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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.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Dark Clouds Gathering Over Copen ...
    ST. ANDREWS, Nov 7 (IPS) - It has been a bad week for the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month. During the week the last meeting in the formal round of pre- Copenhagen talks collapsed in Barcelona. Then, meeting here on the weekend, the G20 finance ministers put the seal on that fai ...
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Dark Clouds Gathering Over Copenh ...
    ST. ANDREWS, Nov 7 (IPS) - It has been a bad week for the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month. During the week the last meeting in the formal round of pre- Copenhagen talks collapsed in Barcelona. Then, meeting here on the weekend, the G20 finance ministers put the seal on that fai ...
  • MEXICO: Women Package the Sweet Taste of Nostalgi ...
    AYOQUEZCO, Mexico, Nov 7 (IPS) - Years ago, when Catalina Sánchez saw an opportunity to earn an income and improve her family’s living conditions by growing and selling nopales - an edible cactus native to Mexico - she probably never imagined that her idea would spawn three businesses.
  • POLITICS: Thai-Cambodia Diplomatic Row Bares Dec ...
    BANGKOK, Nov 7 (IPS) - Thailand’s swift and strong response to Cambodia’s decision to appoint ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as an economic adviser exposed an emotional faultline rooted in decades of mutual suspicion and hatred.
  • SRI LANKA: Colombo’s Diplomatic Sparring G ...
    COLOMBO, Nov 7 (IPS) - One thing that has set apart the current administration of President Mahinda Rajapaksa from those of his predecessors is its diplomatic duals with international heavyweights.

Scoop - NZ

  • "Biggest fraud to hit Mississippi since Worldcomm"
    The courtroom heated up today in Yazoo City as a hearing on several motions filed in the Evans case was held this morning. Several revelations were made during testimony provided under oath by employees of Mississippi Valley Title Insurance Company.BankruptcyThe first bombshell to drop was a revelat ...
  • Quiggin: Libertarians .. and Delusionism.
    This post from TokyoTom deplores the fact that (TT excepted) supporters of the Austrian School, and for that matter libertarians in general, are almost universally committed to delusional views on climate science. The obvious question is why. As TT points out, there are plenty of political opportuni ...
  • News Corp revenue slumps 4.1%
    Rupert Murdoch loves to be positive: so his 2009/2010 first quarter profit report was upbeat with his preferred measure, consolidated operating income of $US1.04 billion, rising 9% from the $US953 million earned in the September quarter of 2008.Revenue fell 4.1% to $US7.2 billion, with advertising a ...
  • WP: Bring the troops home
    Barack Obama didn't set out to be a "war president," but that's what history compels him to be. The nation and the world are fortunate that he doesn't have the reckless, ready-fire-aim mentality of George W. Bush. But Afghanistan doesn't present the kind of "false choices" that Obama, by nature, hab ...
  • Boyle: Afghanistan's Saigon trap
    The belated declaration of Hamid Karzai as the winner of Afghanistan's election is a disaster for American and British efforts to find a way out of their never-ending mission there. An election that had been designed to bolster the legitimacy of the Afghan government has had precisely the opposite e ...

Independent ( London )

  • IoS graphic: Fall of the wall

  • Foreign Office warns Mann to 'keep quiet'
    Simon Mann has been urged by Foreign Office officials to remain silent about the coup attempt that left him languishing in an African prison, and settle for a "quiet life" with his wife and family in the UK, The Independent on Sunday has learnt.
  • She was the moral majority pin-up. And then someon ...
    Note to the religious Right: if you're going to ask a surgically enhanced beauty queen to promote family values, it's best to check that her previous career hasn't involved soft core pornography.
  • Afghanistan: Time to leave
    Britain should start withdrawing, not reinforcing, its troops in Afghanistan. Sending extra troops is unnecessary and will prove counter-effective. The additional number of British troops is small, but the US is poised to send tens of thousands more soldiers to the country. The nature of the confli ...
  • The dark savagery of the Taliban years returns
    The opening night of a new restaurant, and the place is buzzing. The music is a mixture of rock and pop and there is no shortage of alcohol. A normal city scene, except the city is Kabul, and some of those at the party at the Martini are UN staff about to be evacuated out of the country because of ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Can Ahmadinezhad end the nuclear dispute?
    Summary: Despite years of negotiations, threats of a military strike against Iran during the previous US administration and the passing of three sanctions measures against Iran by the Security Council, the dispute appears to be as unresolved as when it first emerged eight years ago. But during t ...
  • What Middle East Policy to Expect from the New Ger ...
    Summary: When promising ideas threaten to be buried in transatlantic waters source: e-International Relations read more
  • Israel’s Deputy FM Insists Threats to Attack Ira ...
    Summary: Amid speculation that Israel’s threats to attack Iran, which have persisted for years, are just a bluff, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon insisted that the threat of an attack is very real. source: Anti War read more
  • Mohamed ElBaradei insists there is ‘nothing to f ...
    Summary: United Nations inspectors found “nothing to be worried about” during their inspection of an underground uranium enrichment site in Iran, according to the head of the organisation’s atomic watchdog. source: Times-on-line read more
  • 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

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Orlando shooter, US army Fort Hood shooter both li ...
    (NaturalNews) US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot and killed 13 people and wounded 30 others in a violent attack at a Texas Army base this past week. He reportedly opened fire at the Fort Hood army base without any particular reason or motivation. In fact, as a psychiatrist, he had counseled many o ...
  • Associated Press declares war on alternative medic ...
    (NaturalNews) The Associated Press has declared war on alternative medicine, publishing a series of stories attacking everything from nutritional therapies to bioidentical hormones. These stories, which are syndicated across thousands of websites around the world, are prefaced with the following hig ...
  • Why Health Care Costs are So High (Opinion)
    (NaturalNews) Recently, USA Today has been running an interesting series of articles on our ridiculous health care system or, as reality would put it, our "disease care" system. While more and more Americans are concerned with the increasing costs of the U.S. health care system, hawked as the best m ...
  • Corn Ethanol Biofuels Contaminated with Antibiotic ...
    (NaturalNews) Byproducts from the production of corn for ethanol biofuels have been found to be contaminated with antibiotics. "Ethanol's drug problem is just the latest of many reasons to impose a moratorium on production of fuels from grains," wrote Stan Cox for the Land Institute's Prairie Writer ...
  • Vaccines for the rich! Wall Street gets H1N1 vacci ...
    (NaturalNews) It seems the financial bailout isn't the only bailout happening on Wall Street these days. News has now leaked that investment firms Goldman Sachs and Citigroup both received preferential H1N1 swine flu vaccines even while local clinics that treat school children had no supply. The upr ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • At The Going Down of The Sun...
    With condolences and respect to the families and friends of: Lieutenant Justin Boyes, 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, killed due to enemy action 28 October, 2009; and, Sapper Steven Marshall, 1 Combat Engineer Regiment, killed due to enemy action 30 October, 2009. ...
  • Quarrelling Queens . . . .
    Today's Toronto Star has the in-depth account of beauty queens in England duking it out: Beauty queen busted for bar brawl with rival November 07, 2009 | Toronto Star You might expect pageant queens to demonstrate their talent, beauty and poise, but Miss England has added fisticuffs to her resumà ...
  • Staring at Goats Dep't.
    WIRED'S DANGER ROOM covers all sorts of stuff that is of interest to those of us concerned about security. David Hambling has a very interesting report titled "Inside the Army’s Far-Out Acid Tests" that almost defies belief, if you aren't already acquainted with programs like MK Ultra .  The C ...
  • Marital relationships . . .
  • "National Toast" or "So Long and Thanks for All th ...
    It looks like curtains for the Canada's most right wing national rag . As much as I bleed ink and hate the thought of another newspaper closing down, I will not shed a tear for the National Post - I only hope the courts refuse to allow the Aspers to tie this anchor around the collective neck of thei ...

Media Matters for America

  • Media continue to misrepresent abortion provision ...
    Media figures continue to falsely claim that a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the House health care reform bill would only have the effect of prohibiting government money from being used to pay for abortions, echoing a myth previously advanced about a proposed amendment to a prior version ...
  • Right-wing media respond to Fort Hood shooting by ...
    Right-wing media figures have used the shooting at Fort Hood as an excuse to attack Islam and American Muslims in particular, with Debbie Schlussel, for example, urging readers to think of the alleged shooter "whenever you hear about how Muslims serve their country in the U.S. military." Additional ...
  • Farah falsely claimed official "confirm[ed]" WND ...
    WorldNetDaily CEO and editor-in-chief Joseph Farah claimed that WND's false report that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan "advised" the "Obama transition" -- previously debunked by Media Matters for America -- had been subsequently "confirm[ed]" by an official with the Homeland Security Po ...
  • Fox News advances false claim that "House Call" pr ...
    Fox News has repeatedly advanced, and in Sean Hannity's case adopted, Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) false claim that her November 5 House Call protest in opposition of health care reform was "organic" and "spontaneous."  In fact, the protest was organized by House Republicans in collaboration with ...
  • Fox Nation, conservative media launch political at ...
    Following the shootings at the Fort Hood Army Post, the Fox Nation and right-wing blogs launched political attacks on President Obama's remarks at a the Tribal Nations conference at the Interior Department, in which he addressed the tragedy after making introductory remarks. Right-wing media atta ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Andrew Sullivan: Gaza War Was "Immoral and Counter ...
    Andrew Sullivan has been a life-long supporter of the State of Israel. His ardor for Israel was demonstrated weekly when, as a twenty-something, he edited The New Republic -- owned by Martin Peretz, one of the most extreme neocons in... Israel - Andrew Sullivan - Martin Peretz - New Republic - ...
  • VIDEO: Media Matters on The Craziness of the GOP a ...
    This Media Matters video from Thursday's hate fest sums up the GOP today. Even Nixon and Goldwater would not recognize these whack jobs. And here is a Media Matters video on the racism of Fox news.... Republican - Richard Nixon - Barry Goldwater - United States - GOP
  • On U.S Middle East Policy and Amateurism
    This was not a good week for the Obama administration's Middle East peace efforts. Speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem last Saturday, Secretary Clinton seemed to be praising the distinctively partial limitations that Israel was willing to implement... Middle East - ...
  • Holocaust and Health Care - Cut it Out or Else!
    Yesterday the National Jewish Democratic Council's (NJDC) President, David A. Harris, released a statement outlining the outrageous behavior of the crowd at the Tea Party "press conference" sponsored by the GOP House leadership. The crowd held signs noting that "Obama... Republican - National J ...
  • The New Normal
    Here is a scary thought. The Pareto Principle in economics says that 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. In practical terms it might mean that 20% of your movies at Warner Bros. would generate 80% of... Warner Bros - Pareto Principle - Barack Obama - Economics - United States

TruthOut

  • NATO Air Strike Kills at Least 8 Allied Afghans
    At least eight Afghans working with US forces have been killed in a Nato air strike in north-western Afghanistan, the defence ministry in Kabul says. Nato confirms an air strike was ordered and is investigating whether it was the cause of the deaths on Friday. It was launched as US and Afghan ...
  • Tax the Traders! Make Wall Street Pay its Share Wi ...
    "Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags." -1890 speech by ...
  • US Seeks to Limit Warlords in Karzai Cabinet
    Washington - The Barack Obama administration is talking tough to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the need for decisive action on corruption and governance reform, but its main objective is to prevent particularly corrupt and incompetent warlords from getting plum ministries as rewards f ...
  • Low-Power Radio and What the Media Won't Tell You ...
    There's a classic problem for progressives who want to change the media: the media doesn't like to cover itself. Especially not when it comes to issues that challenge the status quo of corporate control. It's like turning to the military for news about the peace movement, or asking Big Oil ...
  • What Option for Afghan Women
    Boston - It's been 11 years since I looked through a photo album smuggled out of Afghanistan by a brave young woman. "This is a doctor," she said, pointing to one picture. "This is a teacher." It was impossible to tell one woman from another under the burqas enforced by their Taliban rulers ...

