
    This week, the Obama White House released a very partial record of those who had visited since January 20, 2009. This it hailed as "transparency like you've never seen it before" and as the beginning of a new White House visitor transparency policy. Unfortunately, the policy applies mainly to po ...
  • 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 ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Good News for the GOP? Not So Much.
    Ever watch "SportsCenter" on ESPN? Pound for pound, it's pretty much the most consistently entertaining program on television, but if you watch enough of it, you really get a sense of the similarities shared between sports reporters and political reporters. ESPN, like CNN, MSNBC and even Fox News, h ...
  • Bigger Disaster Looms in 2010: Democrats Crash and ...
    It would be easy to read too much into the few statewide races that were decided last night, but I think it's fair to say that the results in New Jersey and Virginia, where Republican gubernatorial candidates won--in New Jersey's case knocking off a well-funded Democratic incumbent--that the results ...
  • What Obama Is Up Against
    The first anniversary of Barack Obama's historic election finds many of his supporters already grousing. Fair enough: Obama has been more vigorous in some areas than others. But one essential question goes unasked: How much can any president accomplish against the wishes of recalcitrant power center ...
  • The mother of political wars
    In 2009 the voters sent a thunderclap message to Washington: an anti-incumbent landslide that sets the stage for a gigantic political war in 2010. America has entered a volatile and explosive political year. The stakes are enormous. The battle will rage and test the courage and common sense of both ...
  • Tuesday Night's Lesson: It Ain't Rocket Science
    One of the first photos I saw of Barack Obama was a picture of him at his desk with a poster of Muhammad Ali staring down upon him. That was cool to me. Here is a basketball-playing Chicago politician and he chooses Ali over that icon of apolitical apathy, Michael Jordan. But if last night's electio ...

Ten Percent

  • Candle In The Wind
    It is very apparent there is an underlying intermittent fault on my phone line that after years has never been repaired, so in times of high wind (like now) my connection is tenuous, flickering on and off. Intermittent faults are the most tedious to diagnose and solve thus BT Open Reach are in no ru ...
  • 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 [...]

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No Quarter

  • Murder, Mayhem at Fort Hood
    Wanted to comment on the news out of Fort Hood that a muslim U.S. Army officer, Major Malik Nadal Hassan, and perhaps two others, went on a shooting rampage today and killed 11 soldiers and one civilian police officer. This is not the first time a muslim in the U.S. military has turned his [...]
  • For the Soldiers at Fort Hood
    Our prayers and grief. [Update: This post will serve solely as a news update, as needed. Go to Larry's post for comments.] ABC News is reporting that 12 are dead and 31 wounded. Suspected Gunman Is Identified by ABC News as Major Malik Nadal Hasan — Twelve people have been killed and 31 [...]
  • Election Impressions
    (Bumped up from Wednesday.) Here are impressions from all over the ‘net, even bloggers like the yoyo Taylor Marsh and sensible shoes columnist Ruth Marcus: “The Obama magic has faded,” Glenn Reynolds for the The New York Post: The Obama invincibility that was so much in evidence then seems to ...
  • From Local To Global: Mainers Vote Down Same Sex M ...
    Election 2009 has come and gone with some major changes: VA and NJ have gone Red. Turns out, the races weren’t even all that close. Much is being discussed and debated about the meaning behind these wins by the GOP. I will leave that, and the NY 23 Owens win to the [...]
  • War of the Worlds, The Early Years
    Reprinted from the blog for my syndicated radio show. Russian Defeat.     The facts of the end of the Cold War support the short and astonishing version that Ronald Reagan’s imagination and style won out over American and Allied doubt and the sadistic and stupid Soviet empire.  I learned fr ...