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

  • King Williams Parade Pics 062 [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • Public Citizen Texas Honors Texas’ Outstanding P ...
    AUSTIN – Public Citizen Texas will be honoring the recipients of this year’s Texas Outstanding Public Service (TOPS) Awards at the organization’s 25th anniversary dinner today. The awardees are local visionaries, recognized experts and celebrated advocates who have aided in the effort to help ...
  • 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 ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Go See This Movie Right Now
    Just got back from seeing Capitalism: A Love Story.  I hadn't planned on seeing it, mostly because I'm not a huge Michael Moore fan.  I liked Fahrenheit 9-11 but thought it probably didn't persuade anyone, and never bothered to see Sicko because I've been screaming for single-payer since before Moor ...
  • Because It All Depends on the Jobs
    "One in 10 Americans is unemployed."  That's a headline we haven't seen in 26-1/2 years.  But it's one we'll look back on with nostalgia a year from now if the Obama administration doesn't face reality and force Congress to pass a massive, all-jobs economic stimulus. And if that stimulus doesn't pas ...
  • Afghanistan Is About More Than The War
    Troop levels and insurgency strategies have dominated the discussion about Afghanistan, but there may be an important ulterior motive for those in favor of a ramped up military effort. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears . No Associated Press content was harmed in the writi ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    The reality of "pro-life" religious rule. "Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth. Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka. An official from the al ...
  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: your Friday news dump
    This is the twenty-first post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB Your Friday news dump from th ...

Care 2

  • NZ scientists seek blue sheep as part of Nepal leo ...
    New Zealand scientists hope to improve the survival odds of the endangered snow leopard by studying its main prey in the Himalayas, the bharal, or blue sheep. A Nepali PhD student at Massey University, Achyut Aryal, and his professor are tramping Submitted by Simone D. to Science & Tech  |   Note ...
  • Hike is first step for native youth center
    Project Venture and the other programs at the new Native Youth Resource Center evolved from an ancestral trail hike Washoe tribal youth made in 2006. The two-day hike began at King's Canyon in Carson City, over the mountain to a camp-out at Spooner... Submitted by Kat Y. to Society & Culture  |   N ...
  • Consumers reject GM food, demand Nestlé India go ...
    Greenpeace India released the Safe Food Guide in Delhi recently ranking 17 major food companies as ‘green’ or ‘red’ on the basis of their policies regarding the use of genetically modified ingredients. Only two companies Nestlé, and Hindustan,Say No to GM Submitted by Sukanya K. to Health & Wel ...
  • URGENT: Call your representatives today at 202-730 ...
    UPDATE Saturday, November 7, 2009 — The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops met with leaders in the House of Representatives in their bid to eliminate women’s access to abortion care under health care reform. Their efforts are working. Re Submitted by Tierney G. to Health & Wellnes ...
  • Environment Agency urges bigger fines for polluter ...
    Government watchdog makes appeal to courts as latest statistics show 13% fall in serious pollution cases since 2007.The courts were today urged by the government's environment watchdog to issue tougher fines for environmental pollution. Submitted by Katie Miller to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Co ...

GreenBiz

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

Reuters Global

  • Getting to grips with the post-Cold War security t ...
    In the 20 years since the Berlin Wall fell, there are far more sources of insecurity than there were during the Cold War. The uncertainty this generates means that crises are more recurrent and the nature of the potential crises we face is constantly evolving. Are we prepared?
  • 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 ...

Ezra Klein

  • The "debate" in the House
    When you watch C-SPAN, there's a little chryon across the bottom of the screen that say's "Today's Debate." You hear that word a lot when it comes to Congress. "Debate." The rules today allowed for four hours of "debate." The Senate is expected to have a couple weeks for "debate." But spend the day ...
  • A very bad deal to pass a very good bill
    The final compromises before a bill comes to the floor are never very pretty. This one, however, is worse than I anticipated. Opposition from anti-abortion Democrats, driven in large part by aggressive activism from the Catholic Church, forced Democratic leadership to allow a vote on Bart Stupak's ...
  • The critical votes come home for the House's healt ...
    Rep. Jim Cooper, a moderate Democrat from Tennessee, has been skeptical of the House's health-care reform bill from the beginning. But a press release sent moments ago by his office announced his intention to vote for health-care reform. And it's not because he supports this bill. It's because he do ...
  • Tab dump
    1) Entitlement reform is health-care reform. 2) The meaninglessness of shootings. 3) Health-care strategery. 4) Bruce Bartlett on deficit commissions. Recipe of the day : A tomato soup that includes blue cheese and sriracha. The House might pass health-care reform this weekend. Exciting!
  • Can Congress control costs?
    One of the more sophisticated arguments against health-care reform is that for all the sharp policies and elegant initiatives contained in the bill, none of it will work because Congress will vote to roll back the cost savings. The evidence comes from Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate formula , w ...

Booman Tribune

  • Casual Observation
    I never thought I'd be feeling ambivalent about the House passing health care reform. I knew I'd have big problems with the bill. I didn't know I'd actually hate it this much. It's a good thing the Democrats have Republicans to make them look good by comparison. They'll have to milk that for all ...
  • The Cost of Choosing Endless War
    Ft. Hood has exposed a terrible wound in the fabric of America, but that wound was there long before a lone gunman named Major Hassan decided to go postal on his fellow soldiers. Our ethical and moral values have been obliterated since September 11, 2001. Racism is on the rise. Religious fundamen ...
  • House Health Care Debate
    You should watch C-SPAN. Rep. Tom Price of Georgia is yelling "I object" over and over again to prevent to the House from being able to proceed, or even talk.
  • Price for Health Care, Women Under Bus
    So, it turns out that the price of passing health care reform in the House is selling women down the river. There will be a vote on the Stupak Amendment after all. And, no doubt, that amendment will pass. Private insurers will have to drop abortion coverage from plans that have it (which is most ...
  • Pathetic Democrats
    Ezra Klein has a good breakdown of the three types of Democratic hold-outs in the House on health care reform. But it's a bit more than three types. There are anti-choicers who want to cordon off federal funds from reimbursing abortion providers. There are members of the Hispanic caucus who want u ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Designer drugs develop faster than designer legisl ...
    I’m not sure whether I’m supposed to be proud or ashamed of this one, but apparently Britain has been declared the “designer drugs capital of Europe” by the EU drug agency. [image by Greencolander] This new generation of online “head shops” is at the centre of a rapidly growing market in ...
  • The Anonymous Hunters: corporate critics and whist ...
    Have you ever bad-mouthed a big company in an internet comments thread? If so, the Wragge and Co. law firm of Birmingham, UK may be hot on your tail (provided the comment is vitriolic enough to provoke the company to spend money, one assumes) – they’ve just announced a new legal “task force” ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Therapy News

  • What Style of Hypnotherapy is Right for You?
    By Holly Holmes-Meredith, D. Min., MFT, Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Hypnotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Holly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile There are several styles of hypnotherapy that are commonly adopted by practitioners and not all styles work well f ...
  • Angry Because You Can’t Get What You Want?
    By Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D., Anger Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jeanette and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I do what you want, but you never let me do what I want! Duncan had his heart set on the new BMW sports car, but Estelle wondered whether it was the best way of spending ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • GOP Shadegg to buck pro-lifers, party (Chris Frate ...
    Chris Frates / The Politico : GOP Shadegg to buck pro-lifers, party   —  Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) said he plans to buck right-to-life groups and his own party and vote “present” on a Democratic amendment that would prevent federal funding for abortions as part of health-care overhaul leg ...
  • House passes key hurdle on health-care legislation ...
    Washington Post : House passes key hurdle on health-care legislation   —  Debate expected to last at least four hours, vote on landmark reform scheduled this evening  —  After receiving a pep talk from President Obama, House Democrats cleared a key procedural hurdle Saturday in the debate ...
  • Fort Hood shooting: Texas army killer linked to Se ...
    Telegraph : Fort Hood shooting: Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists   —  Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a “spiritual adviser” to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001.  —  Hasan, the sole suspect in ...
  • Gregg: CBO cost estimate of Pelosi Plan $3 trillio ...
    Ed Morrissey / Hot Air : Gregg: CBO cost estimate of Pelosi Plan $3 trillion; Update: Heritage says $2.4T   —  You know, Senator Gregg, talking like this won't get you an appointment to Barack Obama's Cabinet.  Oh, wait ...: … I'm not sure where Gregg gets the $3 trillion number.
  • A very bad deal to pass a very good bill (Ezra Kle ...
    Ezra Klein : A very bad deal to pass a very good bill   —  The final compromises before a bill comes to the floor are never very pretty.  This one, however, is worse than I anticipated.  Opposition from anti-abortion Democrats, driven in large part by aggressive activism from the Catholic Ch ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.5, Bonin Islands, Japan region
    Tuesday, November 3, 2009 18:03:53 UTC Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:03:53 AM at epicenter Depth : 86.70 km (53.87 mi)
  • M 6.2, south of Tonga
    Monday, November 2, 2009 10:47:13 UTC Monday, November 2, 2009 10:47:13 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.7, western Xizang
    Saturday, November 7, 2009 20:08:47 UTC Sunday, November 8, 2009 04:08:47 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.8, Tonga
    Sunday, November 1, 2009 21:28:59 UTC Monday, November 2, 2009 11:28:59 AM at epicenter Depth : 108.00 km (67.11 mi)
  • M 5.9, Santa Cruz Islands
    Saturday, October 31, 2009 19:09:52 UTC Sunday, November 1, 2009 06:09:52 AM at epicenter Depth : 139.10 km (86.43 mi)