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  • 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

  • Afghanistan: Sad Incongruities
    “All we have to do is send two mujahedeen [warriors] to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth saying ‘al-Qa’ida’ in order to make generals race there, and we cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses – without their achieving anything of note!†...
  • Obama’s Clover Over Dover
    It’s been eighteen years since the media was accustomed to exhibiting the rituality and solemnity that surrounds the act of transporting fallen soldiers to their final resting place. In the desolate hours of the morning on October 28th, President Obama made an unannounced and unexpected trip to D ...
  • Naked Pumpkins, Sex Offenders and Terrorists
    by Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice (etc.) 11/4/09 http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n45/naked_pumpkins Most cities have some signature annual event, celebrating a unique aspect of their local culture. While New Orleans’s Mardi Gras is a massive, multi-day festivals, most are more on the scale of Binghamto ...
  • Censored 2010 Book Release Celebration & Awards P ...
    December 5, 2009 Open invitation to all Project Censored Students, Interns, Alumni, Authors, and Supporters. Join Project Censored in celebrating the release of Censored 2010, Peter Phillips’s final yearbook, co- edited by Mickey Huff.  Meet Ben Frymer, the new director of Project Censored a ...
  • 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 ...

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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 ...

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Grist - News

  • Cash for Clunkers brought us ... more clunkers!
    by Jonathan Hiskes So how did Cash for Clunkers work out from an environmental standpoint? You don’t want to know. The $3 billion federal program was kinda sorta supposed to send inefficient, high-polluting, belchy vehicles to an early grave. Instead it put a lot of new large, inefficient vehicle ...
  • Senate Democrats push climate bill through committ ...
    by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats on Thursday pushed through a sweeping climate change bill, maneuvering an end-run around opposition Republicans who continued their boycott of deliberations. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved the Kerry-Boxer bill by a v ...
  • Why developing countries cannot afford failure in ...
    by Brendan DeMelle The African delegation insisted today in Barcelona that its decision to walk out on negotiations Tuesday was necessary in order to jolt the intransigent European Union and other developed nations to move forward with serious discussions, rather than obstruct progress by bringing ...
  • U.S. puts onus on China for climate deal
    by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON - The United States will not agree to targets cutting greenhouse-gas emissions unless developing countries, particularly China, make similar moves, U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern warned Wednesday. "No country holds the fate of the Earth in its hands more than China ...
  • Copenhagen reality check: Gov’ts concede new ...
    by Geoffrey Lean Now it's out in the open. Key government leaders and U.N. officials are finally, publicly admitting what they have long privately believed: there is no chance of concluding a new climate treaty in Copenhagen next month .For a full two years the world has been committed to finalizi ...

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Washington Independent

  • Gates, McHugh Statements on Ft. Hood Horror
    The Secretary of Defense: “I am deeply saddened by the tragic events today at Fort Hood. My thoughts and prayers are with the families of the fallen, the wounded, and all those touched by this incident. There is little we can say at this point to alleviate the pain or answer the many questions [ ...
  • Senate Kills Vitter Census Amendment
    The Senate voted today to end debate on the Commerce, Justice and State appropriations bill without considering the controversial amendment proposed by Sens. David Vitter (R-La.) and Bob Bennett (R-Utah) that would have stopped the U.S. Census from taking place without an additional question about e ...
  • Senate Kills Graham Amendment
    The Senate just tabled the amendment proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) that would have prohibited use of Justice Department funds to prosecute the 9/11 terror suspects in U.S. federal courts. Effectively, that means it’s dead. The amendment, S.A. 2669, to the Commerce, Justice, Science and ...
  • Levin Requests a Full Briefing on Ft. Hood Horror
    Just released from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: Our hearts go out to the families of the brave Americans who lost their lives in today’s senseless violence at Ft. Hood, Texas, and to those who were injured. For all Americans, and especially for those ...
  • Vice President Biden on Ft. Hood Shootings
    Just released from the Vice President’s office: “Jill and I join the President and Michelle in expressing our sympathies to the families of the brave soldiers who fell today. We are all praying for those who were wounded and hoping for their full and speedy recovery. Our thoughts and prayer ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • On Farmers, Activists and Scary Food Issues
    I must confess that before I traveled to Iowa earlier this month, I had rubbed elbows with quite a few farmers, but by and large, they were not typical. Many of them were organic producers. Many were young. Probably a statistically disproportionate number Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Business  | ...
  • The Carnivore’s Dilemma
    IS eating a hamburger the global warming equivalent of driving a Hummer? This week an article in The Times of London carried a headline that blared: “Give Up Meat to Save the Planet.” Former Vice President Al Gore, who has made climate change his signatur Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & ...
  • Veal, cast in a kinder light
    Eating veal -- or not eating it, to be more accurate -- is one thing many carnivores and vegetarians can agree on. For most, the methods used to produce tender, milky-colored meat aren't a worthwhile trade-off. But what if eating veal were no less ethical Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Cu ...
  • Hens 'more eco-friendly' than pet dogs
    Want to do your bit for the environment? Then swap your German shepherd for an edible pet. Two Kiwi professors have delivered the glum news that the eco-pawprint of a pet dog is twice that of a 4.6-litre Land Cruiser driven 10,000 kilometres a year. Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Cultur ...
  • Mapping climate impacts
    A new map illustrating the global consequences of failing to keep temperature change to under 2 °C was launched today by the UK Government, in partnership with the Met Office. Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Suzie-Q