China Dialogue

  • “China needs time”
    On Thursday, Graciela Chichilnisky proposed that the carbon market is used to avoid a stand-off between the US and China at Copenhagen. Here, Simon Zadek responds. Graciela Chichilnisky’s proposal (see “ Saving Kyoto ”) offers food for thought, and an innovative mechanism of moving money elega ...
  • Saving Kyoto
    The carbon market can be used to avoid a stand-off between the major emitters at Copenhagen and forge a consensus among nations. Graciela Chichilnisky sets out her proposal. As nations get ready for the climate-change showdown at Copenhagen in December, the pieces are falling into place for a major ...
  • Corporate values, green governance
    The failure of companies to report environmental pollution in China exposes challenges for governments in the developed and the developing world, writes Tang Hao. Eighteen multinational and Chinese companies, all of them listed in last year's Fortune Global 500 or Fortune China 100 – including She ...
  • “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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Report: Cyber Attacks Caused Power Outages in Braz ...
    Electrical blackouts impacting millions of people in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were caused by hackers targeting control systems, according to the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. In a show set to air Sunday night, CBS blames a two-day outage in Espirito Santo in 2007 on a hack attack. The blackout affect ...
  • National Data Breach Laws Move Through Senate
    A national data breach law got closer to passage this week. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved two bills Thursday that address data security and breach notification, according to Government Information Security. The legislation was drafted in response to the plague of data thefts that have occu ...
  • Lawsuit Accuses Facebook of Conspiring to Break Vi ...
    A Texas woman has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, claiming the company conspired with Blockbuster to violate a federal law protecting customer video-rental and sale records. The suit, filed by Cathryn Harris in U.S. District Court in Dallas, accuses Facebook of working with Blockbuster in violatio ...
  • Here’s That Leaked Copyright Treaty Document
    The secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement document we wrote about on Wednesday appeared on Wikileaks today, and our source has cleared us to publish it here as well. We wrote that the document, (.pdf) if true, amounted to policy laundering at its finest -– that the United States was pushing t ...
  • Video: Raid on Romanian Bank Card Skimming Ring
    Police in Romania this week swooped in on 19 members of an alleged international credit and debit card skimming ring that’s been active in Switzerland, Italy, France, and the U.S., according to local reports. Romania’s national Directorate for Countering Organized Crime staged 23 coordinated ra ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

Pine River World News

  • Paul Craig Roberts: The Evil Empire
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. The Evil Empire ©  Paul Craig Roberts November 6, 2009 The U.S. government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that "our" government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people ...
  • Uganda opinion: By registering all Somalis, we're ...
    IntelTrends - The following commentary is from the Daily Monitor, Kampala, Uganda. By registering all Somalis, we're falling into the al-Shabaab trap ©   Daily Monitor By Bernard Tabaire November 7, 2009 The security services are happy that Somalis are turning out in big numbers to register in th ...
  • Wall Street bonuses to rise by 40 percent
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Wall Street bonuses to rise by 40 percent ©   World Socialist Web Site By Patrick Martin November 6, 2009 The authors of the biggest financial catastrophe in world history - executives and traders at U.S. investme ...
  • Mossad hacked Syrian laptop to steal nuke plant se ...
    The following article is from The Register, UK. Mossad hacked Syrian laptop to steal nuke plant secrets / Evil Maid attack led to air raid ©   The Register By John Leyden November 6, 2009 Mossad reportedly used a Trojan to hack into a Syrian official's laptop while he stayed in a London hotel. Th ...
  • Eva Golinger: Official U.S. Air Force Document Rev ...
    IntelTrends - [The following article is reprinted with permission from Eva Golinger. She is the author of "The Chávez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela" (2006 Olive Branch Press) and "Bush vs. Chávez: Washington's War on Venezuela" (2007, Monthly Review Press).] Official U.S. Air Force ...

    PDA AMERICA

  • Diagnostic tools for Maine’s controversial g ...
    This week, Maine rolled back gay marriage rights, just as California did last year with Prop 8. Many of our members have contacted us to request information on how to investigate the Maine election. Here ...
  • REP. WEINER WITHDRAWS SINGLE PAYER AMENDMENT FROM ...
    Washington, DC – Today, Representative Anthony Weiner (D – Brooklyn and Queens), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, released the following statement on his decision to withdraw his single payer amendment ...
  • Chairman Waxman’s Statement on Rep. Weiner’s S ...
    WASHINGTON, DC — Today Chairman Henry A. Waxman released the following statement in response to Rep. Anthony Weiner’s decision not to offer a single-payer amendment to the House Democratic health care legislation: “Rep. Anthony Weiner has ...
  • Rep. Conyers Applauds Rep. Weiner for Heroic Effor ...
    Washington, DC – Today, Representative John Conyers, Jr.(D – MI) released the following statement applauding the work of Representative Anthony Weiner (D- NY) to promote the cause of single-payer national health care: “I want to thank ...
  • Pelosi Statement on Congressman Anthony Weiner’s ...
    Pelosi Statement on Congressman Anthony Weiner’s Single Payer Alternative Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on Congressman Anthony Weiner’s single payer alternative: “Within the next few days, the ...

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 11.06.09
    LA Auto Show Design Challenge entrants reveal Youthmobile 2030 designs And you thought the Aptera looks futuristic... CAFE credits for EVs - will we repeat the E85 system? It's not a rule yet ...
  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable 9: The business of app store ...
    This week on the Roundtable: the App Store revolution. Something funny has happened to software. While the model we all grew up with for the distribution of software was mostly to buy it through retail channels or other resellers, or maybe direct from manufacturers, another model emerged and has ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore
    On Sept. 14, 2001, the U.S. House of Representatives considered House Joint Resolution 64, “To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.” The wounds of 9/11 were raw, and the lust for vengeance seemed uni ...
  • Christian Parenti responds to Kevin Bales
    Democracy Now! recently interviewed Kevin Bales, founder of Free the Slaves. Journalist Christian Parenti wrote a response to that interview which we have posted below. Parenti is an investigative journalist who has covered issues of child labor in the chocolate industry in Côte d’Ivoir ...
  • Sandra Maria Esteves Performs "Aguacero" at the Yo ...
    This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the revolutionary community organizing group the Young Lords. The group called for self-determination for all Puerto Ricans, community control of institutions and land, freedom for all political prisoners and the withdrawal of US troops fr ...
  • Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck
    Glenn Beck was mad. He’s the right-wing talk radio host who has a television program on the Fox News Channel. Advertisers were fleeing his Fox program en masse after the civil rights group Color of Change mounted a campaign urging advertisers to boycott Beck, who labeled President Barack Obama a ...
  • New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks
    On Sept. 1, the European Union stopped manufacturing and importing incandescent light bulbs. Europeans will now turn to the much more efficient compact fluorescent, halogen and LED (light-emitting diode) bulbs. Incandescents, critics argue, waste up to 95 percent of energy as heat, using only 5 per ...

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

  • Everything You Were Taught About The New World Was ...
    Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought—an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe.
  • NASA Turns Two Unmanned Warplanes Into Environment ...
    The Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is quite an impressive piece of hardware. It can stay in the air for more than a day, has a range of 3,400 miles, and at very high altitude (its record is 19,928 meters (65,380.6 ft)). Usually it's the military that would have contr ...
  • Dow Chemical finally agrees to clean up dioxin pol ...
    U.S. EPA and Dow announced a deal they contend will finally address dioxin contamination from the company's chemical complex in Midland, about 200 miles from Chicago. Records show Dow has known since at least the mid-1960s that dioxins could sicken or even kill people, but the company insists the co ...
  • Portrait of a Polluted Land: Huge Smog Bank Covers ...
    NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of a massive smog bank smothering huge portions of China today. This blanket of pollution has been hovering over the country for over a week now, exacerbated by cool air and smoke from fires.
  • Morning Glory Pool
    I am not sure what this is but it looks real cool.

Invisible Opportunity

  • From Fort Hood to Ramakrishna. Don’t be Dece ...
    By Les Visible Humanity how have you fallen so low. I saw on the S&MSM that Glenn Beck was the new Oprah. I saw that he resonates with people. Can you possibly be that stupid? You make me angry- or someone is lying about you- who can tell in these times? I am frightened for you, humanity. [...]
  • “Recipe” that Fosters Higher Interest and and ...
    Here is part of a power point presentation from the CDC – the recipe for creating demand for vaccines. As you can see it is merely a marketing strategy with no limit to the lies and deception used. 1.Influenza’s arrival coincides with immunization “season” (i.e., when people can tak ...
  • All schoolchildren may be vaccinated against swine ...
    By Owen Bowcott All healthy schoolchildren may be vaccinated against swine flu, the Department of Health revealed today, as it issued guidance on how to help pregnant women who catch the infection. Confirmation that the government is considering extending the vaccination programme came as the Conser ...
  • Has Baxter Released A BioWeapon In Ukraine?
    Evidence appears to suggest that Baxter International may be responsible for a new deadly outbreak of viral pneumonia in Ukraine. (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aTo3LbhcA75I) In February of 2009, Bloomberg reported that Baxter “accidentally” sent vaccine material contain ...
  • Absolute Perfection: Goldman Loses Money On Just O ...
    The Goldman 10-Q is out, providing numerous interesting datapoints for those willing to scour through them. The key one: Goldman lost money on just one trading day in Q3, making money on all the other 64. As a reminder, even in Q2 Goldman lost money on two trading days. The statistical probability d ...

Care2 Picks

  • U.S. cat has the H1N1 virus
    Swine Flu has now spread to multiple animals in the US...Read On... Submitted by Lisa Rinaldi-Kohl to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Top 10 Places to Get Online Radio for Free
    Then grab a pair of headphones, the below top ten places to get online radio, and make the work fly by with your favorite music. Best of all, these stations are completely free to listen to and work with a pop up blocker. Submitted by Sophie Smith to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Coal Waste
    Sourcewatch compilation of information on coal waste includes information often radioactive/concentrated heavy metal coal ash contaminates groundwater at ALL 'containment' sites Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • the Dossier | UK Online | High Crimes & Misdemeano ...
    Homepage of website listing news articles, documents,films, lectures,declassified documents,leaked letters & memoes,central Asian oil and gas infrastructure,links,audio,music & satire Submitted by John Farnham to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Obama and the Nobel Prize: When War becomes Peace, ...
    Professor Chussdovsky has maintained a reference centre for topics relating to the military and foreign policy for years. He is often referred to as an authority. My own reading tends to confirm his thoughts. Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   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 »

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Sideways News

  • Winner of the Week: Kids get growing
    Although we might be told that most modern children prefer gaming to gardening, and wouldn't know a potato from a pear, the emergence of a growing tribe of eco-kids across the UK appears to be countering those perceptions.  Spearheading the "grow your own" movement, these young ones are doing their ...
  • Santa shortage
    As Christmas approaches, it appears that the  UK  could this year be facing an acute Santa shortage. 
  • Baking and knitting draws students to WI
    Making jam, darning and flower-arranging sound like the pastimes of a 70-year-old grandmother, not a young woman in her twenties. Yet across the UK, the Women's Institute (WI) has seen a surge in membership from students and twenty-somethings, keen to learn the age-old skills of cross-stitching and ...
  • First World War records put on net
    The Army service records of two million British First World War soldiers who served from 1914 to 1920 have been published online for the first time. Full military careers, including medical data and service history, are contained in an average of 16 pages per soldier on the Ancestry.co.uk website. B ...
  • 'Space lift' competition takes place
    A competition has been held in the US to prove that creating an elevator that could be used to send people into space is possible.

Fabius Maximus

  • Updates to posts past on the FM website
    Some articles you might find of interest, updates about matters discussed on the FM website. Contents About government efforts to control the news At last, sensible action to mitigate the housing crisis News about the financial crisis About the US dollar (1)  About government efforts to control ...
  • Recommended weekend reading
    Some posts you might find of interest. “How Complex Systems Fail“, Richard I. Cook (MD, Cognitive technologies Laboratory, U Chicago), 21 April 2000 — “A Short Treatise on the Nature of Failure; How Failure is Evaluated; How Failure is Attributed to Proximate Cause; and the Resulting New Un ...
  • More media madness: rich fat bankers get flu vacc ...
    One reason the mainstream media is dying:  they ignore hot stories (ACORN helping child prostitution rings) while garbling those they do report.  Covering the first provides a useful service to society, which they pass up for partisan reasons.  Their mob-like coverage of the swine flu distr ...
  • Some reading recommendations!
    These are all articles about which I wanted to write, but will never find the time.  I recommend them for your reading pleasure. “DDT, Eggshells, and Me“, Ronald Bailey, Reason Magazine, 7 January 2004 — “Cracking open the facts on birds and banned pesticides.”  A balanced look at a ...
  • Bernard Finel shows how to end the Af-Pak in days. ...
    “IMHO, This is the Strongest Case for the Afghan War“, by Bernard Finel, 2 November 2009 — which refers to — “A Feminist Case for War?“, Michelle Goldberg, 27 October 2009 — “Women’s rights activists are conflicted over a continued U.S. presence in Afghanistan.”  Excerpt: But ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Glow-in-the-Dark Shark Turned on by Hormones
    The safe answer to how a lantern shark turns its luminescence on and off is: “Any way it wants.” Now researchers have looked into the belly of the beast and found that three hormones act as on-off switches for these glow-in-the-dark sharks. It is the first discovery of hormones controlling b ...
  • Vet School 2.0: Stick Your Hand Up a Virtual Cow B ...
    There’s nothing tidy about sticking your arm deep into a cow’s backside, getting up to your elbows in warm and gooey bovine innards. digg_url ="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/haptic-cow/"; But for new vet students, there’s no avoiding the procedure: To diagnose pregnancy or check f ...
  • Signature of Antimatter Detected in Lightning
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Designed to scan the heavens thousands to billions of light-years beyond the solar system, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has now recorded some more down-to-Earth signals. During its first 14 months of operation, the flying observatory has detected 17 gamma-ray flashes ass ...
  • Close Encounter with Saturn Moon’s Fantastic Plu ...
    Earlier this week, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took its deepest dive ever through the center of the icy plume shooting out from the southern pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. NASA reports that the spacecraft survived Monday’s flyby in good health, and is now transmitting eagerly awaited data and ...
  • Out of the Blue: Islands Seen From Space
    > Islands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful, violent, desolate and unique places on Earth. While experiencing a tropical island from its sandy beaches, or a volcanic island from its towering peaks is wonderful, experiencing them from above [...]

The Progressive Realist

  • "Global Cooperation" on Drugs, Crime, Terrorism an ...
    Via Thomas Ricks , Retired Army Col. Bob Killebrew of the Center for a New American Security has a piece in Small Wars Journal on the growing nexus between international organized crime and terrorist/insurgent groups . It's well worth a read, though his perspective is somewhat limited by the fact ...
  • Iraq Moves Ahead With Oil Deals
    Iraq recently signed a number of new oil deals and has plans to move ahead with several others in the coming weeks. These are part of the Oil Ministry’s plans to open up Iraq’s resources to joint ventures with foreign companies to boost petroleum production to 7 million barrels a day in seven ye ...
  • Panel: Iran Will Look To Repair Regional Appeal Da ...
    The unrest and repression in Iran following the country’s controversial elections is reversing some of the regional political gains that the Islamic regime enjoyed over the past decade, according to a panel at the University of Maryland today. Speaking at the symposium After the 2009 Elections: D ...
  • It's a Minus-Sum Game
    The superficiality in the debate on Afghanistan is getting downright absurd. Last week, David Brooks claimed the problem was Obama's "determination deficit." This week, the New York Times saw fit to give more space to Fred Kagan who claims that McChrystal's recommendations will work as long as the ...
  • EU Defense's Odd Man Out
    One of the less-noticed, second-order effects of the Obama administration's decision to scrap Eastern European-based missile defense is the way in which it has increasingly isolated Great Britain in terms of the European defense discussion. The "Russia wedge" equation traditionally pitted New Europe ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: It's a Center-Right Nation, and W ...
    Kevin Drum takes a look at the arduous process to extend unemployment benefits, noting that after weathering three filibusters, the legislation passed unanimously . It's a good example of modern Republican obstructionism, and a handy reminder that institutional reform is something Democrats in Cong ...
  • Why Cost Control for Medical Devices Is Likely To ...
    As Ezra noted earlier this week, much of the reason that American health care is so expensive is because we pay so much per-unit of care, whether it's a prescription or a CT scan. In order to insure health care remains affordable and that reform is sustainable in the long term, these costs need to b ...
  • Salam: Hasan's "Other Victims" Are "Millions Of Mu ...
    Reihan Salam weighs in on the Ft. Hood shootings: The danger is that Hasan 's despicable crime will subtly and slowly change these perceptions for the worse. Overnight, Twitter feeds and message boards pulsed with anti-Muslim anger. This kind of venting is important to a free society. But it could ...
  • Adam Schiff, Ted Poe, Introduce HOPE Legislation.
    Mark A.R. Kleiman 's book, When Brute Force Fails , has been making the rounds in the blogosphere, from Matt Yglesias to The Economist to The Volokh Conspiracy . The book is about how to improve criminal justice policy so that America has "less crime and less punishment." A centerpiece of Kleiman's ...
  • Obama's So Speedy, It Looks Like He's Hardly Moved ...
    David Brooks has a column on the independents in the wake of Tuesday's election, deploying his usual technique of communing with them via stereotypes -- "They’re looking for a safe pair of hands." The piece is economically unserious and also follows the time-tested pundit model of demanding politi ...

Andy Worthington

  • Bringing Guantánamo To New York
    So it’s three days since I arrived in New York, at the start of a ten-day promotional tour (also taking in Washington D.C. and the Bay Area in California) to show my new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash) and to discuss Guant ...
  • Italian Judge Rules “Extraordinary Rendition ...
    In an unprecedented ruling in a courtroom in Milan, at the end of a trial that — in fits and starts — has lasted for over two years, 22 CIA agents and a US Air Force Colonel received sentences of between five and eight years (and two Italian agents received three-year sentences) for their involv ...
  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • An 'authentic GOP': bamboozling swing voters, as a ...
    Body "President Obama and the Democratic leadership in Washington have rebranded themselves as the party of economic irresponsibility." Thus wrote, in a ruthless affront to recent history, Republican strategist Alex Castellanos. It came in the third paragraph of a rather compressed, poss ...
  • All Opinions Are Not Equally Relevant
    Body The mainstream media has a tendency to talk about news sources as if they were just expressing opposing views of a given issue, even though it should be apparent by now that nothing of the sort is true. There are even those in the general population who acquiesce in some tortured se ...
  • A short trip through the cyberland of right-wing d ...
    Body How much do we really know about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the 39-year-old Army psychiatrist who went on a killing spree yesterday at Fort Hood, Texas? Not much. He was born and raised in Virginia, was medically trained by the Army, became disillusioned with his career and employer wh ...
  • What Defeated Gay Marriage Advocates in Maine Coul ...
    BE ELECTED by Meg White No one should be surprised by voters in Breckenridge, CO voting for the decriminalization of marijuana at the polls yesterday. After all, the area strongly supported a failed effort in 2006 to legalize state-wide . But for those of us who have lived in Colorado, the fact that ...
  • BuzzFlash Mailbag for November 4, 2009
    BUZZFLASH MAILBAG Want to join the conversation? Share your thoughts with other Mailbag readers by clicking here . You also may comment below; post articles yourself at BuzzFlash.net ; or send urls for BuzzFlash to post to: www.buzzflash.com/contact/newstip.html . Subject: Owens' good Omen The thing ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • A media orgy of rumors, speculation and falsehoods
    Last night, right-wing blogger (and law professor) Glenn Reynolds promoted this media analysis from right-wing blogger (and Los Angeles Assistant District Attorney) Patterico regarding coverage of the Fort Hood shootings.  Patterico wrote:  "Whenever there is breaking news, it’s good to kee ...
  • Pulsating diversity of views on the Post Op-Ed pag ...
    "I know many readers, particularly liberals, feel we have too many conservative voices on the page. On the other hand, I hear from a lot of conservative readers who think we have too many people they consider too liberal (Dionne, Robinson, Meyerson, Marcus, et al.).  We try to provide a range of vi ...
  • 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

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.

  • What Is Child Labor?
    When I was 16, I got my first official job as a hostess at an Applebees is the suburbs of Atlanta, GA. It wasn't the most emotionally fulfilling job I've ever worked, but I made $6.50 a hour (slightly above minimum wage at the time) and my co-workers were nice to me. Before that, at the tender age ...
  • Sarah Palin and Barney Frank Walk Into a Dinner Ga ...
    Talk about an odd couple! Former Alaska Governor and GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be joining U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, the longest serving openly LGBT member of Congress, as headliners for the Gridiron Club winter dinner . No word on whether they'll sing a version of "Endless Love" ...
  • Update: Yoani Sánchez Detained & Beaten
    Yoani Sánchez , the 34-year-old Cuban blogger who was not allowed to leave Cuba and go to the United States to receive the Maria Moors Cabot Prize , was detained and beaten by Cuban state security yesterday. "No blood, but black and blues, punches, pulled hairs, blows to the head, kidneys, knee an ...
  • And the Award for the Most Homophobic Sport Goes t ...
    If there was ever any doubt that homophobia was alive and well in the wide world of sports, just take a look at the past two weeks. In the NFL there was Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson berating a Twitter follower with anti-gay language. In the NBA, Dallas Mavericks center Drew Gooden a ...
  • Nativist Tom Tancredo Chased off MSNBC
    While arguing over health care, former Congressperson and wanna-be President-hopeful Tom Tancredo was chased off MSNBC in this priceless video whilst 'debating' Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos. It's just as well that Tancredo saved some face and left after Markos pointed out how Tancredo was a pro-V ...