  • Hope, Change And One Year Later
    “The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America — I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you — we as a people will get there. There will be [...]
  • No title
    Afghanistan: Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose Immanuel Wallerstein, Agence Global, November 1, 2009 The war in Afghanistan is a war in which whatever the United States does now, or that President Obama does now, both the United States and Obama will lose. The country and its president are in a situat ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Money & Markets ~ Charts 11.05.09
    View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, November 5, 2009. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. Previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts: Oct 2009 (1) (2) ...
  • Chart of the Day: Bernanke Rips A Page From Japan& ...
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  • Community Call to Prayer
    Through prayer, God greatly multiplies our efforts. What we can do on our own is limited, but what God can do is endless. ~ John Maxwell Heartfelt thanks and many blessings to all who have joined us in prayer, either on the conference line or at home. All are welcome to join for this fifteen-minute ...
  • JP Morgan Chase Settlement with SEC Worth Over $70 ...
    By Marcy Gordon / Associated Press (4 Nov 09) WASHINGTON – JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to a settlement worth more than $700 million over federal regulators’ charges that it made unlawful payments to friends of public officials to win municipal bond business in Jefferson County, Ala. The s ...
  • Money as Spiritual Practice
    On this week’s Solari Report, I will be having a very special conversation with Mayuri Onerheim. Mayuri is a marvelous and gifted woman who left a successful accounting career to focus on teaching. Her latest  workshops - Money as a Spiritual Practice - assist people with a better understanding ...

Global Insights

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

  • Opportunity Green is This Weekend!
    If you’re interested in the intersection of business, design, and sustainability and will be in the Los Angeles area this weekend, we highly recommend checking out this year’s Opportunity Green conference! Inhabitat favorite designer Yves Behar will be on hand to talk about his FuseProject, ...
  • ANDREA Air Filter Purifies Indoor Air with the Hel ...
    We first reported on the conceptual design of the Bel-Air living air filter back in 2007, and now everyone may breathe a little easier because it came to fruition as the ANDREA Air Filter and went on the market this week! The stylish air purifier, invented by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur with H ...
  • VOTE for Your Favorite Green Halloween Costume!
    VOTE NOW FOR YOUR FAVORITE GREEN HALLOWEEN COSTUME! We’re closing in on the final stretch of our Green Halloween Costume contest and the competition is fierce! We were seriously impressed with the incredibly crafted costumes that we received, and our top 15 submissions are currently vying for fame ...
  • Manhole of the Future is Powered by Rainwater
    Instead of acting as one of the most bland parts of city landscapes, what if manholes served a purpose? That’s what designers Cheolyeon Jo and Youngsun Lee propose with their “Eco Sign“, an electronic manhole cover that gives directions to the closest train or bus stop.The manhole is powered b ...
  • Taipei 101 To Be World’s Tallest Green Building
    Taipei 101, famous for being one of the world’s tallest buildings, is set to get some major eco-upgrades in an effort to save money, reduce its impact, and gain the much coveted title of “World’s Tallest Green Building.” In 2007, the Burj Dubai surpassed Taipei 101 in terms of height, but th ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Medical Apps for the iPhone
    Last week, I spoke at the TED MED conference. My assignment was to speak for 18 minutes about medical apps for the iPhone. Sounds easy, right? Only one problem: there are about 7,000 medical apps.
  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • ElBaradei warns against any Israeli attack on Iran
    Press TV - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Chief Mohamed ElBaradei has warned that any Israeli attack on Iran will have dire consequences for the Middle East.ElBaradei warned on Wednesday that such an attack would “turn the Middle East into a ball of fire”. Read Article
  • UN backs Gaza war crimes report
    BBC – The UN General Assembly has voted in favour of a resolution calling for independent inquiries by Israel and the Palestinians into war crime claims. The report concluded that Israel had “committed actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity” by using disproportionate ...
  • Montara oilfield company seeks $170m insurance cla ...
    News.Com.Au - THE company responsible for an oil and gas leak at the Montara oilfield off the West Australian coast is preparing an insurance claim to recover $170 million dollars it said it had lost over the disaster. PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited said it had spent at leas ...
  • Banks invoke religion: Profit `Not Satanic,’ Bar ...
    Bloomberg – Barclays Plc Chief Executive Officer John Varley stood at the wooden lectern in St. Martin-in-the- Fields on London’s Trafalgar Square last night and told the packed pews of the church that “profit is not satanic.” The 53-year-old head of Britain’s secon ...
  • US Special Ops Report Suggests Assassination Progr ...
    Wired – CIA director Leon Panetta got into hot water with Congress, after he revealed an agency program to hunt down and kill terrorists. A recent report from the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations University argues that the CIA didn’t go far enough (.pdf). Instead, it suggests the ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Lackeys in Iran: Help! Obama! Help!
    Lackeys in Iran: Help! Obama! Help! (monkeysmasheshheaven.wordpress.com) This week witnessed demonstrations in the streets of Tehran. According to reports, these are the first significant ones since the end of demonstrations surrounding the contested presidential elections months ago. The recent pr ...
  • Sa Liyab ng Libong Sulo
    Sa Liyab ng Libong Sulo (amihanmalaya.wordpress.com) Ang “Sa Liyab ng Libong Sulo” ay isang bidyu-dokumentaryo na gawa nuong 1996 at hango sa librong, “Lipunan at Rebolusyong Pilipino,” ni Amado Guerrero. Inilalarawan nito ang kasaysayan ng pakikibaka ng sambayanang Pilipino magmula nuong ...
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Alert: 202 Blackwater Personnel Arrive In Islamaba ...
    More US military personnel arrive in Islamabad.  Is the PPP government seeking US support against a possible Pakistani military action against the unpopular pro-US government in Pakistan? By NISAR MEHDI Wednesday, 4 November 2009. The Nation KARACHI, Pakistan—Foreigners affiliated with the noto ...
  • Colour-Coded Revolutions and the Origins of World ...
    This is Part 2 of the Series, “The Origins of World War III” Part 2 of this essay on “The Origins of World War III” analyzes the colour revolutions as being a key stratagem in imposing the US-led New World Order. The “colour revolution” or “soft” revolution strate ...
  • Destabilizing Baluchistan, Fracturing Pakistan
    A strong, stable, and powerful Pakistan, especially one that would be independent, is not looked at in good terms by the Pentagon and NATO for many reasons. Within an Orwellian framework, Pakistan and NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan are deliberately being destabilized while there is talk about sta ...
  • 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 ...

ecogeek

  • US Government Surpasses Google for Geothermal Fund ...
    More than $300 million in funding for research and development of geothermal energy has been announced by U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu. This now pushes Google.org into second place behind the government in domestic geothermal R & D funding. The projects funded by this progra ...
  • 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 ...