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

  • The Forever War of the Mind
    by Max Cleland "EVERY day I was in Vietnam, I thought about home. And, every day I've been home, I've thought about Vietnam." So said one of the millions of soldiers who fought there as I did. Change the name of the battlefield and it could have been said by one of the American servicemen coming hom ...
  • And the Catholic Bishops Endorse! A Special Thank- ...
    by Jane Hamsher There's a shit storm going down on TV right now on CSPAN as the health care bill hits the floor of the House. Thank you Democrats, for making women take a punch in the throat from a bunch of old men who have spent the better part of the last century avoiding their own problems. So Ra ...
  • Crunch Time for Planet Earth
    by Amitabh Pal It's crunch time for Planet Earth. The climate change negotiations in the run-up to the Copenhagen summit seem to be deadlocked. "America indicated yesterday that a legally binding agreement was probably impossible, and acceptance is growing among both rich and poor countries that no ...
  • America is Performing Its Familiar Role of Proppin ...
    by Robert Fisk Could there be a more accurate description of the Obama-Brown message of congratulations to the fraudulently elected Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan? First the Palestinians held fair elections in 2006, voted for Hamas and were brutally punished for it - they still are - and then the Irani ...
  • The Bible-New and Improved
    by Christopher Brauchli Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read’st black where I read white. —William Blake, The Everlasting Gospel read more

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Official warns against water privatization (The Da ...
    PELL CITY — A national food and water watch official says the city is moving in the wrong direction by hiring a private company to manage one of its vital resources — water.
  • Decision could be made soon on water privatization ...
    PELL CITY — Mayor Bill Hereford said no decision about hiring a private company to manage the city’s water department was made, but the hiring process is moving forward.
  • Privatizing water would cost city millions each ye ...
    Privatizing the Milwaukee Water Works could cost water customers at least $17 million more each year than the city would bring in from a long-term lease, says a study by privatization opponents. But that study assumes that the state would approve a rate increase of more than 50% above today's prices ...
  • Flashback - Nov. 1999-2003 (Saipan Tribune)
    Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio issued fresh instructions to Cabinet officials to tighten public spending during a meeting he convened yesterday to assess the financial condition of the government amid the absence of a fiscal budget for year 2000. The Cabinet meeting-the first in more than two months-also dis ...
  • 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.

Guardian

  • Secret Labour plan to axe spending on training
    • Leak reveals cuts of £350m • Business fury over jobs plan Gordon Brown stands accused today of misleading the public over his much-vaunted plans to help young people through the recession. Leaked documents show the government is planning drastic cuts for its flagship plan to train a new gener ...
  • Row over plan to tax City profits
    International levy on financial trading would help developing world deal with climate change A row blew up last night after Gordon Brown promoted plans for an international tax on City dealing that could raise funds for the world's poor and help developing countries tackle climate change .No sooner ...
  • Grief and pain in Fort Hood
    America's biggest military base is a tight-knit community. In the aftermath of mass murder by an army psychiatrist, many feel the horror and trauma of war has invaded their homes. Paul Harris reports from Fort Hood, Texas Private Marquest Smith thought the first sounds of gunfire sounded like popcor ...
  • Election risk for UK's Afghan troops
    General Stanley McChrystal fears Taliban will try to exploit British doubts about wisdom of the Afghan mission America's top general in Afghanistan believes Britain's 9,000 troops should be removed out of "harm's way" because the Taliban will target them in the run- up to next year's general electio ...
  • Student pub crawls face bans
    The outrage after undergraduate Philip Laing urinated on a war memorial has led many student unions to bar Carnage, the firm that runs the drinking events Participating in at least a modicum of alcohol-induced mayhem is an integral and, some might say, a formative part of the modern undergraduate ex ...

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

  • Sussex University students vote to boycott Israeli ...
    Students at the University of Sussex, England have voted to boycott Israeli goods. The decision follows the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, which calls up ...
  • UN vote overwhelmingly supports Goldstone report
    UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - A 575-page blistering report by Justice Richard Goldstone detailing war crimes in Gaza last winter is refusing to die despite an aggressive Israeli smear campaign to kill ...
  • Gaza students organize for justice
    In order to find sustainable alternatives to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict a new group calling itself the Justice Makers has been formed across the law departments in Palestinian universitie ...
  • Israeli soldiers, settlers violate Palestinian wom ...
    RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Palestinian women continue to suffer abuse and denial of basic human rights at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territ ...
  • 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, ...

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

  • How Did Stupak’s Gang-Of-40 Win On Abortion
    Sources tell the Wonk Room that Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) and his 40 pro-life Democratic colleagues successfully won debate for a restrictive abortion amendment on the House floor by moving the goal posts on an earlier agreement. Stupak had agreed to keep the amendment from the floor if it received a ...
  • House Democrats Will Consider Stupak’s Abort ...
    During yesterday’s all-night marathon hearing before the House Rules Committee to consider which amendments would be introduced during floor debate of the House health care bill, the Committee agreed to allow the full House to vote on Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-MI) amendment to effectively ban plans ...
  • Jon Stewart Joins Critics: The Science Of SuperFre ...
    The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart has joined the critics who found that SuperFreakonomics got climate science wrong. When economist Steven Levitt came on the show to promote the book on October 27th, Stewart defended his work, wondering if critics were just part of a “secular religion.” Levitt had ...
  • Joe Wilson And GOP Colleagues Lie About Immigrants ...
    Today, Rep. Joe ‘You Lie’ Wilson (R-SC) staged a press conference with several other Republican congressmen during which Wilson and his colleagues repeatedly lied about taxpayers funding the health care coverage of 2.5 million additional undocumented immigrants under H.R. 3962. WILSON: I am so ...
  • Rep. Virginia Foxx Suggests It’s Better To B ...
    During this afternoon’s Rules Committee hearing to determine which amendments would be introduced during floor debate of the House health care bill, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) suggested that it’s better to be uninsured than enrolled in the government’s Medicaid program. “I want to ask you if ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Making Things Easy for Ezra Levant ...
    ... to understand. Ezra, imagine this: The Liberal Party of Canada returns to power. Traumatized by the years of cruel bullying they endured at the hands of the psychopathic harper, and determined to use their power to make sure they're never put in such a painful position ever again, they decide ...
  • Life's a Bitch, and Then You Die
    That is all.
  • 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 ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Blackwater hiring ex-Pak security officials on min ...
    According to The Nation, the US firm has offered some of the retired Pakistani officials a whopping salary package of 60,000 dollar per month.
  • Auto Execs Urge Government to Tax Fuel up to $8/Ga ...
    CEO at leading parts supplier: "Energy independence...ultimately means that fuel has to be more expensive"
  • Mission accomplished! ExxonMobil-led consortium ne ...
    An ExxonMobil-led consortium has beaten rival Russian, French and Chinese groups to bag initial rights to develop Iraq’s West Qurna field, the Oil Ministry said.
  • Why Does The U.S. Have An Empire In Asia?
    The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate.
  • US unemployment soared to a 26-year high of 10.2% ...
    The unemployment rate in the U.S. soared to a 26-year high of 10.2 percent in October and employers cut more jobs than forecast, underscoring why Federal Reserve policy makers say interest rates will remain low until the labor market recovers.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Rogue Government.com

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

  • Award-Winning Generation Y Blogger Yoani Sanchez B ...
    Secret police agents have abducted and beaten award-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez, whose online reports chronicle the dark side of everyday life in communist Cuba. Three agents in street clothes snatched Ms Sanchez and her friend Orlando Luis Pardo off the street in the Havana district of Vedado as ...
  • Bad moods 'boost memory and judgement'
    Being in a bad mood may not be all gloom and doom after Australian scientists found that negative feelings improved judgement, boosted memory and made people less gullible. The study, authored by psychology professor Joseph Forgas at the University of New South Wales, showed that people in a bad m ...
  • Missing Legs of 900-year-old Buddhist Statue Found ...
    An archaeology professor has discovered the missing legs of a 900-year-old Buddhist statue deep in the Cambodian jungle, rewriting history in the process. According to a report in The Independent, the professor in question is Dr Peter Sharrock, a senior teaching fellow in the art and archaeology of ...
  • Hitler Was a German Soccer Coach, Kids Tell U.K. P ...
    Adolf Hitler was the manager of Germany's national soccer team, and Auschwitz was a World War Two theme park, a poll released by the Daily Mail on Friday said, questioning U.K. children aged 9 to 15. The study, which was conducted by war veterans' charity Erskine in the run-up to Remembrance Day, t ...
  • Corn Ethanol Biofuels Contaminated with Antibiotic ...
    Byproducts from the production of corn for ethanol biofuels have been found to be contaminated with antibiotics. "Ethanol's drug problem is just the latest of many reasons to impose a moratorium on production of fuels from grains," wrote Stan Cox for the Land Institute's Prairie Writers Circle. "If ...

Threat Level

  • Report: Cyber Attacks Caused Power Outages in Braz ...
    Electrical blackouts impacting millions of people in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were caused by hackers targeting control systems, according to the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. In a show set to air Sunday night, CBS blames a two-day outage in Espirito Santo in 2007 on a hack attack. The blackout affect ...
  • National Data Breach Laws Move Through Senate
    A national data breach law got closer to passage this week. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved two bills Thursday that address data security and breach notification, according to Government Information Security. The legislation was drafted in response to the plague of data thefts that have occu ...
  • Lawsuit Accuses Facebook of Conspiring to Break Vi ...
    A Texas woman has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, claiming the company conspired with Blockbuster to violate a federal law protecting customer video-rental and sale records. The suit, filed by Cathryn Harris in U.S. District Court in Dallas, accuses Facebook of working with Blockbuster in violatio ...
  • Here’s That Leaked Copyright Treaty Document
    The secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement document we wrote about on Wednesday appeared on Wikileaks today, and our source has cleared us to publish it here as well. We wrote that the document, (.pdf) if true, amounted to policy laundering at its finest -– that the United States was pushing t ...
  • Video: Raid on Romanian Bank Card Skimming Ring
    Police in Romania this week swooped in on 19 members of an alleged international credit and debit card skimming ring that’s been active in Switzerland, Italy, France, and the U.S., according to local reports. Romania’s national Directorate for Countering Organized Crime staged 23 coordinated ra ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Republican Malpractice Myths
    In recent days, Republican leaders have scored a series of political victories in their eternal quest for tort reform. Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) told Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) that an onerous package of malpractice curbs he championed...
  • Strong GDP Growth Doesn't Calm Stimulus Fight
    On Thursday, the Commerce Department announced that the U.S. economy expanded at a surprisingly strong 3.5% rate. But despite Q3 GDP growth which exceeded consensus estimates, the outsized impact of one-time programs including the Cash for Clunkers incentives and the...
  • Bush to "Replenish the Ol' Coffers" as Motivationa ...
    Back in September 2007, George W. Bush revealed his plans for life after the White House. First, Mr. Bush said, "I'll give some speeches, just to replenish the ol' coffers." The following July, Kathryn Jean Lopez, one of his bath...
  • Gingrich and Perry Tout Texas Health Care Mess
    Everything, they say, is bigger in the Texas. So it is with the failure of the health care system. Leading the nation with a jaw-dropping 25% of its residents uninsured, Texas ranked 46th in the Commonwealth Fund's 2009 scorecard of...
  • Republican Malpractice Myths
    In recent days, Republican leaders have scored a series of political victories in their eternal quest for tort reform. Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) told Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) that an onerous package of malpractice curbs he championed...