Times Online - Science

  • I never gave up hope of solving the riddle of my s ...
    I met Patrick Aubourg 30 years ago and, although we did not always see eye to eye, I was certain that here was a genius who one day would find the key to the riddle of ALD. It is premature to speak of a cure, but Aubourg’s breakthrough with gene therapy proves that, even in the most dread conditi ...
  • Experts say that fears surrounding climate change ...
    Alarming predictions that climate change will lead to the extinction of hundreds of species may be exaggerated, according to Oxford scientists.
  • Gene therapy could cure Lorenzo’s Oil brain ...
    A devastating brain disease that kills boys by the time of adolescence has been stopped in its tracks by a gene therapy that raises hope for thousands of families.
  • Increase in intellectual standing of newborns
    One great blooming, buzzing confusion — that was how William James, a 19th-century psychologist, described how the world would look to a newborn baby. But over the past decades science has revealed that from birth we are armed with the basic building blocks of language, mathematics and music that ...
  • German study shows babies begin to pick up languag ...
    Newborn babies mimic the intonation of their native tongue when they cry, indicating that they begin to pick up the first elements of language in the womb, a study suggests.

Environment _ National Geographic

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  • Single Payer Activists Arrested at Lieberman's DC ...
    They came, they sat, they chanted : 8 Protesters backing a universal health care system briefly occupied Sen. Joe Lieberman's office this morning. Protesters were arrested, one by one, and dragged out of his office amid chants of "Everyone in and noone out, universal healthcare now!" and "Represe ...
  • Lamont In - Rell Out There Somewhere?
    Still waiting on word from Rell on whether or not she will be running - presumably she is having trouble forming an opinion on whether or not to run without Dautrich first poll testing the ideas - but, via Paul Bass, it looks like Lamont is getting ready to run for Governor : Ned Lamont, who took o ...
  • Banks - Breaking up is hard to do:
    Via the LA Times: Britain is forcing breakups of bailed-out major banks The British government -- spurred on by European regulators -- is forcing Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Northern Rock to sell off parts of their operations. The Europeans are calling for more and smaller ba ...
  • Free Marketeers Against Healthcare? Go Galt and ta ...
    “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, …” I assume they were not discussing welfare payments for high ranking military officers when they mention " ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

Gringo Times - Rio

  • 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 ...

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  • Kucinich Calls For No Vote on HR 676
    In a stunning about-face, Dennis Kucinich made a statement questioning a scheduled stand-alone vote on HR 676, Medicare For All. It was to be voted on Friday. Then he sent an email to supporters urging them to convince congressional leaders that now is not the time to vote on the single payer bill ...
  • Real Story: Meet Pam
    I met Pam while passing through Cleveland, Ohio. She is mother and a grandmother who never thought she would become homeless. Many people think that if a person has close family members, they can just go live with family when all else fails. But for Pam and many others, it's just not that simple. Pa ...
  • Let Kids Run the Banks To Educate Them for the 21s ...
    Educating children is changing. It must change. Computing literacy and learning about the digital world is crucial, but kids also need to be geared to be literate in solving problems, thinking creatively and collaborating. Arithmatic, reading and writing are no longer sufficient skills for the US to ...
  • Innocent and Deported
    I've got bad news to share. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the case of cousins Julio Maldonado and Denis Calderon. Unfortunately, I came to the story too late. The day after I wrote, Maldonado was deported to Peru -- a country he left when he was three. He doesn't speak Spanish and found housi ...
  • Homeless Web Trends That Need to Stop
    The marginalization of people has perpetuated society and nestled its way onto the web. Twitter, blogs, and YouTube can be an excellent forum for confronting issues of poverty and homelessness. But they can also breed bad ideas, stereotypes, trends that hinder our progress towards combatting homeles ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Spokane Considers Community Bill of Rights
    by Mari Margil Of all the candidates, bills, and proposals on ballots around the country yesterday, one of the most exciting is a proposition that didn't pass. read more
  • Pentagon Pursuing New Investigation Into Bush Prop ...
    by Brad Jacobson The Pentagon's Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bush administration Defense Department program that used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage. read more
  • Pelosi: Single-Payer Amendment Breaks Obama's Heal ...
    by Ryan Grim An amendment to allow states to pursue single-payer health care without incurring insurance-industry lawsuits was stripped from the House bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday, adding that it would break President Obama's commitment to people keeping their current insuranc ...
  • Gay Marriage Repealed in Maine
    by Kevin Miller and Judy Harrison PORTLAND, Maine - Voters on Tuesday repealed the state's same sex marriage law after an emotionally charged campaign that drew large numbers to the polls and focused national attention on Maine. With 87 percent of precincts reporting, the campaign to overturn Maine' ...
  • Kilimanjaro's Snows Melt Away in Dramatic Evidence ...
    by Hannah Devlin 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. If the forecast - based on 95 years of data tracking the retr ...