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

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Large Hadron Collider broken by bread
    In a bizarre turn of events the Large Hadron Collider has suffered from overheating when a passing bird dropped a piece of baguette on to the equi...
  • Socorro UFO witness Zamora dies
    Policeman Lonnie Zamora, a witness to one of the most well known UFO incidents, the Socorro incident of 1964, has died of a heart attack. Zamora's...
  • Is feeling grumpy good for you ?
    An Australian psychology expert has found that being grumpy is actually beneficial in that it helps us think more clearly, in his study of emotion...
  • Colossal "sea monster" unearthed
    The massive fossilised skull of a gargantuan predatory sea creature, the pliosaur, has been unearthed along the UK's Jurassic Coast. The creature ...
  • Space junk increases danger for future
    British space experts have warned that the growing amount of debris flying around in space represents an increasing risk of an orbital crash in ad...

Grassroots

  • The U.S. Can Still Do the Right Thing in Honduras
    Honduras_detenidos_22_Sept.JPG Despite a press release from the office of Senator Jim DeMint yesterday evening declaring that he has secured a commitment from the Obama Administration to recognize the Nov. 29th elections in Honduras regardless ...
  • 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

Climate

  • November 6, 2009
    UN Climate Chief: Climate Deal May Take Another Year (Bloomberg) The deadline for a new global-warming accord may slip by as much as one year, as negotiators hold back on pledges to slash emissions or pay financial aid to poor nations, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer says. APEC to Call for Emissio ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Unemployment Up Dramatically! Stocks Rise! Huh?
    Ordinary, average, struggling Americans might be scratching their heads over the news today, as the Labor Department reports that unemployment is up by four-tenths of a percent for the month to a record 10.2%, fully three-tenths of a percent higher than economists had been forecasting, and stocks do ...
  • We Are What We Buy and How We Buy It
    I write a lot about the importance of fair trade -- specifically, about the significance of making sure our international economic laws do not encourage job outsourcing, labor abuse, environmental degradation and other bad behavior. Often times, these trade issues seem esoteric, abstract, and caugh ...
  • The Crazy October Surprise Debunking
    Patently absurd reasoning in someone’s argument can often tell you about the strength of the underlying facts. If an argument is deceptive on its face, you might suspect the supporting facts are pretty fragile, too. Such was the situation in late 1992 as America reached an important turning po ...
  • How to End Wars
    Around the United States, peace groups are engaged in effective campaigns against proposed new military installations, local funding of weapons companies, and the routine destruction of the environment and of workers' health by such companies. Activists are building better media outlets, educating y ...
  • I'll Bet the 10.2 Percent Can't Keep What They've ...
    Hey There, Congress and Mr. President. It's your citizens. Lots of us are losing jobs and benefits. We cannot keep the benefits we've got when we lose our jobs. In fact it's really hard to keep paying all the bills without a job and an income. The new jobless numbers are alarming in so many ways. Yo ...

Ten Percent

  • 63% Want UK Forces Out of Afghanistan
    Perhaps showing people have a better understanding of war and remembrance than our bloodthirsty leaders. Public support for the war in Afghanistan is falling, while more than 40 percent do not understand why British troops are fighting there, a poll released on Remembrance Sunday showed. Some 64 per ...
  • 9 Out of 5,000
    Scotland Yard faced calls for an “ethical audit” of all officers in its controversial riot squad tonight after figures revealed that they had received more than 5,000 complaint allegations, mostly for “oppressive behaviour”. Details of all allegations lodged against the Metropolitan polic ...
  • Predictable
    Apparently people are still confused that war involves murder and insanity. Luckily morons, racist and imperialists can hang their denial on ideas of tribal loyalty because -their- god forbid they realise that if this is what a professional dealing with combat trauma does, then the ongoing wars in s ...
  • Friday! Zachary Murray & Erika Fontana- The Advent ...
    It’s never too early to corrupt young minds! (ht2 Dangerous Minds)
  • 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 ...

Paul Krugman

  • Reagan! Reagan! Reagan!
    There's no measure I can think of by which the U.S. economy has done better since 1980 than it did over an equivalent time span before 1980.
  • US tariff history
    Tariffs over the past 175 years.
  • Why not a WPA?
    It might be worth discussing whether we shouldn't try to include a public option in stimulus, too.
  • Nominally misguided (wonkish)
    When you're in a liquidity trap, focusing on nominal magnitudes doesn't clarify matters; it obscures them.
  • Obama's trap
    Was Mr. Obama really led to believe that his stimulus proposal was as bold as he claimed it was?

No Quarter

  • “imagine…had somebody walked around with image ...
    “I will continue to say what I’ve said before. You hear in this debate, you hear analogies, you hear references to, you see pictures about and depictions of individuals that are truly stunning, and you hear it all the time. People — imagine five years ago somebody comparing health care r ...
  • Secretary Clinton On The Job
    The current issue of Time Magazine has Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the cover, and an article by Joe Klein entitled, “The State of Hillary: A Mixed Record On The Job.” On Joe Scarborough the other morning, they discussed this article (major H/T to Bronwyn’s Harbor for the video): Vis ...
  • More Heroes at Fort Hood
    Reverend Amy wrote about the heroic civilian police officer Sgt. Kim Munley, barely five feet tall, in “The Fort Hood Shooting, And Its Hero.” And, below, I have added a NEW story published today about Sgt. Munley, courtesy of the Houston Chronicle which offers a truly detailed account of exact ...
  • Jihadist Wannabe
    (This post is bumped up from Friday.) Major Nidal Malik Hassan short circuited yesterday and we had more American soliders killed in one day at Fort Hood than have been killed in Afghanistan in a single day this year. So much for the dangers of combat. Hassan is not a Post Traumatic Stress Disorde ...
  • Too Big to Get the Flu?
    First the taxpayers’ treasure was raided to bail out Wall Street firms. Now it’s happening to 13 of them again, this time by putting their employees ahead of the highest risk groups among us ordinary folks to receive the H1N1 vaccine. Melanie Sloan, the Director of Citizens for Responsibilit ...

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Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • More Readers Air Their (Clean) Laundry
    In our fourth installment, Green Inc. readers respond to our post on efficiency, clothes dryers, and the resurgence of backyard line-drying with pictures of their clotheslines.
  • Defining 'Sustainable' Palm Oil Production
    The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil upset some conservationists when it concluded its annual meeting this week without including greenhouse gas emissions standards in its certification process.
  • Syngas With Carbon Capture at Cook Inlet
    As the nation looks for ways to burn coal without producing so much carbon dioxide, developers, researchers, and environmentalists are looking at underground coal gasification, or U.C.G., with cautious optimism.
  • Study: Managing Emissions Intensity
    A new World Bank study finds that some countries have managed to de-link economic growth and CO2 emissions.
  • On Our Radar...
    The aesthetics of the Prius (or lack thereof) and other energy and environment stories from around the Web.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Foreign Contributions and the Supreme’s Overdue ...
    Michael Collins The Supreme Court of the United States will soon announce a major decision on our lightly controlled system of campaign funding.  Will it retain some limitations on corporate influence or will the court blow the lid off and cause a perpetual flood of unrestricted corporate co ...
  • Lost in the Shuffle – A Marxist Analysis of the ...
    From the far right to the radical left, all sorts of analyses of the ongoing economic crisis have been put forward. These range from the claim on the far right that too many poor people were allowed to buy houses to the claim that the mere existence of the Federal Reserve Bank (the “Fed”) is [.. ...
  • The Global Privatization of Education Policy: Lorn ...
    By Guest Writer, George Thompson Introduction The recent conflict of interest case of Lorna Earl in Ontario is merely the symptom of a growing trend in Canada and the rest of the world: the privatization of educational policy itself.  Earl’s complete bafflement as to why her case was sent to the ...
  • 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 ...

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Godspace

  • Practicing everyday Justice
    Tom & I are just finishing off our time here at Eastern Mennonite University.  We have enjoyed sharing with the students about how live on purpose in our consumer driven world. I have particularly been impressed with some of the green initiatives on the campus here.  Their campus garden provides g ...
  • 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 [...]

Equality Trust

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #0171
    Kalmanovic was Shin Bet informant, says Ha'aretz. Court date for US couple accused of spying for Cuba. CIA responds to declassification request...20 years later.
  • News you may have missed #0170
    CIA settles DEA agent's lawsuit for $3 million. US wants to set up spy base in Afghanistan, says Afghan lawmaker. UN to help Colombia sort through spy files.
  • Israeli commandos seize ship allegedly carrying to ...
    A ship apprehended off the coast of Cyprus by Israeli commandos in a predawn raid on Wednesday was carrying hundreds of tons of weapons, according to the Israeli Navy. Israel insisted that the weapons, which include missiles and rockets, originated from Iran and Syria and were bound for Hezbollah.
  • News you may have missed #0169
    An intel officer's view on Fort Hood shooter. Coup rumors circulating in Paraguay. US embassy in Panama looking for spy cameras.
  • Comment: Why the Italian Convictions of CIA Agents ...
    An Italian court has convicted 22 CIA agents and a US Air Force officer involved in the abduction of a Muslim cleric from Milan in 2003. All but three Americans tried in the case received jail sentences ranging from five to eight years, for kidnapping Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr in broad daylight and ...