Lifehacker

  • What's Your Favorite Stress Reliever? [Ask The Re ...
    If you turn to your MP3 collection when you're stressed out, you're not alone. The American Psychological Association found that a majority of people polled for the last two years running claim music as their number one stress reliever. This past Tuesday the American Psychological Association's ann ...
  • Firefox 3.5.5 Update Fixes Critical Security Bug ...
    There's nothing terribly exciting to speak of in today's Firefox 3.5.5 update; from the looks of the tiny changelog , it looks like one critical security fix and a few other minor bug fixes will make their way to your browser. Mozilla should officially announce the update to Firefox 3.5.5 sometime l ...
  • Rainmeter 1.1 Makes the Enigma Desktop Even Easie ...
    Windows only: The latest version of the popular Rainmeter desktop adds an excellent new tool that makes it easy to manage your library of skins, with previews, detailed setup instructions, and more. Once you've run through the simple installation process and launched Rainmeter, you'll be presented w ...
  • The Wave Invitation Donation Thread, Part Two [Go ...
    Last week, we opened a thread in which generous Google Wave users handed out invites to fellow readers. It was messy, but successful; hundreds of readers ended up with invites. Today we're trying again—just please read the entire post before commenting. Like last week, here's how this is going to ...
  • Five Great Add-Ins to Power Up Your Windows Home ...
    Last week we highlighted the benefits of having a Windows Home Server , including seamless backups and system restoration. Now let's take a closer look at five great add-ins for making the most of your home server. In our overview last week we briefly touched on the idea of using add-ins to enhance ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • UK Losses In Afghanistan Approach Falkland War Lev ...
    By Steve Hynd Another British soldier has died for Bush and Blair's Afghan adventure - the one neither Obama nor Brown have the balls to admit they should get out of. 230 British soldiers have now died in Afghanistan. For reference, the number of British servicemen killed during the Falkland War was ...
  • Isolate and Concentrate, UN edition
    By Dave Anderson: Isolate and concentrate. This is the goal of both the insurgent force and the counterinsurgent force as both seek to force their opponents to stand alone and tightly packed. The difference is the counterinsurgent force wants to physically isolate large groups of insurgents so that ...
  • Tragedy for UK In Afghanistan Leads To Hard Questi ...
    By Steve Hynd The news that an Afghan policeman has shot British soldiers who were mentoring his unit, killing five and wounding six more, has sent shockwaves through the UK's press, public and political parties today. British and Afghan officials said the men were killed at a police checkpoint when ...
  • 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 ...