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Grist - News

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

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Washington Independent

  • Declassified Docs Reveal Pentagon Ignored FBI&#821 ...
    The Justice Department released more documents — or, at least, less-redacted documents — late Friday to the American Civil Liberties Union as part of the government’s obligation in a pending Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. These latest documents provide a glimpse of the early struggles bet ...
  • Democratic Congressman Demands Apology from Bachma ...
    Flush off of the upset Democratic victory in NY-23, which he had a big hand in, Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), who is Jewish, is demanding that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) apologize for sponsoring Thursday’s anti-health care reform rally, which brought to the hill signs comparing health reform to ...
  • Gary Bauer: Ft. Hood Suspect Was ‘Sleeper&#8 ...
    Add another conservative activist to the ranks of people blaming the Ft. Hood massacre on Islam. Here’s Gary Bauer, in his end-of-day email sent to supporters, arguing that while some Muslims are all well and good, “there are also ’sleeper cells’ or ’sleeper individuals’ who are jihadist ...
  • The Final Stages of Afghanistan-Pakistan Deliberat ...
    Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy thinks he sees light at the end of the Obama administration’s strategy and resource review tunnel: Reliable sources tell The Cable that the review has entered its final stages, with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and National Security Advisor Jim Jones now taking the l ...
  • Steve King to Lead Another March on Congress
    Erick Erickson of RedState, whose stature in the conservative movement has risen with the Doug Hoffman insurrection, blasts out an announcement of a second anti-health care bill protest on the steps of Congress. Whole e-mail after the jump: Tomorrow at one p.m. Congressman King will join his Republ ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Ecosmackdown: Pets Versus Solar Panels
    It takes 17 times more land to feed American pets than would be required by solar farms producing enough electricity to meet all the demand in the United States. Why do we know this? Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • New Study Finds Canned Food Laced With Toxic Chemi ...
    Consumer Reports has unleashed its findings on toxic levels of Bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging on a largely unsuspecting public. Before the report, many felt the BPA danger had passed with the introduction of BPA-free baby bottles and so-called microw Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Health & Wel ...
  • Life and Death on the Ranch
    We prefer focusing on the enjoyable parts of farming but there are tough days, too. Even painful ones. Like last Friday. The morning started well. We began our chores as the sun burned through early fog, and moisture wafted up from the earth. Then we foun Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Cu ...
  • Meat needn’t mean murder to the planet
    It felt like a political act to order an English breakfast last week after Lord Stern of Brentford’s remarks about a vegetarian diet being better for the planet. I happened to be staying at the Farmers’ Club, so the significance of the moment weighed heav Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & ...
  • Toxic Chinese Drywall Creates A Housing Disaster
    Along the Gulf Coast and across the country, it's being called a "silent hurricane." Between 2004 and 2007, an estimated 100,000 homes in more than 20 states were built with toxic drywall imported from China. Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Suzie-Q

  • Bipartisan Attack on International Humanitarian La ...
    Professor Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy In Focus, November 4, 2009 In a stunning blow against international law and human rights, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution on Tuesday attacking the report of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s fact-finding missio ...
  • CIA agents convicted in Italy rendition trial
    Morning Star Online, Thursday 05 November 2009 by Paul Haste Prosecutor Armando Spataro speaking in court in Milan An Italian court’s conviction of 23 CIA agents for extraordinary rendition has been hailed by human rights campaigners as a “historic repudiation” of the US intelligence ag ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Precious Metals Market Report
    It’s the second week of the month. That means I am headed over to see Franklin Sanders of The Moneychanger at Top of the World Farm in Westpoint, Tennessee. I will be working out of The Moneychanger offices on Wednesday and Thursday. After our usual lively dinner the Sanders clan on Thursday even ...
  • Air Force: ‘Overwhelm Enemy Cognitive Abilit ...
    By Katie Drummond - Wired.com (4 Nov 09) The Air Force is looking to harness advances in bio-science so they can “degrade enemy performance and artificially overwhelm enemy cognitive abilities.” It’s all part of a $49 million dollar bio-research effort unveiled last month by the Air Force Res ...
  • Climate Change Talks and Obama’s China Visit
    View the article at Stratfor.com . . .
  • “GM’s Money Trees”-Brazil and th ...
    View the story at Democracy Now . . .
  • La Grace du Ciel
    [La Grâce du Ciel is a French interpretation of Amazing Grace (literally:The Grace of Heaven) written by David E. Marcantel andperformed by Southwest Louisiana singing group, Les Amies Louisianaises.]

Global Insights

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

Insurgency Watch - Posts

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Massey Energy is Blasting on Coal River Mountain, ...
    Appalachia's West Virginians unite to stop Massey Energy Mountain Top Removal Related posts: Residents to Protest at Massey Energys Toxic Coal Sludge Dam Coal Country Film: Inside Modern Coal Mining West Virginians Come to DC to Protest Mountaintop Removal at the EPA
  • Big Coals Effects on Your Families Air – Indoor ...
    130,000 people in the U.S. die every year from fine particulate matter from Coal burning power plants. How does it effect your families indoor air quality? Related posts: What Color Is Your Air Quality Today? Beefs Effects on People, the Environment and Society Foreclosures Effects on People and t ...
  • 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

Inhabitat

  • ANNOUNCING the Winners of the Inhabitat Green Hall ...
    DRUMROLL PLEASE… The results of our Green Halloween Costume Contest are finally in! Thank you to everyone who entered – we couldn’t be more psyched about the amazing homemade entries we got pouring in. It wasn’t easy, but we finally narrowed it down to 15 fabulous finalists and then left it ...
  • re:Use Canopy Upcycled from Plastic Cups by BIOS D ...
    One of the main principles of permaculture is that “the problem is the solution.” Problem: tons of waste cups created by attendees of the OutsideLands concert in San Francisco. Solution: a fabulous recycled cup canopy. BIOS Design Collective tapped a keg and invited their friends over for a cano ...
  • NeighborGoods: Your New Virtual Tool Shed
    Practically every household in America has its own tool set, drill, and ladder… but why? Most people don’t use these things on a daily basis, and due to their hardworking heritage these items tend to last forever; when’s the last time you wore out a hammer? Enter NeighborGoods, a service that ...
  • LAST CHANCE to Vote for Your Favorite Green Hallow ...
    Our Green Halloween Costume Contest ends TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT! Today is your LAST CHANCE to vote in our Green Halloween Costume contest, and the competition is fierce! Our top 15 amazingly crafted submissions are currently vying for fame, glory, and some great green prizes – and we’re leaving it ...
  • Transport System Runs on Super-Strong Magnetic Fie ...
    Instead of moving goods on resource-intensive trains, Spain-based technology company Novateq Guerrero SNL wants to build out a different kind of transportation network–one that uses super-powerful magnets to propel vehicles. Novateq has already developed a prototype of its system, which uses Neody ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Cleaning Up the Clutter Online
    A new Web tool strips away all the flashing and the blinking and leaves you with clean, readable prose.
  • Medical Apps for the iPhone
    Last week, I spoke at the TED MED conference. My assignment was to speak for 18 minutes about medical apps for the iPhone. Sounds easy, right? Only one problem: there are about 7,000 medical apps.
  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • US dollar to become worthless with a new world ord ...
    E-Commerce Journal – According to Damon Vickers, chief investment officer of Nine Points Capital Partners, the US dollar is going to be “utterly destroyed” and become “virtually worthless” on the grounds of absence of real resources supporting the currency. He cited other countries as thos ...
  • Somali adulterer stoned to death
    BBC – Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth. Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka. An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would ...
  • Illegal GM ‘Triffid’ seeds found in UK superma ...
    Daily Mail – Illegal genetically modified ‘Triffid’ flax seed has been found in bread sold by Marks & Spencer. Critics of GM farming say the discovery provides damning evidence that Britain’s food watchdogs are failing to police the nation’s food chain.  The problem of illegal GM fla ...
  • Scholars: Asian economies to play significant role ...
    Xinhua – Asian economies will play a significant role in shaping new world’s order as economic power has shifted from developed countries in the United States and Europe to developing region countries, scholars said in their paper presented at an international conference in Indonesia on Thursday ...
  • Obesity causes 100,000 US cancers every year: stud ...
    PhysOrg – Obesity causes more than 100,000 incidents of cancer in the US every year, the American Institute for Cancer Research said in estimates published Friday. Read Article

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Third World countries protest First World countrie ...
    Third World countries protest First World countries over climate change (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) 50 African countries walked out of a UN working meeting on climate change in Barcelona, Spain. The African and 70 other Third World countries have been protesting U.N. climate negotiations th ...
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • In the Middle of Difficulty Lies Opportunity. Paki ...
    We are in the middle of difficulties. These difficulties are of a gargantuan nature. Never has Pakistan experienced so acutely, a vacuum of leadership with an all encompassing lack of credibility and trust deficit. Never have the masses had such complete lack of faith in its leaders because of their ...
  • The Evil Empire
    By Paul Craig Roberts The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that  “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate.  Voters will vent their frustrations over ...
  • Swine Flu: Reported Cases in Ukraine Double Again ...
    871,037 Influenza/ARI Cases 39,603 Hospitalized 135 Deaths The above numbers from the latest update from Ukraine (see map) continue to alarm. More than half of the Oblasts and cities listed exceed the epidemic threshold, including Kiev and Kiev Oblast, raising concerns that the increase in case numb ...
  • FLASHBACK – India, Israel linked to Pakistan plo ...
    In 2002. it was learned from highly placed intelligence sources that India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Israel’s Mossad are collaborating to train several hundred militants to be used in an attempt to destabilize the administration of President General Pervez Musharraf. Oct 8, 2002 I ...
  • Lage Raho Media Bhai!
    The article below is an excellent example of taking the media to task for ignoring the real stories that are affecting our lives and instead hawking wild conspiracy theories and unfounded rumors. I suppose with our TV anchors so comfortable with their fame and riches, they don’t even see the real ...

ecogeek

  • Desklamp Powered by a Phone Jack
    From my perspective, they very fact that this is possible is the news here. It's a "reading" lamp that can be powered by a phone jack. That's right, your phone jack has a tiny amount of power that comes through along with the phone signal to power things like ringers and speakers and microphones. I ...
  • 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 ...

Times Online - Science

  • Science Minister: Professor Nutt should not have b ...
    Alan Johnson should not have sacked David Nutt as his chief drugs adviser without consulting government colleagues responsible for science policy, the Science and Innovation Minister, said today.
  • Government backs down on science freedom demands
    The Government is to endorse a set of principles guaranteeing independence and academic freedom to its expert advisers demanded by leading scientists following the sacking of David Nutt, The Times has learnt.
  • The future was never going to be the C5
    There was a wonderful moment in Micro Men, BBC Four’s peerless drama about Sir Clive Sinclair and the invention of the home computer. After some initial success flogging personal calculators, Sir Clive’s protégé, Chris Curry, hits upon a daredevil plan. Why not give computers the same ...
  • Melting snow shrinks Mont Blanc
    Western Europe’s tallest mountain is 18in (45cm) shorter than two years ago, according to a survey.
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Note to Simmons and McMahon: Crystal Balls and Tea ...
    Smash mouth political commentary from Linda McMahon and Rob Simmons : "Isn't it sad that after 30 years in Washington, Chris Dodd is still writing letters and putting out press releases after the fact,'' Ed Patru, spokesman for Linda McMahon, said in a press release. "The H1N1 shortage didn't just o ...
  • 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 " ...

SPL Center

  • Tancredo Ventures Further Out on the Fringe
    Colorado Republican Tom Tancredo was the face of the anti-immigration movement in Congress for 10 years. While he was there, he could serve up his deport-’em-all rhetoric from the House floor. And as an early contender for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, he drew supportive crowds and mainstr ...
  • Yankee Secessionist Back in Cahoots with Neo-Confe ...
    Last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center exposed an unsavory collaboration between the Second Vermont Republic (SVR), a quirky left-leaning band of New England secessionists, and the white supremacist League of the South, long categorized by the SPLC as a hate group. Their shared goal was to build ...
  • A Slick DVD Defends Racism
    A new DVD is a hit among white supremacists looking for a smart-sounding defense of their beliefs. Contrary to its title, A Conversation about Race isn’t really a conversation about race at all, but a slick 58-minute documentary devoted to proving the thesis that racism is a bogus concept invented ...
  • ‘Leave Or Else,’ YouTube Video Warns O ...
    EDITOR’S NOTE: Sometime Wednesday night, the video was removed from YouTube. No word on who’s responsible for putting it there in the first place, or taking it down. Here’s an ominous posting on YouTube from the “Patriot” crowd. It advises President Obama and other prominent peopl ...
  • Dutch Lawmaker Brings His Anti-Muslim Spiel to U.S ...
    A Dutch lawmaker notorious for his Muslim-bashing is scheduled to speak tonight at Temple University in Philadelphia. Geert Wilders, who has repeatedly compared the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf, was for months banned from Britain because of concerns that his anti-Islamic views would trigger violen ...

Rio Times

  • Barra de Tijuca’s New Cidade Jardim
    By Tricia L Chaves, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Any Realtor will agree that the location of your home or investment purchase is just as important as the property itself. With incredibly close proximity to the 2016 Olympic village combined with a grand neighborhood plan, Barra de Tijuca’ ...
  • 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, ...

change: org.

  • What Is Child Labor?
    When I was 16, I got my first official job as a hostess at an Applebees is the suburbs of Atlanta, GA. It wasn't the most emotionally fulfilling job I've ever worked, but I made $6.50 a hour (slightly above minimum wage at the time) and my co-workers were nice to me. Before that, at the tender age ...
  • Sarah Palin and Barney Frank Walk Into a Dinner Ga ...
    Talk about an odd couple! Former Alaska Governor and GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be joining U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, the longest serving openly LGBT member of Congress, as headliners for the Gridiron Club winter dinner . No word on whether they'll sing a version of "Endless Love" ...
  • Update: Yoani Sánchez Detained & Beaten
    Yoani Sánchez , the 34-year-old Cuban blogger who was not allowed to leave Cuba and go to the United States to receive the Maria Moors Cabot Prize , was detained and beaten by Cuban state security yesterday. "No blood, but black and blues, punches, pulled hairs, blows to the head, kidneys, knee an ...
  • And the Award for the Most Homophobic Sport Goes t ...
    If there was ever any doubt that homophobia was alive and well in the wide world of sports, just take a look at the past two weeks. In the NFL there was Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson berating a Twitter follower with anti-gay language. In the NBA, Dallas Mavericks center Drew Gooden a ...
  • Nativist Tom Tancredo Chased off MSNBC
    While arguing over health care, former Congressperson and wanna-be President-hopeful Tom Tancredo was chased off MSNBC in this priceless video whilst 'debating' Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos. It's just as well that Tancredo saved some face and left after Markos pointed out how Tancredo was a pro-V ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Obama Leaning Toward 34,000 More Troops for Afghan ...
    by Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults with key allies and completes a trip to Asia later this mont ...
  • Bernie Sanders Tackles Too Big to Fail in Two Page ...
    by Sam Stein Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced new legislation on Friday that should, he claims, solve the phenomenon of massive and failing financial institutions holding the nation's economy captive. It's all of two pages long. The Vermont Democrat-Socialist unveiled the "Too Big to Fail, T ...
  • Zelaya Says Honduras Crisis Deal Has Failed
    TEGUCIGALPA - Ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya said Friday a deal aimed at ending the country's months-long crisis had failed after the interim leader announced a government without his participation. "Practically speaking, we have decided not to continue with this theater of Mr Micheletti," ...
  • Credit Card Firms Hurry to Raise Rates
    by Megan Woolhouse Credit card companies are rushing to increase interest rates to historic highs of more than 30 percent, cut credit limits, and add new fees, even for customers who pay their bills on time. Lenders are making the moves in advance of tougher federal regulations for credit cards sche ...
  • It’s a Dirty Business — The New Gold Rush That ...
    by Ben Webster A giant mechanical digger gouges out a chunk of topsoil, grass and tree stumps, extending a neat furrow that stretches into the distance. Dozens of similar furrows run parallel with the regularity of a ploughed field. Yet no crop could grow in the pitch-black surface exposed by the ma ...

Lifehacker

  • This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
    Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Officially Available for Download (Windows/Mac/Linux) Mozilla just released the first official beta of Firefox 3.6, featuring built-in support for themes (Personas), improved performance, and more. Early adopters, your download is ready. Rainmeter 1.1 Makes the Enigma Desktop Even ...
  • Grab the MacHeist nanoBundle for Free [Dealhacker ...
    If you're a fan of the free OS X software offered at MacHeist, you'll want to scoot over there to grab some free software before their software giveaway expires. MacHeist is offering a bundle of six applications: ShoveBox, WriteRoom, Twitterific, Tinygrab, Hordes of Orcs, and Mariner Write. The firs ...
  • Turn a Sunny Window into a Hydroponic Garden [Gar ...
    Just because you don't have a backyard garden doesn't mean you can't enjoy fresh greens. Put together a hydroponic system in a sunny spot based on the designs of WindowFarms.org, and you'll have fresh greens all year long. WindowFarms is an initiative devoted to turning urban windows into useful mic ...
  • Secrets Updates for Snow Leopard, Still Tweaks Ev ...
    Mac only: If you're not a big fan of using the Terminal but love hidden features in OS X, Secrets is the preference pane for you. Secrets provides a list of hidden features (and descriptions of each) that can be easily toggled on and off with a simple click of a checkbox. It includes settings for ab ...
  • Make Cookies in 90 Seconds with Your Waffle Iron ...
    Baking cookies in your oven is fine and all, but if you want to turn out some tasty cookies in a very short time, consider turning to your trusty waffle iron. Turns out you're only 90 seconds away from crispy, chewy, cookie-goodness. Photo by Fine Living & Martha Stewart Although your oven will sti ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Occupiers
    By Ron Beasley As Steve noted below Obama's National Security Adviser, James L. Jones has some serious doubts about sending additional troops to Afghanistan. As Jones said: "we can't want this more than the Afghans" Well increasingly the Afghans want it less. “What have the Americans done in eight ...
  • James L. Jones: "Generals Always Ask For More Troo ...
    By Steve Hynd In a new interview with German mag Der Spiegel out today, Obama's National Security Adviser, Gen. James L. Jones, is sounding skeptical about the McChrystal escalation request for extra troops in Afghanistan. He says, dismissively, that "generals always ask for more troops". SPIEGEL: T ...
  • New Afghan Compact Is A Clunker
    By Steve Hynd The Obama administration has a new so-called Afghan Compact which is designed to increase good governance in Afghanistan and reduce corruption. The main problem, though, is that any compact needs two sides agreeing to implement it. The success of the so-called "Afghanistan Compact" wil ...
  • Full Spectrum Dominance and COIN
    By Dave Anderson: Robert Farley is optimistic and wrong in his argument that the US adapting a formal strategic emphasis on COIN will decrease the number of stupid wars that we get involved in. Here is his argument: Along these lines, I think it's important to push back on a particular line of COIN ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

  • California water bill falls short (Ventura County ...
    Winston Churchill paid tribute to the young fighter pilots who staved off Nazi Germany’s aerial assault on England during the Battle of Britain with characteristic eloquence: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” California politicians’ machinations ov ...
  • Wolk upset with Delta plan (The Daily Democrat)
    While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made the rounds Wednesday, touting the water deal approved by the Legislature earlier that morning, representatives of the Delta area lambasted the entire package as a "boondoggle.
  • Ingrid Newkirk: Come on Al, Steak or the Earth? (T ...
    Considering that the meat industry produces 40 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than all the world's transportation systems, we see no reason to back down in our criticism of Al Gore, among others.
  • California water plan aims to change Gold Rush thi ...
    California legislators on Wednesday struck a truce in their water wars that could set off the biggest spending spree on water in half a century and aims to satisfy environmentalists, unemployed farmers and the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
  • Local leaders Wolk, Yamada voice displeasure with ...
    While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made the rounds Wednesday, touting the water deal approved by the Legislature earlier that morning, representatives of the Delta area lambasted the entire package as a "boondoggle."While the governor and legislative leaders say the package, including an $11.

WordPress | Economics

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • 25 NATO soldiers wounded in possible friendly fire ...
    The attack occurred when NATO troops were engaged in a search for two missing U.S. soldiers who are believed to have drowned.
  • UN denies it is pulling out of Afghanistan
    Speculation arose after the UN said it was relocating some staff over security concerns.
  • Pakistanis blame 'foreign powers' for de ...
    Washington, Nov.7 : While the Pakistan government has blamed the banned terror outfits such as the Taliban and Al-Qaeda for the devastating car bomb blast in Peshawar's Meena Bazaar, in which over 100 people were killed, many Pakistanis believe it was countries like the US, India and Israel which we ...
  • 'Reputation of British Armed Forces at risk i ...
    London, Nov. 7 : If Britain fails to make any progress in the Afghanistan war, the reputation and long-term future of its Armed forces will be at risk, two top defence ministry officials have said.
  • 'Friendly fire' kills Afghan personnel
    Seven Afghan security personnel have been killed in a mis-targeted NATO air strike in the country's remote northwest, the defence ministry says, signalling further trouble for a fraying Western mi...

Futurismic

  • Designer drugs develop faster than designer legisl ...
    I’m not sure whether I’m supposed to be proud or ashamed of this one, but apparently Britain has been declared the “designer drugs capital of Europe” by the EU drug agency. [image by Greencolander] This new generation of online “head shops” is at the centre of a rapidly growing market in ...
  • The Anonymous Hunters: corporate critics and whist ...
    Have you ever bad-mouthed a big company in an internet comments thread? If so, the Wragge and Co. law firm of Birmingham, UK may be hot on your tail (provided the comment is vitriolic enough to provoke the company to spend money, one assumes) – they’ve just announced a new legal “task force” ...
  • 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 ...
  • Second Life 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 ...



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