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McClatchey

  • Afghan insurgents make wreckage of U.S. armored ve ...
    WASHINGTON — Taliban-led insurgents in Afghanistan have devised ways to cripple and even destroy the expensive armored vehicles that offer U.S. forces the best protection against roadside bombs by using increasingly large explosive charges and rocket-propelled grenades, according to U.S. soldiers ...
  • Health care bill's supporters, opponents flock to ...
    WASHINGTON — Gene Otto left his Olympia, Wash., bakery for a day, flew across the country to the nation's capital and told four members of Congress why it's important that they overhaul America's health care system.
  • Citing change in Honduras policy, DeMint ends hold ...
    WASHINGTON — An outspoken critic of the Obama administration's handling of the crisis in Honduras late Thursday dropped his opposition to two State Department nominees, saying that the administration has reversed course.
  • Feeling heat from right, Crist shifts position on ...
    Gov. Charlie Crist, who campaigned for the $787 billion stimulus package, now says he wouldn't have voted for it. But he still embraces it.
  • Health care bill's supporters, opponents flock to ...
    WASHINGTON — Gene Otto left his Olympia, Wash., bakery for a day, flew across the country to the nation's capital and told four members of Congress why it's important that they overhaul America's health care system.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Climate talks: To the wire and beyond
    At the UN climate negotiations in Barcelona. It looks like the UN climate summit in Copenhagen is shaping up to be another final-night, early-hours, last few seconds kind of affair. On the surface, what we're witnessing here at the final preparatory session in Barcelona is a stand-off between a pa ...
  • Copenhagen countdown: 38 days
    This post - my second weekly round-up of political moves as we approach December's UN climate summit - is a little delayed, partly because the week's most important event took place on Thursday and Friday. "File on final whistle," as editors say to football correspondents - most of whom are much be ...
  • 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Hero bodyguard fights off Taleban to save United N ...
    END: Module - Module - M24 Article Headline with portrait image (b) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> A civilian bodyguard armed with just an assault rifle and a walkie-talkie gave ...
  • UN relocates foreign staff in Afghanistan
    Friday, November 06, 2009 News DeskKABUL: The United Nations mission in Afghanistan announced plans on Thursday to relocate hundreds of foreign staff members, sending some out of the country, in the ...
  • US soldier, nine civilians killed in Afghanistan
    Friday, November 06, 2009 KANDAHAR: An overnight airstrike by international forces killed nine civilians, including three children, said villagers on Thursday. Afghan authorities said they had no rep...
  • Hakimullah warns Taliban fighters against fleeing
    Friday, November 06, 2009 28 militants, five soldiers killed in SWA DEAR ISMAIL KHNA: Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud has urged his fighters to stand fast against the milit...
  • US, allies give Karzai six months to reform, perfo ...
    WASHINGTON (NNI): The United States and its allies have reportedly given Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai six months to sideline his brother and reduce corruption or risk losing American support, Af...

Futurismic

  • Second Llife Enterprise: virtual worlds behind the ...
    Here’s an interesting development in the metaverse – Linden Lab, creators of Second Life, have announced the formal launch of their “Second Life Enterprise” platform, which is essentially a fragmented piece of the virtual world that runs on corporate servers behind the firewall. Private, her ...
  • Transhuman equality? Athletes with a prosthesis do ...
    Remember all the fuss last year about Oscar ‘Bladerunner’ Pistorius, the amputee athlete who was banned from competing against able-bodied runners in the Olympics because the authorities were concerned that his prosthetics might give him an unfair advantage? Well, it turns out that the authoriti ...
  • Required reading: mapping the favela
    Via Chairman Bruce, here’s some required reading for anyone writing near-future fiction that involves a favela as a setting… and given the way the world is becoming urbanised, a near-future story that doesn’t feature a favela can probably be considered to have something missing from it! It’s ...
  • Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls – affordable e-ant ...
    Regular readers will be aware of my interest in new and experimental publishing models for niche authors… and with that in mind I’m very pleased to be able to pass on news of a new digital-only anthology from the Book View Cafe collective. So, with no further ado, here’s the skinny: Book View ...
  • Sucking rats: Tarkus by Emerson, Lake and Palmer
    Ladies, gentlemen, permit me to present to you the stone cold weirdest SF music ever recorded: ELP’s 1971 magnum opus Tarkus. Interestingly, Tarkus backwards is Suk Rat, which must be more than a coincidence, because that’s precisely what the song “Tarkus” does. It sucks a rat. It ...


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Schumer Seeks to Block Stimulus Money for Chinese-Backed Texas Wind Farm
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- Nov 05, 2009
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Wash. state asking grain ships to hold canisters
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- Nov 04, 2009
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The state Ecology and Agriculture Departments have a request for grain ships off the Washington coast: Hey, stop throwing those pesticide canisters ...
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The Coast Guard and Washington Ecology officials say three boats have been involved in a fire in the Roche Harbor Marina on San Juan Island and one is ...
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- Nov 05, 2009
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